Windows or Linux is not limited in any way or inferior to OSX in this regard.
That hasn't been my experience though. My Powerbook (1.67GHz/1GB RAM) wakes up from sleep in a second, I login (locked screensaver) and I can start browsing the web via my Airport connection in under 3 seconds. On the other hand, my Windows desktop (AMD Athlon XP 2400+ on some MSI motherboard with 2GB of RAM) wakes up from S3 sleep in about 4 seconds to the lock screen, I login, and then I have to wait another 20-30 seconds for the networking to come online, even if I statically assign the IP address to rule out a DHCP issue! My Mac uses DHCP and it works fine waking from sleep though. Don't even get me started on Linux... Linux absolutely sucks for desktop power management uses.
The newest Ubuntu on the exact same desktop I use for Windows won't ever go to full S3 standby, it just looks like it blanks the screen and doesn't power down any of the hard drives or fans like Windows does. Yea, I know, go to some web site and grab this or that package and compile this or that to load some custom kernel module that may or may not fix the issue. NO! It should just work! ACPI S3 sleep mode has been out for a long time and the fact that, at least this distribution of, Linux doesn't support it as a standard feature without screwing around is absolutely lame.
Not only can you migrate a running VM without downtime
I'm pretty hard to please sometimes, but Vmotion is probably the single coolest feature of VMware ESX. The first time I sat there on a running VM while it was being migrated to another ESX server and didn't notice a single second of downtime while browsing the web (I had RDP'd to the box) I was in love. I was also pinging the machine from another window and it didn't drop a single packet. I really hope they eventually allow this feature to sneak into the free VMware Server and let you use it on NAS data stores for small businesses or home environments, but I doubt it.
Currently, I don't use VOIP but that's only because I have a cell phone and paying for two seemed kind of silly.
I hear a lot of people say to just use a cell phone as their main line, and I've got a cell phone with 1400 minutes a month shared between my wife and I, but what do you give out as your "home phone number" when people ask for it if you're married? Plus I can only have one cell phone extension per number so I'd have to remember to carry around my cell phone when I go upstairs or I'll miss a call by the time I run downstairs. Granted, we probably only use our Vonage line about 50 minutes a month or so, but having a shared common phone number for people to reach *both* of us is why we have it.
I really don't know why anyone would go with Vonage to begin with. There are other options that are cheaper, better audio quality, demand lower bandwidth and provide a greater free calling area with significantly reduced international calling rates.
Like who? I pay about $30 a month for the unlimited service after taxes and charges and I get reliable service. How much more could I ask for? When I pick up the phone I want to hear a dial tone not "Your $6.95/month VOIP Provider is not available, try again later" when I'm going to make a call.
Some form of inheritance tax is required because not having just encourages hoarding of capital, which is bad for the national economy in the long term.
They should just say if you inherit more than $1 million you have to give 95% of it to charity, less than $1 million and you don't have to pay anything. We need to break up some of this "stuck" capital that has been accruing in the American aristocracy over the past 230 years. The fact that Bill Gates has billions of dollars is absolutely criminal. Nobody in the world needs more than $1 million.
Yea, yea, yea. And you also believe a hacker isn't someone who maliciously breaks into computer systems, it's just a curious innocent person right... crackers are the criminals! Give it up. The general public is never going to adopt "Tebibyte" into the language because terabyte sounds much more fucking cool.
I just sent this link to the boss and he came back with, "Yeah, but their website is currently down! What does that say about the company?"
Uhhh, try the link later? Is your boss that dimwitted with such a short attention span? The Slashdot effect usually has about a 4-5 hour half-life to it so tell him to check the link tonight or tomorrow.
The RIAA is afraid their current crap^H^H^H^Hcrop can't compete with 50+ year-old music. That is the most stinging put-down of today's (so called) music.
The RIAA doesn't have much to worry about since I would imagine 90% of the people born after 1956 have never even heard of those songs. Who the hell listens to Elvis other than grandmas?
This surprises me as well. My university let you forward your campus e-mail account to wherever you want because they were fully aware 90% of the students wouldn't even be using their POP server to access mail since they had home accounts or used Hotmail/Yahoo, etc. Why on Earth would any university go out of their way to ban people from forwarding their personal university correspondence to the e-mail address of their choice? If I relied on e-mail communications from professors I'd just notify them at the beginning of each semester that they need to use my personal e-mail account because the university's official e-mail system is not supported on my platform. I'm sure they would be happy to adjust their distribution list with a simple substitution of your e-mail address.
Certainly our developers should not have relied on IE5/6 so much, but they did.
Well, in their defense who would have ever thought they would have upgraded Internet Explorer after version 6? It's been a stable target over 5 years now! If you're going to develop proprietary web apps IE 6 was the best target for it since it was installed on 95% of the desktops out there.
Sorry, i DONT WANT to reencode something to mp3 from a 128 kbit source.
Well, I've said it many times in the past (and always get modded down for bashing Apple's sacred iTunes cow), but if I buy anything in the future from iTunes music store it'll have to be in Apple's lossless format, not compressed 128kbit DRM'd AAC files. I can't believe anyone is silly enough to pay full track prices for lossy-encoded music tracks when you can buy the CD and rip it into perfect WAV or FLAC files instead.
Since iTunes already lets you make an unprotected CD of the music you bought, the only thing QTFairUse really does is let you save to disk instead of CD.
But that's all legitimate people want to do! I want to take my legally purchased music and strip off the DRM so I can convert it to MP3s that will play on all my other equipment. Why force legitimate customers to jump through the hoops of burning a CD and then re-ripping it into an unprotected format? Just make a damn "convert to MP3" option in iTunes that works with protected AAC files. I bought the music, I want to convert it on an authorized computer for my own personal use... why let me burn an unprotected DRM-free CD but not DRM-free MP3s?
So it's certainly detectable. There were some recent articles at the ISC about malware that could detect if it was running in a virtual environment, and there are a number of reliable ways of doing so.
VMWare doesn't make any attempt at hiding the fact that you're running in a virtual machine. Where did you get the idea that it did? For example, if you're running a Linux guest, just take a look at the dmesg output after bootup and count the number of times you see VMWare in the list. Go into the Windows hardware device manager and count the number of times you see VMWare in there too. They COULD fake the hardware names returned to the OS and Microsoft would be none the wiser unless they took additional steps to try and figure it out, but they don't. A simple look at the devices attached to the system will quickly show it's a VM.
1. It's locked in to the worst wireless provider that is out there. Cingluar/AT&T.
Says who? I've had a variety of providers ranging from Cellular One, Airtouch, GTE Wireless, Alltel, AT&T Wireless (the old company), then Sprint, and now Cingular/AT&T and my Cingular service and phone is BY FAR the best of all of them. I love the little Motorola SLVR L7 phone I have... it's tiny, slim, the battery lasts forever, I get an awesome signal everywhere I go including our equipment room where I NEVER got any Sprint coverage and nobody ever gets any Verizon coverage. I was actually talking on my cell phone and it sounded fine in the middle of the room and I had 2 or 3 bars of service. That's frankly fucking amazing given the location. I could barely get Sprint or Verizon service in an office on the exterior of this building next to a window, but less on an inside office or in the datacenter. My main gripe is that the Motorola bluetooth headset I got is absolute fucking garbage and is so quiet I can't even hear the person on the other end of the phone unless the room I'm in is absolutely quiet too. Forget about holding a conversation in the car. If I put the wired headset that came with the SLVR on then it's loud and clear so it's not the phone or the connection. I need to find a better bluetooth earpiece, but the god damn thing was $50! How much better can you get?
I've noticed that both the Wii and the Xbox 360 seem to crash way more often than a console should.
I've only seen my Wii crash once in the month I've had it... if I can even call it a crash. The blue light on the DVD drive was flashing slowly on and off which I guess means there's some update available, but it wouldn't turn on with the remote. I had to go over and hold down the power button and it reset. I've never seen it crash in a game though.
Why don't you just forward the e-mail to your manager? Printing e-mail out is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. The last time I heard that was from idiots at work that were printing out important e-mail messages and storing them in filing cabinets to reduce their quota usage. How fucking retarded is that?
This was not the sole evidence. The hacker mearly tipped off the authorities. The judge also admitted that he stored the images.
But if the hacker hadn't broken into his computer system then the authorities would never have had justification to get a search warrant to look into his system further.
Don't all the qualms with electronic, paperless voting apply here?
If it works for American Idol I don't see why it wouldn't work for national elections. Just imagine, the more you text message a particular number the more votes your candidate would get! How cool would that be?
And then Apple would not be able to provide features like visual voice mail which require changes to the carrier network.
I'd accept that loss. Visual Voice Mail isn't a killer feature to me... I'd much rather be able to buy an unlocked GSM phone and shop around for a carrier to use it on. Plus Apple's decision not to support 3G on a device so heavily geared towards Internet access is a horrible mistake. Jobs will be lucky if he sells 100,000 iPhones to extreme Mac loyalists, but the majority of people will continue to buy more cost effective smartphones like the Motorola Q or the Samsung Blackjack that give you essentially the same features without all the hype.
Then I will be able to buy one without $300 in extra "holiday bundle" crap.
Nobody is forcing anybody to buy any bundled crap. I walked into Gamestop last month, asked them if they had any Wiis in stock and the guy went in the back and got one. Just because they're not sitting on the shelves doesn't mean they're not available. Gamestops are much more likely to have Wiis than Target or Best Buy from my experience. Also, people complain about problems getting controllers but I picked up Zelda, an extra Wiimote, an extra nunchuk and a classic controller at the time I purchased my Wii... no problems at all.
Bird flu is the new Y2K. 275 cases of it out of 8 billion people does not a pandemic make. You're far more likely to be struck and killed by frozen turds dropped from a Boeing 747 than contract bird flu.
What I don't understand is why vendors aren't required to charge sales tax on out-of-state sales, collect the money, and then give it to the state in question.
Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution:
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
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To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
The States don't have the power to tax interstate commerce, that is a power specifically allocated to Congress by the Constitution... that's why they try to skirt the issue by demanding "Use Taxes" and the only time you need to pay sales tax is when a company has a brick and mortar presence in that state.
I'm from the Midwest. We're the ones who sent Obama to the senate, remember?
It was either Barack Hussein Obama or Alan Carpetbagger Keyes. Obama was the sane sounding black guy so he got elected. Believe me, in 2008, as long as he's not facing a complete lunatic, he will lose because he is black.
Other posters are correct in stating that they just want payment for each copy running in an image on beefy hardware.
If that's what they wanted they would have said that. The EULA ALREADY forces you to buy a new copy for each version you run in a virtual machine. This just adds an additional restriction saying you can't run the cheaper version in a virtual machine.
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Like who? I pay about $30 a month for the unlimited service after taxes and charges and I get reliable service. How much more could I ask for? When I pick up the phone I want to hear a dial tone not "Your $6.95/month VOIP Provider is not available, try again later" when I'm going to make a call.
They should just say if you inherit more than $1 million you have to give 95% of it to charity, less than $1 million and you don't have to pay anything. We need to break up some of this "stuck" capital that has been accruing in the American aristocracy over the past 230 years. The fact that Bill Gates has billions of dollars is absolutely criminal. Nobody in the world needs more than $1 million.
This surprises me as well. My university let you forward your campus e-mail account to wherever you want because they were fully aware 90% of the students wouldn't even be using their POP server to access mail since they had home accounts or used Hotmail/Yahoo, etc. Why on Earth would any university go out of their way to ban people from forwarding their personal university correspondence to the e-mail address of their choice? If I relied on e-mail communications from professors I'd just notify them at the beginning of each semester that they need to use my personal e-mail account because the university's official e-mail system is not supported on my platform. I'm sure they would be happy to adjust their distribution list with a simple substitution of your e-mail address.
Why don't you just forward the e-mail to your manager? Printing e-mail out is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. The last time I heard that was from idiots at work that were printing out important e-mail messages and storing them in filing cabinets to reduce their quota usage. How fucking retarded is that?
Damn right. I'll just carry my laptop around and look for an open Wifi access point so I can use Skype. Way to stick it to the man.
Bird flu is the new Y2K. 275 cases of it out of 8 billion people does not a pandemic make. You're far more likely to be struck and killed by frozen turds dropped from a Boeing 747 than contract bird flu.
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
The States don't have the power to tax interstate commerce, that is a power specifically allocated to Congress by the Constitution... that's why they try to skirt the issue by demanding "Use Taxes" and the only time you need to pay sales tax is when a company has a brick and mortar presence in that state.