Actually only one Tablet PC shipped with a Transmeta chip. The first HP Tablet PC (TC1000). They ended up switching to Intel at the first opportunity because performance was lack luster at best.
You are assuming that PC people don't do the same thing. I do buy a new gamming system every couple of years but I don't replace my old systems. They get shifted to other areas of the house and take on other duties just like you do with your Macs. I now have four PCs that I use on a regular basis for different tasks and one blue iMac G3 that I picked up for cheap just to see what all the fuss was about. So I guess my install base would count as 80% PC and 20% Mac.
From a financial standpoint at least the Newton wasn't really a failure for Apple. Because of the Newton Apple was an early investor in Arm. When they sold off their Arm stock they made enough to cover the Newton R&D and then some.
OS 10.1 is newer than XP. I have it installed on an old iMac. Can I expect new features added in 10.4 to be back ported to 10.1? Or do I have to update to the next version to get the new features?
You are right that the term is misleading. It's not as though people stop recognizing them because their identify is missing. That would be silly. The theft is really that they steal credit or actual money from the people they pretend to be.
Exploits creators are lazy. They normally reverse engineer the patch to create the exploit. So having a set time when the admins can schedule their updates reduces the amount of time between release of patch and application of patch.
You don't need to do a full memory dump. You can elect to do kernel memory only or a minidump that is about 65K or so. When you click "Send Info to MS" after the crash it is the minidump that gets sent.
"I have news for you. MSFT's DRM does not give you any more freedom."
That was NOT his point. All DRM is bad. MSFT's, Apple's, Napster's etc. All of it is crap. They put up fences and treat their customers like cattle. It just kills me to see how many moo right along. I know I will get modded as flamebait but I don't care. We are paying more and more for less and less and at some point we all have to take a stand. Don't buy any DRM.
In order to be flexible across multiple architectures NT (and thus XP) has what is called a HAL (hardware abstraction layer). It loads a different HAL for different processor types. So if you swap out the hardware underneath it you will need to do a repair install to get it to load the proper HAL.
"No tests at all? What other tests do you propose?"
Those are fine tests and I'm glad they work for you. They are not scientific tests though. They can not be duplicated or falsified by others who do not believe as you do. I can not prove your tests false (nor can you prove them true) so they are not science. This is not to say I do not respect your beliefs. They just should not be dressed up as science.
One thing sticks out that I feel I need to bring up though. Eye witness reports are historically shaky. Ask any police officer who gets several different accounts right after a crime from witnesses standing by. That aside, there is no way to get eye witness reports from 2000 years ago without the witness. Written/translated reports do not equal eye witness reports that one could subject to questioning.
Sorry for the rant but this issue of dressing up superstition as science really pulls my string. Don't even get me started on people who search for Noah's Arc! (hint: there has never been a global flood that covered the whole Earth in water)
"Do large mass bodies bend space-time? Is gravity between two large objects simply one getting caught in the bend in space-time caused by another?"
I didn't realize there was still debate about this. Until very recently the only way we could identify a planet going around a distant star was to look at they way the light bent coming from the star. Are there other explanations for why the light bends as it passes a massive object?
When they demoed this at WinHEC last week I asked about this. They said it would take about 40 years of typical use to degrade completely. Even then it degrades gracefully so the cache just shrinks until you end up with a normal hard drive (assuming it lasts that long).
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Sweet! I going to buy two and upgrade one of them with Longhorn when it comes out.
Actually only one Tablet PC shipped with a Transmeta chip. The first HP Tablet PC (TC1000). They ended up switching to Intel at the first opportunity because performance was lack luster at best.
You are assuming that PC people don't do the same thing. I do buy a new gamming system every couple of years but I don't replace my old systems. They get shifted to other areas of the house and take on other duties just like you do with your Macs.
I now have four PCs that I use on a regular basis for different tasks and one blue iMac G3 that I picked up for cheap just to see what all the fuss was about.
So I guess my install base would count as 80% PC and 20% Mac.
From a financial standpoint at least the Newton wasn't really a failure for Apple. Because of the Newton Apple was an early investor in Arm. When they sold off their Arm stock they made enough to cover the Newton R&D and then some.
Bah!
I'm a fast food manager and I'm miserable as hell.
You insensitive clod!
How many other software companies are spending R&D on something like this ?
Nothing wrong with that. It does feel good to be liberal.
Ra Ra!
OS 10.1 is newer than XP. I have it installed on an old iMac. Can I expect new features added in 10.4 to be back ported to 10.1? Or do I have to update to the next version to get the new features?
"I guess that means the only browsers with tabs for W2k will be Opera and Firefox."
Nope not true. And Maxthon is better than FF to boot.
You are right that the term is misleading. It's not as though people stop recognizing them because their identify is missing. That would be silly.
The theft is really that they steal credit or actual money from the people they pretend to be.
"Which motivation you choose to ascribe depends mostly on how cynical you are."
Or naive.
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
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The bandwidth of station waggons just keeps getting bigger and bigger.
Exploits creators are lazy. They normally reverse engineer the patch to create the exploit. So having a set time when the admins can schedule their updates reduces the amount of time between release of patch and application of patch.
You don't need to do a full memory dump. You can elect to do kernel memory only or a minidump that is about 65K or so.
When you click "Send Info to MS" after the crash it is the minidump that gets sent.
"I have news for you. MSFT's DRM does not give you any more freedom."
That was NOT his point. All DRM is bad.
MSFT's, Apple's, Napster's etc. All of it is crap. They put up fences and treat their customers like cattle. It just kills me to see how many moo right along.
I know I will get modded as flamebait but I don't care. We are paying more and more for less and less and at some point we all have to take a stand. Don't buy any DRM.
There are lots of other better legal options.
Typically when I upgrade my motherboard I also upgrade the CPU. Often it is of a different family. I assume he does the same but who knows.
In order to be flexible across multiple architectures NT (and thus XP) has what is called a HAL (hardware abstraction layer). It loads a different HAL for different processor types.
So if you swap out the hardware underneath it you will need to do a repair install to get it to load the proper HAL.
It's also used here by 1337 poser types as a jab at Microsoft.
Random people on /. are not known for accuracy or precision either. What is the source of your figure?
"Leo's head was blocking said bush."
I'll admit that I've not seen the movie so forgive me, but wouldn't the above certainly warrant at least an R?
In my home theater, if you bring your own soda in and spill it on my sofa I'm gonna kick your ass jedi style.
"No tests at all? What other tests do you propose?"
Those are fine tests and I'm glad they work for you. They are not scientific tests though.
They can not be duplicated or falsified by others who do not believe as you do. I can not prove your tests false (nor can you prove them true) so they are not science.
This is not to say I do not respect your beliefs. They just should not be dressed up as science.
One thing sticks out that I feel I need to bring up though. Eye witness reports are historically shaky. Ask any police officer who gets several different accounts right after a crime from witnesses standing by. That aside, there is no way to get eye witness reports from 2000 years ago without the witness. Written/translated reports do not equal eye witness reports that one could subject to questioning.
Sorry for the rant but this issue of dressing up superstition as science really pulls my string. Don't even get me started on people who search for Noah's Arc! (hint: there has never been a global flood that covered the whole Earth in water)
"Do large mass bodies bend space-time? Is gravity between two large objects simply one getting caught in the bend in space-time caused by another?"
I didn't realize there was still debate about this. Until very recently the only way we could identify a planet going around a distant star was to look at they way the light bent coming from the star. Are there other explanations for why the light bends as it passes a massive object?
When they demoed this at WinHEC last week I asked about this. They said it would take about 40 years of typical use to degrade completely. Even then it degrades gracefully so the cache just shrinks until you end up with a normal hard drive (assuming it lasts that long).