These numbers are absolutely meaningless. I would tend to expect that a good programmer working on a simple project would produce a small but elegant program; a bad programmer working on a simple project would produce lots of (unneccessary) code; a good programmer working on a complex project would produce a fairly high ammount of code; and a bad programmer working on a complex project would produce either a whole ton of code or none at all, depending on whether a requirement before counting is "the code has to produce the desired result in some form." So this could lead to several conclusions: MS programmers are good, producing complex programs with very elegant and effective code. MS programmers are bad, churning out a bunch of unusable code that does not get used in the final "50 million lines." MS programmers are lazy, only typing 1000 lines a year when the average developer can type 6200. Developers in the US on average produce bloated code, in which case MS is doing better than average. And on and on...
Does anyone else find it disturbing that MS seems to be defining "upgrade" as "more lines of code?"
The key point here is that Vista has to compete with OSX, the various open source distros, and XP. I think that explains a lot of things. Honestly I don't think customers give a crap if Vista is delayed; XP is working fine. Hell, who even has Vista compatible hardware yet? By delaying it they create a hype. They have to wait until the new technology that requires an upgrade to vista is in demand before people will be compelled to upgrade from XP. And by pushing their developers, hopefully they'll take some shortcuts and introduce some flaws so MS can give people a reason to upgrade to Vista's successor in 4 years.
Or maybe they're just waiting until they think the market is willing to accept hourly licensing for their OS.:P
I got mine at Best Buy a little after opening on sunday (I dunno how many they had, they didn't even have a display set up. The guy had to go get it from the stock room) and New Super Mario Brothers. Not having played the Fat DS, I'm impressed with this little system. And I don't mind the white, matches my iPod!;)
Most of my problem users can't even find their usb ports. One guy did and somehow managed to break all 3 of them (he must have been trying to plug in every piece of crap he found on the floor, not just limiting himself to USB devices)!
Glue guns? So Vista will eliminate the need for permanently destroying your USB ports by crashing every time you plug in a USB device! Excellent, I'm glad microsoft realizes that letting companies glue their security holes shut is a bad idea...
When did you get a guy named "Bob" or "Mike" to say anything that even remotely resembles that? Usually my conversations with them go something like this:
"Okay, is the power light on?"
"No, the thing won't power on."
"Okay, please unplug the power for 30 seconds. (waits 30 seconds in complete silence. I swear they teach them not to BREATHE over there!)"
"(Thinking I already did this) Yeah okay, that didn't work."
"Okay. (silence)"
"Can I have an RMA number now?"
What kind of idiot law firm lists a person as their lead plaintiff without getting ANY paperwork? What kind of idiot law firm lists some guy as their lead plaintiff based on his BLOG POSTING and a phone call? Makes me wonder how many other class action cases were dreamt up by scumbag lawyers with nothing better to do than drag our society down a notch.
I find it hard to believe that his expulsion will be based solely on the two Xanga posts. How did the school find his website? I'm willing to bet he WAS posting to his site from school (anybody notice the timestamp on the second post, 2:49 on a tuesday afternoon?). He was obviously looking for trouble, and he found it. I would be very surprised if he didn't say or do something in school to warrant some attention. Bottom line, he knew he was getting himself in trouble, purposely got himself in trouble, and while it may be extreme, in the long run an expulsion from school is not going to ruin his life. He'll just wind up at a different school where he'd better behave himself. So stop acting like he's being oppressed, and it's his right to be a little hellraiser.
I thought they decided the crank was impractical and did away with it in favor of a foot pedal, after Bill Gates made fun of the crank. I hope not, I still think the crank is a good idea.
Maybe it's a Ubuntu thing, flash was weird for me. I had to go in and manually upgrade firefox... that was definitely a Ubuntu problem. But then I had to tweak my audio configuration quite a bit.
Ubuntu had no hardware problems. All of the problems are software related now. Admittedly I should have done more research before buying the machine, but can you tell me what model laptop I should use so flash isn't a pain in the ass? Or so iTunes music store will work correctly? Or so wpa authentication will not make me want to pull my hair out?
The problem isn't that people aren't willing to learn something "different." The problem with linux is that it just can't keep up with new technology that people want. Despite releasing new versions of all the popular distributions much more frequently than windows, somehow windows is still ahead of the curve. I bought a new laptop specifically to use as a linux workstation about a year ago, because I wanted to learn how things worked. I tried fedora and had no success detecting my CD burner, so after a while I switched to Ubuntu. It's a very nice distro but there are too many things that need to be manually configured to handle common everyday tasks, or just don't work at all. I had to reconfigure firefox and my audio system to view flash movies. Even after setting that up it seemed like it would sometimes randomly break. WPA simply is not supported properly yet; wpa_supplicant seems to work for some people but I sure couldn't get it running. I now think I know what my problem was, but it took me an entire afternoon of editting config files and playing with my router config to do what windows can do with a simple prompt. I like the iTunes music store, but like almost every commercial application, it simply isn't supported in linux. Running Ubuntu, my laptop locked up on me very often; that hasn't happened once in XP. Finally after months and months of using my nice new laptop only on weekends when I had hours to play with config files and dig around forums, I decided to wipe it and install XP so I could actually be productive with the thing. You can call this guy lazy and unable to adapt, but the fact is that (from the distros I have seen) linux is simply not a stable OS for anyone who intends to use modern technologies and wants to spend more time actually using their machine than reconfiguring it.
That's pretty cool! I would have loved to be involved in planning that:
Military Official: This fingerprint scanner will make sure only authorized personnel can get through this door!
Naysayer: But what if someone chops off the hand of an authorized personnel and uses the severed hand to gain access?
Official: Not to worry, we're prepared for that! You see, the scanner requires that the finger have a pulse. They can stand here all day poking it with the severed hand, they're not getting in.
Authorized Personnel: Awesome...
pay premiums for non-certified IT skills grew three times faster than for certified ones in a six-month period spanning 2005-2006.
That could indicate that certifications are less important to these companies... if they were all getting paid the same salary at the beginning of the six month period. But since we don't have that information, this study is pretty much worthless...
"This is a clear indication that employers are not placing the same emphasis on certification that they once did.
I wish I got paid to make ridiculous statements...
Sony has been ripping off all of their artists, and it took 3 years before Cheap Trick realized they were getting screwed? I find this a little bit surprising!
Okay, you didn't even have a feature article to read, you just had to read the summary. "The upper management team of my company has made a decision that the IT department will work with employee's home computers and laptops." I guess he could find a new job, but that seems a rather drastic approach.
Plenty of major artists have been pro-downloading long before this group came along. A member of Switchfoot posted instruction on the band's message board describing how to circumvent the DRM scheme on their latest cd. The post was removed by Sony, but the cd was eventually recalled and published DRM free, because the copy protection scheme did not work properly. The Offspring were avid supporters of napster back when it was the big p2p network, and they joked about making their entire album available for download on their website before it was released in stores, which horrified their label at the time. This isn't the first time a major artist has taken the side of the consumer.
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Does anyone else find it disturbing that MS seems to be defining "upgrade" as "more lines of code?"
Or maybe they're just waiting until they think the market is willing to accept hourly licensing for their OS. :P
I got mine at Best Buy a little after opening on sunday (I dunno how many they had, they didn't even have a display set up. The guy had to go get it from the stock room) and New Super Mario Brothers. Not having played the Fat DS, I'm impressed with this little system. And I don't mind the white, matches my iPod! ;)
Glue guns? So Vista will eliminate the need for permanently destroying your USB ports by crashing every time you plug in a USB device! Excellent, I'm glad microsoft realizes that letting companies glue their security holes shut is a bad idea...
When did you get a guy named "Bob" or "Mike" to say anything that even remotely resembles that? Usually my conversations with them go something like this: "Okay, is the power light on?" "No, the thing won't power on." "Okay, please unplug the power for 30 seconds. (waits 30 seconds in complete silence. I swear they teach them not to BREATHE over there!)" "(Thinking I already did this) Yeah okay, that didn't work." "Okay. (silence)" "Can I have an RMA number now?"
I was just thinking that! Closely followed by "Why am I reading a paper on spreadsheets" and "How is this news?"
What kind of idiot law firm lists a person as their lead plaintiff without getting ANY paperwork? What kind of idiot law firm lists some guy as their lead plaintiff based on his BLOG POSTING and a phone call? Makes me wonder how many other class action cases were dreamt up by scumbag lawyers with nothing better to do than drag our society down a notch.
I find it hard to believe that his expulsion will be based solely on the two Xanga posts. How did the school find his website? I'm willing to bet he WAS posting to his site from school (anybody notice the timestamp on the second post, 2:49 on a tuesday afternoon?). He was obviously looking for trouble, and he found it. I would be very surprised if he didn't say or do something in school to warrant some attention. Bottom line, he knew he was getting himself in trouble, purposely got himself in trouble, and while it may be extreme, in the long run an expulsion from school is not going to ruin his life. He'll just wind up at a different school where he'd better behave himself. So stop acting like he's being oppressed, and it's his right to be a little hellraiser.
Yeah, then you can have a big, clunky iPod replacement! Wait, do these laptops even have an audio chip...?
I thought they decided the crank was impractical and did away with it in favor of a foot pedal, after Bill Gates made fun of the crank. I hope not, I still think the crank is a good idea.
Lol. You wanna replace your iPod with one of these? It doesn't even have a hard disk.
Maybe it's a Ubuntu thing, flash was weird for me. I had to go in and manually upgrade firefox... that was definitely a Ubuntu problem. But then I had to tweak my audio configuration quite a bit.
By "modern technologies" I mean flash websites, iTunes, dvd playback... nothing mission critical, but things people want to be able to use.
Ubuntu had no hardware problems. All of the problems are software related now. Admittedly I should have done more research before buying the machine, but can you tell me what model laptop I should use so flash isn't a pain in the ass? Or so iTunes music store will work correctly? Or so wpa authentication will not make me want to pull my hair out?
The problem isn't that people aren't willing to learn something "different." The problem with linux is that it just can't keep up with new technology that people want. Despite releasing new versions of all the popular distributions much more frequently than windows, somehow windows is still ahead of the curve. I bought a new laptop specifically to use as a linux workstation about a year ago, because I wanted to learn how things worked. I tried fedora and had no success detecting my CD burner, so after a while I switched to Ubuntu. It's a very nice distro but there are too many things that need to be manually configured to handle common everyday tasks, or just don't work at all. I had to reconfigure firefox and my audio system to view flash movies. Even after setting that up it seemed like it would sometimes randomly break. WPA simply is not supported properly yet; wpa_supplicant seems to work for some people but I sure couldn't get it running. I now think I know what my problem was, but it took me an entire afternoon of editting config files and playing with my router config to do what windows can do with a simple prompt. I like the iTunes music store, but like almost every commercial application, it simply isn't supported in linux. Running Ubuntu, my laptop locked up on me very often; that hasn't happened once in XP. Finally after months and months of using my nice new laptop only on weekends when I had hours to play with config files and dig around forums, I decided to wipe it and install XP so I could actually be productive with the thing. You can call this guy lazy and unable to adapt, but the fact is that (from the distros I have seen) linux is simply not a stable OS for anyone who intends to use modern technologies and wants to spend more time actually using their machine than reconfiguring it.
They're still doing the covers.
The guy in Minority Report replaced Tom's eyes so he could pass the retina scanner, right? He ate placentas? Why?
That's pretty cool! I would have loved to be involved in planning that: Military Official: This fingerprint scanner will make sure only authorized personnel can get through this door! Naysayer: But what if someone chops off the hand of an authorized personnel and uses the severed hand to gain access? Official: Not to worry, we're prepared for that! You see, the scanner requires that the finger have a pulse. They can stand here all day poking it with the severed hand, they're not getting in. Authorized Personnel: Awesome...
That could indicate that certifications are less important to these companies... if they were all getting paid the same salary at the beginning of the six month period. But since we don't have that information, this study is pretty much worthless...
"This is a clear indication that employers are not placing the same emphasis on certification that they once did.
I wish I got paid to make ridiculous statements...
Sony has been ripping off all of their artists, and it took 3 years before Cheap Trick realized they were getting screwed? I find this a little bit surprising!
Just include the original XP cd so we can do a fresh install. Thank you!
Okay, you didn't even have a feature article to read, you just had to read the summary. "The upper management team of my company has made a decision that the IT department will work with employee's home computers and laptops." I guess he could find a new job, but that seems a rather drastic approach.
Plenty of major artists have been pro-downloading long before this group came along. A member of Switchfoot posted instruction on the band's message board describing how to circumvent the DRM scheme on their latest cd. The post was removed by Sony, but the cd was eventually recalled and published DRM free, because the copy protection scheme did not work properly. The Offspring were avid supporters of napster back when it was the big p2p network, and they joked about making their entire album available for download on their website before it was released in stores, which horrified their label at the time. This isn't the first time a major artist has taken the side of the consumer.
I know you were disappointed by the FA, but the first paragraph of the article makes it clear that the researcher is a 'she.'
Yeah, I hate when I can see windmills! That cloud of smoke rising from the coal power plant is much more attractive.