Aside from drivers, io completion ports, almost unified system object wait mechanism, there's not much Windows offers that BSD or Linux doesn't.
A single unified filesystem namespace. job control terminal emulation symbolic links nfs
These are all things that Windows is missing (some can be rectified with add-ons, but there's an impedence mismatch going no. All of these are free, with a Linux or BSD base.
To wit, you're right. But then there are companies that keep dividends to build future shareholder value and so increase the value of each piece of company you own. Sigh.
For a buy-and-holder, a company with solid financials that pays dividends is a better long-term investment than a Google.
As an aside, Microsoft went almost 20 years before it paid it's first dividend.
Collective bargaining is hurtful to industry because a workforce can decide to strike, when a company is legitimately under pressure to cut costs (automakers) and they all go on strike - making the issue worse and worse. The problem comes because even if the union comes back to the table and accepts concessions, management can still take multi-million dollar bonuses, which hurts business even more.
Then again, collective bargaining done right protects the little guy - mostly it's just used to let schleps keep jobs who don't deserve them.
Umm... USB 2.0 provides fast, reliable 5V signalling to your peripherals, transfers data far faster than any parallel port can, and can supply up to an ampere of current to power your device.
There's a reason USB has won the peripheral war.
There is a massive amount of one-of specialized gear that is parallel and serial port specific, but if you're truly having problems, make better USB->Serial/Parallel devices.
At some point you have to prune the tree. And you don't get traction if you wait for people to prune it for you.
I dunno, the FTDI USB chipsets and the Maxwell RS232 chipsets I have consume about the same amount of PCB space, and are about equally as complex to wire and use... Personally I'll take the USB version every time.
I would say this is a definite advantage of a dual-screen ereader. In a book, if I want to look at the page printed behind the one I'm currently working on, I do a lot of flipping. In a two screen ereader, I could see both of these pages side by side, an important feature when taking notes or working math problems, for example.
This would be a significant improvement no books and e-readers in general. Remember a lot of content spans two pages. Maybe I'm better off with twice the resolution screen, perhaps? It's arguable.
I have anecdotal/objective evidence: I used an iPhone on a trial for a month, side-by-each with my Palm Treo on Verizon.
When I got service, the iPhone was blazingly fast fast fast. But go outside metro-Boston and I couldn't load Slashdot on it, or any of a number of smaller sites. AT&T was prioritizing traffic to bigger sites like Google, Youtube, Microsoft, Facebook, etc. Verizon would load it up just fine (maybe a mobile version, maybe not, depending on my mood), along with all of the bigger sites.
Just outside Nashua, NH (not the boonies by any stretch) - I couldn't get any AT&T 3G service, yet my Verizon was still humming away.
I did the best test anyone can do - I used multiple services side by side (I did a similar comparison with Sprint in June of 2009 when the Palm Pre came out). Call quality/dropped calls was about on par with Verizon, but the 3G coverage was WOEFULLY unbalanced to AT&T's detriment - in my particular area.
It's why I'm hating life right now with my MotoDroid(Doesn't), and not enjoying life with an iPhone - for the Northeast, Verizon is still King if you value availability over blazing speed.
For what it's worth, as a guy who spends more time creating TBs of content (photos) than managing computers, I'm not moving to btrfs until RedHat is shipping it as the default filesystem for RHEL for at least a year.
I build one NAS every 4 or 5 years, and I just built an OpenSolaris EON-based ZFS NAS (nfs, smb, iscsi).
I'm going to digress - Windows is not an inferior product. It had it's moments in the whole "user as admin" miasma. But were Microsoft to add support for some Posix compliance - basically get bash to run without cygwin, I'd drop Linux in a heartbeat.
Microsoft doesn't WANT to be open, and for that, I *choose* to hate them. Windows is not inferior. It's just not open (and by open I don't mean open source, I mean open standards).
The vast majority of companies to ever reach a billion dollars have done so either through acquisition or merger. I personally can't recall a single firm that did so through organic self-growth.
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To rebut your "thank IBM" comment, and I quote from your own source:
(note: I'm grey on whether the "/" character came from IBM or from Microsoft - several of the original MS-DOS developers were old-hand DEC-20 developers, so it's possible that they carried it forward from their DEC background).
Tim and Z and friends chose "\" because most of the other unshifted characters already had meaning to command.com.
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So yes, thank you IBM for not letting Microsoft give us "%" as a path separator, but damn you both for the whole C:\,B:\,A:\ miasma
Except the best projectors in the world are barely approaching my 46" TV in terms of pixel density, luminosity and clarity at 5 times the price. Yeah, you can get a 120 inch display pretty cheap, but it looks like crap.
You have an excellent point about the bezels, though.
Don't get me started. I'm getting a brand new Core i7 with 8GB of RAM to replace my T2300 with 3GB of RAM... It's probably going to slow me down another 10%, I bet.
Except four of us could run an iLO-based server distro over a WAN for an entire district of 50 schools from one room. Make the average hardware replacement call every day per 100 PCs, and you're still not even taxing my resources (except perhaps driving time). Even better if your school stocks spares in case of failure - you can batch your repair events per site.
I can't do really interesting KVM based framebuffer stuff on my T2300 Core2Duo. I have 64bit support, but what I really need is true virtualization, so I can run Windows and Linux side-by-each and give them both direct access to the linux framebuffer.
Grrrrr. I hate AMD for not putting VT into any of the 940 chips (giving me one extra generation on my Opterons), and I hate Intel for not making VTx standard across the entire product line. The Celeron D 805 didn't have it, but the 820 did, WTF?
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OTA Outlook is the reason why WiMo kicked Palms butt. And that's discounting all the self-destruction that Palm did to themselves.
And their entire Office monopoly is sustained simply on the back of Outlook and Exchange, but mostly Outlook.
Aside from drivers, io completion ports, almost unified system object wait mechanism, there's not much Windows offers that BSD or Linux doesn't.
A single unified filesystem namespace.
job control
terminal emulation
symbolic links
nfs
These are all things that Windows is missing (some can be rectified with add-ons, but there's an impedence mismatch going no. All of these are free, with a Linux or BSD base.
Which is what Apple learned with Darwin.
From what I understand once a company makes an IPO, it doesn't make any money from stock price fluctuations, except through additional offerings.
To wit, you're right. But then there are companies that keep dividends to build future shareholder value and so increase the value of each piece of company you own. Sigh.
For a buy-and-holder, a company with solid financials that pays dividends is a better long-term investment than a Google.
As an aside, Microsoft went almost 20 years before it paid it's first dividend.
Collective bargaining is hurtful to industry because a workforce can decide to strike, when a company is legitimately under pressure to cut costs (automakers) and they all go on strike - making the issue worse and worse. The problem comes because even if the union comes back to the table and accepts concessions, management can still take multi-million dollar bonuses, which hurts business even more.
Then again, collective bargaining done right protects the little guy - mostly it's just used to let schleps keep jobs who don't deserve them.
From this day forward you shall forever be my foe for exposing me to that... that...
Have to go steam-clean my brain now...
Umm... USB 2.0 provides fast, reliable 5V signalling to your peripherals, transfers data far faster than any parallel port can, and can supply up to an ampere of current to power your device.
There's a reason USB has won the peripheral war.
There is a massive amount of one-of specialized gear that is parallel and serial port specific, but if you're truly having problems, make better USB->Serial/Parallel devices.
At some point you have to prune the tree. And you don't get traction if you wait for people to prune it for you.
Good riddance, DB25, DB9, VGA, DVI, PCI.
I dunno, the FTDI USB chipsets and the Maxwell RS232 chipsets I have consume about the same amount of PCB space, and are about equally as complex to wire and use... Personally I'll take the USB version every time.
Sure. But the warning on the bottle is to prevent explosion/conflagration.
I would say this is a definite advantage of a dual-screen ereader. In a book, if I want to look at the page printed behind the one I'm currently working on, I do a lot of flipping. In a two screen ereader, I could see both of these pages side by side, an important feature when taking notes or working math problems, for example.
This would be a significant improvement no books and e-readers in general. Remember a lot of content spans two pages. Maybe I'm better off with twice the resolution screen, perhaps? It's arguable.
Back then, States weren't forced to suck at the Federal teat to get the money their Citizenry paid in taxes.
Hence why your plan will never come to fruition.
I have anecdotal/objective evidence: I used an iPhone on a trial for a month, side-by-each with my Palm Treo on Verizon.
When I got service, the iPhone was blazingly fast fast fast. But go outside metro-Boston and I couldn't load Slashdot on it, or any of a number of smaller sites. AT&T was prioritizing traffic to bigger sites like Google, Youtube, Microsoft, Facebook, etc. Verizon would load it up just fine (maybe a mobile version, maybe not, depending on my mood), along with all of the bigger sites.
Just outside Nashua, NH (not the boonies by any stretch) - I couldn't get any AT&T 3G service, yet my Verizon was still humming away.
I did the best test anyone can do - I used multiple services side by side (I did a similar comparison with Sprint in June of 2009 when the Palm Pre came out). Call quality/dropped calls was about on par with Verizon, but the 3G coverage was WOEFULLY unbalanced to AT&T's detriment - in my particular area.
It's why I'm hating life right now with my MotoDroid(Doesn't), and not enjoying life with an iPhone - for the Northeast, Verizon is still King if you value availability over blazing speed.
WAAA WAAAA WAAAAAAAH
Stop bitching, and buy something else.
For what it's worth, as a guy who spends more time creating TBs of content (photos) than managing computers, I'm not moving to btrfs until RedHat is shipping it as the default filesystem for RHEL for at least a year.
I build one NAS every 4 or 5 years, and I just built an OpenSolaris EON-based ZFS NAS (nfs, smb, iscsi).
You are seriously missing out on Solaris, then. ZFS is the bomb, zones are so much better than anything Linux has to day (including OpenVZ).
Plus it supports all the applications Linux does. Whoohoo!
Ext3 on LVM2
Seriously, that's all you need. Why overcomplicate things?
btrfs will have this in a few years... when it's reliable.
ZFS has it now if you choose to run OpenSolaris or FreeBSD.
I'm going to digress - Windows is not an inferior product. It had it's moments in the whole "user as admin" miasma. But were Microsoft to add support for some Posix compliance - basically get bash to run without cygwin, I'd drop Linux in a heartbeat.
Microsoft doesn't WANT to be open, and for that, I *choose* to hate them. Windows is not inferior. It's just not open (and by open I don't mean open source, I mean open standards).
The vast majority of companies to ever reach a billion dollars have done so either through acquisition or merger. I personally can't recall a single firm that did so through organic self-growth.
To rebut your "thank IBM" comment, and I quote from your own source:
(note: I'm grey on whether the "/" character came from IBM or from Microsoft - several of the original MS-DOS developers were old-hand DEC-20 developers, so it's possible that they carried it forward from their DEC background).
Tim and Z and friends chose "\" because most of the other unshifted characters already had meaning to command.com.
~~~~
So yes, thank you IBM for not letting Microsoft give us "%" as a path separator, but damn you both for the whole C:\,B:\,A:\ miasma
Yea, and DHMO has been reacting with the chemical dispersants to cause the giant deepwater oil plumes spreading throughout the Gulf.
Won't someone think of the fishes!!
Except the best projectors in the world are barely approaching my 46" TV in terms of pixel density, luminosity and clarity at 5 times the price. Yeah, you can get a 120 inch display pretty cheap, but it looks like crap.
You have an excellent point about the bezels, though.
Don't get me started. I'm getting a brand new Core i7 with 8GB of RAM to replace my T2300 with 3GB of RAM... It's probably going to slow me down another 10%, I bet.
Except four of us could run an iLO-based server distro over a WAN for an entire district of 50 schools from one room. Make the average hardware replacement call every day per 100 PCs, and you're still not even taxing my resources (except perhaps driving time). Even better if your school stocks spares in case of failure - you can batch your repair events per site.
Intel are assholes for that.
I can't do really interesting KVM based framebuffer stuff on my T2300 Core2Duo. I have 64bit support, but what I really need is true virtualization, so I can run Windows and Linux side-by-each and give them both direct access to the linux framebuffer.
Grrrrr. I hate AMD for not putting VT into any of the 940 chips (giving me one extra generation on my Opterons), and I hate Intel for not making VTx standard across the entire product line. The Celeron D 805 didn't have it, but the 820 did, WTF?