As much as I would like something such as that to happen, I think there are other ways to solve the problem that don't involve perverting the American ideal and putting our elected officials into hell.
Imagine being an elected official. You wouldn't be able to call your wife, your kids without it being recorded. Would you even be allowed to speak to them privately in your home? Would you be able to have a private discussion with their teacher? Would we grant them an exception for doctor patient confidentiality? What about attorney client privilege?
I can't imagine calling myself an American if I supported a law that would destroy the humanity of the people I voted into office.
Each node probably has 4 CPUs and 4 cores each, which reduces the price significantly, to only $28 for the commercial version, or about a dollar per node for the academic version.
That's not bad. And of course you don't understand the CALs, but hey, making erroneous statements can get you modded insightful so maybe I should spout something disingenuous about Linux, like it costs $699 to license it from SCO or something.
(For the uninformed, not all CALs are created equally and the parent is assuming that these are named licenses that must be purchased for each user. Many different kinds of CALs exist, and I suspect these are either physical unit licenses or concurrent access licenses, i.e.: you purchase 1 per node, period.)
I don't know of a single software that has ever triggered HDCP, because I know my LCD isn't qualified and it'd be pretty darn obvious when HDCP kicked in on my one and only display.
You realize your perl cache has overhead and the execution time is actually a negative there, as miniscule as it is. Vista's method doesn't do things like hit the FS every few minutes "just to see how it's going" when it does prefetch.
The reason people complain about Vista's memory usage is because they see this: Physical Memory (MB) Total: 3069 Cached: 1794 Free: 13
And they think "OH MY GOD IT'S USING ALMOST ALL OF IT."
Manipulate[] alone beats every chalkboard/whiteboard/overhead projector hands down. I found it to be a profound aid in teaching myself concepts such as curvature on a line or a plane and other things.
Microsoft very heavily considered making Vista have a user-level account that required UAC to prompt for an admin account and password. Of course, you can set up your computer like that, but picking good defaults is something every programmer is aware of.
Unfortunately, Microsoft is all too well aware that picking the low-level user default means a lot more people would complain about their computers being 'broken,' because of the following reasons: 1) Microsoft had not fully transitioned its own services and utilities to use UAC tokens well, which results in multiple dialogs when trying to perform a single action on a protected file in a protected folder. Technically it's multiple actions, but they didn't make any way for a UAC token to apply to multiple events like that. (I leave the reasoning behind that to the reader.) 2) ISVs had not, until this point, had to deal with any more than an insignificant fraction of the users running without admin access. Even in internet cafes, the default user is typically an administrator that has had certain privileges removed, because it's easier to start from admin and start taking things away than it is to start from a low level account and add all the myriad, complex ACLs that you need to make 99% of programs work flawlessly. 3)... 4) Profit: by making Vista annoy users and developers sufficiently that fewer applications will need administrator to run. According to Microsoft's data from opt-in user information, there has been a marked drop in applications that request administrator rights, about 50%. That's -tremendous- news, and there is still a downward trend. Fixing the Microsoft default security settings over a series of OS releases makes the entire thing less expensive, and with all the flak Vista got, their decision to not add one more thing to the pile of bad things Vista does by default is the only sensible one.
Windows 7 fixes many unnecessary UAC prompts and allows you to set users to have different levels of prompting, and I would put money on Windows 8 using a default low rights user as the final step in the transition. Reply here if you want to set it up:)
One, have you actually tested this (I'm curious and would like to know) and two, cell phone jammer? As in, it would advertise your position to anyone scanning those frequencies?
When someone asks you how far you'd get if you lost one of the engines, tell 'em "All the way to the scene of the crash! We'll beat the paramedics there by half an hour, we're haulin ass!"
It may be capable of dual booting into a DOS environment as part of the OEM kit. As you may know, 16-bit software does not run under any 64-bit version of a Windows OS, and Windows XP was the first 'home' Windows release that did not feature a DOS subsystem. (Windows ME made it harder to get to, but that's neither here nor there.)
Most of what we produce, most 'trash' is going to be hydrogen, carbon, and oxygen. So I have to wonder, is this 'burning' it, or is it going to be producing diatomic hydrogen and oxygen? Does anyone have any experience with plasma gasification that could explain why this wouldn't produce unwanted byproducts from the gaseous components cooling down?
What you're missing is that SSDs typically have that built in, and that ideally you want a file system that doesn't worry about large-scale contiguity because it results in unnecessary reads and writes.
Interesting thing about Vista's defragmenter is that it's basically always running, even if it's not doing anything most of the time. If you look in your task scheduler, the default defragment task has an interesting set of options: "Start the task only if the computer is idle for: 3 minutes" "Wait for idle for: 365 days"
So if you have a weekly defrag set up, it will run until completion, even if it takes all year because your computer never gets any idle time.
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As much as I would like something such as that to happen, I think there are other ways to solve the problem that don't involve perverting the American ideal and putting our elected officials into hell.
Imagine being an elected official. You wouldn't be able to call your wife, your kids without it being recorded. Would you even be allowed to speak to them privately in your home? Would you be able to have a private discussion with their teacher? Would we grant them an exception for doctor patient confidentiality? What about attorney client privilege?
I can't imagine calling myself an American if I supported a law that would destroy the humanity of the people I voted into office.
, you insensitive clod!
I paid nothing, but I digress :)
OEM licensing is $170 for Vista Ultimate and cheaper for the other editions, and 6 copies of OSX is $900 ($150*6.)
Yes, it's that good.
That was a great read.
But no, seriously, when has Vista ever triggered copy protection?
IMO, everyone (referring to companies) is too afraid to get the backlash for requiring HDCP that no one has.
But they both run on Emacs!
And it'd implement the entire IEEE standard with every peculiarity and requirement?
Each node probably has 4 CPUs and 4 cores each, which reduces the price significantly, to only $28 for the commercial version, or about a dollar per node for the academic version.
That's not bad. And of course you don't understand the CALs, but hey, making erroneous statements can get you modded insightful so maybe I should spout something disingenuous about Linux, like it costs $699 to license it from SCO or something.
(For the uninformed, not all CALs are created equally and the parent is assuming that these are named licenses that must be purchased for each user. Many different kinds of CALs exist, and I suspect these are either physical unit licenses or concurrent access licenses, i.e.: you purchase 1 per node, period.)
Where? Err, I mean, where is it used?
I don't know of a single software that has ever triggered HDCP, because I know my LCD isn't qualified and it'd be pretty darn obvious when HDCP kicked in on my one and only display.
You realize your perl cache has overhead and the execution time is actually a negative there, as miniscule as it is. Vista's method doesn't do things like hit the FS every few minutes "just to see how it's going" when it does prefetch.
The reason people complain about Vista's memory usage is because they see this:
Physical Memory (MB)
Total: 3069
Cached: 1794
Free: 13
And they think "OH MY GOD IT'S USING ALMOST ALL OF IT."
No.
Manipulate[] alone beats every chalkboard/whiteboard/overhead projector hands down. I found it to be a profound aid in teaching myself concepts such as curvature on a line or a plane and other things.
BIND is user friendly?
Your definition of user, I think, differs from mine.
Microsoft very heavily considered making Vista have a user-level account that required UAC to prompt for an admin account and password. Of course, you can set up your computer like that, but picking good defaults is something every programmer is aware of.
Unfortunately, Microsoft is all too well aware that picking the low-level user default means a lot more people would complain about their computers being 'broken,' because of the following reasons: ...
1) Microsoft had not fully transitioned its own services and utilities to use UAC tokens well, which results in multiple dialogs when trying to perform a single action on a protected file in a protected folder. Technically it's multiple actions, but they didn't make any way for a UAC token to apply to multiple events like that. (I leave the reasoning behind that to the reader.)
2) ISVs had not, until this point, had to deal with any more than an insignificant fraction of the users running without admin access. Even in internet cafes, the default user is typically an administrator that has had certain privileges removed, because it's easier to start from admin and start taking things away than it is to start from a low level account and add all the myriad, complex ACLs that you need to make 99% of programs work flawlessly.
3)
4) Profit: by making Vista annoy users and developers sufficiently that fewer applications will need administrator to run. According to Microsoft's data from opt-in user information, there has been a marked drop in applications that request administrator rights, about 50%. That's -tremendous- news, and there is still a downward trend. Fixing the Microsoft default security settings over a series of OS releases makes the entire thing less expensive, and with all the flak Vista got, their decision to not add one more thing to the pile of bad things Vista does by default is the only sensible one.
Windows 7 fixes many unnecessary UAC prompts and allows you to set users to have different levels of prompting, and I would put money on Windows 8 using a default low rights user as the final step in the transition. Reply here if you want to set it up :)
One, have you actually tested this (I'm curious and would like to know) and two, cell phone jammer? As in, it would advertise your position to anyone scanning those frequencies?
No, most cell phones have one and only one battery.
And for low power EMF (cell phones) even very thin cages can be used, I wouldn't be surprised if most aluminum foil were more than sufficient.
And torture porn in October.
Saw 33, coming soon to a theatre near you.
It's understandable, the keys is all right next to each other.
When someone asks you how far you'd get if you lost one of the engines, tell 'em "All the way to the scene of the crash! We'll beat the paramedics there by half an hour, we're haulin ass!"
(Credit Ron White for that.)
It may be capable of dual booting into a DOS environment as part of the OEM kit. As you may know, 16-bit software does not run under any 64-bit version of a Windows OS, and Windows XP was the first 'home' Windows release that did not feature a DOS subsystem. (Windows ME made it harder to get to, but that's neither here nor there.)
Most of what we produce, most 'trash' is going to be hydrogen, carbon, and oxygen. So I have to wonder, is this 'burning' it, or is it going to be producing diatomic hydrogen and oxygen? Does anyone have any experience with plasma gasification that could explain why this wouldn't produce unwanted byproducts from the gaseous components cooling down?
I nearly won Twitter of the Year award too, once.
Wait a minute...
You haven't used Microsoft software in a while, have you?
I apologize if I jumped the gun, but that wasn't clear from his post.
What you're missing is that SSDs typically have that built in, and that ideally you want a file system that doesn't worry about large-scale contiguity because it results in unnecessary reads and writes.
Interesting thing about Vista's defragmenter is that it's basically always running, even if it's not doing anything most of the time. If you look in your task scheduler, the default defragment task has an interesting set of options:
"Start the task only if the computer is idle for: 3 minutes"
"Wait for idle for: 365 days"
So if you have a weekly defrag set up, it will run until completion, even if it takes all year because your computer never gets any idle time.