The system has become full o shit and can't be used anymore. Try to find the OEM-rescue disc. Copy a friends XP instead Find out that their valid license key doesn't allow them to install from that particular disc even though it says "XP Home Edition SP1", just like the sticker on their computer (WTF?) Get a volume license XP Pro with a pirate key on the internet. Find out that 1/3 of their hardware aren't supported in XP without something called "drivers" that they have no idea where to get. Don't install a firewall, antivirus or any Microsoft updates. Install the two games and two applications that they own. Get a bunch of pirated applications of the internet. Install Microsoft updates that have been automatically downloaded. Install lots of shit.. Back to a system that can't be used.
Or, since Vista is the newest and therefore the best, they get vista in step 5 and find out that 9/10 of their hardware aren't supported...
One of the more obvious gains with lots of cores (>2), if matched with lots of memory, is that you can still use your system for games while doing a week long matlab computation and transcoding a dvd into xvid...
There is a large consensus that large enough quantities of dust/particles and certain gases are very likely to affect the atmosphere in one way or another. The controversy is more about quantity and effects than the fact itself. Some say the amounts we produce does nothing at all to the atmosphere. Some say that we've already produced so much that if we stop entirely right now, the planet is still doomed. Most rational people fall in between those extremes, saying that it is probable that we're affecting the atmosphere but are unsure at how much, in what way and if it will have serious consequences or not.
Short: Some say we might be killing ourselves, some say that we might not. If you don't know, what will you do? Go the safe but expensive way or go the cheap but possibly lethal way?
It's a gamble and the bet is one habitable biosphere. Since we, so far, only have one of those, I'd say the safest bet is to try and lower our emissions, just in case. I'm a coward that way. I usually take the safer way when the stakes are extremely high. Comes naturally when regularly doing high risk stuff.
He choose a poor phrasing. He should have said something like: "Relative to each other, it's easier to make one functional unit in a lab than to make 1000 functional units a day"
Personally, I've bought every mobile-phone I've ever owned unlocked at the store and would not consider buying any locked phone or a phone with a contract attached. Ok, so I pay 10% more for my phone, but I can use any damned carrier I want and jump to the one who has the lowest rates and/or best coverage right now while still keeping my phone number. (I've changed phone 3 times, carrier 6-7 times and phonenumber 0 times in the last 9 years.)
One of the biggest upsides of buying unlocked phones is that you don't get the crappy customized firmwares that some carriers ship their locked phones with.
USB- and Firewire-devices has the disadvantages of being entirely external. A device sitting in a card-slot can be left there. In many cases the device is designed in a way that requires a dongle, which negated much of the advantage though.
Beating sales figures aren't really a relevant comparison. Amount of computers 2002 = X Amount of computers 2007 = 5X Yes, I'm pulling numbers out of thin air, but you get the picture. There are lot's more potential customers of Vista then there where of XP. What I'd want to know is: 1. How many percent of older MS-systems have upgraded to Vista. 2. How many percent of OEM computers come with Vista relative other systems. 3. How many percent of non-MS users have switched to Vista. 3. How many percent of those who have switched/upgraded are happy with Vista.
Then compare the same percentages to those of XP after the same period of time.
Being smart doesn't automatically give you the means to get out of a bad social situation. The smartest human in the world might be working the register at a burger king. It doesn't matter how smart your are if you can't afford to get an education and don't have the time to educate yourself on your own since you have to work 5 part-time jobs to pay for rent and your mother's hospital bill.
And lot's of jobs in science and technology doesn't really require one to be particularly smart. Only well educated. Huge difference there. Dumb people might have a hard time using a good education in a creative manner since they might not actually have the mental capabilities to apply what they have learned, but that doesn't stop really dumb people from being all over the scientific and technological communities.
Apple is hard competition. The problem with Apple, when seen as a competitor to Microsoft, is that Apple first and foremost is a hardware shop that happens to make a few softwares, most of which requires said hardware to run. You can't simply switch from MS Windows to OS X. I'd rather say that Apple is a competitor to HP, Dell, Asus and other hardware-companies.
For an example; the biggest reason for me not to switch to OS X is it's hardware tie-down. I would be prepared to buy a license of OS X to run instead of my current XP license if the price was competitive, but Apple don't license their OS to anyone who hasn't first bought their hardware, so I can't.
Say you'd travel distance X by plane in 5 hours. Doing it by high speed train might take 8 hours.
But!
If you travel by plane you have to take all that extra time that goes into dealing with airports Getting there and back. (Railway-stations are usually more conveniently placed than airports) Checking in and getting your luggage. (Unless you do long-distance travel with very light luggage) Security.
In many cases, traveling at a slightly lower speed by train would save you time. No need to get all the way up to jet-speed in order for there not to be any advantage in flying. =)
How many people who drive cars on a daily basis can describe the basics of what is going on in the engine? On the other hand, there are a few things regarding cars that must be applied to computers if they are to reach the same usability-level as a car.
Cars are checked regularly by professionals, to ensure that they work correctly. If the car is in a stat where it is a hazard to others, you're not allowed to use it. On order to operate a car, you are required to get a license to operate it. If you show really poor judgment when operating your car, or blatantly disregard the laws and rules that dictate how you are allowed to operate your car, you can get fined, imprisoned or have your license revoked. The user-interface and how you operate a car doesn't change in any significant way regardless of who made the hardware or software.
Many of these are stuff that lots of people would bitch and moan about if they applied to computers. Like if you had to have your computer re-certified as "Safe to use" every time you changed certain things about the hardware or software.
We're talking points of view here. In their mind, they might be removing evil subscribers of religion X, as a holy deed in their holy war against the great Evil.
The rest of the world sees them as deranged terrorists that target innocent people who's only crime is living and trying to provide for their families.
There's always those who can be fooled into believing that something is "Good" There's always those who can be fooled into believing that something is "Evil" The most dangerous one is he who can fool them, but without the fools, he would be powerless.
DX10. It's inevitable that games will eventually require it, It will probably be quite some time before DX10 is required to play a non-microsoft game. There are only four reasons for any company to ever limit a game to only DX10. 1 Vista promotion. 2 Being DX9-compatible doesn't add any significant market. (Kind of like being DX6 compatible today) 3 The game require a lowest level of graphics that can not be done in DX9, or would require lots of man-hours to implement for DX9. 4 Windows is no longer DX9-compatible.
The only company that would use reason 1 is, of course, Microsoft. They are also one of the few game-companies that can afford to ignore the DX9 market, since they're not dependent on it to actually make a profit, since they'll eventually get that profit from windows-sales instead.
It's rather obvious that what you regarded as terrorism depends on who you are. There isn't many who see themselves as evil terrorists who's only goal is to murder and destroy. They see themselves as freedom fighters, holy warriors, the peoples saviors, etc, etc. Those who get shot, bombed, maimed, etc, see them as terrorists and any who support them as supporters of terrorism.
it's still been my experience that most people want the prettiest thing that still runs word and power point, utility be damned. In my experience, many corporate networks have policies in place that turns of the XP look, keeping the unthemed look. Both in order to minimize the UI change at NT/2000 -> XP migration and in order to gain performance, etc.
Also, keeping aero disabled will save larger corporations massive amounts of electricity since the graphics-cards won't use their power-hungry 3d-engines.
In short; Strike "looks pretty" from the Pro-list when talking about corporate use.
Put in some new, fairly quite drives, then put them in something like a Quiet drive enclosure. Much better than simply putting the drives on rubber grommets. If you also combine this with a low-noise or passive-cooling psu, have all remaining fans rubber-mounted and get some noise absorbing material to put on the inside of your chassis, you'll have a nearly silent pc.
Regardless of if it would sink other network-operators not to be allowed to offer service to users of iPhones, the practice of not allowing certain operators to offer service to your hardware might be illegal. It might also be illegal to require a certain subscription for a certain phone. As I understand it, this is what is being tested.
If it is illegal, Apple will either have to stop selling their phones in the EU, or let their customers choose operator and subscription freely, like the other mobile-phone manufacturers do.
Also, I haven't seen any subscriptions the last six years or so where data service doesn't come as standard. Probably since MMS and many other mobile services are dependent on this.
So what happens two years down the road when the batteries can no longer hold out for the needed time? If someone hasn't horribly neglected his/her job, the batteries will not reach such a state. All UPS-systems have specifications on how long the batteries will last and any UPS that's in professional use should be services properly. So should those in private use too actually, but it isn't part of anyones job-description to actually keep it serviced so most probably isn't.
Are the laptops-drives running when lugged around or not? A parked drive can withstand a lot more abuse than one that is spinning.
With a little search through the Samsung web-site I found out that their 2.5" and 1.8" harddrive are specified at 1G while operating and their SSD drives are specified at 20G while operating..
You also have the added benefit of having the waste-heat from the compressors heating your home instead of your garage, lowering your heating-cost. Unless, of course, you live in a climate where cooling is more important than heating. In that case you've added another source of heat to cool. =)
Also, making sure that the seal between the fridge/freezer door and the box is whole and clean can spare you quite a lot of compressor time.
What those power hungry gfx-cards needs are better powersaving modes. When doing almost anything else than gaming or watching video, most cards from the middle to late 90's will work just as fine as a bleeding edge card bought five minutes ago. A modern card shouldn't have to use more than a few watts, if even that, when idle.
Another problem with touch-screen keypads are when doing one-handed messaging. I always use my phone one-handed and would have a hard time getting used to a phone that requires me to use both hands.
Either way, and no matter how the prisoners are actually treated, no country should be allowed to keep their prisoners on foreign soil. If you want to have prisoners, keep them inside your country-borders and give them you own damn rights and protections.
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To most home-users, though, it's more like this:
The system has become full o shit and can't be used anymore.
Try to find the OEM-rescue disc.
Copy a friends XP instead
Find out that their valid license key doesn't allow them to install from that particular disc even though it says "XP Home Edition SP1", just like the sticker on their computer (WTF?)
Get a volume license XP Pro with a pirate key on the internet.
Find out that 1/3 of their hardware aren't supported in XP without something called "drivers" that they have no idea where to get.
Don't install a firewall, antivirus or any Microsoft updates.
Install the two games and two applications that they own.
Get a bunch of pirated applications of the internet.
Install Microsoft updates that have been automatically downloaded.
Install lots of shit..
Back to a system that can't be used.
Or, since Vista is the newest and therefore the best, they get vista in step 5 and find out that 9/10 of their hardware aren't supported...
One of the more obvious gains with lots of cores (>2), if matched with lots of memory, is that you can still use your system for games while doing a week long matlab computation and transcoding a dvd into xvid...
There is a large consensus that large enough quantities of dust/particles and certain gases are very likely to affect the atmosphere in one way or another.
The controversy is more about quantity and effects than the fact itself.
Some say the amounts we produce does nothing at all to the atmosphere.
Some say that we've already produced so much that if we stop entirely right now, the planet is still doomed.
Most rational people fall in between those extremes, saying that it is probable that we're affecting the atmosphere but are unsure at how much, in what way and if it will have serious consequences or not.
Short: Some say we might be killing ourselves, some say that we might not.
If you don't know, what will you do?
Go the safe but expensive way or go the cheap but possibly lethal way?
It's a gamble and the bet is one habitable biosphere.
Since we, so far, only have one of those, I'd say the safest bet is to try and lower our emissions, just in case.
I'm a coward that way. I usually take the safer way when the stakes are extremely high. Comes naturally when regularly doing high risk stuff.
He choose a poor phrasing.
He should have said something like:
"Relative to each other, it's easier to make one functional unit in a lab than to make 1000 functional units a day"
Personally, I've bought every mobile-phone I've ever owned unlocked at the store and would not consider buying any locked phone or a phone with a contract attached.
Ok, so I pay 10% more for my phone, but I can use any damned carrier I want and jump to the one who has the lowest rates and/or best coverage right now while still keeping my phone number.
(I've changed phone 3 times, carrier 6-7 times and phonenumber 0 times in the last 9 years.)
One of the biggest upsides of buying unlocked phones is that you don't get the crappy customized firmwares that some carriers ship their locked phones with.
USB- and Firewire-devices has the disadvantages of being entirely external.
A device sitting in a card-slot can be left there.
In many cases the device is designed in a way that requires a dongle, which negated much of the advantage though.
Beating sales figures aren't really a relevant comparison.
Amount of computers 2002 = X
Amount of computers 2007 = 5X
Yes, I'm pulling numbers out of thin air, but you get the picture. There are lot's more potential customers of Vista then there where of XP.
What I'd want to know is:
1. How many percent of older MS-systems have upgraded to Vista.
2. How many percent of OEM computers come with Vista relative other systems.
3. How many percent of non-MS users have switched to Vista.
3. How many percent of those who have switched/upgraded are happy with Vista.
Then compare the same percentages to those of XP after the same period of time.
Being smart doesn't automatically give you the means to get out of a bad social situation.
The smartest human in the world might be working the register at a burger king.
It doesn't matter how smart your are if you can't afford to get an education and don't have the time to educate yourself on your own since you have to work 5 part-time jobs to pay for rent and your mother's hospital bill.
And lot's of jobs in science and technology doesn't really require one to be particularly smart. Only well educated. Huge difference there.
Dumb people might have a hard time using a good education in a creative manner since they might not actually have the mental capabilities to apply what they have learned, but that doesn't stop really dumb people from being all over the scientific and technological communities.
You can't simply switch from MS Windows to OS X.
I'd rather say that Apple is a competitor to HP, Dell, Asus and other hardware-companies.
For an example; the biggest reason for me not to switch to OS X is it's hardware tie-down. I would be prepared to buy a license of OS X to run instead of my current XP license if the price was competitive, but Apple don't license their OS to anyone who hasn't first bought their hardware, so I can't.
Say you'd travel distance X by plane in 5 hours.
Doing it by high speed train might take 8 hours.
But!
If you travel by plane you have to take all that extra time that goes into dealing with airports
Getting there and back. (Railway-stations are usually more conveniently placed than airports)
Checking in and getting your luggage. (Unless you do long-distance travel with very light luggage)
Security.
In many cases, traveling at a slightly lower speed by train would save you time.
No need to get all the way up to jet-speed in order for there not to be any advantage in flying. =)
Cars are checked regularly by professionals, to ensure that they work correctly. If the car is in a stat where it is a hazard to others, you're not allowed to use it.
On order to operate a car, you are required to get a license to operate it.
If you show really poor judgment when operating your car, or blatantly disregard the laws and rules that dictate how you are allowed to operate your car, you can get fined, imprisoned or have your license revoked.
The user-interface and how you operate a car doesn't change in any significant way regardless of who made the hardware or software.
Many of these are stuff that lots of people would bitch and moan about if they applied to computers.
Like if you had to have your computer re-certified as "Safe to use" every time you changed certain things about the hardware or software.
We're talking points of view here.
In their mind, they might be removing evil subscribers of religion X, as a holy deed in their holy war against the great Evil.
The rest of the world sees them as deranged terrorists that target innocent people who's only crime is living and trying to provide for their families.
There's always those who can be fooled into believing that something is "Good"
There's always those who can be fooled into believing that something is "Evil"
The most dangerous one is he who can fool them, but without the fools, he would be powerless.
There are only four reasons for any company to ever limit a game to only DX10.
1 Vista promotion.
2 Being DX9-compatible doesn't add any significant market. (Kind of like being DX6 compatible today)
3 The game require a lowest level of graphics that can not be done in DX9, or would require lots of man-hours to implement for DX9.
4 Windows is no longer DX9-compatible.
The only company that would use reason 1 is, of course, Microsoft.
They are also one of the few game-companies that can afford to ignore the DX9 market, since they're not dependent on it to actually make a profit, since they'll eventually get that profit from windows-sales instead.
It's rather obvious that what you regarded as terrorism depends on who you are.
There isn't many who see themselves as evil terrorists who's only goal is to murder and destroy.
They see themselves as freedom fighters, holy warriors, the peoples saviors, etc, etc.
Those who get shot, bombed, maimed, etc, see them as terrorists and any who support them as supporters of terrorism.
But there might be times when you want to allow java-script but not flash-animations on a page.
Both in order to minimize the UI change at NT/2000 -> XP migration and in order to gain performance, etc.
Also, keeping aero disabled will save larger corporations massive amounts of electricity since the graphics-cards won't use their power-hungry 3d-engines.
In short; Strike "looks pretty" from the Pro-list when talking about corporate use.
Put in some new, fairly quite drives, then put them in something like a Quiet drive enclosure.
Much better than simply putting the drives on rubber grommets.
If you also combine this with a low-noise or passive-cooling psu, have all remaining fans rubber-mounted and get some noise absorbing material to put on the inside of your chassis, you'll have a nearly silent pc.
Regardless of if it would sink other network-operators not to be allowed to offer service to users of iPhones, the practice of not allowing certain operators to offer service to your hardware might be illegal.
It might also be illegal to require a certain subscription for a certain phone.
As I understand it, this is what is being tested.
If it is illegal, Apple will either have to stop selling their phones in the EU, or let their customers choose operator and subscription freely, like the other mobile-phone manufacturers do.
Also, I haven't seen any subscriptions the last six years or so where data service doesn't come as standard. Probably since MMS and many other mobile services are dependent on this.
All UPS-systems have specifications on how long the batteries will last and any UPS that's in professional use should be services properly.
So should those in private use too actually, but it isn't part of anyones job-description to actually keep it serviced so most probably isn't.
Are the laptops-drives running when lugged around or not?
A parked drive can withstand a lot more abuse than one that is spinning.
With a little search through the Samsung web-site I found out that their 2.5" and 1.8" harddrive are specified at 1G while operating and their SSD drives are specified at 20G while operating..
One would have to find out the specifications of the film and the optics used for the original shot.
You also have the added benefit of having the waste-heat from the compressors heating your home instead of your garage, lowering your heating-cost.
Unless, of course, you live in a climate where cooling is more important than heating.
In that case you've added another source of heat to cool. =)
Also, making sure that the seal between the fridge/freezer door and the box is whole and clean can spare you quite a lot of compressor time.
What those power hungry gfx-cards needs are better powersaving modes.
When doing almost anything else than gaming or watching video, most cards from the middle to late 90's will work just as fine as a bleeding edge card bought five minutes ago.
A modern card shouldn't have to use more than a few watts, if even that, when idle.
Another problem with touch-screen keypads are when doing one-handed messaging.
I always use my phone one-handed and would have a hard time getting used to a phone that requires me to use both hands.
Either way, and no matter how the prisoners are actually treated, no country should be allowed to keep their prisoners on foreign soil.
If you want to have prisoners, keep them inside your country-borders and give them you own damn rights and protections.