Personally, I see it as IT's task to commit to quickly building inexpensive sources as well as to professionally network effective information while maintaining the highest standards.
or maybe:
strive to assertively pursue diverse meta-services because that is what the customer expects.
I'm sure these books are just generated by automaticmanagement speak generators.
In other words, make desktop PCs behave like PDAs do. I think that the expected behaviour of computers by non-tech-literate people is similar to a PDA - it 'just works', powers up instantly etc.
I guess you could do something similar to the Palm - low-power refresh of the DRAM while the unit is off. I'm not sure of the power requirements for keeping 512mb of DRAM refreshed, though.
Exactly. The problem for the companies is that almost every computer would come out with very similar results. What difference does it make if it takes 30 seconds or five seconds to apply a filter to an image if it took me an hour to draw the image first?
But then, I am working on the Palm platform at the moment, so I think 33Mhz is fast...
Just how much x86 code out there is SSE2 optimised to the extent that Intel probably did with the SpecFP benchmarks? 5% ? Maybe 10%? Even MMX isn't always used when it could be, and that's been around much longer. Personally I think the Intel P4 spec scores are a little misleading as well.
Benchmarks produced by the company selling the product are tweaked to make the product look better. Excuse me if I'm not shocked.
Spec results for the P4 aren't defined by what Apple (or Dell) say - they're defined by the listing at www.spec.org. Surely anyone who is actually buying for the processor speed (ie, not many Mac users) can just go and look up the numbers themselves.
Many cooling systems do use oils instead of water. No cooling oil I've ever seen (Dowtherms etc.) can compare to water for heat transfer efficiency. Water has low viscosity, high heat capacity and is cheap.
The only liquid that really does much better is mercury, not something I would want flowing round my computer.
When the system was finally completed, the flow rate was tested and determined to be 3L/minute.
I'd guess that his estimate of the flow rate was off because his pressure drop calculations assume a straight pipe - they make no allowance for the effect of the multiple 90 degree elbows in his radiator.
Gimp's interface is fine if you use it in its own virtual desktop. If it isn't, I find the myriad of unconnected windows soon get annoying - why not add a "keep all windows at the same level in the window stack" option?
(1) Always use the 4 corners of the screen, as well as the screen sides. Don't ever place anything that's interactive just a pixel shy of the screen-edge.
This is my single biggest annoyance in software. It's so obvious, so easy to implement and adds so much to usability. Yet I'm sitting here using KDE 3.1.2, probably the most polished UNIX desktop, and in order to minimize/close a window or scroll a window I have to move the mouse to (screen_edge - window_border), not screen_edge. Why is this?
I can't speak for the Gnome version, but the KDE launch feedback cursor is horrible. A little flashing icon that sits miles away from the cursor and lags behind the cursor when you move it, so it's not instantly clear even what it is.
I think that animated mouse cursors were added in XFree4.2 or 3, so things will get better.
* Independent software vendors (ISVs[4]) assume the presence of Windows on the consumerâ(TM)s PC.
vs.
An electric toaster supports the American electricity standard if
* Its plug can fit into the American-standard electrical outlet, and...
How can anybody seriously compare this kind of free-to-implement, non-trade-secret, properly documented standard with what MS does?
Standards organisations define standards, companies implement them. That way you get this thing called competition that's quite popular with economists.
... available "for free distribution to anyone in the world," including residents of Cuba, Iran, Syria, North Korea and Libya, countries to which the United States controls exports. The open-source technology IBM released "can be used for encryption, scientific research and weapons research," the suit said.
So IBM is helping terrorists and rogue states now? I think we need an addition to Godwin's Law - "As a dispute goes on, the probability of one side claiming the other is helping terrorists approaches one"
Also, many of the applications for Palm are specifically written for 160x160 pixels and will look absolutely horrible on a 320x320 screen. TopGun SSH is one of many examples.
That's a little unfair. The intention of Palm was to allow software properly written for 160x160 displays to run unchanged on 320x320 displays by making the default screen mode on PalmOS 5 one that maps a 160x160 coordinate system over the 320x320 display.
There are differences between PalmOS3-4 and PalmOS5 that can show up bugs in software written for the earlier OSs, but correctly written software should appear basically identical in both.
Palm go out of their way to ensure that, where possible, correctly written software is back and forwards compatible.
computers run on AMD Duron 1.0- or 1.1GHz processors,...The machines aren't fast enough to do intensive work like... playing Quake III,
So I guess I was just imagining it when I played Quake3 on my Celeron-533? Even if it's got a crappy graphics card, a Geforce2MX would be plenty good enough and costs like $30 or something. Finally, cheap computers with "good enough" performance.
What's your alternative? If a guy in India (or wherever) is equally skilled as you and is prepared to work for half the wages you expect because of his lower expectations of quality of living, how the hell else do you keep a job? You learn to do something new that the guy in India can't do. Then, when he catches up again, you do it again.
This has happened in the chemical industry (which I'm in). All the 'simple' production processes can be done more cheaply in China etc, so production in the west is switching to more complex products and more advanced production processes that the eastern companies can't make yet.
You can't only preach capitalism when it suits you.
What can we do to stop China and other Asians from buying our hi-techs?
Nothing. It's called capitalism. If Chinese companies/workers can do things cheaper/better, they'll get the work. Legislation and boycotts to prevent this kind of thing happening don't work (look up protectionism and the depression). If you want to have a job then be employable and irreplaceable- learn skills to differentiate yourself. It's now a global job market - you're not just competing against local workers, you have to compete against the rest of the world.
Things change. The 'developing' world catches up - the Western world doesn't have some god-given right to be rich.
It reminds me of that Armando Iannucci program (BBC) where the animals take over the world because the humans are complacent and spend their whole time thinking they are superior and playing golf.
-"Parliament takes part in the drafting of Community legislation to varying degrees, according to the individual legal basis. It has progressed from a purely advisory role to codecision on an equal footing with the Council."
-"The Treaty of Rome made provision for a motion of censure against the Commission (Article 201 (144) EC). It requires a two-thirds majority of the votes cast, representing a majority of Parliament's component members, in which case the Commission must resign as a body."
So, the parliament is now equally important as the Council and has the power to force the Commision to resign. Just because most of the electorate don't bother reading about or even voting for the European Parliament doesn't make it meaningless.
So, she does the normal M(E)P thing of speaking without saying anthing. Looking at this report, though, it appears that what she is trying to say is that the rules will only allow software to be patented as part of another system.
So, patents like the Amazon one-click patent wouldn't be allowed, but you could for example patent a novel ECG machine along with the software that is 'part' of it.
The problem is that larger caches (which are good for server/high-end computational work) generally mean higher latencies (or ridiculously expensive chips *cough* Sparc *cough*), which is bad for more 'normal' performance measurements (desktop/office/gaming etc).
The researchers said they did find an association between use of a mouse for more than 20 hours a week and a slightly elevated risk of a possible problem but no statistically significant association with keyboard use.
So mouse usage is a problem, but the keyboard isn't. Guess I should stop playing Battlefield 1942 at work then.
I've had two UK ISPs so far - Demon (grrr) and Plus.net (yay) - and both have explicitly stated it's ok to run servers on home ADSL connections. Plus even does SMTP mail delivery to your IP if you want it.
If this is happening, it's bad coding. Passing false as the 'immediate' boolean parameter in the NetLibClose call on closing an app leaves the current connection open for a user-specified delay time before actually closing the connection, so another program can use it.
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Personally, I see it as IT's task to commit to quickly building inexpensive sources as well as to professionally network effective information while maintaining the highest standards.
or maybe:
strive to assertively pursue diverse meta-services because that is what the customer expects.
I'm sure these books are just generated by automatic management speak generators.
In other words, make desktop PCs behave like PDAs do. I think that the expected behaviour of computers by non-tech-literate people is similar to a PDA - it 'just works', powers up instantly etc.
I guess you could do something similar to the Palm - low-power refresh of the DRAM while the unit is off. I'm not sure of the power requirements for keeping 512mb of DRAM refreshed, though.
Exactly. The problem for the companies is that almost every computer would come out with very similar results. What difference does it make if it takes 30 seconds or five seconds to apply a filter to an image if it took me an hour to draw the image first?
But then, I am working on the Palm platform at the moment, so I think 33Mhz is fast...
Just how much x86 code out there is SSE2 optimised to the extent that Intel probably did with the SpecFP benchmarks? 5% ? Maybe 10%? Even MMX isn't always used when it could be, and that's been around much longer. Personally I think the Intel P4 spec scores are a little misleading as well.
Benchmarks produced by the company selling the product are tweaked to make the product look better. Excuse me if I'm not shocked.
Spec results for the P4 aren't defined by what Apple (or Dell) say - they're defined by the listing at www.spec.org. Surely anyone who is actually buying for the processor speed (ie, not many Mac users) can just go and look up the numbers themselves.
Many cooling systems do use oils instead of water. No cooling oil I've ever seen (Dowtherms etc.) can compare to water for heat transfer efficiency. Water has low viscosity, high heat capacity and is cheap.
The only liquid that really does much better is mercury, not something I would want flowing round my computer.
When the system was finally completed, the flow rate was tested and determined to be 3L/minute.
I'd guess that his estimate of the flow rate was off because his pressure drop calculations assume a straight pipe - they make no allowance for the effect of the multiple 90 degree elbows in his radiator.
Gimp's interface is fine if you use it in its own virtual desktop. If it isn't, I find the myriad of unconnected windows soon get annoying - why not add a "keep all windows at the same level in the window stack" option?
(1) Always use the 4 corners of the screen, as well as the screen sides. Don't ever place anything that's interactive just a pixel shy of the screen-edge.
This is my single biggest annoyance in software. It's so obvious, so easy to implement and adds so much to usability. Yet I'm sitting here using KDE 3.1.2, probably the most polished UNIX desktop, and in order to minimize/close a window or scroll a window I have to move the mouse to (screen_edge - window_border), not screen_edge. Why is this?
I can't speak for the Gnome version, but the KDE launch feedback cursor is horrible. A little flashing icon that sits miles away from the cursor and lags behind the cursor when you move it, so it's not instantly clear even what it is.
I think that animated mouse cursors were added in XFree4.2 or 3, so things will get better.
* Independent software vendors (ISVs[4]) assume the presence of Windows on the consumerâ(TM)s PC.
vs.An electric toaster supports the American electricity standard if
* Its plug can fit into the American-standard electrical outlet, and...
How can anybody seriously compare this kind of free-to-implement, non-trade-secret, properly documented standard with what MS does?
Standards organisations define standards, companies implement them. That way you get this thing called competition that's quite popular with economists.
So IBM is helping terrorists and rogue states now? I think we need an addition to Godwin's Law - "As a dispute goes on, the probability of one side claiming the other is helping terrorists approaches one"
Also, many of the applications for Palm are specifically written for 160x160 pixels and will look absolutely horrible on a 320x320 screen. TopGun SSH is one of many examples.
That's a little unfair. The intention of Palm was to allow software properly written for 160x160 displays to run unchanged on 320x320 displays by making the default screen mode on PalmOS 5 one that maps a 160x160 coordinate system over the 320x320 display.
There are differences between PalmOS3-4 and PalmOS5 that can show up bugs in software written for the earlier OSs, but correctly written software should appear basically identical in both.
Palm go out of their way to ensure that, where possible, correctly written software is back and forwards compatible.
The computers as shipped don't have a monitor either, which would make playing Quake3 even harder.
computers run on AMD Duron 1.0- or 1.1GHz processors,...The machines aren't fast enough to do intensive work like... playing Quake III,
So I guess I was just imagining it when I played Quake3 on my Celeron-533? Even if it's got a crappy graphics card, a Geforce2MX would be plenty good enough and costs like $30 or something. Finally, cheap computers with "good enough" performance.
What's your alternative? If a guy in India (or wherever) is equally skilled as you and is prepared to work for half the wages you expect because of his lower expectations of quality of living, how the hell else do you keep a job? You learn to do something new that the guy in India can't do. Then, when he catches up again, you do it again.
This has happened in the chemical industry (which I'm in). All the 'simple' production processes can be done more cheaply in China etc, so production in the west is switching to more complex products and more advanced production processes that the eastern companies can't make yet.
You can't only preach capitalism when it suits you.
What can we do to stop China and other Asians from buying our hi-techs?
Nothing. It's called capitalism. If Chinese companies/workers can do things cheaper/better, they'll get the work. Legislation and boycotts to prevent this kind of thing happening don't work (look up protectionism and the depression). If you want to have a job then be employable and irreplaceable- learn skills to differentiate yourself. It's now a global job market - you're not just competing against local workers, you have to compete against the rest of the world.
Things change. The 'developing' world catches up - the Western world doesn't have some god-given right to be rich.
It reminds me of that Armando Iannucci program (BBC) where the animals take over the world because the humans are complacent and spend their whole time thinking they are superior and playing golf.
http://www.europarl.eu.int/factsheets/1_3_2_en.htm
The parliament's powers:
-"Parliament takes part in the drafting of Community legislation to varying degrees, according to the individual legal basis. It has progressed from a purely advisory role to codecision on an equal footing with the Council."
-"The Treaty of Rome made provision for a motion of censure against the Commission (Article 201 (144) EC). It requires a two-thirds majority of the votes cast, representing a majority of Parliament's component members, in which case the Commission must resign as a body."
So, the parliament is now equally important as the Council and has the power to force the Commision to resign. Just because most of the electorate don't bother reading about or even voting for the European Parliament doesn't make it meaningless.
So, she does the normal M(E)P thing of speaking without saying anthing. Looking at this report, though, it appears that what she is trying to say is that the rules will only allow software to be patented as part of another system.
So, patents like the Amazon one-click patent wouldn't be allowed, but you could for example patent a novel ECG machine along with the software that is 'part' of it.
The problem is that larger caches (which are good for server/high-end computational work) generally mean higher latencies (or ridiculously expensive chips *cough* Sparc *cough*), which is bad for more 'normal' performance measurements (desktop/office/gaming etc).
The researchers said they did find an association between use of a mouse for more than 20 hours a week and a slightly elevated risk of a possible problem but no statistically significant association with keyboard use.
So mouse usage is a problem, but the keyboard isn't. Guess I should stop playing Battlefield 1942 at work then.with a few exceptions- 'no servers'????
I've had two UK ISPs so far - Demon (grrr) and Plus.net (yay) - and both have explicitly stated it's ok to run servers on home ADSL connections. Plus even does SMTP mail delivery to your IP if you want it.
If this is happening, it's bad coding. Passing false as the 'immediate' boolean parameter in the NetLibClose call on closing an app leaves the current connection open for a user-specified delay time before actually closing the connection, so another program can use it.
Last I remeber we (the English) were doing pretty well at rugby against Australia.