Along these same lines, it's interesting to note that while Apple can take the whole market, no PC company can take the whole PC market (yes, I know, Macs are PCs, blah-blah). There are a lot of interesting reasons for the way things are between the Mac and PC markets.
Yeah, the article talks about how it was added to regulate the amperage available, which is not what a 7805 does. They noted it was rated for 1A output, so that means it could normally put out a whopping 5W of power. Plus, since they are going from 12V to 5V, they are eating 7V in the regulator, which works out to 7W @ 1A, so this means that the regulator is dissipating more power than the load it supplies. So I agree, either the 7805 was defective, or the article was BS.
You left out the rest of the sentence:
[blockquote]2 a : extortion or coercion by threats especially of public exposure or criminal prosecution b : the payment that is extorted[/blockquote]
Blackmail is a particular kind of extortion.
It'd be great if the companies that paid SCO for "licenses" asked for their money back, since SCO doesn't actually own Unix and the license was basically a fraud. Especially Microsoft's $16 million license. A final twist of the knife.
And rightly so. Patenting a HELP ICON is ridiculous. I'm surprised at the number of posts half-defending Matsushita. Had MS done the same, everyone would be frothing at the mouth. It really is a ridiculous patent.
Okay, I've had enough of these stupid posts. I see a lot of posts with this attitude, and people asking "how would you feel about people doing similar things to the US"? Well, he's not talking about overthrowing the government, or planting bombs, or assassinating anybody. Just how to access information freely. That's it.
If someone was planning on coming to the US and asked about how to bypass the DMCA or obtain anonymous internet access, I'd have no problem with it. What he wants to do does not affect anyone else, just his own personal freedom. Equating this with OVERTHROWING THE GOVERNMENT is ignorant.
And yes, I've spent some time in China (couple months), and those saying that if you're not stirring up trouble you'll be mostly okay are correct. I don't know much about how much internet monitoring is done, but I do know people are a bit paranoid about it, so there's probably something to watch out for there.
Java uses multiple interfaces instead of a multiple inheritance system (which leads to conflicts when the two inherited classes both override one function). The Java model is not flawed, it's cleaner.
This is often done (large feeds to Amazon.com are compressed). However, you still have to decompress and parse the resulting stream, which is where a big penalty is incurred. I'm hoping that whatever compression they are considering, it will reduce the uncompressed size, as well as making parsing/searching faster.
This is something that bothered me about the article. It said that the move was inspired by iPod purchasers, e.g., people willing to shell out $300-$400 for an MP3 player. They don't seem like the kind of people that would be put off by paying extra for a Mac.
Features are objective, what interfaces you like or don't like on the other hand seems to be very subjective.
There has been a lot written on this subject lately, and a strong case has been made that interface isn't as subjective as you think. Apple's design of the iPod is a common example. There is such a thing as a truely good interface. Paul Graham has written about it here and here.
Yeah, I don't think Yahoo wants to get involved in ensuring that a supposedly dead person matches up to a particular account. Imagine if Yahoo announced that they would allow this -- it would probably be abused to get access to other people's accounts, and would probably expose them to lawsuits too. They're too big to do something like that.
But saying that dumb people should be evolutionary unsuccessful is bullshit eugenics. There's no "should". Evolutionarily successful people are evolutionarily successful. If you want evolution to prove some kind of worthiness of some kind of trait, that's your vanity speaking.
A good point. Suppose you evolved to be so intelligent that you became depressed by the state of the world and killed yourself. Then being dumber would be an evolutionary advantage:-]
Or, in a somewhat relevant scenario, we evolve enough to allow one person to create and set off a big bomb that wipes out all complex organisms, and leaves only bacteria. Bacteria win!
Enumerating the various types of bugs does not mean that they are there. Yes there are many types of bugs that can exist in many places, but how many actually exist? How many bugs were missed because they required human intelligence to see, and how many were flagged as bugs because they also required human intelligence to understand that the so-called bug could never happen? Here's an example:
a[b] = 0;
What if b is -1? This bad data could segfault the system. But b can be guaranteed not to be negative through other means other than explicitly checking for it.
And I still believe that number was pulled out of their ass -- there was nothing backing it up. Even that article you linked to is just a collection of stories about bugs, nothing concrete relating to how they found "bugs". In-house software is in-house software, not commercial software. If it's commercial software, that implies it's being sold to someone.
If you're doing this 20-30 times per 1000 lines, it's bound to show up pretty quick. And that's an average -- figuring in highs and lows, maybe it'll hit 100 bugs per 1000 lines every now and then, 1 line out of every 10 is defective. Ridiculous. I understand what you're saying about state C when I made my comment, and I still believe this figure is BS.
Mod parent up. Although I may believe Linux has fewer bugs, they don't really present any facts to support this other than some vague statement that Windows has "new bugs found on a frequent basis", and some blanket statement with a figure they pulled out of their ass about commercial software, "20 to 30 bugs for every 1,000 lines of code. The reporter for that article did a crappy job in his research. I'll bet that if CyLab is as good an institution as it's made out to be, the people doing the research are probably pissed about how full of it this Wired article is. The reporter probably twisted a couple vague statements he got from someone at CyLab.
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Along these same lines, it's interesting to note that while Apple can take the whole market, no PC company can take the whole PC market (yes, I know, Macs are PCs, blah-blah). There are a lot of interesting reasons for the way things are between the Mac and PC markets.
Yeah, the article talks about how it was added to regulate the amperage available, which is not what a 7805 does. They noted it was rated for 1A output, so that means it could normally put out a whopping 5W of power. Plus, since they are going from 12V to 5V, they are eating 7V in the regulator, which works out to 7W @ 1A, so this means that the regulator is dissipating more power than the load it supplies. So I agree, either the 7805 was defective, or the article was BS.
Damn it, been posting on too many of those php boards that use square brackets instead of angle brackets...
You left out the rest of the sentence: [blockquote]2 a : extortion or coercion by threats especially of public exposure or criminal prosecution b : the payment that is extorted[/blockquote] Blackmail is a particular kind of extortion.
It'd be great if the companies that paid SCO for "licenses" asked for their money back, since SCO doesn't actually own Unix and the license was basically a fraud. Especially Microsoft's $16 million license. A final twist of the knife.
You didn't happen to notice that the year listed was 2000, almost five years ago. Besides, this is an overly vague press release.
And rightly so. Patenting a HELP ICON is ridiculous. I'm surprised at the number of posts half-defending Matsushita. Had MS done the same, everyone would be frothing at the mouth. It really is a ridiculous patent.
Okay, I've had enough of these stupid posts. I see a lot of posts with this attitude, and people asking "how would you feel about people doing similar things to the US"? Well, he's not talking about overthrowing the government, or planting bombs, or assassinating anybody. Just how to access information freely. That's it.
If someone was planning on coming to the US and asked about how to bypass the DMCA or obtain anonymous internet access, I'd have no problem with it. What he wants to do does not affect anyone else, just his own personal freedom. Equating this with OVERTHROWING THE GOVERNMENT is ignorant.
And yes, I've spent some time in China (couple months), and those saying that if you're not stirring up trouble you'll be mostly okay are correct. I don't know much about how much internet monitoring is done, but I do know people are a bit paranoid about it, so there's probably something to watch out for there.
Java uses multiple interfaces instead of a multiple inheritance system (which leads to conflicts when the two inherited classes both override one function). The Java model is not flawed, it's cleaner.
This is often done (large feeds to Amazon.com are compressed). However, you still have to decompress and parse the resulting stream, which is where a big penalty is incurred. I'm hoping that whatever compression they are considering, it will reduce the uncompressed size, as well as making parsing/searching faster.
As much as we can get.
This is something that bothered me about the article. It said that the move was inspired by iPod purchasers, e.g., people willing to shell out $300-$400 for an MP3 player. They don't seem like the kind of people that would be put off by paying extra for a Mac.
It says something about you when the only use you can think of for a laser is as a weapon. Fortunately, not everyone is as narrow-minded.
Yeah, I don't think Yahoo wants to get involved in ensuring that a supposedly dead person matches up to a particular account. Imagine if Yahoo announced that they would allow this -- it would probably be abused to get access to other people's accounts, and would probably expose them to lawsuits too. They're too big to do something like that.
Price of being an early adopter ;-)
A very insightful observation -- mod parent up. This is an interesting/scary box to open. But it's happening, so we'll have to adapt.
Mod parent up. If this becomes common, people are going to remember Linspire/Linux==slow because it's always installed on slow computers.
Enumerating the various types of bugs does not mean that they are there. Yes there are many types of bugs that can exist in many places, but how many actually exist? How many bugs were missed because they required human intelligence to see, and how many were flagged as bugs because they also required human intelligence to understand that the so-called bug could never happen? Here's an example:
a[b] = 0;
What if b is -1? This bad data could segfault the system. But b can be guaranteed not to be negative through other means other than explicitly checking for it. And I still believe that number was pulled out of their ass -- there was nothing backing it up. Even that article you linked to is just a collection of stories about bugs, nothing concrete relating to how they found "bugs". In-house software is in-house software, not commercial software. If it's commercial software, that implies it's being sold to someone.
Are you implying that because MS is worse, their shoddy work is OK?
Flamebait? Come on now, the parent was was clearly joking.
If you're doing this 20-30 times per 1000 lines, it's bound to show up pretty quick. And that's an average -- figuring in highs and lows, maybe it'll hit 100 bugs per 1000 lines every now and then, 1 line out of every 10 is defective. Ridiculous. I understand what you're saying about state C when I made my comment, and I still believe this figure is BS.
Mod parent up. Although I may believe Linux has fewer bugs, they don't really present any facts to support this other than some vague statement that Windows has "new bugs found on a frequent basis", and some blanket statement with a figure they pulled out of their ass about commercial software, "20 to 30 bugs for every 1,000 lines of code. The reporter for that article did a crappy job in his research. I'll bet that if CyLab is as good an institution as it's made out to be, the people doing the research are probably pissed about how full of it this Wired article is. The reporter probably twisted a couple vague statements he got from someone at CyLab.