Early retirement is one way to cut the work force – however, if done poorly it can lead to a brain drain.
I'd say it almost always does, because the people most likely to volunteer are the ones most likely to find another job quickly.
One company I worked for decided to lay off about a third of the staff, and half of the staff volunteered to go. They got rid of the third they thought they needed the least, which pissed off the remaining volunteers enough that most of us just found new jobs and quit.
Yes, the original Atom chipset was a power-munching pile of crap, but that's not because they 'pushed most components out' to it. It was a perfectly standard chipset for that time, providing the memory interface and, I think, a crappy GPU. Everything a non-Atom Intel CPU of a comparable time period did the Atom did.
And my Ion HTPC uses less power at the wall than the Atom chipset used by itself, while providing a faster memory interface and faster GPU. The original Atom problems were due to crappy chipsets, not crappy CPUs.
Vista was a flop. Vista is the reason Microsoft had to rush out Windows 7 (aka Vista with the crap fixed).
In my entire life, I've seen two PCs running Vista. Every other Windows PC I've seen since Vista was released was running Windows XP or 7. One day I might even see a PC running Windows 8, but I'm not holding my breath.
Again, if Metro is only available on a tiny user base of tablets and other touchscreen devices, no sane company is going to waste time and effort developing for it. They had to push it on desktop users or their entire business plan would fall apart.
But they have to push users into Metro if they're going to get developers to build the Metro apps they need to become a competitive phone and tablet supplier.
This is why they'll fight tooth and nail to not give back the Start menu. It's all about the Metro apps.
I don't remember it being a huge improvement over Windows 2000 to begin with.
I presume you're joking, because probably 99% of XP users who upgraded to it came from 95/98/ME. XP wasn't a huge improvement in UI over the Windows 9x series, but many of us had run into insoluble problems on 9x which XP eliminated (such as not running well, or at all, with much more than 512MB of RAM).
Kourou vs Canaveral gains typically about 2% payload. For a $100 million dollar launch that is worth nearly $2million.
Not if your competitor can launch it for $25,000,000.
Wikipedia claims Ariane 5 is over $10,000 per kilo to LEO, while Falcon Heavy is expected to be about $2,250. Assuming they're similarly reliable, no-one is going to pay four times as much for the same launch just because it's closer to the equator.
As a result, the rockets can carry a bigger payload than if they launched from the USA.
A bigger payload is irrelevant if it costs 2x as much per pound launched. And the difference in launch velocity between Florida and French Guiana is probably less than 200 m/s, which saves you a few thousand dollars in fuel.
That money was going to the poor people until the government stole it to give to the 1%.
I honestly don't know how anyone can support taking money from someone working on a low wage to give to some finance fat-cat to go towards buying a new car they can show off to their coworkers for a few days. So I'm not surprised you're posting anonymously.
Is that the Cost/Payload of Ariane or Falcon? And how does it compare to the other one?
Put it this way. Ariane is expensive enough that many people launching billion-dollar satellites would rather put them on a Russian rocket and hope they didn't leave a vodka bottle in the engine when they built it.
The idea that there are Microsoft fans or users on Slashdot is just tough to accept, like if you told us a unicorn was posting to Slashdot.
To be fair, most people of clue have abandoned Slashdot over the last year or three. Before long it probably will just be a site for Microsoft shills to tell each other how wonderful Windows is.
Both approaches are equally valid in my book; it would be very hard for Elite's procedural approach to have the kind of in-jokes that Star Citizen's hand crafting approach makes trivial, such as having one of the bread basket systems called "Kellogg" (yes, really!), so think of it as a quality vs. quantity kind of thing.
Adding a few hand-coded worlds to a procedurally generated game is trivial, if you want to do it.
So you're upset about wasting almost 1MB of space on your multi-terabyte hard drive in order to work around stupid disk manufacturer tricks like lying about their real block size? There's even less reason to complain on an SSD because that almost 1MB will never be written to and hence can be recycled for wear leveling.
I can understand the the issue with dd of a disk image, but copying an old disk image and then deleting and recreating the partitions is a pretty unusual use case compared to installing fresh on an SSD or an HDD with 4k blocks that reports 512 byte blocks.
To be fair, the traditional BIOS was pretty complex for its time, not to mention clunky today. UEFI wasn't a bad idea in principle, it just became one when they threw the kitchen sink in there.
Also there are probably far more people capable of writing a UEFI BIOS than a traditional all-assembler BIOS.
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Early retirement is one way to cut the work force – however, if done poorly it can lead to a brain drain.
I'd say it almost always does, because the people most likely to volunteer are the ones most likely to find another job quickly.
One company I worked for decided to lay off about a third of the staff, and half of the staff volunteered to go. They got rid of the third they thought they needed the least, which pissed off the remaining volunteers enough that most of us just found new jobs and quit.
Yes, today's ARM uses less power than a 45nm Intel CPU released nearly two years ago. Shocking news!
Please...
Yes, the original Atom chipset was a power-munching pile of crap, but that's not because they 'pushed most components out' to it. It was a perfectly standard chipset for that time, providing the memory interface and, I think, a crappy GPU. Everything a non-Atom Intel CPU of a comparable time period did the Atom did.
And my Ion HTPC uses less power at the wall than the Atom chipset used by itself, while providing a faster memory interface and faster GPU. The original Atom problems were due to crappy chipsets, not crappy CPUs.
Since you're so knowledgeable, maybe you could explain to us which 'weakness' this rootkit is exploiting to get itself installed?
Windows 7 runs DX11. So this just means game developers will stick to DX11 until Windows 10 is well established in the marketplace.
Vista was a flop. Vista is the reason Microsoft had to rush out Windows 7 (aka Vista with the crap fixed).
In my entire life, I've seen two PCs running Vista. Every other Windows PC I've seen since Vista was released was running Windows XP or 7. One day I might even see a PC running Windows 8, but I'm not holding my breath.
Again, if Metro is only available on a tiny user base of tablets and other touchscreen devices, no sane company is going to waste time and effort developing for it. They had to push it on desktop users or their entire business plan would fall apart.
But they have to push users into Metro if they're going to get developers to build the Metro apps they need to become a competitive phone and tablet supplier.
This is why they'll fight tooth and nail to not give back the Start menu. It's all about the Metro apps.
I don't remember it being a huge improvement over Windows 2000 to begin with.
I presume you're joking, because probably 99% of XP users who upgraded to it came from 95/98/ME. XP wasn't a huge improvement in UI over the Windows 9x series, but many of us had run into insoluble problems on 9x which XP eliminated (such as not running well, or at all, with much more than 512MB of RAM).
As long as MS maintains its OEM channel, then Win8 will be a slow steady success..
Like Vista and ME, you mean?
Seriously: what new "gotta have" features justifies the hassle and cost of going from Win7 to Win8?
It lets you run tablet apps on your desktop machine. Who could not want that? Particularly when there are so many tablet apps for Windows.
Kourou vs Canaveral gains typically about 2% payload. For a $100 million dollar launch that is worth nearly $2million.
Not if your competitor can launch it for $25,000,000.
Wikipedia claims Ariane 5 is over $10,000 per kilo to LEO, while Falcon Heavy is expected to be about $2,250. Assuming they're similarly reliable, no-one is going to pay four times as much for the same launch just because it's closer to the equator.
As a result, the rockets can carry a bigger payload than if they launched from the USA.
A bigger payload is irrelevant if it costs 2x as much per pound launched. And the difference in launch velocity between Florida and French Guiana is probably less than 200 m/s, which saves you a few thousand dollars in fuel.
That money was going to the poor people until the government stole it to give to the 1%.
I honestly don't know how anyone can support taking money from someone working on a low wage to give to some finance fat-cat to go towards buying a new car they can show off to their coworkers for a few days. So I'm not surprised you're posting anonymously.
Yeah, we should totally be taking money from poor people and giving it to the 1% who can afford to blow $60k dollars on a toy car.
Is that the Cost/Payload of Ariane or Falcon? And how does it compare to the other one?
Put it this way. Ariane is expensive enough that many people launching billion-dollar satellites would rather put them on a Russian rocket and hope they didn't leave a vodka bottle in the engine when they built it.
The idea that there are Microsoft fans or users on Slashdot is just tough to accept, like if you told us a unicorn was posting to Slashdot.
To be fair, most people of clue have abandoned Slashdot over the last year or three. Before long it probably will just be a site for Microsoft shills to tell each other how wonderful Windows is.
Both approaches are equally valid in my book; it would be very hard for Elite's procedural approach to have the kind of in-jokes that Star Citizen's hand crafting approach makes trivial, such as having one of the bread basket systems called "Kellogg" (yes, really!), so think of it as a quality vs. quantity kind of thing.
Adding a few hand-coded worlds to a procedurally generated game is trivial, if you want to do it.
So you're upset about wasting almost 1MB of space on your multi-terabyte hard drive in order to work around stupid disk manufacturer tricks like lying about their real block size? There's even less reason to complain on an SSD because that almost 1MB will never be written to and hence can be recycled for wear leveling.
I can understand the the issue with dd of a disk image, but copying an old disk image and then deleting and recreating the partitions is a pretty unusual use case compared to installing fresh on an SSD or an HDD with 4k blocks that reports 512 byte blocks.
Hint: Linux actually has security built in by design. Random apps can't just update themselves, because they don't have root permission.
Yeah, because I definitely want to be giving every random software company root access to my system.
Games and video editing are the only reasons I keep a Windows PC around. And a lot of my Steam games already run under Wine.
So how come it works on Android?
To be fair, the traditional BIOS was pretty complex for its time, not to mention clunky today. UEFI wasn't a bad idea in principle, it just became one when they threw the kitchen sink in there.
Also there are probably far more people capable of writing a UEFI BIOS than a traditional all-assembler BIOS.
Sequential reads and writes are still faster than random. Particularly on cheap flash drives.