Vista's implementation of UAC was actually specifically intended to be user-hostile.
Why?
You'll notice that just about every UAC dialog shows the publisher of the application. That's very much intentional, because Microsoft intended for you to contact that publisher, when their app spewed 20 billion UAC dialogs.
The problem is, it breaks down when half the time, the publisher is Microsoft.
The poster that said ACE was confused, but he meant ARC - ARC being the system standard that MIPS, Alpha, and PPC-based NT systems used, much like how the Compaq Deskpro 386 defined the system standard that x86-based systems used.
A good company is one that understands that if they treat their customers right, they'll keep coming back.
A bad company is one that understands that if they treat their customers badly, but keep making things that they want/need, they'll STILL keep coming back, and then bases their business model upon that understanding.
Or, another example of a bad company is one that extends that model into treating their actual customers as their product, and their actual product as something to keep their customers around, to sell their customers on.
Well, Windows has support for HALs. IIRC, there's just one for x86 PCs.
While Alpha, MIPS, and PPC were all following a standard that was similar to that of the x86 PC, at least on Alpha, DEC went ahead and split everything up into HALs. So, the firmware had enough to boot NT far enough to select your HAL, and then you could pick the appropriate HAL for your chipset (or supply one on floppy).
The funny thing with all of the NT RISC boxes is, they were basically x86 PCs with a socket for a RISC CPU instead of an x86 CPU, and Microsoft's own ARC firmware instead of IBM's BIOS. (Actually, I believe there's bits and pieces of ARC in NTLDR on x86.)
Well, Microsoft has demoed Office 2010 running on ARM, and Office 4.2 was ported to MIPS and Alpha, IIRC, and part of 97 (Word and Excel only, IIRC) ported to Alpha.
Also, ARM is pushing into the desktop space. Just because a SoC today will struggle with Windows doesn't mean that there won't be chips that can handle it when Windows for ARM actually comes out.
In any case, the rumor is that Windows for ARM won't run the normal UI or any of the normal apps - that it'll be used with a dedicated tablet UI, as a tablet OS that happens to be Windows NT instead of Windows CE under the hood.
Because I recall reading quite a lot of stuff saying that the SPARC port of Windows was a failure due to Windows being unable to handle big-endian architectures.
(And, Alpha, MIPS, and PPC (at the time, anyway) were bi-endian, as are Itanium and ARM. And, fun fact, the de-facto standard in Linux is to treat all of those except for PPC (due to later PPCs being big-endian only) as little-endian.)
Except when Alphas were running FX!32, they were quite a bit faster than x86 machines at the time, and could get away with the emulation overhead. (And even then, some software still sucked after a trip through the profiling recompiler.)
ARM CPUs are about as fast as the slowest x86 CPUs, nowadays.
Second if you can buy from GOG which has NO ring 0 crap, but if you have to play one that has nasty DRM buy the game but play the cracked game instead as this allows you to again bypass the bullshit and still play the game.
You never have to play it, so don't buy it, don't pirate it, instead write a letter to the publisher and the developer explaining exactly why you won't play it.
I almost wonder if the INES scale needs to be modified, to add an 8 for Chernobyl, because this really does need to be a 7, but public opinion will say "ZOMG LOOK ITS JUST AS BAD AS TEH CHAIRNOBBLES!"
...they're as close to a sit-in as you can get, as far as non-violent but effective protest goes.
Often, illegal things have to be done to right wrongs, especially when the laws are written by those doing the wrongs.
(If the wrongs are severe enough, extremely illegal things may be morally OK, on the other hand. As in, using the second amendment to defend oneself against violations of rights.)
I didn't miss the joke, but aerodynamic mods reduce the amount of power needed push the car through the air at given speeds. Therefore, assuming that the car isn't limited by its gearing or an electronic speed limiter, top speed will increase.
My fix for the "taking fingers off the home row" problem is TrackPoints. Usually, with one of those, my right hand moves towards the TrackPoint slightly, but stays on the home row.
(And, I use a mix of GUI and CLI. GUI is optimal for some tasks, CLI is optimal for other tasks.)
Trademarks are GOOD. Otherwise, you'd barely be able to know who you're buying from.
Copyright should be very limited, but the idea is, you get a limited monopoly on that content, to promote making the content in the first place. (Emphasis on LIMITED. Not the crap we have now.)
Patents should also be very limited. The idea there is actually even better that copyright - you get a limited monopoly on the invention, in exchange for telling the world how the patented invention works. So, you can release something, and not ever tell anyone how it works, but if someone reverse-engineers it and makes millions of cheap slave-assembled (or, nowadays, Chinese-assembled) clones, too bad so sad. Or, the idea was, you can patent it, and you're guaranteed to be the only one allowed to produce it (or authorize others to produce it), but in exchange, once that time is up, anyone can reproduce it easily.
Or, you get a cheap generator head from Harbor Freight, keep the old hose and nozzle as spares for the new pressure washer, and use the old frame to hold the generator head. Voila, you've now got a generator.
Nitrogen oxides and particulate mass are, however.
And, anything that runs in a lean burn mode (and, a properly running diesel ALWAYS runs lean) has high nitrogen oxide emissions. (But, look up the weekend effect - nitrogen oxides can actually reduce smog, if the atmosphere is rich in volatile organic compounts, like gasoline cars cause.) Diesels have a high particulate mass output, although the particles fall out of the air quickly. (The really annoying thing is, reducing NOx emissions almost always means directly reducing the efficiency of the engine purely for emissions purposes. Which increase all other emissions. Oh, and the solution for dealing with the emissions that the regulators don't like? Trap them, and dump raw fuel down the exhaust to burn them off. Yeah.)
The I/O on the Osborne 1 was an RS-232C port and a (proprietary pinout) parallel port that had IEEE-488 and I believe Centronics capability.
Kaypro had the same I/O capabilities, IBM had the same I/O capabilities with an add-on card for RS-232C and Centronics parallel (and, we're talking about the IBM PC here, EVERYTHING was available as an add-on card, the IBM PC was the "industry standard" in ISA (Industry Standard Architecture)), and the Apple II could do it with three add-on cards - a Super Serial Card for RS-232C, one of the many parallel printer cards for Centronics (and Apple had their own parallel printer card at launch), and there were also IEEE-488 interfaces.
Also, the Osborne wasn't even CLOSE to the first computer designed by and for geeks - it wasn't even designed for geeks, it was designed for businessmen. The first computer designed by and for geeks, well, depends on your definition of computer, but if you want to restrict it to things that have a microprocessor, it'll probably be the Scelbi-8H or something like that.
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Actually, it's worse than that.
Vista's implementation of UAC was actually specifically intended to be user-hostile.
Why?
You'll notice that just about every UAC dialog shows the publisher of the application. That's very much intentional, because Microsoft intended for you to contact that publisher, when their app spewed 20 billion UAC dialogs.
The problem is, it breaks down when half the time, the publisher is Microsoft.
Actually, $90k/yr isn't too far off, after benefits and all of that are considered.
The poster that said ACE was confused, but he meant ARC - ARC being the system standard that MIPS, Alpha, and PPC-based NT systems used, much like how the Compaq Deskpro 386 defined the system standard that x86-based systems used.
OK, to extend the explanation:
A good company is one that understands that if they treat their customers right, they'll keep coming back.
A bad company is one that understands that if they treat their customers badly, but keep making things that they want/need, they'll STILL keep coming back, and then bases their business model upon that understanding.
Or, another example of a bad company is one that extends that model into treating their actual customers as their product, and their actual product as something to keep their customers around, to sell their customers on.
Well, Windows has support for HALs. IIRC, there's just one for x86 PCs.
While Alpha, MIPS, and PPC were all following a standard that was similar to that of the x86 PC, at least on Alpha, DEC went ahead and split everything up into HALs. So, the firmware had enough to boot NT far enough to select your HAL, and then you could pick the appropriate HAL for your chipset (or supply one on floppy).
The funny thing with all of the NT RISC boxes is, they were basically x86 PCs with a socket for a RISC CPU instead of an x86 CPU, and Microsoft's own ARC firmware instead of IBM's BIOS. (Actually, I believe there's bits and pieces of ARC in NTLDR on x86.)
Well, Microsoft has demoed Office 2010 running on ARM, and Office 4.2 was ported to MIPS and Alpha, IIRC, and part of 97 (Word and Excel only, IIRC) ported to Alpha.
Also, ARM is pushing into the desktop space. Just because a SoC today will struggle with Windows doesn't mean that there won't be chips that can handle it when Windows for ARM actually comes out.
In any case, the rumor is that Windows for ARM won't run the normal UI or any of the normal apps - that it'll be used with a dedicated tablet UI, as a tablet OS that happens to be Windows NT instead of Windows CE under the hood.
Since when is Windows endian-independent?
Because I recall reading quite a lot of stuff saying that the SPARC port of Windows was a failure due to Windows being unable to handle big-endian architectures.
(And, Alpha, MIPS, and PPC (at the time, anyway) were bi-endian, as are Itanium and ARM. And, fun fact, the de-facto standard in Linux is to treat all of those except for PPC (due to later PPCs being big-endian only) as little-endian.)
Except when Alphas were running FX!32, they were quite a bit faster than x86 machines at the time, and could get away with the emulation overhead. (And even then, some software still sucked after a trip through the profiling recompiler.)
ARM CPUs are about as fast as the slowest x86 CPUs, nowadays.
Second if you can buy from GOG which has NO ring 0 crap, but if you have to play one that has nasty DRM buy the game but play the cracked game instead as this allows you to again bypass the bullshit and still play the game.
You never have to play it, so don't buy it, don't pirate it, instead write a letter to the publisher and the developer explaining exactly why you won't play it.
I almost wonder if the INES scale needs to be modified, to add an 8 for Chernobyl, because this really does need to be a 7, but public opinion will say "ZOMG LOOK ITS JUST AS BAD AS TEH CHAIRNOBBLES!"
The difference is between companies that view the people that pay them as customers, versus companies that view the people that pay them as consumers.
CO in this case would be commanding officer...
...they're as close to a sit-in as you can get, as far as non-violent but effective protest goes.
Often, illegal things have to be done to right wrongs, especially when the laws are written by those doing the wrongs.
(If the wrongs are severe enough, extremely illegal things may be morally OK, on the other hand. As in, using the second amendment to defend oneself against violations of rights.)
I didn't miss the joke, but aerodynamic mods reduce the amount of power needed push the car through the air at given speeds. Therefore, assuming that the car isn't limited by its gearing or an electronic speed limiter, top speed will increase.
First off, it's an Atom Mini-ITX board.
Second, they've also announced an Amiga 1000 and 2000 version.
(Not that I'd buy any of them.)
My fix for the "taking fingers off the home row" problem is TrackPoints. Usually, with one of those, my right hand moves towards the TrackPoint slightly, but stays on the home row.
(And, I use a mix of GUI and CLI. GUI is optimal for some tasks, CLI is optimal for other tasks.)
Until the judge forgets that he was paid off.
Trademarks are GOOD. Otherwise, you'd barely be able to know who you're buying from.
Copyright should be very limited, but the idea is, you get a limited monopoly on that content, to promote making the content in the first place. (Emphasis on LIMITED. Not the crap we have now.)
Patents should also be very limited. The idea there is actually even better that copyright - you get a limited monopoly on the invention, in exchange for telling the world how the patented invention works. So, you can release something, and not ever tell anyone how it works, but if someone reverse-engineers it and makes millions of cheap slave-assembled (or, nowadays, Chinese-assembled) clones, too bad so sad. Or, the idea was, you can patent it, and you're guaranteed to be the only one allowed to produce it (or authorize others to produce it), but in exchange, once that time is up, anyone can reproduce it easily.
Or, you get a cheap generator head from Harbor Freight, keep the old hose and nozzle as spares for the new pressure washer, and use the old frame to hold the generator head. Voila, you've now got a generator.
Well, there is one thing that can oppose them.
Problem is, it's the second amendment...
In the US, CO2 isn't regulated.
Nitrogen oxides and particulate mass are, however.
And, anything that runs in a lean burn mode (and, a properly running diesel ALWAYS runs lean) has high nitrogen oxide emissions. (But, look up the weekend effect - nitrogen oxides can actually reduce smog, if the atmosphere is rich in volatile organic compounts, like gasoline cars cause.) Diesels have a high particulate mass output, although the particles fall out of the air quickly. (The really annoying thing is, reducing NOx emissions almost always means directly reducing the efficiency of the engine purely for emissions purposes. Which increase all other emissions. Oh, and the solution for dealing with the emissions that the regulators don't like? Trap them, and dump raw fuel down the exhaust to burn them off. Yeah.)
Or just go find an IBM T221.
More vertical pixels than just about any 4:3 or 5:4 monitor ever made.
And then it's 16:10.
(3840x2400.)
This isn't the American version, this is the UK version.
The American version would have had Tesla pre-screen the review before it aired, most likely.
Huh?
The I/O on the Osborne 1 was an RS-232C port and a (proprietary pinout) parallel port that had IEEE-488 and I believe Centronics capability.
Kaypro had the same I/O capabilities, IBM had the same I/O capabilities with an add-on card for RS-232C and Centronics parallel (and, we're talking about the IBM PC here, EVERYTHING was available as an add-on card, the IBM PC was the "industry standard" in ISA (Industry Standard Architecture)), and the Apple II could do it with three add-on cards - a Super Serial Card for RS-232C, one of the many parallel printer cards for Centronics (and Apple had their own parallel printer card at launch), and there were also IEEE-488 interfaces.
Also, the Osborne wasn't even CLOSE to the first computer designed by and for geeks - it wasn't even designed for geeks, it was designed for businessmen. The first computer designed by and for geeks, well, depends on your definition of computer, but if you want to restrict it to things that have a microprocessor, it'll probably be the Scelbi-8H or something like that.