You're sending them there on a one trip for one reason and one reason only: saving money. You're not sending them to a new world with more people there and more people coming and food everywhere ripe for the picking. They will eke out a miserable existence and remember earth fondly and try to be live off of what they are doing for humanity.
You're right - we can't have that.
I propose that we give the difference to the Astronaut's family, if s/he so chooses to go on a one-way voyage.;)
And here I thought 256kbit(384kbit when both up/down are being used) was the definition of Broadband. Kudos to Obama for setting their goals a little bit higher.
Ahh, those poor Aussies with their 64kbit capped "broadband".;D
I like having my Back, Forward, Reload, and Stop buttons left of the address bar. I can't believe they're considering adopting an IE-esque interface.
Their Chrome-like tab examples really fail, since they don't touch the top of the screen. That means not only are they not where you expected them to be, but you also can't click them by ramming your cursor to the top of the screen.
(This is a big one for me - I hate those X buttons that are in the top right, but are several pixels out, so that you actually have to look and see where your cursor is)
In short, I agree that non-native = bad. Windows has always had easy to click buttons, scrollbars, etc. on the edges - I hope they don't screw that up.;)
What can I say? I'm feeling lucky.;) I suppose I could turn off auto-redirect, and get taken to a page of results, but I prefer it the way it is by default in Firefox.
With Chrome, I was endlessly annoyed by being taken to search pages, rather than going to the site I wanted to go to. I figured it was to ensure I saw more advertisements.
how do you get the data out of gmail to switch providers ?
I suggest POP or IMAP.
And coincidentally, if the IT guy at your company had set up your email client to sync with gmail, you'd still have access to all your emails while gmail is down - even if you can't send anything.
But for that, there's LAN-based IM clients.;) You can also have a chat in-person.
I know you said that with great sarcasm, but it actually would be an improvement. Google has proven they'll keep innovating, even when in a dominant position. Microsoft has proven the opposite. So although competition is best - yes, we'd be better off, stuck with Google overlords.
What are you talking about? Firefox doesn't need you to press tab - you just hit enter and it automagically figures out whether you're entering a search or a URL.
Opera Mini is just a thin application. The actual "browser", or the engine, runs on a server.
Huh? I thought they did preprocessing to compress pages, make them easier to render, and strip out excessive javascript. Then they pass it all on to the lightweight Opera Mini browser.
I once heard that if every webpage were valid XHTML, web browsers could be twice as fast as they are now, and consume far less memory.
I think what Opera needs more is Flashblock, because pages that suddenly make sounds or start downloading HD videos without asking are disgusting.
Why yes, I do find Youtube disgusting! Nothing annoys me more than opening a few related Youtube videos, and having them all start playing at the same time. Then I have to click the pause button on each one individually.
Same thing on Gametrailers.com; flash starts playing immediately. Because of that, I actually set my default media player to quicktime.
I really think MS needs to offer an early adopters special.
You know, they actually did this - but by the time I received the newsletter, the promo pricing was already sold out. I believe it was going for $60, too.
because that means more people moving to Linux and OSX, or just sitting on their old XP license.
I think you're correct about this. XP, in my opinion, has the achievement of being the first solid OS that is "good enough".
It's not - but you're basing it on the assumption that you're getting a better experience, which sometimes isn't true.
I recall reading some articles way back comparing the online experience between PS3 and XBox360, in games like Cod4.
Although the reviews favoured XBoxLive, they did mention the PS3 servers had far less latency, and the big positive for XBoxLive was basically the universal friends list.
I don't know about you, but I'd skip the friends list if it gives me less latency. Most MMOs have that stuff integrated anyway.
And it's pretty common for online PC games to have solid servers, so I'm not convinced I'm getting a better experience until someone proves it.
Sony charges the developers while MS charges the customer, neither are "free" whats different is who is paying for it.
Sony charges the developers for bandwidth for the first 60 days if the articles I read last year were correct. After that, no more charges.
Their logic is, demos are marketing, and that should come from the marketing budget.
Sonyâ(TM)s change of policy meant that (for example) if a 1GB demo were to be downloaded one million times, it would cost the publisher $160,000. Take into account that even demos cost a fair amount to make in the first place, this will all add up.
Whoop dee doo. EA spends over 20 million marketing most of their games. Are they really going to flinch at $160k?
And I thought Microsoft charged for bandwidth on some content, too? Why else is most of the free-on-PC DLC costing money on XBoxLive?
So... its a graphical versioning system. Sure, there was nothing quite as good as it before (though I still mostly use iBackup), but it isn't a new or innovative idea. Its a backup... I've been doing that for around 20 years before Time Machine came around, I'll continue doing it years after OS X dies.
It's like SVN, but for all your files. Revision history!
The issue is, Microsoft is being really slow about it. In a market that fights hard to get games released on time, it's strange that "planning, server load testing, and figuring out exactly how it interacts with existing services" would take so little time to get right on PS3 and PC, but so long on XBox360.
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You're sending them there on a one trip for one reason and one reason only: saving money. You're not sending them to a new world with more people there and more people coming and food everywhere ripe for the picking. They will eke out a miserable existence and remember earth fondly and try to be live off of what they are doing for humanity.
You're right - we can't have that.
I propose that we give the difference to the Astronaut's family, if s/he so chooses to go on a one-way voyage. ;)
And here I thought 256kbit(384kbit when both up/down are being used) was the definition of Broadband. Kudos to Obama for setting their goals a little bit higher.
Ahh, those poor Aussies with their 64kbit capped "broadband". ;D
But much cheaper, and with far less software glitches.
Both of those are debateable.
Yes, a Tower costs more than a Console, but what about accessories? How much does WiFi cost for an XBox360? Extra controllers? An HDD upgrade?
Total cost of ownership is probably about the same. No comment on the software glitches part. :)
Tabs should be down the side.
No no, tabs should be flush against the task bar, so that when you switch to a firefox window, all the tabs show up as a sort of second taskbar level.
Note: This is the only layout that isn't possible with addons/themes, since you can't get anything below the dang statusbar.
I like having my Back, Forward, Reload, and Stop buttons left of the address bar. I can't believe they're considering adopting an IE-esque interface.
Their Chrome-like tab examples really fail, since they don't touch the top of the screen. That means not only are they not where you expected them to be, but you also can't click them by ramming your cursor to the top of the screen.
(This is a big one for me - I hate those X buttons that are in the top right, but are several pixels out, so that you actually have to look and see where your cursor is)
In short, I agree that non-native = bad. Windows has always had easy to click buttons, scrollbars, etc. on the edges - I hope they don't screw that up. ;)
Actually, it's 95.5 metric miles.
And you thought you were making a joke!
You're right. In a system with hundreds of HDDs and sticks of RAM, even one going silently bad would be a nightmare.
Sun sure did put out some amazing stuff.
DOM elements are more compressed than an image. I suspect it's simply reducing the webpages to a stricter and easier to parse binary version of HTML.
What can I say? I'm feeling lucky. ;) I suppose I could turn off auto-redirect, and get taken to a page of results, but I prefer it the way it is by default in Firefox.
With Chrome, I was endlessly annoyed by being taken to search pages, rather than going to the site I wanted to go to. I figured it was to ensure I saw more advertisements.
Win7 promo pricing ended so quickly that it doesn't count. $30 pricing for OSX isn't going to vanish very quickly. ;)
I got my Sennheiser PC161 headset for $40, but that doesn't make it the regular price.
how do you get the data out of gmail to switch providers ?
I suggest POP or IMAP.
And coincidentally, if the IT guy at your company had set up your email client to sync with gmail, you'd still have access to all your emails while gmail is down - even if you can't send anything.
But for that, there's LAN-based IM clients. ;) You can also have a chat in-person.
Maybe they can get these guys to make it. They seem to have experience with all that protocol/prioritization crap.
Wow, that's a great improvement...
I know you said that with great sarcasm, but it actually would be an improvement. Google has proven they'll keep innovating, even when in a dominant position. Microsoft has proven the opposite. So although competition is best - yes, we'd be better off, stuck with Google overlords.
Yes, it's actually better than firefox.
What are you talking about? Firefox doesn't need you to press tab - you just hit enter and it automagically figures out whether you're entering a search or a URL.
Ahh, but Chrome isn't bloatware, so that makes it okay! ;)
Opera Mini is just a thin application. The actual "browser", or the engine, runs on a server.
Huh? I thought they did preprocessing to compress pages, make them easier to render, and strip out excessive javascript. Then they pass it all on to the lightweight Opera Mini browser.
I once heard that if every webpage were valid XHTML, web browsers could be twice as fast as they are now, and consume far less memory.
He's not imagining it. He just doesn't know the reason for it. And for that matter, neither do I.
I have Portable FF 3.0 and Portable FF 3.5 sitting on my computer. FF 3.0 takes about 3x as long to load gmail.
I think what Opera needs more is Flashblock, because pages that suddenly make sounds or start downloading HD videos without asking are disgusting.
Why yes, I do find Youtube disgusting! Nothing annoys me more than opening a few related Youtube videos, and having them all start playing at the same time. Then I have to click the pause button on each one individually.
Same thing on Gametrailers.com; flash starts playing immediately. Because of that, I actually set my default media player to quicktime.
Oh, don't do that. Just go back to watching old shows that ended.
Stuff like... Jeremiah, The Pretender, or Babylon 5 might keep you amused for a few months. (three quite different kinds of shows)
I really think MS needs to offer an early adopters special.
You know, they actually did this - but by the time I received the newsletter, the promo pricing was already sold out. I believe it was going for $60, too.
because that means more people moving to Linux and OSX, or just sitting on their old XP license.
I think you're correct about this. XP, in my opinion, has the achievement of being the first solid OS that is "good enough".
Why is that a bad thing?
It's not - but you're basing it on the assumption that you're getting a better experience, which sometimes isn't true.
I recall reading some articles way back comparing the online experience between PS3 and XBox360, in games like Cod4.
Although the reviews favoured XBoxLive, they did mention the PS3 servers had far less latency, and the big positive for XBoxLive was basically the universal friends list.
I don't know about you, but I'd skip the friends list if it gives me less latency. Most MMOs have that stuff integrated anyway.
And it's pretty common for online PC games to have solid servers, so I'm not convinced I'm getting a better experience until someone proves it.
Sony charges the developers while MS charges the customer, neither are "free" whats different is who is paying for it.
Sony charges the developers for bandwidth for the first 60 days if the articles I read last year were correct. After that, no more charges.
Their logic is, demos are marketing, and that should come from the marketing budget.
Sonyâ(TM)s change of policy meant that (for example) if a 1GB demo were to be downloaded one million times, it would cost the publisher $160,000. Take into account that even demos cost a fair amount to make in the first place, this will all add up.
Whoop dee doo. EA spends over 20 million marketing most of their games. Are they really going to flinch at $160k?
And I thought Microsoft charged for bandwidth on some content, too? Why else is most of the free-on-PC DLC costing money on XBoxLive?
So... its a graphical versioning system. Sure, there was nothing quite as good as it before (though I still mostly use iBackup), but it isn't a new or innovative idea. Its a backup... I've been doing that for around 20 years before Time Machine came around, I'll continue doing it years after OS X dies.
It's like SVN, but for all your files. Revision history!
That alone makes it better than "just a backup".
I prefer the second.
That's a given.
The issue is, Microsoft is being really slow about it. In a market that fights hard to get games released on time, it's strange that "planning, server load testing, and figuring out exactly how it interacts with existing services" would take so little time to get right on PS3 and PC, but so long on XBox360.
Am I the only one who thinks the 360 is one of the few things MSFT has got right in the last few years?
Yes.
I'm no fan of our evil corporate overlords
Me neither.
but hell, I like my 360.
I don't have one.
Halo rules.
Iffy.
Geas of War rules.
Yes.
And XBL is a well done online offering.
Yes.
What? It should be free?
Yes.
Sigh....
Why can't you accept that it should be free? Everyone but Microsoft can do it for free.