That's in schools. Possibly the first computers some kids will be exposed to. Possibly the first impression of computers. For many, Windows will become synonymous to 'computer'.
I don't usually mind it that much when colleges buy Windows ('cause they also usually tend to buy a few Apples, and [at least in my college] a few Sun boxes)
But in schools??? This is like brainwashing kids into liking Microsoft.
Lack of radio is a small but important one for me. Considering that it costs less than 50 cents for an integrated radio chip, and that the iPods UI is ideal for radio tuning, it is certainly something I would like to see. Sometimes I want to hear the news and other live events.
Exactly. I carry around a radio with me all the time now after the blackout (to know what's going on).
Now if only Lucas would truly take advantage of the DVD format and include both the original and "Special Editions" on the discs. But I'm not idealistic enough to actually hope for that.
Damn, that would certainly make a PERFECT "extra features" DVD that they usually drop into the box anyway. Damn it. It's too good to be true though.
they're valued at 15bil? and they only make 50mil a year?... Hmm... that's like 300 times their yearly... wow... one really has to wonder about these valuations... (and be an idiot to buy stock that's this overvalued)
Is this another tech-bubble, or am I missing something?
When was the last time a virus spread all across the world, shut down networks, etc., by exploiting a bug in Apache?
Microsoft has VERY LITTLE (compared to Apache) market share, yet it's been actually exploited MUCH MUCH more.
Another point about Apache is that it's open source (we can search the source and find buffer overflow succeptible code, fix it, etc.,) while with Microsoft or others, once they fix a bug, you have no idea how bad their source code it.
Also, fixing 2 bugs in this many months is actually pretty good. I think my XP box got like 50 or so 'critical updates' just this summer from windowsupdate.
_gcd PROC NEAR ; File gcd.c ; Line 4
mov ecx, DWORD PTR _y$[esp-4]
mov eax, DWORD PTR _x$[esp-4]
test ecx, ecx
je SHORT $L417 $L414: ; Line 6
cdq
idiv ecx
mov eax, ecx
mov ecx, edx
test ecx, ecx
jne SHORT $L414 $L417: ; Line 7
ret 0 _gcd ENDP
(notice that assembly code is not recursive) It's the same with GCC and just about every other compiler. So having disassembled code doesn't nessasarily mean you can get back at the source code in any meaningful way.
In 70, 60 maybe even 50 years it might be difficult accesing todays hard-disks with the futures technology. And of course (as always) it brings about the problem of how long the data lasts before it's corrupted.
I thus propose to transcribe all that data to clay tablets...
Get a grip kiddo, the uptime of your personal Linux box running SETI@home and a warez ftp server means nothing compared with computers that people actually do work on.
Heh. And by your definition work is what? Checking e-mail and reading slashdot?
I say if I can run a bunch of servers; type, compile and run code; play video/audio; use devices like printers, etc., and the OS handles those tasks without any issues for a month, then the OS is good enough. What is it that you do at work that's so damn extraordinary that doesn't fit under those categories?
Are you implying that people cannot do actual work with Linux 2.6 just yet?
If you've been pounding at it for 120 days with all sorts of weird programs/code, been running all sorts of programs, etc., and it hasn't failed you, then yes, I'd be inclined to think that Win95 is 'stable'.
If on the other hand it's been sitting idle for most of those 120 days, then no, it's no, I wouldn't think it's stable.
lex@particle theory $ uname -a
Linux particle 2.6.0-test6 #3 Sun Sep 28 19:27:41 EDT 2003 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
alex@particle theory $ uptime
01:03:46 up 27 days, 3:45, 4 users, load average: 0.16, 0.36, 0.30
And this is my *primary* dev box that doubles as a server (web, mysql, etc.,) and pretty much anything else I use a computer for (play music, video, etc.,)
Btw, anyone else around the country do Windows Tech Support? Just curious as to what it actually pays. Most "salary indicator" sites say i should be making 2 or 3 times what i do now.
One of my friends is doing that at $14/h, another at $20. At a school in NYC.
If I am going to purchase components or make a decision to commit, I make sure that there is some sort of safety-net just in case the company fails. Often this comes in the form of a code escrow service.
So you're saying you've never commited to a thing like Windows??? or how about all that Lotus, WordPefect, IBM, etc., software of the old days?
Many companies seem big, and many projects seem unstopable, but give'em 10-20 years, and they become outdated, etc., and if you rely on them for your business, you could get screwed (very likely in fact).
Many people got screwed with DOS->Windows transition. Nobody got the source to anything.
The company I worked for relied on Computer Associates (a nice big company that you can rely on?) for something, and guess what, project got cancelled, burried, people left, etc., and now there is 0 support for it, and nobody even knows a thing about it.
I'm now a project manager on a project where we just need to make some slight changes to a pre-built app. We have no documentation, (no docs of ANY kind), we got 24MB of source files that plain don't compile (even under their 'intended' environment), and we got a 70 table db schema; again, no documentation. The company hasn't been in business in MANY years, and was bought out, and the parent company doesn't care to fix the app (or send documentation). Better yet, the developers are nowhere to be found.
What if this was an Open Source project? At the very least, I could've compiled it! It's a 1 week job that will probably end up in rewriting the whole application from scratch (if we can get the funding for it; otherwise this particular government agency will run with such poor code until another person stumbles into this mess).
Having code doesn't mean a thing if it doesn't work (or only works with some proprietary tool that nobody uses).
(and on another project I've been on [similar situation], they didn't even have the source code; to save money, they decided to live with the old system/bugs/issues).
And it appeared in places like Hitchhicker's Guide To The Galaxy way before it appeared in Cryptonomicon.
(ie: HHGG's proof of the non-existance of God: God said, "I refuse to prove I exist, for proof denies faith, and without faith, I'm nothing." "Ah," said man, "the Babel fish is a dead give-away, and proves you exist, so by your words, you don't. Q.E.D." "Oh, I haven't thought of that," said God, and vanishes in a poof of logic.) (or something to that effect).
Yeah, I'm sure there'll be one available for Linux. Doesn't matter. If someone sends me a non-standard email that I can't read it goes to the bit bucket. I may or may not ask them to send it again.
Good point. With the amount of spam, every e-mail only gets like a fraction of a second attention to determine if it's even worth looking at. If it's some encrypted gibberish (non PGP), then junk it goes.
Hmm... Maybe it's not the PDA that will die when cell phones do more stuff... maybe it's the phones will die when PDAs will also let you make phone calls:-)
(most cell phones are just small-form-factor PDAs - is it fair to say they're dying?)
Slashdot Mirror
opps... I didn't realize it was dvd + book.
btw, amazon has it for $20.97
Is it possible to download? (can someone posts all the links?) BitTorrent?
...increase their mind and market share
That's in schools. Possibly the first computers some kids will be exposed to. Possibly the first impression of computers. For many, Windows will become synonymous to 'computer'.
I don't usually mind it that much when colleges buy Windows ('cause they also usually tend to buy a few Apples, and [at least in my college] a few Sun boxes)
But in schools??? This is like brainwashing kids into liking Microsoft.
Lack of radio is a small but important one for me. Considering that it costs less than 50 cents for an integrated radio chip, and that the iPods UI is ideal for radio tuning, it is certainly something I would like to see. Sometimes I want to hear the news and other live events.
Exactly. I carry around a radio with me all the time now after the blackout (to know what's going on).
Now if only Lucas would truly take advantage of the DVD format and include both the original and "Special Editions" on the discs. But I'm not idealistic enough to actually hope for that.
Damn, that would certainly make a PERFECT "extra features" DVD that they usually drop into the box anyway. Damn it. It's too good to be true though.
Han Solo has always been related to Jar Jar Binks
Will they edit out Ford and replace him with a CG Jar-Jar equivalent as they did with the Hutt?
The probability of this happening must be pretty low..
:-)
Well, something this improbable is bound to be the first thing to happen as soon as you consider the improbability drive...
they're valued at 15bil? and they only make 50mil a year?... Hmm... that's like 300 times their yearly... wow... one really has to wonder about these valuations... (and be an idiot to buy stock that's this overvalued)
Is this another tech-bubble, or am I missing something?
Wouldn't DHCP be "updating settings over the network"???
When was the last time a virus spread all across the world, shut down networks, etc., by exploiting a bug in Apache?
Microsoft has VERY LITTLE (compared to Apache) market share, yet it's been actually exploited MUCH MUCH more.
Another point about Apache is that it's open source (we can search the source and find buffer overflow succeptible code, fix it, etc.,) while with Microsoft or others, once they fix a bug, you have no idea how bad their source code it.
Also, fixing 2 bugs in this many months is actually pretty good. I think my XP box got like 50 or so 'critical updates' just this summer from windowsupdate.
In 70, 60 maybe even 50 years it might be difficult accesing todays hard-disks with the futures technology. And of course (as always) it brings about the problem of how long the data lasts before it's corrupted.
I thus propose to transcribe all that data to clay tablets...
These things are NOT NEW. in 1985 I was a Jet Propulsion laboratory.
Impossible. It's still 1984.
If the good die young, and it works the other way around, then I'm immortal. - Dogbert (or something)
Get a grip kiddo, the uptime of your personal Linux box running SETI@home and a warez ftp server means nothing compared with computers that people actually do work on.
Heh. And by your definition work is what? Checking e-mail and reading slashdot?
I say if I can run a bunch of servers; type, compile and run code; play video/audio; use devices like printers, etc., and the OS handles those tasks without any issues for a month, then the OS is good enough. What is it that you do at work that's so damn extraordinary that doesn't fit under those categories?
Are you implying that people cannot do actual work with Linux 2.6 just yet?
If you've been pounding at it for 120 days with all sorts of weird programs/code, been running all sorts of programs, etc., and it hasn't failed you, then yes, I'd be inclined to think that Win95 is 'stable'.
If on the other hand it's been sitting idle for most of those 120 days, then no, it's no, I wouldn't think it's stable.
lex@particle theory $ uname -a
Linux particle 2.6.0-test6 #3 Sun Sep 28 19:27:41 EDT 2003 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
alex@particle theory $ uptime
01:03:46 up 27 days, 3:45, 4 users, load average: 0.16, 0.36, 0.30
And this is my *primary* dev box that doubles as a server (web, mysql, etc.,) and pretty much anything else I use a computer for (play music, video, etc.,)
How exactly is 27 days uptime not stable?
Btw, anyone else around the country do Windows Tech Support? Just curious as to what it actually pays. Most "salary indicator" sites say i should be making 2 or 3 times what i do now.
One of my friends is doing that at $14/h, another at $20. At a school in NYC.
If I am going to purchase components or make a decision to commit, I make sure that there is some sort of safety-net just in case the company fails. Often this comes in the form of a code escrow service.
So you're saying you've never commited to a thing like Windows??? or how about all that Lotus, WordPefect, IBM, etc., software of the old days?
Many companies seem big, and many projects seem unstopable, but give'em 10-20 years, and they become outdated, etc., and if you rely on them for your business, you could get screwed (very likely in fact).
Many people got screwed with DOS->Windows transition. Nobody got the source to anything.
The company I worked for relied on Computer Associates (a nice big company that you can rely on?) for something, and guess what, project got cancelled, burried, people left, etc., and now there is 0 support for it, and nobody even knows a thing about it.
Yes yes, it all works in *theory*.
I'm now a project manager on a project where we just need to make some slight changes to a pre-built app. We have no documentation, (no docs of ANY kind), we got 24MB of source files that plain don't compile (even under their 'intended' environment), and we got a 70 table db schema; again, no documentation. The company hasn't been in business in MANY years, and was bought out, and the parent company doesn't care to fix the app (or send documentation). Better yet, the developers are nowhere to be found.
What if this was an Open Source project? At the very least, I could've compiled it! It's a 1 week job that will probably end up in rewriting the whole application from scratch (if we can get the funding for it; otherwise this particular government agency will run with such poor code until another person stumbles into this mess).
Having code doesn't mean a thing if it doesn't work (or only works with some proprietary tool that nobody uses).
(and on another project I've been on [similar situation], they didn't even have the source code; to save money, they decided to live with the old system/bugs/issues).
Maybe they'll finally find those sneaky mermaids...
It means: Quite Easily Done, or Q.E.D.
And it appeared in places like Hitchhicker's Guide To The Galaxy way before it appeared in Cryptonomicon.
(ie: HHGG's proof of the non-existance of God: God said, "I refuse to prove I exist, for proof denies faith, and without faith, I'm nothing." "Ah," said man, "the Babel fish is a dead give-away, and proves you exist, so by your words, you don't. Q.E.D." "Oh, I haven't thought of that," said God, and vanishes in a poof of logic.) (or something to that effect).
Yeah, I'm sure there'll be one available for Linux. Doesn't matter. If someone sends me a non-standard email that I can't read it goes to the bit bucket. I may or may not ask them to send it again.
Good point. With the amount of spam, every e-mail only gets like a fraction of a second attention to determine if it's even worth looking at. If it's some encrypted gibberish (non PGP), then junk it goes.
Hmm... Maybe it's not the PDA that will die when cell phones do more stuff... maybe it's the phones will die when PDAs will also let you make phone calls :-)
(most cell phones are just small-form-factor PDAs - is it fair to say they're dying?)