Listen, I don't want to belittle economics as a science, but it seems to be one that, outside of the hard mathematical problems, sorely lacks predictive power. I have nothing but respect for the long economics studies, for the introduction of game theory as a field unto itself thanks in no small part to some very clever economists. But I have a problem with the fact that it's anybody's guess whether or not anything really works.
Stimulus? Bailouts? *shrug* Trickle down effect? I mean, as a liberal and a libertarian, I have to pick and choose my battles on which economic policies I favor, but typically it's based on the liberal or libertarian philosophies that I've personally debated with myself about. Very rarely do I think to myself, "Oh, there was a study that showed 'X' doesn't work as an economic policy."
And part of that, yes, is that economics is something inherently untestable, especially macroeconomics. You can test game theory on a college campus all you want, but the real world seems to be a crapshoot.
Now here comes a physicist who proposes a testable model that makes predictions about human energy use and economic output that should be retroactive. So rather than seriously evaluate it, you come onto Slashdot to dismiss it. Rather than let it be reviewed, studied, and counter-examples found, you dismiss it outright.
Do you see why Slashdotters don't think of economics as "real science" now? Because, as far as a lot of people are concerned, right or wrong, you're no better than creationists. A lot of what economists say comes out like "it's magic."
At least I can watch a video of Feynman explain something simple or complex and reason my way through it.
I've run Windows Server 2008 R2 as a hypervisor with my i7 to do some testing and it's ran fine. I'm guessing this issue is particularly rare and that's why this fix is coming out close to five months after RTM.
Or infection control was acknowledged as a more serious problem causing secondary infections due to more thorough analysis in the past century, accompanied by numerous other medical advances.
Or to put it differently;
Fun related fact: infection control became MORE of a problem when cars became common. Something about the emissions and blah blah blah.
You know how tempermental customers are, even when dealing with other businesses. Is IBM or Microsoft going to be hurt by the swine flu? A bit. I'm sure there were setbacks as some people came ill. But the business as a whole kept chugging on.
When your payroll is less than ten thousand employees or you're centrally located, then it can be much worse.
What he's saying is the effective cost to you and to the ISP for using your upload bandwidth is so high that if, instead that money was used to host the file on a major CDN, the overall cost would be less.
I can't say whether he's right or wrong, but you aren't following his argument.
Torrents would be much better if they chose peers based on logical (not necessarily physical) distance.
Different resolutions, wildly varying performance characteristics and other things hamper Android.
The biggest problem I see with Google Android is that it doesn't define a metric to judge devices by. I know people hate abstract or vague measurements, but it'd be fantastic if they divided Android implementations into a few categories, and then gave grades for Java and OpenGL performance characteristics, screen characteristics, etc.
So that way when an app targets an overall score of 20 and my phone is a 50, I can feel pretty confident. With the iPhone, there's literally a handful of models to choose from and the performance testing is a lot easier.
The only problem is how to make the Google OS desktop work with anything that isn't running a web browser, albeit limited these days, not every device has or will have network connectivity. In addition, the desktop or laptop with Google OS won't itself have connectivity all the time.
tl;dr: If a user can't make their iPod work, or their -whatever-, then it's not going to fly.
Loading Outlook 2007 is a couple seconds. Outlook 2010 actually loads in under a second for me on another computer with a slower CPU, albeit a faster disk.
DES with twice the key length wasn't proportionally stronger, and the speed of computation was important enough that halving the key length with a negligible impact on strength was well advised.
3DES at 168 bits isn't nearly as strong, cryptographically, as AES or many other modern algorithms. Yet many of these algorithms can use 128-bit keys and 128-bit block sizes. So key size does not make the algorithm.
If they start increasing the number of options, a la the Scion brand, then that quickly becomes impractical or impossible. Far easier to render and cache temporarily than to store all possible renders.
And our complete apathy towards the largest international diplomatic body are helping... how?
I mean, at least for citizens of the United States to complain about the UN is almost hilarious. Our previous ambassador wanted nothing more than to tear the whole thing down. Half the nation thinks diplomacy is for little girls and real men point missiles at each other until a vein pops or someone blinks.
If we want to improve it, we need to contribute to the process. If we refuse to contribute, and then someone in the UN does something stupid, or goes against US foreign policy, we have no room to complain.
Your discourse helps no one and all it does is promote a helpless fatalism in international politics.
P.S.: Get over yourself and your conspiracy theories. "Never attribute to malice that which can adequately be explained by stupidity" should be "never attribute to a massive conspiracy that which can be adequately explained by one middle-manager overreacting." I'm guessing one middle-management-esque official in the UN saw the poster, took unnecessary authority of the situation and demanded that it be taken down. When he didn't get his way he called guards whose job is to listen to higher ups, who did as their job asks without questioning their "boss". And the result was a petty diplomatic incident wherein someone overreached and may even get punished for acting hastily and calling yet more attention to Chinese censorship.
Vista probably cost them billions of dollars in revenue because, had they released a sooner, higher quality OS as their schedule initially dictated, their sales wouldn't have suffered. Not only that, but they'd have had two additional OS releases before Windows 7, or a global recession hurting their first decent OS release in nearly a decade.
Though if you think Microsoft executives seriously looked around the table and laughed at how they fooled everyone releasing a crappy product, I don't know if anything will convince you that you're wrong.
If you don't have the money to pay for the cost of doing business, you shouldn't be running a business or in charge of financials.
That's all we're saying. Software is part of the cost of business. If you want to use Microsoft Excel, you pay for it. If you want to use Adobe Acrobat, you pay for it. Microsoft paid their employees to make the software, they paid a firm to package the software (heck, maybe they're big enough that they do it all in-house.) Either way, they paid for every step of the way to make the software useful and available. Heck, the same thing applies to open source in different ways. If you violate the GPL, it's still time and effort that some developer put into it in order to make the code freely available. If you don't like their rules, don't use their source code. If you don't like Microsoft's rules, don't buy their products.
Recent patches may have changed this. I played against the AI with exactly that mindset and I was attacked by a zealot dropship rush that I was wholly unprepared for. I lost to the AI because I tried to game it with an unreliable recollection of their strategy or, perhaps, a change in AI strategy.
Actually, the health insurance exchanges are very similar to the federal health plans. All federal employees are given a choice of option and able to pick what benefits they consider most affordable. Everyone in federal government gets these options.
In addition, the government, being so large, has been able to negotiate terms like bans on "pre-existing conditions" out of many of the contracts, for the benefit of all federal employees.
So, basically, this health insurance bill gives we, the people, the same health insurance options they have. That all federal employees have. And it gives us their protections, and potentially a public option in states where the local monopoly or duopoly has control of the market.
Before America showed up they had a tyrant dictator who had the good sense to stay out of religious disputes in an area where people with religious disputes are prone to making their case with guns and bombs, even if it means taking their own lives.
We then invaded this not-so-idyllic nation with not so much as a whit of an idea about what to do to turn such a place into a thriving democracy, when doing so would be plainly unfair to the minorities in the religious disputes.
Democracy works when reasonable people come together and are willing to make decisions and sacrifices for the betterment of all the people. It does not work, sadly, in nations where it has been forced into existence replacing an existing corrupt government that the people had no faith in, and no reason to believe in the new government.
Perhaps I'm oversimplifying, but it seems to me that the way to bring "peace" to the Middle East would be through reason, brutally slow diplomacy and encouraging expression of ideas and open debates, encouraging education of children male and female, etc. Basically, using the thin edge of the wedge. Instead we came in with guns and bombs, things these people are all too familiar with, and the ones who don't like us responded in kind.
You should sysprep the machines to reset their state before joining the machines. Basically, you should create a stock VM that is your disk image right after a "sysprep" and then NEVER EVER do anything with that. Clone it, complete the setup process, and join that cloned machine to the domain.
So in your case, you should have installed each VM from the ISO/CD and joined the domain, or used a first sysprepped disk image, cloned that twice, and used the two clones to join the domain.
The reason is that sysprep does the necessary work to separate two machine's identities in a more significant way than just the SID.
Microsoft's policy is you should never clone a disk image in a domain environment without first running sysprep. NewSID was just a way of doing "sysprep lite."
I suppose if we wanted to talk about eight year old releases of Linux and the problems they have, we could.
But instead, at least with Vista and Windows 7, the filesystem creates snapshots before and after even minor updates and most applications, or at least any application adding or modifying a driver, should do the same. There's a published API on how to do so, that way if the machine reboots, discovers it's non-bootable, it can go into the repair console, check for disk or boot manager issues, and offer to rollback the filesystem.
That's all built in with a nice easy wizard/GUI interface and access to a more advanced command prompt, but it's largely automatic and self-fixing.
You're right but the prevalence of issues with installing Linux are far more numerous, or at least, as a percentage of installs, than the issues of installing Windows.
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Your words, I want to see you eat them.
Listen, I don't want to belittle economics as a science, but it seems to be one that, outside of the hard mathematical problems, sorely lacks predictive power. I have nothing but respect for the long economics studies, for the introduction of game theory as a field unto itself thanks in no small part to some very clever economists. But I have a problem with the fact that it's anybody's guess whether or not anything really works.
Stimulus? Bailouts? *shrug* Trickle down effect? I mean, as a liberal and a libertarian, I have to pick and choose my battles on which economic policies I favor, but typically it's based on the liberal or libertarian philosophies that I've personally debated with myself about. Very rarely do I think to myself, "Oh, there was a study that showed 'X' doesn't work as an economic policy."
And part of that, yes, is that economics is something inherently untestable, especially macroeconomics. You can test game theory on a college campus all you want, but the real world seems to be a crapshoot.
Now here comes a physicist who proposes a testable model that makes predictions about human energy use and economic output that should be retroactive. So rather than seriously evaluate it, you come onto Slashdot to dismiss it. Rather than let it be reviewed, studied, and counter-examples found, you dismiss it outright.
Do you see why Slashdotters don't think of economics as "real science" now? Because, as far as a lot of people are concerned, right or wrong, you're no better than creationists. A lot of what economists say comes out like "it's magic."
At least I can watch a video of Feynman explain something simple or complex and reason my way through it.
No no, he modeled the population as a frictionless surface that perfectly reflects all light.
I've run Windows Server 2008 R2 as a hypervisor with my i7 to do some testing and it's ran fine. I'm guessing this issue is particularly rare and that's why this fix is coming out close to five months after RTM.
The hotfix fixes the problem and allows the use of power saving states.
Done!
Yes.
Or infection control was acknowledged as a more serious problem causing secondary infections due to more thorough analysis in the past century, accompanied by numerous other medical advances.
Or to put it differently;
Fun related fact: infection control became MORE of a problem when cars became common. Something about the emissions and blah blah blah.
You know how tempermental customers are, even when dealing with other businesses. Is IBM or Microsoft going to be hurt by the swine flu? A bit. I'm sure there were setbacks as some people came ill. But the business as a whole kept chugging on.
When your payroll is less than ten thousand employees or you're centrally located, then it can be much worse.
What he's saying is the effective cost to you and to the ISP for using your upload bandwidth is so high that if, instead that money was used to host the file on a major CDN, the overall cost would be less.
I can't say whether he's right or wrong, but you aren't following his argument.
Torrents would be much better if they chose peers based on logical (not necessarily physical) distance.
Different resolutions, wildly varying performance characteristics and other things hamper Android.
The biggest problem I see with Google Android is that it doesn't define a metric to judge devices by. I know people hate abstract or vague measurements, but it'd be fantastic if they divided Android implementations into a few categories, and then gave grades for Java and OpenGL performance characteristics, screen characteristics, etc.
So that way when an app targets an overall score of 20 and my phone is a 50, I can feel pretty confident. With the iPhone, there's literally a handful of models to choose from and the performance testing is a lot easier.
The only problem is how to make the Google OS desktop work with anything that isn't running a web browser, albeit limited these days, not every device has or will have network connectivity. In addition, the desktop or laptop with Google OS won't itself have connectivity all the time.
tl;dr: If a user can't make their iPod work, or their -whatever-, then it's not going to fly.
Loading Outlook 2007 is a couple seconds. Outlook 2010 actually loads in under a second for me on another computer with a slower CPU, albeit a faster disk.
DES with twice the key length wasn't proportionally stronger, and the speed of computation was important enough that halving the key length with a negligible impact on strength was well advised.
3DES at 168 bits isn't nearly as strong, cryptographically, as AES or many other modern algorithms. Yet many of these algorithms can use 128-bit keys and 128-bit block sizes. So key size does not make the algorithm.
In hindsight, the NSA is fully validated on DES.
If they start increasing the number of options, a la the Scion brand, then that quickly becomes impractical or impossible. Far easier to render and cache temporarily than to store all possible renders.
And our complete apathy towards the largest international diplomatic body are helping... how?
I mean, at least for citizens of the United States to complain about the UN is almost hilarious. Our previous ambassador wanted nothing more than to tear the whole thing down. Half the nation thinks diplomacy is for little girls and real men point missiles at each other until a vein pops or someone blinks.
If we want to improve it, we need to contribute to the process. If we refuse to contribute, and then someone in the UN does something stupid, or goes against US foreign policy, we have no room to complain.
Your discourse helps no one and all it does is promote a helpless fatalism in international politics.
P.S.: Get over yourself and your conspiracy theories. "Never attribute to malice that which can adequately be explained by stupidity" should be "never attribute to a massive conspiracy that which can be adequately explained by one middle-manager overreacting." I'm guessing one middle-management-esque official in the UN saw the poster, took unnecessary authority of the situation and demanded that it be taken down. When he didn't get his way he called guards whose job is to listen to higher ups, who did as their job asks without questioning their "boss". And the result was a petty diplomatic incident wherein someone overreached and may even get punished for acting hastily and calling yet more attention to Chinese censorship.
Vista probably cost them billions of dollars in revenue because, had they released a sooner, higher quality OS as their schedule initially dictated, their sales wouldn't have suffered. Not only that, but they'd have had two additional OS releases before Windows 7, or a global recession hurting their first decent OS release in nearly a decade.
Though if you think Microsoft executives seriously looked around the table and laughed at how they fooled everyone releasing a crappy product, I don't know if anything will convince you that you're wrong.
If you don't have the money to pay for the cost of doing business, you shouldn't be running a business or in charge of financials.
That's all we're saying. Software is part of the cost of business. If you want to use Microsoft Excel, you pay for it. If you want to use Adobe Acrobat, you pay for it. Microsoft paid their employees to make the software, they paid a firm to package the software (heck, maybe they're big enough that they do it all in-house.) Either way, they paid for every step of the way to make the software useful and available. Heck, the same thing applies to open source in different ways. If you violate the GPL, it's still time and effort that some developer put into it in order to make the code freely available. If you don't like their rules, don't use their source code. If you don't like Microsoft's rules, don't buy their products.
It's that easy.
Recent patches may have changed this. I played against the AI with exactly that mindset and I was attacked by a zealot dropship rush that I was wholly unprepared for. I lost to the AI because I tried to game it with an unreliable recollection of their strategy or, perhaps, a change in AI strategy.
Actually, the health insurance exchanges are very similar to the federal health plans. All federal employees are given a choice of option and able to pick what benefits they consider most affordable. Everyone in federal government gets these options.
In addition, the government, being so large, has been able to negotiate terms like bans on "pre-existing conditions" out of many of the contracts, for the benefit of all federal employees.
So, basically, this health insurance bill gives we, the people, the same health insurance options they have. That all federal employees have. And it gives us their protections, and potentially a public option in states where the local monopoly or duopoly has control of the market.
How horrible.
Before America showed up they had a tyrant dictator who had the good sense to stay out of religious disputes in an area where people with religious disputes are prone to making their case with guns and bombs, even if it means taking their own lives.
We then invaded this not-so-idyllic nation with not so much as a whit of an idea about what to do to turn such a place into a thriving democracy, when doing so would be plainly unfair to the minorities in the religious disputes.
Democracy works when reasonable people come together and are willing to make decisions and sacrifices for the betterment of all the people. It does not work, sadly, in nations where it has been forced into existence replacing an existing corrupt government that the people had no faith in, and no reason to believe in the new government.
Perhaps I'm oversimplifying, but it seems to me that the way to bring "peace" to the Middle East would be through reason, brutally slow diplomacy and encouraging expression of ideas and open debates, encouraging education of children male and female, etc. Basically, using the thin edge of the wedge. Instead we came in with guns and bombs, things these people are all too familiar with, and the ones who don't like us responded in kind.
Actually yes, you can reinstall windows without having it format your drive, and in Vista and 7 this is the default option, for obvious reasons.
In Windows XP I think it would just rename the Windows folder and write over it. Much like Ubuntu writing over /bin and other OS and non-user folders.
You should sysprep the machines to reset their state before joining the machines. Basically, you should create a stock VM that is your disk image right after a "sysprep" and then NEVER EVER do anything with that. Clone it, complete the setup process, and join that cloned machine to the domain.
So in your case, you should have installed each VM from the ISO/CD and joined the domain, or used a first sysprepped disk image, cloned that twice, and used the two clones to join the domain.
The reason is that sysprep does the necessary work to separate two machine's identities in a more significant way than just the SID.
Microsoft's policy is you should never clone a disk image in a domain environment without first running sysprep. NewSID was just a way of doing "sysprep lite."
This seems strange because it manages multiple domain controllers fine, and they all have the same SID.
I suppose if we wanted to talk about eight year old releases of Linux and the problems they have, we could.
But instead, at least with Vista and Windows 7, the filesystem creates snapshots before and after even minor updates and most applications, or at least any application adding or modifying a driver, should do the same. There's a published API on how to do so, that way if the machine reboots, discovers it's non-bootable, it can go into the repair console, check for disk or boot manager issues, and offer to rollback the filesystem.
That's all built in with a nice easy wizard/GUI interface and access to a more advanced command prompt, but it's largely automatic and self-fixing.
You're right but the prevalence of issues with installing Linux are far more numerous, or at least, as a percentage of installs, than the issues of installing Windows.
That's a problem.