It could be argued that the US is in the mess it's in as far as telecom goes, because the government not only allowed, but essentially caused the Bell System to have its monopoly. In the twenties and thirties, regulations and laws were enacted that essentially allowed the Bell System to devour phone companies at will, causing what was at the time a thriving, open, free market to shrivel up and die. Were these laws not enacted, it's a very distinct possibility that we wouldn't be in this mess today, and that we would have choice.
Simple. Your speakers and monitor are going to be on the receiving end of the biggest advantage. The killer app for the 64 bit processor, in my opinion, is going to be multimedia. Larger register size means that things like mpeg encoding/decoding, and streaming will be a lot quicker.
Additionally, the 4GB limit definitely comes into play with modern apps, with developers subconciously working around the restrictions 4GB of address space causes. Many apps are limited in what they can do due to the fact that pointers and such are only 32 bits. Yes, hacks and kludges exist to get around it, but once 64 bit processors become common, it'll be possible to, for example, mmap() several gigs of hard drive space for your movie application, and treat it like normal memory, creating faster, more effiicent programs. Or, you can use that same procedure in your database, or for any other type of program for that matter. There are a lot of real interesting ideas, such as BeOS' original filesystem design of a pure database-based filesystem, that have been left by the wayside due to the fact that there haven't been the resources to accomplish them. I feel that 64 bit processors will be able to accomplish many of these goals, if the processor is implemented correctly.
At first, 64 bit addressing may seem like a non issue, but if you look at all the interesting things that are possible with it, then it becomes a very, very cool thing indeed. I just hope that AMD doesn't drop the ball on it like Intel has.
While is just felt like windows 3.1, ( a point and click interface ontop of a command mode backend )
That's because it was win 3.1, albeit without progman. If you ever poked around in the bios directory, you'd see msdos 6, IIRC, and a tweaked win 3.1 subsystem. I hate it too, because if you get such systems used without hard drives (like me) you end up spending an assload of time getting things working.
Now, if EFI were on a flash rom, then it would kick ass, but the way they've got it now will bring nothing but heartache.
I think you have things a bit mixed up. Godzilla is not a bug. Godzilla is a lizard. If you want a bug in Japan, you must look here. Though some may argue that that's not a bug, but rather a security feature.
Because those 1-2% add up to thousands, if not millions of people worldwide, many of whom do use MS software for one purpose or another. That's a lot of potential money, much more than the costs of running a few fairly simple usability tests. Besides, compatibility testing is an important issue; one of the most important rules in website design is to degrade gracefully, if possible. It should definitely be possible to make a service like hotmail degrade to work on older browsers -- there isn't much to the layout.
Doubtful your predictions will come to pass. *nix is just too well entrenched in the server market, and in many ways, much easier to maintain than a stack of windows servers. While I could see a project like this being useful for allowing more control over the direction of an organization's Windows machines, I don't think that it'll be used to deploy many new projects.
I know you're a die-hard windows user, but trust me when I say that *nix has features that Windows is only beginning to have. Yes, the learning curve is a bit steep, but things like remote installation and management, network filesystems, and system stability, *nix still offers better performance.
I disagree here. I can see it as being quite possible to print out the proper texture of a decent steak. All you would have to do is put a good steak under the microscope and analyze the patterns of where the cells are, and how they're shaped. From there, you merely have to map different types and cuts of meats and save them on computer to get different flavors.
Just like an inkjet printer uses different ink tanks - some have up to 8 now for different colors - the hypothetical steakjet printer could have different lengths and textures of cells, and the cook merely tells the printer which pattern of cells to print out. Say one set of cells for filet mignon and another for a nice porterhouse
They do. I didn't have the JVM installed on my system for a while, and every page with Java would have a little plugin icon and said "Click here to install Java". Besides, if you read the fucking article, you'd learn that MS and Sun had an agreement where MS would ship Java. They were in violation of that contract, and the judge justifiably laid the smackdown upon MS's sorry ass.
I don't think much would have changed if Anne Frank's diary had gotten to the outside world before Normandy. There were already rumors and articles of the Holocaust dating back to 1942, although many of the articles were very short, and unconfirmed. Personal accounts were trickling out. It wouldn't be until the camps were liberated that people truly understood the scope of the problem, and by then, for many, it was too late.
What I see is just apple's name for ICC color profiles. Something that's been around for pretty much every other computer out there for years. I can use the same exact profiles on a windows box, hell, I can use the profiles on my linux box, too.
Like I said upthread, my suggestion is to try getting a 2 bedroom apartment. Set up an office, somewhere where you can work, and not be where you sleep. If you're paranoid about your systems going down while you sleep, find a cheap, older laptop and wireless card where you can throw a monitoring program on it, and not have to worry about your systems going down and you not knowing it, and probably more importantly, to cut down on the fan noise.
Above all else, get the systems away from the bedroom, and away from the living room, so you can relax.
I lived like you until about a month and a half ago, when I was able to get a one bedroom apartment, and put most of my computer stuff elsewhere. You know what? I've found that I'm more comfortable, able to sleep better, and am actually willing to have friends come over. My happiness is also greater; probably from the aformentioned reason. You should try having a bf/gf sometime, you will get joys you won't know sitting in front of a CRT. Trust me, an orgasm in the flesh is an amazing thing.
Now, I've still got more crap than is needed in there; my goal is to get a 2 bedroom place so I can have a guest room/office. I'll have everything set up, but out of the way, so that when I do have people come over, my decor is more relaxed, nicer, more comfortable. More inducive to my reading/writing projects. In short, better
In short, don't pigeonhole yourself as a geek. Be a renaissance person, diversify; you'll be much more attractive socially, and professionally.
I've got an RCA TV (hey, it was the cheapest stereo 20" at the time) with the Guide+ feature. Unfortunately, it only stores up to 2-3 days worth of programming; you're probably still going to have to have a TV guide so you can use the VCR+ codes to schedule your long term programming. Though the fact that this burns DVDs is a definite plus; I'd love to see this feature in more PVRs. I wonder if it's got a firewire port on it...
Check out Canon's product line. They're fairly compatible-friendly, and the OEM cartridges are cheaper than Epson, HP, or Lexmark. Of course, the printers are a bit more, but if you're doing a lot of printing, they're cheaper in the long run.
PCI to Mini PCI adapters are out there. And as for non-apple laptops, many companies, like dell et al, are moving to mini pci for their networking equipment. It's actually somewhat rare to find a new laptop that doesn't use a mini-pci slot to hook up their networking adapters.
Nope. IBM divested itself of lexmark several years back. They're even a competitor now, with a line of printers designed more for workstations, though. Much like Lexmark, their cartridges are chipped, but from my understanding, the chips are much easier to get around than lexmark's. Chipping print cartridges has become somewhat common lately; most of epson's latest cartridges also have chips for the same reason as Lexmark et al.
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Everyone's needs are different. The companies in the study were probably running more full-featured, fairly dynamic, ecommerce sites with ssl, self-hosted pics, etc. Your site seems very simple in comparison - a couple db lookups to create the indexes, a couple to handle the site's rating, the pictures all handled through affiliate sites. Additionally, much of your data seems to be fairly static, which again skews the results. I've also noticed cut corners which could potentially lead to security risks on other sites. All these things add up, which is probably how they got their figures.
RTA. He worked for the law firm that handled a lot of DirecTV's legal work. He probably got a hold of them while they were being given to the legal team to be notorized, etc. This is pretty much an open-and-shut case, it sounds like.
If these rumors are true, I'm betting they're discontinuing the line just so they can bring out a series of colored iMacs. The current white line is very polarizing - you either love it or you hate it. I can see Apple announcing a line of non-white machines, most likely black, magenta, and navy, before then, maybe during Mac World New York. The line's just too successful to think otherwise.
You can have one key shortcuts in the gimp, too. Got a few set up for my most commonly used filters. You just mouse over the filter you want a shortcut of, hit the key you want to bring that up, and bam! No need to right click.
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It could be argued that the US is in the mess it's in as far as telecom goes, because the government not only allowed, but essentially caused the Bell System to have its monopoly. In the twenties and thirties, regulations and laws were enacted that essentially allowed the Bell System to devour phone companies at will, causing what was at the time a thriving, open, free market to shrivel up and die. Were these laws not enacted, it's a very distinct possibility that we wouldn't be in this mess today, and that we would have choice.
Simple. Your speakers and monitor are going to be on the receiving end of the biggest advantage. The killer app for the 64 bit processor, in my opinion, is going to be multimedia. Larger register size means that things like mpeg encoding/decoding, and streaming will be a lot quicker.
Additionally, the 4GB limit definitely comes into play with modern apps, with developers subconciously working around the restrictions 4GB of address space causes. Many apps are limited in what they can do due to the fact that pointers and such are only 32 bits. Yes, hacks and kludges exist to get around it, but once 64 bit processors become common, it'll be possible to, for example, mmap() several gigs of hard drive space for your movie application, and treat it like normal memory, creating faster, more effiicent programs. Or, you can use that same procedure in your database, or for any other type of program for that matter. There are a lot of real interesting ideas, such as BeOS' original filesystem design of a pure database-based filesystem, that have been left by the wayside due to the fact that there haven't been the resources to accomplish them. I feel that 64 bit processors will be able to accomplish many of these goals, if the processor is implemented correctly.
At first, 64 bit addressing may seem like a non issue, but if you look at all the interesting things that are possible with it, then it becomes a very, very cool thing indeed. I just hope that AMD doesn't drop the ball on it like Intel has.
That's because it was win 3.1, albeit without progman. If you ever poked around in the bios directory, you'd see msdos 6, IIRC, and a tweaked win 3.1 subsystem. I hate it too, because if you get such systems used without hard drives (like me) you end up spending an assload of time getting things working.
Now, if EFI were on a flash rom, then it would kick ass, but the way they've got it now will bring nothing but heartache.
I think you have things a bit mixed up. Godzilla is not a bug. Godzilla is a lizard. If you want a bug in Japan, you must look here. Though some may argue that that's not a bug, but rather a security feature.
Because those 1-2% add up to thousands, if not millions of people worldwide, many of whom do use MS software for one purpose or another. That's a lot of potential money, much more than the costs of running a few fairly simple usability tests. Besides, compatibility testing is an important issue; one of the most important rules in website design is to degrade gracefully, if possible. It should definitely be possible to make a service like hotmail degrade to work on older browsers -- there isn't much to the layout.
I know you're a die-hard windows user, but trust me when I say that *nix has features that Windows is only beginning to have. Yes, the learning curve is a bit steep, but things like remote installation and management, network filesystems, and system stability, *nix still offers better performance.
Just like an inkjet printer uses different ink tanks - some have up to 8 now for different colors - the hypothetical steakjet printer could have different lengths and textures of cells, and the cook merely tells the printer which pattern of cells to print out. Say one set of cells for filet mignon and another for a nice porterhouse
They do. I didn't have the JVM installed on my system for a while, and every page with Java would have a little plugin icon and said "Click here to install Java". Besides, if you read the fucking article, you'd learn that MS and Sun had an agreement where MS would ship Java. They were in violation of that contract, and the judge justifiably laid the smackdown upon MS's sorry ass.
Yipe. I think now, I 'll go look up gullible in the dictionary. Someone told me it wasn't in there.
I don't think much would have changed if Anne Frank's diary had gotten to the outside world before Normandy. There were already rumors and articles of the Holocaust dating back to 1942, although many of the articles were very short, and unconfirmed. Personal accounts were trickling out. It wouldn't be until the camps were liberated that people truly understood the scope of the problem, and by then, for many, it was too late.
What I see is just apple's name for ICC color profiles. Something that's been around for pretty much every other computer out there for years. I can use the same exact profiles on a windows box, hell, I can use the profiles on my linux box, too.
What's your next excuse?
How about Mr. Gore's quite probable violation of the very law he wrote? Or does that not matter because he's a democrat, and thus, can do no wrong?
Above all else, get the systems away from the bedroom, and away from the living room, so you can relax.
Now, I've still got more crap than is needed in there; my goal is to get a 2 bedroom place so I can have a guest room/office. I'll have everything set up, but out of the way, so that when I do have people come over, my decor is more relaxed, nicer, more comfortable. More inducive to my reading/writing projects. In short, better
In short, don't pigeonhole yourself as a geek. Be a renaissance person, diversify; you'll be much more attractive socially, and professionally.
It's definitely possible. It works pretty much like VMware, but it allows you to run OS X binaries on any PPC machine.
I've got an RCA TV (hey, it was the cheapest stereo 20" at the time) with the Guide+ feature. Unfortunately, it only stores up to 2-3 days worth of programming; you're probably still going to have to have a TV guide so you can use the VCR+ codes to schedule your long term programming. Though the fact that this burns DVDs is a definite plus; I'd love to see this feature in more PVRs. I wonder if it's got a firewire port on it...
Check out Canon's product line. They're fairly compatible-friendly, and the OEM cartridges are cheaper than Epson, HP, or Lexmark. Of course, the printers are a bit more, but if you're doing a lot of printing, they're cheaper in the long run.
PCI to Mini PCI adapters are out there. And as for non-apple laptops, many companies, like dell et al, are moving to mini pci for their networking equipment. It's actually somewhat rare to find a new laptop that doesn't use a mini-pci slot to hook up their networking adapters.
Nope. IBM divested itself of lexmark several years back. They're even a competitor now, with a line of printers designed more for workstations, though. Much like Lexmark, their cartridges are chipped, but from my understanding, the chips are much easier to get around than lexmark's. Chipping print cartridges has become somewhat common lately; most of epson's latest cartridges also have chips for the same reason as Lexmark et al.
You mean I've been using an imaginary conversion tool? Woah!
Everyone's needs are different. The companies in the study were probably running more full-featured, fairly dynamic, ecommerce sites with ssl, self-hosted pics, etc. Your site seems very simple in comparison - a couple db lookups to create the indexes, a couple to handle the site's rating, the pictures all handled through affiliate sites. Additionally, much of your data seems to be fairly static, which again skews the results. I've also noticed cut corners which could potentially lead to security risks on other sites. All these things add up, which is probably how they got their figures.
RTA. He worked for the law firm that handled a lot of DirecTV's legal work. He probably got a hold of them while they were being given to the legal team to be notorized, etc. This is pretty much an open-and-shut case, it sounds like.
If these rumors are true, I'm betting they're discontinuing the line just so they can bring out a series of colored iMacs. The current white line is very polarizing - you either love it or you hate it. I can see Apple announcing a line of non-white machines, most likely black, magenta, and navy, before then, maybe during Mac World New York. The line's just too successful to think otherwise.
You can have one key shortcuts in the gimp, too. Got a few set up for my most commonly used filters. You just mouse over the filter you want a shortcut of, hit the key you want to bring that up, and bam! No need to right click.