well, perhaps you could use the 'Awesome bar' in the way FF2 uses it - as a place to type urls in.
You don't have to use the extra features of it, but you'll get used to it pretty quickly, and then you'll start typing in the address bar (on other browsers, inc FF2) expecting it to work.
They actually use Live Search as the default search in IE, I'm not sure MSN Search even exists (it appears to just redirect to Live Search.) But yes, you're right that that does net a lot of advertising dollars, no doubt. I think they rebranded everything from MSN xyz to Windows Live xyz, and then just Live xyz. Next week it'll be something different. I remember when they did this with.NET, *everything* was xyz.net.
Advertising dollars are very important, about $47.5bn important, so while the techies at MS may be happy to coexist, I'm sure the people who tell those devs what to do would prefer everyone to use the MS-default search and advertising options. Last I saw, Firefox didn't come with Windows Live Search set as the default.
Or he's done his bachelor's degree in Sociology and is now trying to apply it to people who do real work:-)
If he was a really good software engineer, he'd be doing that for a salary already, not hiding in academia thinking up ideas for his research project.
I've worked with PhD programmers in the past, its never a pretty sight. They say things like "but that's not the way that should be done", and the reply is always "welcome to the real world". Perhaps he should write a research paper on why projects end up in a non-perfect design or implementation instead, a "learn from your mistakes" paper to encourage better practises (eg formalise the Big Ball of Mud pattern)
an operating system or operating environment is not viable for everyday use unless it has timely and usable mechanisms for installing, reporting, and keeping track of security updates
"Yum update" does that for me. Sure, I don't much care about security updates as I download all the updates regularly. Same with my Windows box, it tells me it wants to update something, so I let it. I don't actually know what it does but it keeps fixing this "critical" and "important" security update all the time.
Now maybe these things can get a bit more security to them, as people who have them really want them as computer devices (like, say, a PVR), not general purpose computers. That means we need it to have quite locked down access to the internet, maybe sandbox the browser too.
but we've had multitasking since the pentium first appeared. Not only that, the Atom is a hyper-threaded CPU, so really you could say its designed for multi-tasking.
I think the point was that modern apps are so hungry for resources that you need lots of RAM and CPU, whereas we got the same stuff done with significantly less only a couple of years ago.
The energy doesn't have to be 'magicked' out of thin air, you just need some way of obtaining the energy that already exists in something. In this case, the 'news' bit seems to be that they have developed a better fuel-cell electrode.
The basic power generation mechanism of the new system is similar to that of a normal fuel cell, which uses hydrogen as a fuel. According to Genepax, the main feature of the new system is that it uses the company's membrane electrode assembly (MEA), which contains a material capable of breaking down water into hydrogen and oxygen through a chemical reaction.
I forget where I read the article, but I read one where someone took his PC in to be fixed, they said "you need a new HDD", replace it and then a month later he received a call from the new owner of his HDD telling him he should be more careful.
I think he sued the company that did the replacing. You need to wipe the drives everytime you get rid of them.
A car made out of tubular struts is going to be a lot stronger than the usual cars. Racing cars have their interior replaced with struts for roll and crash cages for the real occasions when they crash and tumble.
even ordinary cars are basically thin metal stretched over a cage, that's why the door pillars and windscreen are made from hefty bars, the thin bit of metal in your doorframe isn't going to save you from a side-on collision, but the door pillar will. So, I can't see this being any less safe simply because the bit in between are more obvious.
I think the most important aspect of reduced safety would be in crumple zones, a strut-based car wouldn't necessarily have these, or at least to the same extent that an ordinary car has.
Don't forget a lot of cars are made from carbon-fibre now. This wouldn't be any real difference to them.
This is where I got the remarks from, seems quite sensible to support Linux on the lower-specced, lower-priced systems. Also, the Poulson chipset is based on the i915 chipset - the one that caused a lot of the 'Vista Ready' controversy. I don't know its specs, but they've obviously upped them.
But what about Microsoft and Windows? Yes, you can run Windows on an MID and there will be MID versions that come with Windows Vista. But a Windows Vista MID will require the expensive high-end version of Atom. While a Linux MID can run on a $45 Atom+SCH system, the same Atom platform for Windows will cost $160. And not only is it more expensive, it also has a 20% higher TDP (2.4 watts instead of 2 watts) than the "Linux" Atoms.
The only Windows SKU (1.86 GHz) is priced at a 68% premium over the most expensive Linux SKU (1.6 GHz, $95), which means that Windows MIDs will be substantially more expensive than Linux versions. Intel told us that Linux MIDs will debut at a $499 (and higher) price point, while Windows versions will start at $599
Kedia said that Intel is "working with Microsoft", but he has no idea what Microsoft's strategy for MIDs is. "It will be interesting to see which way they will go. But right now, we really don't know."
This story certainly sounds different than what we heard at the UMPC launch. Back then, Microsoft's Origami marketing campaign virtually screwed Intel and device manufacturers when it promised a product that had nothing to do with the products that were coming to market. Sounds like you said, Microsoft made promises Intel couldn't deliver. This time, they could so easily decide to do their own stuff instead of partnering so closely with MS.
The summary is, as usual, not quite there in summarising TFA.
I'm less interested in specifically competing with any specific product, and more focused on figuring out what the best user experience we can give users is. I'm sure that for some users, Thunderbird 3 will be a better fit than other products, but taking on Outlook or any one product isn't how we're looking at product planning. Is what he said in TFA, he's not making an Outlook clone, or an Outlook killer, just making a product that people want to use. So you're right, he's not looking to duplicate it at all, just make something better, and I applaud him for that.
Not just yet, when Intel releases the Atom it is basically designed to run Linux and not Windows. I posted about this a while back from a link on TomsHardware. Basically Intel were screwed by MS last time round with their Origami platform, so this time Intel doing things their way and partnering-but-not-really-partnering with MS.
The only Atom chip that can run Vista, apparently, is the highest end one. The one Intel is releasing with a huge price tag. The others will run a version of Linux.
I think its a good thing, the beginning of the end for MS at the moment, just like IBM or DEC before them, they got too big, too interested in vendor lock-in, and the marketplace shifted away from them.
Well, really is quite simple for him. First he gangs up with his buddy who is similarly innocent but banged up because he was obviously framed, busts out of the joint with said buddy, preferably using some death-defying feat, then gets some guns, and goes on a shooting rampage trying to hide from the cops and FBI, in order to find the guy who framed them all (probably Ballmer, you just know it) then in a close-called thing, as the FBI is closing in, get the bad guy to confess as they are listening in, thus removing all need for a new trial and which also neatly accounts for the dead bodies (after all, you're now proven innocent, so killing all the bad guys' henchmen is just forgotten about).
Disclaimer: I garnered my legal knowledge from the movie Tango and Cash and others starring Mel Gibson.
Me? You're the one that needs to go back to eco-warrior class.
IIRC it was cadmium used in the manufacture that made solar cells not as green as they could be.
A quick google says However there are many environmentalists and some scientists that are worried about the potential negative impact of solar cells (photovoltaic technology). This is because manufacturing process of photovoltaic cells needs toxic metals such as mercury, lead and cadmium
Still, I think its better than coal-fired power, but don't think any green energy generation is the perfect answer to all problems.
by people walking on them, it will make it harder to walk
I remember some adverts for training shoes that had fluid capsules inside them to reduce stresses on your joints (or something, probably just marketing). People bought them but didn't complain they were difficult to walk in. If the generation systems are of the same order, then I can't see a problem.
I imagine it would cost a fair bit to install, but there's paths everywhere, whereas solar panels have a limited amount of area they can be installed on. Also, these wouldn't require the noxious chemicals solar panels are made of, and wouldn't require as much maintenance (I think).
For other areas, I thought bridges etc had to have soem 'squidginess' to them, or the traffic riding on them would quickly shake it to bits. As the article said, this principle also applies to antennas that wave in the wind, so its not just going to be used in every pavement in the world.
not necessarily, I assume you mean your next-door neighbour is usiong the same ISP you are, as if he's not your packets are going off way into the distance and back again.
If he is, you're still using the network as far as that switch, which is probably in their regional hub, so you're still using as much of the network as you would for anything. Sure, their peering arrangements mean they pay extra for you to send packets to Tokyo, but anyone sending packets from Tokyo to you would also pay them extra through their peering agreements so that roughly works out even.
I'm sure they could bill you by destination (a UK ISP I knew once offered more bandwidth if it was uk-only rather than international as it was cheaper). They'd probably only need software reporting/billing upgrades, but that can be very expensive.
As for variable pricing.. their 'ordinary' customers won't care so much, especially if it ends up slightly cheaper for them. The 24x7 P2P customers will hate it and leave. Which is possibly what they're trying to achieve.
I thought the web was a MVC model. The browser is your View and the server side is your controller (and you have model data from somewhere, DB or static files or whatever).
I think he's referring to interactivity, ie in a thick client MVC system, you can interact with the GUI and changes are seen immediately, but the problem here isn't one of MVC being poor, its the relatively slow network that's the problem.
I suppose you could download a lot of data to the view and only show part of it as the user selects things, but that involves moving the controller to the client. I guess some people would think that's breaking the paradigm, but that's how a MFC app works - data tends to be all in the client.
So.. maybe he sees Rails as poor because it is always making roundtrips to the server.
Either way, who cares. The decoupling of presentation from logic is one of the best paradigms you can use for any application.
It doesn't, in the same way that producing images that look like Natalie Portman encourages crimes against Natalie Portman. Actually, it does. Especially if you see the images I have of 'her'* doing the things she's doing in them:)
Now, if they were really photo-realistic, do you think I could get Hustler to buy them? She wouldn't be annoyed would she? Not if they were cg, surely...
* disclaimer: I don't have any images of Ms Portman, real or artificially created.
I also doubt that Microsoft didn't foresee this since companies like ASUS surely talk to Microsoft about their future
true, but also Microsoft sometimes decides that they know better than their "partners". The Atom chip cannot run Vista (except for the most expensive model, which Intel are marketing at a uncompetitive price..). Apparently Intel doesn't care about this because they partnered with MS a while back on Origami and were screwed by them:
Kedia said that Intel is "working with Microsoft", but he has no idea what Microsoft's strategy for MIDs is. "It will be interesting to see which way they will go. But right now, we really don't know."
This story certainly sounds different than what we heard at the UMPC launch. Back then, Microsoft's Origami marketing campaign virtually screwed Intel and device manufacturers when it promised a product that had nothing to do with the products that were coming to market. Today, it looks like Intel has decided to do what it thinks is the best software approach for MIDs this time, regardless of what is available from Microsoft.
I don't think it is down to CPU Mhz, they're pretty damn good nowadays to run far more demanding apps than Vista. What's hindering Vista takeup is RAM, they just don't make the chips in the density required, or motherboards with enough slots.
Then they add stupid things like continuous indexing of every file and a WinSxS folder that seems to grow exponentially, and a System Restore that stores many copies of every file, and people wonder why their computer seems to be sluggish.
"Adding a flash storage option" is pretty much an engineering nonevent but as a marketing event its a magnificent and almost unbelievable paradigm-shift approach to a massive problem that's been crying out for a reliable storage-based performance solution for years.
Hardly. Wintel was just the dominant brand of processor, we've not exactly been stuck with old single-core 486sx25 chips on ISA-bus mobos with 4Mb RAM now have we.
No, MS software has driven increased hardware power due to its ever-increasing demands. As graphics were given more dominance in the OS, so graphics hardware got better to satisfy demand from consumers. The same applies to buses, RAM, networking, displays and storage all the way to better webcams.
Wintel was probably a good thing for the industry as a whole, without a de-facto standard manufacturers advances would be diluted. With it, companies would know that there was a massive market that they could justify spending more money on.
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well, perhaps you could use the 'Awesome bar' in the way FF2 uses it - as a place to type urls in.
You don't have to use the extra features of it, but you'll get used to it pretty quickly, and then you'll start typing in the address bar (on other browsers, inc FF2) expecting it to work.
Forget the font size, just zoom out of the page (ctrl + -)
Advertising dollars are very important, about $47.5bn important, so while the techies at MS may be happy to coexist, I'm sure the people who tell those devs what to do would prefer everyone to use the MS-default search and advertising options. Last I saw, Firefox didn't come with Windows Live Search set as the default.
Or he's done his bachelor's degree in Sociology and is now trying to apply it to people who do real work :-)
If he was a really good software engineer, he'd be doing that for a salary already, not hiding in academia thinking up ideas for his research project.
I've worked with PhD programmers in the past, its never a pretty sight. They say things like "but that's not the way that should be done", and the reply is always "welcome to the real world". Perhaps he should write a research paper on why projects end up in a non-perfect design or implementation instead, a "learn from your mistakes" paper to encourage better practises (eg formalise the Big Ball of Mud pattern)
an operating system or operating environment is not viable for everyday use unless it has timely and usable mechanisms for installing, reporting, and keeping track of security updates
"Yum update" does that for me. Sure, I don't much care about security updates as I download all the updates regularly. Same with my Windows box, it tells me it wants to update something, so I let it. I don't actually know what it does but it keeps fixing this "critical" and "important" security update all the time.
Now maybe these things can get a bit more security to them, as people who have them really want them as computer devices (like, say, a PVR), not general purpose computers. That means we need it to have quite locked down access to the internet, maybe sandbox the browser too.
but we've had multitasking since the pentium first appeared. Not only that, the Atom is a hyper-threaded CPU, so really you could say its designed for multi-tasking.
I think the point was that modern apps are so hungry for resources that you need lots of RAM and CPU, whereas we got the same stuff done with significantly less only a couple of years ago.
The energy doesn't have to be 'magicked' out of thin air, you just need some way of obtaining the energy that already exists in something. In this case, the 'news' bit seems to be that they have developed a better fuel-cell electrode. The basic power generation mechanism of the new system is similar to that of a normal fuel cell, which uses hydrogen as a fuel. According to Genepax, the main feature of the new system is that it uses the company's membrane electrode assembly (MEA), which contains a material capable of breaking down water into hydrogen and oxygen through a chemical reaction.
I forget where I read the article, but I read one where someone took his PC in to be fixed, they said "you need a new HDD", replace it and then a month later he received a call from the new owner of his HDD telling him he should be more careful.
I think he sued the company that did the replacing. You need to wipe the drives everytime you get rid of them.
A car made out of tubular struts is going to be a lot stronger than the usual cars. Racing cars have their interior replaced with struts for roll and crash cages for the real occasions when they crash and tumble.
even ordinary cars are basically thin metal stretched over a cage, that's why the door pillars and windscreen are made from hefty bars, the thin bit of metal in your doorframe isn't going to save you from a side-on collision, but the door pillar will. So, I can't see this being any less safe simply because the bit in between are more obvious.
I think the most important aspect of reduced safety would be in crumple zones, a strut-based car wouldn't necessarily have these, or at least to the same extent that an ordinary car has.
Don't forget a lot of cars are made from carbon-fibre now. This wouldn't be any real difference to them.
The only Windows SKU (1.86 GHz) is priced at a 68% premium over the most expensive Linux SKU (1.6 GHz, $95), which means that Windows MIDs will be substantially more expensive than Linux versions. Intel told us that Linux MIDs will debut at a $499 (and higher) price point, while Windows versions will start at $599 Kedia said that Intel is "working with Microsoft", but he has no idea what Microsoft's strategy for MIDs is. "It will be interesting to see which way they will go. But right now, we really don't know."
This story certainly sounds different than what we heard at the UMPC launch. Back then, Microsoft's Origami marketing campaign virtually screwed Intel and device manufacturers when it promised a product that had nothing to do with the products that were coming to market. Sounds like you said, Microsoft made promises Intel couldn't deliver. This time, they could so easily decide to do their own stuff instead of partnering so closely with MS.
Not just yet, when Intel releases the Atom it is basically designed to run Linux and not Windows. I posted about this a while back from a link on TomsHardware. Basically Intel were screwed by MS last time round with their Origami platform, so this time Intel doing things their way and partnering-but-not-really-partnering with MS.
The only Atom chip that can run Vista, apparently, is the highest end one. The one Intel is releasing with a huge price tag. The others will run a version of Linux.
I think its a good thing, the beginning of the end for MS at the moment, just like IBM or DEC before them, they got too big, too interested in vendor lock-in, and the marketplace shifted away from them.
Well, really is quite simple for him. First he gangs up with his buddy who is similarly innocent but banged up because he was obviously framed, busts out of the joint with said buddy, preferably using some death-defying feat, then gets some guns, and goes on a shooting rampage trying to hide from the cops and FBI, in order to find the guy who framed them all (probably Ballmer, you just know it) then in a close-called thing, as the FBI is closing in, get the bad guy to confess as they are listening in, thus removing all need for a new trial and which also neatly accounts for the dead bodies (after all, you're now proven innocent, so killing all the bad guys' henchmen is just forgotten about).
Disclaimer: I garnered my legal knowledge from the movie Tango and Cash and others starring Mel Gibson.
Me? You're the one that needs to go back to eco-warrior class.
IIRC it was cadmium used in the manufacture that made solar cells not as green as they could be.
A quick google says
However there are many environmentalists and some scientists that are worried about the potential negative impact of solar cells (photovoltaic technology). This is because manufacturing process of photovoltaic cells needs toxic metals such as mercury, lead and cadmium
Still, I think its better than coal-fired power, but don't think any green energy generation is the perfect answer to all problems.
by people walking on them, it will make it harder to walk
I remember some adverts for training shoes that had fluid capsules inside them to reduce stresses on your joints (or something, probably just marketing). People bought them but didn't complain they were difficult to walk in. If the generation systems are of the same order, then I can't see a problem.
I imagine it would cost a fair bit to install, but there's paths everywhere, whereas solar panels have a limited amount of area they can be installed on. Also, these wouldn't require the noxious chemicals solar panels are made of, and wouldn't require as much maintenance (I think).
For other areas, I thought bridges etc had to have soem 'squidginess' to them, or the traffic riding on them would quickly shake it to bits. As the article said, this principle also applies to antennas that wave in the wind, so its not just going to be used in every pavement in the world.
Using humans to generate electricity is not a green source
yeah, we should ban humans and all the world's energy problems would be over.
not necessarily, I assume you mean your next-door neighbour is usiong the same ISP you are, as if he's not your packets are going off way into the distance and back again.
If he is, you're still using the network as far as that switch, which is probably in their regional hub, so you're still using as much of the network as you would for anything. Sure, their peering arrangements mean they pay extra for you to send packets to Tokyo, but anyone sending packets from Tokyo to you would also pay them extra through their peering agreements so that roughly works out even.
I'm sure they could bill you by destination (a UK ISP I knew once offered more bandwidth if it was uk-only rather than international as it was cheaper). They'd probably only need software reporting/billing upgrades, but that can be very expensive.
As for variable pricing.. their 'ordinary' customers won't care so much, especially if it ends up slightly cheaper for them. The 24x7 P2P customers will hate it and leave. Which is possibly what they're trying to achieve.
I thought the web was a MVC model. The browser is your View and the server side is your controller (and you have model data from somewhere, DB or static files or whatever).
I think he's referring to interactivity, ie in a thick client MVC system, you can interact with the GUI and changes are seen immediately, but the problem here isn't one of MVC being poor, its the relatively slow network that's the problem.
I suppose you could download a lot of data to the view and only show part of it as the user selects things, but that involves moving the controller to the client. I guess some people would think that's breaking the paradigm, but that's how a MFC app works - data tends to be all in the client.
So.. maybe he sees Rails as poor because it is always making roundtrips to the server.
Either way, who cares. The decoupling of presentation from logic is one of the best paradigms you can use for any application.
and what, someone posted "may be disturbing" and you didn't immediately think of a CG image of the Goatse man?
you must be new round here.
Now, if they were really photo-realistic, do you think I could get Hustler to buy them? She wouldn't be annoyed would she? Not if they were cg, surely...
* disclaimer: I don't have any images of Ms Portman, real or artificially created.
I also doubt that Microsoft didn't foresee this since companies like ASUS surely talk to Microsoft about their future
true, but also Microsoft sometimes decides that they know better than their "partners". The Atom chip cannot run Vista (except for the most expensive model, which Intel are marketing at a uncompetitive price..). Apparently Intel doesn't care about this because they partnered with MS a while back on Origami and were screwed by them:
Kedia said that Intel is "working with Microsoft", but he has no idea what Microsoft's strategy for MIDs is. "It will be interesting to see which way they will go. But right now, we really don't know."
This story certainly sounds different than what we heard at the UMPC launch. Back then, Microsoft's Origami marketing campaign virtually screwed Intel and device manufacturers when it promised a product that had nothing to do with the products that were coming to market. Today, it looks like Intel has decided to do what it thinks is the best software approach for MIDs this time, regardless of what is available from Microsoft.
I don't think it is down to CPU Mhz, they're pretty damn good nowadays to run far more demanding apps than Vista. What's hindering Vista takeup is RAM, they just don't make the chips in the density required, or motherboards with enough slots.
Then they add stupid things like continuous indexing of every file and a WinSxS folder that seems to grow exponentially, and a System Restore that stores many copies of every file, and people wonder why their computer seems to be sluggish.
yeah, but they want MS Office 2007 to go with that. 10k wouldn't be enough for Enterprise edition :)
Hardly. Wintel was just the dominant brand of processor, we've not exactly been stuck with old single-core 486sx25 chips on ISA-bus mobos with 4Mb RAM now have we.
No, MS software has driven increased hardware power due to its ever-increasing demands. As graphics were given more dominance in the OS, so graphics hardware got better to satisfy demand from consumers. The same applies to buses, RAM, networking, displays and storage all the way to better webcams.
Wintel was probably a good thing for the industry as a whole, without a de-facto standard manufacturers advances would be diluted. With it, companies would know that there was a massive market that they could justify spending more money on.