Well, I think.Net is mostly hype, so yeah I think they are better off just fixing the existing codebase.
Also, aren't pretty much all MS products suffering from bloat? Vista and IE7 are going to be bloated.Net or not. What makes.Net bad in my eyes is that even MS isn't using it for any major products. At best its unproven. At worst, it is inadequate for MS's needs. Why should I put any trust in an unproven/inadequate product?
At the very least MS is saying its not worth moving major projects over to.Net. But their sales department will never admit this.
I can't remember the name but there was an experiment where they had people pushing buttons to shock someone under the orders of an authority figure. Most people would push the button that would kill someone if ordered to.
I've worked at a call center before and that is what they remind me of. Some asshole manager tells the CSR's to get their call times down and they just dummbly go ahead and do it. I never did. When they were demanding that call times be 10 minutes on average, I would still have calls over an hour. If it took an hour to solve the problem it took an hour. I didn't tell people to "reboot and call us back if that doesn't work". I'd fix the problem. If giving good support means I get fired then go ahead and fire me.
They played their politics. All the other CSR's were sure I'd get "written up" (they did for doing less). I never did because management knew I didn't give a shit. I didn't even care if the fired me. So I was untouchable. After a while management didn't talk to me. They did play recordings of my calls at meetings with corporate, to make them think they gave excellent support.
Did I get fired? Nope. They promoted me to tier 2 support so I wouldn't damage their talk times. And that was just the start of the games they played on their quest to "get talk times down". but that is another story.
I eventually left for a better job. I completely ignored the stats and gave excellent support. I have a clean conscience. The only thing I feel a little bad about was that a few hundred people out there think that that company gives great support, when in reality they were just lucky and talked to one of the few CSR's that didn't care about stats.
Anyway, my point is that call center staff should not violate their morals to uphold company policy. If no one was willing to do that then AOL and their ilk would never be able to keep their call centers staffed and would be forced to change their policies. "I was only following orders" is never a valid excuse. You can decide to follow company policy or not follow company policy. If you follow it, you are less likely to be fired but you have to deal with irate customers. If you don't follow it, you can have a clean conscience but you might get fired. You make your choice and deal with the consequences.
I thought.net would guarantee security and security was the number one priority at MS. The browser is something that really really needs to be secure. It's hard to argue that moving IE to.Net would be of little benefit. Unless of course.Net doesn't provide security improvements.
I think that the reason why Vista is taking so long is that they've tried to move stuff to.Net and it just didn't work. The message I'm getting is that.Net sucks for large projects.
Don't be too sure about that. I think that Shuttleworth sees this as a high-risk investment that will benefit Linux. If it makes money, great. If it loses money, well at least Linux has been improved. So he's going to try to make money off this, but won't lose anysleep if he doesn't.
The answer is that we already are a defacto state. Where does most of our oil go to? The US. Where do you buy your stuff from? Walmart, a US company What little military we have, what is it doing? Helping the US in Afghanistan.
Why would they invade? They already have our oil and we buy all our stuff from them. Face it, the US owns Canada already.
Look, Apple is outsourcing stuff to China. Stuff gets made much cheaper than they would be in the developed world. Apple knows that sweatshops exist in China. But they are just trust the people they outsourced too aren't running a sweatshop?
Come on. Do you really think that this is a complete surprise to Apple? They either knew what was going on or just turned a blind eye. And now you are going to turn a blind eye to Apple and continue buying their stuff.
You're doing a hell of a lot of rationalisation there to try to get around the fact that iPods are made in sweatshops. Apple turned a blind eye to the labour practices of the companies they contracted out to. There's no way to get around it Apple is profiting off sweatshops.
Apple is complicit in this. If you continue buying Apple stuff you're complicit too. Turn you're reality distortion field up to full blast and try to rationalise it away, but your iPod was built in a sweatshop.
Well, when the Liberals are back in power we'll blame them for the corruption. Right now the Conservatives are in power so we blame them. See how that works?
"All the other kids are doing it too" didn't work when I was a kid, I don't see why it should apply to people who are pretending to run our country (even if theydo behave like children).
I agree totally. The lines should be maintained by the phone company, but as soon as it leaves the pole, there should be a bunch of companies competing to give me the best rates and service. But the guys who maintain the phone lines have all the power. Yeah you can regulate the hell out of them, but unfortunately, all it takes is a few corrupt politicians to screw it up.
Telephone service (like most utilities) is what's called a natural monopoly. Running three or four phone lines everywhere is extremely expensive (meaning your phone bill would be three or four times higher). The optimal solution is to string one phone line on all those poles (as well as all that expensive equipment needed). Since there is only one line there can really only be one phone company per region. Hence, natural monopoly.
Actually, this is an improvement to firefox. If more people use firefox this benefits google because google is the default search engine in firefox.
I guess its possible they could be using and algorithm they can decrypt once its on their servers, but if they did that someone will inevitably figure it out or an employee will leak it, and then there will be tons of bad publicity, people will be wary of their services. This would cost them more than anything they could hope to gain from data mining people's bookmarks and cookies.
The problem with windows is that it wants a reboot when it changes just about anything.
Yes, in linux updating the kernel requires a reboot, but since the GUI, web browser, and whatever else isn't integrated into the kernel, reboots are far less frequent.
We really need a Godwin's law for people who always bring up that a company is required by law to maximise profits or whatever.
If a company has policies that involve being moral, and the shareholders know this, then they can't sue them for following their own policies. As long as Google is open about their policies they won't get sued. If shareholders don't like their policies they can sell their shares.
Now if Google had a secret strategy that was lowering their revenues, then the shareholders can sue. But as long as they are open about stuff, they can do whatever they want.
So you think that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were all about saving innocent Japanese and US military lives? Maybe you should do a little research into it. There was no one reason for using the bomb. Yes, they wanted to avoid a costly (in lives and money) D-day style invasion on the Japanese home islands. They also wanted to show off their new weapon to the Russians. They also wanted to know what effect these new weapons would have on a populated city. This is why they chose Hiroshima, it was never bombed before, so they wouldn't confuse the damage from the atamic bomb with damage from previous bombings. Why was it never bombed before? Absolutely no military presence, all civilians. Humanitarian mission indeed.
There were other options, like blockading Japan, which would have avoided using atomic bombs and avoided casualties from an invasion. The fear was that Russia might invade after a while in that scenario. Another plan involved detonating an atomic bomb high over Tokyo harbour to demonstrate the power of the atomic bomb. But they only had two bombs at that point and it would be several months to build more if that didn't work. Also, if it did work, they wouldn't have been able to study the effects of a nuke on a city. And it wouldn't have sent as strong a message to Moscow. And scaring communists is a great humanitarian cause, right?
Also, Nagasaki is even more questionable. The Japanese were willing to surrender after Hiroshima, but they wanted to be able to keep their Emperor. The US demanded unconditional surrender, so they bombed Nagasaki. The Japanese surrendered unconditionally, after which the US allowed them to keep their Emperor anyway. Yes there is value to giving something because you are magnamonious in victory as opposed to making a concession in a peace treaty. But is a point of honour worth 100,000 civilian casualties?
Anyways, the use of atomic weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is morally ambiguous at best. At worst it was a war crime. I guess it all depends on your perspective.
I think you're on to something there. They already have the Google search appliance, so why not a google office appliance?
MS doesn't have any good solution for collaborating on stuff so most people rely on email attachments and shared network drives. Both of which are kind of crappy. Wouldn't it be nice to have an easy way to have the team work together, with a nice version control system? If they do this right, Google could make a fortune off this.
Isn't that the point of the game? You have to design junctions and place signals and depots in such a way that the trains don't get lost and will be well maintained (don't break down as much) and can get to where they need to go quickly. Yeah it would be easier if the trains were smarter. But then there wouldn't really be much of a challenge to the game would there?
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Well, I think .Net is mostly hype, so yeah I think they are better off just fixing the existing codebase.
Also, aren't pretty much all MS products suffering from bloat? Vista and IE7 are going to be bloated .Net or not. What makes .Net bad in my eyes is that even MS isn't using it for any major products. At best its unproven. At worst, it is inadequate for MS's needs. Why should I put any trust in an unproven/inadequate product?
At the very least MS is saying its not worth moving major projects over to .Net. But their sales department will never admit this.
Yes of course, you're right, but you wouldn't know it from MS's marketing.
I've worked at a call center before and that is what they remind me of. Some asshole manager tells the CSR's to get their call times down and they just dummbly go ahead and do it. I never did. When they were demanding that call times be 10 minutes on average, I would still have calls over an hour. If it took an hour to solve the problem it took an hour. I didn't tell people to "reboot and call us back if that doesn't work". I'd fix the problem. If giving good support means I get fired then go ahead and fire me.
They played their politics. All the other CSR's were sure I'd get "written up" (they did for doing less). I never did because management knew I didn't give a shit. I didn't even care if the fired me. So I was untouchable. After a while management didn't talk to me. They did play recordings of my calls at meetings with corporate, to make them think they gave excellent support.
Did I get fired? Nope. They promoted me to tier 2 support so I wouldn't damage their talk times. And that was just the start of the games they played on their quest to "get talk times down". but that is another story.
I eventually left for a better job. I completely ignored the stats and gave excellent support. I have a clean conscience. The only thing I feel a little bad about was that a few hundred people out there think that that company gives great support, when in reality they were just lucky and talked to one of the few CSR's that didn't care about stats.
Anyway, my point is that call center staff should not violate their morals to uphold company policy. If no one was willing to do that then AOL and their ilk would never be able to keep their call centers staffed and would be forced to change their policies. "I was only following orders" is never a valid excuse. You can decide to follow company policy or not follow company policy. If you follow it, you are less likely to be fired but you have to deal with irate customers. If you don't follow it, you can have a clean conscience but you might get fired. You make your choice and deal with the consequences.
I think that the reason why Vista is taking so long is that they've tried to move stuff to .Net and it just didn't work. The message I'm getting is that .Net sucks for large projects.
Yup Americans are lazy. Oversensitive too.
Because it's discrimination against virtual people.
Don't be too sure about that. I think that Shuttleworth sees this as a high-risk investment that will benefit Linux. If it makes money, great. If it loses money, well at least Linux has been improved. So he's going to try to make money off this, but won't lose anysleep if he doesn't.
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Why would they invade? They already have our oil and we buy all our stuff from them. Face it, the US owns Canada already.
Yeah, you're the real victim here.
The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic.
Look, Apple is outsourcing stuff to China. Stuff gets made much cheaper than they would be in the developed world. Apple knows that sweatshops exist in China. But they are just trust the people they outsourced too aren't running a sweatshop?
Come on. Do you really think that this is a complete surprise to Apple? They either knew what was going on or just turned a blind eye. And now you are going to turn a blind eye to Apple and continue buying their stuff.
You're doing a hell of a lot of rationalisation there to try to get around the fact that iPods are made in sweatshops. Apple turned a blind eye to the labour practices of the companies they contracted out to. There's no way to get around it Apple is profiting off sweatshops.
Apple is complicit in this. If you continue buying Apple stuff you're complicit too. Turn you're reality distortion field up to full blast and try to rationalise it away, but your iPod was built in a sweatshop.
Well, when the Liberals are back in power we'll blame them for the corruption. Right now the Conservatives are in power so we blame them. See how that works?
"All the other kids are doing it too" didn't work when I was a kid, I don't see why it should apply to people who are pretending to run our country (even if theydo behave like children).
I agree totally. The lines should be maintained by the phone company, but as soon as it leaves the pole, there should be a bunch of companies competing to give me the best rates and service. But the guys who maintain the phone lines have all the power. Yeah you can regulate the hell out of them, but unfortunately, all it takes is a few corrupt politicians to screw it up.
Let me guess, you're an MBA, right?
Telephone service (like most utilities) is what's called a natural monopoly. Running three or four phone lines everywhere is extremely expensive (meaning your phone bill would be three or four times higher). The optimal solution is to string one phone line on all those poles (as well as all that expensive equipment needed). Since there is only one line there can really only be one phone company per region. Hence, natural monopoly.
You've obviously never experienced a Canadian winter.
Actually, this is an improvement to firefox. If more people use firefox this benefits google because google is the default search engine in firefox.
I guess its possible they could be using and algorithm they can decrypt once its on their servers, but if they did that someone will inevitably figure it out or an employee will leak it, and then there will be tons of bad publicity, people will be wary of their services. This would cost them more than anything they could hope to gain from data mining people's bookmarks and cookies.
Ok, so was that worth killing 100,000 civilians over?
The problem with windows is that it wants a reboot when it changes just about anything.
Yes, in linux updating the kernel requires a reboot, but since the GUI, web browser, and whatever else isn't integrated into the kernel, reboots are far less frequent.
We really need a Godwin's law for people who always bring up that a company is required by law to maximise profits or whatever.
If a company has policies that involve being moral, and the shareholders know this, then they can't sue them for following their own policies. As long as Google is open about their policies they won't get sued. If shareholders don't like their policies they can sell their shares.
Now if Google had a secret strategy that was lowering their revenues, then the shareholders can sue. But as long as they are open about stuff, they can do whatever they want.
So you think that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were all about saving innocent Japanese and US military lives? Maybe you should do a little research into it. There was no one reason for using the bomb. Yes, they wanted to avoid a costly (in lives and money) D-day style invasion on the Japanese home islands. They also wanted to show off their new weapon to the Russians. They also wanted to know what effect these new weapons would have on a populated city. This is why they chose Hiroshima, it was never bombed before, so they wouldn't confuse the damage from the atamic bomb with damage from previous bombings. Why was it never bombed before? Absolutely no military presence, all civilians. Humanitarian mission indeed.
There were other options, like blockading Japan, which would have avoided using atomic bombs and avoided casualties from an invasion. The fear was that Russia might invade after a while in that scenario. Another plan involved detonating an atomic bomb high over Tokyo harbour to demonstrate the power of the atomic bomb. But they only had two bombs at that point and it would be several months to build more if that didn't work. Also, if it did work, they wouldn't have been able to study the effects of a nuke on a city. And it wouldn't have sent as strong a message to Moscow. And scaring communists is a great humanitarian cause, right?
Also, Nagasaki is even more questionable. The Japanese were willing to surrender after Hiroshima, but they wanted to be able to keep their Emperor. The US demanded unconditional surrender, so they bombed Nagasaki. The Japanese surrendered unconditionally, after which the US allowed them to keep their Emperor anyway. Yes there is value to giving something because you are magnamonious in victory as opposed to making a concession in a peace treaty. But is a point of honour worth 100,000 civilian casualties?
Anyways, the use of atomic weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki is morally ambiguous at best. At worst it was a war crime. I guess it all depends on your perspective.
MS doesn't have any good solution for collaborating on stuff so most people rely on email attachments and shared network drives. Both of which are kind of crappy. Wouldn't it be nice to have an easy way to have the team work together, with a nice version control system? If they do this right, Google could make a fortune off this.
Isn't that the point of the game? You have to design junctions and place signals and depots in such a way that the trains don't get lost and will be well maintained (don't break down as much) and can get to where they need to go quickly. Yeah it would be easier if the trains were smarter. But then there wouldn't really be much of a challenge to the game would there?