Being in Kindergarden doesn't count junior, you had to be working in the field back then. Your "pretty sure" guestimating back to a period you already have shown to have no experience of also carries little weight.
It's true that non-X86 never amounted to more than 2% of windows licences by volume. The figure broken down by value was higher as these were not your momma's consumer word processor PC's but expensive multi-cpu servers.
Now compare how few PowerPC Macs (which were never all that popular compared to Intel Macs) are still around to be penalized by being unable to update to the most recent OS X releases. Easily under 5%. The comparison isn't far fetched at all.
I suppose if you're young enough not to have witnessed major corporations following MS's marketing assurances of support by replacing old iron with MIPS & Alphas running NT then you'd discount how good Apple's support of it's old architectures is. You young'uns need to remember that X86 architecture was NOT able to furnish the needed horsepower a decade or so ago so you HAD to search elsewhere. Those of use who watched the whole sordid affair will never forget it. It's kind of burned in you see.
When, years later, someone with no memory tries to place MS up on an alter it all comes rushing back...
Hmf, "small side-experiment", kind of like dinosaurs, huh? Never amounted to much... The only reason you say that is because the MS marketing machine erases it's missteps better than Stalin & you're too young to know better.
No young/.er, Don't look bekind the curtain! There is nothing to see! The Great & Powerful OZ knows ALL...
With one exception, every single person among the 20 odd Mac buyers I know who bought a mac over the past 3 years fits your description. The exception is an actor friend who always found windows too disorganized.
I had a 68020 Nubus Mac II for over 10 years. It cost even more back then in relative terms than a tricked out new Mac does today. It was also faster than the mini UNIX servers shared between 4 devs that I was administering back then. I was only able to afford it because the company I was working for owed me a lot of money & it was cheaper for them to buy it for me & then write it off as defective...
You conveniently did not mention that the Mac underwent it's second major change of architecture about 4 years ago & that Apple's backward compatability after these migrations has been about as pain-free as possible.
Why don't you ask those who bought Windows on non-Intel architectures how well Microsoft helped them once they decided that they were no longer pertinant for their bottom line? Hell, why don't you ask them how bad their support was for during the period microsoft pretended to give them support?
I'm one of those who has both Macs & PC's at home. I had an original 68020 Mac II with A/UX, kept & upgraded it it for a decade, then moved on to PCs when Apple abandonned A/UX yet hadn't yet announced OS X. Now that OS X is stable I'm slowly moving back. That may stop if Apple's DRM lockout tendancies on the iPhone backpollute OS X...
My current mix is new Mac & Ubuntu laptops & a few older PCs with a mix of Ubuntu & Windows. One way or another, my household will be windows free within 5 years when the older PC's are no longer useful.
Given that these are the same iranian leaders who had men locked up, tortured & raped for protesting a fixed election, you should rephrase that to "... open homosexuality in anyone not associated with the mullahs in power...".
I suppose that the micro-lenses focus the output of a LED directly on the retina but do not see how LCD type displays referred to in TFS can work. Anyone?
The problem for those who have not realized it is that LCDs in contact lenses are too close to the eye to work. They would subtract some light but be invisible much like a screen is when you put your face up to it & focus outside.
Some of the people who claim to have been victims of "Spontaneous Exploding iPhones" have refused to let Apple take a look at them to attempt to determine why. If the iPhone cannot be shown to have been damaged by an external shock prior to the accident, Apple promised to replace it, but these people are trying to get their insurance to cover the loss without investigating.
A GP post asked "Why is the iPhone different from all the other phones". If you paid a little more attention to how the iPhone is constructed you'd learn that the iPhones battery is different from all those other phones as it is conformal, non removable & the iPhone itself is much thinner relative to it's relatively large surface area. The iPhone is thus certainly subject to different stresses than a "normal" battery pack.
Sigh... Yer uncle, huh? How about your second cousin on your second step-moms side, he's a great source to refer to on the internet, right? He also knows the screw diameter of every screw used on the radar & how tight each one needs to be tightened, so that makes him a super reliable source, no?
So, your uncle was firing SAMs OTH at stealth fighters was he? No magic switch can change the fact that the wavelengths used for the aussi OTH are too long to be used to designate for more than a "I see something in this stadium sized area".
I'll be generous & assume that your uncle wasn't exaggerating & that you honestly got confused by a number of stories in a domain that you know too little about to filter out where your ideas are in conflict with physics. Your uncles "I simulated shooting OTH at a non-stealthy drone using a SAM which has it's own terminal radar" + "We can detect a stealth aircraft" do not conflate into "My uncle shot SAMs at stealth fighters OTH using a magic switch which changes physics". OTH + SAMs with onboard terminal guidance were a valid technique at one time rendered completely toothless by stealth unless you start volleying them by dozens (please do, you won't have any left to shoot at the non-stealthy aircraft that will be coming in a few days once you no longer have a single functional radar left).
A decade ago, I would have referred you to rec.aviation.military which still was a vibrant generally well informed community to lose that noob shine you display so prominently but the old pilots have moved into more private websites where their ruminations are no longer available for you to learn from.
Every time stealth comes up noobs who imperfectly understand the technology & its implications cry out: Multi-path radar renders stealth useless. No, it does not.
The only multi-path radars out there like the Australian Over The Horizon radar all use wavelengths too long to be usable as a SAM target radar. While you may be able to detect a stealth airplane using multi-path, you can't use it to shoot at it & a F22/25 will be able to shoot down all non-stealth aircraft sent up against it.
Ever hear of a place called Dubrovnic? Osijek? How about Sarajevo or Srebrenica, hmmm? No, huh. Economic & political ties created over 40 years of union made a civil war in the post SU Europe indeed impossible...
Before once again dredging up the pacifist lines that "Economic ties make war impossible to contemplate" I recommend that you read the newspapers in Europe immediately prior to both the first & the second world wars or any number of history books on the pacifist & appeasement politicians of those periods. "The various areas were more likely to settle their disputes with political and diplomatic action" back then too. Until they didn't.
If the specter of nuclear holocaust is taken off the table for any of a number of plausible reasons, war in europe could once again come to pass should another fair seeming yet morally corrupt politician come to power who judges that war is more to his interest than peace.
"Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it." George Santayana seems to had you in mind.
Yeah, right. That's why the Swiss also install heroin dispensers outside schools.
The Swiss bankers habit of turning a blind eye to the origin of money is what makes them no better than drug pushers. After all, money laundering like drug use is going to happen anyway, so the Swiss should make sure they get their cut, right?
This is a clear reprisal for the US cracking open the treasured Swiss banking secret in order to dry up terrorist cash pipelines & catch deadbeat US tax dodgers.
I think the US should still have pushed for total transparency in the Swiss banking sector. Swiss bankers have absolutely no compunction in taking your cash no matter how much blood it may have on it.
I think a real test of your intelligence would be to remove your mother & the pizza/other delivery guys and see if you could forage for food successfully.
How do you think anyone can "know" what a honeybee thinks? Perform a Vulcan mind-meld with it? Pffff.
Spend more than 5 minutes studying the life-cycle of honeybees & you will see that there are periods where they forage exclusively for pollen.
Either crawl out of your mother's basement or learn to use the internet/wikipedia in order to avoid embarrasing yourself in public.
There are just so many ways that you are wrong.
Bees cannot live on nectar alone & need a source of protein. The initial food of all larval bees (other than vulture bees) is a mixture of pollen & honey without which the larvae would die. This is the reason they have evolved special hairs on their legs in order to better collect & retain pollen.
No! Did you just wake up from a 30 year nap or what?
What will happen is that the other uses of Oil other than for fuel (Plastics, etc) will profit from somewhat lower prices untill the price once again goes up due to it's progressively more common scarcity. We've already gotten beyond the point of maximum production of oil. Using it as fuel will be considered a waste of raw materials within the next 50 years whatever happens with SBP.
Pfff... His/.name contains "geek" & he still believes that geosync sats can "fall out of orbit"... Tell us, geekoid, how much time do you think it takes for something orbiting in a geosync orbit to degrade to the point that it would risk "falling" out of orbit? A few hours? A few days? A couple months? A year or two? Decades?
Try thousands of years...
While you're building your supposedly cheaper terrestrial solar thermal plant, don't forget to add in the cost of laying power lines needed to supply power to those of us who live above the arctic circle & see no sun for months at a time. Oh, and the other power sources you'll need to add in for the rest of the planet that has those pesky things called clouds that will render your power source too inefficient for much of the planet.
The next time you fill your tank up with gas, you might also want to reflect on the remote controlled automation which has made exploitation of deep sea oil deposits possible & what that promises for remote reparations in orbit.
As almost all of the heating effect of sunlight is from IR, adding in 3X the effect in Microwave will merely make the target area brighter in microwave spectra & even that will have a negligible effect as the rectenna will absorb over 70% of that.
Turn in your geek card for not only spouting nonsense but also for showing you do not know how to use google or wikipedia. Only Microwaves in the immediate neighborhood of 2450 Mhz have any effect on water. The frequencies chosen for SBP have been specifically chosen to avoid any such problems.
s/cut trough/pass though transparently without having any effect on/
You didn't make it clear enough that the frequencies were chosen specifically to avoid interacting with water & thus living creatures. For a geek hangout, most/.ers posting here are surprising ignorant about the absence of effects that non-ionizing radiation has. The microwaves used to boil water are very specifically chosen to heat water. Move the freq even slightly & it's harmless unless the intensity is hundreds of times what they are proposing.
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Being in Kindergarden doesn't count junior, you had to be working in the field back then. Your "pretty sure" guestimating back to a period you already have shown to have no experience of also carries little weight.
It's true that non-X86 never amounted to more than 2% of windows licences by volume. The figure broken down by value was higher as these were not your momma's consumer word processor PC's but expensive multi-cpu servers.
Now compare how few PowerPC Macs (which were never all that popular compared to Intel Macs) are still around to be penalized by being unable to update to the most recent OS X releases. Easily under 5%. The comparison isn't far fetched at all.
I suppose if you're young enough not to have witnessed major corporations following MS's marketing assurances of support by replacing old iron with MIPS & Alphas running NT then you'd discount how good Apple's support of it's old architectures is. You young'uns need to remember that X86 architecture was NOT able to furnish the needed horsepower a decade or so ago so you HAD to search elsewhere. Those of use who watched the whole sordid affair will never forget it. It's kind of burned in you see. When, years later, someone with no memory tries to place MS up on an alter it all comes rushing back... Hmf, "small side-experiment", kind of like dinosaurs, huh? Never amounted to much... The only reason you say that is because the MS marketing machine erases it's missteps better than Stalin & you're too young to know better. No young /.er, Don't look bekind the curtain! There is nothing to see! The Great & Powerful OZ knows ALL...
With one exception, every single person among the 20 odd Mac buyers I know who bought a mac over the past 3 years fits your description. The exception is an actor friend who always found windows too disorganized.
I had a 68020 Nubus Mac II for over 10 years. It cost even more back then in relative terms than a tricked out new Mac does today. It was also faster than the mini UNIX servers shared between 4 devs that I was administering back then. I was only able to afford it because the company I was working for owed me a lot of money & it was cheaper for them to buy it for me & then write it off as defective...
You conveniently did not mention that the Mac underwent it's second major change of architecture about 4 years ago & that Apple's backward compatability after these migrations has been about as pain-free as possible.
Why don't you ask those who bought Windows on non-Intel architectures how well Microsoft helped them once they decided that they were no longer pertinant for their bottom line? Hell, why don't you ask them how bad their support was for during the period microsoft pretended to give them support?
I'm one of those who has both Macs & PC's at home. I had an original 68020 Mac II with A/UX, kept & upgraded it it for a decade, then moved on to PCs when Apple abandonned A/UX yet hadn't yet announced OS X. Now that OS X is stable I'm slowly moving back. That may stop if Apple's DRM lockout tendancies on the iPhone backpollute OS X...
My current mix is new Mac & Ubuntu laptops & a few older PCs with a mix of Ubuntu & Windows. One way or another, my household will be windows free within 5 years when the older PC's are no longer useful.
Either give a cite for the %20 or stfu & let the adults talk in peace. Grownups do not attempt to pull numbers out of the thin air.
Given that these are the same iranian leaders who had men locked up, tortured & raped for protesting a fixed election, you should rephrase that to "... open homosexuality in anyone not associated with the mullahs in power ...".
I suppose that in the future retinal displays would be able to correct for imperfections making retinal displays less distracting.
I suppose that the micro-lenses focus the output of a LED directly on the retina but do not see how LCD type displays referred to in TFS can work. Anyone?
The problem for those who have not realized it is that LCDs in contact lenses are too close to the eye to work. They would subtract some light but be invisible much like a screen is when you put your face up to it & focus outside.
Some of the people who claim to have been victims of "Spontaneous Exploding iPhones" have refused to let Apple take a look at them to attempt to determine why. If the iPhone cannot be shown to have been damaged by an external shock prior to the accident, Apple promised to replace it, but these people are trying to get their insurance to cover the loss without investigating.
A GP post asked "Why is the iPhone different from all the other phones". If you paid a little more attention to how the iPhone is constructed you'd learn that the iPhones battery is different from all those other phones as it is conformal, non removable & the iPhone itself is much thinner relative to it's relatively large surface area. The iPhone is thus certainly subject to different stresses than a "normal" battery pack.
Sigh... Yer uncle, huh? How about your second cousin on your second step-moms side, he's a great source to refer to on the internet, right? He also knows the screw diameter of every screw used on the radar & how tight each one needs to be tightened, so that makes him a super reliable source, no?
So, your uncle was firing SAMs OTH at stealth fighters was he? No magic switch can change the fact that the wavelengths used for the aussi OTH are too long to be used to designate for more than a "I see something in this stadium sized area".
I'll be generous & assume that your uncle wasn't exaggerating & that you honestly got confused by a number of stories in a domain that you know too little about to filter out where your ideas are in conflict with physics. Your uncles "I simulated shooting OTH at a non-stealthy drone using a SAM which has it's own terminal radar" + "We can detect a stealth aircraft" do not conflate into "My uncle shot SAMs at stealth fighters OTH using a magic switch which changes physics". OTH + SAMs with onboard terminal guidance were a valid technique at one time rendered completely toothless by stealth unless you start volleying them by dozens (please do, you won't have any left to shoot at the non-stealthy aircraft that will be coming in a few days once you no longer have a single functional radar left).
A decade ago, I would have referred you to rec.aviation.military which still was a vibrant generally well informed community to lose that noob shine you display so prominently but the old pilots have moved into more private websites where their ruminations are no longer available for you to learn from.
hehehe mea culpa... F22/35
Every time stealth comes up noobs who imperfectly understand the technology & its implications cry out: Multi-path radar renders stealth useless. No, it does not. The only multi-path radars out there like the Australian Over The Horizon radar all use wavelengths too long to be usable as a SAM target radar. While you may be able to detect a stealth airplane using multi-path, you can't use it to shoot at it & a F22/25 will be able to shoot down all non-stealth aircraft sent up against it.
Ever hear of a place called Dubrovnic? Osijek? How about Sarajevo or Srebrenica, hmmm? No, huh. Economic & political ties created over 40 years of union made a civil war in the post SU Europe indeed impossible...
Before once again dredging up the pacifist lines that "Economic ties make war impossible to contemplate" I recommend that you read the newspapers in Europe immediately prior to both the first & the second world wars or any number of history books on the pacifist & appeasement politicians of those periods. "The various areas were more likely to settle their disputes with political and diplomatic action" back then too. Until they didn't.
If the specter of nuclear holocaust is taken off the table for any of a number of plausible reasons, war in europe could once again come to pass should another fair seeming yet morally corrupt politician come to power who judges that war is more to his interest than peace.
"Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it." George Santayana seems to had you in mind.
Yeah, right. That's why the Swiss also install heroin dispensers outside schools.
The Swiss bankers habit of turning a blind eye to the origin of money is what makes them no better than drug pushers. After all, money laundering like drug use is going to happen anyway, so the Swiss should make sure they get their cut, right?
This is a clear reprisal for the US cracking open the treasured Swiss banking secret in order to dry up terrorist cash pipelines & catch deadbeat US tax dodgers. I think the US should still have pushed for total transparency in the Swiss banking sector. Swiss bankers have absolutely no compunction in taking your cash no matter how much blood it may have on it.
Sigh, another basement dweller...
I think a real test of your intelligence would be to remove your mother & the pizza/other delivery guys and see if you could forage for food successfully.
How do you think anyone can "know" what a honeybee thinks? Perform a Vulcan mind-meld with it? Pffff.
Spend more than 5 minutes studying the life-cycle of honeybees & you will see that there are periods where they forage exclusively for pollen.
Either crawl out of your mother's basement or learn to use the internet/wikipedia in order to avoid embarrasing yourself in public.
There are just so many ways that you are wrong.
Bees cannot live on nectar alone & need a source of protein. The initial food of all larval bees (other than vulture bees) is a mixture of pollen & honey without which the larvae would die. This is the reason they have evolved special hairs on their legs in order to better collect & retain pollen.
"DPU"? As in Depleted Plutonium!? Hehehe, forgive me for laughing at your public brain fart...
No! Did you just wake up from a 30 year nap or what?
What will happen is that the other uses of Oil other than for fuel (Plastics, etc) will profit from somewhat lower prices untill the price once again goes up due to it's progressively more common scarcity. We've already gotten beyond the point of maximum production of oil. Using it as fuel will be considered a waste of raw materials within the next 50 years whatever happens with SBP.
Pfff... His /.name contains "geek" & he still believes that geosync sats can "fall out of orbit"... Tell us, geekoid, how much time do you think it takes for something orbiting in a geosync orbit to degrade to the point that it would risk "falling" out of orbit? A few hours? A few days? A couple months? A year or two? Decades?
Try thousands of years...
While you're building your supposedly cheaper terrestrial solar thermal plant, don't forget to add in the cost of laying power lines needed to supply power to those of us who live above the arctic circle & see no sun for months at a time. Oh, and the other power sources you'll need to add in for the rest of the planet that has those pesky things called clouds that will render your power source too inefficient for much of the planet.
The next time you fill your tank up with gas, you might also want to reflect on the remote controlled automation which has made exploitation of deep sea oil deposits possible & what that promises for remote reparations in orbit.
Talk about stupid...
As almost all of the heating effect of sunlight is from IR, adding in 3X the effect in Microwave will merely make the target area brighter in microwave spectra & even that will have a negligible effect as the rectenna will absorb over 70% of that.
Turn in your geek card for not only spouting nonsense but also for showing you do not know how to use google or wikipedia. Only Microwaves in the immediate neighborhood of 2450 Mhz have any effect on water. The frequencies chosen for SBP have been specifically chosen to avoid any such problems.
Only Microwaves in the immediate neighborhood of 2450 Mhz will have any effect. 99% of Microwave frequencies have absolutely no effect whatsoever.
s/cut trough/pass though transparently without having any effect on/
You didn't make it clear enough that the frequencies were chosen specifically to avoid interacting with water & thus living creatures. For a geek hangout, most /.ers posting here are surprising ignorant about the absence of effects that non-ionizing radiation has. The microwaves used to boil water are very specifically chosen to heat water. Move the freq even slightly & it's harmless unless the intensity is hundreds of times what they are proposing.