Why should it be any different for operating systems?
B...b...because it's MICROSOFT!
:P To people pointing that this is unfair. It is unfair. But sometimes the world just sucks. Companies EVERYWHERE rely on all sorts of shady practices to gain business. I'm not saying it's right.
It's like trying to vote for an independent third party. You may be very smart and know what policies should be implemented, but other voters aren't as concerned as you are, and they outnumber you. Something like 90 to 8 to 1.
This is why you need to take them to court to get your refund. Talk to friends to get your refund. Support people who offer computers without Windows installed, and let OEMs know that's why your doing it.
...the time it took to lock/unlock is what seems to have caused past responsiveness issues.
Acquiring a lock or releasing a lock is a single, atomic operation that runs very fast (otherwise there would be... so... many problems). The problem is that another process has the lock, and then you can't get it until that process is scheduled again, renders, and then releases the lock.
I realize you probably know this, but it's getting late in the day and I'm feeling pedantic.
Now let's look at games that have no definite ending or story like Dungeons and Dragons. Ever see that movie? How painful. Why? Because it could not embody what makes the game so great: the unexpected. And once it's laid on celluloid, what's done is done. We're not going to watch Dungeons and Dragons and have the dungeon master lay different traps or experiences for the player every time we watch it. And, effectively, the movie cannot embody what I see as the greatest part of D&D. It can't even leave much to the imagination. It was doomed.
Yes, the D&D movies sucked. I recommend watching "Dorkness Rising", which is a D&D spoof movie, to alleviate the pain. It's actually pretty funny.
In much the same way as those people suspicious of MS cannot expect a turnaround in the attitude of the company overnight, you cannot realistically expect an overnight turnaround in the way Microsoft is perceived...
And the point was that the pollution in the air that you cannot escape breathing is not harming you significantly...
Ok, granted CO2 may not be very harmful to breathing. I think it's associated products like NOx, SOx, CO that are discouraged as being harmful for respiration (we already have laws for emissions standards). Aside: I don't think this is being argued here, by you, but people see the problem with excess CO2 is the environmental damage.
Here is a hint, right now the pollution from the manufacture and use of all of these products is embedded in the air you are breathing, and you currently have no way to avoid it.
And yet people are living longer and longer as time goes by. Tell me again, what was the major problem with this crap in the atmosphere? The average live span has almost doubled since the beginning of the industrial revolution.
Remember, the important things to be ignorant of are improvements in sanitation, public health care, medicine, surgery, a more varied diet, more leisure time, etc.
Where I live, commuters drive 100 million miles a day just to go to work and back again. That's just fucking madness.
Living on the Sun must have its advantages...:P
Communities in areas with realistic gas prices are built accordingly. America can choose to be inconvenienced today or be totally noncompetitive tomorrow if we don't make changes to oil usage. If you want to sentence your children to spending half of their money getting to and from work, that's a choice, but not a very smart one.
One quick example. Do you know were all that CAT-V cable scrap goes when you trade it's copper in for cash? China! Why? Because they will burn off that poisonous jacket with no regard for employee or environment. I know, I made $800 last year with one truck load and asked how they were going to strip the jacket. It was more profitable to just sell it overseas.
Will also make Al Gore a billionaire.
They brought him in to the senate floor to scare everyone into voting for this bill. Isn't there something called conflict of interest?
I mean, this guy is lobbying to make himself richer.
Unlike all those other noble politicians:P
(Of which, some exist, and they do excellent work)
Republicans offered three amendments: one to suspend the program if gas hit $5 a gallon; one to suspend the program if electricity prices rose 10% over 2009; and one to suspend the program if unemployment rates hit 15%. Democrats defeated all of them." - Wall Street Journal
Good, at least the Democrats had some sense on this issue. The idea is that higher prices, you know... like $5 a gallon gas, will cause people to rethink their usage of energy. (Although 15% unemployment I could probably agree with).
Remember, real scientists (of which how many were confirmed, hmm?) attaching your name to a fraudulent attempt to discredit others could at least get you a little fame...
True, CO2 can contribute to retaining heat close to the surface of the planet, but much is wholly unknown about the CO2 cycle.
You seem to have a pretty good idea...
Ever hold a sea shell or coral? Ever drive on concrete or gravel? Chances are that those substances were almost completely composed of Calcium Carbonate (CaCO3). Yes, that is the product of the OCEANS, the ultimate CO2 sink is in Carbonate rocks.
These rocks rain down on the the floors of the oceans and become sea floor and eventually limestone (CaCO3). That is the ultimate fate of much of the CO2.
Deforestation of parts of Africa, Europe, and South America effect global weather patterns much more profoundly than CO2 increases.
I strongly agree that deforestation is very bad. It also increases CO2
Meteorologists have trouble predicting the weather past 7 days into the future, I find it VERY improbable that the supercomputer models have it right 50-100 years out.
Short term != long term. In complex systems, local variations are harder to predict than long-term variations. For example, (although a much less complicated system), it is tough to estimate what the next hand in cards will be, but in the long run, the house always wins:)
Let's face it people, Oil and Gas are NATURALLY OCCURRING SUBSTANCES, and our environment is very well equipped to absorb the reintroduced CO2 released in the combustion of these fuels back into out planetary CO2 cycle.
Yes, but not all at once. It took them a considerable amount of time to get there.
CO2 is not like Mercury, Chlordane, or DDT. It is one of our body's own natural byproducts! To declare it a pollutant under EPA control is very ignorant of scientific facts and is irresponsible and dangerous.
But too CO2 it is a pollutant. Why is that irresponsible or dangerous? What scientific facts?
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Why should it be any different for operating systems?
B...b...because it's MICROSOFT!
It's like trying to vote for an independent third party. You may be very smart and know what policies should be implemented, but other voters aren't as concerned as you are, and they outnumber you. Something like 90 to 8 to 1.
This is why you need to take them to court to get your refund. Talk to friends to get your refund. Support people who offer computers without Windows installed, and let OEMs know that's why your doing it.
If only I had mod points... I seriously lawl'ed
...the time it took to lock/unlock is what seems to have caused past responsiveness issues.
Acquiring a lock or releasing a lock is a single, atomic operation that runs very fast (otherwise there would be ... so... many problems). The problem is that another process has the lock, and then you can't get it until that process is scheduled again, renders, and then releases the lock.
I realize you probably know this, but it's getting late in the day and I'm feeling pedantic.
Wow, MS managed to reinvent the SSH tunnel. Truly a revolution in computing!
I don't believe SSH supports having more than just a client-server connection.
MOD UP! (the cauldron is also in Searing Gorge, further adding to the hilarity).
It's actually one of the jokes you can tell if you type /joke in the game console.
I... am aware of this :)
http://www.wowwiki.com/Jokes
I just tried to point out the little bit of irony.
MOD UP! (the cauldron is also in Searing Gorge, further adding to the hilarity).
Clue!
Now let's look at games that have no definite ending or story like Dungeons and Dragons. Ever see that movie? How painful. Why? Because it could not embody what makes the game so great: the unexpected. And once it's laid on celluloid, what's done is done. We're not going to watch Dungeons and Dragons and have the dungeon master lay different traps or experiences for the player every time we watch it. And, effectively, the movie cannot embody what I see as the greatest part of D&D. It can't even leave much to the imagination. It was doomed.
Yes, the D&D movies sucked. I recommend watching "Dorkness Rising", which is a D&D spoof movie, to alleviate the pain. It's actually pretty funny.
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In much the same way as those people suspicious of MS cannot expect a turnaround in the attitude of the company overnight, you cannot realistically expect an overnight turnaround in the way Microsoft is perceived...
But it's been TWO nights!
Vista and 7 use symbolic links to resolve this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFAJDbV9Vfs Thanks for reminding me of this :P
Well then you're in idiot.
'a' and 'i' aren't exactly near each other.
I think the OP is discouraging libertarians from coming here... shh... don't tell anyone...
And the point was that the pollution in the air that you cannot escape breathing is not harming you significantly...
Ok, granted CO2 may not be very harmful to breathing. I think it's associated products like NOx, SOx, CO that are discouraged as being harmful for respiration (we already have laws for emissions standards). Aside: I don't think this is being argued here, by you, but people see the problem with excess CO2 is the environmental damage.
And yet people are living longer and longer as time goes by. Tell me again, what was the major problem with this crap in the atmosphere? The average live span has almost doubled since the beginning of the industrial revolution.
Remember, the important things to be ignorant of are improvements in sanitation, public health care, medicine, surgery, a more varied diet, more leisure time, etc.
Where I live, commuters drive 100 million miles a day just to go to work and back again. That's just fucking madness.
Living on the Sun must have its advantages... :P
Communities in areas with realistic gas prices are built accordingly. America can choose to be inconvenienced today or be totally noncompetitive tomorrow if we don't make changes to oil usage. If you want to sentence your children to spending half of their money getting to and from work, that's a choice, but not a very smart one.
Well said.
One quick example. Do you know were all that CAT-V cable scrap goes when you trade it's copper in for cash? China! Why? Because they will burn off that poisonous jacket with no regard for employee or environment. I know, I made $800 last year with one truck load and asked how they were going to strip the jacket. It was more profitable to just sell it overseas.
I wouldn't do that. It is illegal. http://www.ban.org/country_status/country_status_chart.html
Will also make Al Gore a billionaire. They brought him in to the senate floor to scare everyone into voting for this bill. Isn't there something called conflict of interest? I mean, this guy is lobbying to make himself richer.
Unlike all those other noble politicians :P
(Of which, some exist, and they do excellent work)
Republicans offered three amendments: one to suspend the program if gas hit $5 a gallon; one to suspend the program if electricity prices rose 10% over 2009; and one to suspend the program if unemployment rates hit 15%. Democrats defeated all of them." - Wall Street Journal
Good, at least the Democrats had some sense on this issue. The idea is that higher prices, you know... like $5 a gallon gas, will cause people to rethink their usage of energy. (Although 15% unemployment I could probably agree with).
If anyone thinks that crap and trap will have a 1 degree effect on global temperature over the next 20 years they are fools.
I'm pretty sure most people agree that we're trying to limit long-term effects, and 20 years isn't that long term.
Raising eveyones utility bills 40%+over the next 5 years will turn the recession into a depression. Have fun y'all.
40%+? Where did this figure come from? Most other people pegged it at around 5-15%.
I agree with the other poster, this is a pretty insightful and fresh concept for discussion, good job.
Remember, real scientists (of which how many were confirmed, hmm?) attaching your name to a fraudulent attempt to discredit others could at least get you a little fame...
True, CO2 can contribute to retaining heat close to the surface of the planet, but much is wholly unknown about the CO2 cycle.
You seem to have a pretty good idea...
Ever hold a sea shell or coral? Ever drive on concrete or gravel? Chances are that those substances were almost completely composed of Calcium Carbonate (CaCO3). Yes, that is the product of the OCEANS, the ultimate CO2 sink is in Carbonate rocks. These rocks rain down on the the floors of the oceans and become sea floor and eventually limestone (CaCO3). That is the ultimate fate of much of the CO2. Deforestation of parts of Africa, Europe, and South America effect global weather patterns much more profoundly than CO2 increases.
I strongly agree that deforestation is very bad. It also increases CO2
Meteorologists have trouble predicting the weather past 7 days into the future, I find it VERY improbable that the supercomputer models have it right 50-100 years out.
Short term != long term. In complex systems, local variations are harder to predict than long-term variations. For example, (although a much less complicated system), it is tough to estimate what the next hand in cards will be, but in the long run, the house always wins :)
Let's face it people, Oil and Gas are NATURALLY OCCURRING SUBSTANCES, and our environment is very well equipped to absorb the reintroduced CO2 released in the combustion of these fuels back into out planetary CO2 cycle.
Yes, but not all at once. It took them a considerable amount of time to get there.
CO2 is not like Mercury, Chlordane, or DDT. It is one of our body's own natural byproducts! To declare it a pollutant under EPA control is very ignorant of scientific facts and is irresponsible and dangerous.
But too CO2 it is a pollutant. Why is that irresponsible or dangerous? What scientific facts?
Ah, ok. Thanks for the info.
The Smart Fortwo couldn't even fit a one week load of groceries for the average American family.
Maybe the average American family should work on eating less. You know, this may help solve even more problems than climate change! :P
...up-armored minivan 15,000 miles a year is consuming much less energy than a jet setting business traveler...
I'm just curious, what is an up-armoured minivan. Do soccer moms get armour-plated cars?