"I think that was us," said one stunned official.
Analysis of seismic data proved him correct. The quake measured 3.4 - modest in some parts of the world. But triggered quakes tend to be shallower than natural ones, and residents generally describe them as a single, explosive bang or jolt - often out of proportion to the magnitude - rather than a rumble.
Yup... that's some nice reasoning behind that claim. How about we see this seismic data that's mentioned but not linked to?
I just tried to get the beta and got this message;
Not available in your country or region
You appear to be in a country or region where the Microsoft Security Essentials Beta is unavailable.
This beta is available only to customers in the United States, Israel (English only), People's Republic of China (Simplified Chinese only) and Brazil (Brazilian Portuguese only).
don't keep any really personal stuff on your laptop. I take my laptop to work with me all the time to get around the no-internet-on-work-computers policy (I work in a call centre, go figure). There's a couple of Futurama and Star Trek episodes on there and the usual browser and Office installations. It's set up to never remember logins and passwords.
I do all my computery work on my real computer at home though. My laptop is just a convenience. My data security won't be compromised if it were stolen.
Now if only Facebook (and other big sites, I guess - I don't visit many of them) would do things like decreasing bloat while adding functionality, the web would be a much nicer place to be.
"61 days, rebooting only for updates" still flies in the face of everybody that claims that Vista will crash on a weekly/daily/hourly basis. His point is still valid without you needing to wave your epenis.
as far as I can see, the Memory Performance section of that article hands the win to 64bit. The ones where there's a clear winner (more than 5 point difference) 32bit wins by no more than 35 points or so, while 64bit wins its ones by about 30-50 points.
Overall, 64bit wins out in terms of performance too. 10.9% might not seem like much of a number, but that's where performance gains start to become noticeable.
Does anybody know just why Hulu & Boxee don't get along? I've read that come content providers asked Hulu to block Boxee, but I completely fail to see the logic behind the request.
Agreed. Wikipedia also points out that the PPC architecture has been the polar opposite of a "flop". No, it didn't take over the Desktop Computing world, but it sure made an impression just about everywhere else.
...last I heard of it, it had the friendliest installation process of all the Linuxes (which wasn't saying much at the time, I guess...), but then it kinda.. disappeared...
My desktop machine is called Schoenberg64 (formerly plain "Schoenberg" before the upgrade to a 64bit OS), my laptop is called Webern, and my spare desktop (currently in use by my sister) is Berg
This was all before I got my XBox 360, which for some reason decided to stop streaming from Schoenberg64, so I renamed it Shithead64, and it magically worked!
...I may or may not have a degree in music composition...
actually, many corporations have probably skipped Vista, so the jump from XP (or even 2000, as I know lots of places have skipped XP) to Win7 is pretty darned big...
Maybe no rewritten per se, but certainly a complete overhaul - the kernel bump from 5.2 (Win2k3) to 6.0 indicates that. This time it's just a.1 revision (to add to the confusion). Vista now is mostly sorted out, it just suffers from exceptionally bad press. Loads of media places are calling it "WinME II" for no good reason (WinME was a slight rewrite of Win98se), when the truth of the matter is that it's a reasonably fast, stable OS.
Unfortunately, nobody wants to go near it because of the reputation it (probably rightfully) gained when it released, and so Win7 is being fast-tracked.
Thankfully, there's not a lot MS needs to do to get Win7 working well - they're already 95% of the way there!
...as long as Windows is the OS that everybody wants to use because it runs on their system, any development process is sustainable.
Vista, for all its perceived faults was a massive step forward for the Windows architecture. Yes, it had sucky bits that people didn't like, but on the whole (and going forward), the changes were for the better.
Just remember that Windows NT was pretty poor when it first came out too, as was OSX. Windows 7 looks to be shaping up quite well (at least in terms of popular reception, even if it's not much different), which Microsoft must be thankful for.
It also probably cost significantly less than Vista to produce.
That said I doubt Win7 will work on netbooks, so I won't be surprised that XP will be with us for a long long time to come.
Heh. It actually boots faster than XP on my EeePC 1000HD (900MHz Celeron, 1GB RAM). It's also a touch more responsive overall. If it didn't have the interesting habit of crashing randomly, I'd replace XP with it right now. But it's a beta, what do you expect?
You know, I'm quite certain that if I tried to run Ubuntu 8.10 or whatever the newest release of it is (I've been out of the loop for a bit) on the same machine that I was running Red Hat 5.1 on ten years ago, it would choke.
The whole attitude of "it shouldn't need to be any faster" just flies in the face of logic, I'm sorry. By that theory, we should all still be running 8086 machines, and Windows, Linux, et al would be fine on them.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending software bloat; if I had my way, everything would be coded in ASM, and Vista probably would be able to run perfectly well on a 386.
People are expecting more from their computers than they used to. Users like pretty things like transparency, 3D window flipping, and a fully buffered desktop. They like automatic spellchecking. They like being able to play media files at the press of a button. They like being always contactable via IM or whatever.
These things require memory and processing cycles.
You couldn't do all of those things on the P133 I had ten years ago, but you can on modern hardware.
It's time to let go and get over it. Hardware moves on, and software develops to meet it. If you think you can create something as good as Windows 7 (with all the features) that runs well on the afore-mentioned Pentium 133, then go right ahead.
(You or I may not think much of some or all of the above, but normal, non-unixy, non-geeky people do)
I had a bike accident when I was 16, where I chipped part of one of my molars off, exposing the dentine (the soft stuff under the enamel cap). The dentist who treated me didn't do a terribly great job of fixing it up, so the covering she put on there fell off after a few months.
I didn't notice at the time, but eventually, I'd get infections every few months, as the tooth slowly rotted from the inside out - regardless of how much I brushed, flossed & rinsed. The doctors would put me on massive dosages of penicillin to kill the infection, and everything would be fine for a few more months.
This went on for 12 years before I figured I should see a dentist about it. He took one look at it and told me I had two options - root canal or pulling. The root canal process would cost in the thousands and there'd be a waiting period, or I could get it pulled by a colleague of his who only ever pulled teeth - nothing else, for $200.
Naturally, I went for the pulling option. The tooth itself had a huge hole in the exposed dentine and stank like... well... a seashell.
I've never felt better since getting it pulled.
I guess the moral of the story is that sometimes it just can't be helped, no matter how good your dental hygiene is.
How are you defining "true 64bit" though? At the moment, I'd define it as being compiled to work only on x64 CPUs, capable of addressing more than 4096MB of system RAM.
Win64 meets that definition, as Vista64 shows a marked improvement over the 32bit version, even with the same amount of RAM.
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Yup... that's some nice reasoning behind that claim. How about we see this seismic data that's mentioned but not linked to?
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
oh yes, I can just imagine how a Commodore BASIC v2 attack on the iPhone would work...
10 IF iphoneosver=2.x OR 1.x THEN H4X0R ELSE GOTO 20
20 PRINT "pls wait a couple of weeks kthxbai"
30 END
(Apologies for not getting BASIC right - I'm a muso, not a programmer)
don't keep any really personal stuff on your laptop. I take my laptop to work with me all the time to get around the no-internet-on-work-computers policy (I work in a call centre, go figure). There's a couple of Futurama and Star Trek episodes on there and the usual browser and Office installations. It's set up to never remember logins and passwords.
I do all my computery work on my real computer at home though. My laptop is just a convenience. My data security won't be compromised if it were stolen.
now, if only they'd let them export to PDF from any Windows app. I wonder why Apple can get away with it, but Microsoft can't?
that sir, is pure gold.
it means you rode Shai Hulud
Now if only Facebook (and other big sites, I guess - I don't visit many of them) would do things like decreasing bloat while adding functionality, the web would be a much nicer place to be.
It has to be. Posting for the April Fool's achievement... :D
I can't work out if it's for real or not, but it's a pretty cool idea. I'd like to know how they work some of them out.
"61 days, rebooting only for updates" still flies in the face of everybody that claims that Vista will crash on a weekly/daily/hourly basis. His point is still valid without you needing to wave your epenis.
as far as I can see, the Memory Performance section of that article hands the win to 64bit. The ones where there's a clear winner (more than 5 point difference) 32bit wins by no more than 35 points or so, while 64bit wins its ones by about 30-50 points.
Overall, 64bit wins out in terms of performance too. 10.9% might not seem like much of a number, but that's where performance gains start to become noticeable.
They cut the ribbon? How are they supposed to access that much data unless they buy a new one?
Does anybody know just why Hulu & Boxee don't get along? I've read that come content providers asked Hulu to block Boxee, but I completely fail to see the logic behind the request.
Agreed. Wikipedia also points out that the PPC architecture has been the polar opposite of a "flop". No, it didn't take over the Desktop Computing world, but it sure made an impression just about everywhere else.
...last I heard of it, it had the friendliest installation process of all the Linuxes (which wasn't saying much at the time, I guess...), but then it kinda.. disappeared...
My workgroup is called VIENNA2
...I may or may not have a degree in music composition...
My desktop machine is called Schoenberg64 (formerly plain "Schoenberg" before the upgrade to a 64bit OS), my laptop is called Webern, and my spare desktop (currently in use by my sister) is Berg
This was all before I got my XBox 360, which for some reason decided to stop streaming from Schoenberg64, so I renamed it Shithead64, and it magically worked!
actually, many corporations have probably skipped Vista, so the jump from XP (or even 2000, as I know lots of places have skipped XP) to Win7 is pretty darned big...
Maybe no rewritten per se, but certainly a complete overhaul - the kernel bump from 5.2 (Win2k3) to 6.0 indicates that. This time it's just a .1 revision (to add to the confusion). Vista now is mostly sorted out, it just suffers from exceptionally bad press. Loads of media places are calling it "WinME II" for no good reason (WinME was a slight rewrite of Win98se), when the truth of the matter is that it's a reasonably fast, stable OS.
Unfortunately, nobody wants to go near it because of the reputation it (probably rightfully) gained when it released, and so Win7 is being fast-tracked.
Thankfully, there's not a lot MS needs to do to get Win7 working well - they're already 95% of the way there!
...as long as Windows is the OS that everybody wants to use because it runs on their system, any development process is sustainable.
Vista, for all its perceived faults was a massive step forward for the Windows architecture. Yes, it had sucky bits that people didn't like, but on the whole (and going forward), the changes were for the better.
Just remember that Windows NT was pretty poor when it first came out too, as was OSX. Windows 7 looks to be shaping up quite well (at least in terms of popular reception, even if it's not much different), which Microsoft must be thankful for.
It also probably cost significantly less than Vista to produce.
That said I doubt Win7 will work on netbooks, so I won't be surprised that XP will be with us for a long long time to come.
Heh. It actually boots faster than XP on my EeePC 1000HD (900MHz Celeron, 1GB RAM). It's also a touch more responsive overall. If it didn't have the interesting habit of crashing randomly, I'd replace XP with it right now. But it's a beta, what do you expect?
You know, I'm quite certain that if I tried to run Ubuntu 8.10 or whatever the newest release of it is (I've been out of the loop for a bit) on the same machine that I was running Red Hat 5.1 on ten years ago, it would choke.
The whole attitude of "it shouldn't need to be any faster" just flies in the face of logic, I'm sorry. By that theory, we should all still be running 8086 machines, and Windows, Linux, et al would be fine on them.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending software bloat; if I had my way, everything would be coded in ASM, and Vista probably would be able to run perfectly well on a 386.
People are expecting more from their computers than they used to. Users like pretty things like transparency, 3D window flipping, and a fully buffered desktop. They like automatic spellchecking. They like being able to play media files at the press of a button. They like being always contactable via IM or whatever.
These things require memory and processing cycles.
You couldn't do all of those things on the P133 I had ten years ago, but you can on modern hardware.
It's time to let go and get over it. Hardware moves on, and software develops to meet it. If you think you can create something as good as Windows 7 (with all the features) that runs well on the afore-mentioned Pentium 133, then go right ahead.
(You or I may not think much of some or all of the above, but normal, non-unixy, non-geeky people do)
I had a bike accident when I was 16, where I chipped part of one of my molars off, exposing the dentine (the soft stuff under the enamel cap). The dentist who treated me didn't do a terribly great job of fixing it up, so the covering she put on there fell off after a few months.
I didn't notice at the time, but eventually, I'd get infections every few months, as the tooth slowly rotted from the inside out - regardless of how much I brushed, flossed & rinsed. The doctors would put me on massive dosages of penicillin to kill the infection, and everything would be fine for a few more months.
This went on for 12 years before I figured I should see a dentist about it. He took one look at it and told me I had two options - root canal or pulling. The root canal process would cost in the thousands and there'd be a waiting period, or I could get it pulled by a colleague of his who only ever pulled teeth - nothing else, for $200.
Naturally, I went for the pulling option. The tooth itself had a huge hole in the exposed dentine and stank like... well... a seashell.
I've never felt better since getting it pulled.
I guess the moral of the story is that sometimes it just can't be helped, no matter how good your dental hygiene is.
How are you defining "true 64bit" though? At the moment, I'd define it as being compiled to work only on x64 CPUs, capable of addressing more than 4096MB of system RAM.
Win64 meets that definition, as Vista64 shows a marked improvement over the 32bit version, even with the same amount of RAM.
oh wait, I misinterpreted "work on" - I'm no Windows dev, just a Vista64 user.