I'm wondering the same thing, my aunt just bought a laptop with a service contract (so I wouldn't have to help her out over every computer problem) from them. Personally, I would have preferred she get a Dell, but she wanted something "local"
Yeah there's a citation needed in the summary at the top. But you'll find plenty of references in the body of the wiki article. Just because its not a factual cause of death (IMHO), doesn't mean you won't find lots of people beliving it. Apparently those people are mostly in Korea.
I'm not in the UK (Highways Act of 1980), but I wonder what something to do with highways has to do with stopping at a stop sign? Ideally no one would ever stop on a freeway, and I've never seen an actual permenant emplaced stop sign in a freeway, at least not in the USA.
And if MS didn't do that kinda thing on purpose with XP, surely they will realize that for future operating systems. So we likely will never get that from MS for the forseeable future, they'd be afraid no one would upgrade to a future OS:)
Surprisingly, this is one of the more common answers as to why people upgrade. And its not just random clueless people either. I've seen die hard overclockers give this reason, they know they lose a little performance in gaming with vista, but they want the new GUI.
Nope, its been done in the USA too, and in regards to windows. The EULA of microsoft products (and most others) typically says something similar, along the lines that if you don't agree you can return the software for a refund.
AFAIK, a number of supposed vestigial organs (in both humans and animals) have been discovered to have a purpose in recent years, so they are no longer nessasarily considered vestigial
Its not just business laptops that are using XP. The vast majority of people still use XP. Heck, even amongst average gamers (where you'd expect ppl to upgrade to vista for DX10 games), less than 2.5% have vista and a dx10 capable card.
Yeah, virtually all SP2 upgrades I've seen and experianced have had issues... Which is why its much better to integrate SP2 into the install CD and do a fresh install of it. Never seen any problems from doing it this way, besides the normal MS crap you go through.
I know you say it wasn't an option, but just throwing my 2 cents out there.
Too bad we don't recycle nuclear waste like France does. Some sorta leftover policy from the Carter or Ford days is what I heard.
France has a facility that can recycle (aka reprocess) something like 95% of nuclear waste products. Sure, the leftover still has to be buried, but isn't it better to bury 5% of something than 100% of something (Regardless of if the USA ever makes any more nuclear plants).
Now I'm not normally a person who says we should emulate France in anything, but they have something like 70% of power produced by nuclear power plants, and we need to do something like that here in USA.
Personally I prefer nvidia stuff. And the drivers are much improved now for the 8800 series.
But I still dont like vista at all, I'll stick with XP for a while, and when I'm dragged kicking and screaming into vista, it will be a secondary partition on a dual boot.
If Apple wanted to crush windows, they could do it quite easily. And make tons of money in the process. How? Just sell the Apple OS as a separate software that could work on a normal IBM PC compatible computer. We already know its possible to do it, there were leaked beta's that could be modified to run on a normal windows machine, and we know that early Development packages included a normal windows machine with the Apple OS running on them. The current mac computers all use intel CPU's. So we know there's no technical reason why they can't do it. Sure they'd have to do some extra testing, but it IS possible. I mean most of the modern mac internals are now standard PC kinda stuff anyway, as are things like Mac graphics cards.
I know a ton of people who would pay $100 to turn thier machines into a dual boot windows/mac instead of paying $500 or $1000 for an overpriced, under performing mac, and then the $100 for windows to run in boot camp.
I'd probably buy it myself in that case. Then I could stick with windows to play games, and the mac boot for everything else.
But apple apparently prefers to be a small market with large hardware margins on everything they sell.
"For legacy reasons, an implementation using the 1900 date base system shall 1 treat 1900 as though it was a leap 2 year." What legacy reasons? Was there an ancient excel version that MS didn't bother to fix a date bug in that they are carrying through even today? Why should they? Anyone bothering to use some ancient excel version likely wouldn't bother with the brand new office 2007 and its "open" Office XML filesystem would they? I mean if they were going to change, they'd probably prefer to have it correctly working now. And what about people who want to put in data from 1900? Thats just going to screw up everyone wanting to do that!
Whats funny, is that their spec says if you DON'T want to use the screwed up 1900 system you don't have to... but then your dates have to start with 1904, with no possability of using a date earlier than that!
And you'd better not be wanting to use any dates prior to 1900, neither date system will accept it. Yeah, I'm sure no country in the EU has any useful historical data prior to 1900, after all they composed of such young countries, right?
The question is, are people doing it for the "sole purpose of lawfully connecting to a wireless telephone communication network" ? However, if they are selling the unlocking solution, then an argument could be made that its not the sole purpose of the sellers.
I still remember a proposed law in Congress after the whole Enron thing went down that I saw when flipping by c-span. It was brought up by Maxine Waters, and it was something about how if you ever dared to throw out or shred something, it made you automatically guilty of whatever crime they wanted to accuse you of.
If its configured for differant loads, its probably locked. I doubt it can be configured for other loads, even in windows, or dos. The most low level configuration for drives themselves I've ever heard of is to adjust the noise levels, some drives have configurable audio profiles, they can be quieter, but slower.
If you could configure firmware for differant loads, that would be really cool. But I'd imagine that hdd manufactures would be against that. If you could configure a normal desktop hdd for server configuration, it would draw business away from the larger margine SCSI segments. Which is why WD is the only one to have a 10k RPM non SCSI drive, they don't have a SCSI segment that they are afraid of cannibalizing profits from.
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I'm wondering the same thing, my aunt just bought a laptop with a service contract (so I wouldn't have to help her out over every computer problem) from them.
Personally, I would have preferred she get a Dell, but she wanted something "local"
Yeah there's a citation needed in the summary at the top. But you'll find plenty of references in the body of the wiki article.
Just because its not a factual cause of death (IMHO), doesn't mean you won't find lots of people beliving it. Apparently those people are mostly in Korea.
I'm not in the UK (Highways Act of 1980), but I wonder what something to do with highways has to do with stopping at a stop sign?
Ideally no one would ever stop on a freeway, and I've never seen an actual permenant emplaced stop sign in a freeway, at least not in the USA.
Here's a generic definition though, from the US:
http://definitions.uslegal.com/r/rolling-stop/
Linkage?
Hahahahaha, nice discworld reference
And if MS didn't do that kinda thing on purpose with XP, surely they will realize that for future operating systems. So we likely will never get that from MS for the forseeable future, they'd be afraid no one would upgrade to a future OS :)
Surprisingly, this is one of the more common answers as to why people upgrade. And its not just random clueless people either. I've seen die hard overclockers give this reason, they know they lose a little performance in gaming with vista, but they want the new GUI.
"Not having to support an arbitrary base of hardware manufactured by other people allows them to be much more nimble."
Ah, that must be why the highest end graphics card I can configure on apple.com with a mac pro is the Geforce 7300 GT
Nope, its been done in the USA too, and in regards to windows.
The EULA of microsoft products (and most others) typically says something similar, along the lines that if you don't agree you can return the software for a refund.
AFAIK, a number of supposed vestigial organs (in both humans and animals) have been discovered to have a purpose in recent years, so they are no longer nessasarily considered vestigial
Its not just business laptops that are using XP. The vast majority of people still use XP. Heck, even amongst average gamers (where you'd expect ppl to upgrade to vista for DX10 games), less than 2.5% have vista and a dx10 capable card.
Yeah, virtually all SP2 upgrades I've seen and experianced have had issues...
Which is why its much better to integrate SP2 into the install CD and do a fresh install of it. Never seen any problems from doing it this way, besides the normal MS crap you go through.
I know you say it wasn't an option, but just throwing my 2 cents out there.
Too bad we don't recycle nuclear waste like France does. Some sorta leftover policy from the Carter or Ford days is what I heard.
France has a facility that can recycle (aka reprocess) something like 95% of nuclear waste products. Sure, the leftover still has to be buried, but isn't it better to bury 5% of something than 100% of something (Regardless of if the USA ever makes any more nuclear plants).
Now I'm not normally a person who says we should emulate France in anything, but they have something like 70% of power produced by nuclear power plants, and we need to do something like that here in USA.
They could just use some linux drivers if they wanted some extra drivers. After all, isn't the OS based on *nix?
Also, they could specify up front that only hardware that says it works with mac will work on the mac OS, regardless of what machine you boot it from.
AMD/ATI has had a DX10 graphics line out for months now. 2900, 2600, etc.
http://ati.amd.com/products/Radeonhd2900/index.html
Personally I prefer nvidia stuff. And the drivers are much improved now for the 8800 series.
But I still dont like vista at all, I'll stick with XP for a while, and when I'm dragged kicking and screaming into vista, it will be a secondary partition on a dual boot.
If Apple wanted to crush windows, they could do it quite easily. And make tons of money in the process.
How? Just sell the Apple OS as a separate software that could work on a normal IBM PC compatible computer.
We already know its possible to do it, there were leaked beta's that could be modified to run on a normal windows machine, and we know that early Development packages included a normal windows machine with the Apple OS running on them.
The current mac computers all use intel CPU's.
So we know there's no technical reason why they can't do it. Sure they'd have to do some extra testing, but it IS possible. I mean most of the modern mac internals are now standard PC kinda stuff anyway, as are things like Mac graphics cards.
I know a ton of people who would pay $100 to turn thier machines into a dual boot windows/mac instead of paying $500 or $1000 for an overpriced, under performing mac, and then the $100 for windows to run in boot camp.
I'd probably buy it myself in that case. Then I could stick with windows to play games, and the mac boot for everything else.
But apple apparently prefers to be a small market with large hardware margins on everything they sell.
CNN has more new content than /. every day? Say it aint so!
The dire proclaimations of forthcoming rolling blackouts in Callyfornia don't agree0 .html
eg:
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070904/D8REFHLG
No, last I checked any fileplanet registration was enough to d/l these. I.e. the free registration, the one where most ppl make up thier login info?
Actually, yeah, I do often have 2+ gig files. And 5+ gig files, and 10+ gig files, etc. So it matters to me, performance differances like that.
RTFA (like the submitter didn't), it was 23, not 20. Summary is incorrect.
Link from the summary: http://www.os2world.com/content/view/14868/1/
So it woulda been 2-6-3
BTW, most means 50.0000001% (insert more zeros after the . if you like)
so even a single vote differance is "most"
But, 8 out of 10 votes not voting yes sure seems to me to be "most" in anyones book.
"For legacy reasons, an implementation using the 1900 date base system shall 1 treat 1900 as though it was a leap
2 year."
What legacy reasons? Was there an ancient excel version that MS didn't bother to fix a date bug in that they are carrying through even today? Why should they? Anyone bothering to use some ancient excel version likely wouldn't bother with the brand new office 2007 and its "open" Office XML filesystem would they? I mean if they were going to change, they'd probably prefer to have it correctly working now. And what about people who want to put in data from 1900? Thats just going to screw up everyone wanting to do that!
Whats funny, is that their spec says if you DON'T want to use the screwed up 1900 system you don't have to... but then your dates have to start with 1904, with no possability of using a date earlier than that!
And you'd better not be wanting to use any dates prior to 1900, neither date system will accept it. Yeah, I'm sure no country in the EU has any useful historical data prior to 1900, after all they composed of such young countries, right?
Everyone is forgetting that there is an exemption in the DMCA for wireless phone "unlocking"
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/005021.php
The question is, are people doing it for the "sole purpose of lawfully connecting to a wireless telephone communication network" ?
However, if they are selling the unlocking solution, then an argument could be made that its not the sole purpose of the sellers.
I still remember a proposed law in Congress after the whole Enron thing went down that I saw when flipping by c-span. It was brought up by Maxine Waters, and it was something about how if you ever dared to throw out or shred something, it made you automatically guilty of whatever crime they wanted to accuse you of.
If its configured for differant loads, its probably locked. I doubt it can be configured for other loads, even in windows, or dos.
The most low level configuration for drives themselves I've ever heard of is to adjust the noise levels, some drives have configurable audio profiles, they can be quieter, but slower.
If you could configure firmware for differant loads, that would be really cool. But I'd imagine that hdd manufactures would be against that. If you could configure a normal desktop hdd for server configuration, it would draw business away from the larger margine SCSI segments. Which is why WD is the only one to have a 10k RPM non SCSI drive, they don't have a SCSI segment that they are afraid of cannibalizing profits from.