Unfortunately Wal-Mart have made a huge oversight, and they're gonna have quite a few disgruntled customers because of it. I mean, they forgot the "not good for pr0n" disclaimer!!!
He determined that software was a market where innovations tended to be sequential, in that they were built closely on the work of predecessors, and innovators could take many different paths to the same goal. In such markets, he said, patents might serve as a wall that inhibited innovation rather than stimulating progress.
...That still leaves the opposition with plenty of wiggle room; they don't exactly sound like the words for an open-and-shut case...
...when I am looking at the latest Microsoft ad on this very story page, stating how "[some east-coast state] government recently decided that Windows Server 2003 was the right choice for them as moving to linux was deemed too risky for their mission critical operations".
...with maglevs (well the current transrapids at least) is that, like all high-speed transport, they are only efficient as hub-to-hub sprinters, as they are relatively slow starters (see here). As the low friction nature of levitation is the reason for their slow launches, I would propose some electrically driven wheels on the undercarriage making contact with the flat concrete track would be able to launch them to top speed (~400km/h or 249m/h) in an unprecedented time
Undercarriage wheels where actually used on some early prototypes to prop them up at rest. They may even be on the current generation IIRC.
If this was done then I think that maglev could be a transport revolution as the first high-speed urban AND interurban transport solution. It truly would be revolution!
So what are the chances that this refocusing will means that the friendly people at Microsoft kindly force down peoples throats "security updates" or "new features" that are the hallmark of Vista's 'digital-content protection comes before basic OS functionality' program to either:
A: subtly cripple XP in the name of security to make Vista less unappealing; or
B: Bring XP 'up-to-date' with Vista's most important 'features' so they can get their new DRM platform either way?
premises:Linux development will speed up as the userbase grows.
I think the greatest return on effort would be to focus on ease-of-use, lowering the jargon barrier, explain the FLOSS philosophy, including its advantages AND disadvantages WITHOUT sounding like a Nigerian 419 scam.
controverisal pro-piracy website the piratebay likes to portray itself as an innocent hobby site that provides a free index without censorship, but recent facts show that the site is earning up to 20,000 Euros per day from its advertising. Taking in money on this scale puts a different slant on the motives behind the Swedish filesharing site, and could open up the runners of the site to prosecution for profiting from copyright infringement.
I wonder if that's true? The "from its advertising" part makes it sound like a load of bs fud.
...this plan is largely a catch-up response to the the opposition Labor Party who announced a similar plan a few weeks ago. IMO, the oppositions plan is superior because it doesn't rely on half of the funding to come from the private sector who would surely (and currently do) rape customers above and beyond what is a healthy profit and go into price-gouging territory. It is also FTTH (fiber to the home) as opposed to the government who, although are promising the same, are almost certainly lying and will default back to the FTTN (fiber to the node) that they so short-sightedly love.
...Jobs expects to get out of the deal other than a middling, short-term income stream*. Because I think we all know that this is just the opening salvo of his grand plan to take a sizeable chunk of the handset market with an entire iPhone series, and with that in mind, I think that once the novelty of an Apple cellphone wears off (say after the iPhone 2 and/or the 'iphone nano'), the service provider/s will come banging on his door, possibly with an axe to grind, threatening that unless the 'revenue-sharing' stops, their new-found income will cease all together, and Apple will have to just quietly slink back to being 'Apple Computers Inc.'. Now wouldn't *that* be funny.
*I say a "middling, short-term income stream" because I do think that, as great as the iPhone is, it doesn't know its market; it's too big to be a glomour phone yet it doesn't have the features to be a business phone, it's "market-confused", if you will;P
But their just my theories, feal free to counter-theorize.
...It had its highlights (sit on one testicle whilst rubbing the other...) but otherwise it was a bit 'meh'. In my opinion it was past its peak around the time the viewers started to take over the content. Like ants amassing on a small dead forest animal.
...The spell checker, it simply doesn't work...or at least it has never been able to highlight any spelling mistakes, not once. Jusd az wel that mi speling iz topp noch.
I think anyone who actually installed it at all without having to make some compromises to their intended settings is pretty lucky. For example, the partitioner gparted simply refused to recognise the ext3 partition that I planned to freshly install to. So I had to forgo indexing when I had to install to an ext2 partition. Yes, WTF indeed. Then fstab forced me to mount other partitions through the terminal, as I didn't want then to automount my porno... um, windows partitions, something that was as easy as double clicking the partitions icon in 6.06.
1. Outsource to India to reduce costs
2. Indian wages are forced up
3. Outsourcing becomes less advantageous
4. Remaining IT workers accept lower wages because they would rather have their pay cut than be fired
5. The threat of getting outsourced makes wages level with Indian levels
6. Profit!
...lowering wages seems to be the one of the quieter fads in American politics these days.
1. Outsource to India to reduce costs
2. Indian wages are forced up
3. Outsourcing becomes less advantageous
4. Remaining IT workers accept lower wages because they would rather have their pay cut than be fired
5. The threat of getting outsourced makes wages level with Indian levels
6. Profit!...lowering wages seems to be the fad in American politics nowdays anyway.
Hey, I found a fairly slick blog claiming to be completely independantly produced by an 18yr old university student. However, it's clearly a Microsoft site complete with Apple-bashing, a NineMSN commercial, a video titled "Vista speech recognition screencast: It works!", a story titled "MSNBC deceived the public: Vista's speech recognition demo" and MS-critic bashing, with a few lame attempts to throw people of their fairly rank scent.
I thought you could do your part and call MS out on this one by leaving a comment to the effect of "We know this is a Microsoft astroturf advertisment that intentionally aims to mislead readers to beleive messages that benefit the corporation."...Or you could just flame be and tell me how redundant this is.
Hey, I found a fairly slick blog claiming to be completely independantly produced by an 18yr old. However, it's clearly a Microsoft site complete with Apple-bashing, a NineMSN commercial, a story title "MSNBC deceived the public: Vista's speech recognition demo" and MS-critic bashing, with a few lame attempts to throw people of the the fairly rank scent of the Microsoft Corporation.
I thought you could do your part and call MS out on this one by leaving a comment to the effect of "We know this is a Microsoft astroturf advertisment that intentionally aims to mislead readers to beleive messages that benefit the corporations agenda."
...Or you could just flame be and tell me how redundant this is.
I think that this would have been a much relavant product if it was released 10 years ago, when flash memory was much harder to come by. But I would say we're less than one upgrade cycle away from completely solid state drives anyway, the ones that several manufacturers have been showing of over the past year and due very soon. I say don't bother with this concept that is a decade too late and soon to be obselete anyway.
Why Linux sucks #42104: [SHIFT] + ["] ! = "
Yes, but not all computers are just thrown out after six years, and said computers are probably owned by people who wouldn't otherwise be in the marker for a new computer/processor.
The 965 Express chipset family supports Intel Quiet System Technology, which intelligently manages processor and system fan-speeds in relation to core temperature, ensuring the fan(s) are spun just fast enough to keep the processor from throttling.
Sure, it sounds like a feature, but it also sounds like a way for them to engineer their CPUs to go bust prematurely, but not prematurely enough to be in warrenty. Now who would that benifit?...
I not quite comfortable with the way in which Intel/AMD set out their roadmaps to gradually increase the number of cores. It seems a bit fast for me, something done more for generating sales than any substanial performance improvement. By the time any substantial portion of software products are developed from the ground-up to be optimized for dual cores, the number of cores would likely have moved on. It won't be fun to have to upgrade your processor every two years just to get those extra cores that will be woefully underused by what would most likely be a market full of un-optimized software. Load balancing would really only be the way software makers would bother to optimize their code for anythimg more than 4 cores. My understanding is that load-balancing threads or whatever on cpus is not an exact science, and can quickly kill performance when not done right. Can it be justified to 'upgrade' to a newer more-cores processor every two years if you don't see a corresponding increase in UT2009/2012 framerates, or better perfmance in MS Excel...?
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Unfortunately Wal-Mart have made a huge oversight, and they're gonna have quite a few disgruntled customers because of it. I mean, they forgot the "not good for pr0n" disclaimer!!!
...although I think my next game system will be a Mini Polystation 3. Thanks Dr Ashen!!!
...That still leaves the opposition with plenty of wiggle room; they don't exactly sound like the words for an open-and-shut case...
...when I am looking at the latest Microsoft ad on this very story page, stating how "[some east-coast state] government recently decided that Windows Server 2003 was the right choice for them as moving to linux was deemed too risky for their mission critical operations".
...with maglevs (well the current transrapids at least) is that, like all high-speed transport, they are only efficient as hub-to-hub sprinters, as they are relatively slow starters (see here). As the low friction nature of levitation is the reason for their slow launches, I would propose some electrically driven wheels on the undercarriage making contact with the flat concrete track would be able to launch them to top speed (~400km/h or 249m/h) in an unprecedented time
Undercarriage wheels where actually used on some early prototypes to prop them up at rest. They may even be on the current generation IIRC.
If this was done then I think that maglev could be a transport revolution as the first high-speed urban AND interurban transport solution. It truly would be revolution!
And yet the simplest and most effective quality control, requiring registration, is still considered sacrilege to the Wikipedia overlords...
So what are the chances that this refocusing will means that the friendly people at Microsoft kindly force down peoples throats "security updates" or "new features" that are the hallmark of Vista's 'digital-content protection comes before basic OS functionality' program to either:
A: subtly cripple XP in the name of security to make Vista less unappealing; or
B: Bring XP 'up-to-date' with Vista's most important 'features' so they can get their new DRM platform either way?
premises:Linux development will speed up as the userbase grows. I think the greatest return on effort would be to focus on ease-of-use, lowering the jargon barrier, explain the FLOSS philosophy, including its advantages AND disadvantages WITHOUT sounding like a Nigerian 419 scam.
...on incremental or differential system backups? It would seem to have no relavance to them, but one must be cautious with such things.
...that trend has un/fortunately reversed in all first-world countries.
I wonder if that's true? The "from its advertising" part makes it sound like a load of bs fud.
...this plan is largely a catch-up response to the the opposition Labor Party who announced a similar plan a few weeks ago. IMO, the oppositions plan is superior because it doesn't rely on half of the funding to come from the private sector who would surely (and currently do) rape customers above and beyond what is a healthy profit and go into price-gouging territory. It is also FTTH (fiber to the home) as opposed to the government who, although are promising the same, are almost certainly lying and will default back to the FTTN (fiber to the node) that they so short-sightedly love.
...Jobs expects to get out of the deal other than a middling, short-term income stream*. Because I think we all know that this is just the opening salvo of his grand plan to take a sizeable chunk of the handset market with an entire iPhone series, and with that in mind, I think that once the novelty of an Apple cellphone wears off (say after the iPhone 2 and/or the 'iphone nano'), the service provider/s will come banging on his door, possibly with an axe to grind, threatening that unless the 'revenue-sharing' stops, their new-found income will cease all together, and Apple will have to just quietly slink back to being 'Apple Computers Inc.'. Now wouldn't *that* be funny.
;P
*I say a "middling, short-term income stream" because I do think that, as great as the iPhone is, it doesn't know its market; it's too big to be a glomour phone yet it doesn't have the features to be a business phone, it's "market-confused", if you will
But their just my theories, feal free to counter-theorize.
...It had its highlights (sit on one testicle whilst rubbing the other...) but otherwise it was a bit 'meh'. In my opinion it was past its peak around the time the viewers started to take over the content. Like ants amassing on a small dead forest animal.
...The spell checker, it simply doesn't work...or at least it has never been able to highlight any spelling mistakes, not once. Jusd az wel that mi speling iz topp noch.
I think anyone who actually installed it at all without having to make some compromises to their intended settings is pretty lucky. For example, the partitioner gparted simply refused to recognise the ext3 partition that I planned to freshly install to. So I had to forgo indexing when I had to install to an ext2 partition. Yes, WTF indeed. Then fstab forced me to mount other partitions through the terminal, as I didn't want then to automount my porno... um, windows partitions, something that was as easy as double clicking the partitions icon in 6.06.
1. Outsource to India to reduce costs
...lowering wages seems to be the one of the quieter fads in American politics these days.
2. Indian wages are forced up
3. Outsourcing becomes less advantageous
4. Remaining IT workers accept lower wages because they would rather have their pay cut than be fired
5. The threat of getting outsourced makes wages level with Indian levels
6. Profit!
1. Outsource to India to reduce costs 2. Indian wages are forced up 3. Outsourcing becomes less advantageous 4. Remaining IT workers accept lower wages because they would rather have their pay cut than be fired 5. The threat of getting outsourced makes wages level with Indian levels 6. Profit! ...lowering wages seems to be the fad in American politics nowdays anyway.
Hey, I found a fairly slick blog claiming to be completely independantly produced by an 18yr old university student. However, it's clearly a Microsoft site complete with Apple-bashing, a NineMSN commercial, a video titled "Vista speech recognition screencast: It works!", a story titled "MSNBC deceived the public: Vista's speech recognition demo" and MS-critic bashing, with a few lame attempts to throw people of their fairly rank scent.
...Or you could just flame be and tell me how redundant this is.
Microsofts Faux Blog
I thought you could do your part and call MS out on this one by leaving a comment to the effect of "We know this is a Microsoft astroturf advertisment that intentionally aims to mislead readers to beleive messages that benefit the corporation."
Hey, I found a fairly slick blog claiming to be completely independantly produced by an 18yr old. However, it's clearly a Microsoft site complete with Apple-bashing, a NineMSN commercial, a story title "MSNBC deceived the public: Vista's speech recognition demo" and MS-critic bashing, with a few lame attempts to throw people of the the fairly rank scent of the Microsoft Corporation.
Microsofts Faux Blog
I thought you could do your part and call MS out on this one by leaving a comment to the effect of "We know this is a Microsoft astroturf advertisment that intentionally aims to mislead readers to beleive messages that benefit the corporations agenda."
...Or you could just flame be and tell me how redundant this is.
I think that this would have been a much relavant product if it was released 10 years ago, when flash memory was much harder to come by. But I would say we're less than one upgrade cycle away from completely solid state drives anyway, the ones that several manufacturers have been showing of over the past year and due very soon. I say don't bother with this concept that is a decade too late and soon to be obselete anyway. Why Linux sucks #42104: [SHIFT] + ["] ! = "
Maybe they should ask for a refund. Perhaps?...No?
Yes, but not all computers are just thrown out after six years, and said computers are probably owned by people who wouldn't otherwise be in the marker for a new computer/processor.
I not quite comfortable with the way in which Intel/AMD set out their roadmaps to gradually increase the number of cores. It seems a bit fast for me, something done more for generating sales than any substanial performance improvement. By the time any substantial portion of software products are developed from the ground-up to be optimized for dual cores, the number of cores would likely have moved on. It won't be fun to have to upgrade your processor every two years just to get those extra cores that will be woefully underused by what would most likely be a market full of un-optimized software. Load balancing would really only be the way software makers would bother to optimize their code for anythimg more than 4 cores. My understanding is that load-balancing threads or whatever on cpus is not an exact science, and can quickly kill performance when not done right. Can it be justified to 'upgrade' to a newer more-cores processor every two years if you don't see a corresponding increase in UT2009/2012 framerates, or better perfmance in MS Excel...?