The standard tool for cutting a copper pipe is actually pretty quiet. If you are trying to do it quickly you would use a power saw, but it wouldn't take all that long to cut up a few hundred feet of pipe, so the time window for you to notice would be short.
Weighed against forever, a few hundred years of suffering is nothing.
(For what it is worth, I don't think this is a problem that humanity is going to be facing anytime soon; hopefully figuring out how to manage whatever the peak population reaches this century doesn't end in mass starvation (that there are fewer starving people and billions of new people compared to 50 years ago is an incredible success, may it be repeated)).
Default configuration has a lot of skin in the game.
If OS X were a hilarious sieve, people would be exploiting it for the resources that are available at this point. Windows being a softer, more valuable target it a contributor, but there are plenty of Mac resources just sitting there on the internet.
The relative lack of major incident in the last several years suggests that adding Anti-Virus software to Windows, and the better default firewall post XP SP2 have had some impact, supporting my point (and I don't know, but I would guess that the Malware situation on Vista is a lot better than on XP, at least for the people that use UAC).
I wouldn't be surprised if Budweiser ships (far in excess of?) 1 billion units a year (that's only 20 beers for 50 million people, or 50 beers for 20 million people, I'm not real sure how many people are low brow enough to drink Bud, but that seems pretty reasonable).
I guess it wouldn't. It becomes a question of whether subnotebook prices are going to continue to fall, or whether they will stay about the same. If prices they stay the same for about 2 years, 4 GB of ram and a 64 GB SSD would not be out of the question...
So my non answer is that low-cost subnotebook PC's will be made suitable for Vista (also, I don't expect Windows 7 to increase hardware requirements a great deal, so who knows what 2011 will bring).
My perspective on this isn't very useful; I'm comfortable with a single cheap notebook (~$900) every 3 or 4 years, so I have no idea if $150 for less features makes sense over $300 for what you get.
I figure that anybody doing anything in a way that they did before or saw somebody else do is pretty much following a tradition (it might be on purpose and well thought out, but it is still pretty much a tradition if it follows an example).
So anything that helps avoid thinking is pretty much a tradition in my book, and often, even if you think about it, you won't find a reason not to follow the tradition.
It might make more sense to try to notice tens of thousands of attempted log ins to a single account and then do something proactive about that (I realize that this is less proactive than attacking user passwords, but it has the advantage of not requiring bothering them).
I've barely used it. People who I know directly who have used it quite a bit have reported issues, but that it is o.k.
The marketing was certainly a debacle. As you say, creating differentiation usually doesn't work out well (because the low end experience sets the tone for the high end experience). It also seems pretty clear that their expectations were to high for the average install, and that their stated requirements were to low.
I see Windows 7 as an abandonment of the Vista brand, and expect it to roughly be Vista SP 2.5. As long as they don't dramatically increase the hardware requirements, most people will have a better experience when they first use it, and all the 'what about promised feature X' folks won't get as much attention, and it won't get a 'disappointment' award from the popular press.
The big application developers (That's Microsoft, Adobe and Apple) already mostly develop their apps for two platforms. Apple less than the other two, but they will keep updating itunes on Windows for a long ass time.
FOSS application developers (again, the big ones, Mozilla, Sun, etc.) generally develop for Windows, Mac and Unix-alike (Server application development is much less universal, whatever).
So sure, smaller developers might start targeting Mac and Windows, but I doubt it, as it doesn't matter all that much what $5,000 machine the $75,000 worker uses to run the $15,000 application.
Makers of niche apps and utilities fit in there somewhere, but the fraction that actually charge money is pretty small, and seems to be shrinking (i.e., free and open source solutions are increasing equivalent to for pay stuff).
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This sentiment translates directly into massive funding for esoteric physics research, not the silly firecracker stunts of today's manned NASA.
Chemical rockets simply won't cut it.
Just hold one of the headphones up to it once in a while.
The standard tool for cutting a copper pipe is actually pretty quiet. If you are trying to do it quickly you would use a power saw, but it wouldn't take all that long to cut up a few hundred feet of pipe, so the time window for you to notice would be short.
It is catching on big (called pex).
I'm not sure how the economics work out at this point, but the spike in copper prices was a big motivator.
I think a lot of so-called normal people are also utterly selfish.
The difference is that they are much better at it than the thieves.
Scrap yards here (in Michigan) check id and print you a check before you walk out the door.
Not as strong as requiring a mailing address, but less of pain.
Weighed against forever, a few hundred years of suffering is nothing.
(For what it is worth, I don't think this is a problem that humanity is going to be facing anytime soon; hopefully figuring out how to manage whatever the peak population reaches this century doesn't end in mass starvation (that there are fewer starving people and billions of new people compared to 50 years ago is an incredible success, may it be repeated)).
Despite the name, there is a shocking lack of supply.
Default configuration has a lot of skin in the game.
If OS X were a hilarious sieve, people would be exploiting it for the resources that are available at this point. Windows being a softer, more valuable target it a contributor, but there are plenty of Mac resources just sitting there on the internet.
The relative lack of major incident in the last several years suggests that adding Anti-Virus software to Windows, and the better default firewall post XP SP2 have had some impact, supporting my point (and I don't know, but I would guess that the Malware situation on Vista is a lot better than on XP, at least for the people that use UAC).
Haha, Linux isn't an OS.
The only thing that I see as being up in the air is whether Starbuck dies, ascends and comes back to life once more, or twice more.
Often, Budweiser.
Get over yourself.
How do you explain season 3?
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Unless you really, really like using tags (or it isn't available...), "Plain Old Text" works pretty well.
I wouldn't be surprised if Budweiser ships (far in excess of?) 1 billion units a year (that's only 20 beers for 50 million people, or 50 beers for 20 million people, I'm not real sure how many people are low brow enough to drink Bud, but that seems pretty reasonable).
I guess it wouldn't. It becomes a question of whether subnotebook prices are going to continue to fall, or whether they will stay about the same. If prices they stay the same for about 2 years, 4 GB of ram and a 64 GB SSD would not be out of the question...
So my non answer is that low-cost subnotebook PC's will be made suitable for Vista (also, I don't expect Windows 7 to increase hardware requirements a great deal, so who knows what 2011 will bring).
My perspective on this isn't very useful; I'm comfortable with a single cheap notebook (~$900) every 3 or 4 years, so I have no idea if $150 for less features makes sense over $300 for what you get.
The new joke goes something like "A customer goes to radio shack to get his printer repaired. The teenager says that they sell new printers for $65."
I figure that anybody doing anything in a way that they did before or saw somebody else do is pretty much following a tradition (it might be on purpose and well thought out, but it is still pretty much a tradition if it follows an example).
So anything that helps avoid thinking is pretty much a tradition in my book, and often, even if you think about it, you won't find a reason not to follow the tradition.
If you are going to live forever, why not take the long view.
If you turn off emotions and take the long view, the starving and wars are only problems for the people that die from them.
It might make more sense to try to notice tens of thousands of attempted log ins to a single account and then do something proactive about that (I realize that this is less proactive than attacking user passwords, but it has the advantage of not requiring bothering them).
Let's just get rid of teenagers altogether.
I've barely used it. People who I know directly who have used it quite a bit have reported issues, but that it is o.k.
The marketing was certainly a debacle. As you say, creating differentiation usually doesn't work out well (because the low end experience sets the tone for the high end experience). It also seems pretty clear that their expectations were to high for the average install, and that their stated requirements were to low.
I see Windows 7 as an abandonment of the Vista brand, and expect it to roughly be Vista SP 2.5. As long as they don't dramatically increase the hardware requirements, most people will have a better experience when they first use it, and all the 'what about promised feature X' folks won't get as much attention, and it won't get a 'disappointment' award from the popular press.
As far as I know, the tags exists to make fun of the french.
I figure other users will catch up eventually.
The secure area beverage vendors already called dips on "TSA effect".
What?
The big application developers (That's Microsoft, Adobe and Apple) already mostly develop their apps for two platforms. Apple less than the other two, but they will keep updating itunes on Windows for a long ass time.
FOSS application developers (again, the big ones, Mozilla, Sun, etc.) generally develop for Windows, Mac and Unix-alike (Server application development is much less universal, whatever).
So sure, smaller developers might start targeting Mac and Windows, but I doubt it, as it doesn't matter all that much what $5,000 machine the $75,000 worker uses to run the $15,000 application.
Makers of niche apps and utilities fit in there somewhere, but the fraction that actually charge money is pretty small, and seems to be shrinking (i.e., free and open source solutions are increasing equivalent to for pay stuff).