The problem with your argument is that it doesn't say that Windows has less bugs, just that MS fixes less bugs. That could mean there aren't bugs to fix, or that MS can't find the bugs there are to fix, or that MS doesn't feel like fixing the bugs.
The anti-virus software probably won't be bundled with the OS, I think instead it might be part of Exchange as a server side mail virus scan.
Its a criminal offence just to have the phone turned on. I don't know what the penalty is but I know a guy was charged criminally just for playing the games on his nokia cell phone and not turning it off.
For those that don't understand why a 5 to 7 year product cycle is important here is a small summary:
Some companies have a large amount of (legally required) testing that goes into the selection and deployment of a new OS. This testing costs a great deal of time and money and so is done infrequently (thus the large number of institutions still running windows 3.1 and HUGE number still running nt4). These types of organizations need a garuntee from the distributor that the software will be supported for enough time to break even on the testing cost or they can't justify using the product. There are many contracts written between businesses and Microsoft garunteeing a product support lifetime and RedHat is wisely working on the same sort of situation to win over some of those businesses.
Yeah, but do you grab the quicksort routine out of the library that comes with your language (most have one) or do you write it yourself?
I for one use TONS of external libraries to do things for me (XMLDom, WININET, higher level windows network objects, string and collection libraries).
I think that code reuse happens tons more on the lower level things that are a pain to do on your own. I think it also depends on who develops the modules, I'm far more likely to rely on something that ships inside windows (eh they can be buggy but for the most part I trust the platform) than I would on something third party. I know the windows modules will be there on all my target platforms.
The reason those look like the Apple ][+ specs is that the Apple ][ and the Apple ][+ were exactly the same except for which rom they came with and the base amount of memory shipped. There was nearly no architectural change until the Apple ][gs was shipped. The IIc+ had a 4mhz processor (65c02 I think, or however they labeled that one) and the IIe got an 80 column card and extra memory by defaut. (btw this was all out of my head so excuse any slight inaccuracies).
My favorite computer growing up was an Apple ][+, a few years later I got an Apple ][c+ which ran appleworks and word perfect much better:) I used the ][c+ until I was a senior in high school to publish all of my papers for school.
Yeah but all it takes is one person with a compiler and cd burner to buy your product, request the source and then release (without changes even) that binary and source with no recourse. Sounds like a bad way to make money if you expect your software to be the product. OSS is great for consulting though, because you are paid to build a custom solution and the chances of some other customer being able to use it with no changes is low.
Well it wouldn't be weight per surface area since weight is a measure of the effect of gravity on an object.
What the spec of dirt does have is more force per area or pressure.
On the other hand the spec of dust would only make a pinprick, the brick would crush lots of important stuff, so again intuition may or may not be something worth relying on in regards to science and numbers that are outside of human comprehension.
People just can't imagine what its like to be hit by a 1lb object at 500mph, the best they can do is "oww that would hurt". Thats why we have physics to measure and model things like this for us. The engineers need to be asked some questions about thier initial calculations that showed the foam wouldn't hurt anything, they should have been able to figure out how much force the foam could have impacted with.
In the end there wasn't much that could be done, we don't have the capability for a space rescue. Leaving the safe confines of our lovely planet is a dangerous job and the astronauts realize this (I hope). Work to minimize risk is important but we shouldn't let the risk scare us out of space.
Yeah but V, in the case of calculating the force of impact, would be calculated in a frame of reference about the object impacted, so movement around the sun wouldn't count (much) because both bodies would be on earth which means they have almost the same speed relative to the sun.
It looks like this protocol is more proactive in monitoring the line. It looks for clues that it needs to slow down before a packet gets lost. A great deal of time in a TCP connection is spent waiting for acks and resending data, this is made worse by the typical latency across then net (if I remember right it averages 30 to 800 ms for domestic connections depending on time of day, and between 700 and like 1200 for connections abroad).
This protocol figures out ahead of time if it needs to slow down so its always getting acks back instead of waiting for timeouts. Also it avoids the binary backoff time that happens with timeouts.
So in response to many of the previous posts it loses none of the robustness of TCP. In the worst case its as slow as TCP and in the best case it should be equally as fast as TCP. In the average case, however, it shows a huge performance increase. Most of the time on the network is the average case so this is a good thing.
It might not be the professor thats the problem so much as the department being vastly understaffed. The professor was probably told at the beginning of the year "hey you have an online section of this class, it shouldn't be bad you can do it in your time between classes". Then the professor is left trying to figure out what will work as an online curriculum, teaching the students, grading papers, and not cut into his real life class. It sux.
So I'm saying the problem you see is probably fairly widespread and definitely real but will take a while to fix. The universities will need to put a priority on the online classes and hire staff that focuses on them. When that happens you will see better content/participation.
I think the difference is that MS patented a system with a roaming profile, while the tivo stores the profile locally on each box. Thats the huge difference. Not that I know whether or not it deserves patent but it is what MS is claiming and is probably why they got the patent.
I think this might be covered in the same way as "book destruction". When a bookstore "returns" its books to the distributor because it no longer wants to sell them, what it really does is rip the cover off and return that and throw the rest of the book away because the cost of returning the whole book is more than the cost to make a whole new book. Thats why (I think) buying a book with no cover is illegal.
I don't know if there are laws for destruction of other works that are similar to the book thing but I think in general companies would like it to be illegal to sell product that has been "destroyed". That doesn't mean I like the DCMA being used to do this, it seems like a misuse of the law.
On a completely different note but highly related I think that if a company will no produce another copy of a copyrighted work then they should lose the copyright at that point. I hate the fact that I can't buy old books/software/music that I'd like because the company that owns the copyright will no longer distribute it.
It depends on the park, many of the national parks were created for conservation and education purposes. Basically to save an area of incredible nature so that many people can see it, fall in love with it, and learn to take care of it.
I am sort of in the mindset right now that geocaching can happen in national parks with certain restrictions on what can be placed, where it can be placed, and how often its moved. If you really want to geocache use the national forests. There are TONS more of them and they have much much much fewer restrictions on use. The national forests are there for public use, people just don't realize it or use it.
Its more like studying for a test vs using the knowledge you absorbed over the period of the test. Its more likely that in the real world you will know the set of things you learned in the class and far less likely the stuff that you crammed will stick:)
Uh? Unless you are worried about the engineering students eating the components there isn't much liability here. The worst that happened to me breadboarding was sticking the legs of an ic into my finger when I wasn't paying good enough attention.
All the beginner circuits run at 12volt with minimal current so they are quite safe.
I would say that BeOS had critical mass if it were an open source project. Linux would have died long ago if it was a commercial venture, luckily it started out as a hobby and had time to reach its maturity instead of getting its venture capital cut off in version 1.0 when it sort of wasn't too good.
Considering that to the best of my knowledge MS doesn't produce a beowulf type clustering theme it makes sense that MS would recommend linux at this point. As soon as the government is pumping out big grants for cluster technology MS will grab some and build cluster extensions to NT.
People should realize that this article is just MS doing its thing. They always recommend commodity servers instead of proprietary mainframes. Unfortunately linux stole thier thunder on recommending small cheap servers (not to mention the fact that NT doesn't do much on small cheap servers) so they don't often recommend that.
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Since the peltier only makes a temperature differential, the colder the stuff on the cold side, the colder the peltier can make it (more or less).
Actually the parent has a point, he just failed to actually finish saying it.
Competition is good unless the network effect is extremely strong.
Basically that means competition is good at bringing down prices but sometimes the benefit of having a single solution that everyone uses is more than the reduction of price that would come with competition.
In this case however I think we have something thats more anti-competative. Phone company A runs fiber to a house (either because they got to the area first or the person in the house requested company A) then when the person with that line decides that company B might have a better service the cost to change companies is prohibitive because company A won't sell its fiber line, or more to the point company B won't use the line from company A that the person already purchased and instead wants them to purchase another line.
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The anti-virus software probably won't be bundled with the OS, I think instead it might be part of Exchange as a server side mail virus scan.
Except that in the time period he is talking about, Novel owned wordperfect and later sold it to corel, so he is correct.
Its a criminal offence just to have the phone turned on. I don't know what the penalty is but I know a guy was charged criminally just for playing the games on his nokia cell phone and not turning it off.
Actually last I heard, they used the in flight phones that are available on many aircraft and NOT cell phones.
Some companies have a large amount of (legally required) testing that goes into the selection and deployment of a new OS. This testing costs a great deal of time and money and so is done infrequently (thus the large number of institutions still running windows 3.1 and HUGE number still running nt4). These types of organizations need a garuntee from the distributor that the software will be supported for enough time to break even on the testing cost or they can't justify using the product. There are many contracts written between businesses and Microsoft garunteeing a product support lifetime and RedHat is wisely working on the same sort of situation to win over some of those businesses.
There is an Atari ST based laptop, I forget the name of it :) I wouldn't mind getting one though.
I for one use TONS of external libraries to do things for me (XMLDom, WININET, higher level windows network objects, string and collection libraries).
I think that code reuse happens tons more on the lower level things that are a pain to do on your own. I think it also depends on who develops the modules, I'm far more likely to rely on something that ships inside windows (eh they can be buggy but for the most part I trust the platform) than I would on something third party. I know the windows modules will be there on all my target platforms.
Yeah, thats a big thing on our team, how much do we test the modules we rely on vs how much do we trust the group that wrote them in the first place.
My favorite computer growing up was an Apple ][+, a few years later I got an Apple ][c+ which ran appleworks and word perfect much better :) I used the ][c+ until I was a senior in high school to publish all of my papers for school.
Yeah but all it takes is one person with a compiler and cd burner to buy your product, request the source and then release (without changes even) that binary and source with no recourse. Sounds like a bad way to make money if you expect your software to be the product. OSS is great for consulting though, because you are paid to build a custom solution and the chances of some other customer being able to use it with no changes is low.
What the spec of dirt does have is more force per area or pressure.
On the other hand the spec of dust would only make a pinprick, the brick would crush lots of important stuff, so again intuition may or may not be something worth relying on in regards to science and numbers that are outside of human comprehension.
People just can't imagine what its like to be hit by a 1lb object at 500mph, the best they can do is "oww that would hurt". Thats why we have physics to measure and model things like this for us. The engineers need to be asked some questions about thier initial calculations that showed the foam wouldn't hurt anything, they should have been able to figure out how much force the foam could have impacted with.
In the end there wasn't much that could be done, we don't have the capability for a space rescue. Leaving the safe confines of our lovely planet is a dangerous job and the astronauts realize this (I hope). Work to minimize risk is important but we shouldn't let the risk scare us out of space.
Yeah but V, in the case of calculating the force of impact, would be calculated in a frame of reference about the object impacted, so movement around the sun wouldn't count (much) because both bodies would be on earth which means they have almost the same speed relative to the sun.
This protocol figures out ahead of time if it needs to slow down so its always getting acks back instead of waiting for timeouts. Also it avoids the binary backoff time that happens with timeouts.
So in response to many of the previous posts it loses none of the robustness of TCP. In the worst case its as slow as TCP and in the best case it should be equally as fast as TCP. In the average case, however, it shows a huge performance increase. Most of the time on the network is the average case so this is a good thing.
So I'm saying the problem you see is probably fairly widespread and definitely real but will take a while to fix. The universities will need to put a priority on the online classes and hire staff that focuses on them. When that happens you will see better content/participation.
I think the difference is that MS patented a system with a roaming profile, while the tivo stores the profile locally on each box. Thats the huge difference. Not that I know whether or not it deserves patent but it is what MS is claiming and is probably why they got the patent.
I don't know if there are laws for destruction of other works that are similar to the book thing but I think in general companies would like it to be illegal to sell product that has been "destroyed". That doesn't mean I like the DCMA being used to do this, it seems like a misuse of the law.
On a completely different note but highly related I think that if a company will no produce another copy of a copyrighted work then they should lose the copyright at that point. I hate the fact that I can't buy old books/software/music that I'd like because the company that owns the copyright will no longer distribute it.
I am sort of in the mindset right now that geocaching can happen in national parks with certain restrictions on what can be placed, where it can be placed, and how often its moved. If you really want to geocache use the national forests. There are TONS more of them and they have much much much fewer restrictions on use. The national forests are there for public use, people just don't realize it or use it.
Its more like studying for a test vs using the knowledge you absorbed over the period of the test. Its more likely that in the real world you will know the set of things you learned in the class and far less likely the stuff that you crammed will stick :)
Oh I did that way more than I'd like to admit, but I never burnt myself on the chip :P I guess some higher power was watching over me.
All the beginner circuits run at 12volt with minimal current so they are quite safe.
I would say that BeOS had critical mass if it were an open source project. Linux would have died long ago if it was a commercial venture, luckily it started out as a hobby and had time to reach its maturity instead of getting its venture capital cut off in version 1.0 when it sort of wasn't too good.
People should realize that this article is just MS doing its thing. They always recommend commodity servers instead of proprietary mainframes. Unfortunately linux stole thier thunder on recommending small cheap servers (not to mention the fact that NT doesn't do much on small cheap servers) so they don't often recommend that.
Since the peltier only makes a temperature differential, the colder the stuff on the cold side, the colder the peltier can make it (more or less).
Or it could send the temp of the beer back to a recording device of some sort that could sound an alarm if it got too warm for too long :)
Competition is good unless the network effect is extremely strong.
Basically that means competition is good at bringing down prices but sometimes the benefit of having a single solution that everyone uses is more than the reduction of price that would come with competition.
In this case however I think we have something thats more anti-competative. Phone company A runs fiber to a house (either because they got to the area first or the person in the house requested company A) then when the person with that line decides that company B might have a better service the cost to change companies is prohibitive because company A won't sell its fiber line, or more to the point company B won't use the line from company A that the person already purchased and instead wants them to purchase another line.