Maybe someone at Microsoft should work on porting the Linux nvidia drivers to Vista. The work well on Linux, so maybe the drivers can be "reverse engineered" to work with Vista.
Na, they will not do that. Two problems, M$ idiots who can read C and second, M$ is engineered to not work with standards and other systems. In fact, most of their engineering and R&D is spend on how to let M$ marginally operate with standards and yet not let standards operate with them.
My Scotch sits on my Vista CD, makes a good coaster, An X2 rocks with Linux!
For the heroic efforts of the astronauts who died for enhancing our knowledge of the universe, I salute you all!!! I just wish our governments would turn to peaceful efforts and get the space program back into space -- and further than ever before.
We aught to get out of stupid wars, recover a little financial sanity and work on getting NASA going full tilt to warp drive...
So they're going to say that Linux will really grow in countries like China and India, where street vendors hawk a variety of Microsoft bootlegs for less than $0.50?
Any you pay $179....
Or should you pay $98 or $95...
The OS is a commodity, $9.99 at Walmart with Office is the Windows future. Lets face it a $5999 dual core system not to long ago goes for $599 today. Everything in personal computing has gone down but Microsoft. Eventually the cost and perceived benefit is going to change. I even predict Microsoft Linux some day. Maybe 2010. M$ isn't dancing with Novell for nothing, they are milking corporate America for what they can get before the big switch. Makes the CIO/CIO feel like they know something to see a familiar "Windows" screen in the data center, OK, make that 2012.
I call this PONIIC, Price Of Not Investing In Change.
But when push comes to shove, and the PACRIM $500 3 TB database appliance comes through the door with Linux inside it makes a poor case for $1999 of W2003 and MS-SQL and you haven't bought the hardware yet. Think - more people in China, India and Russia are learning Linux than there are users in North America. This will make the CEO question costs of PONIIC.
Microsoft knows where the growth is. That is why it is $0.50 in other countries an not in the US. Hold it off as long as possible. Nice way to beat anti-trust too because in theory it should be the same price in Taiwan as the US. Not technical reason, Windows is loaded with enough DRM and remote control a simple update could shut the pirates down in a shake.
Anyone wanna start a pool for when they'll roll out a patent for symlinks?
They might! But it would be embarrassing for M$ if the judge to hear that Windows as the last OS to get them and that UNIX supplied the concept.
But I am also amazed at how "excited" people are over new-4-Windows features like this. Might as well jump right into Linux/UNIX and get it all now. I will never forget when W98(?) said it would not check the disk on boot if it was previously shutdown nicely. UNIX has this for a decade by then.
Can you give some examples of programs you love and/or can't do without that worked with XP but won't work
DVD Decrypter - which renders Vista not on my list of must haves. Until enough applications can bypass Vista DRM to my satisfaction, XP is where I jump off the Micro$oft ride.
Competition is almost always good, so I look forward to this. I'd like to see Intel push ATI and Nvidia to create more power efficient chips, as it's quite rediculous right now.
No kidding! Looking at video cards to get away from dreaded shared memory I couldn't believe what they want for anything decent that wouldn't burn a hole in anything it touched (heat/cost). And given Intel's history of Open Source drivers for the wireless, I am not holding on waiting for them. AMD/ATI, I hope AMD makes ATI management do a turn about as getting drivers for some other items is impossible and they do not respond to inquires for what is needed to write the drivers. NVIDIA I have had good luck with since switching some 6-7 years ago from ATI.
And there is no reason why not to integrate a real chipset into the core without that shared memory garbage we see today. But I suspect this is posturing by both AMD and Intel... we will all just have to wait to see how this shakes out.
I thought it was the way to go until I thought about ISPs who block port 25 and insist on users using their own SMTP server...
Then post with the correct return address for the ISP your using. If they want mail routed elsewhere, then setup forwarding. This argument is limp. It is like making it legal to steal and expecting not to have a theft problem. The users in these cases want the ability to send mail fraudulently on the return address - which is EXACTLY what most spam does.
Lets say I own domain abc.com and use 123.com as an ISP, I'd have to add 123.com to my SPF entry. Simple! BUT, I have 2500 users owning laptops working from home and travelling around a lot. So, I'd have to add just about every I can think of to my SPF entry...
Then your dumb, as your domain will eventually make it to a spam list of domains. It is sloppy email setups that allow spam to occur. I fail to see why this is so hard to understand. Why don't you have your users use mail over the web or have them VPN in? Or perhaps turn on SMTP authentication? It is also more secure... but my guess is you only pay lip service to computer security and choose lazy ways first. Oh, I understand you have to make your users change habits....
They won't understand what the hell I'm talking about because they're sales reps or managers.
I don't expect they ever will either. It is YOUR job to also educate them, not just to wipe their asses.
The spam problem is not a technical problem, it's mostly a human problem.
Now that is accurate. 98% of spam is due to poorly run email systems and configurations because users and I/T professionals are not taught to do it right. And management is wishy-washy in supporting virus scanners and standards. Users download and install spyware and bots. It is OK to block spam as long as the executives get their spyware and daily port alerts. I know the drill. So many, like you (the majority BTW) are apathetic to changing it. SPF works, more people are using it that ever before. Even if it isn't fully enforced, it likely scores your mail high on spam points in spamassassin.
This will kill my karma...so what. It is apathetic I/T and undisciplined users and management is the issue. That is why I agree.
Use polices that check the senders address and validity. Seems to work on my hobby system. Oh, I get some, but the kill rate is quite good and the false positives are quite low to non-existent. I virtually get none of the botnet spam, which is a big chunk.
It was like pulling teeth to get the wifi accesspoint/routers GPL code released a few years ago, this is standard operating proceedure by Cisco. I remember the foaming at the mouth all over slashdot about that.
That was Linksys at the time when the code was released. The only reason Cisco does this today is that it was out of the bag before they bought Linksys. Cisco release source code...ha.. steal or lift it now that I can believe. Software shops do this all the time and it is routine, even between companies. Management willfully turns a blind eye and does not want to know the truth.
Half the reason proprietary products don't like to release source code as the commercial products are usually embarrassing and unsightly messes loaded with all sorts of holes and "lifted code". Rare exceptions exist, but they were GPL to start with.
I/T isn't any different. I will never forget one twit I didn't trust nor care for. Before the presentation, I suggested he take the code and put it on the slide to wazzo the management - he took the bait. I let him grandstand in front of senior management on how good this code was for 1/2 hour. When the make the statement he wrote just for us and near the end he put the code slides up to say this is what makes it happen...
I stood up, with email prints in my hand predating his employment and passed them out, it was posted on a not so public board predating his employment by 2 years! And not of his authorship. Quietly management fired him 3 months later.
Then there was the case of someone who stole my code and had the gaul to ask me to update it... na.. this could go on for hours.
Code is ripped off all the time, only the GLP is honest about it.
I don't buy that one bit. I was a ATI fan for many years and jumped them for the same issues on PCs AND THEY WROTE the drivers, but in this case Apple did. So Apple aught to fess up and fix it. There is no way a driver in a BSD based kernel should crash a machine unless it is defective.
I would just take it back, if they can't fix it get a refund. If they will not give a refund, small claims court. Be a pain and they will refund. Posting here too was a good move, lets others know it isn't a one of....
I think I'll go buy a Zune then sue Microsoft because my iTunes songs don't work on the Zune. I hope this case gets thrown out and the woman has to pay the court costs.
Although I am vehemently anti-DRM I couldn't agree with you more. If a consumer purchases a device with DRM, they ultimately must live with that. Hopefully the judgment will we "tough, too bad so sad...". It will actually be a victory for anti-DRM as it will force consumers to spend their money on non-DRM products. Then we will see some real progress.
When I rip my audio CDs, everything goes into DRM free MP3. I even keep them on a Linux share as so Microsoft can't get the originals. It may be paranoid, but that license file in XP bugs me even though I haven't been hit by it yet. I will even hold off on Vista until it is certain Vista will not alter the collection.
Seriously folks. Won't someone think of the children?
The children bunnies or the supporters of the fanatical regime?
Seriously, one thing the west does not get through our thick skulls is that this North Koreans gets away with it because their people support it. If a Taliban slept in my house, and I fed him would I not be a Taliban supporter?
The solder in these countries do not always come with uniforms. In fact, rarely do. Let North Korea do a Darwinian things, we do need less of this on this planet.
Since they've done such a bad job of this so far (it was quite strict at first), they've now turned around and offered a more expensive certificate with the promise that this time they'll _really_ do their job.
The only certs I trust are the ones I personally sign. So when I am on a PC without the signing CA, it pops up and I can view it. If it isn't mine or one I expect I know a Bluecoat or some other SSL in the middle device is at work. The only way I know to protect against it is to view the cert each and every time you are about use it. Which self signing does this nicely.
Say hello to Internet Radio {From anywhere in the world other than the US}
That is just what happened to crypto development when anal laws came in. The good thing is they will loose as the World now owns the Internet. I guess these politicians have too much spare time to come up with goofy unenforceable laws.
But the best solution is a consumer revolt. For example I don't buy Sony any more, between their support of DRM and it's very own root-kit I decided my last PC purchased 3 years ago was the last Sony product I will ever buy. It is now running a DRM free Linux.
You don't see a problem? The problem is How long does someone have to be ashamed for, and in front of how many people?
For as long as it takes.
One thing I like about pictures and videos its it reduces the possibility of bias and slander. It lets the viewer decide. And like crime, don't do it and you will not be recorded.
It worked in the small towns a century ago. This is just the modern version of flogging. Our papers used to once upon a time print the names and addresses of criminals, sometimes with pictures. Most people want it for good reason. There was less tolerance then for inconsiderate @$$ holes and thus fewer were inconsiderate.
I dislike M$ as much as the next/. poster, but saying W2K is 'broken' in this case is a bit of a stretch. The gov't changed the rules governing daylight savings time; it's not like it *wasn't* right before.
W2K is broken. Why cannot the user of W2K just make a new zone or edit the data behind it?
Add this to the hazards of using a proprietary operating system.
The car is the returned to it's orginal owner or sold by the insurance comany and the buyer gets nothing. This is why it's a good idea to check whether a car is stolen before you buy it because not even your insurance will cover you for this. I would guess its the same with any stolen goods in the UK.
I can't say I feal sorry for the buyers either. They didn't register the car and should know too cheap has it's reasons.
I have seen popped caps on motherboards, but 3 years seems a little short as an "average."
I had an Intel PERL motherboard with a P4 HT 2.4GHz that died from shorted and bulging caps. The power supply that was used has been powering another system for over two years steady without problems. It was my first and last Intel mobo. Knowing other manufacturers have also had problems, I treat them like the plague. It lasted 18 months.
The only other mobo I have had fail while in service was ABIT dual celeron that lasted just over 6 years. There were even repair kits for it, but I didn't bother.
The real problem is they are not made well, there is no reason for an electrolytic capacitor to die so early other than they are made incorrectly.
I have devices in my home with electrolytic caps in them that have lasted a long time, alarm clock 27 years, microwave with display 17 years, a television 15 years - even knew a Hallicrafter short wave receiver that had caps and high voltage that lasted at least 45 years and worked until it was replaced.
They are just made cheap and not to last in the mobo business. So when you buy a computer, it is not a bad idea to find out who made the motherboard, and what is theuir "capacitor" reputation.
yeah a gun by itself is not insecure either....
try giving it to a baby.....
There is the crux of the C/C++ problem, we give an oozie to to 3 year olds without the training and knowledge. 9/10 C/C++ programmers I ever interviewed failed to properly explain how pointers work. Those that did answer pointer questions correctly tend to have programmed more securely than those that put */&/** by memory.
It also comes down to money, a good C/C++ programmer isn't cheap.
I've always believed that open-source suffers from the in-house-tool
mentality, which assumes the end user is extremely sophistacted.
You really should try all three of Red Hat, Suse and Ubuntu. Pick one, they are getting to be quite comparable to Windows on the desktop and certainly more secure and stable.
But more to the original post. Imagine if a corporation ever got their collective butts out of the FUD and had everyone use the same version of Linux and made all workstations part of a giant grid. Say this corp had 4000 employees...4,000 node grid and no big overheated datacenter.
Such a driver could be a "OSS Grid ERP/CRM"... it is coming, just isn't quite here yet. But (lucky) someone somewhere is probably working on that.
I'm somewhat embarrassed to say that the reason I don't use them has nothing to do with their cost. I had one once, and the delay between the time that I switched on the light and the time the light actually turned on really annoyed me. I know it's stupid, but that's why I haven't bought any more. That, and it didn't really last all that much longer than other regular bulbs that I have. It didn't ever burn out, but it started flickering to the point that it would give just about anybody a headache.
Personally, I'm hoping LED-based lightbulbs become more common in the near future...
Me, I adopted them early, and my electric bill did drop by about 18%. But I have learned there is a right and a wrong place for them. I use them for places where lights will be on a long time and frequently where a little warm up time makes little difference. Outdoor lights, my wife insists on leaving them on in the evening so I replaced them all with these florescent ones. Kitchen they were on all the time, so I replaced them there. Bathrooms that are frequently used. I put them where I get the biggest benefit. I don't put them in the crawl space or in a room I use for 30 minutes ever 6 months.
Although I have had 1 in 18 die in three years, I think they last longer too. I was really getting annuyed at some of the normal bulbs burning out every 3 months. The one that died, flickered for a month before it died.
LED lights would be neat, I see they are using them on some cars and buses now. Will not be long before you get your wish for the home. You can even get them as a refit for your car right now: Car LEDs
Hey hey, calm down. Are you sitting now? Ok, read:
Programming languages are to intended to be used by humans.
I think this was the point. An irrational, illogical and flippant behavior carbon unit interfaces with a logical, predicable and consistent silicon interface is going to have issues. Unavoidable. Plan on it.
The carbon unit can think, but the silicon cannot. So if the carbon unit is to be successful, they must understand the silicon, not the other way around. And that means pointers amongst other things.
Programming languages are tools for carbon units to compile instructions for the silicon unit, a lack of being able to master what is going on at the silicon level is a limitation of the carbon unit, thus less effective. D isn't going to solve that at all.
This language is simply not worth noting. It's a simple evolutionary step over c/c++ but still suffers in many ways from their flaws.
While I agree with you in that D is not worth noting, I don't believe any language is per say deficient. It is the user of the language who is deficient or needs to make the evolutionary step. The languages are driven by logic and overhead, not yet mastered by the carbon unit who instructs it. The silicon unit has it dead right, logically. I don't see this argument going away until we develop a superior carbon based, self learning computers. Silicon is dumb like nails (1 or 0) and it is the fault of the carbon unit for not grasping where the deficiency is.
Our predisposed biases and illogical behavior are why the logic of silicon fails, every time.
I'm looking at using it via GDC for my next project. For people who use C/C++ regularly, this is something you ought to look into.
This is a (repeat) commercial plug for a language that has tried before and never got accepted. If you want a more modern language, write Java, if you want machine performance speeds then C/C++. If you don't know pointers, then you don't know how the machine works. I would never use a doctor that didn't know how my body worked.
It is hard to block a country, they can just use a web proxy to bypass IP blocking and change the PC browser country code to something friendly. Cat and mouse at best.
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Maybe someone at Microsoft should work on porting the Linux nvidia drivers to Vista. The work well on Linux, so maybe the drivers can be "reverse engineered" to work with Vista.
Na, they will not do that. Two problems, M$ idiots who can read C and second, M$ is engineered to not work with standards and other systems. In fact, most of their engineering and R&D is spend on how to let M$ marginally operate with standards and yet not let standards operate with them.
My Scotch sits on my Vista CD, makes a good coaster, An X2 rocks with Linux!
For the heroic efforts of the astronauts who died for enhancing our knowledge of the universe, I salute you all!!! I just wish our governments would turn to peaceful efforts and get the space program back into space -- and further than ever before.
We aught to get out of stupid wars, recover a little financial sanity and work on getting NASA going full tilt to warp drive...
So they're going to say that Linux will really grow in countries like China and India, where street vendors hawk a variety of Microsoft bootlegs for less than $0.50?
Any you pay $179....
Or should you pay $98 or $95...
The OS is a commodity, $9.99 at Walmart with Office is the Windows future. Lets face it a $5999 dual core system not to long ago goes for $599 today. Everything in personal computing has gone down but Microsoft. Eventually the cost and perceived benefit is going to change. I even predict Microsoft Linux some day. Maybe 2010. M$ isn't dancing with Novell for nothing, they are milking corporate America for what they can get before the big switch. Makes the CIO/CIO feel like they know something to see a familiar "Windows" screen in the data center, OK, make that 2012.
I call this PONIIC, Price Of Not Investing In Change.
But when push comes to shove, and the PACRIM $500 3 TB database appliance comes through the door with Linux inside it makes a poor case for $1999 of W2003 and MS-SQL and you haven't bought the hardware yet. Think - more people in China, India and Russia are learning Linux than there are users in North America. This will make the CEO question costs of PONIIC.
Microsoft knows where the growth is. That is why it is $0.50 in other countries an not in the US. Hold it off as long as possible. Nice way to beat anti-trust too because in theory it should be the same price in Taiwan as the US. Not technical reason, Windows is loaded with enough DRM and remote control a simple update could shut the pirates down in a shake.
Anyone wanna start a pool for when they'll roll out a patent for symlinks?
They might! But it would be embarrassing for M$ if the judge to hear that Windows as the last OS to get them and that UNIX supplied the concept.
But I am also amazed at how "excited" people are over new-4-Windows features like this. Might as well jump right into Linux/UNIX and get it all now. I will never forget when W98(?) said it would not check the disk on boot if it was previously shutdown nicely. UNIX has this for a decade by then.
Someday M$ will sell MS-Linux ---
Can you give some examples of programs you love and/or can't do without that worked with XP but won't work
DVD Decrypter - which renders Vista not on my list of must haves. Until enough applications can bypass Vista DRM to my satisfaction, XP is where I jump off the Micro$oft ride.
Competition is almost always good, so I look forward to this. I'd like to see Intel push ATI and Nvidia to create more power efficient chips, as it's quite rediculous right now.
No kidding! Looking at video cards to get away from dreaded shared memory I couldn't believe what they want for anything decent that wouldn't burn a hole in anything it touched (heat/cost). And given Intel's history of Open Source drivers for the wireless, I am not holding on waiting for them. AMD/ATI, I hope AMD makes ATI management do a turn about as getting drivers for some other items is impossible and they do not respond to inquires for what is needed to write the drivers. NVIDIA I have had good luck with since switching some 6-7 years ago from ATI.
And there is no reason why not to integrate a real chipset into the core without that shared memory garbage we see today. But I suspect this is posturing by both AMD and Intel... we will all just have to wait to see how this shakes out.
Then post with the correct return address for the ISP your using. If they want mail routed elsewhere, then setup forwarding. This argument is limp. It is like making it legal to steal and expecting not to have a theft problem. The users in these cases want the ability to send mail fraudulently on the return address - which is EXACTLY what most spam does.
Then your dumb, as your domain will eventually make it to a spam list of domains. It is sloppy email setups that allow spam to occur. I fail to see why this is so hard to understand. Why don't you have your users use mail over the web or have them VPN in? Or perhaps turn on SMTP authentication? It is also more secure... but my guess is you only pay lip service to computer security and choose lazy ways first. Oh, I understand you have to make your users change habits....
I don't expect they ever will either. It is YOUR job to also educate them, not just to wipe their asses.
Now that is accurate. 98% of spam is due to poorly run email systems and configurations because users and I/T professionals are not taught to do it right. And management is wishy-washy in supporting virus scanners and standards. Users download and install spyware and bots. It is OK to block spam as long as the executives get their spyware and daily port alerts. I know the drill. So many, like you (the majority BTW) are apathetic to changing it. SPF works, more people are using it that ever before. Even if it isn't fully enforced, it likely scores your mail high on spam points in spamassassin.
This will kill my karma...so what. It is apathetic I/T and undisciplined users and management is the issue. That is why I agree.
Adopt technologies like Spamassassin and SPF.
Use polices that check the senders address and validity. Seems to work on my hobby system. Oh, I get some, but the kill rate is quite good and the false positives are quite low to non-existent. I virtually get none of the botnet spam, which is a big chunk.
It was like pulling teeth to get the wifi accesspoint/routers GPL code released a few years ago, this is standard operating proceedure by Cisco. I remember the foaming at the mouth all over slashdot about that.
That was Linksys at the time when the code was released. The only reason Cisco does this today is that it was out of the bag before they bought Linksys. Cisco release source code...ha.. steal or lift it now that I can believe. Software shops do this all the time and it is routine, even between companies. Management willfully turns a blind eye and does not want to know the truth.
Half the reason proprietary products don't like to release source code as the commercial products are usually embarrassing and unsightly messes loaded with all sorts of holes and "lifted code". Rare exceptions exist, but they were GPL to start with.
I/T isn't any different. I will never forget one twit I didn't trust nor care for. Before the presentation, I suggested he take the code and put it on the slide to wazzo the management - he took the bait. I let him grandstand in front of senior management on how good this code was for 1/2 hour. When the make the statement he wrote just for us and near the end he put the code slides up to say this is what makes it happen...
I stood up, with email prints in my hand predating his employment and passed them out, it was posted on a not so public board predating his employment by 2 years! And not of his authorship. Quietly management fired him 3 months later.
Then there was the case of someone who stole my code and had the gaul to ask me to update it... na.. this could go on for hours.
Code is ripped off all the time, only the GLP is honest about it.
Just suck it up and buy an ATI card.
I don't buy that one bit. I was a ATI fan for many years and jumped them for the same issues on PCs AND THEY WROTE the drivers, but in this case Apple did. So Apple aught to fess up and fix it. There is no way a driver in a BSD based kernel should crash a machine unless it is defective.
I would just take it back, if they can't fix it get a refund. If they will not give a refund, small claims court. Be a pain and they will refund. Posting here too was a good move, lets others know it isn't a one of....
I think I'll go buy a Zune then sue Microsoft because my iTunes songs don't work on the Zune. I hope this case gets thrown out and the woman has to pay the court costs.
Although I am vehemently anti-DRM I couldn't agree with you more. If a consumer purchases a device with DRM, they ultimately must live with that. Hopefully the judgment will we "tough, too bad so sad...". It will actually be a victory for anti-DRM as it will force consumers to spend their money on non-DRM products. Then we will see some real progress.
When I rip my audio CDs, everything goes into DRM free MP3. I even keep them on a Linux share as so Microsoft can't get the originals. It may be paranoid, but that license file in XP bugs me even though I haven't been hit by it yet. I will even hold off on Vista until it is certain Vista will not alter the collection.
Seriously folks. Won't someone think of the children?
The children bunnies or the supporters of the fanatical regime?
Seriously, one thing the west does not get through our thick skulls is that this North Koreans gets away with it because their people support it. If a Taliban slept in my house, and I fed him would I not be a Taliban supporter?
The solder in these countries do not always come with uniforms. In fact, rarely do. Let North Korea do a Darwinian things, we do need less of this on this planet.
The only certs I trust are the ones I personally sign. So when I am on a PC without the signing CA, it pops up and I can view it. If it isn't mine or one I expect I know a Bluecoat or some other SSL in the middle device is at work. The only way I know to protect against it is to view the cert each and every time you are about use it. Which self signing does this nicely.
Say hello to Internet Radio {From anywhere in the world other than the US}
That is just what happened to crypto development when anal laws came in. The good thing is they will loose as the World now owns the Internet. I guess these politicians have too much spare time to come up with goofy unenforceable laws.
But the best solution is a consumer revolt. For example I don't buy Sony any more, between their support of DRM and it's very own root-kit I decided my last PC purchased 3 years ago was the last Sony product I will ever buy. It is now running a DRM free Linux.
You don't see a problem? The problem is How long does someone have to be ashamed for, and in front of how many people?
For as long as it takes.
One thing I like about pictures and videos its it reduces the possibility of bias and slander. It lets the viewer decide. And like crime, don't do it and you will not be recorded.
It worked in the small towns a century ago. This is just the modern version of flogging. Our papers used to once upon a time print the names and addresses of criminals, sometimes with pictures. Most people want it for good reason. There was less tolerance then for inconsiderate @$$ holes and thus fewer were inconsiderate.
I dislike M$ as much as the next /. poster, but saying W2K is 'broken' in this case is a bit of a stretch. The gov't changed the rules governing daylight savings time; it's not like it *wasn't* right before.
W2K is broken. Why cannot the user of W2K just make a new zone or edit the data behind it?
Add this to the hazards of using a proprietary operating system.
The car is the returned to it's orginal owner or sold by the insurance comany and the buyer gets nothing. This is why it's a good idea to check whether a car is stolen before you buy it because not even your insurance will cover you for this. I would guess its the same with any stolen goods in the UK.
I can't say I feal sorry for the buyers either. They didn't register the car and should know too cheap has it's reasons.
I have seen popped caps on motherboards, but 3 years seems a little short as an "average."
I had an Intel PERL motherboard with a P4 HT 2.4GHz that died from shorted and bulging caps. The power supply that was used has been powering another system for over two years steady without problems. It was my first and last Intel mobo. Knowing other manufacturers have also had problems, I treat them like the plague. It lasted 18 months.
The only other mobo I have had fail while in service was ABIT dual celeron that lasted just over 6 years. There were even repair kits for it, but I didn't bother.
The real problem is they are not made well, there is no reason for an electrolytic capacitor to die so early other than they are made incorrectly.
I have devices in my home with electrolytic caps in them that have lasted a long time, alarm clock 27 years, microwave with display 17 years, a television 15 years - even knew a Hallicrafter short wave receiver that had caps and high voltage that lasted at least 45 years and worked until it was replaced.
They are just made cheap and not to last in the mobo business. So when you buy a computer, it is not a bad idea to find out who made the motherboard, and what is theuir "capacitor" reputation.
yeah a gun by itself is not insecure either.... try giving it to a baby.....
There is the crux of the C/C++ problem, we give an oozie to to 3 year olds without the training and knowledge. 9/10 C/C++ programmers I ever interviewed failed to properly explain how pointers work. Those that did answer pointer questions correctly tend to have programmed more securely than those that put */&/** by memory.
It also comes down to money, a good C/C++ programmer isn't cheap.
I've always believed that open-source suffers from the in-house-tool mentality, which assumes the end user is extremely sophistacted.
You really should try all three of Red Hat, Suse and Ubuntu. Pick one, they are getting to be quite comparable to Windows on the desktop and certainly more secure and stable.
But more to the original post. Imagine if a corporation ever got their collective butts out of the FUD and had everyone use the same version of Linux and made all workstations part of a giant grid. Say this corp had 4000 employees...4,000 node grid and no big overheated datacenter.
Such a driver could be a "OSS Grid ERP/CRM"... it is coming, just isn't quite here yet. But (lucky) someone somewhere is probably working on that.
I'm somewhat embarrassed to say that the reason I don't use them has nothing to do with their cost. I had one once, and the delay between the time that I switched on the light and the time the light actually turned on really annoyed me. I know it's stupid, but that's why I haven't bought any more. That, and it didn't really last all that much longer than other regular bulbs that I have. It didn't ever burn out, but it started flickering to the point that it would give just about anybody a headache.
Personally, I'm hoping LED-based lightbulbs become more common in the near future...
Me, I adopted them early, and my electric bill did drop by about 18%. But I have learned there is a right and a wrong place for them. I use them for places where lights will be on a long time and frequently where a little warm up time makes little difference. Outdoor lights, my wife insists on leaving them on in the evening so I replaced them all with these florescent ones. Kitchen they were on all the time, so I replaced them there. Bathrooms that are frequently used. I put them where I get the biggest benefit. I don't put them in the crawl space or in a room I use for 30 minutes ever 6 months.
Although I have had 1 in 18 die in three years, I think they last longer too. I was really getting annuyed at some of the normal bulbs burning out every 3 months. The one that died, flickered for a month before it died.
LED lights would be neat, I see they are using them on some cars and buses now. Will not be long before you get your wish for the home. You can even get them as a refit for your car right now: Car LEDs
Hey hey, calm down. Are you sitting now? Ok, read:
Programming languages are to intended to be used by humans.
I think this was the point. An irrational, illogical and flippant behavior carbon unit interfaces with a logical, predicable and consistent silicon interface is going to have issues. Unavoidable. Plan on it.
The carbon unit can think, but the silicon cannot. So if the carbon unit is to be successful, they must understand the silicon, not the other way around. And that means pointers amongst other things.
Programming languages are tools for carbon units to compile instructions for the silicon unit, a lack of being able to master what is going on at the silicon level is a limitation of the carbon unit, thus less effective. D isn't going to solve that at all.
This language is simply not worth noting. It's a simple evolutionary step over c/c++ but still suffers in many ways from their flaws.
While I agree with you in that D is not worth noting, I don't believe any language is per say deficient. It is the user of the language who is deficient or needs to make the evolutionary step. The languages are driven by logic and overhead, not yet mastered by the carbon unit who instructs it. The silicon unit has it dead right, logically. I don't see this argument going away until we develop a superior carbon based, self learning computers. Silicon is dumb like nails (1 or 0) and it is the fault of the carbon unit for not grasping where the deficiency is.
Our predisposed biases and illogical behavior are why the logic of silicon fails, every time.
I'm looking at using it via GDC for my next project. For people who use C/C++ regularly, this is something you ought to look into.
This is a (repeat) commercial plug for a language that has tried before and never got accepted. If you want a more modern language, write Java, if you want machine performance speeds then C/C++. If you don't know pointers, then you don't know how the machine works. I would never use a doctor that didn't know how my body worked.
See also: C, Objective-C, C++... D! Future Or failure?
This seems to crop every few years for the last few decades...
It is hard to block a country, they can just use a web proxy to bypass IP blocking and change the PC browser country code to something friendly. Cat and mouse at best.