They have changed the kernel completely, not modified it, completely changed it to a different one. I know 7 follows the same driver model as vista and has basically the same UI with some improvements, but it is just not true that this is a Vista service pack. If you make that argument then you might as well say XP was Win2K SP5 or whatever they were up to at the time.
They are now the running Server 2008 kernel inside Win 7, and that is not a light upgrade, or even a service pack upgrade. That is a complete redesign of the core architecture.
This. I was reading through your comment thinking I was gonna post and tell you to try out Python/Numpy/Scipy/Matplotlib, then you said it... You sir are totally awesome. I love Python for scientific computing, I really dislike Matlab. Anything matlab does you can do in python, but you can do so much more with Python than you can with matlab.
I'd just like to point out here that Murdoch owns the single highest quality newspaper in Australia: The Australian. He also owns the highest quality of commercial news on TV in Australia: Sky news (not as good as the public options but still very good). There aren't any (commercial) news sources which are nearly as high quality as these in terms of journalistic professionalism, integrity and quality of writing and delivery. I say this because it is often lost in the group think that Murdoch is as committed to quality journalism as he is to making money, I believe he actually subsidises his quality news outlets quite dramatically with money from his tabloid nonsense. The thing is that bullshit tabloid media *makes money*. Quality journalism does not. Blame your fellow consumers rather than the businessmen, he is just filling the demand in the market, and he actually uses the profits by doing this to subsidise very high quality news.
Without Murdoch in Australia we would not have any decent commercial news, at all (SMH readers be damned), I actually give him big credit for this.
I'm not defending the man or what he said, but I am letting it be known that this comment is about as useful as much of the crap that is spewed forth from the tabloid news outlets you are tarring. And all this said, Murdoch is simply displaying a fantastic level of ignorance about the modern era of media.
I wasn't claiming that scramjets are without problems, I merely pointed out that current rockets already have multiple engines, which you kind of claimed they do not.
And as I found out the other day this is not the first time recently that Microsoft has been caught out and lost. It seems from what these guys were claiming that this is just standard Microsoft business practice. Watching an interview with one of the Uniloc guys he basically said when you try to sell a technology to Microsoft, they try to force you to sign a waiver for your IP rights before they even look at it. I wonder how many small businessmen have been screwed over by this?
You fail. Current rocket designs use multiple stages to get into orbit, that means multiple engines, plus whatever the payload is it will have its own engine as well. The thing is that rockets are incredibly simple engines, they simply throw their mass away to achieve thrust, thus the amount of mass you can move is a function of the fuel you can carry and vice versa. With scramjets you can take mass from the atmosphere, raise its energy and then throw it away, thus a portion of your fuel is collected along the way, an you will have a higher payload to fuel ratio as a result.
We already have multiple engines in our rockets, it makes sense to use a more efficient one where it is possible to do so.
I'm not coming down on your rant, I'm sure you are right, but its not quite all black and white. My take on all this is these very large and successful research laboratories sunk huge amounts of research dollars into what became other people's successes. They are doing what they need to do as businesses: make money. My point is that this sort of ground breaking research should happen in the public realm, it makes more sense to me that everyone share the costs of scientific advancement through tax dollars. And thus universities and other public research institutes should have funding ramped up in a really big way. It makes economic sense from my point of view.
People pirating the game will come up with a LAN enabling patch, as they did with demigod. As usual this will mean pirated copies can play LAN, and the legitimate ones will be locked out.
What I don't understand is that Blizzard must surely know how huge Stacraft is in Korea, and basically because of LAN play. Do they not want SC2 to have that kind of success?
This is just zeno's paradox in disguise, if it were the case you could therefore never move from point a to point b and achilles could never catch up to the turtle.
Doesn't pirate bay still track most of the torrents you find on those websites though? This is the part I'm wondering about, pirate bay is currently the biggest torrent tracker out there, and its going away very soon.
We know without a doubt that it never repeats - if it did it would be a rational number, it has been proven to be an irrational number, moreso it is transcendental. We also know the exact pattern, take the taylor series of sin about pi/4, you get an elegant and simple series solution for pi.
That is not the point. The point is and exercise in computing, everything we do in computing involves rational numbers only (floats) and there is substantial error involved with this. It is computationally difficult to deal with large numbers, hence any method to do this more effectively is a gain for science.
Chernobyl had both a positive temperature coefficient and a positive and very high void coefficient. What these numbers mean is that when the reactor gets hot, it gets hotter, and when the coolant gets hot and begins to boil, the reactor gets hotter still. Modern designs are nothing like Chernobyl, they are designed such that the higher the temperature they reach, the less energy output is produced and thus there is no runaway reaction.
Chernobyl was a stupid design, do you think we would have gotten far if we stopped building bridges after the first one that collapsed?
Obviously, while you think the offensive stuff, you speak in a polite manner to the customers face. That kind of goes without saying, I know you were looking for an opportunity to take a jab at me but come on mate, use some common sense.
I do this to everyone who asks me if they should use Vista, I tell them politely that Vista is fine, it works well, is more stable than XP and the interface is an improvement. I tell them that if they find it confusing to make good use of the search feature. Most people with half a brain can figure it all out in a week or so if they bother to try. Everyone had to learn how to use XP once, and everyone will learn how to use the next big interface change, not that this is even a big change.
Boo hoo they renamed some features I am familiar with, quite obviously interface fail! Do you know how many different symbols they have in different cars for the same damn features? Especially if you drive in old cars? Old imported cars? People can work that shit out.
Look mate, I know where my stuff is too, and I can pull it up a damn sight faster with indexed search. The results ARE instant you twit, and they pop up as you type.
Every geek knows typing is faster than mouse moving and clicking. As I said in another post elsewhere, guys like you are like drain diggers who insist the shovel is better than a hydraulic digger. Move with the bloody times mate, new tools are here, they really make your life faster and easier, learn to use them.
Indexing is brilliant, turn it down a bit if you have clock ticks you need to save but seriously I've never found that to slow me down. I do have a fairly decent rig though. But indexed search, my god man how can you live without it? I can't even use XP anymore because I've grown so utterly dependent on excellent search.
DRM, well its only invoked by the media itself, so for day to day activity it does not even do anything to you. Don't buy DRM'd music and videos, its that simple. I torrent and rip to my hearts content and I have never, ever had DRM interfere with it. Hell I torrent albums off pirate bay then get windows media player to add the metadata to them if need be. Vista and 7 have never stopped me from doing this. Also, as far as I was aware, Microsoft had no choice but to include the DRM features to get blue ray support(??). Or some random asshole contractual obligation of that sort.
And yeah I'm with you all the way on 64bit only, but I think thats what Vista 64 is mate, I've never, ever been able to install a 32bit driver on my 64bit Vista, it refuses to let me. But I guess you are complaining about the existence of a 32bit version. I guess there are still a lot of 32bit machines (P4s and the like) getting about in corporate environments, not to mention the netbooks, so I'm guessing MS want this version to actually be rolled out in businesses.
I'm willing to bet for a large portion of them this is their first real OS upgrade. Many millions of new users joined the ranks during the XP years. They need to suck it up and learn to live with it, or you need to fret less about their concerns, try to tell them that this is normal and they should expect more of it. Look at mobile phones, I think I have re-learned how to use a mobile phone about 4 times over because the interfaces have changed so much over the years, and its still changing. Yes, frequently I encounter grumps who dont know how to use the new style of phone, but I ignore them. More importantly their existence is not a valid justification for the stagnation of all mobile phone interface design.
Vista had a few grumps like these phone illiterates, unfortunately this time they were the supposed leaders of the pack: us. We the IT nerds, readers of slashdot, posters of tech blogs and tech magazine journos, we were the grumpy old men who waxed lyrical about the shitty new interface rather than learned to live with it. The trend snowballed and since it was those who people looked up to for IT leadership doing the complaining, it became justified, then trendy, then finally borg-like groupthink.
I've already mused this but watch as 7 is launched with the *exact same* interface as Vista and everyone suddenly loves it for some reason. You, my friend, and every other IT pro out there, should have encouraged your users to learn how to use a new interface from the beginning, rather than indulge their unjustified complaints. It would have save you and all of us a lot of headache if we had all collectively adopted this attitude from the start.
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They have changed the kernel completely, not modified it, completely changed it to a different one. I know 7 follows the same driver model as vista and has basically the same UI with some improvements, but it is just not true that this is a Vista service pack. If you make that argument then you might as well say XP was Win2K SP5 or whatever they were up to at the time.
They are now the running Server 2008 kernel inside Win 7, and that is not a light upgrade, or even a service pack upgrade. That is a complete redesign of the core architecture.
EEE 701 was the original, the 901 (not the 900) is still basically the model they use, it was the first atom powered eee.
This. I was reading through your comment thinking I was gonna post and tell you to try out Python/Numpy/Scipy/Matplotlib, then you said it... You sir are totally awesome. I love Python for scientific computing, I really dislike Matlab. Anything matlab does you can do in python, but you can do so much more with Python than you can with matlab.
I know, it sucks doesn't it?
"If murdoch wants to pander to the lowest level then fine but he should have to label it entertainment and not news"
I couldn't agree with this more, I wish there were some kind of gold standard that had to be met before you are allowed to label your content 'news'.
I'd just like to point out here that Murdoch owns the single highest quality newspaper in Australia: The Australian. He also owns the highest quality of commercial news on TV in Australia: Sky news (not as good as the public options but still very good). There aren't any (commercial) news sources which are nearly as high quality as these in terms of journalistic professionalism, integrity and quality of writing and delivery. I say this because it is often lost in the group think that Murdoch is as committed to quality journalism as he is to making money, I believe he actually subsidises his quality news outlets quite dramatically with money from his tabloid nonsense. The thing is that bullshit tabloid media *makes money*. Quality journalism does not. Blame your fellow consumers rather than the businessmen, he is just filling the demand in the market, and he actually uses the profits by doing this to subsidise very high quality news.
Without Murdoch in Australia we would not have any decent commercial news, at all (SMH readers be damned), I actually give him big credit for this.
I'm not defending the man or what he said, but I am letting it be known that this comment is about as useful as much of the crap that is spewed forth from the tabloid news outlets you are tarring. And all this said, Murdoch is simply displaying a fantastic level of ignorance about the modern era of media.
I wasn't claiming that scramjets are without problems, I merely pointed out that current rockets already have multiple engines, which you kind of claimed they do not.
And as I found out the other day this is not the first time recently that Microsoft has been caught out and lost. It seems from what these guys were claiming that this is just standard Microsoft business practice. Watching an interview with one of the Uniloc guys he basically said when you try to sell a technology to Microsoft, they try to force you to sign a waiver for your IP rights before they even look at it. I wonder how many small businessmen have been screwed over by this?
You fail. Current rocket designs use multiple stages to get into orbit, that means multiple engines, plus whatever the payload is it will have its own engine as well. The thing is that rockets are incredibly simple engines, they simply throw their mass away to achieve thrust, thus the amount of mass you can move is a function of the fuel you can carry and vice versa. With scramjets you can take mass from the atmosphere, raise its energy and then throw it away, thus a portion of your fuel is collected along the way, an you will have a higher payload to fuel ratio as a result.
We already have multiple engines in our rockets, it makes sense to use a more efficient one where it is possible to do so.
Of course HP did just recently have a kind of large and significant general scientific breakthrough but hey, its just marketing right?
I'm not coming down on your rant, I'm sure you are right, but its not quite all black and white. My take on all this is these very large and successful research laboratories sunk huge amounts of research dollars into what became other people's successes. They are doing what they need to do as businesses: make money. My point is that this sort of ground breaking research should happen in the public realm, it makes more sense to me that everyone share the costs of scientific advancement through tax dollars. And thus universities and other public research institutes should have funding ramped up in a really big way. It makes economic sense from my point of view.
Research shows you are wrong: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7aOVChs7xs
People pirating the game will come up with a LAN enabling patch, as they did with demigod. As usual this will mean pirated copies can play LAN, and the legitimate ones will be locked out.
What I don't understand is that Blizzard must surely know how huge Stacraft is in Korea, and basically because of LAN play. Do they not want SC2 to have that kind of success?
Sorry, take the taylor series of arcsin(pi/4), I realise thats a pretty dumbass mistake I made :)
Or just look up Machin series.
No.
This is just zeno's paradox in disguise, if it were the case you could therefore never move from point a to point b and achilles could never catch up to the turtle.
Doesn't pirate bay still track most of the torrents you find on those websites though? This is the part I'm wondering about, pirate bay is currently the biggest torrent tracker out there, and its going away very soon.
Ahhh! what is wrong with you geeks! Hand in your cards, all of you.
There is an extremely simple pattern to pi, just not in base10 decimal expansion. Its already been said but here we go:
pi = 4(1-1/3+1/5-1/7+1/9-1/11+...)
Mathematicians were all over this stuff years ago, try to think about what the implications of this are for precision in scientific computing.
We know without a doubt that it never repeats - if it did it would be a rational number, it has been proven to be an irrational number, moreso it is transcendental. We also know the exact pattern, take the taylor series of sin about pi/4, you get an elegant and simple series solution for pi.
That is not the point. The point is and exercise in computing, everything we do in computing involves rational numbers only (floats) and there is substantial error involved with this. It is computationally difficult to deal with large numbers, hence any method to do this more effectively is a gain for science.
I know man, I was just having some fun with a fellow nerd.
No offence here man, but all nuclear waste becomes exponentially less radioactive over time. Its just a matter of the rate of exponential decay ;)
Chernobyl had both a positive temperature coefficient and a positive and very high void coefficient. What these numbers mean is that when the reactor gets hot, it gets hotter, and when the coolant gets hot and begins to boil, the reactor gets hotter still. Modern designs are nothing like Chernobyl, they are designed such that the higher the temperature they reach, the less energy output is produced and thus there is no runaway reaction.
Chernobyl was a stupid design, do you think we would have gotten far if we stopped building bridges after the first one that collapsed?
Obviously, while you think the offensive stuff, you speak in a polite manner to the customers face. That kind of goes without saying, I know you were looking for an opportunity to take a jab at me but come on mate, use some common sense.
I do this to everyone who asks me if they should use Vista, I tell them politely that Vista is fine, it works well, is more stable than XP and the interface is an improvement. I tell them that if they find it confusing to make good use of the search feature. Most people with half a brain can figure it all out in a week or so if they bother to try. Everyone had to learn how to use XP once, and everyone will learn how to use the next big interface change, not that this is even a big change.
Boo hoo they renamed some features I am familiar with, quite obviously interface fail! Do you know how many different symbols they have in different cars for the same damn features? Especially if you drive in old cars? Old imported cars? People can work that shit out.
Look mate, I know where my stuff is too, and I can pull it up a damn sight faster with indexed search. The results ARE instant you twit, and they pop up as you type.
Every geek knows typing is faster than mouse moving and clicking. As I said in another post elsewhere, guys like you are like drain diggers who insist the shovel is better than a hydraulic digger. Move with the bloody times mate, new tools are here, they really make your life faster and easier, learn to use them.
None the less, I bet I can find your shit on your computer faster than you can using indexed search. Its just the way it is.
Indexing is brilliant, turn it down a bit if you have clock ticks you need to save but seriously I've never found that to slow me down. I do have a fairly decent rig though. But indexed search, my god man how can you live without it? I can't even use XP anymore because I've grown so utterly dependent on excellent search.
DRM, well its only invoked by the media itself, so for day to day activity it does not even do anything to you. Don't buy DRM'd music and videos, its that simple. I torrent and rip to my hearts content and I have never, ever had DRM interfere with it. Hell I torrent albums off pirate bay then get windows media player to add the metadata to them if need be. Vista and 7 have never stopped me from doing this. Also, as far as I was aware, Microsoft had no choice but to include the DRM features to get blue ray support(??). Or some random asshole contractual obligation of that sort.
And yeah I'm with you all the way on 64bit only, but I think thats what Vista 64 is mate, I've never, ever been able to install a 32bit driver on my 64bit Vista, it refuses to let me. But I guess you are complaining about the existence of a 32bit version. I guess there are still a lot of 32bit machines (P4s and the like) getting about in corporate environments, not to mention the netbooks, so I'm guessing MS want this version to actually be rolled out in businesses.
I'm willing to bet for a large portion of them this is their first real OS upgrade. Many millions of new users joined the ranks during the XP years. They need to suck it up and learn to live with it, or you need to fret less about their concerns, try to tell them that this is normal and they should expect more of it. Look at mobile phones, I think I have re-learned how to use a mobile phone about 4 times over because the interfaces have changed so much over the years, and its still changing. Yes, frequently I encounter grumps who dont know how to use the new style of phone, but I ignore them. More importantly their existence is not a valid justification for the stagnation of all mobile phone interface design.
Vista had a few grumps like these phone illiterates, unfortunately this time they were the supposed leaders of the pack: us. We the IT nerds, readers of slashdot, posters of tech blogs and tech magazine journos, we were the grumpy old men who waxed lyrical about the shitty new interface rather than learned to live with it. The trend snowballed and since it was those who people looked up to for IT leadership doing the complaining, it became justified, then trendy, then finally borg-like groupthink.
I've already mused this but watch as 7 is launched with the *exact same* interface as Vista and everyone suddenly loves it for some reason. You, my friend, and every other IT pro out there, should have encouraged your users to learn how to use a new interface from the beginning, rather than indulge their unjustified complaints. It would have save you and all of us a lot of headache if we had all collectively adopted this attitude from the start.