Wow. Your post was a real eye-opener for me.. in never knew any of this shit was going on. I just have one question: Do you think that the doctoring of these election votes lead to the victory of Bush, or would he have won anyway?
Also interesting that they are bringing out a server version of Yonah for blades, especially considering in that benchmark you linked to the Yonah nearly performed as well as the AMD dual core and ran a lot cooler. The only catch is that Yonah is 32bit... not good for a server chip.
But it will be about 3 months before Intel release the Yonah and a few months more before they become available in the shops... in that time AMD can gain a lot more marketshare
Skype doesn't work nearly as well as they claim it does. There is always a time lag effect. The person on the other end of the line only hears what you have said after a certain delay. The amount of time lag depends on what day you call.. there are good Skype days and bad Skype days. On good Skype days the time lag can be so small that you hardly notice and it's nearly as good as a normal telephone line (although still both people won't be able to talk at the same time). On bad Skype days it's nearly impossible to have a conversation - better off just hanging up and trying on a different day. Bad Skype days usually happen when the internet is going very slow.
N-gage wasn't a success because it was a bad as a phone, and not as good as a dedicated game machine. However, N-gage *games* were a success, becuase you can play them on all symbian S60 phones and because Nokia pushed game development so much, now all S60 phones have a access to a huge library of games. Another failure of the N-Gage stategy was to restrict access to the built in 3D library. N-gage had a special 3D library and development library that only large mobile game companies had access to. But there are many small developers too that can make good games, given the right tools, to cut them out of the picture just makes your platform less attractive.
I don't know if you noticed, but there is a growing trend on web sites to make the text size smaller and smaller (with a light grey colour on white background too), designers think this looks cool. What makes matters worse, if you are viewing a flash page you won't even be able to zoom - flash designers are even worse than normal web designers they make the text size absolutly microscopic
Maybe, but the PlayForSure versions of Creative players definately don't work on Linux. Creative players use a propriety file system, which means you can't just mount it to the file system, you need special drivers
Creative are basically a 100% Microsoft shop. In general they are hostile towards open source. Their players seem to be all going the "PlayForSure" (i.e. DRM) route. Little Mac support. No Linux support whatsoever (there is a Linux driver, but the development group get 0% support from Creative). They had a SDK to allow 3rd party software to work with their software, but no update for the PlayForSure enabled players. It's looking like in the future all their players will be PlayForSure, effectively locking out all non-commerical software support.
The next version of the Macromedia flash IDE is also based on eclipse. In this version they have made a seperate product for application development called Flex
I had a great idea for a Firefox plugin. It is like a form manager on steriods. Basically, what it does is record every bit of information that you enter via the web browser, be it posts on forums such as this one, or passwords, or personal data in online forms, or bank details. This plugin remebers everything (or coarse, the data is protected by the master password). You can search the data stored - nothing that you enter will ever be lost - so for instance you can find that slashdot post that you wrote back in 1998. It automatically fills in data when you visit an online form in an intellegent manner (for instance if you filled in you address on one form in a field called "addr." and then you go to different website that has a form field called "address" it will make a guess that the two fields are the same thing and fill it in automatically) And lastly, it will work on 100% of all web sites. (This is important, because the current Firefox password manager only works for about 60% of websites.) The only catch is that I don't live in US or Canada.
I would hardly call him a saint. Any normal person would do the same thing, if they happened to be sitting $40 billion worth of stock. You can hardly spend all yourself, after all. No I would say Bill Gates is just your normal good guy with a conscience, like the rest of us... just that he has that $40 billion.
"amusing to think of an entire nation running Windows 2000 and XP 40 years from now." I doubt in 40 years time there will be even one feature that actually makes it worthwhile upgrading. They'll just keep on piling the tellytubby wigits and alpha-blended animation crap til the whole thing looks like a circus.
Really silly artical, they don't know about overclocking Semprons: Because the latest e-core process runs so cool Sempron 3100 can be overclocked to the speed of a Athlon64 4000+ without needing any special cooling: http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/print/sempron -3100e.html
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Yeah, as well as the floating windows that everyone hates, there is the open file dialog which is hard coded to your home directory (should be the last place where you opened a file), and the lack of toolbars
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Wow. Your post was a real eye-opener for me.. in never knew any of this shit was going on. I just have one question: Do you think that the doctoring of these election votes lead to the victory of Bush, or would he have won anyway?
Well said. In fact J2ME beats everything else if you are writing games for movile phones.
Thanks. According to Wiki "the term is essentially meaningless"
got it!
Also interesting that they are bringing out a server version of Yonah for blades, especially considering in that benchmark you linked to the Yonah nearly performed as well as the AMD dual core and ran a lot cooler. The only catch is that Yonah is 32bit... not good for a server chip.
But it will be about 3 months before Intel release the Yonah and a few months more before they become available in the shops... in that time AMD can gain a lot more marketshare
Skype doesn't work nearly as well as they claim it does. There is always a time lag effect. The person on the other end of the line only hears what you have said after a certain delay. The amount of time lag depends on what day you call.. there are good Skype days and bad Skype days. On good Skype days the time lag can be so small that you hardly notice and it's nearly as good as a normal telephone line (although still both people won't be able to talk at the same time). On bad Skype days it's nearly impossible to have a conversation - better off just hanging up and trying on a different day. Bad Skype days usually happen when the internet is going very slow.
Are they actually cheaper than the one's with Windows on it? If not then you are paying the Windows tax regardless.
N-gage wasn't a success because it was a bad as a phone, and not as good as a dedicated game machine. However, N-gage *games* were a success, becuase you can play them on all symbian S60 phones and because Nokia pushed game development so much, now all S60 phones have a access to a huge library of games.
Another failure of the N-Gage stategy was to restrict access to the built in 3D library. N-gage had a special 3D library and development library that only large mobile game companies had access to. But there are many small developers too that can make good games, given the right tools, to cut them out of the picture just makes your platform less attractive.
A lot of rumours come out of Economic Daily News, but some of them turn out to be false, like the Apple tablet rumour (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/04/14/apple_con tracts_quanta_to_build/) ;)
Still, this should serve well to pump up the stock price
I don't know if you noticed, but there is a growing trend on web sites to make the text size smaller and smaller (with a light grey colour on white background too), designers think this looks cool. What makes matters worse, if you are viewing a flash page you won't even be able to zoom - flash designers are even worse than normal web designers they make the text size absolutly microscopic
The MuVo range works like normal mp3 players ie. you can mount it, but the Zen range - which appeared in the review - doesn't
Maybe, but the PlayForSure versions of Creative players definately don't work on Linux. Creative players use a propriety file system, which means you can't just mount it to the file system, you need special drivers
Creative are basically a 100% Microsoft shop. In general they are hostile towards open source. Their players seem to be all going the "PlayForSure" (i.e. DRM) route. Little Mac support. No Linux support whatsoever (there is a Linux driver, but the development group get 0% support from Creative). They had a SDK to allow 3rd party software to work with their software, but no update for the PlayForSure enabled players. It's looking like in the future all their players will be PlayForSure, effectively locking out all non-commerical software support.
Wasn't that big black out in America a few years back caused by a software bug?
Did the artical really say that? I can't read dutch, but the summary only says that this new socket is for support of DDR2
If you mean by "marketing" bribing, then you are in fact correct ;)
The next version of the Macromedia flash IDE is also based on eclipse. In this version they have made a seperate product for application development called Flex
They seem to be mixed up on this one.o x/s /extendfirefox/faq.php#8)
It says here: http://developer.mozilla.org/contests/extendfiref
"Where? Contest is open to residents of the US, Canada (excluding Quebec), and the European Union. Void where prohibited."
Then in the FAQ (http://developer.mozilla.org/mozilla-org/contest
it says "Is the contest open to International entries?
Yes. Please see the contest rules for more information."
But then in the official rules there is no mention of it.
I had a great idea for a Firefox plugin. It is like a form manager on steriods.
Basically, what it does is record every bit of information that you enter via the web browser, be it posts on forums such as this one, or passwords, or personal data in online forms, or bank details. This plugin remebers everything (or coarse, the data is protected by the master password).
You can search the data stored - nothing that you enter will ever be lost - so for instance you can find that slashdot post that you wrote back in 1998.
It automatically fills in data when you visit an online form in an intellegent manner (for instance if you filled in you address on one form in a field called "addr." and then you go to different website that has a form field called "address" it will make a guess that the two fields are the same thing and fill it in automatically)
And lastly, it will work on 100% of all web sites. (This is important, because the current Firefox password manager only works for about 60% of websites.)
The only catch is that I don't live in US or Canada.
I would hardly call him a saint. Any normal person would do the same thing, if they happened to be sitting $40 billion worth of stock. You can hardly spend all yourself, after all. No I would say Bill Gates is just your normal good guy with a conscience, like the rest of us... just that he has that $40 billion.
"amusing to think of an entire nation running Windows 2000 and XP 40 years from now."
I doubt in 40 years time there will be even one feature that actually makes it worthwhile upgrading. They'll just keep on piling the tellytubby wigits and alpha-blended animation crap til the whole thing looks like a circus.
Really silly artical, they don't know about overclocking Semprons:n -3100e.html
Because the latest e-core process runs so cool Sempron 3100 can be overclocked to the speed of a Athlon64 4000+ without needing any special cooling:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/print/sempro
Yeah, as well as the floating windows that everyone hates, there is the open file dialog which is hard coded to your home directory (should be the last place where you opened a file), and the lack of toolbars
Hey, you know reality will get you modded down on Slashdot. Us Sci-fi fans like to dream about meeting 3 breasted aliens
Since you used to work there, do you know if Dell still get marketing rebates from Microsoft?
Yes. I never seen a PC that where hibernation didn't work. Maybe you're thinking of sleep?