The "football field measuring stick" is usually used when the object being measured is somewhat the size of a football field (1 football field, 5 football fields, etc). At 11,000 football fields, perhaps they could have used a different measuring stick. A better measuring stick would probably be the "rhode island."
I'd imagine that most companies will switch to Vista as part of the next hardware cycle.
I'm not sure why anyone expected businesses to jump on Vista, most companies prefer to keep what's already working rather than switching to something new and adding unneeded risk. They usually switch when staying on their current platform is more risky than moving to a new one (like losing support for the OS or inability to run new apps).
"Well then, whats so new and cool about Web 2.0? I've been using slashdot way before they coined the phrase."
Some businessmen somewhere realized that they can use "community produced content" to drive their sites rather than having to pay for writers and editors to produce content.
Our boss just gave us the "we will move toward web 2.0" speech in our "year and review" meeting. Free, up-to-date content (via forums) was the reasons he gave for moving toward "web 2.0".
That's all fine and dandy. Except that achieving a GOOD community driven site is not easy. You really need to reach a critical mass of users before your site's community will generate good, useful content that will attract more readers (and thus grow your community, and ad dollars). Would slashdot be as appealing to you if the community was only a handful of people? The news comes late, and you don't even get the whole story. The whole reason you come here is for the community's feedback to the stories. Most sites don't achieve anywhere close to this level of success, and their forums lie dormant with at most a couple of posts.
Eventually managers will realize that the promise of free "web 2.0" content is not as easy to achieve as they thought, and the pendulum will swing back toward "web 1.0."
"Give it a rest. This community of which you speak has been ripping off Microsoft Office for inspiration for years."
I agree with you about the "ripping off" part, but I don't really consider it "ripping off," but rather borrowing and extending. Microsoft is constantly bashed for ripping of Apple. MS fans like to bash Linux/Open Office fans because of the similarity to Windows and Office. But why WOULDN'T you want to emulate the parts that have been proven to work? Microsoft spends millions upon millions researching what people want: from color schemes, to icon size and placement, to sounds. MS gets a lot of the things that most customers don't know about/care about wrong(like security), but the looks, feel and usability of there products is something they don't skimp on, because it is what sells. Not using Microsoft (or Apple) as a guide to the user interface will almost certainly doom your project to be used only by a very small audience. If it FEELS like the software that people know and love, they will be much more likely to use it.
"Give it a rest. This community of which you speak has been ripping off Microsoft Office for inspiration for years."
I agree with you about the "ripping off" part, but I don't really consider it "ripping off," but rather borrowing and extending. Microsoft is constantly bashed for ripping of Apple. MS fans like to bash Linux/Open Office fans because of the similarity to Windows and Office. But why WOULDN'T you want to emulate the parts that have been proven to work? Microsoft spends millions upon millions researching what people want: from color schemes, to icon size and placement, to sounds. MS gets a lot of the things that most customers don't know about/care about wrong(like security), but the looks, feel and usability of there products is something they don't skimp on, because it is what sells. Not using Microsoft (or Apple) as a guide to the user interface will almost certainly doom your project to be used only by a very small audience. If it FEELS like the software that people know and love, they will be much more likely to use it.
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No accidental visitor to utube.com (looking for youtube.com) is going to buy the products sold on utube.com. Youtube's popularity only raised utube's hosting fees and diminished its brand name (granted, I don't think it was ever a household name).
That being said, owning the rights to utube is a godsend. Pick a different name for the core company (hell, they don't even need to continue with their core company, they could make a killing off of the utube name) and load utube.com with ads. They're sitting on a gold mine and they're trying to go after gold through litigation instead of through a little (very little) ingenuity.
Its not nonsensical. I didn't say I reinstalled my bootloader, nor did I ask if I could.
I simply asked if there was a way to install windows without overwriting the MBR.
"You could reinstall the bootloader after installing Windows."
Yep, that's what I did. The question is can I install Windows after I installed the bootloader (will it automatically overwrite the bootloader I manually installed there)?
I'd certainly use it for more than one windows (non virtual) running on my machine. I currently refuse to buy games that insert a shim between the OS and the cdr because I consider it too risky, I can't afford to have my machine not work because some game company wants to protect their content.
If I can have multiple Windows, then it wouldn't be so bad (still bad, but not as much).
I currently dual boot boot Linux and Windows, but Linux is a lot nicer about letting me pick my own bootloader. I'm afraid to do what I discussed above in my current set up because I'm afraid a fresh second installation of Windows will overwrite the bootloader. Anyone have experience with this?
I wonder how much of these gains are a psychological effect (I didnt RTFA so this may have been addressed). "Wow, boss thinks I'm important enough to get me a new BIG monitor...I better work harder." Or, conversely, "That bastard got me a new SMALLER monitor, screw him...."
I don't agree. If they were using the OS to lock-in MS only programs, then yes, I'd agree that they were abusing their os monopoly . If they are one of many bidders, then I don't see the problem.
I agree, companies like yahoo, Microsoft, Google and IBM for that matter, should NOT be allow to buy each other. Or merge for that matter. I know that in Denmark (country in Europe) we have competition-control-authority prohibiting things like that. But US is proberly too liberal to bloack things like that, right? Bigger cooperations are NOT good for competition! It creates monopols and destroys innovation...
I believe that a government telling companies that they cannot perform such an action would be considered conservative.
Microsoft might argue that they are patent trolling to prevent falling victim to patent trolling. I don't think anyone would argue that its better to be on the patent owning end of the deal.
Its a regular password. I really think they should have called it a "password" instead of a PIN, as many people will associate this with an ATM pin and pick a 4 digit numeric password.
There's a whole grey area in-between that don't give a shit either way. This is another AOL attempt to grab this market.
AOL is currently the most expensive ISP, so they've better be offering a bunch of "extras."
I think we may be jumping the gun here by assuming they are being "evil."
As far as Google goes, they're too young to have done anything "evil" yet. Many might argue that they already see them going down that path.
The *purpose* of praying for someone is to help *ourselves* get through the day (whether most people believe it or not is another issue).
Otherwise, we're implying that God works on a point system, and that those that have more people praying for them score more points (so they have a better chance of winning). I don't how God works, but somehow I don't think that's it.
A far more interesting study would be looking for how much better off (if at all) patients that pray for themselves might be. Those who believe in a "guiding hand" might be that much less stressed, and I wouldn't be surprised if they turned out to have a better success rate.
My system at work runs XP and is a 900Mhz machine with 512MB or RAM. At any given time I have Visual Studio open (one or more instances) a bunch of firefox windows (which eat my RAM...) Outlook (Not as bad as firefox, but pretty bad) and SQL Analyzer open, not to mention all of the background stuff that has to be running for those apps to work (IIS, SQL Server, etc) [If you can't tell, I work for a Microsoft shop...].
My system runs very well, and only gets bogged down as fire fox decides to keep eating RAM. I'd recommend that your friend gets a RAM upgrade (pretty cheap) and she'll be good until she decides to move on to a different system.
If "people" kept wondering why they were crap, they'd stop buying them
And buy what exactly? Macs? Windows is entrenched in workplaces, and that is enough to keep most people tied to it as a day-to-day system. But don't think that ordinary non-IT workers don't hate Windows and Word; they do. But no one's asking them what they think.
As I said in my original post, 90% is 90%. 90% of the population does not use Windows at work. Most people under 18 do not work with computers (or if they do, they don't bring their work home with them). Grandma probably doesn't work, yet if she owns a computer, its probably Windows.
I'm not saying these people aren't being influenced by others who are tied to Windows at work. What I'm saying is that if Windows was as "crappy" as you said it was, it wouldn't matter; those not tied to Windows (which beleive it or not, is probably the majority of people) would switch to something else.
But no one's asking them what they think.
Wrong on many levels there, friend. 1. We vote with our dollars. If most people thought Windows was crappy, most people would buy (or get for free, for crying out loud) another OS.
2. MS spends huge amounts of money tailoring their GUI for the "common folk." You might not personally like it, but many do, and find it easy to use. That's the reason why many OSS window managers (I think that's what their called) follow MS's approach. And I don't blame them; if someone else is doing the research, you don't have to reinvent the wheel. Now the GUI isn't the whole OS, but its what most people think of when they think of an OS.
No one's doubting that you don't like Windows or MS; but you're assuming that most people think like you do, and you're wrong.
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The smallest state in the US. States are often used as a measuring stick in the US.
I was thinking the length of RI's coast line, but that may be too big as well.
"the size of 11,000 football fields "
The "football field measuring stick" is usually used when the object being measured is somewhat the size of a football field (1 football field, 5 football fields, etc). At 11,000 football fields, perhaps they could have used a different measuring stick. A better measuring stick would probably be the "rhode island."
I'd imagine that most companies will switch to Vista as part of the next hardware cycle.
I'm not sure why anyone expected businesses to jump on Vista, most companies prefer to keep what's already working rather than switching to something new and adding unneeded risk. They usually switch when staying on their current platform is more risky than moving to a new one (like losing support for the OS or inability to run new apps).
"Well then, whats so new and cool about Web 2.0? I've been using slashdot way before they coined the phrase."
Some businessmen somewhere realized that they can use "community produced content" to drive their sites rather than having to pay for writers and editors to produce content.
Our boss just gave us the "we will move toward web 2.0" speech in our "year and review" meeting. Free, up-to-date content (via forums) was the reasons he gave for moving toward "web 2.0".
That's all fine and dandy. Except that achieving a GOOD community driven site is not easy. You really need to reach a critical mass of users before your site's community will generate good, useful content that will attract more readers (and thus grow your community, and ad dollars). Would slashdot be as appealing to you if the community was only a handful of people? The news comes late, and you don't even get the whole story. The whole reason you come here is for the community's feedback to the stories. Most sites don't achieve anywhere close to this level of success, and their forums lie dormant with at most a couple of posts.
Eventually managers will realize that the promise of free "web 2.0" content is not as easy to achieve as they thought, and the pendulum will swing back toward "web 1.0."
sorry, didn't mean to post in html mode:
"Give it a rest. This community of which you speak has been ripping off Microsoft Office for inspiration for years."
I agree with you about the "ripping off" part, but I don't really consider it "ripping off," but rather borrowing and extending. Microsoft is constantly bashed for ripping of Apple. MS fans like to bash Linux/Open Office fans because of the similarity to Windows and Office. But why WOULDN'T you want to emulate the parts that have been proven to work? Microsoft spends millions upon millions researching what people want: from color schemes, to icon size and placement, to sounds. MS gets a lot of the things that most customers don't know about/care about wrong(like security), but the looks, feel and usability of there products is something they don't skimp on, because it is what sells. Not using Microsoft (or Apple) as a guide to the user interface will almost certainly doom your project to be used only by a very small audience. If it FEELS like the software that people know and love, they will be much more likely to use it.
"Give it a rest. This community of which you speak has been ripping off Microsoft Office for inspiration for years." I agree with you about the "ripping off" part, but I don't really consider it "ripping off," but rather borrowing and extending. Microsoft is constantly bashed for ripping of Apple. MS fans like to bash Linux/Open Office fans because of the similarity to Windows and Office. But why WOULDN'T you want to emulate the parts that have been proven to work? Microsoft spends millions upon millions researching what people want: from color schemes, to icon size and placement, to sounds. MS gets a lot of the things that most customers don't know about/care about wrong(like security), but the looks, feel and usability of there products is something they don't skimp on, because it is what sells. Not using Microsoft (or Apple) as a guide to the user interface will almost certainly doom your project to be used only by a very small audience. If it FEELS like the software that people know and love, they will be much more likely to use it.
No accidental visitor to utube.com (looking for youtube.com) is going to buy the products sold on utube.com. Youtube's popularity only raised utube's hosting fees and diminished its brand name (granted, I don't think it was ever a household name). That being said, owning the rights to utube is a godsend. Pick a different name for the core company (hell, they don't even need to continue with their core company, they could make a killing off of the utube name) and load utube.com with ads. They're sitting on a gold mine and they're trying to go after gold through litigation instead of through a little (very little) ingenuity.
"But I wanted an Opera caaaaaaaaake"
Very informative. Thanks.
Its not nonsensical. I didn't say I reinstalled my bootloader, nor did I ask if I could. I simply asked if there was a way to install windows without overwriting the MBR.
"You could reinstall the bootloader after installing Windows." Yep, that's what I did. The question is can I install Windows after I installed the bootloader (will it automatically overwrite the bootloader I manually installed there)?
I'd certainly use it for more than one windows (non virtual) running on my machine. I currently refuse to buy games that insert a shim between the OS and the cdr because I consider it too risky, I can't afford to have my machine not work because some game company wants to protect their content. If I can have multiple Windows, then it wouldn't be so bad (still bad, but not as much). I currently dual boot boot Linux and Windows, but Linux is a lot nicer about letting me pick my own bootloader. I'm afraid to do what I discussed above in my current set up because I'm afraid a fresh second installation of Windows will overwrite the bootloader. Anyone have experience with this?
I wonder how much of these gains are a psychological effect (I didnt RTFA so this may have been addressed). "Wow, boss thinks I'm important enough to get me a new BIG monitor...I better work harder." Or, conversely, "That bastard got me a new SMALLER monitor, screw him...."
I don't agree. If they were using the OS to lock-in MS only programs, then yes, I'd agree that they were abusing their os monopoly . If they are one of many bidders, then I don't see the problem.
I agree, companies like yahoo, Microsoft, Google and IBM for that matter, should NOT be allow to buy each other. Or merge for that matter. I know that in Denmark (country in Europe) we have competition-control-authority prohibiting things like that. But US is proberly too liberal to bloack things like that, right? Bigger cooperations are NOT good for competition! It creates monopols and destroys innovation... I believe that a government telling companies that they cannot perform such an action would be considered conservative.
Microsoft might argue that they are patent trolling to prevent falling victim to patent trolling. I don't think anyone would argue that its better to be on the patent owning end of the deal.
I wish you were only kidding...
Its a regular password. I really think they should have called it a "password" instead of a PIN, as many people will associate this with an ATM pin and pick a 4 digit numeric password.
Looks promising. I'll be checking it out when I have more free time. Thanks!
There's a whole grey area in-between that don't give a shit either way. This is another AOL attempt to grab this market. AOL is currently the most expensive ISP, so they've better be offering a bunch of "extras."
I think we may be jumping the gun here by assuming they are being "evil."
As far as Google goes, they're too young to have done anything "evil" yet. Many might argue that they already see them going down that path.
The *purpose* of praying for someone is to help *ourselves* get through the day (whether most people believe it or not is another issue).
Otherwise, we're implying that God works on a point system, and that those that have more people praying for them score more points (so they have a better chance of winning). I don't how God works, but somehow I don't think that's it.
A far more interesting study would be looking for how much better off (if at all) patients that pray for themselves might be. Those who believe in a "guiding hand" might be that much less stressed, and I wouldn't be surprised if they turned out to have a better success rate.
My system at work runs XP and is a 900Mhz machine with 512MB or RAM. At any given time I have Visual Studio open (one or more instances) a bunch of firefox windows (which eat my RAM...) Outlook (Not as bad as firefox, but pretty bad) and SQL Analyzer open, not to mention all of the background stuff that has to be running for those apps to work (IIS, SQL Server, etc) [If you can't tell, I work for a Microsoft shop...]. My system runs very well, and only gets bogged down as fire fox decides to keep eating RAM. I'd recommend that your friend gets a RAM upgrade (pretty cheap) and she'll be good until she decides to move on to a different system.
And buy what exactly? Macs? Windows is entrenched in workplaces, and that is enough to keep most people tied to it as a day-to-day system. But don't think that ordinary non-IT workers don't hate Windows and Word; they do. But no one's asking them what they think.
As I said in my original post, 90% is 90%. 90% of the population does not use Windows at work. Most people under 18 do not work with computers (or if they do, they don't bring their work home with them). Grandma probably doesn't work, yet if she owns a computer, its probably Windows.
But no one's asking them what they think.I'm not saying these people aren't being influenced by others who are tied to Windows at work. What I'm saying is that if Windows was as "crappy" as you said it was, it wouldn't matter; those not tied to Windows (which beleive it or not, is probably the majority of people) would switch to something else.
Wrong on many levels there, friend. 1. We vote with our dollars. If most people thought Windows was crappy, most people would buy (or get for free, for crying out loud) another OS.
2. MS spends huge amounts of money tailoring their GUI for the "common folk." You might not personally like it, but many do, and find it easy to use. That's the reason why many OSS window managers (I think that's what their called) follow MS's approach. And I don't blame them; if someone else is doing the research, you don't have to reinvent the wheel. Now the GUI isn't the whole OS, but its what most people think of when they think of an OS.
No one's doubting that you don't like Windows or MS; but you're assuming that most people think like you do, and you're wrong.