I think you need a new MoBo. Speedstep and Cool'n'Quiet don't care what the FSB or core are set at, they just switch to some fraction of that frequency when the load allows.
Yes, OC usually requires you to raise the voltage. But there is still some minimal voltage for any given frequency at which the system will run stable. Using that voltage and no more is an efficient move. No need to up the voltage by.5 if.2 will do the job.
It's impractical to use the simple software that most modern motherboards and GPU vendors provide? Is there some reason? In most case it's just a matter of clicking in the taskbar. Some even let you set specific applications to use particular settings, so it's completely automatic to overclock when you run a game and then go back to an underclock when you return to your web browser.
I wasn't even talking about Android, since it doesn't really exist yet in terms of the market (though certainly MS is keeping an eye on it). Google and Apple have been fairly chummy for a couple of years now -- look closely and you'll notice that the iPhone ships with only Apple and Google apps, nobody else was even invited to the party. Google has shown itself willing to make custom versions of their stuff for Apple, and Apple has shown it is more than happy to let Google handle providing complex and fundamental services rather than reinvent the wheel themselves. Apple has also done little things like add support for Google Talk to iChat, and it's worth noting that Safari is the only major web browser on any platform that *only* has one search engine built-in. When the Google CEO joined Apple's board, he basically said that Google specializes in running massive back ends and sorting through data, and Apple specializes in user-centric front ends and hardware, and they're a logical match.
No doubt there's also a LOT of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" going on at the strategic level.
Since Google isn't profiting directly off Android, I don't think there's much direct competition between the companies in the mobile space. Google wants traffic to their servers, and is setting up Android as a free way for companies to build more network-enabled software even on the cheapest phones (a 'rising tide lifts all boats' effort towards the mobile space). Ultimately it doesn't much matter to Google if traffic to their servers is coming from an Android device or an iPhone device, so long as the traffic isn't going to MSYahoo. As long as Google stays out of the phone hardware business, I suspect Apple won't see them as a direct competitor, they'll just be another generic software platform provider while Apple provides an integrated hardware/software solution.
I agree, Iron man was never a particularly compelling character for me (or most folks I knew who read comics). I've liked him even less since he got involved in politics. But the movie is vastly more interesting than the comic character (in part because of the fun script, mostly because of RDJr).
It's more entertaining than the Spider-Man movies (it has no real dumb moments, massive plot holes, or people doing stupid things ridiculously out of character) and as good as the plotting and character in Batman Begins, without being as melancholy.
Well, yeah, Yahoo Mail plus Flickr plus a lot of other stuff (their jobs and personals sites are quite significant, for example) that ties in well with their push into more entertainment and online ventures that serve to convince home users to stop using XP and Office 97. Having an MS Photo Editor that automagically syncs with "MS Flickr Live!" would be a great boon. They'd get the best online maps service outside Google, as well.
Don't forget that Apple is working so closely with Google these days, the two of them are creating a formidable presence in the mobile device world. MS certainly NEEDS the next version of Windows Mobile to have maps and photos and all that cool stuff be just as slick and connected as the iPhone versions, otherwise they risk losing customer loyalty even in their traditionally strong corporate market.
I think the deal was sincere, that basically MS was genuinely trying to buy Yahoo as a way to get a lot more presence online and try to slow down Google. I suspect they believed most Yahoo execs and stockholders would have been excited at the prospect of getting so much money, and never anticipated Jerry Yang really being able to get so much of the board to think it was a bad idea.
Without an alternate reality time machine, we'll never know if it was really bad or good. Yahoo is not a leader in much of anything at the moment, but I don't think it's crazy for such a company to believe their best days might yet be ahead of them. It's not like they're AltaVista or Ask.com, they have quite a bit of clout and a lot of popular services despite Google's dominance.
MS was certainly not getting much of anywhere with MSN or whatever they're trying to push this week. With their new "Live!" stuff being integrated into Windows and Office, they finally have a decently compelling online product to try and spin off of, but they don't have anywhere to spin people *to*, in a way that would keep them in an all-MS ecosystem. Yahoo could give them all that in one deal.
No, i don't care about any individual reviewer's opinion, but as a collective, it's usually a good indicator of whether or not something will be good or successful, yeah. Hence the metareview sites like rottentomatoes (where IM has a 94% rating, which is unusually good). If that many people who see something think it's good (and give reasons that sound like reasons I'd like it), I'll certainly give it a shot. Otherwise you're left picking movies at random based on the press kit, which is a lot less accurate than any review.
Unforgiven is indeed an excellent movie. I think most reviewers agreed.
Yeah, and it would have been more energy-efficient for Al Gore to tend a compost heap than fly around the world giving lectures, but the question is whether he convinced enough other people to make changes to offset the opportunity cost he missed. If 100 people read the linked article over the next 5 years and change some BIOS settings, that's a lot bigger global payoff than anything the author could have done in the hour it took him to write.
Human societies practice specialization, and someone doing what they're good at (whether it is PR or writing tech articles) can often be more effective in the big picture than everyone trying to personally roll out new power transmission technology or manually plant trees.
Well I'm definitely past the age where overclocking is anything exciting, but it does seem like some of the current Core2 processors are much more overclock-friendly than anything we've seen in years. Getting a 2.0GHz part to run at 3.0GHz is pretty significant for your average college gamer on a budget, and isn't a crazy unusual type of performance gain based on my perusal of Newegg testimonials when building my last system. I got the impression that 20-30% clock speed with standard cooling was practically guaranteed on some of the midrange processors being sold, and often brought you into the range of a processor that cost $100-200 more.
Of course, some folks just do it for the bragging rights or whatever. Either way, I don't see anything harmful in trying to make someone's ePeen as energy efficient as possible, even if the whole concept is less efficient than some alternative. It's kind of like saying someone with a Hummer shouldn't bother putting in CFLs or recycling. Sure, the Hummer is a waste and he should replace it, but that doesn't make any difference to whether or not he should install CFLs. Every little bit helps, said the old woman as she pissed in the sea.
So what was their preference? I know the spanish word that is specifically for US residents, but there isn't a non-pejorative English one. Most languages have an explicit name for (US) Americans, but they usually translate to something like "United Statesian" or "North American" (which would be even more annoying to students in Mexico City -- and would cause most Canadians to spontaneously explode!).
Interesting -- was this in a business context or personal? Cities or rural areas? I know there's a rather disturbing tendency for many Americans to consider Mexico as part of "Central" America as opposed to North America.
When they corrected you, what did they suggest in place of "American"? Of course you can refer to the US different ways (I'll say "the States" in the UK or "the US" probably do more than half the time anyways), but there isn't any other generally accepted term for resident of the US (other than Yankee, but most southerners would take issue with that one:P ).
I'm from Texas, which is how I usually introduce myself to strangers (since everyone around the world, seems to love the idea of us riding to work on horses with our six-shooters, and it softens things up on a personal level even in areas that are virulently anti-US government), but my colleagues wind up just being poor generic "Americans":D. Mexico is one of the few places where being Texan can be hit or miss since people are more likely to have personally good/bad experiences, so I fall back on American there if I don't know.
I don't know why people are being so negative about this article. It isn't trying to convince you that overclocking is the most energy efficient thing to do, it's trying to show you ways you can be more energy efficient if you do choose to overclock. People who overlock do so because they want higher PEAK performance, not because they enjoy wasting energy 24/7. When you're not in need of that peak performance, it only makes sense to go ahead and be efficient.
The whole article can be summed up by saying:
1) Be sure to enable whatever idle tech your motherboard/processor supports (speedstep, cool'n'quiet) so that it automatically slows down the CPU and power consumption when not under load.
2) Try undervolting, use stability tests to find the lowest voltage your particular CPU can use, rather than simply using the default.
3) If your motherboard/processor comes with some software that lets you configure the clock speed/voltage on-the-fly, go ahead and test stability under different settings and save those configurations and use them when appropriately. I'd add that most video cards have the same type of software these days -- go ahead and overclock them when you're gaming, and be sure to slow them back down when you're done.
Neither of those should be shockingly new ideas to anyone who's been building computers for years, but anyone new to it should find the article informative in the specifics.
You got me! I'll be going down to McMurdo to work soon, it's my last continent. I've only been to the North Pole so far, I figure I have to finish the collection.
Well, like I said, even most of the women I know (in the 25-35 age range) who don't care about comics have been talking about the movie. Somehow I managed to live this long without realizing what a sex figure RDJr is to so women of my generation. And Iron Man is all about him playing the cocky, condescending asshole (with a vulnerable side!) that really turns them on.
You are right, but it's tough for many of us from the US to remember that. We've become so used to using American to refer to the USA that when we are in a place that uses the term properly it gives us trouble. I was in Mexico recently and even though I consciously tried to avoid saying 'America' or 'American' in reference to the US, I still slipped up quite a bit. I think a lot of people here are not even aware of the distinction.
Was anyone in Mexico remotely confused when you referred to America or yourself as being American? This is one of those things that only certain European and American (US) linguistic pedants get upset about, as a way to feel intellectually superior.
I've spent years in Central and South America, as well as every other continent on Earth, and I've yet to meet anyone who didn't (at least occasionally) use the term "American" to refer to someone from the US, or thought that using "America" to the US in particular was in any way ambiguous.
When people refer to a particular continent, they say something more specific like "North America", and if they mean the entire entity, they say "the Americas". While "America" can certainly mean any part of those continents, there's no reason to use the word that way, as there are more specific but equally accurate and less ambiguous terms for anything but references to the US.
which also tends to favor software that is not perceived as American
Brazil is American!
Those things are not mutually exclusive.
Certainly nobody in Brazil would find the statement that MS is an American company to be ambiguous, or find anything wrong with the statement that MS is perceived (by some) as less attractive than a domestic solution in part because it is American.
Yeah, it must be horrible because everyone has been talking about it for weeks and 99% of the reviews are overwhelmingly positive.
If anyone involved with the film is running scared, it's the folks dragging the huge bags of cash from the theaters to the bank.
FWIW, I saw it last night and thought it was easily one of the best comic book movies ever made. As good as, say, Batman Begins, but much more FUN to watch and less theatrical and dramatic. RDJr was PERFECT as Tony Stark, and they wisely capitalized on that fact. Even most of the women I know who aren't into action films at all are interested in the movie because they like RDJr, and I don't think they'll be disappointed watching him clearly having a blast for two hours.
There's no need for a conspiracy, that's where you try to make everything too complicated.
All it takes is for someone in a position of authority to decide for whatever reason that they don't want to comply with some requirement, so they start coming up with all sorts of rationalizations for why they need an exception to the requirement. If it is still required, they sit on the paperwork, delay, stonewall, change the specs halfway through, etc.
Eventually, the people in charge of keeping track of whatever is trying to be avoided either give up, accept sub-standard reports, or get so frustrated that THEY make mistakes, which then give further excuses for why the requirement can't be met, etc, etc. The whole time, there's no way you can prove that the person in charge is deliberately trying to avoid doing what is supposed to be done, but for some reason this specific requirement or project just never seems to get finished despite lots of people working on it day after day.
I've seen countless permutations of this saga in the private and public sector.
when Rove was involved -- including yes the ability to make apparent incompetence into a strength
Indeed, GW Bush lost his first run for elected office here in Texas because he was painted as an elitist Ivy-League son of wealth and power. He vowed never to be out-dumbed again, and from then on took to purposely allowing himself to be portrayed as a gee-shucks kind of half-witted boy, and it never failed.
Reagan was also a master of being absent-minded and incompetent -- strangely, such lapses occurred most often when they suited his policies. That doesn't mean he wasn't really suffering from the early stages of Alzheimer's, it just means he used that weakness as a strength.
Trust me, I get his point and I agree with his opinion but his argument is a ridiculous straw man or slippery slope argument, take your pick...Unfortunately, his argument tries to group anything that rapists consume or posses into a single category, which makes no sense. There is almost definatly a correlation between rape and possesion of rape porn, there is no correlation between rape and water. Correlation isn't proof but it is better than nothing.
No, you didn't get his point. Your disagreement is the very thing these politicians are saying, and is wrong. You're speculating that there's a correlation between violent porn and rape, but there's no evidence of that, much less proof of causation. They saw or read about a case where someone had rape porn, and then made the completely unevidenced conclusion that it must be associated with the crime. They could just as easily have noticed several rapists drank a specific brand of bottled water, and moved to ban that. In the 50s, there was a significant movement in the USA to ban comic books because a poorly researched book showed that most convicted criminals had read comic books as children. Nobody bothered to notice that most non-criminals had read comic books as children, too.
Rape is a very common crime. Most rapists don't view themselves as rapists, nor do they view their actions as rape. They use a variety of rationalizations and justifications for their behavior, but it is very rare for a rapist to ever admit even to themselves "I like rape, it turns me on". There's no psychological reason to think rapists would seek out rape porn with any greater frequency than non-rapists. Indeed, I'd guess that they would seek it out less frequently, as part of the process of pretending to themselves that they are fine, upstanding men who would never be into that sort of thing -- after all, only criminals and sex freaks rape people. I'm a successful accountant, not a criminal. I'm not into any of that dirty stuff. All I did was give her what she really wanted.
You're right that I was very imprecise, I have an AMD system so I haven't been able to personally use the GUID/EFI stuff. My understanding was that you could easily install the 10.5.1 update on a functioning 10.5.0 system, but you can't install 10.5.2 without intervention (because it requires the kext). Presumably Apple will continue to require the kext on future updates, and Psystar doesn't want any of those installing automatically because they'll break the functioning 10.5.1.
Of course, they may be doing something completely different, nobody has really posted any details of what Psystar is doing and it may still turn out to be a total scam:/
Presumably they disable the updater so that if/when Apple starts shipping updates that bork the EFI emulator it won't get installed by users who don't check the compatibility first. You're right, there's no reason it shouldn't be using all vanilla Apple code with extra kexts, but the EFI layer is where incompatibility can cause problems.
Certainly compared to most any other phone platform, Symbian has a huge 3rd party software base. But compared to Pocket PC/Windows Mobile or Palm before the breakup, it's still fairly professional and geek oriented.
Of course, you could rightly ask how many different calendar apps or video players or hentai strip poker games someone really needs on a platform. I think the expectation is that the iPhone will be able to encompass more of the traditionally PDA-bound software that doesn't work so well on small smartphones, as well completely new entertainment and connectivity software (since iPhone apps can be more experimental about data transmission than apps tied to pay-per-kb hardware). The Apple gateway on the iTunes store and the $100 initiation fee will certainly put that theory to the test, it will be interesting to say the least.
The iphone, warts and all, appears to be an actual platform. It's actually usable. Every blackberry owner I've seen so far sees it as a mail client, there are very few third party apps and they're not widely known.
I think that's the key to the "battle". While RIM and Symbian are powerhouses from a corporate standpoint, they've never had the crossover attraction that Palm had and WinCE has to a lesser degree -- lots of useful third-party apps that make you want to carry it with you in your personal life, not just when your job tells you to.
This seems like a great opportunity for the AV vendors to set up some microphones and video cameras and try to capture as much of the thought process of the entrants as possible. It's not often they'll have dozens of diversely creative programmers explicitly demonstrating in a controlled environment how the products would be attacked in the wild. I'm sure the AV vendors have teams that do this sort of stuff in-house, but having complete outsiders do something will ALWAYS show a team where they've made bad assumptions or gotten too insular in their thinking.
This is basically the same thing they'd get from paying outside consultants 50 grand for a week of brainstorming, the difference being that the results here will be more honest and they can't bury the report afterwards if it damages their egos.
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Preferences > Security > "Require Password to Wake this computer from sleep or screen saver"
You can change the keyboard shortcut for sleeping the screen to Windows-L if it makes you feel better. I find setting a hot corner to be faster.
I think you need a new MoBo. Speedstep and Cool'n'Quiet don't care what the FSB or core are set at, they just switch to some fraction of that frequency when the load allows.
.5 if .2 will do the job.
Yes, OC usually requires you to raise the voltage. But there is still some minimal voltage for any given frequency at which the system will run stable. Using that voltage and no more is an efficient move. No need to up the voltage by
It's impractical to use the simple software that most modern motherboards and GPU vendors provide? Is there some reason? In most case it's just a matter of clicking in the taskbar. Some even let you set specific applications to use particular settings, so it's completely automatic to overclock when you run a game and then go back to an underclock when you return to your web browser.
I wasn't even talking about Android, since it doesn't really exist yet in terms of the market (though certainly MS is keeping an eye on it). Google and Apple have been fairly chummy for a couple of years now -- look closely and you'll notice that the iPhone ships with only Apple and Google apps, nobody else was even invited to the party. Google has shown itself willing to make custom versions of their stuff for Apple, and Apple has shown it is more than happy to let Google handle providing complex and fundamental services rather than reinvent the wheel themselves. Apple has also done little things like add support for Google Talk to iChat, and it's worth noting that Safari is the only major web browser on any platform that *only* has one search engine built-in. When the Google CEO joined Apple's board, he basically said that Google specializes in running massive back ends and sorting through data, and Apple specializes in user-centric front ends and hardware, and they're a logical match.
No doubt there's also a LOT of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" going on at the strategic level.
Since Google isn't profiting directly off Android, I don't think there's much direct competition between the companies in the mobile space. Google wants traffic to their servers, and is setting up Android as a free way for companies to build more network-enabled software even on the cheapest phones (a 'rising tide lifts all boats' effort towards the mobile space). Ultimately it doesn't much matter to Google if traffic to their servers is coming from an Android device or an iPhone device, so long as the traffic isn't going to MSYahoo. As long as Google stays out of the phone hardware business, I suspect Apple won't see them as a direct competitor, they'll just be another generic software platform provider while Apple provides an integrated hardware/software solution.
I agree, Iron man was never a particularly compelling character for me (or most folks I knew who read comics). I've liked him even less since he got involved in politics. But the movie is vastly more interesting than the comic character (in part because of the fun script, mostly because of RDJr).
It's more entertaining than the Spider-Man movies (it has no real dumb moments, massive plot holes, or people doing stupid things ridiculously out of character) and as good as the plotting and character in Batman Begins, without being as melancholy.
Well, yeah, Yahoo Mail plus Flickr plus a lot of other stuff (their jobs and personals sites are quite significant, for example) that ties in well with their push into more entertainment and online ventures that serve to convince home users to stop using XP and Office 97. Having an MS Photo Editor that automagically syncs with "MS Flickr Live!" would be a great boon. They'd get the best online maps service outside Google, as well.
Don't forget that Apple is working so closely with Google these days, the two of them are creating a formidable presence in the mobile device world. MS certainly NEEDS the next version of Windows Mobile to have maps and photos and all that cool stuff be just as slick and connected as the iPhone versions, otherwise they risk losing customer loyalty even in their traditionally strong corporate market.
I think the deal was sincere, that basically MS was genuinely trying to buy Yahoo as a way to get a lot more presence online and try to slow down Google. I suspect they believed most Yahoo execs and stockholders would have been excited at the prospect of getting so much money, and never anticipated Jerry Yang really being able to get so much of the board to think it was a bad idea.
Without an alternate reality time machine, we'll never know if it was really bad or good. Yahoo is not a leader in much of anything at the moment, but I don't think it's crazy for such a company to believe their best days might yet be ahead of them. It's not like they're AltaVista or Ask.com, they have quite a bit of clout and a lot of popular services despite Google's dominance.
MS was certainly not getting much of anywhere with MSN or whatever they're trying to push this week. With their new "Live!" stuff being integrated into Windows and Office, they finally have a decently compelling online product to try and spin off of, but they don't have anywhere to spin people *to*, in a way that would keep them in an all-MS ecosystem. Yahoo could give them all that in one deal.
No, i don't care about any individual reviewer's opinion, but as a collective, it's usually a good indicator of whether or not something will be good or successful, yeah. Hence the metareview sites like rottentomatoes (where IM has a 94% rating, which is unusually good). If that many people who see something think it's good (and give reasons that sound like reasons I'd like it), I'll certainly give it a shot. Otherwise you're left picking movies at random based on the press kit, which is a lot less accurate than any review.
Unforgiven is indeed an excellent movie. I think most reviewers agreed.
Yeah, and it would have been more energy-efficient for Al Gore to tend a compost heap than fly around the world giving lectures, but the question is whether he convinced enough other people to make changes to offset the opportunity cost he missed. If 100 people read the linked article over the next 5 years and change some BIOS settings, that's a lot bigger global payoff than anything the author could have done in the hour it took him to write.
Human societies practice specialization, and someone doing what they're good at (whether it is PR or writing tech articles) can often be more effective in the big picture than everyone trying to personally roll out new power transmission technology or manually plant trees.
Well I'm definitely past the age where overclocking is anything exciting, but it does seem like some of the current Core2 processors are much more overclock-friendly than anything we've seen in years. Getting a 2.0GHz part to run at 3.0GHz is pretty significant for your average college gamer on a budget, and isn't a crazy unusual type of performance gain based on my perusal of Newegg testimonials when building my last system. I got the impression that 20-30% clock speed with standard cooling was practically guaranteed on some of the midrange processors being sold, and often brought you into the range of a processor that cost $100-200 more.
Of course, some folks just do it for the bragging rights or whatever. Either way, I don't see anything harmful in trying to make someone's ePeen as energy efficient as possible, even if the whole concept is less efficient than some alternative. It's kind of like saying someone with a Hummer shouldn't bother putting in CFLs or recycling. Sure, the Hummer is a waste and he should replace it, but that doesn't make any difference to whether or not he should install CFLs. Every little bit helps, said the old woman as she pissed in the sea.
So what was their preference? I know the spanish word that is specifically for US residents, but there isn't a non-pejorative English one. Most languages have an explicit name for (US) Americans, but they usually translate to something like "United Statesian" or "North American" (which would be even more annoying to students in Mexico City -- and would cause most Canadians to spontaneously explode!).
Interesting -- was this in a business context or personal? Cities or rural areas? I know there's a rather disturbing tendency for many Americans to consider Mexico as part of "Central" America as opposed to North America.
:P ).
:D. Mexico is one of the few places where being Texan can be hit or miss since people are more likely to have personally good/bad experiences, so I fall back on American there if I don't know.
When they corrected you, what did they suggest in place of "American"? Of course you can refer to the US different ways (I'll say "the States" in the UK or "the US" probably do more than half the time anyways), but there isn't any other generally accepted term for resident of the US (other than Yankee, but most southerners would take issue with that one
I'm from Texas, which is how I usually introduce myself to strangers (since everyone around the world, seems to love the idea of us riding to work on horses with our six-shooters, and it softens things up on a personal level even in areas that are virulently anti-US government), but my colleagues wind up just being poor generic "Americans"
I don't know why people are being so negative about this article. It isn't trying to convince you that overclocking is the most energy efficient thing to do, it's trying to show you ways you can be more energy efficient if you do choose to overclock. People who overlock do so because they want higher PEAK performance, not because they enjoy wasting energy 24/7. When you're not in need of that peak performance, it only makes sense to go ahead and be efficient.
The whole article can be summed up by saying:
1) Be sure to enable whatever idle tech your motherboard/processor supports (speedstep, cool'n'quiet) so that it automatically slows down the CPU and power consumption when not under load.
2) Try undervolting, use stability tests to find the lowest voltage your particular CPU can use, rather than simply using the default.
3) If your motherboard/processor comes with some software that lets you configure the clock speed/voltage on-the-fly, go ahead and test stability under different settings and save those configurations and use them when appropriately. I'd add that most video cards have the same type of software these days -- go ahead and overclock them when you're gaming, and be sure to slow them back down when you're done.
Neither of those should be shockingly new ideas to anyone who's been building computers for years, but anyone new to it should find the article informative in the specifics.
You got me! I'll be going down to McMurdo to work soon, it's my last continent. I've only been to the North Pole so far, I figure I have to finish the collection.
Well, like I said, even most of the women I know (in the 25-35 age range) who don't care about comics have been talking about the movie. Somehow I managed to live this long without realizing what a sex figure RDJr is to so women of my generation. And Iron Man is all about him playing the cocky, condescending asshole (with a vulnerable side!) that really turns them on.
Was anyone in Mexico remotely confused when you referred to America or yourself as being American? This is one of those things that only certain European and American (US) linguistic pedants get upset about, as a way to feel intellectually superior.
I've spent years in Central and South America, as well as every other continent on Earth, and I've yet to meet anyone who didn't (at least occasionally) use the term "American" to refer to someone from the US, or thought that using "America" to the US in particular was in any way ambiguous.
When people refer to a particular continent, they say something more specific like "North America", and if they mean the entire entity, they say "the Americas". While "America" can certainly mean any part of those continents, there's no reason to use the word that way, as there are more specific but equally accurate and less ambiguous terms for anything but references to the US.
Those things are not mutually exclusive.
Certainly nobody in Brazil would find the statement that MS is an American company to be ambiguous, or find anything wrong with the statement that MS is perceived (by some) as less attractive than a domestic solution in part because it is American.
Yeah, it must be horrible because everyone has been talking about it for weeks and 99% of the reviews are overwhelmingly positive.
If anyone involved with the film is running scared, it's the folks dragging the huge bags of cash from the theaters to the bank.
FWIW, I saw it last night and thought it was easily one of the best comic book movies ever made. As good as, say, Batman Begins, but much more FUN to watch and less theatrical and dramatic. RDJr was PERFECT as Tony Stark, and they wisely capitalized on that fact. Even most of the women I know who aren't into action films at all are interested in the movie because they like RDJr, and I don't think they'll be disappointed watching him clearly having a blast for two hours.
There's no need for a conspiracy, that's where you try to make everything too complicated.
All it takes is for someone in a position of authority to decide for whatever reason that they don't want to comply with some requirement, so they start coming up with all sorts of rationalizations for why they need an exception to the requirement. If it is still required, they sit on the paperwork, delay, stonewall, change the specs halfway through, etc.
Eventually, the people in charge of keeping track of whatever is trying to be avoided either give up, accept sub-standard reports, or get so frustrated that THEY make mistakes, which then give further excuses for why the requirement can't be met, etc, etc. The whole time, there's no way you can prove that the person in charge is deliberately trying to avoid doing what is supposed to be done, but for some reason this specific requirement or project just never seems to get finished despite lots of people working on it day after day.
I've seen countless permutations of this saga in the private and public sector.
Indeed, GW Bush lost his first run for elected office here in Texas because he was painted as an elitist Ivy-League son of wealth and power. He vowed never to be out-dumbed again, and from then on took to purposely allowing himself to be portrayed as a gee-shucks kind of half-witted boy, and it never failed.
Reagan was also a master of being absent-minded and incompetent -- strangely, such lapses occurred most often when they suited his policies. That doesn't mean he wasn't really suffering from the early stages of Alzheimer's, it just means he used that weakness as a strength.
No, you didn't get his point. Your disagreement is the very thing these politicians are saying, and is wrong. You're speculating that there's a correlation between violent porn and rape, but there's no evidence of that, much less proof of causation. They saw or read about a case where someone had rape porn, and then made the completely unevidenced conclusion that it must be associated with the crime. They could just as easily have noticed several rapists drank a specific brand of bottled water, and moved to ban that. In the 50s, there was a significant movement in the USA to ban comic books because a poorly researched book showed that most convicted criminals had read comic books as children. Nobody bothered to notice that most non-criminals had read comic books as children, too.
Rape is a very common crime. Most rapists don't view themselves as rapists, nor do they view their actions as rape. They use a variety of rationalizations and justifications for their behavior, but it is very rare for a rapist to ever admit even to themselves "I like rape, it turns me on". There's no psychological reason to think rapists would seek out rape porn with any greater frequency than non-rapists. Indeed, I'd guess that they would seek it out less frequently, as part of the process of pretending to themselves that they are fine, upstanding men who would never be into that sort of thing -- after all, only criminals and sex freaks rape people. I'm a successful accountant, not a criminal. I'm not into any of that dirty stuff. All I did was give her what she really wanted.
You're right that I was very imprecise, I have an AMD system so I haven't been able to personally use the GUID/EFI stuff. My understanding was that you could easily install the 10.5.1 update on a functioning 10.5.0 system, but you can't install 10.5.2 without intervention (because it requires the kext). Presumably Apple will continue to require the kext on future updates, and Psystar doesn't want any of those installing automatically because they'll break the functioning 10.5.1.
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Of course, they may be doing something completely different, nobody has really posted any details of what Psystar is doing and it may still turn out to be a total scam
Presumably they disable the updater so that if/when Apple starts shipping updates that bork the EFI emulator it won't get installed by users who don't check the compatibility first. You're right, there's no reason it shouldn't be using all vanilla Apple code with extra kexts, but the EFI layer is where incompatibility can cause problems.
Certainly compared to most any other phone platform, Symbian has a huge 3rd party software base. But compared to Pocket PC/Windows Mobile or Palm before the breakup, it's still fairly professional and geek oriented.
Of course, you could rightly ask how many different calendar apps or video players or hentai strip poker games someone really needs on a platform. I think the expectation is that the iPhone will be able to encompass more of the traditionally PDA-bound software that doesn't work so well on small smartphones, as well completely new entertainment and connectivity software (since iPhone apps can be more experimental about data transmission than apps tied to pay-per-kb hardware). The Apple gateway on the iTunes store and the $100 initiation fee will certainly put that theory to the test, it will be interesting to say the least.
The iphone, warts and all, appears to be an actual platform. It's actually usable. Every blackberry owner I've seen so far sees it as a mail client, there are very few third party apps and they're not widely known.
I think that's the key to the "battle". While RIM and Symbian are powerhouses from a corporate standpoint, they've never had the crossover attraction that Palm had and WinCE has to a lesser degree -- lots of useful third-party apps that make you want to carry it with you in your personal life, not just when your job tells you to.
This seems like a great opportunity for the AV vendors to set up some microphones and video cameras and try to capture as much of the thought process of the entrants as possible. It's not often they'll have dozens of diversely creative programmers explicitly demonstrating in a controlled environment how the products would be attacked in the wild. I'm sure the AV vendors have teams that do this sort of stuff in-house, but having complete outsiders do something will ALWAYS show a team where they've made bad assumptions or gotten too insular in their thinking.
This is basically the same thing they'd get from paying outside consultants 50 grand for a week of brainstorming, the difference being that the results here will be more honest and they can't bury the report afterwards if it damages their egos.