your Ubuntu installation problem could well have been caused by the fact that flash media uses 1000 megabyte gigabytes, as opposed to the standard 1024 used by traditional hard drives.
You're kidding, right? "Traditional hard drives" almost never use 1024 MB per 1 GB. Hard drive manufacturers have long ago declared that 1 GB is 1000 MB. Heck, I think some manufacturers of hard drives even consider 1 MB = 1000000 B (one megabyte = 1000000 bytes).
If you don't have it in stock, how the fuck are people going to buy it? Finnish salespeople do this crap all the time, not only with Eee PC: There is product A that's good and sells well and it's soon out of stock. Then there's product B, that sorta kinda does the same as A, but much more crappily. But, since A is out of stock, what are people going to do? Buy product B.
This works, because Finns rarely complain. So they'll just get shafted with the crappier product, even though they have a clear preference for the better one.
Same goes for the Linux Eee PCs. OF COURSE the XP version is outselling it - 'cause that one you can buy, while the Linux Eee PC is nowhere to be found. Or, you really, really have to hunt for it.
First, if you're claiming that Gates did say that 640KB should be enough for everyone, it's up to you to prove it by providing an actual citation. You can't expect someone to prove that he didn't say it (as they say, "you can't prove a negative").
The way DOS and Windows (prior to Windows 386, the daddy of Windows 3.1/3.11) were handling memory is evidence that he probably did. It's circumstantial, but overwhelming.
Second, if someone did say "640KB should be enough for everyone", it was true at the time it was allegedly said. The quote doesn't say, "for all time", does it? I read the quote as "640KB should be enough for everyone at this time and for the next few years".
Sigh, first off, it was 640kb of ram, and second off it's not even his quote. And additionally I'm not sure who really said it, but it wasn't Gates.
Can you support your claim - with anything at all? Seeing as how DOS and the first versions of Windows developed, I'd say he definitely did say that 640KB should be enough for everyone.
all three PSUs were fine but the PSU switching gear was bad! Talk about annoying.
Hah! Another example: (hardware) mirrored disk arrays - that is, two separate arrays, mirrored through fiber-channel (over copper) - but the back-up battery for the cache memory breaks down regularly after 2 years of usage! Did I mention that that cache is a single point of failure?
Actually, a reboot is (usually) not the same as a power-up, though newer systems (sadly), both servers and desktops, induce a power surge at reboots. But then, the distinction between cold reboot and hot reboot comes handy.
I think even more than PSU failure, the failure of other components is worrying during power-up. I know for a fact (because I had a project in a lab that deals with component reliability) that electronic circuits have a super-disproportionately high failure rate during power-up.
I don't disagree with anything you said. Neither your post disagreed with anything I said, either:o) The electric surge during power-up does put many of the system's components under risk. Having a rendundant PSU is great, but there still can be components that will release their ghost due to a surge.
The problem is the PSU, which fails most often during power-up. Leaving the servers always on has the advantage of avoiding that particular failure mode. Also, other components in the server are prone to failure during power-up, way more often than at steady state. So, powering up your computers is overall a risky moment.
or to crunch the numbers another way - Windows lost 5.5% of the desktop market in a little over a year..
Are you talking still about these stats? If so, your math is way off. Yes, WinXP + Vista + Win2000 together have lost, but not 5.5%, but only about 1.6%
I've been wondering the exact same thing. The other argument used was that by introducing an electronic voting system, young people would be more willing to vote. That sound like a really shitty plan, because even if they did, this would not be the case the next time because then the whole electronic voting thing would be old news. And, in any case, if people are so very little interested in the society that they don't vote if it's traditional pen-and-paper, some gimmick e-voting parade surely will not make that big a difference.
I agree 100%. If young voters are so capricious that they would be motivated to vote by shiny-shiny, then screw them. I don't need lawmakers elected by brainless zombies. Let them stay home play on their Xboxen or watch their crappy reality show.
Well, at least I voted using pen and paper, and so did the great majority of Finns, and still they had the results ready the same night. Which brings me to a giant WTF: why introduce an electronic system, when good nordic organization will provide poll results the same day anyway?
Which reminds me of "You have found scrolls of ancient wisdom":o) Always nice to get bronze working or ceremonial burial for free. Ah, let me joke a bit, c'mon.
I have several 21st (some from 2008 - the most 21st century you can get) century softwares running on my Windows XP desktop. Do you think I must run Vista?
The reason for poverty is not lack of resources, it is lack of a legal structure that delivers contract enforcement. This means that it is impossible to ahve organisations bigger than a small family with any degree of confidence, except by the use of force.
Couldn't agree more. There are contries (well, at least one) that were able to create a wealthy society from desert. Even transform parts of the desert into woods and arable land. All they had was the right attitude.
Well in this case, Africa might be just one of those places. I mean,what is MS going to do? Give away Windows licenses for free, and throw in Vista-capable PC's as well? (sorry, didn't read the TFA).
What is MS going to do? Bribe high-ranking government officials, that's what. Sorry to say this, but I think MS is going to have a very easy time in most african countries, to have Linux replaced by MS in all schools and government institutions.
Thanks - point taken. I did not know it was an oz site. Adjusted for exchange rates though, the S101 seems the more compelling device still, though it did lose some luster after your correction.
I heard this argument a wee too often. Maybe software should be more useful while at the same time NOT getting slower? Maybe that would be a good thing, as it would then run well on netbooks as well, what do you think?
I was led to understand that there is strong opposition in Turkey to the government interfering in matters of religion, but perhaps that is no longer the case for whatever reason...
For whatever reason? Have you been sleeping under a rock for the last 10 years? I guess you have, so let me get you up to speed: the majority in Turkey are conservative Muslims (of the 99.8% who are Muslim), and they can vote - and they have, indeed, voted in the traditionalist Muslim AKP that got 46.7% of the vote. The AKP had no problem forming a steamrolling government. The AKP has 340 out of 550 seats in parliament!
So that's your "whatever reason". The AKP govt. has been dismantling the pillars of turkish secularism since they first came into power. This is no news, but it's mind boggling that you would be "surprised"?!
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Youse a (relatively) simple confocal optical microscope. It's not _that_ hard. Just LOOK at the damn samples.
your Ubuntu installation problem could well have been caused by the fact that flash media uses 1000 megabyte gigabytes, as opposed to the standard 1024 used by traditional hard drives.
You're kidding, right? "Traditional hard drives" almost never use 1024 MB per 1 GB. Hard drive manufacturers have long ago declared that 1 GB is 1000 MB. Heck, I think some manufacturers of hard drives even consider 1 MB = 1000000 B (one megabyte = 1000000 bytes).
If you don't have it in stock, how the fuck are people going to buy it? Finnish salespeople do this crap all the time, not only with Eee PC: There is product A that's good and sells well and it's soon out of stock. Then there's product B, that sorta kinda does the same as A, but much more crappily. But, since A is out of stock, what are people going to do? Buy product B.
This works, because Finns rarely complain. So they'll just get shafted with the crappier product, even though they have a clear preference for the better one.
Same goes for the Linux Eee PCs. OF COURSE the XP version is outselling it - 'cause that one you can buy, while the Linux Eee PC is nowhere to be found. Or, you really, really have to hunt for it.
First, if you're claiming that Gates did say that 640KB should be enough for everyone, it's up to you to prove it by providing an actual citation. You can't expect someone to prove that he didn't say it (as they say, "you can't prove a negative").
The way DOS and Windows (prior to Windows 386, the daddy of Windows 3.1/3.11) were handling memory is evidence that he probably did. It's circumstantial, but overwhelming.
Second, if someone did say "640KB should be enough for everyone", it was true at the time it was allegedly said. The quote doesn't say, "for all time", does it? I read the quote as "640KB should be enough for everyone at this time and for the next few years".
I agree with that.
Sigh, first off, it was 640kb of ram, and second off it's not even his quote. And additionally I'm not sure who really said it, but it wasn't Gates.
Can you support your claim - with anything at all? Seeing as how DOS and the first versions of Windows developed, I'd say he definitely did say that 640KB should be enough for everyone.
except non-compete agreements were ruled unconstitutional
And rightly so, I shall add. Non-compete agreements are total crap and I hope IBM gets smacked down hard in court over this frivolous lawsuit.
What, you thought I was going to support IBM on this one? Don't believe everything you read in the subject line ;o)
I and others who do not spend time and money on Spore and other such online or otherwise game, have more of a sex life than those who do.
This is yet another proof that 99.9% of consumers are sheep.
Is there a demografic less likely to vote, than WoW players?
all three PSUs were fine but the PSU switching gear was bad! Talk about annoying.
Hah! Another example: (hardware) mirrored disk arrays - that is, two separate arrays, mirrored through fiber-channel (over copper) - but the back-up battery for the cache memory breaks down regularly after 2 years of usage! Did I mention that that cache is a single point of failure?
Actually, a reboot is (usually) not the same as a power-up, though newer systems (sadly), both servers and desktops, induce a power surge at reboots. But then, the distinction between cold reboot and hot reboot comes handy.
I think even more than PSU failure, the failure of other components is worrying during power-up. I know for a fact (because I had a project in a lab that deals with component reliability) that electronic circuits have a super-disproportionately high failure rate during power-up.
I don't disagree with anything you said. Neither your post disagreed with anything I said, either :o) The electric surge during power-up does put many of the system's components under risk. Having a rendundant PSU is great, but there still can be components that will release their ghost due to a surge.
The problem is the PSU, which fails most often during power-up. Leaving the servers always on has the advantage of avoiding that particular failure mode. Also, other components in the server are prone to failure during power-up, way more often than at steady state. So, powering up your computers is overall a risky moment.
or to crunch the numbers another way - Windows lost 5.5% of the desktop market in a little over a year..
Are you talking still about these stats? If so, your math is way off. Yes, WinXP + Vista + Win2000 together have lost, but not 5.5%, but only about 1.6%
I've been wondering the exact same thing. The other argument used was that by introducing an electronic voting system, young people would be more willing to vote. That sound like a really shitty plan, because even if they did, this would not be the case the next time because then the whole electronic voting thing would be old news. And, in any case, if people are so very little interested in the society that they don't vote if it's traditional pen-and-paper, some gimmick e-voting parade surely will not make that big a difference.
I agree 100%. If young voters are so capricious that they would be motivated to vote by shiny-shiny, then screw them. I don't need lawmakers elected by brainless zombies. Let them stay home play on their Xboxen or watch their crappy reality show.
My previous employer, how nice ;o)
Well, at least I voted using pen and paper, and so did the great majority of Finns, and still they had the results ready the same night. Which brings me to a giant WTF: why introduce an electronic system, when good nordic organization will provide poll results the same day anyway?
Which reminds me of "You have found scrolls of ancient wisdom" :o) Always nice to get bronze working or ceremonial burial for free. Ah, let me joke a bit, c'mon.
I have several 21st (some from 2008 - the most 21st century you can get) century softwares running on my Windows XP desktop. Do you think I must run Vista?
The reason for poverty is not lack of resources, it is lack of a legal structure that delivers contract enforcement. This means that it is impossible to ahve organisations bigger than a small family with any degree of confidence, except by the use of force.
Couldn't agree more. There are contries (well, at least one) that were able to create a wealthy society from desert. Even transform parts of the desert into woods and arable land. All they had was the right attitude.
Well in this case, Africa might be just one of those places. I mean ,what is MS going to do? Give away Windows licenses for free, and throw in Vista-capable PC's as well? (sorry, didn't read the TFA).
What is MS going to do? Bribe high-ranking government officials, that's what. Sorry to say this, but I think MS is going to have a very easy time in most african countries, to have Linux replaced by MS in all schools and government institutions.
I'm not getting the point. Was that a joke?
Thanks - point taken. I did not know it was an oz site. Adjusted for exchange rates though, the S101 seems the more compelling device still, though it did lose some luster after your correction.
I heard this argument a wee too often. Maybe software should be more useful while at the same time NOT getting slower? Maybe that would be a good thing, as it would then run well on netbooks as well, what do you think?
The S101 is much lighter, thinner, cheaper ($899) and has a longer battery life.
There is not one single characteristic where the Mini would beat the S101.
Disclaimer: I own both Asus and Dell notebooks, and am very satisfied with both.
I was led to understand that there is strong opposition in Turkey to the government interfering in matters of religion, but perhaps that is no longer the case for whatever reason...
For whatever reason? Have you been sleeping under a rock for the last 10 years? I guess you have, so let me get you up to speed: the majority in Turkey are conservative Muslims (of the 99.8% who are Muslim), and they can vote - and they have, indeed, voted in the traditionalist Muslim AKP that got 46.7% of the vote. The AKP had no problem forming a steamrolling government. The AKP has 340 out of 550 seats in parliament!
So that's your "whatever reason". The AKP govt. has been dismantling the pillars of turkish secularism since they first came into power. This is no news, but it's mind boggling that you would be "surprised"?!