Microsoft handed out $10 Windows 7 licenses to all Best Buy employees. They gave them out for free with the House Party promotions. They sold $50 upgrades. I'm sure they gave more out to select partners.
Vista adoption was slow, and it had a bunch of early negative buzz. I think Microsoft didn't care about price or profits so much as appearance. If they can show lots of early adoption and try to generate early positive buzz, they feel it will carry the product for years to come.
I originally planned to keep a Windows XP x64 partition alongside Linux and 7, but I haven't. The future lies with 7, and I'm all aboard for better or worse.
7 boots faster, but requires more CPU and memory than XP. It is not faster on the same hardware.
It is significantly better than Vista largely because they fixed the broken video driver API in Vista. Aero, gaming and anything that needed accelerated video in Vista performed horribly.
Google has made an OS however. No one is taking is seriously because it it basically a web browser. And while Microsoft and others are busy talking about the Cloud, people forget that Google is sitting on this.
What happens when users don't need to install apps or worry about security so much because apps can just run natively in the cloud in a sandboxed instance? You just access them from the web, and they just work.
Then suddenly that simple, secure OS that Google made becomes vastly more interesting.
Exactly my point. If we don't feel it is necessary to regulate the movie and music industry in this regard, then why video games?
Some senators have specifically called for video games to be treated the same as pornography. So a CD with explicit lyrics, and a movie with graphic sex scenes are acceptable, but video games should be treated as pornography?
This is tangental, but I also find it weird that Congress got all upset because of incidents like the "Hot Coffee" mod that put a sex mini-game back into Grand Theft Auto. I've heard conflicting reports over whether or not the characters wore clothes in the mini-game, but apparently murdering people is acceptable in games. Sex is not.
What does that say about us as a society that sex is worse than murder?
We're WAY too repressed. I oon't want my kids playing Grand Theft Auto, but when we allow kids to be partially exposed to sex on cable, music, ads, etc. but then we tell them it is horrible and taboo, I think we just push them to it all that much more. Instead of half-shielding them with such knee-jerk reactions, maybe we should focus on education. Teach them about STDs and pregnancy.
Movie theaters are encouraged not to sell tickets to kids for R-rated movies, but it isn't against the law. The unwritten policy most theaters seem to follow is that kids can see these movies when accompanied by parents, but sometimes they do sell tickets to kids.
The charge for video game censorship has been led by Democrats in California and New York. Hillary Clinton has considered it one of her personal crusades.
I won't begin to suggest all Democrats are evil. I'm a middle of the road guy. But suggesting that this is a Republican issue just isn't factually correct.
I'd rather the government not control business that much.
Google and T-Mobile are offering an altnerative model here where you pay full price for the phone, and then get a discount on your phone plan since you're not paying to subsidize the cost of the phone. If T-Mobile's network didn't suck so much, I'd be interested.
Verizon is passing on the Nexus, not because it is a bad phone, but rather because they don't want to open the door to this new business model. For instance, what happens to every customer (like my parents for example) that keep their phones longer than 2 years. Would their plans suddenly have to come down in price once they were no longer subdizing the cost of a phone?
Verizon wants no part of that. I can understand why consumers are upset. But let consumers vote with their wallets rather that over-regulate with Congress.
The iPhone 4 prototype that leaked has second camera that faces the user. It could go gesture recognition as well. However, the last thing I want is a less accurate means to control my phone. Why wave my fingers in front of the phone, when I could just extend my fingers slightly more and touch the screen?
Thankfully most of the motherboards I've purchased in the past few years allow me to load BIOS updates from USB storage. I think that was one of the last major uses for a floppy.
Would you rather they enforce a no-fly list for "people of interest" (often because they attended terrorist training camps, or that we have to remove yet another piece of clothing in the airport for security theater?
We're talking about McAfee running on Windows. Way to be off-topic and ignorant yourself.
That isn't to say Unix and Linux boxes never run anti-virus protection. Some just run on mail servers to protect against virus attachments. But when you run anti-virus in a *nix environment, you often still run real time protection.
In most enterprise environments McAfee is going to have real time protection against running processes. Can you point me to an enterprise environment where this wouldn't be the case?
Police officers in theory are not above the law. They are supposed to be held accountable to the same laws as us. If they lied in an investigation and intentionally withheld evidence, they should be charged with obstruction of justice.
They arrested Rachner for obstruction of justice for not identifying himself. Every lawyer on the planet tells you never to talk to a cop for any reason. I'm not sure I agree with it, but I understand the logic behind it. However you can't just arrest someone for not talking to a cop.
Thanks! I sent him an email. If I get a response, and it looks like he may take up a possible class action lawsuit, I promise to submit a Slashdot article on it (as well as post a link in my signature!)
He wasn't measured at 5'7" and then measured at 6'1" later. The victim's statement described the attacker as 5'7" in one case, and another victim many years later described the attacker as 6'1".
If you only look at cases with DNA evidence, two cases right next to each other in 1997 have a victim describing the attacker as 5'6", and the next case has a victim describing the attacker as 5'10". DNA says this is the same person.
It would seem that either the DNA evidence is completely flawed, or the victim's guesses at the attacker's height is flawed.
Unless the loss of cable customers just transforms to more people paying for higher tier internet from them, and buying Hulu subscriptions from Hulu/NBC/Comcast.
Other cable companies would suffer more, where as it wouldn't hurt Comcast so much.
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Microsoft handed out $10 Windows 7 licenses to all Best Buy employees. They gave them out for free with the House Party promotions. They sold $50 upgrades. I'm sure they gave more out to select partners.
Vista adoption was slow, and it had a bunch of early negative buzz. I think Microsoft didn't care about price or profits so much as appearance. If they can show lots of early adoption and try to generate early positive buzz, they feel it will carry the product for years to come.
I originally planned to keep a Windows XP x64 partition alongside Linux and 7, but I haven't. The future lies with 7, and I'm all aboard for better or worse.
7 boots faster, but requires more CPU and memory than XP. It is not faster on the same hardware.
It is significantly better than Vista largely because they fixed the broken video driver API in Vista. Aero, gaming and anything that needed accelerated video in Vista performed horribly.
Google has made an OS however. No one is taking is seriously because it it basically a web browser. And while Microsoft and others are busy talking about the Cloud, people forget that Google is sitting on this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Native_Client
What happens when users don't need to install apps or worry about security so much because apps can just run natively in the cloud in a sandboxed instance? You just access them from the web, and they just work.
Then suddenly that simple, secure OS that Google made becomes vastly more interesting.
Exactly my point. If we don't feel it is necessary to regulate the movie and music industry in this regard, then why video games?
Some senators have specifically called for video games to be treated the same as pornography. So a CD with explicit lyrics, and a movie with graphic sex scenes are acceptable, but video games should be treated as pornography?
This is tangental, but I also find it weird that Congress got all upset because of incidents like the "Hot Coffee" mod that put a sex mini-game back into Grand Theft Auto. I've heard conflicting reports over whether or not the characters wore clothes in the mini-game, but apparently murdering people is acceptable in games. Sex is not.
What does that say about us as a society that sex is worse than murder?
We're WAY too repressed. I oon't want my kids playing Grand Theft Auto, but when we allow kids to be partially exposed to sex on cable, music, ads, etc. but then we tell them it is horrible and taboo, I think we just push them to it all that much more. Instead of half-shielding them with such knee-jerk reactions, maybe we should focus on education. Teach them about STDs and pregnancy.
Movie theaters are encouraged not to sell tickets to kids for R-rated movies, but it isn't against the law. The unwritten policy most theaters seem to follow is that kids can see these movies when accompanied by parents, but sometimes they do sell tickets to kids.
The charge for video game censorship has been led by Democrats in California and New York. Hillary Clinton has considered it one of her personal crusades.
I won't begin to suggest all Democrats are evil. I'm a middle of the road guy. But suggesting that this is a Republican issue just isn't factually correct.
The video game industry puts ratings right on the cover. I don't want the goverment to tell me how to raise my kids.
We let the movie and music industries self-regulate. Why should video games be any different?
That's not Google's idea. That is AT&T's idea.
If you buy a Nexus One and sign up with T-Mobile, you get a discount on your monthly rate since you're not subsidizing a phone.
It should be illegal?
I'd rather the government not control business that much.
Google and T-Mobile are offering an altnerative model here where you pay full price for the phone, and then get a discount on your phone plan since you're not paying to subsidize the cost of the phone. If T-Mobile's network didn't suck so much, I'd be interested.
Verizon is passing on the Nexus, not because it is a bad phone, but rather because they don't want to open the door to this new business model. For instance, what happens to every customer (like my parents for example) that keep their phones longer than 2 years. Would their plans suddenly have to come down in price once they were no longer subdizing the cost of a phone?
Verizon wants no part of that. I can understand why consumers are upset. But let consumers vote with their wallets rather that over-regulate with Congress.
The iPhone 4 prototype that leaked has second camera that faces the user. It could go gesture recognition as well. However, the last thing I want is a less accurate means to control my phone. Why wave my fingers in front of the phone, when I could just extend my fingers slightly more and touch the screen?
I have a pocket flash drive that I've run through the wash twice and it still works. That is considerably better than most magnetic storage.
Thankfully most of the motherboards I've purchased in the past few years allow me to load BIOS updates from USB storage. I think that was one of the last major uses for a floppy.
Are you suggesting me make it illegal to associate with others, or to pursue information?
I think that is a far worse offense to civil liberties than a no-fly list.
Not really. Everytime we have an underwear-bomber, we need a useless knee-jerk reaction to make people feel safe.
Would you rather they enforce a no-fly list for "people of interest" (often because they attended terrorist training camps, or that we have to remove yet another piece of clothing in the airport for security theater?
We're talking about McAfee running on Windows. Way to be off-topic and ignorant yourself.
That isn't to say Unix and Linux boxes never run anti-virus protection. Some just run on mail servers to protect against virus attachments. But when you run anti-virus in a *nix environment, you often still run real time protection.
Microsoft Forefront is what I'd suggest.
In most enterprise environments McAfee is going to have real time protection against running processes. Can you point me to an enterprise environment where this wouldn't be the case?
I thought this affected anyone running XP SP3, which I expect would be a majority of enterprise desktops, not less than half of one percent.
I wasn't judging the victims. I was just explaining the discrepancy.
Police officers in theory are not above the law. They are supposed to be held accountable to the same laws as us. If they lied in an investigation and intentionally withheld evidence, they should be charged with obstruction of justice.
They arrested Rachner for obstruction of justice for not identifying himself. Every lawyer on the planet tells you never to talk to a cop for any reason. I'm not sure I agree with it, but I understand the logic behind it. However you can't just arrest someone for not talking to a cop.
Shouldn't the officers in this case be charged with obstruction of justice?
Thanks! I sent him an email. If I get a response, and it looks like he may take up a possible class action lawsuit, I promise to submit a Slashdot article on it (as well as post a link in my signature!)
He wasn't measured at 5'7" and then measured at 6'1" later. The victim's statement described the attacker as 5'7" in one case, and another victim many years later described the attacker as 6'1".
If you only look at cases with DNA evidence, two cases right next to each other in 1997 have a victim describing the attacker as 5'6", and the next case has a victim describing the attacker as 5'10". DNA says this is the same person.
It would seem that either the DNA evidence is completely flawed, or the victim's guesses at the attacker's height is flawed.
Unless the loss of cable customers just transforms to more people paying for higher tier internet from them, and buying Hulu subscriptions from Hulu/NBC/Comcast.
Other cable companies would suffer more, where as it wouldn't hurt Comcast so much.