As a Scandinavian who just visit USA occationally I guess I can tell why I hesitate to move there... From the European horizon USA looks really cool. You have the greatest companies, the greatest sports champs (except in soccer), you are the center of entertainment, modern culture and research. You have... so very much.
However, when in USA I feel that I am so far away from everything. Manhattan is the exception. In LA I have an hour in a car to anything. In Las Vegas it takes a day to get anywhere else.
So even if I am closer to many things when in USA, there are fewer things that I am really close to (walking distance). If it takes 5h or more to get there by car, the Atlantic ocean doesnt make a huge difference anyway.
Great! Problem with cheap/simple experiments with magnets is that rather than being F=1/d it tends to be quite binary. Nothing nothing nothing, kapang! You need really low friction.
The purpose of the experiment was
1) To try the ION-engine
2) To get dust from the moon in the atmosphere for analysis
I think (1) justified it. The satellite had already done a good job (collecting information) for several years. Instead of letting it remain in the universe with all the other debris we put there, scientists decided to do something useful while scrapping it.
...except that gravity force is weaker with increasing distance, while an elastic string force behaves the opposite way... No model is perfect though and I appreciate your suggestion!
Attach a stone in the end of string. Hold the string and make the stone cirkle around your hand. Now try to make the stone hit your hand. Very easy, right?
I got a PSP a month ago. Clueless as I was I installed 2.71. It works very nice, with web browser, flash etc etc. I put movies from video.google.com as well as Mpeg4/H.264 that I make myself on my memory card: yes, it plays in fullscreen. Naming has always been a mess with video (less so with audio) so 2.80 seems like a good upgrade for a Sony Luser.
Microsoft Office for Mac and Windows dont handle "Styles and Formatting" in completely consistent ways... not to talk about what happens when you mix older versions of Word on PC with newer.
I'd say: formatting is ALWAYS a mess in MS Word, REGARDLESS how you do it.
My tip: invest some time in a template with just a few styles. Stick to those styles - dont improvise and be creative.
I like to write in HTML, just using P,B,U,I,TT,H1,H2,H3,TABLE (with friends), UL, OL... however, it is hard to print it in a nice way... Anyone has any ideas about how to make really nice printouts from HTML (that look as nice as a LaTeX report) without writing my own XSLT-tranform and make an XSL-FO of everything?
I was with my cousin in an Apple store the other day. His PC died recently, and I suggested maybe it was wise to replace it with a Mac.
I started to show his daughter an 17 inch iMac with built-in web-camera. The computer comes with a program called Photo-Booth or something that allows the user to make funny pictures of herself with the camera (of course you all know it).
I was amazed - that iMac sold itself to this young teenager in 10 minutes. Not that she got it, but she talked of nothing else for the entire trip back home. The design, the feeling, the experience... it is just so very appealing. Apple design things the way people will want it when they try it.
Finally! This is what I really wanted for years. Cant believe this innovation has not been materialized earlier. This is great for perfomance, TCO, iPods, everything. I cant wait to get my hands on one of those new goodies!
I was shocked last weekend when I talked to an enduser who wanted to do exactly this. Why do I need to save the file to edit it, and then attach it again when I reply?
For servers, Windows is a poor system (it is for desktops too, but that is another thing). Most server application / services install themselves everywhere in the system and updates things in the OS/Windows folder (this is particularly true for Microsofts own products). For this reason, if you want stable operations you put just one, or a few server products on each server. Combining development/test/production on the same machine is impossible. This is partly a Windows problem - partly a problem about how applications are built for Windows - both things are equally bad. Who wants to VMWare everything just to not have thousands of servers more or less doing nothing but hosting an OS and a single service?
Ok Guys. There are elections in Sweden this autumn. The government have no idea how to get rid of oil. NO IDEA. The following three decisions are made:
1. Dont invest in more hydro plants
2. Get rid of nuclear power
3. Dont increase CO2-emissions
On top of this the government now says that Sweden will be independent of oil in 2020. They say so because there are elections this year, and the government is afraid of the communist party and the green party!
I was reading a few weeks ago a MS spokesperson who answered the question why there are vulnerabilities. He said something like:
Imagine you write a long long book. Even if you try to correct all the typos you may miss some of them. It is hard to publish a book with no typos at all.
I think that was great fun! If MS management believes that the security problems are "typos" then I understand they cant fix them all. Of course, security problems are more like problems with the story line: contradictory events, inconsistent background and such things.
Maybe they still have not accepted that the reason for their security problems is the poor design of Windows (particularly integrating things very freely). As long as they dont accept the truth they will try to correct typos, and that will not make the story any better.
If you examine an XBox-retail-box (at least the one that have been available in stores for display) you can hardly find the Microsoft logotype anywhere. There are just a few small insignificant ones. Obviously Microsoft wants to let the XBox trademark live on its own without too much Microsoft association. Why? Are they not proud of the XBox or fear it will be another commercial failure? Do they think Microsoft makes people think of boring low-quality products? Does their MS logotype not appeal to children? Do they plan to sell the XBox in the future or split the XBox division from the company? Do they think that the XBox as a toy should not be connected with their Server/Business products? Any ideas? Anyone who knows?
The interesting thing isnt really whether Vista/Longhorn will support Itanium, but whether Windows Server will.
Of course, a few years ago Intel hoped to put Itanium in workstations, but they can hardly have hoped much for that lately. No, Itanium is for servers, and there is Windows Server.
However, internally Windows Server is the same shit as Windows Vista, so if they dont support it in one, they probably dont find it very strategic to support it in the other. And as we all know, Itanium is much more dying than BSD will ever be, but that is another story.
MS is the only company that sells their new software by advertizing that their old version was crap. Remember Windows 98? (I think) The ads showed tubes of painkillers agains system crashes, reinstall pain etc etc (all targeted at how poor Windows 95 were).
I wouldnt say we have a battle of ideology. However, software industry is so old now, that the rest of the industry (and society) expects it to be mature and efficient (like everything else). Proprietary and expensive formats are simply not mature and responsible.
Those using MS Office start questioning: what do we get for our dollars. The value is not there, and closed proprietary formats are good for no one but MS. So people will switch, because they can, and it is the only responsible thing they can do.
As long as they refuse to support other formats than their own proprietary formats, MS will be easily identified as the bad guy. Not only geeks realise and understand this.
MS will keep fighting, claiming that much of Office's functionality is closely related to their format (which is both true and false), and saying that an open format delivers less value to customers. However, they always risk making people understand they dont need (the advance functions of) office at all, because it is far too complicated.
Naturally, word processors and spreadsheets are 20-year-old inventions - why should a single company be able to keep making huge money from this year after year, with no useful innovation? They simply shouldnt! And they wont. But as long as people believe an office suite should cost $500+ MS will be able to charge that amount. Isnt much they can do when people stop believing that though;)
Supporting other formats will just increase the speed that people replace MSOffice (because it makes it so much easier to replace it then). So, MS will never support open formats, and will always be the bad guy - which they deserve!
All this means is that they've decided that stability is slightly less important in comparision to speed than they had decided previously. It's not overclocking.
They are running the bus faster than specified, so all PCI devices, the CPU and the memory will run faster than specified. These other compontents are typically from another vendor. This is overclocking, per definition, I'd say.
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As a Scandinavian who just visit USA occationally I guess I can tell why I hesitate to move there... From the European horizon USA looks really cool. You have the greatest companies, the greatest sports champs (except in soccer), you are the center of entertainment, modern culture and research. You have... so very much.
However, when in USA I feel that I am so far away from everything. Manhattan is the exception. In LA I have an hour in a car to anything. In Las Vegas it takes a day to get anywhere else.
So even if I am closer to many things when in USA, there are fewer things that I am really close to (walking distance). If it takes 5h or more to get there by car, the Atlantic ocean doesnt make a huge difference anyway.
So, this means that there is actually just ONE supported version of Windows (for clients). Of course, both Home/Professional/64-bit, but anyway.
Have the latest - or have no support...
They are really desperate to make people stop using their old products.
Is the link already slashdotted, before there is a single comment???
Great! Problem with cheap/simple experiments with magnets is that rather than being F=1/d it tends to be quite binary. Nothing nothing nothing, kapang! You need really low friction.
Shouldnt reply to AC but anyway...
The purpose of the experiment was
1) To try the ION-engine
2) To get dust from the moon in the atmosphere for analysis
I think (1) justified it. The satellite had already done a good job (collecting information) for several years. Instead of letting it remain in the universe with all the other debris we put there, scientists decided to do something useful while scrapping it.
...except that gravity force is weaker with increasing distance, while an elastic string force behaves the opposite way... No model is perfect though and I appreciate your suggestion!
Attach a stone in the end of string. Hold the string and make the stone cirkle around your hand. Now try to make the stone hit your hand. Very easy, right?
I got a PSP a month ago. Clueless as I was I installed 2.71. It works very nice, with web browser, flash etc etc. I put movies from video.google.com as well as Mpeg4/H.264 that I make myself on my memory card: yes, it plays in fullscreen. Naming has always been a mess with video (less so with audio) so 2.80 seems like a good upgrade for a Sony Luser.
I remember Steve Jobs saying "Tiger will be out long before Longhorn".
Now maybe even Leopard will come out before Vista. But, I guess "reveal" is not really the same as "release".
Haha!
Microsoft Office for Mac and Windows dont handle "Styles and Formatting" in completely consistent ways... not to talk about what happens when you mix older versions of Word on PC with newer.
I'd say: formatting is ALWAYS a mess in MS Word, REGARDLESS how you do it.
My tip: invest some time in a template with just a few styles. Stick to those styles - dont improvise and be creative.
I like to write in HTML, just using P,B,U,I,TT,H1,H2,H3,TABLE (with friends), UL, OL... however, it is hard to print it in a nice way... Anyone has any ideas about how to make really nice printouts from HTML (that look as nice as a LaTeX report) without writing my own XSLT-tranform and make an XSL-FO of everything?
I was with my cousin in an Apple store the other day. His PC died recently, and I suggested maybe it was wise to replace it with a Mac.
I started to show his daughter an 17 inch iMac with built-in web-camera. The computer comes with a program called Photo-Booth or something that allows the user to make funny pictures of herself with the camera (of course you all know it).
I was amazed - that iMac sold itself to this young teenager in 10 minutes. Not that she got it, but she talked of nothing else for the entire trip back home. The design, the feeling, the experience... it is just so very appealing. Apple design things the way people will want it when they try it.
Finally! This is what I really wanted for years. Cant believe this innovation has not been materialized earlier. This is great for perfomance, TCO, iPods, everything. I cant wait to get my hands on one of those new goodies!
If you are in business just because another company sells crappy products to lots of people you dont deserve to stay in business forever.
I was shocked last weekend when I talked to an enduser who wanted to do exactly this. Why do I need to save the file to edit it, and then attach it again when I reply?
I am on your side, but everybody isnt.
For servers, Windows is a poor system (it is for desktops too, but that is another thing). Most server application / services install themselves everywhere in the system and updates things in the OS/Windows folder (this is particularly true for Microsofts own products). For this reason, if you want stable operations you put just one, or a few server products on each server. Combining development/test/production on the same machine is impossible. This is partly a Windows problem - partly a problem about how applications are built for Windows - both things are equally bad. Who wants to VMWare everything just to not have thousands of servers more or less doing nothing but hosting an OS and a single service?
Ok Guys. There are elections in Sweden this autumn. The government have no idea how to get rid of oil. NO IDEA. The following three decisions are made:
1. Dont invest in more hydro plants
2. Get rid of nuclear power
3. Dont increase CO2-emissions
On top of this the government now says that Sweden will be independent of oil in 2020. They say so because there are elections this year, and the government is afraid of the communist party and the green party!
Imagine you write a long long book. Even if you try to correct all the typos you may miss some of them. It is hard to publish a book with no typos at all.
I think that was great fun! If MS management believes that the security problems are "typos" then I understand they cant fix them all. Of course, security problems are more like problems with the story line: contradictory events, inconsistent background and such things.
Maybe they still have not accepted that the reason for their security problems is the poor design of Windows (particularly integrating things very freely). As long as they dont accept the truth they will try to correct typos, and that will not make the story any better.
If you examine an XBox-retail-box (at least the one that have been available in stores for display) you can hardly find the Microsoft logotype anywhere. There are just a few small insignificant ones. Obviously Microsoft wants to let the XBox trademark live on its own without too much Microsoft association. Why? Are they not proud of the XBox or fear it will be another commercial failure? Do they think Microsoft makes people think of boring low-quality products? Does their MS logotype not appeal to children? Do they plan to sell the XBox in the future or split the XBox division from the company? Do they think that the XBox as a toy should not be connected with their Server/Business products? Any ideas? Anyone who knows?
Haha... I didnt read the fucking article first ;)
I better flame myself before someone else does. This was about "Windows Longhorn Server". Sorry Intel - this must suck big time!
The interesting thing isnt really whether Vista/Longhorn will support Itanium, but whether Windows Server will.
Of course, a few years ago Intel hoped to put Itanium in workstations, but they can hardly have hoped much for that lately. No, Itanium is for servers, and there is Windows Server.
However, internally Windows Server is the same shit as Windows Vista, so if they dont support it in one, they probably dont find it very strategic to support it in the other. And as we all know, Itanium is much more dying than BSD will ever be, but that is another story.
Funny you mention the Dinosaurs ads...
MS is the only company that sells their new software by advertizing that their old version was crap. Remember Windows 98? (I think) The ads showed tubes of painkillers agains system crashes, reinstall pain etc etc (all targeted at how poor Windows 95 were).
I wouldnt say we have a battle of ideology. However, software industry is so old now, that the rest of the industry (and society) expects it to be mature and efficient (like everything else). Proprietary and expensive formats are simply not mature and responsible.
Those using MS Office start questioning: what do we get for our dollars. The value is not there, and closed proprietary formats are good for no one but MS. So people will switch, because they can, and it is the only responsible thing they can do.
As long as they refuse to support other formats than their own proprietary formats, MS will be easily identified as the bad guy. Not only geeks realise and understand this.
;)
MS will keep fighting, claiming that much of Office's functionality is closely related to their format (which is both true and false), and saying that an open format delivers less value to customers. However, they always risk making people understand they dont need (the advance functions of) office at all, because it is far too complicated.
Naturally, word processors and spreadsheets are 20-year-old inventions - why should a single company be able to keep making huge money from this year after year, with no useful innovation? They simply shouldnt! And they wont. But as long as people believe an office suite should cost $500+ MS will be able to charge that amount. Isnt much they can do when people stop believing that though
Supporting other formats will just increase the speed that people replace MSOffice (because it makes it so much easier to replace it then). So, MS will never support open formats, and will always be the bad guy - which they deserve!
I found no graph! No simplified rating system! Just text! Am I supposed to RTFA in order to complain about it? Is this really slashdot?
They are running the bus faster than specified, so all PCI devices, the CPU and the memory will run faster than specified. These other compontents are typically from another vendor. This is overclocking, per definition, I'd say.