The students at University will often end up in Software Development, Law, Arts etc.. they know what they are doing. Students don't have the spare cash that employed people have.
The move from analogue to digital has been bad enough. Many people have had to change their aerial, TV and purchase a box. I doubt many people will be willing to do this again anytime soon.
The tech savvy people might be willing to do so, therefore if this happens it should be in parallel to the existing system.
HD will be good news, but only if they don't compress it too much. The compression needs to deal with motion well too for sports events.
If IBM and others take open source code, test it, fix bugs and return the code back to the author then this is good surely?
Also, many drivers for hardware come from employees at large organisations. Without drivers your choice of hardware for Linux would be severely limited.
/etc contains all the settings/etc/init.d is like services
In the bootmanager if you add s to the list of parameters this is like your Windows safe mode (Single user mode)./var/log contains all your logs about various things
Running dmesg will show you what was happening at bootup.
Back in the 8-bit days you frequently saw games written by one or two programmers, maybe a third would write sound routines and the music.
The costs were low, the ideas were much broader and you would very rarely see a sequel.
Games were often created by youngsters, geeky types, hippy types or just people who loved creating something.
These days games are developed in huge teams, each game is a large IT project requiring project management, meetings etc. A failed project can finish off a games company.
Control methods for games are too complex, Nintendo has the right idea. How many more buttons can you fit on a controller?
People play older games using emulators for many reasons, however they were fun and the learning curve was pretty much non existant.
Unix/Linux users are ideal converts. You can run a lot of Linux/Unix apps on OS X and you even get Bash.
It's an OS that shows what Linux and Unix systems would be if they had kept up with the rest of the world.
I've given up on Linux for a while, I may return. But the confidence level in the software was low and elements of the OS are just as archaic as DOS and the sad thing is many Linux users like it that way.
I can finally spend my time using my computers OS instead of configuring it.
Indeed and the contrast is that Sony expected the UK demand to be high, yet stock level in a local store was 50, no Wii and plenty of XBox 360s. If the PS3 wasn't so expensive Nintendo would have a really bad time.
XP is still a lot more stable than Win9x ever was. Vista has clear disadvantages (over zealous DRM).
The threats from Apple and Linux weren't really there when XP was released. Microsoft has to learn to deal with the fact that they have to compete and can't release any old rubbish.
Even some products I thought they created were bought. I thought they at least created all of SQL server, but nope, the OLAP part was bought from an Israeli company.
Far from serving citizens, all the governments of the world are all competing to create the most attractive country for businesses to trade at the cost of criminalising many of their residents.
The US miltary always reserves the right to shoot down any satellites it thinks would threaten its security. Plus when the EU wanted to setup Galileo their alternative to GPS, the US wanted a code to be able to shut it down etc..
Ballmer wouldn't even look at the code, he's probably not seen a line of programming code in 20 years.
What he's saying is things like Samba talks to Windows domains, so it must be using their IP. But of course, he's asked someone else in the company to go on a witchhunt to find all these allegations.
I'm sure all this cracking of DRM by snooping memory will result in hardware protection being rolled out. Of course it woud need to be in the chipset and CPU.
Of course such restrictions would make debugging your own programs harder if it was always on.
In the UK broadband pricing has fallen to the same level as dialup used to be. At the same time traffic limits have been imposed which are very harsh. So in the Uk the demand won't be a problem as ISPs will disconnect their users or ask them to pay more.
The trouble is, such broadband starves the ISPs of money to develop their networks and broadband should cost more than dialup used to.
People like colour, if this tech was introduced 7 years ago it would have been popular. For low end phones it will be useful, it will also be good for devices where colour isn't really needed.
Also, a colour version which could play video would look rather different to a normal computer display. It would be using reflective colours instead of transmitted. Everyone is used to high resolution printouts from their inkjet or fairly low resolution TFT screens. A display using e-ink that is colour would be a mixture of both.
Bill said "some new modern-day sort of communists" to describe people who want to do away with commercial software.
But Bill doesn't seem to realise that Open Source is empowering, you can avoid all the DRM and government imposed restrictions present in Vista. Open Source is about freedom, so how can that be anything like communism?
There are many Linux based distributions, all different. surely having everyone running Windows more like communism?
When playing games, writing music or capturing video you're always best with a very minimalist OS. I managed to get Windows XP do work fairly well doing audio work with 256MB by removing pretty much everything except that required for the applications.
Microsoft doesn't seem to understand that an OS is just for running applications, managing files and providing base services. They have to provide more and more features to make the upgrade justifiable. Games are better to stick to a dedicated XP install with all the bloat removed for now.
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Most cars have some forum of variable valve timing already. If this is radically better it will need to be a lot better.
If this can increase fuel efficiency and give the sort of performance you get from a Wankel engine as used in the Mazda RX8 then this will be welcome.
The students at University will often end up in Software Development, Law, Arts etc.. they know what they are doing. Students don't have the spare cash that employed people have.
Given he doesnt even have that 60+% marketshare he makes Microsoft sound like a right bunch of idiots.
- findings-indicate-sa-declining-market-share-for-sy mbian-os.html
http://www.intomobile.com/2007/03/23/abi-research
The move from analogue to digital has been bad enough. Many people have had to change their aerial, TV and purchase a box. I doubt many people will be willing to do this again anytime soon.
The tech savvy people might be willing to do so, therefore if this happens it should be in parallel to the existing system.
HD will be good news, but only if they don't compress it too much. The compression needs to deal with motion well too for sports events.
If IBM and others take open source code, test it, fix bugs and return the code back to the author then this is good surely?
Also, many drivers for hardware come from employees at large organisations. Without drivers your choice of hardware for Linux would be severely limited.
Some say it is due to harmonics getting lost.
But you are best doing calculations at a higher resolution than the final result to reduce rounding errors.
Just like flat bed scanners often scan at 30-bit even though 24-bit is apparently where the human eye can't see the difference.
/etc contains all the settings /etc/init.d is like services
/var/log contains all your logs about various things
In the bootmanager if you add s to the list of parameters this is like your Windows safe mode (Single user mode).
Running dmesg will show you what was happening at bootup.
Back in the 8-bit days you frequently saw games written by one or two programmers, maybe a third would write sound routines and the music.
The costs were low, the ideas were much broader and you would very rarely see a sequel.
Games were often created by youngsters, geeky types, hippy types or just people who loved creating something.
These days games are developed in huge teams, each game is a large IT project requiring project management, meetings etc. A failed project can finish off a games company.
Control methods for games are too complex, Nintendo has the right idea. How many more buttons can you fit on a controller?
People play older games using emulators for many reasons, however they were fun and the learning curve was pretty much non existant.
Unix/Linux users are ideal converts. You can run a lot of Linux/Unix apps on OS X and you even get Bash.
It's an OS that shows what Linux and Unix systems would be if they had kept up with the rest of the world.
I've given up on Linux for a while, I may return. But the confidence level in the software was low and elements of the OS are just as archaic as DOS and the sad thing is many Linux users like it that way.
I can finally spend my time using my computers OS instead of configuring it.
Indeed and the contrast is that Sony expected the UK demand to be high, yet stock level in a local store was 50, no Wii and plenty of XBox 360s. If the PS3 wasn't so expensive Nintendo would have a really bad time.
XP is still a lot more stable than Win9x ever was. Vista has clear disadvantages (over zealous DRM).
The threats from Apple and Linux weren't really there when XP was released. Microsoft has to learn to deal with the fact that they have to compete and can't release any old rubbish.
Even some products I thought they created were bought. I thought they at least created all of SQL server, but nope, the OLAP part was bought from an Israeli company.
Far from serving citizens, all the governments of the world are all competing to create the most attractive country for businesses to trade at the cost of criminalising many of their residents.
Or so it would like to think.
The US miltary always reserves the right to shoot down any satellites it thinks would threaten its security. Plus when the EU wanted to setup Galileo their alternative to GPS, the US wanted a code to be able to shut it down etc..
Ballmer wouldn't even look at the code, he's probably not seen a line of programming code in 20 years.
What he's saying is things like Samba talks to Windows domains, so it must be using their IP. But of course, he's asked someone else in the company to go on a witchhunt to find all these allegations.
I'm sure all this cracking of DRM by snooping memory will result in hardware protection being rolled out. Of course it woud need to be in the chipset and CPU.
Of course such restrictions would make debugging your own programs harder if it was always on.
In the UK broadband pricing has fallen to the same level as dialup used to be. At the same time traffic limits have been imposed which are very harsh. So in the Uk the demand won't be a problem as ISPs will disconnect their users or ask them to pay more.
The trouble is, such broadband starves the ISPs of money to develop their networks and broadband should cost more than dialup used to.
People like colour, if this tech was introduced 7 years ago it would have been popular. For low end phones it will be useful, it will also be good for devices where colour isn't really needed.
Also, a colour version which could play video would look rather different to a normal computer display. It would be using reflective colours instead of transmitted. Everyone is used to high resolution printouts from their inkjet or fairly low resolution TFT screens. A display using e-ink that is colour would be a mixture of both.
Bill said "some new modern-day sort of communists" to describe people who want to do away with commercial software.
But Bill doesn't seem to realise that Open Source is empowering, you can avoid all the DRM and government imposed restrictions present in Vista. Open Source is about freedom, so how can that be anything like communism?
There are many Linux based distributions, all different. surely having everyone running Windows more like communism?
Apple make their money on the pretty but vastly overpriced hardware. So any moves to allow people to sidestep buying their hardware will be squashed.
When playing games, writing music or capturing video you're always best with a very minimalist OS. I managed to get Windows XP do work fairly well doing audio work with 256MB by removing pretty much everything except that required for the applications.
Microsoft doesn't seem to understand that an OS is just for running applications, managing files and providing base services. They have to provide more and more features to make the upgrade justifiable. Games are better to stick to a dedicated XP install with all the bloat removed for now.
The problem we face is many existing players have DRM or have no framework to allow for new open DRM to be added.
Of course, manufacturers can write new firmware, but I'm sure that would only be done for current models.
The only way forward is to have no DRM to allow for 100% compatibility.
The more people you put on a project the more managers you require, the more meetings, the more decisions, more designs etc...
Larger code base means more bugs, more test time, more bug fixing teams etc..
You can't put twice as many people at a project and expect twice the work to result from it.
Richard Branson owns an airline, if he wants he could reduce co2 by a large amount by changing his business.
Of course if he pulls out of the market then others take his place.
They could watermark files as part of the download process. Then they could track the origin.
This allows a fair amount of freedom while at the same time allowing the company to track down the pirates.