Just because it wasn't delivered properly back then doesn't mean it can't be re-imagined today.
Think about easily being able to play director and sharing your cut of the performance / event easily online or on your youtube channel. There is a lot of room for innovation there.
"its good enough."
"its not great... but its not horrible."
same rhetoric we've heard for years about why open office should beat out office. has not happened. why should office on the web be any different?
if you have used office web apps + office client integration you would know that there is nothing on the market close right now. the combination of viewing documents quickly in the cloud but popping it open in a snappy client is the best productivity combination available.
sorry google, msft has one upped you here. you got some work to do.
i live in washington state, know plenty about this ballot initiative, and most of these comments are ignorant. if they passed the state income tax law (I-1098) it could be potentially be applied to all tax brackets, not just the wealthy. i like the idea of taxing income on the wealthiest however this specific ballot initiative was too broad and left the door open to expand to even low income families.
btw the argument in the article writeup is not even valid. if it did pass, which it didn't, it wouldn't have gone into effect until next year. so balmers cashout of stock doesn't even come into play.
you can keep hating on microsoft, but just make sure you get your facts straight.
lastpass.com does just this. it is a free cross browser (ie, firefox, safari, chrome, iphone) plugin that encrypts your passwords and then stored them on their servers. (only your encrypted passwords are stored)
it replaces the built in firefox manager (which doesn't work very well and i can't believe they haven't addressed that yet) and lastpass's plugin works much much better than the built in ie / firefox managers. its also a lot more secure.
its not without faults.... its not very easy to use with multiple accounts and trying to correct an account with a wrong password is sometimes painful
overall, i love it and am a user. check it out: lastpass.com
why is the title:
Microsoft "Rushes Out" Office Web Apps Preview
Rushed out?
Actually its been in development for a few years so if anything more like "Slowly Pushes Out Tech Preview..."
But seriously slashdot, why the constant undertones for Microsoft? Call it as it lies please.
Keep it up and you might even get bought by Fox News.:)
i never understood the whole free software thing. trust me i love it, (firefox, filezilla, xbmc, pidgin, etc...) but i don't get it.
let me explain. software developers are smart people. they have a talent, a skill, and in this world people with talents and skills get paid for them.
name me one other industry where talented people give away work for free. i dont see accountants lining up to do your taxes for free, doctors ready to treat you for free and professors willing to teach you for free. unfortunately that's not how this world works, but developers don't seem to care.
i understand all the benefits of sharing source code and innovating and improving with others around the globe. it's truly amazing. case closed. but from the whole business perspective it doesn't make sense. i guess some open source geeks just have good hearts and aren't the most savvy business men / women... i mean if i can make a kick ass product like many of the open source ones out there, i'm gonna make money off it. daddy's gotta eat.
its almost counter productive if you think about it... go to your software development job, work on a product, then go home and work on a free open source product in your spare time and give it away for free... ya know if you charged for your free product you might not have to go into the day job anymore and you could do what you love...
if someone can help me explain, please do... i've never been able to wrap my little brain around it.:)
this is true, windows 2008 is awesome. i converted to it from vista and i never get the spinning circle anymore. its just snappier.
one thing to note, its kind of a bitch to get drivers working. vista drivers work fine but you'll have to open those driver installers with an archive utility, pull out the.inf driver files and manually install through device manager. although if you're installing windows server you probably can do that stuff no sweat. i highly recommend windows 2008
i can not believe the unbelievable biased title for this story. this has nothing to do with microsoft flaws and everything to do with bad developers yet somehow the title implies that a microsoft flaw caused 500,000 compromised servers... wtf?
this can happen on any type of system it really has nothing to do with microsoft. can't you find something real to complain about?
i know the slashdot community is anti-microsoft but writing and publishing incorrect and extremely negatively biased stories like this make me want to get my tech news elsewhere.
bad form slashdot
who said it was windows xp? obviously we're assuming its windows server, so what are you smoking?
and it doesn't matter what type of a client you have to access DFS either, that's just applicable to the clients. but i'm not sure DFS even makes sense here, the intended use is to distribute files, not make one large drive.
you missed what i thought was the most interesting point...
phishers exploit blacklisted phishing lists because usually all the servers listed are unpatched and still vulnerable. sometimes there's multiple phishers using a box at once.
everyone on slashdot bashes microsoft non-stop and its very annoying.
take for example pdf support. it became a feature that maybe they didn't do first but realized there is a need for it and they added it. are they supposed to never add features they didn't originally think of? isn't the most important thing that they reconize it is something customers want and they give it to them?
also i'm sick and tired of hearing that there's no innovation from microsoft. i've used office 12 and it is very cool and has lots of very useful innovative features. the menu tabs make finding what you need much easier than digging through drop downs. theres also an instant preview when you mouse over different fonts, and it displays it right in the document. same thing if you're adding tables, an instant preview of the table appears as you are creating one. these are just a few quick examples i thought were great.
will they get credit for these types of innovations? not on slashdot.
Abstract:
When a minimum statutory damage award has a large punitive component, the danger arises that the award's punitive effect, when aggregated across many similar acts, will become so tremendous that it imposes a penalty grossly excessive in relation to any legitimate interest in punishment or deterrence.
i believe this means the RIAA is suing for ridiuclous large sums of money, hundreds of thousands of dollars for each mp3, even though in actuality the damages to the RIAA is much much smaller than what they're sueing for. a similar type of incident occured before in a court case:
BMW of North America, Inc. v. Gore, where the Court held
unconstitutional a jury's punitive damage award of two million dollars to a plaintiff who suffered
four thousand dollars in actual damages from the defendant's deceptive trade practices.
the author of the legal document is simply making an argument that the ruling of the BMW v Gore case should also apply to this case. the actual damages to the RIAA are a closer to a few dollars per song rather than the hundreds of thousands they're suing for. it will be very interesting if anyone being sued actually takes this kind of approach.
if you're being lazy then stop. add some basic comments which will help someone else, or even yourself when you come back to the code in the future. long names help but they aren't enough.
if you're in a rush then you probably should have started sooner. try to get more time if you can. if you rush thru the code now you're going to be in even more of a rush later with all the time you waste when you come back to your old code and have to painstakingly work your way it.
doctor who? is right. why does this show get so much posting on the slashdot homepage? who really cares about this show? probably not more than 5% of slashdot readers. stick it in sci-fi but not on the main page.
i know right? i love slashdot but people need to stop obessesing about hating microsoft. The whole "create software to stop spam" idea sounds awfully familiar to microsoft's initiative to get Sender ID accepted across major ISP, which could help stop spam at the software level. unfortunately they haven't had the best support with it from other ISPs.
in case you couldn't figure it out its not as simple as writing some software and flipping a switch to start protecting everyone's email inbox. it takes a very long time to convert all the ISPs and millions of email users to a new type of email authentication.
seems to me like microsoft is taking steps on the legal front and the software front to stop spam. no one else is really doing much, or at least not close to what microsoft is doing. stop being so biased and accept the fact that the company you might hate is doing you and the world a big favor by spending a lot of money it doesn't have to.
is there any way to use aim and not have big brother watching? i have too many buddies that use aim and i know i could never convert them all to a different im service like jabber.
can i somehow encrypt aim messages even if the other users aren't using encryption? what about third party services?
the average person doesn't have the time or know-how to tivo all their shows, transfer them to their pc, and burn them all to dvds. lets face it, that's not a trival thing to 90% of people out there. so basically it boils down to most people will throw down ~$30 to buy a dvd season thats already made for them... and it even comes with a pretty box with dvd menus, extras and all.
the bad part is even though the entertainment industry realizes this fact, they still want to cripple any capabilites which are perfectly legal under fair-use laws. right now geeks are the only people that will use these capabilities, loading up their portable devices with media and watching episodes of seinfeld and ali g on the subway.... but in the future that will likely change and unfortunately the mass population won't realize until then that the entertainment industry has stolen all of their fair use rights
does anyone know what file format they are using for the video? is it wmv with drm?
i think this is great, but i'm a little worried that every channel except PBS is gonna opt out of this since anyone can opt out if they want. it's a step in the right direction at least, giving a little more power back to the consumer. hopefully they'll add directivo support in the future.
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Just because it wasn't delivered properly back then doesn't mean it can't be re-imagined today. Think about easily being able to play director and sharing your cut of the performance / event easily online or on your youtube channel. There is a lot of room for innovation there.
i was just thinking, would privacy screens (meant for laptops) work on your license plate?
directly behind (police for example) you can see it fine, but directly overhead or from a side angle (cameras) are obscured.
thoughts?
"its good enough." "its not great... but its not horrible." same rhetoric we've heard for years about why open office should beat out office. has not happened. why should office on the web be any different? if you have used office web apps + office client integration you would know that there is nothing on the market close right now. the combination of viewing documents quickly in the cloud but popping it open in a snappy client is the best productivity combination available. sorry google, msft has one upped you here. you got some work to do.
i live in washington state, know plenty about this ballot initiative, and most of these comments are ignorant. if they passed the state income tax law (I-1098) it could be potentially be applied to all tax brackets, not just the wealthy. i like the idea of taxing income on the wealthiest however this specific ballot initiative was too broad and left the door open to expand to even low income families.
btw the argument in the article writeup is not even valid. if it did pass, which it didn't, it wouldn't have gone into effect until next year. so balmers cashout of stock doesn't even come into play.
you can keep hating on microsoft, but just make sure you get your facts straight.
agreed. lastpass.com has a good product.
lastpass.com does just this. it is a free cross browser (ie, firefox, safari, chrome, iphone) plugin that encrypts your passwords and then stored them on their servers. (only your encrypted passwords are stored) it replaces the built in firefox manager (which doesn't work very well and i can't believe they haven't addressed that yet) and lastpass's plugin works much much better than the built in ie / firefox managers. its also a lot more secure. its not without faults.... its not very easy to use with multiple accounts and trying to correct an account with a wrong password is sometimes painful overall, i love it and am a user. check it out: lastpass.com
why is the title: Microsoft "Rushes Out" Office Web Apps Preview Rushed out? Actually its been in development for a few years so if anything more like "Slowly Pushes Out Tech Preview..." But seriously slashdot, why the constant undertones for Microsoft? Call it as it lies please. Keep it up and you might even get bought by Fox News. :)
i never understood the whole free software thing. trust me i love it, (firefox, filezilla, xbmc, pidgin, etc...) but i don't get it.
:)
let me explain. software developers are smart people. they have a talent, a skill, and in this world people with talents and skills get paid for them.
name me one other industry where talented people give away work for free. i dont see accountants lining up to do your taxes for free, doctors ready to treat you for free and professors willing to teach you for free. unfortunately that's not how this world works, but developers don't seem to care.
i understand all the benefits of sharing source code and innovating and improving with others around the globe. it's truly amazing. case closed. but from the whole business perspective it doesn't make sense. i guess some open source geeks just have good hearts and aren't the most savvy business men / women... i mean if i can make a kick ass product like many of the open source ones out there, i'm gonna make money off it. daddy's gotta eat.
its almost counter productive if you think about it... go to your software development job, work on a product, then go home and work on a free open source product in your spare time and give it away for free... ya know if you charged for your free product you might not have to go into the day job anymore and you could do what you love...
if someone can help me explain, please do... i've never been able to wrap my little brain around it.
this is true, windows 2008 is awesome. i converted to it from vista and i never get the spinning circle anymore. its just snappier.
.inf driver files and manually install through device manager. although if you're installing windows server you probably can do that stuff no sweat. i highly recommend windows 2008
one thing to note, its kind of a bitch to get drivers working. vista drivers work fine but you'll have to open those driver installers with an archive utility, pull out the
i can not believe the unbelievable biased title for this story. this has nothing to do with microsoft flaws and everything to do with bad developers yet somehow the title implies that a microsoft flaw caused 500,000 compromised servers... wtf?
this can happen on any type of system it really has nothing to do with microsoft. can't you find something real to complain about?
i know the slashdot community is anti-microsoft but writing and publishing incorrect and extremely negatively biased stories like this make me want to get my tech news elsewhere. bad form slashdot
this has been in design at microsoft since 2002. read the paper yourself anti-microsoft-boy: http://research.microsoft.com/scripts/pubs/view.asp?TR_ID=MSR-TR-2002-75
who said it was windows xp? obviously we're assuming its windows server, so what are you smoking?
and it doesn't matter what type of a client you have to access DFS either, that's just applicable to the clients. but i'm not sure DFS even makes sense here, the intended use is to distribute files, not make one large drive.
you missed what i thought was the most interesting point... phishers exploit blacklisted phishing lists because usually all the servers listed are unpatched and still vulnerable. sometimes there's multiple phishers using a box at once.
i'll tell you what they have in common...
electricity at this dude's house.
get a fuckin surge protector dumb ass
Here is a link to a Channel 9 demo of Office 12 and some of the new features: http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=1147 20
everyone on slashdot bashes microsoft non-stop and its very annoying.
take for example pdf support. it became a feature that maybe they didn't do first but realized there is a need for it and they added it. are they supposed to never add features they didn't originally think of? isn't the most important thing that they reconize it is something customers want and they give it to them?
also i'm sick and tired of hearing that there's no innovation from microsoft. i've used office 12 and it is very cool and has lots of very useful innovative features. the menu tabs make finding what you need much easier than digging through drop downs. theres also an instant preview when you mouse over different fonts, and it displays it right in the document. same thing if you're adding tables, an instant preview of the table appears as you are creating one. these are just a few quick examples i thought were great.
will they get credit for these types of innovations? not on slashdot.
the author of the article states: "-o tells gcc to compile the file"
but fortunately he didnt write the example, its taken from Bryant and O'Hallaron's Computer Systems.
the referenced legal paper says:
Abstract:
When a minimum statutory damage award has a large punitive component, the danger arises that the award's punitive effect, when aggregated across many similar acts, will become so tremendous that it imposes a penalty grossly excessive in relation to any legitimate interest in punishment or deterrence.
i believe this means the RIAA is suing for ridiuclous large sums of money, hundreds of thousands of dollars for each mp3, even though in actuality the damages to the RIAA is much much smaller than what they're sueing for. a similar type of incident occured before in a court case:
BMW of North America, Inc. v. Gore, where the Court held unconstitutional a jury's punitive damage award of two million dollars to a plaintiff who suffered four thousand dollars in actual damages from the defendant's deceptive trade practices.
the author of the legal document is simply making an argument that the ruling of the BMW v Gore case should also apply to this case. the actual damages to the RIAA are a closer to a few dollars per song rather than the hundreds of thousands they're suing for. it will be very interesting if anyone being sued actually takes this kind of approach.
people don't comment code for two reasons:
1. they're in a rush
2. they're lazy
if you're being lazy then stop. add some basic comments which will help someone else, or even yourself when you come back to the code in the future. long names help but they aren't enough.
if you're in a rush then you probably should have started sooner. try to get more time if you can. if you rush thru the code now you're going to be in even more of a rush later with all the time you waste when you come back to your old code and have to painstakingly work your way it.
torrent isn't working. anyone have a working one?
doctor who? is right. why does this show get so much posting on the slashdot homepage? who really cares about this show? probably not more than 5% of slashdot readers. stick it in sci-fi but not on the main page.
i know right? i love slashdot but people need to stop obessesing about hating microsoft. The whole "create software to stop spam" idea sounds awfully familiar to microsoft's initiative to get Sender ID accepted across major ISP, which could help stop spam at the software level. unfortunately they haven't had the best support with it from other ISPs.
in case you couldn't figure it out its not as simple as writing some software and flipping a switch to start protecting everyone's email inbox. it takes a very long time to convert all the ISPs and millions of email users to a new type of email authentication.
seems to me like microsoft is taking steps on the legal front and the software front to stop spam. no one else is really doing much, or at least not close to what microsoft is doing. stop being so biased and accept the fact that the company you might hate is doing you and the world a big favor by spending a lot of money it doesn't have to.
is there any way to use aim and not have big brother watching? i have too many buddies that use aim and i know i could never convert them all to a different im service like jabber.
can i somehow encrypt aim messages even if the other users aren't using encryption? what about third party services?
thanks for any advice
the average person doesn't have the time or know-how to tivo all their shows, transfer them to their pc, and burn them all to dvds. lets face it, that's not a trival thing to 90% of people out there. so basically it boils down to most people will throw down ~$30 to buy a dvd season thats already made for them... and it even comes with a pretty box with dvd menus, extras and all.
the bad part is even though the entertainment industry realizes this fact, they still want to cripple any capabilites which are perfectly legal under fair-use laws. right now geeks are the only people that will use these capabilities, loading up their portable devices with media and watching episodes of seinfeld and ali g on the subway.... but in the future that will likely change and unfortunately the mass population won't realize until then that the entertainment industry has stolen all of their fair use rights
does anyone know what file format they are using for the video? is it wmv with drm?
i think this is great, but i'm a little worried that every channel except PBS is gonna opt out of this since anyone can opt out if they want. it's a step in the right direction at least, giving a little more power back to the consumer. hopefully they'll add directivo support in the future.