I'm not sure how you would get funding and permission for an academic study of that thesis since it involves inducing brain damage in human subjects. Dr. Mengele?
This. If Mr. Anonymous Coward becomes financially successful and cares to do so he is quite free to leave as his legacy a foundation to supply and support the urban feral cat. Or the quiet contemplation of patterns of rake in sand. Or whatever.
I think it's not a bad thing for a private organization to fund this research. I doubt their results will be useful, or even interesting. Certainly $5 billion would be more like a figure you could develop something interesting with. $5 million gets you one boss and a couple of researchers for a decade - no more. Some people collect lint, or leave their wealth to their cats. But it's their money, and their choice what to do with it. Once in a great while somebody re-picking forgotten corners finds a gem.
Frankly I'm a Heinlein fan and he had a fictional foundation - the Howard Foundation in his works with just this purpose. In his books they solved the problem by encouraging selective breeding of the long-lived through a well-invested endowment that paid out based on the number of progeny. See "Assignment in Eternity" and "Time Enough for Love" for examples. The books were fun, and examined a lot of the concepts going through this thread as well as the social aspects of an immortal minority. Frankly "Assignment in Eternity" came off the rails in the middle of the book and turned into a bad season of Star Trek for the second half. But there was a lot of interesting stuff there that is found in this thread though more carefully developed.
I'm not that optimistic they'll find anything interesting either, but hell - it's not like we have full employment and the people who lean this way may as well have interesting work to do that keeps them from bothering the rest of us most of the time.
Lacks samples are sufficiently geographically isolated and taken care of that it would take an extinction level event to wipe them all out at once. They have offsite backups. As long as they remain useful they are immortal for any human sense of the word.
Microsoft has turned a Mobile market share of 40% into a share of 1.5%, and shows no improvement in trend. These things take time and if they trend up long enough to be a significant force again we will give them the respect they are due. But not before. Now they are "other".
Nobody is going to buy Nokia. Intel isn't a good fit. They're trimming the company down to where it can fit in a filing cabinet managed by a couple paralegals.
The depletion of energy from barrier conditions like conduction and convection diminish in relation to the storage capacity with the increase in volume and mass of the salt. If you prefer, "more salt holds heat better, unless you put it in a sheet or thread - but nobody involved is that dumb."
I am specifically referring to this part of your post: "but rather the ability to run full-fledged Windows apps when you need to". You know that the ARM based WinRT Surface won't run "full-fledged" W7 and Windows XP apps without some porting if at all. And yet you say it will in your post which omits the "pro" qualificatiion that designates an Intel platform rather than ARM. This is, to be strict, a lie and that Microsoft has ported Office to the platform doesn't save the lie from being a lie. The lie confuses the two platforms, and I have to believe the effort is deliberate. I know you're not allowed to lie so you've broken the rules with your zeal and hidden the offence in a compound sentence to avoid detection, which means you knew you were cheating. You are deliberately conflating the two platforms in the public mind for some reason unknown to me, and guaranteeing the failure of both - which seems to not be your intent.
With 3GB of RAM you should not need good disk performance. The I/O load to boot the OS and present the user login should be less than 10MB plus whatever size the screenshot takes - and it should be a single stream of continguous blocks (and with 10MB I'm being really freaking generous). The rest can be done in the background as you go. App load and display should take like 1/10th second from a spun up 2.5" 5200RPM SATA drive even with Word. I have no idea what the heck Windows and the apps are doing that takes all that I/O but I'm sure it's not necessary to do every time - once only the first time should do it, and some flags to set for app changes between runs - but only when the base app changes between runs. If I organized my work as poorly as Windows and Windows apps do it would take me several hundred years to get to work, fifty years to answer an email, hundreds more years to get home and the sun would expire before I achieved anything useful. Of course, a Flash Cache could be used to accelerate boot times, but that would be cheating. (Hint: if you can cheat, do.)
The whole thing is a bucket of fail. Windows and its apps are by far the worst at this but most of the various Linux distros, Android, iOS, OS X and others have evidence of the onset of this disease. Just because you have insanely powerful processor and incredibly deep storage doesn't mean you have to waste it all. The advent of SSD doesn't mean we need to require 8000 IOPS to get reasonable boot times. If you need a whole second to validate a user after he presses "enter" on his uid and password, map a user drive and present the user the same screen he had when he logged off you have failed in many different ways. If your app takes 0.2 seconds to present all of the UI that it needs, you have failed in many different ways. Organize your work!
POST takes too long too. A lot of that nonsense can be deferred. You need to validate enough RAM to get enough OS loaded to display the login plus a little more - not all of it, enough boot device access to load the bootloader, the basic functions of the display and the HID that performs the I/O (keyboard and mouse usually) and that's about it. The most time consuming part of that should be spinning the drive up if it's not a solid state device. If you can't get your solid state logic together before a disk of spinning rust comes up to speed you should seek another line of work.
Sorry for the rant, kind of. It really upsets me that our current technologies are being led by people who went to school on the short bus.
To the extent that if your laptop gets stolen and you have an IP address and a GPS fix on the crook's address, the police often refuse to go round and batter the door down because it's they need more proof.
That's just a domestic residential robbery or burglary. In search of evidence to support a charge of violation of the laws against the criminal tresspass of Steamboat Willy's IP rights they will not just batter down your door - the door doesn't even have to be in their US jurisdiction.
It boggles the mind how you could make a 15" laptop with dual 3.0 GHz cores, 3GB RAM, discrete GPU, gigabit network into a horrible user experience with software. Not so long ago that was a midrange server. But it appears it can be done.
I have seen so many different posts, from so many vocal and otherwise knowledgeable people yet conflating the Surface and the Surface Pro that I have no hope for the success of either. The innate confusion of one name for two such diverse products is just crazy. Some of it appears to be deliberate, too.
The 8GB version isn't available at retail for just this reason: Not enough markup left for the retailer. Google took the stock of the 16GB version from their Google Play store to ship to retailers to avoid the apparent conflict of interest.
They are porting because Microsofts new app store model deals them completely out of the marketing channel. They would like to regain control of their destiny.
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As I said above, limiting new people is not a survivable online strategy.
Maybe restricting accounts logged in from the Azure cloud (by IP) might be. Azure hosted desktops are almost guaranteed to be shills.
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To deselect Karma or Subscriber bonus, click the "options" button. It's a sticky setting that stays until you change it now, rather than post-by-post. BenLeeImp addressed the rest of your question.
This can't be fixed I don't think. Any cure is worse than the disease.
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I'm not sure how you would get funding and permission for an academic study of that thesis since it involves inducing brain damage in human subjects. Dr. Mengele?
This. If Mr. Anonymous Coward becomes financially successful and cares to do so he is quite free to leave as his legacy a foundation to supply and support the urban feral cat. Or the quiet contemplation of patterns of rake in sand. Or whatever.
I think it's not a bad thing for a private organization to fund this research. I doubt their results will be useful, or even interesting. Certainly $5 billion would be more like a figure you could develop something interesting with. $5 million gets you one boss and a couple of researchers for a decade - no more. Some people collect lint, or leave their wealth to their cats. But it's their money, and their choice what to do with it. Once in a great while somebody re-picking forgotten corners finds a gem.
Frankly I'm a Heinlein fan and he had a fictional foundation - the Howard Foundation in his works with just this purpose. In his books they solved the problem by encouraging selective breeding of the long-lived through a well-invested endowment that paid out based on the number of progeny. See "Assignment in Eternity" and "Time Enough for Love" for examples. The books were fun, and examined a lot of the concepts going through this thread as well as the social aspects of an immortal minority. Frankly "Assignment in Eternity" came off the rails in the middle of the book and turned into a bad season of Star Trek for the second half. But there was a lot of interesting stuff there that is found in this thread though more carefully developed.
I'm not that optimistic they'll find anything interesting either, but hell - it's not like we have full employment and the people who lean this way may as well have interesting work to do that keeps them from bothering the rest of us most of the time.
Lacks samples are sufficiently geographically isolated and taken care of that it would take an extinction level event to wipe them all out at once. They have offsite backups. As long as they remain useful they are immortal for any human sense of the word.
If, as seems likely, the patents are already licensed to Microsoft they are almost wothless to Apple and Gooogle.
Why buy the cow when the milk is free? They already have everything they want from Nokia.
Microsoft has turned a Mobile market share of 40% into a share of 1.5%, and shows no improvement in trend. These things take time and if they trend up long enough to be a significant force again we will give them the respect they are due. But not before. Now they are "other".
Not invented here syndrome.
Nobody is going to buy Nokia. Intel isn't a good fit. They're trimming the company down to where it can fit in a filing cabinet managed by a couple paralegals.
I prefer to call it The Rabbit of Caerbannog. It seems harmless...
The depletion of energy from barrier conditions like conduction and convection diminish in relation to the storage capacity with the increase in volume and mass of the salt. If you prefer, "more salt holds heat better, unless you put it in a sheet or thread - but nobody involved is that dumb."
I am specifically referring to this part of your post: "but rather the ability to run full-fledged Windows apps when you need to". You know that the ARM based WinRT Surface won't run "full-fledged" W7 and Windows XP apps without some porting if at all. And yet you say it will in your post which omits the "pro" qualificatiion that designates an Intel platform rather than ARM. This is, to be strict, a lie and that Microsoft has ported Office to the platform doesn't save the lie from being a lie. The lie confuses the two platforms, and I have to believe the effort is deliberate. I know you're not allowed to lie so you've broken the rules with your zeal and hidden the offence in a compound sentence to avoid detection, which means you knew you were cheating. You are deliberately conflating the two platforms in the public mind for some reason unknown to me, and guaranteeing the failure of both - which seems to not be your intent.
With 3GB of RAM you should not need good disk performance. The I/O load to boot the OS and present the user login should be less than 10MB plus whatever size the screenshot takes - and it should be a single stream of continguous blocks (and with 10MB I'm being really freaking generous). The rest can be done in the background as you go. App load and display should take like 1/10th second from a spun up 2.5" 5200RPM SATA drive even with Word. I have no idea what the heck Windows and the apps are doing that takes all that I/O but I'm sure it's not necessary to do every time - once only the first time should do it, and some flags to set for app changes between runs - but only when the base app changes between runs. If I organized my work as poorly as Windows and Windows apps do it would take me several hundred years to get to work, fifty years to answer an email, hundreds more years to get home and the sun would expire before I achieved anything useful. Of course, a Flash Cache could be used to accelerate boot times, but that would be cheating. (Hint: if you can cheat, do.)
The whole thing is a bucket of fail. Windows and its apps are by far the worst at this but most of the various Linux distros, Android, iOS, OS X and others have evidence of the onset of this disease. Just because you have insanely powerful processor and incredibly deep storage doesn't mean you have to waste it all. The advent of SSD doesn't mean we need to require 8000 IOPS to get reasonable boot times. If you need a whole second to validate a user after he presses "enter" on his uid and password, map a user drive and present the user the same screen he had when he logged off you have failed in many different ways. If your app takes 0.2 seconds to present all of the UI that it needs, you have failed in many different ways. Organize your work!
POST takes too long too. A lot of that nonsense can be deferred. You need to validate enough RAM to get enough OS loaded to display the login plus a little more - not all of it, enough boot device access to load the bootloader, the basic functions of the display and the HID that performs the I/O (keyboard and mouse usually) and that's about it. The most time consuming part of that should be spinning the drive up if it's not a solid state device. If you can't get your solid state logic together before a disk of spinning rust comes up to speed you should seek another line of work.
Sorry for the rant, kind of. It really upsets me that our current technologies are being led by people who went to school on the short bus.
To the extent that if your laptop gets stolen and you have an IP address and a GPS fix on the crook's address, the police often refuse to go round and batter the door down because it's they need more proof.
That's just a domestic residential robbery or burglary. In search of evidence to support a charge of violation of the laws against the criminal tresspass of Steamboat Willy's IP rights they will not just batter down your door - the door doesn't even have to be in their US jurisdiction.
It boggles the mind how you could make a 15" laptop with dual 3.0 GHz cores, 3GB RAM, discrete GPU, gigabit network into a horrible user experience with software. Not so long ago that was a midrange server. But it appears it can be done.
I thought they were both great, with hands-on experience. But I bought the Transformer. Am happy thus far.
I have seen so many different posts, from so many vocal and otherwise knowledgeable people yet conflating the Surface and the Surface Pro that I have no hope for the success of either. The innate confusion of one name for two such diverse products is just crazy. Some of it appears to be deliberate, too.
The 8GB version isn't available at retail for just this reason: Not enough markup left for the retailer. Google took the stock of the 16GB version from their Google Play store to ship to retailers to avoid the apparent conflict of interest.
They are porting because Microsofts new app store model deals them completely out of the marketing channel. They would like to regain control of their destiny.
This is why you always log out after slashdotting from Tom Cruise's house.
So these numbers are about to get a whole lot worse.
On launch day they will brag three hundred million sales, leaving out a description of "software assurance".
As I said above, limiting new people is not a survivable online strategy.
Maybe restricting accounts logged in from the Azure cloud (by IP) might be. Azure hosted desktops are almost guaranteed to be shills.
Discouraging new users is not a survivable online strategy.
To deselect Karma or Subscriber bonus, click the "options" button. It's a sticky setting that stays until you change it now, rather than post-by-post. BenLeeImp addressed the rest of your question.
This can't be fixed I don't think. Any cure is worse than the disease.