I'm fine with them wanting media (or a key) from previous version - as they used to do. But having to install the whole thing, would be a real pain in the ass. If you're reinstalling, it's probably because of big problems, and the last thing you want is another hour of messing around getting another OS to install, just to blow it away.
I always assumed that getting an "upgrade" version for cheaper was to reward you for loyalty: since you bought their previous OS versions, the new version is only an incremental extra amount of features, so you shouldn't have to pay as much.
In my opinion, an "upgrade" version, says NOTHING about how you actually install it. It's just the same thing but cheaper because you bought the old one.
I see a bunch of people suggesting that it only applies if you're "upgrading" your machine. That seems like a complete non-sequitur, given the usual rationale (as above). Are we seriously to believe that an upgrade edition is only an "install once and that's it" version? Completely ridiculous.
Unless I misunderstood something, that's just not true. I have used GPRS, and it is officially 144kbps, and typically around 64 in real life. I usually achieved something over 5kbytes/sec.
That's true but often irrelevant. The difference in size (electroytic gets much more capacitance per size, so after about 1uF they are usually used) and RF behaviour (ie. inductance) of the two is much more important in most cases.
How about the story that ran last year about how Kazakhstan and Siberia were littered with highly-toxic remains of rockets? IIRC this was due to the poisonous hydrogolic (self-igniting) fuels many of the Russian rockets still use. If this was an upper stage especially.
I agree about front projectors for home theatre, they are now high quality and cost effective, but there is one significant weakness: most of them cannot cope with a daylit room. You need to close all the curtains to get decent contrast. I've been wanting to watch more movies during the day (holidays) and I have started to find this annoying.
A lot of business Linux deployments are likely to be task-specific - ie. they run one application such as a accounting package all the time and nothing else.
There can be lots of these, but none of them will ever show up in web browser stats. The web is still not the whole world of PCs.
Of course, browser stats are the only ones we have readily available.
Building giant, throwaway, useful-for-one-mission-only rockets with armies of ground support staff
Actually, much smaller armies than that required for the Shuttle. Pretty much everyone has come to the conclusion that at this point in time, expendable rockets are the most cost-effective way to launch. Ugly, but true.
But getting into Earth orbit IS the hard part. It's not all that interesting to solve the space transport problem when there's still that massive gravity well to deal with.
Probably true. The Win-OS/2 thing was just an excuse for everyone (who felt uncomfortable about working on OS/2 software anyway, given IBM's hopelessness) to avoid something they didn't really want to do.
Still there were lots of mistakes, it probably did contribute to the overall situation.
But nobody wants to believe they are capable of these things. So you have to do something to irrefutably demonstrate it to people that they are capable of it, to get past that self-image.
Pushing it to murder seems too extreme though I agree.
How important is reliability to you? Do you do lots of writes, and if so are they to several tables?
My gut reaction is that this is the kind of situation where you want a "real" database with ACID. But if reliability isn't that important (or you can, for instance, control power down tightly) then maybe something less can do.
From what I read, MySQL is usually considered to be good for situations with lots of reads and a few simple writes (e.g. websites). Is that your situation or not?
We weren't doing it because we were sadists, just curious gamers. We'd never seen NPC's react in such a realistic way before, and thought it was "cool"
Are you sure? Didn't you find it kind of uncomfortable to see someone begging for their lives?
Perhaps more to the point, does Outlook HAVE any HTML sanitiser? Mozilla does of course - perhaps they should just have switched to thunderbird?:)
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Thanks for the updates. Slashdot might be using a handheld stylesheet, but it's pretty difficult to use on my phone - scrolling for miles to get to the content, if the browser doesn't just give up. As you (and other commentators) say: just changing the presentation isn't enough, on a mobile you probably want to do much more drastic things like: - make the pages physically much smaller - remove most of the navigation - possibly move the remaining navigation to separate pages - structure the content differently It's debatable whether a site like slashdot can ever be usable on a mobile device, it's just too heavy. I don't think there is any easy answer, in fact. The idea of preprocessing on the server is probably the best one can do without massively refactoring your website.
High end? If that were truly the focus for the whole of "Linux" that would be a risky proposition. Everyone was content to leave the desktop to Microsoft; then they leveraged that with small businesses to get into servers; now they are building on that to get into enterprise systems. Thinking they are totally independent markets which you can ignore is a big mistake.
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The question wasn't "why do the carriers do it" but "why do americans put up with it?"
Land of the Free to be shafted and used by the corporations?
I'm fine with them wanting media (or a key) from previous version - as they used to do. But having to install the whole thing, would be a real pain in the ass. If you're reinstalling, it's probably because of big problems, and the last thing you want is another hour of messing around getting another OS to install, just to blow it away.
I always assumed that getting an "upgrade" version for cheaper was to reward you for loyalty: since you bought their previous OS versions, the new version is only an incremental extra amount of features, so you shouldn't have to pay as much.
In my opinion, an "upgrade" version, says NOTHING about how you actually install it. It's just the same thing but cheaper because you bought the old one.
I see a bunch of people suggesting that it only applies if you're "upgrading" your machine. That seems like a complete non-sequitur, given the usual rationale (as above). Are we seriously to believe that an upgrade edition is only an "install once and that's it" version? Completely ridiculous.
Waiting for a SED sounds like a dumb idea. Toshiba want to keep them expensive and exclusive.1 225/125850/
http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/english/NEWS_EN/2006
Strange concept. Perhaps this suggests that they don't think they will be able to get the price down enough to compete.
With a waving flag on the front page and "criticising metric as un-American" I doubt you will find any arguments worth listening to on that site.
Unless I misunderstood something, that's just not true. I have used GPRS, and it is officially 144kbps, and typically around 64 in real life. I usually achieved something over 5kbytes/sec.
10kbytes/sec more like. Yes, really. In real life.
You can't expect convenience from a police state. The government is always right, so anything you do is less important.
That's true but often irrelevant. The difference in size (electroytic gets much more capacitance per size, so after about 1uF they are usually used) and RF behaviour (ie. inductance) of the two is much more important in most cases.
This is a good point: being attacked on your homeland (instead of being able to keep it at arms length) changes people's perspectives a lot.
Maybe because the US has not had to face a war on it's own turf, the people of the US have less understanding of why it is so bad to start them.
How about the story that ran last year about how Kazakhstan and Siberia were littered with highly-toxic remains of rockets? IIRC this was due to the poisonous hydrogolic (self-igniting) fuels many of the Russian rockets still use. If this was an upper stage especially.
I agree about front projectors for home theatre, they are now high quality and cost effective, but there is one significant weakness: most of them cannot cope with a daylit room. You need to close all the curtains to get decent contrast. I've been wanting to watch more movies during the day (holidays) and I have started to find this annoying.
:)
Thus I need a 42" plasma/LCD as well
SOmething I have been thinking about lately:
A lot of business Linux deployments are likely to be task-specific - ie. they run one application such as a accounting package all the time and nothing else.
There can be lots of these, but none of them will ever show up in web browser stats. The web is still not the whole world of PCs.
Of course, browser stats are the only ones we have readily available.
Building giant, throwaway, useful-for-one-mission-only rockets with armies of ground support staff
Actually, much smaller armies than that required for the Shuttle.
Pretty much everyone has come to the conclusion that at this point in time, expendable rockets are the most cost-effective way to launch. Ugly, but true.
But getting into Earth orbit IS the hard part. It's not all that interesting to solve the space transport problem when there's still that massive gravity well to deal with.
Probably true. The Win-OS/2 thing was just an excuse for everyone (who felt uncomfortable about working on OS/2 software anyway, given IBM's hopelessness) to avoid something they didn't really want to do.
Still there were lots of mistakes, it probably did contribute to the overall situation.
But nobody wants to believe they are capable of these things. So you have to do something to irrefutably demonstrate it to people that they are capable of it, to get past that self-image.
Pushing it to murder seems too extreme though I agree.
How important is reliability to you? Do you do lots of writes, and if so are they to several tables?
My gut reaction is that this is the kind of situation where you want a "real" database with ACID. But if reliability isn't that important (or you can, for instance, control power down tightly) then maybe something less can do.
From what I read, MySQL is usually considered to be good for situations with lots of reads and a few simple writes (e.g. websites). Is that your situation or not?
We weren't doing it because we were sadists, just curious gamers. We'd never seen NPC's react in such a realistic way before, and thought it was "cool"
Are you sure? Didn't you find it kind of uncomfortable to see someone begging for their lives?
I'd rate Usenet (via Google Groups search) much more useful than most of the others...
Perhaps more to the point, does Outlook HAVE any HTML sanitiser? Mozilla does of course - perhaps they should just have switched to thunderbird? :)
Thanks for the updates. Slashdot might be using a handheld stylesheet, but it's pretty difficult to use on my phone - scrolling for miles to get to the content, if the browser doesn't just give up.
As you (and other commentators) say: just changing the presentation isn't enough, on a mobile you probably want to do much more drastic things like:
- make the pages physically much smaller
- remove most of the navigation
- possibly move the remaining navigation to separate pages
- structure the content differently
It's debatable whether a site like slashdot can ever be usable on a mobile device, it's just too heavy.
I don't think there is any easy answer, in fact. The idea of preprocessing on the server is probably the best one can do without massively refactoring your website.
High end? If that were truly the focus for the whole of "Linux" that would be a risky proposition. Everyone was content to leave the desktop to Microsoft; then they leveraged that with small businesses to get into servers; now they are building on that to get into enterprise systems. Thinking they are totally independent markets which you can ignore is a big mistake.
Any links? I found7 /make-your-site-mobile-friendly
http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2005/0
about server-side preprocessing to remove crud, but did you have something else in mind?
Rewriting it all in XML or WML is not very feasible for most sites...
Nut... but... he can't be a jock! He wears glasses!