I have a laptop running Win98. The laptop cannot run XP and so Vista is not even a faint possibility. There is nothing wrong with the laptop, it works fine. It has no residual value, but replacing it with something that can run Vista (even without all the fancy chrome) will cost $700 or more.
Microsoft have decided that they don't want my business and they would really prefer it if my laptop were consigned to landfill.
If Microsoft doesn't want my business, then perhaps one of the lightweight Linux distributions does.
MS is getting off cheap. The EU can currently fine a company 10% of their GLOBAL annual turnover. So a fine of only a billion or two is just a warning.
But, really, what can you say about a company who seems to be unable to produce _usable_ technical documentation for their headline product?
Walking just 100 yards a day would allow a population to reach the entire earth in about 1000 years or 30 generations. Do it at the right time and there was a permanent ice/land bridge between asia and alaska.
Surely any event, performance, interview etc is already covered by contract or other agreement before the event. For example, a movie broadcast on the TV cannot then be in any sense owned by the broadcaster for the next 50 years.
When you see a video crew doing vox-pops in the street, that young thing with the clipboard is obtaining permissions to use the interviews.
Is this just broadcasters trying to save on paper work?
You can build an HPC from random PCs but it will be crap because the PC to PC interconnects will be too slow. Real HPC needs highspeed, low latency internal interconnects and these are expensive. But I fail to see how paying a "Windows" tax will make matters cheaper, or easier.
Most desktop computers fail because the chips work loose. Before calling hardware support please attempt the following. Carry your PC to the stairwell and drop it at least three floors. If the PC still doesn't work call support (by the way, don't tell support you dropped the PC - they don't like their job being done by others.)
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CSS can barely be called encryption. The playback unit has the key hidden away in the firmware. It was security through obscurity and guess what? A screw up allowed a trivial hack to obtain the key and the entire CSS scheme was made useless (it was useless anyway as if you have the resources of a DVD pressing plant you don't need to decrypt a DVD to duplicate it.)
CSS cannot be fixed but its replacement proposed for the new formats has an update mechanism whereby your player can have it's firmware updated just by playing a disk. Sony must love that particular scheme...
All you need to do is create a world standard that enjoys massive popularity and works on all platforms and doesn't get clobbered by some submarine patent owned by a bunch of land sharks.
In a sample of 300 million people there would be far too many false positives. The "DNA" tests are not full 1 in N trillion sequencing, but the much simplified checks for a limited number of markers.
We don't even yet know if fingerprints are unique as nobody has performed the large scale experiments.
Wouldn't it make sense for MS to pay more attention to its core products before it goes hunting? There is not a lot of point in catching a big beast when the log cabin is burning down.
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Tough, MS UK has to comply with UK and hence EU law. In law the UK executives are responsible and "just following orders" isn't a defense.
Microsoft have decided that they don't want my business and they would really prefer it if my laptop were consigned to landfill.
If Microsoft doesn't want my business, then perhaps one of the lightweight Linux distributions does.
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The (redundent) power supply is rated at 1800Watts which implies about 6300BTU/Hr heat out of the box. For 24Tb and a server that is remarkably low.
Hope is alway a good thing but sometimes reality must butt in. Who is going to make plans based on an 80% chance of a product being available?
You don't have to destroy the tunnels - just make them unusable for a few weeks. The economic effects would be massive.
MS is getting off cheap. The EU can currently fine a company 10% of their GLOBAL annual turnover. So a fine of only a billion or two is just a warning.
But, really, what can you say about a company who seems to be unable to produce _usable_ technical documentation for their headline product?
Walking just 100 yards a day would allow a population to reach the entire earth in about 1000 years or 30 generations. Do it at the right time and there was a permanent ice/land bridge between asia and alaska.
"Thinking about a crime is NOT a crime"
You must have missed the memo - it is now.
...large scale studies on the uniqueness of fingerprints (especially the reduced data that is actually stored and compared.)
In addition, if your "fingerprint" is stolen there is no fix. You can't get a new set from fingerprints-R-us.
When you see a video crew doing vox-pops in the street, that young thing with the clipboard is obtaining permissions to use the interviews.
Is this just broadcasters trying to save on paper work?
A little good faith on behalf of MS would be a nice start
... that children are unable to use each others phones, nor swap sim cards.
You can build an HPC from random PCs but it will be crap because the PC to PC interconnects will be too slow. Real HPC needs highspeed, low latency internal interconnects and these are expensive. But I fail to see how paying a "Windows" tax will make matters cheaper, or easier.
Most desktop computers fail because the chips work loose. Before calling hardware support please attempt the following. Carry your PC to the stairwell and drop it at least three floors. If the PC still doesn't work call support (by the way, don't tell support you dropped the PC - they don't like their job being done by others.)
Will there be an earth shattering kaboom?
CSS cannot be fixed but its replacement proposed for the new formats has an update mechanism whereby your player can have it's firmware updated just by playing a disk. Sony must love that particular scheme...
What does a manager do all day when the staff are working from home?
Manager job security might just depend on there being an office full of people.
Your ears are used to commit piracy. You must pay.
No, it's a feature - bugger off!
All you need to do is create a world standard that enjoys massive popularity and works on all platforms and doesn't get clobbered by some submarine patent owned by a bunch of land sharks.
Easy really.
We don't even yet know if fingerprints are unique as nobody has performed the large scale experiments.
Wouldn't it make sense for MS to pay more attention to its core products before it goes hunting? There is not a lot of point in catching a big beast when the log cabin is burning down.
...to the phone company charging you extra to phone Walmart to order something?
We all remember (don't we) how long it took MS to convert Hotmail?
So either MS runs a Solaris based service for the forseeable future or breaks Ebay for months while they try to get it right.