If microsoft actually broke backwards compatibility, it would be a good thing. Forcing applications to be written the new way for the new OS would be very annoying to businesses. That is why we have VMs. VM the old OS inside the new OS. To natively run on the new OS the application should be written for it. By doing this all the old back door crap would be gone. Would there be new hole to worry about? Most likely, bad programming practices are hard to change (but shouldn't be). I doubt microsoft would replace their programming team. But at least the old APIs could be discarded.
Back on VMs, the more I use them the more I like them. But VMs also work (and often better) on Linux. Having a free OS as the host OS then a VM running win XP, 2000, whatever for your applications is not something microsoft wants.
PoTAYto PoTAHto, the point is geothermal is where it is, not where you want it to be, and the costs of transporting power from where it is to where it is needed is prohibitive. You do know that not every city has a power generating plant? There is a reason why it is called the power grid. It goes all across the country. The power plants all feed into it. We already have a way to get power from point A to point B. Building geothermal, wind, and other green energy power plants is a good thing. Not wanting to do one way since it is far from where the power will be used is not a reason. Besides, in the US, the best areas for geothermal are: the west coast, Alaska, and Hawaii. Alaska and Hawaii would most likely keep their power. But the west coast could send it across the country with ease.
The homes need those in the ground heating/cooling systems (I forget what they are called)to get electric heat to work correctly. Going from 65 to 70 degrees is much easier then 20 (or lower). Electric heating is extremely inefficient at raising the temperature from 20 to 70. The added bonus is that it is almost free AC. You are not running a compressor so a lot less electricity is used.
The burned CD usually fails the check. Which is strange since I could install off the burn. Also has anyone ever lost a CD due to the CD drive breaking? I had a fast CD drive and after playing the game for a while (like 6 months) the drive went out of alignment and tilted the CD in the CD drive. End result he disk was so scratch it would fail its own CD checks. I bought a new drive and got new disk (free thanks Blizzard) but I looked into using no CD exes since I didn't ant the disk to get killed again.
Hey Pak, you do know that the doctors can get things wrong. I was very sick (coma, fever pinning the old glass thermometer in under 10 seconds) as a small child (13 months). My parents were told that due to the brain damage I would have the mental abilities of a 2-3 year old at best. Fast forward 26 years, here I am alive holding my own. I got the best grades among my siblings. People tell me I am smart (I don't think so but what ever) since I can figure out a lot of things quickly. Here I am 32% of my brain useless and no one is the wiser.
Humans can adapt. The younger one is, the better they adapt. I was never told I was ever sick until I was 22. That did explain why I can't spell and one side of my body is a lot weaker then the other. I went to the doctor and that was when I found out that 32% of my brain doesn't work. The doctors who read the results were looking for a different person. They couldn't believe that I was talking to them and could walk on my own never mind drive a car with that amount of brain damage.
Give people a chance. If you don't the human race is doomed. Humans need to change and adapt in order to survive.
Doesn't Europe also have not a lot of farm land so it to has to import the biofuel? Or are you saying Europe already imports most of it cuttenr oil so no difference?
Point 5? Why would you borrow more then you could pay back? The people who are losing their homes (usually 2nd or 3rd homes) since they cannot afford the payments did it to them selves. If you can not afford it, do not buy it. That is not the government's fault. That is the people who signed and got all those loans. The housing market was/is getting to big. People were looking to turn a quick profit. They gambled and lost. Why should the people who didn't gamble bail out those that did?
sleep != hibernate
The machine is in sleep mode, or very low power. Hibernate mode is everything is written to disk. So yes, you can remove the battery in any laptop in hibernate mode. No matter the OS. I have an old laptop with a dead screen. It is a really small desktop now. The battery died, so I took it out. I am not replacing it. I can still just close the lid (or press the power button). Unplug it (the charger stays warm makes me nervous). Come back later, plug it back in and pick up right where I left off. This is not new. Just most people want instant on, not 5-20 seconds on.
Have you actually used xp home? I know a few people with it and the biggest issue is home leaves programs running under a different user when they switch or log out. User A logs in opens email is finished logs out. Computer stays on. User B log on open the email program. (different user same email program) The email program complains that they do not have permission to user A's email. This is with thunderbird, outlook express, and what ever verizon uses. Rebooting solves this issue on xp home. Switched them to xp pro. No issue with switch user or log out anymore. If the machine single user, this is a non issue, but it it has multiple users, I say go with xp pro over home.
One still has to download, uncompress, install all of the software that is selected to be installed. Granted if nothing conflicts (or the source is down), it can less steps. But there is time involved.
The inspiration or any dell line other then the business ones (optiplex/latitude) can and do have different hardware components in them. If you buy an abc123 business laptop from dell and six months later buy another abc123 business laptop from dell the motherboard is going to be the same. The same is not true with their home line. The same model can have completely different motherboards and other hardware. It doesn't surprise me that dell has different motherboards for 533 RAM and 800 RAM in their home line of products. The motherboard determines the RAM speed not the laptop model.
If the average Joe can read (they are using a computer so I am hoping they can read), firefox on linux does something that I have yet to see in windows. Do a google search and on the results page you can see on some links "this site may harm your computer". This is a great idea. Why does firefox not due this on windows?
Your help desk people are called sysadmins? Help desk is called help desk to me (and where I work). System administrators set up servers/networks/set the AD rules/manage the email server(s)/do stuff that affects many people with fewer steps. The help desk people to the face to face with the regular people who use computers.
Where I work we have new machines with Windows 98 SE freshly installed on them because the "backwards compatability" is really only a token effort to put a bullet point in a sales brochure and not an actual reality. The bizzare thing is that with the right motherboards Win98 will install on a SATA drive - I didn't believe it until I saw it. I hope you mean right drivers. Once you have the hardware drivers for the OS installing is not an issue.
It does cost some amount to make a CD/DVD/create the digital mp3 and to store the digital file. Electricity is not free to most companies. The IP should belong to the artist who made it NOT the record companies. The record companies are just middle men. I wish more artists would open up a website allowing free downloads of their music and allowing people to pay what they think is fair. I forget who did that but they did get boatload of cash instead of it going to the RIAA.
I thought DEC was burned by deals with Intel. The alpha chip was designed by DEC and Intel, but Intel own the patents. Intel came out with the pent II and DEC died. Well DEC was bought by Compaq which then merged with HP.
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If microsoft actually broke backwards compatibility, it would be a good thing. Forcing applications to be written the new way for the new OS would be very annoying to businesses. That is why we have VMs. VM the old OS inside the new OS. To natively run on the new OS the application should be written for it. By doing this all the old back door crap would be gone. Would there be new hole to worry about? Most likely, bad programming practices are hard to change (but shouldn't be). I doubt microsoft would replace their programming team. But at least the old APIs could be discarded.
Back on VMs, the more I use them the more I like them. But VMs also work (and often better) on Linux. Having a free OS as the host OS then a VM running win XP, 2000, whatever for your applications is not something microsoft wants.
The homes need those in the ground heating/cooling systems (I forget what they are called)to get electric heat to work correctly. Going from 65 to 70 degrees is much easier then 20 (or lower). Electric heating is extremely inefficient at raising the temperature from 20 to 70. The added bonus is that it is almost free AC. You are not running a compressor so a lot less electricity is used.
They did. That is the cake the IE team received when they shipped IE 7. They just 're-gifted' the cake.
The burned CD usually fails the check. Which is strange since I could install off the burn. Also has anyone ever lost a CD due to the CD drive breaking? I had a fast CD drive and after playing the game for a while (like 6 months) the drive went out of alignment and tilted the CD in the CD drive. End result he disk was so scratch it would fail its own CD checks. I bought a new drive and got new disk (free thanks Blizzard) but I looked into using no CD exes since I didn't ant the disk to get killed again.
Hey Pak, you do know that the doctors can get things wrong. I was very sick (coma, fever pinning the old glass thermometer in under 10 seconds) as a small child (13 months). My parents were told that due to the brain damage I would have the mental abilities of a 2-3 year old at best. Fast forward 26 years, here I am alive holding my own. I got the best grades among my siblings. People tell me I am smart (I don't think so but what ever) since I can figure out a lot of things quickly. Here I am 32% of my brain useless and no one is the wiser.
Humans can adapt. The younger one is, the better they adapt. I was never told I was ever sick until I was 22. That did explain why I can't spell and one side of my body is a lot weaker then the other. I went to the doctor and that was when I found out that 32% of my brain doesn't work. The doctors who read the results were looking for a different person. They couldn't believe that I was talking to them and could walk on my own never mind drive a car with that amount of brain damage.
Give people a chance. If you don't the human race is doomed. Humans need to change and adapt in order to survive.
Like a leaning post on some boats (mostly center consoles)? Google: center console leaning post for images.
This idea sounds good, but you will need a higher desk to go with that standing/leaning chair.
Doesn't Europe also have not a lot of farm land so it to has to import the biofuel? Or are you saying Europe already imports most of it cuttenr oil so no difference?
It is a feature not a bug. The programmers where thinking of the slow motion Bay Watch running when programming female characters movements.
SunStarShip1: Earth we are positioning the cooling device now.
Earth: Good let us know when it is in position.
SunStarShip1: OK it is in position. Temperatures are dropping as we speak.
Earth: good. Carry out the tests. Then report back.
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10 hours later
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SunStarShip1: Earth, tests completed. We can now create cold fusion.
SunStarShip1: Earth?
SunStarShip1: Earth? come in Earth...
Point 5? Why would you borrow more then you could pay back? The people who are losing their homes (usually 2nd or 3rd homes) since they cannot afford the payments did it to them selves. If you can not afford it, do not buy it. That is not the government's fault. That is the people who signed and got all those loans. The housing market was/is getting to big. People were looking to turn a quick profit. They gambled and lost. Why should the people who didn't gamble bail out those that did?
sleep != hibernate The machine is in sleep mode, or very low power. Hibernate mode is everything is written to disk. So yes, you can remove the battery in any laptop in hibernate mode. No matter the OS. I have an old laptop with a dead screen. It is a really small desktop now. The battery died, so I took it out. I am not replacing it. I can still just close the lid (or press the power button). Unplug it (the charger stays warm makes me nervous). Come back later, plug it back in and pick up right where I left off. This is not new. Just most people want instant on, not 5-20 seconds on.
Have you actually used xp home? I know a few people with it and the biggest issue is home leaves programs running under a different user when they switch or log out. User A logs in opens email is finished logs out. Computer stays on. User B log on open the email program. (different user same email program) The email program complains that they do not have permission to user A's email. This is with thunderbird, outlook express, and what ever verizon uses. Rebooting solves this issue on xp home. Switched them to xp pro. No issue with switch user or log out anymore. If the machine single user, this is a non issue, but it it has multiple users, I say go with xp pro over home.
One still has to download, uncompress, install all of the software that is selected to be installed. Granted if nothing conflicts (or the source is down), it can less steps. But there is time involved.
The inspiration or any dell line other then the business ones (optiplex/latitude) can and do have different hardware components in them. If you buy an abc123 business laptop from dell and six months later buy another abc123 business laptop from dell the motherboard is going to be the same. The same is not true with their home line. The same model can have completely different motherboards and other hardware. It doesn't surprise me that dell has different motherboards for 533 RAM and 800 RAM in their home line of products. The motherboard determines the RAM speed not the laptop model.
If the average Joe can read (they are using a computer so I am hoping they can read), firefox on linux does something that I have yet to see in windows. Do a google search and on the results page you can see on some links "this site may harm your computer". This is a great idea. Why does firefox not due this on windows?
Shouldn't that be the WRT54GL?
Your help desk people are called sysadmins? Help desk is called help desk to me (and where I work). System administrators set up servers/networks/set the AD rules/manage the email server(s)/do stuff that affects many people with fewer steps. The help desk people to the face to face with the regular people who use computers.
Someone else remembers History of the World Part I
It does cost some amount to make a CD/DVD/create the digital mp3 and to store the digital file. Electricity is not free to most companies. The IP should belong to the artist who made it NOT the record companies. The record companies are just middle men. I wish more artists would open up a website allowing free downloads of their music and allowing people to pay what they think is fair. I forget who did that but they did get boatload of cash instead of it going to the RIAA.
What comes to mind for me is either that ship from Babylon 5 or the Titanic (Whitestar line).
I thought DEC was burned by deals with Intel. The alpha chip was designed by DEC and Intel, but Intel own the patents. Intel came out with the pent II and DEC died. Well DEC was bought by Compaq which then merged with HP.
Hasn't Sun had this for a few years now? http://www.sun.com/products/sunmd/s20/index.jsp
Or she is trying to squeeze every last cent out of Harry Potter. Or to put it bluntly: greed.