What's your beef with the awesome bar? I actually *like* how it searches through my bookmarks as I type in keywords. No more having to go through multiple levels of bookmark folders. I pretty much just click the yellow star to bookmark a page, then add a few custom tags to it. I got rid of the "I feel lucky" google search behavior, but I've been doing that since firefox 1.x...
Please fix your flash plugin. Seems that once a day if I go to a page with considerable flash (which is most pages these days), the browser will crash and when I examine the crashfile, it's *gasp* always you. I've reinstalled flash and FF 3.0.6.....
Go watch GATTACA
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Go watch the movie GATTACA http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/ The basic premise is in the not too distant future a company has come up with a way for parents to determine all of the genetic qualities of the baby so that when the baby is born it is already determined what it will become/do in it's life based upon it's DNA. Prior to birth they know if you'll be a physician or a garbage man. "Natural" babies, those with no genetic selection are unheard of. The plot is a "natural" born character tries to fool the system into thinking he's got the DNA to be an astronaut...
Why is the third link in the summary to a blog about the first link? Ok so the first link is the story itself then the third one which only has three statements of thought:
It's been in the air for ages, and now it's happening:
/*He copies in some summary sentences from the article. */
Presumably those are the three that relate to Linux, in which case this is likely to have broader implications than just the in-car navigation market.
Here's a nice statement of how Microsoft views all this:
/* He then posts a small quote from the first article. */
In other words, Microsoft "respects and appreciates" open source until it actually starts to replace Microsoft's offerings, in which case the charming smile is replaced with the shark's grimace.
It may not be a coincidence that Gutierrez has just been promoted to the rank of corporate vice president: could this legal action be his way of announcing the direction he and Microsoft will now take in the battle against Linux?
Is someone trying to get page hits here? What's the "direct hits to my blog" form of Slashvertisement?
Let's say your XBOX live name was "Steve1234" could you get banned for mentioning the following phrase, "My husband is logging on right now, his mage would help us out..."?
Even if the company you're leaving from throws you a ticker tape parade as you walk out the door, how do you know that they won't give you a poor recommendation down the road?
If IE and Safari can look at Firefox's source code and see exactly how FF implement's something, how can FF maintain a competitive advantage as a core browser. By core browser I mean without all the plugins/themes/extensions. IE/Safari already have a distribution advantage in that the browser comes with the OS. I'm going to a assume that the folks over at Mozilla would not declare victory if Apple/MSFT decided one day to reskin and rename FF and package it with their OS.
It's a unfair advantage that the OS vendors can see the source code of FF, however the reverse is not true. So if Safari has this great performance, how can the FF figure out how Safari does it?
At the end of Jim Carrey's movie, The Cable Guy; all local TV is knocked out... and people start to find enjoyment by reading books, sitting down to dinner together and doing activities besides TV...
You will NOT die if you don't watch Wheel of Fortune or your favorite soap opera...
These are "LAN Solutions" "SCSI-over-IP" - iSCSI "RAID-over-IP" - some volume manager sitting on top of iSCSI
"WAN Solutions": WAFS (Wide Area File Services) from the likes of Cisco or Riverbed. They optimize CIFS/NFS protocols which are horrible over high latency links.
Infiniband... Dying... besides infiniband used SCSI over IB to a IB to FibreChannel gateway.
Don't forget tape and our friend FICON.
Where can he be flexible? In the past few years we've seen the adoption of:
-Virtual Tape Libraries (tho they've been in the mainframe world for ages) -Deduplication in Hardware -Encryption of Data at Rest (in the tape drive; and now in the disk drive)
We've got plenty of CPU power with multi core systems... what about using that for Compression? (Sorry StorageTek did that in the 80s on their Iceberg (aka IBM's RVA Subsystem).
I don't need more capacity, I need to be able to manage it easier.
The trouble here is that you're acting like all of those enterprise features represent some huge chunk of the OS - and Microsoft is too.
I'm not assuming that it's a huge chunk of the OS, however these licenseable features could be considered to add significant value to the product. If the only features that are optional are remote desktop and domain support, then why raise the price the average consumer will have to pay? As they say, "My grandmother doesn't need those two features, so why make her pay for them?"
So then what do you base your price for the product?
Do you base it on the "entry level user" that uses it for web/email/photos and toss in the Enterprise features for free?
Or do you base it on the Enterprise features, but then customers will complain "Why am I paying for enterprise features which I'll never use?"
To solve your manufacturing/distribution point above you could always package the full version, but only allow certain features to be enabled via licensing. However, managing license keys brings its' own set of issues.
Anybody know what these countries that offer 100/1000Mb to the home can actually deliver? I'm kinda doubting that Korea is going to have a 10Gb circuit for every 10 customers. If you had an apartment building with 100 units in it, do we really expect the ISP to be able to provide 100Gb simultaneously?
I just want to know, is this a case of providing high speed "last mile" but it's business as usual when it comes to oversubscription in the distribution/core layers.
I can see it now... the Linux masses (or/. crowd) asking for alternatives to everything...
Notepad? Bundle Vi/Emacs for windows MediaPlayer... bundle VLC & mplayer Solitaire... Instant Messenger? Bundle Pigdin... MSPaint? Bundle GIMP
And we complain about BLOAT now? Wait till you see all the crap that gets bundled. And the MS products will still get used more? Why, because Joe Sixpack will look at the NAMES of the applications and won't have to guess what they do? Can you look at 99% of the linux apps out there and guess what they do? Notepad/MediaPlayer/Instant Messenger/MS Paint are pretty obvious what they do. GIMP? I'm not explaining that one.
Ok, so if the average user is still doing the same basic tasks, browser/email/word processing it kills me that I'm now requiring the CPU power of yesterdays servers to do these basic tasks. Having multicore systems enables software vendors to increase the bloat, because the increase in cpu/ram will take care of it; therefore hiding this increase in bloat from the user. It's no difference in converting all cars to lead bodies; as long as we put 1000hp engines in them. The user experience doesn't change b/c they still have the same 0-60 times.
For example, I've always wondered how much CPU time is wasted due to anti-virus software? Let's say you have a large windows on VMware environment. Each VM needs to have antivirus on it, if you've got a server with 10-20 VMs on it; you've got 10-20 instances of anti-virus running. There's gotta be some way to calculate the total amount of CPU and power (W) wasted on this single server to just running the antivirus scanning...
How about an increase in CPU, but either keeping the bloat the same?
Currently, many people get rid of their old cars by donating them to charities. After donating the car, you can take a tax deduction based upon what the charity was able to sell it at. http://www.edmunds.com/advice/selling/articles/48930/article.html. In most cases the Charities are fixing them up and selling them to people without cars or who could not afford a car on the open market.
Here's the catch, you're not going to be able to deduct $2,500 to $4,500 based upon your tax bracket. So if this bill passes we could see people giving their cars to the gov't rather than to a charity.
Also FTA, the older your car is, the less you get from the gov't as far as vouchers is concerned. Surprising.
I'm sick of the linux communities' attitude that she should have known linux was "internet capable" right out of the box; or that she could have opened up a document in OpenOffice. I think the community forgets that for the majority of internet users, they started out by getting a CD in the mail (AOL/Compuserve/Prodigy/Earthlink/Mindspring whatever) and that launched an application which had an integrated browser/email/news/stocks client. So she treated her internet access like a black box; big deal. Most people treat their cars like black boxes as well.
Someone handed her a Microsoft Word document; why should we blame her if she looked on her computer and *GASP* didn't see Microsoft Word. Is it possible that just maybe, he classes said as a requirement you needed MSWord for the class materials? Maybe there are spreadsheets that are handed out that have tons of formulas and macros in them; is the instructor going to worry about OO macro compatibility. No, and neither should she.
Dell should be ashamed for not allowing her computer to be returned, but the linux community should be ashamed as well. For assuming that all computer users are part IT Staff. Maybe we should expect the average/. user to be able to sit down at a 3270 terminal and configure the IOCDS or perform a datamigration with DFSMS on my zSeries. I mean, it's just a computer right, it must run rsync....
Just like with cars, some people are mechanics, some people just change oil and filters and others just drive the car. It's a shame the linux community can't understand the same thing about computers.
modus operandi of cramming in as many features as possible, and then fixing problems in beta.
Sure his waterfall method works when you can guarantee that 100% of the features/functions you need in a product are determined during a Requirements phase. However, when company X will buy $10m of your product if you paint it red; then you agree to it; let the date slip and paint it red.
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Hmm... If I like ESPN.com, and ESPN.com's flash causes my browser to crash, what do you expect me to do?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS6udST6lbE
What's your beef with the awesome bar? I actually *like* how it searches through my bookmarks as I type in keywords. No more having to go through multiple levels of bookmark folders. I pretty much just click the yellow star to bookmark a page, then add a few custom tags to it. I got rid of the "I feel lucky" google search behavior, but I've been doing that since firefox 1.x...
Please fix your flash plugin. Seems that once a day if I go to a page with considerable flash (which is most pages these days), the browser will crash and when I examine the crashfile, it's *gasp* always you. I've reinstalled flash and FF 3.0.6.....
Go watch the movie GATTACA http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/ The basic premise is in the not too distant future a company has come up with a way for parents to determine all of the genetic qualities of the baby so that when the baby is born it is already determined what it will become/do in it's life based upon it's DNA. Prior to birth they know if you'll be a physician or a garbage man. "Natural" babies, those with no genetic selection are unheard of. The plot is a "natural" born character tries to fool the system into thinking he's got the DNA to be an astronaut...
Interesting concept.
Why is the third link in the summary to a blog about the first link? Ok so the first link is the story itself then the third one which only has three statements of thought:
It's been in the air for ages, and now it's happening:
/*He copies in some summary sentences from the article. */
Presumably those are the three that relate to Linux, in which case this is likely to have broader implications than just the in-car navigation market.
Here's a nice statement of how Microsoft views all this:
/* He then posts a small quote from the first article. */
In other words, Microsoft "respects and appreciates" open source until it actually starts to replace Microsoft's offerings, in which case the charming smile is replaced with the shark's grimace.
It may not be a coincidence that Gutierrez has just been promoted to the rank of corporate vice president: could this legal action be his way of announcing the direction he and Microsoft will now take in the battle against Linux?
Is someone trying to get page hits here? What's the "direct hits to my blog" form of Slashvertisement?
Let's say your XBOX live name was "Steve1234" could you get banned for mentioning the following phrase, "My husband is logging on right now, his mage would help us out..."?
Even if the company you're leaving from throws you a ticker tape parade as you walk out the door, how do you know that they won't give you a poor recommendation down the road?
If IE and Safari can look at Firefox's source code and see exactly how FF implement's something, how can FF maintain a competitive advantage as a core browser. By core browser I mean without all the plugins/themes/extensions. IE/Safari already have a distribution advantage in that the browser comes with the OS. I'm going to a assume that the folks over at Mozilla would not declare victory if Apple/MSFT decided one day to reskin and rename FF and package it with their OS.
It's a unfair advantage that the OS vendors can see the source code of FF, however the reverse is not true. So if Safari has this great performance, how can the FF figure out how Safari does it?
At the end of Jim Carrey's movie, The Cable Guy; all local TV is knocked out... and people start to find enjoyment by reading books, sitting down to dinner together and doing activities besides TV...
You will NOT die if you don't watch Wheel of Fortune or your favorite soap opera...
Who's going to pay for this "FREE" service?
What's your key management strategy?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/
The slippery slope begins... first arrests... then when you're born. Living "off the grid" will eventually equate to "being born in the woods."
Let me translate this for you...
These are "LAN Solutions"
"SCSI-over-IP" - iSCSI
"RAID-over-IP" - some volume manager sitting on top of iSCSI
"WAN Solutions":
WAFS (Wide Area File Services) from the likes of Cisco or Riverbed. They optimize CIFS/NFS protocols which are horrible over high latency links.
Infiniband... Dying... besides infiniband used SCSI over IB to a IB to FibreChannel gateway.
Don't forget tape and our friend FICON.
Where can he be flexible? In the past few years we've seen the adoption of:
-Virtual Tape Libraries (tho they've been in the mainframe world for ages)
-Deduplication in Hardware
-Encryption of Data at Rest (in the tape drive; and now in the disk drive)
We've got plenty of CPU power with multi core systems... what about using that for Compression? (Sorry StorageTek did that in the 80s on their Iceberg (aka IBM's RVA Subsystem).
I don't need more capacity, I need to be able to manage it easier.
The trouble here is that you're acting like all of those enterprise features represent some huge chunk of the OS - and Microsoft is too.
I'm not assuming that it's a huge chunk of the OS, however these licenseable features could be considered to add significant value to the product. If the only features that are optional are remote desktop and domain support, then why raise the price the average consumer will have to pay? As they say, "My grandmother doesn't need those two features, so why make her pay for them?"
So then what do you base your price for the product?
Do you base it on the "entry level user" that uses it for web/email/photos and toss in the Enterprise features for free?
Or do you base it on the Enterprise features, but then customers will complain "Why am I paying for enterprise features which I'll never use?"
To solve your manufacturing/distribution point above you could always package the full version, but only allow certain features to be enabled via licensing. However, managing license keys brings its' own set of issues.
And then there's the problem of content? How many content distribution networks could actually stream that kind of bandwidth at a time?
Anybody know what these countries that offer 100/1000Mb to the home can actually deliver? I'm kinda doubting that Korea is going to have a 10Gb circuit for every 10 customers. If you had an apartment building with 100 units in it, do we really expect the ISP to be able to provide 100Gb simultaneously?
I just want to know, is this a case of providing high speed "last mile" but it's business as usual when it comes to oversubscription in the distribution/core layers.
Ok, so the first version of Firefox's "Mouse Gestures" came out on July 26, 2004 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addons/versions/39#version-0.9.20040725. Which is before this patent was filed. So if we found evidence of someone using mouse gestures with a touch screen monitor, would that constitute prior art?
I can see it now... the Linux masses (or /. crowd) asking for alternatives to everything...
Notepad? Bundle Vi/Emacs for windows
MediaPlayer... bundle VLC & mplayer
Solitaire...
Instant Messenger? Bundle Pigdin...
MSPaint? Bundle GIMP
And we complain about BLOAT now? Wait till you see all the crap that gets bundled. And the MS products will still get used more? Why, because Joe Sixpack will look at the NAMES of the applications and won't have to guess what they do? Can you look at 99% of the linux apps out there and guess what they do? Notepad/MediaPlayer/Instant Messenger/MS Paint are pretty obvious what they do. GIMP? I'm not explaining that one.
Ok, so if the average user is still doing the same basic tasks, browser/email/word processing it kills me that I'm now requiring the CPU power of yesterdays servers to do these basic tasks. Having multicore systems enables software vendors to increase the bloat, because the increase in cpu/ram will take care of it; therefore hiding this increase in bloat from the user. It's no difference in converting all cars to lead bodies; as long as we put 1000hp engines in them. The user experience doesn't change b/c they still have the same 0-60 times.
For example, I've always wondered how much CPU time is wasted due to anti-virus software? Let's say you have a large windows on VMware environment. Each VM needs to have antivirus on it, if you've got a server with 10-20 VMs on it; you've got 10-20 instances of anti-virus running. There's gotta be some way to calculate the total amount of CPU and power (W) wasted on this single server to just running the antivirus scanning...
How about an increase in CPU, but either keeping the bloat the same?
Currently, many people get rid of their old cars by donating them to charities. After donating the car, you can take a tax deduction based upon what the charity was able to sell it at. http://www.edmunds.com/advice/selling/articles/48930/article.html. In most cases the Charities are fixing them up and selling them to people without cars or who could not afford a car on the open market.
Here's the catch, you're not going to be able to deduct $2,500 to $4,500 based upon your tax bracket. So if this bill passes we could see people giving their cars to the gov't rather than to a charity.
Also FTA, the older your car is, the less you get from the gov't as far as vouchers is concerned. Surprising.
I'm of the opinion that people should be obligated to learn a little bit about the tools they use.
I hope you can fix a toilet, garbage disposal, microwave, cordless drill, water heater, furnace, elevator, dishwasher, lawnmower, ATM machine....
Sorry couldn't resist.
I'm sick of the linux communities' attitude that she should have known linux was "internet capable" right out of the box; or that she could have opened up a document in OpenOffice. I think the community forgets that for the majority of internet users, they started out by getting a CD in the mail (AOL/Compuserve/Prodigy/Earthlink/Mindspring whatever) and that launched an application which had an integrated browser/email/news/stocks client. So she treated her internet access like a black box; big deal. Most people treat their cars like black boxes as well.
Someone handed her a Microsoft Word document; why should we blame her if she looked on her computer and *GASP* didn't see Microsoft Word. Is it possible that just maybe, he classes said as a requirement you needed MSWord for the class materials? Maybe there are spreadsheets that are handed out that have tons of formulas and macros in them; is the instructor going to worry about OO macro compatibility. No, and neither should she.
Dell should be ashamed for not allowing her computer to be returned, but the linux community should be ashamed as well. For assuming that all computer users are part IT Staff. Maybe we should expect the average /. user to be able to sit down at a 3270 terminal and configure the IOCDS or perform a datamigration with DFSMS on my zSeries. I mean, it's just a computer right, it must run rsync....
Just like with cars, some people are mechanics, some people just change oil and filters and others just drive the car. It's a shame the linux community can't understand the same thing about computers.
modus operandi of cramming in as many features as possible, and then fixing problems in beta.
Sure his waterfall method works when you can guarantee that 100% of the features/functions you need in a product are determined during a Requirements phase. However, when company X will buy $10m of your product if you paint it red; then you agree to it; let the date slip and paint it red.