Windows Update Privacy Statement (Last Updated 10/17/2003)
Windows Update is committed to protecting your privacy. To provide you with the appropriate list of updates, Windows Update must collect a certain amount of configuration information from your computer. None of this configuration information can be used to identify you. This information includes:
-Operating-system version number
-Internet Explorer version number
-Version numbers of other software for which Windows Update provides updates
-Plug and Play ID numbers of hardware devices
-Region and Language setting
The configuration information collected is used only to determine the appropriate updates and to generate aggregate statistics. Windows Update does not collect your name, address, e-mail address, or any other form of personally identifiable information.
Windows Update also collects the Product ID and Product Key to confirm that you are running a validly licensed copy of Windows. A validly licensed copy of Windows ensures that you will receive on-going updates from Windows Update. The Product ID and Product Key are not retained beyond the end of the Windows Update session, unless the Product ID is not valid.
To provide you with the best possible service, Windows Update also tracks and records how many unique machines visit its site and whether the download and installation of specific updates succeeded or failed. In order to do this, the Windows operating system generates a Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) that is stored on your computer to uniquely identify it. The GUID does not contain any personally identifiable information and cannot be used to identify you. Windows Update records the GUID of the computer that attempted the download, the ID of the item that you attempted to download and install, and the configuration information listed above.
This site http://www.eio.com/datashet.htm has a bunch of datasheets for various LCD screens. From what I can gather it's terribly difficult to make use of an old LCD screen. They're not directly compatible with standard vga. You must have a controller.
Maybe they're trying to see how many people actually sign on in an attempt to record the number of people who actually sign on just to get a feel for how successful they're marketing campaign is. They can certainly afford it. Or the obvious reason, sucker in more users.
Since it's an electro-mechanical phenomenon all that would be needed are gloves with these setae on them. No genetic tom-foolery required.
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It may not force companies to implement all the features, but if they want to compete, they will. Full compliance is what people are looking for. Personally speaking, when I go video card hunting, I make sure that the card I'm interested in fully supports whatever graphics API that is popular(OpenGL, DirectX). I won't settle for partial support/implementation. Also, if they don't implement all the features in the drivers, then why would they spend all that time to develop the hardware to support it? It seems to be a pretty good waste of resources. Finally, programmable vertex shaders and whatnot are what is going to be in store for the future, both in OpenGL and DirectX. Very likely a lot of the games that will be coming out will make use of these features, and so they will have to support them. It's kind of hard to partially implement the API when the API is primarily composed of programmable hardware.
The way I see it, the certification fee is more a method of appealing to big businesses than an attempt to pocket some cash. Corporations can use any distribution of Linux they want, but most still don't use Linux at all. They want to know that the product they're getting meets certain standards. Although being certified doesn't imply any sort of superiority or higher quality than non-certified distributions, it does help.
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Windows Update Privacy Statement (Last Updated 10/17/2003) Windows Update is committed to protecting your privacy. To provide you with the appropriate list of updates, Windows Update must collect a certain amount of configuration information from your computer. None of this configuration information can be used to identify you. This information includes:
-Operating-system version number
-Internet Explorer version number
-Version numbers of other software for which Windows Update provides updates
-Plug and Play ID numbers of hardware devices
-Region and Language setting
The configuration information collected is used only to determine the appropriate updates and to generate aggregate statistics. Windows Update does not collect your name, address, e-mail address, or any other form of personally identifiable information.
Windows Update also collects the Product ID and Product Key to confirm that you are running a validly licensed copy of Windows. A validly licensed copy of Windows ensures that you will receive on-going updates from Windows Update. The Product ID and Product Key are not retained beyond the end of the Windows Update session, unless the Product ID is not valid.
To provide you with the best possible service, Windows Update also tracks and records how many unique machines visit its site and whether the download and installation of specific updates succeeded or failed. In order to do this, the Windows operating system generates a Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) that is stored on your computer to uniquely identify it. The GUID does not contain any personally identifiable information and cannot be used to identify you. Windows Update records the GUID of the computer that attempted the download, the ID of the item that you attempted to download and install, and the configuration information listed above.
This site http://www.eio.com/datashet.htm has a bunch of datasheets for various LCD screens. From what I can gather it's terribly difficult to make use of an old LCD screen. They're not directly compatible with standard vga. You must have a controller.
Maybe they're trying to see how many people actually sign on in an attempt to record the number of people who actually sign on just to get a feel for how successful they're marketing campaign is. They can certainly afford it. Or the obvious reason, sucker in more users.
Since it's an electro-mechanical phenomenon all that would be needed are gloves with these setae on them. No genetic tom-foolery required.
It may not force companies to implement all the features, but if they want to compete, they will. Full compliance is what people are looking for. Personally speaking, when I go video card hunting, I make sure that the card I'm interested in fully supports whatever graphics API that is popular(OpenGL, DirectX). I won't settle for partial support/implementation. Also, if they don't implement all the features in the drivers, then why would they spend all that time to develop the hardware to support it? It seems to be a pretty good waste of resources. Finally, programmable vertex shaders and whatnot are what is going to be in store for the future, both in OpenGL and DirectX. Very likely a lot of the games that will be coming out will make use of these features, and so they will have to support them. It's kind of hard to partially implement the API when the API is primarily composed of programmable hardware.
The way I see it, the certification fee is more a method of appealing to big businesses than an attempt to pocket some cash. Corporations can use any distribution of Linux they want, but most still don't use Linux at all. They want to know that the product they're getting meets certain standards. Although being certified doesn't imply any sort of superiority or higher quality than non-certified distributions, it does help.