I remember Quest Communications being touted as not complicit with NSA surveillance directly after September 11. The CEO subsequently got investigated for income tax evasion by the IRS and was sent to jail. Quest went belly up a few years later.
Let a "brogramming"-managed team release product into the marketplace and see what happens. When it fails, we will yawn and continue doing what we've been doing.
My hatred was already maxed out for the null/empty-string screwup.
It has been so long since I've been bitten by that particular "feature", I forgot about it entirely. Now that I remember: DAMN THEM. GOD DAMN THEM.
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Not really a fair comparison since the Dune books were always rooted in our history and present and far enough in the distance to allow Herbert room to explore. Furthermore, there were few truly made-up words in the novels. Most of the words had solid roots in our current lexicon (maybe not English but they exist) and mangled enough to where it is somewhat believable as language and culture would evolve 10,000 years into the future.
Even totally foreign concepts had simple terms attached to them and with a few exceptions to be sure... but there was very little pure BS to be had in those novels.
Same. I was doing well until I saw, "The next is a bit long", and figured to hell with it. I wasn't laughing anyway... perhaps because my eyes were bleeding.
Earth's rotation is more closely linked to the moon. Without the moon, we'd complete a day's rotation in something like 48 days instead (Google that to be sure). With such a slow rotation, wind would blow predominantly north-south.
But blowing up something on the moon shouldn't be blowing up the moon... unless we're following Armageddon physics all of a sudden.
I was thinking about trying to find a good copy of 2001 to watch today.
It's sad that the man has passed, but hopefully some channel (PBS or Discovery Channel) will take the opportunity of airing his series from the 80's... Mysterious World and Strange Powers. I loved watching Mysterious World and (to a lesser extent) Strange Powers when I was growing up.
Time to dust off some old books and remember.
I don't mean to come off as a troll, but I think the answer is: "Stop fucking with us."
The things that we citizens of the Internet (if there is such a thing), nearly universally, seem to agree on is that we want to be left alone from the "powerful". Spammers? Leave us alone. Advertisers? By and large, leave us alone. Eavesdropping, corporate or governmental, leave us alone.
We reserve the right to poke, prod, and change the world around us by using the Internet, but we do not appreciate, nor do we seem to stand for, the reverse to hold true.
I'm far from an MS fanboy but the only real failure I see on your list of "failures" is MSN Search. XBox did well enough, and XBox 360 is a definite win to the extent that it has creamed Sony with this generation of consoles so far. Live is a rebranding of their MSN services just as they've had forever... it can certainly be considered a failure in that it doesn't bring in the money it needs to or should, but I see that set of services as a stop-gap between them in everyone else. No need to give other companies the power and money that all those unsolicited IE programs opening to the Live homepage brings. And Windows Mobile? No doubt its crap, but there's also no doubt that its one of the standard bearers on the mobile market to this day.
Now if you think that Blue-Ray's win will give Sony a leg up, I can cede that point to you, but if there's no backward compatibility between the PS3 and earlier PS consoles, you're in for a rude awakening. People who've done their homework who care about it are not pleased. And people who have not done their homework and buy one anyway will be getting some severe buyer's remorse. Sony's fragmented their PS3 line 3 or 4 ways due reduce cost. Blue-Ray wins but it does not necessarily follow, at this point, that the PS3 will gain ground to the degree that people expect. The PS3 is, in the end, a gaming machine. Taking away the backwards compatibility aspect is a bad, bad decision I think they'll regret.
Did you guys take bets as to whether or not this article's comments would become a series of bug reports? If not, you should have. The guy betting "yes" would have had a lot of free beer tonight.:)
Well hate to say it, but I had a Sun exec say to me that they were jumping on the Linux bandwagon to (practically) bait-and-switch their customers to upsell Solaris OS licenses. May sound unbelievable, but it is oh, so very true.
I realize the Mozilla/Firefox crowd hasn't killed IE (yet!), but I would bet that the intersection between people who are Mozilla/Firefox fanatics and those who are Google fanatics are more than a passive, small number.
I've always thought (possibly not correctly) that people who used Google services--besides search, of course, are generally early-adopters. I've also always thought the same for Mozilla--especially Firefox users.
You're right. They do have the brand to back the browser. But without people like us, I'd find it hard for them to get a foothold. I could be wrong.
... that the good folks @ Google are prepared for their first massive *shrug* from the masses. It would take something extraordinary for me to switch from Firefox at this point. I would imagine the same from a lot of people. They could cash in on the IE-weary public, looking for a change, but those of us using Gecko-based browsing are quite fanatical about it.:)
Hey. I know this is a enabling you to run my program. I know you think you need this program for whatever purposes you think necessary, and either you don't have the money to pay for it, or simply don't want to pay for it.
I have to admit as a developer, I've done the same from time to time, when I needed something to use once or whatever. So I understand, to a degree. And therefore, I'm not going to do anything that I am able to do by your blindly running this hacked software (like deleting your home directory, recording your current IP or ident information for prosecution, etc.)
But what I am going to do is tell you this: Real people coded this, that took real time out of their real lives. For the X dollars (MSRP) for this software, you got:
# of lines of code changed in this patch.
# of lines of code changed since last major release.
# of people it took to create this software.
# of hours/days/weeks/months for us to put it together.
Total lines of code.
Total # of people involved, ever.
Next time you run me, I'm going to tell you this again, until you hack this message out of the binary or uninstall this illegally used and obtained software.
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I remember Quest Communications being touted as not complicit with NSA surveillance directly after September 11. The CEO subsequently got investigated for income tax evasion by the IRS and was sent to jail. Quest went belly up a few years later.
Let a "brogramming"-managed team release product into the marketplace and see what happens. When it fails, we will yawn and continue doing what we've been doing.
My hatred was already maxed out for the null/empty-string screwup.
It has been so long since I've been bitten by that particular "feature", I forgot about it entirely. Now that I remember: DAMN THEM. GOD DAMN THEM.
Not really a fair comparison since the Dune books were always rooted in our history and present and far enough in the distance to allow Herbert room to explore. Furthermore, there were few truly made-up words in the novels. Most of the words had solid roots in our current lexicon (maybe not English but they exist) and mangled enough to where it is somewhat believable as language and culture would evolve 10,000 years into the future. Even totally foreign concepts had simple terms attached to them and with a few exceptions to be sure... but there was very little pure BS to be had in those novels.
Option 3 - George Lucas is an asshole.
*stammers* Screw you, doodiehead! *runs out of the room*
Same. I was doing well until I saw, "The next is a bit long", and figured to hell with it. I wasn't laughing anyway... perhaps because my eyes were bleeding.
Earth's rotation is more closely linked to the moon. Without the moon, we'd complete a day's rotation in something like 48 days instead (Google that to be sure). With such a slow rotation, wind would blow predominantly north-south. But blowing up something on the moon shouldn't be blowing up the moon... unless we're following Armageddon physics all of a sudden.
"I, for one, welcome our new robotic overlords!", and all that.
>1100 in the past 36 hours. Running a small business, here, as well.
I was thinking about trying to find a good copy of 2001 to watch today. It's sad that the man has passed, but hopefully some channel (PBS or Discovery Channel) will take the opportunity of airing his series from the 80's... Mysterious World and Strange Powers. I loved watching Mysterious World and (to a lesser extent) Strange Powers when I was growing up. Time to dust off some old books and remember.
I don't mean to come off as a troll, but I think the answer is: "Stop fucking with us."
The things that we citizens of the Internet (if there is such a thing), nearly universally, seem to agree on is that we want to be left alone from the "powerful". Spammers? Leave us alone. Advertisers? By and large, leave us alone. Eavesdropping, corporate or governmental, leave us alone.
We reserve the right to poke, prod, and change the world around us by using the Internet, but we do not appreciate, nor do we seem to stand for, the reverse to hold true.
Right here.
I'm far from an MS fanboy but the only real failure I see on your list of "failures" is MSN Search. XBox did well enough, and XBox 360 is a definite win to the extent that it has creamed Sony with this generation of consoles so far. Live is a rebranding of their MSN services just as they've had forever... it can certainly be considered a failure in that it doesn't bring in the money it needs to or should, but I see that set of services as a stop-gap between them in everyone else. No need to give other companies the power and money that all those unsolicited IE programs opening to the Live homepage brings. And Windows Mobile? No doubt its crap, but there's also no doubt that its one of the standard bearers on the mobile market to this day.
Now if you think that Blue-Ray's win will give Sony a leg up, I can cede that point to you, but if there's no backward compatibility between the PS3 and earlier PS consoles, you're in for a rude awakening. People who've done their homework who care about it are not pleased. And people who have not done their homework and buy one anyway will be getting some severe buyer's remorse. Sony's fragmented their PS3 line 3 or 4 ways due reduce cost. Blue-Ray wins but it does not necessarily follow, at this point, that the PS3 will gain ground to the degree that people expect. The PS3 is, in the end, a gaming machine. Taking away the backwards compatibility aspect is a bad, bad decision I think they'll regret.
That pretty much sums it up. My first thought to post here was "One-third my ass."
Did you guys take bets as to whether or not this article's comments would become a series of bug reports? If not, you should have. The guy betting "yes" would have had a lot of free beer tonight. :)
Did everyone take their suppository? YES. NOW STOP ASKING.
Beer is good.
Well hate to say it, but I had a Sun exec say to me that they were jumping on the Linux bandwagon to (practically) bait-and-switch their customers to upsell Solaris OS licenses. May sound unbelievable, but it is oh, so very true.
I've always thought (possibly not correctly) that people who used Google services--besides search, of course, are generally early-adopters. I've also always thought the same for Mozilla--especially Firefox users.
You're right. They do have the brand to back the browser. But without people like us, I'd find it hard for them to get a foothold. I could be wrong.
... that the good folks @ Google are prepared for their first massive *shrug* from the masses. It would take something extraordinary for me to switch from Firefox at this point. I would imagine the same from a lot of people. They could cash in on the IE-weary public, looking for a change, but those of us using Gecko-based browsing are quite fanatical about it. :)
Hey. I know this is a enabling you to run my program. I know you think you need this program for whatever purposes you think necessary, and either you don't have the money to pay for it, or simply don't want to pay for it.
I have to admit as a developer, I've done the same from time to time, when I needed something to use once or whatever. So I understand, to a degree. And therefore, I'm not going to do anything that I am able to do by your blindly running this hacked software (like deleting your home directory, recording your current IP or ident information for prosecution, etc.)
But what I am going to do is tell you this: Real people coded this, that took real time out of their real lives. For the X dollars (MSRP) for this software, you got:
- # of lines of code changed in this patch.
- # of lines of code changed since last major release.
- # of people it took to create this software.
- # of hours/days/weeks/months for us to put it together.
- Total lines of code.
- Total # of people involved, ever.
Next time you run me, I'm going to tell you this again, until you hack this message out of the binary or uninstall this illegally used and obtained software.