There will one day be a time when tablets ARE as powerfull as a PC.
As long as computers run on electricity and generate waste heat, a tablet (i.e., something you can easily carry around without injuring yourself) will never be able to be as powerful as a PC in a traditional case.
Whatever über-technology that a tablet has can also be applied to a PC in a traditional case, and it will almost always be possible to make that traditional PC even more powerful by putting more of that technology into it, since the desktop has no requirements for long battery life and can easily dissipate 400W (or more) heat without injuring the user.
I have Amazon Prime, but I still buy my PC parts from Newegg.
I tend to buy from Newegg because the Amazon search is too generic.
First, text search is too fuzzy...If I search for "WD2002FAEX", I get one result at Newegg, while I get 27 at Amazon. It's far worse if I am looking for a more general term (like "HD6970"). Newegg's search returns nothing but graphics cards based on the AMD HD6970 platform. Even if I drill down into "Electronics->Computers & Accessories->Computer Components->Graphics Cards" at Amazon, I still end up with results that are wrong mixed in with ones that actually match.
Second, too many times I have searched and found a good deal at Amazon only to find that it's not Amazon selling it, so there is no free shipping.
Last, the "Power" search at Newegg makes it easy to get a product that has the specs you need. Unless I'm spending several thousand dollars, the extra 10-20 minutes to make sure I get the right thing from Amazon makes even a slightly higher price at Newegg worth it.
What are you rambling on about? You can 100% guarantee that a phone given to you by the NSA capable of accessing classified information is going to be heavily and regularly monitored by the government without court orders required. There would be 0% expectation of privacy with such a phone.
Except for the fact that there won't be many people who are cleared to hear all the secure phones, so the personnel required might make monitoring impossible, and for phones held by people with exceptionally high clearance, it's possible that nobody but the phone holder would be cleared for everything he might talk about.
Add to that the fact that many truly "this didn't happen" operations need guarantees that nobody else knows means that routine monitoring of these sorts of phones is probably unlikely.
Basically, if you actually end up in a court room, having sent the takedown notice move the issues away from willful copyright infringement (those become incontestable legal facts instead... you either keep the content up or you take it down) and instead the arguments move to the copyright status of the content itself.
Not even close.
If the response to the takedown notice is "it's fair use", then there are still lots of arguments that have nothing to do with who does or does not own the copyright. I know all the big media companies want to deny that fair use exists, but luckily they haven't come up with enough bribes to have that set into law.
BTW, I wouldn't necessarily quote Righthaven as an example of skilled attorneys that are effective in lawsuits.
Agree, but it could still cost you a great deal of money to fight a company who had lawyers that were just slightly more skilled and less stupid, even if you did eventually prevail.
All you are benchmarking is the XT versus it's own cache and your memory of the much slower, cheaper drive that used to be in your PS3. It doesn't say a thing about whether the XT would be faster than the Scorpio Black.
You'd need to buy the Scorpio Black and test it in your PS3 to know for sure.
Also, you need to look more closely at the second link, which shows that with newer, faster hardware around it, the Momentus XT can't keep up with the Scorpio Black. The first link does make it less one-sided, but as times have changed, the Momentus XT hasn't kept up. It's a pity, because if it offered even half the perfomance of an SSD for 1/3 the price per GB, it would be an all-time best seller.
The Momentus XT is a 2.5" laptop drive. It beat The WD Black in 75% of tests, and is only 40% more expensive.
I was mistaken about the size of the Momentus XT, but...
The Scorpio Black wins (sometimes crushing) every HD Tune benchmark except for random read access time, loses the file copy tests by less than 10%, wins all the WorldBench tests, wins 1 of 3 load time tests, and wins the 6 of 7 TR DriveBench tests. I don't see how you can say the Momentus XT won 75% of the tests.
Also, the only reason the Momentus XT is only $30 more than the $70 Scorpio Black is because there are still older drives in inventory. The new SKU Momentus XT is selling for $130...nearly twice as much for less performance.
He randomly generates 9 characters until he gets the 9 characters he wants. Then he repeats until he has the Shakespeare book he wanted? That's not how 'random' works.
It depends...how about if this is the algorithm:
char *target_blocks[];
int i = 0;
while (i < number_of_target_blocks)
{
char *block = GenerateRandomBlock();
if strcmp(block, target_blocks[i])
i++;
else
i=0;
}
What this does is generate a random block (i.e., a bunch of closely-packed monkey key presses) and if that data matches the current location in the Shakespeare work, then keep doing this until you get a mismatch, at which point you start over from the beginning. That would be a fairly reasonable way to simulate a monkey mashing keys until he typed a complete Shakespeare work.
It's hard to imagine how bad Seagate must have been with the design of a 3-1/2" drive that includes flash memory cache when it is regularly beaten in benchmarks by standard 2-1/2" drives (e.g., WD Scorpio Black) and trounced by other 3-1/2" drives. Since it costs a lot more (5x as expensive per GB as the WD Caviar Green), it's about the biggest loser ever made.
With either option, add in logic so that the switch/jumper means "able to update bootloader" in one position and "able to boot" in the other. That way, you can't leave the switch in the position that allows you to have a rootkit install itself (unless you never reboot your computer...in which case a rootkit isn't really a problem).
As I understand it, that was about articles posted by the operator of the site, not about articles posted by subscribers. The liability limitation under OCILLA extends only to materials posted by subscribers.
That's not important. There is still no requirement to send a takedown notice (or anything else) before suing, even if the content was posted by a user of the site and not the site operators.
Once the big wealthy targets win these lawsuits, the little guys can use the precedents.
If they can afford to, and they can convince a judge that their situation is exactly the same. Otherwise, prepare for a long and expensive battle.
No, it's not. The seizure has happened. What is being litigated is whether the US has to give it back. Regardless of the outcome, there won't be any legal fees awarded (since it's not a civil seizure). Maybe you can afford a couple of million just to fight to have a ".com" domain but I'd rather spend a few hundred dollars to get a relatively untouchable.me or.to domain. Note that this is especially important for companies based entirely in other countries. It is in their best interest to not have a TLD controlled by the US as their primary presence, because you never know what lobbyist will pay a congressman enough to get their domain pulled.
What dream world do you live in? First, your understanding of the law is flawed. A takedown request is not required before a lawsuit can be filed, and you can still be liable for copyright infringement. Righthaven started many lawsuits over copyright infringement without any DMCA takedown request preceding the lawsuits. Once you're sued, you have to spend time and money to respond. If the party on the other side is big enough, it doesn't matter if you end up being "liable" or not...if they can prove they sued "in good faith", you probably aren't going to be awarded anything to offset your legal fees.
Likewise, just because a site has user-created content and responds to takedown requests doesn't mean they won't get sued. YouTube and various file lockers are in the middle of lawsuits even though they comply with the law.
Last, if you haven't been watching, the domain seizures by ICE happen to sites without any warning of any kind (no takedown request, no lawsuit, etc). And, they also happen to sites who are legal in their own countries, with the only connection to the US is that they use a TLD that is controlled by a US company.
That's the key right there. With virtualization software in the state that it is now, why would you run POSIX applications shoe-horned into windows, when you can have a proper POSIX system running in a VM.
I agree that SUA is pretty bad, but running Cygwin allows me to run commands like:
sort -o/dev/clipboard/dev/clipboard
This sorts the data on the Windows clipboard. Having the whole *nix user land plus access to Windows features/drives/data makes the command line in Windows much less painful than before. A VM won't really solve that.
If you disable all the hardware checks and probing and don't have a bunch of add-in cards with ROMs, it takes very little time to hand off to the boot loader.
For example, with all memory checks and the on-board SAS having RAID volumes, one of my servers takes about 4 minutes until the hand off. Disabling the hardware RAID and the boot ROM on the SAS controller (and running JBOD) saves about 30 seconds. Bypassing the memory check (24GB with NUMA is slow to check) and completely disabling the SAS controller, I can get the boot started in about 20 seconds from the on-board SATA controller, and most of that time is specific to the multi-processor server motherboard.
Since no sane person wants to disable the hardware probing (which would be like going back to the days of setting jumpers on ISA cards, and having to tell your OS exactly where to find the card), that delay is always going to be there, and the more complex the system, the longer it will take. UEFI isn't going to help this much, because it's still got to discover new and removed hardware and allow for behavior like current add-in ROMs.
As for actual hardware tests, only the memory check takes very long, and you can disable that in most BIOS setups.
From what I remember, Windows 64 bit (Vista or 7 I think - I don't think XP 64 bit supported it) needs to be installed with UEFI/GPT partitioning or BIOS/MBR partitioning and it defaults to the latter, but it can be changed.
Windows 7 x64 appears to allow all combinations of firmware (BIOS or UEFI) and partitioning for boot drives with 2^32 sectors or fewer.
Once you move to larger drives, you have to use GPT, and thus must also use UEFI.
Just the opposite, it is my experience that it is usually anywhere from 20% to 50% cheaper to buy a pre-built machine with Windows on it than it is to buy computer components and build a machine yourself.
This is only true for low end machines...for anything near the top, building your own is far cheaper, even with the "sales" (where nobody in their right mind would pay the "full" price, and you can almost always get something that fits on "sale") that most big manufacturers have.
Also, it's really easy to build a system with parts that have a minimum 3-year warranty (with some parts at 5 years or lifetime), while most Dell, etc., have only a one year warranty. After adding $150 or so for the extra two years for the pre-built, it makes up for having to pay so much for a retail version of Windows (if you want it) for the home-built machine.
Then, too, with a home-built, you can easily re-use things like case, power supply, optical drive, etc., for an upgrade. That also allows you to pay a little more up front for far better hardware (quieter case, more efficient power supply, etc.) and still save money on the upgrade.
Before I VNC in to power up the box, I need DHCP running so I have an IP address to connect to. No problemo, I'll just power up the box to get a DHCP address before I power up the box to power up the box. Its turtles all the way down.
I suspect that like IPMI, if you enable this new system, then as long as the "big red switch" is on (i.e., the motherboard is getting the power it would need to respond to the momentary "power on" switch), then the network card will also be powered and able to send and receive.
The real trick is the very first time power on...if this new feature is set to "on" by default, and the NIC is set to use DHCP, then you can just drop ship new systems to wherever they are needed and then start the remote configure. Of course, that would be a really bad default, as the security holes it opens are profound. Imagine a company that doesn't use this feature, but doesn't disable it correctly...any internal hacker could then "watch" the initial OS install, and possibly be given remote admin access, allowing them to trojan the machine.
In addition, the PostgreSQL syntax gets even uglier if you want to insert a new row if it doesn't exist, but update the existing data if it does. For MySQL, it's (parametrized query):
This is the third "OMG which router to buy?" question in the last ~6 months. It is getting old. Take these questions to smallnetbuilder.com or hardforum where they belong.
If you could point out somewhere that does actual testing on routers in the situation from the post (100-200Mbps WAN link) with real world usage patterns (e.g., 30-50 torrents with 20-40 connections per torrent plus DHT), then people would go there to get answers.
I've returned quite a few routers because they can't even handle 30Mbps (all wired) with thousands of simultaneous connections, so I can see how someone might wonder what it takes to handle a 200Mbps connection. There are no real reviews that let you know what routers can really do...all the speed tests are less than 50 connections, and most focus on the wireless performance.
How about setup/installation time. Installing and configuring a whole bunch of machines takes a while.
About a week for the first one (to define and record the customizations to the default OS install), and then a few hours for each one after that shouldn't be an issue with a grant that is almost certainly for at least 6 months.
While I'll agree the 'envelope' was correct - it was delivered to the correct address; the person who it was delivered to was not the recipient.
I do not think that word means what you think it means.
By definition, if something is addressed to you and you get it, then you are the "recipient". It does not matter what the thing is that you received, or why you received it. And, even the UK law you quote agrees with this definition, and gives only examples of when the mail is "addressed to someone else". This law is the US is similar. For example, the Post Office even made ads about how receiving something by mail that you did not request doesn't make you obligated to pay for it, because scammers were sending unrequested items via the mail and enclosing bills, then suing for non-payment.
But the real problem is that you are booting the system at all, if you are rebooting, it's because the driver model is poor and requires a rebbot
Every time I upgrade 90% of hardware drivers on my Linux system, it requires a reboot, since the new drivers are part of a new kernel. The next 7-9% only require me to log out (graphics drivers, etc.), but the effect on a desktop user is pretty much the same as a reboot...save everything and start over.
Sure, there are ways like ksplice that allow in-memory kernel changes, but the reality is that driver changes mostly require a reboot, regardless of the OS.
Now, if you want to complain about why patching a web browser, word processor, or some obscure shared library that isn't in use often requires a reboot on Windows, I'll be more than happy to agree with you.
which is able to use all of the cores in a multi-core system in parallel, to split the work of reading from the hiberfile and decompressing the contents.
This also implies that MS is compressing the data. I'm not as familiar with Windows 7, but I'm fairly sure that XP does not compress hiberfil.sys...it's always as big as RAM.
I hadn't heard a change for Vista or 7, and I imagine writing a compressed file would slow down hibernation a lot, so you might win on resume, but you'd pay on the other end.
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There will one day be a time when tablets ARE as powerfull as a PC.
As long as computers run on electricity and generate waste heat, a tablet (i.e., something you can easily carry around without injuring yourself) will never be able to be as powerful as a PC in a traditional case.
Whatever über-technology that a tablet has can also be applied to a PC in a traditional case, and it will almost always be possible to make that traditional PC even more powerful by putting more of that technology into it, since the desktop has no requirements for long battery life and can easily dissipate 400W (or more) heat without injuring the user.
I have Amazon Prime, but I still buy my PC parts from Newegg.
I tend to buy from Newegg because the Amazon search is too generic.
First, text search is too fuzzy...If I search for "WD2002FAEX", I get one result at Newegg, while I get 27 at Amazon. It's far worse if I am looking for a more general term (like "HD6970"). Newegg's search returns nothing but graphics cards based on the AMD HD6970 platform. Even if I drill down into "Electronics->Computers & Accessories->Computer Components->Graphics Cards" at Amazon, I still end up with results that are wrong mixed in with ones that actually match.
Second, too many times I have searched and found a good deal at Amazon only to find that it's not Amazon selling it, so there is no free shipping.
Last, the "Power" search at Newegg makes it easy to get a product that has the specs you need. Unless I'm spending several thousand dollars, the extra 10-20 minutes to make sure I get the right thing from Amazon makes even a slightly higher price at Newegg worth it.
What are you rambling on about? You can 100% guarantee that a phone given to you by the NSA capable of accessing classified information is going to be heavily and regularly monitored by the government without court orders required. There would be 0% expectation of privacy with such a phone.
Except for the fact that there won't be many people who are cleared to hear all the secure phones, so the personnel required might make monitoring impossible, and for phones held by people with exceptionally high clearance, it's possible that nobody but the phone holder would be cleared for everything he might talk about.
Add to that the fact that many truly "this didn't happen" operations need guarantees that nobody else knows means that routine monitoring of these sorts of phones is probably unlikely.
Basically, if you actually end up in a court room, having sent the takedown notice move the issues away from willful copyright infringement (those become incontestable legal facts instead... you either keep the content up or you take it down) and instead the arguments move to the copyright status of the content itself.
Not even close.
If the response to the takedown notice is "it's fair use", then there are still lots of arguments that have nothing to do with who does or does not own the copyright. I know all the big media companies want to deny that fair use exists, but luckily they haven't come up with enough bribes to have that set into law.
BTW, I wouldn't necessarily quote Righthaven as an example of skilled attorneys that are effective in lawsuits.
Agree, but it could still cost you a great deal of money to fight a company who had lawyers that were just slightly more skilled and less stupid, even if you did eventually prevail.
All you are benchmarking is the XT versus it's own cache and your memory of the much slower, cheaper drive that used to be in your PS3. It doesn't say a thing about whether the XT would be faster than the Scorpio Black.
You'd need to buy the Scorpio Black and test it in your PS3 to know for sure.
Also, you need to look more closely at the second link, which shows that with newer, faster hardware around it, the Momentus XT can't keep up with the Scorpio Black. The first link does make it less one-sided, but as times have changed, the Momentus XT hasn't kept up. It's a pity, because if it offered even half the perfomance of an SSD for 1/3 the price per GB, it would be an all-time best seller.
The Momentus XT is a 2.5" laptop drive. It beat The WD Black in 75% of tests, and is only 40% more expensive.
I was mistaken about the size of the Momentus XT, but...
The Scorpio Black wins (sometimes crushing) every HD Tune benchmark except for random read access time, loses the file copy tests by less than 10%, wins all the WorldBench tests, wins 1 of 3 load time tests, and wins the 6 of 7 TR DriveBench tests. I don't see how you can say the Momentus XT won 75% of the tests.
Also, the only reason the Momentus XT is only $30 more than the $70 Scorpio Black is because there are still older drives in inventory. The new SKU Momentus XT is selling for $130...nearly twice as much for less performance.
He randomly generates 9 characters until he gets the 9 characters he wants. Then he repeats until he has the Shakespeare book he wanted? That's not how 'random' works.
It depends...how about if this is the algorithm:
char *target_blocks[];
int i = 0;
while (i < number_of_target_blocks)
{
char *block = GenerateRandomBlock();
if strcmp(block, target_blocks[i])
i++;
else
i=0;
}
What this does is generate a random block (i.e., a bunch of closely-packed monkey key presses) and if that data matches the current location in the Shakespeare work, then keep doing this until you get a mismatch, at which point you start over from the beginning. That would be a fairly reasonable way to simulate a monkey mashing keys until he typed a complete Shakespeare work.
I am very satisfied with increased performance from the drive
It's just your imagination. Check out these benchmarks, or compare it to even more recent standard hard drives.
It's hard to imagine how bad Seagate must have been with the design of a 3-1/2" drive that includes flash memory cache when it is regularly beaten in benchmarks by standard 2-1/2" drives (e.g., WD Scorpio Black) and trounced by other 3-1/2" drives. Since it costs a lot more (5x as expensive per GB as the WD Caviar Green), it's about the biggest loser ever made.
Heck, a $0.10 switch on the back of the case...
With either option, add in logic so that the switch/jumper means "able to update bootloader" in one position and "able to boot" in the other. That way, you can't leave the switch in the position that allows you to have a rootkit install itself (unless you never reboot your computer...in which case a rootkit isn't really a problem).
As I understand it, that was about articles posted by the operator of the site, not about articles posted by subscribers. The liability limitation under OCILLA extends only to materials posted by subscribers.
That's not important. There is still no requirement to send a takedown notice (or anything else) before suing, even if the content was posted by a user of the site and not the site operators.
Once the big wealthy targets win these lawsuits, the little guys can use the precedents.
If they can afford to, and they can convince a judge that their situation is exactly the same. Otherwise, prepare for a long and expensive battle.
That's being litigated.
No, it's not. The seizure has happened. What is being litigated is whether the US has to give it back. Regardless of the outcome, there won't be any legal fees awarded (since it's not a civil seizure). Maybe you can afford a couple of million just to fight to have a ".com" domain but I'd rather spend a few hundred dollars to get a relatively untouchable .me or .to domain. Note that this is especially important for companies based entirely in other countries. It is in their best interest to not have a TLD controlled by the US as their primary presence, because you never know what lobbyist will pay a congressman enough to get their domain pulled.
And how many sites were actually shutdown for that reason? Oh right, none of them.
True, but some sites were shut down because they had downloads of music that were sent to the site by the record companies for promotion of the music.
Unfortunately, the lawyers don't bother talking to the promotion people.
What dream world do you live in? First, your understanding of the law is flawed. A takedown request is not required before a lawsuit can be filed, and you can still be liable for copyright infringement. Righthaven started many lawsuits over copyright infringement without any DMCA takedown request preceding the lawsuits. Once you're sued, you have to spend time and money to respond. If the party on the other side is big enough, it doesn't matter if you end up being "liable" or not...if they can prove they sued "in good faith", you probably aren't going to be awarded anything to offset your legal fees.
Likewise, just because a site has user-created content and responds to takedown requests doesn't mean they won't get sued. YouTube and various file lockers are in the middle of lawsuits even though they comply with the law.
Last, if you haven't been watching, the domain seizures by ICE happen to sites without any warning of any kind (no takedown request, no lawsuit, etc). And, they also happen to sites who are legal in their own countries, with the only connection to the US is that they use a TLD that is controlled by a US company.
That's the key right there. With virtualization software in the state that it is now, why would you run POSIX applications shoe-horned into windows, when you can have a proper POSIX system running in a VM.
I agree that SUA is pretty bad, but running Cygwin allows me to run commands like:
sort -o /dev/clipboard /dev/clipboard
This sorts the data on the Windows clipboard. Having the whole *nix user land plus access to Windows features/drives/data makes the command line in Windows much less painful than before. A VM won't really solve that.
The main issue for me is that BIOS is just SLOW.
If you disable all the hardware checks and probing and don't have a bunch of add-in cards with ROMs, it takes very little time to hand off to the boot loader.
For example, with all memory checks and the on-board SAS having RAID volumes, one of my servers takes about 4 minutes until the hand off. Disabling the hardware RAID and the boot ROM on the SAS controller (and running JBOD) saves about 30 seconds. Bypassing the memory check (24GB with NUMA is slow to check) and completely disabling the SAS controller, I can get the boot started in about 20 seconds from the on-board SATA controller, and most of that time is specific to the multi-processor server motherboard.
Since no sane person wants to disable the hardware probing (which would be like going back to the days of setting jumpers on ISA cards, and having to tell your OS exactly where to find the card), that delay is always going to be there, and the more complex the system, the longer it will take. UEFI isn't going to help this much, because it's still got to discover new and removed hardware and allow for behavior like current add-in ROMs.
As for actual hardware tests, only the memory check takes very long, and you can disable that in most BIOS setups.
From what I remember, Windows 64 bit (Vista or 7 I think - I don't think XP 64 bit supported it) needs to be installed with UEFI/GPT partitioning or BIOS/MBR partitioning and it defaults to the latter, but it can be changed.
Windows 7 x64 appears to allow all combinations of firmware (BIOS or UEFI) and partitioning for boot drives with 2^32 sectors or fewer.
Once you move to larger drives, you have to use GPT, and thus must also use UEFI.
Just the opposite, it is my experience that it is usually anywhere from 20% to 50% cheaper to buy a pre-built machine with Windows on it than it is to buy computer components and build a machine yourself.
This is only true for low end machines...for anything near the top, building your own is far cheaper, even with the "sales" (where nobody in their right mind would pay the "full" price, and you can almost always get something that fits on "sale") that most big manufacturers have.
Also, it's really easy to build a system with parts that have a minimum 3-year warranty (with some parts at 5 years or lifetime), while most Dell, etc., have only a one year warranty. After adding $150 or so for the extra two years for the pre-built, it makes up for having to pay so much for a retail version of Windows (if you want it) for the home-built machine.
Then, too, with a home-built, you can easily re-use things like case, power supply, optical drive, etc., for an upgrade. That also allows you to pay a little more up front for far better hardware (quieter case, more efficient power supply, etc.) and still save money on the upgrade.
Before I VNC in to power up the box, I need DHCP running so I have an IP address to connect to. No problemo, I'll just power up the box to get a DHCP address before I power up the box to power up the box. Its turtles all the way down.
I suspect that like IPMI, if you enable this new system, then as long as the "big red switch" is on (i.e., the motherboard is getting the power it would need to respond to the momentary "power on" switch), then the network card will also be powered and able to send and receive.
The real trick is the very first time power on...if this new feature is set to "on" by default, and the NIC is set to use DHCP, then you can just drop ship new systems to wherever they are needed and then start the remote configure. Of course, that would be a really bad default, as the security holes it opens are profound. Imagine a company that doesn't use this feature, but doesn't disable it correctly...any internal hacker could then "watch" the initial OS install, and possibly be given remote admin access, allowing them to trojan the machine.
In addition, the PostgreSQL syntax gets even uglier if you want to insert a new row if it doesn't exist, but update the existing data if it does. For MySQL, it's (parametrized query):
INSERT INTO sometable (field1, field2, field3)
VALUES (?, ?, ?)
ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE field1 = ?, field2 = field2 + 1, field3 = SomeComplexFunction(field3,field4)
This is the third "OMG which router to buy?" question in the last ~6 months. It is getting old. Take these questions to smallnetbuilder.com or hardforum where they belong.
If you could point out somewhere that does actual testing on routers in the situation from the post (100-200Mbps WAN link) with real world usage patterns (e.g., 30-50 torrents with 20-40 connections per torrent plus DHT), then people would go there to get answers.
I've returned quite a few routers because they can't even handle 30Mbps (all wired) with thousands of simultaneous connections, so I can see how someone might wonder what it takes to handle a 200Mbps connection. There are no real reviews that let you know what routers can really do...all the speed tests are less than 50 connections, and most focus on the wireless performance.
This is no different than that you can't take a 64-bit Windows machine and run on a 32-bit Windows machine
I do that every day. I run Windows Server 2003 x64 as a VM inside of 32-bit Windows XP.
With VMware Workstation's Unity feature, I even have 64-bit apps displaying seamlessly on the 32-bit XP desktop.
How about setup/installation time. Installing and configuring a whole bunch of machines takes a while.
About a week for the first one (to define and record the customizations to the default OS install), and then a few hours for each one after that shouldn't be an issue with a grant that is almost certainly for at least 6 months.
http://www.crashplan.com/
I'd love to check it out, but it looks like they are having problems with at least parts of their website (maybe slashdotted?).
That does not bode well for use as an online backup solution.
While I'll agree the 'envelope' was correct - it was delivered to the correct address; the person who it was delivered to was not the recipient.
I do not think that word means what you think it means.
By definition, if something is addressed to you and you get it, then you are the "recipient". It does not matter what the thing is that you received, or why you received it. And, even the UK law you quote agrees with this definition, and gives only examples of when the mail is "addressed to someone else". This law is the US is similar. For example, the Post Office even made ads about how receiving something by mail that you did not request doesn't make you obligated to pay for it, because scammers were sending unrequested items via the mail and enclosing bills, then suing for non-payment.
But the real problem is that you are booting the system at all, if you are rebooting, it's because the driver model is poor and requires a rebbot
Every time I upgrade 90% of hardware drivers on my Linux system, it requires a reboot, since the new drivers are part of a new kernel. The next 7-9% only require me to log out (graphics drivers, etc.), but the effect on a desktop user is pretty much the same as a reboot...save everything and start over.
Sure, there are ways like ksplice that allow in-memory kernel changes, but the reality is that driver changes mostly require a reboot, regardless of the OS.
Now, if you want to complain about why patching a web browser, word processor, or some obscure shared library that isn't in use often requires a reboot on Windows, I'll be more than happy to agree with you.
which is able to use all of the cores in a multi-core system in parallel, to split the work of reading from the hiberfile and decompressing the contents.
This also implies that MS is compressing the data. I'm not as familiar with Windows 7, but I'm fairly sure that XP does not compress hiberfil.sys...it's always as big as RAM.
I hadn't heard a change for Vista or 7, and I imagine writing a compressed file would slow down hibernation a lot, so you might win on resume, but you'd pay on the other end.