Sinofsky was talking about Windows 7, Otellini is talking about Windows 8.
Ballmer said at CES that Windows 8 will expand the platform and include lower-powered devices. E.g. do a search of recent news regarding the plans for Windows 8 to run on ARM.
Am I the only buyer that is annoyed by it too? When looking for certain items, I'm now getting a lot of "noise" overpriced items from "Buy's internet superstore" and no easy way to filter them out.
The exchanges do not allow redistribution of realtime quote data to professional traders. They will need to put something in place to at least give the impression of compliance.
Am I the only one seeing the text in the historical map mirrored left-to right? Maybe this was on purpose? (it was necessary to reverse it so that the superimposed maps would match and it was considered more important to preserve the original image than to make it more useful by being able to read it normally)? Got it! the real reason is that the brain of the original developer has a codec that automatically filters the map and mirrors it in a readable way, it must be the ffdshow in my brain that needs an update to the latest version!
Find or produce some IT policy that you know users will have a hard time fighting but they will not like (e.g., something along the lines of: "the following software must not be installed on machines connected to the corporate network: solitaire, minesweeper, unapproved p2p networking apps")
Prepare scripts that detect whether the policy is followed
Schedule the scripts to be running every night
If the scan detects a "violation", send an automatic friendly reminder that the machine is not compliant and if it fails the scan a second time within a week, its network access will be restricted
"Leak" that machines that are turned off cannot be scanned
>I am downright embarrassed by the quality of my code. It is buggy, slow, fragile, and a nightmare to maintain. Do you feel the same way?
No.
Honestly, most of the time writing bad code is not faster than writing reasonably good code.
To improve even more, try having a policy of doing a quick code review before non trivial check-ins. Knowing that you'll have to show and explain your code to a peer, that does help in resisting the temptation to take some shortcuts (e.g., why save time writing when it will take longer to explain). Code reviews should be easy to "sell" to upper managers, as they provide a certain degree of mitigation for the risk of one programmer leaving.
The first ATI card I had was an original all-in-wonder. Nice specs at the time but when it came to drivers, they wouldn't work if you installed them to a folder different from the default. I had more patience in those days so I reported the problem to ATI, they fixed it in the following driver release and then a couple of months later the latest drivers broke again for the same reason. I realized how bad were the software engineering practices at ATI (no regression testing?, come on, it doesn't take a genius to realize that it is one of the most basic QA tasks) and then I decided not to buy ATI cards again. If I received a machine with ATI cards (e.g., "inherited" from someone else), I always used the driver in the OS and not the downloadable stuff from ATI's site. All until recently (I thought that after being acquired maybe they had improved and decided to try one card) but, from all I can see they still write horrendous software. I think I'll have to go back to not buying anything with ATI inside, until I read A LOT of good reviews on how their drivers have improved and are no longer a nest of bugs.
Can you really write code so cleanly that doesn't need comments?
When writing code for a real system (and not a theoretical one) you come across situations (boundary cases, platform limitations, etc) where you try something and realize that it doesn't work. Negative knowledge is valuable to preserve and the best way to do it is using comments. Whether you can write cleanly or not is completely irrelevant in these cases.
After you're opted-in to "offers" it doesn't have to be Ameritrade cooperating with the pump'n'dumpers. Once Ameritrade provides the email to a legitimate partner (e.g., someone doing "free" seminars for customers, or "discounted golf clubs" or whatever) then the address is no longer protected by Ameritrade's security (and desire to maintain the necessary trust in a financial service) but the partner's "security" (and greed). There may be a confidentiality clause in the agreement between Ameritrade and the partner but information security gets more and more difficult to enforce as it travels further away from the core business and there is less at stake.
Sony will complain to the lawmakers that piracy is making sales drop
Sony will get the lawmakers to somehow subsidize their business (e.g., blank media tax)
The end result is that they will be able to produce junk and still get paid (a large number of European "filmmaking" business get subsidy money for producing trash that nobody cares to watch, why shouldn't Sony?...)
In Windows explorer, up to W2K3, when you were watching a sorted list of files and performed file operations that added files to the folder (e.g., paste a bunch of files copied from a different folder), those new files would always appear at the bottom of the list and you would have to refresh if you wanted a correctly sorted view. I got used to this behavior for a quick visual verification of the operation. Now this "bug" has been fixed in Vista which re-sorts automatically:( it sucks!
Part of the problem is that many users no longer realize what they are asking the machine to do. If you're copying a bunch of files and don't give a r4t$4$$ about watching the icons as they disappear, just minimize the window. It is not a Windows problem. On Linux when copying large amounts of files using a terminal window and displaying the names, I watch the first few seconds and then minimize the terminal window, same thing.
In my experience Vista is usually faster when copying files (because it uses larger chunks, search for an article from Mark Russinovich on the I/O changes in Vista for the details), what is slightly confusing is that the calculation of remaining time is quite slow. The copying is in progress anyway so once you get used to ignoring the "calculating...", everything is fine.
Speakeasy cut me off without warning. After calling support for what I thought it was a malfunction I was told that they had cut me off and I would have to speak to a technician (if this sounds like "you misbehaved and you'll have to go to the principal" it certainly felt that way). This technician told me that on my line there was "too much P2P traffic". I replied that I wasn't running any p2p programs or running any servers. In the end, they said that from their perspective I was maxing my bandwith too many hours a day and if they had many customers like me they wouldn't be profitable; If I agreed to use less bandwith they would restore the service, otherwise they were not interested in having me as a customer.
I had my dose of "fun" on some of them. The CA board from time to time provided very interesting inside scoop on company reorgs. The SCOX board would make wonderful material for researching about short squeezing & pump'n'dump. I hope the board content is archived somewhere and made available for research and not destroyed.
>the playback on that screen was quite poor >On the other hand it played back quite nicely on my PC
This unit only has composite tv-out. 15 years ago that may have been what most users expected but composite signal will not look "good" nowadays when approximately 99.99% of video playing devices and TVs have some option of S-VHS, component or HDMI signals.
Maybe this was intended as a psp/ipod/pc video recorder with a "preview on TV" option?
Try findind companies that work in outplacement (helping companies that need to lay off entire teams or divisions).
A good source of tips could be asking CA employees about recent events. IMO CA excels at laying off / firing many competent people and keeping the chaff (yes, I worked there and no, I wasn't fired or laid off, I got out before they figured out I wasn't chaff:P )
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Sinofsky was talking about Windows 7, Otellini is talking about Windows 8.
Ballmer said at CES that Windows 8 will expand the platform and include lower-powered devices. E.g. do a search of recent news regarding the plans for Windows 8 to run on ARM.
Collision course? Really?
What about the iPad shuffle? The first e-book reader with with no screen!
Users hate poorly done web apps. Personally, every time I use OWA (Outlook Web Access) I am amazed it's not a local app.
Aargh! Stop it! I cannot take it anymore!
It's a cover-up for Zing Zang Zoom rolling out a rootkit protection
Am I the only buyer that is annoyed by it too? When looking for certain items, I'm now getting a lot of "noise" overpriced items from "Buy's internet superstore" and no easy way to filter them out.
Japan has a very serious problem of an aging population that is getting to retirement and has to be sustained by non retirees.
Strongly encouraging behavior that makes life expectancy longer will exacerbate the problem
Not that they should encourage unhealthy behavior either, but they should leave people to make their own decisions
The exchanges do not allow redistribution of realtime quote data to professional traders. They will need to put something in place to at least give the impression of compliance.
Am I the only one seeing the text in the historical map mirrored left-to right?
Maybe this was on purpose? (it was necessary to reverse it so that the superimposed maps would match and it was considered more important to preserve the original image than to make it more useful by being able to read it normally)?
Got it! the real reason is that the brain of the original developer has a codec that automatically filters the map and mirrors it in a readable way, it must be the ffdshow in my brain that needs an update to the latest version!
>I am downright embarrassed by the quality of my code. It is buggy, slow, fragile, and a nightmare to maintain. Do you feel the same way?
No.
Honestly, most of the time writing bad code is not faster than writing reasonably good code.
To improve even more, try having a policy of doing a quick code review before non trivial check-ins. Knowing that you'll have to show and explain your code to a peer, that does help in resisting the temptation to take some shortcuts (e.g., why save time writing when it will take longer to explain). Code reviews should be easy to "sell" to upper managers, as they provide a certain degree of mitigation for the risk of one programmer leaving.
The first ATI card I had was an original all-in-wonder. Nice specs at the time but when it came to drivers, they wouldn't work if you installed them to a folder different from the default. I had more patience in those days so I reported the problem to ATI, they fixed it in the following driver release and then a couple of months later the latest drivers broke again for the same reason. I realized how bad were the software engineering practices at ATI (no regression testing?, come on, it doesn't take a genius to realize that it is one of the most basic QA tasks) and then I decided not to buy ATI cards again. If I received a machine with ATI cards (e.g., "inherited" from someone else), I always used the driver in the OS and not the downloadable stuff from ATI's site. All until recently (I thought that after being acquired maybe they had improved and decided to try one card) but, from all I can see they still write horrendous software. I think I'll have to go back to not buying anything with ATI inside, until I read A LOT of good reviews on how their drivers have improved and are no longer a nest of bugs.
Can you really write code so cleanly that doesn't need comments?
When writing code for a real system (and not a theoretical one) you come across situations (boundary cases, platform limitations, etc) where you try something and realize that it doesn't work. Negative knowledge is valuable to preserve and the best way to do it is using comments. Whether you can write cleanly or not is completely irrelevant in these cases.
After you're opted-in to "offers" it doesn't have to be Ameritrade cooperating with the pump'n'dumpers. Once Ameritrade provides the email to a legitimate partner (e.g., someone doing "free" seminars for customers, or "discounted golf clubs" or whatever) then the address is no longer protected by Ameritrade's security (and desire to maintain the necessary trust in a financial service) but the partner's "security" (and greed). There may be a confidentiality clause in the agreement between Ameritrade and the partner but information security gets more and more difficult to enforce as it travels further away from the core business and there is less at stake.
- DVD's won't play
- People will get pissed off and return them
- DVD sales figures will drop
- Sony will complain to the lawmakers that piracy is making sales drop
- Sony will get the lawmakers to somehow subsidize their business (e.g., blank media tax)
The end result is that they will be able to produce junk and still get paid (a large number of European "filmmaking" business get subsidy money for producing trash that nobody cares to watch, why shouldn't Sony?...):P
In Windows explorer, up to W2K3, when you were watching a sorted list of files and performed file operations that added files to the folder (e.g., paste a bunch of files copied from a different folder), those new files would always appear at the bottom of the list and you would have to refresh if you wanted a correctly sorted view. I got used to this behavior for a quick visual verification of the operation. Now this "bug" has been fixed in Vista which re-sorts automatically :( it sucks!
After coming to the US, I noticed that for many people it was "sue and get rich"... Where is the lawsuit in his case? :P
Part of the problem is that many users no longer realize what they are asking the machine to do. If you're copying a bunch of files and don't give a r4t$4$$ about watching the icons as they disappear, just minimize the window. It is not a Windows problem. On Linux when copying large amounts of files using a terminal window and displaying the names, I watch the first few seconds and then minimize the terminal window, same thing.
In my experience Vista is usually faster when copying files (because it uses larger chunks, search for an article from Mark Russinovich on the I/O changes in Vista for the details), what is slightly confusing is that the calculation of remaining time is quite slow. The copying is in progress anyway so once you get used to ignoring the "calculating...", everything is fine.
Speakeasy cut me off without warning. After calling support for what I thought it was a malfunction I was told that they had cut me off and I would have to speak to a technician (if this sounds like "you misbehaved and you'll have to go to the principal" it certainly felt that way). This technician told me that on my line there was "too much P2P traffic". I replied that I wasn't running any p2p programs or running any servers. In the end, they said that from their perspective I was maxing my bandwith too many hours a day and if they had many customers like me they wouldn't be profitable; If I agreed to use less bandwith they would restore the service, otherwise they were not interested in having me as a customer.
I thought that GW Bush had declared the UN irrelevant :P
The disconnect between the UN and reality seems wider every day.
I had my dose of "fun" on some of them. The CA board from time to time provided very interesting inside scoop on company reorgs. The SCOX board would make wonderful material for researching about short squeezing & pump'n'dump. I hope the board content is archived somewhere and made available for research and not destroyed.
>the playback on that screen was quite poor
>On the other hand it played back quite nicely on my PC
This unit only has composite tv-out. 15 years ago that may have been what most users expected but composite signal will not look "good" nowadays when approximately 99.99% of video playing devices and TVs have some option of S-VHS, component or HDMI signals.
Maybe this was intended as a psp/ipod/pc video recorder with a "preview on TV" option?
A good source of tips could be asking CA employees about recent events. IMO CA excels at laying off / firing many competent people and keeping the chaff (yes, I worked there and no, I wasn't fired or laid off, I got out before they figured out I wasn't chaff :P )
A recent article on how a Slashdot story was a hoax was itself proven to be a hoax...
Corporate blogging. Why? Read the Cluetrain manifesto and it will make an awful lot of sense. Corporate blogs are ways to create communities.