Invasion of Kuwait? Just incase anyone doesn't remember that was 23 years ago and the US bombed them for it. I am actually all for getting rid of that government but the way it is being done frankly is in violation of US law IMHO. The War Powers Resolution of 1973 says that. "The War Powers Resolution requires the President to notify Congress within 48 hours of committing armed forces to military action and forbids armed forces from remaining for more than 60 days, with a further 30 day withdrawal period, without an authorization of the use of military force or a declaration of war. "
The current administration says that we have not been involved in hostile actions. "The two senior administration lawyers contended that American forces had not been in “hostilities” at least since early April, when NATO took over the responsibility for the no-fly zone and the United States shifted to primarily a supporting role — providing refueling and surveillance to allied warplanes, although remotely piloted drones operated by the United States periodically fire missiles, too."
Is everyone really okay with this level of following the law? As I said is it okay to do what you want as long as it is with drones? What about cruise missiles then? They are just one way drones. Sorry but when you unleash the military one should not play fast an free with the rules. Every i should be dotted and every t should be crossed.
How are ground attack missions part of a "No Fly Zone"? And where are the anti-war protestors? Just wondering if it is okay to make all the strikes you want without the approval of congress as long as it is just with drones? And was the Libyan government any more evil, corrupt, and dangerous than Iraq?
Why did it hit Slashdot? Because it effected Va, Washington DC, NY, Oh, Pa, Ma, and goodness knows how many other states. Total population effected well many times the population of Co.
I did play with it at the store. I wasn't impressed but they didn't have Mango on it. I am just pointing out best tech doesn't always win and that applications or in this case apps are king. WP7 Mango is in the same position as BeOS, AmigaOS, GEM, and MacOS was in the early to mid 80s. It maybe as good or even better but it isn't better enough at this point. For me I already used Google Mail and now I use Google Voice and Google+ a lot. I use RDIO for my music and have several play lists and my wife uses Spotify because she has a Pre for now. Want to talk to a ticked off WebOS user? Just contact my wife she now hates HP. The turn by turn means a lot to me. I have to drive I live in a small city in South Florida. My Father lives in a small town a bit north, my brother lives in Orland, and my wife's family lives two days drive away in Dallas Texas. It is just to handy to use the navigation . That and if you ever travel you just mark your hotel and you can never really get lost. If you go on a drive and get lost just have it route you back. Combine the lack of navigation, google Voice, and a general lack of apps and it isn't worth it to me. On the plus side they do support Kindle, RDIO, and TuneIn Radio BTW if you don't have TuneIn Radio I suggest you get it. I use it as may alarm clock. As well as us it to listen to radio from around the world. The thing is that Odds are that when Mango ships so will the next version of Android and the iPhone 5. WP7 right now is too little too late. Mango WP7 may also be too little to late to gain any real marketshare.
Doesn't matter. In 1986 you had the Commodore Amiga with multi-tasking, a flat memory model, stereo sound, and a real OS. Then you had MS-DOS with a limit of 33 megabytes on a partition and no real graphics, audio, multitasking or much of anything really. Which won? As good isn't good enough. Better isn't good enough. Mind-numbingly better is just barley going to be good enough. Frankly the lack of turn by turn is enough for me to not want it.
You mean it is is in the top three or four? I find it amusing because Microsoft is in the same boat that it has put every other OS in since the DOS days. A large number of users have already gone to Android and IOS. They have the most apps and support. Not to mention that a lot of people on Android are fully intwined in the Google ecosystem of gmail, google music, google plus, and so on. Microsoft now has to so much better than everything else that people will go through the pain of leaving. Today new smartphone users are not the early adopter types so they will go to the platforms that everybody else is on. A lot of people will compair this to the Xbox but it is very different at least in the US. The hard core gamers will drop a few hundred on getting a second or even third console just to try it out. In the US you are often tied to a carrier for two years and a platform mistake is painful. That and most people do not have buy extra cell phones to try out. A few may have two a work and personal phone but most people have a single phone. WP7 is just not good enough to make people jump ship.
Actually WebOS was good enough. The SDK at least the first release was crippled and then HP... Well HP spent 1.2 Billion on it and then waited a year to ship products that where already in the pipeline. The Pre3 should have shipped 8 months ago an should have the Touchpad.
By 1990 we where already 9 years into the PC lifecycle. In those ten years we gone through 4 generations of mainstream video standards, three generations of CPUs, and where on the third generation of Windows, and frankly the first usable one but still version three." It was well after the standard was set. The thing was that even with all that development on the "standard". It still sucked to high heaven. The Mac, Amiga, and Atari ST where all still better and they where all from the mid 80s. If you adopt a standard too soon you are often stuck with it for a long time the PC is a great example. I often jokes that I hated to use PCs because they where more primative than my oldcommodore 64 or Amiga. Yes the Beagle and Gumstixx are both very interesting. Most applications will run on both just fine. The trouble is when you want to do something with GPIO and or SPI. As I said for those we need a standard interface. With that you could add a USB to SPI bridge to a PC and do your development on a PC while accessing all the hardware. Same thing with GPIO, CAN BUS and so on. For GPIO you could always use a printer port if you are on a desktop.
1: Sell phones by Motorola and compete against HTC, ZTE, and Samsung who may just get tired of Android and go completely WM like Nokia.
Except that WP7 is failing. I know that the magical Mango is doing to come out and make everything better not to mention that each phone will come with a free unicorn from Microsoft but it is floundering. HTC and Samsung are already making WP7 and I am not sure they are very happy about the state of WP7 or the new special relationship between Microsoft and Nokia.
2: Sell MM, keeping the patents. Could happen but I do not see it. I guess they could sell it to ZTE like IBM sold it PCs to Lenovo.
3: Spin MM off as a separate company. Maybe. 4: Just shut down MM entirely. Not for a while. I really doubt that Samsung and HTC are too worried. They both have done very well with Android and have been competing with each other and MM for a while now. Motorla Phones I hope will come with unlocked bootloaders and stock android. Honestly if the Photon 4G was stock android I would get it ASAP. If Google releases the OS to everyone at the same time I doubt that Samsung and HTC will worry too much. I am guessing that they will be involved with the development of Android much like they are now. The people that should worry about their jobs are the Blur team.
And you would be oh so very wrong. Heck at that price it is a cheap Digital Picture frame. The SDK is out so you could write what every you want for it. For nothing more than a mobile media player and web browser it is great for $99.
Sure Caroline Thornton African American. Went into the army and now a counselor. Phyllis Green white Last I heard a hair dresser. Steve Davidson African American Last I heard was in the Marines but that was a long time ago. David Meyers African American. In upper management at a large corporation. Lisa Kraft white married and divorced. Other than that I don't know. Mike Paterson white Army Chaplin. Tim Smith white Software Developer last I heard. So no cookie for you. No one got a cookie.
Yes they are but where those the ones that didn't get the grants? Also who judges which names carry meaning? I am saying that someone is jumping to a conclusion without enough data. To check the results they would need to spend some amount of time with no names or Schools listed on the grant proposals and see if the results change. It could be that the right proposes where being picked based on merit alone and this is all just coincidence. The names you listed are all neutral to me. Maybe it comes from the years of dealing with thousands of customers. I hear all sorts of names and just write it off as noise.
Man this and the reactions to it are dumb. "Ask the world's most famous kernel developer what he thinks of the virtualization wars going on the Linux community between KVM and Xen and you'll hear a condemnation (of a sort) of them both. "I'm not a virtualization kind of guy. I think virtualization is evil," Linus Torvalds told the crowd at LinuxCon on Wednesday during his keynote interview session with Greg Kroah-Hartman." Linus doesn't like using and probably really doesn't like dealing with this war. If you read more. ""I built a kernel because I wanted to get my hands grubby with things like I/O ports."" Really this headline is taken so out of context that it isn't funny. But it got people to flame on Slash and probably a lot of hits.
Wrong! They are buying Motorola Mobile. It has not gone through yet. Wow more spin. How about waiting until the deal is done for a bit and see what happens.
Hey it is much better than the "HIV Cures Cancer" headline they posted. I swear that Slashdot is just about at the Midnight Sun level of integrity. Man I used to really love Slashdot, that is until they decided that we need their insite.
Well on a side note if you want to see what Visicalc was like http://www.bricklin.com/history/vcexecutable.htm You can download it free legal. It still runs and is still a useful tool Its also only like 27k!
You got one correct. Failed to detect two others. While their are some names that are often indicative to a race a lot are not. As I said one shouldn't make guesses about things like this. Do a study and remove the names and universities from the grants. If the quality of the university has any value to the grant replace the name with a quality number. It would be easier to vet those for accuracy since they could all be made public and the university could protest their grading.
Maybe the studies looked at where not as good? Black sounding names? Here is a list of real people I went to school with. Caroline Thornton. Phyllis Green Steve Davidson David Meyers Lisa Kraft Mike Paterson Tim Smith
So tell me which ones if any are African american? Maybe in this sample they projects where less interesting than the others? If this is a real worry then take the names and university off the grant apps for a while and see what happens.
No graphic cards where not upgraded very six months. CGA 1981 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Graphics_Adapter EGA October of 1984. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_Graphics_Adapter VGA 1987 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Graphics_Array Hercules was in the 1982-83 area but they where not a "Standard" card but where well supported but also only mono. As you can see before the OS offered drivers and abstracted the hardware change was slow. You really had to wait for IBM to set a "standard" or you had to hope that your software supported your hardware. The thing is that we don't need standardized ARM hardware. What we need is for the hardware makers to write drivers and or document them and support FOSS development. It isn't that hard. Look at the Beagle board and the Gummstix as examples.
Patients can and do support innovation. The thing is that like everything else they can abused and some patients should never have been awarded. Software and process patients didn't exist for the a long time. That changed in the 1990s and that is when things got nuts. Before then you used copyright to protect software which to me is logical. You can look at software patients from two sides. Take VisiCalc for instance. It was the first spreadsheet for microcomputers and some say the first at all. Had their been software patients VisiCorp would still be around and it would be huge. The down side is that we wouldn't have Excel. Would VisiCorp kept improving their product if no one else could have made a spreadsheet? Actually they might have. They could have also just offered licenses for a reasonable amount. Maybe 3%. If so they would have collected $15 from every Lotus 123 sale and goodness knows how much from other software makers. I am sure that the author of Visicalc would have been very happy to have had patient protection. While I am anti patients I will say I can see why some would really like them and it isn't just all mega corps.
A strange complaint. Goods from outside your country cost more than goods from inside? That gives an Australian company a chance to build and sell products for less. Most nations get bent out of shape when consumer products cost less in their nation than in the producing nation. It is called dumping.
Oh my company sells software in Australia the price is the same as it is in the US. We charge the exchange rate at the time of sale. Maybe we should just make the price in AUS Dollars and add a bit:) Just kidding.
Of course the SystemZ is still very popular. VMS is still with us but last I looked it was shrinking in market share. It is a shame since VMS would run very well on a modern PC.
Pascal was often run on a VM back in the day. It was called the P machine. VM have their place and frankly JIT compilers make them very usable. The thing is that I feel that mainstream OSs have missed a great opportunity to be CPU independent by not using VMs. Now they way that I would use would be to replace the JIT compiler with a Load time compiler. When an Executable loads for the for the first time it compiles the code and stores it in a Mass storage based cache. When you run it again it loads the cache version of the code. You could modify the concept to do the compile at install from your ideal virtual machine as well. IBM has used this system in the Model 38/AS400/ Series I/ whatever they call it now http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System_i#Instruction_set With it you could run any software on any CPU. With that you could have the performance of native code and the portablity of a VM. Oh and you can have managed native code. I mean there are GCs for C for goodness sakes.
Mod yourself down. You do know that many applications are written in c and c++ don't you. I don't like c++ because it is nothing but c with object tacked on. I can use it but I don't like it. Objective C has IMHO a much better object model as does Java. But guess what sparky you are probably using apps write now written in c or c++ like maybe your browser.
I was talking way back when. I was tempted to use IBM 370 or 360 in the comment but I was afraid no one would know what those where. In a way it is sad. People don't know just how secure VMS was and still is, not to mention the alphabet soup of IBM mainframe OSs. Those and others like TOPS-20 where all examples of secure OSs run by professionals.
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Invasion of Kuwait? Just incase anyone doesn't remember that was 23 years ago and the US bombed them for it.
I am actually all for getting rid of that government but the way it is being done frankly is in violation of US law IMHO.
The War Powers Resolution of 1973 says that.
"The War Powers Resolution requires the President to notify Congress within 48 hours of committing armed forces to military action and forbids armed forces from remaining for more than 60 days, with a further 30 day withdrawal period, without an authorization of the use of military force or a declaration of war. "
The current administration says that we have not been involved in hostile actions.
"The two senior administration lawyers contended that American forces had not been in “hostilities” at least since early April, when NATO took over the responsibility for the no-fly zone and the United States shifted to primarily a supporting role — providing refueling and surveillance to allied warplanes, although remotely piloted drones operated by the United States periodically fire missiles, too."
Is everyone really okay with this level of following the law? As I said is it okay to do what you want as long as it is with drones? What about cruise missiles then? They are just one way drones.
Sorry but when you unleash the military one should not play fast an free with the rules. Every i should be dotted and every t should be crossed.
How are ground attack missions part of a "No Fly Zone"? And where are the anti-war protestors?
Just wondering if it is okay to make all the strikes you want without the approval of congress as long as it is just with drones?
And was the Libyan government any more evil, corrupt, and dangerous than Iraq?
Why did it hit Slashdot? Because it effected Va, Washington DC, NY, Oh, Pa, Ma, and goodness knows how many other states. Total population effected well many times the population of Co.
I did play with it at the store. I wasn't impressed but they didn't have Mango on it. I am just pointing out best tech doesn't always win and that applications or in this case apps are king. WP7 Mango is in the same position as BeOS, AmigaOS, GEM, and MacOS was in the early to mid 80s. It maybe as good or even better but it isn't better enough at this point. For me I already used Google Mail and now I use Google Voice and Google+ a lot. I use RDIO for my music and have several play lists and my wife uses Spotify because she has a Pre for now. Want to talk to a ticked off WebOS user? Just contact my wife she now hates HP. The turn by turn means a lot to me. I have to drive I live in a small city in South Florida. My Father lives in a small town a bit north, my brother lives in Orland, and my wife's family lives two days drive away in Dallas Texas. It is just to handy to use the navigation . That and if you ever travel you just mark your hotel and you can never really get lost. If you go on a drive and get lost just have it route you back.
Combine the lack of navigation, google Voice, and a general lack of apps and it isn't worth it to me. On the plus side they do support Kindle, RDIO, and TuneIn Radio BTW if you don't have TuneIn Radio I suggest you get it. I use it as may alarm clock. As well as us it to listen to radio from around the world.
The thing is that Odds are that when Mango ships so will the next version of Android and the iPhone 5. WP7 right now is too little too late. Mango WP7 may also be too little to late to gain any real marketshare.
Doesn't matter. In 1986 you had the Commodore Amiga with multi-tasking, a flat memory model, stereo sound, and a real OS. Then you had MS-DOS with a limit of 33 megabytes on a partition and no real graphics, audio, multitasking or much of anything really.
Which won?
As good isn't good enough. Better isn't good enough. Mind-numbingly better is just barley going to be good enough. Frankly the lack of turn by turn is enough for me to not want it.
You mean it is is in the top three or four?
I find it amusing because Microsoft is in the same boat that it has put every other OS in since the DOS days.
A large number of users have already gone to Android and IOS. They have the most apps and support. Not to mention that a lot of people on Android are fully intwined in the Google ecosystem of gmail, google music, google plus, and so on.
Microsoft now has to so much better than everything else that people will go through the pain of leaving. Today new smartphone users are not the early adopter types so they will go to the platforms that everybody else is on.
A lot of people will compair this to the Xbox but it is very different at least in the US. The hard core gamers will drop a few hundred on getting a second or even third console just to try it out. In the US you are often tied to a carrier for two years and a platform mistake is painful. That and most people do not have buy extra cell phones to try out. A few may have two a work and personal phone but most people have a single phone.
WP7 is just not good enough to make people jump ship.
Actually WebOS was good enough. The SDK at least the first release was crippled and then HP... Well HP spent 1.2 Billion on it and then waited a year to ship products that where already in the pipeline. The Pre3 should have shipped 8 months ago an should have the Touchpad.
By 1990 we where already 9 years into the PC lifecycle. In those ten years we gone through 4 generations of mainstream video standards, three generations of CPUs, and where on the third generation of Windows, and frankly the first usable one but still version three." It was well after the standard was set. The thing was that even with all that development on the "standard". It still sucked to high heaven.
The Mac, Amiga, and Atari ST where all still better and they where all from the mid 80s. If you adopt a standard too soon you are often stuck with it for a long time the PC is a great example. I often jokes that I hated to use PCs because they where more primative than my oldcommodore 64 or Amiga.
Yes the Beagle and Gumstixx are both very interesting. Most applications will run on both just fine. The trouble is when you want to do something with GPIO and or SPI. As I said for those we need a standard interface. With that you could add a USB to SPI bridge to a PC and do your development on a PC while accessing all the hardware. Same thing with GPIO, CAN BUS and so on. For GPIO you could always use a printer port if you are on a desktop.
1: Sell phones by Motorola and compete against HTC, ZTE, and Samsung who may just get tired of Android and go completely WM like Nokia.
Except that WP7 is failing. I know that the magical Mango is doing to come out and make everything better not to mention that each phone will come with a free unicorn from Microsoft but it is floundering. HTC and Samsung are already making WP7 and I am not sure they are very happy about the state of WP7 or the new special relationship between Microsoft and Nokia.
2: Sell MM, keeping the patents.
Could happen but I do not see it. I guess they could sell it to ZTE like IBM sold it PCs to Lenovo.
3: Spin MM off as a separate company.
Maybe.
4: Just shut down MM entirely.
Not for a while.
I really doubt that Samsung and HTC are too worried. They both have done very well with Android and have been competing with each other and MM for a while now. Motorla Phones I hope will come with unlocked bootloaders and stock android. Honestly if the Photon 4G was stock android I would get it ASAP. If Google releases the OS to everyone at the same time I doubt that Samsung and HTC will worry too much. I am guessing that they will be involved with the development of Android much like they are now. The people that should worry about their jobs are the Blur team.
And you would be oh so very wrong. Heck at that price it is a cheap Digital Picture frame. The SDK is out so you could write what every you want for it. For nothing more than a mobile media player and web browser it is great for $99.
Sure
Caroline Thornton African American. Went into the army and now a counselor.
Phyllis Green white Last I heard a hair dresser.
Steve Davidson African American Last I heard was in the Marines but that was a long time ago.
David Meyers African American. In upper management at a large corporation.
Lisa Kraft white married and divorced. Other than that I don't know.
Mike Paterson white Army Chaplin.
Tim Smith white Software Developer last I heard.
So no cookie for you. No one got a cookie.
Yes they are but where those the ones that didn't get the grants? Also who judges which names carry meaning?
I am saying that someone is jumping to a conclusion without enough data. To check the results they would need to spend some amount of time with no names or Schools listed on the grant proposals and see if the results change. It could be that the right proposes where being picked based on merit alone and this is all just coincidence.
The names you listed are all neutral to me. Maybe it comes from the years of dealing with thousands of customers. I hear all sorts of names and just write it off as noise.
Man this and the reactions to it are dumb.
"Ask the world's most famous kernel developer what he thinks of the virtualization wars going on the Linux community between KVM and Xen and you'll hear a condemnation (of a sort) of them both. "I'm not a virtualization kind of guy. I think virtualization is evil," Linus Torvalds told the crowd at LinuxCon on Wednesday during his keynote interview session with Greg Kroah-Hartman."
Linus doesn't like using and probably really doesn't like dealing with this war.
If you read more. ""I built a kernel because I wanted to get my hands grubby with things like I/O ports.""
Really this headline is taken so out of context that it isn't funny. But it got people to flame on Slash and probably a lot of hits.
Wrong! They are buying Motorola Mobile. It has not gone through yet. Wow more spin. How about waiting until the deal is done for a bit and see what happens.
Hey it is much better than the "HIV Cures Cancer" headline they posted. I swear that Slashdot is just about at the Midnight Sun level of integrity. Man I used to really love Slashdot, that is until they decided that we need their insite.
Well on a side note if you want to see what Visicalc was like http://www.bricklin.com/history/vcexecutable.htm
You can download it free legal. It still runs and is still a useful tool Its also only like 27k!
You got one correct. Failed to detect two others. While their are some names that are often indicative to a race a lot are not. As I said one shouldn't make guesses about things like this. Do a study and remove the names and universities from the grants. If the quality of the university has any value to the grant replace the name with a quality number. It would be easier to vet those for accuracy since they could all be made public and the university could protest their grading.
Maybe the studies looked at where not as good? Black sounding names? Here is a list of real people I went to school with.
Caroline Thornton.
Phyllis Green
Steve Davidson
David Meyers
Lisa Kraft
Mike Paterson
Tim Smith
So tell me which ones if any are African american?
Maybe in this sample they projects where less interesting than the others?
If this is a real worry then take the names and university off the grant apps for a while and see what happens.
No graphic cards where not upgraded very six months.
CGA 1981 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Graphics_Adapter
EGA October of 1984. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_Graphics_Adapter
VGA 1987 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Graphics_Array
Hercules was in the 1982-83 area but they where not a "Standard" card but where well supported but also only mono.
As you can see before the OS offered drivers and abstracted the hardware change was slow. You really had to wait for IBM to set a "standard" or you had to hope that your software supported your hardware.
The thing is that we don't need standardized ARM hardware. What we need is for the hardware makers to write drivers and or document them and support FOSS development.
It isn't that hard. Look at the Beagle board and the Gummstix as examples.
Patients can and do support innovation. The thing is that like everything else they can abused and some patients should never have been awarded.
Software and process patients didn't exist for the a long time. That changed in the 1990s and that is when things got nuts. Before then you used copyright to protect software which to me is logical.
You can look at software patients from two sides.
Take VisiCalc for instance. It was the first spreadsheet for microcomputers and some say the first at all. Had their been software patients VisiCorp would still be around and it would be huge. The down side is that we wouldn't have Excel. Would VisiCorp kept improving their product if no one else could have made a spreadsheet? Actually they might have. They could have also just offered licenses for a reasonable amount. Maybe 3%. If so they would have collected $15 from every Lotus 123 sale and goodness knows how much from other software makers. I am sure that the author of Visicalc would have been very happy to have had patient protection.
While I am anti patients I will say I can see why some would really like them and it isn't just all mega corps.
A strange complaint. Goods from outside your country cost more than goods from inside? That gives an Australian company a chance to build and sell products for less. Most nations get bent out of shape when consumer products cost less in their nation than in the producing nation. It is called dumping.
Oh my company sells software in Australia the price is the same as it is in the US. We charge the exchange rate at the time of sale. Maybe we should just make the price in AUS Dollars and add a bit :) Just kidding.
Of course the SystemZ is still very popular. VMS is still with us but last I looked it was shrinking in market share. It is a shame since VMS would run very well on a modern PC.
Pascal was often run on a VM back in the day. It was called the P machine.
VM have their place and frankly JIT compilers make them very usable. The thing is that I feel that mainstream OSs have missed a great opportunity to be CPU independent by not using VMs.
Now they way that I would use would be to replace the JIT compiler with a Load time compiler. When an Executable loads for the for the first time it compiles the code and stores it in a Mass storage based cache. When you run it again it loads the cache version of the code. You could modify the concept to do the compile at install from your ideal virtual machine as well. IBM has used this system in the Model 38/AS400/ Series I/ whatever they call it now http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System_i#Instruction_set
With it you could run any software on any CPU.
With that you could have the performance of native code and the portablity of a VM. Oh and you can have managed native code. I mean there are GCs for C for goodness sakes.
Mod yourself down. You do know that many applications are written in c and c++ don't you.
I don't like c++ because it is nothing but c with object tacked on. I can use it but I don't like it. Objective C has IMHO a much better object model as does Java.
But guess what sparky you are probably using apps write now written in c or c++ like maybe your browser.
I was talking way back when.
I was tempted to use IBM 370 or 360 in the comment but I was afraid no one would know what those where.
In a way it is sad. People don't know just how secure VMS was and still is, not to mention the alphabet soup of IBM mainframe OSs. Those and others like TOPS-20 where all examples of secure OSs run by professionals.