With XP, there was a compelling reason for a lot of people to upgrade. For the Win2K users, it got you the gaming APIs and other things formerly only good in the Win98 branch. For the Win98 branch users, it was a huge upgrade in stability and robustness.
With Vista, there is no compelling useful feature for users, and much of the content added is particularly ANTI-user. So why upgrade?
If you use your HDTV as a computer monitor, definately.
One of the nice things about the Mac Mini is that it will drive a 1080p signal right out of the box: just hook up a DVI cable or a DVI->HDMI cable to that shiney HDTV and go to town.
SCO has a long and (well documented by PJ) history of abusive, ridiculous, legal theories and a long trend of gross attacks and dissemination in the press and in legal filings.
So why should she help them at all in their quest to slime her?
Very clever on Apple's part. Since it is still in the AAC format, it acts as a "soft lockin". Yes, savvy users (./ readers, for example) can convert the files to MP3, albeit at the loss of fidelity in the lossy-to-lossy conversion process. But most users won't, so they will still be locked into the Ipod ecology.
Previously, many high-tech companies classified effectively everyone as "exempt" as a way of avoiding overtime. There are major law firms who make money suing such companies, their adds are all over BART in the bay area.
This is simply Google actually complying with employment law, reclassifying a large number of employees as nonexempt, so they either have to get paid overtime or go home.
Because the bulb physics are VERY well known, its classic black body radiation.
You can make them more efficient by running them hotter (its how halogens work), and this breakthrough is probably a similar high-temperature filliment strategy, allowing you to get the halogen efficiency (better than a standard incandescent but worse than a CFL) out of something fitting in the standard incandescent form factor. But you can't beat direct radiation technologies (CFL, LED).
Likewise, I'd bet that these bulbs are deep in the blue, hardly the "warm light" (which is a cool color temperature) that people profess they like better about incandescents.
Because taxes are a much better mechanism than an outright ban. There are still reasons for incandescents (there are NO good chandileer style CFL bulbs, CFLs are less weather resistant, etc), and if those uses are worth something, they are worth an extra buck or two a bulb.
Here's why. These are INCANDESCENTs. Glowing filliments. You can try to reduce the radiation in the UV and IR, but you aren't going to get rid of it. Running hotter (the Halogen way) ups the UV content which gets filtered out or flouresced down (and if you have a flourescent coating, why not just have a compact flourescent).
This is mostly a Political Marketing statement, trying to forestall bans or taxes on incandescent bulbs, as although incandescents costs more in the long run, they are cheaper when you pay at the register so people still buy a lot of them.
Personally, I'd not want a BAN on incandescents, just a "wattage tax" on lightbulbs, say $4/100W tax on bulbs regardless of the mechanism (LED, CFL, incandescent). Just something equivelent to 1 hour a day use for 1 year (assuming.14 kwh power cost), so that at the register you actually see what the bulb will cost.
So if you aren't guaranteed that your elevated processes arent susceptible to compromise by those running at a lower IL, why did Windows Vista go to the trouble of introducing elevations and ILs? To get us to a world where everyone runs as standard user by default and all software is written with that assumption..
This is it, 100%. The problem with so much of Windows XP is that you had to run as administrator for silly things like games and everything else. These account-internal privilige levels are to simply allow the non-admin account to be able to do anything at all, and the "all installers are Admin" is a reasonable if somewhat permissive cost to pay, as it is better than the "Everything is admin" which is what it used to be.
$10K is a pretty damn paltry bribe. $100K research grants are pretty common for those in the sciences, with $1M+ programs not unheard of. As for personal salary, a PhD college professor in the sciences is easily at $100k+/year when you include summer salary.
If you are going to bribe someone, make sure you at least get in the right ballpark of "interesting". Trash my carreer for $10K? Don't make me laugh.
Why they didn't just have HDMI's "copy protection" be ROT13?
It wouldn't be any less secure than the stupid crypto they used, would still make sure the DMCA anti-circumvention provisions are in force, and would be less likely to be F@#)$(*ed up.
(This post has been double-encrypted with ROT13. Reading this post without authorization will violate the DMCA anti-circumvention protections)
How about a price drop on the Wii to $250, without having to buy a bundle of useless games, an even more useless $70 "warantee", pay an extra $100 to a scalper, or wait in line at 3 AM?
It was reverse engineered and proved to be the biggest joke around. ROT13 would be a better method. But it doesn't matter, as it is for DMCA anticircumvision reasons, not real security.
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6x higher than very low state standards?
Just take a fan and blow out the room for a couple of days.
This would be REALLY good for a ruggidized laptop, as vibration + HDDs are not a pretty combination.
Also, I'd assume this would help on the power budget, and really speed random-access workloads.
But will the Folksmen open for Spinal Tap?
With XP, there was a compelling reason for a lot of people to upgrade. For the Win2K users, it got you the gaming APIs and other things formerly only good in the Win98 branch. For the Win98 branch users, it was a huge upgrade in stability and robustness.
With Vista, there is no compelling useful feature for users, and much of the content added is particularly ANTI-user. So why upgrade?
Like thousands of dweebs suddenly cried out and then vanished.
Salesman: The Zune allows you to wirelessly share songs with friends...
Customer: That sounds cool.
Me: But you can only play the shared song 3 times and it deletes itself after 3 days.
Customer: Thats lame and pointless then.
If you use your HDTV as a computer monitor, definately.
One of the nice things about the Mac Mini is that it will drive a 1080p signal right out of the box: just hook up a DVI cable or a DVI->HDMI cable to that shiney HDTV and go to town.
Run the updator.
Install X11
Download and install development tools
Download and install subversion
Download and install firefox & opera
Find the Office disks, install and update office.
SCO has a long and (well documented by PJ) history of abusive, ridiculous, legal theories and a long trend of gross attacks and dissemination in the press and in legal filings.
So why should she help them at all in their quest to slime her?
Isn't Metroid: Zero Hour
already a port of Super Metroid for the Gameboy advance (and therefore DS)?
Very clever on Apple's part. Since it is still in the AAC format, it acts as a "soft lockin". Yes, savvy users (./ readers, for example) can convert the files to MP3, albeit at the loss of fidelity in the lossy-to-lossy conversion process. But most users won't, so they will still be locked into the Ipod ecology.
Clever.
INcluding the OS liscence, its only $170 less...
It can't drive a 1080p signal (the Mac Mini can)
It has a weak processor (1 GHz Pentium M is the speculation)
It has weak memory (256 MB)
It has no DVD drive
And you don't get warantee support.
Frankly, I'd not bother with an AppleTV at all: just get a Mac Mini instead even if you are just using it as a media center.
These are the rules for nonexempt employees.
Previously, many high-tech companies classified effectively everyone as "exempt" as a way of avoiding overtime. There are major law firms who make money suing such companies, their adds are all over BART in the bay area.
This is simply Google actually complying with employment law, reclassifying a large number of employees as nonexempt, so they either have to get paid overtime or go home.
Death in comic books is always nearly kinda sorta semi perminent.
"The moral of the story is: Never underestimate the bandwith of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway."
-Andrew Tannenbaum
Because the bulb physics are VERY well known, its classic black body radiation.
You can make them more efficient by running them hotter (its how halogens work), and this breakthrough is probably a similar high-temperature filliment strategy, allowing you to get the halogen efficiency (better than a standard incandescent but worse than a CFL) out of something fitting in the standard incandescent form factor. But you can't beat direct radiation technologies (CFL, LED).
Likewise, I'd bet that these bulbs are deep in the blue, hardly the "warm light" (which is a cool color temperature) that people profess they like better about incandescents.
Because taxes are a much better mechanism than an outright ban. There are still reasons for incandescents (there are NO good chandileer style CFL bulbs, CFLs are less weather resistant, etc), and if those uses are worth something, they are worth an extra buck or two a bulb.
Here's why. These are INCANDESCENTs. Glowing filliments. You can try to reduce the radiation in the UV and IR, but you aren't going to get rid of it. Running hotter (the Halogen way) ups the UV content which gets filtered out or flouresced down (and if you have a flourescent coating, why not just have a compact flourescent).
.14 kwh power cost), so that at the register you actually see what the bulb will cost.
This is mostly a Political Marketing statement, trying to forestall bans or taxes on incandescent bulbs, as although incandescents costs more in the long run, they are cheaper when you pay at the register so people still buy a lot of them.
Personally, I'd not want a BAN on incandescents, just a "wattage tax" on lightbulbs, say $4/100W tax on bulbs regardless of the mechanism (LED, CFL, incandescent). Just something equivelent to 1 hour a day use for 1 year (assuming
From the article, a comment by Mark Russinovich:
So if you aren't guaranteed that your elevated processes arent susceptible to compromise by those running at a lower IL, why did Windows Vista go to the trouble of introducing elevations and ILs? To get us to a world where everyone runs as standard user by default and all software is written with that assumption..
This is it, 100%. The problem with so much of Windows XP is that you had to run as administrator for silly things like games and everything else. These account-internal privilige levels are to simply allow the non-admin account to be able to do anything at all, and the "all installers are Admin" is a reasonable if somewhat permissive cost to pay, as it is better than the "Everything is admin" which is what it used to be.
$10K is a pretty damn paltry bribe. $100K research grants are pretty common for those in the sciences, with $1M+ programs not unheard of. As for personal salary, a PhD college professor in the sciences is easily at $100k+/year when you include summer salary.
If you are going to bribe someone, make sure you at least get in the right ballpark of "interesting". Trash my carreer for $10K? Don't make me laugh.
Santorum still works.
Also "Miserable Failure" still works in MSN.
This is a slam dunk subpoena of an individual who grossly violated copyright laws, and probably (once his identity is confirmed) trade secret laws.
Dollars to Doughnuts says that Google's laywers took one look at the subpoena and went "Here you go"
Why they didn't just have HDMI's "copy protection" be ROT13?
It wouldn't be any less secure than the stupid crypto they used, would still make sure the DMCA anti-circumvention provisions are in force, and would be less likely to be F@#)$(*ed up.
(This post has been double-encrypted with ROT13. Reading this post without authorization will violate the DMCA anti-circumvention protections)
How about a price drop on the Wii to $250, without having to buy a bundle of useless games, an even more useless $70 "warantee", pay an extra $100 to a scalper, or wait in line at 3 AM?
It was reverse engineered and proved to be the biggest joke around. ROT13 would be a better method. But it doesn't matter, as it is for DMCA anticircumvision reasons, not real security.