Assuming that they do fine Microsoft and Microsoft does pay, where will this $100 million go?
Will it just go into the EU's wallet or will it go to promote/help alternative OSs? I think that Microsoft definitely has some retribution in store but I think it's important that countries don't look at Microsoft as a blank check that they can use for their purposes.
The money needs to back to the source (i.e. the alternative OSs that were hurt).
(I couldn't get to the article because of the necessary subscription so this might be addressed there.)
I think this is a major thing. It is definitely for me. People who have used MS Office for years know all the little shortcuts that allow you to get work done so much faster. It's not worth the effort to relearn a new system.
if the XFree86 folks want to shoot themselves to foot and slowly bleed to death, it's their choice - very stupid one but it's their nevertheless.
I seriously doubth that the XFree89 folks are as stupid as you are making them out to be.
Decisions like this aren't just pulled out of thin air. I'm sure that they put some research into and that they believe it is the best decision for the project.
Until they have a proper Linux driver, buy an AMD based system instead.
You are aware that it's a driver for the wireless technology and not actual cpu right? Last I checked (though it's been a while) AMD didn't integrate wireless into the mobile processors. So either way you'll have to buy a third party card if you want wireless.
I had a AMD notebook and it barely got an hour of battery time. I hear their newer generation of mobile processors are supposed to be better but I have heard that the centrino's still out preform the AMDs and use less power.
I conducted my own tests pitting Java 1.4 against gcc 3.3 and icc 8.0 using his benchmark code, and found Java to perform significantly worse than C on Linux/Athlon.
Why is this a suprise? C has been most commonly used for so long because of it's speed and efficiency. I think anyone who has done much work with either developing or running large scale java programs knows that speed can definitely be an issue.
No matter how many billions of dollars are spent, it's not going to keep people from eating McDonalds and cheese-in-a-can. It's not going to produce more hearts for transplants.
Yeah, I don't think that ever happened. That would require landing on mars which we have all seen is difficult in itself but would also require taking back off from Mars. That would probably be more difficult then landing. It would require making it land with enough fuel to take off and get back to earth making it much more dangerous. It would also require more then twice the amount of fuel then a one way mission would. And if it costs near 100 million to take off from earth just think what it would cost to take off from mars.
I seem to remember reports of fossilized bacteria found in meteorites or something like that. I really doubt that it was from mars.
I think it stems from the flood of anti-americanism on slashdot and in the world in general. If it was the other way around and Beagle had landed successfully, I'm sure the whole topic would be about how NASA sucks and how Europeans are so superior.
Buy it at Best Buy. Buy the $50 2-year warrenty. When the battery dies (or you just say it does) you cash in on the warrenty. You get your full paid amount back. By then, apple has upgraded the ipod line several tiems so you get a newer, larger capacity ipod or throw in an extra $100 to get the next one up.
There is a vast horde of us Gentoo users who are laughing like hell at you right now.
I use gentoo myself. However, the vast majority of computer users in the world use windows. That's what I was refering to by saying "regular" computer users.
Everyone would benefit from switching because of the extra registers in 64-bit mode and the low-latency memory controller. Some people have said they got a 10-20% speedup just from recompiling in 64-bit mode without making any changes to their code.
Seriously though, how many "regular" computer users have access to the source code for their applications or would even know what to do with it if they did.
This is great for universities and research facilities that use either their own software or open source softeare. I'm sure a lot of people will buy it out of ignorance just because of the salesman or just to have the biggest and best. But before it becomes really mainstream, you are going to have to have the 64-bit windows (not sure if it is available or not) and a decent selection of 64-bit commercial software.
Looks pretty good. I still don't think there is a huge demand to have these in desktops as of yet. P4s are still very powerful and still compete with AMDs 64 bit chips. Even the Athlons are enough for most people to play the newest games and all.
I don't think that most people do the really computer intensive tasks that would benefit from 64bit chips plus the lack of truely 64 bit software that will give them this advantage is a hinderance as well.
I think it will be 2005 or maybe even 2006 before 64 bit chips become the standard.
One of the things Xerox showed Jobs was the Alto, which sported a GUI and a three-button mouse. When Jobs saw this prototype, he had an epiphany and set out to bring the GUI to the public.
Too bad he didn't hand on to the three-button mouse too.
If you have to ask that question, you've obviously never used Omniweb. I can search google for x by typing in 'google x'. If I want it in Japanese, it's 'googlej x'. I can search amazon.com by searching 'az x'. Etc. It cuts down on browsing time by at least 50%, since my hands never have to keyboard, ever (I have memorized all of the useful keyboard shortcuts, and even added some of my own).
While this is a very useful feature, it is by no means unique to OW. Even IE has had this feature for several years. I believe that Firebird has a similar feature as an extension but I may be mistaken.
My biggest problem with this feature is that when you come up with a lot of different search engines, I tend to forget what the shortcuts are. I prefer just setting them in Firebird's search bar. It requires you to take your hands off the keyboard but that method works better for me.
Well, the point is that they have the support if they need it. I would think support would be a huge issue if they are taking the "risk" of switching away from microsoft products. I think most companies would find support an issue for switching to any new software, free or not.
Nah... That's a pretty cool interpretation though. Actually, it's from a Aqua Teen Hungerforce eposide. These Mooninites (who are coincidently from the Moon) have this super gun that shoots a big square that moves incredibly slowly. It's hard to explain... The mooninites Are made out of giant pixels to look like old Atari games... I'll just stop here. There's no way I can explain the moonintes, much less the rest of the show. It's pretty funny though.
Do you think the choice has anything to do with Sun's decision to offer OpenOffice.org support? The timing seems to suggest so. Perhaps this will encourage other open source sposors to do something similar.
I stopped renting from blockbuster because they have a nasty habbit of not recording that you returned a movie and then hassling you saying that you didn't. This was not a single location and isn't just me.
I don't consider myself an "open source advocate". I think there is a place for both open source and commercial software and I support both.
I'm just a little tired of people complaining on message boards about project X not doing such and such. Take it up with the developers or do it yourself.
I wouldn't consider my post insightful either but if someone wants to mod a post up/down, there aren't always applicable choices.
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Assuming that they do fine Microsoft and Microsoft does pay, where will this $100 million go?
Will it just go into the EU's wallet or will it go to promote/help alternative OSs? I think that Microsoft definitely has some retribution in store but I think it's important that countries don't look at Microsoft as a blank check that they can use for their purposes.
The money needs to back to the source (i.e. the alternative OSs that were hurt).
(I couldn't get to the article because of the necessary subscription so this might be addressed there.)
My wife wont touch it. Shes not "used to it"
I think this is a major thing. It is definitely for me. People who have used MS Office for years know all the little shortcuts that allow you to get work done so much faster. It's not worth the effort to relearn a new system.
if the XFree86 folks want to shoot themselves to foot and slowly bleed to death, it's their choice - very stupid one but it's their nevertheless.
I seriously doubth that the XFree89 folks are as stupid as you are making them out to be.
Decisions like this aren't just pulled out of thin air. I'm sure that they put some research into and that they believe it is the best decision for the project.
Until they have a proper Linux driver, buy an AMD based system instead.
You are aware that it's a driver for the wireless technology and not actual cpu right? Last I checked (though it's been a while) AMD didn't integrate wireless into the mobile processors. So either way you'll have to buy a third party card if you want wireless.
I had a AMD notebook and it barely got an hour of battery time. I hear their newer generation of mobile processors are supposed to be better but I have heard that the centrino's still out preform the AMDs and use less power.
I'd still go centrino.
I conducted my own tests pitting Java 1.4 against gcc 3.3 and icc 8.0 using his benchmark code, and found Java to perform significantly worse than C on Linux/Athlon.
Why is this a suprise? C has been most commonly used for so long because of it's speed and efficiency. I think anyone who has done much work with either developing or running large scale java programs knows that speed can definitely be an issue.
I think that was the idea. From what I read, Bush advocated placing a permanent base on the moon and eventually doing the same on Mars.
No matter how many billions of dollars are spent, it's not going to keep people from eating McDonalds and cheese-in-a-can. It's not going to produce more hearts for transplants.
Apparently not...
When I took it 7-8 years ago we could use calculators just not graphing calculators.
Yeah, I don't think that ever happened. That would require landing on mars which we have all seen is difficult in itself but would also require taking back off from Mars. That would probably be more difficult then landing. It would require making it land with enough fuel to take off and get back to earth making it much more dangerous. It would also require more then twice the amount of fuel then a one way mission would. And if it costs near 100 million to take off from earth just think what it would cost to take off from mars.
I seem to remember reports of fossilized bacteria found in meteorites or something like that. I really doubt that it was from mars.
I think it stems from the flood of anti-americanism on slashdot and in the world in general. If it was the other way around and Beagle had landed successfully, I'm sure the whole topic would be about how NASA sucks and how Europeans are so superior.
Buy it at Best Buy. Buy the $50 2-year warrenty. When the battery dies (or you just say it does) you cash in on the warrenty. You get your full paid amount back. By then, apple has upgraded the ipod line several tiems so you get a newer, larger capacity ipod or throw in an extra $100 to get the next one up.
That's the reason I drive a Nissan and not a Porche. Well one of them at least...
I can see the relation but I'm not sure of your point.
There is a vast horde of us Gentoo users who are laughing like hell at you right now.
I use gentoo myself. However, the vast majority of computer users in the world use windows. That's what I was refering to by saying "regular" computer users.
Check out the anandtech article from several posts above.
It's compare there to the EE chip. I believe that I remember hearing that the price for the 3400 is less then the FX chip and out performs it as well.
Everyone would benefit from switching because of the extra registers in 64-bit mode and the low-latency memory controller. Some people have said they got a 10-20% speedup just from recompiling in 64-bit mode without making any changes to their code.
Seriously though, how many "regular" computer users have access to the source code for their applications or would even know what to do with it if they did.
This is great for universities and research facilities that use either their own software or open source softeare. I'm sure a lot of people will buy it out of ignorance just because of the salesman or just to have the biggest and best. But before it becomes really mainstream, you are going to have to have the 64-bit windows (not sure if it is available or not) and a decent selection of 64-bit commercial software.
Looks pretty good. I still don't think there is a huge demand to have these in desktops as of yet. P4s are still very powerful and still compete with AMDs 64 bit chips. Even the Athlons are enough for most people to play the newest games and all.
I don't think that most people do the really computer intensive tasks that would benefit from 64bit chips plus the lack of truely 64 bit software that will give them this advantage is a hinderance as well.
I think it will be 2005 or maybe even 2006 before 64 bit chips become the standard.
Because google has the best search technology there is and the best there will ever be. Any attempt at innovation must surely be folly.
One of the things Xerox showed Jobs was the Alto, which sported a GUI and a three-button mouse. When Jobs saw this prototype, he had an epiphany and set out to bring the GUI to the public.
Too bad he didn't hand on to the three-button mouse too.
If you have to ask that question, you've obviously never used Omniweb. I can search google for x by typing in 'google x'. If I want it in Japanese, it's 'googlej x'. I can search amazon.com by searching 'az x'. Etc. It cuts down on browsing time by at least 50%, since my hands never have to keyboard, ever (I have memorized all of the useful keyboard shortcuts, and even added some of my own).
While this is a very useful feature, it is by no means unique to OW. Even IE has had this feature for several years. I believe that Firebird has a similar feature as an extension but I may be mistaken.
My biggest problem with this feature is that when you come up with a lot of different search engines, I tend to forget what the shortcuts are. I prefer just setting them in Firebird's search bar. It requires you to take your hands off the keyboard but that method works better for me.
Well, the point is that they have the support if they need it. I would think support would be a huge issue if they are taking the "risk" of switching away from microsoft products. I think most companies would find support an issue for switching to any new software, free or not.
Nah... That's a pretty cool interpretation though. Actually, it's from a Aqua Teen Hungerforce eposide. These Mooninites (who are coincidently from the Moon) have this super gun that shoots a big square that moves incredibly slowly. It's hard to explain... The mooninites Are made out of giant pixels to look like old Atari games... I'll just stop here. There's no way I can explain the moonintes, much less the rest of the show. It's pretty funny though.
Do you think the choice has anything to do with Sun's decision to offer OpenOffice.org support? The timing seems to suggest so. Perhaps this will encourage other open source sposors to do something similar.
I stopped renting at Blockbuster because of this.
I stopped renting from blockbuster because they have a nasty habbit of not recording that you returned a movie and then hassling you saying that you didn't. This was not a single location and isn't just me.
I don't consider myself an "open source advocate". I think there is a place for both open source and commercial software and I support both.
I'm just a little tired of people complaining on message boards about project X not doing such and such. Take it up with the developers or do it yourself.
I wouldn't consider my post insightful either but if someone wants to mod a post up/down, there aren't always applicable choices.