My desktop is a year old and it's got firewire, my brand new laptop has firewire, and in every review I see for a motherboard - it includes firewire.
Just because a standard is *starting* to fade off doesn't mean it's a good way for you to save some money on your machines. PCI Express has been around for years now and PCI is still around. Not because it's necessary but because manufacturers know that people have old PCI cards and they want to use them.
Look at how long parallel ports and PS/2 ports have lasted. People have been using USB printers, mice, and keyboards for the last 5 years and yet those ports still show up. You're just now regularly seeing machines that don't include some or all of those. Apple is just being cheap and/or lazy here and their customers are justifiably upset.
It's got its uses... just like the limited Linux "instant on" laptops that let you watch DVDs. It's handy on a trip. You can watch a movie without anything else consuming battery life but the resources necessary to watch your flick.
I knew a guy that was so proud of the uptime of one of his servers that he actually used a battery backup and a cart to move the thing when he had to move it as part of a remodel. I don't remember the exact number of days but he was into the year+ range as well.
I realize you're being sarcastic but I don't know who all these people are that are waiting 5 minutes for Windows to start. I've got both Vista and XP and neither takes more than a minute to boot, tops. If it's taking longer than that... maybe it's time for you to clean out some of the crapware you've got on there.
I'm going to go cry in a corner because of how absolutely right you are and how horribly depressing that is. The last line in particular pretty much sums up the last 7 years.
Version numbers have lost a lot of their meaning. We've been on version 2 of my company's product for something like 6 years. We just keep on increasing the minor and subrevision numbers.
Personally I think it's sort of crazy. The version number inevitably ends up being obsolete in no time. FireFox was just released and it's already 3.0.3... but no one is going to call it that. They're just going to call it FF3. I think the same holds true for pretty much all other products.
You should just compromise and version your product using the year it's released and then just attach a build number to it based on the date. If you actually plan on releasing significantly different versions during the year you can follow the lead of the component design firms and do something like 2008.1 (or 2009.1 if you won't be releasing this year).
These numbers sound completely insane. There's no way they're even close to right. They wouldn't have taken the actions they did just to save.2% of their sales. It's just like Netflix claiming that no one used multiple profiles so they were getting rid of them... Netflix may have had a little bit more of a leg to stand on because they could actually query their database and figure out how many people were using that feature... but in the end they still realized that getting rid of the feature was a terrible mistake. Obviously anything they thought they'd gain was far outweighed by the number of people they were worried about losing.
EA is just making crap up at this point to save face. "Oh yeah, our DRM sucks but no one really cares that much." Reality check EA - All of us geek types care, and we're the same people that blacklisted Vista. If you think our friends and family don't listen to us when we tell them not to buy something - you're wrong.
It is naive of you to hope for this part, though. Good luck with that.
No doubt man... presidential candidates never even keep the hundreds of promises they throw out there while they're actually speaking. Getting them to actually do something about a minor annoyance that affected them for all of a few months while they were running - not likely. We can dream though I suppose...
Oh you know that kid is going to be expensive!!! Burning through food like you wouldn't believe. And good luck keeping clothes on that thing! You'd best start denying you're the father. Make a run for it son!
Ugh it seems like nothing works on 64bit. I finally gave up and built a dual boot system just so that I could actually run half of my applications. All this in spite of the fact that I've read multiple articles / rumors about Windows 7 being 64bit only. Which... given how things went with Vista and people complaining about backward compatibility and driver issues... I don't even see happening anymore. Which is sad, because 32 bit needs to be given the axe.
I think there's a common misconception about Silverlight not being multiplatform... I haven't tried it on Mac but I've heard it works. I've also run it in FireFox quite a few times without any trouble. Personally I'm just happy to see Flash get a little competition.
Win-Tab / Win-shit-tab lets you go through the items on your taskbar like you would with alt-tab.
The others that I use like Win-R, etc have already been listed. I'm not saying I think it's the best invention ever, those obviously could have been implemented other ways, just that it's not useless.
I agree. Most college students are already getting laptops so that they can take them to class. Is there really a time when having Internet access via your phone rather than your laptop (which you have with you in your backpack all day everyday anyway) is going to be more helpful? I doubt it. Just sounds like a white elephant gift to me... Here's a "free" phone - good luck paying the monthly fee while you're a student. Guess that's what student loans are for now?
True that. It used to drive me crazy in my disc changer that different discs would have wildly different volumes. I'd listen to an older CD on half-volume on my stereo and then it'd put on the next CD and it'd be deafening. Ridiculous. You lose all of the fidelity. RIAA types don't care though... they don't make music, they make money.
Yeah, which is lame because I've been using those for years. They're actually really handy in certain situations....And that's for legitimate web app work, not spamtastic garbage. In fact if the changes they make are sweeping enough it may break some of my old code... yay.
Re: IE for banking - I know some banking sites weren't compatible with FF for a loooong time. I'm still not sure if BofA's site is. It can be frustrating.
Undoubtedly. If they really cared they'd go ahead and replace everyone's craptastic DRM'd tracks with the new DRM free MP3s they're selling. But they won't. So, you know, maybe the people that bought them in the first place will have learned their lesson.
No, he got her password reset. All this bs about the password being "popcorn" - that's what he SET the password to. He used public information to answer her security questions and reset her password. That's what gave him access to her account.
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My desktop is a year old and it's got firewire, my brand new laptop has firewire, and in every review I see for a motherboard - it includes firewire.
Just because a standard is *starting* to fade off doesn't mean it's a good way for you to save some money on your machines. PCI Express has been around for years now and PCI is still around. Not because it's necessary but because manufacturers know that people have old PCI cards and they want to use them.
Look at how long parallel ports and PS/2 ports have lasted. People have been using USB printers, mice, and keyboards for the last 5 years and yet those ports still show up. You're just now regularly seeing machines that don't include some or all of those. Apple is just being cheap and/or lazy here and their customers are justifiably upset.
It's got its uses... just like the limited Linux "instant on" laptops that let you watch DVDs. It's handy on a trip. You can watch a movie without anything else consuming battery life but the resources necessary to watch your flick.
I knew a guy that was so proud of the uptime of one of his servers that he actually used a battery backup and a cart to move the thing when he had to move it as part of a remodel. I don't remember the exact number of days but he was into the year+ range as well.
I realize you're being sarcastic but I don't know who all these people are that are waiting 5 minutes for Windows to start. I've got both Vista and XP and neither takes more than a minute to boot, tops. If it's taking longer than that... maybe it's time for you to clean out some of the crapware you've got on there.
I'm going to go cry in a corner because of how absolutely right you are and how horribly depressing that is. The last line in particular pretty much sums up the last 7 years.
Spiderpig, Spiderpig,
Does what ever a spiderpig does.
Can he swing, from a web?
No he cant, he's a pig.
Look out, he is a spiderpig
Version numbers have lost a lot of their meaning. We've been on version 2 of my company's product for something like 6 years. We just keep on increasing the minor and subrevision numbers.
Personally I think it's sort of crazy. The version number inevitably ends up being obsolete in no time. FireFox was just released and it's already 3.0.3... but no one is going to call it that. They're just going to call it FF3. I think the same holds true for pretty much all other products.
You should just compromise and version your product using the year it's released and then just attach a build number to it based on the date. If you actually plan on releasing significantly different versions during the year you can follow the lead of the component design firms and do something like 2008.1 (or 2009.1 if you won't be releasing this year).
These numbers sound completely insane. There's no way they're even close to right. They wouldn't have taken the actions they did just to save .2% of their sales. It's just like Netflix claiming that no one used multiple profiles so they were getting rid of them... Netflix may have had a little bit more of a leg to stand on because they could actually query their database and figure out how many people were using that feature... but in the end they still realized that getting rid of the feature was a terrible mistake. Obviously anything they thought they'd gain was far outweighed by the number of people they were worried about losing.
EA is just making crap up at this point to save face. "Oh yeah, our DRM sucks but no one really cares that much." Reality check EA - All of us geek types care, and we're the same people that blacklisted Vista. If you think our friends and family don't listen to us when we tell them not to buy something - you're wrong.
Yeah, and apparently you have to stop using .NET to use F#... even though, you know, it's a .net language. Summary and article are both jacked.
It is naive of you to hope for this part, though. Good luck with that.
No doubt man... presidential candidates never even keep the hundreds of promises they throw out there while they're actually speaking. Getting them to actually do something about a minor annoyance that affected them for all of a few months while they were running - not likely. We can dream though I suppose...
Oh you know that kid is going to be expensive!!! Burning through food like you wouldn't believe. And good luck keeping clothes on that thing! You'd best start denying you're the father. Make a run for it son!
Screw that. I'm pointing that thing at the nearest ant mound. Magnifying glasses are soooo third grade. Best ant cooking device ever!
Ugh it seems like nothing works on 64bit. I finally gave up and built a dual boot system just so that I could actually run half of my applications. All this in spite of the fact that I've read multiple articles / rumors about Windows 7 being 64bit only. Which... given how things went with Vista and people complaining about backward compatibility and driver issues... I don't even see happening anymore. Which is sad, because 32 bit needs to be given the axe.
Ugh, yeah, no 64bit flash = horribly lame. Particularly when you come across websites whose navigation is composed entirely of flash... real fun.
Flash is multi platfrom...
I think there's a common misconception about Silverlight not being multiplatform... I haven't tried it on Mac but I've heard it works. I've also run it in FireFox quite a few times without any trouble. Personally I'm just happy to see Flash get a little competition.
The others that I use like Win-R, etc have already been listed. I'm not saying I think it's the best invention ever, those obviously could have been implemented other ways, just that it's not useless.
I agree. Most college students are already getting laptops so that they can take them to class. Is there really a time when having Internet access via your phone rather than your laptop (which you have with you in your backpack all day everyday anyway) is going to be more helpful? I doubt it. Just sounds like a white elephant gift to me... Here's a "free" phone - good luck paying the monthly fee while you're a student. Guess that's what student loans are for now?
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True that. It used to drive me crazy in my disc changer that different discs would have wildly different volumes. I'd listen to an older CD on half-volume on my stereo and then it'd put on the next CD and it'd be deafening. Ridiculous. You lose all of the fidelity. RIAA types don't care though... they don't make music, they make money.
Poor lil' Jon. He must have used headphones a lot... by the time he realized he was losing his hearing, it was too late.
Yeah, which is lame because I've been using those for years. They're actually really handy in certain situations. ...And that's for legitimate web app work, not spamtastic garbage. In fact if the changes they make are sweeping enough it may break some of my old code... yay.
Re: IE for banking - I know some banking sites weren't compatible with FF for a loooong time. I'm still not sure if BofA's site is. It can be frustrating.
A robotic suit that reads brain signals and helps (nerds) with (self defense) problems.
This suit is now the ultimate power in the universe!
Undoubtedly. If they really cared they'd go ahead and replace everyone's craptastic DRM'd tracks with the new DRM free MP3s they're selling. But they won't. So, you know, maybe the people that bought them in the first place will have learned their lesson.
No, he got her password reset. All this bs about the password being "popcorn" - that's what he SET the password to. He used public information to answer her security questions and reset her password. That's what gave him access to her account.