If an OEM can save $20 by selling a machine with a cheaper version of windows, they will. Microsoft won't even be in the support/headache loop so what do they care about that?
At Three Mile Island nobody was hurt, no radiation was leaked. All it cost was money.
Chernobyl was a very similar reactor to TMI but it had a tin roof instead of a bunker as containment.
The only lesson to learn from Chrnobyl is not to build shitty reactors.
The public fear of nuclear power is based on the reactors of the 1950s/1960s which were built in a rush as a way of making nuclear weapons. Reactors have advanced a LOT since then.
There really is nothing to fear from modern designs like "pebble bed" reactors. These designs ensure that the traditional "nuclear accident" is literally impossible.
Quote: "A pebble-bed reactor thus can have all of its supporting machinery fail, and the reactor will not crack, melt, explode or spew hazardous wastes. It simply goes up to a designed "idle" temperature, and stays there."
(emphasis mine)
Coal is a lot more scary/risky. Do you know how many people die per year as a result of using coal reactors?
The correct answer would be "the Netbooks which will appear later this year".
The current netbooks are a pretty good option as well, especially the Asus 900 series Eee PCs which have a massive aftermarket for extra high-capacity batteries, replacement keyboards and other stuff.
Yes, they're small... but they do everything and they can be carried around *very* easily. Portability is a far bigger advantage than you might imagine.
They also have a small footprint on tables and they're rubbish at 3D action games - both good things.
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My Eee PC runs XP Pro just fine...
Most people don't "buy" Windows. They buy a PC and it just happens to be installed.
Until they're aware that they're paying for it then it makes no difference whether or not it's free.
If things get rough Microsoft can drop the price to $20 and nobody will care either way.
In short: Article fails.
Even when there's prior art it doesn't mean somebody else can't patent it and try to sue you.
You'll win ... but in the USA at least you'll ruin yourself in the process.
In a word: "OEMs"
If an OEM can save $20 by selling a machine with a cheaper version of windows, they will. Microsoft won't even be in the support/headache loop so what do they care about that?
XP also has a "starter edition":
http://www.google.es/search?q=xp+starter+edition
I'm not too sure you understand the premise.
And what about Windows Vista. Will we finally have a machine which can run Vista at interactive rates?
Be sure to make some special playing cards with "Ace of spam" printed on them to leave at the scene.
Anonymous killings don't achieve anything.
The people living there don't know how good they've got it.
In the Uk I was as much of a license dodger as anybody else but after living abroad for a few years I would WILLINGLY pay to have the BBC.
Problem is, I can't, I'm not allowed to. I have to get it via P2P.
Now they're calling me a criminal for doing so. Make sense to anybody?
It'll be a clusterfuck, just be happy that most other countries will be able to point to "what happened in Ireland" as a precedent.
ie. An ISP which caved in to the RIAAs demands will lose a bunch of paying customers but P2P will continue unabated.
Bottom line: P2P is a Hydra.
But glossy screens look so pretty on the shelves...!
Yeah, 'cos Matrix multiplication is the sort of thing BIOSs do a lot of...!
FTA: Price is $299, street date is "as fast as the trucks can get them there". THe first ones will probably be online.
PS: 2Tb for $299...!
I remember paying that much for 200Mb and thinking it was an incredible bargain compared to the old 20Mb drives (which cost thousands).
"What the hell do you do to back up your 2TB drive?
That much storage in a single unit seems kind of dangerous."
I'll use one to back up my 1Tb drives.
Then, when it's proven itself and 4Gb drives appear, it might go into my desktop machine and be backed up onto the 4Gb drive.
At Three Mile Island nobody was hurt, no radiation was leaked. All it cost was money.
Chernobyl was a very similar reactor to TMI but it had a tin roof instead of a bunker as containment.
The only lesson to learn from Chrnobyl is not to build shitty reactors.
The public fear of nuclear power is based on the reactors of the 1950s/1960s which were built in a rush as a way of making nuclear weapons. Reactors have advanced a LOT since then.
There really is nothing to fear from modern designs like "pebble bed" reactors. These designs ensure that the traditional "nuclear accident" is literally impossible.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_bed_reactor#Safety_features
Quote: "A pebble-bed reactor thus can have all of its supporting machinery fail, and the reactor will not crack, melt, explode or spew hazardous wastes. It simply goes up to a designed "idle" temperature, and stays there."
(emphasis mine)
Coal is a lot more scary/risky. Do you know how many people die per year as a result of using coal reactors?
http://www.google.es/search?q=coal+reactor+deaths
In a game the OS doesn't do very much, it's all game code vs. graphics drivers.
All the OS is doing is basic housework like reading the keyboard and mouse.
Sound is a tiny percentage of CPU power these days and is probably mooted by a multicore CPU.
Duh! Apple isn't a monopoly.
Wolfenstein did "ray casting" - not the same thing.
So ... say I go to google to research something. What's the probability of the results being whitelisted?
[I'd say about 0.0000001% if I was in the mood to invent numbers]
Computers with chat programs and web browsers are a massive distraction, yes.
Maybe the routers in the classrooms could block access to msn, facebook, etc.
That wouldn't stop them from surfing for porn though.
The correct answer would be "the Netbooks which will appear later this year".
The current netbooks are a pretty good option as well, especially the Asus 900 series Eee PCs which have a massive aftermarket for extra high-capacity batteries, replacement keyboards and other stuff.
Yes, they're small ... but they do everything and they can be carried around *very* easily. Portability is a far bigger advantage than you might imagine.
They also have a small footprint on tables and they're rubbish at 3D action games - both good things.
Nobody except this guy:
http://sydfish.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/zune-tattoo.jpg
Oh, now I see why it failed...
Steve Ballmer saying "squirt".
Heckuva marketing slogan, that one.
...except that this spreads via USB sticks and blocks antivirus updates.
A minor nitpick, I know...
Good idea! It's like the people who put PCs inside '80s-style arcade cabinets for playing Pacman and Defender on emulators.