Haha. Having worked for a Super-Platinum-Alpha MS partner before I'll tell you how it works:
You pay your enormous Partner fee every year. Occasionally MS will send someone out with a powerpoint presentation on a 6 month old MSDN article. If you are doing one of these projects, MS will never ever touch it, or help in any way, beyond paid support for a particular product (like anyone else can pay for). They will put an article in MSDN Magazine like "Microsoft and Fagware collaborate to make Some Awesome System". There will be a photo, with the MS rep shaking the clients hand, with your boss half cropped out. They will mention a whole bunch of MS tech that you (probably didnt) use.
Its not like they ever see a single design doc, let alone line of code. They don't do a damn thing beyond telling everyone how they are collaborating with you to build Awesome-X Plus for Important Client.
Also you get to put "Gold Partner" on your website, and MS occasionally refers clients that need someone to implement stuff.
Hrmmmm, so what should I install on my Solaris/Linux box to get distributed transactions across database, high performance message queues, the file system and SOAP services?
Regardless, the bulk of this setup is clustered processing a shitload of data very fast, which is something that COM+ triggers on MSMQ is pretty damn good at. The automation event processing system I work on at the moment can handle a full gigabit eth pipe using MSMQ on my shitty $700 laptop at about 20% cpu, including processing, logging and updating appropriate stuff in a database and HMI app.
Instead of donating energy to run Folding on your inefficient PC, where the results have to be triple-checked - consider just donating money directly to the project instead of via your power bill.
Runtime on a trusted supercomputer / local cluster is going to be an order of magnitude more efficient in terms of data crunched per watt-hour.
The server has been configured that way sure. A protocol negotiation performed by a device is not a contract.
If you put a web server on the net with a bunch of documents in the root, you may have anyone that downloads them charged under whatever 'illegal access' laws your country has. It sounds stupid - but its been done before (people changing URLs to get financial year reports early have been done under this).
I'm not arguing that this is anything but stupid. The law clearly needs to catch up a bit in this area.
That said, if I leave my front door unlocked, that is clearly not permission for you to use my couch. If I leave mail in a box on someones lawn for them to pick up in the morning, its not permission for you to read it because you can.
If some bloke puts up a site on the internet (slash credit card on the bar) for his mates to use, its (completely understandably) arrogant to assume its free for you to use as well. Thats why the give you permission with the legals...
The traditional way is you ask Intel if you can use their patented fabrication processes. If they say no, then you stick with making enormous damn chips that run like comparative ass.
Or you can do an AMD and get the US govt to intervene (they wanted 2 suppliers after they realised Intel at one point supplied like 75% of all 32bit microprocessors).
In her masterpiece "who gives a fuck?", renowned social critic Coward juggles complicated concepts in homosexuality and technology to construct a masterpiece post of pace and metaphor. From the bold and striking opening Coward jumps into a contrasting rhetorical piece. She follows this up with an apparant digression into mortality, which is then wrapped up cleanly in a sudden controversial conclusion.
A compelling read. Four stars.
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Memory is owned by the process, so killing off a thread for a tab won't help you. Worker processes is a traditional form of resiliance for app servers like IIS (presumably Apache too).
Operating systems have already solved the problem of isolation of tasks (processes) so it seems appropriate to use this functionality. Memory is cheap - I put 4gig in a laptop for under a hundred bucks. IE8 seems to be putting more effort into saving memory than Chrome, but TBH I don't think its worth the effort.
Java code generally takes object orientation and builds it up layer after layer until your are foaming at the mouth with ISubEnumeratorFactoryConcreteImplBridges. I cringe every time I have to use an API which has been ported from Java.
Teach them bloody LOGO. Chances are that even that will be too confusing.
A windows OEM license costs them somewhere around $10 a unit. Its lets you average consumer do everything they expect with their PC.
For their consumer base, frankly, Linux offers no benefit.
If they are planning to move a hundred thousand units of this touch shit, they may just save a million bucks. That would come nowhere near the cost of developing and QAing up a Linux based system.
Items like the eeepc? Sure that $10 saving is significant - and nobody expects to run Cockbooks Accounting on it.
This is why I presume you aren't a "Hack'n'Pack MBAs/PHBs/Little White Ball Wacking Executive Management type", because the best technical option is very rarely the best decision for the investors. Just think "Is is good for the Company?". Also I'd like you to come in on the weekend.
Bloody amazing spin considering the presence on touchscreen/multitouch on the MS roadmap. Where is even the slightest hint that this news should be tagged anything but "hp multitouch windows"?
I would've read it as "HP Makes Multitouch Crap to Convert Some Apple Fans and get Ready for Windows 7". I read it cynically as another facade program, like the HTC TouchFlo, to try and ride some free sales by including "iPhone Touch" in a product.
Still, TFA makes me laugh. Could this be the year of the Linucks Multitouching Desktop Running Duke Nukem Forever?
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Haha. Having worked for a Super-Platinum-Alpha MS partner before I'll tell you how it works:
You pay your enormous Partner fee every year. Occasionally MS will send someone out with a powerpoint presentation on a 6 month old MSDN article. If you are doing one of these projects, MS will never ever touch it, or help in any way, beyond paid support for a particular product (like anyone else can pay for). They will put an article in MSDN Magazine like "Microsoft and Fagware collaborate to make Some Awesome System". There will be a photo, with the MS rep shaking the clients hand, with your boss half cropped out. They will mention a whole bunch of MS tech that you (probably didnt) use.
Its not like they ever see a single design doc, let alone line of code. They don't do a damn thing beyond telling everyone how they are collaborating with you to build Awesome-X Plus for Important Client.
Also you get to put "Gold Partner" on your website, and MS occasionally refers clients that need someone to implement stuff.
Developer: Hey cool, weak references!
(one week later...)
Hrmmmm, so what should I install on my Solaris/Linux box to get distributed transactions across database, high performance message queues, the file system and SOAP services?
Regardless, the bulk of this setup is clustered processing a shitload of data very fast, which is something that COM+ triggers on MSMQ is pretty damn good at. The automation event processing system I work on at the moment can handle a full gigabit eth pipe using MSMQ on my shitty $700 laptop at about 20% cpu, including processing, logging and updating appropriate stuff in a database and HMI app.
Instead of donating energy to run Folding on your inefficient PC, where the results have to be triple-checked - consider just donating money directly to the project instead of via your power bill.
Runtime on a trusted supercomputer / local cluster is going to be an order of magnitude more efficient in terms of data crunched per watt-hour.
Oprah doesnt have that bug.
In fact neither does IE... ;)
As in they are famous for starting off a lot of it, but turned out not to be as good at it as they thought?
The GPL is free as in Reiser.
Once you are in jail you have to stay there.
OMG YOU M$ LOVER!!
You know that he was encouraging buying PATENT leather shoes!!! Patents are evil! M$ i$ evil$! You are evil! You am teh suxxors!
From the dark depths of my parents basement I STAB AT THEE!
I saw Bill Gates acting in that one. It was.... enlightening. You just don't fully understand it until they bring out the donkey.
Troll moar?
Any of pda-phones made by HTC absolutely pwn that hands down (unless you consider running Linux a must-have).
Thumbable qwerty, wifi, bluetooth, sd/mmc, gps, touchscreen, stylus, handwriting recognition, audio io, gsm phone, network projector support, are all base functionality these days.
The server has been configured that way sure. A protocol negotiation performed by a device is not a contract.
If you put a web server on the net with a bunch of documents in the root, you may have anyone that downloads them charged under whatever 'illegal access' laws your country has. It sounds stupid - but its been done before (people changing URLs to get financial year reports early have been done under this).
I'm not arguing that this is anything but stupid. The law clearly needs to catch up a bit in this area.
That said, if I leave my front door unlocked, that is clearly not permission for you to use my couch. If I leave mail in a box on someones lawn for them to pick up in the morning, its not permission for you to read it because you can.
If some bloke puts up a site on the internet (slash credit card on the bar) for his mates to use, its (completely understandably) arrogant to assume its free for you to use as well. Thats why the give you permission with the legals...
Your risk. Nobody from facebook told you that you could access their server anonymously.
Bad luck if you want to do fabrication at less than 200nm. Intel has that pretty much locked down with patents.
We (Aussies) sell them loads of our rocks with some iron in them in exchange for those US dollars.
Hey, toilet paper is hard to get in the Outback, and we've got a shitload of rocks.
The traditional way is you ask Intel if you can use their patented fabrication processes. If they say no, then you stick with making enormous damn chips that run like comparative ass.
Or you can do an AMD and get the US govt to intervene (they wanted 2 suppliers after they realised Intel at one point supplied like 75% of all 32bit microprocessors).
If it translates x86 then Intel won't be allowing them to use any of their low-nm fabrication tech. That kinda keeps them out the game from the start.
In her masterpiece "who gives a fuck?", renowned social critic Coward juggles complicated concepts in homosexuality and technology to construct a masterpiece post of pace and metaphor. From the bold and striking opening Coward jumps into a contrasting rhetorical piece. She follows this up with an apparant digression into mortality, which is then wrapped up cleanly in a sudden controversial conclusion.
A compelling read. Four stars.
Memory is owned by the process, so killing off a thread for a tab won't help you. Worker processes is a traditional form of resiliance for app servers like IIS (presumably Apache too).
Operating systems have already solved the problem of isolation of tasks (processes) so it seems appropriate to use this functionality. Memory is cheap - I put 4gig in a laptop for under a hundred bucks. IE8 seems to be putting more effort into saving memory than Chrome, but TBH I don't think its worth the effort.
Tabs in processes make me kinda sad. IE8 is going down that path too.
It kinda strikes me as an admission of "Hey, we suck at teh coding! But its ok, the memory leaks will die along with the process."
Sure this pattern works great for webservers - but I'd like to think a browser should be able to run a scripting environment without sucking cocks.
Yeah I live in Australia and have to deal with the same crap. Its not really Steam's problem - if EA wants region locking bullshit then they get it.
Hopefully publishers will learn from the success of games without it, like TF2.
No, Java would be a terrible idea.
Java code generally takes object orientation and builds it up layer after layer until your are foaming at the mouth with ISubEnumeratorFactoryConcreteImplBridges. I cringe every time I have to use an API which has been ported from Java.
Teach them bloody LOGO. Chances are that even that will be too confusing.
Patents are on methods, not cool ideas and special effects.
You give them too little credit.
A windows OEM license costs them somewhere around $10 a unit. Its lets you average consumer do everything they expect with their PC.
For their consumer base, frankly, Linux offers no benefit.
If they are planning to move a hundred thousand units of this touch shit, they may just save a million bucks. That would come nowhere near the cost of developing and QAing up a Linux based system.
Items like the eeepc? Sure that $10 saving is significant - and nobody expects to run Cockbooks Accounting on it.
This is why I presume you aren't a "Hack'n'Pack MBAs/PHBs/Little White Ball Wacking Executive Management type", because the best technical option is very rarely the best decision for the investors. Just think "Is is good for the Company?". Also I'd like you to come in on the weekend.
Bloody amazing spin considering the presence on touchscreen/multitouch on the MS roadmap. Where is even the slightest hint that this news should be tagged anything but "hp multitouch windows"?
I would've read it as "HP Makes Multitouch Crap to Convert Some Apple Fans and get Ready for Windows 7". I read it cynically as another facade program, like the HTC TouchFlo, to try and ride some free sales by including "iPhone Touch" in a product.
Still, TFA makes me laugh. Could this be the year of the Linucks Multitouching Desktop Running Duke Nukem Forever?