Earlier this week I installed the beta on my laptop to see if things were really different. My first impression of the desktop was "Huh... kind of looks like the desktop that Red Hat had a couple of years ago" and ended with me reinstalling Ubuntu 2 days later when the laptop wouldn't wake from sleep mode and IE crashing every 5 minutes.
Or you could say that the 4 of 10 could be still getting hit by the Mac Truck on the sidewalk, but the VW comes along and still runs you over afterwards. Probably just to make sure your dead.
I was thinking about the 70/30 ratio and everywhere I go I see the linux version sold out and the XP version available as well.
I think that ASUS is making more of the XP versions available and gives the appearance that XP is doing better, probably because microsoft is giving away XP with a caveat that they ship more XP units.
My neighbour bought the 10" XP version, and was comparing it with my 7" linux version, and he loved mine, even with the smaller screen. The interface was more intuitive to him and everything was "snapper" as well.
I guess people think that since XP costs money and linux is free, that people will take XP instead thinking it is a superior product.
> Anyway, the Oort cloud may well be like the Alps were to Bronze Age man: impassible
> except in certain locations and conditions.
That's silly. The density of the Oort cloud is very, very low. It consists mostly of kilometer-size objects seperated by tens of millions of kilometers. It does not form any sort of a barrier.
Given that we are going to moving fairly fast and the depth of the Oort cloud is large (wikipedia has the depth between 2000 and 5000 AU and in some places 50000 AU deep). That chances of hitting something more significant, and who knows what other objects are between us and Epsilon Eridani.
So i think we need to map the Oort cloud before we even think about leaving our own solar system. And something else to think about is I remember hearing awhile ago that the trajectory of the Voyager is changing because of some unknown mass (dark matter???).
Its too risky to fire a ship into the unknown and expect that it will survive.
In Canada its the same way, except in the last couple of years people (Generation X and younger) talk in l/100km and don't bother trying to convert to mpg/gal.
I think this would even be harder with closed source. You haven't seen the code prior to doing any work with it, whereas you can read the open source at any point before working on it.
If you are concerned about replacing the box at some point, then buy 2, which is still cheaper than buying the retail version.
At any rate, the box is probably going to outlive XP support, and unless you beef up the hardware you won't be able to run Vista with any sort of performance pain. And who knows what Windows 7 is going to look like. I would like to think that MS has smartened up and made it less of a memory hog and cleaned up the UI workflow (Cancel / Allow crap).
The only thing that concerns me, is that they will use all the time and on anyone that looks at them wrong. An analogy would be like giving cops Tazers, and I see them using those weapons on absolutely everyone.
If Microsoft is going down the path of non-"backwards compatibility", then it would be really nice of them to include a VM of a XP sandbox for the legacy apps to play in.
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Earlier this week I installed the beta on my laptop to see if things were really different. My first impression of the desktop was "Huh... kind of looks like the desktop that Red Hat had a couple of years ago" and ended with me reinstalling Ubuntu 2 days later when the laptop wouldn't wake from sleep mode and IE crashing every 5 minutes.
Try the Canadian version. I enjoy a lot more than the American version, unfortunately the season just ended on the weekend.
http://www.cfl.ca/
Or you could say that the 4 of 10 could be still getting hit by the Mac Truck on the sidewalk, but the VW comes along and still runs you over afterwards. Probably just to make sure your dead.
I was thinking about the 70/30 ratio and everywhere I go I see the linux version sold out and the XP version available as well.
I think that ASUS is making more of the XP versions available and gives the appearance that XP is doing better, probably because microsoft is giving away XP with a caveat that they ship more XP units.
My neighbour bought the 10" XP version, and was comparing it with my 7" linux version, and he loved mine, even with the smaller screen. The interface was more intuitive to him and everything was "snapper" as well. I guess people think that since XP costs money and linux is free, that people will take XP instead thinking it is a superior product.
> Anyway, the Oort cloud may well be like the Alps were to Bronze Age man: impassible > except in certain locations and conditions.
That's silly. The density of the Oort cloud is very, very low. It consists mostly of kilometer-size objects seperated by tens of millions of kilometers. It does not form any sort of a barrier.
Given that we are going to moving fairly fast and the depth of the Oort cloud is large (wikipedia has the depth between 2000 and 5000 AU and in some places 50000 AU deep). That chances of hitting something more significant, and who knows what other objects are between us and Epsilon Eridani.
So i think we need to map the Oort cloud before we even think about leaving our own solar system. And something else to think about is I remember hearing awhile ago that the trajectory of the Voyager is changing because of some unknown mass (dark matter???).
Its too risky to fire a ship into the unknown and expect that it will survive.
Are they buying back stock just to sell it later at a higher price OR are they buying back stock and writing it off the books?
In Canada its the same way, except in the last couple of years people (Generation X and younger) talk in l/100km and don't bother trying to convert to mpg/gal.
How about leaky gastanks.... got to make sure they do it right.... and no fire suppression system, unless its halon.
...is pretty useless when you want to type a text message one handed.
Why one hand? Is the other pitching batting practice.
I think this would even be harder with closed source. You haven't seen the code prior to doing any work with it, whereas you can read the open source at any point before working on it.
More like a T-SQL problem than a MS problem.
ummmm.... Bioware is actually Canadian
http://www.bioware.com/bioware_info/contact/
Parents concerned by children's.... oh nevermind.
Is there a difference between -R and +R regarding this issue?
Maybe we can get something like what an XSD is to an XML document for the ODF documents.
I can take an XML and try to fit it against an XSD and it will tell me when it fails.
Thoughts?
If you are concerned about replacing the box at some point, then buy 2, which is still cheaper than buying the retail version.
At any rate, the box is probably going to outlive XP support, and unless you beef up the hardware you won't be able to run Vista with any sort of performance pain. And who knows what Windows 7 is going to look like. I would like to think that MS has smartened up and made it less of a memory hog and cleaned up the UI workflow (Cancel / Allow crap).
$90 for XP Home SP3 (cheaper if you buy in bulk): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116511
As long as I can still cheat with Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, A, B, Select
Last time I checked, there was a native Linux version of Alpha Centuri.
Martha Stewart... the fire that lights my loins
Is that you Twitter?
Define a heavy user? Is it someone who downloads 30 Gb in a short time (couple of days) or spreads that 30Gb over a month?
The only thing that concerns me, is that they will use all the time and on anyone that looks at them wrong. An analogy would be like giving cops Tazers, and I see them using those weapons on absolutely everyone.
I would like to thank everyone out there for seeding these babies.
If Microsoft is going down the path of non-"backwards compatibility", then it would be really nice of them to include a VM of a XP sandbox for the legacy apps to play in.