My best guess is there are parts of a BIOS that are tied to the hardware architecture, and there are parts that aren't.
For instance, what if you want to write a BIOS that can read an EXT3 partition?
Actually, a BIOS that can read EXT would be kickass. My bios can only read FAT12 (and maybe FAT32 for a hdd) off the floppy. If I wanted EXT3 (or 2), I'd have to put that stuff in the "kernel" that gets loaded by the boot sector. That kernel, however is on a FAT12 partition =P
As for TCP/IP, that would be nice to allow diskless boots. PXE anyone?
In our ever-increasing need to "dumb down" all things related to computers, this will only result in more bloated, slow code.
*sigh*
I for one look forward to our "21 freaking seconds to access BIOS?!" overlords.
I'm sure there are a lot of #ifdefs in there for specific things. A lot of the code is probably generic enough that asm isn't required (variables, structures, control structures such as if/while, etc)
The reason it's profitable to use cheaper labor is because you're selling to higher earners. If you make sneakers at $1 a pair, you make a profit by selling them for $60.
Of course, if the consumer knows about this differential, he kind of feels ripped off that the cost savings for $1 sneakers isn't being passed along. The extra $50 of profit (assuming other expenses are $9) seems rather obscene when the consumer knows about this.
In 1898, delegates from across the globe gathered in New York City for the world's first international urban planning conference. One topic dominated the discussion. It was not housing, land use, economic development, or infrastructure. The delegates were driven to desperation by horse manure.
[...]
The situation seemed dire. In 1894, the Times of London estimated that by 1950 every street in the city would be buried nine feet deep in horse manure. One New York prognosticator of the 1890s concluded that by 1930 the horse droppings would rise to Manhattan's third-story windows. A public health and sanitation crisis of almost unimaginable dimensions loomed.
And no possible solution could be devised. After all, the horse had been the dominant mode of transportation for thousands of years. Horses were absolutely essential for the functioning of the nineteenth-century city -- for personal transportation, freight haulage, and even mechanical power. Without horses, cities would quite literally starve.
All efforts to mitigate the problem were proving woefully inadequate. Stumped by the crisis, the urban planning conference declared its work fruitless and broke up in three days instead of the scheduled ten.
So when I say Limits To Growth is "bullshit" I'm clearly being inaccurate, I should have said "horse shit":)
That's true, but since it was the *government* who brought the foreign workers to the U.S., it's no longer a free market.
H1B specifically says that the company cannot find a local person who can do the same job. H1B specifically says it is not to compete against American workers.
"If you layoff American workers, we the government will take a hands-off policy and no longer help you with your future labor shortages. Figure it out on your own." The Republican policy can best be described as non-interference (sounds like Star Trek).
That's a great idea. Then, Microsoft since cannot get the talent in the US will just build an HQ in India.
I don't think they're looking hard enough. Especially if they're laying off local guys and building data centers in Ireland and India.
Executives in india and china do not make as much as executives in the united states, and in China, they are sentenced to death for selling tainted products.
Fixed that for you. If Bill Gates were Chinese, he would've been dead long before that huge BSOD during the olympics.
"Tax and spend democrats"? The last democratic president BALANCED THE BUDGET.
No, he didn't.
There was a big fight, resulting in several weeks of a lot of federal employees being put on furlough because Clinton wouldn't agree to a lot of budget cuts. Newt Gingrich and his cronies, the Republicans who had just won a majority in both houses and were attempting to make good on their platform promises to balance the budget. This was before they became slovenly, liberal, and without direction.
After the Daily Show used their deneuralizer on us all last week, I don't know who this "George W. Bush" is that you're talking about? Is that some frat boy from Yale?
Any chance I can get them to neuralyze me so I can accept the socialist crap being shoved down my throat by a certain little Obama administration a little easier?
What about capturing a frame of video, how are they going to handle that?
Obviously they haven't thought this out and it will like many other bills die a quiet death.
Don't count on it. Any politician voting against this one for any reason must, by definition, be a predator and must be dealt with accordingly.
-242C is a temperature that doesn't exist, unless your religion allows temperatures below absolute zero. All we need now is a campaign for Intelligent Cold.;)
In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!
1. It introduces its own tags ( and , I'm looking at you.) that aren't included in the standards
You can blame those tags on the original Netscape browsers from back in the bad-old days, IE only copied them. In a way it was MS trying to stay "standards compliant" back
when then "standard" was whatever Netscape decided to do. Besides, if nobody uses those tags anymore (at least not on a modern site) I don't see it as causing any major harm.
I agree with the other sentiments, although practically all new PCs are shipping with IE 7 now, and many will auto-update to IE 8 when the time comes. While IE 8 is not
superior to Firefox 3, it is much more standards compliant.
Ok. Point conceded on that one. I'd like to amend #4 to include ActiveX as a real offender (BHO aka Black Hole Objects (tongue-in-cheek)). Dangerous, and they break websites for users not on Windows (or outdated versions). Also, horribly insecure, especially if the browser is running at elevated privs.
Actually, I wouldn't really have a problem with IE except for a few things:
It introduces its own tags (<blink> and <marquee>, I'm looking at you.) that aren't included in the standards
It doesn't follow current standards very well.
A vast majority of installations of it are IE v6, which is quite shoddy as far as standards. Being told you have to make the webpage work with IE6 as opposed to something more flexible and modern is quite disheartening.
It's prone to exploitation (the backend is, anyway).
It doesn't really get updated that often, especially on older PCs
As I said, international travel is one of the reasons to own a credit card, which is why you see them all over the place when traveling.
There's not much difference between cash and credit cards, really. You still get charged a moneychanging fee (even though it doesn't involve human interaction) even if you use a credit card. Maybe there are more compelling reasons to use one, but I think I'd prefer not leaving a trail.
3. Uniform cooking. A toaster would not have been useful without sliced bread. Sure modern ones may work now but those old ones you needed presliced bread for them to cook.
Home-sliced bread toasts just fine over a fire. I do it all summer, every summer. No need for a toaster.
i would think that in an organization as large and as stereotypically stringent as the us army that they'd have some sort of exit policy for equipment and personnel.
You'd think that an organization as large and as stereotypically stringent as the us army would store their privileged data on something a little more robust, professional, and secure than an iPod.
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It only took them 6 years to get that right? Wow.
not only is there an option to turn off blood, but you can turn off the web server too!
They implemented blood with a server? Wow. I'll have to edit inetd.conf to crank up bloodd now! What port do I need?
My best guess is there are parts of a BIOS that are tied to the hardware architecture, and there are parts that aren't.
For instance, what if you want to write a BIOS that can read an EXT3 partition?
Actually, a BIOS that can read EXT would be kickass. My bios can only read FAT12 (and maybe FAT32 for a hdd) off the floppy. If I wanted EXT3 (or 2), I'd have to put that stuff in the "kernel" that gets loaded by the boot sector. That kernel, however is on a FAT12 partition =P As for TCP/IP, that would be nice to allow diskless boots. PXE anyone?
In our ever-increasing need to "dumb down" all things related to computers, this will only result in more bloated, slow code.
*sigh*
I for one look forward to our "21 freaking seconds to access BIOS?!" overlords.
I'm sure there are a lot of #ifdefs in there for specific things. A lot of the code is probably generic enough that asm isn't required (variables, structures, control structures such as if/while, etc)
If you turn off the blood, is it still called Blood Frontier?
No, then it's just called Frontier, and it becomes about a family traveling from Independence, Mo to Oregon.
The free market doesn't work without consumers.
The reason it's profitable to use cheaper labor is because you're selling to higher earners. If you make sneakers at $1 a pair, you make a profit by selling them for $60.
Of course, if the consumer knows about this differential, he kind of feels ripped off that the cost savings for $1 sneakers isn't being passed along. The extra $50 of profit (assuming other expenses are $9) seems rather obscene when the consumer knows about this.
In 1898, delegates from across the globe gathered in New York City for the world's first international urban planning conference. One topic dominated the discussion. It was not housing, land use, economic development, or infrastructure. The delegates were driven to desperation by horse manure. [...] The situation seemed dire. In 1894, the Times of London estimated that by 1950 every street in the city would be buried nine feet deep in horse manure. One New York prognosticator of the 1890s concluded that by 1930 the horse droppings would rise to Manhattan's third-story windows. A public health and sanitation crisis of almost unimaginable dimensions loomed.
And no possible solution could be devised. After all, the horse had been the dominant mode of transportation for thousands of years. Horses were absolutely essential for the functioning of the nineteenth-century city -- for personal transportation, freight haulage, and even mechanical power. Without horses, cities would quite literally starve.
All efforts to mitigate the problem were proving woefully inadequate. Stumped by the crisis, the urban planning conference declared its work fruitless and broke up in three days instead of the scheduled ten.
So when I say Limits To Growth is "bullshit" I'm clearly being inaccurate, I should have said "horse shit" :)
Citation please. Also, +3 Insightful for you!
H1B specifically says that the company cannot find a local person who can do the same job. H1B specifically says it is not to compete against American workers.
That's a great idea. Then, Microsoft since cannot get the talent in the US will just build an HQ in India.
I don't think they're looking hard enough. Especially if they're laying off local guys and building data centers in Ireland and India.
Executives in india and china do not make as much as executives in the united states, and in China, they are sentenced to death for selling tainted products.
Fixed that for you. If Bill Gates were Chinese, he would've been dead long before that huge BSOD during the olympics.
"Tax and spend democrats"? The last democratic president BALANCED THE BUDGET.
No, he didn't.
There was a big fight, resulting in several weeks of a lot of federal employees being put on furlough because Clinton wouldn't agree to a lot of budget cuts. Newt Gingrich and his cronies, the Republicans who had just won a majority in both houses and were attempting to make good on their platform promises to balance the budget. This was before they became slovenly, liberal, and without direction.
Finally, there's nothing like recession to drive home the need for social security.
Who's going to pay for it? You?
After the Daily Show used their deneuralizer on us all last week, I don't know who this "George W. Bush" is that you're talking about? Is that some frat boy from Yale?
Any chance I can get them to neuralyze me so I can accept the socialist crap being shoved down my throat by a certain little Obama administration a little easier?
Does this mean my supply of breast and coochie shots of Britney Spears and Jessica Alba will be no more?
Next will have complaints from parents whose children's recitals are marred by clicking cell phones
Look on the bright side...our wonderful elected officials will have saved us all from panty shots of all those poor children during their recital.
...and gone to Japan!
What about capturing a frame of video, how are they going to handle that? Obviously they haven't thought this out and it will like many other bills die a quiet death.
Don't count on it. Any politician voting against this one for any reason must, by definition, be a predator and must be dealt with accordingly.
This makes me think of that scene in Clerks where Randall just hands the kid a pack of smokes without even looking up.
On a more serious note, I think this kid has potential, not as a cop, but as an intelligence agent.
-242C is a temperature that doesn't exist, unless your religion allows temperatures below absolute zero. All we need now is a campaign for Intelligent Cold. ;)
In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!
1. It introduces its own tags ( and , I'm looking at you.) that aren't included in the standards You can blame those tags on the original Netscape browsers from back in the bad-old days, IE only copied them. In a way it was MS trying to stay "standards compliant" back when then "standard" was whatever Netscape decided to do. Besides, if nobody uses those tags anymore (at least not on a modern site) I don't see it as causing any major harm.
I agree with the other sentiments, although practically all new PCs are shipping with IE 7 now, and many will auto-update to IE 8 when the time comes. While IE 8 is not superior to Firefox 3, it is much more standards compliant.
Ok. Point conceded on that one. I'd like to amend #4 to include ActiveX as a real offender (BHO aka Black Hole Objects (tongue-in-cheek)). Dangerous, and they break websites for users not on Windows (or outdated versions). Also, horribly insecure, especially if the browser is running at elevated privs.
As I said, international travel is one of the reasons to own a credit card, which is why you see them all over the place when traveling.
There's not much difference between cash and credit cards, really. You still get charged a moneychanging fee (even though it doesn't involve human interaction) even if you use a credit card. Maybe there are more compelling reasons to use one, but I think I'd prefer not leaving a trail.
3. Uniform cooking. A toaster would not have been useful without sliced bread. Sure modern ones may work now but those old ones you needed presliced bread for them to cook.
Home-sliced bread toasts just fine over a fire. I do it all summer, every summer. No need for a toaster.
i would think that in an organization as large and as stereotypically stringent as the us army that they'd have some sort of exit policy for equipment and personnel.
You'd think that an organization as large and as stereotypically stringent as the us army would store their privileged data on something a little more robust, professional, and secure than an iPod.
*hands gEvil a sandwich* *the sandwich is ticking*
They don't tick anymore. They vibrate.
OTOH: some countries (South Asia, mostly) already have problems with malware on their phone "stealing" money by sending text messages...
In the US, we also have a problem with cell phones stealing money using text messages. All you have to do is receive them.