Great comment about Compaq and HP by denshi
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Want to read a great comment about Compaq and HP? See the comment by denshi below.
This comment makes sense to me. It fits with my understanding. HP and Compaq are confused.
Didn't Carly Fiorino leave Lucent in a bad state? Maybe buying Compaq is just an expression of a need for domination, and not something that is good for the company.
HP products give error messages.
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Yes, she is smart. But every HP product I've installed recently has given me error messages. Some of the problems have been so bad that even HP tech support could not solve them. For example, an HP network printer assumed that a network had a server, instead of being peer-to-peer. The problem was unsolvable.
I see no evidence that Carly is better than Lew Platt. Maybe there is such evidence, but I don't see it.
There is always a lot of hype around executives of large companies. The truth is often very different.
But, think of all the work!! You have to lift your left hand. You have to think where the backspace key is. You have to position your finger on the key. Then you have to put your hand back in a comfortable place.
*grin* Yes, but you have to move the mouse pointer to the back button before you can click it.
I'm sure you have better things to do than moving a mouse pointer around. Opera eliminates some of that.
The bad part of this, if there is any, is that the back gesture is so intuitive and becomes so habitual, that you try back gestures in other browsers besides Opera.
He's right. Opera is faster. Both IE and Opera are buggy and quirky, however.
Opera crashes when there are more than perhaps 10 windows open. (I know how difficult it is to believe that a Microsoft product could be quirky.)
Opening a new window in Opera is easier and uses less resources. Opera has gesture control: Go back to a previous page by waving the mouse left. When you return to Opera after exiting, it can load all your pages back to where they were before exiting. Opera saves time, lots of it.
Another tip: If your connection is slow, try taking other devices off the telephone line.
Sometimes old phones or answering machines have an electrical component called a capacitor placed across the telephone line even when the phone is not being used. This will limit the speed of your connection. Just unplug the telephone or answering machine or bell or other device to test.
It is not the fault of the moderators, but the moderation here is just nuts. The parent post is rated +3. The parent post starts a strong new thread of comment. Obviously many people want to discuss this new subject. Yet most of the sub-comments are rated Off Topic.
To be logical, either the parent post must be rated Off Topic, or all the responding comments must be accepted as the healthy start of a new subject.
Instead, the commenters are penalized for responding to their interests. This shows that it is difficult to design a moderation system.
If anyone else thinks this way, I would like to discuss this with you.
The private buyer pays a far, far higher price for Microsoft products than do large manufacturers.
Microsoft's major buyers are large manufacturers. Microsoft does what they want, which is make slower systems that require more powerful hardware.
Note that Microsoft no longer gives a full CD with every computer. You get only a recovery CD. If you use it, you must re-install all your applications.
AnandTech's review came out July 10, 2001. It looks like a typographical error by AnandTech. I doubt they installed an old version of XP to do the test.
Microsoft released RC2 on August 1. RC1 was released July 3.
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In my experience, you are both right. It is possible to recover from pulling the plug in Windows.
But, Microsoft Word has always seemed quirky and buggy to me. Every time I have tried to use it for an extensive project, it has done something unpredictable that caused hours of lost time.
Microsoft products seem to me to be built with the idea that they need to be buggy so that there will be a reason to upgrade.
My experience with Open Source software and Linux is that they are built with the idea that they should work well. There's no conflict of interest.
Each paradigm achieves its goal. It's just that the Microsoft goal is not something the customer could like.
It is not the autobackup system that fails. It is just that Word often munges its own files.
Exactly. The latest Microsoft Internet Explorer "service pack" DISABLED another company's software (QuickTime). This kind of sneakiness makes upgrading impossible for the average user. You must be technically knowledgeable and well-informed to defend yourself against this kind of behavior.
It seems to me that Windows has had many more serious security bugs than Linux. The design of Windows is poor, in my opinion, and the programming is sloppy.
But, I made a mistake. If the figures we are using are correct, the energy of one 70 microsecond flash is 972,000 watt-hours, not 97,200 watt-hours, because there are 3,600 seconds in one hour.
However, the power plant keeps on ticking, whereas lightning is a relatively rare event.
I think I have found the confusion. Power plants produce energy. Energy is power over time, watt-hours.
Lightning is of very short duration. The power is great, but the energy is small compared to a power plant.
In an hour, a one-megawatt power plant produces one megawatt-hour of energy. A lightning bolt of 5,000 gigawatts that lasts 70 microseconds produces only (5 * 10^12) * (7 * 10^-5) = 3.5 * 10^9 watt-seconds, which is only 97,000 watt-hours.
97,000 watt-hours is slightly less than the energy used by a thousand 100 watt light bulbs in one hour.
Still, you are right, it seems like a huge amount.
Oh yeah, and I forgot to say that you release the young fish from the inside of an empty bank vault at the top of a stream.
The fish are genetically engineered to be like salmon, so they come back to where they were born.
When they come back, heavy with gold, you just close the vault doors.
'You couldn't use this process to harvest the gold from the ocean. The cost in pumping the water would be more than how much gold you could recover," he said. The gold particles excreted by the microbes are so tiny it would take about a million microbes to produce a gram of solid gold.'
Duh! It takes about 10 minutes for microbes to divide to make a million.
You design a slightly larger organism to eat these microbes.
Then, you design a fish that eats the slightly larger organism.
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Want to read a great comment about Compaq and HP? See the comment by denshi below.
This comment makes sense to me. It fits with my understanding. HP and Compaq are confused.
Didn't Carly Fiorino leave Lucent in a bad state? Maybe buying Compaq is just an expression of a need for domination, and not something that is good for the company.
Yes, she is smart. But every HP product I've installed recently has given me error messages. Some of the problems have been so bad that even HP tech support could not solve them. For example, an HP network printer assumed that a network had a server, instead of being peer-to-peer. The problem was unsolvable.
I see no evidence that Carly is better than Lew Platt. Maybe there is such evidence, but I don't see it.
There is always a lot of hype around executives of large companies. The truth is often very different.
How is this different from Microsoft's Passport scheme? Basically, it is the same in the end, it seems to me.
One number controls everything, making spying and control much easier.
But, think of all the work!! You have to lift your left hand. You have to think where the backspace key is. You have to position your finger on the key. Then you have to put your hand back in a comfortable place.
Ohhhh... I'm tired just thinking about it...
*grin* Yes, but you have to move the mouse pointer to the back button before you can click it.
I'm sure you have better things to do than moving a mouse pointer around. Opera eliminates some of that.
The bad part of this, if there is any, is that the back gesture is so intuitive and becomes so habitual, that you try back gestures in other browsers besides Opera.
He's right. Opera is faster. Both IE and Opera are buggy and quirky, however.
Opera crashes when there are more than perhaps 10 windows open. (I know how difficult it is to believe that a Microsoft product could be quirky.)
Opening a new window in Opera is easier and uses less resources. Opera has gesture control: Go back to a previous page by waving the mouse left. When you return to Opera after exiting, it can load all your pages back to where they were before exiting. Opera saves time, lots of it.
Try Opera for Linux. The version with ads is free.
Other versions: BeOS | EPOC | Solaris | Mac | OS/2 | QNX | Windows
Another tip: If your connection is slow, try taking other devices off the telephone line.
Sometimes old phones or answering machines have an electrical component called a capacitor placed across the telephone line even when the phone is not being used. This will limit the speed of your connection. Just unplug the telephone or answering machine or bell or other device to test.
It is not the fault of the moderators, but the moderation here is just nuts. The parent post is rated +3. The parent post starts a strong new thread of comment. Obviously many people want to discuss this new subject. Yet most of the sub-comments are rated Off Topic.
To be logical, either the parent post must be rated Off Topic, or all the responding comments must be accepted as the healthy start of a new subject.
Instead, the commenters are penalized for responding to their interests. This shows that it is difficult to design a moderation system.
If anyone else thinks this way, I would like to discuss this with you.
The private buyer pays a far, far higher price for Microsoft products than do large manufacturers.
Microsoft's major buyers are large manufacturers. Microsoft does what they want, which is make slower systems that require more powerful hardware.
Note that Microsoft no longer gives a full CD with every computer. You get only a recovery CD. If you use it, you must re-install all your applications.
AnandTech's review came out July 10, 2001. It looks like a typographical error by AnandTech. I doubt they installed an old version of XP to do the test.
Microsoft released RC2 on August 1. RC1 was released July 3.
Glad you mentioned this.
XP stands for eXtra Pain.
jchristopher, it amazes me that your post was moderated as Off Topic.
Excellent idea. We should tell this to our elected representatives, not just in the U.S., but world-wide.
Whatever happens, Microsoft must be compelled by the courts to use ONLY published file formats. Otherwise any judicial remedy is a joke.
In my experience, you are both right. It is possible to recover from pulling the plug in Windows.
But, Microsoft Word has always seemed quirky and buggy to me. Every time I have tried to use it for an extensive project, it has done something unpredictable that caused hours of lost time.
Microsoft products seem to me to be built with the idea that they need to be buggy so that there will be a reason to upgrade.
My experience with Open Source software and Linux is that they are built with the idea that they should work well. There's no conflict of interest.
Each paradigm achieves its goal. It's just that the Microsoft goal is not something the customer could like.
It is not the autobackup system that fails. It is just that Word often munges its own files.
Exactly. The latest Microsoft Internet Explorer "service pack" DISABLED another company's software (QuickTime). This kind of sneakiness makes upgrading impossible for the average user. You must be technically knowledgeable and well-informed to defend yourself against this kind of behavior.
You guys are fascinating. Viruses it is.
A scholarly discussion of Latin! That's one reason I like Slashdot. There is always someone who has interesting information.
It seems to me that Windows has had many more serious security bugs than Linux. The design of Windows is poor, in my opinion, and the programming is sloppy.
But, I made a mistake. If the figures we are using are correct, the energy of one 70 microsecond flash is 972,000 watt-hours, not 97,200 watt-hours, because there are 3,600 seconds in one hour.
However, the power plant keeps on ticking, whereas lightning is a relatively rare event.
I think I have found the confusion. Power plants produce energy. Energy is power over time, watt-hours.
Lightning is of very short duration. The power is great, but the energy is small compared to a power plant.
In an hour, a one-megawatt power plant produces one megawatt-hour of energy. A lightning bolt of 5,000 gigawatts that lasts 70 microseconds produces only (5 * 10^12) * (7 * 10^-5) = 3.5 * 10^9 watt-seconds, which is only 97,000 watt-hours.
97,000 watt-hours is slightly less than the energy used by a thousand 100 watt light bulbs in one hour.
Still, you are right, it seems like a huge amount.
Actually 5*10^8 Volts * 10^4 Amps = 5*10^12 Watts
That's what the references say.
A lightning discharge is perhaps 500,000,000 volts at 10,000 amps.
Interesting references:
Great Lightning Photos -- West Virginia Lightning
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about Lightning
Human Voltage -- What happens when people and lightning converge
Lightning Concepts
Oh yeah, and I forgot to say that you release the young fish from the inside of an empty bank vault at the top of a stream.
The fish are genetically engineered to be like salmon, so they come back to where they were born. When they come back, heavy with gold, you just close the vault doors.
'You couldn't use this process to harvest the gold from the ocean. The cost in pumping the water would be more than how much gold you could recover," he said. The gold particles excreted by the microbes are so tiny it would take about a million microbes to produce a gram of solid gold.'
Duh! It takes about 10 minutes for microbes to divide to make a million.
You design a slightly larger organism to eat these microbes.
Then, you design a fish that eats the slightly larger organism.
Then you have a goldfish! It's easy.