Like Firefox, Opera and Chrome do with Google? It's not hard to change search engine in IE, btw
That's totally different.
In Firefox you just click "Manage Search Engines" and then "Get More Search Engines". You're taken to a webpage where you can search out other search engines and add them to Firefox.
In IE it's very similar, except that it doesn't always work. Someone brought me a Win7 laptop (HP Compaq) and asked me to set the search to Google. I tried, but the Google search engine wouldn't add itself. Other ones worked - just not Google. In the end I installed Google Toolbar to get it set, then removed it. (for obvious reasons)
I would've written it off as a possible virus, except that it was a brand new laptop. I did however install MalwareBytes AntiMalware just in case. It wouldn't update - something about error 732, 0, 0. Turned out it was because the Internet Explorer checkbox to Auto Detect Proxy Settings had been unticked by a recently applied hotfix. Once I figured that out and ticked it, MalwareBytes could update, and of course it found nothing nasty.
I figured it was HP adding shit to the OS, but a few weeks back someone brought me two Acer Aspire netbooks with Win7 Starter that had the exact same issues. Now I'm inclined to believe that perhaps a faulty update was sent out, which misconfigured some things. Anyone that happened to download that update before it was replaced with a fixed one might have the issue.
Oh - weirdest issue I ever had to fix - Windows claiming its DVD drive driver wasn't suitable for a DVD drive, leaving it with no driver installed. It's amazing what you can tweak in Vista's registry...
There's the odd few that will pay for a game after they've pirated it (I used to do that when I was a kid), so they're not a loss either.
Hallelujah! Another person like me!
It's the best way to get around non-refundable games that won't start or will crash. I still haven't figured out how to get around games that get patched to crash, though - like BF2 was...
Video tags are easier to accelerate. They can be handled by just about anything. That means rather than being locked to Flash, it can be played with Xine/GStreamer on Linux, Quicktime on OSX, DirectShow on Windows, DSP codecs on your phone, etc.; it might also be possible to use VLC on any platform, although that defeats the "accelerate" part.
And of course, you've always got Flash as a fallback.
P.S. Posted before, but this might be of interest to someone: Javascript-free HTML5/Flash video embedding, which works on desktops as well as devices like the iPhone: http://camendesign.com/code/video_for_everybody
Are you two kidding? Full blown HD graphics with shadows, complex textures, high poly count and the like are what I want. I want to see blemishes on skin, blades of grass moving and reflections in water. I want to hear footsteps on metal, birds tweeting and monsters breathing. I want downloadable content, voice chat and massive multiplayer events.
Sounds like you need a PC rather than a console.
Consoles are great. I need one so that when people visit, they keep their mucky hands off my computer. Guess which console I went for?
They have to maintain DBs of tags for every file. I'm not sure how they cope with files being moved. Maybe identically named files get hashed to see if the tag still applies?
Hmm... this is starting to sound like it might bog down the FS if it applied to hundreds of thousands of files. Even a simple file searcher takes minutes to run on a modern HDD. I can't imagine how long hashing everything would take. But it'd probably be really fast when searching.
What I've started doing is treating subfolders as tags. I can search out "Family Holiday 2009 whale" and "F:\Family\Pictures\Holidays\2009 trip\Whale_001.jpg" will come up.
You're talking about Theora (video) and Vorbis (audio)
Vorbis appears to be superior to everything but the most optimized AAC encoders - at least at semi low bitrates employed in streaming. Youtube sounds about like 40kbit vorbis. (really bad) But that also means they could shave almost 100kbit off their stream bandwidth by using it rather than mp3. The downside is it takes twice as long to encode.
Theora is another story. H.264 is so superior it's ridiculous - but if Google open sources VP7, there would be some real competition.
Youtube has few of the H.264 optimizations enabled, but once you crank everything to the max in x264, it's a thing of beauty. I've been experimenting with it a lot recently - it's amazing what it can do with 512kbits available.
Farscape and Firefly were the lucky exceptions. Those two were cut off unexpectedly (and Farscape in particular ended on what absolutely should NOT have finished off that series), but they at least got movies to tie them up.
Yeah... Jericho also got tied up. It got canned, then came back with 8 new episodes, then got cut down to 6. (so the last two of the six feel quite rushed - lots of stuff happening)
It's too bad the creators of these series aren't able to say no to the networks. "No, I won't do that 5th season - I don't feel it does it justice.", etc..
I'm still reserving my judgement on Chuck until I see more. So far it's come back okay.
Making finishing a series an accepted practice in the industry would probably make a lot of viewers happy. There's nothing worse than your favourite show just vanishing, and that's it.
What a coincidence. Nearly a decade ago I started to get blinding migraines in 5 minutes flat from eating corn.
I'm against genetically modified ANYTHING. Why? Because I can't verify the effects are negative. We're toddlers, playing with genomes. We need to study this shit for decades(lifetimes) before we put it out in the wild - lest we damage ourselves irreparably.
So many TV shows are developed these days with the philosophy that you should continue making series until your audience figures fall low enough to shut you down. If there's an ending at all, only a tiny number of ultra-hardcore viewers ever see it. We're being bombarded with stories that have a beginning and an endless middle, but no ending.
Totally agree with this, and pretty much everything else you said.
You don't just factor in mileage when considering price. Electric cars have a lot of power - that alone has to be worth a few thousand more. Take the most beefed up sportscar you've ever driven, and exceed it by a healthy margin - you've got an electric.;)
Also, don't forget the $7500 government tax rebate. If you factor that in with quite a bit of driving for 5 years, it's about $12k more expensive than your Vibe. But you save a lot of that on the (apparently) superior mileage.
So, when you look at it that way... if you had the money available, and factor in that it'd close you about $8k more than the Vibe in the long run, wouldn't you do it for the environment, and also the privilege of saying you drive an electric?;)
P.S. Toyota Corollas are good cars. I have a hatchback from the 80's. Still going strong, and gets about 35mpg on the highway. Recently the style flipped back to a similar chassis, so for two years everyone thought I had a brand new car. (the paint job helped)
Put him in a room, and turn the wireless on and off. Guaranteed he won't be able to tell the difference.
Maybe that's not what it is.
My neighbour's phone was giving me a nasty headache. I thought it was food allergies, but one time I was in the backyard and his window was opened. I noticed the throbbing was pointing directly at that opening. I went over to his house and explained what was going on. He thought it was really strange, but let me in to look around. Once I figured out it was the phone(took all of 10 seconds to find it), I told him. He was happy to accept the new phone that I gave him later that day. No more headaches.
Best bet... some sort of frequency that I can *almost* hear, but nobody else can? The new phone was the exact same frequency, so I suspect his was somehow defective.
The guy suing could be a hypochondriac, or maybe there's more to it. I can hear CRT TVs - but that's pretty common. I can also hear circuit breakers, capacitors, power lines (I try not to get too close), LCD monitors, battery powered clocks, some watches, etc.; but none of that stuff causes me to have a headache. I have a Wireless G network with the signal strength ramped up - Tomato WRT54GL - but no headache.
I think my (superior?) hearing might be genetic. I have an Uncle nearing age 60, and he can still hear that annoying Mosquito ringtone that's supposed to be Teen-only.
What I don't get is, why would this guy sue? My first line of attack would be begging them to let me network their whole house, if it was real physical discomfort. If it wasn't physical - just something audible like being able to hear their TV - then who cares?
Across the board, if games run in OpenGL and DirectX mode, older GeForces will have a way higher framerate in OpenGL mode. Then you can bump up the res and detail levels.
I remember in Warcraft III it was so pronounced that my GeForce 2 MX 400 could run everything on Med 800x600, but in OpenGL it managed 1280x1024 with some stuff on high. Radeon users were said to have no difference (both ran like shit), except OpenGL mode also had distorted text at low resolutions.
And KOTOR, once vertex buffers were disabled, had a rediculously high framerate. It was an OpenGL-only game. The vertex buffers used to drop the framerate to about 5fps (640x480), but once I found the tweak to turn them off I was getting 30fps 1280x1024 8xAA. This was with a 6600, which would slow to a crawl in OpenGL Warcraft III with any AA forced on. A very optimized rendering engine, if you apply the right tweak.
And even Titan Quest played with max everything on my 7900GS. The Radeons of the time were being crippled. Something about fully dynamic shadows. (Years before Crysis, too:P )
It's too bad OpenGL has been relegated to the backburner now. It's basically playing catchup with DX10/DX11.
Vampires don't sparkle in sun light, they burn. Taking away one of the most defining characteristics of vampires is sort of like castrating them.
Moonlight had vampires get weaker in the sun. (Go kinda pale, feel sick - almost like heatstroke)
I can tell they had a few geeks writing it, because they got a lot of the lore right. Subtle references to things. Even a LEEROY JENKINS! tossed into one episode.
Burning is the accepted default. Just wanted to point out there are other ways of handling it. But sparkling is just... strange.
Q: What is the driving range of the Chevy Volt? A: The car is being designed to drive at least 40 miles on pure electricity stored in the battery from overnight home charging. After that the gas engine will kick in and allow the car to be driven up to 400 miles on a full tank (~8 gallons) of gas.
Q: How many miles per gallon will the Chevy Volt get? A: A bit of a trick question. For the first 40 miles it will get infinite mpg, because no gas will be burned. When the generator starts, the car will get an equivalent of up to 50 mpg thereafter. One can calculate the average mpg per for any length drive starting with a full battery: Total MPG = 50xM/(M-40). GM has announced the car will get 230 MPG for the average city driver over time assuming nightly full recharges.
Q: What is the cost of operation of the car A: With current average U.S. electric rates of ~10 cents/kwh it should cost 80 cents to drive for the first 40 miles, and then get 50 mpg thereafter using gasoline (market rate).
Sounds like the battery has a 60+ mile range, but the generator kicks in at 40 miles to give it some room to maintain optimal efficiency.
CES and the hotels strike me as an annoying credit card company.
"We'd like to offer you this free insurance. It protects you up to $10,000 in case of injury. Furthermore, you'll never have to pay the $10,000 back. There are no addtional fees, and no cancellation charges within 30 days."
The insurance has no activation fee, (making it free), but it adds 9% to everything you buy. Note: this is not an additonal fee - it's just the regulate rate for the freely activated insurance. And of course, there are no cancellation charges within 30 days. But if you used your credit card, the rate is non-refundable. The only positive part above is the $10,000 you never have to pay back. Too bad you can't cancel it until you do, so you'd be stuck with a 9% transaction rate forever.;)
I suspect CES used great sounding terminology - which any lawyer would zoom in on and shudder, because it's setting you up to be screwed.
Zalman, huh? Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's exactly what happened.
I wish they would list battery life under "Heavy Use".
I remember reading a Netbook review where it pointed out how bogus the 10 hour claims are. Can't find the exact one, but this one is similar.
10 hours? No. 6 hours if you're doing something. Listening to an MP3 while you work in Office and browse the web? That's CPU, speakers, Wifi, possibly Flash(GPU/CPU), and the HDD. 6 hours is expected under fairly normal use for anyone that visits slashdot.
And yet devices like the Pandora handheld make real heavy use claims. Why must it be a small insignificant company to avoid being lied to?
I use Twitter to get free stuff. Companies like eVGA, online stores, etc. have promos and giveaways. I'm up a laptop case and wine rack, so far. Was hoping to win a GPU, but no luck yet.:/
It's a non-javascript solution for embedding video that plays on a wide variety of devices and platforms. (iPhone, OSX, Linux, Windows, Firefox, IEx, Opera, etc.)
Slashdot Mirror
"designed for the audio enthusiast"
Those people are fools! I only buy Monster cables.
Like Firefox, Opera and Chrome do with Google? It's not hard to change search engine in IE, btw
That's totally different.
In Firefox you just click "Manage Search Engines" and then "Get More Search Engines". You're taken to a webpage where you can search out other search engines and add them to Firefox.
In IE it's very similar, except that it doesn't always work. Someone brought me a Win7 laptop (HP Compaq) and asked me to set the search to Google. I tried, but the Google search engine wouldn't add itself. Other ones worked - just not Google. In the end I installed Google Toolbar to get it set, then removed it. (for obvious reasons)
I would've written it off as a possible virus, except that it was a brand new laptop. I did however install MalwareBytes AntiMalware just in case. It wouldn't update - something about error 732, 0, 0. Turned out it was because the Internet Explorer checkbox to Auto Detect Proxy Settings had been unticked by a recently applied hotfix. Once I figured that out and ticked it, MalwareBytes could update, and of course it found nothing nasty.
I figured it was HP adding shit to the OS, but a few weeks back someone brought me two Acer Aspire netbooks with Win7 Starter that had the exact same issues. Now I'm inclined to believe that perhaps a faulty update was sent out, which misconfigured some things. Anyone that happened to download that update before it was replaced with a fixed one might have the issue.
Oh - weirdest issue I ever had to fix - Windows claiming its DVD drive driver wasn't suitable for a DVD drive, leaving it with no driver installed. It's amazing what you can tweak in Vista's registry...
There's the odd few that will pay for a game after they've pirated it (I used to do that when I was a kid), so they're not a loss either.
Hallelujah! Another person like me!
It's the best way to get around non-refundable games that won't start or will crash. I still haven't figured out how to get around games that get patched to crash, though - like BF2 was...
Video tags are easier to accelerate. They can be handled by just about anything. That means rather than being locked to Flash, it can be played with Xine/GStreamer on Linux, Quicktime on OSX, DirectShow on Windows, DSP codecs on your phone, etc.; it might also be possible to use VLC on any platform, although that defeats the "accelerate" part.
And of course, you've always got Flash as a fallback.
P.S. Posted before, but this might be of interest to someone: Javascript-free HTML5/Flash video embedding, which works on desktops as well as devices like the iPhone: http://camendesign.com/code/video_for_everybody
Are you two kidding? Full blown HD graphics with shadows, complex textures, high poly count and the like are what I want. I want to see blemishes on skin, blades of grass moving and reflections in water. I want to hear footsteps on metal, birds tweeting and monsters breathing. I want downloadable content, voice chat and massive multiplayer events.
Sounds like you need a PC rather than a console.
Consoles are great. I need one so that when people visit, they keep their mucky hands off my computer. Guess which console I went for?
There's file searching apps that can do this.
They have to maintain DBs of tags for every file. I'm not sure how they cope with files being moved. Maybe identically named files get hashed to see if the tag still applies?
Hmm... this is starting to sound like it might bog down the FS if it applied to hundreds of thousands of files. Even a simple file searcher takes minutes to run on a modern HDD. I can't imagine how long hashing everything would take. But it'd probably be really fast when searching.
What I've started doing is treating subfolders as tags. I can search out "Family Holiday 2009 whale" and "F:\Family\Pictures\Holidays\2009 trip\Whale_001.jpg" will come up.
I did it when I was trying to take a screenshot. My keyboard is pretty compact, and I missed the print screen key. :P
Since I didn't know what happened, I just reset the computer. Now I understand a lot more linux keyboard shortcuts. ;)
FYI, ogg is a container. Like .avi and .mp4
You're talking about Theora (video) and Vorbis (audio)
Vorbis appears to be superior to everything but the most optimized AAC encoders - at least at semi low bitrates employed in streaming. Youtube sounds about like 40kbit vorbis. (really bad) But that also means they could shave almost 100kbit off their stream bandwidth by using it rather than mp3. The downside is it takes twice as long to encode.
Theora is another story. H.264 is so superior it's ridiculous - but if Google open sources VP7, there would be some real competition.
Youtube has few of the H.264 optimizations enabled, but once you crank everything to the max in x264, it's a thing of beauty. I've been experimenting with it a lot recently - it's amazing what it can do with 512kbits available.
Seems like the best way to go. Open-sourcing VP7 would probably save them more money (in the long run) than licensing H.264.
Who needs a GUI when you've got the command line!
Me?
I'm sorry, but when something breaks, I fall back to my working computer (with a GUI) with access to Google. :P
Farscape and Firefly were the lucky exceptions. Those two were cut off unexpectedly (and Farscape in particular ended on what absolutely should NOT have finished off that series), but they at least got movies to tie them up.
Yeah... Jericho also got tied up. It got canned, then came back with 8 new episodes, then got cut down to 6. (so the last two of the six feel quite rushed - lots of stuff happening)
It's too bad the creators of these series aren't able to say no to the networks. "No, I won't do that 5th season - I don't feel it does it justice.", etc..
I'm still reserving my judgement on Chuck until I see more. So far it's come back okay.
Making finishing a series an accepted practice in the industry would probably make a lot of viewers happy. There's nothing worse than your favourite show just vanishing, and that's it.
What a coincidence. Nearly a decade ago I started to get blinding migraines in 5 minutes flat from eating corn.
I'm against genetically modified ANYTHING. Why? Because I can't verify the effects are negative. We're toddlers, playing with genomes. We need to study this shit for decades(lifetimes) before we put it out in the wild - lest we damage ourselves irreparably.
So many TV shows are developed these days with the philosophy that you should continue making series until your audience figures fall low enough to shut you down. If there's an ending at all, only a tiny number of ultra-hardcore viewers ever see it. We're being bombarded with stories that have a beginning and an endless middle, but no ending.
Totally agree with this, and pretty much everything else you said.
Chuck had a good ending - and it came back!
Your arguments are valid, but partly flawed.
You don't just factor in mileage when considering price. Electric cars have a lot of power - that alone has to be worth a few thousand more. Take the most beefed up sportscar you've ever driven, and exceed it by a healthy margin - you've got an electric. ;)
Also, don't forget the $7500 government tax rebate. If you factor that in with quite a bit of driving for 5 years, it's about $12k more expensive than your Vibe. But you save a lot of that on the (apparently) superior mileage.
So, when you look at it that way... if you had the money available, and factor in that it'd close you about $8k more than the Vibe in the long run, wouldn't you do it for the environment, and also the privilege of saying you drive an electric? ;)
P.S. Toyota Corollas are good cars. I have a hatchback from the 80's. Still going strong, and gets about 35mpg on the highway. Recently the style flipped back to a similar chassis, so for two years everyone thought I had a brand new car. (the paint job helped)
You can't be "Allergic to wi-fi"
Put him in a room, and turn the wireless on and off. Guaranteed he won't be able to tell the difference.
Maybe that's not what it is.
My neighbour's phone was giving me a nasty headache. I thought it was food allergies, but one time I was in the backyard and his window was opened. I noticed the throbbing was pointing directly at that opening. I went over to his house and explained what was going on. He thought it was really strange, but let me in to look around. Once I figured out it was the phone(took all of 10 seconds to find it), I told him. He was happy to accept the new phone that I gave him later that day. No more headaches.
Best bet... some sort of frequency that I can *almost* hear, but nobody else can? The new phone was the exact same frequency, so I suspect his was somehow defective.
The guy suing could be a hypochondriac, or maybe there's more to it. I can hear CRT TVs - but that's pretty common. I can also hear circuit breakers, capacitors, power lines (I try not to get too close), LCD monitors, battery powered clocks, some watches, etc.; but none of that stuff causes me to have a headache. I have a Wireless G network with the signal strength ramped up - Tomato WRT54GL - but no headache.
I think my (superior?) hearing might be genetic. I have an Uncle nearing age 60, and he can still hear that annoying Mosquito ringtone that's supposed to be Teen-only.
What I don't get is, why would this guy sue? My first line of attack would be begging them to let me network their whole house, if it was real physical discomfort. If it wasn't physical - just something audible like being able to hear their TV - then who cares?
Must have a GeForce videocard.
Across the board, if games run in OpenGL and DirectX mode, older GeForces will have a way higher framerate in OpenGL mode. Then you can bump up the res and detail levels.
I remember in Warcraft III it was so pronounced that my GeForce 2 MX 400 could run everything on Med 800x600, but in OpenGL it managed 1280x1024 with some stuff on high. Radeon users were said to have no difference (both ran like shit), except OpenGL mode also had distorted text at low resolutions.
And KOTOR, once vertex buffers were disabled, had a rediculously high framerate. It was an OpenGL-only game. The vertex buffers used to drop the framerate to about 5fps (640x480), but once I found the tweak to turn them off I was getting 30fps 1280x1024 8xAA. This was with a 6600, which would slow to a crawl in OpenGL Warcraft III with any AA forced on. A very optimized rendering engine, if you apply the right tweak.
And even Titan Quest played with max everything on my 7900GS. The Radeons of the time were being crippled. Something about fully dynamic shadows. (Years before Crysis, too :P )
It's too bad OpenGL has been relegated to the backburner now. It's basically playing catchup with DX10/DX11.
Vampires don't sparkle in sun light, they burn. Taking away one of the most defining characteristics of vampires is sort of like castrating them.
Moonlight had vampires get weaker in the sun. (Go kinda pale, feel sick - almost like heatstroke)
I can tell they had a few geeks writing it, because they got a lot of the lore right. Subtle references to things. Even a LEEROY JENKINS! tossed into one episode.
Burning is the accepted default. Just wanted to point out there are other ways of handling it. But sparkling is just... strange.
http://gm-volt.com/chevy-volt-faqs/
Q: What is the driving range of the Chevy Volt?
A: The car is being designed to drive at least 40 miles on pure electricity stored in the battery from overnight home charging. After that the gas engine will kick in and allow the car to be driven up to 400 miles on a full tank (~8 gallons) of gas.
Q: How many miles per gallon will the Chevy Volt get?
A: A bit of a trick question. For the first 40 miles it will get infinite mpg, because no gas will be burned. When the generator starts, the car will get an equivalent of up to 50 mpg thereafter. One can calculate the average mpg per for any length drive starting with a full battery: Total MPG = 50xM/(M-40). GM has announced the car will get 230 MPG for the average city driver over time assuming nightly full recharges.
Q: What is the cost of operation of the car
A: With current average U.S. electric rates of ~10 cents/kwh it should cost 80 cents to drive for the first 40 miles, and then get 50 mpg thereafter using gasoline (market rate).
Sounds like the battery has a 60+ mile range, but the generator kicks in at 40 miles to give it some room to maintain optimal efficiency.
They probably have an Ubuntu .deb packaged, and didn't test for anything else.
electric vehicles lack that feedback.
Not all! Some make artificial noise!
Until they're able to drive themselves, I think that should be a law.
It should be a couple cents to recharge fully, nomatter where you live.
But that full charge only gives 40 miles, so... hmm..
If you're worried that it'll break the bank, shut a lightbulb off somewhere.
CES and the hotels strike me as an annoying credit card company.
"We'd like to offer you this free insurance. It protects you up to $10,000 in case of injury. Furthermore, you'll never have to pay the $10,000 back. There are no addtional fees, and no cancellation charges within 30 days."
The insurance has no activation fee, (making it free), but it adds 9% to everything you buy. Note: this is not an additonal fee - it's just the regulate rate for the freely activated insurance. And of course, there are no cancellation charges within 30 days. But if you used your credit card, the rate is non-refundable. ;)
The only positive part above is the $10,000 you never have to pay back. Too bad you can't cancel it until you do, so you'd be stuck with a 9% transaction rate forever.
I suspect CES used great sounding terminology - which any lawyer would zoom in on and shudder, because it's setting you up to be screwed.
Zalman, huh? Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's exactly what happened.
I wish they would list battery life under "Heavy Use".
I remember reading a Netbook review where it pointed out how bogus the 10 hour claims are. Can't find the exact one, but this one is similar.
10 hours? No. 6 hours if you're doing something. Listening to an MP3 while you work in Office and browse the web? That's CPU, speakers, Wifi, possibly Flash(GPU/CPU), and the HDD. 6 hours is expected under fairly normal use for anyone that visits slashdot.
And yet devices like the Pandora handheld make real heavy use claims. Why must it be a small insignificant company to avoid being lied to?
I use Twitter to get free stuff. Companies like eVGA, online stores, etc. have promos and giveaways. I'm up a laptop case and wine rack, so far. Was hoping to win a GPU, but no luck yet. :/
Youtube doesn't play smoothly on my Athlon II X2 3.5ghz. I'm amazed you got it to play acceptably on Windows, because I couldn't. ;)
PS: This seems relevent. Don't DDOS them.
http://camendesign.com/code/video_for_everybody
It's a non-javascript solution for embedding video that plays on a wide variety of devices and platforms. (iPhone, OSX, Linux, Windows, Firefox, IEx, Opera, etc.)