But for some reason, people love to bash Intel, simply because it's the big behemoth.
Yeah, that must be it. When somebody doesn't like the same thing you like, it can't be because they have legitimate complaints about the thing. It must be them following the herd and trying to be "cool".
I think you mean "Gone will be the quick hand flick up and to the right to ACCIDENTALLY close a window."
Given that Windows has never been good at grokking the difference between an application and a window, losing the Big Red X would be a GOOD design change.
How many hours of work have we lost due to applications that we killed while trying to maximize their windows?
Common [sic] Microsoft, wheres the new File System, the, the sidebar with add-ins, the new user experience?
How do you propose that Microsoft demonstrate such features with a mere screenshot? Maybe a pic of the disk volume details tab with 'WinFS' hastily MS-Painted into the Format field?
All screenshots ARE good for is showing off shiny new eye candy. I wonder if that has anything to do with why ALL the major desktop envioronment developers seem to be more preoccupied with alpha transparency than with making the work of the system transparent to the user.
Which is of course, totally BS, because the labels pay for these, as the artists don't own the copyright!
The labels are the ones that initially pay the invoices, yes. But do you honestly think the label doesn't then turn around and charge back every expense they possibly can to the artists?
People could add but not subtract? They could know what a positive number is, but not a negative?
There was a time when this was true of YOU, y'know.
Granted, these days most of us in industrialized nations move on and grok subtraction and negative numbers by second grade, but it doesn't seem unreasonable that 3/4ths of a century ago, some unskilled works might have made it to adulthood without getting that far.
When a modern pocket calculator is used, the precision may be displayed to seven to ten places of accuracy while in reality, the results can never be of greater precision than the input data available."
It would be remarkably trivial for pocket calculators to analyze the input data and determine how many significant figures are approprate. Why so few models offer this feature, even as an optional mode, I do not understand.
Bottom line: Don't take one-line advice from faceless Slashbots then turn around and change your whole diet. Do your own homework.
Well, I was GONNA switch to an all-cholesterol diet after reading the parent comment, but now I'm having second thoughts!
But wait... if I'm not supposed to take advice from Slashbots, should I take YOUR advice not to take advice from Slashbots? DOES NOT COMPUTE (*^#(*#$#+++NO CARRIER
You have just stated that it's OK for employees to fire people for holding an opinion contrary to the opinion of the "corporation". That is a ridiculus assertion.
No, not at all.
Holding an opinion is not the issue. Publicly voicing an opinion in a role where you are seen as a representative of the company is.
If Steve Ballmer went out in front of the media and told everyone that Microsoft products sucked walnuts and that people should switch to Mac OS X instead, you'd better believe he'd be reprimanded if not dismissed outright. Do you think Microsoft ought to be FORCED BY LAW to keep someone who harms their reputation on payroll?
But having IBM get $75M worth of stuff from them is. Even if it's on credit.
Who says IBM ever has to USE this new $75M line of credit?
Naturally, they will, because an organization the size and breadth of IBM is going to have some Windows-based components in it. I don't see it following that IBM will have to promote Windows mindshare to its end-users, though.
I seem to recall that once upon a time they passed laws that made it illegal to sell something below cost to steal market share from competitors. It was called "predatory pricing".
Do we really want these laws being enforced against Free software projects, though? I don't want to see the Mozilla Foundation getting prosecuted for giving away Firefox for $0, on the basis that it discourages people from spending $X>0 to buy Opera...
Would the filesystem have been designed differently? [...] Would certain conventions from other systems have been adopted to ease interoperability when networking came on the scene?
I think these questions are closely related, and the answer to both would be yes.
The "data fork/resource fork" model of the early Mac filesystems, for example, worked fine for standalone computing or even on homogenous all-Mac networks, but introduced problems when Macs were placed on heterogenous networks and had to exchange data with Unix- or FAT-based "a file is a file is a file" systems.
But we do know that one year ago, the Department of Energy leased a supercomputer cluster capable of 2 Teraflops from Sun, at a cost of $1,970,000 over 36 months
Unless the PS3 is going to cost $2 million and you have to give it back to Sony after 3 years, it's safe to assume that the PS3's real performance will not approach 2 Teraflops.
Who can forget the So called 16 bit TurboGrafix 16?
The graphics coprocessor in the TG16 was 16-bit, even though the core CPU was 8-bit.
But then again, the NES's CPU had a 16-bit address but, so why not call it a "16-bit" console too?
The whole "number of bits" debate is pretty ridiculous. Does it refer to the CPU instruction size, or the CPU's internal data bus, or external data bus, or an address bus, or the RGB color depth of the GPU? If you have dual 32-bit processors, can you add them together and call it a 64-bit processor? The answer should have been 'no', but the console industry has been saying 'yes' for the past 10-15 years.
There are only a small number of true 128-or-more-bit computers in the world. Your $200 gaming console is not one of them.
My opinion is that a microkernel is better for blind and deaf users than a monolithic kernel is. And it goes without saying that the filesystem should support journaling!
Um, shouldn't we be discussing USER INTERFACE for blind/deaf users, not the broad and mostly irrelevant topic of OPERATING SYSTEM?
If it wasn't Peter Jackson, people would be raising all sorts of "greedy pig" ruckus.
Doubt it. Because even as greedy a pig as the director might seem for making well into nine digits and still wanting more, the studios are EVEN GREEDIER PIGS for trying to keep the director's money for themselves.
If there's no Little Guy to root for in this case, there's at least still The Smaller of Two Giants.
I hate to be an Apple apologist, but I can't think of anywhere they've sacrificed ergonimics for design.
Well, there's those disc-shaped mouses they (used to?) ship with Macs, that are of improper size to be used by any hands larger than a kindergartener's...
They looked nice on a brocure, the transparent plastic was sleek, and the whole body of the mouse serving as a mouse button were all great design elements, but the thing just wasn't comfortable to use in the manner in which I was accustomed to using a mouse.
Look, even if Amtrak did have the billions and billions of dollars of funding it would need to replace tens of thousands of miles of track across the country to create bullet train-ready routes, it would still be wasted money.
The time it would take for a cross-country rail trip might decrease from 60 hours to 25 hours, but it still couldn't beat a 7-hour plane trip.
High-speed rail service makes a lot of sense in a lot of places, but most of the United States is not such a place.
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They could have saved a lot of development work if they had just used a Fresnel lens out of a Crackerjack box instead...
But for some reason, people love to bash Intel, simply because it's the big behemoth.
Yeah, that must be it. When somebody doesn't like the same thing you like, it can't be because they have legitimate complaints about the thing. It must be them following the herd and trying to be "cool".
I think you mean "Gone will be the quick hand flick up and to the right to ACCIDENTALLY close a window."
Given that Windows has never been good at grokking the difference between an application and a window, losing the Big Red X would be a GOOD design change.
How many hours of work have we lost due to applications that we killed while trying to maximize their windows?
I can say with complete certainty that the beta is still under development and has not been released internally or to the public.
We can tell it's not the beta because they're not selling it for $199 at Fry's yet.
Common [sic] Microsoft, wheres the new File System, the, the sidebar with add-ins, the new user experience?
How do you propose that Microsoft demonstrate such features with a mere screenshot? Maybe a pic of the disk volume details tab with 'WinFS' hastily MS-Painted into the Format field?
All screenshots ARE good for is showing off shiny new eye candy. I wonder if that has anything to do with why ALL the major desktop envioronment developers seem to be more preoccupied with alpha transparency than with making the work of the system transparent to the user.
And with a name like F*CKEditor, one has to wonder WHY it has yet to achieve widespread adoption...
Which is of course, totally BS, because the labels pay for these, as the artists don't own the copyright!
The labels are the ones that initially pay the invoices, yes. But do you honestly think the label doesn't then turn around and charge back every expense they possibly can to the artists?
He's the only guitarist I could see being able to play with the Philip Glass Ensemble.
That would actually be quite appropriate, as both Glass and Fripp are almost pathologically obsessed with arpeggio ostinato figures.
People could add but not subtract? They could know what a positive number is, but not a negative?
There was a time when this was true of YOU, y'know.
Granted, these days most of us in industrialized nations move on and grok subtraction and negative numbers by second grade, but it doesn't seem unreasonable that 3/4ths of a century ago, some unskilled works might have made it to adulthood without getting that far.
When a modern pocket calculator is used, the precision may be displayed to seven to ten places of accuracy while in reality, the results can never be of greater precision than the input data available."
It would be remarkably trivial for pocket calculators to analyze the input data and determine how many significant figures are approprate. Why so few models offer this feature, even as an optional mode, I do not understand.
Bottom line: Don't take one-line advice from faceless Slashbots then turn around and change your whole diet. Do your own homework.
Well, I was GONNA switch to an all-cholesterol diet after reading the parent comment, but now I'm having second thoughts!
But wait... if I'm not supposed to take advice from Slashbots, should I take YOUR advice not to take advice from Slashbots? DOES NOT COMPUTE (*^#(*#$#+++NO CARRIER
You have just stated that it's OK for employees to fire people for holding an opinion contrary to the opinion of the "corporation". That is a ridiculus assertion.
No, not at all.
Holding an opinion is not the issue. Publicly voicing an opinion in a role where you are seen as a representative of the company is.
If Steve Ballmer went out in front of the media and told everyone that Microsoft products sucked walnuts and that people should switch to Mac OS X instead, you'd better believe he'd be reprimanded if not dismissed outright. Do you think Microsoft ought to be FORCED BY LAW to keep someone who harms their reputation on payroll?
But having IBM get $75M worth of stuff from them is. Even if it's on credit.
Who says IBM ever has to USE this new $75M line of credit?
Naturally, they will, because an organization the size and breadth of IBM is going to have some Windows-based components in it. I don't see it following that IBM will have to promote Windows mindshare to its end-users, though.
I seem to recall that once upon a time they passed laws that made it illegal to sell something below cost to steal market share from competitors. It was called "predatory pricing".
Do we really want these laws being enforced against Free software projects, though? I don't want to see the Mozilla Foundation getting prosecuted for giving away Firefox for $0, on the basis that it discourages people from spending $X>0 to buy Opera...
Would the filesystem have been designed differently? [...] Would certain conventions from other systems have been adopted to ease interoperability when networking came on the scene?
I think these questions are closely related, and the answer to both would be yes.
The "data fork/resource fork" model of the early Mac filesystems, for example, worked fine for standalone computing or even on homogenous all-Mac networks, but introduced problems when Macs were placed on heterogenous networks and had to exchange data with Unix- or FAT-based "a file is a file is a file" systems.
We don't know what any system will cost.
But we do know that one year ago, the Department of Energy leased a supercomputer cluster capable of 2 Teraflops from Sun, at a cost of $1,970,000 over 36 months
Unless the PS3 is going to cost $2 million and you have to give it back to Sony after 3 years, it's safe to assume that the PS3's real performance will not approach 2 Teraflops.
Who can forget the So called 16 bit TurboGrafix 16?
The graphics coprocessor in the TG16 was 16-bit, even though the core CPU was 8-bit.
But then again, the NES's CPU had a 16-bit address but, so why not call it a "16-bit" console too?
The whole "number of bits" debate is pretty ridiculous. Does it refer to the CPU instruction size, or the CPU's internal data bus, or external data bus, or an address bus, or the RGB color depth of the GPU? If you have dual 32-bit processors, can you add them together and call it a 64-bit processor? The answer should have been 'no', but the console industry has been saying 'yes' for the past 10-15 years.
There are only a small number of true 128-or-more-bit computers in the world. Your $200 gaming console is not one of them.
MS NEEDS to look like they are losing a bit, because when they were winning everything (in the eyes of many people) they were getting attacked.
I wonder if the same thing applies to United States foreign policy?
Well, except for the part where the executive bald guy admits that things might not be going as well as they could...
My opinion is that a microkernel is better for blind and deaf users than a monolithic kernel is. And it goes without saying that the filesystem should support journaling!
Um, shouldn't we be discussing USER INTERFACE for blind/deaf users, not the broad and mostly irrelevant topic of OPERATING SYSTEM?
If it wasn't Peter Jackson, people would be raising all sorts of "greedy pig" ruckus.
Doubt it. Because even as greedy a pig as the director might seem for making well into nine digits and still wanting more, the studios are EVEN GREEDIER PIGS for trying to keep the director's money for themselves.
If there's no Little Guy to root for in this case, there's at least still The Smaller of Two Giants.
Wired has been more eye candy than anything else as long as I've read it
But the candy is made of poison. Magenta text on a turquoise background was NEVER a good idea.
I hate to be an Apple apologist, but I can't think of anywhere they've sacrificed ergonimics for design.
Well, there's those disc-shaped mouses they (used to?) ship with Macs, that are of improper size to be used by any hands larger than a kindergartener's...
They looked nice on a brocure, the transparent plastic was sleek, and the whole body of the mouse serving as a mouse button were all great design elements, but the thing just wasn't comfortable to use in the manner in which I was accustomed to using a mouse.
Look, even if Amtrak did have the billions and billions of dollars of funding it would need to replace tens of thousands of miles of track across the country to create bullet train-ready routes, it would still be wasted money.
The time it would take for a cross-country rail trip might decrease from 60 hours to 25 hours, but it still couldn't beat a 7-hour plane trip.
High-speed rail service makes a lot of sense in a lot of places, but most of the United States is not such a place.
selling a sporty car = speeding
or am I the only confused?
Speed limits only exist on public roadways.
I could race a sports car at 150MPH without breaking any laws, provided I do it only on privately owned courses.
Hollywood should be liable for promoting the use of guns for killing people whenever they show guns being used for killing people ..
But does that qualify as "promoting the use of guns" in the eyes of the law?
"Supersize Me" showed a lot of hamburgers being eaten. Must that be construed as the filmmaker promoting the use of hamburgers?