So what the hell happened with System 7 and then OS 8? So much for "perfection."
When he came back to Apple in '97, he put OS Classic on death row, but he had to keep it alive because it would take six years to develop a stable, workable version of OS X out of NeXT's OS and there were no alternatives to bridge those years and there was a bunch of software to support.
I don't know why none of the PC makers can do this
Because PC makers work with far lower margins. If one of the component-makers give you a $0.50 discount on their components if you put their sticker on every laptop, and if you know that all your competitors already do so and have a 50 cent advantage in their battle for the customer (or any step between you and the customer), you don't have any justification to not also add another useless sticker.
Apple has far higher margins. Part of the design-tax is the absence of stickers. Which costs them money.
Why did they develop a solution that has to be installed on the part of the infrastructure they have the least control of and that has the biggest diversity?
How will they roll this out? Forced install? For every OS? Including the OS on my media box with its crappy bittorrent client? And since the software physically runs inside the homes of people, that could open up a ton of legal troubles. What's so hard about making a law that forces ISP's to install monitoring software?
Somehow I'm happy that this seems to be a typical govenment IT-f#ckup.
A big part of efficient health care is to keep people out of hospitals. Prevent, inform and make basic health care easy, accessible and inexpensive. If this patient you're talking about had the option of going to a local doctor for a basic diagnosis and medicine for free (or a couple of dollars), I guess he would have done it. If his only option was going to a hospital where the doctor would give him unnecessary treatments and squeeze every dollar out of him while losing his insurane for the rest of his life, a first sign of a disease would mean as much as a personal bankruptcy for him. It's no wonder people are going to try to live with easy-to-cure diseases until it's too late and expensive treatment is necessary. You say he's an idiot, but actually he just decided that getting rid of a small inconvenience wasn't worth a personal bankruptcy.
Besides, the whole financial incentives system is broken. If a 400lb patient comes to the cardiologist, what is the financial incentive to just assign the patient a lifestyle coach, which is the only long term cure for his/her problems?
Not that I'd ever claim that the BIOS is wonderful either, but at least everybody knows that the BIOS is just a bootloader, and doesn't try to make it anything else.
Hybrid drives aren't made to be first choice. They're made to be an affordable choice. If you want to assemble an affordable but fast PC nowadays, you'll probably end up with a 40GB SSD for OS+Apps with a cheap, silent and big hard disk for storage. The problem with this approach is the barrier at 40GB. What if your SSD needs more space? What if it turns out that some frequently-used data is on the hard disk? Or that 60% of the OS files are hardly used? Hybrid drives try to decide for themselves which data should be optimized.
But I'm not really sure that they're optimizing at the right level. Maybe they should expose themselves to the operating system as two separate partitions and let the filesystem implement the optimization while showing up as one single volume to the end-user.
That's the expected behaviour of this disk. Extremely fast for common tasks (booting and loading apps) and slower for less common and less performance-critical tasks. If you really need the SSD-like performance for all your tasks, buy a 500GB+ SSD, if you have the money for it.
In a number of tests, the XT is actually slower than Seagate's year-old Momentus 7200.4, a drive that costs $40 less.
That's because it's probably a $40 cheaper disk with an $80 SSD attached to it.
And what if I have nothing to hide for the current government but don't get the assurance that today's laws are tomorrow's laws?
With enough information in the hands of governments, it's very easy to change a law, criminalize something that was perfectly legal and find and eliminate most of the 'criminals' under those new laws.
I know I'm kind of invoking Godwin's law here, but in 1939 it was perfectly legal to be Jewish here in the Netherlands. In the 1930s the Dutch government made an almost perfect register of the whole population, so in 1940 it was very easy for the Nazis to eliminate almost all the Dutch Jews.
The guy in the video mentioned that the firm is based in Eindhoven, where Philips' headquarters are located. After some googling I found out that Liquivista is indeed a spinoff of this company and therefore not a 'real' startup.
If the law states that there should be a 'view but not save/copy/print' right (like here in the Netherlands), how could you enforce that *and* be truly open source? You have to certificate each and every release of the full software on a source code level (and provide authorization based on the (i.e.) md5 sum of the executable) to enforce such rights. One simple edit & recompile and you can save/print those x-ray pics, which is against the law.
At the very least, forking, maintaining your own version and fixing bugs for your (employer's) own use is either impossible or very expensive.
With ever-increasing JavaScript performance, there's a lot of cpu power available for cracking passwords and captcha's... Just include the code in an ad and you're done. No tricky installs needed, just the idletime of the user's web browser.
And, more important, better suited to Tech Support. How does one explain to a user which button to click when the user could have configured his desktop so much that nothing is where it used to be?
Oh, and I use GNOME (when I'm using Linux) because it's much, much easier on the eyes and because it's what it needs to be, part of the Operating System, that part of the computer that needs to be as invisible and unobtrusive as possible so I can get my stuff done. I don't need to have full configurability, I'd rather have some experts figure out what's the most efficient user interface. I don't know that, I only know what I'm used to. It took me three months to get used to OS X before I realized how smooth it really works when you're used to it.
...or just make it a separate country so you guys don't have to fly half way round the earth to attack a religious extremist country that happens to float on oil.
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5ct/GB is too expensive for you?
Prices don't suddenly drop because of this announcement. I can't believe how they manage to make drives as inexpensive as they are.
A RAID array won't save you from fire, floods, system faults and your own stupidity (nobody's perfect). You need backups if you care about your data.
So what the hell happened with System 7 and then OS 8? So much for "perfection."
When he came back to Apple in '97, he put OS Classic on death row, but he had to keep it alive because it would take six years to develop a stable, workable version of OS X out of NeXT's OS and there were no alternatives to bridge those years and there was a bunch of software to support.
Let's call it 'Coaxial WiFi' :)
I don't know why none of the PC makers can do this
Because PC makers work with far lower margins. If one of the component-makers give you a $0.50 discount on their components if you put their sticker on every laptop, and if you know that all your competitors already do so and have a 50 cent advantage in their battle for the customer (or any step between you and the customer), you don't have any justification to not also add another useless sticker.
Apple has far higher margins. Part of the design-tax is the absence of stickers. Which costs them money.
Why did they develop a solution that has to be installed on the part of the infrastructure they have the least control of and that has the biggest diversity?
How will they roll this out? Forced install? For every OS? Including the OS on my media box with its crappy bittorrent client? And since the software physically runs inside the homes of people, that could open up a ton of legal troubles. What's so hard about making a law that forces ISP's to install monitoring software?
Somehow I'm happy that this seems to be a typical govenment IT-f#ckup.
A big part of efficient health care is to keep people out of hospitals. Prevent, inform and make basic health care easy, accessible and inexpensive. If this patient you're talking about had the option of going to a local doctor for a basic diagnosis and medicine for free (or a couple of dollars), I guess he would have done it. If his only option was going to a hospital where the doctor would give him unnecessary treatments and squeeze every dollar out of him while losing his insurane for the rest of his life, a first sign of a disease would mean as much as a personal bankruptcy for him. It's no wonder people are going to try to live with easy-to-cure diseases until it's too late and expensive treatment is necessary. You say he's an idiot, but actually he just decided that getting rid of a small inconvenience wasn't worth a personal bankruptcy.
Besides, the whole financial incentives system is broken. If a 400lb patient comes to the cardiologist, what is the financial incentive to just assign the patient a lifestyle coach, which is the only long term cure for his/her problems?
Not that I'd ever claim that the BIOS is wonderful either, but at least
everybody knows that the BIOS is just a bootloader, and doesn't try to
make it anything else.
http://kerneltrap.org/node/6884
Hybrid drives aren't made to be first choice. They're made to be an affordable choice. If you want to assemble an affordable but fast PC nowadays, you'll probably end up with a 40GB SSD for OS+Apps with a cheap, silent and big hard disk for storage. The problem with this approach is the barrier at 40GB. What if your SSD needs more space? What if it turns out that some frequently-used data is on the hard disk? Or that 60% of the OS files are hardly used? Hybrid drives try to decide for themselves which data should be optimized.
But I'm not really sure that they're optimizing at the right level. Maybe they should expose themselves to the operating system as two separate partitions and let the filesystem implement the optimization while showing up as one single volume to the end-user.
poor sequential read throughput
That's the expected behaviour of this disk. Extremely fast for common tasks (booting and loading apps) and slower for less common and less performance-critical tasks. If you really need the SSD-like performance for all your tasks, buy a 500GB+ SSD, if you have the money for it.
In a number of tests, the XT is actually slower than Seagate's year-old Momentus 7200.4, a drive that costs $40 less.
That's because it's probably a $40 cheaper disk with an $80 SSD attached to it.
This is exactly what the current iMac needs :)
And what if I have nothing to hide for the current government but don't get the assurance that today's laws are tomorrow's laws?
With enough information in the hands of governments, it's very easy to change a law, criminalize something that was perfectly legal and find and eliminate most of the 'criminals' under those new laws.
I know I'm kind of invoking Godwin's law here, but in 1939 it was perfectly legal to be Jewish here in the Netherlands. In the 1930s the Dutch government made an almost perfect register of the whole population, so in 1940 it was very easy for the Nazis to eliminate almost all the Dutch Jews.
Yes, I know. But Eindhoven = light city = Philips. And a stupid soccer team. It's culture!
The guy in the video mentioned that the firm is based in Eindhoven, where Philips' headquarters are located. After some googling I found out that Liquivista is indeed a spinoff of this company and therefore not a 'real' startup.
Just fill an envelope with MicroSD cards :)
girls and cookies!
But that will void your warranty!
Sorry, English is not my first language and I already thought that I didn't use the right word. I even used my dictionary, but to no avail.
If the law states that there should be a 'view but not save/copy/print' right (like here in the Netherlands), how could you enforce that *and* be truly open source? You have to certificate each and every release of the full software on a source code level (and provide authorization based on the (i.e.) md5 sum of the executable) to enforce such rights. One simple edit & recompile and you can save/print those x-ray pics, which is against the law.
At the very least, forking, maintaining your own version and fixing bugs for your (employer's) own use is either impossible or very expensive.
With ever-increasing JavaScript performance, there's a lot of cpu power available for cracking passwords and captcha's... Just include the code in an ad and you're done. No tricky installs needed, just the idletime of the user's web browser.
And, more important, better suited to Tech Support. How does one explain to a user which button to click when the user could have configured his desktop so much that nothing is where it used to be?
Oh, and I use GNOME (when I'm using Linux) because it's much, much easier on the eyes and because it's what it needs to be, part of the Operating System, that part of the computer that needs to be as invisible and unobtrusive as possible so I can get my stuff done. I don't need to have full configurability, I'd rather have some experts figure out what's the most efficient user interface. I don't know that, I only know what I'm used to. It took me three months to get used to OS X before I realized how smooth it really works when you're used to it.
...or just make it a separate country so you guys don't have to fly half way round the earth to attack a religious extremist country that happens to float on oil.
In the end, management decides what software will be used. And you know how long it took before they took Linux seriously...
USB 6.0: God-speed
Because the Second Coming will be Real Soon Now (tm), while USB 6.0 will take more than three Real Soon Now (tm)'s...
This shows where Linux is nowadays. It took literally years before USB1 was even supported and now Intel uses Linux to prove USB3's performance!