last I did a web application that had these issues I included a query string and an auto generated "deep link" at the bottom of each page that would directly load the page into the state you were currently viewing. I'm thinking something somewhat similar could be done with AJAX.
From what I've heard, in the low cost PC's all the hard drives are pre-loaded with windows before they get into a PC. For the few hundred PC's (I'm assuming) shipped with freedos each month they have to specially install a different image (either after the fact, or inline) and then track that computer from there on out. It has to cost more for them to do this than to make a run of a million XP Home pc's and drop the in the warehouse.
Or it could be that you are paying no money for windows because the supply/demand is fixing the price above the cost of components. I don't think this the case but it is a possible case in a market where there is a monopoly (or oligopy) in hardware instead of the software.
From what I see in Dell pricing it is sort of the case, they want $599 (I think now it might be $369 but I digress) for a computer period, and if you want them to install an different OS than the one they include standard they are going to charge you $20 to do the extra work over and above the intial price they offered you to put a computer together in the first place. Given that MS can no longer charge them a penalty for shipping an alternate OS (remember the DOJ is watching to make sure this no longer happens) the reason there aren't alternate OS's is that the OEM's don't want to install them.
I am curious if anyone has totaled up the savings due to a consistent system (since Mircrosoft or not holding to standards is something that NO company does well) on a majority of machines and subtracted that out from the losses from MS due to monopoly loss (whether percieved or real) or virus loss or whatever and see where that puts us. I think we have saved a lot due to a MS like monopoly and its likely that we could have saved $10 billion in addition if MS hadn't made a number of mistakes and poor judgements (and even outright evils) but I doubt that it outweighs the subtle benefits we have gained and don't directly think about.
Is it likely that another company would have given us many of the same benefits? Yes, but I think its equally likely that another company would have made close to the same number of misteps as well.
Except (and I mentioned this in another post but its an important point) for the economy of scale. 99% of computers Dell sells has windows so they have the process streamlined. Add in a freeDos computer and it incurrs extra work over and above that needed to produce the windows PC. So while the cost to duplicate software is nearly free, the cost to build and track an extra SKU that is only purchased by a small number of people is not free and so we have the extra price for the special order. It seems that Dell values this extra work at somewhere around $20.
Its not MS's fault. Its the fact that 99.99% of PCs still have windows so the assembly line is preloaded with hd's filled with windows. In order to get freedos on a machine you have to inject a special order into the assembly line that needs to be tracked from there on out nearly individually. This is extra work and costs extra money.
I've been using features like this on My MSN for ages (2 or 3 years now). Its not that Google hasn't created something good (since I like My MSN a great deal) its just that people shouldn't always jump to the conclusion that they are always ahead of the curve.
My non-compete says I can't work on a product that competes with any product I worked on. This leaves me LOTS of opportunities. Maybe not all non-competes are as flexible but it sounds like the person in question in the MS-Google suit left MS to work for Google on a product that directly competed with the product he worked on at MS. In some ways MS has a right to be upset as it will be VERY difficult for the person not to use knowledge and possibly even trade secrets gained at MS on the competing product at Google.
Notice that I said "in this application" meaning car air conditioning. If they weren't more efficient than the existing car air conditioning I don't see any way at all that we could save "3.9 billion gallons of fuel annually" as the article very clearly states.
Great, now what if I want the same thing for my word processing docs? How about music files? It will be awesome when the OS supports a single method that organizes all of these media types and when a single API can be used to access it all in multiple different client programs.
What happens when you want all pictures of your dog on a sunny day? Did you happen to think ahead to organize your pictures like that?
The problem that WinFS will solve for me is needing multiple organization schemes on top of the same content. Intead of having multiple directory trees with copies of the same content organized different ways I can just apply metadata to the content which will live in whatever organization that happened to choose at the time and queries to the OS will find it all.
They will make money the same way that TV networks do today except they will be more powerful because they will have definative tracking of all or nearly all online behavior and be able to target ads with precision.
You disable the access to the executable, not the dlls. It should be possible to do.
Anyways, XP N without media player added would break office and encarta anyway so you are stuck adding media player in to support those apps. I would still look into group policy when you move up to XP.
My discussion was based on perf tests that we ran on our product. The 32bit compile of the code was faster than the 64bit compile of the same code on the same 64bit machine.
You don't need to remove WMP (since that would take only a few minutes to reinstall) but instead adjust your group policy to not allow it to be executed.
It is no longer a lie as the govt is monitoring all the deals made with computer manufacturers and the behavior you mention is prohibited by the sactions imposed after the monopoly lawsuit.
There is also the fact that 64bit preforms slower in many cases than 32bit. Add that to the fact that there were a great deal of 32bit shortcuts built into code that break if you recompile for 64bit and you suddenly lose a lot of software on 64 bit. My thoughts are unless you need massive amounts of memory or you need to do calculations on huge numbers stick with 32bit until you can't any more.
There isn't a phase change in the system in the article, its just water cooler mounted to the back of a fan mainly. He would be FAR better off blowing the fan over top the ice water bucket I think.
He would be much better off just aiming the fan over the top of the barrel of ice water and getting the evaporative cooling going along with the cooling from the ice. In fact I can't remember but its something like 5 or 10 degree temp drop by just putting ice water in front of your fan as opposed to the fan alone. But his rig is rather a waste in comparison. He should look into evaporative cooling if his climate isn't too humid to start out with.
Hasn't intel said they have given up on having the fastest chips on the market? Aren't they going for integrated solutions and the "home" market whatever that means?
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last I did a web application that had these issues I included a query string and an auto generated "deep link" at the bottom of each page that would directly load the page into the state you were currently viewing. I'm thinking something somewhat similar could be done with AJAX.
From what I've heard, in the low cost PC's all the hard drives are pre-loaded with windows before they get into a PC. For the few hundred PC's (I'm assuming) shipped with freedos each month they have to specially install a different image (either after the fact, or inline) and then track that computer from there on out. It has to cost more for them to do this than to make a run of a million XP Home pc's and drop the in the warehouse.
From what I see in Dell pricing it is sort of the case, they want $599 (I think now it might be $369 but I digress) for a computer period, and if you want them to install an different OS than the one they include standard they are going to charge you $20 to do the extra work over and above the intial price they offered you to put a computer together in the first place. Given that MS can no longer charge them a penalty for shipping an alternate OS (remember the DOJ is watching to make sure this no longer happens) the reason there aren't alternate OS's is that the OEM's don't want to install them.
I am curious if anyone has totaled up the savings due to a consistent system (since Mircrosoft or not holding to standards is something that NO company does well) on a majority of machines and subtracted that out from the losses from MS due to monopoly loss (whether percieved or real) or virus loss or whatever and see where that puts us. I think we have saved a lot due to a MS like monopoly and its likely that we could have saved $10 billion in addition if MS hadn't made a number of mistakes and poor judgements (and even outright evils) but I doubt that it outweighs the subtle benefits we have gained and don't directly think about.
Is it likely that another company would have given us many of the same benefits? Yes, but I think its equally likely that another company would have made close to the same number of misteps as well.
Except (and I mentioned this in another post but its an important point) for the economy of scale. 99% of computers Dell sells has windows so they have the process streamlined. Add in a freeDos computer and it incurrs extra work over and above that needed to produce the windows PC. So while the cost to duplicate software is nearly free, the cost to build and track an extra SKU that is only purchased by a small number of people is not free and so we have the extra price for the special order. It seems that Dell values this extra work at somewhere around $20.
Its not MS's fault. Its the fact that 99.99% of PCs still have windows so the assembly line is preloaded with hd's filled with windows. In order to get freedos on a machine you have to inject a special order into the assembly line that needs to be tracked from there on out nearly individually. This is extra work and costs extra money.
I've been using features like this on My MSN for ages (2 or 3 years now). Its not that Google hasn't created something good (since I like My MSN a great deal) its just that people shouldn't always jump to the conclusion that they are always ahead of the curve.
My non-compete says I can't work on a product that competes with any product I worked on. This leaves me LOTS of opportunities. Maybe not all non-competes are as flexible but it sounds like the person in question in the MS-Google suit left MS to work for Google on a product that directly competed with the product he worked on at MS. In some ways MS has a right to be upset as it will be VERY difficult for the person not to use knowledge and possibly even trade secrets gained at MS on the competing product at Google.
Notice that I said "in this application" meaning car air conditioning. If they weren't more efficient than the existing car air conditioning I don't see any way at all that we could save "3.9 billion gallons of fuel annually" as the article very clearly states.
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The genius was in realizing that the peltiers are more efficient in this application than traditional refridgeration.
Great, now what if I want the same thing for my word processing docs? How about music files? It will be awesome when the OS supports a single method that organizes all of these media types and when a single API can be used to access it all in multiple different client programs.
The problem that WinFS will solve for me is needing multiple organization schemes on top of the same content. Intead of having multiple directory trees with copies of the same content organized different ways I can just apply metadata to the content which will live in whatever organization that happened to choose at the time and queries to the OS will find it all.
They will make money the same way that TV networks do today except they will be more powerful because they will have definative tracking of all or nearly all online behavior and be able to target ads with precision.
As an artistic medium I've heard that black and white can't be matched.
You disable the access to the executable, not the dlls. It should be possible to do.
Anyways, XP N without media player added would break office and encarta anyway so you are stuck adding media player in to support those apps. I would still look into group policy when you move up to XP.
My discussion was based on perf tests that we ran on our product. The 32bit compile of the code was faster than the 64bit compile of the same code on the same 64bit machine.
You don't need to remove WMP (since that would take only a few minutes to reinstall) but instead adjust your group policy to not allow it to be executed.
The common argument (and the argument supported by legal finding) is that Microsoft is a convicted monopolist and Apple is not.
Of course IANAL.
It is no longer a lie as the govt is monitoring all the deals made with computer manufacturers and the behavior you mention is prohibited by the sactions imposed after the monopoly lawsuit.
There is also the fact that 64bit preforms slower in many cases than 32bit. Add that to the fact that there were a great deal of 32bit shortcuts built into code that break if you recompile for 64bit and you suddenly lose a lot of software on 64 bit. My thoughts are unless you need massive amounts of memory or you need to do calculations on huge numbers stick with 32bit until you can't any more.
There isn't a phase change in the system in the article, its just water cooler mounted to the back of a fan mainly. He would be FAR better off blowing the fan over top the ice water bucket I think.
He would be much better off just aiming the fan over the top of the barrel of ice water and getting the evaporative cooling going along with the cooling from the ice. In fact I can't remember but its something like 5 or 10 degree temp drop by just putting ice water in front of your fan as opposed to the fan alone. But his rig is rather a waste in comparison. He should look into evaporative cooling if his climate isn't too humid to start out with.
Not only this, if the freeze is in the same room as his "air conditioner" he is actually warming the room up by freezing the ice.
Hasn't intel said they have given up on having the fastest chips on the market? Aren't they going for integrated solutions and the "home" market whatever that means?