I'm very impressed by Apples willingness to sacrifice backwards compatibility to make a better platform.
It's a risky move on a business level, but on an engineering level, it makes a lot of sense. I just have to hope that good design will beat questionable marketing.
I'm running a 900 mhz Duron right now, and have been for a year and a half.
I do some pretty heavy photoshopping, media work, and compiling. I've never felt that I was being slowed down significantly by my processor.
I upgraded to 1GB RAM, and that improved things, but I just don't feel the need to go out and get the latest processor any more, the need is simply not in the applications.
Maybe if I were playing games or ripping DivX, but really it seems that for the vast majority of the home market, the technology has vastly outpaced the need, even the latest-greatest MS OS can't justify the need for this kind of iron.
Though I guess this means that the next computer I buy will be that much cheaper, since "low end" systems (with slight boosts to hard drive and memory) are now all that I need.
and which companies announced today that they'd be hiring 15,000 new employees?
When the biggest employer in the nation is a temp agency, I don't think you can say that the economy is healthy, at least not any definition of "healthy" that applies to normal people.
since when does being against layoffs mean being for communism?
i'm sure the 15,000 people who have been let go in this oh-so-promising tech market are proud to be part of this corporate climate that makes America "kick everyones ass"
America is an OK place. Our employment rate stays reasonably high. Aside from that, the real advantages of America are big guns and cheap gas. There are other nice places to live though.
My real problem with America isn't the government. I think Adam Smith's invisible hand still works (with some modification) in the modern world. America's problem is philosophical. We seem to be so eager to kill ourselves with work in order to buy bigger things. I for one prefer to take less money and have more free time. I'll never have the big house in the suburbs like my parents. But that isn't the only way to live. I have a different American dream.
The suburbs are the worst though. The only advantage of living in the suburbs is it minimizes the necessity of interacting with other people. I'd rather live somewhere where I can walk to the grocery store and the park. I like the freedom my car provides me, but I also like the freedom of not having to drive it all the time. From my (limited) travel and discussions with those abroad, I think other places have a better philosophy as far as communities are concerned.
Basically he doesn't understand what GNOME and KDE are, and since we're all holier-than-thou know-it-alls around here, we might as well laugh at Microsoft's expense;)
Well given that this man is supposed to be an "expert witness" *some* knowledge of major competing OSes might be expected.
The vast majority of Microsoft's business tactics are legal yet unsavory. I respect that. This is capitolism after all. What bothers me about Microsoft is their monolithic view of their role in computing. The honestly believe that without them, no innovation would have occured between 1985 and now, and so we should just let them walk over consumers and competitors out of gratefulness.
I know it won't happen, but what I'd like to see come out of this trial would be a Microsoft not split up, shackled, or fined out of existance, but a Microsoft scared into respecting other's place in the industry.
In all honesty they've done a better job than anyone else at creating a useable desktop OS good for a wide range of activities on a large variety of hardware. I'm not quite sure how they've been so successful in the server market, though. Advertising, I guess. And for my money, they still make a damn good mouse.
Nearly all of classical theater is taken straight from mythology or history.
Most pre-1800 fiction was elaboration upon the bible (which was a modernized form of an already thousand year old tradition with some bits lifted from eastern culture)
the idea that the author must come up with something totally *new* is a very modern one.
Even Joyce's Ulysses, widely considered the most shockingly original work of english literature ever to be published, took it's form from Homer's Odyssey, it's characters from Irish politics, and Joyce's earlier works, and it's themes and style from Irish folk culture.
All authors borrow on previous work. Mythology is a particularly popular subject. Starwars is our modern mythology...
To all of the "write something *truly* original posts" I say : what have you written, can we see a link?
Admittedly, coming up with a new universe, new characters, etc. would be a greater achievement than writing fanfiction in someone else's setting. But the fanfiction is still better than not writing anything other than sanctimonious posts telling people what they should and shouldn't be writing.
Now wait... the idea here is that I can't write a (serious) James Bond novel, have it published, and thus take away from the copyright owner's by devaluing the franchise.
Can you think of *anything* that even the most dedicated of _fans_ could create that would devalue the Star Wars franchise. Even the with bugets in the tens of thousands (the most they could ever hope to raise) alternate storylines or Fan Fiction will only prove and interesting idea or speculation, nothing that could ever hope to compete with the real thing.
I understand the law as far as books and movies are concerned. It's possible for regular people to create something that could compare to "professional" fiction or music. But competing with $100 Million + hollywood blockbuster? Not bloody likely.
I support copyright as far as it prevents the inventer from losing his or her rightful profit. When it *only* prevents the profit of others, I think the laws are ridiculous.
Nearly all of the imagery of modern culture comes from copyrighted mass media sources. In a way, people have every bit as much of a vested interest in the right to freely discuss Darth Vader as they do George Bush.
There was a lot of debate between our founding fathers about copyright. There was very little about freedom of speach. I consider the latter to be far more fundamental, and when the two come in conflict, I think it is generally best to side with the freedom.
In relation to this: In my "Decision Making" class (kind of Psychology meets Ethics, it's tough to explain) we have a celebrity student...
Monica Lewinski
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Bill Gates has an opinion on software and that is basically, Marketing and Marktet Control are more important than actually writing good software.
From Microsofts perspective "good software" is software that sells. Whereas from the OS community's perspective "good software" is software that works well. While there is certainly overlap in the two philosophies, as software that works well sells well (sometimes), there are a lot of actions taken by Microsoft that make no sense in a quality software context but that make them billions of dollars. Bill Gates in interested in a quality kernel only as far as a quality kernel will make him money.
perhaps i'm just low on creativity, but I can't imagine any way of capturing vide from real life with a system that isn't functionally equivalent to some finite number of video cameras.
now lets say that in the future telivision is filmed at 10x DVD resolution and from 10 different angles
that only adds 100x to current video storage needs. nothing to sneeze at, but also not so spectacular that you'd need a petabyte drive either.
once we have the ability to record any sort information at fidelity approaching the maximum for human perception, storage growth will rapidly outpace our need.
people seem to be upset about this though... once storage reaches the maximum that any user would ever need, it has no place to go but cheaper.
also, file system organization will need to be massively overhauled to make a petabyte drive remotely useful.
I'm not kidding. Who decides who gets hired and what projects get OKed? Management.
Who does Microsoft sell their products and ideas to? Management.
.NET might be crap, but it will get you hired. The fact that you know acutally useful programming as well means you won't get fired once this trend is over.
I thought I was hot shit in highschool for making 5s on AP exams without really trying too hard. All I did for AP Lit was read Kafka's Metamorphosis the night before.
Listen, aside from maybe the BC Calc exam and the languages, the AP syllabus doesn't test shit. It's one of the first thing you'll notice if you try to take a sophomore or higher level class in your freshmen year of college.
I can't believe they'll let you out of requirements for a 3 on an AP.
Cheaper professional quality equipment doesn't mean an end to amateur science. It just means a refocus.
Where 20 years ago, the efforts of the amateur were largely directed to the construction of equipment, now he or she can work at actual research.
This is of course an extreme generalization, but just because the days of saudering irons and garages might be winding down, that doesn't mean that dedicated individuals outside of the academic and professional communities will no longer be contributing to the advancement of science.
I will miss the amateur column in Sci Am though, I got a lot of good ideas from there.
When I first started playing around with Mozilla (mid-99) I figgured they would *never* have a usable product. The thing just plain didn't work.
And while they are a bit behind schedule. 4 years for a 1.0 doesn't sound bad when you realize that this is a.0 that means something, as opposed to most commercial vendors (and a lot of OS projects) that usually wait until 3.x to begin getting things right.
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I'm very impressed by Apples willingness to sacrifice backwards compatibility to make a better platform.
It's a risky move on a business level, but on an engineering level, it makes a lot of sense. I just have to hope that good design will beat questionable marketing.
clock speed != performance
write that 1000 times
if AMD has to fudge numbers to sell an equivalent product, that's the fault of the largely ignorant market, not AMD.
read any of their literature, they're very honest and upfront about what they're doing.
*yawn*
I'm running a 900 mhz Duron right now, and have been for a year and a half.
I do some pretty heavy photoshopping, media work, and compiling. I've never felt that I was being slowed down significantly by my processor.
I upgraded to 1GB RAM, and that improved things, but I just don't feel the need to go out and get the latest processor any more, the need is simply not in the applications.
Maybe if I were playing games or ripping DivX, but really it seems that for the vast majority of the home market, the technology has vastly outpaced the need, even the latest-greatest MS OS can't justify the need for this kind of iron.
Though I guess this means that the next computer I buy will be that much cheaper, since "low end" systems (with slight boosts to hard drive and memory) are now all that I need.
and which companies announced today that they'd be hiring 15,000 new employees?
When the biggest employer in the nation is a temp agency, I don't think you can say that the economy is healthy, at least not any definition of "healthy" that applies to normal people.
since when does being against layoffs mean being for communism?
i'm sure the 15,000 people who have been let go in this oh-so-promising tech market are proud to be part of this corporate climate that makes America "kick everyones ass"
America is an OK place. Our employment rate stays reasonably high. Aside from that, the real advantages of America are big guns and cheap gas. There are other nice places to live though.
My real problem with America isn't the government. I think Adam Smith's invisible hand still works (with some modification) in the modern world. America's problem is philosophical. We seem to be so eager to kill ourselves with work in order to buy bigger things. I for one prefer to take less money and have more free time. I'll never have the big house in the suburbs like my parents. But that isn't the only way to live. I have a different American dream.
The suburbs are the worst though. The only advantage of living in the suburbs is it minimizes the necessity of interacting with other people. I'd rather live somewhere where I can walk to the grocery store and the park. I like the freedom my car provides me, but I also like the freedom of not having to drive it all the time. From my (limited) travel and discussions with those abroad, I think other places have a better philosophy as far as communities are concerned.
No when the revolution comes, Ticketmaster will be the first up against the wall.
You wanna talk about a monopoly...
(-1: Offtopic, I don't care, I've got karma to spare)
the BBC release is not the original radio broadcast
it's shorter and edited for copyrighted content
yeah, i was tired. give it a rest, guys.
*slaps head* forgot to put in HTML line breaks.
apypollylogies.
Basically he doesn't understand what GNOME and KDE are, and since we're all holier-than-thou know-it-alls around here, we might as well laugh at Microsoft's expense ;)
Well given that this man is supposed to be an "expert witness" *some* knowledge of major competing OSes might be expected.
The vast majority of Microsoft's business tactics are legal yet unsavory. I respect that. This is capitolism after all. What bothers me about Microsoft is their monolithic view of their role in computing. The honestly believe that without them, no innovation would have occured between 1985 and now, and so we should just let them walk over consumers and competitors out of gratefulness.
I know it won't happen, but what I'd like to see come out of this trial would be a Microsoft not split up, shackled, or fined out of existance, but a Microsoft scared into respecting other's place in the industry.
In all honesty they've done a better job than anyone else at creating a useable desktop OS good for a wide range of activities on a large variety of hardware. I'm not quite sure how they've been so successful in the server market, though. Advertising, I guess. And for my money, they still make a damn good mouse.
it was in reference to a very badly translated video game.
Shakespear lifted most of his plots.
Nearly all of classical theater is taken straight from mythology or history.
Most pre-1800 fiction was elaboration upon the bible (which was a modernized form of an already thousand year old tradition with some bits lifted from eastern culture)
the idea that the author must come up with something totally *new* is a very modern one.
Even Joyce's Ulysses, widely considered the most shockingly original work of english literature ever to be published, took it's form from Homer's Odyssey, it's characters from Irish politics, and Joyce's earlier works, and it's themes and style from Irish folk culture.
All authors borrow on previous work. Mythology is a particularly popular subject. Starwars is our modern mythology...
Why do people fixate on the starwars universe?
Because it's really cool, and we like it?
To all of the "write something *truly* original posts" I say : what have you written, can we see a link?
Admittedly, coming up with a new universe, new characters, etc. would be a greater achievement than writing fanfiction in someone else's setting. But the fanfiction is still better than not writing anything other than sanctimonious posts telling people what they should and shouldn't be writing.
Now wait... the idea here is that I can't write a (serious) James Bond novel, have it published, and thus take away from the copyright owner's by devaluing the franchise.
Can you think of *anything* that even the most dedicated of _fans_ could create that would devalue the Star Wars franchise. Even the with bugets in the tens of thousands (the most they could ever hope to raise) alternate storylines or Fan Fiction will only prove and interesting idea or speculation, nothing that could ever hope to compete with the real thing.
I understand the law as far as books and movies are concerned. It's possible for regular people to create something that could compare to "professional" fiction or music. But competing with $100 Million + hollywood blockbuster? Not bloody likely.
I support copyright as far as it prevents the inventer from losing his or her rightful profit. When it *only* prevents the profit of others, I think the laws are ridiculous.
Nearly all of the imagery of modern culture comes from copyrighted mass media sources. In a way, people have every bit as much of a vested interest in the right to freely discuss Darth Vader as they do George Bush.
There was a lot of debate between our founding fathers about copyright. There was very little about freedom of speach. I consider the latter to be far more fundamental, and when the two come in conflict, I think it is generally best to side with the freedom.
yeah, gum is doubleplus ungood
In relation to this: In my "Decision Making" class (kind of Psychology meets Ethics, it's tough to explain) we have a celebrity student...
Monica Lewinski
Bill Gates has an opinion on software and that is basically, Marketing and Marktet Control are more important than actually writing good software.
From Microsofts perspective "good software" is software that sells. Whereas from the OS community's perspective "good software" is software that works well. While there is certainly overlap in the two philosophies, as software that works well sells well (sometimes), there are a lot of actions taken by Microsoft that make no sense in a quality software context but that make them billions of dollars. Bill Gates in interested in a quality kernel only as far as a quality kernel will make him money.
A lot of people are mentioning 3d data but...
There is no way of capturing a fully 3d image
perhaps i'm just low on creativity, but I can't imagine any way of capturing vide from real life with a system that isn't functionally equivalent to some finite number of video cameras.
now lets say that in the future telivision is filmed at 10x DVD resolution and from 10 different angles
that only adds 100x to current video storage needs. nothing to sneeze at, but also not so spectacular that you'd need a petabyte drive either.
once we have the ability to record any sort information at fidelity approaching the maximum for human perception, storage growth will rapidly outpace our need.
people seem to be upset about this though...
once storage reaches the maximum that any user would ever need, it has no place to go but cheaper.
also, file system organization will need to be massively overhauled to make a petabyte drive remotely useful.
learn .NET and C#
(putting on asbestos...)
I'm not kidding. Who decides who gets hired and what projects get OKed? Management.
Who does Microsoft sell their products and ideas to? Management.
.NET might be crap, but it will get you hired. The fact that you know acutally useful programming as well means you won't get fired once this trend is over.
yeah AP was *so* hard
I thought I was hot shit in highschool for making 5s on AP exams without really trying too hard. All I did for AP Lit was read Kafka's Metamorphosis the night before.
Listen, aside from maybe the BC Calc exam and the languages, the AP syllabus doesn't test shit. It's one of the first thing you'll notice if you try to take a sophomore or higher level class in your freshmen year of college.
I can't believe they'll let you out of requirements for a 3 on an AP.
hah! that's funny. the absolute, hands-down hottest girl from my highschool is an engineering student at tufts.
Cheaper professional quality equipment doesn't mean an end to amateur science. It just means a refocus.
Where 20 years ago, the efforts of the amateur were largely directed to the construction of equipment, now he or she can work at actual research.
This is of course an extreme generalization, but just because the days of saudering irons and garages might be winding down, that doesn't mean that dedicated individuals outside of the academic and professional communities will no longer be contributing to the advancement of science.
I will miss the amateur column in Sci Am though, I got a lot of good ideas from there.
When I first started playing around with Mozilla (mid-99) I figgured they would *never* have a usable product. The thing just plain didn't work.
.0 that means something, as opposed to most commercial vendors (and a lot of OS projects) that usually wait until 3.x to begin getting things right.
And while they are a bit behind schedule. 4 years for a 1.0 doesn't sound bad when you realize that this is a
Good job guys.
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and this, ladies and gentlemen, is why Kurt Godel didn't become a CEO
right... because Cray is relying on the viewership of *Alias* to boost their sales.