My P3 windows ME laptop can boot faster than both of them. It can render explorer objects waaaaay faster not to mention open aps faster and do basically everything faster. The GUI is so much simpler and faster especially. Does that means windows ME is awesome? NO! Speed isn't everything. It has to be stable, efficient, and able to run a large variety of software. Linux is stable and efficient but can't run 90% of software out there and Windows XP/Vista/7 is relatively unstable and bulky and inefficient but it can run almost anything. I don't care if I can install and open Microsoft Office on a windows 7 system if it takes me 5 minutes to boot and log in and I don't care if linux boots and opens gui objects crazy fast if I can't install Starcraft 2 on it. The moral of the story is people need to stop saying "This OS is faster so it's better, end of story." You have to look at all aspects of them like stability, price, speed, security, useability, compatability, etc.
But I do have to add that OF COURSE WINDOWS 7 IS SLOWER, IT HAS TO FIRE UP FREAKING DX10 JUST TO RENDER MY FREAKING DESKTOP AND EVERY WINDOW'S EDGES! WTF WERE THEY THINKING?! I DON'T CARE HOW PRETTY IT IS, I HAVE WORK TO DO!!!!! But other than that, it's kinda a toss up when you consider everything.
change something? hmm okay...they could start by listening to their beta testers. I think they put out a beta just to put out a beta and the feedback system was broken. That was like the biggest step away from open source they could possibly get. It's worse than Vista where at least they listened but then said "Yeah, we're gonna go ahead and do that anyway"
They already invented this, it's called arctic silver. Okay, maybe those are 3 different silver compounds but I could have sworn it was 3 different silver atoms like ions or something. Iunno. There's always hydrogen and deuterium and tritium. Those don't normally sort.
This is like me putting linux on a portable hard drive or USB drive, booting from it while it's connected to another computer, and calling it a laptop just because I can walk around with "my computer" and all my software and file and use it anywhere...as long as there's a computer to plug it into lol.
yeah, AND PUT IT ON THE SLASHDOT FRONT PAGE! If I wasn't so sure Slashdot was banned in China, I'd say they probably already got word and are quickly deleting all traces they did anything. Ugh, seriously, Chinese people have no morals when it comes to stealing something someone else made. You ever play an MMORPG with chinese players? I don't think I've met one that didn't try and scam someone or cheat the system to get money or just use a bot (that I'm sure they pirated...as well as the game)
I work for an IT contractor which does projects for companies that temporarily need more staff to finish special projects. It's usually special large software that they need written or large computer replacements or inventories. But with limited budgets, those don't get approved because they're not 100% necessary so I've been without work for several months. It sucks but I also make websites and do computer repairs and that's been the same as usual. Actually it's been crazy busy. The last two people are selling things on their websites and wanted a nice checkout system and all that and they keep adding new items. Basically it's to haul in some extra money to make up for any they're short on. I think overall, the big companies are cutting back on projects and staff and the little guys are thinking they can edge in on some of their territory while they do it. So basically there's the same amount of work total, it's just shifting.
that would still let them sit on it for the time period allowed. What they need is for people to prove they can actually make or do whatever the patent is for, or at least have some sort of progress made. I could patent teleporters and ion cannons if I wanted and then just sit on it but I shouldn't be allowed to unless I show some sort of proof that I've already started building one of those devices or at least have research that led to a blueprint that I'm pretty sure will work.
what, with itself? There was only one of it lol. Even if they did make two, they'd be genetically identical which would cause an even bigger problem than if they were siblings and had to reproduce together. So basically the whole "This is the only way to bring them back" stuff is crap because they'll be extremely unlikelt to reproduce with normal offspring.
you're right. Spending 2 extra years on Vista didn't do them any favors. So I guess they're trying it super fast now instead of super slow. I mean really, what were they doing for those 2 years? They were supposed to be making it perfect and fixing all the problems and making it so users loved it. How can an entire development department keep their heads up their asses that long? You'd think they'd have to take a breath eventually lol. It seems they aren't concerened in the least with making a good product. They're just desperate for money after the catastrophe with Vista. What they don't realize is that with the media saying this is going to be the awesome cure for Vista and everyone will love it, when it comes out and is glitchier than ME, people will never trust a Microsoft product again. It's sort of like the boy who cried wolf except it's the media that cried good product.
and in response to your second point, they need to release in coordination with 7 a super simple, extremely efficient and fast business version. It could run on the same hardware as XP if not slower hardware and boot fast and just basically do work stuff fast. And then they could even make it waaaaay cheaper so businesses had no reason not to upgrade. We don't need DX10 powering my freaking toolbar, we need to log in under 2 minutes, Microsoft!
you're looking at it the wrong way. They're not replicating it, they're freeing people from Microsoft oppression by rewriting software that shouldn't cost like $2000 a copy. What I'm a little unhappy about is naming it Open Change. Oh come on, could they make it sound any more like Hope 'n Change. That's a blatant copy. Logically it should have been named Open Exchange after Open Office of course. Most of these Linux people are really, really angry and hostile when it comes Microsoft so why the pathetic name? I think they're wimping out in case of a law suit. I would have named it "Exchange Sucks, Use This" or ESUT for short and I would have actually typed the name with my balls lol.
If you really think about, their idiotic top level management were still able to do more damage to the company than this virus would have. Now that's amazing!
wait, don't get up yet. There's one last hope! They can start making them completely out of edible materials so children in 3rd world countries can eat them instead of just learn to write viruses, steal identities, and send e-mail scams. I think we can all agree that that's what they really need.
they needed that last part!
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My 8 year old laptop running ME can boot in 14 seconds and shut down in just under 4. I think XP and Vista were a big step in the wrong direction. When a set of hardware that's overall about 30x faster still takes at least 5x longer to boot XP or Vista, somebody screwed up. It's about time operating systems got thinner and more efficient regardless of the economy of stalling hardware speeds.
well it clearly says in the story that he's a danger to society so maybe we should have him register as a ditigal offender and under the rules of "Slashdot's Law" he has to inform every neighborhood he moves into that he's a digital offender so they can secure their wifi:-P Oh and he has to have a sign on his lawn too and be in a national database.
The path that particles take down the thing is very, very exact. If the black hole forms in its path and they don't know it, it will get fed more matter. No matter how hard it hits the black hole, the gravity is by definition is strong enough to not let matter escape even at the speed of light. Worse yet, as soon as they turn the magnets off, what's going to happen, people? That's right, earth's gravity will pull it down into the casing of solid metal and it will start eating up those atoms. There's a lot wrong with this entire thing though. I don't see how two particles can smash into each other dead on with 0 deflection hard enough to get them close enough to each other that their gravity will hold them together. That's impossible. Last I checked, for gravity to overcome the urge for matter to spread apart and not collapse into a singlularity you need more mass than two subatomic particles. More like 3 solar masses or whatever otherwise the force trying to push them apart would overcome gravity. So besides that, assuming one does form, since when do black holes decay and evaporate?! They're permanent. Nothing can escape! Wouldn't the one in the center of our galaxy which is KINDA old have decayed by now? When have we ever seen a black hole shrink in size? That's just idiotic. I think they made that up so they don't have to say "oh but if one does form, there's no getting rid of it and we're screwed"
Most of the previous suggestions are more likely and better but I figured I'd also mention this. I've heard of people with undiscovered rootkits and a symptom is huge, seemingly untraceable performance loss. The only symptom is a lot of different, legitimate processes using up the CPU at the same time. This behavior is a known effect of some rootkits using CPU cycles while hiding itself. I've never seen it personally but I've heard about it. I'd suggest running Rootkit Revealer because it checks for any inconsistency between the registry and what's supposedly there for the entire file system and processes that are running (or something like that) instead of using a list of virus definitions.
Also, nothing stops a computer like a piece of hardware telling everything to wait. Go to the actual manufacturer's page for every piece of significant hardware and update the driver for it. You'll be surprised how many are described as critical fixes but don't appear on windows update. And there's a lot of lines in the changelogs that will say something to the effect of "fixed system hang/pause when..."
Every reply so far is wrong. Regardless of the strength of the antenna, the cell phone still broadcasts the same distance. So if you have 3 antennas in a 1 mile by one mile square, your cell phone still has the same power level and range and will take up that entire mile.
They couldn't fit that giant crowd of people from the Verizon commercials (or whatever company that is) into the area that was already overpacked. That was the real problem. Btw as for the people who keep saying the cell towers on wheels solved all the problems, I dunno what moron thought that was going to help but there's only so much bandwidth available in the air regardless of the number of towers and you can't have them stomping on each other.
I don't use PNGs because IE6 can't handle partial transparency of pixels and some morons still use it unfortunately. Other than that, it's a better format. Oh but I did use 3 layers in one website and 2 were semi-transparent PNGs and even my 8600GTS OC can't render it while scrolling without severe skipping in IE7 or Firefox 3. I think PNG still needs some work (or the browsers)
cost is your main concern? I don't think your spleen is going to be doing much texting anyway. I'd be concerned about point blank cell phone band radiation. If living under a cell tower gives you cancer and putting the cell phone an inch from your brain maybe causes cancer, what's it going to do when it's touching your tissue? In fact, a year or two ago they had a story on wireless chips inside pets having a ridiculously high cancer rate in the surrounding tissue because of the point blank wireless signals. It's not dangerous at 1 foot away or one inch but the strength gets exponentially as you get closer so when it's 0.001 mm away from your living cells, you've got a problem. At that range, you could probably climb a cell phone tower and lick the transmitter and get less of an intense dose of radiation because you'd still be a couple inches away from the place it emits from.
ohhhhh but Apple just remote deleted the FLIR viewer program, too bad:( seriously, why would they want to use such locked down, proprietary crap that Apple has its usual power-hungry control over?
I remember a story on slashdot where they seal up the entire datacenter so it's almost completely airtight then put a big turbine in the roof and the hot air rises up to it and turns it which powers the AC. Now that's an idea! But there was that other story that was a lot better which takes about some kind of phase something or other cooling where basically the processor's heat drove the cooling system on the heat sync. That'd save some money of electricity both for internal fans and for building cooling. Put that in plus power the servers with solar and you'll have a lot less of an "up and down" problem like with the turbine (it cools off and stops generating power so the cooling system is weaker which heats it up and starts it all over in a big cycle)
All I have to say is Epic Movie's IMDB rating was 8.4 days after it came out. Now it's like 2.2. Someone even posted on the forum for that movie that there's a glitch where if you delete your 1 star vote, it registers as a 0. Obviously that was a lie to get people to stop rating it 1 star. Why would someone say that unless they worked for the movie company directly? It's absolutely proven that it happens and site owners are doing nothing to stop it.
Maybe we can feed them chocolate covered pumpkin seeds and run the van on oil from their faces too lol.
But seriously, I like turning garbage into plasma by arc welding it or whatever that other story on Slashdot was a while ago. How that nets an energy gain I don't know but it supposedly did. Turning toxic metals and disgusting rotting waste into subatomic particles is AWESOME! You are literally getting rid of garbage cuz it's not gonna coalesce back into moldy cheese and cathode ray tubes after it gets turned into plasma:D
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My P3 windows ME laptop can boot faster than both of them. It can render explorer objects waaaaay faster not to mention open aps faster and do basically everything faster. The GUI is so much simpler and faster especially. Does that means windows ME is awesome? NO! Speed isn't everything. It has to be stable, efficient, and able to run a large variety of software. Linux is stable and efficient but can't run 90% of software out there and Windows XP/Vista/7 is relatively unstable and bulky and inefficient but it can run almost anything. I don't care if I can install and open Microsoft Office on a windows 7 system if it takes me 5 minutes to boot and log in and I don't care if linux boots and opens gui objects crazy fast if I can't install Starcraft 2 on it. The moral of the story is people need to stop saying "This OS is faster so it's better, end of story." You have to look at all aspects of them like stability, price, speed, security, useability, compatability, etc.
But I do have to add that OF COURSE WINDOWS 7 IS SLOWER, IT HAS TO FIRE UP FREAKING DX10 JUST TO RENDER MY FREAKING DESKTOP AND EVERY WINDOW'S EDGES! WTF WERE THEY THINKING?! I DON'T CARE HOW PRETTY IT IS, I HAVE WORK TO DO!!!!! But other than that, it's kinda a toss up when you consider everything.
change something? hmm okay...they could start by listening to their beta testers. I think they put out a beta just to put out a beta and the feedback system was broken. That was like the biggest step away from open source they could possibly get. It's worse than Vista where at least they listened but then said "Yeah, we're gonna go ahead and do that anyway"
They already invented this, it's called arctic silver. Okay, maybe those are 3 different silver compounds but I could have sworn it was 3 different silver atoms like ions or something. Iunno. There's always hydrogen and deuterium and tritium. Those don't normally sort.
This is like me putting linux on a portable hard drive or USB drive, booting from it while it's connected to another computer, and calling it a laptop just because I can walk around with "my computer" and all my software and file and use it anywhere...as long as there's a computer to plug it into lol.
yeah, AND PUT IT ON THE SLASHDOT FRONT PAGE! If I wasn't so sure Slashdot was banned in China, I'd say they probably already got word and are quickly deleting all traces they did anything. Ugh, seriously, Chinese people have no morals when it comes to stealing something someone else made. You ever play an MMORPG with chinese players? I don't think I've met one that didn't try and scam someone or cheat the system to get money or just use a bot (that I'm sure they pirated...as well as the game)
I work for an IT contractor which does projects for companies that temporarily need more staff to finish special projects. It's usually special large software that they need written or large computer replacements or inventories. But with limited budgets, those don't get approved because they're not 100% necessary so I've been without work for several months. It sucks but I also make websites and do computer repairs and that's been the same as usual. Actually it's been crazy busy. The last two people are selling things on their websites and wanted a nice checkout system and all that and they keep adding new items. Basically it's to haul in some extra money to make up for any they're short on. I think overall, the big companies are cutting back on projects and staff and the little guys are thinking they can edge in on some of their territory while they do it. So basically there's the same amount of work total, it's just shifting.
that would still let them sit on it for the time period allowed. What they need is for people to prove they can actually make or do whatever the patent is for, or at least have some sort of progress made. I could patent teleporters and ion cannons if I wanted and then just sit on it but I shouldn't be allowed to unless I show some sort of proof that I've already started building one of those devices or at least have research that led to a blueprint that I'm pretty sure will work.
what, with itself? There was only one of it lol. Even if they did make two, they'd be genetically identical which would cause an even bigger problem than if they were siblings and had to reproduce together. So basically the whole "This is the only way to bring them back" stuff is crap because they'll be extremely unlikelt to reproduce with normal offspring.
you're right. Spending 2 extra years on Vista didn't do them any favors. So I guess they're trying it super fast now instead of super slow. I mean really, what were they doing for those 2 years? They were supposed to be making it perfect and fixing all the problems and making it so users loved it. How can an entire development department keep their heads up their asses that long? You'd think they'd have to take a breath eventually lol. It seems they aren't concerened in the least with making a good product. They're just desperate for money after the catastrophe with Vista. What they don't realize is that with the media saying this is going to be the awesome cure for Vista and everyone will love it, when it comes out and is glitchier than ME, people will never trust a Microsoft product again. It's sort of like the boy who cried wolf except it's the media that cried good product.
and in response to your second point, they need to release in coordination with 7 a super simple, extremely efficient and fast business version. It could run on the same hardware as XP if not slower hardware and boot fast and just basically do work stuff fast. And then they could even make it waaaaay cheaper so businesses had no reason not to upgrade. We don't need DX10 powering my freaking toolbar, we need to log in under 2 minutes, Microsoft!
you're looking at it the wrong way. They're not replicating it, they're freeing people from Microsoft oppression by rewriting software that shouldn't cost like $2000 a copy. What I'm a little unhappy about is naming it Open Change. Oh come on, could they make it sound any more like Hope 'n Change. That's a blatant copy. Logically it should have been named Open Exchange after Open Office of course. Most of these Linux people are really, really angry and hostile when it comes Microsoft so why the pathetic name? I think they're wimping out in case of a law suit. I would have named it "Exchange Sucks, Use This" or ESUT for short and I would have actually typed the name with my balls lol.
I heard a rumor that the first person to make a true monopole gets a get out of jail free card...what? that's spelled differently? Eh, whatever
If you really think about, their idiotic top level management were still able to do more damage to the company than this virus would have. Now that's amazing!
wait, don't get up yet. There's one last hope! They can start making them completely out of edible materials so children in 3rd world countries can eat them instead of just learn to write viruses, steal identities, and send e-mail scams. I think we can all agree that that's what they really need.
My 8 year old laptop running ME can boot in 14 seconds and shut down in just under 4. I think XP and Vista were a big step in the wrong direction. When a set of hardware that's overall about 30x faster still takes at least 5x longer to boot XP or Vista, somebody screwed up. It's about time operating systems got thinner and more efficient regardless of the economy of stalling hardware speeds.
well it clearly says in the story that he's a danger to society so maybe we should have him register as a ditigal offender and under the rules of "Slashdot's Law" he has to inform every neighborhood he moves into that he's a digital offender so they can secure their wifi :-P Oh and he has to have a sign on his lawn too and be in a national database.
The path that particles take down the thing is very, very exact. If the black hole forms in its path and they don't know it, it will get fed more matter. No matter how hard it hits the black hole, the gravity is by definition is strong enough to not let matter escape even at the speed of light. Worse yet, as soon as they turn the magnets off, what's going to happen, people? That's right, earth's gravity will pull it down into the casing of solid metal and it will start eating up those atoms. There's a lot wrong with this entire thing though. I don't see how two particles can smash into each other dead on with 0 deflection hard enough to get them close enough to each other that their gravity will hold them together. That's impossible. Last I checked, for gravity to overcome the urge for matter to spread apart and not collapse into a singlularity you need more mass than two subatomic particles. More like 3 solar masses or whatever otherwise the force trying to push them apart would overcome gravity. So besides that, assuming one does form, since when do black holes decay and evaporate?! They're permanent. Nothing can escape! Wouldn't the one in the center of our galaxy which is KINDA old have decayed by now? When have we ever seen a black hole shrink in size? That's just idiotic. I think they made that up so they don't have to say "oh but if one does form, there's no getting rid of it and we're screwed"
Most of the previous suggestions are more likely and better but I figured I'd also mention this. I've heard of people with undiscovered rootkits and a symptom is huge, seemingly untraceable performance loss. The only symptom is a lot of different, legitimate processes using up the CPU at the same time. This behavior is a known effect of some rootkits using CPU cycles while hiding itself. I've never seen it personally but I've heard about it. I'd suggest running Rootkit Revealer because it checks for any inconsistency between the registry and what's supposedly there for the entire file system and processes that are running (or something like that) instead of using a list of virus definitions.
Also, nothing stops a computer like a piece of hardware telling everything to wait. Go to the actual manufacturer's page for every piece of significant hardware and update the driver for it. You'll be surprised how many are described as critical fixes but don't appear on windows update. And there's a lot of lines in the changelogs that will say something to the effect of "fixed system hang/pause when..."
Every reply so far is wrong. Regardless of the strength of the antenna, the cell phone still broadcasts the same distance. So if you have 3 antennas in a 1 mile by one mile square, your cell phone still has the same power level and range and will take up that entire mile.
They couldn't fit that giant crowd of people from the Verizon commercials (or whatever company that is) into the area that was already overpacked. That was the real problem. Btw as for the people who keep saying the cell towers on wheels solved all the problems, I dunno what moron thought that was going to help but there's only so much bandwidth available in the air regardless of the number of towers and you can't have them stomping on each other.
I don't use PNGs because IE6 can't handle partial transparency of pixels and some morons still use it unfortunately. Other than that, it's a better format. Oh but I did use 3 layers in one website and 2 were semi-transparent PNGs and even my 8600GTS OC can't render it while scrolling without severe skipping in IE7 or Firefox 3. I think PNG still needs some work (or the browsers)
cost is your main concern? I don't think your spleen is going to be doing much texting anyway. I'd be concerned about point blank cell phone band radiation. If living under a cell tower gives you cancer and putting the cell phone an inch from your brain maybe causes cancer, what's it going to do when it's touching your tissue? In fact, a year or two ago they had a story on wireless chips inside pets having a ridiculously high cancer rate in the surrounding tissue because of the point blank wireless signals. It's not dangerous at 1 foot away or one inch but the strength gets exponentially as you get closer so when it's 0.001 mm away from your living cells, you've got a problem. At that range, you could probably climb a cell phone tower and lick the transmitter and get less of an intense dose of radiation because you'd still be a couple inches away from the place it emits from.
ohhhhh but Apple just remote deleted the FLIR viewer program, too bad :( seriously, why would they want to use such locked down, proprietary crap that Apple has its usual power-hungry control over?
I remember a story on slashdot where they seal up the entire datacenter so it's almost completely airtight then put a big turbine in the roof and the hot air rises up to it and turns it which powers the AC. Now that's an idea! But there was that other story that was a lot better which takes about some kind of phase something or other cooling where basically the processor's heat drove the cooling system on the heat sync. That'd save some money of electricity both for internal fans and for building cooling. Put that in plus power the servers with solar and you'll have a lot less of an "up and down" problem like with the turbine (it cools off and stops generating power so the cooling system is weaker which heats it up and starts it all over in a big cycle)
All I have to say is Epic Movie's IMDB rating was 8.4 days after it came out. Now it's like 2.2. Someone even posted on the forum for that movie that there's a glitch where if you delete your 1 star vote, it registers as a 0. Obviously that was a lie to get people to stop rating it 1 star. Why would someone say that unless they worked for the movie company directly? It's absolutely proven that it happens and site owners are doing nothing to stop it.
Maybe we can feed them chocolate covered pumpkin seeds and run the van on oil from their faces too lol. :D
But seriously, I like turning garbage into plasma by arc welding it or whatever that other story on Slashdot was a while ago. How that nets an energy gain I don't know but it supposedly did. Turning toxic metals and disgusting rotting waste into subatomic particles is AWESOME! You are literally getting rid of garbage cuz it's not gonna coalesce back into moldy cheese and cathode ray tubes after it gets turned into plasma