the point has nothing to do with ISOs, but the contents of them.
For Windows, I have 17gb free of my 60gb partition. So you see, that if your phone OS takes up the same amount of space as Windows, you'll have a bad time of it.
So, disk space does become an issue whereas most people (ie devs) think that space is free and they can use up as much as they like. Something like Windows' WinSxS folder would be a disaster on anything with limited disk space.
mainly because a physical patent is only granted if you supply all the blueprints for making your invention. It does not allow you to patent "a system for trapping mice, using a computer".
Now, if you do patent a mousetrap, with full working, someone else can come along and make a different mousetrap as long as it doesn't work the same way as your does. However, for software patents, and especially ones used for trolling, the patent does not include all the necessary details for building the software product in question. Its more of a vague idea of what a system would do if someone actually built one. Hence, no-one else can build one, because they'd then be infringing.
This applies to "business concept" patents (like amazon's one-click patent).
There are some software patents that are valid - I'm thinking things like the Motorola radio stuff that makes mobile phones work - someone spent real time and effort inventing that.
Also, in the next 10 years I'd bet on MSFT's products to significantly turn the tide against the apple growth.
unfortunately, no-one else agrees with you - by that I mean all the investors in the marketplace. They collectively have decided that MS will not grow, their products will not take over the world, and in fact are much more likely to become less and less of a player in a market increasingly filled with alternatives.
That's why the shareprice is going nowhere, they make enough revenue to keep the sp static, but no-one thinks their business will go anywhere. That's the only real reason I can think of where a company can make increasingly large revenues yet the SP stays still. Nobody believes it will last.
Currently, looking at the consumer purchasing decisions, Windows strategy is a failure (ie doesn't matter how good WinPho7 will be, if no-one buys it. It is would be the betamax of mobile phones). For businesses, MS's future strategy doesn't look good either as they do not want to replace their newly-replaced Win7 PCs with Win8, or replace all their programs with Win8 'apps'.
History says that very large companies with established 'monopoly' positions disappear overnight. Look at DEC for the prime example.
And to follow that post... ARM announces its next-gen GPU, the snappily named Mali-T658.
The is the followup to the GPU that's used in the Galaxy S2, and is up to 10x the performance. The old chip supported 2 cores, this one supports 4, each core being twice the perf of the previous model, and as usual, can turn cores on or off depending on the power requirements.
The firm claims the new technology will offer battery-powered mobile handsets roughly the same graphics performance as Sony's Playstation 3 console,
but the bit I liked best: "At the moment many of the speech recognition applications that are out there are solely relying on the CPU," said Mr Davies. "Very few are taking advantage of the acceleration of the GPU - and that's clearly an area of growth for us."
good point about it being 'fast enough', but if enough people had 100mbps to the home, they could start using movie on demand type services (rather than youtube on demand quality we have at the moment). That might change the way we look at the internet, but it won't happen until enough people have it.
No, I can't think of any other reasons to have it:)
true... the sole reason SL was developed was simple: Microsoft saw Flash and Microsoft felt they had to have their own version.
monkey see, monkey do after all. They saw Java and felt they had to do their own version of that too... come to think of it, I'm not sure they've ever made anything original, ever. (Kinect is different - they saw an Israeli company do that and bought it off them)
or - find out what the local council charges for industrial waste collection, then offer to subcontract directly to them for slightly less, and include the recycling feature "for free".
most grease needs to be filtered before it can be used (or it'll clog your pipes, and then you won't be happy). IIRC there are instructions on what you need to do to turn used vegetable oil into biofuel for your car.
You could definitely dump your grease in there until it gets full, what you'd do with it after that is another question to ask though:)
pension withdrawals happen at a fixed point - it gets turned into a an annuity and optionally a fixed sum to spend.
Most pension funds transfer your equity investments into bonds and then cash as you near retirement age, but the size of the annuity does vary depending upon the economy/interest rates/etc at the point of purchase.
So if you buy an annuity today, you will be getting much less than if you'd retired before the financial crisis hit.
well, if you're afraid you'll have to write off a loan, you actually package it up as a CDS and then sell it on to some other sucker. Who in turn packages it on and eventually you buy CDSs containing... well, you can guess.
But, until it eventually unravels in a 'fucking obvious to everyone else' moment, all those bankers think they're the greatest investors since the dawn of currency.
I'm sure they'll come up with other ideas for the next bubble, they can't help themselves.
you actually need to change the way they are paid.
An ex banker was on TV the other day and he said that the problem is that bankers (and the rest of us actually) expect to be paid according to our peers. If I get paid 50k and the guy I work with gets paid 60k, then I will want to be earning 61k. (something about peer pressure and comparisons within the corporate hierarchy).
When a banker starts work, he sees his colleague earning 500k, he expects that he should earn 600k. and so it goes on.
Scrapping bonuses would help here - earnings would be based on fixed salary, which would be set according to seniority or some other performance basis, but if by performance, then bankers would start competing against each other again.
alas, that only works to a point. When your loanee fails to repay the loan (because, maybe you lent against an asset that no longer appreciates in price) then you interest repayments are dwarfed by the subsequent write-off.
You could say, from nothing comes nothing, but as the bank reports the loan's "value" as part of their assets and has claimed bonuses based on these large increases in bank revenue... it becomes difficult to say "oh well, we never had that money in the first place" as they gave it to employees to spend on flash cars and property.
the KDE 4.0 screw up is nothing compared to the Gnome 3.0 screw up.
But I like the concept, different GUIs for different form factors. Who'd have thought that'd be a good idea!:)
All software should be written this way, there's too much crap written for web, desktop and now phones trying to shoehorn the same code into all 3 forms.
it ain't just the GUIs. New programming languages, frameworks, etc - all change. Where they could be implemented by adding features to existing ones, thus preserving all the built-up knowledge and expertise, it seems the way of the last few years has been to say the old stuff is crap and we must replace it wholesale.
I heard the other day someone say that it takes 10,000 hours of practice to become a master of something. I also know that all this stuff has the underlying attitude of "we must make it easy for new/inexperienced/untalented guys to use" - well, d'uh, everyone's inexperienced all the time if you continually scrap the stuff they've mastered.
Extend, not replace, always wins. Too bad this industry doesn't want to mature like other engineering disciplines.
the promise was made to Novell which licenced.NET. Anyone who dowloanded Mono from Novell would be protected (with the implication that anyone who got it non-Novell sources would not be protected, I don't know if that'd stand up in court, but it was used as an excuse against using Mono by various people)
Now Novell no longer exists, I'm not sure where the promise went, or the licencing agreement they had. Perhaps de Icaza's spin-off company has it, maybe Attachmate has it.
no, I'm saying that HFT itself is to be discouraged and *replaced* by LT investments. sure, a long-long term position will not be affected by HFT swings.. if you hold forever.
If you have a view to close your position eventually, those HFTs do distort the market prices - so you can never be quite sure that the price of the equity reflects its true value, instead the value simply reflects the 'trading' price and has little to do with the underlying asset's fundamentals.
Currently the market position is hurting some people, those who retire today will not be too happy thanks to the current HFT swing. And pension funds are the ultimate long-term investors.
The 'buy it on margin' people are no more than day traders, trading over a little longer period. Not people with long term investment positions.
but you can buy a hell of a lot of hookers and coke for $10mil.
A education that emphasises good citizenship and social morality would be better for their future than trying to make them merely 'rich' rather than 'super rich'
this will create more profit opportunities for the position trading that Soros does.
So what?! Position trading is about taking a long-term view of a position. Buy ARM today, wait until it's everywhere and expect that the share prince doubles then sell; or short Microsoft today, wait for the share price to halve and then.. oh wait, it did that years ago:)
That's position trading and I don't think anyone has much of a problem with it. It encourages stability in the marketplace, and would not result in massive swings down when the algorithms start trading against each other.
It's an investment style rather than a trading style. Surely this is a good thing?
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the point has nothing to do with ISOs, but the contents of them.
For Windows, I have 17gb free of my 60gb partition. So you see, that if your phone OS takes up the same amount of space as Windows, you'll have a bad time of it.
So, disk space does become an issue whereas most people (ie devs) think that space is free and they can use up as much as they like. Something like Windows' WinSxS folder would be a disaster on anything with limited disk space.
mainly because a physical patent is only granted if you supply all the blueprints for making your invention. It does not allow you to patent "a system for trapping mice, using a computer".
Now, if you do patent a mousetrap, with full working, someone else can come along and make a different mousetrap as long as it doesn't work the same way as your does. However, for software patents, and especially ones used for trolling, the patent does not include all the necessary details for building the software product in question. Its more of a vague idea of what a system would do if someone actually built one. Hence, no-one else can build one, because they'd then be infringing.
This applies to "business concept" patents (like amazon's one-click patent).
There are some software patents that are valid - I'm thinking things like the Motorola radio stuff that makes mobile phones work - someone spent real time and effort inventing that.
Also, in the next 10 years I'd bet on MSFT's products to significantly turn the tide against the apple growth.
unfortunately, no-one else agrees with you - by that I mean all the investors in the marketplace. They collectively have decided that MS will not grow, their products will not take over the world, and in fact are much more likely to become less and less of a player in a market increasingly filled with alternatives.
That's why the shareprice is going nowhere, they make enough revenue to keep the sp static, but no-one thinks their business will go anywhere. That's the only real reason I can think of where a company can make increasingly large revenues yet the SP stays still. Nobody believes it will last.
Currently, looking at the consumer purchasing decisions, Windows strategy is a failure (ie doesn't matter how good WinPho7 will be, if no-one buys it. It is would be the betamax of mobile phones). For businesses, MS's future strategy doesn't look good either as they do not want to replace their newly-replaced Win7 PCs with Win8, or replace all their programs with Win8 'apps'.
History says that very large companies with established 'monopoly' positions disappear overnight. Look at DEC for the prime example.
or there's the Samsung Galaxy Note that is basically an oversized Galaxy S2, but comes with a stylus.
A single touchscreen clamshell would do fine for me though, the other half could be a keyboard which I'd only use sometimes, but would be enough.
I think a double-screen clamshell would be quite expensive, especially if they wired the notification bar to a 3rd screen on the outside.
And to follow that post ... ARM announces its next-gen GPU, the snappily named Mali-T658.
The is the followup to the GPU that's used in the Galaxy S2, and is up to 10x the performance. The old chip supported 2 cores, this one supports 4, each core being twice the perf of the previous model, and as usual, can turn cores on or off depending on the power requirements.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15668347
The firm claims the new technology will offer battery-powered mobile handsets roughly the same graphics performance as Sony's Playstation 3 console,
but the bit I liked best: "At the moment many of the speech recognition applications that are out there are solely relying on the CPU," said Mr Davies. "Very few are taking advantage of the acceleration of the GPU - and that's clearly an area of growth for us."
damn right, just look at modern society now for proof!
good point about it being 'fast enough', but if enough people had 100mbps to the home, they could start using movie on demand type services (rather than youtube on demand quality we have at the moment). That might change the way we look at the internet, but it won't happen until enough people have it.
No, I can't think of any other reasons to have it :)
true... the sole reason SL was developed was simple: Microsoft saw Flash and Microsoft felt they had to have their own version.
monkey see, monkey do after all. They saw Java and felt they had to do their own version of that too... come to think of it, I'm not sure they've ever made anything original, ever. (Kinect is different - they saw an Israeli company do that and bought it off them)
In my world the only thing missing on Linux at this point is .NET/SL
Don't worry, soon the lack of SL on Windows will be enough to let you make the switch after all. Thank you Ballmer :)
or - find out what the local council charges for industrial waste collection, then offer to subcontract directly to them for slightly less, and include the recycling feature "for free".
maybe, but they'd obviously just steal it...
madness. He should *charge* the restaurant a small amount to take it away for recycling.
most grease needs to be filtered before it can be used (or it'll clog your pipes, and then you won't be happy). IIRC there are instructions on what you need to do to turn used vegetable oil into biofuel for your car.
You could definitely dump your grease in there until it gets full, what you'd do with it after that is another question to ask though :)
pension withdrawals happen at a fixed point - it gets turned into a an annuity and optionally a fixed sum to spend.
Most pension funds transfer your equity investments into bonds and then cash as you near retirement age, but the size of the annuity does vary depending upon the economy/interest rates/etc at the point of purchase.
So if you buy an annuity today, you will be getting much less than if you'd retired before the financial crisis hit.
well, if you're afraid you'll have to write off a loan, you actually package it up as a CDS and then sell it on to some other sucker. Who in turn packages it on and eventually you buy CDSs containing... well, you can guess.
But, until it eventually unravels in a 'fucking obvious to everyone else' moment, all those bankers think they're the greatest investors since the dawn of currency.
I'm sure they'll come up with other ideas for the next bubble, they can't help themselves.
you actually need to change the way they are paid.
An ex banker was on TV the other day and he said that the problem is that bankers (and the rest of us actually) expect to be paid according to our peers. If I get paid 50k and the guy I work with gets paid 60k, then I will want to be earning 61k. (something about peer pressure and comparisons within the corporate hierarchy).
When a banker starts work, he sees his colleague earning 500k, he expects that he should earn 600k. and so it goes on.
Scrapping bonuses would help here - earnings would be based on fixed salary, which would be set according to seniority or some other performance basis, but if by performance, then bankers would start competing against each other again.
alas, that only works to a point. When your loanee fails to repay the loan (because, maybe you lent against an asset that no longer appreciates in price) then you interest repayments are dwarfed by the subsequent write-off.
You could say, from nothing comes nothing, but as the bank reports the loan's "value" as part of their assets and has claimed bonuses based on these large increases in bank revenue... it becomes difficult to say "oh well, we never had that money in the first place" as they gave it to employees to spend on flash cars and property.
the KDE 4.0 screw up is nothing compared to the Gnome 3.0 screw up.
But I like the concept, different GUIs for different form factors. Who'd have thought that'd be a good idea! :)
All software should be written this way, there's too much crap written for web, desktop and now phones trying to shoehorn the same code into all 3 forms.
it ain't just the GUIs. New programming languages, frameworks, etc - all change. Where they could be implemented by adding features to existing ones, thus preserving all the built-up knowledge and expertise, it seems the way of the last few years has been to say the old stuff is crap and we must replace it wholesale.
I heard the other day someone say that it takes 10,000 hours of practice to become a master of something. I also know that all this stuff has the underlying attitude of "we must make it easy for new/inexperienced/untalented guys to use" - well, d'uh, everyone's inexperienced all the time if you continually scrap the stuff they've mastered.
Extend, not replace, always wins. Too bad this industry doesn't want to mature like other engineering disciplines.
the promise was made to Novell which licenced .NET. Anyone who dowloanded Mono from Novell would be protected (with the implication that anyone who got it non-Novell sources would not be protected, I don't know if that'd stand up in court, but it was used as an excuse against using Mono by various people)
Now Novell no longer exists, I'm not sure where the promise went, or the licencing agreement they had. Perhaps de Icaza's spin-off company has it, maybe Attachmate has it.
disk space isn't as premium as it used to be.
it is if you're running on a phone or tablet, that flash-drive space is pretty precious.
no, I'm saying that HFT itself is to be discouraged and *replaced* by LT investments. sure, a long-long term position will not be affected by HFT swings.. if you hold forever.
If you have a view to close your position eventually, those HFTs do distort the market prices - so you can never be quite sure that the price of the equity reflects its true value, instead the value simply reflects the 'trading' price and has little to do with the underlying asset's fundamentals.
Currently the market position is hurting some people, those who retire today will not be too happy thanks to the current HFT swing. And pension funds are the ultimate long-term investors.
The 'buy it on margin' people are no more than day traders, trading over a little longer period. Not people with long term investment positions.
but you can buy a hell of a lot of hookers and coke for $10mil.
A education that emphasises good citizenship and social morality would be better for their future than trying to make them merely 'rich' rather than 'super rich'
this will create more profit opportunities for the position trading that Soros does.
So what?! Position trading is about taking a long-term view of a position. Buy ARM today, wait until it's everywhere and expect that the share prince doubles then sell; or short Microsoft today, wait for the share price to halve and then.. oh wait, it did that years ago :)
That's position trading and I don't think anyone has much of a problem with it. It encourages stability in the marketplace, and would not result in massive swings down when the algorithms start trading against each other.
It's an investment style rather than a trading style. Surely this is a good thing?