Can you expand on how maintenance was a nightmare? Because, as with any other technology, a solid initial design of a Notes app can easily create a functional and extensible system.
The strength of Notes is exactly what you say - it's really really fast to create applications. There are definitely situations where you need to get creative to do something that isn't natively supported, but now that Notes runs in Eclipse, it's possible to just develop a Java plugin to do whatever Notes doesn't do nicely.
According to the wikipedia article, the launch is currently planned for late 2009 or 2010. So it's a good bet that Intel won't have a good idea about what products they will be releasing for another year or so.
Well, the good thing about Notes is that all of the core code is fully customizable. The only thing that isn't is the new Eclipse-based UI, but it does a pretty good job of rendering the changes made to the views.
First of all, Notes is not an email client. It's an application framework, and one of the applications available out of the box is email. It can do much, much more.
Secondly, the Notes client is not written in Java - the core Notes code is still C/C++ based. It's been packaged into the Eclipse framework to improve usability and extensibility. But it's still fully possible to run the Notes 8 client outside of the Eclipse framework.
Three large commercial websites didn't work with your connection, and you gave them several months to remedy the problem? Why not vote with your $$$ and find a different provider?
buisness users will be slower but some manufacturers are already putting out machines that are very difficult to find XP drivers for
We have global agreements with two suppliers in the company I work for: Lenovo and HP. If one of them were to stop supporting XP, we would stop buying from them. Businesses have a lot more power than consumers, since they can always find another alternative.
I don't think XP support is going away though... Heck, Lenovo's newest models still officially support Windows 2000.
I don't understand why Nuclear power needed to be singled out. The electrical generators are pretty similar regardless of the fuel source. And if it blows up, it's not going to take the nuclear reactor / coal furnace / (insert steam source here) with it, since they tend to be very well separated from each other.
There are many replies here that miss the point. The idea is to punish people who choose to live in an unhealthly way, not people who tend to use the system more for natural reasons (like older people using more social security, or women using health insurance during pregnancy, which other posters have mentioned).
As for my opinion on the matter... I support the penalty to smokers, but it's very difficult to measure obesity. Perhaps some kind of professional evaluation would be better than using BMI or other completely quantitative measures.
Operating System: Windows Vista Ultimate
Glenda has been using my computer for months with Vista installed, and she likes it. Also, Vista is required for DirectX 10, which means she'll need it if she wants the games on her PC to look as good as the games on my PC. And if they didn't, I'd never hear the end of it. So Vista it is!
Fine, she likes Vista. But why Vista Ultimate? According to Microsoft's own comparison chart, ultimate just gives additional backup, encryption, remote desktop, and fax & scan capabilities... none of which are apparently needed from her list of needs.
In terms of chip design, the circuitry on the silicon is what matters, not how you package, integrate, or market it.
I agree with you on this point.
Moreover, it does matter to a customer if marketing speak fobs him with two dualcore chips on a cracker instead of an integrated four core design.
I don't agree with you here. What matters to the customer are costs and performance. They shouldn't have to care about how the package works, as long as it works correctly.
From Intel's perspective, they had two options:
Start with a new design that integrates all four cores on a single chip.
Put two existing chips onto one package. Chips that they've been manufacturing for quite some time, so yields are good and there's headroom for higher clock speeds or lower power consumption.
From the customer's perspective, those two options correspond to:
A chip that performs a bit better, but probably costs more and definitely comes on the market later.
A package that's got some performance drawbacks in certain situations, but is available now at a reasonable price.
What do you think Intel and their customers prefer?
Heh, you should try flying Air France... That version had a tendency to make stunning (and inexplicable) queen sacrifices, even on the hardest setting. I gave up as well, but for the opposite reason:)
Many people have mentioned that the colour doesn't really have any effect.
But what about page size? It would be interesting to know how much energy an average bit takes to transmit across the internet, and whether something like a 50% decrease in the byte size of Google's main page would have a measurable effect.
I agree with you totally... we are missing the ability to run multiple simultaneous users on home machines. I also agree with you about graphics cards... as soon as DX10 takes off, graphics virtualization becomes king and graphics power can easily be shared between processes just like a CPU.
The only bad thing about this is the basement requirement... Where I live, most houses don't have basements, not to mention the people who live in apartments. So I wouldn't mind getting all that in a nice silent form factor:)
I agree with the base of your argument: there must be a way for companies to earn off of their investments. But you are assuming that software patents are the only answer. Can't this be achieved simply through copyright and licensing?
Look at the GPL... It protects the code by licensing it in a specific way, so companies can't just throw it into their products without fulfilling some specific conditions. What stops the developers of a video codec from doing the same thing? They can just make a license that says the codec is free for non-commercial use, but must be licensed to be used commercially. If anybody just takes the code, that's a copyright violation.
Well, here in Denmark, the electric utilities have been laying down fiber everywhere. Several locations can now get a fiber connection that doesn't even bind them to any service providers (right now, there are 5 internet & VoIP providers and two TV providers). Internet speeds are up to 25/25 Mbps, and the TV packages are equivalent to cable and satellite.
The thing is, even if the titles are released for every console, there should still be some difference in the gaming experience... If the PS3 really is the best console, then the game should look and feel best on that console. But this of course depends completely on how good the developers are at harnassing the power available to them.
And you're right, it's not easy to port a game... but presumably all of the gameplay design, 3D modelling/textures/other graphical goodies, sound effects, etc. can be reused without any significant changes, and at least the first item on that list should have been a significant percentage of the design work.
It makes sense that the Wii won't drop in price as quickly as the others, as 1) it's selling well, and 2) the hardware is more mature, so there won't be as drastic manufacturing process improvements in the short term.
Personally, the most interesting feature of DX10 is the hardware virtualization, so programs can share the card. Should make it possible to play a game on one monitor while playing a movie on another, for example. Presumably these cards wouldn't have a problem with this...
Doesn't this fit in the Science section more than the Linux section? Not that there is a tremendous amount of scientific discussion in this thread, but still...
Of course it won't work there... but nobody is talking about 100% broadband penetration either. A quick Wikipedia tells me that of ~21 million Australians, ~14 million of them live in the ten biggest cities. So I still think it is feasible to deliver broadband to 99% of the population based on some wireless tech.
I don't know the specifics of why the bill was passed, but I would imagine privacy is the bigger concern than exactly what technology is used. I wouldn't want somebody to be able to more easily track everything I do, regardless of how they are doing it.
Aren't technologies like WiMAX going to make the issues of broadband availability disappear? I guess there are still issues with a sparse population even with an effective radius of 10 km or so, but it should be a heck of a lot cheaper than running fiber everywhere, at least in my uninformed opinion.
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Can you expand on how maintenance was a nightmare? Because, as with any other technology, a solid initial design of a Notes app can easily create a functional and extensible system.
The strength of Notes is exactly what you say - it's really really fast to create applications. There are definitely situations where you need to get creative to do something that isn't natively supported, but now that Notes runs in Eclipse, it's possible to just develop a Java plugin to do whatever Notes doesn't do nicely.
According to the wikipedia article, the launch is currently planned for late 2009 or 2010. So it's a good bet that Intel won't have a good idea about what products they will be releasing for another year or so.
The point is that answer 2, aluminum, wasn't in the question.
Well, the good thing about Notes is that all of the core code is fully customizable. The only thing that isn't is the new Eclipse-based UI, but it does a pretty good job of rendering the changes made to the views.
Just a couple of clarifications...
First of all, Notes is not an email client. It's an application framework, and one of the applications available out of the box is email. It can do much, much more.
Secondly, the Notes client is not written in Java - the core Notes code is still C/C++ based. It's been packaged into the Eclipse framework to improve usability and extensibility. But it's still fully possible to run the Notes 8 client outside of the Eclipse framework.
Three large commercial websites didn't work with your connection, and you gave them several months to remedy the problem? Why not vote with your $$$ and find a different provider?
I don't think XP support is going away though... Heck, Lenovo's newest models still officially support Windows 2000.
I don't understand why Nuclear power needed to be singled out. The electrical generators are pretty similar regardless of the fuel source. And if it blows up, it's not going to take the nuclear reactor / coal furnace / (insert steam source here) with it, since they tend to be very well separated from each other.
There are many replies here that miss the point. The idea is to punish people who choose to live in an unhealthly way, not people who tend to use the system more for natural reasons (like older people using more social security, or women using health insurance during pregnancy, which other posters have mentioned).
As for my opinion on the matter... I support the penalty to smokers, but it's very difficult to measure obesity. Perhaps some kind of professional evaluation would be better than using BMI or other completely quantitative measures.
From the article:
Fine, she likes Vista. But why Vista Ultimate? According to Microsoft's own comparison chart, ultimate just gives additional backup, encryption, remote desktop, and fax & scan capabilities... none of which are apparently needed from her list of needs.
I agree with you on this point.
I don't agree with you here. What matters to the customer are costs and performance. They shouldn't have to care about how the package works, as long as it works correctly.
From Intel's perspective, they had two options:
From the customer's perspective, those two options correspond to:
What do you think Intel and their customers prefer?
Heh, you should try flying Air France... That version had a tendency to make stunning (and inexplicable) queen sacrifices, even on the hardest setting. I gave up as well, but for the opposite reason :)
Many people have mentioned that the colour doesn't really have any effect.
But what about page size? It would be interesting to know how much energy an average bit takes to transmit across the internet, and whether something like a 50% decrease in the byte size of Google's main page would have a measurable effect.
I agree with you totally... we are missing the ability to run multiple simultaneous users on home machines. I also agree with you about graphics cards... as soon as DX10 takes off, graphics virtualization becomes king and graphics power can easily be shared between processes just like a CPU.
:)
The only bad thing about this is the basement requirement... Where I live, most houses don't have basements, not to mention the people who live in apartments. So I wouldn't mind getting all that in a nice silent form factor
I agree with the base of your argument: there must be a way for companies to earn off of their investments. But you are assuming that software patents are the only answer. Can't this be achieved simply through copyright and licensing?
:)
Look at the GPL... It protects the code by licensing it in a specific way, so companies can't just throw it into their products without fulfilling some specific conditions. What stops the developers of a video codec from doing the same thing? They can just make a license that says the codec is free for non-commercial use, but must be licensed to be used commercially. If anybody just takes the code, that's a copyright violation.
IANAL, so if I'm way off here, let me know
Well, here in Denmark, the electric utilities have been laying down fiber everywhere. Several locations can now get a fiber connection that doesn't even bind them to any service providers (right now, there are 5 internet & VoIP providers and two TV providers). Internet speeds are up to 25/25 Mbps, and the TV packages are equivalent to cable and satellite.
The thing is, even if the titles are released for every console, there should still be some difference in the gaming experience... If the PS3 really is the best console, then the game should look and feel best on that console. But this of course depends completely on how good the developers are at harnassing the power available to them.
And you're right, it's not easy to port a game... but presumably all of the gameplay design, 3D modelling/textures/other graphical goodies, sound effects, etc. can be reused without any significant changes, and at least the first item on that list should have been a significant percentage of the design work.
It makes sense that the Wii won't drop in price as quickly as the others, as 1) it's selling well, and 2) the hardware is more mature, so there won't be as drastic manufacturing process improvements in the short term.
Personally, the most interesting feature of DX10 is the hardware virtualization, so programs can share the card. Should make it possible to play a game on one monitor while playing a movie on another, for example. Presumably these cards wouldn't have a problem with this...
Doesn't this fit in the Science section more than the Linux section? Not that there is a tremendous amount of scientific discussion in this thread, but still...
Of course it won't work there... but nobody is talking about 100% broadband penetration either. A quick Wikipedia tells me that of ~21 million Australians, ~14 million of them live in the ten biggest cities. So I still think it is feasible to deliver broadband to 99% of the population based on some wireless tech.
I don't know the specifics of why the bill was passed, but I would imagine privacy is the bigger concern than exactly what technology is used. I wouldn't want somebody to be able to more easily track everything I do, regardless of how they are doing it.
Aren't technologies like WiMAX going to make the issues of broadband availability disappear? I guess there are still issues with a sparse population even with an effective radius of 10 km or so, but it should be a heck of a lot cheaper than running fiber everywhere, at least in my uninformed opinion.
So the hyphen wasn't punctuation then?
Punctuation makes a big difference sometimes...
"The wildly successful Alternate Reality Game Perplex city" describes a place called "Alternate Reality Game Perplex".
"The wildly successful alternate-reality game Perplex City" describes a game called "Perplex City".
I'm normally not so pedantic, but when I have to RTFA just to figure out what the submitter meant, it annoys me.