IE9 was getting 95/100 two and a half years ago. IE started getting 100/100 with rendering errors over a year ago. IE10 started getting 100/100 with no rendering errors half a year ago.
It's been a long time since anybody could legitimately blame Microsoft for standards compliance in IE.
I think they're possible the best Who monster ever, although I think the over-complicating of them in "The Time of Angels" (particularly the "that which holds the image of an angel becomes itself an angel" bit) was a mistake.
It's hard to find a cell plan without unlimited minutes unless you're buying a minimal-use, no-frills line...
This is not the case in RIM's home country. That said, this is not a huge selling point; you can do this with stuff like FaceTime, although that's video, or third party apps, although those don't integrate as smoothly (they can on Android though). Apple already did it with text (where when you text a phone number of somebody with an iPhone it automatically uses the free iMessage instead of SMS), they do it with video (where any call can be converted to a data-only video call), it's probably only a matter of time before voice gets a similar treatment.
The Wii, then. Regardless of how they ported it (in this case with a single-use emulator like all virtual console games), it would definitely qualify as a "still-maintained close substitute". Heck, you can even connect a SNES controller to your Wii; there was a limited first-party run of Wii SNES controllers made available through various Club Nintendos, there are unofficial reproductions you can buy online, and you can buy third-party adapters to use a real first-party SNES controller on the Wii.
No, but the Super Mario World port on the GBA (a 32-bit system) would probably be an adequate subtitute, or the Wii port (also a 32-bit system). You could make a decent case that the Wii port is running in a virtual machine anyhow, since the "game" is a single-use emulator with the SNES ROM embedded inside. The GBA port, however, was a complete 32-bit port.
If you don't want to define which DOS, then DR-DOS and DOS Plus are both directly derived from CP/M, which ran on the 8-bit Intel 8080 (or Zilog Z80), and 86-DOS (which became MS-DOS) is a non-direct clone of CP/M.
So, yes, "DOS" was at one point 8-bit software, depending on your definition of DOS.
Considering "XP Mode" in Windows 7 is a complete copy of XP running in VirtualPC, it's a perfectly reasonable (and accurate) claim to make. That was the whole point of XP mode, after all.
Medicare in Canada does not provide drugs unless you're in hospital. There is regulated pricing for drugs that keeps the prices reasonable, but that's not subsidization. Canadians have to pay for their drugs.
Health care in Canada is a provincial jurisdiction (the federal government has zero direct influence on health care), and it's not mandatory for a province to offer universal health care. The federal government offers financial incentives to the provinces if their health care system meets certain criteria however, so every province does offer universal healthcare. But tomorrow they could decide to adopt a US style system whatever the Canadian government says. There would be enormous backlash, however. Unlike Americans, Canadians generally think universal healthcare is important.
To get back to drugs, my province (Quebec) has a mandatory policy for prescription drug insurance. You're required to have such insurance, either through the government plan, or a private health insurance plan. My employer has us on a group plan that pays half my prescription drug costs. It used to cover all the cost, but premiums were going to go up so my employer it coverage to keep them the same.
MSN Messenger (or whatever they're calling it these days) is still the dominant IM network in Canada, and still held a 40% global marketshare as of a year ago. Facebook chat has certainly risen in use, but it's not typically used as an IM client outside of the website itself.
The same could have been said for Apple and the iPhone, they had no reputation in the market, but boy did they make a splash. Tesla has a lot of that going for them, there's a lot of "wow" factor in the Model S. The neat gimmicks like the autoretracting door handles, the sit-down-to-start, the touchscreen, you'd be surprised how much those sorts of things can win people over.
That said, your point about SUVs is well taken... Convenient, then, that Tesla's next model is an SUV, the model X;)
It won't drift that much with ntpd, since it will try to correct for drift with adjfreq. My VM drifts by minutes per day without ntpd, but with it, I've not seen it get more than 5ms off between ntpd updates.
Well, I actually should have said "85 kilowatt hours":P The engine itself is actually 310 kilowatts in the performance model, or 270 kilowatts in the regular model.
For comparison, the Leaf is 80 kW, the Volt is split into one 111 kW and one 55kW, and the Prius C is 45 kW (for the electric motor only).
Well, with a supercharger between you and that city, you could do it with only an extra 20 minutes added to your trip to refuel (265 miles range, +100 miles for 20 minute supercharge). Considering we're talking about something like a 5 hour drive, that's not a significant delay. That's a stop-for-a-snack sort of time delay.
You do have to be fairly well off to afford the thing, though, much more so than I am;)
The Prius C is a hybrid Yaris, and the Yaris (and other names in other countries) is one of the best-selling car lines in the world... I don't think the general consensus would agree with your opinion of the appearance of the Prius C.
Are you sure a 15 mile range would be all that useful?
The cost of the battery pack is probably at least $10k, but that's not enough to get the thing down to $20k.
The good news (for Tesla) is that it doesn't really matter for this particular car. It's competing in the luxury sports sedan market, where the $70k Model S is actually priced about the same as the gasoline-powered competition of that class. That's a big factor in why automag gave it the "car of the year", because it's a better car at the same price.
If you're choosing Mercedes E-550 for $75k or the Tesla Model S for $70k, and the Model S is considered to be a better car, the price isn't really a factor in that decision. Inconvenience of recharging might be, but the fact that the range on this thing is comparable to a gasoline car means it's fine except for long trips that don't have a supercharge station in the path you want to drive. That should be at least partially resolved in a year or two, once the Supercharge network covers most important routes in the US and Canada.
That's not really the case for a lot of laptops though. Any tablet convertible, any ultrabook, any macbook, any Chromebook, anything with an integrated battery, they're all lithium polymer. I suspect that if you add up all lithium polymer laptops, they'd be a rather large part of the notebook market.
Part of it is advancements in batteries, but the other part is improvements in power consumption. Five years ago, LED backlights were rare, and CFL backlights were common. Today, I'm not sure if you could even find a CFL backlight in a notebook. LEDs are a bunch more power efficient than CFLs, and the backlight has always been one of if not the largest consumer of power on average in a notebook. Even when the notebook isn't doing any other work, it needs to keep the screen lit up for the user to see what's on it.
Lithium ion batteries improve at a rate of 8-10% per year. So, if we take into account that a lot of the lab claims are exaggerated, a "10X" breakthrough that actually provides a 2X improvement and takes 7-8 years to hit the consumer market is pretty much in line with the expected curve.
Dedupe also doesn't work well on VM disk images, because dedupe tends to be block-level, and sparse VM disk images just don't like that. Dedupe also significantly increases RAM requirements (deduplicating a single multi-terabyte hard disk can consume gigabytes of RAM). Ultimately, disk space is cheap, and it's not worth the performance and memory overhead just to save a few gigs of disk space.
Running ntpd, you don't need your hypervisor to keep good time. ntpd will use adjfreq (speed up or slow down time to counter drift) and adjtime (make small adjustments of a few milliseconds at a time) to keep the VM's clock pretty darned accurate, even running on virtual machines with massive drift. I've seen machines that drift minutes per day be kept to under 1ms off actual time just by throwing ntpd with the default settings on them. It really is trivially easy, unless you need microsecond-level precision.
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IE10 does pass the acid 3 test:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/48490966/webhost/ie10acid3.png
IE9 was getting 95/100 two and a half years ago. IE started getting 100/100 with rendering errors over a year ago. IE10 started getting 100/100 with no rendering errors half a year ago.
It's been a long time since anybody could legitimately blame Microsoft for standards compliance in IE.
I think they're possible the best Who monster ever, although I think the over-complicating of them in "The Time of Angels" (particularly the "that which holds the image of an angel becomes itself an angel" bit) was a mistake.
Of course, the obvious solution to Android fragmentation is an updated EULA! That will fix everything!
It's hard to find a cell plan without unlimited minutes unless you're buying a minimal-use, no-frills line...
This is not the case in RIM's home country. That said, this is not a huge selling point; you can do this with stuff like FaceTime, although that's video, or third party apps, although those don't integrate as smoothly (they can on Android though). Apple already did it with text (where when you text a phone number of somebody with an iPhone it automatically uses the free iMessage instead of SMS), they do it with video (where any call can be converted to a data-only video call), it's probably only a matter of time before voice gets a similar treatment.
The Wii, then. Regardless of how they ported it (in this case with a single-use emulator like all virtual console games), it would definitely qualify as a "still-maintained close substitute". Heck, you can even connect a SNES controller to your Wii; there was a limited first-party run of Wii SNES controllers made available through various Club Nintendos, there are unofficial reproductions you can buy online, and you can buy third-party adapters to use a real first-party SNES controller on the Wii.
Re-read my post. DR-DOS and MS-DOS are not the same product. I never claimed MS-DOS was directly derived from CP/M.
No, but the Super Mario World port on the GBA (a 32-bit system) would probably be an adequate subtitute, or the Wii port (also a 32-bit system). You could make a decent case that the Wii port is running in a virtual machine anyhow, since the "game" is a single-use emulator with the SNES ROM embedded inside. The GBA port, however, was a complete 32-bit port.
If you don't want to define which DOS, then DR-DOS and DOS Plus are both directly derived from CP/M, which ran on the 8-bit Intel 8080 (or Zilog Z80), and 86-DOS (which became MS-DOS) is a non-direct clone of CP/M.
So, yes, "DOS" was at one point 8-bit software, depending on your definition of DOS.
Considering "XP Mode" in Windows 7 is a complete copy of XP running in VirtualPC, it's a perfectly reasonable (and accurate) claim to make. That was the whole point of XP mode, after all.
Medicare in Canada does not provide drugs unless you're in hospital. There is regulated pricing for drugs that keeps the prices reasonable, but that's not subsidization. Canadians have to pay for their drugs.
Health care in Canada is a provincial jurisdiction (the federal government has zero direct influence on health care), and it's not mandatory for a province to offer universal health care. The federal government offers financial incentives to the provinces if their health care system meets certain criteria however, so every province does offer universal healthcare. But tomorrow they could decide to adopt a US style system whatever the Canadian government says. There would be enormous backlash, however. Unlike Americans, Canadians generally think universal healthcare is important.
To get back to drugs, my province (Quebec) has a mandatory policy for prescription drug insurance. You're required to have such insurance, either through the government plan, or a private health insurance plan. My employer has us on a group plan that pays half my prescription drug costs. It used to cover all the cost, but premiums were going to go up so my employer it coverage to keep them the same.
MSN Messenger (or whatever they're calling it these days) is still the dominant IM network in Canada, and still held a 40% global marketshare as of a year ago. Facebook chat has certainly risen in use, but it's not typically used as an IM client outside of the website itself.
The same could have been said for Apple and the iPhone, they had no reputation in the market, but boy did they make a splash. Tesla has a lot of that going for them, there's a lot of "wow" factor in the Model S. The neat gimmicks like the autoretracting door handles, the sit-down-to-start, the touchscreen, you'd be surprised how much those sorts of things can win people over.
That said, your point about SUVs is well taken... Convenient, then, that Tesla's next model is an SUV, the model X ;)
It won't drift that much with ntpd, since it will try to correct for drift with adjfreq. My VM drifts by minutes per day without ntpd, but with it, I've not seen it get more than 5ms off between ntpd updates.
Well, I actually should have said "85 kilowatt hours" :P The engine itself is actually 310 kilowatts in the performance model, or 270 kilowatts in the regular model.
For comparison, the Leaf is 80 kW, the Volt is split into one 111 kW and one 55kW, and the Prius C is 45 kW (for the electric motor only).
Well, with a supercharger between you and that city, you could do it with only an extra 20 minutes added to your trip to refuel (265 miles range, +100 miles for 20 minute supercharge). Considering we're talking about something like a 5 hour drive, that's not a significant delay. That's a stop-for-a-snack sort of time delay.
You do have to be fairly well off to afford the thing, though, much more so than I am ;)
True, but "uglier than my ass" is not something I've heard typically used to describe the Yaris. It doesn't look anything like the original Prius.
You're replying to the wrong person. I never said the Model S was overpriced. I think it's appropriately priced for the market it's in.
The Prius C is a hybrid Yaris, and the Yaris (and other names in other countries) is one of the best-selling car lines in the world... I don't think the general consensus would agree with your opinion of the appearance of the Prius C.
Are you sure a 15 mile range would be all that useful?
The cost of the battery pack is probably at least $10k, but that's not enough to get the thing down to $20k.
The good news (for Tesla) is that it doesn't really matter for this particular car. It's competing in the luxury sports sedan market, where the $70k Model S is actually priced about the same as the gasoline-powered competition of that class. That's a big factor in why automag gave it the "car of the year", because it's a better car at the same price.
If you're choosing Mercedes E-550 for $75k or the Tesla Model S for $70k, and the Model S is considered to be a better car, the price isn't really a factor in that decision. Inconvenience of recharging might be, but the fact that the range on this thing is comparable to a gasoline car means it's fine except for long trips that don't have a supercharge station in the path you want to drive. That should be at least partially resolved in a year or two, once the Supercharge network covers most important routes in the US and Canada.
That's not really the case for a lot of laptops though. Any tablet convertible, any ultrabook, any macbook, any Chromebook, anything with an integrated battery, they're all lithium polymer. I suspect that if you add up all lithium polymer laptops, they'd be a rather large part of the notebook market.
Hybrid electric cars like the Prius C are $20k new, but that's not exactly what you're asking about, I realize.
The battery is a big factor in the Model S' cost. 85 kilowatts of lithium ion batteries ain't cheap.
Part of it is advancements in batteries, but the other part is improvements in power consumption. Five years ago, LED backlights were rare, and CFL backlights were common. Today, I'm not sure if you could even find a CFL backlight in a notebook. LEDs are a bunch more power efficient than CFLs, and the backlight has always been one of if not the largest consumer of power on average in a notebook. Even when the notebook isn't doing any other work, it needs to keep the screen lit up for the user to see what's on it.
Lithium ion batteries improve at a rate of 8-10% per year. So, if we take into account that a lot of the lab claims are exaggerated, a "10X" breakthrough that actually provides a 2X improvement and takes 7-8 years to hit the consumer market is pretty much in line with the expected curve.
Dedupe also doesn't work well on VM disk images, because dedupe tends to be block-level, and sparse VM disk images just don't like that. Dedupe also significantly increases RAM requirements (deduplicating a single multi-terabyte hard disk can consume gigabytes of RAM). Ultimately, disk space is cheap, and it's not worth the performance and memory overhead just to save a few gigs of disk space.
Running ntpd, you don't need your hypervisor to keep good time. ntpd will use adjfreq (speed up or slow down time to counter drift) and adjtime (make small adjustments of a few milliseconds at a time) to keep the VM's clock pretty darned accurate, even running on virtual machines with massive drift. I've seen machines that drift minutes per day be kept to under 1ms off actual time just by throwing ntpd with the default settings on them. It really is trivially easy, unless you need microsecond-level precision.