But my ex-boss told me that I can and should hire 9 highly educated (we'll, highly degree'd) software engineers in China for every guy I laid in the US.
Every guy you laid in the US? I'm not sure the topic here is supposed to be sexual experience?:)
In forty years, the world will be almost entirely identical to this one. In 1960, the world expected flying cars and jetpacks and bases on the moon and mars by 2000 and other than the internet, the world of 2000 was pretty much the world of 1960. The world of 2050 is going to pretty much be the world of 2011.
Speak for yourself - in the (European, seaside) village where my mother was raised, mass electrical power distribution first appeared in 1961. I assure you that their world of 1960 was quite significantly different to their world of 2000.
The locations of the jamming signals are known to company executives — around the capital, Tripoli — but nobody can do anything.
Uh, I don't think "nobody can do anything" is really true here. Remember the 1999 bombing of FR Yugoslavia?
Although, hopefully this time they wouldn't be ten years late to the party and yet still manage to cause 500 civilian casualties on the ground. Nevertheless, if you ask those protesters in Libya, they might find this risk an acceptable compromise compared to what's going on there now.
I would also like to point out that these things are much more likely to break down the more frequently you change them.
I think that sums it up best . ..
OTOH, if people changed these things more frequently, things in general would become less likely to break down, because everyone would become more accustomed to it. We would then be able to relegate those people who allow it to break down to the same caste we today relegate the "what do you mean someone can insert random SQL in my obviously numeric GET parameter?!" people. They would still exist, but nobody would really pay attention to their screams:)
From my perspective (and I'm no Apple user at all), essentially 90% of the design principles of ALL modern smartphones -- the clear focus on touch, the "physical" UI, the focus on detail, scrolling without scrollbars, zoom&pan, end-to-end integration of hardware and software -- can be traced back to the iPhone 1. This is not something that "design by committee" would normally come up with. I would think that very few people within Apple are directly responsible for these things [...]
Yes, well, all that is something "design by movie" could come up with. Minority Report - 2002 -> five years -> iPhone - 2007 Clearly the fact that they achieved these features in an attractive format and with a bearable price tag is an important milestone. But let's not get too excited about these ideas being devoid of design by committee, because it doesn't really take a wizard to figure out that emulating a human-to-machine interface that was successfully shown all over the big screens, all over the world - is a potentially very profitable idea.
Port the Android UI over the Symbian kernel. Much as I like Linux as a kernel for a phone it sucks.
Have you actually tried using a Symbian kernel in a similar setting? I used a Nokia E72, and its OS behavior seems worse than what I see on a Froyo phone - the whole thing rebooting without warning is pretty much a regular occurence with non-trivial use. And that's with a much smaller app selection. I honestly can't imagine it would magically improve if subjected to the breadth of apps from the Android Market (which is a major part of "Android UI" the way most people use it).
If / when Mubarak is taken down, The Muslim Brotherhood will slowly take over, not a pro-Western, pro-freedom movement of the people. We in the West (especially in the US) have this pollyannaish belief that once a tin-pot dictator is overthrown, said country will instantly and permanently become Switzerland or California. This 'Cairo Spring' may well turn out to be a long, cold winter for all the Mid-East and Israel specifically (re-encirclement).
To continue on your line of thinking, the response to this is - fine, let's not be naive, let's simply allow for a long cold winter. If people over there want that, let them have it. That's democracy - if the majority decides that the country should jump off a cliff, that's what the country should do. Foreign powers propping up dictators for their own interests usually only delays the winter, in one form or another.
The only things that draw me personally to Android is the thought that I have control over the software because, of the last 3 phones I've bought I've been forced into it because of outdated software. (p800 Symbian UIQ went outdated, K750i SonyEricson software outdated, c900 poor warranty service, n95 s60v3 not too outdated yet but I'm sure will be soon and nothing can do about it).
You do have control over the software! A vendor-locked-down Android phone compared to a normal phones such as those you described is basically what a branded PC on a restricted AD domain is compared to a consumer electronics appliance such as a TV. You can obtain root access, detach from the vendor, and then tinker with it endlessly, and there's Google and a bunch of other people online who provide various tools for it.
As it happens, I used a K750i and a N95 myself, and I can tell you from personal experience that an Android phone is a completely different cup of tea from those.
The OP stated that AMD processors are left and right implying that he believes they are common and perhaps even hold a majority marketshare.
Actually, I don't think that was the point. The point is that when you make anything by the million, it's not obvious why you'd nevertheless post a loss. (It's possibly to occupy a relatively small part of a market and still make a decent living. Indeed, it's also possible to do that and make a lot of money - see Apple.) I guess the answer to this naive question would be - RTFA:)
"Unexplained things [...on a Motorola Defy running Android...]"
And this is exactly why I ended up with an iPhone.
It started simply enough, I bought a Motorola Q. [...] it ran Windows Mobile [...]
This lead me to upgrade to a HTC Mogul, [...] running Windows Mobile. [...]
Next came the BlackBerry Curve. [...]
Enter the iPhone. [...]
But the GP was complaining about an Android phone. If you didn't use that, rather you used WM and BB, how is your iPhone experience relevant to his? He could just as easily switch to a better Android phone, rather than go through all of these hoops to get to an iPhone;)
Yes, exactly. The reason they call them weasel words is because you can tack on such a statement on practically anything and make it sound vaguely authoritative without actual corroboration.
"Geographers find a new way to determine that the earth is round. They also found it was 40,000 km at the equator, which renews questioning by some whether we can actually be sure they can keep doing the experiments that debunk the flat earth theory."
Amusing, isn't it?
Anyway, since the issue here is advertizing, I'd guess these "some" might actually be just your typical astroturfers employed by the various ad-related businesses, who would just love to get a chance at advertising at such a large and popular site, simply because it could make them big money. The incessant desire to monetize all those hits is not based on a genuine concern for the well-being of Wikipedia, but on plain old self-interest.
Well, from the looks of it, it seems to have only re-invoked the same old perpetual whining. I know January 3rd is a slow news day, but seriously, again with the generic, unsubstantiated argument?
My thoughts exactly... a bit of a pretentious name, that. That particular article seems to be a self-written advertisement by that group - a group so niche that it doesn't even have an article on Wikipedia:) I wonder if someone will try to create it now... imagine that flamewar:D
I think statcounter.com per-country stats just plain aren't reliable. Their graph for Croatia shows Firefox in a clear lead, but some generic popular Croatian sites whose logs I happen to have access to show a completely different picture - for example last month 43-49% IE, 35-37% Firefox, 8-12% Safari. I'm guessing their sample of local users/sites isn't representative for whatever reason - most likely, they just don't care.
I no longer work there, but last I heard those financial services customers were much more interested in KVM than they ever were in Xen.
This doesn't really make much sense, as it goes against the conventional wisdom of software development - newly written or younger software by default scores worse on the stability front compared to old software, even if old software was known to be buggy - exactly because of the simple fact that someone somewhere already dealt with many of its quirks, and hopefully put it in order, whereas there is inherently less proof that anyone ever did that with novelty software. There are exceptions, obviously, but I don't think it's common among people who want rock-solid stability to be betting on getting such an exception.
My (heavily extrapolated) understanding of the situation is that doctors work any day of the week, but technicians are more 9-5 Mon-Fri.
Unless the UK's medical system is back in the 1940s, where very little was done on weekends, that hospital should have a lab that can do any critical test any time.
Sure. They should also have the money to actually pay the lab people for the non-standard working hours, the more expensive arrangement for the hospital and more financially beneficial for the workers. But I'm guessing they have a policy that says the lab people don't get to have that. (After all, they're just a bunch of strange people monkeying around in the basement while the real medical workers actually work on healing the patients, right?) So instead the hospital gets this kind of nonsense.
In nutshell, Xen devs shoot in the foot here. Have they agreed to be included in main kernel three and be more welcome with patches, it would be more interesting competition here.
Is this the right place to add more anecdotal "insight"?:p
We're using it at work in dozens if not hundreds of hardware and software combinations, and it's not exciting at all, it just works. We use only its free management tools and rely only on its freely available documentation.
Other features are a driver for almost-native KVM network performance
KVM is fantastic virtualization technology, yet Xen gets all the hype these days. Why? Paravirtualization is pretty cool stuff, but seriously, what CPU's are made without some type of hardware-assisted virtualization support?
Er, it's KVM that gets all the hype these days because it's still got some novelty. Xen just has the users, because it's simply more mature.
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But my ex-boss told me that I can and should hire 9 highly educated (we'll, highly degree'd) software engineers in China for every guy I laid in the US.
Every guy you laid in the US? I'm not sure the topic here is supposed to be sexual experience? :)
In forty years, the world will be almost entirely identical to this one. In 1960, the world expected flying cars and jetpacks and bases on the moon and mars by 2000 and other than the internet, the world of 2000 was pretty much the world of 1960. The world of 2050 is going to pretty much be the world of 2011.
Speak for yourself - in the (European, seaside) village where my mother was raised, mass electrical power distribution first appeared in 1961. I assure you that their world of 1960 was quite significantly different to their world of 2000.
Am I the only one who read this title and immediately thought of Frau Farbissina yelling "Fire the laser"? :)
The locations of the jamming signals are known to company executives — around the capital, Tripoli — but nobody can do anything.
Uh, I don't think "nobody can do anything" is really true here. Remember the 1999 bombing of FR Yugoslavia? Although, hopefully this time they wouldn't be ten years late to the party and yet still manage to cause 500 civilian casualties on the ground. Nevertheless, if you ask those protesters in Libya, they might find this risk an acceptable compromise compared to what's going on there now.
I would also like to point out that these things are much more likely to break down the more frequently you change them.
I think that sums it up best . . .
OTOH, if people changed these things more frequently, things in general would become less likely to break down, because everyone would become more accustomed to it. We would then be able to relegate those people who allow it to break down to the same caste we today relegate the "what do you mean someone can insert random SQL in my obviously numeric GET parameter?!" people. They would still exist, but nobody would really pay attention to their screams :)
From my perspective (and I'm no Apple user at all), essentially 90% of the design principles of ALL modern smartphones -- the clear focus on touch, the "physical" UI, the focus on detail, scrolling without scrollbars, zoom&pan, end-to-end integration of hardware and software -- can be traced back to the iPhone 1. This is not something that "design by committee" would normally come up with. I would think that very few people within Apple are directly responsible for these things [...]
Yes, well, all that is something "design by movie" could come up with. Minority Report - 2002 -> five years -> iPhone - 2007 Clearly the fact that they achieved these features in an attractive format and with a bearable price tag is an important milestone. But let's not get too excited about these ideas being devoid of design by committee, because it doesn't really take a wizard to figure out that emulating a human-to-machine interface that was successfully shown all over the big screens, all over the world - is a potentially very profitable idea.
Port the Android UI over the Symbian kernel. Much as I like Linux as a kernel for a phone it sucks.
Have you actually tried using a Symbian kernel in a similar setting? I used a Nokia E72, and its OS behavior seems worse than what I see on a Froyo phone - the whole thing rebooting without warning is pretty much a regular occurence with non-trivial use. And that's with a much smaller app selection. I honestly can't imagine it would magically improve if subjected to the breadth of apps from the Android Market (which is a major part of "Android UI" the way most people use it).
2010 was no doubt the year of the smartphone, but it feels like the market is bordering on saturation. There are just soooo many devices out there.
Yeah, look what the proliferation of PCs in 1990s did to the computer market. [...] Wait, what?
Dammit, you can't claim saturation *at least* until everyone has at least a handful of them. :)
If / when Mubarak is taken down, The Muslim Brotherhood will slowly take over, not a pro-Western, pro-freedom movement of the people. We in the West (especially in the US) have this pollyannaish belief that once a tin-pot dictator is overthrown, said country will instantly and permanently become Switzerland or California. This 'Cairo Spring' may well turn out to be a long, cold winter for all the Mid-East and Israel specifically (re-encirclement).
To continue on your line of thinking, the response to this is - fine, let's not be naive, let's simply allow for a long cold winter. If people over there want that, let them have it. That's democracy - if the majority decides that the country should jump off a cliff, that's what the country should do. Foreign powers propping up dictators for their own interests usually only delays the winter, in one form or another.
The only things that draw me personally to Android is the thought that I have control over the software because, of the last 3 phones I've bought I've been forced into it because of outdated software. (p800 Symbian UIQ went outdated, K750i SonyEricson software outdated, c900 poor warranty service, n95 s60v3 not too outdated yet but I'm sure will be soon and nothing can do about it).
You do have control over the software! A vendor-locked-down Android phone compared to a normal phones such as those you described is basically what a branded PC on a restricted AD domain is compared to a consumer electronics appliance such as a TV. You can obtain root access, detach from the vendor, and then tinker with it endlessly, and there's Google and a bunch of other people online who provide various tools for it.
As it happens, I used a K750i and a N95 myself, and I can tell you from personal experience that an Android phone is a completely different cup of tea from those.
The OP stated that AMD processors are left and right implying that he believes they are common and perhaps even hold a majority marketshare.
Actually, I don't think that was the point. The point is that when you make anything by the million, it's not obvious why you'd nevertheless post a loss. (It's possibly to occupy a relatively small part of a market and still make a decent living. Indeed, it's also possible to do that and make a lot of money - see Apple.) I guess the answer to this naive question would be - RTFA :)
"Unexplained things [...on a Motorola Defy running Android...]"
And this is exactly why I ended up with an iPhone.
It started simply enough, I bought a Motorola Q. [...] it ran Windows Mobile [...]
This lead me to upgrade to a HTC Mogul, [...] running Windows Mobile. [...]
Next came the BlackBerry Curve. [...]
Enter the iPhone. [...]
But the GP was complaining about an Android phone. If you didn't use that, rather you used WM and BB, how is your iPhone experience relevant to his? He could just as easily switch to a better Android phone, rather than go through all of these hoops to get to an iPhone ;)
Do you also own Apple stock by any chance? ;)
Yes, exactly. The reason they call them weasel words is because you can tack on such a statement on practically anything and make it sound vaguely authoritative without actual corroboration.
"Geographers find a new way to determine that the earth is round. They also found it was 40,000 km at the equator, which renews questioning by some whether we can actually be sure they can keep doing the experiments that debunk the flat earth theory."
Amusing, isn't it?
Anyway, since the issue here is advertizing, I'd guess these "some" might actually be just your typical astroturfers employed by the various ad-related businesses, who would just love to get a chance at advertising at such a large and popular site, simply because it could make them big money. The incessant desire to monetize all those hits is not based on a genuine concern for the well-being of Wikipedia, but on plain old self-interest.
renews questioning by some
Well, from the looks of it, it seems to have only re-invoked the same old perpetual whining. I know January 3rd is a slow news day, but seriously, again with the generic, unsubstantiated argument?
And what is this WikiExperts thingy?
My thoughts exactly... a bit of a pretentious name, that. That particular article seems to be a self-written advertisement by that group - a group so niche that it doesn't even have an article on Wikipedia :) I wonder if someone will try to create it now... imagine that flamewar :D
I think statcounter.com per-country stats just plain aren't reliable. Their graph for Croatia shows Firefox in a clear lead, but some generic popular Croatian sites whose logs I happen to have access to show a completely different picture - for example last month 43-49% IE, 35-37% Firefox, 8-12% Safari. I'm guessing their sample of local users/sites isn't representative for whatever reason - most likely, they just don't care.
Wish I had mod points...
Of the 64 comments I see in full, only this one has actual pertinent information about the downtime.
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I must be new here. :)
Mod this one down. I disagree with it's sentiment.
I disagree with whatever you have to say simply because you're pissing off Bob :)
product that just wasn't absolutely rock solid.
I no longer work there, but last I heard those financial services customers were much more interested in KVM than they ever were in Xen.
This doesn't really make much sense, as it goes against the conventional wisdom of software development - newly written or younger software by default scores worse on the stability front compared to old software, even if old software was known to be buggy - exactly because of the simple fact that someone somewhere already dealt with many of its quirks, and hopefully put it in order, whereas there is inherently less proof that anyone ever did that with novelty software. There are exceptions, obviously, but I don't think it's common among people who want rock-solid stability to be betting on getting such an exception.
Unless the UK's medical system is back in the 1940s, where very little was done on weekends, that hospital should have a lab that can do any critical test any time.
Sure. They should also have the money to actually pay the lab people for the non-standard working hours, the more expensive arrangement for the hospital and more financially beneficial for the workers. But I'm guessing they have a policy that says the lab people don't get to have that. (After all, they're just a bunch of strange people monkeying around in the basement while the real medical workers actually work on healing the patients, right?) So instead the hospital gets this kind of nonsense.
... a nightmare to support ...
... extreme frustration and pain ...
... market wouldn't touch with a 10' pole ...
You sound like you have an axe to grind.
In nutshell, Xen devs shoot in the foot here. Have they agreed to be included in main kernel three and be more welcome with patches, it would be more interesting competition here.
Why, yes, they have agreed to include their patches in the main kernel tree, but not all of them have the consent of the upstream kernel developers. The response of the Xen developers has been a significant refactoring of their code. Try reading the readily available documentation on the progress of merging Xen kernel patches upstream.
Is this the right place to add more anecdotal "insight"? :p
We're using it at work in dozens if not hundreds of hardware and software combinations, and it's not exciting at all, it just works. We use only its free management tools and rely only on its freely available documentation.
HTH, HAND.
Other features are a driver for almost-native KVM network performance
KVM is fantastic virtualization technology, yet Xen gets all the hype these days. Why? Paravirtualization is pretty cool stuff, but seriously, what CPU's are made without some type of hardware-assisted virtualization support?
Er, it's KVM that gets all the hype these days because it's still got some novelty. Xen just has the users, because it's simply more mature.
A better punchline might be because another pilot not speaking your language might end up crashing into your plane while you mutter something in your native tongue.