Number of times one of my ideas becamed a patented product: 2.
That's why having an idea means nothing unless you actually do something about it. All my life I've seend products going around and thought "Damn! I thought about that n years ago!". But then you think about the whole process of standardizing, commercializing and acually building a product out of your idea and it turns out that (maybe) these guys thought about it way before you did!
Yes, but for the fact that onions doesn't emit light... even though you're still crying when peeling one, like when your eye doctor put a light in your eye... Twilight zone ?
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They _are_ better for a single color. If you compare RED lights, LEDs are the most efficient source, but that is mainly because all the other sources don't know how to produce red light. They just produce white light and then you apply a filter that block all non-red radiations.
For white lights, LEDs are not the most efficient light source.
Linux will have a much better corporate future if tomorrows business execs actually learn how to use it.
Nonsense. They just barely know how to use windows, and please don't tell me that Linux is as easy to use as windows (for someone that doesn't have a background in CS at least).
The factor that makes executives buy or deploy a certain OS is certainly not its usability! I can tell you they don't care about that *at all*.
Now this is interesting. Not only you didn't read the article but it seems you didn't even read the slashdot 4-lines story! Incredible.
Let's see you have 14 drives on a single IDE chain and then do a copy between drives. Ok dude, IDE allow 2 drives per channel. No way you are going to put more than that, and even 2 is a crappy master/slave solution. All "serious" cards I know only allow masters - 1 drive per channel. This is actually a *good* point for IDE(SATA) vs SCSI drives: one failure could bring the entire chain down. With SATA, it means one drive down. With SCSI, it means all you drives down.
Or how about the simple fact that you can get SCSI Ultra 360 that are nearly 3 times faster than anything you can buy that is IDE. This is either just plain stupid, or you have information that I don't. A 15k rpm (assuming we are talking about the same drive) is as fast in SATA than in SCSI. Show me some examples!
Or the fact that My SCSI drives come with 5 year warranty's Ok, once again, RTFA. these enterprise SATA drives comes with 5 year warranty.
The only SCSI drive I have ever had fail are reallllllly old. So because in you own experience you didn't see one SCSI drive failure means there are not. Man, I though to establish relevant statistics we have to have a _representative_ sample. Is that your 120 drives?
and EVERY scsi drive I have in service (over 120 of them) haven't been spun down or sat idle for over 4 years. Man, I can tell you that *any* drive (SATA or SCSI) will last longer when run without downtimes. BTW, that is basically true for any electronic device!! Once again, you serve the counter-example.
The new IDE might be close, but until they get proof of reliability under their belt like SCSI has It's only a watch and see item. You are mixing two things here:
* The drives *are* the same. Therefore they automatically benefit from this SCSI "proof of reliability": Same drive, same MTBF!!
* The IDE/SATA protocol/architecture has a very good "proof of reliability" as you put it. To speak freely, I think the architecture is much more reliable than SCSI which is an 10-years old concept (and don't get me wrong, it was just plain fantastic 10 years ago!).
SCSI is known to be bullet proof and faster Than what? Enterprise ATA? How could you know they've just been released!
so the next 5 years they had better not pull an IBM and produce the worlds crappiest drives. Once again, RTFA. That's the whole point of this thing!!!!!
It was just to demonstrate the IE bugs. Well, my Mozilla didn't open the URLs either when I clicked on it... It's a global conspiracy of browser builders to incorporate bug in their products so that potential viruses can spread!
Well, I actually think that they do. The point here is most likely to protect hotmail users from spam coming from hotmail. I suspect that you can't send an email through the hotmail's SMTPs giving an hotmail email address as the FROM. Hotmail users send their emails through the web interface instead of an SMTP connection.
So that means that if you want to send spam that looks like it comes from hotmail to hotmail users (who are likely to not set "@hotmail.com" in their blacklist because they have a lot of friends on hotmail), then you have to use a robot to send emails through a valid hotmail account.
I don't buy computer (at least I didn't buy any in the last 10 years), instead I keep on upgrading the same old box.
I started my actual computer with the first one I ever bought: a 80286 12MHz, 512KB RAM, 10MB HDD, 360K 5"1/4 Floppy, EGA (640x350x16 colors). Since then I didn't pay the MS tax anymore;-)
Well, it looks like this "crippled" page was actually a fix for Opera 6. Yes it does break Opera 7, but it does fix Opera 6 godammit!
Will you leave MS alone for a while! They just wanted to fix their MSN homepage for O6, and... it broke O7. I think they might be laughing at Opera Software right now!! So do I.
Density of data is the same everywhere on the disk (unlike other disks such as HDD/Floppy). Therefore, the inner track being shorter than the outer track, it does contain less data!
I thought a namespace was defined by a classloader. All classes loaded by a specific ClassLoader are in the namespace of this classloader. That's how you can dynamically reload classes (and how JSP on-the-fly compilation works): You just reload the class in a new namespace.
Apologizing when someone tells something that potentially could hurt someone else is called politeness. You know? This is one of the things that differentiate humans from primates.
You should try it someday, it is an amazing experience.
All this crap becomes to be tiring. It is now to the point where everything that MS does is de facto evil.
Can't you just try and have some kind of opinion of your own? Do you think MS is really that bad? I don't really think so.
They don't have history for them though as they very often lead the market with crappy products. That just probably mean that if their focus was not on the tech side, on the sale side, they just outsmarted everyone of their concurrent combined.
But for now, I think their products are pretty stable and very mature. But they have a monopoly and that is a double sided weapon: Everyone is firing at them. Maybe some kind of natural balance...
Anyway, to get back to my point, I think I'll just avoid clicking on stories with MS in the subject or body in the future, I already know what I'm going to read: +5 Funny, Install SP#11242 +5 Funny, And when that crashes, does that allow you to flush the toilets ? +5 Funny,...
Pathetic. They may have a lot of things to criticize but this is just even more pathetic.
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I think a hell of a lot of nice code will never be used. I remember in my former company (a dot-com), the only thing worth a look was the engineering team. Their very nice code (some of which is mine) will never be used considering the useless people in all the other parts of the company (CEO-VPs...)
The company will probably be - according to the CEO himself - out of business in a couple of month. And all this beauty will be forgotten forever.
Do you think they can jail those users that work for the RIAA (or others) and try to infiltrate the P2P networks ? They intentionally share low-Q content but it's still copyrighted content right ?
This is not a conspiracy, it's the rules of business.
Do you remember back then when the cheapest CD player was $1000? None of the players did lower its prices because that would break the HUGE margin that everyone had! They all did apply the same strategy of lowering progressively the price to grab more market share.
But anyone was *cough* free *cough* to come up with a cheaper CD player...
This is bad for standards because there is actually no standard. You just burn a CD-ROM with a bunch of files (MPG,MP3,AVIs...) on it and it will just magically work, truncate names, don't display subdirs... Like the MP3-CD-Players do today.
That is actually the reason I like VCD-SVCD discs. You may not get optimal video quality but at least you have a standard to burn your CD! You can specify what Next-Previous-Menu keys are doing, you can define menus, slideshows (with real pictures, not a movie of a slideshow), subtitles, multi-channel soundtracks, several soundtracks... Possibilities are so much higher!
Even though most of the current SVCD players doesn't understand half the specs...
The problem in your couter example is that if Baz INC prices FOO as $8, Bar INC (Which is not full of dumb people) know that they have to price their FOO $8 if they don't want do go broke.
So none of the two company makes lots of money. That's actually why Baz INC will price it's product same price as Bar INC. Both companies makes lots of $$$/2 instead of a price war which will reduce the margins for ALL companies.
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Number of times one of my ideas becamed a patented product: 2.
That's why having an idea means nothing unless you actually do something about it. All my life I've seend products going around and thought "Damn! I thought about that n years ago!". But then you think about the whole process of standardizing, commercializing and acually building a product out of your idea and it turns out that (maybe) these guys thought about it way before you did!
Yes, but for the fact that onions doesn't emit light... even though you're still crying when peeling one, like when your eye doctor put a light in your eye... Twilight zone ?
They _are_ better for a single color. If you compare RED lights, LEDs are the most efficient source, but that is mainly because all the other sources don't know how to produce red light. They just produce white light and then you apply a filter that block all non-red radiations.
For white lights, LEDs are not the most efficient light source.
Linux will have a much better corporate future if tomorrows business execs actually learn how to use it.
Nonsense. They just barely know how to use windows, and please don't tell me that Linux is as easy to use as windows (for someone that doesn't have a background in CS at least).
The factor that makes executives buy or deploy a certain OS is certainly not its usability! I can tell you they don't care about that *at all*.
The interesting fact is that if you type "about:XXX" where XXX is anything you have a blank screen. if XXX is Mizilla you get a blue screen.
Explanation ?
Now this is interesting. Not only you didn't read the article but it seems you didn't even read the slashdot 4-lines story! Incredible.
Let's see you have 14 drives on a single IDE chain and then do a copy between drives.
Ok dude, IDE allow 2 drives per channel. No way you are going to put more than that, and even 2 is a crappy master/slave solution. All "serious" cards I know only allow masters - 1 drive per channel. This is actually a *good* point for IDE(SATA) vs SCSI drives: one failure could bring the entire chain down. With SATA, it means one drive down. With SCSI, it means all you drives down.
Or how about the simple fact that you can get SCSI Ultra 360 that are nearly 3 times faster than anything you can buy that is IDE.
This is either just plain stupid, or you have information that I don't. A 15k rpm (assuming we are talking about the same drive) is as fast in SATA than in SCSI. Show me some examples!
Or the fact that My SCSI drives come with 5 year warranty's
Ok, once again, RTFA. these enterprise SATA drives comes with 5 year warranty.
The only SCSI drive I have ever had fail are reallllllly old.
So because in you own experience you didn't see one SCSI drive failure means there are not. Man, I though to establish relevant statistics we have to have a _representative_ sample. Is that your 120 drives?
and EVERY scsi drive I have in service (over 120 of them) haven't been spun down or sat idle for over 4 years.
Man, I can tell you that *any* drive (SATA or SCSI) will last longer when run without downtimes. BTW, that is basically true for any electronic device!! Once again, you serve the counter-example.
The new IDE might be close, but until they get proof of reliability under their belt like SCSI has It's only a watch and see item.
You are mixing two things here:
* The drives *are* the same. Therefore they automatically benefit from this SCSI "proof of reliability": Same drive, same MTBF!!
* The IDE/SATA protocol/architecture has a very good "proof of reliability" as you put it. To speak freely, I think the architecture is much more reliable than SCSI which is an 10-years old concept (and don't get me wrong, it was just plain fantastic 10 years ago!).
SCSI is known to be bullet proof and faster
Than what? Enterprise ATA? How could you know they've just been released!
so the next 5 years they had better not pull an IBM and produce the worlds crappiest drives.
Once again, RTFA. That's the whole point of this thing!!!!!
It was just to demonstrate the IE bugs. Well, my Mozilla didn't open the URLs either when I clicked on it... It's a global conspiracy of browser builders to incorporate bug in their products so that potential viruses can spread!
Well, I actually think that they do. The point here is most likely to protect hotmail users from spam coming from hotmail. I suspect that you can't send an email through the hotmail's SMTPs giving an hotmail email address as the FROM. Hotmail users send their emails through the web interface instead of an SMTP connection.
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So that means that if you want to send spam that looks like it comes from hotmail to hotmail users (who are likely to not set "@hotmail.com" in their blacklist because they have a lot of friends on hotmail), then you have to use a robot to send emails through a valid hotmail account.
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I don't buy computer (at least I didn't buy any in the last 10 years), instead I keep on upgrading the same old box.
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I started my actual computer with the first one I ever bought: a 80286 12MHz, 512KB RAM, 10MB HDD, 360K 5"1/4 Floppy, EGA (640x350x16 colors). Since then I didn't pay the MS tax anymore
Well, it looks like this "crippled" page was actually a fix for Opera 6. Yes it does break Opera 7, but it does fix Opera 6 godammit!
Will you leave MS alone for a while! They just wanted to fix their MSN homepage for O6, and... it broke O7. I think they might be laughing at Opera Software right now!! So do I.
If you think about it, it is not really strange.
Density of data is the same everywhere on the disk (unlike other disks such as HDD/Floppy). Therefore, the inner track being shorter than the outer track, it does contain less data!
IMO, focusing in the arcade market is really silly. When everyone will have it's own gamecube/PS2/XBox at home, the arcade market will just collapse.
I thought a namespace was defined by a classloader. All classes loaded by a specific ClassLoader are in the namespace of this classloader. That's how you can dynamically reload classes (and how JSP on-the-fly compilation works): You just reload the class in a new namespace.
I think you are confusing namespace and package.
But you are right, the Java language is defined by its syntax, JVM specs and the java.* package. Anyone modifying that is clearly modifying Java...
Shipping additional packages is fine.
Apologizing when someone tells something that potentially could hurt someone else is called politeness. You know? This is one of the things that differentiate humans from primates.
You should try it someday, it is an amazing experience.
All this crap becomes to be tiring. It is now to the point where everything that MS does is de facto evil.
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Can't you just try and have some kind of opinion of your own? Do you think MS is really that bad? I don't really think so.
They don't have history for them though as they very often lead the market with crappy products. That just probably mean that if their focus was not on the tech side, on the sale side, they just outsmarted everyone of their concurrent combined.
But for now, I think their products are pretty stable and very mature. But they have a monopoly and that is a double sided weapon: Everyone is firing at them. Maybe some kind of natural balance...
Anyway, to get back to my point, I think I'll just avoid clicking on stories with MS in the subject or body in the future, I already know what I'm going to read:
+5 Funny, Install SP#11242
+5 Funny, And when that crashes, does that allow you to flush the toilets ?
+5 Funny,
Pathetic. They may have a lot of things to criticize but this is just even more pathetic.
I think a hell of a lot of nice code will never be used. I remember in my former company (a dot-com), the only thing worth a look was the engineering team. Their very nice code (some of which is mine) will never be used considering the useless people in all the other parts of the company (CEO-VPs...)
The company will probably be - according to the CEO himself - out of business in a couple of month. And all this beauty will be forgotten forever.
Do you think they can jail those users that work for the RIAA (or others) and try to infiltrate the P2P networks ? They intentionally share low-Q content but it's still copyrighted content right ?
That would really make my day!
This is not a conspiracy, it's the rules of business.
Do you remember back then when the cheapest CD player was $1000? None of the players did lower its prices because that would break the HUGE margin that everyone had! They all did apply the same strategy of lowering progressively the price to grab more market share.
But anyone was *cough* free *cough* to come up with a cheaper CD player...
This is bad for standards because there is actually no standard. You just burn a CD-ROM with a bunch of files (MPG,MP3,AVIs...) on it and it will just magically work, truncate names, don't display subdirs ... Like the MP3-CD-Players do today.
That is actually the reason I like VCD-SVCD discs. You may not get optimal video quality but at least you have a standard to burn your CD! You can specify what Next-Previous-Menu keys are doing, you can define menus, slideshows (with real pictures, not a movie of a slideshow), subtitles, multi-channel soundtracks, several soundtracks... Possibilities are so much higher!
Even though most of the current SVCD players doesn't understand half the specs...
My $.02
What can they really do? Thay claimed MP3 was evil and now nearly 50% of the DVD players on the market plays MP3...
It's just a matter of time. With enough lawyers and money they can delay this thing a little bit, but that's all there is about it!
My original code was just there to illustrate my very-stupid-loop-just-to-make-a-point ;-)
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I must admit I didn't even try to compile it nor to run it
That's why I answered with a real example later on, I should have done that in the first place. But... laziness took over, as always!
that is actually scary. On Ultra 2/2x168MHz Java is 163 times slower than C... (On our non-representative stupid loop)
Who the hell did pretend that JVM+JIT=native ?
The problem in your couter example is that if Baz INC prices FOO as $8, Bar INC (Which is not full of dumb people) know that they have to price their FOO $8 if they don't want do go broke.
So none of the two company makes lots of money. That's actually why Baz INC will price it's product same price as Bar INC. Both companies makes lots of $$$/2 instead of a price war which will reduce the margins for ALL companies.
Got it ?
My platform is sun Solaris Dual 450MHz... Ironic that the JVM shows worse on Solaris that Mac OS X...