It's common knowledge by now even amongst the general public that Vista exploded on the launch pad. At this point, the only thing this line of inquiry has to offer is to help Microsoft prevent a repeat of the last performance. If you ask me, Windows 7 will suffer many of the same problems -- namely because they are still using the monkey-horde development technique, which is get a bunch of third-world programmers in a room and churn out very lackluster code, and then keep redeveloping it until it works "good enough". Microsoft still hasn't learned that great programmers have a lot of experience outside programming, and to make the best code you need to give them the freedom to try different solutions and then listen to their feedback. From what I've seen, Microsoft is a hugely divided organization where hundreds of small teams compete to produce the most lines of code and nobody knows quite what everybody else is doing. Management constantly changes direction during the development process, to the point that a lot of work is wasted in duplication of effort and things being thrown away due to changing priorities.
Windows has reached a level of complexity that these kinds of organizational mistakes can no longer be tolerated, but Microsoft is too large and entrenched to be capable of streamlining their development process. Maybe they get rid of UAC, and the DRM, and rewrite the driver infrastructure so it sucks less; And those are all fine goals to have, but it doesn't fix the real problem -- which is that the organization made these decisions in the first place when I know their developers were screaming at them "For the love of all things good and holy in the world don't do it!"
Microsoft isn't the first to deal with this. One Mr. Richard Feynman noted similar organizational problems that led to the Challenger disaster at NASA. NASA has been trying to squelch this addendum for some time and you won't find a link to it on their main report anymore, but you can find it here http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/51-l/docs/rogers-commission/Appendix-F.txt
Best line from your Feynman link to draw a parallel with Vista:
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over
public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."
How many billions of emails with videos of monkeys smoking cigars whilst riding trikes do the MI5 want to see?
And how many links to youtube videos of people smoking magic mint do they want to know about?
I think they will have to employ an army of high school kids who are good at pretending to do homework whilst surfing the net and chatting to their 'tarded friends to actually be able to filter through even a quarter of this stuff.
So when the Azkaban film has singing in it that directly quotes Shakespeare(or was it Chris Marlowe, hmmm) shouldn't she be putting a reference or a credit in there?
Double double toil and trouble indeed...
Larry Potter to Harry Potter? Hmm, pure genius. I prefer Barry Trotter..magic!
http://www.barrytrotter.com/
Sorry, but MyLai was not an aberration...this from Colin Powell's autobiography;
"We burned the thatched huts, starting the blaze with Ronson and Zippo lighters... Why were we torching houses and destroying crops? Ho Chi Minh had said people were like the sea in which his guerillas swam. We tried to solve the problem by making the whole sea uninhabitable. In the hard logic of war, what difference does it make if you shot your enemy or starved him to death?"
Starving people to death is not targeting/smart warfare and neither is bombing infrastructure for years and then wondering why these 'people' can't just put it back together again.
Much of this has its roots in the fact that bentham was an Englishman and his ideas of the 'panopticon' style prison were taken up on a larger scale across society in order to keep us mindful thatv we are all being watched all the time. And when we are not, we think we are. Therefore we behave(very distilled version, obviously). And for much of the time, this is how it works. But does the act of observing, change the observed? Much like Schrodinger would have us believe?
I could be wrong, but the problem is that just exercising whilst not changing diet will not do much for losing weight. It takes a lot of exercise to lose the kind of energy you'd get from your average Mars bar. Packaged foods these days are so much higher in sugar and salts than they ever were before.
Hey I didn't solve the puzzle but I managed to get hold of some audio files of the Governator disparaging midgets. Does that mean I get a job for Angelides? How about HP?
..I think anyone over 70Kg should be banned too because when they are using webcams to send themselves across the internet they use up more bandwidth than skinny people.
I think that everyone should simply invest in a Tony Blair mask if they were going to commit strange and lewd acts with a pineapple, a Rottweiler called Fluffy and some type of implement for removing unwanted hair, whilst in public. Then the whole idea would be a worthwhile investment. Bravo Charles Clarke. Then the ID card scheme would be much easier to implement since we could all have the same photograph on our cards. New Labour genius. Two legs good, four legs baaaad.
No -one has seen Charlie kaufman's script for this? Google it. This is the best SF book ever written and would no doubt blow everything else up and leave you feeling you were suffering MPD when you came out of the cinema if Mr Kaufman wrote it....
I have found the perfect solution is to wear a specially adapted pair of spectacles. I simply attach a band-aid to the bridge of my normal specs and HEY PRESTO! Geek-o-vision....
"made by the first company to deploy rootkits in commercial products"?
Are you sure--I have found a rootkit on my Win 98 system here--it's called Media Player...
Can Symantec promise me that they will slow down my PC with a bloated online service like rtvscan like they do with their Norton program? Otherwise I'd never know it was working hard for me...
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It's common knowledge by now even amongst the general public that Vista exploded on the launch pad. At this point, the only thing this line of inquiry has to offer is to help Microsoft prevent a repeat of the last performance. If you ask me, Windows 7 will suffer many of the same problems -- namely because they are still using the monkey-horde development technique, which is get a bunch of third-world programmers in a room and churn out very lackluster code, and then keep redeveloping it until it works "good enough". Microsoft still hasn't learned that great programmers have a lot of experience outside programming, and to make the best code you need to give them the freedom to try different solutions and then listen to their feedback. From what I've seen, Microsoft is a hugely divided organization where hundreds of small teams compete to produce the most lines of code and nobody knows quite what everybody else is doing. Management constantly changes direction during the development process, to the point that a lot of work is wasted in duplication of effort and things being thrown away due to changing priorities.
Windows has reached a level of complexity that these kinds of organizational mistakes can no longer be tolerated, but Microsoft is too large and entrenched to be capable of streamlining their development process. Maybe they get rid of UAC, and the DRM, and rewrite the driver infrastructure so it sucks less; And those are all fine goals to have, but it doesn't fix the real problem -- which is that the organization made these decisions in the first place when I know their developers were screaming at them "For the love of all things good and holy in the world don't do it!"
Microsoft isn't the first to deal with this. One Mr. Richard Feynman noted similar organizational problems that led to the Challenger disaster at NASA. NASA has been trying to squelch this addendum for some time and you won't find a link to it on their main report anymore, but you can find it here http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/missions/51-l/docs/rogers-commission/Appendix-F.txt
Best line from your Feynman link to draw a parallel with Vista: "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."
How many billions of emails with videos of monkeys smoking cigars whilst riding trikes do the MI5 want to see? And how many links to youtube videos of people smoking magic mint do they want to know about? I think they will have to employ an army of high school kids who are good at pretending to do homework whilst surfing the net and chatting to their 'tarded friends to actually be able to filter through even a quarter of this stuff.
I'm out of here!
Fuck the UK!
I think they just did.
So easy I hacked his report card:
Maths: A
Science: A
English: A
Hacking: F
Shop: A
So when the Azkaban film has singing in it that directly quotes Shakespeare(or was it Chris Marlowe, hmmm) shouldn't she be putting a reference or a credit in there? Double double toil and trouble indeed... Larry Potter to Harry Potter? Hmm, pure genius. I prefer Barry Trotter..magic! http://www.barrytrotter.com/
Thank God the British are so willing to promote Open Source passports...
Sorry, but MyLai was not an aberration...this from Colin Powell's autobiography; "We burned the thatched huts, starting the blaze with Ronson and Zippo lighters ... Why were we torching houses and destroying crops? Ho Chi Minh had said people were like the sea in which his guerillas swam. We tried to solve the problem by making the whole sea uninhabitable. In the hard logic of war, what difference does it make if you shot your enemy or starved him to death?"
Starving people to death is not targeting/smart warfare and neither is bombing infrastructure for years and then wondering why these 'people' can't just put it back together again.
The biggest IT disaster was when Al Gore invented the internet and gave birth to global warming.
The Middle East now includes Morocco and Algeria and Tunisia? Next it will include India and Pakistan I guess....
Much of this has its roots in the fact that bentham was an Englishman and his ideas of the 'panopticon' style prison were taken up on a larger scale across society in order to keep us mindful thatv we are all being watched all the time. And when we are not, we think we are. Therefore we behave(very distilled version, obviously). And for much of the time, this is how it works. But does the act of observing, change the observed? Much like Schrodinger would have us believe?
I could be wrong, but the problem is that just exercising whilst not changing diet will not do much for losing weight. It takes a lot of exercise to lose the kind of energy you'd get from your average Mars bar. Packaged foods these days are so much higher in sugar and salts than they ever were before.
....wouldn't you think it...
Hey I didn't solve the puzzle but I managed to get hold of some audio files of the Governator disparaging midgets. Does that mean I get a job for Angelides? How about HP?
I can do both at once...I often get arrested however, so do not recommend this as a way to burn calories...
..I think anyone over 70Kg should be banned too because when they are using webcams to send themselves across the internet they use up more bandwidth than skinny people.
Commander Konig is still there....
I'm glad I live in China...
I think that everyone should simply invest in a Tony Blair mask if they were going to commit strange and lewd acts with a pineapple, a Rottweiler called Fluffy and some type of implement for removing unwanted hair, whilst in public. Then the whole idea would be a worthwhile investment. Bravo Charles Clarke. Then the ID card scheme would be much easier to implement since we could all have the same photograph on our cards. New Labour genius. Two legs good, four legs baaaad.
My name is Fidel Castro...I can't get a job anywhere in the US now thanks to Google...
No -one has seen Charlie kaufman's script for this? Google it. This is the best SF book ever written and would no doubt blow everything else up and leave you feeling you were suffering MPD when you came out of the cinema if Mr Kaufman wrote it....
I have found the perfect solution is to wear a specially adapted pair of spectacles. I simply attach a band-aid to the bridge of my normal specs and HEY PRESTO! Geek-o-vision....
quote "Computer code, by contrast, is perfectly precise and therefore immune to influence from context;" has he ever met a coder?
"But I know a guy who uses password trading websites.." You KNOW a guy. Is he a 'friend of a friend?' hmm....does he kind of look like you?
"made by the first company to deploy rootkits in commercial products"? Are you sure--I have found a rootkit on my Win 98 system here--it's called Media Player...
Can Symantec promise me that they will slow down my PC with a bloated online service like rtvscan like they do with their Norton program? Otherwise I'd never know it was working hard for me...