In your answers to question 7 you say: "Is this enough to make sweeping claims about the reliability of Linux/Windows? No way." "Hopefully these are the questions that people will ask after reading this study, and with any luck it will prompt others to carry out their own analysis within their own IT environment, building on what we started here"
In the orginial Slashdot story, you are quoted as: "The study claims that Windows is "more consistent, predictable, and easier to manage than Linux.""
Why is it that you hope your study will prompt others to carry out their onw analysis within their own IT environment, but the concolusion of your study says that Windows is "more consistent, predictable, and easier to manage than Linux?"
"And open source is corresponding such a threat to companies such as Microsoft" Corresponding? "Load up a computer today with a basic set of applications software" Applications or application? "Add roughly $100- for the Windows XP operating systems" What, there is more than one? "financially compelling to the both the consumer and organizations have thousands of computers" What happend to the rest of the sentence? " The idea of saving money and never having to worry about a blue screen of death is the proverbial win/win scenario." Can I have some cheese with that?
the whole article is riddled with crapy sentences like these. I think I quoted over 90% of the first paragraph. Why would anyone ever read a book with such a review? Oh wait a minute...
Not that I like to go along with your week argument, but if you have scarce resources around energy (oil), fresh water, or land, land seems the least likely to me. Free trade arrangements make war over territory for agricultural benefits pointless, because you could just offer 10% more for the whatever it is you want to buy to get it, instead of spending a fortune on a war. With water and energy, free trade isn't as simple, because there is no free trade (OPEC with oil, and water can be too scarce in the future to have enough for everyone).
And to preempt the next argument that increased agriculture will require more water, thas is correct, and it becomes important to make the best use of fresh water by smarter irrigation systems. Nothing here that can't be solved.
And how many trees die every year of acid rain (which the article mentions as being greatly reduced by this product)?
But more importantly, if this product has a chance to avoids a war over oil, its worth a lot more than more acres of land being used. And as we make progress in agricultural technologies (and share that technology with the rest of the world), we may not even need more than the currently existing farmland to supplement 20% of the worlds disel with biodisel.
I'm in the process of building my "media center" PC, and I know that processors can become a bottle neck if there are more than 1 or 2 capture cards running, as well as live playback or other activity.
Is anyone up to speed with which processor to go with for this, but more importantly, which capture cards to use?
I agree with you that it isn't a perfect fit for the YRO category. However, if womeone can patent anti-gravity space propulsion systems, just use your immagination what you could do for software or on the internet.
I'm going to go and patent my O(n^-9) sorting algorithm and then my new web browswer that doesn't need an internet connection to display web content.
Up to this point, this poste has been a troll, but what if in 5 years, someone does come up with a way to do better sorts or a way to show webpages without requireing a live internet connection? The point of a patent is to encourage inventors by providing security of a return on their investment. In this case, its yet annother example of how the current patent system is abused to stiffel innovation.
What is their density per hour of battery life? This is very important for not only for cameras, laptops, or other portable devices, but also things such as remote airplanes, or even electric cars, scooters, and segways. The lighter and smaller, the better. Does anyone know?
We got wifi here in most places. Be it academic, residential housing, or in appartments. Even most employers have wireless infrastructure now. Could this be a major threat to the current telecommunication infrastructure and the breaktrhough for Skype and VoIP?
On my computer, I can controll voltage, FSB, multiplier, fan speed, and so on from Windows, and don't even have to reboot to change those settings. I think this is a result of the open competition between manufacturers, and as longa s Mac's are the toy of a single company, they will always lack this aspect of providing what the customers REALLY want or need, but only what the company is willing to provide.
The thing that taught me the most in highschool was physics. Most students take it anyways, and doesn't take very complicated or timeconsuming, nor expensive ideas to get people interested. Here are the things I did, or wish I did:
Build towers or bridges out of balsawood that then compete in a wieghtbaring competition
Bottle rockets with parachustes, the longest one to stay up wins
Catapults, crossbows, slingshots,...
remote controlled cars
It doesn't take too much to involve technology into these:
modle the structure using CAT or similar, and try to predict how much it can hold, before you build it
use a chip to determin when to release the parachute
predict the trajectory, maybe even measuring and including wind speeds
use AI to stear the remote controlled cars
That said, my favorite in high school was the pumpkin chunkin competition in delaware, just after halloween.
Slashdot Mirror
5 minutes of googeling, and I find this:
source
Google says he lives here
carl fogleweb graphic design
4120 manhattan ave
brooklyn ny 11224
Phone: 1.7189967672
Fax: 718 996 7672
and more:
Listed as a web designer
5 minutes of googeling, and I find this:
source
Google says he lives here
carl fogleweb graphic design
4120 manhattan ave
brooklyn ny 11224
Phone: 1.7189967672
Fax: 718 996 7672
and more:
Listed as a web designer
This is evindence that all those poeple that do those "fp" posts aren't as active in their brains as those who read the stories!
Finally!
In your answers to question 7 you say:
"Is this enough to make sweeping claims about the reliability of Linux/Windows? No way."
"Hopefully these are the questions that people will ask after reading this study, and with any luck it will prompt others to carry out their own analysis within their own IT environment, building on what we started here"
In the orginial Slashdot story, you are quoted as:
"The study claims that Windows is "more consistent, predictable, and easier to manage than Linux.""
Why is it that you hope your study will prompt others to carry out their onw analysis within their own IT environment, but the concolusion of your study says that Windows is "more consistent, predictable, and easier to manage than Linux?"
"And open source is corresponding such a threat to companies such as Microsoft" Corresponding?
"Load up a computer today with a basic set of applications software" Applications or application?
"Add roughly $100- for the Windows XP operating systems" What, there is more than one?
"financially compelling to the both the consumer and organizations have thousands of computers" What happend to the rest of the sentence?
" The idea of saving money and never having to worry about a blue screen of death is the proverbial win/win scenario." Can I have some cheese with that?
the whole article is riddled with crapy sentences like these. I think I quoted over 90% of the first paragraph. Why would anyone ever read a book with such a review? Oh wait a minute...
Not that I like to go along with your week argument, but if you have scarce resources around energy (oil), fresh water, or land, land seems the least likely to me. Free trade arrangements make war over territory for agricultural benefits pointless, because you could just offer 10% more for the whatever it is you want to buy to get it, instead of spending a fortune on a war. With water and energy, free trade isn't as simple, because there is no free trade (OPEC with oil, and water can be too scarce in the future to have enough for everyone).
And to preempt the next argument that increased agriculture will require more water, thas is correct, and it becomes important to make the best use of fresh water by smarter irrigation systems. Nothing here that can't be solved.
And how many trees die every year of acid rain (which the article mentions as being greatly reduced by this product)?
But more importantly, if this product has a chance to avoids a war over oil, its worth a lot more than more acres of land being used. And as we make progress in agricultural technologies (and share that technology with the rest of the world), we may not even need more than the currently existing farmland to supplement 20% of the worlds disel with biodisel.
I'm in the process of building my "media center" PC, and I know that processors can become a bottle neck if there are more than 1 or 2 capture cards running, as well as live playback or other activity.
Is anyone up to speed with which processor to go with for this, but more importantly, which capture cards to use?
Thanks.
I agree with you that it isn't a perfect fit for the YRO category. However, if womeone can patent anti-gravity space propulsion systems, just use your immagination what you could do for software or on the internet.
I'm going to go and patent my O(n^-9) sorting algorithm and then my new web browswer that doesn't need an internet connection to display web content.
Up to this point, this poste has been a troll, but what if in 5 years, someone does come up with a way to do better sorts or a way to show webpages without requireing a live internet connection? The point of a patent is to encourage inventors by providing security of a return on their investment. In this case, its yet annother example of how the current patent system is abused to stiffel innovation.
hence the word "outweigh" for weight, and not "outmass"
Well, if they outnumber men, then its in numbers. If they outweigh men, then its in weight. Easy? I thought so!
How many other 2005s do they have records of? If this is the only one, it will be the warmest, coldest, shortest, and longest 2005 on record forever!
Maybe someone at Microsoft was trying to use Roman Numerals, and chose XP. I don't know how much P would be in binary so.
Why do you say that two factorial equals one half?
What is their density per hour of battery life? This is very important for not only for cameras, laptops, or other portable devices, but also things such as remote airplanes, or even electric cars, scooters, and segways. The lighter and smaller, the better. Does anyone know?
well, here at VT we have a 1100 node Mac G5 X-seve rack setup! I hope that makes you feel better, knowing that you aren't alone out there!
We got wifi here in most places. Be it academic, residential housing, or in appartments. Even most employers have wireless infrastructure now. Could this be a major threat to the current telecommunication infrastructure and the breaktrhough for Skype and VoIP?
On my computer, I can controll voltage, FSB, multiplier, fan speed, and so on from Windows, and don't even have to reboot to change those settings. I think this is a result of the open competition between manufacturers, and as longa s Mac's are the toy of a single company, they will always lack this aspect of providing what the customers REALLY want or need, but only what the company is willing to provide.
To point something out:
http://www.google.com/search?complete=1&hl=en&q=thttp://www.google.com/search?complete=1&hl=en&q='
It's all in the tractor vs. 'tractor' search.
You have to search for 'traktor'!
http://www.google.com/search?complete=1&hl=en&q='- Build towers or bridges out of balsawood that then compete in a wieghtbaring competition
- Bottle rockets with parachustes, the longest one to stay up wins
- Catapults, crossbows, slingshots,
...
- remote controlled cars
It doesn't take too much to involve technology into these:What will he do if we turn all lights off? I call on slashdot to turn off all nights tonight! Can we do it?