The government does less of that than you think -- most stuff that happens is just not that interesting.
Big Brother *can* be here whenever he feels like it, but mostly he just doesn't give a shit. Not that what you're saying mightn't be true, but you need to keep what I said in mind.
Anybody who can exhibit a counterexample can say this is not true.
2. "The Internet is the carrier for open source."
Okay, that's true, but meaningless. Who cares?
3. "The Internet is also the platform through which open source is developed."
Again, who cares?
4. "It's simply going to be more secure than proprietary software."
This can be proven wrong, and you'll look stupid.
5. "Open source benefits from anti-American sentiments."
I really take exception to this, although it may be true. I think it's true that many open-source devs are europeans who have green-ish attitudes, it's immaterial, unhelpful, and boring. I for one don't wish to be associated with this and I raise an eyebrow at Andreesen for thinking this. If Kerry thought looking anti-American is going to help him, or you think it will help Linux, you are wrong. It is not going to resonate with people who aren't already on your side.
Since a shorthand way of describing the benchmarks is (1) Athlon FX 64 has much higher (default) memory bandwidth than P4 3.2, (2) Athlon FX does much better in UT2003 than P4 3.2 (plus other results like P4 doing better in Rendering/Encoding), can I conclude that UT2003 is memory bound?
And thus since I have DDR400 in my P4 3.2 and can overclock it to to 220 FSB to get Sandra benchmarks of 5600 MB/sec (non OC/d it's like 4900), that I can expect to get similar UT2003/4 numbers as the Athlon FX? Obviously one could theoretically OC the FX to get even higher memory numbers.
I get the $600 limit at my own bank, like I said, unless I call I can raise it to $1000 temporarily (or I guess higher, but that at some point you should just go inside the bank. They told me they lowered the limit to prevent theft/fraud.
Have you ever had a stack of hundreds? Once I took $5000 in cash out and once $15,000. The second time I had to sign Federal forms and they recorded the serials. Man, there is nothing like holding a big ass thick wad of hundreds. $15,000 is three big wads.
I really wish they'd make the $1000 bill, but they stopped that in 1949. $15,000 would be a little easnsie teesnsie stack! LOL.
Rock on! It's your money, and it's backed by the Full Faith and Credit of the United States of America. What that phrase means is, it's your money to do with what you Damn Well Please you want to do with it, and screw anybody who says otherwise.
It already occurs to the tune of tens of billions per year. Currently, they can "handle it." What is likely to happen eventually is some sort of event which is too complicated for the system to handle: they can really only onesie-twosie failures, such as my $1100. It's like an asymptote in a curve: it's a first order failure. What will eventually happen is something like a bifurcation: the curve will be defined everywhere at once, second order complexity, and the system will not be able to do anything about it. They'll just go "aw shit," and massive amounts of money will just disappear. They'll do the best they can to fix it but it'll be pure chaos, and random.
That's what happened in the 30s. There are structural things like the FDIC to prevent it, but it *will* happen again.
We all know what we need to do: planetwide DNA database, strong encryption, &c. You can argue the details but you know the drill. Currently they are playing Ostrich, playing Finger in the Dike:-).
Now they do. This was in 2000. The limit fluctuates has changed over time -- it used to be $300. For a while it was $1000. At that time I could get up to around $1200. Currently it's $600. If you call the bank they will raise the limit for you for a 14-day period to up to $1000.
I see "ordinary" ATMs stuck at a Phoenix BIOS boot prompt all the time. While I've never gotten to the Windows part of an ATM, it happens at information kiosks a lot.
They should have used the "On-Screen Keyboard" under Accessibility. It is a little scary that this was connected to cash.
If you want a good read for the database schemas an ATM uses, read "Principles of Transaction Processing." One interesting bit of knowledge is that the entire table of valid account names and their card hashes is replicated to each ATM! (Obviously for your bank only.) It sends out a ping that records "Joe took $50" to the main bank but it's only sort of a summary, the "full details" is kept at the ATM and sync'd at night.
One crazy thing that happened to me was I tried to withdraw $1100 from Bank A at Bank B's ATM. I got into a "Distributed Transaction Rollback" -- it got all the way through, printed out out my receipt that said I got the money, and -- never gave me my money. When I checked at a Bank A ATM, it showed the "hit" on my account. In about 15 minutes the Transaction Processor rolled back the transaction.
Well, strictly speaking you are correct, however internal planning documents phrase it the way I do.
Windows Server *ships*.NET, but no existing tools (MMC, explorer, cmd.exe, &c. run any.NET code). Longhorn will not drop.NET, but Microsoft will ship a *whole* lot of code in the Microsoft.* namespace, much of which is a wrapper on Managed DirectX.
It is more accurate to say they are "deprecating" GDI in place of an all-directX interface. The new code they are writing for Longhorn is all Managed.
Don't know why this is +5 insightful, when the AC has posted the correct answer with a score of 0 below you.
The last time I installed Oracle 6 Enterprise Edition I could use structs as column types and run Java stored procedures. Microsoft is only copying them.
C#/.NET is nothing in the world but Microsoft's "Windows-specific Java" that Microsoft renamed to COOL, then C#, after the Sun lawsuit don't you?
Literally! No shit! Windows Forms was originally the AWT extensions (but much enhanced), and the Visual Studio code + live design view editor was originally in VJ++ (the VB designer was not code based).
I saw a couple of Alpha builds of Yukon and the Planning papers (blue badge), but I didn't see much, but I bet I know what's taking so long:
Yukon will allow structs as column types, and will do mapping between.NET types and SQL types automatically, and allow you to run C# SQLDataAdapter-type code natively within Stored procedures. Plus with the trend starting in SQL 2000, it'll be XML, XML, XML. I know XML will be a native type and some of the "indexed xml" (red/blue fast-search vs. DOM-search) that they started in the aborted Hailstorm project will be in there.
Longhorn replaces Win32 with.NET; Yukon replaces the SQL you knew with new stuff. They'll eventually get it right and it will rock, but don't expect to use all this until 2007 (it'll be out before then, but you won't finish your first REAL project till then).
You misread me: I said video preview was a Myth PLUS.
All things being roughly equal, I would have preferred Linux instead of Windows, even though I have a leftover (valid, legal) Win2000 pro license from an MSDN I held legally at my former employer [Microsoft!]. So ethically I'm okay. But that's just luck.
But things aren't remotely equal. The SageTV experience is just light-years beyond Myth, as good as Myth is. The deal breaker was the driver lockups. I expect that's my error.
For operating a PC via a Gyro mouse without much of a keyboard from the couch, Windows is just so much less painful. Don't get my wrong -- myth is spectacular. But Sage is just superlatively excellent.
The MythTV software was good enough; SageTV is better. (Pro-Myth: Video preview in Channel Guide. Pro-Sage: File-naming format, smarter EPG fetching, better EPG data, smarter file-naming format, smarter interfaces, smarter favorites/don't like, smarter conflict resolution, smarter channel guide).
The IVTV driver would lock up after 12 or 15 hours. That was with Kernel 2.6; probably should have stuck with kernel 2.4.
Plus it was just torturously harder to use. I have switched to Windows 2000 + SageTV for my Hauppauge PVR-250, with the Hauppauge MVP for watching the movies on TV. It is much better than a Tivo or ReplayTV or Myth. It rocks.
When I was a road warrior my thing was to travel lighter and lighter and lighter. 12"/3lb laptop/6hr battery->add a pound, good headphones (not earbuds, real headphones), ac, ethernet. Pair of underwear, shirt, deodarant, hairbrush. Money. Small Nokia phone.
Then start jetting around the planet. There's a zen towards having no stuff.
I got stopped coming back from Europe for a week because I had just a bookbag, and everyone else had two big giant suitcases. They figured I must be a smuggler.
Gee, that's three whole games, PLUS their expansion packs!
Winex doesn't count -- it's illegal and basically just hacks to run Windows code.
This is obviously something you feel relgious about. By all means, go ahead deluding yourself thinking Linux is the perfect gaming platform. No amount of evidence (such as the fact that you've defined "games that work" == "all the games that matter") is going to persuade you.
Again, the flaw in your reasoning is not: "No Linux Games Work." Some work great. But, for the "Universe of all games" (and those you play games don't want to write off 2/3rds of them as "stupid"), it's not as good.
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The government does less of that than you think -- most stuff that happens is just not that interesting.
Big Brother *can* be here whenever he feels like it, but mostly he just doesn't give a shit. Not that what you're saying mightn't be true, but you need to keep what I said in mind.
Here's your tinfoil hat. Watch out, they're putting fluoride in the water to sap your vital essence, too.
I agree with your form of the statement, and I am not a greenish American. I'm a Bush-Lovin' LSD Freak (but there's no accounting for taste).
1. "The Internet is powered by open source."
Anybody who can exhibit a counterexample can say this is not true.
2. "The Internet is the carrier for open source."
Okay, that's true, but meaningless. Who cares?
3. "The Internet is also the platform through which open source is developed."
Again, who cares?
4. "It's simply going to be more secure than proprietary software."
This can be proven wrong, and you'll look stupid.
5. "Open source benefits from anti-American sentiments."
I really take exception to this, although it may be true. I think it's true that many open-source devs are europeans who have green-ish attitudes, it's immaterial, unhelpful, and boring. I for one don't wish to be associated with this and I raise an eyebrow at Andreesen for thinking this. If Kerry thought looking anti-American is going to help him, or you think it will help Linux, you are wrong. It is not going to resonate with people who aren't already on your side.
#6 - #12 are all fine, true, okay, and useful.
Since a shorthand way of describing the benchmarks is (1) Athlon FX 64 has much higher (default) memory bandwidth than P4 3.2, (2) Athlon FX does much better in UT2003 than P4 3.2 (plus other results like P4 doing better in Rendering/Encoding), can I conclude that UT2003 is memory bound?
And thus since I have DDR400 in my P4 3.2 and can overclock it to to 220 FSB to get Sandra benchmarks of 5600 MB/sec (non OC/d it's like 4900), that I can expect to get similar UT2003/4 numbers as the Athlon FX? Obviously one could theoretically OC the FX to get even higher memory numbers.
I get the $600 limit at my own bank, like I said, unless I call I can raise it to $1000 temporarily (or I guess higher, but that at some point you should just go inside the bank. They told me they lowered the limit to prevent theft/fraud.
Have you ever had a stack of hundreds? Once I took $5000 in cash out and once $15,000. The second time I had to sign Federal forms and they recorded the serials. Man, there is nothing like holding a big ass thick wad of hundreds. $15,000 is three big wads.
I really wish they'd make the $1000 bill, but they stopped that in 1949. $15,000 would be a little easnsie teesnsie stack! LOL.
Rock on! It's your money, and it's backed by the Full Faith and Credit of the United States of America. What that phrase means is, it's your money to do with what you Damn Well Please you want to do with it, and screw anybody who says otherwise.
Now *that's* banking!
It already occurs to the tune of tens of billions per year. Currently, they can "handle it." What is likely to happen eventually is some sort of event which is too complicated for the system to handle: they can really only onesie-twosie failures, such as my $1100. It's like an asymptote in a curve: it's a first order failure. What will eventually happen is something like a bifurcation: the curve will be defined everywhere at once, second order complexity, and the system will not be able to do anything about it. They'll just go "aw shit," and massive amounts of money will just disappear. They'll do the best they can to fix it but it'll be pure chaos, and random.
:-).
That's what happened in the 30s. There are structural things like the FDIC to prevent it, but it *will* happen again.
We all know what we need to do: planetwide DNA database, strong encryption, &c. You can argue the details but you know the drill. Currently they are playing Ostrich, playing Finger in the Dike
I'm being very glib but you get the idea...
Now they do. This was in 2000. The limit fluctuates has changed over time -- it used to be $300. For a while it was $1000. At that time I could get up to around $1200. Currently it's $600. If you call the bank they will raise the limit for you for a 14-day period to up to $1000.
The reason they lowered the limit was card theft.
I see "ordinary" ATMs stuck at a Phoenix BIOS boot prompt all the time. While I've never gotten to the Windows part of an ATM, it happens at information kiosks a lot.
They should have used the "On-Screen Keyboard" under Accessibility. It is a little scary that this was connected to cash.
If you want a good read for the database schemas an ATM uses, read "Principles of Transaction Processing." One interesting bit of knowledge is that the entire table of valid account names and their card hashes is replicated to each ATM! (Obviously for your bank only.) It sends out a ping that records "Joe took $50" to the main bank but it's only sort of a summary, the "full details" is kept at the ATM and sync'd at night.
One crazy thing that happened to me was I tried to withdraw $1100 from Bank A at Bank B's ATM. I got into a "Distributed Transaction Rollback" -- it got all the way through, printed out out my receipt that said I got the money, and -- never gave me my money. When I checked at a Bank A ATM, it showed the "hit" on my account. In about 15 minutes the Transaction Processor rolled back the transaction.
I've kind of lost my respect for Simonyi, and I used to think he was just the coolest. Success ruins anybody.
I'm not going to give them a cookie. Bad cookies. Bad!
Yeah, the name was chosen entirely at random, in fact they didn't even know of the first one, and just stuck a "2" on the end cause it's pretty.
I hope PG has lawyers and covered their bases. This has shades of 1999 and Flooz and "gaining mindshare." I hope they go bust.
Well, strictly speaking you are correct, however internal planning documents phrase it the way I do.
.NET, but no existing tools (MMC, explorer, cmd.exe, &c. run any .NET code). Longhorn will not drop .NET, but Microsoft will ship a *whole* lot of code in the Microsoft.* namespace, much of which is a wrapper on Managed DirectX.
Windows Server *ships*
It is more accurate to say they are "deprecating" GDI in place of an all-directX interface. The new code they are writing for Longhorn is all Managed.
Don't know why this is +5 insightful, when the AC has posted the correct answer with a score of 0 below you.
The last time I installed Oracle 6 Enterprise Edition I could use structs as column types and run Java stored procedures. Microsoft is only copying them.
C#/.NET is nothing in the world but Microsoft's "Windows-specific Java" that Microsoft renamed to COOL, then C#, after the Sun lawsuit don't you?
Literally! No shit! Windows Forms was originally the AWT extensions (but much enhanced), and the Visual Studio code + live design view editor was originally in VJ++ (the VB designer was not code based).
I saw a couple of Alpha builds of Yukon and the Planning papers (blue badge), but I didn't see much, but I bet I know what's taking so long:
.NET types and SQL types automatically, and allow you to run C# SQLDataAdapter-type code natively within Stored procedures. Plus with the trend starting in SQL 2000, it'll be XML, XML, XML. I know XML will be a native type and some of the "indexed xml" (red/blue fast-search vs. DOM-search) that they started in the aborted Hailstorm project will be in there.
.NET; Yukon replaces the SQL you knew with new stuff. They'll eventually get it right and it will rock, but don't expect to use all this until 2007 (it'll be out before then, but you won't finish your first REAL project till then).
Yukon will allow structs as column types, and will do mapping between
Longhorn replaces Win32 with
There, I said it. 2007.
I think this is a fantastic idea. It's a wonderful idea, and I wonder why nobody thought of it before.
I didn't say it was the first Good post.
You misread me: I said video preview was a Myth PLUS.
All things being roughly equal, I would have preferred Linux instead of Windows, even though I have a leftover (valid, legal) Win2000 pro license from an MSDN I held legally at my former employer [Microsoft!]. So ethically I'm okay. But that's just luck.
But things aren't remotely equal. The SageTV experience is just light-years beyond Myth, as good as Myth is. The deal breaker was the driver lockups. I expect that's my error.
For operating a PC via a Gyro mouse without much of a keyboard from the couch, Windows is just so much less painful. Don't get my wrong -- myth is spectacular. But Sage is just superlatively excellent.
The MythTV software was good enough; SageTV is better. (Pro-Myth: Video preview in Channel Guide. Pro-Sage: File-naming format, smarter EPG fetching, better EPG data, smarter file-naming format, smarter interfaces, smarter favorites/don't like, smarter conflict resolution, smarter channel guide).
The IVTV driver would lock up after 12 or 15 hours. That was with Kernel 2.6; probably should have stuck with kernel 2.4.
Plus it was just torturously harder to use. I have switched to Windows 2000 + SageTV for my Hauppauge PVR-250, with the Hauppauge MVP for watching the movies on TV. It is much better than a Tivo or ReplayTV or Myth. It rocks.
Oh, I forgot: Delorme Earthmate GPS, about the size of a pack of playing card.
No, I just didn't do the "walkman" thing while walking -- only on the plane and in the hotel and at work. Nor did I take pictures of anything.
It's the same philosophy as . You don't need that other stuff. Life fills in the spaces.
(buy a toothbrush when you're there).
When I was a road warrior my thing was to travel lighter and lighter and lighter. 12"/3lb laptop/6hr battery->add a pound, good headphones (not earbuds, real headphones), ac, ethernet. Pair of underwear, shirt, deodarant, hairbrush. Money. Small Nokia phone.
Then start jetting around the planet. There's a zen towards having no stuff.
I got stopped coming back from Europe for a week because I had just a bookbag, and everyone else had two big giant suitcases. They figured I must be a smuggler.
Right, and the imaginary, nonexistent games would run great too right!
Okay, I'll grant you that Linux plays hypothetical, nonexistant, imaginary games better than Windows.
Gee, that's three whole games, PLUS their expansion packs!
Winex doesn't count -- it's illegal and basically just hacks to run Windows code.
This is obviously something you feel relgious about. By all means, go ahead deluding yourself thinking Linux is the perfect gaming platform. No amount of evidence (such as the fact that you've defined "games that work" == "all the games that matter") is going to persuade you.
Again, the flaw in your reasoning is not: "No Linux Games Work." Some work great. But, for the "Universe of all games" (and those you play games don't want to write off 2/3rds of them as "stupid"), it's not as good.
Winex is ILLEGAL.