It's worth noting that the field of "genetics" precedes even the identification of DNA and RNA. It may be that what we now know about gene regulation is wildly incomplete (although even that is unlikely, although possible) but Mendelian genetics is completely agnostic as to whether "genes" are protein-coding or not.
Excuse please, but what possible point could you be making by comparing stock price of Microsoft with the stock price of a dot-bomb company whose stock symbol happens to look like "linux"?
Presumably he's referring to Raymond's charming essay, just after the LNUX IPO, when he bragged at length about how fantastically rich he now was. (Raymond, IIRC, was on their board with the position of "corporate conscience".)
Knowing nothing about website metrics per se, but if I understood your point correctly -- note the difference between absolute and relative metrics. Obviously, your site hasn't suddenly improved 40% because you're testing it with something new. The score from the old version can't be directly compared with those from the new version, let alone with numbers from different software. But that doesn't mean you can't draw valuable conclusions by comparing different results obtained with the same software.
If your upper managers aren't complete idiots, that should be clear enough to them, but YMMV...
Seconded. I know nothing about the backend aspects, but the Lotus Notes client is *the* worst piece of major software in existence. There's nothing else even close. I'd rather use a version 0.0.1 email app picked at random off Freshmeat.
It does sound like they're hanging his head on the wall like a moose, doesn't it?
This doesn't seem as sharkjumperrific as when newly-rich VA Linux hired anybody with some low-level celebrity from themes.org, but then Google's eventual slide can't possibly compare to LNUX's...
I specifically said that the censorship issues are completely different from today's story. And also that it may well be that there simply is no way to ethically run a Yahoo operation in China. I'm just trying to get across that it's not like Yahoo signed an order reading "OPPRESS DISSIDENT!".
Incidentally, if you would Godwin around less frantically, it'd be easier to have a lucid discussion of how to treat China.
As a practical matter, the Chinese police don't come to Yahoo and say "Give us information so we can persecute a dissident and violate his human rights!" They say "We're investigating a criminal, and we need log data." The options for Yahoo are:
1) Don't operate in China
2) Refuse to cooperate with the police
3) Demand veto rights on cooperation with the police
4) Cooperate
In practice, 2 and 3 are identical to 1. And maybe 1 is what they should be doing. But it's not like they actively made a decision to violate X's human rights. (The censorship issues, on the other hand, really are overt decisions.)
We were told that more trade and more interaction with China would bring greater freedom. We were lied to.
Actually, I'm not sure that trade and interaction haven't contributed to what's certainly greater freedom since Mao's time. But, at any rate, it's useful to realize that not everything people predict that doesn't work out is LIES!!! There is a such a thing as difference of opinion in good faith.
One thing that I'll never understand is why we (humans) continue to put important things in the most vulnerable places.
That's hardly a difficult question to answer -- major cities are built next to rivers and harbors because that was (and to a large degree still is) the primary route of major transportation. Museums are in cities so people can go to them. Technical centers are in cities so they can get workers for them.
There are rare cases where it's worthwhile to place something major in the middle of nowhere (Area 51, Arzamas-16, Los Alamos) but no one is going to pay what it would cost to run a major ISP in a place like that.
That's all nice and all for you, but Apple does sell these things the call XServe's that are supposed to be "servers".
That'd be fine if they were:
1) Discussing OS X as a server
2) Testing an XServe, and not a desktop model.
Of course then there's still the question of using MySQL as a proxy for "server" but, whatever. The point is that the reviewer repeatedly treats MySQL performance as an all-encompassing metric for MacOS itself.
So, as we get to know the strengths and weaknesses about this complex but unique OS, we'll get insight into the kind of consumers who would own an Intel based machine with Mac OS X - besides the people who are in love with Apple's gorgeous cases of course....
I think it tells you something about the mentality at AnandTech that the only criteria they have for choosing a computer are: 1) performance in a benchmark that has nothing to do with any normal user's needs and 2) the shininess of the case.
I think I speak for most Mac users when I say that I couldn't possibly care less how many MySQL transactions my computer could (but doesn't) run per second. There is undoubtedly a more cost-effective way of building a dedicated MySQL server, and they should be used -- as long as I get to keep a Mac on my desk to connect to it.
Hmmm, I think this tells us about the nature of the legal analysis we're going to be seeing here for the next few years: Proof By Family Guy Cigarette Episode Reference versus Proof By South Park Cigarette Episode Reference.
At least it's a change from Proof By Chewbacca. That wasn't even funny in the original show, let alone when all 7,000 SCO articles here had some dork rolling out "Darl...Chewbacca...hahahahahahaha!!!"
I was about to shrug off the utter pointlessness of this story: OSDL to not perform a hypothetical study, Linux to continue nonetheless. As noted journalist CmdrTaco put it about an equally pointless story about Google buying some print ads, it's news "from the nothing-else-happening-in-august dept."
What occurred to me is that there's something rather bizarre about how little interest has been generated by the complete destruction of a major US city a few days ago. I've barely blinked (sent money, couldn't do anything else, shrugged and went back to work) and in general there seems to have been a lot less fuss than I certainly would have imagined something like this would prompt.
We were watching a Miami Vice rerun a couple of weeks ago, and had been giggling more or less continuously since the opening theme music. But when Tubbs pulled out one of those lunchbox-sized 1980's cell phones -- my wife literally fell off the couch laughing.
Man, that was a great show. I think you could make a plausible case that business casual clothing wouldn't exist (in the US, anyway) if hadn't been for Detective Crockett.
I think he's implying 3D means hardware and 2D means software, which I didn't like.
That is his point, but I don't understand what your objection is. He's not making a theoretical claim, just saying that the reality is that 3D hardware support is better than 2D and the gap will continue to widen.
Also, 3D doesn't necessarily mean a Jurassic Park GUI -- look at Quartz and how it takes advantage of an intrinsically 3D GUI, even if the user is looking at a single plane of overlapping windows.
Just like discussions of Linux sound server issues underscore that the real problem is that it's insane that the user of a desktop operating system ever encounters something called a "sound servers"...
This is a very well-written, comprehensive discussion, that I look forward to reading through thoroughly. But I can't help being pessimistic about how this Frankenstein is going to keep adding new pieces without a central authority to enforce a consistent plan.
If true, this would lend a lot of force behind moving to products that have an open file format.
Well, yes and no. Let's say Ami Pro file format were fully documented. (I have no idea whether it is or isn't.) At what point would it be worthwhile for your company to actually write a file converter? I can certainly imagine a situation where it might be a cost-effective thing to do, but it's not the kind of thing that anyplace I've ever worked does routinely.
And from a retention point of view, I don't know if you _want_ whatever scumbag lawyer is subpoenaeing documents from you to be able to demand that you write him a converter. I'd rather be able to say "Here are our VisiCalc files. Enjoy!"
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It's worth noting that the field of "genetics" precedes even the identification of DNA and RNA. It may be that what we now know about gene regulation is wildly incomplete (although even that is unlikely, although possible) but Mendelian genetics is completely agnostic as to whether "genes" are protein-coding or not.
Presumably he's referring to Raymond's charming essay, just after the LNUX IPO, when he bragged at length about how fantastically rich he now was. (Raymond, IIRC, was on their board with the position of "corporate conscience".)
If your upper managers aren't complete idiots, that should be clear enough to them, but YMMV...
Five years to mainstream Linux -- I'd say they were being optimistic about desktops. But servers? When is this report from, 1997?
Seconded. I know nothing about the backend aspects, but the Lotus Notes client is *the* worst piece of major software in existence. There's nothing else even close. I'd rather use a version 0.0.1 email app picked at random off Freshmeat.
This is the most confusing discussion I've ever had about peanut butter...
1) Are +5 thread hopping
2) Didn't read the piece you quoted
3) Are making either a joke or a serious point about peanut butter that has gone over my head
I think it was Apple that originated the usage - it certainly makes more sense in that context than at Microsoft.
This doesn't seem as sharkjumperrific as when newly-rich VA Linux hired anybody with some low-level celebrity from themes.org, but then Google's eventual slide can't possibly compare to LNUX's...
Incidentally, if you would Godwin around less frantically, it'd be easier to have a lucid discussion of how to treat China.
1) Don't operate in China
2) Refuse to cooperate with the police
3) Demand veto rights on cooperation with the police
4) Cooperate
In practice, 2 and 3 are identical to 1. And maybe 1 is what they should be doing. But it's not like they actively made a decision to violate X's human rights. (The censorship issues, on the other hand, really are overt decisions.)
We were told that more trade and more interaction with China would bring greater freedom. We were lied to.
Actually, I'm not sure that trade and interaction haven't contributed to what's certainly greater freedom since Mao's time. But, at any rate, it's useful to realize that not everything people predict that doesn't work out is LIES!!! There is a such a thing as difference of opinion in good faith.
I think the assumption is that Stevie Wonder will then forward it to Beethoven.
No offense, but has it occurred to you that you might be just a bit too excitable about Zelda?
That's hardly a difficult question to answer -- major cities are built next to rivers and harbors because that was (and to a large degree still is) the primary route of major transportation. Museums are in cities so people can go to them. Technical centers are in cities so they can get workers for them.
There are rare cases where it's worthwhile to place something major in the middle of nowhere (Area 51, Arzamas-16, Los Alamos) but no one is going to pay what it would cost to run a major ISP in a place like that.
That'd be fine if they were:
1) Discussing OS X as a server
2) Testing an XServe, and not a desktop model.
Of course then there's still the question of using MySQL as a proxy for "server" but, whatever. The point is that the reviewer repeatedly treats MySQL performance as an all-encompassing metric for MacOS itself.
I think it tells you something about the mentality at AnandTech that the only criteria they have for choosing a computer are: 1) performance in a benchmark that has nothing to do with any normal user's needs and 2) the shininess of the case.
I think I speak for most Mac users when I say that I couldn't possibly care less how many MySQL transactions my computer could (but doesn't) run per second. There is undoubtedly a more cost-effective way of building a dedicated MySQL server, and they should be used -- as long as I get to keep a Mac on my desk to connect to it.
At least it's a change from Proof By Chewbacca. That wasn't even funny in the original show, let alone when all 7,000 SCO articles here had some dork rolling out "Darl...Chewbacca...hahahahahahaha!!!"
What occurred to me is that there's something rather bizarre about how little interest has been generated by the complete destruction of a major US city a few days ago. I've barely blinked (sent money, couldn't do anything else, shrugged and went back to work) and in general there seems to have been a lot less fuss than I certainly would have imagined something like this would prompt.
I'd say something nasty about the editors, but can't top this morning's gem...
Man, that was a great show. I think you could make a plausible case that business casual clothing wouldn't exist (in the US, anyway) if hadn't been for Detective Crockett.
I'd strongly recommend that your parents drag your brother over to the VA and get him some medical attention ASAP...
I can't shake the mental picture of a 200 foot tall Donkey Kong slugging it out with a giant Clippy. Whoops, there goes the Apple Store!
That is his point, but I don't understand what your objection is. He's not making a theoretical claim, just saying that the reality is that 3D hardware support is better than 2D and the gap will continue to widen.
Also, 3D doesn't necessarily mean a Jurassic Park GUI -- look at Quartz and how it takes advantage of an intrinsically 3D GUI, even if the user is looking at a single plane of overlapping windows.
This is a very well-written, comprehensive discussion, that I look forward to reading through thoroughly. But I can't help being pessimistic about how this Frankenstein is going to keep adding new pieces without a central authority to enforce a consistent plan.
Well, yes and no. Let's say Ami Pro file format were fully documented. (I have no idea whether it is or isn't.) At what point would it be worthwhile for your company to actually write a file converter? I can certainly imagine a situation where it might be a cost-effective thing to do, but it's not the kind of thing that anyplace I've ever worked does routinely.
And from a retention point of view, I don't know if you _want_ whatever scumbag lawyer is subpoenaeing documents from you to be able to demand that you write him a converter. I'd rather be able to say "Here are our VisiCalc files. Enjoy!"