FAST is a search engine designed for searching unstructured data files such as word and email folders Maybe Microsoft could apply it to their whole Windows OS's, files seem to be scattered in no logical places all over the drive. \Windows \Documents and settings \My Documents to name three locations that Microsoft decided to scatter user files, and that doesn't even take into account if you keep your files on another partition or drive all together, because it still shoves some of your documents in those three folders for no logical reason.
How about a DECENT Skype application for Linux (and a 64 bit version at that). Surely PSP's have an even lower usage rate then Linux, and yet Linux gets a pretty crapified feature-less 32 bit version compared to the Windows one.
- HiDef is expensive... tick - HiDef is fighting with HiDef*... tick - HiDef for the average user gives no gain... tick - HiDef cannot be (in theory) copied to your MP3 player to watch the movie on the player... tick - For computers, HiDef only works on that abomination called Vista... tick - HiDef disks (pressed or recordable) are expensive... tick - One HiDef format is backed by Microsoft... tick - Neither HiDef format has a "cool" name... tick
Now with all those ticks, let's all rush out and buy into the HD format.
Or, you could stick to what you have now, and rip** the DVD for your MP3 player to watch on, not have to get into the whole "this cable is not compatible with this type of HD content" crap, not get into "you machine thinks you're really a hacker and your new hardware has decided to offer you shitty vision" instead of what you paid for, not have to worry about full HD pixel ratios or interlaced / progressive video, and not have producers enforce region coding (cartel protection).
* I bought superior Betamax, don't want that kinda purchase again. ** in some places legally.
Maybe Sony could sue themselves for making the music, then also making the hardware that enables to rip the audio, and recordable CD's / DVD's / Memory sticks to record it to?
These companies want to have their cake and eat it. When will the courts see this?
I have had no problems using the updates rather than full clean installs for about 2 years (even using from the cooker archives) until the change in 2008.0 when Mandriva switched from using Beryl to Compiz-fusion, man did that trash my display setup comprehensively.
It also did not help that the naming convention for the kernel changed from kernel to kernel-desktop, then because of the new naming the kernel-sources had problems interacting with kernel-desktop and stopped the install of the nVidia graphics driver.
Install a huge change like KDE4, I think I'll wait.
Or the non-existant opt-out for your confidential medical records being know to millions of bribeable public sector workers... private investigators, crooks etc.. http://www.nhsconfidentiality.org/?page_id=3
So on your mobile phone you could have the following scenario.
1. Please select if you want tea/coffee? 2. Do you want that in regular / half-caf / decaf? 3. You you want milk/extra cream with that? 4. Do you want more than one of the same drink? 5. Do you want to add other drinks to the order... 6....
We're sorry, your phone experienced a buffer overflow with the order number, get to a web browser on iamlazy.pointlessuseoftechnology.com and type the unique order number 659876543649746549876531 and it will be ready for you in store. Have a nice day.
Maybe we could get good sound quality if the music "engineers" of today stopped the bloody awful use of dynamic compression to make music sound louder, and kill all the other natural frequencies of instruments in the process.
At least my classical music collection is RIAA free.
I find these bits more interesting in the story...
The problem is to do with the power-saving systems on Seagate's latest range of drives and the fact that it is shipped already formatted to NTFS. Okay, it's easy to format a drive, but why it is pre-formatted to NTFS?
A kindly Reg reader tipped us off that the remote-access HDD won't share media files over network connections. Which is, as you can see here, the entire stinking point of it.
It's a scary world full of potentially unlicensed media. We're fortunate there's a hard drive vendor willing to step forward and do some indiscriminate policing for us.
From the WD site:
"Due to unverifiable media license authentication, the most common audio and video file types cannot be shared with different users using WD Anywhere Access."
WD's list of banned file types encompasses over 35 extensions. This includes AAC, MP3, AVI, DivX, WMV, and Quicktime files. And why not -- Windows TMP files too.
Looks like there's something going on to push Windows as the only OS, leaving Linux and the rest up a creek with no hard drives at this rate. This is very disturbing.
The UK government already gave the criminals* 25 million records of peoples personal information, including their "national insurance" numbers, bank account details, names, addresses, ages of people etc. etc.
In the UK, applying for a passport _now_ gets around the UK's ID card laws and it's Nazi-esque data gathering, oh, and is considerably cheaper now compared to IF the ID cards ever come into existence.
Well, I cancelled my summer holiday to Japan, a country I always wanted to visit. I will not visit a country that treats a visitor like a common criminal, which is why I don't go to the U.S. any more either. The countries that are doing this are losing out on tourist money - tough sh*t!!!
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Just wait until the politicians hear about this, then apply it to campaign contributions...
Isn't recycling heat called "thermal runaway" and the last thing you want in a processor :-) ?
How about a DECENT Skype application for Linux (and a 64 bit version at that). Surely PSP's have an even lower usage rate then Linux, and yet Linux gets a pretty crapified feature-less 32 bit version compared to the Windows one.
Telescopes are there to look back into the past... maybe Bill wants to see where Windows Vista went wrong?
I have to say, it really is a super-computer, great for learning on.
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=602
(Link might not work so look at google cached copy from following URL)
http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:HkrZrUYOXy8J:www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp%3Fc%3D602+old+computers+hektor&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1
Okay, not the EXACT same machine, but they sound the same.
Free information is dangerous to governments, it allows them to be voted out.
- HiDef is expensive... tick
- HiDef is fighting with HiDef*... tick
- HiDef for the average user gives no gain... tick
- HiDef cannot be (in theory) copied to your MP3 player to watch the movie on the player... tick
- For computers, HiDef only works on that abomination called Vista... tick
- HiDef disks (pressed or recordable) are expensive... tick
- One HiDef format is backed by Microsoft... tick
- Neither HiDef format has a "cool" name... tick
Now with all those ticks, let's all rush out and buy into the HD format.
Or, you could stick to what you have now, and rip** the DVD for your MP3 player to watch on, not have to get into the whole "this cable is not compatible with this type of HD content" crap, not get into "you machine thinks you're really a hacker and your new hardware has decided to offer you shitty vision" instead of what you paid for, not have to worry about full HD pixel ratios or interlaced / progressive video, and not have producers enforce region coding (cartel protection).
* I bought superior Betamax, don't want that kinda purchase again.
** in some places legally.
Maybe Sony could sue themselves for making the music, then also making the hardware that enables to rip the audio, and recordable CD's / DVD's / Memory sticks to record it to?
These companies want to have their cake and eat it. When will the courts see this?
I have had no problems using the updates rather than full clean installs for about 2 years (even using from the cooker archives) until the change in 2008.0 when Mandriva switched from using Beryl to Compiz-fusion, man did that trash my display setup comprehensively.
It also did not help that the naming convention for the kernel changed from kernel to kernel-desktop, then because of the new naming the kernel-sources had problems interacting with kernel-desktop and stopped the install of the nVidia graphics driver.
Install a huge change like KDE4, I think I'll wait.
Personally, I prefer closed standards instead of the open pursued by government under the lie of being "for your benefit" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7158498.stm
Or the non-existant opt-out for your confidential medical records being know to millions of bribeable public sector workers... private investigators, crooks etc..
http://www.nhsconfidentiality.org/?page_id=3
Mandriva / Mandrake went from a yearly release back to 6 months due to user demand. When it went to the yearly release people didn't like it.
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/21/2348253
So on your mobile phone you could have the following scenario.
...
1. Please select if you want tea/coffee?
2. Do you want that in regular / half-caf / decaf?
3. You you want milk/extra cream with that?
4. Do you want more than one of the same drink?
5. Do you want to add other drinks to the order...
6.
We're sorry, your phone experienced a buffer overflow with the order number, get to a web browser on iamlazy.pointlessuseoftechnology.com and type the unique order number 659876543649746549876531 and it will be ready for you in store. Have a nice day.
Maybe we could get good sound quality if the music "engineers" of today stopped the bloody awful use of dynamic compression to make music sound louder, and kill all the other natural frequencies of instruments in the process.
At least my classical music collection is RIAA free.
Of course there's more to CD's cost than the CD itself. There's all those holidays... I mean recording sessions in the Bahamas to pay for.
The only filtering needed is those of the financial type to our politicians, then we see who lobbied for what laws.
The only thing that should be certified are Vista users.
Never mind the Turing test, does it pass the GW.Bush intelligent conversation test?
And when combined with this story: http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/12/07/western_digital_drm_crippled_harddrive/
A kindly Reg reader tipped us off that the remote-access HDD won't share media files over network connections. Which is, as you can see here, the entire stinking point of it.
It's a scary world full of potentially unlicensed media. We're fortunate there's a hard drive vendor willing to step forward and do some indiscriminate policing for us.
From the WD site:
"Due to unverifiable media license authentication, the most common audio and video file types cannot be shared with different users using WD Anywhere Access."
WD's list of banned file types encompasses over 35 extensions. This includes AAC, MP3, AVI, DivX, WMV, and Quicktime files. And why not -- Windows TMP files too.
Looks like there's something going on to push Windows as the only OS, leaving Linux and the rest up a creek with no hard drives at this rate. This is very disturbing.At least MARQUEE had it's uses, what use did BLINK have? You'd come across sites where most the page was blinking. It was blinking awful.
The UK government already gave the criminals* 25 million records of peoples personal information, including their "national insurance" numbers, bank account details, names, addresses, ages of people etc. etc.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7103566.stm
* The government deny it, but the missing CD's have not turned up, so you must assume the worst.
In the UK, applying for a passport _now_ gets around the UK's ID card laws and it's Nazi-esque data gathering, oh, and is considerably cheaper now compared to IF the ID cards ever come into existence.
As for this security flaw, there was a similar one found a few months ago in the UK's own online visa applications system http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/business_money/online+visa+security+flaw/517157 . Maybe they hired the same idiot programmers?
Oh my goodness, what have they done to the kicker bar? It now looks like that cr@p in Microsoft Vista!
Can the kicker be reduced in width / not fixed to 100% and be made transparent? The thing is hideously ugly.
Well, I cancelled my summer holiday to Japan, a country I always wanted to visit. I will not visit a country that treats a visitor like a common criminal, which is why I don't go to the U.S. any more either. The countries that are doing this are losing out on tourist money - tough sh*t!!!