To add to that, the portholes would not be as intresting as they would have to be rediculously thick so you'd see most things through a video camera and a screen.
OS in ROM - no Virus worries or update hell. All the machines are the same. BASIC (replaced with something modern) in ROM - make it easy and attractive to program. Applications in ROM - Build in OpenOffice, FireFox, whatever else is commonly needed and make it front and center. Build an entire Linux Distro of applications in that are available with a bit of digging. But mostly, make it really friendly to start writing a letter, using the internet, whatever. Cartridge slot for commercial apps. An HDMI porrt
Make the computer an appliance again. Don't require the owner to be a SysAdmin to use it. Sure, you lose some flexibility, but you gain hugely in usability. I know precisely the number of times my mother has opened her computer to install a new add-in card - zero.
After 2 years of divorce and giving my ex everything, my ex then started threatening my unborn son,
After two years of divorce, and while you were dating your soon-to-be new wife, you were fucking your ex and got her pregnant? Or was it your soon-to-be new wife who got pregnant while you were still married?
I'm not entirely sure who I'm supposed to be rooting for here.
I'm hurt by your lack of validation of my importance.
You expected Intel would have a process and statement for their own motherboards? What do you think you got? statement - this issue impacts all Intel® 6 Series Express Chipsets and Intel® Xeon® C200 Series chipsets on systems using SATA ports 2-5 statement - Since the issue is very recent, there are no replacement units with the fix.
process - In this situation, each place of purchase will be in charge of either replacing the motherboard.
More of "we'll take care of this for you, here's how..." - You may check with the place of purchase in case you would like to replace the motherboard in the future when a hardware fix is available on a new revision. We are working together with our chain or Authorized Distributors and resellers to cover this problem
I still don't understand what you're looking for. Almost any other manufacturer would simply ignore the problem; your device would die after 3 or 4 years, and you'd chalk it up to random chance.
Frankly, I think that sounds like an excellent response from Intel. Did you expect them to send a car right over with a replacement Mobo?
They just announced the problem. They don't have 8 million replacement chips, or 8 million replacement motherboards in house. If they waited until they did have that many, somebody would bitch about them delaying the announcement.
The rep answered your questions truthfully, told you that the exchanges would be handled through the retailer, and suggested that your board will probably work just fine until a replacement is available. Again, what more did you expect?
Angry? Sure you can be angry. Someone sold you something that's defective, and that's causing you problems. They can't immediately make it right, and that's going to cause you more problems. Suck it up - it happens everywhere, all the time, and is part of life.
" according to the evaluation metrics that we’ve refined over more than a decade, Google’s search quality is better than it has ever been in terms of relevance, freshness and comprehensiveness. "
And thus begins the downfall of Google. Once you start drinking your own lemonade and stop listening to the people who use your product, you're on a greased downhill slope.
And what natural law implies this? How about religious law? How about, oh, say, appealing to history and demonstrating that this is the norm for government/electorate relations?
Other than about 20 seconds worth of film, I think the LOTR films were a far better adaptation of the books than I thought possible.
When I heard that the story was coming out on film, I was expecting a treatment like "I, Robot" got - schlock only vaguely related to the book. Instead, we got a movie that captured the feel of the books almost perfectly, and told the same story. The movie was better for the visuals - it fleshed the world out much better than my puny imagination had been able to do.
1. I should spend a month or two of engineering time to write specifications for a block that isn't part of my core competency? 2. Don't take "liar" literally. Marketing is always guilty of Puffery, and in the US this is acceptable. Datasheets always have specifications which, if taken out of context or tested outside the conditions in the tiny print, can be proven wrong. In the market, to remain a viable business, you have to "puff" as much as your competitors do - look at beer, cigarette, car, computer advertising. A company that lets the Engineering department write the marketing materials doesn't survive long. Frankly, our materials are a whole lot closer to reality than our competitors - we've never published wholesale lies, to the best of my knowledge, which isn't always true of those I've competed against. 3. Yes, really. 4. Yes, I know that's bullshit. Tell that to my CEO and CFO. 5. OK, we'll lose your business - that's $3 worth of revenue that we won't receive, once. We hope that you'll see the value of our products in the future and be willing to consider us then.
You might find this hard to believe but the large OEM's (HP, Dell and all the others) are demanding Linux driver compliance in their OEM selection process.
You might find it hard to believe, but I'm intimately familiar with their requirements here for Linux driver compliance.
My company manufactures devices for PCs. We do NOT open source our drivers; I'll give you my two cents as to why:
1. Licensing. Our drivers include licensed code from at least two other companies - code that implements algorithms seen as proprietary and valuable by those companies. We don't have the right to publish that code, and couldn't conceivably convince them to do so. 2. Competitive advantage. We have several competitors in our market. The specs that Marketing puts on our datasheets might be optimistic in some scenarios. If we open-sourced our drivers, our competitors could easily demonstrate that to potential customers - if their drivers were closed, we would not have the equivalent opportunity to prove that their liars were worse than our liars. 3. Support. If we publish source, we will end up fielding all kinds of questions from all kinds of people about all kinds of aspects of our product. Even if we simply answer "Go away" to all those queries, there's a lot of time spent reading and replying (or simply ignoring) them. Considering that we sell our products to OEMs for a few dollars, there just isn't any margin for end user support. 4. Security. Say what you will about "security through obscurity", it still has a huge following in the corporate world. Publishing all your source code provides all kinds of opportunities for the scoundrels of the world to take advantage, from the PHB point of view. 5. Financial. There is no business case to be made to disclose this proprietary information. If I'm not going to make money from something, why should I spend the time/effort to open source it, and perhaps give away information that my competitor could use?
In Broadcom's case, there are probably others also - for example, publishing source for a Wireless card could allow operating the RF section beyond regulatory limits - transmitting/receiving out of band, transmitting with too much power, etc. This could jeopardize certification (such as FCC certification in the US) or subject the company to unwanted regulatory scrutiny.
I saw Avatar in 3D, and didn't think it was all that great. There were a few of the normal 3-D effects that had people reaching for things in space, but the effect had minimal impact on the actual movie, other than having the effect break up a lot in various places. Frankly, the movie reminded me more of Wall-E than anything - a director with a heavy hand pounding his banal point into my head over, and over, and over again.
I'm sorry, I have yet to see a movie in 3D where 3D provided anything additional to my movie experience other than a headache.
I watched Avater, and was distracted from the movie by the places that the 3D effect broke up badly. Of course, I get distracted by the film reel change indicators also.
Why do the movie companies believe that we want 3D? Heck, why do the television manufacturers believe that I'm willing to spend 2 grand more for it? Does anyone here feel that its a useful addition to a movie?/frank
As someone who has the misfortune of owning both a Zune and an iPod (Shuffle), and thus using both the Zune software and iTunes, all I can say is "Thank god for my Sansa Clip".
For both pieces of software, I pointed them at my music collection, and went to bed. Both of them took all night and into the morning before they'd let me do anything. Both of them insisted on completely reorganizing my library (music\artist\album\track). Both of them horribly mangled "greatest hits" albums - moving the tracks off to the originating album; even if that's the only track from that album in the library.
Screw'em both. At least the Zune software didn't try to completely take over my machine.
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To add to that, the portholes would not be as intresting as they would have to be rediculously thick so you'd see most things through a video camera and a screen.
Too bad then that it has such a large viewing dome: http://www.virginoceanic.com/vehicles/submersible/
Now, if they had followed through ...
OS in ROM - no Virus worries or update hell. All the machines are the same.
BASIC (replaced with something modern) in ROM - make it easy and attractive to program.
Applications in ROM - Build in OpenOffice, FireFox, whatever else is commonly needed and make it front and center. Build an entire Linux Distro of applications in that are available with a bit of digging. But mostly, make it really friendly to start writing a letter, using the internet, whatever.
Cartridge slot for commercial apps.
An HDMI porrt
Make the computer an appliance again. Don't require the owner to be a SysAdmin to use it. Sure, you lose some flexibility, but you gain hugely in usability. I know precisely the number of times my mother has opened her computer to install a new add-in card - zero.
After 2 years of divorce and giving my ex everything, my ex then started threatening my unborn son,
After two years of divorce, and while you were dating your soon-to-be new wife, you were fucking your ex and got her pregnant? Or was it your soon-to-be new wife who got pregnant while you were still married?
I'm not entirely sure who I'm supposed to be rooting for here.
I'm hurt by your lack of validation of my importance.
You expected Intel would have a process and statement for their own motherboards? What do you think you got?
statement - this issue impacts all Intel® 6 Series Express Chipsets and Intel® Xeon® C200 Series chipsets on systems using SATA ports 2-5
statement - Since the issue is very recent, there are no replacement units with the fix.
process - In this situation, each place of purchase will be in charge of either replacing the motherboard.
More of "we'll take care of this for you, here's how..." - You may check with the place of purchase in case you would like to replace the motherboard in the future when a hardware fix is available on a new revision. We are working together with our chain or Authorized Distributors and resellers to cover this problem
I still don't understand what you're looking for. Almost any other manufacturer would simply ignore the problem; your device would die after 3 or 4 years, and you'd chalk it up to random chance.
I'll give you a cookie, if it helps.
You don't. You're screwed.
You can buy a SATA card for $20, but next you'll tell me that all your card slots are in use for fax modems or something.
You can use your motherboard until replacements are available. If it fails, then you can look at your options again.
Or, you can send your board back to your retailer, get your money back, and buy a new board, hopefully one with the updated chip.
In the grand scheme of things, your problem is trivial.
Frankly, I think that sounds like an excellent response from Intel. Did you expect them to send a car right over with a replacement Mobo?
They just announced the problem. They don't have 8 million replacement chips, or 8 million replacement motherboards in house. If they waited until they did have that many, somebody would bitch about them delaying the announcement.
The rep answered your questions truthfully, told you that the exchanges would be handled through the retailer, and suggested that your board will probably work just fine until a replacement is available. Again, what more did you expect?
Angry? Sure you can be angry. Someone sold you something that's defective, and that's causing you problems. They can't immediately make it right, and that's going to cause you more problems. Suck it up - it happens everywhere, all the time, and is part of life.
For the chipheads, Anandtech has a good description of the underlying problem:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4143/the-source-of-intels-cougar-point-sata-bug
Perhaps, but the lemon tree in my backyard is just about to break from the weight of fruit on it.
Drinking Lemonade is much closer to my heart at the moment than drinking kool-aid.
" according to the evaluation metrics that we’ve refined over more than a decade, Google’s search quality is better than it has ever been in terms of relevance, freshness and comprehensiveness. "
And thus begins the downfall of Google. Once you start drinking your own lemonade and stop listening to the people who use your product, you're on a greased downhill slope.
Where in that joke is even the implication of rape?
"supposed to"?
And what natural law implies this? How about religious law? How about, oh, say, appealing to history and demonstrating that this is the norm for government/electorate relations?
Off by a little bit - 35,000 to 40,000 people per year in the US:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in_U.S._by_year
when electing to use nationally critical infrastructure for travel I must submit to some kind of vetting before I'm allowed on it.
You're kidding me, of course? You don't believe that the Interstate Highways are "nationally critical infrastructure"?
"Had to"?
Every time I've been asked to go through them at San Jose, I have refused.
And when I look over and see people standing with their hands up a la stagecoach robbery scenes in old Westerns, I know I'm doing the right thing.
Man up.
Jeff Atwood had a post on a remarkably similar subject last Friday:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2010/10/the-keyboard-cult.html
that references the geekhack site.
I'll agree with that...
Other than about 20 seconds worth of film, I think the LOTR films were a far better adaptation of the books than I thought possible.
When I heard that the story was coming out on film, I was expecting a treatment like "I, Robot" got - schlock only vaguely related to the book. Instead, we got a movie that captured the feel of the books almost perfectly, and told the same story. The movie was better for the visuals - it fleshed the world out much better than my puny imagination had been able to do.
I've never quite understood the haters, either.
All that will do is cause the UNIX guys to froth at the mouth.
Capitals are the work of the devil!
What company do you believe that I'm NOT describing?
If you refused to buy products from everyone that my statements applied to, you might have enough money to move out of your mother's basement.
1. I should spend a month or two of engineering time to write specifications for a block that isn't part of my core competency?
2. Don't take "liar" literally. Marketing is always guilty of Puffery, and in the US this is acceptable. Datasheets always have specifications which, if taken out of context or tested outside the conditions in the tiny print, can be proven wrong. In the market, to remain a viable business, you have to "puff" as much as your competitors do - look at beer, cigarette, car, computer advertising. A company that lets the Engineering department write the marketing materials doesn't survive long. Frankly, our materials are a whole lot closer to reality than our competitors - we've never published wholesale lies, to the best of my knowledge, which isn't always true of those I've competed against.
3. Yes, really.
4. Yes, I know that's bullshit. Tell that to my CEO and CFO.
5. OK, we'll lose your business - that's $3 worth of revenue that we won't receive, once. We hope that you'll see the value of our products in the future and be willing to consider us then.
You might find this hard to believe but the large OEM's (HP, Dell and all the others) are demanding Linux driver compliance in their OEM selection process.
You might find it hard to believe, but I'm intimately familiar with their requirements here for Linux driver compliance.
My company manufactures devices for PCs. We do NOT open source our drivers; I'll give you my two cents as to why:
1. Licensing. Our drivers include licensed code from at least two other companies - code that implements algorithms seen as proprietary and valuable by those companies. We don't have the right to publish that code, and couldn't conceivably convince them to do so.
2. Competitive advantage. We have several competitors in our market. The specs that Marketing puts on our datasheets might be optimistic in some scenarios. If we open-sourced our drivers, our competitors could easily demonstrate that to potential customers - if their drivers were closed, we would not have the equivalent opportunity to prove that their liars were worse than our liars.
3. Support. If we publish source, we will end up fielding all kinds of questions from all kinds of people about all kinds of aspects of our product. Even if we simply answer "Go away" to all those queries, there's a lot of time spent reading and replying (or simply ignoring) them. Considering that we sell our products to OEMs for a few dollars, there just isn't any margin for end user support.
4. Security. Say what you will about "security through obscurity", it still has a huge following in the corporate world. Publishing all your source code provides all kinds of opportunities for the scoundrels of the world to take advantage, from the PHB point of view.
5. Financial. There is no business case to be made to disclose this proprietary information. If I'm not going to make money from something, why should I spend the time/effort to open source it, and perhaps give away information that my competitor could use?
In Broadcom's case, there are probably others also - for example, publishing source for a Wireless card could allow operating the RF section beyond regulatory limits - transmitting/receiving out of band, transmitting with too much power, etc. This could jeopardize certification (such as FCC certification in the US) or subject the company to unwanted regulatory scrutiny.
Does this help?
I saw Avatar in 3D, and didn't think it was all that great. There were a few of the normal 3-D effects that had people reaching for things in space, but the effect had minimal impact on the actual movie, other than having the effect break up a lot in various places.
Frankly, the movie reminded me more of Wall-E than anything - a director with a heavy hand pounding his banal point into my head over, and over, and over again.
I'm sorry, I have yet to see a movie in 3D where 3D provided anything additional to my movie experience other than a headache.
I watched Avater, and was distracted from the movie by the places that the 3D effect broke up badly. Of course, I get distracted by the film reel change indicators also.
Why do the movie companies believe that we want 3D? Heck, why do the television manufacturers believe that I'm willing to spend 2 grand more for it? Does anyone here feel that its a useful addition to a movie? /frank
Completely OT, but...
What were you using the 20 character password for? /frank
As someone who has the misfortune of owning both a Zune and an iPod (Shuffle), and thus using both the Zune software and iTunes, all I can say is "Thank god for my Sansa Clip".
For both pieces of software, I pointed them at my music collection, and went to bed. Both of them took all night and into the morning before they'd let me do anything. Both of them insisted on completely reorganizing my library (music\artist\album\track). Both of them horribly mangled "greatest hits" albums - moving the tracks off to the originating album; even if that's the only track from that album in the library.
Screw'em both. At least the Zune software didn't try to completely take over my machine.