How much will CiV4 use political shifts in countries as a cyclical change in approaches (e.g. new democratic leader with a different political alignment will form different alliances).
People aren't going to jump on either the HD-DVD or Blue-ray wagon for at least a year or so
Yes they are, they are going to buy a PS3 next year in large numbers thus giving Blue-ray a large installed base. Clearly MS and Intel are going against Sony, but its hard to see the real volume market beyond the PS3 in 2006.
I'll have Blue-ray by this time next year, I think you are spot on about HD-DVD though.
INTERNAL power supplies? Bloody hell is this really what we've come down to. If its not external and capable of re-starting a dead body then its not a power supply.
Seriously though, its a wonder to me that each device continues to insist on its own PSU, if you are running 3 servers (surely a minimum for the slashdot crowd), then 2 external supplies (main/redundant) should be all you need with a lightweight re-route internally to get the power onto the rails. This should be more efficient than multiple seperate boxes as it can level the load more evenly, and being external it can be cooled seperately as required.
Always suprised me on these new pizza box servers that I can't buy a pizza box PSU or two and save space enough in the main box for an extra CPU or two.
It irritates me when trojans are lumped with the virus crowd. This requires a user to ACCEPT and INSTALL the application before it becomes an issue, it is useless without that user interaction.
And of course back in the late 80s this stuff was all sorted, I could use glib and POSIX.1.
My point is that the market has changed from being one where seperate proprietary vendors had a point to the level where the standard has been raised so it becomes less important.
Back when Unix ruled the world you programmed in C at the OS level, you had to understand about pipes and processors and threads and lots of other elements of the OS. This meant it was a pain to re-learn across all the other platforms.
Now there are (for enterprises) only two real choices, Java and.NET. Java in paticular abstracts the operating system questions away so it becomes irrelevant what OS is running it just needs to run Java fast and cheap, so using lots of small boxes tends to be the way to go. Similar things can be said about Python, Ruby et al but large enterprises use them less.
Linux is winning in large enterprises because its the cheapest, and safest, way to run Oracle RAC and J2EE Application Servers. If you really don't care about the OS (and most of the time you don't) then you might as well pick Linux.
If programming was still at the OS level then IMO Linux would still struggle as you'd have to understand a lot more about it. J2EE in paticular has made hardware a commodity, and in the commodity world Linux is the best choice.
So on the one side we have Science magazine, a top scientific publication which extensively peer-reviews work before publication... on the otherside we have a bloke with a website.
There are some areas that are unclear, but its classic head in the sand behaviour (reminds me of creationists) to compare the output of Science (or Nature or any other top scientific journal) to the website of a bloke who goes by the name of "Ernest at the beach".
Nitot likened the differences between Firefox and IE vulnerabilities as being like injuries: "Which would you prefer, to have a broken finger, or your head ripped off?"
Like it, Internet Explorer... its like having your head ripped off.
How about "Never"... Opera actually make a PROFIT out of their browser business.. which is certainly better than "survival". Their main profit comes from their device platform but some people are indeed willing to pay for a better quality browser.
Opera is much better, and quicker, to use than either of the other popular browsers out there, and some organisations will continue to pay for Opera based on that responsiveness and security. More often people will pay for the mobile browser however. If there is common code between the two then Opera would be releasing the crown jewels for free and would cease to be a VIABLE company.
Open Source is NOT always the only answer, some people have to make a living.
Come on we are missing a trick here, comments on the legislation will have a minor impact, what we should be asking for is some PORK. I mean the ENERGY bill had a $231m BRIDGE in Alaska named after some senator who headed a committee so...
Cut back the corporate trappings, strip down to a core offering and get ready for a sale. Stripping down R&D to just what the market wants will help with that as well.
IBM to buy Novell? Sun to buy Novell? Private Equity to buy Novell?
Or alternative, Novell to flounder as they loose sight of any strategic direction while they look for a market exit.
"Flash, Meet Sparkle" and then linking to an article explaining how it has nothing to do with Flash at all.
This is a geek site correct? So what the editors are doing is repeating the introduction of Arts History Major (Flash) to CompSci Major (Sparkle) who rapidly discover they have nothing in common and meaningless sex is very unlikely to happen.
This would of course require the Slashdot editors to realise the Irony is different to "goldy" and doesn't mean "like iron".
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Ummm so when Bill said that they wanted to give people the tools to organise the information....
How is Google not providing the tools? Seems to me that Google is providing better tools, just not requiring people to buy and operating system to use them.
What continues to stun me about the "professional" developers out there is how few do Unit Testing even when it is so easy. People complain about jobs moving offshore and pressure on delivery and people not understanding how hard coding is... but they don't even Unit testing.
If you don't unit test then you aren't a software engineer, you are a typist who understands a programming language.
Hubble is about discovering how the universe is created and changing the way we view science and astronomy. Its pretty cost effect for what it has delivered and its one of the things that has had people looking at Space and going "WOW".
Unfortunately this clearly doesn't sit well with the US leadership as it doesn't give them people to shake hands with. Its so much better to build a $231m bridge in Alaska named after a senator than fund something that is considered a success by the global scientific community.
I'm confused by all of this "Wireless" mouse rubbish. I'm using a vendor supplied freebie optical cable "mini-mouse" who when I'm not using it I can retract the cable (which is ridiculously long BTW).
Everytime I see a wireless mouse I just think... how often do you want to use the mouse 6ft away from the computer?
I also guess they will be dropping RTF, "Plain Text", "Web Page", and MS Works as valid formats, as these are clearly inferior to the basic MS Office format.
MS already allows users to "Save As" to reduced formats, even if Open Doc was reduced (which it certainly isn't in terms of multi-media) then Microsoft have already set the precedent of Load/Save from "inferior" formats.
Google should seriously consider getting the boot in early around search and tools, preventing Microsoft bundling things in with Longhorn just to "kill" the company.
Certainly they'd have a good case in the EU, the question is whether the US Goverment would side with an "upstart" like Google over a company that clearly has the same approach to life as Donald Rumsfeld.
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How much will CiV4 use political shifts in countries as a cyclical change in approaches (e.g. new democratic leader with a different political alignment will form different alliances).
People aren't going to jump on either the HD-DVD or Blue-ray wagon for at least a year or so
Yes they are, they are going to buy a PS3 next year in large numbers thus giving Blue-ray a large installed base. Clearly MS and Intel are going against Sony, but its hard to see the real volume market beyond the PS3 in 2006.
I'll have Blue-ray by this time next year, I think you are spot on about HD-DVD though.
INTERNAL power supplies? Bloody hell is this really what we've come down to. If its not external and capable of re-starting a dead body then its not a power supply.
Seriously though, its a wonder to me that each device continues to insist on its own PSU, if you are running 3 servers (surely a minimum for the slashdot crowd), then 2 external supplies (main/redundant) should be all you need with a lightweight re-route internally to get the power onto the rails. This should be more efficient than multiple seperate boxes as it can level the load more evenly, and being external it can be cooled seperately as required.
Always suprised me on these new pizza box servers that I can't buy a pizza box PSU or two and save space enough in the main box for an extra CPU or two.
It irritates me when trojans are lumped with the virus crowd. This requires a user to ACCEPT and INSTALL the application before it becomes an issue, it is useless without that user interaction.
And of course back in the late 80s this stuff was all sorted, I could use glib and POSIX.1.
My point is that the market has changed from being one where seperate proprietary vendors had a point to the level where the standard has been raised so it becomes less important.
Back when Unix ruled the world you programmed in C at the OS level, you had to understand about pipes and processors and threads and lots of other elements of the OS. This meant it was a pain to re-learn across all the other platforms.
Now there are (for enterprises) only two real choices, Java and
Linux is winning in large enterprises because its the cheapest, and safest, way to run Oracle RAC and J2EE Application Servers. If you really don't care about the OS (and most of the time you don't) then you might as well pick Linux.
If programming was still at the OS level then IMO Linux would still struggle as you'd have to understand a lot more about it. J2EE in paticular has made hardware a commodity, and in the commodity world Linux is the best choice.
So on the one side we have Science magazine, a top scientific publication which extensively peer-reviews work before publication... on the otherside we have a bloke with a website.
There are some areas that are unclear, but its classic head in the sand behaviour (reminds me of creationists) to compare the output of Science (or Nature or any other top scientific journal) to the website of a bloke who goes by the name of "Ernest at the beach".
Sheesh...
I have done a little, but then I live in the UK and it became pointless when the BBC started releasing all of their shows via the internet anyway.
It had value when considering some of the comedy programmes on Radio 4 that they didn't use to release.
But then this is only a problem when the radio quality is as good as Radio 4.
Nitot likened the differences between Firefox and IE vulnerabilities as being like injuries: "Which would you prefer, to have a broken finger, or your head ripped off?"
Like it, Internet Explorer... its like having your head ripped off.
How about "Never"... Opera actually make a PROFIT out of their browser business.. which is certainly better than "survival". Their main profit comes from their device platform but some people are indeed willing to pay for a better quality browser.
Opera is much better, and quicker, to use than either of the other popular browsers out there, and some organisations will continue to pay for Opera based on that responsiveness and security. More often people will pay for the mobile browser however. If there is common code between the two then Opera would be releasing the crown jewels for free and would cease to be a VIABLE company.
Open Source is NOT always the only answer, some people have to make a living.
For the good of humanity, it is important that you burn as much oil as you can afford to, in order to bump up prices and encourage alternatives to oil
This (I hope) is IRONY, its different to sarcasm and this is very well played....
FUNNY... not INTERESTING... FUNNY
Come on we are missing a trick here, comments on the legislation will have a minor impact, what we should be asking for is some PORK. I mean the ENERGY bill had a $231m BRIDGE in Alaska named after some senator who headed a committee so...
Free Datacentre capacity available on demand
All Beer to become Free (as in Free Speech)
Any more?
Cut back the corporate trappings, strip down to a core offering and get ready for a sale. Stripping down R&D to just what the market wants will help with that as well.
IBM to buy Novell?
Sun to buy Novell?
Private Equity to buy Novell?
Or alternative, Novell to flounder as they loose sight of any strategic direction while they look for a market exit.
"Flash, Meet Sparkle" and then linking to an article explaining how it has nothing to do with Flash at all.
This is a geek site correct? So what the editors are doing is repeating the introduction of Arts History Major (Flash) to CompSci Major (Sparkle) who rapidly discover they have nothing in common and meaningless sex is very unlikely to happen.
This would of course require the Slashdot editors to realise the Irony is different to "goldy" and doesn't mean "like iron".
Ummm so when Bill said that they wanted to give people the tools to organise the information....
How is Google not providing the tools? Seems to me that Google is providing better tools, just not requiring people to buy and operating system to use them.
From what, the mid/late eighties?
Ahh Bill you are so right, after all no computers were ever networked before 1998.
Don't love these journalists who are even more clueless than Mr Gates?
Welcome to the unprofessional developer Island... population you.
Normally, writing junit tests is less then or equal to the amount of work in writing the actual code
Where as fixing the bugs as a result of a lack of unit testing doesn't take any effort at all.
You muppet.
What continues to stun me about the "professional" developers out there is how few do Unit Testing even when it is so easy. People complain about jobs moving offshore and pressure on delivery and people not understanding how hard coding is... but they don't even Unit testing.
If you don't unit test then you aren't a software engineer, you are a typist who understands a programming language.
Hubble is about discovering how the universe is created and changing the way we view science and astronomy. Its pretty cost effect for what it has delivered and its one of the things that has had people looking at Space and going "WOW".
Unfortunately this clearly doesn't sit well with the US leadership as it doesn't give them people to shake hands with. Its so much better to build a $231m bridge in Alaska named after a senator than fund something that is considered a success by the global scientific community.
"SAVE OUR KIDS FROM THIS SMUT"
Of course the fact that the idea of the game is to kill innocent people and steal cars and is actually NAMED after a felony offence is fine...
Just don't you dare show any breasts, because breasts are evil, breasts corrupt.
Life immitating Simpsons... next stop the art gallery.
You mean like a traditional mouse with a ball?
I'm confused by all of this "Wireless" mouse rubbish. I'm using a vendor supplied freebie optical cable "mini-mouse" who when I'm not using it I can retract the cable (which is ridiculously long BTW).
Everytime I see a wireless mouse I just think... how often do you want to use the mouse 6ft away from the computer?
charge a penny on-line
The phrase is SPEND a penny
I can't believe that Slashdot editors missed such a simple and infantile joke opportunity.
Are standards improving or slipping?
I also guess they will be dropping RTF, "Plain Text", "Web Page", and MS Works as valid formats, as these are clearly inferior to the basic MS Office format.
MS already allows users to "Save As" to reduced formats, even if Open Doc was reduced (which it certainly isn't in terms of multi-media) then Microsoft have already set the precedent of Load/Save from "inferior" formats.
Its not just FUD... its Stupid FUD
1) The NRA defence of "guns don't kill people, people kill people" is now dead
2) Microsoft are liable for writing an OS that they KNEW would enable virus writers to propogate
3) DARPA are buggered as they built the underlying technology to DELIBERATELY enable information sharing.
I'm one of the few people who don't do illegal downloads but this really isn't an attack that work in the above cases so why does it work here?
Google should seriously consider getting the boot in early around search and tools, preventing Microsoft bundling things in with Longhorn just to "kill" the company.
Certainly they'd have a good case in the EU, the question is whether the US Goverment would side with an "upstart" like Google over a company that clearly has the same approach to life as Donald Rumsfeld.