I have also had some experiance with HP lab equipment (scopes/spectrum analizers/signal analizers) and love it, all of these where old though (1980s) but they where all better than the new stuff we had.
That HP still exists in the form of Agilent. They still make fantastic measurement and lab gear. They have nothing to do with the computer side of HP anymore.
My wife uses a high-end HP business laptop, with HP business services providing support, for work. It's an absolute piece of garbage. Refuses to come out of standby. Bluescreens more than I've ever seen a modern PC bluescreen. Locks up randomly. Will take forever, or simply refuse to connect to wifi from time to time. When mirroring to a projector it will sometimes shut off the LCD, and it won't come back on until you reboot. It's been in to HP a half dozen times to be fixed with no improvement. She's not the only one in her department who has all of these problems - constantly.
Her previous machine - a Compaq, was also a piece of garbage, but it wouldn't bluescreen or lock up, at least.
1. HP - HP is an ink selling company. Sell the calculator division back to the real HP, Agilent, get rid of everything else, and keep trucking along selling ink. 2. Dell - Should decide if they are a consumer PC, business PC or services company, and focus on one 3. Microsoft - Should stop trying to do everything for everyone everywhere. Spin off XBox, ERP, phone, etc.. and concentrate on their core products 4. AMD - Spin off ATI I guess - their chips seems to be very popular in HPC environments so maybe they could be a niche player there?
Once the price rises enough, it becomes profitable to mine for the rare earth minerals in the US again. It's in China's best interest to keep supplies up, otherwise competition will start creeping in.
Besides, Japan just found a ton of rare earth minerals in the seabed off their coast.
No one has ever taken the formal test. Not one person.
That's because nobody has passed preliminary testing.
How many have taken the preliminary test? JREF doesn't know -- they're that badly organized.
Check their web site - they have dozens of writeups on preliminary tests.
There have been a few cases reported where JREF has killed applications by requesting changes to the protocol that effectively changing the nature of the claim made by the challenger.
Reported by whom? I've seen examples where they ask for changes to the claim because the claim was untestable. For example, there was a guy who said he could talk telepathically to aliens. He could describe their homeworld and technology and everything. Of course, he could be making it all up, so they asked him if he could provide anything that could be testable.
He probably meant that most music these days is recorded at 192KHz at 24-bit. Dropping down to 44.1KHz/16-bit equates to around 15% (it really doesn't but who cares)
It ultimately doesn't matter. The nyquist of 44KHz is 22KHz, and few people can hear anything near 20KHz. No unamplified instrument, except maybe a pipe organ or the cannon in the 1812 Overture, have more than 16 bits of dynamic range. So 24-bit playback is a waste, unless you're listening to some really weird techno or something. And, as others have pointed out, not many people have a stereo capable of accurately playing back sounds higher than 20KHz, or anything that dynamic (you'll need a ton of speaker drivers or horns to get that kind of dynamic range)
The opening of Royal Oil by the Mighty Mighty Bosstones. It starts out with a quiet snare roll that gets progressively louder, joined by a simple bass line. I've yet to hear a lossy codec at any bitrate that doesn't turn it into watery gibberish.
Disk space is cheap. Rip to FLAC or ALAC. For portables, 256kbps AAC seems to do the least amount of damage.
My second-to-last Apple product was a 3rd gen iPod that ran non-stop for 8 years.
I replaced it with a Sansa Fuse that lasted a year and a half before the entire front panel stopped working.
My current Apple product is a used iPhone 3GS built in 2011 that's showing no signs of quitting.
I have two Macs at home, a G4 and one a beige G3 that are both running fine after replacing a couple of cooling fans.
I have a friend who set up an iMac G3 for his dad to browse the web. He just replaced it last fall because it couldn't run a modern enough browser for the new HTML 5 sites. So that's, what, 11 years? The thing still works fine, there's just no modern software for it. He "upgraded" to an iMac G5 that's six years old and it does everything he wants it to.
It may be FUD, but Microsoft hasn't helped itself in garnering this sort of attention. They have a nasty habit of not telling you that a product isn't going to be dropped or deprecated, they just let it wither and die as some bean counter decides that a technology doesn't fit with whatever the strategy of the year is at the moment. Witness: XNA, Silverlight, Media Center, Zune, a whole bunch of DirectX stuff, Vista Ultimate Extras, any windows mobile OS before WMP7, etc...
I've been burned multiple times with MS dropping APIs or driver support without *any* notification. You have to go to the MSDN forums where everyone else is complaining to find out what's going on.
> A 3ghz P4 isn't even fast enough to play flash video smoothly these days.
It most certainly is. Maybe not at HD resolutions, but SD works fine. My mom uses an old 2.6GHz P4 that was my main machine for a while. Runs XP home and Chrome - does everything she wants.
I don't know - maybe they did read those reviews and got the number down from $11 billion. Who knows what was taken into account. What really matters is what Autonomy supplied HP. If they gave them inflated sales figures, deflated costs, etc... then it's a problem for Autonomy.
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I have also had some experiance with HP lab equipment (scopes/spectrum analizers/signal analizers) and love it, all of these where old though (1980s) but they where all better than the new stuff we had.
That HP still exists in the form of Agilent. They still make fantastic measurement and lab gear. They have nothing to do with the computer side of HP anymore.
Server hardware - probably.
My wife uses a high-end HP business laptop, with HP business services providing support, for work. It's an absolute piece of garbage. Refuses to come out of standby. Bluescreens more than I've ever seen a modern PC bluescreen. Locks up randomly. Will take forever, or simply refuse to connect to wifi from time to time. When mirroring to a projector it will sometimes shut off the LCD, and it won't come back on until you reboot. It's been in to HP a half dozen times to be fixed with no improvement. She's not the only one in her department who has all of these problems - constantly.
Her previous machine - a Compaq, was also a piece of garbage, but it wouldn't bluescreen or lock up, at least.
1. HP - HP is an ink selling company. Sell the calculator division back to the real HP, Agilent, get rid of everything else, and keep trucking along selling ink.
2. Dell - Should decide if they are a consumer PC, business PC or services company, and focus on one
3. Microsoft - Should stop trying to do everything for everyone everywhere. Spin off XBox, ERP, phone, etc.. and concentrate on their core products
4. AMD - Spin off ATI I guess - their chips seems to be very popular in HPC environments so maybe they could be a niche player there?
"created in a lab and seeded onto earth" has a lot more merit than either evolution or creationism
Then who made the beings that made the life on earth? Then who made the beings that made the beings... ad nausem...
Psychic ability diminishes when used for greedy purposes. Everyone knows this.
Of course, you could just give the award money to charity, but then you'd just be greedy for being so charitable.
Or something.
Anyways it doesn't work when you're being tested.
Once the price rises enough, it becomes profitable to mine for the rare earth minerals in the US again. It's in China's best interest to keep supplies up, otherwise competition will start creeping in.
Besides, Japan just found a ton of rare earth minerals in the seabed off their coast.
Surface????
Pournell's law of bureaucracy:
Once an organization reaches a certain size, it's primary focus changes from servicing customers or citizens to perpetuating the bureaucracy.
The donors of the prize? There was one donor. He's fine with it.
Er - who cares? Who are they defrauding?
Yeah it could be run better, but the million dollar challenge isn't their main mission. But it's all their money, so who cares?
No, they do seem somewhat perfunctory.
No one has ever taken the formal test. Not one person.
That's because nobody has passed preliminary testing.
How many have taken the preliminary test? JREF doesn't know -- they're that badly organized.
Check their web site - they have dozens of writeups on preliminary tests.
There have been a few cases reported where JREF has killed applications by requesting changes to the protocol that effectively changing the nature of the claim made by the challenger.
Reported by whom? I've seen examples where they ask for changes to the claim because the claim was untestable. For example, there was a guy who said he could talk telepathically to aliens. He could describe their homeworld and technology and everything. Of course, he could be making it all up, so they asked him if he could provide anything that could be testable.
I'll use Metro when I can see my application, code trace, call stack, and variable watch list at the same time.
If Metro is so friggin' brilliant how come VS2012 isn't native? Oh and thanks for making the menu titles shout at me. That's nice.
He probably meant that most music these days is recorded at 192KHz at 24-bit. Dropping down to 44.1KHz/16-bit equates to around 15% (it really doesn't but who cares)
It ultimately doesn't matter. The nyquist of 44KHz is 22KHz, and few people can hear anything near 20KHz. No unamplified instrument, except maybe a pipe organ or the cannon in the 1812 Overture, have more than 16 bits of dynamic range. So 24-bit playback is a waste, unless you're listening to some really weird techno or something. And, as others have pointed out, not many people have a stereo capable of accurately playing back sounds higher than 20KHz, or anything that dynamic (you'll need a ton of speaker drivers or horns to get that kind of dynamic range)
The opening of Royal Oil by the Mighty Mighty Bosstones. It starts out with a quiet snare roll that gets progressively louder, joined by a simple bass line. I've yet to hear a lossy codec at any bitrate that doesn't turn it into watery gibberish.
Disk space is cheap. Rip to FLAC or ALAC. For portables, 256kbps AAC seems to do the least amount of damage.
My second-to-last Apple product was a 3rd gen iPod that ran non-stop for 8 years.
I replaced it with a Sansa Fuse that lasted a year and a half before the entire front panel stopped working.
My current Apple product is a used iPhone 3GS built in 2011 that's showing no signs of quitting.
I have two Macs at home, a G4 and one a beige G3 that are both running fine after replacing a couple of cooling fans.
I have a friend who set up an iMac G3 for his dad to browse the web. He just replaced it last fall because it couldn't run a modern enough browser for the new HTML 5 sites. So that's, what, 11 years? The thing still works fine, there's just no modern software for it. He "upgraded" to an iMac G5 that's six years old and it does everything he wants it to.
Apple products last, relatively, a *long* time.
It may be FUD, but Microsoft hasn't helped itself in garnering this sort of attention. They have a nasty habit of not telling you that a product isn't going to be dropped or deprecated, they just let it wither and die as some bean counter decides that a technology doesn't fit with whatever the strategy of the year is at the moment. Witness: XNA, Silverlight, Media Center, Zune, a whole bunch of DirectX stuff, Vista Ultimate Extras, any windows mobile OS before WMP7, etc...
I've been burned multiple times with MS dropping APIs or driver support without *any* notification. You have to go to the MSDN forums where everyone else is complaining to find out what's going on.
> A 3ghz P4 isn't even fast enough to play flash video smoothly these days.
It most certainly is. Maybe not at HD resolutions, but SD works fine. My mom uses an old 2.6GHz P4 that was my main machine for a while. Runs XP home and Chrome - does everything she wants.
I don't know - maybe they did read those reviews and got the number down from $11 billion. Who knows what was taken into account. What really matters is what Autonomy supplied HP. If they gave them inflated sales figures, deflated costs, etc... then it's a problem for Autonomy.
You can use the VMware conversion center to convert VirtualPC images to VMWare, but it's dodgy.
No IE10 is a real issue. You can run it in Windows 7, but the Metro version is different than the desktop version, even in Windows 8.
Go read some of the comments about Autonomy on Glassdoor. It's simultaneously amusing and sad.
because Microsoft isn't good at allowing IE versions to sit side-by-side.
And by that you mean you can't do it at all. MS sometimes is nice and supplies VMs with new versions of IE preinstalled, but not always.
300cps if it's a .
BeOS would be the best, if it were not for OS/2.
Of course, OS/2 couldn't hold a candle to AmigaOS.
Unless RiscOS never existed.
Of course, if RiscOS was open source, *truly* open source, then it might be as good as FreeBSD.
However, FreeBSD isn't nearly as secure as OpenBSD.
And OpenBSD is great, unless you want to run it hardware people actually *own* which is why NetBSD is better.
Of course, NetBSD is missing all the amazing features of a mature OS like OpenVMS.
Except OpenVMS is a dinosaur, not nearly as modern as Solaris.
And if you're a masochist, Solaris is great, which is why sane people use ChromeOS.
Unless you actually want to *do* something, in which case there's QNX.
So the answer is... FreeDOS.
Does DESQView run in FreeDOS? 'Cause you do need an X server...
Pretty strong.