FWIW, my current PC, the one I installed Vista on, was built in December of 2006 for a grand total of $850. And it runs Vista without a hitch.
The only upgrade has been from an nVidia 6800GS to an 8800GT.
But, yeah, I wouldn't recommend most people (or, really, anyone) upgrade to Vista. Get it with a new machine and enjoy it. But, more importantly, don't avoid buying a new machine because of Vista, and don't try to get XP on a new machine.
I find that the biggest problem with Vista is its image.
I recently went from XP to Vista and couldn't be happier with a desktop OS. I use Ubuntu and Mandriva on the desktop on a regular basis, and build and maintain desktop machines with all four OSes on them, as well as run Ubuntu and Debian (and Solaris) on servers.
But Vista is a solid, fast, smart desktop OS. It's by far the best PC desktop OS out there. I was surprised when I tried it out and found out that it's quick, clever, and stable.
So, that said, I think it's enough to create an ad campaign that goes directly to Microsoft's/Vista's image. Cause the OS itself is pretty good.
If there's a million "open source" licenses (which there are), it can become virtually impossible for code to move between projects with different licensing.
Did I say that fuel cell was a dead technology that won't go anywhere?
No. Quite the contrary - I think it is a very promising technology that has great potential.
However, the GP I was replying to said that maybe this will help the "image" of alternatively-fueled vehicles. And frankly, a bunch of tiny go-karts doesn't have much hope of beefing-up the wimpy image of the Insight, Prius, etc.
I'm no Microsoft fanboy or anything, but I've been pretty impressed with Silverlight.
I spent a lot of time watching live streaming Olympics video at NBCOlympics.com, and the Silverlight video feed and functionality was much, much better than I've ever seen from Flash. I'm not even sure if Flash can do live streaming video, especially at that high quality with any efficiency.
There doesn't need to be a law prohibiting it for the property owner to forbid it or throw you out.
For example, I have a "no smoking in my car" rule. There's no law forbidding smoking in cars. However, I will force you to stop or throw you out of my car if you attempt to smoke inside of it.
Similarly, the management of a mall can forbid photography in the mall, no matter how public you think it is. They cannot take your equipment or demand that you not publish the photos, but they absolutely can (and often do) forbid photography on mall property. And they can throw you out on your ass and ban you from the property for life if you do.
No matter how public you think a mall is, it's not public property. It's private property, and their rules are the rules. They don't need laws to forbid certain things on their property.
Shopping malls aren't public places. They can absolutely kick you out for any reason they feel necessary. They can't demand that you hand over your film or prevent you from publishing the pictures that you've taken, but they can demand that you not take pictures or kick you out.
Ever since I first used a Nunchuck on the Wii, I've thought it would make the perfect keyboard replacement for FPS games.
Think about it. In most FPSes, you use the keyboard to move. 100% digital, on/off movement - you're either pressing the key or you're not. With a Nunchuck, you can use the analog stick to move at different speeds. You can rotate it lengthwise to lean, flick it to jump, and tilt it down to crouch. There are two buttons, good for other random keyboard inputs (night vision goggles? use?).
Combine it with a 5-button wheel mouse and you should have enough controls for most any FPS.
Maybe this controller gets us a little closer to that.
I wasn't just talking about reducing population size.
Especially in Africa, STDs are incredibly rampant, even among children. AIDS by itself has reduced the life expectancy of adult males by an incredible margin.
With all due credit to XKCD (which I've never heard of), that line of "reasoning" is a common science/math joke which has been around a long, long time.
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I believe that you are incorrect.
FWIW, my current PC, the one I installed Vista on, was built in December of 2006 for a grand total of $850. And it runs Vista without a hitch.
The only upgrade has been from an nVidia 6800GS to an 8800GT.
But, yeah, I wouldn't recommend most people (or, really, anyone) upgrade to Vista. Get it with a new machine and enjoy it. But, more importantly, don't avoid buying a new machine because of Vista, and don't try to get XP on a new machine.
I find that the biggest problem with Vista is its image.
I recently went from XP to Vista and couldn't be happier with a desktop OS. I use Ubuntu and Mandriva on the desktop on a regular basis, and build and maintain desktop machines with all four OSes on them, as well as run Ubuntu and Debian (and Solaris) on servers.
But Vista is a solid, fast, smart desktop OS. It's by far the best PC desktop OS out there. I was surprised when I tried it out and found out that it's quick, clever, and stable.
So, that said, I think it's enough to create an ad campaign that goes directly to Microsoft's/Vista's image. Cause the OS itself is pretty good.
I used AdBlock Plus, Pennypacker, and FxIF.
But Chrome is so much better I can live without those for the time being.
I've used nothing but Firefox for years.
I switched to Chrome, and I'm not looking back. It's that much better.
So, it's stolen *one* Firefox user.
IE has had tabs since IE 7.
If there's a million "open source" licenses (which there are), it can become virtually impossible for code to move between projects with different licensing.
They refused to fix or replace my KT7 back in the day after too many caps had finally blown.
There's a reason companies don't just put up polls for decisions about how to develop products.
Customers don't know what they want, and most of the responders will not be people who have any intention of buying the product anyway.
So how do you think these go-kart "abstractions" and "development platforms" going to impact the wimpy "image" of alternatively-fueled vehicles?
Cause the "image" is all that the GP post was about.
Did I say that fuel cell was a dead technology that won't go anywhere?
No. Quite the contrary - I think it is a very promising technology that has great potential.
However, the GP I was replying to said that maybe this will help the "image" of alternatively-fueled vehicles. And frankly, a bunch of tiny go-karts doesn't have much hope of beefing-up the wimpy image of the Insight, Prius, etc.
I'm not sure that six tiny fuel-cell powered go-karts going around a 500 meter track is going to help the image of alternatively-powered vehicles.
I'm no Microsoft fanboy or anything, but I've been pretty impressed with Silverlight.
I spent a lot of time watching live streaming Olympics video at NBCOlympics.com, and the Silverlight video feed and functionality was much, much better than I've ever seen from Flash. I'm not even sure if Flash can do live streaming video, especially at that high quality with any efficiency.
It's not your right to determine what the laws are.
It's your right to have a say in what the laws are.
They are saying "it's illegal for you to take a photo."
Not in the post I was replying to.
There doesn't need to be a law prohibiting it for the property owner to forbid it or throw you out.
For example, I have a "no smoking in my car" rule. There's no law forbidding smoking in cars. However, I will force you to stop or throw you out of my car if you attempt to smoke inside of it.
Similarly, the management of a mall can forbid photography in the mall, no matter how public you think it is. They cannot take your equipment or demand that you not publish the photos, but they absolutely can (and often do) forbid photography on mall property. And they can throw you out on your ass and ban you from the property for life if you do.
No matter how public you think a mall is, it's not public property. It's private property, and their rules are the rules. They don't need laws to forbid certain things on their property.
Since when does the opinion of most laypeople determine the law?
Shopping malls aren't public places. They can absolutely kick you out for any reason they feel necessary. They can't demand that you hand over your film or prevent you from publishing the pictures that you've taken, but they can demand that you not take pictures or kick you out.
Sorry, you are dead wrong here. Review this summary of photographer's rights.
Not the Wiimote.
Mouse and Nunchuck.
Ever since I first used a Nunchuck on the Wii, I've thought it would make the perfect keyboard replacement for FPS games.
Think about it. In most FPSes, you use the keyboard to move. 100% digital, on/off movement - you're either pressing the key or you're not. With a Nunchuck, you can use the analog stick to move at different speeds. You can rotate it lengthwise to lean, flick it to jump, and tilt it down to crouch. There are two buttons, good for other random keyboard inputs (night vision goggles? use?).
Combine it with a 5-button wheel mouse and you should have enough controls for most any FPS.
Maybe this controller gets us a little closer to that.
I wasn't just talking about reducing population size.
Especially in Africa, STDs are incredibly rampant, even among children. AIDS by itself has reduced the life expectancy of adult males by an incredible margin.
And what about that CD of music you recorded of your band in the basement?
Actually, if you could get children to forgo sex in many of these third world countries, a large number of their biggest issues would be solved.
With all due credit to XKCD (which I've never heard of), that line of "reasoning" is a common science/math joke which has been around a long, long time.
Biology is just applied chemistry, which is really just applied physics.