Not sure why this was modded 'funny' since it's correct. Furthermore, if the same number of Linux machines are being returned as Windows machines, then that means a significantly higher *percentage* of Linux machines are being returned.
Also remember that most people don't know what Linux is and certainly not what Ubuntu is. So even if Dell says it has Ubuntu on it, they assume it's a Windows machine with some mysterious additional software on it.
I can't believe all the people that totally fail to understand what this case is about. It is not about linking to another site; it's about leeching. The host site had videos they collected and hosted and paid bandwidth for, and they want people to view those videos on their website so they might click an ad, compensating for the cost of hosting that video. Plus the user might want to browse around the rest of the site.
But the idiot here hot-linked to those videos from his website, meaning his visitors had no clue they were actually from another site, and the host site's bandwidth was being used up anyway.
The entire internet has not been made illegal because instances of hot-linking are quite rare since most people have learned better.
Extensions were not renamed Add-Ons. Click Add-Ons and you will see Extensions and Themes on top. Both are examples of add-ons.
As for the phishing filter, you can turn it off you know. I did. But it's enabled by default to help protect users -- remember Firefox is going after the hardcore geek crowd; it's a mainstream browser and it needs to be suitable for most people, just like IE. There is no reason for a security feature to be in IE but not Firefox.
You're definitely right about the memory leaks though; with just one tab open on a lightweight site, the browser can still use 140MB of RAM depending on what was happening in previous sites visited. They've got to fix this.
Specifically, 4038 billion kWh/year = 461 million kW. It's a measure of power; no need to multiply by time then divide by time. So in other words, at any given moment, 461 million kW are being generated/consumed in the U.S, apparently.
He knows it was meant to be $.002, after the fact, but he was quoted 0.002 cents before making the calls so that's what he should pay. He was trying to explain dollars and cents to the guy.
The last consoles I owned were a Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo. I'm strictly a PC gamer, but I do plan on buying a Wii after Christmas because its novel control scheme should offer something that PC games do not. Buying an XBox or Playstation would be redundant because they offer nothing over PCs as far as hardware goes.
Person A buys a laptop:
- Dell gets $$$
- Person A gets a laptop
Person B wants a laptop. He steals it from Person A:
- Dell does not get any more money
- Person A loses the laptop they paid for
- Person B gets a laptop
Person A buys a CD:
- Artist gets $$$
- Person A gets music
Person A rips the CD and uploads the contents to a file-sharing service. Person B downloads it:
- Artist gets no money
- Person A still has the music
- Person B also has music
As you can see, the creator getting no money in both examples, but in the first example Person A loses his item, while in the second scenario it's Person A that's actually allowing Person B to download a copy. Person A is the pirate, not person B.
This technology makes it impossible to flip through channels because many of them would be showing commercials and you'd be forced to wait several minutes for them to end. So instead of flipping through 20 channels in 20 seconds, it can take one hour.
Google does not ask your permission before indexing and caching your website, unless you explicitly forbid it with robots.txt or meta tags. It just goes ahead and does it. Gtalk, on the other hand, is something you choose to do with Google and you are subject to any terms it spells out. So it can't possibly be sued (successfully) for Gmail or Gtalk.
Vista Starter is not a choice. It is only for people in 3rd-world countries, supplied with government-funded computers, and you can't even buy it in the US or other well-to-do countries.
Vista Home Basic is only for computers too old to support Aero. For home users with older systems, Home Basic is the only edition for them.
So it's not quite 6 choices. There is no XP equivalent of Vista Starter and Home Basic is offered to avoid requiring everyone to have 1 GB of RAM and a dedicated 3D card.
Google's search engine works exactly like any human browsing the web -- it scans webpages and follows links. In order for it to see MP3 files, those files have to be made available for public download already. If that is legal then caching those files also is, arguably. If the files were posted illegally, the fault is not Google's.
Of course Google Cache does not actually copy graphics, as far as I am aware, and it certainly wouldn't cache MP3 files. Archive.org is a more complete cacher.
Any racing game with licensed cars automatically has product placement in the literal sense -- proudly featuring real-world vehicles. More than that, the manufacturers often demand that their cars not be shown heavily damaged or working poorly, so games with licensed cars often have only superficial damage that doesn't affect handling, and the damage is usually limited to smashed windshields and scratched paint.
This form of product placement is considered a good thing, just because people want those cars anyway so the game lets them pretend to drive them.
Unwanted product placement is often jarring and annoying. Who wants to see a Sim drinking a tiny soda can with a 1024x1024 Pepsi texture applied onto it? Less obtrusive product placement would be advertising video games; for example, in The Sims, they can show real games being played on the sim-computer, which in fact I think they already do IIRC, though more as an in-joke.
Movie rentals are great, especially in the form of services like Netflix. But you can't rent music because people listen to the same music often, whereas one viewing is often enough for movies and TV shows.
Note the complete lack of any mention of 'non lethal' and the use of such interesting catch phrases as "autonomous ground vehicles that will help save American lives on the battlefield"
Well they're not going to save American lives in the bathrooms, now are they? The challenge was held in a desert to simulate the conditions of Iraq and Afghanistan because that is where the robots will be deployed -- but not to kill people. Rather, they will be doing the opposite -- helping out the human soldiers that are there, sending aid and cargo, etc.
Obviously DARPA will eventually want completely autonomous killing vehicles but that's not what this particular challenge was about. Navigating an environment without crashing is a hell of a lot easier than choosing a target -- even humans can't tell the difference between innocent civilians and combatants.
Not everything has to be done server-side and downloaded to the client. Indeed, that would be very slow. Client-side is the way to go, and JavaScript allows this. GMail makes heavy use of JavaScript and GOffice undoubtedly will as well. Combined with CSS, it would not be very difficult creating a web-page Word clone without any communication to the server (for editing, I mean).
When new windows are opened, they may be loaded from the server, but that's hardly going to be a problem even over a modem. Such windows would likely be simple forms with text and no images.
It is emissions; that isn't a guess of mine or anything. VW's TDi isn't very clean but it's clean enough that it does fall within our new guidelines, unlike any previous diesel. However it does not conform to California's more strict environmental guidelines. Only a small percentage of total sales from a VW dealer can be TDis, so dealers carry very few if any of the car. And if the car was bought out-of-state, it can't be registered in CA until it has at least 7500 miles.
I actually like that they're now showing commercials in theatres because they only show them before the movie is scheduled to start.
BEFORE: Boring and extremely repetitive still slides advertising local businesses or simple movie trivia are shown with some light music in the background. This continues until the movie's scheduled start time, at which point previews are shown, followed by the movie itself.
NOW: High-budget commercials, or even non-commercial skits like that Save the Earth one with Jack Black (exec: "we've invested alot of money in the earth, so we feel it's ours"), are shown. This continues until the movie's scheduled start time, at which point previews are shown, followed by the movie itself.
I fail to see what's so horrible about all this. It would be one thing if they showed the commercials at the scheduled start time, but they don't. If your movie ticket is for 8:00, show up at 8 and you'll skip all the commercials and get there just in time for the previews.
Reading is passive entertainment. Don't you do that? Maybe you just get an adrenaline rush from turning pages, which admittedly TV lacks.
I don't own TV, yet I watch plenty of TV (live)
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I bought a TV tuner which I plug my cable into, so I can watch TV on my computer monitor even as I do other things on the computer, and I can record shows to my hard drive and do whatever I wish with them. It's great.
All freight locomotives and many passenger locomotives are diesel-electrics. A diesel engine spins a generator that generates power for electric motors, and those motors alone drive the vehicle. So there's already a huge diesel-electric market in the U.S.
The actual reason there are few diesels in the U.S. is due to our strict environmental controls; they are lax for trucks but strict for cars, so there were no diesel cars here for a long time until VW's new TDi.
The reason there are no diesel-electric hybrids is because all the hybrids are being created by Japanese manufacturers, and they create gasoline cars. German manufacturers like diesel, and indeed they are creating many diesel cars, and there are even plans for some of them to create diesel-electric hybrids, though they're still largely reluctant to embrace hybrids. They seem to view hybrids as Japanese and diesel as European, which is stupid -- both are good technologies.
Not only is he trying to put himself out of business, he's trying to directly oppose the law of supply and demand.
Supply is infinite, remember? This is software we're talking about; supply and demand have nothing to do with it. Ordinarily, with a finite supply, the price is increased when something is in demand and lowered when it isn't. If there are 20 CDs that 50 people want, the price is increased as high as it can be as long as at least 20 people are willing to buy it at that price. If only 10 people want the CDs, the price is lowered to maximize price*num_buyers, assuming the number of buyers increases as the price lowers, and by a greater amount.
The first powered heavier-than-air flight was in 1903 but 11 years later, in 1914, surprisingly large numbers of planes began developing strange "bullet holes" and crashing to the ground.
The first console FPS I ever played was Goldeneye 64, after years of playing computer FPSs with mouse and keyboard. At first I found it impossible aiming with my thumb on the joystick, though I eventually became competent with it.
But it still sucks, and yet both MS and Sony, who rely on shooters far more than Nintendo, are doing nothing about it. A gyroscopic controller is an obvious idea but it's great that someone is finally doing it. Plus it'll really shine when used to swing melee weapons, as mentioned in the article. Imagine slapping your pet in Black & White, but a hundred times more viceral and exciting.
The rectangle shape sucks, but innovation has to start somewhere. Nintendo's original controller was a rectangle, but now gamepads are much different to be more comfortable. Mice started out as rectangles but now they're alot more rounded to better fit one's hand. I'm sure this "remote control" will become a more comfortable shape later on.
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Not sure why this was modded 'funny' since it's correct. Furthermore, if the same number of Linux machines are being returned as Windows machines, then that means a significantly higher *percentage* of Linux machines are being returned. Also remember that most people don't know what Linux is and certainly not what Ubuntu is. So even if Dell says it has Ubuntu on it, they assume it's a Windows machine with some mysterious additional software on it.
I can't believe all the people that totally fail to understand what this case is about. It is not about linking to another site; it's about leeching. The host site had videos they collected and hosted and paid bandwidth for, and they want people to view those videos on their website so they might click an ad, compensating for the cost of hosting that video. Plus the user might want to browse around the rest of the site.
But the idiot here hot-linked to those videos from his website, meaning his visitors had no clue they were actually from another site, and the host site's bandwidth was being used up anyway.
The entire internet has not been made illegal because instances of hot-linking are quite rare since most people have learned better.
Extensions were not renamed Add-Ons. Click Add-Ons and you will see Extensions and Themes on top. Both are examples of add-ons.
As for the phishing filter, you can turn it off you know. I did. But it's enabled by default to help protect users -- remember Firefox is going after the hardcore geek crowd; it's a mainstream browser and it needs to be suitable for most people, just like IE. There is no reason for a security feature to be in IE but not Firefox.
You're definitely right about the memory leaks though; with just one tab open on a lightweight site, the browser can still use 140MB of RAM depending on what was happening in previous sites visited. They've got to fix this.
Specifically, 4038 billion kWh/year = 461 million kW. It's a measure of power; no need to multiply by time then divide by time. So in other words, at any given moment, 461 million kW are being generated/consumed in the U.S, apparently.
He knows it was meant to be $.002, after the fact, but he was quoted 0.002 cents before making the calls so that's what he should pay. He was trying to explain dollars and cents to the guy.
The last consoles I owned were a Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo. I'm strictly a PC gamer, but I do plan on buying a Wii after Christmas because its novel control scheme should offer something that PC games do not. Buying an XBox or Playstation would be redundant because they offer nothing over PCs as far as hardware goes.
Person A buys a laptop:
- Dell gets $$$
- Person A gets a laptop
Person B wants a laptop. He steals it from Person A:
- Dell does not get any more money
- Person A loses the laptop they paid for
- Person B gets a laptop
Person A buys a CD:
- Artist gets $$$
- Person A gets music
Person A rips the CD and uploads the contents to a file-sharing service. Person B downloads it:
- Artist gets no money
- Person A still has the music
- Person B also has music
As you can see, the creator getting no money in both examples, but in the first example Person A loses his item, while in the second scenario it's Person A that's actually allowing Person B to download a copy. Person A is the pirate, not person B.
This technology makes it impossible to flip through channels because many of them would be showing commercials and you'd be forced to wait several minutes for them to end. So instead of flipping through 20 channels in 20 seconds, it can take one hour.
Google does not ask your permission before indexing and caching your website, unless you explicitly forbid it with robots.txt or meta tags. It just goes ahead and does it. Gtalk, on the other hand, is something you choose to do with Google and you are subject to any terms it spells out. So it can't possibly be sued (successfully) for Gmail or Gtalk.
Vista Starter is not a choice. It is only for people in 3rd-world countries, supplied with government-funded computers, and you can't even buy it in the US or other well-to-do countries.
Vista Home Basic is only for computers too old to support Aero. For home users with older systems, Home Basic is the only edition for them.
So it's not quite 6 choices. There is no XP equivalent of Vista Starter and Home Basic is offered to avoid requiring everyone to have 1 GB of RAM and a dedicated 3D card.
Google's search engine works exactly like any human browsing the web -- it scans webpages and follows links. In order for it to see MP3 files, those files have to be made available for public download already. If that is legal then caching those files also is, arguably. If the files were posted illegally, the fault is not Google's.
Of course Google Cache does not actually copy graphics, as far as I am aware, and it certainly wouldn't cache MP3 files. Archive.org is a more complete cacher.
Any racing game with licensed cars automatically has product placement in the literal sense -- proudly featuring real-world vehicles. More than that, the manufacturers often demand that their cars not be shown heavily damaged or working poorly, so games with licensed cars often have only superficial damage that doesn't affect handling, and the damage is usually limited to smashed windshields and scratched paint.
This form of product placement is considered a good thing, just because people want those cars anyway so the game lets them pretend to drive them.
Unwanted product placement is often jarring and annoying. Who wants to see a Sim drinking a tiny soda can with a 1024x1024 Pepsi texture applied onto it? Less obtrusive product placement would be advertising video games; for example, in The Sims, they can show real games being played on the sim-computer, which in fact I think they already do IIRC, though more as an in-joke.
Movie rentals are great, especially in the form of services like Netflix. But you can't rent music because people listen to the same music often, whereas one viewing is often enough for movies and TV shows.
Note the complete lack of any mention of 'non lethal' and the use of such interesting catch phrases as "autonomous ground vehicles that will help save American lives on the battlefield"
Well they're not going to save American lives in the bathrooms, now are they? The challenge was held in a desert to simulate the conditions of Iraq and Afghanistan because that is where the robots will be deployed -- but not to kill people. Rather, they will be doing the opposite -- helping out the human soldiers that are there, sending aid and cargo, etc.
Obviously DARPA will eventually want completely autonomous killing vehicles but that's not what this particular challenge was about. Navigating an environment without crashing is a hell of a lot easier than choosing a target -- even humans can't tell the difference between innocent civilians and combatants.
Not everything has to be done server-side and downloaded to the client. Indeed, that would be very slow. Client-side is the way to go, and JavaScript allows this. GMail makes heavy use of JavaScript and GOffice undoubtedly will as well. Combined with CSS, it would not be very difficult creating a web-page Word clone without any communication to the server (for editing, I mean).
When new windows are opened, they may be loaded from the server, but that's hardly going to be a problem even over a modem. Such windows would likely be simple forms with text and no images.
It is emissions; that isn't a guess of mine or anything. VW's TDi isn't very clean but it's clean enough that it does fall within our new guidelines, unlike any previous diesel. However it does not conform to California's more strict environmental guidelines. Only a small percentage of total sales from a VW dealer can be TDis, so dealers carry very few if any of the car. And if the car was bought out-of-state, it can't be registered in CA until it has at least 7500 miles.
Most of the movie theaters around California and Nevada seem to be AMC Theaters, and those don't show commercials after the scheduled start time.
I actually like that they're now showing commercials in theatres because they only show them before the movie is scheduled to start. BEFORE: Boring and extremely repetitive still slides advertising local businesses or simple movie trivia are shown with some light music in the background. This continues until the movie's scheduled start time, at which point previews are shown, followed by the movie itself. NOW: High-budget commercials, or even non-commercial skits like that Save the Earth one with Jack Black (exec: "we've invested alot of money in the earth, so we feel it's ours"), are shown. This continues until the movie's scheduled start time, at which point previews are shown, followed by the movie itself. I fail to see what's so horrible about all this. It would be one thing if they showed the commercials at the scheduled start time, but they don't. If your movie ticket is for 8:00, show up at 8 and you'll skip all the commercials and get there just in time for the previews.
I am familiar with the Escape hybrid; its hybrid drive is licensed from Toyota. Ford did not create it.
Reading is passive entertainment. Don't you do that? Maybe you just get an adrenaline rush from turning pages, which admittedly TV lacks.
I bought a TV tuner which I plug my cable into, so I can watch TV on my computer monitor even as I do other things on the computer, and I can record shows to my hard drive and do whatever I wish with them. It's great.
All freight locomotives and many passenger locomotives are diesel-electrics. A diesel engine spins a generator that generates power for electric motors, and those motors alone drive the vehicle. So there's already a huge diesel-electric market in the U.S.
The actual reason there are few diesels in the U.S. is due to our strict environmental controls; they are lax for trucks but strict for cars, so there were no diesel cars here for a long time until VW's new TDi.
The reason there are no diesel-electric hybrids is because all the hybrids are being created by Japanese manufacturers, and they create gasoline cars. German manufacturers like diesel, and indeed they are creating many diesel cars, and there are even plans for some of them to create diesel-electric hybrids, though they're still largely reluctant to embrace hybrids. They seem to view hybrids as Japanese and diesel as European, which is stupid -- both are good technologies.
Not only is he trying to put himself out of business, he's trying to directly oppose the law of supply and demand.
Supply is infinite, remember? This is software we're talking about; supply and demand have nothing to do with it. Ordinarily, with a finite supply, the price is increased when something is in demand and lowered when it isn't. If there are 20 CDs that 50 people want, the price is increased as high as it can be as long as at least 20 people are willing to buy it at that price. If only 10 people want the CDs, the price is lowered to maximize price*num_buyers, assuming the number of buyers increases as the price lowers, and by a greater amount.
Anyway, that's all irrelevant here.
The first powered heavier-than-air flight was in 1903 but 11 years later, in 1914, surprisingly large numbers of planes began developing strange "bullet holes" and crashing to the ground.
The first console FPS I ever played was Goldeneye 64, after years of playing computer FPSs with mouse and keyboard. At first I found it impossible aiming with my thumb on the joystick, though I eventually became competent with it.
But it still sucks, and yet both MS and Sony, who rely on shooters far more than Nintendo, are doing nothing about it. A gyroscopic controller is an obvious idea but it's great that someone is finally doing it. Plus it'll really shine when used to swing melee weapons, as mentioned in the article. Imagine slapping your pet in Black & White, but a hundred times more viceral and exciting.
The rectangle shape sucks, but innovation has to start somewhere. Nintendo's original controller was a rectangle, but now gamepads are much different to be more comfortable. Mice started out as rectangles but now they're alot more rounded to better fit one's hand. I'm sure this "remote control" will become a more comfortable shape later on.