Micro$oft is killing Windows XP only because not enough users have switched to something newer.
Per W3Schools, Windows XP is used on 42.9% of computers while Windows 7 is used on only 34.1%.
Per StatCounter, Windows XP is used on 47.32% of computers while Windows 7 is used on only 30.6%.
(Both sets of stats from March 2011.)
The major problem is that I use software with Windows XP that will not run on Windows 7. Those applications do exactly what I want, but there are no new versions for Windows 7. Not only will I have the expense of upgrading Windows, I will also have the expense of replacing otherwise good applications.
In which country will a financial profile be created for those who don't establish their own Facebook bank account? In which country will people be able to establish a Facebook bank account for themselves?
U.S. law prohibits a bank from establishing a new account for anyone without positive identification and a Social Security number. Facebook, however, requires no such identification; and I certainly would not give Facebook my Social Security number.
By the way, for those of you who do not like being nickled and dimed by your current bank, consider either a credit union or a small, community-based bank. Credit unions still provide free checking accounts and no-fee credit cards. Through their Co-Op Network of ATMs, you can use ATMs from one credit union while having your account at another -- without any ATM fee for at least three transactions per month. Through their Service Center Network, you can do a teller transaction for your account at one credit union while at a competing credit union. (Picture trying to make a deposit to your Bank of America account while at a Wells Fargo Bank.) While these features might not be available at small, community-based banks, they often have free checking accounts and no-fee credit cards; they also seem to charge less than large banks for safe-deposit boxes.
When I was a supervisor for a team of software testers, I would often hire new college grads. However, I preferred those who majored in a science other than computer science. I wanted someone who looked at computers as tools, not someone who looked at computers as the primary object of interest.
My daughter is using Ancestry.com to create a great genealogy. Through it, she has accessed old immigration and census records and more recent death records. Although all her grandparents are dead, she has been able to extend the genealogy back to her great-great-great grandparents and include many 2nd, 3rd, and 4th cousins. By granting read-only access to cousins, my daughter has also been able to get details from them about current and past relatives.
One of my own Web pages is about the community in which I live. I originally put a copyright notice on the page in 1999. When I update the page, I make sure the current year is added to the copyright notice.
Real estate agents in the area have repeatedly plagiarized my page. Actually, they hired Web developers to create pages for their business; and the Web developers are the real plagiarizers. Thus, someone made real money from my effort. In the meantime, I got paid nothing. THIS IS WRONG!!
In the past, I would send a strongly worded "cease and desist" notice to the real estate agent to have my material removed from the agent's Web site. While this works, I think I will follow the example of Monica Gaudio and make a public complaint against the agent and the brokerage firm where he or she works.
Bertillon's system made significant use of ear patterns. It was abandoned when someone in Bertillon's own France was almost convicted of a crime committed by someone else who had a very, very similar ear pattern.
Yes, modern biometric technology might overcome such problems. However, adjusting for rotation, obliqueness, and sizing between two images of an ear might easily introduce enough distortion to create a false positive or a false negative.
Costing software by its size ($2.82 per line of code) is not only foolish, it is counter-productive. Much software development effort is applied to making applications faster and more easily hosted on small devices. That is, the effort is in removing code without removing capabilities. How do you cost the removal of lines of code?
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So I am supposed to pay Micro$oft for an upgrade to Windows 7 and then operate it in the same manner as the Windows XP that I already have?
Micro$oft is killing Windows XP only because not enough users have switched to something newer.
Per W3Schools, Windows XP is used on 42.9% of computers while Windows 7 is used on only 34.1%.
Per StatCounter, Windows XP is used on 47.32% of computers while Windows 7 is used on only 30.6%.
(Both sets of stats from March 2011.)
The major problem is that I use software with Windows XP that will not run on Windows 7. Those applications do exactly what I want, but there are no new versions for Windows 7. Not only will I have the expense of upgrading Windows, I will also have the expense of replacing otherwise good applications.
In which country will a financial profile be created for those who don't establish their own Facebook bank account? In which country will people be able to establish a Facebook bank account for themselves?
U.S. law prohibits a bank from establishing a new account for anyone without positive identification and a Social Security number. Facebook, however, requires no such identification; and I certainly would not give Facebook my Social Security number.
By the way, for those of you who do not like being nickled and dimed by your current bank, consider either a credit union or a small, community-based bank. Credit unions still provide free checking accounts and no-fee credit cards. Through their Co-Op Network of ATMs, you can use ATMs from one credit union while having your account at another -- without any ATM fee for at least three transactions per month. Through their Service Center Network, you can do a teller transaction for your account at one credit union while at a competing credit union. (Picture trying to make a deposit to your Bank of America account while at a Wells Fargo Bank.) While these features might not be available at small, community-based banks, they often have free checking accounts and no-fee credit cards; they also seem to charge less than large banks for safe-deposit boxes.
When I was a supervisor for a team of software testers, I would often hire new college grads. However, I preferred those who majored in a science other than computer science. I wanted someone who looked at computers as tools, not someone who looked at computers as the primary object of interest.
New cars do not get their plates in California for about a month or two. Will they be allowed to cross the bridge for free?
My daughter is using Ancestry.com to create a great genealogy. Through it, she has accessed old immigration and census records and more recent death records. Although all her grandparents are dead, she has been able to extend the genealogy back to her great-great-great grandparents and include many 2nd, 3rd, and 4th cousins. By granting read-only access to cousins, my daughter has also been able to get details from them about current and past relatives.
One of my own Web pages is about the community in which I live. I originally put a copyright notice on the page in 1999. When I update the page, I make sure the current year is added to the copyright notice.
Real estate agents in the area have repeatedly plagiarized my page. Actually, they hired Web developers to create pages for their business; and the Web developers are the real plagiarizers. Thus, someone made real money from my effort. In the meantime, I got paid nothing. THIS IS WRONG!!
In the past, I would send a strongly worded "cease and desist" notice to the real estate agent to have my material removed from the agent's Web site. While this works, I think I will follow the example of Monica Gaudio and make a public complaint against the agent and the brokerage firm where he or she works.
Bertillon's system made significant use of ear patterns. It was abandoned when someone in Bertillon's own France was almost convicted of a crime committed by someone else who had a very, very similar ear pattern. Yes, modern biometric technology might overcome such problems. However, adjusting for rotation, obliqueness, and sizing between two images of an ear might easily introduce enough distortion to create a false positive or a false negative.
Costing software by its size ($2.82 per line of code) is not only foolish, it is counter-productive. Much software development effort is applied to making applications faster and more easily hosted on small devices. That is, the effort is in removing code without removing capabilities. How do you cost the removal of lines of code?