39% is plenty. As OSes mature, improvements are gonna be evolutionary at best. To be able to achieve a 39% adoption rate over a relatively stable OS (XP) is pretty good. No, in fact, it's a very good result considering the bad press MS has been getting lately. I for one wouldn't consider 39% to be a failure given the quality of the product.
Extrapolating the figures given in the summary, we can assume XP has a take-up rate of 60~70%ish within the same period of introduction. That's when most computers were still running on crappy 98 mind you -- hence accounting for the greater adoption rate due to the significant upgrade.
So no, saying it is far less popular is a stretch. 19% would be far less, not 39%.
If anyone cares, there is already a native Pentium-M board from AOpen based on the Intel i915G chipset. No need for convertor crap. The upcoming small form-factor Pandora XPC from AOpen is Pentium-M based as well.
Agree with the parent on this one. Why not include hard drives crashing while he's at it. What a dick.
The thing is, computers are designed such that the fault tolerance/price ratio can be configured to match to each individual's needs. Need to be power-failure proof? Buy a UPS. Need backup against harddrive? Buy a tape drive or run a RAID array. And the list goes on.
Time travel has been a popular theme in movies nowadays. However many have failed to address the paradoxical effects of time travel, which is how your actions in one time affect the consistency of another.
Some movies choose to ditch this issue completely, Twelve Monkeys immediately comes to mind, which resorted to the use of a Time Loop to hide the real issue. The movie adaptation of H.G. Well's The Time Machine was a tad better IMHO but not without its flaws.
Donnie Darko was a much better film in the aspect of consistency, so much that it has managed to spawn a rip-off, the cheesy and overrated The Butterfly Effect
Apparently you have not had any real world contact with such technology. I happen to be in rather close contact with the Asian Arowana (Scleropages formosus) industry, and this technology has been used rather successfully.
The fish has been deemed endangered by CITES, and as such it would be illegal to catch it from the wild. CITES-registered farms are required to tag each fish with an electronic microchip, and these farm-raised fish can then be exported or sold domestically. All the officials needed to do during their routine checks for illegal stock is to scan the fish in question with a hand-held scanner, which would reveal a registration number instantly (which could be matched with a paper certificate of authenticity).
Would be good if the player is actually made and designed in Sweden. Too bad it's not. Fact is, the flash-based MP3 player market is largely dominated by the koreans.
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39% is plenty. As OSes mature, improvements are gonna be evolutionary at best. To be able to achieve a 39% adoption rate over a relatively stable OS (XP) is pretty good. No, in fact, it's a very good result considering the bad press MS has been getting lately. I for one wouldn't consider 39% to be a failure given the quality of the product.
Extrapolating the figures given in the summary, we can assume XP has a take-up rate of 60~70%ish within the same period of introduction. That's when most computers were still running on crappy 98 mind you -- hence accounting for the greater adoption rate due to the significant upgrade.
So no, saying it is far less popular is a stretch. 19% would be far less, not 39%.
IBM accelerates silicon to more than 500 GHz
If anyone cares, there is already a native Pentium-M board from AOpen based on the Intel i915G chipset. No need for convertor crap. The upcoming small form-factor Pandora XPC from AOpen is Pentium-M based as well.
Coz the fox's referring to IE.
Usually you need some serious hardware for that.
Thanks obviousman!
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Agree with the parent on this one. Why not include hard drives crashing while he's at it. What a dick. The thing is, computers are designed such that the fault tolerance/price ratio can be configured to match to each individual's needs. Need to be power-failure proof? Buy a UPS. Need backup against harddrive? Buy a tape drive or run a RAID array. And the list goes on.
Nothing to see here, Samsung already has a 5-megapixel digital camera available.
And it has a sliding cover ala the Matrix phone to boot.
Time travel has been a popular theme in movies nowadays. However many have failed to address the paradoxical effects of time travel, which is how your actions in one time affect the consistency of another.
Some movies choose to ditch this issue completely, Twelve Monkeys immediately comes to mind, which resorted to the use of a Time Loop to hide the real issue. The movie adaptation of H.G. Well's The Time Machine was a tad better IMHO but not without its flaws.
Donnie Darko was a much better film in the aspect of consistency, so much that it has managed to spawn a rip-off, the cheesy and overrated The Butterfly Effect
Apparently you have not had any real world contact with such technology. I happen to be in rather close contact with the Asian Arowana (Scleropages formosus) industry, and this technology has been used rather successfully. The fish has been deemed endangered by CITES, and as such it would be illegal to catch it from the wild. CITES-registered farms are required to tag each fish with an electronic microchip, and these farm-raised fish can then be exported or sold domestically. All the officials needed to do during their routine checks for illegal stock is to scan the fish in question with a hand-held scanner, which would reveal a registration number instantly (which could be matched with a paper certificate of authenticity).
who's the scammer and who's the victim?
Would be good if the player is actually made and designed in Sweden. Too bad it's not. Fact is, the flash-based MP3 player market is largely dominated by the koreans.