| Software Windows Vista SP1 Performance: Mixed Results
Upgrading to a new OS, just for the sake of updating makes no sense. There's got to be a tangible, financial benefit achieved by doing so.For most companies it will not be a matter of staying ahead of the curve, it will be a matter of cost. Windows XP is fast, stable and its drivers are mature. Vista, while having numerous new security and usability enhancements, is plagued by stability and compatibility problems. The decision, as to whether or not to upgrade to Vista, should be a product of a cost/benfit analysis.I'm pretty sure that right now Windows XP has a lower TCO than Vista. .
Open Mike: Tiger always a hot topic
He was the greatest golfer of his era and would become the greatest of any era. He saw that if he was going to accept all the good things that came with that, he also had to deal with the bad. It wasn't for him that he had to do it, but for the sport. What Nicklaus didn't have that Tiger does is squadrons of promoters and agents buzzing around him, telling him that he's the best thing to happen to the game since gutta percha and that he doesn't have to talk to those vultures if he doesn't want to. Woods has kissed off the media — and through them his fans — before. No one has ever told him it's not right. Golf depends on him. It's made him rich and world famous, and he owes the game for that. He let it down on Sunday by refusing to talk. Two minutes would have been enough. It's not a great price to pay for the position he occupies.
National Treasure Book of Secrets Movie Trailers and Review – Box ...
The “The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep" came in 7th place this weekend. This is a fanciful film about the fabled Loch Ness Monster. Here are the top ten box office winners this weekend: See what others are saying and join the discussion at our Forum .
Williams ahead of his time
The Times-Herald will feature an inductee each day leading up to the March 8 Vallejo Sports Hall of Fame banquet. D.L. Hurd could talk about Richie Williams for a week. Williams, the 5-foot-9, 133-pound blur, was ambidextrous, the guy nobody wanted to play a game of H-O-R-S-E with, stepped up his game against the best competition, was the consummate teammate and, best of all, a great person. These are just a few things Hurd lists about the very close friend he still speaks with on a once-a-week basis. Williams - a Vallejo High and Vallejo Junior College star in the 1950s, and later a basketball player at Gonzaga and San Francisco State - is slated for induction with the fifth class of the Vallejo Sports Hall of Fame on March 8. "I just can't say enough about him," said Hurd, a former football player with the Baltimore Colts and a VSHOF member.
Rethinking Tenure — and Much More
Young scholars need to publish books to get jobs and tenure. University presses can’t afford to publish books any more and are raising the bar for publication. Libraries don’t have money to buy the books the presses do publish, forcing the presses to make more cuts, making it still more difficult for young scholars to win tenure. While the MLA task force found plenty of problems in the system, one thing it did not find was the feared "lost generation" of scholars who had been denied tenure. The association conducted a survey of 1,339 departments on their tenure policies and processes. A key finding was that the actual rates of tenure denials in these departments are quite low — around 10 percent. But while junior professors in English and foreign languages were apparently incorrect in thinking that many were being rejected for tenure, they weren’t incorrect that the rules and system had changed.
Three bits of recent news got me thinking:
You can currently buy a 250GB FireWire drive for less than $1 per gigabyte, while flash memory cards run $50 or more per gig. But flash prices will likely fall quickly over the next couple of years. And as they do, and as Intel perfects the design of low-power, high-speed CPUs, Apple's going to have ample opportunity to do what it does best: out-innovate the rest of the computer industry. Much of the above is fantasy and speculation on my part, but Apple's now got the real-world partnerships to make it all happen for real. From my keyboard to Steve's ears… .
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