It doesn't matter if it's in the BIOS, or uses a second processor.
What matters is that it allows your laptop to "just work" rather than having to wait for the bloated monstrosity that is Windows to become usable (or as usable as it gets).
I was delighted to find that my old Compaq laptop allowed you to run on the CD player to listen to music without booting up the machine at all. This looks like an extension of that philosophy. I can imagine having a laptop that would never be fully booted except to run some "legacy" program. It only took us what, 20+ years to get here!
I continue to be bothered by the use of the word "universe" to mean something other than "everything". Having to substitute "multiverse" to replace the word that didn't need to be replaced (rather a new word should have been invented for the new concept) bugs the crap out of me so much so that I hope all these new theories are proved wrong so we can maintain continuity of the language.
What we need is someone in the OSS community to come up with a completely free and open standard net video format to compete with flash/silverlight.
Well, that would be nice, but I don't think it's going to happen. A good alternative would be for management at Adobe to stop acting like retards and embrace open source now while their business is still strong rather than waiting until they've become irrelevant like Real and Sun did. I'm not holding my breath though.
Ditto. I went looking for some use of the word "mechanical" other than this "summary". Didn't find any.
So I'm guess that this article was submited in Chinese and then run through several language translations (maybe even mechanical ones) before being rendered into "English".
More likely they think consumers in the US are too stupid to know that both versions of Windows are a POS with respect to something that "just works" without constant diddling or calling your computer friends to set right again. Then there are built in discounts for all the junkware likely to be installed on the US edition.
I don't think that web apps will ever replace desktop apps for a while.
Well, which is it? Never, or not for a while?:)
I'll go up the middle. There are clearly people using Google Docs right now (me for instance, but I am not in a situation that requires me to do either a lot of documents or spreadsheet work).
I work with several small companies and whenever they send me either Excel or Word documents I load them into Docs (if I feel the need to save them at all) and so far I haven't run into any problems. Translation: Many small companies as well as individuals just stick to the basics when doing these things, and for the basics, Google Docs not only works, but provides its own advantages (doc sharing without a dedicated server, multi-user versioning, and less dependence on flaky home machines).
So... I think the user base is going to be gradually dividing, with "casual" users from both home, home business and small business gravitating to "free" web-based tools, and everyone else continuing to do what they are doing now.
What happens when (if) growth in Office licenses finally stalls? I think it will, I don't know when, but it will change the nature of being Microsoft in ways that are hard to imagine right now.
Then they stop, think, and, what proves all isn't lost, some of them turn and reply: "Yeah, there's some truth in what you said."
Yeah, and they make a mental note not to engage in such conversations with YOU any more.
Such people aren't so stupid that they cant do this reasoning on their own. They have a hidden agenda. Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to figure out what the hidden agenda is (it's not the same for each subject). Generally, having figured this out will not make you too popular with them either, whether or not they have hidden it on purpose.
I sort-of fell for the Name-a-Star scam back in the 80s (sort-of because I knew the list wasn't completely official, but it made a nice change of pace from flowers as a gift... you mean, every scientist in the world isn't regularly referring to this speck in the sky by my mothers name?). So now we are starting all over again, but this time "it's for a good cause"?
How about adopting carbon atoms as a way to cure global warming:
(1) For $10 set to my PayPal address I'll insure that a specific carbon atom *with your name associated with it!* doesn't find its way back into the atmosphere.
I noticed that too and have to wonder at the lack of brain-power at McAfee that they were not provided with fake addresses to use for this. Actually, not fake addresses, but a real address (PO Box or otherwise) that could be used to capture this mail for analysis, without placing study participants own addresses at risk.
I think the question needs to be asked: what useful thing are you going to do with the data gathered by this "experiment", or was it just a publicity stunt?
Moderators: I think the above was meant to be funny. At least I found it so.
Coincidentally I had only just heard about a new trend of sending people e-mail messages with subjects such as "cmacb you sure are ugly in this photo" and with an executable as an attachment.
I rarely look in my spam folder because Gmail does such a good job that there are almost never any false positives, but I looked and there were several such messages as described. But they clearly showed up as executables of the form "whatever.exe" and I can't imaging, even as a former Windows user that I would ever click on such a thing. Do modern version of Windows still just haul off and run such an attachment? Or do you still have to bog down your system with protective software to keep you from being a retard?
Seriously, why aren't people at Microsoft in jail over this sort of nonsense? Maybe when the octogenarians in Congress finally get replaced there will be some retroactive law-making and retro-active punishments dished out as was the case with the tobacco companies (Constitution be damned). I can only hope so. (Well, no, I don't hope we damn the Constitution, but since we are routinely doing that anyway, might as well get some good out of it.)
Doesn't do any good to have those things on your resume if you aren't planning to leave Apple. If they want to keep their best people they had better compensate them.
That's entirely irrelevant. I don't really care what party it is, if the Democrats were in this situation they would be scrutinized just as much as the current administration is.
I wish that were true, but I worked for a company involved with White House e-mail being screwed up when Clinton was still in office. It made the news, then the story died a normal death (typical government screw-up) just like the now routine stories of sensitive information being lost on laptops, they don't even bother to report all of those these days.
My guess is that these earlier e-mail screw ups were partially responsible for the decision to move from Lotus Notes to MS Exchange. It would seem that this transition has been a disaster.
Never ascribe to malice what can be more easily blamed on incompetence. Or something like that.
But know that the media has biases, and they quite frequently bury a story earlier if it adversely affects someone or something they like. I won't go so far as to say they universally favor one party or another, but I think if you pay close attention you will see a pattern.
And the motivation for it all has not been that people begrudge Bill Gates his collection of 19th century gold plated toilet plungers, but the fact that people want choices and free markets in software and hardware.
I find it disgusting that people continue to pick on Bill Gates and his enormous wealth. Don't forget that he not only *invented* the PC, but also wrote most of the software that runs on it.
Furthermore, he is devoted full-time now to charitable works, such as providing 19th century gold plated toilet plungers for Africa!
I don't think that the fact that they make a silly, overpriced cable for "golden ears" (or more likely for wannabe "golden ears") really shouldn't dissuade you from the whole company.
I disagree. I don't buy a lot of audio equipment, or often, but when I do I'm willing to do some research and having done so, willing to spend some money.
This is either a scam or there are a lot of people at Denon that don't have a clue.
In either case, my respect for the company and its products just approached zero.
Are the target systems largely running stock versions of Windows?
*check*
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For those that consider this Microsoft bashing substitute the following:
Are the target systems running large, complex, "user friendly" operating systems with more permutations of options than you can shake a stick at and lots of known vulnerabilities that can only be fixed by downloading updates from a commercial source who is picky about who is allowed to download those updates?
I think the same thing when I see Obama or McCain as our two main choices. Out of all the people eligible to run for president in this country, this is it? You're telling me these are the ones we have to choose from? That out of 200 million possible people, these are our final choices?
I share your pain. But I don't blame people in smoke filled rooms (in fact when they selected our presidential candidates I think we had better choices). Rather it is our dumbed down populous. The same ones who select the most popular TV shows and movies, believe in flying saucers, or conspiracy theories that would take thousands to implement but never get exposed.
I really think we were better off when potential candidates were selected mostly by people who knew them personally. Some of our greatest presidents would have never had a chance in the media-circus brightest-smile popularity contests we run today. The only way we will get better candidates is to have a smarter electorate, either by educating everybody *much* better than we do now, or by having some sort of minimum standard for voting. There is about zero chance of either happening. One is seen as undemocratic, the other requires some quantum leap in our educational system. Those entrenched in that system have nothing to gain by it being improved by anything that smacks of competition.
Nope but Vista only runs on x86. So X86 will remain around as long as it does.
A large part of the explanation for why I detest both companies. Entrenched in the past, they can only pretend to be advancing technology while in reality holding it back as much as they can get away with (similar phenomenon went on in Detroit).
Someone invent MoveOnFromIntelandMicrosoft.org and strip these companies of any respectability they have left please.
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It doesn't matter if it's in the BIOS, or uses a second processor.
What matters is that it allows your laptop to "just work" rather than having to wait for the bloated monstrosity that is Windows to become usable (or as usable as it gets).
I was delighted to find that my old Compaq laptop allowed you to run on the CD player to listen to music without booting up the machine at all. This looks like an extension of that philosophy. I can imagine having a laptop that would never be fully booted except to run some "legacy" program. It only took us what, 20+ years to get here!
I continue to be bothered by the use of the word "universe" to mean something other than "everything". Having to substitute "multiverse" to replace the word that didn't need to be replaced (rather a new word should have been invented for the new concept) bugs the crap out of me so much so that I hope all these new theories are proved wrong so we can maintain continuity of the language.
Well, that would be nice, but I don't think it's going to happen. A good alternative would be for management at Adobe to stop acting like retards and embrace open source now while their business is still strong rather than waiting until they've become irrelevant like Real and Sun did. I'm not holding my breath though.
Where's the fun in that?
Making them report totally bogus information, now that has potential!
Ditto. I went looking for some use of the word "mechanical" other than this "summary". Didn't find any.
So I'm guess that this article was submited in Chinese and then run through several language translations (maybe even mechanical ones) before being rendered into "English".
Wouldn't they all cross the finish line at the exact same time?
I have to admit though it would be fun to watch them try and get on the thing. That alone might make for a new Olympic event.
More likely they think consumers in the US are too stupid to know that both versions of Windows are a POS with respect to something that "just works" without constant diddling or calling your computer friends to set right again. Then there are built in discounts for all the junkware likely to be installed on the US edition.
Wonder no more!
(I'm just reading this as background to todays news).
Quick, someone call Andrew Cuomo!
Well, which is it? Never, or not for a while? :)
I'll go up the middle. There are clearly people using Google Docs right now (me for instance, but I am not in a situation that requires me to do either a lot of documents or spreadsheet work).
I work with several small companies and whenever they send me either Excel or Word documents I load them into Docs (if I feel the need to save them at all) and so far I haven't run into any problems. Translation: Many small companies as well as individuals just stick to the basics when doing these things, and for the basics, Google Docs not only works, but provides its own advantages (doc sharing without a dedicated server, multi-user versioning, and less dependence on flaky home machines).
So... I think the user base is going to be gradually dividing, with "casual" users from both home, home business and small business gravitating to "free" web-based tools, and everyone else continuing to do what they are doing now.
What happens when (if) growth in Office licenses finally stalls? I think it will, I don't know when, but it will change the nature of being Microsoft in ways that are hard to imagine right now.
Yeah, and they make a mental note not to engage in such conversations with YOU any more.
Such people aren't so stupid that they cant do this reasoning on their own. They have a hidden agenda. Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to figure out what the hidden agenda is (it's not the same for each subject). Generally, having figured this out will not make you too popular with them either, whether or not they have hidden it on purpose.
A perfectly natural thing to do.
His friends just call him Ethel.
You beat me to it.
I sort-of fell for the Name-a-Star scam back in the 80s (sort-of because I knew the list wasn't completely official, but it made a nice change of pace from flowers as a gift... you mean, every scientist in the world isn't regularly referring to this speck in the sky by my mothers name?). So now we are starting all over again, but this time "it's for a good cause"?
How about adopting carbon atoms as a way to cure global warming:
(1) For $10 set to my PayPal address I'll insure that a specific carbon atom *with your name associated with it!* doesn't find its way back into the atmosphere.
(2) Profit!
Or has Al Gore already thought of this?
I noticed that too and have to wonder at the lack of brain-power at McAfee that they were not provided with fake addresses to use for this. Actually, not fake addresses, but a real address (PO Box or otherwise) that could be used to capture this mail for analysis, without placing study participants own addresses at risk.
I think the question needs to be asked: what useful thing are you going to do with the data gathered by this "experiment", or was it just a publicity stunt?
I think I already know the answer though.
Moderators: I think the above was meant to be funny. At least I found it so.
Coincidentally I had only just heard about a new trend of sending people e-mail messages with subjects such as "cmacb you sure are ugly in this photo" and with an executable as an attachment.
I rarely look in my spam folder because Gmail does such a good job that there are almost never any false positives, but I looked and there were several such messages as described. But they clearly showed up as executables of the form "whatever.exe" and I can't imaging, even as a former Windows user that I would ever click on such a thing. Do modern version of Windows still just haul off and run such an attachment? Or do you still have to bog down your system with protective software to keep you from being a retard?
Seriously, why aren't people at Microsoft in jail over this sort of nonsense? Maybe when the octogenarians in Congress finally get replaced there will be some retroactive law-making and retro-active punishments dished out as was the case with the tobacco companies (Constitution be damned). I can only hope so. (Well, no, I don't hope we damn the Constitution, but since we are routinely doing that anyway, might as well get some good out of it.)
And remove, and shred the hard drive.
Doesn't do any good to have those things on your resume if you aren't planning to leave Apple. If they want to keep their best people they had better compensate them.
My guess is that these earlier e-mail screw ups were partially responsible for the decision to move from Lotus Notes to MS Exchange. It would seem that this transition has been a disaster.
Never ascribe to malice what can be more easily blamed on incompetence. Or something like that.
But know that the media has biases, and they quite frequently bury a story earlier if it adversely affects someone or something they like. I won't go so far as to say they universally favor one party or another, but I think if you pay close attention you will see a pattern.
Furthermore, he is devoted full-time now to charitable works, such as providing 19th century gold plated toilet plungers for Africa!
This is either a scam or there are a lot of people at Denon that don't have a clue.
In either case, my respect for the company and its products just approached zero.
http://www.designboom.com/history/monobloc/03.jpg
No, seriously.
It's quite comfy.
You forgot one:
Are the target systems largely running stock versions of Windows?
*check*
------
For those that consider this Microsoft bashing substitute the following:
Are the target systems running large, complex, "user friendly" operating systems with more permutations of options than you can shake a stick at and lots of known vulnerabilities that can only be fixed by downloading updates from a commercial source who is picky about who is allowed to download those updates?
*check*
I really think we were better off when potential candidates were selected mostly by people who knew them personally. Some of our greatest presidents would have never had a chance in the media-circus brightest-smile popularity contests we run today. The only way we will get better candidates is to have a smarter electorate, either by educating everybody *much* better than we do now, or by having some sort of minimum standard for voting. There is about zero chance of either happening. One is seen as undemocratic, the other requires some quantum leap in our educational system. Those entrenched in that system have nothing to gain by it being improved by anything that smacks of competition.
A large part of the explanation for why I detest both companies. Entrenched in the past, they can only pretend to be advancing technology while in reality holding it back as much as they can get away with (similar phenomenon went on in Detroit).
Someone invent MoveOnFromIntelandMicrosoft.org and strip these companies of any respectability they have left please.