As for the regulation, I think it's heavy handed. California could achieve most of the same benefit, with lower compliance cost, by simply requiring that stores clearly indicate the total amperes the TV draws from 4 hours of continuous use, and the estimated annual cost of that use based on the moving 5-year average price of power in California (with the state publishing the official value to be used for the next 12 months' of calculations each year). Let consumers see that TV A (on sale for $499) will cost them $10/month more to use than TV B (not on sale, $699), enable them to easily determine that TV A will ultimately cost a LOT more than TV B if they keep it more than 20 months, and Adam Smith's invisible hand will do its job just fine.
Just thought that needed repeating. Given the choice between educating consumers v bullying them.. shows how the politicians think doesn't it.
Forget STBs, the don;t tend to use much power in use, not *that* much (typically). Perhaps they should do something about the ever-increasing power consumption of PCs. Some of these are used to stream video to the TV now, and they all tend to have a huge CPU and especially Graphics card requirements that are not necessary for this job (or the job of most home users - emails and web surfing).
California might make much more of a splash if they announced that instead. The computing (software) companies might also make sw that gets back to the old days of efficient use of computing resources instead of sucking up everything in sight to power the same old textboxes using a different framework. (yes, MS, looking at you).
They won't get such a thing passed, but it would start a very interesting debate:)
Err, no don't do that actually. Taking your hat off can lead to cancer and we can't allow that to happen
whyever not? Causing cancer leads to a few more jobs for doctors and nurses. And a whole load of jobs for insurance salesmen, claims advisors, compliance officers, tribunal clerks, and lawyers. And if there's one other things that America does great, its lawyering! God Bless America (tm, all rights reserved, patent pending).
Come to think of it, if they equipped carriers with the stuff those transatlantic cable laying/repairing ships have, then many 3rd world countries would welcome American invasion. Foreign policy through winning over Hearts, Minds, and Youtube. What could go wrong:)
I'm just surprised, no astounded, that a large military contractor (and microsoft) will do it for such a teeny tiny amount considering how much they usually charge.
Perhaps it is just for the IPv6 spec with the 6 crossed out and 7 in its place after all.
blimey. and connected to a big screen too, all it needs is a keyboard and the desktop could be dead for a lot of people (I'm thinking the sales guys, not just consumers).
Now sure things have changed in that list recently:) but AT&T at 29th is the closest to software in the list (Siemens at 30, and HP at 32 - all hardware companies). Microsoft is 117th.
So those companies that sell hardware or services do a lot better than those that predominately sell software and will continue to do so even in the recession (as companies typically hire more consultants to restructure, whereas software and associated hardware sales falter).
The companies founded to make a quick buck selling OSS have failed, but their business model was typically as flawed as the dotcom companies they superceded.
Quite true, which is why OSS is the business model of the future. You don't sell your software, you sell your services to operate/manage/update/support/train/etc.
In fact, the more software you give away, the bigger your marketplace to sell services to.
Sure, they could realease Windows 11/BSD or something in a few years, but that would involve changing all of their drivers (which I'm sure the hw mfrs. would love after the joy that was Vista)
It'd be ironic if Windows was the OS that depended on ndiswrapper:)
iPhone - locked down to what Apple wants you to do. Android - locked down to what Google wants you to do (ie Java/Dalvik development only with their own version of the app store and installation verification)
Maemo - pure, open, Linux loveliness.
(and then there's WebOS and Moblin too)
ArsTechnica has a little review about Nokia's plans and the N900. Its step 4 on their 5-step Linux/Maemo strategy. Certainly it will set the bar higher for the other players and possibly dominate the smartphone/tablet/MID marketplace just as Symbian did. given you can code any QT/GTK+ based application for Maemo, who'd want to tie themselves in to Android's development mandates?
Nokia wasn't reluctant to do this either, they've just been working on their Linux strategy for a while so probably took their eyes off the Symbian ball once it became apparent the Linux stuff woudl work beautifully.
Oh, and don't forget, while consumers may want iPhones, businesses have traditionally bought Nokia (and Blackberries, but their marketshare will wither once the newer smartphones come with the bells that made Blackberry so popular).
There was John Philip Sousa in 1906 warning that recording technology would destroy the US pastime of gathering around the piano to sing music
you got to admit it, the guy predicted that correctly!
The others referenced in the summary, not so good. The music industry didn't implode after cassette tapes appeared, there's no reason to think the movie industry will implode now bittorrent's appeared either.
Yup, its true. We're a corporate (4000 users) and we had an email from the big boss saying "XP is the thing until further notice". So no Win7 for me, I'll just have to get used to working instead of playing with the shiny new toy.
Our customers also spec XP on their machines too, one large customer just refreshed their hardware... to XP, so they won;t be upgrading again for another 6 years or so.
I'd like to say its cost-cutting, but I think its more a lack of reason for change. Everything we need runs on XP so there's no reason to upgrade to Win7.
As for the future... Linux is bright as even MS is (finally) getting on the bandwagon of mobile devices. I think 5-10 years will see a significantly larger share of desktops being mobile devices instead of bolted-down desktop PCs. Few people care about the desktop now, they just want email and business apps on the move. Which will be hell for most business people's social life as their work will follow them around (like blackberry users have today) but that's what they want. so you'll see more apps being ported so they can run on a mobile device - I even saw a crap advert for Windows claiming how wonderful it was all your old favorites could now run on a windows smartphone.
and then there are the reviewers who are, lets face it, happy to receive free software, hardware and other forms of brib^H^H^H^Hinducement from Microsoft and are only going to tell the company line regardless of what they really think.
My issues with Java (and especially with the containers layered on top like Tomcat, J2EE etc) is simply resource usage. It can use up a lot of memory just to put a tiny little java app on a server. VMWare found this out when they rewrte their management utility using Tomcat, a lot of users started to complain that it took up 500mb, which was enough to run another guest image!
My other issue is the 100% pure java nonsense. Anyone that tries to tell me what languages I should code in gets that language added to my ban list. I know it was a reaction to MS, but other managed languages are roughly the same - you have to code in that managed environment or suffer various hacks, performance issues to get native code working, which in this day of easy-to-code script languages calling high-performance C dlls is just unacceptable.
Now, there are times when a C port is useful, pretty much all the time. If your java app can call a C library, then a C library is much more useful than a Java one, you instantly give access to it from every other language out there whereas a java one would only be accessed from other java apps.
yeah... but as co-founder, I'm sure he feels everyone should be at work putting in those 70 hour weeks to ensure his dotcom startup makes him the millions he expects.
Anyone who has any spare time to spend coding is just a slacker.:)
agreed, I used POCO for its email classes, and while it worked its documentation was somewhat out of date or incomplete. Still, I could figure out what was needed. what I didn't like was their adherence to the 'one true OO way' of developing libraries, too much of an exception hierarchy just isn't good.
I didn't try the other parts and am probably not likely to. If boost had some general purpose classes (instead of mostly algorithms and general purpose classes) then I wouldn't have even looked at Poco.
The only way to be fair would be to have an independant bit of code that would download your preference for you. Lynx is a browser and is simple to drive so the actual download would not be an issue, just the splash-screen GUI. Or FTP even, its already embedded in Windows ready to be used.
As it is, it will probably be like Microsoft's 'which search engine do you want' which pretty much says "you can use any, if you really want to go to the trouble of clicking through the next buttons, or you can just CLICK HERE and continue to use the award-winning, super-modern, fast, wonderful, perfect Bing search engine that is Recommended by everyone (we've paid)'.
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As for the regulation, I think it's heavy handed. California could achieve most of the same benefit, with lower compliance cost, by simply requiring that stores clearly indicate the total amperes the TV draws from 4 hours of continuous use, and the estimated annual cost of that use based on the moving 5-year average price of power in California (with the state publishing the official value to be used for the next 12 months' of calculations each year). Let consumers see that TV A (on sale for $499) will cost them $10/month more to use than TV B (not on sale, $699), enable them to easily determine that TV A will ultimately cost a LOT more than TV B if they keep it more than 20 months, and Adam Smith's invisible hand will do its job just fine.
Just thought that needed repeating. Given the choice between educating consumers v bullying them.. shows how the politicians think doesn't it.
Forget STBs, the don;t tend to use much power in use, not *that* much (typically). Perhaps they should do something about the ever-increasing power consumption of PCs. Some of these are used to stream video to the TV now, and they all tend to have a huge CPU and especially Graphics card requirements that are not necessary for this job (or the job of most home users - emails and web surfing).
California might make much more of a splash if they announced that instead. The computing (software) companies might also make sw that gets back to the old days of efficient use of computing resources instead of sucking up everything in sight to power the same old textboxes using a different framework. (yes, MS, looking at you).
They won't get such a thing passed, but it would start a very interesting debate :)
The english language ... is instead a thong. Less is more.
Wt u say, lss is more. R u sum prof of English thn? I thk u r wrng, more is ok fr a lang tht expands all t time. :)
Err, no don't do that actually. Taking your hat off can lead to cancer and we can't allow that to happen
whyever not? Causing cancer leads to a few more jobs for doctors and nurses. And a whole load of jobs for insurance salesmen, claims advisors, compliance officers, tribunal clerks, and lawyers. And if there's one other things that America does great, its lawyering! God Bless America (tm, all rights reserved, patent pending).
Allow Upgrades != install new stuff I never wanted or asked for.
Pah. its easy. You just need a very long cable.
Come to think of it, if they equipped carriers with the stuff those transatlantic cable laying/repairing ships have, then many 3rd world countries would welcome American invasion. Foreign policy through winning over Hearts, Minds, and Youtube. What could go wrong :)
I'm just surprised, no astounded, that a large military contractor (and microsoft) will do it for such a teeny tiny amount considering how much they usually charge.
Perhaps it is just for the IPv6 spec with the 6 crossed out and 7 in its place after all.
ok.
Even on Most Profitable, MS is 7th. Still not many other software companies in that list either.
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/global500/2009/performers/companies/profits/
blimey. and connected to a big screen too, all it needs is a keyboard and the desktop could be dead for a lot of people (I'm thinking the sales guys, not just consumers).
cheers for the links.
Not that many actually, most sell services, or hardware.
2009 list of top 10:
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/global500/2009/snapshots/6388.html
Now sure things have changed in that list recently :) but AT&T at 29th is the closest to software in the list (Siemens at 30, and HP at 32 - all hardware companies). Microsoft is 117th.
So those companies that sell hardware or services do a lot better than those that predominately sell software and will continue to do so even in the recession (as companies typically hire more consultants to restructure, whereas software and associated hardware sales falter).
The companies founded to make a quick buck selling OSS have failed, but their business model was typically as flawed as the dotcom companies they superceded.
Face it, our economy is based on SERVICES
Quite true, which is why OSS is the business model of the future. You don't sell your software, you sell your services to operate/manage/update/support/train/etc.
In fact, the more software you give away, the bigger your marketplace to sell services to.
Sure, they could realease Windows 11/BSD or something in a few years, but that would involve changing all of their drivers (which I'm sure the hw mfrs. would love after the joy that was Vista)
It'd be ironic if Windows was the OS that depended on ndiswrapper :)
Yes, it possibly would but Intel is still working on Moblin, its not ready for prime-time.
See this Ars article about the Ubuntu-remix version of Moblin (on the Dell mini v10)
But its getting there, and I hope to see more Moblin, and Maemo, devices when they're ready.
For fast-booting, they might as well put Splashtop in the bios instead, works wonderfully on my Asus desktop mobo.
Amen.
iPhone - locked down to what Apple wants you to do.
Android - locked down to what Google wants you to do (ie Java/Dalvik development only with their own version of the app store and installation verification)
Maemo - pure, open, Linux loveliness.
(and then there's WebOS and Moblin too)
ArsTechnica has a little review about Nokia's plans and the N900. Its step 4 on their 5-step Linux/Maemo strategy. Certainly it will set the bar higher for the other players and possibly dominate the smartphone/tablet/MID marketplace just as Symbian did. given you can code any QT/GTK+ based application for Maemo, who'd want to tie themselves in to Android's development mandates?
Nokia wasn't reluctant to do this either, they've just been working on their Linux strategy for a while so probably took their eyes off the Symbian ball once it became apparent the Linux stuff woudl work beautifully.
Oh, and don't forget, while consumers may want iPhones, businesses have traditionally bought Nokia (and Blackberries, but their marketshare will wither once the newer smartphones come with the bells that made Blackberry so popular).
There was John Philip Sousa in 1906 warning that recording technology would destroy the US pastime of gathering around the piano to sing music
you got to admit it, the guy predicted that correctly!
The others referenced in the summary, not so good. The music industry didn't implode after cassette tapes appeared, there's no reason to think the movie industry will implode now bittorrent's appeared either.
cue discussions whether Wilma or Betty was hotter. (Betty of course, I bet she's a filthy slut in bed)
of course you understand that one of the first faculties an old person loses is his sense of humour?
Windows 7 also has the 'XP compatibility mode' so MS listened to you and decided that backwards compatibility was important after all.
Yup, its true. We're a corporate (4000 users) and we had an email from the big boss saying "XP is the thing until further notice". So no Win7 for me, I'll just have to get used to working instead of playing with the shiny new toy.
Our customers also spec XP on their machines too, one large customer just refreshed their hardware ... to XP, so they won;t be upgrading again for another 6 years or so.
I'd like to say its cost-cutting, but I think its more a lack of reason for change. Everything we need runs on XP so there's no reason to upgrade to Win7.
As for the future... Linux is bright as even MS is (finally) getting on the bandwagon of mobile devices. I think 5-10 years will see a significantly larger share of desktops being mobile devices instead of bolted-down desktop PCs. Few people care about the desktop now, they just want email and business apps on the move. Which will be hell for most business people's social life as their work will follow them around (like blackberry users have today) but that's what they want. so you'll see more apps being ported so they can run on a mobile device - I even saw a crap advert for Windows claiming how wonderful it was all your old favorites could now run on a windows smartphone.
and then there are the reviewers who are, lets face it, happy to receive free software, hardware and other forms of brib^H^H^H^Hinducement from Microsoft and are only going to tell the company line regardless of what they really think.
My issues with Java (and especially with the containers layered on top like Tomcat, J2EE etc) is simply resource usage. It can use up a lot of memory just to put a tiny little java app on a server. VMWare found this out when they rewrte their management utility using Tomcat, a lot of users started to complain that it took up 500mb, which was enough to run another guest image!
My other issue is the 100% pure java nonsense. Anyone that tries to tell me what languages I should code in gets that language added to my ban list. I know it was a reaction to MS, but other managed languages are roughly the same - you have to code in that managed environment or suffer various hacks, performance issues to get native code working, which in this day of easy-to-code script languages calling high-performance C dlls is just unacceptable.
Now, there are times when a C port is useful, pretty much all the time. If your java app can call a C library, then a C library is much more useful than a Java one, you instantly give access to it from every other language out there whereas a java one would only be accessed from other java apps.
yeah... but as co-founder, I'm sure he feels everyone should be at work putting in those 70 hour weeks to ensure his dotcom startup makes him the millions he expects.
Anyone who has any spare time to spend coding is just a slacker. :)
agreed, I used POCO for its email classes, and while it worked its documentation was somewhat out of date or incomplete. Still, I could figure out what was needed. what I didn't like was their adherence to the 'one true OO way' of developing libraries, too much of an exception hierarchy just isn't good.
I didn't try the other parts and am probably not likely to. If boost had some general purpose classes (instead of mostly algorithms and general purpose classes) then I wouldn't have even looked at Poco.
"Microsoft Windows" and "trust", do those two even go together?
only when joined together with the word 'anti'.
The only way to be fair would be to have an independant bit of code that would download your preference for you. Lynx is a browser and is simple to drive so the actual download would not be an issue, just the splash-screen GUI. Or FTP even, its already embedded in Windows ready to be used.
As it is, it will probably be like Microsoft's 'which search engine do you want' which pretty much says "you can use any, if you really want to go to the trouble of clicking through the next buttons, or you can just CLICK HERE and continue to use the award-winning, super-modern, fast, wonderful, perfect Bing search engine that is Recommended by everyone (we've paid)'.
If you install windows live messenger, you get a dialog saying set Bing as your search provider and 'prevent other programs from interfering with this choice'. (meaning the user, obviously, not other applications')
The alternative to the 'fairness' crowd is the old status quo before Firefox became popular - IE6.