If the historical pattern repeats, three years after 64-bit hardware arrives, the market will adopt a new standard operating system. This places the obsolescence of the Win-32 API in 2008, because after 2008 even low-end systems will come standard with more than 4 gigabytes of memory, ruling out 32-bit processors with 32-bit operating systems for new purchases.
I don't want to be the next "640MB ought to be enough for everybody" guy, but I have a really hard time seeing more than 4GB in low-end systems in just 2-3 years.
That much RAM costs a fair bit today, and it feels to me like RAM prices are not declining fast. I found a lovely history of RAM prices at Sharky Extreme that seems to support that feeling. In December 2004, 2005, and 2006, the cheapest way to get 1GB of PCxx00 RAM is always close to $100.
I think the masses aren't going to be running on much more than $100's worth of memory in 3 years, or ever. So until prices drop to $25/GB, they don't need a 64bit OS. They might as well continue running a 32 bit OS on their 64 bit hardware, just like I do now.
...or maybe I'm just cheap.
If I'm right, that doesn't necessarily detract from ESR's point. It's natural that once some threshold is crossed, everyone switches to a 64 bit OS even though most don't need to -- they just get dragged along with those who do. I just thought this statement about 4GB low-end systems was a bit suspicious.
Shouldn't be a problem if you put a space before the exclamation point.
Anyway, ambiguity can be fun. Perl modules need to evaluate to true, so people usually end them with "1". I usually wrote "3!=6", which is doubly true:-)
Can the spy process do its job from a different virtual machine? If so, and if virtualization methods can't be tweaked to defeat all such attacks while maintaining reasonable performance, that might spell doom for the virtual server market.
Heh, yeah. I remember when my company bought a hard drive (sold as new, not refurbished) with an ntfs partition on it and a whole lot of personal data. There were pictures of a father and his baby taking a bath. Awww, isn't that sweet?.
I'm pretty sure the person who turned the disk in, if they thought about it at all, assumed that surely the shop would wipe the disk before reselling it. Well, clearly that's not something you can count on.
Two elections ago, I voted for a party because I disliked it less than those likely to win.
I don't recommend it. Afterwards, it felt like I'd lied.
In the last election, I did something better. I still didn't feel like voting for any of the parties, so I didn't. I took my ballot and dropped it right in the box, unmarked.
Where I live, the number of "blank or invalid" ballots is always reported along with the candidates' tallies. I don't know if you have that in the states. I'm not thrilled about being lumped in with people who tried and failed to tick a box, but it's better than being counted among those who don't care, or helping some wackjob party get a seat or two.
When you dismiss ethanol by talking about corn, you don't convince me that ethanol is out. You just make me ask "why does it have to be corn?". I know where are crops better suited to ethanol production. Switchgrass is one I've heard about.
As someone "in the industry", perhaps you can clarify what the picture looks like when you release the corn constraint, or perhaps you can talk about why it has to be corn.
I think what you (and many others) are saying is basically this:
Affording low-wage jobs to those that have very little instead of high-wage jobs to those that have more is immoral.
But people who are offered low-wage jobs have no obligation to accept the offer. If they choose to do so, is that not because in their estimation, and according to their values, the job is the best they can get?
I understand your horror at placing yourself in their shoes and finding a choice between hay and dung. I feel the same way. But how, I ask, is having no choice better?
And if all human beings are equally deserving of those opportunities, then you should be against outsourcing. Because those opportunities are no longer available in the host country.
I don't follow. Selecting one out of two equally deserving candidates is wrong?
Every time outsourcing comes up I see signs of a feeling among the posters that outsourcing is bad. Usually it's not really explicit. People just talk as if outsourcing being negative is a given and needs no explanation or justification.
Well, humour me. Justify it.
The way I see it, all humans are equally deserving of rights and opportunities by default (their actions can then alter their eligibility, and opportunity doesn't equal outcome).
How then is affording opportunities to different people far away as opposed to similar people nearby a bad thing?
Oh, I understand it's bad for you if you're in the latter group, but people don't talk about this in those terms. They talk like it's morally wrong for companies to outsource. How can that be? I don't see the logic behind that. Is there any?
Every time my company's code is put into production, I hand the requirements to the client's hosting provider and stay with them as they install what we need. It's always on RHEL, and these people, who do nothing but this for a living, rarely even bother to look for RPMs. They go directly to the tarball. It's not like we're using obscure stuff either. What we need should be in RHEL. It's in FC. It's in Debian stable, what gives?
For me as a Debian user,./configure && make && sudo make install is mostly a thing of the past.
I see no technical reason why all these hosting provider should focus on RHEL. All I see is delusions of support and the comfort of brand awareness.
The really clever part was that some games would change the display mode during each screen refresh to use different modes at the top and bottom of the screen. You could have low resolution and color for most of the screen, and then some high resolution mono text at the bottom.
Software that echoes passwords to the screen? All over the place. Not on purpose, mind you.
My friends have seen my passwords, or at least the beginning of my passwords, in the linux console and the gdm login box.
What happens in the console is one of two things. Either the system is slow to turn off echo and start accepting the password and I blurt it out before that happens, or I mistype the password and retype it in the next username prompt (because most other things prompt for the password again at that time).
gdm is not susceptible the first kind of error, but falls for the second as well. It's actually a little worse than the console in that the change in the label on the input field is less noticable than the change in the console prompt due to the size of the font. Microsoft does this better in XP.
Free market solutions don't necessarily work when the market isn't free. This isn't a vote with your wallet kind of situation. It's the vote with your vote kind.
Accumulating an asset that has a built in time when it becomes utterly worthless is a very unpleasant proposition.
I think it's worth keeping in mind that anyone who paid for such assets in the past knew that the asset would, absent change in regulation, expire. They factored that into the price they offered. It was not such an unpleasant proposition that they didn't consider it worthwhile.
When publishers today want an extension of copyright coverage on existing works, they are asking to receive more than they bargained for.
I could tell them my current contract forbids me from disclosing my wage -- and it would even be true. I thought this was pretty much standard. It is where I live, at least for programmers.
Actually I never liked that. Wage secrecy shields unreasonable wage disparity, such as based on sex, age, and familiarity.
That is to say, I never liked people choosing wage secrecy. I like them having the choice.
The Tk apps I've run on Linux look and feel very different from native apps. Is the situstion different on Windows? Or is this controllable by the programmer? I imagine a random Windows user isn't any happier than I am with one program's menus workin differently than all their other programs' menus. The 'file' menus stays open while you mouse over to 'tools', for instance -- better or worse, it is different.
Your fine collection is missing this examle of bizarre marketing: HIV.
Sure does catch the eye, but whether consumers go on to buy it is another story.
I never tried it, or any energy drink for that matter, except for a bottle of Quafe (EVE players will be impressed). The taste was not something I'm eager to experience again.
I guess my chosen beverege, Pepsi Max is kind of an energy/sports drink, as it forms the basis of my exercise program (running to the bathroom a thousand times a day.)
I would love an environment where saving is unnecessary, where all changes are logged and any previous state can be restored. I don't do this in my own programs because it's harder, especially when the code is changing. So the reason why we still have save actions is no mystery to me.
However, I think the file notion is useful and plays a part in the ideal environment. To me, a data "file" is like a material "thing". Bytes don't enter into it any more than atoms do. It's a term you use when the specific type of the object is unimportant, unknown, or multi-valued. People understand that in the material world; they're not that bad with abstractions.
It's just that they have to be sensible abstractions. What we have now is a mess. The file concept is overexposed. File menus in programs should go. The word "file" is also not that great. Files in filing cabinets are not documents, they contain documents. It's different with computer files and that's confusing. There are all kinds of bad metaphors like that (who puts wallpaper on their desktop!)
Mullen: I once had grid resources through a Web application anonymously for a power company. Grid resource control, OK? SQL injection, hit that through an anonymous connection and I had grid resources for the State.
The fact that an idea is really dumb doesn't mean it's never been implemented.
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I don't want to be the next "640MB ought to be enough for everybody" guy, but I have a really hard time seeing more than 4GB in low-end systems in just 2-3 years.
That much RAM costs a fair bit today, and it feels to me like RAM prices are not declining fast. I found a lovely history of RAM prices at Sharky Extreme that seems to support that feeling. In December 2004, 2005, and 2006, the cheapest way to get 1GB of PCxx00 RAM is always close to $100.
I think the masses aren't going to be running on much more than $100's worth of memory in 3 years, or ever. So until prices drop to $25/GB, they don't need a 64bit OS. They might as well continue running a 32 bit OS on their 64 bit hardware, just like I do now.
If I'm right, that doesn't necessarily detract from ESR's point. It's natural that once some threshold is crossed, everyone switches to a 64 bit OS even though most don't need to -- they just get dragged along with those who do. I just thought this statement about 4GB low-end systems was a bit suspicious.
It seems to me that a week is not a good period either. Who's going to want to live on weekends-dark section?
Shouldn't be a problem if you put a space before the exclamation point. :-)
Anyway, ambiguity can be fun. Perl modules need to evaluate to true, so people usually end them with "1". I usually wrote "3!=6", which is doubly true
Hehe, thanks for giving me the idea of a company called The Sammy Sosa Fuckup.
Can the spy process do its job from a different virtual machine? If so, and if virtualization methods can't be tweaked to defeat all such attacks while maintaining reasonable performance, that might spell doom for the virtual server market.
rm instead of mv.
Well, it stands for remove ;-)
I'm pretty sure the person who turned the disk in, if they thought about it at all, assumed that surely the shop would wipe the disk before reselling it. Well, clearly that's not something you can count on.
I don't recommend it. Afterwards, it felt like I'd lied.
In the last election, I did something better. I still didn't feel like voting for any of the parties, so I didn't. I took my ballot and dropped it right in the box, unmarked.
Where I live, the number of "blank or invalid" ballots is always reported along with the candidates' tallies. I don't know if you have that in the states. I'm not thrilled about being lumped in with people who tried and failed to tick a box, but it's better than being counted among those who don't care, or helping some wackjob party get a seat or two.
As someone "in the industry", perhaps you can clarify what the picture looks like when you release the corn constraint, or perhaps you can talk about why it has to be corn.
I think what you (and many others) are saying is basically this:
Affording low-wage jobs to those that have very little instead of high-wage jobs to those that have more is immoral.
But people who are offered low-wage jobs have no obligation to accept the offer. If they choose to do so, is that not because in their estimation, and according to their values, the job is the best they can get?
I understand your horror at placing yourself in their shoes and finding a choice between hay and dung. I feel the same way. But how, I ask, is having no choice better?
I don't follow. Selecting one out of two equally deserving candidates is wrong?
Well, humour me. Justify it.
The way I see it, all humans are equally deserving of rights and opportunities by default (their actions can then alter their eligibility, and opportunity doesn't equal outcome).
How then is affording opportunities to different people far away as opposed to similar people nearby a bad thing?
Oh, I understand it's bad for you if you're in the latter group, but people don't talk about this in those terms. They talk like it's morally wrong for companies to outsource. How can that be? I don't see the logic behind that. Is there any?
Every time my company's code is put into production, I hand the requirements to the client's hosting provider and stay with them as they install what we need. It's always on RHEL, and these people, who do nothing but this for a living, rarely even bother to look for RPMs. They go directly to the tarball. It's not like we're using obscure stuff either. What we need should be in RHEL. It's in FC. It's in Debian stable, what gives?
For me as a Debian user, ./configure && make && sudo make install is mostly a thing of the past.
I see no technical reason why all these hosting provider should focus on RHEL. All I see is delusions of support and the comfort of brand awareness.
The really clever part was that some games would change the display mode during each screen refresh to use different modes at the top and bottom of the screen. You could have low resolution and color for most of the screen, and then some high resolution mono text at the bottom.
My friends have seen my passwords, or at least the beginning of my passwords, in the linux console and the gdm login box.
What happens in the console is one of two things. Either the system is slow to turn off echo and start accepting the password and I blurt it out before that happens, or I mistype the password and retype it in the next username prompt (because most other things prompt for the password again at that time).
gdm is not susceptible the first kind of error, but falls for the second as well. It's actually a little worse than the console in that the change in the label on the input field is less noticable than the change in the console prompt due to the size of the font. Microsoft does this better in XP.
Free market solutions don't necessarily work when the market isn't free. This isn't a vote with your wallet kind of situation. It's the vote with your vote kind.
I think it's worth keeping in mind that anyone who paid for such assets in the past knew that the asset would, absent change in regulation, expire. They factored that into the price they offered. It was not such an unpleasant proposition that they didn't consider it worthwhile.
When publishers today want an extension of copyright coverage on existing works, they are asking to receive more than they bargained for.
I prefer to let contracts stand.
Actually I never liked that. Wage secrecy shields unreasonable wage disparity, such as based on sex, age, and familiarity.
That is to say, I never liked people choosing wage secrecy. I like them having the choice.
The Tk apps I've run on Linux look and feel very different from native apps. Is the situstion different on Windows? Or is this controllable by the programmer? I imagine a random Windows user isn't any happier than I am with one program's menus workin differently than all their other programs' menus. The 'file' menus stays open while you mouse over to 'tools', for instance -- better or worse, it is different.
Sure does catch the eye, but whether consumers go on to buy it is another story.
I never tried it, or any energy drink for that matter, except for a bottle of Quafe (EVE players will be impressed). The taste was not something I'm eager to experience again.
I guess my chosen beverege, Pepsi Max is kind of an energy/sports drink, as it forms the basis of my exercise program (running to the bathroom a thousand times a day.)
YES!
The only problem is I never found one with the exact layout that I like (wide backspace, tall enter with a backslash nestled up to it.)
However, I think the file notion is useful and plays a part in the ideal environment. To me, a data "file" is like a material "thing". Bytes don't enter into it any more than atoms do. It's a term you use when the specific type of the object is unimportant, unknown, or multi-valued. People understand that in the material world; they're not that bad with abstractions.
It's just that they have to be sensible abstractions. What we have now is a mess. The file concept is overexposed. File menus in programs should go. The word "file" is also not that great. Files in filing cabinets are not documents, they contain documents. It's different with computer files and that's confusing. There are all kinds of bad metaphors like that (who puts wallpaper on their desktop!)
If I'm reading this correctly, yes.
The fact that an idea is really dumb doesn't mean it's never been implemented.
You're in luck. That feature has been present for quite a while now.
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