TOnce that's done suddenly asynchronous notification of events is within reach of any program [...], and protocols and services layered on top of HTTP no longer have to contort themselves to deal with the asymmetry of HTTP. They can assume that all the world's a server, and simply push and pull content to and from whereever they please."
I'm missing the part where this is a good idea. I want to trust unknown server(s) that I happen to visit to do more than provide HTML for consumption? Why on earth would I want to expose myself that way?
If you want true interactivity, code a "thick client" designed to work with the servers or services in question. Don't try to shoehorn it a web browser using HTTP transactions- and creating a whole new platform for security risks.
By Flash you mean "Any client side technology". ActiveX controls. Java applets. Platform-specific exes. It's called "networking" - and there are methods far better suited for it than an environment that is designed to be "client-server" only - with the role of "client" and that of 'server' being fairly clearly defined. Sure, it's possible to create such a monstrosity as described in TFA - but why when there are so many better, more secure, and more efficient ways to do it?
Even so - that doesn't account for compromised servers. Or, for that matter, poor coding on the server - there doesn't have to be malicious intent for thist o cause harm.
And other people will try to discredit an argument when they realize that the argument is right, and they have no rebuttal to it.
Under WinXP I could, and DID do this - never with any problems. I would typically run at total usage of about 1.8GB, including a 3d modeling app, software development tools, and several other apps.
If I ever had an issue, it was because I didn't watch system memory usage closely enough -- which was my own fault, a risk I choose to take when turning off swap space.
Under Windows 7, I could not run even half of my normal applications this way without running into out of memory crashes -- even though the memory reported as available in task manager.
You can try to discredit the issue by claiming it's "absurd", but the fact remains that it's a valid use case. Windows has a nasty tendancy to swap things to disk that I don't want it to - causing poor performance when I frequently switch between applications. This is admittedly improved under Windows 7, but it is still far from perfect.
Most people with even a modicum of common sense aren't going to run "memory intensive applications" on a 2GB system without a swapfile and actually actually expect anything to function properly.
It's ok. I understand how hard it is for some folks to admit that Windows Vista/7 really does require a shitload more memory, and that the high memory usage isn't strictly due to caching as MS would have you believe. But the fact remains that under Windows XP I ran this way for years, and enjoyed a much better experience because of it.
Under Windows 7, because of its extreme memory requirements, this is not possible.
Anyway, why spell it "Qi" when the Chinese/Japanese language does not use the Latin script ?
Pinyin is the standard method of Romanization -- using latin script to represent the phonetics of languages not written in the roman alphabet -- for Mandarin Chinese. Each letter/letter group has a specific phonetic pronunciation under this system - and "q" represent "ch". (As far as the deeper reasons - why that was chosen in the first place - I have no idea.
ess. Also, my employees have started bringing in their personal laptops with Ubuntu on them
.... please tell me that none of them has to handle customer data in their day-to-day work? Or failing that, please tell me that all of these personal laptops have hardware-level encryption on the HDDs?
I still have plenty of memory for doing other thing
Try turning off the swap file and see how much memory Win7 is really using. Under XP it was possible to do this safely as long as you monitored your app memory usage to make sure you didn't go over limit. In win 7, turning off swap (with 2GB physical RAM) causes many, many headaches primarily in the form of seemingly random application crashes, if you use memory-intensive apps.
Win7 has many UI improvements -- seemingly taken from KDE for the most part -- and its swap behavior is improved (does a better job of deciding what to page out) . However it most definitely does not leave you plenty of memory for doing other things*.
* To those of you about to self-importantly proclaim that I don't know how windows 7 memory really works, and that it's not REALLY using more memory -- you're wrong.
Does Windows 7 have more DRM or less than Windows XP? I think my decision to switch will be primarily biased along that criteria.
You can do everything in 7 that you could do in XP (i.e. there are no new restrictions on existing stuff). On the other hand, it has new DRM for stuff which you can't handle without supporting some - such as BluRay.
Technically you can do more - as Win7 allows you to play back DVDs without extra software purchase/downloads. So Win7 supports more DRM'd formats, but on this basis I would have to say there is less actual DRM...
I still wonder why Microsoft chose the name "Windows 7". Any ideas? For all other OS names, there appeared to be a meaning behind those choices, but for Windows 7, I labor to find a reason.
"Addicted to" != "paying customer". How long would those addictions remaining if they had to pay for the games in question? In the context of market they don't add up to much at all -- unless your business plan involves giving away your games for free.
Something you are forgetting is police officers serve the public and are on public payroll, thus their jobs are public information and so is what they do.
Damn the consequences, right? Perhaps you also believe that all of our troop movements should be broadcast to the world ahead of time as well, since they are paid for by our taxes [in theory]. Doesn't matter that the people who'd want to kill them would use that information to their advantage: your Right to Know has been met, and that's all that counts!
Simple example to see the difference:
If I steal your cell phone, has anything been taken away from you? Definitely, yes.
If you refuse to pay a mechanic for running diagnostics on your car, has anything been stolen? Yes - his time and skills. Not all theft is of physical goods.
Diversity comes in many forms;what happens when one day we are all the same?
Ah, the old diversity card. Are you saying that your wife becomes less unique if she gains new abilities? I would think that makes her more unique, or "diverse" if you will. She would then have the experience of someone of learning an entirely new way of perception as an adult. How many people get to experience something that friggin' awesome in their lifespans?
The difference I see is that twitter is subscription-based - that is, you don't receive updates from people or places you don't want to, ever. This means there's no concerns around spam, or valid email lost in spam; or needing to go to ten different web sites to check the status of ten different services...
Twitter (read: mircoblogging) has tons of potential just waiting for imaginative developers.
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Funny slip that you should call it "mircoblogging" since Twitter is basically logged IRC without channels (hashtags even use #) and a dysfunctional search. Welcome to 15 years ago, kids.
Aside from seeing only what you actively ask to see, no netsplits, no egotistical server ops or chanops,one common protocol controlled by a single entity who provides a public API (in comparison to the flawed IRC RFC and the dozen different incompatible implementations of it).. oh wait - it's got practically nothing in common with IRC at all;)
So we conclude that I agreed with their TOS, but they didn't with mine?
yes - by completing the transaction with them, you explicitly agree to the contract conditions that they provide at the time of sale. If you wanted to impose your own conditions, you would have to get their explicit agreement.
Agreed, but in this case it's not retroactive - you see the terms before you make the purchase (if you click the link, which it is your responsibility to do.)
think you are missing the point. Dell says they are not receiving returns except at the same rate. He means that linux netbooks are being returned at the same rate as windows netbook returns.
It depends on how you measure "rate of return". If you measure it as a percentage of sales, and this is true, then it's great news. If you measure it in actual numbers, then it's potentially as bad as MS has claimed. Let's say 75 windows netbooks are sold, and 25 linux netbooks. 5 linux netbooks are returned, 5 windows netbooks are returned. In that case, the rate of return is identical in terms of number of units, but the actual return rate is a much higher amount of the overall sales of the platform.
You say that, but did you look at the numbers on that page? The OpenOffice recommendation has more than 100,000 upvotes. Why would 100,000 people who don't care show up on Dell's webpage to click on that arrow?
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That's kind of the point. It's not 100,000 random people showing up. It's 100,000 people who have some vested interest - who are more likely to be OSS proponents.
There are plenty of simple casual games that have a much larger market than the "core" gamer market that will run perfectly fine on a netbook (or what ever the hell they are calling them now). The idea is to focus on game play and mechanics rather than eye candy
A lot of times people equate "I play this game" with "has a much larger market". The unfortunate truth seems to be that the highest numbers of the purchasing public are interested in the eye candy.
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TOnce that's done suddenly asynchronous notification of events is within reach of any program [...], and protocols and services layered on top of HTTP no longer have to contort themselves to deal with the asymmetry of HTTP. They can assume that all the world's a server, and simply push and pull content to and from whereever they please."
I'm missing the part where this is a good idea. I want to trust unknown server(s) that I happen to visit to do more than provide HTML for consumption? Why on earth would I want to expose myself that way?
If you want true interactivity, code a "thick client" designed to work with the servers or services in question. Don't try to shoehorn it a web browser using HTTP transactions- and creating a whole new platform for security risks.
By Flash you mean "Any client side technology". ActiveX controls. Java applets. Platform-specific exes. It's called "networking" - and there are methods far better suited for it than an environment that is designed to be "client-server" only - with the role of "client" and that of 'server' being fairly clearly defined. Sure, it's possible to create such a monstrosity as described in TFA - but why when there are so many better, more secure, and more efficient ways to do it?
Even so - that doesn't account for compromised servers. Or, for that matter, poor coding on the server - there doesn't have to be malicious intent for thist o cause harm.
Under WinXP I could, and DID do this - never with any problems. I would typically run at total usage of about 1.8GB, including a 3d modeling app, software development tools, and several other apps.
If I ever had an issue, it was because I didn't watch system memory usage closely enough -- which was my own fault, a risk I choose to take when turning off swap space.
Under Windows 7, I could not run even half of my normal applications this way without running into out of memory crashes -- even though the memory reported as available in task manager. You can try to discredit the issue by claiming it's "absurd", but the fact remains that it's a valid use case. Windows has a nasty tendancy to swap things to disk that I don't want it to - causing poor performance when I frequently switch between applications. This is admittedly improved under Windows 7, but it is still far from perfect.
Most people with even a modicum of common sense aren't going to run "memory intensive applications" on a 2GB system without a swapfile and actually actually expect anything to function properly.
It's ok. I understand how hard it is for some folks to admit that Windows Vista/7 really does require a shitload more memory, and that the high memory usage isn't strictly due to caching as MS would have you believe. But the fact remains that under Windows XP I ran this way for years, and enjoyed a much better experience because of it.
Under Windows 7, because of its extreme memory requirements, this is not possible.
Anyway, why spell it "Qi" when the Chinese/Japanese language does not use the Latin script ?
Pinyin is the standard method of Romanization -- using latin script to represent the phonetics of languages not written in the roman alphabet -- for Mandarin Chinese. Each letter/letter group has a specific phonetic pronunciation under this system - and "q" represent "ch". (As far as the deeper reasons - why that was chosen in the first place - I have no idea.
Windows 7 is a Service Pack to Windows Vista practically,
It's interesting how many people toss that out there without having any idea what changes really went on under the hood for Win7....
ess. Also, my employees have started bringing in their personal laptops with Ubuntu on them
.... please tell me that none of them has to handle customer data in their day-to-day work? Or failing that, please tell me that all of these personal laptops have hardware-level encryption on the HDDs?
I still have plenty of memory for doing other thing
Try turning off the swap file and see how much memory Win7 is really using. Under XP it was possible to do this safely as long as you monitored your app memory usage to make sure you didn't go over limit. In win 7, turning off swap (with 2GB physical RAM) causes many, many headaches primarily in the form of seemingly random application crashes, if you use memory-intensive apps.
Win7 has many UI improvements -- seemingly taken from KDE for the most part -- and its swap behavior is improved (does a better job of deciding what to page out) . However it most definitely does not leave you plenty of memory for doing other things*.
* To those of you about to self-importantly proclaim that I don't know how windows 7 memory really works, and that it's not REALLY using more memory -- you're wrong.
Does Windows 7 have more DRM or less than Windows XP? I think my decision to switch will be primarily biased along that criteria.
You can do everything in 7 that you could do in XP (i.e. there are no new restrictions on existing stuff). On the other hand, it has new DRM for stuff which you can't handle without supporting some - such as BluRay.
Technically you can do more - as Win7 allows you to play back DVDs without extra software purchase/downloads. So Win7 supports more DRM'd formats, but on this basis I would have to say there is less actual DRM...
I still wonder why Microsoft chose the name "Windows 7". Any ideas? For all other OS names, there appeared to be a meaning behind those choices, but for Windows 7, I labor to find a reason.
because mojave.com was already taken.
Damn, I thought you were joking. Then I read TFA and saw that you were right. Dude - you're psychic!
"Addicted to" != "paying customer". How long would those addictions remaining if they had to pay for the games in question? In the context of market they don't add up to much at all -- unless your business plan involves giving away your games for free.
Something you are forgetting is police officers serve the public and are on public payroll, thus their jobs are public information and so is what they do.
Damn the consequences, right? Perhaps you also believe that all of our troop movements should be broadcast to the world ahead of time as well, since they are paid for by our taxes [in theory]. Doesn't matter that the people who'd want to kill them would use that information to their advantage: your Right to Know has been met, and that's all that counts!
Simple example to see the difference: If I steal your cell phone, has anything been taken away from you? Definitely, yes.
If you refuse to pay a mechanic for running diagnostics on your car, has anything been stolen? Yes - his time and skills. Not all theft is of physical goods.
I also think that stealing (yep, that's the word) of commercial data isn't correct either
Ah, now you've done it. They're going to come out of the woodwork with their indignant justifications now ;)
Diversity comes in many forms;what happens when one day we are all the same?
Ah, the old diversity card. Are you saying that your wife becomes less unique if she gains new abilities? I would think that makes her more unique, or "diverse" if you will. She would then have the experience of someone of learning an entirely new way of perception as an adult. How many people get to experience something that friggin' awesome in their lifespans?
an amazing achievement, hopefully a preview of better things to come and a brighter future for us all
It's already considerably brighter for the woman with the new fovea...
Actually, given the nature of her defect, I would say it's considerably less bright - though this is a good thing.
The difference I see is that twitter is subscription-based - that is, you don't receive updates from people or places you don't want to, ever. This means there's no concerns around spam, or valid email lost in spam; or needing to go to ten different web sites to check the status of ten different services...
Twitter (read: mircoblogging) has tons of potential just waiting for imaginative developers.
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Funny slip that you should call it "mircoblogging" since Twitter is basically logged IRC without channels (hashtags even use #) and a dysfunctional search. Welcome to 15 years ago, kids.
Aside from seeing only what you actively ask to see, no netsplits, no egotistical server ops or chanops,one common protocol controlled by a single entity who provides a public API (in comparison to the flawed IRC RFC and the dozen different incompatible implementations of it) .. oh wait - it's got practically nothing in common with IRC at all ;)
So we conclude that I agreed with their TOS, but they didn't with mine?
yes - by completing the transaction with them, you explicitly agree to the contract conditions that they provide at the time of sale. If you wanted to impose your own conditions, you would have to get their explicit agreement.
Agreed, but in this case it's not retroactive - you see the terms before you make the purchase (if you click the link, which it is your responsibility to do.)
think you are missing the point. Dell says they are not receiving returns except at the same rate. He means that linux netbooks are being returned at the same rate as windows netbook returns.
It depends on how you measure "rate of return". If you measure it as a percentage of sales, and this is true, then it's great news. If you measure it in actual numbers, then it's potentially as bad as MS has claimed. Let's say 75 windows netbooks are sold, and 25 linux netbooks. 5 linux netbooks are returned, 5 windows netbooks are returned. In that case, the rate of return is identical in terms of number of units, but the actual return rate is a much higher amount of the overall sales of the platform.
You say that, but did you look at the numbers on that page? The OpenOffice recommendation has more than 100,000 upvotes. Why would 100,000 people who don't care show up on Dell's webpage to click on that arrow? I w
That's kind of the point. It's not 100,000 random people showing up. It's 100,000 people who have some vested interest - who are more likely to be OSS proponents.
I'd agree, but the key thing is to be 100% transparent -- let users know in big bold letters what you're going to do, before they download the client.
There are plenty of simple casual games that have a much larger market than the "core" gamer market that will run perfectly fine on a netbook (or what ever the hell they are calling them now). The idea is to focus on game play and mechanics rather than eye candy
A lot of times people equate "I play this game" with "has a much larger market". The unfortunate truth seems to be that the highest numbers of the purchasing public are interested in the eye candy.