While you were voted down, you were not that far from the truth. The amount of net-taxpayers (as in pay more than get from the state) is around ~30% currently. However, the real ideology behind this is to reduce bureaucracy and that way save money (personally I don't believe it would reduce any human resources, those currently doing the job would just be invented new places like stamping instead).
No, but this seems to be aimed more at Control-M and other scheduling 'frameworks'. Not that these features are enough to challenge CTM, but it's still targeting that one more than it's targeting cron.
That explanation doesn't make it any less obvious or more innovative. It's basically the same issue that retail stores do at different holidays, stock up something that they think is going to be on demand. Somehow this applied to computers makes it innovative?
Certainly true is many aspects, but PDFs aren't one of them. Acrobat Reader works just fine, I use my Touchpad to PDF formatted papers often. There are few key apps missing (but not many to my tablet usage), and the user interface is still something no other tablet can currently provide (it actually uses the advantage of bigger touchscreen, unlike Android Honeycomb for example, which still relies in several places on small icons and stuff that would fit nicely in a small screen).
Maybe it was ahead of it's time though.. HTML5 will caught eventually and then tablet could run the same programs, thus removing the need for platform specific programs. But is that too late..?
Most transmissions lose to a manual. So what? The efficiency of the whole system is what matters.
Not all automatic transmissions lose to a manual. However, conventional automatics do, I'm not arguing that.
As for computer operated manual with dry clutches, that's a different case, and probably something where these big BMWs (which you compared to) have upper hand to Prius' transmission. For example, the M5. Their engine isn't, but that's besides this point.
Besides: I can't imagine the system is particularly inefficient. It's a planetary gear setup with no shifting gear ratios, no clutch, and no torque converter.
However, the belt itself is what causes the inefficiency. It's flexibility and slipping causes the power to get wasted as heat. And this number is a lot higher than what a cluth slips.
I want something you're smoking. Finland does snoop on Russia, all the time. Most likely more than any other country in the world (including US).
Every country spies on their neighbours from military perspective, it's only natural.
Internet communication isn't the only way to gather information, even if it's the way Sweden does it. And Finland will still share intelligence info between Sweden.
This is just a smart move in a military sense to gather more information, it's valuable trade asset with other countries.
[quote]You won't, since Rambus is just a patent troll company; they don't make products.[/quote]
Well, it's not that simple. Rambus actually has lots of research, not just patent trolling, and they do design the products, even if they don't manufacture them themselves.
If your definition of 'patent troll company' is purely every-IP company, then you can pretty soon count even AMD as patent troll company.
To me at least, patent troll companies try to get money by just suing companies, instead of actually creating some new technology, which Rambus has done. Or have you forgotten products like PS3, which use RDRAM?
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Actually, what you did there is why people hate XML, you didn't define anything. First of all, using nodelist for something like coordinates would be utter useless, since it's much easier to create it with attributes:
After that, using schema you define what the data actually means. Where's the problem with parsing? It's easy to use XPath to search through all nodes with the x being 200. Or y between 1 and 10. I'm not JSON expert, but where's the advantage in JSON vs. XML here?
Someone has been living too long in the US. If I fry my cat in the microwave, I can't sue microwave maker. If the car had problems and I crashed it, I can't sue car maker. If my tyre blew up, I can't sue the tyremaker.
And so on. Here in Europe it's usually consumer who must use brains instead of lawyers. So the parent would apply a bit better here, although comparing software industry with traditional industry is often flawed (as in this case).
ATI posting net income of $41M and nVidia $302.5M, yet you state ATI has higher net income? Something is missing here..
Anyway, Intel will unlikely buy nVidia, since it has no need, Intel has lots of inhouse knowledge and patents covering graphics industry, and while they don't create high-end graphics cards, their integrated graphics certainly aren't "crap". Instead, their performance/watt & performance/transistor is the best in the industry. They do know how to do stuff, yet aren't interested in high-end graphics. And with market-lead in GPUs, they've done something right..
As to buying nVidia, it wouldn't be allowed, even if they wanted. That would create too big monopoly in GPU markets if two biggest would merge. Not gonna happen. And everyone can see from numbers that Intel could buy AMD if they wanted, but that's not going to happen either, so speculating something based on "they could if they wanted" is pretty..uninteresting.
I would like to ask McAfee what they would think if a competitor found a virus and figured out how to fix it but couldn't tell McAfee that information because it would be considered disclosure.
Actually this is pretty normal in anti-virus market. For example F-Secure is proud that their anti-virus is updated in half the time (often about 10 hours) before some of their competitors. This is what they use as a marketing tool when selling their software to big companies.
So ouh, I think they know pretty well what it means. Imagine the situation for one anti-virus tool if they could stop the attacks, but rest couldn't. Sales would skyhigh pretty quickly.
And better yet, you only need to buy a new computer to get any decent performance. First we see Linux users whining about ATI/nVidia drivers not being fully open source, and buggy and it's all ATI's fault. Next we see the same persons recommend Linux as gaming rig, since it can run emulated games on slow drivers.
Ouh the joy. Linux is no gaming platform, just live with it. What next, a Macintosh user coming here to claim they have superior gaming support?
I'm not that surprised IBM releases something like this, and looking at the documents, they seem well written. Yet they only seem to scratch the surface, and help porting the "background" part of the program.
Porting the GUI will be an ultimate challenge anyway, there's no easy to way to port Win32-calls to X. And even the actual program will take a lot more than just what's told in these 2 parts. How many are they going to release, 2^n ?
Somehow seems more like a marketing tool instead of real usage. Obviously someone from/. was going to post this article here, and the document has done it's publicity stunt.
Offtopic, first article was released in June 2004. If it takes 8 months to write a short addition to it, how long would it take to actually port something?-) And will "part 3" in 8 months bring again new headlines to/. by some moderator hoping for Microsoft's death?
- Yak
Then don't you trust private aeroplanes either? What's the difference with flying in air and flying in space? People want to move from place to place, and corporations are the ones providing it.
Since there's no cold-war, governments aren't interested in providing funds for space-flights. But private sector is, since they see profits there. Maybe that's the ultimate way of getting to Mars, with private spaceshuttle. I'm sure a lot of people would pay for that.
Well, this is why some people use Qwik-Fix, from http://www.pivx.com/qwikfix/index.html. Even if your XP isn't updated, it keeps current and perhaps future worms also out. It's made by those who found rpc-bug.
Of course, even if you use Qwik-Fix, you should update your XP, but this gives you at least some protection if you're not on the computer when a new patch is released and don't want to use auto-update.
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While you were voted down, you were not that far from the truth. The amount of net-taxpayers (as in pay more than get from the state) is around ~30% currently. However, the real ideology behind this is to reduce bureaucracy and that way save money (personally I don't believe it would reduce any human resources, those currently doing the job would just be invented new places like stamping instead).
No, but this seems to be aimed more at Control-M and other scheduling 'frameworks'. Not that these features are enough to challenge CTM, but it's still targeting that one more than it's targeting cron.
That explanation doesn't make it any less obvious or more innovative. It's basically the same issue that retail stores do at different holidays, stock up something that they think is going to be on demand. Somehow this applied to computers makes it innovative?
Certainly true is many aspects, but PDFs aren't one of them. Acrobat Reader works just fine, I use my Touchpad to PDF formatted papers often. There are few key apps missing (but not many to my tablet usage), and the user interface is still something no other tablet can currently provide (it actually uses the advantage of bigger touchscreen, unlike Android Honeycomb for example, which still relies in several places on small icons and stuff that would fit nicely in a small screen). Maybe it was ahead of it's time though.. HTML5 will caught eventually and then tablet could run the same programs, thus removing the need for platform specific programs. But is that too late..?
Most transmissions lose to a manual. So what? The efficiency of the whole system is what matters.
Not all automatic transmissions lose to a manual. However, conventional automatics do, I'm not arguing that.
As for computer operated manual with dry clutches, that's a different case, and probably something where these big BMWs (which you compared to) have upper hand to Prius' transmission. For example, the M5. Their engine isn't, but that's besides this point.
Besides: I can't imagine the system is particularly inefficient. It's a planetary gear setup with no shifting gear ratios, no clutch, and no torque converter.
However, the belt itself is what causes the inefficiency. It's flexibility and slipping causes the power to get wasted as heat. And this number is a lot higher than what a cluth slips.
It does keep the engine at right revolutions, that's true, but it loses a lot of power while transferring it to wheels.
For example, Audi uses both, multitronic and DSG. Models with latter have better economy, even when they don't work at the best engine speed.
As for Prius', it's economy is mostly talk, all the European tests have shown that modern diesel consumes less fuel than the Prius.
Not to mention how much more waste the Prius' creates when creating the car itself, or recycling it. But this isn't something that Toyota advertises.
I want something you're smoking. Finland does snoop on Russia, all the time. Most likely more than any other country in the world (including US). Every country spies on their neighbours from military perspective, it's only natural. Internet communication isn't the only way to gather information, even if it's the way Sweden does it. And Finland will still share intelligence info between Sweden. This is just a smart move in a military sense to gather more information, it's valuable trade asset with other countries.
[quote]You won't, since Rambus is just a patent troll company; they don't make products.[/quote] Well, it's not that simple. Rambus actually has lots of research, not just patent trolling, and they do design the products, even if they don't manufacture them themselves. If your definition of 'patent troll company' is purely every-IP company, then you can pretty soon count even AMD as patent troll company. To me at least, patent troll companies try to get money by just suing companies, instead of actually creating some new technology, which Rambus has done. Or have you forgotten products like PS3, which use RDRAM?
Actually, what you did there is why people hate XML, you didn't define anything. First of all, using nodelist for something like coordinates would be utter useless, since it's much easier to create it with attributes: After that, using schema you define what the data actually means. Where's the problem with parsing? It's easy to use XPath to search through all nodes with the x being 200. Or y between 1 and 10. I'm not JSON expert, but where's the advantage in JSON vs. XML here?
Someone has been living too long in the US. If I fry my cat in the microwave, I can't sue microwave maker. If the car had problems and I crashed it, I can't sue car maker. If my tyre blew up, I can't sue the tyremaker. And so on. Here in Europe it's usually consumer who must use brains instead of lawyers. So the parent would apply a bit better here, although comparing software industry with traditional industry is often flawed (as in this case).
Sounds like improvement to Mercedes' "service" ;)
ATI posting net income of $41M and nVidia $302.5M, yet you state ATI has higher net income? Something is missing here.. Anyway, Intel will unlikely buy nVidia, since it has no need, Intel has lots of inhouse knowledge and patents covering graphics industry, and while they don't create high-end graphics cards, their integrated graphics certainly aren't "crap". Instead, their performance/watt & performance/transistor is the best in the industry. They do know how to do stuff, yet aren't interested in high-end graphics. And with market-lead in GPUs, they've done something right.. As to buying nVidia, it wouldn't be allowed, even if they wanted. That would create too big monopoly in GPU markets if two biggest would merge. Not gonna happen. And everyone can see from numbers that Intel could buy AMD if they wanted, but that's not going to happen either, so speculating something based on "they could if they wanted" is pretty ..uninteresting.
I would like to ask McAfee what they would think if a competitor found a virus and figured out how to fix it but couldn't tell McAfee that information because it would be considered disclosure.
Actually this is pretty normal in anti-virus market. For example F-Secure is proud that their anti-virus is updated in half the time (often about 10 hours) before some of their competitors. This is what they use as a marketing tool when selling their software to big companies.
So ouh, I think they know pretty well what it means. Imagine the situation for one anti-virus tool if they could stop the attacks, but rest couldn't. Sales would skyhigh pretty quickly.
And better yet, you only need to buy a new computer to get any decent performance. First we see Linux users whining about ATI/nVidia drivers not being fully open source, and buggy and it's all ATI's fault. Next we see the same persons recommend Linux as gaming rig, since it can run emulated games on slow drivers. Ouh the joy. Linux is no gaming platform, just live with it. What next, a Macintosh user coming here to claim they have superior gaming support?
I'm not that surprised IBM releases something like this, and looking at the documents, they seem well written. Yet they only seem to scratch the surface, and help porting the "background" part of the program. Porting the GUI will be an ultimate challenge anyway, there's no easy to way to port Win32-calls to X. And even the actual program will take a lot more than just what's told in these 2 parts. How many are they going to release, 2^n ? Somehow seems more like a marketing tool instead of real usage. Obviously someone from /. was going to post this article here, and the document has done it's publicity stunt.
Offtopic, first article was released in June 2004. If it takes 8 months to write a short addition to it, how long would it take to actually port something?-) And will "part 3" in 8 months bring again new headlines to /. by some moderator hoping for Microsoft's death?
- Yak
Then don't you trust private aeroplanes either? What's the difference with flying in air and flying in space? People want to move from place to place, and corporations are the ones providing it. Since there's no cold-war, governments aren't interested in providing funds for space-flights. But private sector is, since they see profits there. Maybe that's the ultimate way of getting to Mars, with private spaceshuttle. I'm sure a lot of people would pay for that.
You mean it's a hormone rugby team?
A nearby interdictor will prevent you from jumping to hyperspace ;)
Well, this is why some people use Qwik-Fix, from http://www.pivx.com/qwikfix/index.html. Even if your XP isn't updated, it keeps current and perhaps future worms also out. It's made by those who found rpc-bug.
Of course, even if you use Qwik-Fix, you should update your XP, but this gives you at least some protection if you're not on the computer when a new patch is released and don't want to use auto-update.
- Yak