Yes. With Microsoft working so hard to keep alternate operating systems off the PC, they'll soon just be legacy devices to run crusty old Windows software for which there's no alternative on other devices.
Microsoft have been pushing this for over ten years. I remember a Microsoft talk in 2001 where they told us they wanted hardware DRM in graphics cards to beat the evil pirates.
Now, when Windows has become almost irrelevant, particularly as a media consumption platform, they've finally achieved their goal. Microsoft FTW!
This. XP is dead, get on with the times, especially something like iTunes where the old excuse of corporate software forcing you to stay on XP most certainly doesn't apply since it's strictly a consumer application.
We keep an XP machine around solely to run iTurds, because we could never get it to work in Wine.
So you're saying I should have to go and pay Microsoft for that Window 8 crap just so my girlfriend can continue to load music on her iPod?
Of course, fuel efficiency is not the only problem with SUVs. That extra ground clearance makes them awful for road visibility because it's much more difficult to see through or around them from a regular sized vehicle, so every SUV on the road makes driving more dangerous for everyone.
And, when I was driving my mid-engined sports car, I couldn't even see past a Volvo, because my eyes were level with its door handle. Should they be banned, too?
Basically, your argument reduces to 'WAH! WAH! WAH! ME NOT LIKE! WAH! WAH!'.
Because you do not name the SUV I do not believe you.
If you don't even know that most modern SUVs (Forester, CRV, Rogue, CX-5, etc) are almost as economical as the cars they're based on, you shouldn't even be in this discussion. Go and learn something, then come back.
Progressives want you to smarten up. You want to do them physical harm. That's the difference between civilized people and people like you.
"Progressives" want to send you to Death^H^H^H^HRe-Education Camps because they don't like the vehicle you drive. They murdered about a hundred million people in the last century because the sick counter-revolutionary bastards wouldn't "smarten up" and do what they were told. They'd be dragging drivers out of their SUVs and executing them in the street if they thought they could get away with it.
Eliminate the SUV loophole and the big bloated turds would be gone quickly. Soccer moms ignoring the road because they're texting need to drive minivans with little engines, not pigiron.
You do realize most modern 'SUVs' are just hatchbacks with more ground clearance than a normal car and AWD, right? Oh, no, obviously not given your sexist, classist, knee-jerk rant.
Just wait until life-extension treatments become available under this new system. You will have 0.1% living for 300+ years while everyone else croaking at 60 with no access to healthcare.
Yes, because those EVIL 0.1% wouldn't possibly want to make money by selling healthcare to the LOVELY 99.9%. No, no, sir. Not one bit.
Since so many games make you sit through crappy videos, copyright screens and other garbage for thirty seconds while they start up, or at least make you hit a key or press a mouse button to skip them and that damn 'Press Any Key To Start' screen that they couldn't even take five minutes to remove when porting from a console, faster load time is pointless once you've eliminated the worst HDD delays.
Which is why NASA can't do much themselves anymore, and get less bang for the buck.
You do realize that NASA never 'did much themselves', and almost all their hardware manufacturing has always been contracted out, right?
Or were you just trolling?
The real problem I see with SLS is that it's a rocket without a mission that no-one expects to fly more than a couple of times, so there's no real incentive to do a good job.
It's curious they're having money problems since as I understand it they provide CPUs to both the XBOX One and the PS4. So that combined with the PC market is still not enough, huh?
Margins will be tiny. They probably need to sell a hundred consoles to make as much profit as Intel make from a single server CPU.
In the official Falcon Heavy video on Youtube, the stages seem to touch down much slower, so I presume they're planning to modify the engines for deeper throttling in future.
Because, in the unlikely event of another terrorist attack on a plane, any politicians voted to eliminate the TSA will be blamed. Modern politicians spend all this time and effort trying to get elected, then they're too scared to do anything where they can't pass the buck.
I would take the $10 million, without any hesitation.
Yes, it's a silly scenario. The point of a lottery is that you pay a small amount of money for a tiny chance of making life-changing money. $10 million is already life-changing money for most people--they can pay off their debts, buy a bigger house and retire--so there's little incentive to hold out for more.
The shuttle also used to have really short launch windows to ISS (~5 minutes?). That just meant they started the countdown early and added longer holds to allow time to fix any problems that showed up; if the problem took longer than the allowed hold time, it was complex enough that they would probably have to scrub anyway.
You'd presumably need to add new CPU functionality to allow fast context switches. If I remember correctly, a 20MHz Transputer took about one microsecond to switch threads, because that was one of the primary design goals. Of course, that lead to them building a stack-based CPU where almost nothing had to be saved on a context switch...
I'd favor some sort of carefully crafted state-level constitutional amendment to create income taxes. But with it earmarked for education.
Why would you want to give more money to a system that's almost totally failed, and unfit for purpose?
Modern schools were designed in 19th century Prussia to churn out compliant factory workers and soldiers, and most Western nations adopted similar systems after the 1% of the time saw how successful they were at making them money and keeping them in power. They're anachronistic nonsense in the 21st century.
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And you'll always be able to turn off Windows Boot on a new PC.
Ha-ha-ha. How dumb do you think we are?
Yes. With Microsoft working so hard to keep alternate operating systems off the PC, they'll soon just be legacy devices to run crusty old Windows software for which there's no alternative on other devices.
Microsoft have been pushing this for over ten years. I remember a Microsoft talk in 2001 where they told us they wanted hardware DRM in graphics cards to beat the evil pirates.
Now, when Windows has become almost irrelevant, particularly as a media consumption platform, they've finally achieved their goal. Microsoft FTW!
This. XP is dead, get on with the times, especially something like iTunes where the old excuse of corporate software forcing you to stay on XP most certainly doesn't apply since it's strictly a consumer application.
We keep an XP machine around solely to run iTurds, because we could never get it to work in Wine.
So you're saying I should have to go and pay Microsoft for that Window 8 crap just so my girlfriend can continue to load music on her iPod?
Of course, fuel efficiency is not the only problem with SUVs. That extra ground clearance makes them awful for road visibility because it's much more difficult to see through or around them from a regular sized vehicle, so every SUV on the road makes driving more dangerous for everyone.
And, when I was driving my mid-engined sports car, I couldn't even see past a Volvo, because my eyes were level with its door handle. Should they be banned, too?
Basically, your argument reduces to 'WAH! WAH! WAH! ME NOT LIKE! WAH! WAH!'.
Because you do not name the SUV I do not believe you.
If you don't even know that most modern SUVs (Forester, CRV, Rogue, CX-5, etc) are almost as economical as the cars they're based on, you shouldn't even be in this discussion. Go and learn something, then come back.
Progressives want you to smarten up. You want to do them physical harm. That's the difference between civilized people and people like you.
"Progressives" want to send you to Death^H^H^H^HRe-Education Camps because they don't like the vehicle you drive. They murdered about a hundred million people in the last century because the sick counter-revolutionary bastards wouldn't "smarten up" and do what they were told. They'd be dragging drivers out of their SUVs and executing them in the street if they thought they could get away with it.
No, stupid people think that buying a $60k electric car to save money makes more sense than buying a $20k Civic.
But it would appear that they've now realized what a load of hype electric cars were, and wised up.
Eliminate the SUV loophole and the big bloated turds would be gone quickly. Soccer moms ignoring the road because they're texting need to drive minivans with little engines, not pigiron.
You do realize most modern 'SUVs' are just hatchbacks with more ground clearance than a normal car and AWD, right? Oh, no, obviously not given your sexist, classist, knee-jerk rant.
Ours gets the same MPG around town as our Civic.
Just wait until life-extension treatments become available under this new system. You will have 0.1% living for 300+ years while everyone else croaking at 60 with no access to healthcare.
Yes, because those EVIL 0.1% wouldn't possibly want to make money by selling healthcare to the LOVELY 99.9%. No, no, sir. Not one bit.
Payroll is often the largest expense by far. So minimizing the workforce leads to more profit.
Far more companies fail because they can't hire enough people fast enough than because they hire too many.
Besides, who cares, unless you believe you're unable to find any useful way to make money without a boss telling you what to do.
Since so many games make you sit through crappy videos, copyright screens and other garbage for thirty seconds while they start up, or at least make you hit a key or press a mouse button to skip them and that damn 'Press Any Key To Start' screen that they couldn't even take five minutes to remove when porting from a console, faster load time is pointless once you've eliminated the worst HDD delays.
Which is why NASA can't do much themselves anymore, and get less bang for the buck.
You do realize that NASA never 'did much themselves', and almost all their hardware manufacturing has always been contracted out, right?
Or were you just trolling?
The real problem I see with SLS is that it's a rocket without a mission that no-one expects to fly more than a couple of times, so there's no real incentive to do a good job.
It's curious they're having money problems since as I understand it they provide CPUs to both the XBOX One and the PS4. So that combined with the PC market is still not enough, huh?
Margins will be tiny. They probably need to sell a hundred consoles to make as much profit as Intel make from a single server CPU.
True. Multiplayer might have been OK.
Otherwise, it just felt like Borderlands 1 with most of the fun removed.
It actually has some decent (if unoriginal) content, but the first 6 hours or so are a miserable trudge.
But, uh, isn't that exactly the same as Borderlands 2?
Actually, I'd have to admit that I couldn't even stand it long enough to play six hours, so maybe it's even worse.
In the official Falcon Heavy video on Youtube, the stages seem to touch down much slower, so I presume they're planning to modify the engines for deeper throttling in future.
Now that's better. I'd give that 4/10; I almost thought you were serious until I saw the part about the future success of Windows on the Raspberry Pi.
That might have been a good troll in 2005, but it's at best a 2/10 in 2015.
What is unclear is why the TSA still exist.
Because, in the unlikely event of another terrorist attack on a plane, any politicians voted to eliminate the TSA will be blamed. Modern politicians spend all this time and effort trying to get elected, then they're too scared to do anything where they can't pass the buck.
I would take the $10 million, without any hesitation.
Yes, it's a silly scenario. The point of a lottery is that you pay a small amount of money for a tiny chance of making life-changing money. $10 million is already life-changing money for most people--they can pay off their debts, buy a bigger house and retire--so there's little incentive to hold out for more.
The shuttle also used to have really short launch windows to ISS (~5 minutes?). That just meant they started the countdown early and added longer holds to allow time to fix any problems that showed up; if the problem took longer than the allowed hold time, it was complex enough that they would probably have to scrub anyway.
You'd presumably need to add new CPU functionality to allow fast context switches. If I remember correctly, a 20MHz Transputer took about one microsecond to switch threads, because that was one of the primary design goals. Of course, that lead to them building a stack-based CPU where almost nothing had to be saved on a context switch...
this treatment to be used. We read every week about new advances in science, but they don't let us use them. Their kind hates science.
Are you sure you're not confusing them with 'Ban GMO!' liberals?
I'd favor some sort of carefully crafted state-level constitutional amendment to create income taxes. But with it earmarked for education.
Why would you want to give more money to a system that's almost totally failed, and unfit for purpose?
Modern schools were designed in 19th century Prussia to churn out compliant factory workers and soldiers, and most Western nations adopted similar systems after the 1% of the time saw how successful they were at making them money and keeping them in power. They're anachronistic nonsense in the 21st century.