1) 64 bit operating system for all versions- We need an operating system that will support more than 4 gigs
2) built in 32 and 16 bit "virtual machines for dummies" for backwards compatibility- You wanna run some cool DOS game from 1996 okay...we'll run it in a virtual machine with all hardware calls emulated. With virtual machines there is no reason for any software to be abandoned.
3) You wanna make your system look like XP or 2000 or windows 3.1...we can do that.
4) Proper Multi-core thread management, windows assigns background processess to its own core, leaving other cores free to run programs at full speed.
5) Clear and honest system requirements... 2gb of memory , at least a dual core 64 bit processor, a graphics card with at least 128mb of memory.
Microsoft doesnt seem to understand if they give people a reason to upgrade, they will upgrade.
One other thing microsoft ought to do, discard vista completely and resume sales of Windows XP with proper system updates, perhaps even a "Windows XP2" they can even sell the upgrade for $20 like they did with Windows 98 SE. make it modernized for netbooks and lower end machines with newer tech that wont wont run Windows 7.
"UAC by default now elevates without prompting for Microsoft-signed executables"
Say what????
You mean that if somebody can figure out how to forge a microsoft signature or infect a signed file they can get carte blance access to your machine.
Wouldnt a more sensible policy be to allow users to install programs in a sandbox area and then have a "program firewall" of sorts in windows filter the requests the programs make to keep bad behaving programs out of sensitive areas.
"Barack Obama supports the basic principle that network providers should not be allowed to charge fees to privilege the content or applications of some web sites and Internet applications over others. This principle will ensure that the new competitors, especially small or non-profit speakers, have the same opportunity as incumbents to innovate on the Internet and to reach large audiences. Obama will protect the Internet's traditional openness to innovation and creativity and ensure that it remains a platform for free speech and innovation that will benefit consumers and our democracy."
A very interesting business plan had the RIAA not been so technophobic they could have had digital music in stores years before high speed internet and a recording format that probably been harder to duplicate.
Then again I can only imagine... "IXI music player new for 1992, 8mb of storage, DOS, amiga and atari compatible...mac coming soon"
Actually thats almost a pretty good manager
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A person with no technical skill who knows they have no skill and is willing to get the right person to do the job is FAR better than a person who thinks they know more than they do and tries to micromanage.
Its what type of Linux, they are buying a Linux vendor that primarily deals with handheld and embedded devices so intel maybe making a bigger move into these categories
Why build a prison in Dubai when you could build it in China with much cheaper labor costs or in Russia with much cheaper land?
The real reason they are building this in Dubai is for climate controlled year round luxury tourism. A disneyland for very wealthy adults. The average high temperature between may and october is over 100 degrees there so climate controlled living has lots of advantages.
Issue 1) The privacy commissioner is talking about what the state does not what private individuals do. While this is a canadian story, I think it is completely reasonable for a court system to prevent google indexing(spider.txt??) of local court records to protect some measure of privacy of individuals. There are already publicly available properly indexed databases for criminal searches such as the NCIC in the US.
If a party to a trial(other than the state) wants to publicize his or her case that is also reasonable.
2) The right to privacy does not mean the same as a gag order. In a civil suit either party can publicize the case, Even in a Juvenile case criminal case a defendant can tell anyone they want.
3) The right to privacy is a right just like freedom of speech is a right.
The valley will be crossed in video when a cgi character can pass for a human up-close in broad daylight. These guys have managed a face...almost...I do salute them
Is they are trying to make a perfect looking human...humans are defined by their imperfections. When they airbrush real humans too much it winds up looking fake.
They need to add human imperfections to the CGI models to pass the uncanny valley test.
If theres no copyright issue , most of these opensource books could be printed for $20-30 a copy for a large hardcover book. Private companies could even make a small profit selling the equivalent of "thrift editions" of these text books. They do it already for books in the public domain and furthermore most universities already have on-campus printers.
So far we have no observational evidence whatsoever that other universes even exist, no observational evidence for more than 4 dimensions, and no observational evidence for universal silly string.
Most of this talk is mental masturbation by overeager physics and math theorists.
"...Most people switch off the lactose digesting gene after weaning, but the cattle herders evidently gained a great survival advantage by keeping the gene switched on through adulthood."
Even in developing countries most of them have tv sets, an lcd monitor is an unnecessary expense.
I wonder why Apple itself hasnt considered the idea of opensourcing or bsd'ing the Apple IIgs hardware and software for developing countries. It would make them look even better, and allow Apple to take a big one time tax write-off.
Then the chinese could come up with $10-20 IIgs clone with a hardwired ethernet port and built in software.
Intentional infliction of emotional distress and wrongful death are not crimes but they are well recognized civil torts.
"If the woman wasnt making it up" is a pointless hypothetical, she was making it up deliberately causing emotional distress to a child with malice. The very defintion of whats needed for punitive damages
I will tell Megan's family to go for it, this woman caused the death of their little girl, if megans family bankrupts her she can file for bankruptcy, the difference in 7 years this woman and her daughter are still alive and megan is still dead.
"This woman may have been the catalyst, but the potential for suicide was already there. Should society as a whole walk around on eggshells to avoid whatever trigger will cause the already mentally unstable to go over the edge?"
Youre not required to be nice to everyone, but adults are also not allowed to emotionally abuse children. Adults have a higher legal duty in their behavior towards children than other children do.
If the woman knew the kid was suffering from depression how could a comment like "the world would be better off without you" not constitute intentional child endangerment?
Soverign immunity is a legal concept the US inherited from english law.
"sovereign is exempt from suit [on the] practical ground that there can be no legal right against the authority that makes the law on which the right depends." 205 U.S. 349, 353."
The DMCA gives legal rights to copyright holders, however those rights cannot be used to sue government agencies since the government did not give permission. Common law copyright was abolished in the US in 1790, copyright only exists in the US to the extent congress allows it.
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1) 64 bit operating system for all versions- We need an operating system that will support more than 4 gigs
2) built in 32 and 16 bit "virtual machines for dummies" for backwards compatibility- You wanna run some cool DOS game from 1996 okay...we'll run it in a virtual machine with all hardware calls emulated. With virtual machines there is no reason for any software to be abandoned.
3) You wanna make your system look like XP or 2000 or windows 3.1...we can do that.
4) Proper Multi-core thread management, windows assigns background processess to its own core, leaving other cores free to run programs at full speed.
5) Clear and honest system requirements... 2gb of memory , at least a dual core 64 bit processor, a graphics card with at least 128mb of memory.
Microsoft doesnt seem to understand if they give people a reason to upgrade, they will upgrade.
One other thing microsoft ought to do,
discard vista completely and resume sales of Windows XP with proper system updates, perhaps even a "Windows XP2" they can even sell the upgrade for $20 like they did with Windows 98 SE. make it modernized for netbooks and lower end machines with newer tech that wont wont run Windows 7.
"UAC by default now elevates without prompting for Microsoft-signed executables"
Say what????
You mean that if somebody can figure out how to forge a microsoft signature or infect a signed file they can get carte blance access to your machine.
Wouldnt a more sensible policy be to allow users to install programs in a sandbox area and then have a "program firewall" of sorts in windows filter the requests the programs make to keep bad behaving programs out of sensitive areas.
"Barack Obama supports the basic principle that network providers should not be allowed to
charge fees to privilege the content or applications of some web sites and Internet applications over others. This principle will ensure that the new competitors, especially small or non-profit speakers, have the same opportunity as incumbents to innovate on the Internet and to reach large audiences. Obama will protect the
Internet's traditional openness to innovation and creativity and ensure that it remains a platform for free speech and innovation that will benefit consumers and our democracy."
How is this different from Net neutrality???
http://www.kanekramer.com/html/development.htm
http://www.kanekramer.com/downloads/IXI-Report.pdf
A very interesting business plan had the RIAA not been so technophobic they could have had digital music in stores years before high speed internet and a recording format that probably
been harder to duplicate.
Then again I can only imagine...
"IXI music player new for 1992, 8mb of storage,
DOS, amiga and atari compatible...mac coming soon"
A person with no technical skill who knows they have no skill and is willing to get the right person to do the job is FAR better than a person who thinks they know more than they do and tries to micromanage.
Its what type of Linux, they are buying a Linux vendor that primarily deals with handheld and embedded devices so intel maybe making a bigger move into these categories
Cell phone companies bill you for every call.
Landlines have had flat rate unlimited local and long distance plans for years.
Why build a prison in Dubai when you could build it in China with much cheaper labor costs or in Russia with much cheaper land?
The real reason they are building this in Dubai is for climate controlled year round luxury tourism. A disneyland for very wealthy adults. The average high temperature between may and october is over 100 degrees there so climate controlled living has lots of advantages.
of a Geforce 8 series(which came out in 2006)???
EXCELLENT!
Thanks AMD for suggesting intel, Im gonna save lots of money on my next motherboard by not needing an nvidia graphics card!
If AT&T were ever that smart I would be amazed....
The package deal SHOULD be
free high speed internet
free uverse tv
free landline long distance
free repairs for any services
for a box in front of your house...
Then the presence of the box would actually improve the value of your land
Sounds like a deal to me!
So theyll sell pikeperch which tastes almost exactly the same but costs a lot less. Its illegal to mislabel to do so but hard to enforce
Issue 1) The privacy commissioner is talking about what the state does not what private individuals do. While this is a canadian story, I think it is completely reasonable for a court system to prevent google indexing(spider.txt??) of local court records to protect some measure of privacy of individuals. There are already publicly available properly indexed databases for criminal searches such as the NCIC in the US.
If a party to a trial(other than the state) wants to publicize his or her case that is also reasonable.
2) The right to privacy does not mean the same as a gag order. In a civil suit either party can publicize the case, Even in a Juvenile case criminal case a defendant can tell anyone they want.
3) The right to privacy is a right just like freedom of speech is a right.
The valley will be crossed in video when a cgi character can pass for a human up-close in broad daylight. These guys have managed a face...almost...I do salute them
Is they are trying to make a perfect looking human...humans are defined by their imperfections. When they airbrush real humans too much it winds up looking fake.
They need to add human imperfections to the CGI models to pass the uncanny valley test.
What people use laptops and netbooks for is easier for linux to do than to try to be everything for everyone on the desktop.
If theres no copyright issue , most of these opensource books could be printed for $20-30 a copy for a large hardcover book. Private companies could even make a small profit selling the equivalent of "thrift editions" of these text books. They do it already for books in the public domain and furthermore most universities already have on-campus printers.
So far we have no observational evidence whatsoever that other universes even exist, no observational evidence for more than 4 dimensions, and no observational evidence for universal silly string.
Most of this talk is mental masturbation by overeager physics and math theorists.
"...Most people switch off the lactose digesting gene after weaning, but the cattle herders evidently gained a great survival advantage by keeping the gene switched on through adulthood."
Behold the power of cheese!
711 million worldwide box office.
Harrison Ford looked pretty good in the current film, I think they were just let down by the script and the film still did well.
The main problem for any sequel with the current film is that it gave indy his happy ending, theres nowhere to go with the character....
Even in developing countries most of them have tv sets, an lcd monitor is an unnecessary expense.
I wonder why Apple itself hasnt considered the idea of opensourcing or bsd'ing the Apple IIgs hardware and software for developing countries. It would make them look even better, and allow Apple to take a big one time tax write-off.
Then the chinese could come up with $10-20 IIgs clone with a hardwired ethernet port and built in software.
Uh, the civil court has always had a lower bar.
Intentional infliction of emotional distress and wrongful death are not crimes but they are well recognized civil torts.
"If the woman wasnt making it up" is a pointless hypothetical, she was making it up deliberately causing emotional distress to a child with malice. The very defintion of whats needed for punitive damages
I will tell Megan's family to go for it, this woman caused the death of their little girl, if megans family bankrupts her she can file for bankruptcy, the difference in 7 years this woman and her daughter are still alive and megan is still dead.
"This woman may have been the catalyst, but the potential for suicide was already there. Should society as a whole walk around on eggshells to avoid whatever trigger will cause the already mentally unstable to go over the edge?"
Youre not required to be nice to everyone, but adults are also not allowed to emotionally abuse children. Adults have a higher legal duty in their behavior towards children than other children do.
If the woman knew the kid was suffering from depression how could a comment like "the world would be better off without you" not constitute intentional child endangerment?
Its not binding precedent, but it is certainly persuasive precedent
criminal charges
Child Endangerment- The suicide of the girl was a reasonably forseeable consequence...at the very least its an issue for a jury.
Then use a charge of felony child endangerment as the basis for "felony murder" charges
on the basis of
State of Minnesota vs.Tasha Daphne Mitchell(2005)
Civil charges
intentional inflictional of emotional distress
wrongful death
Soverign immunity is a legal concept the US inherited from english law.
"sovereign is exempt from suit [on the] practical ground that there can be no legal right against the authority that makes the law on which the right depends." 205 U.S. 349, 353."
The DMCA gives legal rights to copyright holders, however those rights cannot be used to sue government agencies since the government did not give permission. Common law copyright was abolished in the US in 1790, copyright only exists in the US to the extent congress allows it.