And upgraded to Windows 2000 NT. Seriously. It runs happily on old hardware, an old laptop with 64 MB RAM, 300 Mhz Pentium 3, 2 gig hard disk. I can run most of the apps I throw at it, the few that dont run I dont need on that machine anyway.
Message to Microsoft: Less == More. Forget the Candy Floss and concentrate on making core API run faster and leaner.
I mean... say no more. A nudge is as good as a wink to a blind bat..
Seriously though I dont know what the BBC is doing, smoking its way through £130m PA ($260m) of public money on computer "projects", like re-inventing mplayer/iPlayer/MediaPlayer.. Haven't we already done this? Shouldn't Aunty Beeb leave the hard-coding to the free market & concentrate on what it does best - artistic/jounalistic output?
I am not saying it is not good, its just the idea of storing data as a few electrons of static charge on the input gate of a MOSFET (or WhatEver-FET) for a few years bothers me. Call me old fashioned..
Have one important drawback - they tend to apply only within the host country. Some of these scam^h^h^h^h telesales-marketing companies operate from oversees (ie. from Canada calling EU countries)..
Advert on Amazon Mechanical Turk:
Write OS-X compatible application to Move a file between two filesystem devices..
Time Allotted:: 6 hours. Reward: $10.00..
[As an aside, organ donors in Europe have to opt-out to NOT become an organ donor, i.e., uncheck the box. In the United States, drivers have to opt-in to become an organ donor. The relative rates of donors in Europe is over 80% verses 20% in the United States. This is the power of opt-out and why marketeers fight for it so hard.]
The Meaning of Life: Part Five: Live Organ Transplants.
Hello. Uhh, can we have your liver?
But thanks to Mr Fripp for restating it. Back in his day, people could record the odd bit of music they liked from radio/LP onto tape, and if they *really* liked it, and had a bit of cash, you would go out and buy the LPs - which many of us did, and the record companies & artists made cash. The record companies did not go around with lawyers beating up on Joe Public, because they wanted Joe to keep liking both the labels & the artists, and keep buying the LPs. (I did buy some Fripp LPs).
By the way, whilst not wanting to turn this into Digg, Fripp is an awesome guitarist and musician..
So its basically Root-kitting the BIOS via the Flash-ROM? Ok, you might want to do this to retrieve stolen laptops, but isnt this an obvious security issue? Should there be an open-source BIOS rootkit detector? This might not be too hard - just scan the BIOS ROM, generate checksums and check against a database of legitimate BIOSes..
Windows-ME *was* a sort of Microsoft "Tick-Tock" (annoying-new-buzzword) development - They had the Conservative development line (Win 95-98-ME) and the "New Tech" team for (NT3,NT3.5,NT4,NT2K,XP,Vista)..
Unfortunately ME development was hindered by the "Ballmer Peak".. http://xkcd.com/323/
As a side thought, how far does light travel between clocks at 7Ghz? I make it about 4cm..
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And upgraded to Windows 2000 NT. Seriously. It runs happily on old hardware, an old laptop with 64 MB RAM, 300 Mhz Pentium 3, 2 gig hard disk. I can run most of the apps I throw at it, the few that dont run I dont need on that machine anyway.
Message to Microsoft: Less == More. Forget the Candy Floss and concentrate on making core API run faster and leaner.
Thats no moon, its a er.. Solar Driven Water Cycle..
Why, its a plan that is almost entirely without a drawback, as far as I can see..
Or maybe people with fewer D2 receptors were more cynical by nature, and thought the experiment pointless..
Thats no Odyssey Moon, its a Tycho Magnetic Anomaly!
I mean... say no more. A nudge is as good as a wink to a blind bat..
Seriously though I dont know what the BBC is doing, smoking its way through £130m PA ($260m) of public money on computer "projects", like re-inventing mplayer/iPlayer/MediaPlayer.. Haven't we already done this? Shouldn't Aunty Beeb leave the hard-coding to the free market & concentrate on what it does best - artistic/jounalistic output?
Avasta, SP1, me mateys! Shiver me timbers, look at that wave! Arrrrr!
I am not saying it is not good, its just the idea of storing data as a few electrons of static charge on the input gate of a MOSFET (or WhatEver-FET) for a few years bothers me. Call me old fashioned..
Lead-based paint? Why, that gives me an idea..
A notice in an office-entrance in St Petersburg reads..
Gone phishing..
Have one important drawback - they tend to apply only within the host country. Some of these scam^h^h^h^h telesales-marketing companies operate from oversees (ie. from Canada calling EU countries)..
Did it crash?
No it isn't!
Advert on Amazon Mechanical Turk:
Write OS-X compatible application to Move a file between two filesystem devices..
Time Allotted:: 6 hours. Reward: $10.00..
Wouldn't that be 99.9993145938% ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug
Look, I came here for an argument! Oh, sorry, wrong story..
No it isn't. It's just contradiction.
[As an aside, organ donors in Europe have to opt-out to NOT become an organ donor, i.e., uncheck the box. In the United States, drivers have to opt-in to become an organ donor. The relative rates of donors in Europe is over 80% verses 20% in the United States. This is the power of opt-out and why marketeers fight for it so hard.]
The Meaning of Life: Part Five: Live Organ Transplants.
Hello. Uhh, can we have your liver?
Welcome to GetOffMyLawnBook.com!
But thanks to Mr Fripp for restating it. Back in his day, people could record the odd bit of music they liked from radio/LP onto tape, and if they *really* liked it, and had a bit of cash, you would go out and buy the LPs - which many of us did, and the record companies & artists made cash. The record companies did not go around with lawyers beating up on Joe Public, because they wanted Joe to keep liking both the labels & the artists, and keep buying the LPs. (I did buy some Fripp LPs).
By the way, whilst not wanting to turn this into Digg, Fripp is an awesome guitarist and musician..
And chicks! They got chicks!
Wouldnt Win2k be a better target for conversion than XP? It was *designed* in the days of 2Gb HDs, and can actually do useful work from 64Mb RAM..
Has anyone out there managed to get it to boot and run off Flash?
So its basically Root-kitting the BIOS via the Flash-ROM? Ok, you might want to do this to retrieve stolen laptops, but isnt this an obvious security issue? Should there be an open-source BIOS rootkit detector? This might not be too hard - just scan the BIOS ROM, generate checksums and check against a database of legitimate BIOSes..
Windows-ME *was* a sort of Microsoft "Tick-Tock" (annoying-new-buzzword) development - They had the Conservative development line (Win 95-98-ME) and the "New Tech" team for (NT3,NT3.5,NT4,NT2K,XP,Vista)..
Unfortunately ME development was hindered by the "Ballmer Peak".. http://xkcd.com/323/
As a side thought, how far does light travel between clocks at 7Ghz? I make it about 4cm..
This is happening already..
http://www.ewhisper.net/blog/msn-ignoring-robotstxt-files/
There are ways to block search engines that do this..
http://www.ars.net/bots/