Mod parent Informative. They are actually using F5's Big Ip solution, from my snooping before it went down. And it was outsourced, to Accenture, who has such a good track record producing stable, efficient, Microsoft-based solutions.
What is even more funny, just last week, a report leaked in the Norwegian press about this very system being hastily implemented, poorly tested and perhaps insecure.
If "one more cookie" equals 0.6% of your total cookie consumption, then you're eating over 1600 cookies. Somehow this does not seem like a typical "dieter".
The subtext, as I read it, is: "Open/Libre office suck compared to MS Office".
Agreed, when you demand a lot from your office suite. However, I don't exactly see Apple as the type of company that uses VB macros a lot, or does complex documents in Word, so I don't know if there are many use cases left that require them to use MS Office. Certainly not "Everywhere people need to be productivity". But perhaps you can point out some cases?
Anyone who needs Office to be productive is useless. What you need is gvim (or notepad++ if you are too retarded to learn a good editor), a good VCS, and a decent C or FORTRAN compiler. If all IT companies sacked all employees that couldn't understand a Makefile, we would all be better off. And as a bonus: unless you're looking at solving nonlinear coupled PDEs, you'll get enough speed from gcc or gfortran, so all your tools are free!
Yes, the scientific community, having refined the theory of evolution for hundreds of years using evidence that would fill a large library, is shaking in its boots at the prospect of Tennessee high school students discovering a flaw in their theory. Especially the fact that this revelation could come from being taught fundamentalist religious worldviews under the guise of science.
Not according to people who have dismantled them and had a look inside. Couldn't find any good pages with pictures of said dismantling, but (atleast some of) the HD7-lookalikes on www.aliexpress.com are said to be in this category. But, as I am unable to find a good citation for my original comment, you may of course be correct.
More true than you'd think. Early WP7 devices that weren't sold, are being rebranded, loaded with android, and sold in Asia. E.g. the HTC HD7, and probably most other early devices.
Now that you mention it, that is a difference. Laser reads are actually a bit fascinating, utilizing the magneto-optical Kerr effect, which is a cool bit of physics. Magnetic reads are boring in comparison. If I remember correctly, laser reads were used on minidiscs in order to get lower power consumption while sacrificing read speed, which is why they lasted for days on a single AA battery.
In my understanding, they have basically reinvented the MiniDisc, only at higher storage densities?
(Disproving your point;) )
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I'm guessing you don't know about SELinux? As in "written by the actual NSA"? Oh shit, it's been in the kernel for almost ten years! Go troll somewhere else.
Okay, so what are the kernel changes that users need? Filesystem - we currently have a choice of ext2, ext3 and ext4 - what's inadequate about any of them that couldn't be resolved in an ext5? Any reason why re-strippable RAID can't be in that?
The general notion is that btrfs will "be" ext5 (i.e. it will be the next "updated" but still stable and mainstream FS), and that there will not be a filesystem with the actual name "ext5". For those who don't need btrfs features, ext4 will suffice. This is also the intent of Theodore Ts'o, the principal developer of ext3/4.
I believe the reason for this is that the innovation going on in filesystems is centered around some big rethinks, e.g. btrfs uses a copy-on-write B-tree (a concept introduced in 2007). It would be a pain in the neck (or impossible) to innovate like this and remain backwards compatible with ext2/3/4, thus btrfs is not called ext5.
One thing they could do as far as the Linux kernel goes is work on drivers - particularly Wi-Fi drivers, and do what's possible to ensure that 3.3, or 3.4 support just about every peripheral device there is out there. Aside from that, as far as I can tell, the Linux kernel is pretty much complete.
How about you RTFS? To quote:
There are also many small features and new drivers and fixes.
Please read this and come back. Electrons in graphene do behave as if they were massless (their effective mass is zero) and moving relativistically (at the speed of light); it is a consequence of the (rather strange) dispersion relation in graphene.
Well it turns out that if the author's article isn't misquoting Manoharan, he actually did claim that the electrons had no mass and were moving at the speed of light. That would be a huge scientific breakthrough if it were true.
As a physicist, I would say that Manoharan was probably spot on, but the journalist failed to understand and relay him correctly. You're correct that "massless electrons moving at lightspeed" is a scientific breakthrough, that's why it was awarded the Nobel prize in 2010.
To explain: in graphene, the dispersion relation becomes a bit funny. See explanation on Wikipedia. This means that electrons behave as if they were massless and moving at the speed of light. They are neither, of course, they just behave as if they are.
Car analogy: if you drive your car on ice covered with water, it will behave as if it had no brakes. It still has brakes, it just behaves as if it didn't.
Windows 7 runs successfully on Pentium IV hardware. Linux does even better.
I call BS. Pentium IV hardware is typically slower than Atom-based netbooks, and those can only run crippled versions of Win 7 (barely). Modern Linux distros, however, I agree will run fine. I do that every day at work.
In my experience, both iPhones and and Android phones are being used in corporate settings. Both have decent Exchange-support, and reasonable enough security policies to go along with it. I know one large company here still clinging to Windows Mobile 6, but rumor has it they are slowly moving to Android instead. So I don't think the "corporate niche" exists for MS to fill; at the very least it is not big enough to make WP7/8/whatever sustainable.
+1 Informative. After googling around, I can't help to think that this is a cultural difference, as much as anything else. Europeans (and particularly Swedes) like simple mechanical constructions that never ever fail. Manual choke. Americans like things that are automatic so that there is less fuss. Automatic choke. In this particular disagreement, it looks like "we" were persuaded after a while.
I guess it's the same thing as with automatic vs. manual transmissions - statistics indicate that here in Norway, 76% of new cars are sold with manual transmissions (2004, most recent number I could find, but there hasn't really been much change).
Fair points. But we should really compare apples and apples here. MS's own Office 365 (which this is an advert for, I think) also auto-updates on a 90 day schedule according to this.
What I think is MS's problem with Office 365, however, is that it falls between two chairs. It is not as powerful as real Office, for businesses wanting the power of, say, Excel and Access. It is also not free, so more casual users (say, a barista who owns his own coffee shop) would rather have Google Docs for free. Or, again, she would buy a copy of Office Home&Business.
Seems to me that the "Medium/Large business that solely wants to do Office in the cloud", which is what this is designed for, is pretty much a mythical creature.
I agree with your sentiment, Google do change/abandon projects quite often. But Microsoft suggesting that with their software, you could never "come into the office one day and the software looks completely different" is quite frankly hilarious to anyone who had to suffer the upgrade from MS Office 2003 to 2007 or 2010.
My daily driver is an '86 Volvo 240. It's got the "modern" B230 engine, but still has a plain old carburettor with a manual choke. I think fuel injection was beginning to be offered as an extra at the time, but it was definitely not common for bread-and-butter cars to have fuel injection in the 80s.
What is probably confusing you, is that electrical chokes were starting to become common in the 80s. Electrical choke is completely unrelated to the fuel injection system, but it removes the need for the driver to manually adjust the choke.
The reason why position pretty soon becomes way off, is position is the acceleration integrated over time.. twice. That takes the small error in acceleration and makes it huge. It does not mean that the acceleration data itself is not pretty accurate:
An accuracy of +/- 1 m/s^2 can tell you whether I braked hard or not, but in 20 seconds, it gives you an error of ~40 m if I accelerate at 2 m/s^2 (pretty gently) for 2 seconds and then hold my speed constant, at highway speeds. (This assumes that after I finished accelerating, the accelerometer did not produce further errors.)
Well, there are software licenses that work basically like that.
Such systems are annoying as hell. If the network is down, you are down. And about once a week, I have to email our license server admin and have him kick out the guy who somehow manages to be using all our five licenses for $commercial_3D_plotting_software.
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Mod parent Informative. They are actually using F5's Big Ip solution, from my snooping before it went down. And it was outsourced, to Accenture, who has such a good track record producing stable, efficient, Microsoft-based solutions.
What is even more funny, just last week, a report leaked in the Norwegian press about this very system being hastily implemented, poorly tested and perhaps insecure.
If "one more cookie" equals 0.6% of your total cookie consumption, then you're eating over 1600 cookies. Somehow this does not seem like a typical "dieter".
The subtext, as I read it, is: "Open/Libre office suck compared to MS Office".
Agreed, when you demand a lot from your office suite. However, I don't exactly see Apple as the type of company that uses VB macros a lot, or does complex documents in Word, so I don't know if there are many use cases left that require them to use MS Office. Certainly not "Everywhere people need to be productivity". But perhaps you can point out some cases?
As a matter of fact, yes. PlantUML and this plugin. Not that I would wish UML upon my worst enemy.
Anyone who needs Office to be productive is useless. What you need is gvim (or notepad++ if you are too retarded to learn a good editor), a good VCS, and a decent C or FORTRAN compiler. If all IT companies sacked all employees that couldn't understand a Makefile, we would all be better off. And as a bonus: unless you're looking at solving nonlinear coupled PDEs, you'll get enough speed from gcc or gfortran, so all your tools are free!
Yes, the scientific community, having refined the theory of evolution for hundreds of years using evidence that would fill a large library, is shaking in its boots at the prospect of Tennessee high school students discovering a flaw in their theory. Especially the fact that this revelation could come from being taught fundamentalist religious worldviews under the guise of science.
Not according to people who have dismantled them and had a look inside. Couldn't find any good pages with pictures of said dismantling, but (atleast some of) the HD7-lookalikes on www.aliexpress.com are said to be in this category. But, as I am unable to find a good citation for my original comment, you may of course be correct.
More true than you'd think. Early WP7 devices that weren't sold, are being rebranded, loaded with android, and sold in Asia. E.g. the HTC HD7, and probably most other early devices.
Now that you mention it, that is a difference. Laser reads are actually a bit fascinating, utilizing the magneto-optical Kerr effect, which is a cool bit of physics. Magnetic reads are boring in comparison. If I remember correctly, laser reads were used on minidiscs in order to get lower power consumption while sacrificing read speed, which is why they lasted for days on a single AA battery.
In my understanding, they have basically reinvented the MiniDisc, only at higher storage densities? ;) )
(Disproving your point
I'm guessing you don't know about SELinux? As in "written by the actual NSA"? Oh shit, it's been in the kernel for almost ten years! Go troll somewhere else.
Okay, so what are the kernel changes that users need? Filesystem - we currently have a choice of ext2, ext3 and ext4 - what's inadequate about any of them that couldn't be resolved in an ext5? Any reason why re-strippable RAID can't be in that?
The general notion is that btrfs will "be" ext5 (i.e. it will be the next "updated" but still stable and mainstream FS), and that there will not be a filesystem with the actual name "ext5". For those who don't need btrfs features, ext4 will suffice. This is also the intent of Theodore Ts'o, the principal developer of ext3/4.
I believe the reason for this is that the innovation going on in filesystems is centered around some big rethinks, e.g. btrfs uses a copy-on-write B-tree (a concept introduced in 2007). It would be a pain in the neck (or impossible) to innovate like this and remain backwards compatible with ext2/3/4, thus btrfs is not called ext5.
One thing they could do as far as the Linux kernel goes is work on drivers - particularly Wi-Fi drivers, and do what's possible to ensure that 3.3, or 3.4 support just about every peripheral device there is out there. Aside from that, as far as I can tell, the Linux kernel is pretty much complete.
How about you RTFS? To quote:
There are also many small features and new drivers and fixes.
Please read this and come back. Electrons in graphene do behave as if they were massless (their effective mass is zero) and moving relativistically (at the speed of light); it is a consequence of the (rather strange) dispersion relation in graphene.
No. You read the article, then have a look at this and this.. Come back when you understand the concept of electron mobility versus DC resistance.
Well it turns out that if the author's article isn't misquoting Manoharan, he actually did claim that the electrons had no mass and were moving at the speed of light. That would be a huge scientific breakthrough if it were true.
As a physicist, I would say that Manoharan was probably spot on, but the journalist failed to understand and relay him correctly. You're correct that "massless electrons moving at lightspeed" is a scientific breakthrough, that's why it was awarded the Nobel prize in 2010.
To explain: in graphene, the dispersion relation becomes a bit funny. See explanation on Wikipedia. This means that electrons behave as if they were massless and moving at the speed of light. They are neither, of course, they just behave as if they are.
Car analogy: if you drive your car on ice covered with water, it will behave as if it had no brakes. It still has brakes, it just behaves as if it didn't.
Windows 7 runs successfully on Pentium IV hardware. Linux does even better.
I call BS. Pentium IV hardware is typically slower than Atom-based netbooks, and those can only run crippled versions of Win 7 (barely). Modern Linux distros, however, I agree will run fine. I do that every day at work.
In my experience, both iPhones and and Android phones are being used in corporate settings. Both have decent Exchange-support, and reasonable enough security policies to go along with it. I know one large company here still clinging to Windows Mobile 6, but rumor has it they are slowly moving to Android instead. So I don't think the "corporate niche" exists for MS to fill; at the very least it is not big enough to make WP7/8/whatever sustainable.
The entropy of a perfect crystal at 0 K is exactly zero.
+1 Informative. After googling around, I can't help to think that this is a cultural difference, as much as anything else. Europeans (and particularly Swedes) like simple mechanical constructions that never ever fail. Manual choke. Americans like things that are automatic so that there is less fuss. Automatic choke. In this particular disagreement, it looks like "we" were persuaded after a while.
I guess it's the same thing as with automatic vs. manual transmissions - statistics indicate that here in Norway, 76% of new cars are sold with manual transmissions (2004, most recent number I could find, but there hasn't really been much change).
Fair points. But we should really compare apples and apples here. MS's own Office 365 (which this is an advert for, I think) also auto-updates on a 90 day schedule according to this.
What I think is MS's problem with Office 365, however, is that it falls between two chairs. It is not as powerful as real Office, for businesses wanting the power of, say, Excel and Access. It is also not free, so more casual users (say, a barista who owns his own coffee shop) would rather have Google Docs for free. Or, again, she would buy a copy of Office Home&Business.
Seems to me that the "Medium/Large business that solely wants to do Office in the cloud", which is what this is designed for, is pretty much a mythical creature.
I agree with your sentiment, Google do change/abandon projects quite often. But Microsoft suggesting that with their software, you could never "come into the office one day and the software looks completely different" is quite frankly hilarious to anyone who had to suffer the upgrade from MS Office 2003 to 2007 or 2010.
My daily driver is an '86 Volvo 240. It's got the "modern" B230 engine, but still has a plain old carburettor with a manual choke. I think fuel injection was beginning to be offered as an extra at the time, but it was definitely not common for bread-and-butter cars to have fuel injection in the 80s.
What is probably confusing you, is that electrical chokes were starting to become common in the 80s. Electrical choke is completely unrelated to the fuel injection system, but it removes the need for the driver to manually adjust the choke.
The reason why position pretty soon becomes way off, is position is the acceleration integrated over time.. twice. That takes the small error in acceleration and makes it huge. It does not mean that the acceleration data itself is not pretty accurate:
An accuracy of +/- 1 m/s^2 can tell you whether I braked hard or not, but in 20 seconds, it gives you an error of ~40 m if I accelerate at 2 m/s^2 (pretty gently) for 2 seconds and then hold my speed constant, at highway speeds. (This assumes that after I finished accelerating, the accelerometer did not produce further errors.)
Well, there are software licenses that work basically like that.
Such systems are annoying as hell. If the network is down, you are down. And about once a week, I have to email our license server admin and have him kick out the guy who somehow manages to be using all our five licenses for $commercial_3D_plotting_software.
Watch the latest episode of Top Gear. They manage to convince even the British that NASCAR is a good idea (or at least good entertainment).