1: Rent the re-release of Office Space. Re-watch it a few times to appreciate the humor that more than likely mirrors some epoch of each of our lives.
2: Watch the all-too-brief overview with Mike Judge and many of the (other) actors at the beginning of the DVD. Stephen Root will even explain where the squirrels being married line came from.
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because I told, I told Bill that if they move my desk one more time, then, then I'm, I'm quitting, I'm going to quit. And, and I told Don too, because they've moved my desk four times already this year, and I used to be over by the window, and I could see the squirrels, and they were married, but then, they switched from the Swingline to the Boston stapler, but I kept my Swingline stapler because it didn't bind up as much, and I kept the staples for the Swingline stapler and it's not okay because if they take my stapler then I'll set the building on fire...
Alas, this is the curse of/. Did you really expect fair and balanced news? Heck - even Fox can't deliver that, let alone the site that has been the bastion of all that anti-MSFT for years (the picture of Bill Gates that's the icon for Microsoft should be a hint to the site's objectivity.
Yes, because we all know the MPAA and RIAA would have gleefully sat back and not completely reamed Microsoft and Apple if either one had built music playback technologies (HW players OR software) that didn't in fact have any form of DRM. Yes, they definitely would have sat back idly while the two largest operating system vendors enabled piracy of their IP.
Or perhaps they wouldn't. Who knows, with those wild and crazy guys at the MPAA and RIAA. They never throw their weight around in the legal system.
That's BS. For example, Jim Allchin is the Windows Product Manager. He had pretty much the final say over what features were and weren't included in Vista during its development.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Oh wait. You were serious. You were wrong. Jim was a Senior Vice President for much of Longhorn's development life. And the call as to what is and is not in was largely his when it rolled up, but he hardly oversaw (no single individual does) exactly what features are or are not in any release of Windows.
Actually, 2MB chips are pretty cheap right now
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Vista - iPod Killer?
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The hard part is finding them in the antique shop.
Okay, not really. The presence or non-presence of any CPU vendor's technology inside of any device is generally a net factor of the money which must change hands to put it there (think of it more as a rebate and less as a kickback, and perhaps it won't sound so dirty). Likely the same reason why the original Xbox, which originally was going to have an AMD CPU, ended up with an Intel CPU.
Anyone who thinks that AMD got in and Intel got back in due simply just to processor technology or speed is kidding themselves. It's all about money.
Most enterprise customers are not "Wow"'d by Vista either.
Some of you should be seriously ashamed...
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Jim Gray Is Missing
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Seriously. Making fun of someone who may fallen in harm's way just because he chose to work at Microsoft???
Jim Gray is a brilliant guy who I had the pleasure of meeting and working with several times while I worked at Microsoft. Once had a great, lengthy discussion with him at a WinHEC conference in Seattle. Very sharp, enjoyable guy to talk to. My best wishes go out to Jim and his family - I hope for the best.
With regard to the virtualization aspect, that is true. In fact, there were quite a few people within Microsoft who felt that that would have been the better way for Longhorn (before it became Vista) to have gone. I count myself among them. But many companies don't like the idea of managing two Windows installations (or more) per desktop. Heck - one is expensive enough to manage.
Dual-booting is a no-go on any enterprise desktop. Any time you need to rely on a user to select something at boot time, and reboot their PC just to work with a legacy app, it's a disconnect and something that can go wrong. Won't play. The virtualization, would have though.
If I had that sort of manpower and time I'd definitely come up with something better than Vista.
You and me both, man. You and me both. Vista is not what it should have been, given 5+ years of work. But there are reasons it "is" what it is.
He didn't say consumers. He said companies. VERY different. Enterprise companies DON'T want to throw away the 10 year old craptastic apps, the developers of which long since left the company. Ancient software is the key to Microsoft's stronghold. If everyone was willing to buy entirely new software (and throw away or completely rewrite what they have) just to run an entirely new OS with better features than the competition, the world would likely be running OS X already.
Well, considering Mark has been doing presentations about it (Vista - other versions of Windows have been in his speaking reportoire for years) for nearly a year, and didn't have source code access until he went to Microsoft, you're not quite right.
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Umm... Until the ill-fated Zune (my, isn't THAT cynical of me), Microsoft never made their own music player. So I have no idea where you got you're info, but it's quite incorrect.
It's not a farce. They're pushing to enforce consumer choice. Isn't that what the/. minions were crying about just a few years ago in US v. MSFT?
The only downside to it, is that it might cause people to think of NTFS as a good inter-operable standard, rather than the disgusting, proprietary, Redmond Albatross that it is.
Pshaw... YouTube is the Wal-Mart of video. Tons of garbage nobody wants to watch, a couple of actual gems worth finding, and everything is encoded in Flash, the worlds most efficient, yet hardest to bear watching, video technology.
And this surprises you why? Real-time downloads of actual content people want to watch (versus what I've seen at most of the online video rental services - movies nobody has cared about since 1983) is a niche market. They need DRM. Hmm. Okay, that rules out linux. They want to address the majority of the market. Hmm. Okay, that rules out the Mac. Makes sense to me.
Except for gadget geeks, probably 80% of the Blackberrys, Treos, etc are purchased by companies for employees or by business owners.
Exactly. Because that's where the volume is. Apple pitching this as a consumer device will be successful, as a very niche, consumer only, market. There's a reason why RIM ate up the business end of the market before dabbling with a consumer device. I don't think the iPhone will be nearly as successful as some are thinking.
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Vista has shipped, and you're worried about that NOW? Man, where were you 24-48 months ago when Microsoft needed you?
That's all /. has been for years.
1: Rent the re-release of Office Space. Re-watch it a few times to appreciate the humor that more than likely mirrors some epoch of each of our lives.
2: Watch the all-too-brief overview with Mike Judge and many of the (other) actors at the beginning of the DVD. Stephen Root will even explain where the squirrels being married line came from.
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because I told, I told Bill that if they move my desk one more time, then, then I'm, I'm quitting, I'm going to quit. And, and I told Don too, because they've moved my desk four times already this year, and I used to be over by the window, and I could see the squirrels, and they were married, but then, they switched from the Swingline to the Boston stapler, but I kept my Swingline stapler because it didn't bind up as much, and I kept the staples for the Swingline stapler and it's not okay because if they take my stapler then I'll set the building on fire...
Alas, this is the curse of /. Did you really expect fair and balanced news? Heck - even Fox can't deliver that, let alone the site that has been the bastion of all that anti-MSFT for years (the picture of Bill Gates that's the icon for Microsoft should be a hint to the site's objectivity.
Abandon hope all ye who enter here.
Yes, because we all know the MPAA and RIAA would have gleefully sat back and not completely reamed Microsoft and Apple if either one had built music playback technologies (HW players OR software) that didn't in fact have any form of DRM. Yes, they definitely would have sat back idly while the two largest operating system vendors enabled piracy of their IP.
Or perhaps they wouldn't. Who knows, with those wild and crazy guys at the MPAA and RIAA. They never throw their weight around in the legal system.
That's BS. For example, Jim Allchin is the Windows Product Manager. He had pretty much the final say over what features were and weren't included in Vista during its development.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Oh wait. You were serious. You were wrong. Jim was a Senior Vice President for much of Longhorn's development life. And the call as to what is and is not in was largely his when it rolled up, but he hardly oversaw (no single individual does) exactly what features are or are not in any release of Windows.
The hard part is finding them in the antique shop.
Okay, not really. The presence or non-presence of any CPU vendor's technology inside of any device is generally a net factor of the money which must change hands to put it there (think of it more as a rebate and less as a kickback, and perhaps it won't sound so dirty). Likely the same reason why the original Xbox, which originally was going to have an AMD CPU, ended up with an Intel CPU.
Anyone who thinks that AMD got in and Intel got back in due simply just to processor technology or speed is kidding themselves. It's all about money.
Most enterprise customers are not "Wow"'d by Vista either.
Seriously. Making fun of someone who may fallen in harm's way just because he chose to work at Microsoft???
Jim Gray is a brilliant guy who I had the pleasure of meeting and working with several times while I worked at Microsoft. Once had a great, lengthy discussion with him at a WinHEC conference in Seattle. Very sharp, enjoyable guy to talk to. My best wishes go out to Jim and his family - I hope for the best.
With regard to the virtualization aspect, that is true. In fact, there were quite a few people within Microsoft who felt that that would have been the better way for Longhorn (before it became Vista) to have gone. I count myself among them. But many companies don't like the idea of managing two Windows installations (or more) per desktop. Heck - one is expensive enough to manage.
Dual-booting is a no-go on any enterprise desktop. Any time you need to rely on a user to select something at boot time, and reboot their PC just to work with a legacy app, it's a disconnect and something that can go wrong. Won't play. The virtualization, would have though.
If I had that sort of manpower and time I'd definitely come up with something better than Vista.
You and me both, man. You and me both. Vista is not what it should have been, given 5+ years of work. But there are reasons it "is" what it is.
He didn't say consumers. He said companies. VERY different. Enterprise companies DON'T want to throw away the 10 year old craptastic apps, the developers of which long since left the company. Ancient software is the key to Microsoft's stronghold. If everyone was willing to buy entirely new software (and throw away or completely rewrite what they have) just to run an entirely new OS with better features than the competition, the world would likely be running OS X already.
Well, considering Mark has been doing presentations about it (Vista - other versions of Windows have been in his speaking reportoire for years) for nearly a year, and didn't have source code access until he went to Microsoft, you're not quite right.
Umm... Until the ill-fated Zune (my, isn't THAT cynical of me), Microsoft never made their own music player. So I have no idea where you got you're info, but it's quite incorrect.
/. minions were crying about just a few years ago in US v. MSFT?
It's not a farce. They're pushing to enforce consumer choice. Isn't that what the
A patch giveth, a patch taketh away.
And of course, intractable to test.
The only downside to it, is that it might cause people to think of NTFS as a good inter-operable standard, rather than the disgusting, proprietary, Redmond Albatross that it is.
Wow. Tell us how you REALLY feel.
Touche...
Pshaw... YouTube is the Wal-Mart of video. Tons of garbage nobody wants to watch, a couple of actual gems worth finding, and everything is encoded in Flash, the worlds most efficient, yet hardest to bear watching, video technology.
And this surprises you why? Real-time downloads of actual content people want to watch (versus what I've seen at most of the online video rental services - movies nobody has cared about since 1983) is a niche market. They need DRM. Hmm. Okay, that rules out linux. They want to address the majority of the market. Hmm. Okay, that rules out the Mac. Makes sense to me.
download and install patches from a web site operated by the government
And now for another episode of, "Good Idea, Bad Idea"
Seriously... downloading patches from a website operated by the government?
Businesses do.
Except for gadget geeks, probably 80% of the Blackberrys, Treos, etc are purchased by companies for employees or by business owners.
Exactly. Because that's where the volume is. Apple pitching this as a consumer device will be successful, as a very niche, consumer only, market. There's a reason why RIM ate up the business end of the market before dabbling with a consumer device. I don't think the iPhone will be nearly as successful as some are thinking.
Bzzt. Now verified as incorrect. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic le/2007/01/10/AR2007011001309.html
As I was saying...
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