It's really about that easy. Remember Office 07? I repair comps privately and here's a common conversation I have with people:
"Can I get Microsoft Office on the new computer?"
"Well yet but it's like $300 extra or something and it's pretty awful. It's not very reverse compatible with any other versions either"
"Oh, that stinks."
"I could put Open Office on it. It's pretty much identical but without all the stupid new features and it's free and compatible with Office."
"Okay!"
And now a LOT of people have Open Office and like it. Same with Vista. If they try and force it on everyone, they'll replace an OS that most people actually like with one they don't. That's super idiotic when it comes to business practices. That's like McDonalds saying from now on, they're only going to serve food that tastes like crap. But Microsoft thinks they can do whatever they want cuz they still think they won the OS wars permanently like 10 years ago and could shoot puppies in a superbowl ad and still be the leading OS maker. And the worst part is, they won't learn their lesson. They'll just take even worse, more idiotic steps to force Windows on people as they start losing their market share to Linux (cuz nobody in their right mind would buy a mac with no Windows install as a main comp to do everything).
wtf are you talking about? Yeah, I work for games.com, youtube, and ehow, how'd you know? I'm not even employed at the moment. And look at your posting history. Flamebait...troll...flamebait...troll. You're real popular. P.S. what's that link in your profile? Oh, it's selling something. Imagine that. STFU hypocrit douchebag.
I don't think they're going to beat out games.com. First of all they have the domain games.com. Second, they have EVERYTHING. They even have Monopoly! And third, I think games.com has some sort of win cash by playing games. Never really looked into it but it sounded cool. I don't think this new one is going to beat them out if they simply try to beat them at their own game, no pun intended:-P
I think the photons strike a really small sort of solar panel where the burst of light turns instantly into a burst of electricity. So there's no digital translation by a chip necessary. Of course you lose a lot of power converting it like that cuz let's say the solar sensor is 50% energy efficient, well you have to use 2x the electricity in the first place to get the desired 1x electricity at the end. So these chips are gonna be fast but they'll suck up energy faster than me eating 50% Walgreens Cocoa Peeps the day after Easter:D
Search within search? Sounds like search within site to me. I think the article should be titled "Google adds ads to their search within site feature." They already have a search within site feature. It's on their page and on their toolbar. Btw if case you've never used it, IT SUCKS. It is seriously awful. If the target website is set up in a way that google can't understand, you'll get no results for anything. And sometimes you won't find something with search within site that you will find by looking around manually. Add ads to it and even less people are going to bother with it.
wow, this is just like my comment in the last quantum computing FUD artcile. You've still got bus speeds, cache speeds, memory speeds and capacity, and even hard drive speeds. You're not gonna crack some encryption that would take a normal computer 100 billion years but you might be able to render and encode Finding Nemo a lot faster.
yeah, when most of your customers are douchebags and/or starbucks customers that are shallow and extremely concerned about their image, they tend to bitch about anything negative you say about them or anything they have. Unfortunately, they fell for Apple's douchebag targetting ads with their hippie music and, being douchebags, they don't want to admit that the quality of the product is in fact horrendous. What we need is for people like me that hate Apple to because just as zealous. If all their customers really are concerned about image, and everyone hates them, bye bye Apple:P
Just think if you could log into windows with a series of cursor motions that don't actually move anything visible that you control with your mind. There was a similar feature in some software where you have to move the mouse's cursor in a pattern like left-right-left-right-up-circle and that's your password. But people can watch your hand so that's kinda dumb. But if it's only with your mind and nothing even shows up on the screen as moving, just the helmet registering the movements, you could really quickly put in a complex password that nobody would be able to see while they watch you.
Except in real life, they don't really invent a new particle too often, they just make one up and name it after something dumb like themselves and hope at some point it's proven that it's real, which the majority of the time it's not. Seriously, any unexplained affect or experiment result or calculation that doesn't add up MUST be a particle according to some physicists. Which is funny cuz others claim it's all cuz of strings and string theory and others say it must be a fifth major force and the crazy liberal whackjobs say we're all in the matrix and this is just a computer simulation and other assorted lunacy. Just to keep it real, it's not a particle unless they actually find/make/detect one.
you haven't seen the one of my 17 pound homemade smoke bomb nuking my backyard then, have you? lol. http://youtube.com/watch?v=jMITFo66qWg
You look at that fireball and tell me that's not a threat to national security hehehe.
But don't worry everyone, the Chinese can still see a shortened version of that vid on ehow.com lol. I don't believe they blocked that site yet.
Who would want a small company to win a part of the spectrum? By definition, they wouldn't be able to use it universally for all Americans. If some New York only company bought it and never spread across the country or took 10 years to expand that large, the entire rest of the country wouldn't be able to use it immediately. But nationwide cellphone companies can implement it immediately to increase quality and number of available connections to a single tower for just about everyone everywhere. That's even important for when cell towers fail from too much traffic when everyone gets on their cell after an emergency like a natural disaster. That's way better than some company nobody's heard of making 10,000 wireless routers and tunrning great profits but effectively only being able to offer their product to 0.001% of America because of their limited size. That's like being a small patent troll company and sitting on some wonderful technology and not letting anyone else use it. Too bad cell companies are evil, greedy bastards.
And on the Titan internet's #1 news for nerds website, dot slash, they're posting about how there may be oceans on Earth:P Btw this is good cuz now astronaughts can go swimming cuz you know how they're always saying it's hard to get enough exercise in space with no gravity.
I thought there was more nitrogen than anything. Anyway, I didn't know it was THAT abundant but I kinda meant with the amount of refineries we have for silicon. Isn't the price going up lately cuz of that?
I could never figure that out either. I think the mollecules and atoms basically just vibrate over less distance faster to equal the same frequency...wait that doesn't make sense. Well it's some combination of frequency, distance, and speed I think that makes it have the same energy but not move around as much so it's as if it wasn't moving.
That's the first place my brain went lol. You snap a pic and analyze the particular shapes and stuff later on your comp. Actually that sounds illegal rofl. But this wouldn't work for like fly-around 3D models of stuff. It's like sending out a virtual sheet in one direction and as soon as it hits something, it's done. So you'll only ever catch the front side of an object and any object partially covering a second object would kinda ruin it. As soon as you pan like 5 degrees in one direction, the 2nd object would look like it has a chunk missing, cuz it pretty much would the way it's stored.
I wish he would have estimated the CFM on that! If it's comparable to the whole 3x the air flow at 1/4 the size thing, that thing would start a small tornado in his case lol. Then again it doesn't have alleys and scoops like the attached image in the article so I don't think it's really, truly designed for maximized airflow. Pretty neat though. You know what I'm thinking is if they could line the inside walls of an air intake in a car or better yet assemble a bunch of those super high CFM chip coolers in a row in fins and put them inside the air intake, that could blast more air into the engine than a supercharger! Not that you'd want to exceed like 8 PSI but it sounds like this would make it a lot easier to get to 8 PSI with minimal electrical energy. That and you could built a bad ass movie hurricane fan lol.
My former crazy old printer didn't have a fully functional XP driver but the 2000 or 98 one or something worked well enough to print stuff (no scanning though). So if they did this on XP, I'm not uninstalling my printer and I'm not buying a new one. I did finally buy a new one cuz I was sick of it printing sheets of printese jibberish every time it ran out of paper or I tried to cancel a job though. But anyway, that's the kind of case people are making. If the hardware kinda works, what's the big deal? Especially since just about nothing works with Vista lol.
P.S. for everyone who said "wait to upgrade to Vista until SP1 comes out," yeah, great call on that one.
you know how much pressure that must take?! You keep the mollecules from vibrating wildly enough just by pressure instead of like -400F degrees. That's insane. Oh well, I won't mind seeing this technology die cuz I don't think we have the spare silicon to redo the power grid in this...or one city.
Well it's a 2 pound, fully functional computer with a bunch of standard features you'd find on a laptop so that's pretty cool. But why is it suddenly some sort of innovation to see who can squeeze by an almost normal computer with pathetic hardware? If they were able to put something comparable to even an AMD X2 processor into it, these things would be crazy popular! But I guess if you don't plan on bringing it everywhere and using it as a full business laptop, and just wanna do basic stuff on it then your expectations will probably be met. As for me, I want to carry around something faster than my PC but maybe that's just me lol. And before anyone says it, yes it's all because of battery life. I have severe battery-run-out-ophobia when it comes to mobile devices too but shouldn't the new inventions be really, really good batteries and efficient hardware not the slowest portable they can still force to run an OS?
well all phpBB installs are free last I checked and usually hosts cost more when they offer a bunch of fancy plugins so not really:-P At least they did in fact let me manually install phpBB but really you can do that on any server. You just upload the php files and dependent graphics and stuff, set permissions, and run the first config script by loading the page in your browser and filling in the info. It's pretty simple so I dunno why they gotta overly simplify it with some static plugin installer.
You have no idea what they do, do you? Here's a more accurate example. If they sent a camera crew along with every bank robbery and uploaded the vid to youtube to show it off. They're not reporters, they're assholes! They exist soley to show off and glorify other people's hacks. I believe they even had a point system to see what groups were responsible for the most hacks. It's fucking ridiculous! They can all go to hell. THAT is my problem with them.
what do you mean quality? I don't factor looks and style and cuteness into quality. I want the fastest for the money and that's that. They're lucky the Mac OS runs faster than windows so it pretty much evens out cuz their hardware prices aren't so good.
My old phpBB forum got hacked. Wanna know why? Cuz I used the auto-installing plugin that my host provided. It was about 20 versions behind and they NEVER updated it. So it had a gaping security hole in it. And guess what else! I couldn't patch it because it was considered some sort of embedded plugin that I couldn't tocuh the system files of. I had to install a fresh, updated version and phpBB and then copy the database over AND alter the database manually to reflect all the changes between between versions, which was a major pain in the ass. Needless to say I was pissed. Oh and I tried to sue/have arrested those Zone-H assholes that posted it like it was some sort of trophy case but apparently they're not hosted in the US so I dropped it.
I would be willing to guess that every single hack was because of outdated phpBB quick installs like ipowerweb makes available on their servers.
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It's really about that easy. Remember Office 07? I repair comps privately and here's a common conversation I have with people:
"Can I get Microsoft Office on the new computer?"
"Well yet but it's like $300 extra or something and it's pretty awful. It's not very reverse compatible with any other versions either"
"Oh, that stinks."
"I could put Open Office on it. It's pretty much identical but without all the stupid new features and it's free and compatible with Office."
"Okay!"
And now a LOT of people have Open Office and like it. Same with Vista. If they try and force it on everyone, they'll replace an OS that most people actually like with one they don't. That's super idiotic when it comes to business practices. That's like McDonalds saying from now on, they're only going to serve food that tastes like crap. But Microsoft thinks they can do whatever they want cuz they still think they won the OS wars permanently like 10 years ago and could shoot puppies in a superbowl ad and still be the leading OS maker. And the worst part is, they won't learn their lesson. They'll just take even worse, more idiotic steps to force Windows on people as they start losing their market share to Linux (cuz nobody in their right mind would buy a mac with no Windows install as a main comp to do everything).
wtf are you talking about? Yeah, I work for games.com, youtube, and ehow, how'd you know? I'm not even employed at the moment. And look at your posting history. Flamebait...troll...flamebait...troll. You're real popular. P.S. what's that link in your profile? Oh, it's selling something. Imagine that. STFU hypocrit douchebag.
I don't think they're going to beat out games.com. First of all they have the domain games.com. Second, they have EVERYTHING. They even have Monopoly! And third, I think games.com has some sort of win cash by playing games. Never really looked into it but it sounded cool. I don't think this new one is going to beat them out if they simply try to beat them at their own game, no pun intended :-P
I think the photons strike a really small sort of solar panel where the burst of light turns instantly into a burst of electricity. So there's no digital translation by a chip necessary. Of course you lose a lot of power converting it like that cuz let's say the solar sensor is 50% energy efficient, well you have to use 2x the electricity in the first place to get the desired 1x electricity at the end. So these chips are gonna be fast but they'll suck up energy faster than me eating 50% Walgreens Cocoa Peeps the day after Easter :D
Search within search? Sounds like search within site to me. I think the article should be titled "Google adds ads to their search within site feature." They already have a search within site feature. It's on their page and on their toolbar. Btw if case you've never used it, IT SUCKS. It is seriously awful. If the target website is set up in a way that google can't understand, you'll get no results for anything. And sometimes you won't find something with search within site that you will find by looking around manually. Add ads to it and even less people are going to bother with it.
wow, this is just like my comment in the last quantum computing FUD artcile. You've still got bus speeds, cache speeds, memory speeds and capacity, and even hard drive speeds. You're not gonna crack some encryption that would take a normal computer 100 billion years but you might be able to render and encode Finding Nemo a lot faster.
yeah, when most of your customers are douchebags and/or starbucks customers that are shallow and extremely concerned about their image, they tend to bitch about anything negative you say about them or anything they have. Unfortunately, they fell for Apple's douchebag targetting ads with their hippie music and, being douchebags, they don't want to admit that the quality of the product is in fact horrendous. What we need is for people like me that hate Apple to because just as zealous. If all their customers really are concerned about image, and everyone hates them, bye bye Apple :P
Just think if you could log into windows with a series of cursor motions that don't actually move anything visible that you control with your mind. There was a similar feature in some software where you have to move the mouse's cursor in a pattern like left-right-left-right-up-circle and that's your password. But people can watch your hand so that's kinda dumb. But if it's only with your mind and nothing even shows up on the screen as moving, just the helmet registering the movements, you could really quickly put in a complex password that nobody would be able to see while they watch you.
Except in real life, they don't really invent a new particle too often, they just make one up and name it after something dumb like themselves and hope at some point it's proven that it's real, which the majority of the time it's not. Seriously, any unexplained affect or experiment result or calculation that doesn't add up MUST be a particle according to some physicists. Which is funny cuz others claim it's all cuz of strings and string theory and others say it must be a fifth major force and the crazy liberal whackjobs say we're all in the matrix and this is just a computer simulation and other assorted lunacy. Just to keep it real, it's not a particle unless they actually find/make/detect one.
you haven't seen the one of my 17 pound homemade smoke bomb nuking my backyard then, have you? lol.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=jMITFo66qWg
You look at that fireball and tell me that's not a threat to national security hehehe.
But don't worry everyone, the Chinese can still see a shortened version of that vid on ehow.com lol. I don't believe they blocked that site yet.
that's cool and all but I like Big O better lol. That's the real biggest undersea robot even if it's not actually real :P
Who would want a small company to win a part of the spectrum? By definition, they wouldn't be able to use it universally for all Americans. If some New York only company bought it and never spread across the country or took 10 years to expand that large, the entire rest of the country wouldn't be able to use it immediately. But nationwide cellphone companies can implement it immediately to increase quality and number of available connections to a single tower for just about everyone everywhere. That's even important for when cell towers fail from too much traffic when everyone gets on their cell after an emergency like a natural disaster. That's way better than some company nobody's heard of making 10,000 wireless routers and tunrning great profits but effectively only being able to offer their product to 0.001% of America because of their limited size. That's like being a small patent troll company and sitting on some wonderful technology and not letting anyone else use it. Too bad cell companies are evil, greedy bastards.
And on the Titan internet's #1 news for nerds website, dot slash, they're posting about how there may be oceans on Earth :P Btw this is good cuz now astronaughts can go swimming cuz you know how they're always saying it's hard to get enough exercise in space with no gravity.
I thought there was more nitrogen than anything. Anyway, I didn't know it was THAT abundant but I kinda meant with the amount of refineries we have for silicon. Isn't the price going up lately cuz of that?
I could never figure that out either. I think the mollecules and atoms basically just vibrate over less distance faster to equal the same frequency...wait that doesn't make sense. Well it's some combination of frequency, distance, and speed I think that makes it have the same energy but not move around as much so it's as if it wasn't moving.
That's the first place my brain went lol. You snap a pic and analyze the particular shapes and stuff later on your comp. Actually that sounds illegal rofl. But this wouldn't work for like fly-around 3D models of stuff. It's like sending out a virtual sheet in one direction and as soon as it hits something, it's done. So you'll only ever catch the front side of an object and any object partially covering a second object would kinda ruin it. As soon as you pan like 5 degrees in one direction, the 2nd object would look like it has a chunk missing, cuz it pretty much would the way it's stored.
I wish he would have estimated the CFM on that! If it's comparable to the whole 3x the air flow at 1/4 the size thing, that thing would start a small tornado in his case lol. Then again it doesn't have alleys and scoops like the attached image in the article so I don't think it's really, truly designed for maximized airflow. Pretty neat though. You know what I'm thinking is if they could line the inside walls of an air intake in a car or better yet assemble a bunch of those super high CFM chip coolers in a row in fins and put them inside the air intake, that could blast more air into the engine than a supercharger! Not that you'd want to exceed like 8 PSI but it sounds like this would make it a lot easier to get to 8 PSI with minimal electrical energy. That and you could built a bad ass movie hurricane fan lol.
My former crazy old printer didn't have a fully functional XP driver but the 2000 or 98 one or something worked well enough to print stuff (no scanning though). So if they did this on XP, I'm not uninstalling my printer and I'm not buying a new one. I did finally buy a new one cuz I was sick of it printing sheets of printese jibberish every time it ran out of paper or I tried to cancel a job though. But anyway, that's the kind of case people are making. If the hardware kinda works, what's the big deal? Especially since just about nothing works with Vista lol.
P.S. for everyone who said "wait to upgrade to Vista until SP1 comes out," yeah, great call on that one.
you know how much pressure that must take?! You keep the mollecules from vibrating wildly enough just by pressure instead of like -400F degrees. That's insane. Oh well, I won't mind seeing this technology die cuz I don't think we have the spare silicon to redo the power grid in this...or one city.
Well it's a 2 pound, fully functional computer with a bunch of standard features you'd find on a laptop so that's pretty cool. But why is it suddenly some sort of innovation to see who can squeeze by an almost normal computer with pathetic hardware? If they were able to put something comparable to even an AMD X2 processor into it, these things would be crazy popular! But I guess if you don't plan on bringing it everywhere and using it as a full business laptop, and just wanna do basic stuff on it then your expectations will probably be met. As for me, I want to carry around something faster than my PC but maybe that's just me lol. And before anyone says it, yes it's all because of battery life. I have severe battery-run-out-ophobia when it comes to mobile devices too but shouldn't the new inventions be really, really good batteries and efficient hardware not the slowest portable they can still force to run an OS?
well all phpBB installs are free last I checked and usually hosts cost more when they offer a bunch of fancy plugins so not really :-P At least they did in fact let me manually install phpBB but really you can do that on any server. You just upload the php files and dependent graphics and stuff, set permissions, and run the first config script by loading the page in your browser and filling in the info. It's pretty simple so I dunno why they gotta overly simplify it with some static plugin installer.
You have no idea what they do, do you? Here's a more accurate example. If they sent a camera crew along with every bank robbery and uploaded the vid to youtube to show it off. They're not reporters, they're assholes! They exist soley to show off and glorify other people's hacks. I believe they even had a point system to see what groups were responsible for the most hacks. It's fucking ridiculous! They can all go to hell. THAT is my problem with them.
what do you mean quality? I don't factor looks and style and cuteness into quality. I want the fastest for the money and that's that. They're lucky the Mac OS runs faster than windows so it pretty much evens out cuz their hardware prices aren't so good.
oh, I should probably mention instead of implying that it was like a year ago, not in this attack
My old phpBB forum got hacked. Wanna know why? Cuz I used the auto-installing plugin that my host provided. It was about 20 versions behind and they NEVER updated it. So it had a gaping security hole in it. And guess what else! I couldn't patch it because it was considered some sort of embedded plugin that I couldn't tocuh the system files of. I had to install a fresh, updated version and phpBB and then copy the database over AND alter the database manually to reflect all the changes between between versions, which was a major pain in the ass. Needless to say I was pissed. Oh and I tried to sue/have arrested those Zone-H assholes that posted it like it was some sort of trophy case but apparently they're not hosted in the US so I dropped it. I would be willing to guess that every single hack was because of outdated phpBB quick installs like ipowerweb makes available on their servers.