I think the web is browsed much more by devices other than PCs. I would expect IE market share to drop given all the browsing done by Android phones, iPhones, iPads and various other non-PC devices. I suspect this statistic is reflecting the drop in the percentage of web browsing done by Windows based PCs.
The school board my wife teaches in, only accepts marks submitted on floppy disk. The software they use is ancient and they never change their procedures. Schools are having a hard time keeping computers with floppies running for teachers to use.
Look at the GWT blog: http://googlewebtoolkit.blogspot.com/2010/04/look-ma-no-plugin.html. Here is a webkit browser running Quake II in JavaScript at 60 fps. This is what they will be competing with. Again MS is starting from behind and falling further behind. When I measure Javascript performance in IE9, I can't see a difference form IE8, not sure if this is debug code in IE9 or just the JS I'm using, but so far, not particularly impressed.
Or is Viacom just suing to remove the competition. After all the sneezing panda video was way more popular than any Viacom show. They don't like being beaten in the ratings by home videos taken at the zoo.
The only American company China cares about is WalMart. As long as all the crap WalMart sells is manufactured in China, the Chinese are happy. If WalMart promoted all manufacturing by their suppliers to move elsewhere (like they promoted it to move to China in the first place), then it would severely damage the Chinese economy. China is a manufacturing economy, that is what they will protect. They give lip service to the information economy, but really can't abide by what it implies.
I thought having to buy Windows was the tax. After all it allows all the malware in the first place. Why not just make Microsoft liable for its security vulnerabilities to pay for this?
Seems to me that the only possible ways to develop a time machine or starship warp drive are from manufacturing and harnessing Black Holes. We need to poke a singularity in the fabric of the universe to get around some hard limits like the speed of light. The trick then is how to arrange them geometrically to get the desired result (and how to control them to do this). Seems like really worthwhile research.
I'm posting this in Chrome, so ChromeOS should be excellent for posting anti-MS comments on Slashdot. I won't need Windoze anymore. Can't wait. It's even spell checking this post (not that I pay attention to all those little red squiggles).
Add to the TCO, the lost productivity because computers running MS Windows, are so much slower because of the overhead of AV software, anti-spybot, anti-adware, popup blockers and such. Every packet that comes and goes from the network and/or disk is scanned several times. Its amazing how fast a Windows computer can be if you turn all these off (and how quickly it will become infected).
From this article, I couldn't tell, but my real interest is in how Google does massively distributed in-memory databases. That is the technology I'm most interested in. I don't really care so much about the other stuff. Is this what Google runs? Or just an academic side project?
Definitely sucks. Specially if you just want to back up all your digital photos. At least technology stays ahead. They passed the law on CDs and haven't got around to extending it to blank DVDs fortunately. Now we have a minority government so hopefully things will stay deadlocked.
Seems somewhat like the blank CD media tax we have in Canada. Supposedly this tax on blank CDs (which is about equal to the price of the blank CD), goes to musicians to compensate them for piracy. The RIAA still considers piracy illegal, but once something is taxed it essentially becomes legal since the government has recognized it as such.
Now I have an excuse to leave my sprinkler on for days on end. I'm not only combating global warming, but I'll have a really green lush lawn as well. Never mind all this water conservation nonsense, its just bad for global warming.
I think that's a lot of BS. The EV1 batteries (and all the newer ones developed since) last the life of the car and are less toxic than batteries currently put in gas powered cars, that need to be replaced every 5 years or so. Sounds like scare tactics from an gas auto industry schill.
We have the same problem. Here in Vancouver we in the 1930s we had an electric trolley system that spread to communities nearly 100km from Vancouver (all the way to Chilliwack). Now you are lucky to find a bus or train that goes 20km. Again here in North America, we are so far behind Europe and the rest of the world.
I certainly believe in bicycles and I guess my preference would be bikes over cars. I really like what Amsterdam has done to be bike friendly. But if we must have cars, I would rather have electric cars than gas or hydrogen.
No, they definitely need maintenance. Certainly the brakes will be the same. Just will be way less maintenance than gas cars. The key thing with electric cars is that the engine is far more efficient than either gas or hydrogen, so you burn far less fossil fuels charging the electric cars than gas or hydrogen cars. Certainly you need power stations, but one advantage is you can also power up at your house, so you don't need nearly as many powerup stations.
The movie "Who Killed the Electric Car", showed hydrogen powered cars as just a huge delaying tactic used by GM/Ford/Chrysler to delay an alternative to gas. They had commercially viable electric cars (which they crushed) that were far more efficient than hydrogen will ever be, but didn't want to switch. A main reason being that you don't get all the other revenue from electricity like oil changes, selling gas, etc., etc.
Exclellent movie, well worth watching. Really makes you want to see the big three go under rather then receive another big subsidy.
I thought the point of quantum cryptography was to break codes. Ie it provides a good algorithm to factor large numbers into primes, thus allowing governments with large expensive quantum computers to crack various SSL or other encrypted traffic. So I guess the economic value is that it provides a market (namely spy agencies) for expensive quantum computers.
I think it will provide a good way to get good marketing data. For instance count the number of Windows Updates by Windows version to see what the true market share of 98/2000/XP/Vista really is. See the market share of various Linux's and other programs that automatically update or call home. Would be good to see real data, since these would be systems in use and not shelfware. Much better than relying on estimates by places like Gartner or Forrester. I'll have to get the market research department on this right away!
Due to the big boys buying up the little guys there isn't much competition. Plans are expensive and there are all sorts of extra fees. Most bill probably run $50.00 / month. Now compare that to India where a basic cell phone package is $0.50 / month and Canadians certainly aren't paid 100x Indians. So obviously there is something wrong in most cell phone markets.
I never had the impression OpenGL was trying to be a games platform. I think there are two distinct 3D libraries needed. One for actuate rendering, where its ok to take several minutes (or days) to render an image, and then the games platforms. I would rather see OpenGL be mathematically correct and be a great rendering engine. Not a games engine. Then if we need a competitor to DirectX on Linux/Mac, maybe we could persuade Sony or Nintendo to open source their games engines. After all the PS3 and Wii are the main competitors to DirectX. Not sure what the chances are, but maybe open sourcing their environment would put more interest back into PS3 development (which really seems to be lacking).
A few months ago I flew to Kuala Lumpur and Chennai via Hong Kong. I went through security at all three of these airports and didn't have to take my laptop out of my bag at any of them. Plus Kuala Lumpur has had problems and security is very tight, plus the Chinese are very thorough in Hong Kong, so I don't think its a matter of lighter security at these airports (well Chennai might be a little light).
When MS threatened to end support for VB6 and only support VB.Net, many enterprise customers refused to buy support contracts since they couldn't be bothered to port to.Net and what's the point in paying if what they do is unsupported. It will be the same situation with XP, since people are using that, they will only pay for support for that. MS wants the money (very much) and will back down. Especially if people don't buy Vista computers and Mac's market share continues to sky rocket.
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I think the web is browsed much more by devices other than PCs. I would expect IE market share to drop given all the browsing done by Android phones, iPhones, iPads and various other non-PC devices. I suspect this statistic is reflecting the drop in the percentage of web browsing done by Windows based PCs.
The school board my wife teaches in, only accepts marks submitted on floppy disk. The software they use is ancient and they never change their procedures. Schools are having a hard time keeping computers with floppies running for teachers to use.
Look at the GWT blog: http://googlewebtoolkit.blogspot.com/2010/04/look-ma-no-plugin.html. Here is a webkit browser running Quake II in JavaScript at 60 fps. This is what they will be competing with. Again MS is starting from behind and falling further behind. When I measure Javascript performance in IE9, I can't see a difference form IE8, not sure if this is debug code in IE9 or just the JS I'm using, but so far, not particularly impressed.
More like New York to Peuto Rico or Guam.
Or is Viacom just suing to remove the competition. After all the sneezing panda video was way more popular than any Viacom show. They don't like being beaten in the ratings by home videos taken at the zoo.
The only American company China cares about is WalMart. As long as all the crap WalMart sells is manufactured in China, the Chinese are happy. If WalMart promoted all manufacturing by their suppliers to move elsewhere (like they promoted it to move to China in the first place), then it would severely damage the Chinese economy. China is a manufacturing economy, that is what they will protect. They give lip service to the information economy, but really can't abide by what it implies.
I thought having to buy Windows was the tax. After all it allows all the malware in the first place. Why not just make Microsoft liable for its security vulnerabilities to pay for this?
Seems to me that the only possible ways to develop a time machine or starship warp drive are from manufacturing and harnessing Black Holes. We need to poke a singularity in the fabric of the universe to get around some hard limits like the speed of light. The trick then is how to arrange them geometrically to get the desired result (and how to control them to do this). Seems like really worthwhile research.
I'm posting this in Chrome, so ChromeOS should be excellent for posting anti-MS comments on Slashdot. I won't need Windoze anymore. Can't wait. It's even spell checking this post (not that I pay attention to all those little red squiggles).
Add to the TCO, the lost productivity because computers running MS Windows, are so much slower because of the overhead of AV software, anti-spybot, anti-adware, popup blockers and such. Every packet that comes and goes from the network and/or disk is scanned several times. Its amazing how fast a Windows computer can be if you turn all these off (and how quickly it will become infected).
From this article, I couldn't tell, but my real interest is in how Google does massively distributed in-memory databases. That is the technology I'm most interested in. I don't really care so much about the other stuff. Is this what Google runs? Or just an academic side project?
Definitely sucks. Specially if you just want to back up all your digital photos. At least technology stays ahead. They passed the law on CDs and haven't got around to extending it to blank DVDs fortunately. Now we have a minority government so hopefully things will stay deadlocked.
Seems somewhat like the blank CD media tax we have in Canada. Supposedly this tax on blank CDs (which is about equal to the price of the blank CD), goes to musicians to compensate them for piracy. The RIAA still considers piracy illegal, but once something is taxed it essentially becomes legal since the government has recognized it as such.
Now I have an excuse to leave my sprinkler on for days on end. I'm not only combating global warming, but I'll have a really green lush lawn as well. Never mind all this water conservation nonsense, its just bad for global warming.
I think that's a lot of BS. The EV1 batteries (and all the newer ones developed since) last the life of the car and are less toxic than batteries currently put in gas powered cars, that need to be replaced every 5 years or so. Sounds like scare tactics from an gas auto industry schill.
We have the same problem. Here in Vancouver we in the 1930s we had an electric trolley system that spread to communities nearly 100km from Vancouver (all the way to Chilliwack). Now you are lucky to find a bus or train that goes 20km. Again here in North America, we are so far behind Europe and the rest of the world.
I certainly believe in bicycles and I guess my preference would be bikes over cars. I really like what Amsterdam has done to be bike friendly. But if we must have cars, I would rather have electric cars than gas or hydrogen.
No, they definitely need maintenance. Certainly the brakes will be the same. Just will be way less maintenance than gas cars. The key thing with electric cars is that the engine is far more efficient than either gas or hydrogen, so you burn far less fossil fuels charging the electric cars than gas or hydrogen cars. Certainly you need power stations, but one advantage is you can also power up at your house, so you don't need nearly as many powerup stations.
Exclellent movie, well worth watching. Really makes you want to see the big three go under rather then receive another big subsidy.
I thought the point of quantum cryptography was to break codes. Ie it provides a good algorithm to factor large numbers into primes, thus allowing governments with large expensive quantum computers to crack various SSL or other encrypted traffic. So I guess the economic value is that it provides a market (namely spy agencies) for expensive quantum computers.
I think it will provide a good way to get good marketing data. For instance count the number of Windows Updates by Windows version to see what the true market share of 98/2000/XP/Vista really is. See the market share of various Linux's and other programs that automatically update or call home. Would be good to see real data, since these would be systems in use and not shelfware. Much better than relying on estimates by places like Gartner or Forrester. I'll have to get the market research department on this right away!
Due to the big boys buying up the little guys there isn't much competition. Plans are expensive and there are all sorts of extra fees. Most bill probably run $50.00 / month. Now compare that to India where a basic cell phone package is $0.50 / month and Canadians certainly aren't paid 100x Indians. So obviously there is something wrong in most cell phone markets.
I never had the impression OpenGL was trying to be a games platform. I think there are two distinct 3D libraries needed. One for actuate rendering, where its ok to take several minutes (or days) to render an image, and then the games platforms. I would rather see OpenGL be mathematically correct and be a great rendering engine. Not a games engine. Then if we need a competitor to DirectX on Linux/Mac, maybe we could persuade Sony or Nintendo to open source their games engines. After all the PS3 and Wii are the main competitors to DirectX. Not sure what the chances are, but maybe open sourcing their environment would put more interest back into PS3 development (which really seems to be lacking).
A few months ago I flew to Kuala Lumpur and Chennai via Hong Kong. I went through security at all three of these airports and didn't have to take my laptop out of my bag at any of them. Plus Kuala Lumpur has had problems and security is very tight, plus the Chinese are very thorough in Hong Kong, so I don't think its a matter of lighter security at these airports (well Chennai might be a little light).
When MS threatened to end support for VB6 and only support VB.Net, many enterprise customers refused to buy support contracts since they couldn't be bothered to port to .Net and what's the point in paying if what they do is unsupported. It will be the same situation with XP, since people are using that, they will only pay for support for that. MS wants the money (very much) and will back down. Especially if people don't buy Vista computers and Mac's market share continues to sky rocket.