Not to mention, to ask Steve Jobs a question via his direct email address and then get a reply means either:
1) someone is hacking Steve Jobs incoming email and read the question and replied 2) someone guessed that Steve Jobs was asked this questions and then coincidentally spoofed an answer to person they correctly guessed asked it 3) Steve Jobs replied.
number 1 is big news - Steve Jobs email is not secure!!!! number 2 is conspiracy theory material number 3 confirms what Steve Jobs said in a pcmag article 2 days ago and seems the logically obvious choice.
Instead of buying a distribution, how about hiring some of the coders and providing them with specs to get your money-making products ported to ALL Linux distributions?
Then pay bounties for improvements you need/want in other areas of Linux.
Your company and products end up distribution-agnostic and you have lots of good will from paying the coders who are furthering Linux. And you can do it for a LOT less than the price of buying a whole distribution.
I'm all for that, As long as it reduces costs.
which costs more redhat support or microsoft licenses?
Most developers don't realize this, but average users absolutely hate web apps. They typically aren't anywhere near as easy to use as normal desktop applications.
The ones who hate them the most are the long-time users who once were able to use real applications, but were forced into using "upgraded" web-based versions. They saw their productivity drop, and they're not happy about it. After all, they're the ones who then get stuck putting in longer hours to do the same job, just because of a supposed software "upgrade".
As long as Google focuses only on the web, then Microsoft has absolutely nothing to worry about. Their desktop applications will always be superior to whatever web-based apps Google or anyone else might put out.
You are correct that web apps aren't there yet. But It's not the platform, It the development investment. If you were to compare google spreadsheet to say lotus 1-2-3 most people would go for the web app, The problem is half the functions are missing compared to a modern spreadsheet prog.
I'd say office 2007 is a pretty major improvement, At least for me only because excel can open way way more cells now.
..they want their joke back. Windows 7 runs perfectly fine on 6 year old machines. But MS is known for making shitty OSes with alternate versions so Windows 8 may still suck... though initial impressions are that not much will change from Windows 7.
every other one sucks? I haven't seen a good windows product at launch since win2k. XP was ok towards the end of it's lifetime. In my mind the jury is still out on 7, It's better then vista, but that doesn't say much.:(
I get it that the software can monitor charging, report stuff, advertise...
I always wondered, with the sheer amount of portable devices which charge over USB nowdays, why not put some manner of standardized charge reporting into the specs of the next version of USB, so that we don't need to bother with nonsense like installing a new program or drivers for each device just to monitor its charging on the computer (or whatever charger), if we do want monitoring and such? That way, we could just tack a charge indicator onto whatever the OS or windowing system uses to track connected USB devices, instead of X amount of additional programs displaying it in any variety of mismatched ways.
I mean, I'll grant that many devices just report their own charge on their own respective screens, so for things like phones or whatnot, it might not be that useful. Plus, my suggested scheme would quickly get shot down by companies like Energizer in this case when they realize revenue stream conduits^W^W^W customers wouldn't have a reason to install "special" drivers and programs loaded with ads...
Oh, yeah. That IS why it wouldn't get adopted. Hrm.
I have a better idea, Put the monitoring software on the device being charged.
you think the Term 'hacker' and the term 'criminal' are mutually exclusive?
I know we spent a decade trying to show the world they are different, but even a technically skilled criminal can be a hacker.... he just has to wear a black hat while he does his deed.
Then they are not decent netbooks. If it has a moving part I do not want it. Nothing is as durable cheaply nor as battery efficient as a netbook with no moving parts.
Your preferences differ from the millions who purchase netbooks with fans and hard disks.
Also Lots of people like watching DVD's on the go.
This. Depending on how long you want to store it tape lasts longer, and once the upfront cost of the drive is paid off the per unit cost is cheaper too. Also dealing with offsite storage places(iron mountain) is easier with tape then with HDDs.
Lastly, I've been told you have to spin up the HDD's every so often or the lifetime rating is even less then what they are rated for. Although I'm not sure I believe that part.
If Novell was valued on the basis of its Linux business, the bid wouldn't be anywhere near $2B. The backbone of the company is still all those old Netware and eDirectory installations.
Novell still has a good name, to be honest I still think of them like they used to be... More of a competitior to Cisco then Red Hat.
I disagree. Floating-point coprocessors basically just added some FP instructions to a regular single-threaded CPU. There was no parallelism; they just removed the need to do slow floating-point calculations using integer math.
However, GPUs, while they mainly do floating-point calculations, are essentially vector processors, and do calculations in parallel. They can easily benefit from increased size and parallelism: the more parallel processing capability a GPU has, the more realistic it can make graphical applications (i.e. games). And with all the GPGPU applications coming about (where you use GPUs to perform general-purpose (i.e., not graphics) calculations), there's no end to the amount of parallel computational power that can be used. The only limits are cost and energy.
So if someone tried to fold the GPU into the processor, just how much capability would they put there? And what if it's not enough? Intel has already tried to do this, and it hasn't killed the GPU at all. Not everyone plays bleeding-edge 3D games; a lot of people just want a low-powered computer for surfing the web, and maybe looking at Google Earth. An Intel CPU with a built-in low-power GPU works fine for that, but it won't be very useful for playing Crysis unless you think 5 fps is good. People who want to play photo-realistic games, however, are going to want more power than that. And oil exploration companies and protein-folding researchers are going to want even more.
GPUs aren't going anywhere, any time soon. Lots of systems already have eliminated them in favor of integrated solutions, but these aren't systems you're going to play the latest games on. For those markets, NVIDIA is still doing just fine.
Why Can't they dedicate 1/2 the die space to x86 cores and the other half for a big simd processor
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Is Eclipse not open source?
Not to mention, to ask Steve Jobs a question via his direct email address and then get a reply means either:
1) someone is hacking Steve Jobs incoming email and read the question and replied
2) someone guessed that Steve Jobs was asked this questions and then coincidentally spoofed an answer to person they correctly guessed asked it
3) Steve Jobs replied.
number 1 is big news - Steve Jobs email is not secure!!!!
number 2 is conspiracy theory material
number 3 confirms what Steve Jobs said in a pcmag article 2 days ago and seems the logically obvious choice.
What is this? Logic? I'll have none of it Sir!
Instead of buying a distribution, how about hiring some of the coders and providing them with specs to get your money-making products ported to ALL Linux distributions?
Then pay bounties for improvements you need/want in other areas of Linux.
Your company and products end up distribution-agnostic and you have lots of good will from paying the coders who are furthering Linux. And you can do it for a LOT less than the price of buying a whole distribution.
I'm all for that, As long as it reduces costs.
which costs more redhat support or microsoft licenses?
Your shift key seems a bit flaky too. I've bolded all the things it capitalized for you.
Just be glad i have a spell checker.
Most developers don't realize this, but average users absolutely hate web apps. They typically aren't anywhere near as easy to use as normal desktop applications.
The ones who hate them the most are the long-time users who once were able to use real applications, but were forced into using "upgraded" web-based versions. They saw their productivity drop, and they're not happy about it. After all, they're the ones who then get stuck putting in longer hours to do the same job, just because of a supposed software "upgrade".
As long as Google focuses only on the web, then Microsoft has absolutely nothing to worry about. Their desktop applications will always be superior to whatever web-based apps Google or anyone else might put out.
You are correct that web apps aren't there yet. But It's not the platform, It the development investment. If you were to compare google spreadsheet to say lotus 1-2-3 most people would go for the web app, The problem is half the functions are missing compared to a modern spreadsheet prog.
I'd say office 2007 is a pretty major improvement, At least for me only because excel can open way way more cells now.
God have you seen google's idea of powerpoint?
..they want their joke back. Windows 7 runs perfectly fine on 6 year old machines. But MS is known for making shitty OSes with alternate versions so Windows 8 may still suck... though initial impressions are that not much will change from Windows 7.
every other one sucks? I haven't seen a good windows product at launch since win2k. XP was ok towards the end of it's lifetime. In my mind the jury is still out on 7, It's better then vista, but that doesn't say much. :(
We need to use wind electricity to synthesize gas.
I'm not sure if you were being sarcastic, But this actually makes since. but not gas hydrogen.
The thing is Wind is Flaky, Personally I like to have power all the time, even when there is no wind.
There are two solutions to this problems:
1. Giant Batteries/ Flywheels/ Water storage hills
2. Gas Supplement.
The Reason you use gas is it's easier to turn on and off the Coal/Nuclear.
IMHO Nuclear>Gas+wind>coal
Granted this is a simplistic approach, But Gas is coming either way. There is going to be a ton of it on the market soon.
Standard Disclaimer: the company i work for would benefit by me making these statements.
most videos on the web simply won't play on my Android Phone.
I feel your pain
I get it that the software can monitor charging, report stuff, advertise...
I always wondered, with the sheer amount of portable devices which charge over USB nowdays, why not put some manner of standardized charge reporting into the specs of the next version of USB, so that we don't need to bother with nonsense like installing a new program or drivers for each device just to monitor its charging on the computer (or whatever charger), if we do want monitoring and such? That way, we could just tack a charge indicator onto whatever the OS or windowing system uses to track connected USB devices, instead of X amount of additional programs displaying it in any variety of mismatched ways.
I mean, I'll grant that many devices just report their own charge on their own respective screens, so for things like phones or whatnot, it might not be that useful. Plus, my suggested scheme would quickly get shot down by companies like Energizer in this case when they realize revenue stream conduits^W^W^W customers wouldn't have a reason to install "special" drivers and programs loaded with ads...
Oh, yeah. That IS why it wouldn't get adopted. Hrm.
I have a better idea, Put the monitoring software on the device being charged.
you think the Term 'hacker' and the term 'criminal' are mutually exclusive?
I know we spent a decade trying to show the world they are different,
but even a technically skilled criminal can be a hacker.... he just has to wear a black hat while he does his deed.
Personally i think the person that wrote the article was smoking the hookah a little much.
I always thought Alice was more about pedophilia then mathematics.
Your preferences differ from the millions who purchase netbooks with fans and hard disks.
Also Lots of people like watching DVD's on the go.
sorry for the diversion, But JB Weld is awesome!
watch your fucking kids
if your kids are fucking you have bigger problems
Just use Social Engineering
How the fuck am I gonna back up to a remote server over the internet at 60 kbytes/sec?
you can get about 17 MBytes/Sec with a 1.5TB through USPS
since scientific datasets tend to compress well
Really? The Datasets I deal with are fairly gaussian in nature, I've yet to find a good compression algorithm that works on segy.
This. Depending on how long you want to store it tape lasts longer, and once the upfront cost of the drive is paid off the per unit cost is cheaper too. Also dealing with offsite storage places(iron mountain) is easier with tape then with HDDs.
Lastly, I've been told you have to spin up the HDD's every so often or the lifetime rating is even less then what they are rated for. Although I'm not sure I believe that part.
If Novell was valued on the basis of its Linux business, the bid wouldn't be anywhere near $2B. The backbone of the company is still all those old Netware and eDirectory installations.
Novell still has a good name, to be honest I still think of them like they used to be... More of a competitior to Cisco then Red Hat.
On A Semi related note... IPX is evil
More importantly, is there a way to disable F1 in Windows? I can't tell you how many times I've accidentally hit it when trying to hit Esc.
same way I got rid of the Windows key, A Flathead screwdriver.
Does this mean that Apple invented software piracy?
Everybody knows TPB invented Piracy.
bandwidth
I disagree. Floating-point coprocessors basically just added some FP instructions to a regular single-threaded CPU. There was no parallelism; they just removed the need to do slow floating-point calculations using integer math.
However, GPUs, while they mainly do floating-point calculations, are essentially vector processors, and do calculations in parallel. They can easily benefit from increased size and parallelism: the more parallel processing capability a GPU has, the more realistic it can make graphical applications (i.e. games). And with all the GPGPU applications coming about (where you use GPUs to perform general-purpose (i.e., not graphics) calculations), there's no end to the amount of parallel computational power that can be used. The only limits are cost and energy.
So if someone tried to fold the GPU into the processor, just how much capability would they put there? And what if it's not enough? Intel has already tried to do this, and it hasn't killed the GPU at all. Not everyone plays bleeding-edge 3D games; a lot of people just want a low-powered computer for surfing the web, and maybe looking at Google Earth. An Intel CPU with a built-in low-power GPU works fine for that, but it won't be very useful for playing Crysis unless you think 5 fps is good. People who want to play photo-realistic games, however, are going to want more power than that. And oil exploration companies and protein-folding researchers are going to want even more.
GPUs aren't going anywhere, any time soon. Lots of systems already have eliminated them in favor of integrated solutions, but these aren't systems you're going to play the latest games on. For those markets, NVIDIA is still doing just fine.
Why Can't they dedicate 1/2 the die space to x86 cores and the other half for a big simd processor