The a380 (if enough are sold) will not not be long-haul only. Airbus has already begun talking about using the a380 on shorter flights for airlines which have limited takeoff/landing slots. Airbus can crow on & on about how the plane has been engineered for wider seats/aisles yet before the airlines even ask for compact seating arrangements, you can be sure that airbus has a proposition ready. Again, this is no different from what happened with the 747. I have personally flown on sub 60 minute 747 flights many times.
The point I made was that the roominess was not due to the New, IMPROVED design, but because the models being shown are demonstration units. 95% of airframes that have/will be built will pack em in as much as possible whether it is on a 747, or an a380. Your AC troll post will not change this fact.
walk down a crowded aisle from one end of the plane to the other without having to say 'excuse me.'
As it was on the first 747... The spacing on these showroom models is setup to show them off. Once the airlines start buying the real models, the spacing will be set back to the "stack em in like cordwood" norm to make as much money as possible off each airframe.
There is no reason to suppose that GM resistant mosquitoes cannot be developed for any number of diseases. The problem is elsewhere.
Malaria is a special case as the plasmodium is also a true mosquito parasite: The mosquitoes are also weakened by the disease
The malaria resistant mosquito has a real evolutionary advantage over malaria infected ones and will tend to supplant them. For other diseases where mosquitoes are only a benign (for the mosquito) carrier, there is no evolutionary advantage and thus no reason for the yellow fever resistant mosquitoes to supplant the original population.
Many of the so called "CD"s sold by the major music publishers do NOT play in many players because they are not Redbook compliant. These so called CDs use copy protection to make ripping the songs to MP3s difficult.
I do not buy copy protected CDs. When offered copy protected CDs as gifts, I attempt to return them as they do not play in my car & converting them to MP3s is a pain in the ass. I suggest that the commissioner push the music publishers to abandon this instead of harping on apple. Currently, I use the MP3 format as it is ubiquitous and my entire collection is not too large to be stored on my MP3 player. When, in a few years the capacity of MP3 players has increased to the point where it is feasible, I will rerip all my CD's to a lossless format.
Because using a dongle won't force people into having to buy a new copy of Vista when they change their motherboard the way Vista's current licensing does...
I don't miss the old serial &// dongles given the problems I had to debug using them, but using USB dongles has been pretty painless.
I doubt more than 1% of the public cares about virtualization.
Ask around you how many people would like to be able to easily & reliably roll back their systems to past snapshots (to undo viral damage for example) and migrate their work environment to another PC painlessly. I guarentee that the % of people who are interested will be closer to 50% than to 1%.
Most people don't care about virtualisation yet because they do not yet understand the benefits. By taking away virtualisation except for Vista ultimate MS has imposed a penalty on the smart people who are ahead of the curve. I don't think I need to explain why doing so is a bad business decision on their part.
Congratulations, Randall.
Glad to see that the unjust (I'll leave unlawful to the lawyers) conviction was purged. Glad to see that you can finally move on.
Vista includes anti-tilt mechanisms in it's DRM core which degrade the video whatever the content to stop people from deducing how the core works, whatever the content. There is only one path through vista's core so vista drops the resolution on displays as soon as it detects a tilt, whatever the content. MS has admitted to this behavior but doesn't like to publicize it as it detracts from the "gee, we only punish pirates" spiel. your next question will be: "What are the anti-tilt specifications?". We do not know, MS refuses to detail all of them "to avoid helping the pirates (that lurk in the hearts of all men/our customers/our indentured servants)".
Vista is an inherently less robust system for all this. If you want to drink the MS kool-aid that states "It's only for pirates", go ahead, but don't wait for me. My judgment is that MS is trying to setup another monopoly & I refuse to go along.
The DRM issues that downgrade your video in case Vista detects voltage or other values which it considers out of spec (but which work fine on the same hardware using different OS's) even if the content isn't DRM protected.
It isn't enough to avoid DRM content when the DRM infrastructure is so deeply rooted in the OS that it even has implications on unprotected content. Vista is an OS which is much more fragile than it would have been without all the steps MS has taken to implement DRM on it. I see no reason to reward MS for their attempt to sneak DRM in with the slightly upgraded security vista represents.
The other reason I'll pass on Vista is that I've been migrating more & more of my workload to virtual machines. Vista outlaws the use of Vista on all home home editions except ultimate. Vista adds nothing I need and adds unnecessary expense. I'll pass.
I won't run Vista until forced even though I have a licensed upgrade due to the DRM issues in it.
The last time UAC came up here on/., I noted an explanation concerning the difference in UAC experiences. Apparently, when upgrading to Vista, it does not add users to the access lists everywhere it should. Thus, on upgraded systems UAC pops up all the time for what should be innocuous system modifications.
On clean installations of Vista, user rights are set "correctly" and many fewer UAC popups are seen. If this explanation is true, then Vista's upgrade process is buggy but could be fixed to make UAC less intrusive...
Thanks for the correction but the criticism still stands insofar as MS has manifestly tried to overburden the ratification process with an unfinished specification. If they want to play by the same rules as ODF, then they should use the same unexpedited ratification track.
A secondary major objection is that MS placed OpenXML on an accelerated track to acceptance. Had they used the normal track, most of the objections could be ironed out eventually, but as I understand it, using the fast track process mean that OpenXML must be accepted or rejected as-is. In other words, IT'S THEIR OWN DAMN FAULT for submitting an incomplete specification.
RunAs isn't "commonly used". It's a barely used side thought that MS added to Windows so that they could say "I know how to do that too". If it were commonly used, non-expert users of windows would often use it (like sudo is used everywhere else). Yet instead of changing how Windows works to enable this existing tech to solve the problem the way everyone else does, MS adds UAC, yet another complicated nonstandard layer of doing things that annoys the hell out of everyone...
Besides, RunAs doesn't help as installers aren't run using the user's privileges anyway. They hand off control to the installation service which already runs with Administrator privileges. If you have UAC enabled you will get the same popups whether you run the installer as lambda user or as an admin. Using Runas to run your installer changes nothing.
But the biggest point is that the way that unix does it, with a session-based elevation, is no less time consuming (in fact, it's usually more time consuming), and it's FAR more dangerous for a "dumb" user because they will tend to just leave their session elevated.
Session based?! Your knowledge of other platforms is lacking/outdated. Before the generalization of sudo, Unix users used su to run a root shell which would stick around untill dismissed, but that hasn't been the norm for over a decade. Now, Unix/Linux/Mac users use sudo which elevates the privileges of a process (which goes away after it has finished to avoid posing a threat).
Because on Linux/Mac, sudo allows one preemptive security check to enable a process to do multiple admin tasks, where UAC prompts on each action. This is analogous to house training a dog. Sudo gets the dog to ask to be let out where he takes care of business. UAC gets the dog to ask: Can I piss on the carpet, then can I do a dump on the rug, then...
Dennis Clarke, the chief operating officer at Robotic Parking, called the 26-hour outage a freak incident, where two redundant sensors failed at the same time and a maintenance crew failed to follow company policy in not repairing them right away
I spent part of the holidays on a transatlantic trip to debug a network where applications being used to keep track of trains in a subway were failing. Periodic misnegotiation of the Ethernet parameters was a major part of the problem that disappeared once the ports were set statically. Part of the problem was that some of the equipment was a few years old, but then we didn't have the luxury of telling the client that all he needed to do to have a functional network was to replace the oldest 20%.
If you have the luxury of being in network environments where autonegotiation just works all the time, well lucky you. The experience of my peers has been that if you need it to work, turn autoneg off. If you don't care because it's just a lambda PC being connected to the link, leave it on.
Given the number of times that autonegotiation has given me headaches because supposedly compliant devices couldn't agree on how to setup a connection, I wouldn't want to set this up on any of my networks. I just can't see myself explaining to the CIO that the reason that the ERP is slow to the point of being unusable is because the core switches renegotiated their bandwidth down to 10Mbit/sec overnight when they were unused and were unable to ramp it back up again correctly. There is a reason that autonegotiation is often disabled & it's called experience...
Sorry, in the domain of Climate science we are far from discovering what that truth is. Current models are far from explaining cooling trends in the face of higher CO2 levels in the past, yet social pressures are seeking to silence all criticism of the commonly perceived "one objective truth".
Dogma is not science. Let exxon fund the scientists in peace. When they fund the marketers to push facts that are provably wrong, expose them, and crucify them, but stop criticizing research that might poke holes in your pet theory.
So when people can only hear one side of a story it's a good thing? I don't dispute that there are benefits to living in Singapore/North Korea/choose your own example, but I find the dangers of accepting "what everybody knows" blindly to be a greater danger than letting science do it's job.
Because in the current political climate, anyone proposing studies to show that all the warming is not all manmade there is pressure from the zealots to cut off their credits.
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The a380 (if enough are sold) will not not be long-haul only. Airbus has already begun talking about using the a380 on shorter flights for airlines which have limited takeoff/landing slots. Airbus can crow on & on about how the plane has been engineered for wider seats/aisles yet before the airlines even ask for compact seating arrangements, you can be sure that airbus has a proposition ready. Again, this is no different from what happened with the 747. I have personally flown on sub 60 minute 747 flights many times.
The point I made was that the roominess was not due to the New, IMPROVED design, but because the models being shown are demonstration units. 95% of airframes that have/will be built will pack em in as much as possible whether it is on a 747, or an a380. Your AC troll post will not change this fact.
As it was on the first 747... The spacing on these showroom models is setup to show them off. Once the airlines start buying the real models, the spacing will be set back to the "stack em in like cordwood" norm to make as much money as possible off each airframe.
Malaria is a special case as the plasmodium is also a true mosquito parasite: The mosquitoes are also weakened by the disease
The malaria resistant mosquito has a real evolutionary advantage over malaria infected ones and will tend to supplant them. For other diseases where mosquitoes are only a benign (for the mosquito) carrier, there is no evolutionary advantage and thus no reason for the yellow fever resistant mosquitoes to supplant the original population.
I'm a hard science fiction fan (Niven, Bear, Benford, etc) & I found the trilogy to be disappointing...
Fortunately for martian surfers, it's the wind that matters in the creation of the waves that they crave & not the moons. Moons effects are on tides.
Many of the so called "CD"s sold by the major music publishers do NOT play in many players because they are not Redbook compliant. These so called CDs use copy protection to make ripping the songs to MP3s difficult.
I do not buy copy protected CDs. When offered copy protected CDs as gifts, I attempt to return them as they do not play in my car & converting them to MP3s is a pain in the ass. I suggest that the commissioner push the music publishers to abandon this instead of harping on apple. Currently, I use the MP3 format as it is ubiquitous and my entire collection is not too large to be stored on my MP3 player. When, in a few years the capacity of MP3 players has increased to the point where it is feasible, I will rerip all my CD's to a lossless format.
Because using a dongle won't force people into having to buy a new copy of Vista when they change their motherboard the way Vista's current licensing does...
// dongles given the problems I had to debug using them, but using USB dongles has been pretty painless.
I don't miss the old serial &
Most people don't care about virtualisation yet because they do not yet understand the benefits. By taking away virtualisation except for Vista ultimate MS has imposed a penalty on the smart people who are ahead of the curve. I don't think I need to explain why doing so is a bad business decision on their part.
Congratulations, Randall. Glad to see that the unjust (I'll leave unlawful to the lawyers) conviction was purged. Glad to see that you can finally move on.
Vista includes anti-tilt mechanisms in it's DRM core which degrade the video whatever the content to stop people from deducing how the core works, whatever the content. There is only one path through vista's core so vista drops the resolution on displays as soon as it detects a tilt, whatever the content. MS has admitted to this behavior but doesn't like to publicize it as it detracts from the "gee, we only punish pirates" spiel. your next question will be: "What are the anti-tilt specifications?". We do not know, MS refuses to detail all of them "to avoid helping the pirates (that lurk in the hearts of all men/our customers/our indentured servants)".
Vista is an inherently less robust system for all this. If you want to drink the MS kool-aid that states "It's only for pirates", go ahead, but don't wait for me. My judgment is that MS is trying to setup another monopoly & I refuse to go along.
The DRM issues that downgrade your video in case Vista detects voltage or other values which it considers out of spec (but which work fine on the same hardware using different OS's) even if the content isn't DRM protected.
It isn't enough to avoid DRM content when the DRM infrastructure is so deeply rooted in the OS that it even has implications on unprotected content. Vista is an OS which is much more fragile than it would have been without all the steps MS has taken to implement DRM on it. I see no reason to reward MS for their attempt to sneak DRM in with the slightly upgraded security vista represents.
The other reason I'll pass on Vista is that I've been migrating more & more of my workload to virtual machines. Vista outlaws the use of Vista on all home home editions except ultimate. Vista adds nothing I need and adds unnecessary expense. I'll pass.
Access lists are NTFS only, so the problem I described cannot happen if the FS is FAT32.
I won't run Vista until forced even though I have a licensed upgrade due to the DRM issues in it.
/., I noted an explanation concerning the difference in UAC experiences. Apparently, when upgrading to Vista, it does not add users to the access lists everywhere it should. Thus, on upgraded systems UAC pops up all the time for what should be innocuous system modifications.
The last time UAC came up here on
On clean installations of Vista, user rights are set "correctly" and many fewer UAC popups are seen. If this explanation is true, then Vista's upgrade process is buggy but could be fixed to make UAC less intrusive...
Thanks for the correction but the criticism still stands insofar as MS has manifestly tried to overburden the ratification process with an unfinished specification. If they want to play by the same rules as ODF, then they should use the same unexpedited ratification track.
A secondary major objection is that MS placed OpenXML on an accelerated track to acceptance. Had they used the normal track, most of the objections could be ironed out eventually, but as I understand it, using the fast track process mean that OpenXML must be accepted or rejected as-is. In other words, IT'S THEIR OWN DAMN FAULT for submitting an incomplete specification.
RunAs isn't "commonly used". It's a barely used side thought that MS added to Windows so that they could say "I know how to do that too". If it were commonly used, non-expert users of windows would often use it (like sudo is used everywhere else). Yet instead of changing how Windows works to enable this existing tech to solve the problem the way everyone else does, MS adds UAC, yet another complicated nonstandard layer of doing things that annoys the hell out of everyone...
Besides, RunAs doesn't help as installers aren't run using the user's privileges anyway. They hand off control to the installation service which already runs with Administrator privileges. If you have UAC enabled you will get the same popups whether you run the installer as lambda user or as an admin. Using Runas to run your installer changes nothing.
Because on Linux/Mac, sudo allows one preemptive security check to enable a process to do multiple admin tasks, where UAC prompts on each action. This is analogous to house training a dog. Sudo gets the dog to ask to be let out where he takes care of business. UAC gets the dog to ask: Can I piss on the carpet, then can I do a dump on the rug, then ...
Sure looks like a technical problem to me...
I spent part of the holidays on a transatlantic trip to debug a network where applications being used to keep track of trains in a subway were failing. Periodic misnegotiation of the Ethernet parameters was a major part of the problem that disappeared once the ports were set statically. Part of the problem was that some of the equipment was a few years old, but then we didn't have the luxury of telling the client that all he needed to do to have a functional network was to replace the oldest 20%.
If you have the luxury of being in network environments where autonegotiation just works all the time, well lucky you. The experience of my peers has been that if you need it to work, turn autoneg off. If you don't care because it's just a lambda PC being connected to the link, leave it on.
Given the number of times that autonegotiation has given me headaches because supposedly compliant devices couldn't agree on how to setup a connection, I wouldn't want to set this up on any of my networks. I just can't see myself explaining to the CIO that the reason that the ERP is slow to the point of being unusable is because the core switches renegotiated their bandwidth down to 10Mbit/sec overnight when they were unused and were unable to ramp it back up again correctly. There is a reason that autonegotiation is often disabled & it's called experience...
Dogma is not science. Let exxon fund the scientists in peace. When they fund the marketers to push facts that are provably wrong, expose them, and crucify them, but stop criticizing research that might poke holes in your pet theory.
So when people can only hear one side of a story it's a good thing? I don't dispute that there are benefits to living in Singapore/North Korea/choose your own example, but I find the dangers of accepting "what everybody knows" blindly to be a greater danger than letting science do it's job.
Because in the current political climate, anyone proposing studies to show that all the warming is not all manmade there is pressure from the zealots to cut off their credits.