Do we really need another (government funded [aka my tax money]?) organization to dictate that TV manufacturers should place bigger energy stickers on their boxes?
Is it not the responsibility of the buyer to determine if this new TV will: a.) work with their house/stereo/room/cabinet? b.) not burn out their fuse box? c.) not add to their electric bill significantly?
My Motorola DVR unit supplied by my cable company already reboots itself on a regular basis. Usually it's after I queue up about a hundred channel requests because it's a sluggish piece of crap and it doesn't respond in a reasonable amount of time. I can't count the number of times when I had to wait for the screen to refresh to be able to do something else. (even to power it off)
I think that's the point of going to a third party with the evidence and asking if it would be alright to setup a wiretap... If a Judge only saw speculation from a Wiki, they'd likely turn it down. However, if the feds presented images, documents of action, and other incriminating evidence then I believe they'd be allowed to tap to gain more evidence or accomplices.
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Um... maybe I read it wrong, but he was disgruntled that Sun didn't offer to pay for accommodations... not code. It's pretty fair for him to ask Sun to foot a bill here or there to enable interoperability for their own products. It doesn't sound disgruntling at all really. More of a "shame on you Sun" post as he ended that quote.
Of course, people read whatever they want to read into things.
Also the fact that literally nothing was in the same place as it was in XP meaning there was a learning curve right out of the box in finding where the settings have been moved to. I know I got a bit more than frustrated when I tried to actually do anything in Vista. It wasn't because it was slow, (I didn't really notice it being "fast" either) but everything was renamed and/or moved around so much it made changing things a bit of a hunt and peck routine I haven't had since Win95.
When the car senses a collision, a light flashes on the windscreen display along with an audible warning. If the driver doesn't act, the car will brake automatically.
People like you are the primary reason we will never see automated efficient transportation. The whole world could switch to automatically driven, 100% safe cars and you'd be the guy on the street with the auto-drive disabled causing all the other automatic cars on the road to artificially brake and speed up because you don't like the loss of control. Either that, or you already shunned electricity, technology and such things because you don't like machinery controlling any part of your life. You also likely don't have a car because you couldn't possibly have an wheel/axle/suspension failure on the highway causing an immediate and uncontrollable left turn/accident that is out of your control. So you must walk everywhere?
Nah, it's easy. It just takes a bit of practice to be able to say "Whoa-Mush!" over and over really fast a bunch of times in a row to get the dogs to "anti-lock".
I'm not sure if it's XP Home or Vista causing the problem, but I cannot share a printer in XP Home with a Vista laptop and get it to work. XP Pro however does... This is Microsoft software talking to Microsoft software. Why is it not flawless?
I'm personally cheering on raytracing for the near future, but I have to agree. If it's not used for gaming, you may be able to download a movie and have it rendered for you in real time. Being able to pan the camera around and view it literally from another angle or have more complex movies with multiple things going on. Being able to focus on a couple's drama or watch a car chase on the other side of town (all within the same "movie".)
There are people that believe the "Gates Foundation" is more of a marketing move than a moral standpoint. When you give that much money under the name of a company founder, you don't need advertisement... Viral marketing kicks in and it's spread by word of mouth. They can spend money on things they want to do and get free advertisement "credit" for the company.
I was pointing out something obvious to someone who apparently can't see that it's so obvious. Of course a link to Microsoft articles on Vista technology are going to "sell" those features. If you don't consider that value, then you are being ignorant of that fact as well.
Anybody that cared about the OS that was on their system wouldn't be buying a Dell PC. They'd be buying a Dell PC with Microsoft Windows. The point being, people buy computers caring little about what OS is on the machine when they get it, as long as it works. People don't buy Windows PCs. They buy PCs or Macs. Since most PCs ship with Windows, that's what people buy. Period.
Awesome... Microsoft articles telling everyone how great Microsoft technology is!
I can point out several companies that have much better technology than their competition. I also have a phone number for an insurance agent that can produce documentation stating that their insurance company is better to it's customers than everyone else.
So far this is the only option people have brought up when they talk about Vista. If this was the only thing that makes Vista better than XP... is it REALLY worth it? If so, why not add that to the classic start menu? I mean, if you add the Desktop Search to XP you get the same basic functionality from what I understand. What else makes Vista "worth it"? From everything I've noticed working with it and trying to get it to connect to an XP Home printer share (unsuccessfully I might add) it's utter crap. All the options are so buried that it's not funny (and quite ironically forcing you to use above said feature in order to be able to use the PC efficiently)
So if I understand this, the reason Vista is so good is because they hid everything from you and make you run everything with the keyboard. You may as well run DOS, Unix or Linux if you like typing the commands you need to run so much.
You'd be better off to build high speed tracks like roller coasters use and build special one man cars that have controls to break if the cars in front are stopped. Each car would have a motor for propulsion and use the energy from the rails. The rails could carry energy into the city along with people and possibly water. Make the rails wide enough that cars could enter and leave the tracks from above or below using special transition rails. You could have the person enter the car and select a destination. The car will pick the best route to go and get you to whatever building in town you are heading to. Your method would require substantial changes to the road, and this method would just build a rail above existing roads. They'd both need special vehicles or modifications to existing vehicles. The floating rails could also be expanded to allow multiple tiers for higher traffic areas.
It would be much easier for you to vote out a moron in YOUR state by getting support from those people in your state than it would be to gain support from all 50 states to remove one federal moron.
You realize that it's the same State's rights that allows you to pick a state that fits your ideals the best, right? You can sit in California and complain about air quality and he can sit in Michigan and protect his right to carry. I hope you also see that putting you both in the same room (State) will cause a major uproar on both sides of the fence of name calling and claims of "righteousness"? This is why Centralized power doesn't work. People don't think the same and people don't want the same things out of life. You will never please everybody unless you execute those that disagree with you. This is why Federalism worked. Each individual state can cater to it's population far better than someone 3000 miles away.
I brought this up before, but I'll say it again. In California, you have to worry about things like earthquakes and Pacific weather. It doesn't make sense to force Michigan to pay for earthquake research since they never have the chance to study one. They have to worry about frostbite epidemics in the winter. How many people in California get frostbite compared to Michigan, but how does Texas benefit from paying into Federal frostbite research grants? Should Florida have to pay for snow shoes for everyone in Alaska? Should LA have to pay for roads in Chicago? Should corruption in education affect everyone in the US, or maybe just Missouri? Do you see the point of State's rights? Laws and regulations vary from state to state and population. Different regions also have different beliefs. Those in California are more open to gay marriage (for the most part) than someone in Kentucky. So what's to stop someone from moving from Kentucky to live in CA where it's legal? Nothing! In fact it's similar to competition. States wishing to increase their population will consult the laws of other states to determine what the populace requests.
I think it's hard to grasp because "teachers" (books, etc.) all start at too high of a level. If you started kids out on the basics of binary, how that relates to digits and go from there, you might actually make some inroads to CS in lower education. I never really "got" programming until I sat down with an assembler book out of curiosity. The first few sections talked about why and how it all works. I had a general idea before, but it was all kind of hazy from previous books that would dare not touch the subject. They started you off believing that the computer was magic.
Then again, I've always asked "why" and I hated when someone started trying to teach me with an example and try to work backwards to prove it by first giving you the code, then stepping through it requiring the constant flipping of pages to piece it all together.
My point was that you just don't change things that people are used to because you think it's going to be easier. You will confuse and alienate a whole bunch of people that already use your product or one like it. Innovation comes in the form of making that interface work better without moving everything around too much. I'm reminded of a Top Gear episode where they test a Russian Sports car. None of the controls were in "standard"/common(?) places and it took them some time just to figure out how it started.
Changing the numbers on a speedometer IS a simple change in an "Environment" which has become a standard. Windows was a de facto standard and US measurements were Congressional Standards, but they influence how you use your device and how easy it is to interpret what it's doing.
Simple changes can affect a whole lot of people. I'd like you to design a door that the handle turns the opposite way. It's fairly easy and it will make a lot of people hate that door. It's not really the fault of the door. It's just that the handle is so unconventional.
Need more examples? Oh. You want them related to computers. (...as if the keyboard analogy wasn't enough) Specifically operating systems? Ok. Move your start menu to the right side of the screen. Now lock it. That was simple. It was an interface design change... Now do that to every computer in a public library, school, and your parent's computer. Find out how much they hate the new software you installed. Try removing the clock and see how many people want to choke you... Are these too complex?
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Do we really need another (government funded [aka my tax money]?) organization to dictate that TV manufacturers should place bigger energy stickers on their boxes?
Is it not the responsibility of the buyer to determine if this new TV will:
a.) work with their house/stereo/room/cabinet?
b.) not burn out their fuse box?
c.) not add to their electric bill significantly?
My Motorola DVR unit supplied by my cable company already reboots itself on a regular basis. Usually it's after I queue up about a hundred channel requests because it's a sluggish piece of crap and it doesn't respond in a reasonable amount of time. I can't count the number of times when I had to wait for the screen to refresh to be able to do something else. (even to power it off)
I don't know... from what I read, Windows 2008 adoption is "unusually" high...
http://4sysops.com/archives/windows-server-2008-adoption-is-better-than-vistas/
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2007/jun07/06-05WinServer08.mspx
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39359154,00.htm
I don't know if you can draw a correlation from that though. ;)
I think that's the point of going to a third party with the evidence and asking if it would be alright to setup a wiretap... If a Judge only saw speculation from a Wiki, they'd likely turn it down. However, if the feds presented images, documents of action, and other incriminating evidence then I believe they'd be allowed to tap to gain more evidence or accomplices.
Um... maybe I read it wrong, but he was disgruntled that Sun didn't offer to pay for accommodations... not code. It's pretty fair for him to ask Sun to foot a bill here or there to enable interoperability for their own products. It doesn't sound disgruntling at all really. More of a "shame on you Sun" post as he ended that quote.
Of course, people read whatever they want to read into things.
To most people (including management), BSD is Linux.
Also the fact that literally nothing was in the same place as it was in XP meaning there was a learning curve right out of the box in finding where the settings have been moved to. I know I got a bit more than frustrated when I tried to actually do anything in Vista. It wasn't because it was slow, (I didn't really notice it being "fast" either) but everything was renamed and/or moved around so much it made changing things a bit of a hunt and peck routine I haven't had since Win95.
You apparently stopped reading:
When the car senses a collision, a light flashes on the windscreen display along with an audible warning. If the driver doesn't act, the car will brake automatically.
People like you are the primary reason we will never see automated efficient transportation. The whole world could switch to automatically driven, 100% safe cars and you'd be the guy on the street with the auto-drive disabled causing all the other automatic cars on the road to artificially brake and speed up because you don't like the loss of control. Either that, or you already shunned electricity, technology and such things because you don't like machinery controlling any part of your life. You also likely don't have a car because you couldn't possibly have an wheel/axle/suspension failure on the highway causing an immediate and uncontrollable left turn/accident that is out of your control. So you must walk everywhere?
...all this is assuming that Volvo is still making cars by then (don't believe that either).
You don't live near a city, do you? I see more Volvos on the street than I care to count.
Nah, it's easy. It just takes a bit of practice to be able to say "Whoa-Mush!" over and over really fast a bunch of times in a row to get the dogs to "anti-lock".
I'm not sure if it's XP Home or Vista causing the problem, but I cannot share a printer in XP Home with a Vista laptop and get it to work. XP Pro however does... This is Microsoft software talking to Microsoft software. Why is it not flawless?
I'm personally cheering on raytracing for the near future, but I have to agree. If it's not used for gaming, you may be able to download a movie and have it rendered for you in real time. Being able to pan the camera around and view it literally from another angle or have more complex movies with multiple things going on. Being able to focus on a couple's drama or watch a car chase on the other side of town (all within the same "movie".)
There are people that believe the "Gates Foundation" is more of a marketing move than a moral standpoint. When you give that much money under the name of a company founder, you don't need advertisement... Viral marketing kicks in and it's spread by word of mouth. They can spend money on things they want to do and get free advertisement "credit" for the company.
I was pointing out something obvious to someone who apparently can't see that it's so obvious. Of course a link to Microsoft articles on Vista technology are going to "sell" those features. If you don't consider that value, then you are being ignorant of that fact as well.
Anybody that cared about the OS that was on their system wouldn't be buying a Dell PC. They'd be buying a Dell PC with Microsoft Windows. The point being, people buy computers caring little about what OS is on the machine when they get it, as long as it works. People don't buy Windows PCs. They buy PCs or Macs. Since most PCs ship with Windows, that's what people buy. Period.
Awesome... Microsoft articles telling everyone how great Microsoft technology is!
I can point out several companies that have much better technology than their competition. I also have a phone number for an insurance agent that can produce documentation stating that their insurance company is better to it's customers than everyone else.
So far this is the only option people have brought up when they talk about Vista. If this was the only thing that makes Vista better than XP... is it REALLY worth it? If so, why not add that to the classic start menu? I mean, if you add the Desktop Search to XP you get the same basic functionality from what I understand. What else makes Vista "worth it"? From everything I've noticed working with it and trying to get it to connect to an XP Home printer share (unsuccessfully I might add) it's utter crap. All the options are so buried that it's not funny (and quite ironically forcing you to use above said feature in order to be able to use the PC efficiently)
So if I understand this, the reason Vista is so good is because they hid everything from you and make you run everything with the keyboard. You may as well run DOS, Unix or Linux if you like typing the commands you need to run so much.
You'd be better off to build high speed tracks like roller coasters use and build special one man cars that have controls to break if the cars in front are stopped. Each car would have a motor for propulsion and use the energy from the rails. The rails could carry energy into the city along with people and possibly water. Make the rails wide enough that cars could enter and leave the tracks from above or below using special transition rails. You could have the person enter the car and select a destination. The car will pick the best route to go and get you to whatever building in town you are heading to. Your method would require substantial changes to the road, and this method would just build a rail above existing roads. They'd both need special vehicles or modifications to existing vehicles. The floating rails could also be expanded to allow multiple tiers for higher traffic areas.
I'd also tend to think that Russian programmers are the most influential in today's Open Source computer industry as well. I guess that's why.
It would be much easier for you to vote out a moron in YOUR state by getting support from those people in your state than it would be to gain support from all 50 states to remove one federal moron.
You realize that it's the same State's rights that allows you to pick a state that fits your ideals the best, right? You can sit in California and complain about air quality and he can sit in Michigan and protect his right to carry. I hope you also see that putting you both in the same room (State) will cause a major uproar on both sides of the fence of name calling and claims of "righteousness"? This is why Centralized power doesn't work. People don't think the same and people don't want the same things out of life. You will never please everybody unless you execute those that disagree with you. This is why Federalism worked. Each individual state can cater to it's population far better than someone 3000 miles away.
I brought this up before, but I'll say it again. In California, you have to worry about things like earthquakes and Pacific weather. It doesn't make sense to force Michigan to pay for earthquake research since they never have the chance to study one. They have to worry about frostbite epidemics in the winter. How many people in California get frostbite compared to Michigan, but how does Texas benefit from paying into Federal frostbite research grants? Should Florida have to pay for snow shoes for everyone in Alaska? Should LA have to pay for roads in Chicago? Should corruption in education affect everyone in the US, or maybe just Missouri? Do you see the point of State's rights? Laws and regulations vary from state to state and population. Different regions also have different beliefs. Those in California are more open to gay marriage (for the most part) than someone in Kentucky. So what's to stop someone from moving from Kentucky to live in CA where it's legal? Nothing! In fact it's similar to competition. States wishing to increase their population will consult the laws of other states to determine what the populace requests.
You've just taught them binary relationships!
I think it's hard to grasp because "teachers" (books, etc.) all start at too high of a level. If you started kids out on the basics of binary, how that relates to digits and go from there, you might actually make some inroads to CS in lower education. I never really "got" programming until I sat down with an assembler book out of curiosity. The first few sections talked about why and how it all works. I had a general idea before, but it was all kind of hazy from previous books that would dare not touch the subject. They started you off believing that the computer was magic.
Then again, I've always asked "why" and I hated when someone started trying to teach me with an example and try to work backwards to prove it by first giving you the code, then stepping through it requiring the constant flipping of pages to piece it all together.
My point was that you just don't change things that people are used to because you think it's going to be easier. You will confuse and alienate a whole bunch of people that already use your product or one like it. Innovation comes in the form of making that interface work better without moving everything around too much. I'm reminded of a Top Gear episode where they test a Russian Sports car. None of the controls were in "standard"/common(?) places and it took them some time just to figure out how it started.
Changing the numbers on a speedometer IS a simple change in an "Environment" which has become a standard. Windows was a de facto standard and US measurements were Congressional Standards, but they influence how you use your device and how easy it is to interpret what it's doing.
Simple changes can affect a whole lot of people. I'd like you to design a door that the handle turns the opposite way. It's fairly easy and it will make a lot of people hate that door. It's not really the fault of the door. It's just that the handle is so unconventional.
Need more examples? Oh. You want them related to computers. (...as if the keyboard analogy wasn't enough) Specifically operating systems? Ok. Move your start menu to the right side of the screen. Now lock it. That was simple. It was an interface design change... Now do that to every computer in a public library, school, and your parent's computer. Find out how much they hate the new software you installed. Try removing the clock and see how many people want to choke you... Are these too complex?