Samsung has a LED light source DLP now/soon, pure red/green/blue LEDs instead of a color wheel, bulbs last 10 years instead of 2, use less power, and produce less heat, no motor spinning a wheel.
Large group projects break down when the energy spent coordinating the project exceeds the work produced by the project. (Death Spiral, Bureaucracy)
Modern communication methods do not reduce the effective coordination cost, because while they provide much more information, the quality of the information is worse. (Spam, Interruptions, Distractions)
The more people you have in a group, the more complex the possible set of relationships is, and the higher the chance there will be a conflict.
SP2 IS the support, that's part of what you paid for, the ongoing updates.
This is like complaining when you bought a car with free oil changes for 10 years, that you need to get the oil changed, then NOT taking it in to get changed, then complaining because it broke down!
In summary, if you're using Windows XP, and not running SP2 by now, AND you are complaining about Windows problems, you are an idiot.
A lawyer friend of mine filed suit against a major utility company. In order to proceed, the judge required a million dollar bond, that he or his clients did not have at the time (him being new to practicing law, and the clients being poor people alleging harm by the utility.)
Considering the dollar amount MS could attach to an injuction delaying Vista, anyone seeking to block Vista shipping may have to put up an eleventy billion dollar bond... Or show harm that no amount of monetary penalty could replace.
Well, now that you've educated people even more than the games do, you can expect to be sued for more than them, I hope you have a Billion dollars handy.
Everyone should have a battery powered radio receiver. Hurricanes, Earthquakes, Flooding, Volcanos (like Mt. St. Helens) happen, and you need a way to receive emergency information about which way to run.
In some ways I agree, 'Not Invented Here' is a real problem, where a department wants to come up with it's own tools, instead of using a shared set of tools.
There are some things you shouldn't do yourself, and some things you should.
Janitorial staffing, for example. Should each department in a building owned by the same company hire a seperate company to clean their offices? Obviously not. But should they all be required to use the same text editor, no matter if they are laying out advertisments or writing C++? I think not.
Both of those cases are obvious, but what about the text editor used by programmers in different departments? Unfortunetly, usually the person in a position to make company-wide policy does not know enough about a specific job area to make reasonable blanket requirements, requiring all developers to use a particular editor, no matter if they are developing for Windows or Linux would be like telling all janitors to use the same floor cleaner for office carpets and the parking garage.
In the Janitors case, since they are often outsourced, or at least a seperate department, they have their own structure which tells them what to use where.
In the software developers case, having a seperate structure to set standards can lead to problems when the Project manager's directions conflict with the standard practices; the project manager's desires usually take hold, because they are in direct contact with the developer, while the company standards are less strictly enforced. This leads to the effective death of the 'standards'. After this happens a number of times, everyone loses faith in anything labeled a company standard, and since they expect no support, they don't even really try to adhere to them.
I don't have a solution, as once an organization reaches this level of NIH, any efforts to re-establish a standards process are doomed to fail.
All free-form and user selected, with browsers offering a dialog where users can set common information, and choose when/where to send it.
Servers must not require the info, and must accept invalid data without dying ( "Age -1/Location The Moon/Sex Yes Please" ) but if provided, they can customize their content/advertising.
Sure, users might deliberatly provide false data, but they would do that anyway with a 'log on' form; and if you don't want to provide it, you don't (default in a browsers should be nothing sent without user approval) and browsers should be able to control which sites get sent what data. Even a simple mechanism, such as the first time you visit a site, do not send data, but if you return to the site later, then send it.
Details of parsing are trivial (I know, not really), once a standard basic layout and header field name is chosen, I'm going for something like the 'Accept:' field format.
I don't mind reasonable advertisments, but as an example, as a guy, I really have no interest in tampon ads, and I doubt the tampon companies want to spend their advertising dollars on me.
What's the 'Privacy Policy' going to be?, will they track who looks at what, instead of just what's being looked at?
Will looking at spending on drug policy enforcement put you on a DEA watch list? If you look at anti-terrorism spending, will you have problems at airports?
Running each application in it's own VM sounds like a good idea... until you need to move data between applications.
The Clipboard.
Such a basic thing that users take for granted nowdays, but really quite complicated; are you cutting from an RTF document, and pasting into a spreadsheet? Copying a bitmap and pasting it into a vector-graphic program? can that AJAX application in your 'secure' web browser blocked from reading the clipboard, what if you want it to?
Crash-proof drivers.
Good idea, in principle, you just have some lower-level drivers manage the basic ports (USB, Serial, Network, etc.) and higher level drivers handle the protocols to talk to the Printer, Music Player, Server, etc. But what the fundemental drivers? if a driver tells the device to go to sleep, who is allowed to wake up the device?, what if the device that's asleep controls the device that's used to wake up? Maybe wake-on-lan works great; but if you tell your USB ports to shut off, you can't exactly wakeup using the button on your USB keyboard.
Depends on your point of view; if you're manufacturing new hardware, writing a device driver, or just making an application, this is pretty much it, the Windows 'Platform'. But if you need new hardware (like CableCards) device drivers (Bluetooth, DirectX 10...), or applications, you may have to wait for them to be done. Microsoft makes referance drivers, it's up to ATI, nVidia, Hauppage, AMD, Intel, etc. to fill those gaps.
The house is built, now it needs furnishings. You could just move in the old stuff from your apartment (the sofa the dog died on, your parents old coffee table, that bent lamp, and those Nagel prints, that microwave that makes your dental work spark... AKA Windows 98/XP applications and drivers) but better things for the new house would be nice to get eventually.
I really don't see the issue; an authorized agent of the content producer asks an automated system for copies of files they own, an automated system provides them.
If they wern't working for the recording companies, then it would be wrong to provide the files. But since someone working on behalf of the legal copyright holders specifically requests a copy, what exactly is the offense?
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I once used an image from an offender website as a message board avatar.
Really, really scary looking guy, convicted of several counts of incest.
But, HE didn't have an account, his image was used without his knowledge or permission.
Mapping from one human onto another is not that hard compared to what real animators have done.
How does a bunch of mops become an unstoppable force?
How do you make a lion comforting?
What makes a toy ballon menacing?
I think ID software used that as a texture in DOOM.
Samsung has a LED light source DLP now/soon, pure red/green/blue LEDs instead of a color wheel, bulbs last 10 years instead of 2, use less power, and produce less heat, no motor spinning a wheel.
Large group projects break down when the energy spent coordinating the project exceeds the work produced by the project. (Death Spiral, Bureaucracy)
Modern communication methods do not reduce the effective coordination cost, because while they provide much more information, the quality of the information is worse. (Spam, Interruptions, Distractions)
The more people you have in a group, the more complex the possible set of relationships is, and the higher the chance there will be a conflict.
Pr, in ptherwords, Pwnd.
Stress and anxiety are carcinogens as well.
Don't worry, be happy.
SP2 IS the support, that's part of what you paid for, the ongoing updates.
This is like complaining when you bought a car with free oil changes for 10 years, that you need to get the oil changed, then NOT taking it in to get changed, then complaining because it broke down!
In summary, if you're using Windows XP, and not running SP2 by now, AND you are complaining about Windows problems, you are an idiot.
"Symantec and Adobe Systems."
At least read the blurb, if not the whole article.
A lawyer friend of mine filed suit against a major utility company. In order to proceed, the judge required a million dollar bond, that he or his clients did not have at the time (him being new to practicing law, and the clients being poor people alleging harm by the utility.)
Considering the dollar amount MS could attach to an injuction delaying Vista, anyone seeking to block Vista shipping may have to put up an eleventy billion dollar bond... Or show harm that no amount of monetary penalty could replace.
Personally, I wouldn't mind Goatse'ing anyone who votes Republican.
Not if you are in the middle of divorcing your wife, and give her $10 as her half of the house.
Well, now that you've educated people even more than the games do, you can expect to be sued for more than them, I hope you have a Billion dollars handy.
Everyone should have a battery powered radio receiver. Hurricanes, Earthquakes, Flooding, Volcanos (like Mt. St. Helens) happen, and you need a way to receive emergency information about which way to run.
In some ways I agree, 'Not Invented Here' is a real problem, where a department wants to come up with it's own tools, instead of using a shared set of tools.
There are some things you shouldn't do yourself, and some things you should.
Janitorial staffing, for example. Should each department in a building owned by the same company hire a seperate company to clean their offices? Obviously not. But should they all be required to use the same text editor, no matter if they are laying out advertisments or writing C++? I think not.
Both of those cases are obvious, but what about the text editor used by programmers in different departments? Unfortunetly, usually the person in a position to make company-wide policy does not know enough about a specific job area to make reasonable blanket requirements, requiring all developers to use a particular editor, no matter if they are developing for Windows or Linux would be like telling all janitors to use the same floor cleaner for office carpets and the parking garage.
In the Janitors case, since they are often outsourced, or at least a seperate department, they have their own structure which tells them what to use where.
In the software developers case, having a seperate structure to set standards can lead to problems when the Project manager's directions conflict with the standard practices; the project manager's desires usually take hold, because they are in direct contact with the developer, while the company standards are less strictly enforced. This leads to the effective death of the 'standards'. After this happens a number of times, everyone loses faith in anything labeled a company standard, and since they expect no support, they don't even really try to adhere to them.
I don't have a solution, as once an organization reaches this level of NIH, any efforts to re-establish a standards process are doomed to fail.
There could be a standard HTTP header field defined.
Call it 'X-Demographics'
Contents would be of the form
"X-Demographics: Age/28, Location/Seattle, Sex/Male, Occupation/Programmer"
All free-form and user selected, with browsers offering a dialog where users can set common information, and choose when/where to send it.
Servers must not require the info, and must accept invalid data without dying ( "Age -1/Location The Moon/Sex Yes Please" ) but if provided, they can customize their content/advertising.
Sure, users might deliberatly provide false data, but they would do that anyway with a 'log on' form; and if you don't want to provide it, you don't (default in a browsers should be nothing sent without user approval) and browsers should be able to control which sites get sent what data. Even a simple mechanism, such as the first time you visit a site, do not send data, but if you return to the site later, then send it.
Details of parsing are trivial (I know, not really), once a standard basic layout and header field name is chosen, I'm going for something like the 'Accept:' field format.
I don't mind reasonable advertisments, but as an example, as a guy, I really have no interest in tampon ads, and I doubt the tampon companies want to spend their advertising dollars on me.
What's the 'Privacy Policy' going to be?, will they track who looks at what, instead of just what's being looked at?
Will looking at spending on drug policy enforcement put you on a DEA watch list?
If you look at anti-terrorism spending, will you have problems at airports?
Which means that we shouldn't want any more users of Firefox, because if it gains share, then it will become a bigger target.
Switch back to IE, you're blocking the view from my Ivory Tower.
Running each application in it's own VM sounds like a good idea... until you need to move data between applications.
The Clipboard.
Such a basic thing that users take for granted nowdays, but really quite complicated; are you cutting from an RTF document, and pasting into a spreadsheet? Copying a bitmap and pasting it into a vector-graphic program? can that AJAX application in your 'secure' web browser blocked from reading the clipboard, what if you want it to?
Crash-proof drivers.
Good idea, in principle, you just have some lower-level drivers manage the basic ports (USB, Serial, Network, etc.) and higher level drivers handle the protocols to talk to the Printer, Music Player, Server, etc. But what the fundemental drivers? if a driver tells the device to go to sleep, who is allowed to wake up the device?, what if the device that's asleep controls the device that's used to wake up? Maybe wake-on-lan works great; but if you tell your USB ports to shut off, you can't exactly wakeup using the button on your USB keyboard.
Depends on your point of view; if you're manufacturing new hardware, writing a device driver, or just making an application, this is pretty much it, the Windows 'Platform'. But if you need new hardware (like CableCards) device drivers (Bluetooth, DirectX 10...), or applications, you may have to wait for them to be done. Microsoft makes referance drivers, it's up to ATI, nVidia, Hauppage, AMD, Intel, etc. to fill those gaps.
The house is built, now it needs furnishings. You could just move in the old stuff from your apartment (the sofa the dog died on, your parents old coffee table, that bent lamp, and those Nagel prints, that microwave that makes your dental work spark... AKA Windows 98/XP applications and drivers) but better things for the new house would be nice to get eventually.
I really don't see the issue; an authorized agent of the content producer asks an automated system for copies of files they own, an automated system provides them.
If they wern't working for the recording companies, then it would be wrong to provide the files. But since someone working on behalf of the legal copyright holders specifically requests a copy, what exactly is the offense?
I just realized, Searching for "export weapon restrictions" may not have been the best idea.
If anyone needs me, call the CIA's secret prison administrators.
Wasn't there something about the PS/2 CPU being powerful enough to fall under weapon export restrictions?
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Ahhh, here we are.
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3a3f27852c0f.h
Only way I could see this working, is if the base game were a pack-in with the console.
Then it's a 'free demo' that everyone can try out, even if they (like me) don't currently care for racing games.
Possibly because an untested patch could do even more harm?