I don't get the "primary antagonist" part. As for "micromanager", isn't that true of all five? If they say, "Huh, I need to spend some time actually running the ship, I'll delegate this to Ensign Reshirt" then the series lead actor has almost no screen time for that episode, and the economics of TV doesn't allow for that.
It's always the case that corporate culture has a really hard time adapting to changes in technology. I saw that in Sun's final days, when the development and sales models continued to revolve around pushing SPARC systems even as top management told the stockholders and press that these models were obsolete and had been abandoned.
Difficult but not impossible. Despite having created the standard desktop computer, IBM resisted moving out of the mainframe world where top management didn't even use email. Then Lou Gerstner took over and did a remarkable job of retooling the corporate culture to use and sell modern tech. Alas Gerstners are few and far between.
Bottom line: can Nokia save itself? Certainly. They just have to change the way they think. Will they? Probably not.
The constant memory leaks and other performance issues are what finally drove me away from FF and to Chrome. I never even considered switching to Seamonkey. It seemed obvious that with the same rendering engine, the two woud have the same performance issues. Am I wrong about that?
I stand corrected. But it sounds to me like the performance of the x86 instruction set was truely pitiful — so much so that it was claimed that replacing it with software emulation actually improved performance. So I remain convinced that Itanium design did not make backward compatibiity a priority.
If Gassée is right about "architectural disdain" then it's kind of ironic. Intel itself exhibited the same disdain for x86 architecture when they initially refused to make their first 64-bit chip, the Itanium, backward compatible with it. It was only after AMD demonstrated that the architecture still had legs that they brought it to the 64-bit world — after wasting billions on Itanium development.
I just don' get where your outrage is coming from, I don't see anyt "anything remotely related to wood is some kind of incendiary deathtrap". Nobody's saying wood isn't a safe material. (I'm lying on a wooden couch with a cotton futon as I write this.) But it's kind of the wrong material for a device that tends to run hot. Maytbe it's "safe enough" for this particular application — but you don't need to leap down the throat of anybody suggesting that it's not.
Especially when they haven't even mentioned Obamacare!
My mistake. But the usual litigation about anti-competitive practices doesn't mean there's a conspiracy to keep AMD alive. Rather the opposite, in fact.
Why worry about future problems? Because the current problem (absence of any manned deep space vehicle and absence of any serious plans to create one) seems to be insurmountable.
All the geeky news stories about deep space projects are just a little sad. We love to fantasize about doing fancy things, but we can't face the basic problems that need to be solved before we can do them.
Note that a Laird is not the same thing as a Lord. IANA(B)L, but I suspect that calling yourself a Lord when you're not an actual Baron or Viscount would be considered fraud. Laird is an informal title, so you can get away with using it incorrecty.
Right, because PC makers get together once a month and decide how much business to give Intel and how much to give AMD.
In the real world, PC makers act independently and component manufacturers compete for their business. They never say, "Intel is giving us a better price, but we need to throw some business to AMD just to keep them around."
Being aware of fallacious thinking is a good thing, but when they get cited by name on Slashdot, they're almost always misunderstood, People parse the definitions to suit themselves, and trying to correct them always results in a pointless round of nitpicking. When I catch somebody in a fallacy online, I usually try to show by example and analogy what they're doing wrong, rather than wasting time with a fancy term they'll just interpret to suit themselves.
Never played LFB, but if you played it with people who didn't share your views, they'd have to be a lot more patient and mature than most people for the game not to degenerate into the usual mindless flamefest. And if you played with people who all shared your views, you'd have the usual Echo Chamber, where people just sit around telling each other smug BS about how stupid other people are.
Slashdot Mirror
Especially the eye candy actresses.
I don't get the "primary antagonist" part. As for "micromanager", isn't that true of all five? If they say, "Huh, I need to spend some time actually running the ship, I'll delegate this to Ensign Reshirt" then the series lead actor has almost no screen time for that episode, and the economics of TV doesn't allow for that.
Yeah, I'm sure my slowdowns were not typical. But they were real. I've always assumed it was a plugin, but I was never able to isolate which one.
Chrome plugins seem to have less ability to screw up the browsers.
If FF had taken a couple days to slow down, I could have lived with it. But a couple hours...
Been using Chrome for about 4 months now, and have yet to see the same slowdowns I saw in FF.
Slashdot is increasing being used by people to slant the news to support some kind of controversial belief.
FTFY
Slashdot has always done that. It's a discussion site, and if the meaning of stories were uncontroversial, there would be nothing to talk about.
It's always the case that corporate culture has a really hard time adapting to changes in technology. I saw that in Sun's final days, when the development and sales models continued to revolve around pushing SPARC systems even as top management told the stockholders and press that these models were obsolete and had been abandoned.
Difficult but not impossible. Despite having created the standard desktop computer, IBM resisted moving out of the mainframe world where top management didn't even use email. Then Lou Gerstner took over and did a remarkable job of retooling the corporate culture to use and sell modern tech. Alas Gerstners are few and far between.
Bottom line: can Nokia save itself? Certainly. They just have to change the way they think. Will they? Probably not.
The constant memory leaks and other performance issues are what finally drove me away from FF and to Chrome. I never even considered switching to Seamonkey. It seemed obvious that with the same rendering engine, the two woud have the same performance issues. Am I wrong about that?
I stand corrected. But it sounds to me like the performance of the x86 instruction set was truely pitiful — so much so that it was claimed that replacing it with software emulation actually improved performance. So I remain convinced that Itanium design did not make backward compatibiity a priority.
What's so good about a game that lasts five days without a result?
And again the world asks: what's your point?
What a bold prediction, you understand of course that Intel has buried every single competing architecture from the past?
Except for ARM. That architecture has been dominating the mobile device space for some time now, despite serious efforts by Intel to displace it.
It's ironic that you posted that ironic comment
Huh?
If Gassée is right about "architectural disdain" then it's kind of ironic. Intel itself exhibited the same disdain for x86 architecture when they initially refused to make their first 64-bit chip, the Itanium, backward compatible with it. It was only after AMD demonstrated that the architecture still had legs that they brought it to the 64-bit world — after wasting billions on Itanium development.
Those that forget history, yada yada.
I think wood or plastic would be a concern.
I just don' get where your outrage is coming from, I don't see anyt "anything remotely related to wood is some kind of incendiary deathtrap". Nobody's saying wood isn't a safe material. (I'm lying on a wooden couch with a cotton futon as I write this.) But it's kind of the wrong material for a device that tends to run hot. Maytbe it's "safe enough" for this particular application — but you don't need to leap down the throat of anybody suggesting that it's not.
Especially when they haven't even mentioned Obamacare!
True. But TPP flunks the logic test.
My mistake. But the usual litigation about anti-competitive practices doesn't mean there's a conspiracy to keep AMD alive. Rather the opposite, in fact.
Working on it. Pro tip: it's a lot easier to do when you're not busy with 500-word online rants that nobody will ever read.
Why worry about future problems? Because the current problem (absence of any manned deep space vehicle and absence of any serious plans to create one) seems to be insurmountable.
All the geeky news stories about deep space projects are just a little sad. We love to fantasize about doing fancy things, but we can't face the basic problems that need to be solved before we can do them.
AMD fanboy? I don't even own any systems with AMD CPUs.
I simply don't see what iitigation between AMD and Intel has to do with this thread. Please read TPP and expain why you're not an idiot.
Get a life.
Note that a Laird is not the same thing as a Lord. IANA(B)L, but I suspect that calling yourself a Lord when you're not an actual Baron or Viscount would be considered fraud. Laird is an informal title, so you can get away with using it incorrecty.
Right, because PC makers get together once a month and decide how much business to give Intel and how much to give AMD.
In the real world, PC makers act independently and component manufacturers compete for their business. They never say, "Intel is giving us a better price, but we need to throw some business to AMD just to keep them around."
Being aware of fallacious thinking is a good thing, but when they get cited by name on Slashdot, they're almost always misunderstood, People parse the definitions to suit themselves, and trying to correct them always results in a pointless round of nitpicking. When I catch somebody in a fallacy online, I usually try to show by example and analogy what they're doing wrong, rather than wasting time with a fancy term they'll just interpret to suit themselves.
Never played LFB, but if you played it with people who didn't share your views, they'd have to be a lot more patient and mature than most people for the game not to degenerate into the usual mindless flamefest. And if you played with people who all shared your views, you'd have the usual Echo Chamber, where people just sit around telling each other smug BS about how stupid other people are.
You're thinking of "Laird", which sounds like a formal title, but isn't:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laird