Does anyone else feel that the Nobel Prize organization has started to loose its stature? Not to say its meaningless, but just doesn't carry the wait it use too.
The way I see it is that it could be for a few reasons; it seems that they give out too many, they have become overtly political (we all remember during the iraq war, regardless what side you fall on). Maybe you have other reasons? Maybe I'm way off.
No offense to the Google lovers, but how in the hell did gmail make it to number 2? Yikes!
The guys who did this probably also did the polls that said John Kerry would win the us presidency...
Personally I can't stand the "stars" who get political... some of them say such stupid things that I can't really enjoy sitting in a theatre watching. Not to mention a bunch of obnoxious kids giggling and their cell phones ringing for two hours.
Also $10-$15 a ticket is just too much..I just feel like I'm getting screwed... and maybe its cheaper elsewhere, but not here in Boston.
Finally, unless it's an iMax the quality of the picture is just blah.
So for me the gas prices or bad movies really don't have much to do with it.
My solution is a top of the line home theatre room, and I can watch dvds or DirecTV anytime I want. It's much more comfortable, quite, relaxing, and cheaper, well maybe not cheaper, but more fun.
Google and Yahoo have almost the same number of searches, and their click revenue is pretty close as well. %40 of google's click revenue is from AOL, and if MS buys/merges AOL then say goodbye to a huge chunk of google's profits overnight.
Not to mention, unlike IBM in the 80's, MS is aggressively following google into its markets, IBM just sat around for years "Hardware not Software, thats where the money is". MS isn't doing this. MSN is trying to build the similar tools, and MSN is now a platform unit at microsoft with some really really could developers. The move of the msn unit would suggest that Microsoft sees the internet as, yep you guessed it, a platform... just like google does.
Google has tried to get into the corporate world for years, and so far every attempt has bombed. How many of you or your clients use use that "snazzy" search appliance they were selling? How many even know they were selling one?
This is a classic case of wishful thinking on behalf of the MS Haters. Google is NOT going to put MS out of business. The free wifi stuff puts them at ods with companies like earthlink, comcast, verizon, sbc, cingular even. Google is starting to step on more toes at a higher rate then MS... they have the fan fair of being a hot stock today, but make no mistake... Google has allot of others to beat before they start to topple MS.
The reality is that ALL major (minor for that matter) corporations in the world would want to be on the US internet. All US companies would want to be on the US internet. At the end of the day, and after billions of dollars wasted, it would wind up looking like it does now. That said, don't other countries already get to manage their own root servers for their country extension,.ca,.uk, etc.? The UN is a colossal corrupt failure, I think someone else in the other post put it best, give control of the internet to the organization that made Syria head of human rights? What a joke.
But here is the real flame bate for all you liberals out there: The internet is a US invention that was shared with the world... it would be hugely successful today with or without the support of Bulgaria. Our closest allies and us have made the internet what it is today, not some third world nation. Australia and the UK have not been pushing for this issue, its coming from "developing" countries and France... the EU is very divided on most issues, and this is another one. I say screw the French and let them setup their own "super duper internet".
Anti-MS wishful thinking doesn't make things a reality. Anyone who has seen the demo of the next MS Office knows it is doing some pretty cool things that Star Office doesn't begin to touch. The reality is that Office 2003 does plenty that Star Office 8 doesn't.
With the new ms office due out next year; take the visual stuff, the PowerPoint objects look amazing and have some awesome features. Outlook for example finally is taking advantage of the tasks and integrating them, Excel has allot of improvements, even Word is better (auto preview comes to mind), Access is getting an intuitive interface, and just look at some of the collaboration tools that are coming.
My point is this... these anti-ms people say "MS doesn't innovate" and "MS Sucks" so often they start to really believe MS doesn't innovate in any area, and their developers can't make a good program. Its fun to joke about MS, but my re-occurring theme on Slashdot is that these guys are just intellectually dishonest.
People say MS is going to get "killed" whenever there is a new open source product that is ALMOST as good as most of the commonly used features of a 3 year old MS product. Come on... really.
Your problem isn't that your "I hate MS" message doesn't get out to the masses. Your problem is that it does. People here you, and when they try the MS product; the world doesn't end, it works, and they like. It gets the job done.
MS didn't bundle Office with the OS, they offered a cheap alternative (MS Works), and people chose the more expensive. Get over it already. Its not news everytime someone makes a product to compete with microsoft.
very well put. each platform has its strengths and weaknesses, and neither OS is perfect or flawless.
Many in the Linux community do more harm to their cause then good by pretending Linux is better then Windows in all areas.
Most (not all) of the arguments I hear for Linux are just cliché Windows jokes/bashing. You won't move the masses to Linux until you make an intellectually honest case for Linux that isn't just windows sucks. Windows 2k3 is pretty stable. It isn't "perfect", but acting like its NT4 is counter productive.
Small - Medium sized companies have experiences' with W2k3 that are usually good, easy. When you scream that Windows is only bad, only crashes, etc. etc. it just hurts your argument when you do make a good point to move to Linux over Windows.
At the end of the day, the windows sucks jokes trivialize your good points.
PS This would also apply to the apple only guys too;)
All the new drives that come out have a pretty slow read speed at first. CDs were 1x for years, DVD were 1x,2x, for a long time.
If the PS3 blu-ray is slow (1x or 2x), then it doesn't matter how much data it stores, it will provide irritating game play. I believe the Xbox 360's dvd drive can handle dual layer at 16x... its tiny compared to blu-ray, but could be much faster.
Does anyone know what the speed of the ps3 blu-ray drive will be? I think that could have an impact on people's impression of the technology, and potentially slow adoption.
I think the anti-ms crowd is intellectually dishonest not to point this out. If/whenever MS pulls something like that you guys scream from the roof tops. Why is it different when its done to MS? Is your argument principled or not? Or is it simply anything but MS? If that is the case, your stance takes us down a more dangerous road than only MS.
I know someone is going to scream its not the case. For those people, click on the above link and open Word 2k3. But if that's not enough then how about this for example; What happens if/when StarOffice 9.0 gets rid of the File menus and goes to the ribbon design model that MS is using with the next Office? Will that be acceptable too? I mean, I guess copying is the nicest form of flattery, but... well. go head, I'm bracing for the modding.
Actually jack ass they aren't bigger. The EU hase a larger population, but not a larger economy. They are second to the US, but not before even with the extra 15 nations. Do some homework before spreading fud, moron.
That said, it is interesting that this threat of a new MS suit comes just as all of the old Europe nation's economies are tanking. For example unemployment rates in France and Germany are through the roof, and no sign of recovery on the horizon. It looks like the socialist experiment is failing once again.
I'm sure the EU meeting went like this, "We need cash, lets rape the Americans; they only gave us electricity, phones, internet, cars, planes, etc. etc. You know, pretty much everything that has radically changed the face of the mankind in the last hundred years. Oh and gratitude, screw it, who cares that they lost 10,000s, of 10,000s of young men bailing us out of two world wars last century, we don't like Bush now. Gratitude, that's not trendy, "evil Americans" is.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think MS is a saint, but neither is the corrupt EU. This is clearly Europe looking for some US charity in the form of corporate theft.
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Anyone have thoughts on how this will stack up against the proposed file system /database hybrid MS is planning on offering?
Does anyone else feel that the Nobel Prize organization has started to loose its stature? Not to say its meaningless, but just doesn't carry the wait it use too.
The way I see it is that it could be for a few reasons; it seems that they give out too many, they have become overtly political (we all remember during the iraq war, regardless what side you fall on). Maybe you have other reasons? Maybe I'm way off.
Does anyone else feel the same way as I do?
that Yahoo! picked up the pieces and will succeeded where google failed miserably.
No offense to the Google lovers, but how in the hell did gmail make it to number 2? Yikes! The guys who did this probably also did the polls that said John Kerry would win the us presidency...
Personally I can't stand the "stars" who get political... some of them say such stupid things that I can't really enjoy sitting in a theatre watching. Not to mention a bunch of obnoxious kids giggling and their cell phones ringing for two hours.
.I just feel like I'm getting screwed... and maybe its cheaper elsewhere, but not here in Boston.
Also $10-$15 a ticket is just too much.
Finally, unless it's an iMax the quality of the picture is just blah.
So for me the gas prices or bad movies really don't have much to do with it.
My solution is a top of the line home theatre room, and I can watch dvds or DirecTV anytime I want. It's much more comfortable, quite, relaxing, and cheaper, well maybe not cheaper, but more fun.
Google and Yahoo have almost the same number of searches, and their click revenue is pretty close as well. %40 of google's click revenue is from AOL, and if MS buys/merges AOL then say goodbye to a huge chunk of google's profits overnight.
Not to mention, unlike IBM in the 80's, MS is aggressively following google into its markets, IBM just sat around for years "Hardware not Software, thats where the money is". MS isn't doing this. MSN is trying to build the similar tools, and MSN is now a platform unit at microsoft with some really really could developers. The move of the msn unit would suggest that Microsoft sees the internet as, yep you guessed it, a platform... just like google does.
Google has tried to get into the corporate world for years, and so far every attempt has bombed. How many of you or your clients use use that "snazzy" search appliance they were selling? How many even know they were selling one?
This is a classic case of wishful thinking on behalf of the MS Haters. Google is NOT going to put MS out of business. The free wifi stuff puts them at ods with companies like earthlink, comcast, verizon, sbc, cingular even. Google is starting to step on more toes at a higher rate then MS... they have the fan fair of being a hot stock today, but make no mistake... Google has allot of others to beat before they start to topple MS.
The reality is that ALL major (minor for that matter) corporations in the world would want to be on the US internet. All US companies would want to be on the US internet. At the end of the day, and after billions of dollars wasted, it would wind up looking like it does now. That said, don't other countries already get to manage their own root servers for their country extension, .ca, .uk, etc.? The UN is a colossal corrupt failure, I think someone else in the other post put it best, give control of the internet to the organization that made Syria head of human rights? What a joke.
But here is the real flame bate for all you liberals out there: The internet is a US invention that was shared with the world... it would be hugely successful today with or without the support of Bulgaria. Our closest allies and us have made the internet what it is today, not some third world nation. Australia and the UK have not been pushing for this issue, its coming from "developing" countries and France... the EU is very divided on most issues, and this is another one. I say screw the French and let them setup their own "super duper internet".
Anti-MS wishful thinking doesn't make things a reality. Anyone who has seen the demo of the next MS Office knows it is doing some pretty cool things that Star Office doesn't begin to touch. The reality is that Office 2003 does plenty that Star Office 8 doesn't.
With the new ms office due out next year; take the visual stuff, the PowerPoint objects look amazing and have some awesome features. Outlook for example finally is taking advantage of the tasks and integrating them, Excel has allot of improvements, even Word is better (auto preview comes to mind), Access is getting an intuitive interface, and just look at some of the collaboration tools that are coming.
My point is this... these anti-ms people say "MS doesn't innovate" and "MS Sucks" so often they start to really believe MS doesn't innovate in any area, and their developers can't make a good program. Its fun to joke about MS, but my re-occurring theme on Slashdot is that these guys are just intellectually dishonest.
People say MS is going to get "killed" whenever there is a new open source product that is ALMOST as good as most of the commonly used features of a 3 year old MS product. Come on... really.
Your problem isn't that your "I hate MS" message doesn't get out to the masses. Your problem is that it does. People here you, and when they try the MS product; the world doesn't end, it works, and they like. It gets the job done.
MS didn't bundle Office with the OS, they offered a cheap alternative (MS Works), and people chose the more expensive. Get over it already. Its not news everytime someone makes a product to compete with microsoft.
very well put. each platform has its strengths and weaknesses, and neither OS is perfect or flawless.
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Many in the Linux community do more harm to their cause then good by pretending Linux is better then Windows in all areas.
Most (not all) of the arguments I hear for Linux are just cliché Windows jokes/bashing. You won't move the masses to Linux until you make an intellectually honest case for Linux that isn't just windows sucks. Windows 2k3 is pretty stable. It isn't "perfect", but acting like its NT4 is counter productive.
Small - Medium sized companies have experiences' with W2k3 that are usually good, easy. When you scream that Windows is only bad, only crashes, etc. etc. it just hurts your argument when you do make a good point to move to Linux over Windows.
At the end of the day, the windows sucks jokes trivialize your good points.
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This would also apply to the apple only guys too
All the new drives that come out have a pretty slow read speed at first. CDs were 1x for years, DVD were 1x,2x, for a long time.
If the PS3 blu-ray is slow (1x or 2x), then it doesn't matter how much data it stores, it will provide irritating game play. I believe the Xbox 360's dvd drive can handle dual layer at 16x... its tiny compared to blu-ray, but could be much faster.
Does anyone know what the speed of the ps3 blu-ray drive will be? I think that could have an impact on people's impression of the technology, and potentially slow adoption.
I know I'm going to get slapped with troll, but I am seriously "what did i miss?"
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Anyone else notice that Star Office's Menus and Toolbars are strikingly close to MS Office 2003? Down to the names and order of icon placement in the toolbars. http://www.newsforge.com/blob.pl?id=a2c2239ed1854
I think the anti-ms crowd is intellectually dishonest not to point this out. If/whenever MS pulls something like that you guys scream from the roof tops. Why is it different when its done to MS? Is your argument principled or not? Or is it simply anything but MS? If that is the case, your stance takes us down a more dangerous road than only MS.
I know someone is going to scream its not the case. For those people, click on the above link and open Word 2k3. But if that's not enough then how about this for example; What happens if/when StarOffice 9.0 gets rid of the File menus and goes to the ribbon design model that MS is using with the next Office? Will that be acceptable too? I mean, I guess copying is the nicest form of flattery, but... well. go head, I'm bracing for the modding.
Actually jack ass they aren't bigger. The EU hase a larger population, but not a larger economy. They are second to the US, but not before even with the extra 15 nations. Do some homework before spreading fud, moron. That said, it is interesting that this threat of a new MS suit comes just as all of the old Europe nation's economies are tanking. For example unemployment rates in France and Germany are through the roof, and no sign of recovery on the horizon. It looks like the socialist experiment is failing once again. I'm sure the EU meeting went like this, "We need cash, lets rape the Americans; they only gave us electricity, phones, internet, cars, planes, etc. etc. You know, pretty much everything that has radically changed the face of the mankind in the last hundred years. Oh and gratitude, screw it, who cares that they lost 10,000s, of 10,000s of young men bailing us out of two world wars last century, we don't like Bush now. Gratitude, that's not trendy, "evil Americans" is. Don't get me wrong, I don't think MS is a saint, but neither is the corrupt EU. This is clearly Europe looking for some US charity in the form of corporate theft.