Come on, folks. You knee-jerk, anti-MS folks jumping on this really weaken your own arguments. There are serious issues with MS and reasons to be anti. But, this is a nothing-burger compared to that. But, by focusing on this, you marginalize the real arguments. You make yourselves look like Republicans taking Bill Clinton to task for lying about a blow job.
MS is patenting their implementation of RSS in IE. Not RSS. If you want to come up with a way of interacting with MS SQL server that is novel, you can patent it. If you want to patent a novel way of attaching a wheel to a car, you may. Remember, it doesn't have to be useful, the best way, or practical, it just has to be novel, or an improvement upon an method.
While I love RSS and all, Winer has a history of being a whiner in this matter when it comes to ATOM and RSS. Almost as bad as Reese Sellin was with his ill conducted projected.
I've disliked the betas of Vista, and hate the marketing. But, I generally like MS. My personal thought is that Vista will be tepid, like Windows ME. I'm sticking with my XP Media Center, and won't upgrade my hardware for awhile, maybe the next OS will have something that will make me want to upgrade.
That said, to have a product on the list that is not even in public use is a little bit of a stretch.
Generally, I hate these lists. The usual response is, "But X isn't on it." Well, first thing on the list was a schnazzy little tool that I started using this year. Fantastic, awesome, Stylus Studio 2007. Rock on.
AJAX is dying. AJAX will grow. AJAX has no future. AJAX has a future.
JAVA is irrelevent. JAVA will grow.
Apple is irrelevent. Apple is irrelevent...oh, they agreed.
Anyway, anyone who takes these kind of articles seriously are wasting their time. Our shop does IIS, ASP.NET, SQL2005, Ruby-on-Rails, MySQL, VB.NET, C#, C++, Borland, MS, and Linux OSS flavors. In other words, we have the tools and the skills to do what is necessary to get the job done, the way our CUSTOMER needs it to be done. No tech prima-dona BS of telling the customer that we won't give them what they want. If the customer doesn't have implementation requirements, then we determine what they need, suggest and then build on their approval.
This would be cool for your PVR solution. Faster, more quiet, uses less power, therefor cooler component, less fan noise, I hope. Now, can I strap one to my old Jornada 525?
That's a shame. I was hoping you could tell me how to get some work in 1973.
Well you could get a job as British police detective. Although the method of commute to your job in 1973 will play Hell on your system. (This is one seriously cool show, you have to watch it.)
Argument number 319 is no longer relevent. Switch to plan B, switch to plan B.
Plan B: Explain why Microsoft is still evil and bad. Preach to the choir (slashdot). Place padding under the underside of all desks to prevent injury during sudden knee-jerks.
Above all, do not despair, there are other weak points - try the interface argument that if the Settings menu doesn't provide 300 check boxes and necessitate the use of text editor to edit otherwise inaccessible conf settings, then the app must be meant for a little girl and written by a Microsofty.
And if the sun is changing over a decadal rather than millenial period as it has before, where does that fit in to solar physics? Is the Sun about to go Nova?
Of course, evidence will be provided. Bias will be shown. And then the Office of Officious Stifling of Problematic Counter-Claims will whip into action, after tea, and promptly stifle the case. Unless, of course, no evidence of bias is presented.
Should no evidence be provided, the Bureau of Studious Demogoguery will fly into the thick of it, again, after tea, and immediately claim that lack of evidence is proof that the OOSPCC pre-stifled the evidence. At which point, the Ministry of Moderated Judgementalism will, uncharacteristically before tea, issue a statement that they will review, ponder, and further investigate the possiblity of a need to issue a further statement at some future date, as yet unspecified, as to whether or not to take the BSD's statement at face value, or have tea.
Anyone remember all the dire predictions that the east coast was looking down the barrel of a gun for this year's hurricane season, and man was the cause? That global warming was going to be driving a huge hurricane season for 2006? This is the slam dunk.
Facts:
Warming is taking place
The planet is still cooler than it has been in recent geologic history
The sunn is in a heating phase
Mars has shown an increase in global temperatures
There are no SUV's, factories, or cans of Pam on Mars
While noxious and bad smelling, man's contribution to warming is miniscule compared to the Sun and volacanic activity
And the biggest fact:
There is nothing we can do to slow it or hurry it along. But, our expenditures of energy and voter goodwill in this arena take attention away from areas where we can be effective:
Poverty
Disease
Hunger
Slave trade
War
Not only that, but regulation we are forcing upon other countries actually prevent them from activities that could bring more wealth and aid to their populations.
Maybe I'm of a certain age (I started on one of these.), but, I don't see how people can get themselves into paying for fake goods that exist in a game.
Do they not have a full mock up with computers? They can test and find...wait, I'm a government contractor, I should realize how the government works. Sorry, my mistake. Carry on.
Obviously, this has something to do with global warming. Is the SUV's driven by left-wing soccer moms in Seattle? Or do the folks on Saturn have SUV's? Could it be the Sun has something against the rest of the solar system is just plain getting hotter? Ask Mars, he's warming up as well.
Man is a pissant when it comes to contributing to global temperatures. We are distracting ourselves from more important things that we can control, like poverty, hunger, disease, wars, and those "Head On" commercials.
Let's stop the environmental-tilting-at-windmills and fix the things we can fix. Let's expend our energies and limited electorate-goodwill where we can truly be effective.
The frantic, hyperbolic, hysterical, barely-scientific side of the argument is that global warming is controllable, and caused, by-and-large, by humans. However, much of the scientific community believes that global warming is:
Driven by the Sun
Driven by geological events
and, minutely contributed to by human behavior
Otherwise, how do you explain that Mars, that dead, uninhabited planet is warming [space.com]? (And here, too. [heartland.org]
I'm sorry, but there a bigger fish to fry. We are expending an awful lot of goodwill on democratic voter bases by distracting them with this stuff when we should be hitting them with what really matters:
Poverty
Disease
Injustice
None of which will be solved by getting my neighbor to give up his 2 trucks, '66 Charger, '66 Mustang, and 3 boats. None of which will be solved by Daryll Hannah driving a grass powered Geo.
Let's focus on what we CAN fix and not expend energy on fear driven philosophies, adopted by those who don't realize the origins of the argument are from a much more nefarious origin.
Because they are on the corners, and big, and spacious, and a place to hide. Seattle thought they'd clean up blighted areas, instead, they attracted more.
But what has that got to do with Democracy? Seattle has nothing to do with Democracy. The mayor says he wants a tunnel, he's going to get a tunnel, and the voters aren't even allowed an ADVISORY vote.
.NET was supposed to save democracy, or was that Linux. Wait, I know, Bush was supposed to save democracy. All I know is I heard the RAZOR scooter...no, that was another scooter that was supposed to save democracy.
Here in Seattle, we have fancey $500k toilets that clean themselves. That's supposed to save democracy. Well, actually, they're a haven for prostitutes and drug dealers. There I go again, back on.Net and Linux. But, which is which? You decide, your vote counts. DEMOCRACY.
While the only permanent solution for human-driven global warming is developing renewable energy
The frantic, hyperbolic, hysterical, barely-scientific side of the argument is that global warming is controllable, and caused, by-and-large, by humans. However, much of the scientific community believes that global warming is:
Driven by the Sun
Driven by geological events
and, minutely contributed to by human behavior
Otherwise, how do you explain that Mars, that dead, uninhabited planet is warming? (And here, too.
I'm sorry, but there a bigger fish to fry. We are expending an awful lot of goodwill on democratic voter bases by distracting them with this stuff when we should be hitting them with what really matters:
Poverty
Disease
Injustice
None of which will be solved by getting my neighbor to give up his 2 trucks, '66 Charger, '66 Mustang, and 3 boats. None of which will be solved by Daryll Hannah driving a grass powered Geo.
Let's focus on what we CAN fix and not expend energy on fear driven philosophies, adopted by those who don't realize the origins of the argument are from a much more nefarious origin.
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Come on, folks. You knee-jerk, anti-MS folks jumping on this really weaken your own arguments. There are serious issues with MS and reasons to be anti. But, this is a nothing-burger compared to that. But, by focusing on this, you marginalize the real arguments. You make yourselves look like Republicans taking Bill Clinton to task for lying about a blow job.
MS is patenting their implementation of RSS in IE. Not RSS. If you want to come up with a way of interacting with MS SQL server that is novel, you can patent it. If you want to patent a novel way of attaching a wheel to a car, you may. Remember, it doesn't have to be useful, the best way, or practical, it just has to be novel, or an improvement upon an method.
While I love RSS and all, Winer has a history of being a whiner in this matter when it comes to ATOM and RSS. Almost as bad as Reese Sellin was with his ill conducted projected.
Hell yeah!
I hadn't thought of that angle. I've been wanting a good rig for a new media server.
But, you should always trust a tool to be a tool.
I love Stylus Studio because it takes the bother out of XSLT design, and lets me focus on what I get paid for.
Would you care to check my post history first and see that I generally trash the people that trash talk MS?
But then, I generally militate against knee-jerk, and the jerks they are attached to, on either side of that childish argument. Welcome to the list.
I have to agree with that.
I've disliked the betas of Vista, and hate the marketing. But, I generally like MS. My personal thought is that Vista will be tepid, like Windows ME. I'm sticking with my XP Media Center, and won't upgrade my hardware for awhile, maybe the next OS will have something that will make me want to upgrade.
That said, to have a product on the list that is not even in public use is a little bit of a stretch.
Generally, I hate these lists. The usual response is, "But X isn't on it." Well, first thing on the list was a schnazzy little tool that I started using this year. Fantastic, awesome, Stylus Studio 2007. Rock on.
AJAX is dying. AJAX will grow. AJAX has no future. AJAX has a future.
JAVA is irrelevent. JAVA will grow.
Apple is irrelevent. Apple is irrelevent...oh, they agreed.
Anyway, anyone who takes these kind of articles seriously are wasting their time. Our shop does IIS, ASP.NET, SQL2005, Ruby-on-Rails, MySQL, VB.NET, C#, C++, Borland, MS, and Linux OSS flavors. In other words, we have the tools and the skills to do what is necessary to get the job done, the way our CUSTOMER needs it to be done. No tech prima-dona BS of telling the customer that we won't give them what they want. If the customer doesn't have implementation requirements, then we determine what they need, suggest and then build on their approval.
This would be cool for your PVR solution. Faster, more quiet, uses less power, therefor cooler component, less fan noise, I hope. Now, can I strap one to my old Jornada 525?
Well you could get a job as British police detective. Although the method of commute to your job in 1973 will play Hell on your system. (This is one seriously cool show, you have to watch it.)
...standard compliant.
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Alert to all Anti-MS Agents!
Argument number 319 is no longer relevent. Switch to plan B, switch to plan B.
Plan B: Explain why Microsoft is still evil and bad. Preach to the choir (slashdot). Place padding under the underside of all desks to prevent injury during sudden knee-jerks.
Above all, do not despair, there are other weak points - try the interface argument that if the Settings menu doesn't provide 300 check boxes and necessitate the use of text editor to edit otherwise inaccessible conf settings, then the app must be meant for a little girl and written by a Microsofty.
The answer is: Yes, it is about to go nova. But, for a short time only, I'm selling special Purple Shrouds©® that will assist you in using the specially prepared Escape Comet©®. Hurry, sign up now.
Do, a deer, a fem...
Of course, evidence will be provided. Bias will be shown. And then the Office of Officious Stifling of Problematic Counter-Claims will whip into action, after tea, and promptly stifle the case. Unless, of course, no evidence of bias is presented.
Should no evidence be provided, the Bureau of Studious Demogoguery will fly into the thick of it, again, after tea, and immediately claim that lack of evidence is proof that the OOSPCC pre-stifled the evidence. At which point, the Ministry of Moderated Judgementalism will, uncharacteristically before tea, issue a statement that they will review, ponder, and further investigate the possiblity of a need to issue a further statement at some future date, as yet unspecified, as to whether or not to take the BSD's statement at face value, or have tea.
Yeah, those schools, health centers, and teaching materials have nothing to do with teaching the poor of Africa.
This from tolerant Slashdotters.
I love how if an opinion goes against The Accepted Slashdotter Standard (A.S.S.), the cry goes out to mod down or refuse to publish.
...its hype.
Anyone remember all the dire predictions that the east coast was looking down the barrel of a gun for this year's hurricane season, and man was the cause? That global warming was going to be driving a huge hurricane season for 2006? This is the slam dunk.
Facts:
And the biggest fact:
There is nothing we can do to slow it or hurry it along. But, our expenditures of energy and voter goodwill in this arena take attention away from areas where we can be effective:
Not only that, but regulation we are forcing upon other countries actually prevent them from activities that could bring more wealth and aid to their populations.
And, regulations are preventing the building of cleaner solutions.
Can we get off the Global Warming kick and turn our efforts, money, voter action towards something we can change?
Ha! Good point. Seems to me the moderators have gotten a little diggish.
Troll? Lazy moderator. Or, maybe a gamer that buys his goods.
If I'm going to be modded down, it should have been something more like 'Off-Topic' or 'Overrated'.
He made $1.3M selling NON-stuff.
Maybe I'm of a certain age (I started on one of these.), but, I don't see how people can get themselves into paying for fake goods that exist in a game.
Just download it at alt.binaries.ebooks
Do they not have a full mock up with computers? They can test and find...wait, I'm a government contractor, I should realize how the government works. Sorry, my mistake. Carry on.
Obviously, this has something to do with global warming. Is the SUV's driven by left-wing soccer moms in Seattle? Or do the folks on Saturn have SUV's? Could it be the Sun has something against the rest of the solar system is just plain getting hotter? Ask Mars, he's warming up as well.
Man is a pissant when it comes to contributing to global temperatures. We are distracting ourselves from more important things that we can control, like poverty, hunger, disease, wars, and those "Head On" commercials.
Let's stop the environmental-tilting-at-windmills and fix the things we can fix. Let's expend our energies and limited electorate-goodwill where we can truly be effective.
The frantic, hyperbolic, hysterical, barely-scientific side of the argument is that global warming is controllable, and caused, by-and-large, by humans. However, much of the scientific community believes that global warming is: Driven by the Sun Driven by geological events and, minutely contributed to by human behavior Otherwise, how do you explain that Mars, that dead, uninhabited planet is warming [space.com]? (And here, too. [heartland.org] I'm sorry, but there a bigger fish to fry. We are expending an awful lot of goodwill on democratic voter bases by distracting them with this stuff when we should be hitting them with what really matters: Poverty Disease Injustice None of which will be solved by getting my neighbor to give up his 2 trucks, '66 Charger, '66 Mustang, and 3 boats. None of which will be solved by Daryll Hannah driving a grass powered Geo. Let's focus on what we CAN fix and not expend energy on fear driven philosophies, adopted by those who don't realize the origins of the argument are from a much more nefarious origin.
Because they are on the corners, and big, and spacious, and a place to hide. Seattle thought they'd clean up blighted areas, instead, they attracted more.
But what has that got to do with Democracy? Seattle has nothing to do with Democracy. The mayor says he wants a tunnel, he's going to get a tunnel, and the voters aren't even allowed an ADVISORY vote.
.NET was supposed to save democracy, or was that Linux. Wait, I know, Bush was supposed to save democracy. All I know is I heard the RAZOR scooter...no, that was another scooter that was supposed to save democracy.
Here in Seattle, we have fancey $500k toilets that clean themselves. That's supposed to save democracy. Well, actually, they're a haven for prostitutes and drug dealers. There I go again, back on .Net and Linux. But, which is which? You decide, your vote counts. DEMOCRACY.
The frantic, hyperbolic, hysterical, barely-scientific side of the argument is that global warming is controllable, and caused, by-and-large, by humans. However, much of the scientific community believes that global warming is:
Otherwise, how do you explain that Mars, that dead, uninhabited planet is warming? (And here, too.
I'm sorry, but there a bigger fish to fry. We are expending an awful lot of goodwill on democratic voter bases by distracting them with this stuff when we should be hitting them with what really matters:
None of which will be solved by getting my neighbor to give up his 2 trucks, '66 Charger, '66 Mustang, and 3 boats. None of which will be solved by Daryll Hannah driving a grass powered Geo.
Let's focus on what we CAN fix and not expend energy on fear driven philosophies, adopted by those who don't realize the origins of the argument are from a much more nefarious origin.