Posts by kventin 84 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Oct 2008
so much hatred
even if MS does for once something decent, you just wouldn't trust them.
and what makes you think so?
(ok, so there is common sense and a bit of history. like, almost all of it, sure, but don't lose the big picture because of the gory details)
just try to look at MS without bias -- it is a good company.
great, even. ask their shareholders.
put history to rest, _everyone_ deserves second chance
(or twenty second, there were those updates and new versions).
they are flexible -- remember that web thing? they missed the boat, caught up, boarded it and then pretty much defined the thing. MS is the company that gave us embrace and extend methodology. and now they're embracing IOT and extending it into their own ecosystem.
what is there to be afraid of? what could get wrong?
"""Slovenia-based firm"""
Slovakia-based firm
FTFY
i know eastern marches of the continent could sometimes be a tad bit confusing. the names are similar, flags all alike... here's a clue: Slovakia is the one in the Group B in Euro 2016, along with Russia and, yes, England and Wales. Slovenia is not. HTH
wow. first news of any kind in ... what? something like 2 years?
i knew about the tools (okad, right?), not about the yield problem. the redesign idea didn't go down well with mr. moore i presume. the patent fees -- wasn't there a lawsuit of some kind? and i/p issues... i won't ask about.
however what i would ask is: what _is_ happening (if anything) now? if you could shed some light.
thanks for the info anyhow.
"""If it's a very simple architecture with no legacy baggage, they're probably tiny enough to be crammed into computers by the thousands. Most well defined tasks with well defined inputs can be implemented within a crude instruction set."""
somewhere Chuck Moore suddenly started hiccupping like crazy
i fail to see a problem. Most casual PC users doing anything slightly administrative usually indicate huge problems later on. Also, i thought command line tool with gui front is the unix way (along with "you missing a gui? so add it"). Also, certain non unix os vendor lately added command line tool to help administer its products -- power something. power builder? power command line? something like that. yet i didn't hear any cry of anguish of millions of terrified users.
so what's the problem? (oh, you said "the desktop"... ok, so maybe linux would fail on desktop. again. but there's still server room, car, tv, tablet, phone, router... etc ad nauseam)
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So, what's worse for an economy?
1) Corruption on truly Herculean scale?
2) Idiot* socialism?
"""
as anyone here in CEE (that's central and eastern europe, thank you. we consider anything west of iron curtain, well, "west") will tell you, this isn't either-or question. more like "how much of each" and i'm afraid those two options are related with positive feedback: idiot socialism breeds corruption (when you can't get what you need by official channels, you'll find less official ones) and the best way for corrupted to stay in office is populism which pretty much overlaps with idiot socialism here (ymmv, i think there is a cultural difference here: you might have different socialist and different idiots than we do.)
"""But typing the f%$king things is another matter altogether."""
german keyboard layout (and derived c-e european) has 'y' and 'z' swapped. imagine the joy "i'm positive i typed the %@!$ thing right! oh, blimey, wrong keyboard layout again!"
of course, who in their right mind would set anything different than plain US as default keyboard layout?
well... apparently it's our new domain default. which cannot be changed. enforced by domain policies. updated on every reboot. they can even reboot your computer for you. arghhh!
"""Applying it to Orbitals, Rings or Spheres might be more interesting."""
yes and no. Banks' O and R consisted of Plates, every one of which could have its own climate. Spheres and Niven's Ringworld however would be interesting, yes. btw isn't Ringworld unstable?
and then there are Banks' shellworlds.
OT: is it Banks' or Banks's?
i like how there is always someone pointing out hidden costs for running nuclear plants but noone talking about hidden costs running solar plants or weathercocks parks. take germany. they built vast wind farms in the north, where the wind blows, because it's good pr, but somehow neglected to build transmission network to deliver the electricity to their factories. luckily, they can route the electricity through polish and czech networks... f*cking them up, but that's collateral damage.
oh, and austria is even better case. first they built a nuclear plant, then they didn't start it, built thermal power station for burning coal instead (green) and use there czech and polish coal, which incidentally contains higher than normal amount of uranium so some inevitably escapes to atmosphere (supergreen). nowadays austrians travel abroad to visit czech and slovak nuclear plants and do a little protesting there, although they have their own perfectly good and functioning reactor in the middle of Vienna (at Tech.Uni.).
there's actually a law in austria forbidding use of nuclear energy.
fun fact: hq of International Atomic Energy Agency is in Vienna.
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Isn't that exactly what citizens keep telling their governments whenever a new, more intrusive, form of surveillance is announced.
"""
there's a difference, you know? citizens telling their governments is how things are supposed to be.
but in this case them, the government, were surveilled and that's clearly unacceptable. furthermore they had no idea, which is just shaming. and they weren't invited (obviously), which is a disgrace.
i mean how come americans have all the toys and get to play soldiers and stuff. europe is a power too! (one of these days we're find out power of exactly what, and then they'll see)
nice idea.
only i would suggest not doing it by some crazy chemical process. let's be more creative. this is 21st century, after all. so, let's create some kind of living organism, that would capture the CO2 for us. it could be kept in the places now taken by solar plants (which we won't need anymore). only you have to make it sedentary, so it cannot scamper away. the only problem would be to transport the super cheap energy there to feed it. but as the energy would be almost free...
oh, and make the little critters green, that makes good publicity. (and don't listen to the idiots who would claim the big green areas replacing solar plants would destroy the countryside. they will get used to it. eventually. they always do.)
well, i can dream.
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