Yes, but US opinion is largely in favour of attacking Iraq since some americans have the unfounded belief that every muslim is a terrorist. Not very tollerant is it?
I take your point about US goods, when they found alqueda's computers they were running Windows on Intel/AMD processors. Hmm maybe that's why they hate the US, for producing Windows?:)
People kill people, religion gives people the reason to do it. We create our own differences, hatred is a state of mind etc...
Anyway why Iraq is singled out I don't know, especially when North Korea launched a missile as a demonstration of the US visit to Japan. That's agressive behaviour, something Saddam hasn't engaged in recently anyway.
Oh no, does that mean my 256-bit graphics card is going to explode?
What you mean is there's no real market yet for 64-bit Intel/AMD chips, sceptics don't think hammer will run 64-bit code as fast as Intel's offering and so there's no huge market. Itanium (or whatever they're calling it now) requires it's own nuclear power source so there's no market for that (who needs 64-but when you can cluster).
CD-R is old technology. I got my first burner nearly 6 years ago when the price of media was around £15 for 10. £1.50 a disc! compare that with what I pay now, 15-18p a disc.
I have Quicktime 6 playing on Linux perfectly fine. It's just the almost seedy installation method that bothers me. Copying Windows DLLs across to Linux. Probably breaking the EULA etc..
There should at least be an official Linux player even if it does lack come codecs. Until there's an official quicktime player for Linux you won't get support from Sorenson. You really think Sorenson are going to liase with Xine or the Mplayer guys?
I appreciate what Apple are doing, fixing KHTML and putting their fixes back, but this is part of the license agreement anyway:)
Well it's nice how Apple turn to the open source community when they're in need of something to save their ass (ie a good web browser), shame Apple can't put something back (ie. Quicktime for Linux).
Make the OS open/free or the hardware cloneable and they might get more people using the damn things:)
WIth these cartoons I believe he's hoping to get another generation of kids into Star Wars, however cartoons and pixar style animation are a lot more fun even for a grown up like me:)
Cables break, pins can bend. Edge connectors are tried an tested reliable technology.
Of course something like a ZIF socket might work, but you would need a reliable locking mechanism and motherboards that support hot plugging.
I persoanlly would like to see PCI/AGP cards with the connector opposite the backplane, you could then design a system where you slide the cards in from the back of the PC.
I thought about something similar, but for the situation where you have a really slow PC with no RAM at work. You could take your CPU and RAM modules to work and insert them.
I agree with that totally as it stops people "optimising" code by removing redundant code that might actually have a purpose (like padding something out).
What you don't want is "I'm assiging 0 to x", "print hello":)
If you're working on a kernel you shouldn't need much documentation, hopefully many of the concepts will be familiar ones. I would also hope that only experienced developers are working on the kernel.
Anyway, these articles like "Open Source has less bugs" are misleading, are you telling me the 2.5 kernel has less bugs than the NT kernel? of course not. It's all dependant on release numbers, the difference is Microsoft doesn't release a product until it has passed their test critiria, with open source you can get the CVS version straight away in most cases. Either way it can be hard to determine which release of a product is stable, just like you often have to ask which kernel revision is best to use.
I dunno, I don't look for software houses on a daily basis. There are plenty of companies in the south east of england though, not household names like Microsoft however.
Symbian? they seem to be whipping Microsoft's butt when it comes to smartphones. Where did Microsoft go to find a developer for their phone? Sendo in the UK. Shame it appears that Microsoft screwed them.
Your position is one that is biased, just like mine probably is. Plenty of good ideas have come out of both countries.
Given the audacity of Ken Livingstone he can do pretty much what he likes, I don't think anyone will be replacing him anytime soon.
I would sooner see investment in such technologies carried out in the UK, it's an experimental system and if it works it could have earned many orders from around the world.
What's to worry about when it comes to budget anyway? in the first day of it's use the system raised around £400,000 (and this is on a quiet week). The difference between the cost of developing it in the UK and India could have been raised in a week.
UK software development is pretty good, even Microsoft have a research centre in Cambridge.
As for pricing you must be forgetting where the money that pays for the system comes from in the first place, that's right the pockets of the UK tax payer.
It's better for the economy to keep the money in the country, it would also mean the patents for the system could be held by a UK company. Such a congestion charging system hasn't really been tried in many other countries and if it is a success then other countries may adopt the system, where will they go to get their system? not the UK now that's for sure.
Scanning emails for spam is pretty easy, all the mail comes into your server. Blocking websites is a lot harder, you will need a transparent proxy with lots of rules or a list of sites to block. User changes their DNS server and uses a third party proxy and voila, no more blocked sites.
It's the 1970s, someone releases a computer for the masses, it doesn't do much. In steps a bunch of clever hackers and suddenly the near useless machine has basic.
It's the 2000's, someone releases a games console, it plays games, could be used as a simple computer. In steps a bunch of clever hackers and suddenly the machine has Linux.
See the similarities? only this time Microsoft are the vendors.
Microsoft have the money to put on a good show, they have the people to present it and the people to write the propaganda. Any non technical people (read: IT managers) there may believe the hype. But this isn't really a show for big business.
Not only is this a stupid idea that is doomed to failure, the work was done outside of the UK. At the moment the UK IT industry is already in need of some help and the government should set an example and support the UK workforce.
Most manufacturing industries are already dying, we should be trying to save our high-tech industries too!
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Yes, but US opinion is largely in favour of attacking Iraq since some americans have the unfounded belief that every muslim is a terrorist. Not very tollerant is it?
:)
I take your point about US goods, when they found alqueda's computers they were running Windows on Intel/AMD processors. Hmm maybe that's why they hate the US, for producing Windows?
People kill people, religion gives people the reason to do it. We create our own differences, hatred is a state of mind etc...
Anyway why Iraq is singled out I don't know, especially when North Korea launched a missile as a demonstration of the US visit to Japan. That's agressive behaviour, something Saddam hasn't engaged in recently anyway.
...and you wonder why Islamic fundamentalists say the same of Americans.
Oh no, does that mean my 256-bit graphics card is going to explode?
What you mean is there's no real market yet for 64-bit Intel/AMD chips, sceptics don't think hammer will run 64-bit code as fast as Intel's offering and so there's no huge market. Itanium (or whatever they're calling it now) requires it's own nuclear power source so there's no market for that (who needs 64-but when you can cluster).
CD-R is old technology. I got my first burner nearly 6 years ago when the price of media was around £15 for 10. £1.50 a disc! compare that with what I pay now, 15-18p a disc.
The other 97% have stopped buying them as the music sucks.
I have Quicktime 6 playing on Linux perfectly fine. It's just the almost seedy installation method that bothers me. Copying Windows DLLs across to Linux. Probably breaking the EULA etc..
:)
There should at least be an official Linux player even if it does lack come codecs. Until there's an official quicktime player for Linux you won't get support from Sorenson. You really think Sorenson are going to liase with Xine or the Mplayer guys?
I appreciate what Apple are doing, fixing KHTML and putting their fixes back, but this is part of the license agreement anyway
Well it's nice how Apple turn to the open source community when they're in need of something to save their ass (ie a good web browser), shame Apple can't put something back (ie. Quicktime for Linux).
:)
Make the OS open/free or the hardware cloneable and they might get more people using the damn things
WIth these cartoons I believe he's hoping to get another generation of kids into Star Wars, however cartoons and pixar style animation are a lot more fun even for a grown up like me :)
Proably the cost of doing so and the heat expelled by many boards. A casual PC user never goes inside their PC.
Nintendo's carts generally contain memory chips and a battery.
Cables break, pins can bend. Edge connectors are tried an tested reliable technology.
Of course something like a ZIF socket might work, but you would need a reliable locking mechanism and motherboards that support hot plugging.
I persoanlly would like to see PCI/AGP cards with the connector opposite the backplane, you could then design a system where you slide the cards in from the back of the PC.
I thought about something similar, but for the situation where you have a really slow PC with no RAM at work. You could take your CPU and RAM modules to work and insert them.
I agree with that totally as it stops people "optimising" code by removing redundant code that might actually have a purpose (like padding something out).
:)
What you don't want is "I'm assiging 0 to x", "print hello"
If you're working on a kernel you shouldn't need much documentation, hopefully many of the concepts will be familiar ones. I would also hope that only experienced developers are working on the kernel.
Anyway, these articles like "Open Source has less bugs" are misleading, are you telling me the 2.5 kernel has less bugs than the NT kernel? of course not. It's all dependant on release numbers, the difference is Microsoft doesn't release a product until it has passed their test critiria, with open source you can get the CVS version straight away in most cases. Either way it can be hard to determine which release of a product is stable, just like you often have to ask which kernel revision is best to use.
I dunno, I don't look for software houses on a daily basis. There are plenty of companies in the south east of england though, not household names like Microsoft however.
. ht m#bustech
Here's a list of some in cambridge anyway:
http://www.gwydir.demon.co.uk/cambridgeuk/sect2
Oops, I misread your last comment and thought you were saying that UK development is bad.
Anyway, from my time in development it appears that a lot of embedded development occurs in the UK. Not just pure software development.
Symbian? they seem to be whipping Microsoft's butt when it comes to smartphones. Where did Microsoft go to find a developer for their phone? Sendo in the UK. Shame it appears that Microsoft screwed them.
Your position is one that is biased, just like mine probably is. Plenty of good ideas have come out of both countries.
Given the audacity of Ken Livingstone he can do pretty much what he likes, I don't think anyone will be replacing him anytime soon.
I would sooner see investment in such technologies carried out in the UK, it's an experimental system and if it works it could have earned many orders from around the world.
What's to worry about when it comes to budget anyway? in the first day of it's use the system raised around £400,000 (and this is on a quiet week). The difference between the cost of developing it in the UK and India could have been raised in a week.
UK software development is pretty good, even Microsoft have a research centre in Cambridge.
As for pricing you must be forgetting where the money that pays for the system comes from in the first place, that's right the pockets of the UK tax payer.
It's better for the economy to keep the money in the country, it would also mean the patents for the system could be held by a UK company. Such a congestion charging system hasn't really been tried in many other countries and if it is a success then other countries may adopt the system, where will they go to get their system? not the UK now that's for sure.
So how do they intend to block such sites?
Scanning emails for spam is pretty easy, all the mail comes into your server. Blocking websites is a lot harder, you will need a transparent proxy with lots of rules or a list of sites to block. User changes their DNS server and uses a third party proxy and voila, no more blocked sites.
It's the 1970s, someone releases a computer for the masses, it doesn't do much. In steps a bunch of clever hackers and suddenly the near useless machine has basic.
It's the 2000's, someone releases a games console, it plays games, could be used as a simple computer. In steps a bunch of clever hackers and suddenly the machine has Linux.
See the similarities? only this time Microsoft are the vendors.
The tariffs were designed to protect US jobs, no different to the DOJ letting Microsoft off the hook. Let's protect the monoculture mentality.
Microsoft have the money to put on a good show, they have the people to present it and the people to write the propaganda. Any non technical people (read: IT managers) there may believe the hype. But this isn't really a show for big business.
Not only is this a stupid idea that is doomed to failure, the work was done outside of the UK. At the moment the UK IT industry is already in need of some help and the government should set an example and support the UK workforce.
Most manufacturing industries are already dying, we should be trying to save our high-tech industries too!
Used it with the latest Redhat. Seemed to exibit the same features as before like not starting up if I saved my session.
I don't have the patience for something if the basics don't work (like actually loading and not locking up).