On my windows machine my main login is a limited user.
It cannot write to the Program Files directory.
It cannot write to the Root directory.
It cannot write to the Windows directory.
While the primary concern is the ability to write to the registry, it seems like the main issue with security between macs/unix and windows are the DEFAULTS of having users be computer administrators.
Can't most computer viruses simply be disabled in XP? Even if it isn't by default?
People have portable DVD players, which they use when they are not stationary, have a large screen TV, or other thing.
I see people use these on the trains, in planes, in minivans, on vacation, etc.
IF this device worked well, looked nice, and didn't have the huge potential of giving people obscene headaches, it provides people with reusing a smaller portable DVD player, they can load 5? 10? DVDs onto a good IPOD, and they can play them anywhere they go. Pretty damned nice.
As other people have stated, having a two eye visor would be better. Especially if you can shift the display to 1 eye if you wanted and then have the other eye be see through to see what is going on in RL...
Is this similar to the multiple UNIX vendor problem of 10 years ago.
Instead of increasing development and support costs for many unix vendors, we are now fragmenting the support for Linux the same way, only this time it's at the OS level only, not also the hardware level.
Provided one unified distro, Windows would have a harder time competing against it, right?
Not so much a commentary as a question I'd like to consider.
When I consider things like artificial modifications to mathematical models, and non-closed form universes, it makes me believe that our fundamental mathematical equations are somehow incomplete (Not a real big stretch there anyways).
A gas will expand to fill the space provided, and yet will also contract based on gravitational forces. Is it possible that the very presense of nothing beyond the 28Billion light years is the cause of the universe expanding, just like gas? And is it possible to evaluate this hypothesis based on how Earths atmosphere, and the sun's atmosphere (and the oort cloud) behave?
Not explicitly, no. But while I worked at a large HedgeFund (700 people or so) they benchmarked various hardware/OS platforms to determine moving from Sun boxes to PC boxes.
For a 200 CPU IBM blade server it would cost them 400k, for the equivalent SUN box it would cost them 1.6M. The blade outperformed the Sun box by 2-4 for their applications, which was a significant performance boost for their real time applications.
They made a strategic direction to go and replace all SUN boxes with Linux boxes.
So, the OS may not have been evaluated, other than on vendor support, expected longevity, and reliability. But I find this comment unnerving "It's easy to lose that $1,700 in downtime, spend it on a Windows engineer's new RHCE or such...". Simply because it assumes that Windows is (and will be) more reliable than the alternatives.
Yes, It IS a tax. And more money for the system.
But they did put money away. The money they put away is currently a very large SS surplus, invested in special govt bonds.
The SS acts very similar to any other pension plan, except it actually seems to be run more conservative than most. If any defined benifit plan runs into a deficit, the employer is required to make up the difference. Same with SS.
Two problems, most pension plans require that the employer amortize the difference as soon as it starts to be noticed. SS doesn't, which would involve a huge crisis in 2040.
2018 is simply when they have to start taking alittle of that money they put away and using it, not the other way around.
When exercising the stock option, the exercise price is paid to the company, so the value being paid increases the Equity pool at the same time.
10% of 100m is the same as 6.67% of a larger pool. (This assumes that management can actually USE the extra equity to generate more return though).
The real value is the "time value" component of the option. The employee doesn't have to put money in now, so he doesn't have to risk his money unless the upside is realizable.
Stock goes down, he didn't buy.
Stock goes up, he can immediately buy low and sell high.
Well, this _does_ warrant some scrutiny.
Like you mentioned, the chip is hardly marketable now anyways, and it'll become completely unmarketable soon if it isn't already.
So, Why is Intel spending 2 years to get rid of this outdated inventory?
They don't want to take the hit (on their net income) now is why, they'll either depreciate it over the next two years slowly burning this Loss, or take a big hit in 2 years from now.
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On my windows machine my main login is a limited user. It cannot write to the Program Files directory. It cannot write to the Root directory. It cannot write to the Windows directory. While the primary concern is the ability to write to the registry, it seems like the main issue with security between macs/unix and windows are the DEFAULTS of having users be computer administrators. Can't most computer viruses simply be disabled in XP? Even if it isn't by default?
IF the device really works...
People have portable DVD players, which they use when they are not stationary, have a large screen TV, or other thing.
I see people use these on the trains, in planes, in minivans, on vacation, etc.
IF this device worked well, looked nice, and didn't have the huge potential of giving people obscene headaches, it provides people with reusing a smaller portable DVD player, they can load 5? 10? DVDs onto a good IPOD, and they can play them anywhere they go. Pretty damned nice.
As other people have stated, having a two eye visor would be better. Especially if you can shift the display to 1 eye if you wanted and then have the other eye be see through to see what is going on in RL...
Is this similar to the multiple UNIX vendor problem of 10 years ago.
Instead of increasing development and support costs for many unix vendors, we are now fragmenting the support for Linux the same way, only this time it's at the OS level only, not also the hardware level.
Provided one unified distro, Windows would have a harder time competing against it, right?
Not so much a commentary as a question I'd like to consider.
When I consider things like artificial modifications to mathematical models, and non-closed form universes, it makes me believe that our fundamental mathematical equations are somehow incomplete (Not a real big stretch there anyways).
A gas will expand to fill the space provided, and yet will also contract based on gravitational forces. Is it possible that the very presense of nothing beyond the 28Billion light years is the cause of the universe expanding, just like gas? And is it possible to evaluate this hypothesis based on how Earths atmosphere, and the sun's atmosphere (and the oort cloud) behave?
Um, YES.
Not explicitly, no. But while I worked at a large HedgeFund (700 people or so) they benchmarked various hardware/OS platforms to determine moving from Sun boxes to PC boxes.
For a 200 CPU IBM blade server it would cost them 400k, for the equivalent SUN box it would cost them 1.6M. The blade outperformed the Sun box by 2-4 for their applications, which was a significant performance boost for their real time applications.
They made a strategic direction to go and replace all SUN boxes with Linux boxes.
So, the OS may not have been evaluated, other than on vendor support, expected longevity, and reliability. But I find this comment unnerving "It's easy to lose that $1,700 in downtime, spend it on a Windows engineer's new RHCE or such...". Simply because it assumes that Windows is (and will be) more reliable than the alternatives.
Most likely the amount of friction in space is negligible so we don't need to worry about slowdown between here and there.
The most likely deceleration would be the destination planet's own gravity. If you can maneuver to be caught in an orbit, your set.
Yes, It IS a tax. And more money for the system. But they did put money away. The money they put away is currently a very large SS surplus, invested in special govt bonds. The SS acts very similar to any other pension plan, except it actually seems to be run more conservative than most. If any defined benifit plan runs into a deficit, the employer is required to make up the difference. Same with SS. Two problems, most pension plans require that the employer amortize the difference as soon as it starts to be noticed. SS doesn't, which would involve a huge crisis in 2040. 2018 is simply when they have to start taking alittle of that money they put away and using it, not the other way around.
This is somewhat misleading.
When exercising the stock option, the exercise price is paid to the company, so the value being paid increases the Equity pool at the same time.
10% of 100m is the same as 6.67% of a larger pool. (This assumes that management can actually USE the extra equity to generate more return though).
The real value is the "time value" component of the option. The employee doesn't have to put money in now, so he doesn't have to risk his money unless the upside is realizable.
Stock goes down, he didn't buy.
Stock goes up, he can immediately buy low and sell high.
Well, this _does_ warrant some scrutiny. Like you mentioned, the chip is hardly marketable now anyways, and it'll become completely unmarketable soon if it isn't already. So, Why is Intel spending 2 years to get rid of this outdated inventory? They don't want to take the hit (on their net income) now is why, they'll either depreciate it over the next two years slowly burning this Loss, or take a big hit in 2 years from now.