> Google will launch Chrome OS to compete with Microsoft Windows.
Sorry, where does it say that they are aiming to compete with Windows, because it doesn't mention windows in TFA. They've never claimed to try and do that - they're targetting a completely different market. Chome OS is just a browser than boot up with no host operating system. Windows IS an entire operating system.
There is no such thing as HTTP "push" (well, there is, but it's not what you're suggesting). Once the page finishes loading, that's it - no more data. You cannot open a connection to a browser from a server after the page has finished loading.
ADSL *IS* DSL - what are you talking about? Perhaps you meant in comparision to cable broadband (which is NOT called DSL).
If you meant SDSL, then the download rates of SDSL are usually MUCH slower than ADSL (typically 2Mbit in each direction for the UK), which stands zero chance of any HD streaming for gaming (or anything else).
10.* addresses are not really for home use - so I'm not really surprised you ran into conflicts. Home routers tend to use 192.168.x addresses for that reason. 10.x addresses are really for where you conceive you might need hundreds of thousands of IP addresses on your own private network (eg, you're probably an ISP or a university campus).
> Nothing wrong with the device, just need to show one to the approved lab and pay the fee.
RTFA. The article is about Israel not America. America's FCC is therefore irrelevant as it is not an international body. Most countries outside the USA do not care about the results of any FCC test results.
It's totally irrelevant. The iPhone and iPad doesn't use an SSD - they use normal NAND Flash soldered straight on to the PCB. NAND Flash (and related) prices drop anyway because of their usage in SD cards, USB sticks etc but it will have little to do with the iPad.
> If it's reading the code "as many as 20 times per second" that is going to add tons of CPU and RAM usage
Why? 20 times per second is nothing. Our PCs can do billions of operations per second. I doubt a few basic UI tweaks will make even a 1% difference to CPU loading unless it's very badly written. The way it works isn't even that different to how skinnable applications work natively. Sure there's an extra step - but those steps will only a take a couple of milliseconds out of every second.
Users and developers don't want their OS to change. They can cope with superficial astheic improvements such as making the start button round or a shiny reflection applied to their title bars, but if you make even a tiny change to how the OS actually works (as they did with Vista) then people (especially Slashdot readers) will immediately say that the whole OS is crap and start slating it everywhere. Vista tried this, and flopped. The changes in Vista were essentially miniscule, so imagine what hell would break lose if Microsoft changed the underlying architecture of the process model that would undoubtedly break thousands of applications overnight. They would sell more than a handful of copies.
Users (and developers) would rather throw a fortune at hardware to try and use modern apps on the ancient OS kernel they're used to at a decent speed, rather than move to a more effiicent and modern platform.
> Despite the fact that CD's were supposed to be a cheaper alternative to Vinyl, they still milked the fuck out of it and the consumer got zero benefit.
Nearly all of what you've said seems to be wrong. Using UK prices as an example, the cost of making a CD or LP is less than £1. In the shops a CD album is about £11 or £12. If I buy it as an MP3 download or AAC via iTunes it's only £7 or £8. How exactly, do you calculate that this cost saving has NOT been passed on to us? If it hadn't been passed on, we'd still be paying the £12 per CD that we used to pay, even if we purchased our music online. I don't think anyone has ever claimed that CDs were supposed to be cheaper than Vinyl either. It's always been more difficult and more time consuming to press a CD than to press a vinyl disc. Vinyl is essentially just a solid piece of plastic you can stamp out in seconds out of low cost materials and glue a paper label to the middle to finish it off. CDs are multi-layered plastic/foil combo and even have to have a protective laquer coating applied after they've been pressed. You can't glue paper to them, so even the text has to be printed in acrylic inks. The laquer coating and inks take a while to dry which increases costs.
Personally, I think people rarely multi-task. Using two mice with two cursors is pretty much impossible and is not actually supported by the operating system anyway, so people tend to just use one application at once and then switch between them (which is not really multitasking).
Your last sentence is funny. Firstly, it's using 95% precisely to increase the chances of cache-hits. Secondly, you make it sound like "dumping memory" takes time. Windows 7 can free up a gig of disk cache in less than one hard disk seek time! It doesn't have to write it to the hard disk - it just instantly and dynamically marks it as free as your real programs request more RAM. So if it's not slowing down your system and has no adverse side effects, then what's the problem with it? Currently everyone I see complaining about it doesn't actually seem to understand it (or memory management in general).
It makes absolutely no difference on tiny house cables. Those factors only come in on long cable runs (many tens or hundreds of meters). When I started a new job a few years ago, the whole office was wired with a single length of coax and no terminators and we never had any problems.
Totally agree. If you don't want Windows 7 to use the 4GB of RAM you've paid for to speed up your computer, take out 2GB and put it in the drawer. Otherwise, be thankful that it's actually making the most of the RAM you're using.
What next? People complaining that games use 100% CPU to give them maximum framerate when it could just use 30% CPU and give them 10 FPS?
That problem assumes you actually have to physically travel through all the intermediate space to facilitate faster than light travel. If you just take a slow trip through a wormhole (if they exist) then you might not hit anything at any significant speed.
Before I get modded down for mentioning something fictious like wormholes in a scientfic argument, bear in mind that faster-than-light travel is also totally ficticious too and most likely will never happen:) You could also argue of course, that if you've gone through a wormhole to facilitate faster than light travel between two places, that you haven't actually travelled faster than light - you've simply taken a shortcut.:)
Why do nearly all new sites and the slashdot summary all say "no 3G connection built in" when Steve Jobs so clearly talked about the 3G version of the device and even showed a price list of what it would cost? Have I somehow got the wrong end of the stick? Do you need an external adapter??
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> Google will launch Chrome OS to compete with Microsoft Windows.
Sorry, where does it say that they are aiming to compete with Windows, because it doesn't mention windows in TFA. They've never claimed to try and do that - they're targetting a completely different market. Chome OS is just a browser than boot up with no host operating system. Windows IS an entire operating system.
There is no such thing as HTTP "push" (well, there is, but it's not what you're suggesting). Once the page finishes loading, that's it - no more data. You cannot open a connection to a browser from a server after the page has finished loading.
How? You can't check someone's browser history using JavaScript.
Just in case someone left a floppy in the A: drive.
> What else causes a single bit-flip error in space?
XORing with 00000100 in space.
ADSL *IS* DSL - what are you talking about? Perhaps you meant in comparision to cable broadband (which is NOT called DSL).
If you meant SDSL, then the download rates of SDSL are usually MUCH slower than ADSL (typically 2Mbit in each direction for the UK), which stands zero chance of any HD streaming for gaming (or anything else).
> but you still fail to grammar.
We *all* fail to grammar occasionally. Especially you.
It depends which country you live in. Some places have only just got it.
So what's that "bonfire" app that seems to be running? Some kind of remote kill software?
10.* addresses are not really for home use - so I'm not really surprised you ran into conflicts. Home routers tend to use 192.168.x addresses for that reason. 10.x addresses are really for where you conceive you might need hundreds of thousands of IP addresses on your own private network (eg, you're probably an ISP or a university campus).
> Nothing wrong with the device, just need to show one to the approved lab and pay the fee.
RTFA. The article is about Israel not America. America's FCC is therefore irrelevant as it is not an international body. Most countries outside the USA do not care about the results of any FCC test results.
Yeah but you could waste hours trying to decide if you want to watch the "left" or "right" version of the movie :) Perhaps you could watch b
It's totally irrelevant. The iPhone and iPad doesn't use an SSD - they use normal NAND Flash soldered straight on to the PCB.
NAND Flash (and related) prices drop anyway because of their usage in SD cards, USB sticks etc but it will have little to do with the iPad.
How do you know he didn't geninuely mean the *island* isle 4? :)
The kindle is an ebook reader - not a tablet PC - DOH!
> If it's reading the code "as many as 20 times per second" that is going to add tons of CPU and RAM usage
Why? 20 times per second is nothing. Our PCs can do billions of operations per second. I doubt a few basic UI tweaks will make even a 1% difference to CPU loading unless it's very badly written. The way it works isn't even that different to how skinnable applications work natively. Sure there's an extra step - but those steps will only a take a couple of milliseconds out of every second.
Users and developers don't want their OS to change. They can cope with superficial astheic improvements such as making the start button round or a shiny reflection applied to their title bars, but if you make even a tiny change to how the OS actually works (as they did with Vista) then people (especially Slashdot readers) will immediately say that the whole OS is crap and start slating it everywhere. Vista tried this, and flopped. The changes in Vista were essentially miniscule, so imagine what hell would break lose if Microsoft changed the underlying architecture of the process model that would undoubtedly break thousands of applications overnight. They would sell more than a handful of copies.
Users (and developers) would rather throw a fortune at hardware to try and use modern apps on the ancient OS kernel they're used to at a decent speed, rather than move to a more effiicent and modern platform.
> Despite the fact that CD's were supposed to be a cheaper alternative to Vinyl, they still milked the fuck out of it and the consumer got zero benefit.
Nearly all of what you've said seems to be wrong. Using UK prices as an example, the cost of making a CD or LP is less than £1. In the shops a CD album is about £11 or £12. If I buy it as an MP3 download or AAC via iTunes it's only £7 or £8. How exactly, do you calculate that this cost saving has NOT been passed on to us? If it hadn't been passed on, we'd still be paying the £12 per CD that we used to pay, even if we purchased our music online. I don't think anyone has ever claimed that CDs were supposed to be cheaper than Vinyl either. It's always been more difficult and more time consuming to press a CD than to press a vinyl disc. Vinyl is essentially just a solid piece of plastic you can stamp out in seconds out of low cost materials and glue a paper label to the middle to finish it off. CDs are multi-layered plastic/foil combo and even have to have a protective laquer coating applied after they've been pressed. You can't glue paper to them, so even the text has to be printed in acrylic inks. The laquer coating and inks take a while to dry which increases costs.
Personally, I think people rarely multi-task. Using two mice with two cursors is pretty much impossible and is not actually supported by the operating system anyway, so people tend to just use one application at once and then switch between them (which is not really multitasking).
Your last sentence is funny. Firstly, it's using 95% precisely to increase the chances of cache-hits. Secondly, you make it sound like "dumping memory" takes time. Windows 7 can free up a gig of disk cache in less than one hard disk seek time! It doesn't have to write it to the hard disk - it just instantly and dynamically marks it as free as your real programs request more RAM. So if it's not slowing down your system and has no adverse side effects, then what's the problem with it? Currently everyone I see complaining about it doesn't actually seem to understand it (or memory management in general).
That requires buying a new netbook, instead of using one you've already got. Duh!
It makes absolutely no difference on tiny house cables. Those factors only come in on long cable runs (many tens or hundreds of meters). When I started a new job a few years ago, the whole office was wired with a single length of coax and no terminators and we never had any problems.
Not quite, because you missed this -1, Offtopic post about cats.
[some stuff about cats]
Although this could backfire and end up getting modded as funny, which means the next person will have to post about cats instead.
Totally agree. If you don't want Windows 7 to use the 4GB of RAM you've paid for to speed up your computer, take out 2GB and put it in the drawer. Otherwise, be thankful that it's actually making the most of the RAM you're using.
What next? People complaining that games use 100% CPU to give them maximum framerate when it could just use 30% CPU and give them 10 FPS?
That problem assumes you actually have to physically travel through all the intermediate space to facilitate faster than light travel. If you just take a slow trip through a wormhole (if they exist) then you might not hit anything at any significant speed.
Before I get modded down for mentioning something fictious like wormholes in a scientfic argument, bear in mind that faster-than-light travel is also totally ficticious too and most likely will never happen :) You could also argue of course, that if you've gone through a wormhole to facilitate faster than light travel between two places, that you haven't actually travelled faster than light - you've simply taken a shortcut. :)
Why do nearly all new sites and the slashdot summary all say "no 3G connection built in" when Steve Jobs so clearly talked about the 3G version of the device and even showed a price list of what it would cost? Have I somehow got the wrong end of the stick? Do you need an external adapter??
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