And another problem with the article's original idea is that the government can still get what users are doing; all they have to do is connect to the internet and use a packet sniffer to find what others are downloading.
What I'd like to know is if it [Aero Glass] comes on by default? I'll bet it does, which means that it'll run very slow before users realize to turn it off.
Windows gauges the hardware's capabilities at setup and scales down fancy UI effects like Aero Glass if the hardware doesn't meet a certain level. Like Tiger, it turns off certain functions at a time depending on the hardware, instead of going directly from Aero Glass to the old Windows 2000 look.
Upgrade hell....a new motherboard counts as a "new computer" and thus requires a new Windows license.
No, it doesn't. Windows just says that your hardware has changed and you need to reenter your product key. Then it reregisters with the Microsoft servers using the new hardware configuration.
Yes, commercial software needs some protection against pirates. Not all companies should switch to open source and stop making money - the point of capitalism is to make money, not to give stuff away and have to beg for donations.
Peer to peer is only so slow because of most people's slow upload rates. In this idea, since the ISP is cut out, people upload at the same speed that they download at, so the internet wouldn't be that bad.
In dire contrast teh few friends that still dare to call themsleves my friends keep nagging me about their WIndows woes. All the Linux machines that my relatives and friends have at my instigation need little maintenance
I think your friends are just not as experienced in Windows as your relatives and friends who run Linux are in Linux. I run Windows and I've experienced no problems for the last year. The problems Windows had before that were mostly due to mismatched hardware (an error on my part) and bad drivers.
So no, not really that bad in the maintenance field.
But you can't calculate it like that, because a programmer thinks about a line of code and then types part of it in a quick burst, then thinks, again, then a burst...instead of a constant flow of characters.
It wasn't really thousands of dollars. From mersenne.org: "On February 18, 2005, Dr. Martin Nowak from Germany, found the new largest known prime number, 225,964,951-1. The prime number has 7,816,230 digits! It took more than 50 days of calculations on Dr. Nowak's 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 computer."
Wow. 2.4 GHz.
To prevent the Roomba from vacuuming a spot too many times, the manufacturers could just add a sensor in the vacuum inlet that checks how much dust is being sucked up. I've seen this feature on some vacuum cleaners: there's a red light if the vacuum cleaner is sucking a lot of dust up (the area has not been cleaned yet) and a green light for if the area is already clean.
So this could be implemented in the Roomba software by making it enter "spot" cleaning mode on soiled areas and just pass through areas with little to no dust.
Unless I misunderstood what you meant by "Google Desktop start icons," there is a way to change the fact that they launch IE: Set Program Access and Defaults.
Isn't the main security feature of Firefox not using ActiveX? So why don't these users just disable ActiveX in the IE Internet Options? Although there is the issue of IE being bloated...but as long as they're not a power user why would they care about small performance increases in launching the browser?
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And another problem with the article's original idea is that the government can still get what users are doing; all they have to do is connect to the internet and use a packet sniffer to find what others are downloading.
What I'd like to know is if it [Aero Glass] comes on by default? I'll bet it does, which means that it'll run very slow before users realize to turn it off.
Windows gauges the hardware's capabilities at setup and scales down fancy UI effects like Aero Glass if the hardware doesn't meet a certain level. Like Tiger, it turns off certain functions at a time depending on the hardware, instead of going directly from Aero Glass to the old Windows 2000 look.
Upgrade hell....a new motherboard counts as a "new computer" and thus requires a new Windows license.
No, it doesn't. Windows just says that your hardware has changed and you need to reenter your product key. Then it reregisters with the Microsoft servers using the new hardware configuration.
Yes, commercial software needs some protection against pirates. Not all companies should switch to open source and stop making money - the point of capitalism is to make money, not to give stuff away and have to beg for donations.
Peer to peer is only so slow because of most people's slow upload rates. In this idea, since the ISP is cut out, people upload at the same speed that they download at, so the internet wouldn't be that bad.
I think his point was that the submitter is an idiot.
Duke Nukem Never Ever...
And, to complicate matters further, using 'effect' as a verb is actually correct in some cases.
In dire contrast teh few friends that still dare to call themsleves my friends keep nagging me about their WIndows woes.
All the Linux machines that my relatives and friends have at my instigation need little maintenance
I think your friends are just not as experienced in Windows as your relatives and friends who run Linux are in Linux. I run Windows and I've experienced no problems for the last year. The problems Windows had before that were mostly due to mismatched hardware (an error on my part) and bad drivers.
So no, not really that bad in the maintenance field.
But you can't calculate it like that, because a programmer thinks about a line of code and then types part of it in a quick burst, then thinks, again, then a burst...instead of a constant flow of characters.
So the speed of typing really does matter.
It wasn't really thousands of dollars. From mersenne.org: "On February 18, 2005, Dr. Martin Nowak from Germany, found the new largest known prime number, 225,964,951-1. The prime number has 7,816,230 digits! It took more than 50 days of calculations on Dr. Nowak's 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 computer."
Wow. 2.4 GHz.
Imagine if you were working, just realized the solution to a problem, and suddenly the machine shuts down on you.
It's called Windows.
To prevent the Roomba from vacuuming a spot too many times, the manufacturers could just add a sensor in the vacuum inlet that checks how much dust is being sucked up. I've seen this feature on some vacuum cleaners: there's a red light if the vacuum cleaner is sucking a lot of dust up (the area has not been cleaned yet) and a green light for if the area is already clean. So this could be implemented in the Roomba software by making it enter "spot" cleaning mode on soiled areas and just pass through areas with little to no dust.
Unless I misunderstood what you meant by "Google Desktop start icons," there is a way to change the fact that they launch IE: Set Program Access and Defaults.
The article says that OneCare Live is "like taking your PC in for a tune-up at the service station." Actually, that's Live Safety Center beta.
How has Microsoft "gone out of it's way to make it's products vulnerable to various forms of malware"? Yeah, sounds like a very smart plan to me...
Isn't the main security feature of Firefox not using ActiveX? So why don't these users just disable ActiveX in the IE Internet Options?
Although there is the issue of IE being bloated...but as long as they're not a power user why would they care about small performance increases in launching the browser?