But that's not quite what it is - it's a tree of everything that decided to put stuff there. If you manually dragged an exe to Program Files, no show. If some uninstaller didn't remember the shortcut, you have a dead link. Worse, it's an idea decidedly rooted in a single-user machine, so exterminating an entry means looking in a few different places that they added to accommodate multiple users.
Those are all really Windows XP complaints though. I don't have these problems with Win 7, other than the couple of lingering tools I use with no Windows installer. The combination of MS's open source installer tools (WIX) and the "side by side" fix for DLL Hell means almost everything has proper packaging in Windows now.
I'm forced to use Win 8 in a couple of places myself - thank goodness for Classic Shell!
There are many places, gone now, that never had anything but heavy industry. But Detroit used to have more, much like e.g. Chicago. It turned itself into Gary Indiana.
I see a lot of potential for servers, where I want status information displayed on the desktop. There are many hacks to display static stuff like machine name and IP address in use today, but adding real-time server health info would be nice. It's rare to connect directly to the desktop on a server, but when you do it's nice to have everything you typically care about pre-packaged for you.
In general, live tiles are good for machines you don't often use directly that often, or use for displaying some specific set of info. Of course, you could just run a couple of apps in windows and tile them and get the same effect: live tiles are just an optimization of that.
" I'm not going to live my life worrying over what someone else might correctly or incorrectly assume about me based on my vehicle choice."
You drive a Saturn, right? That's what a Saturn says about you. Acura is the closest thing left now that Saturn's gone. Didn't you mention your other car was an Acura? Don't worry, you're sending the signals you want to send based on your choice of cars.
I have one remote for everything: my wireless mouse. My TV is just the display for my "media PC" (actually a laptop). Everything I watch is easily controlled that way. I can browse my media library through an actual file manager, not some "tiles" BS nonsense. If I need to actually search on Netflix I'll have to grab my keyboard, but that's rare. My favorite radio stations are all online now. What more could I want?
Now, this wouldn't work if I were foolish enough to send some damn cable company $100/month for "nothing on", but fuck cable companies.
The best part is, when I occasionally travel, I just take that laptop with me, plus an HDMI cable to connect to the TV in the hotel room if needed. Quite handy.
I was replying to the guy driving a Prius, specifically.
The SF Smart Car thing is just part of the rage against tech workers.
It's like getting mad at somebody for choosing a plaid shirt over one with stripes.
There are still people who won't do business with you if you choose a brown shirt. Statements matter.
As Oscar Wilde once said "only a shallow person doesn't judge on first appearances". People behave in predicable ways. We can lament that, but not change it. Any observant person knows that first appearances matter; they make your basic statement of what subculture you belong to. Choose wisely.
I like the start menu for what it is: a comprehensive tree of everything I have installed, including all the rarely used stuff. But it wasn't great for what I'd use often.
I really like where Win 7 ended up. The stuff I use every day is on my task bar, and once I launch it all, the order of the task bar is fixed, much to the delight of my muscle memory.
The stuff I use once a week or so, I can put in the short list in my start menu. The rest is still browseable (and easy to organize if I care to), and searchable, whichever makes it easier to find that one program I installed a year ago and suddenly I need.
Windows Explorer / file manager seems to have gotten worse every release since Windows 95. It's amazing.
Any good open source file manager replacements for Windows out there (Classic Shell does give you some good options). I know I wrote a working file manager back when I wanted to teach myself Winforms - wonder if I still have the source somewhere.
There hasn't been a decline in American manufacturing capacity, only in manufacturing jobs. That decline was felt in every older US city - what made Detroit so special? The history there is really quite clear.
The US middle class has nothing to do with manufacturing any more. Most US cities made the switch along with the overall US economy, welcoming those with modern middle class jobs. But Detroit chose not to do that: Detroit chose poorly.
I wonder if it's third worlders... jealous of white man's technology...
Oh, wait... that was 'racist' of me, wasn't it. Pointing out the truth - that non-whites hate their own kind, and will do anything to live around 'racists' - sorry - whites...
Well, being factually incorrect in racial claims does make you appear racist. The "third world immigrants" in Silly Valley are upper middle class, for the most part. There's a reason that the average income of Hindus is far and away the highest of any religion in America (well into 6 figures).
In the US, cars inevitably make a statement about you. Sorry, it's not just about functionality. You chose the overlap of hipster, hippie, and really slow driver, so you should only expect some people to be unhappy with you.
Plus, for greatly extended life we have to solve both problems: system decline and telemorase countdown. Criticizing this breakthrough because it only addresses one of the major problems would be quite silly. Congrats to the researchers!
Well, it's a start. I doubt I'm unique in that I won't be happy until I get a proper, Win 7 Start menu back, at least as an option. Live tiles on my desktop would be nice too.
Basically, give me back the Win 7 UI with the ability to put live tiles on the desktop, and run apps in a windows. Remember "windows"? Call be weird, but I'd like a version of Windows with, you know, windows.
Detroit was once a very nice city. This exact sort of behavior made Detroit the smoking crater it is today. If you drive everyone with money away from your tax base, there won't be anything left. There was a deliberate effort in Detroit's case, and while it took a decade or more to drive out the middle class, and another couple decades to run out of money, it was inevitable from just a few years in.
Hopefully, everything good will make it into the digital domain eventually. I like jazz myself, and the vast world of older recordings there is slowly, gradually, becoming digital. KCSM has one of the larger jazz libraries in the world and has started to long process of digitizing everything. Copyright will interfere, of course, but I'm hopeful that they can at least digitize-and-preserve their catalog, and eventually it will all trickle out.
(BTW, accurate is easy these days if you don't mind headphones, and even for speakers prices are reasonable if you don't care about efficiency.)
*crackle* I can sure *pop* hear the *snap* difference in *crackle* vinyl myself.
As vinyl ages, you lose the high octave with a curve that a lot of people like the sound of. Tube home amplifiers distort sound in a very similar way, that a lot of people like the sound of. There's surely a difference, but I prefer music mastered to be listened to accurately.
You can only hear up to like 20k Herz. But there are so called overtones, multiples of the base frequency. In this case 40k, 60k, 80k 100k etc. No human is able to hear 40k and above frequencies, but we all can hear if a 20k frequency is combined with an 40k overtone, or an 100k overtone even. Modern lossy compression algorithms cut off these overtones (as the overtone itself is unhearable)... nevertheless we can hear if it is 'there' or not.
Completely false. Often repeated. But completely, utterly false.
The human ear can only make out an amplitude rise equivalent to a ~20k Hz sine wave (lower as you age). No amount of "overtones," monster cables, or megahertz sampling will change the ability of the hairs inside the ear to move/accelerate only so fast. The ear is mechanically band limited.
Meh, most promises of "buy our shit and you'll come out ahead on your utility bills" are blatant scams. Maybe these guys are legit, but I'd give em a heck of a lot of scrutiny. What's the fine print in the contract? What happens to your roof if they go under? What happens when the city outlaws selling power back to the grid because of bribery?
I prefer simplicity to penny pinching. If I own it all, with someone offering the service/maintenance for a reasonable price, that's much more clear.
All hippie environ-wenie BS aside, the only true appeal of home solar is independence. Trading one master for another to get power is pointless. Powering your own house and car with your own equipment in a true "off the grid" way would be awesome, inspirational even. But home solar isn't quite there yet - tantalizingly close, mind you.
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But that's not quite what it is - it's a tree of everything that decided to put stuff there. If you manually dragged an exe to Program Files, no show. If some uninstaller didn't remember the shortcut, you have a dead link. Worse, it's an idea decidedly rooted in a single-user machine, so exterminating an entry means looking in a few different places that they added to accommodate multiple users.
Those are all really Windows XP complaints though. I don't have these problems with Win 7, other than the couple of lingering tools I use with no Windows installer. The combination of MS's open source installer tools (WIX) and the "side by side" fix for DLL Hell means almost everything has proper packaging in Windows now.
I'm forced to use Win 8 in a couple of places myself - thank goodness for Classic Shell!
There are many places, gone now, that never had anything but heavy industry. But Detroit used to have more, much like e.g. Chicago. It turned itself into Gary Indiana.
I see a lot of potential for servers, where I want status information displayed on the desktop. There are many hacks to display static stuff like machine name and IP address in use today, but adding real-time server health info would be nice. It's rare to connect directly to the desktop on a server, but when you do it's nice to have everything you typically care about pre-packaged for you.
In general, live tiles are good for machines you don't often use directly that often, or use for displaying some specific set of info. Of course, you could just run a couple of apps in windows and tile them and get the same effect: live tiles are just an optimization of that.
Wow, that's a classic /. troll. A real blast from the past. Nostalgia-ing hard here. Thank you, sir troll, for the reminder of /.'s better days.
" I'm not going to live my life worrying over what someone else might correctly or incorrectly assume about me based on my vehicle choice."
You drive a Saturn, right? That's what a Saturn says about you. Acura is the closest thing left now that Saturn's gone. Didn't you mention your other car was an Acura? Don't worry, you're sending the signals you want to send based on your choice of cars.
I have one remote for everything: my wireless mouse. My TV is just the display for my "media PC" (actually a laptop). Everything I watch is easily controlled that way. I can browse my media library through an actual file manager, not some "tiles" BS nonsense. If I need to actually search on Netflix I'll have to grab my keyboard, but that's rare. My favorite radio stations are all online now. What more could I want?
Now, this wouldn't work if I were foolish enough to send some damn cable company $100/month for "nothing on", but fuck cable companies.
The best part is, when I occasionally travel, I just take that laptop with me, plus an HDMI cable to connect to the TV in the hotel room if needed. Quite handy.
I was replying to the guy driving a Prius, specifically.
The SF Smart Car thing is just part of the rage against tech workers.
It's like getting mad at somebody for choosing a plaid shirt over one with stripes.
There are still people who won't do business with you if you choose a brown shirt. Statements matter.
As Oscar Wilde once said "only a shallow person doesn't judge on first appearances". People behave in predicable ways. We can lament that, but not change it. Any observant person knows that first appearances matter; they make your basic statement of what subculture you belong to. Choose wisely.
I like the start menu for what it is: a comprehensive tree of everything I have installed, including all the rarely used stuff. But it wasn't great for what I'd use often.
I really like where Win 7 ended up. The stuff I use every day is on my task bar, and once I launch it all, the order of the task bar is fixed, much to the delight of my muscle memory.
The stuff I use once a week or so, I can put in the short list in my start menu. The rest is still browseable (and easy to organize if I care to), and searchable, whichever makes it easier to find that one program I installed a year ago and suddenly I need.
I maintain my stance that Windows 9.5 will be the version that changes everything, with Windows 9.8 mostly getting it right.
Windows Explorer / file manager seems to have gotten worse every release since Windows 95. It's amazing.
Any good open source file manager replacements for Windows out there (Classic Shell does give you some good options). I know I wrote a working file manager back when I wanted to teach myself Winforms - wonder if I still have the source somewhere.
There hasn't been a decline in American manufacturing capacity, only in manufacturing jobs. That decline was felt in every older US city - what made Detroit so special? The history there is really quite clear.
The US middle class has nothing to do with manufacturing any more. Most US cities made the switch along with the overall US economy, welcoming those with modern middle class jobs. But Detroit chose not to do that: Detroit chose poorly.
I wonder if it's third worlders... jealous of white man's technology...
Oh, wait... that was 'racist' of me, wasn't it. Pointing out the truth - that non-whites hate their own kind, and will do anything to live around 'racists' - sorry - whites...
Well, being factually incorrect in racial claims does make you appear racist. The "third world immigrants" in Silly Valley are upper middle class, for the most part. There's a reason that the average income of Hindus is far and away the highest of any religion in America (well into 6 figures).
In the US, cars inevitably make a statement about you. Sorry, it's not just about functionality. You chose the overlap of hipster, hippie, and really slow driver, so you should only expect some people to be unhappy with you.
Plus, for greatly extended life we have to solve both problems: system decline and telemorase countdown. Criticizing this breakthrough because it only addresses one of the major problems would be quite silly. Congrats to the researchers!
I figured the whole graphene craze was just a last-ditch attempt to get around Apple's patent on sand (part of their patent on glass).
Well, it's a start. I doubt I'm unique in that I won't be happy until I get a proper, Win 7 Start menu back, at least as an option. Live tiles on my desktop would be nice too.
Basically, give me back the Win 7 UI with the ability to put live tiles on the desktop, and run apps in a windows. Remember "windows"? Call be weird, but I'd like a version of Windows with, you know, windows.
Detroit was once a very nice city. This exact sort of behavior made Detroit the smoking crater it is today. If you drive everyone with money away from your tax base, there won't be anything left. There was a deliberate effort in Detroit's case, and while it took a decade or more to drive out the middle class, and another couple decades to run out of money, it was inevitable from just a few years in.
"Hello, welcome to Sonic. Would you like to try our ElectroBurger and Fires combo, while we charge up your car?"
Yeah, you spotted the flaw in that plan yourself I see.
The 4k Hz "beat" signal is perfectly captured by the digitization. What's your point? Lack of understanding what a band pass filter actually does?
Hopefully, everything good will make it into the digital domain eventually. I like jazz myself, and the vast world of older recordings there is slowly, gradually, becoming digital. KCSM has one of the larger jazz libraries in the world and has started to long process of digitizing everything. Copyright will interfere, of course, but I'm hopeful that they can at least digitize-and-preserve their catalog, and eventually it will all trickle out.
(BTW, accurate is easy these days if you don't mind headphones, and even for speakers prices are reasonable if you don't care about efficiency.)
*crackle* I can sure *pop* hear the *snap* difference in *crackle* vinyl myself.
As vinyl ages, you lose the high octave with a curve that a lot of people like the sound of. Tube home amplifiers distort sound in a very similar way, that a lot of people like the sound of. There's surely a difference, but I prefer music mastered to be listened to accurately.
You can only hear up to like 20k Herz. ... nevertheless we can hear if it is 'there' or not.
But there are so called overtones, multiples of the base frequency. In this case 40k, 60k, 80k 100k etc.
No human is able to hear 40k and above frequencies, but we all can hear if a 20k frequency is combined with an 40k overtone, or an 100k overtone even. Modern lossy compression algorithms cut off these overtones (as the overtone itself is unhearable)
Completely false. Often repeated. But completely, utterly false.
The human ear can only make out an amplitude rise equivalent to a ~20k Hz sine wave (lower as you age). No amount of "overtones," monster cables, or megahertz sampling will change the ability of the hairs inside the ear to move/accelerate only so fast. The ear is mechanically band limited.
Meh, most promises of "buy our shit and you'll come out ahead on your utility bills" are blatant scams. Maybe these guys are legit, but I'd give em a heck of a lot of scrutiny. What's the fine print in the contract? What happens to your roof if they go under? What happens when the city outlaws selling power back to the grid because of bribery?
I prefer simplicity to penny pinching. If I own it all, with someone offering the service/maintenance for a reasonable price, that's much more clear.
Typical reality: You are lucky to escape alive with bed bugs and food poisoning when the licensed provider burns down.
Unrealistic scenario, as burning the place down would actually fix the bedbug problem! And we know that won't happen.
All hippie environ-wenie BS aside, the only true appeal of home solar is independence. Trading one master for another to get power is pointless. Powering your own house and car with your own equipment in a true "off the grid" way would be awesome, inspirational even. But home solar isn't quite there yet - tantalizingly close, mind you.