I suspect it was Vista that marked the beginning of the fall.
Actually wasn't what is being said about Win8 identical to what was said about Vista? And before that XP was a failure until sp1 was released, ME before that and 95 before that. I think Bob and Clippy were also the death knell for Microsoft too. Oh, and the ribbon in Office, can't forget that one. Granted, they can't keep screwing over their customer base with every other release continually. But they still hold a lot of market share. They just don't have absolute dominance like they once seemed to (not that that was necessarily ever true).
it must be a tourist-y thing. The atlanta aquarium has a theater that does this. The water spraying just pissed me off. The shaking seats were actually pretty cool, especially the first time. a big 3-D something coming out of the screen, with a big boom from teh speakers, while the seats give you a big jolt can add something, but I imagine that moderation is very important
I know that Blurays have been released that use DBox. It seems a little gimmicky to me, I have a 3D set up and it's fun to watch occasionally, but if it wasn't for my 9 YRO, I don't think I would have bothered. I imagine DBox seats are a bit more of an investment than 3D glasses.
Have you eaten duck? I wouldn't describe it as delicious.... They make better decorations than food.
I suppose it's all in how it's prepared. I used to roast a duck several time a year. Until I met my wife anyhow, she refused to even try it. I seasoned it with cinnamon, honey, soy sauce and some other spices. Even people who said they didn't like duck said they liked the way I prepared it.
Actually, at least in Central Texas, looking like a hawk might not be the companies' best move. Around here, crows gather a posse and harass the crap out of any raptor dumb enough to get within 30 meters of them. This UAV better have a nice rate of climb to escape that sort of mob.
I was thinking about that too. crows do that. But this thing look a lot larger than most hawks. So it probably flies, or can fly a lot higher than may be worth bothering for crows. Plus a crows eyesight is probably good enough for them to notice it's not really a hawk.
I'm in the mid-Atlantic. Do you have mocking birds in Texas? It's even funnier to see them harass the crows. Their about 1/3 the size and always attack in pairs. They're not as fast as a crow, but much more maneuverable and are really good at coordinating their attacks. One will distract a crow while the other sneak attacks.
Great offtopic thread pushed any mention of M$ fuck ups and crazy Uncle Fester thinking off into no where, PR hacks working overtime.
I'm not sure what you are trying to say. Are you accusing me of being a PR hack? I don't think I mentioned the brand of any of the drives except for Micropolis. Who has been long defunct. And the last comment I made about Microsoft on/. was in regards to Metro being dog shit.
I didn't RTFA, but the pictures make it appear to resemble a hawk. Have you ever watched a hawk? They ride thermal updrafts in a circular motion and rarely flap their wings once in the air. It also appears to be pretty large compared to most hawks, so I would guess this would allow them to circle much higher than most hawks and still look convincing. So they could cover a very large area with a high zoom camera.
Try convincing the public that an asteroid that has a 99% chance of hitting the earth in 150 years is worth spending trillions of dollars on today to launch a probe to deflect it.
Convincing the public to spend the money isn't the problem. The US congress, however, is. Just 39 years ago congress so wanted more control over the budget they passed the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 and easily passed it because Nixon was tied up with the Watergate scandal. Fast forward to now and the senate has just recently passed its first budget in four years. But I'm sure it will die in the house, if it even gets that far. If these fucker can't even do something so basic as pass a yearly budget, there is little hope of them looking ahead far enough to worry about anything 150 years in the future. After all, their constituents will be long dead. China is fast becoming a better hope for something like this. At least they still have goals that stretch past the next election cycle.
Just do the convincing 75 years from now... It'll be easier to do then, too.
There's the problem with the public. Keeping their attention for such a project in today's sound bite, two minute news clip attention span. The MBA's would get involved and it would all come down to the quarterly returns and then we're screwed.
I'd like to see Microsoft create virus and malware programs. With their track record, they could make one really great version and then the next release will be total shit. They can then shut down this department and malware will be dead forever. I suggest they create this new malware division with people from the following past projects: Windows 8, Vista, ME, Clippy, Bob, and a few others. Of course they'd probably get in trouble for some antitrust issues if they did this..
I had a dual PII 333mhz server I bought second hand years back with 7 4.3 gigabyte 10K SCSI drives in it. When I started it up it sounded like a C-5 on takeoff. Disk access was really quick but damn the noise.
I'm sure. Back when I had the tomahawks I set them to stagger when they would spin up while powering on the system. It was suggested to do this so you didn't spike the PSU.
You had 15k rpm scsi striped drives in a laptop? Even if you did, you should have noticed these benefits:
- much faster random access
- improved battery life
- zero noise
- no mechanical failure
No, not in a laptop. Video editing is mostly why I like having the speed. So there's not a lot of random access. I'm working with 12 GB files. Noise is definitely better. Not that I found them too loud. I used to have some Micropolis Tomahawk drives years ago. Those sounded like jet engines spinning up. You still have flash wear out on SSD drives. Most spinning disks can last a very long time too. I have a few older drives that have been spinning for close to 15 years now.
Only thing I would suggest as an upgrade to that computer is an SSD. But that's about it. It really is amazing what an SSD can do to an older computer.
It depends on the spinning disk I suppose. I upgraded from striped 15K RPM SCSI drives. The SSD was noticeably faster, but not anything on the scale I was hearing.
Back in the Windows ME days there were no viable options for business to go to, except for NT which many were already using. They can't afford a colossal mistake every other OS release anymore. At this rate, they'd be better off keeping Windows 7 for twelve years, or however long XP went without a replacement. At least then they wouldn't be losing market share.
Having a television antenna is every American's right..
That's what I tried to tell the TSA when I brought my fully assembled Channel Master 2020 in my carry on luggage. But they spouted some Patriot Act/FAA regulations bullshit at me.
Nuclear Energy is dangerous, it produces a lot of hazardous wastes.
And solar doesn't? I love the idea of having solar panels on my roof. But there's a ton of toxic waste produced in making them. Then what do we do with all of the EOL'ed panels 25 years later? They contain cadmium, lead, etc. I can't say I've looked into how much energy is produced by solar panels vs. how much it takes to make them. But I've seen a lot of posts on/. claiming it's not much of a net gain. It may be BS as I have only been able to find one publication to back this up. But still, no one seems to want to address this.
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I suspect it was Vista that marked the beginning of the fall.
Actually wasn't what is being said about Win8 identical to what was said about Vista? And before that XP was a failure until sp1 was released, ME before that and 95 before that. I think Bob and Clippy were also the death knell for Microsoft too. Oh, and the ribbon in Office, can't forget that one. Granted, they can't keep screwing over their customer base with every other release continually. But they still hold a lot of market share. They just don't have absolute dominance like they once seemed to (not that that was necessarily ever true).
it must be a tourist-y thing. The atlanta aquarium has a theater that does this. The water spraying just pissed me off. The shaking seats were actually pretty cool, especially the first time. a big 3-D something coming out of the screen, with a big boom from teh speakers, while the seats give you a big jolt can add something, but I imagine that moderation is very important
I know that Blurays have been released that use DBox. It seems a little gimmicky to me, I have a 3D set up and it's fun to watch occasionally, but if it wasn't for my 9 YRO, I don't think I would have bothered. I imagine DBox seats are a bit more of an investment than 3D glasses.
OP's obviously never driven in Europe before, while not the smartest post ever, yours is even dumber and adds less value by a factor of about 100x.
Also 3 people pointed this out the mistake before you commented so it's probable you didn't have a fuckin clue either.
AC Strikes Again!
Did you happen to hear anything after you hit the reply button?
Like a big WOOSH!
Have you eaten duck? I wouldn't describe it as delicious.... They make better decorations than food.
I suppose it's all in how it's prepared. I used to roast a duck several time a year. Until I met my wife anyhow, she refused to even try it. I seasoned it with cinnamon, honey, soy sauce and some other spices. Even people who said they didn't like duck said they liked the way I prepared it.
Actually, at least in Central Texas, looking like a hawk might not be the companies' best move. Around here, crows gather a posse and harass the crap out of any raptor dumb enough to get within 30 meters of them. This UAV better have a nice rate of climb to escape that sort of mob.
I was thinking about that too. crows do that. But this thing look a lot larger than most hawks. So it probably flies, or can fly a lot higher than may be worth bothering for crows. Plus a crows eyesight is probably good enough for them to notice it's not really a hawk. I'm in the mid-Atlantic. Do you have mocking birds in Texas? It's even funnier to see them harass the crows. Their about 1/3 the size and always attack in pairs. They're not as fast as a crow, but much more maneuverable and are really good at coordinating their attacks. One will distract a crow while the other sneak attacks.
Great offtopic thread pushed any mention of M$ fuck ups and crazy Uncle Fester thinking off into no where, PR hacks working overtime.
I'm not sure what you are trying to say. Are you accusing me of being a PR hack? I don't think I mentioned the brand of any of the drives except for Micropolis. Who has been long defunct. And the last comment I made about Microsoft on /. was in regards to Metro being dog shit.
The internet has made intellectual property a thing of the past.
Talk like that will do nothing good for the internet.
I didn't RTFA, but the pictures make it appear to resemble a hawk. Have you ever watched a hawk? They ride thermal updrafts in a circular motion and rarely flap their wings once in the air. It also appears to be pretty large compared to most hawks, so I would guess this would allow them to circle much higher than most hawks and still look convincing. So they could cover a very large area with a high zoom camera.
Try convincing the public that an asteroid that has a 99% chance of hitting the earth in 150 years is worth spending trillions of dollars on today to launch a probe to deflect it.
Convincing the public to spend the money isn't the problem. The US congress, however, is. Just 39 years ago congress so wanted more control over the budget they passed the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 and easily passed it because Nixon was tied up with the Watergate scandal. Fast forward to now and the senate has just recently passed its first budget in four years. But I'm sure it will die in the house, if it even gets that far. If these fucker can't even do something so basic as pass a yearly budget, there is little hope of them looking ahead far enough to worry about anything 150 years in the future. After all, their constituents will be long dead. China is fast becoming a better hope for something like this. At least they still have goals that stretch past the next election cycle.
Just do the convincing 75 years from now... It'll be easier to do then, too.
There's the problem with the public. Keeping their attention for such a project in today's sound bite, two minute news clip attention span. The MBA's would get involved and it would all come down to the quarterly returns and then we're screwed.
I'd like to see Microsoft create virus and malware programs. With their track record, they could make one really great version and then the next release will be total shit. They can then shut down this department and malware will be dead forever. I suggest they create this new malware division with people from the following past projects: Windows 8, Vista, ME, Clippy, Bob, and a few others. Of course they'd probably get in trouble for some antitrust issues if they did this..
I had a dual PII 333mhz server I bought second hand years back with 7 4.3 gigabyte 10K SCSI drives in it. When I started it up it sounded like a C-5 on takeoff. Disk access was really quick but damn the noise.
I'm sure. Back when I had the tomahawks I set them to stagger when they would spin up while powering on the system. It was suggested to do this so you didn't spike the PSU.
You had 15k rpm scsi striped drives in a laptop? Even if you did, you should have noticed these benefits: - much faster random access - improved battery life - zero noise - no mechanical failure
No, not in a laptop. Video editing is mostly why I like having the speed. So there's not a lot of random access. I'm working with 12 GB files. Noise is definitely better. Not that I found them too loud. I used to have some Micropolis Tomahawk drives years ago. Those sounded like jet engines spinning up. You still have flash wear out on SSD drives. Most spinning disks can last a very long time too. I have a few older drives that have been spinning for close to 15 years now.
Try upgrading to striped SSDs then, if you want closer to an apple to apples comparison...
They are. Like I said, it's faster, but mind blowingly so like most people told me.
Only thing I would suggest as an upgrade to that computer is an SSD. But that's about it. It really is amazing what an SSD can do to an older computer.
It depends on the spinning disk I suppose. I upgraded from striped 15K RPM SCSI drives. The SSD was noticeably faster, but not anything on the scale I was hearing.
Back in the Windows ME days there were no viable options for business to go to, except for NT which many were already using. They can't afford a colossal mistake every other OS release anymore. At this rate, they'd be better off keeping Windows 7 for twelve years, or however long XP went without a replacement. At least then they wouldn't be losing market share.
What's the price of a few bits?
Shave and a haircut...
So demand 1.5 billion bench trials.
Problem solved.
But it will never happen. The government would go broke trying to buy postage to send you the tickets.
Yes, but it would save the post office. ;-)
Having a television antenna is every American's right..
That's what I tried to tell the TSA when I brought my fully assembled Channel Master 2020 in my carry on luggage. But they spouted some Patriot Act/FAA regulations bullshit at me.
What was it Metro was similar to, again?
Dog shit?
It happened in The Macra Terror episode long before that.
Yeah, but "Gridlock" specifically had the Macra feeding off the smog from all the cars. Its a far better example.
I guess it depends on if you're a denier or not. The toxic gas was naturally occurring in the original. ;-)
Oh now I remember. This happened in a Dr. Who episode.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gridlock_%28Doctor_Who%29
It happened in The Macra Terror episode long before that.
Hell is in the black hole. And pray you don't go there with a psychotic red robot.
And you think the US isn't doing the same thing, but hiding it better?
As inept as most US government agencies have become...
No, I don't.
If we could only find a way to harness the updraft above Washington from all the hot air spewed by our politicians.
Nuclear Energy is dangerous, it produces a lot of hazardous wastes.
And solar doesn't? I love the idea of having solar panels on my roof. But there's a ton of toxic waste produced in making them. Then what do we do with all of the EOL'ed panels 25 years later? They contain cadmium, lead, etc. I can't say I've looked into how much energy is produced by solar panels vs. how much it takes to make them. But I've seen a lot of posts on /. claiming it's not much of a net gain. It may be BS as I have only been able to find one publication to back this up. But still, no one seems to want to address this.