I've seen it on German tv - the title was "Leben nach Microsoft". When googling for the title I found this, implying that the english title is Microslaves by Douglas Coupland.
Friends and family are a pretty cold comfort when you can't afford clothing for your children and you spend half your time trying to figure out what relative you haven't hit up for cash lately. Crumbling job markets suck.
We are talking about millionaires here. It is true that there is an unacceptable limit regarding income, but if you are above that it is quite sad to say that money is #1 on the list (like the one I was referring to said).
since you mention it - one guy put his money into a.com startup distributing sheet music. After the bubble bursted he had to accommodate to a quite moderate lifestyle. He's still running this company, but the server is in his basement and he had to fire his employees...
btw: who told you that clerical employees don't have aspirations?
Being rich isn't everything but it sure beats whatever is in second place.
I guess that you'll need to get really rich in order to realize that it won't make you happy. Being rich beats being poor, but it's nothing compared to friends or family or general satisfaction in life. Those can't be bought.
They interviewed some ex Microsoft employees. All of them are millionaires due to stock options. Now they are mostly in their late twens wondering what to do with their existence for the rest of their time (one of them - living in his huge mansion alone said that he pretends to be into IT consulting on dinner parties, because saying that you basically do nothing is kind of embarrassing).
It makes me wonder if stock options are really a sustainable way for both sides to grow. Wouldn't it be better to have more employees at a lower wage like 500 grands a year? Every ex MS worker being part of the documentary suffered some kind of burn out syndrome, so it might make sense to reduce their workload at the same time.
TFA doesn't mention espionage satelites. Apart from that it would be quite strange to do something about them now, since those are around since +50 years.
IMO they are just making plans for the event that someone really poses a threat to the US and its satelites.
Basically the they are saying: We are going to take countermeasures if there is any threat to the US and its satelites from something up in space.
You've got to be kidding me. Going to the moon transformed the entire industrial structure of the US. The microprocessor was just one of the industries affected
I wasn't saying that the next generation of chips will have any impact on other industries. Just wanted to point out that going to the moon was quite easy technically speaking if you compare it to the problems being faced if you want to create structures on a die as small as 65nm and smaller. This is just an example for impressive new developments beating anything that has been done before. That doesn't mean that going to the moon in 69 wasn't a masterpiece at the time.
Before anyone comes up with theories about manic collectors being behind of it all - there isn't a single case in history where a stolen painting was found in the basement of an art aficionado.
It's mostly about blackmailing the insurance company in charge - it makes sense for them to pay 2 millions to the thief instead of paying 10 millions for the loss.
yes, it sounds smug, but keep in mind that building the next generation of chips will take more effort than landing on the moon.
He's probably right, but I agree that he sounds arrogant - most of the stuff they are using has been invented before Intel even existed. They are just making the next step...
it's also likely that we're going to see problems similar to those experienced with single layer discs. It's just a pita to throw away half of the discs because they don't meet the specs (thus making it impossible to burn them).
Sometimes this which-disc-should-work-with-your-writer game appears to be more complicated than the stock market.
yes, at least in the US people usually download the games on their own, but it has the same effect: The difference in price between an illegal and an official copy is dimished thus resulting in less "convenience" for pirate copies.
However, this is only true if it's much cheaper for Sony to make a Bluray disc than for the pirate (private person or organized crime business).
allofmp3 is still superior? I doubt that any service can beat 1c/meg. Being able to choose your preffered format (even ogg) at an almost arbitrary bitrate is another feature we won't see anywhere else in the near future. There is just one big drawback: Artists won't get much money if you spend 3 ct per track on average if you don't download 30 times as much as you would using itunes.
However, I'm wondering how they manage to stay in business (yes, they are kind of legal - but I can think of a 4 letter organization which can't be happy about this).
I wouldn't call it Obscurity, because this format is very well documented and Bluray writers are planned. But it definitely slows down piracy since those discs are more expensive (lowers pirates profit). It's also quite likely that the PS3 will come out before any affordable writers are out... so there won't be any illegal copies around for a certain timeframe... And even if piracy becomes a problem they will get an advantage in the next format war.
IMO those factors played a higher role in their decision than enabling developers to create 54 GB games.
so it basically would have taken at least 3 days to look at the evidence in a conventional manner?
Maybe I'm really missing something here, but this sounds like hype to me.
you are talking about mcpu=x and march=x
mcpu will optimize the code for x whereas march will use every feature x provides (breaking backwards-compatibility).
thanks for the hint...
I must admit that I haven't read any US mag for about 7 years (because I was slightly shocked back then). So I'm quite biased...
Back then it was impossible to distinguish between commercials and stuff from the editorial dep (even compared to the standard of Wired magazine)
It seems that Slashdot is desperate to publish any story that is negative about SP2, despite coming from a dubious source with little to no detail on this "flaw". I have to say that it really seems to me that MS got it right this time.
Slashdot might be eager to publish bad news related to SP2, but calling PC-Welt a dubious source sounds ridiculous to me (can you tell me about a US computer mag, which actually features news?). I don't think you ever heard of PC-Welt prior to this thread. You could as well state that nothing happened in Beslan, because you saw it on BBC (aka foreign media). I don't want to say that PC-Welt is a great mag - I bought my last issue about 5 years ago and I no regrets not reading it anymore. But if/. cites some "dubious" news from an unknown website some take it more seriously than news from a mag with real journalists and computer experts. Isn't there something wrong about this behaviour?
Since OSX switched to bash it's possible to run this command on it too - but it won't do much harm, since they limit the amount of processes per user by default. However, I don't know about the average linux distro, so YMMV...
disclaimer: my box would crash if I'd enter:(){:|:& };:
Reviewers at several websites were unable to get the motherboard to power up in any configuration. Fengtek technical support said this would allow more time for meditation.
at least for the x86 version it could solve one of the bigest problems: lack of device drivers.
If they go OS in a proper manner many gpl drivers can be ported and they don't even have to pay developers to do this.
Why doesn't TFA state whether they are talking about the US market or worldwide sales? I know that they are talking about worldwide sales, because timothy implies it and my sanity tells me that AMD hasn't outperformed Intel in the US. But it's not my job to guess the obvious - the author of the article should make sure that everybody knows what he's talking about.
However, I believe that this is good news. AMD offers more bang for the buck and they seem to focus on reasonable improvements while Intel concentrates on (expensive) ideas their marketing departement came up with (HT is an obvious example - it might make chips a little bit faster, but you obviously pay more for this speed gain than it's worth). I know that AMD also came up with nifty technologies like the Athlon64, which doesn't suit any purpose for the average WinXP user right now, but quite a few people apparently think that it is a good idea to buy them and it won't hurt anybody in the long run if x86 computers become aware of 64 bits. Since I only use OSS on my computer, which I usually compile on my own the Athlon64 even attracts me;)
Didn't know about those projects and it wasn't easy to find any of them with google (United Diving Instructors was among the top5 results btw)
I don't really know if they want to archive something like this. There's a difference between "creating an OS-neutral device driver standard" and supplying instructions on how to build a driver with the device. In the latter case you don't need traditional drivers anymore, since the OS can figure out how to communicate with it when it's being plugged in.
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I've seen it on German tv - the title was "Leben nach Microsoft". When googling for the title I found this, implying that the english title is Microslaves by Douglas Coupland.
since you mention it - one guy put his money into a .com startup distributing sheet music. After the bubble bursted he had to accommodate to a quite moderate lifestyle. He's still running this company, but the server is in his basement and he had to fire his employees...
btw: who told you that clerical employees don't have aspirations?
They interviewed some ex Microsoft employees. All of them are millionaires due to stock options. Now they are mostly in their late twens wondering what to do with their existence for the rest of their time (one of them - living in his huge mansion alone said that he pretends to be into IT consulting on dinner parties, because saying that you basically do nothing is kind of embarrassing).
It makes me wonder if stock options are really a sustainable way for both sides to grow. Wouldn't it be better to have more employees at a lower wage like 500 grands a year? Every ex MS worker being part of the documentary suffered some kind of burn out syndrome, so it might make sense to reduce their workload at the same time.
IMO they are just making plans for the event that someone really poses a threat to the US and its satelites.
Basically the they are saying: We are going to take countermeasures if there is any threat to the US and its satelites from something up in space.Before anyone comes up with theories about manic collectors being behind of it all - there isn't a single case in history where a stolen painting was found in the basement of an art aficionado. It's mostly about blackmailing the insurance company in charge - it makes sense for them to pay 2 millions to the thief instead of paying 10 millions for the loss.
I guess that's the good part of the story
yes, it sounds smug, but keep in mind that building the next generation of chips will take more effort than landing on the moon.
He's probably right, but I agree that he sounds arrogant - most of the stuff they are using has been invented before Intel even existed. They are just making the next step...
it's also likely that we're going to see problems similar to those experienced with single layer discs. It's just a pita to throw away half of the discs because they don't meet the specs (thus making it impossible to burn them).
Sometimes this which-disc-should-work-with-your-writer game appears to be more complicated than the stock market.
yes, at least in the US people usually download the games on their own, but it has the same effect: The difference in price between an illegal and an official copy is dimished thus resulting in less "convenience" for pirate copies. However, this is only true if it's much cheaper for Sony to make a Bluray disc than for the pirate (private person or organized crime business).
allofmp3 is still superior? I doubt that any service can beat 1c/meg. Being able to choose your preffered format (even ogg) at an almost arbitrary bitrate is another feature we won't see anywhere else in the near future.
There is just one big drawback: Artists won't get much money if you spend 3 ct per track on average if you don't download 30 times as much as you would using itunes.
However, I'm wondering how they manage to stay in business (yes, they are kind of legal - but I can think of a 4 letter organization which can't be happy about this).
I wouldn't call it Obscurity, because this format is very well documented and Bluray writers are planned. But it definitely slows down piracy since those discs are more expensive (lowers pirates profit). It's also quite likely that the PS3 will come out before any affordable writers are out... so there won't be any illegal copies around for a certain timeframe...
And even if piracy becomes a problem they will get an advantage in the next format war.
IMO those factors played a higher role in their decision than enabling developers to create 54 GB games.
so it basically would have taken at least 3 days to look at the evidence in a conventional manner? Maybe I'm really missing something here, but this sounds like hype to me.
you are talking about mcpu=x and march=x mcpu will optimize the code for x whereas march will use every feature x provides (breaking backwards-compatibility).
thanks for the hint... I must admit that I haven't read any US mag for about 7 years (because I was slightly shocked back then). So I'm quite biased... Back then it was impossible to distinguish between commercials and stuff from the editorial dep (even compared to the standard of Wired magazine)
Slashdot might be eager to publish bad news related to SP2, but calling PC-Welt a dubious source sounds ridiculous to me (can you tell me about a US computer mag, which actually features news?).
I don't think you ever heard of PC-Welt prior to this thread. You could as well state that nothing happened in Beslan, because you saw it on BBC (aka foreign media).
I don't want to say that PC-Welt is a great mag - I bought my last issue about 5 years ago and I no regrets not reading it anymore. But if
disclaimer: my box would crash if I'd enter :(){ :|:& };:
Do these feature a Geiger counter?
at least for the x86 version it could solve one of the bigest problems: lack of device drivers. If they go OS in a proper manner many gpl drivers can be ported and they don't even have to pay developers to do this.
Why doesn't TFA state whether they are talking about the US market or worldwide sales? I know that they are talking about worldwide sales, because timothy implies it and my sanity tells me that AMD hasn't outperformed Intel in the US. But it's not my job to guess the obvious - the author of the article should make sure that everybody knows what he's talking about.
;)
However, I believe that this is good news. AMD offers more bang for the buck and they seem to focus on reasonable improvements while Intel concentrates on (expensive) ideas their marketing departement came up with (HT is an obvious example - it might make chips a little bit faster, but you obviously pay more for this speed gain than it's worth).
I know that AMD also came up with nifty technologies like the Athlon64, which doesn't suit any purpose for the average WinXP user right now, but quite a few people apparently think that it is a good idea to buy them and it won't hurt anybody in the long run if x86 computers become aware of 64 bits.
Since I only use OSS on my computer, which I usually compile on my own the Athlon64 even attracts me
Didn't know about those projects and it wasn't easy to find any of them with google (United Diving Instructors was among the top5 results btw) I don't really know if they want to archive something like this. There's a difference between "creating an OS-neutral device driver standard" and supplying instructions on how to build a driver with the device. In the latter case you don't need traditional drivers anymore, since the OS can figure out how to communicate with it when it's being plugged in.