Lego's are plastic. First I thought parent was joking...
Plastic! Is it a special patented formula? Who cares!! Most plastic is so durable we are having issues dealing with it.
I don't mean to take anything away from Lego, because there is more to it than manufacturing processes, but I wouldn't be so surprised if a factory in China could to an equal or better job for less if given the challenge.
I also wouldn't be surprised if the manufacturing costs are already dirt cheap.
The OS can't tell the difference, but memory is still fastest, so I wouldn't say much needs to change as far as caching and swapping behavior. What is gone though are the drive caches... the caches on board the hard drives that pre-load data in an attempt to be faster. I am sure it improves performance overall, but sometimes the drives need to deal with whatever is queued in their caches before dealing with what you've told them to do, and hence a delay. Of course, the OS doesn't know about these either, so you could say the OS is not very aware of much to begin with (unless maybe you perform the surgeries yourself).
SSDs are the best thing to happen to PCs since the invention of the mouse.
I have had a MemoRight GT for 3 months now, and my laptop feels amazing. I am disappointed Tom didn't include one in his review.
Because the seek speed is 40x + than an HDD, data access is blazing fast on even the cheaper SSDs. The hangup is in the slow read/write speeds and problems with random access. MemoRight GT is the first SSD I saw that was faster than HDDs in all of these areas, and hence it not only outperforms I/O wise, you get the full benefit of fast access... And this will make your PC feel 4x faster.
Everything becomes faster. Web pages load faster. Email arrives faster. Windows moves faster. No more HDD cache writing lag or "what is my HDD doing" moments.
I don't care that much for battery life, though I am sure some do. As Tom concludes, that is pretty much a spec you just need to look out for, so if you want it, look for a drive that has it.
What I do love though is the silence. Anyone who has gone through an HDD failure is sensitive to HDD sounds probably more than they know, or would like.
SSDs make no sound, and there are no strange vibrations.
I spent close to 2K on the drive, but it was worth every penny. If I buy a new SSD when the 3rd generation drives arrive, my Memoright will still always have a place in one of my notebooks.
Version lingo is freely determined by the person releasing the product, so sure, you can uphold your perspective on the matter and use pure numbering.
What I am getting at is the fact that the users are complaining of incompleteness, and the developers are admitting it is incomplete. How do you distinguish between "complete" and "not complete" software? Sure, you can lookup the release notes and see what other users are saying. I am sure many who were disappointed with 4.0 will do so from now on. Just count the number of comments sighting they will no longer upgrade without waiting for higher release numbers. Well, this means one thing. Less people are eager to install your product, and the adoption rate will decrease. You have created a reason to hesitate.
Now, to solve this problem of figuring out what is finished and what is not, some developers choose to use the words "alpha" or "beta." Such a company would be, well, any serious commercial company, because releasing unfinished or incomplete software is detrimental to their business. Vista, though it is what it is, was released as a "finished" product. They sold it as a "finished" product. Microsoft didn't argue and say Vista is new so deal with it. They were genuinely embarrassed by their shortcomings.
KDE is basically saying, KDE is BETA software. Just assume BETA is there in the name, because nothing is finished and everything is always "getting better." That is fine for my toys, but not for my business.
If anyone was wondering why KDE 4 was so user unfriendly, then this article pretty much says it all. None of the answers are user friendly. They are all argumentative and poor excuses at best.
KDE 4.0 is the starting line, not the finishing line.
Isn't that the precise definition of BETA software? They released KDE 4.0 Beta as the finished product, and are now ARGUING that it is not finished, but a "new beginning." Well, thanks for telling us beforehand, which btw would have been as simple as adding "beta" to the name. If 4 is so backward compatible and "user friendly" then why have so many users failed to "make use" of KDE 4? If they listen to their users, then why do they feel they haven't been heard? If you disagree with them then fine, but you cannot argue with them and expect to win anyone over and claim that that is listening.
You say there are two kinds of web sites. Yet, ALL web sites are destinations. If usefulness is what gages service-ness then, well, a useless destination is one that no one goes to, so all destinations are pretty much services to a degree.
Your example translated into a real case is pretty much what amazon.com and buy.com were during the first IT bubble, so bringing that up now 10 years later is not news. In fact, if you consider amazon or google or match.com or myspace or ebay to be services, well they've been around for a long time, and pretty much have been doing the same thing. Ebay and amazon have added new 2.0-like features, but are they revolutionary? No. Lookup their web services and they've pretty much had those for a good 5 years too.
If you were to say new amazon2.0s and google2.0s are around the corner about to take over the world, as per your musicshop02.com exmample, then tell me more, but that is clearly not the case, and so there is no revolution.
As a surfer, you are free to place your favorite sites into two folders labeling one "destinations" and the other "services." If that helps you, that would be your revolution.
If you are reading a 2.0 strategy guide now, you have definitely missed the bandwagon. It may indeed be a great book, but hindsight is 20/20.
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At the same time growth at musicshop01.com has been flat and is now beginning to drop as users become increasingly familiar with the services available at musicshop02.com.
Correct me if I am wrong, but this says musicshop01.com is in fact a destination, which still is no revolution.
You are thinking new thoughts in an old box. You have yet to escape it.
having your code GPL'd WILL cause it to be put into more products
I would think this should read "... into more GPL products." Unfortunately, "GPL products" is an oxymoron as they are scarcely ever "products" as product implies they are commercial.
If you were to count market share and contributions to the economy as important factors for a license, I would have to say BSD won hands down with the impact they made through Apple.
I think the question is this. If you don't plan on making any money to begin with, would you rather have Apple or Sun reuse your project, or would you rather see some free offspring popup on sourceforge?
Both are great, and either way it is up to you. And being what they are, I doubt either is better since they clearly reflect different goals.
Dual licensing is the way to go for any commercial software house. BSD doesn't really require dual licensing, because if you select BSD you can make a commercial derivative regardless, and if the creator were to restrict their BSD license in a way that would restrict commercial derivatives, then you would end up with a GPL type license anyway.
A scammed seller has no recourse either way, unless it is through the courts.
The main reason why negative feedback was useful was because, well, to leave negative feedback. Just as the buyer can leave negative, so could the seller. It is fair game.
Now it is no longer fair game. Now buyers have more power. This is what eBay wanted, and this is what they got. If any of the backlash was unexpected, then giving buyers more power maybe was not what eBay should have wanted.
They don't know what they are doing... since 1996.
I had the idea that that part of the ruling was more of a punishment/proactive measure against eBay for not being able to tell real and fake items apart.
"If they can't be responsible, then judge, please remove the right to sell anything of ours at all."
Unfortunately, the constitutional aspect makes for an easier appeal, so on second thought this might be a blessing for eBay and provide them with a way out.
EBay tries to avoid any responsibility with anything just like any responsible business would. However, that doesn't change the fact that eBay is a huge facilitator of criminal activity.
If eBay were non-profit and just had servers up, that may make them less evil, but in this case, for every fake handbag or nike shoe sold, eBay gets the listing fees and final value fees and paypal fees. It is in eBay's best interest to suck at monitoring their listings as much as corporately possible. Which is exactly what they do. How fast do you think they move when someone tries to sell a child? And most listings are APPROVED before they are listed. Why do you think it takes hours for them to appear in search results? They are deliberately turning a blind eye.
If eBay stuck to their original motto that they don't even look at listings and it's all just the users acting on their own, they may have had a stronger defense. But they couldn't keep that up for obvious reasons, and now that they claim they check listings, LVMH and everyone else have quite strong arguments against the legitimacy of how ebay conducts their business and profits from what they themselves admit to be a problem.
Regarding sales of legitimate LVMH, I don't think the judge is changing the law, or creating a special case here. He is merely punishing eBay as per LVMH's request, and it serves them right. The judge was obviously moved by the severity of the situation.
Ebay also used to have a Japanese site, but they pulled out pretty quickly because they couldn't sustain a legitimate lawful business in a country that has a low tolerance for counterfeit and fraud. That is saying something.
15K minimum, maybe more. Of which 1% would be 150 dollars. But since I don't have records since 1996, it would take me far longer than 30 minutes. I'd have to call banks to retrieve records. If I use my cell I'd be using minutes. I'd probably be on hold for 30 minutes. I'd have to wait for those records to arrive in the mail. I'd have to weed through everything. Heck, it would take 30 minutes just to go the post office and back. Sending it certified is 5 dollars. And once sent, then what? They don't even guarantee a refund at this point. So do I follow up or just forget about it?
My time is worth more than that. My conscience is worth more than that.
I just love how they can claim no liability, yet pay hundreds of millions of dollars. What are they? A charity all of a sudden? Of course they did something wrong. The mere fact that they are cashing out should make that evident. The games these people play in court is beyond me.
If you didn't do anything wrong, then why are you throwing money.
30 tabs open of articles and search results, and poof. You wake up in the morning, and your open windows are gone. With FF2 I didn't need it so I had crash recovery turned off, but now it is a must.
I hope the FF team realizes how crucial stability is. Anything else is a far second.
FF2 would slow down, but at least you'd could react. FF3 just dies and takes down the castle with it.
They both have a ton of acquired businesses, products, and services that are buried in their rubble of bloat.
And they both, to this day, only make money from selling what got them into the business in the first place. For google that would be Adsense, and for MS, Windows and Office.
So whichever company you choose, you probably won't make a difference, just like all the failed developers before you.
1. How can you not be generating CSS or HTML if the interface requires it?
we're never actually generating HTML or CSS
I am assuming that they mean they only generate Javascript, that then generates the HTML and CSS as necessary, but that is not to say you're not dealing with HTML or CSS entirely. It would be great if they abstract those elements away completely, but as is so often the case, when something isn't right and you have to fix it, one must resort to jumping over those barriers and hacking their way to where they can accomplish what is need.
2. 280 slides? Why do all these open source projects and Mac inspired projects end up cloning *old* microsoft products? Do you guys really think these app designs deserve that much recognition? You cannot think of any other way to build a slide editor other than to mimic the layout, the functionality, and even the default template. I guess Microsoft really nailed it on the head.
I've seen this time and time again. I say stop cloning, and do something creative with your new toys.
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Lego's are plastic. First I thought parent was joking...
Plastic! Is it a special patented formula? Who cares!! Most plastic is so durable we are having issues dealing with it.
I don't mean to take anything away from Lego, because there is more to it than manufacturing processes, but I wouldn't be so surprised if a factory in China could to an equal or better job for less if given the challenge.
I also wouldn't be surprised if the manufacturing costs are already dirt cheap.
The OS can't tell the difference, but memory is still fastest, so I wouldn't say much needs to change as far as caching and swapping behavior. What is gone though are the drive caches... the caches on board the hard drives that pre-load data in an attempt to be faster. I am sure it improves performance overall, but sometimes the drives need to deal with whatever is queued in their caches before dealing with what you've told them to do, and hence a delay. Of course, the OS doesn't know about these either, so you could say the OS is not very aware of much to begin with (unless maybe you perform the surgeries yourself).
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SSDs are the best thing to happen to PCs since the invention of the mouse.
I have had a MemoRight GT for 3 months now, and my laptop feels amazing. I am disappointed Tom didn't include one in his review.
Because the seek speed is 40x + than an HDD, data access is blazing fast on even the cheaper SSDs. The hangup is in the slow read/write speeds and problems with random access. MemoRight GT is the first SSD I saw that was faster than HDDs in all of these areas, and hence it not only outperforms I/O wise, you get the full benefit of fast access... And this will make your PC feel 4x faster.
Everything becomes faster. Web pages load faster. Email arrives faster. Windows moves faster. No more HDD cache writing lag or "what is my HDD doing" moments.
I don't care that much for battery life, though I am sure some do. As Tom concludes, that is pretty much a spec you just need to look out for, so if you want it, look for a drive that has it.
What I do love though is the silence. Anyone who has gone through an HDD failure is sensitive to HDD sounds probably more than they know, or would like.
SSDs make no sound, and there are no strange vibrations.
I spent close to 2K on the drive, but it was worth every penny. If I buy a new SSD when the 3rd generation drives arrive, my Memoright will still always have a place in one of my notebooks.
That is, the ability to remove any feature, and be provided with a list of repercussions.
Version lingo is freely determined by the person releasing the product, so sure, you can uphold your perspective on the matter and use pure numbering.
What I am getting at is the fact that the users are complaining of incompleteness, and the developers are admitting it is incomplete. How do you distinguish between "complete" and "not complete" software? Sure, you can lookup the release notes and see what other users are saying. I am sure many who were disappointed with 4.0 will do so from now on. Just count the number of comments sighting they will no longer upgrade without waiting for higher release numbers. Well, this means one thing. Less people are eager to install your product, and the adoption rate will decrease. You have created a reason to hesitate.
Now, to solve this problem of figuring out what is finished and what is not, some developers choose to use the words "alpha" or "beta." Such a company would be, well, any serious commercial company, because releasing unfinished or incomplete software is detrimental to their business. Vista, though it is what it is, was released as a "finished" product. They sold it as a "finished" product. Microsoft didn't argue and say Vista is new so deal with it. They were genuinely embarrassed by their shortcomings.
KDE is basically saying, KDE is BETA software. Just assume BETA is there in the name, because nothing is finished and everything is always "getting better." That is fine for my toys, but not for my business.
If anyone was wondering why KDE 4 was so user unfriendly, then this article pretty much says it all. None of the answers are user friendly. They are all argumentative and poor excuses at best.
KDE 4.0 is the starting line, not the finishing line.
Isn't that the precise definition of BETA software? They released KDE 4.0 Beta as the finished product, and are now ARGUING that it is not finished, but a "new beginning." Well, thanks for telling us beforehand, which btw would have been as simple as adding "beta" to the name. If 4 is so backward compatible and "user friendly" then why have so many users failed to "make use" of KDE 4? If they listen to their users, then why do they feel they haven't been heard? If you disagree with them then fine, but you cannot argue with them and expect to win anyone over and claim that that is listening.
haven't been able to duplicate the Apple GUI experience
Waiting for clones. That is precisely why OSS has *always* been behind.
lack of people with good a understanding of user psychology and graphic design principles
Yes. They are in high demand. Apple hired all of them.
we don't see animals or plants in the middle of a species transformation
All animals and plants are in the middle of a species transformation. That is why it is called "evolution."
No offense, but for the record, the parent post is a great example of how ID advocates spin evolution into a non-science.
Where? Considering what a mess we're in you would think they could have done a better job.
You say there are two kinds of web sites. Yet, ALL web sites are destinations. If usefulness is what gages service-ness then, well, a useless destination is one that no one goes to, so all destinations are pretty much services to a degree.
Your example translated into a real case is pretty much what amazon.com and buy.com were during the first IT bubble, so bringing that up now 10 years later is not news. In fact, if you consider amazon or google or match.com or myspace or ebay to be services, well they've been around for a long time, and pretty much have been doing the same thing. Ebay and amazon have added new 2.0-like features, but are they revolutionary? No. Lookup their web services and they've pretty much had those for a good 5 years too.
If you were to say new amazon2.0s and google2.0s are around the corner about to take over the world, as per your musicshop02.com exmample, then tell me more, but that is clearly not the case, and so there is no revolution.
As a surfer, you are free to place your favorite sites into two folders labeling one "destinations" and the other "services." If that helps you, that would be your revolution.
If you are reading a 2.0 strategy guide now, you have definitely missed the bandwagon. It may indeed be a great book, but hindsight is 20/20.
At the same time growth at musicshop01.com has been flat and is now beginning to drop as users become increasingly familiar with the services available at musicshop02.com.
Correct me if I am wrong, but this says musicshop01.com is in fact a destination, which still is no revolution.
You are thinking new thoughts in an old box. You have yet to escape it.
Welcome to the social revolution attempt.
I guarantee you 2.0 is not it.
It's a shame so many of you feel this way without any sort of objective research.
Research is *never* objective. Objectivity is the biggest myth of the current scientific paradigm.
having your code GPL'd WILL cause it to be put into more products
I would think this should read "... into more GPL products." Unfortunately, "GPL products" is an oxymoron as they are scarcely ever "products" as product implies they are commercial.
If you were to count market share and contributions to the economy as important factors for a license, I would have to say BSD won hands down with the impact they made through Apple.
I think the question is this. If you don't plan on making any money to begin with, would you rather have Apple or Sun reuse your project, or would you rather see some free offspring popup on sourceforge?
Both are great, and either way it is up to you. And being what they are, I doubt either is better since they clearly reflect different goals.
Dual licensing is the way to go for any commercial software house. BSD doesn't really require dual licensing, because if you select BSD you can make a commercial derivative regardless, and if the creator were to restrict their BSD license in a way that would restrict commercial derivatives, then you would end up with a GPL type license anyway.
A scammed seller has no recourse either way, unless it is through the courts.
The main reason why negative feedback was useful was because, well, to leave negative feedback. Just as the buyer can leave negative, so could the seller. It is fair game.
Now it is no longer fair game. Now buyers have more power. This is what eBay wanted, and this is what they got. If any of the backlash was unexpected, then giving buyers more power maybe was not what eBay should have wanted.
They don't know what they are doing... since 1996.
If this is true, someone just delete this story entirely. 99.9% of the replies are about Geek Squads needing PI licenses.
Just horrible.
I had the idea that that part of the ruling was more of a punishment/proactive measure against eBay for not being able to tell real and fake items apart.
"If they can't be responsible, then judge, please remove the right to sell anything of ours at all."
Unfortunately, the constitutional aspect makes for an easier appeal, so on second thought this might be a blessing for eBay and provide them with a way out.
EBay tries to avoid any responsibility with anything just like any responsible business would. However, that doesn't change the fact that eBay is a huge facilitator of criminal activity.
If eBay were non-profit and just had servers up, that may make them less evil, but in this case, for every fake handbag or nike shoe sold, eBay gets the listing fees and final value fees and paypal fees. It is in eBay's best interest to suck at monitoring their listings as much as corporately possible. Which is exactly what they do. How fast do you think they move when someone tries to sell a child? And most listings are APPROVED before they are listed. Why do you think it takes hours for them to appear in search results? They are deliberately turning a blind eye.
If eBay stuck to their original motto that they don't even look at listings and it's all just the users acting on their own, they may have had a stronger defense. But they couldn't keep that up for obvious reasons, and now that they claim they check listings, LVMH and everyone else have quite strong arguments against the legitimacy of how ebay conducts their business and profits from what they themselves admit to be a problem.
Regarding sales of legitimate LVMH, I don't think the judge is changing the law, or creating a special case here. He is merely punishing eBay as per LVMH's request, and it serves them right. The judge was obviously moved by the severity of the situation.
Ebay also used to have a Japanese site, but they pulled out pretty quickly because they couldn't sustain a legitimate lawful business in a country that has a low tolerance for counterfeit and fraud. That is saying something.
15K minimum, maybe more. Of which 1% would be 150 dollars. But since I don't have records since 1996, it would take me far longer than 30 minutes. I'd have to call banks to retrieve records. If I use my cell I'd be using minutes. I'd probably be on hold for 30 minutes. I'd have to wait for those records to arrive in the mail. I'd have to weed through everything. Heck, it would take 30 minutes just to go the post office and back. Sending it certified is 5 dollars. And once sent, then what? They don't even guarantee a refund at this point. So do I follow up or just forget about it?
My time is worth more than that. My conscience is worth more than that.
I just love how they can claim no liability, yet pay hundreds of millions of dollars. What are they? A charity all of a sudden? Of course they did something wrong. The mere fact that they are cashing out should make that evident. The games these people play in court is beyond me.
If you didn't do anything wrong, then why are you throwing money.
Not only is crashing a hassle, it is fatal.
30 tabs open of articles and search results, and poof. You wake up in the morning, and your open windows are gone. With FF2 I didn't need it so I had crash recovery turned off, but now it is a must.
I hope the FF team realizes how crucial stability is. Anything else is a far second.
FF2 would slow down, but at least you'd could react. FF3 just dies and takes down the castle with it.
They are both huge huge corporations.
They both have a ton of acquired businesses, products, and services that are buried in their rubble of bloat.
And they both, to this day, only make money from selling what got them into the business in the first place. For google that would be Adsense, and for MS, Windows and Office.
So whichever company you choose, you probably won't make a difference, just like all the failed developers before you.
Can Windows move forward with a completely new, fast, and secure OS and still keep legacy application support?
You mean, vista? Oh wait, no legacy support. It's also a little slower... and not all that new. Oooh, now I get it.
1. How can you not be generating CSS or HTML if the interface requires it?
we're never actually generating HTML or CSS
I am assuming that they mean they only generate Javascript, that then generates the HTML and CSS as necessary, but that is not to say you're not dealing with HTML or CSS entirely. It would be great if they abstract those elements away completely, but as is so often the case, when something isn't right and you have to fix it, one must resort to jumping over those barriers and hacking their way to where they can accomplish what is need.
2. 280 slides? Why do all these open source projects and Mac inspired projects end up cloning *old* microsoft products? Do you guys really think these app designs deserve that much recognition? You cannot think of any other way to build a slide editor other than to mimic the layout, the functionality, and even the default template. I guess Microsoft really nailed it on the head.
I've seen this time and time again. I say stop cloning, and do something creative with your new toys.