During the winter months up north there is a significantly higher percentage of days with dark grey cloud cover. During these periods, there is significantly less real sunlight filtering through. This reduces the effectivity of solar panels, which require full sunlight to operate with any shade of efficiency.
In addition, above the temperate line the sun runs an arc 45 degrees to the south (which is why winter happens in the first place - reduced solar energy), further reducing solar energy. The only time solar energy works at full efficiency between the temperate zone line and the arctic circle is in full summer.
And you know full well there is one season in Minnesota beyond Winter: Road Construction.
Just Microsoft telling people who've clung onto the beta versions that they can keep using it without paying $400.
And as to the 30% figure, there are a ton of companies still using Win2000pro.
I have a feeling that it's more because the multi-core designs of the PS3 and 360 can process the three different input types better. The vocals alone will take up a large chunk of processor time to rate scoring. That and they want the graphics to really stand out, something that the Wii isn't really as good at.
And, more likely than not, they want to build a player-matching system that isn't dependant on an esoteric numeric code.
Once you've had a chance to actually deal with real-world users in the government enterprise environment, you know exactly what I mean. Linux is a great solution if every user has a basic grip on how to use a computer and are willing to explore and figure out how to do things. But in the real world, most aren't. And the higher up they are, the more they need assistance in learning the basics of new software. I guarantee that the oldest/most senior users in the french government are going to call IT every time they want to do something they weren't shown how to do, or simply forgot or became too tech-timid, when they were set up with Ubuntu.
Despite the fact that "OMG Windoze wantz to rulez world so it suckz" seems to be the normal opinion here, Windows XP is a solid OS with a familiar feel and, most importantly, real support from a massive dev team. As oppossed to a group of nerds who just don't want to pay for software so they build a modified version of Unix for themselves.
Like actually putting an ethernet port on the box? I know some people don't mind it being WiFi only, but it's nearly a dealbreaker for me if it's an alway-connected system and I have to pay extra for a dongle to run a Cat5e to it.
Over 95% of the images on Google Earth are years out of date and pulled from publicly available image collections. While I was stationed at LSA Anaconda (aka, Balad Air Base, Iraq) I pulled up the post several times. The images were always a year or two old and showed none of the facility hardening, t-walls, or other improvements to the post safety levels that the insurgents could use against us. And I doubt that's changed, since they haven't even updated the Minneapolis images to show the completed Light Rail system.
Actually, Blu-ray supports up to 8 layers at 25GB each, for a total of 200GB. It's because the Blu-ray laser has a significantly narrower beam than HDDVD, allowing for both more data per layer and a shallower read depth. 3 layers is the ultimate limit of how much will fit on HD DVD, as any more will be unreadable by the laser.
The difference is that the different retail boxes are all interchangable, with the difference being the feature sets, not what will run on it. You can take XP Home and run nearly anything (aside from domain-dependant software)you could on XP Pro. Without recompiling the binary for your particular version and hoping for the best.
This is standard in the military because at the large scale Windows server/XP client is the easiest to deploy and manage. Linux just isn't the answer to everything.
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Plus DLP costs half as much as a plasma at the same size. AND new advances keep improving DLP. Such as the newest 1080p three-chip models with separate red, green, and blue LED lamps instead of the single-chip color-wheel based white lamp.
Personally, I see more fanboyism about it here. But then again, Linux just isn't that great. The entire concept is built around a junky command-line OS that requires a three inch thick book to outline the user/admin commands. And as for "All it takes is for one Linux representative to hire one lawyer", you're assuming that the core linux community is anything but a fragmented group of geeks who refuse to pay for software and are trying to piece together a chunk of code that matches what a company pays hundreds of thousands of professional coders to build.
What games? You can run the few that Id gives you. You may be able to run a few converted titles. But no one is developing games for linux beyond a few companies that do it because they feel like it. What are you going to do when you can't run DirectX 10 titles?
Isn't it just remotely plausible that Linux really isn't going anywhere fast? I see this fanboyism all the time on gaming forums. I've run WinXP on this system for over a year and a half without any real problems because I take care of it. I like that over 90% of software runs on it. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2047517 ,00.aspGaming is going nowhere. Your average user can't touch it because it's too complicated. And as for servers, sure, it's great if you're setting up a little business or gaming server where it's going to be on its own and you can get it set up in a few days, but it's just not an option at the Enterprise level. I'm sure you don't want to hear this, but Windows Server 2003 is far more effective at deployment, management, expansion, and migration. And Linux has nothing approaching the excellence of Sharepoint Portal Server 2003. And they're all getting a full upgrade next year.
If I'm wrong, tell me exactly why. The Microsoft is evil excuse isn't going to work because while they do engage in shady business practices, they are the only ones who are capable of generating an operating system that works on 90% of all systems, has a unified graphics API to ensure games work, keeps IT personnel employed, AND can be used by your average PEBKAC.
As for Mac OS, it will never be very common because Apple will never release a full x86 system version not preinstalled on their own hardware.
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During the winter months up north there is a significantly higher percentage of days with dark grey cloud cover. During these periods, there is significantly less real sunlight filtering through. This reduces the effectivity of solar panels, which require full sunlight to operate with any shade of efficiency. In addition, above the temperate line the sun runs an arc 45 degrees to the south (which is why winter happens in the first place - reduced solar energy), further reducing solar energy. The only time solar energy works at full efficiency between the temperate zone line and the arctic circle is in full summer. And you know full well there is one season in Minnesota beyond Winter: Road Construction.
Winter is over six months long in Minnesota. And that's further north. So for over half the year, they'll get maybe 10% or less output.
Just Microsoft telling people who've clung onto the beta versions that they can keep using it without paying $400. And as to the 30% figure, there are a ton of companies still using Win2000pro.
They should be aiming to beat Penryn. But maybe it's just that this is Intel's turn in the lead, like AMD had for the last several years.
I have a feeling that it's more because the multi-core designs of the PS3 and 360 can process the three different input types better. The vocals alone will take up a large chunk of processor time to rate scoring. That and they want the graphics to really stand out, something that the Wii isn't really as good at.
And, more likely than not, they want to build a player-matching system that isn't dependant on an esoteric numeric code.
Once you've had a chance to actually deal with real-world users in the government enterprise environment, you know exactly what I mean. Linux is a great solution if every user has a basic grip on how to use a computer and are willing to explore and figure out how to do things. But in the real world, most aren't. And the higher up they are, the more they need assistance in learning the basics of new software. I guarantee that the oldest/most senior users in the french government are going to call IT every time they want to do something they weren't shown how to do, or simply forgot or became too tech-timid, when they were set up with Ubuntu. Despite the fact that "OMG Windoze wantz to rulez world so it suckz" seems to be the normal opinion here, Windows XP is a solid OS with a familiar feel and, most importantly, real support from a massive dev team. As oppossed to a group of nerds who just don't want to pay for software so they build a modified version of Unix for themselves.
Because the first year of real bureaucratic workers using only Linux will be hell.
Like actually putting an ethernet port on the box? I know some people don't mind it being WiFi only, but it's nearly a dealbreaker for me if it's an alway-connected system and I have to pay extra for a dongle to run a Cat5e to it.
Over 95% of the images on Google Earth are years out of date and pulled from publicly available image collections. While I was stationed at LSA Anaconda (aka, Balad Air Base, Iraq) I pulled up the post several times. The images were always a year or two old and showed none of the facility hardening, t-walls, or other improvements to the post safety levels that the insurgents could use against us. And I doubt that's changed, since they haven't even updated the Minneapolis images to show the completed Light Rail system.
Actually, Blu-ray supports up to 8 layers at 25GB each, for a total of 200GB. It's because the Blu-ray laser has a significantly narrower beam than HDDVD, allowing for both more data per layer and a shallower read depth. 3 layers is the ultimate limit of how much will fit on HD DVD, as any more will be unreadable by the laser.
The difference is that the different retail boxes are all interchangable, with the difference being the feature sets, not what will run on it. You can take XP Home and run nearly anything (aside from domain-dependant software)you could on XP Pro. Without recompiling the binary for your particular version and hoping for the best.
This is standard in the military because at the large scale Windows server/XP client is the easiest to deploy and manage. Linux just isn't the answer to everything.
Plus DLP costs half as much as a plasma at the same size. AND new advances keep improving DLP. Such as the newest 1080p three-chip models with separate red, green, and blue LED lamps instead of the single-chip color-wheel based white lamp.
Personally, I see more fanboyism about it here. But then again, Linux just isn't that great. The entire concept is built around a junky command-line OS that requires a three inch thick book to outline the user/admin commands. And as for "All it takes is for one Linux representative to hire one lawyer", you're assuming that the core linux community is anything but a fragmented group of geeks who refuse to pay for software and are trying to piece together a chunk of code that matches what a company pays hundreds of thousands of professional coders to build.
What games? You can run the few that Id gives you. You may be able to run a few converted titles. But no one is developing games for linux beyond a few companies that do it because they feel like it. What are you going to do when you can't run DirectX 10 titles?
Isn't it just remotely plausible that Linux really isn't going anywhere fast? I see this fanboyism all the time on gaming forums. I've run WinXP on this system for over a year and a half without any real problems because I take care of it. I like that over 90% of software runs on it. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2047517 ,00.aspGaming is going nowhere. Your average user can't touch it because it's too complicated. And as for servers, sure, it's great if you're setting up a little business or gaming server where it's going to be on its own and you can get it set up in a few days, but it's just not an option at the Enterprise level. I'm sure you don't want to hear this, but Windows Server 2003 is far more effective at deployment, management, expansion, and migration. And Linux has nothing approaching the excellence of Sharepoint Portal Server 2003. And they're all getting a full upgrade next year.
If I'm wrong, tell me exactly why. The Microsoft is evil excuse isn't going to work because while they do engage in shady business practices, they are the only ones who are capable of generating an operating system that works on 90% of all systems, has a unified graphics API to ensure games work, keeps IT personnel employed, AND can be used by your average PEBKAC.
As for Mac OS, it will never be very common because Apple will never release a full x86 system version not preinstalled on their own hardware.