Creating a market can backfire badly on Microsoft.
If they are wise enough to do as Google (the not evil way) and let people install whatever software from wherever they want, there will be almost no change. People are already used to get small software for free for their PCs, and get big ones directly from the developers.
Now, if they go in the other direction (the evil way) and couple market with DRM to fight software piracy, people will take a look at the alternatives. Even people that use no pirated software will, and they can lose some market share. And I really don't know if MS can afford to lose some market share...
Now, you can bet what direction MS will go (the evil or the not evil way?). I won't try to guess.
When i saw the demo of WinFS I was like "Hell yeah! Finally! Woo hoo!" so naturally it got cut.
I tought the same by 1991 when I first readed about it. The release was scheduled to 1992, so I guess I'll query this computer's FS to know where it is.
I often make Google searches with javascript disabled. Except for the sponsored links not working (came-on, Google, don't you want revenue?), that never stopped me.
It does take some credibility away from you when you call a liar somebody that is telling the truth.
That's obviously because its name is 'ect ect ect', not just 'ect'. Didn't you notice the lack of a comma there? (It is certaly also as known to have become a common name. Did you notice the lack of maiuscule letters?)
Next time, try parsing the message with a correct grammar. It will get more informative this way.
Don't underestimate the bots. Do you really think computers are worse than people on a dark and unknown environemnt? It is only dark for you, with the right sensors, the robot can see everything. Do you really think robots have a problem with hazmat? It is cheap to make them imune. The same applies to a hight temperatures. they don't have to follow the same safety procedures as you.
Now, of course, that robot is being conceived for fighting fires, thus it won't replace everything firefighters do. It is a specific equipment, intented to be applied at specific situations. Rescue hability is a big miss, but I guess at a military ship it isn't as relevant as what I'm used to think.
If you don't control the fire in 30 min (so humans can get there), you already lost your ship.
In fact, most of the humans with respiratory protection have a much smaller autonomy. Most kits come with 10 to 20 min, but I don't know what exactly ships buy.
I doubt it, MS will even survive the bad acceptance of their new OS... Maybe not for long, but they will survive.
Anyway, the problem is that there will be no "year of the Linux desktop" even if Linux takes over the desktop. Those things spread following logistical curves, and the only inflection point on those is the time they start to grow slower.
The PC form was already established by the 80's, the only newer addition was the mouse. The problem is, all those other forms are hard to build. Not a little bit hard, but as hard as to not make them possible untill now.
Now we are begining to build computers with other forms. And we are begining with the simplest ones, obviously. You'll have a computer at your pulse when people create good enough batteries and voice recognition interfaces, not earlier.
PCs share a big number of components with phones, and the stuff it doesn't share with phones, it shares with servers. The hardware won't get more ninche, unless we start to diversify it.
I don't think they can be a major player at the corporate world without being a major player at the consumer market. Their position is based on lock-in, and once they lose some of it, they lose it all.
Another way to look at it is by having the computer indeed calculating over the entire domain at once (that means, the computer runs the calculation on all the numbers represented with X bits at once), but when you read you can only get the result of one of the calculations. The actual one you'll get is a random one, with a distribution that you can tune.
That is equivalent to constraining the operations. I think that way of thinking is more intuitive.
Do they think they can get by on just making better UIs, for the rest of forever?
I don't know if they can, but they should be able to do just that. As long as they make the best UI (do they make it now?) if you want a nice UI, you go with them. The same way that if you want some revolutionary tech, you get it from IBM, or some other company that invest on tech.
It is called especialization. It is one of the biggest drivers of growth since the XVIII century.
Why bother with virtual machines? He can just tar the partitions of one machine, and copy them into the other machines. Then, copy/dev/null and/dev/console, run grub-install/dev/sda (or whatever is it), and you are done.
1 - It is not the same situation. In this case the corporation did something wrong, and he has all the data to prove that. On your example it never gets clear if the data sharer is really guilty, and proof can only be gathered after the case goes to court (that means, there is no proof of anything in settlement time).
2 - Even if it was the same situation, it would be a "tit-for-tat" advice. Let them suffer from the law system they brought.
3 - Even if the corporation in case was completely honest before that, it can be argued that corporations have less rights than little guys.
4 - Now, finally... Punishing the guilty and (maybe) compensating the victims is the sole goal of the law system. Why do you call it "abuse"?
If those neutrinos are really faster than light, then either General Relativity or the Maxwell Equations are wrong. What now depends on what exactly is wrong, but could include time machines, perpetual motors, or maybe nothing important.
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Well, you could just walk around there for one generation or 50, while the newly aquired fuel lasts. Then you are nearer another star, and move.
Creating a market can backfire badly on Microsoft.
If they are wise enough to do as Google (the not evil way) and let people install whatever software from wherever they want, there will be almost no change. People are already used to get small software for free for their PCs, and get big ones directly from the developers.
Now, if they go in the other direction (the evil way) and couple market with DRM to fight software piracy, people will take a look at the alternatives. Even people that use no pirated software will, and they can lose some market share. And I really don't know if MS can afford to lose some market share...
Now, you can bet what direction MS will go (the evil or the not evil way?). I won't try to guess.
Windows Phone won't exist anymore, it is getting replaced by Windows 8 that will unify the portable and desktop OSs.
I tought the same by 1991 when I first readed about it. The release was scheduled to 1992, so I guess I'll query this computer's FS to know where it is.
I often make Google searches with javascript disabled. Except for the sponsored links not working (came-on, Google, don't you want revenue?), that never stopped me.
It does take some credibility away from you when you call a liar somebody that is telling the truth.
That's obviously because its name is 'ect ect ect', not just 'ect'. Didn't you notice the lack of a comma there? (It is certaly also as known to have become a common name. Did you notice the lack of maiuscule letters?)
Next time, try parsing the message with a correct grammar. It will get more informative this way.
Don't underestimate the bots. Do you really think computers are worse than people on a dark and unknown environemnt? It is only dark for you, with the right sensors, the robot can see everything. Do you really think robots have a problem with hazmat? It is cheap to make them imune. The same applies to a hight temperatures. they don't have to follow the same safety procedures as you.
Now, of course, that robot is being conceived for fighting fires, thus it won't replace everything firefighters do. It is a specific equipment, intented to be applied at specific situations. Rescue hability is a big miss, but I guess at a military ship it isn't as relevant as what I'm used to think.
If you don't control the fire in 30 min (so humans can get there), you already lost your ship.
In fact, most of the humans with respiratory protection have a much smaller autonomy. Most kits come with 10 to 20 min, but I don't know what exactly ships buy.
I doubt it, MS will even survive the bad acceptance of their new OS... Maybe not for long, but they will survive.
Anyway, the problem is that there will be no "year of the Linux desktop" even if Linux takes over the desktop. Those things spread following logistical curves, and the only inflection point on those is the time they start to grow slower.
The PC form was already established by the 80's, the only newer addition was the mouse. The problem is, all those other forms are hard to build. Not a little bit hard, but as hard as to not make them possible untill now.
Now we are begining to build computers with other forms. And we are begining with the simplest ones, obviously. You'll have a computer at your pulse when people create good enough batteries and voice recognition interfaces, not earlier.
PCs share a big number of components with phones, and the stuff it doesn't share with phones, it shares with servers. The hardware won't get more ninche, unless we start to diversify it.
I don't think they can be a major player at the corporate world without being a major player at the consumer market. Their position is based on lock-in, and once they lose some of it, they lose it all.
That's what I tought when they started talking about Windows 8. What I tought when I readed this article is more on the lines of:
"Even them can't deny they are doomed anymore"
They aren't iron detectors, they are metal detectors.
In fact, they'd detect bronze better than steel.
That is called auto-immune disease. It can (and do) happen sometimes with non-modified cells too.
No, it is what opposes "The Force", giving mass to particles.
You don't add a 80387 to a DX processor. You must be confusing it witha a 80386.
But it is ok, everybody is confused. Take a look at the error margin.
As the AC said, that's misleading.
Another way to look at it is by having the computer indeed calculating over the entire domain at once (that means, the computer runs the calculation on all the numbers represented with X bits at once), but when you read you can only get the result of one of the calculations. The actual one you'll get is a random one, with a distribution that you can tune.
That is equivalent to constraining the operations. I think that way of thinking is more intuitive.
I don't know if they can, but they should be able to do just that. As long as they make the best UI (do they make it now?) if you want a nice UI, you go with them. The same way that if you want some revolutionary tech, you get it from IBM, or some other company that invest on tech.
It is called especialization. It is one of the biggest drivers of growth since the XVIII century.
Eh... The serial path of the program do always dominate as processor count goes to infinite. That's math. Next you'll come arguing that 1 + 1 = 3.
If you haven't seen this effect on your daily life, it is because you don't have enough cores.
Why bother with virtual machines? He can just tar the partitions of one machine, and copy them into the other machines. Then, copy /dev/null and /dev/console, run grub-install /dev/sda (or whatever is it), and you are done.
But still, that is more work than it should take.
1 - It is not the same situation. In this case the corporation did something wrong, and he has all the data to prove that. On your example it never gets clear if the data sharer is really guilty, and proof can only be gathered after the case goes to court (that means, there is no proof of anything in settlement time).
2 - Even if it was the same situation, it would be a "tit-for-tat" advice. Let them suffer from the law system they brought.
3 - Even if the corporation in case was completely honest before that, it can be argued that corporations have less rights than little guys.
4 - Now, finally... Punishing the guilty and (maybe) compensating the victims is the sole goal of the law system. Why do you call it "abuse"?
Debian (and thus Ubuntu) comes with a Fully Automated Installer (shortened as FAI). Take a look at synaptic, and at its manual.
If those neutrinos are really faster than light, then either General Relativity or the Maxwell Equations are wrong. What now depends on what exactly is wrong, but could include time machines, perpetual motors, or maybe nothing important.
Well, whatever was the actual speed of those neutrinos, they did go in a straight line. There is no reason for why they should, they just did.