What a fascinating article about Japanese Geologists. What a fascinating article about Japanese Geologists. (before you mod me down, make sure you read the summary carefully... especially the first two sentences;-)
If she actually had her iBook opened you should've tried IM'ing her over iChat and Bonjour;-). In all seriousness, though, I work from El Diablo on Queen Anne all the time with my laptop, and I never cease to meet new or interesting people. It's all about taking the time to absorb your surroundings, I think.
I'm guessing that if you buy a computer pre-loaded with RHEL from a hardware vendor, you're probably going to pay for that too. I would be shocked if someone was suddenly expected to pay a monthly fee to continue using their MCE 2005 machine. I would certainly convert it over to an XP machine and install BeyondTV or MythTV if that happened.
I'm not interested in substituting my program guide source. I think it's good that these additional packages exist that allow for such customization, but I'm really not interested. I like to be able to record Alias, 24, and the Simpsons without having to invest much thought in the matter (it's TV after all!). I want to watch my TV when I want to watch it, and I don't have any desire to make a statement in the progress.
I guess I have been modded +4 interesting for being an MS employee who likes one of his employer's products. I also post most of my comments on Slashdot from my iBook, which is running a copy of Tiger I plunked down $130 for three weeks ago.
And no, I haven't read through the entire EULA for MCE 2005. And I would leave MCE in a heartbeat if I ever had to pay a monthly service fee, and yes I am guaranteed a minimum amount of time for security support (which I believe was recently upped to 10 years from 7).
I respect the fact that you are not an MCE user, but you have to expect that there are people with different viewpoints. I don't have detailed schematics for my Television, in case some component breaks someday. If this happens, I'll have to replace it and buy a new one. If the schematics were freely available, I could theoretically solder a new component on and keep it working, but I don't think I care enough.
I've benefitted from open source software (I use Google and Amazon every now and then), but I have no desire to ever look at any of the source code that sits behind them. It honestly doesn't interest me. They've invested a lot of time and money into what they've done, and they're entitled to their trade secrets.
I think this is one of those cases where we have to agree to disagree. I hacked C code on Linux and Solaris all throughout college, I've read the Cathedral and the Bazaar and Just for Fun. I have a copy of the New Hacker's Dictionary sitting on a bookshelf in my office at work. I have an iBook that I use at home on a fairly regular basis, and I do work for Microsoft. It disappoints me if this reduces me in your eyes, but I am who I am, and you are who you are.
I'd be interested in knowing more about what you really like about MythTV. I've never used it before. I'm sorry if you think I'm astroturfing. Like I said, I've never used MythTV before, so all I really had to go on was the Slashdot story summary.
You know, I don't pay anything for my Media Center program guide. It's just there, and just works. And clearly this could be taken as astroturfing (just look at my sig), but it's not. I use Media Center because it's cool and it works, not because my employer told me to (or anything equally silly). That said, I think it's really cool that MythTV will be getting a more fully featured program guide.
So... Let's just be honest here, the MTV special had far too much Elijah Wood and Pimp My XBox, and way too little J Allard (whose gamertag, as it turns out, is Hiro Protagonist), XBox 360, or the team that built the XBox 360. OurColony concluded an hour before the XBox special aired on MTV, and the final reward was a video featuring the XBox team talking about the 360 (including one guy wearing a Penny Arcade t-shirt).
You can actually watch the entire video for Feel Good Inc. on the Gorillaz Fans website right now. Damn, I'm excited for this album. I've been waiting four years for the follow-up to the first Gorillaz album. I can assure you, though, that I'll be buying it on CD so that I can rip it into whatever format I please, though.
I don't think you're being sarcastic, but I can't entirely tell with the *asterisks* around certain words there... Seriously, though, don't thank me, thank the awesome Devices team we have. Those guys kick ass (both in software development, and in Halo:-).
And I've never been happier with any phone than I am with the SMT 5600. It's fast, stable, and feature-rich. It's totally changed my perspective on how I interact with my phone, since I am now completely dependent on it for reading new emails and finding out where my next meeting is, instead of having to yank out my laptop and pop into Outlook. I think for a lot of users it's overkill, but in the corporate environment it literally changes the way you interact with business information. I love it, and it will only be replaced by another Windows Mobile phone someday.
That said, I am pretty envious of the visual styling on the Moto Razr; those things are incredibly cool. But being able to sync to an Exchange server, and write C#-based managed applications in Visual Studio 2005 for my phone are totally killer features in my book.
I'm really looking forward to the day when I can just keep my music on my phone, or stream it over the network via gprs, instead of having to keep my iPod on me at all times.
And yes, I do work for Microsoft. And I do work on Visual Studio, so take my words with whatever grain (or grains) of salt you feel necessary. That said, I really do feel like the products we have in the marketplace today in this space are really cool, and well-worth looking into, especially since Cingular decided to keep carrying the SMT 5600 after their ATT merger.
Sure, why not? My first dvd player was my PS2. My current DVD player is my XBox. I don't own a Tivo, and I would be perfectly happy to be able to consolidate my gaming, tv, and movie-watching into a single box. The rumors (I know nothing more about Xenon than what I've read on Gizmodo and Kotaku) suggest that there will be a standard version and a pimped out version of the new console. I'd be happy to pay an extra $100 or whatever it'd be in order to get that extra functionality.
That's not necessarily true. I work in the Developer Division here (we produce Visual Studio), and everyone here knows how to code. The Program Managers, Developers (obviously), Testers. Even our usability engineers, User Education (technical writers), and designers know how to write code... It's hard not to be a developer when your product targets that specific market.
GoLive licenses have been done before, and I'm sure they'll be done again. I mean, sure, it's Beta software, but it's been put through some really serious paces before it was released. I've been using VS 2005 Beta 2 candidate builds for quite a while now, and they are quite stable. If you do run into a problem with VS 2005 Beta 2, log a bug on it! We really do look at each of these logged issues; they certainly don't disappear into any sort of black hole.
No longer true. Winforms v2.0 introduces two new layout mechanisms: the FlowLayoutPanel and the TableLayoutPanel. As far as the last problem goes, VS 2005 has resolved a lot of issues related to common output directories. You should no longer run into these types of problems. If you still are finding them, log a bug! Check out the MSDN Product Feedback Center for more on this.
Additionally, you'll find that large project maintenance has also been significantly improved in 2005. I'm definitely not a non-biased party on this matter (I work on Visual Studio), but I think it's worth checking out what we're currently finishing instead of what v.Last did.
I'm not deriding their business model. On the contrary, they're kicking ass and taking names. What I was doing, instead, was disagreeing with the parent poster who was claiming that Apple is a software company that happens to sell hardware. Take a look at page 28 of Apple's last 10K filing with the SEC. Notice how their software sales are well below their hardware sales.
Bullshit. Apple is a hardware company that happens to need to make software in order to move their pretty plastic boxes (and I am typing this on my iBook G4, FWIW).
"There's a lot of flag-burners who have got too much freedom. I wanna make it legal for policemen to beat 'em, cuz there's limits to our liberties... At least I hope and pray that there, cuz those liberal freaks go too far..."
Yeah, that was pretty surreal, not Mini-Me-being-spanked-by-a-6-foot-tall-woman-on-VH 1 surreal, but more than enough for a drunken Friday night.
I'm impressed with what Yahoo has been doing, quite frankly. The way I see it with Google, it appears that they create something that's cool at first(Orkut, SMS 46645) and it never evolves, or it just gets worse over time (Google Groups). For a long time I've seen Yahoo as a vestige of the mid-to-late 90s with their cluttered UI, seemingly slow rate of change, and so forth, but I think that Yahoo 360, among other things, suggests that they're pulling themselves out of this. Now only if they'd improve the ability of small advertisers to use Overture, I'd be even happier.
On a semi-related note, if you haven't checked out MSN Spaces yet it's well worth the look. There's a lot of cool stuff being done in there, like integration with MSN Messenger so you can instantly see when your friends have updated their blog/pictures space-thingy (for the inevitable replies about news aggregators, just think of this as an alternative with a different feature set).
Slashdot Mirror
What a fascinating article about Japanese Geologists. What a fascinating article about Japanese Geologists. (before you mod me down, make sure you read the summary carefully... especially the first two sentences ;-)
If she actually had her iBook opened you should've tried IM'ing her over iChat and Bonjour ;-). In all seriousness, though, I work from El Diablo on Queen Anne all the time with my laptop, and I never cease to meet new or interesting people. It's all about taking the time to absorb your surroundings, I think.
I'm not interested in substituting my program guide source. I think it's good that these additional packages exist that allow for such customization, but I'm really not interested. I like to be able to record Alias, 24, and the Simpsons without having to invest much thought in the matter (it's TV after all!). I want to watch my TV when I want to watch it, and I don't have any desire to make a statement in the progress.
I guess I have been modded +4 interesting for being an MS employee who likes one of his employer's products. I also post most of my comments on Slashdot from my iBook, which is running a copy of Tiger I plunked down $130 for three weeks ago.
And no, I haven't read through the entire EULA for MCE 2005. And I would leave MCE in a heartbeat if I ever had to pay a monthly service fee, and yes I am guaranteed a minimum amount of time for security support (which I believe was recently upped to 10 years from 7).
I respect the fact that you are not an MCE user, but you have to expect that there are people with different viewpoints. I don't have detailed schematics for my Television, in case some component breaks someday. If this happens, I'll have to replace it and buy a new one. If the schematics were freely available, I could theoretically solder a new component on and keep it working, but I don't think I care enough.
I've benefitted from open source software (I use Google and Amazon every now and then), but I have no desire to ever look at any of the source code that sits behind them. It honestly doesn't interest me. They've invested a lot of time and money into what they've done, and they're entitled to their trade secrets.
I think this is one of those cases where we have to agree to disagree. I hacked C code on Linux and Solaris all throughout college, I've read the Cathedral and the Bazaar and Just for Fun. I have a copy of the New Hacker's Dictionary sitting on a bookshelf in my office at work. I have an iBook that I use at home on a fairly regular basis, and I do work for Microsoft. It disappoints me if this reduces me in your eyes, but I am who I am, and you are who you are.
Cheers :)
replied to your gmail account...
Cheers, Aaron
You know, I don't pay anything for my Media Center program guide. It's just there, and just works. And clearly this could be taken as astroturfing (just look at my sig), but it's not. I use Media Center because it's cool and it works, not because my employer told me to (or anything equally silly). That said, I think it's really cool that MythTV will be getting a more fully featured program guide.
So... Let's just be honest here, the MTV special had far too much Elijah Wood and Pimp My XBox, and way too little J Allard (whose gamertag, as it turns out, is Hiro Protagonist), XBox 360, or the team that built the XBox 360. OurColony concluded an hour before the XBox special aired on MTV, and the final reward was a video featuring the XBox team talking about the 360 (including one guy wearing a Penny Arcade t-shirt).
You can actually watch the entire video for Feel Good Inc. on the Gorillaz Fans website right now. Damn, I'm excited for this album. I've been waiting four years for the follow-up to the first Gorillaz album. I can assure you, though, that I'll be buying it on CD so that I can rip it into whatever format I please, though.
I don't think you're being sarcastic, but I can't entirely tell with the *asterisks* around certain words there... Seriously, though, don't thank me, thank the awesome Devices team we have. Those guys kick ass (both in software development, and in Halo :-).
I really, really did on April 1st, but unfortunately for all of us... April Fools! (note the disclaimer at the bottom)
- Some nasty Samsung phone back in the mid-90s
- A Nokia 5190 (for which I had a faceplate that matched my indigo iBook G3, the toilet seat edition)
- A Nokia 8290, still one of my favorite phones ever
- A Nokia 3390, which I never really liked (too big)
- Another 8290...
- An Ericsson T28 Worldphone (hands-down worst UI I've ever seen on a phone, but at least I could make calls from Italy on it)
- A 1st gen Danger Sidekick (actually, I had four of them... They kept dying on me)
- A Motorola Mpx200 running Smartphone 2002
- An Audiovox SMT 5600 (aka Typhoon) running Windows Mobile 2003
And I've never been happier with any phone than I am with the SMT 5600. It's fast, stable, and feature-rich. It's totally changed my perspective on how I interact with my phone, since I am now completely dependent on it for reading new emails and finding out where my next meeting is, instead of having to yank out my laptop and pop into Outlook. I think for a lot of users it's overkill, but in the corporate environment it literally changes the way you interact with business information. I love it, and it will only be replaced by another Windows Mobile phone someday.That said, I am pretty envious of the visual styling on the Moto Razr; those things are incredibly cool. But being able to sync to an Exchange server, and write C#-based managed applications in Visual Studio 2005 for my phone are totally killer features in my book.
I'm really looking forward to the day when I can just keep my music on my phone, or stream it over the network via gprs, instead of having to keep my iPod on me at all times.
And yes, I do work for Microsoft. And I do work on Visual Studio, so take my words with whatever grain (or grains) of salt you feel necessary. That said, I really do feel like the products we have in the marketplace today in this space are really cool, and well-worth looking into, especially since Cingular decided to keep carrying the SMT 5600 after their ATT merger.
Sure, why not? My first dvd player was my PS2. My current DVD player is my XBox. I don't own a Tivo, and I would be perfectly happy to be able to consolidate my gaming, tv, and movie-watching into a single box. The rumors (I know nothing more about Xenon than what I've read on Gizmodo and Kotaku) suggest that there will be a standard version and a pimped out version of the new console. I'd be happy to pay an extra $100 or whatever it'd be in order to get that extra functionality.
Well, I do at least... :)
That's not necessarily true. I work in the Developer Division here (we produce Visual Studio), and everyone here knows how to code. The Program Managers, Developers (obviously), Testers. Even our usability engineers, User Education (technical writers), and designers know how to write code... It's hard not to be a developer when your product targets that specific market.
* Channel 9 Wiki
* MSDN
CheersGoLive licenses have been done before, and I'm sure they'll be done again. I mean, sure, it's Beta software, but it's been put through some really serious paces before it was released. I've been using VS 2005 Beta 2 candidate builds for quite a while now, and they are quite stable. If you do run into a problem with VS 2005 Beta 2, log a bug on it! We really do look at each of these logged issues; they certainly don't disappear into any sort of black hole.
Additionally, you'll find that large project maintenance has also been significantly improved in 2005. I'm definitely not a non-biased party on this matter (I work on Visual Studio), but I think it's worth checking out what we're currently finishing instead of what v.Last did.
XBox Science Theater 3000 ;-)
I'm not deriding their business model. On the contrary, they're kicking ass and taking names. What I was doing, instead, was disagreeing with the parent poster who was claiming that Apple is a software company that happens to sell hardware. Take a look at page 28 of Apple's last 10K filing with the SEC. Notice how their software sales are well below their hardware sales.
Bullshit. Apple is a hardware company that happens to need to make software in order to move their pretty plastic boxes (and I am typing this on my iBook G4, FWIW).
We need another Vietnam to thin out their ranks a little.
Apparently whoever modded me down is not a Simpsons fan... What a sad day.
Yeah, that was pretty surreal, not Mini-Me-being-spanked-by-a-6-foot-tall-woman-on-VH 1 surreal, but more than enough for a drunken Friday night.
Which might explain why Huxley's coming out in Summer 2006... By then Xenon should've been on the shelf for at least 7 or 8 months, if not more.
On a semi-related note, if you haven't checked out MSN Spaces yet it's well worth the look. There's a lot of cool stuff being done in there, like integration with MSN Messenger so you can instantly see when your friends have updated their blog/pictures space-thingy (for the inevitable replies about news aggregators, just think of this as an alternative with a different feature set).