The sheer volume of applicants makes it infeasible for a single bureaucracy to effectively test physical hardware.
Laziness comes to mind. The EPA/DOE's official response to this was pretty pathetic. From the response:
One of the reasons the system has worked during the first 18 years of the program is that manufacturers have a market incentive to test competitors' products and report violations, which supports the program's own independent testing, verification and enforcement initiatives.
It's not infeasible for a single person to run a program like this, when you consider that they pretty much leave it up to the manufacturers to decide who is lying about their EnergyStar logo and who is not.
Surely that is some sort of joke. From the summary of the Tokyo University article:
A new paper entitled Epitaxial Graphene on Silicon toward Graphene-Silicon Fusion Electronics published by a group of physicists at Tohoku University in Japan has demonstrated that they can grow graphene on a silicon substrate and pair that technique with conventional lithography to create a graphene-on-silicon field effect transistor.
Did you read this? A paper... has demonstrated that they can grow graphene... and pair that technique... etc. It's a paper, not a transistor.
Not to mention that article is a myriad of highly moderated comments admonishing the staleness of graphene on silicon transistors.
Advancements in a technology might equate to staleness for some people, but if it's something new happening in the field, some people are going to be interested. How obsolete is your world if technologies not available except in laboratories or in papers are stale?
What it means is, "If Microsoft is willing to buy, we are ready to sell out."
Of course. It's their job to 'sell', and if Microsoft stepped in and said, 'Hey, let's get this OS working on ARM chips,' why would any manufacturer in their right mind say no? It's only a betrayal if your mission in life was to promote the Linux platform. And whilst on that topic, this is actually BETTER for Linux than simply a company trying to flog Linux because of some mission to hurt Microsoft or make Linux the new desktop. It's someone saying about Linux what most manufacturers have been saying all along about Windows. "It's good enough for us, why worry about the competition?" That is REALLY the place that Linux fanboys want Linux to be in.
Does anyone seriously think that 90% of the PC market will ditch MS Windows, and all the applications it has, in 3 years? I don't have any reason to doubt the Arm-Linux netbook space will grow (although, even that isn't necessarily a given, but it seems reasonable, anyhow), but 90% sounds like a bunch of marketing BS from a guy who can't possibly deliver the goods.
Erm, he's talking about netbooks in general, not ARM netbooks specifically. But E for effort.
1.1% is still a fairly big install base when you consider that many of the computers sold to that slice of the pie originally had a different OS included at the time of purchase.
In fact, I suspect that things are a little more interesting than what these numbers suggest alone. I know a good number of people I talk to still are, (or at least feel), restricted to Windows use because of work, family, or one or two applications they can't use in Linux or OS X. Quite a few more would switch away from Windows except they are afraid they will 'mess up' their PC, or they just don't have the basic knowledge necessary to make the change. I'm pretty sure anyone with their fingers on the pulse of the computing community has a good sense that a much greater number would leave the MS fold if they felt they could.
In fairness to MS, there is a general belief that Vista is a thing of evil and if you install it your computer will be be next to useless. I personally think it's a ghastly OS, and I can think of several social diseases I'd prefer. But jokes aside, I think if we're being honest we know this isn't entirely true. When a novice feels they have some 'insider' information, however, they cling to it like religion. Eventually that sort of thing becomes 'common knowledge', and you suddenly have the masses hunting for XP licenses. When those become scarce, they consider their options...
Additionally.. what happens if your kid, or someone around him, is in an emergency, and must push the car to its limit.
Why do we always have to find strange ways of justifying things simply because we feel our freedoms are threatened? Let's just tell it as it is - we want to have access to ever single horsepower because our competitive nature, our thirst for power, because it is thrilling, and because it is -our- horsepower which -we- purchased. Maybe we won't use it. Maybe we will. It is more than a little unlikely that people will use it to save their lives, and much more probable that people will use it to drive head-first into a tree instead, but that doesn't make it wrong to possess.
Now having said that, if I tried to push my current car to the limit, I doubt I'd get up to 80 even without a restrictive management system, and I can only dream of luxuries like traction and audio....
And in Dongola, the weather will be clear with an expected high of 107 Fahrenheit, and a chance of light meteor showers. Remember to pack those umbrellas!
I'm merely suggesting that wasting ~10k USD on coolant and then building a giant gaudy waterfall enclosure isn't exactly how I'd go about doing a project like this.
The waterfall is most important, mixes the fluorinert, churns it up, makes it light, and frothy. Did you know that no other PC in the world mixes it's fluorinert by waterfall?
I'm for these things because I already KNOW that using oil is feeding a LOT of money to VERY bad places.
Like the evil Albertans! Those damn Canadians are the primary exporter of oil into the U.S., and we all know they're just using that money to plot an invasion southwards with their tank.
Maybe, but there is strength in visible numbers. Rallying for attention is more effective when it is clear that people care enough to show up on the front lawn. When they want to be elected badly enough, politicians will do exactly the same thing. It is a form of communication that is difficult to misunderstand.
If you can't make it, you can't make it. There is still a venue for involvement if you want to help out.
On top of this, it is possible if you've made Bell-Sympatico's blacklist and have had your service cut off, (bandwidth abusers), you may currently be denied the ability to sign up with a third party provider such as TekSavvy.
That takes care of the competition.
See Ottawa Gal's article on the present situation as she has researched it at Bell in this article. It covers portions of the Acceptible Use Policy employed by Bell-Sympatico, including a letter of abuse, and some other outrageous information.
That was part of the charm of the original trilogy, and something that largely seemed to be absent from the prequels - Lucas' idea of the 'used future'. Ships were ruddy and worn. Decks were scratched. Hulls were scored with carbon from blasters and battle. Even uniforms were marked up.
This was a very new thing for space films - this was no Flash Gordon show.
Still, when you look at the remake of Episode IV, check out the stormtroopers who were added in on Tatooine. They really lose that 'used' feel. Now check out Episode I. When did we ever see a glossy mirror-like spaceship in the original trilogy? Everything looks contrived - even the planet of Naboo looks far too pristine to be a credible part of the Star Wars universe.
The characters are the same way. Where are the grungy smugglers and seedy characters which gave Star Wars its intrigue and appeal? Sure, there were some obvious attempts, but they just didn't come close.
But having said all that, I agree with you. Firefly was a noble attempt to bring back some of that rustic grubby swashbuckling fun that made Star Wars so fascinating.
Not all of them do. My first real encounter with an educational game was on my home-built Apple II. My father bought me a game called Rocky's Boots by the Learning Company.
I had no idea that playing with 'logic gates' would be the building blocks which would spark my fascination with computer programming and software design in the future. I've never forgot that game, and I always credit it as one of the most influential learning experiences I had at that age.
One of the big benefits of a system like Computrace isn't in recovery. Corporate espionage is a huge problem, and one of the most common ways information is stolen is through notebooks. As a Toshiba repair tech, I've spoken with police on a number of occasions where notebooks have been targeted. The thief will follow businessmen to their lunch destination, and steal the notebook right out of the trunk of their car.
One optional feature of Computrace is a remote wipe of the hard disk. Sure the notebook is lost, but often the real value wasn't in a simple notebook computer - it was in the data located on the system in the first place.
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The sheer volume of applicants makes it infeasible for a single bureaucracy to effectively test physical hardware.
Laziness comes to mind. The EPA/DOE's official response to this was pretty pathetic. From the response:
One of the reasons the system has worked during the first 18 years of the program is that manufacturers have a market incentive to test competitors' products and report violations, which supports the program's own independent testing, verification and enforcement initiatives.
It's not infeasible for a single person to run a program like this, when you consider that they pretty much leave it up to the manufacturers to decide who is lying about their EnergyStar logo and who is not.
Surely that is some sort of joke. From the summary of the Tokyo University article:
A new paper entitled Epitaxial Graphene on Silicon toward Graphene-Silicon Fusion Electronics published by a group of physicists at Tohoku University in Japan has demonstrated that they can grow graphene on a silicon substrate and pair that technique with conventional lithography to create a graphene-on-silicon field effect transistor.
Did you read this? A paper ... has demonstrated that they can grow graphene... and pair that technique... etc. It's a paper, not a transistor.
Not to mention that article is a myriad of highly moderated comments admonishing the staleness of graphene on silicon transistors.
Advancements in a technology might equate to staleness for some people, but if it's something new happening in the field, some people are going to be interested. How obsolete is your world if technologies not available except in laboratories or in papers are stale?
What it means is, "If Microsoft is willing to buy, we are ready to sell out."
Of course. It's their job to 'sell', and if Microsoft stepped in and said, 'Hey, let's get this OS working on ARM chips,' why would any manufacturer in their right mind say no? It's only a betrayal if your mission in life was to promote the Linux platform. And whilst on that topic, this is actually BETTER for Linux than simply a company trying to flog Linux because of some mission to hurt Microsoft or make Linux the new desktop. It's someone saying about Linux what most manufacturers have been saying all along about Windows. "It's good enough for us, why worry about the competition?" That is REALLY the place that Linux fanboys want Linux to be in.
Does anyone seriously think that 90% of the PC market will ditch MS Windows, and all the applications it has, in 3 years? I don't have any reason to doubt the Arm-Linux netbook space will grow (although, even that isn't necessarily a given, but it seems reasonable, anyhow), but 90% sounds like a bunch of marketing BS from a guy who can't possibly deliver the goods.
Erm, he's talking about netbooks in general, not ARM netbooks specifically. But E for effort.
1.1% is still a fairly big install base when you consider that many of the computers sold to that slice of the pie originally had a different OS included at the time of purchase.
In fact, I suspect that things are a little more interesting than what these numbers suggest alone. I know a good number of people I talk to still are, (or at least feel), restricted to Windows use because of work, family, or one or two applications they can't use in Linux or OS X. Quite a few more would switch away from Windows except they are afraid they will 'mess up' their PC, or they just don't have the basic knowledge necessary to make the change. I'm pretty sure anyone with their fingers on the pulse of the computing community has a good sense that a much greater number would leave the MS fold if they felt they could.
In fairness to MS, there is a general belief that Vista is a thing of evil and if you install it your computer will be be next to useless. I personally think it's a ghastly OS, and I can think of several social diseases I'd prefer. But jokes aside, I think if we're being honest we know this isn't entirely true. When a novice feels they have some 'insider' information, however, they cling to it like religion. Eventually that sort of thing becomes 'common knowledge', and you suddenly have the masses hunting for XP licenses. When those become scarce, they consider their options...
Additionally.. what happens if your kid, or someone around him, is in an emergency, and must push the car to its limit.
Why do we always have to find strange ways of justifying things simply because we feel our freedoms are threatened? Let's just tell it as it is - we want to have access to ever single horsepower because our competitive nature, our thirst for power, because it is thrilling, and because it is -our- horsepower which -we- purchased. Maybe we won't use it. Maybe we will. It is more than a little unlikely that people will use it to save their lives, and much more probable that people will use it to drive head-first into a tree instead, but that doesn't make it wrong to possess.
Now having said that, if I tried to push my current car to the limit, I doubt I'd get up to 80 even without a restrictive management system, and I can only dream of luxuries like traction and audio....
And in Dongola, the weather will be clear with an expected high of 107 Fahrenheit, and a chance of light meteor showers. Remember to pack those umbrellas!
I'm merely suggesting that wasting ~10k USD on coolant and then building a giant gaudy waterfall enclosure isn't exactly how I'd go about doing a project like this.
The waterfall is most important, mixes the fluorinert, churns it up, makes it light, and frothy. Did you know that no other PC in the world mixes it's fluorinert by waterfall?
I'm for these things because I already KNOW that using oil is feeding a LOT of money to VERY bad places.
Like the evil Albertans! Those damn Canadians are the primary exporter of oil into the U.S., and we all know they're just using that money to plot an invasion southwards with their tank.
Maybe, but there is strength in visible numbers. Rallying for attention is more effective when it is clear that people care enough to show up on the front lawn. When they want to be elected badly enough, politicians will do exactly the same thing. It is a form of communication that is difficult to misunderstand.
If you can't make it, you can't make it. There is still a venue for involvement if you want to help out.
On top of this, it is possible if you've made Bell-Sympatico's blacklist and have had your service cut off, (bandwidth abusers), you may currently be denied the ability to sign up with a third party provider such as TekSavvy.
That takes care of the competition.
See Ottawa Gal's article on the present situation as she has researched it at Bell in this article. It covers portions of the Acceptible Use Policy employed by Bell-Sympatico, including a letter of abuse, and some other outrageous information.
That was part of the charm of the original trilogy, and something that largely seemed to be absent from the prequels - Lucas' idea of the 'used future'. Ships were ruddy and worn. Decks were scratched. Hulls were scored with carbon from blasters and battle. Even uniforms were marked up.
This was a very new thing for space films - this was no Flash Gordon show.
Still, when you look at the remake of Episode IV, check out the stormtroopers who were added in on Tatooine. They really lose that 'used' feel. Now check out Episode I. When did we ever see a glossy mirror-like spaceship in the original trilogy? Everything looks contrived - even the planet of Naboo looks far too pristine to be a credible part of the Star Wars universe.
The characters are the same way. Where are the grungy smugglers and seedy characters which gave Star Wars its intrigue and appeal? Sure, there were some obvious attempts, but they just didn't come close.
But having said all that, I agree with you. Firefly was a noble attempt to bring back some of that rustic grubby swashbuckling fun that made Star Wars so fascinating.
Not all of them do. My first real encounter with an educational game was on my home-built Apple II. My father bought me a game called Rocky's Boots by the Learning Company.
I had no idea that playing with 'logic gates' would be the building blocks which would spark my fascination with computer programming and software design in the future. I've never forgot that game, and I always credit it as one of the most influential learning experiences I had at that age.
One of the big benefits of a system like Computrace isn't in recovery. Corporate espionage is a huge problem, and one of the most common ways information is stolen is through notebooks. As a Toshiba repair tech, I've spoken with police on a number of occasions where notebooks have been targeted. The thief will follow businessmen to their lunch destination, and steal the notebook right out of the trunk of their car.
One optional feature of Computrace is a remote wipe of the hard disk. Sure the notebook is lost, but often the real value wasn't in a simple notebook computer - it was in the data located on the system in the first place.
...the real reason for the delay is they're still trying to figure out how to make all those darned 2D sprites 3D.