If you can pay to have your product used then the competition is over who has the deepest pockets, not over who has the best search algorithms, and that harms everyone.
Basically it means some of the profits from your Microsoft Office / Windows purchase is going to funding a vendor tie-in to drown out Google, and some of the profits from your AdWords campaign is going to funding a vendor tie-in to drown out Bing..
That doesn't sound like an environment that'll give the best products for consumers to choose from, or the best value for money. It sounds like an economic war of attrition funded by the end user.
To be honest I don't really see much in it; I'll use Bing or Google, but there is no double IE makes it difficult to switch to Google.
Using IE at work I decided to change over to Google from Bing in IE8, and you need to go to add search providers (Yahoo and Ask are in the preloaded list but Google isn't, for some reason), then you need to search for Google, and you need to make it past the three star rated "Google" option which isn't the right one (I guess they allow anything on), and navigate via the details page to the Google addon link.
On one occasion I tried to do this for a relative and it failed because the search addon site was down.
Do I think it's a conspiracy? No. Do I think Microsoft are giving their preferred engines more attention/priority? Without question. Is that unfair? I think so. (Are these self-asked questions douchey? Yes.)
He took us another step closer to the unreachable ultimate in computing languages, but evolution only goes one way; if he hadn't someone else would have. He deserves credit for his part, but acting like things would be distinctly different without him is either naive or insincere.
They also would have imprisoned them for life, chemically sterilized them, removed their toenails, confiscated one of their kidneys, given them lobotomies, and forced everyone who had ever met them to weak ankle bracelets.
The other way is that Microsoft is failing in its goals, and the populace is rebelling against them by going with a quaint older technology rather than Microsoft's newfangled nonsense, and frankly I am inclined to agree.
(Actually I thought Metro was a GUI design standard.. I don't know much about it but I know it's not a competitor for.NET..)
He's going to enjoy creature comforts worth less than their long-term cost no matter what, so who cares?
And I'm no hypocrite; I am too, you probably are as well. And it seems a bit phoney to say "well I'm more environmentally conscious than you", since it still seems like a rationalization for the things you enjoy.
I'm all for security audits, but if someone logged onto my e-mail account and sent a message from it, even with good intentions, I would definitely follow it up with more than a password change.
I agree totally. For example instead of having discussions on websites we should have separate applications and protocols for them.
e.g. for news and news discussions I'm working on an application-based alternative to these websites; it'll even have it's own protocol which I'm calling "network news transfer protocol". It's the way of the future I think.
But he's not criticizing the architecture.. he's criticizing the effect he thinks the architecture will have on the employees of a technology company.
Unless he's a psychologist and technology expert, and also has something to back up this crazy notion, it might as well be a Feng-shui guy arrogantly chiming in on the layout of a motherboard.
(And I say this as an Apple skeptic who realizes that Jobs was, at times, a Feng-shui guy who arrogantly chimed in on the layouts of motherboards with disastrous results)
Nuclear power without any regulation or safety is incredibly cheap, but also incredibly dangerous. Hence the need for better plant designs and stringent regulation. (I say this as a staunch advocate of nuclear power; I want it, but I want it well regulated.. I don't want another disaster or two to set the whole thing back by another 30 years..)
No I haven't, and I'm not arguing for younger people as better managers I accept I couldn't manage half as well as my boss, but we're talking about technical skill and coding jobs here.
Making sweeping generalizations about younger people - Priceless
(My boss is always going on about the sitcoms and reality TV he's watching, some of us younger guys talk about football and I'm the youngest guy and I don't watch TV)
The systems will go away one way or another.. looks like you already skipped the boat on a smooth, orderly transition and will now pay through the nose.
They mean you pay an old guy more who does less than a young guy. You can console yourself that that's because they're working 100 hours for 30 hours for some stupid reason, but maybe it's because they have a better grasp of more productive development strategies and the industry moves fast?
The fact so many people here are basing their argument and anecdotes around their experiences in C jobs doesn't really bode well..
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If you can pay to have your product used then the competition is over who has the deepest pockets, not over who has the best search algorithms, and that harms everyone.
Basically it means some of the profits from your Microsoft Office / Windows purchase is going to funding a vendor tie-in to drown out Google, and some of the profits from your AdWords campaign is going to funding a vendor tie-in to drown out Bing..
That doesn't sound like an environment that'll give the best products for consumers to choose from, or the best value for money. It sounds like an economic war of attrition funded by the end user.
To be honest I don't really see much in it; I'll use Bing or Google, but there is no double IE makes it difficult to switch to Google.
Using IE at work I decided to change over to Google from Bing in IE8, and you need to go to add search providers (Yahoo and Ask are in the preloaded list but Google isn't, for some reason), then you need to search for Google, and you need to make it past the three star rated "Google" option which isn't the right one (I guess they allow anything on), and navigate via the details page to the Google addon link.
On one occasion I tried to do this for a relative and it failed because the search addon site was down.
Do I think it's a conspiracy? No. Do I think Microsoft are giving their preferred engines more attention/priority? Without question. Is that unfair? I think so. (Are these self-asked questions douchey? Yes.)
What have we done!?.. TFA asked who killed video games, and now we must accept with horror: We killed video games!
The only thing that can take my mind off the guilt now is some more Portal 2, Battlefield MW 2, Civ V and Bioshock 2.
He took us another step closer to the unreachable ultimate in computing languages, but evolution only goes one way; if he hadn't someone else would have. He deserves credit for his part, but acting like things would be distinctly different without him is either naive or insincere.
Damn, I paid $30 for Trine when it came out and thought it was worth it. Didn't think they had decent games in the mix..
Paypal hatred comes up most frequently in charitable donation / hosting fee contribution threads, I have noticed.
They also would have imprisoned them for life, chemically sterilized them, removed their toenails, confiscated one of their kidneys, given them lobotomies, and forced everyone who had ever met them to weak ankle bracelets.
America is just so crazy isn't it?
That's one way to look at it..
.NET..)
The other way is that Microsoft is failing in its goals, and the populace is rebelling against them by going with a quaint older technology rather than Microsoft's newfangled nonsense, and frankly I am inclined to agree.
(Actually I thought Metro was a GUI design standard.. I don't know much about it but I know it's not a competitor for
He's going to enjoy creature comforts worth less than their long-term cost no matter what, so who cares?
And I'm no hypocrite; I am too, you probably are as well. And it seems a bit phoney to say "well I'm more environmentally conscious than you", since it still seems like a rationalization for the things you enjoy.
So have I, but looks like I'll have to wait a while before the roll out works its way out to me :(
I'm all for security audits, but if someone logged onto my e-mail account and sent a message from it, even with good intentions, I would definitely follow it up with more than a password change.
I agree totally. For example instead of having discussions on websites we should have separate applications and protocols for them.
e.g. for news and news discussions I'm working on an application-based alternative to these websites; it'll even have it's own protocol which I'm calling "network news transfer protocol". It's the way of the future I think.
Yeah I think Neville Chamberlain did something similar in 1938 and it went pretty great.
Why would you do that?.. Usually people sacrifice security for convenience, but that is less convenient..
As opposed to som-- fuck it
But he's not criticizing the architecture.. he's criticizing the effect he thinks the architecture will have on the employees of a technology company.
Unless he's a psychologist and technology expert, and also has something to back up this crazy notion, it might as well be a Feng-shui guy arrogantly chiming in on the layout of a motherboard.
(And I say this as an Apple skeptic who realizes that Jobs was, at times, a Feng-shui guy who arrogantly chimed in on the layouts of motherboards with disastrous results)
Nuclear power without any regulation or safety is incredibly cheap, but also incredibly dangerous. Hence the need for better plant designs and stringent regulation. (I say this as a staunch advocate of nuclear power; I want it, but I want it well regulated.. I don't want another disaster or two to set the whole thing back by another 30 years..)
Something to do with the benchmarks comparing OSes on two different systems?
No I haven't, and I'm not arguing for younger people as better managers I accept I couldn't manage half as well as my boss, but we're talking about technical skill and coding jobs here.
Making sweeping generalizations about younger people - Priceless
(My boss is always going on about the sitcoms and reality TV he's watching, some of us younger guys talk about football and I'm the youngest guy and I don't watch TV)
The systems will go away one way or another.. looks like you already skipped the boat on a smooth, orderly transition and will now pay through the nose.
They mean you pay an old guy more who does less than a young guy. You can console yourself that that's because they're working 100 hours for 30 hours for some stupid reason, but maybe it's because they have a better grasp of more productive development strategies and the industry moves fast?
The fact so many people here are basing their argument and anecdotes around their experiences in C jobs doesn't really bode well..
Yeah ! That's why no-one uses C++ and why OO languages in general are in massive decline.