Intel has a review process and culture that pits employees against each other like no other place I have ever seen. Of course many talented people just do not have the political skills to survive in this environment. Intel became aware that their engineering organizations are not as efficient as other companies but they can not figure out why.
The fact is Intel is a company that could not compete on a level playing field with an equal sized competitor.
Intel had a disaster with the P4 "Prescott" desktop processor. It was such a power hog the AMD desktop chips were much better. Then Intel did the right turn and based everything on the mobile architecture out of Israel.
By the way -- Andy Grove was the only Intel executive who was not full of ---- when he talked.
"If our testing does not find any bugs, then our software doesn't have any bugs."
I am trying to reconstruct what is going on at Toyota.
Toyota management is telling the world what is in the above quoted sentence. There is a good chance they believe what they are saying.
Are they hearing this from engineering. If so they are hearing it from the incompetent engineers. Are these engineers merely courtiers? Are they just telling management what they want to hear. Is management not listening to the engineers who have a clue?
I installed Mythbuntu 9.04 on an inexpensive Acer box with an nVidia GeForce 8200. This seems to be the minimum hardware to get 1080 accelerated graphics. The accelerated graphics just worked with no muss no fuss. The motion is smooth. I am happy.
Apple does not do power management in the main processor. They use a separate little processor to do this. This little processor will tell the CPU to slow down. If the CPU does not slow down -- say because it is not running an OS that understands the commands, the little processor may halt the clock of the CPU for a while.
It makes sense that running Windows under VMware could give better results.
If Bill Gates had used Synaptic or something equivalent he would have an even worse view of the Windows experience. He would consider the add-remove applet in control panel to be poor and the experience of downloading various installers from web sites to be downright horrible.
I can see 2 reasons
1) Microsoft can stop running bad adverts on TV telling people Vista is not as bad as they think it is.
2) They can charge people who already have Vista to upgrade to service pack 3.
The Blog ( http://mpdenforcer20.blogspot.com/ ) makes the Memphis Police department look just like the fictional Baltimore police department depicted in the TV show "The Wire".
It should be possible to configure this windows 7 OS so that the most important parts reside in flash ROM. Also have some flash ROM to hold an image of what should be in RAM after booting. On power on, the RAM gets initialized, the screen gets invalidated and we are up and running. This should be almost instant on.
Every so often I need to unplug our WRT54G. When it powers up again it behaves itself for several days. The Netgear model we had was even worse. The only router we had that did not require rebooting was an ancient Apple Airport.
The bot net masters will used the best technology available. They are experts. The computer users are choosing the path of least resistance. If they use anti-malware they are most likely to use what was bundled with their computer. They have no idea if the anti-malware software works. They do not even consider if there are better alternatives.
Here is proof the computer users are taking the path of least resistance:
They are using Windows!
Intel has this new low power low cost x86 processor. This family of processors is not powerful enough to push through the Microsoft bloat ware. It must be intended for Linux systems!
Windows started out horribly insecure. Through the years it has very gradually been getting better. Unfortunately the malware writers have been keeping up. This situation has incubated a malware industry that is now well resourced, organized, and experienced.
Now even if Windows from an objective point of view as secure as say OS X it does not matter. The malware industry that exploits Windows is mature and up to the challenge.
When I walk into Best Buy - where is the Linux hardware section?
Dude -- you are a glutton for punishment. Best Buy? You must enjoy pain.
If I go to Best Buy and pick out a TV Tuner and inside that box there is a disk with a driver that will make it work on my system.
Oh -- this reminds me of another painful thing about installing Windows -- The driver CD shuffle. Then this is followed by the software install CD shuffle. Each one requires a reboot.
Linux has better driver organization. The drivers are organized by the internal chips used in the hardware. Each driver has a list of vendor ID / device IDs that it supports. If Linux supports the hardware then it is painless.
You are a masochist in 3 ways:
You go to Best Buy -- ( This is the most masochistic thing you do! )
You do the driver CD shuffle with multiple reboots when you install Windows.
You do the software install CD shuffle with multiple reboots when you install the software.
These record companies are technology companies whether they like it or not.
But they are fighting technology instead of embracing it. They had no technologists on board to provide music download for a fee. So Apple filled that vacuum.
It is up to us to route around these anti-technology dinosaurs. We should not do anything that puts money in the pocket of RIAA members. Then eventual they will disappear.
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To make a nailgun, we need neodymium magnets!!
Do you want some cheese with that whine?
Intel has a review process and culture that pits employees against each other like no other place I have ever seen. Of course many talented people just do not have the political skills to survive in this environment. Intel became aware that their engineering organizations are not as efficient as other companies but they can not figure out why.
The fact is Intel is a company that could not compete on a level playing field with an equal sized competitor.
Intel had a disaster with the P4 "Prescott" desktop processor. It was such a power hog the AMD desktop chips were much better. Then Intel did the right turn and based everything on the mobile architecture out of Israel.
By the way -- Andy Grove was the only Intel executive who was not full of ---- when he talked.
I am sure most of that money goes into competition prevention. "How can we make it harder for third parties to supply ink?"
"If our testing does not find any bugs, then our software doesn't have any bugs."
I am trying to reconstruct what is going on at Toyota.
Toyota management is telling the world what is in the above quoted sentence. There is a good chance they believe what they are saying.
Are they hearing this from engineering. If so they are hearing it from the incompetent engineers. Are these engineers merely courtiers? Are they just telling management what they want to hear. Is management not listening to the engineers who have a clue?
Inquiring minds want to know.
I installed Mythbuntu 9.04 on an inexpensive Acer box with an nVidia GeForce 8200. This seems to be the minimum hardware to get 1080 accelerated graphics. The accelerated graphics just worked with no muss no fuss. The motion is smooth. I am happy.
Apple does not do power management in the main processor. They use a separate little processor to do this. This little processor will tell the CPU to slow down. If the CPU does not slow down -- say because it is not running an OS that understands the commands, the little processor may halt the clock of the CPU for a while.
It makes sense that running Windows under VMware could give better results.
I wonder when someone will suggest we get DRM in our eyeballs to keep us from seeing any of this evil free content.
This will rip:
/dev/scd0 -M -o Videos/
/dev/scd0 -dvd-video Videos/[name of DVD]
bronco@ubuntu:~$ dvdbackup -v -i
And this will burn what was ripped:
bronco@ubuntu:~$ growisofs -speed 1 -dvd-compat -Z
If Bill Gates had used Synaptic or something equivalent he would have an even worse view of the Windows experience. He would consider the add-remove applet in control panel to be poor and the experience of downloading various installers from web sites to be downright horrible.
why did you buy it if the manufacturer has terms you dont like?
Any manufacturer's terms hidden from the purchaser at the time of purchase do not deserve being observed.
Why call "Vista service pack 3" "Windows 7"?
I can see 2 reasons
1) Microsoft can stop running bad adverts on TV telling people Vista is not as bad as they think it is.
2) They can charge people who already have Vista to upgrade to service pack 3.
And before that, they used the african swallow.
And what is the airspeed of these swallows?
The Blog ( http://mpdenforcer20.blogspot.com/ ) makes the Memphis Police department look just like the fictional Baltimore police department depicted in the TV show "The Wire".
It should be possible to configure this windows 7 OS so that the most important parts reside in flash ROM. Also have some flash ROM to hold an image of what should be in RAM after booting. On power on, the RAM gets initialized, the screen gets invalidated and we are up and running. This should be almost instant on.
Every so often I need to unplug our WRT54G. When it powers up again it behaves itself for several days. The Netgear model we had was even worse. The only router we had that did not require rebooting was an ancient Apple Airport.
The CEOs are paid a lot because they know where the bodies are buried.
Chinese cookware and a USB WiFi will do the trick:
http://www.usbwifi.orconhosting.net.nz/
I do not have enough brain cells to understand a long method. This is a good development!
Parent has this nailed
The bot net masters will used the best technology available. They are experts. The computer users are choosing the path of least resistance. If they use anti-malware they are most likely to use what was bundled with their computer. They have no idea if the anti-malware software works. They do not even consider if there are better alternatives.
Here is proof the computer users are taking the path of least resistance:
They are using Windows!
Intel has this new low power low cost x86 processor. This family of processors is not powerful enough to push through the Microsoft bloat ware. It must be intended for Linux systems!
Windows started out horribly insecure. Through the years it has very gradually been getting better. Unfortunately the malware writers have been keeping up. This situation has incubated a malware industry that is now well resourced, organized, and experienced.
Now even if Windows from an objective point of view as secure as say OS X it does not matter. The malware industry that exploits Windows is mature and up to the challenge.
When I walk into Best Buy - where is the Linux hardware section?
Dude -- you are a glutton for punishment. Best Buy? You must enjoy pain.
If I go to Best Buy and pick out a TV Tuner and inside that box there is a disk with a driver that will make it work on my system.
Oh -- this reminds me of another painful thing about installing Windows -- The driver CD shuffle. Then this is followed by the software install CD shuffle. Each one requires a reboot.
Linux has better driver organization. The drivers are organized by the internal chips used in the hardware. Each driver has a list of vendor ID / device IDs that it supports. If Linux supports the hardware then it is painless.
You are a masochist in 3 ways:
You go to Best Buy -- ( This is the most masochistic thing you do! )
You do the driver CD shuffle with multiple reboots when you install Windows.
You do the software install CD shuffle with multiple reboots when you install the software.
These record companies are technology companies whether they like it or not.
But they are fighting technology instead of embracing it. They had no technologists on board to provide music download for a fee. So Apple filled that vacuum.
It is up to us to route around these anti-technology dinosaurs. We should not do anything that puts money in the pocket of RIAA members. Then eventual they will disappear.