You missed the some important examples of simulations, that many people use every day...
Webshops... we simulate a whole small world and in that world. The previous way to communicate with each other (communication between customer and seller) is totaly different.
However, Kay is still has his points there, we do no simulate things for creativity in this simulation. (And in your examples of simulations there isn't much creativity either.)
We just replaced ink and paper... we replaced shops or drawing boards or newspapers. But we did not develop many tools that enhance our ability to be creative. That's his point!
When we use wordprocessors there are some improvements and they enhance our ability to be creative in text-writing. However most parts of a wordprocessor-program replaces the way we wrote previously, than there are parts that enhance the way we are writing.
But the ones that have access to a telephone have a Desktop in there office, a laptop, a cellphone with MS OS, and a car with an MS OS on the board computer. Furthermore, these people use noumerous servers and devices, from cash dispensers to what washing machines.
OAh, forget this, the numbers were from MS... ok, so there are less than a 100 million PCs, MS just messed on counting upgrade licenses and per seat licences for servers.
"For those of you who wish to ensure that Microsoft SQL server is slow, invoke a user defined function..."
User defined funktions are impossible with MS-SQL server prior version 7.0...;)
Why should anyone be surprised, that a "feature" latley implemented in the system is as mature as the same feature in comparable system, that existed there for years and years?
There isn't much wrong with MS-SQL, except that its vendors experience with RDBMS isn't backed up with that many years of experience of their competing vendors.
You have missed the strongest argument against the war...
The Security Council of the United Nations has voted against that war! It seemed clear to the majority of the members of that council, that there are neither WMD nor that there is any connection to Al Quaida.
What an irony, that a nation... erm, I mean the government of a nation... that cannot respect democratic decisions, tries to bring democracy to the Iraq.
"Clearly, 64 bits would be twice as fast as 32 bits."
Not realy, there are quite a lot of operations, where 32 bits are just enough, sometimes 32 bit even more than neccesary. In these cases 64 bit can't be any faster. (Even more, in such cases you just spend more RAM and with the same amount of RAM you could in some corner cases even notice a performance loss with a 64 bit CPU.)
If you are refering to the "bottleneck" of transfering data from RAM into CPU (more precisely into L2 cache then into L1 cache and after that into CPU) you are not right either, since a 32 bit CPU processes data in 32 bit units, but this does not neccessarily mean that data moves in 32 bit units into the CPU.
There won't be any real performance increase, unless you realy need to prcess data in units larger than 32 bits. For example comparing two large strings should be twice as fast, but comparing two single characters or (byte encoded) IP's won't be any faster.
I do not expect 64 bit CPU's to be twice as fast, on avaerage I would expect them to be 10%-50% faster.
If you like to further "invent words", noone ever said, then just take that:
I think there are a few million people in the world, that would take issue, with your implied suggestion, that the US fought against Japan because of all the war crimes the Japanese comitted espacialy the ones in Nanking in 1937...
I stay my words, the Japanese did only target military targets in Pearl Harbour (... and this was the main reason for the US to fight Japan and anything else was of no interest to the US for many years!)
Wheras the US aimed (knowingly and intended) at civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Anyway, are you realy trying to justify one crime with another?
"Of course, with movies, it won't be because people expect them to be set in the US, Australia, etc. and you can't just move that to India and expect a seemless transition."
Hm, here you are definatly wrong! Obviously you did never come accross the term "Bollywood"... guess it, a mixture between Bombay and Hollywood.
Wake up man, the worlds second largest movie industry resides in Inda! And guess what, most "customers" for movies in this world do not have the same taste as US citicans or Europeans have. Different religions, ethics and different wealthiness as well as other differences in peoples lives has a major impact on what movies people like and which ones do do not like as well. While Holywood can serve the US and European market better, than India's movie industry can, they still have the advantage, of a much bigger market. Almost the whole rest of the world is their market. (Can you imagine any Hollywood movie, that will not have scences that will offend muslims every 5 or 10 minutes in one or the other way? Can you even imagine, Hollywood would be able to produce such films? Well, Indias movie industry is way ahead, here!) Indias movie industry is growing very fast, I would even expect them to exceed Hollywood sales within a couple of years.
However, it will not realy be a competitor to Hollywood, because of the different markets. (And this is essentialy different to the software industry)
"Situational ethics. Fewer people died that way than if we'd used conventional weapons."
Any Ethics were lost, at that very moment soldiers started to aim their weapons at civilians, unarmed people and children!
Any I mean aiming their waepons and not hitting accidentialy... you know the bombing of pearl harbour aimed at military targets.
That's the most important difference between the start and the end of the pacific war and between an act of war and a war crime/massmurder... if you ask me.
Hm... there are terminal services... rdesktop is probably what you need.
And once you have terminal services available, why don't you run MS Query Analyzer on the terminal server? (Once you use a MS-SQL-Server, you at least always have one machine, where you can run Query Analyzer. If you debug, you most probably use a test-server, so there should not even be concerns, using Query Analyzer on the server.;)
However, I think there is not any tool with similar capabilities like query analyzer... I know of some tools, to execute SQL statements and look at the resultsets, but they lack things like object catalogues, graphical execution plans and similar that I would say are neccesary to debug MS-SQL-Server apps. Namly they lack things, that are specific to MS-SQL.
To me an very important point in creating any type of intelectual property is, that the product can be dublicated/copied an unlimited time, with marginal cost. In contrast creating or producing any physical product has significant cost in duplicating/copying that product.
Anyone should be paid a fair price for any work done, however people question, if it is fair, to get paid a zillion times for a work that has been done once. You might guess the "common" answer.
Why should Mr Softwarewriter or Mr Musician have the priviledge to get paid many times for a work done once, whereas Mr Farmer or Mr Metalworker have work again and again, to make their living?
Free OSS is the "fair" way to go, pay your Software-developers for their work, and not their product! The same model can be applied to music, book, virtually any intelectual property.
If you take a look at MS or some superstar, don't you get the feeling, that their payment is exceptioneial overrated?
But with Linux Software you have the code and can compile it against the newer libraries. Even if that fails, you (or someone else) have the possibility to fix it, because you have the source code and you are free to modify it. There is absolutly no need, to run a 10 year old binary with Linux!
That's why there is no need, to always keep backwards compatibility in Linux... except for 3rd party closed source binaries, but that again is a problem of closed source.
I don't want to damm MS for their decision to sacrifice compatibility, however, for their customers this is costly! In larger companies one can't just try on error SP2, so they have to run tests in advance (and pay their IT personel for that time or even hire externals)... and if the recognize some incompatibility, they have to pay for new software or upgrades, or in the worst case, if the vendor for that software does not exist anymore they have to develop that incompatible software from scratch...
I don't understand people developing this type of DVD...
Either you want to store something for a _long_ time, than you use a DVD (or whatever media to store data.) or you just want to watch a movie and do not want to store the data, then you turn on your TV.
Shall this innovation just be an interim solution until video on demand is technically possible for the broad mass?
"This is something that would really concern me. I often look at converting some CAD users to Linux, but there really aren't the quality CAD tools to do it."
I think you'll notice a good advancement in FOSS CAD tools over the next few years.;)
Hm... did someone say forever?... Ok, tomorrow every Linux box is patched. I bet we can run at least another 1281 days until someone finds something similar.;)...
Oh, wait... my machine up for 847 days has a kernel prior 2.4.18, noting to worry it's invulnerable.
Seriously, to get a clue, how much is improved in MS based systems over different versions, just take a look what viruses affect what Windows versions... Aren't you surprised, that most viruses affect always a couple of Windows versions?... That makes it obvious, that the majority of Windows code does not change over 3 or even more Windows versions (similar with office or whatever other MS product.) If it would change, the same security hole affected by single viruses would not be present in that many different Windows versions! Sometimes I even ask myself, what did MS change in their products at all!
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"How come you guys are just sitting on your hands hoping the media picks it up instead of pooling your money together and getting a commercial on TV?"
That's very simple, there is no need need to pay for such comercials, they are for free.
Everytime a new virus is in the wild or a new exploit is discovered, there are many lots of "comercials" and they get more and more with every time.
There is nothing to do, but to wait until M$'s has completly destroyed its own reputation.
Big mainstream press won't help much
Not even M$ offering one or more of the other browsers in Windows Update would help much, most people are just too lazy to upgrade/change software.
But it did not happen all the times the magnetic field already flipped on earth
You missed the some important examples of simulations, that many people use every day
Webshops
However, Kay is still has his points there, we do no simulate things for creativity in this simulation. (And in your examples of simulations there isn't much creativity either.)
We just replaced ink and paper
When we use wordprocessors there are some improvements and they enhance our ability to be creative in text-writing. However most parts of a wordprocessor-program replaces the way we wrote previously, than there are parts that enhance the way we are writing.
Let's hope a little bit
Over 500 Million users lost!
But the ones that have access to a telephone have a Desktop in there office, a laptop, a cellphone with MS OS, and a car with an MS OS on the board computer.
Furthermore, these people use noumerous servers and devices, from cash dispensers to what washing machines.
OAh, forget this, the numbers were from MS
"For those of you who wish to ensure that Microsoft SQL server is slow, invoke a user defined function ..."
... ;)
User defined funktions are impossible with MS-SQL server prior version 7.0
Why should anyone be surprised, that a "feature" latley implemented in the system is as mature as the same feature in comparable system, that existed there for years and years?
There isn't much wrong with MS-SQL, except that its vendors experience with RDBMS isn't backed up with that many years of experience of their competing vendors.
You have missed the strongest argument against the war
The Security Council of the United Nations has voted against that war!
It seemed clear to the majority of the members of that council, that there are neither WMD nor that there is any connection to Al Quaida.
What an irony, that a nation
"Clearly, 64 bits would be twice as fast as 32 bits."
Not realy, there are quite a lot of operations, where 32 bits are just enough, sometimes 32 bit even more than neccesary. In these cases 64 bit can't be any faster. (Even more, in such cases you just spend more RAM and with the same amount of RAM you could in some corner cases even notice a performance loss with a 64 bit CPU.)
If you are refering to the "bottleneck" of transfering data from RAM into CPU (more precisely into L2 cache then into L1 cache and after that into CPU) you are not right either, since a 32 bit CPU processes data in 32 bit units, but this does not neccessarily mean that data moves in 32 bit units into the CPU.
There won't be any real performance increase, unless you realy need to prcess data in units larger than 32 bits.
For example comparing two large strings should be twice as fast, but comparing two single characters or (byte encoded) IP's won't be any faster.
I do not expect 64 bit CPU's to be twice as fast, on avaerage I would expect them to be 10%-50% faster.
I did not "imply suggestions"
If you like to further "invent words", noone ever said, then just take that:
I think there are a few million people in the world, that would take issue, with your implied suggestion, that the US fought against Japan because of all the war crimes the Japanese comitted espacialy the ones in Nanking in 1937
I stay my words, the Japanese did only target military targets in Pearl Harbour (
Wheras the US aimed (knowingly and intended) at civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Anyway, are you realy trying to justify one crime with another?
"Of course, with movies, it won't be because people expect them to be set in the US, Australia, etc. and you can't just move that to India and expect a seemless transition."
... guess it, a mixture between Bombay and Hollywood.
Hm, here you are definatly wrong!
Obviously you did never come accross the term "Bollywood"
Wake up man, the worlds second largest movie industry resides in Inda! And guess what, most "customers" for movies in this world do not have the same taste as US citicans or Europeans have.
Different religions, ethics and different wealthiness as well as other differences in peoples lives has a major impact on what movies people like and which ones do do not like as well.
While Holywood can serve the US and European market better, than India's movie industry can, they still have the advantage, of a much bigger market. Almost the whole rest of the world is their market.
(Can you imagine any Hollywood movie, that will not have scences that will offend muslims every 5 or 10 minutes in one or the other way? Can you even imagine, Hollywood would be able to produce such films? Well, Indias movie industry is way ahead, here!)
Indias movie industry is growing very fast, I would even expect them to exceed Hollywood sales within a couple of years.
However, it will not realy be a competitor to Hollywood, because of the different markets.
(And this is essentialy different to the software industry)
Two wrongs don't result in right!
"Situational ethics. Fewer people died that way than if we'd used conventional weapons."
... you know the bombing of pearl harbour aimed at military targets.
... if you ask me.
Any Ethics were lost, at that very moment soldiers started to aim their weapons at civilians, unarmed people and children!
Any I mean aiming their waepons and not hitting accidentialy
That's the most important difference between the start and the end of the pacific war and between an act of war and a war crime/massmurder
Hm ... there are terminal services ... rdesktop is probably what you need.
;)
... I know of some tools, to execute SQL statements and look at the resultsets, but they lack things like object catalogues, graphical execution plans and similar that I would say are neccesary to debug MS-SQL-Server apps. Namly they lack things, that are specific to MS-SQL.
And once you have terminal services available, why don't you run MS Query Analyzer on the terminal server?
(Once you use a MS-SQL-Server, you at least always have one machine, where you can run Query Analyzer. If you debug, you most probably use a test-server, so there should not even be concerns, using Query Analyzer on the server.
However, I think there is not any tool with similar capabilities like query analyzer
"Or is free OSS the only way to go now?"
Actually it is.
To me an very important point in creating any type of intelectual property is, that the product can be dublicated/copied an unlimited time, with marginal cost.
In contrast creating or producing any physical product has significant cost in duplicating/copying that product.
Anyone should be paid a fair price for any work done, however people question, if it is fair, to get paid a zillion times for a work that has been done once. You might guess the "common" answer.
Why should Mr Softwarewriter or Mr Musician have the priviledge to get paid many times for a work done once, whereas Mr Farmer or Mr Metalworker have work again and again, to make their living?
Free OSS is the "fair" way to go, pay your Software-developers for their work, and not their product! The same model can be applied to music, book, virtually any intelectual property.
If you take a look at MS or some superstar, don't you get the feeling, that their payment is exceptioneial overrated?
But with Linux Software you have the code and can compile it against the newer libraries.
... except for 3rd party closed source binaries, but that again is a problem of closed source.
... and if the recognize some incompatibility, they have to pay for new software or upgrades, or in the worst case, if the vendor for that software does not exist anymore they have to develop that incompatible software from scratch ...
;)
Even if that fails, you (or someone else) have the possibility to fix it, because you have the source code and you are free to modify it.
There is absolutly no need, to run a 10 year old binary with Linux!
That's why there is no need, to always keep backwards compatibility in Linux
I don't want to damm MS for their decision to sacrifice compatibility, however, for their customers this is costly!
In larger companies one can't just try on error SP2, so they have to run tests in advance (and pay their IT personel for that time or even hire externals)
Well, at least this boosts economy a little...
I don't understand people developing this type of DVD
Either you want to store something for a _long_ time, than you use a DVD (or whatever media to store data.) or you just want to watch a movie and do not want to store the data, then you turn on your TV.
Shall this innovation just be an interim solution until video on demand is technically possible for the broad mass?
Wait a few years, then a clever guy has the idea to sell DVD's without movie
There is nothing wrong with european conservatives!
Harhar
"This is something that would really concern me. I often look at converting some CAD users to Linux, but there really aren't the quality CAD tools to do it."
;)
I think you'll notice a good advancement in FOSS CAD tools over the next few years.
No, they have not the power to stop it.
The CSU is dominant in the country Bavaria, however the city Munich is dominated by the SPD.
It is very unlikley, that this changes in near future and moreover the city is souvereign in its decisions what computers/OS to run.
"... for the boot partition."
Ah, is this an indicator on the stability of a system with such a device?
Hm
Oh, wait
Seriously, to get a clue, how much is improved in MS based systems over different versions, just take a look what viruses affect what Windows versions
That makes it obvious, that the majority of Windows code does not change over 3 or even more Windows versions (similar with office or whatever other MS product.)
If it would change, the same security hole affected by single viruses would not be present in that many different Windows versions! Sometimes I even ask myself, what did MS change in their products at all!
noob, l00s0r ... renice this process and everything is ok ;)