...is the one without a connection to the Internet. Or at least that's the vision I get in my head, with the MS spin team out there touting the latest, most secure (doesn't go on the web) version of Vista. To address another issue raised in this thread, until this exploit hits other operating systems, then YES it is ONLY a Vista exploit (by definition).
HP has no way to tell what percentage of those buyers are using Vista and which are using XP, thus the summary is bogus. I understand the backwards downgrade option, but I also understand it that you have to buy Vista. Therefore, if 75% of the buyers "downgrade" to XP, 100% have still purchased Vista, which means XP is NOT outselling Vista. Maybe I"m reading the links wrong, but I doubt it. I think this is just a dog-pile-on-Microsoft, which I don't really understand, because there's plenty of legitimate evidence to point to instead of this.
I'm not being disingenuous at all, especially since, in your scenario, there is no official tracking of the sale, as all existing copies of XP for sale right now have already been counted as a sale.
Count me lucky then--20+ years of Apple products and not one cent on extended warranty garbage. I do have a dead 17" monitor that lived for about 8 years and an old Performa that had a motherboard death (replaced for free beyond its warranty period). Oooh, I forgot, about a billion dead hard drives. Man those things suck.
Well, the "editors" on slashdot are what every other forum I'm on call "moderators". Their job is to keep the topic on target, not make inciting comments. But, it does get the click count up by doing so.
My world view is not defined by the fact my in-law just happens to be a trainer on how to spot a knife with x-ray machines. My world view is equally not swayed by an obvious exaggeration made by random slashdot fanatic either.
Watch a broadcast if you really must know. Drive a rear-wheel drive sports car with a manual transmission to the verge of losing traction, then break traction, recovering the vehicle without hitting anything (do this at anywhere between 100-200 mph). Steer a 3,500 pound car with 800 hp around a 25 degree banked surface, surrounded by 42 other cars doing the same (without hitting anything). Do this for 3 hours straight, then come back and tell us how that is NOT physically active. Search You Tube for Carl Edwards, and tell me those guys are physically active (no fair you-tubing Tony Stewart though).
Come on, who takes an Xbox 360 as a carryon? Maybe, just maybe, had you...I dont' know....checked your mobile computer lab instead of trying to smuggle it on board, you wouldn't have held up the freakin' line at security. Yeah, the chutes suck and the old people who block the line to put their shoes back on suck too, but come on....two laptops and an Xbox???
I showed your post to my brother-in-law who trains TSA personnel on how to use the x-ray stuff. He says you have to be lying about the knife, and that operators are trained in recognizing photography equipment such as telephoto lenses like yours. What's worse, theatre or hyperbole?
Why don't you just put the hair gel in your luggage (or check your carry-on)? Do you think you'll need more hair gel in mid-flight or something? I think you should be charged extra to bring ANYTHING on board outside of what can be carried in your pockets. It would speed up security and I'd be able to get off of a parked plan faster than the 40 minutes it now takes for the 300-pound retards to get their carry-ons out of the overhead bin.
THESE SEARCHES are why I drive everywhere. I haven't flown a plane since the year 1999.
So what you are saying is that you haven't actually flown since the inception of all these absurd rules, but you still have the right to complain about them, even though you've never personally experienced them? Interesting.
You opine that NASCAR drivers (well, any race car driver for that matter) just sit there doing very little in the way of being "physically active"? This just shows that you know nothing about the demands required of the drivers. This is not simply sitting in a car seat and getting clubbed while playing Mario Brothers. Your confession of guilt also makes your judgment that much more dubious. You can be against NASCAR all you want (it's an easy target, like I already stated) but your disdain towards it doesn't change the physics involved in piloting a race car.
By your own logic, you have contradicted yourself:
Jacob's sufficient requirements for sport-status:
~Competitive
Scoring is Objective
~Physically Active
I don't consider NASCAR to be a sport..
Either you are prejudiced against NASCAR (because it's easy to stereotype, even though it is really no different than most forms of motor sport), or you don't understand it. Tell me exactly how NASCAR (or any racing form) is not competitive? I guess only one guy wants to win and the others are just billboards for their sponsors? How is scoring in racing NOT objective? It's easy to count the cars as they cross the finish line in sequence. Lastly, HOW IN THE WORLD is NASCAR not physically active? They sustain 150+ heart rates for 3-4 hour stints and require a ton of hand-eye-foot coordination (coordination being a sufficient requirement for sport status) and physical strength and endurance.
"There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games." (dubiously attributed to Earnest Hemingway)
Now I'm sure that no Slashdot reader will intentionally watch any "sport" that has judges determine the winner,
What's up with the quality of summaries these days? Do we really need the editorial comment? Are you SURE that NO slashdot reader would watch, oh, I dunno, diving and/or gymnastics (two of the bigger Olympic events)? I for one don't appreciate being summed up into one big ball referred to as "Slashdot reader"--especially by editors. I can handle the occasional name-flame by Anonymous Coward.
And exactly how would such a system safeguard us from the prime group of people... have not previously raised a flag with law enforcement and thus would not appear in any blacklist or watchlist and were free to enter any plane they wish and
Only because people like you keep fighting against things like FISA does this even become an issue. You know, with FISA, we would be allowed to collect on suspects and identify them even with no previous criminal activity--which is kind of the whole point of the terrorist watch lists.
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...is the one without a connection to the Internet. Or at least that's the vision I get in my head, with the MS spin team out there touting the latest, most secure (doesn't go on the web) version of Vista. To address another issue raised in this thread, until this exploit hits other operating systems, then YES it is ONLY a Vista exploit (by definition).
HP has no way to tell what percentage of those buyers are using Vista and which are using XP, thus the summary is bogus. I understand the backwards downgrade option, but I also understand it that you have to buy Vista. Therefore, if 75% of the buyers "downgrade" to XP, 100% have still purchased Vista, which means XP is NOT outselling Vista. Maybe I"m reading the links wrong, but I doubt it. I think this is just a dog-pile-on-Microsoft, which I don't really understand, because there's plenty of legitimate evidence to point to instead of this.
My company is a reseller too and we aren't allowed to sell XP anymore. I don't know how HP would be any different.
I'm not being disingenuous at all, especially since, in your scenario, there is no official tracking of the sale, as all existing copies of XP for sale right now have already been counted as a sale.
WinXP is no longer for sale, so how can it be outselling anything?
Count me lucky then--20+ years of Apple products and not one cent on extended warranty garbage. I do have a dead 17" monitor that lived for about 8 years and an old Performa that had a motherboard death (replaced for free beyond its warranty period). Oooh, I forgot, about a billion dead hard drives. Man those things suck.
Not to mention the Constitution isn't the ONLY document that governs our lives.
Well, the "editors" on slashdot are what every other forum I'm on call "moderators". Their job is to keep the topic on target, not make inciting comments. But, it does get the click count up by doing so.
Well, that sounds much more believable. And it's my brother-in-law, not father ;-) He is only slightly smarter than the TSA people he deals with.
My world view is not defined by the fact my in-law just happens to be a trainer on how to spot a knife with x-ray machines. My world view is equally not swayed by an obvious exaggeration made by random slashdot fanatic either.
Watch a broadcast if you really must know. Drive a rear-wheel drive sports car with a manual transmission to the verge of losing traction, then break traction, recovering the vehicle without hitting anything (do this at anywhere between 100-200 mph). Steer a 3,500 pound car with 800 hp around a 25 degree banked surface, surrounded by 42 other cars doing the same (without hitting anything). Do this for 3 hours straight, then come back and tell us how that is NOT physically active. Search You Tube for Carl Edwards, and tell me those guys are physically active (no fair you-tubing Tony Stewart though).
Come on, who takes an Xbox 360 as a carryon? Maybe, just maybe, had you...I dont' know....checked your mobile computer lab instead of trying to smuggle it on board, you wouldn't have held up the freakin' line at security. Yeah, the chutes suck and the old people who block the line to put their shoes back on suck too, but come on....two laptops and an Xbox???
I showed your post to my brother-in-law who trains TSA personnel on how to use the x-ray stuff. He says you have to be lying about the knife, and that operators are trained in recognizing photography equipment such as telephoto lenses like yours. What's worse, theatre or hyperbole?
Why don't you just put the hair gel in your luggage (or check your carry-on)? Do you think you'll need more hair gel in mid-flight or something? I think you should be charged extra to bring ANYTHING on board outside of what can be carried in your pockets. It would speed up security and I'd be able to get off of a parked plan faster than the 40 minutes it now takes for the 300-pound retards to get their carry-ons out of the overhead bin.
...or I could just take 5 seconds to take my laptop out of my bag?
THESE SEARCHES are why I drive everywhere. I haven't flown a plane since the year 1999.
So what you are saying is that you haven't actually flown since the inception of all these absurd rules, but you still have the right to complain about them, even though you've never personally experienced them? Interesting.
You opine that NASCAR drivers (well, any race car driver for that matter) just sit there doing very little in the way of being "physically active"? This just shows that you know nothing about the demands required of the drivers. This is not simply sitting in a car seat and getting clubbed while playing Mario Brothers. Your confession of guilt also makes your judgment that much more dubious. You can be against NASCAR all you want (it's an easy target, like I already stated) but your disdain towards it doesn't change the physics involved in piloting a race car.
Agreed!
Yes, I know about your list, as I already replied down there too.
Jacob's sufficient requirements for sport-status:
~Competitive
Scoring is Objective
~Physically Active
I don't consider NASCAR to be a sport..
Either you are prejudiced against NASCAR (because it's easy to stereotype, even though it is really no different than most forms of motor sport), or you don't understand it. Tell me exactly how NASCAR (or any racing form) is not competitive? I guess only one guy wants to win and the others are just billboards for their sponsors? How is scoring in racing NOT objective? It's easy to count the cars as they cross the finish line in sequence. Lastly, HOW IN THE WORLD is NASCAR not physically active? They sustain 150+ heart rates for 3-4 hour stints and require a ton of hand-eye-foot coordination (coordination being a sufficient requirement for sport status) and physical strength and endurance.
"There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games." (dubiously attributed to Earnest Hemingway)
Interesting--random left-brained, logical, slashdotter has trouble comprehending sports or the concept of subjectivity ;-)
Thanks for your definition of what constitutes sport.
Now I'm sure that no Slashdot reader will intentionally watch any "sport" that has judges determine the winner,
What's up with the quality of summaries these days? Do we really need the editorial comment? Are you SURE that NO slashdot reader would watch, oh, I dunno, diving and/or gymnastics (two of the bigger Olympic events)? I for one don't appreciate being summed up into one big ball referred to as "Slashdot reader"--especially by editors. I can handle the occasional name-flame by Anonymous Coward.
And exactly how would such a system safeguard us from the prime group of people ... have not previously raised a flag with law enforcement and thus would not appear in any blacklist or watchlist and were free to enter any plane they wish and
Only because people like you keep fighting against things like FISA does this even become an issue. You know, with FISA, we would be allowed to collect on suspects and identify them even with no previous criminal activity--which is kind of the whole point of the terrorist watch lists.