Calling this thing dual screen is not too different to calling an old tv with an lcd display of the channel number dual screen. Okay that's a _slight_ exaggeration. Only slight. The second "screen" looks like it's not worth the trouble. Good for task lists and the like but not much else, yet oh so breakable. The headline had me envision something like a tablet pc with a second screen - instead I see something about the size of a size mirror on a combi van. More gimmick than useful. Farq off.
2.8 million pieces of different hardware, and over 7.5 million installations had all drivers included, "almost all" could be downoaded easily. No matter what you think of Microsoft, that information is pretty much astonishing.
Yeah I go and buy a computer and they also give me the motherboard chipset drivers. Or I buy a laptop from Dell and they ship it with drivers. That's amazing! What will they think of next!?
No it's not amazing. It's expected. To me the figure says 25% of people either upgraded their machines or bought poor quality unsupported hardware.
The difference is, Google was stupid... they went out and bought the hardware. Microsoft is smarter. They're just going to seize control of yours. In the business world, they call that "externalizing costs".
Too late. The spam kings already externalized their own costs, so there's no longer a large group of Windows computers sitting idly.
Parent is essentially correct and thorough but one thing I'll add is the importance of supernova as standard candles.
A certain type of supernova - Type Ia is always going to peak at the same absolute brightness because of the physical process involved. It is the result of one star - a white draw - drawing in matter from another star until the white dwarf reaches a mass where it can no longer keep itself from collapsing. As a result it implodes and bounces back as a spectacular supernova explosion. Since the point at which this mass is too much for the star to hold itself up against gravity is consistent (determined by the physics) the brightness of each type Ia is almost exactly the same.
So now we just need to measure the apparent brightness of one type Ia supernova, and knowing the distance by other means we work out it's absolute brightness. If we see another type Ia (and we can tell the type by looking at the spectra) we know it's absolute brightness, measure it's apparent brightness, and with a simple calculation we get a pretty good estimate of how far away it is. We can now work out the distance to incredibly distant objects because the supernova explosions are so big they're seen clearly in distant galaxies.
They won't need to know your real first name until you start to fill out the formal paperwork (which probably won't be until after they've already hired you).
This gets modded up as insightful???
What about when they're checking your references? You don't want your old employer getting a call about a guy that use to work there and saying "nup, never heard of him" do you? They usually do background checks and call former employers BEFORE they agree to hire you. At that point you may be asked to sign an agreement to have them do a security check and provide full details. If they find you're using a shady alias that early on they might opt out of paying the fee for the checks.
If what the Pirate Bay does is illegal, then phone book publishers should be prosecuted for listing felons and scams. After all, by this flawed thinking, the listing of the contact information facilitates the felonies and scams of the individuals represented by the entry.
Are you really so naive you don't think there are laws against phone books listing criminals by their criminal profession and advertising their services? Or are you just posting this for the karma?
I can just picture the phone book now: Need your wife offed? Call 555-NO-WIFE Drugs Dealer. Open 24 hours. 555-DRUGGIE
Let me put it another way: I am an artist. I work on movies. I don't get the gravy train, either. Why? Despite being in a creative position, I'm in a replacable creative position. Somebody else can take my place and get the job done. I cannot do what the actors do. Replace the principal actor with me and the movie won't make as many millions of dollars. Replace the script-writer with me and bam, exact same problem.
You can replace one big name star with another big name star (or an up and commer). How do you think they became stars in the first place? Do you think Britney Spears was born with a fanbase? If anything the media produced these days is of such poor quality that one actor certainly can replace another. You argue you can't act. I'm sure Tom Cruise can't do what you do either. However there are other actors that can act just as there are others that can take your place. Even a genius may come up with an idea at the same time as another individual because the technology is ripe for that new idea. Has happened many times in history. No one's irreplaceable in the context of their work.
I had a calculator once. It was a nice little Sharp model....if instead, someone had looked at my calculator, taken out a 3D tricorder-mapper-duplicator-thingamabob and had made an exact copy of my calculator, complete with all functionality, and left me with mine, I don't think I would have been quite as upset. In fact, I think you will agree that if I ran around waving my calculator in the air claiming that it had been robbed from me and that I was a victim of "theft", I would not get a lot of sympathy.
Sharp on the other hand might have an issue with it, since they'd no longer have a market for their calculators.
You're confusing the owner with the manufacturer. I'm sure in a lot of cases the users that give pirates a copy to crack don't care what's done with it either, since they still have their legitimate copy. They might have a problem with their CD keys being handed out though.
For that matter you could get them to build their own Dobsonian although the physics there isn't too hard (basic optics), especially if you don't hand figure the mirror. There's also a large metalwork or woodwork component that might not be considered relevant.
Some of the topics covered by the above Radio Astronomy of Pulsars Astrometry of Asteroids The Revolution of the Moons of Jupiter The Rotation of Mercury by The Doppler Effect Photoelectric Photometry of the Pleiades Spectral Classification of Stars The Hubble RedShift-Distance Relation The Flow of Energy Out of the Sun The Quest for Object X Jupiter's Moons and the Speed of Light: The Classic Roemer Experiment
There are books and web pages out there....many tend to be geared to highschool, then there are some that would require you to up your insurance...so you'll have to sift through them
Oh:( I do hope some Swedish and English speaking geeks take on making a transcript and translating it. To describe my Swedish as bad would be an understatement. Non-existent is closer. I might as well be watching the Muppets (Swedish Chef).
So, knowing how to navigate usenet (and what usenet is), and the nettiquette there so you get the real goods instead of a disk full of viruses, knowing and using the specialized software to pull fragmented binaries of off usenet, knowledge of what a.rar even is (and what to do with it), reconstituting it into an iso or nrg or daa (and knowing what those are), and burning it to disk...
If that's how you pirate, or how you think piracy works, you've lost the plot. The people I know that do pirate things use a web browser and torrent software, and can bearly configure their printer. As for viruses, if I have one more fool ask me to help him (or her) make the computer run quicker when a simple netstat with no user apps running on a clean boot floods the web I'll scream.
Any particular reason you edited out the simple and free option? Keep your original recovery media. Only recently have they stopped shipping discs with a lot of the cheapest PCs, but even there they have a 'make your own recovery disk' tool that usually prompts you within the first few days of using it and a pamplet in the box telling you to use it. If you don't want to pay twice or get an IT degree, follow the stupid wizard and make your recovery disks.
Once again, you've lost touch with reality. Most users lose the recovery discs or file them along with the 10 other crapware discs that came with the computer (Everything from MS Words, to cut down versions of CD burning software, to discs full of nothing but advertising junk). They didn't the restore disks them to get the computer up and running once so they're not even on the radar. As for only recently having stopped selling computers without recovery disks and ony for the cheapest PCs thats just not true. I've had that situation several YEARS ago with a laptop.
Also you can't follow the "stupid wizard" to recover your computer if you don't know that's the procedure. Most people just want their computer to work so they can do things like watch movies, browse the web, read their email and run their office apps. The rest doesn't interest them and they only do anything when they have to. Most people want to listen to music and watch movies so they've already got their torrent app installed. Or their friend already has the torrent on a disk. Path of least resistance. Might not be legal or even morally justifiable, but that's how the world works, as proven by the amount of piracy.
Ths typical Mac user likes MacOS because all the software and hardware is beautifully integrated and consistent, and everything Just Works.
Ah yes the magical bug free OS designed by the Gods themselves.
Please stop drinking the cool aid (or perhaps sniffing the turtle neck). There's no such animal. It's a marketing ploy that you've been brainwashed into accepting. I could point out MacOS bugs and inconsistencies and people like you would just try and make me feel foolish for daring not to think the Apple way.
Fanatacism breeds complacency which stands in the way of real progress all leading more people to disappointment than any kind of wonderful experience. QUIT IT.
Its funny really. If they change the UI too much, people bitch that they changed it just for the sake of changing it, and thats its the same OS with a pretty face. If they change mostly the backend and whats under the hood, then people say "Its an overglorified service pack"
Correct, and so they should. New UIs cost time and money to learn. Backend changes I don't notice aren't worth the money.
So I'll ask you. Have you actually looked at the extent of the changes they made to Windows under the hood?
You list a lot of changes, but none of them alter what you're able to do with your computer. The question is one of a value proposition. What new features and capabilities do I WANT that my old system doesn't give me and justifies me spending my hard earned money? Win 3.x gave you a UI - now I don't have to know obscure commands to find a file. Windows 98 gave you better multitasking and multi media - now I can run lots of things at once. Windows 98 SE and XP gave you USB connectivity - now I don't have to wait hours for printing and can connect external storage.
What does Vista give you? DX10? Ha how many people need or use it. A bunch of under the hood changes? No one cares as its not user facing. New versions of software that worked fine last version. Not interested. 64 bit? Not much software and most users run less than 2-3 Gb (though that's changing). Touch screen support? If I don't have a touch screen why should I pay for it? (They're not rare but they're hardly the standard).
If the consumer won't notice, it's not worth their money to upgrade is it?
Another thing you're forgetting. New software is less mature, less well tested in the real world, and likely to be buggier. Even if it's not a bug it's likely to require that you change the way you do things. Why should I? Some of those design choices the average user won't want or like (UAC prompting was a disaster for instance and made the system LESS secure)...and what about DRM and the way high res gets limited for video etc unless you have a magic secure path?
Doesn't change how massive the update is, though.
Don't care. What you have to answer is why should I spend money on and time learning a new interface for no tangible reward.
Eventually the rewards will be: 1) 64 bit allowing larger memory spaces. 2) Compatibility with tomorrow's hardware and software.
Or you could have just used a newer genuine XP oem disk. SP2 and SP3 disks have SATA drivers, maybe even SP1 disks. If all you had was an original XP cd, you can slipstream your own XP SP3 disk pretty easily.
OH come on man! Name me anyone outside of IT that slipstreams their own disks? There are probably slashdot users that would balk at the idea. Not everyone's a sysadmin or coder that's intimately familiar with such things.
Or you could have ordered a replacement recovery disk set from the OEM. Granted its usually 15-20 bucks or so.
But its not like you don't have lots of options.
So your options are pay twice, or get an IT degree. That's not reasonable.
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Calling this thing dual screen is not too different to calling an old tv with an lcd display of the channel number dual screen. Okay that's a _slight_ exaggeration. Only slight. The second "screen" looks like it's not worth the trouble. Good for task lists and the like but not much else, yet oh so breakable. The headline had me envision something like a tablet pc with a second screen - instead I see something about the size of a size mirror on a combi van. More gimmick than useful. Farq off.
2.8 million pieces of different hardware, and over 7.5 million installations had all drivers included, "almost all" could be downoaded easily. No matter what you think of Microsoft, that information is pretty much astonishing.
Yeah I go and buy a computer and they also give me the motherboard chipset drivers. Or I buy a laptop from Dell and they ship it with drivers. That's amazing! What will they think of next!?
No it's not amazing. It's expected. To me the figure says 25% of people either upgraded their machines or bought poor quality unsupported hardware.
The difference is, Google was stupid... they went out and bought the hardware. Microsoft is smarter. They're just going to seize control of yours. In the business world, they call that "externalizing costs".
Too late. The spam kings already externalized their own costs, so there's no longer a large group of Windows computers sitting idly.
Oddly enough, these are exactly the same stages I went through when switching to Linux.
Which distro? LesbOS?
I don't know anything about the judging but I think I recognise all of the entries in the codebase at work.
There are several ways of speeding up the information and if you use CAMEL
My parents come from Egypt and assure me sending messages by Camel is very slow!
"Elevate America". Is the icon for the program a hangman's noose?
Parent is essentially correct and thorough but one thing I'll add is the importance of supernova as standard candles.
A certain type of supernova - Type Ia is always going to peak at the same absolute brightness because of the physical process involved. It is the result of one star - a white draw - drawing in matter from another star until the white dwarf reaches a mass where it can no longer keep itself from collapsing. As a result it implodes and bounces back as a spectacular supernova explosion. Since the point at which this mass is too much for the star to hold itself up against gravity is consistent (determined by the physics) the brightness of each type Ia is almost exactly the same.
So now we just need to measure the apparent brightness of one type Ia supernova, and knowing the distance by other means we work out it's absolute brightness. If we see another type Ia (and we can tell the type by looking at the spectra) we know it's absolute brightness, measure it's apparent brightness, and with a simple calculation we get a pretty good estimate of how far away it is. We can now work out the distance to incredibly distant objects because the supernova explosions are so big they're seen clearly in distant galaxies.
Ever notice the "Internet Explorer provided by Dell" title bar?
Hey mine says "Internet Explorer provided by l33tHax0r69". Does that mean I have an older version or something?
They won't need to know your real first name until you start to fill out the formal paperwork (which probably won't be until after they've already hired you).
This gets modded up as insightful???
What about when they're checking your references? You don't want your old employer getting a call about a guy that use to work there and saying "nup, never heard of him" do you? They usually do background checks and call former employers BEFORE they agree to hire you. At that point you may be asked to sign an agreement to have them do a security check and provide full details. If they find you're using a shady alias that early on they might opt out of paying the fee for the checks.
supernatural booger man
I hope you mean boogie man or you've had a much more torchered childhood than I!
If what the Pirate Bay does is illegal, then phone book publishers should be prosecuted for listing felons and scams. After all, by this flawed thinking, the listing of the contact information facilitates the felonies and scams of the individuals represented by the entry.
Are you really so naive you don't think there are laws against phone books listing criminals by their criminal profession and advertising their services? Or are you just posting this for the karma?
I can just picture the phone book now:
Need your wife offed? Call 555-NO-WIFE
Drugs Dealer. Open 24 hours. 555-DRUGGIE
Let me put it another way: I am an artist. I work on movies. I don't get the gravy train, either. Why? Despite being in a creative position, I'm in a replacable creative position. Somebody else can take my place and get the job done. I cannot do what the actors do. Replace the principal actor with me and the movie won't make as many millions of dollars. Replace the script-writer with me and bam, exact same problem.
You can replace one big name star with another big name star (or an up and commer). How do you think they became stars in the first place? Do you think Britney Spears was born with a fanbase? If anything the media produced these days is of such poor quality that one actor certainly can replace another. You argue you can't act. I'm sure Tom Cruise can't do what you do either. However there are other actors that can act just as there are others that can take your place. Even a genius may come up with an idea at the same time as another individual because the technology is ripe for that new idea. Has happened many times in history. No one's irreplaceable in the context of their work.
I had a calculator once. It was a nice little Sharp model....if instead, someone had looked at my calculator, taken out a 3D tricorder-mapper-duplicator-thingamabob and had made an exact copy of my calculator, complete with all functionality, and left me with mine, I don't think I would have been quite as upset. In fact, I think you will agree that if I ran around waving my calculator in the air claiming that it had been robbed from me and that I was a victim of "theft", I would not get a lot of sympathy.
Sharp on the other hand might have an issue with it, since they'd no longer have a market for their calculators.
You're confusing the owner with the manufacturer. I'm sure in a lot of cases the users that give pirates a copy to crack don't care what's done with it either, since they still have their legitimate copy. They might have a problem with their CD keys being handed out though.
Here's a simplified Michelson-Morley interferometer experiment
http://tonic.physics.sunysb.edu/~dteaney/F07_modern/lectures/mlab1_michelson.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelson-Morley_experiment
http://www.wikinfo.org/index.php/Michelson-Morley_experiment
How about building your own Radio Telescope
http://www.radiotelescopebuilder.com/
For that matter you could get them to build their own Dobsonian although the physics there isn't too hard (basic optics), especially if you don't hand figure the mirror. There's also a large metalwork or woodwork component that might not be considered relevant.
Here are some really good astronomy tutorials (though the prac work is done with simulated software). You might be able to modify them to something more practical
http://www3.gettysburg.edu/~marschal/clea/CLEAhome.html
Some of the topics covered by the above
Radio Astronomy of Pulsars
Astrometry of Asteroids
The Revolution of the Moons of Jupiter
The Rotation of Mercury by The Doppler Effect
Photoelectric Photometry of the Pleiades
Spectral Classification of Stars
The Hubble RedShift-Distance Relation
The Flow of Energy Out of the Sun
The Quest for Object X
Jupiter's Moons and the Speed of Light: The Classic Roemer Experiment
There are books and web pages out there....many tend to be geared to highschool, then there are some that would require you to up your insurance...so you'll have to sift through them
http://physics.about.com/od/physicsexperiments/tp/experimentbooks.htm
http://www.educypedia.be/education/physicsexperiments.htm
So that must make
Web 2.2: Forget the games. We accuse you of piracy. You go to jail. We keep the money.
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Dance Monkey Boy!
It will be broadcast without editing
YAY!!!
or translation.
Oh:( I do hope some Swedish and English speaking geeks take on making a transcript and translating it. To describe my Swedish as bad would be an understatement. Non-existent is closer. I might as well be watching the Muppets (Swedish Chef).
So, knowing how to navigate usenet (and what usenet is), and the nettiquette there so you get the real goods instead of a disk full of viruses, knowing and using the specialized software to pull fragmented binaries of off usenet, knowledge of what a .rar even is (and what to do with it), reconstituting it into an iso or nrg or daa (and knowing what those are), and burning it to disk...
If that's how you pirate, or how you think piracy works, you've lost the plot. The people I know that do pirate things use a web browser and torrent software, and can bearly configure their printer. As for viruses, if I have one more fool ask me to help him (or her) make the computer run quicker when a simple netstat with no user apps running on a clean boot floods the web I'll scream.
Any particular reason you edited out the simple and free option? Keep your original recovery media. Only recently have they stopped shipping discs with a lot of the cheapest PCs, but even there they have a 'make your own recovery disk' tool that usually prompts you within the first few days of using it and a pamplet in the box telling you to use it. If you don't want to pay twice or get an IT degree, follow the stupid wizard and make your recovery disks.
Once again, you've lost touch with reality. Most users lose the recovery discs or file them along with the 10 other crapware discs that came with the computer (Everything from MS Words, to cut down versions of CD burning software, to discs full of nothing but advertising junk). They didn't the restore disks them to get the computer up and running once so they're not even on the radar. As for only recently having stopped selling computers without recovery disks and ony for the cheapest PCs thats just not true. I've had that situation several YEARS ago with a laptop.
Also you can't follow the "stupid wizard" to recover your computer if you don't know that's the procedure. Most people just want their computer to work so they can do things like watch movies, browse the web, read their email and run their office apps. The rest doesn't interest them and they only do anything when they have to. Most people want to listen to music and watch movies so they've already got their torrent app installed. Or their friend already has the torrent on a disk. Path of least resistance. Might not be legal or even morally justifiable, but that's how the world works, as proven by the amount of piracy.
Ths typical Mac user likes MacOS because all the software and hardware is beautifully integrated and consistent, and everything Just Works.
Ah yes the magical bug free OS designed by the Gods themselves.
Please stop drinking the cool aid (or perhaps sniffing the turtle neck). There's no such animal. It's a marketing ploy that you've been brainwashed into accepting. I could point out MacOS bugs and inconsistencies and people like you would just try and make me feel foolish for daring not to think the Apple way.
Fanatacism breeds complacency which stands in the way of real progress all leading more people to disappointment than any kind of wonderful experience. QUIT IT.
Its funny really. If they change the UI too much, people bitch that they changed it just for the sake of changing it, and thats its the same OS with a pretty face. If they change mostly the backend and whats under the hood, then people say "Its an overglorified service pack"
Correct, and so they should. New UIs cost time and money to learn. Backend changes I don't notice aren't worth the money.
So I'll ask you. Have you actually looked at the extent of the changes they made to Windows under the hood?
You list a lot of changes, but none of them alter what you're able to do with your computer. The question is one of a value proposition. What new features and capabilities do I WANT that my old system doesn't give me and justifies me spending my hard earned money? Win 3.x gave you a UI - now I don't have to know obscure commands to find a file. Windows 98 gave you better multitasking and multi media - now I can run lots of things at once. Windows 98 SE and XP gave you USB connectivity - now I don't have to wait hours for printing and can connect external storage.
What does Vista give you? DX10? Ha how many people need or use it. A bunch of under the hood changes? No one cares as its not user facing. New versions of software that worked fine last version. Not interested. 64 bit? Not much software and most users run less than 2-3 Gb (though that's changing). Touch screen support? If I don't have a touch screen why should I pay for it? (They're not rare but they're hardly the standard).
If the consumer won't notice, it's not worth their money to upgrade is it?
Another thing you're forgetting. New software is less mature, less well tested in the real world, and likely to be buggier. Even if it's not a bug it's likely to require that you change the way you do things. Why should I? Some of those design choices the average user won't want or like (UAC prompting was a disaster for instance and made the system LESS secure)...and what about DRM and the way high res gets limited for video etc unless you have a magic secure path?
Doesn't change how massive the update is, though.
Don't care. What you have to answer is why should I spend money on and time learning a new interface for no tangible reward.
Eventually the rewards will be:
1) 64 bit allowing larger memory spaces.
2) Compatibility with tomorrow's hardware and software.
Today it's a joke for the average user.
Or you could have just used a newer genuine XP oem disk. SP2 and SP3 disks have SATA drivers, maybe even SP1 disks. If all you had was an original XP cd, you can slipstream your own XP SP3 disk pretty easily.
OH come on man! Name me anyone outside of IT that slipstreams their own disks? There are probably slashdot users that would balk at the idea. Not everyone's a sysadmin or coder that's intimately familiar with such things.
Or you could have ordered a replacement recovery disk set from the OEM. Granted its usually 15-20 bucks or so.
But its not like you don't have lots of options.
So your options are pay twice, or get an IT degree. That's not reasonable.
You seem to have forgotten DOS 6.
Maybe, like me he switched to DR DOS (until it ate some important files).
You're welcome. Without it, I'd have stuck with 2.0
2. A vehicle arrives for your use. If it is unsanitary, you press a button and it routes back to maintenance for cleaning.
3. Change of government means the system is no longer maintained
4. After flagging down your fifth vehicle and finding it's the fifth one in a row that's unsanitary, you give up and catch the bus.