I don't think it's ridiculous, it's superb marketing. I called it on the last article. A Halo3 movie timed to come out when Halo3 launches. Maybe even the same day. Previously unimaginable levels of hype.
Ummm....fine? It's a Model M, should be good for another century or two. Seriously, what's wrong with PS/2? Were people making out the interface of their keyboards?
Well, in user-interface land, "different" usually means "bad," because however aesthetic or elegant, if the UI does not work as you expect, it hampers its usability.
seccond, everytime someone suggest, that we should not care about our envroment because some economical issue, i have to punch him into face.
I really think there are not that many people like that. But there is a serious misunderstanding that occurs. The problem is that the economic costs of environmental protection are fairly easy to quantify. There are well-established methods for calculating dollar values of economic damages. However, there are not so many well-established methods for calculating the benefit of environmental protection. Thus, it becomes very difficult for rational people to perform a cost-benefit analysis as to a specific proposed environmental protection. Environmentalists often have a fall-back position that every environmental protection is worth an infinite amount of value, but that makes cost-benefit analyses impossible and pisses rational people off.
so a company using internal GPL'd code does NOT mean that their code will be avaliable to their competitors, unless they sell their product to their competitors.
But it does mean that any products they develop that incorporate your tool must be GPL'ed. And they generally take a dim view of giving products away for free.
But we're talking about a world without patents. What does it mean to "steal their idea" in this case?
It means "to exploit the work product of another for one's own profit, in such a manner so as to reduce or eliminate the ability of the creator of the work product to profit therefrom."
Just because inventions are free-as-in-speech, doesn't mean that they are free-as-in-beer.
What is there to prevent large organizations from funding research that serves their interests?
Probably the fact that some other large organization with incrementally better marketing will simply steal their idea and put them out of business. It might even hurt purely altruistic R&D, because of the knowledge that R&D intended for altruisitic purposes could easily be exploited by others for massive profit.
If this is the case, would this not show that KDE is taking up more RAM?
No, because I don't think that's how Windows works. It is probably true that it writes to swap more aggresively, but it is not freeing the associated memory right away. Instead, it is pre-emptively writing, so that in case the app does need to be swapped out of memory, the memory can immediately be freed for the other memory-hungry use. If the RAM is never needed, the written swap data is just overwritten. The upshot is that more writing takes place than is necessary, but that when you suddenly need more memory, you should not have to wait and wait for your other processes to be swapped.
I accomplish the same thing by getting some ambient or classical music and playing it on my computer while staring directly at a full-screen G-Force visualization. I think it may be a self-induced state of hypnosis.
While reading your comment, I just had one of those "Aha!" moments as to exactly what Microsoft's goal with.NET is. The whole ".NET Framework" seems to be exactly what you described, and using manifests allows upgrading the framework without breaking older apps or having to update the OS.
They are doing this. Supposedly, user accounts created in Longhorn are limited users by default. And even when running as administrator, processes are restricted to the lowest level of privileges necessary.
Disagree. See, e.g., the new MSN Search Toolbar with WDS. You can easily (via the options dialog) change which search provider is used as the default for web searches. You can even disable and hide MSN-specific buttons.
I can see them attempting to work it so that the film and the Episode III video game are released at the same time. The hype levels would be staggering.
but if they made it so the state owns land and we can live on it for free thats even better than paying rent or buying land. It all depends on how its handled.
That's easy to say but impossible to implement without quickly breaking down into corrupt totalitarianism. How do you decide how much free land a person gets? Or where it's located? Or what they may use it for? And Who is to do the deciding? What if the person no longer wants the land? What if they want to use different land? What if they want to use land that somebody else is using? What if the person abuses their free land?
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Anybody care to guess at the Latin translation of this word?
I don't think it's ridiculous, it's superb marketing. I called it on the last article. A Halo3 movie timed to come out when Halo3 launches. Maybe even the same day. Previously unimaginable levels of hype.
Ummm....fine? It's a Model M, should be good for another century or two. Seriously, what's wrong with PS/2? Were people making out the interface of their keyboards?
USB instead of serial
Tell me again what the "S" in "USB" stands for.
I call zealot, not informative.
I wish I had SimStapler for Windows.
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!"
Listing the litany of technologies dropped by Apple would result in a large tomb, so I won't go into detail here.
Just a guess, but the word he was looking for might be tome.
Not that I don't agree with his point.
I don't think the DMCA means what you think it means. What reverse engineering do you think occurred here?
Well, in user-interface land, "different" usually means "bad," because however aesthetic or elegant, if the UI does not work as you expect, it hampers its usability.
I really think there are not that many people like that. But there is a serious misunderstanding that occurs. The problem is that the economic costs of environmental protection are fairly easy to quantify. There are well-established methods for calculating dollar values of economic damages. However, there are not so many well-established methods for calculating the benefit of environmental protection. Thus, it becomes very difficult for rational people to perform a cost-benefit analysis as to a specific proposed environmental protection. Environmentalists often have a fall-back position that every environmental protection is worth an infinite amount of value, but that makes cost-benefit analyses impossible and pisses rational people off.
But it does mean that any products they develop that incorporate your tool must be GPL'ed. And they generally take a dim view of giving products away for free.
It means "to exploit the work product of another for one's own profit, in such a manner so as to reduce or eliminate the ability of the creator of the work product to profit therefrom."
Just because inventions are free-as-in-speech, doesn't mean that they are free-as-in-beer.
Probably the fact that some other large organization with incrementally better marketing will simply steal their idea and put them out of business. It might even hurt purely altruistic R&D, because of the knowledge that R&D intended for altruisitic purposes could easily be exploited by others for massive profit.
Why is this "silly"?
No, because I don't think that's how Windows works. It is probably true that it writes to swap more aggresively, but it is not freeing the associated memory right away. Instead, it is pre-emptively writing, so that in case the app does need to be swapped out of memory, the memory can immediately be freed for the other memory-hungry use. If the RAM is never needed, the written swap data is just overwritten. The upshot is that more writing takes place than is necessary, but that when you suddenly need more memory, you should not have to wait and wait for your other processes to be swapped.
I accomplish the same thing by getting some ambient or classical music and playing it on my computer while staring directly at a full-screen G-Force visualization. I think it may be a self-induced state of hypnosis.
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Yeah, those LED's must waste like, what, 1 watt-hour a day if you left it on all 24 hours? Why, that could be almost a whole penny!
If I remember correctly, Apple would be moving its OS to Intel and basing that OS around the Windows NT kernel.
No, they're using the same Mach kernel as always.
And if I remember correctly, the Windows NT kernel is monolithic in design, meaning that it is irreducably complex.
No, NT is a microkernel. Linux uses a monolithic kernel.
While reading your comment, I just had one of those "Aha!" moments as to exactly what Microsoft's goal with .NET is. The whole ".NET Framework" seems to be exactly what you described, and using manifests allows upgrading the framework without breaking older apps or having to update the OS.
They are doing this. Supposedly, user accounts created in Longhorn are limited users by default. And even when running as administrator, processes are restricted to the lowest level of privileges necessary.
Disagree. See, e.g., the new MSN Search Toolbar with WDS. You can easily (via the options dialog) change which search provider is used as the default for web searches. You can even disable and hide MSN-specific buttons.
Yeah, the latest and greatest 32-bit. I can't see going from a 64-bit PPC to a 32-bit Pentium as anything but a downgrade.
I can see them attempting to work it so that the film and the Episode III video game are released at the same time. The hype levels would be staggering.
Hmmm...I don't think federal executive positions pay as much as you think they do. http://www.opm.gov/oca/05tables/html/ex.asp
That's easy to say but impossible to implement without quickly breaking down into corrupt totalitarianism. How do you decide how much free land a person gets? Or where it's located? Or what they may use it for? And Who is to do the deciding? What if the person no longer wants the land? What if they want to use different land? What if they want to use land that somebody else is using? What if the person abuses their free land?