Nor could it have been just plain old poor parenting.
You know, letting the schools/doctors/internt/community raise your child for you.......
what's next, bitching to the world that pictures of your coked up daughter's fatal car accident being spread around are "damaging" to your mental health?
maybe preventing her from "stealing" your car in the first place would have solved all of your problems.
because congress needs to repeatedly validate their existence by passing new laws instead of merely modifying existing ones or writing ones that are good enough to be properly enforced.
Kinda like how we need repeateded attempts at new gun control laws so that only those attempting to follow the law are confused.
The criminals don't care, they've already proven that by being criminals.
I VOTE WE NAME THIS THE "DIRTY SANCHEZ" BILL!!!!!!
on first run is when all of the questions come up, so even if you have your updates set to auto install, you'll still get the setup screen on first run.
basically the person who wrote the "article" is a fucking moron and full of shit, but hey, it's slashdot, so why would anyone think the summary isn't correct.....
How is microsoft abandoning patching IE6 any different than Mozilla abandoning patches for Firefox 2?
Seriously.
IE6 has some root code that is insecure and patching is merely chasing the tail of the dragon when it comes to security exploits.
So abandoning it, and moving users to an inherently more secure browser that also happens to be more inline with modern browser standards is a good move, not a bad one.
Software companies (all of them) abandon old code for new code all the time, and when they do, they stop issueing security updates and patches for the old code.
that's great now how much electricity and power was used by that "off-grid" home DAILY that you aren't taking into account.
you know, the power to run the pumps that supplied the water to it from the municipal water system.
the power to produce the food that the people inside consumed.
the power to do such simple things as create the paper they write on.
stop with the "off-grid" bullshit. it's not real. it's not accurate and it's total bullshit.
the day someone really goes "off-grid" is the day they go back to doing EVERYTHING themselves and are totally self-sustaining without ANY outside interference.
producing your own needs for electricity is great but its a VERY SMALL amount of the world's total energy consumption.
and mostly have to do with shitty programmers not understanding user space versus system space programming since it wasn't "required" for Xp and previous versions of windows. so they got lazy and just said fuckit and dropped everything into system space.
hmmmm if you look at what you posted, it seems to me that all it's really saying is that a standard (or slightly stretched for economic conditions) 3-5 year hardware replacement cycle is in place.......
yes because all the businesses running linux on the desktop use a bleeding edge distro like ubuntu and fedora and update it as soon as the latest distro comes out....
oh wait.
IF they run linux on the desktop. it is most likely a very stable LTS release so that they don't HAVE to update all the time to fix the bugs that aren't corrected in the prior releases.
same thing goes for their servers.
all this "report" does is show exactly what anyone in the real world knows it would.
that unless the life cycle for the product is up and it is due for replacement, companies aren't going to replace the OS on it.
And if the life cycle is up, they will do their due diligence and make sure that everything works on the new potential systems.
large corporations get a bad rap, but one thing they dont typically do is rush forward to test out things in live mission critical environments.
you do realize that most peopel die still waiting for a suitable transplant don't you?
my father is on the transplant list for a heart and has been in the second highest risk category for about a year now.
he's been called in twice.
there is more to it than just matching some blood types.
and for certain other types of transplant, like the bone marrow transplant a friends 13 year old son is going through, they already have to put them into basically a clean room environment now. because they have to KILL OFF the immune system before they give them the transplant just to have a small hope of success.
if they could instead use something like this for 2-3 weeks, and use the same sterile environment procedures they already are, but for a lot less time (his was about 9 weeks all told before and after the transplant, and he had to have two so far), then they would actually SAVE money *gasp* by using a procedure like this.
oh my god, again, a slashtard with no knowledge making guesses and suppositions.... who would have guessed it......
the military probably uses less sonar in day to day operations than the rest of the scientific community does.
after all, how can you plot out that wreck without side scanning sonar? how can you map those undersea ridges and trenches without using some sort of down firing sonar?
the truth of the matter is, sonar as used by the military is mostly a passive system.
it's kinda like sitting out in the woods while hunting. you don't go around making a lot of noise because it can be heard further away than you can hear the animals you're hunting.
which, depending on the animal, either allows them to flee undetected or allows them to hone in on your location and find you and kill you.
it's the same reason military jets don't just fly around with their search radar on, because it can be detected a long way off, and with some simple geometry and two reception points, they know where the jet now is.....
and then they can use a less detectable method to eliminate that jet.
like say an infra-red heat seeking missle instead of one that requires radar guidance.
you do realize that 99%+ of the time, these terrible nuclear submarines don't even use ANY form of sonar other than underwater microphones don't you? To a similar (though not as high degree) neither do surface ships.
I didnt think so.
yet another example of a slashtard talking out of their ass with absolutely NO idea what they are talking about.
And yes, I did happen to serve on one of these terrible nuclear submarines.
and in the case of missle subs, it's probably closer to three nines or more.
ssbn subs are holes in the water that strive to make absolutely no noise.
you can hear the original sound wave a lot further off than you can hear the return echo which is always weaker.
and that's before you even throw in the effect of temperature gradients and convergence zones.
another thing to ponder is what was the frequency used? and does this matter.
the reason i say this is that MOST sonar is low frequency or extremely low frequency, with the exception being high frequency sonar used to search for underwater mines and to penetrate ice fields.
of course, why mention these type things as they will just muddy the waters and potentially invalidate the test.........
(I said potentially, not that they do, i have no idea and based on the report, neither does anyone else)
it doesn't exist, and it may not ever. until its actually a shipping product, it's not a real product.
and $200?!?!? oh boy. you mean the same price as the dell mini 9 with ubuntu that seems to go on sale almost every other month for $199?
here's a guess. people really dont care about 40 hours of battery life. they have been programmed to plug their shit in every night by having phones like the iPhone/Storm/other that barely last two days with normal use and thus don't care about battery life beyond what they need for the day.
and since most people don't use their device all day at once, they are also ok with simply plugging it in during the day if need be. witness how many cellphones get plugged in to charge at work.
the netbook producers do not get their support for the Windows based computers they sell from MS, they provide it themselves. Most likely through licensing through a third party call center.
they however do not get to simply say "Call MS it's their problem".
that's why an OEM version of Windows specifically states that it comes with support only from the OEM who purchased it. And this is why I can buy OEM versions of Windows with no other 'hardware' purchases like some people seem to think is necessary, because I then become the OEM and am responsible for all support request whether they come from myself or someone i sold the "system" too.
more likely it's that people that will buy a netbook retial B&M would prefer Windows over Linux. They are most likely already paying a premium to pick it up, and thus i would suppose they are also less inclined to want to change to a new "strange" OS.
the retail stores are most likely simply following their customers purchasing habits.
after all, most people that want a linux based Netbook would simply look online for it and usually find it for less and with better specs.
actually if you look, most of the linux (ubuntu) based mini 9's come with 512MB of RAM and 4GB SSD as standard.
I know, I have one. Fortunately i got mine when they had the sale for $199 and they had upped the SSD to 8GB. I also went hog wild and ordered the 2GB RAM chip from Dell (not installed for $70) for $25.00.
i also have a mini 9 that came with XP on it that i got for the same price......
That one came from th4e Outlet store as "Previously Ordered New" and was in perfect condition.
oh, and you cannot effectively run OSX on a mini 9 unless you have the 16GB SSD as the install for 10.5.5 is just under 8GB and 10.5.6 is just over.
still, it does install easily and run it with no problems at all.
I've probably ordered 2 dozen Mini 9's for various customers and all but the one of mine had Windows on them by request. And in stock selling price, the Windows version is more expensive than the Linux version by about $90.
This would lead me to believe it's not a price thing, and not a "we can't get it" thing either, but in actuality, it's merely a "that's what i want" thing.
if they make so much money from the books and lose on every reader, why does Sony sell their readers for less money?
Don't tell me that it's from book sales as the vast majority of people who put books on their sony readers DO NOT purchase them from the Sony book store as it has shit for selection.
yet they manage to make enough to sell the units, and supposedly far fewer of them (i have my doubts there), and still be profitable for the company.
now imagine if that keyboard were made by some $30/hour factory worker in the US (gotta include benefits in the REAL cost of the worker) instead.
and they had a mandated install time of 10 seconds per key (to prevent carpal tunnel and tendonitis).
so now it's 1050 seconds to make a keyboard. or 17.5 minutes per keyboard or a mere $8.75 in additional LABOR costs just to assemble the keyboard. not including packaging it. bulk packaging the individual keyboards. putting the cases into the warehouse. moving from the warehouse to the shipping vehicle.
all of that would also, of course be accomplished by higher priced union labor as well....
and all of those costs would have to be added to the manufacturing costs.
these "studies" people cite NEVER take that into account.
also those figures for pay do not include several benefits the workers receive. like the free living space (it may be cramped, but it has running water, hot water, and a place to defecate that you dont have to cover over with dirt) the free food.
etc.
thats just the wage, and just like with most places, everyone conveniently forgets to add the extras they get into their wage when thye wish to bitch about it.
I'm not saying I want to move there and take that job, but then again, if i were born and lived there, and that was one of my options, I'm betting i would consider it as well.
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if it's blue screening on updates, you have a bad video driver most likely.
they have this thing called the reliability and performance report center.
try using it if you really are having these problems.
it will TELL you what is causing the blue screen.
most likely it isn't vista but a driver or bad component.
i personally can count on one hand the number of blue screens i've seen on 300 vista computers.
all of them were related to nvidia drivers.
all have been rock solid for over a year now.
you forgot to include the oft repeated "it's the year of the Linux desktop" in your list of utter fail.......
Nor could it have been just plain old poor parenting.
You know, letting the schools/doctors/internt/community raise your child for you.......
what's next, bitching to the world that pictures of your coked up daughter's fatal car accident being spread around are "damaging" to your mental health?
maybe preventing her from "stealing" your car in the first place would have solved all of your problems.
SURE.
it's called being able to deal with real life.
Not everything is roses and candy in this world.
Learn to deal with those that don't like you be ignoring them.
because congress needs to repeatedly validate their existence by passing new laws instead of merely modifying existing ones or writing ones that are good enough to be properly enforced.
Kinda like how we need repeateded attempts at new gun control laws so that only those attempting to follow the law are confused.
The criminals don't care, they've already proven that by being criminals.
I VOTE WE NAME THIS THE "DIRTY SANCHEZ" BILL!!!!!!
no
on first run is when all of the questions come up, so even if you have your updates set to auto install, you'll still get the setup screen on first run.
basically the person who wrote the "article" is a fucking moron and full of shit, but hey, it's slashdot, so why would anyone think the summary isn't correct.....
How is microsoft abandoning patching IE6 any different than Mozilla abandoning patches for Firefox 2?
Seriously.
IE6 has some root code that is insecure and patching is merely chasing the tail of the dragon when it comes to security exploits.
So abandoning it, and moving users to an inherently more secure browser that also happens to be more inline with modern browser standards is a good move, not a bad one.
Software companies (all of them) abandon old code for new code all the time, and when they do, they stop issueing security updates and patches for the old code.
It's common, and happens all the time.
that's great
now how much electricity and power was used by that "off-grid" home DAILY that you aren't taking into account.
you know, the power to run the pumps that supplied the water to it from the municipal water system.
the power to produce the food that the people inside consumed.
the power to do such simple things as create the paper they write on.
stop with the "off-grid" bullshit.
it's not real.
it's not accurate
and it's total bullshit.
the day someone really goes "off-grid" is the day they go back to doing EVERYTHING themselves and are totally self-sustaining without ANY outside interference.
producing your own needs for electricity is great
but its a VERY SMALL amount of the world's total energy consumption.
and mostly have to do with shitty programmers not understanding user space versus system space programming since it wasn't "required" for Xp and previous versions of windows.
so they got lazy and just said fuckit and dropped everything into system space.
hmmmm
if you look at what you posted, it seems to me that all it's really saying is that a standard (or slightly stretched for economic conditions) 3-5 year hardware replacement cycle is in place.......
yes because all the businesses running linux on the desktop use a bleeding edge distro like ubuntu and fedora and update it as soon as the latest distro comes out....
oh wait.
IF they run linux on the desktop. it is most likely a very stable LTS release so that they don't HAVE to update all the time to fix the bugs that aren't corrected in the prior releases.
same thing goes for their servers.
all this "report" does is show exactly what anyone in the real world knows it would.
that unless the life cycle for the product is up and it is due for replacement, companies aren't going to replace the OS on it.
And if the life cycle is up, they will do their due diligence and make sure that everything works on the new potential systems.
large corporations get a bad rap, but one thing they dont typically do is rush forward to test out things in live mission critical environments.
you do realize that most peopel die still waiting for a suitable transplant don't you?
my father is on the transplant list for a heart and has been in the second highest risk category for about a year now.
he's been called in twice.
there is more to it than just matching some blood types.
and for certain other types of transplant, like the bone marrow transplant a friends 13 year old son is going through, they already have to put them into basically a clean room environment now. because they have to KILL OFF the immune system before they give them the transplant just to have a small hope of success.
if they could instead use something like this for 2-3 weeks, and use the same sterile environment procedures they already are, but for a lot less time (his was about 9 weeks all told before and after the transplant, and he had to have two so far), then they would actually SAVE money *gasp* by using a procedure like this.
oh my god, again, a slashtard with no knowledge making guesses and suppositions.... who would have guessed it......
what do you think?
the military probably uses less sonar in day to day operations than the rest of the scientific community does.
after all, how can you plot out that wreck without side scanning sonar?
how can you map those undersea ridges and trenches without using some sort of down firing sonar?
the truth of the matter is, sonar as used by the military is mostly a passive system.
it's kinda like sitting out in the woods while hunting. you don't go around making a lot of noise because it can be heard further away than you can hear the animals you're hunting.
which, depending on the animal, either allows them to flee undetected or allows them to hone in on your location and find you and kill you.
it's the same reason military jets don't just fly around with their search radar on, because it can be detected a long way off, and with some simple geometry and two reception points, they know where the jet now is.....
and then they can use a less detectable method to eliminate that jet.
like say an infra-red heat seeking missle instead of one that requires radar guidance.
you do realize that 99%+ of the time, these terrible nuclear submarines don't even use ANY form of sonar other than underwater microphones don't you?
To a similar (though not as high degree) neither do surface ships.
I didnt think so.
yet another example of a slashtard talking out of their ass with absolutely NO idea what they are talking about.
And yes, I did happen to serve on one of these terrible nuclear submarines.
and in the case of missle subs, it's probably closer to three nines or more.
ssbn subs are holes in the water that strive to make absolutely no noise.
you can hear the original sound wave a lot further off than you can hear the return echo which is always weaker.
and that's before you even throw in the effect of temperature gradients and convergence zones.
another thing to ponder is what was the frequency used?
and does this matter.
the reason i say this is that MOST sonar is low frequency or extremely low frequency, with the exception being high frequency sonar used to search for underwater mines and to penetrate ice fields.
of course, why mention these type things as they will just muddy the waters and potentially invalidate the test.........
(I said potentially, not that they do, i have no idea and based on the report, neither does anyone else)
why should we?
it doesn't exist, and it may not ever.
until its actually a shipping product, it's not a real product.
and $200?!?!?
oh boy.
you mean the same price as the dell mini 9 with ubuntu that seems to go on sale almost every other month for $199?
here's a guess.
people really dont care about 40 hours of battery life.
they have been programmed to plug their shit in every night by having phones like the iPhone/Storm/other that barely last two days with normal use and thus don't care about battery life beyond what they need for the day.
and since most people don't use their device all day at once, they are also ok with simply plugging it in during the day if need be.
witness how many cellphones get plugged in to charge at work.
the netbook producers do not get their support for the Windows based computers they sell from MS, they provide it themselves.
Most likely through licensing through a third party call center.
they however do not get to simply say "Call MS it's their problem".
that's why an OEM version of Windows specifically states that it comes with support only from the OEM who purchased it. And this is why I can buy OEM versions of Windows with no other 'hardware' purchases like some people seem to think is necessary, because I then become the OEM and am responsible for all support request whether they come from myself or someone i sold the "system" too.
more likely it's that people that will buy a netbook retial B&M would prefer Windows over Linux.
They are most likely already paying a premium to pick it up, and thus i would suppose they are also less inclined to want to change to a new "strange" OS.
the retail stores are most likely simply following their customers purchasing habits.
after all, most people that want a linux based Netbook would simply look online for it and usually find it for less and with better specs.
actually if you look, most of the linux (ubuntu) based mini 9's come with 512MB of RAM and 4GB SSD as standard.
I know, I have one.
Fortunately i got mine when they had the sale for $199 and they had upped the SSD to 8GB.
I also went hog wild and ordered the 2GB RAM chip from Dell (not installed for $70) for $25.00.
i also have a mini 9 that came with XP on it that i got for the same price......
That one came from th4e Outlet store as "Previously Ordered New" and was in perfect condition.
oh, and you cannot effectively run OSX on a mini 9 unless you have the 16GB SSD as the install for 10.5.5 is just under 8GB and 10.5.6 is just over.
still, it does install easily and run it with no problems at all.
I've probably ordered 2 dozen Mini 9's for various customers and all but the one of mine had Windows on them by request.
And in stock selling price, the Windows version is more expensive than the Linux version by about $90.
This would lead me to believe it's not a price thing, and not a "we can't get it" thing either, but in actuality, it's merely a "that's what i want" thing.
stop using facts dammit!!!!!
kinda like those big building designed to withstand hurricanes and tornadoes and seismic activity that fell down in new york.
except of course that Leno is going out for a few hours and trolling to find the 10 or so people who can't answer his question.
kinda like how people like John Edwards take an 8 hour "psychic" show and through the magic of editing condense it to a 1 hour television show.....
also take into account that the only people Leno puts on tv are the ones who will sign a release to BE on tv.
in other words, they prove their idiocy twice. once with the question, and then once with the desire to be stupid on tv.
no
they donated their code.
if they wanted to get paid for their code, they should have not donated their time.
if they make so much money from the books and lose on every reader, why does Sony sell their readers for less money?
Don't tell me that it's from book sales as the vast majority of people who put books on their sony readers DO NOT purchase them from the Sony book store as it has shit for selection.
yet they manage to make enough to sell the units, and supposedly far fewer of them (i have my doubts there), and still be profitable for the company.
now imagine if that keyboard were made by some $30/hour factory worker in the US (gotta include benefits in the REAL cost of the worker) instead.
and they had a mandated install time of 10 seconds per key (to prevent carpal tunnel and tendonitis).
so now it's 1050 seconds to make a keyboard.
or 17.5 minutes per keyboard or a mere $8.75 in additional LABOR costs just to assemble the keyboard.
not including packaging it.
bulk packaging the individual keyboards.
putting the cases into the warehouse.
moving from the warehouse to the shipping vehicle.
all of that would also, of course be accomplished by higher priced union labor as well....
and all of those costs would have to be added to the manufacturing costs.
these "studies" people cite NEVER take that into account.
also those figures for pay do not include several benefits the workers receive.
like the free living space (it may be cramped, but it has running water, hot water, and a place to defecate that you dont have to cover over with dirt)
the free food.
etc.
thats just the wage, and just like with most places, everyone conveniently forgets to add the extras they get into their wage when thye wish to bitch about it.
I'm not saying I want to move there and take that job, but then again, if i were born and lived there, and that was one of my options, I'm betting i would consider it as well.
and you couldnt figure out where all the components and sub components come from for everything you purchase if you had years to do the research.
Stop acting like a sanctimonious ass.
you buy cheap shit from China just like the rest of the world.
it's in all the little electronics geegaws and tech devices you have sitting in front of you to type that response.
dumbass.