But nor do I know anyone who uses the theming engine in XP
More fool them. The defaults are pretty lacklustre, but some excellent third-party ones exist.
Anyway, in answer to your real point, yes the options are still available when using XP's theming engine, in exactly the same place they've always been.
Asus has decided to follow the trend and use a panel with an optical filter. That was a mistake. Despite the manufacturer's claims on its Website that the reflectivity of the optical filter is especially low, when viewing a dark picture, the LCD panel is as reflective as the gloss-finished shell.
As always with panels that use filters, the colours are showy. They're well saturated, but imprecise, as our calibrator test shows...
The colour rendering was far from being ideal. Frankly, I can't understand why LCD manufacturers insist on using these filters when the results are always so mediocre...
Asus didn't use overdrive technology for this panel. The result is that it's not really a contender as far as responsiveness is concerned... It's no catastrophe, but this kind of latency takes us back a year or so...
I was waiting to see how the PW191 would perform screening movies. And sad to say, video noise was still much too evident. A lot of sparkling was visible. Note that Asus offers a sharpness adjustment (which is rare on an LCD monitor) that lets you soften the focus slightly. That helped a little, but the sparkling didn't disappear completely... We hate to harp on this issue, but the optical filter means that you'll have to watch your movies in total darkness, especially if the film tends to be dark (e.g. Sin City or The Matrix).
And finally, from the conclusion:
The finish is exceptional. It's probably the best-looking monitor available on the market today. And beyond the good looks, the picture is very sharp and the colours are very good in video games. In itself, the PW191 is a good product, but it's obvious that the panel was poorly chosen. It's slower than its competitors, yet doesn't solve the video-noise problems that plague them.
So, it's a good monitor, apart from the LCD panel. Forgive me if I don't rush out to get one... (Or am I completely out of touch and all LCD monitors are this bad?)
Not to be a spelling nazi, but the abbreviation of "advertisement" is ad, not add. Although I guess you were consistent at the end there, with "addvertizing":)
To get on-topic though, you're right. I can think of a number of Intel adverts, and of course any advert for a PC with an Intel CPU has that (fucking annoying) jingle at least once, but I don't recall any AMD ads at all. The closest I've come is when I was at JavaUK06 recently, when Sun's VP of marketing banged on about how great their new AMD-based boxes are, and how much better they are than equivalent Xeon-based ones. Even that wasn't really an advert - well, it was, only in that context it's pronounced "keynote speech".
Keep in mind, it's only stealing when you would have gone out to purchase it in the first place! At least that's how most justify it.
That's certainly an argument that I've used myself; however, it's still illegal, and so if you do indulge in copyright infringement, you have to accept the risk of getting caught and being punished for it.
Just becaues you personally disagree with a law doesn't mean it doesn't apply to you.
The ultimate question in my mind is, what is the actual cost of manufacturing and distributing? It's like a $0.03 piece of plastic, the disc that is. Generic packaging like they talk of here can't cost very much.
Cost of manufacture and distribution of the disc is peanuts. Don't forget, however, that the film on it wasn't free to make. For old films and those that have already recopued their costs the production cost is immaterial, but for newer ones that have yet to break even (they don't all manage to at the box office) it's definitely a factor.
I can't really see why you're missing out; all of the commercial distros have marketing departments, and the last time I installed Linux (a few months ago) the installer took great pains to tell me how wonderful it was, how much it would improve my productivity, how good the community is, etc. That's all marketing...
- Release patches quickly - Release patches with adequate testing
You do realise that some things simply take a certain amount of time and no matter how much money or how many people you throw at the problem they will not get done any quicker, don't you?
You also realise that the reason that MS release patches on a monthly schedule is that the corporate IT world demanded it, don't you?
What you are asking for, in effet, is that they a) solve problems in a certain amount of time regardless of how long it actually requires, b) do so without affecting quality and c) go against the express wishes of a large proportion of their customers.
Now, I'm not saying that they're perfect by any means, and I accept that I'm probably lucky in that I've used half a dozen machines over the last few years running Windows 2k and XP and have suffered no problems that weren't entirely hardware related, but from where I'm sat they're doing an ok job.
However, it seems a bit unenforcable. I mean, what about websites overseas? What about websites overseas operated by American's? What about websites in the US operated by foreigners?
What about them? No, you can't enforce this ruling against them, but so what? You're doing what you can, perhaps in the hopes that others will follow your lead. In the mean time, while your actions don't magically make the entire internet a "safer" place (for some definition of "safer"), it does help at least part of it.
For what it's worth, I don't think this is worth legislation, but at the same time I don't think it's pointless just because you can't legislate for the entire internet.
Oh, and jurisdiction is easy - as a Brit living in the UK, your courts can't touch me unless my government decides to extradite me, which I can't see them doing just for breaking a law this trivial. If I were to put up a site your country doesn't like, you can either put up with it or block it at your own borders. Short of asking me nicely, there's nothing else you can do.
(Well, you can bring economic and/or diplomatic pressure to bear on my home country, threaten war, invade, assinate me, etc, but I'm trying to stay in the realms of the likely)
Given that SI prefixes predate computing ones by a considerable amount of time, the first couple of generations of people to use SI prefixes to refer to powers of 2 were wrong. So much for computer "science".
Comments like yours make me feel sad. Why do this? What about the pure hell of it? Of finding out things that no-one else knows, of pushing back the boundaries of human understanding?
In short, what's wrong with pure research for research's sake?
Besides which, who knows what the applications might be in the future? There were lasers lying in research labs for a decade or more before anyone thought of a practical use for them. Now I personally have at least 8 in my house; people carry them around with them (in personal CD players).
If you personally only want to pursue applied research, that's fine. But please don't discount the value of pure theoretical research.
Alt-tabbing over to another app during a game is instantaneous and snappy
I have an Athlon X2, and yes, alt-tabbing is snappy. However, since my 2 gig of RAM had to be returned and I'm temporarily down to 1 gig, alt-tabbing out of games is noticably less snappy.
Basically, the snappiness is down to the amount of RAM - if you have to swap the game out and the desktop and other apps back in, then it'll crawl, regardless of how many processors you have. If not, then a single processor will still manage snappy tabs.
I'm sure I can't be the only one who might have their virus scan set to something like 2am thinking they won't be using their PC at that time
Mine's set to 8am - week days, I should be just leaving the house to get to work. Weekends, I'm either still in bed or on my way there:)
maybe its a sign that I should cut down on my Red Bull/Coke/Bawls/Speed intake and go to bed
You need help to stay up to 2am gaming? Oy, what is today's youth coming to? I remember particularly one day in my early teens when I borrowed Dungeon Master from a friend; I stayed up until about 4 am playing it, then was back up at 9 to carry on.
Yeah, that game had me in its claws and no mistake...
Same way most people decide on the value of a physical object - some combination of how much it cost to produce it, the worth to the person in question, what they could sell it for, how much they're prepared to pay, and so on.
Just because it can be easily reproduced doesn't mean that it was free to create the first copy or that it has no resale value.
Gosh, that's like charging $750 for copying one song...
That's a punishment and a deterrent. When something illegal is easy to do, hard to detect and widely regarded as not really being that big a deal, the punishment tends to be on the harsh side, or even out of all proportion. It's meant to act as a deterrent, the idea being that if it's so easy, so unlikely that you'll get caught and doesn't seem to hurt anyone, a sledgehammer punishment is the only thing that will stop prospective transgressors.
I'm not saying that it's right, or just, but that's the theory behind it as I understand it.
French copyright laws do not allow publication of copyrighted work.
In which case, the country in which the pictures were taken is immaterial - what matters is the country in which they were published. Now, if it was illegal to take the pictures under French law, and they were taken in France, then you'd have a point.
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1984 will only come when we allow it.
;)
1985 called to let you know it's too late, 1984 has already been and gone
But nor do I know anyone who uses the theming engine in XP
More fool them. The defaults are pretty lacklustre, but some excellent third-party ones exist.
Anyway, in answer to your real point, yes the options are still available when using XP's theming engine, in exactly the same place they've always been.
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Asus has decided to follow the trend and use a panel with an optical filter. That was a mistake. Despite the manufacturer's claims on its Website that the reflectivity of the optical filter is especially low, when viewing a dark picture, the LCD panel is as reflective as the gloss-finished shell.
As always with panels that use filters, the colours are showy. They're well saturated, but imprecise, as our calibrator test shows...
The colour rendering was far from being ideal. Frankly, I can't understand why LCD manufacturers insist on using these filters when the results are always so mediocre...
Asus didn't use overdrive technology for this panel. The result is that it's not really a contender as far as responsiveness is concerned... It's no catastrophe, but this kind of latency takes us back a year or so...
I was waiting to see how the PW191 would perform screening movies. And sad to say, video noise was still much too evident. A lot of sparkling was visible. Note that Asus offers a sharpness adjustment (which is rare on an LCD monitor) that lets you soften the focus slightly. That helped a little, but the sparkling didn't disappear completely... We hate to harp on this issue, but the optical filter means that you'll have to watch your movies in total darkness, especially if the film tends to be dark (e.g. Sin City or The Matrix).
And finally, from the conclusion:
The finish is exceptional. It's probably the best-looking monitor available on the market today. And beyond the good looks, the picture is very sharp and the colours are very good in video games. In itself, the PW191 is a good product, but it's obvious that the panel was poorly chosen. It's slower than its competitors, yet doesn't solve the video-noise problems that plague them.
So, it's a good monitor, apart from the LCD panel. Forgive me if I don't rush out to get one... (Or am I completely out of touch and all LCD monitors are this bad?)
Not to be a spelling nazi, but the abbreviation of "advertisement" is ad, not add. Although I guess you were consistent at the end there, with "addvertizing" :)
To get on-topic though, you're right. I can think of a number of Intel adverts, and of course any advert for a PC with an Intel CPU has that (fucking annoying) jingle at least once, but I don't recall any AMD ads at all. The closest I've come is when I was at JavaUK06 recently, when Sun's VP of marketing banged on about how great their new AMD-based boxes are, and how much better they are than equivalent Xeon-based ones. Even that wasn't really an advert - well, it was, only in that context it's pronounced "keynote speech".
Keep in mind, it's only stealing when you would have gone out to purchase it in the first place! At least that's how most justify it.
That's certainly an argument that I've used myself; however, it's still illegal, and so if you do indulge in copyright infringement, you have to accept the risk of getting caught and being punished for it.
Just becaues you personally disagree with a law doesn't mean it doesn't apply to you.
The ultimate question in my mind is, what is the actual cost of manufacturing and distributing? It's like a $0.03 piece of plastic, the disc that is. Generic packaging like they talk of here can't cost very much.
Cost of manufacture and distribution of the disc is peanuts. Don't forget, however, that the film on it wasn't free to make. For old films and those that have already recopued their costs the production cost is immaterial, but for newer ones that have yet to break even (they don't all manage to at the box office) it's definitely a factor.
I can't really see why you're missing out; all of the commercial distros have marketing departments, and the last time I installed Linux (a few months ago) the installer took great pains to tell me how wonderful it was, how much it would improve my productivity, how good the community is, etc. That's all marketing...
Yeah, but while we decry Sony's actions, we still watch their films, listen to their music, buy their consoles, etc.
It's only MS that we truly hate; slashdot has never even pretended to aspire to objectivity.
They can, will, and had better do both:
- Release patches quickly
- Release patches with adequate testing
You do realise that some things simply take a certain amount of time and no matter how much money or how many people you throw at the problem they will not get done any quicker, don't you?
You also realise that the reason that MS release patches on a monthly schedule is that the corporate IT world demanded it, don't you?
What you are asking for, in effet, is that they a) solve problems in a certain amount of time regardless of how long it actually requires, b) do so without affecting quality and c) go against the express wishes of a large proportion of their customers.
Now, I'm not saying that they're perfect by any means, and I accept that I'm probably lucky in that I've used half a dozen machines over the last few years running Windows 2k and XP and have suffered no problems that weren't entirely hardware related, but from where I'm sat they're doing an ok job.
How do they do it with such a shoddy codebase?
You've seen it then? What aspects in particular are shoddy?
However, it seems a bit unenforcable. I mean, what about websites overseas? What about websites overseas operated by American's? What about websites in the US operated by foreigners?
What about them? No, you can't enforce this ruling against them, but so what? You're doing what you can, perhaps in the hopes that others will follow your lead. In the mean time, while your actions don't magically make the entire internet a "safer" place (for some definition of "safer"), it does help at least part of it.
For what it's worth, I don't think this is worth legislation, but at the same time I don't think it's pointless just because you can't legislate for the entire internet.
Oh, and jurisdiction is easy - as a Brit living in the UK, your courts can't touch me unless my government decides to extradite me, which I can't see them doing just for breaking a law this trivial. If I were to put up a site your country doesn't like, you can either put up with it or block it at your own borders. Short of asking me nicely, there's nothing else you can do.
(Well, you can bring economic and/or diplomatic pressure to bear on my home country, threaten war, invade, assinate me, etc, but I'm trying to stay in the realms of the likely)
WTF is a "home page" and who decides what page is the "home page"?
In answer to your questions:
it's the page displayed when you surf to http://somedomain.com/
and
I just did.
You misspelt "hegemony".
Given that SI prefixes predate computing ones by a considerable amount of time, the first couple of generations of people to use SI prefixes to refer to powers of 2 were wrong. So much for computer "science".
You don't care about beer? Well, OK, you are probably better off for that.
You don't need to know about the recipe or the history of beer making in order to be able to enjoy the finished product.
Stories like this make me feel sad
Comments like yours make me feel sad. Why do this? What about the pure hell of it? Of finding out things that no-one else knows, of pushing back the boundaries of human understanding?
In short, what's wrong with pure research for research's sake?
Besides which, who knows what the applications might be in the future? There were lasers lying in research labs for a decade or more before anyone thought of a practical use for them. Now I personally have at least 8 in my house; people carry them around with them (in personal CD players).
If you personally only want to pursue applied research, that's fine. But please don't discount the value of pure theoretical research.
Alt-tabbing over to another app during a game is instantaneous and snappy
I have an Athlon X2, and yes, alt-tabbing is snappy. However, since my 2 gig of RAM had to be returned and I'm temporarily down to 1 gig, alt-tabbing out of games is noticably less snappy.
Basically, the snappiness is down to the amount of RAM - if you have to swap the game out and the desktop and other apps back in, then it'll crawl, regardless of how many processors you have. If not, then a single processor will still manage snappy tabs.
I'm sure I can't be the only one who might have their virus scan set to something like 2am thinking they won't be using their PC at that time
:)
Mine's set to 8am - week days, I should be just leaving the house to get to work. Weekends, I'm either still in bed or on my way there
maybe its a sign that I should cut down on my Red Bull/Coke/Bawls/Speed intake and go to bed
You need help to stay up to 2am gaming? Oy, what is today's youth coming to? I remember particularly one day in my early teens when I borrowed Dungeon Master from a friend; I stayed up until about 4 am playing it, then was back up at 9 to carry on.
Yeah, that game had me in its claws and no mistake...
Sales guys in "talk up plus points, hide bad points" shock... ;)
Same way most people decide on the value of a physical object - some combination of how much it cost to produce it, the worth to the person in question, what they could sell it for, how much they're prepared to pay, and so on.
Just because it can be easily reproduced doesn't mean that it was free to create the first copy or that it has no resale value.
Gosh, that's like charging $750 for copying one song...
That's a punishment and a deterrent. When something illegal is easy to do, hard to detect and widely regarded as not really being that big a deal, the punishment tends to be on the harsh side, or even out of all proportion. It's meant to act as a deterrent, the idea being that if it's so easy, so unlikely that you'll get caught and doesn't seem to hurt anyone, a sledgehammer punishment is the only thing that will stop prospective transgressors.
I'm not saying that it's right, or just, but that's the theory behind it as I understand it.
I bought an Athlon X2 solely because it runs much cooler than the P4.
That was also one of my reasons for buying an X2 rather than an equivalent P4.
The consideration is power consumption. More heat means more power draw means more expensive.
Don't forget it's a double hit - not only does the chip consume more power, but the air conditioning needs to be more powerful too.
They lost me in the last round.
They lost me for a couple of reasons, and heat was one of them. Before that, all my (PC) CPUs were Intels.
you take your eyes off the road to either line up the coffee cup to your mouth
If you seriously need to look to bring a cup to your mouth, you need to work on your coordination...
French copyright laws do not allow publication of copyrighted work.
In which case, the country in which the pictures were taken is immaterial - what matters is the country in which they were published. Now, if it was illegal to take the pictures under French law, and they were taken in France, then you'd have a point.
You have a right to free speech, but that's not your speech.
Some would say that the final three words of that sentence were superfluous.
Burst shares have gone UP by 30 percent. The market is rarely wrong.
Looks like someone was asleep during the internet bubble.