By that reasoning, you should hire people found guilty, since you seem to assume courts are by default wrong. No he just knows that a "not guilty" verdict from a court means "not proven guilty" not "proven not guilty".
Windows is not where MS makes their money, software and tools like Office and Visual Studio is where they make money really? Every other source I have seen on the matter has claimed that MS has two lines that make them significant money, windows and office (some list windows server too but I wouldn't really consider that a seperate line)
Hell MS now even gives away a version of visual studio that is perfectly adequate for most non-enterprise development work.
After the 7th person plugged in, flames and sparks started shooting out of the back of his power supply Nasty, I guess it was a cheap shit chineese PSU?
If you overload a circuit breakers should pop and equipment may not work properly but flames and sparks shooting out tells me there was probablly a serious design fault with that PSU.
according to wikipedia cyrix and intel already had a legal battle that ended up with them having certain rights to produce compatible chips. Presumbablly via got those when they bought cyrix.
Not sure how transmeta got away with it (according to wikipedia transmeta sued intel in the end but they didn't do that until after they stopped making CPUs).
also if they specialise in lan parties they will presumablly have the power infrastructure in place to support them. beyond about 20 machines power infrastructure is going to become a major headache.
there is a big difference between a small (say 10 machines) lan party hosted at your house made up entirely of people you know and a 60 machine lan party open to the public and probablly hosted at a venue (hosting one that big at home is going to be impractical)
indeed if you are going to host a nontrivial sized lan party (more than about 10 participants) power arangements are going to be a big deal. If you allow 2A at 240V (4A at 120V) per participant and you have 60 participants that is 120A at 240V you need to find. A normal domestic service simply will not supply that. Depending on what power is availible at the venue you may need to hire a sizeable generator.
and when you have found that you will need to work out how you are going to distribute it safely and effectively. And you need to pay particular attention to earthing arragements too as those PCs are going to have quite high eath leakage.
If you are running a nontrivial sized lan party in a location that does not have fixed wiring intended for large numbers of PCs a local electrician who understands both event supplies and large computer installations.
You can never know for sure who the copyright holder of a work is. Even if you know who created it you can't be sure that they didn't already sell the copyright to someone else.
What if an author was tricked into signing away the copyright (or at least exclusive movie rights) but didn't realise they had done so then later signed another movie deal with a different studio. What if the contract with the first movie studio was somewhat ambiguous as to whether it was exclusive or not?
Apparently santa rosa supports 8GB of ram so in theory most laptops sold today should support it.
The trouble is 4GB sodimms are rare and expensive so buying them without being sure if your machine will take them is not something many people are prepared to do.
Another poster higher up said that who pays who (if either) in akamai colocations is negotiated on a case by case basis. I would expect limelight to be similar.
I would imagine it is indeed pretty profitable for those content distribution network operators big enough to make it work. The catch of course is you have to be big to make it work.
On the other hand if you are receiving the data down a transit link where you pay for data in both directions I imagine you would be very interested in getting the data hosted locally.
Windows 98 was slower than Windows 95, running on the same hardware Win98 was a bit slower than 95 but since most people got it with new hardware it wasn't noticed too much.
Windows XP was slower than Windows 98, running on the same hardware but so much more stable and so much more capable of handling lots of windows at once. and while there were a few minor changes to the UI they could all easilly be turned off.
Windows Vista is slower than Windows XP, running on the same hardware. Windows vista is a LOT slower than XP on the same hardware. Worse since XP SP2 MS has disabled support for more than 4GB of address space in desktop 32 bit editions (they claim this was due to driver issues) meaning that for many users usable ram is stuck at 3GB max.
And then on top of all that they messed arround with the gui a lot. Some things can be switched back but many of them (behaviour of folder and search windows for example) can't. and when things can be switched back you often have to choose between 9x style and vista style with XP style not being an option.
But in the MS case you have to pay once they drop support. Indeed though by then you are probablly going to be replacing the hardware anyway.
Upgrading Ubuntu to the next LTS release is free (and not particularly difficult either). Why would you not upgrade your Ubuntu install? I certainly would upgrade it but I would also not want to tell a user to do it themselves unless I knew they had the competance to recover from a failed upgrade (either by fixing the system or by reinstalling).
It seems likely to me that the "refurbished" machines are the machines that people already have returned once because they were too shitty with the supplied OS.
Yeah if it has a vista buisness or ultimate OEM license you are legit to downgrade to XP though you may have to provide the media and key yourself an you may have to telephone activate depening on what media you use.
but home editions of vista don't come with downgrade rights and afaict neither do retail or retail upgrade copies of buisness and ultimate.
XP runs fine with half a gig of ram, even with 256 meg it's tolerable (though at that ram level you will probablly need swap which is a problem if you only have a SSD). The orignal EEEs screen was rather small but the 1024x600 of the newer EEE models is fine for most apps (and if an app decides to pop up an oversized dialog the windows load on the EEE provides a tray icon letting you go to scaled or top/bottom scroll mode to deal with it)
I suspect the real reasons for theese cheap ultraportable vendors keeping linux as an option are twofold. Firstly it is probabblly cheaper. Secondly they need to keep the pressure on microsoft. While XP is fine on machines of theese specs I'm pretty damn sure vista isn't and paying for a vista buisness license and downgrading is probablly a little expensive for machines this low end. Linux is the thing getting them that exception to keep shipping XP home.
It should be fine for *three* years That's three years from when it was released not three years from now. Ok so two years 8 months isn't too bad but when the next LTS release arrives the old one will have only 1 year left. Say it takes vendors 9 months to switch to the new LTS release and (assuimg the vendors don't abandon ubuntu before that) you will have machines being sold with only 9 months security updates support left.
They are supposed to be supported for several years. Three years on the desktop (5 on the server) and a two year release cycle. That means one year of overlap
Which means depending on the point in the release cycle you install at you will have between 1 and 3 years before you have to upgrade or lose security updates. And that is assuming that the vendor can start shipping a new LTS release as soon as it is released, if they can't the figures get even worse.
compare that to MS who's current lifecycle policy promises 7 years of support overlap between between releases and 2 years of support overlap between service packs for the same release.
downside of them is they insist on a real name and address (I dunno how seriously they enforce this but going in intending to break the TOS never seems like a brilliant idea) and then publish that in whois.
The bottom line is for the almost zero benefit that IPV6 gives me I'm not going to pay any extra and I'm not going to reveal my private info to the world.
An underpaid overworked school employee in charge of the computing lab would probably find it easier to use XP till the OS is supported and switch to a distribution like Ubuntu OR do a smart thing and make the switch to a Linux distribution now and not worry about the change later. More realisitically the lab will have lots of windows specific software that the teachers insist on keeping and the admins will hold out on XP as long as they can before upgrading reluctantly to vista or windows 7 .
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By that reasoning, you should hire people found guilty, since you seem to assume courts are by default wrong.
No he just knows that a "not guilty" verdict from a court means "not proven guilty" not "proven not guilty".
Windows is not where MS makes their money, software and tools like Office and Visual Studio is where they make money
really? Every other source I have seen on the matter has claimed that MS has two lines that make them significant money, windows and office (some list windows server too but I wouldn't really consider that a seperate line)
Hell MS now even gives away a version of visual studio that is perfectly adequate for most non-enterprise development work.
After the 7th person plugged in, flames and sparks started shooting out of the back of his power supply
Nasty, I guess it was a cheap shit chineese PSU?
If you overload a circuit breakers should pop and equipment may not work properly but flames and sparks shooting out tells me there was probablly a serious design fault with that PSU.
according to wikipedia cyrix and intel already had a legal battle that ended up with them having certain rights to produce compatible chips. Presumbablly via got those when they bought cyrix.
Not sure how transmeta got away with it (according to wikipedia transmeta sued intel in the end but they didn't do that until after they stopped making CPUs).
The question does not say he is planning to host it at home.
also if they specialise in lan parties they will presumablly have the power infrastructure in place to support them. beyond about 20 machines power infrastructure is going to become a major headache.
there is a big difference between a small (say 10 machines) lan party hosted at your house made up entirely of people you know and a 60 machine lan party open to the public and probablly hosted at a venue (hosting one that big at home is going to be impractical)
indeed if you are going to host a nontrivial sized lan party (more than about 10 participants) power arangements are going to be a big deal. If you allow 2A at 240V (4A at 120V) per participant and you have 60 participants that is 120A at 240V you need to find. A normal domestic service simply will not supply that. Depending on what power is availible at the venue you may need to hire a sizeable generator.
and when you have found that you will need to work out how you are going to distribute it safely and effectively. And you need to pay particular attention to earthing arragements too as those PCs are going to have quite high eath leakage.
If you are running a nontrivial sized lan party in a location that does not have fixed wiring intended for large numbers of PCs a local electrician who understands both event supplies and large computer installations.
You can never know for sure who the copyright holder of a work is. Even if you know who created it you can't be sure that they didn't already sell the copyright to someone else.
What if an author was tricked into signing away the copyright (or at least exclusive movie rights) but didn't realise they had done so then later signed another movie deal with a different studio. What if the contract with the first movie studio was somewhat ambiguous as to whether it was exclusive or not?
Apparently santa rosa supports 8GB of ram so in theory most laptops sold today should support it.
The trouble is 4GB sodimms are rare and expensive so buying them without being sure if your machine will take them is not something many people are prepared to do.
Another poster higher up said that who pays who (if either) in akamai colocations is negotiated on a case by case basis. I would expect limelight to be similar.
I would imagine it is indeed pretty profitable for those content distribution network operators big enough to make it work. The catch of course is you have to be big to make it work.
On the other hand if you are receiving the data down a transit link where you pay for data in both directions I imagine you would be very interested in getting the data hosted locally.
Windows 98 was slower than Windows 95, running on the same hardware
Win98 was a bit slower than 95 but since most people got it with new hardware it wasn't noticed too much.
Windows XP was slower than Windows 98, running on the same hardware
but so much more stable and so much more capable of handling lots of windows at once. and while there were a few minor changes to the UI they could all easilly be turned off.
Windows Vista is slower than Windows XP, running on the same hardware.
Windows vista is a LOT slower than XP on the same hardware. Worse since XP SP2 MS has disabled support for more than 4GB of address space in desktop 32 bit editions (they claim this was due to driver issues) meaning that for many users usable ram is stuck at 3GB max.
And then on top of all that they messed arround with the gui a lot. Some things can be switched back but many of them (behaviour of folder and search windows for example) can't. and when things can be switched back you often have to choose between 9x style and vista style with XP style not being an option.
But in the MS case you have to pay once they drop support.
Indeed though by then you are probablly going to be replacing the hardware anyway.
Upgrading Ubuntu to the next LTS release is free (and not particularly difficult either). Why would you not upgrade your Ubuntu install?
I certainly would upgrade it but I would also not want to tell a user to do it themselves unless I knew they had the competance to recover from a failed upgrade (either by fixing the system or by reinstalling).
I would guess that MS consider supplying media to be the OEMs job for OEM licenses just like they consider support to be the OEMs job.
Office 2007 only runs on Vista!
really? MS says otherwise http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/products/HA101668651033.aspx
Afaict most if not all windows volume licenses are upgrade/downgrade only so you need an OEM license in place to start from.
It seems likely to me that the "refurbished" machines are the machines that people already have returned once because they were too shitty with the supplied OS.
buy from dell's small buisness site or some other online vendor that still offers XP laptops.
or get the machine with vista and then get tech friend to reinstall it with a dodgy copy of XP.
Yeah if it has a vista buisness or ultimate OEM license you are legit to downgrade to XP though you may have to provide the media and key yourself an you may have to telephone activate depening on what media you use.
but home editions of vista don't come with downgrade rights and afaict neither do retail or retail upgrade copies of buisness and ultimate.
XP runs fine with half a gig of ram, even with 256 meg it's tolerable (though at that ram level you will probablly need swap which is a problem if you only have a SSD). The orignal EEEs screen was rather small but the 1024x600 of the newer EEE models is fine for most apps (and if an app decides to pop up an oversized dialog the windows load on the EEE provides a tray icon letting you go to scaled or top/bottom scroll mode to deal with it)
I suspect the real reasons for theese cheap ultraportable vendors keeping linux as an option are twofold. Firstly it is probabblly cheaper. Secondly they need to keep the pressure on microsoft. While XP is fine on machines of theese specs I'm pretty damn sure vista isn't and paying for a vista buisness license and downgrading is probablly a little expensive for machines this low end. Linux is the thing getting them that exception to keep shipping XP home.
It should be fine for *three* years
That's three years from when it was released not three years from now. Ok so two years 8 months isn't too bad but when the next LTS release arrives the old one will have only 1 year left. Say it takes vendors 9 months to switch to the new LTS release and (assuimg the vendors don't abandon ubuntu before that) you will have machines being sold with only 9 months security updates support left.
They are supposed to be supported for several years.
Three years on the desktop (5 on the server) and a two year release cycle. That means one year of overlap
Which means depending on the point in the release cycle you install at you will have between 1 and 3 years before you have to upgrade or lose security updates. And that is assuming that the vendor can start shipping a new LTS release as soon as it is released, if they can't the figures get even worse.
compare that to MS who's current lifecycle policy promises 7 years of support overlap between between releases and 2 years of support overlap between service packs for the same release.
downside of them is they insist on a real name and address (I dunno how seriously they enforce this but going in intending to break the TOS never seems like a brilliant idea) and then publish that in whois.
The bottom line is for the almost zero benefit that IPV6 gives me I'm not going to pay any extra and I'm not going to reveal my private info to the world.
An underpaid overworked school employee in charge of the computing lab would probably find it easier to use XP till the OS is supported and switch to a distribution like Ubuntu OR do a smart thing and make the switch to a Linux distribution now and not worry about the change later.
More realisitically the lab will have lots of windows specific software that the teachers insist on keeping and the admins will hold out on XP as long as they can before upgrading reluctantly to vista or windows 7 .