I believe you might be insulting the followers of the Flying Spaghetti Monster http://www.venganza.org/. His Noodily Appendage did not "slip" the meatball from the plate, it was thrust forcefully because it was not worth to touch the plate of His Noodiliness.
Antek9 wrote, "Another Microsoft spokesperson that doesn't 'get' Linux, what else is new?"
Give M$ a little more credit than that. I would imagine they know just as much about Linux as the community itself. They probably have a secret department who's job is to do nothing but monitor Linux and to know it better than the enemy (that would be some of you folks). You cannot fight an enemy you do not know, and you should strive to know them better than they know themselves.
M$ reps are instructed by M$ on how to respond to Linux. There is nothing new here to see, please move along.
Since Samsung had a working prototype of it already, maybe they are using a chalcogenide-based phase-change ram, but are calling if flash because that is what the average person understand. Chalcogenide RAM doesn't suffer the degrading effects of Flash, with its number-of-write-times being equivalent to that of magnetic disk media.
...but the Bible says to hate the homosexuals. No, The Bible teaches to hate homosexuality, the act. The Bible teaches to love the sinner, but hate the sin.
Since I was referencing hard drive capacities, and they are in bytes, I wasn't referencing 1Tb as 1 Terabit, but 1 Terabyte. I personally have never capitalized the second letter. Gb, Kb, Mb, etc. If I mean to reference bit, I write Gbit, Tbit, Mbit, etc. I don't expect people to be mind readers, so my apologies for not know your preference for capacity reference. In the future, I will just use Tbyte, Gbyte, etc to avoid any trollish-type responses looking to argue minutia.
I don't think the hard drive will disappear completely, but as the costs come down, the companies cannot make money producing the smaller capacity drives. We will see 1Tb hard drives readily available someday, sure thing. But different people have different needs. Hard drives are beginning to augment backup strategies because they have become so cheap and high in capacity.
A solid state drive has a higher G-shock tolerance, is quieter and requires less power than a hard drive. These features are why the technology is attractive to the people who need it. And not everyone needs a hard drive that is 400gb in size. Network appliances may only need a small 1gb boot drive, and these kind of devices will need this new phase-change memory, or whatever will work for the task beyond flash.
It would be cool to have something like this that is your main memory AND your storage space in one. We could call it Run-In-Place. We could then have a instant-on computers. Just imagine Windows XP or Linux booting up in under 3 seconds!
This ignores the reality that old OSes never die and go away. As long as older computers continue to exist, the older OSes will continue to be used. The open-source community is also proof that the traditional OS will never die.
I am someone who is paid to fix these sort of problems. And while I appreciate the users keeping me busy and in steady employment, this problem falls squarely on the shoulders of the evil doers (spammers, spyware programmers, Colin Smith, etc) for taking advantage of people. Now, given that the world is a dangerous place, people do need to learn how to surf more carefully. I taught my wife my own methods of surfing safe and the computers at my home have been virus and spyware free for 8 years. They are both Windows systems. The DOS system has been virus and spyware free for 15 years.
Yawn? Don't plug into the net? What arrogant uncaring tripe. What kind of jackass gives that sort of a response? Oh, right, an OS snob.
People have the right to privacy and surf the net unmolested, no matter the OS they use. ComScore trampled on that right and deserve to burn, so don't turn this around and blame the user.
Which one can store more features about a document? which one is more flexible? Would that warrant the difference in the size of specifications? (besides a bad specification, if that being the case).
It's that or.... um... IBM used like a 6 pt. font for it's entire document!;) OpenDocument *IS* an XML format. IANAD (I am not a developer), but the difference might come down to the number of tags and their usage. Maybe the Microsoft document is very verbose. Maybe the OpenDocument document is not.
Your Honor, I would like to blame Ford Motor Company for selling me a truck that will go 150 MPH. If they hadn't sold me that truck, I wouldn't have gotten this speeding ticket.
See? An obvious sign I am not a lawyer. I completely mixed up the settlement/ruling thing. Okay, so no ruling, no precedent. If not in the courts, maybe this will create 'mind share' of the idea that, yes, my dear Scarlet, the government does give a damn and will attempt to prosecute you.
I am not so sure. Why not look at the white papers that were written. Many have Asian last names and were foreign born. ...and educated at American universities.
Each charitable group should work with their ability. If you are good at clothes, then so be it. If you are good at food, then so be it. Computer companies are good with computers. Duh! Right? So, solve that need.
The needs of these poor countries go beyond just food, water and shelter. They need education so they can lift themselves out of poverty. And since this world is becoming heavily computerized, give them the tools that will benefit them.
I fully support any effort to get computers to the poor.
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I believe you might be insulting the followers of the Flying Spaghetti Monster http://www.venganza.org/. His Noodily Appendage did not "slip" the meatball from the plate, it was thrust forcefully because it was not worth to touch the plate of His Noodiliness.
Antek9 wrote, "Another Microsoft spokesperson that doesn't 'get' Linux, what else is new?"
Give M$ a little more credit than that. I would imagine they know just as much about Linux as the community itself. They probably have a secret department who's job is to do nothing but monitor Linux and to know it better than the enemy (that would be some of you folks). You cannot fight an enemy you do not know, and you should strive to know them better than they know themselves.
M$ reps are instructed by M$ on how to respond to Linux. There is nothing new here to see, please move along.
Since Samsung had a working prototype of it already, maybe they are using a chalcogenide-based phase-change ram, but are calling if flash because that is what the average person understand. Chalcogenide RAM doesn't suffer the degrading effects of Flash, with its number-of-write-times being equivalent to that of magnetic disk media.
...but the Bible says to hate the homosexuals. No, The Bible teaches to hate homosexuality, the act. The Bible teaches to love the sinner, but hate the sin.Intercourse, Pennsylvania (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercourse%2C_PA)is a nice place to visit. The Amish folks there are laid back and easy going.
Since I was referencing hard drive capacities, and they are in bytes, I wasn't referencing 1Tb as 1 Terabit, but 1 Terabyte. I personally have never capitalized the second letter. Gb, Kb, Mb, etc. If I mean to reference bit, I write Gbit, Tbit, Mbit, etc. I don't expect people to be mind readers, so my apologies for not know your preference for capacity reference. In the future, I will just use Tbyte, Gbyte, etc to avoid any trollish-type responses looking to argue minutia.
Palm's been doing it for years. And, yes, they boot and load applications very quickly.
Yes, Palm has, indeed. I was thinking more along the lines of general-purpose desktop OS.I don't think the hard drive will disappear completely, but as the costs come down, the companies cannot make money producing the smaller capacity drives. We will see 1Tb hard drives readily available someday, sure thing. But different people have different needs. Hard drives are beginning to augment backup strategies because they have become so cheap and high in capacity.
A solid state drive has a higher G-shock tolerance, is quieter and requires less power than a hard drive. These features are why the technology is attractive to the people who need it. And not everyone needs a hard drive that is 400gb in size. Network appliances may only need a small 1gb boot drive, and these kind of devices will need this new phase-change memory, or whatever will work for the task beyond flash.
It would be cool to have something like this that is your main memory AND your storage space in one. We could call it Run-In-Place. We could then have a instant-on computers. Just imagine Windows XP or Linux booting up in under 3 seconds!
This ignores the reality that old OSes never die and go away. As long as older computers continue to exist, the older OSes will continue to be used. The open-source community is also proof that the traditional OS will never die.
I am someone who is paid to fix these sort of problems. And while I appreciate the users keeping me busy and in steady employment, this problem falls squarely on the shoulders of the evil doers (spammers, spyware programmers, Colin Smith, etc) for taking advantage of people. Now, given that the world is a dangerous place, people do need to learn how to surf more carefully. I taught my wife my own methods of surfing safe and the computers at my home have been virus and spyware free for 8 years. They are both Windows systems. The DOS system has been virus and spyware free for 15 years.
Yawn? Don't plug into the net? What arrogant uncaring tripe. What kind of jackass gives that sort of a response? Oh, right, an OS snob. People have the right to privacy and surf the net unmolested, no matter the OS they use. ComScore trampled on that right and deserve to burn, so don't turn this around and blame the user.
Awesome! A car built by committee! Gee what could possibly go wrong?
It's that or.... um... IBM used like a 6 pt. font for it's entire document!
Your Honor, I would like to blame Ford Motor Company for selling me a truck that will go 150 MPH. If they hadn't sold me that truck, I wouldn't have gotten this speeding ticket.
See? An obvious sign I am not a lawyer. I completely mixed up the settlement/ruling thing. Okay, so no ruling, no precedent. If not in the courts, maybe this will create 'mind share' of the idea that, yes, my dear Scarlet, the government does give a damn and will attempt to prosecute you.
I am overjoyed to see this precedent established. I am not a lawyer, but I think this ruling can only help other cases, even in other states.
Each charitable group should work with their ability. If you are good at clothes, then so be it. If you are good at food, then so be it. Computer companies are good with computers. Duh! Right? So, solve that need. The needs of these poor countries go beyond just food, water and shelter. They need education so they can lift themselves out of poverty. And since this world is becoming heavily computerized, give them the tools that will benefit them. I fully support any effort to get computers to the poor.
Windows Mobile could fit on the OLPC.
...to just switch to cleaner sources of fuel for cars, businesses and electric plants?