Right click on your desktop and create a new folder. Now drag the folder to the side or top of the screen. It will dock. Now right click on your new docked toolbar then deselect New Folder and select Quick Launch. There, your quick launch bar is now docked to the side or top of your screen, as requested. You can also delete the New Folder from your desktop now. That's exactly the feature you requested, and you can add Freelaunchbar and xNeat to Vista as well, just as you have in XP. You can also of course do this with a second toolbar that isn't the Quicklaunch, if you want the setup I see in your screenshot. Enjoy!
Most likely the UK will pass a three strikes law in the near future, meaning the broadband will be for all except those who are accused three times by the recording industry of file sharing, with no warnings or evidence required.
1) WoW, while perhaps seeming casual compared to quantum physics or possibly Everquest, is literally orders of magnitude less casual than the least casual console game. How many console gamers spend dozens of hours optimizing their interfaces over the course of years? WoW is more hardcore in the sense that it requires huge amounts of time, skill (to reach high end goals), coordination, and even moderate technical savvy to play. This is in excess of most of the games I've played in the last twenty years. The new expansion was rather easy to complete before the first content patch, but this content patch includes a large number of much more serious challenges. WoW succeeds because it has effectively been targeted at gamers with broadly diverging interests.
2) "Hardcore" gaming was never nearly as popular as poker, yet somehow it came into existence and didn't then disappear for decades now. How could this be? Oh right, relative popularity of dissimilar things is irrelevant.
Yes, the Wii is attracting a lot of casual gamers. No, it's not attracting any significant number of traditional gamers; certainly not at a higher rate than the usual attrition of people who eventually lose interest in gaming. I've seen the 360 and the PS3 lead to people taking breaks from computer gaming before - they at least offer games of somewhat similar style to those on the PC. The only case I know of someone having PC gaming affected by the Wii is a friend who returned to computer gaming after buying a Wii, having fun playing for a month before he decided that the Wii was boring, closeting the Wii and buying himself a video card, which let him get a serious gaming system for only $150.
I've been reading about the death of PC gaming since the early 90s, but the doomsayers always ignore the fact that the number of PC gamers has steadily increased. Regardless of market share, a system with 30 million players (and growing) will still get developer attention.
I had the pleasure of taking a tour of the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Labs. They have a similar setup; using accelerated electrons to produce x-rays, the real achievement here is the coherency part. I wonder how this effects high speed x-ray crystallography, is it easier to decode the scatter if the light is coherent? Will we be getting real time videos of enzymes in action? If so I can only imagine what that will do for chemical and pharmaceutical research.
Also, I hope this is the first step in a fairly rapid development of a tabletop x-ray laser that can live in a lab. Last time I spent a week doing small angle x-ray scattering at Argonne I had to be in the top 3 of the 48 requests submitted for x-ray time on the beamline I wanted in order to get an invitation. The other 45 groups got rejected. X-ray time is a limiting factor in a very large number of scientific fields.
"Cybernit reports that the Starter Edition version of Windows 7 will only allow the user to run 3 applications at once. Targeted at notebooks, this doesn't seem like such a bad limitation, however it is a bold move from Microsoft, and it will be interesting to see how the operating system sells."
emphasis mine
The summary says notebook, the post you are responding to said notebook, only you are saying netbook. Why don't you try reading before you go attacking someone else for getting their panties in a twist. Or maybe you were just karma whoring to get modded up for being critical of someone for bashing MS.
This dupe (yes, it's a dupe) story just has a bad summary. As has been widely reported for months, the starter edition is primarily for developing markets, while the OEMs may put it on some netbooks in mature markets. Notebooks aren't in the cards. This information is widely available and has been for quite some time. The only one slower than the poster here is you. Why don't you try reading before you go attacking someone else for getting their panties in a twist. Or maybe you were just karma whoring to get modded up for being critical of someone bashing someone for bashing MS.
There is always MoND, which explains some of the same things as "Dark Matter" and "String Hypothesis", and then there are also some recent findings that suggest that the Universe is not expanding after all... which would throw the String Hypothesis right out the window.
MoND is more like a curve fit through all the existing data than an explanation of its cause. Every time some new piece of data shows up, the curve fit is redone and the mechanics of MoND change to match the new big picture. At any given time, it's self-consistent, but it's never made a prediction that was then proven correct by later evidence.
Wow, that's the most awesome troll I've ever seen. I'm saving it so I can replace Global Warming with other things to produce my own awesome trolls. Bastile of Lies, of course, will be unaltered.
For example:
Maybe the Vegetarian idiots could use it to initiate a Cow Melt-off to concoct more evidence to support their Vegetarian Lies.
Hey Veg Tool, if a space based solar platform directing the Suns energy into the cows can change weather and ultimately the climate, then guess what / Tool...
That giant Hamburger Helper known as the SUN which is currently on a friendly standing with us is more relevant than ever and the more you ignore or deny, the more you get burned.
Too bad Veg Tools, including so called "science" and especially the politcal anus of this new religion, Vegetarianism, should get a fucking clue, shut the fuck up until you have definitive proof and especially this, take your tax schemes and shove them!
Do this and we may not storm your Bastile of Lies, then again, it may be needed to purge you fools from any position of power.
It is because most non-US people are foot-loose and fancy-free with distributing copyrighted material. That is, you are all pirates.
So really, you brought it on yourself by assuming that just because you chose socialism in your country, everybody else has to be force into socialism too.
Pirating copyrighted material is capitalism. Regulating distribution of copies (or any sort of regulations whatsoever on a market) is anti-capitalist. Neither is socialist.
The quote is from Obama, interview with the San Francisco Chronicle.
FactCheck.org addressed the McCain-Palin ad(s).
They did not address the direct Obama quotes at all.
FactCheck.org directed you to Obama's energy policy on his web site, but did not address his words to the San Francisco Chronicle.
Maybe you should get your own facts straight and actually read what FactCheck.org stated and shows.
Yes, you are correct. That quotation is worthless because it is out of context, however. Obama was talking about a fully mature emission-taxed energy market, something that could possibly happen within a few decades due to changes made during this administration, assuming no one changes them in that time period. Several unsubsidized energy sources may reach cost-parity with coal in about 20-30 years, and assuming that coal generation is taxed at a rate sufficient to compensate for its environmental impact, it would be economic suicide to stay in the coal-electric business.
The only thing that can be taken from the out of context quotation that is relevant to this administration is that Obama believes that the market will decide where our energy is generated.
Some schools have public safety officers who are also sworn police officers, and thus have full police powers.
I'm not sure about Boston College, though.
Some schools have public safety officers who are also sworn police officers, and thus have full police powers.
I'm not sure about Boston College, though.
In New Haven, CT, the city police go along with scams like towing companies illegally taking cars out of private driveways and parking lots at night in order to extort a return fee from the owners. The Yale Police, every bit as official and substantially more effective, are the only way to get cars back. Maybe they're
The X25 has the same problem as all the other flash drives due to the need to erase in big chunks. Post-slowdown, the X25 is still faster than almost any other SSD that's brand new, and given the same usage, the X25 maintains the huge performance advantage it has from the start. I doubt Intel can really do much to improve this behavior without using TRIM.
I assume their "fix" will be slight tweaking of writing patterns done mostly to fool the mainstream press that had already been acting foolish by picked up this story without noticing the subtleties (such as the problem being present in all SSDs)
I don't think I'll install the RC or the retail product. My Windows 7 partition appears corrupted, and it won't boot. In XP I could do a repair install. With Vista and 7, the option for a repair install was removed. Is there any good reason for this?
I won't run an OS that I can't repair if I need to.
The repair install option is still there and the process is the same as in XP. You should have checked before assuming it was gone.
Wow.... I'm going to karma hell for this but... WTF is wrong with you Americans? Have you been SO blinded by the media and patriotism and hatred that you actually believe this? Don't be conned. The US could have stopped the trial at any point.
That's like saying "Hey! I didn't kill him, I just locked him into a small room with a bunch of people who hate them and gave them all guns. Don't look at me". Don't be a fool.
Try not to extend this sort of blindness to all Americans. Just like in Europe, we have a large fraction of idiots who support stupid ideas. I think that Europe has an advantage in that parliamentary systems are more conducive to (at least the full visibility of) multiple viewpoints and less so to a single party taking a radical idea and running with it. It's obviously not a perfect system, though, or Europe wouldn't be rapidly giving up personal liberties because heads of state are owned by the entertainment lobbies. I think you're a bit of America on that front, for now.
Considering how the Baath party of Iraq (as well as the still in power Baath party of Syria) are pan-arabic national socialist parties they are a whole lot closer to the Vichy regime (and other national socialists) than anyone else involved.
After all there is a reason why a lot of (but not absolutely all) nazis (and particularly in Germany) were against the US invasion of Iraq.
You're just playing word games here, most of the nazis in Europe were/are for the invasion of Iraq, just like most of them hate all Arabs.
As for principles I'll take a single botched hanging over the rather large mass graves created by Hussein any day and I know an awful lot of Iraqis agree.
Forget the Iraqis, the entire World (except the United States) was against Iraq when they gassed the Kurds (in 1988). The gassing of the Kurds was reported on the front page of every major newspaper in Europe (and probably the world). In the US, that particular piece of news got buried. The UN was even going to impose sanctions, but the US vetoed it -- protecting their ally. And finally, the US even loaned Iraq one billion dollars shortly thereafter (if not three billion dollars, I forget the exact number) that Iraq never paid back.
Now I realize that you consider the United States the benevolent father/policeman of the World, but for a benevolent father it's sure sending out mixed messages. When you punish someone, you're supposed to do it right after the act -- not wait fifteen years (and never mind the active protection and lobbying the United States did for Iraq during that time period when the entire World was against them).
The news wasn't at all buried in the United States. It was all over the newspapers. We even talked about it in elementary school that year. the United States isn't a homogenized nation that uniformly supports the current regime, whoever it may be.
That's not really why the copy protection is for. The protection is there so that you have to break or circumvent it in order to copy the product: It's like a lock on your front door. Sure it won't stop the robbers, but it will make it even more clear for the jury they intended to rob your house.
So the perfect copy protection is hard to break using normal methods, but is still breakable: It shows the breaker had an INTENTION to illegally make copies.
Good idea, but it's not true in Microsoft's case. They haven't ever sued any individual end users for installing a cracked XP, so the idea of proving intent is moot. They have gone after mass producers, but in that case intent is already clear and the lock hasn't been broken yet, per se.
The age of the domain name is over in my opinion. People find information by going through search engines, I would guess a very small population still types www.whatiwant.com when surfing. They would have learned their lesson a long time ago that that's not a smart idea.
Just get a domain name that's slightly relevant to your topic or service, and you're fine. Google magic will do the rest.
No one ever looked for information at www.whatiwant.com unless it was already known that www.whatiwant.com had the answer. However, Newegg having a short, easy to remember URL means people are more likely to go directly there for a computer component that to competitors, because Newegg will place highly in search engine results AND a substantial fraction of customers actually go to Newegg by url. The same is true for Wikipedia, Amazon, and a bunch of other sites.
Also, when searching I suggest www.scroogle.org over google.
Stevens is way too wealthy and politically connected to be punished for any crime.
Believe it or not, I don't believe those played a factor in the DOJ dropping the case. Apparently, Holder felt it more important to punish the prosecution on this one than nail Senator Tubes. Some of the factors claimed to play into his decision were the facts that Stevens is 85 (unlikely to be able to serve much jail time), no longer a sitting Senator, and that any movement forward on this case would be tainted.
As for whether or not he's innocent or not is irrelevant at this point. He never got a fair trial. And without a fair trial, the justice system cannot prove something one way or another. He'll probably be remembered by the public as a guilty bastard, and never manage anything else for the remainder of his life. He's permanently retired now, which is the worst part that would have come from the conviction. Not the fine or the trip to Club Fed.
Oh, I believe it. Clearly the prosecution was incredibly sloppy an unethical in this case. However, were they perfect lawyers following the letter of the law, something else would have popped up to get Stevens off the hook.
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You do realize that removing part of the problem may in fact be a whole solution?
No, because CCD occurs in colonies with and without Nosema. It may be PART of the solution, though, which is great.
Right click on your desktop and create a new folder. Now drag the folder to the side or top of the screen. It will dock. Now right click on your new docked toolbar then deselect New Folder and select Quick Launch. There, your quick launch bar is now docked to the side or top of your screen, as requested. You can also delete the New Folder from your desktop now. That's exactly the feature you requested, and you can add Freelaunchbar and xNeat to Vista as well, just as you have in XP. You can also of course do this with a second toolbar that isn't the Quicklaunch, if you want the setup I see in your screenshot. Enjoy!
Most likely the UK will pass a three strikes law in the near future, meaning the broadband will be for all except those who are accused three times by the recording industry of file sharing, with no warnings or evidence required.
1) WoW, while perhaps seeming casual compared to quantum physics or possibly Everquest, is literally orders of magnitude less casual than the least casual console game. How many console gamers spend dozens of hours optimizing their interfaces over the course of years? WoW is more hardcore in the sense that it requires huge amounts of time, skill (to reach high end goals), coordination, and even moderate technical savvy to play. This is in excess of most of the games I've played in the last twenty years. The new expansion was rather easy to complete before the first content patch, but this content patch includes a large number of much more serious challenges. WoW succeeds because it has effectively been targeted at gamers with broadly diverging interests.
2) "Hardcore" gaming was never nearly as popular as poker, yet somehow it came into existence and didn't then disappear for decades now. How could this be? Oh right, relative popularity of dissimilar things is irrelevant.
Yes, the Wii is attracting a lot of casual gamers. No, it's not attracting any significant number of traditional gamers; certainly not at a higher rate than the usual attrition of people who eventually lose interest in gaming. I've seen the 360 and the PS3 lead to people taking breaks from computer gaming before - they at least offer games of somewhat similar style to those on the PC. The only case I know of someone having PC gaming affected by the Wii is a friend who returned to computer gaming after buying a Wii, having fun playing for a month before he decided that the Wii was boring, closeting the Wii and buying himself a video card, which let him get a serious gaming system for only $150.
I've been reading about the death of PC gaming since the early 90s, but the doomsayers always ignore the fact that the number of PC gamers has steadily increased. Regardless of market share, a system with 30 million players (and growing) will still get developer attention.
Soon we no longer need actors and we just need digitized versions of them.
So we may see new movies with Bogart, Wayne, Hepburn, Garbo and many others.
Oh, you mean Remake: http://www.amazon.com/Remake-Connie-Willis/dp/0553374370/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1240514628&sr=8-16
That was a gerundive, which is a type of adjective.
I had the pleasure of taking a tour of the Advanced Photon Source at Argonne National Labs. They have a similar setup; using accelerated electrons to produce x-rays, the real achievement here is the coherency part. I wonder how this effects high speed x-ray crystallography, is it easier to decode the scatter if the light is coherent? Will we be getting real time videos of enzymes in action? If so I can only imagine what that will do for chemical and pharmaceutical research.
Also, I hope this is the first step in a fairly rapid development of a tabletop x-ray laser that can live in a lab. Last time I spent a week doing small angle x-ray scattering at Argonne I had to be in the top 3 of the 48 requests submitted for x-ray time on the beamline I wanted in order to get an invitation. The other 45 groups got rejected. X-ray time is a limiting factor in a very large number of scientific fields.
Not that I don't appreciate coherency.
From the summary at the top of the page
"Cybernit reports that the Starter Edition version of Windows 7 will only allow the user to run 3 applications at once. Targeted at notebooks, this doesn't seem like such a bad limitation, however it is a bold move from Microsoft, and it will be interesting to see how the operating system sells."
emphasis mine
The summary says notebook, the post you are responding to said notebook, only you are saying netbook. Why don't you try reading before you go attacking someone else for getting their panties in a twist. Or maybe you were just karma whoring to get modded up for being critical of someone for bashing MS.
This dupe (yes, it's a dupe) story just has a bad summary. As has been widely reported for months, the starter edition is primarily for developing markets, while the OEMs may put it on some netbooks in mature markets. Notebooks aren't in the cards. This information is widely available and has been for quite some time. The only one slower than the poster here is you. Why don't you try reading before you go attacking someone else for getting their panties in a twist. Or maybe you were just karma whoring to get modded up for being critical of someone bashing someone for bashing MS.
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/09/1348255&from=rss
Thelasko wins. Mod to +5 informative and go back to the last time we discussed this same story if you want to discuss more.
There is always MoND, which explains some of the same things as "Dark Matter" and "String Hypothesis", and then there are also some recent findings that suggest that the Universe is not expanding after all... which would throw the String Hypothesis right out the window.
MoND is more like a curve fit through all the existing data than an explanation of its cause. Every time some new piece of data shows up, the curve fit is redone and the mechanics of MoND change to match the new big picture. At any given time, it's self-consistent, but it's never made a prediction that was then proven correct by later evidence.
Wow, that's the most awesome troll I've ever seen. I'm saving it so I can replace Global Warming with other things to produce my own awesome trolls. Bastile of Lies, of course, will be unaltered.
For example:
Maybe the Vegetarian idiots could use it to initiate a Cow Melt-off to concoct more evidence to support their Vegetarian Lies.
Hey Veg Tool, if a space based solar platform directing the Suns energy into the cows can change weather and ultimately the climate, then guess what / Tool...
That giant Hamburger Helper known as the SUN which is currently on a friendly standing with us is more relevant than ever and the more you ignore or deny, the more you get burned.
Too bad Veg Tools, including so called "science" and especially the politcal anus of this new religion, Vegetarianism, should get a fucking clue, shut the fuck up until you have definitive proof and especially this, take your tax schemes and shove them!
Do this and we may not storm your Bastile of Lies, then again, it may be needed to purge you fools from any position of power.
If you've every read Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy, it's the same scenario.
Except Clancy was always terrible.
Fixed that for you.
It is because most non-US people are foot-loose and fancy-free with distributing copyrighted material. That is, you are all pirates.
So really, you brought it on yourself by assuming that just because you chose socialism in your country, everybody else has to be force into socialism too.
Pirating copyrighted material is capitalism. Regulating distribution of copies (or any sort of regulations whatsoever on a market) is anti-capitalist. Neither is socialist.
Well, I did not get the information their ad.
The quote is from Obama, interview with the San Francisco Chronicle.
FactCheck.org addressed the McCain-Palin ad(s).
They did not address the direct Obama quotes at all.
FactCheck.org directed you to Obama's energy policy on his web site, but did not address his words to the San Francisco Chronicle.
Maybe you should get your own facts straight and actually read what FactCheck.org stated and shows.
Yes, you are correct. That quotation is worthless because it is out of context, however. Obama was talking about a fully mature emission-taxed energy market, something that could possibly happen within a few decades due to changes made during this administration, assuming no one changes them in that time period. Several unsubsidized energy sources may reach cost-parity with coal in about 20-30 years, and assuming that coal generation is taxed at a rate sufficient to compensate for its environmental impact, it would be economic suicide to stay in the coal-electric business.
The only thing that can be taken from the out of context quotation that is relevant to this administration is that Obama believes that the market will decide where our energy is generated.
Some schools have public safety officers who are also sworn police officers, and thus have full police powers.
I'm not sure about Boston College, though.
Some schools have public safety officers who are also sworn police officers, and thus have full police powers.
I'm not sure about Boston College, though.
In New Haven, CT, the city police go along with scams like towing companies illegally taking cars out of private driveways and parking lots at night in order to extort a return fee from the owners. The Yale Police, every bit as official and substantially more effective, are the only way to get cars back. Maybe they're
We've all read this by now, right?
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3531
The X25 has the same problem as all the other flash drives due to the need to erase in big chunks. Post-slowdown, the X25 is still faster than almost any other SSD that's brand new, and given the same usage, the X25 maintains the huge performance advantage it has from the start. I doubt Intel can really do much to improve this behavior without using TRIM.
I assume their "fix" will be slight tweaking of writing patterns done mostly to fool the mainstream press that had already been acting foolish by picked up this story without noticing the subtleties (such as the problem being present in all SSDs)
I don't think I'll install the RC or the retail product. My Windows 7 partition appears corrupted, and it won't boot. In XP I could do a repair install. With Vista and 7, the option for a repair install was removed. Is there any good reason for this?
I won't run an OS that I can't repair if I need to.
The repair install option is still there and the process is the same as in XP. You should have checked before assuming it was gone.
They can take my Mac when they pry my cold, dead fingers from the keyboard.
You can install Windows on your Mac and have the best of both worlds.
whodathunkit
So basically we need to change the extent of gun ownership in either direction every day.
Wow.... I'm going to karma hell for this but... WTF is wrong with you Americans? Have you been SO blinded by the media and patriotism and hatred that you actually believe this? Don't be conned. The US could have stopped the trial at any point.
That's like saying "Hey! I didn't kill him, I just locked him into a small room with a bunch of people who hate them and gave them all guns. Don't look at me". Don't be a fool.
Try not to extend this sort of blindness to all Americans. Just like in Europe, we have a large fraction of idiots who support stupid ideas. I think that Europe has an advantage in that parliamentary systems are more conducive to (at least the full visibility of) multiple viewpoints and less so to a single party taking a radical idea and running with it. It's obviously not a perfect system, though, or Europe wouldn't be rapidly giving up personal liberties because heads of state are owned by the entertainment lobbies. I think you're a bit of America on that front, for now.
You're just playing word games here, most of the nazis in Europe were/are for the invasion of Iraq, just like most of them hate all Arabs.
Forget the Iraqis, the entire World (except the United States) was against Iraq when they gassed the Kurds (in 1988). The gassing of the Kurds was reported on the front page of every major newspaper in Europe (and probably the world). In the US, that particular piece of news got buried. The UN was even going to impose sanctions, but the US vetoed it -- protecting their ally. And finally, the US even loaned Iraq one billion dollars shortly thereafter (if not three billion dollars, I forget the exact number) that Iraq never paid back.
Now I realize that you consider the United States the benevolent father/policeman of the World, but for a benevolent father it's sure sending out mixed messages. When you punish someone, you're supposed to do it right after the act -- not wait fifteen years (and never mind the active protection and lobbying the United States did for Iraq during that time period when the entire World was against them).
The news wasn't at all buried in the United States. It was all over the newspapers. We even talked about it in elementary school that year. the United States isn't a homogenized nation that uniformly supports the current regime, whoever it may be.
That's not really why the copy protection is for. The protection is there so that you have to break or circumvent it in order to copy the product: It's like a lock on your front door. Sure it won't stop the robbers, but it will make it even more clear for the jury they intended to rob your house.
So the perfect copy protection is hard to break using normal methods, but is still breakable: It shows the breaker had an INTENTION to illegally make copies.
Good idea, but it's not true in Microsoft's case. They haven't ever sued any individual end users for installing a cracked XP, so the idea of proving intent is moot. They have gone after mass producers, but in that case intent is already clear and the lock hasn't been broken yet, per se.
The age of the domain name is over in my opinion. People find information by going through search engines, I would guess a very small population still types www.whatiwant.com when surfing. They would have learned their lesson a long time ago that that's not a smart idea.
Just get a domain name that's slightly relevant to your topic or service, and you're fine. Google magic will do the rest.
No one ever looked for information at www.whatiwant.com unless it was already known that www.whatiwant.com had the answer. However, Newegg having a short, easy to remember URL means people are more likely to go directly there for a computer component that to competitors, because Newegg will place highly in search engine results AND a substantial fraction of customers actually go to Newegg by url. The same is true for Wikipedia, Amazon, and a bunch of other sites.
Also, when searching I suggest www.scroogle.org over google.
"Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity." - Anon
You _would_ like to take credit for such an oft used quote, wouldn't you Mr. AC. Robert Hanlon objects:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_Razor
Believe it or not, I don't believe those played a factor in the DOJ dropping the case. Apparently, Holder felt it more important to punish the prosecution on this one than nail Senator Tubes. Some of the factors claimed to play into his decision were the facts that Stevens is 85 (unlikely to be able to serve much jail time), no longer a sitting Senator, and that any movement forward on this case would be tainted.
As for whether or not he's innocent or not is irrelevant at this point. He never got a fair trial. And without a fair trial, the justice system cannot prove something one way or another. He'll probably be remembered by the public as a guilty bastard, and never manage anything else for the remainder of his life. He's permanently retired now, which is the worst part that would have come from the conviction. Not the fine or the trip to Club Fed.
Oh, I believe it. Clearly the prosecution was incredibly sloppy an unethical in this case. However, were they perfect lawyers following the letter of the law, something else would have popped up to get Stevens off the hook.