Actually, that was me. They reported on what they did. Multi-wavelength light is commonly used in fiber optic communications to provide multiple channels on a single strand. Polarization is a radial angle rather than a hor/vert thing. This is the first iteration. We should not expect everything in the first go.
but generally I agree using vista right now is a pain for little real benifit but I don't see any fundamental problems that will stop it slowly replacing XP just as XP slowly replaced 2K.
These dimensions are length, width, depth, polarization and color. Polarization is not a horizontal/vertical dimension - it's a continuous angle of deviation from an arbitrary line perpendicular to the read/write ray. Color, or wavelength, is likewise a continuous dimension. This is important because increases in the ability to create and read differing angles of polarity and wavelength each give as much improvement as increases in bits-per-millimeter (feature size) in the other dimensions. Twice as many colors? That's twice as much data. Going from horizontal/vertical to 45 degree increments? That's double again. And because the dimensions are continuous there's no physical limit to how much they can multiply data storage capacity, which is different from layers in a Blu-Ray because in that technology there's a limit to how many layers you can have.
None. We're all making this up. There are no people actually using Linux except the three guys in Oregon who put out all the distros, and they lay up their work in Visual Studio and then port it. There's a few hundred people in the Bangalore blog center who post all these pro-Linux posts, but we do it using XP.
Shuttleworth knows that security isn't a "feature" that's variably graded option - it's a binary checkbox where the only acceptable answer it "yes, we have that". That's why Ubuntu has by policy no open ports to the network by default.
One of the most frustrating things about technology is that the right answer is not necessarily the most popular. OpenBSD has for decades offered a more secure operating system, just by not listening to strangers on the network and employing other networking best practices.
Here's an odd point: good practice doesn't prevent any of the cool (yes, some of them are cool) features that Windows provides. Somewhere along the way they abandoned good practice as a hard rule. That was the mistake. They take shortcuts because they think bad practice is "what people want". They've sold a billion copies, so there must be some merit to that opinion. But in doing so they've spawned a malware ecosystem that dwarfs Microsoft's sales as well as the rest of the top 5 in IT. Microsoft is more effective at selling rootkits and antivirus than they are at selling Office 2007 and Vista, and there's more money in exploiting and protecting their operating system than selling it. The entire antivirus industry is an integral part of the Windows ecosystem and it's completely unnecessary.
This is all crazy. We don't have to play this game any more. We have options.
Grandma knew that Windows was not for her when she got broadband and her computer became not useful in under 24 hours. She has Ubuntu now two months, and not a peep. There's nothing she wants to do that Ubuntu can't give her. She's 90. She uses the computer to get online and chat, to process and print her photos, to play some simple games. Her son uses it to watch movies on Hulu and surf porn.
Neither of them is technical. They have Ubuntu - they don't need to be. Their computer has no antivirus, no firewall. It doesn't need them. It does what they want it to do and it keeps doing it and that's enough for them.
SSD storage, and rotation-free storage in general. It is not living up to expectations or promises, never mind the crystal storage methods mentioned almost a decade ago that got some really nice density.
Now you can't get a lot of their more exciting offerings like Server 2008 Datacenter edition unless you buy SA. Which means if you don't buy SA, you have to buy a separate copy of Server 2008 for each virtual machine you might run. And you can only transfer the license every 30 days, so if your cluster fails over you have to wait a month before you fail back, and run your cluster in non-redundant mode for that month. So the non-SA versions of Server 2008 are crippleware because they can't do HA. Way to sell product by subscription! These reality enhanced individuals have no idea what their competition is doing to their value proposition. And even if you buy into that they only support VMs that run Windows and their Novell Linux lapdog, SUSE SLED. Ubuntu? Redhat? Mandrake? Oracle Unbreakable Linux? BSD? Debian? Never heard of that stuff.
For those who are paying attention, Software Assurance is the incredible deal where you pay Microsoft every year 1/3 the price of their full software stack and in return you get to use the useful upgrades they come out with every twelve years for FREE. Isn't proprietary licensing great? There are other rules too. You wouldn't believe what obscure rules in the license agreement these tards pulled up when they were trying to drive Ernie Ball out of business. What they got instead is that he paid them, deleted their software, and became a Linux fan.
Of course it can. So can Linux. Naturally if you use Linux you can run all the incidences of Linux you want without paying extra. That'll be handy when we get to that many cores because lots of useful new software is coming out as virtual appliances - like OpenFiler.
Now... What are you going to do with those threads? Run every Explorer tab in a separate VM? How many incidences of W7 do you need on one workstation? How many incidences of W7 can you run on that SuperDome box for the base price? Hm? And when that's a $5k desktop workstation machine what's that going to cost? Is the W7 virtualization cross-platorm? By cross platform I don't mean "All the version of Windows and Microsoft's lapdog Novell's toxic SLED." I mean everything. Well?
The W7 Extreme Signature Racing Stripe Edition might as well be their 3-app limited crippleware on the kind of iron that's landing this year and next. Last time they missed the turn thinking the minimum was higher than it was. This time they miss thinking the maximum was smaller than it is. Poor Microsoft. Their software just isn't flexible enough to scale.
is the quality of innovation we've come to expect from the market leader in desktop operating systems. It's truly revolutionary thinking combining the most prominent attributes both of their own software and the creations of others to yield unheard-of benefits for the customer.
And his remarks are reminiscent of Clemens' on the subject, who was channelling Dobbs, who later admitted he stole the work, but traced it back to Pliny the Elder before the trail was lost.
We already know that either of the newer versions require relatively recent hardware b/c they consume more CPU, RAM, and disk than XP does.
And if you do have 2 processors/8 cores/16 threads, 72GB of RAM and 4TB of SSD storage in your desktop PC, W7 can't use it. It's a toy. With Ubuntu you can run unlimited virtual appliances on that box. In addition to typing up emails and scanning documents it's a full participant in a private cloud that can step up and do HA duties when the halon goes off in the server room.
So... within months of W7's release we could go to 4 processors/32 cores/64 threads, or something even more amazing and what's Microsoft's shiny desktop OS got? Explorer 8 and Freecell. Yet another desktop theme. Yet another empty promise of increased security. Ooh.
It could be your last chance to get committed to Software Assurance. That's the amazing deal where you pay Microsoft every year 1/3 the price of their full software stack and in return you get to use the useful upgrades they come out with every twelve years for FREE.
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But I can't. Replace "Windows" with "XP" and "Linux" with "Vista" or "W7" and it makes a lot of sense.
Actually, that was me. They reported on what they did. Multi-wavelength light is commonly used in fiber optic communications to provide multiple channels on a single strand. Polarization is a radial angle rather than a hor/vert thing. This is the first iteration. We should not expect everything in the first go.
One thing I've learned is that our mastery of materials improves with time.
Never say die. Never give up!
Did you read the article?
about what they say here maybe you should review your own past threads to see if there's something other people saw that you didn't.
Because sometimes, you know, I don't get the trick the first six times either.
Do you remember writing this:
but generally I agree using vista right now is a pain for little real benifit but I don't see any fundamental problems that will stop it slowly replacing XP just as XP slowly replaced 2K.
And have your feelings on the matter changed?
These dimensions are length, width, depth, polarization and color. Polarization is not a horizontal/vertical dimension - it's a continuous angle of deviation from an arbitrary line perpendicular to the read/write ray. Color, or wavelength, is likewise a continuous dimension. This is important because increases in the ability to create and read differing angles of polarity and wavelength each give as much improvement as increases in bits-per-millimeter (feature size) in the other dimensions. Twice as many colors? That's twice as much data. Going from horizontal/vertical to 45 degree increments? That's double again. And because the dimensions are continuous there's no physical limit to how much they can multiply data storage capacity, which is different from layers in a Blu-Ray because in that technology there's a limit to how many layers you can have.
The spent millions just on a four-note "startup sound" that apparently most of us will never hear. Seven years in development down the tubes.
That would be the one where Vista is not fun to use.
None. We're all making this up. There are no people actually using Linux except the three guys in Oregon who put out all the distros, and they lay up their work in Visual Studio and then port it. There's a few hundred people in the Bangalore blog center who post all these pro-Linux posts, but we do it using XP.
Shuttleworth knows that security isn't a "feature" that's variably graded option - it's a binary checkbox where the only acceptable answer it "yes, we have that". That's why Ubuntu has by policy no open ports to the network by default.
One of the most frustrating things about technology is that the right answer is not necessarily the most popular. OpenBSD has for decades offered a more secure operating system, just by not listening to strangers on the network and employing other networking best practices.
Here's an odd point: good practice doesn't prevent any of the cool (yes, some of them are cool) features that Windows provides. Somewhere along the way they abandoned good practice as a hard rule. That was the mistake. They take shortcuts because they think bad practice is "what people want". They've sold a billion copies, so there must be some merit to that opinion. But in doing so they've spawned a malware ecosystem that dwarfs Microsoft's sales as well as the rest of the top 5 in IT. Microsoft is more effective at selling rootkits and antivirus than they are at selling Office 2007 and Vista, and there's more money in exploiting and protecting their operating system than selling it. The entire antivirus industry is an integral part of the Windows ecosystem and it's completely unnecessary.
This is all crazy. We don't have to play this game any more. We have options.
Grandma knew that Windows was not for her when she got broadband and her computer became not useful in under 24 hours. She has Ubuntu now two months, and not a peep. There's nothing she wants to do that Ubuntu can't give her. She's 90. She uses the computer to get online and chat, to process and print her photos, to play some simple games. Her son uses it to watch movies on Hulu and surf porn.
Neither of them is technical. They have Ubuntu - they don't need to be. Their computer has no antivirus, no firewall. It doesn't need them. It does what they want it to do and it keeps doing it and that's enough for them.
SSD storage, and rotation-free storage in general. It is not living up to expectations or promises, never mind the crystal storage methods mentioned almost a decade ago that got some really nice density.
OCZ Z-Drive, Photofast G-Monster, Fusion-IO ioDriveDuo. Density and performance are doubling every nine months at the same time price is falling by half. What's not to love?
GRiD made a bubble memory PC. Looked like a laptop with an amber screen. Worked great. I understand they were a little pricey.
Now you can't get a lot of their more exciting offerings like Server 2008 Datacenter edition unless you buy SA. Which means if you don't buy SA, you have to buy a separate copy of Server 2008 for each virtual machine you might run. And you can only transfer the license every 30 days, so if your cluster fails over you have to wait a month before you fail back, and run your cluster in non-redundant mode for that month. So the non-SA versions of Server 2008 are crippleware because they can't do HA. Way to sell product by subscription! These reality enhanced individuals have no idea what their competition is doing to their value proposition. And even if you buy into that they only support VMs that run Windows and their Novell Linux lapdog, SUSE SLED. Ubuntu? Redhat? Mandrake? Oracle Unbreakable Linux? BSD? Debian? Never heard of that stuff.
For those who are paying attention, Software Assurance is the incredible deal where you pay Microsoft every year 1/3 the price of their full software stack and in return you get to use the useful upgrades they come out with every twelve years for FREE. Isn't proprietary licensing great? There are other rules too. You wouldn't believe what obscure rules in the license agreement these tards pulled up when they were trying to drive Ernie Ball out of business. What they got instead is that he paid them, deleted their software, and became a Linux fan.
Suing your customers isn't the best way to win friends and influence people.
So why does MS continue to act as if charging for security is a Good Thing, when it can so easily be had for free?
More to the point, why do we keep paying them for something we know they can't deliver?
Of course it can. So can Linux. Naturally if you use Linux you can run all the incidences of Linux you want without paying extra. That'll be handy when we get to that many cores because lots of useful new software is coming out as virtual appliances - like OpenFiler.
Now... What are you going to do with those threads? Run every Explorer tab in a separate VM? How many incidences of W7 do you need on one workstation? How many incidences of W7 can you run on that SuperDome box for the base price? Hm? And when that's a $5k desktop workstation machine what's that going to cost? Is the W7 virtualization cross-platorm? By cross platform I don't mean "All the version of Windows and Microsoft's lapdog Novell's toxic SLED." I mean everything. Well?
The W7 Extreme Signature Racing Stripe Edition might as well be their 3-app limited crippleware on the kind of iron that's landing this year and next. Last time they missed the turn thinking the minimum was higher than it was. This time they miss thinking the maximum was smaller than it is. Poor Microsoft. Their software just isn't flexible enough to scale.
is the quality of innovation we've come to expect from the market leader in desktop operating systems. It's truly revolutionary thinking combining the most prominent attributes both of their own software and the creations of others to yield unheard-of benefits for the customer.
And his remarks are reminiscent of Clemens' on the subject, who was channelling Dobbs, who later admitted he stole the work, but traced it back to Pliny the Elder before the trail was lost.
What's your point?
You aren't the only one to think so. Sometimes I would agree. Good luck with your piece.
XP Mode marries all the reliability and security of XP to the usability and device compatibility of Vista. Brilliant!
We already know that either of the newer versions require relatively recent hardware b/c they consume more CPU, RAM, and disk than XP does.
And if you do have 2 processors/8 cores/16 threads, 72GB of RAM and 4TB of SSD storage in your desktop PC, W7 can't use it. It's a toy. With Ubuntu you can run unlimited virtual appliances on that box. In addition to typing up emails and scanning documents it's a full participant in a private cloud that can step up and do HA duties when the halon goes off in the server room.
So... within months of W7's release we could go to 4 processors/32 cores/64 threads, or something even more amazing and what's Microsoft's shiny desktop OS got? Explorer 8 and Freecell. Yet another desktop theme. Yet another empty promise of increased security. Ooh.
What is ITS value prop?
It could be your last chance to get committed to Software Assurance. That's the amazing deal where you pay Microsoft every year 1/3 the price of their full software stack and in return you get to use the useful upgrades they come out with every twelve years for FREE.
What Gartner is for is to tell us what Microsoft wants us to do.
What insightful, cutting edge analysis this would have been... four years ago.
The Gartner experts say all companies should move off Windows XP by the end of 2012 to avoid problems with application compatibility.
I agree with this part... but do not agree about what companies should move to. It's time to get off the train to crazytown.