You shave for maybe 5 minutes very second day, or perhaps even less often. With prsonal music you have speakers next to, or even inside, your ears for hours on end. Class, what is more likely to cause problems?
Too right, there is no real new economy. Th fundamentals do not change. There was though a lot of hype that disrupted things for a while. Thse hype/bust cycles are not new. In the 1950s when synthetics generated a "New Fibre Economy" there was a huge panic amongst the farmers making natural fibres like cotton and wool. THe buyers stopped buying because thy thought they'd get stuck with useless stock. The farmers could not sell thm wool and panicked. My grandfather, a sheep farmer producing high quality wools, sent all his sheep for slaughter. By the next year popl had ralised that nylon was not going to take over and everyon was buying again. Peopl lik my grandfather now had no sheep to fill the orders and prics went up.....
If Microsoft has just ignored Lindows then Lindows would have been seen as just some shady characters to 'con' people into buying an inferior product (like those $9.99 SEEKO watches you can find). However, because of all the fuss they have made, Microsoft has both given Lindows publicity and credibility. Why credibility? The message being sent out is that Windows == just a name badge and has no technical merits.
The only things that are truely intuitive to humans are those things directly linked with survival: sex, food, sex, shelter, sex, defence, sex.
Now I really struggle to see how one can dress up programming to be like any of these though I do admit getting a horn when I see a reaaly good linked list.
Software is inherently chaotic and complex. I think any attempts to say otherwise are just a front for pushing some new case tool or whatever. What sets geeks apart is that they are wired in a non-intuitive way: hence the ability to program and the problem coping with sex.
Ethanol is a lot easier to transport, refill,... than hydrogen. I bet a lot of energy is wasted in the ethanol->hydrogen reaction. So why not just use the ethanol directly?
Ethanol has been used as a fuel for a long time in many countries, often substituted on a percentage basis with regular gas. It was especially useful during wars etc when petroleum were in short supply.
While the language might be open and standards based, my five bucks says that the Evil Empire will still try to keep their power by copyrighting or patenting or somethinging some of the schemas/layouts they use.
The flames don't help at all. Burnt skin goes all blisetery. I once burnt my dick with a soldering iron. Promise it was just an accident when I bumped a soldering iron onto my naked lap and not some wierd sex game thing. Anyway it was not as much fun as they have in the movies.
We all know the motivation behind robotss that bave skin/body parts that feel more realistic. OTOH, most geeks probably don't have a realistic benchmark to compare to.
The big thing to push for is a win-win situaion. I think hiring a lawyer sends the confontation message, so rather just go one-on-one with the boss.
Also, it helps to be aware of the laws that govern your case. In many countries/states etc you have rights independent of what you have signed. Know these so that you have something to fall back on if need be.
No it was not a 16-bit OS at the time. SCO had "grown up" from 16-bit XENIX by that time. I don't think SCO was ever a hobbiest product. However, SCO did not really make any significant technial moves since then - not enough to keep momentum/customers.
It's a bit like those Mac zealots who still sit around saying "we had the desktop trashcan first". If your last technical wow is more than 5 years old you're history.
I remember some 9 years back attending a Win NT Server Developer's conference in Seattle. I still have the Tshirt! At the time, SCO, Interactive or other x86 *nix options were around $500-$1000 a pop and a lot of people got sucked in to using NT on servers because it only cost about $300 a pop and was way easier to administer than SCO or Interactive.
Blaming the demise of SCO on Linux is stupid. They were not moving forward. What really killed the horse drawn carriage was the motor vehicle changing the whole business. SCO blaming Linux for loss of biz is really having a big scratch through the garbage can. Linux is part of a *nix renesance that SCO is not contributing to, and IMHO, has no rights to.
Don't worry, I beat them up, sell them drugs and teach them to say fuck. Trust me they are lacking in nothing.
Seriously, 'social interaction' is always levelled at home schooling as being a problem. However, I think perhaps the reverse is true. In schools the kids are all grouped according to age and are expected to 'play with someone your own age' and are subject to peer pressure etc. Our kids interact with people of all ages from little kids to adults - just like the real world.
Most homeschooling people belong to groups who provide sporting/social interaction, outings and extra classes like art and music. eg, our kids do art lessons with other (homeschooled) kids, they play sports with other (non homeschooled) kids.
I guess there might be some homeschooled only children who are kept isolated from society, but it is ignorant in the extreme to think this applies to most homeschooled kids.
We teach our kids at home, as do thousands of families through the world. I have nothing against teachers, I think it amazing how they manage to do as well as they do, shepherding thirty kids along. However they clearly don't have opportunities to expand each kid's personal interests. The fundamental principle of homeschooling is to have, and provide, the freedom to allow each kid to retain that curiosity we're born with.
It is no suprise to me that the kids participating in online forums are doing well, when they're doing things they want to do they will put in more effort and energy. It is a given.
err why what? I assume you mean why does BE give better performance thatn LE.
This is because the byte ordering and word ordering are the same while in LE they are reversed. Having the same ordering allows you to sometimes treat the data as bytes and sometimes as words (u32) without byte flipping. One of the big sucks about Windows, including WinCE is that it is little-endian only.
How the hell can you call spamming "online marketing". Although I'm, a techie, I have respect for skilled marketeers, analyzing markets and fitting producsts to customers.. Spammers just dump their shit indiscriminately. It's like calling the burger flipper at McDonalds a chef!
If it is being designed as a network connected device, then one can understand why there is less need for a hard disk.
These days a single postage stamp-sized (TSOP2) NAND flash can hold 256MB with 512MB on the horizon - quite enough storage to run quite a big chunk of OS and applications.
With PPC processors, this thing won't be running x86 software. I wonder if they're going to go with big-endian software (better graphics performance than little-endian).
Many fertilisers are made from various nitrogen compounds that are similar to explosives. That is why you can make a pretty nice bang with fertiliser + diesel fuel, and why there is a nice little relationship between fertiliser and explosives factories.
Sure, out in the African bush you would not expect to find fertilisers but I extect some of the mine hot zones in Asia are fertilised quite heavily.
Windows has other advantages. Maybe full Windows (applicable to desktops), but not WinCE (applicable to mobile).
Linux gives me a bunch of neat tools like procfs, and you name it. WinCE is just pure crap in comparison. When I use ethernet debugging with WinCE a single step takes about 2 seconds. With gdb remote single stepping I can single step at multiple per second (limited by the hosts repeat rate).
Being able to turn around a fix is a big benefit. If you can try 20 times as many fixes in a day with Linux, guess which is going to give you the best restults at the lowest cost. A WinCE license is only about $3, so that is hardly the big gating item.
One of the main benefits of mobile/embedded Linux is that the OS is exactly the same code as runs on desktops, servers and Big Iron IBMs. In comparison, all of Winx9x, WinMe, WinCE, NT, XP, 2000 have different codebases and perform differently. This means that an app you write for NT, will typically not run on CE without significant porting.
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If you shave every day are you sure you are a geek?
You shave for maybe 5 minutes very second day, or perhaps even less often. With prsonal music you have speakers next to, or even inside, your ears for hours on end. Class, what is more likely to cause problems?
Too right, there is no real new economy. Th fundamentals do not change. There was though a lot of hype that disrupted things for a while. Thse hype/bust cycles are not new. In the 1950s when synthetics generated a "New Fibre Economy" there was a huge panic amongst the farmers making natural fibres like cotton and wool. THe buyers stopped buying because thy thought they'd get stuck with useless stock. The farmers could not sell thm wool and panicked. My grandfather, a sheep farmer producing high quality wools, sent all his sheep for slaughter. By the next year popl had ralised that nylon was not going to take over and everyon was buying again. Peopl lik my grandfather now had no sheep to fill the orders and prics went up.....
If Microsoft has just ignored Lindows then Lindows would have been seen as just some shady characters to 'con' people into buying an inferior product (like those $9.99 SEEKO watches you can find). However, because of all the fuss they have made, Microsoft has both given Lindows publicity and credibility. Why credibility? The message being sent out is that Windows == just a name badge and has no technical merits.
C'mon folks nobody is holding a gun to your head and forcing you to buy a PalmOS device. Vote with your feet.
Now I really struggle to see how one can dress up programming to be like any of these though I do admit getting a horn when I see a reaaly good linked list.
Software is inherently chaotic and complex. I think any attempts to say otherwise are just a front for pushing some new case tool or whatever. What sets geeks apart is that they are wired in a non-intuitive way: hence the ability to program and the problem coping with sex.
Ethanol has been used as a fuel for a long time in many countries, often substituted on a percentage basis with regular gas. It was especially useful during wars etc when petroleum were in short supply.
I can understand their approach though. If they release their own sync software they end up with a bunch of extra tech support calls.
While the language might be open and standards based, my five bucks says that the Evil Empire will still try to keep their power by copyrighting or patenting or somethinging some of the schemas/layouts they use.
The flames don't help at all. Burnt skin goes all blisetery. I once burnt my dick with a soldering iron. Promise it was just an accident when I bumped a soldering iron onto my naked lap and not some wierd sex game thing. Anyway it was not as much fun as they have in the movies.
Sure they do. Their own. ;). You prove my point :-).
We all know the motivation behind robotss that bave skin/body parts that feel more realistic. OTOH, most geeks probably don't have a realistic benchmark to compare to.
Also, it helps to be aware of the laws that govern your case. In many countries/states etc you have rights independent of what you have signed. Know these so that you have something to fall back on if need be.
It's a bit like those Mac zealots who still sit around saying "we had the desktop trashcan first". If your last technical wow is more than 5 years old you're history.
Blaming the demise of SCO on Linux is stupid. They were not moving forward. What really killed the horse drawn carriage was the motor vehicle changing the whole business. SCO blaming Linux for loss of biz is really having a big scratch through the garbage can. Linux is part of a *nix renesance that SCO is not contributing to, and IMHO, has no rights to.
Seriously, 'social interaction' is always levelled at home schooling as being a problem. However, I think perhaps the reverse is true. In schools the kids are all grouped according to age and are expected to 'play with someone your own age' and are subject to peer pressure etc. Our kids interact with people of all ages from little kids to adults - just like the real world.
Most homeschooling people belong to groups who provide sporting/social interaction, outings and extra classes like art and music. eg, our kids do art lessons with other (homeschooled) kids, they play sports with other (non homeschooled) kids .
I guess there might be some homeschooled only children who are kept isolated from society, but it is ignorant in the extreme to think this applies to most homeschooled kids.
It is no suprise to me that the kids participating in online forums are doing well, when they're doing things they want to do they will put in more effort and energy. It is a given.
That's what I want to read!
This is because the byte ordering and word ordering are the same while in LE they are reversed. Having the same ordering allows you to sometimes treat the data as bytes and sometimes as words (u32) without byte flipping. One of the big sucks about Windows, including WinCE is that it is little-endian only.
How the hell can you call spamming "online marketing". Although I'm, a techie, I have respect for skilled marketeers, analyzing markets and fitting producsts to customers.. Spammers just dump their shit indiscriminately. It's like calling the burger flipper at McDonalds a chef!
These days a single postage stamp-sized (TSOP2) NAND flash can hold 256MB with 512MB on the horizon - quite enough storage to run quite a big chunk of OS and applications.
With PPC processors, this thing won't be running x86 software. I wonder if they're going to go with big-endian software (better graphics performance than little-endian).
Sure, out in the African bush you would not expect to find fertilisers but I extect some of the mine hot zones in Asia are fertilised quite heavily.
The inch was set at precisely 25.4 mm _by definition_ in July 1959. But remember too stat some state, I forget which, defined pi to be _precisely_ 3!
Not likely. I don't live in "free" America
Linux gives me a bunch of neat tools like procfs, and you name it. WinCE is just pure crap in comparison. When I use ethernet debugging with WinCE a single step takes about 2 seconds. With gdb remote single stepping I can single step at multiple per second (limited by the hosts repeat rate).
Being able to turn around a fix is a big benefit. If you can try 20 times as many fixes in a day with Linux, guess which is going to give you the best restults at the lowest cost. A WinCE license is only about $3, so that is hardly the big gating item.
One of the main benefits of mobile/embedded Linux is that the OS is exactly the same code as runs on desktops, servers and Big Iron IBMs. In comparison, all of Winx9x, WinMe, WinCE, NT, XP, 2000 have different codebases and perform differently. This means that an app you write for NT, will typically not run on CE without significant porting.