I did get the suggestion was that the code (rather than the developers) was doing less work.
Although not expressed in the most explicit terms, my feeling is that just because the code might have to do less (and therefore be targetted enough to be faster) it does not mean that the developers have it easy in any way.
WINE really only needs to be as fast as windows, not faster.
I don't altogether agree. I would prefer that the priority should be for Wine to perform best for those applications without a real Linux alternative - and if they run faster than on Windows, that would be superb.
I don't care how slow some Windows apps run under Wine if there is a decent native Linux solution.
They are not altogether meaningless. For those who have never tried Wine, the article should give hope of success to those who want to give it a go - albeit more anecdotal than proof.
It's easy to be faster when you are doing less work.
To say that Wine developers have it easy is shamefully disrespectful to their efforts. (Unless you take the viewpoint that not having to work with MS code simplifies the work!) For Wine to work at all is commendable - to be (sometimes) faster is truly amazing, IMHO.
Well, as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know
Of course, if the base design philosophy is flawed to begin with, even if they could "patch everything" the would likely be better off rewriting from the ground up.
Outstanding idea!
1. Base it on tried and tested code. Maybe supply the source code for the world's programming talent to see if there is anything wrong with it. Also encourage help with new projects.
2. Give it a snappy name - words ending in an "x" always sound cool.
3. Oh - and it would need a logo - maybe from the animal kingdom?
Water is heated as it flows through. Try doing that with resistor based elements and you'll get slightly above room temperature water at best.
Traditional electric water heaters are designed to heat up a stored volume of water over a relatively long period of time. It is certainly possible to design a process where a flow of water is heated electrically - but the power (rate of energy) supply required to heat is beyond practical limitations on the domestic electricity supply.
Deliverable energy to an appliance via a domestic gas pipe is relatively huge. A modern gas combi boiler is typically rated at 100,000 BTU/h (29.0kW). It can provide 14 litres/min at 30C temperature rise or 7 litres/min at 55C rise. To get 29kW from an electrical device, you would need to supply about 120 or 264 Amps (on 240 Volt or 110 Volt supply). Those would be big cables (carrying a lot of current!) I wouldn't want in my house.
So heating a water flow electrically is easy engineering design - just not a practical choice in the domestic arena. The microwave solution still has to get around that problem, it appears to me.
I appreciate that logic but given that the closest pass varies, I don't think you can assume circular orbits. Maybe the observer's location on Earth is irrelevant?
Having AbiWord, KOffice and OOo all competing with each other (and, to a lesser extent, with MS Office) is only good.
A lesser extent? Depends whether you mean on a userbase or feature perspective.
I think MS would be naive not to regard OSS suites as eventual direct competition for MSOffice - and therefore be influenced by that competition already. How much more should a word processor be able to do? MSOffice already does way too much for most people - and has done for at least a couple of versions.
With no practical feature improvements to make on their own product, MS ought to be looking over their shoulder to see free word processors fast approaching to cull their cash cow.
Now (as per Firefox vs MSIE, for example) to overcome market share...
I think the EU is headed towards a single state. Whilst that will probably not happen in my lifetime, it is surely a logical move and I personally believe Europe will be better off for it.
In the meantime, the differences between member states on scores of issues and the frequency of changing (and changing back!) its rules provides EU citizens with a chaotic system within which we try to conduct our business. I've lived in 3 EU countries and the business/political framework doesn't seem to be making it any easier to work or live across its internal borders. (Quite the contrary!)
Whilst I recognize local identity, history and culture to be of great importance, I have little respect for blind nationalism.
As far as I'm concerned, the sooner people and their elective representatives are happy to recognise that a single state is a_good_idea_, the better. Maybe then, European law can be written for the benefit of Europe rather than trying to benefit individual member states at the expense of others.
Mambo originated from an Australian company known as Miro who decided to open source their code by putting it up on SourceForge and licensing it under the GPL. The open source community got a nice CMS and Miro had the open source community patching and improving its CMS. Everything went swimmingly for a while until Miro decided that it was taking back "their" code.
Miro's motives in GPL-ing Mambo in the first place is a puzzle if they wanted the open source development to assist their commercial product. Applying the GPL just let it out of the box, never to be recaptured as proprietary. Unless I have a very wrong understanding of the GPL (which I admit is not impossible).
With the development team gone, now all Miro has left is the name, right? The name isn't worthless (far from it, I'm sure) but momentum is likely to be with the team rather than its old "sponsor".
I don't see it as cannon-fodder against OSS if the dev team get their act together quickly.
If the user support and development is to continue under a new name with minimum disruption, existing users need not worry.
You think Miro would hire developers to continue development on GPL'd code when the original team continues their competing OSS work elsewhere? Little chance of that, IMHO.
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TFA makes no reference to multiple (distributed) antennae - which was my initial thought on how range might be widened.
(But anyway, that would defeat the purpose of not having an ethernet system with multiple wireless access points, right? Certainly sounds less cost-effective than ethernet.)
Agree with parent - I'm also not seeing why this device has so much capacity when range (and therefore potential users) appears so limited.
Apple's advantage is in their quality. I think they will be staying out of the bargain basement.
If you really want to believe Jobs will license a third-party manufacturer to compete with themselves (!) then you should look no further than the nod/wink Jobs shared with the Sony guy when they joked about collaboration recently. But that's not going to happen either, IMHO.
If a user even knows they should be patching an operating system, you're talking about a level of user awareness that probably suggests that Windows really is easy to patch for them.
And, of course, MS makes sure they get plenty of practice.:)
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Sounds like a lot of hot air to me...
I did get the suggestion was that the code (rather than the developers) was doing less work.
Although not expressed in the most explicit terms, my feeling is that just because the code might have to do less (and therefore be targetted enough to be faster) it does not mean that the developers have it easy in any way.
I don't altogether agree. I would prefer that the priority should be for Wine to perform best for those applications without a real Linux alternative - and if they run faster than on Windows, that would be superb.
I don't care how slow some Windows apps run under Wine if there is a decent native Linux solution.
To say that Wine developers have it easy is shamefully disrespectful to their efforts. (Unless you take the viewpoint that not having to work with MS code simplifies the work!) For Wine to work at all is commendable - to be (sometimes) faster is truly amazing, IMHO.
Well, as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know
Humans in space is a "mankind" issue. A setback in space exploration has global meaning.
Speaking as a non-American, I can agree with the use of "international" here.
Webhosting at $99 per year is reasonably competetive.
.Mac about 2 years ago.
.Mac has lots of other features. I just don't need most of them.
But can you upload your own choice of CMS, for example? Or assign your own domain name?
It wasn't possible when I had my account, so I quit
Yes -
Quite true - but here we are talking about ignorance of the technology, not the law.
Unless it is now the law that all users of access points must protect them against access from ne'er-do-wells.
Not unless you are a farmyard animal, apparently.
As every car freak knows, its all about horse power!
1. Base it on tried and tested code. Maybe supply the source code for the world's programming talent to see if there is anything wrong with it. Also encourage help with new projects.
2. Give it a snappy name - words ending in an "x" always sound cool.
3. Oh - and it would need a logo - maybe from the animal kingdom?
4.
5. Profit! (Oh - wait...)
Traditional electric water heaters are designed to heat up a stored volume of water over a relatively long period of time. It is certainly possible to design a process where a flow of water is heated electrically - but the power (rate of energy) supply required to heat is beyond practical limitations on the domestic electricity supply.
Deliverable energy to an appliance via a domestic gas pipe is relatively huge. A modern gas combi boiler is typically rated at 100,000 BTU/h (29.0kW). It can provide 14 litres/min at 30C temperature rise or 7 litres/min at 55C rise. To get 29kW from an electrical device, you would need to supply about 120 or 264 Amps (on 240 Volt or 110 Volt supply). Those would be big cables (carrying a lot of current!) I wouldn't want in my house.
So heating a water flow electrically is easy engineering design - just not a practical choice in the domestic arena. The microwave solution still has to get around that problem, it appears to me.
I appreciate that logic but given that the closest pass varies, I don't think you can assume circular orbits. Maybe the observer's location on Earth is irrelevant?
For "orbit", please read "pass". (!)
EDT is 4 hours behind of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), ergo closest orbit will be at 03:25 a.m. UTC.
I think.
Unless you (as I) get into just one game. (UT for me.)
But point taken. Obscene amount to pay. Anyone spending that much on video cards for home use literally has far more money than sense, IMHO.
(Must be getting old when I start using phrases my Dad used against me...)
A lesser extent? Depends whether you mean on a userbase or feature perspective.
I think MS would be naive not to regard OSS suites as eventual direct competition for MSOffice - and therefore be influenced by that competition already. How much more should a word processor be able to do? MSOffice already does way too much for most people - and has done for at least a couple of versions.
With no practical feature improvements to make on their own product, MS ought to be looking over their shoulder to see free word processors fast approaching to cull their cash cow.
Now (as per Firefox vs MSIE, for example) to overcome market share...
I think the EU is headed towards a single state. Whilst that will probably not happen in my lifetime, it is surely a logical move and I personally believe Europe will be better off for it.
In the meantime, the differences between member states on scores of issues and the frequency of changing (and changing back!) its rules provides EU citizens with a chaotic system within which we try to conduct our business. I've lived in 3 EU countries and the business/political framework doesn't seem to be making it any easier to work or live across its internal borders. (Quite the contrary!)
Whilst I recognize local identity, history and culture to be of great importance, I have little respect for blind nationalism.
As far as I'm concerned, the sooner people and their elective representatives are happy to recognise that a single state is a_good_idea_, the better. Maybe then, European law can be written for the benefit of Europe rather than trying to benefit individual member states at the expense of others.
Miro's motives in GPL-ing Mambo in the first place is a puzzle if they wanted the open source development to assist their commercial product. Applying the GPL just let it out of the box, never to be recaptured as proprietary. Unless I have a very wrong understanding of the GPL (which I admit is not impossible).
With the development team gone, now all Miro has left is the name, right? The name isn't worthless (far from it, I'm sure) but momentum is likely to be with the team rather than its old "sponsor".
I don't see it as cannon-fodder against OSS if the dev team get their act together quickly.
If the user support and development is to continue under a new name with minimum disruption, existing users need not worry.
You think Miro would hire developers to continue development on GPL'd code when the original team continues their competing OSS work elsewhere? Little chance of that, IMHO.
TFA makes no reference to multiple (distributed) antennae - which was my initial thought on how range might be widened.
(But anyway, that would defeat the purpose of not having an ethernet system with multiple wireless access points, right? Certainly sounds less cost-effective than ethernet.)
Agree with parent - I'm also not seeing why this device has so much capacity when range (and therefore potential users) appears so limited.
I don't think so.
Apple's advantage is in their quality. I think they will be staying out of the bargain basement.
If you really want to believe Jobs will license a third-party manufacturer to compete with themselves (!) then you should look no further than the nod/wink Jobs shared with the Sony guy when they joked about collaboration recently. But that's not going to happen either, IMHO.
iTunes not just for Macs, of course.
;)
Between iTunes, Azureus, iPodder and Firefox, all my music "purchasing" software is the same on my PowerBook and wintel desktop.
If a user even knows they should be patching an operating system, you're talking about a level of user awareness that probably suggests that Windows really is easy to patch for them.
:)
And, of course, MS makes sure they get plenty of practice.
No. Most people are not computer geeks. They use a computer as a tool for real work. Most people prefer their computing time to be easy.
Most people don't understand the benefits of Linux over Windows.
Like it or not, the entire Linux experience is not easy to most people.