it's not the service provider that's evil....they're just in business to sell you something. u can always buy from someone else, or don't buy at all.
the true evils are those greedy US executives who want to push up their stock price by listening to offshoring sales pitches and actually subscribing to their philosophy.
and on another note, most of the "former IT" jobs from USA are sent to Bangalore, Mumbai, New Delhi, and other-indian-cities-i-can't-spell
let's see...all those investment bankers who hop around to sell their IPO...
they were already gonna spend that kind of money on a private jet, so why on a Concorde-successor that will save them twice the time, so they can get to twice the number of investors within a day/week ?
i think there's a decent-size market of businessmen between North American and Japan/China that will appreciate the HUGE time savings when frequently traveling across the Pacific Ocean. Instead of having to eat 3 meals, 2 movies, and 1 hibernation, a businessman can depart San Francisco at 9am, have brunch on the plane, browse the internet and work on polishing his powerpoint presentation, take a quick 1.5 hr nap, and arrive at Shanghai at 7:30am, refreshed, and ready to meet with his business partners.
what we need is a Concorde-replacement, not more bureaucracy and political bickering.
they're eager to learn, they've learnt the latest language features of Java and Python and C# from college, they're relative low-cost, they work hard and are willing to work overtime with no questions asked, and it'll also give them valuable real-world experience which will make them a much more valuable asset when they graduate and are ready to enter the work force.
the hardest challenge i find as a manager is to balance the challenge of the work, while not overwhelming them
CDMA's failure of dominance stems from one major flaw - the lack of SIM card. Without it, carriers must strike deals with phone manufacturers. Consumers will be limited to whatever their negotiations result, instead of free market choices of phones like in Europe or Asian. With Sprint, it's basically Sanyo and Samung, while for Verizon, it's Motorola and LG. And if my phone dies, i must go to the store to repair it. With GSM, I can just swap out the SIM card to a backup phone (previous one perhaps), then I'm good to go.
Creationist can feel free to reject evolution, then their kids will fail SAT Biology, fail AP Biology, fail to get into the best of academia, and write research-papers so laughable the peers refuse to review them
Companies are willing to hire outrageously expensive consultants to re-invent existing code if it's too hard to update or maintain, and they have absolutely no reason to keep people around just to maintain obscure code.
In talk it makes sense to send EACH single keystroke, because chances are, people are logged onto the same Unix system, so the roundtrip communication time is basically the system bus - i.e. instant.
with the internet, u're confined to (a) the size of an IP packet, and (b) ur pipe. A 100byte message would've exploded into 20KB worth of IPv4 headers.
privacy is important, but if we follow the philosopher to the parent thread, we'll have to use PGP and Blowfish to encrypt all our emails and IMs, even when we're not discussing hush-hush topics.
Too much privacy, and we'll end up with someone like Unabomber living in a hut in Montana with no human interaction. Too little privacy, and we'll be slaves to the Patriot Act.
isn't this a case of indirect industrial price-fixing? by forcing you to buy a DRM-enabled monitor, they can easily collude and charge a, say, 20% premium, over a standard LCD.
Another reason why Tiger and Leopard makes Longhorn look long-in-the-tooth ^^
That's where Rosetta and Universal Binary comes in. While UB enables new versions of software to run on both platforms in one single executable image, Rosetta allows PPC-emulation on Intel by using JIT. Thus - software compatibility is no issue.
The question is more : how much slower will Rosetta make existing apps run on Intel given a G5 and an x86 of similar SpecInt/SpecFP ?
The chip prevents MacOS on generic Wintel, but what about the vice versa scenario, in which people install cheapo WinXP on an elegant PowerMac Dothan =)
An UltraSparc that runs 32 threads of CMT, but combined of merely a few hundred MIPS, is worse than an IBM Power or AMD Opteron that requires software context switches, but crunches out thousands of MIPS. Sun needs a clearer server/CPU strategy than throwing a whole new paradigm on the table PER UPGRADE CYCLE.
spotlight indexes the entire drive upon first boot up, so subsequent adding/changing files will be very rapid, and no real-time hard drive scan needed for searching a file.
rosetta can do recompilation of existing PPC binaries to Intel x86 *as soon as* they're being installed. this will eliminate ANY overhead when loading the binary, and creates a 100% transparent experience to the user. the user never expects sub-second response when installing a new app from a CD, so the extra few seconds to do the translation will be transparent too.
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it's not the service provider that's evil....they're just in business to sell you something. u can always buy from someone else, or don't buy at all.
the true evils are those greedy US executives who want to push up their stock price by listening to offshoring sales pitches and actually subscribing to their philosophy.
and on another note, most of the "former IT" jobs from USA are sent to Bangalore, Mumbai, New Delhi, and other-indian-cities-i-can't-spell
let's see...all those investment bankers who hop around to sell their IPO...
they were already gonna spend that kind of money on a private jet, so why on a Concorde-successor that will save them twice the time, so they can get to twice the number of investors within a day/week ?
i think there's a decent-size market of businessmen between North American and Japan/China that will appreciate the HUGE time savings when frequently traveling across the Pacific Ocean. Instead of having to eat 3 meals, 2 movies, and 1 hibernation, a businessman can depart San Francisco at 9am, have brunch on the plane, browse the internet and work on polishing his powerpoint presentation, take a quick 1.5 hr nap, and arrive at Shanghai at 7:30am, refreshed, and ready to meet with his business partners.
what we need is a Concorde-replacement, not more bureaucracy and political bickering.
maybe on WinXP, but that doesn't happen on Mac.
My Mac official Microsoft MSN Messenger client sends to OS-default browser, which is Safari, for web link clicks.
they're eager to learn, they've learnt the latest language features of Java and Python and C# from college, they're relative low-cost, they work hard and are willing to work overtime with no questions asked, and it'll also give them valuable real-world experience which will make them a much more valuable asset when they graduate and are ready to enter the work force.
the hardest challenge i find as a manager is to balance the challenge of the work, while not overwhelming them
CDMA's failure of dominance stems from one major flaw - the lack of SIM card. Without it, carriers must strike deals with phone manufacturers. Consumers will be limited to whatever their negotiations result, instead of free market choices of phones like in Europe or Asian. With Sprint, it's basically Sanyo and Samung, while for Verizon, it's Motorola and LG. And if my phone dies, i must go to the store to repair it. With GSM, I can just swap out the SIM card to a backup phone (previous one perhaps), then I'm good to go.
Scare tactics always work in US. Tell them, doom is near and people will do anything, even .....
re-elect Bush
Creationist can feel free to reject evolution, then their kids will fail SAT Biology, fail AP Biology, fail to get into the best of academia, and write research-papers so laughable the peers refuse to review them
or try a 3-key Win95 keyboard :
_____
| |
| Del |
|_____|
| |
| Alt |
|_____|
| |
| Ctrl|
|_____|
Companies are willing to hire outrageously expensive consultants to re-invent existing code if it's too hard to update or maintain, and they have absolutely no reason to keep people around just to maintain obscure code.
udp is kinda strange, because there's no guarantee of delivery, so the msg might come out lke garbage :
so a message like :
i dislike girls who are analysts
might come out (due to lack of tcp) :
i like girl who re an*l =[
In talk it makes sense to send EACH single keystroke, because chances are, people are logged onto the same Unix system, so the roundtrip communication time is basically the system bus - i.e. instant.
with the internet, u're confined to (a) the size of an IP packet, and (b) ur pipe. A 100byte message would've exploded into 20KB worth of IPv4 headers.
Fun? yes. Usefulness? debatable. Resource-thrashing? Ooooo yes!
for those who raised their hands, I'm sure the Museum of Natural History is looking for qualified historians =)
privacy is important, but if we follow the philosopher to the parent thread, we'll have to use PGP and Blowfish to encrypt all our emails and IMs, even when we're not discussing hush-hush topics.
Too much privacy, and we'll end up with someone like Unabomber living in a hut in Montana with no human interaction. Too little privacy, and we'll be slaves to the Patriot Act.
Is it THAT hard to find a balance ?
wasn't a while ago that if u search "search engines" on MSN, google.com is not even in Top 5 ?
soo....let's see
in the good old days things are simply 95, 98, 2000
now we end up with Millenium Edition, Xtra Pathetic, and then....Vista?
jeeez, what happened to Good Marketing (TM) ?
isn't this a case of indirect industrial price-fixing? by forcing you to buy a DRM-enabled monitor, they can easily collude and charge a, say, 20% premium, over a standard LCD.
Another reason why Tiger and Leopard makes Longhorn look long-in-the-tooth ^^
following the same trend as RAZR and PEBL, motorola can DEFINITELY have a strong-selling model in the middle east if it's named BSHT :-)
Amtrak DOES have a bullet train.
It's called Acela Express.
Running at a top speed of 150mph (not kph), it is officially classified as HSR (min req 125mph).
It zooms from Boston, past New York and Philadelphia, into Washington DC.
Dell is associated as MARGINALLY one-step ahead of Walmart PCs.
Apple, esp with PowerMac and PowerBook, is associated with one of the best personal computer experience.
A merger would create...? The virus-incompatability of MacOSX with the instability of Dell hardware while diminishing neither =)
That's where Rosetta and Universal Binary comes in. While UB enables new versions of software to run on both platforms in one single executable image, Rosetta allows PPC-emulation on Intel by using JIT. Thus - software compatibility is no issue.
The question is more : how much slower will Rosetta make existing apps run on Intel given a G5 and an x86 of similar SpecInt/SpecFP ?
not necessarily 1 month....remember how long it took someone to write DeCSS so we could crack DVD? And even THAT was due to a software hole in Xing.
The chip prevents MacOS on generic Wintel, but what about the vice versa scenario, in which people install cheapo WinXP on an elegant PowerMac Dothan =)
An UltraSparc that runs 32 threads of CMT, but combined of merely a few hundred MIPS, is worse than an IBM Power or AMD Opteron that requires software context switches, but crunches out thousands of MIPS. Sun needs a clearer server/CPU strategy than throwing a whole new paradigm on the table PER UPGRADE CYCLE.
spotlight indexes the entire drive upon first boot up, so subsequent adding/changing files will be very rapid, and no real-time hard drive scan needed for searching a file.
rosetta can do recompilation of existing PPC binaries to Intel x86 *as soon as* they're being installed. this will eliminate ANY overhead when loading the binary, and creates a 100% transparent experience to the user. the user never expects sub-second response when installing a new app from a CD, so the extra few seconds to do the translation will be transparent too.