Where's the ROI in this case? "It's not much to ask" sounds like you're asking for a favor. What possible incentive do they have to spend resources to do you a favor?
Submitter's logic is fuzzy. Tomtom runs on linux because Linux is a good candidate for an embedded operating system. From a technical and business standpoint, it makes sense to use linux here: no license fees to a proprietary vendor, greater control over the OS, etc. From a business standpoint, supporting Windows clients makes sense as well. It's a question of numbers: There are more Windows desktop users than Linux desktop users.
The right tool for the right job. Making your own standardized device run on Linux is a lot easier than making software that supports an entire ecosystem of OSes.
Emotional outlets like creative writing can serve to provide early indication of a troubled soul. Charging a kid with a crime is not the best way to respond to this type of situation. The student may need counseling or a psychological examination, but this rough handling will only serve to alienate him. We're not supposed to be afraid of our children, we're supposed to be afraid for them.
Every time a troubled youth acts out in a destructive way, society suffers, not only in grief but in shame and guilt - we're supposed to help our fellow humans, especially the young ones. Every student murder-suicide report should count the perpetrator as a victim - we failed to notice the warning signs & help that individual, and it resulted in their demise.
You can't pull off the unexpected and sensational every 6 months. It's a developer conference! The entire thing was aimed at software developers, showing them new software and hardware tools they will soon have, as well as a new operating system revision. The i-pod was a FLUKE, kids. You can't expect sensational magical new wonders every 6 months, especially from a software company that, really, hasn't been releasing anything "new" but has been just steadily refining existing ideas. Hell, even the ipod wasn't exactly ground-breaking. MP3 players and online services existed before its release. ipod only made it big because of how well it was implemented and how slick Apple's marketing department can be.
It'll never, EVER challenge Cisco in the big iron market. Why? Simple. No IT manager has EVER been fired for buying Sun servers, Cisco routers/switches, or IBM PCs. Big iron isn't about open source. Big iron is about triple-redundant reliability, service contracts, and brand trust.
"even more catastrophic" ???
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I'm sorry, 9/11 wasn't a catastrophe of national or even regional concern. It was an isolated, one-off local emergency. It didn't threaten the average american, it didn't interrupt or negate the federal and regional bureaucracy's ability to operate, and it certainly wasn't a national crisis. To this day its greatest long-term effect has been the destruction of an entire country as simple retaliation
9/11 was a local disaster affecting one municipality.
Hurricane Katrina was a regional disaster affecting a couple states.
The race riots in France were a regional crisis
The student riots in France were a localized crisis
If bird flu suddenly spread like wildfire killing hundreds of thousands to millions in multiple states, THAT would be a national-level crisis.
It's just the echo chamber effect of public forums. "Anyone who agrees with me is smart and insightful, and anyone who doesn't is an idiot or is trying to flamebait me". I expressed my opinion about a company I personally disliked, and backed up my opinion with a few pieces of anecdotal reasoning (crappy codec, crappy adware, etc) and then gave an over-the-top judgement of them. People love it when you do that:)
Now...I definitely agree with you that I don't deserve "insightful" points for the post. I'd probably say I more deserve "obvious" moderation.
Seriously, no one likes your product. You left a bad taste in our mouths with your nagware/adware supported POS software back in the day. Your format and codec suck, and there's really no point in your continued existence. FALL INTO A FIRE AND DIE.
I don't get the point... no company in their right mind would write open-source DRM software already, so other than idealistic sentiment, why is this addendum necessary? If the aim is to ensure that no GPL'd code ever makes it into DRM software, isn't this going against the whole notion of the GPL to start with? I thought the free software movement was about increasing the quality of code in the world by cooperation.
I don't understand how exactly a car works. I have a vague idea that combustion of gasoline creates pressure which is channeled into turning wheels, but that's about it. I don't have the foggiest clue how laundry soap works, or dry-cleaning for that matter. In the same token, I haven't the foggiest clue how to understand women.
There are levels of underestanding required for the use of anything. If you break it down, malicious software exists because some jerks out there are exploiting the fact that they understanding software deficiencies better than Microsoft or you. People don't *need* to understand 100% how things work. They could, but they don't care to. Over time as people age, they accumulate a list of things they "know" and their curiosity and desire to learn decreases (the more you know, the less you care to learn).
People care more about increasing the comfort level in their lives than in increasing the understanding of the world. Ignorance is bliss, and the more you learn, the more aware you become of your ignorance (ie, you are really learning just how much you don't understand).
Most people see computers as a tool, albeit an annoying, complicated, troublesome one. In fact, from the people I have talked to, if they could get away with NOT using computers in their daily lives, they would. They'd rather spend their time with family, or recreationally, etc. As a tool, computers are rather flawed - the mere fact that they break down so easily is proof of that. Instead of thinking of ways to make it easier to learn the tool, why don't we just fix the tool itself? Make it simpler, easier to use, more reliable. What you sacrifice in perfect flexibility, you gain in adoption. The best consumer technology is transparent technology.
"What's an Intel chip doing in a Mac? A whole lot more than its ever done in a PC" (from apple.com). So just by being in an Apple laptop, an processor is better?
You have sexy products, but the "holier than thou" attitude of your users has always irked me. Now your products are more desirable than they've ever been, but you've poisoned it for me by officially adopting this juvenile elitist attitude.
I've never felt justified in saying this before... Hey Steve Jobs - up yours. I've been secretly wanting to buy a Mac for a long time now, and now that there are x86 dual-core and, hopefully, dual-booting Macs, I was almost there. It's too bad your corporate attitude of pretentious elitism is a complete turn off.
charge for a premium service that allows Computer Science and Software Engineering profs to perform a somewhat intelligent search of the code to see just how much of their students' code is lifted off the 'net;)
My GOD folks, they're putting ads EVERYWHERE these days...
-in video games (matrix revoutions)
-location-based ads (google's wifi service)
-cellphone ads (around for a while now)
-television
-radio
-print media
-the SKY
-IM clients
-email
-vehicles
-a rather high percentage of websites
Is there no place that's sacred, no place safe from this? Wherever we go, we are bombarded with ads. Hell, even Churches advertise!
If Sony's new tech patent that allows discs to "lock in" to the first device they play on makes it into Bluray, you can bet your ass I'll be buying HD-DVD. While one could argue "but PS3 is going to be bluray!" I'll argue back that PS3 isn't looking all that hot these days. Personally, I'll be buying the format whose copy-protection is most flawed. I intend to keep my movies for longer than 5 years, and I don't think the solution to bit-rot is to buy the damn discs again in 10 years.
High-Definition video is not kind to the porn industry. Porn makers found that when they went from VHS to DVD, the increased on-screen detail forced them to use softer lights and better filters, and more makeup for the actresses. High-definition really brings out the detail in the flesh, which, unfortunately for porn, means that the viewer gets to see that the pornstarlet isn't all that good looking. To be honest the only porn genre that benefits from HDTV is amateur porn - where people only care about realism, and not softened, impossible beauty. While VHS offered portability and privacy, and DVDs offered random-access and lower production costs, HD-DVD and Bluray offer no tangible benefits to the porn industry.
Easy answer - the wiki article on "Cell" isn't that good. Cell isn't a System-On-A-Chip. It's just a stripped-down, in-order power pc core coupled to 8 single-purpose in-order SIMD units, using an unconventional cache/local memory architecture. It can run perfectly optimized code very, very fast, at extremely low power consumption to boot, but optimization will be/is a bitch. For instance, you have to unroll your "for" loops to start, since those SIMD co-processors can't do loops.
I'm sure IBM and Sony have much better documentation on the CPU than I do, but that's it in a nutshell. Everything else you hear about it is just marketing. Oh yeah, almost forgot. Microsoft's "Xenon" processor for the Xbox360 is pretty much just 3 of those stripped down, in-order PPC cores in one cpu die.
Wow. Does this mean that a childhood of watching the simpsons 3x a day has left me with PERMANENT long-term recollection of ridiculously long quotes?...woo hoo!
That may explain peoples' weaknesses to their ex-lovers. It would also explain my inability to resist sex. The brain just goes on autopilot. Hehe "don't blame me honey, blame my ganglia!". Hehe and she couldn't blame the ganglia, they're her favourite part of me...
Believe it or not, but integrated graphics hold the lion's share of the PC graphics market. Nvidia and Ati are both pretty far behind Intel in terms of install base. This could be very bad for the other vendors: the main reason for the popularity of integrated graphics is cost - Intel itself only holds about a $5 premium on gfx-enabled chipsets over discrete chipsets.
What happens when Microsoft licenses this tech and integrates it into Windows? Suddenly, all anyone needs is a RAMDAC to output framebuffer to VGA, so Intel doesn't need to develop GPUs anymore, and overnight gets a massive performance boost and full DX9 support....
Within one month we've seen Apple announce a switch to PC x86 architecture and now a multi-button mouse...
so that's what, 2 signs of the apocalypse this month alone. Next thing we know, Microsoft's going to announce an open-source security model, MySQL is going to announce a version of MySQL 5 that actually implements all the features they claimed it would, Dell's goig to release an AMD-based system, and the slashdot forums will transcend its "geek echo chamber" state and become a place of insight and open-minded discussion!
I call shenanigans on this survey. I've worked educational and corporate IT, and Macs have NEVER been this prevalent. This article's suggesting that 1 in 5 business desktops are macs. Sales show this is more like 10x the real figure.
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Where's the ROI in this case? "It's not much to ask" sounds like you're asking for a favor. What possible incentive do they have to spend resources to do you a favor?
Submitter's logic is fuzzy. Tomtom runs on linux because Linux is a good candidate for an embedded operating system. From a technical and business standpoint, it makes sense to use linux here: no license fees to a proprietary vendor, greater control over the OS, etc. From a business standpoint, supporting Windows clients makes sense as well. It's a question of numbers: There are more Windows desktop users than Linux desktop users. The right tool for the right job. Making your own standardized device run on Linux is a lot easier than making software that supports an entire ecosystem of OSes.
Emotional outlets like creative writing can serve to provide early indication of a troubled soul. Charging a kid with a crime is not the best way to respond to this type of situation. The student may need counseling or a psychological examination, but this rough handling will only serve to alienate him. We're not supposed to be afraid of our children, we're supposed to be afraid for them.
Every time a troubled youth acts out in a destructive way, society suffers, not only in grief but in shame and guilt - we're supposed to help our fellow humans, especially the young ones. Every student murder-suicide report should count the perpetrator as a victim - we failed to notice the warning signs & help that individual, and it resulted in their demise.
You can't pull off the unexpected and sensational every 6 months. It's a developer conference! The entire thing was aimed at software developers, showing them new software and hardware tools they will soon have, as well as a new operating system revision. The i-pod was a FLUKE, kids. You can't expect sensational magical new wonders every 6 months, especially from a software company that, really, hasn't been releasing anything "new" but has been just steadily refining existing ideas. Hell, even the ipod wasn't exactly ground-breaking. MP3 players and online services existed before its release. ipod only made it big because of how well it was implemented and how slick Apple's marketing department can be.
It'll never, EVER challenge Cisco in the big iron market. Why? Simple. No IT manager has EVER been fired for buying Sun servers, Cisco routers/switches, or IBM PCs. Big iron isn't about open source. Big iron is about triple-redundant reliability, service contracts, and brand trust.
I'm sorry, 9/11 wasn't a catastrophe of national or even regional concern. It was an isolated, one-off local emergency. It didn't threaten the average american, it didn't interrupt or negate the federal and regional bureaucracy's ability to operate, and it certainly wasn't a national crisis. To this day its greatest long-term effect has been the destruction of an entire country as simple retaliation
9/11 was a local disaster affecting one municipality.
Hurricane Katrina was a regional disaster affecting a couple states.
The race riots in France were a regional crisis
The student riots in France were a localized crisis
If bird flu suddenly spread like wildfire killing hundreds of thousands to millions in multiple states, THAT would be a national-level crisis.
It's just the echo chamber effect of public forums. "Anyone who agrees with me is smart and insightful, and anyone who doesn't is an idiot or is trying to flamebait me". I expressed my opinion about a company I personally disliked, and backed up my opinion with a few pieces of anecdotal reasoning (crappy codec, crappy adware, etc) and then gave an over-the-top judgement of them. People love it when you do that :)
Now...I definitely agree with you that I don't deserve "insightful" points for the post. I'd probably say I more deserve "obvious" moderation.
Seriously, no one likes your product. You left a bad taste in our mouths with your nagware/adware supported POS software back in the day. Your format and codec suck, and there's really no point in your continued existence. FALL INTO A FIRE AND DIE.
Way to go for promoting a comment on an editorial without any source link provided. */smacks Zonk with a large trout*
Real-time cinematic quality graphics rendering = HARD.
Physics acceleration that allows for rather impressive collisions and water: MUCH EASIER.
Maximum output for minimum input. Having physics acceleration in the GPU makes sense as you don't have to buy an extra accelerator card.
The only possible conclusion you can get out of this is "customers don't buy the same product twice".
I don't get the point... no company in their right mind would write open-source DRM software already, so other than idealistic sentiment, why is this addendum necessary? If the aim is to ensure that no GPL'd code ever makes it into DRM software, isn't this going against the whole notion of the GPL to start with? I thought the free software movement was about increasing the quality of code in the world by cooperation.
I don't understand how exactly a car works. I have a vague idea that combustion of gasoline creates pressure which is channeled into turning wheels, but that's about it. I don't have the foggiest clue how laundry soap works, or dry-cleaning for that matter. In the same token, I haven't the foggiest clue how to understand women.
There are levels of underestanding required for the use of anything. If you break it down, malicious software exists because some jerks out there are exploiting the fact that they understanding software deficiencies better than Microsoft or you. People don't *need* to understand 100% how things work. They could, but they don't care to. Over time as people age, they accumulate a list of things they "know" and their curiosity and desire to learn decreases (the more you know, the less you care to learn).
People care more about increasing the comfort level in their lives than in increasing the understanding of the world. Ignorance is bliss, and the more you learn, the more aware you become of your ignorance (ie, you are really learning just how much you don't understand).
Most people see computers as a tool, albeit an annoying, complicated, troublesome one. In fact, from the people I have talked to, if they could get away with NOT using computers in their daily lives, they would. They'd rather spend their time with family, or recreationally, etc. As a tool, computers are rather flawed - the mere fact that they break down so easily is proof of that. Instead of thinking of ways to make it easier to learn the tool, why don't we just fix the tool itself? Make it simpler, easier to use, more reliable. What you sacrifice in perfect flexibility, you gain in adoption. The best consumer technology is transparent technology.
You have a point. I still don't like being spoken down to by a vendor. You can say "we rock!" without outright saying "we rock, and you suck!".
"What's an Intel chip doing in a Mac? A whole lot more than its ever done in a PC" (from apple.com). So just by being in an Apple laptop, an processor is better?
You have sexy products, but the "holier than thou" attitude of your users has always irked me. Now your products are more desirable than they've ever been, but you've poisoned it for me by officially adopting this juvenile elitist attitude.
I've never felt justified in saying this before... Hey Steve Jobs - up yours. I've been secretly wanting to buy a Mac for a long time now, and now that there are x86 dual-core and, hopefully, dual-booting Macs, I was almost there. It's too bad your corporate attitude of pretentious elitism is a complete turn off.
charge for a premium service that allows Computer Science and Software Engineering profs to perform a somewhat intelligent search of the code to see just how much of their students' code is lifted off the 'net ;)
My GOD folks, they're putting ads EVERYWHERE these days...
-in video games (matrix revoutions)
-location-based ads (google's wifi service)
-cellphone ads (around for a while now)
-television
-radio
-print media
-the SKY
-IM clients
-email
-vehicles
-a rather high percentage of websites
Is there no place that's sacred, no place safe from this? Wherever we go, we are bombarded with ads. Hell, even Churches advertise!
If Sony's new tech patent that allows discs to "lock in" to the first device they play on makes it into Bluray, you can bet your ass I'll be buying HD-DVD. While one could argue "but PS3 is going to be bluray!" I'll argue back that PS3 isn't looking all that hot these days. Personally, I'll be buying the format whose copy-protection is most flawed. I intend to keep my movies for longer than 5 years, and I don't think the solution to bit-rot is to buy the damn discs again in 10 years.
High-Definition video is not kind to the porn industry. Porn makers found that when they went from VHS to DVD, the increased on-screen detail forced them to use softer lights and better filters, and more makeup for the actresses. High-definition really brings out the detail in the flesh, which, unfortunately for porn, means that the viewer gets to see that the pornstarlet isn't all that good looking. To be honest the only porn genre that benefits from HDTV is amateur porn - where people only care about realism, and not softened, impossible beauty. While VHS offered portability and privacy, and DVDs offered random-access and lower production costs, HD-DVD and Bluray offer no tangible benefits to the porn industry.
Easy answer - the wiki article on "Cell" isn't that good. Cell isn't a System-On-A-Chip. It's just a stripped-down, in-order power pc core coupled to 8 single-purpose in-order SIMD units, using an unconventional cache/local memory architecture. It can run perfectly optimized code very, very fast, at extremely low power consumption to boot, but optimization will be/is a bitch. For instance, you have to unroll your "for" loops to start, since those SIMD co-processors can't do loops.
I'm sure IBM and Sony have much better documentation on the CPU than I do, but that's it in a nutshell. Everything else you hear about it is just marketing. Oh yeah, almost forgot. Microsoft's "Xenon" processor for the Xbox360 is pretty much just 3 of those stripped down, in-order PPC cores in one cpu die.
Wow. Does this mean that a childhood of watching the simpsons 3x a day has left me with PERMANENT long-term recollection of ridiculously long quotes? ...woo hoo!
That may explain peoples' weaknesses to their ex-lovers. It would also explain my inability to resist sex. The brain just goes on autopilot. Hehe "don't blame me honey, blame my ganglia!". Hehe and she couldn't blame the ganglia, they're her favourite part of me...
Believe it or not, but integrated graphics hold the lion's share of the PC graphics market. Nvidia and Ati are both pretty far behind Intel in terms of install base. This could be very bad for the other vendors: the main reason for the popularity of integrated graphics is cost - Intel itself only holds about a $5 premium on gfx-enabled chipsets over discrete chipsets.
What happens when Microsoft licenses this tech and integrates it into Windows? Suddenly, all anyone needs is a RAMDAC to output framebuffer to VGA, so Intel doesn't need to develop GPUs anymore, and overnight gets a massive performance boost and full DX9 support....
Within one month we've seen Apple announce a switch to PC x86 architecture and now a multi-button mouse...
so that's what, 2 signs of the apocalypse this month alone. Next thing we know, Microsoft's going to announce an open-source security model, MySQL is going to announce a version of MySQL 5 that actually implements all the features they claimed it would, Dell's goig to release an AMD-based system, and the slashdot forums will transcend its "geek echo chamber" state and become a place of insight and open-minded discussion!
I call shenanigans on this survey. I've worked educational and corporate IT, and Macs have NEVER been this prevalent. This article's suggesting that 1 in 5 business desktops are macs. Sales show this is more like 10x the real figure.