Flying slower reduces energy because it reduces the harmful drag, while maintaining the enough of drag that causes lift. You obviously need bigger wind surface though.
That's why solar impulse flies at 60-70km/h. If they tried going at speeds comparable to a modern prop airliner, they would need a lot more energy to punch through increased drag, which is simply impossible at current efficiency of solar panels.
Win8 isn't bombing because of app store. It's bombing because it's a shoddy, jury-rigged chimera of a tablet OS and a desktop OS that is barely held together at the seams by a lot of jesus tape.
Win9 will probably fix the interface while keeping the app store and Steam will be fucked when Microsoft finally gets their shit together, irons out the kinks and makes it about as good as Steam. Hence, to Valve Linux isn't a hobby but something that they see as a key to the company survival. Because Microsoft's app store strategy is an existential threat to Valve if it actually starts working properly. And imagine the horror if MS releases win7 SP2... that will include a windows app store that will have it's kinks ironed out.
Valve basically had a rug pulled from under it and all this PR flailing shows just how shaken they are.
About the only reasons for upgrade are if you're a gamer for DX11, or you have and need more then 4GB of total RAM.
My old core2duo machine still runs XP, and it's noticeably faster in most tasks then 7 on my heavily overclocked i5 2500k even through it's about 3 years older, has less RAM, slower hard drives and so on. I'd have stuck to XP if it had a proper 64-bit version and DX11 support.
Win8 has no such reasons for upgrade. In fact, most of the upgrades any home user would care about are already available through 3rd party applications, often free as beer. About the only thing that isn't are some multi-monitor features, which require a one time purchase (ultramon).
This isn't really the same as peripherals, and nokia is probably the biggest victim of this move as it's completely dependent on wp8 sales for its smartphone division.
You use all those terms, but I don't think you actually understand what they mean. For example, in what way is improving competitiveness through regulating currency value not capitalist or specifically communist? It's neither, instead its a country vs country competitiveness issue.
Finally you make a very basic mistake in confusing political system with a financial one, as well as confusing republic with a democracy.
It's not the issue of being bugged as much as the issue of trust. You can be fairly certain that not only US, but pretty much all major world powers insert such bugs into equipment they manufacture.
So in the end, it's about trusting the source government and its agencies.
Even building firmware from ground up wouldn't help this issue. You can install backdoor on a chip. It's all about trusting the vendor not to have these, or have these but only for trusted organisations.
China and its security apparatus is simply not on the trusted list in Australia, while CIA/NSA appears to be.
Not to be a dick, but you really have no understanding of the concept of "existential threat" and why these threats are handled differently from normal threats, do you?
The argument is probably that they're less afraid of CIA/NSA backdoors then Chinese backdoors.
Considering the history, I'd say that fear is quite a bit unwarranted, both are about equally scary, at least at the moment. And anyone who thinks cisco et al don't have backdoors for these organisations is fairly ignorant of how the world works.
It's a whole another issue if these backdoors are actively used. I personally very much doubt it. They're most likely "last resort" kind of backdoors that only few people have access to. But with China being a rising power, it's an unknown in terms of its policy towards such backdoors and their usage. And unknown is always scarier to those in power then known, because you can compensate for known threats fairly well in your plans.
The problem on the other hand is the lack of weaning off parents' "tether", which is often sited by modern psychiatrists as damaging to both kids' and parents' psyche. Both parties basically never learn how to function without the tether. It becomes natural.
End result is the modern helicopter parenting, where both child and parents learn their roles on sides of the tether so well that parents show up for job interviews with their kid... when he's 20+. Yes, it started to happen lately. No too surprisingly kid rarely gets the job. Then, if that kid gets lucky, he'll get a spouse who can become his/her helicopter parent and push real parents out of his/her life.
Seriously, helicopter parenting is a growing problem, and it affects both child and parents. It's the other side of the total neglect coin, and it tends to be almost as damaging.
It's worse, there are plenty of organisations with windows XP licenses that are looking to upgrade soon. If win7 isn't offered, this will cause them to delay upgrades even further. Quite a shot in the foot for MS.
Not likely. They need to force the UI down everyone's throats to leverage desktop OS dominance to push into mobile. That's the only sane reason to have metro/modern UI on desktop.
That said, I suspect classic shell folks will have their "make your win8 UI look and function like win7 or winxp" worked out to near perfection by the time win8 SP1 rolls out.
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Flying slower reduces energy because it reduces the harmful drag, while maintaining the enough of drag that causes lift. You obviously need bigger wind surface though.
That's why solar impulse flies at 60-70km/h. If they tried going at speeds comparable to a modern prop airliner, they would need a lot more energy to punch through increased drag, which is simply impossible at current efficiency of solar panels.
Win8 isn't bombing because of app store. It's bombing because it's a shoddy, jury-rigged chimera of a tablet OS and a desktop OS that is barely held together at the seams by a lot of jesus tape.
Win9 will probably fix the interface while keeping the app store and Steam will be fucked when Microsoft finally gets their shit together, irons out the kinks and makes it about as good as Steam. Hence, to Valve Linux isn't a hobby but something that they see as a key to the company survival. Because Microsoft's app store strategy is an existential threat to Valve if it actually starts working properly. And imagine the horror if MS releases win7 SP2... that will include a windows app store that will have it's kinks ironed out.
Valve basically had a rug pulled from under it and all this PR flailing shows just how shaken they are.
This says little about linux being better then windows.
It says a lot about valve optimizing it's graphics engine.
That's what he said, status quo will remain. What you describe above is the current status quo.
Considering that you can choose what parts of it you want to use, if you want that arrow in w7, you do in fact want classic shell.
You forget the classis XKCD on security: https://xkcd.com/538/
Relevant organisations are very interested in keeping their backdoors to themselves. Wrench to the head works the other way around too.
If you're willing to pay for up arrow in explorer, you should consider installing classic shell. Does the same thing, free as beer.
About the only reasons for upgrade are if you're a gamer for DX11, or you have and need more then 4GB of total RAM.
My old core2duo machine still runs XP, and it's noticeably faster in most tasks then 7 on my heavily overclocked i5 2500k even through it's about 3 years older, has less RAM, slower hard drives and so on. I'd have stuck to XP if it had a proper 64-bit version and DX11 support.
Win8 has no such reasons for upgrade. In fact, most of the upgrades any home user would care about are already available through 3rd party applications, often free as beer. About the only thing that isn't are some multi-monitor features, which require a one time purchase (ultramon).
Classicshell fixed that problem nicely in win7. It also fixes the retarded start screen in win8, mostly.
This isn't really the same as peripherals, and nokia is probably the biggest victim of this move as it's completely dependent on wp8 sales for its smartphone division.
You use all those terms, but I don't think you actually understand what they mean. For example, in what way is improving competitiveness through regulating currency value not capitalist or specifically communist? It's neither, instead its a country vs country competitiveness issue.
Finally you make a very basic mistake in confusing political system with a financial one, as well as confusing republic with a democracy.
Stewart didn't go to jail for financial crimes. They couldn't get her for those.
She went to jail for lying to investigators under oath. Quite dumb of her frankly.
You don't personally show up for hacking, and your real name isn't splattered all over the relevant systems.
It's not the issue of being bugged as much as the issue of trust. You can be fairly certain that not only US, but pretty much all major world powers insert such bugs into equipment they manufacture.
So in the end, it's about trusting the source government and its agencies.
China has ceased being "communist" about twenty years ago. It's far closer to pure capitalism then West at this point.
Even building firmware from ground up wouldn't help this issue. You can install backdoor on a chip. It's all about trusting the vendor not to have these, or have these but only for trusted organisations.
China and its security apparatus is simply not on the trusted list in Australia, while CIA/NSA appears to be.
Except that that's not how any sane backdoor would work. Hell, even shitty botnets do it better.
Not to be a dick, but you really have no understanding of the concept of "existential threat" and why these threats are handled differently from normal threats, do you?
Audit the code all you want. Smart company will insert a backdoor into chip, and you'll be none the wiser.
The argument is probably that they're less afraid of CIA/NSA backdoors then Chinese backdoors.
Considering the history, I'd say that fear is quite a bit unwarranted, both are about equally scary, at least at the moment. And anyone who thinks cisco et al don't have backdoors for these organisations is fairly ignorant of how the world works.
It's a whole another issue if these backdoors are actively used. I personally very much doubt it. They're most likely "last resort" kind of backdoors that only few people have access to. But with China being a rising power, it's an unknown in terms of its policy towards such backdoors and their usage. And unknown is always scarier to those in power then known, because you can compensate for known threats fairly well in your plans.
The problem on the other hand is the lack of weaning off parents' "tether", which is often sited by modern psychiatrists as damaging to both kids' and parents' psyche. Both parties basically never learn how to function without the tether. It becomes natural.
End result is the modern helicopter parenting, where both child and parents learn their roles on sides of the tether so well that parents show up for job interviews with their kid... when he's 20+. Yes, it started to happen lately. No too surprisingly kid rarely gets the job. Then, if that kid gets lucky, he'll get a spouse who can become his/her helicopter parent and push real parents out of his/her life.
Seriously, helicopter parenting is a growing problem, and it affects both child and parents. It's the other side of the total neglect coin, and it tends to be almost as damaging.
Probably because you want to run all of your software.
It's worse, there are plenty of organisations with windows XP licenses that are looking to upgrade soon. If win7 isn't offered, this will cause them to delay upgrades even further. Quite a shot in the foot for MS.
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Not likely. They need to force the UI down everyone's throats to leverage desktop OS dominance to push into mobile. That's the only sane reason to have metro/modern UI on desktop.
That said, I suspect classic shell folks will have their "make your win8 UI look and function like win7 or winxp" worked out to near perfection by the time win8 SP1 rolls out.