This may be true, but if you presented the same show side by side with one in SD on a 12" B&W TV and the other in HD on a 42" 1080p HDTV, I'm sure every one of them would rather watch the High Definition version. It's like watching a good football game on TV; given two good games to watch, if one is in HD and one is not, I'll be watching the HD broadcast. The relation to games is that we'd always rather play the game with more realistic looking graphics. How many times do I hear gamers say, wow the gameplay was great but the graphics are so much better in this other game, I think I'll go play the other game because it looks better.
The way things are going over in the current Russia, it might not be a bad idea to hang onto the.su domains. In a couple of years it might be current again.
The overall problem of who is really in control of these things is a curious one. Does a registrar have the ability to sell anything they want once they get on the train as a registrar. What's to keep a registrar from selling domains with any.?? extension and then propagating them over DNS servers worldwide? Is it up to the ISP to determine whether they will allow a DNS request to a certain top level domain, or is this something ICANN has some authority over?
Saw this in the Firehose yesterday and voted it down because there's nothing worth looking at in these benchmarks. The test systems aren't even comparable. I'm looking forward to a complete review of this platform.
I was thinking exactly the opposite when it comes to eSATA vs. USB3. If USB3 can handle a transfer rate far over an above what SATAII supports, and probably well beyond what SATA3 will support, I can see eSATA just dropping off the map.
System overhead on a dual core or quad core and above CPU is not going to be an issue. I'm not tremendously familiar with the SATA bus capabilities but I don't think it really has the capability of being a replacement for USB, especially considering the limits on cable length.
Well, there already are mailing list companies selling this type of demographic dataset anyways. It's all public info, its just a matter of ease of access.
Yes, well in that case it would have been the top dog at Apple, IBM, or Be saying that they 'made' google what it is. Unless of course you don't think that a top executive at any other company with the market domination that MS has had, wouldn't have their head in the clouds too. I think that MS, from the position it is in, has enabled many other companies to have huge success. This you can't deny, even if in principle, if MS hadn't been there, someone else would have and you could say the same thing about them.
If I had to compare, I think IBM's introduction of the PC to the masses was a far more reaching development than the OS. Just as the development of the Internet is far more reaching than a specific search engine tool - anybody could have been in Google's place as well, it just so happened that they are there.
Actually, long before Google Maps existed, Microsoft had this thing called TerraServer. It was about the first public site that allowed you to view high res satellite photography. Back then I think they were trying to sell the service to allow you access to the highest resolutions available, and I think the photography was all B&W at the time as well.
The requirements may be different, but they are also both less than the average specs of a system you will buy today, and at least equal to the average system of 3 years ago. So in the real world, the hardware required costs the same amount of money.
It certainly is a greater measurement that OOo Writer takes nearly twice as long to load as MS Word 2007.
Cost of retraining? Both about the same. Cost of hardware? Identical. Open Source? Only a tiny minority cares. Microsoft logo? Again, only a tiny minority cares. How these last two items can be a "dealbreaker for most" is beyond me.
To me, both fall short in one critical area, and that is sharing documents with other word processors. Like them or hate them, you should be able to use whatever WP you want and seamlessly exchange documents with other users with no loss of formatting. Until that point, it's just a matter of personal preference. Both sides really need to get together and agree on an ODF.
You can migrate your settings for Office using the "Save My Settings Wizard" which is located in the "Microsoft Office Tools" folder on the start menu. I have been able to migrate between different and same versions using this tool.
In case you weren't aware, the situation is still legal gray matter, and it certainly was at the time. The real issue at stake here is not the Phone companies violating privacy, it's how much privacy we are willing to give up in the name of "Security". If one of these allegedly illegal phone taps were to prevent a 9/11 type attack, not nearly as many people would be complaining.
When the DOJ comes to your company and says, "by executive order, do this", you don't just ignore them. It isn't the fault of these companies that phones were tapped, that's like blaming the gun for a robbery.
Yes, there's always the possibility of either a hardware or software based agent being cracked. But it's not marketing BS, it's business reality. Businesses can't afford to not keep track of what is being put on their workstations and monitor their security.
Call it hardware DRM, call it Trusted Computing - but this is exactly what corporate and even small business is looking for, and vPro 1.2 delivers. You've got to be able to manage your risks before they turn into an expensive problem. And vPro makes remote management a snap to boot and has for quite some time now, if implemented.
Even if you buy a vPro board and use it at home, which there's no reason you'd really ever do anyway, it's probably not going to come out of the box configured to block anything you want it to do.
Yes it is coming and it has been around for quite some time now, at least a year or so. It's basically using a hardware agent instead of having a separate software agent loaded into memory.
Under the radar of most US consumers, Packard Bell has actually become a fairly reputable manufacturer again in Europe. Last I heard they were putting out fairly good product.
The reason that Gateway and Lenovo are interested in Packard Bell is so they can capture some of the European market without having to go into it starting with nothing.
Why does this matter? I wouldn't miss 8 stars that I could see, what's the point in analyzing thousands of pages of data to determine that there is one more star out there that I can't see.
To an extent, Intel is its own competition. In order for them to keep driving sales of their systems, they have to be producing CPU's that are markedly faster than the 2 to 3 year old CPU's that people are regularly replacing. If Intel cannot achieve the performance improvement that they have historically every 3 years, they will lose a ton of sales because people will see no good reason to upgrade what they have for a negligible performance gain. AMD's competition certainly helps, but Intel has a huge customer base that they have to keep happy as well.
The Wikipedia article you referenced indicates that two O^3 molecules will stabilize into normal O^2 molecules, this is only in a lab environment with only oxygen. The reality is that the split off oxygen cells bond with other gasses and molecules, not just with other O^1 molecules.
I guess it's a matter of who you wish to believe when it comes to the effects of ozone. I think everyone agrees that too large of a quantity is bad.
And you're just promoting the mostly incorrect nonsense you've heard. Yes, ozone in high quantities can be harmful. Do you even know what ozone is? It's 0^3, which is a highly unstable form of oxygen which quickly breaks down into stable 0^2 and 0^1. The 0^1 has properties which cause it to seek to bond to harmful molecules. This is what makes it useful for water treatment, air treatment, and blood treatment. Unless it is in such high quantities that it starts bonding to good molecules, it is not harmful, but beneficial.
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This may be true, but if you presented the same show side by side with one in SD on a 12" B&W TV and the other in HD on a 42" 1080p HDTV, I'm sure every one of them would rather watch the High Definition version. It's like watching a good football game on TV; given two good games to watch, if one is in HD and one is not, I'll be watching the HD broadcast.
The relation to games is that we'd always rather play the game with more realistic looking graphics. How many times do I hear gamers say, wow the gameplay was great but the graphics are so much better in this other game, I think I'll go play the other game because it looks better.
The way things are going over in the current Russia, it might not be a bad idea to hang onto the .su domains. In a couple of years it might be current again.
.?? extension and then propagating them over DNS servers worldwide? Is it up to the ISP to determine whether they will allow a DNS request to a certain top level domain, or is this something ICANN has some authority over?
The overall problem of who is really in control of these things is a curious one. Does a registrar have the ability to sell anything they want once they get on the train as a registrar. What's to keep a registrar from selling domains with any
Saw this in the Firehose yesterday and voted it down because there's nothing worth looking at in these benchmarks. The test systems aren't even comparable. I'm looking forward to a complete review of this platform.
I was thinking exactly the opposite when it comes to eSATA vs. USB3. If USB3 can handle a transfer rate far over an above what SATAII supports, and probably well beyond what SATA3 will support, I can see eSATA just dropping off the map.
System overhead on a dual core or quad core and above CPU is not going to be an issue. I'm not tremendously familiar with the SATA bus capabilities but I don't think it really has the capability of being a replacement for USB, especially considering the limits on cable length.
Flash may be slow to write, but it is still volumes faster than a hard disk write.
Kerry didn't seem bothered by the question at all - in fact he was calmly answering the question while the student was getting tased in the back.
Well, there already are mailing list companies selling this type of demographic dataset anyways. It's all public info, its just a matter of ease of access.
Was AOL available for Mac or OS2? I suppose that without Windows, AOL probably would have developed for OS2 at the time.
Yes, well in that case it would have been the top dog at Apple, IBM, or Be saying that they 'made' google what it is. Unless of course you don't think that a top executive at any other company with the market domination that MS has had, wouldn't have their head in the clouds too. I think that MS, from the position it is in, has enabled many other companies to have huge success. This you can't deny, even if in principle, if MS hadn't been there, someone else would have and you could say the same thing about them.
If I had to compare, I think IBM's introduction of the PC to the masses was a far more reaching development than the OS. Just as the development of the Internet is far more reaching than a specific search engine tool - anybody could have been in Google's place as well, it just so happened that they are there.
Yeah, but 99.99% of people who use the internet today have no idea what "Trumpet Winsock" is. For them, MS brought the internet to their desktop.
Imagine the PC world today if back in 1993-1996 or so, people had to go buy an alternate OS for their PC in order to get on the internet?
Yes, I just looked it up and Terraserver went online in June of 1998, Google opened it's doors in September of 1998.
Actually, long before Google Maps existed, Microsoft had this thing called TerraServer. It was about the first public site that allowed you to view high res satellite photography. Back then I think they were trying to sell the service to allow you access to the highest resolutions available, and I think the photography was all B&W at the time as well.
The requirements may be different, but they are also both less than the average specs of a system you will buy today, and at least equal to the average system of 3 years ago. So in the real world, the hardware required costs the same amount of money.
It certainly is a greater measurement that OOo Writer takes nearly twice as long to load as MS Word 2007.
Cost of retraining? Both about the same.
Cost of hardware? Identical.
Open Source? Only a tiny minority cares.
Microsoft logo? Again, only a tiny minority cares.
How these last two items can be a "dealbreaker for most" is beyond me.
To me, both fall short in one critical area, and that is sharing documents with other word processors. Like them or hate them, you should be able to use whatever WP you want and seamlessly exchange documents with other users with no loss of formatting. Until that point, it's just a matter of personal preference. Both sides really need to get together and agree on an ODF.
You can migrate your settings for Office using the "Save My Settings Wizard" which is located in the "Microsoft Office Tools" folder on the start menu. I have been able to migrate between different and same versions using this tool.
In case you weren't aware, the situation is still legal gray matter, and it certainly was at the time. The real issue at stake here is not the Phone companies violating privacy, it's how much privacy we are willing to give up in the name of "Security". If one of these allegedly illegal phone taps were to prevent a 9/11 type attack, not nearly as many people would be complaining.
When the DOJ comes to your company and says, "by executive order, do this", you don't just ignore them. It isn't the fault of these companies that phones were tapped, that's like blaming the gun for a robbery.
Yes, there's always the possibility of either a hardware or software based agent being cracked. But it's not marketing BS, it's business reality. Businesses can't afford to not keep track of what is being put on their workstations and monitor their security.
Call it hardware DRM, call it Trusted Computing - but this is exactly what corporate and even small business is looking for, and vPro 1.2 delivers. You've got to be able to manage your risks before they turn into an expensive problem. And vPro makes remote management a snap to boot and has for quite some time now, if implemented.
Even if you buy a vPro board and use it at home, which there's no reason you'd really ever do anyway, it's probably not going to come out of the box configured to block anything you want it to do.
Yes it is coming and it has been around for quite some time now, at least a year or so. It's basically using a hardware agent instead of having a separate software agent loaded into memory.
Under the radar of most US consumers, Packard Bell has actually become a fairly reputable manufacturer again in Europe. Last I heard they were putting out fairly good product.
The reason that Gateway and Lenovo are interested in Packard Bell is so they can capture some of the European market without having to go into it starting with nothing.
Why does this matter? I wouldn't miss 8 stars that I could see, what's the point in analyzing thousands of pages of data to determine that there is one more star out there that I can't see.
To an extent, Intel is its own competition. In order for them to keep driving sales of their systems, they have to be producing CPU's that are markedly faster than the 2 to 3 year old CPU's that people are regularly replacing. If Intel cannot achieve the performance improvement that they have historically every 3 years, they will lose a ton of sales because people will see no good reason to upgrade what they have for a negligible performance gain. AMD's competition certainly helps, but Intel has a huge customer base that they have to keep happy as well.
See http://www.oxygenmedicine.com/o3laymanview.html
The Wikipedia article you referenced indicates that two O^3 molecules will stabilize into normal O^2 molecules, this is only in a lab environment with only oxygen. The reality is that the split off oxygen cells bond with other gasses and molecules, not just with other O^1 molecules.
I guess it's a matter of who you wish to believe when it comes to the effects of ozone. I think everyone agrees that too large of a quantity is bad.
And you're just promoting the mostly incorrect nonsense you've heard. Yes, ozone in high quantities can be harmful. Do you even know what ozone is? It's 0^3, which is a highly unstable form of oxygen which quickly breaks down into stable 0^2 and 0^1. The 0^1 has properties which cause it to seek to bond to harmful molecules. This is what makes it useful for water treatment, air treatment, and blood treatment. Unless it is in such high quantities that it starts bonding to good molecules, it is not harmful, but beneficial.