Sure, I can see it now. Sowhere in Darfur, someone gets a computer for free, with a free ad-driven version of Windows/Office. They make $2 a month and are forced to stare at the ads for Lexus and Grand Cherokees.. Uhhuhh...
I'm sure you will be told what to do with them as soon as the authorities find out that your stash of old smoke detectors in your garage weighs 20 metric tonnes by now..
I have been in the beta tests for Vista and have been very vocal on all the crap that showed up during the beta's. MS wouldn't listen. I even got a full Vista Ultimate license for free. It's in sitting in a drawer, I'm not letting Vista anywhere near a perfectly good working computer with XP or Ubuntu on it. Friends don't let friends run Vista.
And since you show so clearly the repetition of history, check out how the USSR is doing these day and think about how that would translate into the USA situation a couple of years down the road..
Either the next establishment will radically deal with the stupidity of the Bush administration and clean it up, or at some point the people will revolt and the USA will become a lot less United..
For reports on the INTERNATIONAL Space Station I find it really disturbing how much emphasis is placed on the failure of 'Russian' computers, and the ability of 'U.S.' equipment to save the day. It would show a lot more gut to report in a country neutral manner about the issue at hand.
I wish all people up there (Astronauts and cosmonauts alike) the very best in fixing this problem.
Oh boy, this response is *TRUELY INSIGHTFUL*. My modpoints expired yesterday, I would have loved to spend them all on this entry alone.
I have worked for US companies for many years and have many friends there. None of them agree with the way their country is trying to bully the world into what Bush thinks the world should look like. Get this idiot out of the White House!
If only the next US president can get to the conclusion that there will always be countries that are ran in a different way. That have different cultures and different moral standards. Just agree to disagree on some points. Leave everyone in their value. Stop this nonsense and get those American soldier back to where they belong, in the USA!
It's good to see that this patent is (or appears to be) registered as a free patent that can be used by anyone.
At the same time it is deeply sad to see that something so obvious and with prior art going back half a century can receive a patent at all. It's just sick.
When OEM's are providing customers an option to stay with XP, there no longer is an automatic 'Vista migration' anymore. The trick just went away. If Dell decides that they can't sell PC's with Vista but they can with XP, then Dell will continue to sell XP and customers will continue to get XP systems.
What's amazing is that the beta community has been loudly warning Microsoft for the imminent failure for more than a year. That's unprecedented as well. All Microsoft beta's are near-adorations of the company. Vista is the first where I saw open revolt against some of the stuff being pulled. And guess what, they did not listen.
I did read TFA, and it's just amazing how US lawmakers think they can govern the way Internet is being used and how it evolves, all from behind their desks. 10 out of 10 laws, good and bad, fail to take into account that these laws have no juristriction in other countries.
How does a US legislator come up with a law that tries to regulate information that may be property of an Australian entity, that sits on a German server and links to a French database hosted by a Lithouanian ISP? These laws are totally useless. Defective-by-design. And contrary to what that guy in the White House may think, America does not rule the world.
I do have mod points at this time, but parent is already at +5. This is a *very* insightful post indeed.
There is *NO* excuse, *NONE WHATSOEVER* that an operating system can have, to allow it to fail simply because an application does something wierd/wrong/illegal. An operating system is there to manage resources, and that includes protecting applications from another. A BSOD means a bug in the primary function of the O/S and is *CRITICAL*. It denies other applications their protection and it causes lost productivity. Stop using this O/S until the failures is explained and fixed.
If so, they are doing one hell of a job. I ordered mine mid-Januari, and the shop *still* cant give me an estimate delivery date. It sucks really bad...
It describes a voice adapter for Artisoft LANTastic in 1990. I used to operate a LANtastic network but didn't use the voice adapters. However, it seems to fit the 'prior art(isoft)' requirement;-)
This explains it all! Higher activity on the sun accounts for higher temperatures on Earth and Mars. Next thing you know there will be no explanation for global warming anymore..
Maybe, just maybe because the concept of FPGA's is waaaay over their head? It takes a basic understanding of electronics and gates to put together a useful circuit. FPGA's assume you have that understanding already and apply it to turn the FPGA into something useful.
Kids need to learn how to walk before they can run.
When making such radical changes to the soil, the first thing to look at is how water is being handled. Sandy soil lets water through, and in fact filters it quite nicely. Rock will keep the water on top, causing all sorts of interesting issues. Like cars and furniture floating thhrough the streets...
MS may not have an obligation to facilitate it's competitors, but they are damn well obliged to facilitate their customers.
Since MS wants to play in the high-end comuting environment, they must play nice with the computing wishes of these demanding users or they will be dropped like a hot potatoe by datacenters. VMWare is currently the only real game in town for datacenter consolidation, MS Virtual Server and XEN are waaay behind.
Sure. The shop will do that for you. If, and only if you and all other customers there are willing to spend the extra $$$ for such a service. But I'm sure before you go out and buy your Linksys router, you check price levels on a couple of sites. If that up-to-date Linksys in your local shop then shows up at 3x the price, I'm sure you will pass up and buy from that cheap place. So your shop with service will be out of business real soon.
The entire issue revolves around people wanting everything cheap. Quality costs money. Service costs money. As soon as peope are willing to pay for qualiry and service then I'm sure they will receive a lot better products.
If that is really their reponse, go ahead and substitute the word "Blog" with "Song", and throw it back at them. Maybe a very dim light will start to glow in their puny little minds.
Simply the fact that they went through the trouble of removing all the links and pictures tells me that this was a blatant attempt to scr*w the author out of his 25 Pounds. No-one goes through the trouble of doing this *ON A PUBLIC PRODUCTION WEBSERVER* just for testing.
If someone (say, the infamous "terrorist") walks around planning to do something bad, I'm sure in his mind it's recorded as doing something good. How is this system supposed to tell what's good and bad?
Just about every application that you can implement on Windows has some sort of equivalent on Linux, and usually more than one. The main issue is that Linux applications usually are harder to get up and running.
With Windows, usually you run setup.exe, click Next, Next, Next and you're sort-of-done. Basic functionality is up and running. Only when you want to get the real power from an application you'll need to start modifying settings, either through a GUI or sometimes by changing the registry.. That takes a considerable amount of knowledge, but you'll only need that knowledge when you need more that rock-bottom basic functionality
On Linux you need that knowledge upfront. You start with./configure;make; make install. That's when you find that you need a specific compiler to get the app running. Oh, and an extra set of libraries. And a specific kernel release.. And... and...
It's more exception than rule that a large app works out of the box. It can be -made- to work with some knowledge, but it hardly ever does with a Next, Next, Next approach. As long as that doesn't change I don't think there will be wide-spread adaptation as a Windows server replacement.
The board is already full of power regulators, they just need to adjust the input range. The CPU uses voltages way below 3.3V. My point is that it doesn't seem to make sense to design a board this small and then rely on an external power supply that is about the same size or even bigger. Even the specially designed CarPC power supplies are at least this size.
Your idea about tucking a server in a CDROM is cool, but trips over the same power supply issue. Unless you plan on using a big-tower and build a Beowolf cluster of these;-)
This is something I don't understand. This should be the ideal motherboard for a Car PC. But this board yet again insists on an ATX power supply.
Why not design a single supply board? Preferrably wide-range input (say 8 - 28V) and be done with it? These boards don't need +/- 12V anyway, and +5V or +3.3V is already regulated down to core voltages.
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Sure, I can see it now. Sowhere in Darfur, someone gets a computer for free, with a free ad-driven version of Windows/Office. They make $2 a month and are forced to stare at the ads for Lexus and Grand Cherokees.. Uhhuhh...
I'm sure you will be told what to do with them as soon as the authorities find out that your stash of old smoke detectors in your garage weighs 20 metric tonnes by now..
I have been in the beta tests for Vista and have been very vocal on all the crap that showed up during the beta's. MS wouldn't listen. I even got a full Vista Ultimate license for free. It's in sitting in a drawer, I'm not letting Vista anywhere near a perfectly good working computer with XP or Ubuntu on it. Friends don't let friends run Vista.
And since you show so clearly the repetition of history, check out how the USSR is doing these day and think about how that would translate into the USA situation a couple of years down the road..
Either the next establishment will radically deal with the stupidity of the Bush administration and clean it up, or at some point the people will revolt and the USA will become a lot less United..
For reports on the INTERNATIONAL Space Station I find it really disturbing how much emphasis is placed on the failure of 'Russian' computers, and the ability of 'U.S.' equipment to save the day. It would show a lot more gut to report in a country neutral manner about the issue at hand.
I wish all people up there (Astronauts and cosmonauts alike) the very best in fixing this problem.
Oh boy, this response is *TRUELY INSIGHTFUL*. My modpoints expired yesterday, I would have loved to spend them all on this entry alone.
I have worked for US companies for many years and have many friends there. None of them agree with the way their country is trying to bully the world into what Bush thinks the world should look like. Get this idiot out of the White House!
If only the next US president can get to the conclusion that there will always be countries that are ran in a different way. That have different cultures and different moral standards. Just agree to disagree on some points. Leave everyone in their value. Stop this nonsense and get those American soldier back to where they belong, in the USA!
However, you chose to post as an Anonymous Coward. That wouldn't by any chance have anything to do with fear for your fellow believers, would it now??
It's good to see that this patent is (or appears to be) registered as a free patent that can be used by anyone.
At the same time it is deeply sad to see that something so obvious and with prior art going back half a century can receive a patent at all. It's just sick.
When OEM's are providing customers an option to stay with XP, there no longer is an automatic 'Vista migration' anymore. The trick just went away. If Dell decides that they can't sell PC's with Vista but they can with XP, then Dell will continue to sell XP and customers will continue to get XP systems.
What's amazing is that the beta community has been loudly warning Microsoft for the imminent failure for more than a year. That's unprecedented as well. All Microsoft beta's are near-adorations of the company. Vista is the first where I saw open revolt against some of the stuff being pulled. And guess what, they did not listen.
I did read TFA, and it's just amazing how US lawmakers think they can govern the way Internet is being used and how it evolves, all from behind their desks. 10 out of 10 laws, good and bad, fail to take into account that these laws have no juristriction in other countries.
How does a US legislator come up with a law that tries to regulate information that may be property of an Australian entity, that sits on a German server and links to a French database hosted by a Lithouanian ISP? These laws are totally useless. Defective-by-design. And contrary to what that guy in the White House may think, America does not rule the world.
I do have mod points at this time, but parent is already at +5. This is a *very* insightful post indeed.
There is *NO* excuse, *NONE WHATSOEVER* that an operating system can have, to allow it to fail simply because an application does something wierd/wrong/illegal. An operating system is there to manage resources, and that includes protecting applications from another. A BSOD means a bug in the primary function of the O/S and is *CRITICAL*. It denies other applications their protection and it causes lost productivity. Stop using this O/S until the failures is explained and fixed.
If so, they are doing one hell of a job. I ordered mine mid-Januari, and the shop *still* cant give me an estimate delivery date. It sucks really bad...
How about this link: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1161458,00.as p
;-)
It describes a voice adapter for Artisoft LANTastic in 1990. I used to operate a LANtastic network but didn't use the voice adapters. However, it seems to fit the 'prior art(isoft)' requirement
This explains it all! Higher activity on the sun accounts for higher temperatures on Earth and Mars. Next thing you know there will be no explanation for global warming anymore..
Maybe, just maybe because the concept of FPGA's is waaaay over their head? It takes a basic understanding of electronics and gates to put together a useful circuit. FPGA's assume you have that understanding already and apply it to turn the FPGA into something useful.
Kids need to learn how to walk before they can run.
When making such radical changes to the soil, the first thing to look at is how water is being handled. Sandy soil lets water through, and in fact filters it quite nicely. Rock will keep the water on top, causing all sorts of interesting issues. Like cars and furniture floating thhrough the streets...
MS may not have an obligation to facilitate it's competitors, but they are damn well obliged to facilitate their customers.
Since MS wants to play in the high-end comuting environment, they must play nice with the computing wishes of these demanding users or they will be dropped like a hot potatoe by datacenters. VMWare is currently the only real game in town for datacenter consolidation, MS Virtual Server and XEN are waaay behind.
Sure. The shop will do that for you. If, and only if you and all other customers there are willing to spend the extra $$$ for such a service. But I'm sure before you go out and buy your Linksys router, you check price levels on a couple of sites. If that up-to-date Linksys in your local shop then shows up at 3x the price, I'm sure you will pass up and buy from that cheap place. So your shop with service will be out of business real soon.
The entire issue revolves around people wanting everything cheap. Quality costs money. Service costs money. As soon as peope are willing to pay for qualiry and service then I'm sure they will receive a lot better products.
If that is really their reponse, go ahead and substitute the word "Blog" with "Song", and throw it back at them. Maybe a very dim light will start to glow in their puny little minds.
Simply the fact that they went through the trouble of removing all the links and pictures tells me that this was a blatant attempt to scr*w the author out of his 25 Pounds. No-one goes through the trouble of doing this *ON A PUBLIC PRODUCTION WEBSERVER* just for testing.
If someone (say, the infamous "terrorist") walks around planning to do something bad, I'm sure in his mind it's recorded as doing something good. How is this system supposed to tell what's good and bad?
Just about every application that you can implement on Windows has some sort of equivalent on Linux, and usually more than one. The main issue is that Linux applications usually are harder to get up and running.
./configure;make; make install. That's when you find that you need a specific compiler to get the app running. Oh, and an extra set of libraries. And a specific kernel release.. And... and...
With Windows, usually you run setup.exe, click Next, Next, Next and you're sort-of-done. Basic functionality is up and running. Only when you want to get the real power from an application you'll need to start modifying settings, either through a GUI or sometimes by changing the registry.. That takes a considerable amount of knowledge, but you'll only need that knowledge when you need more that rock-bottom basic functionality
On Linux you need that knowledge upfront. You start with
It's more exception than rule that a large app works out of the box. It can be -made- to work with some knowledge, but it hardly ever does with a Next, Next, Next approach. As long as that doesn't change I don't think there will be wide-spread adaptation as a Windows server replacement.
Maybe some folkes can send the invoices for lost time and consultancy hours spent on fixing their systems.
I'm sure that will be just a bit over $150...
The board is already full of power regulators, they just need to adjust the input range. The CPU uses voltages way below 3.3V. My point is that it doesn't seem to make sense to design a board this small and then rely on an external power supply that is about the same size or even bigger. Even the specially designed CarPC power supplies are at least this size.
;-)
Your idea about tucking a server in a CDROM is cool, but trips over the same power supply issue. Unless you plan on using a big-tower and build a Beowolf cluster of these
This is something I don't understand. This should be the ideal motherboard for a Car PC. But this board yet again insists on an ATX power supply.
Why not design a single supply board? Preferrably wide-range input (say 8 - 28V) and be done with it? These boards don't need +/- 12V anyway, and +5V or +3.3V is already regulated down to core voltages.
No, that's due to excessive smoking (from you, not the monitor)