Agreed. Right now, the dev team is still working full time on Vista because they can make any change they want and not worry about it breaking a few hundred million installs, because of course, Microsoft would NEVER do that. *cough*WGA*cough*
Once Vista is released, development will slow down, new bugs and exploits will be found, and they'll be so overwhelmed that we will return to our regularly scheduled Windows updates.
I, for one, applaud anyone with the bravery and skill to be a part of the space program. Also, it makes me sad that we never hear about any of the good progress anymore. All we hear is tile this, re-entry that. How about a news story about some of the unique experiments and projects have happened in space, or the international cooperation that goes into building the space station? It's also amazing how the media plays off images from Mars as a trip to the park. Shame on people. This stuff is paving way for the future. When we do screw up this planet for good, there's only one way to go and that's up. I guess since it's not all shiney lights and space babes like Star Trek, no one seems to care.
Virtualization is a safe and fairly easy way to try new things or see how security measures may or may not work in a controlled environment. I'm a lowly IT guy who repairs broken Windoze boxes, so I couldn't imagine how useful it is for enterprise, but for the slightly above average user, it's great to test out new ideas or operating systems. Don't get me started on Parallels on OS X, because I'll go Mac fanboy for several pages on how cool that is. I'm quite glad that virtualization is getting so much attention lately. Interest often leads to more innovation!
XBOX 360 anyone? Sure, it's a Microsoft console, but at least we still have the freedom to try and resale games if we see fit. Oh, and another thing: the 360 is here. Now. Sony has been making promises it knows it can't keep right up until the end. Sure, Microsoft put a spin on the 360, thought not so many flat out lies as Sony does. Sony doesn't try hard because they think they are the big bad boys in town. Well, let me tell you, a few years ago, no one in the tiny town I live in would even THINK of getting an XBOX over a Playstation. About a year ago, that started changing. Some people traded in their PS2's for XBOX's and I've lost count of how many gamers now have the 360 and no plans for a PS3. Sony's uncaring, DRM-loving attitude is going to come back to bite them.
And before anyone starts pissing about the 360's that had some hardware trouble, wait and see. The PS3 has a plethora of new, untested, and broken until recently technology inside of it. It'll be interesting to see what kind of problems the first generation Blu-Ray drives have and how many cell processors go into meltdown.
I'm glad that this has led to arrests of some really bad people, but I bet for the most part a bunch of would be 1337 g@ngs+@z are the only ones doing this. For whatever idiotic reason, there's a lot of kids who wanna be in some stupid gang, so hey! Make your own on the internets! It's kinda like most of the XxSuIC1D3GuR1xX types out there... mostly a cry for attention, than anything else.
0Back when the internet started picking up steam in Joe User's home, there weren't as many popular sites that the general people knew about. It actually took some effort to find something you were looking for. Now, you hear about every site there is to be soon from friends, TV news, and any other place you can think of. But then, these people saw the AOL screen. "Hey, buttons for Entertainment, News, Sports, this is so much easier." So now that all these URL thingamabobs are now common knowledge, who needs the crappy buttons and sloppy interface for double(or more) the price of any other dialup provider?
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Agreed. Right now, the dev team is still working full time on Vista because they can make any change they want and not worry about it breaking a few hundred million installs, because of course, Microsoft would NEVER do that. *cough*WGA*cough* Once Vista is released, development will slow down, new bugs and exploits will be found, and they'll be so overwhelmed that we will return to our regularly scheduled Windows updates.
I, for one, applaud anyone with the bravery and skill to be a part of the space program. Also, it makes me sad that we never hear about any of the good progress anymore. All we hear is tile this, re-entry that. How about a news story about some of the unique experiments and projects have happened in space, or the international cooperation that goes into building the space station? It's also amazing how the media plays off images from Mars as a trip to the park. Shame on people. This stuff is paving way for the future. When we do screw up this planet for good, there's only one way to go and that's up. I guess since it's not all shiney lights and space babes like Star Trek, no one seems to care.
Virtualization is a safe and fairly easy way to try new things or see how security measures may or may not work in a controlled environment. I'm a lowly IT guy who repairs broken Windoze boxes, so I couldn't imagine how useful it is for enterprise, but for the slightly above average user, it's great to test out new ideas or operating systems. Don't get me started on Parallels on OS X, because I'll go Mac fanboy for several pages on how cool that is. I'm quite glad that virtualization is getting so much attention lately. Interest often leads to more innovation!
At least now Microsoft can change the recommended specs for Vista Super Ultra Platinum edition to a couple of gigs of RAM since it won't cost as much.
XBOX 360 anyone? Sure, it's a Microsoft console, but at least we still have the freedom to try and resale games if we see fit. Oh, and another thing: the 360 is here. Now. Sony has been making promises it knows it can't keep right up until the end. Sure, Microsoft put a spin on the 360, thought not so many flat out lies as Sony does. Sony doesn't try hard because they think they are the big bad boys in town. Well, let me tell you, a few years ago, no one in the tiny town I live in would even THINK of getting an XBOX over a Playstation. About a year ago, that started changing. Some people traded in their PS2's for XBOX's and I've lost count of how many gamers now have the 360 and no plans for a PS3. Sony's uncaring, DRM-loving attitude is going to come back to bite them. And before anyone starts pissing about the 360's that had some hardware trouble, wait and see. The PS3 has a plethora of new, untested, and broken until recently technology inside of it. It'll be interesting to see what kind of problems the first generation Blu-Ray drives have and how many cell processors go into meltdown.
I'm glad that this has led to arrests of some really bad people, but I bet for the most part a bunch of would be 1337 g@ngs+@z are the only ones doing this. For whatever idiotic reason, there's a lot of kids who wanna be in some stupid gang, so hey! Make your own on the internets! It's kinda like most of the XxSuIC1D3GuR1xX types out there... mostly a cry for attention, than anything else.
0Back when the internet started picking up steam in Joe User's home, there weren't as many popular sites that the general people knew about. It actually took some effort to find something you were looking for. Now, you hear about every site there is to be soon from friends, TV news, and any other place you can think of. But then, these people saw the AOL screen. "Hey, buttons for Entertainment, News, Sports, this is so much easier." So now that all these URL thingamabobs are now common knowledge, who needs the crappy buttons and sloppy interface for double(or more) the price of any other dialup provider?