Shouldn't the kernel tell the task to slow up when you're getting toward 2/3 (or 50%, 75%, 80% etc.) of the available memory pages? Would boot-up tests that store data-rate metrics for the available storage allow the system to slow down tasks likely to fill the memory pages before the disks can catch up which would allow the system to retain 'teh snappy'?
Tesco is the profit-making reincarnation of the old Co-op retail outfit. In the 50's onwards (it may be older than this), local co-operatives of shoppers ran shops for the good of people. The Co-op convenience stores you see sweeping over the convenience store market near me are a part of the CWS group. They are the people behind Co-operative Insurance Services -- who also sponsor Scotland's knock-out football cup -- Co-operative Financial Services -- who do the Internet bank 'Smile', the Co-operative Bank and investment services -- as well as a funeral service. Co-op has been running a loyalty card scheme for years, allowing people to get 'dividend' from purchases, but with less of a data-mining setup of Tesco. The difference between the Co-op and Tesco? Tesco is a business run for shareholders, Co-op a business run for its members -- who can be anyone.
Interestingly, supermarkets provide a singel convenient venue for all the shopping a family needed to do. The market's changing and picking up what's needed conveniently, from smaller and better-placed stores is an smack-in-the-face obvious point of growth in the grocery market.
I'm shocked. As a Brit, I would feel ripped off if I bought a new car that didn't make 120,000 miles without anything more severe than servicing, oil, brakes and tyres (well, maybe a clutch). There's an ecological impact to this as well -- more metals refined, more junk thrown away.
Intel can't afford to lower the quality of their products: lower quality manufacturing results in lower yields; worse performance from the chips themselves will make resellers think about alternative processors.
A note of interest: Mercedes has upped their production quality in the last year or so and their machines are more reliable now. In Europe, we can buy Skodas (former Czech national automobile company renowned for terrible quality) which, since their purchase buy VW, are just Skoda-branded Vee-dubs with the associated build quality and reliability but also a better-value price point.
...because the 2D editions aren't as he imagined them, not to do with making more money or anything. It's like a generation of Sci-Fi fans cried out "Nooooooooooo!" and were silenced.
Greebo is rumoured to be 3D'ed first. Before Han...
I hand in my links to Netcraft, jokes about Soviet Russia, lines about how my Pentium II at home is faster copying files and go check my e-mail at OldSouthKorean.net.:-(
Those two articles, while from the same people and talking about similar Linux Love, are not the same thing! The Friday one was about Linspire Five-OMG/WTF/BBQ!!!111!! and this is about Xandros Business Desktop. I must congratulate you on classic Slash non-RTFA.
Both were at XYZcomputing.com and irritated me by having too few words per page and too many pages. The worst crime was the lack of a Printer-friendly edition of the document so I could scroll at my own leisure.
As a UK resident and native speaker of English, I'm puzzled buy your second sentence. Is the 'It', which opens the sentence, the object of the first sentence (Rupert Murdoch's The Sun newspaper), or the fifth word ("it") of the first sentence (implicitly The Daily Telegraph)?
Either way round, your statement "news (with a racist-pro Britian-anti Europe biast (sic.))" stands.
I don't think you're up to date. The Athlon 64's have been trimmed down for notebook use, called Turion, and they have two performance envelopes, one at 35 watts and another at 25 watts typical power consumption. The present range is explained here.
Point 3: Let's bear in mind Windows Hardware Quality Labs certified drivers, the push Microsoft will go to to make sure that companies supply them good drivers for Longhorn's release (I expect that Vista won't stick when people sue Microsoft for namespace violation), and companies wanting their hardware to work on the new version of such an ubiquitous operating system. This makes me certain that a move to 64-bit in Longhorn won't harm user experience.
Laporte says: "It's funny, because in the early days of UNIX, the philosophy of a program was, "do one thing well, and then pass the result along and interface with others." We've gotten to the complete opposite, which is do everything kind of okay, and interface with nobody. That was clearly a wrong turn. It's a response to market forces, not computer science forces."
In the case where there is just the CLI and a list of programs spawned from a single input line, having a whole collection of tools that work well together is a must. But when you move to a graphical interface, so huge is the change in interface mechanics that the idea of the end-user setting up a chain of programs to run from one mouse click should be alien.
The UNIX mentality of small, modular programs doing one thing well can still be maintained while a graphical environment is running, but his criticism that "do everything kind of okay, interface with nobody" can't be taken as criticism: it's just the way that GUI stuff appears to the user*. The computer system may be organised so that the GUI program you're using shares a lot of libraries and calls a lot of helper programs to do its work, but the user should only see the graphical interface, making his point moot.
*: Maybe he means something else: that an environment where one program does only one thing, from ground to GUI, does not help people to tinker, develop and hack new features into the software.
The latest update (here, but expect more updates at http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/) says that he "is said to have illegally reverse-engineered Cisco source code" (why bother reverse-engineering sources?*) to discover the vulnerability and that Cisco and ISS had four months of work in progress on the issue before this presentation.
He may have misused information from his former job at ISS and be operating outside the bounds of his ISS employee contract allowed him to act.
*: I can see how, if the source codes contain hash numbers which are generated elsewhere and need cracking, that there would be reverse-engineering the source code. If it was recovering the source code from a compiled binary, why not say so? If breaking the DMCA by decompiling an encrypted binary, why not tell us?
Further research has shown that the Evesham Voyager A210 has the Turion MT37 up to four hours of battery life, on integrated graphics. Its bigger brother, the Voyager A410 has Mobility Radeon X700 but an expected battery life of only 2.5 hours. The Evesham Quest Roma is a better price for the same specification as the Voyager A410.
5:51 for battery life is phenomenal, but you are buying integrated graphics and a 1024x768 display. But this thing is aimed at desktop work and scored above average for business content creation. I'm still shocked by a notebook computer that can manage nearly 6 hours from its batteries...
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Shouldn't the kernel tell the task to slow up when you're getting toward 2/3 (or 50%, 75%, 80% etc.) of the available memory pages? Would boot-up tests that store data-rate metrics for the available storage allow the system to slow down tasks likely to fill the memory pages before the disks can catch up which would allow the system to retain 'teh snappy'?
Tesco is the profit-making reincarnation of the old Co-op retail outfit. In the 50's onwards (it may be older than this), local co-operatives of shoppers ran shops for the good of people. The Co-op convenience stores you see sweeping over the convenience store market near me are a part of the CWS group. They are the people behind Co-operative Insurance Services -- who also sponsor Scotland's knock-out football cup -- Co-operative Financial Services -- who do the Internet bank 'Smile', the Co-operative Bank and investment services -- as well as a funeral service. Co-op has been running a loyalty card scheme for years, allowing people to get 'dividend' from purchases, but with less of a data-mining setup of Tesco. The difference between the Co-op and Tesco? Tesco is a business run for shareholders, Co-op a business run for its members -- who can be anyone.
Interestingly, supermarkets provide a singel convenient venue for all the shopping a family needed to do. The market's changing and picking up what's needed conveniently, from smaller and better-placed stores is an smack-in-the-face obvious point of growth in the grocery market.
We miss the Newton because what it thought we meant was often far more interesting than what we were really trying to say.
:-P
Thanks for trying to do the journalist thing, guys.
I'm shocked. As a Brit, I would feel ripped off if I bought a new car that didn't make 120,000 miles without anything more severe than servicing, oil, brakes and tyres (well, maybe a clutch). There's an ecological impact to this as well -- more metals refined, more junk thrown away.
Intel can't afford to lower the quality of their products: lower quality manufacturing results in lower yields; worse performance from the chips themselves will make resellers think about alternative processors.
A note of interest: Mercedes has upped their production quality in the last year or so and their machines are more reliable now. In Europe, we can buy Skodas (former Czech national automobile company renowned for terrible quality) which, since their purchase buy VW, are just Skoda-branded Vee-dubs with the associated build quality and reliability but also a better-value price point.
Hey! This isn't the Intelligent Design topic!
The fine article mentions examples of this done to existing film stock.
...because the 2D editions aren't as he imagined them, not to do with making more money or anything. It's like a generation of Sci-Fi fans cried out "Nooooooooooo!" and were silenced.
Greebo is rumoured to be 3D'ed first. Before Han...
(some of the above may not be true)
Last Guardians of Truth in these confusing days of the Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field(TM), the Slashdotters are.
I hand in my links to Netcraft, jokes about Soviet Russia, lines about how my Pentium II at home is faster copying files and go check my e-mail at OldSouthKorean.net. :-(
Those two articles, while from the same people and talking about similar Linux Love, are not the same thing! The Friday one was about Linspire Five-OMG/WTF/BBQ!!!111!! and this is about Xandros Business Desktop. I must congratulate you on classic Slash non-RTFA.
Both were at XYZcomputing.com and irritated me by having too few words per page and too many pages. The worst crime was the lack of a Printer-friendly edition of the document so I could scroll at my own leisure.
You are Schrodinger's Cat AICM* knowledge of your position and velocity simultaneously.
*: And I Claim My
As a UK resident and native speaker of English, I'm puzzled buy your second sentence. Is the 'It', which opens the sentence, the object of the first sentence (Rupert Murdoch's The Sun newspaper), or the fifth word ("it") of the first sentence (implicitly The Daily Telegraph)?
Either way round, your statement "news (with a racist-pro Britian-anti Europe biast (sic.))" stands.
I don't think you're up to date. The Athlon 64's have been trimmed down for notebook use, called Turion , and they have two performance envelopes, one at 35 watts and another at 25 watts typical power consumption. The present range is explained here.
Point 3: Let's bear in mind Windows Hardware Quality Labs certified drivers, the push Microsoft will go to to make sure that companies supply them good drivers for Longhorn's release (I expect that Vista won't stick when people sue Microsoft for namespace violation), and companies wanting their hardware to work on the new version of such an ubiquitous operating system. This makes me certain that a move to 64-bit in Longhorn won't harm user experience.
With Sony's 10-year expected lifespan for the PS3 (and possible higher cost), I would expect it to have a larger feature set than the X360, allowing for things like HDTV PVR and hyper-definition music.
Laporte says:
"It's funny, because in the early days of UNIX, the philosophy of a program was, "do one thing well, and then pass the result along and interface with others." We've gotten to the complete opposite, which is do everything kind of okay, and interface with nobody. That was clearly a wrong turn. It's a response to market forces, not computer science forces."
In the case where there is just the CLI and a list of programs spawned from a single input line, having a whole collection of tools that work well together is a must. But when you move to a graphical interface, so huge is the change in interface mechanics that the idea of the end-user setting up a chain of programs to run from one mouse click should be alien.
The UNIX mentality of small, modular programs doing one thing well can still be maintained while a graphical environment is running, but his criticism that "do everything kind of okay, interface with nobody" can't be taken as criticism: it's just the way that GUI stuff appears to the user*. The computer system may be organised so that the GUI program you're using shares a lot of libraries and calls a lot of helper programs to do its work, but the user should only see the graphical interface, making his point moot.
*: Maybe he means something else: that an environment where one program does only one thing, from ground to GUI, does not help people to tinker, develop and hack new features into the software.
The latest update (here, but expect more updates at http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/) says that he "is said to have illegally reverse-engineered Cisco source code" (why bother reverse-engineering sources?*) to discover the vulnerability and that Cisco and ISS had four months of work in progress on the issue before this presentation.
He may have misused information from his former job at ISS and be operating outside the bounds of his ISS employee contract allowed him to act.
*: I can see how, if the source codes contain hash numbers which are generated elsewhere and need cracking, that there would be reverse-engineering the source code. If it was recovering the source code from a compiled binary, why not say so? If breaking the DMCA by decompiling an encrypted binary, why not tell us?
Would I be out of line to ask if you are farming your Karma?
Or a consortium of the Linux BIOS people and the ACPI/APM people (with the swsusp2 people, etc.)?
How's the e-mail thing working out for you, old chap?
It's time for kicking ass and chewing gum.
You have 0 gums in your inventory.
Exits are North, South, Down.
>_
Further research has shown that the Evesham Voyager A210 has the Turion MT37 up to four hours of battery life, on integrated graphics. Its bigger brother, the Voyager A410 has Mobility Radeon X700 but an expected battery life of only 2.5 hours. The Evesham Quest Roma is a better price for the same specification as the Voyager A410.
http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=acer+ferrari+4 005wlmi
2.0GHz Turion ML-37 chip with a Mobility Radeon X700, 1680x1050 native resolution 15.4" WSVGA screen, multi-layer DVDRW, 1GB DDR333 RAM, 100GB (only 5400 rpm) HDD, 10/100/1000 LAN, 802.11b/g & bluetooth wireless and predicted 3 hr battery life.
I would like one of those, please.
The graphs are more than a bit misleading...
5:51 for battery life is phenomenal, but you are buying integrated graphics and a 1024x768 display. But this thing is aimed at desktop work and scored above average for business content creation. I'm still shocked by a notebook computer that can manage nearly 6 hours from its batteries...