I have 2 camcorders in my house, ones a panasonic and the other is a canon, neither have firewire, both have USB/HDMI/Component. Now I have nothing against firewire, but I highly doubt almost every camcorder has it, I have 2 hi def camcorders from popular brands and NEITHER has it.
"I despise the ribbon more than MS itself. What is it in the human psyche that insists on breaking things that work? There are so many other issues to address -- why screw up a perfectly usable user interface, by replacing it with an illogical hodge-podge that, if nothing else, requires user retraining? What problem is being solved? And is it really being solved?
If you don't believe me, ask a collection of users to perform a task with the existing UI, then change to the ribbon and repeat the process. If not convinced, give the users a week to adjust to the ribbon, and repeat the test. I think you'll find that users burdened by the ribbon will perform their tasks significantly slower than those using the more efficient menu system"
What is it with the human psyche that makes people think there poorly thought out anecdotal evidence is better than the extensive research and facts.
Here are some facts for you.
The top 10 feature requests from users of office for years has been features that already exist in the product, this completely goes against your insinuation that there is nothing wrong with the old and everyone could find what they wanted. This is not conjecture or made up information to try to make the ribbon look good, it is fact, the menu system SUCKS when you get so many features that it is simply not possible to make it so everyone can find everything.
Fact 2, there is only a small subset of features that everyone uses, the rest is all over the place, making a logical menu based system on usage almost impossible as no structure will match more than a small portion of user usage.
No I don't believe you, What you are asking to do has been done and DOCUMENTED extensively and has found overwhelmingly that the ribbon is better for office than a menu system. having said that I see no reason for it in firefox, firefox does not have the feature bloat of something like office to need it.
You can't even really say that quality of OSS is trending upwards. The same company using the same tools is doing the analysis, this brings a certain degree of bias as many of the flawes they point out the first time are fixed and therefore artificially lower the error count. The kind of analysis needed is one that covers stuff this code inspection tool doesn't cover to see how the error rates are really trending.
The article appears to be little more than a blog written by someone with an incredibly biased view (and pretty inaccurate one at that) on the current state of virtualisation. Why is this even on slashdot, is it just the obvious anti MS angle? I guess nissan are lucky they don't have IT people like him that dictate based on personal bias rather than technical knowledge.
I can't believe you got marked down as troll, while overly agressive you are dead on. Self promotion while you may feel awkward and uncomfortable doing it is essential, especially in a large team environment. My manager has 24 Evaluations to do, there is no possible way she can fully evaluate every persons work without some self promotion, it is also actively encouraged, you do something good you tell her about it for the record. Self promotion is about making sure your value to the company is known, it doesn't matter if you think your too important to sack, it only matters what your managers think.
If I had mod points I would be modding you up as you seem to have nailed it. I subscribed to CO after all the hype and quite frankly it is a buggy poorly put together piece of crap. With the simplicity of the game and arcade style of it I found myself completely bored within a few hours and within a week I canned my subscription. Even though I have a few weeks left on my free month I doubt I will even log back into before then. This game was a major disappointment.
The sad Reality of such a break up is that their is not going to be a significant benefit to the consumer. Instead of one monopoly we will have 2, One still in complete control of the infrastructure and still setting prices and a second dominate retail division which will still be the defacto standard for people to use as they don't know better.
As a hacker and I am going to walk into your PHP cubicle, snarf up all your customer data to sell for identity fraud. But don't worry you can tell all your customers your OS was safe and the hacker was not able to break out of the sandbox to get access to your other apps. I am sure they will feel so much better about that having their details sold on the black market hearing that wonderfull news.
The system is already well and truly gamed. The best way at the moment is not to write the best news but to hire professional web companies that specialise in ensuring your pages are in the top hits. I could understand if google were actually making a good effort at preventing such gaming but they aren't.
really???? you honestly think it is more secure by design?
lets take the most common attack vector and you can tell me how a Mac protects you.
Stupid User A downloads Free Stuff B that has malware attached, user is prompted for password to install and enters password cause they want Free Stuff B. Now on windows or linux or for that matter any other OS in the world it does what the user said and installed it. How does apple prevent this? after all THIS is how the majority of virus's/trojans/rootkits are installed.
Neither XP, Vista or Windows 7 have any sort of compulsory DRM, you can play/record/save all your non DRM'ed content just the same. from your post though I guess you are probably one of the less technically literate people that believed a lot of the FUD about how Vista impossed DRM on you. The only thing Vista or 7 offer is that in ADDITION to playing all your non DRM content it will ALSO play DRM'ed crap if you were dumb enough to purchase DRM content in the first place.
I think you have misinterpreted their goal. They are trying to create one platform that all "MS" Devices can access, not one code base that can run on all devices which as you correctly summized already exists to some extent. The intent is shared content, friends, contacts, movies, games etc all accessible from your live "platform" regardless of what device you happy to be using at the time.
Actually no it doesn't disagree with him at all. There is less surface area (extent) but considerably more volume which has more than compensated for the extent reduction. The total volume of the ice pack has increased not decreased
because unlike most global warming/climate change "so called" scientists, real scientists actually require evidence before they will make such statements. Having a theory is one thing, proving it is another.
I am honestly completely stunned by this article. I had thought the majority of countries had passed laws about the use of cell phones while driving, I did not know the US was so far behind. Many studies in other countries have shown use of cell phone (even hands free) is the equivalent to driving with a mid range blood alcohol level or worse and has been banned in most western countries with hefty fines for using your cell phone while driving.
perhaps you should read the article. There is nothing ironic about it. Rosetta want to stop pirates, scams and impersonators from using searches for their product to be targetted with those adverts, it is not good for them or for the users. Google makes it easy for scammers, Rosetta if anything here are doing you a public service. They are not trying to prevent others using the name Rosetta.
My gods, please don't take yet another PC game that works so fantastically with the keyboard-mouse combination and 'dumb it down for the masses' that use console controls. Note, I'm not saying console gamers are dumb, just the controls are in many types of games.
huh? Mech Warrior games have nearly always been best played with a joystick, especially multi axis joysticks, many of which were built specifically with mech warrior games in mind, keyboard and mouse was ALWAYS a distant second. Back in the day I spent a fortune on various, at the time state of the art, multi axis joysticks to get the best out of Mech games. Now I hate console games but the 360 has more analog multi axis joysticks and buttons on it than just about anything in the market. Personally I will get this on the PC and if it is good then I will probably be buying a joystick again for the first time in about 5 years.
Facial Recognition is hardly real world mapping of 3d objects. it is more pattern recognition and either way such technologies have been around for decades, including the idea of 3d mapping, not sure how they can possibly claim this is innovative/new/non obvious. Sounds more like they are trying to preempt where nintendo and Microsoft are already going to try and maybe win in courts where they failed in technology.
I can't understand why so many people like the OP fail to understand, YOU are not googles consumers/users, you are their product. The consumers and users are the advertisers, The ones that get no choice but to use google or be restricted to a tiny part of the market, the users who are completely locked in and at the whims of googles policies and pricing whether they like it or not. Google is anything but a nice company to its users and if anything is one of the nastiest bastards in the industry when it comes to advertising.
YOU are not a google user, you are part of their product that they sell.
You guys need to get with the times, rfid tagging of cattle has been going on in other countries for years very successfully, Australia has had this mandated by law for 4 or 5 years now and if you think Oregon outback is big you really should take a look at the sparsity of the Australian outback. The system works very effectively and is by no means onerous of farmers (I am the only one in my family that is not a cattle or sheep farmer). It was frowned upon by small scale farmers here at first till they saw how easy and usefull it was.
The problem is this sort of disaster is not a contract or TCO problem that has anythign to do with MS or Linux, it was a poor IT management problem. They got hit a full 4 months after patches were released. What this article should describe is how incredibly poor IT and patch management leads to increased IT costs and messy public disasters, this is not a MS excusive problem, if you think an unpatched linux server is safe then I have a bridge I would like to sell you.
prison is there as a punishment. Madoff is most definitely a danger to society, he has bankrupted companies, destroyed peoples retirement assets and put people out of work in a time when they can least afford it, the pain and mental suffering he has caused is massive. Madoff is a piece of scum that if anything is even more of a danger to society than any murderer or rapist as he affects the lives of many more people. Prison is not just a deterent, it is a PUNISHMENT, The only truly sad thing is that he was not caught earlier and he got to enjoy the fruits of his evil for many many years when he should have been rotting in a dungeon somewhere. Madoff commited his crimes over a 30+ year period, he obviously has very low moral standards so what is to stop him scamming others if he is let out, In this case the cost of his imprisonment is worth every penny.
Slashdot Mirror
I have 2 camcorders in my house, ones a panasonic and the other is a canon, neither have firewire, both have USB/HDMI/Component. Now I have nothing against firewire, but I highly doubt almost every camcorder has it, I have 2 hi def camcorders from popular brands and NEITHER has it.
Cat 6 can run 10Gbps, current HDMI uses less bandwidth than what Cat6 is capable of.
"I despise the ribbon more than MS itself. What is it in the human psyche that insists on breaking things that work? There are so many other issues to address -- why screw up a perfectly usable user interface, by replacing it with an illogical hodge-podge that, if nothing else, requires user retraining? What problem is being solved? And is it really being solved? If you don't believe me, ask a collection of users to perform a task with the existing UI, then change to the ribbon and repeat the process. If not convinced, give the users a week to adjust to the ribbon, and repeat the test. I think you'll find that users burdened by the ribbon will perform their tasks significantly slower than those using the more efficient menu system"
What is it with the human psyche that makes people think there poorly thought out anecdotal evidence is better than the extensive research and facts.
Here are some facts for you.
The top 10 feature requests from users of office for years has been features that already exist in the product, this completely goes against your insinuation that there is nothing wrong with the old and everyone could find what they wanted. This is not conjecture or made up information to try to make the ribbon look good, it is fact, the menu system SUCKS when you get so many features that it is simply not possible to make it so everyone can find everything.
Fact 2, there is only a small subset of features that everyone uses, the rest is all over the place, making a logical menu based system on usage almost impossible as no structure will match more than a small portion of user usage.
No I don't believe you, What you are asking to do has been done and DOCUMENTED extensively and has found overwhelmingly that the ribbon is better for office than a menu system. having said that I see no reason for it in firefox, firefox does not have the feature bloat of something like office to need it.
You can't even really say that quality of OSS is trending upwards. The same company using the same tools is doing the analysis, this brings a certain degree of bias as many of the flawes they point out the first time are fixed and therefore artificially lower the error count. The kind of analysis needed is one that covers stuff this code inspection tool doesn't cover to see how the error rates are really trending.
The article appears to be little more than a blog written by someone with an incredibly biased view (and pretty inaccurate one at that) on the current state of virtualisation. Why is this even on slashdot, is it just the obvious anti MS angle? I guess nissan are lucky they don't have IT people like him that dictate based on personal bias rather than technical knowledge.
I can't believe you got marked down as troll, while overly agressive you are dead on. Self promotion while you may feel awkward and uncomfortable doing it is essential, especially in a large team environment. My manager has 24 Evaluations to do, there is no possible way she can fully evaluate every persons work without some self promotion, it is also actively encouraged, you do something good you tell her about it for the record. Self promotion is about making sure your value to the company is known, it doesn't matter if you think your too important to sack, it only matters what your managers think.
If I had mod points I would be modding you up as you seem to have nailed it. I subscribed to CO after all the hype and quite frankly it is a buggy poorly put together piece of crap. With the simplicity of the game and arcade style of it I found myself completely bored within a few hours and within a week I canned my subscription. Even though I have a few weeks left on my free month I doubt I will even log back into before then. This game was a major disappointment.
The sad Reality of such a break up is that their is not going to be a significant benefit to the consumer. Instead of one monopoly we will have 2, One still in complete control of the infrastructure and still setting prices and a second dominate retail division which will still be the defacto standard for people to use as they don't know better.
As a hacker and I am going to walk into your PHP cubicle, snarf up all your customer data to sell for identity fraud. But don't worry you can tell all your customers your OS was safe and the hacker was not able to break out of the sandbox to get access to your other apps. I am sure they will feel so much better about that having their details sold on the black market hearing that wonderfull news.
The system is already well and truly gamed. The best way at the moment is not to write the best news but to hire professional web companies that specialise in ensuring your pages are in the top hits. I could understand if google were actually making a good effort at preventing such gaming but they aren't.
really???? you honestly think it is more secure by design? lets take the most common attack vector and you can tell me how a Mac protects you. Stupid User A downloads Free Stuff B that has malware attached, user is prompted for password to install and enters password cause they want Free Stuff B. Now on windows or linux or for that matter any other OS in the world it does what the user said and installed it. How does apple prevent this? after all THIS is how the majority of virus's/trojans/rootkits are installed.
Neither XP, Vista or Windows 7 have any sort of compulsory DRM, you can play/record/save all your non DRM'ed content just the same. from your post though I guess you are probably one of the less technically literate people that believed a lot of the FUD about how Vista impossed DRM on you. The only thing Vista or 7 offer is that in ADDITION to playing all your non DRM content it will ALSO play DRM'ed crap if you were dumb enough to purchase DRM content in the first place.
I think you have misinterpreted their goal. They are trying to create one platform that all "MS" Devices can access, not one code base that can run on all devices which as you correctly summized already exists to some extent. The intent is shared content, friends, contacts, movies, games etc all accessible from your live "platform" regardless of what device you happy to be using at the time.
by platform they are referring to "Live" as the platform, platform does not have to mean OS. So having Xbox live available on everything.
Actually no it doesn't disagree with him at all. There is less surface area (extent) but considerably more volume which has more than compensated for the extent reduction. The total volume of the ice pack has increased not decreased
because unlike most global warming/climate change "so called" scientists, real scientists actually require evidence before they will make such statements. Having a theory is one thing, proving it is another.
I am honestly completely stunned by this article. I had thought the majority of countries had passed laws about the use of cell phones while driving, I did not know the US was so far behind. Many studies in other countries have shown use of cell phone (even hands free) is the equivalent to driving with a mid range blood alcohol level or worse and has been banned in most western countries with hefty fines for using your cell phone while driving.
perhaps you should read the article. There is nothing ironic about it. Rosetta want to stop pirates, scams and impersonators from using searches for their product to be targetted with those adverts, it is not good for them or for the users. Google makes it easy for scammers, Rosetta if anything here are doing you a public service. They are not trying to prevent others using the name Rosetta.
My gods, please don't take yet another PC game that works so fantastically with the keyboard-mouse combination and 'dumb it down for the masses' that use console controls. Note, I'm not saying console gamers are dumb, just the controls are in many types of games.
huh? Mech Warrior games have nearly always been best played with a joystick, especially multi axis joysticks, many of which were built specifically with mech warrior games in mind, keyboard and mouse was ALWAYS a distant second. Back in the day I spent a fortune on various, at the time state of the art, multi axis joysticks to get the best out of Mech games. Now I hate console games but the 360 has more analog multi axis joysticks and buttons on it than just about anything in the market. Personally I will get this on the PC and if it is good then I will probably be buying a joystick again for the first time in about 5 years.
User Stupidity is not limited to what operating system a person uses and hence is not a MS specific TCO.
Facial Recognition is hardly real world mapping of 3d objects. it is more pattern recognition and either way such technologies have been around for decades, including the idea of 3d mapping, not sure how they can possibly claim this is innovative/new/non obvious. Sounds more like they are trying to preempt where nintendo and Microsoft are already going to try and maybe win in courts where they failed in technology.
I can't understand why so many people like the OP fail to understand, YOU are not googles consumers/users, you are their product. The consumers and users are the advertisers, The ones that get no choice but to use google or be restricted to a tiny part of the market, the users who are completely locked in and at the whims of googles policies and pricing whether they like it or not. Google is anything but a nice company to its users and if anything is one of the nastiest bastards in the industry when it comes to advertising. YOU are not a google user, you are part of their product that they sell.
You guys need to get with the times, rfid tagging of cattle has been going on in other countries for years very successfully, Australia has had this mandated by law for 4 or 5 years now and if you think Oregon outback is big you really should take a look at the sparsity of the Australian outback. The system works very effectively and is by no means onerous of farmers (I am the only one in my family that is not a cattle or sheep farmer). It was frowned upon by small scale farmers here at first till they saw how easy and usefull it was.
The problem is this sort of disaster is not a contract or TCO problem that has anythign to do with MS or Linux, it was a poor IT management problem. They got hit a full 4 months after patches were released. What this article should describe is how incredibly poor IT and patch management leads to increased IT costs and messy public disasters, this is not a MS excusive problem, if you think an unpatched linux server is safe then I have a bridge I would like to sell you.
prison is there as a punishment. Madoff is most definitely a danger to society, he has bankrupted companies, destroyed peoples retirement assets and put people out of work in a time when they can least afford it, the pain and mental suffering he has caused is massive. Madoff is a piece of scum that if anything is even more of a danger to society than any murderer or rapist as he affects the lives of many more people. Prison is not just a deterent, it is a PUNISHMENT, The only truly sad thing is that he was not caught earlier and he got to enjoy the fruits of his evil for many many years when he should have been rotting in a dungeon somewhere. Madoff commited his crimes over a 30+ year period, he obviously has very low moral standards so what is to stop him scamming others if he is let out, In this case the cost of his imprisonment is worth every penny.