IBM went the other way with OS2 (1994?). I seem to remember salesmen trying to persuade people to buy OS2 machines with 16Mb. OS2 needed 32Mb to run properly.
Everyone just ended up complaining about the OS2 performance which was a shame, since it had a multiprocessing angle which Windows didn't have at the time. So maybe we should applaud the efforts of developers to be realistic.
There is another interpretation of why Longhorn might be so large, which is this: keeping as much functionality as possible under the hood means that the "single" operating system can be seen as efficient as possible, and will have as few rivals as possible.
This is similar to the case of when Internet Explorer became an integral part of the operating system. Now we all know that a browser is fundamentally a separate piece of the pie, but by including the functionality of IE, MS manages to exclude as much competition as possible. I imagine that a lot of the operating system will be functions that sweeten the GUI performance. If the legal cases over software provision are to have any effect, they really need to lay down the separation of the development of software into distinct modules in the case where there is clear monopoly abuse. For example, it would be possible to instruct MS to supply Longhorn with a minimal GUI (and no IE) with a published GUI API/Protocol so that other developers could easily compete with the provision of GUI related software.
I hope his software engineering skills are better than his grammar skills. Pedantic point I know, I know, but then a lot of Software Engineering is pedantic. Quote:
"Use of Unofficial Windows98 SE Service Pack does not supercedes or provides any remedy for guarantee or warranty that may be invalidated in you EULA."
She mentioned the isolation of being the only woman at Linux meetings...anyone have any serious idea of what percentage of/. readers are female.
I would guess it is less than 2%.
interestingly typing AXA gives different results from typing AN AXA even though google spits out the message:... "an" is a very common word and was not included in your search
but including "an" in your search invalidates the adwords which is good for me.
Andy, According to the ROMNET website: "RomNet's creative staff will develop a web site that correctly positions your company, including its products or services, in a compelling manner. "
You need to get these creative staff to write you a better CV so you can get a better job.
Hi Andy,
Look at the top salaries in IT and you'll see a lot of those related to the banking industry figure.
Better still, forget the IT part, and just qualify as a banker and handle other people's money. Generally this means you'll be mixing with the well off, and you'll get paid well for it.
IT is moderately interesting at 50 dollars an hour. At 13 dollars an hour you are wasting your time in IT.
If the article is right and it is programmable which seems a little implausible, then it can make a claim to being the world's first computer "design", 300 years before Charles Babbage. However the fact that it can only go "right" makes you think it is probably not object-oriented.
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Open source has had SUCH an effect that this is now extending to science. Instead of employing a few scientists to do something, instead we just stick out a request into cyberspace and get everyone to do it for free.
Now we look forward to an unemployment problem among scientists soon as they get "undercut" by free scientists.
Of course, once all corporations have moved to this business model, massive profitability will shortly be followed by a collapse in sales as noone will have any money to buy the products that are created.:)
If you are only 24 and have stress problems already I think you should switch career. You need to have some buffers for stress, but it sounds like you've hit the buffer waaaaaaaaaay too early.
The real question is this, whether IP will continue alone, or will IP networks get superceded a superstructure containing secure trusted authentication.
If this happens, will the secure layer allow the transmission of encrpted data. Well, for some business purposes it is pretty critical to have encryption, and for some other business purposes encrption is not wanted.
So, you have 2 networks, one allows encrypted and one only allows non encrypted information. The you change a fee on the "free" network to increase the cost of data transfer.
None of this will however prevent the transfer of digital data since 2 billion users will always outsmart 1 million lawyers.
In 1992 I remember reading Business Week's article on Hitachi's 5, 10 and 15 year plans - their 15 year research plan (ie 2007) included having atomic level data storage. Now it is 2004 and we seem to be some way off still. So maybe these micro-stores are trickier than people think.
Robertson deserves a lot of our thanks and a prize for enlivening our days, we need people like him to make life more fun and interesting. When the lawyers run the world, even the lawyers won't enjoy living in it.
It should be called 'E' to appeal to the drug-taking raver youth of today. It would fit the profile of being a more cerebral experience writing the code.
It might shake up a few offices. It should have a set of libraries called Whizz.
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IBM went the other way with OS2 (1994?). I seem to remember salesmen trying to persuade people to buy OS2 machines with 16Mb. OS2 needed 32Mb to run properly.
Everyone just ended up complaining about the OS2 performance which was a shame, since it had a multiprocessing angle which Windows didn't have at the time.
So maybe we should applaud the efforts of developers to be realistic.
There is another interpretation of why Longhorn might be so large, which is this: keeping as much functionality as possible under the hood means that the "single" operating system can be seen as efficient as possible, and will have as few rivals as possible.
This is similar to the case of when Internet Explorer became an integral part of the operating system. Now we all know that a browser is fundamentally a separate piece of the pie, but by including the functionality of IE, MS manages to exclude as much competition as possible.
I imagine that a lot of the operating system will be functions that sweeten the GUI performance.
If the legal cases over software provision are to have any effect, they really need to lay down the separation of the development of software into distinct modules in the case where there is clear monopoly abuse.
For example, it would be possible to instruct MS to supply Longhorn with a minimal GUI (and no IE) with a published GUI API/Protocol so that other developers could easily compete with the provision of GUI related software.
"Does no one remember why?"
Could you expand on this. Thanks.
I hope his software engineering skills are better than his grammar skills. Pedantic point I know, I know, but then a lot of Software Engineering is pedantic. Quote:
"Use of Unofficial Windows98 SE Service Pack does not supercedes or provides any remedy for guarantee or warranty that may be invalidated in you EULA."
She mentioned the isolation of being the only woman at Linux meetings...anyone have any serious idea of what percentage of /. readers are female.
I would guess it is less than 2%.
Wonderful scam on scammers: check this out - Ha ha ha ha . Some guy out there is a genius, funniest site in years.
Thanks for the clarification.
I thought this happened a few days ago ...? What is going on.
interestingly typing AXA gives different results from typing AN AXA even though google spits out the message: ... "an" is a very common word and was not included in your search
but including "an" in your search invalidates the adwords which is good for me.
Andy,
According to the ROMNET website:
"RomNet's creative staff will develop a web site that correctly positions your company, including its products or services, in a compelling manner. "
You need to get these creative staff to write you a better CV so you can get a better job.
You should still charge them...maybe ONLY 100 dollars though!
Hi Andy, Look at the top salaries in IT and you'll see a lot of those related to the banking industry figure. Better still, forget the IT part, and just qualify as a banker and handle other people's money. Generally this means you'll be mixing with the well off, and you'll get paid well for it. IT is moderately interesting at 50 dollars an hour. At 13 dollars an hour you are wasting your time in IT.
Good for you! There is space for many different types of people within OpenSource. There is nothing wrong with that, in fact it is very healthy.
We can't get my mum off the 386 laptop, since she loves WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS so much, and she likes the layout of the keys.
She does have trouble with the internet sometimes, but she takes that as the price worth paying to stick with her beloved laptop.
If the article is right and it is programmable which seems a little implausible, then it can make a claim to being the world's first computer "design", 300 years before Charles Babbage.
However the fact that it can only go "right" makes you think it is probably not object-oriented.
Open source has had SUCH an effect that this is now extending to science. Instead of employing a few scientists to do something, instead we just stick out a request into cyberspace and get everyone to do it for free.
:)
Now we look forward to an unemployment problem among scientists soon as they get "undercut" by free scientists.
Of course, once all corporations have moved to this business model, massive profitability will shortly be followed by a collapse in sales as noone will have any money to buy the products that are created.
If you are only 24 and have stress problems already I think you should switch career. You need to have some buffers for stress, but it sounds like you've hit the buffer waaaaaaaaaay too early.
The real question is this, whether IP will continue alone, or will IP networks get superceded a superstructure containing secure trusted authentication. If this happens, will the secure layer allow the transmission of encrpted data. Well, for some business purposes it is pretty critical to have encryption, and for some other business purposes encrption is not wanted. So, you have 2 networks, one allows encrypted and one only allows non encrypted information. The you change a fee on the "free" network to increase the cost of data transfer. None of this will however prevent the transfer of digital data since 2 billion users will always outsmart 1 million lawyers.
In 1992 I remember reading Business Week's article on Hitachi's 5, 10 and 15 year plans - their 15 year research plan (ie 2007) included having atomic level data storage. Now it is 2004 and we seem to be some way off still. So maybe these micro-stores are trickier than people think.
Robertson deserves a lot of our thanks and a prize for enlivening our days, we need people like him to make life more fun and interesting. When the lawyers run the world, even the lawyers won't enjoy living in it.
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It should be called 'E' to appeal to the drug-taking raver youth of today. It would fit the profile of being a more cerebral experience writing the code.
It might shake up a few offices.
It should have a set of libraries called Whizz.