The solution with "allow" won't work, because it's wide open to abuse: MS offers a sweet deal to OEM, and so OEM "decides" they don't really need to bundle anything besides IE.
You cannot compare a web browser to the other crappy apps that are usually bundled with Windows by OEMs. A browser is becoming an operating system all in itself, and it's the window into the world, for the new generations. You bet your ass that Microsoft is going to fight for IE to be the only browser in town.
That's why simply allowing OEMs to bundle other browsers is not going to work, while forcing them (so they don't have any excuse to drop the non-IE browsers) has a chance to achieve something.
Hey, I didn't even think about tritium for betavoltaics! I mean, I knew about it, but in this context it didn't come to my mind that tritium would be valuable and hence not used for fusion.
Incidently, I'm (partly) in the implantable energy sources field (in MEMS), so this topic is extremely exciting to me. However, I like to think that the ultimate solution are the various energy scavenging devices, which could be implanted and left in the body till for the person's lifetime. Various single-chamber fuel cells, micro-thermopiles and mechanical energy scavengers. Etc. (including tech not yet invented:o) )
Choice, many times becomes really fast synonym of fragmentation and lack of standard. And this is just a bright example. The situation described is 100% conforming to reality, as far as UI kits and sound infrastructure.
Thank you very much for mentioning the sound infrastructure. Though there is fragmentation (OSS vs. ALSA), I would say the bigger problem here is that ALSA is shit, but it's the one most often supported. In fact, I think all current distros support ALSA, unfortunately!
Just one question (great post, btw.): in the reaction you mention, tritium is produced (and hydrogen). Tritium itself is easily fusible, if I'm not mistaken, so basically you could go on and do another fusion step that would (I'm totally out of my depth here) helium. I guess this would add to the total energy produced?
but some newspapers will die. The world is changing, and what made lots of money in the past, makes less money today. Some news outlets will still find a way to be profitable, but it's a shrinking pie.
the thing is, if you want to run current games, you will have to spend about that same amount every 18 months or even sooner.
It just isn't right: game developer should settle down once and for all, and make games that run on a 1 year old platform just as their 1 year old games did/do. Luckily I'm not a gamer (not a fanatical one anyway) or I'd be bankrupt.
I wouldn't use the word "admire". I'd say I respect them as one would respect something or someone truly dangerous, capable of inflicting great harm. I do agree that it was a good strategy, from the position in which they were (and are). The fact that they placed themselves squarely in the position of a pariah state allowed them also to massively deploy chemical warfare, which amplifies the devastating effect of aforementioned artillery. All in all, "well played".
A 1 kiloton explosive device (let alone a nuclear one) is much more dangerous than "truck full of fertilizer". The former will flatten a 200mx200m block of buildings, the latter will do that to one single building. Let me remind you that 1 kiloton means 1000 tons of TNT. That's equivalent to a LOT of fertilizer.
Secondly North Korea has vast amounts of artillery aimed at Seoul, the capital of South Korea. It is theorized that if attacked they would shell Seoul.
This point can't be emphasized enough: not only are there literally thousands of (somewhat crude) artillery pieces along the North/South Korean border, but it's widely believed that they are equipped with chemical warfare shells. In practice, North Korea doesn't really need nukes to bring massive devastation and megadeaths to South Korea: their artillery can do much more damage than a dozen 50 Kiloton nukes. Before taken out, the Korean artillery can bring pandemonium to the South, and the NK leadership wouldn't hesitate a second to do this - after all, they didn't much mind about millions of their own people who starved to death, or hundreds of thousands being killed in their concentration camps.
And that counts as one of the stupidest scripts in Sci-Fi cinema history - definitely a let-down from the original. Two flying thumbs way down, for sure.
Thanks for your "insightful" words (great job, mods)! I'll be sure to relay that information to myself as a 19 year old the next time I'm twelve years in the past.
What does a twelve years old have to do with anything? We're not dealing with minors here.
Yeah, that makes sense. Though Russia had its share of very own, homegrown scientists, many have fled after the revolution, and Stalin's Russia just wasn't conducive to creativity. Stalin made sure the most popular people (in any field) got executed. Luckily (for me), Shostakowich managed to kiss enough ass to survive. I love his music.
What's the betting we'll see an army of Microsoft reps at the OEMs making them "offers they can't refuse" to ensure IE is their "independent choice". Nudge nudge, wink wink;) Just keep the deal under you hat and keep marking "...... recommends Windows" on all your marketing stuff.
Well, if MS does that, it may be wallet time again for Ballmer.
Ubuntustudio won't solve jack. I need to control (with a MIDI sequencer, obviously) 6 synthesizers, and get MIDI data from one synth and another MIDI keyboard. I need to feed MIDI sync signals to an SH-101. I also need some analog-modeling softsynth, also controllable by abovementioned MIDI sequencer. Ubuntustudio won't do 1% of what I listed.
I can do all that in Windows, OS X and even BeOS! Yes, the ye-old BeOS spanks the newest, music-oriented Linux.
I come from a country that used to import Chinese crap way before that became "fashionable", and let me tell you, chinese products had a reputation of being crap already 30 years ago. With the trend in engineering as mentioned in the summary, things hadn't improved. Sadly, such lack in QC (or simply disregard for human life) extends to chinese food products as well. For that reason, I never ever buy any food or cosmetic product made in china, and actually avoid everything else whenever possible. Last time when my wife found this "lovely dinosaurus-shaped puppet", I was forced to buy it even though was china-made.
As for russian technical products, this is (or used to be, at least up until 15 years ago, I'm not up to date on their latest trends in production) a very weird mix of excellent quality parts and abysmal quality parts, assembled together with the greatest attention about 50% of the time, but also assembled together with half-arsed nonchalance the rest of the time. And often the two approaches at assembling are found in the same product. This results in an analog oscilloscope that would otherwise last forever and have excellent measurement parameters, if it wasn't for the CRT that, when produced, didn't quite meet the vacuum tolerances, and the capacitors in the probe being made from spit. Just for one example.
For whatever reason, the great majority of Slashdotters would like to believe that MLC-based SSD (solid-state disks) are just as good as SLC-based ones. That's bollocks. SLC will last at least 100 times longer than MLC flash RAM. If your application writes often to flash, the device with SLC will last 100 times longer, but most likely even more than that. That's the difference between a device breaking ("expiring") in 100 days vs. in 30+ years.
In the summary they mention Germany equipment that lasts forever. In the shed of my parent's house there is an electric switch made by Siemens, from before WW2 - and it works perfectly to this day! Sure, it's a simple device, but it had to survive countless switchings, and in a rather polluted environment (industrial zone nearby, with oil refinery, iron foundry etc.). The switch is still impeccable both electrically as well as mechanically.
Why don't you leak this to the media? Your city newspaper's investigative journalist could make this into a juicy story, and you would do some good to the people of your city (I hope that last part motivates you).
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The solution with "allow" won't work, because it's wide open to abuse: MS offers a sweet deal to OEM, and so OEM "decides" they don't really need to bundle anything besides IE.
You cannot compare a web browser to the other crappy apps that are usually bundled with Windows by OEMs. A browser is becoming an operating system all in itself, and it's the window into the world, for the new generations. You bet your ass that Microsoft is going to fight for IE to be the only browser in town.
That's why simply allowing OEMs to bundle other browsers is not going to work, while forcing them (so they don't have any excuse to drop the non-IE browsers) has a chance to achieve something.
Hey, I didn't even think about tritium for betavoltaics! I mean, I knew about it, but in this context it didn't come to my mind that tritium would be valuable and hence not used for fusion.
Incidently, I'm (partly) in the implantable energy sources field (in MEMS), so this topic is extremely exciting to me. However, I like to think that the ultimate solution are the various energy scavenging devices, which could be implanted and left in the body till for the person's lifetime. Various single-chamber fuel cells, micro-thermopiles and mechanical energy scavengers. Etc. (including tech not yet invented :o) )
Choice, many times becomes really fast synonym of fragmentation and lack of standard. And this is just a bright example. The situation described is 100% conforming to reality, as far as UI kits and sound infrastructure.
Thank you very much for mentioning the sound infrastructure. Though there is fragmentation (OSS vs. ALSA), I would say the bigger problem here is that ALSA is shit, but it's the one most often supported. In fact, I think all current distros support ALSA, unfortunately!
Just one question (great post, btw.): in the reaction you mention, tritium is produced (and hydrogen). Tritium itself is easily fusible, if I'm not mistaken, so basically you could go on and do another fusion step that would (I'm totally out of my depth here) helium. I guess this would add to the total energy produced?
but some newspapers will die. The world is changing, and what made lots of money in the past, makes less money today. Some news outlets will still find a way to be profitable, but it's a shrinking pie.
Folding at Home GPU clients don't require all this graphics RAM. You would probably do just as well with two GTX295.
You should show him the news report of the Co$ spokesperson admitting that it WAS church doctrine...
That sounds interesting. Do you have any links?
SAP is how Lucifer interacts with our world.
I thought that was through Lotus Notes applications. They definitely emanate a creepy feeling, and nobody who used them kept his/her sanity.
"Etimology" of the word moran ;o)
I don't know where this thread is going, but don't forget about the virgins!
the thing is, if you want to run current games, you will have to spend about that same amount every 18 months or even sooner.
It just isn't right: game developer should settle down once and for all, and make games that run on a 1 year old platform just as their 1 year old games did/do. Luckily I'm not a gamer (not a fanatical one anyway) or I'd be bankrupt.
I wouldn't use the word "admire". I'd say I respect them as one would respect something or someone truly dangerous, capable of inflicting great harm. I do agree that it was a good strategy, from the position in which they were (and are). The fact that they placed themselves squarely in the position of a pariah state allowed them also to massively deploy chemical warfare, which amplifies the devastating effect of aforementioned artillery. All in all, "well played".
A 1 kiloton explosive device (let alone a nuclear one) is much more dangerous than "truck full of fertilizer". The former will flatten a 200mx200m block of buildings, the latter will do that to one single building. Let me remind you that 1 kiloton means 1000 tons of TNT. That's equivalent to a LOT of fertilizer.
I agree with the rest of your post, though.
Secondly North Korea has vast amounts of artillery aimed at Seoul, the capital of South Korea. It is theorized that if attacked they would shell Seoul.
This point can't be emphasized enough: not only are there literally thousands of (somewhat crude) artillery pieces along the North/South Korean border, but it's widely believed that they are equipped with chemical warfare shells. In practice, North Korea doesn't really need nukes to bring massive devastation and megadeaths to South Korea: their artillery can do much more damage than a dozen 50 Kiloton nukes. Before taken out, the Korean artillery can bring pandemonium to the South, and the NK leadership wouldn't hesitate a second to do this - after all, they didn't much mind about millions of their own people who starved to death, or hundreds of thousands being killed in their concentration camps.
Bah. Open and documented standsrds are just as if not more important than using Linux or any other OS.
That sounds a lot like the plot of the fucked-up version of The Andromeda Strain (2008)
And that counts as one of the stupidest scripts in Sci-Fi cinema history - definitely a let-down from the original. Two flying thumbs way down, for sure.
Thanks for your "insightful" words (great job, mods)! I'll be sure to relay that information to myself as a 19 year old the next time I'm twelve years in the past.
What does a twelve years old have to do with anything? We're not dealing with minors here.
Yeah, that makes sense. Though Russia had its share of very own, homegrown scientists, many have fled after the revolution, and Stalin's Russia just wasn't conducive to creativity. Stalin made sure the most popular people (in any field) got executed. Luckily (for me), Shostakowich managed to kiss enough ass to survive. I love his music.
Not to mention the fact that this man has seen a bit of asphalt. He has lived (and hopefully still is) a great life.
What's the betting we'll see an army of Microsoft reps at the OEMs making them "offers they can't refuse" to ensure IE is their "independent choice". Nudge nudge, wink wink ;) Just keep the deal under you hat and keep marking "...... recommends Windows" on all your marketing stuff.
Well, if MS does that, it may be wallet time again for Ballmer.
Ubuntustudio won't solve jack. I need to control (with a MIDI sequencer, obviously) 6 synthesizers, and get MIDI data from one synth and another MIDI keyboard. I need to feed MIDI sync signals to an SH-101. I also need some analog-modeling softsynth, also controllable by abovementioned MIDI sequencer. Ubuntustudio won't do 1% of what I listed.
I can do all that in Windows, OS X and even BeOS! Yes, the ye-old BeOS spanks the newest, music-oriented Linux.
I come from a country that used to import Chinese crap way before that became "fashionable", and let me tell you, chinese products had a reputation of being crap already 30 years ago. With the trend in engineering as mentioned in the summary, things hadn't improved. Sadly, such lack in QC (or simply disregard for human life) extends to chinese food products as well. For that reason, I never ever buy any food or cosmetic product made in china, and actually avoid everything else whenever possible. Last time when my wife found this "lovely dinosaurus-shaped puppet", I was forced to buy it even though was china-made.
As for russian technical products, this is (or used to be, at least up until 15 years ago, I'm not up to date on their latest trends in production) a very weird mix of excellent quality parts and abysmal quality parts, assembled together with the greatest attention about 50% of the time, but also assembled together with half-arsed nonchalance the rest of the time. And often the two approaches at assembling are found in the same product. This results in an analog oscilloscope that would otherwise last forever and have excellent measurement parameters, if it wasn't for the CRT that, when produced, didn't quite meet the vacuum tolerances, and the capacitors in the probe being made from spit. Just for one example.
Thank you for mentioning MLC flash RAM.
For whatever reason, the great majority of Slashdotters would like to believe that MLC-based SSD (solid-state disks) are just as good as SLC-based ones. That's bollocks. SLC will last at least 100 times longer than MLC flash RAM. If your application writes often to flash, the device with SLC will last 100 times longer, but most likely even more than that. That's the difference between a device breaking ("expiring") in 100 days vs. in 30+ years.
In the summary they mention Germany equipment that lasts forever. In the shed of my parent's house there is an electric switch made by Siemens, from before WW2 - and it works perfectly to this day! Sure, it's a simple device, but it had to survive countless switchings, and in a rather polluted environment (industrial zone nearby, with oil refinery, iron foundry etc.). The switch is still impeccable both electrically as well as mechanically.
Why don't you leak this to the media? Your city newspaper's investigative journalist could make this into a juicy story, and you would do some good to the people of your city (I hope that last part motivates you).