Pretty much any monitor advertised as 16.2 million colors is using a 6 bit panel with hardware dithering. Those advertised as 16.7 million colors tend to be 8 bit.
From the article: Roscheisen said the manufacturing process the company has developed will enable it to eventually deliver solar electricity for less than a dollar per watt
Depends. One major question: Will IE8 also work on XP, or will this be another one of those 'Vista only' releases, for no other reason other than try to lure people away from XP?
consider how many people are claiming to hold on to XP with their dying breath when Vista is the alternative, and considering that XP isn't scheduled to be end-of-lifed until 2014... You'll bound to have a lot more than 5% of market share for pre-vista windows...
The USB 3.0 target speed is 5 GBps, which would still make it one and a half times faster than the new Firewire 3200 standard... While retaining USB 2.0 backwards compatibility, which is a pretty big deal as well.
I, for the life of me, cannot understand why in the US telecom users get billed for stuff they receive
Easy -- Because then the carrier gets money twice.
And since that's standard practise among cellphone carriers, it's not like there's a huge incentive for them to stop doing it.
(It is unfortunately, though -- I was pretty much forced to disable texting on my own cellphone because it got a ton of junk texts on it (recycled number?), and didn't feel like paying either the $10 unlimited texting option nor felt like paying $0.10 for each unsollicited message. In essense, they lost the chance to make any money off of me since now I can no longer send any messages either.)
What do your co-workers think of this new agreement? I worked for an ISP that was bought out by another one. After the takeover, the new parent company also came up with a draconian list of terms. Not a single person signed (or even returned) the agreement, and nothing came of it.
(Of course, not all companies are the same. you always risk being seen as a troublemaker if you decide to ignore such a form. And to be fair, few of the people expected to be kept employed for more than a couple of months anyway, which made the demands even more unreasonable)
Since IE7 was released after XP, it clearly indicates that this flaw has been on purpose; with some possible ulterior motive.
Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence.
Since the sytem core is different on XP vs. Vista, it's quite likely that there are differences in how IE7 interacts with XP than it does with Vista. It's not impossible that a genuine bug only affects the XP interaction but not Vista.
And I want Nintendo to replace the batteries in my Wii remote every time they run low. Seriously, a battery is a consumable.
Perhaps... Although soldering it in place and thereby essentially making it non-user replaceable changes the situation a bit. Does Nintendo require you to reach for the soldering iron or ship back the remote too, when the battery runs out?
What if such a crop catches on thanks to other, positive features?
Essentially a terminator gene means that you're putting all your eggs in one basket. There will be a fairly small number of farms creating the 'master' seeds to be sold for seeding to all other farmers. If the master seed farm crop fails, effectively *everyone* will suffer a bad crop simply because there won't be any seeds available. None of the 'normal' farmers will have any usable seed stock.
And far worse, thanks to cross-pollination it's pretty likely that fields of nearby non-modified crops will inadvertedly pick up pollen containing terminator genes too, greatly reducing the viability of their seeds as well.
It might be 'color', but looking at the photo on Philip's website, it seems that the quality still leaves a lot to be desired... Especially when it comes to brightness & contrast
Don't get me wrong -- it's a great start, but I doubt it will replace your monitor any time soon.
...If this does allow the OS to logically seperate two virtual systems on a single screen, the upshot of that is that if you have a dual screen system, it should be able to segregate the extended desktop as well -- essentially giving you two nearly full-fledged workstations for the cost of a single one + 2nd monitor. There's plenty of practical applications for that in an office environment.
Most plug-in video adapters these days are dual-head, montors are cheap, and the typical user only uses a fraction of the horsepower their machine has to offer. I doubt that this idea has much merrit in a single-monitor configuration, but I can definitely see a market for it when dealing with dual-screen setups.
It all depends on how you use the OS -- as someone who pretty much lives by keyboard shortcuts over the point & click stuff, I find the default XP start menu extremely awkward simply because it's two-column design is near impossible to navigate with the keyboard. You can't easily switch between the columns, since half the options expand into submenu's instead. Luckily one can still switch to the classic mode to make it usable again.
As far as 'Win2K had better searching than XP' is concerned: the old-style Win2000 search ability is still present in XP as well, but it does require some magic to get back. You can also speed up the XP search tremendously by some registry tweaks preventing it from looking inside of zip files.
(Kind of ironic though, that to make the OS usable, step #1 is to turn off all the 'enhancements')
These are all problems for someone with good credit and/or assets or maybe even money. For the majority of the population this is not the case. Most of us don't own a home or even a decent car. Most of us have no credit worth mentioning and probably bad credit besides. What difference does it make if the number you owe on paper grows?
Maybe now you don't care, but what about 5 years from now? 10 years? 20 years? Do you *ever* intend to buy a house? Would you like to receive medicare/medicaid/social security once you get old? Good luck proving you are 'you' when others applied for the same benefits in your name, especially if they've been able to impersonate you for years and have just as long of a 'history' with your information as you do yourself.
Remember, once your information is out there, it's out there for ever. It's like throwing your email address to a pair of spammers, they're never going to stop abusing it... With the big difference that a SSN can do a whole lote more damage.
I'm more curious about what methods they used to "isolate the collagen proteins". From my understanding ALL fossils are not the real bone or organic matter that the animal once was, but a mineral deposit in the shape of the once present organic material. So how did you get T.Rex dna out of a non-organic rock formed like a bone?
The catch is that they found some T-rex bones that were not completely fossilized, but still had remaining organic matter on the inside. These organic bits have been analyzed now.
Between OEMs putting it on all new systems and people opting for it on their home-builds once games start making use of DirectX 10, Vista will rule the market just like XP, 2000, 98, 95, etc have.
I can't help but notice the absence of Windows ME in that lineup -- If there's a 'better' alternative available, a microsoft OS can still fizzle out.
That said, thanks to Vista's increased "but it's Shiney" factor it will likely still reign supreme... although it does appear that it's going to take longer than 2000/XP did to gain acceptance in the business market. (Greatly thanks to the significantly increased system requirements, which mean higher hardware cost for equal productivity returns)
...doesn't know what the right hand is doing.
Back when I worked for an ISP a few years ago, we received a threatening letter from EBay demaning the immediate disconnection of one of our customers for running a phishing site. And better speed it up, because they'd already reported it to the FBI as well.
Of course, we pointed out to ebay that the site in question was actually one of their own subsidiaries. (they had links to it from all over the place on the main ebay.com website, even). Sure we can cut it off, but I really don't think you'd want us to. By the way, might want to call the FBI back to tell them "never mind", while you're at it.
*sigh*
The only way to show that this DRM protected is shite is for people not to buy
Of course, that's only part of it:
MPAA boardroom meeting: "Hey guys, this years sales figures continue to drop... What's going on here?"
"Must be evil pirates again stealing our movies! Lets slap on some more DRM, that'll stop them!"
While it's always good to vote with your feet, it probably won't do a whole lot of good unless they also hear a lot of noise about WHY people choose to no longer rush out and buy the latest DRM-infested offerings.
There needs to be a "go the hell away until I say so" checkbox on that thing.
There's a local group policy that specifies the time between reminders, you can change it from the default 10 minutes to anything you want... I set mine to 24 hours.
- A 'normal' cold boot of my PC takes about a minute
- 'Hibernate' takes about 20 seconds
- S3 Standby takes about 6 seconds.
One catch is that by default most systems use 'S1' mode for standby, which keeps the machine semi-alive including the CPU fan, power supply fan, etc. You can often go into the BIOS, change the default standy mode to 'S3' -- this will shut down the entire machine (including fans, etc.) but keep proviging a minimal power charge to the RAM in your machine so it won't lose its contents.
Since all the content remains in RAM that way, your machine will behave the same as if you did a hibernate, except it doesn't have to spend the additional ~25 seconds writing everything to disk first when you shut down, and also doesn't have to spend that time to read it back into RAM on bootup... Resulting in the ~6 second bootup time.
(While it takes some power for the RAM to keep its information, it is negligible compared to a complete shut down, since any modern PC still provides some power to the motherboard after it is 'powered off'. Case in point: See the LED on the main board indicating the power status on a machine that's supposedly turned off)
It's been a long time since I truly shut down my PC.
Note: the one catch is that if you do lose power to your machine while it is in standby mode, any contents that were in memory at the time will be forgotten again, and it will do a 'full' bootup next time you start. Hibernate doesn't have that problem, but takes significantly longer to shut down and boot up.
There's an awful lot of mentions of "probably" and shouldn't in these theories.
Who actually got the final say that these potential risks were indeed deemed acceptable? I mean, if you are wrong in a case like this, an "I'm sorry" hallmark wouldn't quite cover it...
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Pretty much any monitor advertised as 16.2 million colors is using a 6 bit panel with hardware dithering. Those advertised as 16.7 million colors tend to be 8 bit.
From the article: Roscheisen said the manufacturing process the company has developed will enable it to eventually deliver solar electricity for less than a dollar per watt
Depends. One major question: Will IE8 also work on XP, or will this be another one of those 'Vista only' releases, for no other reason other than try to lure people away from XP?
consider how many people are claiming to hold on to XP with their dying breath when Vista is the alternative, and considering that XP isn't scheduled to be end-of-lifed until 2014... You'll bound to have a lot more than 5% of market share for pre-vista windows...
combo cable -- optical, with fall-back to the normal metal pins.
Then Firewire 3200 was announced and santify was restored.
USB2 is slow and cheap.
"Firewire-3200" is fast and costs more.
Except that USB 3.0 has already been announced as well:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070918-intel-announces-demonstrates-usb-3-0.html
The USB 3.0 target speed is 5 GBps, which would still make it one and a half times faster than the new Firewire 3200 standard... While retaining USB 2.0 backwards compatibility, which is a pretty big deal as well.
I, for the life of me, cannot understand why in the US telecom users get billed for stuff they receive
Easy -- Because then the carrier gets money twice.
And since that's standard practise among cellphone carriers, it's not like there's a huge incentive for them to stop doing it.
(It is unfortunately, though -- I was pretty much forced to disable texting on my own cellphone because it got a ton of junk texts on it (recycled number?), and didn't feel like paying either the $10 unlimited texting option nor felt like paying $0.10 for each unsollicited message. In essense, they lost the chance to make any money off of me since now I can no longer send any messages either.)
What do your co-workers think of this new agreement? I worked for an ISP that was bought out by another one. After the takeover, the new parent company also came up with a draconian list of terms. Not a single person signed (or even returned) the agreement, and nothing came of it.
(Of course, not all companies are the same. you always risk being seen as a troublemaker if you decide to ignore such a form. And to be fair, few of the people expected to be kept employed for more than a couple of months anyway, which made the demands even more unreasonable)
This wouldn't happen on a Mac. 'Cos in most of them you can't even get in there to change the graphics card.
Except that the deactivation is caused by a driver update here, not an actual hardware upgrade. New/better drivers are often a good thing.
Since IE7 was released after XP, it clearly indicates that this flaw has been on purpose; with some possible ulterior motive.
Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence.
Since the sytem core is different on XP vs. Vista, it's quite likely that there are differences in how IE7 interacts with XP than it does with Vista. It's not impossible that a genuine bug only affects the XP interaction but not Vista.
And I want Nintendo to replace the batteries in my Wii remote every time they run low. Seriously, a battery is a consumable.
Perhaps... Although soldering it in place and thereby essentially making it non-user replaceable changes the situation a bit. Does Nintendo require you to reach for the soldering iron or ship back the remote too, when the battery runs out?
What if such a crop catches on thanks to other, positive features?
Essentially a terminator gene means that you're putting all your eggs in one basket. There will be a fairly small number of farms creating the 'master' seeds to be sold for seeding to all other farmers. If the master seed farm crop fails, effectively *everyone* will suffer a bad crop simply because there won't be any seeds available. None of the 'normal' farmers will have any usable seed stock.
And far worse, thanks to cross-pollination it's pretty likely that fields of nearby non-modified crops will inadvertedly pick up pollen containing terminator genes too, greatly reducing the viability of their seeds as well.
It might be 'color', but looking at the photo on Philip's website, it seems that the quality still leaves a lot to be desired... Especially when it comes to brightness & contrast
Don't get me wrong -- it's a great start, but I doubt it will replace your monitor any time soon.
...None of us have ever seen alternate DNS-circumvention crapware layers like new.net running on Joe User's PC without their knowledge.
.bank will be nothing but a false sense of security.
For the vast majority of users, a new TLD like
...If this does allow the OS to logically seperate two virtual systems on a single screen, the upshot of that is that if you have a dual screen system, it should be able to segregate the extended desktop as well -- essentially giving you two nearly full-fledged workstations for the cost of a single one + 2nd monitor. There's plenty of practical applications for that in an office environment.
Most plug-in video adapters these days are dual-head, montors are cheap, and the typical user only uses a fraction of the horsepower their machine has to offer. I doubt that this idea has much merrit in a single-monitor configuration, but I can definitely see a market for it when dealing with dual-screen setups.
I wouldn't call XP's Start menu "awkward."
It all depends on how you use the OS -- as someone who pretty much lives by keyboard shortcuts over the point & click stuff, I find the default XP start menu extremely awkward simply because it's two-column design is near impossible to navigate with the keyboard. You can't easily switch between the columns, since half the options expand into submenu's instead. Luckily one can still switch to the classic mode to make it usable again.
As far as 'Win2K had better searching than XP' is concerned: the old-style Win2000 search ability is still present in XP as well, but it does require some magic to get back. You can also speed up the XP search tremendously by some registry tweaks preventing it from looking inside of zip files.
(Kind of ironic though, that to make the OS usable, step #1 is to turn off all the 'enhancements')
These are all problems for someone with good credit and/or assets or maybe even money. For the majority of the population this is not the case. Most of us don't own a home or even a decent car. Most of us have no credit worth mentioning and probably bad credit besides. What difference does it make if the number you owe on paper grows?
Maybe now you don't care, but what about 5 years from now? 10 years? 20 years? Do you *ever* intend to buy a house? Would you like to receive medicare/medicaid/social security once you get old? Good luck proving you are 'you' when others applied for the same benefits in your name, especially if they've been able to impersonate you for years and have just as long of a 'history' with your information as you do yourself.
Remember, once your information is out there, it's out there for ever. It's like throwing your email address to a pair of spammers, they're never going to stop abusing it... With the big difference that a SSN can do a whole lote more damage.
News at 11 -- Water still wet.
I'm more curious about what methods they used to "isolate the collagen proteins". From my understanding ALL fossils are not the real bone or organic matter that the animal once was, but a mineral deposit in the shape of the once present organic material. So how did you get T.Rex dna out of a non-organic rock formed like a bone?
The catch is that they found some T-rex bones that were not completely fossilized, but still had remaining organic matter on the inside. These organic bits have been analyzed now.
Between OEMs putting it on all new systems and people opting for it on their home-builds once games start making use of DirectX 10, Vista will rule the market just like XP, 2000, 98, 95, etc have.
I can't help but notice the absence of Windows ME in that lineup -- If there's a 'better' alternative available, a microsoft OS can still fizzle out.
That said, thanks to Vista's increased "but it's Shiney" factor it will likely still reign supreme... although it does appear that it's going to take longer than 2000/XP did to gain acceptance in the business market. (Greatly thanks to the significantly increased system requirements, which mean higher hardware cost for equal productivity returns)
...doesn't know what the right hand is doing. Back when I worked for an ISP a few years ago, we received a threatening letter from EBay demaning the immediate disconnection of one of our customers for running a phishing site. And better speed it up, because they'd already reported it to the FBI as well. Of course, we pointed out to ebay that the site in question was actually one of their own subsidiaries. (they had links to it from all over the place on the main ebay.com website, even). Sure we can cut it off, but I really don't think you'd want us to. By the way, might want to call the FBI back to tell them "never mind", while you're at it. *sigh*
I think the #2 request is "no more Indians on the phone".
They already offer that, it's just phrased as "Gold Technical Support", and costs you an extra $80 or so.
The only way to show that this DRM protected is shite is for people not to buy
Of course, that's only part of it:
MPAA boardroom meeting: "Hey guys, this years sales figures continue to drop... What's going on here?"
"Must be evil pirates again stealing our movies! Lets slap on some more DRM, that'll stop them!"
While it's always good to vote with your feet, it probably won't do a whole lot of good unless they also hear a lot of noise about WHY people choose to no longer rush out and buy the latest DRM-infested offerings.
Just a thought.
There needs to be a "go the hell away until I say so" checkbox on that thing.
There's a local group policy that specifies the time between reminders, you can change it from the default 10 minutes to anything you want... I set mine to 24 hours.
- A 'normal' cold boot of my PC takes about a minute
- 'Hibernate' takes about 20 seconds
- S3 Standby takes about 6 seconds.
One catch is that by default most systems use 'S1' mode for standby, which keeps the machine semi-alive including the CPU fan, power supply fan, etc. You can often go into the BIOS, change the default standy mode to 'S3' -- this will shut down the entire machine (including fans, etc.) but keep proviging a minimal power charge to the RAM in your machine so it won't lose its contents.
Since all the content remains in RAM that way, your machine will behave the same as if you did a hibernate, except it doesn't have to spend the additional ~25 seconds writing everything to disk first when you shut down, and also doesn't have to spend that time to read it back into RAM on bootup... Resulting in the ~6 second bootup time.
(While it takes some power for the RAM to keep its information, it is negligible compared to a complete shut down, since any modern PC still provides some power to the motherboard after it is 'powered off'. Case in point: See the LED on the main board indicating the power status on a machine that's supposedly turned off)
It's been a long time since I truly shut down my PC.
Note: the one catch is that if you do lose power to your machine while it is in standby mode, any contents that were in memory at the time will be forgotten again, and it will do a 'full' bootup next time you start. Hibernate doesn't have that problem, but takes significantly longer to shut down and boot up.
There's an awful lot of mentions of "probably" and shouldn't in these theories.
Who actually got the final say that these potential risks were indeed deemed acceptable? I mean, if you are wrong in a case like this, an "I'm sorry" hallmark wouldn't quite cover it...