Yeah, I think a lot of Metro apps are going to be wrappers around web apps with some enhanced functionality and a more touch friendly interface, kind of like how Google Maps Mobile reuses about 90% of Google maps but makes it easier to use on smartphones.
Really, making a positive comment about how I believe a touch UI on Windows would help my users is somehow overrated? Moderator points are apparently being given to trolls again.
Sounds like WRM to me and nobody implemented it for a reason, it got in the way of people getting actual work done.
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QNX is used outside the lab, in fact I bet it's more widely used than Windows and Linux combined. However it's the only commercial microkernel OS I'm aware of.
No, you can launch it from the task bar in the Explorer window which is kind of the Windows 8 version of "classic" theme. When IE is launched from Explorer it has the chromed UI including being resizable, moveable, minimizable, etc. In fact if you have explorer open in one monitor and Metro on another you can drag the window back and forth and add and remove the chrome, it was kind of a cool part of the day 1 keynote, along with the fact that if you have two explorer windows open each one has its own taskbar showing only the applications that are open on that monitor.
But from the day 1 keynote I took away that Metro apps by default will sleep when not on the screen, that's kind of backwards as a default at least from a desktop perspective.
Dude I have 3 screens at work, two is pretty much the standard for companies without their head in their rear (monitors are cheap, user time is really, really expensive by comparison).
Considering we have give about 12% of our workforce ipads which are barely usable for "real" work I think MS is looking at things in completely the right way. I know I have little use for a tablet at work, but about 25-30% of my user base probably does and probably 80% wouldn't mind having one at home.
Cisco has never had any of those people on their payroll and hence they've never been counted in employee numbers. When I worked at Cisco I was a contractor because deskside support was non-core and so even though it was more expensive to have IBM manage the contract and GE provide the technicians and managers it was done that way. This allowed them to keep their target of $1M per employee per year in revenue.
SFP+ allows copper connections up to 15m, you should be able to keep most of your connections that close since that allows the cluster to be 30m x 30m with central switches.
The 2050 is what HP uses in the SL390 cluster configuration because they can actually cool and power 8 of them in a 4U enclosure, since the M2070 has the same power draw it should be capable of the same density.
The switches are now really, really cheap. A Force10 S4810 which can have 64 10Gb ports (in 1U!) can be had as cheaply as $15k without even really shopping. Then again a Mellanox IS5025 with 36 40Gb ports can be had for only $5k. There are definite advantages to higher port density though as it reduces the complexity of the graph.
Why? I don't use IE, don't open random attachments, keep my browser up to date, sit behind a firewall, IDS/IPS, and filtering proxy server plus run a different AV package on my machine. I've never had any kind of malware infection or virus in 18 years of using computers online including a number of years of participating in the underground software world in my teenage years.
Easy to use client, you can backup to a local drive and any internet connected machine where you can install the client and have it trust your key, and you can pay the professionals a fairly small annual fee if you wish to have them manage a remote copy for you. I haven't used it myself as my Mozy subscription renewed for two years just before the new pricing went into effect but I plan to install it on both my brothers computers and have two offsite copies of my data in another year or so.
Not only is perpetual copyright bad for the myriad of reasons others will state, it's bad because it leads to the loss of cultural heritage. Since there is little economic incentive to preserve and restore old works which you can't obtain rights to, many older recordings of early blues and jazz acts are going to deteriorate to uselessness.
On another note, it's always been funny to me that Disney is one of the biggest proponents of perpetual copyright and yet most of the material for their works throughout the companies history has been public domain works from previous generations.
That's cool, mine is a phone, a pager, a datebook, an email appliance, a mobile terminal, a podcast reader, and an entertainment device (including functioning as a really advanced remote for my HTPC). I use the phone portion maybe 100-200 minutes a month, the rest of the device I use that much a day.
I want what I had with my RAZR phone back in 1999, charge it once a week.
No, you don't. If you wanted that you'd have it. You apparently want a large, high resolution screen which is readable in direct sunlight and while can play full motion video. No battery technology we have even dreamed of is going to give you a week with that screen. Getting OLED's or LED backlit LCD's low enough in price will help some, but they still will only get you maybe 2 days of runtime. I'm not sure if the iphone gives you the kind of stats that the Android platform does but 85-92% of my battery use is powering the screen.
HTC already has their own Android branch, it's called Sense and while it will run Android apps it's really quite a different user experience from the base OS (IMHO a better one). However I'm not sure how many consumers make a purchase based on the differences between the software platforms. They care about whether the device meets their needs, and then price. Android has basically locked up the smartphone market for people that don't want to pay Apple prices or just don't like iOS for some reason, trying to fight that trend with a fourth tier OS is kind of crazy (even RIM with a much stronger financial base is going to have a hard time fighting the two and will likely lose or adopt Android in the end and I think MS's shareholder are going to revolt over their losses on Windows Phone).
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Yeah, I think a lot of Metro apps are going to be wrappers around web apps with some enhanced functionality and a more touch friendly interface, kind of like how Google Maps Mobile reuses about 90% of Google maps but makes it easier to use on smartphones.
Really, making a positive comment about how I believe a touch UI on Windows would help my users is somehow overrated? Moderator points are apparently being given to trolls again.
Sounds like WRM to me and nobody implemented it for a reason, it got in the way of people getting actual work done.
QNX is used outside the lab, in fact I bet it's more widely used than Windows and Linux combined. However it's the only commercial microkernel OS I'm aware of.
No, you can launch it from the task bar in the Explorer window which is kind of the Windows 8 version of "classic" theme. When IE is launched from Explorer it has the chromed UI including being resizable, moveable, minimizable, etc. In fact if you have explorer open in one monitor and Metro on another you can drag the window back and forth and add and remove the chrome, it was kind of a cool part of the day 1 keynote, along with the fact that if you have two explorer windows open each one has its own taskbar showing only the applications that are open on that monitor.
But from the day 1 keynote I took away that Metro apps by default will sleep when not on the screen, that's kind of backwards as a default at least from a desktop perspective.
Dude I have 3 screens at work, two is pretty much the standard for companies without their head in their rear (monitors are cheap, user time is really, really expensive by comparison).
Considering we have give about 12% of our workforce ipads which are barely usable for "real" work I think MS is looking at things in completely the right way. I know I have little use for a tablet at work, but about 25-30% of my user base probably does and probably 80% wouldn't mind having one at home.
Windows has had that capability since 2003, it's called EMS and the Special Administration Console.
GM is losing money again
What?
Daniel F. Akerson - Chairman and CEO: Thanks, Randy. In summary, we had a solid quarter. Each region posted a profit . GM Q2 2011 conference call
They made $2.5B in what is historically a slow quarter.
Is this the DIRECT proposal, and if so are they going to design a new crew vehicle or use all the work already poured into Orion?
Cisco has never had any of those people on their payroll and hence they've never been counted in employee numbers. When I worked at Cisco I was a contractor because deskside support was non-core and so even though it was more expensive to have IBM manage the contract and GE provide the technicians and managers it was done that way. This allowed them to keep their target of $1M per employee per year in revenue.
SFP+ allows copper connections up to 15m, you should be able to keep most of your connections that close since that allows the cluster to be 30m x 30m with central switches.
The 2050 is what HP uses in the SL390 cluster configuration because they can actually cool and power 8 of them in a 4U enclosure, since the M2070 has the same power draw it should be capable of the same density.
The switches are now really, really cheap. A Force10 S4810 which can have 64 10Gb ports (in 1U!) can be had as cheaply as $15k without even really shopping. Then again a Mellanox IS5025 with 36 40Gb ports can be had for only $5k. There are definite advantages to higher port density though as it reduces the complexity of the graph.
NVidia's Tesla cards are GPGPU's, they have no graphics hardware.
Why? I don't use IE, don't open random attachments, keep my browser up to date, sit behind a firewall, IDS/IPS, and filtering proxy server plus run a different AV package on my machine. I've never had any kind of malware infection or virus in 18 years of using computers online including a number of years of participating in the underground software world in my teenage years.
My Windows 7 desktop has been up for 125 days and the last reboot was because I hook up a UPS after we had two power outages in a week.
Not only will it work but there are a lot of new API's that aren't yet available in Metro but are available through .Net.
Easy to use client, you can backup to a local drive and any internet connected machine where you can install the client and have it trust your key, and you can pay the professionals a fairly small annual fee if you wish to have them manage a remote copy for you. I haven't used it myself as my Mozy subscription renewed for two years just before the new pricing went into effect but I plan to install it on both my brothers computers and have two offsite copies of my data in another year or so.
Not only is perpetual copyright bad for the myriad of reasons others will state, it's bad because it leads to the loss of cultural heritage. Since there is little economic incentive to preserve and restore old works which you can't obtain rights to, many older recordings of early blues and jazz acts are going to deteriorate to uselessness.
On another note, it's always been funny to me that Disney is one of the biggest proponents of perpetual copyright and yet most of the material for their works throughout the companies history has been public domain works from previous generations.
That's cool, mine is a phone, a pager, a datebook, an email appliance, a mobile terminal, a podcast reader, and an entertainment device (including functioning as a really advanced remote for my HTPC). I use the phone portion maybe 100-200 minutes a month, the rest of the device I use that much a day.
I want what I had with my RAZR phone back in 1999, charge it once a week.
No, you don't. If you wanted that you'd have it. You apparently want a large, high resolution screen which is readable in direct sunlight and while can play full motion video. No battery technology we have even dreamed of is going to give you a week with that screen. Getting OLED's or LED backlit LCD's low enough in price will help some, but they still will only get you maybe 2 days of runtime. I'm not sure if the iphone gives you the kind of stats that the Android platform does but 85-92% of my battery use is powering the screen.
HTC already has their own Android branch, it's called Sense and while it will run Android apps it's really quite a different user experience from the base OS (IMHO a better one). However I'm not sure how many consumers make a purchase based on the differences between the software platforms. They care about whether the device meets their needs, and then price. Android has basically locked up the smartphone market for people that don't want to pay Apple prices or just don't like iOS for some reason, trying to fight that trend with a fourth tier OS is kind of crazy (even RIM with a much stronger financial base is going to have a hard time fighting the two and will likely lose or adopt Android in the end and I think MS's shareholder are going to revolt over their losses on Windows Phone).
I was thinking the same thing, that's 7% per year which is definitely above inflation but not terribly so.