It depends how you define "Boot": With previous iterations of Windows, the Boot time has been measured from first read of the boot sector to desktop. Well, with Windows 8, the desktop isn't the first thing you see, it's hidden behind the Metro interface. Metro is probably hiding the fact that it boots just as quickly as Windows 7.
I measure the "time to boot" as from the first read of the boot sector to the running of the Network service. In order to save boot time, Microsoft delayed the starting of several base services. With more and more applications and functions being cloud-based, we will need the networking service more than ever. How usable is your PC if all your data is stored in the cloud and your Network service hasn't started yet?
I wouldn't cite Mythbusters as being particularly scientific.
Of course a static magnetic won't affect a credit card stripe, but it won't charge a phone either, no matter how powerful the magnet is. It's the CHANGE in a magnetic field that actually induces current flow, and that's also what erases (or WRITES) to magnetic media.
My big fat 21" CRT monitor has all sorts of changing magnetic fields emanating from it. Maybe that will already charge my phone.
Yeah, competition is a bitch. You have to keep working. Much nicer not to have any competition - no innovation required at all. Ask Comcast about that.
I tried, but I have been on hold since last Tuesday.
I cut the cable in November, and none of my local stations had any coverage on it. They DID, however, have plenty of Olympic coverage. I would have thought that an interplanetary mission would supersede a global event, but I guess badminton was more important. Luckily, I was able to get to the NASA.GOV website and they had a nice little stream for me.
What annoyed me is that during the landing, all I saw was pretty much an entire room full of people looking at consoles, then they spontaneously jumped up and started cheering. Then they got really excited when they saw a black and white image from what looked like a moon landing photo from 40 years ago. You would think that in the 21st century, NASA would have at least mounted a COLOR camera on the rover. It just made it hard to believe it was real.
I could easily imagine a room that the video feed didn't show us where a couple of guys were rolling D20s to see if the chute opens or not, and then type some stuff on a console to tweet it to the room full of people.
Here is the heart of the matter: YOU DON'T NEED TO SUE IN ORDER TO GET YOUR $10 BACK! Have you tried calling customer service? Maybe if you point out the overcharge to their billing department, they would just refund your $10. If every one of their customers started to do this, it would easily overwhelm their financial dept. Maybe so much so that management may take notice. At that point, they could give each of their customers a $10 discount in order to quell the calls. All this without involving a single lawyer. AMAZING!
Do they even need to force arbitration? When has one of Valve's products killed someone?
Or left them crippled?
Or changed their lives so seriously that they actually NEEDED to sue Valve for damages?
The EULA already pretty much says that this software is sold as-is and is not fit for a particular purpose, and indemnifies them against loss of data on your hard drive, and any responsibility is yours.
If the product doesn't do what you would expect, they can always just give you a refund, and kick your butt out the door.
It would seem to me that this clause would prevent lawsuits like "Your game gave me carpal tunnel" or "Because of Half-life, my family left me", which are all bullshit lawsuits anyway, and those are EXACTLY the things that Valve wants to avoid.
It's funny you should say that. Several months ago I visited my local Hackerspace on its open-house night, just to see what it was all about. I learned that a lot of activity happens during the day, when most people are at an office job. The hackerspace charges dues in order to stay open, and yet they even have events and classes that sometimes require fees, plus there are charges for consumables. I understand that they want to stay open without going commercial, but my first thought was: "Hey, all these people are here in the middle of the day, and can afford all the dues and equipment.... They all must be independently wealthy or something! Don't they have JOBS to go to?"
The users stopped using it because Microsoft F***in BROKE it! Ever since Windows XP, I have been manually setting the start menu to CLASSIC, because that is WHAT I WANT. I want a menu that opens a bunch of folders. It worked in Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP (with help), but then they removed it in Vista/Windows 7.
People stopped using the start menu because Microsoft engineered it that way. It's their fault and no one else's.
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It depends how you define "Boot": With previous iterations of Windows, the Boot time has been measured from first read of the boot sector to desktop. Well, with Windows 8, the desktop isn't the first thing you see, it's hidden behind the Metro interface. Metro is probably hiding the fact that it boots just as quickly as Windows 7.
I measure the "time to boot" as from the first read of the boot sector to the running of the Network service. In order to save boot time, Microsoft delayed the starting of several base services. With more and more applications and functions being cloud-based, we will need the networking service more than ever. How usable is your PC if all your data is stored in the cloud and your Network service hasn't started yet?
I wouldn't cite Mythbusters as being particularly scientific.
Of course a static magnetic won't affect a credit card stripe, but it won't charge a phone either, no matter how powerful the magnet is. It's the CHANGE in a magnetic field that actually induces current flow, and that's also what erases (or WRITES) to magnetic media.
My big fat 21" CRT monitor has all sorts of changing magnetic fields emanating from it. Maybe that will already charge my phone.
Just like the 3d printed guns, I would be more afraid of POSSESSING a plastic nuke, than I would be of being TARGETED by a plastic nuke....
The lock was a perfectly capable lock BEFORE the hack was produced. How long does this fitness for purpose clause last? Maybe for about 7 days?
That will only work if you're driving in circles.
If eating the crops make the bugs super, then just imagine what it will do for us humans! I'll have another helping, please.
I tried, but I have been on hold since last Tuesday.
"Yesterday, I got a gun for my wife." "Pretty good trade, don't you think?"
I cut the cable in November, and none of my local stations had any coverage on it. They DID, however, have plenty of Olympic coverage. I would have thought that an interplanetary mission would supersede a global event, but I guess badminton was more important. Luckily, I was able to get to the NASA.GOV website and they had a nice little stream for me.
What annoyed me is that during the landing, all I saw was pretty much an entire room full of people looking at consoles, then they spontaneously jumped up and started cheering. Then they got really excited when they saw a black and white image from what looked like a moon landing photo from 40 years ago. You would think that in the 21st century, NASA would have at least mounted a COLOR camera on the rover. It just made it hard to believe it was real.
I could easily imagine a room that the video feed didn't show us where a couple of guys were rolling D20s to see if the chute opens or not, and then type some stuff on a console to tweet it to the room full of people.
Yeah! Just like that Telephone thing. Really, if you want to talk to someone, just meet them face to face and talk with them. Sheesh!
And the Television. That's just a fad. It will never last.
And who would want to buy a car when you can raise your own horse?
Here is the heart of the matter: YOU DON'T NEED TO SUE IN ORDER TO GET YOUR $10 BACK! Have you tried calling customer service? Maybe if you point out the overcharge to their billing department, they would just refund your $10. If every one of their customers started to do this, it would easily overwhelm their financial dept. Maybe so much so that management may take notice. At that point, they could give each of their customers a $10 discount in order to quell the calls. All this without involving a single lawyer. AMAZING!
Do they even need to force arbitration? When has one of Valve's products killed someone?
Or left them crippled?
Or changed their lives so seriously that they actually NEEDED to sue Valve for damages?
The EULA already pretty much says that this software is sold as-is and is not fit for a particular purpose, and indemnifies them against loss of data on your hard drive, and any responsibility is yours.
If the product doesn't do what you would expect, they can always just give you a refund, and kick your butt out the door.
It would seem to me that this clause would prevent lawsuits like "Your game gave me carpal tunnel" or "Because of Half-life, my family left me", which are all bullshit lawsuits anyway, and those are EXACTLY the things that Valve wants to avoid.
If the files for the equipment are parametric, does that mean that they cannot be copyrighted?
This seems like something Richard Garriott would buy. Maybe he would add it to his Halloween setup.
It's a space station!
OK Google, I'll agree to use my real name in comments to YouTube videos, If you agree to PAY ME to do so.
Awaiting my payment....
It's funny you should say that. Several months ago I visited my local Hackerspace on its open-house night, just to see what it was all about. I learned that a lot of activity happens during the day, when most people are at an office job. The hackerspace charges dues in order to stay open, and yet they even have events and classes that sometimes require fees, plus there are charges for consumables. I understand that they want to stay open without going commercial, but my first thought was: "Hey, all these people are here in the middle of the day, and can afford all the dues and equipment.... They all must be independently wealthy or something! Don't they have JOBS to go to?"
My hope is that it just becomes more affordable.
I don't think I would trust a computer scientist who said he could count to 1024 on his fingers. With 10 fingers, the best you can get to is 1023.
Maybe there would be a demand for a kickstarter project that would investigate kickstarter projects to prove their viability and legitimacy.....
Um, along with Bill Gates and Paul Allen, he *FOUNDED* Microsoft.....
Pepperidge Farm remembers....
The users stopped using it because Microsoft F***in BROKE it! Ever since Windows XP, I have been manually setting the start menu to CLASSIC, because that is WHAT I WANT. I want a menu that opens a bunch of folders. It worked in Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP (with help), but then they removed it in Vista/Windows 7.
People stopped using the start menu because Microsoft engineered it that way. It's their fault and no one else's.
Abraham... Lincoln... Vampire... Slayer!
I thought it was Slarti Bardfast.
C11 is a stupid name. They should call it C02.