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"Ergonomic", Microsoft? I don't think that word means what you think it means. Someone please give me a joystick I can use! Those things are getting more wrong-handed with each new model.
At least Microsoft wised up about mice. The new Intellimouse Optical is symmetrical. --
When people talk about getting 200 fps in say Quake III, are they talking about an average of 200 fps in some timing demo? If so, bear in mind that in particular situations (large complex room, lots of other characters running around and shooting) the frame rate will drop much lower. So 200 fps average may ensure the frame rate stays about 60 or so almost all the time. --
It's great that you were able to find such evidence in your case, but I can't let this go without comment:
I would not be surprised to find that Microsoft has racist and discriminatory comments in their code.
There were no such comments in the many thousands of lines of code that I read and wrote at Microsoft while I was there (for five years, several years ago). While Microsoft was under pressure at times to improve their affirmative-action practices, I never noticed any discrimination against anyone (and most of my co-workers were not white, American, Christian men). --
You may not give a darn about Microsoft's source code, but Microsoft does, at least as much as any other software company [except Red Hat?:-)]
They care about their intellectual property to the extent of making employees sign non-disclosure agreements. And not allowing ex-employees to clean out their desks if they take a similar job with a competitor. Other companies do the same.
Anyway, Windows is not the only product Microsoft sells. Source code from Office was also compromised. I can imagine why competitors might want to look at how certain features work, given the feature-list "checkbox wars" that go on in the industry.
And they supposedly got information about some future products, too. That would certainly be worth something to a competitor, or as blackmail material. --
It doesn't matter who owns what, it's not OK to dump icons on my desktop. Most Windows installers that do this make it an option; if not the first thing I do is delete that shortcut.
I have installed software (forgot what it is) that put icons (i) on the desktop (ii) on the main Start menu (iii) on the Start menu under Programs. Give me a break! --
Being strapped for cash they can't afford to add.Net and expand the WINE API. [ No, $135 Million isn't enough to do both, IMHO.]
You're assuming they have no other source of funds. Which may not be far wrong -- but if true, then without that money Corel just goes under in the not-too-distant future. --
Those looking to save quite a bit of money on their motherboard and memory should definitely take a look at the 694D Pro, but since this is a dream system, we'll go with the slightly faster i840 despite the large price premium.
But how many instructions does the PIII execute at 2GHz? Answer: Zero, because they can't make it run that fast!
Comparing instructions-per-clock is exactly as pointless as comparing MHz. What matters is how many instructions it can execute per second (or better, how fast it executes your favourite program).
Since the longer pipeline has enabled them to double the clock speed, it seems like a good tradeoff. It may not be the only workable approach, but it's pretty obvious that the PIII architecture has been pushed as far as it'll go.
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Well, clearly, if you create a bunch of structs and then fill them with refs to other heap-allocated objects, you've defeated the purpose of reducing garbage collection.
But if your structs contain only "simple" data that can be contained directly in the structs (like ints or something, I don't know the details of C#), then you can avoid garbage collection on the bunch of structs.
I'm sure this would be a useful optimization in some situations, but I don't think it will be all that common. The garbage collector is still going to bear the brunt most of the time. Fortunately, garbage collectors are more efficient these days than back when I was using Interlisp. --
Comparison between an intelligent person and geophile:
Intelligent person: Knows the difference between reading an email and running a program. geophile: Types "format c:", then whines that Bill Gates destroyed his PC.
Intelligent person: Believes that ILOVEYOU is the fault of the person that wrote it, and to a lesser extent the naive users who carelessly ran it. geophile: Blames Microsoft for his dog's fleas.
Intelligent person: Realizes that running a program of unknown provenance, on any computer, may have unintended consequences. geophile: Has forgotten that the first virus was on an Apple ][, and a UNIX-based worm once clogged up the whole Internet. --
I'm on a phone line at home too, and I hate these over-the-modem setups.
I have a fast internet connection at work. I want to spend one minute downloading before I go home, rather than 45 minutes over the phone. And I don't care if it downloads a few things I won't install, as long as it all fits on a Zip disk. --
Heh. This is a letter-perfect example of the type of pseudo-scientific BS that orac2 was referring to.
"They" covered it up, the "scientific community" refused to listen (as opposed to refused to believe), no actual evidence for the phenomenon in question, failure to re-create Reich's experiments is taken as proof that he was right.
Not true. (I know, a naive young cow-orker of mine got bitten by GoHip.) It prompts the user with the usual ActiveX certificate dialog. Unless they've lowered their security settings explicitly. --
Why is this considered to be a problem with ActiveX security in particular?
Seems to me that installing the GoHip ActiveX is the same as clicking on HAPPY99.EXE. You're running a program that you got in email. Don't do that! --
I heard that it was political, rather than legal, issues that caused them to remove that feature. Like, two countries arguing about who owns some disputed territory, and therefore both claiming it should be in their time zone. I can't remember any specifics, though. --
The article also contains a mention of the boycott against Amazon, as well as a link to an alternative source for the video.
And that mention of Amazon has generated more negative than positive publicity for them. If you look at the rest of the comments, you'll see a lot of discussion of the Amazon boycott, including notes from people who didn't know about the boycott until they read this article.
Maybe it wasn't fair to mention just two sources for the video, but Geckoman was trying to be helpful, and obviously couldn't list every e-tailer on the Web. (Note, btw, that contrary to the conspiracy theorists, the Amazon link seems to have been submitted by a reader, not put in by the Slashdot editors.) --
By the same token, all Microsoft bashing should be forbidden, because every time someone mentions Microsoft it's like free advertising for Microsoft. (See how much mileage Microsoft is getting out of this one comment?) --
You're an idiot if you don't already know all the magic incantations to configure a Linux system;
Write your own config tool;
WINDOZE SUX
It seems that there are quite a few people who think that Linux should not be used by people who don't program; or that Linux is a club for nerds who can rhyme off everything in/etc without drawing breath.
If, on the other hand, Linux is supposed to be an OS that can actually be useful as an OS, shouldn't it be possible to install it properly without having another PC handy for Web queries? Fun's fun, but you shouldn't have to take a "Linux for Geeks" course before you can even boot it up.
I don't think the issue is so much GUI vs. CLI configuration, but rather having some tool available "to execute the tools that have already been written", as the article said.
Or maybe I'm wrong, and I'm just not ready to join the Holy Order of Linux Initiates. --
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Since the P4 is slower than one Athlon in most benchmarks, pitting it against a pair of Athla is just mean.
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At least Microsoft wised up about mice. The new Intellimouse Optical is symmetrical.
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When people talk about getting 200 fps in say Quake III, are they talking about an average of 200 fps in some timing demo? If so, bear in mind that in particular situations (large complex room, lots of other characters running around and shooting) the frame rate will drop much lower. So 200 fps average may ensure the frame rate stays about 60 or so almost all the time.
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I guess I should mention that I worked at Microsoft for a few years, a few years ago. And no, I won't send you any source code. :-)
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They care about their intellectual property to the extent of making employees sign non-disclosure agreements. And not allowing ex-employees to clean out their desks if they take a similar job with a competitor. Other companies do the same.
Anyway, Windows is not the only product Microsoft sells. Source code from Office was also compromised. I can imagine why competitors might want to look at how certain features work, given the feature-list "checkbox wars" that go on in the industry.
And they supposedly got information about some future products, too. That would certainly be worth something to a competitor, or as blackmail material.
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I have installed software (forgot what it is) that put icons (i) on the desktop (ii) on the main Start menu (iii) on the Start menu under Programs. Give me a break!
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Comparing instructions-per-clock is exactly as pointless as comparing MHz. What matters is how many instructions it can execute per second (or better, how fast it executes your favourite program).
Since the longer pipeline has enabled them to double the clock speed, it seems like a good tradeoff. It may not be the only workable approach, but it's pretty obvious that the PIII architecture has been pushed as far as it'll go.
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But if your structs contain only "simple" data that can be contained directly in the structs (like ints or something, I don't know the details of C#), then you can avoid garbage collection on the bunch of structs.
I'm sure this would be a useful optimization in some situations, but I don't think it will be all that common. The garbage collector is still going to bear the brunt most of the time. Fortunately, garbage collectors are more efficient these days than back when I was using Interlisp.
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Comparison between an intelligent person and geophile:
Intelligent person: Knows the difference between reading an email and running a program.
geophile: Types "format c:", then whines that Bill Gates destroyed his PC.
Intelligent person: Believes that ILOVEYOU is the fault of the person that wrote it, and to a lesser extent the naive users who carelessly ran it.
geophile: Blames Microsoft for his dog's fleas.
Intelligent person: Realizes that running a program of unknown provenance, on any computer, may have unintended consequences.
geophile: Has forgotten that the first virus was on an Apple ][, and a UNIX-based worm once clogged up the whole Internet.
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I guess some people can tell 'em and some people can't.
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I have a fast internet connection at work. I want to spend one minute downloading before I go home, rather than 45 minutes over the phone. And I don't care if it downloads a few things I won't install, as long as it all fits on a Zip disk.
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They're looking for a better encryption algorithm for CSS.
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"They" covered it up, the "scientific community" refused to listen (as opposed to refused to believe), no actual evidence for the phenomenon in question, failure to re-create Reich's experiments is taken as proof that he was right.
Classic crank stuff.
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All it takes to wreck a train is two kids and a 1.2m length of rail.
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Not true. (I know, a naive young cow-orker of mine got bitten by GoHip.) It prompts the user with the usual ActiveX certificate dialog. Unless they've lowered their security settings explicitly.
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Seems to me that installing the GoHip ActiveX is the same as clicking on HAPPY99.EXE. You're running a program that you got in email. Don't do that!
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I heard that it was political, rather than legal, issues that caused them to remove that feature. Like, two countries arguing about who owns some disputed territory, and therefore both claiming it should be in their time zone. I can't remember any specifics, though.
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And that mention of Amazon has generated more negative than positive publicity for them. If you look at the rest of the comments, you'll see a lot of discussion of the Amazon boycott, including notes from people who didn't know about the boycott until they read this article.
Maybe it wasn't fair to mention just two sources for the video, but Geckoman was trying to be helpful, and obviously couldn't list every e-tailer on the Web. (Note, btw, that contrary to the conspiracy theorists, the Amazon link seems to have been submitted by a reader, not put in by the Slashdot editors.)
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By the same token, all Microsoft bashing should be forbidden, because every time someone mentions Microsoft it's like free advertising for Microsoft. (See how much mileage Microsoft is getting out of this one comment?)
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- You're an idiot if you don't already know all the magic incantations to configure a Linux system;
- Write your own config tool;
- WINDOZE SUX
It seems that there are quite a few people who think that Linux should not be used by people who don't program; or that Linux is a club for nerds who can rhyme off everything inIf, on the other hand, Linux is supposed to be an OS that can actually be useful as an OS, shouldn't it be possible to install it properly without having another PC handy for Web queries? Fun's fun, but you shouldn't have to take a "Linux for Geeks" course before you can even boot it up.
I don't think the issue is so much GUI vs. CLI configuration, but rather having some tool available "to execute the tools that have already been written", as the article said.
Or maybe I'm wrong, and I'm just not ready to join the Holy Order of Linux Initiates.
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