For fun, or altruism, or whatever, I began running Folding@home last year. I ran it for roughly a month, before I chose to stop. I ran it on 2 machines full time, both of which had less efficient, high MHz CPUs.
My electricity use rocketed from my previous month (which was high) of 3600 KWh to 5200 KWh. Weather temperature was essentially unchanged during that period. I could find no other explanation for the huge increase other than Folding...
If there was an ultra-slick jaw-dropping eye-candy feature, you can bet it wouldn't be a whole 6 months before there was a KDE that could do it.
Maybe you're right, maybe MS is keeping it very secret on purpose. If so, they're wise, since at this rate the feature could get done in KDE and released still long before Longhorn itself is released:P
I'm beginning to wonder if the industry will be in a far different place than Microsoft envisions 3 years down the line.
Yeah, it will, and Linux, BSD, and OSX will be far different. You have to wonder what very impressive features Linux may have by then...
Since the mid 90s I used to give tech stock advice to my "rich uncle"... my report on MS was usually "it's really good for at least 2 more years".
A few years ago I finally got to say, "I can't see it going anywhere in the next two years, and more importantly, I'm doubtful they can maintain dominance beyond two years."
Now the writing is all over the walls, and the newspapers, and the trade journals, etc. Cheer:)
You gotta wonder if their latest decision had anything to do with the 50,000 (guess) emails they received from people like me warning them what public suicide it would be to do that...
It is not valid logic to assume it's reasonable for a company that is built upon a house of cards to use PR-focused lawsuits to protect/increase stock price.
Stock price is supposed to show some combination of what the value of the company is, which way the company appears to be going, and what investor sentiment is. Stock price is NOT supposed to go up for all companies. Try to forget the mid-late 90s, or at least remember them in contrast to 1987, 1991, and 2001.
But if you read the article, they didn't claim that his revelation about the shift key was the DMCA violation.
They said, "Halderman has violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by disclosing unpublished MediaMax management files placed on a user's computer after user approval is granted."
They're still total, utter morons, and they deserve to see their stock tank, and then get delisted:)
Bank robbers nowdays, if they manage to get out of the bank with some money, almost always get caught.
I always think, "Wow! Who would be stupid enough to try to rob a bank anymore?"
Darl and his gang are simply pulling the stock market equivalent to robbing a bank. They'll make off with some money, but shortly afterward they'll get reeled in.
SCOX will get slammed once the clue hits the fan for the public here in a few months. Unlike Darl's Ikon lawsuit, which was an altogether different theft than this one, this robbery is right out in public view, and it's not going to go unnoticed.
Once the party is over and the SCOX investor dupes have lost their money, there will be shareholder suits against Darl and other executive and members of the board. There will be SEC investigations (that should have already begun, but public outcry haven't forced yet).
The good news for Darl, I guess, is that he'll manage to stash some of the loot for safe keeping, and the business world will forgive him so he can pull another stunt someday in the future.
We can only hope that he's barred from becoming an executive or board member of a publicly traded company in the future.
Oh, you mean until you find another OS that can "fake" boot as fast as XP...
XP has some serious issues in some cases with the way it "optimizes" the boot order. It appears quick, but in a corporate environment that can lead to weird timing problems. That's probably why MS left/added a feature to disallow logins until XP was really booted.
So I've shown you that Iraq is not our biggest source of imported oil, that it doesn't have the biggest reserves, and that it's very far from the most developed in terms of production.
You've shown nothing.
You can claim that neither side of the argument can be proved, but you haven't even begun to try. Typical/. bs.
You can't turn this back on me. You show me proof that oil is why we went to Iraq.
If this was about oil, our money would be better spent fixing Venezuela so would could depend on their oil with less risk. US Oil Imports
If you want to make an emotional argument that's more difficult to refute, you should be arguing that GWB went to avenge his father's failure at removing Hussain in 1991. But your oil argument is easily disproved.
Education is the root of all development. Lack of education is the primary force that holds people back. You know the old saying, "give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day... teach a man to fish and he'll eat forever".
If we're wanting to stop being completely self-centered and instead be altruistic, we should be giving some spare time to educate others.
Think about people (adults) who cannot read. They have no chance of landing any decent job (with a promotion path). Some people, like my mom for example (who works for a US Rep), spends some of her spare time teaching adults to read. (Incidentally, it is that US Rep's office policy that everyone choose some social support activity outside of work).
So we with the technical knowledge could be helping our ignorant (technically) neighbors if we were really intrested in improving society.
Last time I checked, practically everything that was available in both US and Mexico was much cheaper in Mexico.
Assuming equal treatment (which can reasonably be assumed for many cases), the treatment will be cheaper in developing countries than in the US.
Now ask yourself this: which person is more likely to be able to afford (either out of pocket, or via insurance) that same work?
With my limited dental plan, I'd get $1500 of that $4000 covered. So I would pay $2500. Does the Mexican resident have insurance that would cover their cost (partially or fully)? And if not, do they have the $1500?
Take your US earned money and spent it in Mexico and you sure as hell will get more for your money. And amusingly, you'll do it at the expense of the American worker.
This is not the Republican economy at work, this is the US stock market, and all its investors, at work.
Investors (made up of liberals and conservatives) have increasingly become focused on short term gains. They punish companies for turning in less than improved results for quarterly earnings per share. So in response to this, publicly traded companies focus on the next quarter. They make really bad long-term decisions to satisfy immediate numeric goals.
This was as completely true during Clinton's 8 years as it is during Bush's 3 years.
If you want to blame anyone, blame all investors for their short-term demands, and blame all corporate execs for their lack of backbone in standing up for solid long-term growth.
And while you're at it, blame the lawyers who'll happily take on shareholder suits on a whim.
You have some reasonably insightful comments weighed down with obvious bias (and FUD slinging) against the current administration.
"major Third World petrolium producer"? If we were interested in scooping up major producers, we'd be far better off getting Kuwait (as Iraq did in 1990).
Only 10% of Iraq's oil fields have been developed. They have the third largest (estimated) reserves in the world (behind Saudi Arabia and Canada, respectively), but are only producing a fraction of what they could be.
The oil argument for why US went to Iraq (invaded, in your terms) is bunk.
And multi-hundred billion dollar subsidy? Please back that argument up. Considering the state of Iraqi oil development, it would take vast investments by American oil companies to even begin to project multi-hundred billion dollar paybacks.
You're deluded, and uneducated when it comes to this topic. You are passing around the liberal/anti-Bush arguments freely, and it only serves to make the rest of your arguments seem less significant.
Did you know that working a full year at minimum wage will leave you 30% below the poverty limit?
There are varying degrees of poverty of course, but poverty is still poverty. So a $3 minimum wage versus a $5 minimum wage is essentially irrelevant to the worker. Both really suck. But to the business owner it's huge.
Do you know what happens when the minimum wage is increased? Companies that rely on low cost workers cut some loose (now you have people with $0/hr), and the remaining workers have to do more work for their modest increase in pay.
Technology is the only thing that will help get people out of the minimum wage trenches. When someone perfects the McD's burger fabrication machine, that will put a bunch of minimum wage earners out of work. Some of them will go get some (more) education, and perhaps get work for much better pay.
The only way out of poverty is education and opportunity. Minimum wage jobs are a dead end.
I wonder if I could find someone in Taiwan who got a bad treatment from a dentist... then I could go around spouting off about how Taiwan's medical industry is in the dark ages and is complete crap.
Everything is the fault of the top of the company.
That sounds harsh, and incorrect, but if you look at it more carefully it's true.
You at the top may be a good director, but you're not doing your job well if you don't have immediate subordinates that are doing their job right/well.
How do you know if they are? You watch, and you get out in the trenches once in a while to get a true view for yourself of what's going on.
It is no excuse for an executive to say "I didn't realize that such and such was going on".
Look at Herb Kelleher of Southwest Airlines if you want to see it done right.
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I experienced this cost firsthand.
For fun, or altruism, or whatever, I began running Folding@home last year. I ran it for roughly a month, before I chose to stop. I ran it on 2 machines full time, both of which had less efficient, high MHz CPUs.
My electricity use rocketed from my previous month (which was high) of 3600 KWh to 5200 KWh. Weather temperature was essentially unchanged during that period. I could find no other explanation for the huge increase other than Folding...
If there was an ultra-slick jaw-dropping eye-candy feature, you can bet it wouldn't be a whole 6 months before there was a KDE that could do it.
:P
Maybe you're right, maybe MS is keeping it very secret on purpose. If so, they're wise, since at this rate the feature could get done in KDE and released still long before Longhorn itself is released
Yeah, it will, and Linux, BSD, and OSX will be far different. You have to wonder what very impressive features Linux may have by then...
Since the mid 90s I used to give tech stock advice to my "rich uncle"... my report on MS was usually "it's really good for at least 2 more years".
A few years ago I finally got to say, "I can't see it going anywhere in the next two years, and
more importantly, I'm doubtful they can maintain dominance beyond two years."
Now the writing is all over the walls, and the newspapers, and the trade journals, etc. Cheer
You gotta wonder if their latest decision had anything to do with the 50,000 (guess) emails they received from people like me warning them what public suicide it would be to do that...
er, remember them in CONTEXT (not contrast).
Don't ask me. I only pointed out that the parent was incorrect in stating that DMCA was thrown at the kid because he exposed the Shift key "hole".
Parent has +5 interesting, so I thought it should at least be correct...
It is not valid logic to assume it's reasonable for a company that is built upon a house of cards to use PR-focused lawsuits to protect/increase stock price.
Stock price is supposed to show some combination of what the value of the company is, which way the company appears to be going, and what investor sentiment is. Stock price is NOT supposed to go up for all companies. Try to forget the mid-late 90s, or at least remember them in contrast to 1987, 1991, and 2001.
But if you read the article, they didn't claim that his revelation about the shift key was the DMCA violation.
:)
They said, "Halderman has violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by disclosing unpublished MediaMax management files placed on a user's computer after user approval is granted."
They're still total, utter morons, and they deserve to see their stock tank, and then get delisted
Nobody needs prima donnas, of course (well, except ballet companies, I suppose ;-)
:)
Not this prima donna
Sorry, OT, couldn't help myself
200 lines, some of which, by SGI's account, are redundant (and also happen to apply to non-Intel platforms).
:) rounding error
1% of 1% of 1% is?
Bank robbers nowdays, if they manage to get out of the bank with some money, almost always get caught.
I always think, "Wow! Who would be stupid enough to try to rob a bank anymore?"
Darl and his gang are simply pulling the stock market equivalent to robbing a bank. They'll make off with some money, but shortly afterward they'll get reeled in.
SCOX will get slammed once the clue hits the fan for the public here in a few months. Unlike Darl's Ikon lawsuit, which was an altogether different theft than this one, this robbery is right out in public view, and it's not going to go unnoticed.
Once the party is over and the SCOX investor dupes have lost their money, there will be shareholder suits against Darl and other executive and members of the board. There will be SEC investigations (that should have already begun, but public outcry haven't forced yet).
The good news for Darl, I guess, is that he'll manage to stash some of the loot for safe keeping, and the business world will forgive him so he can pull another stunt someday in the future.
We can only hope that he's barred from becoming an executive or board member of a publicly traded company in the future.
real men use sh.
Oh, you mean until you find another OS that can "fake" boot as fast as XP...
XP has some serious issues in some cases with the way it "optimizes" the boot order. It appears quick, but in a corporate environment that can lead to weird timing problems. That's probably why MS left/added a feature to disallow logins until XP was really booted.
Ok, obviously the poster doesn't speak English as their first language, so no complaints about the odd word choices.
But most languages I've seen make at least some use of linebreaks and paragraph breaks...
Geez.
So I've shown you that Iraq is not our biggest source of imported oil, that it doesn't have the biggest reserves, and that it's very far from the most developed in terms of production.
/. bs.
You've shown nothing.
You can claim that neither side of the argument can be proved, but you haven't even begun to try. Typical
You're a fool if you think NYT wouldn't publish "We Invaded Iraq for Oil" if they had something resembling proof.
A vast majority of the big media is liberal, and takes shots at Bush and his policies given any opportunity.
And your list of crap above is irrelevant to my comment. I didn't argue WHY we went there, I just argued that OIL wasn't the reason.
You can't turn this back on me. You show me proof that oil is why we went to Iraq.
If this was about oil, our money would be better spent fixing Venezuela so would could depend on their oil with less risk. US Oil Imports
If you want to make an emotional argument that's more difficult to refute, you should be arguing that GWB went to avenge his father's failure at removing Hussain in 1991. But your oil argument is easily disproved.
This is a good, practical suggestion.
Education is the root of all development. Lack of education is the primary force that holds people back. You know the old saying, "give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day... teach a man to fish and he'll eat forever".
If we're wanting to stop being completely self-centered and instead be altruistic, we should be giving some spare time to educate others.
Think about people (adults) who cannot read. They have no chance of landing any decent job (with a promotion path). Some people, like my mom for example (who works for a US Rep), spends some of her spare time teaching adults to read. (Incidentally, it is that US Rep's office policy that everyone choose some social support activity outside of work).
So we with the technical knowledge could be helping our ignorant (technically) neighbors if we were really intrested in improving society.
Last time I checked, practically everything that was available in both US and Mexico was much cheaper in Mexico.
Assuming equal treatment (which can reasonably be assumed for many cases), the treatment will be cheaper in developing countries than in the US.
Now ask yourself this: which person is more likely to be able to afford (either out of pocket, or via insurance) that same work?
With my limited dental plan, I'd get $1500 of that $4000 covered. So I would pay $2500. Does the Mexican resident have insurance that would cover their cost (partially or fully)? And if not, do they have the $1500?
Take your US earned money and spent it in Mexico and you sure as hell will get more for your money. And amusingly, you'll do it at the expense of the American worker.
This is not the Republican economy at work, this is the US stock market, and all its investors, at work.
Investors (made up of liberals and conservatives) have increasingly become focused on short term gains. They punish companies for turning in less than improved results for quarterly earnings per share. So in response to this, publicly traded companies focus on the next quarter. They make really bad long-term decisions to satisfy immediate numeric goals.
This was as completely true during Clinton's 8 years as it is during Bush's 3 years.
If you want to blame anyone, blame all investors for their short-term demands, and blame all corporate execs for their lack of backbone in standing up for solid long-term growth.
And while you're at it, blame the lawyers who'll happily take on shareholder suits on a whim.
You have some reasonably insightful comments weighed down with obvious bias (and FUD slinging) against the current administration.
"major Third World petrolium producer"? If we were interested in scooping up major producers, we'd be far better off getting Kuwait (as Iraq did in 1990).
Only 10% of Iraq's oil fields have been developed. They have the third largest (estimated) reserves in the world (behind Saudi Arabia and Canada, respectively), but are only producing a fraction of what they could be.
The oil argument for why US went to Iraq (invaded, in your terms) is bunk.
And multi-hundred billion dollar subsidy? Please back that argument up. Considering the state of Iraqi oil development, it would take vast investments by American oil companies to even begin to project multi-hundred billion dollar paybacks.
You're deluded, and uneducated when it comes to this topic. You are passing around the liberal/anti-Bush arguments freely, and it only serves to make the rest of your arguments seem less significant.
Did you know that working a full year at minimum wage will leave you 30% below the poverty limit?
There are varying degrees of poverty of course, but poverty is still poverty. So a $3 minimum wage versus a $5 minimum wage is essentially irrelevant to the worker. Both really suck. But to the business owner it's huge.
Do you know what happens when the minimum wage is increased? Companies that rely on low cost workers cut some loose (now you have people with $0/hr), and the remaining workers have to do more work for their modest increase in pay.
Technology is the only thing that will help get people out of the minimum wage trenches. When someone perfects the McD's burger fabrication machine, that will put a bunch of minimum wage earners out of work. Some of them will go get some (more) education, and perhaps get work for much better pay.
The only way out of poverty is education and opportunity. Minimum wage jobs are a dead end.
Thank you for that eloquently presented anecdote.
I wonder if I could find someone in Taiwan who got a bad treatment from a dentist... then I could go around spouting off about how Taiwan's medical industry is in the dark ages and is complete crap.
Again, thank you for sharing.
While 5% of the servers that are now Win2003 may have been Linux, how does that number compare to the number of NEW linux servers on the net?
There's vast grown in the number of Linux servers on the net.
So maybe 100:1 new Linux servers compared to Linux servers that migrated to Win2003.
Duh.
This is the same skewed presentation of facts as the annual "most stolen car" news we see periodically.
Everything is the fault of the top of the company.
That sounds harsh, and incorrect, but if you look at it more carefully it's true.
You at the top may be a good director, but you're not doing your job well if you don't have immediate subordinates that are doing their job right/well.
How do you know if they are? You watch, and you get out in the trenches once in a while to get a true view for yourself of what's going on.
It is no excuse for an executive to say "I didn't realize that such and such was going on".
Look at Herb Kelleher of Southwest Airlines if you want to see it done right.