The guy heading this thing up is Jonathan Schaeffer. He wrote the Chinook program that was the draughts(checkers to you and me) championship. So there are some heavy hitters behind this thing.
How many slashdotters here are using aol? i challenge you to reveal yourselves.
While I use DSL at home, I pay for AOL service for my mom and dad. They are old and find AOL to be the simplest thing for them to use, and they never do anything that would require them to use anything faster.
I disagree with this guy. The average automobile has over 300 processors in it. Why would a computer max out at 64?
Part of the reason for this is that things become easier when you have a separate processor running things. Instead of having a single processor share time between the cruise control, the engine controller, turning signals, variable speed wipers, etc... you just have a different processor for each and glue them together. I suspect that once processors become ubiquitous software engineers will learn this and use up all the processors as well to make simpler code.
Sadly you aren't too far off the mark. I had a friend who was waiting for security clearance. His job was to sit on a stool (literally) for the first of couple of months while waiting for clearance.
I honestly believe that they are trying to give out complete information. It's just that they have 20 years of spaghetti code to somehow shape into an API document. I doubt if anyone at Microsoft really knows how the code works.
With a 1000 page document describing how to list off spreadsheet information, I shudder to think about how organized their kernel is.
Extremely well said. At most let me add my own lament to Microsoft. Why can't they spend some time making their OS less of a memory hog and a little bit faster. I could honestly see businesses migrating to an OS that had the same feature set as XP but ran faster and with less memory.
I wish it would happen some day but I doubt it. Instead we'll get more "cool" 3D windowing effects when we open and close our applications, it will run like a cripple, and use up 2 GIG of DDR3 in no time.
Windows 7 might be a hypervisor with plug-ins for whatever.
That sounds too complicated to get going by 2010. Remember that it took them 6 years to produce Vista. I don't see them doing something advanced like adding a hypervisor in 2 years.
Also the biggest problem with Vista is that it is slow and a resource hog. Add a hypervisor and the thing will be even slower. At work I run circuit compiles that take several hours to complete. No way I could tolerate putting as slow or slower than Vista on my work comp - I'd start threatening the IT staff.
I wish the US would just completely firewall China out. No useful email or websites come from there. The only things that ever come across the internet from China are spam, worms, viruses, and malware.
There are so many great, free tools, that your judgment comes into question.
I don't doubt you. But I've been using Vim so long that it is like a trusted hunting dog for me. Call me a nut, but I love that editor.
Also I work in VHDL so I cant really find a nice IDE. For example, compile, place & route are one proprietary vendor's tool, and then another proprietary vendor's tool for simulation and debug.
I'm in the same boat as you. I don't do anything fancy with my documents. I just use them to document hardware/software I write at work. I switched to Open Office and I like it better because it doesn't have all the "cool features" that Word has.
Even though Draw doesn't produce the nice drawings that Visio does, I still like it better. It is easier to use and I don't have to fight around the tool trying to outsmart me. It's just a dumb tool which does what I want. This is incidentally why I also like to write code in vim.
I think you hit the nail on the head. Vista has a bad name in the marketplace. So W7 is just going to be a fixed up version of Vista sold under another name.
My guess is the main thrust will be to speed the thing up and get it to use less memory. And then at the end they will attach some eye candy to try and entice people to buy it.
I'm suspecting that it won't work. They had 6 years to come up with a compelling reason to upgrade to their latest OS and they failed.
every web browser should work with every web site. Period.
MS doesn't have a monopoly on browsers any more. If they want to scare away everyone using firefox, then let them shoot themselves in the foot. There are easy alternatives to any of the handful of sites that don't properly support firefox.
Aero ==> See through windows and some useless 3d effects..meh Gadgets ==> The only useful one is the one that shows your processor and memory usage Internet connection is easier==> good feature Media Center ==> nice having a DVR..good feature
And that's it. I honestly can't think of anything else in there. It's not a case of Marketing asking for too much. It's a case of Engineering being incompetent and not delivering. 6 years for just those crappy feature? lol
Give me a truly fiscally conservative party that cuts spending and cuts taxes and I could be interested, but as it stands, deficit spending to fund wars is not a conservative.
I'm with you on that one. The problem is we have guys like Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, and Shaun Hannity defining what a conservative is: and their definition right now is deficit spending, wars all over the world, huge tax breaks for the wealthy and $300 refund checks for the plebians.
It's actually a lot worse than you think it is. They run polling to see which issues are important to a persons constituents. They also factor in who is in a tight campaign and who is safe. And then they decide among themselves who will vote for or against a measure.
The most recent example I can think of this happening was the war appropriations bill. The Democratic Party wanted to pass the bill. But they made sure that Hillery and Obama were set to vote near the end, so that they could vote against the measure.
You have to vote both these parties out if you want to get rid of this stuff. Not just the candidates that voted for this bill.
I've used all three (U, F, & S) and keep going back to SuSE because of the SuSEfirewall2 configuration feature. It gives you one straightforward (fairly) easy to understand text config file that governs how the iptables rules get set up.
Not sure if it is what you are looking for, but FireStarter is a pretty easy way to configure you iptables.
Shouldn't time an effort be spent on finding the guys who modify the sources, and make a profit, rather than those who merely fail to mirror and honour the distribution agreement because they're lazy?
This is a good point and I'll take it one further. Despite all the talk about Linux desktops, Linux and open source have succeeded best in the embedded market. Why nitpick over stuff like this when it can only hurt adoption of open source in the future?
When you consider all the potential lawsuits, lawyers' fees, etc, the couple extra bucks per device for a commercial OS starts to sound reasonable.
hey didn't "take Netscape down." They included a browser with their OS, something that's standard-practice now but they were trend-setting to some extent.
They did a little more than that. They got in a secret meeting with Netscape and attempted to divide the browser market between themselves and Netscape. Collusion is a big no-no.
I understand what you are saying, but this twitter guy is really starting to get annoying. So I think the anti-twitters are doing a service to us all.
I'm a linux fan but the stuff twitter says is insane. He'll say lies about how a machine with Vista on it couldn't possibly stay running for several days, all Microsoft products are completely unusable, anyone who defends anything about Microsoft must be an employee of Microsoft and a Microsoft zealot, etc.
Not at all surprising. Did you see the size of that chip die? You can fit 6 Penryn on it!! I used to work for a semiconductor company and the larger the chip the more expensive it gets. This is because the larger the die is the less likely it is to be defect free when it comes out of the fab.
It's not saying anything about Vista being good or bad. It is saying that the GTX280 on Vista will run 23% faster than a GeForce 9800 GTX running on Vista.
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The IEEE are just as bad. They charge an arm and a leg for every one of their standards. Just stick the thing up on the web, you cheap bastards.
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What the fuck has he ever done to help the poor?
The crops raised on his beard have fed millions of needy children in South America.
The guy heading this thing up is Jonathan Schaeffer. He wrote the Chinook program that was the draughts(checkers to you and me) championship. So there are some heavy hitters behind this thing.
How many slashdotters here are using aol? i challenge you to reveal yourselves.
While I use DSL at home, I pay for AOL service for my mom and dad. They are old and find AOL to be the simplest thing for them to use, and they never do anything that would require them to use anything faster.
I disagree with this guy. The average automobile has over 300 processors in it. Why would a computer max out at 64?
Part of the reason for this is that things become easier when you have a separate processor running things. Instead of having a single processor share time between the cruise control, the engine controller, turning signals, variable speed wipers, etc... you just have a different processor for each and glue them together. I suspect that once processors become ubiquitous software engineers will learn this and use up all the processors as well to make simpler code.
Sadly you aren't too far off the mark. I had a friend who was waiting for security clearance. His job was to sit on a stool (literally) for the first of couple of months while waiting for clearance.
one turd swallows another turd, all you got is a bigger turd...
You are a true poet.
I honestly believe that they are trying to give out complete information. It's just that they have 20 years of spaghetti code to somehow shape into an API document. I doubt if anyone at Microsoft really knows how the code works.
With a 1000 page document describing how to list off spreadsheet information, I shudder to think about how organized their kernel is.
Extremely well said. At most let me add my own lament to Microsoft. Why can't they spend some time making their OS less of a memory hog and a little bit faster. I could honestly see businesses migrating to an OS that had the same feature set as XP but ran faster and with less memory.
I wish it would happen some day but I doubt it. Instead we'll get more "cool" 3D windowing effects when we open and close our applications, it will run like a cripple, and use up 2 GIG of DDR3 in no time.
Windows 7 might be a hypervisor with plug-ins for whatever.
That sounds too complicated to get going by 2010. Remember that it took them 6 years to produce Vista. I don't see them doing something advanced like adding a hypervisor in 2 years.
Also the biggest problem with Vista is that it is slow and a resource hog. Add a hypervisor and the thing will be even slower. At work I run circuit compiles that take several hours to complete. No way I could tolerate putting as slow or slower than Vista on my work comp - I'd start threatening the IT staff.
I wish the US would just completely firewall China out. No useful email or websites come from there. The only things that ever come across the internet from China are spam, worms, viruses, and malware.
I don't doubt you. But I've been using Vim so long that it is like a trusted hunting dog for me. Call me a nut, but I love that editor.
Also I work in VHDL so I cant really find a nice IDE. For example, compile, place & route are one proprietary vendor's tool, and then another proprietary vendor's tool for simulation and debug.
I'm in the same boat as you. I don't do anything fancy with my documents. I just use them to document hardware/software I write at work. I switched to Open Office and I like it better because it doesn't have all the "cool features" that Word has.
Even though Draw doesn't produce the nice drawings that Visio does, I still like it better. It is easier to use and I don't have to fight around the tool trying to outsmart me. It's just a dumb tool which does what I want. This is incidentally why I also like to write code in vim.
I think you hit the nail on the head. Vista has a bad name in the marketplace. So W7 is just going to be a fixed up version of Vista sold under another name.
My guess is the main thrust will be to speed the thing up and get it to use less memory. And then at the end they will attach some eye candy to try and entice people to buy it.
I'm suspecting that it won't work. They had 6 years to come up with a compelling reason to upgrade to their latest OS and they failed.
MS doesn't have a monopoly on browsers any more. If they want to scare away everyone using firefox, then let them shoot themselves in the foot. There are easy alternatives to any of the handful of sites that don't properly support firefox.
Take a look at what's new in Vista.
Aero ==> See through windows and some useless 3d effects..mehGadgets ==> The only useful one is the one that shows your processor and memory usage
Internet connection is easier==> good feature
Media Center ==> nice having a DVR..good feature
And that's it. I honestly can't think of anything else in there. It's not a case of Marketing asking for too much. It's a case of Engineering being incompetent and not delivering. 6 years for just those crappy feature? lol
I'm with you on that one. The problem is we have guys like Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, and Shaun Hannity defining what a conservative is: and their definition right now is deficit spending, wars all over the world, huge tax breaks for the wealthy and $300 refund checks for the plebians.
It's actually a lot worse than you think it is. They run polling to see which issues are important to a persons constituents. They also factor in who is in a tight campaign and who is safe. And then they decide among themselves who will vote for or against a measure.
The most recent example I can think of this happening was the war appropriations bill. The Democratic Party wanted to pass the bill. But they made sure that Hillery and Obama were set to vote near the end, so that they could vote against the measure.
You have to vote both these parties out if you want to get rid of this stuff. Not just the candidates that voted for this bill.
Not sure if it is what you are looking for, but FireStarter is a pretty easy way to configure you iptables.
This is a good point and I'll take it one further. Despite all the talk about Linux desktops, Linux and open source have succeeded best in the embedded market. Why nitpick over stuff like this when it can only hurt adoption of open source in the future?
When you consider all the potential lawsuits, lawyers' fees, etc, the couple extra bucks per device for a commercial OS starts to sound reasonable.
They did a little more than that. They got in a secret meeting with Netscape and attempted to divide the browser market between themselves and Netscape. Collusion is a big no-no.
I understand what you are saying, but this twitter guy is really starting to get annoying. So I think the anti-twitters are doing a service to us all.
I'm a linux fan but the stuff twitter says is insane. He'll say lies about how a machine with Vista on it couldn't possibly stay running for several days, all Microsoft products are completely unusable, anyone who defends anything about Microsoft must be an employee of Microsoft and a Microsoft zealot, etc.
Just don't repeat my mistake of reading gay porn to your computer! The DVI cable hurts. *rubs backside*
Not at all surprising. Did you see the size of that chip die? You can fit 6 Penryn on it!! I used to work for a semiconductor company and the larger the chip the more expensive it gets. This is because the larger the die is the less likely it is to be defect free when it comes out of the fab.
It's not saying anything about Vista being good or bad. It is saying that the GTX280 on Vista will run 23% faster than a GeForce 9800 GTX running on Vista.
The IEEE are just as bad. They charge an arm and a leg for every one of their standards. Just stick the thing up on the web, you cheap bastards.