Moore's law is not about physics it's about economics.
Exactly. Whenever one process technology reaches its physical limits, we get a new one, because the new process makes money. X-ray lithography, chip stacking, 3D circuits, and eventually nanotech will all keep us on the Moore's law path probably for the rest of my life, at least.
The atmosphere got too reflective, which reduced radiation hitting the planet, but sadly also reduced radiation escaping, so it just sort of built up.
That's interesting... I'd never had occasion to look up Venus' albedo before, I had no idea it was so high. 0.67 for Venus, versus 0.367 for Earth and 0.15 for Mars.
I wonder if terraforming Venus could be accomplished by getting a lot of soot into the atmosphere somehow?
I find it surprising to come from the NYT, but this is such a troll of an article.
Surprising that the NYT would run it, but not surprising coming from this author. Randall Stross is still in a snit over the fact that Steve Jobs declined to give him an interview when he was writing his hatchet-job book, Steve Jobs and the NeXT Big Thing.
We knew details about Vista for years (and years, and years) before release and could prepare.
You're kidding, right? MS's wishful thinking and grandiose claims for features that they failed to ship didn't do any of their developers any good. Nobody knew what the real feature set of Vista would be until about six months before the RC came out, which is about the same lead time Mac developers generally get between the developer seeds and the GM of any OS X version.
I think they could also make a fair bit from a licensing scheme similar to that of Windows
Been there, done that, nearly went out of business. Meanwhile, Be did go out of business trying to do the same thing.
Keep in mind that "a fair bit" means something very different for a publisher of a Linux distro than it does for a $120 billion-dollar company. Also bear in mind, that if Microsoft was willing to break the law just to crush Be, they're likely to take far more drastic measures if faced with a serious rival for the business of the OEMs that they're bleeding dry today.
Iwho's idea was it to get rid of/etc/fstab on OS X!?
This is a frequent problem for Linux/BSD/Solaris mavens when coming to the Mac. You expect to have to manually edit the config files, so you don't even think of looking in the Finder menu for "connect to server".
Add portmap to the default runlevel and add the line to fstab.
If that seems normal to you, then you've gotten stuck in the mid-1980's.
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Have you met the venture capitalists?
Not this particular bunch, but I've met enough VCs to hold them in low regard in general.
-jcr
Until and unless you meet the kid, your assumptions about his character are nothing but projections of your jealousy.
I say, good for him.
Now the VC, on the other hand, is probably out of his mind.
-jcr
Project much?
-jcr
SGI did, but they also pulled out of bankruptcy.
-jcr
Swat doesn't get called unless there is a barricade, ongoing threat of life or hostage situation
Wouldn't it be great if that were true?
Trouble is, police departments in many cities are now using militarized squads for serving routine misdemeanor warrants.
This violates the sprit of the posse comitatus act, and probably the letter of the law as well.
-jcr
So, taking shots at my wife's character
Nope, I was ridiculing you. I'm not surprised that you were unable to grasp the subtlety.
Thank you for disqualifying yourself so soundly that I'm in awe.
Like I'm supposed to care what someone who defends quackery thinks of my qualifications?
-jcr
That's not what the game publishers pay.
-jcr
Even Microsoft did not go so far as to actually try to block "independent developers" outright.
Have you tried writing an app to run on the Xbox without paying licensing fees/royalties to Microsoft?
-jcr
No, I just feel that way once in a while. ;-)
-jcr
Moore's law is not about physics it's about economics.
Exactly. Whenever one process technology reaches its physical limits, we get a new one, because the new process makes money. X-ray lithography, chip stacking, 3D circuits, and eventually nanotech will all keep us on the Moore's law path probably for the rest of my life, at least.
-jcr
With no employees, it would be up to the officers of the corporation to execute any orders the judge issued to the corporation.
-jcr
The atmosphere got too reflective, which reduced radiation hitting the planet, but sadly also reduced radiation escaping, so it just sort of built up.
That's interesting... I'd never had occasion to look up Venus' albedo before, I had no idea it was so high. 0.67 for Venus, versus 0.367 for Earth and 0.15 for Mars.
I wonder if terraforming Venus could be accomplished by getting a lot of soot into the atmosphere somehow?
-jcr
If you're prepared to write an order for a couple hundred thousand units, you might be able to convince Apple to make a Mac tablet.
The thing is, the tablet form-factor failed. If windows users were flocking to tablets, it would be a different story, but they aren't.
-jcr
I find it surprising to come from the NYT, but this is such a troll of an article.
Surprising that the NYT would run it, but not surprising coming from this author. Randall Stross is still in a snit over the fact that Steve Jobs declined to give him an interview when he was writing his hatchet-job book, Steve Jobs and the NeXT Big Thing.
-jcr
Wow, sounds like the Christmas rush started early in your town. I've see Apple stores that busy before, but generally not in September.
-jcr
We knew details about Vista for years (and years, and years) before release and could prepare.
You're kidding, right? MS's wishful thinking and grandiose claims for features that they failed to ship didn't do any of their developers any good. Nobody knew what the real feature set of Vista would be until about six months before the RC came out, which is about the same lead time Mac developers generally get between the developer seeds and the GM of any OS X version.
-jcr
Maybe not today, but quite a few of the NeXT developers had a Smalltalk background before they learned Obj-C.
-jcr
I think they could also make a fair bit from a licensing scheme similar to that of Windows
Been there, done that, nearly went out of business. Meanwhile, Be did go out of business trying to do the same thing.
Keep in mind that "a fair bit" means something very different for a publisher of a Linux distro than it does for a $120 billion-dollar company. Also bear in mind, that if Microsoft was willing to break the law just to crush Be, they're likely to take far more drastic measures if faced with a serious rival for the business of the OEMs that they're bleeding dry today.
-jcr
Vista is a bloated DRM infested cess pool of an OS that is not even as good as XP.
Come on man, get off the fence here! How do you really feel about it?
-jcr
Of course, getting JACK to run well can be a huge pain...
Which is why it's not equivalent.
-jcr
You do realize that Gnome was originally modeled on NeXTSTEP, I hope?
-jcr
Iwho's idea was it to get rid of /etc/fstab on OS X!?
This is a frequent problem for Linux/BSD/Solaris mavens when coming to the Mac. You expect to have to manually edit the config files, so you don't even think of looking in the Finder menu for "connect to server".
Add portmap to the default runlevel and add the line to fstab.
If that seems normal to you, then you've gotten stuck in the mid-1980's.
-jcr
What do you use for color management on XP?
-jcr
Jonathon Schwartz said that Linux is free like a puppy. That's one of the best ways to describe it I've heard yet.
-jcr
There is no need to be polite to anyone promoting fraud.
-jcr