I agree that Europe would do well to have it's own system for the reasons you mention, but they BETTER be able to degrade it at will, otherwise attackers will be able to build Galileo-driven targetting systems and cruise missiles will be able to hit European targets using their own satellites.
Because terrorists have cruise missiles? Nah, they'll just drive a truck full of fertilizer out front (and they'll get in the country via the airports legally, as the 9/11 bombers did with the US): No need for GPS for that. Of course for conventional war that's why there are lots of international agreements and such: First World nations tend to not go to war with each other anymore, which is why most have such an aversion to war. (Although it tends to be that those who know war the least are the most hungry for it).
As far as anyone else using them against us is concerned, we'll just jam the Galileo frequencies in our AO. Americans would be advised not to buy Galileo handsets because we may have to set up jammers for all non-GPS constellations.
Who, exactly, is going to attack the US homeland with Galileo directed devices? In any case, I wouldn't at all be surprized if the myopic, xenophobic administration did just such a trade-barrier under the guise of "Homeland Security", just as they've eroded personal liberties.
You give a link to a rumor that was started by the president of the German Auto club
Actually no I gave a link to a Slashdot discussion where people discuss the vulnerability of the world relying upon a system that the US administration controls.
The US has not degraded nor have they threaten to degrade the signal.
Actually when the US removed selective availability, they did so with the SPECIFIC DISCLAIMER that they retain the right to turn it back on whenever they felt like it. This is public policy my ignorant, backwards friend.
You really really really are paranoid and dumb. The very things you accuse the US of being...you're ten times worse because you think you're smarter and you're the dumbest F'er on the planet.
Ooooh, peirces like a knife!
The european system *is* all about vanity. Too bad you can't get past your own ideas and petty jealousy of the US.
You are exactly the sort of pissy "it's my ball!" sort of idiot that causes people to build their own system.
There is no reason not to rely on the US GPS system...
Really? I would beg to differ. I say this under the context that the US taxpayer bought and paid for the GPS, so they have no duty to guarantee any level of service, however some of the arguments against a European GPS system seems to be along the lines of the kid who's taking his ball home and gets angry when he sees that they got their own ball.
Political sidenote: I love how the administration has set up a whole slew of ridiculous propaganda techniques to give the illusion of a dangerous enemy to enrage the public into a president supporting, pollster responding public. Want to invade someone? Up your dubious "threat level" as if you are responding to some overt immediate threat from the deadly enemy. Want to pretend that your enemy is more powerful than they really are? Talk about disrupting GPS, lest they guide their 1960s era Soviet T55s by it... Eurasia...europa...who knows anymore. I am making no comment about the righteousness of this war, but I hope that people can see through these shallow manipulations.
Obviously this product isn't intending to supplant living room HDTV sets, but rather is a niche product for a niche purpose. Your contention that a 19" monitor is "too small" to show the differences between HDTV and NTSC seems flawed: You seem to presume that someone would put their 19" monitor in the middle of their living room and sit 12 feet away, rather than the more likely "guy sitting at his home office/computer desk watching HDTV". At close proximity there most certainly would be a difference between the two.
Of course I don't see why this product is getting attention, given that Hauppauge has had something similar for a while now.
Is your presumption that a lack of monetary funds is what keeps "foreign" innovation down? I would disagree with that: The computer industry has shown time and time again that it is the little guy with barely a cent to his name that comes through with the next big, multi-billion dollar idea. Indeed, software is probably the least capital intensive industry. This is compounded by the fact that the most "capital intensive" aspect of software development, manpower, is that much cheaper in the developing world. I'd have expected that the Microsoft's and Oracle's of the world would have been long been destroyed by the apparently super intelligent and super worth ethic developing world.
This isn't true, IMHO. Indeed, if this were true then why do spammers use fraudulent subject lines, and techniques in the text to avoid automatic filtration (such as images or text replacements)? The answer, of course, is that filtration and other preventative techniques can be a spammers best friend: If you've filtered 99% of spam, then that's all the more impact that 1% that sneaks through will have (one has to consider that there are hunderds of spammers-- rather than thinking that they beat "spammers", they should realize that it's all a bunch of spammers trying to dig and gouge ontop of each other). That's why fighting spammers is like digging a hole in sand.
I'd attribute the spammers not having more intelligent scrapers simply to laziness and stupidity: Most spammers, you will notice, are hucksters and fraudsters who happened to switch their game to the PC. These aren't technical wizards who decided that spamming was a great career choice.
So what is your point? Sun operates in the US, taking advantage of the H1B, because of the security, lack of corruption, good healthcare, etc. They are deriving definite benefits from operating in the US, and clearly it is their first choice over completely moving overseas. In essence Sun is having their cake and eating it too, abusing a system that was created because of the theoretical (and completely unproven lack of talent). Note that I'm not an American, nor do I live in the US, but given the supposed reason that H1Bs exist, one would think that every single H1B technology worker would have long been sent home. Instead companies like Sun keep using it as a bargaining tool to unfairly take advantage of the little guy. Of course this will hurt them as many of us have a real distasteful impression of Sun : I wouldn't touch their products personally.
BTW: Before everyone yaps on about how the US worker had better suck it up and deal with it or they'll relocate to India, let me give you a more realistic scenario - Nothing is stopping the next Sun or Microsoft or Oracle or Intel from sprouting up as a home-grown venture in India, or wherever, given the supposed incredible talent and work ethics. Why haven't they?
Contrary to the tone of the article, this isn't and instance of the cable company "conning" users. The gist of the story is this (since so many don't seem to read): People bought a filter that blocks the box from talking to "headquarters", so the cableco doesn't know what movies you are watching. The problem? The cableco realizes that your box hasn't called home so hey shut it down, and once you bring it in they can easily retrieve all of the movies that you watched (the box has a long memory of all those late night porn flicks). They aren't "conning" people, but rather are charging people for events they TRIED to steal, but couldn't.
Saying that the cable company "conned" them is like saying that Walmart is conning you if they make you pay for a chocolate bar you ate while walking around the store.
Indeed. Are we at the point yet where we declare Google a monopoly and start rooting for a competing search engine just because?
Seriously, though, apart from the barriers to entry (namely having the computing power, storage, and bandwidth to spider the entire web) there are a wide range of ways that Google could be bested. The only reason they weren't before is that the major competitors saw search engines as a money losing proposition, and started throwing all their money behind duplicating Yahoo, making online communities, auctions, etc.
A Mitsubishi ad features a group of guys, probably mid-twenties, break out in group song. I don't know what sort of group that you hang with, but when I saw that I knew that it was an ad written by either homosexuals (not that there's anything wrong with that), or women, as there is very little chance a group of non-inebriated heterosexual men will begin group singing...
User agent and operating system are two different sections of the agent string, and there is no reason anyone would ever have to lie about their operating system, even if pretending to run IE 6 or whatever. Well actually I can think of one: If you're running Windows and some righteous ahole set his page to reject Windows users as a political statement.
When it's cheaper to have guys in a cheaper area doing the work (i.e. PROGRAMMERS IN INDIA), then the jobs will move there.
Explain why the least localized-specific field in history, software development, in North America is almost entirely centralized in the most expensive parts of the most expensive cities? Why wasn't the first step a burgeoning "Nowhere, Middlestate" development community?
Outsourcing to India has very little to do with saving money (otherwise virtually no organization would have a tower in downtown New York, or Toronto, or San Fransisco), but rather is a political ploy by upper management. These are the same people who were pushing the opposite tact to extreme during the boom, paying hundreds of thousands for programmers (during a time when there was no world-wide lack of programmers, but rather it was the in thing to do).
In addition is the fact that the global economy isn't a zero sum game: It doesn't surprize me that there are shops opening up in India, et all, as the 'third world' is getting computerized, and while we complain about tech support from someone with marginal English, what about technical support for those who speak Indian, or Mandarin, or Vietnamese, etc.
I was being facetious in claiming that the AC was an Intel employee, though it isn't beyond consideration that there could be Intel employees doing just that: One of the primary apprehension causers for people considering AMD processors is the perfect example of FUD at work -- Oooh, maybe it'll burn up (in actual practice the heat of an AMD is not a concern. Bogus claims about the greatness of Intel processors because of their heat throttling is like claiming that a model of car is great because it has a parachute, and then showing a demonstration of a car being pushed out of a cargo jet), and maybe it'll make all of my apps corrupt, etc. Of course he could just be an Intel fanboy, and there are lots of those (just as there are lots of AMD fanboys).
Regarding chipsets: Intel has put out their share of fragile or completely non-working CPUs, chipsets, etc. The BX is one Intel chipset that hung around so long specifically because it proved itself, but in amongst were a serious of blunders and mistakes. Again I run a KT333, previously a KT266, and it is rock solid: I have never had a single problem and run the gamut on my machines. Of course at the same time I have an Intel system that runs rock solid.
Hehe, excellent point. One has to wonder what exactly he was writing to include that particular subsection of words. I wonder if, like the Simpsons on the beach, his girlfriend replied "Count me out!".:-)
Do you Intel employees get a bonus for posting this sort of FUD? I have a KT333, previously using a KT266, and have had absolutely zero chipset related problems. Indeed the machine has been rock solid. Of course I have two Intel machines that are rock solid as well.
Intel FUDmeisters have always relied upon the "It ain't Intel so it's unreliable" FUD as their primary defense: If Windows 95 crashes on a Intel box, it's Microsoft's fault, but if it crashes on a AMD box, it's AMD/VIAs fault. Man does it get tiring.
Not really a crytography question... Well I guess you could do code signing of each parcel transfer between SMTP servers, though to do that would require a centralized certificate authority with centralized control, and that goes against the spirit of the net, not to mention that it would require a massive infrastructure change that is the sorts that tends to take years.
If you just mean connecting to SMTP, a lot of sites do have that (some you connect to the POP3 server and it then allows you to send through the SMTP), and of course one can't spoof an IP address with TCP as it's a two way connection.
That doesn't sound insane: It sounds right on the money. At the very least any server-side filtering should include a user ability to opt out, or to actually configure the spam filtration settings for their own account (rather than some sysadmin in a cube somewhere deciding that the word "penis" equals spam, destroying the communications of the medical staff, etc). I'd rather have the ability to audit the tool on occasion to ensure that it isn't blacklisting friends or family, etc.
How do you know that? How do you know which products are profitable and which are not?
How do you know which products are profitable and which are not?
From the segment informations (Q2 2002 report) it is quite obvious: take away the client division (mainly Windows licenses) and the "Information Worker" division (mainly Office software) and Microsoft is not even profitable.
Okay, firstly three sections are profitable: Client, Server, and Information Worker. Business Solutions is just being regrouped after some acquisitions, and Home and Entertainment is actually edging up to actual profitability.
In any case let's do a little exercise, okay? Go to http://www.microsoft.com/catalog/ and go through each product assigning it to a category. The overwhelming majority of Microsoft products belong in the three profitable divisions! Hell, even Microsoft's entertainment division would be profitable if it weren't for the massive bleed the Xbox introduced, however that situation is changing quickly regardless.
Hrmmm...I replied earlier but apparently it went to the great bit bucket in the sky. Anyways, the misspelling is what I get for quickly spitting off a Slashdot post when I was already running late to a meeting. Doh.:-)
Indeed the Centrino part is rather interesting in that it's specifically contradicting previous claims about the effects of processor power consumption on battery life: For those who recall, when Transmeta first started making promises about ultra-long battery laptops, Intel and some of their vendor friends poo-poohed them, claiming that the battery was only one very small part of the equation and even an ultra efficient transmeta processor wouldn't make much of a dent on battery consumption. Now we hear that it'll change everything...
As a sidenote, the bell of doom has pretty much been rung for Transmeta hasn't it?
Canada gets away with a higher ratio of "clean" to dirty power because their power requirements are so much lower.
Coupled with the silly fact that we have a lot of hydro-friendly rivers.
New York City uses as much power as the entire country of Canada.
Cough...cough...BULLSHIT. New York city is a big city, but a bunch of residents living in dinky little bachelor apartments aren't really big power consumers. I'll bet the steel mills of Hamilton or the mining operations of Sudbury consume more electricity than the city of New York. I'll bet the line noise transmitting power across Canada is more than the entire City of New York. Of course like you I'm just making this up.
A lot of programs that work in Canada do so because of the small population size and pattern of distrubution.
Whatever that means. I mean spreading 35,000,000 out across 10,000,000 square kilometers hardly makes for such easy programs that you propose.
Homorous segue: I am not anti-American whatsoever, but every now and then you meet someone who is so insular and self-absorbed that they can't see the world outside of them: I remember being behind an American couple on a flight into Toronto from Pittsburg, and during the flight I could hear him giving his wisdom to his new wife and new step-child (pretty easy to figure that out). One of the gems of a litany of "Exposing what I don't know about Canada" as we were flying into Toronto was when his wife looked out the window and exclaimed "Gee...it's pretty big isn't it?", to which he replied "It's big for a Canadian city, but it's not really big". Yeah, not big apart from being the third largest metropolitan area in the USA or Canada (people often say "North America", neglecting to mention Mexico), surpassed only by Las Angelas and New York...
The client, server, and information platforms comprise the overwhelming majority of Microsoft products, and the partitioning of divisions functionally is not indicative of relative stature. I mean they could have split by product, so you'd see that the SQL Server division made a profit, as did the Streets and Trips division, as did the Ages of Empire division, and the Exchange division...oh, and the Mouse division made a profit. Same goes for the keyboard division. Ooooh, the All-Unprofitable-Products division didn't make a profit, but that's okay given that it's only 1 or 437 divisions though right?
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I agree that Europe would do well to have it's own system for the reasons you mention, but they BETTER be able to degrade it at will, otherwise attackers will be able to build Galileo-driven targetting systems and cruise missiles will be able to hit European targets using their own satellites.
Because terrorists have cruise missiles? Nah, they'll just drive a truck full of fertilizer out front (and they'll get in the country via the airports legally, as the 9/11 bombers did with the US): No need for GPS for that. Of course for conventional war that's why there are lots of international agreements and such: First World nations tend to not go to war with each other anymore, which is why most have such an aversion to war. (Although it tends to be that those who know war the least are the most hungry for it).
As far as anyone else using them against us is concerned, we'll just jam the Galileo frequencies in our AO. Americans would be advised not to buy Galileo handsets because we may have to set up jammers for all non-GPS constellations.
Who, exactly, is going to attack the US homeland with Galileo directed devices? In any case, I wouldn't at all be surprized if the myopic, xenophobic administration did just such a trade-barrier under the guise of "Homeland Security", just as they've eroded personal liberties.
You give a link to a rumor that was started by the president of the German Auto club
Actually no I gave a link to a Slashdot discussion where people discuss the vulnerability of the world relying upon a system that the US administration controls.
The US has not degraded nor have they threaten to degrade the signal.
Actually when the US removed selective availability, they did so with the SPECIFIC DISCLAIMER that they retain the right to turn it back on whenever they felt like it. This is public policy my ignorant, backwards friend.
You really really really are paranoid and dumb. The very things you accuse the US of being...you're ten times worse because you think you're smarter and you're the dumbest F'er on the planet.
Ooooh, peirces like a knife!
The european system *is* all about vanity. Too bad you can't get past your own ideas and petty jealousy of the US.
You are exactly the sort of pissy "it's my ball!" sort of idiot that causes people to build their own system.
There is no reason not to rely on the US GPS system...
Really? I would beg to differ. I say this under the context that the US taxpayer bought and paid for the GPS, so they have no duty to guarantee any level of service, however some of the arguments against a European GPS system seems to be along the lines of the kid who's taking his ball home and gets angry when he sees that they got their own ball.
Political sidenote: I love how the administration has set up a whole slew of ridiculous propaganda techniques to give the illusion of a dangerous enemy to enrage the public into a president supporting, pollster responding public. Want to invade someone? Up your dubious "threat level" as if you are responding to some overt immediate threat from the deadly enemy. Want to pretend that your enemy is more powerful than they really are? Talk about disrupting GPS, lest they guide their 1960s era Soviet T55s by it... Eurasia...europa...who knows anymore. I am making no comment about the righteousness of this war, but I hope that people can see through these shallow manipulations.
I believe the claimed accuracy is 5 meters.
Cheers!
Obviously this product isn't intending to supplant living room HDTV sets, but rather is a niche product for a niche purpose. Your contention that a 19" monitor is "too small" to show the differences between HDTV and NTSC seems flawed: You seem to presume that someone would put their 19" monitor in the middle of their living room and sit 12 feet away, rather than the more likely "guy sitting at his home office/computer desk watching HDTV". At close proximity there most certainly would be a difference between the two.
Of course I don't see why this product is getting attention, given that Hauppauge has had something similar for a while now.
Is your presumption that a lack of monetary funds is what keeps "foreign" innovation down? I would disagree with that: The computer industry has shown time and time again that it is the little guy with barely a cent to his name that comes through with the next big, multi-billion dollar idea. Indeed, software is probably the least capital intensive industry. This is compounded by the fact that the most "capital intensive" aspect of software development, manpower, is that much cheaper in the developing world. I'd have expected that the Microsoft's and Oracle's of the world would have been long been destroyed by the apparently super intelligent and super worth ethic developing world.
This isn't true, IMHO. Indeed, if this were true then why do spammers use fraudulent subject lines, and techniques in the text to avoid automatic filtration (such as images or text replacements)? The answer, of course, is that filtration and other preventative techniques can be a spammers best friend: If you've filtered 99% of spam, then that's all the more impact that 1% that sneaks through will have (one has to consider that there are hunderds of spammers-- rather than thinking that they beat "spammers", they should realize that it's all a bunch of spammers trying to dig and gouge ontop of each other). That's why fighting spammers is like digging a hole in sand.
I'd attribute the spammers not having more intelligent scrapers simply to laziness and stupidity: Most spammers, you will notice, are hucksters and fraudsters who happened to switch their game to the PC. These aren't technical wizards who decided that spamming was a great career choice.
So what is your point? Sun operates in the US, taking advantage of the H1B, because of the security, lack of corruption, good healthcare, etc. They are deriving definite benefits from operating in the US, and clearly it is their first choice over completely moving overseas. In essence Sun is having their cake and eating it too, abusing a system that was created because of the theoretical (and completely unproven lack of talent). Note that I'm not an American, nor do I live in the US, but given the supposed reason that H1Bs exist, one would think that every single H1B technology worker would have long been sent home. Instead companies like Sun keep using it as a bargaining tool to unfairly take advantage of the little guy. Of course this will hurt them as many of us have a real distasteful impression of Sun : I wouldn't touch their products personally.
BTW: Before everyone yaps on about how the US worker had better suck it up and deal with it or they'll relocate to India, let me give you a more realistic scenario - Nothing is stopping the next Sun or Microsoft or Oracle or Intel from sprouting up as a home-grown venture in India, or wherever, given the supposed incredible talent and work ethics. Why haven't they?
Contrary to the tone of the article, this isn't and instance of the cable company "conning" users. The gist of the story is this (since so many don't seem to read): People bought a filter that blocks the box from talking to "headquarters", so the cableco doesn't know what movies you are watching. The problem? The cableco realizes that your box hasn't called home so hey shut it down, and once you bring it in they can easily retrieve all of the movies that you watched (the box has a long memory of all those late night porn flicks). They aren't "conning" people, but rather are charging people for events they TRIED to steal, but couldn't.
Saying that the cable company "conned" them is like saying that Walmart is conning you if they make you pay for a chocolate bar you ate while walking around the store.
Marketing. I'm surprized they don't talk about how they're also Bluetooth+XML enabling it.
Indeed. Are we at the point yet where we declare Google a monopoly and start rooting for a competing search engine just because?
Seriously, though, apart from the barriers to entry (namely having the computing power, storage, and bandwidth to spider the entire web) there are a wide range of ways that Google could be bested. The only reason they weren't before is that the major competitors saw search engines as a money losing proposition, and started throwing all their money behind duplicating Yahoo, making online communities, auctions, etc.
A Mitsubishi ad features a group of guys, probably mid-twenties, break out in group song. I don't know what sort of group that you hang with, but when I saw that I knew that it was an ad written by either homosexuals (not that there's anything wrong with that), or women, as there is very little chance a group of non-inebriated heterosexual men will begin group singing...
User agent and operating system are two different sections of the agent string, and there is no reason anyone would ever have to lie about their operating system, even if pretending to run IE 6 or whatever. Well actually I can think of one: If you're running Windows and some righteous ahole set his page to reject Windows users as a political statement.
Hahahahaha.
And I'll bet the majority of people would rather not pay taxes either.
When it's cheaper to have guys in a cheaper area doing the work (i.e. PROGRAMMERS IN INDIA), then the jobs will move there.
Explain why the least localized-specific field in history, software development, in North America is almost entirely centralized in the most expensive parts of the most expensive cities? Why wasn't the first step a burgeoning "Nowhere, Middlestate" development community?
Outsourcing to India has very little to do with saving money (otherwise virtually no organization would have a tower in downtown New York, or Toronto, or San Fransisco), but rather is a political ploy by upper management. These are the same people who were pushing the opposite tact to extreme during the boom, paying hundreds of thousands for programmers (during a time when there was no world-wide lack of programmers, but rather it was the in thing to do).
In addition is the fact that the global economy isn't a zero sum game: It doesn't surprize me that there are shops opening up in India, et all, as the 'third world' is getting computerized, and while we complain about tech support from someone with marginal English, what about technical support for those who speak Indian, or Mandarin, or Vietnamese, etc.
I was being facetious in claiming that the AC was an Intel employee, though it isn't beyond consideration that there could be Intel employees doing just that: One of the primary apprehension causers for people considering AMD processors is the perfect example of FUD at work -- Oooh, maybe it'll burn up (in actual practice the heat of an AMD is not a concern. Bogus claims about the greatness of Intel processors because of their heat throttling is like claiming that a model of car is great because it has a parachute, and then showing a demonstration of a car being pushed out of a cargo jet), and maybe it'll make all of my apps corrupt, etc. Of course he could just be an Intel fanboy, and there are lots of those (just as there are lots of AMD fanboys).
Regarding chipsets: Intel has put out their share of fragile or completely non-working CPUs, chipsets, etc. The BX is one Intel chipset that hung around so long specifically because it proved itself, but in amongst were a serious of blunders and mistakes. Again I run a KT333, previously a KT266, and it is rock solid: I have never had a single problem and run the gamut on my machines. Of course at the same time I have an Intel system that runs rock solid.
Hehe, excellent point. One has to wonder what exactly he was writing to include that particular subsection of words. I wonder if, like the Simpsons on the beach, his girlfriend replied "Count me out!". :-)
Do you Intel employees get a bonus for posting this sort of FUD? I have a KT333, previously using a KT266, and have had absolutely zero chipset related problems. Indeed the machine has been rock solid. Of course I have two Intel machines that are rock solid as well.
Intel FUDmeisters have always relied upon the "It ain't Intel so it's unreliable" FUD as their primary defense: If Windows 95 crashes on a Intel box, it's Microsoft's fault, but if it crashes on a AMD box, it's AMD/VIAs fault. Man does it get tiring.
Not really a crytography question... Well I guess you could do code signing of each parcel transfer between SMTP servers, though to do that would require a centralized certificate authority with centralized control, and that goes against the spirit of the net, not to mention that it would require a massive infrastructure change that is the sorts that tends to take years.
If you just mean connecting to SMTP, a lot of sites do have that (some you connect to the POP3 server and it then allows you to send through the SMTP), and of course one can't spoof an IP address with TCP as it's a two way connection.
That doesn't sound insane: It sounds right on the money. At the very least any server-side filtering should include a user ability to opt out, or to actually configure the spam filtration settings for their own account (rather than some sysadmin in a cube somewhere deciding that the word "penis" equals spam, destroying the communications of the medical staff, etc). I'd rather have the ability to audit the tool on occasion to ensure that it isn't blacklisting friends or family, etc.
How do you know that?
How do you know which products are profitable and
which are not?
How do you know which products are profitable and which are not?
From the segment informations (Q2 2002 report) it is quite obvious: take away the client division (mainly Windows licenses) and the "Information Worker" division (mainly Office software) and Microsoft is not even profitable.
Okay, firstly three sections are profitable: Client, Server, and Information Worker. Business Solutions is just being regrouped after some acquisitions, and Home and Entertainment is actually edging up to actual profitability.
In any case let's do a little exercise, okay? Go to http://www.microsoft.com/catalog/ and go through each product assigning it to a category. The overwhelming majority of Microsoft products belong in the three profitable divisions! Hell, even Microsoft's entertainment division would be profitable if it weren't for the massive bleed the Xbox introduced, however that situation is changing quickly regardless.
Hrmmm...I replied earlier but apparently it went to the great bit bucket in the sky. Anyways, the misspelling is what I get for quickly spitting off a Slashdot post when I was already running late to a meeting. Doh. :-)
Indeed the Centrino part is rather interesting in that it's specifically contradicting previous claims about the effects of processor power consumption on battery life: For those who recall, when Transmeta first started making promises about ultra-long battery laptops, Intel and some of their vendor friends poo-poohed them, claiming that the battery was only one very small part of the equation and even an ultra efficient transmeta processor wouldn't make much of a dent on battery consumption. Now we hear that it'll change everything...
As a sidenote, the bell of doom has pretty much been rung for Transmeta hasn't it?
Canada gets away with a higher ratio of "clean" to dirty power because their power requirements are so much lower.
Coupled with the silly fact that we have a lot of hydro-friendly rivers.
New York City uses as much power as the entire
country of Canada.
Cough...cough...BULLSHIT. New York city is a big city, but a bunch of residents living in dinky little bachelor apartments aren't really big power consumers. I'll bet the steel mills of Hamilton or the mining operations of Sudbury consume more electricity than the city of New York. I'll bet the line noise transmitting power across Canada is more than the entire City of New York. Of course like you I'm just making this up.
A lot of programs that work in Canada do so because of the small population size and pattern of distrubution.
Whatever that means. I mean spreading 35,000,000 out across 10,000,000 square kilometers hardly makes for such easy programs that you propose.
Homorous segue: I am not anti-American whatsoever, but every now and then you meet someone who is so insular and self-absorbed that they can't see the world outside of them: I remember being behind an American couple on a flight into Toronto from Pittsburg, and during the flight I could hear him giving his wisdom to his new wife and new step-child (pretty easy to figure that out). One of the gems of a litany of "Exposing what I don't know about Canada" as we were flying into Toronto was when his wife looked out the window and exclaimed "Gee...it's pretty big isn't it?", to which he replied "It's big for a Canadian city, but it's not really big". Yeah, not big apart from being the third largest metropolitan area in the USA or Canada (people often say "North America", neglecting to mention Mexico), surpassed only by Las Angelas and New York...
The client, server, and information platforms comprise the overwhelming majority of Microsoft products, and the partitioning of divisions functionally is not indicative of relative stature. I mean they could have split by product, so you'd see that the SQL Server division made a profit, as did the Streets and Trips division, as did the Ages of Empire division, and the Exchange division...oh, and the Mouse division made a profit. Same goes for the keyboard division. Ooooh, the All-Unprofitable-Products division didn't make a profit, but that's okay given that it's only 1 or 437 divisions though right?