The drivers for xp 64 bit still suck and that was released years ago. I'm certain that drivers for 64 bit vista will be dismally bad. Then again, if you're a manufacturer, crappy or no drivers is a great way to get your customers to but a new printer or scanner from you.
Probably norton and retarded drivers. Logitech's setpoint is particularly bad although the fact that the drivers are 47 megs for a fucking keyboard should give you a clue. Got to msconfig and uncheck everything. Uninstall all that shit - and it is shit, I'm shocked as what passes for a driver these days - (although I uninstalled setpoint 2 days ago and it left my system in such bad state that the keyboard and mouse didn't work on the next boot. Their uninstaller really doesn't like win 2k3 server) Disable the fucking themes service. Get shexview.exe and disable the shell extentensions that you find useless. Get tweakui and delete the useless "new..." menu entries. Kill your temp folder once a month. i.e. is probably using 3 gigs of temporary internet files too.
Reversing the button order is just confusing. I'm using the mouse with my left hand right now because my right is broken and it really isn't that big of a deal. The logitech mx518 i was using was definitely a right handed mouse though. Still, flipping the key order really makes no sense.
# Corsets - used to enhance the appearance of women's waists # Foot-binding - used because apparently women who can't walk were considered attractive at some point.
I believe the point behind both of those two was so that they couldn't run away...
Once, I took an accounting course. All the students were angry that the textbook cost nearly $200. So the publisher actually sent a representative to our class to explain to us why it's ok that the book costs so much. He said that unlike New York Times bestsellers, which are printed in quantities of millions and therefore enjoy reasonable prices due to economies of scale, college textbooks are printed in small quantities and therefore have to cover a larger chunk of the non-recurring expenses, such as the writing, layout, photography, and other design that goes into the book before it ever goes into print.
The latest thing is university specific editions of textbooks. In that case, you can try to justify that you have a small number of textbooks, but I bought a university (and year) specific psych book a couple years ago off ebay for a whopping $3, but the only difference was the cover and a blurb at the beginning of each chapter by the head of the uni's psyc department. Used bookstore price was $75, new ~$125. Besides, I wonder what the "small quantities" are or how much editing is actually done between editions.
There are still active CP/M user groups around. Why the hell? I honestly don't know, but there are. I recall selling a bunch of old equipment - 8086 boards, 10mb hard drives, etc, and the guy was overjoyed that his club got new stuff to play with. This was 2 years ago too... I guess the one man's junk saying is true.
To be fair, explorer has always been a joke. It has had thumbnail rendering bugs since at least windows ME and MS has never corrected them except (IIRC) in some cases where it was a security flaw. 2000 and xp (ME too? I don't recall) uses 100% of system resources if you open a folder with a bad / strange format.avi file, even if thumbnails are off and you're viewing in details mode. The "solution" is to do a registry hack and kill a key.
There is so much work to be done in fixing the base interface, yet what gets worked on is transparent windows and stupid effects.
Allowing the user to enable/disable shell extensions, queueing up file transfers (which would resume after an explorer crash) and a "Yes, I really intend to copy all the fucking files in that folder even if they are attrib'ed system, hidden, read only or whatever the fuck else (and while you're at it, copy the permissions too without making me go to cmd to do it)" button in the file copy dialogue and ffs, a "save icon position on the desktop (and no, not just when I log out)" option are all be features that people want, yet they haven't been provided. Heck, it would be nice to show how big a folder is without having to hold your mouse over it for an unspecified amount of time.
The windows ME beta was actually quite good, much faster, seemed to be more stable. What was released, was, as you say, CRAP. PURE CRAP I actually went back to the beta until I installed 2k
Anecdotal evidence from a large number of the vista testers carries a bit more weight than from a small group. When damn near everyone is saying the same thing, those words carry weight. I know that I've used it and uninstalled it in disgust. Bloated, slow, devoid of useful new features and _none_ of this has changed since I used a build in the 2003ish longhorn days. I was running it on a 4400+ dual core box with 2 gigs of ram and a 7800 gtx, so I'm not running it on a slow box or anything.
I've said it before, I'll say it again. Vista is the result of collusion between MS and manufacturers to push sales of hardware. The bloat is intentional. I know that sounds like I wear a tinfoil hat, but the hardware industry has needed a "killer app" for the masses for a couple of years now (xp or 2k3 server runs fine on a 1ghz box if you give it 512+mb ram and don't run databases, play games or play 1080i mpeg 2 streams) and Vista is the result.
If one was into conspiracy theories, they would pay very careful attention to the stock portfolios of the major players.
We all know (and I'm not a linux or apple fanboy) that it will be released regardless of whether it is ready or not. People will also buy it.
Can vouch for this. I've seen Saw 2 in 720p compressed to 4.5 gigs using mpeg4 (xvid iirc). Looked great. The hardware reqs for the HD and BR players are pretty beefy, so there isn't much cost savings...
Interestingly enough, there are very few pornos in HD. Sometimes lower resolution is a good thing. Consider it a "airbrush" effect that is easily applied to the whole video. Cleans up stray hairs, etc. And dear god, if talking heads look bad in HD with makeup, imagine how bad crappy makeup in pornos would look in HD.
They don't mention exactly what they watched it on. If it wasn't some 1080p wonderdisplay, Even with an awesome display - HD sometimes isn't terribly impressive. You have to account for the source image. Yeah, we all know about the "oh, it's film" argument, but even stuff shot in 24p on the latest digital cameras has problems because of optics or poor camera work. I've been watching a fair bit of high def content lately - and I have a display that runs at 2048x1536 which lets me watch the stuff without resizing - and there are scenes where the focus is off by a couple of inches, or the image is blurry because of the low light - things that are barely noticable on DVD, but become really obvious when you get used to an HD image. If your TV/DVD player doesn't deinterlace well (and very few do a good job of it), you'll have a less enjoyable experience.
A few years back, we realized that HP mac support (i.e. my dept) was going to be sent to Canada. In the last two weeks, we went through 2 sets of toner cartridges printing 11x17" posters of "whatever". Don't recall the exact amount, but each cartridge is rated for 8500 Pages @ 5% Coverage, letter sized paper. Fun, fun!
13 watt "loop" cfl (if it's not wound together is it still a cfl?) the only light in the room. Would even go with something weaker - it's pointed at the wall and the light bounces off, but I really can't find lamps that take less power and still plug into the wall... Then again, there is that 400w amp and the 6 external drives... hmm.. maybe you have a point;)
Yeah, discovered that, but after I noticed the huge file;) Problem is that I have a relatively small (but quite fast) drive for the OS, my profile etc. Meanwhile the rest of the stuff is on relatvely slow drives. Was even worse when I had over half of the 74 gig drive partitioned as temp torrent space (fragmentation reasons) and only 25 gigs for the os, apps and my profile. 2 gigs seemed like a huge amount of space.
Not a big thing, just wish the installer was a bit clearer...
Well it would be nice if they told people that one of the files created by google desktop search would balloon to almost 2 gigs. Granted, this box has about 2.5 tb of storage, but still...
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The drivers for xp 64 bit still suck and that was released years ago. I'm certain that drivers for 64 bit vista will be dismally bad.
Then again, if you're a manufacturer, crappy or no drivers is a great way to get your customers to but a new printer or scanner from you.
Or know where the bodies are hidden...
Probably norton and retarded drivers. Logitech's setpoint is particularly bad although the fact that the drivers are 47 megs for a fucking keyboard should give you a clue. Got to msconfig and uncheck everything.
Uninstall all that shit - and it is shit, I'm shocked as what passes for a driver these days - (although I uninstalled setpoint 2 days ago and it left my system in such bad state that the keyboard and mouse didn't work on the next boot. Their uninstaller really doesn't like win 2k3 server)
Disable the fucking themes service.
Get shexview.exe and disable the shell extentensions that you find useless.
Get tweakui and delete the useless "new..." menu entries.
Kill your temp folder once a month. i.e. is probably using 3 gigs of temporary internet files too.
Reversing the button order is just confusing. I'm using the mouse with my left hand right now because my right is broken and it really isn't that big of a deal. The logitech mx518 i was using was definitely a right handed mouse though. Still, flipping the key order really makes no sense.
# Corsets - used to enhance the appearance of women's waists
# Foot-binding - used because apparently women who can't walk were considered attractive at some point.
I believe the point behind both of those two was so that they couldn't run away...
Once, I took an accounting course. All the students were angry that the textbook cost nearly $200. So the publisher actually sent a representative to our class to explain to us why it's ok that the book costs so much. He said that unlike New York Times bestsellers, which are printed in quantities of millions and therefore enjoy reasonable prices due to economies of scale, college textbooks are printed in small quantities and therefore have to cover a larger chunk of the non-recurring expenses, such as the writing, layout, photography, and other design that goes into the book before it ever goes into print.
The latest thing is university specific editions of textbooks. In that case, you can try to justify that you have a small number of textbooks, but I bought a university (and year) specific psych book a couple years ago off ebay for a whopping $3, but the only difference was the cover and a blurb at the beginning of each chapter by the head of the uni's psyc department. Used bookstore price was $75, new ~$125.
Besides, I wonder what the "small quantities" are or how much editing is actually done between editions.
There are still active CP/M user groups around. Why the hell? I honestly don't know, but there are. I recall selling a bunch of old equipment - 8086 boards, 10mb hard drives, etc, and the guy was overjoyed that his club got new stuff to play with. This was 2 years ago too... I guess the one man's junk saying is true.
At least until Office or some other app (and, from what I understand, a bunch of games) refuses to install on XP.
Trying to keep it simple for the "slow" people ;)
To be fair, explorer has always been a joke. .avi file, even if thumbnails are off and you're viewing in details mode. The "solution" is to do a registry hack and kill a key.
It has had thumbnail rendering bugs since at least windows ME and MS has never corrected them except (IIRC) in some cases where it was a security flaw.
2000 and xp (ME too? I don't recall) uses 100% of system resources if you open a folder with a bad / strange format
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There is so much work to be done in fixing the base interface, yet what gets worked on is transparent windows and stupid effects.
Allowing the user to enable/disable shell extensions, queueing up file transfers (which would resume after an explorer crash) and a "Yes, I really intend to copy all the fucking files in that folder even if they are attrib'ed system, hidden, read only or whatever the fuck else (and while you're at it, copy the permissions too without making me go to cmd to do it)" button in the file copy dialogue and ffs, a "save icon position on the desktop (and no, not just when I log out)" option are all be features that people want, yet they haven't been provided.
Heck, it would be nice to show how big a folder is without having to hold your mouse over it for an unspecified amount of time.
The windows ME beta was actually quite good, much faster, seemed to be more stable.
What was released, was, as you say, CRAP. PURE CRAP
I actually went back to the beta until I installed 2k
Anecdotal evidence from a large number of the vista testers carries a bit more weight than from a small group. When damn near everyone is saying the same thing, those words carry weight.
I know that I've used it and uninstalled it in disgust. Bloated, slow, devoid of useful new features and _none_ of this has changed since I used a build in the 2003ish longhorn days. I was running it on a 4400+ dual core box with 2 gigs of ram and a 7800 gtx, so I'm not running it on a slow box or anything.
I've said it before, I'll say it again. Vista is the result of collusion between MS and manufacturers to push sales of hardware. The bloat is intentional. I know that sounds like I wear a tinfoil hat, but the hardware industry has needed a "killer app" for the masses for a couple of years now (xp or 2k3 server runs fine on a 1ghz box if you give it 512+mb ram and don't run databases, play games or play 1080i mpeg 2 streams) and Vista is the result.
If one was into conspiracy theories, they would pay very careful attention to the stock portfolios of the major players.
We all know (and I'm not a linux or apple fanboy) that it will be released regardless of whether it is ready or not. People will also buy it.
doesn't work for me either... it does display the "buy" frame though.... odd...
Yeah, just like the ps2 was a great dvd player... Ha. Ha.
I find it funny that a couple days ago, Sony announced the PS3 won't be shipping with a HDMI cable.
Wonder how much monster paid them to do that...
Can vouch for this. I've seen Saw 2 in 720p compressed to 4.5 gigs using mpeg4 (xvid iirc). Looked great. The hardware reqs for the HD and BR players are pretty beefy, so there isn't much cost savings...
Interestingly enough, there are very few pornos in HD. Sometimes lower resolution is a good thing. Consider it a "airbrush" effect that is easily applied to the whole video. Cleans up stray hairs, etc.
And dear god, if talking heads look bad in HD with makeup, imagine how bad crappy makeup in pornos would look in HD.
They don't mention exactly what they watched it on. If it wasn't some 1080p wonderdisplay,
Even with an awesome display - HD sometimes isn't terribly impressive.
You have to account for the source image. Yeah, we all know about the "oh, it's film" argument, but even stuff shot in 24p on the latest digital cameras has problems because of optics or poor camera work. I've been watching a fair bit of high def content lately - and I have a display that runs at 2048x1536 which lets me watch the stuff without resizing - and there are scenes where the focus is off by a couple of inches, or the image is blurry because of the low light - things that are barely noticable on DVD, but become really obvious when you get used to an HD image. If your TV/DVD player doesn't deinterlace well (and very few do a good job of it), you'll have a less enjoyable experience.
Where is Battlestar Galactica Seasons 1 and 2 high definition?
Ironically enough, both seasons are on usenet in the hd groups in 1080i.
Not anymore...
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Nice high voltage power supply in those ;)
About it though... 1100 was a carly printer.
A few years back, we realized that HP mac support (i.e. my dept) was going to be sent to Canada. In the last two weeks, we went through 2 sets of toner cartridges printing 11x17" posters of "whatever".
Don't recall the exact amount, but each cartridge is rated for 8500 Pages @ 5% Coverage, letter sized paper.
Fun, fun!
13 watt "loop" cfl (if it's not wound together is it still a cfl?) the only light in the room. Would even go with something weaker - it's pointed at the wall and the light bounces off, but I really can't find lamps that take less power and still plug into the wall... ;)
Then again, there is that 400w amp and the 6 external drives... hmm.. maybe you have a point
Yeah, discovered that, but after I noticed the huge file ;)
Problem is that I have a relatively small (but quite fast) drive for the OS, my profile etc. Meanwhile the rest of the stuff is on relatvely slow drives.
Was even worse when I had over half of the 74 gig drive partitioned as temp torrent space (fragmentation reasons) and only 25 gigs for the os, apps and my profile. 2 gigs seemed like a huge amount of space.
Not a big thing, just wish the installer was a bit clearer...
Well it would be nice if they told people that one of the files created by google desktop search would balloon to almost 2 gigs. Granted, this box has about 2.5 tb of storage, but still...