I well understand the technical problems that you might (I stress might, I'm betting one can do it better than MS did) run into but if you freeze the api for specific instances of the Kernel, say 2.2, 2.4, etc it woudl work fine.
the other thing to do is encourage more companies to do the Nvidia thing and have an open source wrapper that communicates to a binary only driver.
How about the kernel guys make a stable driver API and then we wouldn't have to worry about this type of crap? It's ridiculous that people complain about lack of driver support but then give the Hardware people a never-ending totally unstable API for drivers.
I had a friend who (after random women kept turnign up the temp in the server room because it was too cold when they went to go get their print jobs) put up a sign.
it said, Simply:
If you want to be responsible for the loss of $750,000 dollars worth of computer equipment, please sign below and adjust the thermostat as much as you want
Aha! But my powerbook has a faulty modem port! So, based on our sample size of 2 it apears that 50% of apples will work perfectly, and 50% will have broken modem ports.
I was simply trying to point out that the two health care systems are totally different. Each has its good points but I do believe I would trust American hospitals more than English (than again, free healthcare is pretty nice).
except that.NET is only available for x86. Granted, it makes it easier - in theory - if MS every decides x86 is crappy and wants to switch hardware, or to port to new architectures. But as it is now, with the exception of efforts like mono,.NET will only run on x86.
obviously coming from somebody who has never lived in, or been to, a country with a socialized health care system. I was in england for 6 months last year and the US' helath care system is *night and day* compared to what they have over there - socialized health care. We don't have a "facist" health care system - ours is private with strict regulations.
Heh, and you can make the same argument about apple's.;). Which is why people care about market share -- more market share cheaper products, more apps, etc.
Why is it that there's constant hand wringing over apple's market share, and there's NOT constant hand wringing over BMW's (who holds less a share of the automobile market than Apple does of the personal computer market) market share?
The car market analogy oh so popular these days is very flawed. BMW could make just one car a year and yet it would still run on all the nation's roads and such. if apple made one computer a year.. who the hell is going ot make apps for it? Without apps there is no computer market. You can sell the greatest computer OS ever known to humankind but if nobody buys it, nobody will want to develop apps for it so it'll be comparatively worthless. That's why people care about apple's market share - the more market share the more developers, more developers, more apps. Etc.
I just read in Business Week that the US slipped from number three --I'm pretty sure we're talking raw numbers rather than percentages-- to number ten in global broadband rankings. It's not altogether impossible that this decline is going to get worse rather than better in the near term.
Of course it's going to get worse, and here's a few reasons why the US isn't #1 in broadband.
1.) We aren't "fortunate" enough to have something like 75% of our population in a 100sq km area (Seoul).
2.) While broadband prices are fairly reasonable tier 1 costs to provide those are ridiculous if you are off a SONET ring. Per ejemplo - one can get 1.5/384 DSL service for pretty much $35-40. However, a T1 (1.54) will run you between $100-1200 a month. With the upper end at precisely those areas that don't have good broadband access (rural areas). You can generally throw about 25-100 DSL customers (depending on usage/tier speeds/whole lot o' factors ymmv) on a pair of bonded T1's -- obviously things aren't working out great for rural area's where T1's - let along DS-3/OC-3 - are extremeley expensive.
3.) Area, Area, Area. Once again. 6600 feet is the maximum wire run of a T1. 18,000 feet for DSL. Plenty of Rural markets are waaay farther away than this and have umpteenth load coils in the way.
4.) Telco's. Most ISP's would love to offer DSL everywhere if they could. Telco's don't want to pay for the costs to do so (running fiber, installing DSLAMS, etc). Subsidies for this type of thing would make sense.
5.) Cost. Why pay double for broadband when dialup works?
Television makes money by showing you ads, this kind of copying is strictly prohibeted. Just like any copying of tv shows, If you use tv shows you must not use any time sharing device to display your tv shows and display it too you on a different device without the ads There is nothing to prevent you from using tv shows as entertainment but when you want to access your tv shows you should pay for your privlage by watching ads/
They probably simply lack the necassary receptors (t-5?) on their white blood cells for the virus to attack. Probably nothing more than that - most of the vaccinness/treatments now adays are focusing on those areas since if they are blocked the virus can't attach itself.
To be honest, I wouldn't worry about anyone reading your email. After working at an ISP i've realized that 99.9999999% of all email is the most banal, trivial, boring shit you will ever see in your life. You would probably have a better time memorizing all the digits of PI.
Note: Obviously never read anybodys email just to snoop, usualy involving hte tech support of some kind (i.e. why won't my email work? Well you have a 9 megs of photos you're trying to pull down over a 56k modem in a rural area where the phone lines haven't been touched in 60 years..)
Bush has sold out per his dealings and love of China even though they have a forced abortion policy.
China's one child policy has been defunct for years now and was never really enforced to begin with, certainley not on the scale that people tend to think it was.
Well, speaking as somebody who works for a univeristy lab, there's a good reason for most of that:).
For one, here at least, students pay a student technology fee. Essentially every computer is on a 3 year rotation (no computer can be older than 3 years that we have for public use.) The theory being that, one, students want the latest technology and, two, it helps with recruiting to show them the labs filled with shiny new computers and flatscreens.
And don't forgot it's a university - if you don't use that money this year it'll be taken away next year. So you got to use it. it's fucking stupid, everybody knows it's stupid, but that's just the way it is.
While they aren't the first in alot of things they are usually the first to perfect a concept, or make it usable to the vast majority of people.
Por ejemplo, these all-in-ones have been around for a few years. They have also universally sucked. We got a chance to demo two models (one from Omnitech now MPC and another from Gateway) back in June. Each one was nearly 40 pounds. They were *beasts*. Each was constructed mainly of plastic and felt very flimsey - the gateway model had a few little plastic panels that fell off while we were demoing it (yeah, we're gonna buy this for University students to use...). In addition, each one had a - basically - notebook cdrom drive with a tray. Ever try putting a cd in a tray that's sideways? It sucks. Apple realized this and came out with the nice slot loading concept. There were also a lot of little things wrong with them (buttons placed on the front that weren't very easy to read at a distance, ports on 3 sides left, right, front, etc).
Basically every single thing wrong with the all-in-ones we demo'd apple fixed. *Directly because of this* for the first time in forever we are going to add apple's to our public rotation of computers. Good job apple!
I work at a local ISP with, say, 50,000 customers. We do exactly as you describe for our customers whome we get complaints about but it's a major work load for us. 20-30 such tickets a week and each you have to call 2-3 times - on average - and spend about 15 minutes on the phone with cleaning off their computer.
if you extrapolate those figures to some huge ISP like comcast or whatever you start to see that that becomes "real money" spent trying to keep those computers clean -- and, mind you, it's a never ending battle.
Voting is far too important to be left to the ignorant, apathetic, sub-100-IQ TV-addicted beer-chuggers.
Why thank you, o wise one. Contrary to your erudite views on the political science many studies have show that, no matter how you vote, it's almost always a rational decision based upon at least some logic. So while you may bitch about "sub-100 IQ" people voting nearly every study ever done of voting habits/behaviors shows that 99%+ of all voting decisions are rational, logical decisions.
p.s.
It would help if you, oh I don't know, took some classes or studied voter choice before spouting garbage.
Making voting mandatory simply increases the number of uninformed voters. Personally, I'd rather the people who can't be bothered stay home and leave the decision making to those who care.
Poli Sci studies show that those groups tend to just balance each other out so, in the long run, it doesn't matter. Hell - voting for somebody just by basis of their party is, in fact, a somewhat logical choice. Even voting by looks can be argued to be a logical, rational, decision.
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Latest quarterly revenues shows MS cut by %40 losses in it's xbox division and expects to turn a profit by about 2007
http://www.microsoftmonitor.com
I well understand the technical problems that you might (I stress might, I'm betting one can do it better than MS did) run into but if you freeze the api for specific instances of the Kernel, say 2.2, 2.4, etc it woudl work fine.
the other thing to do is encourage more companies to do the Nvidia thing and have an open source wrapper that communicates to a binary only driver.
How about the kernel guys make a stable driver API and then we wouldn't have to worry about this type of crap? It's ridiculous that people complain about lack of driver support but then give the Hardware people a never-ending totally unstable API for drivers.
I had a friend who (after random women kept turnign up the temp in the server room because it was too cold when they went to go get their print jobs) put up a sign.
;)
it said, Simply:
If you want to be responsible for the loss of $750,000 dollars worth of computer equipment, please sign below and adjust the thermostat as much as you want
Nobody ever touched the thermostat again
Aha! But my powerbook has a faulty modem port! So, based on our sample size of 2 it apears that 50% of apples will work perfectly, and 50% will have broken modem ports.
I was simply trying to point out that the two health care systems are totally different. Each has its good points but I do believe I would trust American hospitals more than English (than again, free healthcare is pretty nice).
I don't know much about .NET so a few questions.
1.) It is, essential, a VM enviroment so no apps have to be recoded for different enviroments, just the CLR right?
2.) WOuld this not effectively elimante one of the HUGE selling points of windows (it's enormous amounts of apps0?
except that .NET is only available for x86. Granted, it makes it easier - in theory - if MS every decides x86 is crappy and wants to switch hardware, or to port to new architectures. But as it is now, with the exception of efforts like mono, .NET will only run on x86.
obviously coming from somebody who has never lived in, or been to, a country with a socialized health care system. I was in england for 6 months last year and the US' helath care system is *night and day* compared to what they have over there - socialized health care. We don't have a "facist" health care system - ours is private with strict regulations.
Heh, and you can make the same argument about apple's. ;). Which is why people care about market share -- more market share cheaper products, more apps, etc.
ps
Analogies rule.
Why is it that there's constant hand wringing over apple's market share, and there's NOT constant hand wringing over BMW's (who holds less a share of the automobile market than Apple does of the personal computer market) market share?
The car market analogy oh so popular these days is very flawed. BMW could make just one car a year and yet it would still run on all the nation's roads and such. if apple made one computer a year.. who the hell is going ot make apps for it? Without apps there is no computer market. You can sell the greatest computer OS ever known to humankind but if nobody buys it, nobody will want to develop apps for it so it'll be comparatively worthless. That's why people care about apple's market share - the more market share the more developers, more developers, more apps. Etc.
I just read in Business Week that the US slipped from number three --I'm pretty sure we're talking raw numbers rather than percentages-- to number ten in global broadband rankings. It's not altogether impossible that this decline is going to get worse rather than better in the near term.
Of course it's going to get worse, and here's a few reasons why the US isn't #1 in broadband.
1.) We aren't "fortunate" enough to have something like 75% of our population in a 100sq km area (Seoul).
2.) While broadband prices are fairly reasonable tier 1 costs to provide those are ridiculous if you are off a SONET ring. Per ejemplo - one can get 1.5/384 DSL service for pretty much $35-40. However, a T1 (1.54) will run you between $100-1200 a month. With the upper end at precisely those areas that don't have good broadband access (rural areas). You can generally throw about 25-100 DSL customers (depending on usage/tier speeds/whole lot o' factors ymmv) on a pair of bonded T1's -- obviously things aren't working out great for rural area's where T1's - let along DS-3/OC-3 - are extremeley expensive.
3.) Area, Area, Area. Once again. 6600 feet is the maximum wire run of a T1. 18,000 feet for DSL. Plenty of Rural markets are waaay farther away than this and have umpteenth load coils in the way.
4.) Telco's. Most ISP's would love to offer DSL everywhere if they could. Telco's don't want to pay for the costs to do so (running fiber, installing DSLAMS, etc). Subsidies for this type of thing would make sense.
5.) Cost. Why pay double for broadband when dialup works?
Television makes money by showing you ads,
this kind of copying is strictly prohibeted. Just like any copying of tv shows, If you use tv shows you must not use any time sharing device to display your tv shows and display it too you on a different device without the ads
There is nothing to prevent you from using tv shows as entertainment but when you want to access your tv shows you should pay for your privlage by watching ads/
In all seriousness, nice doublethink.
O Noes! What ever will the billionaires do!
Pardon me if I don't really care how a company's business model depends on how I use their product.
They probably simply lack the necassary receptors (t-5?) on their white blood cells for the virus to attack. Probably nothing more than that - most of the vaccinness/treatments now adays are focusing on those areas since if they are blocked the virus can't attach itself.
To be honest, I wouldn't worry about anyone reading your email. After working at an ISP i've realized that 99.9999999% of all email is the most banal, trivial, boring shit you will ever see in your life. You would probably have a better time memorizing all the digits of PI.
Note: Obviously never read anybodys email just to snoop, usualy involving hte tech support of some kind (i.e. why won't my email work? Well you have a 9 megs of photos you're trying to pull down over a 56k modem in a rural area where the phone lines haven't been touched in 60 years..)
Bush has sold out per his dealings and love of China even though they have a forced abortion policy.
China's one child policy has been defunct for years now and was never really enforced to begin with, certainley not on the scale that people tend to think it was.
Well, speaking as somebody who works for a univeristy lab, there's a good reason for most of that :).
For one, here at least, students pay a student technology fee. Essentially every computer is on a 3 year rotation (no computer can be older than 3 years that we have for public use.) The theory being that, one, students want the latest technology and, two, it helps with recruiting to show them the labs filled with shiny new computers and flatscreens.
And don't forgot it's a university - if you don't use that money this year it'll be taken away next year. So you got to use it. it's fucking stupid, everybody knows it's stupid, but that's just the way it is.
Jesus that sony is worse than the omnitech or the gateway. Sad.
While they aren't the first in alot of things they are usually the first to perfect a concept, or make it usable to the vast majority of people.
Por ejemplo, these all-in-ones have been around for a few years. They have also universally sucked. We got a chance to demo two models (one from Omnitech now MPC and another from Gateway) back in June. Each one was nearly 40 pounds. They were *beasts*. Each was constructed mainly of plastic and felt very flimsey - the gateway model had a few little plastic panels that fell off while we were demoing it (yeah, we're gonna buy this for University students to use...). In addition, each one had a - basically - notebook cdrom drive with a tray. Ever try putting a cd in a tray that's sideways? It sucks. Apple realized this and came out with the nice slot loading concept. There were also a lot of little things wrong with them (buttons placed on the front that weren't very easy to read at a distance, ports on 3 sides left, right, front, etc).
Basically every single thing wrong with the all-in-ones we demo'd apple fixed. *Directly because of this* for the first time in forever we are going to add apple's to our public rotation of computers. Good job apple!
I work at a local ISP with, say, 50,000 customers. We do exactly as you describe for our customers whome we get complaints about but it's a major work load for us. 20-30 such tickets a week and each you have to call 2-3 times - on average - and spend about 15 minutes on the phone with cleaning off their computer.
if you extrapolate those figures to some huge ISP like comcast or whatever you start to see that that becomes "real money" spent trying to keep those computers clean -- and, mind you, it's a never ending battle.
Voting is far too important to be left to the ignorant, apathetic, sub-100-IQ TV-addicted beer-chuggers.
Why thank you, o wise one. Contrary to your erudite views on the political science many studies have show that, no matter how you vote, it's almost always a rational decision based upon at least some logic. So while you may bitch about "sub-100 IQ" people voting nearly every study ever done of voting habits/behaviors shows that 99%+ of all voting decisions are rational, logical decisions.
p.s. It would help if you, oh I don't know, took some classes or studied voter choice before spouting garbage.
Making voting mandatory simply increases the number of uninformed voters. Personally, I'd rather the people who can't be bothered stay home and leave the decision making to those who care.
Poli Sci studies show that those groups tend to just balance each other out so, in the long run, it doesn't matter. Hell - voting for somebody just by basis of their party is, in fact, a somewhat logical choice. Even voting by looks can be argued to be a logical, rational, decision.
you do realize that pudge is a elected GOP official right? :)
I'd call that fairly balanced.
Still no cure for cancer!