Posted on 02/16/2007 7:21:54 AM PST by HAL9000
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks fell on Friday after Microsoft Corp. tempered revenue expectations for the Vista computer operating system.~ snip ~
Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Balmer said late on Thursday analysts' revenue forecasts for Vista were "overly aggressive." Shares of Microsoft were the top-weighted decliner on the Dow, S&P 500 and the Nasdaq 100.
"Microsoft can't catch a break. We're at 20 million shares in volume already - that's not your grandmother trading," said Cummins Catherwood, managing director at Rutherford, Brown & Catherwood in Philadelphia. "Those hedge funds can't deal with disappointment. They can't afford to wait for the impact to dissipate."
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... a better one with..."the cube"...LOL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtaLX9fYPr8&mode=related&search=
Not just as a monopoly. The Zune clearly puts the interests of the labels far above the user.
.NET is pretty good. It is a general framework that provides programming interfaces, libraries, compilers and runtime operation for any language that it supports. It supports a heavily modified Visual Basic and J# (sort of .NET Java), but the best language for it is C#, written from scratch for use with .NET, taking the best from many other languages (mainly Java and Delphi). It's a very simple, elegant, yet powerful language that's my current favorite.
Some things in .NET are not from scratch though. In some cases a class you use is just a wrapper for the old Windows functionality (like mail really being the old CDONTS). At least that was the case with 1.1, I haven't checked 2.0 for that yet.
I'd suggest downloading .NET, as there are some good programs written for it.
For some like you, its fun, alot of us are happy not to see that 'blue screen of death'! Finally after many years this XP thingy I have seems to run nice and quiet, they will have to pry it out if my....well you know.
Mac is a non-issue in my office in part because of the higher price (and written for windows speciality software we use. Emulators can never guarantee compatability)
Its a windows world for the end user at the non-niche business desk.
Apple dumped all its shares?
: )
I've never used diptheria, either, and I'll continue yapping about that as long as I feel like it!
You got any more moronic thoughts you might want to share?
Yep - taking advice on Vista from a Mac evangelist is probably not the smartest thing to do. I've been running their final distro release for a couple of weeks now and I won't be going back to XP on that particular box. It is, however, enough box to run it. I see that they're selling Vista Home on entry-level boxes with 500MB RAM and I think that's a poor decision. Of the six boxes I have between work and home only one is really up to it hardware-wise, and even that one doesn't have enough dedicated video RAM to run Aero properly.
It is pretty - one might say Mac-like if that wouldn't draw the usual gaggle of "the Mac is the only answer" geese. I do think it's overpriced, which is also Mac-like. I won't be paying to upgrade my other five machines because it just isn't worth it. From Microsoft's POV that's a problem, but they brought it on themselves.
You want lean-and-mean efficiency, build your own box and install Linux. You will tinker with that, however. You want ease of use and great graphics and are willing to put up with some cutesy terminology ("Chooser," for example), get a Mac. I recommend that for non-computer-geek family members. You want to leverage past applications purchases, at least for awhile, go XP. When that's no longer an option you'll be moving to Vista. If that sounds like a kind of weak marketing model, I think it is. If Microsoft's market penetration doesn't take them through this then things could get very interesting indeed. All IMHO, of course.
The Zune seems to be a marketing insult rather than a product.
The only thing the RIAA did not include was a credit card swiper to take your money each time you turned the thing on.
My best mp3 player is a 2 gig sd chip in my pda.
better than ANY ipod or zune.
Three reasons: Bill and Melinda’s kids. Do you really want to see them homeless and starving?
This is off-topic,
but I'll be quick: Do you know
if low level code
for processors with
multiple cores have access
to op-codes that set
which core will handle
the current op-code sequence?
I've always wondered . . .
>>The only reason that MS is selling any VISTAS' at all is because manufacturers and sellers of PC's are installing it on new PCs.<<
Yep. I am considering getting a new laptop. I will do my best to get one with no operating system (or XP) but if not, I will wipe the drive and start again with the version of XP I am running on the old computer that I will be replacing.
Of course I will have to do the phone call thing to keep if functioning. But I've already done that twice... ;)
>>The only reason that MS is selling any VISTAS' at all is because manufacturers and sellers of PC's are installing it on new PCs.<<
Yep. I am considering getting a new laptop. I will do my best to get one with no operating system (or XP) but if not, I will wipe the drive and start again with the version of XP I am running on the old computer that I will be replacing.
Of course I will have to do the phone call thing to keep if functioning. But I've already done that twice... ;)
Wow!
I don't do Celeron but there are some bargains out there apparently.
I agree, for you it is 'work'. Me I just need to be able to post here when I want to. :)
YUCK! The way that Windoze bottles up memory is one the the very things I hate the most about it. Thanks for giving yet one more reason not to buy it.
You can do that in most high-level languages; you're looking for something called thread processor affinity. However, in portable languages like C#, affinity is more of a request than a command, as the OS can override the .NET runtime if it needs to.
That is very true. They make their big bucks from enterprise licensing, support, and "consulting". I once had to show a MS "consultant" how to manually map a network drive. From what I've seen the "consultants" they send to sites don't really know anything. They are just sent out to locations for PR and are good enough on a computer to follow the instructions of the mysterious person they stay on the cell phone with 95% of the time they are there.
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