I'm going to have to argue that and I'll bring in some statistics to back it up if you like after I come back from work.
The PS2 was not a major factor in DVD sales, nor, at the time, did the DVD player greatly increase the cost of the Playstation 2. The hardware to play DVDs had already dropped significantly in price (DVD had been a format for over five years at the time of the PS2's introduction, and DVDs relied on much of the same technology that CDs did.)
The statistics will show that DVD had already begun its upward trend in market penetration before 2000, and they will also show that the market penetration trend for VHS and DVD are nearly identical. To say that a single product (Sony's Playstation 2) had a significant impact would be erroneous and would not be backed up by any credible sources.
It did not drive the format, in much the same way the PSP did not drive the UMD format. Sony has had a negligible impact on consumer use media formats over the past thirty years and Blu-Ray is their first hope at gaining significant market share with their own format. (Note, I said consumer use, as Betamax is or was still used in some studio environments for its superior quality.)
P.S.: For a silly example, if they obtained only 1.05 gees up, that is they would counter Earth's pull and add an additional half meter per second squared, they would get from the ground to geosync in only a few hours.
As silly as that is, these robots are in fact accelerating upwards at 1 gee with an 'initial' speed of 2m/s. So if you managed to get 1.01 gees for four months their end velocity would be over 1000 kilometers per second.
The fact that the robot can climb constantly from ground-based energy sources is the goal. Acceleration at 2 gees (double the force) would get you from ground to geosync in 48 minutes.
I can stand elevator music for 48 minutes if it means I get to go to space.
The problem is, there's no way for legacy apps to be smoothly updated with a new security framework without recompiling each of them with a new API..NET apps, having been built with those requirements in mind, are able to, at compile time, determine what privileges they need and don't need.
Unfortunately I have yet to see the 'granularity' in.NET apps, I think most of the permissions are rather vague.
I think the point of a future Windows and.NET release will be to make security requirements part of the static analysis of code, probably required before execution..NET compiled code is much easier to analyze after runtime than machine-code for only a few percentage points of a drop in throughput on a modern computer. Windows 7 might not even bother with reading the security information.
They get that number by adding up the long periods of time that are described in the bible up to the point of Jesus' death, at which point they add 2000 years.
The belief is called http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Earth_creationismYoung Earth creationism and is believed by a large number Christians.
Some churches, such as the Oriental Orthodox, have always believed it, with the unique argument that the reason man and Earth cannot be more than six thousand years old is due to population growth, and that if you assumed from the point of Adam & Eve onward that each couple had three children you would end up with approximately the correct population. (Note: they said nothing about taking into account mass-death due to climate or deaths due to war.)
So, it's not an Atheist bogeyman, sorry to disappoint.
Interestingly, the above is only valid if superluminal communication is possible. In the absence of that, no one can predict how large a monocultural society could exist before fracturing, but I imagine that once you reach the point where communications are more than 100 years apart, then you lose cultural cohesion, just because that's the current extent of human life-span... On a galactic scale, 100 light years is infinitesimal and AFAIK (IANA-Astrophysicist) there wouldn't be more than a few planets in that sort of scale.
Hell, just due to bureaucracy, I couldn't imagine a ten light year separation working, just because after a decades those requisition forms for food, shelter, water, and another fscking bio-dome would be out of date and you'd have them returned to you.
If we had to ask users to implement every security feature in every OS written to date, said OS would never get off the ground or we'd have an online environment infinitely worse than what it is now.
"Do you want to not allow remote users to exploit your computer?"
[Yes] [No] [Help With This Option]
It's actually much more simple than that and you don't have to pay an analyst to determine why:
The Linux kernel is constantly changing, and while the goal is to minimize breaking changes, it can still happen, and devs won't notice it until it affects a large enough group of people. The result is that vendors can't support Linux, it's a moving and vague target to support. When you say "support Linux" are you talking 2.4? 2.6? Which sub-versions of those major versions are you referring to? Are there specific kernel versions which, for whatever reason, have an issue with your software?
Not only that, but Linux isn't even an entire operating system, it's the kernel with which a host of other applications are built around or upon to provide a desktop "experience" (to borrow the Microsoft term.) Now, not only do they have to determine which kernels they support, but they have to determine which versions of GNOME offer the appropriate dbus interfaces (admission: I don't know much about dbus, but insert some other interface there if the reference is wrong.) They have to determine which versions of KDE will support X and Y, and whether or not their application is both functional and aesthetic in GNOME and a half dozen other programs.
Saying you support Linux is so goddamn blurry that no one could possibly say that they "support Linux" without exerting control over the entire desktop environment and shipping that as or with their software. For example, RHEL can "support Linux" because they release their entire distro, complete with their own kernel patches, the entire system is set up in a way they've tested and assured will work.
I think the TFA makes the point that because of the potential capacity in this new line, and Google's investment in it, once costs are met, it's virtually all profit from there on.
Why do people keep saying that? I have a 15Mb/s cable connection, meaning I can theoretically get 1.875MB/sec down.
In practice, with a download manager in Firefox, I get between 1.5 and 1.75 MB/sec down with or without playing any music. It also doesn't seem to affect games, or anything else.
Now, there probably is an error, but whatever error that exists seems like it only affects gigabit or better internet access, because I'm able to max out my cable no matter what's happening on my PC.
Just because a scratch-proof coating is mandated doesn't mean it meets any standards, and the requirement could be so poorly implemented as to allow any arbitrary coating to be considered scratch-proof.
Without a thorough experiment to determine which disc is more scratch-resistant, you can't say either way, can you?
If I wear one t-shirt versus another, it doesn't make it so I can't run, jump, swim, or whatever. If I choose one distro or another, or even different operating systems, I have to choose from large sets of activities that are almost entirely exclusive from each other, with overlap only in the most popular areas, and the usability varies wildly.
If t-shirts were like distros or operating systems, I'd have to wear blue every time I wanted to play a game.
To be fair, when installing an upgrade from XP to Vista, your original installation is kept intact, in entirety, until the very end of the process.
As in, shutting down, pulling the plug, whatever... has no effect. The result is it boots back into XP. Every time.
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NO! Don't say that!
*runs to grab Companion Cube and proceeds to bomb shelter to wait out the reign of Yet Another New Overlord.*
Ah, yeah, I am referring to Betacam, regardless it is their only success in the field of media formats, and it grew out of Betamax anyway.
Thanks for being a pedant and correcting me, but the insult wasn't necessary.
P.S.: Glass flows! *eyeroll* Please mod parent AC flamebait.
I'm going to have to argue that and I'll bring in some statistics to back it up if you like after I come back from work.
The PS2 was not a major factor in DVD sales, nor, at the time, did the DVD player greatly increase the cost of the Playstation 2. The hardware to play DVDs had already dropped significantly in price (DVD had been a format for over five years at the time of the PS2's introduction, and DVDs relied on much of the same technology that CDs did.)
The statistics will show that DVD had already begun its upward trend in market penetration before 2000, and they will also show that the market penetration trend for VHS and DVD are nearly identical. To say that a single product (Sony's Playstation 2) had a significant impact would be erroneous and would not be backed up by any credible sources.
It did not drive the format, in much the same way the PSP did not drive the UMD format. Sony has had a negligible impact on consumer use media formats over the past thirty years and Blu-Ray is their first hope at gaining significant market share with their own format. (Note, I said consumer use, as Betamax is or was still used in some studio environments for its superior quality.)
Made up statistics* count for around 9/10ths of the reason you say that.
* over the past six months, the number of made up statistics has TRIPLED! wiki it!
P.S.: For a silly example, if they obtained only 1.05 gees up, that is they would counter Earth's pull and add an additional half meter per second squared, they would get from the ground to geosync in only a few hours.
http://www.google.com/search?q=sqrt%282*42164+kilometers%2F%28.05*g_earth%29%29
As silly as that is, these robots are in fact accelerating upwards at 1 gee with an 'initial' speed of 2m/s. So if you managed to get 1.01 gees for four months their end velocity would be over 1000 kilometers per second.
The fact that the robot can climb constantly from ground-based energy sources is the goal. Acceleration at 2 gees (double the force) would get you from ground to geosync in 48 minutes.
I can stand elevator music for 48 minutes if it means I get to go to space.
Can't you just mount the image and save yourself the trouble of burning a CD? (Serious question.)
The problem is, there's no way for legacy apps to be smoothly updated with a new security framework without recompiling each of them with a new API. .NET apps, having been built with those requirements in mind, are able to, at compile time, determine what privileges they need and don't need.
.NET apps, I think most of the permissions are rather vague.
.NET release will be to make security requirements part of the static analysis of code, probably required before execution. .NET compiled code is much easier to analyze after runtime than machine-code for only a few percentage points of a drop in throughput on a modern computer. Windows 7 might not even bother with reading the security information.
Unfortunately I have yet to see the 'granularity' in
I think the point of a future Windows and
They get that number by adding up the long periods of time that are described in the bible up to the point of Jesus' death, at which point they add 2000 years. The belief is called http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Earth_creationismYoung Earth creationism and is believed by a large number Christians. Some churches, such as the Oriental Orthodox, have always believed it, with the unique argument that the reason man and Earth cannot be more than six thousand years old is due to population growth, and that if you assumed from the point of Adam & Eve onward that each couple had three children you would end up with approximately the correct population. (Note: they said nothing about taking into account mass-death due to climate or deaths due to war.) So, it's not an Atheist bogeyman, sorry to disappoint.
You're not taking into account inflation, which has had the opposite effect on the price, and it now costs over six billion dollars.
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The problem with that is that the guy with the biggest, most wattage-burning antenna wins.
Interestingly, the above is only valid if superluminal communication is possible. In the absence of that, no one can predict how large a monocultural society could exist before fracturing, but I imagine that once you reach the point where communications are more than 100 years apart, then you lose cultural cohesion, just because that's the current extent of human life-span... On a galactic scale, 100 light years is infinitesimal and AFAIK (IANA-Astrophysicist) there wouldn't be more than a few planets in that sort of scale.
Hell, just due to bureaucracy, I couldn't imagine a ten light year separation working, just because after a decades those requisition forms for food, shelter, water, and another fscking bio-dome would be out of date and you'd have them returned to you.
If we had to ask users to implement every security feature in every OS written to date, said OS would never get off the ground or we'd have an online environment infinitely worse than what it is now. "Do you want to not allow remote users to exploit your computer?" [Yes] [No] [Help With This Option]
It's actually much more simple than that and you don't have to pay an analyst to determine why: The Linux kernel is constantly changing, and while the goal is to minimize breaking changes, it can still happen, and devs won't notice it until it affects a large enough group of people. The result is that vendors can't support Linux, it's a moving and vague target to support. When you say "support Linux" are you talking 2.4? 2.6? Which sub-versions of those major versions are you referring to? Are there specific kernel versions which, for whatever reason, have an issue with your software? Not only that, but Linux isn't even an entire operating system, it's the kernel with which a host of other applications are built around or upon to provide a desktop "experience" (to borrow the Microsoft term.) Now, not only do they have to determine which kernels they support, but they have to determine which versions of GNOME offer the appropriate dbus interfaces (admission: I don't know much about dbus, but insert some other interface there if the reference is wrong.) They have to determine which versions of KDE will support X and Y, and whether or not their application is both functional and aesthetic in GNOME and a half dozen other programs. Saying you support Linux is so goddamn blurry that no one could possibly say that they "support Linux" without exerting control over the entire desktop environment and shipping that as or with their software. For example, RHEL can "support Linux" because they release their entire distro, complete with their own kernel patches, the entire system is set up in a way they've tested and assured will work.
Years of studying the Tao of Chinese Checkers have finally paid off!
I think the TFA makes the point that because of the potential capacity in this new line, and Google's investment in it, once costs are met, it's virtually all profit from there on.
Why do people keep saying that? I have a 15Mb/s cable connection, meaning I can theoretically get 1.875MB/sec down. In practice, with a download manager in Firefox, I get between 1.5 and 1.75 MB/sec down with or without playing any music. It also doesn't seem to affect games, or anything else. Now, there probably is an error, but whatever error that exists seems like it only affects gigabit or better internet access, because I'm able to max out my cable no matter what's happening on my PC.
Eegad, did he make that in Frontpage?
Just because a scratch-proof coating is mandated doesn't mean it meets any standards, and the requirement could be so poorly implemented as to allow any arbitrary coating to be considered scratch-proof. Without a thorough experiment to determine which disc is more scratch-resistant, you can't say either way, can you?
Oh, so erasing my hard drive seven times is like ROT-13 to them?
God, I'd really like it if they'd come out with discreet track recording technology so I can hide all my porn!
(But at 120GB, that's not nearly enough space!)
None miles.
If I wear one t-shirt versus another, it doesn't make it so I can't run, jump, swim, or whatever. If I choose one distro or another, or even different operating systems, I have to choose from large sets of activities that are almost entirely exclusive from each other, with overlap only in the most popular areas, and the usability varies wildly.
If t-shirts were like distros or operating systems, I'd have to wear blue every time I wanted to play a game.
So I ask you, is that you, BadAnalogyGuy?
To be fair, when installing an upgrade from XP to Vista, your original installation is kept intact, in entirety, until the very end of the process. As in, shutting down, pulling the plug, whatever... has no effect. The result is it boots back into XP. Every time.