Of course you'd also have to disassembly every library MSOffice uses and every library those libraries use which includes the NT kernel. So by the time you're done, you'd be running Windows in a JVM just to run MS Office.
Using the increased storage space means increased development costs. It's also supply and demand. People are more willing to pay $50 for a game than $10 a movie and see 5 movies.
According to the article, the Reloaded name is an internal name they are using, like a codename, not the actual product name the public will see. Besides, you're comparing apples to oranges. One is an OS that sounds like another OS, the other is an OS that sounds like a movie. Which one do you think may cause confusion?
It costs money to submit a patent regardless whether it gets accepted or rejected. They don't get any extra money if it's accepted. So the argument of them not refusing patents because it doesn't make them money is not valid.
Once again, most people don't RTFA and 90% of the discussion believes MS is patenting the idea of virtual desktops, which certainly isn't the case. Now that there's a few threads where people read the patent application and see that the "innovation" is full screen preview of the virtual desktops people say it's useful but "obvious". So if it's both useful and obvious, name one window manager that has this exact feature? None?
On the other hand, this is similar to televisions that can preview channels with still frames and you choose which one you want to switch to, but they are different applications.
Some people are missing the point of x86-64, it isn't just being able to access > 4 gigs or perform 64-bit math in one instruction. The x86-64 architecture has some improvements over x86, like more general purpose registers, so in general, x86-64 compiled apps will be faster than the same x86 compiled app. So the next question is why do we need faster performance?
You may not need it today, but generally software comes after hardware. So as more people have these processors, you can expect more applications that will take advantage of these apps. Even today, I sometimes find myself waiting on the computer, this should never happen (although I admit most of the time it's network limited and not cpu limited)
As far as trademarks are concerned, you need to protect them if you want to keep them. Second, it only applies if the other product is in the same competing field. Clearly Lindows is competing against Windows. Try making processor chips under the name Lintel or I bet there would be an uproar if you created another Unix like OS called Linicks.
But of course that doesn't mean that what you believe in from a young age is correct. If I was brought up a long time ago when the greatest minds believed the world was flat. I too would have believed it and we all know now that is not correct. Similarly, I could be brought up to believe and have faith in God, but that doesn't necessarily mean I'm right. And getting back on topic, I could grow up believing dark matter existed and as of today, don't know if I'm right or wrong. But the point is that due to a few people questioning what is normally accepted as right, we may find the real truth rather than blindly believing something that is false.
Why does "remote hole" == elevation of privilege?
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A "remote hole" doesn't have to just be obtaining root access. Being able to remotely crash a server is almost as bad. So no, they cannot boast.
Most of the good games these days are available on all three platforms and usually the XBox version is best in terms of graphics (HDTV support, constant framerate, more graphics dazzle) and sound (Dolby Digital 5.1).
Intel's implementation MUST be exactly the same as Amd64's. Otherwise, there is no point. Microsoft has already said there would not be yet another 64-bit version of Windows. This is the whole reason Intel is even doing this considering it would kill their Itanium market.
You must not be familiar with the x86-64 architecture. Simply recompiling your 32-bit app as 64-bit DOES increase performance. It has nothing to do with 64-bit vs 32-bit, it has to do with the fact that x86-64 provides more registers, and this itself increases performance.
It's not about if one chip is "better" than another (I assume you are referring to raw performance). One thing that keeps being repeated is that consumers want compatibility. They've built up a large software library and don't want to not be able to use it, and use it as fast or faster than their current systems (this leaves out x86 emulation of ia64 and alpha).
Sure Linux may be really cheap or free to incorporate into their handsets, and it's openness allows the manufacturer to do whatever modifications they want, but the problem now is you have incompatible handsets despite them all running Linux. People cannot simply install an app on a Linux handset and expect it to work because there aren't strict guidelines. This is where the closed solutions have an upper hand.
The reason it's difficult for the Japanese to distinguish between R and L is because there isn't a L type sound in their alphabet and the closest is (you guessed it) R (as in Ra, Ri, Ru, Re, Ro).
Just remind yourself that Slashdot isn't journalism and doesn't need to be held to such standards. Really, it's nothing more than a community blog. Slashdot is a business and to get people to visit the site, they basically troll and wait for comments. Personally, I'm fine with that as usually some comments are more interesting than the actual article.
The expense wasn't for stock options per se, it was a one time stock option buyback the company offered employees for stock options that were underwater. Analysts typically ignore these one time expenses as they are not recurring and do not affect either companies revenue and income are increasing or not.
The difference between a PocketPC Phone Edition and Smartphone is the later is phone first, pda second, the former is pda first, phone second. So do your research and buy the righ tool for the job.
Seems like there's three possible sentences that could have been used:
1. Customers are better off today than they were a year ago
2. Customers are no better off today than they were a year ago
3. Customers were better off a year ago
If things have improved (as the article explains), then #1 seems appropriate. Even Freud said, sometimes a banana is just a banana.
The ability of a projector to give a large image is certainly enticing, but projectors have certain disadvantages that won't work for some people.
1. projectors (even short throw ones) require a large room, at least a larger viewing distance than a plasma or lcd, this means they don't work well in your bedroom or apartment
2. light bulbs don't have that long of a life and are expensive to replace
3. projectors require a pretty dark room, any ambient light and the image will be washed out, this is one of the best things about plasma/lcd, you can have them in a room with multiple windows and the image is still detailed and bright
How exactly are current technologies (plasma, lcd, dlp, lcos, crt) not FLAT? Do you mean THIN? In any case, while you wait +5 years for OLED (especially for it to be affordable and also for them to solve the lifetime of blue issue) I'll be enjoying my plasma. When 42" OLED is available in 5 years, I'll be enjoying my 80" plasma for the same cost.
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Of course you'd also have to disassembly every library MSOffice uses and every library those libraries use which includes the NT kernel. So by the time you're done, you'd be running Windows in a JVM just to run MS Office.
Using the increased storage space means increased development costs. It's also supply and demand. People are more willing to pay $50 for a game than $10 a movie and see 5 movies.
According to the article, the Reloaded name is an internal name they are using, like a codename, not the actual product name the public will see. Besides, you're comparing apples to oranges. One is an OS that sounds like another OS, the other is an OS that sounds like a movie. Which one do you think may cause confusion?
It costs money to submit a patent regardless whether it gets accepted or rejected. They don't get any extra money if it's accepted. So the argument of them not refusing patents because it doesn't make them money is not valid.
Once again, most people don't RTFA and 90% of the discussion believes MS is patenting the idea of virtual desktops, which certainly isn't the case. Now that there's a few threads where people read the patent application and see that the "innovation" is full screen preview of the virtual desktops people say it's useful but "obvious". So if it's both useful and obvious, name one window manager that has this exact feature? None? On the other hand, this is similar to televisions that can preview channels with still frames and you choose which one you want to switch to, but they are different applications.
Some people are missing the point of x86-64, it isn't just being able to access > 4 gigs or perform 64-bit math in one instruction. The x86-64 architecture has some improvements over x86, like more general purpose registers, so in general, x86-64 compiled apps will be faster than the same x86 compiled app. So the next question is why do we need faster performance? You may not need it today, but generally software comes after hardware. So as more people have these processors, you can expect more applications that will take advantage of these apps. Even today, I sometimes find myself waiting on the computer, this should never happen (although I admit most of the time it's network limited and not cpu limited)
As far as trademarks are concerned, you need to protect them if you want to keep them. Second, it only applies if the other product is in the same competing field. Clearly Lindows is competing against Windows. Try making processor chips under the name Lintel or I bet there would be an uproar if you created another Unix like OS called Linicks.
But of course that doesn't mean that what you believe in from a young age is correct. If I was brought up a long time ago when the greatest minds believed the world was flat. I too would have believed it and we all know now that is not correct. Similarly, I could be brought up to believe and have faith in God, but that doesn't necessarily mean I'm right. And getting back on topic, I could grow up believing dark matter existed and as of today, don't know if I'm right or wrong. But the point is that due to a few people questioning what is normally accepted as right, we may find the real truth rather than blindly believing something that is false.
A "remote hole" doesn't have to just be obtaining root access. Being able to remotely crash a server is almost as bad. So no, they cannot boast.
Most of the good games these days are available on all three platforms and usually the XBox version is best in terms of graphics (HDTV support, constant framerate, more graphics dazzle) and sound (Dolby Digital 5.1).
Intel's implementation MUST be exactly the same as Amd64's. Otherwise, there is no point. Microsoft has already said there would not be yet another 64-bit version of Windows. This is the whole reason Intel is even doing this considering it would kill their Itanium market.
You must not be familiar with the x86-64 architecture. Simply recompiling your 32-bit app as 64-bit DOES increase performance. It has nothing to do with 64-bit vs 32-bit, it has to do with the fact that x86-64 provides more registers, and this itself increases performance.
It's not about if one chip is "better" than another (I assume you are referring to raw performance). One thing that keeps being repeated is that consumers want compatibility. They've built up a large software library and don't want to not be able to use it, and use it as fast or faster than their current systems (this leaves out x86 emulation of ia64 and alpha).
People forget that Windows 2000 was available for the Alpha processor and was full 64-bit.
Sure Linux may be really cheap or free to incorporate into their handsets, and it's openness allows the manufacturer to do whatever modifications they want, but the problem now is you have incompatible handsets despite them all running Linux. People cannot simply install an app on a Linux handset and expect it to work because there aren't strict guidelines. This is where the closed solutions have an upper hand.
The reason it's difficult for the Japanese to distinguish between R and L is because there isn't a L type sound in their alphabet and the closest is (you guessed it) R (as in Ra, Ri, Ru, Re, Ro).
Just remind yourself that Slashdot isn't journalism and doesn't need to be held to such standards. Really, it's nothing more than a community blog. Slashdot is a business and to get people to visit the site, they basically troll and wait for comments. Personally, I'm fine with that as usually some comments are more interesting than the actual article.
The expense wasn't for stock options per se, it was a one time stock option buyback the company offered employees for stock options that were underwater. Analysts typically ignore these one time expenses as they are not recurring and do not affect either companies revenue and income are increasing or not.
The difference between a PocketPC Phone Edition and Smartphone is the later is phone first, pda second, the former is pda first, phone second. So do your research and buy the righ tool for the job.
Seems like there's three possible sentences that could have been used: 1. Customers are better off today than they were a year ago 2. Customers are no better off today than they were a year ago 3. Customers were better off a year ago If things have improved (as the article explains), then #1 seems appropriate. Even Freud said, sometimes a banana is just a banana.
You're not supposed to be able to touch-type a thumb pad
Subject says it all. I would rather not have the RS-232 port.
It's probably not drawing any more power than my amp or powered subwoofer.
The ability of a projector to give a large image is certainly enticing, but projectors have certain disadvantages that won't work for some people. 1. projectors (even short throw ones) require a large room, at least a larger viewing distance than a plasma or lcd, this means they don't work well in your bedroom or apartment 2. light bulbs don't have that long of a life and are expensive to replace 3. projectors require a pretty dark room, any ambient light and the image will be washed out, this is one of the best things about plasma/lcd, you can have them in a room with multiple windows and the image is still detailed and bright
How exactly are current technologies (plasma, lcd, dlp, lcos, crt) not FLAT? Do you mean THIN? In any case, while you wait +5 years for OLED (especially for it to be affordable and also for them to solve the lifetime of blue issue) I'll be enjoying my plasma. When 42" OLED is available in 5 years, I'll be enjoying my 80" plasma for the same cost.