Cruel Irony?
It's cruel irony that someone who longed for lifelong fame has achieved her wish in this way. It's like a fable where someone didn't consider the consequence of the wish they asked the genie for.
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More important was the fact that on the same program they had the Honda FCX Clarity, which in the turn of a key, made the Tesla obsolete.
We now have a working hydrogen fuel cell vehicle froma production line. All we need now is to convince the energy companies to start making and selling hydrogen at the pumps.
"There are 14m Xbox 360's out in the wilds. Even if this update destroyed a 100,000 of them, that would be less than one percent, which would be statistically insignificant."
Insignificant? You're obviously not a statistician then.
1% is a huge amount, and is massively significant for an operation that should have a 100% success rate.
I agree with the wise chap above that said "correlation does not prove causality!"
"but Intel is a company obsessed to distraction with Moore's Law. It's like watching a crack addict do anything to get the next hit, a doubling of processor performance every 18 months, whatever it takes, in Intel's case."
From my uni days I remember Moore's Law being the doubling of transistors in a processor rather than the doubling of performance. Performance largely follows, but is not the driving factor. Or am I wrong?
Erm?? Much better games?
Wii = Novelty. I don't know a single gamer who plays it regularly single player.
PS3 = Nice blu-ray player and nice graphics, shame about the controllers and the games.
Xbox = The best controllers of any console (so important, but overlooked), lesser build quality, but (and this is the important one) much better games.
Played them all, owned some of them, and the only one I would have is the Xbox.
I'll just start off that I am not a mac fanboi, quite the contrary usually, and I don't have an iPhone, but I've used them as well as plenty of not so smart "smartphones" in my time.
The 3G iPhone, whilst it has problems, is miles ahead of any other phone out there, especially for the money. As someone mentioned earlier, Sony Ericsson's efforts have been bug ridden their entire life, but never got the derision they deserved.
People seem to be forgetting that this ISN'T an operating system for a PC, and it's for a phone. Yes they could have got all the bugs out before release, but judging by Symbian's (as their main competitor) efforts for the last few years, it's not a requirement.
I'll still shell out for one when the time to renew comes.
Abso-frickin-lutely. It's crazy that this problem is STILL in SP3.
Anyone who isn't a little tech savvy wouldn't know how to fix it. I even had to download some XP images from MSDN as my laptop only comes with "restore disks" and not a proper copy of XP SP2. How was I supposed to even get to the repair console with them?
I know several people (myself included) who have either bought a Wii beacause it is inexpensive, and have either since shelved it, or sold it on. I since bought a 360, and haven't been able to stop playing it.
I think the above mentioned games sales statistics would be a better measure.
"It is your responsibility to ensure that your computer is protected at all times."
that's ridiculous. Is it your fault if someone exploits a un-patched vulnerability, or a virus infects you which your anti-virus misses?
No.
I'm no lawyer, but I'm sure the fact that there was no intent would count for a lot.