And Microsoft "auto-updates" Windows machines (whether or not you want them to, it would seem) to include the latest frameworks and such. Regardless, how does what Adobe does improve on what Microsoft (and I'm sure some F/OSS alternatives) already do?
There is a council.... However, it's staffed by people who are sympathetic to Christian Fundamentalism, as opposed to having a wide range of opinions. So since the council has very very similar beliefs to the President, it is no wonder that people don't believe it exists... They don't challenge him at all..
They don't ask what is the right thing.. They ask, "What Would James Dobson Do?" (WWJDD).
If OSS is trying (and succeeding from what I understand) to mimic CardSpaces within Windows and other OSS's, does this mean that Microsoft is actually being innovative? Or is this technology the "same old crap" that has already been written better and freely available? And, if it's the same old crap, why waste good OSS dev cycles trying to re-invent whats already out there, instead of pointing end users to that?
Come on.. This really isn't news. Does anyone not believe Google is a wakeup call to Microsoft? And if Steve Balmer's Chair throwing is any indication, they were aware of it long before Ray Ozzie was promoted to CSA.
While that's very true, what if the "research" happens to be correct? Or at least fairly positive? Agreed, most research studies have uncertainty to them (correlation vs. causation to name only one), but even if Microsoft paid for X research, do you really think, say, that a group of GNU-affiliated University Professors would actually have an unbiased view when comparing, say, Open Office to Microsoft Office? Even though there is no money changing hands?
I guess, for this article, it's immaterial, since it was not a study, rather, someone's own opinion through their work.
This being Slashdot, anything that is remotely pro-Microsoft MUST be viewed with suspicion, even if the author of the article does not work for Microsoft. We can't let them Win. (No Pun Intended)
Both are on the Intel Website, so it would appear, if any $$$ was paid at all, it would have been Intel both times. Since Intel doesn't write operating systems, they really don't care which threading model succeeds.
The blog entry that points out the superiority of Win32 threads is dates to October 2006. The PThread example is a reply to a posting from 2003. I have a feeling that as the author worked more and more with the different threading models, he seems to have a more matured opinion. However, this being Slashdot, the Win32 Threading model is by definition inferior, since Microsoft has no intelligent engineers whatsoever and the author of the article was originally correct and should have never have looked further.
Per PDC 2005, the information on the USB Flash drive (or any Readyboost device) is encrypted, likely using the same encryption scheme that is used with BitLocker.
At least for the Media Center. Currently, Vista's only Media Center Extender that works IS the Xbox 360. Older extenders won't work at all, since they can't handle HI-DEF.
I seriously doubt Microsoft is ditching the XBox 360. I think they're -counting- on it as the "spokes" in the Vista Media Centers's "Hub" in an effort to dominate consumer electronics. Not sure how well they'll do.. Hardly anyone knows everything that the Media Center can do. MS is too focused on odd marketing campaigns, rather than something straight to the point, like Apple.
My Word 2007 allows me to save in the new Word format, Word 1997 - 2003 (which allows reading things TEN years older, not 3 as you have said), PDF, XPS (which I don't know why I'd use),.txt, RTF, HTML, and a few others..
Why spread this FUD? Hate Microsoft because of legitimate reasons (like anti-trust), NOT for reasons made up, like a little girl.
Software Engineering is NOT the same as Computer Science. Computer Science is far more theoretical (and in some cases more appealing) than Software Engineering. Software Engineers, to me, are far more practical in their use of computers, such as building enterprise applications. Computer Scientists focus on things like parallelism theories, computer vision, artificial intelligence and the like. Sure, a lot of the stuff done in CS has legitimate business uses, but the SEs are the ones who make it practical.
I heard of a CS guy who built a web application for a company that used some sort of a finite state machine, with all the logic mapped out on pretty pieces of paper. The app sucked majorly and couldn't scale worth a damn. Engineers routinely think about these issues and plan for them, while CS'ers will come up with the state machine in the first place. Each have their own strengths and weaknesses, but are different.
If you follow that logic, anything not open source is open to that vulnerability, Microsoft or not...
However, if you actually try the code which does impact Office 2003 and earlier additions, it does NOT work.
Makes me glad I got my free copy of Office 2007.
Deployment: Hospitals, Physician Offices, etc., often have diverse locations and diverse applications needed to run on all of their systems: you wouldn't put a radiology system on a Patient Care floor (you'd want to see the results, not the actual application). Using Citrix, a hospital can buy some beefy hardware for their servers and run cheaper hardware in these offices.
Lack of IT staff: Many hospitals either have a small amount of IT staff, or they grew from that type of an environment. This smaller staff can easily manage an upgrade when upgrading a dozen or more servers in a few locations, as opposed to thousands of computers in a large amount of places. And since hospitals are always working, they don't always have the luxury of upgrading in a few hours of downtime, even if they want to hire temp workers to install applications locally. (Sure, there are other ways around this, but my experience is that they refuse to use it.
Case in point: One hospital I used to work for had a home-grown VB5 application (and still used it as of 2004, last time I was there) for all deployment on Windows NT workstations. They would use a SysDiff on a workstation before an install and after an install and see what changes needed to happen. As a result, they had to maintain a monstrous amount of permutations of registry settings, hardware configurations, etc. because not every workstation should have the same thing installed --and-- physicians would need their settings carried over if they signed into a new terminal, regardless of where they signed in. Citrix would have saved these people tons of headaches, man hours, etc.
You don't necessarily need new Hardware, unless you want to take Full Adantage of Vista. If you don't want to use Superfetch / ReadyBoost, you don't need 2.0 USB. If you don't want Media Center capabilities, don't buy a TV Capture card. If you don't want Aero, don't buy a Video Card. Vista works in my Virtual image, and it sure as hell doesn't have a 256 Mb Video Card emulation in it.
Come on, people. Sheesh.. If it works in my VM Ware image, it will work with old hardware..
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I'd wager that, in the long term, GUIS might not increase productivity.. But an -intuitive- GUI for the end user sure as hell minimizes training for a lay user. Visual Icons representing actions are great reminders for those people, especially older ones, who can't remember three letter short-cut commands.
Bottom line: For an expert user, GUIs slow you down. Basic to Intermediate users, especially middle-aged non-techies, GUIs are a godsend, -- when done right --.
Isn't Vista the OS that Microsoft has designed to "fulfill the users needs and expectations". Considering MS's committment to developers and Backwards compatibility, I don't think its fair to say they are obsessed with hurting developers.
It's also a medication. Has anyone ever determined how easy it is to concentrate Nitroglycerine from a medical prescription into something that can bring down a plane?
That's Wrong... NUlls and Arthimetic items can be changed by going into the Enterprise Manager and altering the properties. No SQL needed. Maybe not a wizard, but you can do it in a GUI.
Here's a touchy subject. (No trolling, really, trying to make a counter example).
Is it better not to have slavery? Or to have slavery and abide by the law, and treat your slaves as nice as you can? I'd vote that the first one is the more socially responsible one.
Yeah, this is a bit of a stretch comparison, but the point I'm trying to make is that Google could have made a stand to say, "what you, China, is doing is wrong, and we will "do no evil." Instead, they accept the check and say, "we'll do what we can."
Can you shake the devil's hand and say you're only kidding?
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"Once the Apollo apps are created, users can launch them from their desktops, without using their browser or connecting online."
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Sounds a lot like Microsoft's ClickOnce technology: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/aa4
And Microsoft "auto-updates" Windows machines (whether or not you want them to, it would seem) to include the latest frameworks and such. Regardless, how does what Adobe does improve on what Microsoft (and I'm sure some F/OSS alternatives) already do?
There is a council.... However, it's staffed by people who are sympathetic to Christian Fundamentalism, as opposed to having a wide range of opinions. So since the council has very very similar beliefs to the President, it is no wonder that people don't believe it exists... They don't challenge him at all..
They don't ask what is the right thing.. They ask, "What Would James Dobson Do?" (WWJDD).
If OSS is trying (and succeeding from what I understand) to mimic CardSpaces within Windows and other OSS's, does this mean that Microsoft is actually being innovative? Or is this technology the "same old crap" that has already been written better and freely available? And, if it's the same old crap, why waste good OSS dev cycles trying to re-invent whats already out there, instead of pointing end users to that?
Come on.. This really isn't news. Does anyone not believe Google is a wakeup call to Microsoft? And if Steve Balmer's Chair throwing is any indication, they were aware of it long before Ray Ozzie was promoted to CSA.
While that's very true, what if the "research" happens to be correct? Or at least fairly positive? Agreed, most research studies have uncertainty to them (correlation vs. causation to name only one), but even if Microsoft paid for X research, do you really think, say, that a group of GNU-affiliated University Professors would actually have an unbiased view when comparing, say, Open Office to Microsoft Office? Even though there is no money changing hands?
I guess, for this article, it's immaterial, since it was not a study, rather, someone's own opinion through their work.
This being Slashdot, anything that is remotely pro-Microsoft MUST be viewed with suspicion, even if the author of the article does not work for Microsoft. We can't let them Win. (No Pun Intended)
Both are on the Intel Website, so it would appear, if any $$$ was paid at all, it would have been Intel both times. Since Intel doesn't write operating systems, they really don't care which threading model succeeds.
The blog entry that points out the superiority of Win32 threads is dates to October 2006. The PThread example is a reply to a posting from 2003. I have a feeling that as the author worked more and more with the different threading models, he seems to have a more matured opinion. However, this being Slashdot, the Win32 Threading model is by definition inferior, since Microsoft has no intelligent engineers whatsoever and the author of the article was originally correct and should have never have looked further.
No..
Per PDC 2005, the information on the USB Flash drive (or any Readyboost device) is encrypted, likely using the same encryption scheme that is used with BitLocker.
At least for the Media Center. Currently, Vista's only Media Center Extender that works IS the Xbox 360. Older extenders won't work at all, since they can't handle HI-DEF.
I seriously doubt Microsoft is ditching the XBox 360. I think they're -counting- on it as the "spokes" in the Vista Media Centers's "Hub" in an effort to dominate consumer electronics. Not sure how well they'll do.. Hardly anyone knows everything that the Media Center can do. MS is too focused on odd marketing campaigns, rather than something straight to the point, like Apple.
My Word 2007 allows me to save in the new Word format, Word 1997 - 2003 (which allows reading things TEN years older, not 3 as you have said), PDF, XPS (which I don't know why I'd use), .txt, RTF, HTML, and a few others..
Why spread this FUD?
Hate Microsoft because of legitimate reasons (like anti-trust), NOT for reasons made up, like a little girl.
Dude,
Software Engineering is NOT the same as Computer Science. Computer Science is far more theoretical (and in some cases more appealing) than Software Engineering. Software Engineers, to me, are far more practical in their use of computers, such as building enterprise applications. Computer Scientists focus on things like parallelism theories, computer vision, artificial intelligence and the like. Sure, a lot of the stuff done in CS has legitimate business uses, but the SEs are the ones who make it practical.
I heard of a CS guy who built a web application for a company that used some sort of a finite state machine, with all the logic mapped out on pretty pieces of paper. The app sucked majorly and couldn't scale worth a damn. Engineers routinely think about these issues and plan for them, while CS'ers will come up with the state machine in the first place. Each have their own strengths and weaknesses, but are different.
If you follow that logic, anything not open source is open to that vulnerability, Microsoft or not...
However, if you actually try the code which does impact Office 2003 and earlier additions, it does NOT work. Makes me glad I got my free copy of Office 2007.
There are at least two of reasons.
Deployment: Hospitals, Physician Offices, etc., often have diverse locations and diverse applications needed to run on all of their systems: you wouldn't put a radiology system on a Patient Care floor (you'd want to see the results, not the actual application). Using Citrix, a hospital can buy some beefy hardware for their servers and run cheaper hardware in these offices.
Lack of IT staff: Many hospitals either have a small amount of IT staff, or they grew from that type of an environment. This smaller staff can easily manage an upgrade when upgrading a dozen or more servers in a few locations, as opposed to thousands of computers in a large amount of places. And since hospitals are always working, they don't always have the luxury of upgrading in a few hours of downtime, even if they want to hire temp workers to install applications locally. (Sure, there are other ways around this, but my experience is that they refuse to use it.
Case in point: One hospital I used to work for had a home-grown VB5 application (and still used it as of 2004, last time I was there) for all deployment on Windows NT workstations. They would use a SysDiff on a workstation before an install and after an install and see what changes needed to happen. As a result, they had to maintain a monstrous amount of permutations of registry settings, hardware configurations, etc. because not every workstation should have the same thing installed --and-- physicians would need their settings carried over if they signed into a new terminal, regardless of where they signed in. Citrix would have saved these people tons of headaches, man hours, etc.
What gives?
You don't necessarily need new Hardware, unless you want to take Full Adantage of Vista. If you don't want to use Superfetch / ReadyBoost, you don't need 2.0 USB. If you don't want Media Center capabilities, don't buy a TV Capture card. If you don't want Aero, don't buy a Video Card. Vista works in my Virtual image, and it sure as hell doesn't have a 256 Mb Video Card emulation in it.
Come on, people. Sheesh.. If it works in my VM Ware image, it will work with old hardware..
I'd wager that, in the long term, GUIS might not increase productivity.. But an -intuitive- GUI for the end user sure as hell minimizes training for a lay user. Visual Icons representing actions are great reminders for those people, especially older ones, who can't remember three letter short-cut commands.
Bottom line: For an expert user, GUIs slow you down. Basic to Intermediate users, especially middle-aged non-techies, GUIs are a godsend, -- when done right --.
Isn't Vista the OS that Microsoft has designed to "fulfill the users needs and expectations". Considering MS's committment to developers and Backwards compatibility, I don't think its fair to say they are obsessed with hurting developers.
Dumb as ait might be, I run as Root. Mainly because I don't use my Linux box very often and it sits behind a firewall.
It's just easier running as root.
It's also a medication. Has anyone ever determined how easy it is to concentrate Nitroglycerine from a medical prescription into something that can bring down a plane?
That's Wrong... NUlls and Arthimetic items can be changed by going into the Enterprise Manager and altering the properties. No SQL needed. Maybe not a wizard, but you can do it in a GUI.
Who will be the first slashdotter to suspect evil?
I wonder if Borat Sagdiyev will interview them.
Here's a touchy subject. (No trolling, really, trying to make a counter example).
Is it better not to have slavery? Or to have slavery and abide by the law, and treat your slaves as nice as you can? I'd vote that the first one is the more socially responsible one.
Yeah, this is a bit of a stretch comparison, but the point I'm trying to make is that Google could have made a stand to say, "what you, China, is doing is wrong, and we will "do no evil." Instead, they accept the check and say, "we'll do what we can."
Can you shake the devil's hand and say you're only kidding?
How about Google assisting censorship in China?
/ ch ina_censorship_working_google_workers_happy/
http://www.marketingvox.com/archives/2005/04/15
As an avid reader of Slashdot, I think we all can find a bit of evil in this..