Some basic mouse gestures have been added which I've found incredibly useful, like dragging a window to the side of the screen to have it resize and take up that half of the screen. There has also been a big focus on making the OS work fantastic with touchscreens and multi-touch gestures.
Wow, pretty cool. Been testing Win 7 for the entire beta and never noticed this cool little feature.
Universal Orlando has Islands of Adventure which has Spiderman, Hulk, and Dr. Doom rides as well as tons of licensed Marvel merchandise in the shops. Disney might wind up getting some of the licensing revenue for that section of the park, but I'd bet Universal has "lifetime" rights to keep the rides. So Disney may not be able to create any Marvel-themed rides in their parks, or at least not based on those three characters.
I have not yet seen any articles addressing how this deal affects the theme parks.
By "slow" and "fast" I meant the drunk was driving well under a posted speed limit while the "fast" driver was driving at the speed limit. So if a drunk is driving through my neighborhood at 15mph I'd be more worried about him/her than the sober person driving at the 25mph speed limit.
I don't have statistics to prove this, but I would assume that a sober individual driving at the legal speed limit is a safer driver than a drunk or impaired person driving below the speed limit.
I'm not suggesting that it should be legal to drive drunk, but I do think the punishments should be graduated from a minor offense (about like a speeding ticket), and compounded if you're doing other unsafe things (like speeding). There's a big difference between someone who has a few pints and drives home slowly and as safely as they can, after the other traffic has died down; and someone who downs a bottle and goes the wrong way on the freeway at 100mph. They are not even in the same league, but the legal system treats them almost identically.
Right now I think it's just a bad situation because people don't even know what 0.08 is until they end up in jail. Lots of people have a few drinks after work or with dinner and then drive home, and some significant fraction of those people are over 0.08 and don't even know it.
I agree, it's a challenge to figure out the right way to structure the penalties. I think that generally speaking right now the laws are actually skewed a bit in favor of the drunk driver when it comes to catastrophic accidents. There are any number of recent cases that the media has covered where a fatality was involved but the drunk driver got away with a relatively light sentence. One exception is Nassau County on Long Island where the DA has made a name for herself by prosecuting some drunk driving fatalities as manslaughter cases (depraved indifference).
So what do you charge a drunk driver with if he's driving the wrong way? Is it attempted murder if he hits someone but doesn't kill them?
And yes,.08 is not "drunk", but a person's abilities and reaction times are definitely impacted in a negative way by that BAC level. My post was really disputing the "urban legend" that driving slowly while you're drunk somehow makes you a safe driver.:)
I wonder if the same logic should be applied to drunk driving (with relatively low BAC). I am sure that some people after having a couple of beers drive extra carefully, not exceed the speed limit even by 1 mph, etc to avoid being caught. Arguably under these conditions they are driving safer than while they are sober.
"Slower" does not equal "Safer"
A slow drunk driver is not safer than a sober fast driver. It's all about reaction times and control when the driver needs to make a decision (i.e. granny walks in front of the car).
Microsoft is officially supporting RC to RTM upgrades, as they have done with prior betas. This does two things:
1: Encourages corporate users to install the RC on machines since they can later upgrade to RTM without doing a clean install
2: Encourages sales of RTM since everyone that installs RC will eventually be forced to upgrade or clean wipe to an older Windows version when the beta software expires (next year some time I believe).
Guess we have different tastes in magazines. About the only time I've seen automatic renewal has been via the magazine clearinghouse and prize companies. My in-laws got suckered into one of those scams, took a month to get it straightened out. Meanwhile, my wife and I have about a dozen subscriptions that we've renewed manually every two years for the past twenty-five years at my home. None have ever charged my card until I manually renewed.
I get periodic statements for my newspaper and cable/TV/phone subscriptions. Generally speaking those subscriptions are month-to-month. If I don't send a check, the newspaper stops. These folks do offer automatic billing to your credit card, but the ones I have seen are VERY clear about this offer. They don't bury the renewal option in the fine print.
A better example to the anti-virus subscription is a magazine subscription. You know up front that you are signing up for a one year, two year, or some other subscription time period. As that time period nears an end (usually much sooner) you start to receive notices that you should renew. Even if you paid the initial subscription with a credit card, they don't automatically renew with that card.
My Motorola PDA can stay calibrated for weeks on end, and the touch-screen PC in my hardware store paint department has been calibrated for over a year, but they can't keep a voting machine calibrated for more than a few hours?
Now when the pundits say the electorate is "drifting to the left" we'll know it's not a political shift but just a calibration drift.
It didn't complete the mission, so it failed. That makes it a failure. Was it a total failure? No, it didn't blow up on the launch pad so it wasn't a total failure.
In the court of world opinion, it definitely is a total failure. Rather than inspiring fear, people are now snickering and ridiculing the missile's premature splashdown.
I'm really pulling this theory out of thin air, but I'd venture that because it's "tougher" for women to be in the military then you find that the overall pool of women in the military are better qualified than the pool of men. A lot of the men that join the military are basically just breathing and walking and that's their qualification. I've known several men who couldn't do anything in the outside world and they joined the military to have some order brought into their life.
Isn't everything the government does ultimately due to pressure from one vocal minority or another? Government takes action when a vocal minority convinces them something will benefit the public at large. The public at large rarely speaks with one voice.
The fence between corporate and public. RIAA is pursuing the public, while the public is pursuing tobacco companies. At least that's one way to look at it. My point was really that he's worked on a variety of cases and seems quite good at what he does. It's like being a good professional assassin. We may not like what he does, but we can admire his skills and when forced to choose pick the best assassin for the job even if we don't like the fact that he killed someone we liked for a previous "hit".:)
"In 1997, Perrelli left Jenner & Block to join the Department of Justice and served as counsel to Attorney General Janet Reno. He subsequently rose to Deputy Assistant Attorney General, supervising the Federal Programs Branch of the Civil Division, which represents virtually every federal agency in complex civil litigation. In that role, Perrelli led a staff of 100 attorneys charged with defending the constitutionality of federal statutes, defending federal agency action and regulations, representing the diplomatic and national security interests of the United States in courts of law, and conducting significant Title VII, personnel and social security litigation.
Perrelli also supervised the Justice Department's Tobacco Litigation Team in its litigation against the major cigarette manufacturers. In addition, he played a leading role on significant policy issues ranging from medical records privacy and the use of adjusted figures in the census to Indian gaming and legal ethics."
No, I've established that he will do what it takes to accomplish the goals of his clients. I don't want my DoJ lawyers to be compassionate, I want them to pursue criminals with no mercy. Let the judge dish out leniency.
Some noble attorneys take lower paying positions as public defenders, or take on cases pro bono to help a political cause. However, many (most?) take cases based on the financial benefits to be gained. Mr. Perrelli is paid by the RIAA to represent them, he doesn't represent them because he hates file sharers or technology. And he's done a pretty good job for his clients, so hopefully he will do a good job for his new client, the DoJ.
The vast majority of light bulbs are imported from China. Incandescent, halogen, fluorescent, CFL, you name it, it's likely made in China. I own a hardware store and have watched over the years as production of GE bulbs has shifted from the US to Mexico to China. It was interesting to note that some of the specialty bulbs (for example, a bulb called Lumiline) had very high defective return rates when produced in Mexico, so GE moved manufacturing back to the US for a while until the bugs were worked out.
Anyway, this transportation cost objection is bogus IMHO. Incandescents weigh slightly less than CFL's, but they take as much "cube" space in container loads so the cost to transport is probably similar to CFL's.
We looked at putting solar panels on our hardware store roof, but business installations can't sell their excess power back to the utility like home installations can. So on days we're closed (Sunday for example) our excess generating capacity would be wasted. They need to change the laws to encourage business installations.
Yes, the amount of oil required to make ethanol is mind-boggling. What with fertilizer, diesel farm equipment, trucks to transport, asphalt roads, etc. it truly is not an oil "replacement" by any stretch of the imagination.
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Some basic mouse gestures have been added which I've found incredibly useful, like dragging a window to the side of the screen to have it resize and take up that half of the screen. There has also been a big focus on making the OS work fantastic with touchscreens and multi-touch gestures.
Wow, pretty cool. Been testing Win 7 for the entire beta and never noticed this cool little feature.
Universal Orlando has Islands of Adventure which has Spiderman, Hulk, and Dr. Doom rides as well as tons of licensed Marvel merchandise in the shops. Disney might wind up getting some of the licensing revenue for that section of the park, but I'd bet Universal has "lifetime" rights to keep the rides. So Disney may not be able to create any Marvel-themed rides in their parks, or at least not based on those three characters.
I have not yet seen any articles addressing how this deal affects the theme parks.
It's all about reaction times and control when the driver needs to make a decision (i.e. granny walks in front of the car).
Being of sound mind and completely sober at this moment, the correct answer is floor it, no? I could probably do that quick enough even drunk.
Did grandma not give you milk and cookies when you stopped at her house after school? :)
By "slow" and "fast" I meant the drunk was driving well under a posted speed limit while the "fast" driver was driving at the speed limit. So if a drunk is driving through my neighborhood at 15mph I'd be more worried about him/her than the sober person driving at the 25mph speed limit.
I don't have statistics to prove this, but I would assume that a sober individual driving at the legal speed limit is a safer driver than a drunk or impaired person driving below the speed limit.
I'm not suggesting that it should be legal to drive drunk, but I do think the punishments should be graduated from a minor offense (about like a speeding ticket), and compounded if you're doing other unsafe things (like speeding). There's a big difference between someone who has a few pints and drives home slowly and as safely as they can, after the other traffic has died down; and someone who downs a bottle and goes the wrong way on the freeway at 100mph. They are not even in the same league, but the legal system treats them almost identically.
Right now I think it's just a bad situation because people don't even know what 0.08 is until they end up in jail. Lots of people have a few drinks after work or with dinner and then drive home, and some significant fraction of those people are over 0.08 and don't even know it.
I agree, it's a challenge to figure out the right way to structure the penalties. I think that generally speaking right now the laws are actually skewed a bit in favor of the drunk driver when it comes to catastrophic accidents. There are any number of recent cases that the media has covered where a fatality was involved but the drunk driver got away with a relatively light sentence. One exception is Nassau County on Long Island where the DA has made a name for herself by prosecuting some drunk driving fatalities as manslaughter cases (depraved indifference).
So what do you charge a drunk driver with if he's driving the wrong way? Is it attempted murder if he hits someone but doesn't kill them?
And yes, .08 is not "drunk", but a person's abilities and reaction times are definitely impacted in a negative way by that BAC level. My post was really disputing the "urban legend" that driving slowly while you're drunk somehow makes you a safe driver. :)
I wonder if the same logic should be applied to drunk driving (with relatively low BAC). I am sure that some people after having a couple of beers drive extra carefully, not exceed the speed limit even by 1 mph, etc to avoid being caught. Arguably under these conditions they are driving safer than while they are sober.
"Slower" does not equal "Safer"
A slow drunk driver is not safer than a sober fast driver. It's all about reaction times and control when the driver needs to make a decision (i.e. granny walks in front of the car).
The linked post you provide specifically refers to upgrading pre-RC builds to RC. I'm talking about RC to RTM.
In the beta newsgroups and in the beta RC documentation MS specifically stated that RC to RTM would be officially supported.
Microsoft is officially supporting RC to RTM upgrades, as they have done with prior betas. This does two things:
1: Encourages corporate users to install the RC on machines since they can later upgrade to RTM without doing a clean install
2: Encourages sales of RTM since everyone that installs RC will eventually be forced to upgrade or clean wipe to an older Windows version when the beta software expires (next year some time I believe).
Actually, I call them checks, but they go through via online banking EFT. Old terminology, sorry.
Guess we have different tastes in magazines. About the only time I've seen automatic renewal has been via the magazine clearinghouse and prize companies. My in-laws got suckered into one of those scams, took a month to get it straightened out. Meanwhile, my wife and I have about a dozen subscriptions that we've renewed manually every two years for the past twenty-five years at my home. None have ever charged my card until I manually renewed.
I get periodic statements for my newspaper and cable/TV/phone subscriptions. Generally speaking those subscriptions are month-to-month. If I don't send a check, the newspaper stops. These folks do offer automatic billing to your credit card, but the ones I have seen are VERY clear about this offer. They don't bury the renewal option in the fine print.
A better example to the anti-virus subscription is a magazine subscription. You know up front that you are signing up for a one year, two year, or some other subscription time period. As that time period nears an end (usually much sooner) you start to receive notices that you should renew. Even if you paid the initial subscription with a credit card, they don't automatically renew with that card.
The violation is not that the police tracked the suspect via GPS, it's that they planted the device on the car.
My Motorola PDA can stay calibrated for weeks on end, and the touch-screen PC in my hardware store paint department has been calibrated for over a year, but they can't keep a voting machine calibrated for more than a few hours?
Now when the pundits say the electorate is "drifting to the left" we'll know it's not a political shift but just a calibration drift.
It didn't complete the mission, so it failed. That makes it a failure. Was it a total failure? No, it didn't blow up on the launch pad so it wasn't a total failure.
In the court of world opinion, it definitely is a total failure. Rather than inspiring fear, people are now snickering and ridiculing the missile's premature splashdown.
I'm really pulling this theory out of thin air, but I'd venture that because it's "tougher" for women to be in the military then you find that the overall pool of women in the military are better qualified than the pool of men. A lot of the men that join the military are basically just breathing and walking and that's their qualification. I've known several men who couldn't do anything in the outside world and they joined the military to have some order brought into their life.
because the release date is open-ended?
Isn't everything the government does ultimately due to pressure from one vocal minority or another? Government takes action when a vocal minority convinces them something will benefit the public at large. The public at large rarely speaks with one voice.
The fence between corporate and public. RIAA is pursuing the public, while the public is pursuing tobacco companies. At least that's one way to look at it. My point was really that he's worked on a variety of cases and seems quite good at what he does. It's like being a good professional assassin. We may not like what he does, but we can admire his skills and when forced to choose pick the best assassin for the job even if we don't like the fact that he killed someone we liked for a previous "hit". :)
From Wikipedia:
"In 1997, Perrelli left Jenner & Block to join the Department of Justice and served as counsel to Attorney General Janet Reno. He subsequently rose to Deputy Assistant Attorney General, supervising the Federal Programs Branch of the Civil Division, which represents virtually every federal agency in complex civil litigation. In that role, Perrelli led a staff of 100 attorneys charged with defending the constitutionality of federal statutes, defending federal agency action and regulations, representing the diplomatic and national security interests of the United States in courts of law, and conducting significant Title VII, personnel and social security litigation.
Perrelli also supervised the Justice Department's Tobacco Litigation Team in its litigation against the major cigarette manufacturers. In addition, he played a leading role on significant policy issues ranging from medical records privacy and the use of adjusted figures in the census to Indian gaming and legal ethics."
From Wikipedia (YMMV):
"Perrelli also supervised the Justice Department's Tobacco Litigation Team in its litigation against the major cigarette manufacturers."
So he's worked both sides of the fence in terms of "moral" issues.
No, I've established that he will do what it takes to accomplish the goals of his clients. I don't want my DoJ lawyers to be compassionate, I want them to pursue criminals with no mercy. Let the judge dish out leniency.
Some noble attorneys take lower paying positions as public defenders, or take on cases pro bono to help a political cause. However, many (most?) take cases based on the financial benefits to be gained. Mr. Perrelli is paid by the RIAA to represent them, he doesn't represent them because he hates file sharers or technology. And he's done a pretty good job for his clients, so hopefully he will do a good job for his new client, the DoJ.
The vast majority of light bulbs are imported from China. Incandescent, halogen, fluorescent, CFL, you name it, it's likely made in China. I own a hardware store and have watched over the years as production of GE bulbs has shifted from the US to Mexico to China. It was interesting to note that some of the specialty bulbs (for example, a bulb called Lumiline) had very high defective return rates when produced in Mexico, so GE moved manufacturing back to the US for a while until the bugs were worked out.
Anyway, this transportation cost objection is bogus IMHO. Incandescents weigh slightly less than CFL's, but they take as much "cube" space in container loads so the cost to transport is probably similar to CFL's.
We looked at putting solar panels on our hardware store roof, but business installations can't sell their excess power back to the utility like home installations can. So on days we're closed (Sunday for example) our excess generating capacity would be wasted. They need to change the laws to encourage business installations.
Yes, the amount of oil required to make ethanol is mind-boggling. What with fertilizer, diesel farm equipment, trucks to transport, asphalt roads, etc. it truly is not an oil "replacement" by any stretch of the imagination.