There's probably also the undercurrent of fear that you're losing the ability to make money from your work....
Don't see that. You'd have a case if newspapers were simply refusing to put content online — but in fact, newspapers were all early adopters of web distribution. They've consistently botched the implementation, but at least they haven't been afraid of the medium.
I'm sure you're right. One thing newspapers can't seem to understand: people who get their news online are grazers. Even before newsfeeds became popular, people were jumping about from news site to news site. And with aggregation software you can track hundreds of sites, if you use feeds generate by Google News.
That's the real reason online newspaper sites can't get away with charging monthly subscriptions. They all think that it's because the online community has this "it has to be free" mindset. True, some people think that way. But even if they didn't, nobody's going to pay $10 a month just to read one or two of your articles once in a while.
I'd bring up micropayments, but I suspect that train has left the station.
Did some Googling on that machine. Sounds truely sweet. I'll always be pissed that I had to waste so much of my life fighting with baroque, overdesigned bloatware when cool, elegeant technology like that was around, but couldn't achieve any market penetration.
But back to our thread: I'm guessing you ran MS-DOS and simple character-mode apps on this thing, right? Doesn't take a lot of processing power to do that. Windows, even the primitive version of Windows available back then, would have been another matter.
And yeah, I know the A3020 had its own GUI which (I'm told) worked very well. GUIs don't have to be resource pigs. But Microsoft's GUIs always have been.
Oh dear. Oh my. You think Presidents, Senators, and Representatives are supposed to sit down and read every word of every bill they pass? I promise you, that hasn't happened in a long time, if ever. Congress deals with hundreds of bills every year, and that stimulus package isn't even particularly big. No way they could read them all, even if they did nothing else.
Which doesn't mean they don't know what they signing off on. Well, most of the time — sometimes staffers sneak something past their masters. But mostly it's a lot of staffers writing and cross checking and according to the politico's direction.
Now, you may think this is a bad way to govern, and I wouldn't strongly disagree. But to single out Obama for continuing a process that every President in modern times has used is childish.
Let alone the fact that he signed this bill into law without so much as knowing what was included in said bill.
I don't follow the Obama-bashing press the way you obviously do, so I'm not familiar with any aspect of the stimulus bill that meets the "Oops, I didn't know I approved that" test. Care to share a specific?
I actually own a Motion tablet that's almost letter-sized. But I paid a stiff premium for it. Until this technology gets more commodified, I doubt that you'll see anything affordable.
For netbooks, the crucial difference between ARM and x86 is transistor count. The most powerful ARM chips have something like 100,000 transistors. Typical desktop x86 CPUs have 100 million transistors. Intel threw a lot of engineering resources to get this chip count down for the Atom processors used in most netbooks, but they still have 50 million transistors.
The plus side of having millions of processors is that you can design fancy circuits that let you run complicated software quickly. That's crucial if you're running a big ugly monster like Windows. But more transistors mean means the CPU draws more power — a lot more. It also generates more heat, which means active cooling (in plain language, fans), drawing even more power.
ARM draws much less power, and it's tepid enough to use passive cooling (no fans). The cost for this: it has a tiny fraction of an x86's processing power. But that fraction is still a lot. It's enough to run a low-end version of Linux (Linux/ARM based devices are legion) with enough left over for simple Internet and office productivity apps. People who run these aps are the target market for netbooks.
Anyway, is this caffeine withdrawal stuff really news to anyone? Anyone?
It's on CNN! It must be news!
Seriously, though, this is more proof that the editors need to work harder on filtering crap. Any serious consumer of caffeine (and geeks are positively solemn in this respect) knows that it's physically addictive.
Here's a really old story I might as well share. Among observant Jews, there's a condition called "Yom Kippur Syndrome". On Yom Kippur, you're supposed to fast for 24 hours to atone for your sins. Jews who do this without tapering off the caffeine first often suffer from really nasty symptoms.
I'm sure it's possible. Practical is another question. An emulator adds a lot of overhead. I suspect Windows would run very slowly on ARM even in native mode.
I don't think that MS came up with Windows for Itanium just to "let Intel know they support them." They did it because they thought Itanium would be the Next Big Thing. As did a lot of other software vendors — all the major Unixes had Itanium versions, though they were mostly cancelled once the schedule started slipping.
Of course, Itanium is now seen as a white elephant, and all the effort people put into developing for it was wasted. But that's hindsight.
Just because MS got burned with Itanium doesn't mean they'll automatically stay away from ARM. If they see the whole netbook market taking off and face real competition from ARM netbooks, they might just do it.
The big stumbling block might be simple technology. ARM is, by design, a very simple, unsophisticated chip. I have to wonder if it can keep up with all the overhead of running Windows.
I'm curious as to why you switch to your Condescending Asshole persona when talking to me. I don't really see how it's any more effective than your usual Angry Asshole persona.
Have you considered giving up assholedom altogether? I think you'll find there's a whole world of non-asshole social interaction models that are a lot more fun.
Sun's market cap is kind of irrelevant. On the one hand, it's only that high because of the IBM deal. Now that the deal seems to be off, the market cap is going down real fast.
Second, the market cap doesn't really say anything about Sun's value to IBM. It basically expresses the market's lack of faith in current management. If you look at Sun's assets objectively, they're worth a lot more than $7 billion. The cash reserves alone are worth almost half that.
This whole thing is not actually something Sun's management wants. They'd be happy to soldier on and hope things get better. The people who want to sell Sun are "activist" investors who spent a lot of money buying up Sun stock so they could force the company to sell itself off. (The biggest stockholder, Southeast Asset Management, did the same thing to Knight Ridder a couple of years ago.) If these investors don't get a good price from IBM, the deal just doesn't make sense for them.
I've often thought that the two companies products dovetail pretty well. Two reasons to think it won't happen:
First, it would make Cisco a major competitor of IBM, HP, and Dell. They sort of compete now, with that new server appliance, but this is many orders of magnitude beyond that. As AT&T discovered, it's really hard to sell stuff to your competitors (which is why they spun off they hardware businesses).
Second, Cisco is obviously just not interested. Sun Management has been shopping all or part of Sun around for some months now. Cisco must have been one of their targets. If they'd had any nibbles, we would have heard by now.
A dully sworn warrant counts as "due process". The probability that the agent who applied for it and the judge who granted it are both morons makes it a stupid application of due process, but its still due process.
By the way, I have this application that generates random obscene insults. Would you like a copy? It would save you a lot of time composing your Slashdot posts.
TPP wasn't very well thought out, but I didn't see anything in it that could be labelled "fascist". And even if there were, there's no need to throw a tantrum.
Let's not blame everything on the RIAA. The FBI might also be going after somebody who's peddling kiddie porn, running a "terrorist" server, or running a botnet.
Judging from the angry rants from the agent in charge and the deployment of so many uniformed cops, I'm guessing kiddie porn.
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There's probably also the undercurrent of fear that you're losing the ability to make money from your work....
Don't see that. You'd have a case if newspapers were simply refusing to put content online — but in fact, newspapers were all early adopters of web distribution. They've consistently botched the implementation, but at least they haven't been afraid of the medium.
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I'm sure you're right. One thing newspapers can't seem to understand: people who get their news online are grazers. Even before newsfeeds became popular, people were jumping about from news site to news site. And with aggregation software you can track hundreds of sites, if you use feeds generate by Google News.
That's the real reason online newspaper sites can't get away with charging monthly subscriptions. They all think that it's because the online community has this "it has to be free" mindset. True, some people think that way. But even if they didn't, nobody's going to pay $10 a month just to read one or two of your articles once in a while.
I'd bring up micropayments, but I suspect that train has left the station.
Did some Googling on that machine. Sounds truely sweet. I'll always be pissed that I had to waste so much of my life fighting with baroque, overdesigned bloatware when cool, elegeant technology like that was around, but couldn't achieve any market penetration.
But back to our thread: I'm guessing you ran MS-DOS and simple character-mode apps on this thing, right? Doesn't take a lot of processing power to do that. Windows, even the primitive version of Windows available back then, would have been another matter.
And yeah, I know the A3020 had its own GUI which (I'm told) worked very well. GUIs don't have to be resource pigs. But Microsoft's GUIs always have been.
Oh dear. Oh my. You think Presidents, Senators, and Representatives are supposed to sit down and read every word of every bill they pass? I promise you, that hasn't happened in a long time, if ever. Congress deals with hundreds of bills every year, and that stimulus package isn't even particularly big. No way they could read them all, even if they did nothing else.
Which doesn't mean they don't know what they signing off on. Well, most of the time — sometimes staffers sneak something past their masters. But mostly it's a lot of staffers writing and cross checking and according to the politico's direction.
Now, you may think this is a bad way to govern, and I wouldn't strongly disagree. But to single out Obama for continuing a process that every President in modern times has used is childish.
Let alone the fact that he signed this bill into law without so much as knowing what was included in said bill.
I don't follow the Obama-bashing press the way you obviously do, so I'm not familiar with any aspect of the stimulus bill that meets the "Oops, I didn't know I approved that" test. Care to share a specific?
A4 or A5 sized screen
In Amerispeak: letter-sized or half-letter-sized.
I actually own a Motion tablet that's almost letter-sized. But I paid a stiff premium for it. Until this technology gets more commodified, I doubt that you'll see anything affordable.
If your wife does say she's leaving you for a robot, remind her of the sexual issues. I'm told their lovemaking is rather mechanical.
But she's not even a full Moore. She's only a Demi Moore!
That makes sense. Basically this is an OS X riff on the all those ARM/Linux embedded systems.
For netbooks, the crucial difference between ARM and x86 is transistor count. The most powerful ARM chips have something like 100,000 transistors. Typical desktop x86 CPUs have 100 million transistors. Intel threw a lot of engineering resources to get this chip count down for the Atom processors used in most netbooks, but they still have 50 million transistors.
The plus side of having millions of processors is that you can design fancy circuits that let you run complicated software quickly. That's crucial if you're running a big ugly monster like Windows. But more transistors mean means the CPU draws more power — a lot more. It also generates more heat, which means active cooling (in plain language, fans), drawing even more power.
ARM draws much less power, and it's tepid enough to use passive cooling (no fans). The cost for this: it has a tiny fraction of an x86's processing power. But that fraction is still a lot. It's enough to run a low-end version of Linux (Linux/ARM based devices are legion) with enough left over for simple Internet and office productivity apps. People who run these aps are the target market for netbooks.
Anyway, is this caffeine withdrawal stuff really news to anyone? Anyone?
It's on CNN! It must be news!
Seriously, though, this is more proof that the editors need to work harder on filtering crap. Any serious consumer of caffeine (and geeks are positively solemn in this respect) knows that it's physically addictive.
Here's a really old story I might as well share. Among observant Jews, there's a condition called "Yom Kippur Syndrome". On Yom Kippur, you're supposed to fast for 24 hours to atone for your sins. Jews who do this without tapering off the caffeine first often suffer from really nasty symptoms.
I'm sure it's possible. Practical is another question. An emulator adds a lot of overhead. I suspect Windows would run very slowly on ARM even in native mode.
Everybody should care about Windows, just like any other menace.
Is the OS X on the iPhone the full OS? In any case, OS X has a much smaller bloat factor than Windows.
Yes it is. So what? I wasn't talking about it's suitability for use in portables, I was talking about it's ability to run Windows.
You got a first post.
I don't think that MS came up with Windows for Itanium just to "let Intel know they support them." They did it because they thought Itanium would be the Next Big Thing. As did a lot of other software vendors — all the major Unixes had Itanium versions, though they were mostly cancelled once the schedule started slipping.
Of course, Itanium is now seen as a white elephant, and all the effort people put into developing for it was wasted. But that's hindsight.
Just because MS got burned with Itanium doesn't mean they'll automatically stay away from ARM. If they see the whole netbook market taking off and face real competition from ARM netbooks, they might just do it.
The big stumbling block might be simple technology. ARM is, by design, a very simple, unsophisticated chip. I have to wonder if it can keep up with all the overhead of running Windows.
I'm curious as to why you switch to your Condescending Asshole persona when talking to me. I don't really see how it's any more effective than your usual Angry Asshole persona.
Have you considered giving up assholedom altogether? I think you'll find there's a whole world of non-asshole social interaction models that are a lot more fun.
Sun's market cap is kind of irrelevant. On the one hand, it's only that high because of the IBM deal. Now that the deal seems to be off, the market cap is going down real fast.
Second, the market cap doesn't really say anything about Sun's value to IBM. It basically expresses the market's lack of faith in current management. If you look at Sun's assets objectively, they're worth a lot more than $7 billion. The cash reserves alone are worth almost half that.
This whole thing is not actually something Sun's management wants. They'd be happy to soldier on and hope things get better. The people who want to sell Sun are "activist" investors who spent a lot of money buying up Sun stock so they could force the company to sell itself off. (The biggest stockholder, Southeast Asset Management, did the same thing to Knight Ridder a couple of years ago.) If these investors don't get a good price from IBM, the deal just doesn't make sense for them.
I've often thought that the two companies products dovetail pretty well. Two reasons to think it won't happen:
First, it would make Cisco a major competitor of IBM, HP, and Dell. They sort of compete now, with that new server appliance, but this is many orders of magnitude beyond that. As AT&T discovered, it's really hard to sell stuff to your competitors (which is why they spun off they hardware businesses).
Second, Cisco is obviously just not interested. Sun Management has been shopping all or part of Sun around for some months now. Cisco must have been one of their targets. If they'd had any nibbles, we would have heard by now.
A dully sworn warrant counts as "due process". The probability that the agent who applied for it and the judge who granted it are both morons makes it a stupid application of due process, but its still due process.
By the way, I have this application that generates random obscene insults. Would you like a copy? It would save you a lot of time composing your Slashdot posts.
TPP wasn't very well thought out, but I didn't see anything in it that could be labelled "fascist". And even if there were, there's no need to throw a tantrum.
You're probably right. But so am I. It world take more than 50 businesses to fill up this data center.
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Let's not blame everything on the RIAA. The FBI might also be going after somebody who's peddling kiddie porn, running a "terrorist" server, or running a botnet.
Judging from the angry rants from the agent in charge and the deployment of so many uniformed cops, I'm guessing kiddie porn.
In much the same way as ignoring someone is the same as throing them in a hole.
Right, blocking millions of non-spam emails is an entirely harmless activity.