Don't like it? Go into your BIOS and turn it off. The specification mandates that it have a disable option.
Yeah, and?
Windows 9 will probably make 'Windows Lockin' mandatory on x86 as it does on ARM, and it dramatically increases the difficulty of installing an alternate OS. No more booting Linux from CD and installing without even touching the BIOS.
Also, how is being able to embed executable code into a document a good thing?
An entire generation of crackers built their careers on exploiting executable code in Office documents. If not for Microsoft, they'd be cooking fries at McDonald's.
Considering today's power/heat constraints, I find the usual "CPU/GPU under keyboard" configuration illogical. Why not a CPU / GPU / RAM board behind the screen, with a large/thin (passive, if possible) cooling plate at the rear?
Because it's back-heavy and hard to balance. You see, engineers do think about these things when they design hardware.
Wrong. A store is private property. This is obvious.
Only if you're not a lawyer. Lawyers will happily argue that white is black if someone pays them to.
And if the store really is 'obviously' private property, the government wouldn't be able to prohibit behaviour there such as smoking which is perfectly legal otherwise.
BTW, I'd add that when I was testing the tablets at a local retailer, there were many hours of video on some where someone had left the camera recording the people who used them.
Why do you want random people to call you at random times?
My cell phone is off unless I'm on call, need to make a call or expect someone to need to call me. Otherwise I rather like not having everyone on the planet think they can waste my time at any moment by dialling a number.
I wouldn't even have the phone if the company didn't provide it for free.
Damn those rich people screwing us over again. Do you actually sit around all days trying to come up with new ways to be outraged at rich people or what?
Slashdot seems to have become the last, best hope for Communism on the Internet in the last couple of years. Probably as the technical content has declined, the libertarians have moved elsewhere.
Ditch the space suit. If your capsule is going to fail it is going to fail catastrophically, and if it fails catastrophically, a space suit ain't gonna help.
The space suit means you don't need to provide a life support system for the entire cabin, so it's probably lighter. But you'd have to consider both options in the design.
I don't think you could just fill the cabin with air and launch because temperature variations between the night and day side of the orbit would probably require heating and cooling. If you can get away with that then ditching the suit might make sense.
A couple of things: Air launches are dangerous - you've got a whole bunch of explosives strapped to the body of a very large aircraft which is carrying humans (pilots, support personnel). This may not sound like a big deal, but it is. The FAA makes certification of a new aircraft a monumental task.
Uh, WK2 will already be cerified for carrying SS2. So while I'm sure there'll be extra work required to prove they can carry an orbital rocket safely, they won't have to start from scratch with a new aircraft.
Most of the mass of a spacecraft is not the mass of its occupants.
But for a minimal capsule you just need a heat shield, a parachute and a space suit. Launch it into a low enough orbit and it will re-enter automatically after a few hours. Shape it properly and aerodynamic drag will ensure it points in the right direction during re-entry.
200kg would be a pretty tight budget, but it could probably be done provided the passenger wasn't obese.
except in the real world, that isn't true, just in somebodies "benchmark"
Except in the real world, Firefox has been running for three weeks on this machine with about 20 tabs open and it's using a whole 320MB of RAM. That still seems a lot, but it's a tiny fraction of the available RAM.
I don't use Bing much, but when I have I've found it does suck less than Google. Google's approach seems to be 'people love lots of search results, so let's be 'smart' and return as many search results as we can that remotely resemble what they asked us to search for', whereas I just want it to give me the twenty results which actually match the thing I asked it to search for.
For technical queries, Google is pretty much useless these days because it's so 'smart'.
You skipped the part where - any time new competitors do jump in - the established businesses can afford to once again cut their prices until the new competitors can no longer compete.
And?
You seem to have missed the part where the 'established businesses' get to ever raise prices high enough to rake in a vast EVIL MONOPOLY profit without competitors coming along to under-cut them.
Because, absent government regulations to keep new competitors out of the market, they don't.
And if they do, it's still good for the buyers, and the sellers aren't likely to make the same mistake twice.
Except when the sellers don't actually ship the product and claim it got lost in the mail. The buyer gets their money back from Amazon, but AFAIR there's a lifetime limit of about five refunds before Amazon won't do that any more.
Wayland doesn't break X, if by "break" you mean stop something from working. You can run Wayland concurrently with X. All those X-incompatible will simply run under X.
But you can't run that Wayland app remotely with the display on another machine. Unless you use a disgusting kludge like VNC.
Who cares whether it's different? Very few people buy Windows upgrades, the vast majority just get whatever version of Windows is included with their new PC.
Microsoft could sack most of their developers, keep selling XP and still be profitable for years to come.
Perhaps you've never heard of a thing called the 'Command Line Interface', where you type in commands and hit Enter to run them. It's the old way that we used to do things before we realised it was a pain in the ass and started building GUIs instead.
It probably contributes, but it's very difficult to argue the contribution of Murdoch's media empire in eliminating honest discourse isn't the true initiator.
Where was there 'honest discourse' before?
Murdoch is a dick, but twenty years ago the media was almost exclusively left-wing. I rarely remember anything that approached 'honest discourse' unless you mean two lefties arguing about whether the state should control everything or just steal 95% of our income in taxes.
I believe you'll find that most non-Americans are already a bit incensed about American companies telling them how to run their country. I suspect this kind of behaviour is more likely to increase the backlash than help anyone's human rights.
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Don't like it? Go into your BIOS and turn it off. The specification mandates that it have a disable option.
Yeah, and?
Windows 9 will probably make 'Windows Lockin' mandatory on x86 as it does on ARM, and it dramatically increases the difficulty of installing an alternate OS. No more booting Linux from CD and installing without even touching the BIOS.
Also, how is being able to embed executable code into a document a good thing?
An entire generation of crackers built their careers on exploiting executable code in Office documents. If not for Microsoft, they'd be cooking fries at McDonald's.
Considering today's power/heat constraints, I find the usual "CPU/GPU under keyboard" configuration illogical. Why not a CPU / GPU / RAM board behind the screen, with a large/thin (passive, if possible) cooling plate at the rear?
Because it's back-heavy and hard to balance. You see, engineers do think about these things when they design hardware.
Wrong. A store is private property. This is obvious.
Only if you're not a lawyer. Lawyers will happily argue that white is black if someone pays them to.
And if the store really is 'obviously' private property, the government wouldn't be able to prohibit behaviour there such as smoking which is perfectly legal otherwise.
BTW, I'd add that when I was testing the tablets at a local retailer, there were many hours of video on some where someone had left the camera recording the people who used them.
And how are people supposed to call me then?
Why do you want random people to call you at random times?
My cell phone is off unless I'm on call, need to make a call or expect someone to need to call me. Otherwise I rather like not having everyone on the planet think they can waste my time at any moment by dialling a number.
I wouldn't even have the phone if the company didn't provide it for free.
I'm trying to decide whether you don't know what 911 means, or are just trolling. It's so hard to tell here these days.
Why anyone would want/use a "Media Center" that doesn't play/record HD TV is beyond me.
Uh, because you use MythTV for that. Xbmc is a MythTV front-end as well as a media player.
Damn those rich people screwing us over again. Do you actually sit around all days trying to come up with new ways to be outraged at rich people or what?
Slashdot seems to have become the last, best hope for Communism on the Internet in the last couple of years. Probably as the technical content has declined, the libertarians have moved elsewhere.
Ditch the space suit. If your capsule is going to fail it is going to fail catastrophically, and if it fails catastrophically, a space suit ain't gonna help.
The space suit means you don't need to provide a life support system for the entire cabin, so it's probably lighter. But you'd have to consider both options in the design.
I don't think you could just fill the cabin with air and launch because temperature variations between the night and day side of the orbit would probably require heating and cooling. If you can get away with that then ditching the suit might make sense.
A couple of things: Air launches are dangerous - you've got a whole bunch of explosives strapped to the body of a very large aircraft which is carrying humans (pilots, support personnel). This may not sound like a big deal, but it is. The FAA makes certification of a new aircraft a monumental task.
Uh, WK2 will already be cerified for carrying SS2. So while I'm sure there'll be extra work required to prove they can carry an orbital rocket safely, they won't have to start from scratch with a new aircraft.
Most of the mass of a spacecraft is not the mass of its occupants.
But for a minimal capsule you just need a heat shield, a parachute and a space suit. Launch it into a low enough orbit and it will re-enter automatically after a few hours. Shape it properly and aerodynamic drag will ensure it points in the right direction during re-entry.
200kg would be a pretty tight budget, but it could probably be done provided the passenger wasn't obese.
My firefox process grows to 1.5GB in 24 to 48 hours. Closing all but one of the windows and attempting to free memory via about:memory does nothing.
Maybe you should remove the addons that are leaking RAM. As I mentioned above, my Firefox has grown to 320MB after three weeks.
except in the real world, that isn't true, just in somebodies "benchmark"
Except in the real world, Firefox has been running for three weeks on this machine with about 20 tabs open and it's using a whole 320MB of RAM. That still seems a lot, but it's a tiny fraction of the available RAM.
I don't use Bing much, but when I have I've found it does suck less than Google. Google's approach seems to be 'people love lots of search results, so let's be 'smart' and return as many search results as we can that remotely resemble what they asked us to search for', whereas I just want it to give me the twenty results which actually match the thing I asked it to search for.
For technical queries, Google is pretty much useless these days because it's so 'smart'.
You skipped the part where - any time new competitors do jump in - the established businesses can afford to once again cut their prices until the new competitors can no longer compete.
And?
You seem to have missed the part where the 'established businesses' get to ever raise prices high enough to rake in a vast EVIL MONOPOLY profit without competitors coming along to under-cut them.
Because, absent government regulations to keep new competitors out of the market, they don't.
And if they do, it's still good for the buyers, and the sellers aren't likely to make the same mistake twice.
Except when the sellers don't actually ship the product and claim it got lost in the mail. The buyer gets their money back from Amazon, but AFAIR there's a lifetime limit of about five refunds before Amazon won't do that any more.
Wayland doesn't break X, if by "break" you mean stop something from working. You can run Wayland concurrently with X. All those X-incompatible will simply run under X.
But you can't run that Wayland app remotely with the display on another machine. Unless you use a disgusting kludge like VNC.
Wow. A protest so successful that almost no-one has even heard of it.
Who cares whether it's different? Very few people buy Windows upgrades, the vast majority just get whatever version of Windows is included with their new PC.
Microsoft could sack most of their developers, keep selling XP and still be profitable for years to come.
The NEW way of starting apps?
Perhaps you've never heard of a thing called the 'Command Line Interface', where you type in commands and hit Enter to run them. It's the old way that we used to do things before we realised it was a pain in the ass and started building GUIs instead.
It probably contributes, but it's very difficult to argue the contribution of Murdoch's media empire in eliminating honest discourse isn't the true initiator.
Where was there 'honest discourse' before?
Murdoch is a dick, but twenty years ago the media was almost exclusively left-wing. I rarely remember anything that approached 'honest discourse' unless you mean two lefties arguing about whether the state should control everything or just steal 95% of our income in taxes.
People running IE are far less likely to have blocked statcounter.com than those running other browsers.
BS!
I have written fast programs in both Java and C# that are maybe 10% slower than pedal to the metal C or C++.
Good for you: for i = 1 to 100 is pretty fast in any language.
Now try doing complex signal processing in Java.
Java is only slow for programmers who don't understand what they're doing.
Or those who have to do anything complex and CPU-intensive.
I believe you'll find that most non-Americans are already a bit incensed about American companies telling them how to run their country. I suspect this kind of behaviour is more likely to increase the backlash than help anyone's human rights.