I can get a palm pilot for $50 at Target. Textbooks actually DO cost more, and this would be useless as anything except a textbook (I hope). So, I'm guessing theft is easier to solve than electricity.
Microsoft products worked well and worked together, and they were bundled at lower prices than the competition. That isn't insignificant. Their success is rarely technology related, but it's hardly an accident.
In life, there are only 2 keys for every success: ideas and execution. Other companies had better technology (or plans), but no one executed better than Microsoft.
Yes, we are so much more elegant and well-designed. We don't do any work but we know you're doing it wrong. We CAN dismiss 30 years of craftsmanship and progress as pooky-doo. If we weren't smarter, we wouldn't have summers off, would we?
Oh, and by the way the monkey wrench is soooooo obsolete. We should all use rubber strap wrenches. But no one's made the perfect rubber strap wrench. Of course, I came waaaayyy closer than anyone else. So you'd better pay me to design a better one.
That's right, HP Labs is doing another Java, so you'd better get behind me because it will make Java and C# look like flimsy made-for-TV marketing tools. Kneel before the majesty of my genius!
Please, tell me. Can i demand an updated Windows 2000 disc? Because it took a freaking hour to download updates on broadband through my firewall asking if it was okay every 2 minutes- and I have SP2!!! Which means it could have been worse!!!
Syntax is part of the job. Teach programming without it, and it's like writing without good spelling. You can't be truly effective until you master the discipline.
People forget the shows always stink. Try watching ST:TNG sometime. After the first season, it's a little repetitive. Of course, then Voyager was REALY repetitive. I can get better production values in a 10 year old StarCraft game,....so....
They obviously don't have the budget to do things right. Aliens are always humans with makeup. That drives me crazy. It's 2005, and ST can't do better? Just publish a couple of Star Trek: Pirates videogames, let people plunder, loot and futz with transport settings (within ship, ship to ship, ship to planet, and...PUREE!). Charge 60$ on the next systems, and you'll have enough money to make the movie in a month.
Why don't they hire ME?
They are doing well FOR CABLE. Which isn't very well at all. I mean, how hard is it to beat an Anaconda TV show's rating? How you seen what's on Sci-Fi lately? Can't we have new Sliders instead?
Here's Microsoft's problem: Their size. They can't get Longhorn out, they've given up on a new file system, they don't have the personnel to keep up with Google in search. Microsoft won the OS market and won the Office market. Google isn't going to challenge that.
Web banners are the best form of advertising, and eventually they will connect through TV- Tivo like stuff or digital TV. Their expansion area is clear and they have the dominant advantage because 'the only real assets in software are people'. And everyone wants to work at Google.
Sure people want to work at Microsoft, but even so, they can't get Longhorn out. Either because of inability or lack of competition, Microsoft is lazy. It's OS is popular and increasingly buggy. It's office has hit a wall in innovation- it turns out there are only so many ways to write a document! Everyone goes online for communication, data analysis, budgeting, etc. Excel is used less and less, Access is all but dead. Their new office initiatives sound like a lot of buck for little bang. The only reason I keep Windows at home are my digital cameras and pc games (and those I play less and less as I use the PS2 more). And you never know when you need IE for some idiot's website.
is great, first of all.
And the idea for Google is simple- they need sticky applications that link to their services. As Microsoft tries to co-opt Windows to take over Google search, Google keeps expanding to keep people interested. Picasa searches hard drives- part of the Google's new expertise, and links to Blogs. Plus, it beats the bejeezus out of Windows/Photoshop for organizing Photos. Love it.
Bush and Thatcher are hardly power-grab dictators with evil schemes. You sound a little bitter to me. 9/11 was the most shocking event since Pearl Harbor. You didn't think we were going to let things go, did you? Even in Iraq?
I mean, that worked so well for Clinton- letting Al Qaeda attack the WTC and then not capturing them, not going to war, not increasing security.
Lincoln and FDR are closer to your examples, btw.
It's just attempted by the wrong people. Haven't you ever played Flight Simulator and wondered how long before the world was actually really completely simulated. This is the start of that. Search anything. Any book, any building. If you're the FBI, any person.
The problem for Microsoft is that these projects really belong on a server. Now that we can send email and write documents, all the exciting stuff is on the web. And people play games on consoles.
I imagine after Blue Gene, IBM may attempt this project in earnest.
This is just silly. Everyone says that the EA employees shouldn't be 'worked to death' in their air conditioned, personalized, comfy cubicles, but everybody also b1tches when a game has an error in it, or is just the same thing year after year.
There _may be_ some room for EA to relax and still cut prices, or take it easier on EA employees, but they're not in this game to lose. They just can't play like that. If they're doing something wrong, then make it illegal. But most of these guys get burned out and quit- which they're all free to do any time. And that's the way some industries are. It beats the hell out of farming- and the money's good, too.
Because Lord knows the governments are run by brain-sucking aliens who seek to oppress us all.
It's not like real people we're accusing or anything.
It's not as if this poster is immature or anything....
It's widely known they're planning to raise the costs of videogames on the next systems. This is EA getting the Heavens aligned to charge Micro$oft-level money. I think the major players, Sony, Micro$, NFL, EA have it in their interests to have fewer games and charge more for the really popular ones.
I think Sega IS toast. They challenged the champion, but couldn't knock him out. Now he's getting revenge.
Why license the CFL... when you can just buy Canada?
But seriously, why not just buy the AFL? They bought a motocross league, and the AFL could hardly be more expensive.
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I can get a palm pilot for $50 at Target. Textbooks actually DO cost more, and this would be useless as anything except a textbook (I hope). So, I'm guessing theft is easier to solve than electricity.
Microsoft products worked well and worked together, and they were bundled at lower prices than the competition. That isn't insignificant. Their success is rarely technology related, but it's hardly an accident. In life, there are only 2 keys for every success: ideas and execution. Other companies had better technology (or plans), but no one executed better than Microsoft.
Yes, we are so much more elegant and well-designed. We don't do any work but we know you're doing it wrong. We CAN dismiss 30 years of craftsmanship and progress as pooky-doo. If we weren't smarter, we wouldn't have summers off, would we? Oh, and by the way the monkey wrench is soooooo obsolete. We should all use rubber strap wrenches. But no one's made the perfect rubber strap wrench. Of course, I came waaaayyy closer than anyone else. So you'd better pay me to design a better one. That's right, HP Labs is doing another Java, so you'd better get behind me because it will make Java and C# look like flimsy made-for-TV marketing tools. Kneel before the majesty of my genius!
Please, tell me. Can i demand an updated Windows 2000 disc? Because it took a freaking hour to download updates on broadband through my firewall asking if it was okay every 2 minutes- and I have SP2!!! Which means it could have been worse!!!
Syntax is part of the job. Teach programming without it, and it's like writing without good spelling. You can't be truly effective until you master the discipline.
People forget the shows always stink. Try watching ST:TNG sometime. After the first season, it's a little repetitive. Of course, then Voyager was REALY repetitive. I can get better production values in a 10 year old StarCraft game,....so ....
They obviously don't have the budget to do things right. Aliens are always humans with makeup. That drives me crazy. It's 2005, and ST can't do better? Just publish a couple of Star Trek: Pirates videogames, let people plunder, loot and futz with transport settings (within ship, ship to ship, ship to planet, and...PUREE!). Charge 60$ on the next systems, and you'll have enough money to make the movie in a month.
Why don't they hire ME?
They are doing well FOR CABLE. Which isn't very well at all. I mean, how hard is it to beat an Anaconda TV show's rating? How you seen what's on Sci-Fi lately? Can't we have new Sliders instead?
Here's Microsoft's problem: Their size. They can't get Longhorn out, they've given up on a new file system, they don't have the personnel to keep up with Google in search. Microsoft won the OS market and won the Office market. Google isn't going to challenge that. Web banners are the best form of advertising, and eventually they will connect through TV- Tivo like stuff or digital TV. Their expansion area is clear and they have the dominant advantage because 'the only real assets in software are people'. And everyone wants to work at Google. Sure people want to work at Microsoft, but even so, they can't get Longhorn out. Either because of inability or lack of competition, Microsoft is lazy. It's OS is popular and increasingly buggy. It's office has hit a wall in innovation- it turns out there are only so many ways to write a document! Everyone goes online for communication, data analysis, budgeting, etc. Excel is used less and less, Access is all but dead. Their new office initiatives sound like a lot of buck for little bang. The only reason I keep Windows at home are my digital cameras and pc games (and those I play less and less as I use the PS2 more). And you never know when you need IE for some idiot's website.
is great, first of all. And the idea for Google is simple- they need sticky applications that link to their services. As Microsoft tries to co-opt Windows to take over Google search, Google keeps expanding to keep people interested. Picasa searches hard drives- part of the Google's new expertise, and links to Blogs. Plus, it beats the bejeezus out of Windows/Photoshop for organizing Photos. Love it.
Bush and Thatcher are hardly power-grab dictators with evil schemes. You sound a little bitter to me. 9/11 was the most shocking event since Pearl Harbor. You didn't think we were going to let things go, did you? Even in Iraq? I mean, that worked so well for Clinton- letting Al Qaeda attack the WTC and then not capturing them, not going to war, not increasing security. Lincoln and FDR are closer to your examples, btw.
It's just attempted by the wrong people. Haven't you ever played Flight Simulator and wondered how long before the world was actually really completely simulated. This is the start of that. Search anything. Any book, any building. If you're the FBI, any person.
The problem for Microsoft is that these projects really belong on a server. Now that we can send email and write documents, all the exciting stuff is on the web. And people play games on consoles.
I imagine after Blue Gene, IBM may attempt this project in earnest.
This is just silly. Everyone says that the EA employees shouldn't be 'worked to death' in their air conditioned, personalized, comfy cubicles, but everybody also b1tches when a game has an error in it, or is just the same thing year after year.
There _may be_ some room for EA to relax and still cut prices, or take it easier on EA employees, but they're not in this game to lose. They just can't play like that. If they're doing something wrong, then make it illegal. But most of these guys get burned out and quit- which they're all free to do any time. And that's the way some industries are. It beats the hell out of farming- and the money's good, too.
Because Lord knows the governments are run by brain-sucking aliens who seek to oppress us all. It's not like real people we're accusing or anything. It's not as if this poster is immature or anything....
It's widely known they're planning to raise the costs of videogames on the next systems. This is EA getting the Heavens aligned to charge Micro$oft-level money. I think the major players, Sony, Micro$, NFL, EA have it in their interests to have fewer games and charge more for the really popular ones. I think Sega IS toast. They challenged the champion, but couldn't knock him out. Now he's getting revenge.
Why license the CFL... when you can just buy Canada? But seriously, why not just buy the AFL? They bought a motocross league, and the AFL could hardly be more expensive.