I think this has more to do with Apple's share in the media player market (at what percentage of iPod's share do we start to complain about Apple's proprietary DRM scheme combined with their market share killing competition?), Apple being first, Microsoft's reputation as a not-so-hip company, and Microsoft introducing a brand *new* DRM scheme. I don't think that it has *a* DRM scheme a user have to study to know how it even restrict you is being a problem; in that case iPod's wouldn't have sold well either.
At least when I open up the Task Manager on XP, every Task uses at least 5MB of RAM, while on 2k most of the Tasks use less than 1MB
This is strange, because on my test install of Vista, most tasks use less than 5 MB of RAM.:-/ And yes, that's even the total working set, not just the private.
About 30 of 38 use less than 5 MB now.
Maybe MS split up some of their tasks into more processes though, not really sure about this.
4. Driver Support Vista includes thousands of drivers, but most have been created directly by Microsoft. Many hardware manufacturers do not yet have drivers available for Vista.
This is not Vista-specific, same thing happened in e.g. Windows 2000. Or Windows 95. Or other significant upgrades. Trust me, this will become less of an issue or "bad thing" in 2007, and then, once again, competing operating systems are likely to be worse off in the driver area. Unfortunately. The most common OS developer tend to get the best drivers because driver developers likes making profit from supporting the most common operating systems.
And of course MS made most built-in drivers. They always do in the shipping versions of large OS upgrades. If third party devs aren't done in time, MS will ship reduced functionality to give the user at least something to work with until the real driver is done. NVIDIA, Creative Labs and more are currently developing more complete Vista drivers. You can even read up on this on their sites.
6. Memory Vista loves RAM, but more is better. Plan on 2 Gbytes to meet real-world needs.
1 GB works here on my test install. I can run Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Office 2007, Guild Wars. Can they be more precise about "real-world needs"? Working at rendering industry buildings in 3D Studio?
8. Activation The need to activate the product via the Web could prove to be a time-waster during mass deployments.
That's why there are KMS servers to reduce it to only one server connecting to MS every half a year per company with 25+ installs, i.e. "mass deployments".
9. Storage Space With Vista taking as much as 10 Gbytes of hard drive space, big and fast hard drives will be a must.
Is 10 GB making up a large part of current hard drives? I see similar sizes in competing operating systems.
10. Backup See No. 9. Backing up desktops will take a great deal of space.
See above.
11. Urgency Unlike Windows XP and Windows 95, there seems to be no must-have reasons behind Vista.
Was suddenly security looking like hell in Windows 9x and XP non-issues? Interesting how they're only issues when it's suitable to complain about them, otherwise not. Vista may still have its share of these issues, but it's way too early to say there are no must-have reasons behind Vista compared to earlier Windows releases. There may not be in case of trouble, but there may also be big ones. They should not make this judgment at this time as it's premature.
12. Learning Curve Vista is just different enough from XP that technicians and users will need training.
Did this stop KDE's first release? Gnome's? Windows 3.0? Windows 95? Do this author think Windows XP's UI therefore is excellent? What is the problem exactly, or is the author only stating the blindingly obvious?
13. Cost Moving to Vista can prove to be expensive when one considers the price of the OS, the cost of hardware upgrades and the cost of migration.
Yes, moving to new OS's tend to cost a lot. That's why we're still running even Windows 2000 at places. And again, I'm not sure of what hardware upgrades they're talking of. Memory = see above, graphics cards = similar to in XP if you don't need the Aero eye candy which I can't see too many companies really hungering for.
19. Installation Can take hours on some systems. Upgrades are even slower.
... but installation is quicker than on XP thanks to Vista's image based install. However, note how they conveniently fail to compare to other operating systems, Microsoft's or others. I'm sure I can find hardware where a full install of Mandriva will take "hours" on as well. On my 4 year old hardware, Vista install took ~25 mins.
21. 50 Million Lines Of Code Even with the five years of development and long beta test period that went into Vis
I think the simple answer is: if gambling addiction is a medical condition, Internet addiction (i.e. the state where you feel withdrawal) also is. If we're not to consider gambling addiction to be such a condition, "Internet addiction" isn't either. I think the two are very closely related to each other anyway. Playing a game and feeling the reward from progress or gambling and occasionally (of course -- far too rarely, logically speaking) winning and getting the urge to continue thanks to that, is there a big difference really?
Would a computer owner who had previously stored such images on their computer be required to delete them? Or securely delete them (multiple overwrites)? Or scrub their entire hard-drive with Darius Boot and Nuke? Thermite? etc.
One thing's for sure about child porn possession... I've had stories of drives not entirely wiped when resold in case of returns by customers and still with all data not wiped. In case you'd be a second owner of such a, usually a bit more cheaply sold and thus more attractive to some to buy, you'd better be sure that stuff was never on it in case you'd have hardware troubles in the future. Because there have likewise been stories of those turning in customers because they "found" (don't ask me what gives them the right to scan your drive -- they can and do it) illegal material on the drive. I think you'd have quite a hard time proving it wasn't you that stored them, but a former owner.
This is just one problem I have with overzealous laws like this that become sort of "blunt" in how they work, lacking a better term. I have nothing against legislation stopping this stuff to be spread, but why not be satisfied with making it illegal to spread and get child porn, just not possess it? It would close a heck of a lot of problematic scenarios IMHO and work pretty much as well as usual.
graphic sexual intercourse, including genital-genital, oral-genital, anal-genital, or oral-anal, whether between persons of the same or opposite sex, or lascivious simulated sexual intercourse where the genitals, breast, or pubic area of any person is exhibited;
"lascivious simulated sexual intercourse"
Seems they closed the legal loophole for creating sites with underage genital-nasal sex and not call it sexually explicit.;)
As for cartoons, how the hell does a court determine whether or not the drawn picture is of an underage girl, or a "barely legal" 18 year old?
You zoom in really much on the pixels, and if they have fewer than 18 age rings on them, the pixels are too young.:-p
Seriously, yeah, that judgment would be entirely left up for the law to make, and with as exaggerated erotica the computer generated art I've seen can be, that should be an interesting judgment to watch to say the least.
That's funny... It means Canadians can't produce movies illustrating "lolita" behavior as the film with the same name did. Not that I care for such movies really, unless they'd have a really good script, in which case they'd be our loss. I also have to wonder if Brooke Shields actually suffered any psychological trauma from the recording of that movie? If not, and if it's not common, who are we protecting in this case, really?
Who can even make heads or tails of all this global warming stuff?
We get reports like this, within a day of getting reports like cows cause more greenhouse gases than cars, planes, and all other forms of transportation put together [foxnews.com]
So? Do you think both reports can not be true, or what is the confusion exactly? You mean "why hasn't this happened before if cows cause this", but one major thing to keep in mind is man's breeding of cattle to feed an enormous population.
Is this new method really worth the bad PR that follows once it's uncovered? Hmm, but I guess that's the market analysts job to confirm before putting such plans into action...
I don't like it though; videos are alright if they wish to hide who made them, but posting such comments feels like crossing a line to me.
2) No. The legal system takes a sharp turn to revenge, not reintegration. Actually it's been doing that for quite a while now, I'm not even sure if it was even ever any other way.
Hmm, this answer interested me the most.:-) It could be a difference from the country I live in where there is no death penalties and less of an "eye for an eye" mentality. It certainly feels like a culture difference to me anyway. The life sentence average is about 15-20 years. But that's mostly how the jurisidiction looks here now; I'm sure that if we had more voice from the people influence our laws, we'd have death penalties for criminals and more legal support for the "once a criminal, always a criminal" mentality pretty soon. However, it would be interesting to know studies in the effects of more or less harsh penalties. I have a feeling they don't actually matter as much as one's gut feeling would be at all.
I'm not a sex offender and don't want to support those in particular, but juridically, I think these questions still need to be asked:
- Why only sex offenders? Are other criminals not as dangerous? Do these not use e-mail? - What happened to jail penalties clearing them of their crime after it's over? Or do I misunderstand part of their intent? - How is this legislation going to be enforced? Will a sex offender willing to abuse kids be willing to register the mail address used for this?
Which last hotfix to a media player added new features comparable to support for a major video format, full screen controls, and more? Don't tell me you also just looked at the version number increase.
- About only 2% of Swedes are lactose intolerant. - About 20-60% of Africans are lactose intolerant.
I can personally see a much stronger signature of these genetic traits in Scandinavia? Is the difference that this evolution was not "recent"? Because surely it has to be some form of natural selection causing this in Scandinavia too, perhaps trigged earlier for some reason?
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I think this has more to do with Apple's share in the media player market (at what percentage of iPod's share do we start to complain about Apple's proprietary DRM scheme combined with their market share killing competition?), Apple being first, Microsoft's reputation as a not-so-hip company, and Microsoft introducing a brand *new* DRM scheme. I don't think that it has *a* DRM scheme a user have to study to know how it even restrict you is being a problem; in that case iPod's wouldn't have sold well either.
At least when I open up the Task Manager on XP, every Task uses at least 5MB of RAM, while on 2k most of the Tasks use less than 1MB
:-/
This is strange, because on my test install of Vista, most tasks use less than 5 MB of RAM.
And yes, that's even the total working set, not just the private.
About 30 of 38 use less than 5 MB now.
Maybe MS split up some of their tasks into more processes though, not really sure about this.
4. Driver Support
Vista includes thousands of drivers, but most have been created directly by Microsoft. Many hardware manufacturers do not yet have drivers available for Vista.
This is not Vista-specific, same thing happened in e.g. Windows 2000. Or Windows 95. Or other significant upgrades. Trust me, this will become less of an issue or "bad thing" in 2007, and then, once again, competing operating systems are likely to be worse off in the driver area. Unfortunately. The most common OS developer tend to get the best drivers because driver developers likes making profit from supporting the most common operating systems.
And of course MS made most built-in drivers. They always do in the shipping versions of large OS upgrades. If third party devs aren't done in time, MS will ship reduced functionality to give the user at least something to work with until the real driver is done. NVIDIA, Creative Labs and more are currently developing more complete Vista drivers. You can even read up on this on their sites.
6. Memory
Vista loves RAM, but more is better. Plan on 2 Gbytes to meet real-world needs.
1 GB works here on my test install. I can run Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Office 2007, Guild Wars.
Can they be more precise about "real-world needs"? Working at rendering industry buildings in 3D Studio?
8. Activation
The need to activate the product via the Web could prove to be a time-waster during mass deployments.
That's why there are KMS servers to reduce it to only one server connecting to MS every half a year per company with 25+ installs, i.e. "mass deployments".
9. Storage Space
With Vista taking as much as 10 Gbytes of hard drive space, big and fast hard drives will be a must.
Is 10 GB making up a large part of current hard drives? I see similar sizes in competing operating systems.
10. Backup
See No. 9. Backing up desktops will take a great deal of space.
See above.
11. Urgency
Unlike Windows XP and Windows 95, there seems to be no must-have reasons behind Vista.
Was suddenly security looking like hell in Windows 9x and XP non-issues? Interesting how they're only issues when it's suitable to complain about them, otherwise not. Vista may still have its share of these issues, but it's way too early to say there are no must-have reasons behind Vista compared to earlier Windows releases. There may not be in case of trouble, but there may also be big ones. They should not make this judgment at this time as it's premature.
12. Learning Curve
Vista is just different enough from XP that technicians and users will need training.
Did this stop KDE's first release? Gnome's? Windows 3.0? Windows 95?
Do this author think Windows XP's UI therefore is excellent?
What is the problem exactly, or is the author only stating the blindingly obvious?
13. Cost
Moving to Vista can prove to be expensive when one considers the price of the OS, the cost of hardware upgrades and the cost of migration.
Yes, moving to new OS's tend to cost a lot. That's why we're still running even Windows 2000 at places.
And again, I'm not sure of what hardware upgrades they're talking of.
Memory = see above, graphics cards = similar to in XP if you don't need the Aero eye candy which I can't see too many companies really hungering for.
19. Installation
Can take hours on some systems. Upgrades are even slower.
However, note how they conveniently fail to compare to other operating systems, Microsoft's or others.
I'm sure I can find hardware where a full install of Mandriva will take "hours" on as well.
On my 4 year old hardware, Vista install took ~25 mins.
21. 50 Million Lines Of Code
Even with the five years of development and long beta test period that went into Vis
Damn ad-heavy split up articles.
1. Lawn Darts
2. Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab
3. Mini-Hammocks from EZ Sales
4. Snacktime Cabbage Patch Dolls
5. Sky Dancers
6. Bat Masterson Derringer Belt Gun
7. Creepy Crawlers
8. Johnny Reb Cannon
9. Battlestar Galactica Missile Launcher
10. Fisher-Price Power Wheels Motorcycle
So it seems they missed the latest threat:
The Nintendo Wii
- http://www.wiihaveaproblem.com/
Example injuries from that site:
- Girl Dislocates Knee While Playing with Wii
- Attack on Girlfriend Proves Fatal to Boyfriend's Wii Privileges
I think it's all very simple, so simple I don't really understand why it got over the head of the story submitter..
Microsoft has support for this in IE 7 to help other companies distribute their branded version of IE 7.
To MS it doesn't really matter what happens; as long as their browser is distributed, they're happy.
If MS didn't allow this, you'd be able to download IE 7 from either Google and Yahoo, and that would have been Microsoft's loss as well.
Actually, the toolbars in IE 7 can't be moved around, as funny as it may sound.
You can "unlock" the toolbars to resize one of them, but it seems MS didn't listen to all the complaints that were raised about this during the betas.
I don't really understand the logic behind radically changing the UI and at the same time remove customization.
LOL, it sure takes a magic Merlin to come up with such a prediction! :-)
With hibernation I don't really have a problem with boot up speeds anymore.
I think the simple answer is: if gambling addiction is a medical condition, Internet addiction (i.e. the state where you feel withdrawal) also is. If we're not to consider gambling addiction to be such a condition, "Internet addiction" isn't either. I think the two are very closely related to each other anyway. Playing a game and feeling the reward from progress or gambling and occasionally (of course -- far too rarely, logically speaking) winning and getting the urge to continue thanks to that, is there a big difference really?
One thing's for sure about child porn possession... I've had stories of drives not entirely wiped when resold in case of returns by customers and still with all data not wiped. In case you'd be a second owner of such a, usually a bit more cheaply sold and thus more attractive to some to buy, you'd better be sure that stuff was never on it in case you'd have hardware troubles in the future. Because there have likewise been stories of those turning in customers because they "found" (don't ask me what gives them the right to scan your drive -- they can and do it) illegal material on the drive. I think you'd have quite a hard time proving it wasn't you that stored them, but a former owner.
This is just one problem I have with overzealous laws like this that become sort of "blunt" in how they work, lacking a better term. I have nothing against legislation stopping this stuff to be spread, but why not be satisfied with making it illegal to spread and get child porn, just not possess it? It would close a heck of a lot of problematic scenarios IMHO and work pretty much as well as usual.
"lascivious simulated sexual intercourse"
Seems they closed the legal loophole for creating sites with underage genital-nasal sex and not call it sexually explicit.
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Tee-hee... This is John, 13 years old, stark naked in a full frontal pose.
Made you regret you clicked on this link, didn't I ??
You zoom in really much on the pixels, and if they have fewer than 18 age rings on them, the pixels are too young.
Seriously, yeah, that judgment would be entirely left up for the law to make, and with as exaggerated erotica the computer generated art I've seen can be, that should be an interesting judgment to watch to say the least.
That's funny... It means Canadians can't produce movies illustrating "lolita" behavior as the film with the same name did. Not that I care for such movies really, unless they'd have a really good script, in which case they'd be our loss. I also have to wonder if Brooke Shields actually suffered any psychological trauma from the recording of that movie? If not, and if it's not common, who are we protecting in this case, really?
It's the disease, ya know. I can't help it.
Then you'll be told: Yes you can, here's the address to a rehabilitation service...
Revised news summary:
Who can even make heads or tails of all this global warming stuff?
We get reports like this, within a day of getting reports like cows cause more greenhouse gases than cars, planes, and all other forms of transportation put together [foxnews.com]
So? Do you think both reports can not be true, or what is the confusion exactly?
You mean "why hasn't this happened before if cows cause this", but one major thing to keep in mind is man's breeding of cattle to feed an enormous population.
Is this new method really worth the bad PR that follows once it's uncovered?
Hmm, but I guess that's the market analysts job to confirm before putting such plans into action...
I don't like it though; videos are alright if they wish to hide who made them, but posting such comments feels like crossing a line to me.
Hmm, this answer interested me the most.
This is basically as I've said elsewhere...
I'm not a sex offender and don't want to support those in particular, but juridically, I think these questions still need to be asked:
- Why only sex offenders? Are other criminals not as dangerous? Do these not use e-mail?
- What happened to jail penalties clearing them of their crime after it's over? Or do I misunderstand part of their intent?
- How is this legislation going to be enforced? Will a sex offender willing to abuse kids be willing to register the mail address used for this?
Which last hotfix to a media player added new features comparable to support for a major video format, full screen controls, and more?
Don't tell me you also just looked at the version number increase.
How is a bit of numerology really relevant to this?
I'm grateful for the news myself as some of these features were pretty substantial.
Don't stare yourself blind at the version number.
RTFA? Are you serious? :-)
Anyway, thanks, I see now...
So the news is "Yet another evolution in lactose tolerance detected". Still news I guess, just less news.
- About only 2% of Swedes are lactose intolerant.
- About 20-60% of Africans are lactose intolerant.
I can personally see a much stronger signature of these genetic traits in Scandinavia? Is the difference that this evolution was not "recent"? Because surely it has to be some form of natural selection causing this in Scandinavia too, perhaps trigged earlier for some reason?
Some useful links:
- Lactose intolerance by human groups.
- World map with lactose intolerance distribution.
I'm not sure what's so hard to realize here?
Hibernation is very quick because it resumes from RAM.
Booting isn't, because it loads from a hard drive.
This is no OS issue, it's more like a hardware issue to me.
We'll never get "TV-duration" start times with the current hardware, although those hybrid flash drives are interesting.