Outlook killed my computer and made it obselete, I had to buy a new one just to be able to load my mailbox.
Scheduling and calendering features are standardized, but the real killer feature is activesynch. It's a funny thing that it's actually working considering the hard time some vendors have trying to produce drivers for it. Though it's a fact that standardized synching hasn't got very far and I fear that some efforts to close the gap will be halted by introduction of some passport services or some other obscure scheme.
Not really, cf isn't nearly fast enough. My unit has 256 Mbit (which is only 32 MB) and costs almost as much as a 256 MB compact flash.
Unfortunately the only thing to justify buying one would be comparing the price with the price of the games. However, Nintendo could easily cut out the market if they were to release a $5 cable to make kids download single-level demos of the games they could buy - the GBA don't need any flash cartridge to do that...
Or, even cranking up the frame rate.. how about a 60fps film. The motion blur at 24fps is horrible.
People have come to enjoy the soothing clunkiness of 24fps,
Well, what if the motion blur disappears when using a digital projector - then 24 fps will look pretty bleak and 60 fps will definitely be needed. Comparing to the state of televisions the 100 Hz TV's (europe) requires special circuitry to interpolate a decent picture. And while as long as the interpolation technique introduces artifacts I prefer the builtin smoothing of a 50 Hz set. To go back to movies, if the digital projectors are too good they will only magnify the limitations of the original film. So both are right, but once the step is taken to digital there's no going back - framerate must go up eventually.
That's not true,
the story says "As yet the company doesn't seem to have used Windows Update to deactivate warez systems, but it's possible."
But you only need to check the Office Update FAQ to prove the opposite:
"Why do my Office 2000 applications exit a few seconds after opening?
Office 2000 SR-1a is designed to update licensed, released copies of Office 2000. Those users who have a released and licensed version of Office 2000 will not run into this when installing SR-1a. Customers using unlicensed Office 2000 software or pre-release (e.g., preview) software will not be able to upgrade successfully to SR-1a."
Office 2000 update FAQ
It's plain in sight, just don't do the update. However, if this would happen by an automatic update through the windows update web service it could get microsoft in trouble - even more so if they should deactivate someone's computer because of a duplicated real key. But don't think they won't try if they think they can prove its fake.
Re:"Netscape-style plug-in modules" - HUH?
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I tried to install Quicktime and now internet explorer dies totally whenever I find a page using it.
Opera doesn't sound that bad after all.
I have to give some kudos to IE 6.0 for actually supporting international characters when printing - HTML is a much better and structured way for wordprocessing. Now, whenever it's possible to actually print html pages suited for larger windows than 640x480, it could actually be an improvement over the functionality of NS4.6.
Exactly my point,
I am already running linux over VNC, but my preference is towards light portables (which don't work very well with my KVM switch) so everytime I stumble on the fact that I had to sacrifice speed for portability I also have to accept that getting a super-fast server won't solve anything.
I've outsourced a few tasks to the server, like playing music even when windows hangs up and some networking and fileserving. I like to use my bandwidth and some processortime to peer-to-peer networking while working, but now I have to route all traffic through the server to my laptop and back to the server again to fetch the files where storage is cheapest. I sure hope that.net interfaces and future peer-to-peer programs can move the file-handling to the computer where it's really working and hopefully eliminate unnecessary datatranfers between the computers running the program.
Transparently switching from a fast network cable to wifi wouldn't be bad either. Both thing is probably solvable by themselves, but neither is going to happen unless they are planned from an early stage, so the operating systems are important.
Don't use the internal audio, at least not if anything else electronic - like the processor - is running at the same time : )
On-board audio is an advanced version of the builtin XT speaker.
USB audio is probably the way to go, unless you can make use of the SPDIF some models provides with the video-out.
There are few portables wich allows for multiple harddisks at a reasonable cost, look for firewire and perhaps an extra USB 2.0 card to stack up with storage. Pocketing a few harddisks might be an even better solution than burning disks and going up to 3.5" would boost it even more.
Geocities doesn't support multiple downloads,
therefore I propose that everyone who wants to
read the links picks a time (GMT) with 5-minute intervals when they want to use the links and puts it in a reply to this post to avoid that multiple slashdot users try to access geocites at once.
It's just a stupid comparasion, but
look at the effect breeding had on domestic
animals, and that in about a century. This won't happen to humanity, but some cases like the number of olympic champion relatives some athletes have at least suggests that we will continue to see improvements in olympic records.
Whatever would be the perfect human is not even worth discussing.
Wasn't BEOS greatest merit it's multiprocessor capabilities? They were much closer to being the perfect Mac partner considering where the PowerPC is heading today.
Though I don't doubt that the BEOS hardware hackers would have done wonders if they had the PS2 to work with, but Sony already has an API for that haven't they. But getting Linux to work with it is another issue, specializing on a special hardware isn't really what Linux is all about.
There is a (much better) freeware utility called
powerarchiver. Though later versions have ceased to be freeware and now it's just another shareware. Just keep using the old version...
If you are using any shareware at work you are technically comitting a crime as a representative of your company, and I'm really missing good policies from companies to actually pay for the software they really need to get any work done. Do you know the license situation of everything on your computer? Would your boss pay for winzip if someone sent you a zip-file?
AGP begs your question since it is the extra boosted PCI bus you wanted for faster graphics.
Today you would have to use the old standard PCI-bus for a second graphics card, but it would cripple graphic cards of today.
The solutions are actually already in place in some PC's today, serial highspeed interconnections between processor and chipsets where the PCI-bus just is another interface with limited throughput.
The real win however is that you could have multiple independent PCI-buses that don't have to share bandwidth.
There are also replacements and improvements on the PCI-bus, but to get back to the beginning, this is what AGP already have solved and these new standards will probably only be seen in servers at first.
The next step would be the successor to AGP, probably building on the winning chip interconnection standard and whether the ones creating it thinks that it should be possible to have more than one in each computer.
To predict the future, go to www.extremetech.com were you can find good discussions about the future highspeed buses. You should bet on one supporting multiple devices, adressing etc. But the graphics market probably just want a good highspeed bus that's well tested, and they probably won't wait a year to be able to support multiple graphics cards...
is the sense of emptyness in the Linux world
that the free availability has brought.
Even Linux needs a place for 64k demos that
plays a tune and shows a cool plasma effect
while a sinus scroller shows:
"Linux SuSE booter hacked by Triumph Greetings to...
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I bet Quicktime on Linux beats the hell out of running the plugin natively in Windows XP.
If it didn't break IE it could have been harder to decide for one or the other way.
If I ever catch anyone downloading a whole album off me, I cut them off.
Admirable, and you never ever downloaded a whole album from someone else either.
Outlook killed my computer and made it obselete, I had to buy a new one just to be able to load my mailbox.
Scheduling and calendering features are standardized, but the real killer feature is activesynch. It's a funny thing that it's actually working considering the hard time some vendors have trying to produce drivers for it. Though it's a fact that standardized synching hasn't got very far and I fear that some efforts to close the gap will be halted by introduction of some passport services or some other obscure scheme.
Harem, because a man could impregnate his entire Harem in a single day since they all became fertile on the same day.
The logical solution to this is to either mutilate yourself or mutilate every single woman,
we all know which one that's commonly used.
Not really, cf isn't nearly fast enough.
My unit has 256 Mbit (which is only 32 MB)
and costs almost as much as a 256 MB compact flash.
Unfortunately the only thing to justify buying one would be comparing the price with the price of the games. However, Nintendo could easily cut out the market if they were to release a $5 cable to make kids download single-level demos of the games they could buy - the GBA don't need any flash cartridge to do that...
Or, even cranking up the frame rate.. how about a 60fps film. The motion blur at 24fps is horrible.
People have come to enjoy the soothing clunkiness of 24fps,
Well, what if the motion blur disappears when using a digital projector - then 24 fps will look pretty bleak and 60 fps will definitely be needed. Comparing to the state of televisions the 100 Hz TV's (europe) requires special circuitry to interpolate a decent picture. And while as long as the interpolation technique introduces artifacts I prefer the builtin smoothing of a 50 Hz set. To go back to movies, if the digital projectors are too good they will only magnify the limitations of the original film. So both are right, but once the step is taken to digital there's no going back - framerate must go up eventually.
the story says "As yet the company doesn't seem to have used Windows Update to deactivate warez systems, but it's possible."
But you only need to check the Office Update FAQ to prove the opposite:
"Why do my Office 2000 applications exit a few seconds after opening?
Office 2000 update FAQOffice 2000 SR-1a is designed to update licensed, released copies of Office 2000. Those users who have a released and licensed version of Office 2000 will not run into this when installing SR-1a. Customers using unlicensed Office 2000 software or pre-release (e.g., preview) software will not be able to upgrade successfully to SR-1a."
It's plain in sight, just don't do the update. However, if this would happen by an automatic update through the windows update web service it could get microsoft in trouble - even more so if they should deactivate someone's computer because of a duplicated real key. But don't think they won't try if they think they can prove its fake.
Combine this with the TV-out modification
p ?c ategory=6&products_id=1496&
and you will have the coolest GBA available.
http://www.lik-sang.com/catalog/product_info.ph
Anyone with an overclocking kit?
I tried to install Quicktime and now internet explorer dies totally whenever I find a page using it.
Opera doesn't sound that bad after all.
I have to give some kudos to IE 6.0 for actually supporting international characters when printing - HTML is a much better and structured way for wordprocessing. Now, whenever it's possible to actually print html pages suited for larger windows than 640x480, it could actually be an improvement over the functionality of NS4.6.
Exactly my point,
.net interfaces and future peer-to-peer programs can move the file-handling to the computer where it's really working and hopefully eliminate unnecessary datatranfers between the computers running the program.
I am already running linux over VNC, but my preference is towards light portables (which don't work very well with my KVM switch) so everytime I stumble on the fact that I had to sacrifice speed for portability I also have to accept that getting a super-fast server won't solve anything.
I've outsourced a few tasks to the server, like playing music even when windows hangs up and some networking and fileserving. I like to use my bandwidth and some processortime to peer-to-peer networking while working, but now I have to route all traffic through the server to my laptop and back to the server again to fetch the files where storage is cheapest. I sure hope that
Transparently switching from a fast network cable to wifi wouldn't be bad either. Both thing is probably solvable by themselves, but neither is going to happen unless they are planned from an early stage, so the operating systems are important.
Could it be better,
Ripping DVD's to DivX is actually incouraged since it is literally opposite to the interests of profit.
There are still no simple ways to use a pair
of computers on the same desk efficiently, why not start there?
Don't use the internal audio, at least not if anything else electronic - like the processor - is running at the same time : )
On-board audio is an advanced version of the builtin XT speaker.
USB audio is probably the way to go, unless you can make use of the SPDIF some models provides with the video-out.
There are few portables wich allows for multiple harddisks at a reasonable cost, look for firewire and perhaps an extra USB 2.0 card to stack up with storage. Pocketing a few harddisks might be an even better solution than burning disks and going up to 3.5" would boost it even more.
Just manipulate the minds of a few tousand
kids around the world and you have taken a
giant step towards world domination.
And a microdrive compatible compact flash slot gives you at least 1Gb, does that count?
Why not,
they probably use it in-house for testing right how.
Geocities doesn't support multiple downloads,
therefore I propose that everyone who wants to
read the links picks a time (GMT) with 5-minute intervals when they want to use the links and puts it in a reply to this post to avoid that multiple slashdot users try to access geocites at once.
I pick 15.00.
But when they use a whole cut to focus on the IBM thinkpad in Q's laboratory it's too much.
It's just too obvious that it's a commercial when IBM's PR team put their veto against any kind of explosion that would damage their product.
Don't touch that!
The porn industry did this years ago,
the same way they invented pop-up ads
and everything else internet is all about.
It's just a stupid comparasion, but
look at the effect breeding had on domestic
animals, and that in about a century. This won't happen to humanity, but some cases like the number of olympic champion relatives some athletes have at least suggests that we will continue to see improvements in olympic records.
Whatever would be the perfect human is not even worth discussing.
Wasn't BEOS greatest merit it's multiprocessor capabilities? They were much closer to being the perfect Mac partner considering where the PowerPC is heading today.
Though I don't doubt that the BEOS hardware hackers would have done wonders if they had the PS2 to work with, but Sony already has an API for that haven't they. But getting Linux to work with it is another issue, specializing on a special hardware isn't really what Linux is all about.
There is a (much better) freeware utility called
powerarchiver. Though later versions have ceased to be freeware and now it's just another shareware. Just keep using the old version...
If you are using any shareware at work you are technically comitting a crime as a representative of your company, and I'm really missing good policies from companies to actually pay for the software they really need to get any work done. Do you know the license situation of everything on your computer? Would your boss pay for winzip if someone sent you a zip-file?
AGP begs your question since it is the extra boosted PCI bus you wanted for faster graphics.
Today you would have to use the old standard PCI-bus for a second graphics card, but it would cripple graphic cards of today.
The solutions are actually already in place in some PC's today, serial highspeed interconnections between processor and chipsets where the PCI-bus just is another interface with limited throughput.
The real win however is that you could have multiple independent PCI-buses that don't have to share bandwidth.
There are also replacements and improvements on the PCI-bus, but to get back to the beginning, this is what AGP already have solved and these new standards will probably only be seen in servers at first.
The next step would be the successor to AGP, probably building on the winning chip interconnection standard and whether the ones creating it thinks that it should be possible to have more than one in each computer.
To predict the future, go to www.extremetech.com were you can find good discussions about the future highspeed buses. You should bet on one supporting multiple devices, adressing etc. But the graphics market probably just want a good highspeed bus that's well tested, and they probably won't wait a year to be able to support multiple graphics cards...
is the sense of emptyness in the Linux world that the free availability has brought.
Even Linux needs a place for 64k demos that plays a tune and shows a cool plasma effect while a sinus scroller shows:
"Linux SuSE booter hacked by Triumph Greetings to...
Microsoft is way ahead here,
they have not only eye-candy but ear-candy too.
The minimum requirements to beat that is supporting winamp plugins for cool plasma effects and a soundtrack of your choice.