I'd rather have microsofts revenue than apples, even if apples is larger. Reason? Apples revenue comes from consumer electronics. That can change overnight if Apple just blows it once with a new release. Microsoft has a huge corporate revenue stream as well as a lot more lock-in from software. To put it another way: microsoft can release vista fiv times over without losing much revenue to e.g. Mac OS. If the iPhone6 is crap and samsung's offering is brilliant then Apple is in trouble. Apple have to deliver continuously, MS not so much.
Worse, Apple's value is entirely coupled to the close association of a narrow set of consumer hardware to a walled garden set of media. Loss of market in either will start to very quickly erode the other because they, effectively, have all their eggs in one big basket. Microsoft has several *thousand* products. (Half of which, I'd hazard a guess, virtually no one outside of a fairly narrow space has ever even heard of.)
As someone with a fairly large investment in both companies, I think you're absolutely right. Apple is a high yield, high risk stock. Microsoft's stock is rock stable in price specifically because investors know its not going anywhere. Its a long term investment that pays good dividends and is a safe place to put it. Apple's stock is best to day-trade, because it rides 10% swings constantly. Microsoft's value doesn't concern me at all... it'll slowly rise, it'll slowly fall but its too diversified to do either quickly. Apple's a constant game of worry -- hoping it doesn't implode before some particular block of stock in my portfolio ticks over to a long-term cap gain rather than short term, and wondering if its best to take the short term cap gain hit and get out before it implodes.
Consumers, to your point, are fickle. Sony was the Apple of the 90's, and it didn't last. Apple likely won't either... and their "innovation" (or complete lack thereof) since Jobs' death should (and does) significantly worry investors.
This project is from Avro (A.V. Roe, a respected Canadian aircraft manufacturer in the 1950s) and is clearly a follow-on to the Avrocar. The Avrocar, of course, really was a flying saucer. But it could barely fly.
You might want to actually read the article before posting on here, given you can't edit your post and everyone who read the article now knows you didn't. (Although interestingly, a moderator clearly didn't either...)
Win8 start screen is really more like a desktop - new apps get pinned to it by default, but you can unpin them, and it only shows what has been pinned - in other words, it's meant to be a selection of the most frequently launched apps. The "all apps" screen (which is accessed from the start screen via the app bar, or by starting search) is the direct analog of Start menu.
The Windows 7 start menu has always just shown pinned apps, you had to drill down into child menus to open all the apps.
Its the exact same behavior, just a different presentation.
Jams don't help, but when you have masses of people traveling in the same direction at the same time of day, there's really little you can do.
Of course you can. The problem isn't the volume of cars, its the fact that beyond a certain density, people start freakin' the eff out in traffic. Someone taps the brakes because they're following too close, and the people in the lanes around them behind there start to tap their brakes instinctively -- even if they don't have to. You end up with a spot an hour later that people are *still* tapping their brakes -- for no reason.
The psychology of drivers in traffic the key factor in traffic congestion. If you eliminate those psychological brain farts like brake tapping, and people shooting between lanes all the time, you smooth everything out.
Will you average the speed you'd have on empty roads? No, but you definitely will average higher speeds than a free-for-all.
The start screen is just a full screen start menu that you can optionally pin "active" icons to.
Nothing more. If you don't install any metro apps, its just a full screen start menu. Only if you have metro apps installed do you get anything functionally new -- active tiles. And you can unpin them.
If many people can quickly create something that looks like a decent Win7 start menu, why can't Microsoft just do the obvious: leave the start button there? Or at least offer the option to re-enable it. It doesn't seem like a major support burden for them, does it?
It is there. Click in the corner where the start button used to be, and the start screen comes up. Hit the windows key, and the start screen comes up. Click an icon on that screen, just like in Windows 7, and it launches. Start typing, it starts searching just like Windows 7.
The only change is that to see "All Programs" you need to right click now, instead of clicking on the "All Programs" pop-out.
There's no real issue here, other than Slashdot wanting to stir the pot for ad revenue, and people spouting off who haven't ever used it by repeating the pot stirring that bloggers have been posting... for ad revenue. So, basically business as usual for the FOX News of technology sites.
Cobbling together things rarely makes sense unless your time is free or you need something the various providers don't support.
IMO, unless you're going 100% open source for some philosophical reason, you can't beat the combination of Office365 and Windows InTune.
~$35 a month (O365 E3+InTune) per user gives you centralized desktop policy management, hosted e-mail, document sharing via Sharepoint, enterprise SA for Windows (so you can use/mandate Bitlocker, DirectAccess, and get free upgrades to Windows 8, etc), desktop software management (pushing out updates, new software, etc), Office Professional Plus, and Lync with telephony support. Another $20-$30 a month per user and you'll have direct dial in and out supported, with automated attendant, voicemail, and everything else, all in the cloud, all managed by one person via a web browser. Pay another $40 for your sales guys and you can flip on CRM. Hell, its worth it just to avoid dealing with all the "I forgot my password to our file sharing service" questions.
IMO, you could run IT comfortably for a knowledge-worker-centric small business with 30-40 people with one guy if you use the right infrastructure. And you won't have your infrastructure fall apart when the guy who cobbled together your stuff quits. A real small business and one person a couple hours a month could probably maintain it if they can follow directions.
Seriously, focus on your business, not this kind of crap.
.... between what happens to the chinese perpetrators and what has happened to Gary McKinnon over the years!
Are you really that stupid, or just trying to start a flamewar?
In either case, I'll hypothesize that you really are that stupid, serving either as an observation or as fertilizer to your flamewar, depending on your original intent.
This would scare the crap out of me. I can do any ride in an amusement park. Tallest, fastest, upside down... doesn't matter. Put me on a Ferris wheet and I'm grabbing the bar with white knuckles. I think it is the fact that I just have time to look out at the world and wonder about the minimum wage carnie who maintains the machine. That and the person sitting next to me can decide to start rocking the damn thing...
No, it doesn't make a lot of sense, but I'd rather be on the 70mph dragster than on a small Ferris wheel.
I'm like that, but its very different (in my experience) when its fully enclosed and not spinning willy-nilly. The London Eye was something I really enjoyed, as an example. But the kind they've got at amusement parts makes me want to hurl. (And, for the benefit of those on it with me, hopefully not while I'm on it.)
I think, in the best interest of the safety and security of the Supreme Court judges, its probably best they require everyone -- including the judges -- to use the full body scanners to enter the Supreme Court building.
As a pinnacle of our republic, not taking its security seriously is an insult to the institution of the Supreme Court and the United States of America.
p>-Joe Broker makes a loan to Alice - Banks don't make loans anymore, brokers do.
You're dodging Alice's personal responsibility with your list. The problem isn't anything you listed, its Alice's belief that she's owed something more in life than she earned. Alice took out the loan, not Joe Broker. Joe Broker's job is to write loans, not make people live responsibly.
The break-down in the system is that, for some reason, we think as a society we should support people who make bad decisions rather than punishing them.
Futures and derivatives are NOT "capitalism". They are gambling. Pure and simple. This has been one of the main downfalls of banks and Wall Street, directly contributing to the 2008 debacle.
We should not base our economy on fake money. Investment is fine. And all investment is "gambling" to a certain extent... at least if it's done honestly.
BUT... speculation and derivatives are PURE gambling. It's nothing more than a government-sponsored casino.
Negative. The 2008 debacle was caused by one thing -- a massive number of greedy consumers thinking they were taking advantage of the system, and a slew of bankers willing to give them the means to do so. It may not be as trendy as blaming the banks, but every single person to refinanced their house to buy a car they couldn't afford, or a bigger house they couldn't afford, or go on some fancy vacation they couldn't afford is singularly to blame for what happened. Everyone who racked up tens of thousands in credit card debt carries that blame. The banks simply did one thing -- happily give people the rope to hang themselves with, if they weren't living responsibly. Did bankers pull out a few hundred million in bonuses? Sure. The American people pulled out trillions in illegitimate money.
The irony of it all is that those people -- the tens of millions of "99%'ers" who lived the high life on the economy has convinced themselves that they were not at fault, and it was the big bad bankers who did it. And the ten million people in houses who (by any sane economic standpoint) should never have been homeowners, and the tens of millions of people in the middle class who were living an upper class fantasy complain that they're not getting bailed out? That's laughable. No one is losing a house who is living in their means and being responsible.
Claiming that the bank collapse was caused by futures and derivatives is just ignorant of the basics of economics.
Most computers and computer components sold in the U.S. are manufactured in China now. Just wanted to let you know, Mr. President, in case you missed it.
I know, I know "free market" and all that, sir. But is it really a free market if the country doing all the manufacturing isn't free?
Yes, I'm sure you're privy to all sorts of information the President of the United States isn't aware of.
Treat your employees like the human beings they are and appreciate what they do for you, and pay them accordingly. The golden rule as applied to the workforce.
The problem is, the vast majority of people seem to think their value to an organization is far greater than it is. Unless they're in a unionized position that is forcing a company to pay them more than you're worth through artificial market controls, companies tend to be pretty good at paying people what they're actually worth. People who are undervalued go elsewhere. Hopefully people who are overvalued are weeded out.
We'd have a lot more people working in the US if more people understood that. It baffles me when you hear someone unemployed making a comment to the media to the effect of "I can't find a job that will pay me what I'm worth" or "I'm underemployed". News flash: Very few people are as valuable as they think they are.
They should have done this weeks ago. It was clear he violated his probation from the beginning.
It's very important for Muslims across the world to understand that he was NOT arrested and jailed for the CONTENT of that movie, but because he continually provided false aliases to the judge and the police in violation of his probation.
I wonder if the protesters in Egypt will understand this...my guess is probably not.
The first amendment is a bit of a nuanced thing, and I'm not sure how well people (particularly outside the US) really understand it. We need to make clear he wasn't arrested for the content of the movie, but its *not* against the 1st amendment to arrest him because of the *results* of releasing the movie. You have every right to shout "fire" in a packed theater, but the 1st amendment doesn't grant you immunity from being criminally charged as a result of it. The speech isn't illegal, but inciting a panic may be.
Along the same lines, its not unreasonable to think he could've been held criminally liable as an accessory to the murders in Libya, if they're proven to actually be related to the movie, if it could be proved that he made the movie explicitly to incite that kind of reaction. (Which, allegedly, he did.)
In a lot of the middle east, you can be arrested for saying something. Here in the US, you can still be arrested because of the *result* of saying something, but not because you said it. (For example, if you threaten to kill someone -- and they believe you mean it -- you've committed a crime.)
How does it make sense to push a buggy product out the door before it's ready? It only makes sense if you want the product to tank.
That or it, in fact, is not buggy. Intel wants it delayed because their low power CPUs aren't available yet and they're going to lose the low-end tablet space to ARM.
Anyone who is actually using it day-to-day, and isn't an anti-Microsoft troll, a tech blogger who gets paid by ad impressions, and isn't a slighted "partner" will tell you its extremely stable, works as well or better than Win7 and is a very nice upgrade.
Of course, stories that say that won't get ad impressions on Slashdot, either.
Has windows ever been released with full driver support? Windows 7 still has driver issues, XP had driver issues for years etc.... I'm not sure what his point was if he mentioned driver support.
I've run it on quite a few different systems, of ages going back perhaps 6-7 years. The single driver problem I've run into with the RTM bits is a Bootcamp problem -- the touchpad on my MacBook Air doesn't work and so far I've been unable to cobble together anything to get the drivers to load. Every other device on all of the systems has worked flawlessly. (In fact, my relatively new Core I7 3770 system works far better because a slew of really buggy Intel-originated drivers were replaced by 1st party Microsoft drivers.
The Hindenburg was designed for helium, and hydrogen was only used because supplies of helium were withheld from the operators for political reasons. If the Hindenburg had been designed with hydrogen in mind instead of inert helium the accident may never have happened.
I'm not going to say using hydrogen in a dirigible is a good idea but hydrogen shouldn't be completely written off as an operational substitute for helium because of one fiasco in the 1930s.
The Hindenburg, and all the other Zeppelin airships had also done hundreds of trips for years, even with hydrogen.
The incident is burned into the public psyche not because it was particularly horrorific, or because it was some example of bad design held up for criticism -- its notable for one reason only. It was the first case of broad media overhype. It was the great-grand-daddy of all the shit we see on the "news" today.
IP law isn't the problem, funding of the patent office is. The problem with junk patents isn't the patent system, but the load and backlog the patent examiners have.
There's two solutions -- vastly increase the cost of patents, shutting out individual investors, or fund it to the tune of an order of magnitude more money from taxes.
It's easy to see if you're right. Just get yourself some super-heated steam (a pressure cooker is a good start), an appropriately-sized chunk of saltwater ice (do you own a freezer?) and see if it is practical.
Myself, I'm thinking that it doesn't work the way that you think that it does.
But it's your idea so I'll let you either prove or disprove it yourself. Good luck!
This is Slashdot, home of the armchair quarterback that thinks they've thought of something the experts missed.
6.1 is the kernel version, the full OS is Windows 7.
C:\>ver
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
C:\>help ver Displays the Windows version.
VER
Hmm, doesn't say anything about kernels in there...
Sorry if I wasn't clear. I wasn't putting forward a theory or anything, just stating an absolute fact from first hand experience.
ver is a DOS holdover, and there was a 1:1 relationship between "kernel" version with DOS and the release vehicle. The major/minor kernel versions all mean something with Windows -- if you actually want to know, I'm sure a quick intarweb search will edjumacate you.
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I'd rather have microsofts revenue than apples, even if apples is larger. Reason? Apples revenue comes from consumer electronics. That can change overnight if Apple just blows it once with a new release. Microsoft has a huge corporate revenue stream as well as a lot more lock-in from software. To put it another way: microsoft can release vista fiv times over without losing much revenue to e.g. Mac OS. If the iPhone6 is crap and samsung's offering is brilliant then Apple is in trouble. Apple have to deliver continuously, MS not so much.
Worse, Apple's value is entirely coupled to the close association of a narrow set of consumer hardware to a walled garden set of media. Loss of market in either will start to very quickly erode the other because they, effectively, have all their eggs in one big basket. Microsoft has several *thousand* products. (Half of which, I'd hazard a guess, virtually no one outside of a fairly narrow space has ever even heard of.)
As someone with a fairly large investment in both companies, I think you're absolutely right. Apple is a high yield, high risk stock. Microsoft's stock is rock stable in price specifically because investors know its not going anywhere. Its a long term investment that pays good dividends and is a safe place to put it. Apple's stock is best to day-trade, because it rides 10% swings constantly. Microsoft's value doesn't concern me at all... it'll slowly rise, it'll slowly fall but its too diversified to do either quickly. Apple's a constant game of worry -- hoping it doesn't implode before some particular block of stock in my portfolio ticks over to a long-term cap gain rather than short term, and wondering if its best to take the short term cap gain hit and get out before it implodes.
Consumers, to your point, are fickle. Sony was the Apple of the 90's, and it didn't last. Apple likely won't either... and their "innovation" (or complete lack thereof) since Jobs' death should (and does) significantly worry investors.
This project is from Avro (A.V. Roe, a respected Canadian aircraft manufacturer in the 1950s) and is clearly a follow-on to the Avrocar. The Avrocar, of course, really was a flying saucer. But it could barely fly.
You might want to actually read the article before posting on here, given you can't edit your post and everyone who read the article now knows you didn't. (Although interestingly, a moderator clearly didn't either...)
Win8 start screen is really more like a desktop - new apps get pinned to it by default, but you can unpin them, and it only shows what has been pinned - in other words, it's meant to be a selection of the most frequently launched apps. The "all apps" screen (which is accessed from the start screen via the app bar, or by starting search) is the direct analog of Start menu.
The Windows 7 start menu has always just shown pinned apps, you had to drill down into child menus to open all the apps.
Its the exact same behavior, just a different presentation.
Jams don't help, but when you have masses of people traveling in the same direction at the same time of day, there's really little you can do.
Of course you can. The problem isn't the volume of cars, its the fact that beyond a certain density, people start freakin' the eff out in traffic. Someone taps the brakes because they're following too close, and the people in the lanes around them behind there start to tap their brakes instinctively -- even if they don't have to. You end up with a spot an hour later that people are *still* tapping their brakes -- for no reason.
The psychology of drivers in traffic the key factor in traffic congestion. If you eliminate those psychological brain farts like brake tapping, and people shooting between lanes all the time, you smooth everything out.
Will you average the speed you'd have on empty roads? No, but you definitely will average higher speeds than a free-for-all.
The start screen is just a full screen start menu that you can optionally pin "active" icons to.
Nothing more. If you don't install any metro apps, its just a full screen start menu. Only if you have metro apps installed do you get anything functionally new -- active tiles. And you can unpin them.
If many people can quickly create something that looks like a decent Win7 start menu, why can't Microsoft just do the obvious: leave the start button there? Or at least offer the option to re-enable it. It doesn't seem like a major support burden for them, does it?
It is there. Click in the corner where the start button used to be, and the start screen comes up. Hit the windows key, and the start screen comes up. Click an icon on that screen, just like in Windows 7, and it launches. Start typing, it starts searching just like Windows 7.
The only change is that to see "All Programs" you need to right click now, instead of clicking on the "All Programs" pop-out.
There's no real issue here, other than Slashdot wanting to stir the pot for ad revenue, and people spouting off who haven't ever used it by repeating the pot stirring that bloggers have been posting... for ad revenue. So, basically business as usual for the FOX News of technology sites.
Cobbling together things rarely makes sense unless your time is free or you need something the various providers don't support.
IMO, unless you're going 100% open source for some philosophical reason, you can't beat the combination of Office365 and Windows InTune.
~$35 a month (O365 E3+InTune) per user gives you centralized desktop policy management, hosted e-mail, document sharing via Sharepoint, enterprise SA for Windows (so you can use/mandate Bitlocker, DirectAccess, and get free upgrades to Windows 8, etc), desktop software management (pushing out updates, new software, etc), Office Professional Plus, and Lync with telephony support. Another $20-$30 a month per user and you'll have direct dial in and out supported, with automated attendant, voicemail, and everything else, all in the cloud, all managed by one person via a web browser. Pay another $40 for your sales guys and you can flip on CRM. Hell, its worth it just to avoid dealing with all the "I forgot my password to our file sharing service" questions.
IMO, you could run IT comfortably for a knowledge-worker-centric small business with 30-40 people with one guy if you use the right infrastructure. And you won't have your infrastructure fall apart when the guy who cobbled together your stuff quits. A real small business and one person a couple hours a month could probably maintain it if they can follow directions.
Seriously, focus on your business, not this kind of crap.
I wouldn't drink soda everyday, not even diet. I would think the president of all people would have a nutritionist helping him plan out healthy meals.
The author said that about himself, not the President.
And I think the Slashdot editors must change their outfits seventeen times a day, and never repeat a meal.
Yeap. What the hell is going on with /.?
You must be new here.
.... between what happens to the chinese perpetrators and what has happened to Gary McKinnon over the years!
Are you really that stupid, or just trying to start a flamewar?
In either case, I'll hypothesize that you really are that stupid, serving either as an observation or as fertilizer to your flamewar, depending on your original intent.
This would scare the crap out of me. I can do any ride in an amusement park. Tallest, fastest, upside down... doesn't matter. Put me on a Ferris wheet and I'm grabbing the bar with white knuckles. I think it is the fact that I just have time to look out at the world and wonder about the minimum wage carnie who maintains the machine. That and the person sitting next to me can decide to start rocking the damn thing...
No, it doesn't make a lot of sense, but I'd rather be on the 70mph dragster than on a small Ferris wheel.
I'm like that, but its very different (in my experience) when its fully enclosed and not spinning willy-nilly. The London Eye was something I really enjoyed, as an example. But the kind they've got at amusement parts makes me want to hurl. (And, for the benefit of those on it with me, hopefully not while I'm on it.)
I think, in the best interest of the safety and security of the Supreme Court judges, its probably best they require everyone -- including the judges -- to use the full body scanners to enter the Supreme Court building.
As a pinnacle of our republic, not taking its security seriously is an insult to the institution of the Supreme Court and the United States of America.
p>-Joe Broker makes a loan to Alice - Banks don't make loans anymore, brokers do.
You're dodging Alice's personal responsibility with your list. The problem isn't anything you listed, its Alice's belief that she's owed something more in life than she earned. Alice took out the loan, not Joe Broker. Joe Broker's job is to write loans, not make people live responsibly.
The break-down in the system is that, for some reason, we think as a society we should support people who make bad decisions rather than punishing them.
No doubt.
Futures and derivatives are NOT "capitalism". They are gambling. Pure and simple. This has been one of the main downfalls of banks and Wall Street, directly contributing to the 2008 debacle.
We should not base our economy on fake money. Investment is fine. And all investment is "gambling" to a certain extent... at least if it's done honestly.
BUT... speculation and derivatives are PURE gambling. It's nothing more than a government-sponsored casino.
Negative. The 2008 debacle was caused by one thing -- a massive number of greedy consumers thinking they were taking advantage of the system, and a slew of bankers willing to give them the means to do so. It may not be as trendy as blaming the banks, but every single person to refinanced their house to buy a car they couldn't afford, or a bigger house they couldn't afford, or go on some fancy vacation they couldn't afford is singularly to blame for what happened. Everyone who racked up tens of thousands in credit card debt carries that blame. The banks simply did one thing -- happily give people the rope to hang themselves with, if they weren't living responsibly. Did bankers pull out a few hundred million in bonuses? Sure. The American people pulled out trillions in illegitimate money.
The irony of it all is that those people -- the tens of millions of "99%'ers" who lived the high life on the economy has convinced themselves that they were not at fault, and it was the big bad bankers who did it. And the ten million people in houses who (by any sane economic standpoint) should never have been homeowners, and the tens of millions of people in the middle class who were living an upper class fantasy complain that they're not getting bailed out? That's laughable. No one is losing a house who is living in their means and being responsible.
Claiming that the bank collapse was caused by futures and derivatives is just ignorant of the basics of economics.
Most computers and computer components sold in the U.S. are manufactured in China now. Just wanted to let you know, Mr. President, in case you missed it.
I know, I know "free market" and all that, sir. But is it really a free market if the country doing all the manufacturing isn't free?
Yes, I'm sure you're privy to all sorts of information the President of the United States isn't aware of.
Treat your employees like the human beings they are and appreciate what they do for you, and pay them accordingly. The golden rule as applied to the workforce.
The problem is, the vast majority of people seem to think their value to an organization is far greater than it is. Unless they're in a unionized position that is forcing a company to pay them more than you're worth through artificial market controls, companies tend to be pretty good at paying people what they're actually worth. People who are undervalued go elsewhere. Hopefully people who are overvalued are weeded out.
We'd have a lot more people working in the US if more people understood that. It baffles me when you hear someone unemployed making a comment to the media to the effect of "I can't find a job that will pay me what I'm worth" or "I'm underemployed". News flash: Very few people are as valuable as they think they are.
Advertising is supporting the TV show I'm watching right now, and the newspaper I read this morning ...
Neither of them were tracking me.
They should have done this weeks ago. It was clear he violated his probation from the beginning.
It's very important for Muslims across the world to understand that he was NOT arrested and jailed for the CONTENT of that movie, but because he continually provided false aliases to the judge and the police in violation of his probation.
I wonder if the protesters in Egypt will understand this...my guess is probably not.
The first amendment is a bit of a nuanced thing, and I'm not sure how well people (particularly outside the US) really understand it. We need to make clear he wasn't arrested for the content of the movie, but its *not* against the 1st amendment to arrest him because of the *results* of releasing the movie. You have every right to shout "fire" in a packed theater, but the 1st amendment doesn't grant you immunity from being criminally charged as a result of it. The speech isn't illegal, but inciting a panic may be.
Along the same lines, its not unreasonable to think he could've been held criminally liable as an accessory to the murders in Libya, if they're proven to actually be related to the movie, if it could be proved that he made the movie explicitly to incite that kind of reaction. (Which, allegedly, he did.)
In a lot of the middle east, you can be arrested for saying something. Here in the US, you can still be arrested because of the *result* of saying something, but not because you said it. (For example, if you threaten to kill someone -- and they believe you mean it -- you've committed a crime.)
How does it make sense to push a buggy product out the door before it's ready? It only makes sense if you want the product to tank.
That or it, in fact, is not buggy. Intel wants it delayed because their low power CPUs aren't available yet and they're going to lose the low-end tablet space to ARM.
Anyone who is actually using it day-to-day, and isn't an anti-Microsoft troll, a tech blogger who gets paid by ad impressions, and isn't a slighted "partner" will tell you its extremely stable, works as well or better than Win7 and is a very nice upgrade.
Of course, stories that say that won't get ad impressions on Slashdot, either.
Has windows ever been released with full driver support? Windows 7 still has driver issues, XP had driver issues for years etc.... I'm not sure what his point was if he mentioned driver support.
I've run it on quite a few different systems, of ages going back perhaps 6-7 years. The single driver problem I've run into with the RTM bits is a Bootcamp problem -- the touchpad on my MacBook Air doesn't work and so far I've been unable to cobble together anything to get the drivers to load. Every other device on all of the systems has worked flawlessly. (In fact, my relatively new Core I7 3770 system works far better because a slew of really buggy Intel-originated drivers were replaced by 1st party Microsoft drivers.
The Hindenburg was designed for helium, and hydrogen was only used because supplies of helium were withheld from the operators for political reasons. If the Hindenburg had been designed with hydrogen in mind instead of inert helium the accident may never have happened.
I'm not going to say using hydrogen in a dirigible is a good idea but hydrogen shouldn't be completely written off as an operational substitute for helium because of one fiasco in the 1930s.
The Hindenburg, and all the other Zeppelin airships had also done hundreds of trips for years, even with hydrogen.
The incident is burned into the public psyche not because it was particularly horrorific, or because it was some example of bad design held up for criticism -- its notable for one reason only. It was the first case of broad media overhype. It was the great-grand-daddy of all the shit we see on the "news" today.
IP law isn't the problem, funding of the patent office is. The problem with junk patents isn't the patent system, but the load and backlog the patent examiners have.
There's two solutions -- vastly increase the cost of patents, shutting out individual investors, or fund it to the tune of an order of magnitude more money from taxes.
You think so?
It's easy to see if you're right. Just get yourself some super-heated steam (a pressure cooker is a good start), an appropriately-sized chunk of saltwater ice (do you own a freezer?) and see if it is practical.
Myself, I'm thinking that it doesn't work the way that you think that it does.
But it's your idea so I'll let you either prove or disprove it yourself. Good luck!
This is Slashdot, home of the armchair quarterback that thinks they've thought of something the experts missed.
6.1 is the kernel version, the full OS is Windows 7.
C:\>ver
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]
C:\>help ver
Displays the Windows version.
VER
Hmm, doesn't say anything about kernels in there...
Sorry if I wasn't clear. I wasn't putting forward a theory or anything, just stating an absolute fact from first hand experience.
ver is a DOS holdover, and there was a 1:1 relationship between "kernel" version with DOS and the release vehicle. The major/minor kernel versions all mean something with Windows -- if you actually want to know, I'm sure a quick intarweb search will edjumacate you.
Never mind that there was never a MS NT 1.0 or 2.0.... Those were from that OTHER company whose name we shall not name.
OS2 was co-engineered, so technically speaking, there was.