I RTFPDF (funny abbreviation), but I have not seen any details on what was thesolution to, in my opinion, the greatest challenge: the switch.
Since I graduated electrical engineering, there has been great progress in the field of solid-state switches. Yet, I think the losses incurred in such a switch would make this experiment unviable. A mechanical switch is definitely out of the question, unless they managed to accelerate one of the contacts in some, to me inimaginable way. Maybe with explosives. In the hihg-voltage experiments a spark gap is a very good and viable alternative, but here we don't deal so much with high voltage as high currents. As I said, I RTFPDF, but the PDF didn't contain any solid technical data, let alone details.
No disrespect to you personally, but this gets modded +4 informative? I thought everybody by now knew that by "dark" side it's meant the far side of the moon, the one we never see. In that sense, the sentence In fact you can see the dark side from Earth is factually incorrect. We have no way to see the far side of the moon from Earth, there is no optical line of sight. (OK, we see small parts of it blah blah..)
Maybe I'm nitpicking, but I think that geeks ought to know better: that's no Stratocaster body! It looks quite clearly like a Fender Telecaster-style body.
Well, I think the 9300 and 9500 are PDAs, even though I have never been any good at that "product placement"-thing. Not surprisingly, I don't work in marketing.
Also, I guess the 7710 could/should be called a PDA, too. In any case, that's a damn sweet piece of kit. The first time I had it in my hands, my head almost exploded, in a positive way.
Actually, yes, it's a rather stupid observation: the whole point of Symbian is to save power and execute applications efficiently on slower CPUs. Mobile phones are designed with an eye to evey single microampere used.
Let's just say that I have someone very close to me, that works in the Nokia business unit that makes Symbian (apps, drivers, protocol stack...).
Symbian is not only an OS for Nokia phones. It's a whole ecosystem that Nokia develops and nourishes: 3rd party developers, service providers, operators (which often are also service providers), related non-Symbian software 1st and 3rd parties etc. etc. As it is now, Nokia's involvement with Symbian will only grow from here, not decline, because it aims to tap into multiple streams of revenue. If you think Nokia makes money only from mobile phones, you're a fool. And Nokia's ambitions are certainly towards further diversification. In this view, Symbian is a well-estabilished platform, and Nokia has invested billions in the abovementioned ecosystem.
Apple should continue being both a hardware and software company, but not restric artificially OS X86 from running on non-Apple hardware. Simply waive any support if OS X is not run on Macs, that's all. This way Apple could have it both ways; maintain the hardware business and increase the hihg-margin software business. And before anyone tells me the hardware business is the better one: bullshit. Margins on hardware sales have always, even in the most lucrative (compared to other hardware) workstation market, margins have always been in the low 10s of percent. Compared to software, where theoretical margins can reach 100% - why do you think Microsoft is doing so good.
I totally agree that most of those irrational enough are also clueless enough... but again, think about it: hundreds of millions of people. And mad people are relatively common, believe you me:o)
BTW, I am trying to emphatyze with the SOB, but somehow it's difficult: dealing with spam has taken a few weeks of my life, and that's something I find very hard to forgive.
...but regardless of this particular case, I often wonder how come the more notorious spammers don't get in trouble more often? Just think about it: these people are annoying MILLIONS of people, hundreds of millions, in fact. Of all those, you'd think there are good odds to find one unbalanced, motivated and aggravated enough to take the problem in his/(her?) own hands, and by that I don't mean software solutions.
Again, we're talking hundreds of millions of individuals...
I agree with you, but I also agree with the grandparent poster, who correctly identified what should be the sane course of action. However, as you implied in your post, people are not sane. Just look at some of the magalopolis in south america, mexico, india nad china, you you will understand how non-sane people really are.
That said, people are not completely immune to good arguments, public campaigns and change of lifestyle, if you offer them a viable alternative. If you have a good, capilar and affordable public transportation in place, and the technology and infrastructure to build andmantain completely electric cars that have the range and speed comparable to gas or diesel ones, people can be persuaded.
Pollution causes decreased life span and quality of life. Whether you (or even your parents) lived in a clean environment or a polluted one, can determine whether you'll have all sorts of allergies, cancer, respiratory tract diseases etc. Even if you regularly check for cancer and catch each one in time, try to prolg your lifespan with antioxidants and reduced intake of calories, pollution will still get you: you may attain longer life, but with much reduced mental capacity or even dementia.
So, if you're a geek and you value your grey matter, you'll take pollution seriously.
In my view, one of the best ways around pollution is greater use of public transportation (expecially trains and such) - this is a problem in the US, where the existing public transportation companies have been bought and dismantled shortly after WWII - and greater utilization of nuclear, hydro, solar and wind power plants for production of electrical energy.
don't think this bug (if it does indeed exist) is going to have as big of an effect in the end as people think it will.
Well, I suppose it must be having an effect: I myself am totally discoraged from diving into WoW, while I have been seriously considering before the duplication story broke out. Which is probably a good thing, as I tend to spend way too much time on this sort of games.
My simple objection is that poachers are not starving. They are members of organized crime gangs, often so powerful to be able to challenge the state institutions themselves. Poaching is a sistematic process, and it's very "well" tought out: the reason why poachers don't plan for the future (i.e. why they poach all they can and to hell sustainability) is because poaching gangs are compiting against each other. It's a destructive logic, and it makes me revolt, but it's logic.
In fact, I did work with OS/2 2.2 and liked it a lot. Later on I played around with Os/2 3.0 Warp.
However, as for responsiveness it feels somewhere between BeOS and WinNT. It's not that BeOS is particularly "lightweight", but as a desktop user you feel really privileged and listened to. No hourglass, focus stealing, delays, none.
The effort invested in BeOS is worthwile, because BeOS doesn't feel anything like Linux or Windows. It's the most respnsive desktop OS I know, with it's great emphasis on multithreading and it's near-realtime scheduling (but not completely realtime - it's tweaked for responsiveness, not hard-realtime).
I have heard and read arguments like yours, and without a single exception, they came from people who did not use BeOS (booting it up is not using it). Those who used BeOS apps for at least a few hours, understand why BeOS is worth the effort.
The other remark I would make, is: having people experienced in a certain area/product is useful, but sometimes it's much better to take the leap into the new area, instead of regurgitating old ideas and contents. That's the only way to progress. Otherwise, we would still use (very advanced perhaps) core memory and valves in our computers today. At the advent of semiconductors, valves were a really mature technology, but semis were so much better that the choice was clear, at least for computers. Valves are still in use today (as will UNIX be) because they offer unparalleled performance in high-power high-frequency applications.
Frankly, I don't understand you. Or anyone in your position: don't tell me you don't know that Slashdot has been a putrid cesspool of bad grammar and spelling, worse "reporting" and dupes, for a LONG time (since I have been reading it, in fact). In light of this, why did you ever subscribe?
I am trying to imagine, how would application development for Windows look like, if the ISVs had to compile a different version for Intel and AMD CPUs.
First of all, the problem is not the sex "interlude" (which, without some hacking, isn't really accessible, but that's beside the real point), but rather the mind-boggling violence omnipresent in the game.
Said that, I don't think this kind of game shouldn't be sold. I think it shouldn't be bought! And by that, I state that it's a pretty sick mind's need to play such a game. There is something to be done by all educating parties: parents, school and most importantly, the media.
ummm.. and I would still put tanning into the "bad" category. A vitamin D supplement is all you need to counter any lack of it, but malignant melanoma is a bit trickier to get rid of.
While I understand your problem very well, I would like to point out that this shouldn't necessarily be the case, had GM not bought out most of the public transportation facilities in the 50's, in USA. In Europe, we mostly don't have this problem, public transportation takes care of nearly 100% of the transportation needs of the people. This is definitely true fro the nordic countries, france, germany, italy, belgium, poland, hungary, croatia, netherlands, austria, chech republic, slovenia. Those are the contries where I visited or lived, so I can account personally. I guess the same is true for all european countries.
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I RTFPDF (funny abbreviation), but I have not seen any details on what was thesolution to, in my opinion, the greatest challenge: the switch.
Since I graduated electrical engineering, there has been great progress in the field of solid-state switches. Yet, I think the losses incurred in such a switch would make this experiment unviable.
A mechanical switch is definitely out of the question, unless they managed to accelerate one of the contacts in some, to me inimaginable way. Maybe with explosives.
In the hihg-voltage experiments a spark gap is a very good and viable alternative, but here we don't deal so much with high voltage as high currents.
As I said, I RTFPDF, but the PDF didn't contain any solid technical data, let alone details.
No disrespect to you personally, but this gets modded +4 informative? I thought everybody by now knew that by "dark" side it's meant the far side of the moon, the one we never see. In that sense, the sentence In fact you can see the dark side from Earth is factually incorrect. We have no way to see the far side of the moon from Earth, there is no optical line of sight. (OK, we see small parts of it blah blah..)
Maybe I'm nitpicking, but I think that geeks ought to know better: that's no Stratocaster body! It looks quite clearly like a Fender Telecaster-style body.
Well, I think the 9300 and 9500 are PDAs, even though I have never been any good at that "product placement"-thing. Not surprisingly, I don't work in marketing.
Also, I guess the 7710 could/should be called a PDA, too. In any case, that's a damn sweet piece of kit. The first time I had it in my hands, my head almost exploded, in a positive way.
OK, be assured I'll, er, pass the message along :o)
Else then that it's the best phone I ever had.
I feel the same about my 9500. I just can't go back to any other phone, anymore. I am hooked.
Actually, yes, it's a rather stupid observation: the whole point of Symbian is to save power and execute applications efficiently on slower CPUs. Mobile phones are designed with an eye to evey single microampere used.
Let's just say that I have someone very close to me, that works in the Nokia business unit that makes Symbian (apps, drivers, protocol stack...).
Symbian is not only an OS for Nokia phones. It's a whole ecosystem that Nokia develops and nourishes: 3rd party developers, service providers, operators (which often are also service providers), related non-Symbian software 1st and 3rd parties etc. etc.
As it is now, Nokia's involvement with Symbian will only grow from here, not decline, because it aims to tap into multiple streams of revenue. If you think Nokia makes money only from mobile phones, you're a fool. And Nokia's ambitions are certainly towards further diversification. In this view, Symbian is a well-estabilished platform, and Nokia has invested billions in the abovementioned ecosystem.
Apple should continue being both a hardware and software company, but not restric artificially OS X86 from running on non-Apple hardware. Simply waive any support if OS X is not run on Macs, that's all. This way Apple could have it both ways; maintain the hardware business and increase the hihg-margin software business. And before anyone tells me the hardware business is the better one: bullshit. Margins on hardware sales have always, even in the most lucrative (compared to other hardware) workstation market, margins have always been in the low 10s of percent. Compared to software, where theoretical margins can reach 100% - why do you think Microsoft is doing so good.
I totally agree that most of those irrational enough are also clueless enough... but again, think about it: hundreds of millions of people. And mad people are relatively common, believe you me :o)
BTW, I am trying to emphatyze with the SOB, but somehow it's difficult: dealing with spam has taken a few weeks of my life, and that's something I find very hard to forgive.
...but regardless of this particular case, I often wonder how come the more notorious spammers don't get in trouble more often? Just think about it: these people are annoying MILLIONS of people, hundreds of millions, in fact. Of all those, you'd think there are good odds to find one unbalanced, motivated and aggravated enough to take the problem in his/(her?) own hands, and by that I don't mean software solutions.
Again, we're talking hundreds of millions of individuals...
Some posts deserve to be modded higher than 5. This was funny AND strangely closure-bringing. Thank you.
Heck, why call it Windows Vista, when Windows Fiesta! sounds even worse?
Or Windows Siesta - "siesta" will be what corporate users will take, while the tech support cleans the adware from their computers.
I agree with you, but I also agree with the grandparent poster, who correctly identified what should be the sane course of action. However, as you implied in your post, people are not sane. Just look at some of the magalopolis in south america, mexico, india nad china, you you will understand how non-sane people really are.
That said, people are not completely immune to good arguments, public campaigns and change of lifestyle, if you offer them a viable alternative. If you have a good, capilar and affordable public transportation in place, and the technology and infrastructure to build andmantain completely electric cars that have the range and speed comparable to gas or diesel ones, people can be persuaded.
Pollution causes decreased life span and quality of life. Whether you (or even your parents) lived in a clean environment or a polluted one, can determine whether you'll have all sorts of allergies, cancer, respiratory tract diseases etc. Even if you regularly check for cancer and catch each one in time, try to prolg your lifespan with antioxidants and reduced intake of calories, pollution will still get you: you may attain longer life, but with much reduced mental capacity or even dementia.
So, if you're a geek and you value your grey matter, you'll take pollution seriously.
In my view, one of the best ways around pollution is greater use of public transportation (expecially trains and such) - this is a problem in the US, where the existing public transportation companies have been bought and dismantled shortly after WWII - and greater utilization of nuclear, hydro, solar and wind power plants for production of electrical energy.
don't think this bug (if it does indeed exist) is going to have as big of an effect in the end as people think it will.
Well, I suppose it must be having an effect: I myself am totally discoraged from diving into WoW, while I have been seriously considering before the duplication story broke out. Which is probably a good thing, as I tend to spend way too much time on this sort of games.
My simple objection is that poachers are not starving. They are members of organized crime gangs, often so powerful to be able to challenge the state institutions themselves. Poaching is a sistematic process, and it's very "well" tought out: the reason why poachers don't plan for the future (i.e. why they poach all they can and to hell sustainability) is because poaching gangs are compiting against each other. It's a destructive logic, and it makes me revolt, but it's logic.
There are at least 2 apps I use often, are excellent... and incidently, free. One is Sequitur, the other is XRS.
In fact, I did work with OS/2 2.2 and liked it a lot. Later on I played around with Os/2 3.0 Warp.
However, as for responsiveness it feels somewhere between BeOS and WinNT. It's not that BeOS is particularly "lightweight", but as a desktop user you feel really privileged and listened to. No hourglass, focus stealing, delays, none.
The effort invested in BeOS is worthwile, because BeOS doesn't feel anything like Linux or Windows. It's the most respnsive desktop OS I know, with it's great emphasis on multithreading and it's near-realtime scheduling (but not completely realtime - it's tweaked for responsiveness, not hard-realtime).
I have heard and read arguments like yours, and without a single exception, they came from people who did not use BeOS (booting it up is not using it). Those who used BeOS apps for at least a few hours, understand why BeOS is worth the effort.
The other remark I would make, is: having people experienced in a certain area/product is useful, but sometimes it's much better to take the leap into the new area, instead of regurgitating old ideas and contents. That's the only way to progress. Otherwise, we would still use (very advanced perhaps) core memory and valves in our computers today. At the advent of semiconductors, valves were a really mature technology, but semis were so much better that the choice was clear, at least for computers. Valves are still in use today (as will UNIX be) because they offer unparalleled performance in high-power high-frequency applications.
Frankly, I don't understand you. Or anyone in your position: don't tell me you don't know that Slashdot has been a putrid cesspool of bad grammar and spelling, worse "reporting" and dupes, for a LONG time (since I have been reading it, in fact). In light of this, why did you ever subscribe?
Are you still a subscriber? I am curious an average subscriber how much crap will take from Slashdot before junking the subscription.
I am trying to imagine, how would application development for Windows look like, if the ISVs had to compile a different version for Intel and AMD CPUs.
First of all, the problem is not the sex "interlude" (which, without some hacking, isn't really accessible, but that's beside the real point), but rather the mind-boggling violence omnipresent in the game.
Said that, I don't think this kind of game shouldn't be sold. I think it shouldn't be bought! And by that, I state that it's a pretty sick mind's need to play such a game. There is something to be done by all educating parties: parents, school and most importantly, the media.
Add to the list:
colloidal silver: bad
ummm.. and I would still put tanning into the "bad" category. A vitamin D supplement is all you need to counter any lack of it, but malignant melanoma is a bit trickier to get rid of.
While I understand your problem very well, I would like to point out that this shouldn't necessarily be the case, had GM not bought out most of the public transportation facilities in the 50's, in USA. In Europe, we mostly don't have this problem, public transportation takes care of nearly 100% of the transportation needs of the people. This is definitely true fro the nordic countries, france, germany, italy, belgium, poland, hungary, croatia, netherlands, austria, chech republic, slovenia. Those are the contries where I visited or lived, so I can account personally. I guess the same is true for all european countries.