Honestly, dropping XP is even questionable. You don't start counting an OS's death from the date it was first introduced, you do it from the date that it was last sold. MS was still selling new copies of XP in 2009. This is only 2 years ago. Combined with the fact that Vista was basically still born and MS knew it (making it not a real option for many), dropping XP support in IE is basically telling their customers that they don't really support their OS for more than 2 years.
Given the number of companies that take the stance "This is ours, and better it completely disappear than anyone use it without paying us.", this is a good gesture on their part.
30 years ago, it took more energy to produce a solar panel then what it would produce in it's lifetime. Today that is not the case. That achievement alone is monumental. Your problem is that you can't see the connection between the announcement and the release of these products.
I would say exactly the opposite. The Angry Birds and Fruit Ninja playing crowed is EXACTLY Nintendo's demographic. You know, 90% of the population, who don't care if they have the best tech, want to be able to play for 10 or 15 minutes at a time, and look at price as their first deciding factor.
Having just done my taxes, it always pisses me off that our tax code specifically discourages telecommuting. It is very clear that you can only take deductions if it is for the employer's benefit. That is an absurd rule. They should instead be charging businesses EXTRA tax for every worker they keep on site that doesn't need to be there.
That makes no sense. The only reason that you wouldn't have just as good of facilities or can just manage servers flat out better internally is because you don't want to spend the money to make it happen. It absolutely IS shoveling work off to someone who can do it cheaper.
The trolls can come out at the name of "Lotus", but that is exactly what IBM offers with their cloud based Domino servers. Internal/External it's all the same.
That would be trivial to fix. It would just need to be able to recognize one single command to activate the full speech recognition. Everything else can just be considered gibberish to the phone. Think ST:TNG "Computer" command that the crew uses to issue commands to the computer. Of course, "Computer" is a stupid command to user for that, since it is a word that is commonly used in conversation. A gibberish new made up word would be better particularly if it had a easily processed different form for use in describing the command. That way if the word is used, the speech recognition knows that it is being used as a command.
I agree with you for the most part, but would like to point out to pieces that need to be added to that. One is that the OS is constantly being changed with security fixes, so it is certainly possible for the IT department to everything right, and still have machines get slower.
The other thing is that very frequently, the process that users are doing were slow the day the software went into production. It's just that they had to work with the tools that existed at the time. So, it isn't that the computer is getting slower, it is just that a process that used to take an hour could now be done in 10 minutes with a newer faster computer.
While most people don't do this for work, a good example of the gains that can be made is looking at video transcodeing. Just a few years ago, it took longer to transcode a video than it took to watch it. It was slower than real time. Today, an hour long video can be transcoded in 10 minutes. The hardware from a few years ago didn't get slower, but it is slower than what new hardware will do today.
Again, I do agree with your general point though. There are many systems that have no need of upgrade.
No, the programmers of the 50's and 60's were horribly unproductive by today's standards. Their biggest bottleneck was ridiculously crappy equipment by today's standards. "Only a poor worker blames his tools." is one of those sound bites that sound's good, but on even the slightest examination shows how dumb it is. The counter sound bite is "Use the right tool for the job."
- "But it takes more than 5 minutes for them to come down and install (program X that's actually work related) for me." Nevermind that these installs happen maybe once per year and if they would bother SCHEDULING with us...
You lose all credibility with that one. If all it took was a phone call and 5 minutes later, software would be installed, few people would mind. You know as well as everyone else that waiting months is not uncommon, and that is if the software EVER gets installed. In fact you make it clear that you wouldn't do the installs in 5 minutes with this:
- Number of incidents where complaints of "my machine is slow" turn out to be the result of user filling drive up with crap
I have heard tell that there are businesses that actually use imagining software so that if your machine has a problem, you can initiate a clean install back to the corporate approved image right from the desktop. This way, the users can install the software they need (or even want), and if something goes wrong, it takes less than 5 minutes to start the re-imaging of their system. I have yet to personally see one of these companies. They seem to be a fairy tail of wondrous fantasy though. Every single company I have been in has administrators that either let the users install what they want and the user has to permanently deal with the results, locks everything down, and the users have a poor work experience, often not being prevented from doing their jobs, or a combination of the two, where the Admins let the users install what they want unless they are looking to punish the user in a brow beating measure.
The ironic part about the 'lock everything down' admins are that the whole reason that they have jobs is because the mainframe admins kept everything locked down, so people started using their own personal computers to get around the lock downs in the mainframe so they could get their jobs done.
Besides the fact that it would be her car that she cut the brake lines one, you would STILL be wrong for hitter her for cutting the break lines even if it was YOUR car. Hitting her would not elevate a threat to life and limb, so YOU would still get arrested for hitting her. Your attempt to debunk a perfectly sound analogy with an analogy where Sony would still be in the wrong fails.
If it is a valid defense, then the person is not guilty. You are saying that the seriousness of the crime should have a bearing on whether the person is guilty or innocent. You are just using different sentences to say the exact same thing.
Our trial system is in shambles in large part because of people like you. Either the person is guilty or they are not. Declaring that someone is guilty BECAUSE the crime was bad is how innocent people end up in prison or executed. It is a complete failure of logic and reason.
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Honestly, dropping XP is even questionable. You don't start counting an OS's death from the date it was first introduced, you do it from the date that it was last sold. MS was still selling new copies of XP in 2009. This is only 2 years ago. Combined with the fact that Vista was basically still born and MS knew it (making it not a real option for many), dropping XP support in IE is basically telling their customers that they don't really support their OS for more than 2 years.
Within 12 months of buying VirtualPC, "backward compatibility" was no longer a valid excuse for MS.
Then they could give you a button that says "Migrate to YouTube" and be done with it.
Given the number of companies that take the stance "This is ours, and better it completely disappear than anyone use it without paying us.", this is a good gesture on their part.
30 years ago, it took more energy to produce a solar panel then what it would produce in it's lifetime. Today that is not the case. That achievement alone is monumental. Your problem is that you can't see the connection between the announcement and the release of these products.
Actually Super Wii Next Generation. Or Swiing.
I would say exactly the opposite. The Angry Birds and Fruit Ninja playing crowed is EXACTLY Nintendo's demographic. You know, 90% of the population, who don't care if they have the best tech, want to be able to play for 10 or 15 minutes at a time, and look at price as their first deciding factor.
I'm trying to find the place where it is buggy and beta. Flash has been running great on my Android devices for as long as it has been available.
It renders all of the videos on http://www.xhamster.com/ perfectly fine. Perhaps Neil McAllister was holding it wrong...
http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Alice_in_Wonderland_An_Adult_Musical_Comedy/70107081?trkid=2361637#height1367
While Netflix says it is rated R, and that is what it would probably get today, the rating shown at the beginning of the actual movie is X.
Having just done my taxes, it always pisses me off that our tax code specifically discourages telecommuting. It is very clear that you can only take deductions if it is for the employer's benefit. That is an absurd rule. They should instead be charging businesses EXTRA tax for every worker they keep on site that doesn't need to be there.
That makes no sense. The only reason that you wouldn't have just as good of facilities or can just manage servers flat out better internally is because you don't want to spend the money to make it happen. It absolutely IS shoveling work off to someone who can do it cheaper.
The trolls can come out at the name of "Lotus", but that is exactly what IBM offers with their cloud based Domino servers. Internal/External it's all the same.
That would be trivial to fix. It would just need to be able to recognize one single command to activate the full speech recognition. Everything else can just be considered gibberish to the phone. Think ST:TNG "Computer" command that the crew uses to issue commands to the computer. Of course, "Computer" is a stupid command to user for that, since it is a word that is commonly used in conversation. A gibberish new made up word would be better particularly if it had a easily processed different form for use in describing the command. That way if the word is used, the speech recognition knows that it is being used as a command.
Don't jump to the conclusion that users are the problem. Your own story points out that your predecessor was woefully inadequate as an IT manager.
I agree with you for the most part, but would like to point out to pieces that need to be added to that. One is that the OS is constantly being changed with security fixes, so it is certainly possible for the IT department to everything right, and still have machines get slower.
The other thing is that very frequently, the process that users are doing were slow the day the software went into production. It's just that they had to work with the tools that existed at the time. So, it isn't that the computer is getting slower, it is just that a process that used to take an hour could now be done in 10 minutes with a newer faster computer.
While most people don't do this for work, a good example of the gains that can be made is looking at video transcodeing. Just a few years ago, it took longer to transcode a video than it took to watch it. It was slower than real time. Today, an hour long video can be transcoded in 10 minutes. The hardware from a few years ago didn't get slower, but it is slower than what new hardware will do today.
Again, I do agree with your general point though. There are many systems that have no need of upgrade.
No, the programmers of the 50's and 60's were horribly unproductive by today's standards. Their biggest bottleneck was ridiculously crappy equipment by today's standards. "Only a poor worker blames his tools." is one of those sound bites that sound's good, but on even the slightest examination shows how dumb it is. The counter sound bite is "Use the right tool for the job."
Is that the Grampa that claims he can hammer a nail into a block of wood with his penis?
- "But it takes more than 5 minutes for them to come down and install (program X that's actually work related) for me." Nevermind that these installs happen maybe once per year and if they would bother SCHEDULING with us...
You lose all credibility with that one. If all it took was a phone call and 5 minutes later, software would be installed, few people would mind. You know as well as everyone else that waiting months is not uncommon, and that is if the software EVER gets installed. In fact you make it clear that you wouldn't do the installs in 5 minutes with this:
- Number of incidents where complaints of "my machine is slow" turn out to be the result of user filling drive up with crap
I have heard tell that there are businesses that actually use imagining software so that if your machine has a problem, you can initiate a clean install back to the corporate approved image right from the desktop. This way, the users can install the software they need (or even want), and if something goes wrong, it takes less than 5 minutes to start the re-imaging of their system. I have yet to personally see one of these companies. They seem to be a fairy tail of wondrous fantasy though. Every single company I have been in has administrators that either let the users install what they want and the user has to permanently deal with the results, locks everything down, and the users have a poor work experience, often not being prevented from doing their jobs, or a combination of the two, where the Admins let the users install what they want unless they are looking to punish the user in a brow beating measure.
The ironic part about the 'lock everything down' admins are that the whole reason that they have jobs is because the mainframe admins kept everything locked down, so people started using their own personal computers to get around the lock downs in the mainframe so they could get their jobs done.
Besides the fact that it would be her car that she cut the brake lines one, you would STILL be wrong for hitter her for cutting the break lines even if it was YOUR car. Hitting her would not elevate a threat to life and limb, so YOU would still get arrested for hitting her. Your attempt to debunk a perfectly sound analogy with an analogy where Sony would still be in the wrong fails.
If it is a valid defense, then the person is not guilty. You are saying that the seriousness of the crime should have a bearing on whether the person is guilty or innocent. You are just using different sentences to say the exact same thing.
Hotz hurt them? Is that the same logic you use when you beat your girlfriend? "Well, I wouldn't have had to hit the bitch if she didn't talk back."
Anything Sony did to their customers is Sony's fault. Period.
Right, because torturing and murdering thousands* of people is completely the same thing as what this guy did.
This is clearly implying that the seriousness of the crime has any bearing on whether the person is guilty or innocent.
The part where you implied that the seriousness of the crime had any bearing at all on the verdict of innocent or guilty.
Our trial system is in shambles in large part because of people like you. Either the person is guilty or they are not. Declaring that someone is guilty BECAUSE the crime was bad is how innocent people end up in prison or executed. It is a complete failure of logic and reason.