How many Macs were sold in 2005? How many XBox 360? PS2? Gamecube? Apple isn't the biggest customer, just the more "publicited" one. Power CPUs aren't only on Macs.
Yes, we have tools to "don't need to get under the hood" (as you say) but if all programmers use this tools... What happens if we need a better STL? Sorry, nobody knows how to do it 'cause nobody knows how to "get under the hood". If all programmers use this tools and don't know how it works programming will become black magic (dark magic if you prefer).
Would you like your gobernment used a closed source OS made in (let say) Cuba/Russia/Saudi Arabia? How could you know if there was a backdoor? or even if there's a wall on the back? The same goes for anything that comes from Microsoft (for it's closed source, nothing political). And when you have some "national pride" telling they won't hurt you... it may be fine. But if you're not the US Gobernment, why do you have to trust Microsoft on such a delicate thing as all citizens data gathered by the social security, the postoffices or any gobernment entity?
Madrid still hasn't, but Extremadura, Andalucia, Valencia, Catalonia and Balearic Islands have (in bigger or lesser degree) opted for OSS. I think Hannover (or was it Munich?) has opted too for OSS. So is not "what if they had" because they had already opted.
People burning cars (and everything else) in France were saying "stop building mosques and start giving us jobs" even before they began burning anything. And if you think "express oneself religious throughout their daily life, whether they're in school or not" is a good thing... I disagree. It's the best way to turn a group against other ("look at those &%@$#* arabs") spetialy if they are in school.
Which part of Aliens (except, maybe, biology) ignored physics? They didn't took a week to get to the planet IIRC. And while they were terraforming the planet it had lots of wind and clowds, but they didn't need masks of space suits (like in Alien) because there's enought oxigen, pressure,... They're not gonna do a physics lesson in a movie.
...like changing a multinational crew by an Northamerican-one-person-crew, changing science for religion in some points, a grobal point of view about space science changed in a "we (USA) pay it all",... yes, an accurate movie:P Just like Rising Sun, yes.
So being equal NOW proves we are different? I'm not saying we were free in Spain when Franco was fu***ng Spain. But he (luckily) died 30 years ago. And I'm glad to read there are people telling everybody Bush is a traitor, not because he is a traitor or not (opinions are like asses, everyone has one) but for knowing that in the US there is MORE freedom than you seem to have (seeing from outside).
The vast majority of popular sites in the US are in the US. Do you think everybody else "need" to read US sites just for being US sites? And the "we created it" argument... "Daimler Benz and Citroën build the first cars, so you don't have any right to have cars". Did I understand it right? And the vast majority of the network that carries traffic is owned by a US company that has security problems lately.
But in Spain there's a "thing" (I can't call it a person) that speaks in a morning radio program that says every day that our goverment was put there by terrorists, that they are making hidden treaties with terrorist, that our King is too lazy to do anything about this. Is there someone in your beloved US saying such things (or something like them)? Anyone says openly in your country that George W. Bush is a traitor to the US? Of course, without being send to Guantanamo.
And conciousness may be regained on different altitude depending on the co/pilot lungs (if s/he lives near the see or in a mountain). It would be not very smart to have the pilot concious and having to wait other 1000ft to take control of the plane.
Here (in Majorca. Spain) the main problem are tourists. People that live here tend to drive normal (not everybody, but...) but tourists don't use turn lights, rear mirrors or anything else that has something to do with safety. You can't get close to a rented car without worrying about being hit or at least scared with an "imaginative way of driving".
People that live in Majorca mainly have a problem with brakes (too much use) but there aren't so many "kamikazes" to be afraid to drive on winter (almost no tourists)... except when it's raining.
P.S. : I think the main problem with driving is living in a big city. You get accustomed to drive as if you had your ass on fire.
Think about a Vista+DRM+TCPA+... user wants to send something to his/her friend that has an old computer with any non TC OS. Suddenly you can't. And it won't be 90% XP users migrating to Vista in a month. So you will be "alone" until you A) have more known people having Vista B) go back to an older Windows or go to another OS. Add your point and tell me if there's any reason to use TC.
M$ loosing market will help someone other than PC users. It will help Nintendo. Sony is having huge economic problems (at least is what I'm reading everywere), and M$ will have them too. Not now, or even in a year but maybe the Revolution 2 will be the only next-next generation console. Except for SEGA going back to hardware:P
I did install an XP with different users for admin and "normal" work to someone that doesn't have computer expertice. TWO days after the install she was telling me "tell me the other password" (the admin one). She was UNABLE to use her computer normaly. She was bugged all the time with "you don't have enought rights" messages. And she was NOT changing anything except for desktop icons and the wallpaper. Sure she was making some more things, but not anything more than setting the computer to her needs.
XP is unusable with a non-admin account. Maybe it's not M$ fault but third party programs. But if M$ had not accustommed third party programmers to be in admin mode there won't be a problem now with non-admin accounts.
Thanks, US, for invading Cuba and Philippines when it was Spanish. Thanks for helping Europe AFTER you were bombed by Japan (prior to this many american fortunes were made trading with nazi Germany). Thank you for helping Europe in the WWI... but not from the beginning. Thank you for letting Franco stay calm in Spain BECAUSE HE WAS A NATIONAL-CHRISTIAN DICTATOR. Oh, and thank you too for pushing patents laws in Europe.
Yes, we Europeans have to give many thanks to the US (government).
It's not from Asimov, but 'Foundation's triumph' is a good book (maybe not on par with Asimov's). And something that I like about this book is the chronology that goes from 'I, robot' (Susan Calvin is born, USRMM is created) up to 1054 years after the Foundation. The last date is the best thing of the book (IMHO).
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How many Macs were sold in 2005? How many XBox 360? PS2? Gamecube? Apple isn't the biggest customer, just the more "publicited" one. Power CPUs aren't only on Macs.
Yes, we have tools to "don't need to get under the hood" (as you say) but if all programmers use this tools... What happens if we need a better STL? Sorry, nobody knows how to do it 'cause nobody knows how to "get under the hood". If all programmers use this tools and don't know how it works programming will become black magic (dark magic if you prefer).
Read Isaac Asimov's "Profession". He explains it better.
To the one that thinks I'm a troll: It was a QUESTION
mmm... Vista == XP SP3?
Or even better: don't buy the console so they have a $400+ lose
Would you like your gobernment used a closed source OS made in (let say) Cuba/Russia/Saudi Arabia? How could you know if there was a backdoor? or even if there's a wall on the back? The same goes for anything that comes from Microsoft (for it's closed source, nothing political). And when you have some "national pride" telling they won't hurt you... it may be fine. But if you're not the US Gobernment, why do you have to trust Microsoft on such a delicate thing as all citizens data gathered by the social security, the postoffices or any gobernment entity?
Madrid still hasn't, but Extremadura, Andalucia, Valencia, Catalonia and Balearic Islands have (in bigger or lesser degree) opted for OSS. I think Hannover (or was it Munich?) has opted too for OSS. So is not "what if they had" because they had already opted.
People burning cars (and everything else) in France were saying "stop building mosques and start giving us jobs" even before they began burning anything. And if you think "express oneself religious throughout their daily life, whether they're in school or not" is a good thing... I disagree. It's the best way to turn a group against other ("look at those &%@$#* arabs") spetialy if they are in school.
Which part of Aliens (except, maybe, biology) ignored physics? They didn't took a week to get to the planet IIRC. And while they were terraforming the planet it had lots of wind and clowds, but they didn't need masks of space suits (like in Alien) because there's enought oxigen, pressure, ... They're not gonna do a physics lesson in a movie.
...like changing a multinational crew by an Northamerican-one-person-crew, changing science for religion in some points, a grobal point of view about space science changed in a "we (USA) pay it all", ... yes, an accurate movie :P Just like Rising Sun, yes.
memo (in Spanish)? as in the first meaning? :P
So being equal NOW proves we are different? I'm not saying we were free in Spain when Franco was fu***ng Spain. But he (luckily) died 30 years ago. And I'm glad to read there are people telling everybody Bush is a traitor, not because he is a traitor or not (opinions are like asses, everyone has one) but for knowing that in the US there is MORE freedom than you seem to have (seeing from outside).
What if he had too your remote?
The vast majority of popular sites in the US are in the US. Do you think everybody else "need" to read US sites just for being US sites? And the "we created it" argument... "Daimler Benz and Citroën build the first cars, so you don't have any right to have cars". Did I understand it right? And the vast majority of the network that carries traffic is owned by a US company that has security problems lately.
But in Spain there's a "thing" (I can't call it a person) that speaks in a morning radio program that says every day that our goverment was put there by terrorists, that they are making hidden treaties with terrorist, that our King is too lazy to do anything about this. Is there someone in your beloved US saying such things (or something like them)? Anyone says openly in your country that George W. Bush is a traitor to the US? Of course, without being send to Guantanamo.
You buy a DVD, go to your home, put it in your DVD, the one you use with your TV. You don't see anything. You don't buy it again.
Dark star?
And conciousness may be regained on different altitude depending on the co/pilot lungs (if s/he lives near the see or in a mountain). It would be not very smart to have the pilot concious and having to wait other 1000ft to take control of the plane.
It's nice to see ALL Airbus employees and their families post in Slashdot (HA).
Here (in Majorca. Spain) the main problem are tourists. People that live here tend to drive normal (not everybody, but...) but tourists don't use turn lights, rear mirrors or anything else that has something to do with safety. You can't get close to a rented car without worrying about being hit or at least scared with an "imaginative way of driving".
People that live in Majorca mainly have a problem with brakes (too much use) but there aren't so many "kamikazes" to be afraid to drive on winter (almost no tourists)... except when it's raining.
P.S. : I think the main problem with driving is living in a big city. You get accustomed to drive as if you had your ass on fire.
Think about a Vista+DRM+TCPA+... user wants to send something to his/her friend that has an old computer with any non TC OS. Suddenly you can't. And it won't be 90% XP users migrating to Vista in a month. So you will be "alone" until you A) have more known people having Vista B) go back to an older Windows or go to another OS. Add your point and tell me if there's any reason to use TC.
M$ loosing market will help someone other than PC users. It will help Nintendo. Sony is having huge economic problems (at least is what I'm reading everywere), and M$ will have them too. Not now, or even in a year but maybe the Revolution 2 will be the only next-next generation console. Except for SEGA going back to hardware :P
I did install an XP with different users for admin and "normal" work to someone that doesn't have computer expertice. TWO days after the install she was telling me "tell me the other password" (the admin one). She was UNABLE to use her computer normaly. She was bugged all the time with "you don't have enought rights" messages. And she was NOT changing anything except for desktop icons and the wallpaper. Sure she was making some more things, but not anything more than setting the computer to her needs.
XP is unusable with a non-admin account. Maybe it's not M$ fault but third party programs. But if M$ had not accustommed third party programmers to be in admin mode there won't be a problem now with non-admin accounts.
Thanks, US, for invading Cuba and Philippines when it was Spanish. Thanks for helping Europe AFTER you were bombed by Japan (prior to this many american fortunes were made trading with nazi Germany). Thank you for helping Europe in the WWI... but not from the beginning. Thank you for letting Franco stay calm in Spain BECAUSE HE WAS A NATIONAL-CHRISTIAN DICTATOR. Oh, and thank you too for pushing patents laws in Europe.
Yes, we Europeans have to give many thanks to the US (government).
Stop thinking 'Hollywood movies' = 'real world'.
It's not from Asimov, but 'Foundation's triumph' is a good book (maybe not on par with Asimov's). And something that I like about this book is the chronology that goes from 'I, robot' (Susan Calvin is born, USRMM is created) up to 1054 years after the Foundation. The last date is the best thing of the book (IMHO).