It's tempting to hope next week will see the first reports from gamers who've got their hands on the highly anticipated console, but we suspect Sony will hold back until next May's E3. Taiwan is unlikely to be a focus market for the PS3's launch, not like the US, Europe and Japan. Even Microsoft's Xbox 360 has yet to launch there - it's currently scheduled for a March 16 debut after the software giant was forced to delay the console's release because of "supply constraints".
Currently, more than two dozen Windows XP issues remain unpatched.
Really? Only two dozen? If the author is foolish enough to think that Windows only has two dozen bugs, it's no wonder he's foolish enough to think it should be easy to fix them.
This post is not a slam against MS, but the article...
We all have access to the information in the patent whether we're in the Linux camp or not. That's what they're for: to make inventions public but still give the inventor a limited-time monopoly on use of the idea.
Unfortunately, access to the hypervisor patent doesn't make cracking hypervisor any easier, just like access to the RSA patent doesn't make cracking an RSA key any easier.
The patent will tell you which things the hypervisor keeps secret from child processes but it won't tell you what those secrets are.
Microsoft is continuing its tradition to taking a big loss on the console in hopes of making a profit on games....just like every other console manufacturer in the last decade.
Mr Hoglund noted that the text strings in title bars could easily contain credit card details or social security numbers.... even though he knows that - in the astonishingly massive world of Windows commercial software, shareware and freeware - there's not a single program out there that does this.
He's also not allowed to own or use a computer, a cellphone, or any other device that can access the Internet for two years.
These days, you can do just about anything and it's very rare for an American court to stop you from driving because - at least in most of America - life without a car is nearly impossible. They can put restrictions on your driving, but they usually can't stop you from owning/using a car entirely.
At what point does computer/cellphone usage become as necessary to life as a car?
Don't get me wrong... I'm a big fan of saying "accept the consequences" and taking away cars from drunk drivers, computers from hackers, etc. But under the current system, it doesn't seem likely to happen.
but one can't help but wonder if such a device will breed less assertive graduates who lack the will to stand up and voice their opinion on sensitive issues
Fine by me. America could use a few less vocal people on sensitive issues. Plus, it means my (very vocal) opinions count more!
1. Only a very, very small percentage of teachers are bad. The large majority are caring, hard-working, underpaid professionals that do an excellent job teaching your kids. To put it bluntly: if you think your child's teacher is bad, you are probably wrong.
2. Your child will never do well in school unless you help them. That means quiet time for homework, help on homework, and an environment that encourages education. My stepmom can probably name every single sports coach that her kids have had. I'll bet she can't name more than one of their current high school teachers. That's just wrong.
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Now that is what differentiates the true entrepreneur from the ordinary folk: market the feature on which you're actually saving money and sell the item for 3-4 times comparable items.
Wow... I suddenly understand Apple: - iPod Shuffle has no screen. - Mac mice have only one button. - Macs have no floppy.
Steve Jobs could write a book on the "less is more" way of marketing.
The Ethiopian food example is incredibly biased. People need food. People don't need software.
A better analogy: People who refuse to use closed-source software are like those who refuse to buy products from companies that damage the environment/run sweatshops/ban unions/etc.
Even if a product is better from a functional standpoint, a consumer may not consider it better than another product for a variety of other reasons. For instance, a friend won't use Quicken. The product may be best of class but when he considers Intuit's EULA and privacy concerns, he'd rather go to a lesser functional product.
Considering whether or not a product is OSS is one way to say "I like a future where a majority of software is OSS and I want to help make that happen". It's standing up for a principle you believe in, even if you may have to suffer a bit (using beta-quality software or software with fewer features).
The organisation of phone companies in the UK sucks and it makes the problems described in the article all too frequent. They're not the norm, but they still happen significantly more often than they should.
The article was a rant... You've got to forgive a few of it's worst moments (like the "faults" line you quoted) to see the point it's making.
I've lived in Britain for the last 4 years and I can say the guy's experience is not normal, but it certainly happens frequently.
The British way of privitizing a monopoly is to sell the infrastructure to one company and give several other companies the right to sell service. On the rail network, Network Rail owns the tracks and several train companies provide service. The phone service is similar: one large arm of BT owns the lines and another arm of BT competes with several other telephone companies to provide service to consumers (the "phone service" BT has several restrictions on how it may cooperate with the "line-owning" BT).
Unfortunately, these arrangments mean that problems are always blamed on the other company. If your telephone doesn't work, BT will blame the phone company for a computer fault and the phone company will blame BT for a bad connection. When the trains are late, Network Rail blames the train company for poor train service and the train company blames Network Rail for poor tracks. It's much like how software developers will blame Microsoft for compatibility problems and MS will blame the software developers for a poorly-written application.
In the end, you're stuck trying to deal with two companies that both claim they're not at fault. It's no fun and it usually takes ages to get problems fixed.
(* In the US, monopolies tend to get broken into smaller monopolies: AT&T was broken into several smaller companies that had monopolies in their (smaller) service area. To me, the British system seems fairer but the US system seems to work better for the consumer in practice. Those of you who have a bad experience with your US cable/phone/electricity supplier will probably disagree... but if you haven't lived in England, I don't know how you could compare.)
MS has very high standards. Getting the top 10% means that 90% don't cut it. If you're in that 90%, you will not get hired at MS whether or not the goverment increases skilled-labor quotas.
The problem with that 90% is that almost all of them think they belong in the top 10%...
A lot of people posting here need a reality check.
I'll be blunt: If you are in the industry and don't have a job right now, you either suck, interview poorly, or are trying for positions you aren't qualified for. The industry is hot right now and there are loads of great opportunities.
Too many people came out of the late-90's with inflated egos...
The electric component really screws up mpg calculations. If you spend 4 hours driving around the city, I'm sure all of these modified cars would quickly approach the normal 30-40mpg that we're used to in hybrid engines. However, you have to remember that long, sustained trips is not the way most people drive. I'd imagine most of my daily drives would be covered by a larger battery and plug-in charge.
At that point, I may only visit a gas station once a month (as mentioned in the article) instead of 4 times a month. That lowers my fuel costs from $120/month to $30/month. Then the question is "would my eletricity costs raise by $90/month?"
I love the "gee whiz" aspect of the motion sensor as input, but I really don't feel this will ever be more than a toy.
As it is, I hate lifting my hands off the keyboard. To think that I'd actually have to take my hands off the keyboard, lift my laptop, and hover it around is absurd.
While working in Germany, I wrote my own simple Java flashcard program. I found there were many opportunities to study when I couldn't pull out my laptop (on the bus/train, while waiting for a friend, etc.).
I then wrote a program for J2ME, so I could quiz myself on my mobile. That worked better but it was a bit of a pain to deal with uploading new 'cards' (I'd have to modify a text file, put it in a.jar and upload the whole thing to the phone.
These days, I can almost always be found with the day's stack of 40 cards (10-15 new words and some 'problem words' from previous days). Writing new cards is easy (especially now that I've moved to Japanese) and dealing with subsets of cards is even easier.
The benefit of the computer approach is that I could create virtual flashcards: both programs would generate and translate random numbers/times/phrases.
Since PopCap got their start with a great bunch of Java games, I went to PopCap's site hoping for a Java toolkit. I was disappointed to see it's the Windows-only C toolkit.
Hats off to PopCap for giving something to the budding game developers out there. The industry is so cutthroat (especially the segment that PopCap's in) that you don't see things like this often enough.
I spent the last 4 years abroad and experienced a fair amount of culture shock on return. Your wife will know what she's in for... you might not expect it.
I ended up finding an international social organization ("for those living abroad and their friends") which helped significantly. All of us were going through the same thing and they didn't flinch when I said (for the millionth time) "It's not what I'm used to!"
In the end, I decided moving back was a mistake. I'm back abroad trying to find a job. I hope your move goes better than mine.
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How many days will it take before someone files a class-action lawsuit?
did people really expect Sony to go to a trade show and, what, not mention the PS3 at all?
The Register doesn't.
It's tempting to hope next week will see the first reports from gamers who've got their hands on the highly anticipated console, but we suspect Sony will hold back until next May's E3. Taiwan is unlikely to be a focus market for the PS3's launch, not like the US, Europe and Japan. Even Microsoft's Xbox 360 has yet to launch there - it's currently scheduled for a March 16 debut after the software giant was forced to delay the console's release because of "supply constraints".
Currently, more than two dozen Windows XP issues remain unpatched.
Really? Only two dozen? If the author is foolish enough to think that Windows only has two dozen bugs, it's no wonder he's foolish enough to think it should be easy to fix them.
This post is not a slam against MS, but the article...
The concept is great. I would love nothing more than to put my photos and mp3s online so I could share them easily with friends... but 3gb?!?
It's pretty hard to realise their dream of "putting all your media online" with a limit of 3gb.
We all have access to the information in the patent whether we're in the Linux camp or not. That's what they're for: to make inventions public but still give the inventor a limited-time monopoly on use of the idea.
Unfortunately, access to the hypervisor patent doesn't make cracking hypervisor any easier, just like access to the RSA patent doesn't make cracking an RSA key any easier.
The patent will tell you which things the hypervisor keeps secret from child processes but it won't tell you what those secrets are.
Microsoft is continuing its tradition to taking a big loss on the console in hopes of making a profit on games. ...just like every other console manufacturer in the last decade.
If the price for extensions is memory leaks and frequent crashes, I'm perfectly happy with my Standard Browsing Experience.
Mr Hoglund noted that the text strings in title bars could easily contain credit card details or social security numbers. ... even though he knows that - in the astonishingly massive world of Windows commercial software, shareware and freeware - there's not a single program out there that does this.
Mr. Hoglund is an idiot.
He's also not allowed to own or use a computer, a cellphone, or any other device that can access the Internet for two years.
These days, you can do just about anything and it's very rare for an American court to stop you from driving because - at least in most of America - life without a car is nearly impossible. They can put restrictions on your driving, but they usually can't stop you from owning/using a car entirely.
At what point does computer/cellphone usage become as necessary to life as a car?
Don't get me wrong... I'm a big fan of saying "accept the consequences" and taking away cars from drunk drivers, computers from hackers, etc. But under the current system, it doesn't seem likely to happen.
but one can't help but wonder if such a device will breed less assertive graduates who lack the will to stand up and voice their opinion on sensitive issues
Fine by me. America could use a few less vocal people on sensitive issues. Plus, it means my (very vocal) opinions count more!
Get the following two messages across to parents:
1. Only a very, very small percentage of teachers are bad. The large majority are caring, hard-working, underpaid professionals that do an excellent job teaching your kids. To put it bluntly: if you think your child's teacher is bad, you are probably wrong.
2. Your child will never do well in school unless you help them. That means quiet time for homework, help on homework, and an environment that encourages education. My stepmom can probably name every single sports coach that her kids have had. I'll bet she can't name more than one of their current high school teachers. That's just wrong.
Now that is what differentiates the true entrepreneur from the ordinary folk: market the feature on which you're actually saving money and sell the item for 3-4 times comparable items.
Wow... I suddenly understand Apple:
- iPod Shuffle has no screen.
- Mac mice have only one button.
- Macs have no floppy.
Steve Jobs could write a book on the "less is more" way of marketing.
The Ethiopian food example is incredibly biased. People need food. People don't need software.
A better analogy: People who refuse to use closed-source software are like those who refuse to buy products from companies that damage the environment/run sweatshops/ban unions/etc.
Even if a product is better from a functional standpoint, a consumer may not consider it better than another product for a variety of other reasons. For instance, a friend won't use Quicken. The product may be best of class but when he considers Intuit's EULA and privacy concerns, he'd rather go to a lesser functional product.
Considering whether or not a product is OSS is one way to say "I like a future where a majority of software is OSS and I want to help make that happen". It's standing up for a principle you believe in, even if you may have to suffer a bit (using beta-quality software or software with fewer features).
When you have a weak argument, tell them you are legislating "to save the children".
Or "fighting terrorism".
The organisation of phone companies in the UK sucks and it makes the problems described in the article all too frequent. They're not the norm, but they still happen significantly more often than they should.
The article was a rant... You've got to forgive a few of it's worst moments (like the "faults" line you quoted) to see the point it's making.
I've lived in Britain for the last 4 years and I can say the guy's experience is not normal, but it certainly happens frequently.
The British way of privitizing a monopoly is to sell the infrastructure to one company and give several other companies the right to sell service. On the rail network, Network Rail owns the tracks and several train companies provide service. The phone service is similar: one large arm of BT owns the lines and another arm of BT competes with several other telephone companies to provide service to consumers (the "phone service" BT has several restrictions on how it may cooperate with the "line-owning" BT).
Unfortunately, these arrangments mean that problems are always blamed on the other company. If your telephone doesn't work, BT will blame the phone company for a computer fault and the phone company will blame BT for a bad connection. When the trains are late, Network Rail blames the train company for poor train service and the train company blames Network Rail for poor tracks. It's much like how software developers will blame Microsoft for compatibility problems and MS will blame the software developers for a poorly-written application.
In the end, you're stuck trying to deal with two companies that both claim they're not at fault. It's no fun and it usually takes ages to get problems fixed.
(* In the US, monopolies tend to get broken into smaller monopolies: AT&T was broken into several smaller companies that had monopolies in their (smaller) service area. To me, the British system seems fairer but the US system seems to work better for the consumer in practice. Those of you who have a bad experience with your US cable/phone/electricity supplier will probably disagree... but if you haven't lived in England, I don't know how you could compare.)
MS has very high standards. Getting the top 10% means that 90% don't cut it. If you're in that 90%, you will not get hired at MS whether or not the goverment increases skilled-labor quotas.
The problem with that 90% is that almost all of them think they belong in the top 10%...
A lot of people posting here need a reality check.
I'll be blunt: If you are in the industry and don't have a job right now, you either suck, interview poorly, or are trying for positions you aren't qualified for. The industry is hot right now and there are loads of great opportunities.
Too many people came out of the late-90's with inflated egos...
This is unbelieveable. Does Congress truly have nothing better to do?
Now that Terri is dead, I guess not.
(Sorry if this seems like flamebait but I'm frustrated with Congress's ability to find stupid things to waste their time on)
The electric component really screws up mpg calculations. If you spend 4 hours driving around the city, I'm sure all of these modified cars would quickly approach the normal 30-40mpg that we're used to in hybrid engines. However, you have to remember that long, sustained trips is not the way most people drive. I'd imagine most of my daily drives would be covered by a larger battery and plug-in charge.
At that point, I may only visit a gas station once a month (as mentioned in the article) instead of 4 times a month. That lowers my fuel costs from $120/month to $30/month. Then the question is "would my eletricity costs raise by $90/month?"
I doubt it.
I love the "gee whiz" aspect of the motion sensor as input, but I really don't feel this will ever be more than a toy.
As it is, I hate lifting my hands off the keyboard. To think that I'd actually have to take my hands off the keyboard, lift my laptop, and hover it around is absurd.
I'm a die-hard fan of real flashcards.
.jar and upload the whole thing to the phone.
While working in Germany, I wrote my own simple Java flashcard program. I found there were many opportunities to study when I couldn't pull out my laptop (on the bus/train, while waiting for a friend, etc.).
I then wrote a program for J2ME, so I could quiz myself on my mobile. That worked better but it was a bit of a pain to deal with uploading new 'cards' (I'd have to modify a text file, put it in a
These days, I can almost always be found with the day's stack of 40 cards (10-15 new words and some 'problem words' from previous days). Writing new cards is easy (especially now that I've moved to Japanese) and dealing with subsets of cards is even easier.
The benefit of the computer approach is that I could create virtual flashcards: both programs would generate and translate random numbers/times/phrases.
Setting aside the "because I can" and "because it's Linux" arguments, what is the benefit of running YDL instead of OS X on one's Mac?
:)
To be like Linus.
Asuming they can scrape up the money, how many crazed Linus fanboys do you think will try?
Since PopCap got their start with a great bunch of Java games, I went to PopCap's site hoping for a Java toolkit. I was disappointed to see it's the Windows-only C toolkit.
Hats off to PopCap for giving something to the budding game developers out there. The industry is so cutthroat (especially the segment that PopCap's in) that you don't see things like this often enough.
I spent the last 4 years abroad and experienced a fair amount of culture shock on return. Your wife will know what she's in for... you might not expect it.
I ended up finding an international social organization ("for those living abroad and their friends") which helped significantly. All of us were going through the same thing and they didn't flinch when I said (for the millionth time) "It's not what I'm used to!"
In the end, I decided moving back was a mistake. I'm back abroad trying to find a job. I hope your move goes better than mine.