If somebody at microsoft just decided to make this and put it in easily, that means that it was totally obvious for someone in the field, which, to me, looks quite like it. At that point there's no arguing necessary...
Feeling lucky on google with cryptosporidium outbreak:
in 1993.... This abnormal condition at the plant lasted from March 23 through April 8, after which, the plant was shut down. Over the span of approximately two weeks, 403,000 of an estimated 1.61 million residents in the Milwaukee area (of which 880,000 were served by the malfunctioning treatment plant) became ill with the stomach cramps, fever, diarrhea and dehydration caused by the pathogen. Over 100 deaths were attributed to this outbreak,
I kept an old CD-burner (plextor), and I find that it can easily read very old cdroms that newer DVD drives can't read at all. That has helped me quite often:)
Actually, I have a control on my Dell laptop to prevent exactly this, where it will not charge the internal battery. It can also be used when you don't want to charge the battery because you won't use it for the enxt few days..
The biggest problem I can see is that the only light source will be the viewing medium in many cases, which will most probably be causing the camera to struggle. The second one is the color of the people playing, vs the background color, if there's even enough light (and that it's not too modulated by the lighting coming from the tv..)
day to day value loss of your pass around here is more than 3$:( If you need 'both side' of the river, then you are looking at over 150$ per month for the pass, which runs up to more than I'm paying in gas driving 500km per week.
Thus, killing a woman under 55 would be committing 263532 murders ?
Killing a man under 70-90 would be committing millions of murders ?
There has to be a point before which it's not a person yet. Personally, I put that point relatively far in the development of the baby, and it will be hard to decide where it should be.
For the P166, I was working along with my father on automatizing a production facility, and I was programming the machinery with my computer. For real time debugging, I needed faster than the older 100mhz..
For the P3-500, I was providing web services for some analysis tools I had developped, and the 166mhz wasn't fast enough.
The athlon came when I was doing realtime image capture & analysis, I had built a system which we could control only with gestures, and the p3-500 wasn't fast enough.
The core 2 duo was for a system I built to detect damage on a 3D surface from laser scanning matched with a grayscale picture (reflection analysis), for which we had to display the full result in realtime for an easy comprehension by the people reviewing the data.
Anyway, I guess that the real needs of people might be the cause for some of us, but that's most probably not the general case:)
I also know people who are buying a new mac on every apple refresh:)
That totally depend on what you are doing with your computer. It slowed down a little in the last few years, but if you wanted to keep up with the latest games you had to upgrade.
Here's a computer list for you
'88, Intel 386DX33, 2MB to 4MB of ram '94, Cyrix 486DX4-100, 8 to 16MB of ram '97, Intel Pentium MMX 166mhz, 32 to 128MB of ram '99, Intel P3-500, 256MB-1GB of ram '03, AMD Athlon 64 3200+, 1GB of ram '06, Intel Core 2 Duo E6600, 2-6GB of ram
It spawns 21 years, which match the 3-4 years duration of each computer. But you will notice from the spec that each new computer was a lot stronger than the previous one. The P3 500 lasted the longest (4 years, and got 3 more years of use from my brothers) while the AMD athlon was the most deceiving computer I owned, ie, if I didn't need to change my P3-500 for some simulation computations that needed to run in real time, I would have waited a year or so before changing. But it's still in use as I write this by my grand parents, to browse the web & all.
Most of the changes I've had were dictated by the requirements of my useage that changed. If for all your 18 years, you always kept doing the same thing (comptability in a terminal?) then you obliviously don't need to change your computer.
Considering that most of the windows user you might know might have windows for games, and the way games evolved, it's normal that they changed their computer more often...
Quiet ? We have two IMac 20" at work, along with 10+ PCs, all of the same age (less than 6 months). Both IMac fans are dying at the moment and will need to be replaced very soon. Didn't had any problem with the PCs.
If you need to keep reinstalling your XP, you are doing something wrong.
You can like the 'flashy' interface of the mac, but it's nowhere as effective as the one from windows / linux.
The problem lies in many things; with the environmental factor, for which a lot of people will run screaming for, while a lot of people just throw the CFLs in the garbage; with the much less than advertised life span, for which many people will run crying fool (I've had some 15$ bulbs put alongside a third normal one, both blew up in less than 3 months and the normal one lasted more than a year!); from the power company, which are subsidizing your usage of them because of the power factor; from the artist, which start crying when subjected to the bad white balances put off by CLDs; by those of us who lives in areas where the extra heat dissipated by the light bulbs just reduce the heating required from the central system; and I guess by many other people I can't think off.
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Then I guess they will sell much more copies of their next version! Could it be their plan ?
7 is a lucky number.
They needed it!
What's stopping you from trying the beta ? Put up a new harddrive / empty a small partition, turn on your AHCI and install windows 7!
Time to put those 8gb of ram to some use besides in linux :)
If somebody at microsoft just decided to make this and put it in easily, that means that it was totally obvious for someone in the field, which, to me, looks quite like it. At that point there's no arguing necessary...
Transactions are automatically sent through the tubes... (and so are the approbation of the credit cards / debit)
I do not want to figuratively crucify him either.
The real thing would do just fine! ;)
Feeling lucky on google with cryptosporidium outbreak:
in 1993 .... This abnormal condition at the plant lasted from March 23 through April 8, after which, the plant was shut down. Over the span of approximately two weeks, 403,000 of an estimated 1.61 million residents in the Milwaukee area (of which 880,000 were served by the malfunctioning treatment plant) became ill with the stomach cramps, fever, diarrhea and dehydration caused by the pathogen. Over 100 deaths were attributed to this outbreak,
I kept an old CD-burner (plextor), and I find that it can easily read very old cdroms that newer DVD drives can't read at all. That has helped me quite often :)
Then you just need a radio jammer :)
Screenshot or it didn't happen ;)
Actually, I have a control on my Dell laptop to prevent exactly this, where it will not charge the internal battery. It can also be used when you don't want to charge the battery because you won't use it for the enxt few days..
Also, remove the battery (and keep it around 40%, with a full cycle once a month) if you are running mostly on AC.
With vista ? There must not be much money left for the hardware!
The biggest problem I can see is that the only light source will be the viewing medium in many cases, which will most probably be causing the camera to struggle. The second one is the color of the people playing, vs the background color, if there's even enough light (and that it's not too modulated by the lighting coming from the tv..)
I'll believe it once I test it ;)
IANAL, but you don't have to agree to settle out of court...
Hehum, you forgot the 1M$ settlement for the injury and paying your bills that you'll receive ;)
day to day value loss of your pass around here is more than 3$ :( If you need 'both side' of the river, then you are looking at over 150$ per month for the pass, which runs up to more than I'm paying in gas driving 500km per week.
What if you liked to keep a lot of information handy about what you've been ripping/scanning ?
Thus, killing a woman under 55 would be committing 263532 murders ?
Killing a man under 70-90 would be committing millions of murders ?
There has to be a point before which it's not a person yet. Personally, I put that point relatively far in the development of the baby, and it will be hard to decide where it should be.
You are not using a high enough resolution, or you are losing out on precision ;)
Actually, depending on where you live, you will get to learn different numbers.
Here are shown the common ways to split the continents:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/Continental_models.gif
Humm :) They might just want a new shiny toy ;)
For the P166, I was working along with my father on automatizing a production facility, and I was programming the machinery with my computer. For real time debugging, I needed faster than the older 100mhz ..
For the P3-500, I was providing web services for some analysis tools I had developped, and the 166mhz wasn't fast enough.
The athlon came when I was doing realtime image capture & analysis, I had built a system which we could control only with gestures, and the p3-500 wasn't fast enough.
The core 2 duo was for a system I built to detect damage on a 3D surface from laser scanning matched with a grayscale picture (reflection analysis), for which we had to display the full result in realtime for an easy comprehension by the people reviewing the data.
Anyway, I guess that the real needs of people might be the cause for some of us, but that's most probably not the general case :)
I also know people who are buying a new mac on every apple refresh :)
That totally depend on what you are doing with your computer. It slowed down a little in the last few years, but if you wanted to keep up with the latest games you had to upgrade.
Here's a computer list for you
'88, Intel 386DX33, 2MB to 4MB of ram
'94, Cyrix 486DX4-100, 8 to 16MB of ram
'97, Intel Pentium MMX 166mhz, 32 to 128MB of ram
'99, Intel P3-500, 256MB-1GB of ram
'03, AMD Athlon 64 3200+, 1GB of ram
'06, Intel Core 2 Duo E6600, 2-6GB of ram
It spawns 21 years, which match the 3-4 years duration of each computer. But you will notice from the spec that each new computer was a lot stronger than the previous one. The P3 500 lasted the longest (4 years, and got 3 more years of use from my brothers) while the AMD athlon was the most deceiving computer I owned, ie, if I didn't need to change my P3-500 for some simulation computations that needed to run in real time, I would have waited a year or so before changing. But it's still in use as I write this by my grand parents, to browse the web & all.
Most of the changes I've had were dictated by the requirements of my useage that changed. If for all your 18 years, you always kept doing the same thing (comptability in a terminal?) then you obliviously don't need to change your computer.
Considering that most of the windows user you might know might have windows for games, and the way games evolved, it's normal that they changed their computer more often...
Quiet ? We have two IMac 20" at work, along with 10+ PCs, all of the same age (less than 6 months). Both IMac fans are dying at the moment and will need to be replaced very soon. Didn't had any problem with the PCs.
If you need to keep reinstalling your XP, you are doing something wrong.
You can like the 'flashy' interface of the mac, but it's nowhere as effective as the one from windows / linux.
The problem lies in many things; with the environmental factor, for which a lot of people will run screaming for, while a lot of people just throw the CFLs in the garbage; with the much less than advertised life span, for which many people will run crying fool (I've had some 15$ bulbs put alongside a third normal one, both blew up in less than 3 months and the normal one lasted more than a year!); from the power company, which are subsidizing your usage of them because of the power factor; from the artist, which start crying when subjected to the bad white balances put off by CLDs; by those of us who lives in areas where the extra heat dissipated by the light bulbs just reduce the heating required from the central system; and I guess by many other people I can't think off.
Anyway, have fun adding more reasons :)