"This makes the truly unlimited plan on AT&T look much better by comparison. I may not be able to tether, but the plan truly is unlimited. No 5GB limit."
What truly unlimited plan on AT&T. They have a cap also. I know smart phones are fun, but how much money should you have to pay for a little access. Voice is a kind of data these days anyway, and paying lots of money for the phone plan, plus hiway robbery $30/mo for a capped internet. This is way out of hand. We seem to be oblivious to the phone carriers wagging us around, piling charge after charge on to support what started as a device to make phone calls.
What, an iPhone slow? you haven't magnetized the cores one at a time with a pointy little magnet bit by bit per pixel. That makes the iPhone virtual keyboard look like lightening. Oops, cores show my age:-)
I just realized that if Microsoft ports Windows into a 128-bit architecture, their errors per amount of ram will go way down. With an unimaginable amount of ram in the machine, they can continue to pile new code on top of old code until the cows come home. They can take their current operating system objects and derive yet another set of objects from them, and not even care about the footprint of software in memory. Of course hard disk speed will have to improve or loading a Windows kernel 32 times larger will take 32 times longer. This could really be a driver for technology.
If a spaceship wants to travel out there and count all the stars and planets, it will need s a lot of memory for that. I think Windows 9 is for intergalactic space travel. Lets send Bill on the first ship with the telephone sanitizers.
If we go to a new version of IP with a larger source and destination fields (larger than four octets), router memory will be challenged once again. In fact this maybe slowing the adoption of six right now. Just think of the size of the routing tables in a world where every widget has it's own IP address. Just processing routing tables that large may be the application that pushed the clock rate up further for CPUs.
I guess we didn't learn much from the mp/m days and the apple language card, because when memory ran short in the PC, we resisted protected mode and punted with the expanded memory. Sometimes I wonder if the same people were involved. Now using virtual memory, we are going to swap pages in the 4GB space? I am sorry we cannot seem to do things the straightforward elegant way.
When Gary left Digital Research with Tom, they were mastering the first encyclopedia on a CD. They were using a VAX to create the CD image, and it took two washing machine sized hard drives to model the target CDROM. Things have come a long way since then.
There are a few scientists that need awesome math crunchers, but mostly, Microsoft needs huge memory models to contain their huge steaming pile of crap called Windows. After two decades of piling new code on top of old code until the operating system is piled high and deep, they need faster and larger machines because they have forgotten how to write rational tight code. I just don't see a product that is a million times better from Microsoft, now that the memory is a thousand times larger and the processor is a thousand times faster. I accept that we like graphic interfaces, but I remember clearly that when x86 based Unix needed to run X Window, the machine had to have 16MB of ram. Now we have machines with 16GB of ram, and I ask you, is the current Windows offering a thousand times more valuable then X Window system was back then. Not to my eyes it isn't. The processors are also orders of magnitude faster, but are the current versions of Windows significantly faster then the X Window system was back then. So just what is Microsoft doing that needs all these resources? It is hard to know since they do not disclose the source code. We do now what X and Unix was made of because they were open source and we can see exactly where the resources go.
The problem with these public domain books is that they are free or low cost and Amazon has to pay for the air time to download them. If they don't get a fair cut of the royalties, their business model doesn't work. I can understand that. They probably have a percentage of low cost/free books they can tolerate before they are not profitable.
It is worse than just not supporting the computers they are currently selling. Quitting support for XP is going to mean hardware upgrades for all the users that have only the hardware resources to run XP. As if we the people need this expense right now with the economy the way it is. My last round of PC computers were underpowered as part of the Vista Capable debacle. These machines aren't going to upgrade to Windows 7 because they are light on hardware. So what am I expected to do now, turn the other cheek again. Well Surprise, I don't have to. I am a confirmed switcher, and although I am still stinging from the Vista Capable lies, I love my Macs, and there will be no more money from me for Microsoft or the hardware OEM buddies. This should be a wakeup call to those on the fence.
I just cannot get excited after participating in the g1g1 program the first time around. I was significantly unimpressed by virtually every design decision in the first machine. Given enough time, netbooks will come down and eliminate the OLPC IMHO.
First off a lot of negative things have been said about paypal, and it is unlikely they got such a bad rep being fair and impartial.
Secondly,we all have been around long enough now that we should recognize when we ae being handed a line of bull by a tech support rep. Now clearing the cache is a reasonable thing and that in and of itself is not a bad sign, but if they dismiss complaints after giving that advice, they are being short-sighted. It is in eBay's interest to pay attention to what people are saying about their experiences with the new software. The user's are eBay's unpaid beta testers and are very likely observing important behavior. Back when I wrote code and people observed things, I said thank you because I wanted to find bugs. The attitude that they do not exist does not help one's observational skills. Also it is not good enough for them to assume that users with the latest Microsoft browser are the only ones needing support. You would think they have the money and staff to get this sort of thing right for the entire class of users.
When debugging hardware drivers, I often have a scope on the interrupt request pin of the hardware under test. This is a strictly hands on deal. What about the placing of your fingers on the chassis to feel for hard disk seeking to see if the system has crashed. I think being a microsoft developer writing hardware drivers and testing remotely would be hell on earth and worth quitting immediately and loudly. I can't believe any sane manager would even consider this for a moment. I actually made it through all these posts, and I am a little nauseous thinking about all the extra time money distraction and effort wasted by moving development servers off site. Being a network communications developer, I cannot imagine trying to administer a network test environment remotely and being subject to multiple cascaded latencies that are confusable with problematic software or hardware delays. It is madness.
I was working at Western Bancorp. My boss said, "Go in the machine room and reset the 3705 controller. I went in and found the 3705 and hit the reset button. Before I even made it back to the machine room door the screaming had already started. I guess there were two 3705's (one for the developers and one for 24 banks in 12 states running 2000 ATM machines and 800 inside teller stations). Me hitting the reset button on the live 3705 brought down all of that in seconds and took enough time to come back up that five hundred people wanted my blood on the spot. I was new. My boss probably should not have assumed that I was sure which 3705 was which. I had only been there several days. On the other hand, the controllers were not labeled and how was I to know other than to have been told and remember.
Apple does not allow interpretive languages to be loaded as applications because if you could do that, you could have apps they don't get to approve. As soon as their was a basic interpreter available, users could write and load their programs without a signing certificate, even within the limited sandbox of the C64 emulation.
It is incredible that the people responsible for the network today cannot secure the network well enough to keep Childs out and they are allowed to keep their jobs. If they can keep Childs away from the physical equipment, passwords are all that is necessary to lock things down. Do the people in charge have any dignity? It is about time we start publishing the names of the people who are now responsible who cannot secure this network. The fact that he seems to be needed to be kept in jail for the safety of the network proves every word he said about the incompetent people involved. This situation is so bizarre that it is even stranger than my first wife, and that is saying something.
It is not about me telling someone to check street view. It is about the expectation that they can go to street view and receive a relatively recent picture. At the very least the age of the picture should be visible. It is not about me making a sale. It is about the general credibility of street view to provide something even close to reality. If you cannot tell to the nearest two years how old the photo is, How can you correctly interpret what you are looking at. I am not a realtor. I am not selling anything. I am a technologist looking at a serious weakness in the value of the service. Observation is imperfect enough without temporal distortion.
Lets say they took a picture of my house the day I stripped the paint off in preparation for new paint. There is my house enshrined forever in the way back machine looking like it is worth $100K less than it does today. That picture could stay around for years depressing the subjective value of the property in the eyes of anyone that believes google street is reality. Is there any review process? Google earth is just as bad. The picture from the satellite is about two years old. Photographing the world is a novel idea, but the reality is problematic.
I was not talking about the ROM BIOS of the IBM-PC. But rather the BIOS part of the operatin system linked at gen time. Whether it was Tim Patterson or Microsoft, the DOS ended up with two boot files,
IBMDOS, and IBMBIOS as I remember, and the IBMBIOS made calls to the ROM BIOS. The separation of the invariant from the hardware specific into layers was the crucial aspect.
I worked at the data center on Rosecrans and we had two 370/195's. One was the on-line system, and the other was for development. The programmers used VM/CMS and we used IBM 3600 Finance Industry terminals and teller machines.
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What truly unlimited plan on AT&T. They have a cap also. I know smart phones are fun, but how much money should you have to pay for a little access. Voice is a kind of data these days anyway, and paying lots of money for the phone plan, plus hiway robbery $30/mo for a capped internet. This is way out of hand. We seem to be oblivious to the phone carriers wagging us around, piling charge after charge on to support what started as a device to make phone calls.
You can rent them on one side and collect them on the other...
What, an iPhone slow? you haven't magnetized the cores one at a time with a pointy little magnet bit by bit per pixel. That makes the iPhone virtual keyboard look like lightening. Oops, cores show my age :-)
I just realized that if Microsoft ports Windows into a 128-bit architecture, their errors per amount of ram will go way down. With an unimaginable amount of ram in the machine, they can continue to pile new code on top of old code until the cows come home. They can take their current operating system objects and derive yet another set of objects from them, and not even care about the footprint of software in memory. Of course hard disk speed will have to improve or loading a Windows kernel 32 times larger will take 32 times longer. This could really be a driver for technology.
If a spaceship wants to travel out there and count all the stars and planets, it will need s a lot of memory for that. I think Windows 9 is for intergalactic space travel. Lets send Bill on the first ship with the telephone sanitizers.
If we go to a new version of IP with a larger source and destination fields (larger than four octets), router memory will be challenged once again. In fact this maybe slowing the adoption of six right now. Just think of the size of the routing tables in a world where every widget has it's own IP address. Just processing routing tables that large may be the application that pushed the clock rate up further for CPUs.
If you are going to have a Sagan of memory in your machine, a longer address word is required.
I guess we didn't learn much from the mp/m days and the apple language card, because when memory ran short in the PC, we resisted protected mode and punted with the expanded memory. Sometimes I wonder if the same people were involved. Now using virtual memory, we are going to swap pages in the 4GB space? I am sorry we cannot seem to do things the straightforward elegant way.
And I suppose you turn your guitar amplifier up to 11 also :-)
When Gary left Digital Research with Tom, they were mastering the first encyclopedia on a CD. They were using a VAX to create the CD image, and it took two washing machine sized hard drives to model the target CDROM. Things have come a long way since then.
There are a few scientists that need awesome math crunchers, but mostly, Microsoft needs huge memory models to contain their huge steaming pile of crap called Windows. After two decades of piling new code on top of old code until the operating system is piled high and deep, they need faster and larger machines because they have forgotten how to write rational tight code. I just don't see a product that is a million times better from Microsoft, now that the memory is a thousand times larger and the processor is a thousand times faster. I accept that we like graphic interfaces, but I remember clearly that when x86 based Unix needed to run X Window, the machine had to have 16MB of ram. Now we have machines with 16GB of ram, and I ask you, is the current Windows offering a thousand times more valuable then X Window system was back then. Not to my eyes it isn't. The processors are also orders of magnitude faster, but are the current versions of Windows significantly faster then the X Window system was back then. So just what is Microsoft doing that needs all these resources? It is hard to know since they do not disclose the source code. We do now what X and Unix was made of because they were open source and we can see exactly where the resources go.
The problem with these public domain books is that they are free or low cost and Amazon has to pay for the air time to download them. If they don't get a fair cut of the royalties, their business model doesn't work. I can understand that. They probably have a percentage of low cost/free books they can tolerate before they are not profitable.
It is worse than just not supporting the computers they are currently selling. Quitting support for XP is going to mean hardware upgrades for all the users that have only the hardware resources to run XP. As if we the people need this expense right now with the economy the way it is. My last round of PC computers were underpowered as part of the Vista Capable debacle. These machines aren't going to upgrade to Windows 7 because they are light on hardware. So what am I expected to do now, turn the other cheek again. Well Surprise, I don't have to. I am a confirmed switcher, and although I am still stinging from the Vista Capable lies, I love my Macs, and there will be no more money from me for Microsoft or the hardware OEM buddies. This should be a wakeup call to those on the fence.
I just cannot get excited after participating in the g1g1 program the first time around. I was significantly unimpressed by virtually every design decision in the first machine. Given enough time, netbooks will come down and eliminate the OLPC IMHO.
First off a lot of negative things have been said about paypal, and it is unlikely they got such a bad rep being fair and impartial. Secondly,we all have been around long enough now that we should recognize when we ae being handed a line of bull by a tech support rep. Now clearing the cache is a reasonable thing and that in and of itself is not a bad sign, but if they dismiss complaints after giving that advice, they are being short-sighted. It is in eBay's interest to pay attention to what people are saying about their experiences with the new software. The user's are eBay's unpaid beta testers and are very likely observing important behavior. Back when I wrote code and people observed things, I said thank you because I wanted to find bugs. The attitude that they do not exist does not help one's observational skills. Also it is not good enough for them to assume that users with the latest Microsoft browser are the only ones needing support. You would think they have the money and staff to get this sort of thing right for the entire class of users.
I went ahead and submitted it per your suggestion. :-)
When debugging hardware drivers, I often have a scope on the interrupt request pin of the hardware under test. This is a strictly hands on deal. What about the placing of your fingers on the chassis to feel for hard disk seeking to see if the system has crashed. I think being a microsoft developer writing hardware drivers and testing remotely would be hell on earth and worth quitting immediately and loudly. I can't believe any sane manager would even consider this for a moment. I actually made it through all these posts, and I am a little nauseous thinking about all the extra time money distraction and effort wasted by moving development servers off site. Being a network communications developer, I cannot imagine trying to administer a network test environment remotely and being subject to multiple cascaded latencies that are confusable with problematic software or hardware delays. It is madness.
I was working at Western Bancorp. My boss said, "Go in the machine room and reset the 3705 controller. I went in and found the 3705 and hit the reset button. Before I even made it back to the machine room door the screaming had already started. I guess there were two 3705's (one for the developers and one for 24 banks in 12 states running 2000 ATM machines and 800 inside teller stations). Me hitting the reset button on the live 3705 brought down all of that in seconds and took enough time to come back up that five hundred people wanted my blood on the spot. I was new. My boss probably should not have assumed that I was sure which 3705 was which. I had only been there several days. On the other hand, the controllers were not labeled and how was I to know other than to have been told and remember.
Apple does not allow interpretive languages to be loaded as applications because if you could do that, you could have apps they don't get to approve. As soon as their was a basic interpreter available, users could write and load their programs without a signing certificate, even within the limited sandbox of the C64 emulation.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-0826-morris-fire-pictures,0,2039975.photogallery
It is incredible that the people responsible for the network today cannot secure the network well enough to keep Childs out and they are allowed to keep their jobs. If they can keep Childs away from the physical equipment, passwords are all that is necessary to lock things down. Do the people in charge have any dignity? It is about time we start publishing the names of the people who are now responsible who cannot secure this network. The fact that he seems to be needed to be kept in jail for the safety of the network proves every word he said about the incompetent people involved. This situation is so bizarre that it is even stranger than my first wife, and that is saying something.
It is not about me telling someone to check street view. It is about the expectation that they can go to street view and receive a relatively recent picture. At the very least the age of the picture should be visible. It is not about me making a sale. It is about the general credibility of street view to provide something even close to reality. If you cannot tell to the nearest two years how old the photo is, How can you correctly interpret what you are looking at. I am not a realtor. I am not selling anything. I am a technologist looking at a serious weakness in the value of the service. Observation is imperfect enough without temporal distortion.
Lets say they took a picture of my house the day I stripped the paint off in preparation for new paint. There is my house enshrined forever in the way back machine looking like it is worth $100K less than it does today. That picture could stay around for years depressing the subjective value of the property in the eyes of anyone that believes google street is reality. Is there any review process? Google earth is just as bad. The picture from the satellite is about two years old. Photographing the world is a novel idea, but the reality is problematic.
I was not talking about the ROM BIOS of the IBM-PC. But rather the BIOS part of the operatin system linked at gen time. Whether it was Tim Patterson or Microsoft, the DOS ended up with two boot files, IBMDOS, and IBMBIOS as I remember, and the IBMBIOS made calls to the ROM BIOS. The separation of the invariant from the hardware specific into layers was the crucial aspect.
I worked at the data center on Rosecrans and we had two 370/195's. One was the on-line system, and the other was for development. The programmers used VM/CMS and we used IBM 3600 Finance Industry terminals and teller machines.