Jerry Sanders must be well pissed off then. It's not going to help Athlon 64 sales at the expense of P4, if users still have to run 32-bit XP for the foreseeable future. I smell an Intel dirty trick.
But will MS write their 64-bit XP to work on Athlon 64 and the new Intel chip, or will we have three different versions (Itanium, Athlon 64 and Intel x86-64)? At this rate Windows will become as fragmented as Linux;-)
My experince since we changed from Windows 3.1 to NT and now 2000 is that the few cases where users screwed up their PCs have been outweighed by the constant demands for an engineer visit to carry out a trivial task using the admin password. And no-one can defrag their hard disks. Ever.
The ironic thing is that Win98 has slipped off the worm writers' radar - it was immune to Nimda, Blaster and Nachi. Most of the W32 e-mail viruses are still a problem, but (assuming the user has patched OE sometime in the last couple of years) they require the user to be co-operative and/or stupid before they will do any harm.
After seeing Blaster wreak havoc, a lot of techno-Luddites are experiencing a warm sense of schadenfreude.
This is going to look like MIB III, isn't it? OK, he did "Ali", but I still associate him with cheesy stuff like MIB, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and that Gettin Jiggy Wit' It video...
*Bang*. I thought it was pretty much Goblet of Fire warmed up, with a few teenage tantrums thrown in. The best book of 2003 was definitely Crap Towns, but it would be utterly meaningless to anyone from outside England.
Good idea in theory, but they cause extreme tyre noise and they look nasty with all the joints. I can't see them being acceptable in London, although I understand they're more popular in the US.
Most power in the UK is delivered to homes via underground cables (although the 132,000 V national grid stuff is nearly all on pylons). The problem with running local cables overhead, besides appearance, is that storms tend to bring down trees, which pull down any nearby cables. The big pylons are well out of the way of trees.
A large proportion of their overhead wiring (power/telecoms) has been looted for its metal content. They're not all buying cellphones just because they like the mobility.
The HP schedule is in trouble...film 3 isn't going to be out until June 2004 (the first two were released in Nov 2001 and Nov 2002) and the cast are ageing at a speed only schoolkids can. It's unlikely that film 7, if it's ever made, will be able to use the same Harry, Hermione and Ron unless they're *very* baby-faced twentysomethings.
Besides, can you think of *any* film franchise that has gone beyond 3 without sucking a very large one? Please, no-one say Police Academy.
Come on, put the "extended" stuff from RoTK up for download when the cinematic DVD comes out. You can include a special password with the cinematic DVD if you like.
People will still buy your extended DVD if they want it all on one disc (not forgetting the high quality plastic Denethor figurine in the Collectors' Edition), but they won't be forced to pay $$$ for something they only want to see half an hour of.
Whereas Paul Allen's spacecraft will have all kinds of gadgets you didn't think a spacecraft really needed (and won't really be safe to fly in until the first Service Pack), Carmack's craft will have guns. LOTS of guns.
On a scale of major crimes, this one is seen by Joe Schmoe in the same serious vein as crossing at a "Don't Walk" light. Apparently a contributory factor to the collapse of ITV Digital in the UK was that hundreds of thousands of Scots were using pirate viewing cards, sold openly on Glasgow and Edinburgh street markets, and not paying a penny to ITV. There's a huge appetite out there for "free" TV as subscription TV is seen as overpriced - considering you get even more adverts than on free-to-air TV.
Significant that it was Fox who carried the article though - they have something to lose;-)
No corporates are going to risk installing it, since it didn't come out of Redmond. And home users who give enough of a stuff about security to realise that IE has problems are probably using Mozilla or Opera.
On a related topic, did anyone else notice that chrome-free popups are to be terminated in XP SP2 (announced yesterday)? They're a great technique for the site spoofers since you can have the whole shebang - genuine looking URL *and* a nice little SSL padlock. Simply use a screenshot of a real online bank as the background and stick your own HTML form on top to capture the login details. JavaScript aficionados can even make the address bar and toolbar work like the real thing, if they see fit. Thankfully the Russian mafia aren't that sophisticated...yet.
The main problem with Bombadil's removal is that the hobbits can't take the swords from the barrow-wight and therefore (logically) the chief Nazgul can't be mortally wounded because Merry's sword doesn't have the magic runes on it. In the film of FOTR Aragorn gives the hobbits some swords but doesn't explain why they're special.
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People went to all that effort just to see Elf ffs?
Bravely navigate the endless black depths of space to a new and strange planet. Then crash.
WTF is inheritess? I think we have recursive typos here...my head is going to explode!
Jerry Sanders must be well pissed off then. It's not going to help Athlon 64 sales at the expense of P4, if users still have to run 32-bit XP for the foreseeable future. I smell an Intel dirty trick.
But will MS write their 64-bit XP to work on Athlon 64 and the new Intel chip, or will we have three different versions (Itanium, Athlon 64 and Intel x86-64)? At this rate Windows will become as fragmented as Linux ;-)
My experince since we changed from Windows 3.1 to NT and now 2000 is that the few cases where users screwed up their PCs have been outweighed by the constant demands for an engineer visit to carry out a trivial task using the admin password. And no-one can defrag their hard disks. Ever.
Nor have I. I prefer the sink, there are faucets to hold onto.
After seeing Blaster wreak havoc, a lot of techno-Luddites are experiencing a warm sense of schadenfreude.
No, my mind is very good at erasing traumatic memories - you insensitive clod!
This is going to look like MIB III, isn't it? OK, he did "Ali", but I still associate him with cheesy stuff like MIB, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and that Gettin Jiggy Wit' It video...
*Bang*. I thought it was pretty much Goblet of Fire warmed up, with a few teenage tantrums thrown in. The best book of 2003 was definitely Crap Towns, but it would be utterly meaningless to anyone from outside England.
To quote Tolkien, "I despise allegory in all its forms". In which case, it's surprising he was such good mates with C.S. Lewis.
Good idea in theory, but they cause extreme tyre noise and they look nasty with all the joints. I can't see them being acceptable in London, although I understand they're more popular in the US.
Most power in the UK is delivered to homes via underground cables (although the 132,000 V national grid stuff is nearly all on pylons). The problem with running local cables overhead, besides appearance, is that storms tend to bring down trees, which pull down any nearby cables. The big pylons are well out of the way of trees.
A large proportion of their overhead wiring (power/telecoms) has been looted for its metal content. They're not all buying cellphones just because they like the mobility.
Besides, can you think of *any* film franchise that has gone beyond 3 without sucking a very large one? Please, no-one say Police Academy.
People will still buy your extended DVD if they want it all on one disc (not forgetting the high quality plastic Denethor figurine in the Collectors' Edition), but they won't be forced to pay $$$ for something they only want to see half an hour of.
And then there was the gzip of DeCSS which happened to be a prime number. How can you say a single number is infringing anything?
I'll have to change my sig again...this started a thread yesterday...
Whereas Paul Allen's spacecraft will have all kinds of gadgets you didn't think a spacecraft really needed (and won't really be safe to fly in until the first Service Pack), Carmack's craft will have guns. LOTS of guns.
Disclaimer: my German isn't terribly good so it might be a review of the new BMW 5-series instead ;-)
The .wav from "Animal House" should explain all...
Significant that it was Fox who carried the article though - they have something to lose ;-)
On a related topic, did anyone else notice that chrome-free popups are to be terminated in XP SP2 (announced yesterday)? They're a great technique for the site spoofers since you can have the whole shebang - genuine looking URL *and* a nice little SSL padlock. Simply use a screenshot of a real online bank as the background and stick your own HTML form on top to capture the login details. JavaScript aficionados can even make the address bar and toolbar work like the real thing, if they see fit. Thankfully the Russian mafia aren't that sophisticated...yet.
The main problem with Bombadil's removal is that the hobbits can't take the swords from the barrow-wight and therefore (logically) the chief Nazgul can't be mortally wounded because Merry's sword doesn't have the magic runes on it. In the film of FOTR Aragorn gives the hobbits some swords but doesn't explain why they're special.