what exactly is the benefit of having a big, stupid box around them all?
Alt-tab through "big windows", Ctrl-tab through "sub-windows". When I'm developing a website for example, I usually have open simultaneously all of the following: a code/html editor window, 2 IE windows (one to my development webserver, the other to the production site, a Mozilla window with two tabs, an Opera window with two tabs, FTP client, and GIMP or Photoshop. If it's GIMP, with all its unbounded sub-windows open, Alt-tabbing from GIMP to editor to browser to FTP client and back is made that much less efficient than with Photoshop. When using GIMP, I tend to resort to the mouse instead of Alt-tab to switch among windows. That's one reason at least why many people (Windows-users at least) like the bounding box of Photoshop. Think of it terms of tabbed browsers vs. IE.
though the interface as a whole remains a love-it-or-hate-it thing.
Or for those of us with a more flexible bent of mind, an indifferent thing. I use both Photoshop and GIMP b/c I want to know how to use both. In the great scheme of things, adapting yourself to different GUIs is relatively minor. I don't see what the religious-like hubbub is all about.
He once said that he was drawn to study the government because he "had seen government that did not work," and he was drawn to the Republican Party because of his hatred for communism.
Anybody who would be drawn to a political ideology purely based on what they oppose is, in my opinion, a dangerous person. Especially when mixed with the power, money and support that an organization like the Republican party has.
I beg to differ. During the Cold War, the Democratic Party (their elites and wannabe-elites at least) tended to sympathize with some or all of Communist idealogy and philosophy. For example, Dialectical Materialism was all the rage among the left back in its day, and who else but liberal professors have been glorifing Marxism on American college campuses. It's not shocking that anyone who hated Soviet Communism (as anyone in their right mind should, in hind sight at least), would side with the staunchly, consistently anti-Communist Republicans.
The poor Marine Corps is still flying 40+ year old SH-46 Sea Knights that are only flying because of the herculean effort of Marine mechanics to keep them stuck together.
Funny you mention those. My dad flew one of those over thirty years ago in Vietnam, and he says that even then the pilots and crews considered them old and rickety. The mechanics who keep those flying should be awarded the Mechanics' Lifetime Achievement Award or something.
What I dont get is why NOW did they decide to kill it, they have been developing this thing for years, made a big deal about its stealth capabilities sold the public on its use and THEN decide to kill it.......
It wasn't until recently that UAVs and UCAVs were developed to the point of being truly useful, and moreover, recognized as such by the powers that be. Comanche is being cancelled in order to be replaced by unmanned vehicles. Yes, it's too bad this didn't happen sooner, but paradigm shifts in the military aren't exactly the most rapid of processes. (Tried and true reliability is even more important there than in corporate America)
I understand the cancellation is in order to replace the Comanche with UAVs and UCAVs that perform the same functions. With no pilots, all the benefits you have said are possible, plus the additional one that there will be truly "no" downed pilots. Plus, UAVs and UCAVs are not limited by human fraility (high-g, no cockpit, no environmental control, etc.), and are cheaper to produce. Stealth can still be applied to UAVs and UCAVs, so there's no loss there. All in all, there was no real reason not to cancel this project. It's just too bad that we didn't see the value in UAVs long before now.
Tech support is horrible because the customers are letting it get horrible.
Complain. Often, constantly, daily. Write letters, not email, call every day.
...
Write to magazines, tell them how horrible the support is, tell them you hate the products.
If you're going to put that much work into solving the problem, there is imho a better option: learn your equipment well enough to fix it yourself. What you've described is no small effort, and I for one think it would be better spent becoming self-reliant than by bitching at some faceless company.
If google can combine targeted text advertising with email (like by analyzing the content of the email) then maybe they can offer some serious competition.
That would be just great. Then we could not only get tons of Viagra and penis enlargement emails, we could also tons of Viagra and penis enlargement targeted text ads. Maybe even all in the same email. Can't wait.
Looks like the Google home page "www.google.com" will remain as it is - light and uncluttered. "www.googlemail.com" will probably be another tab link on the main page, like "Groups", "Images", "Directory", and "News" are.
Thou doth protest too much, me thinks. Rather, I think Occam's Razor is the most likely explanation for Intel's about-face. They spent billions developing the Itanium and therefore wanted to see it succeed. They had heard about K8 development back in its early days (through spies or the grapevine, whichever), recognized the potential threat to both IA32 and IA64 in it, and at some point began prepping "Yamhill" just in case it came to that. But, in the meantime they tried everything they could get Itanium accepted and downplay both the importance and threat of x86-64.
The strategy mostly worked until Opteron and Athlon 64 actually made it to market, b/c AMD didn't have a reputation of providing good server platforms like Intel did, and conservative corporations were still skeptical of the upcoming AMD product line. Intel's FUD continued to find relatively fertile ground, until Opteron hit the market, and the geeks turned it inside out and upside down benchmarking it. And lo and behold, Intel's worst-case-scenario came true - Opteron worked in every respect, performance, reliability, efficiency, price, scalability. That was the point at which Intel was forced to bring Yamhill to market. They've been working on it for some years as a backup/fallback/Plan B, but it probably wasn't until sometime last year when it became clear that Opteron was a real winner that Otellini & Co. gave the go ahead on Yamhill.
I seriously doubt this about-face is some long-planned, Machiavellian, uber-scheme to get AMD to create a market that Intel can steal from under them. Intel has never willingly allowed AMD even so much a foot in the door, so why would they allow AMD to create an entirely new lucrative market as 64bit x86 now? It's completely uncharacteristic and therefore not likely.
Intel releases own 64-bit computing and takes over the market that AMD spent all its money developing.
Assumptions that Intel can just waltz in now and steal the whole x86-64 market from AMD with some P4 extensions is a stretch in itself. AMD is roughly a year or so ahead of Intel in this technology, and there's no reason to believe that a P4/Xeon with IA32e extensions (or whatever it's called) will outperform Opteron. And lest we not forget, AMD has ex-DEC engineer and Alpha designer Dirk Meyer working behind the scenes to help keep them ahead. No, AMD certainly won't be a pushover in this contest, and it should be obvious that this situation is not something Intel either wanted or schemed.
Perhaps, but not if Intel, IBM, Microsoft, Siemens, Fujitsu, Toshiba, and the rest of the world's IT companies decide that cheap manufactured diamond wafers are in their best commercial interest. DeBeers is powerful, but I doubt they can take on the world IT industry.
Maybe then India will get fed up with dealing with irate Americans on tech-support, and will tell all the US companies trying to outsource call-centers to go fcuk themselves. The solution to outsourcing mayhaps?
Another reason people build a HTPC is b/c, like me, they may be grad/students, living in a small room with space enough for a bed, a workstation, and bookshelf. As such, I turned my PC into something of mini-HTPC: 21" LCD display, Radeon AiW 9800 Pro, SB Audigy 2 ZS, and Logitech Z680 5.1 speakers. Granted the screen isn't theatre-size, but the sound is, and the convenience of using my workstation to work with during the week and then entertaining my gf with it on the weekend is quite nice. So don't forget students in your lists of why people make HTPCs.
In the late 1800s, when Japan first embarked upon their national economic development, they sent envoys to America and Europe to figure out what made those societies so successful, and to bring that knowledge back to Japan. The most important finding? Patent and copyright law. Without it, people steal each others' valuable ideas and products, negating that value and disincentivizing (if that's a word) each other from innovating. (And before you argue that Japan doesn't innovate, they do, although not as flamboyantly as America.)
Patent and copyright law is not something the West has a monopoly on. Anyone can (and everyone should) enact it (which is part of the reason for getting China et al to join the WTO). It helps the West that we enacted it first, but in time it will help developing nations equally. There is no monopoly on human invention, and patent and copyright law can protect the originators of intellectual resources from scavengers, be they in developed or developing countries.
I just got the Titanium Observer for Christmas, and while it's not as geeky as you probably want (only has therm, barom, alti), it's the sharpest looking watch on the market after the super expensive Breitlings.
Well, there are different kinds of end-users. There are corporations whose buying decisions are guided by informed, educated Sys/Net Admins who don't fall for the "bigger numbers are better" marketing schtick, and there are also companies whose aquisitions departments do fall for that. There are small businesses run by tech savy folks, and small businesses that aren't and can't afford a dedicated, knowledgeable sysadmin. There are also individuals and home users, some of whom buy the 256mb GPU instead of the 128mb without knowing they won't use that extra 128mb, and others who don't. What 0x0d0a was referring to (I think), are the informed sysadmins at large corporations who buy most Dell's corporate product and know their stuff well enough to actually get the best deal for their money and requirements.
I haven't watched Star Trek since Rick Berman took over from Gene Roddenberry. Berman just doesn't have the vision that Roddenberry did. Rod imparted a vision of utopia to the show that, even though I'm a libertarian and hence a solid utopia-skeptic, I enjoyed watching (and mentally debating) anyway.
TNG was the last series infused with Roddenberry's vision, as Berman took over near the end of it. I watched "All Good Things", which kicked ass and was a nice tribute to Roddenberry's broad thinking, and that was all she wrote for me. Once I'm out of grad school and have some income again, I'll pick up the TNG DVDs and save them for my kids and posterity.
Oh they want to. For the past ~300 years they've gotten dumped on by everyone from their nearest neighbors to the West, and they're tired of it. The "Middle Kingdom" was never meant to play second fiddle to anyone. It's simply unfortunate that their current government happens to be a Communist regime responsible for more mass murders than any other since Ghengis Khan. People around the world may criticize America for being too militaristic and "imperialistic", but at least our transgressions come in spite of the spirit of our laws. The transgressions of Communism on the other come in accordance with the spirit of their laws.
There's also no "zi" sound; that's pronounced as "ji" even though it is occasionally written "zi."
Actually there's no "ji" sound either. Again, the Japanese pronunciation doesn't map to any English syllable. In English, we say "ji" with our tongue at the roof of our mouth. In Japanese they say it with their tongue at the very front of their mouth, right behind their front teeth gums. It sounds more like a mix of the English sounds "zi" and "ji". The Hepburn romanization uses the letters "ji" to denote this mora (one beat, roughly equivalent to a syllable), but because of that, every English speaker who learned Japanese under that system is speaking with a gaizin accent.
Newer systems such as the Jordan romanization (Eleanor Harz Jordan) attempt to correct this problem by using the letters "zi" to represent the mora, but with the disclaimer that "zi" is not the correct sound either and is only used to remind learners not to say "ji". The correct sound is actually a combination of "zi" and "ji" pronounced with the tongue at the front of the mouth.
Once you understand that, then it doesn't really matter how you romanize "Mozilla", whether it's "mojira" or "mozira", since you know that in this case neither mora "zi" nor "ji" is a phonetic spelling, but rather a symbolic representation of a sound that doesn't exist in English. The spelling only matters as a reminder for learners who have not yet mastered the new sound.
wouldn't take stock in this. How old is George Lucas now, 55 60? It takes him roughly 8-10 years a trilogy. He'ld be in a wheelchair by the time he finished the next ones if he even lived that long. I would think he wants to move on and do other things.
Yeah, like letting someone else write the script for the new movies. The dialogue in I,II,III is the absolute worst I've heard since kindergarten.
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what exactly is the benefit of having a big, stupid box around them all?
Alt-tab through "big windows", Ctrl-tab through "sub-windows". When I'm developing a website for example, I usually have open simultaneously all of the following: a code/html editor window, 2 IE windows (one to my development webserver, the other to the production site, a Mozilla window with two tabs, an Opera window with two tabs, FTP client, and GIMP or Photoshop. If it's GIMP, with all its unbounded sub-windows open, Alt-tabbing from GIMP to editor to browser to FTP client and back is made that much less efficient than with Photoshop. When using GIMP, I tend to resort to the mouse instead of Alt-tab to switch among windows. That's one reason at least why many people (Windows-users at least) like the bounding box of Photoshop. Think of it terms of tabbed browsers vs. IE.
though the interface as a whole remains a love-it-or-hate-it thing.
Or for those of us with a more flexible bent of mind, an indifferent thing. I use both Photoshop and GIMP b/c I want to know how to use both. In the great scheme of things, adapting yourself to different GUIs is relatively minor. I don't see what the religious-like hubbub is all about.
He once said that he was drawn to study the government because he "had seen government that did not work," and he was drawn to the Republican Party because of his hatred for communism.
Anybody who would be drawn to a political ideology purely based on what they oppose is, in my opinion, a dangerous person. Especially when mixed with the power, money and support that an organization like the Republican party has.
I beg to differ. During the Cold War, the Democratic Party (their elites and wannabe-elites at least) tended to sympathize with some or all of Communist idealogy and philosophy. For example, Dialectical Materialism was all the rage among the left back in its day, and who else but liberal professors have been glorifing Marxism on American college campuses. It's not shocking that anyone who hated Soviet Communism (as anyone in their right mind should, in hind sight at least), would side with the staunchly, consistently anti-Communist Republicans.
The poor Marine Corps is still flying 40+ year old SH-46 Sea Knights that are only flying because of the herculean effort of Marine mechanics to keep them stuck together.
Funny you mention those. My dad flew one of those over thirty years ago in Vietnam, and he says that even then the pilots and crews considered them old and rickety. The mechanics who keep those flying should be awarded the Mechanics' Lifetime Achievement Award or something.
What I dont get is why NOW did they decide to kill it, they have been developing this thing for years, made a big deal about its stealth capabilities sold the public on its use and THEN decide to kill it.......
It wasn't until recently that UAVs and UCAVs were developed to the point of being truly useful, and moreover, recognized as such by the powers that be. Comanche is being cancelled in order to be replaced by unmanned vehicles. Yes, it's too bad this didn't happen sooner, but paradigm shifts in the military aren't exactly the most rapid of processes. (Tried and true reliability is even more important there than in corporate America)
I understand the cancellation is in order to replace the Comanche with UAVs and UCAVs that perform the same functions. With no pilots, all the benefits you have said are possible, plus the additional one that there will be truly "no" downed pilots. Plus, UAVs and UCAVs are not limited by human fraility (high-g, no cockpit, no environmental control, etc.), and are cheaper to produce. Stealth can still be applied to UAVs and UCAVs, so there's no loss there. All in all, there was no real reason not to cancel this project. It's just too bad that we didn't see the value in UAVs long before now.
Tech support is horrible because the customers are letting it get horrible.
...
Complain. Often, constantly, daily. Write letters, not email, call every day.
Write to magazines, tell them how horrible the support is, tell them you hate the products.
If you're going to put that much work into solving the problem, there is imho a better option: learn your equipment well enough to fix it yourself. What you've described is no small effort, and I for one think it would be better spent becoming self-reliant than by bitching at some faceless company.
If google can combine targeted text advertising with email (like by analyzing the content of the email) then maybe they can offer some serious competition.
That would be just great. Then we could not only get tons of Viagra and penis enlargement emails, we could also tons of Viagra and penis enlargement targeted text ads. Maybe even all in the same email. Can't wait.
Looks like the Google home page "www.google.com" will remain as it is - light and uncluttered. "www.googlemail.com" will probably be another tab link on the main page, like "Groups", "Images", "Directory", and "News" are.
Thou doth protest too much, me thinks. Rather, I think Occam's Razor is the most likely explanation for Intel's about-face. They spent billions developing the Itanium and therefore wanted to see it succeed. They had heard about K8 development back in its early days (through spies or the grapevine, whichever), recognized the potential threat to both IA32 and IA64 in it, and at some point began prepping "Yamhill" just in case it came to that. But, in the meantime they tried everything they could get Itanium accepted and downplay both the importance and threat of x86-64.
The strategy mostly worked until Opteron and Athlon 64 actually made it to market, b/c AMD didn't have a reputation of providing good server platforms like Intel did, and conservative corporations were still skeptical of the upcoming AMD product line. Intel's FUD continued to find relatively fertile ground, until Opteron hit the market, and the geeks turned it inside out and upside down benchmarking it. And lo and behold, Intel's worst-case-scenario came true - Opteron worked in every respect, performance, reliability, efficiency, price, scalability. That was the point at which Intel was forced to bring Yamhill to market. They've been working on it for some years as a backup/fallback/Plan B, but it probably wasn't until sometime last year when it became clear that Opteron was a real winner that Otellini & Co. gave the go ahead on Yamhill.
I seriously doubt this about-face is some long-planned, Machiavellian, uber-scheme to get AMD to create a market that Intel can steal from under them. Intel has never willingly allowed AMD even so much a foot in the door, so why would they allow AMD to create an entirely new lucrative market as 64bit x86 now? It's completely uncharacteristic and therefore not likely.
Intel releases own 64-bit computing and takes over the market that AMD spent all its money developing.
Assumptions that Intel can just waltz in now and steal the whole x86-64 market from AMD with some P4 extensions is a stretch in itself. AMD is roughly a year or so ahead of Intel in this technology, and there's no reason to believe that a P4/Xeon with IA32e extensions (or whatever it's called) will outperform Opteron. And lest we not forget, AMD has ex-DEC engineer and Alpha designer Dirk Meyer working behind the scenes to help keep them ahead. No, AMD certainly won't be a pushover in this contest, and it should be obvious that this situation is not something Intel either wanted or schemed.
Perhaps, but not if Intel, IBM, Microsoft, Siemens, Fujitsu, Toshiba, and the rest of the world's IT companies decide that cheap manufactured diamond wafers are in their best commercial interest. DeBeers is powerful, but I doubt they can take on the world IT industry.
Maybe then India will get fed up with dealing with irate Americans on tech-support, and will tell all the US companies trying to outsource call-centers to go fcuk themselves. The solution to outsourcing mayhaps?
Also, you need Mathematica to run the programs.
That's what P2P is for!
Another reason people build a HTPC is b/c, like me, they may be grad/students, living in a small room with space enough for a bed, a workstation, and bookshelf. As such, I turned my PC into something of mini-HTPC: 21" LCD display, Radeon AiW 9800 Pro, SB Audigy 2 ZS, and Logitech Z680 5.1 speakers. Granted the screen isn't theatre-size, but the sound is, and the convenience of using my workstation to work with during the week and then entertaining my gf with it on the weekend is quite nice. So don't forget students in your lists of why people make HTPCs.
In the late 1800s, when Japan first embarked upon their national economic development, they sent envoys to America and Europe to figure out what made those societies so successful, and to bring that knowledge back to Japan. The most important finding? Patent and copyright law. Without it, people steal each others' valuable ideas and products, negating that value and disincentivizing (if that's a word) each other from innovating. (And before you argue that Japan doesn't innovate, they do, although not as flamboyantly as America.)
Patent and copyright law is not something the West has a monopoly on. Anyone can (and everyone should) enact it (which is part of the reason for getting China et al to join the WTO). It helps the West that we enacted it first, but in time it will help developing nations equally. There is no monopoly on human invention, and patent and copyright law can protect the originators of intellectual resources from scavengers, be they in developed or developing countries.
I just got the Titanium Observer for Christmas, and while it's not as geeky as you probably want (only has therm, barom, alti), it's the sharpest looking watch on the market after the super expensive Breitlings.
Well, there are different kinds of end-users. There are corporations whose buying decisions are guided by informed, educated Sys/Net Admins who don't fall for the "bigger numbers are better" marketing schtick, and there are also companies whose aquisitions departments do fall for that. There are small businesses run by tech savy folks, and small businesses that aren't and can't afford a dedicated, knowledgeable sysadmin. There are also individuals and home users, some of whom buy the 256mb GPU instead of the 128mb without knowing they won't use that extra 128mb, and others who don't. What 0x0d0a was referring to (I think), are the informed sysadmins at large corporations who buy most Dell's corporate product and know their stuff well enough to actually get the best deal for their money and requirements.
I haven't watched Star Trek since Rick Berman took over from Gene Roddenberry. Berman just doesn't have the vision that Roddenberry did. Rod imparted a vision of utopia to the show that, even though I'm a libertarian and hence a solid utopia-skeptic, I enjoyed watching (and mentally debating) anyway.
TNG was the last series infused with Roddenberry's vision, as Berman took over near the end of it. I watched "All Good Things", which kicked ass and was a nice tribute to Roddenberry's broad thinking, and that was all she wrote for me. Once I'm out of grad school and have some income again, I'll pick up the TNG DVDs and save them for my kids and posterity.
If they want to.
Oh they want to. For the past ~300 years they've gotten dumped on by everyone from their nearest neighbors to the West, and they're tired of it. The "Middle Kingdom" was never meant to play second fiddle to anyone. It's simply unfortunate that their current government happens to be a Communist regime responsible for more mass murders than any other since Ghengis Khan. People around the world may criticize America for being too militaristic and "imperialistic", but at least our transgressions come in spite of the spirit of our laws. The transgressions of Communism on the other come in accordance with the spirit of their laws.
Sweet, what are the system specs and when can we download it? Hope they make it free like America's Army.
For the Mozilla devs who browse /., thanks for all your hard work in making free software that suits my wants and needs. Keep up the great work!
Second that! Bravo to you guys, and thanks for the hard work and great product.
There's also no "zi" sound; that's pronounced as "ji" even though it is occasionally written "zi."
Actually there's no "ji" sound either. Again, the Japanese pronunciation doesn't map to any English syllable. In English, we say "ji" with our tongue at the roof of our mouth. In Japanese they say it with their tongue at the very front of their mouth, right behind their front teeth gums. It sounds more like a mix of the English sounds "zi" and "ji". The Hepburn romanization uses the letters "ji" to denote this mora (one beat, roughly equivalent to a syllable), but because of that, every English speaker who learned Japanese under that system is speaking with a gaizin accent.
Newer systems such as the Jordan romanization (Eleanor Harz Jordan) attempt to correct this problem by using the letters "zi" to represent the mora, but with the disclaimer that "zi" is not the correct sound either and is only used to remind learners not to say "ji". The correct sound is actually a combination of "zi" and "ji" pronounced with the tongue at the front of the mouth.
Once you understand that, then it doesn't really matter how you romanize "Mozilla", whether it's "mojira" or "mozira", since you know that in this case neither mora "zi" nor "ji" is a phonetic spelling, but rather a symbolic representation of a sound that doesn't exist in English. The spelling only matters as a reminder for learners who have not yet mastered the new sound.
wouldn't take stock in this. How old is George Lucas now, 55 60? It takes him roughly 8-10 years a trilogy. He'ld be in a wheelchair by the time he finished the next ones if he even lived that long. I would think he wants to move on and do other things.
Yeah, like letting someone else write the script for the new movies. The dialogue in I,II,III is the absolute worst I've heard since kindergarten.
It must have been slashdotted by the firstposter.
then 2004 will be the Year of the LAMP.
Or the LAMP for dummies (preconfigured executable)