We're all assuming that since Apple announced that they are switching to x86 CPU's and since the developer's kit runs on PC-compatible hardware that the final OS will, too.
Here's a thought: The final version of the OS runs on a x86 CPU, but it's connected to a motherboard with proprietary busses and chipsets. Hardware and Software are One...Again. Really wouldn't take much, and it would explain the minimal restrictive effort expended so far.
I would venture to say that they might have recalled them sooner if people like you had reported the problem to the manufacturer instead of just taking the product back to the retailer for a refund. How, exactly, did you expect the manufacturer to know the reason for your return other than the checkbox marked 'defective'?
In Calirornia, once your employment relationship is severed, the EDD sends a notice out to your new ex-employer and any employer that may still be paying into your account. The employer(s) then verify the info sent (i.e. Name, SSN, employment status, etc.) and return the forms to the EDD. Then you start getting your checks.
"What administration costs? It took about about 10 minutes for me to create and install a SPF record for my site"
So, that works out to about six or seven dollars. Plus whatever else you were not able to get to during that time, which may have a considerably higher cost...
Now, that ten minutes may not have been much, but what if Yahoo comes up with a competing system and you have to create a record for that? What if Yahoo (or whoever) comes up with a similar system and you don't know about it? What if every email "vendor" decides to implement their own authentication system? Suddenly your VP's mail isn't getting through. Suddenly, your help desk is flooded. Suddenly it's not just your "ten minutes" anymore...
What about EPROM or similar? Something (like a pressed CD) where the physical media cannot revert easily to a random state (whoops, I guess that excludes pressing pits in Aluminum).
If you agree on a single archive media and format and *everyone* uses it, there will be enough information value to hopefully ensure that the knowledge is not lost. If it is lost (the decoding knowledge), there should be enough of a "payback" (all knowledge from this era) to warrant the small, one-time cost of deciphering, especially if a primer is included.
Question: Is there necessarily an inverse relationship between data density and storage stability?
Thanks! I think everyone has had a PHB that printed every email (or had it done for them) before reading and replying. I had one that topped that; To edit spreadsheets, he'd print one out, mark it up with pen then load it back up and make the change. Recalculate, print and review. I'm just glad he had never heard of wget..
I am amazed how many times an investment will be made in finding, buying and restoring an old machine enough to read a single set of data and then once the job is done...the machine is sent to the scrapyard.
I wonder how much of the first fifty years of modern computing will be left for my kids to actually see and use? Is there really value in this or is it enough to know "what" was available in the past and "how" it formed the present, or do you have to have the original source? Are there precedents or examples from other areas of technology to use as a guide? How important is having a working steam engine to understanding a fully computer controlled, variable valve geometry hybrid electric-internal combustion engine powered vehicle anyway? (This from someone who's collection includes a Xerox 850, a Point4 mini, yes, a C-128d and a v20, one-of-each compact Mac, a model "A" 5150, a TRS-80, etc., etc.)...
...couldn't have been an 8088. Or maybe you were thinking of Win 3.0. Either way, fun as they were (?), thank goodness that exact set of problems rarely lifts it's head anymore. Seems companies always seemed to assume that they had exclusive rights to claim a particular IRQ. Sure, you could jumper it for another, but the driver was hard coded. For a short while, adding a second IDE channel and NIC was a real hassle as IRQ's 9, 14 and 15 seemed to be favored by other niche cards. Then again, I guess the more things change, eh?
Meanwhile, 2.4Ghz seems to be quickly becoming practically useless. I think I have five devices all vying for that space in the evenings...
I completely agree with your statement regarding the restriction present in current CPU/motherboard designs. Now, imagine some way around that memory bandwidth problem which assumes all other subsystems are secondary. My point is that in a few years, some of the bottlenecks of the current motherboard + CPU systems will need to be eliminated anyway. Why not optimize a system for CPU-memory bandwidth, under the assumption that all of the subsystems that have to interact with the physical world (2-d video, sound, network, basic I/O, HDD) will be orders of magnitude slower? Granted, GPU's are different from CPU's and use memory differently, but the current methods of accessing and structuring main memory are getting a little long in the tooth, no?
The Hypervisor will use 'em, I tell ya!
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Okay, once you have a hypervisor managing all of your virtual PC's, one running Windows 2007, one running OS XI and one running a 3.0 kernel Linux, you will need all of those cores.
Consider this:
Imagine a PC where there is only the hypervisor directly accessing the hardware (and please, NOT one that also loads Outlook Express, IE7, WSH and Media Player). Now imagine all of your operating systems running on top of the hypervisor. All hardware is virtualized for these operating systems, right? So, your physical video card no longer needs a 3-d engine; in fact it doesn't need much more than a 2-d chip and enough memory to show all the pretty colors at whatever resolution is popular. Why, you ask? Because the 3-d rendering will be done by the *virtualized* 3-d card(s) in each virtual machine, and THAT, my friend, will take as many CPU cores on the host machine as you are able to give it. And, since virtual GPU's don't require foundries, it just might mean an Open Source video card. The key is to ensure that the vitualized "hardware" is modular enough to be replaceable.
It's the next step in the ongoing cycle between having the CPU do everything and offloading to specialized chips or subsystems. By virtualizing all of the "offloading" chips such as the GPU, 3-d wavetable synth, some networking functions, etc., the pendulum swings back toward centralizing all of the processing.
The ultimate step will be the vitualization of different hardware modules that will replace the those originally installed. The physical video card, for instance, need only have the ability to paint a 2-d screen as it does today. The virtual 3-D video card however, will require massive amounts of Main CPU cycles which Intel/AMD/IBM will happily provide. I see this going one of two ways: Multiple CPU cores proliferating to provide the cycles OR a dedicated general GPU that itself gets virtualized. Seems the former gives the most flexibility, assuming cycles are unlimited.
Personally, I don't want my Operating Systems running on top of a full Operating System, one that has solataire, outlook express, internet explorer and all the other cruft built in and installed by default!
Give me a Hypervisor that loads on boot and does nothing, I mean nothing, except manage the virual pc's and then I'll trust it.
Oh, and if you don't mind, I'D LIKE TO SAVE MY CYCLES FOR THE VIRTUAL PC'S, PLEASE!
...hmmmm, maybe because the copy was actually released by a PR agency hired by MS to stir up interest in Longhorn? By mentioning VMWare, people might not wait for Longhorn. An unbiased source would have done research and one of the first things they would have encountered would be VMWare.
As I've said before, "Linux will be reduced to the equivelent of today
s.dll's". When you create a Windows executable today, you have to include all unique library files in the install. Fast forward a few years and a "software install" will consist of the following two components:
1. a Virtual PC file
2. a Virtual HDD file
Fine tune a Linux system to run one application, remove anything not absolutely needed, package it up and call it an "install". Instead of shortcuts on the desktop, the install will create Virtual PC entries so that the new application system shows up in the choices. Pick-n-choose operating systems to best fit the purpose of the application needed...
I agree; there is a problem with the way unions very quickly become focused not on issues that affect their members, but rather on the continued existance and political influence of the union itself. Somewhere along the way the needs of the union and the needs of the workers diverged slightly.
I've long said that the ideal union should form to solve a specific problem, then once the problem is solved, disband before egos, personal power and political corruption take root. If a problem is minor there will not be the impetus to organize; that threshold acts as a check to help prevent abuse.
If you think about it, this follows one of the ideals of Open Source; if something is needed and that need is great enough, a solution is built. When the need is no longer strong, the solution fades into obscurity but can be revitalized by anyone. If enough "anyones" are motivated, a new project arises and solves the problem -or a like problem- again.
As it so happens, I hardly ever see German words at all, apart from those which have been adopted into the American English language or incorporated into popular culture. So, I thank you for the German perspective; I hope you were not offended.
In America, the book is usually mentioned in grade school history courses, usually in the context of the build up to WWII. Rarely is the word "Mein" otherwise seen here. From that perspective it was still a minimally amusing, or perhaps sick, observation.
Then again, from that same perspective, David Hasselhoff was never much more than a somewhat cheesy sidekick.
Followed work to a town in northern California in '98. No DSL in town and we lived about 45 minutes west, on the other side of a 3000 ft mountain. During the winter 4wd was not optional and it still took two hours to get to and from work. Home was once a vacation cabin, built in the early 50's. We were still on the power grid, but that was it. Propane heat and cooking, septic, well water. Most everyone had a burn barrel for trash (by permit) as the nearest dump was an hour away. You picked up your mail at the nearest post office (P.O. boxes only -there were no street addresses). No cell coverage for 20 miles, no cable TV either. Dish TV/Internet was out since we were in a very steep valley (three hours of sunlight in the winter). Phone lines were in, but eventually I gave up on the 9600 bps connection. So, call it comfortable-enough living with a forced separation from technology the moment I crossed the mountain summit each day.
The flip side? Living in a river valley with a family of about 25 deer that slept at our back door. Brown eagles flying overhead in the morning and at night so many stars that you felt really small and really short-lived. I'd like to say that I spent countless hours hiking, canoeing and enjoying nature, but spending hours a day commuting and the weekends on maintenance and going into town for supplies left little for enjoyment.
So, the lesson is: If you go off the grid, make sure you can do it all the way. Trying to live in both worlds is very tiring.
Remember those? Something to do with a class action settlement in California. The web site says something like,
"Vouchers will be mailed to class members shortly after any appeals have been resolved. Several appeals have been filed. We cannot estimate how long it will take to resolve the appeals, but it will probably not happen during your lifetime. However, Microsoft would like to thank everyone for sending in all of their CD-Keys as they can now be used in the fight against piracy."
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Here's a thought: The final version of the OS runs on a x86 CPU, but it's connected to a motherboard with proprietary busses and chipsets. Hardware and Software are One...Again. Really wouldn't take much, and it would explain the minimal restrictive effort expended so far.
I would venture to say that they might have recalled them sooner if people like you had reported the problem to the manufacturer instead of just taking the product back to the retailer for a refund. How, exactly, did you expect the manufacturer to know the reason for your return other than the checkbox marked 'defective'?
Now, about those missionaries...
Or are you just incredibly lazy?
In Calirornia, once your employment relationship is severed, the EDD sends a notice out to your new ex-employer and any employer that may still be paying into your account. The employer(s) then verify the info sent (i.e. Name, SSN, employment status, etc.) and return the forms to the EDD. Then you start getting your checks.
2. The State administers the state income tax system and therefore knows if you are still employed.
Have I missed something?
So, that works out to about six or seven dollars. Plus whatever else you were not able to get to during that time, which may have a considerably higher cost...
Now, that ten minutes may not have been much, but what if Yahoo comes up with a competing system and you have to create a record for that? What if Yahoo (or whoever) comes up with a similar system and you don't know about it? What if every email "vendor" decides to implement their own authentication system? Suddenly your VP's mail isn't getting through. Suddenly, your help desk is flooded. Suddenly it's not just your "ten minutes" anymore...
If you agree on a single archive media and format and *everyone* uses it, there will be enough information value to hopefully ensure that the knowledge is not lost. If it is lost (the decoding knowledge), there should be enough of a "payback" (all knowledge from this era) to warrant the small, one-time cost of deciphering, especially if a primer is included.
Question: Is there necessarily an inverse relationship between data density and storage stability?
Thanks! I think everyone has had a PHB that printed every email (or had it done for them) before reading and replying. I had one that topped that; To edit spreadsheets, he'd print one out, mark it up with pen then load it back up and make the change. Recalculate, print and review. I'm just glad he had never heard of wget..
I am amazed how many times an investment will be made in finding, buying and restoring an old machine enough to read a single set of data and then once the job is done...the machine is sent to the scrapyard.
I wonder how much of the first fifty years of modern computing will be left for my kids to actually see and use? Is there really value in this or is it enough to know "what" was available in the past and "how" it formed the present, or do you have to have the original source? Are there precedents or examples from other areas of technology to use as a guide? How important is having a working steam engine to understanding a fully computer controlled, variable valve geometry hybrid electric-internal combustion engine powered vehicle anyway? (This from someone who's collection includes a Xerox 850, a Point4 mini, yes, a C-128d and a v20, one-of-each compact Mac, a model "A" 5150, a TRS-80, etc., etc.)...
Meanwhile, 2.4Ghz seems to be quickly becoming practically useless. I think I have five devices all vying for that space in the evenings...
I completely agree with your statement regarding the restriction present in current CPU/motherboard designs. Now, imagine some way around that memory bandwidth problem which assumes all other subsystems are secondary. My point is that in a few years, some of the bottlenecks of the current motherboard + CPU systems will need to be eliminated anyway. Why not optimize a system for CPU-memory bandwidth, under the assumption that all of the subsystems that have to interact with the physical world (2-d video, sound, network, basic I/O, HDD) will be orders of magnitude slower? Granted, GPU's are different from CPU's and use memory differently, but the current methods of accessing and structuring main memory are getting a little long in the tooth, no?
Consider this:
Imagine a PC where there is only the hypervisor directly accessing the hardware (and please, NOT one that also loads Outlook Express, IE7, WSH and Media Player). Now imagine all of your operating systems running on top of the hypervisor. All hardware is virtualized for these operating systems, right? So, your physical video card no longer needs a 3-d engine; in fact it doesn't need much more than a 2-d chip and enough memory to show all the pretty colors at whatever resolution is popular. Why, you ask? Because the 3-d rendering will be done by the *virtualized* 3-d card(s) in each virtual machine, and THAT, my friend, will take as many CPU cores on the host machine as you are able to give it. And, since virtual GPU's don't require foundries, it just might mean an Open Source video card. The key is to ensure that the vitualized "hardware" is modular enough to be replaceable.
It's the next step in the ongoing cycle between having the CPU do everything and offloading to specialized chips or subsystems. By virtualizing all of the "offloading" chips such as the GPU, 3-d wavetable synth, some networking functions, etc., the pendulum swings back toward centralizing all of the processing.
The ultimate step will be the vitualization of different hardware modules that will replace the those originally installed. The physical video card, for instance, need only have the ability to paint a 2-d screen as it does today. The virtual 3-D video card however, will require massive amounts of Main CPU cycles which Intel/AMD/IBM will happily provide. I see this going one of two ways: Multiple CPU cores proliferating to provide the cycles OR a dedicated general GPU that itself gets virtualized. Seems the former gives the most flexibility, assuming cycles are unlimited.
Give me a Hypervisor that loads on boot and does nothing, I mean nothing, except manage the virual pc's and then I'll trust it.
Oh, and if you don't mind, I'D LIKE TO SAVE MY CYCLES FOR THE VIRTUAL PC'S, PLEASE!
Fellow Slashdotters, we've been had.
1. a Virtual PC file
2. a Virtual HDD file
Fine tune a Linux system to run one application, remove anything not absolutely needed, package it up and call it an "install". Instead of shortcuts on the desktop, the install will create Virtual PC entries so that the new application system shows up in the choices. Pick-n-choose operating systems to best fit the purpose of the application needed...
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...yes, because acronyms are soooo much better!
I've long said that the ideal union should form to solve a specific problem, then once the problem is solved, disband before egos, personal power and political corruption take root. If a problem is minor there will not be the impetus to organize; that threshold acts as a check to help prevent abuse.
If you think about it, this follows one of the ideals of Open Source; if something is needed and that need is great enough, a solution is built. When the need is no longer strong, the solution fades into obscurity but can be revitalized by anyone. If enough "anyones" are motivated, a new project arises and solves the problem -or a like problem- again.
In America, the book is usually mentioned in grade school history courses, usually in the context of the build up to WWII. Rarely is the word "Mein" otherwise seen here. From that perspective it was still a minimally amusing, or perhaps sick, observation.
Then again, from that same perspective, David Hasselhoff was never much more than a somewhat cheesy sidekick.
Woman opening the door to a room to see a man on the phone:
"So, Herbert, you're the "they" in "that's what they say!")
"Mein Comp..."
Just close enough to "Kampf", I suspect...
The flip side? Living in a river valley with a family of about 25 deer that slept at our back door. Brown eagles flying overhead in the morning and at night so many stars that you felt really small and really short-lived. I'd like to say that I spent countless hours hiking, canoeing and enjoying nature, but spending hours a day commuting and the weekends on maintenance and going into town for supplies left little for enjoyment.
So, the lesson is: If you go off the grid, make sure you can do it all the way. Trying to live in both worlds is very tiring.
"Open in IE" works great for just such "emergencies", although it would be nicer if websites weren't browser-specific, wouldn't it?
"Vouchers will be mailed to class members shortly after any appeals have been resolved. Several appeals have been filed. We cannot estimate how long it will take to resolve the appeals, but it will probably not happen during your lifetime. However, Microsoft would like to thank everyone for sending in all of their CD-Keys as they can now be used in the fight against piracy."