From the short report, it seems that what they have tested is scheduler and low-level drivers. Especially the scheduler policy has major impact on "responsiveness" of a UI, and at least with respect to "mouse precision", it is unlikely that better hardware would change the situation. An educated guess is in fact that Microsoft has preferred a less preemptive policy, ensuring better computation, at the expense of worse user interaction. Given that in spite of common knowledge they probably aren't total fools, they might have done this choice for better game rendering... But that's just an educated guess anyway
AFAIK, it is not the government of North Korea that denies access to the internet,
it is the IANA that denies North Korea (and Cuba) access to the WWW by not providing
the suffix.kp extensions to them.
Not that the people there would have gotten ISP anyway, but at least their
cheerful leader could have downloaded more US films, ordered an Ipod,...
Well, I know it sucks to be french, but my beloved ISP
provides me with SIP, free international phone calls,
including to mobiles in the US. Not that I use it so much
(since I cannot get the line-in to work on my laptop), but
it is nice in principle:)
> What's that, do you say a piece of code is costly just because it initially costs higher!?
This isn't the point, TCO is not initial cost. Now the only thing that matters is what
services are provided for the cost. I can write a "Hello, world! \n" program that costs
significantly less than Oracle's Fusion. It also delivers less, but I really promise it
will cost less...
So isn't there some comparaison in terms of productivity gain instead of raw cost ?
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From the short report, it seems that what they have tested is scheduler and low-level drivers.
Especially the scheduler policy has major impact on "responsiveness" of a UI, and at least
with respect to "mouse precision", it is unlikely that better hardware would change the situation.
An educated guess is in fact that Microsoft has preferred a less preemptive policy, ensuring
better computation, at the expense of worse user interaction. Given that in spite of common
knowledge they probably aren't total fools, they might have done this choice for better game
rendering...
But that's just an educated guess anyway
AFAIK, it is not the government of North Korea that denies access to the internet, it is the IANA that denies North Korea (and Cuba) access to the WWW by not providing the suffix .kp extensions to them.
Not that the people there would have gotten ISP anyway, but at least their
cheerful leader could have downloaded more US films, ordered an Ipod,...
Well, I know it sucks to be french, but my beloved ISP provides me with SIP, free international phone calls, including to mobiles in the US. Not that I use it so much (since I cannot get the line-in to work on my laptop), but it is nice in principle :)
> What's that, do you say a piece of code is costly just because it initially costs higher!? This isn't the point, TCO is not initial cost. Now the only thing that matters is what services are provided for the cost. I can write a "Hello, world! \n" program that costs significantly less than Oracle's Fusion. It also delivers less, but I really promise it will cost less... So isn't there some comparaison in terms of productivity gain instead of raw cost ?