It's comparing the bloatedness of Microsoft Office versus OpenOffice. The results are pretty much what you'd expect if you've ever used OO: OpenOffice is a bigger hog than Microsoft Office. To measure the actual speed of the format difference for Microsoft Office (the relevant study), we would need a high speed import and export plugin for Office and a set of documents of various sizes. Performance of first-open, subsequent open, export, and stuff like that would need to be measured.
What we're seeing here is none of that. If Microsoft wants to show people that the ODF format is unacceptably slow for the average document - or even the pathological case - all they need to do is have some guy from the Office team play with the ODF export plugin, measure the performance of it, and tac those results onto their press release as preliminary data supporting their position. If they are bad enough to warrant their concerns, it won't matter that they're only preliminary results, they'll have made their point.
It disappoints me that companies rarely put their money where there mouth is and instead rely on other people to do bogus studies for them, then claim the study shows something it doesn't. It also strikes me as odd that the ZDNET folks actually knew how to get the useful memory metrics, but weren't able to generate data germaine to the discussion.
Perhaps I shouldn't be surprised, however, since one of the ZD folks recently suggested that to make UAC in Vista more tolerable, users who need to modify files should alter the ACL's on the file so that their user token has explicit write access - never you-mind that this gives every program they run the ability to play hockey with that file. [http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?page_id=49].
I'd like to see this discussion go somewhere meaningful and people to start throwing around the right numbers.
The suggestion is not that these people are suffering from a hoax, it's that they're suffering from a delusion.
The critcism is most likely directed at the irresponsible coverage of a mysterious ailment; the data regarding it seems to lack any semblence of verisimilitude.
Whoever thinks that writing the most heavily stressed user-mode components of your operating system in anything other than native code is a good idea, please raise your hands.
Guards, please remove those hands, that these fools never type a line of code again.
Reading the wikipedia article, it looks like there is very, very bright future for EFI.
However, we're talking about an EFI boot manager, not truly unified device drivers/interfaces and uncorruptable code. Does anybody honestly care that this means you will have to use two bootloaders to get your desired result for a few months, assuming you actually make use of EFI booting at all?
Reading the wikipedia article, it looks like there is very, very bright future for EFI.
However, we're talking about an EFI boot manager, not truly unified device drivers/interfaces and uncorruptable code. Does anybody honestly care that this means you will have to use two bootloaders to get your desired result for a few months, assuming you actually make use of EFI booting at all?
Part of maturing is also realizing that people were full of crap when they wrote you off as a teenager. Sometimes a 6th grader actually has a deeper appreciation for ethics than his or her instructor, or is entitled to an opinion that the author was actually being sarcastic in this essay, or that Steinbeck really was actually not all that talented, or that spending a full year on trig is a waste of time.
Polling youths can tell us some valuable things about the coming perceptions of society. It is doing the world a disservice to exclude them from voicing their opinions and participating in debate. In this case, kids aren't identifying with scientists, and perhaps that is something worth examining.
Some, annoyed. A lot of these are the same people who believe in the purity of blood and listen to the stories that some Japanese media companies run about "foreign crime waves" and support history books that ignore wartime attrocities on the grounds that they undermine national pride and take pride in the fact that it causes an international uproar with China, S. Korea, and others.
Others probably don't care unless the language thing gets in the way. A lot of people in Japan are hard to distinguish from native speakers with written English, and it takes a lot of work to become literate in Japanese. You do what works.
Japan isn't all peaches and cream. debito.org has some disturbing stories about discrimination for a US expat in Japan (some possibly exaggerated, but food for thought, regardless.)
Again, a kneejerk reaction putting words in my mouth that are not mine. (Incidentally, yes, my post was a knee-jerk response to "foreign" "immigrants" "Australia" "they took our jobs".)
While I do find a policy or two racist, I think my comment was more geared at the TFA, which I don't take to be an unbiased authority on the subject. If you look at some of the other posts by Aussie IT people I think you'll find that this paper is perhaps a somewhat distorted view of the situation.
Also, I like how the first response to my original post lends support to my position, intentionally or not.
a) e.g. The reinstitution of the English literacy test as a way of discouraging immigrants from certain countries. If you want a lot of information on the subject, go to my user page, find this same past I made a few months back and read some of the responses there. Links galore. Knock yourself out. Mind blowing.
b) I think it's fallacious to link a good economic period (I'll take your word on this) with changes in immigration policy. There's nothing to reconcile there, you're ineptly attempting to put words in my mouth.
Australia is more racist than Japan. Generally speaking. No offense to non-racist Australians, I recognize there are a heck of a lot of you. But I'm just saying... wow. Lots and lots who are on the opposite side of that table.
Just look at the history of Australia's immigration policy and notice how it swing back the close-minded direction again in the mid 90's.
He's not talking about the number of subjects compared to the apparent IQ delta. He's talking about the number of subjects compared to the number of candidate genes to effect such a change. The study could very well have selected for noise.
Don't be so quick to judge. If he's that far above his classmates, there's a damned high chance he'd not fit in so well. He's already destined to be screwed up if that's the case, so you might as well make sure that his young adult life is productive and get him working towards that Ph.D and out of his flying car dreams.
They don't _need_ publicity. I'm sure that the net cost to PA will wind up being something less than 10k due to the increased ad revenue and whatnot, but it's still money for a charity and it makes me laugh, AND it makes Jack Thompson look like a dildo, so I've got no cause to complain.
Just get something that closes over the ear entirely. Sennheiser hd212's are pretty nice, and they don't need to be loud to ignore the outside environment (closed form muffles some of the outside sound.) You'll appreciate them.
You can still get buckling-spring keyboards at PCKeyboard.com. Nothing beats the feel of a buckling-spring, I find myself agreeing with the reviewer.
One of the features of a truly good keyboard is the ability to be serviced by its user without destroying the keyboard - after spilling pizza, coke, and cereal all over it, I expect to be able to take off the keys and mop up the remains of my ill-advised snacking over the keyboard. This feature (ability to perform simple repair/maintenance like this) is commong to buckling-spring keyboards, but I have to ask, is it a possibility on this one? Is this one of those bubble matrix ones, or what?
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It's comparing the bloatedness of Microsoft Office versus OpenOffice. The results are pretty much what you'd expect if you've ever used OO: OpenOffice is a bigger hog than Microsoft Office. To measure the actual speed of the format difference for Microsoft Office (the relevant study), we would need a high speed import and export plugin for Office and a set of documents of various sizes. Performance of first-open, subsequent open, export, and stuff like that would need to be measured.
What we're seeing here is none of that. If Microsoft wants to show people that the ODF format is unacceptably slow for the average document - or even the pathological case - all they need to do is have some guy from the Office team play with the ODF export plugin, measure the performance of it, and tac those results onto their press release as preliminary data supporting their position. If they are bad enough to warrant their concerns, it won't matter that they're only preliminary results, they'll have made their point.
It disappoints me that companies rarely put their money where there mouth is and instead rely on other people to do bogus studies for them, then claim the study shows something it doesn't. It also strikes me as odd that the ZDNET folks actually knew how to get the useful memory metrics, but weren't able to generate data germaine to the discussion.
Perhaps I shouldn't be surprised, however, since one of the ZD folks recently suggested that to make UAC in Vista more tolerable, users who need to modify files should alter the ACL's on the file so that their user token has explicit write access - never you-mind that this gives every program they run the ability to play hockey with that file. [http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?page_id=49].
I'd like to see this discussion go somewhere meaningful and people to start throwing around the right numbers.
The suggestion is not that these people are suffering from a hoax, it's that they're suffering from a delusion.
The critcism is most likely directed at the irresponsible coverage of a mysterious ailment; the data regarding it seems to lack any semblence of verisimilitude.
Gee. Pictures of dust mites and bits of crap pulled off of velcro. Someone's been eating their Wheaties.
Whoever thinks that writing the most heavily stressed user-mode components of your operating system in anything other than native code is a good idea, please raise your hands.
Guards, please remove those hands, that these fools never type a line of code again.
'Nuff said.
Reading the wikipedia article, it looks like there is very, very bright future for EFI.
However, we're talking about an EFI boot manager, not truly unified device drivers/interfaces and uncorruptable code. Does anybody honestly care that this means you will have to use two bootloaders to get your desired result for a few months, assuming you actually make use of EFI booting at all?
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Reading the wikipedia article, it looks like there is very, very bright future for EFI.
However, we're talking about an EFI boot manager, not truly unified device drivers/interfaces and uncorruptable code. Does anybody honestly care that this means you will have to use two bootloaders to get your desired result for a few months, assuming you actually make use of EFI booting at all?
We've got an existing boot standard. What's so great about EFI? Inability swap a hard drive and be able to boot it?
Now, if only I could do that to women, I might actually stand a chance of reproducing.
Part of maturing is also realizing that people were full of crap when they wrote you off as a teenager. Sometimes a 6th grader actually has a deeper appreciation for ethics than his or her instructor, or is entitled to an opinion that the author was actually being sarcastic in this essay, or that Steinbeck really was actually not all that talented, or that spending a full year on trig is a waste of time.
Polling youths can tell us some valuable things about the coming perceptions of society. It is doing the world a disservice to exclude them from voicing their opinions and participating in debate. In this case, kids aren't identifying with scientists, and perhaps that is something worth examining.
I'm going to make a prediction:
Some, annoyed. A lot of these are the same people who believe in the purity of blood and listen to the stories that some Japanese media companies run about "foreign crime waves" and support history books that ignore wartime attrocities on the grounds that they undermine national pride and take pride in the fact that it causes an international uproar with China, S. Korea, and others.
Others probably don't care unless the language thing gets in the way. A lot of people in Japan are hard to distinguish from native speakers with written English, and it takes a lot of work to become literate in Japanese. You do what works.
Japan isn't all peaches and cream. debito.org has some disturbing stories about discrimination for a US expat in Japan (some possibly exaggerated, but food for thought, regardless.)
Gee, and here I was thinking it was moral decay and sex with young boys.
Again, a kneejerk reaction putting words in my mouth that are not mine. (Incidentally, yes, my post was a knee-jerk response to "foreign" "immigrants" "Australia" "they took our jobs".)
While I do find a policy or two racist, I think my comment was more geared at the TFA, which I don't take to be an unbiased authority on the subject. If you look at some of the other posts by Aussie IT people I think you'll find that this paper is perhaps a somewhat distorted view of the situation.
Also, I like how the first response to my original post lends support to my position, intentionally or not.
a) e.g. The reinstitution of the English literacy test as a way of discouraging immigrants from certain countries.
If you want a lot of information on the subject, go to my user page, find this same past I made a few months back and read some of the responses there. Links galore. Knock yourself out. Mind blowing.
b) I think it's fallacious to link a good economic period (I'll take your word on this) with changes in immigration policy. There's nothing to reconcile there, you're ineptly attempting to put words in my mouth.
Australia is more racist than Japan. Generally speaking. No offense to non-racist Australians, I recognize there are a heck of a lot of you. But I'm just saying... wow. Lots and lots who are on the opposite side of that table.
Just look at the history of Australia's immigration policy and notice how it swing back the close-minded direction again in the mid 90's.
Immigration is a POSITIVE economic force.
statistics available at http://www.immi.gov.au/statistics/
He's not talking about the number of subjects compared to the apparent IQ delta. He's talking about the number of subjects compared to the number of candidate genes to effect such a change. The study could very well have selected for noise.
Don't be so quick to judge. If he's that far above his classmates, there's a damned high chance he'd not fit in so well. He's already destined to be screwed up if that's the case, so you might as well make sure that his young adult life is productive and get him working towards that Ph.D and out of his flying car dreams.
They don't _need_ publicity. I'm sure that the net cost to PA will wind up being something less than 10k due to the increased ad revenue and whatnot, but it's still money for a charity and it makes me laugh, AND it makes Jack Thompson look like a dildo, so I've got no cause to complain.
Oh. Damn, and I thought you were going to say, "an angel gets his wings."
Check out dreamfall.com - sequel to The Longest Journey.
Articles like this weren't poluting the front page. Honestly, if it's a slow news day, it's a slow news day.
Just get something that closes over the ear entirely. Sennheiser hd212's are pretty nice, and they don't need to be loud to ignore the outside environment (closed form muffles some of the outside sound.) You'll appreciate them.
Generally in the process of smearing it all over my face eagerly.
You can still get buckling-spring keyboards at PCKeyboard.com. Nothing beats the feel of a buckling-spring, I find myself agreeing with the reviewer.
One of the features of a truly good keyboard is the ability to be serviced by its user without destroying the keyboard - after spilling pizza, coke, and cereal all over it, I expect to be able to take off the keys and mop up the remains of my ill-advised snacking over the keyboard. This feature (ability to perform simple repair/maintenance like this) is commong to buckling-spring keyboards, but I have to ask, is it a possibility on this one? Is this one of those bubble matrix ones, or what?
Just wish I had more information on Das Keyboard.
when you find yourself envying a neutron star.