Microsoft just killed the concept that Sixth World Games was working on. Maybe I'm just being a nay sayer but I don't think that the framework exists to do a game like Shadowrun justice. I think that vehicles would be the killer.
I have an old Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600 that originally came with Windows 98. It then ran Windows 2000 and now runs Windows XP. Can an iBook of the same era even run OS. =)~
Which leads one to wonder where more money could be made. Is there more money to be made by using the aimbot to defeat other players in a cash game, or is the money easier to make selling it others?
I will completely agree that proper body mechanics will help you generate better jin, which is the manifestation of qi when your body is the conduit. When I talk about "phenomena" level things, I'm talking about healers who can do the laying hands on type of stuff that some people swear only happened during the times of Jesus, and can only be done by people who are directly descendent from God. On the subject of sixth sense, I tend to believe that such a sixth sense can be encouraged through meditation and awareness practices. When you're calm and peaceful and centered, and have tuned your awareness to remaining in that kind of state, it isn't so far fetched that you'd be more likely to become aware of others who are in an opposite, hostile kind of state.
When you look at the bigger picture, it comes down to manifested intent. The mind needs to manifest intent before the body can carry out that intent. On the subject of healers and people who can manipulate other people's energy levels, they are able to manifest their own internal energy externally (through the palms usually). I've felt it personally (it feels like a tingling sensation, like when your arm wakes up after going numb from sleeping on it). Is it really so hard to believe that we as human beings might subconsciously manifest intent in such a way that others can pick up on?
To use an analogy that might not hold much water here, take talking to a girl who you're interested in as an example. When you're just being friendly and truly enjoying the conversation, she'll be open and friendly. Once you start trying to manuveur the conversation towards getting laid, she'll pick up on it.
But if you go to the trouble to develop an undetectable aimbot to use for making money, how many people are you going to give that code to? Would you really make it public so that every script kid and their cousin can run it and by running it, extremely increase the chance that the code will eventually be detected?
There are a lot of things that Western science hasn't gotten around to "explaining" yet. A lot of Eastern traditions like yoga, tai chi and the like have been dealing with qi and universal energy for a long time. Once you've been exposed to the "phenomena" first hand, it's pretty hard to discount it. When you come across those who haven't had similar exposures, they will call you a looney quack and demand scientific proof.
I think that one of the reasons people are so loathsome of.Net and so pro Java, etc. is because.Net is expensive. Visual Studio is expensive. Most people don't have the resources for an MSDN subscription and a whole slew of servers (IIS, SQL, etc) to develop against. On the other hand, anybody can go download a LAMP stack and get to hacking away. I'm sure that if I was some broke guy living in my mom's basement and wanting to make it big as an application developer without any sort of budget, I'd be all over the free stuff too.
The first "code" I ever dealt with was x86 ASM in the early 90s when I was using it to write cracks for copy protection on video games. The next time I touched any sort of code it was.Net. I kind of felt like I was cheating because everything was so simple.
You're obviously much too focused on the intial reasons. You've failed to update your perspective in line with the latest memos. The men in black will be showing up to begin your re-education process soon.
I'm having the same problem understanding the argument that you are. Microsoft has built their business around doing things the way that they want to do them. Nobody said that they had to implement standards. They took what they wanted from the standards and integrated them into their products. To my knowledge, they aren't claiming to be standards compliant. If OSS really is the best thing since sliced bread then it should be able to stand on its own. The only reason the OSS folks want interoperability is because they want to steal market share.
The big argument that I see repeated on here is that Microsoft is a monopoly and that Microsoft has foisted its products on the world. The reality of the situation is that there are alternatives. The alternatives are Apple, Sun, IBM, Linux, etc. But those can't do all of the things that Microsoft software can do. Or they can do it, but they don't do it in the same way. Or they want to try to do it in the same way, but Microsoft is saying, "Nope, that's our way of doing it. Go do it your own way."
I read a lot of stuff here on Slashdot from people who say what Microsoft has patented is "obvious." I have to wonder if 50 years from now, if people are going to be saying the same things about the patents on genetic engineering, or biotechnology. Just because something is "obvious" right now doesn't mean that it was obvious when the patent was filed. If a company is out there on the leading edge of things, they are going to go patent crazy to do everything that they can to protect their market. Last I checked, all of the big players in the computer industry have huge patent porfolios, not just Microsoft. I'm sure that if AS/400 was as big as Windows Server 2003, you'd be seeing IBM playing their interoperability documentation close to their chest, and the OSS world would be making them out to be the villians.
Microsoft is pretty elitest when it comes to their hardware, HCL, and expecting a "perfect" environment. The costs to get HCL compatible hardware are significant when compared to what it costs to setup some whitebox Linux machine. However if you play by Microsoft's rules and buy servers that are compatible with the HCL (like an HP Proliant for example), you will have a pretty seemless, trouble-free Windows experience. If on the other hand you're using a SATA RAID controller from some Taiwanese company, and some ABit motherboard, and some no name bargin RAM, you're going to be in for a world of hurt.
The issue here in America is the availability of hardware. There has always been a "sweet spot" in the hardware market. That sweet spot used to be the $800-1200 range, but it has dropped significantly in the last couple of years. Basically you can plan on spending about $800 to get a computer that good but not top of the line. If you want to spend less than that, you have to go find someone who is selling a used computer, or build your own. Most consumers aren't willing to do that and so they end up with an $800 computer. It doesn't have anything to do with marketting. It has to do with availability.
I realize that I'm a bit out of the loop with the current "in" fads as I near 30, but I've noticed more and more kids making their cellphones/PDAs the center of their worlds. From customized ringtones, to custom backgrounds, to Podcasts, to music on the device... the device itself has begun to center itself in the "look what I have" market that so many kids seem to covet. At this point it isn't a big enough deal to just have an electronic device. These days the device actually needs to do things that other people's devices don't do. This barcode technology offers that gee-whiz factor. For example: Imagine that every promotional movie and album poster out there at bus stops, on campuses, hell, even in the theaters will have a new barcode on it. Anybody with a camera that supports the proper OCR software to decode the barcode can take a picture of it and then watch a trailer for the movie, or hear a sample of the album right there. With the "sharing" technology that Microsoft put out in the Zune, it doesn't seem all that far fetched that after hearing the sample, you could then share it with your friends. Maybe you could even use the sample as a ring tone. (I should get paid for brain storming like this). I'm sure it's only a matter of time before somebody scans a porn poster and gets hit with the first mobile spyware that redirects their mobile browser to www.onyourmom.com or whatever. =)
It seems to me like this is more of a workstation thing than a server thing, at least in Microsoft land (which is what the article is about). In any sort of domain environment, the DC is going to be talking to the servers at least every fifteen minutes, if not more frequently. The servers won't be asleep for very long.
Situations like this point out how stupid Microsoft can be. Adobe already has the web development market locked down. There isn't any room for Microsoft to wiggle in there. Microsoft expecting web developers to adopt their products is naive on the level of OO.o supporters expecting people to dump Office.
That's the real point - not to eliminate MS, but to make them serve the needs of their customers, rather than imposing their will on their customers, and everyone their customers interact with.
Once their customers and everyone at their customers interacts with start using truly open standards then Microsoft will go along with the program. Until that point in time, they are going to do everything that they can to keep people sucking on the Windows/Office teet. It will take quite some time though. The common perception here on/. seems to be that people use Windows because they don't have any choice. I'm willing to bet that a lot of people use Windows because it gets the job done. If it didn't get the job done, people wouldn't use it. If it did a significantly worse job, people would switch to alternatives.
I don't understand the reasoning that Microsoft has to open their formats up. They will open them up when the market forces dictate that they open them up. Microsoft has invested a lot of money into Word and Office. If you want to design a "document" in Open Office, then it might make some sense for Microsoft Word to be able to view your document. But if you want all of the formatting, etc. that Word exclusively provides, then how do you expect to create a document in Word and have all the formatting and everything work in Open Office? You expect Microsoft to re-engineer their entire document format because people don't want to cough up the cash for Word? What's next? Maybe Mercedes-Benz can open up their nifty new auto-pilot technology so Ford can put it into the Focus? Or maybe Lexus should open up their automatic parking technology so Nissan can incorporate it into their minivans?
On the other hand, open document formats are good..txt rocks. You can get your raw data out of the program and it won't be lost. You can read it in 50 or 500 years from now. Just don't expect it to be bolded or italiacized or indented, centered, or anything else. But hell, the data is there right? Is it really Microsoft's job to help OpenOffice format text? Or to put it another way, you don't want to do things the way that Microsoft (and ~90% of the world) do things, but you want 90% of the world to do things differently? Where does that attitude come from? How big does your ego have to be to expect something like that? (Not trolling here, I'm honestly curious. I believe in simplicity, and right now doing things the way that "everyone" else does them is simple. Why spend so much effort reinventing the wheel? To create a parallel playing field with different rules that in the end accomplishes what is already being accomplished, but in a different way? Where's the sense in that?)
And by the time games are coming out that require DX10, these cards will be so out of date it won't even be funny... unless you're the guy laughing at your friend who went out and spent a chunk of change on a card that doesn't really have any support just because he wanted to have the biggest ePeen on the block.
Have you used Gmail on a Blackberry yet? I have and it works great. I don't think that the days of calendar to mobile phone sync via Google Apps are really all that far away. For what it's worth, I was a diehard Windows Mobile + Exchange 2003 guy for the last year or two until I switched companies and had to give up my Samsung i730 for a Blackberry 8700.
I do. It works alright, but no where nearly as well as OWA on Exchange 2003 + IE7. I have Firefox configured as my default browser and every once in a while I forget to switch to IE before going to an OWA site. The basic functionality is there. These days I do most of my Exchange work on the Crackberry (8700). Hell, I do my Gmail through the Crackberry too.
With the money you "save" by using Google's services you can afford to pull a redundent internet link and step up to a firewall that can failover. I like the Sonicwall 4060 but there are other alternatives of course.
Because MS is bad for the IT industry. It should be the goal of every sane and rational IT worker to topple MS from it's perch.
WTF are you talking about? MS is ~90% of the IT industry. In the last five years alone, MS has made me hundreds of thousands of dollars, and has allowed clients of mine to generate millions of dollars in revenue.
Then again, I must not be sane and rational. I like easy to use stuff that works most of the time. I don't want to spend all of my off hours scouring through message forums and reading help files as I work keyboard to keyboard with my fellow geeks to reinvent the wheel. Eh, fuck it... I admit it. I'm not a "real" geek, despite having been to the first five Defcons. I'm just a guy who knows how to make computers do things that other people want them to do, but are too lazy to figure out how to do for themselves because they also aren't real geeks.
It's important to remember the typical Exchange-buying PHB won't even consider alternatives.
The reality of the situation is that there ISN'T an alternative yet. I use Exchange and have been using it since version 5.5 on NT 4. I am reading through this article because I am interested in alternatives to Exchange. Unfortunately for the point you're trying to make, there aren't any valid alternatives. The only "discussion" in this article has been the typical OSS vs MS, and "Google isn't really as good as they say they are" verbal ejaculate that is all too familiar around here.
This is very true. If you are willing to pay the $300+ for a support call you will get a resolution and you won't have to deal with any finger pointing. If the problem is the software, they will take care of it.
Generally banks hold their data on their own servers. One only needs to browse through news stories over the last year to see what happens when financial data is given to third parties and hosted offsite *cough*CHOICEPOINT*cough*
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Microsoft just killed the concept that Sixth World Games was working on. Maybe I'm just being a nay sayer but I don't think that the framework exists to do a game like Shadowrun justice. I think that vehicles would be the killer.
Yup. I often times hit the limiter in my S13 in 4th. And that was with a JDM #62 ECU, so the limiters aren't just an American thing.
(Insert -1 Flamebait here).
I have an old Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600 that originally came with Windows 98. It then ran Windows 2000 and now runs Windows XP. Can an iBook of the same era even run OS. =)~
Which leads one to wonder where more money could be made. Is there more money to be made by using the aimbot to defeat other players in a cash game, or is the money easier to make selling it others?
When you look at the bigger picture, it comes down to manifested intent. The mind needs to manifest intent before the body can carry out that intent. On the subject of healers and people who can manipulate other people's energy levels, they are able to manifest their own internal energy externally (through the palms usually). I've felt it personally (it feels like a tingling sensation, like when your arm wakes up after going numb from sleeping on it). Is it really so hard to believe that we as human beings might subconsciously manifest intent in such a way that others can pick up on?
To use an analogy that might not hold much water here, take talking to a girl who you're interested in as an example. When you're just being friendly and truly enjoying the conversation, she'll be open and friendly. Once you start trying to manuveur the conversation towards getting laid, she'll pick up on it.
But if you go to the trouble to develop an undetectable aimbot to use for making money, how many people are you going to give that code to? Would you really make it public so that every script kid and their cousin can run it and by running it, extremely increase the chance that the code will eventually be detected?
There are a lot of things that Western science hasn't gotten around to "explaining" yet. A lot of Eastern traditions like yoga, tai chi and the like have been dealing with qi and universal energy for a long time. Once you've been exposed to the "phenomena" first hand, it's pretty hard to discount it. When you come across those who haven't had similar exposures, they will call you a looney quack and demand scientific proof.
The first "code" I ever dealt with was x86 ASM in the early 90s when I was using it to write cracks for copy protection on video games. The next time I touched any sort of code it was .Net. I kind of felt like I was cheating because everything was so simple.
You're obviously much too focused on the intial reasons. You've failed to update your perspective in line with the latest memos. The men in black will be showing up to begin your re-education process soon.
The big argument that I see repeated on here is that Microsoft is a monopoly and that Microsoft has foisted its products on the world. The reality of the situation is that there are alternatives. The alternatives are Apple, Sun, IBM, Linux, etc. But those can't do all of the things that Microsoft software can do. Or they can do it, but they don't do it in the same way. Or they want to try to do it in the same way, but Microsoft is saying, "Nope, that's our way of doing it. Go do it your own way."
I read a lot of stuff here on Slashdot from people who say what Microsoft has patented is "obvious." I have to wonder if 50 years from now, if people are going to be saying the same things about the patents on genetic engineering, or biotechnology. Just because something is "obvious" right now doesn't mean that it was obvious when the patent was filed. If a company is out there on the leading edge of things, they are going to go patent crazy to do everything that they can to protect their market. Last I checked, all of the big players in the computer industry have huge patent porfolios, not just Microsoft. I'm sure that if AS/400 was as big as Windows Server 2003, you'd be seeing IBM playing their interoperability documentation close to their chest, and the OSS world would be making them out to be the villians.
Microsoft is pretty elitest when it comes to their hardware, HCL, and expecting a "perfect" environment. The costs to get HCL compatible hardware are significant when compared to what it costs to setup some whitebox Linux machine. However if you play by Microsoft's rules and buy servers that are compatible with the HCL (like an HP Proliant for example), you will have a pretty seemless, trouble-free Windows experience. If on the other hand you're using a SATA RAID controller from some Taiwanese company, and some ABit motherboard, and some no name bargin RAM, you're going to be in for a world of hurt.
The issue here in America is the availability of hardware. There has always been a "sweet spot" in the hardware market. That sweet spot used to be the $800-1200 range, but it has dropped significantly in the last couple of years. Basically you can plan on spending about $800 to get a computer that good but not top of the line. If you want to spend less than that, you have to go find someone who is selling a used computer, or build your own. Most consumers aren't willing to do that and so they end up with an $800 computer. It doesn't have anything to do with marketting. It has to do with availability.
I realize that I'm a bit out of the loop with the current "in" fads as I near 30, but I've noticed more and more kids making their cellphones/PDAs the center of their worlds. From customized ringtones, to custom backgrounds, to Podcasts, to music on the device... the device itself has begun to center itself in the "look what I have" market that so many kids seem to covet. At this point it isn't a big enough deal to just have an electronic device. These days the device actually needs to do things that other people's devices don't do. This barcode technology offers that gee-whiz factor. For example: Imagine that every promotional movie and album poster out there at bus stops, on campuses, hell, even in the theaters will have a new barcode on it. Anybody with a camera that supports the proper OCR software to decode the barcode can take a picture of it and then watch a trailer for the movie, or hear a sample of the album right there. With the "sharing" technology that Microsoft put out in the Zune, it doesn't seem all that far fetched that after hearing the sample, you could then share it with your friends. Maybe you could even use the sample as a ring tone. (I should get paid for brain storming like this). I'm sure it's only a matter of time before somebody scans a porn poster and gets hit with the first mobile spyware that redirects their mobile browser to www.onyourmom.com or whatever. =)
It seems to me like this is more of a workstation thing than a server thing, at least in Microsoft land (which is what the article is about). In any sort of domain environment, the DC is going to be talking to the servers at least every fifteen minutes, if not more frequently. The servers won't be asleep for very long.
Situations like this point out how stupid Microsoft can be. Adobe already has the web development market locked down. There isn't any room for Microsoft to wiggle in there. Microsoft expecting web developers to adopt their products is naive on the level of OO.o supporters expecting people to dump Office.
Once their customers and everyone at their customers interacts with start using truly open standards then Microsoft will go along with the program. Until that point in time, they are going to do everything that they can to keep people sucking on the Windows/Office teet. It will take quite some time though. The common perception here on /. seems to be that people use Windows because they don't have any choice. I'm willing to bet that a lot of people use Windows because it gets the job done. If it didn't get the job done, people wouldn't use it. If it did a significantly worse job, people would switch to alternatives.
I don't understand the reasoning that Microsoft has to open their formats up. They will open them up when the market forces dictate that they open them up. Microsoft has invested a lot of money into Word and Office. If you want to design a "document" in Open Office, then it might make some sense for Microsoft Word to be able to view your document. But if you want all of the formatting, etc. that Word exclusively provides, then how do you expect to create a document in Word and have all the formatting and everything work in Open Office? You expect Microsoft to re-engineer their entire document format because people don't want to cough up the cash for Word? What's next? Maybe Mercedes-Benz can open up their nifty new auto-pilot technology so Ford can put it into the Focus? Or maybe Lexus should open up their automatic parking technology so Nissan can incorporate it into their minivans?
On the other hand, open document formats are good. .txt rocks. You can get your raw data out of the program and it won't be lost. You can read it in 50 or 500 years from now. Just don't expect it to be bolded or italiacized or indented, centered, or anything else. But hell, the data is there right? Is it really Microsoft's job to help OpenOffice format text? Or to put it another way, you don't want to do things the way that Microsoft (and ~90% of the world) do things, but you want 90% of the world to do things differently? Where does that attitude come from? How big does your ego have to be to expect something like that? (Not trolling here, I'm honestly curious. I believe in simplicity, and right now doing things the way that "everyone" else does them is simple. Why spend so much effort reinventing the wheel? To create a parallel playing field with different rules that in the end accomplishes what is already being accomplished, but in a different way? Where's the sense in that?)
And by the time games are coming out that require DX10, these cards will be so out of date it won't even be funny... unless you're the guy laughing at your friend who went out and spent a chunk of change on a card that doesn't really have any support just because he wanted to have the biggest ePeen on the block.
Have you used Gmail on a Blackberry yet? I have and it works great. I don't think that the days of calendar to mobile phone sync via Google Apps are really all that far away. For what it's worth, I was a diehard Windows Mobile + Exchange 2003 guy for the last year or two until I switched companies and had to give up my Samsung i730 for a Blackberry 8700.
I do. It works alright, but no where nearly as well as OWA on Exchange 2003 + IE7. I have Firefox configured as my default browser and every once in a while I forget to switch to IE before going to an OWA site. The basic functionality is there. These days I do most of my Exchange work on the Crackberry (8700). Hell, I do my Gmail through the Crackberry too.
With the money you "save" by using Google's services you can afford to pull a redundent internet link and step up to a firewall that can failover. I like the Sonicwall 4060 but there are other alternatives of course.
WTF are you talking about? MS is ~90% of the IT industry. In the last five years alone, MS has made me hundreds of thousands of dollars, and has allowed clients of mine to generate millions of dollars in revenue.
Then again, I must not be sane and rational. I like easy to use stuff that works most of the time. I don't want to spend all of my off hours scouring through message forums and reading help files as I work keyboard to keyboard with my fellow geeks to reinvent the wheel. Eh, fuck it... I admit it. I'm not a "real" geek, despite having been to the first five Defcons. I'm just a guy who knows how to make computers do things that other people want them to do, but are too lazy to figure out how to do for themselves because they also aren't real geeks.
The reality of the situation is that there ISN'T an alternative yet. I use Exchange and have been using it since version 5.5 on NT 4. I am reading through this article because I am interested in alternatives to Exchange. Unfortunately for the point you're trying to make, there aren't any valid alternatives. The only "discussion" in this article has been the typical OSS vs MS, and "Google isn't really as good as they say they are" verbal ejaculate that is all too familiar around here.
This is very true. If you are willing to pay the $300+ for a support call you will get a resolution and you won't have to deal with any finger pointing. If the problem is the software, they will take care of it.
Generally banks hold their data on their own servers. One only needs to browse through news stories over the last year to see what happens when financial data is given to third parties and hosted offsite *cough*CHOICEPOINT*cough*
"Meet with John Doe at Company XYZ"
Oh, so you ARE really doing business with Company XYZ after all!