"We are announcing the Christmas Season release of Windows Klagenfurt. Designed as the replacement to what was code named Vienna, we wanted to draw upon the more phonetically inclusive nature of that town as a metaphor to reflect the diversity of rich experience to be found in this newest Windows release...."
***
Remark from Steve Jobs: "Windows Klagenfurt, hmm? So they picked a name that's as easy to pronounce as it is to maintain the security."
Believe it or not, this is a scorching topic in the Business Case Study area.
Auto makers tried the Made-To-Rattle approach in the 1970's and nearly got wiped out. The Japanese realized that there are quite a lot of people to sell to ONCE, and selling their cars once was better than Detroit not selling anything at all.
The "Temporary Patch" mentality is the kind of thing people can trick themselves into from desperation. One of my old professors once said, "Suppose your customer wants to spend $100,000 with you. You get better results if you pass on cost savings; last year's $100,000 audit can be delivered this year for $75,000. But your customer "wants" to spend the same budget they always had - so just sell them some exciting new services."
Occasionally greedy companies can act to block something "too good", but nimble smaller groups by concept have to stake their claim at being better than the behemoth.
To reel this into SlashDot, If I'm gonna have you as an IT guy, quit patching my Windows box. Convert me to Linux. : ) And tell Tux to stop glaring at me.
It could be worse... it could be the Zune Generation.
Meanwhile, I am in fact less interested in "trips" to Mars than a Base on the moon. All the launch efficiencies kick in, etc.
But we have to deal with a fundamental attitude that Bush rampaged on: we have to quit cowering in fear at the possibilities of terror attacks. We banned apple juice on airplanes for a couple months; the threat matrix is a zillion times worse for a space base. The movie Contact has a telling comment (we expected the attack, so we built it double.)
What could we have accomplished if we went to the moon instead of Iraq?
You had a good choice of scary quotes the first time. It's for your convenience that you now have to check file formats so that a.xlsx file won't botch an auto-importer.
It's never about censorship when it CAN be.
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Powerful technologies which can be part of a "censorship pack" are always presented as harmless components. Then when that piece is accepted, the other one slides by.
"Not clicking on a goatse link when the boss is standing behind you... " ??? Any graduate from Newblet doesn't click *anything* when their boss is nearby.
What would a HACKED variant of this technology be capable of?
These are bloggers, not classical journalists. Bloggers... write what they like. Paul Thurrott is Pro Microsoft. Daniel Eran is Anti-Microsoft. Tons of other people are in a fuzzy zone in between.
A blogger starts out "randomly typing things" because it's fun. Then he randomly types three-ish blog posts Pro-Microsoft... and look! A Laptop appears! That's neat. Now he's a Semi-Professional tech consultant. He'd better look into filing Schedule C with his tax return.
Suppose a savvy blogger writes posts for BOTH MS and APPLE... and gets... TWO laptops! "Look, he's neutral!"
I think everyone is getting hung up because they're assuming all members of the class of Blogger_Laptop are somehow adhering to the code of a NY Times Journalist - except they're not working for the NY Times.
I don't expect anyone short of a world-class product safety specialist to exhaustively document the flaws of anything. Therefore, the entire rest of the spectrum is possible, from exhaustive praise, to incoherent ramblings.
I say "Let'Em Have Laptops!" They can spend their lives blogging for free... or they can morph into "allied consultants".
If someone wants to change categories and be "certified" as some brand of stringent non-biased review... then deal with that separately.
There was a crash in the midwest somewhere during the first years of the auto - there were something like only 5 cars in the town, and two of them crashed.
Anxiety coupled with knowing you don't understand important parts of something lead me into big trouble. When I plan for something emotionally jittery, I plan to tone down the resulting stress by reading something pleasant. I'm disciplined enough I can allow myself the first anti-anxiety reading session FIRST, to build up a buffer.
Using the chunking approach, I knock out a bite out of the nasty whole problem. Here's where the key part kicks in - because the problem is now *smaller* I can more accurately guage how long I have left for a second stress reduction session. Then the second chunk of the nasty problem. Unless I hit a major league surprise, I usually finish right on the dot 5% ahead of schedule. The 5% can be used to fix a last minute blunder,... or just relax.
Deadlines can also EXTEND the allotted time. Many managers like to "sound good" when they say "I want this out the door today!" (It's 3:37PM, and the work could clearly take 4-5 hours.)
If someone has built a reputatation of accurately tagging timelines and you say something is 5 hours out... the seniors begin to believe you. They can choose to take the shortcut, but that takes an act of will on their part.
So if I put a browser on it, and it can figure out how to save onto a USB drive, then I can surf the net without viruses? Wheee! Nothing like an UnDead OS to freak out OS targetting malware! Oh wait - are my.mod songs native now??
I have to disagree here. Depending on how many years each, in the past 4-5 generations we have irrevocably altered what it means to be human. Someone else said "the tech is new, the demands are not". This is also untrue.
I would restart the clock with the arbitrary round date of Jan 1 1990 as its own "new generation". This is the age of information connectivity. (First 5 years open to discussion, absolutely in full swing in 1995 with the advent of GUI browsers and Win95 unleashing the floodgates.)
I wasn't QUITE "unwashed" - I had sponged off - but I still walked into the trap of mis-understanding exactly how archiving works in search engines.
I do not expect to have any serious secrets withstand a full scale expert profile; no one but the best can block that. I feel/hope the happy medium is reasonable shielding, enough to keep the worst damaging pics away from a casual search.
What used to be a serious part of classical manners was "none of your business". Now, that piece of advice is gone forever. Anyone can visit the restroom and google the guy from the party on their cell phone, and come back armed.
Even if you did stunts at college... that wouldn't be *downloadable* ten years later. There's still current rules against recording people without telling them, but those laws are going to creak at the seams very soon.
Web 2.0 is all about the cheap fame; but pretty soon the costs are going to catch up (say in 5 years).
You need a couple 'more important details on the Non-President, such as racecar driving and business owner, and include those as "must words". Then put a lot of things in the "do not include" field like "Do not include President".
Yes it might take a small amount of time measured in hours, but it's far from impossible.
All that has to happen is the print conglomerates need to get their act and license it. As for the 550 page deal, just make Vol 1 and Vol 2. Cryptonomicon would just slide under the bar.
This is phenomenal, because then it yanks power away from the Big Chain stores who play games with shelf space.
I'm pretty conversant with the Windows situation. I thought that was all about the... desktop monopoly. So don't we all want Linux with a killer front end to be a serious choice for the desktop? It turns out, I grew up with GUI's. I happen to like a two dimensional spread of my options; it's easier on my ailing memory.
For a long time I have been aware of the "other fight" between "Truly/Sorta Free" Linux and Ox X, "Free Core but just as proprietary on top." Hello, Animal Farm.
The obvious solution would be... a mysterious massive injection of cash and manpower into a thunderous release of some 3 unified brands of Linux... and STILL free as in everything.
Could the final showdown really come to the fact that free-but-unfocused loses to proprietary slavery-but-polished? Could it be that if Linux *now* stagnates, having missed Microsoft's worst unproductive lull ever, that the whole concept will splinter into 12 decaying variants headed by bickering factions?
This is the 4th cousin to the music debate - at the most brutal level, every week costs the overhead of Roof-Car-Food. (And the trimmings.) One's actions that day have to convince someone else to pay for that day's cost. Something given into a diffuse value chain takes too long to whip around to pay for This Week's Rent.
I want nothing more in the world than for someone to master diffuse value chains in a manner that solves these kinds of problems.
At the heart of 75% of full time activities is the economic equation of fixed Home+Auto expense, Vs variable income. You are paying a specific landlord/bank to live. What did your activities Tuesday 9-4 do towards that obligation?
The minute that someone snaps this equation open is when Web 3.0 will be here. One place to look is that someone cannot possibly consume content they have never heard of; therefore forcing a sales model also restricts the production side.
After floating Sig V2.00 out to the general FOSS Community, it was determined that a comma was missing. Sig 2.01 is the result, which still makes this the direction I am going.
Anyone else see any resemblance to the general opinion of the internet 1.0 model about Christmas 1999? "22 year old CEO's" and so on. "Stocks to reach 15,000" "The age of unlimited progress!"
Then it all caved. It took something approaching 5 years to repair. Is that MS desktop monopoly STILL on complete and utter automatic pilot? Can Microsoft one day just say "ho hum, we're not even going to bother to make another OS ever again"?
Or can the illusion shatter in a tidal wave across the company if sufficient reports of complete disasters come in from Vista? I changed my sig to reflet my new direction. Where I go, someone has to follow.
In the name of our country's movement towards Terror Marketing, they have built themselves a free referral network!
Coming Soon: Microsoft Stockings (MS).
"We want to give Christmas Media Users the widest holiday content experience. Children can download passcodes from our site that let them log into the scales built into their stockings. Thus, if they ask for a new PlayStationSure-Mini, which weighs 19.7 ounces, and their stocking only weighs 13.5 ounces, they will receive an early warning that their wishes were not met.
A Microsoft spokesman has said, "We want to embrace the holiday experience, and extend our goodwill towards all non-windows users. Since children clearly did not want the products from other manufacturers in their stockings, children are being given an early opportunity to confront their parents before the packaging is destroyed."
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Redmond, Washington. April 2009:
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"We are announcing the Christmas Season release of Windows Klagenfurt. Designed as the replacement to what was code named Vienna, we wanted to draw upon the more phonetically inclusive nature of that town as a metaphor to reflect the diversity of rich experience to be found in this newest Windows release.
***
Remark from Steve Jobs:
"Windows Klagenfurt, hmm? So they picked a name that's as easy to pronounce as it is to maintain the security."
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Oh right. 'Dem Terrorists are smarter than Bush. Usually.
Believe it or not, this is a scorching topic in the Business Case Study area.
Auto makers tried the Made-To-Rattle approach in the 1970's and nearly got wiped out. The Japanese realized that there are quite a lot of people to sell to ONCE, and selling their cars once was better than Detroit not selling anything at all.
The "Temporary Patch" mentality is the kind of thing people can trick themselves into from desperation. One of my old professors once said, "Suppose your customer wants to spend $100,000 with you. You get better results if you pass on cost savings; last year's $100,000 audit can be delivered this year for $75,000. But your customer "wants" to spend the same budget they always had - so just sell them some exciting new services."
Occasionally greedy companies can act to block something "too good", but nimble smaller groups by concept have to stake their claim at being better than the behemoth.
To reel this into SlashDot, If I'm gonna have you as an IT guy, quit patching my Windows box. Convert me to Linux. : ) And tell Tux to stop glaring at me.
Terrorist starts a Bird Flu attack... but everyone has taken the SuperVaccine, so it fizzles.
It could be worse ... it could be the Zune Generation.
Meanwhile, I am in fact less interested in "trips" to Mars than a Base on the moon. All the launch efficiencies kick in, etc.
But we have to deal with a fundamental attitude that Bush rampaged on: we have to quit cowering in fear at the possibilities of terror attacks. We banned apple juice on airplanes for a couple months; the threat matrix is a zillion times worse for a space base. The movie Contact has a telling comment (we expected the attack, so we built it double.)
What could we have accomplished if we went to the moon instead of Iraq?
You had a good choice of scary quotes the first time. It's for your convenience that you now have to check file formats so that a .xlsx file won't botch an auto-importer.
Powerful technologies which can be part of a "censorship pack" are always presented as harmless components. Then when that piece is accepted, the other one slides by.
"Not clicking on a goatse link when the boss is standing behind you... " ???
Any graduate from Newblet doesn't click *anything* when their boss is nearby.
What would a HACKED variant of this technology be capable of?
So it's selling for $1000 more than it's worth!?
It's gonna become a cult item.
Did they get an Acer Ferrari laptop from MS?
And does OS X really have 31 flaws?
I finally found the correct post to reply to.
... write what they like. Paul Thurrott is Pro Microsoft. Daniel Eran is Anti-Microsoft. Tons of other people are in a fuzzy zone in between.
... and gets ... TWO laptops! "Look, he's neutral!"
"...person in a position of trust"
These are bloggers, not classical journalists. Bloggers
A blogger starts out "randomly typing things" because it's fun. Then he randomly types three-ish blog posts Pro-Microsoft... and look! A Laptop appears! That's neat. Now he's a Semi-Professional tech consultant. He'd better look into filing Schedule C with his tax return.
Suppose a savvy blogger writes posts for BOTH MS and APPLE
I think everyone is getting hung up because they're assuming all members of the class of Blogger_Laptop are somehow adhering to the code of a NY Times Journalist - except they're not working for the NY Times.
I don't expect anyone short of a world-class product safety specialist to exhaustively document the flaws of anything. Therefore, the entire rest of the spectrum is possible, from exhaustive praise, to incoherent ramblings.
I say "Let'Em Have Laptops!" They can spend their lives blogging for free... or they can morph into "allied consultants".
If someone wants to change categories and be "certified" as some brand of stringent non-biased review... then deal with that separately.
There was a crash in the midwest somewhere during the first years of the auto - there were something like only 5 cars in the town, and two of them crashed.
This leads to a major system I use:
... or just relax.
Anxiety coupled with knowing you don't understand important parts of something lead me into big trouble. When I plan for something emotionally jittery, I plan to tone down the resulting stress by reading something pleasant. I'm disciplined enough I can allow myself the first anti-anxiety reading session FIRST, to build up a buffer.
Using the chunking approach, I knock out a bite out of the nasty whole problem. Here's where the key part kicks in - because the problem is now *smaller* I can more accurately guage how long I have left for a second stress reduction session. Then the second chunk of the nasty problem. Unless I hit a major league surprise, I usually finish right on the dot 5% ahead of schedule. The 5% can be used to fix a last minute blunder,
Deadlines can also EXTEND the allotted time. Many managers like to "sound good" when they say "I want this out the door today!" (It's 3:37PM, and the work could clearly take 4-5 hours.)
If someone has built a reputatation of accurately tagging timelines and you say something is 5 hours out... the seniors begin to believe you. They can choose to take the shortcut, but that takes an act of will on their part.
So if I put a browser on it, and it can figure out how to save onto a USB drive, then I can surf the net without viruses? Wheee! Nothing like an UnDead OS to freak out OS targetting malware! Oh wait - are my .mod songs native now??
I have to disagree here. Depending on how many years each, in the past 4-5 generations we have irrevocably altered what it means to be human. Someone else said "the tech is new, the demands are not". This is also untrue.
... that wouldn't be *downloadable* ten years later. There's still current rules against recording people without telling them, but those laws are going to creak at the seams very soon.
I would restart the clock with the arbitrary round date of Jan 1 1990 as its own "new generation". This is the age of information connectivity. (First 5 years open to discussion, absolutely in full swing in 1995 with the advent of GUI browsers and Win95 unleashing the floodgates.)
I wasn't QUITE "unwashed" - I had sponged off - but I still walked into the trap of mis-understanding exactly how archiving works in search engines.
I do not expect to have any serious secrets withstand a full scale expert profile; no one but the best can block that. I feel/hope the happy medium is reasonable shielding, enough to keep the worst damaging pics away from a casual search.
What used to be a serious part of classical manners was "none of your business". Now, that piece of advice is gone forever. Anyone can visit the restroom and google the guy from the party on their cell phone, and come back armed.
Even if you did stunts at college
Web 2.0 is all about the cheap fame; but pretty soon the costs are going to catch up (say in 5 years).
Not quite as difficult as you may think.
You need a couple 'more important details on the Non-President, such as racecar driving and business owner, and include those as "must words". Then put a lot of things in the "do not include" field like "Do not include President".
Yes it might take a small amount of time measured in hours, but it's far from impossible.
It can. That's the point.
All that has to happen is the print conglomerates need to get their act and license it.
As for the 550 page deal, just make Vol 1 and Vol 2. Cryptonomicon would just slide under the bar.
This is phenomenal, because then it yanks power away from the Big Chain stores who play games with shelf space.
I'm starting to get confused.
... desktop monopoly. So don't we all want Linux with a killer front end to be a serious choice for the desktop? It turns out, I grew up with GUI's. I happen to like a two dimensional spread of my options; it's easier on my ailing memory.
... a mysterious massive injection of cash and manpower into a thunderous release of some 3 unified brands of Linux ... and STILL free as in everything.
I'm pretty conversant with the Windows situation. I thought that was all about the
For a long time I have been aware of the "other fight" between "Truly/Sorta Free" Linux and Ox X, "Free Core but just as proprietary on top." Hello, Animal Farm.
The obvious solution would be
Could the final showdown really come to the fact that free-but-unfocused loses to proprietary slavery-but-polished? Could it be that if Linux *now* stagnates, having missed Microsoft's worst unproductive lull ever, that the whole concept will splinter into 12 decaying variants headed by bickering factions?
This is the 4th cousin to the music debate - at the most brutal level, every week costs the overhead of Roof-Car-Food. (And the trimmings.) One's actions that day have to convince someone else to pay for that day's cost. Something given into a diffuse value chain takes too long to whip around to pay for This Week's Rent.
I want nothing more in the world than for someone to master diffuse value chains in a manner that solves these kinds of problems.
At the heart of 75% of full time activities is the economic equation of fixed Home+Auto expense, Vs variable income. You are paying a specific landlord/bank to live. What did your activities Tuesday 9-4 do towards that obligation?
The minute that someone snaps this equation open is when Web 3.0 will be here. One place to look is that someone cannot possibly consume content they have never heard of; therefore forcing a sales model also restricts the production side.
After floating Sig V2.00 out to the general FOSS Community, it was determined that a comma was missing. Sig 2.01 is the result, which still makes this the direction I am going.
So if you combine this study with the last one:
Well Designed Websites Decrease Your Risk of Catching Colds.
Anyone else see any resemblance to the general opinion of the internet 1.0 model about Christmas 1999? "22 year old CEO's" and so on. "Stocks to reach 15,000" "The age of unlimited progress!"
Then it all caved. It took something approaching 5 years to repair. Is that MS desktop monopoly STILL on complete and utter automatic pilot? Can Microsoft one day just say "ho hum, we're not even going to bother to make another OS ever again"?
Or can the illusion shatter in a tidal wave across the company if sufficient reports of complete disasters come in from Vista? I changed my sig to reflet my new direction. Where I go, someone has to follow.
Is this also Federal law or just NY State?
Now I know why it's not only public fashion opinion that is against them... I'm sure the cops would/did raise outrage.
Modern "Rule": Less diversity for all is always preferable to allowing 1 incident of violence.
In the name of our country's movement towards Terror Marketing, they have built themselves a free referral network!
Coming Soon: Microsoft Stockings (MS).
"We want to give Christmas Media Users the widest holiday content experience. Children can download passcodes from our site that let them log into the scales built into their stockings. Thus, if they ask for a new PlayStationSure-Mini, which weighs 19.7 ounces, and their stocking only weighs 13.5 ounces, they will receive an early warning that their wishes were not met.
A Microsoft spokesman has said, "We want to embrace the holiday experience, and extend our goodwill towards all non-windows users. Since children clearly did not want the products from other manufacturers in their stockings, children are being given an early opportunity to confront their parents before the packaging is destroyed."