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Microsoft Surface To Coordinate SuperBowl Security
suraj.sun writes to tell us that in preparation for nearly a quarter of a million people descending on Tampa for the Super Bowl, the Tampa authorities are deploying new tech for security communications and response. All of the incidents and communications will be plotted and tracked on a new implementation of Microsoft's Surface. Hopefully it wont have to reboot after every new incident report. "The Microsoft Surface device will display a Microsoft Virtual Earth map of the entire region tracking events, incidents, resources and tasks in real-time using its unique large display, multi-user, multi-touch and interactive capabilities, also allowing it to communicate with remote devices and PCs. With a quick hand-gesture, the map can zoom in and display a 3D image of the city, including detailed views of buildings and streets and real time resource tracking."
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If Osama reads /. there's gonna be some dead football people.
Agreed. It's 2009. The last time I remember getting a BSOD was on NT4.0. An electrician had shorted out a power line with a network cable and it fried the machine. These stability jokes really only attest to the author's cluelessness.
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"I've had various Desktop Linux distro's (and OS X) crash on me far more often than XP sp2+ and Vista has over the past 4-5 years."
For some reason I don't believe you. That reason? I administer and work with all those platforms and more. Windows crashes more than all other OS's put together, and for entirely mundane reasons. To make OS X fail you have to install some poorly designed extensions, most of the time. Making Windows fail is so, SO much easier.
Sure, XP SP2 or SP3 is better than XP SP1 or Vista, but it isn't as stable as Windows 2000 was. And it certainly isn't as stable as a Mac. We have a Windows Storage Server 2003, an expensive machine from Dell, and if you could see the weird shit it does you'd apologize for making suck an ignorant, Microass kissing statement.
I have to reboot my Windows workstation at work biweekly to monthly, because it just gets weird, confused, and messed up. I don't have to ever reboot my Mac except when a system update is installed.
Hi, I'm Clippy. You seem to be trying to reinstall Windows. Would you like me to format your HDD for you?