If by reliability, you mean it's ability to function in a proper way without self-destruction, I'd say he is succeeding. Windows XP is indeed better than the previous offerings. Once upon a time, you didn't even have to touch your computer and it would spontaneously have problems. It has gotten much better. Now, it's resilience against the evils of the internet...
That's another story. Indeed, Gates should institue a moratorium on new projects until the old ones can become stable enough to actually properly handle the internet.
Sobig.F is a good example of how fundamental the problems with Microsoft software is. The changes required to secure (pick one: Windows,IE,Outlook,Exchange,IIS) need to happen at the API layer. Unfortunately, this would take industry-wide support, something not even Microsoft can make happen overnight. It would seem with all the money companies already have invested, there is a lot of corporate inertia to overcome.
You don't think with a little international assistance we could have rescued the crew? I think they didn't try hard enough. All they did was say 'Come home' and sit there with fingers crossed hoping it doesn't explode. I'm sure they knew the damage was unrepairable, yet they asked no one for help. We aren't the only country with a space program. It is arrogance to sit idly by while needing the help of those around you for fear of appearing weak or insuffucient. I'm sure all american astronauts are aware of the danger, but I have personally met two of them in the past ten years. They are some of the most patriotic people, they love their country. They trust NASA. What they don't expect is to be put on a suicide trip home because NASA didn't even try. That's inexhonerable.
2.95 had fewer bugs. It's also a common denominator. Distros have had gcc2.95 for a while. Or 2.93 or whatever that was. I just upgraded recently by libc, gcc, kernel, and recompiled almost 50 slackware distro included libs. That freaking sucked. I had to comile X, Qt, and KDE. Oh my freaking god. Just those three combined was over 3GB. My poor computer had been compiling non stop for 3 weeks. I highly recommend those who are new or aren't masochistic like me to just wait for their favorite distro to come as they want it.
It depends very much on the process and the industry. I work for one of the largest silicon wafer manufacturers in the world. Our automation is so complex and mature that the only way we could lay off more workers is if we reduced capacity. That's the key. We did lay off almost half of the workers, but through efficiency increases, the capacity is where it was two years ago. The company saved a decent chunk of change because they kept the automation engineers around. I know of another similar company that just layed off quite a few people, but their automation is very poor. Overall, the company is doing very bad. Their capacity is less than a third of what it was two years ago and the company still isn't making much money.
There's two ways to save money in manufacturing: less workers & lowered capacity, or increased efficiency and increased profits. The method used depends highly on existing conditions.
And yes, as embedded devices become more commoditized, special education in the field becomes less important. One quick read through this boook and most good programmers would capable of automating simple tasks that more often than not require people to perform.
Actually, you should check them up in Wine Spectator. Ernest and Julio is mediocre at best. Julio did have a daughter though. Her name is Sara. She makes very good value priced wine and has won many, many awards. It goes by the name Gallo of Sonoma. They make the best chardonnay ever. Any ways...
Ernest & Julio: -1, crap. Gallo of Sonoma: +1, great.
In her price class, her wine is easily the best value. Hope this was interesting to someone on/.
The soviet union had to be destroyed because it was a competing system, not because it was evil. I hate to break it to you, but we didn't destroy the Soviet Union. They suffered from a massive economical collapse. It suffered very much from poor leadership and political in-fighting.
government doesn't believe all the WMD and nuclear capability stuff any more than I do The british parliament is looking into statements made by Tony Blair concerning WMD on the basis that they may have been greatly overstated. However, in reference to Iran, we aren't saying they have some secret weapons program(like we did with Iraq). They openly admit to having a functional nuclear weapons program, with ICBM's deployed and readied.
For Microsoft, it's all about the money. For the US Government, it's all about control.
It's sad though. The more the US tries to control their surroundings with political measures, the more they are seen as manipulative. They very much are.
Apparently, the engineers used improper formulas to simulate the foam/tile collision. Regardless of density, anything that weighs 2 pounds moving at 400 miles per hour is going to have a huge amount of kinetic energy. They KNEW the foam did damage. And they did nothing.
That is the arrogance. They say it couldn't be repaired in space. Why didn't we leave them up there until either it could be repaired, or they could be brought down another way? It just doesn't make any sense. Stupid NASA. There is no excuse.
Wrong, partially. Green marker on a CD? Never heard of it. And that site you linked to is full of crap, I agree. There were like two facts in there, the rest of it was flat out lies.
From your post, it sounds like you possibly haven't heard a good tube amp lately. According to my audiophile roommate, the 'warmer sound' you are speaking of is a legacy of old tube amps and the distortion associated with them. Apparently, new hifi amplifiers do not display this symptom. They also have a more linear response with actually, believe it or not, less distortion.
He also says that there are few types of music where the difference in distortion can be heard. Classical is the easiest, with rock being the hardest. However, distortion aside, he says that the response linearity can be heard by almost anyone with functioning ears. But, and I quote: 'Those punks running around with the bass all the way up wouldn't know a Panasonic from a Marantz.' I guess he thinks that young people today actually enjoy exaggerating the already nonlinear response of today's amplifiers. All they see is power, and most don't even look at distortion.
That's exactly right. Even with all of the newest improvements in semiconductor technology and the resulting memory density(Remeber those old 512KB clunky SIMMS:) improvements, we are still placing the memory too far away from the processor. It should be closer(physically, logistically, electrically). With the new AMD Opteron, they got it right. Putting the memory controller on the processor is the first step in a long line of improvements that can be made. With a few more fundamental changes in design, memory might actually be able to keep up with processors in the future. One such design change would be getting the main memory bus off the motherboard PCB. With the memory controller on the processor itself, the compatability or portability of the memory modules between Opteron generations is no longer a viable excuse. There is no reason why the memory can't be a stacked silicon module that plugs into the side of the processor. That right there would solve quite a few problems as well as take full advantage of the Opteron's built-in memory controller and provide memory performance unchallenged by either DDR SDRAM or RDRAM technologies.
I'm betting we'll see 1Ghz memory(not effective via DDR or QDR, I'm talking actual bus frequency) within 1 year from this day.
There are some really great uses for vacuum tubes. Here's a couple:
1) High quality audio reproduction. Any home audio freak will tell you nothing sounds like a sweet tube amp. There is both anecdotal and scientific evidence for the superiority of tubes versus semiconductors. Why then do we use semconductors as audio amps? Price and size. For a home theater amp, semi's cost anywhere from $100 to $900+, and tubes cost anywhere from $500 to $20,000.
2) High frequency amplification. Good for rf transmitters. They have many other high frequency uses as well.
Highly unlikely. See, what you don't realize is that this technology will likely be utilised in memory before processors. One of the first verification processes in semiconductor technologies is 'can we make memory with it'. They start off simple and let the circuits get more complex from there. We'll likely see very high speed memory before you see a Pentium 5 or Athlon Diamond XP. This is a great boon for computing. Memory has been a large bottleneck for a long time.
Imagine 1GB of processor core clock speed memory. That would be friggin amazing for databases:)
Yes. And the result of this research was the Windows installer dialog with the 'Next' button at the bottom right of the dialog. Now, everyone who ever had to install software clicks on either 'Next' or 'Ok' just to make the dialog go away. Hence, the proliferation of adware where users have a choice: They click whatever they think will make the dialog box go away. I say confuse them just so they will read the dialog box.
Can Microsoft challenge 180 groups from 180 nations? Yes. They probably have a larger income than at least the bottom 10% of those countries.
*Shoots himself* argh someone run Windows on this gun - it is not killing me If GNU made a gun, it would shoot perfect, it would never need to be reloaded, and it would be free. If anything, the Unix gun would kill you on the first shot, even if you aimed it away from yourself, via the GNUaim loadable module!
He already stated at the bottom of his interview that he doesn't really have 16,000 distributors and the exaggeration was 'marketing fluff'. Isn't it possible that the millions of lines of stolen code are, in fact, just more 'marketing fluff'?
The problem with Microsoft is that you must upgrade to stay compatible with everyone else. And, often times, Microsoft breaks binary compatibility to implement features that no one uses. And, most often of times, upgrages are costly for the few really ingenious features you will be using. Also, bug fixes and security patches are ended when your product is EOL'd. In contrast, many companies provide very useful functionality when you upgrade.
Hell, it's not like there isn't licenses for software even in the open-source community or some other *nix software Yes, that's true. However, Microsoft's licensing scheme is particulary restrictive. What was it?.Net you couldn't use to write GPL'd software? 'Use' based licenses are just wrong. It goes completely against the 'First Sale' doctrine. If I buy software, and I don't break copyright law by distributing it, I'm gonna do whatever the fuck I want with it. Their EULA says you cannot modify the program in any way, even if you don't distribute your modifications. That's whack.
And, if you are a business customer, there can be license clauses that say you must upgrade within a certain time period. I've heard of many governments signing contracts with Microsoft to get cheap software now, but are required by contract to purchase more within 2 years. Stupid governments for buying into that crap.
Interesting that they even advertise here. Doubt their click-through is very good:)
On a more serious side: The BSA is good motivation for people to quit the Microsoft Endless_Upgrade suite of software. Most (people/companies) will use whatever works, until it doesn't work. When you are fined $100K, it doesn't seem to be working very well. All a person needs is one good reason...
Wrong. Obviously, you didn't actually check anything. All hydroelectric dams are owned in whole or in part by the federal government. The airline business is a different matter entirely. The multi-billion dollar subsidy to save the industry was inappropriate. The industry may be governed by the FAA, but it is all public and private corporations. The thing is, they all wouldn't have gone out of business. Several maybe, but not all. It's a supply and demand issue. At that point in time, there was on over-supply and a shortage in demand. The market would have gained stability naturally over time, with the most financially and strategically agile companies reigning.
OTOH, IMNSHO, the power grid is the government's responsibility to maintain. This is something all people depend on. I think companies should be held liable for any power delivery faults. If the rule was applied fairly to all companies, there would be a natural market rate increase to acommodate for the maintanence of the power grid. As is right now, this isn't a priority where companies are struggling to keep competitive with out of state power generation. Also, I think that on every electricity bill, it should be required that they divulge the actual cost of the services they provided. This would bring the power issues into everyones minds, and show them where there money is going. Awareness is key to solving this issue.
SCO has no doubt modified the Samba source to suit it's use in their products. If they don't ship the source, or make it available, then they aren't complying with the GPL's terms. In which case, they have no right to distribute it.
Even under the GPL, there is a provision for a modest copying or production fee.
If SCO is distributing Samba, they must obtain a license to use it in some form or another. If SCO disclaims the GPL license, they have no other right to use the software. It is copyrighted code. At their discretion, the Samba team can choose to offer SCO the right to use Samba under a different, for profit license. This defeats the purpose of Open Source ideals in a big way. However, SCO cannot just dismiss the GPL and continue to use Samba.
The GPL is a legally binding license. It is built upon the copyright laws of the United States and most other civilised countries.
Repeat after me: To say the GPL is invalid is to say all software EULA's are invalid. Without the GPL, Samba is UNLICENCED COPYRIGHTED code.
SolidWorks rocks! I have designed some sweet car parts in SW. Except, I can't seem to find anyone around here with a 4 axis CNC mill to cut anything for me without charging me a gazillion dollars:(
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Dude...
Sean Connery said that. In 'The Rock'. The movie. Like 8 years ago. That movie was badass. Nicholas Cage. Sean Connery. Need I say more?
STFU before you get slapped.
Now that's just mean.
If by reliability, you mean it's ability to function in a proper way without self-destruction, I'd say he is succeeding. Windows XP is indeed better than the previous offerings. Once upon a time, you didn't even have to touch your computer and it would spontaneously have problems. It has gotten much better. Now, it's resilience against the evils of the internet...
That's another story. Indeed, Gates should institue a moratorium on new projects until the old ones can become stable enough to actually properly handle the internet.
Sobig.F is a good example of how fundamental the problems with Microsoft software is. The changes required to secure (pick one: Windows,IE,Outlook,Exchange,IIS) need to happen at the API layer. Unfortunately, this would take industry-wide support, something not even Microsoft can make happen overnight. It would seem with all the money companies already have invested, there is a lot of corporate inertia to overcome.
You don't think with a little international assistance we could have rescued the crew? I think they didn't try hard enough. All they did was say 'Come home' and sit there with fingers crossed hoping it doesn't explode. I'm sure they knew the damage was unrepairable, yet they asked no one for help. We aren't the only country with a space program. It is arrogance to sit idly by while needing the help of those around you for fear of appearing weak or insuffucient. I'm sure all american astronauts are aware of the danger, but I have personally met two of them in the past ten years. They are some of the most patriotic people, they love their country. They trust NASA. What they don't expect is to be put on a suicide trip home because NASA didn't even try. That's inexhonerable.
Shame on them.
Hmm... 2.95 is far more mature than 3.3
2.95 had fewer bugs. It's also a common denominator. Distros have had gcc2.95 for a while. Or 2.93 or whatever that was. I just upgraded recently by libc, gcc, kernel, and recompiled almost 50 slackware distro included libs. That freaking sucked. I had to comile X, Qt, and KDE. Oh my freaking god. Just those three combined was over 3GB. My poor computer had been compiling non stop for 3 weeks. I highly recommend those who are new or aren't masochistic like me to just wait for their favorite distro to come as they want it.
nice uid...
:)
deb sucks! joking.
It depends very much on the process and the industry. I work for one of the largest silicon wafer manufacturers in the world. Our automation is so complex and mature that the only way we could lay off more workers is if we reduced capacity. That's the key. We did lay off almost half of the workers, but through efficiency increases, the capacity is where it was two years ago. The company saved a decent chunk of change because they kept the automation engineers around. I know of another similar company that just layed off quite a few people, but their automation is very poor. Overall, the company is doing very bad. Their capacity is less than a third of what it was two years ago and the company still isn't making much money.
There's two ways to save money in manufacturing: less workers & lowered capacity, or increased efficiency and increased profits. The method used depends highly on existing conditions.
And yes, as embedded devices become more commoditized, special education in the field becomes less important. One quick read through this boook and most good programmers would capable of automating simple tasks that more often than not require people to perform.
Actually, you should check them up in Wine Spectator. Ernest and Julio is mediocre at best. Julio did have a daughter though. Her name is Sara. She makes very good value priced wine and has won many, many awards. It goes by the name Gallo of Sonoma. They make the best chardonnay ever. Any ways...
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Ernest & Julio: -1, crap.
Gallo of Sonoma: +1, great.
In her price class, her wine is easily the best value. Hope this was interesting to someone on
The soviet union had to be destroyed because it was a competing system, not because it was evil.
I hate to break it to you, but we didn't destroy the Soviet Union. They suffered from a massive economical collapse. It suffered very much from poor leadership and political in-fighting.
government doesn't believe all the WMD and nuclear capability stuff any more than I do
The british parliament is looking into statements made by Tony Blair concerning WMD on the basis that they may have been greatly overstated. However, in reference to Iran, we aren't saying they have some secret weapons program(like we did with Iraq). They openly admit to having a functional nuclear weapons program, with ICBM's deployed and readied.
For Microsoft, it's all about the money.
For the US Government, it's all about control.
It's sad though. The more the US tries to control their surroundings with political measures, the more they are seen as manipulative. They very much are.
Apparently, the engineers used improper formulas to simulate the foam/tile collision. Regardless of density, anything that weighs 2 pounds moving at 400 miles per hour is going to have a huge amount of kinetic energy. They KNEW the foam did damage. And they did nothing.
That is the arrogance. They say it couldn't be repaired in space. Why didn't we leave them up there until either it could be repaired, or they could be brought down another way? It just doesn't make any sense. Stupid NASA. There is no excuse.
Wrong, partially. Green marker on a CD? Never heard of it. And that site you linked to is full of crap, I agree. There were like two facts in there, the rest of it was flat out lies.
From your post, it sounds like you possibly haven't heard a good tube amp lately. According to my audiophile roommate, the 'warmer sound' you are speaking of is a legacy of old tube amps and the distortion associated with them. Apparently, new hifi amplifiers do not display this symptom. They also have a more linear response with actually, believe it or not, less distortion.
He also says that there are few types of music where the difference in distortion can be heard. Classical is the easiest, with rock being the hardest. However, distortion aside, he says that the response linearity can be heard by almost anyone with functioning ears. But, and I quote:
'Those punks running around with the bass all the way up wouldn't know a Panasonic from a Marantz.'
I guess he thinks that young people today actually enjoy exaggerating the already nonlinear response of today's amplifiers. All they see is power, and most don't even look at distortion.
That's exactly right. Even with all of the newest improvements in semiconductor technology and the resulting memory density(Remeber those old 512KB clunky SIMMS :) improvements, we are still placing the memory too far away from the processor. It should be closer(physically, logistically, electrically). With the new AMD Opteron, they got it right. Putting the memory controller on the processor is the first step in a long line of improvements that can be made. With a few more fundamental changes in design, memory might actually be able to keep up with processors in the future. One such design change would be getting the main memory bus off the motherboard PCB. With the memory controller on the processor itself, the compatability or portability of the memory modules between Opteron generations is no longer a viable excuse. There is no reason why the memory can't be a stacked silicon module that plugs into the side of the processor. That right there would solve quite a few problems as well as take full advantage of the Opteron's built-in memory controller and provide memory performance unchallenged by either DDR SDRAM or RDRAM technologies.
I'm betting we'll see 1Ghz memory(not effective via DDR or QDR, I'm talking actual bus frequency) within 1 year from this day.
Anyone wanna take my money?
There are some really great uses for vacuum tubes. Here's a couple:
1) High quality audio reproduction. Any home audio freak will tell you nothing sounds like a sweet tube amp. There is both anecdotal and scientific evidence for the superiority of tubes versus semiconductors. Why then do we use semconductors as audio amps? Price and size. For a home theater amp, semi's cost anywhere from $100 to $900+, and tubes cost anywhere from $500 to $20,000.
2) High frequency amplification. Good for rf transmitters. They have many other high frequency uses as well.
Don't discount the tube!
Highly unlikely. See, what you don't realize is that this technology will likely be utilised in memory before processors. One of the first verification processes in semiconductor technologies is 'can we make memory with it'. They start off simple and let the circuits get more complex from there. We'll likely see very high speed memory before you see a Pentium 5 or Athlon Diamond XP. This is a great boon for computing. Memory has been a large bottleneck for a long time.
:)
Imagine 1GB of processor core clock speed memory. That would be friggin amazing for databases
Yes. And the result of this research was the Windows installer dialog with the 'Next' button at the bottom right of the dialog. Now, everyone who ever had to install software clicks on either 'Next' or 'Ok' just to make the dialog go away. Hence, the proliferation of adware where users have a choice: They click whatever they think will make the dialog box go away. I say confuse them just so they will read the dialog box.
Can Microsoft challenge 180 groups from 180 nations?
Yes. They probably have a larger income than at least the bottom 10% of those countries.
*Shoots himself* argh someone run Windows on this gun - it is not killing me
If GNU made a gun, it would shoot perfect, it would never need to be reloaded, and it would be free. If anything, the Unix gun would kill you on the first shot, even if you aimed it away from yourself, via the GNUaim loadable module!
He already stated at the bottom of his interview that he doesn't really have 16,000 distributors and the exaggeration was 'marketing fluff'. Isn't it possible that the millions of lines of stolen code are, in fact, just more 'marketing fluff'?
Sorry.
I'll shut up now.
IBM told me to say that.
All right troll... I'll bite.
.Net you couldn't use to write GPL'd software? 'Use' based licenses are just wrong. It goes completely against the 'First Sale' doctrine. If I buy software, and I don't break copyright law by distributing it, I'm gonna do whatever the fuck I want with it. Their EULA says you cannot modify the program in any way, even if you don't distribute your modifications. That's whack.
The problem with Microsoft is that you must upgrade to stay compatible with everyone else. And, often times, Microsoft breaks binary compatibility to implement features that no one uses. And, most often of times, upgrages are costly for the few really ingenious features you will be using. Also, bug fixes and security patches are ended when your product is EOL'd. In contrast, many companies provide very useful functionality when you upgrade.
Hell, it's not like there isn't licenses for software even in the open-source community or some other *nix software
Yes, that's true. However, Microsoft's licensing scheme is particulary restrictive. What was it?
And, if you are a business customer, there can be license clauses that say you must upgrade within a certain time period. I've heard of many governments signing contracts with Microsoft to get cheap software now, but are required by contract to purchase more within 2 years. Stupid governments for buying into that crap.
Interesting that they even advertise here. Doubt their click-through is very good :)
On a more serious side: The BSA is good motivation for people to quit the Microsoft Endless_Upgrade suite of software. Most (people/companies) will use whatever works, until it doesn't work. When you are fined $100K, it doesn't seem to be working very well. All a person needs is one good reason...
Wrong. Obviously, you didn't actually check anything. All hydroelectric dams are owned in whole or in part by the federal government. The airline business is a different matter entirely. The multi-billion dollar subsidy to save the industry was inappropriate. The industry may be governed by the FAA, but it is all public and private corporations. The thing is, they all wouldn't have gone out of business. Several maybe, but not all. It's a supply and demand issue. At that point in time, there was on over-supply and a shortage in demand. The market would have gained stability naturally over time, with the most financially and strategically agile companies reigning.
OTOH, IMNSHO, the power grid is the government's responsibility to maintain. This is something all people depend on. I think companies should be held liable for any power delivery faults. If the rule was applied fairly to all companies, there would be a natural market rate increase to acommodate for the maintanence of the power grid. As is right now, this isn't a priority where companies are struggling to keep competitive with out of state power generation. Also, I think that on every electricity bill, it should be required that they divulge the actual cost of the services they provided. This would bring the power issues into everyones minds, and show them where there money is going. Awareness is key to solving this issue.
>>If SCO disclaims the GPL license, they have no other right to use the software.
Sorry. The 'use' was supposed to be 'distribute'. The GPL has *zero* usage clauses. It only applies to distribution.
That's a big if...
SCO has no doubt modified the Samba source to suit it's use in their products. If they don't ship the source, or make it available, then they aren't complying with the GPL's terms. In which case, they have no right to distribute it.
Actually, they can.
Even under the GPL, there is a provision for a modest copying or production fee.
If SCO is distributing Samba, they must obtain a license to use it in some form or another. If SCO disclaims the GPL license, they have no other right to use the software. It is copyrighted code. At their discretion, the Samba team can choose to offer SCO the right to use Samba under a different, for profit license. This defeats the purpose of Open Source ideals in a big way. However, SCO cannot just dismiss the GPL and continue to use Samba.
The GPL is a legally binding license. It is built upon the copyright laws of the United States and most other civilised countries.
Repeat after me:
To say the GPL is invalid is to say all software EULA's are invalid. Without the GPL, Samba is UNLICENCED COPYRIGHTED code.
Likewise, I was sucked into Charlie's Angles
I wish I got sucked into Charlie's Angles, especially Lucy Lu's. She's got sweet angles.
Meanwhile, in other news...
Intel sold $3 billion last month.
Apple is still marginal. Great products though.
SolidWorks rocks! I have designed some sweet car parts in SW. Except, I can't seem to find anyone around here with a 4 axis CNC mill to cut anything for me without charging me a gazillion dollars :(