My parents still use the computer they got ten years ago. Runs fine, with a P2 400 MHz, 192 MB (upgraded from 64 MB), Win98SE. Runs fine, even though it takes some time to start. Only possible upgrade would be bigger/faster harddrive. The current 6 GB one is 1) filled, and 2) pretty slow...
I call bullshit. My current desktop computer was delivered with Win98SE and a 40 GB harddrive. With a single partition.
I don't know if that limit was there previous to that, but at least in Win98SE the limit was *far* higher (I later used it with a 120 GB drive as well).
My work laptop, a Dell D620, has its docking port on the bottom side. I don't see any significant problem with building a similar solution for a Mac...
>90% of Windows users would probably also complain about a.pub file, as Publisher really isn't that widespread (people not doing DTP don't have it, people doing it might have it but they prefer something more professional).
"Maybe this poor blog should just relocate their server to the United States to avoid the Swedish laws then."
Actually, it is already located in the US (on the Wordpress servers), so it can't really be relocated there. The funny thing is that if I remember correctly, Flashback, a Swedish-language forum open to just about any discussion, has had these kind of problems earlier, and I believe it was tried against the same law. It was freed, as it is located in the UK...
Interestingly, I reduced the fuel consumption of my Volvo 740 by 10% when I started using a E25 mixture (self-mixed 75% petrol (E5), 25% E85). So I wouldn't take your statement for a general fact, although it should be the general result.
Then check the Swedish ballot system. You pick one ballot for the party in question (if you want to do some strange vote you can take a blank one and write on it) for each election (municipality, region, country), optionally mark your favorite candidate (if enough people mark a candidate the voters, and not the party, will decide in which order the candidates have been elected), put it in an envelope, and drop it into the box. The ballots are color-coded so you aren't able to drop the envelope in the wrong box (there's a small opening in the envelope showing which color the ballot is but nothing more).
If you mark the candidate incorrectly, the vote for the party still counts. The only way you really could screw up is by putting more than one ballot in the same envelope (and even then I think they count if they are identical).
Only problem would be that, as I've understood it, you have a lot more positions directly elected in the US...
I don't know if he has, but I have, and it is as close as it gets, yes, but it's still inferior.
It's still not quite the same thing though - because even if our norwegian friend forgot to mention it, not only the operating system was updated. All of the applications were updated aswell. Apple's updater only takes care of OS X and Apple applications. Also, it usually wants to restart the computer after upgrading. If I understood correctly, Ubuntu didn't even need to be rebooted after the upgrade...
Or you could just use the language indicated in the web browser settings. In this case using a country specific TLD doesn't really help in many cases - you'll still have the same problem in countries like Belgium, Switzerland, Finland, Spain, Ireland, the Netherlands, etc, where more than one language is spoken...
Which still is a lot better than the current situation - as is only MS Office will be able to open and convert them, and after that MS Office ALSO will be the only app able to EDIT THE CONVERTED FILES.
Uhm, you're totally wrong. The idea with XML was to make it (reasonably well) readable by humans. The extract shown before hardly is.
What would be most easy to read for a computerprogram would probably some "binary gibberish" as this could be more or less a dump of the RAM portion that deals with the document (not unlike the old.doc). No processing necessary at all at file read. That's very different from XML which needs quite extensive processing (however not so much that you don't mind the overhead).
If nothing else, you could explain to me why hardly any file format before the 90's was based on formats similar to XML...
on the other hand, one might think there shouldn't be any need for the phrase "legacy purposes only" when discussing the first version of a new standard.
Any conversion of such things should reasonably be done in the tool doing the file conversion, not in the file format itself.
You have misunderstood the GPL. It doesn't give anyone the right to demand the source code to the distributed application, only people who has received the distributed application get that right.
And this can also be done in several ways - bundling a source code CD, private FTP download, etc, etc. The only reason it is so popular to distribute it to everybody on the internet is that that is actually a simpler solution, and in most cases the distributor is even interested of getting a widespread usage of the application.
Aluminium takes a crapload of electricity to manufacture. Steel would probably be a wiser choice - it's cheaper to make ($ and W) and is also recyclable.
I only said it was realtime, not that it was currently stable. I'd actually agree on using a tried and tested RTOS, that's specifically has been built to be a RTOS, and not something that has been built to be a generic OS with RT enhancements bolted on afterwards.
Actually, Linux IS realtime. But most people don't use it that way, and I'm not sure if there are that many applications really using the realtime extensions...
No, the course didn't cover this (at least not as a main topic - nonlinear speedups were mentioned, but not much more). It was an academic, theoretical course on algorithms, so practice was kind of left out...:)
Also, the course really wasn't limited to shared memory architectures, the algorithms could just as well have been used in message-based architectures, or clustered workstations, or a data-flow-oriented architecture, or...
Also, the problem of false sharing can be handled if properly avoided at design time (as a simple google search shows).
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My parents still use the computer they got ten years ago. Runs fine, with a P2 400 MHz, 192 MB (upgraded from 64 MB), Win98SE. Runs fine, even though it takes some time to start. Only possible upgrade would be bigger/faster harddrive. The current 6 GB one is 1) filled, and 2) pretty slow...
I call bullshit. My current desktop computer was delivered with Win98SE and a 40 GB harddrive. With a single partition.
I don't know if that limit was there previous to that, but at least in Win98SE the limit was *far* higher (I later used it with a 120 GB drive as well).
My work laptop, a Dell D620, has its docking port on the bottom side. I don't see any significant problem with building a similar solution for a Mac...
Additionally, the graphics card won't work properly without installing its driver.
>90% of Windows users would probably also complain about a .pub file, as Publisher really isn't that widespread (people not doing DTP don't have it, people doing it might have it but they prefer something more professional).
Another example, from Halmstad University, Sweden. It was quite some time since the research was done, this news should be about how it is being commercialized instead IMHO...
"Maybe this poor blog should just relocate their server to the United States to avoid the Swedish laws then."
Actually, it is already located in the US (on the Wordpress servers), so it can't really be relocated there. The funny thing is that if I remember correctly, Flashback, a Swedish-language forum open to just about any discussion, has had these kind of problems earlier, and I believe it was tried against the same law. It was freed, as it is located in the UK...
Interestingly, I reduced the fuel consumption of my Volvo 740 by 10% when I started using a E25 mixture (self-mixed 75% petrol (E5), 25% E85). So I wouldn't take your statement for a general fact, although it should be the general result.
Well, at least these only have one of the downsides you mentioned. Better? :)
for example these.
Actually, I didn't really read it. After all, this IS slashdot. :) It was just the first google hit on "walking robots"... :)
Not for sure...
Then check the Swedish ballot system. You pick one ballot for the party in question (if you want to do some strange vote you can take a blank one and write on it) for each election (municipality, region, country), optionally mark your favorite candidate (if enough people mark a candidate the voters, and not the party, will decide in which order the candidates have been elected), put it in an envelope, and drop it into the box. The ballots are color-coded so you aren't able to drop the envelope in the wrong box (there's a small opening in the envelope showing which color the ballot is but nothing more).
If you mark the candidate incorrectly, the vote for the party still counts. The only way you really could screw up is by putting more than one ballot in the same envelope (and even then I think they count if they are identical).
Only problem would be that, as I've understood it, you have a lot more positions directly elected in the US...
I don't know if he has, but I have, and it is as close as it gets, yes, but it's still inferior.
It's still not quite the same thing though - because even if our norwegian friend forgot to mention it, not only the operating system was updated. All of the applications were updated aswell. Apple's updater only takes care of OS X and Apple applications. Also, it usually wants to restart the computer after upgrading. If I understood correctly, Ubuntu didn't even need to be rebooted after the upgrade...
Or you could just use the language indicated in the web browser settings. In this case using a country specific TLD doesn't really help in many cases - you'll still have the same problem in countries like Belgium, Switzerland, Finland, Spain, Ireland, the Netherlands, etc, where more than one language is spoken...
Which still is a lot better than the current situation - as is only MS Office will be able to open and convert them, and after that MS Office ALSO will be the only app able to EDIT THE CONVERTED FILES.
Uhm, you're totally wrong. The idea with XML was to make it (reasonably well) readable by humans. The extract shown before hardly is.
.doc). No processing necessary at all at file read. That's very different from XML which needs quite extensive processing (however not so much that you don't mind the overhead).
What would be most easy to read for a computerprogram would probably some "binary gibberish" as this could be more or less a dump of the RAM portion that deals with the document (not unlike the old
If nothing else, you could explain to me why hardly any file format before the 90's was based on formats similar to XML...
on the other hand, one might think there shouldn't be any need for the phrase "legacy purposes only" when discussing the first version of a new standard.
Any conversion of such things should reasonably be done in the tool doing the file conversion, not in the file format itself.
Actually, they WERE one country. Note the imperfect, though. Wikipedia has more info.
you should probably read article 12 as well, there are exceptions to article 6. It still isn't obvious to me if they apply, though.
You have misunderstood the GPL. It doesn't give anyone the right to demand the source code to the distributed application, only people who has received the distributed application get that right.
And this can also be done in several ways - bundling a source code CD, private FTP download, etc, etc. The only reason it is so popular to distribute it to everybody on the internet is that that is actually a simpler solution, and in most cases the distributor is even interested of getting a widespread usage of the application.
Aluminium takes a crapload of electricity to manufacture. Steel would probably be a wiser choice - it's cheaper to make ($ and W) and is also recyclable.
I can :)
I only said it was realtime, not that it was currently stable. I'd actually agree on using a tried and tested RTOS, that's specifically has been built to be a RTOS, and not something that has been built to be a generic OS with RT enhancements bolted on afterwards.
Actually, Linux IS realtime. But most people don't use it that way, and I'm not sure if there are that many applications really using the realtime extensions...
No, the course didn't cover this (at least not as a main topic - nonlinear speedups were mentioned, but not much more). It was an academic, theoretical course on algorithms, so practice was kind of left out... :)
Also, the course really wasn't limited to shared memory architectures, the algorithms could just as well have been used in message-based architectures, or clustered workstations, or a data-flow-oriented architecture, or...
Also, the problem of false sharing can be handled if properly avoided at design time (as a simple google search shows).