DOS. Might explain my tendency to like CLIs:P...Of course, consistent and completely random bluescreens might have something to do with my pro Linux, anti MS stance;)
Really? Funny, my *ancient* DVD player which came out about 2 years before Dual Layer was even conceived plays most "commercial" DVDs, i.e. those produced by bands, films, etc.
Somehow, I find your statement reeking of bullshit:P
Right, and who releases software on Dual Layer? Who releases movies on Dual Layer? The technology is sitting right here in my DVD drive, but if I want to burn 9GB of stuff and send it to someone who doesn't have a DVD DL drive, they won't be able to read it.
Also, 9GB at £3 per disc is hideously expensive. Not to mention that the data rates are pure suckage.
As for the other comment about the bus able to transfer 128MB/s continuously, I direct your attention to SATA II, 300MB/s. Or, since it'll probably be out near when this is coming out, SATA III, at 450MB/s.
1.6TB for me, please. And if you're careless enough to lose your backup disc, you deserve it;)
Seriously, the PS2 came out FIVE YEARS AGO. Of *course* it's going to be showing its age - to be honest, it's lasted VERY fucking well. The Xbox came out with supposedly better hardware and I've played games on the Xbox that were performing exactly the same as if not worse than their counterparts on the PS2. Meh.
A programmer in Microsoft codes in a hole to Windows. It escapes all checking processes.
It lets said programmer download all your credit card information and passwords, etc etc.
Bad management? How are you going to be able to manage people at such a level and still maintain productivity?
In all likelihood, it was some titwank at Sony BMG, *NOT* Sony, who decided on the rootkit. To the best of my knowledge, Sony BMG and Sony are actually two separate companies with separate org structures.
Anyone know how to get rid of the hideously fugly Office-styled toolbar shading? I hates it with a vengeance. And there doesn't appear to be an off switch....Bah.
...that Microsoft are talking about adding a layer of complete vendor control and lock in to modern PCs, but Sony does one thing and suddenly everyone is up in arms about them.
Somehow I doubt the top people at Sony had anything to do with the rootkit debacle. I find it more likely it was someone in Sony BMG being told to protect Sony's interests and they took it a step too far. That, or it was a rogue manager in Sony.
Maybe a country other than one which goes around banning books and literature, sueing people for saying anything that could possibly conceived as bad for the government, hiding hundreds of secrets from the general public as well as secretly-publically reading everyone's every packet sent over the Internet....In other words, we're boned.
My college uses OWA. It is (quite possibly deliberately) broken in Firefox. It's slow, it's frame based, it's clunky -- not exactly Gmail standards, which is a very fast app considering its use.
Sorry, but if MS want to cram more advertising down my throat than they already do, they can fsck themselves. I spent the weekend using Slackware with no problems while Windblows was BSODing at boottime with a cryptic error and no helpful information on what to do to fix it. Apart from gaming, I'd be quite happy to switch full time, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
Kinda, but an encryption or compression algorithm is closer to an invention than, say, an equation to work out pi to the nth. If you invent a new form of engine, you're going to be prototyping and building and refining for weeks, same as you would be with an encryption or compression algorithm. It's also more of a process; most if not all e/c algorithms are multi-stage, not just a quick one line of code, so it's hard to do it again in a different implementation.
Anyway, your own opinions on whether encryption/compression counts as a patentable concept are irrelevant to this particular topic, so I'm gonna stop replying now:P
And for the record, the only things patentable should be physical inventions (such as a new form of locomotive engine) or things like algorithms (compression or encryption is enough of an invention to qualify, I think).
There is no system task in existence that will not interface with memory somewhere along the line. AMD's shifting of the memory controller to the CPU was incredibly astute - memory is one of the most used components in any system, and one of the components most accessed by the CPU. We've all seen the huge benefits AMD CPUs have reaped as a result of this move and the restructuring of the low-level I/O buses, especially compared to Intel's paltry "more megahurts!!!1111oneoneone lollerskates" approach.
I doubt Intel will be able to get below 60W for a single core CPU, let alone a dual-core 2GHz model. Just look at Paxville....Then laugh and laugh and laugh.
Thanks to the awesomeness of the Firefox extension model, you can dynamically switch your user agent to whatever the hell you like.
Sploooooooooooo!
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Slight mistake; the nearest star's light takes 8 minutes or so to get to us, since the nearest star is Sol. The one that Earth's orbiting, you know? Big yellow ball of fusion in the sky?
Except they ruined Drive Image - it now requires the.NET framework to run, and the boot CD takes about 5 minutes to load simply because it has to load a pseudo-XP environment.
I'm sticking with Partition Magic 8 and using Paragon for anything that needs USB access (although my PC will probably handle the autodiscovery of USB drives, but my dad's P3 Dell won't).
And the point of that post was indicating the assumption that will be made by the majority that it was in fact MS' idea in the first place. Due credit needs to go to whom it is due.
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DOS. Might explain my tendency to like CLIs :P ...Of course, consistent and completely random bluescreens might have something to do with my pro Linux, anti MS stance ;)
Really? Funny, my *ancient* DVD player which came out about 2 years before Dual Layer was even conceived plays most "commercial" DVDs, i.e. those produced by bands, films, etc.
:P
Somehow, I find your statement reeking of bullshit
Right, and who releases software on Dual Layer? Who releases movies on Dual Layer? The technology is sitting right here in my DVD drive, but if I want to burn 9GB of stuff and send it to someone who doesn't have a DVD DL drive, they won't be able to read it.
;)
Also, 9GB at £3 per disc is hideously expensive. Not to mention that the data rates are pure suckage.
As for the other comment about the bus able to transfer 128MB/s continuously, I direct your attention to SATA II, 300MB/s. Or, since it'll probably be out near when this is coming out, SATA III, at 450MB/s.
1.6TB for me, please. And if you're careless enough to lose your backup disc, you deserve it
News item posters: learn to spell.
Purgatory.
Repeat after me:
Pur-gah-tor-ee.
Personally I find the GUI fugly as all hell, but I like nice clean interfaces. The PS2's is quite nice; slick but functional.
Xbox360: Media Centre style bright colours nonsense. Bleh.
PS2: 2000.
GC: 2001.
Xbox:2001.
Hmm.
Seriously, the PS2 came out FIVE YEARS AGO. Of *course* it's going to be showing its age - to be honest, it's lasted VERY fucking well. The Xbox came out with supposedly better hardware and I've played games on the Xbox that were performing exactly the same as if not worse than their counterparts on the PS2. Meh.
Case study.
A programmer in Microsoft codes in a hole to Windows. It escapes all checking processes.
It lets said programmer download all your credit card information and passwords, etc etc.
Bad management? How are you going to be able to manage people at such a level and still maintain productivity?
In all likelihood, it was some titwank at Sony BMG, *NOT* Sony, who decided on the rootkit. To the best of my knowledge, Sony BMG and Sony are actually two separate companies with separate org structures.
Anyone know how to get rid of the hideously fugly Office-styled toolbar shading? I hates it with a vengeance. And there doesn't appear to be an off switch. ...Bah.
ZOMG SONY^H^H^H^HAPPLE ROOTKIT ...Oh, wait, it's not Sony, we can't say rootkit. Nevermind.
...that Microsoft are talking about adding a layer of complete vendor control and lock in to modern PCs, but Sony does one thing and suddenly everyone is up in arms about them.
Somehow I doubt the top people at Sony had anything to do with the rootkit debacle. I find it more likely it was someone in Sony BMG being told to protect Sony's interests and they took it a step too far. That, or it was a rogue manager in Sony.
Maybe a country other than one which goes around banning books and literature, sueing people for saying anything that could possibly conceived as bad for the government, hiding hundreds of secrets from the general public as well as secretly-publically reading everyone's every packet sent over the Internet. ...In other words, we're boned.
You missed one: Gates of Hades.
My college uses OWA. It is (quite possibly deliberately) broken in Firefox. It's slow, it's frame based, it's clunky -- not exactly Gmail standards, which is a very fast app considering its use.
Sorry, but if MS want to cram more advertising down my throat than they already do, they can fsck themselves. I spent the weekend using Slackware with no problems while Windblows was BSODing at boottime with a cryptic error and no helpful information on what to do to fix it. Apart from gaming, I'd be quite happy to switch full time, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
Kinda, but an encryption or compression algorithm is closer to an invention than, say, an equation to work out pi to the nth. If you invent a new form of engine, you're going to be prototyping and building and refining for weeks, same as you would be with an encryption or compression algorithm. It's also more of a process; most if not all e/c algorithms are multi-stage, not just a quick one line of code, so it's hard to do it again in a different implementation.
:P
Anyway, your own opinions on whether encryption/compression counts as a patentable concept are irrelevant to this particular topic, so I'm gonna stop replying now
Books != patentable
Software != patentable
Agreed, but my point stands.
And for the record, the only things patentable should be physical inventions (such as a new form of locomotive engine) or things like algorithms (compression or encryption is enough of an invention to qualify, I think).
Going to START banning books? I take it you've not heard of the US' banned books list.
n gedbanned/challengedbanned.htm
http://www.banned-books.com/bblista-i.html
J.K Rowling, R.L Stein and Stephen King are some of the most challenged authors, according to the ALA's website.
http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/challe
There is no system task in existence that will not interface with memory somewhere along the line. AMD's shifting of the memory controller to the CPU was incredibly astute - memory is one of the most used components in any system, and one of the components most accessed by the CPU. We've all seen the huge benefits AMD CPUs have reaped as a result of this move and the restructuring of the low-level I/O buses, especially compared to Intel's paltry "more megahurts!!!1111oneoneone lollerskates" approach.
I doubt Intel will be able to get below 60W for a single core CPU, let alone a dual-core 2GHz model. Just look at Paxville. ...Then laugh and laugh and laugh.
Thanks to the awesomeness of the Firefox extension model, you can dynamically switch your user agent to whatever the hell you like.
Sploooooooooooo!
Slight mistake; the nearest star's light takes 8 minutes or so to get to us, since the nearest star is Sol. The one that Earth's orbiting, you know? Big yellow ball of fusion in the sky?
CRACKERS, dammit! The hacker community is getting mighty pissed at being brought down to their level!
Now, where'd I put those security codes...
I'll forgive the slight misquote. It's actually "Carter, I can see my HOUSE."
:P
Then they jump to hyperspace *THROUGH* the planet, dragging a giant naquadah-enhanced meteor with them. Good episode
Except they ruined Drive Image - it now requires the .NET framework to run, and the boot CD takes about 5 minutes to load simply because it has to load a pseudo-XP environment.
I'm sticking with Partition Magic 8 and using Paragon for anything that needs USB access (although my PC will probably handle the autodiscovery of USB drives, but my dad's P3 Dell won't).
No, just doing the usual MS-hate :P
And the point of that post was indicating the assumption that will be made by the majority that it was in fact MS' idea in the first place. Due credit needs to go to whom it is due.
Yet again MS copies someone else. OpenOffice has had this since 1.1.4. Which was out months ago. Go figure.