Because $50,000 donated invested in directly car research would have a profoundly more positive impact than putting new batteries in an electric car?
Seriously. If Mr. Duffy wants to help electric tech grow, he should invest, donate, or start his own research company. If he wants to boost his ego, he can stick to buying fancy electric cars.
Uh. Where did I say the crashes were related to the video card? The crashes were related to the fact that it is a BETA operating system running on several-year-old device drivers built for Windows XP, or at best BETA drivers.
I was running with Outlook 2007 Beta open, GAIM open, MSN beta open, Azureus (at times) open, multiple explorer windows, WMP11 / iTunes (alternately), Word&Excel Beta. Yeah, as I loaded more an more, it started to get slightly less responsive, but still ran noticeably smoother than my typical XP experience except in rare instances.
It probably isn't the ideal OS for research or whatever you're doing, but to trash it without even trying it, especially when much of what is being discussed is consumer-oriented rather than research oriented, is asinine.
Linux crashes too. In fact I've had less luck with my various Linux distros than with XP, for the most part. Yet I'm not willing to blanketly dismiss Linux just becuase of a few bad experiences. Yet you are dismissing Vista based on hypothetical and second-hand experience.
You're insane. 128mb vRAM is plenty. I know because I run it hitch-free on my desktop (GeForce 6800), which incidentally also has only 512 MB RAM. Yeah, it crashes now and then, but then again it is the December '05 BETA of an '07 OS...
The Halo 3 trailer got attention for a few reasons which extend beyond, but in some ways are connected to, "Wow it's pretty."
First, it had high production values. This indicates the game will likely have high production values -- as Halo has evolved, core concepts has been refined and production values have been improved. Play a lot of Halo 2 and then go back to Halo 1. Sure, a lot is still fun, and some elements are arguably better, but it's more difficult to play, less user-friendly, and in the opinion of many less entertaining. The fact that a company can put the kind of professionalism and serious attention into a trailer that Halo 3 got is at least a small indicator that they'll treat the game with the same attitude.
Second, it revealed certain plot elemtents -- perhaps not 'revealed,' but at least brought attention to -- that make Halo players excited. It revealed plot points and certain gameplay directions, and at least had the implication that (a) the game will return to Master Chief alone.
Finally, it was _quite_ well written. No, there was very little dialogue, and no plot to speak of, but the interpolation of the score, the graphics sequences, and the dialogue that was there was excecuted in a very good and very cinematic manner. Gamers want these in a game, and they like to see them in a trailer.
Someone didn't read the "up to 200 lbs" portion. In fact, someone didn't read TFA at all. The problem with a HAHO jump is that you are slow-slow-slow coming down, have a pretty good sized rader profile, and are much omre vulnerable to winds -- which can play holy hell with even light aircraft at these altitudes. A rigid-wing glider like this makes alot more sense for high-altitude covert insertions, especially time-critical and covert operations.
The december beta with all the sauce ran just fine on my already year-old desktop with a GeForce 6800 and a gig of RAM. Yeah, that's middle-high end right now, but it's only an $800 computer and give that Vista won't be out for nine months minimum, I think you'll be suprised at how easily the average computer will run it then. Heck, right now you can go out and get a dual-core Tablet PC with a dx9 ATI 128mb video card and a gig of ram for $1,200. That's a $1,200 widescreen Tablet that will run Vista. In nine months, it won't be a problem.
Ex-employee here. As much as I hate best buy, they aren't on commission. Although they are fired if they don't sell service plans and overpriced accessories.
There isn't a Subaru rated to tow more than 3,000 pounds, and the Honda Oddysey (a fairly typical modern, large minivan) can tow a maximum 3,500. Not helpful when a, say, 24' boat is, about 4,500 without a trailer, fuel, or luggage.
So there's a single example for you. Think harder next time.
The problem with SUVs is that they fill a need, but it's often an occasional need. Many people, personal family and friends included, are guilty of the "Buy a Suburban so I can tow a boat with six people and luggage in the vehicle." A minivan or stationwagon simply won't tow a boat on the freeway -- A Suburban will do so, along with 7passengers, cargo, a large sled dog, and two mattresses and a dinghy strapped to the roof (and yet more cargo in the boat). That's a true story. However, that same family will have sunk a great deal of money into the Suburban, which will reduce the likelihood that they can afford more fuel-efficient vehicles for daily use. So eventually, the teenagers will be commuting to college twenty or thirty minutes away in an enormous SUV which they then have to stuff in a parking garage.
Once you buy an SUV for occasional justified use, you wind up using it for all sorts of other stuff too. Just because you see an SUV going down the road with two people and nothing else in it doesn't mean that the family shouldn't own an SUV -- just that they don't have the luxury of owning an SUV and an economy car simultaneously.
It's not an excuse, but a lot of this stereotyping of SUV drivers gets a little overzealous.
When was the last time you tried? A well-trained speech recognition program can provide about 95% accuracy in a controlled environment. Sure, it gets harder with punctuation, but a well-designed system ought to have at least some functional utility in the "finding results in the wild" arena.
Audio indexing is not just something Google's doing. Microsoft OneNote 2007, for example, indexes audio (and all handwritten content, as well as OCR on all images) and makes it searchable. There is a great deal of utility here; I'm running the beta and searching my handwriting (I'm on a Tablet PC) and scanned documents alongside my typed notes is already helpful. Since I make a habit of recording lectures, I can imagine that it will be helpful in that arena too -- probably not in 2007, but "decades" is definately an overstatement.
I think you underestimate what can be done with Speech Recognition. If a desktop can do it on-the-fly with relative accuracy, Google ought to be able to do it remotely nearly as well, even without training; after all, they have all the context-awareness they've developed for Adsense on their side.
On the other hand, "Hummer" doesn't mean "H2 or H3," it means "a vehicle of the Hummer brand," which includes the H1. The H1 is not all that different from the Humvee.
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I'm getting tired of this exagerration. I'm running Aero Glass on a year and a half old GeForce 6800. It will be nearly three years old by the time Vista is released. The retail for the card is, I think, well below $200, and I'm pretty confident Aero Glass would run on a 6600 GT just fine. By early 2007, a $100 card ought to be able to take care of Vista.
Ex-Best Buy employee here. Those $100+ monster cables are like $12-$20 on the employee discount, which is something like Cost+5%.
They do their best to royally screw you on peripherals and accessories. It's where all their margin is. They will fire employees for not misrepresenting quality differences in order to make a sale on a set of Monster audio jacks.
The quality of your prose goes farther toward refuting your points than I ever could, but a few things it's worth pointing out:
Even you said, "They are saying that flip and the new tasbar and alt-tab options are new to windows". That's my whole point, its not NEW.
What did I say? New to windows, that's what I said. Yes, Looking glass has done them as a proof of concept. That is not a consumer operating environment, nor is it on Windows. Vista is the first to implement these specific features in a Windows desktop environment.
You said it yourself, there isn't any logic to your anti-MS vendetta here. Microsoft could change everything about their company exponentially toward the positive, and you'd still be out for blood, becuase by golly they aren't innovating!
I'm no MS fan. I use some of their software by necessity and because, for my day to day tasks, it's endlessly more convenient and capable than linux or macintosh solutions. But to launch into anti-MS tirades every time they set about trying to make incremental improvements to the desktop environment? That's just stupid.
So stop moaning and go run Looking Glass. Oh right, you can't. It's a proof-of-concept, not a desktop OS.
Did you blast Apple when they passed off widgets as their own, despite having been beat to the arena by third party developers years ago? And anyway, where in this story is MS claiming that Flip is an innovation? They are saying that flip and the new tasbar and alt-tab options are new to windows and handy features to have. Both are true. Is Microsoft not ALLOWED to improve their OS just because others have done it before?
If Microsoft succeeds in becoming more secure, you'll probably blast them for copying Apple, or Linux, or Fort Knox or something.
This is the critical question for me as well. I find note-taking on a tablet an order of magnitude more involved than on a notebook; I can maintain eye contact, there's no artificial barrier, and the professor can pretty easily see that I'm not using IM or surfing the web (although I hop on Wikipedia now and then to snag a relevant note or two).
The notes are all handwritten, but the ability to index them for later searching is priceless come time to study for the final exam. Instead of poring over pages of notes looking for an obscure reference, I can just write it into a search box. Microsoft doesn't innovate in a lot of places, and I'd hesitate to call the Tablet PC their exclusive idea, but they certainly did it right, IMNSHO.
But yeah. Her response to Tablets would reveal whether or not the reason is truly because of eye-contact and involvment, as she says, or because of the unknown factor of wireless networking and games. For me, I think it's probably the latter, and if so she needs to realize that the people who distract themselves with web surfing or Solitaire are going to find other ways to distract themselves even without the computer. Not every one who pays for the education deserves to get the diploma, and one of the ways they flush themselves out is playing when they should be listening. The same students could just as easily read a book or play Sudoku in the back; they don't need a computer. More importantly, it is not the professor's responsibility to police the study habits of students. When midterms come around, the wheat and the chaff will be seperated, most of the time.
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Because $50,000 donated invested in directly car research would have a profoundly more positive impact than putting new batteries in an electric car?
Seriously. If Mr. Duffy wants to help electric tech grow, he should invest, donate, or start his own research company. If he wants to boost his ego, he can stick to buying fancy electric cars.
Uh. Where did I say the crashes were related to the video card? The crashes were related to the fact that it is a BETA operating system running on several-year-old device drivers built for Windows XP, or at best BETA drivers.
I was running with Outlook 2007 Beta open, GAIM open, MSN beta open, Azureus (at times) open, multiple explorer windows, WMP11 / iTunes (alternately), Word&Excel Beta. Yeah, as I loaded more an more, it started to get slightly less responsive, but still ran noticeably smoother than my typical XP experience except in rare instances.
It probably isn't the ideal OS for research or whatever you're doing, but to trash it without even trying it, especially when much of what is being discussed is consumer-oriented rather than research oriented, is asinine.
Linux crashes too. In fact I've had less luck with my various Linux distros than with XP, for the most part. Yet I'm not willing to blanketly dismiss Linux just becuase of a few bad experiences. Yet you are dismissing Vista based on hypothetical and second-hand experience.
You're insane. 128mb vRAM is plenty. I know because I run it hitch-free on my desktop (GeForce 6800), which incidentally also has only 512 MB RAM. Yeah, it crashes now and then, but then again it is the December '05 BETA of an '07 OS...
Yes. A student being fluent with the material decreases the validity of the material. Because that makes sense.
Come now. I was a fine young man, not even in geek squad, and I got $9/hr. And I was seasonal.
So yeah, basically, that's probably what happened.
The Halo 3 trailer got attention for a few reasons which extend beyond, but in some ways are connected to, "Wow it's pretty."
First, it had high production values. This indicates the game will likely have high production values -- as Halo has evolved, core concepts has been refined and production values have been improved. Play a lot of Halo 2 and then go back to Halo 1. Sure, a lot is still fun, and some elements are arguably better, but it's more difficult to play, less user-friendly, and in the opinion of many less entertaining. The fact that a company can put the kind of professionalism and serious attention into a trailer that Halo 3 got is at least a small indicator that they'll treat the game with the same attitude.
Second, it revealed certain plot elemtents -- perhaps not 'revealed,' but at least brought attention to -- that make Halo players excited. It revealed plot points and certain gameplay directions, and at least had the implication that (a) the game will return to Master Chief alone.
Finally, it was _quite_ well written. No, there was very little dialogue, and no plot to speak of, but the interpolation of the score, the graphics sequences, and the dialogue that was there was excecuted in a very good and very cinematic manner. Gamers want these in a game, and they like to see them in a trailer.
Someone didn't read the "up to 200 lbs" portion. In fact, someone didn't read TFA at all. The problem with a HAHO jump is that you are slow-slow-slow coming down, have a pretty good sized rader profile, and are much omre vulnerable to winds -- which can play holy hell with even light aircraft at these altitudes. A rigid-wing glider like this makes alot more sense for high-altitude covert insertions, especially time-critical and covert operations.
The fact that you think there are more than two significant parties in America suggest you believe in magic. But I hope you do.
The december beta with all the sauce ran just fine on my already year-old desktop with a GeForce 6800 and a gig of RAM. Yeah, that's middle-high end right now, but it's only an $800 computer and give that Vista won't be out for nine months minimum, I think you'll be suprised at how easily the average computer will run it then. Heck, right now you can go out and get a dual-core Tablet PC with a dx9 ATI 128mb video card and a gig of ram for $1,200. That's a $1,200 widescreen Tablet that will run Vista. In nine months, it won't be a problem.
Ex-employee here. As much as I hate best buy, they aren't on commission. Although they are fired if they don't sell service plans and overpriced accessories.
Except the American version actually flows uphill, and Dyson's version is just an illusion. Thanks for playing, though.
There isn't a Subaru rated to tow more than 3,000 pounds, and the Honda Oddysey (a fairly typical modern, large minivan) can tow a maximum 3,500. Not helpful when a, say, 24' boat is, about 4,500 without a trailer, fuel, or luggage.
So there's a single example for you. Think harder next time.
The problem with SUVs is that they fill a need, but it's often an occasional need. Many people, personal family and friends included, are guilty of the "Buy a Suburban so I can tow a boat with six people and luggage in the vehicle." A minivan or stationwagon simply won't tow a boat on the freeway -- A Suburban will do so, along with 7passengers, cargo, a large sled dog, and two mattresses and a dinghy strapped to the roof (and yet more cargo in the boat). That's a true story. However, that same family will have sunk a great deal of money into the Suburban, which will reduce the likelihood that they can afford more fuel-efficient vehicles for daily use. So eventually, the teenagers will be commuting to college twenty or thirty minutes away in an enormous SUV which they then have to stuff in a parking garage.
Once you buy an SUV for occasional justified use, you wind up using it for all sorts of other stuff too. Just because you see an SUV going down the road with two people and nothing else in it doesn't mean that the family shouldn't own an SUV -- just that they don't have the luxury of owning an SUV and an economy car simultaneously.
It's not an excuse, but a lot of this stereotyping of SUV drivers gets a little overzealous.
When was the last time you tried? A well-trained speech recognition program can provide about 95% accuracy in a controlled environment. Sure, it gets harder with punctuation, but a well-designed system ought to have at least some functional utility in the "finding results in the wild" arena. Audio indexing is not just something Google's doing. Microsoft OneNote 2007, for example, indexes audio (and all handwritten content, as well as OCR on all images) and makes it searchable. There is a great deal of utility here; I'm running the beta and searching my handwriting (I'm on a Tablet PC) and scanned documents alongside my typed notes is already helpful. Since I make a habit of recording lectures, I can imagine that it will be helpful in that arena too -- probably not in 2007, but "decades" is definately an overstatement. I think you underestimate what can be done with Speech Recognition. If a desktop can do it on-the-fly with relative accuracy, Google ought to be able to do it remotely nearly as well, even without training; after all, they have all the context-awareness they've developed for Adsense on their side.
On the other hand, "Hummer" doesn't mean "H2 or H3," it means "a vehicle of the Hummer brand," which includes the H1. The H1 is not all that different from the Humvee.
I'm getting tired of this exagerration. I'm running Aero Glass on a year and a half old GeForce 6800. It will be nearly three years old by the time Vista is released. The retail for the card is, I think, well below $200, and I'm pretty confident Aero Glass would run on a 6600 GT just fine. By early 2007, a $100 card ought to be able to take care of Vista.
Ex-Best Buy employee here. Those $100+ monster cables are like $12-$20 on the employee discount, which is something like Cost+5%.
They do their best to royally screw you on peripherals and accessories. It's where all their margin is. They will fire employees for not misrepresenting quality differences in order to make a sale on a set of Monster audio jacks.
What did I say? New to windows, that's what I said. Yes, Looking glass has done them as a proof of concept. That is not a consumer operating environment, nor is it on Windows. Vista is the first to implement these specific features in a Windows desktop environment.
You said it yourself, there isn't any logic to your anti-MS vendetta here. Microsoft could change everything about their company exponentially toward the positive, and you'd still be out for blood, becuase by golly they aren't innovating!
I'm no MS fan. I use some of their software by necessity and because, for my day to day tasks, it's endlessly more convenient and capable than linux or macintosh solutions. But to launch into anti-MS tirades every time they set about trying to make incremental improvements to the desktop environment? That's just stupid.
So stop moaning and go run Looking Glass. Oh right, you can't. It's a proof-of-concept, not a desktop OS.
Did you blast Apple when they passed off widgets as their own, despite having been beat to the arena by third party developers years ago? And anyway, where in this story is MS claiming that Flip is an innovation? They are saying that flip and the new tasbar and alt-tab options are new to windows and handy features to have. Both are true. Is Microsoft not ALLOWED to improve their OS just because others have done it before?
If Microsoft succeeds in becoming more secure, you'll probably blast them for copying Apple, or Linux, or Fort Knox or something.
Wait a second, has anybody tried this? What if you just bought heavily tinted contacts? I am totally up for it :P
You're right, the article title was misleading. The chip is actually the "Extreme Edition 965." Just that. No Intel or Pentium.
This is the critical question for me as well. I find note-taking on a tablet an order of magnitude more involved than on a notebook; I can maintain eye contact, there's no artificial barrier, and the professor can pretty easily see that I'm not using IM or surfing the web (although I hop on Wikipedia now and then to snag a relevant note or two).
The notes are all handwritten, but the ability to index them for later searching is priceless come time to study for the final exam. Instead of poring over pages of notes looking for an obscure reference, I can just write it into a search box. Microsoft doesn't innovate in a lot of places, and I'd hesitate to call the Tablet PC their exclusive idea, but they certainly did it right, IMNSHO.
But yeah. Her response to Tablets would reveal whether or not the reason is truly because of eye-contact and involvment, as she says, or because of the unknown factor of wireless networking and games. For me, I think it's probably the latter, and if so she needs to realize that the people who distract themselves with web surfing or Solitaire are going to find other ways to distract themselves even without the computer. Not every one who pays for the education deserves to get the diploma, and one of the ways they flush themselves out is playing when they should be listening. The same students could just as easily read a book or play Sudoku in the back; they don't need a computer. More importantly, it is not the professor's responsibility to police the study habits of students. When midterms come around, the wheat and the chaff will be seperated, most of the time.
Mod this guy up, that's the funniest thing I've read all day.
If by "heir to Tribes" you mean "nothing like Tribes," then yes.