Note that Microsoft Security essentials is only 'free' if you install it on 10 other less computers in an organization; more than that requires additional licensing.
If you have an old Nook Color (the eReader model, not the Nook Tablet) you can easily triple-boot into the stock B&N Android build, cyanogenmod Gingerbread, and cyanogenmod ICS simply by inserting a microSD card with the respective OSes. Either built it yourself, or pick up one of the countless pre-built memorycards from ebay.
Sure, It's three different android builds, but it's multi-boot nonetheless
In addition to that, the HP Touchpad has been able to dual boot between WebOS and Android for a long time now.
At 20c per message (160 bytes), works out at $1310 of income per megabyte of traffic. [wikipedia.org] for the telcos. Talk about a cash cow.
Even more so because text messages piggy-back using unused space in the status pings that your phone continuously exchanges with the tower anyway, to stay connected to their network.
Just because they got results, doesn't mean that there's any conscious thought going on.
Case in point: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/fmrisalmon/ "So, as the fish sat in the scanner, they showed it “a series of photographs depicting human individuals in social situations.” To maintain the rigor of the protocol (and perhaps because it was hilarious), the salmon, just like a human test subject, “was asked to determine what emotion the individual in the photo must have been experiencing.”
The salmon, as Bennett’s poster on the test dryly notes, “was not alive at the time of scanning.”
If that were all that had occurred, the salmon scanning would simply live on in Dartmouth lore as a “crowning achievement in terms of ridiculous objects to scan.” But the fish had a surprise in store. When they got around to analyzing the voxel (think: 3-D or “volumetric” pixel) data, the voxels representing the area where the salmon’s tiny brain sat showed evidence of activity. In the fMRI scan, it looked like the dead salmon was actually thinking about the pictures it had been shown."
So a lifetime warranty means it's warranted until it breaks down?
Pretty much, yes.
"Lifetime product warranties" typically cover the 'reasonably expected' lifetime of the product the product in question, not your lifetime.
If anything, 'lifetime warranty' can be a much worse deal than a predefined number of years, since it's so vague. It's often used in sales since it sounds like a great deal to the uninformed buyer, but in reality it's pretty much the ultimate weasel-word.
Most 'normal' cars have little potential take out your house right along with it when they get ruined while parked in an attached garage during moderate flooding.
Step-through bikes are the norm and are not considered "women's" bikes.
That one isn't true -- In the Netherlands step-through bikes are still considered a female model (originally made that way to accommodate wearing a skirt/dress), Men's bikes pretty much all have a horizontal bar closing the gap to increase structural integrity. That said, it's not that rare for men to ride a women's bike and vice-versa
While a Dutch bike is comfortable to ride on flat surfaces, they are less suited for hilly terrain -- which is a non-issue in the Netherlands since the whole place is about a flat as can be. They suck to have to climb a hill or bridge on a windy day, though.
Many companies reserve the right to limit quantities. Making one customer happy by selling them every drive in stock means ticking off hundreds of others that wouldn't be able to buy the single drive they need.
Under Windows NT4 Microsoft's NTLM password database would only store the first 14 characters of each password, silently ignoring everything else.
Worse, they'd actually split it into two seven-digit chunks and store them separately, without applying a SALT. The result of this was that having a password that's a few characters longer than 7 digits would actually be worse than having a short 7-digit password, since those couple of extra characters would be trivial to brute-force and could potentially give clues about what the first part of the password could be.
On top of that, LM backwards compatibility further dramatically reduced the key space .
Because your money is insured in full by a stable government. If you keep it in a normal bank account and the bank goes bankrupt, you'd lose everything but the federally insured amount (which isn't much if you have millions).
Of course you could also keep the cash at home for free, but then you're still taking a gamble you won't get burgled.
Unlikely as it sounds, it's definitely possible... For example, a number of years ago a bug in the windows gdi rendering system could allow arbitrary code execution when viewing a malformed jpeg picture: http://tinyurl.com/c5z3rfy
And later, an even easier exploit came along where a legacy printer macro file format (don't remember the extension) simply renamed to jpeg would allow the execution of a script when the 'image' was viewed in Internet explorer since both file formats were supported by the same windows decoder libraries.
The GUI - Making easy things easier, and hard things impossible.
(Seriously, there are still a lot of command line tools like sed and awk which are absolutely invaluable, with no real non-commandline alternatives)
Downsides:
- you still need a keyboard, mouse
- you'll likely need ac power outlet nearby at all times
- the tiny projectors typically have horrible brightness, meaning you'll need a darkened room to use it
- you'll need a flat projection surface, which either meqns lugging around a screen, or having a hard time finding a suitable wall.
Overall, it would be a MUCH more flexible approach to simply get a netbook, or even a tablet like the iPad or Samsung galaxy Tab...
"more manufacturers will need to produce them" ? Somehow I doubt that's going to make much of a difference, given that we're down to just three companies in the world that manufacture spinning platter HDD's at all at this point in time: Western Digital, Seagate, and Toshiba.
In the recent past, Hitachi's HDD division was bought by Western Digital, and Samsung's HDD branch was bought by Seagate.
On top of that, Toshiba only makes 2.5" drives, which means Seagate only has one competitor left in the 3.5" market.
The difference is that this is the end of the -secundary- support cycle, after which they will stop releasing patches.
The previous one was the end of the primary cycle, after which they stopped the addition of new features, OEM installs, and phone support.
Theack of security fixes is going to be an issue for companies that depend on the 'XP mode' fearure for some old must-have 3rd party app that wont work under windows 7.
XP mode is essentially a complete VM install of windows XP (with full network access as well) This may vwry well become a big attack vector once xp patches stop being released.
One big difference, is that pretty much all of Europe uses the GSM standard, and you can use your phone on another network just by sticking a different SIM card in.
In the US, most phones are SIM-less, and there are different protocols, standards, and frequencies in use by the various carriers. Only a couple of the carriers are physically capable or interoperating with eachothers equipment, and all of them are throwing up roadblocks to customers wanting to switch away and still use their current phone. It's a captive market, and unfortunately there is very little incentive for the carriers to push for change.
I do honestly believe it will be quite some time yet before a mobile-handset (phone, iPad, etc) would need more than "one hundred megabits per second" (or thereabouts).
Perhaps, but there are a lot of other devices that are NOT cellphones that still communicate with celltowers, like LTE / WiMax modems used by people outside of DSL/Cable range. Massive increases to wireless data speed would be a very welcome development for people in rural areas who often don't really have any alternative highspeed options available to them.
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Note that Microsoft Security essentials is only 'free' if you install it on 10 other less computers in an organization; more than that requires additional licensing.
Why would you expect a company to pay more than they have to when individuals do not?
Most individuals don't funnel their money through foreign tax shelters.
If you have an old Nook Color (the eReader model, not the Nook Tablet) you can easily triple-boot into the stock B&N Android build, cyanogenmod Gingerbread, and cyanogenmod ICS simply by inserting a microSD card with the respective OSes. Either built it yourself, or pick up one of the countless pre-built memorycards from ebay.
Sure, It's three different android builds, but it's multi-boot nonetheless
In addition to that, the HP Touchpad has been able to dual boot between WebOS and Android for a long time now.
At 20c per message (160 bytes), works out at $1310 of income per megabyte of traffic. [wikipedia.org] for the telcos. Talk about a cash cow.
Even more so because text messages piggy-back using unused space in the status pings that your phone continuously exchanges with the tower anyway, to stay connected to their network.
Just because they got results, doesn't mean that there's any conscious thought going on.
Case in point: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/fmrisalmon/
"So, as the fish sat in the scanner, they showed it “a series of photographs depicting human individuals in social situations.” To maintain the rigor of the protocol (and perhaps because it was hilarious), the salmon, just like a human test subject, “was asked to determine what emotion the individual in the photo must have been experiencing.”
The salmon, as Bennett’s poster on the test dryly notes, “was not alive at the time of scanning.”
If that were all that had occurred, the salmon scanning would simply live on in Dartmouth lore as a “crowning achievement in terms of ridiculous objects to scan.” But the fish had a surprise in store. When they got around to analyzing the voxel (think: 3-D or “volumetric” pixel) data, the voxels representing the area where the salmon’s tiny brain sat showed evidence of activity. In the fMRI scan, it looked like the dead salmon was actually thinking about the pictures it had been shown."
So a lifetime warranty means it's warranted until it breaks down?
Pretty much, yes.
"Lifetime product warranties" typically cover the 'reasonably expected' lifetime of the product the product in question, not your lifetime.
If anything, 'lifetime warranty' can be a much worse deal than a predefined number of years, since it's so vague. It's often used in sales since it sounds like a great deal to the uninformed buyer, but in reality it's pretty much the ultimate weasel-word.
Hey its winter already, a watt used by your CPU is a watt less that has to be used by your radiant or convective heater.
Except in the summer every watt used by your CPU requires your air conditioner to use more energy to counteract it.
Most 'normal' cars have little potential take out your house right along with it when they get ruined while parked in an attached garage during moderate flooding.
Does make you wonder -- if half their brain shuts down at alternate times, does that also mean that their personality changes for those periods?
Step-through bikes are the norm and are not considered "women's" bikes.
That one isn't true -- In the Netherlands step-through bikes are still considered a female model (originally made that way to accommodate wearing a skirt/dress), Men's bikes pretty much all have a horizontal bar closing the gap to increase structural integrity. That said, it's not that rare for men to ride a women's bike and vice-versa
While a Dutch bike is comfortable to ride on flat surfaces, they are less suited for hilly terrain -- which is a non-issue in the Netherlands since the whole place is about a flat as can be. They suck to have to climb a hill or bridge on a windy day, though.
Many companies reserve the right to limit quantities. Making one customer happy by selling them every drive in stock means ticking off hundreds of others that wouldn't be able to buy the single drive they need.
Under Windows NT4 Microsoft's NTLM password database would only store the first 14 characters of each password, silently ignoring everything else. Worse, they'd actually split it into two seven-digit chunks and store them separately, without applying a SALT. The result of this was that having a password that's a few characters longer than 7 digits would actually be worse than having a short 7-digit password, since those couple of extra characters would be trivial to brute-force and could potentially give clues about what the first part of the password could be.
On top of that, LM backwards compatibility further dramatically reduced the key space .
What's the exchange rate for Canadian bacon?
Except that helium molecules are so small, they slowly leak out of pretty much any 'sealed' container?
Because your money is insured in full by a stable government. If you keep it in a normal bank account and the bank goes bankrupt, you'd lose everything but the federally insured amount (which isn't much if you have millions). Of course you could also keep the cash at home for free, but then you're still taking a gamble you won't get burgled.
As is forcing people to use/memorize ip addresses
Which is not even an option for shared hosting setups - you can literally have thousands of websites sharing a single IP after all.
The Windows 7 perpetuity machine is fully fueled, and ready to roll.
Until Microsoft decides that maintaining the windows 7 activation service is too big of a hassle.
PlaysForSure, anyone? http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2008/04/drm-sucks-redux-microsoft-to-nuke-msn-music-drm-keys/
Or until Win7 won't have support for the next generation CPU, motherboard, whatever.
Unlikely as it sounds, it's definitely possible... For example, a number of years ago a bug in the windows gdi rendering system could allow arbitrary code execution when viewing a malformed jpeg picture: http://tinyurl.com/c5z3rfy And later, an even easier exploit came along where a legacy printer macro file format (don't remember the extension) simply renamed to jpeg would allow the execution of a script when the 'image' was viewed in Internet explorer since both file formats were supported by the same windows decoder libraries.
The GUI - Making easy things easier, and hard things impossible. (Seriously, there are still a lot of command line tools like sed and awk which are absolutely invaluable, with no real non-commandline alternatives)
Downsides: - you still need a keyboard, mouse - you'll likely need ac power outlet nearby at all times - the tiny projectors typically have horrible brightness, meaning you'll need a darkened room to use it - you'll need a flat projection surface, which either meqns lugging around a screen, or having a hard time finding a suitable wall. Overall, it would be a MUCH more flexible approach to simply get a netbook, or even a tablet like the iPad or Samsung galaxy Tab...
"more manufacturers will need to produce them" ? Somehow I doubt that's going to make much of a difference, given that we're down to just three companies in the world that manufacture spinning platter HDD's at all at this point in time: Western Digital, Seagate, and Toshiba.
In the recent past, Hitachi's HDD division was bought by Western Digital, and Samsung's HDD branch was bought by Seagate.
On top of that, Toshiba only makes 2.5" drives, which means Seagate only has one competitor left in the 3.5" market.
It's the golden rule: He who has the gold, makes the rules.
The difference is that this is the end of the -secundary- support cycle, after which they will stop releasing patches. The previous one was the end of the primary cycle, after which they stopped the addition of new features, OEM installs, and phone support. Theack of security fixes is going to be an issue for companies that depend on the 'XP mode' fearure for some old must-have 3rd party app that wont work under windows 7. XP mode is essentially a complete VM install of windows XP (with full network access as well) This may vwry well become a big attack vector once xp patches stop being released.
One big difference, is that pretty much all of Europe uses the GSM standard, and you can use your phone on another network just by sticking a different SIM card in.
In the US, most phones are SIM-less, and there are different protocols, standards, and frequencies in use by the various carriers. Only a couple of the carriers are physically capable or interoperating with eachothers equipment, and all of them are throwing up roadblocks to customers wanting to switch away and still use their current phone. It's a captive market, and unfortunately there is very little incentive for the carriers to push for change.
I do honestly believe it will be quite some time yet before a mobile-handset (phone, iPad, etc) would need more than "one hundred megabits per second" (or thereabouts).
Perhaps, but there are a lot of other devices that are NOT cellphones that still communicate with celltowers, like LTE / WiMax modems used by people outside of DSL/Cable range. Massive increases to wireless data speed would be a very welcome development for people in rural areas who often don't really have any alternative highspeed options available to them.