However, despite the supposed lower requirements and multi-touch gestures, I'm not sure what the benefits of Windows 7 are.
Win7 doesn't really need any new benefits. The greatest benefit is that it's an update from XP which is pretty much stone age software now. Personally, I think Windows would be much more attractive if they started taking features out and letting customers set it up to do what they want on their own. Average users may not have as much success with it, but it would be a little more tech savvy if that's what they did.
I don't see why this is surprising. This is just Windows Vista service pack 3 after all.
Not really, the idea of a service pack is to add new features and plug a bunch of holes, like when XP SP2 added the security center. My hope is that Win7 guts most of the 'features' that were in Vista.
I thought netbooks were most popular because they are cheap and good for basic utilities. Won't adding a touchscreen just raise the price? And on top of that, netbooks come with lesser RAM and a weaker processor, a touchscreen can't be good for that. Plus it will probably just take up battery life. And one more gripe, is there good touchscreen technology for Linux? I hope this isn't a boost for the XP netbooks.
Oh yeah, and that bit on the American Dream - there's also a slight snag in the current model for buying and selling houses, something like the "Sub-Prime Mortgage Crisis." Yeah, that ain't gonna help either.
Why are wages so high (if they are at all, I have no figures)? In other countries, there exists this foreign concept where rich people pay taxes to take care of those that cannot support themselves. In America, since they have so spurned these taxes, wages must be higher to allow for greater self-sufficiency of the common man.
First of all, the automobile represents freedom. Freedom to go where you want, when you want. You are not tied to mass transit schedules and routes.
That's not the whole story. First of all, America is so spread out (suburbs and whatnot) that a mass transit system would have enormous cost and little use. But having a car isn't such a great thing at the same time - try living in a city with one and you'll have a hell of a time finding a place to park, and once you do, it can cost over $20 per hour sometimes.
That being said, the best solution to the problem in my opinion is to bring people to live closer to the city. Doubt that it will ever happen though, as right now the "American Dream" is to have a house with a garage, two cars (at least) and a yard. I don't think cars can be abolished in America, so they just have to come up with some crazy efficient technology to power them.
No! there aren't 10 atoms! I said in the other post that the bonding between graphene and some other surface parallel to the plane of the atoms is >>200 pm. It makes sense for a bond to be this thick, especially since the pi* orbital is very poor at overlapping (which is favorable for bonding).
In case you didn't RTFA, NAND technology is predicted to reach its size limit in 2012 at 20nm. Graphene can reach much smaller than that. Additionally, they mentioned that it can already run at 100ns (read speed I assume) whereas MLC (current SSD bleeding edge) reads at 50ns right now.
The current things that are holding it back right now are probably mass distribution and reliability. Honestly though, it will take a lot more to convince me that we'll be using graphene-based memory chips someday.
Graphene is an array of sp2 hybridized carbon, meaning the HOMO is the pi bonding orbital, and the LUMO is the pi* orbital. The average electronic radius in the p orbital is a bit under 4 times the Bohr radius = 4*53 pm ~ 200 pm and it's safe to assume that the average distance of the pi bonding orbital is close. Since bonding must take place in the higher energy pi* orbital, it must be >>200pm. 1000pm sounds about right.
The math isn't hard, but I have to take a shit so I can't do it right now.
...probably won't. Most uneducated users that read the article will probably be of the mindset "oh, it won't happen to me".
You better believe it! I've NEVER gotten a virus. I've had Windows 98 for over 10 years and I still have my cat on my desktop - now prove to me that I have a virus, you stinking flamer!
You don't have any idea what you're up against. Signing a label is huge for an artist. Not only does it mean mass production of your music (although in many cases, I'd be reluctant to call it music), but it means publicity, notoriety, etc., something that Indie artists can't fight at all. Think about it - the RIAA controls everything - they have advertising money, TV, total control of the radio. Where do you expect anyone else to get their stuff out? Most of all popular music is only popular cause it's what people hear on the radio.
And to be honest, just cause you have a record deal doesn't mean that you're an artist in the least bit. And most of the poster-faces that we see as products of the RIAA are total shit anyways. It's basically manufactured music, that's all.
I doubt this will happen. Even mp3 decoders aren't free yet AFAIK and I'm not sure about DVD in terms of relative age, but Blu-ray is a much newer format, way in its infancy in fact. It was engineered specifically with DRM in mind, something that was never thought much of in the Linux community. And when you consider how much money went into making Blu-ray the dominant format over HD DVD, you'd think that they would try to make a little profit from the codecs now that they've won. Ah, how great it is to be king.
Nevermind. "Even with 100GB of write-erase per day, it'll take more than 72 years to burn through the drive." I should RTFA. But still, much room for improvement.
I still think the biggest deterrent is lifetime. I want to buy an Aspire One, but I'm pretty disappointed at some of the things that I'll have to do with the SSD. No swapping, no journaling, no logging or timestamps. Sounds like it's still a step backwards to me. Still needs a little more time.
You're correct. Earth's protective magnetic field is generated by the molten iron core. When the planets were created, they all had the same molten core, but over time, they solidify. It takes longer in bigger planets because the core is bigger (duh). In Earth, the outer core remains molten while the inner core has solidified. Likewise, Venus, being a relatively big rocky planet also has an atmosphere that's protected by its magnetic field (hence the clouds on it surface). Mercury and Mars are smaller, their cores are likely less molten, so their magnetic fields are weaker and therefore they have no atmosphere. Eventually, Earth's core will also solidify so the atmosphere will get ripped away from here too.
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However, despite the supposed lower requirements and multi-touch gestures, I'm not sure what the benefits of Windows 7 are.
Win7 doesn't really need any new benefits. The greatest benefit is that it's an update from XP which is pretty much stone age software now. Personally, I think Windows would be much more attractive if they started taking features out and letting customers set it up to do what they want on their own. Average users may not have as much success with it, but it would be a little more tech savvy if that's what they did.
I don't see why this is surprising. This is just Windows Vista service pack 3 after all.
Not really, the idea of a service pack is to add new features and plug a bunch of holes, like when XP SP2 added the security center. My hope is that Win7 guts most of the 'features' that were in Vista.
There are no new features in this build.
I personally hope MS keeps it this way. Their idea of a 'feature' is usually the opposite of what customers want. Or so has been my experience.
I thought netbooks were most popular because they are cheap and good for basic utilities. Won't adding a touchscreen just raise the price? And on top of that, netbooks come with lesser RAM and a weaker processor, a touchscreen can't be good for that. Plus it will probably just take up battery life. And one more gripe, is there good touchscreen technology for Linux? I hope this isn't a boost for the XP netbooks.
Yeah, I can't imagine an iPhone without a touchscreen either. Imagine trying to do everything with that one button it has!
and billing gamers $1.25 for each hour of fun
Can we get a refund for a game if we play said without having said fun?
Oh yeah, and that bit on the American Dream - there's also a slight snag in the current model for buying and selling houses, something like the "Sub-Prime Mortgage Crisis." Yeah, that ain't gonna help either.
Why are wages so high (if they are at all, I have no figures)? In other countries, there exists this foreign concept where rich people pay taxes to take care of those that cannot support themselves. In America, since they have so spurned these taxes, wages must be higher to allow for greater self-sufficiency of the common man.
Cause and effect.
First of all, the automobile represents freedom. Freedom to go where you want, when you want. You are not tied to mass transit schedules and routes.
That's not the whole story. First of all, America is so spread out (suburbs and whatnot) that a mass transit system would have enormous cost and little use. But having a car isn't such a great thing at the same time - try living in a city with one and you'll have a hell of a time finding a place to park, and once you do, it can cost over $20 per hour sometimes.
That being said, the best solution to the problem in my opinion is to bring people to live closer to the city. Doubt that it will ever happen though, as right now the "American Dream" is to have a house with a garage, two cars (at least) and a yard. I don't think cars can be abolished in America, so they just have to come up with some crazy efficient technology to power them.
I was cheering so hard when I saw "Karl Rove" and "Dies" - then the words in between just ruined my Christmas.
No! there aren't 10 atoms! I said in the other post that the bonding between graphene and some other surface parallel to the plane of the atoms is >>200 pm. It makes sense for a bond to be this thick, especially since the pi* orbital is very poor at overlapping (which is favorable for bonding).
In case you didn't RTFA, NAND technology is predicted to reach its size limit in 2012 at 20nm. Graphene can reach much smaller than that. Additionally, they mentioned that it can already run at 100ns (read speed I assume) whereas MLC (current SSD bleeding edge) reads at 50ns right now.
The current things that are holding it back right now are probably mass distribution and reliability. Honestly though, it will take a lot more to convince me that we'll be using graphene-based memory chips someday.
Graphene is an array of sp2 hybridized carbon, meaning the HOMO is the pi bonding orbital, and the LUMO is the pi* orbital. The average electronic radius in the p orbital is a bit under 4 times the Bohr radius = 4*53 pm ~ 200 pm and it's safe to assume that the average distance of the pi bonding orbital is close. Since bonding must take place in the higher energy pi* orbital, it must be >>200pm. 1000pm sounds about right.
The math isn't hard, but I have to take a shit so I can't do it right now.
80 pm vs. 1nm isn't a big difference? 1nm=1000pm, and 1000/80= 12.5X. That's an order of magnitude, and on the quantum scale, that's huge.
...probably won't. Most uneducated users that read the article will probably be of the mindset "oh, it won't happen to me".
You better believe it! I've NEVER gotten a virus. I've had Windows 98 for over 10 years and I still have my cat on my desktop - now prove to me that I have a virus, you stinking flamer!
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Just wait till this gets hit with a DMCA takedown notice.
Alright
I'll spend my money on this one, just so I don't have to spend money on buying a legit Digitally Restricted game later.
Wait, what?
So what happens if you have cavity fillings or a metal plate in your body?
You don't have any idea what you're up against. Signing a label is huge for an artist. Not only does it mean mass production of your music (although in many cases, I'd be reluctant to call it music), but it means publicity, notoriety, etc., something that Indie artists can't fight at all. Think about it - the RIAA controls everything - they have advertising money, TV, total control of the radio. Where do you expect anyone else to get their stuff out? Most of all popular music is only popular cause it's what people hear on the radio.
And to be honest, just cause you have a record deal doesn't mean that you're an artist in the least bit. And most of the poster-faces that we see as products of the RIAA are total shit anyways. It's basically manufactured music, that's all.
I doubt this will happen. Even mp3 decoders aren't free yet AFAIK and I'm not sure about DVD in terms of relative age, but Blu-ray is a much newer format, way in its infancy in fact. It was engineered specifically with DRM in mind, something that was never thought much of in the Linux community. And when you consider how much money went into making Blu-ray the dominant format over HD DVD, you'd think that they would try to make a little profit from the codecs now that they've won. Ah, how great it is to be king.
Not really in a spending mood right now.
This is called depression my friend
Nevermind. "Even with 100GB of write-erase per day, it'll take more than 72 years to burn through the drive." I should RTFA. But still, much room for improvement.
I still think the biggest deterrent is lifetime. I want to buy an Aspire One, but I'm pretty disappointed at some of the things that I'll have to do with the SSD. No swapping, no journaling, no logging or timestamps. Sounds like it's still a step backwards to me. Still needs a little more time.
You're correct. Earth's protective magnetic field is generated by the molten iron core. When the planets were created, they all had the same molten core, but over time, they solidify. It takes longer in bigger planets because the core is bigger (duh). In Earth, the outer core remains molten while the inner core has solidified. Likewise, Venus, being a relatively big rocky planet also has an atmosphere that's protected by its magnetic field (hence the clouds on it surface). Mercury and Mars are smaller, their cores are likely less molten, so their magnetic fields are weaker and therefore they have no atmosphere. Eventually, Earth's core will also solidify so the atmosphere will get ripped away from here too.