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Yes:-). Look here's why I think that people use windows. It's because the average user is misinformed and has no reason to change that. There's nothing they care about that linux can do that windows can't that makes it worth the switch. They don't use Macs because the industry strongly encourages them not to. There are too many hardware vendors out there who don't have mac to gain a large market share. All I'm saying is that if nobody steps up to the plate and truly gives the masses a reason to switch to their platform they aren't going to no matter how much the technology gurus (who are very small in number) tell them to.
No you're right you'd still need an internet connection but what the change will do is make web apps better able to use native computer resources. You may very well disagree but I feel webpages today fall short in many areas namly design and graphics. The way Longhorn is *supposed* to be setup, will be to treat each webpage as if it were an application. This should allow web developers more freedom to expand their sites.
Sadly you're right, the bloat is terrible in the modern versions of windows. Longhorn might not take years to be accepted if we can do one thing. Find something that you need longhorn to do that lots of people/companies will want. Maybe that should be what microsoft puts it's R&D into.
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Most other platforms do have many features that microsoft takes and uses and vice versa but you can't blame anyone for that. If you don't like the fact microsoft is behind in some areas, don't use their products (I know you proablly don't already) and try to explain to your boss/freinds why using windows might be bad as well. Either that or if you're able help write a better operating system to replace it. If there was a clearly better OS out there then why are people still using windows?
Now I'll admit I'm a happy windows user. I have Knoppix and Ubuntu close by but for the most part I use windows...because it works for me. I does what I want it to do and does it at an acceptable level. I for one am both excited and disappointed about Longhorn here's why:
Longhorn is a big update for Microsoft, they're planning big changes, many of them multimedia. I like the 3D enviroment and Avalon graphics (Though I still want animated program icons:-(...maybe that's just me). I enjoy the concept of steaming video to any window and think that eliminating the difference between web and desktop apps is great. I didn't like what they pulled with WinFS but if it means the final product is better, than I say fine by me.
Some uses........everything you do now but better. If you think webpages are good now, the music you listen to is high quality, and the images that your computer can render are good I beg to differ. Compared to the rate at which it was orginally recorded, the mp3s ect you use are terrible quality. The web will get alot snazzier with better hardware, and we're still awhile away from photorealistic computer-generated images.
As for reaching technological limitations, remember that your brain is nothing but a computer, it's just one with hardware so incredibly far past what we can create it's not funny. We're hitting technological limits but only with the current technologies, that's why we keep inventing new things.
Sure services do. I'm not sure what industry you work in so I'll use a generic computer example. And ISP provides a service. I'm sure you can remember when there were tons of 56k ISPs all in the same market. The profit margin in that industry did get very tiny and many of them went out of business because they didn't have the money to develop technology that would differentiate themselves. Diamonds on the other hand, are controled by a single company, and their profit margin is huge. The difference between good and service is only that one is a tanglable thing that is exchanged.
Same thing, not profitable to feed them so forget about them. Not to sound cold hearted (I do disagree with some policies we have about homeless/downtodden people) but if we gave away too much food, it could also result in lack of people buying food because they would know they could recive it for free.
Farming in America is a perfectly competitive market, meaning that sale prices between firms naturally balance themselves out. To ensure added stability the US has many controls and regulations in place to mantain price levels. For the most part it's not worth it to ship food in from outside the US that can be grown at home and it's also not worth it for us to ship farm products elsewhere because anybody with the money to buy it doesn't need it. That's why millions of pounds of food is destroyed each year by the US when there are people starving across the world. It's not because we don't have to food to feed them, it's because it would cost too much to feed them.
Most services are good based, meaning that they require a good to do their job, from cutting hair to programming this is true. Most other services that don't require goods still use them such as teaching. Technology is constantly improving, thus if service providers need to keep up they'll have to purchase goods. If an economy, or economic subsection, is almost entirely service based (an extreme version of specialization of resources) than they are open to be easily controlled by a cartel from where they recive the goods they need. To avoid this happening (or worse in reaction when it does happen) the economy must react by disverisfing it's efforts to regain a favorable balance.
They do have a valuable point but the reason services will be so big in the future is because right now they haven't truly been explored. Most natural service markets can't exist without a goods market to back them up so in this regard they're worng. There will still be a strong goods market, it just won't be as fast growing as the services market.
Eventually, they will be able to run much much faster. But at the time the current chips aren't made to use this kind of transistor. They'll definitly bump up speed in the long run but I'm wondering if it still won't follow Moore's law.
Well in a way, yes. What you have to understand is that this is a new kind of technology. Just like the first transistor wasn't able to do what we can do today, this one hasn't reached it's full potential yet either. It won't be easy but it's a step in the right direction.
As a matter of fact they did, the whigs were a liberal group in imperial England. You may have heard of them, they broke off and founded this one country called America. They were the liberals of their time as opposed to the torries who were the conservatives in the British system.
Well this is just a guess but I'm sure with some sound programming, voice recording of basic sounds (letters and certain combinations of letters), and a little time and love, in the near future we'd be able to make it sound a lot more like you and alot less like a computer.
The process of speech is one that involves several steps, you must inhale, make your vocal cords viberate, exhale through the viberating vocal cords, and then use your mouth and tounge to shape the air as it's going out to produce a certain sound. Any one of these steps can be done by itself but it won't produce speech. It's the same way you can "mouth" words to a freind who's sitting on the opposite side of a quite room, you are saying the words...just very quitely so that nobody can hear them.
If I read the article correct, he enters in certain keywords and than gives them each a weighted importance. You would have to know what keywords he's using and their weight to make a program to write the essay for you.
The thing is that I don't blog. The things I find about me under google are freind's journals, stats from the sports I played, and some newspaper articals. People who don't know how to turn on a computer could be mentioned several times online by people they know.
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Yes :-). Look here's why I think that people use windows. It's because the average user is misinformed and has no reason to change that. There's nothing they care about that linux can do that windows can't that makes it worth the switch. They don't use Macs because the industry strongly encourages them not to. There are too many hardware vendors out there who don't have mac to gain a large market share. All I'm saying is that if nobody steps up to the plate and truly gives the masses a reason to switch to their platform they aren't going to no matter how much the technology gurus (who are very small in number) tell them to.
No you're right you'd still need an internet connection but what the change will do is make web apps better able to use native computer resources. You may very well disagree but I feel webpages today fall short in many areas namly design and graphics. The way Longhorn is *supposed* to be setup, will be to treat each webpage as if it were an application. This should allow web developers more freedom to expand their sites.
Sadly you're right, the bloat is terrible in the modern versions of windows. Longhorn might not take years to be accepted if we can do one thing. Find something that you need longhorn to do that lots of people/companies will want. Maybe that should be what microsoft puts it's R&D into.
Most other platforms do have many features that microsoft takes and uses and vice versa but you can't blame anyone for that. If you don't like the fact microsoft is behind in some areas, don't use their products (I know you proablly don't already) and try to explain to your boss/freinds why using windows might be bad as well. Either that or if you're able help write a better operating system to replace it. If there was a clearly better OS out there then why are people still using windows?
Now I'll admit I'm a happy windows user. I have Knoppix and Ubuntu close by but for the most part I use windows...because it works for me. I does what I want it to do and does it at an acceptable level. I for one am both excited and disappointed about Longhorn here's why:
:-( ...maybe that's just me). I enjoy the concept of steaming video to any window and think that eliminating the difference between web and desktop apps is great. I didn't like what they pulled with WinFS but if it means the final product is better, than I say fine by me.
Longhorn is a big update for Microsoft, they're planning big changes, many of them multimedia. I like the 3D enviroment and Avalon graphics (Though I still want animated program icons
"28k Ought to be enough for anybody", Bill Gates.
Some uses........everything you do now but better. If you think webpages are good now, the music you listen to is high quality, and the images that your computer can render are good I beg to differ. Compared to the rate at which it was orginally recorded, the mp3s ect you use are terrible quality. The web will get alot snazzier with better hardware, and we're still awhile away from photorealistic computer-generated images.
As for reaching technological limitations, remember that your brain is nothing but a computer, it's just one with hardware so incredibly far past what we can create it's not funny. We're hitting technological limits but only with the current technologies, that's why we keep inventing new things.
Sure services do. I'm not sure what industry you work in so I'll use a generic computer example. And ISP provides a service. I'm sure you can remember when there were tons of 56k ISPs all in the same market. The profit margin in that industry did get very tiny and many of them went out of business because they didn't have the money to develop technology that would differentiate themselves. Diamonds on the other hand, are controled by a single company, and their profit margin is huge. The difference between good and service is only that one is a tanglable thing that is exchanged.
Same thing, not profitable to feed them so forget about them. Not to sound cold hearted (I do disagree with some policies we have about homeless/downtodden people) but if we gave away too much food, it could also result in lack of people buying food because they would know they could recive it for free.
From my econ textbook: "Service- An activity that results in a benifit to the buyer but does not result in a material good being exchanged."
Yes a call center would provide a service. So would education, entertainment, construction/repair, and certain IT/Programming jobs.
Farming in America is a perfectly competitive market, meaning that sale prices between firms naturally balance themselves out. To ensure added stability the US has many controls and regulations in place to mantain price levels. For the most part it's not worth it to ship food in from outside the US that can be grown at home and it's also not worth it for us to ship farm products elsewhere because anybody with the money to buy it doesn't need it. That's why millions of pounds of food is destroyed each year by the US when there are people starving across the world. It's not because we don't have to food to feed them, it's because it would cost too much to feed them.
Most services are good based, meaning that they require a good to do their job, from cutting hair to programming this is true. Most other services that don't require goods still use them such as teaching. Technology is constantly improving, thus if service providers need to keep up they'll have to purchase goods. If an economy, or economic subsection, is almost entirely service based (an extreme version of specialization of resources) than they are open to be easily controlled by a cartel from where they recive the goods they need. To avoid this happening (or worse in reaction when it does happen) the economy must react by disverisfing it's efforts to regain a favorable balance.
They do have a valuable point but the reason services will be so big in the future is because right now they haven't truly been explored. Most natural service markets can't exist without a goods market to back them up so in this regard they're worng. There will still be a strong goods market, it just won't be as fast growing as the services market.
Well when you think about it aren't those the exact places you'd expect to be hotspots?
You can us vlc, http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
No. By the way: http://www.queenofwands.net/d/20020925.html, just thought you could relate.
Eventually, they will be able to run much much faster. But at the time the current chips aren't made to use this kind of transistor. They'll definitly bump up speed in the long run but I'm wondering if it still won't follow Moore's law.
Well in a way, yes. What you have to understand is that this is a new kind of technology. Just like the first transistor wasn't able to do what we can do today, this one hasn't reached it's full potential yet either. It won't be easy but it's a step in the right direction.
But do to things he inherited and his name he was able to gain fame and many advantages that normal people simply wouldn't have.
As a matter of fact they did, the whigs were a liberal group in imperial England. You may have heard of them, they broke off and founded this one country called America. They were the liberals of their time as opposed to the torries who were the conservatives in the British system.
Name one president in the last fifty years who wasn't rich before they got elected
Well this is just a guess but I'm sure with some sound programming, voice recording of basic sounds (letters and certain combinations of letters), and a little time and love, in the near future we'd be able to make it sound a lot more like you and alot less like a computer.
The process of speech is one that involves several steps, you must inhale, make your vocal cords viberate, exhale through the viberating vocal cords, and then use your mouth and tounge to shape the air as it's going out to produce a certain sound. Any one of these steps can be done by itself but it won't produce speech. It's the same way you can "mouth" words to a freind who's sitting on the opposite side of a quite room, you are saying the words...just very quitely so that nobody can hear them.
If I read the article correct, he enters in certain keywords and than gives them each a weighted importance. You would have to know what keywords he's using and their weight to make a program to write the essay for you.
What makes you think that your teachers read the papers to began with. At least smaller papers, I know that all they do is skim for keywords.
The thing is that I don't blog. The things I find about me under google are freind's journals, stats from the sports I played, and some newspaper articals. People who don't know how to turn on a computer could be mentioned several times online by people they know.