According to TFA, it's called the 'HD' because it has a built-in HD Radio (whatever that is!?!? Anything like DAB?) and also outputs video at 720p.
720p? That's not HD - 1080p is HD ffs.
I'm sure the most worrying thing for a lot of people is whether or not MS are going to be supporting this device in 12 months time if this is their attitude towards it's launch. If they can't buy apps from anybody else and MS are a bit flaky about what apps they'll release and when, it's not going to convince many people to take the plunge. Let's not forget the absolute panning Apple took when they first said that third party apps for their devices wouldn't be allowed - have MS got such short-term memories or are they perhaps doing what Apple seemed to do and testing the water to gauge public response?
Why no controller? It IS a controller in and of itself - and also contains a multi-touch screen, which is a completely custom-configurable controller too. Can't speak for how much it uses juice.
Maybe because there's no 'smartphone' or 'all-in-one' type of device yet that actually 'does it all' very well. They are all sufficient for moderate amateur use I suppose, but there are people out there who like photography, so a crappy built-in camera on their phone will never suffice compared to their digicam. Likewise, there isn't an 'all-in-one' device yet that will fit my music collection, whereas my iPod 'classic' will do. When I want to take phone calls or text somebody, I just need a simple very small device that will let me do that - the smartphones out there are either too big, too expensive to risk chucking around the way my phone tends to get treated, or too prone to crashing (Windows mobile is terrible for that in my personal experience). The all-in-one devices are OK for anybody looking for a 'jack of all trades, master of none' solution - for everybody else there's a specialist solution that does it much much better. It all depends on your personal requirements from a device.
But XP isn't a 15 year old OS. When exactly did they stop shopping it commercially with new PCs? Aren't some OEMs STILL shipping it with netbooks alongside Linux variants?
XP is still very much a relevant OS for millions of users. From what I remember it only started shipping about 7 or 8 years ago anyway - so are MS now admitting to us that their 'brand new' OS from ou2001 was actually already 7 years or more out of date? Sounds like it to me!
So why should anyone believe any of their advertising blurb when they talk about 'NEW' things in Win7? Aren't people justifiable in questioning the underlying codebase and whether it's actually future-proof or perhaps already out-of-date?
To be fair to MS, they have supported XP for a while now since the launch of Vista, but not as long as Apple supported OS 9 after the launch of OS X, and that really WAS a complete paradigm shift in the structure of the OS.
Yes, I agree. And I'd like to add to this by pointing out that the 'point 3' cited shows his 'prefered [sic] flavour of fanboyism' as Firefox. If you RTF linked article he mentions that in some menus the scrollbar even appears (in Firefox at least).
Doesn't this show he's not an Apple Fanboy? Surely if he was then he'd have been exclusively using Safari!;P
Oh I don't know. MS sells it's core software products to the end user direct and also it's lower profile hardware, but I see your point that Apple is ONLY selling in a retail manner and not in a dual capacity.:)
It's actually not changed since the 60's. Building technologies have changed, but the nuclear process itself just hasn't. They still use the same basic premise: radioactive material heats up water, water turns to steam, steam turns turbines (generating electricity), steam is cooled turning back to water and the cycle begins again. They still use control rods to control the nuclear reactions and they still use water as a coolant, both of which become contaminated and will be so for over a hundred thousand years with no safe way to store them for that amount of time. Nuclear is still a dud, heh:D
The trouble is that it is waste, not fuel. The waste includes things like highly contaminated coolant (water) and control rods from the reactor core.
These don't have enough radioactivity within themselves to generate heat sufficient to turn water to steam which would power turbines, (which is how we use the radioactive material in a nuclear power station, lest we forget), but the materials are still too highly radioactive to be considered 'safe' to be kept around human populations.
As of yet we have no way to dispose of this waste material and likely never will have. It tends to end up being dumped in holes in the ground and covered in concrete or dumped illegally in barrels in the sea. Either way the waste has a tendency to leak and can/does end up in the foodchain or drinking/irrigation water supplies. The half life of this hazardous waste is over a hundred thousand years!!! It's not sensible to use radioactive power generation with this single fact facing us.
The other major problem with nuclear power is it's massive carbon footprint. An average nuclear plant will have about 75%-80% the footprint of a gas/coal powered station. This is due in no small part to the 'carbon cost' of extracting the nuclear ore from the ground, shipping, enriching, shipping, turning into fuel rods, shipping - oh, and then there's building the plant and all associated infrastructure, storing/disposing of fuel etc etc etc. And not to forget the decommissioning process which again adds massively to the 'footprint' over decades.
Nuclear is a dead technology for use on-planet. In space it would be great, but not on earth. Solar thermal is a much more efficient system of 'nuclear power' and it is very very very clean, with the nuclear reactor being 93 million miles away.:)
What happens if somebody else buys your airline ticket for you with their own credit card? Surely there's no right to hold the information of an individual not even entering the US? Oh this is a test case waiting to happen:D
"You accidentally burn your Travellers Cheques"? Well surely you could just as easily accidentally burn your credit card too, so where's the advantage?
If you have a record of your Traveller's Cheque numbers you can get them replaced anyway;)
Ya see - I always knew Bush's speech impediment would cause this sort of confusion. It's all because nobody could ever tell whether he was saying tourist or terrorist, so they decided to play it safe!;)
Yeah I remember SoundJam MP, it was a fantastic player. It p*ssed all over MacAMP for playlists and those skins were great, especially to make it fit in with a skinned OS too:)
Before my wife bought her Honda Civic diesel, she had a (slightly less efficient) Toyota Corolla 2.0L D-4D. It returned about 50-70mpg (around the 50mpg mark in 30mph urban cycle, around the 70mpg mark in the 70mph motorway cycle).
So I'd imagine the 1.4 is more efficient in the low speed urban cycle, but slightly less at motorway speeds, depending on how you drive it.
The nice thing about the Corolla D-4D is that those top-end models (in terms of spec and finish) have the little computer display which you can set to show you current mpg, which is useful for hypermiling;)
Absolute garbage FUD. Which is, I assume, why you posted as AC.
Diesel ignites when it is compressed (to VERY high pressure) very quickly, which causes a sudden massive temperature rise. If you were to compress diesel even to that same pressure over a period of hours, minutes, or possibly even seconds, it wouldn't reach a temperature high enough to ignite.
Consider that Petrol (gasoline) is a much more volatile liquid, yet it doesn't spontaneously combust at low temperatures.
The REAL issue with diesel in cold climates is that at extremely low temperatures, diesel can turn into a sludge. But most petro-chemical companies put additives into their diesel to prevent this.
My 15 year old Peugeot uses a 1.9 litre Turbo Diesel engine and gives me about 50mpg+ urban cycle (I don't use for anything other than local driving). My wife has a 5 year old 1.7 Turbo Diesel Honda Civic which just gave us an average of 75mpg on a 500 mile round trip over the weekend - and half of that was with me driving (which means an average of about 90mph! Oops...), so if my wife had driven there AND back, we'd probably have seen efficiency up beyond 80mpg easily.
Modern diesels are very efficient and also very responsive to drive. Even my slightly older diesel seems to give better efficiency than a lot of the hybrids being released into the US market at the moment (even allowing for the difference with the US 'gallon'), so it'd be good to see more diesel/electric hybrids being released instead of petrol/electrics.
In the UK, diesels account for more than 50% of all new cars sold, in France it's even more popular (and has been for a long time).
As an Apple user I bless thee child, for thou art correct. In the name of the the father Steve Jobs, the Son Phil Schiller and the Holy Ghost Jonathan Ive.
In the beginning Woz created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness of big blue was upon the face of the dos. And the Spirit of Woz moved upon the face of the machines. And Woz said, Let there be light: and there was a happy startup chime, a little smiley Mac and light form a tiny glowing screen. And Woz saw the little smiley Mac, that it was good: and Woz divided the light from the dos. And Woz called the light a Mac, and the dos he called the evil IBM compatibles. And the evening and the morning were the first all night LAN party...
Definitely learn to say 'yes dear'. You don't always have to give in to her will, but letting go of your ego and doing things her way some of the time is only fair - after all, she'll be doing the same for you. It's called compromise and shows you value your other half's opinion. If they value your opinion they'll not expect you always to go along with them, but if you never do you'll end up without a spouse, as many chauvinists tend to find themselves.
He only says he'll pay a million dollars. Does he specify US Dollars? He could mean ANY sort of dollars - Australian dollars, New Zealand dollars, Hong Kong dollars (which is pegged at 7.5 to 1 USD!!!). Differing exchange rates could mean he only has to pay a small amount in USD. If he was talking about PSD (Psuedodollars) which I believe have the current exchange rate of 1,000,000 PSD to 1 USD, then the maths is easy! This kid needs to prove he meant USD or get out of court...
Won't somebody think of the children? I mean, come on, we're adults and we have easy access to our adult porn on teh tubes, but what about the kiddies, how are they going to access their porn if these filters are put in?
Or am I misunderstanding the concept of kiddie porn?
Wait up, you're telling me there are games now with 3D graphics? Woah, that's like, craaaaazy man.
Still I don't see the point of it. I know that my little yellow dude with the pie-slice mouth eating the little dots is the good guy and the arch-shapes with raggedy bottoms are 'ghosts' and that's all the graphical information I need. I say sound is more important. Wakka wakka wakka wakka... eat them up yum yum
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According to TFA, it's called the 'HD' because it has a built-in HD Radio (whatever that is!?!? Anything like DAB?) and also outputs video at 720p.
720p? That's not HD - 1080p is HD ffs.
I'm sure the most worrying thing for a lot of people is whether or not MS are going to be supporting this device in 12 months time if this is their attitude towards it's launch. If they can't buy apps from anybody else and MS are a bit flaky about what apps they'll release and when, it's not going to convince many people to take the plunge. Let's not forget the absolute panning Apple took when they first said that third party apps for their devices wouldn't be allowed - have MS got such short-term memories or are they perhaps doing what Apple seemed to do and testing the water to gauge public response?
Why no controller? It IS a controller in and of itself - and also contains a multi-touch screen, which is a completely custom-configurable controller too. Can't speak for how much it uses juice.
Maybe because there's no 'smartphone' or 'all-in-one' type of device yet that actually 'does it all' very well. They are all sufficient for moderate amateur use I suppose, but there are people out there who like photography, so a crappy built-in camera on their phone will never suffice compared to their digicam. Likewise, there isn't an 'all-in-one' device yet that will fit my music collection, whereas my iPod 'classic' will do. When I want to take phone calls or text somebody, I just need a simple very small device that will let me do that - the smartphones out there are either too big, too expensive to risk chucking around the way my phone tends to get treated, or too prone to crashing (Windows mobile is terrible for that in my personal experience). The all-in-one devices are OK for anybody looking for a 'jack of all trades, master of none' solution - for everybody else there's a specialist solution that does it much much better. It all depends on your personal requirements from a device.
But XP isn't a 15 year old OS. When exactly did they stop shopping it commercially with new PCs? Aren't some OEMs STILL shipping it with netbooks alongside Linux variants?
XP is still very much a relevant OS for millions of users. From what I remember it only started shipping about 7 or 8 years ago anyway - so are MS now admitting to us that their 'brand new' OS from ou2001 was actually already 7 years or more out of date? Sounds like it to me!
So why should anyone believe any of their advertising blurb when they talk about 'NEW' things in Win7? Aren't people justifiable in questioning the underlying codebase and whether it's actually future-proof or perhaps already out-of-date?
To be fair to MS, they have supported XP for a while now since the launch of Vista, but not as long as Apple supported OS 9 after the launch of OS X, and that really WAS a complete paradigm shift in the structure of the OS.
Yes, I agree. And I'd like to add to this by pointing out that the 'point 3' cited shows his 'prefered [sic] flavour of fanboyism' as Firefox. If you RTF linked article he mentions that in some menus the scrollbar even appears (in Firefox at least).
Doesn't this show he's not an Apple Fanboy? Surely if he was then he'd have been exclusively using Safari! ;P
Oh I don't know. MS sells it's core software products to the end user direct and also it's lower profile hardware, but I see your point that Apple is ONLY selling in a retail manner and not in a dual capacity. :)
It's actually not changed since the 60's. Building technologies have changed, but the nuclear process itself just hasn't. They still use the same basic premise: radioactive material heats up water, water turns to steam, steam turns turbines (generating electricity), steam is cooled turning back to water and the cycle begins again. They still use control rods to control the nuclear reactions and they still use water as a coolant, both of which become contaminated and will be so for over a hundred thousand years with no safe way to store them for that amount of time. Nuclear is still a dud, heh :D
The trouble is that it is waste, not fuel. The waste includes things like highly contaminated coolant (water) and control rods from the reactor core.
These don't have enough radioactivity within themselves to generate heat sufficient to turn water to steam which would power turbines, (which is how we use the radioactive material in a nuclear power station, lest we forget), but the materials are still too highly radioactive to be considered 'safe' to be kept around human populations.
As of yet we have no way to dispose of this waste material and likely never will have. It tends to end up being dumped in holes in the ground and covered in concrete or dumped illegally in barrels in the sea. Either way the waste has a tendency to leak and can/does end up in the foodchain or drinking/irrigation water supplies. The half life of this hazardous waste is over a hundred thousand years!!! It's not sensible to use radioactive power generation with this single fact facing us.
The other major problem with nuclear power is it's massive carbon footprint. An average nuclear plant will have about 75%-80% the footprint of a gas/coal powered station. This is due in no small part to the 'carbon cost' of extracting the nuclear ore from the ground, shipping, enriching, shipping, turning into fuel rods, shipping - oh, and then there's building the plant and all associated infrastructure, storing/disposing of fuel etc etc etc. And not to forget the decommissioning process which again adds massively to the 'footprint' over decades.
Nuclear is a dead technology for use on-planet. In space it would be great, but not on earth. Solar thermal is a much more efficient system of 'nuclear power' and it is very very very clean, with the nuclear reactor being 93 million miles away. :)
What happens if somebody else buys your airline ticket for you with their own credit card? Surely there's no right to hold the information of an individual not even entering the US? Oh this is a test case waiting to happen :D
"You accidentally burn your Travellers Cheques"? Well surely you could just as easily accidentally burn your credit card too, so where's the advantage?
If you have a record of your Traveller's Cheque numbers you can get them replaced anyway ;)
Ya see - I always knew Bush's speech impediment would cause this sort of confusion. It's all because nobody could ever tell whether he was saying tourist or terrorist, so they decided to play it safe! ;)
So I wonder why many USB device drivers give my Vista machine constant BSODs!?
Yeah I remember SoundJam MP, it was a fantastic player. It p*ssed all over MacAMP for playlists and those skins were great, especially to make it fit in with a skinned OS too :)
Oh nostalgia... it's not what it used to be
Before my wife bought her Honda Civic diesel, she had a (slightly less efficient) Toyota Corolla 2.0L D-4D. It returned about 50-70mpg (around the 50mpg mark in 30mph urban cycle, around the 70mpg mark in the 70mph motorway cycle).
So I'd imagine the 1.4 is more efficient in the low speed urban cycle, but slightly less at motorway speeds, depending on how you drive it.
The nice thing about the Corolla D-4D is that those top-end models (in terms of spec and finish) have the little computer display which you can set to show you current mpg, which is useful for hypermiling ;)
It's been mentioned.
And incidentally, last year at Le Mans, the top 8 cars were diesels
Oh, and this year at Le Mans, the top 9 cars were diesels
Absolute garbage FUD. Which is, I assume, why you posted as AC.
Diesel ignites when it is compressed (to VERY high pressure) very quickly, which causes a sudden massive temperature rise. If you were to compress diesel even to that same pressure over a period of hours, minutes, or possibly even seconds, it wouldn't reach a temperature high enough to ignite.
Consider that Petrol (gasoline) is a much more volatile liquid, yet it doesn't spontaneously combust at low temperatures.
The REAL issue with diesel in cold climates is that at extremely low temperatures, diesel can turn into a sludge. But most petro-chemical companies put additives into their diesel to prevent this.
My 15 year old Peugeot uses a 1.9 litre Turbo Diesel engine and gives me about 50mpg+ urban cycle (I don't use for anything other than local driving). My wife has a 5 year old 1.7 Turbo Diesel Honda Civic which just gave us an average of 75mpg on a 500 mile round trip over the weekend - and half of that was with me driving (which means an average of about 90mph! Oops...), so if my wife had driven there AND back, we'd probably have seen efficiency up beyond 80mpg easily.
Modern diesels are very efficient and also very responsive to drive. Even my slightly older diesel seems to give better efficiency than a lot of the hybrids being released into the US market at the moment (even allowing for the difference with the US 'gallon'), so it'd be good to see more diesel/electric hybrids being released instead of petrol/electrics.
In the UK, diesels account for more than 50% of all new cars sold, in France it's even more popular (and has been for a long time).
Internal? No, no, you've misunderstood - that HUD system projects onto the back of the plane's propellor (external). Go read it again, it's way cool.
As an Apple user I bless thee child, for thou art correct. In the name of the the father Steve Jobs, the Son Phil Schiller and the Holy Ghost Jonathan Ive.
In the beginning Woz created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness of big blue was upon the face of the dos. And the Spirit of Woz moved upon the face of the machines. And Woz said, Let there be light: and there was a happy startup chime, a little smiley Mac and light form a tiny glowing screen. And Woz saw the little smiley Mac, that it was good: and Woz divided the light from the dos. And Woz called the light a Mac, and the dos he called the evil IBM compatibles. And the evening and the morning were the first all night LAN party...
1. Write Windows 7
2. Drain MacBook battery
3. Profit!
Spoken like a true singleton! :P
Definitely learn to say 'yes dear'. You don't always have to give in to her will, but letting go of your ego and doing things her way some of the time is only fair - after all, she'll be doing the same for you. It's called compromise and shows you value your other half's opinion. If they value your opinion they'll not expect you always to go along with them, but if you never do you'll end up without a spouse, as many chauvinists tend to find themselves.
whale jizz...
He only says he'll pay a million dollars. Does he specify US Dollars? He could mean ANY sort of dollars - Australian dollars, New Zealand dollars, Hong Kong dollars (which is pegged at 7.5 to 1 USD!!!). Differing exchange rates could mean he only has to pay a small amount in USD. If he was talking about PSD (Psuedodollars) which I believe have the current exchange rate of 1,000,000 PSD to 1 USD, then the maths is easy! This kid needs to prove he meant USD or get out of court...
Won't somebody think of the children? I mean, come on, we're adults and we have easy access to our adult porn on teh tubes, but what about the kiddies, how are they going to access their porn if these filters are put in?
Or am I misunderstanding the concept of kiddie porn?
Wait up, you're telling me there are games now with 3D graphics? Woah, that's like, craaaaazy man.
Still I don't see the point of it. I know that my little yellow dude with the pie-slice mouth eating the little dots is the good guy and the arch-shapes with raggedy bottoms are 'ghosts' and that's all the graphical information I need. I say sound is more important. Wakka wakka wakka wakka... eat them up yum yum