When I use IE7 (which I do at work for our internal software site)
I miss these features most:
1. Find bar (the search _within_ this page), IE7 is still using the popup-find-dialog-which-is-annoying 2. "Awesome" bar address bar (FF3 only, if you have not tried it, please do, I find it useful) 3. Spell-checking built in to text areas (minor, but handy) 4. Default menus in normal places and back/forward/stop buttons in logical/standard places.
Has anyone tried this beta? Are any of these things fixed/improved? Or is it just useless things like web slices etc...
In limited situations, you can use copyrighted works without permission from the copyright holder. It can be difficult to figure out whether use of copyrighted works without permission is legal, though, because the laws in this area are often vague and vary from country to country.
The copyright law in the United States has a doctrine called "fair use". Fair use provides a defense to copyright infringement in some circumstances. For example, fair use allows documentary filmmakers to use very short clips of copyrighted movies, music and news footage without permission from the copyright owner. Fair use is a difficult concept because determining whether something is a fair use involves weighing four factors. Unfortunately, weighing the fair use factors rarely results in a clear-cut answer.
Rather than applying a fair use test, many other countries have specific exceptions to copyright infringement. The number and type of exceptions vary by country, but they frequently allow copyrighted materials to be used without permission from the copyright holder for activities such as nonprofit research, teaching, news reporting, or private study.
If you incorrectly decide that something is a fair use or falls into an exception to copyright infringement, you could be held criminally and civilly liable and have to pay damages. We suggest you talk to a lawyer if you have questions regarding fair uses of copyrighted works.
if you buy a computer in a box from a vendor, they put all the right stuff on your windows disc, so it will work like this, if you're using hardware that was made before windows was burned to the disc, and drivers are included, you are in luck... if you're using some bleeding edge hardware, or an old windows disc, or you built your own computer, this is not the case.
also when you say it's F8 you are correct for the safe-mode prompt, but when you're _installing_ windows (XP or 2000) setup to a hard drive controller not recognized by default, you need to press F6 quickly during the first part of the setup process, dig up an F6-Floppy (OEM install disk), and hope it's not corrupt (or make a fresh one) to install the hard-drive controller drivers...
Personally I think that Windows XP setup sucks, but I know it like the back of my hand, so it's easy...
Ubuntu setup from a LIVE cd sucks if it doesn't recognize your hardware, if it does, it's easier then WinXP...
Vista setup is better then XP by leaps, but when you're done, you're left with Vista... which can be less then ideal.
so that's the problem I've noticed with WMV files where the colour goes crazy and stuff, I thought it was some features of WMV not being fully implemented... but if I just need to remove ffmpeg... that's interesting.
If your configuration is correct, and those icons still appear... lol on this computer (my work machine) it doesn't show the icons any more... however, I'm a big right-drag user so it doesn't matter.
This would be cool, I don't know if anyone here enjoys mini-games inside of loading screens, but this could be equivalent, except instead of space invaders you could have a news or email ticker, or whatever.
As the parent suggests however, the ultimate solution would be some kind of *working* bare-metal virtualization, so you can run 2 operating systems at the same time, and ultimately close one (imagine alt-tabbing between different OS instead of just windows within one OS)
Kinda like range voting (I guess...) The range being -1 to 1 with 0 as "Don't care" so voting -1 for a candidate causes their overall score to go down, while voting 1 makes it go up, and 0 has no effect.
this allows a "disagree" vote as well as "agree"
you vote on each candidate in the list, if you don't care about one, your vote for that candidate is 0 and doesn't do anything.
tally it up and the candidate with the highest score wins...
well I think (that it has been stated a million times before) GIMP is great, but it's window management is a pain... that said, it's free, so you can't complain right?
Photoshop is weird and complex at times, but once you understand a few key concepts, it's not too hard. I started on Photoshop 5, and have used 5.5, 6 (yuck buggy as), 7, CS2 etc
I found 5.5 ok, but irritating to use text etc, 6 was similar but very buggy, 7 was very polished, works quite well... CS and higher, not much different, a little, but once you know 7 you can adapt.
The GIMP: I came at it from a Photoshop perspective, so found it strange at first, finally figured out how to do a few things, and am almost used to it... the one thing that really bugs me is the window management: a separate window for all the little toolbars... who's idiot idea was that?? so I try to alt-tab to another program, and there are like 4 or 5 little gimp windows!! arrgh, very irritating, it should be optional!!!
Dreamweaver: cool, but over-bloated rubbish, I always only used it for the code view.. and even that was overrated.. it's check-in/check-out was buggy, in fact the whole thing was SOO buggy, I wouldn't recommend it.. and this was 2004/2004MX... don't use it's "WYSIWYG" view!!
I have seen... around 6 monitors with power bricks.. was mostly the older LCDs... the newer ones have the "brick" included in the main case, which is nicer.. but it's still a brick.. just hidden...
ATI and Nvidia make the chips and specifications, and sometimes actual cards but not much, then the manufacturers assemble those designs and chips into actual products.. which are all made in places like Taiwan...
(see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia#Video_card_manufacturers)
so all "Nvidia" cards will be:
MSI
Gigabyte
ASUS
Leadtek
eVGA
XFX
BFG
etc...
etc...
etc...
ATI for a while was manufacturing it's own cards under it's own brand, but are much the same at the moment.
Reviews these days seem to estimate prices based on when the product will be available widely etc, and prices in the USA always seem to be lower...
I live in New Zealand, and prices here are ~$450+ NZD (~$345 USD) see http://www.pricespy.co.nz/pno_11782.html
Sorry I don't have an answer for you at this time.
I work for a company, our main product is very closely described by the article summary.
Given the size and complexity of our product, (which logs jobs then allows you to log labour and stock/parts against the job then tracks all that for invoicing later on plus numerous other features like Purchase Orders, Invoicing, reporting) I can see why there is no readily available Open-Source or free alternative... Sure there are issue and bug trackers which work quite well, when it comes to more complex features like job completion (and invoicing) these solutions turn to something else.
If anyone can find the killer application, I will be very interested to look into it, comparing it to our system.
So now you can buy a Celeron >1ghz, 256MB SO-DIMM, 40GB 2.5in HDD, 14inch LCD panel, a motherboard, a DVD drive, and all wrapped up in a working laptop casing for $150USD... hmmmm it doesn't take a genius to add up the price of all those components plus the cost to assemble them.
It would be more credible if it said "we're giving away free laptops from the goodness of our hearts"
And the title should be "Cheap laptop scam cashes in on OLPC idea" or some such
The Tech specs are ok but anyone know how much memory it has? I know it has 8 or 4GB of flash storage, but does it also use this as RAM, or does it have a "fast" RAM, say 64MB or something?
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When I use IE7 (which I do at work for our internal software site)
I miss these features most:
1. Find bar (the search _within_ this page), IE7 is still using the popup-find-dialog-which-is-annoying
2. "Awesome" bar address bar (FF3 only, if you have not tried it, please do, I find it useful)
3. Spell-checking built in to text areas (minor, but handy)
4. Default menus in normal places and back/forward/stop buttons in logical/standard places.
Has anyone tried this beta?
Are any of these things fixed/improved?
Or is it just useless things like web slices etc...
that would get disconnected??
In Soviet Russia, MSDN navigates you!
More FUD from the TOU document:
What about fair use?
In limited situations, you can use copyrighted works without permission from the copyright holder. It can be difficult to figure out whether use of copyrighted works without permission is legal, though, because the laws in this area are often vague and vary from country to country.
The copyright law in the United States has a doctrine called "fair use". Fair use provides a defense to copyright infringement in some circumstances. For example, fair use allows documentary filmmakers to use very short clips of copyrighted movies, music and news footage without permission from the copyright owner. Fair use is a difficult concept because determining whether something is a fair use involves weighing four factors. Unfortunately, weighing the fair use factors rarely results in a clear-cut answer.
Rather than applying a fair use test, many other countries have specific exceptions to copyright infringement. The number and type of exceptions vary by country, but they frequently allow copyrighted materials to be used without permission from the copyright holder for activities such as nonprofit research, teaching, news reporting, or private study.
If you incorrectly decide that something is a fair use or falls into an exception to copyright infringement, you could be held criminally and civilly liable and have to pay damages. We suggest you talk to a lawyer if you have questions regarding fair uses of copyrighted works.
hmm
if you buy a computer in a box from a vendor, they put all the right stuff on your windows disc, so it will work like this, if you're using hardware that was made before windows was burned to the disc, and drivers are included, you are in luck... if you're using some bleeding edge hardware, or an old windows disc, or you built your own computer, this is not the case.
also when you say it's F8 you are correct for the safe-mode prompt, but when you're _installing_ windows (XP or 2000) setup to a hard drive controller not recognized by default, you need to press F6 quickly during the first part of the setup process, dig up an F6-Floppy (OEM install disk), and hope it's not corrupt (or make a fresh one) to install the hard-drive controller drivers...
Personally I think that Windows XP setup sucks, but I know it like the back of my hand, so it's easy...
Ubuntu setup from a LIVE cd sucks if it doesn't recognize your hardware, if it does, it's easier then WinXP...
Vista setup is better then XP by leaps, but when you're done, you're left with Vista... which can be less then ideal.
my 2 cents
so that's the problem I've noticed with WMV files where the colour goes crazy and stuff, I thought it was some features of WMV not being fully implemented... but if I just need to remove ffmpeg... that's interesting.
They are waiting until the release of Windows 7 for this feature.
Then they will release GNOME 2.6 with new terminal transitions, fading and animated letters in gnome-terminal!
I just wish that the file chooser was like a mini-nautilus... file previews, rename, delete, etc
ah ha!! thank you
I had filed a bug regarding the non-functioning OK button, but this solves it, I just need to navigate in and out of the folder?
Sweet... Now if only they would implement drag-and-drop.. you know like a GUI metaphor invented decades ago...
This is the same problem with another application, I can't remember now, but you had to choose another folder first before it would respond...
yet again, the main thing wrong with GNOME: file choosers
- Decent seeking (e.g. accurate and not buggy like totems "look it's stuck to my mouse" seekbar)
- No annoying separate video and control windows... what the hell is up with that?
- Fullscreen that works well with double-click and a key (totem works fine here under metacity, and sometimes under compiz)
overall, with totem-xine (in Ubuntu 7.10), everything is well, except:If your configuration is correct, and those icons still appear... lol on this computer (my work machine) it doesn't show the icons any more... however, I'm a big right-drag user so it doesn't matter.
This would be cool, I don't know if anyone here enjoys mini-games inside of loading screens, but this could be equivalent, except instead of space invaders you could have a news or email ticker, or whatever.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loading_screen#Minigames
As the parent suggests however, the ultimate solution would be some kind of *working* bare-metal virtualization, so you can run 2 operating systems at the same time, and ultimately close one (imagine alt-tabbing between different OS instead of just windows within one OS)
Kinda like range voting (I guess...)
The range being -1 to 1 with 0 as "Don't care"
so voting -1 for a candidate causes their overall score to go down, while voting 1 makes it go up, and 0 has no effect.
this allows a "disagree" vote as well as "agree"
you vote on each candidate in the list, if you don't care about one, your vote for that candidate is 0 and doesn't do anything.
tally it up and the candidate with the highest score wins...
Whaddya think?
yes, but does it run linux at mach 5?
well I think (that it has been stated a million times before) GIMP is great, but it's window management is a pain... that said, it's free, so you can't complain right?
Photoshop is weird and complex at times, but once you understand a few key concepts, it's not too hard. I started on Photoshop 5, and have used 5.5, 6 (yuck buggy as), 7, CS2 etc
I found 5.5 ok, but irritating to use text etc, 6 was similar but very buggy, 7 was very polished, works quite well... CS and higher, not much different, a little, but once you know 7 you can adapt.
The GIMP: I came at it from a Photoshop perspective, so found it strange at first, finally figured out how to do a few things, and am almost used to it... the one thing that really bugs me is the window management: a separate window for all the little toolbars... who's idiot idea was that?? so I try to alt-tab to another program, and there are like 4 or 5 little gimp windows!! arrgh, very irritating, it should be optional!!!
Dreamweaver: cool, but over-bloated rubbish, I always only used it for the code view.. and even that was overrated.. it's check-in/check-out was buggy, in fact the whole thing was SOO buggy, I wouldn't recommend it.. and this was 2004/2004MX... don't use it's "WYSIWYG" view!!
oh well, that's my 2 cents.
I have seen... around 6 monitors with power bricks.. was mostly the older LCDs... the newer ones have the "brick" included in the main case, which is nicer.. but it's still a brick.. just hidden...
ATI and Nvidia make the chips and specifications, and sometimes actual cards but not much, then the manufacturers assemble those designs and chips into actual products.. which are all made in places like Taiwan...
(see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia#Video_card_manufacturers)
so all "Nvidia" cards will be:
MSI
Gigabyte
ASUS
Leadtek
eVGA
XFX
BFG
etc...
etc...
etc...
ATI for a while was manufacturing it's own cards under it's own brand, but are much the same at the moment.
Reviews these days seem to estimate prices based on when the product will be available widely etc, and prices in the USA always seem to be lower...
I live in New Zealand, and prices here are ~$450+ NZD (~$345 USD) see http://www.pricespy.co.nz/pno_11782.html
Sorry I don't have an answer for you at this time.
I work for a company, our main product is very closely described by the article summary.
Given the size and complexity of our product, (which logs jobs then allows you to log labour and stock/parts against the job then tracks all that for invoicing later on plus numerous other features like Purchase Orders, Invoicing, reporting) I can see why there is no readily available Open-Source or free alternative... Sure there are issue and bug trackers which work quite well, when it comes to more complex features like job completion (and invoicing) these solutions turn to something else.
If anyone can find the killer application, I will be very interested to look into it, comparing it to our system.
So now you can buy a Celeron >1ghz, 256MB SO-DIMM, 40GB 2.5in HDD, 14inch LCD panel, a motherboard, a DVD drive, and all wrapped up in a working laptop casing for $150USD...
hmmmm it doesn't take a genius to add up the price of all those components plus the cost to assemble them.
It would be more credible if it said "we're giving away free laptops from the goodness of our hearts"
And the title should be "Cheap laptop scam cashes in on OLPC idea" or some such
List of computer components (speeds per second):
I have for a fact at least these "fully" installed:
- Mozilla FireFox (fairly common you would think.)
- FileZilla (an FTP client)
- Pidgin (used to be gaim)
un-impressed by the tool.. It's most impressive feature appears to be sorting by file size, WOW!The Tech specs are ok but anyone know how much memory it has?
I know it has 8 or 4GB of flash storage, but does it also use this as RAM, or does it have a "fast" RAM, say 64MB or something?