That's because wireless sucks. The latency is horrible, the frequent, short dropouts aren't really catered for by TCP/IP, the bandwidth, as others mentioned, isn't anywhere near what it's touted as, and the security, most of the time, is dire.
Well, as long as each vehicle "drives defensively", and there are competing implementations, or specific implementation requirements (such as military software and presumably aircraft software has), rather than one monopoly implementation, that shouldn't create a problem any worse than what we have now. If it's well tested, then it could actually be much better than having tired/angry/inexperienced/distracted humans trying to cope on crowded roads at 70mph. But, yes, I agree in principle; all needs to be done right.
Right now, Sony is the only thorn in the side of Microsoft's plans to take a monopoly hold of the games console market. I'm not a fan of sony or its DRM plans, but the last thing anyone who cares about the IT industry needs right now is for Sony to go down.
That said... a megacorp has a "one month low"? What kind of news is that? Sounds like someone trying to make a story where there isn't one.
I'm on cable; been paying the same price for a while now, but I've seen a few real upgrades in my plan, purely due to market competition. 512->1meg, and 2meg for a while now. I'd say the high end is still encouraging the low-end to be better, which is great.
Yep, but the problem is poor educators who allow rote learning, and even incorrect learning, instead of ensuring *understanding*. A classic example is the number of people who thing that the computer is the "CPU" or the "hard drive" because educators said "hard drive", and pointed to the computer, and students got the wrong idea. This seems like a trivial thing, but then you try to explain to someone that they've saved their file on the "hard drive" as opposed to the "floppy drive" which they think is PART of their hard drive, and the whole thing gets messed up. We just need educators who start at the beginning, with files and filesystems, and what a text file is, before allowing people to move on to how to put their pictures into their word 2003 proprietary rich document format with embedded spreadsheets.
Personally, I would much prefer vehicles to be upgraded to a voice control interface, where I get in, say where I want to go, and kick back with a book until I arrive. Cars have stable UIs, but they're far from ideal UIs.
I suspect that the reason they changed the UI so much in 2003 and now in 2007 is because they knew that sys admins could easily install OpenOffice, and users probably wouldn't even notice. I know a lot of people who don't like the 2003 UI though, and it sounds like there are more who don't like the 2007 one, so I guess it bites you in the ass when you change the UI for reasons other than helping users.
It certainly doesn't scale well, no. I think it may be ideal, in a small group of highly conscientious, interested, and respectful participants. However, I wasn't advocating it as a global solution or anything; just pointing out that there are other methods, that work.
On your "pragmatic" approach... yep, I tend to agree:)
As others have said, this is untrue. As another example, some monastic communities function, not by hierarchy or or democracy, but by reaching concensus through discussion and respect.
Their measurements may be accurate. The question for me is.. what are they measuring? The slowest things about virtualisation for me are: a) swapping and memory use, because I tend to want LOTS of virtualisation, or none; b) peripheral hardware sharing issues, such as 3D video card acceleration; c) handling many users or workloads, so that each doesn't slow the other to a crawl.
If hardware solutions can do a better job of compressing the memory that's not in use (unlikely) or virtualising 3D video, so that many OSes can run in a window with mixed open source drivers and proprietary drivers, and perform well, then I'm interested. If it can stop users on a shared hosting machine from bothering each other or getting a terrible responsivenesss experience when they ssh in and run some graphical app remotely, then I'm interested in hardware solutions. Otherwise, it's same-old same-old I guess.
Hmm.. I'm also a mac user, and a linux user. Have you actually tried Cedega for most games? It's really not what it's cracked up to be. There are exceptions, but even most of the games that are "supported" don't run well.
Linux wouldn't be what it is today, except that it choose to use the GPL, and people came on board and contributed because of the guarantees that the GPL provides. If Linus hadn't taken that route, we'd all be working on HURD or something instead.
Linus is good with Linux, but he's too practical to lead with visionary ideas. The GPL (maybe moreso, GPLv3) *is* a visionary idea, and it will be inspiring people centuries after Linux has been forgotten.
The "function" of these tools is not to get you a free program to run on your computer. It's to get you and everyone else a FREE (as in freedom) platform, that they can all use and innovate on equally. Only copyleft-licensed software does that.
That's a horribly uncivilised way for a government to act. Next thing you know, they'll be using propaganda to control citizens, taking bribes from big companies, and scaring people into doing what they want, with nasty words and phrases like "terrorist cells", "weapons of mass destruction" and "axis of evil";)
No. Bill's "charity" is a needle compared to the haystack his company extorts from users who are stuck with his monopoly. People in africa have asked him to offer software at prices proportionate to income there, and he refused, obviously not caring that the vast majority in a poor country cannot afford basic software that costs over a MONTH's wages. Giving a little back does not make up for that. Especially not when it's done in his name, as a publicity stunt, in partnership with his wife, who he's probably trying to look like a decent person in front of. Certainly not lately, when he's been taking photo ops with political leaders, and getting Knighted by the UK, which is currently suffering from scandals involving underhanded deals for peerages etc.
Anyone can give to charity. The question is... why?
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That's because wireless sucks. The latency is horrible, the frequent, short dropouts aren't really catered for by TCP/IP, the bandwidth, as others mentioned, isn't anywhere near what it's touted as, and the security, most of the time, is dire.
Well, as long as each vehicle "drives defensively", and there are competing implementations, or specific implementation requirements (such as military software and presumably aircraft software has), rather than one monopoly implementation, that shouldn't create a problem any worse than what we have now. If it's well tested, then it could actually be much better than having tired/angry/inexperienced/distracted humans trying to cope on crowded roads at 70mph. But, yes, I agree in principle; all needs to be done right.
By definition, greed drives the greedy, not the brilliant. Sometimes there is overlap, but overlaps are a subset of the entire group.
Right now, Sony is the only thorn in the side of Microsoft's plans to take a monopoly hold of the games console market. I'm not a fan of sony or its DRM plans, but the last thing anyone who cares about the IT industry needs right now is for Sony to go down.
That said... a megacorp has a "one month low"? What kind of news is that? Sounds like someone trying to make a story where there isn't one.
I'm on cable; been paying the same price for a while now, but I've seen a few real upgrades in my plan, purely due to market competition. 512->1meg, and 2meg for a while now. I'd say the high end is still encouraging the low-end to be better, which is great.
Yep, but the problem is poor educators who allow rote learning, and even incorrect learning, instead of ensuring *understanding*. A classic example is the number of people who thing that the computer is the "CPU" or the "hard drive" because educators said "hard drive", and pointed to the computer, and students got the wrong idea. This seems like a trivial thing, but then you try to explain to someone that they've saved their file on the "hard drive" as opposed to the "floppy drive" which they think is PART of their hard drive, and the whole thing gets messed up. We just need educators who start at the beginning, with files and filesystems, and what a text file is, before allowing people to move on to how to put their pictures into their word 2003 proprietary rich document format with embedded spreadsheets.
Personally, I would much prefer vehicles to be upgraded to a voice control interface, where I get in, say where I want to go, and kick back with a book until I arrive. Cars have stable UIs, but they're far from ideal UIs.
I suspect that the reason they changed the UI so much in 2003 and now in 2007 is because they knew that sys admins could easily install OpenOffice, and users probably wouldn't even notice. I know a lot of people who don't like the 2003 UI though, and it sounds like there are more who don't like the 2007 one, so I guess it bites you in the ass when you change the UI for reasons other than helping users.
It certainly doesn't scale well, no. I think it may be ideal, in a small group of highly conscientious, interested, and respectful participants. However, I wasn't advocating it as a global solution or anything; just pointing out that there are other methods, that work.
:)
On your "pragmatic" approach... yep, I tend to agree
I went back to KDE after about half an hour ;)
Are about gaming machines a lot of the time. Macs don't really hit that spot so well, sadly.
As others have said, this is untrue. As another example, some monastic communities function, not by hierarchy or or democracy, but by reaching concensus through discussion and respect.
Sure you do.
Their measurements may be accurate. The question for me is.. what are they measuring? The slowest things about virtualisation for me are: a) swapping and memory use, because I tend to want LOTS of virtualisation, or none; b) peripheral hardware sharing issues, such as 3D video card acceleration; c) handling many users or workloads, so that each doesn't slow the other to a crawl.
If hardware solutions can do a better job of compressing the memory that's not in use (unlikely) or virtualising 3D video, so that many OSes can run in a window with mixed open source drivers and proprietary drivers, and perform well, then I'm interested. If it can stop users on a shared hosting machine from bothering each other or getting a terrible responsivenesss experience when they ssh in and run some graphical app remotely, then I'm interested in hardware solutions. Otherwise, it's same-old same-old I guess.
Provocative thoughts are not equal to trollish comments.
Shouldn't all the scientists who've gotten samples of moonrock be able to say something about that?
Hmm.. I'm also a mac user, and a linux user. Have you actually tried Cedega for most games? It's really not what it's cracked up to be. There are exceptions, but even most of the games that are "supported" don't run well.
Linux wouldn't be what it is today, except that it choose to use the GPL, and people came on board and contributed because of the guarantees that the GPL provides. If Linus hadn't taken that route, we'd all be working on HURD or something instead.
Linus is good with Linux, but he's too practical to lead with visionary ideas. The GPL (maybe moreso, GPLv3) *is* a visionary idea, and it will be inspiring people centuries after Linux has been forgotten.
The "function" of these tools is not to get you a free program to run on your computer. It's to get you and everyone else a FREE (as in freedom) platform, that they can all use and innovate on equally. Only copyleft-licensed software does that.
There was a clear response for various questions, such as:
"How sexy is that female leopard's spots?"
and
"Would you like to be my new coat?"
Quite a lot, if you fell into a fissure that closed on top of you ;)
You missed the point.
That's a horribly uncivilised way for a government to act. Next thing you know, they'll be using propaganda to control citizens, taking bribes from big companies, and scaring people into doing what they want, with nasty words and phrases like "terrorist cells", "weapons of mass destruction" and "axis of evil" ;)
Charity...that's what he's doing
No. Bill's "charity" is a needle compared to the haystack his company extorts from users who are stuck with his monopoly. People in africa have asked him to offer software at prices proportionate to income there, and he refused, obviously not caring that the vast majority in a poor country cannot afford basic software that costs over a MONTH's wages. Giving a little back does not make up for that. Especially not when it's done in his name, as a publicity stunt, in partnership with his wife, who he's probably trying to look like a decent person in front of. Certainly not lately, when he's been taking photo ops with political leaders, and getting Knighted by the UK, which is currently suffering from scandals involving underhanded deals for peerages etc.
Anyone can give to charity. The question is... why?
Ahh, I missed that. Thanks for pointing it out :)