Huh? I never mentioned the Pre, which 90% of your comment is about. As for jailbreaking... that's the point. You shouldn't HAVE to rely on a security flaw to do what you want with a phone you own. Apple can even keep their draconian marketplace rules if they want, they just need to let people install apps without going through the app store. This is what Windows Mobile does, and you know what? When your platform is significantly less open than Windows Mobile, you're doing something very wrong.
As it stands Apple won't even allow a C64 emulator because that could let you run C64 games for the iPhone they haven't approved of you playing. WTF? Seriously, what argument is there for that other than Apple being obsessive control freaks?
Compare Apple's market share in PMPs and online music distribution to Microsoft's OS market share. Compare their business dealings, and competitor pricing and tell me Apple is not as much a monopoly in the PMP space as Microsoft is in the OS.
No, they really are. In the past 5-10 years, Apple has risen to a staggering level of popularity, but what has been the end result? More lock-in, more bullying. I think it's important to put this in perspective- Apple eventually dropped their lock-in DRM from the iTMS (but not until more than a year after some of their competitors, like Amazon), and they replaced it with encrypted iPod indexes and legal abuse like this.
I understand why they're popular amongst certain groups, but to me they just seem so opposed to the hacker/geek ethos that used to be the rule at places like Slashdot.
If you'd have used Vista or Win7 before, you'd know that recent versions of Windows isolate video drivers in a protected memory space. When crappy drivers crash (as they did all the time in the early days of Vista) your screen blanks for a second and a message pops up telling you that your graphics drivers crashed and Windows has restarted them. If you have terribly shitty drivers and it becomes very annoying you could always just turn Aero off.
Not really. Back when Windows was designed SMP was rare. There wasn't need to have the GDI subsystem support 8+ CPUs, since none of the rest of the OS supported that many. A global GDI lock doesn't matter much when it's never running on more than 2 cores.
I have Win7 RC installed and I haven't experienced this. My monitors are connected with standard DVI, and don't support HDCP. The Vista/Win7 protected path isn't even enabled unless you're playing Blu-Ray (not DVD). Your problem is most likely caused by a bug in pre-release video drivers or in Windows Media Player. WMP has had some of its codecs rewritten.
The development phase of the Raptor program cost about $40B. During this phase, no F-22s were built, all the money was spent on designing the airplane and its systems. This is the upfront, fixed cost of the program. This money was spent years ago. For each actual F-22 the US government orders, it is billed $130M. Since the US government has only ordered 187 raptors, it has spent about $24.5B on the planes themselves.
So in total the US government has spent about $63.5B on the Raptor program, and has received 187 of the aircraft for its money. This brings the average cost per F-22 to about $63.5B/187 or $339M.
However, if the US government wanted to order more Raptors, the research and development doesn't need to be repeated. If the US government ordered one more it would cost $130M, the unit cost of the aircraft, not $339M because the US doesn't need to spend another $209M on R&D. The designs, tools and processes required to build Raptors already exist.
And so the GGP's claim that "If we ordered one more it would cost very very slightly under 339M" is very very wrong. So yeah, I agree with you about reading comprehension. I wouldn't have to explain things twice.
You really are very unimaginative. There are a lot of people with work laptops that are out of the office on a frequent basis. In our office our sales and integration guys are on the road a lot, and we have a number of people who telecommute on work provided desktops. VPN works okay for these, but it's kind of a hack.
IIRC, they also offloaded most of the GDI rendering to the GPU. In Windows XP and previous, all drawing and compositing was done on the CPU. Vista added GPU compositing, but which is what Vista uses to implement the frosted-glass effect. The problem is that, since drawing was still done by the CPU and the system does compositing on the GPU, it keeps two complete GDI buffers for each window. On laptops where most integrated cards use system memory this was doubling the amount of system memory required for the GDI. Windows 7 changes this so that both compositing and drawing are done on the GPU, eliminating the need for a CPU window buffer. One of the things this does is cut total memory consumption in half, and eliminates CPU memory consumption by the GDI subsystem entirely. The other advantage is power- Vista's use of the GPU for compositing means more recent graphics chips are much better behaved when it comes to power consumption than they used to be. By doing the drawing and compositing on the GPU, Win7 doesn't draw as much power on modern laptops since the GPU can do that for less power than the CPU.
It's a near perfect market, in the economic sense. The barrier to entry into the registration business is almost nil, it's all just some data processing. And as economics tells us, as a market approaches 'perfection', profit margins approach 0%. So it's not surprising that some registrars are resorting to shady business practices; the only people who can make money in the registration business are those who are willing to do a little lying and cheating.
ICANN needs to figure out an enforcement policy. Perhaps it should order the root servers to stop accepting new registrations from registrars not following the rules.
Apparently you don't. It got shot down because it always flew the same path over and over, and the Serbians put guys under the flight path. They phoned up the AA batteries when they heard a jet flying overhead, and the AA batteries, knowing where to look, tracked and targetted it visually. Still only one missile got close enough to do any damage.
Perhaps. But the 10th Amendment suggests that health care and education should be a state responsibility (if at all). People make a big deal of the Canadian health care system, but there's an important point: the Canadian health care system is not run by the Canadian federal government. Each province runs its own health care system. For example, the Alberta health care system operated very much like a private insurer until this year, whereas in Nova Scotia it is more like a traditional universal health care system. The Canadian federal government mandates certain minimum standards, but it has the constitutional authority to do that. The actual operation of the health care system is a provincial matter, as the Canadian constitution dictates it should be.
The US spends a couple orders of magnitude more on social programs than it does on F-22 raptors. The US has maintained a level of military superiority since the days of Teddy Roosevelt, and similarly it hasn't had to fight a war on its own turf since the Spanish-American war. If you compare current US military expenditures against the economic and human devastation that war causes, I'd say the F-22 raptor is cheap at twice the cost.
Interesting? Wrong more like. The cost of the program is $39,000M + 187 * $130M. The marginal cost per plane is $130M. $209M of the $339M is the upfront R&D costs, and that money has already been spent./. should replace the new account captcha with a math exam.
Yet somehow, Dell, HP and other companies that do their manafacturing in China, with Foxconn even, have managed to get by for a decade or more without any of their workers dying in suspicious circumstances. And that's the point, if it was any other company you could brush it off as a random event. But Apple is notorious for its extreme attitude towards security, and if you think that wasn't the major contributing factor in all this, I have a bridge to sell you.
True to a certain extent. But I would suggest that there is a lot more due diligence required when you're in a billion dollar partnership than if you're a consumer on the street spending a hundred bucks on a gadget.
This is the high pressure culture of secrecy taken to its logical conclusion in a country with little worker protection. I highly doubt Apple has any legal responsibility in this, but they do share a portion of the moral culpability along with the management of Foxconn. Did the senior management of Foxconn push the man out a window? No, but they created the corporate culture in which it happened. Likewise, Apple have worked with Foxconn for years now; they created the high pressure culture of secrecy and then turned a blind eye to how Foxconn enforces it.
It's not that other phones have a marketplace with an approval process, it's that the marketplace is the only way to load programs onto your phone. With a Windows Mobile phone, you can download and install a.cab from anywhere you want. If it's not signed you get a brief warning message, and that's it.
Forget the X in the top right corner. The top left corner in Windows 7 is icon-free, as Windows has been since Vista. Yet you can still double click there and the program will close, just like it did back in Windows 3.1.
The utility of regenerative braking is in maintaining decent fuel economy when you're coming to a rapid stop often. I'm sure it's possible to some extent, but you still aren't going to see it, because it's just not that useful for an ocean-going navy. Your average naval vessel doesn't do a lot of rapid stops.
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Huh? I never mentioned the Pre, which 90% of your comment is about. As for jailbreaking... that's the point. You shouldn't HAVE to rely on a security flaw to do what you want with a phone you own. Apple can even keep their draconian marketplace rules if they want, they just need to let people install apps without going through the app store. This is what Windows Mobile does, and you know what? When your platform is significantly less open than Windows Mobile, you're doing something very wrong.
As it stands Apple won't even allow a C64 emulator because that could let you run C64 games for the iPhone they haven't approved of you playing. WTF? Seriously, what argument is there for that other than Apple being obsessive control freaks?
Compare Apple's market share in PMPs and online music distribution to Microsoft's OS market share. Compare their business dealings, and competitor pricing and tell me Apple is not as much a monopoly in the PMP space as Microsoft is in the OS.
No, they really are. In the past 5-10 years, Apple has risen to a staggering level of popularity, but what has been the end result? More lock-in, more bullying. I think it's important to put this in perspective- Apple eventually dropped their lock-in DRM from the iTMS (but not until more than a year after some of their competitors, like Amazon), and they replaced it with encrypted iPod indexes and legal abuse like this. I understand why they're popular amongst certain groups, but to me they just seem so opposed to the hacker/geek ethos that used to be the rule at places like Slashdot.
If you'd have used Vista or Win7 before, you'd know that recent versions of Windows isolate video drivers in a protected memory space. When crappy drivers crash (as they did all the time in the early days of Vista) your screen blanks for a second and a message pops up telling you that your graphics drivers crashed and Windows has restarted them. If you have terribly shitty drivers and it becomes very annoying you could always just turn Aero off.
Not really. Back when Windows was designed SMP was rare. There wasn't need to have the GDI subsystem support 8+ CPUs, since none of the rest of the OS supported that many. A global GDI lock doesn't matter much when it's never running on more than 2 cores.
I have Win7 RC installed and I haven't experienced this. My monitors are connected with standard DVI, and don't support HDCP. The Vista/Win7 protected path isn't even enabled unless you're playing Blu-Ray (not DVD). Your problem is most likely caused by a bug in pre-release video drivers or in Windows Media Player. WMP has had some of its codecs rewritten.
I'll use simpler words.
The development phase of the Raptor program cost about $40B. During this phase, no F-22s were built, all the money was spent on designing the airplane and its systems. This is the upfront, fixed cost of the program. This money was spent years ago. For each actual F-22 the US government orders, it is billed $130M. Since the US government has only ordered 187 raptors, it has spent about $24.5B on the planes themselves.
So in total the US government has spent about $63.5B on the Raptor program, and has received 187 of the aircraft for its money. This brings the average cost per F-22 to about $63.5B/187 or $339M.
However, if the US government wanted to order more Raptors, the research and development doesn't need to be repeated. If the US government ordered one more it would cost $130M, the unit cost of the aircraft, not $339M because the US doesn't need to spend another $209M on R&D. The designs, tools and processes required to build Raptors already exist.
And so the GGP's claim that "If we ordered one more it would cost very very slightly under 339M" is very very wrong. So yeah, I agree with you about reading comprehension. I wouldn't have to explain things twice.
You really are very unimaginative. There are a lot of people with work laptops that are out of the office on a frequent basis. In our office our sales and integration guys are on the road a lot, and we have a number of people who telecommute on work provided desktops. VPN works okay for these, but it's kind of a hack.
IIRC, they also offloaded most of the GDI rendering to the GPU. In Windows XP and previous, all drawing and compositing was done on the CPU. Vista added GPU compositing, but which is what Vista uses to implement the frosted-glass effect. The problem is that, since drawing was still done by the CPU and the system does compositing on the GPU, it keeps two complete GDI buffers for each window. On laptops where most integrated cards use system memory this was doubling the amount of system memory required for the GDI. Windows 7 changes this so that both compositing and drawing are done on the GPU, eliminating the need for a CPU window buffer. One of the things this does is cut total memory consumption in half, and eliminates CPU memory consumption by the GDI subsystem entirely. The other advantage is power- Vista's use of the GPU for compositing means more recent graphics chips are much better behaved when it comes to power consumption than they used to be. By doing the drawing and compositing on the GPU, Win7 doesn't draw as much power on modern laptops since the GPU can do that for less power than the CPU.
Good nitpick. :-)
It's a near perfect market, in the economic sense. The barrier to entry into the registration business is almost nil, it's all just some data processing. And as economics tells us, as a market approaches 'perfection', profit margins approach 0%. So it's not surprising that some registrars are resorting to shady business practices; the only people who can make money in the registration business are those who are willing to do a little lying and cheating.
ICANN needs to figure out an enforcement policy. Perhaps it should order the root servers to stop accepting new registrations from registrars not following the rules.
They could build a few less useless bridges and pay for the original order.
Apparently you don't. It got shot down because it always flew the same path over and over, and the Serbians put guys under the flight path. They phoned up the AA batteries when they heard a jet flying overhead, and the AA batteries, knowing where to look, tracked and targetted it visually. Still only one missile got close enough to do any damage.
Perhaps. But the 10th Amendment suggests that health care and education should be a state responsibility (if at all). People make a big deal of the Canadian health care system, but there's an important point: the Canadian health care system is not run by the Canadian federal government. Each province runs its own health care system. For example, the Alberta health care system operated very much like a private insurer until this year, whereas in Nova Scotia it is more like a traditional universal health care system. The Canadian federal government mandates certain minimum standards, but it has the constitutional authority to do that. The actual operation of the health care system is a provincial matter, as the Canadian constitution dictates it should be.
The US spends a couple orders of magnitude more on social programs than it does on F-22 raptors. The US has maintained a level of military superiority since the days of Teddy Roosevelt, and similarly it hasn't had to fight a war on its own turf since the Spanish-American war. If you compare current US military expenditures against the economic and human devastation that war causes, I'd say the F-22 raptor is cheap at twice the cost.
Interesting? Wrong more like. The cost of the program is $39,000M + 187 * $130M. The marginal cost per plane is $130M. $209M of the $339M is the upfront R&D costs, and that money has already been spent. /. should replace the new account captcha with a math exam.
Yet somehow, Dell, HP and other companies that do their manafacturing in China, with Foxconn even, have managed to get by for a decade or more without any of their workers dying in suspicious circumstances. And that's the point, if it was any other company you could brush it off as a random event. But Apple is notorious for its extreme attitude towards security, and if you think that wasn't the major contributing factor in all this, I have a bridge to sell you.
Your average American defense contractor doesn't put Chinese thugs in charge of security.
True to a certain extent. But I would suggest that there is a lot more due diligence required when you're in a billion dollar partnership than if you're a consumer on the street spending a hundred bucks on a gadget.
This is the high pressure culture of secrecy taken to its logical conclusion in a country with little worker protection. I highly doubt Apple has any legal responsibility in this, but they do share a portion of the moral culpability along with the management of Foxconn. Did the senior management of Foxconn push the man out a window? No, but they created the corporate culture in which it happened. Likewise, Apple have worked with Foxconn for years now; they created the high pressure culture of secrecy and then turned a blind eye to how Foxconn enforces it.
It's not that other phones have a marketplace with an approval process, it's that the marketplace is the only way to load programs onto your phone. With a Windows Mobile phone, you can download and install a .cab from anywhere you want. If it's not signed you get a brief warning message, and that's it.
Forget the X in the top right corner. The top left corner in Windows 7 is icon-free, as Windows has been since Vista. Yet you can still double click there and the program will close, just like it did back in Windows 3.1.
Why would you? Regenerative braking makes sense only when you're stopping and starting a lot. There aren't too many traffic lights in the ocean.
The utility of regenerative braking is in maintaining decent fuel economy when you're coming to a rapid stop often. I'm sure it's possible to some extent, but you still aren't going to see it, because it's just not that useful for an ocean-going navy. Your average naval vessel doesn't do a lot of rapid stops.