True, can't prove a negative. BUT, if Adam and Eve DID exist, then homo sapiens appeared the same day as every other living thing, and then proceeded to procreate until 6.5 billion people later here we are. What we know in biology is that homo sapien (sapeins) cannot interbreed more than a few generations before really nasty shit happens and the population eventually becomes non-viable. So everything that would have to happen if Adam and Eve did exist cannot happen based on the original assumptions. Again, can't prove a negative, but unless everything we know about biology is wrong, or there was a huge Deus Ex Machina, Adam and Eve very likely did not exist as a direction interpretation of the story goes.
what country do you live in? (seriously). in the US, the family can sue, friends can sue, the branch that investigates death during a police interaction can sue, anyone can sue. even if the victim is dead. watch the news some time, wrongful death suits are commonly brought against police by family members of the deceased.
Users != zealots. I was a bit too broad. I was focusing on the zealots that make a big deal out if it. My company switched from AIX and SunOS to Linux in the late 90's, and all engineering work is done on distributed computing. So technically, I use Linux 90%+ of time (except for Excel and Outlook), but I'm not referring to myself because I'm not waging a religious war and pouting about the failure of it taking over the desktop. The professionals you mention don't need a dumbed-down OS for work, but you can bet your CLI that when I get home, I want to use something simpler than iOS!
To be more specific, the people that are whining about its failure to displace Windows XP are my rant's target. But the PC is close to dead, so the idea of a "desktop" is a moot one. Just look at the parent of my comment to see who I was targeting.
I like how the opening of the video starts with a flashing TTY-like cursor, and then scans across the screen, 1,200 baud style, but uses.......a serif proportional font????
Myst, Riven, The 7th Guest -- all from the early 1990's tried to look as real as possible. When CDROMs first started appearing in PCs, there was this push to use block 3D with photo texture maps, or have pre-rendered scenes. Once 3D accelerators appeared (3Dfx anyone?), the race was on to do this real-time. 20 years later and the issues are largely focused on character motion capture, and better rigging/physics.
IMHO: I can point to the problem and a solution looking at WoW vs. DDO. DDO went for realism, WoW went for cartoonish. The net results: parts of DDO look like crap because they simply can't look as real as the rest of the frame, where as WoW is able to maintain consistency across the board, so nothing ever "stands out" quite as badly as in DDO.
i know you are kidding, but linux will forever be something a broad group of technology enthusiasts use to "feel" superior. they don't want linux to become mainstream, otherwise they will lose their very identity! this isn't about making the world better, it is about feeling special. it is the same situation as the new (old) hipster trend, except hipsters can buy a new identity a lot faster than technogeeks, as technology is in limited supply, but stupid sunglasses and ugly clothes are a perpetual resource.
oops, nit in my post: i don't think it was 1995, i think they must have started spec'ing TDP with P4 because the processors couldn't do anything about it except shut off, so why spec it? forgot when p4 launched, but that's probably the right time.
Hate to sound like Abe Simpson, but two things, one nit and one biggie:
The nit: TDP = thermal design POINT. There are many things that need to be considered at this point: power, performance, temperature, current...
The biggie: TDP power isn't maximum power, that is the entire reason why Intel started specing TDP values in 1995: the maximum power required a monster heatsink, and only a tiny %age of applications even get close to max power. Why force chassis designers to handle a huge theoretical peak that costs $$$? Instead, spec a thermal design point at which the power/temperature/performance tradeoff can be modified. The Pentium II / III SECC had a thermal diode that would shut the die off if it exceeded something like 120C. The Penitum4 could cut the clock in half and throttle performance if the TDP temperature rose past a fixed limit. This limit is generally ~70% below MAX power (temp and power are related by the thermal constant of the cooling solution, Psi). At this point, reducing the clock's duty cycle causes power/temperature to drop, once the thermal throttle sees this, the clock resumes. The TDP point is set for maximum thermal benefit and minimum performance loss so that the OEMs can use much cheaper heatsinks.
I have a dedicated file tote for all important legal contracts with my signature on them. I would think anyone with half a brain would keep copies of something as important as a business contract. WTF?
"I'm curious as to why it's in the best interest of any corporation to tolerate competitors without regulators telling them to."
It isn't. It is in the consumer's interest that competition exists.
"If you don't believe in natural monopolies,"
I believe in them, just like I believe in natural 'ass raping'. I guess you like ass raping, and want to stand up for the rights of a few dozen executives to pilot their 100ft yachts up your rectum?
I'm gonna strawman on ahead here and guess your next response will be: we wouldn't have an infrastructure if it weren't for natural monopolies. To which I would reply to my strawman friend: BS. NASA, DARPA, USPS, etc...
Now I obviously lean left, and I understand AT&T is doing this because we've become a society who worships entitlement and the free lunch (which is usually a big mac) and AT&T simply cannot provide the infrastructure for everyone to be a heavy user, but IANAE, so how does a society keep a natural monopoly honest and ethical? Of course I'm assuming the well being of the individuals is more important than the well being of a few executives, but since economics doesn't consider morals or ethics, I'm always interested to hear proposals.
It is kinda funny how people claim the government is too stupid to get things right (i.e., post office, DMV, roads), but then bitch at them when they try to contract out. Granted, they could do a much better job vetting the contracts, but government is always in a lose-lose.
Is it just me, or do the annotations in the articles graph appear to indicate a heavy preponderance of mustaches in the uncanny valley?
Perhaps they should use an arrow instead of a rotated brace symbol...
"The only difference (if you can call it that) between the parties (besides the mascot) is their stance on "scary social problems" like gay marriage and abortion. Both of which have nothing to do with governing and the federal government, if it were Constitutionally sound and legal, would not be involved in either item at all. The Constitution makes clear what the federal government can do, yet we keep electing these asspiles who ignore it."
A budding federalist, I see? "Nothing matters... except these small irrelevant issues". For you they are irrelevant, but for gays and women, they are quite huge. States rights or not, these are big issues that need federal referees, and hence, federal policy. I'm not condoning the idiocy on the hill, but dismissing two very, very large issues as "scary social problems" which you believe have no federal responsibility is quite cavalier, and IMHO, a horribly pretentious and elitist philosophy which completely ignores the entire concept of government.
I put my faith in LastPass because I got tired of calling institutions to have my password reset after forgetting it. If LastPass gets hacked, I'm fucked, but MAN is it easier.
Only problem is with some sites that don't use forms, or use flash to login. Having some trouble with those, but 95% of the rest of the sites are fine.
Nice long complex passwords.
Fingers crossed.
And not just lay folks. I work on PC & linux boxes all day, and when I get home, the LAST thing I want to ever do is fuck with a control panel or a setting or a BIOS or install software. Sure, 20 years ago I'd be all over this, but at some point, layperson or not, the effort required to make something work is time taken away from my spouse or kids or cats or non computer related hobbies.
just my $0.02 to all the people/kids who can't understand why someone would pay a premium for an apple product like this, and why good design and simplicity really does matter.
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4.5 billion years ago... just sayin'. Heck, I don't even think there was liquid water yet. I am not a geologist.
True, can't prove a negative. BUT, if Adam and Eve DID exist, then homo sapiens appeared the same day as every other living thing, and then proceeded to procreate until 6.5 billion people later here we are. What we know in biology is that homo sapien (sapeins) cannot interbreed more than a few generations before really nasty shit happens and the population eventually becomes non-viable. So everything that would have to happen if Adam and Eve did exist cannot happen based on the original assumptions. Again, can't prove a negative, but unless everything we know about biology is wrong, or there was a huge Deus Ex Machina, Adam and Eve very likely did not exist as a direction interpretation of the story goes.
Ok, poke holes in that statement now... :-)
That is what I am having trouble with. You see, I read the article AND the PDF, and no where does it state it was paid for by MS.
So again, how do you know MS paid for this?
How do you know MS paid for this?
Remember IBM's Power4 processor in 1996/97? TDP was 0.5kW.
Excellent summary. Too bad it probably won't be read by 99% of the posters.
what country do you live in? (seriously). in the US, the family can sue, friends can sue, the branch that investigates death during a police interaction can sue, anyone can sue. even if the victim is dead. watch the news some time, wrongful death suits are commonly brought against police by family members of the deceased.
FTA:
"However, a mysterious key called Scroll Lock doesn't actually do anything."
30 years ago... as useless then as it is now.
Users != zealots. I was a bit too broad. I was focusing on the zealots that make a big deal out if it. My company switched from AIX and SunOS to Linux in the late 90's, and all engineering work is done on distributed computing. So technically, I use Linux 90%+ of time (except for Excel and Outlook), but I'm not referring to myself because I'm not waging a religious war and pouting about the failure of it taking over the desktop. The professionals you mention don't need a dumbed-down OS for work, but you can bet your CLI that when I get home, I want to use something simpler than iOS!
To be more specific, the people that are whining about its failure to displace Windows XP are my rant's target. But the PC is close to dead, so the idea of a "desktop" is a moot one. Just look at the parent of my comment to see who I was targeting.
Thanks for the clarification.
I like how the opening of the video starts with a flashing TTY-like cursor, and then scans across the screen, 1,200 baud style, but uses ... ....a serif proportional font????
Myst, Riven, The 7th Guest -- all from the early 1990's tried to look as real as possible. When CDROMs first started appearing in PCs, there was this push to use block 3D with photo texture maps, or have pre-rendered scenes. Once 3D accelerators appeared (3Dfx anyone?), the race was on to do this real-time. 20 years later and the issues are largely focused on character motion capture, and better rigging/physics.
IMHO: I can point to the problem and a solution looking at WoW vs. DDO. DDO went for realism, WoW went for cartoonish. The net results: parts of DDO look like crap because they simply can't look as real as the rest of the frame, where as WoW is able to maintain consistency across the board, so nothing ever "stands out" quite as badly as in DDO.
i know you are kidding, but linux will forever be something a broad group of technology enthusiasts use to "feel" superior. they don't want linux to become mainstream, otherwise they will lose their very identity! this isn't about making the world better, it is about feeling special. it is the same situation as the new (old) hipster trend, except hipsters can buy a new identity a lot faster than technogeeks, as technology is in limited supply, but stupid sunglasses and ugly clothes are a perpetual resource.
Hah! True that. I'll get my team of lawyers to draw me up some documents this afternoon, just for the hell of it...
oops, nit in my post: i don't think it was 1995, i think they must have started spec'ing TDP with P4 because the processors couldn't do anything about it except shut off, so why spec it? forgot when p4 launched, but that's probably the right time.
The nit: TDP = thermal design POINT. There are many things that need to be considered at this point: power, performance, temperature, current...
The biggie: TDP power isn't maximum power, that is the entire reason why Intel started specing TDP values in 1995: the maximum power required a monster heatsink, and only a tiny %age of applications even get close to max power. Why force chassis designers to handle a huge theoretical peak that costs $$$? Instead, spec a thermal design point at which the power/temperature/performance tradeoff can be modified. The Pentium II / III SECC had a thermal diode that would shut the die off if it exceeded something like 120C. The Penitum4 could cut the clock in half and throttle performance if the TDP temperature rose past a fixed limit. This limit is generally ~70% below MAX power (temp and power are related by the thermal constant of the cooling solution, Psi). At this point, reducing the clock's duty cycle causes power/temperature to drop, once the thermal throttle sees this, the clock resumes. The TDP point is set for maximum thermal benefit and minimum performance loss so that the OEMs can use much cheaper heatsinks.
I have a dedicated file tote for all important legal contracts with my signature on them. I would think anyone with half a brain would keep copies of something as important as a business contract. WTF?
Well played.
"I'm curious as to why it's in the best interest of any corporation to tolerate competitors without regulators telling them to." It isn't. It is in the consumer's interest that competition exists. "If you don't believe in natural monopolies," I believe in them, just like I believe in natural 'ass raping'. I guess you like ass raping, and want to stand up for the rights of a few dozen executives to pilot their 100ft yachts up your rectum? I'm gonna strawman on ahead here and guess your next response will be: we wouldn't have an infrastructure if it weren't for natural monopolies. To which I would reply to my strawman friend: BS. NASA, DARPA, USPS, etc... Now I obviously lean left, and I understand AT&T is doing this because we've become a society who worships entitlement and the free lunch (which is usually a big mac) and AT&T simply cannot provide the infrastructure for everyone to be a heavy user, but IANAE, so how does a society keep a natural monopoly honest and ethical? Of course I'm assuming the well being of the individuals is more important than the well being of a few executives, but since economics doesn't consider morals or ethics, I'm always interested to hear proposals.
It is kinda funny how people claim the government is too stupid to get things right (i.e., post office, DMV, roads), but then bitch at them when they try to contract out. Granted, they could do a much better job vetting the contracts, but government is always in a lose-lose.
Is it just me, or do the annotations in the articles graph appear to indicate a heavy preponderance of mustaches in the uncanny valley? Perhaps they should use an arrow instead of a rotated brace symbol...
"The only difference (if you can call it that) between the parties (besides the mascot) is their stance on "scary social problems" like gay marriage and abortion. Both of which have nothing to do with governing and the federal government, if it were Constitutionally sound and legal, would not be involved in either item at all. The Constitution makes clear what the federal government can do, yet we keep electing these asspiles who ignore it." A budding federalist, I see? "Nothing matters... except these small irrelevant issues". For you they are irrelevant, but for gays and women, they are quite huge. States rights or not, these are big issues that need federal referees, and hence, federal policy. I'm not condoning the idiocy on the hill, but dismissing two very, very large issues as "scary social problems" which you believe have no federal responsibility is quite cavalier, and IMHO, a horribly pretentious and elitist philosophy which completely ignores the entire concept of government.
I put my faith in LastPass because I got tired of calling institutions to have my password reset after forgetting it. If LastPass gets hacked, I'm fucked, but MAN is it easier. Only problem is with some sites that don't use forms, or use flash to login. Having some trouble with those, but 95% of the rest of the sites are fine. Nice long complex passwords. Fingers crossed.
tools -->> generate secure password -->> generate -->> save -->> autofill done and done.
There are enough resources in the world to support everyone?
Oh really? For how long? Indefinite population expansion, or when everyone has exactly one square meter to stand in?
Think about your answer a little more, son.
And not just lay folks. I work on PC & linux boxes all day, and when I get home, the LAST thing I want to ever do is fuck with a control panel or a setting or a BIOS or install software. Sure, 20 years ago I'd be all over this, but at some point, layperson or not, the effort required to make something work is time taken away from my spouse or kids or cats or non computer related hobbies.
just my $0.02 to all the people/kids who can't understand why someone would pay a premium for an apple product like this, and why good design and simplicity really does matter.