being in the vein of HP-UX than as a replacement for windows
What's the point of that?
HP would have to spend money on development and management of a separate distro (potentially nightmarish)
They would bear the burden of making it user friendly
It would be to a greater or lesser degree non-standard
For the consumer market they'd be better off giving some money every year to Ubuntu and using a branded version of it on their cheaper boxes. HP-UX makes them money, because it has features that run on and exploit the capabilities of their bigger iron.
I agree with BitterOldGUy that it's negotiating strategy and bluffing to get a better deal from MS.
Can someone point us to hard data comparing overall carbon footprint, actual mileage, monetary cost to the consumer, environmental impact, etc. comparing hybrids and conventional cars? I am wondering specifically if the Prius beats a Corolla over a five-year span as a commute car. I suspect it does not, but do not have the facts.
A single, universal "version" from which you can install whatever parts you want (with robust dependency management of course), as well as a price tag of US$50 or less, no expiration, all subsequent updates included, as well as a 10 year supported lifespan.
If all those people in Redmond expect us to pay for their BMWs, first home purchases, pretentious yuppie lifestyles, and their kids' orthodontist bills, they have to give us something worthwhile in return.
They really do need to give us good cause to actually spend cash instead of simply installing GNU/Linux and forgetting about MS altogether.
This is not currently possible. The idea that "when you look at a far-off or partially obscured object without noticing it, your subconscious probably did notice it and tried, unsuccessfully, to identify it [and] EEG in these binoculars would pick up on that kind of subconscious activity and draw the wearer's attention to the object in question" is pure speculation reminiscent of the "Subliminal Seduction" bullshit from the 1970s. Subliminal perception undoubtedly occurs, but this is simple-minded speculation.
One can only wonder whether this is yet more Pentagon disinformation to scare dim-witted Third World generals, like the anti-matter bomb.
By this time in 2010 or so there will be a flood of El Cheapo GNU/Linux boxes, laptops, mini-notebooks, handhelds, appliances, vibrators, toasters, shoe horns, you name it.
1) The tyranny has been directed at the citizens of other countries, so you are lucky.
2) You are, however, paying for it all. That is why our civil infrastructure is crumbling, we are the only industrialized nation without universal health care, the only industrialized nation where citizens must pay fines of tens and even hundreds of thousands of dollars for a college education (I believe we call it "tuition"), and a variety of other severe costs.
You are precisely the sort of person who refuses to face facts and prefers to believe the sappy little stories. Wake up, dude.
Ah, yes. Fellow American citizens grasping at straws to defend our illustrious State's crimes and atrocities. It can't be that our nation has committed crimes! We are here to save the world! We are the best! We are Number 1! We have long ago transcended the tyranny and corruption that plagues the rest of the world, we are fundamentally different!
Unfortunately, we are afflicted with the most corrupt military-industrial-political oligarchy the world has ever known. Need evidence? Read this before you post your standard ignorant redneck knee-jerk responses, or instinctively mod this to "Troll":
A choice excerpt (for those of you unaccustomed to RTFA):
In 2000, the inspector general told Congress that his auditors stopped counting after finding $2.3 trillion in unsupported entries made to force financial data to agree.
I challenge anyone and everyone to post credible data showing that there has been at any time in human history a state which has "lost track of" a greater amount of its citizens wealth. And yet, the morons continue to vote for the thieves.
You are mistaken. Most neurons emit a variable frequency of relatively stereotypical voltage spikes, and it is not a crippling first approximation to assume that all of them do. The minimum interval is about 1 ms. In any case, bump the RAM up to 20 Gb and simulate the frequencies in 16 bits. A factor of two error in RAM is just monetary cost, it is not insurmountable.
The 1 ms minimum re-activation interval is interesting, because given enough CPU cores per RAM bank, the speed of the computer may surpass that of the biological brain.
There are roughly 10^15 synapses in a human brain. If you place 10 Gb of RAM (10^10 bytes) on a 64 bit multicore computer and simulated neuronal activation levels with a one-byte value, it would take a 100,000 such computers (10^10 * 10^5 = 10^15) to pretend they have roughly the synaptic simulation power of a human brain. It is apparently now feasible, at least in principle.
We are ignoring for the moment how the neural network simulators work, how they communicate amongst themselves, how they are partitioned, what sensor inputs they receive, how they are trained (that's a tough one), etc. This will turn out to be extraordinarily difficult unless some very clever people mimic nature in very clever ways.
What is SwiftFuel? Why is it so hard to find out what it is? If it is a hydrocarbon, what is the chemical structure? Is it pure, or a mixture? If it can be swapped out with gasoline, it can't be that complex. Octanes? How many carbons in the chains? Any branching? Any rings? Any multiple bonds? Aromatic? What??
Typically, when things are this shrouded in mystery, they eventually turn out to be bullshit.
Unfortunately, aromatic hydrocarbons produce lots of soot and powerful carcinogens when burned. You really have to wonder why it's so difficult to find anything out about SwiftFuel.
Spend huge amounts of money, becoming further indebted in the process, and only decide why or even whether it should be done after the fact.
I agree wholeheartedly with you. We are, however, in the minority. Far better to send little rovers like the ones that have been so successful on Mars. Less money, vastly more science, only a touch of bullshit.
They exist to generate reports showing how great everything Microsoft makes is. Between reports, they churn out this sort of junk just to keep their name in people's minds. Bear in mind that geeks such as yourself are not their audience. People with neckties and MBAs are, and those people eat this stuff up. They do partly because they are ignorant and gullible about IT, but more importantly because they are in the business of using analyst reports of various types as magical talismans to push their projects through and later defend them if they fail.
It all works out in the end. Rather profitable, as well
That may have had some practical value in the 18th century, but these days it is laughable.
I am totally anti-firearm, but I would just as soon leave the second amendment as is. I have come to the lamentable conclusion that taking it out would be every bit as idiotic as leaving it in, but leaving it in is much easier.
Hmmm... I feel safer killing insurgents in their backyard rather than killing them here, but I am probably strange that way.
Why did we start killing them?
Were they a threat to us?
Were they even there before?
I don't understand how you can express something that clearly has no thought behind it whatsoever, and yet has such colossal, horrible consequences when millions of people like you support what is little more than a band of murderous criminals that has hijacked our government, our armed forces, and our society.
Thanks, Dude. Thanks to you and your kind for helping fuck up the world even more than it already was. Way more.
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Now do you get what it means?
What's the point of that?
For the consumer market they'd be better off giving some money every year to Ubuntu and using a branded version of it on their cheaper boxes. HP-UX makes them money, because it has features that run on and exploit the capabilities of their bigger iron.
I agree with BitterOldGUy that it's negotiating strategy and bluffing to get a better deal from MS.
To paraphrase what they used to say back in the day about IBM, nobody ever got fired for buying into Microsoft.
Can someone point us to hard data comparing overall carbon footprint, actual mileage, monetary cost to the consumer, environmental impact, etc. comparing hybrids and conventional cars? I am wondering specifically if the Prius beats a Corolla over a five-year span as a commute car. I suspect it does not, but do not have the facts.
If all those people in Redmond expect us to pay for their BMWs, first home purchases, pretentious yuppie lifestyles, and their kids' orthodontist bills, they have to give us something worthwhile in return.
They really do need to give us good cause to actually spend cash instead of simply installing GNU/Linux and forgetting about MS altogether.
This is the sad and tragic truth. For further reading: Shock Doctrine, by Naomi Klein. Check out the short promo by Alfonso Cuaron, director of Children of Men .
Let's not forget the current epidemic of using "lead," a heavy metal, with "led," the past tense of a verb.
Yes, it must be difficult to answer the questions after being blown to pieces. Humbled? I'd say that was a perfectly natural reaction.
Variations on "it literally blew me away" as a figurative expression are rampant these days.
One can only wonder whether this is yet more Pentagon disinformation to scare dim-witted Third World generals, like the anti-matter bomb.
AMD wants in on that stuff.
2) You are, however, paying for it all. That is why our civil infrastructure is crumbling, we are the only industrialized nation without universal health care, the only industrialized nation where citizens must pay fines of tens and even hundreds of thousands of dollars for a college education (I believe we call it "tuition"), and a variety of other severe costs.
You are precisely the sort of person who refuses to face facts and prefers to believe the sappy little stories. Wake up, dude.
Unfortunately, we are afflicted with the most corrupt military-industrial-political oligarchy the world has ever known. Need evidence? Read this before you post your standard ignorant redneck knee-jerk responses, or instinctively mod this to "Troll":
The Pentagon's $1 Trillion Problem
A choice excerpt (for those of you unaccustomed to RTFA):
In 2000, the inspector general told Congress that his auditors stopped counting after finding $2.3 trillion in unsupported entries made to force financial data to agree.
I challenge anyone and everyone to post credible data showing that there has been at any time in human history a state which has "lost track of" a greater amount of its citizens wealth. And yet, the morons continue to vote for the thieves.
The 1 ms minimum re-activation interval is interesting, because given enough CPU cores per RAM bank, the speed of the computer may surpass that of the biological brain.
We are ignoring for the moment how the neural network simulators work, how they communicate amongst themselves, how they are partitioned, what sensor inputs they receive, how they are trained (that's a tough one), etc. This will turn out to be extraordinarily difficult unless some very clever people mimic nature in very clever ways.
Well, at least the hardware is there.
Typically, when things are this shrouded in mystery, they eventually turn out to be bullshit.
I agree wholeheartedly with you. We are, however, in the minority. Far better to send little rovers like the ones that have been so successful on Mars. Less money, vastly more science, only a touch of bullshit.
It all works out in the end. Rather profitable, as well
Yikes! October 9, 2007! Not only is it bullshit, but it's stale bullshit!
Thanks!
I am totally anti-firearm, but I would just as soon leave the second amendment as is. I have come to the lamentable conclusion that taking it out would be every bit as idiotic as leaving it in, but leaving it in is much easier.
It is a great tragedy of our times that this viewpoint represents a small minority of our fellow citizens.
Why did we start killing them?
Were they a threat to us?
Were they even there before?
I don't understand how you can express something that clearly has no thought behind it whatsoever, and yet has such colossal, horrible consequences when millions of people like you support what is little more than a band of murderous criminals that has hijacked our government, our armed forces, and our society.
Thanks, Dude. Thanks to you and your kind for helping fuck up the world even more than it already was. Way more.