3 billion people haven't watched Iron Man. 3 billion people have watched fantasy action films this summer.
Having said that, Iron Man has made over $500 million so far and has been watched by hundreds of millions of people. And yeah, lots of people pirated the movie.
Why do you give me and example of a film released this summer that did poorly that hundreds of millions of people SHOULD have watched?
Of course, it's closed source, so you have to take Microsoft at their word for it,
Not really. Contrary to what people seem to think, Microsoft releases source code to some customers. If it means a $10 million sale, MS is more than happy to hand out source for Windows. Of course, it really wouldn't do much good since there's no way you can know FOR SURE, if the code you were given matches the compiled binary you're using. This is a problem with any software you don't code-review and compile yourself. To that end TrueCrypt is really only safer (in terms of backdoors) than Bitlocker if you compile it yourself after you've carefully reviewed the code. I seriously doubt very many users are going to do this.
U.S. authorities do not have jurisdiction in the nations where child porn is produced. They're not going to raid houses in the Czech Republic or Thailand. Local authorities have more important things to worry about, like banditry, terrorists, and government dissidents.
Attacking distribution instead of production shows that the protection of children comes second to the punishing of the pedophile.
The theory is called "demand reduction".
The idea is that most child pornography is produced overseas where US authorities have no jurisdiction, and by locking up child pornography "patrons" the demand for CP will do down and therefore less children will be abused overseas.
I am not defending this theory, I am merely presenting it. I will say that very little child pornography is produced in the USA.
Just to be clear: You intend to have old machines sitting around unpowered and then someone WALKS UP TO THEM and presses the power button. The user then waits for the OS to boot and does his thing. Correct?v
So what are these systems being used for? Kiosks? This is critical to determining what you need. For example, QNX boots very quickly but it's an embedded Unix system. But QNX probably won't run whatever app it is you want to run on these systems.
Basically, you said they are going to be application appliances. WHAT application?
You're probably one of those people who thinks comics are for kids despite the fact the average reader is 23.
Iron Man is probably the best fantasy action movie released this summer. I suspect you hate fantasy action movies in general. Approximately 3 billion people worldwide disagree with you, and those who do "agree" don't generally have access to movie theaters. Stick to the art house and you'll be fine.
Is there a good AV software package that is free and up to date and doesn't suck ass?
No, and there almost certainly never* will be.
The key thing in your list is "up to date". It takes a very large amount of work to identify and create definitions for new viruses as they appear. This is essentially "real-time" work that requires dedicated staff to address. An AV package that can't produce a definition for a virus "in the wild" for a single day is now considered useless. This is where ClamAV falls down, it's definitions always lag behind commercial vendors who have dedicated staff that do nothing but find new viruses and create definitions.
* = There is a way around this. Stealing. Several Russian and Chinese AV vendors simply steal their AV databases from other vendors (Trend, Symantec, etc.) simply releasing a few days after their source.
I don't think so. We're seeing decreasing returns in multi-core computing because it is still basically multi-CPU computing and many tasks are not easily parallelized. The notion that some revolutionary compiler or IDE is going to solve this problem is just wrong. Tell it to Itanic, that was based on exactly these assumptions and failed miserably because of them.
There are also serious problems with I/O with lots of cores. How do you feed them all? It seems like you'd need a LOT of very fast memory and interconnects, as close to the CPU as possible. I think the only way to get this to work would be to have embedded memory for each core IN ADDITION to duplicate system memory. Possible, but extremely expensive.
This wasn't because there was no desire amongst computer users to listen to digital files that could be stored locally or streamed off the internet. It was because computer users did not know yet that they had the desire to do it.
This is a contradiction. "Not knowing you have the desire" is the same as NOT HAVING the desire, unless you want to make some bizarre argument that computer users have subconscious precognition.
The REAL innovation of MP3 was a codec that compressed audio to a large degree (80%+) without a substatantial loss of quality. Before that, "digital music" was unpopular because WAV files were too large to share using the link speeds at the time (9600 baud) and other codecs sounded like ass. Yes, MP3 used a relativel high amount of CPU time, but it was not faster CPUs per se that fostered MP3 adoption.
But we're stuck with it because password security is several orders of magnitude easier to implement in software than REAL security features. The other problem is that most alternatives to passwords require specialized hardware that may not be available for your application.
For example, fingerprint scanners solve most of the problems with passwords. The problem is that most computers and very little specialty hardware (game consoles, PDAs, etc.) have fingerprint scanners.
Probably the best solution at the moment a USB drive with a password vault. That way you only have to remember one password. Of course, that won't work on your PDA.
How many wars of aggression have been launched against Israel?
Zero. Arab attempts to reclaim territory seized by Western invaders in 1948 is not "aggression". As the invader, it is incumbent upon Israel to reach reasonable peace settlements with other nations in the region by compensating them for seized territory, transferred population, etc. Example: Israel make peace with Egypt only when Israel returned seized territory, agreed to pay restitution, and arraigned aid from the USA. There is little reason to believe similar deals would not work with the rest of Israel's neighbors, and such deals have been offered. Israel prefers the path of belligerence, threatening their neighbors with nuclear attack and terrorism.
The irony, though, is that it's only in conversations that involve keyboards where people raise such ideas, while those who play piano, cello, guitar, violin or anything else that requires accuracy, dexterity and speed for 12 hours a day have no complaints, suffer no epidemic of carpal tunnel injuries, nor show interest in theories of how deviating from established technique would improve things.
Except that this is completely wrong. People who play piano, cello, guitar, etc. DO suffer from hand and wrist injuries and DO bitch about the un-ergonomic designs of, say, classical violins fairly constantly. It's just that the heavy emphasis on the "classical" nature of many instruments precludes innovation. This doesn't include guitars and there ARE lots of specialty guitars, like self-tuning guitars and "ergonomic" guitars. Most pianos are soft touch, "real" pianos hardly exist nowadays, etc.
There is a reason modern keyboards are quiet and it's not because of cheap manufacturing.
No, it's because of cheap manufacturing. Membrane keyboards are MUCH (less than half) cheaper to manufacture than mechanical switch keyboards. Mechanical switch keyboards are better by every single mesaure you could come up with: response, keystroke length, "feel" for professional typists, durability, etc.
38 years is a ridiculous sentence for rape or armed robbery. This kid changed his fucking grades. The "burglary" charges are for going to his school after hours. There is no evidence he actually stole, destroyed, or damaged anyone or anything. He CHEATED on TESTS. CHEATED. That's it.
Brazilian distillers are able to produce ethanol for 22 cents per liter, compared with the 30 cents per liter for corn-based ethanol. Does this account for subsidies? Both corn and sugarcane are subsidized by their respective governments. Does it take into effect labor is 5X as expensive in the USA? And even if the numbers are "real", that's only 27% additional efficiency for sugarcane.
The energy balance for sugarcane ethanol produced in Brazil is more favorable, 1:8. This is just bullshit. I don't know how they calculated this, but sugarcane simply DOES NOT contain 8X as much sugar as corn by weight. It's not 4X either, it's closer to 2X. That means that the production process for sugarcane ethanol must be AT LEAST 5X as efficient as the production process for corn ethanol. I do not believe this.
I suspect what them might have done is calculated all the labor for corn as gasoline-fueled machine labor, and calculated sugarcane as "energy-free" manual labor instead. I do not consider substituting machines for slaves to be legitimate analysis.
What about all the people that are going to starve due to redirecting food production? And what about the fact that ethanol will make global warming MUCH worse because of all the land we'll have to clear to grow sugarcane, and all the water the sugarcane uses. Remember, ethanol is much less energy dense than gasoline, so to replace gasoline with ethanol will require producing 3-5X as much ethanol to provide the same amount of energy. It's variable, because the efficiency of alcohol drops in cold climates (that's why alcohol-fuled cars only only used in warm climates). Because we need to burn so much more to generate the same amount of energy ethanol actually ends up producing MORE pollution than gasoline.
Ethanol remains a terrible replacement for gasoline even if it can be made cheaply.
Brazil is 100% independent of foreign oil. Brazil imports foreign oil.
Why? Mainly because 30 years ago they started a crash program of Ethanol production from SUGAR CANE. And that production correlates exactly to the complete devastation of the Brazilian rain forest (and the little-publicized slaughter of native Amazonians). Ethanol is snake-oil sold by the corn and sugar lobbies. It costs more energy to produce corn ethanol than you get out of it. Sugar cane is only marginally more efficient (not 4-5 times, Is there 4-5 times the amout of sugar in cane than corn by weight? No, it's closer to 1.5.) There is also the fact that ethanol production is driving up world food prices, so the net benefit to consumers (gas proces go down, food prices go up) is limited.
There is also the fact that ethanol really isn't that clean burning, especially when you take the conversion to ethanol into account. There are also practical issues, the the fact that ethanol has less energy density than gasoline (you gett lower MPG with ethanol) means you have to increase fuel tanks (and further reduce efficiency) or deal with shorter ranges on alcohol-fueled cars.
Actually, it's probably closer to: "Coal mining in China kills more people on a yearly basis than the number of people who have ever died in nuclear power production throughout world history."
Do the same numbers for nuclear if you'd like. You'll find the efficiency is in the 30-40% range, beating everything else handily. And even if you had a system that wasn't this efficent (nuclear batteries), you'd STILL be able to generate a lot more power than with solar due to the environmental limitations of solar.
Do. Not. Buy. You hurt them the same amount, and you have not stolen. Do. Not. Fricking. Buy. I disagree. Clearly encouraging others to steal rather than buy (assuming those people were going to buy before) hurts the label's bottom line more because they lose a sale.
If you pirate a song, you're ripping off the label to the tune of 90%, and the artist to the tune of 10%. No. You. Are. Not. For most artists, you're ripping off the artist to the tune of 0.01%. Maybe $0.10 per album and $0.01 per track. Many artists don't see one red cent.
You still have no right to do either. "Rights" have nothing to do with it. I'm talking about MORALITY here. Robin Hood didn't have the "right" to rob people in Sherwood Forest.
You don't get to enjoy the song, but nobody said the principled approach would be easy. Stealing IS the principled approach. It's doing SOMETHING rather than standing by passively and watching innocent people (filesharers, kids) get robbed. It's fricking Robin Hood. Steal from the rich (labels) and give to the poor (everyone else).
My own experimentation with an HTPC has been quite and adventure. Yup, you have to know what you're doing.
If you want to go HD, there are two reasonable routes:
Route #1: The "expensive" way.
Go DirectTV using the HD reciever. Spend $200 per month on the HD content. Comcast, Time Warner, and Dish compress the hell out of their HD to the point where they're only marginally better than SD. I don't know about Verizon or Cox.
Build your HTPC using Windows Vista Home Premium and a high-end video capture card with an HDMI/DVI input and a IR blaster for the DirectTV box. The capture card is the critical component, make SURE that the IR blaster supports your set top box.
This system is easier to use than the one below because you can use a PVR interface.
Route #2: The "free" way.
Get a fat internet connection like Fios or cable modem.
Once again, go with Vista Home Premium. This time install a QAM HD tuner with the biggest antenna you can find. That will be the source for your PVR recordings. Install Miro and/or TVersity to download Bittorrent RSS feeds for the rest of your content (yes, you're stealing it). Your TV guide will be a little sparse. Your shows will be delayed because you have to wait for someone else to upload them. to the EZTV and related RSS feeds.
This system is a bit of a PITA because of the way recordings are scattered around. You'll basically have to navigate a file browser to watch your shows, rather than a Tivo-like PVR interface.
There is no reason why you can't combine the two.
Don't even consider PVR/media player software other than Vista or XP Media Center. I've used just about everything and nothing else will work as well AND provides free guide data. XBOX Media Center comes close, but it's a PITA. Only go MythTV or similar if you're a frothing Linux zealot.
1) NT-based Windows derivatives, like Windows XP were/are dramatically more stable than the 9x line, mainly due to changes made to the driver system. The same is true of Vista, changes made to the driver system were done to increase stability.
2) OSX is based on Next, not BSD per se. It uses a different kernel, different drivers, etc. It is appropriate to say that MacOS X is "POSIX-compliant" and "binary compatible with BSD" but not that it is BSD "tweaked up a bit".
3) Finder on MacOS X is broken.
4) MacOS X was dramatically slower than MacOS 9 on all available hardware when it shipped. It really only ran adequately on G5s and it wasn't until the switch to Intel (years later) that it really ran well. Apple completely lied about the performance of their hardware during this period. Much of this was due to Quartz (the eye-candy) which, unlike Vista, you couldn't turn off.
5) Vista added more than eye-candy, but critics simply choose to ignore those features as "not important". Most of those critics are Mac zealots that regard the same or similar features in MacOS X as "essential" and "revolutionary".
Soldiers who commit first degree murder are generally dealt with more harshly by military justice than civilians in the same predicament. Soldiers, by definition, have committed planned, organized murders and trained extensively to commit more. By your reasoning, every soldier should be executed as soon as they muster out because that is the only way to keep society safe from these trained killers. There is plenty of evidence to support this position. On average soldiers and veterans commit many more violent crimes than non-soldiers.
Likewise, someone who has made a mistake due to negligence, accident, or just acting out in a state of unusual duress doesn't deserve to die for being human. But someone guilty of first degree murder does not fit that mold. This is incorrect and I think is a very key misconception. Many people convicted of 1st degree murder committed unplanned murders or NO MURDER AT ALL. For example, in the state of California every killing committed at the same time as another crime is considered 1st degree murder. Example, a guy attempts to rob a drug dealer in the street at gunpoint. The drug dealer and the robber get into a gun battle (as both are armed) and the drug dealer shoots the robber in SELF DEFENSE. Under California law, that is considered a 1st degree murder. Had the robber shot the dealer it would also be 1st degree murder. If a stray bullet of either one had killed a bystander it would ALSO be 1st degree murder. If either had somehow accidentally shot and killed themselves, the OTHER ONE would be charged with 1st degree murder. If one of them ran away and in the course of running away they tripped and knocked someone else down and their skill split on the pavement and that person died, it would ALSO be 1st degree murder.
In most states the law is: If you're committing a crime, and in the course of that crime someone, somehow, dies, your are guilty of 1st degree murder.
There are other circumstances. In many states, killing a peace officer/police officer under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES WHATSOEVER, including self defense, is considered 1st degree murder.
Considering he hasn't admitted to the crime and explained why he did it, you can't make that claim. That's what prosecutors believed and it seems the likely motivation base on press account I have read. Besides, You don't make allowance for exigent circumstances, so it really doesn't matter what his motivation is. You've made it clear that you think every person convicted of 1st degree murder should be executed, period.
BTW, What is your response to the numerous prisoners released from death row recently due to false convictions? This led to a moratorium on execution in many states. Does the notion that many innocent people could be executed under your model upset you?
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3 billion people haven't watched Iron Man. 3 billion people have watched fantasy action films this summer.
Having said that, Iron Man has made over $500 million so far and has been watched by hundreds of millions of people. And yeah, lots of people pirated the movie.
Why do you give me and example of a film released this summer that did poorly that hundreds of millions of people SHOULD have watched?
Of course, it's closed source, so you have to take Microsoft at their word for it,
Not really. Contrary to what people seem to think, Microsoft releases source code to some customers. If it means a $10 million sale, MS is more than happy to hand out source for Windows. Of course, it really wouldn't do much good since there's no way you can know FOR SURE, if the code you were given matches the compiled binary you're using. This is a problem with any software you don't code-review and compile yourself. To that end TrueCrypt is really only safer (in terms of backdoors) than Bitlocker if you compile it yourself after you've carefully reviewed the code. I seriously doubt very many users are going to do this.
U.S. authorities do not have jurisdiction in the nations where child porn is produced. They're not going to raid houses in the Czech Republic or Thailand. Local authorities have more important things to worry about, like banditry, terrorists, and government dissidents.
Attacking distribution instead of production shows that the protection of children comes second to the punishing of the pedophile.
The theory is called "demand reduction".
The idea is that most child pornography is produced overseas where US authorities have no jurisdiction, and by locking up child pornography "patrons" the demand for CP will do down and therefore less children will be abused overseas.
I am not defending this theory, I am merely presenting it. I will say that very little child pornography is produced in the USA.
Just to be clear: You intend to have old machines sitting around unpowered and then someone WALKS UP TO THEM and presses the power button. The user then waits for the OS to boot and does his thing. Correct?v
So what are these systems being used for? Kiosks? This is critical to determining what you need. For example, QNX boots very quickly but it's an embedded Unix system. But QNX probably won't run whatever app it is you want to run on these systems.
Basically, you said they are going to be application appliances. WHAT application?
Un, no. Splashtop requires new hardware. He specifically wants to repurpose old hardware.
You're probably one of those people who thinks comics are for kids despite the fact the average reader is 23.
Iron Man is probably the best fantasy action movie released this summer. I suspect you hate fantasy action movies in general. Approximately 3 billion people worldwide disagree with you, and those who do "agree" don't generally have access to movie theaters. Stick to the art house and you'll be fine.
Is there a good AV software package that is free and up to date and doesn't suck ass?
No, and there almost certainly never* will be.
The key thing in your list is "up to date". It takes a very large amount of work to identify and create definitions for new viruses as they appear. This is essentially "real-time" work that requires dedicated staff to address. An AV package that can't produce a definition for a virus "in the wild" for a single day is now considered useless. This is where ClamAV falls down, it's definitions always lag behind commercial vendors who have dedicated staff that do nothing but find new viruses and create definitions.
* = There is a way around this. Stealing. Several Russian and Chinese AV vendors simply steal their AV databases from other vendors (Trend, Symantec, etc.) simply releasing a few days after their source.
I don't think so. We're seeing decreasing returns in multi-core computing because it is still basically multi-CPU computing and many tasks are not easily parallelized. The notion that some revolutionary compiler or IDE is going to solve this problem is just wrong. Tell it to Itanic, that was based on exactly these assumptions and failed miserably because of them.
There are also serious problems with I/O with lots of cores. How do you feed them all? It seems like you'd need a LOT of very fast memory and interconnects, as close to the CPU as possible. I think the only way to get this to work would be to have embedded memory for each core IN ADDITION to duplicate system memory. Possible, but extremely expensive.
This wasn't because there was no desire amongst computer users to listen to digital files that could be stored locally or streamed off the internet. It was because computer users did not know yet that they had the desire to do it.
This is a contradiction. "Not knowing you have the desire" is the same as NOT HAVING the desire, unless you want to make some bizarre argument that computer users have subconscious precognition.
The REAL innovation of MP3 was a codec that compressed audio to a large degree (80%+) without a substatantial loss of quality. Before that, "digital music" was unpopular because WAV files were too large to share using the link speeds at the time (9600 baud) and other codecs sounded like ass. Yes, MP3 used a relativel high amount of CPU time, but it was not faster CPUs per se that fostered MP3 adoption.
But we're stuck with it because password security is several orders of magnitude easier to implement in software than REAL security features. The other problem is that most alternatives to passwords require specialized hardware that may not be available for your application.
For example, fingerprint scanners solve most of the problems with passwords. The problem is that most computers and very little specialty hardware (game consoles, PDAs, etc.) have fingerprint scanners.
Probably the best solution at the moment a USB drive with a password vault. That way you only have to remember one password. Of course, that won't work on your PDA.
How many wars of aggression have been launched against Israel?
Zero. Arab attempts to reclaim territory seized by Western invaders in 1948 is not "aggression". As the invader, it is incumbent upon Israel to reach reasonable peace settlements with other nations in the region by compensating them for seized territory, transferred population, etc. Example: Israel make peace with Egypt only when Israel returned seized territory, agreed to pay restitution, and arraigned aid from the USA. There is little reason to believe similar deals would not work with the rest of Israel's neighbors, and such deals have been offered. Israel prefers the path of belligerence, threatening their neighbors with nuclear attack and terrorism.
The irony, though, is that it's only in conversations that involve keyboards where people raise such ideas, while those who play piano, cello, guitar, violin or anything else that requires accuracy, dexterity and speed for 12 hours a day have no complaints, suffer no epidemic of carpal tunnel injuries, nor show interest in theories of how deviating from established technique would improve things.
Except that this is completely wrong. People who play piano, cello, guitar, etc. DO suffer from hand and wrist injuries and DO bitch about the un-ergonomic designs of, say, classical violins fairly constantly. It's just that the heavy emphasis on the "classical" nature of many instruments precludes innovation. This doesn't include guitars and there ARE lots of specialty guitars, like self-tuning guitars and "ergonomic" guitars. Most pianos are soft touch, "real" pianos hardly exist nowadays, etc.
There is a reason modern keyboards are quiet and it's not because of cheap manufacturing.
No, it's because of cheap manufacturing. Membrane keyboards are MUCH (less than half) cheaper to manufacture than mechanical switch keyboards. Mechanical switch keyboards are better by every single mesaure you could come up with: response, keystroke length, "feel" for professional typists, durability, etc.
There is a thing called "proportion".
38 years is a ridiculous sentence for rape or armed robbery. This kid changed his fucking grades. The "burglary" charges are for going to his school after hours. There is no evidence he actually stole, destroyed, or damaged anyone or anything. He CHEATED on TESTS. CHEATED. That's it.
Stop trolling jeiler.
I suspect what them might have done is calculated all the labor for corn as gasoline-fueled machine labor, and calculated sugarcane as "energy-free" manual labor instead. I do not consider substituting machines for slaves to be legitimate analysis.
What about all the people that are going to starve due to redirecting food production? And what about the fact that ethanol will make global warming MUCH worse because of all the land we'll have to clear to grow sugarcane, and all the water the sugarcane uses. Remember, ethanol is much less energy dense than gasoline, so to replace gasoline with ethanol will require producing 3-5X as much ethanol to provide the same amount of energy. It's variable, because the efficiency of alcohol drops in cold climates (that's why alcohol-fuled cars only only used in warm climates). Because we need to burn so much more to generate the same amount of energy ethanol actually ends up producing MORE pollution than gasoline.
Ethanol remains a terrible replacement for gasoline even if it can be made cheaply.
There is also the fact that ethanol really isn't that clean burning, especially when you take the conversion to ethanol into account. There are also practical issues, the the fact that ethanol has less energy density than gasoline (you gett lower MPG with ethanol) means you have to increase fuel tanks (and further reduce efficiency) or deal with shorter ranges on alcohol-fueled cars.
Actually, it's probably closer to: "Coal mining in China kills more people on a yearly basis than the number of people who have ever died in nuclear power production throughout world history."
Do the same numbers for nuclear if you'd like. You'll find the efficiency is in the 30-40% range, beating everything else handily. And even if you had a system that wasn't this efficent (nuclear batteries), you'd STILL be able to generate a lot more power than with solar due to the environmental limitations of solar.
spitzak is right here, after I posted I realized I said the exact opposite of what I wanted to say.
RDP is also encrypted, and has real authentication methods.
X is the worst way imaginable to do graphics (a giant frame buffer). It's good for terminal servers and terrible for everything else.
If you want to go HD, there are two reasonable routes:
Route #1: The "expensive" way.
Go DirectTV using the HD reciever. Spend $200 per month on the HD content. Comcast, Time Warner, and Dish compress the hell out of their HD to the point where they're only marginally better than SD. I don't know about Verizon or Cox.
Build your HTPC using Windows Vista Home Premium and a high-end video capture card with an HDMI/DVI input and a IR blaster for the DirectTV box. The capture card is the critical component, make SURE that the IR blaster supports your set top box.
This system is easier to use than the one below because you can use a PVR interface.
Route #2: The "free" way.
Get a fat internet connection like Fios or cable modem.
Once again, go with Vista Home Premium. This time install a QAM HD tuner with the biggest antenna you can find. That will be the source for your PVR recordings. Install Miro and/or TVersity to download Bittorrent RSS feeds for the rest of your content (yes, you're stealing it). Your TV guide will be a little sparse. Your shows will be delayed because you have to wait for someone else to upload them. to the EZTV and related RSS feeds.
This system is a bit of a PITA because of the way recordings are scattered around. You'll basically have to navigate a file browser to watch your shows, rather than a Tivo-like PVR interface.
There is no reason why you can't combine the two.
Don't even consider PVR/media player software other than Vista or XP Media Center. I've used just about everything and nothing else will work as well AND provides free guide data. XBOX Media Center comes close, but it's a PITA. Only go MythTV or similar if you're a frothing Linux zealot.
1) NT-based Windows derivatives, like Windows XP were/are dramatically more stable than the 9x line, mainly due to changes made to the driver system. The same is true of Vista, changes made to the driver system were done to increase stability.
2) OSX is based on Next, not BSD per se. It uses a different kernel, different drivers, etc. It is appropriate to say that MacOS X is "POSIX-compliant" and "binary compatible with BSD" but not that it is BSD "tweaked up a bit".
3) Finder on MacOS X is broken.
4) MacOS X was dramatically slower than MacOS 9 on all available hardware when it shipped. It really only ran adequately on G5s and it wasn't until the switch to Intel (years later) that it really ran well. Apple completely lied about the performance of their hardware during this period. Much of this was due to Quartz (the eye-candy) which, unlike Vista, you couldn't turn off.
5) Vista added more than eye-candy, but critics simply choose to ignore those features as "not important". Most of those critics are Mac zealots that regard the same or similar features in MacOS X as "essential" and "revolutionary".
In most states the law is: If you're committing a crime, and in the course of that crime someone, somehow, dies, your are guilty of 1st degree murder.
There are other circumstances. In many states, killing a peace officer/police officer under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES WHATSOEVER, including self defense, is considered 1st degree murder. Considering he hasn't admitted to the crime and explained why he did it, you can't make that claim. That's what prosecutors believed and it seems the likely motivation base on press account I have read. Besides, You don't make allowance for exigent circumstances, so it really doesn't matter what his motivation is. You've made it clear that you think every person convicted of 1st degree murder should be executed, period.
BTW, What is your response to the numerous prisoners released from death row recently due to false convictions? This led to a moratorium on execution in many states. Does the notion that many innocent people could be executed under your model upset you?