What I thought was strange was that in both videos, the the decoding program exited after decoding exactly what was typed. I would have expected it to sit there waiting for more keystrokes. Really made me think this could be nothing more than a program with a lot of sleep statements.
So, instead of suing for libel, he just skipped right over all the court process that gets in the way, assumed he would win, and handed her a sentence of suspension from school. Considering that the school is run by the government on tax money, one could say that a person in government didn't like what someone said and handed down a sentence for it without due process. Sounds like a free speech issue to me.
Even Microsoft gave up on the "familiar metaphors and mechanisms" when they introduced the ribbon in Office 2007, so I wouldn't fault Google for tossing it.
In fact, maybe it's really on purpose. With Google's vision of internet applications, there's no need to match other windows apps, as the browser would be the only application running. Inside that browser, there will be tabs with internet applications, few of which would mimic windows conventions.
In and of itself, having to edit 32MB files may not point to a bad process. I'm write vhdl/verilog for a living, and when the designs are synthesized, most tools can create a gate-level vhdl or verilog output that can be used for back-annotated simulation. These files are typically very very large. In fact, I remember having problems years ago when the files went into the GB range. It's sometimes necessary to edit these files when a bug is found and a fix needs to be tested without having to re-run synthesis first (a very long process).
That said, a "track changes" "feature" for a text file editor just sounds like a bad idea. I'm with everyone else here saying that version control and diff should be the answer.
oh yeah, good point. I hadn't considered this being implemented as "enter a password to play this game", but since that's how V-chip works, I should have seen it that way.
You don't *have* to buy your kids GTA-V "Sluts on wheels".
Right, I think I must be missing something in all this. I do understand the motivation for the V-chip in TVs, because they get content from external connection. But, having this in a game console is what I don't get. The games have ratings, so wouldn't a parent prudent enough to use this lockout feature also be prudent enough to just not buy the game?
Or, is this all about the idea that little Jimmy will borrow a game from some other kid who's parents don't care about the ratings? If so, just wait for DRM to kick in to the video game world and that problem will go away:)
Am I the only one who sees a problem with a magnetically attached keyboard? I hope you are, since the device uses flash memory.
It may be right to worry about putting your credit cards in the same pocket. Although, as large as it is, there wouldn't be any room left in your pocket.
That isn't trying to force peoples hands to upgrade.
You're talking about the complete opposite thing here. It actually makes sense that you have to upgrade your software for new hardware support. Your complaint seems to be that the upgrades are not free?
It would be more analogous if new versions of Photoshop didn't support older cameras that previous Photoshop versions supported. I don't know if that's the case. I doubt it is.
That's a terrible comparison because the car is a tangible object. When you steal the car, there is a missing physical asset, not true when you steal a music file.
10.1 was a free upgrade, so it's actually $130*3=$390 versus the $260 number. Plus, the $260 number for MS is sort of bogus. The only reason there's only been the one upgrade in the 5 year window you mention is because MS was 2 years late. They normally try to release about every 2 years (just like Apple), so there should have been two releases in that time frame.
Okay, bad form here replying to my own post, but, here I go anyway to try to head off the replies before they start....
After writing the above, it soon became obvious that they wouldn't have used bluetooth because of the much lower bandwidth. At least, that seems like one good reason to me.
I realize that you were aiming at funny, but I think you may be on to something there. When I saw the headline, the first think I thought was "Why wouldn't they use bluetooth?". It just seems more appropriate for a camera, and more secure.
But after thinking about it for another few seconds, I realized why I would buy one. I could probably give my WiFi on my phone, assuming I could get/write the drivers for it on the phone.
I don't think it's fair to look at the RAM utilization of an idling box and declare that using x% is bad. What would be the point of the OS not using the RAM that's sitting there? If I were writing an OS and knew I had RAM to spare and was idle, perhaps I'd be pre-loading the most used applications into RAM for faster startup. I think a good OS would almost always be using the RAM available in some way. It saves nothing to let it sit there.
OTOH, I have no idea if windows RAM utilization is due to the OS being smart of dumb. I simply don't like to see the idea of idle RAM usage propagate as a valid metric of an OS.
Since the biggest issue people have is walking through people while in combat, why not turn on collision detection only when in combat? That would prevent the scenario you bring up, but would make the combat better.
I may completely misunderstand though, as I've actually never played any of these. I'm just here because I thought the comments would be funny.
That doesn't really sound very feasible given the transmission line losses that would occur. Power companies will route power from other areas for peak demand or emergency situations, but they won't be happy to live with major transmission losses as the everyday norm.
The only difference between sound waves and satellite radio waves is one of frequency.
Well, that's note really the only difference. Sound waves and electromagnetic waves have many differences, such as sounds waves needing a medium to travel through. I get the analogy, and I like it. I'm just being a geek:)
My wife's company runs almost entirely based on a similar paradigm. They have a program written in Foxpro that run on the server and is used via Citrix at the workstation. It's painful as hell to watch it try to keep up with my wife when she's entering a pile of quotes into it. Pardon my likely ignorance here, I'm a hardware guy (EE), not a software one, but I have to ask this. Isn't Citrix just another form of Remote Desktop? You're not actually executing the program on the workstations, right?
Back to my little story from before, bandwidth isn't even in that equation once I fill in the blanks. Turns out that my the boot sector of my disk is what failed. So, the IT guys put in a new disk and a fresh load of Windows. But, they kept the old disk in the machine as a secondary drive so I could pull my data off it. (Here's where my Window's ignorance shines through) I was baffled that I couldn't just copy stuff from the old "Program Files" folder into the new one and have it work. Instead I had to sit through countless installations of all my applications again. If windows was more "network-centric", then it wouldn't matter where data and applications lived. As long as the code is complied for your hardware and libraries (or not even libraries if it's static), that all that should matter.
BTW: I know I've gone way off topic now, so my apologies to those who care.
When was POPing your message down to a local machine ever the norm? I thought the norm was to read your email via a terminal, with the email always on the server. That method made sense in the beginning and still does now. The only real problem is that mailbox quotas have not kept up with the growth in use and size of emails.
Let me preface this by saying that I completely agree with everything you said; nonetheless the answers are:
Because that's what the IT people set the archiver up to do. And there isn't a network share available to do otherwise. There are very strict rules about what type of data can be where. If I tried to put my PST elsewhere, it would probably be removed and I get called down for a briefing.
I should have mentioned that they also use a backup system that actually backs up all the user desktops every night, which gives you a sense of safety when keeping data on you local drive. The problem is that when something goes wrong, you find out just how long it can take to restore that data.
As far as the scripting things, yeah they should be able to do that. Just like they should be able to give me a place to call home on the file servers. They simply don't, because that is not the Windows way.
Not sure why this is so funny. I've done this for years on Sun and Linux based networks. The only bandwidth used is to load the application from the server into RAM to run it. At my last company, everything ran on Red Hat, almost all data and applications were stored on the file server. The only thing the local disk was used for was the "cvslocal" directory and other "working" directories for disposable compile-time files used in simulations and synthesis.
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What I thought was strange was that in both videos, the the decoding program exited after decoding exactly what was typed. I would have expected it to sit there waiting for more keystrokes. Really made me think this could be nothing more than a program with a lot of sleep statements.
So, instead of suing for libel, he just skipped right over all the court process that gets in the way, assumed he would win, and handed her a sentence of suspension from school. Considering that the school is run by the government on tax money, one could say that a person in government didn't like what someone said and handed down a sentence for it without due process. Sounds like a free speech issue to me.
Even Microsoft gave up on the "familiar metaphors and mechanisms" when they introduced the ribbon in Office 2007, so I wouldn't fault Google for tossing it.
In fact, maybe it's really on purpose. With Google's vision of internet applications, there's no need to match other windows apps, as the browser would be the only application running. Inside that browser, there will be tabs with internet applications, few of which would mimic windows conventions.
Damn you! Now I've got to go find that video again if I ever want to get the song out of my head.
In and of itself, having to edit 32MB files may not point to a bad process. I'm write vhdl/verilog for a living, and when the designs are synthesized, most tools can create a gate-level vhdl or verilog output that can be used for back-annotated simulation. These files are typically very very large. In fact, I remember having problems years ago when the files went into the GB range. It's sometimes necessary to edit these files when a bug is found and a fix needs to be tested without having to re-run synthesis first (a very long process).
That said, a "track changes" "feature" for a text file editor just sounds like a bad idea. I'm with everyone else here saying that version control and diff should be the answer.
I'll go stick my head back in the sand now.
You don't *have* to buy your kids GTA-V "Sluts on wheels".
Right, I think I must be missing something in all this. I do understand the motivation for the V-chip in TVs, because they get content from external connection. But, having this in a game console is what I don't get. The games have ratings, so wouldn't a parent prudent enough to use this lockout feature also be prudent enough to just not buy the game?
Or, is this all about the idea that little Jimmy will borrow a game from some other kid who's parents don't care about the ratings? If so, just wait for DRM to kick in to the video game world and that problem will go away :)
It may be right to worry about putting your credit cards in the same pocket. Although, as large as it is, there wouldn't be any room left in your pocket.
That isn't trying to force peoples hands to upgrade.
You're talking about the complete opposite thing here. It actually makes sense that you have to upgrade your software for new hardware support. Your complaint seems to be that the upgrades are not free?
It would be more analogous if new versions of Photoshop didn't support older cameras that previous Photoshop versions supported. I don't know if that's the case. I doubt it is.
I think you were going for funny, but they both exist and are used quite a bit.
/home/user1/preferences/settings may be nice though. Just to clean up the home directory a bit.
That's a terrible comparison because the car is a tangible object. When you steal the car, there is a missing physical asset, not true when you steal a music file.
10.1 was a free upgrade, so it's actually $130*3=$390 versus the $260 number. Plus, the $260 number for MS is sort of bogus. The only reason there's only been the one upgrade in the 5 year window you mention is because MS was 2 years late. They normally try to release about every 2 years (just like Apple), so there should have been two releases in that time frame.
Okay, bad form here replying to my own post, but, here I go anyway to try to head off the replies before they start....
After writing the above, it soon became obvious that they wouldn't have used bluetooth because of the much lower bandwidth. At least, that seems like one good reason to me.
I realize that you were aiming at funny, but I think you may be on to something there. When I saw the headline, the first think I thought was "Why wouldn't they use bluetooth?". It just seems more appropriate for a camera, and more secure.
But after thinking about it for another few seconds, I realized why I would buy one. I could probably give my WiFi on my phone, assuming I could get/write the drivers for it on the phone.
I'm not the type to defend windows, but.....
I don't think it's fair to look at the RAM utilization of an idling box and declare that using x% is bad. What would be the point of the OS not using the RAM that's sitting there? If I were writing an OS and knew I had RAM to spare and was idle, perhaps I'd be pre-loading the most used applications into RAM for faster startup. I think a good OS would almost always be using the RAM available in some way. It saves nothing to let it sit there.
OTOH, I have no idea if windows RAM utilization is due to the OS being smart of dumb. I simply don't like to see the idea of idle RAM usage propagate as a valid metric of an OS.
Since the biggest issue people have is walking through people while in combat, why not turn on collision detection only when in combat? That would prevent the scenario you bring up, but would make the combat better.
I may completely misunderstand though, as I've actually never played any of these. I'm just here because I thought the comments would be funny.
That doesn't really sound very feasible given the transmission line losses that would occur. Power companies will route power from other areas for peak demand or emergency situations, but they won't be happy to live with major transmission losses as the everyday norm.
Actually, it's 1.12Mbps.
(358MB * 1024KB/MB * 8b/B) / (42min*60min/s + 41s) = 1145Kbps = = 1.12Mbps
Well, that's note really the only difference. Sound waves and electromagnetic waves have many differences, such as sounds waves needing a medium to travel through. I get the analogy, and I like it. I'm just being a geek
My wife's company runs almost entirely based on a similar paradigm. They have a program written in Foxpro that run on the server and is used via Citrix at the workstation. It's painful as hell to watch it try to keep up with my wife when she's entering a pile of quotes into it. Pardon my likely ignorance here, I'm a hardware guy (EE), not a software one, but I have to ask this. Isn't Citrix just another form of Remote Desktop? You're not actually executing the program on the workstations, right? Back to my little story from before, bandwidth isn't even in that equation once I fill in the blanks. Turns out that my the boot sector of my disk is what failed. So, the IT guys put in a new disk and a fresh load of Windows. But, they kept the old disk in the machine as a secondary drive so I could pull my data off it. (Here's where my Window's ignorance shines through) I was baffled that I couldn't just copy stuff from the old "Program Files" folder into the new one and have it work. Instead I had to sit through countless installations of all my applications again. If windows was more "network-centric", then it wouldn't matter where data and applications lived. As long as the code is complied for your hardware and libraries (or not even libraries if it's static), that all that should matter. BTW: I know I've gone way off topic now, so my apologies to those who care.
When was POPing your message down to a local machine ever the norm? I thought the norm was to read your email via a terminal, with the email always on the server. That method made sense in the beginning and still does now. The only real problem is that mailbox quotas have not kept up with the growth in use and size of emails.
Let me preface this by saying that I completely agree with everything you said; nonetheless the answers are:
Because that's what the IT people set the archiver up to do. And there isn't a network share available to do otherwise. There are very strict rules about what type of data can be where. If I tried to put my PST elsewhere, it would probably be removed and I get called down for a briefing.
I should have mentioned that they also use a backup system that actually backs up all the user desktops every night, which gives you a sense of safety when keeping data on you local drive. The problem is that when something goes wrong, you find out just how long it can take to restore that data.
As far as the scripting things, yeah they should be able to do that. Just like they should be able to give me a place to call home on the file servers. They simply don't, because that is not the Windows way.
Not sure why this is so funny. I've done this for years on Sun and Linux based networks. The only bandwidth used is to load the application from the server into RAM to run it. At my last company, everything ran on Red Hat, almost all data and applications were stored on the file server. The only thing the local disk was used for was the "cvslocal" directory and other "working" directories for disposable compile-time files used in simulations and synthesis.