The basic Windows install should be just the core OS without all the frills. As low hard disk and RAM footprint as possible. Then all the extra stuff should be in the Plus! pack, which you can buy if you want and install just the things you want from it. They've done it before, it can't be that hard to do again.
A good puzzle is a joy to solve. Each solution you try, if it doesn't solve the puzzle gives you a tiny bit more info to solve it, lets you see how it's structured, helps you understand it as you solve it.
A bad puzzle is a road block until you give up on the game or go get the solution from a web site. I often suspect that a bad puzzle has more ways to not solve it than the designer intentionally added, giving off unintentional red herrings, or that you need to be part of the culture they grew up in to understand some of the clues.
You point is valid for the HTML, but not for the images. JPGs and GIFs don't zip. There are some specialised programs that can unwind the lossless layer of compression in a JPG file and repack it, but standard "dumb" compression as found in modems will not be as good as having your ISP crank up the lossy on images before they hit your phone line. Granted, you lose quality, but the vast majority of images that you fetch while surfing need not be much more than a coloured blur.
They should find an ISP that supports v.92 and made sure they're running a good ad filter (and probably something like Flashblock). Dial-up is survivable if you can kill the rich media ads.
Some ISPs also offer a "web accelerator" service that'll repack images and compress HTML for you.
What a PITA. It'd be so handy to have at work, but I can't connect it to the domain unless I put XP Pro on it, so it will still cost another A$150 or so to (legally) put the right (for me) OS on it.
I used to read Dilbert on my little old Asus Pocket PC, but now it crashes the browser. And it's not like I can just download the latest Firefox or IE for it.
This "revenue raising" riff is getting mighty tired. If you don't want a ticket DON'T BREAK THE LAW! Don't try and be the fifth person to squeeze through the orange light and you won't get done for running the red one. Don't speed and the speeding cameras won't catch you speeding. Some of us actually try to follow the law and don't want to be killed my some moron who thinks the world revolves around them or that speed limits don't apply to them because their car is all new and high tech.
You're completely wrong. XP on an EeePC runs great, and that's on one that's been converted using a normal old XP disc and the included Asus CD. Presented some stuff with it using IE and Portable OpenOffice just last week.
don't know what its like for WoW players and bots, but I can imagine its not to fun to see people running around knowing that they are bots. If I wanted play a video game where there are a bunch of automatons running around I'll play a classic RPG.
While I was playing WoW I enjoyed screwing with bots. I enjoyed using my hunter to tag mobs just a moment before the bot started attacking them, then I'd bring in a second mob for me to fight and I'd get the XP for both.
If MS can get BD-Live working they'd be stupid not to release a drive. At the moment, the only sensible purchase if you want to play high-def content off little, shiny, store-bought discs is a PS3. A Blu-ray drive for the Xbox would seriously slow the flow of PS3s into homes.
Let's say 10 auctions are all ending at the same time and I have a total budget of $100. First, I put a max bid of $10 on every item. Let's say I'm immediately outbid on six of the items. My total commitment is now only $40, so I raise my bid on each of the outbid items to $20 until I'm the top bidder on three of them. I'm now winning seven of the 10 auctions I'm interested in and my total commitment is still $100.
Half way through the auctions I get outbid on a $10 and a $20, so I start bidding $30 on each listing I'm not winning until I am winning one. I'm now committed to 3x$10, 2x$20 and 1x$30 = $100 across six of the 10 auctions I'm interested in. See how I adjust my individual maximum bids because of a total budget.
It stays like this until 15 seconds before all the auctions end, whereupon I'm suddenly outbid on everything. My commitment drops to $0 and I don't have time to bid, say, $40 on things until I'm winning two items again.
There's no way to say to eBay "My budget for all these items is X, please automatically bid in a way that never commits me to more". That's why sniping works.
I installed it this morning (finally, after the downloader managed to complete successfully) and each time I click on the "Sync" button my PC reboots. So much for that.
I've set up all that sort of sort of stuff before (including phpBB and a wiki), but usually enough, senior, people refuse to use it that it dies. Are you in a particularly techie place or have you found some secret to getting the technophobic to use computer-mediated communications?
Microsoft's first bluetooth keyboard and mouse set was an expensive piece of junk. Before that, I agree their hardware was pretty good (I love the first MS Natural keyboard), but since then it's all been pretty crappy.
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And if you want to deal with them, you have to use their warehouse-based analytics.
Oh, and PayPal and Ebay fees will be going up next week.
Yet another article reinforcing my believe that any articles with a numeral in the headline, that are a list of stuff, all suck.
The basic Windows install should be just the core OS without all the frills. As low hard disk and RAM footprint as possible. Then all the extra stuff should be in the Plus! pack, which you can buy if you want and install just the things you want from it. They've done it before, it can't be that hard to do again.
A good puzzle is a joy to solve. Each solution you try, if it doesn't solve the puzzle gives you a tiny bit more info to solve it, lets you see how it's structured, helps you understand it as you solve it.
A bad puzzle is a road block until you give up on the game or go get the solution from a web site. I often suspect that a bad puzzle has more ways to not solve it than the designer intentionally added, giving off unintentional red herrings, or that you need to be part of the culture they grew up in to understand some of the clues.
Bad puzzles are why gamers hate puzzles.
And here I was thinking that parking lots were starting to mark out half-size spaces for Swatch Smart cars.
You point is valid for the HTML, but not for the images. JPGs and GIFs don't zip. There are some specialised programs that can unwind the lossless layer of compression in a JPG file and repack it, but standard "dumb" compression as found in modems will not be as good as having your ISP crank up the lossy on images before they hit your phone line. Granted, you lose quality, but the vast majority of images that you fetch while surfing need not be much more than a coloured blur.
Mod parent up. I've used Maxivista on and off and it's a great way to use what would otherwise be a wasted screen.
They should find an ISP that supports v.92 and made sure they're running a good ad filter (and probably something like Flashblock). Dial-up is survivable if you can kill the rich media ads.
Some ISPs also offer a "web accelerator" service that'll repack images and compress HTML for you.
What a PITA. It'd be so handy to have at work, but I can't connect it to the domain unless I put XP Pro on it, so it will still cost another A$150 or so to (legally) put the right (for me) OS on it.
I used to read Dilbert on my little old Asus Pocket PC, but now it crashes the browser. And it's not like I can just download the latest Firefox or IE for it.
This "revenue raising" riff is getting mighty tired. If you don't want a ticket DON'T BREAK THE LAW! Don't try and be the fifth person to squeeze through the orange light and you won't get done for running the red one. Don't speed and the speeding cameras won't catch you speeding. Some of us actually try to follow the law and don't want to be killed my some moron who thinks the world revolves around them or that speed limits don't apply to them because their car is all new and high tech.
You're completely wrong. XP on an EeePC runs great, and that's on one that's been converted using a normal old XP disc and the included Asus CD. Presented some stuff with it using IE and Portable OpenOffice just last week.
Indeed. Their stuff used to rock. The Soundblaster Pro was brilliant. Meanwhile, I hate my Audigy and haven't bought any of their crap since.
I was going to buy an Electric Monk, then I realized I don't actually believe in anything to could believe for me.
If MS can get BD-Live working they'd be stupid not to release a drive. At the moment, the only sensible purchase if you want to play high-def content off little, shiny, store-bought discs is a PS3. A Blu-ray drive for the Xbox would seriously slow the flow of PS3s into homes.
Let's say 10 auctions are all ending at the same time and I have a total budget of $100. First, I put a max bid of $10 on every item. Let's say I'm immediately outbid on six of the items. My total commitment is now only $40, so I raise my bid on each of the outbid items to $20 until I'm the top bidder on three of them. I'm now winning seven of the 10 auctions I'm interested in and my total commitment is still $100.
Half way through the auctions I get outbid on a $10 and a $20, so I start bidding $30 on each listing I'm not winning until I am winning one. I'm now committed to 3x$10, 2x$20 and 1x$30 = $100 across six of the 10 auctions I'm interested in. See how I adjust my individual maximum bids because of a total budget.
It stays like this until 15 seconds before all the auctions end, whereupon I'm suddenly outbid on everything. My commitment drops to $0 and I don't have time to bid, say, $40 on things until I'm winning two items again.
There's no way to say to eBay "My budget for all these items is X, please automatically bid in a way that never commits me to more". That's why sniping works.
I installed it this morning (finally, after the downloader managed to complete successfully) and each time I click on the "Sync" button my PC reboots. So much for that.
I don't want more choice, I just want better stuff.
Wow. Truly a story for the ages. Disney should make a movie.
Shoot it again!
Why wait? The Gigabyte 3D1 has been available for years. I'm still using mine.
I've set up all that sort of sort of stuff before (including phpBB and a wiki), but usually enough, senior, people refuse to use it that it dies. Are you in a particularly techie place or have you found some secret to getting the technophobic to use computer-mediated communications?
Microsoft's first bluetooth keyboard and mouse set was an expensive piece of junk. Before that, I agree their hardware was pretty good (I love the first MS Natural keyboard), but since then it's all been pretty crappy.