I have been in a server room lately. A lot of them actually since I'm a senior systems architect for servers, storage and networking and a repairman for these things, and a consultant on the sales side too. I get a better window into what's going on here than most people because of this perspective, since what's actually going on in server rooms is a dire secret. Just a few days ago I was sitting in a conference room so close to Mordor that it made me uneasy. I could see the Microsoft Redmond campus out the view window, and the issues under discussion were all about Linux servers. They didn't bring up Windows, and we didn't either.
Windows Server is losing share lately in my anecdotal experience, in my area. People are more interested in other options now than they once were. I can confirm that this is the trend for the Northwest US, which is the home of Microsoft. Outside of this realm I would expect the trend to be even more distinct. Excepting Idaho, which seems to buck every trend ever.
As I have here before writ, Microsoft is Bill Gates' Grendel. If he would have his legacy be his philanthropy he must kill it. Else whatever else he does in this world men will forever after spit on his grave as they labor under the monster he made to fund his philanthropy. He can do it. I believe in him now more than ever. Once the deed is done he becomes a hero for all ages. Until then... not so much - as can be seen from this recent story where the man is vilified in the comments while pursuing work to improve the lives of a full fourth of all mankind in a completely blameless fashion.
So yes, it's suicide - or if you prefer, filicide. In this case it's not a bad thing. The child is a monster that needs killing.
I think the saddest part of it all is that before he sold out he was capable of great work. And now he's trending toward Enderle - who now seems to be sort of trying to redeem himself. I guess a guy's gotta make a living, but this is sad to see. I'd rather he found honest work.
It's none of Google's business. The OEMs make what they make, and Google has to stay away from subsidies to avoid the sphere of control that has made Windows so sucktacular. They have to try hard to not tell all OEMs what to invent, or what not to invent, though they can give clues like their Nexus line does, because OEMs are really clever but once they start down that road they will look always to Google for guidance and not look on their own for the Next Big Thing.
OEMs can differentiate with Android. They can put any peripherals they want, use any processor they want (Intel included) because the underlying OS is Linux and all the peripheral manufacurers and processor manufacturers target Linux and Android. They can customize the Linux and Android for whatever their target is: smooth performance at least price, best display, most branding on the home screen, whatever they like - because they have the source code. They can pollute it with crudware, exchanging customer experience for software vendor subsidy to drive the price down - or not. They are free to customize it - and many do - or they can choose to leave it as close as possible to the way Google gave it, which is also a profitable choice. They have the source code.
This differentiation is the difference between brands that makes an Asus tablet preferable to an Acer tablet with almost identical specs at the same price, or equally attractive at a higher price. Asus has higher brand value in tablets. By consistently delivering an outstanding customer experience Apple gets the most differentiation and the highest brand value of all, and that equates to higher gross margins or higher sales (and hence lower per-unit costs and so higher gross margins at the same price) as customers will pay more for a product from a brand that's reliably good and significantly different. The greater the distance of the brand in reliability of a good experience and more significant the difference from the rest of the pack, the more margin can be demanded.
Delivering software upgrades on time adds to the brand value through differentiation too, as some vendors don't service the customer as well after the sale. Asus does take care of this. My original Transformer TF101 got ICS promptly, and the update was nicely done. This makes me more willing to put my money in their products in the future.
I haven't been a big Apple fan since the '80's, but I have to have to hand it to them. The iPad was sufficiently different that it avoided the "uncanny valley" of too much, but not quite enough difference and became its own thing without compare. They had so reliably delivered a good experience with iPhone that people were willing to try it out. On a fluke I got two on launch day as VDI clients for a big demo, and carrying them around made me more attractive than a man with both a toddler and a puppy. It hit instant meme status, and they had to call the factory and ask them to run four shifts for a year. That's winning through differentiation.
Aaron, by providing music that's public domain in this quality you have virtually assured that someone with deep enough pockets to defend it will use it and fix this problem.
The composition has to be a relatively ancient edit to qualify for public domain status in the performed work.
At the bottom you will see the option to filter by composer.
And of course you're welcome to repeat the effort if this one doesn't suit your standard. In the meantime the rest of us will set about setting our slideshows, presentations, home movies and youtube clips to this public domain classical music.
Both parties rely on the fact that a definitive resolution of these issues cannot be found before the courts, and various courts of appeals, until long after the related products are irrelevant. SCO v. Novell is into its ninth year, both companies for all intents no longer exist. And yet lawyers will stand before the bar and argue this case for a while yet. If there is enough money left whatever decisions reached will be appealed to another court still.
The technical term for the offense is "Speaking Truth to Power". It's the closest thing to a universal capital offense. I am quite sure he saw this coming. So brave.
There is nothing wrong with the police questioning a lead in the case, or getting a warrant. There is definitely something wrong with them naming suspects for vigilante pursuit in what is ordinarily a civil matter.
None of these things require cookies. I had a proof laying hereabouts, but I've lost it. If you think about how to do each thing though, the solution is obvious.
All the essential data can be passed in the URI. You need one short session signifier that can be added to the extant argument list. This is fine in https - which all websites should use for logged-in users, though it's a problem in http.
Some US nuclear plants have spent fuel in their cooling ponds at a density over 5x what they were designed for. This is fine as long as nothing bad happens. Unfortunately, Murphy's law.
Geothermal - great if you live near steaming hot springs and are basically sitting on an inactive volcano, not so great if you aren't
This is not true in general and not in Japan specifically because the entire region is geothermally active. New enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) can extract electrical energy from temperature deltas far lower than traditional dry steam plants. They don't even have to be on land: offshore subsea geothermal plants would work quite well especially with a cool flow of ocean water to supply the cold side of the delta. There is very little of the US that could not generate power with EGS. Google mapped them for us. Quote: "Potential for the continental U.S. exceeds 2,980,295 megawatts using Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) and other advanced geothermal technologies such as Low Temperature Hydrothermal. " This is 3/4ths of domestic consumption in 2011. We don't even have to look for them - typically EGS thermal sources are found incidental to other mineral exploration, and ignored even though most of the work is already done at that point.
Since these resources are completely safe, nontoxic, natural, carbon-free electrical energy resources that cost even less than nuclear energy it would be irresponsible to engage in any increase in risk or carbon generation whatsoever before all of these resources were fully exploited.
As both baseload power and on-demand power EGS also offers the potential to mitigate the variability of other clean resources in a way that even nuclear can't. The persistent thermal resource in a given area is limited, but over a long time base so on surges in need can over-extract thermal energy for many years before diminishing returns diminish the resource locally for a while. This makes them the perfect complement to PV solar and others.
There are other things we could do to improve the situation without the toxins of carbon or the risk of nuclear, like encouraging shallow geothermal heatpumps for home heating and cooling, and extracting electricity from the thermal deltas of manufacturing, but EGS is a really big bucket to serve our energy needs in a realistic way and your dismissal of it in this way is offensive so now I'm going to reciprocate.
One chief objection to nuclear is that we have many hundred reactors worldwide of the Fukushima disaster designs. And every one has 40 years worth of spent fuel stored in an elevated pool on top of the building that could be destroyed in some way - many times the design load of fission byproducts for these pools now, and dozens of times the fuel in the reactor vessel. After cooling for a time this fuel is supposed to be moved to safer dry cask storage. But casks cost money and the operators are skinflints and it's cheaper to have the pools recertified for more and more spent fuel packed tighter and tighter and not ever move any to the casks. But density is the bugaboo of nuclear fission: the tighter you pack these rods the more they encourage each other to fission. So now our national production capacity for these casks is 3% of the need, and one brick of C4 on the bottom of one of these pools could lead to a meltdown outside of the containment leading to a vast wasteland of hundreds of square miles of American Exclusion Zone that can't be occupied for 100 years - among other things - for each of these reactors. Certainly there is evidence that this occurred at Fukushima to some degree. On that very day the dumb bastards trusted to operate our nuclear plants should have been cutting P.O.s for casks - and that
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I have been in a server room lately. A lot of them actually since I'm a senior systems architect for servers, storage and networking and a repairman for these things, and a consultant on the sales side too. I get a better window into what's going on here than most people because of this perspective, since what's actually going on in server rooms is a dire secret. Just a few days ago I was sitting in a conference room so close to Mordor that it made me uneasy. I could see the Microsoft Redmond campus out the view window, and the issues under discussion were all about Linux servers. They didn't bring up Windows, and we didn't either.
Windows Server is losing share lately in my anecdotal experience, in my area. People are more interested in other options now than they once were. I can confirm that this is the trend for the Northwest US, which is the home of Microsoft. Outside of this realm I would expect the trend to be even more distinct. Excepting Idaho, which seems to buck every trend ever.
As I have here before writ, Microsoft is Bill Gates' Grendel. If he would have his legacy be his philanthropy he must kill it. Else whatever else he does in this world men will forever after spit on his grave as they labor under the monster he made to fund his philanthropy. He can do it. I believe in him now more than ever. Once the deed is done he becomes a hero for all ages. Until then... not so much - as can be seen from this recent story where the man is vilified in the comments while pursuing work to improve the lives of a full fourth of all mankind in a completely blameless fashion.
So yes, it's suicide - or if you prefer, filicide. In this case it's not a bad thing. The child is a monster that needs killing.
I think the saddest part of it all is that before he sold out he was capable of great work. And now he's trending toward Enderle - who now seems to be sort of trying to redeem himself. I guess a guy's gotta make a living, but this is sad to see. I'd rather he found honest work.
It's none of Google's business. The OEMs make what they make, and Google has to stay away from subsidies to avoid the sphere of control that has made Windows so sucktacular. They have to try hard to not tell all OEMs what to invent, or what not to invent, though they can give clues like their Nexus line does, because OEMs are really clever but once they start down that road they will look always to Google for guidance and not look on their own for the Next Big Thing.
OEMs can differentiate with Android. They can put any peripherals they want, use any processor they want (Intel included) because the underlying OS is Linux and all the peripheral manufacurers and processor manufacturers target Linux and Android. They can customize the Linux and Android for whatever their target is: smooth performance at least price, best display, most branding on the home screen, whatever they like - because they have the source code. They can pollute it with crudware, exchanging customer experience for software vendor subsidy to drive the price down - or not. They are free to customize it - and many do - or they can choose to leave it as close as possible to the way Google gave it, which is also a profitable choice. They have the source code.
This differentiation is the difference between brands that makes an Asus tablet preferable to an Acer tablet with almost identical specs at the same price, or equally attractive at a higher price. Asus has higher brand value in tablets. By consistently delivering an outstanding customer experience Apple gets the most differentiation and the highest brand value of all, and that equates to higher gross margins or higher sales (and hence lower per-unit costs and so higher gross margins at the same price) as customers will pay more for a product from a brand that's reliably good and significantly different. The greater the distance of the brand in reliability of a good experience and more significant the difference from the rest of the pack, the more margin can be demanded.
Delivering software upgrades on time adds to the brand value through differentiation too, as some vendors don't service the customer as well after the sale. Asus does take care of this. My original Transformer TF101 got ICS promptly, and the update was nicely done. This makes me more willing to put my money in their products in the future.
I haven't been a big Apple fan since the '80's, but I have to have to hand it to them. The iPad was sufficiently different that it avoided the "uncanny valley" of too much, but not quite enough difference and became its own thing without compare. They had so reliably delivered a good experience with iPhone that people were willing to try it out. On a fluke I got two on launch day as VDI clients for a big demo, and carrying them around made me more attractive than a man with both a toddler and a puppy. It hit instant meme status, and they had to call the factory and ask them to run four shifts for a year. That's winning through differentiation.
This is not rocket surgery.
And finally one worth having, too.
I am not the AC above. That is, though, the correct answer.
Vista was different. There was no heir apparent. Now there are two. That may be difference enough.
Aaron, by providing music that's public domain in this quality you have virtually assured that someone with deep enough pockets to defend it will use it and fix this problem.
The composition has to be a relatively ancient edit to qualify for public domain status in the performed work.
At the bottom you will see the option to filter by composer.
And of course you're welcome to repeat the effort if this one doesn't suit your standard. In the meantime the rest of us will set about setting our slideshows, presentations, home movies and youtube clips to this public domain classical music.
Fantastic. Now let's do it again until more classical works are liberated. And visit their "donate" button.
Both parties rely on the fact that a definitive resolution of these issues cannot be found before the courts, and various courts of appeals, until long after the related products are irrelevant. SCO v. Novell is into its ninth year, both companies for all intents no longer exist. And yet lawyers will stand before the bar and argue this case for a while yet. If there is enough money left whatever decisions reached will be appealed to another court still.
And... We're there.
There is a point at which sovereign nations pushed beyond the realm of reason do things they cannot afford to do. We may be getting there for Ecuador.
The technical term for the offense is "Speaking Truth to Power". It's the closest thing to a universal capital offense. I am quite sure he saw this coming. So brave.
You may be destined for a long unpleasant online experience.
There is nothing wrong with the police questioning a lead in the case, or getting a warrant. There is definitely something wrong with them naming suspects for vigilante pursuit in what is ordinarily a civil matter.
This cannot be done in an https session.
Tim Berners-Lee. The guy who invented the thing.
None of these things require cookies. I had a proof laying hereabouts, but I've lost it. If you think about how to do each thing though, the solution is obvious.
Obviously adding this session signifier to all the links on the page requires an output filter.
All the essential data can be passed in the URI. You need one short session signifier that can be added to the extant argument list. This is fine in https - which all websites should use for logged-in users, though it's a problem in http.
I am not responsible for the design of /. If I were I'd take a flamethrower to this place.
The WWW is supposed to be stateless for a reason. I'm going to come right out and say that the cookie is the dumbest invention since Token Ring.
Some US nuclear plants have spent fuel in their cooling ponds at a density over 5x what they were designed for. This is fine as long as nothing bad happens. Unfortunately, Murphy's law.
Geothermal - great if you live near steaming hot springs and are basically sitting on an inactive volcano, not so great if you aren't
This is not true in general and not in Japan specifically because the entire region is geothermally active. New enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) can extract electrical energy from temperature deltas far lower than traditional dry steam plants. They don't even have to be on land: offshore subsea geothermal plants would work quite well especially with a cool flow of ocean water to supply the cold side of the delta. There is very little of the US that could not generate power with EGS. Google mapped them for us. Quote: "Potential for the continental U.S. exceeds 2,980,295 megawatts using Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) and other advanced geothermal technologies such as Low Temperature Hydrothermal. " This is 3/4ths of domestic consumption in 2011. We don't even have to look for them - typically EGS thermal sources are found incidental to other mineral exploration, and ignored even though most of the work is already done at that point.
Since these resources are completely safe, nontoxic, natural, carbon-free electrical energy resources that cost even less than nuclear energy it would be irresponsible to engage in any increase in risk or carbon generation whatsoever before all of these resources were fully exploited.
As both baseload power and on-demand power EGS also offers the potential to mitigate the variability of other clean resources in a way that even nuclear can't. The persistent thermal resource in a given area is limited, but over a long time base so on surges in need can over-extract thermal energy for many years before diminishing returns diminish the resource locally for a while. This makes them the perfect complement to PV solar and others.
There are other things we could do to improve the situation without the toxins of carbon or the risk of nuclear, like encouraging shallow geothermal heatpumps for home heating and cooling, and extracting electricity from the thermal deltas of manufacturing, but EGS is a really big bucket to serve our energy needs in a realistic way and your dismissal of it in this way is offensive so now I'm going to reciprocate.
One chief objection to nuclear is that we have many hundred reactors worldwide of the Fukushima disaster designs. And every one has 40 years worth of spent fuel stored in an elevated pool on top of the building that could be destroyed in some way - many times the design load of fission byproducts for these pools now, and dozens of times the fuel in the reactor vessel. After cooling for a time this fuel is supposed to be moved to safer dry cask storage. But casks cost money and the operators are skinflints and it's cheaper to have the pools recertified for more and more spent fuel packed tighter and tighter and not ever move any to the casks. But density is the bugaboo of nuclear fission: the tighter you pack these rods the more they encourage each other to fission. So now our national production capacity for these casks is 3% of the need, and one brick of C4 on the bottom of one of these pools could lead to a meltdown outside of the containment leading to a vast wasteland of hundreds of square miles of American Exclusion Zone that can't be occupied for 100 years - among other things - for each of these reactors. Certainly there is evidence that this occurred at Fukushima to some degree. On that very day the dumb bastards trusted to operate our nuclear plants should have been cutting P.O.s for casks - and that