You can change it. Much like I did for 6 years of XP, I'm about to switch my Vista install over to "Windows Classic" but I kinda like the eye candy (20" LCD with a Win2K looking desktop just doesn't justify the $700 I paid a couple years back for the monitor).
The biggest thing I've liked about Vista is a graphical installer (which, admittedly, you should only have to use once), good support for hardware driver updates (not the drivers themselves, necessarily, just going to find updates), etc. Of course, I've been using OSX as my primary machine for almost three years, so I got used to those things while using XP only to play WoW with a much better graphics card than my PB G4.
You don't buy a new car just becuase the tires need replaceing (well some people do, but that is rarely the fiscally responsible thing).
I hate to use a car analogy, but yeah. Cars have changed tremendously over the past 50+ years, but all in all, they're still four tires attached to two axles, with a transmission converting power from the engine to rotational energy in the axles, with a cabin on top of these axles with seats and a single driver's wheel, pedals, and control area. All of those components have seen upgrades, but the "basic architecture" has remained the same. Sure, there might be a better way to do a car, and concept vehicles look nice and all, but if you radically change the car, no matter how great and "better" it is, what kind of market share would Apple and the PowerPC^H^H^H^H those new "better" cars get? People will resist, not because what they have is best or even better, but because it is different, and economically, marginal upgrades in each generation is far cheaper than one giant upgrade during one generation.
1 & 2. I already have a lot of iTMS music, so I'll probably spend the $$$ to upgrade. Going forward, though, I'll probably just buy more albums - $9.99 is still the price for albums, DRM-free, and instead of 10 singles = 1 album, now its more like 7.5.
3. Bout two weeks after EMI sells 1 million DRM-free songs or something. Always seems to happen that way with iTunes.
Eh, better than redundant acronyms. That's just lazy.
It also seems to be a trend to using clever sounding words without actually imparting any useful information. It's like everyone thinks everyone else is either too dumb to understand the complexity or subject matter of what we're doing, or too smart to fall for whatever we're trying to pass off as "new" or "innovative."
That "correction" was a one day spike brought on by a bad day in Shanghai (which also spawned bad days elsewhere). It wasn't sustained or even broad enough to be a real correction. GP's point was proven by this more than anything - most investors just started selling cause they saw the Chinese selling. I guarantee there were people who watched the Shanghai markets closely that day and made money off the downturn, then more money the next day when it swung back up 1.5-2%.
We know Apple commands a great deal of pricing advantage with their current supplier(s) (Samsung, if memory serves). But, could this be another reason to switch, by picking up Intel CPUs and Intel flash memory chips? Cringely could be getting closer to actually being right - if Intel buys Apple, suddenly iPod, iPhone, Mac, etc. production could go in-house for a huge chunk of the parts.
Just had to throw an Apple reference in there. It's/. law or something.
Wrong. Radar doesn't work very well under water. Sonar is used because water carries sound waves much better than radio waves (or, in this case, GPS signals, which are on the 100 MHz range I believe).
The F-22 was built to shoot down anything in the sky for the next 20 years - period. It's the most maneuverable machine known to man and can do maneuvers that were physically impossible before it was built and tested. Its vectored thrust is ridiculous - the thing can fly at something like 25 degrees from vertical without stalling. Its stealth beats the B-2 and F-117A by a generational advance. Its avionics and radar can pinpoint targets outside the range of most missiles. You don't need to put more in the sky. A squadron of Raptors would scare the crap out of any air force in the world, if they even had the chance to tell they were up there.
Of course, they are a bit pricey, so a squadron at a time will be a lucky thing to have, but anyway. The Eurofighter will compete with the F-35 (thus why many in the F-35 program are considering abandoning it for the Eurofighter), but not the Raptor. We're sharing F-35 with a multitude of countries, including those working on the Eurofighter, but no one's getting the Raptor. That should speak volumes.
Interesting point indeed. I wonder too if there is a hint of the old small state/big state fight here. The smaller of the original colonies were also very big on reigning in the power of the bigger colonies - thus Rhode Island's plan for the Senate and Virginia's plan for the House. Back then, compromise led to a bicameral legislature which has worked fairly well. I don't see how to compromise here. California would probably love to go to national IDs (then use them as driver's licenses) and cut the cost of the DMV and such out. Maine, on the other hand, and other small population states would hate them, in no small part due to the elimination of jobs (and, thus, a tax base) by cutting the people who take your picture for state IDs and such.
Darn you beat me to it. I still haven't beat that thing.
While we're on the NES tilt, anyone remember Jackal? Had nice replay value, but the whole one-hit-you-die life system nailed me every time.
Kids these days, with their fancy save games, and strategy guides, and cheat codes. Why, in my day, we had to go hunting for the issue with the right section of Classified Information to get past the "gaming walls!"
That's just because you're not thinking back far enough.
That, and my parents felt that things like modems and sound cards shouldn't be in our computers at home because I'd tie up the phone line or make too much noise. I probably would have, but still. My first downable OS was Linux as well, but we're talking around RH 7 or 8 or something.
But I do remember an OS on floppies, just bought in a store not downloaded via modem - the DOS 3.33 to DOS 6.22 upgrade.
Selling downloadable software is not a new thing, even for Microsoft. It would be news if they didn't offer a downloadable version.
But selling a downable OS (that isn't open source or the like)? I can't remember a downable OS from MS or Apple, ever. There's no downable Win XP, or OS X, at least not for single-users.
This is news if it takes off. I for one can much more easily keep track of a string of characters and an ISO (or something) than I can those blasted CDs with crappy paper covers.
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Because the redunancy of acronyms doesn't cascade to their derivative projects?
You just bought a card and are already on the dragons and giants? You hax0r!
You can change it. Much like I did for 6 years of XP, I'm about to switch my Vista install over to "Windows Classic" but I kinda like the eye candy (20" LCD with a Win2K looking desktop just doesn't justify the $700 I paid a couple years back for the monitor).
The biggest thing I've liked about Vista is a graphical installer (which, admittedly, you should only have to use once), good support for hardware driver updates (not the drivers themselves, necessarily, just going to find updates), etc. Of course, I've been using OSX as my primary machine for almost three years, so I got used to those things while using XP only to play WoW with a much better graphics card than my PB G4.
"Secure Computing"
ROFL
You don't buy a new car just becuase the tires need replaceing (well some people do, but that is rarely the fiscally responsible thing).
I hate to use a car analogy, but yeah. Cars have changed tremendously over the past 50+ years, but all in all, they're still four tires attached to two axles, with a transmission converting power from the engine to rotational energy in the axles, with a cabin on top of these axles with seats and a single driver's wheel, pedals, and control area. All of those components have seen upgrades, but the "basic architecture" has remained the same. Sure, there might be a better way to do a car, and concept vehicles look nice and all, but if you radically change the car, no matter how great and "better" it is, what kind of market share would Apple and the PowerPC^H^H^H^H those new "better" cars get? People will resist, not because what they have is best or even better, but because it is different, and economically, marginal upgrades in each generation is far cheaper than one giant upgrade during one generation.
1 & 2. I already have a lot of iTMS music, so I'll probably spend the $$$ to upgrade. Going forward, though, I'll probably just buy more albums - $9.99 is still the price for albums, DRM-free, and instead of 10 singles = 1 album, now its more like 7.5.
3. Bout two weeks after EMI sells 1 million DRM-free songs or something. Always seems to happen that way with iTunes.
Since it happened within the company, and not between two or more companies, shouldn't that be "intra-corporate?"
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The Holy Hand Grenade
I was in Safari, actually, so IE (a modern, supported version) isn't an option, and Firefox for Mac is less than good.
Stop apologizing for bad web design by blocking content.
14 pages of ads later...
Intel > AMD at high end, Intel >= AMD at low end, Core 2 > A64, Intel finally has a lead in both architecture design and process (65nm).
Eh, better than redundant acronyms. That's just lazy.
It also seems to be a trend to using clever sounding words without actually imparting any useful information. It's like everyone thinks everyone else is either too dumb to understand the complexity or subject matter of what we're doing, or too smart to fall for whatever we're trying to pass off as "new" or "innovative."
That "correction" was a one day spike brought on by a bad day in Shanghai (which also spawned bad days elsewhere). It wasn't sustained or even broad enough to be a real correction. GP's point was proven by this more than anything - most investors just started selling cause they saw the Chinese selling. I guarantee there were people who watched the Shanghai markets closely that day and made money off the downturn, then more money the next day when it swung back up 1.5-2%.
(as of about the time I posted this)
Google's market cap: $139.97 billion
Viacom's market cap: $27.61 billion
CBS' market cap: $24.38 billion (sorta kinda relevent here)
I think it's just a little market cap envy. Next stop: Google buys Viacom?
I hate you /. Now with previewing before I post: <i> tags aren't allowed in HTML strict, the DTD used for /. <em> tags are.
We know Apple commands a great deal of pricing advantage with their current supplier(s) (Samsung, if memory serves). But, could this be another reason to switch, by picking up Intel CPUs and Intel flash memory chips? Cringely could be getting closer to actually being right - if Intel buys Apple, suddenly iPod, iPhone, Mac, etc. production could go in-house for a huge chunk of the parts.
Just had to throw an Apple reference in there. It's /. law or something.
Wrong. Radar doesn't work very well under water. Sonar is used because water carries sound waves much better than radio waves (or, in this case, GPS signals, which are on the 100 MHz range I believe).
tags aren't allowed in HTML strict, the DTD used for /. tags are.
Yes, very nice, thanks. I was just being lazy - not lazy enough to not post on Slashdot, but still enough to not edit on Wikipedia. :)
From the Wikipedia article on Larry Probst:
He is to be replaced by his successor...
Does no one know how to edit these days?
The F-22 was built to shoot down anything in the sky for the next 20 years - period. It's the most maneuverable machine known to man and can do maneuvers that were physically impossible before it was built and tested. Its vectored thrust is ridiculous - the thing can fly at something like 25 degrees from vertical without stalling. Its stealth beats the B-2 and F-117A by a generational advance. Its avionics and radar can pinpoint targets outside the range of most missiles. You don't need to put more in the sky. A squadron of Raptors would scare the crap out of any air force in the world, if they even had the chance to tell they were up there. Of course, they are a bit pricey, so a squadron at a time will be a lucky thing to have, but anyway. The Eurofighter will compete with the F-35 (thus why many in the F-35 program are considering abandoning it for the Eurofighter), but not the Raptor. We're sharing F-35 with a multitude of countries, including those working on the Eurofighter, but no one's getting the Raptor. That should speak volumes.
Interesting point indeed. I wonder too if there is a hint of the old small state/big state fight here. The smaller of the original colonies were also very big on reigning in the power of the bigger colonies - thus Rhode Island's plan for the Senate and Virginia's plan for the House. Back then, compromise led to a bicameral legislature which has worked fairly well. I don't see how to compromise here. California would probably love to go to national IDs (then use them as driver's licenses) and cut the cost of the DMV and such out. Maine, on the other hand, and other small population states would hate them, in no small part due to the elimination of jobs (and, thus, a tax base) by cutting the people who take your picture for state IDs and such.
And, while we're at it, use their word processors to check our spelling!
Darn you beat me to it. I still haven't beat that thing. While we're on the NES tilt, anyone remember Jackal? Had nice replay value, but the whole one-hit-you-die life system nailed me every time. Kids these days, with their fancy save games, and strategy guides, and cheat codes. Why, in my day, we had to go hunting for the issue with the right section of Classified Information to get past the "gaming walls!"
That's just because you're not thinking back far enough.
That, and my parents felt that things like modems and sound cards shouldn't be in our computers at home because I'd tie up the phone line or make too much noise. I probably would have, but still. My first downable OS was Linux as well, but we're talking around RH 7 or 8 or something.
But I do remember an OS on floppies, just bought in a store not downloaded via modem - the DOS 3.33 to DOS 6.22 upgrade.
Selling downloadable software is not a new thing, even for Microsoft. It would be news if they didn't offer a downloadable version.
But selling a downable OS (that isn't open source or the like)? I can't remember a downable OS from MS or Apple, ever. There's no downable Win XP, or OS X, at least not for single-users.
This is news if it takes off. I for one can much more easily keep track of a string of characters and an ISO (or something) than I can those blasted CDs with crappy paper covers.