Most people don't have an "extra" partition (I've got 10 spare ones that I use to install trials of linux distros, but I'm not your average user). For most users, they'll just install over their current copy of XP
Release Candidates - the new crack cocaine. "The first hit is free." Who's going to want to have to re-install everything they do between now and next July?
Contrary to what the article says, its not a "hidden download" that was somehow leaked. Anyone can download it without having to go through all sorts of hoops to get to the download page, and it downloads fine without Internet Exporer OR Windows.
Of course, most people are just going to download it and install it. Their WTF Moment(TM) is next June.
Installation limitations
There are three installation scenarios for Windows Vista RC1:
You can do a clean installation. This process will overwrite any data that you have on your hard disk or on your installation partition. The overwritten data will be lost and unrecoverable.
You can upgrade an existing installation of Windows XP.
You can upgrade an existing installation of Windows Vista Beta 2.
No other installation scenarios are supported. Upgrading to this beta from any other edition of Windows requires a clean installation, as described in option 1. In addition, once you install Windows Vista RC1, you cannot roll back to the previous operating system installation--you will either have to acquire and install the final released edition of Windows Vista or reinstall a previous edition of Windows. Before installing Windows Vista RC1 on any computer, please remember to back up all your files.
How many people are going to try to re-install XP... they have the original w/o the service packs, etc., and can't even get on the net long enough to download them w/o getting p0wn3d... or they can't find the drivers for their now-not-the-latest video card, or their mobo... and say "frig it, guess I have to pay the MS tax after all..."... or go out and buy a new computer...
I wish they wrote A ChangeLog.txt like most of the people in the biz.
They did - and they saved it in Word format, and its corrupted. So far, 3 employees have been wounded by flying chairs for suggesting they use OpenOffice to open and re-save it.
Doesn't mean you shouldn't download it... and download it often. Help artificially inflate all those future numbers projections, AND run up their bandwidth bills with akamai.
Another reason to download it multiple times even if you're running linux - since you'll have multiple legit copies of the fonts, codecs and other dlls, you can use them on multiple linux boxes.
Hard disk space is cheap - if you've got an old drive hanging around, stuff the multiple images there, and put it on a shelf for "future reference."
Freezing the API does NOT mean its a release candidate in anyone's universe except Microsofts'.
A release candidate should be what the term implies - something that is actually a candidate for release as the final product, not something that you throw over the wall and hope that it stinks a bit less than the previous attempts.
That they're still beta testing should tell you something about how much their development culture continues to suck.
So, download it early, download it often, and help artificially inflate those "look at the interest" numbers... just don't install this trojan:
In addition, once you install Windows Vista RC1, you cannot roll back to the previous operating system installation--you will either have to acquire and install the final released edition of Windows Vista or reinstall a previous edition of Windows
Nice way of getting people to forget that XP already does everything they need, and locking them into having to buy an upgrade at retail prices.
Short answer - it doesn't even play nicely with other versins of windows.
In addition, once you install Windows Vista RC1, you cannot roll back to the previous operating system installation--you will either have to acquire and install the final released edition of Windows Vista or reinstall a previous edition of Windows
This is their way of getting people to nuke their current XP installs, then having to buy the final version of Vista by July 1st.
"hese media outfits have very talented economists, financialists, and lawyers working for them. These are people who can accurately predict what will happen if the media companies were to take this course of action. They know how consumers will respond, and they know how it will affect their company's bottom line."
I hope you're just trolling. Most analysts in any field aren't worth shit when it comes to making predictions. That's why there are so many product failures every year, and why for every winner in the stock market, there's at least one loser.
Media people are among the most clueless. Take a look at how many movies bomb, at how many magazines die every year, how many tv shows don't go beyond the first season, how many newspapers are having to cope with declining readership
"You might like to buy a biology textbook. Bacteria don't reproduce sexually. Any individual bacterium survives until at most the point at which it reproduces, at which point it is its descendents."
Why not practice what you preach? Bacteria can and do exchange genetic material. Besides, it has nothing to do with my point, which is that even with a 50% mortality rate, crack whores popping out 1 kid a year and dieing at 30 are going to dominate the gene pool, compared to someone who only has 1 kid every 20 years, even if they live to be 1000.
"Now, a woman who lives to 1,000 may only have one child every 50 years, but that's still 20 children"
Nevr heard of menopause, have you?
This is a necessary biological adaptation, because a woman is born with all the eggs she'll ever have (abut 4000), and they degrade over her lifetime. That's why there are more defects in children of women over 40, for example.
Men, on the other hand, produce new genetic material continuously.
So the crack whore pumping out kids every year from the age of 15 to 30 stands a much larger chance of having their genes passed on than your hypothetical 1000-year-old woman. And in that 1000 years, the crack-whore's kids will have produced HOW MANY offspring, if they behave like their mother? If we assume a 50% mortality rate, that means (30-15+1)/2 = 8 kids every 30 years, or 33 generations.
Care to do the math?
8 in 30 years
64 in 60 years, your 1000-year-old mama has 1 kid
512 in 90 years
4096 in 120 years , your 1000-year-old mama has 2 kids, and her first kid has 1 kid, for a total of 3 kids
32768 in 150 years, your 1000-year-old mama has 3 kids, has 2, etc.. total offspring = 6
262,144 in 180 years
2,097,152 in 210 years, 1000-year-old mama total offspring = 12
16,777,216 in 240 years
134,217,728 in 270 years, 1000-year-old total offspring = 24
1,073,741,824 in 300 years, 1000-year-old total offspring = 48
8,589,934,592 in 330 years, more than the current total world population, btw.
64,871,947,674 in 360 years, 1000-year-old total offpring = 96.
549,755,813,900 in 390 years = almost 100x the current world p[opulation
Your 1000-year-old, for all intents and purposes, makes zero contribution to the gene pool.
With prevention, there are no extra costs for keeping older people alive. No blockd arteries, reduced mobility, etc. so people can continue to be productive.
Check ot bacteria. They don't care for their descendants, and they do quite well.
A crack whore popping out 10 kids is going to have more of an impact on the gene pool than a woman who has only one but devotes more care to raising her child.
The offspring don't have to live all that long - just long enough so they too reproduce, which is really easy. Or did you miss the lectures on "teen pregnancy?"
It costs money and a high-tech, energy-intensive infrastructure for what you propose. Prevention is cheaper. Partial cyborgs don't drastically reduce demands on food stocks, etc, either - there's still the biological component which has to be supported.
Its not like you're going to replace the brain any time soon... and even if you could duplicate it computationally, it would just be a dupe - it wouldn't be the original. YOU would still cease to exist. Just a copy of you would be running somewhere as a simulation.
"f there were some mutant strain of mouse that had a dispropotionately long lifespan compared to his peers, free from the negative consequenecs of age, would (s)he not reproduce far more offspring bearing his/her genes than the others, over time?"
Short answer: No.
Look to humans: it doesn't matter how long after menopause a woman lives, she's already had all the kids she's ever going to have. She could live to be 1,000, but unless she's fertile and breeding for a longer time, she's not going to be making that big a wave in the gene pool.
... or you can remove beagle, and watch your load average drop. One one machine, it went from between 1 and 2 to 0.14. You'll also hav more free memory as well.
"I need really loud music to get my work done. Should I be able to listen to it..even though everyone around me is distracted and/or cannot get their work done?
"
Seriously, I've always told my friends to steer away from name-brand dvd players for exactly that reason. My supposedly crappy Apex is region-free out of the box, plays everything I can throw at it, and "just works". Other brands that my friends and relatives bought AFTER I WARNED THEM NOT TO just don't.
And when I go "I told you so" they go "yeah, but its a name brand and it costs more. It SHOULD work better."
People don't listen. The worst part... when their name brand unit dies... AND THEY DO IT AGAIN! Rrrrr! (And its not even Talk Like A Pirate Day until tomorrow)
Except for viewers of Fox News, EVERY DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEYED gives more people who believe the election was stolen than who think it wasn't. And look at the Fox results - 99% believe the election was legit - those numbers are right up there with results for Soviet Russian elections.
[snip] May 10, 2006 at 22:00:00 Poll: 2004 Election Was Stolen; according to viewers of all news networks except Fox News
Who are these Fox viewers. OpEdNews gives you the details.
In the first poll of its kind, (using First choice of TV news network as a demographic variable)OpEdNews.com, in the second OpEdNews/Zogby People's poll has learned that except for viewers of right wing news show, Fox News, poll respondents believe that the 2004 presidential election was stolen.
Overall, the poll of Pennsylvania residents found that 39% said that the 2004 election was stolen. 54% said it was legitimate. Shortly after the election, the NY Times suggested that a few fringe extremists and bloggers were concerned about the theft of the election.
But let's look at the demographics on this question. Of the people who watch Fox news as their primary sourc of TV news, one half of one percent believe it was stolen and 99% believe it was legitimate. Among people who watched ANY other news source but FOX, more felt the election was stolen than legitimate. The numbers varied dramatically:
Here are the stats by network listed as first choice by respondent and whether the respondent thought the election was stolen or legitimate. Network Stolen Legitimate ABC 56% 32% CBS 64% 31% CNN 70% 24% FOX.5% 99% MSNBC 65% 24% NBC 49% 43% Other 56% 28%
[end snip]
Look at the disconnect between Fox and EVERY other media. Can Fox be right and everyone else wrong? Or does Fox really just pander to the clueless mouth-breathing sloped-forehead knuckle-draggers as their "natural demographic"?
And keep in mind this poll was more than 4 months ago - the numbers would be worse today.
But I want to say one thing to the American people.
I want you to listen to me. I'm going to say this again: I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.
I never told anybody to lie, not a single time. Never.
These allegations are false. And I need to go back to work for the American people.
Q. At any time were you and Monica Lewinsky alone together in the Oval Office?
A. I don't recall, but as I said, when she worked at the legislative affairs office, they always had somebody there on the weekends. I typically worked some on the weekends. Sometimes they'd bring me things on the weekends. She - it seems to me she brought things to me once or twice on the weekends. In that case, whatever time she would be in there, drop it off, exchange a few words and go, she was there. I don't have any specific recollections of what the issues were, what was going on, but when the Congress is there, we're working all the time, and typically I would do some work on one of the days of the weekends in the afternoon.
So, was he in the habit of getting a BJ with other people present?
You wrote:
(blow jobs are not intercourse).
... bullshit. So, if you're ever thrown in jail, and some guy decides to make you his bitch, you'd happily suck his cock because "blow jobs are not intercourse"? Or is that the excuse you used when you were caught behind the school... "its not sex"...:-)
As to whether its perjury or not, its irrelevent as to whether it was directly related to the Paula Jones case - background questions are used to establish the credibility (or lack of it) of a witness. That the witness can be shown to lie under oath about something not directly related to the current instance goes directly to the character, honesty, and reliability of a witness. Clinton was a liar. So is Emperor Bush. And Bush probably wouldn't be where he is now if Clinton had kept his fly zipped.
Its sort of like the difference between "a woman with child" and "a woman with child" - one's a woman and a kid, the other one is a pregnant woman; they're word-for-word identical, just the emphasis has changed.
Napping has had the hardest time gaining traction, despite the scientific evidence in its favor. A study by NASA found, for example, that a 26-minute nap increased pilots' performance 34%. "What other management strategy will improve people's performance 34% in 26 minutes?" asks Mark Rosekind, president of Alertness Solutions, a fatigue-management consultancy, and the former NASA scientist who conducted the research. Yet most businesses still reject public napping. According to a survey by William Anthony, a Boston University professor of rehabilitation counseling who created National Napping Day, 70% of respondents who sleep at work do so secretly, often curled up in the backseat of their car at lunch.
You can read more here http://darwin.nap.edu/books/0309101115/html/R1.htm l. The cost of sleep deprivation to todays' economy is in the hundreds of billions - that's several thousand dollars per year per worker in lost productivity, mistakes, etc.
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Two issues:
Contrary to what the article says, its not a "hidden download" that was somehow leaked. Anyone can download it without having to go through all sorts of hoops to get to the download page, and it downloads fine without Internet Exporer OR Windows.
Any "leak" is completely intentional.
You just have to click on the "Additional instructions can be found on the Customer Preview Program website" linky on . http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/getready/pre view.mspx
Of course, most people are just going to download it and install it. Their WTF Moment(TM) is next June.
How many people are going to try to re-install XP ... they have the original w/o the service packs, etc., and can't even get on the net long enough to download them w/o getting p0wn3d ... or they can't find the drivers for their now-not-the-latest video card, or their mobo ... and say "frig it, guess I have to pay the MS tax after all ..." ... or go out and buy a new computer ...
They did - and they saved it in Word format, and its corrupted. So far, 3 employees have been wounded by flying chairs for suggesting they use OpenOffice to open and re-save it.
Doesn't mean you shouldn't download it ... and download it often. Help artificially inflate all those future numbers projections, AND run up their bandwidth bills with akamai.
Another reason to download it multiple times even if you're running linux - since you'll have multiple legit copies of the fonts, codecs and other dlls, you can use them on multiple linux boxes.
Hard disk space is cheap - if you've got an old drive hanging around, stuff the multiple images there, and put it on a shelf for "future reference."
Freezing the API does NOT mean its a release candidate in anyone's universe except Microsofts'.
A release candidate should be what the term implies - something that is actually a candidate for release as the final product, not something that you throw over the wall and hope that it stinks a bit less than the previous attempts.
That they're still beta testing should tell you something about how much their development culture continues to suck.
So, download it early, download it often, and help artificially inflate those "look at the interest" numbers ... just don't install this trojan:
Nice way of getting people to forget that XP already does everything they need, and locking them into having to buy an upgrade at retail prices.
Short answer - it doesn't even play nicely with other versins of windows.
This is their way of getting people to nuke their current XP installs, then having to buy the final version of Vista by July 1st.
"hese media outfits have very talented economists, financialists, and lawyers working for them. These are people who can accurately predict what will happen if the media companies were to take this course of action. They know how consumers will respond, and they know how it will affect their company's bottom line."
I hope you're just trolling. Most analysts in any field aren't worth shit when it comes to making predictions. That's why there are so many product failures every year, and why for every winner in the stock market, there's at least one loser.
Media people are among the most clueless. Take a look at how many movies bomb, at how many magazines die every year, how many tv shows don't go beyond the first season, how many newspapers are having to cope with declining readership
http://www.naa.org/marketscope/pdfs/Sunday_Nationa l_Top50_1998-2005.pdf Sorry, its one of those darned pdfs.
Sample stats:
1998 - 135,000,000 adult population, 92,000,000 readers
2005 - 150,000,000 adult population, 89,000,000 readers.
So, while the potential market has grown more than 10%, their readership has declined 4%.
"Yet more proof that astrology is pseudoscience, and creationism is the way to go."
Just more proof that creationiss are idiots who don't know the difference between science and superstition :-)
"You might like to buy a biology textbook. Bacteria don't reproduce sexually. Any individual bacterium survives until at most the point at which it reproduces, at which point it is its descendents."
Why not practice what you preach? Bacteria can and do exchange genetic material. Besides, it has nothing to do with my point, which is that even with a 50% mortality rate, crack whores popping out 1 kid a year and dieing at 30 are going to dominate the gene pool, compared to someone who only has 1 kid every 20 years, even if they live to be 1000.
"Now, a woman who lives to 1,000 may only have one child every 50 years, but that's still 20 children"
Nevr heard of menopause, have you?
This is a necessary biological adaptation, because a woman is born with all the eggs she'll ever have (abut 4000), and they degrade over her lifetime. That's why there are more defects in children of women over 40, for example.
Men, on the other hand, produce new genetic material continuously.
So the crack whore pumping out kids every year from the age of 15 to 30 stands a much larger chance of having their genes passed on than your hypothetical 1000-year-old woman. And in that 1000 years, the crack-whore's kids will have produced HOW MANY offspring, if they behave like their mother? If we assume a 50% mortality rate, that means (30-15+1)/2 = 8 kids every 30 years, or 33 generations.
Care to do the math?
Your 1000-year-old, for all intents and purposes, makes zero contribution to the gene pool.
With prevention, there are no extra costs for keeping older people alive. No blockd arteries, reduced mobility, etc. so people can continue to be productive.
Bullshit.
Check ot bacteria. They don't care for their descendants, and they do quite well.
A crack whore popping out 10 kids is going to have more of an impact on the gene pool than a woman who has only one but devotes more care to raising her child.
The offspring don't have to live all that long - just long enough so they too reproduce, which is really easy. Or did you miss the lectures on "teen pregnancy?"
It costs money and a high-tech, energy-intensive infrastructure for what you propose. Prevention is cheaper. Partial cyborgs don't drastically reduce demands on food stocks, etc, either - there's still the biological component which has to be supported.
Its not like you're going to replace the brain any time soon ... and even if you could duplicate it computationally, it would just be a dupe - it wouldn't be the original. YOU would still cease to exist. Just a copy of you would be running somewhere as a simulation.
"How much did the guy inventing the serial to USB converter get for expanding a mouse's lifespan?"
"I'd prefer to donate to cybernetics systems, replacing your old parts with electronic parts are a lot more "natural" form of human evolution."
I don't think so ...
Isn't it better to not need a replacement in the first place (or is prevention now not seen as better than a cure).
"f there were some mutant strain of mouse that had a dispropotionately long lifespan compared to his peers, free from the negative consequenecs of age, would (s)he not reproduce far more offspring bearing his/her genes than the others, over time?"
Short answer: No.
Look to humans: it doesn't matter how long after menopause a woman lives, she's already had all the kids she's ever going to have. She could live to be 1,000, but unless she's fertile and breeding for a longer time, she's not going to be making that big a wave in the gene pool.
"Also, the editor put an incorrect link in."
Guess he got his wires crossed ...
"I need really loud music to get my work done. Should I be able to listen to it..even though everyone around me is distracted and/or cannot get their work done? "
Headphones.
Sony ... is that you?
Seriously, I've always told my friends to steer away from name-brand dvd players for exactly that reason. My supposedly crappy Apex is region-free out of the box, plays everything I can throw at it, and "just works". Other brands that my friends and relatives bought AFTER I WARNED THEM NOT TO just don't.
And when I go "I told you so" they go "yeah, but its a name brand and it costs more. It SHOULD work better."
People don't listen. The worst part ... when their name brand unit dies ... AND THEY DO IT AGAIN! Rrrrr! (And its not even Talk Like A Pirate Day until tomorrow)
http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_rob_kall_0 60511_poll_3a_2004_election_.htm
.5% 99%
Except for viewers of Fox News, EVERY DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEYED gives more people who believe the election was stolen than who think it wasn't. And look at the Fox results - 99% believe the election was legit - those numbers are right up there with results for Soviet Russian elections.
[snip]
May 10, 2006 at 22:00:00
Poll: 2004 Election Was Stolen; according to viewers of all news networks except Fox News
Who are these Fox viewers. OpEdNews gives you the details.
In the first poll of its kind, (using First choice of TV news network as a demographic variable)OpEdNews.com, in the second OpEdNews/Zogby People's poll has learned that except for viewers of right wing news show, Fox News, poll respondents believe that the 2004 presidential election was stolen.
Overall, the poll of Pennsylvania residents found that 39% said that the 2004 election was stolen. 54% said it was legitimate. Shortly after the election, the NY Times suggested that a few fringe extremists and bloggers were concerned about the theft of the election.
But let's look at the demographics on this question. Of the people who watch Fox news as their primary sourc of TV news, one half of one percent believe it was stolen and 99% believe it was legitimate. Among people who watched ANY other news source but FOX, more felt the election was stolen than legitimate. The numbers varied dramatically:
Here are the stats by network listed as first choice by respondent and whether the respondent thought the election was stolen or legitimate.
Network Stolen Legitimate
ABC 56% 32%
CBS 64% 31%
CNN 70% 24%
FOX
MSNBC 65% 24%
NBC 49% 43%
Other 56% 28%
[end snip]
Look at the disconnect between Fox and EVERY other media. Can Fox be right and everyone else wrong? Or does Fox really just pander to the clueless mouth-breathing sloped-forehead knuckle-draggers as their "natural demographic"?
And keep in mind this poll was more than 4 months ago - the numbers would be worse today.
I agree totally about Harken. However, I disagree about Clinton's lying. Here's what he said: http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2006/09/i-did-no t-have-sexual-relations-with.html
Here's an exerpt from his deposition: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/spec ial/clinton/stories/whatclintonsaid.htm
So, was he in the habit of getting a BJ with other people present?
You wrote:
As to whether its perjury or not, its irrelevent as to whether it was directly related to the Paula Jones case - background questions are used to establish the credibility (or lack of it) of a witness. That the witness can be shown to lie under oath about something not directly related to the current instance goes directly to the character, honesty, and reliability of a witness. Clinton was a liar. So is Emperor Bush. And Bush probably wouldn't be where he is now if Clinton had kept his fly zipped.
Here's what I said:
Maybe I should have bolded it in the original :-)
Its sort of like the difference between "a woman with child" and "a woman with child" - one's a woman and a kid, the other one is a pregnant woman; they're word-for-word identical, just the emphasis has changed.
Naps at work: excellent idea - and already implemented at some places in order to improve productivity by as much as 40%.
http://www.time.com/time/insidebiz/printout/0,8816 ,1209960,00.html
You can read more here http://darwin.nap.edu/books/0309101115/html/R1.htm l. The cost of sleep deprivation to todays' economy is in the hundreds of billions - that's several thousand dollars per year per worker in lost productivity, mistakes, etc.