Y'know, I was just wiring my basement the other day, and while contemplating whether to run power to the light switches or to the light fixtures (either is possible), it occured to me that if I ran power to the fixtures, I couldn't install any of those fancy-schmancy computer-controlled switches. Then, I thought, hey, computer-controlled light switches. I could just set up the system to turn off every light in the house every 15 minutes, and the dang kids could just turn back on the ones they actually needed. Because none of them have ever switched off a light, ever. I don't think they know that the switch works both ways.
Woah, hey, if you were going to define "smartphone" as "capacitive touchscreen device" then you should've said that at the beginning. Once again, just because someone came along and did it BETTER, doesn't erase what they did.
The earliest one I found was the CyberBank PC-EPhone released in March 2001. That's better than 6 years. I bet there's one at least a year earlier, but at that point it becomes true archeology.
Just because Apple did it better doesn't mean that noone did it before them.
I ran Vista from the time it was released until the time Win7 was released, and I don't remember the UAC experience changing much between the two (I've never disabled UAC on either). If you're messing with files in areas you shouldn't be (Program Files, Windows, etc), you get UAC prompts on either version.
I have an honest question. You suggest that Win9 will "refine the good and ditch the bad" parts of Win8, and suggest that this is what happened with Vista and Win7. While it is clear to me that Win7 "refined the good" in many areas of Vista, what exactly was "ditched"? It seems to me that when people make this claim, they are actually just getting used to the things that Vista changed from XP, or have upgraded their software to versions that stop doing the bad things that software got used to doing back when best practices were more suggestions than requirements.
I just switched over to DSL from cable. My service is 40/5 (measured at more like 37/4.6 at a peak early-evening time), and I pay $44.95 per month for it. That's an "introductory price", but it's for a year, so I'll have plenty of options when the year is up.
The cable cost me $63/mo and was 15/3. There was no requirement to bundle anything with the DSL, not even a phone line. Times have changed, at least in my neck of the woods.
Sorry, I should have been more clear. When I said "it" I meant the crapware, not Windows. I use Windows every day, at home and at work. I don't use (or install) crapware, though.
This is how "linux people" avoid crapware, they don't install it. The same way we (those of us capable of installing an operating system) avoid crapware, by not installing it.
My experience is (first season only), the series changed pretty much exactly nothing (that I noticed). Seemed to me like it followed the books very closely.
I'm currently halfway through season 3 of Lost. My local library has the DVDs for free. I also caught up on The Big Bang Theory the same way. Cost to me: $0
All sorts of things were added and improved (and made worse as well...) over the last 20 years, they just weren't put in the SQL standard. Vendor lock-in, it's not just for Microsoft.
The number of displays is still limited by the internal hardware, however. The "daisy chain" just moves the connectors around, it doesn't add more connectors. To quote the MacWorld review: "Systems with integrated graphics, such as the MacBook Air and the $599 Mac mini, can support two displays. The Air’s built-in screen counts as one display, meaning you can use it with one external Thunderbolt display. Laptops with discreet graphics can use three displays; the MacBook Pro can have two external displays working while its built-in screen is operational."
Whether or not the corruption is "mirrored over" is irrelevant. What is relevant is that one of the drives contains corrupted data, and therefore, reads are going to, in some cases, return corrupted data. The really frightening thing is that the array and the system is incapable of knowing which drive is corrupted.
I've been there, done that, and I don't use RAID 1 anymore.
The problem with RAID 1 is that when something happens and the drives no longer "agree", then which is correct? You've got even odds of mirroring the corruption onto the "good" drive. I've got personal experience with this, and personal experience with failed RAID 5 setups. The sad thing is that I've not done much RAID in my life, and yet, a disturbing amount of it led to bad experiences.
Like the man said, "RAID is not a backup strategy".
I've never heard of this "daisy chain multiple monitors off a single port" except for things like Dell's two-monitors-single-port-proprietary-splitter-cable nonsense. Care to elaborate?
But that's true for the Windows desktop as well. We're talking about Windows RT here, which is the spiritual equivalent of iOS. How's that for a completely open Unix OS?
Well, actually, no, not anymore, not since cockpit doors were armored. The terrorists might kill everyone on board, they might even bring down the plane, but it's safe to say that no more passenger jets will be intentionally flown into specific targets.
It's even worse than that. You'd need to KEEP planting trees so you could replace the cells (both solar and LFP) to keep them running. Going solar isn't a one-time cost, it's an ongoing cost.
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Y'know, I was just wiring my basement the other day, and while contemplating whether to run power to the light switches or to the light fixtures (either is possible), it occured to me that if I ran power to the fixtures, I couldn't install any of those fancy-schmancy computer-controlled switches. Then, I thought, hey, computer-controlled light switches. I could just set up the system to turn off every light in the house every 15 minutes, and the dang kids could just turn back on the ones they actually needed. Because none of them have ever switched off a light, ever. I don't think they know that the switch works both ways.
Woah, hey, if you were going to define "smartphone" as "capacitive touchscreen device" then you should've said that at the beginning. Once again, just because someone came along and did it BETTER, doesn't erase what they did.
MS wasn't selling smartphones. They still aren't.
The earliest one I found was the CyberBank PC-EPhone released in March 2001. That's better than 6 years. I bet there's one at least a year earlier, but at that point it becomes true archeology.
Just because Apple did it better doesn't mean that noone did it before them.
I ran Vista from the time it was released until the time Win7 was released, and I don't remember the UAC experience changing much between the two (I've never disabled UAC on either). If you're messing with files in areas you shouldn't be (Program Files, Windows, etc), you get UAC prompts on either version.
And with the WinPhone7.
Yeah, it's not like MS was selling a smartphone OS for nearly a decade before the iPhone existed.
conveniently forgetting they'd just been presented with a lukewarm rehash of the OS they'd already paid for many years earlier.
There are two kinds of OS upgrades: lukewarm rehashes, and upgrades that make people angry, because stuff changed.
I have an honest question. You suggest that Win9 will "refine the good and ditch the bad" parts of Win8, and suggest that this is what happened with Vista and Win7. While it is clear to me that Win7 "refined the good" in many areas of Vista, what exactly was "ditched"? It seems to me that when people make this claim, they are actually just getting used to the things that Vista changed from XP, or have upgraded their software to versions that stop doing the bad things that software got used to doing back when best practices were more suggestions than requirements.
My wifi barely has enough bandwidth for me, it certainly doesn't have enough for all you assholes.
I just switched over to DSL from cable. My service is 40/5 (measured at more like 37/4.6 at a peak early-evening time), and I pay $44.95 per month for it. That's an "introductory price", but it's for a year, so I'll have plenty of options when the year is up.
The cable cost me $63/mo and was 15/3. There was no requirement to bundle anything with the DSL, not even a phone line. Times have changed, at least in my neck of the woods.
Sorry, I should have been more clear. When I said "it" I meant the crapware, not Windows. I use Windows every day, at home and at work. I don't use (or install) crapware, though.
This is how "linux people" avoid crapware, they don't install it. The same way we (those of us capable of installing an operating system) avoid crapware, by not installing it.
The same way you do. We don't install it in the first place. Windows is software, not hardware.
My experience is (first season only), the series changed pretty much exactly nothing (that I noticed). Seemed to me like it followed the books very closely.
I'm currently halfway through season 3 of Lost. My local library has the DVDs for free. I also caught up on The Big Bang Theory the same way. Cost to me: $0
All sorts of things were added and improved (and made worse as well...) over the last 20 years, they just weren't put in the SQL standard. Vendor lock-in, it's not just for Microsoft.
The number of displays is still limited by the internal hardware, however. The "daisy chain" just moves the connectors around, it doesn't add more connectors. To quote the MacWorld review: "Systems with integrated graphics, such as the MacBook Air and the $599 Mac mini, can support two displays. The Air’s built-in screen counts as one display, meaning you can use it with one external Thunderbolt display. Laptops with discreet graphics can use three displays; the MacBook Pro can have two external displays working while its built-in screen is operational."
Whether or not the corruption is "mirrored over" is irrelevant. What is relevant is that one of the drives contains corrupted data, and therefore, reads are going to, in some cases, return corrupted data. The really frightening thing is that the array and the system is incapable of knowing which drive is corrupted.
I've been there, done that, and I don't use RAID 1 anymore.
The problem with RAID 1 is that when something happens and the drives no longer "agree", then which is correct? You've got even odds of mirroring the corruption onto the "good" drive. I've got personal experience with this, and personal experience with failed RAID 5 setups. The sad thing is that I've not done much RAID in my life, and yet, a disturbing amount of it led to bad experiences.
Like the man said, "RAID is not a backup strategy".
I've never heard of this "daisy chain multiple monitors off a single port" except for things like Dell's two-monitors-single-port-proprietary-splitter-cable nonsense. Care to elaborate?
Wait, so does technology move quickly, or slowly?
Are you saying that we could have gone from the Archimedes to the iPhone in mere months instead of 20 years, given a sufficient PR budget?
You know ARM was introduced in 1983, right? It's been a "new upcoming platform" for nearly 30 years now.
But that's true for the Windows desktop as well. We're talking about Windows RT here, which is the spiritual equivalent of iOS. How's that for a completely open Unix OS?
Can jets be used as bombs? Yes. So what!
Well, actually, no, not anymore, not since cockpit doors were armored. The terrorists might kill everyone on board, they might even bring down the plane, but it's safe to say that no more passenger jets will be intentionally flown into specific targets.
It's even worse than that. You'd need to KEEP planting trees so you could replace the cells (both solar and LFP) to keep them running. Going solar isn't a one-time cost, it's an ongoing cost.
History teaches us that there were no poor, unhappy, malnourished, or neglected people before 1776.