Microsoft is not a business of innovation. It is a business of providing platforms. I know this might be a surprise, but they are not pushing scientific and social limits with their software. They make an operating system which is a platform for both hardware and software developers to aim products at. The rest just spawns from there (DirectX, Windows Media). On top of that, could you imagine if nobody ever copied anybody else in the software world? Wouldn't everybody be using Netscape or some earlier kin? MS makes IE, probably mostly a copy of Netscape, then Firefox copies IE and adds some new stuff. MS sees that people like the new stuff, so they add it. You know you would probably criticize them if they did not add tabbed browsing to IE7. Take a look at the OSS world, there are a lot of projects that are simply copies of commercial software but they add x feature and are deemed innovators. Apple bought an OS from a company who took much of their OS from an OSS OS. And so the ride goes around. Don't you wish that you computer said "Designed for Xerox Windows" instead?
I have really come to dislike eclipse. It feels bulky and slow. I especially stopped using it after I used Visual Studio and saw just how primitive eclipse felt. I am not doing any large java projects right now, so I have switched back to a simple syntax coloring text editor.
So what if it costs $40 to produce the chip. It is the research and development that costs so much money. And the profits also go into current R&D which they are extremely pushing now to get the power/watt up.
Isn't that because the whole app is packaged into a.app file? What does an install of an OS X application consist of? I am not saying that it is a bad system, just curious. I have never owned an Apple, only used them which never involved installing anything.
I really would like a metadata driven system. Instead of the traditional file dialog for saving or opening files it would be cool to just specify some metadata and have it thrown on a heap of files. I think this is kind of what winFS is trying to accomplish, but above the filesystem level. Hopefully that is in the future of every OS. And if not, or is some better idea comes along, then I guess some time in the future I will pick up a database implementation book and a file systems book, study up and work on it myself.
Mission Critical is basically saying "always on or we are screwed". Corporations pay big money for highly tuned and tested machines that are designed for this type of work. They do not just trust a run of the mill server with any operating system, be it Linux, Windows, or any UNIX variant.
Yes because it helped to solve the problem. Microsoft recognized this as a problem and this is the current solution. Did I say I was impressed by the Windows registry and startup system? No. DOS was a good setup. Having the Registry and having a bunch of config text files laying around are both imperfect solutions. Bottom line, I now have more control and knowledge of my system and that is good.
Install Microsoft's Antispyware program. It is a good app that I did not use until I put it on the computer I was giving my dad. I had installed it and then went to install another app that wanted to load something at startup. Microsoft Antispyware popped up a dialog informing me that the app was trying to register a new startup program and asked me to confirm. This impressed me and prompted me to put it on my own computer.
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Are you using vnc to control an X desktop? Because to my knowledge that is different than using remote X applications which I have always found to be slow.
There are some slight differences. What keeps Windows afloat is the availability of production-level software and hardware. Japanese cars could compete because they did not require gasoline companies to supply drivers for their platform. And Bell required a massive government intervention if I recall. If I am a company selling say a webcam, I want to support Windows because it has the massive market share of people that want webcams. I do not want to support linux because that at least doubles the work of my testing department, coders, and doc&support. All for a segment of the market that is not going to bring in even half of that the Windows market does. Face it, Microsoft has a pretty good OS with Windows and it is only getting better. Ruling out major government intervention (Bell-style) it is the PC-related and PC hardware vendors and manufacturers that will have to spur this change. And no, I do not "remember" most of the things that you cited because I am 22.
Just a question. This patent seems completely stupid, but are there valid examples of patented technologies that anybody can provide, or does everyone here hate patents in total?
Privateer (Righteous Fire), now that was some fun gameplay. For the time, it had an expansive universe with many choices and some good side plots.
Privateer 2: The Darkening, a game that could have and should have been much better. Everything seemed 50-75% complete. It seems like some good thought went into the original concept, but the execution just fell way short. I was disappointed with that one.
I agree that it is a bad idea, but having an IBM(brand) laptop I would make a comment to your last point. First off, replacing the HD in many IBM laptops is quite easy. Secondly, the optical drive in Thinkpads is in a swappable form that can also be used to house a second HD. Whatever is in that swappable bay is treated as a removable device by Windows(just like a USB drive).
I totally agree. The power and noise generated by this extra spinning of the hard drive just sounds contrary to the whole Centrino=MoreBatteryLife scheme. On top of that not many people have huge amounts of storage on their laptop to facilitate a good RAID config.
How can it be a monopoly if they are pioneering the technology? It seems to me that they are offering a new possible better alternative to the current services and therefore entering the market as a competitor.
I am very surprised that Fallout 2 did get a single mention. This game has easter eggs at every corner. Even a literal easter egg that you can pick up. You can have Mike the "Masticator" bite your ear off (-1 CH). You can get the Monty Python "Holy Handgrenade". You even can have a random encounter with an exploded whale carcass with a potted flower. I seriously recommend this game to anybody.
I think that your counter-examples are different. In AJAX people are already using these technologies to make web applications, but if they decide to leave one out it is no longer AJAX. If a comp manufacturer wants to provide their own wireless card instead of Intel's then it is no longer Centrino, but still the same thing. OO is an idea, not a catchphrase. You can implement OO any way you see fit with many languages(even non-OO langs). Linux is then name of a specific kernel. I can't comment on the rest.
Does anybody think of Intel Centrino when they hear AJAX? They are quite similar in the fact that it is just giving a name to using a combination of technologies. Also, has anybody ever heard a Best Buy computer salesman say "This one has a Centrino processor."?
Take a look at the google zeitgeist and look for "perl programming". This proves that Perl still owns the market and still nobody save an enlightened few knows how to use it.
The ESRB ratings are good, but parents should not rely only on the ESRB rating. The ESRB rates games on more that can be read in a review or on the box, so there is some insight there. I think that the ESRB does a good job, but parenting is not their job. In the end parents should be responsible for giving appropriate material to their children. This growing reliance on boards and government agencies to monitor what you and your child are exposed to is getting annoying.
Good call. The Java Hello World program definitely has some black magic. What the hell does "public static void main(String[] argv)" mean to a Java newbie? I will tell you what, not a damn thing.
public class HelloWorld {
public static void main(String[] argv)
{
System.out.println("Hello World!");
} }
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Microsoft is not a business of innovation. It is a business of providing platforms. I know this might be a surprise, but they are not pushing scientific and social limits with their software. They make an operating system which is a platform for both hardware and software developers to aim products at. The rest just spawns from there (DirectX, Windows Media). On top of that, could you imagine if nobody ever copied anybody else in the software world? Wouldn't everybody be using Netscape or some earlier kin? MS makes IE, probably mostly a copy of Netscape, then Firefox copies IE and adds some new stuff. MS sees that people like the new stuff, so they add it. You know you would probably criticize them if they did not add tabbed browsing to IE7. Take a look at the OSS world, there are a lot of projects that are simply copies of commercial software but they add x feature and are deemed innovators. Apple bought an OS from a company who took much of their OS from an OSS OS. And so the ride goes around. Don't you wish that you computer said "Designed for Xerox Windows" instead?
I have really come to dislike eclipse. It feels bulky and slow. I especially stopped using it after I used Visual Studio and saw just how primitive eclipse felt. I am not doing any large java projects right now, so I have switched back to a simple syntax coloring text editor.
What is so complex about the XP installer? I personally like it as much or better than any linux distro installer I have used.
So what if it costs $40 to produce the chip. It is the research and development that costs so much money. And the profits also go into current R&D which they are extremely pushing now to get the power/watt up.
Isn't that because the whole app is packaged into a .app file? What does an install of an OS X application consist of? I am not saying that it is a bad system, just curious. I have never owned an Apple, only used them which never involved installing anything.
I really would like a metadata driven system. Instead of the traditional file dialog for saving or opening files it would be cool to just specify some metadata and have it thrown on a heap of files. I think this is kind of what winFS is trying to accomplish, but above the filesystem level. Hopefully that is in the future of every OS. And if not, or is some better idea comes along, then I guess some time in the future I will pick up a database implementation book and a file systems book, study up and work on it myself.
Mission Critical is basically saying "always on or we are screwed". Corporations pay big money for highly tuned and tested machines that are designed for this type of work. They do not just trust a run of the mill server with any operating system, be it Linux, Windows, or any UNIX variant.
See HP or IBM
Yes because it helped to solve the problem. Microsoft recognized this as a problem and this is the current solution. Did I say I was impressed by the Windows registry and startup system? No. DOS was a good setup. Having the Registry and having a bunch of config text files laying around are both imperfect solutions. Bottom line, I now have more control and knowledge of my system and that is good.
Install Microsoft's Antispyware program. It is a good app that I did not use until I put it on the computer I was giving my dad. I had installed it and then went to install another app that wanted to load something at startup. Microsoft Antispyware popped up a dialog informing me that the app was trying to register a new startup program and asked me to confirm. This impressed me and prompted me to put it on my own computer.
Are you using vnc to control an X desktop? Because to my knowledge that is different than using remote X applications which I have always found to be slow.
Yes, he was impeached.
There are some slight differences. What keeps Windows afloat is the availability of production-level software and hardware. Japanese cars could compete because they did not require gasoline companies to supply drivers for their platform. And Bell required a massive government intervention if I recall. If I am a company selling say a webcam, I want to support Windows because it has the massive market share of people that want webcams. I do not want to support linux because that at least doubles the work of my testing department, coders, and doc&support. All for a segment of the market that is not going to bring in even half of that the Windows market does. Face it, Microsoft has a pretty good OS with Windows and it is only getting better. Ruling out major government intervention (Bell-style) it is the PC-related and PC hardware vendors and manufacturers that will have to spur this change. And no, I do not "remember" most of the things that you cited because I am 22.
Just a question. This patent seems completely stupid, but are there valid examples of patented technologies that anybody can provide, or does everyone here hate patents in total?
So far I only see linux seriously competing in the server market. I think that Microsoft is very well entrenched in the PC market.
Privateer (Righteous Fire), now that was some fun gameplay. For the time, it had an expansive universe with many choices and some good side plots.
Privateer 2: The Darkening, a game that could have and should have been much better. Everything seemed 50-75% complete. It seems like some good thought went into the original concept, but the execution just fell way short. I was disappointed with that one.
I agree that it is a bad idea, but having an IBM(brand) laptop I would make a comment to your last point. First off, replacing the HD in many IBM laptops is quite easy. Secondly, the optical drive in Thinkpads is in a swappable form that can also be used to house a second HD. Whatever is in that swappable bay is treated as a removable device by Windows(just like a USB drive).
I totally agree. The power and noise generated by this extra spinning of the hard drive just sounds contrary to the whole Centrino=MoreBatteryLife scheme. On top of that not many people have huge amounts of storage on their laptop to facilitate a good RAID config.
How can it be a monopoly if they are pioneering the technology? It seems to me that they are offering a new possible better alternative to the current services and therefore entering the market as a competitor.
I am very surprised that Fallout 2 did get a single mention. This game has easter eggs at every corner. Even a literal easter egg that you can pick up. You can have Mike the "Masticator" bite your ear off (-1 CH). You can get the Monty Python "Holy Handgrenade". You even can have a random encounter with an exploded whale carcass with a potted flower. I seriously recommend this game to anybody.
I think that your counter-examples are different. In AJAX people are already using these technologies to make web applications, but if they decide to leave one out it is no longer AJAX. If a comp manufacturer wants to provide their own wireless card instead of Intel's then it is no longer Centrino, but still the same thing. OO is an idea, not a catchphrase. You can implement OO any way you see fit with many languages(even non-OO langs). Linux is then name of a specific kernel. I can't comment on the rest.
Does anybody think of Intel Centrino when they hear AJAX? They are quite similar in the fact that it is just giving a name to using a combination of technologies. Also, has anybody ever heard a Best Buy computer salesman say "This one has a Centrino processor."?
Intel's new generation will have BUZZ_WORD_0 with 4x the BUZZ_WORD_1. The new core will use BUZZ_WORD_2 and BUZZ_WORD_3 to run the newest BUZZ_WORD_4.
Take a look at the google zeitgeist and look for "perl programming". This proves that Perl still owns the market and still nobody save an enlightened few knows how to use it.
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The ESRB ratings are good, but parents should not rely only on the ESRB rating. The ESRB rates games on more that can be read in a review or on the box, so there is some insight there. I think that the ESRB does a good job, but parenting is not their job. In the end parents should be responsible for giving appropriate material to their children. This growing reliance on boards and government agencies to monitor what you and your child are exposed to is getting annoying.
Good call. The Java Hello World program definitely has some black magic. What the hell does "public static void main(String[] argv)" mean to a Java newbie? I will tell you what, not a damn thing.
public class HelloWorld
{
public static void main(String[] argv)
{
System.out.println("Hello World!");
}
}