You can't ask Microsoft to pull Media Player and then expect media player to work correctly. Media player is much more than just a (not so pretty) UI for playing movies and music.
What will they ask for next? Web pages with embedded media players in them to work?
"And of course, there's the obvious counter-example: where are all the BIND and Apache worms?" This page lists both: http://www.cert.org/summaries/CS-2002-04.html
Thinking Linux is safe merely because it isn't hit is just like thinking Mac OS X is safe because it wasn't previously hit. It is only when it becomes worth hitting that you'll find out if it is truly safe or not.
Bash Microsoft all you want. At least they are actively working on improving their security.
The threads above all mourn the loss of Research in American technology companies. It's interestsing that one of the most despised companies on/. is also one of the few that is still doing a massive investment in primary research. Just last week Microsoft had its annual TechFest and showed off much of what it is working on. It is doing research on everything from Teddy Bears with face recognition to rootkit detection to new display technologies. Sound like they, at least, are getting it right. If someone like HP failing to invest hurts the U.S. economy, does someone like Microsoft inveting save it?
AMD64 will never be adoped by Intel. em64t is ridiculous. IA-32e is equally stupid and misleading to boot. x86-64 is too long. Why not just say x64? The x has become associated with x86 so it's easy to tell what we're referring to. It also makes it painfully obvious that this is the successor to x86 instead of the Itanic's IA64 architecture.
I think you are onto something here. I too have found google's results becoming much less relevant these days.
An examples:
Search for a review of an item. Just type item name plus review. You'll find the same repackages Amazon.com reviews for the first 100 links.
There is a lot of room for improvement here. I don't know if MSN search is going to win but there is definitely a weakness in google they can exploit. Google is too easily tricked into listing content high which pushes the useful but not advertised content, lower.
I don't know what you're paying MPEG-LA for but your perception doesn't hold true beyond your company. MPEG-LA takes in something like $2.50 per MPEG-2 decoder. Encoders or demuxers are additional money. MPEG-2 isn't cheap.
RealClearPolitics - Polling data and best of the MSM commentary. Instapundit - Smorgasboard of daily links interspersed with commentary. Hugh Hewitt - Law professor, author, and radio talk show host. Powerline - Commentary and links. Were very influential in the Rathergate controversy.
Read the Innovator's Dilemma. It says to do exactly that. You can never understand the customer or market need before you ship the product. The best thing to do is ship a best guess and then correct from there.
I doubt that Microsoft does much work on v2.0 before the customers start giving feedback. They probably, like most other companies, start right when they ship 1.0.
Wow. Microsoft could use patents to attack open source. Um, yeah. Newsflash: The sky is blue! Oh wait, that's old news too.
The truth is that this has always been a weakness of open source. Anyone with some patents and a grudge can attack it. I don't think that a memo from someone other than Microsoft which is 2 years old changes the equation at all. The fact that MS hasn't done so since the memo was published should give pause to the troll posting this. Perhaps they haven't because they don't intend to.
Programs don't crash because the memory is cleared during reboots. They crash because they refer to memory that never existed in the first place.
Perhaps nonvolatile memory will improve startup times (think super-fast hibernate) but crashes? Not a chance.
Is the value gamer really going to be the first one to get the new console when it's cost is $300 or whatever? No. They won't buy the platform until it has been out a year and there are "platinum edition" games available. By then, backwards compatibility won't be such an issue. Those people buying the first million consoles won't care about backward compatibility.
Think about it, the GameCube and the XBox, while not selling as well overall as the PS2 both had solid openings. If backwards compatibility was the killer, they wouldn't have.
Disney is so much more than a few kids movies. To say that Pixar will become the next Disney mean that Pixar will have theme parks and TV-stations and mall-stores and cruise lines. Pixar may be big, but don't mistake a handful of successful movies for an empire.
A lot can change quickly in this business. Disney itself owned the kids movie market 10 years ago with Aladin, Beauty and the Beast, Little Mermaid, etc. Now look at them. They lost it. Pixar can do the same thing.
The UCS is, has been, and always will be political first and scientific second. They always come down on the left side of the equation. They aren't unbiased. Their analysis is politically motivated.
I think the opposite is true. The human ear can hear approximately 20 KHz of sound. Accounting for the Nyquist frequency and the sampling theorem, that means that 40 KHz (or 44 KHz as CD is today) is totally sufficient. Anything higher than that is just bragging rights. On the other hand, higher-bit audio allows for less quantization error and a cleaner sound. It might help improve things. Higher frequency will just make the sound card more appealing to dogs.
Nuclear power. France and Japan get 70% of their power from nuclear. It's clean and we know how to do it right. Too bad we made it so hard to build a new plant.
"And FINALLY we get to see someone turn a fighter around and fly backwards to shoot at missiles!"
It wasn't missiles but ships did these sort of maneuvers in B5 season 1. They'd turn and fire at each other while momentum kept them moving in the same direction. It's cool, but not new.
I must say that the battle scenes in BG were disappointing. They were too erratic and too grand-scale to get a good focus on any one thing. They needed more focus on individual actions.
Sometimes he's insightful but often he's grasping at straws with his ideas. This is one of the latter sort of times. According to this article which is admittedly a bit dated, tablet sales are above expectations and they expect to sell nearly 600,000 this year. This article while intimating poor sales says that Acer has sold 100,000 by itself this year. Cringley's number seems a bit off.
That said, he's also off in his analysis. There's a market for tablet PCs. Every delivery person and every lawyer I've seen lately has one. They are great for taking notes.
What they are not good for, is video. Even if you could solve the bandwidth issue, there's the horsepower issue. Displaying HD video is non-trivial. It requires a hefty processor (3.0 GHz would be nice) and a GPU to match. Most Tablet-style PCs will come with underpowered mobile PCs and a graphics card from someone like Trident. Sorry, it's just not going to work.
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While it is still out too far for my liking, Microsoft just reaffirmed that they will ship the new Longhorn client in 2005. There will be a server release in 2006 but the abstract for this thread is factually incorrect.
I agree, all of these should be simple fixes and not take too long. However, you have to remember testing time. Any time you are changing all of the API's and protocols, you now need a lot of time to make sure that the changes all play nicely together.
That said, I have no idea why they think they need to make all of these changes. The game should be built to be immune to this sort of thing. After the game is released, someone is bound to figure this stuff out either through code leaks or through reverse engineering. The game should be robust enough to withstand a source code leak.
I don't think it matters if they are integral parts. SCO is talking about copyright infringement. Even if NUMA and RCU could be on any OS, this particular implementation of them cannot. I find it hard to believe that IBM would have agreed to grant its copyrights to AT&T/SCO/Current Unix Owner.
Obviously MS stands to gain from this endeavor of SCO's but then so does Sun. Other than reflexive anti-Microsoft bias, do you have any evidence to substantiate your claim? MS, as near as I can tell, has nothing to do with this. In case your memory is no better than your logic, please recall that their "lapdog" SCO sued them recently over DRDOS. They aren't exactly friends.
I agree that Hungarian is not very useful today. You have to remember though that it was invented more than a decade (2 decades?) ago when compilers weren't what we have now. When the K&R-style C compiler didn't have strong typing, Hungarian was quite useful. Nowadays your compiler will catch your errors and warn you but back then it didn't.
I received one a few weeks back. I thought it was quite deceptive. If I didn't know any better, I would end up paying them $30 to "renew" my registration instead of the $9 I pay at my current registrar. No thanks.
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You can't ask Microsoft to pull Media Player and then expect media player to work correctly. Media player is much more than just a (not so pretty) UI for playing movies and music.
What will they ask for next? Web pages with embedded media players in them to work?
What is the difference between these P4 em64t machines and the ones I've been able to buy before this?
"And of course, there's the obvious counter-example: where are all the BIND and Apache worms?"
This page lists both: http://www.cert.org/summaries/CS-2002-04.html
Thinking Linux is safe merely because it isn't hit is just like thinking Mac OS X is safe because it wasn't previously hit. It is only when it becomes worth hitting that you'll find out if it is truly safe or not.
Bash Microsoft all you want. At least they are actively working on improving their security.
The threads above all mourn the loss of Research in American technology companies. It's interestsing that one of the most despised companies on /. is also one of the few that is still doing a massive investment in primary research. Just last week Microsoft had its annual TechFest and showed off much of what it is working on. It is doing research on everything from Teddy Bears with face recognition to rootkit detection to new display technologies. Sound like they, at least, are getting it right. If someone like HP failing to invest hurts the U.S. economy, does someone like Microsoft inveting save it?
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AMD64 will never be adoped by Intel. em64t is ridiculous. IA-32e is equally stupid and misleading to boot. x86-64 is too long. Why not just say x64? The x has become associated with x86 so it's easy to tell what we're referring to. It also makes it painfully obvious that this is the successor to x86 instead of the Itanic's IA64 architecture.
I think you are onto something here. I too have found google's results becoming much less relevant these days.
An examples:
Search for a review of an item. Just type item name plus review. You'll find the same repackages Amazon.com reviews for the first 100 links.
There is a lot of room for improvement here. I don't know if MSN search is going to win but there is definitely a weakness in google they can exploit. Google is too easily tricked into listing content high which pushes the useful but not advertised content, lower.
I don't know what you're paying MPEG-LA for but your perception doesn't hold true beyond your company. MPEG-LA takes in something like $2.50 per MPEG-2 decoder. Encoders or demuxers are additional money. MPEG-2 isn't cheap.
RealClearPolitics - Polling data and best of the MSM commentary.
Instapundit - Smorgasboard of daily links interspersed with commentary.
Hugh Hewitt - Law professor, author, and radio talk show host.
Powerline - Commentary and links. Were very influential in the Rathergate controversy.
Read the Innovator's Dilemma. It says to do exactly that. You can never understand the customer or market need before you ship the product. The best thing to do is ship a best guess and then correct from there.
I doubt that Microsoft does much work on v2.0 before the customers start giving feedback. They probably, like most other companies, start right when they ship 1.0.
Wow. Microsoft could use patents to attack open source. Um, yeah. Newsflash: The sky is blue! Oh wait, that's old news too.
The truth is that this has always been a weakness of open source. Anyone with some patents and a grudge can attack it. I don't think that a memo from someone other than Microsoft which is 2 years old changes the equation at all. The fact that MS hasn't done so since the memo was published should give pause to the troll posting this. Perhaps they haven't because they don't intend to.
Programs don't crash because the memory is cleared during reboots. They crash because they refer to memory that never existed in the first place.
Perhaps nonvolatile memory will improve startup times (think super-fast hibernate) but crashes? Not a chance.
Is the value gamer really going to be the first one to get the new console when it's cost is $300 or whatever? No. They won't buy the platform until it has been out a year and there are "platinum edition" games available. By then, backwards compatibility won't be such an issue. Those people buying the first million consoles won't care about backward compatibility.
Think about it, the GameCube and the XBox, while not selling as well overall as the PS2 both had solid openings. If backwards compatibility was the killer, they wouldn't have.
Disney is so much more than a few kids movies. To say that Pixar will become the next Disney mean that Pixar will have theme parks and TV-stations and mall-stores and cruise lines. Pixar may be big, but don't mistake a handful of successful movies for an empire.
A lot can change quickly in this business. Disney itself owned the kids movie market 10 years ago with Aladin, Beauty and the Beast, Little Mermaid, etc. Now look at them. They lost it. Pixar can do the same thing.
The UCS is, has been, and always will be political first and scientific second. They always come down on the left side of the equation. They aren't unbiased. Their analysis is politically motivated.
I think the opposite is true. The human ear can hear approximately 20 KHz of sound. Accounting for the Nyquist frequency and the sampling theorem, that means that 40 KHz (or 44 KHz as CD is today) is totally sufficient. Anything higher than that is just bragging rights. On the other hand, higher-bit audio allows for less quantization error and a cleaner sound. It might help improve things. Higher frequency will just make the sound card more appealing to dogs.
Nuclear power. France and Japan get 70% of their power from nuclear. It's clean and we know how to do it right. Too bad we made it so hard to build a new plant.
"And FINALLY we get to see someone turn a fighter around and fly backwards to shoot at missiles!"
It wasn't missiles but ships did these sort of maneuvers in B5 season 1. They'd turn and fire at each other while momentum kept them moving in the same direction. It's cool, but not new.
I must say that the battle scenes in BG were disappointing. They were too erratic and too grand-scale to get a good focus on any one thing. They needed more focus on individual actions.
Sometimes he's insightful but often he's grasping at straws with his ideas. This is one of the latter sort of times. According to this article which is admittedly a bit dated, tablet sales are above expectations and they expect to sell nearly 600,000 this year. This article while intimating poor sales says that Acer has sold 100,000 by itself this year. Cringley's number seems a bit off. That said, he's also off in his analysis. There's a market for tablet PCs. Every delivery person and every lawyer I've seen lately has one. They are great for taking notes. What they are not good for, is video. Even if you could solve the bandwidth issue, there's the horsepower issue. Displaying HD video is non-trivial. It requires a hefty processor (3.0 GHz would be nice) and a GPU to match. Most Tablet-style PCs will come with underpowered mobile PCs and a graphics card from someone like Trident. Sorry, it's just not going to work.
While it is still out too far for my liking, Microsoft just reaffirmed that they will ship the new Longhorn client in 2005. There will be a server release in 2006 but the abstract for this thread is factually incorrect.
I agree, all of these should be simple fixes and not take too long. However, you have to remember testing time. Any time you are changing all of the API's and protocols, you now need a lot of time to make sure that the changes all play nicely together.
That said, I have no idea why they think they need to make all of these changes. The game should be built to be immune to this sort of thing. After the game is released, someone is bound to figure this stuff out either through code leaks or through reverse engineering. The game should be robust enough to withstand a source code leak.
I don't think it matters if they are integral parts. SCO is talking about copyright infringement. Even if NUMA and RCU could be on any OS, this particular implementation of them cannot. I find it hard to believe that IBM would have agreed to grant its copyrights to AT&T/SCO/Current Unix Owner.
Obviously MS stands to gain from this endeavor of SCO's but then so does Sun. Other than reflexive anti-Microsoft bias, do you have any evidence to substantiate your claim? MS, as near as I can tell, has nothing to do with this. In case your memory is no better than your logic, please recall that their "lapdog" SCO sued them recently over DRDOS. They aren't exactly friends.
Great quote! It really sums things up well. Did you come up with it or does it have some other attribution?
I agree that Hungarian is not very useful today. You have to remember though that it was invented more than a decade (2 decades?) ago when compilers weren't what we have now. When the K&R-style C compiler didn't have strong typing, Hungarian was quite useful. Nowadays your compiler will catch your errors and warn you but back then it didn't.
I received one a few weeks back. I thought it was quite deceptive. If I didn't know any better, I would end up paying them $30 to "renew" my registration instead of the $9 I pay at my current registrar. No thanks.