> I think the performance of WinFS will tell us how serious Microsoft is about really changing the way files are used.
It is also a good move against Linux. For a Linux user to have such a functionality, you must basically copy it - and thereby step onto M$'s territory.
> I think the performance of WinFS will tell us how serious Microsoft is about really changing the way files are used.
It is also a good move against Linux. For a Linux user to have such a functionality, you must basically copy it - and thereby step onto M$'s territory.
Sven
PS: not that this has been done already...
> If I used Windows, I'd at least give WinFS a try.
You won't have a big choice.
And yes, this WinFS sounds scary, if not competetive. We all do know that a file system is a database. The question that remains is the db techniques that are behind it and knowing Microsoft they'll throw in a good portion of it.
The ReiserFS people should prepare themselfs...
And I can also see Microsoft loosing. "It is not meant to be a file system. It is a database!".
Or is this rather the latest M$ Plot to now go against Oracle??
>... > Martians: No, we'd rather have you come here, it is much nicer than the moon or earth. How can you stand earth with all that oxygen?
Response should really be:
Earthlings: Yeah, well, we are working on it. See, we need your planet since we ruined this one and we thought we could simply hop onto the next one...
Martians: *deep breath* Why don't you follow one of those probes we saw flying by?? I believe they were heading off to some new _territory_ - one even crash landed in a populated area.
Earthlings: Oh, that's where they've gone!... Wait, our President wants to speak to you...
Bush: How are the negotiations going?... Hmm, that's not good. Did we equip those rovers with our new mini nukes?... Keep them busy until we got the command sequence ready!!
Do we know what the Tunguska event caused? Some suspect a UFO entering the earths amtosphere on a bad trajectory. Could this be brought into correlation with a chessna?
Shortly after the accident an astronomer's magazine here in Germany (called "Sterne und Weltraum") came up with this already. They talked about something traveling at 200m/s - the shuttle had a speed of Mach 2 vertical at that time - would be like a human throwing a 1 kg hammer from a distance of a meter at the wing. This simulation is of course much more precise.
Nevertheless, I do not believe that physicists have a bad intuition or feeling for their work but rather were still shocked by the tragedy and it is always hard to rule out something much more unpredictable as space debris or meteorites.
It is known, that if you have more than three objects in space, their prediction runs of into chaos. That is why in astronomy they start using chaos theory.
Now this one, will most likely not happen. First of all, it is named 1950... think... and it is said that it will impact in 2880.
In other words, it is an extra polation so far into the future, that it has no meaning at all and that it may well collide with some other object at some other time or gets obsoleted by a greater-than-0.3-candidate (sorry if I got your hopes up for a second).
All the scientists did who simulated this impact was to take this as their best guess for input into their simulation and to present something fascinating and not something that is compeletely off of this world.
Then wait for the third one, where they tell you, what you see is what you don't and that the Matrix is the reality and the other is just a simulation, within a simulation.
You will walk out the theater, get a shave since beards make you look bad and you will never ever swallow a pill again, regardless its color. Sweets are bad for your teeth anyways. (Boy, he does take alot from strangers.)
The only good think might be the new uses for mercury since it's also beeing used in X-Men II.
The moment you buy them, they add to the profit...
To make components reset themselfs or to let them memorize states for the purpose of undoing work is the approach of those not involved.
The need to reset a component is because it has reached a state where it stops responding to any input. Or in other words, the component depended on receiving correct input without checking the input according to its state and thus locked itself up.
An undo operation on the other hand would lead to components accepting any input and to reach any state (even the undefined one) but with the need to memorize their previous states. Other components making use of them now would have to ignore the operability of these components and to memorize the previously issued actions on their part to be able to undo them.
The only component beeing able to start an undo would be the button on the GUI the user can click on.
It is a very interesting concept, giving all power to the user in front and to let him/her decide whether the computer is in an invalid state or not. It would be a radical change in the history of computer science. A user would not anymore be a slave to the blue screen (or a kernel panic) demanding a confirmation of the unavoidable reset!
Everything would have to be redesigned and reimplemented. Reuse of old, existing components would of course be impossible and errors in the final product are only because of imperfect programmers and will be solved through updates and newer releases.
What is this title change all about anyways? It can only be because a "sysadmin" already sounds bad. Everybody needs them, nobody wants to be one. Hell, who wants to be needed? You can't finish any job in silence because you are constantly beeing bothered with "I can't print", "compiler doesn't compile", "compare this product with that one" or some other form of interruption. Nobody lets you develope software, since you are sooo good at _using_ software.
And the best: licenses. Oh, they are the greatest thing in the world. First you have to get people to order the right ones. No, not the cheapest, they are for schools. And please, order 1 x 10 and not ten times one license. And then you have to figure out how to get them to work. As if I want to do that.
Pioneer Weizenbaum once said computers will become part of our daily life just like light bulps and the electric motor.
Guess who replaces light bulps or an electric motor of the sun shades in our building?
Like too much software was ever a problem. Or is this a call for some sort of software communism?? "Lets all work together and I will tell you how!"
The problem is much simpler: there is none. Only because Microsoft - and many others - give their products single version numbers, they appear much more solid in the first place. Internally, they have proper versioning and the developers have goals to meet.
Those who use Freshmeat to advertise their new software development, are often too short-sighted and forget to set themselfs goals. And even then, they don't dare to set them higher. In the end, they die off. That is called evolution and only the fittest survives.
Very funny, indeed. But it isn't. And it is also not the time for sarcasm nor cynism. Some people still do not understand, that it wasn't the EU who started all the middle east shit, but the United States of America. And it is them who started this war against terrorism, when in fact it is again just the usual towel-head bashing for oil. The terror attack on 11.9. is only the usual "what goes around, comes around". Cause panic on an ant hill and now run it over with a bull-dozer. Congratulations to civilisation - we can watch it all live and in colour!
What is the point? The fact that there is a minor war going on? That the decision to put the game on index in such times does not appear to be independant?
Better say that you cannot understand this decision, but for those who are looking for the game in shops, might have to ask for it.
Have fun! Iraq will be liberated, it is not really a war - more like "some" resistance by the local millitary - and George W. Bush is an overconfident idiot or maybe has just some damn good advisors.
It is nice of you to call ATI generous.
It is not nice to assume that those who are capable of running fair and large amounts of benchmarks and therefore are a welcome advertiser for good manufactures who on their side give them early access to their hardware even if they sometimes have more bugs than the final product.
Don't judge over others. Judge what they are doing.
My insightful comment for you is: if somebody sees somewhere a problem, don't listen to those who try to play it down. Better listen to those who still are able to see problems.
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> I think the performance of WinFS will tell us how serious Microsoft is about really changing the way files are used.
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It is also a good move against Linux. For a Linux user to have such a functionality, you must basically copy it - and thereby step onto M$'s territory.
Sven
PS: not that this has been done already
PPS: I _hate_ options
> I think the performance of WinFS will tell us how serious Microsoft is about really changing the way files are used. It is also a good move against Linux. For a Linux user to have such a functionality, you must basically copy it - and thereby step onto M$'s territory. Sven PS: not that this has been done already ...
> If I used Windows, I'd at least give WinFS a try.
...
You won't have a big choice.
And yes, this WinFS sounds scary, if not competetive. We all do know that a file system is a database. The question that remains is the db techniques that are behind it and knowing Microsoft they'll throw in a good portion of it.
The ReiserFS people should prepare themselfs
And I can also see Microsoft loosing. "It is not meant to be a file system. It is a database!".
Or is this rather the latest M$ Plot to now go against Oracle??
Sven
> ...
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... Wait, our President wants to speak to you ...
... Hmm, that's not good. Did we equip those rovers with our new mini nukes? ... Keep them busy until we got the command sequence ready!!
> Martians: No, we'd rather have you come here, it is much nicer than the moon or earth. How can you stand earth with all that oxygen?
Response should really be:
Earthlings: Yeah, well, we are working on it. See, we need your planet since we ruined this one and we thought we could simply hop onto the next one
Martians: *deep breath* Why don't you follow one of those probes we saw flying by?? I believe they were heading off to some new _territory_ - one even crash landed in a populated area.
Earthlings: Oh, that's where they've gone!
Bush: How are the negotiations going?
Martians: *click*
Sven
"The road to the stars is paved by space-debris."
Who wants to go?
Do we know what the Tunguska event caused? Some suspect a UFO entering the earths amtosphere on a bad trajectory. Could this be brought into correlation with a chessna?
You'd be dead.
Shortly after the accident an astronomer's magazine here in Germany (called "Sterne und Weltraum") came up with this already. They talked about something traveling at 200m/s - the shuttle had a speed of Mach 2 vertical at that time - would be like a human throwing a 1 kg hammer from a distance of a meter at the wing. This simulation is of course much more precise.
Nevertheless, I do not believe that physicists have a bad intuition or feeling for their work but rather were still shocked by the tragedy and it is always hard to rule out something much more unpredictable as space debris or meteorites.
The problem will actually accelerate exponentially, since the south is over populated already and this news will only add to it.
It is known, that if you have more than three objects in space, their prediction runs of into chaos. That is why in astronomy they start using chaos theory.
... think ... and it is said that it will impact in 2880.
Now this one, will most likely not happen. First of all, it is named 1950
In other words, it is an extra polation so far into the future, that it has no meaning at all and that it may well collide with some other object at some other time or gets obsoleted by a greater-than-0.3-candidate (sorry if I got your hopes up for a second).
All the scientists did who simulated this impact was to take this as their best guess for input into their simulation and to present something fascinating and not something that is compeletely off of this world.
Cheers, Sven
Then wait for the third one, where they tell you, what you see is what you don't and that the Matrix is the reality and the other is just a simulation, within a simulation. You will walk out the theater, get a shave since beards make you look bad and you will never ever swallow a pill again, regardless its color. Sweets are bad for your teeth anyways. (Boy, he does take alot from strangers.) The only good think might be the new uses for mercury since it's also beeing used in X-Men II.
You have a wicked mind, Mister!
>>> Why do cars break down?
This hasn't improved for how many years??
Sven...just wondering
The moment you buy them, they add to the profit ...
To make components reset themselfs or to let them memorize states for the purpose of undoing work is the approach of those not involved.
The need to reset a component is because it has reached a state where it stops responding to any input. Or in other words, the component depended on receiving correct input without checking the input according to its state and thus locked itself up.
An undo operation on the other hand would lead to components accepting any input and to reach any state (even the undefined one) but with the need to memorize their previous states. Other components making use of them now would have to ignore the operability of these components and to memorize the previously issued actions on their part to be able to undo them.
The only component beeing able to start an undo would be the button on the GUI the user can click on.
It is a very interesting concept, giving all power to the user in front and to let him/her decide whether the computer is in an invalid state or not. It would be a radical change in the history of computer science. A user would not anymore be a slave to the blue screen (or a kernel panic) demanding a confirmation of the unavoidable reset!
Everything would have to be redesigned and reimplemented. Reuse of old, existing components would of course be impossible and errors in the final product are only because of imperfect programmers and will be solved through updates and newer releases.
Sven
Chew on this one for a while. And everybody who doesn't understand is an idiot.
There is a saying we have here in Germany: give a child your little finger and it will grab the whole hand.
Cheers, Sven
You care for everybody, just not for yourself.
What is this title change all about anyways? It can only be because a "sysadmin" already sounds bad. Everybody needs them, nobody wants to be one. Hell, who wants to be needed? You can't finish any job in silence because you are constantly beeing bothered with "I can't print", "compiler doesn't compile", "compare this product with that one" or some other form of interruption. Nobody lets you develope software, since you are sooo good at _using_ software.
And the best: licenses. Oh, they are the greatest thing in the world. First you have to get people to order the right ones. No, not the cheapest, they are for schools. And please, order 1 x 10 and not ten times one license. And then you have to figure out how to get them to work. As if I want to do that.
Pioneer Weizenbaum once said computers will become part of our daily life just like light bulps and the electric motor.
Guess who replaces light bulps or an electric motor of the sun shades in our building?
Sven
Like too much software was ever a problem. Or is this a call for some sort of software communism?? "Lets all work together and I will tell you how!"
The problem is much simpler: there is none. Only because Microsoft - and many others - give their products single version numbers, they appear much more solid in the first place. Internally, they have proper versioning and the developers have goals to meet.
Those who use Freshmeat to advertise their new software development, are often too short-sighted and forget to set themselfs goals. And even then, they don't dare to set them higher. In the end, they die off. That is called evolution and only the fittest survives.
Sven
Very funny, indeed. But it isn't. And it is also not the time for sarcasm nor cynism. Some people still do not understand, that it wasn't the EU who started all the middle east shit, but the United States of America. And it is them who started this war against terrorism, when in fact it is again just the usual towel-head bashing for oil. The terror attack on 11.9. is only the usual "what goes around, comes around". Cause panic on an ant hill and now run it over with a bull-dozer. Congratulations to civilisation - we can watch it all live and in colour!
These are sad times.
Sven
This is not new. Same with Quake and Doom. So what are you trying to tell us?
a) Indexing a game is good for its marketing.
b) Others are stupid.
c) You wish to self-destruct.
Sven *ego-shooters are fun*
Yeah, right. You hate beeing surprised, isn't it? If you don't understand it, don't comment on it.
Sven
What is the point? The fact that there is a minor war going on? That the decision to put the game on index in such times does not appear to be independant?
Better say that you cannot understand this decision, but for those who are looking for the game in shops, might have to ask for it.
Have fun! Iraq will be liberated, it is not really a war - more like "some" resistance by the local millitary - and George W. Bush is an overconfident idiot or maybe has just some damn good advisors.
Sven
So it is a matter of size again, isn't it? But the game of numbers is an engineer's job.
Defining numbers or better, how to use them, is the job of a mathematician.
And of course using math to proove astronomy theories is the job of a physician.
So who's job is it to call our outer most planet, not a planet?
Answer: it can only be a news paper! (The answer "The creator of trivial pursuit" would have qualified as well.)
Sven
It is nice of you to call ATI generous. It is not nice to assume that those who are capable of running fair and large amounts of benchmarks and therefore are a welcome advertiser for good manufactures who on their side give them early access to their hardware even if they sometimes have more bugs than the final product. Don't judge over others. Judge what they are doing.
My insightful comment for you is: if somebody sees somewhere a problem, don't listen to those who try to play it down. Better listen to those who still are able to see problems.