Now how far should the automaker go? Should you be able to install a thirdparty glove box? A steering wheel? or a gear box and transmission? The automobile is quite tangible and most consumers are well informed and they vote with their dollars in these questions. If they make a car that will accept only Ford tires, the marketplace will shun it. It is possible the glove box (and possibly the windshield) was thirdparty add-on way back in 1910s. And eventually it got incorporated into the automobile.
You can! I can rip out the transmission on my '94 Corolla and put in a different one. It might not work as well, however, that's a function of whether the replacement is better than the original.
I can't rip out the Windows Desktop Search on Vista. Too many other parts of the OS won't work without it. What many people really want is to totally and completely remove WDS and use GDS. Having both installed at the same time is wasteful and annoying.
You should listen more to those people that complain about the MSFT monopoly being abused to force inferior bullshit into adoption, despite that there are vastly superior things out there. Do you remember something called Netscape? Perhaps not. Let me refresh your memory, or perhaps I'll be totally educating you.
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...
Windows 95 had just been released, and Apple was still in its historic "800 Days of Beige" program. The best web browser out there previously was a cool little thing called Netscape, which later imparted its codebase to Mozilla in its dying breath, just before the axe of MSFT came down. What happened?
Microsoft wanted Win95 to be Internet capable right out of the install. To do that, they needed a web browser. Enter, Internet Explorer. IE 1.0 was buggy, slow, and generally a total piece of crud. However, it was easier to use that than to shut IE up and use Netscape. Netscape retreated to its Apple fortress. MSFT besieged that by releasing IE for OS 8. Netscape died, however, right before they snuffed it, they gave their codebase to a new generation of these new "Open Source" people, and thus Mozilla was born (which later reincarnated itself as Firefox to combat the IE 6.0 demon).
Because IE was the default, and it was prohibitively difficult to deactivate it due to its high level of integration into the OS, Netscape was unable to compete with IE in the Windows 95 battlespace. Then, when most of the internet sites were rewritten for IE, MSFT sent IE to Mac. Webmasters, in the spirit of laziness, removed Netscape support from their sites, and IE won. That would never have happened if IE hadn't shipped with Win95.
What if MSFT had made Netscape the default browser, opening up the OS libraries and promoting a higher level of cohesion between third party applications and Windows? We may never know.
What if MSFT had made Google Desktop Search the default DSE, opening up the OS libraries and promoting a higher level of cohesion between third party applications and Windows? We may never know.
HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF. IF YOU FAIL TO RECOGNIZE THE SIGNS, YOU ARE DAMNED TO REPEAT IT! SOME OF YOU PEOPLE ARE NOT DOING SO GOOD!
Screw communism (no offense, read what I have to say). What do you think Democracies are going to do with this? I can imagine congressmen buying $60,000.00 copies of this product to determine exactly who's in their voting region, match up the IPs on the internet, and then use that to further harass us every time an election comes around! It's madness! At least in Communist states they put you out of your misery and do you in! Here is America they keep you alive so they can keep exploiting you... "It's the worst system of government - except for all others tried."
Drugs destroyed the life of a family member. The vicious addictive cycle of drug abuse almost killed him. Forgive me for "Knowing" that they ruin lives, but you obviously must either have a poor understanding of the term "freedom of opinion" or have had your brain destroyed by your drugs (though I'm hoping the former, since the latter would be a very sad thing indeed.)
When people cant think properly because they've taken too many drugs
No, it's criminal negligence, just the same as if they put on a blindfold and got into their car. That doesn't mean that owning opaque pieces of cloth should be a crime.
You're missing the entire point. An opaque piece of cloth has many uses. What would you use the drugs for it not to intoxicate yourself, thereby endangering both yourself and others?
The Law cannot tell you what to think, however, it is supposed to prevent you from harming yourself or anyone else. Possession of illegal drugs is illegal because there isn't any real use for them. What are you going to do, make a paste to add pigments to in order to make a painting of your house? Realistically, hard drugs have no value other than for getting high. By contrast, opaque strips of fibrous material can be used in many places, as lifesaving tourniquets, or as clothing, or as rope to secure a tree so it doesn't smash your neighbor's car during an intense windstorm.
You can argue the medicinal uses of hard drugs all you want, however, those aren't illegal. They're prescribed, manufactured, and administered in controlled environments. Who knows what stringent FDA-approved tests your corner drug-lord went through to ensure that your coke doesn't have anything else in it that could kill you (other than the cocaine).
Furthermore, the psychological ramifications of using an artificial substance to stimulate/depress your brain in order to create/depress emotions are all absolutely detrimental to your health. The addictive nature of neurological medicines make them all the more dangerous. Think of the smoker who needs to take a 5 minute break every hour to placate a massive nicotine addiction! He's lost his freedom of choice: if he does not acquire his nicotine fix, he will experience an acute psychological breakdown after enough time has passed. That's why it's so difficult for people to quit smoking by going cold-turkey. Those that do need to be tied to their bed and isolated until the psychological effects have abated to the point that they can begin to show signs of recovery.
You're arguing the freedom to use substances which take away your freedom. Perhaps you should get off the drugs long enough for your frontal lobe to develop - you know, the part of your head which deals in high-level cognitive areas like foresight and long-range planning.
Everyone who has to use ClearCase hates it. The processes are weird and the tools that you're forced to use are buggy. I've heard people cite ClearCase as a good reason to look for another job. The guy in the next cube had three weeks of work destroyed by a ClearCase update one morning. He smashed his keyboard into 101 pieces on the floor. No wonder he was so mad! His keyboard didn't have the all-powerful Windows/Apple key! (dodges office chairs thrown by UNIX fans everywhere)
Those aren't really good measurable benchmarks you've chosen. The best benchmark is knowing how the hardware works. A big item to look at is the number of pixel pipelines (my GeForce 7800 GS OC can beat the crap out of a 8500 because it has 16 pixel pipelines) and the shading engine support. More and more applications are using less geometry (because it complicates the physics) and more shading and higher-resolution textures to attain graphical nirvana. The better the shader engine and the more pixel pipelines the better the card will perform. The truth is that there is already so much memory bandwidth that there really isn't much that can slow down there unless you're building your own custom game with a nastily written renderer.
In addition, your benchmark sort of requires that you buy the card and test it or rely on the tests of other people. Those other people can actually be biased (gasp - it's like they're human or something!)
Yes, they are more interested in video piracy than spambots. If they let video piracy continue, something even worse than spambots comes: LAWYERBOTS!!! (queue the ImperialMarch.avi file, please...)
A bit of Cold-war tactics would do well here. It both ATI and NVIDIA are constantly analyzing each others technology, they'll be able to call each other out when IP infringement does occur. And by leaving the rest of it open they can leave the OSS community able to maintain drivers et cetera without needing to sink funds into doing it themselves, maybe even getting a few innovations from the OSS community in gratitude for the change of tactics.
Quite simply, Microsoft is attacking Linux with their tested-and-true EEA stategem: Embrace, Extend, Abandon. They're "embracing" Linux by increasing interoperability, they'll extend it with some more interoperability, the they'll abandon it by claiming that it's not cost-effective enough to continue supporting in later versions and MSFT-issued "standards." They then hope that people will abandon Linux to follow the Holy Standard as set forth by the MSFT Messiah.
And also quite simply, this won't work. We've already got about 75% of all the interoperability junk working without any help from Redmond (we can read.docs, read and write from Windows network shares, etc.) All MS needs to do is fill in the final mile, and then I think that the OSS community will take it from there. MSFT knows this, and that's why I think they've taken so long in executing their famous EEA attack spread. Bill wouldn't do it 'cause he's smart and knows it will fail. Ballmer will do it because he's an emo idiot.
Anyone else have something different to say? That's just my speculation, though I was wrong once and could be wrong again ; )
It's also really unfair comparing CLR and C# to Java.
Java runs on x86, x86_64, PPC, Itanium 64, and many many others I don't care to list. It also has OS compatibility with Solaris, Linux, Windows, OS X, and a few others I can't remember.
C#/CLR is totally pathetic. Two architectures: x86 and x86_64. One OS: Windows NT and progeny.
The next person to compare Java and C# better have a C# program running on ALL of those platforms NATIVELY without any Mono tricks or anything before you get modded down as a mindless FUD person.
The differences in platform compatibility make Java and C# incomparable. They're totally different tools. C# is for internal company tools which only need to work in tightly controlled lab-like environments where everyone has the right version of.NET. Java is for Enterprise-class multiplatform deployments where a robust and reliable system is needed.
All other talk is just Microsoft fanboys being blind followers of the Great Idiosyncrasy.
The French had a glorious Empire that was massively more powerful than the British Empire at the time in the pre-Napoleanic years. Napolean brought them to their greatest height, and their worst defeat of the 19th Century.
The reason for the French jokes is that 20th century France is just a long tale of surrenders, from WWI to WWII to Viet Nam. The French soiled their history with some modern faux paus, nothing more.
Actually, Blizzard has been alluding to a "World of Starcraft" game for quite some time. Ever since WoW's mid-2005 patch round, if you turn around really fast you can see a faint glimpse of a Zerg Hydralisk in the bushes right before it buries itself.
As someone who takes history very seriously, I feel constrained to answer your misconception.
Stalin was a Stalinist, which is not anything like Communism. Stalin used communist ideals as the springboard for his new form of government. Stalin's system of rule is different from dictatorship only in that a dictator is still morally bound to do that which is best of his people. Stalin was bound by nothing.
I would ask that you stop disgracing a perfectly good form of government by associating it with Stalin's horribly corrupted form of that government. Communism is a very noble concept, and deserves the respect due to such a well-developed solution to the unsolvable problem: "which form of government is best?"
I think one of the major reasons why AMD did so poorly last quarter was its silly marketing campaign. Towering signs on billboards and large airport ads tout AMD as "smarter choice", since it uses less power.
Marketing a chip as using less power is the same as having Toyota make an exclusive advertising campaign toward wheel-chair bound people: the group you're targeting has few people in it and they're going to research any product they buy. The server market is important, but when I buy my shiny new server, power consumption isn't my first consideration, nor is that the only thing AMD offers. Exactly. The people who actually need lower power consumption in their chips know where to go find the data sheets to do it. The ads that AMD marketed were horrible.
Exactly. That minor is using YOUR wireless network and therefore taking the responsibility upon himself. If I take BART to San Francisco and get injured by the third electric rail, it's my own freaking fault! I can't sue BART for using a potentially dangerous system to power their trains. Similarly, information is a very deadly weapon and if that kid connects to it he's essentially stepping into the station where that "dangerous" electric third rail is.
Of course, SCO probably doesn't know this 'cause they just use their corporate jet all the time:/
This is a messed up world where a person in China can pirate Vista and get away with it and I - a US Citizen - can't even afford the cheapest version of Vista and can't pirate it at all.
Am I going to die soon? They say that life sucks and then you die, y'know...
A "Secure Windows?" I think Bush mispoke (again) and really meant to say "Linux." Personally, I'd settle on Apple, too. Actually, I think we'd see a paradigm shifting without a clutch if anyone in government got an Apple PC...
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You can! I can rip out the transmission on my '94 Corolla and put in a different one. It might not work as well, however, that's a function of whether the replacement is better than the original.
I can't rip out the Windows Desktop Search on Vista. Too many other parts of the OS won't work without it. What many people really want is to totally and completely remove WDS and use GDS. Having both installed at the same time is wasteful and annoying.
You should listen more to those people that complain about the MSFT monopoly being abused to force inferior bullshit into adoption, despite that there are vastly superior things out there. Do you remember something called Netscape? Perhaps not. Let me refresh your memory, or perhaps I'll be totally educating you.
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...
Windows 95 had just been released, and Apple was still in its historic "800 Days of Beige" program. The best web browser out there previously was a cool little thing called Netscape, which later imparted its codebase to Mozilla in its dying breath, just before the axe of MSFT came down. What happened?
Microsoft wanted Win95 to be Internet capable right out of the install. To do that, they needed a web browser. Enter, Internet Explorer. IE 1.0 was buggy, slow, and generally a total piece of crud. However, it was easier to use that than to shut IE up and use Netscape. Netscape retreated to its Apple fortress. MSFT besieged that by releasing IE for OS 8. Netscape died, however, right before they snuffed it, they gave their codebase to a new generation of these new "Open Source" people, and thus Mozilla was born (which later reincarnated itself as Firefox to combat the IE 6.0 demon).
Because IE was the default, and it was prohibitively difficult to deactivate it due to its high level of integration into the OS, Netscape was unable to compete with IE in the Windows 95 battlespace. Then, when most of the internet sites were rewritten for IE, MSFT sent IE to Mac. Webmasters, in the spirit of laziness, removed Netscape support from their sites, and IE won. That would never have happened if IE hadn't shipped with Win95.
What if MSFT had made Netscape the default browser, opening up the OS libraries and promoting a higher level of cohesion between third party applications and Windows? We may never know.
What if MSFT had made Google Desktop Search the default DSE, opening up the OS libraries and promoting a higher level of cohesion between third party applications and Windows? We may never know.
HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF. IF YOU FAIL TO RECOGNIZE THE SIGNS, YOU ARE DAMNED TO REPEAT IT! SOME OF YOU PEOPLE ARE NOT DOING SO GOOD!
End of history lesson.
Screw communism (no offense, read what I have to say). What do you think Democracies are going to do with this? I can imagine congressmen buying $60,000.00 copies of this product to determine exactly who's in their voting region, match up the IPs on the internet, and then use that to further harass us every time an election comes around! It's madness! At least in Communist states they put you out of your misery and do you in! Here is America they keep you alive so they can keep exploiting you... "It's the worst system of government - except for all others tried."
Drugs destroyed the life of a family member. The vicious addictive cycle of drug abuse almost killed him. Forgive me for "Knowing" that they ruin lives, but you obviously must either have a poor understanding of the term "freedom of opinion" or have had your brain destroyed by your drugs (though I'm hoping the former, since the latter would be a very sad thing indeed.)
When people cant think properly because they've taken too many drugs
No, it's criminal negligence, just the same as if they put on a blindfold and got into their car. That doesn't mean that owning opaque pieces of cloth should be a crime.
You're missing the entire point. An opaque piece of cloth has many uses. What would you use the drugs for it not to intoxicate yourself, thereby endangering both yourself and others?
The Law cannot tell you what to think, however, it is supposed to prevent you from harming yourself or anyone else. Possession of illegal drugs is illegal because there isn't any real use for them. What are you going to do, make a paste to add pigments to in order to make a painting of your house? Realistically, hard drugs have no value other than for getting high. By contrast, opaque strips of fibrous material can be used in many places, as lifesaving tourniquets, or as clothing, or as rope to secure a tree so it doesn't smash your neighbor's car during an intense windstorm.
You can argue the medicinal uses of hard drugs all you want, however, those aren't illegal. They're prescribed, manufactured, and administered in controlled environments. Who knows what stringent FDA-approved tests your corner drug-lord went through to ensure that your coke doesn't have anything else in it that could kill you (other than the cocaine).
Furthermore, the psychological ramifications of using an artificial substance to stimulate/depress your brain in order to create/depress emotions are all absolutely detrimental to your health. The addictive nature of neurological medicines make them all the more dangerous. Think of the smoker who needs to take a 5 minute break every hour to placate a massive nicotine addiction! He's lost his freedom of choice: if he does not acquire his nicotine fix, he will experience an acute psychological breakdown after enough time has passed. That's why it's so difficult for people to quit smoking by going cold-turkey. Those that do need to be tied to their bed and isolated until the psychological effects have abated to the point that they can begin to show signs of recovery.
You're arguing the freedom to use substances which take away your freedom. Perhaps you should get off the drugs long enough for your frontal lobe to develop - you know, the part of your head which deals in high-level cognitive areas like foresight and long-range planning.
No wonder he was so mad! His keyboard didn't have the all-powerful Windows/Apple key! (dodges office chairs thrown by UNIX fans everywhere)
Those aren't really good measurable benchmarks you've chosen. The best benchmark is knowing how the hardware works. A big item to look at is the number of pixel pipelines (my GeForce 7800 GS OC can beat the crap out of a 8500 because it has 16 pixel pipelines) and the shading engine support. More and more applications are using less geometry (because it complicates the physics) and more shading and higher-resolution textures to attain graphical nirvana. The better the shader engine and the more pixel pipelines the better the card will perform. The truth is that there is already so much memory bandwidth that there really isn't much that can slow down there unless you're building your own custom game with a nastily written renderer.
In addition, your benchmark sort of requires that you buy the card and test it or rely on the tests of other people. Those other people can actually be biased (gasp - it's like they're human or something!)
Yes, they are more interested in video piracy than spambots. If they let video piracy continue, something even worse than spambots comes: LAWYERBOTS!!! (queue the ImperialMarch.avi file, please...)
Just a thought...
JAJAX?
And also quite simply, this won't work. We've already got about 75% of all the interoperability junk working without any help from Redmond (we can read .docs, read and write from Windows network shares, etc.) All MS needs to do is fill in the final mile, and then I think that the OSS community will take it from there. MSFT knows this, and that's why I think they've taken so long in executing their famous EEA attack spread. Bill wouldn't do it 'cause he's smart and knows it will fail. Ballmer will do it because he's an emo idiot.
Anyone else have something different to say? That's just my speculation, though I was wrong once and could be wrong again ; )
I was sort of hoping that Apple would support Java 6 in OS X. Maybe a trade: Java 6 for Open Office. Interesting...
You mean 0.03% - Most of the richest 3% don't have access to the experimental healthcare required.
Java runs on x86, x86_64, PPC, Itanium 64, and many many others I don't care to list. It also has OS compatibility with Solaris, Linux, Windows, OS X, and a few others I can't remember.
C#/CLR is totally pathetic. Two architectures: x86 and x86_64. One OS: Windows NT and progeny.
The next person to compare Java and C# better have a C# program running on ALL of those platforms NATIVELY without any Mono tricks or anything before you get modded down as a mindless FUD person.
The differences in platform compatibility make Java and C# incomparable. They're totally different tools. C# is for internal company tools which only need to work in tightly controlled lab-like environments where everyone has the right version of .NET. Java is for Enterprise-class multiplatform deployments where a robust and reliable system is needed.
All other talk is just Microsoft fanboys being blind followers of the Great Idiosyncrasy.
They got their butts kicked and almost lost Paris. My bad... sorry Frogs, guess my memory just ain't what it used to be!
The reason for the French jokes is that 20th century France is just a long tale of surrenders, from WWI to WWII to Viet Nam. The French soiled their history with some modern faux paus, nothing more.
Actually, Blizzard has been alluding to a "World of Starcraft" game for quite some time. Ever since WoW's mid-2005 patch round, if you turn around really fast you can see a faint glimpse of a Zerg Hydralisk in the bushes right before it buries itself.
Stalin was a Stalinist, which is not anything like Communism. Stalin used communist ideals as the springboard for his new form of government. Stalin's system of rule is different from dictatorship only in that a dictator is still morally bound to do that which is best of his people. Stalin was bound by nothing.
I would ask that you stop disgracing a perfectly good form of government by associating it with Stalin's horribly corrupted form of that government. Communism is a very noble concept, and deserves the respect due to such a well-developed solution to the unsolvable problem: "which form of government is best?"
Marketing a chip as using less power is the same as having Toyota make an exclusive advertising campaign toward wheel-chair bound people: the group you're targeting has few people in it and they're going to research any product they buy. The server market is important, but when I buy my shiny new server, power consumption isn't my first consideration, nor is that the only thing AMD offers.
Exactly. The people who actually need lower power consumption in their chips know where to go find the data sheets to do it. The ads that AMD marketed were horrible.
Of course, SCO probably doesn't know this 'cause they just use their corporate jet all the time :/
In your sig you said that we needed a -1 wrong mod. Were you speaking for yourself? ;)
This is a messed up world where a person in China can pirate Vista and get away with it and I - a US Citizen - can't even afford the cheapest version of Vista and can't pirate it at all. Am I going to die soon? They say that life sucks and then you die, y'know...
When are they going to validate Newton's laws of physics? Einstein Einstein Einstein is all we ever hear about these days, isn't it?
You are obviously in High School. Therefore, what you say is automatically false. Or, that's how my local board of education officials tell me.
A "Secure Windows?" I think Bush mispoke (again) and really meant to say "Linux." Personally, I'd settle on Apple, too. Actually, I think we'd see a paradigm shifting without a clutch if anyone in government got an Apple PC...