The real question is, will they still be able to change fast enough to stay viable.
Nope. And that's why Windows (as we know it) probably will die within 5-10 years. Why? Because of backward compatibility. Coupled with closed standards and miniscule co-operation between software vendors, this leads to a matrix of applications where everything must be made to work with everything, without disclosing source or co-operating in a way that might lose business advantages.
A flawed OS can only be pushed so far before patching becomes too painful.
Try "search engine" (both with and w/o quotes). Dunno about you guys, but I couldn't find any search engine I know of in the first five pages (I didn't look any further). Ironically, the same search on Google (with quotes) lists Altavista, Lycos, AlltheWeb, Excite and Yahoo on the first page...
So we can assume popularity does not come into the ranking.
One man's "terrorist" is another man's "Freedom Fighter".
Anyone remember that scene when Rambo is talking to the proud, USSR-oppressed freedom fighters of Afghanistan? And people can't understand how neighbors and good friends become enemies, just because of government influence...
I think of this as the ultimate solution to avoid dealing with enormously diverging user interfaces (and back-end solutions) when trying to get some useful information at the web. You could do enormously more powerful searches when hooked up to a semantic web than "manually" browsing. Example: You are going home for Christmas. So in your TravelFox plugin you enter your home and destination address, possible dates / hours of turn / return, acceptable travel time, affordable price range, references to your family's calendars (for available pickup hours), least acceptable travel company rating, accepted means of travel (foot, bike, car, train, plane), and sorting criteria. This all cross-references a few RDF "databases" and returns a result which would normally have taken hours to achieve. BS is avoided by the normal mechanisms: Signing and word-of-mouth.
I just loved it when the mobile phone company I used announced that SMS reception confirmations (or whatever they're called) would soon be available, at 50/100% of the price of an ordinary SMS. I'd already been using it for months for free.
Uh, my TB has maxed out at 60572K today, and I'm just using it for one newsgroup and twenty-something RSS feeds.
And why has the parent been modded troll? This is clearly an issue...
The Best Reason Ever: Portable Thunderbird! I've been using this for the best part of a month, and it's just great having all the settings, bookmarks, and extensions both at work and at home.
I'm very sorry to say that I've seen my share of bugs in this program, although I trust it very well with newsgroups and RSS feeds. Check out Bugzilla if you want details on the existing bugs.
Welcome to another 4 years of being the Big Bad Guy! Here's to hoping Bush will rest thoroughly on his laurels, instead of trying to "impress" the world with his cowboy attitude. But I guess that's too much to hope for.
This reminds me of those "political" people who always tout "I don't agree with you, but I'd die to keep your freedom to express yourself!" or something to that effect. It is indeed strange to see how many of these people are still alive...
So, if Moore's Observation does fail, how bad is it?
If Moore's Observation came to a grinding halt, it could / would have quite a lot of interesting results (in my humble coffee rambling opinion): - Software engineers would have to work much more in making efficient code, which might lead to:
- Less focus on security in the short run (simply because of budget constraints vs. consumer ignorance)
- Less new functionality
- In the long run, more stable and secure programs because of more focus on the parts which can actually be improved - CPU engineers would have to look for other methods for increasing the speed of execution, which might lead to:
- Lots of focus on possibly revolutionary tech, like DNA or quantum computing
- More focus on new architectures for "old" tech, like multi-layer CPUs
- Attempts on using new cooling methods, e.g. superfluid helium (with zero mechanical resistance) in pores at the nanometer scale - Other hardware engineers would start looking closer at the bottlenecks
- If technology is frozen in several areas, these might benefit from closer integration, e.g. on-board (non-removable) CPU, RAM
- If upgrading your computer every X years becomes moot, "frozen" black-box systems can become very popular
As usual, users will still see a fairly continuous improvement in performance. Which is what we really care about, right?
Hm, OK. The last week I've tried Fedora Core 3 Test 3, Mandrake 10.1 Official, and SimplyMEPIS 2004.04, and found bugs in all of them within minutes of use (and severa. Just hope that your bug feedback system user registration email doesn't get rated "definitely spam" (like it did with Mandrake).
I might not be an expert, but I know a bug when I see one...
[...]in the long run, it's Bad For Business to piss off your potential customers
Now I wonder, because nobody would catch me trying to find out which company actually sells the ####. This would take far too much time. What I would consider is looking at a list of notorious spam initiators (i.e. the companies behind the products) before buying, and giving them a little FU for making everyone spend some seconds / minutes every day to remove what they didn't want in the first place. Increasing awareness of SpamCorps could be seriously damaging to their income! Does there exist any such list?
According to my calculations, this still meets the 99.9999% reliability that MS claims the server to be able to provide
Let's have a look at that: 1 - 4/(30*24*60) ~= 0,9999074... = 99,991%, e.g. a hundred times worse than you stated. And that's if there's only one critical update per month.
But l0b0, I'm Josh the Programmer in the USA, I have no control to stop the bombing, etc. No more then you can control your goverment. Whatever your goverment does, doesn't reflect you right?
I could have understood someone from (fill in your favorite dictatorship) saying that, but an American? As long as you vote, you're part of a democracy, and that means your government reflects you (the people).
Can you say Battle of Helms Deep with every character being a real person?
Yup, and here's a sample of the chat:
Orc_5235: Nuh uh, no way I'll be in front
Orc_9873: AOL
Orc_632: Uh huh!
Orc_1236: n00bs! 1'll sh0w y4!
Orc_1236 was killed
Orc_1236 has left the game
You seem to be talking about Chetchens, Iranians, etc. as the people, not the leaders. In that case I'd like you to get off your ass and talk to them, because there are plenty of reasonable people who just want to "live life, make business". Sorry to say it, but you never hear about Achmed the Dr. Med. or Yanna the housemaid in the news. And oh, if you want world peace, why don't you stop bombing people who have never been a threat to you? Mod me all you want, but there's plenty of people who view the US as expansionist brutes.</rant>
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A flawed OS can only be pushed so far before patching becomes too painful.
God damn! They sure know how to piss off geeks!
Try "search engine" (both with and w/o quotes). Dunno about you guys, but I couldn't find any search engine I know of in the first five pages (I didn't look any further). Ironically, the same search on Google (with quotes) lists Altavista, Lycos, AlltheWeb, Excite and Yahoo on the first page...
So we can assume popularity does not come into the ranking.
I think of this as the ultimate solution to avoid dealing with enormously diverging user interfaces (and back-end solutions) when trying to get some useful information at the web. You could do enormously more powerful searches when hooked up to a semantic web than "manually" browsing. Example: You are going home for Christmas. So in your TravelFox plugin you enter your home and destination address, possible dates / hours of turn / return, acceptable travel time, affordable price range, references to your family's calendars (for available pickup hours), least acceptable travel company rating, accepted means of travel (foot, bike, car, train, plane), and sorting criteria. This all cross-references a few RDF "databases" and returns a result which would normally have taken hours to achieve. BS is avoided by the normal mechanisms: Signing and word-of-mouth.
I just loved it when the mobile phone company I used announced that SMS reception confirmations (or whatever they're called) would soon be available, at 50/100% of the price of an ordinary SMS. I'd already been using it for months for free.
Nuh-huh. Just wait until version 14.89, and you'll be safe as sounds.
This study was repeated just a few days ago, see the US election results.
Uh, my TB has maxed out at 60572K today, and I'm just using it for one newsgroup and twenty-something RSS feeds. And why has the parent been modded troll? This is clearly an issue...
The Best Reason Ever: Portable Thunderbird! I've been using this for the best part of a month, and it's just great having all the settings, bookmarks, and extensions both at work and at home.
I'm very sorry to say that I've seen my share of bugs in this program, although I trust it very well with newsgroups and RSS feeds. Check out Bugzilla if you want details on the existing bugs.
Welcome to another 4 years of being the Big Bad Guy! Here's to hoping Bush will rest thoroughly on his laurels, instead of trying to "impress" the world with his cowboy attitude. But I guess that's too much to hope for.
As the normal user would write his/her password on the card, why bother with high tech? The biggest security problem is always the people...
If Moore's Observation came to a grinding halt, it could / would have quite a lot of interesting results (in my humble coffee rambling opinion):
- Software engineers would have to work much more in making efficient code, which might lead to:
- Less focus on security in the short run (simply because of budget constraints vs. consumer ignorance)
- Less new functionality
- In the long run, more stable and secure programs because of more focus on the parts which can actually be improved
- CPU engineers would have to look for other methods for increasing the speed of execution, which might lead to:
- Lots of focus on possibly revolutionary tech, like DNA or quantum computing
- More focus on new architectures for "old" tech, like multi-layer CPUs
- Attempts on using new cooling methods, e.g. superfluid helium (with zero mechanical resistance) in pores at the nanometer scale
- Other hardware engineers would start looking closer at the bottlenecks
- If technology is frozen in several areas, these might benefit from closer integration, e.g. on-board (non-removable) CPU, RAM
- If upgrading your computer every X years becomes moot, "frozen" black-box systems can become very popular
As usual, users will still see a fairly continuous improvement in performance. Which is what we really care about, right?
Hm, OK. The last week I've tried Fedora Core 3 Test 3, Mandrake 10.1 Official, and SimplyMEPIS 2004.04, and found bugs in all of them within minutes of use (and severa. Just hope that your bug feedback system user registration email doesn't get rated "definitely spam" (like it did with Mandrake).
I might not be an expert, but I know a bug when I see one...
And if my 1337 seer skillz are to be trusted, the next 35 will be at least as informative, funny, cooperative, and interesting.
Let's have a look at that: 1 - 4/(30*24*60) ~= 0,9999074... = 99,991%, e.g. a hundred times worse than you stated. And that's if there's only one critical update per month.
I could have understood someone from (fill in your favorite dictatorship) saying that, but an American? As long as you vote, you're part of a democracy, and that means your government reflects you (the people).
Sure, when the MMOCG comes along, with 7.1 sound and extra gore!
Orc_5235: Nuh uh, no way I'll be in front
Orc_9873: AOL
Orc_632: Uh huh!
Orc_1236: n00bs! 1'll sh0w y4!
Orc_1236 was killed
Orc_1236 has left the game
You seem to be talking about Chetchens, Iranians, etc. as the people, not the leaders. In that case I'd like you to get off your ass and talk to them, because there are plenty of reasonable people who just want to "live life, make business". Sorry to say it, but you never hear about Achmed the Dr. Med. or Yanna the housemaid in the news. And oh, if you want world peace, why don't you stop bombing people who have never been a threat to you? Mod me all you want, but there's plenty of people who view the US as expansionist brutes.</rant>
So I'm not an idiot after all?! But wait, it's 23:50, and I'm posting bullshait...