If Microsoft ever really opened up their formats, I would expect their new EULA to read that any computer that stores Microsoft-formatted files becomes the exclusive property of Microsoft, including all other data that resides on that computer. Microsoft would reserve the right to send someone to take your computer without warning, without your permission, and certainly without paying you money for it. They could probably do that, too--just make it a click through "contract" like they do with everything else.
Undergraduates from Ivy league schools are no more qualified than people from any other school. All types of schools have their good and bad students. Private schools just have fewer regular duds and more cream-fed sloshes. Also, it is not uncommon for state schools to rival and beat private schools, especially in engineering or CS.
1) A simple human- and machine-readable schema is defined for marking up descriptions of items for sale or wanted.
How does a typical shop keeper learn to do this and apply it to their wizard-made web page?
The second point about Google is fairly ripe for abuse. Meta tags in HTML were mostly rendered useless by porn sites, for example. Also, sites like eBay tend to concentrate useful information in useful ways, while feeding keywords to Google can often be frustrating for anything remotely generic.
We have that choice now: IRAs. Earlier this week, there was a guy on The News Hour who made a good point: that the SS system basically pays out what it takes in, and if people divert funds to PSAs, the government will have to raise taxes to fund the gap. So, invest in an IRA, or pay higher taxes for your right to a PSA--status quo reigns supreme.
If you put all your source code into the compiler at once, what about memory usage? Sometimes, I've seen g++, for example, go crazy on an otherwise normal source file. I really don't know enough to know why.
My biggest gripe about the personal savings accounts is that people who know nothing about the stock market will feel pressured to participate. Small investors pretty much suck at stocks, this is just a general fact. The reason: analysts and institutional investors rule the earth crushing small investors under their little toes. So, the only way for people to use their PSAs effectively is to pay a professional manager to do it for them eating up a huge portion of the benefits of private investing. Mutual funds aren't always the answer, because most are just as risky as buying stocks and bonds directly and choosing good funds is nearly as hard as choosing good stocks.
The only reason Social Security works is that it is a revolving door system: current tax income pays current benefits. Being a "safety net" mechanism, I really don't care about a rate of return other than will there be some benefits available if I break my legs and can't work.
For people who think they want PSAs, well, that is what IRAs are for. Go talk to a reputable brokerage firms about IRAs (bank IRAs tend to suck). But you are assuming that risk (BTW, would PSAs have any risk protection--probably not.).
The whole SS reform coming out of Bush's mouth is nothing other than expert political maneuvering. Exactly the same kind of baseless maneuvering that won him the election.
They are just about the only way to centrally organize declarations for data structures and function signatures. Doing so will save your ass eventually, because having function prototypes available can allow the compiler and lint tools catch stupid programmer errors. You do use lint-like tools, right? They _will_ catch bugs that testers and visual scanning wont.
The only draw back to headers in C is that if you forget to 'make clean' after changing a header, you can end up with object files using old definitions. Just make a habit of doing a full build after changing the headers. If you designed your software properly, changing header files won't be all that common (adding functions new data structures, etc.).
I get really tired of that "quote". The jump to 32-bits was much more immediately tangible than the jump to 64-bits. 64-bit CPUs have been around since the early 1990s (the G5 "first 64-bit desktop" is forgivable but annoying). Mainly only the largest scientific and engineering problems fell into the domain of really and truly needing 64-bit addressing. Even today that is still true but only slightly less, especially since practically no PCs ship with 2GB RAM or more. Right now the only software that the typical home PC might run that could benefit from 64-bits is video editing. After that might be photo editing or a game or two, but the ramp up for apps that need 64-bits is going to be pretty slow. Maybe in another decade or two can we say that 64-bits is a base requirement for new PCs.
What happens when MS caves in entirely? They'll do exactly what Apple is doing...
I don't know. They have been so persistent about thwarting standards and slowly sucking people in to lock-in, that for them to change might be too much to ask.
Microsoft is like those gadget vendors at flea markets--all pizazz but no substance. You buy the super-duper knife sharpener, you take it home, and it ends up that your knife sharpens the sharpener, you throw it away, next week you fall for the super-duper-moose-juicer, take it home, realize there are no moose for 1000 miles, throw it away, go back fall for the lil-tykes baseball handy-mortar, you injure some guy a mile away, ad nauseum. For some reason Microsoft keeps people coming back. It really is truly amazing.
Well, then make freaking OS that doesn't let "3rd party" apps run it into the ground.
Does Windows have a good scheduler? In Solaris, I can have an app or several apps sucking all the CPU it can, but the desktop remains pretty snappy. For the most part, that is, because I think Macromedia figured out a way to use 101% of the CPU for Flash.
You are all wrong. The one true god is a small stone I found in my back yard. It's name is not prouncible in your measily human language, but it sends it's regards.
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If Microsoft ever really opened up their formats, I would expect their new EULA to read that any computer that stores Microsoft-formatted files becomes the exclusive property of Microsoft, including all other data that resides on that computer. Microsoft would reserve the right to send someone to take your computer without warning, without your permission, and certainly without paying you money for it. They could probably do that, too--just make it a click through "contract" like they do with everything else.
Has maintaining another operating system been worth the savings on smart quotes?
Undergraduates from Ivy league schools are no more qualified than people from any other school. All types of schools have their good and bad students. Private schools just have fewer regular duds and more cream-fed sloshes. Also, it is not uncommon for state schools to rival and beat private schools, especially in engineering or CS.
1) A simple human- and machine-readable schema is defined for marking up descriptions of items for sale or wanted.
How does a typical shop keeper learn to do this and apply it to their wizard-made web page?
The second point about Google is fairly ripe for abuse. Meta tags in HTML were mostly rendered useless by porn sites, for example. Also, sites like eBay tend to concentrate useful information in useful ways, while feeding keywords to Google can often be frustrating for anything remotely generic.
Personally, I like MORE choice.
We have that choice now: IRAs. Earlier this week, there was a guy on The News Hour who made a good point: that the SS system basically pays out what it takes in, and if people divert funds to PSAs, the government will have to raise taxes to fund the gap. So, invest in an IRA, or pay higher taxes for your right to a PSA--status quo reigns supreme.
If you put all your source code into the compiler at once, what about memory usage? Sometimes, I've seen g++, for example, go crazy on an otherwise normal source file. I really don't know enough to know why.
Doing a "make clean" should not be necessary, if you have constructed your Makefile properly.
Agreed, but makefiles often are lazily maintained.
Nanobot: the pet penis name of the 21st century.
My biggest gripe about the personal savings accounts is that people who know nothing about the stock market will feel pressured to participate. Small investors pretty much suck at stocks, this is just a general fact. The reason: analysts and institutional investors rule the earth crushing small investors under their little toes. So, the only way for people to use their PSAs effectively is to pay a professional manager to do it for them eating up a huge portion of the benefits of private investing. Mutual funds aren't always the answer, because most are just as risky as buying stocks and bonds directly and choosing good funds is nearly as hard as choosing good stocks.
The only reason Social Security works is that it is a revolving door system: current tax income pays current benefits. Being a "safety net" mechanism, I really don't care about a rate of return other than will there be some benefits available if I break my legs and can't work.
For people who think they want PSAs, well, that is what IRAs are for. Go talk to a reputable brokerage firms about IRAs (bank IRAs tend to suck). But you are assuming that risk (BTW, would PSAs have any risk protection--probably not.).
The whole SS reform coming out of Bush's mouth is nothing other than expert political maneuvering. Exactly the same kind of baseless maneuvering that won him the election.
They are just about the only way to centrally organize declarations for data structures and function signatures. Doing so will save your ass eventually, because having function prototypes available can allow the compiler and lint tools catch stupid programmer errors. You do use lint-like tools, right? They _will_ catch bugs that testers and visual scanning wont.
The only draw back to headers in C is that if you forget to 'make clean' after changing a header, you can end up with object files using old definitions. Just make a habit of doing a full build after changing the headers. If you designed your software properly, changing header files won't be all that common (adding functions new data structures, etc.).
I get really tired of that "quote". The jump to 32-bits was much more immediately tangible than the jump to 64-bits. 64-bit CPUs have been around since the early 1990s (the G5 "first 64-bit desktop" is forgivable but annoying). Mainly only the largest scientific and engineering problems fell into the domain of really and truly needing 64-bit addressing. Even today that is still true but only slightly less, especially since practically no PCs ship with 2GB RAM or more. Right now the only software that the typical home PC might run that could benefit from 64-bits is video editing. After that might be photo editing or a game or two, but the ramp up for apps that need 64-bits is going to be pretty slow. Maybe in another decade or two can we say that 64-bits is a base requirement for new PCs.
Perhaps revising the GPL accordingly would help promote OSS/Free software in embedded systems.
That would make it into the BSD license.
What happens when MS caves in entirely? They'll do exactly what Apple is doing...
I don't know. They have been so persistent about thwarting standards and slowly sucking people in to lock-in, that for them to change might be too much to ask.
Except for Microsoft, it seems that *EVERYONE* is using unix-like operating systems.
The world is choosing open standards, and Microsoft is digging itself into a hole.
Bill Gates is a corporate communist. Microsoft wants to own your computer, your data, and your lifestyle.
Microsoft is like those gadget vendors at flea markets--all pizazz but no substance. You buy the super-duper knife sharpener, you take it home, and it ends up that your knife sharpens the sharpener, you throw it away, next week you fall for the super-duper-moose-juicer, take it home, realize there are no moose for 1000 miles, throw it away, go back fall for the lil-tykes baseball handy-mortar, you injure some guy a mile away, ad nauseum. For some reason Microsoft keeps people coming back. It really is truly amazing.
"...maybe bundle Longhorn with video-cards and extra ram."
And a 20-amp breaker and some romex to hard-wire power to the GPU.
Why doesn't Microsoft invest this effort in security?
Because good is dumb.
Well, then make freaking OS that doesn't let "3rd party" apps run it into the ground.
Does Windows have a good scheduler? In Solaris, I can have an app or several apps sucking all the CPU it can, but the desktop remains pretty snappy. For the most part, that is, because I think Macromedia figured out a way to use 101% of the CPU for Flash.
So is Longhorn going to have any new useful features or just sit there and look pretty?
You are all wrong. The one true god is a small stone I found in my back yard. It's name is not prouncible in your measily human language, but it sends it's regards.
How about Tron Re-marketed?
One word: Fastpass.
Fast passes for rich fat asses.
there does seem to be a lot of re-hashing of old ideas
But with creepier actors and bigger explosions.
None. The GP post completely missed the whole point of this thread: bashing Disney.