Google talks about multi-process threading and how a browser bug will only kill its tab - and that you'll never get rid of all the bugs.
One other thing you never seem to get rid of are all the Memory Leaks. And if you have multiple independent processes running now, does this mean that Google Chrome will have (memory leaks) * (# of tabs) = (much bigger memory leaks overall)?
Yes, why indeed do we need a new browser when open-source, free, up to date, and well written FireFox already exists? I don't want to go back to the days of a badly fragmented browser market where you had a dozen alternatives, and nothing ran the same on all of them.
One of the most promising laboratories for the Numerati is the workplace, where every keystroke, click, and e-mail can be studied.
And that's the problem. Do do this analysis you need a lot of complete datasets. While you can pull that off with what a person does at work, we have this little privacy problem elsewhere. Although you can make the case that a person doesn't have a reasonable expectation of privacy in public spaces, start using that against people and that idea could change real quickly. And in your own home, car, or other space you have a complete expectation of privacy meaning that much data is going to be either very incomplete, or missing entirely. So you may end up with a great system that can produce marvelous results, and no proper data to feed it.
What makes it even worse is that AT&T remains essentially a monopoly, or at least a polyopoly in limited market giving few to no other options. To attempt to take away guaranteed consumer rights is truly unconscionable.
If you're under 30 Australia has a fascinating visa for a year with work privileges. While you may not consider that to meet your requirements for learning a "foreign language", you've clearly not heard proper Australian spoken mate if you think it's just the King's English.
Barack Obama for all his talk about change couldn't pick a woman to run as his VP, but McCain could. So much for his bold new view of the future that encompasses all the previously marginalized social groups.
...that practically renders the area uninhabitable for large wildlife.
You should have quit while you were already behind. The large wildlife up there absolutely loves the current Trans-Alaska pipeline, preferring to be near its warmth as opposed to nearly anywhere else.
The fact that she killed Ted "Tubes" Steven's $400 million of your and my money Bridge to Nowhere immediately raises her above 95% of the other politicians out there.
I'd suggest you not take any article written by Charlie seriously until it's been confirmed (not just repeated, as often happens) elsewhere.
Given the BIOS updates by HP and Dell that turn on the fan continuously on the subject notebooks, the reports of higher recalls of these models, Nvidia setting aside $191M in reserve to "deal with this issue", and Dell at least extending their notebook warranties on these notebooks specifically for an additional year, that's a lot of smoke with no fire underneath it somewhere.
This is hardly Nvidia's only recent failure. Vista drivers come to mind. In fact, Nvida's failure to deliver on a key DirectX 10 memory feature (ATI had it running fine on lower performing cards at the time) caused MS to downgrade DirectX 10 such that you don't even need Vista to support it any longer.
And let's not even discuss tessellation in DirectX 10.1 (again ATI has theirs working) and how Crysis downgraded their game back to DX10 after the ATI cards started stomping Nvidia in that hugely difficult to render game with DX 10.1. Were there some payoffs somewhere along the way here?
Nvidia has also missed the boat short-term by betting against GDDR5 in the current timeframe.
A lot of Nvidia shortcomings have been overlooked lately. Hope you weren't any of the people to pay $649 for the first 280GTX cards.
Is this anything more than an Nvidia driver change, or was SLI lurking in the X58 all along and Intel was just waiting for permission to turn it on? Just what is required from a chipset to support SLI anyway? The implication is that it's more than the connecting cable between the cards. Could SLI have been running on non-Nvidia boards long before now? So many questions.
This is nothing more than a blatantly transparent attempt to force people to upgrade to Windows Vista by making XP as unpalatable as possible. The same thing has been done all the way back to Microsoft Office 2000 which has a WGA of its own despite being several versions out of date now. Mcirosoft does its best to try and prevent you from moving your legal copy of Office 2K to your new machine instead of buying a whole new version.
The problem is that Microsoft can't even compete successfully with itself and retroactively makes previous versions of its O/S and Office products more and more miserable to use with every passing year. Someone should be in jail for touting that Windows Genuine Advantage is actually a good thing for the customer.
The "Safe Harbor" provisions of the DMCA only protect unmoderated public machines. If you were to give your users the ability to place whatever music files they wished on your computer, then you are protected.
Your "users" are your other family members, yours and their friends and family, plus whatever hackers break into your machine and plant stuff. Does that qualify?
If the manufacturers would at least honor the EULA, I could buy those machines with Windows and return the licenses myself, passing the savings on the customer. Since they don't, I can't even do that.
There really ought to be a lawsuit in here somewhere. A big juicy class action one.
If the refund value of this Windows license is USD130, then the company should be equally willing (required) to sell that version of Windows to all comers at the same $130. Anything else is fraud.
I'm pretty sure that requiring an ex post facto NDA as part of a refund of an item for which refunds were promised is a violation of the terms originally offered. This certainly constitutes Bait & Switch advertising since you may well have bought the computer with no intention of using Windows on it and intended to get the refund of the Microsoft Tax all along. This form of advertising is illegal in many places and should be pursued with the proper local authorities.
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Make that more than 2,999,999 - I went twice.
Google talks about multi-process threading and how a browser bug will only kill its tab - and that you'll never get rid of all the bugs.
One other thing you never seem to get rid of are all the Memory Leaks. And if you have multiple independent processes running now, does this mean that Google Chrome will have (memory leaks) * (# of tabs) = (much bigger memory leaks overall)?
Yes, why indeed do we need a new browser when open-source, free, up to date, and well written FireFox already exists? I don't want to go back to the days of a badly fragmented browser market where you had a dozen alternatives, and nothing ran the same on all of them.
And that's the problem. Do do this analysis you need a lot of complete datasets. While you can pull that off with what a person does at work, we have this little privacy problem elsewhere. Although you can make the case that a person doesn't have a reasonable expectation of privacy in public spaces, start using that against people and that idea could change real quickly. And in your own home, car, or other space you have a complete expectation of privacy meaning that much data is going to be either very incomplete, or missing entirely. So you may end up with a great system that can produce marvelous results, and no proper data to feed it.
What makes it even worse is that AT&T remains essentially a monopoly, or at least a polyopoly in limited market giving few to no other options. To attempt to take away guaranteed consumer rights is truly unconscionable.
If you're under 30 Australia has a fascinating visa for a year with work privileges. While you may not consider that to meet your requirements for learning a "foreign language", you've clearly not heard proper Australian spoken mate if you think it's just the King's English.
No worries!
Find the webmasters and kill them and you'll remove a lot of AQ's ability to recruit, organize, and direct.
Leak it to YouTube.
Barack Obama for all his talk about change couldn't pick a woman to run as his VP, but McCain could. So much for his bold new view of the future that encompasses all the previously marginalized social groups.
You should have quit while you were already behind. The large wildlife up there absolutely loves the current Trans-Alaska pipeline, preferring to be near its warmth as opposed to nearly anywhere else.
The fact that she killed Ted "Tubes" Steven's $400 million of your and my money Bridge to Nowhere immediately raises her above 95% of the other politicians out there.
How long before there's a hacker tool version of this to spot vulnerabilities that exist because the sys admin isn't using it to defend his network?
It would be nice if the article also gave the web-link where these will be found as they get them online.
Now I know why I.T. personnel are goose-stepped out of the facility a millisecond after they're notified of their firing.
Given the BIOS updates by HP and Dell that turn on the fan continuously on the subject notebooks, the reports of higher recalls of these models, Nvidia setting aside $191M in reserve to "deal with this issue", and Dell at least extending their notebook warranties on these notebooks specifically for an additional year, that's a lot of smoke with no fire underneath it somewhere.
This is hardly Nvidia's only recent failure. Vista drivers come to mind. In fact, Nvida's failure to deliver on a key DirectX 10 memory feature (ATI had it running fine on lower performing cards at the time) caused MS to downgrade DirectX 10 such that you don't even need Vista to support it any longer.
And let's not even discuss tessellation in DirectX 10.1 (again ATI has theirs working) and how Crysis downgraded their game back to DX10 after the ATI cards started stomping Nvidia in that hugely difficult to render game with DX 10.1. Were there some payoffs somewhere along the way here?
Nvidia has also missed the boat short-term by betting against GDDR5 in the current timeframe.
A lot of Nvidia shortcomings have been overlooked lately. Hope you weren't any of the people to pay $649 for the first 280GTX cards.
But they could be very good for my AMD stock.
First, I want an easy way to check my usage on a daily basis against the cap.
Second, I want to know if you are counting downloads, uploads, or both.
Thirdly, I want rollover for bandwidth I didn't use last month but paid for, so that I can use it this month.
Without that, your cap is a crock for what you initially promised me you'd provide.
Is this anything more than an Nvidia driver change, or was SLI lurking in the X58 all along and Intel was just waiting for permission to turn it on? Just what is required from a chipset to support SLI anyway? The implication is that it's more than the connecting cable between the cards. Could SLI have been running on non-Nvidia boards long before now? So many questions.
Is the Corporate Edition anything different than just a particular corporate license key?
And where can you display the license key on an existing system? Registry? System Properties?
This is nothing more than a blatantly transparent attempt to force people to upgrade to Windows Vista by making XP as unpalatable as possible. The same thing has been done all the way back to Microsoft Office 2000 which has a WGA of its own despite being several versions out of date now. Mcirosoft does its best to try and prevent you from moving your legal copy of Office 2K to your new machine instead of buying a whole new version.
The problem is that Microsoft can't even compete successfully with itself and retroactively makes previous versions of its O/S and Office products more and more miserable to use with every passing year. Someone should be in jail for touting that Windows Genuine Advantage is actually a good thing for the customer.
Your "users" are your other family members, yours and their friends and family, plus whatever hackers break into your machine and plant stuff. Does that qualify?
There really ought to be a lawsuit in here somewhere. A big juicy class action one.
If the refund value of this Windows license is USD130, then the company should be equally willing (required) to sell that version of Windows to all comers at the same $130. Anything else is fraud.
I'm pretty sure that requiring an ex post facto NDA as part of a refund of an item for which refunds were promised is a violation of the terms originally offered. This certainly constitutes Bait & Switch advertising since you may well have bought the computer with no intention of using Windows on it and intended to get the refund of the Microsoft Tax all along. This form of advertising is illegal in many places and should be pursued with the proper local authorities.