Here-freakin'-here. I use Vista on my laptop and desktop. I honestly can't stand XP anymore because it's stupid. Especially with the laptop. Sometimes it just wouldn't register the lid closing and it'd run the battery down while baking in my backpack.
Vista's only faults are abysmal 3rd party support and its nagging "designed by committee" aspects. But it is vastly superior to XP in many ways. Mostly they are:
1) Installation is no longer a pain in the ass. With all the new hardware coming out XP is increasingly in need of extra drivers before install. On a floppy disk... and only a floppy disk.
2) Plug and play is actually plug and play. Very rarely do I have to search online for drivers. I just plug it in and bam. Installed.
3) Connecting to a network and file sharing also no longer a pain in the ass.
4) Hibernate actually works.
5) I run 64-bit and I don't feel like an outcast of society. I run Adobe Premire and After Effects so 8GB of memory is not unreasonable. XP can't see more than 3.25GB of system memory and the 64-bit version of XP is... no. Just no.
So, basically it can do the exact same thing as Photoshop, except with the added expense and complications of a robotic arm.
Way to go, Carnegie Mellon.
I'll probably scrounge up a slipstreamed disk sooner or later... but, see, I shouldn't have to.
One of the touted features of Vista was a super simplified slipstreaming process. Simply copy the install disk to a folder, drag and drop the service pack into a folder marked "Update", and burn it all to disk. Yet, here we are, service pack one and they couldn't get that process to work. And the official word from MS is "shit out of luck, cheesemos. Buy a new disk!"
I installed SP1 on my desktop, laptop and several machines at work. There wasn't a single problem. My desktop had an "incompatible driver" and so I had to download SP1 from the MS website, but it installed fine and the driver is also working fine.
This sort of thing is normal with major OS updates. Even OS 10.5 had some major problems when users upgraded. And, honestly, unless you're like me and testing the service pack for work-related reasons... why are you installing it the day it was released? That's just dumb. At least wait a week.
My only real beef is you can't slipstream the new service pack into the install disk. That's going to be a pain in the ass next time I install Vista.
Adult Swim Fix already does this. Each TV show is broken up into different segments, and there is often a commercial in the middle iof those segments. I smell a patent lawsuit already.
Brainiac is to a science show as a parakeet is to a velociraptor.
Seriously, I watched a season of it and was dumbfounded at the amount of misinformation and fake stunts they pulled. Once they put a fire extinguisher into a oven, and it exploded in a fireball shortly after. Yes, that's right. A fireball.
Mythbusters may err on the side of theatrics, but they never fake a result. And they have people who actually know stuff about science, instead of Richard Hammond.
Well how do you know all convention organizers are thieves and liars? Do you know them? Just because some conventions are questionably run doesn't mean all of them are. Every aspect of PAX isn't personally run by Gabe & Tycho, but they still call the shots. So if there was anything shady going on they would, and have, excise it immediately.
Well, it hard to speak about other people in other countries, but here in America, the actual act of fueling is usually one of many tasks when "getting gas." I also wash the windows/lights, check over the engine, or maybe go in and get a snack.
From a pratical standpoint, there really is no reason for this robot. Not only would be made useless by locking gascaps, but $100,000 pays the wages for a lot of grease monkeys. And, honestly, if you're so stupid that you can't put a hose into a hole and squeeze a trigger, you shouldn't own a car.
I could easily build a Windows XP machine and play games on it for $600.
Motherboard: Foxconn 945P7AA-8KS2 - $35 CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E4600 2.4GHz - $150 Memory: 2GB (2x1GB) Kensigton Valueram - $38 Video Card: XFX GeForce 8600GT 256MB - $120 Case/PSU: Broadway Com Corp 204-4HA-S w/450W power supply - $24 HD: SAMSUNG SpinPoint P 200GB - $55 DVD-RW: LITE-ON Black 20X DVD multidrive - $28 Microsoft Windows Vista 64-Bit Business OEM - $145
Total: $595 (all from Newegg)
It wouldn't be a computer you could brag about, but you could easily play games on it with decent quality (higher than that of a console for sure) and if you got your parts on ebay (and used that copy of XP you have laying around) you could beef up the specs considerably while keeping under $600. Though it wouldn't have the small form factor the Mac mini has.
Actually, Apple is a software company who happens to have a good industrial design team for that software to run on. Once you install XP on an iMac, it's basically nothing more than a fancy silver Lenovo. Plus, think of what the iPhone would be like if it had Windows Mobile on it.
Just look at what happened to the iPod when Apple stopped making it Mac-proprietary. Suddenly, big surprise, the average person could buy one. Like, pay money for one too! Notice how Apple's popularity jumped. Then look at when Apple opened their hardware to installing other operating systems, again, their popularity jumped. Opening OS X to generic (albeit high-end) hardware is the next logical step.
What the studios could do is agree upon a universally adopted optical medium to store 4 hours of 8K video. Then store it in a humidity-free environment.
The problem isn't as dire as the article may make it out to be. Sure, high-quality originals might be lost, but there're still be millions of copies in DVD, HD-DVD, Blu-Ray or even the digital formats theaters use. The greatest advantage to digital isn't the longevity, it's the redundancy. And as long as you keep the plans for the decoding machines/CODECs hanging around, they will never be unreadable.
Whatever the limitations of the current archival formates have, it's still better than Nitrate film. That stuff would spontaneously combust if not taken care of, and would decay very quickly in non-perfect conditions. The stuff is literally made out of gun cotton (Nitrocellulose.) That's currently the archivist's major concern, is preserving all this volatile film from the 1900s thru the 1930s.
1) How much will they cost 2) How long does it take to charge 3) How many charges can you get in its lifetime.
If any one of those is a major deficiency, the technology will be worthless. Since they didn't immediately bring up use in electric cars, I'm guessing there's currently a fatal flaw that applies to one of those questions.
That's a bit of a stretch calling this thing bigger than the sun when it really isn't a cohesive single structure. We certainly don't count our atmosphere when we measure the diameter of the Earth.
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XP would crash if I tried hibernate on my system, but Vista does not. I calls it like I sees it.
So what? Most people have porn folders an order of magnitude larger than that.
I don't mind having 2GB of worthless drivers if it means more convenience. Mac OSX does the exact same thing. Hard disk space is cheap.
Here-freakin'-here. I use Vista on my laptop and desktop. I honestly can't stand XP anymore because it's stupid. Especially with the laptop. Sometimes it just wouldn't register the lid closing and it'd run the battery down while baking in my backpack.
Vista's only faults are abysmal 3rd party support and its nagging "designed by committee" aspects. But it is vastly superior to XP in many ways. Mostly they are:
1) Installation is no longer a pain in the ass. With all the new hardware coming out XP is increasingly in need of extra drivers before install. On a floppy disk... and only a floppy disk.
2) Plug and play is actually plug and play. Very rarely do I have to search online for drivers. I just plug it in and bam. Installed.
3) Connecting to a network and file sharing also no longer a pain in the ass.
4) Hibernate actually works.
5) I run 64-bit and I don't feel like an outcast of society. I run Adobe Premire and After Effects so 8GB of memory is not unreasonable. XP can't see more than 3.25GB of system memory and the 64-bit version of XP is... no. Just no.
Yep. Open Adobe Photoshop and go to File -> Automate -> Photomerge. Then simply point it to the folder containing your photo array.
So, basically it can do the exact same thing as Photoshop, except with the added expense and complications of a robotic arm. Way to go, Carnegie Mellon.
"American Evangelicals don't go suicide bombing anyone that disagrees with their point of view"
Yup. They just leave the bomb at the abortion clinic.
...if you pay a $700 subscription fee.
I'll probably scrounge up a slipstreamed disk sooner or later... but, see, I shouldn't have to.
One of the touted features of Vista was a super simplified slipstreaming process. Simply copy the install disk to a folder, drag and drop the service pack into a folder marked "Update", and burn it all to disk. Yet, here we are, service pack one and they couldn't get that process to work. And the official word from MS is "shit out of luck, cheesemos. Buy a new disk!"
I installed SP1 on my desktop, laptop and several machines at work. There wasn't a single problem. My desktop had an "incompatible driver" and so I had to download SP1 from the MS website, but it installed fine and the driver is also working fine.
This sort of thing is normal with major OS updates. Even OS 10.5 had some major problems when users upgraded. And, honestly, unless you're like me and testing the service pack for work-related reasons... why are you installing it the day it was released? That's just dumb. At least wait a week.
My only real beef is you can't slipstream the new service pack into the install disk. That's going to be a pain in the ass next time I install Vista.
Adult Swim Fix already does this. Each TV show is broken up into different segments, and there is often a commercial in the middle iof those segments. I smell a patent lawsuit already.
No. It was an electric oven.
Brainiac is to a science show as a parakeet is to a velociraptor.
Seriously, I watched a season of it and was dumbfounded at the amount of misinformation and fake stunts they pulled. Once they put a fire extinguisher into a oven, and it exploded in a fireball shortly after. Yes, that's right. A fireball.
Mythbusters may err on the side of theatrics, but they never fake a result. And they have people who actually know stuff about science, instead of Richard Hammond.
Well how do you know all convention organizers are thieves and liars? Do you know them? Just because some conventions are questionably run doesn't mean all of them are. Every aspect of PAX isn't personally run by Gabe & Tycho, but they still call the shots. So if there was anything shady going on they would, and have, excise it immediately.
Well, it hard to speak about other people in other countries, but here in America, the actual act of fueling is usually one of many tasks when "getting gas." I also wash the windows/lights, check over the engine, or maybe go in and get a snack.
From a pratical standpoint, there really is no reason for this robot. Not only would be made useless by locking gascaps, but $100,000 pays the wages for a lot of grease monkeys. And, honestly, if you're so stupid that you can't put a hose into a hole and squeeze a trigger, you shouldn't own a car.
This is the very definition of a solution in search of a problem.
Next thing you know the Dutch will invent an automated pot-smoking robot. Or a robot that runs on German xenophobia.
I could easily build a Windows XP machine and play games on it for $600.
Motherboard: Foxconn 945P7AA-8KS2 - $35
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E4600 2.4GHz - $150
Memory: 2GB (2x1GB) Kensigton Valueram - $38
Video Card: XFX GeForce 8600GT 256MB - $120
Case/PSU: Broadway Com Corp 204-4HA-S w/450W power supply - $24
HD: SAMSUNG SpinPoint P 200GB - $55
DVD-RW: LITE-ON Black 20X DVD multidrive - $28
Microsoft Windows Vista 64-Bit Business OEM - $145
Total: $595 (all from Newegg)
It wouldn't be a computer you could brag about, but you could easily play games on it with decent quality (higher than that of a console for sure) and if you got your parts on ebay (and used that copy of XP you have laying around) you could beef up the specs considerably while keeping under $600. Though it wouldn't have the small form factor the Mac mini has.
Actually, Apple is a software company who happens to have a good industrial design team for that software to run on. Once you install XP on an iMac, it's basically nothing more than a fancy silver Lenovo. Plus, think of what the iPhone would be like if it had Windows Mobile on it.
Just look at what happened to the iPod when Apple stopped making it Mac-proprietary. Suddenly, big surprise, the average person could buy one. Like, pay money for one too! Notice how Apple's popularity jumped. Then look at when Apple opened their hardware to installing other operating systems, again, their popularity jumped. Opening OS X to generic (albeit high-end) hardware is the next logical step.
Yeah, but you can't play games on that. And besides, $600 is still a lot more than just the OS X software, which is $129.
Now if only OSX could install on regular hardware so us peasants could afford it, maybe their growth wouldn't number in the single-digits.
Ancient city ship. Make it happen.
What the studios could do is agree upon a universally adopted optical medium to store 4 hours of 8K video. Then store it in a humidity-free environment.
The problem isn't as dire as the article may make it out to be. Sure, high-quality originals might be lost, but there're still be millions of copies in DVD, HD-DVD, Blu-Ray or even the digital formats theaters use. The greatest advantage to digital isn't the longevity, it's the redundancy. And as long as you keep the plans for the decoding machines/CODECs hanging around, they will never be unreadable.
Whatever the limitations of the current archival formates have, it's still better than Nitrate film. That stuff would spontaneously combust if not taken care of, and would decay very quickly in non-perfect conditions. The stuff is literally made out of gun cotton (Nitrocellulose.) That's currently the archivist's major concern, is preserving all this volatile film from the 1900s thru the 1930s.
1) How much will they cost
2) How long does it take to charge
3) How many charges can you get in its lifetime.
If any one of those is a major deficiency, the technology will be worthless. Since they didn't immediately bring up use in electric cars, I'm guessing there's currently a fatal flaw that applies to one of those questions.
My money is still on ultra-capacitors.
I support this if they rename the town to Ninjaville.
That's a bit of a stretch calling this thing bigger than the sun when it really isn't a cohesive single structure. We certainly don't count our atmosphere when we measure the diameter of the Earth.
Excuse me while I install a Faraday cage around my car's computer.