In general, Intel does nothing well except produce chipsets and processors.
Is Intel CEO Otellini a competent manager? Should he be replaced?
Intel bought what??? A third rate anti-virus company that makes a product that is necessary only because having vulnerabilities makes more money for Microsoft? (The average person cannot fix an infected computer and buys a new computer with another copy of Windows. See the New York Times article: Corrupted PC's Find New Home in the Dumpster.)
Intel bought McAfee for how much? $7.68 billion??? Why? Don't they have competent programmers at Intel? What does McAfee have that would cost more than $7 million to program?
I hope someone can convince me it's all okay, because a lot of what Intel does seems incompetent to me.
That documentation is NOT sufficient to allow making another program with compatible files. The file documentation I've seen only allows people who work for Microsoft to understand how to continue programming a very complicated file design.
Posting again because the new, BROKEN, Slashdot system does not display my first comment.
Look closely. That documentation is NOT sufficient to allow making another program with compatible files. The file documentation I've seen only allows people who work for Microsoft to understand how to continue programming a very complicated file design.
If you use Firefox's Tools > Options > Content > Advanced window to set a minimum font size larger than is planned in the new design, the left side of the Slashdot page at the top is not visible.
I like the latest version of Kubuntu. But that is a separate issue.
It is easy to demonstrate that Firefox has memory problems. Run the
free Microsoft Process Explorer. Watch the memory required by Firefox
climb, even when you aren't using Firefox. As soon as it climbs to the limit
of available memory, Firefox and Windows both become unstable.
Open several Firefox windows, each with several tabs. That makes the
problem more severe.
Firefox does not cause OS instability under Linux. Linux just throws
Firefox out of memory, in my limited experience.
What you said translates to: "I don't need to pay attention to the what was said about the problem to evaluate it" and "If it doesn't happen on my computer, then no one is having problems."
I tried Firefox 3.6.13 on Windows 7. The problem is exactly the same. The problem is much worse when there are several Firefox windows open.
Perhaps it is foolish to buy Windows 7, because Steve Ballmer has said Microsoft will release another version of Windows next year.
"It saddens me that the devs feel they have to do things like this rather than fix the much more serious issues the browser has..."
Such as... "Granted on the plus side I can finally use a browser that properly frees up memory after closing a shit load (80+ tabs) at once."
Are the memory gobbling instabilities of Firefox fixed in version 4? I have 12 tabs open in 5 windows now in Firefox 3.6.13, and Process Explorer tells me that Firefox is slowly demanding more and more memory, even when I am only watching Process Explorer, and nothing is happening in Firefox.
Eventually, the memory gobbling of Firefox reaches a limit, and Windows XP SP3 becomes very unstable.
I've filed bug several reports about that particular instability of Firefox over about 9 years, but the problem has not been fixed.
Those of use who need to do research on the internet often have many windows and tabs open. That makes the instability in Firefox much worse.
1) Failure to Execute: K8/Hammer/AMD64 was 18 months late, Barcelona was deliberately delayed by 9 months, original Bulldozer was scrapped and is running 22 months late.
"2) Giving the netbook market to Intel [AMD created the first netbook as a part of OLPC project] and long delays of Barcelona and Bulldozer architectures.
"3) Completely missing the perspective on handheld space - selling Imageon to Qualcomm, Xilleon to BroadCom."
There is a comment at the bottom of this poor-quality article in the Inquirer that says Dirk Meyer "was the lead engineer who designed the Athlon, Opteron and the DEC Alpha. Let's not forget that from 1999-2006, AMD actually had better processors than Intel, and this was due to Dirk Meyer's technology."
This is a quote from the Moose page to which you linked: "The main goal of Moose is to make Perl 5 Object Oriented programming easier, more consistent and less tedious. With Moose you can to think more about what you want to do and less about the mechanics of OOP."
The implication is that, without Moose, Perl 5 is difficult, inconsistent, and tedious.
Is this mistake, "... you can to think more...", indicative of the quality control for Moose?
My recent experience is that discussions of Perl quickly turn to discussions of Python, after people make statements like, "If it weren't for CPAN, Perl would be dead."
The first author of the paper is listed as "P.S. Blackawton", which appears to mean Blackawton Primary School. The school web site lists no person named "P.S. Blackawton". This is a paper with a fake first author, apparently.
"I'm hard pressed to decide if Microsoft is unwilling, or just unable, to ever fix it."
Microsoft top managers achieve vulnerabilities by not allowing Microsoft programmers to finish their work, apparently. Since Microsoft has a virtual monopoly on operating systems installed on computers you can buy, the vulnerabilities make Microsoft more money because the average person cannot fix an infected computer and buys a new computer with another copy of Windows. See the New York Times article: Corrupted PC's Find New Home in the Dumpster.
The solution is to make computers with Linux already installed available. Unfortunately configuration of Linux is quirky and poorly documented, slowing adoption.
Another solution is to use anti-trust law to make Windows more fair for buyers. Should users of Windows Vista pay for an entirely new version of Windows, when Vista was troublesome and a court case showed that Vista was knowingly released before it was ready? There are only small differences between Windows Vista and Windows 7. Why should users pay for an entirely new copy of Windows?
It is my opinion that the present practices of selling something almost everyone with a computer must have are unfair and against the common welfare. Microsoft lost an anti-trust case, but there was never any penalty.
Windows 1.0 was also junk in my experience. It was only released to show that Microsoft would soon have a usable windowing operating system.
Books written about that time indicate that Windows 1.0 was released to try to buy time until Microsoft could release a product that was better than GEM. It was dishonest marketing, the books indicate. People at that time had so little knowledge about computers that they did not detect the lie.
What registrar would you recommend?
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Help those of us who have domains registered with GoDaddy. What registrar would you recommend?
According to this March 11, 2008 story in Wired, GoDaddy shut down an
entire web site of 250,000 pages because of one archived mailing list comment:
GoDaddy Silences Police-Watchdog Site RateMyCop.com. See
below for Slashdot's story about RateMyCop.com.
R.I.P.
FTP
(2009-07-13, 359 comments) The GoDaddy web site is extremely complicated.
Quote: "In that case, why don't more people switch to administering their
sites via SFTP instead of FTP? Here are the steps it took me to enable SFTP on
my GoDaddy hosting account. Feel free to use this as a reference, but
the obvious point is that as long as this many steps are required, it's safe
to say that most users won't be switching: 1) Go to the 'Hosting' menu and
pick 'My Hosting Account.' 2) Next to the name of your website, pick 'Manage
Account.' This will open the Hosting Control Center. 3) In Hosting Control
Center, click to expand the 'Settings' options. 4) In the 'Settings' control
panel, click the 'SSH' icon. 5) You will see a page saying 'SSH is not set
up', and prompting you to enter a phone number so that their automated service
can call you with a PIN number. After you enter your phone number, the phone
rings a second later, and you enter the PIN in a form on the GoDaddy website.
6 ) You will then see a page which says: Current Hosting Account Status:
Pending Account Change -- Your request to enable SSH is being processed. This
upgrade may take up to 24 hours." [Punctuation and emphasis changed for
clarity.]
Registrars Still
Ignoring ICANN Rules (2009-07-22, 122 comments) Quote: "GoDaddy (and
their reseller arm, Wild West Domains) have a different problem: They still
block transfers for 60 days after a registrant's contact update, even after
the ICANN update specifically prohibited doing so. They freely admit it,
too."
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Have you seen AMT? The explanation is a mess.
In general, Intel does nothing well except produce chipsets and processors.
Is Intel CEO Otellini a competent manager? Should he be replaced?
Intel bought what??? A third rate anti-virus company that makes a product that is necessary only because having vulnerabilities makes more money for Microsoft? (The average person cannot fix an infected computer and buys a new computer with another copy of Windows. See the New York Times article: Corrupted PC's Find New Home in the Dumpster.)
Intel bought McAfee for how much? $7.68 billion??? Why? Don't they have competent programmers at Intel? What does McAfee have that would cost more than $7 million to program?
I hope someone can convince me it's all okay, because a lot of what Intel does seems incompetent to me.
That documentation is NOT sufficient to allow making another program with compatible files. The file documentation I've seen only allows people who work for Microsoft to understand how to continue programming a very complicated file design.
Posting again because the new, BROKEN, Slashdot system does not display my first comment.
Look closely. That documentation is NOT sufficient to allow making another program with compatible files. The file documentation I've seen only allows people who work for Microsoft to understand how to continue programming a very complicated file design.
If you use Firefox's Tools > Options > Content > Advanced window to set a minimum font size larger than is planned in the new design, the left side of the Slashdot page at the top is not visible.
Interesting. Is Blue Griffon generally usable now, or still in beta?
I like the latest version of Kubuntu. But that is a separate issue.
It is easy to demonstrate that Firefox has memory problems. Run the free Microsoft Process Explorer. Watch the memory required by Firefox climb, even when you aren't using Firefox. As soon as it climbs to the limit of available memory, Firefox and Windows both become unstable.
Open several Firefox windows, each with several tabs. That makes the problem more severe.
Firefox does not cause OS instability under Linux. Linux just throws Firefox out of memory, in my limited experience.
What you said translates to: "I don't need to pay attention to the what was said about the problem to evaluate it" and "If it doesn't happen on my computer, then no one is having problems."
I tried Firefox 3.6.13 on Windows 7. The problem is exactly the same. The problem is much worse when there are several Firefox windows open.
Perhaps it is foolish to buy Windows 7, because Steve Ballmer has said Microsoft will release another version of Windows next year.
Most of the reviews of Status-4-Evar ("Status Forever" if English is a second language for you.) say the status bar should not have been removed.
What are the changes to Composer? I like Composer a lot.
I'd like to have Composer as a separate program.
I'm running the latest version of Flashblock. Maybe the problem only happens when there is more than one window?
"It saddens me that the devs feel they have to do things like this rather than fix the much more serious issues the browser has..."
Such as... "Granted on the plus side I can finally use a browser that properly frees up memory after closing a shit load (80+ tabs) at once."
Are the memory gobbling instabilities of Firefox fixed in version 4? I have 12 tabs open in 5 windows now in Firefox 3.6.13, and Process Explorer tells me that Firefox is slowly demanding more and more memory, even when I am only watching Process Explorer, and nothing is happening in Firefox.
Eventually, the memory gobbling of Firefox reaches a limit, and Windows XP SP3 becomes very unstable.
I've filed bug several reports about that particular instability of Firefox over about 9 years, but the problem has not been fixed.
Those of use who need to do research on the internet often have many windows and tabs open. That makes the instability in Firefox much worse.
That's correct, the article is a disaster. Poor Max Planck. Most people don't listen to what he said.
Slashdot fooled again!
This article explains: Coup at AMD: Why was Dirk Meyer Pushed Out? Quote:
"Remember, Dirk Meyer's three deadly sins were:
1) Failure to Execute: K8/Hammer/AMD64 was 18 months late, Barcelona was deliberately delayed by 9 months, original Bulldozer was scrapped and is running 22 months late.
"2) Giving the netbook market to Intel [AMD created the first netbook as a part of OLPC project] and long delays of Barcelona and Bulldozer architectures.
"3) Completely missing the perspective on handheld space - selling Imageon to Qualcomm, Xilleon to BroadCom."
There is a comment at the bottom of this poor-quality article in the Inquirer that says Dirk Meyer "was the lead engineer who designed the Athlon, Opteron and the DEC Alpha. Let's not forget that from 1999-2006, AMD actually had better processors than Intel, and this was due to Dirk Meyer's technology."
"... though I'm guessing that the difference isn't just the police program reaching maturity or something like that."
Maybe they are just lying.
This is a quote from the Moose page to which you linked: "The main goal of Moose is to make Perl 5 Object Oriented programming easier, more consistent and less tedious. With Moose you can to think more about what you want to do and less about the mechanics of OOP."
The implication is that, without Moose, Perl 5 is difficult, inconsistent, and tedious.
Is this mistake, "... you can to think more...", indicative of the quality control for Moose?
My recent experience is that discussions of Perl quickly turn to discussions of Python, after people make statements like, "If it weren't for CPAN, Perl would be dead."
"There's more than one way to do it." translates to, quoting from Wikipedia, "This makes it easy to write extremely messy programs..."
"They are also a quarter of the speed."
Apparently you are talking about clock speed, but 2 GHz or 2.5 GHz is not slow compared to the Intel Atom. The speeds are equivalent.
When will Slashdot get skilled editors?
This story is about a public relations gimmick by Blackawton Primary School, Blackawton, Devon, UK. The children did NOT originate or write the study; they only participated, obviously.
The first author of the paper is listed as "P.S. Blackawton", which appears to mean Blackawton Primary School. The school web site lists no person named "P.S. Blackawton". This is a paper with a fake first author, apparently.
It seemed to me that Java was one of Sun's biggest problems. Sun managed Java badly, and that bad management was very bad public relations.
Java has ALWAYS been a badly managed language. Sometimes programs (not web sites) will only run correctly with an old version of Java.
Those who supply Java programs often have to deliver an entire Java run-time package to make sure their programs will run.
The quirky management of Java was extremely strong public relations for Sun. Notice that Sun no longer exists.
I remember that day. It was boring.
"I'm hard pressed to decide if Microsoft is unwilling, or just unable, to ever fix it."
Microsoft top managers achieve vulnerabilities by not allowing Microsoft programmers to finish their work, apparently. Since Microsoft has a virtual monopoly on operating systems installed on computers you can buy, the vulnerabilities make Microsoft more money because the average person cannot fix an infected computer and buys a new computer with another copy of Windows. See the New York Times article: Corrupted PC's Find New Home in the Dumpster.
The solution is to make computers with Linux already installed available. Unfortunately configuration of Linux is quirky and poorly documented, slowing adoption.
Another solution is to use anti-trust law to make Windows more fair for buyers. Should users of Windows Vista pay for an entirely new version of Windows, when Vista was troublesome and a court case showed that Vista was knowingly released before it was ready? There are only small differences between Windows Vista and Windows 7. Why should users pay for an entirely new copy of Windows?
It is my opinion that the present practices of selling something almost everyone with a computer must have are unfair and against the common welfare. Microsoft lost an anti-trust case, but there was never any penalty.
TopView was unusable junk, in my experience.
Windows 1.0 was also junk in my experience. It was only released to show that Microsoft would soon have a usable windowing operating system.
Books written about that time indicate that Windows 1.0 was released to try to buy time until Microsoft could release a product that was better than GEM. It was dishonest marketing, the books indicate. People at that time had so little knowledge about computers that they did not detect the lie.
Help those of us who have domains registered with GoDaddy. What registrar would you recommend?
Here are stories about GoDaddy on Slashdot, in order by date, to 2010-09-11:
Go Daddy Usurps Network Solutions (2005-05-04)
GoDaddy Serves Blank Pages to Safari & Opera (2005-12-08)
GoDaddy.com Dumps Linux for Microsoft (2006-03-23)
GoDaddy Holds Domains Hostage (2006-06-17)
GoDaddy Caves To Irish Legal Threat (2006-09-16)
MySpace and GoDaddy Shut Down Security Site (2007-01-26) That incident prompted this web site:
Exposing the Many Reasons Not to Trust GoDaddy with Your Domain Names.
Alternative Registrars to GoDaddy? (2007-02-03)
GoDaddy Bobbles DST Changeover? (2007-03-11)
850K RegisterFly Domains Moved To GoDaddy (2007-05-29)
According to this March 11, 2008 story in Wired, GoDaddy shut down an entire web site of 250,000 pages because of one archived mailing list comment: GoDaddy Silences Police-Watchdog Site RateMyCop.com. See below for Slashdot's story about RateMyCop.com.
GoDaddy Silences RateMyCop.com (2008-03-12)
ICANN Moves Against GoDaddy Domain Lockdowns (2008-04-08)
GoDaddy VP Caught Bidding Against Customers (2008-06-29)
KnujOn Updates Top 10 Spam-Friendly Registrars List (2009-02-06, 80 comments) GoDaddy is on the list.
R.I.P. FTP (2009-07-13, 359 comments) The GoDaddy web site is extremely complicated. Quote: "In that case, why don't more people switch to administering their sites via SFTP instead of FTP? Here are the steps it took me to enable SFTP on my GoDaddy hosting account. Feel free to use this as a reference, but the obvious point is that as long as this many steps are required, it's safe to say that most users won't be switching: 1) Go to the 'Hosting' menu and pick 'My Hosting Account.' 2) Next to the name of your website, pick 'Manage Account.' This will open the Hosting Control Center. 3) In Hosting Control Center, click to expand the 'Settings' options. 4) In the 'Settings' control panel, click the 'SSH' icon. 5) You will see a page saying 'SSH is not set up', and prompting you to enter a phone number so that their automated service can call you with a PIN number. After you enter your phone number, the phone rings a second later, and you enter the PIN in a form on the GoDaddy website. 6 ) You will then see a page which says: Current Hosting Account Status: Pending Account Change -- Your request to enable SSH is being processed. This upgrade may take up to 24 hours." [Punctuation and emphasis changed for clarity.]
Registrars Still Ignoring ICANN Rules (2009-07-22, 122 comments) Quote: "GoDaddy (and their reseller arm, Wild West Domains) have a different problem: They still block transfers for 60 days after a registrant's contact update, even after the ICANN update specifically prohibited doing so. They freely admit it, too."