Not much. Mythbusters is fun, but they are on Netflix. Louie on FX might be the funniest TV show of all time, but it's also on Netflix. I've heard that Breaking Bad is pretty good, too, and it's also on Netflix.
The only things I miss are The Soup, random old movies on TCM and AMC, and watching Phineas and Ferb with my son (best kid's cartoon on TV by far.) Not worth $40/month.
As far as I know that's about it. As little as we watch TV, broadcast + Netflix is plenty. I'd pay a little more if I could just get TCM, AMC and IFC.
No, because someone wired up the random number generator to generate the random elements.
Computers are tools - they don't do anything without someone telling them to. The person who initiates the action is the "owner" of the results. It doesn't really matter how many steps there are between the initial programming or configuration and the end results, someone had to initiate the program in the first place.
Someone can beat the iPad. It will need to be substantially better (nicer UI, better hardware, longer battery life, etc...) at the same, or lower price.
Another problem is Ecosystem - Apple has a fantastic selection of movies, music, apps, etc... The closest competitor in that area is Amazon, which is probably why the Fire is the only tablet gaining significant market share against the iPad.
Why even re-encode it? Usually it's straight MP4, or an MP4 wrapped in an FLV container. Suck out the aac, put it back in an audio-only MP4 - nearly anything can play it.
Intel has gotten pretty good at microcode emulation lately. The Core processors are basically extremely souped-up Pentium 3s emulating chunks of the P4 instruction set. Atoms emulate nearly all of the x86 instruction set, and are more efficient watt-for-watt than the lowest powered versions of what they are emulating (mainly Core 2s)
Heck, its possible that Intel could do an ARM translator for Atom, then you could have one chip that could run Android OR Windows (or linux, or anything else you want) This is more relevant to tablets, but still.
Rape is non-consensual sex. That's it. It doesn't have to be violent, all it requires is a lack of consent. If there are conditions of sex that aren't followed, it's still rape.
IE 10: Better HTML 5 support - not much else - who cares? Everyone that uses the default browser by default because they don't want to deal with downloading and installing new stuff. And everyone that will be using Metro by default (most likely)
And those people probably aren't going to upgrade to Windows 8 to get better HTML support. Is downloading Chrome really that hard? My Mom did it and she can barely work a DVD player.
Sign in with MS Account: Who cares? Is anyone gonna use this? Heck yeah; SSO is good! (Live lets you create an account with your primary email as the username, so very convenient for lots of folks.
That's great, but does anyone actually use Live (or whatever they are going to call it now) ?
Picture Password and PIN Login: Picture pass is kinda cool, but PIN login? Really?this will be *REALLY* useful on tablets. Think of trying to login on a train with a touch keypad.
Sure - that much easier to crack. Fantastic.
Ribbon in Windows Explorer: Holy cow no thank you.I think, and my experience supporting others supports this, that the ribbon has helped a lot of people navigate Office much easier. So it follows that it will make improvements on the Explorer side. We'll agree to disagree here.
Really? I don't know of a single Office user who said "Boy, I'm glad they changed everything over to the ribbon. Now I get to learn where everything is again!" It's even more frustrating when you have to keep switching back and forth, because you have to support both.
Refresh and Reset Recovery - How about making it so you don't need recovery in the first place? How is this better than a decent backup system? This thing is going to be pushed hard on tablets. Wouldn't it be convenient to factory reset your Windows tablet just like you can on your iPad or Android tablet?
If anyone is going to purchase and use a Windows tablet, you might have a point. I'd rather just have a more stable OS and fault-tolerant filesystem. I still bluescreen and loose files every now and then on my 7 box. I've never lost a file on my Linux/LVM/ext4 servers. Heck, I've never lost a file on my janky MythTV box built from spare parts that operates 24/7, running MythBuntu and LVM/XFS.
Native USB 3 - This shouldn't be a Windows 8 "feature," this should be in a service pack for Vista and Seven Good chance it will be; remember USB1.1 support for Windows 98? Rolled back to 95 via OSR2 update.
Right, so you're saying it's not really a reason to upgrade to 8. We agree, then:)
New Windows Task Manager - Yawn You obviously haven't supported Windows enough to know how much of an improvement it is. (Yes, third-party tools do it better. It's still good for the improvements to be native.)
XBox Live integration - I don't think anyone will care about this - are they thinking about competing with steam? Good luck. You do know how popular XBox live is, right?
On the X-Box, yeah. I don't know a single gamer clambering for Live on their PC. Besides which, are they really going to make you upgrade your OS for this? They couldn't just offer it as a download?
Family Safety - Wasn't this included with Windows Live? Yawn Antivirus in Windows Defender - In other words, they are just including MSE. Which is awesome since people can stop paying McAfee/Symantec for their bloated products and not have to worry (as much) about making sure everything is up to date.
*Microsoft Security Essentials* You don't have to pay Symantec or McAfee now. They are just bundling their own free software with Windows 8. I can get that now on 7 (AND Vista, AND XP for that matter.) So, again, not a reason to upgrade.
IE 10: Better HTML 5 support - not much else - who cares? Sign in with MS Account: Who cares? Is anyone gonna use this? Picture Password and PIN Login: Picture pass is kinda cool, but PIN login? Really? Ribbon in Windows Explorer: Holy cow no thank you. Hybrid Boot: Kinda cool - depends on how well it works. Windows To Go - Officially supported BartPE. Yawn. Refresh and Reset Recovery - How about making it so you don't need recovery in the first place? How is this better than a decent backup system? Native USB 3 - This shouldn't be a Windows 8 "feature," this should be in a service pack for Vista and Seven New Windows Task Manager - Yawn XBox Live integration - I don't think anyone will care about this - are they thinking about competing with steam? Good luck. Storage Spaces - LVM for the masses? Kinda cool. Family Safety - Wasn't this included with Windows Live? Yawn Antivirus in Windows Defender - In other words, they are just including MSE. Secure Boot Support - Holy cow no thank you
So a handful of actually useful new features (that can, mostly, be added on to Seven with 3rd party utilities) a few that should be included with Seven and Vista, and a bunch that I don't want, including, in a big way, Metro.
Especially when using Hellfire missiles as the armament. You need to tell the flight computer on board the drone, in general, where to go - download a target to the Hellfire (just pointing at something on the screen is good enough) and send it on it's way. You only need a few dozen feet of accuracy, the Hellfire will obliterate anything in the general vicinity of where it lands.
I don't see anything wrong with using drones in active combat per se. Their current use as a tool to assassinate people, however, is abominable. Collateral damage is almost guaranteed.
Corporate IT runs XP because it runs a set of time-tested apps, that are either custom or extremely vertical. Updating to Windows 7 would mean:
1 - Upgrading licenses for the OS and probably office suites 2 - Possibly upgrading hardware 3 - Upgrading licenses for all your third party software 4 - Upgrading licenses for your web-based software to run in a newer browser (this is why so many companies still use IE6) 5 - Possibly upgrading server licenses to work with Windows 7 6 - Validating and testing to make sure all the new software works together (no small feat for large companies - think VPN clients competing with new active directory configurations, new authentication mechanisms, new IE mechanisms talking to new web app stacks that are probably custom, etc...) 7 - Re-train your support staff so they know the new software inside and out 8 - Finally you can re-train your users to use the new stuff
All that, for what? You're replacing a system that's known to work with an unknown quantity. The new functionality you get had better be WELL worth it, 'cause it's going to cost you.
"Sure the timing was off, but it's impossible to predict the oil peak accurately given uncertainty of reserve data and technological progress."
So you are saying their prediction was right even though it was wrong?
As energy use increases, energy will get more expensive, providing pressure to use less energy or find more efficient ways to use energy. It's a self-correcting system, as long as there are no market distortions like, say, massive oil subsidies, or ridiculous regulations preventing new energy generation methods from being adopted.
Sorry, this is dumb. If the government is really interested in promoting "internet freedom" or whatever, they'd promote technologies to make it difficult to monitor or censor the internet. Of course they aren't going to take that path, as it would prevent THEM from monitoring or censoring the internet. Notice the bill only covers US businesses dealing with foreign countries, not the US government.
Right hand at 11, left hand on the shifter, right foot cantilevered across the clutch and gas, left foot out the window so I can adjust the rear-view mirror with my toe. The way cool people do.
Microsoft made Internet Explorer for MacOS, HP-UX and Solaris. Why? To gain market share. They still make Office for MacOS, a competing platform to Windows. Why? Market share. They made FrontPage server extensions for Apache (and SuiteSpot IIRC)
If Gates was still running the company, I'm sure Microsoft would be successfully glomming on to Android. Instead Ballmer is successfully running the company into the ground trying to play catchup and me-too.
This is what confused me about Windows Phone 7. Usually Microsoft tries to take an already popular platform or technology, and extends it until they take it over. When Android took off I was sure there would be a Microsoft-created platform that would run on top of Android, and tie in with their Live services, have Office,Outlook, etc... Maybe port.NET compact to Linux to run along-side Dalvik, probably with a significant speed advantage. Basically something cell companies can drop into Android that replaces the Google ecosystem with a Microsoft one. Start out by giving it away for free, then once the take rate picks up, start charging for it.
Instead of hopping on the Android bandwagon, they did their own thing. Their own completely un-leveragable thing, with no incentive for anyone to adopt it, short of them dumping tons of money into Nokia.
Now, within the actual budgeting process this makes some sense, because you have to arrive at a fiscally solvent number, so oftentimes its tradeoffs of tax breaks vs spending, etc.
Yeah I'm pretty sure that hasn't happened in a few decades. It's mostly been we'll cut taxes AND you can spend more. Recently it's been we'll raise taxes by 1% and you can spend 5000% more.
The military micro-sats are going to have military grade encryption, and the photographic gear those things use are a bit specialized. Think ultra-low f-stop, high-zoom aberration-free compact lenses.
The only problem with that is now you have to deal with balloons or zeppelins falling all over the place - possibly into enemy hands to be re-used. They can also be detected, so the enemy knows when to duck and cover.
Satellites (especially micro-satellites) are difficult to detect without sophisticated gear, and when they are done you can de-orbit them and they'll burn up in the atmosphere.
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"JavaScript app (Gadget) and a Metro app (Real executable.)" ... that can be written in Javascript/HTML.
Not much. Mythbusters is fun, but they are on Netflix. Louie on FX might be the funniest TV show of all time, but it's also on Netflix. I've heard that Breaking Bad is pretty good, too, and it's also on Netflix.
The only things I miss are The Soup, random old movies on TCM and AMC, and watching Phineas and Ferb with my son (best kid's cartoon on TV by far.) Not worth $40/month.
As far as I know that's about it. As little as we watch TV, broadcast + Netflix is plenty. I'd pay a little more if I could just get TCM, AMC and IFC.
No, because someone wired up the random number generator to generate the random elements.
Computers are tools - they don't do anything without someone telling them to. The person who initiates the action is the "owner" of the results. It doesn't really matter how many steps there are between the initial programming or configuration and the end results, someone had to initiate the program in the first place.
And yet there are still TONS of companies making PCs. Go figure.
Someone can beat the iPad. It will need to be substantially better (nicer UI, better hardware, longer battery life, etc...) at the same, or lower price.
Another problem is Ecosystem - Apple has a fantastic selection of movies, music, apps, etc... The closest competitor in that area is Amazon, which is probably why the Fire is the only tablet gaining significant market share against the iPad.
Why even re-encode it? Usually it's straight MP4, or an MP4 wrapped in an FLV container. Suck out the aac, put it back in an audio-only MP4 - nearly anything can play it.
Intel has gotten pretty good at microcode emulation lately. The Core processors are basically extremely souped-up Pentium 3s emulating chunks of the P4 instruction set. Atoms emulate nearly all of the x86 instruction set, and are more efficient watt-for-watt than the lowest powered versions of what they are emulating (mainly Core 2s)
Heck, its possible that Intel could do an ARM translator for Atom, then you could have one chip that could run Android OR Windows (or linux, or anything else you want) This is more relevant to tablets, but still.
Rape is non-consensual sex. That's it. It doesn't have to be violent, all it requires is a lack of consent. If there are conditions of sex that aren't followed, it's still rape.
This is actually covered under Swedish law.
IE 10: Better HTML 5 support - not much else - who cares? Everyone that uses the default browser by default because they don't want to deal with downloading and installing new stuff. And everyone that will be using Metro by default (most likely)
And those people probably aren't going to upgrade to Windows 8 to get better HTML support. Is downloading Chrome really that hard? My Mom did it and she can barely work a DVD player.
Sign in with MS Account: Who cares? Is anyone gonna use this? Heck yeah; SSO is good! (Live lets you create an account with your primary email as the username, so very convenient for lots of folks.
That's great, but does anyone actually use Live (or whatever they are going to call it now) ?
Picture Password and PIN Login: Picture pass is kinda cool, but PIN login? Really?this will be *REALLY* useful on tablets. Think of trying to login on a train with a touch keypad.
Sure - that much easier to crack. Fantastic.
Ribbon in Windows Explorer: Holy cow no thank you.I think, and my experience supporting others supports this, that the ribbon has helped a lot of people navigate Office much easier. So it follows that it will make improvements on the Explorer side. We'll agree to disagree here.
Really? I don't know of a single Office user who said "Boy, I'm glad they changed everything over to the ribbon. Now I get to learn where everything is again!" It's even more frustrating when you have to keep switching back and forth, because you have to support both.
Refresh and Reset Recovery - How about making it so you don't need recovery in the first place? How is this better than a decent backup system? This thing is going to be pushed hard on tablets. Wouldn't it be convenient to factory reset your Windows tablet just like you can on your iPad or Android tablet?
If anyone is going to purchase and use a Windows tablet, you might have a point. I'd rather just have a more stable OS and fault-tolerant filesystem. I still bluescreen and loose files every now and then on my 7 box. I've never lost a file on my Linux/LVM/ext4 servers. Heck, I've never lost a file on my janky MythTV box built from spare parts that operates 24/7, running MythBuntu and LVM/XFS.
Native USB 3 - This shouldn't be a Windows 8 "feature," this should be in a service pack for Vista and Seven Good chance it will be; remember USB1.1 support for Windows 98? Rolled back to 95 via OSR2 update.
Right, so you're saying it's not really a reason to upgrade to 8. We agree, then :)
New Windows Task Manager - Yawn You obviously haven't supported Windows enough to know how much of an improvement it is. (Yes, third-party tools do it better. It's still good for the improvements to be native.)
No, it's better for the improvements to be as good as their own 3rd party utilities:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-US/sysinternals/bb896653
XBox Live integration - I don't think anyone will care about this - are they thinking about competing with steam? Good luck. You do know how popular XBox live is, right?
On the X-Box, yeah. I don't know a single gamer clambering for Live on their PC. Besides which, are they really going to make you upgrade your OS for this? They couldn't just offer it as a download?
Family Safety - Wasn't this included with Windows Live? Yawn
Antivirus in Windows Defender - In other words, they are just including MSE. Which is awesome since people can stop paying McAfee/Symantec for their bloated products and not have to worry (as much) about making sure everything is up to date.
*Microsoft Security Essentials* You don't have to pay Symantec or McAfee now. They are just bundling their own free software with Windows 8. I can get that now on 7 (AND Vista, AND XP for that matter.) So, again, not a reason to upgrade.
IE 10: Better HTML 5 support - not much else - who cares?
Sign in with MS Account: Who cares? Is anyone gonna use this?
Picture Password and PIN Login: Picture pass is kinda cool, but PIN login? Really?
Ribbon in Windows Explorer: Holy cow no thank you.
Hybrid Boot: Kinda cool - depends on how well it works.
Windows To Go - Officially supported BartPE. Yawn.
Refresh and Reset Recovery - How about making it so you don't need recovery in the first place? How is this better than a decent backup system?
Native USB 3 - This shouldn't be a Windows 8 "feature," this should be in a service pack for Vista and Seven
New Windows Task Manager - Yawn
XBox Live integration - I don't think anyone will care about this - are they thinking about competing with steam? Good luck.
Storage Spaces - LVM for the masses? Kinda cool.
Family Safety - Wasn't this included with Windows Live? Yawn
Antivirus in Windows Defender - In other words, they are just including MSE.
Secure Boot Support - Holy cow no thank you
So a handful of actually useful new features (that can, mostly, be added on to Seven with 3rd party utilities) a few that should be included with Seven and Vista, and a bunch that I don't want, including, in a big way, Metro.
Doesn't sound like a winner.
It is when the woman involved said that she didn't want to have sex with him *without* a condom.
Especially when using Hellfire missiles as the armament. You need to tell the flight computer on board the drone, in general, where to go - download a target to the Hellfire (just pointing at something on the screen is good enough) and send it on it's way. You only need a few dozen feet of accuracy, the Hellfire will obliterate anything in the general vicinity of where it lands.
I don't see anything wrong with using drones in active combat per se. Their current use as a tool to assassinate people, however, is abominable. Collateral damage is almost guaranteed.
Isn't this pretty much exactly how Skydrive works, and isn't that being integrated into Windows 8? Nobody has been complaining about that...
Corporate IT runs XP because it runs a set of time-tested apps, that are either custom or extremely vertical. Updating to Windows 7 would mean:
1 - Upgrading licenses for the OS and probably office suites
2 - Possibly upgrading hardware
3 - Upgrading licenses for all your third party software
4 - Upgrading licenses for your web-based software to run in a newer browser (this is why so many companies still use IE6)
5 - Possibly upgrading server licenses to work with Windows 7
6 - Validating and testing to make sure all the new software works together (no small feat for large companies - think VPN clients competing with new active directory configurations, new authentication mechanisms, new IE mechanisms talking to new web app stacks that are probably custom, etc...)
7 - Re-train your support staff so they know the new software inside and out
8 - Finally you can re-train your users to use the new stuff
All that, for what? You're replacing a system that's known to work with an unknown quantity. The new functionality you get had better be WELL worth it, 'cause it's going to cost you.
1970's gas price crisis in the US. People started buying smaller, more fuel-efficient cars.
Europe, pretty much all the time - people buy the most fuel efficient cars they can afford as gas prices are usually pretty high.
"Sure the timing was off, but it's impossible to predict the oil peak accurately given uncertainty of reserve data and technological progress."
So you are saying their prediction was right even though it was wrong?
As energy use increases, energy will get more expensive, providing pressure to use less energy or find more efficient ways to use energy. It's a self-correcting system, as long as there are no market distortions like, say, massive oil subsidies, or ridiculous regulations preventing new energy generation methods from being adopted.
Does that include Snort/AirSnort? EtherApe?
Sorry, this is dumb. If the government is really interested in promoting "internet freedom" or whatever, they'd promote technologies to make it difficult to monitor or censor the internet. Of course they aren't going to take that path, as it would prevent THEM from monitoring or censoring the internet. Notice the bill only covers US businesses dealing with foreign countries, not the US government.
Right hand at 11, left hand on the shifter, right foot cantilevered across the clutch and gas, left foot out the window so I can adjust the rear-view mirror with my toe. The way cool people do.
Microsoft made Internet Explorer for MacOS, HP-UX and Solaris. Why? To gain market share. They still make Office for MacOS, a competing platform to Windows. Why? Market share. They made FrontPage server extensions for Apache (and SuiteSpot IIRC)
If Gates was still running the company, I'm sure Microsoft would be successfully glomming on to Android. Instead Ballmer is successfully running the company into the ground trying to play catchup and me-too.
This is what confused me about Windows Phone 7. Usually Microsoft tries to take an already popular platform or technology, and extends it until they take it over. When Android took off I was sure there would be a Microsoft-created platform that would run on top of Android, and tie in with their Live services, have Office,Outlook, etc... Maybe port .NET compact to Linux to run along-side Dalvik, probably with a significant speed advantage. Basically something cell companies can drop into Android that replaces the Google ecosystem with a Microsoft one. Start out by giving it away for free, then once the take rate picks up, start charging for it.
Instead of hopping on the Android bandwagon, they did their own thing. Their own completely un-leveragable thing, with no incentive for anyone to adopt it, short of them dumping tons of money into Nokia.
Here here. Business should have *some* say in trade negotiations, however, it seems like they been writing them whole-cloth.
When the tariff schedule, when printed out, is the size of two Encyclopedia Britannica end-to-end, free trade is a bit of a misnomer.
Now, within the actual budgeting process this makes some sense, because you have to arrive at a fiscally solvent number, so oftentimes its tradeoffs of tax breaks vs spending, etc.
Yeah I'm pretty sure that hasn't happened in a few decades. It's mostly been we'll cut taxes AND you can spend more. Recently it's been we'll raise taxes by 1% and you can spend 5000% more.
The military micro-sats are going to have military grade encryption, and the photographic gear those things use are a bit specialized. Think ultra-low f-stop, high-zoom aberration-free compact lenses.
The only problem with that is now you have to deal with balloons or zeppelins falling all over the place - possibly into enemy hands to be re-used. They can also be detected, so the enemy knows when to duck and cover.
Satellites (especially micro-satellites) are difficult to detect without sophisticated gear, and when they are done you can de-orbit them and they'll burn up in the atmosphere.
You can get 4K monitors at 27" They cost $15,000, are mainly used for medical imaging, and their refresh rates are usually terrible.