Anything you can POSSIBLY make the program do, make it do it. Not just so the user doesn't HAVE to, but so the user DOESN'T TRY, because the user is an idiot.
Your prof is a wise man.
Users won't get off the street if it keeps them from getting run over, expecting the program to take care of things for them.
Linux users (more or less power users), by and large, like figuring out where the accidents are going to be and getting out of the way (while still standing real close so they can see what's going on).
The "obvious gain" for Microsoft is they can have people keep Windows and try Linux products (albeit in a less than ideal situation) and give people a reason to stick with Microsoft. This quote:
"We don't support Linux, and we also don't support third-party applications. We direct customers to their Linux providers if they have an issue running Linux on Virtual PC, and if that Linux provider triages that issue as a Virtual PC bug and submits a bug report, we'll work with them to fix the problem. We're treating them like we treat third-party applications," she said.
Do you think they'll change that now that they're designing the chipset? Seriously, if they do it on the OS level, might they do it on the 'black box'?
Without pesky people to share surface area, they can deploy much larger solar panels (and collect much more energy) than would be feasible down here.
Couldn't they be sea-based? I'm not saying this would be any easier.
And yes, I'm sure environmentalists would have problems with it.
But it could work.
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Anything you can POSSIBLY make the program do, make it do it. Not just so the user doesn't HAVE to, but so the user DOESN'T TRY, because the user is an idiot.
Your prof is a wise man.
Users won't get off the street if it keeps them from getting run over, expecting the program to take care of things for them.
Linux users (more or less power users), by and large, like figuring out where the accidents are going to be and getting out of the way (while still standing real close so they can see what's going on).
The "obvious gain" for Microsoft is they can have people keep Windows and try Linux products (albeit in a less than ideal situation) and give people a reason to stick with Microsoft. This quote:
"We don't support Linux, and we also don't support third-party applications. We direct customers to their Linux providers if they have an issue running Linux on Virtual PC, and if that Linux provider triages that issue as a Virtual PC bug and submits a bug report, we'll work with them to fix the problem. We're treating them like we treat third-party applications," she said.
Kind of says it all.
Do you think they'll change that now that they're designing the chipset?
Seriously, if they do it on the OS level, might they do it on the 'black box'?
Without pesky people to share surface area, they can deploy much larger solar panels (and collect much more energy) than would be feasible down here.
Couldn't they be sea-based? I'm not saying this would be any easier.
And yes, I'm sure environmentalists would have problems with it.
But it could work.
The article says that the intensity would be less than 1/20th of noontime sunlight.
Uh, this may be stupid, but why not use the sun?
*unwraps burrito*
I mean, what happens if this reflector thing goes off course just a little bit?
That would be one wicked sunburn.