I don't know if things are still that way in the US, but they aren't in the UK.
Our monopolistic provider of past, BT, used to work this way with it owning the telephone lines and the exchanges. After many years of waiting, Oftel (our regulator for telecommunications) finally forced BT to undergo 'local loop unbundling' (LLU) and now other companies can install their own equipment in BT's exchanges and share use of the lines.
The result is that now, in the UK, competition is great and prices are falling downwards very fast! What's even better is that now other media companies such as Sky who traditionally provide satellite TV, are starting to launch FREE broadband to their existing customers.
I knew that. I made the mistake of missing "their" before the second instance of XML as I did in the title. I do not know much about Microsoft's format, so that was why I asked the question. Please try to be less patronizing in the future.
You may already use Open Office and I do to, but open formats on their own aren't going to convince my boss to go out of his way to establish it in the work place if it doesn't open in Microsoft's Office by default. Which is why this is good news for those of us who have apathetic bosses and also European governments who may have a long term agenda to get loose of Microsoft's products.
Great!
Now we can see conversions from open document format to XML as well.
I think this is of more interest to governments that individuals - although I'd be using this myself and pushing ODF where I work.
I notice while watching many DVDs here in the UK, the movie companies have a clip before the feature that tries to give a clear message that piracy IS "stealing". This infuriates me because they are playing on the weak minded who will end up believing it.
So... Alter the XP kernel, rewrite the driver model and have every vendor release new certified drivers? I think this would confuse both developers and consumers.
Actually, MP3's isn't correct for possession usage, but MP3s' is.
Also, it's generally acceptable to add an 's if the abbreviation is written like U.F.O.'s
All I care about is performance per dollar, and performance per watt.
Performance per dollar King - AMD
Performance per watt King - Intel
Personally, since I've got enough money, it's a considerably better investment to buy a laptop that does better on performance per watt. I can't wait until the new Intel chips, but then I do hope that AMD catches up and offers some better competition. Ordinary people are doing away with desktops and replacing them with laptops. Surely battery life is an important consideration, not just cost.
I'm usually on the other end trying to balance things when it comes to fanboy comments on here. I just like to make things clear that I'm not a Google fanboy:-)
Whenever a Google topic comes up there seems to be a runnaway positive feedback loop of fanboy comments and quite frankly I'm getting tired of the stereotype.
I'm not into fanboyism but this is very very impressive.
I took a look at the demos. The Desktop App Clone is particularly very impressive and it shows you what can be achieved with this stuff!
I've never liked web development for the compatibility nightmare and plus the fact that it's a very messy business. Java with it's object oriented goodness will allow feature full applications to be developed extremely quickly!
If Viiv becomes successful, then it's only encouraging vendor support for DRM. Then it's only a matter of time before it's enforced by trusted computing.
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More to the point, why are the carriers only American?
Where's the British ones?
My guess is that there is going to be a performance slider in the options. Let you scale up the range at the cost of power, much the same way that you can scale the brighness of the screen.
But that would present an incompatibility between communicating devices. It's much simpler in terms of design to keep the speed the same. Also, even if you could change the power levels, it wouldn't be part of the standard, just some optional extra.
The biggest cost, as the parent poster has pointed out is the real world usage of transferring audio/video via small devices. But I don't see how any new bluetooth standard is going to increase this. Let's face it, people want more and more from their mobile phones these days and battery technology will simply have to improve
the point of bluetooth is to be LOW POWER so it can be REALLY SMALL and you can't have video capable bandwidth in a micropowered device.
If you RTFA, you'd have noticed that they are trying to keep the same power requirements by making efficiencies in the design. But you do make a valid point - how much power could they save without this high bandwidth?
This is a shame, but oh well, these things happen.
I use suspend2 every day. It works fantastically well for me so congratulations on that. Your hard work has been _very_ much appreciated. I was hoping it would someday make it's way into the mainline kernel to replace the awful existing implementation. Perhaps the project is in need a new lead maintainer?
Lets hope this is still the beginning for suspend2!
Your right, but your missing something.
In the context of a multi-tasking operating system, applications are constantly switching in and out of the processor. If you had 4 cores, you can be running 4 applications simultaneously. Of course, if your running only one intensive single threaded application, then your unlikely to see the difference.
Also, I believe that multi-threaded applications will come of age as developers realize there is a greater CPU resource available if they can divide the work load up. Gaming for example is one area where this will be extremely important, but there are certain areas such as tight AI algorithms where dividing work will be difficult.
I've tried all three services and at the moment I keep going back to Yahoo LAUNCHcast.
For those who's tried Yahoo's service this may seem odd since it only works in Internet Explorer as it's ActiveX based and it contains annoying adverts for most people, but at least it's still community driven as Last.FM is
The reason why I stick with launch is because all the music is normalized to ONE level. I don't understand why the other services haven't done this. It's so annoying to constantly change the volume up and down.
Firefox extensions are good for testing the waters and you can be sure that if it's worth the extra resources, there would be a strong argument to migrate good ones to the main code base.
Look at IE who haven't tried anything new for years and now they're playing catch up. In this way they'll always be behind the likes of Firefox which is community driven.
Holly: Look, we're travelling faster than the speed of light. That means, by the time we see something, we've already passed through it. Even with an IQ of 6000, it's still brown trousers time.
No its incorrect. the AMD mobile CPUs still outperform pentium M and their offspring currently the core duo and core solo chips. So the AMD ones are still out in front.
Firstly, not such an insightful article as it's obviously biased. Sure it helps us learn more about AMD who rightfully deserve more of a market share than they have, but at the same time it also plays to the ears of the parent poster to make unsubstantiated comments like this and be modded +5 for it!
Sure the AMD desktop and server CPU's are better than Intel's offerings in this space, but if you take a look at the Pentium M and the new Core benchmarks, you'll see that they outperform anything else in the mobile market at the moment!
They only held of 64-bit extensions for Core because of power concerns. The Core processors already have virtualization technology and 64-bit will be coming with the new Merom technology later in the year.
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I don't know if things are still that way in the US, but they aren't in the UK.
Our monopolistic provider of past, BT, used to work this way with it owning the telephone lines and the exchanges. After many years of waiting, Oftel (our regulator for telecommunications) finally forced BT to undergo 'local loop unbundling' (LLU) and now other companies can install their own equipment in BT's exchanges and share use of the lines.
The result is that now, in the UK, competition is great and prices are falling downwards very fast! What's even better is that now other media companies such as Sky who traditionally provide satellite TV, are starting to launch FREE broadband to their existing customers.
You may already use Open Office and I do to, but open formats on their own aren't going to convince my boss to go out of his way to establish it in the work place if it doesn't open in Microsoft's Office by default. Which is why this is good news for those of us who have apathetic bosses and also European governments who may have a long term agenda to get loose of Microsoft's products.
Great! Now we can see conversions from open document format to XML as well. I think this is of more interest to governments that individuals - although I'd be using this myself and pushing ODF where I work.
I notice while watching many DVDs here in the UK, the movie companies have a clip before the feature that tries to give a clear message that piracy IS "stealing". This infuriates me because they are playing on the weak minded who will end up believing it.
I know Linux is a preemptive kernel, but does this mean it can schedule itself on multiple processors? Also is Windows XP and Vista preemptive?
So... Alter the XP kernel, rewrite the driver model and have every vendor release new certified drivers? I think this would confuse both developers and consumers.
Overclocking is no longer cool. Getting the quietest, coolest and best PPW is the next big thing and AMD are waaaay behind
This is according to this discussion at Google Answers
Performance per dollar King - AMD
Performance per watt King - Intel
Personally, since I've got enough money, it's a considerably better investment to buy a laptop that does better on performance per watt. I can't wait until the new Intel chips, but then I do hope that AMD catches up and offers some better competition. Ordinary people are doing away with desktops and replacing them with laptops. Surely battery life is an important consideration, not just cost.
If you RTFA it says that another patent for the single-click method was given 18 months earlier.
This can only mean that if Amazon has to give this up, it enable someone else to sue instead.
Whenever a Google topic comes up there seems to be a runnaway positive feedback loop of fanboy comments and quite frankly I'm getting tired of the stereotype.
I'm not into fanboyism but this is very very impressive. I took a look at the demos. The Desktop App Clone is particularly very impressive and it shows you what can be achieved with this stuff! I've never liked web development for the compatibility nightmare and plus the fact that it's a very messy business. Java with it's object oriented goodness will allow feature full applications to be developed extremely quickly!
Would you make the same argument if they called it Nintendo Poo?
No, it was the Flying Spaghetti Monstor, silly!
If Viiv becomes successful, then it's only encouraging vendor support for DRM. Then it's only a matter of time before it's enforced by trusted computing.
More to the point, why are the carriers only American? Where's the British ones?
But that would present an incompatibility between communicating devices. It's much simpler in terms of design to keep the speed the same. Also, even if you could change the power levels, it wouldn't be part of the standard, just some optional extra.
The biggest cost, as the parent poster has pointed out is the real world usage of transferring audio/video via small devices. But I don't see how any new bluetooth standard is going to increase this. Let's face it, people want more and more from their mobile phones these days and battery technology will simply have to improve
If you RTFA, you'd have noticed that they are trying to keep the same power requirements by making efficiencies in the design. But you do make a valid point - how much power could they save without this high bandwidth?
I use suspend2 every day. It works fantastically well for me so congratulations on that. Your hard work has been _very_ much appreciated. I was hoping it would someday make it's way into the mainline kernel to replace the awful existing implementation. Perhaps the project is in need a new lead maintainer?
Lets hope this is still the beginning for suspend2!
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Also, I believe that multi-threaded applications will come of age as developers realize there is a greater CPU resource available if they can divide the work load up. Gaming for example is one area where this will be extremely important, but there are certain areas such as tight AI algorithms where dividing work will be difficult.
For those who's tried Yahoo's service this may seem odd since it only works in Internet Explorer as it's ActiveX based and it contains annoying adverts for most people, but at least it's still community driven as Last.FM is
The reason why I stick with launch is because all the music is normalized to ONE level. I don't understand why the other services haven't done this. It's so annoying to constantly change the volume up and down.
Look at IE who haven't tried anything new for years and now they're playing catch up. In this way they'll always be behind the likes of Firefox which is community driven.
Holly: Look, we're travelling faster than the speed of light. That means, by the time we see something, we've already passed through it. Even with an IQ of 6000, it's still brown trousers time.
Firstly, not such an insightful article as it's obviously biased. Sure it helps us learn more about AMD who rightfully deserve more of a market share than they have, but at the same time it also plays to the ears of the parent poster to make unsubstantiated comments like this and be modded +5 for it! Sure the AMD desktop and server CPU's are better than Intel's offerings in this space, but if you take a look at the Pentium M and the new Core benchmarks, you'll see that they outperform anything else in the mobile market at the moment!
They only held of 64-bit extensions for Core because of power concerns. The Core processors already have virtualization technology and 64-bit will be coming with the new Merom technology later in the year.