Go ask your secretary to open notepad and send you an email. Then you will have answered your own question. I started to call it an idiotic question, but that would have just been me venting frustrations at someone who seems to think that everyone in the world is endowed with the same knowlege they have.
Just a little research will probably convince you that most people have no idea about notepad's existance. So far, I have received absolutely zero notes, letters or memos that were written in notepad, and that includes everything since Windows 3.0. How many have you received?
They probably do need a "like new" edition for their library. Their method is somewhat stupid and poorly thought out. Why did they not just make this offer to their employees instead of to the world? That way, one of their own could have profitted and become a more loyal employee.
Redundant? Since that is the way we talk, it does not matter. Everyone understands. Next time write it out instead of asking. Takes about the same time and there are always one or two readers who are going to ask, "DNS?, is that some new cell identification formula?"
Perhaps he is writing from Florida or Maine. From there, The Seattle area may include California.
A few years ago I was on an interview trip to South Carolina. My headhunter called me and said that since I was "so close" to Alabama, that I should look into a job he had found there.
I guess it's all a matter of perspective.
"most importantly, is already installed and working when the user buys his or her system"
You covered all but one part - the most importantly part. Desktop is the system that most users worldwide are using.
Desktop is the system that AOL targets with all those free CDs that actually get you connected to the internet when they put it into the CD reader.
Last year notebooks/laptops were a large percentage of annual sales, but the vast, vast majority of computers are still the desktop non-mobile system.
The vast majority of those users never heard of Linux.
The vast majority of those users cannot download and install a program, and if they can download it, they cannot find it later unless it appears on the desktop or maybe in "My Documents" where everything they do is scrambled together.
Desktop is the system that came on their computer. It will never get modified; it will never get updated; it will never get a firewall, it will never get virus updates unless they are automatic; it will never get any changes unless it is done like MS is doing with the latest XP updates and shoved onto their computer when they go online. One exception: AOL must supply linux CD's so that the user can go online
Yes, Linux can already do everything Windows can do, and it could do that four or five years ago. However, like yours, it has to be done piecemeal.
Linux needs more companies to deliver computers with double-boot sytems so the user can start Windows or Linux and seamlessly, get on the internet and not worry about which system it is.
In short, Linux does not need more programs or additions. Linux needs PUBLICITY and prebuilt and installed systems that work as well as Windows works.
So in conclusion, it does not matter whether you call it Desktop, or Laptop or whatever. It has to be the system that is pre-installed and WORKS without user intervention.
The/. heading is mostly flamebait, but unfortunately it is true. Forget the OS/Platform part. I have been watching Linux for nearly 15 years now, and it still has not made a dent in the one area where it will gain recognition - the DESKTOP. Until it does the same job as Windows, is compatible with Windows, and most importantly, is already installed and working when the user buys his or her system, it will never capture more of the Windows market than the server part. As far as I can tell, it has not moved much in the past two or three years. We users/promoters make a lot of noise and we know which is best, but the general public knows nothing. Linux probably needs more PR than anything else. And it needs more companies like Lindspire that sell a complete working package.
If you apply Moore's law to the computing power that we could buy in 1972 at 10 minutes for $2000 for running SPICE, and since my desktop AMD3000 is as powerful as that machine was then, and since it only takes one minute to run that program instead of 10, and my total one time cost for the computer was only $1100, can you show that the law is either correct or not?
I was set for life. With a new identity, I would get retirement for years and live happily on the beach. Then I got notice that I had died just a few days ago. So now I have a new identity, but I'm dead. Wonder if I can get my old job back....
Well, I am an EE and I have spent more years designing power supplies and backup systems than I care to talk about. As a power supply and system's designer, I also have spent a lot of time designing cooling systems at the board level and at the system level.
1. The wall warts are there so that international safety codes can be met easily. They provide the necessary safety isolation between the 120/220 volts from the wall and the device they are powering. It takes a lot of time , money and testing to meet these international safety standards, and if you build the power supply inside your equipment, then you deal with having high voltage inside your enclosure, and a nightmare of conditions you have to meet and test.
2. Once you have selected a wall wart to provide the "safety low voltage" of less than 40.2 volts peak, you can re-regulate to lower voltages as needed. And since many of these wall warts use switching technology, the efficiency can be quite high (80-90 percent). Those that use only a transformer for safety isolation have 95-99 percent effeciency. Yes, one large wall wart could do the job of the multi set of small ones, but that would mean someone would have to design a custom power supply for those products, and that gets back to the original problem
3. The computer power supply provides this same function. That is why it is sealed, and has only low voltage outputs. Even the power entry plug and fuse is part of the power supply. Look on the label and you will see all kinds of international safety logos. The processor power of 3.3 volts and other similar voltages is conditioned directly at the processor since there are unique design problems that occur as a processor changes from 100 percent usage to sleep mode.
Addressing the cooling issue: (I will try to use simple explanations for those who do not design in this area.)
For all ICs, the faster it goes, the hotter it gets. If a processor can be slowed or stopped when it is not doing anything, the power can be greatly decreased. However, as the article states, most people prefer to get better performance instead of being concerned with heat.
The problem is the same whether you are discussing the silicon chip inside a semiconductor package or discussing the server box inside a room. The power generated by the chip has to be removed from the room to avoid overheating. Assume a processor chip dissipates 200 watts. The chip designer has to find a way to move 200 watts from the silicon chip to the metal or ceramic surface of the package. The board designer has to find a way to move the 200 watts from the package surface to a heat sink. The system (box) designer has to find a way to move the 200 watts from the heatsink to the surrounding air and get the heat out of the box and into the room air. The building designer has to find a way to move the 200 watts from the room to the outside. As you can see, it is not a matter of room cooling vs processor cooling. Each person in the design sequence has to remove heat. The only person who can really make a difference is the processor designer who can shut down to lower power at any time the full speed is not needed. Secondarily, the programmers can tell the processor when the program needs only slow speed, such as when one is typing or filling in values on a spread sheet or database and thus decrease the initial power. However, even if the processor is running slow speed, the other designers in the heat chain still have to design for maximum heat removal unless the processor can tell the rest of the system its actual power used. Now, give yourself 50 of these processors in one large room and you are generating 10,000 watts of heat. That's like having seven of the 1500 watt bathroom heaters running continuously. Since your overall power supply is only 80 percent efficient, the total power jumps up to 12000 watts. Now add in the power for the hard drives, fans, monitors, etc and you start getting really warm air. That's how it works! Now how do you solve it?
Why would 40 years even be a consideration or even 100 years?? That's not even as long as a person expects to live. Imagine if your grandparent's pictures made in the 1800's or early 1900's faded away after 40 + years.
I have an old book that was printed about 1895. I bought a 35mm camera in 1953 and the slides from that first roll are still the same as when I first took them. (Kodak film speed was ISA-10)
My main concern is that a fire or water damage from a tornado or hurricane might destroy the data, not having the archives fail.
I still expect my digital pictures to last as long as my slides and color negatives and prints last.
Many companies work on a contract basis (like a government contract) and many work on a work order basis. If the contract requires that an additional 20 people are needed for a year or two, but no longer, the employer will hire contract workers so that the "permanent" employees do not get laid off at the end of the contract. At another company, if one of the normal customers places an order for an extra 10,000 gidgits, then more employers are needed for a few months or years. Again the company will hire contract people to help fulfill the order with the understanding (contract) that they are not permanent employees. They may be payed by a contract company, or may be hired directly as temporary workers. These people are not allowed to work overtime (even without pay) and most likely do the same job as the company's core group of permanent employees. However, they will be the first to go in the event of a downturn in the company's finances. Some, of course, will eventually be hired as permanent employees.
There is nothing that can keep a company from hiring mostly temporary workers except for the state laws or rules governing workers. In HP's case, the employee should have known from the start whether they were temporary or permanent and under what conditions they would be terminated. (They probably did not know though!)
I started my present position as a temporary worker. I knew from the start that my position would exist only as long as funds were available. I later was hired as a permanent employee, but my job responsibilities did not change at all.
So I look up this name of a person that I had never heard of, and I find out that he is a rich or famous person that I did not know about and now I can become an official geek and say, "You mean you don't know who that is?" Wow!
The flying car was introduced about 1948 in "Popular Sience" or "Science and Mechanics" or "Mechanics Illustrated". (I don't remember which. My brother subscribed to all three.) One version had folding wings down the side and the other was a drive-up set of wings that attached to a specific car. Based on the present trend of things, it will be more than 20 years.
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Just a little research will probably convince you that most people have no idea about notepad's existance. So far, I have received absolutely zero notes, letters or memos that were written in notepad, and that includes everything since Windows 3.0. How many have you received?
I don't think first poster meant to be funny. I also think he has trouble with sentence structure. Maybe in a rush to be first poster.....
Moore's law will always apply. Our ability to make things smaller soon enough just may mean that we are having trouble keeping up with it. :)
It's not a rule, it's a generality, and all generalities, including this one, are untrue.
They probably do need a "like new" edition for their library. Their method is somewhat stupid and poorly thought out. Why did they not just make this offer to their employees instead of to the world? That way, one of their own could have profitted and become a more loyal employee.
New Subject - Last night the movie "Forever Young" came on TV. Coincidenc in timing, don't you think?
Redundant? Since that is the way we talk, it does not matter. Everyone understands. Next time write it out instead of asking. Takes about the same time and there are always one or two readers who are going to ask, "DNS?, is that some new cell identification formula?"
A few years ago I was on an interview trip to South Carolina. My headhunter called me and said that since I was "so close" to Alabama, that I should look into a job he had found there. I guess it's all a matter of perspective.
You covered all but one part - the most importantly part. Desktop is the system that most users worldwide are using.
Desktop is the system that AOL targets with all those free CDs that actually get you connected to the internet when they put it into the CD reader.
Last year notebooks/laptops were a large percentage of annual sales, but the vast, vast majority of computers are still the desktop non-mobile system.
The vast majority of those users never heard of Linux.
The vast majority of those users cannot download and install a program, and if they can download it, they cannot find it later unless it appears on the desktop or maybe in "My Documents" where everything they do is scrambled together.
Desktop is the system that came on their computer. It will never get modified; it will never get updated; it will never get a firewall, it will never get virus updates unless they are automatic; it will never get any changes unless it is done like MS is doing with the latest XP updates and shoved onto their computer when they go online. One exception: AOL must supply linux CD's so that the user can go online
Yes, Linux can already do everything Windows can do, and it could do that four or five years ago. However, like yours, it has to be done piecemeal.
Linux needs more companies to deliver computers with double-boot sytems so the user can start Windows or Linux and seamlessly, get on the internet and not worry about which system it is.
In short, Linux does not need more programs or additions. Linux needs PUBLICITY and prebuilt and installed systems that work as well as Windows works.
So in conclusion, it does not matter whether you call it Desktop, or Laptop or whatever. It has to be the system that is pre-installed and WORKS without user intervention.
All generalizations, including this one, are untrue.
The /. heading is mostly flamebait, but unfortunately it is true. Forget the OS/Platform part. I have been watching Linux for nearly 15 years now, and it still has not made a dent in the one area where it will gain recognition - the DESKTOP. Until it does the same job as Windows, is compatible with Windows, and most importantly, is already installed and working when the user buys his or her system, it will never capture more of the Windows market than the server part. As far as I can tell, it has not moved much in the past two or three years. We users/promoters make a lot of noise and we know which is best, but the general public knows nothing. Linux probably needs more PR than anything else. And it needs more companies like Lindspire that sell a complete working package.
If you apply Moore's law to the computing power that we could buy in 1972 at 10 minutes for $2000 for running SPICE, and since my desktop AMD3000 is as powerful as that machine was then, and since it only takes one minute to run that program instead of 10, and my total one time cost for the computer was only $1100, can you show that the law is either correct or not?
For 99 cents you can buy her song!
I could not afford a dog, so for a while I just used "stick" for my password. (You have to read the link or at least look at the pictures!)
I was set for life. With a new identity, I would get retirement for years and live happily on the beach. Then I got notice that I had died just a few days ago. So now I have a new identity, but I'm dead. Wonder if I can get my old job back....
1. The wall warts are there so that international safety codes can be met easily. They provide the necessary safety isolation between the 120/220 volts from the wall and the device they are powering. It takes a lot of time , money and testing to meet these international safety standards, and if you build the power supply inside your equipment, then you deal with having high voltage inside your enclosure, and a nightmare of conditions you have to meet and test.
2. Once you have selected a wall wart to provide the "safety low voltage" of less than 40.2 volts peak, you can re-regulate to lower voltages as needed. And since many of these wall warts use switching technology, the efficiency can be quite high (80-90 percent). Those that use only a transformer for safety isolation have 95-99 percent effeciency. Yes, one large wall wart could do the job of the multi set of small ones, but that would mean someone would have to design a custom power supply for those products, and that gets back to the original problem
3. The computer power supply provides this same function. That is why it is sealed, and has only low voltage outputs. Even the power entry plug and fuse is part of the power supply. Look on the label and you will see all kinds of international safety logos. The processor power of 3.3 volts and other similar voltages is conditioned directly at the processor since there are unique design problems that occur as a processor changes from 100 percent usage to sleep mode.
Addressing the cooling issue: (I will try to use simple explanations for those who do not design in this area.)
For all ICs, the faster it goes, the hotter it gets. If a processor can be slowed or stopped when it is not doing anything, the power can be greatly decreased. However, as the article states, most people prefer to get better performance instead of being concerned with heat.
The problem is the same whether you are discussing the silicon chip inside a semiconductor package or discussing the server box inside a room. The power generated by the chip has to be removed from the room to avoid overheating. Assume a processor chip dissipates 200 watts. The chip designer has to find a way to move 200 watts from the silicon chip to the metal or ceramic surface of the package. The board designer has to find a way to move the 200 watts from the package surface to a heat sink. The system (box) designer has to find a way to move the 200 watts from the heatsink to the surrounding air and get the heat out of the box and into the room air. The building designer has to find a way to move the 200 watts from the room to the outside. As you can see, it is not a matter of room cooling vs processor cooling. Each person in the design sequence has to remove heat. The only person who can really make a difference is the processor designer who can shut down to lower power at any time the full speed is not needed. Secondarily, the programmers can tell the processor when the program needs only slow speed, such as when one is typing or filling in values on a spread sheet or database and thus decrease the initial power. However, even if the processor is running slow speed, the other designers in the heat chain still have to design for maximum heat removal unless the processor can tell the rest of the system its actual power used.
Now, give yourself 50 of these processors in one large room and you are generating 10,000 watts of heat. That's like having seven of the 1500 watt bathroom heaters running continuously.
Since your overall power supply is only 80 percent efficient, the total power jumps up to 12000 watts. Now add in the power for the hard drives, fans, monitors, etc and you start getting really warm air. That's how it works! Now how do you solve it?
Were you perhaps that way already!
I have an old book that was printed about 1895. I bought a 35mm camera in 1953 and the slides from that first roll are still the same as when I first took them. (Kodak film speed was ISA-10)
My main concern is that a fire or water damage from a tornado or hurricane might destroy the data, not having the archives fail. I still expect my digital pictures to last as long as my slides and color negatives and prints last.
I tried that. When I mentioned string theory, she thought I ment bikini and thong strings. We have a very enlivening (I'll be nice) "conversation".
There is nothing that can keep a company from hiring mostly temporary workers except for the state laws or rules governing workers. In HP's case, the employee should have known from the start whether they were temporary or permanent and under what conditions they would be terminated. (They probably did not know though!)
I started my present position as a temporary worker. I knew from the start that my position would exist only as long as funds were available. I later was hired as a permanent employee, but my job responsibilities did not change at all.
If you do the scroll bar and blink your eyes just right, you can see the animation!
So I look up this name of a person that I had never heard of, and I find out that he is a rich or famous person that I did not know about and now I can become an official geek and say, "You mean you don't know who that is?" Wow!
Sounds like a small scale version of winning the lottery!
The flying car was introduced about 1948 in "Popular Sience" or "Science and Mechanics" or "Mechanics Illustrated". (I don't remember which. My brother subscribed to all three.) One version had folding wings down the side and the other was a drive-up set of wings that attached to a specific car. Based on the present trend of things, it will be more than 20 years.
When you're talking about my cell phone, don't say "Drag and Drop!".