Nothing is undermined. It is routine for people to be charged twice by two different governments. For example in the Paypal litigation they were charged by ~35 Member States plus the U.S. DOJ. Same thing happened with Toyota which was found guilt-free by the U.S. government but is still being charged by State governments (for failing to honor engine warranties when they died at just 15-25,000 miles).
>>>Metro is running in production TODAY on > 60 million Xbox 360's
True. That still leave 5.6 billion who've never used Metro because they don't own an Xbox. And even those who own one (me) don't use metro. I popin the disc and it automatically starts playing. I've not touched metro other than a few seconds during setup.
>>>TODAY on > 360 million Hotmail accounts
There may be 360 million accounts, but I suspect many of them abandoned their hotmail account long ago. (Like I did back in 2002 or so. I can't even login because I forgot my password.) Plus being on a slow connection I always default my email to the simplest setting..... not metro.
I remember when innovation meant jumping from 16 colors to 4000 colors, from a sound chip that went "beeeeep" to near-CD level music, from single task word processing to multitasking dozens of programs at the same time. While in a live chat online. With a mouse.
Now "innovation" is just changing the screen from a desktop with icons to a desktop with brightly-colored icons. (Man. Computers have become so boring.);-)
Yeah but will Windows 7 run on some future Intel i11 machine with the latest 4320p graphics card? It might be missing the required drivers.
BTW ballmer strikes me as the kind of hardline manager who refuses to listen to criticism. Even in the face of negative Vista and WinPhone and Windows8 reviews, he just keeps pressing forward like a bull in a china shop: "Once they see what's in it, I think they will like it. But first we have to release it so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of controversy."
I have an old 98 laptop with AMD k5(?) processor and Kflex 48k modem. The software looks diffferent but acts basically the same as Seven. There's a start menu, control panel, built-in explorer window to navigate files. Windows key benefit is (or was) the constantcy across 17 years of usage.
>>>It's clear that Microsoft is terrified of Apple and feels the need to do "something, anything" to be seen as innovative.
Maybe they caught Mozilla disease. (I refuse to use any version higher than Firefox 10 LTS, because they made Firefox look like Chrome.) (Opera and Seamonkey are other nice alternatives.)
I hope it lasts 10+ years like my XP-PC* has done. I'm gonna need that longevity to skip over Windows 8 and possibly 9 too. Though the next version might just be a bugfixed version of 8 like Seven was a bugfixed version of Vista (and therefore usable).
* *XP-PC says it has 40% fragmentation after all this time. Maybe it's time to defrag the sucker. Or just wipe it clean with Lubuntu.
I think the real reason is because people don't watch the news (except NBC, etc which pretends everything is just fine & dandy). People are often shocked when I show them video or stories about elderly persons being stripped, or tackled by TSA, or sexually groped.
Of course there's also the opposite reaction: People who read a story about a cop killing a person while he's sitting at home watching TV and they say, "The cops were just doing their job." They probably have the same dumbass view of the TSA..... where basically the cops/security agents can do no wrong. Immunity.
Most people are idiots. They immediately jump to a conclusion based upon flimsy evidence like photos (never thinking maybe the photo has been doctored), or something they read at FOX or MSNBC.com, or were told on facebook. (See my sig for examples of these idiots.)
>>>>>"three Pacific [states]" >> >>I think your count is off.
I think I don't give a shit. Obviously I was referring to the Pacific/western coast being safe from the volcano. If you couldn't figure that out by yourself, then you must be a dumbass.
That's nice. If you can't be bothered to tell us the names of these two states, then you can take your sanctimonoious self and piss off. Nobody likes a smartass who thinks he knows all the answers & bend-over backwards to humiliate the people around him. Enjoy having no friends loser.
Well. You're wrong. The point where we are extracting the oil faster than we are finding new fields to replace the worn-out fields is "peak oil". In the U.S. peak oil happened in the 1930s. In Europe the 1970s. Worldwide: Sometime in the near-future.
1 Mbit/s a decade ago wasn't even needed, since videos of that time were still mostly postagestamp-sized (in order to squeeze through dialup modems). 56k which I use when I'm traveling is definitely slow, because while you can technically access everything, videos don't really work. (You have to wait for it to buffer which can take several minutes.)
In Asimov's Caves of Steel, all the nuclear fuel is pulverized like dust, and the sucked by giant pipes from the city into the ocean where it's buried deep, deep underground. Of course sinec Earth long-ago ran-out of uranium, they are mining Mars and the asteroids to get it.
Anyway: There isn't enough NG to fuel all the ex-coal plants. And yes driving-up coal/nuclear prices would be a way to get us to use "green energy". The one thing they never tell us is that using green energy means using one-quarter as much energy as we use now.
There's no way to produce enough solar energy to fuel current consumption levels. We all need PassivHaus buildings that don't require any heat and very little A/C.
It isn't illegal if they tell you Safari is also being installed. Software companies have been doing this stuff for over a decade now. (Maybe Apple will let us download the whole OS X too. That would be sweet.)
Sounds like our drone policy. Or Richard Nixon. "If the dead person was in the combat area, he or she is not an innocent victim. They are terrorists. Therefore we have a zero civilian casualty rate." Even the little kids were terrorists? "Yes."
"If the president does it, it's not a crime." - Nixon.
It's called a settlement, which saves the court's time-and-energy avoiding a long battle. 11 years ago the CD Cartel (record companies) did the same thing when they agreed to refund $25 to all 1990-to-2001 CD purchasers, in order to end the litigation immediately. They also admitted no wrongdoing.
>>>Textmate is $50, that is cheap, especially for software that you rely on. Visual SlickEdit is $300 a seat, Multi-Edit costs about the same, Kedit is "just" $130, and Vedit is the most reasonable of that lot at $90
I wouldn't buy any of them. I'd ask my employer to give me the tool I need free-of-charge, or else just use a freebie tool like Notepad, jEdit, LibreOffice, etc. I try to spend as little money as possible.
>>>Those who laugh at you for you having a Mac.. are the people who constantly call you to fix their PC.
Funny.. my PC never needs fixing. 10 years of Windows XP and still going strong. There was only one time I had a problem, so I ran AVG from a CD and the problem went-away. How many Macs can claim 10 years of use w/ just one minor issue?
True but I also saved $900 (in today's money) by not buying Intellivision and Colecovision. And with the Atari's ~1000 game library I was never lacking for stuff to play.
Of course now with emulation I've played some of those Intellivision console games, and they aren't much to brag about. (I've not tried colecovision.) Overall I've been satisfied with my choices, though I do regret missing-out on the Genesis and Super Nintendo. A lot of those games were ported to my Commodore Amiga, but a lot were console-only.
Only reason I buy a console is so I can play games like Final Fantasy and RPGs in general. Also nintendo games (they usually produce masterpieces). The open console won't have FF, N, or other exclusives so it will be a bit like owning a modern PowerPC Amiga*. Great hardware..... little software to support it.
Ultimately it's the software that makes the difference. I never owned Colecovision or Intellivision, because the Atari had all the great games. In the 3D era, I picked the inferior PS2 because it had the huge library of PS1 and 2 games while the Cube had little going for it. (Though I did get a cube once the price dropped to $50.) It's the software that is most important to me.
* *I almost said Mac but decided my karma doesn't need the -2 hit. Besides the Mac does have a lot of software available for it.
(1) Mbps is not an SI standard measurement. Its use is incorrect. (2) Take-up your complaint with speedtest.net. They are the ones who have tested literally billions of connections. I am more inclined to believe people who did ACTUAL up and downloads over actual lines, then this study which appears to pull its numbers out of thin air. (BTW speedtest says Japan is approximately 22 Mbit/s and Korea is # 1 at 26 Mbit/s.)
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Nothing is undermined. It is routine for people to be charged twice by two different governments. For example in the Paypal litigation they were charged by ~35 Member States plus the U.S. DOJ. Same thing happened with Toyota which was found guilt-free by the U.S. government but is still being charged by State governments (for failing to honor engine warranties when they died at just 15-25,000 miles).
>>>Metro is running in production TODAY on > 60 million Xbox 360's
True. That still leave 5.6 billion who've never used Metro because they don't own an Xbox. And even those who own one (me) don't use metro. I popin the disc and it automatically starts playing. I've not touched metro other than a few seconds during setup.
>>>TODAY on > 360 million Hotmail accounts
There may be 360 million accounts, but I suspect many of them abandoned their hotmail account long ago. (Like I did back in 2002 or so. I can't even login because I forgot my password.) Plus being on a slow connection I always default my email to the simplest setting..... not metro.
I remember when innovation meant jumping from 16 colors to 4000 colors, from a sound chip that went "beeeeep" to near-CD level music, from single task word processing to multitasking dozens of programs at the same time. While in a live chat online. With a mouse.
Now "innovation" is just changing the screen from a desktop with icons to a desktop with brightly-colored icons. (Man. Computers have become so boring.) ;-)
Yeah but will Windows 7 run on some future Intel i11 machine with the latest 4320p graphics card? It might be missing the required drivers.
BTW ballmer strikes me as the kind of hardline manager who refuses to listen to criticism. Even in the face of negative Vista and WinPhone and Windows8 reviews, he just keeps pressing forward like a bull in a china shop: "Once they see what's in it, I think they will like it. But first we have to release it so you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of controversy."
I have an old 98 laptop with AMD k5(?) processor and Kflex 48k modem. The software looks diffferent but acts basically the same as Seven. There's a start menu, control panel, built-in explorer window to navigate files. Windows key benefit is (or was) the constantcy across 17 years of usage.
>>>It's clear that Microsoft is terrified of Apple and feels the need to do "something, anything" to be seen as innovative.
Maybe they caught Mozilla disease. (I refuse to use any version higher than Firefox 10 LTS, because they made Firefox look like Chrome.) (Opera and Seamonkey are other nice alternatives.)
I hope it lasts 10+ years like my XP-PC* has done. I'm gonna need that longevity to skip over Windows 8 and possibly 9 too. Though the next version might just be a bugfixed version of 8 like Seven was a bugfixed version of Vista (and therefore usable).
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*XP-PC says it has 40% fragmentation after all this time. Maybe it's time to defrag the sucker. Or just wipe it clean with Lubuntu.
I think the real reason is because people don't watch the news (except NBC, etc which pretends everything is just fine & dandy). People are often shocked when I show them video or stories about elderly persons being stripped, or tackled by TSA, or sexually groped.
Of course there's also the opposite reaction: People who read a story about a cop killing a person while he's sitting at home watching TV and they say, "The cops were just doing their job." They probably have the same dumbass view of the TSA..... where basically the cops/security agents can do no wrong. Immunity.
Most people are idiots. They immediately jump to a conclusion based upon flimsy evidence like photos (never thinking maybe the photo has been doctored), or something they read at FOX or MSNBC.com, or were told on facebook. (See my sig for examples of these idiots.)
>>>>>"three Pacific [states]"
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>>I think your count is off.
I think I don't give a shit. Obviously I was referring to the Pacific/western coast being safe from the volcano. If you couldn't figure that out by yourself, then you must be a dumbass.
>>>There are 2 more.
That's nice. If you can't be bothered to tell us the names of these two states, then you can take your sanctimonoious self and piss off. Nobody likes a smartass who thinks he knows all the answers & bend-over backwards to humiliate the people around him. Enjoy having no friends loser.
Well. You're wrong. The point where we are extracting the oil faster than we are finding new fields to replace the worn-out fields is "peak oil". In the U.S. peak oil happened in the 1930s. In Europe the 1970s. Worldwide: Sometime in the near-future.
1 Mbit/s a decade ago wasn't even needed, since videos of that time were still mostly postagestamp-sized (in order to squeeze through dialup modems). 56k which I use when I'm traveling is definitely slow, because while you can technically access everything, videos don't really work. (You have to wait for it to buffer which can take several minutes.)
In Asimov's Caves of Steel, all the nuclear fuel is pulverized like dust, and the sucked by giant pipes from the city into the ocean where it's buried deep, deep underground. Of course sinec Earth long-ago ran-out of uranium, they are mining Mars and the asteroids to get it.
Anyway: There isn't enough NG to fuel all the ex-coal plants. And yes driving-up coal/nuclear prices would be a way to get us to use "green energy". The one thing they never tell us is that using green energy means using one-quarter as much energy as we use now.
There's no way to produce enough solar energy to fuel current consumption levels. We all need PassivHaus buildings that don't require any heat and very little A/C.
Uranium sealed in massive lead cans, encased in concrete, and stored deep underground in an area free of earthquakes.
Of course they should have also built other sites too. It makes no sense to dump all your waste in the same spot. Spread it out.
It isn't illegal if they tell you Safari is also being installed. Software companies have been doing this stuff for over a decade now. (Maybe Apple will let us download the whole OS X too. That would be sweet.)
>>>If Google does it, it wasn't evil.
Sounds like our drone policy. Or Richard Nixon. "If the dead person was in the combat area, he or she is not an innocent victim. They are terrorists. Therefore we have a zero civilian casualty rate." Even the little kids were terrorists? "Yes."
"If the president does it, it's not a crime." - Nixon.
It's called a settlement, which saves the court's time-and-energy avoiding a long battle. 11 years ago the CD Cartel (record companies) did the same thing when they agreed to refund $25 to all 1990-to-2001 CD purchasers, in order to end the litigation immediately. They also admitted no wrongdoing.
Microsoft, Apple, Google, Comcast, VerizonWireless, .....
Silly me I thought when you said, "I won't do it anymore," that meant you'd stop. That doesn't seem to apply to the things called corporations.
>>>Textmate is $50, that is cheap, especially for software that you rely on. Visual SlickEdit is $300 a seat, Multi-Edit costs about the same, Kedit is "just" $130, and Vedit is the most reasonable of that lot at $90
I wouldn't buy any of them.
I'd ask my employer to give me the tool I need free-of-charge, or else just use a freebie tool like Notepad, jEdit, LibreOffice, etc. I try to spend as little money as possible.
>>>Those who laugh at you for you having a Mac.. are the people who constantly call you to fix their PC.
Funny.. my PC never needs fixing. 10 years of Windows XP and still going strong. There was only one time I had a problem, so I ran AVG from a CD and the problem went-away. How many Macs can claim 10 years of use w/ just one minor issue?
True but I also saved $900 (in today's money) by not buying Intellivision and Colecovision. And with the Atari's ~1000 game library I was never lacking for stuff to play.
Of course now with emulation I've played some of those Intellivision console games, and they aren't much to brag about. (I've not tried colecovision.) Overall I've been satisfied with my choices, though I do regret missing-out on the Genesis and Super Nintendo. A lot of those games were ported to my Commodore Amiga, but a lot were console-only.
I want FF 14, 15, 16, not 3.
Only reason I buy a console is so I can play games like Final Fantasy and RPGs in general. Also nintendo games (they usually produce masterpieces). The open console won't have FF, N, or other exclusives so it will be a bit like owning a modern PowerPC Amiga*. Great hardware..... little software to support it.
Ultimately it's the software that makes the difference. I never owned Colecovision or Intellivision, because the Atari had all the great games. In the 3D era, I picked the inferior PS2 because it had the huge library of PS1 and 2 games while the Cube had little going for it. (Though I did get a cube once the price dropped to $50.) It's the software that is most important to me.
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*I almost said Mac but decided my karma doesn't need the -2 hit. Besides the Mac does have a lot of software available for it.
>>>your numbers can't be correct
(1) Mbps is not an SI standard measurement. Its use is incorrect. (2) Take-up your complaint with speedtest.net. They are the ones who have tested literally billions of connections. I am more inclined to believe people who did ACTUAL up and downloads over actual lines, then this study which appears to pull its numbers out of thin air. (BTW speedtest says Japan is approximately 22 Mbit/s and Korea is # 1 at 26 Mbit/s.)