Yellow Journalism in the US goes back to the 1800s, so intentionally misleading the public while still masquerading as the news has been around for some time.
The funding problem is centered around the best way to get more funding, not whether the amount of funding is sufficient, or if the government has allocated enough funding to the education sector as a whole.
Going back to your Utah example, Utah would never be _given_ more money, because politics don't work that way. The phenomenon that leads to higher budget schools being lower quality than low budget is the method for receiving more funds; success in this case is often proving to the right bureaucracy that you don't have enough funding by performing poorly. Where funds are distributed like this we see the same problems that the financial sector has: failure to the people isn't failure for the organization, it's an opportunity.
Likely something like that would still shut down your car. Should a pulse device come into contact with the engine block or chassis it could invalidate the grounding properties by using the surface as a high voltage short.
netbooks benefit from gpus in the video decoding aspects. Especially with google implementing h.264 codecs for some of their youtube videos there's a big performance advantage to having a gpu instead of an additional cpu core.
I have a 4 disk raid5 array that pushes ~260MB/s and can say that the added disk i/o makes a huge difference when using multiple virtual machines. Even using just a single machine having the added disk throughput is a huge boost, I've run server2008r2 inside a vm with only 128mb ram addressed; thanks to the extra fast disk (and thus swap) the system is still responsive.
While it may be simpler to just use dedicated disks instead of RAID for each virtual machine, you can be sure that in the age of virtualization there's more need for multiple and high speed disks than ever.
While it's clear that publishing something like this could raise some flags I have to disagree. If he wants to keep the system as-is then documenting the received condition should serve to protect him.
Lack of a COA is not lack of proper licensing. There's nothing that requires Microsoft to provide a COA with a promotional item, and should there be a case brought against the new owner it's still the copyright holder's responsibility to prove the lack of license and the presence of use.
The anti-Microsoft base here has always been strong. I wonder, what pushes somebody to accept a search engine that promotes virus-bearing browser toolbars?
Ask.com was actually decent back when they were ask jeeves, since then it's just been a race for how horrible and stupid they can become.
Actually no key is required for use of OEM installations. With a certificate and matching bios Microsoft allows the bypass of authenticity all together. Windows Vista/7 pirate releases have been more standard OEM releases with bios masking than anything else. I'd hope that Microsoft is smart enough to allow some leniency on MSDN keys, they're intended to be used for testing purposes across multiple machines, and they're used by microsoft professionals. Still the draconian hardware restrictions really get in the way of VM use should you have to change a virtual network or display adapter.
While the 360 and ps3 versions are coded much better they're far from perfect. Cruising down a highway for a long period will get you crashed into an object that hadn't been rendered yet.
File this one under "why you shouldn't consider wikipedia a source.": The entry quotes specific numbers (which are years old, btw) and then cites an apple blog as it's only reference. The cited reference at http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/06/05/24/ipod_how_big_can_it_get.html only uses conjecture to come to the conclusion that 10% of computer users use 1 or more ipod, which isn't impressive at all. Appleinsider doesn't state any numbers comparing ipod sales to overall portable media player sales (a quantity which would be hugely difficult to estimate in any case).
It would appear that wikipedia plagiarized their numbers and then cited a blog in lieu of the real source.
It'd be interesting to see the sources for your numbers. Ipod share is astronomical, but I doubt it's as high as 73% among all mp3 players. Any stats that put the iphone in 30% would have to be comparing from a "smart phone" perspective... while the iphone is in many ways not as "smart" as many dumbphones.
Either way, people predominately buy the iphone not because it's a smart phone, but because it's an apple phone. The same thing goes for the ipod, it's popular because people buy it for the status or some perceived quality that it doesn't have. I suspect that Mac sales are still in niche numbers apart from the rest because it's a larger investment, and because Mac computers are such a horrible deal. The amount that somebody pays extra for a Mac over a comparable intel compatible PC is usually more than the total cost of an iphone, or ipod.
Despite the above comment being made by an intel troll you will need an intel system to run osx. Most any of the cheap intel chipsets (like the g31) will work with osx.
Everyone who earns more than $4,000 per year is required to file a tax return. Most employers will withhold taxes even if you earn less than $4,000, so even the lowest earners should file.
Just because Intel has risen from the p4 era with competitive chips doesn't mean that it was on their own efforts or merit. They did so by licensing technologies developed by AMD and holding the necessary set of legacy patents over AMD's head as payment for these techs. If anything Intel's recent success stems for their quality first-party fabs that can produce high internal clock speeds. The sad fact is that even with governments intervening Intel has already gained their advantage by having the funds necessary to produce top-notch fabrication facilities; at the same time Intel abused this advantage to put AMD in a situation forcing them to sell off their own fabs. Had we seen a more evenly divided Athlon XP vs P4 era AMD would have had considerably better backing to develop facilities making their products more competitive today. One could argue that the consumer would have been better off as well, with Intel dropping the pentium4 earlier due to fair market pressure.
Given that the project leader over at Epic has said the xbox 360 has too many buttons I'd expect them to stay reasonable as far as controls go. Your point is well taken, trendy motion controls don't work everywhere, and even simple games like mario kart can have odd reactions to motion.
I'd guess that an infrared camera could be more accurate than the accelerometers from the wii, but caution may still be necessary.
You seem to be confusing the position of young earth vs old earth creationists. Theories that allow for old earth creation rely on all sorts of time morphing, flat out lies, or complete disregard of scripture. A view that leads to young earth creation can be had simply by reading Genesis 1. When God says 6 days, he means 6 days, and when he claims responsibility for creation personally he means personally, not through use of natural selection or mutation.
I'd assume some numbers that aren't actually still down. Forrester is using numbers extrapolated from a non-complete quarter (Q4 2009) to suggest a change in trends from Q3 2009 which would be good for the future. Things are looking up a little where I live, and I hope forrester is right... the fact is there's no data yet.
USB hard drives are the most unreliable method of storage, and they're also very slow. Good backups are expensive, bad backups are just somewhat expensive.
The example of the grandparent is a separate act constituting illegal action. It's not the act of accessing your system that would be illegal (should a contract allow it), it is the act of hacking in through nefarious means. The US legal system is so afraid of internet superheroes that most devices to gain access to someone else system are illegal all by themselves. To fit in with your money/porch analogy, it's like using an attack dog to get you to drop your wallet; taking the wallet would be allowed by contract, but that wouldn't stop me from suing you for assault.
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the article is off-topic, making a pc silent enough is not the issue, peripherals are.
Yellow Journalism in the US goes back to the 1800s, so intentionally misleading the public while still masquerading as the news has been around for some time.
I can't speak for DesCorp, but I'll try anyway :)
The funding problem is centered around the best way to get more funding, not whether the amount of funding is sufficient, or if the government has allocated enough funding to the education sector as a whole.
Going back to your Utah example, Utah would never be _given_ more money, because politics don't work that way. The phenomenon that leads to higher budget schools being lower quality than low budget is the method for receiving more funds; success in this case is often proving to the right bureaucracy that you don't have enough funding by performing poorly. Where funds are distributed like this we see the same problems that the financial sector has: failure to the people isn't failure for the organization, it's an opportunity.
Likely something like that would still shut down your car. Should a pulse device come into contact with the engine block or chassis it could invalidate the grounding properties by using the surface as a high voltage short.
You have obviously never used a Pentium 4!
Fixed that for you :)
It's almost like the corrupt corporations are in league with the government. If only somebody had told us this was going on...
netbooks benefit from gpus in the video decoding aspects. Especially with google implementing h.264 codecs for some of their youtube videos there's a big performance advantage to having a gpu instead of an additional cpu core.
I have a 4 disk raid5 array that pushes ~260MB/s and can say that the added disk i/o makes a huge difference when using multiple virtual machines. Even using just a single machine having the added disk throughput is a huge boost, I've run server2008r2 inside a vm with only 128mb ram addressed; thanks to the extra fast disk (and thus swap) the system is still responsive.
While it may be simpler to just use dedicated disks instead of RAID for each virtual machine, you can be sure that in the age of virtualization there's more need for multiple and high speed disks than ever.
While it's clear that publishing something like this could raise some flags I have to disagree. If he wants to keep the system as-is then documenting the received condition should serve to protect him.
Lack of a COA is not lack of proper licensing. There's nothing that requires Microsoft to provide a COA with a promotional item, and should there be a case brought against the new owner it's still the copyright holder's responsibility to prove the lack of license and the presence of use.
The anti-Microsoft base here has always been strong. I wonder, what pushes somebody to accept a search engine that promotes virus-bearing browser toolbars?
Ask.com was actually decent back when they were ask jeeves, since then it's just been a race for how horrible and stupid they can become.
Actually no key is required for use of OEM installations. With a certificate and matching bios Microsoft allows the bypass of authenticity all together. Windows Vista/7 pirate releases have been more standard OEM releases with bios masking than anything else. I'd hope that Microsoft is smart enough to allow some leniency on MSDN keys, they're intended to be used for testing purposes across multiple machines, and they're used by microsoft professionals. Still the draconian hardware restrictions really get in the way of VM use should you have to change a virtual network or display adapter.
While the 360 and ps3 versions are coded much better they're far from perfect. Cruising down a highway for a long period will get you crashed into an object that hadn't been rendered yet.
File this one under "why you shouldn't consider wikipedia a source.": The entry quotes specific numbers (which are years old, btw) and then cites an apple blog as it's only reference. The cited reference at http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/06/05/24/ipod_how_big_can_it_get.html only uses conjecture to come to the conclusion that 10% of computer users use 1 or more ipod, which isn't impressive at all. Appleinsider doesn't state any numbers comparing ipod sales to overall portable media player sales (a quantity which would be hugely difficult to estimate in any case).
It would appear that wikipedia plagiarized their numbers and then cited a blog in lieu of the real source.
It'd be interesting to see the sources for your numbers. Ipod share is astronomical, but I doubt it's as high as 73% among all mp3 players. Any stats that put the iphone in 30% would have to be comparing from a "smart phone" perspective... while the iphone is in many ways not as "smart" as many dumbphones.
Either way, people predominately buy the iphone not because it's a smart phone, but because it's an apple phone. The same thing goes for the ipod, it's popular because people buy it for the status or some perceived quality that it doesn't have. I suspect that Mac sales are still in niche numbers apart from the rest because it's a larger investment, and because Mac computers are such a horrible deal. The amount that somebody pays extra for a Mac over a comparable intel compatible PC is usually more than the total cost of an iphone, or ipod.
You know you can just plug a switch into one of those 4 cable connections, right?
Despite the above comment being made by an intel troll you will need an intel system to run osx. Most any of the cheap intel chipsets (like the g31) will work with osx.
AMD and Intel rate their processors differently, they can't be compared. FWIW, the E6300 is nowhere near as powerful either.
Everyone who earns more than $4,000 per year is required to file a tax return. Most employers will withhold taxes even if you earn less than $4,000, so even the lowest earners should file.
Just because Intel has risen from the p4 era with competitive chips doesn't mean that it was on their own efforts or merit. They did so by licensing technologies developed by AMD and holding the necessary set of legacy patents over AMD's head as payment for these techs. If anything Intel's recent success stems for their quality first-party fabs that can produce high internal clock speeds. The sad fact is that even with governments intervening Intel has already gained their advantage by having the funds necessary to produce top-notch fabrication facilities; at the same time Intel abused this advantage to put AMD in a situation forcing them to sell off their own fabs. Had we seen a more evenly divided Athlon XP vs P4 era AMD would have had considerably better backing to develop facilities making their products more competitive today. One could argue that the consumer would have been better off as well, with Intel dropping the pentium4 earlier due to fair market pressure.
Given that the project leader over at Epic has said the xbox 360 has too many buttons I'd expect them to stay reasonable as far as controls go. Your point is well taken, trendy motion controls don't work everywhere, and even simple games like mario kart can have odd reactions to motion. I'd guess that an infrared camera could be more accurate than the accelerometers from the wii, but caution may still be necessary.
You seem to be confusing the position of young earth vs old earth creationists. Theories that allow for old earth creation rely on all sorts of time morphing, flat out lies, or complete disregard of scripture. A view that leads to young earth creation can be had simply by reading Genesis 1. When God says 6 days, he means 6 days, and when he claims responsibility for creation personally he means personally, not through use of natural selection or mutation.
I'd assume some numbers that aren't actually still down. Forrester is using numbers extrapolated from a non-complete quarter (Q4 2009) to suggest a change in trends from Q3 2009 which would be good for the future. Things are looking up a little where I live, and I hope forrester is right... the fact is there's no data yet.
more like redundant.
USB hard drives are the most unreliable method of storage, and they're also very slow. Good backups are expensive, bad backups are just somewhat expensive.
The example of the grandparent is a separate act constituting illegal action. It's not the act of accessing your system that would be illegal (should a contract allow it), it is the act of hacking in through nefarious means. The US legal system is so afraid of internet superheroes that most devices to gain access to someone else system are illegal all by themselves. To fit in with your money/porch analogy, it's like using an attack dog to get you to drop your wallet; taking the wallet would be allowed by contract, but that wouldn't stop me from suing you for assault.