Here's a thought, maybe they don't care. "Give me the internet and I'll do with it I please" is probably more to the point than anything when talking to the masses.
Seriously, I see this MS prosecution as worthless. OEM's have every right to stuff crap into your PC, and they do, so why aren't they included? Why is KDE, Apple, GNOME and what not included? They all have their own browsers they include with their setups.
Most of my friends who care about choice, use their choice to download Firefox, Opera, or even Chrome (if you can get it to work without having to hack it).
MS needs to tell the EU to stuff it.
While I don't have a problem with browser bundling in and of itself, I have a distinct bias against IE. On numerous occasions, been told to write broken webpages so they look good in IE, and to hell with the other browsers, and I feel like I'm not using my facilities to their utmost.
Maybe people would care if they knew. My parents were like that. They didn't call IE by it's name. They equated it to "the internet" (kind of like how Convict Stevens liked to send and receive internets). If the only browser I've ever known is IE, then it won't occur to me that it breaks standards (broken web pages appear to be the fault of the author, not the browser. "See? Page xyz works, but yours doesn't. It's your fault."), or that there are better tools out there.
Actually, they proved that with the New Deal. Ergo, what you call Tarp v0.1 is actually New.Deal v2.0, and the upcoming one is New.Deal v3.0 (with builtin TVA)
Minor correction: Federal politicians have already prover that they can't handle economic issues in a sane way that benefits anyone besides themselves.
This is nothing a Broadband Czar couldn't fix. Who needs competition anyway?:-) Many federal politicians have already _proven_ the fallacy of believing a capitalist market can sustain itself, ergo Tarp v0.1.
Actually, they proved that with the New Deal. Ergo, what you call Tarp v0.1 is actually New.Deal v2.0, and the upcoming one is New.Deal v3.0 (with builtin TVA)
So an entire community that emits no carbon dioxide. What are the inhabitants, vampires? Zombies? Undead "not otherwise specified"? This "green movement" is getting out of control when we turn to the dark powers.
Undead critters emit carbon dioxide as they rot. No green here, just greyish/purplish.
Original content? No, I don't think there will be any of that for this story. There really isn't anything insightful or informative to say. Leaving everyone to come up with some misguided attempt at creating a joke that isn't completely expected.
You know something like
Q: Why did the chicken cross the road
A: Because Russia, a formerly communist nation, has decided to go with a national operating system that forms the basis for a different operating system called Red Hat. And Red is the main color associated with Communism in general. Which makes this joke funny. Also, chickens are in a constant state of motion. They don't really have a set destination in mind, and just wander aimlessly most of the time. So its more of a question of why it wasn't in its coop and what lazy farmer couldn't be bothered to care for his farm animals, than why it an animal with no cognitive power of its own to speak of crossed any kind of a road.
See, not the least bit funny. There should be an editor level feature that only allows for negative moderation on stories. So then the competition amongst the attention seekers would be to see who could write the most bland, non attempt at any horrible run on jokes/memes comments.
Actually, chickens exhibit Brownian motion. This was discovered in 1997, when I was in high school. I had chickens at the time, so I went about proving this for extra credit in class.
My conclusion: Given a bounded area crossed by exactly one road, the chicken has approximately a 100% chance of crossing the road at least once as time goes to infinity. The jury is still out as to why, but several theories posit quantum chicken physics being involved.
I thought you might be referring to interferometry in your original post, when you mentioned an array.
You CAN build very high resolution interferometers in space. There are some problems though. As far as I know you couldn't build a bigger visible or infrared interferometer than we can already build on the ground. The individual elements of those have to be linked by fibre optics because we don't have a good way of recording phase information for optical frequencies.
Space interferometers definitely work at radio frequencies, but they do different things than telescopes like Hubble. An interferometer has very high resolution (and very small field of view) but doesn't have matching light gathering ability. If you want to try to image extrasolar planets or count sunspots on other stars, an interferometer is the way to go. If you want to look at the early universe or do sky surveys, they are not.
As I recall, the communications issue is the reason we're still having trouble with getting interferometry working here on Earth for visible-light wavelengths and shorter.
I thought you might be referring to interferometry in your original post, when you mentioned an array.
You CAN build very high resolution interferometers in space. There are some problems though. As far as I know you couldn't build a bigger visible or infrared interferometer than we can already build on the ground. The individual elements of those have to be linked by fibre optics because we don't have a good way of recording phase information for optical frequencies.
Space interferometers definitely work at radio frequencies, but they do different things than telescopes like Hubble. An interferometer has very high resolution (and very small field of view) but doesn't have matching light gathering ability. If you want to try to image extrasolar planets or count sunspots on other stars, an interferometer is the way to go. If you want to look at the early universe or do sky surveys, they are not.
As I recall, the communications issue is the reason we're still having trouble with getting interferometry working for visible-light wavelengths and shorter.
Adaptive optics help cancel out the distortions produced by the atmosphere. That's not particularly useful on a space telescope.
Once you've got adaptive optics to take away most of the biggest advantages for space telescopes, the ease of building giant mirrors on the ground takes over and you get much better performance for your budget.
Depends on what your goal is. However, you are correct in this matter.
Yes, AO is generally a specific application of a telescopic array designed to thwart distortions caused by an atmosphere. I should have been a bit more clear on this. In this case, I was mixing up AO with a composite mirror/detector telescope.
However, imagine an array much larger than we could build on the ground. For instance, multiple telescopes in orbit around the moon, earth, and the sun? You could use that for all sorts of interesting research (is there an application for multiple parallaxes?), but you could get a hell of a lot of resolution with an array the size of 2AU diameter (for instance, multiple telescopes in an earthlike orbit.)
I'm only an amateur astronomer but... With adaptive optics we can get better visible light images with ground based telescopes like Keck than with any orbiting telecope that could be launched any time soon. However, infrared is blocked by the atmosphere so an observatory without an atmosphere is required.
Then imagine what we could do if we put an AO telescope array in space!
How are they defining an application? What exactly is their metric?
1 window == 1 app (unlikely, as it seems to be able to also involve things that normally run in the background)? 1 process == 1 app (maybe 3 processes with UID=n, since we all know windows has at least 5 major processes being run by SYSTEM)? 1 thread == 1 app (probably not)? 50 java programs opened in the web browser = 1 app (reductio ad absurdum)? How about Linux running in a virtual machine (nor unreasonable)?
If they do Starter Edition again, I agree that it is unlikely to be targeted to or even released in the US. Even excluding AV/Firewall apps from this completely fucktarded 3 app limit, I'd imagine that the group of people in the US getting computers from OEMs like Dell, particularly laptops, could include a sizeable amount of high school and college age people.
These people are very likely to use media player, a web browser, and MS Word simultaneously all the time. a 3 app limit is completely bonkers. They may also want to run background apps like AIM, Skype, Bittorrent, email client (If they don't just use gmail web interface), etc etc.
Restricting the main stream Windows would be epic fail for MS in that kind of market. If it really is targeted as the generic OEM version like Vista Home/XP Home is now, it should support at least 5 or 6 concurrent apps so students don't have to close AIM to write a paper, or ever have to choose between totally normal behaviour or restricted crap like that. It'll just drive up piracy of WinXP even more, or drive up support calls and angry customers.
Don't worry. No one will ever think to crack this version to allow unlimited applications to run concurrently.
Say what you will about the United States but at least it takes more than a majority vote in the House of Representatives to start taking away our rights.
Yes, but that's a property of the US Constitution, and not the fact that you have guns.
The OP's point wasn't to say that the US was worse than the UK. The point is that everytime there's an article like this about the UK, we get the inevitable "If only you had guns". The fact that similar things happen in the US, despite your guns, suggest that the point is irrelevant.
The US is as bad as the UK in different ways.
The US citizens aren't exactly complacent, but a lot certainly feel powerless.
The most insidious prison is the one you don't realise you're in.
>>>We can only hope that the western world, having known freedom, will revolt while they still have enough of that freedom left to effectively do so.
Dear British Cousins,
If this law to track citizens' movement were passed in America, we would exercise our second amendment rights. We would tell our parliamentarians: Real this law or die. Government is there to SERVE the people, not to be a master. Politicians who desire to be masters need to be "fired" by their employers, the People.
A concerned liberty-loving citizen
Dear American Brother,
If we try to use our 2nd amendment rights, we'll be summarily shot for any number of offenses, trumped up or not.
Sincerely, a not-free American.
Re:The news item is rather subjective though.
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I thought colleges bought subscriptions for their students, not just promoted it.
No, they bought it on behalf of their students, and lumped it into their tuition, along with those big paychecks for the administrators.
Once they set up an account "on behalf of the students" and said "here, use this", they didn't give a shit one way or another, since if the RIAA started badgering them, they could point at that and say "We're not culpable, we tried to do it your way". Of course, they're not doing it to protect the students, they were doing it to protect their own asses.
Are these episodes being shown as originally shown, or are they being butchered for time or content (you know to appease modern-day content-crybabies)?
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Excuse me? Wikipedia is a lot worse than it is. (See article.)
So, to put this statement into perspective, you're saying that x!=x.
How could anything be anything other than what it is? Whatever it is, that is what it is, neither more, nor less, than what it is.
Of course, it all depends on what the meaning of the word is is.
Here's a thought, maybe they don't care. "Give me the internet and I'll do with it I please" is probably more to the point than anything when talking to the masses.
Seriously, I see this MS prosecution as worthless. OEM's have every right to stuff crap into your PC, and they do, so why aren't they included? Why is KDE, Apple, GNOME and what not included? They all have their own browsers they include with their setups.
Most of my friends who care about choice, use their choice to download Firefox, Opera, or even Chrome (if you can get it to work without having to hack it).
MS needs to tell the EU to stuff it.
While I don't have a problem with browser bundling in and of itself, I have a distinct bias against IE. On numerous occasions, been told to write broken webpages so they look good in IE, and to hell with the other browsers, and I feel like I'm not using my facilities to their utmost.
Maybe people would care if they knew. My parents were like that. They didn't call IE by it's name. They equated it to "the internet" (kind of like how Convict Stevens liked to send and receive internets). If the only browser I've ever known is IE, then it won't occur to me that it breaks standards (broken web pages appear to be the fault of the author, not the browser. "See? Page xyz works, but yours doesn't. It's your fault."), or that there are better tools out there.
Many consumers are just to lazy to look or even care.
Bad assumption.
Quite a few users probably don't think they have a choice or realise that the browser is a replaceable tool.
If you don't realise there's a choice, you will never get to the point of asking what the choices are.
Actually, they proved that with the New Deal. Ergo, what you call Tarp v0.1 is actually New.Deal v2.0, and the upcoming one is New.Deal v3.0 (with builtin TVA)
Minor correction: Federal politicians have already prover that they can't handle economic issues in a sane way that benefits anyone besides themselves.
I wonder how much of that loss of fun is the airlines' fault and how much is the result of the FAA bureaucracy?
Don't forget the TSA. I really dislike the part where they ask "papers please".
This is nothing a Broadband Czar couldn't fix. Who needs competition anyway? :-) Many federal politicians have already _proven_ the fallacy of believing a capitalist market can sustain itself, ergo Tarp v0.1.
Actually, they proved that with the New Deal. Ergo, what you call Tarp v0.1 is actually New.Deal v2.0, and the upcoming one is New.Deal v3.0 (with builtin TVA)
Something doesn't make much sense here...
Our president was the leader of the refugees from Battlestar Galactica? Who knew!
Adama would be an awesome president!
These are modded off-topic, though they attempt to be humorous, turn around a troll post, and not attempting to be inflamatory...
That would be a zombie president. I thought we just tried that.
While this is very potentially a flame bait post, even as it is an attempt at humor...
I'm calling for meta-moderation on this one
So an entire community that emits no carbon dioxide. What are the inhabitants, vampires? Zombies? Undead "not otherwise specified"? This "green movement" is getting out of control when we turn to the dark powers.
Undead critters emit carbon dioxide as they rot. No green here, just greyish/purplish.
Original content? No, I don't think there will be any of that for this story. There really isn't anything insightful or informative to say. Leaving everyone to come up with some misguided attempt at creating a joke that isn't completely expected. You know something like Q: Why did the chicken cross the road A: Because Russia, a formerly communist nation, has decided to go with a national operating system that forms the basis for a different operating system called Red Hat. And Red is the main color associated with Communism in general. Which makes this joke funny. Also, chickens are in a constant state of motion. They don't really have a set destination in mind, and just wander aimlessly most of the time. So its more of a question of why it wasn't in its coop and what lazy farmer couldn't be bothered to care for his farm animals, than why it an animal with no cognitive power of its own to speak of crossed any kind of a road. See, not the least bit funny. There should be an editor level feature that only allows for negative moderation on stories. So then the competition amongst the attention seekers would be to see who could write the most bland, non attempt at any horrible run on jokes/memes comments.
Actually, chickens exhibit Brownian motion. This was discovered in 1997, when I was in high school. I had chickens at the time, so I went about proving this for extra credit in class.
My conclusion: Given a bounded area crossed by exactly one road, the chicken has approximately a 100% chance of crossing the road at least once as time goes to infinity. The jury is still out as to why, but several theories posit quantum chicken physics being involved.
I thought you might be referring to interferometry in your original post, when you mentioned an array.
You CAN build very high resolution interferometers in space. There are some problems though. As far as I know you couldn't build a bigger visible or infrared interferometer than we can already build on the ground. The individual elements of those have to be linked by fibre optics because we don't have a good way of recording phase information for optical frequencies.
Space interferometers definitely work at radio frequencies, but they do different things than telescopes like Hubble. An interferometer has very high resolution (and very small field of view) but doesn't have matching light gathering ability. If you want to try to image extrasolar planets or count sunspots on other stars, an interferometer is the way to go. If you want to look at the early universe or do sky surveys, they are not.
As I recall, the communications issue is the reason we're still having trouble with getting interferometry working here on Earth for visible-light wavelengths and shorter.
I thought you might be referring to interferometry in your original post, when you mentioned an array.
You CAN build very high resolution interferometers in space. There are some problems though. As far as I know you couldn't build a bigger visible or infrared interferometer than we can already build on the ground. The individual elements of those have to be linked by fibre optics because we don't have a good way of recording phase information for optical frequencies.
Space interferometers definitely work at radio frequencies, but they do different things than telescopes like Hubble. An interferometer has very high resolution (and very small field of view) but doesn't have matching light gathering ability. If you want to try to image extrasolar planets or count sunspots on other stars, an interferometer is the way to go. If you want to look at the early universe or do sky surveys, they are not.
As I recall, the communications issue is the reason we're still having trouble with getting interferometry working for visible-light wavelengths and shorter.
Only if we're caught. Reference the French Resistance.
Hence the increasing use of surveillance.
Get really expensive, not much better images?
Adaptive optics help cancel out the distortions produced by the atmosphere. That's not particularly useful on a space telescope.
Once you've got adaptive optics to take away most of the biggest advantages for space telescopes, the ease of building giant mirrors on the ground takes over and you get much better performance for your budget.
Depends on what your goal is. However, you are correct in this matter.
Yes, AO is generally a specific application of a telescopic array designed to thwart distortions caused by an atmosphere. I should have been a bit more clear on this. In this case, I was mixing up AO with a composite mirror/detector telescope.
However, imagine an array much larger than we could build on the ground. For instance, multiple telescopes in orbit around the moon, earth, and the sun? You could use that for all sorts of interesting research (is there an application for multiple parallaxes?), but you could get a hell of a lot of resolution with an array the size of 2AU diameter (for instance, multiple telescopes in an earthlike orbit.)
Little is known that the new president of the united states of america, Barak Hussein Abdalla Adama, is in fact a muslim.
Our president was the leader of the refugees from Battlestar Galactica? Who knew!
I'm only an amateur astronomer but... With adaptive optics we can get better visible light images with ground based telescopes like Keck than with any orbiting telecope that could be launched any time soon. However, infrared is blocked by the atmosphere so an observatory without an atmosphere is required.
Then imagine what we could do if we put an AO telescope array in space!
Not to be outdone by Europe, the US plan to launch the next generation follow-up to the Hubble Telescope!
And which revisionist history would you be basing that comment on? Read a history book, dill-hole.
He's probably referring to the French involvement in launch vehicle, Ariane 5
Am I being picky today or is English the author's second language?
You're being picky.
How are they defining an application? What exactly is their metric?
1 window == 1 app (unlikely, as it seems to be able to also involve things that normally run in the background)?
1 process == 1 app (maybe 3 processes with UID=n, since we all know windows has at least 5 major processes being run by SYSTEM)?
1 thread == 1 app (probably not)?
50 java programs opened in the web browser = 1 app (reductio ad absurdum)?
How about Linux running in a virtual machine (nor unreasonable)?
If they do Starter Edition again, I agree that it is unlikely to be targeted to or even released in the US. Even excluding AV/Firewall apps from this completely fucktarded 3 app limit, I'd imagine that the group of people in the US getting computers from OEMs like Dell, particularly laptops, could include a sizeable amount of high school and college age people. These people are very likely to use media player, a web browser, and MS Word simultaneously all the time. a 3 app limit is completely bonkers. They may also want to run background apps like AIM, Skype, Bittorrent, email client (If they don't just use gmail web interface), etc etc. Restricting the main stream Windows would be epic fail for MS in that kind of market. If it really is targeted as the generic OEM version like Vista Home/XP Home is now, it should support at least 5 or 6 concurrent apps so students don't have to close AIM to write a paper, or ever have to choose between totally normal behaviour or restricted crap like that. It'll just drive up piracy of WinXP even more, or drive up support calls and angry customers.
Don't worry. No one will ever think to crack this version to allow unlimited applications to run concurrently.
Say what you will about the United States but at least it takes more than a majority vote in the House of Representatives to start taking away our rights.
Yes, but that's a property of the US Constitution, and not the fact that you have guns.
The OP's point wasn't to say that the US was worse than the UK. The point is that everytime there's an article like this about the UK, we get the inevitable "If only you had guns". The fact that similar things happen in the US, despite your guns, suggest that the point is irrelevant.
The US is as bad as the UK in different ways.
The US citizens aren't exactly complacent, but a lot certainly feel powerless.
The most insidious prison is the one you don't realise you're in.
>>>We can only hope that the western world, having known freedom, will revolt while they still have enough of that freedom left to effectively do so.
Dear British Cousins,
If this law to track citizens' movement were passed in America, we would exercise our second amendment rights. We would tell our parliamentarians: Real this law or die. Government is there to SERVE the people, not to be a master. Politicians who desire to be masters need to be "fired" by their employers, the People.
A concerned liberty-loving citizen
Dear American Brother,
If we try to use our 2nd amendment rights, we'll be summarily shot for any number of offenses, trumped up or not.
Sincerely, a not-free American.
I thought colleges bought subscriptions for their students, not just promoted it.
No, they bought it on behalf of their students, and lumped it into their tuition, along with those big paychecks for the administrators.
Once they set up an account "on behalf of the students" and said "here, use this", they didn't give a shit one way or another, since if the RIAA started badgering them, they could point at that and say "We're not culpable, we tried to do it your way". Of course, they're not doing it to protect the students, they were doing it to protect their own asses.
Are these episodes being shown as originally shown, or are they being butchered for time or content (you know to appease modern-day content-crybabies)?
The U.S. government is extremely corrupt.
Good job. You get a gold star.