...says Ballmer... "We won the desktop. We won the server. We will win the Web. We will move fast, we will get there. We will win the Web." When did Microsoft win the Server? I must not have been paying attention when they handed out that award! (I will give them credit for owning the desktop for the foreseeable future. However, I beleive the desktop will become less and less important in the future as more people use network appliances to accomplish most computing tasks.)
Hey Balmer! How about putting the Engineering department in charge of deciding the feature set for Vista, instead of the Marketing department! That would do wonders as far as making sure Vista ships on time, or even ships at all!
P2P protocols DO encourage illegal downloading... in the same way the crowbars encourage breaking and entering! The P2P developers should be in the clear as long as they admonish users NOT to transfer copyrighted material. Imagine what would happen to crowbar manufactures if they started advertising things like Even the toughest hardened steal locks are no match for the new Smash-n-Grab 3000 (TM) crowbar!
More interestingly, can it be used to disable the vehicle when you miss a car payment? Seems like OnStar would make the Repo Man's job a lot easier -- telling him exactly where the vehicle is, then unlocking for him...
They'll eventually change what currently works for them when Microsoft stops issuing fixes for new security holes in the software they are using. But in the meantime, yes, they'll continue using their old versions of Windows, just like half the Windows users out there are still using versions older than XP. Since Vista has been designed to suck on current hardware, and upgrading the OS is beyond the capabilities of most computer users, probably 99% of Vista sales will be as a preinstalled OS on new computers sold. (Of course, this preinstalled market is precisely the market the Linux vendors should be going after as well.)
Quite the opposite. Looks like ATI and NVIDIA are going to pull a Cisco; stuffing channels to the bursting point with inventory in anticipation of everybody and his dog upgrading their hardware to run Vista, only to have their stock come crashing down as everbody is even slower to adopt Vista then they were to adopt XP. Come on, XP has only recently reached the 50% mark; until last month, there were more people running older versions of Windows than running XP. I say sell short on PC hardware stocks!
I think they meant "walk more efficiently while carrying an 80 pound load on your back", which WASN'T developed through millions of years of evolution. While it is difficult to improve on the unladen gait evolution gives us, I beleive spring-loaded legs are currently more efficient than our natural walking.
The Lifecycles at least DO generate their own electricity, which powers the LED display. That's why you can't get the controls to turn on until after you start pedaling. Yeah, most of the other equipment just wastes the energy input.
Communications networks are designed to handle the average traffic load. Shortly after any natural disaster, almost everybody in the country calls into the affected region, ensuring several times the maximum design load, so very few people actually get through. Hopefully, they've gotten a little bit smarter; after Loma Prieta nobody could call out on a cell phone because the phone network delay to get a dial tone increased to the point where the cell sites would simply give up and fail the call every time. (Hopefully they're using an adjustable timeout now). Also, after any disaster, a good portion of the working lines are reserved for emergency services, making it that much harder for anybody else to get through. If you really want to be able to communicate after a disaster, I'd suggest getting a HAM license.
Yes, and I'm sure stores will enthusiastically jump on this additional source of revenue, as it also rings up the RFID tags you forgot to remove from your shoes, jacket, wallet, etc...
It really pisses me off how a company can talk up its products and convince a ton of people to buy them, then turn around and say that they really sucked and they just managed to sucker people in with marketing and brand name recognition.
It really pisses me off too! I, mean, how many times can Microsoft sell the latest software release by telling everybody "You must upgrade now! The previous release was too buggy and insecure!"... Oh, wait, we were talking about Intel, weren't we...
Yes, all the latest Intel IDF hype can be summarized very simply as "Over the next year, our master plan is... to catch up with AMD!
Microsoft makes money by providing Spam filtering and by suing spammers under CAN-SPAM. Anybody that expects Microsoft to be in favor of anything that reduces one or more of their revenue streams is obviously delusional.
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Internet connections are not a component on all machines either... does this deter developers from making games that require an internet connection? Yes, no guarateed hard drive discourages developers from making games that depend on a hard drive to function. But that doesn't mean they won't make games that have more functionality if a drive is present. All applications need to handle lack of file space gracefully anyway, since there is no guarantee that some other application hasn't used up all the space on the hard drive...
Does it annoy me that once again Microsoft has let all the technical decisions be made by the Marketing Department and not by engineers? Yes, but come on, you should be used to it by now...
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You're obviously not in marketing. Consoles have traditionally hit the market in a bare-bones configuration designed for minimum price point (usually sold at a loss). Vendors can then make up for the loss on the base unit by selling accessories and games licenses. This is really no different than what Sony does with the PS. Yes, I personally wouldn't buy one without hard drive and WiFi either, but you and I aren't representative of the customer base as a whole. Face it, most consoles are bought by clueless parents to satisfy whining kids, in which case price is by far the most important factor. Little do the clueless parents know that they'll soon be spending several times the cost of the base unit in accessories and games... you'd think they would have figured that out by now.
This is a big improvement on a revolving door for exactly what reason?
- Not as air tight
- Requires power/servos/sensors
- Not as reliable
- Can accidentally close on pedestrians
Oh, wait, it takes up less space... I guess the Japanese are willing to suffer any inconvenience in exchange for something that uses a little less real estate.
So, what does this door do during a power failure? The options of failing open (security nightmare), failing closed (fire evacuation nightmare) or reverting to manual operation (requires everybody to push open every panel by hand!) all really, really suck!
Why are the Japanese years ahead of the rest of the world in the field of virtual reality porn? Or does anybody honestly beleive this technology has other applications? If we had a president with vision, he would immediately declare it the highest priority mission of the United States to close the VR porn gap! Instead, all he does is promise a mission to mars... sigh.
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Netscape's business model was to give the client away for free to leverage sales of the server software. That failed because Apache, not Netscape, became the dominant server platform. It was a bad business model for another reason: it forces you to tie your browser to your server, instead of being standards compliant and interoperable. Curiously, Microsoft now seems to be using the "give the client away for free to leverage server sales" model for some of it's products as well.
You do raise an interesting point, however: will giving away X86 software help Sun sell more servers? Does Solaris make a better Solaris client than Linux does?
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Uh, sneaking into a concert without buying a ticket has always been a crime...
Hy`droge`nous a. 1. Of or pertaining to hydrogen; containing hydrogen.
"Hydrogenous" Network?!? That would be a network made of hydrogen, wouldn't it? I think the word you're grasping for is "Heterogenous"
...says Ballmer... "We won the desktop. We won the server. We will win the Web. We will move fast, we will get there. We will win the Web." When did Microsoft win the Server? I must not have been paying attention when they handed out that award! (I will give them credit for owning the desktop for the foreseeable future. However, I beleive the desktop will become less and less important in the future as more people use network appliances to accomplish most computing tasks.)
Hey Balmer! How about putting the Engineering department in charge of deciding the feature set for Vista, instead of the Marketing department! That would do wonders as far as making sure Vista ships on time, or even ships at all!
P2P protocols DO encourage illegal downloading... in the same way the crowbars encourage breaking and entering! The P2P developers should be in the clear as long as they admonish users NOT to transfer copyrighted material. Imagine what would happen to crowbar manufactures if they started advertising things like Even the toughest hardened steal locks are no match for the new Smash-n-Grab 3000 (TM) crowbar!
More interestingly, can it be used to disable the vehicle when you miss a car payment? Seems like OnStar would make the Repo Man's job a lot easier -- telling him exactly where the vehicle is, then unlocking for him...
They'll eventually change what currently works for them when Microsoft stops issuing fixes for new security holes in the software they are using. But in the meantime, yes, they'll continue using their old versions of Windows, just like half the Windows users out there are still using versions older than XP. Since Vista has been designed to suck on current hardware, and upgrading the OS is beyond the capabilities of most computer users, probably 99% of Vista sales will be as a preinstalled OS on new computers sold. (Of course, this preinstalled market is precisely the market the Linux vendors should be going after as well.)
Quite the opposite. Looks like ATI and NVIDIA are going to pull a Cisco; stuffing channels to the bursting point with inventory in anticipation of everybody and his dog upgrading their hardware to run Vista, only to have their stock come crashing down as everbody is even slower to adopt Vista then they were to adopt XP. Come on, XP has only recently reached the 50% mark; until last month, there were more people running older versions of Windows than running XP. I say sell short on PC hardware stocks!
I think they meant "walk more efficiently while carrying an 80 pound load on your back", which WASN'T developed through millions of years of evolution. While it is difficult to improve on the unladen gait evolution gives us, I beleive spring-loaded legs are currently more efficient than our natural walking.
The Lifecycles at least DO generate their own electricity, which powers the LED display. That's why you can't get the controls to turn on until after you start pedaling. Yeah, most of the other equipment just wastes the energy input.
Communications networks are designed to handle the average traffic load. Shortly after any natural disaster, almost everybody in the country calls into the affected region, ensuring several times the maximum design load, so very few people actually get through. Hopefully, they've gotten a little bit smarter; after Loma Prieta nobody could call out on a cell phone because the phone network delay to get a dial tone increased to the point where the cell sites would simply give up and fail the call every time. (Hopefully they're using an adjustable timeout now). Also, after any disaster, a good portion of the working lines are reserved for emergency services, making it that much harder for anybody else to get through. If you really want to be able to communicate after a disaster, I'd suggest getting a HAM license.
I'm sending my name to Mickey and Goofy! Pluto's a dog, he can't even read!
Yes, and I'm sure stores will enthusiastically jump on this additional source of revenue, as it also rings up the RFID tags you forgot to remove from your shoes, jacket, wallet, etc...
Why not just do something you're passionate about? For most people, the thing they're most passionate about is... cash!
It really pisses me off too! I, mean, how many times can Microsoft sell the latest software release by telling everybody "You must upgrade now! The previous release was too buggy and insecure!"... Oh, wait, we were talking about Intel, weren't we...
Yes, all the latest Intel IDF hype can be summarized very simply as "Over the next year, our master plan is... to catch up with AMD!
Microsoft makes money by providing Spam filtering and by suing spammers under CAN-SPAM. Anybody that expects Microsoft to be in favor of anything that reduces one or more of their revenue streams is obviously delusional.
Does it annoy me that once again Microsoft has let all the technical decisions be made by the Marketing Department and not by engineers? Yes, but come on, you should be used to it by now...
You're obviously not in marketing. Consoles have traditionally hit the market in a bare-bones configuration designed for minimum price point (usually sold at a loss). Vendors can then make up for the loss on the base unit by selling accessories and games licenses. This is really no different than what Sony does with the PS. Yes, I personally wouldn't buy one without hard drive and WiFi either, but you and I aren't representative of the customer base as a whole. Face it, most consoles are bought by clueless parents to satisfy whining kids, in which case price is by far the most important factor. Little do the clueless parents know that they'll soon be spending several times the cost of the base unit in accessories and games... you'd think they would have figured that out by now.
- Not as air tight
- Requires power/servos/sensors
- Not as reliable
- Can accidentally close on pedestrians
Oh, wait, it takes up less space... I guess the Japanese are willing to suffer any inconvenience in exchange for something that uses a little less real estate.
So, what does this door do during a power failure? The options of failing open (security nightmare), failing closed (fire evacuation nightmare) or reverting to manual operation (requires everybody to push open every panel by hand!) all really, really suck!
I'd far prefer they live out these fantasies in VR than in real life...
Why are the Japanese years ahead of the rest of the world in the field of virtual reality porn? Or does anybody honestly beleive this technology has other applications? If we had a president with vision, he would immediately declare it the highest priority mission of the United States to close the VR porn gap! Instead, all he does is promise a mission to mars... sigh.
Presumably his would require a widescreen LCD...
Yeah, it's just like those sex education classes... never as satisfying as the real thing!
You do raise an interesting point, however: will giving away X86 software help Sun sell more servers? Does Solaris make a better Solaris client than Linux does?