Are there hidden things which the US government or others can use in Vista? Not impossible.
Should you trust Vista crypto totally, if you really have something to hide? Probably not.
Would they be as stupid as to let every computer send traffic to DOD computers? Obviously not. Even if most don't know how to monitor traffic, enough do that there would be an immediate uproar.
Possible "hidden features" would either need the system in question (secret keys....) or would be dormant. If turned on by some events, I'm sure their effects would be non-obvious too. Sending network packages to a DOD address isn't.
And yet you sell all your CD's at $16.99 regardless of that fact now, don't you?
They don't - many old CDs go far cheaper. Some new CDs that fell far short of their sales targets can also usually be had cheaper than this.... same with many compilations.
DRM.
32 bit windows is open compared to what 64 bit is.... no more uncertified drivers for you,they might interfere with DRM. Can't have customer's convenience in the way of full DRM, you know.
That's what I wrote - if there was no gun control, he would have been stopped before killing as many.
No gun control (on small arms) what so ever would probably end these kinds of mass killings (unless they pick kindergartens etc), but cause more small incidents.
Hating guns in one thing, but the article doesn't come out that way, more like "I hate ebay, and maybe I can tag this stupid thing onto them".
I certainly believe lack of gun control might be one of the the reasons the number of gun kills[1] is orders of magnitude larger in US than Norway per capita, but that doesn't make me think ebay was involved in the incident in Virginia.
[1] The total number - you're more likely to use a gun if you have it than if you don't. The incident itself might not have happened if there was more gun control ("No, you can't buy a gun if you're not a hunter or a registered member of a competitional shooting team") or none (as then others would have stopped before the incident had grown as much as it did).
Most of the new Vista features don't even make a difference.
If you get the cheapest/normal edition, it doesn't even look good - I think that was a pretty bad choice by MS. The differentiation in XP (being able for domains) worked like it should... now, someone went overboard.
Graphic APIs? No real showcases yet - and I don't think there will be for a time either, no big game will be targeted at Vista only for quite a while until the market share is very different (or the company gets a lot of money from MS to make it so, to make up for the loss of customers.
Lots of DRM? Indeed, but that's something forced upon users, not something they desire. On the 64 bit version, you can't even load unsigned drivers by choice anymore. Goodbye, openvpn etc. Or beta drivers... all sacrificed on the altar of DRM.
Security? Sure, it has some security features, but what users will note the most, is how utterly annoying the implementation is. You're asked for "is this OK?" more times than anyone not using vista would have believed possible, multiple times for the same operation. Including gems like "I'll ask you for permission, will that be OK?" before actually doing it.
Slower, buggier and lots of hardware support missing yet and things not working? Indeed.
Upgrading to Vista is something I don't see why anyone would do as normal users. There's no tangible benefit, but it costs quite a bit, it will take a lot of work and you're likely to have problems and annoyances anyway.
That said, eventually, all new machines will support it and include it, the bugs and kinks will be worked out and machines will be faster. And MS needed an updated OS to ship with new machines, so a total failure? Nah, they'll sell well.
I doubt they took a look and realized this yesterday... if so, their PMO should be fired. All of it.
They must have known this for quite a while:
if reassigning people was the reason, they would have known before they did it
if the state of the project is such that as much as a 4 month slip is required, they must also have known this a long time ago - either because features have missed target dates badly, or because the quality target are so far off the schedule
They've known for a long time, they just haven't announced it.
The difference between fairplay and playsforsure is that fairplay *only* supports ipod, playsforsure is compatible with all sorts of hardware
Not the IPod, so it's not compatible with most of the market. Another exception: The Zune. For Microsoft to name their DRM "playsforsure" and then make sure it doesn't work with their own MP3 player... now that's hilarious.
As for other hardware - MP3 players are a dime a dozen. I wouldn't be surprised if playsforsure don't work with some of them, it's just that with the exception of mostly Creative, they're all something you've never heard of and few care about other than as a generic item. And phones? Does PFS work with all of them too? Doubt it...
It's not "more performance for more power" - currently, it is "more performance, less power". At the system level, so effects of built in memory controller has been counted.
Intel currently has better performance per core, more cores per socket and less power per core than AMD - AMD has done pretty much one thing in many years: Dual core. Time to get off the laurels from that time and improve their chips again.
I've got a 4 GB memory card, and it takes a day or so to sync - and I'd much rather sync with itunes than manually pick 10% of my music library. No playing lists are synced either - and creating them on the phone? Not tempting.
I bought it so I wouldn't need to carry an ipod around as well as a phone, but it failed miserably in achieving that.
One thing is writing their own apps, but one of the things I really want is Skype. Another is a terminal with ssh.
Would I write any of these things for the phone? No. But Skype is an undesirable app for many phone companies (which could then say "don't certify this"), and ssh/terminal I expect to be developed/ported by an open source programmer. Shelling out an obscene amount of money for SDK/certification would make this unlikely.
I wanted one, but if it's going to be as closed as seems likely, I'm better off spending my money elsewhere.
One of the things which is painful, is that atrpms is the repo with mythtv.... but enabling atrpms as the default repo is a very bad idea, as it will replace many of the normal packages too, not just add new ones (which has broken several systems for me and friends).
Jesus a prophet for judaism? That sounds unlikely? One would expect them to either believe he was what he claimed, and thus be Christian, or not, in which case he is an imposter.
The Mac version includes the Compressor, which otherwise sells separately for $50.
The real reason: Because they can. Until now, there has been no free virtualization alternatives on Mac - a market where there is also a large incentive for virtualization in order to run some apps on Windows.
If vmware eventually ends up with a free product on Mac (as they have on Windows and Linux), I'm confident the price of Parallells would go down to the level of their Windows version.
Correct. Intel still has the lion's share of the market, and they want to keep it that way. It's interesting how they "cheat" and lock two dies together and call it dual-core or quad-core just to come out with the technology "first" to keep the investors happy.
Cheat? The result is 4 cores in one socket. Things like "they cheated!", how many nm the process is etc is really irrelevant. What matters is the end result, like performance, power usage, memory bandwidth. That AMD can't do it yet and had gotten slow and docile by a couple of years success and being the top performer will hopefully be fixed soon, but as of now, they're badly lagging.
The richest 2% pay considerably more than 2% of taxes, however.
They are disproportionately heavily taxed.
I believe in the US, for example, the richest 1% bear 18% of the total tax burden.
Do they have more than 18% of the income (including capital gains, interest etc) and/or own more than 18% of the assets?
The Iraqi armed forces had been attacking our aircraft for 10 years, as we enforced the U.N. no-fly zones. Although there are plenty of other arguments, this alone makes the above not apply.
Other than the occasional "targeted by radar"-incident, no "had been attacking our aircraft for 10 years" has occured. And "response in kind" obviously rules out a full scale war with massive death tolls and destruction.
No I remember. That doesn't make the invasion illegal. If it only revealed the depth of corruption of the UN, and their contempt for the U.S.
Contrary to your belief, most of the world doesn't hate the US. In particular, the US had massive international goodwill after 11/9 - and full support for the action against Al Quaeda and Taliban in Afghanistan. However, using this as an excuse to attack someone one doesn't like (Iraq/Saddam had nothing to do with Al Quaeda, terrorism or weapons of mass destruction) obviously makes neutral people consider and condemn your actions.
Other incidents, like torture, imprisonment with no trial or conviction and blind support of Israel no matter what they do ("friends don't let friends drive drunk" should apply in International politcs too) are also reasons why the US has lost a lot of support and goodwill.
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Are there hidden things which the US government or others can use in Vista? Not impossible.
Should you trust Vista crypto totally, if you really have something to hide? Probably not.
Would they be as stupid as to let every computer send traffic to DOD computers? Obviously not. Even if most don't know how to monitor traffic, enough do that there would be an immediate uproar.
Possible "hidden features" would either need the system in question (secret keys....) or would be dormant. If turned on by some events, I'm sure their effects would be non-obvious too. Sending network packages to a DOD address isn't.
This story is BS.
And yet you sell all your CD's at $16.99 regardless of that fact now, don't you?
They don't - many old CDs go far cheaper. Some new CDs that fell far short of their sales targets can also usually be had cheaper than this.... same with many compilations.
DRM. 32 bit windows is open compared to what 64 bit is.... no more uncertified drivers for you,they might interfere with DRM. Can't have customer's convenience in the way of full DRM, you know.
By that logic, explain Switzerland
Here's a write up on gun control in Switzerland.
That's what I wrote - if there was no gun control, he would have been stopped before killing as many. No gun control (on small arms) what so ever would probably end these kinds of mass killings (unless they pick kindergartens etc), but cause more small incidents.
Suddenly removing the seat in his car and buying books on homicides don't help his case either.
Did he do it? Probably. Will be interesting to see if they can find enough issues to create doubt, though.
My macbook gets 5 - 5.5 hours if I turn off wireless and do "normal" non-CPU-intensive work.
With wireless on, I get an hour less.
I've had two dells before that (Inspiron 500m, Latitude D810), which hardly had half of that.
Hating guns in one thing, but the article doesn't come out that way, more like "I hate ebay, and maybe I can tag this stupid thing onto them".
I certainly believe lack of gun control might be one of the the reasons the number of gun kills[1] is orders of magnitude larger in US than Norway per capita, but that doesn't make me think ebay was involved in the incident in Virginia.
[1] The total number - you're more likely to use a gun if you have it than if you don't. The incident itself might not have happened if there was more gun control ("No, you can't buy a gun if you're not a hunter or a registered member of a competitional shooting team") or none (as then others would have stopped before the incident had grown as much as it did).
Most of the new Vista features don't even make a difference.
If you get the cheapest/normal edition, it doesn't even look good - I think that was a pretty bad choice by MS. The differentiation in XP (being able for domains) worked like it should... now, someone went overboard.
Graphic APIs? No real showcases yet - and I don't think there will be for a time either, no big game will be targeted at Vista only for quite a while until the market share is very different (or the company gets a lot of money from MS to make it so, to make up for the loss of customers.
Lots of DRM? Indeed, but that's something forced upon users, not something they desire. On the 64 bit version, you can't even load unsigned drivers by choice anymore. Goodbye, openvpn etc. Or beta drivers... all sacrificed on the altar of DRM.
Security? Sure, it has some security features, but what users will note the most, is how utterly annoying the implementation is. You're asked for "is this OK?" more times than anyone not using vista would have believed possible, multiple times for the same operation. Including gems like "I'll ask you for permission, will that be OK?" before actually doing it.
Slower, buggier and lots of hardware support missing yet and things not working? Indeed.
Upgrading to Vista is something I don't see why anyone would do as normal users. There's no tangible benefit, but it costs quite a bit, it will take a lot of work and you're likely to have problems and annoyances anyway.
That said, eventually, all new machines will support it and include it, the bugs and kinks will be worked out and machines will be faster. And MS needed an updated OS to ship with new machines, so a total failure? Nah, they'll sell well.
I doubt they took a look and realized this yesterday... if so, their PMO should be fired. All of it.
They must have known this for quite a while:
They've known for a long time, they just haven't announced it.
NIS is not SSO - NIS is a directory service. If you want SSO, you need to combine it with kerberos.
The difference between fairplay and playsforsure is that fairplay *only* supports ipod, playsforsure is compatible with all sorts of hardware
Not the IPod, so it's not compatible with most of the market. Another exception: The Zune. For Microsoft to name their DRM "playsforsure" and then make sure it doesn't work with their own MP3 player... now that's hilarious.
As for other hardware - MP3 players are a dime a dozen. I wouldn't be surprised if playsforsure don't work with some of them, it's just that with the exception of mostly Creative, they're all something you've never heard of and few care about other than as a generic item. And phones? Does PFS work with all of them too? Doubt it...
It's not "more performance for more power" - currently, it is "more performance, less power". At the system level, so effects of built in memory controller has been counted.
Intel currently has better performance per core, more cores per socket and less power per core than AMD - AMD has done pretty much one thing in many years: Dual core. Time to get off the laurels from that time and improve their chips again.
I've got a 4 GB memory card, and it takes a day or so to sync - and I'd much rather sync with itunes than manually pick 10% of my music library. No playing lists are synced either - and creating them on the phone? Not tempting. I bought it so I wouldn't need to carry an ipod around as well as a phone, but it failed miserably in achieving that.
The SE W810i does have craptastic software for managing music on the system, playlists etc.
In addition, the transfer speed is unbelieavably slow.
One thing is writing their own apps, but one of the things I really want is Skype. Another is a terminal with ssh.
Would I write any of these things for the phone? No. But Skype is an undesirable app for many phone companies (which could then say "don't certify this"), and ssh/terminal I expect to be developed/ported by an open source programmer. Shelling out an obscene amount of money for SDK/certification would make this unlikely.
I wanted one, but if it's going to be as closed as seems likely, I'm better off spending my money elsewhere.
No, I don't, because I don't want those packages. I just want some packages which I can't find in FC and Livna - usually just mythtv.
One of the things which is painful, is that atrpms is the repo with mythtv.... but enabling atrpms as the default repo is a very bad idea, as it will replace many of the normal packages too, not just add new ones (which has broken several systems for me and friends).
Jesus is a prophet in Islam and Judaism
Jesus a prophet for judaism? That sounds unlikely? One would expect them to either believe he was what he claimed, and thus be Christian, or not, in which case he is an imposter.
Because they want the threshold for the next step, you actually buying something, to be as low as possible.
The Mac version includes the Compressor, which otherwise sells separately for $50.
The real reason: Because they can. Until now, there has been no free virtualization alternatives on Mac - a market where there is also a large incentive for virtualization in order to run some apps on Windows.
If vmware eventually ends up with a free product on Mac (as they have on Windows and Linux), I'm confident the price of Parallells would go down to the level of their Windows version.
Duh, all athlon 64 dual cores to date are clock for clock nearly identical though. This means clock speed does matter.
They're almost identical - cache sizes vary, and, more importantly, the new ones (65 nm) have higher cache latency
.Correct. Intel still has the lion's share of the market, and they want to keep it that way. It's interesting how they "cheat" and lock two dies together and call it dual-core or quad-core just to come out with the technology "first" to keep the investors happy.
Cheat? The result is 4 cores in one socket. Things like "they cheated!", how many nm the process is etc is really irrelevant. What matters is the end result, like performance, power usage, memory bandwidth. That AMD can't do it yet and had gotten slow and docile by a couple of years success and being the top performer will hopefully be fixed soon, but as of now, they're badly lagging.
The richest 2% pay considerably more than 2% of taxes, however. They are disproportionately heavily taxed. I believe in the US, for example, the richest 1% bear 18% of the total tax burden.
Do they have more than 18% of the income (including capital gains, interest etc) and/or own more than 18% of the assets?
The Iraqi armed forces had been attacking our aircraft for 10 years, as we enforced the U.N. no-fly zones. Although there are plenty of other arguments, this alone makes the above not apply.
Other than the occasional "targeted by radar"-incident, no "had been attacking our aircraft for 10 years" has occured. And "response in kind" obviously rules out a full scale war with massive death tolls and destruction.
No I remember. That doesn't make the invasion illegal. If it only revealed the depth of corruption of the UN, and their contempt for the U.S.
Contrary to your belief, most of the world doesn't hate the US. In particular, the US had massive international goodwill after 11/9 - and full support for the action against Al Quaeda and Taliban in Afghanistan. However, using this as an excuse to attack someone one doesn't like (Iraq/Saddam had nothing to do with Al Quaeda, terrorism or weapons of mass destruction) obviously makes neutral people consider and condemn your actions.
Other incidents, like torture, imprisonment with no trial or conviction and blind support of Israel no matter what they do ("friends don't let friends drive drunk" should apply in International politcs too) are also reasons why the US has lost a lot of support and goodwill.