I would guess that Opera is a better browser "out-of-the-box". But saying Opera is better out of the box misses the point of the major goal Firefox. Firefox is meant to be a bare-bones browser. You can extend it's functionality with extensions to exhibit just about any functions you want. Firefox is not bloatware, or at least, isn't meant to be.
The article is probably missing content because he only allowed himself an hour with each browser. The autoher had a publishing deadline to meet.
And I thought I was the only one who thought this. I remember when all websites were blogs. The web was the domain for hobbyists. Then came the.com boom and it seemed every website was after you're money. Now we're that personal webpages are being noticed again, people think they're something new. Only now the noise/content ratio is much higher.
The reviewer is clueless and the article is far from comprehensive. The reviewer doesn't know Solaris 9, which is pretty much required to properly understand Solaris10. Solaris is a Server OS meant to run on server grade HW. It only needs compatibility with server grade hw from tier 1 suppliers. Don't expect to see Solaris on your laptop anytime soon and don't expect support for the latest video cards. Most servers these days are headless, or pretend to be.
For one, Solaris isn't installed so much as it's cloned. You create your install image during development, then clone the "gold" drive thousands of times as you ship servers.
The author states "compatibility only guaranteed for code written for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3". Such comments only show the authors lack of understanding of Linux.
The comments are more interesting and informative than the article itself.
http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/software/os/0,39024183, 39195793,00.htm
RAMBUS is a point to point buffered interface. Each signal only sees one load with dedicated TX and RX signals. The interface is actually a daisy-chained loop, rather than multipoint bus. That is why you need you need the blank DIMM to pass the TX to the RX signals. Since the loading is always the same, it's much more consistent and you will se less vendor to vendor variance.
DDR is a very high speed multipoint parallel interface with very little tolerance in the drivers and recievers. Designing DDR motherboards and DIMM modules is difficult. The capacitive load of the DDR bus varies depending on how many DIMMs are loaded and the DIMM architeture (#chips on DIMM). DDR drivers dont vary the buffer strength based on loading so you will have too much overshoot with one DIMM with 5 chips (x16) and too overdamped with 4 DIMMS with 36 chips (stacked x4) on each DIMM. This is why most motherboards are more relable when all DDR slots are full.
Motherboard manufactures must qualify each DIMM combination separately. You should always use the DIMM modules recommended by the motherboard manufacturer. This is a problem that will only get worse.
Are cars user friendly? If user-friendly means that you can drive it off the lot without being familar with the car then the answer is no, cars are NOT user friendly. The problem is not the placement of the speedometer, the steering column, or the stereo knobs. You see, before you can drive that car off the lot, you have to know how to drive. It takes several weeks of practice to learn how to drive a car and be comfortable. It could be longer or shorter based on the car itself (manual or auto) and the talent of the person learning to drive. Once someone is familiar driving a car, they could drive just about any car they chose right off the lot.
I feel that consumer electronics fall into the same category. To be able to use consumer electronics "out of the box", you have have some familiarity with consumer electronics. It doesn't take years of use. It takes just enough use for the customer to grasp the basic concepts. Then off they go with TVs, stereos, DVDs, and consoles. Just as soon as they RTFM!
First off, you must realize that there is embedded, then there is embedded.
There is embedded in the sense of the handheld computer where only small size matters. For this, program your Palmpilot.
Embedded in the sense of Airplane control stuff, where Real-Time response is the most important. program Lego Mindstorms.
Embedded in the sense of what Intel calls "Applied Computing". This is using PC hardware for dedicated tasks, such as Voice over IP. Check out www.picmg.org for examples. CompactPCI is little more than rackmount a PC. Applied Computing is programming standard PC hardware, but knowing multithreading/Interrupt handling/BIOS/Device drivers like you never wanted to.
In order for ANY claim of Intellectual Property to be made, the lecture must be copyrighted before the first presentation of the lecture. If a professor changes his lecture notes, or his lecture, they must have a new copyright. A university cannot assert anything is property unless they can show that it is.
Here are a few lessons to learn from Mahir. 1. Never put your personal phone number on your Web Page. I wouldn't even do it for on-line resumes. an email is fine.
2. The same for home address. You might get some Slashdot type showing up at your door.;)
3. Mahir did a great job of tracking the culprit. Especially since he has little or no computer experience.
Mr Young, thanks you for your time in writing and posting this article for Slashdot. This was a very informative article and extremely pertinent to many discussions of patents and patent law in the US here on Slashdot. I am not here to debate the validity of current patent laws with you since that is not why you wrote this article. I just wanted to thank you for the info.
Slashdot Mirror
I would guess that Opera is a better browser "out-of-the-box". But saying Opera is better out of the box misses the point of the major goal Firefox. Firefox is meant to be a bare-bones browser. You can extend it's functionality with extensions to exhibit just about any functions you want. Firefox is not bloatware, or at least, isn't meant to be.
The article is probably missing content because he only allowed himself an hour with each browser. The autoher had a publishing deadline to meet.
And I thought I was the only one who thought this. I remember when all websites were blogs. The web was the domain for hobbyists. Then came the .com boom and it seemed every website was after you're money. Now we're that personal webpages are being noticed again, people think they're something new. Only now the noise/content ratio is much higher.
The reviewer is clueless and the article is far from comprehensive. The reviewer doesn't know Solaris 9, which is pretty much required to properly understand Solaris10. Solaris is a Server OS meant to run on server grade HW. It only needs compatibility with server grade hw from tier 1 suppliers. Don't expect to see Solaris on your laptop anytime soon and don't expect support for the latest video cards. Most servers these days are headless, or pretend to be. For one, Solaris isn't installed so much as it's cloned. You create your install image during development, then clone the "gold" drive thousands of times as you ship servers. The author states "compatibility only guaranteed for code written for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3". Such comments only show the authors lack of understanding of Linux. The comments are more interesting and informative than the article itself. http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/software/os/0,39024183, 39195793,00.htm
Need I say more?
RAMBUS is a point to point buffered interface. Each signal only sees one load with dedicated TX and RX signals. The interface is actually a daisy-chained loop, rather than multipoint bus. That is why you need you need the blank DIMM to pass the TX to the RX signals. Since the loading is always the same, it's much more consistent and you will se less vendor to vendor variance.
DDR is a very high speed multipoint parallel interface with very little tolerance in the drivers and recievers. Designing DDR motherboards and DIMM modules is difficult. The capacitive load of the DDR bus varies depending on how many DIMMs are loaded and the DIMM architeture (#chips on DIMM). DDR drivers dont vary the buffer strength based on loading so you will have too much overshoot with one DIMM with 5 chips (x16) and too overdamped with 4 DIMMS with 36 chips (stacked x4) on each DIMM. This is why most motherboards are more relable when all DDR slots are full.
Motherboard manufactures must qualify each DIMM combination separately. You should always use the DIMM modules recommended by the motherboard manufacturer. This is a problem that will only get worse.
All variations ona theme. they claim pricing info is copyrighted info.
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http://twincities.bizjournals.com/twincities/st
Are cars user friendly? If user-friendly means that you can drive it off the lot without being familar with the car then the answer is no, cars are NOT user friendly. The problem is not the placement of the speedometer, the steering column, or the stereo knobs. You see, before you can drive that car off the lot, you have to know how to drive. It takes several weeks of practice to learn how to drive a car and be comfortable. It could be longer or shorter based on the car itself (manual or auto) and the talent of the person learning to drive. Once someone is familiar driving a car, they could drive just about any car they chose right off the lot.
I feel that consumer electronics fall into the same category. To be able to use consumer electronics "out of the box", you have have some familiarity with consumer electronics. It doesn't take years of use. It takes just enough use for the customer to grasp the basic concepts. Then off they go with TVs, stereos, DVDs, and consoles. Just as soon as they RTFM!
We dont want to piss off the natives
but first..
How long does it take a monkey with three wooden legs to kick all the seeds out of a cucumber?
What do they do with your DNA data afterward? Put in a database with your name, address, buying and web, surfing habits...
Wow, the FBI would pay lots of money for that info. They've always wanted a national DNA database.
First off, you must realize that there is embedded, then there is embedded.
There is embedded in the sense of the handheld computer where only small size matters. For this, program your Palmpilot.
Embedded in the sense of Airplane control stuff, where Real-Time response is the most important. program Lego Mindstorms.
Embedded in the sense of what Intel calls "Applied Computing". This is using PC hardware for dedicated tasks, such as Voice over IP. Check out www.picmg.org for examples. CompactPCI is little more than rackmount a PC. Applied Computing is programming standard PC hardware, but knowing multithreading/Interrupt handling/BIOS/Device drivers like you never wanted to.
It depends on whether UCITA passes or not.
No need to repeat what already been said at how bad that would be.
I'm not sure how that would affect public licensing.
Death to UCITA!!!
Down with bad software
Long live badsoftware.com
I suppose if those faint radio signal were terrestrial in origin, that's not nearly as exciting.....
LOL
Dict-er-CEO-for-Life Jobs is back. Dict is right!! Except that its supposed to be spelled with a "k" not a "t" :)
In order for ANY claim of Intellectual Property to be made, the lecture must be copyrighted before the first presentation of the lecture. If a professor changes his lecture notes, or his lecture, they must have a new copyright. A university cannot assert anything is property unless they can show that it is.
Here are a few lessons to learn from Mahir.
;)
1. Never put your personal phone number on your Web Page. I wouldn't even do it for on-line resumes. an email is fine.
2. The same for home address. You might get some Slashdot type showing up at your door.
3. Mahir did a great job of tracking the culprit. Especially since he has little or no computer experience.
Mr Young, thanks you for your time in writing and posting this article for Slashdot. This was a very informative article and extremely pertinent to many discussions of patents and patent law in the US here on Slashdot. I am not here to debate the validity of current patent laws with you since that is not why you wrote this article. I just wanted to thank you for the info.
Lothar
Sounds like Dan Simmon's Hyperion series....