Seems like the official site has acknowledged it now.
Customers with 30gb Zune devices may experience issues when booting their Zune hardware. We're aware of the problem and are working to correct it. Sorry for the inconvenience, and thanks for your patience!
According to the bestselling book Good to Great from 2001, Circuit City was a great company that was "built to last." The Freakonomics guys also noted this a little bit ago.
Interesting how a slicker competitor displaced Circuit City, seemingly so easily. Oh, and Fannie Mae was another company recognized in this manner in the same book.
I dream of the day that I don't need to pay for cable, and can go strictly on demand for a reasonable price point.
Exactly. The Netflix + Roku combo seems to be getting really close. You don't have a huge selection of movies - usually not a lot of new releases, so those have the bottleneck of mail service, but you get a lot of other movies instantly and without limit.
I haven't yet pulled the trigger on the Roku device, but this announcement is even more encouragement so I intend to vote with my dollars and support this because they are going in the right direction.
And? What's wrong with that? I use Visual Studio in addition to a number of open-source tools. I think this is a great inclusion into Visual Studio.
There isn't anything wrong with it. It's a really good move on their part and no doubt a nice addition to the toolkit. I was merely trying to say they aren't just stealing it because they can't write it themselves, but including it for developers because they want at least some tools in there that the non-MS world uses.
Microsoft seems to encourage staying with in-the-box tools that come with.NET or Visual Studio or otherwise come from Microsoft - if you've bought into developing with the MS stack you at least get good integration of everything, and developers recognize this. Putting jQuery in it will at least allow this intersection of Microsoft-blessed tools and tools that everybody else uses.
Sure, Microsoft has taken stuff that is under a liberal license in order to not have to write it themselves - the BSD TCP/IP stack from back in the day comes to mind.
But I believe this is something different. Even though this probably gives them some code they don't have to write, this is just to use a popular and growing JavaScript library to give ASP.NET MVC some much needed street cred, especially among open source leaning developers.
Though jQuery is better as a general JavaScript library than anything they've come up with, they've had no trouble writing this stuff for themselves before. This is a non-Microsoft developer focused thing that says: "We're cool! jQuery is in the box!" and tries to attract people to their stack by allowing them to leverage their skills with a library they've used elsewhere instead of some MS-only library.
Username or password invalid. It's probably got the most face time...
True, but I would think this generally indicates that the system is working the way it should... giving you appropriate feedback with the input it received. It's not an error message in the sense that the system got itself into some unexpected state and is crashing or otherwise indicating that something went wrong and it doesn't know what to do next.
The microsoft demo showed a mobile phone being put on the table, it being recognised, and files being sent to/from the device. That's not been done before in such a fashion.
Do you know that it actually worked? What is there to indicate that it wasn't a mock-up? I could lay my LCD monitor flat, move my phone around on it and give the video guy down the hall for some post-production and in an hour I could advertise my own hi-tech surface product that 'recognizes my phone and grabs files off of it'. I thought a lot of the MS Surface stuff looked cool in the video, until they started showing stuff that almost certainly does not work yet and I realized that everything in the narration is worded to indicate that what is on the screen is what they hope to make possible, not what they actually have working. After that the whole whole thing might as well have been a sci-fi movie.
If Microsoft has a lot of that stuff working, then that's cool. It looks good and there are some interesting ideas. But, I have no idea how much is MS Vaporware. Until we find out, I, like the GP, am more impressed by something that actually works now, rather than the promises.
Seriously, is it the mascot design itself that is hated, or the fact that it was the manifestation of an overly-intrusive and unhelpful software feature?
If you really wanted that sort of help from Word, the Clippy design is fine. Dare I say it was even kind of cool for the time. Well, maybe not. Anyway, the problem was, obviously, that most people don't want it in their face and MS turning it on by default will annoy most people that don't fire up Word for family entertainment.
If the article title was Mascots for the Lamest Demonstrations of User Interface Ineptness then it would rightly win first place. But for simple design of the character there are worse.
Apparently Netflix has stated that they will be an early adopter of Silverlight. I was just thinking to myself yesterday that I would never switch to Blockbuster, on principle, even if they had a better service. Now I think I might now have to switch away from Netflix, on principle (and to be able to access the site content on any platform I use), to another service... maybe Blockbuster, maybe not.
But, if Linux is pre-installed it can be reassuring to know that a certain distribution, Linux kernel version, or Linux OS feature works with a certain hardware configuration, even if you wipe it immediately and put on your distro of choice.
I will probably continue to buy parts one by one, researching each one for good Linux compatibility, no matter what. But when I first started with Linux, I would have liked to see a big red stamp of "100% Linux Approved" on a complete system, so I wouldn't have to worry (much) about unfriendly components. If an OEM offers this by selling a machine that ships working with some kind of Linux, that would probably make some people more comfortable with making the switch to whatever distro they think looks good.
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It's impossible for me to think of anything other than Groundhog Day upon hearing this name.
Obligatory, classic Onion story.
Yeah, but what about the way Windows usually shuts down?
According to the bestselling book Good to Great from 2001, Circuit City was a great company that was "built to last." The Freakonomics guys also noted this a little bit ago.
Interesting how a slicker competitor displaced Circuit City, seemingly so easily. Oh, and Fannie Mae was another company recognized in this manner in the same book.
I thought this was the sequel to String Theory.
...since they have so much experience with vaporware.
I dream of the day that I don't need to pay for cable, and can go strictly on demand for a reasonable price point.
Exactly. The Netflix + Roku combo seems to be getting really close. You don't have a huge selection of movies - usually not a lot of new releases, so those have the bottleneck of mail service, but you get a lot of other movies instantly and without limit.
I haven't yet pulled the trigger on the Roku device, but this announcement is even more encouragement so I intend to vote with my dollars and support this because they are going in the right direction.
And? What's wrong with that? I use Visual Studio in addition to a number of open-source tools. I think this is a great inclusion into Visual Studio.
There isn't anything wrong with it. It's a really good move on their part and no doubt a nice addition to the toolkit. I was merely trying to say they aren't just stealing it because they can't write it themselves, but including it for developers because they want at least some tools in there that the non-MS world uses.
.NET or Visual Studio or otherwise come from Microsoft - if you've bought into developing with the MS stack you at least get good integration of everything, and developers recognize this. Putting jQuery in it will at least allow this intersection of Microsoft-blessed tools and tools that everybody else uses.
Microsoft seems to encourage staying with in-the-box tools that come with
Sure, Microsoft has taken stuff that is under a liberal license in order to not have to write it themselves - the BSD TCP/IP stack from back in the day comes to mind.
But I believe this is something different. Even though this probably gives them some code they don't have to write, this is just to use a popular and growing JavaScript library to give ASP.NET MVC some much needed street cred, especially among open source leaning developers.
Though jQuery is better as a general JavaScript library than anything they've come up with, they've had no trouble writing this stuff for themselves before. This is a non-Microsoft developer focused thing that says: "We're cool! jQuery is in the box!" and tries to attract people to their stack by allowing them to leverage their skills with a library they've used elsewhere instead of some MS-only library.
Username or password invalid. It's probably got the most face time...
True, but I would think this generally indicates that the system is working the way it should... giving you appropriate feedback with the input it received. It's not an error message in the sense that the system got itself into some unexpected state and is crashing or otherwise indicating that something went wrong and it doesn't know what to do next.
Yeah, something tells me the Highly Reliable Times won't be covering this follow-up story.
...said Ray Glassman, CEO of LimitNone, in a prepared statement. Well, at least they're reasonably safe against technology theft by SQL injection.I think it's called Firefeature, though.
the "Highly Reliable Times" won't be covering this one.
If Microsoft has a lot of that stuff working, then that's cool. It looks good and there are some interesting ideas. But, I have no idea how much is MS Vaporware. Until we find out, I, like the GP, am more impressed by something that actually works now, rather than the promises.
It makes me afraid that somebody could be watching me while I'm watching what somebody else is watching.
They might think that I'm actually watching it when I'm just watching what they are watching. Honest!
but they'd try to charge you for the sound waves.
How am I going to watch... um, never mind.
Seriously, is it the mascot design itself that is hated, or the fact that it was the manifestation of an overly-intrusive and unhelpful software feature?
If you really wanted that sort of help from Word, the Clippy design is fine. Dare I say it was even kind of cool for the time. Well, maybe not. Anyway, the problem was, obviously, that most people don't want it in their face and MS turning it on by default will annoy most people that don't fire up Word for family entertainment.
If the article title was Mascots for the Lamest Demonstrations of User Interface Ineptness then it would rightly win first place. But for simple design of the character there are worse.
Apparently Netflix has stated that they will be an early adopter of Silverlight. I was just thinking to myself yesterday that I would never switch to Blockbuster, on principle, even if they had a better service. Now I think I might now have to switch away from Netflix, on principle (and to be able to access the site content on any platform I use), to another service... maybe Blockbuster, maybe not.
So when are they releasing the iRack?
I was scared right until the moment I was clicking on it that this might not be safe for work.
I also agree, mostly.
But, if Linux is pre-installed it can be reassuring to know that a certain distribution, Linux kernel version, or Linux OS feature works with a certain hardware configuration, even if you wipe it immediately and put on your distro of choice.
I will probably continue to buy parts one by one, researching each one for good Linux compatibility, no matter what. But when I first started with Linux, I would have liked to see a big red stamp of "100% Linux Approved" on a complete system, so I wouldn't have to worry (much) about unfriendly components. If an OEM offers this by selling a machine that ships working with some kind of Linux, that would probably make some people more comfortable with making the switch to whatever distro they think looks good.
Sarcasm detector... that's a real useful invention. [explosion]
obligatory
...bought sonofgoogle.com?
Damn. I think I missed out on billions.