But i can't tell from the title/subject heading if MS are not using fuel injection because they can't or because it's so 1990's that they don't need to anymore.
And before you ask - no I haven't RTFA. I am the NEXT generation of/. readers who don't even read the blurb. If the title/subject line doesn't convey the info then why bother reading further?
When windows 2000 was released there were four versions
Windows 2000 Pro (I don't think there was a home)
Windows 2000 Server,
Windows 2000 Advanced Server
Windows 2000 Datacenter Server.
With XP there were two main workstaiton versions. Home and Pro. Of course home was a lobotomised hunk of smelling do-do but the trend is showing there. And then there were some weird ones with local releases in Europe (and I'm not counting CE and real time stuff). Add onto that the various versions of server 2k3 and they distros start to add up.
6 versions of Vista is getting a little carried away. But it's just a continuation of the theme they've already established. I expect there will be 3 versions of smelly lobotomised OS's, one version most use, and maybe acouple with features no one wants or cares about
Every time a new version of windows comes out there are shouts of alarm that current PC's won't handle it. Every single time.
I've developed a "rule of thumb" - always load on PC's the version of windows that was available for purchase when that type of hardware was common (with one exception - no hardware is suitable for WindowsME)
As Vista isn't out yet, I wouldn't recommend running Vista on any hardware that's currently around. If you do - then prepare for a performance hit.
Yeah sure there are user interface improvments. but I write most of those off as "new skins". Some of the things I'm looking forward to - in about two years when I can afford new hardware - are
BTW - note that the two main things I'm looking forward to are OS aspects (software that interacts between apps and hardware) not just interface bells & whistles
In other words, go and get yourself a glass of STFU.
yeah yeah - big man gets obnoxious and insults. How about getting yourself a big glass of maturity
We are talking about an environmental protection when it comes to weirs. Many things in the environment are measured logrithmic. No I wouldn't want pipes to be an order of magnitude thicker than they need to be to hold water. However earthquakes and often liquid pressure are more easily dealt with on a logrithmic scale. That's an order of magnitude to you idiot.
To other posters - yeah you've a point for those items. but when it comes living beneath a dam or relying on weirs - I think I'd prefer the plan for an order of magnitude worse than the worst known event. BTW - that doesn't necessarily mean 10 times higher or wider.
New Zealand readers may be interested in a slightly more rigerous (maybe) survey carried out by the Dept of Labour recently. They asked recruiting companies what jobs were hardest to fill. The report is downloadable as a pdf and there's a a summary (html) on the page with that link. The summary page also has links to the survey itself
I think they stuffed up a couple of things (they mention "CCNE" which I think is really "CCIE") but the general gist is interesting. In NZ it seems that.NET is right up there - but behind java. I really thought that the support fields (sys-admin, desktop technician) might be more in demand - apparently not. however, skilled network administers are REALLY sought after. The main area which recruiters seem to find easy to fill is in the multimedia arena
The other thing that the DoL publish is a monthly job Vacency index which tracks IT vacencies and indexes them against the initial year of monitoring (2003 I think). It has consistently been saying that IT jobs that there are more and more vacencies with each passing month.
leaving aside that all you need for a curde fake is to make something that glows - ideally (but not necessarily for some greedy suckers) under the right light - yes LEAVING that...
Is that 33 trillion to one the odds of a random sequence duplicating it - or is it the odds of someone who knows what they are doing, and with intent, being able to duplicate the sequence?
It sounds like someone was pulling random, or irrelevent, numbers out of his RC
political? More philosophical I think. I had a lecturer (professon to you yanks;-) who kept using the phrase "essentially contestable" when talking about the definition of education and some other stuff (including sex!!!). It was a great class. I ended up knowing that I didn't have a clue what I was talking about
As a random aside - and related to education - whats the difference between
Intelegence, Knowledge and Wisdom - are they different at all, and can you possess any combination in isolation? (no i won't tell you the answer - there ain't one)
one of the problems is that there are no culturely neutral standardised tests that accuratly assess things that you'd normally want assessed. Don't go down the IQ road - those tests are so wacked it's not funny (and can be "trained" for just as lie detectors can).
Even in our field, IT, there loads of certificate tests that are about as well designed as it is capable to achieve. But we keep coming back to the fact that the only way you can test if someone can fix a DNS server is to give them a broken one and tell them to fix it.
You can justify anything I guess - we'll just have to see how it plays out. However torture is on the RISE not falling (lead by the US). Statistical anomolies eh... yeah right! Your elections are looking more and more like those in some african states - just wait till they are unauditable and electronic
But as you played the Nazi card. Godwin's law applies . I hope you enjoy your living in the police state that seems to be developing (nice place to visit - sure as hell wouldn't want to live there)
yes - that is a good example. They do exist but counter examples also exist which are just as common and on the whole more worrying. Recent examples (not historical examples from last centuary) are: dodgy elections, torture is approved (even congress didn't totally outlaw it), imprisonment without trial and without recognition of any rights, survaliance without warrents - the list is might large and mighty scarey.
btw disingenuous seems to mean "insincere". I can assure you that I am sincere and quite concerned at the lack of effective self correction.
what's Google to do? Only return American, content-classified web sites unless you can prove you're an adult?
Yup - and Googles quite happy to do that (ie obey the local laws on censorship). of course the only workable solution would be to ban porn as you can't be certain of the clients age. compulsory "safe search" for the US perhaps?
But on the other hand, releasing information about anonymous porn searches doesn't really seem to be violating anyone's rights.
What's so anonymous about a search term/phrase, an IP address and a time of day? Try this paranoia on for size (and these days you can NOT be too paranoid):
You're a govt uber-police agent targetting someone
You need to intimidate, threaten or maybe fishing for info to support a warrent
supeona the targets ISP logs for the client's connection times and allocated IP addresses
Grep the latest search logs
Profit
Most people do not value the rather rich data they throw in the trash and most people think that logs are irrelevent. And in themselves they are - all it takes is a little data matching. This is NOT far fetched.
I am not even close to being a privacy advocate, in fact I usually am on the side of the government in issues like these.
You remind me of the famous quote by someone called Martin Niemoller:
"First they come for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist.
And then they came for the Socialists and I did not speak out because I was not a Socialist.
And then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.
And then they came for me. And there was no one left to speak out for me."
A: No one has been threated with jail time.
not yet - but this is commercial anyway, the equivilent is huge fines
B: As they have done in other countries, I highly suspect Google will have servers located WITHIN CHINA. Now explain to me again how they plan on saying "no" to a request from the Chinese government?
Why would it be harder for them to say NO to China than to the FBI? I don't see much difference myself. Oh yeah - of course the FBI doesn't impliment national firewalls - but then a few years ago I'd have said the US doesn't use torture either. Google always has the option to say no - it will be a choice, possibly between operating in china or not operating.
put that way it's a rhetorical question - "surely you are not against 'motherhood or apple pie'". But I wonder if you support race-hate literiture & speach; do you support the right of the jihadist to preach etc etc.
I've met precious few people who really support the right of others to speak strongly against things they hold dear. For some reason they don't regard THAT as censorship.
Govt censorship is inevitable in all societies - the only variation is the stuff that's censored. I don't like it, I like to see it minimised - but like Google I recognised that it's something that will always exist and must be worked with. I also don't like taxs, poverty, corruption or crime but I'm not surprised that international companies continue to deal with nations which have these aspects
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You had me up to that last point. Apple have something like 4% market share. That isn't competition, that's an insignificant niche market (at best).
you may be right tho - this may be a publicity stunt to try to make out that they aren't a total monopoly without any real competition
But i can't tell from the title/subject heading if MS are not using fuel injection because they can't or because it's so 1990's that they don't need to anymore.
And before you ask - no I haven't RTFA. I am the NEXT generation of /. readers who don't even read the blurb. If the title/subject line doesn't convey the info then why bother reading further?
- Windows 2000 Pro (I don't think there was a home)
- Windows 2000 Server,
- Windows 2000 Advanced Server
- Windows 2000 Datacenter Server.
With XP there were two main workstaiton versions. Home and Pro. Of course home was a lobotomised hunk of smelling do-do but the trend is showing there. And then there were some weird ones with local releases in Europe (and I'm not counting CE and real time stuff). Add onto that the various versions of server 2k3 and they distros start to add up.6 versions of Vista is getting a little carried away. But it's just a continuation of the theme they've already established. I expect there will be 3 versions of smelly lobotomised OS's, one version most use, and maybe acouple with features no one wants or cares about
btw I don't know where the BBC sourced their "6" from but MS seems to bthink there are five versions
But don't forget, kids don't know what they want to do in life. Hell, after 20 years working I don't know what I want in life
[sigh] no - i always ctrl-click myself but I wanted to avoid the IE newbies wondering what the hell i was talking about
I've developed a "rule of thumb" - always load on PC's the version of windows that was available for purchase when that type of hardware was common (with one exception - no hardware is suitable for WindowsME)
As Vista isn't out yet, I wouldn't recommend running Vista on any hardware that's currently around. If you do - then prepare for a performance hit.
Yeah sure there are user interface improvments. but I write most of those off as "new skins". Some of the things I'm looking forward to - in about two years when I can afford new hardware - are
- Better handling of new features in graphics cards
- Making use of new features in SATA
- Improved deployment methods for business
BTW - note that the two main things I'm looking forward to are OS aspects (software that interacts between apps and hardware) not just interface bells & whistlesYeah right!
Comparing the average time to fix bugs in an OS+Apps against fixing bugs in a single application is hardly comparing like with like.
But don't let that stop anyone mindlessly bashing.
the release once a month policy that MS has is certainly weird tho.
We are talking about an environmental protection when it comes to weirs. Many things in the environment are measured logrithmic. No I wouldn't want pipes to be an order of magnitude thicker than they need to be to hold water. However earthquakes and often liquid pressure are more easily dealt with on a logrithmic scale. That's an order of magnitude to you idiot.
To other posters - yeah you've a point for those items. but when it comes living beneath a dam or relying on weirs - I think I'd prefer the plan for an order of magnitude worse than the worst known event. BTW - that doesn't necessarily mean 10 times higher or wider.
haha - NOW I understand the other post about adding 0 would double 'doh
double? I think an order of magnitude is a better assumption - i.e. add a zero
and how many links did you shift-click on before you noticed you shouldn't be doing that mmmmm???
I think they stuffed up a couple of things (they mention "CCNE" which I think is really "CCIE") but the general gist is interesting. In NZ it seems that .NET is right up there - but behind java. I really thought that the support fields (sys-admin, desktop technician) might be more in demand - apparently not. however, skilled network administers are REALLY sought after. The main area which recruiters seem to find easy to fill is in the multimedia arena
The other thing that the DoL publish is a monthly job Vacency index which tracks IT vacencies and indexes them against the initial year of monitoring (2003 I think). It has consistently been saying that IT jobs that there are more and more vacencies with each passing month.
Is that 33 trillion to one the odds of a random sequence duplicating it - or is it the odds of someone who knows what they are doing, and with intent, being able to duplicate the sequence?
It sounds like someone was pulling random, or irrelevent, numbers out of his RC
but then IANADNAS :)
A particularly nice type of coffee - on taht note - here's some nice java tutorials
As a random aside - and related to education - whats the difference between Intelegence, Knowledge and Wisdom - are they different at all, and can you possess any combination in isolation? (no i won't tell you the answer - there ain't one)
Even in our field, IT, there loads of certificate tests that are about as well designed as it is capable to achieve. But we keep coming back to the fact that the only way you can test if someone can fix a DNS server is to give them a broken one and tell them to fix it.
But as you played the Nazi card. Godwin's law applies . I hope you enjoy your living in the police state that seems to be developing (nice place to visit - sure as hell wouldn't want to live there)
btw disingenuous seems to mean "insincere". I can assure you that I am sincere and quite concerned at the lack of effective self correction.
Yup - and Googles quite happy to do that (ie obey the local laws on censorship). of course the only workable solution would be to ban porn as you can't be certain of the clients age. compulsory "safe search" for the US perhaps?
What's so anonymous about a search term/phrase, an IP address and a time of day? Try this paranoia on for size (and these days you can NOT be too paranoid):
- You're a govt uber-police agent targetting someone
- You need to intimidate, threaten or maybe fishing for info to support a warrent
- supeona the targets ISP logs for the client's connection times and allocated IP addresses
- Grep the latest search logs
- Profit
Most people do not value the rather rich data they throw in the trash and most people think that logs are irrelevent. And in themselves they are - all it takes is a little data matching. This is NOT far fetched.You remind me of the famous quote by someone called Martin Niemoller:
Perhaps it's time to become a privacy activist.not yet - but this is commercial anyway, the equivilent is huge fines
B: As they have done in other countries, I highly suspect Google will have servers located WITHIN CHINA. Now explain to me again how they plan on saying "no" to a request from the Chinese government?
Why would it be harder for them to say NO to China than to the FBI? I don't see much difference myself. Oh yeah - of course the FBI doesn't impliment national firewalls - but then a few years ago I'd have said the US doesn't use torture either. Google always has the option to say no - it will be a choice, possibly between operating in china or not operating.
I've met precious few people who really support the right of others to speak strongly against things they hold dear. For some reason they don't regard THAT as censorship.
Govt censorship is inevitable in all societies - the only variation is the stuff that's censored. I don't like it, I like to see it minimised - but like Google I recognised that it's something that will always exist and must be worked with. I also don't like taxs, poverty, corruption or crime but I'm not surprised that international companies continue to deal with nations which have these aspects
oookay - I guess we watch different news channels, broadcasting quite different current affairs