I took a look at some of the screen shots, and quite honestly I get the feeling unpaid open source developers could have done a better job. It doesn't feel like a qualified UI expert sat down to really improve thing. If they don't put a proper effort into the UI design, then Ubuntu is going to be the better OS.
That is the biggest reason we need real change on Nov. 4th and one of the main reasons I am voting for Obama.
Here's hoping he gets in and that is more than talk. If the Mcain gets in, I am scared that his running mate could do worse to the USA than Bush.
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What's pointless about a house with no running water, no sewage system, and no electricity? I mean, come one, with Wifi and a cellphone what could the residents be missing?
Also taking into account, that your house can now also walk away from where you just took a dump.
The problem is, that for the target market it is horribly overpriced. This guy had to go out of his way to ignore all the similarly TARGETED machines that you can find in your Sunday circular for $500 to $800. Some of them even have discreet graphics at that price.
This is the thing which puzzles me. I walked into the a coffee shop near the local university campus and I was shocked to see a large percentage of people using Macs (think 60%+). Obviously the price is not an issue for a lot of students, or their parents.
Sure this was McGill, but still this shows that there is clearly a market. What I find scary is that Microsoft doesn't seem to understand this, or if they do don't really seem to be doing anything to make a more user-friendly operating system.
All engineered to standards that don't even exist yet.
I don't know but that sounds very IEish to me. Basically it sounds like "we can't call it a standard, but in some possible future is may or may not be one".
lets just switch to IPv6, it's more functional and future proof
Yup and it is probably much simpler. Trying to reclaim addresses involves political issues, finding out who to talk to, bureaucracy and some technical issues. Switching to IPv6 is about technical stuff and just getting going. You are going to have to switch to IPv6 at some point, so why spend energy twice?
"Newly featured in version 1.1 is the support of HDCP content protection and support for fiber optic cables as an alternative to copper, allowing a much longer reach between source and display without image degradation"
Go ahead and buy a glossy screen. On the way home stop by the grocery store and pick up some steel wool. Rub the screen with the steel wool and Voila!! A beautiful matte screen.
I know you are joking, but I wonder whether you could get a matt stick-on screen protector to reduce the reflectiveness?
In my opinion, is not your antivirus fault than flagging chrome.exe as a virus, maybe is caused by the wrong decision to install it on %LOCAL_APP_DATA%, you see the name "data" not programs
I hadn't thought of that possibility, but now you mention it, it certainly sound like a possibility. I'll check it out next time I give Chrome another go, though Iron is a suitable alternative for the little I use it.
At work I am using Windows, so I was able to give Chrome a go, but after a week Mcafee ant-virus was flagging chrome.exe as a virus, followed by its installer. There wasn't much I could do to get round the issue. My main browser is Firefox and I like to have a menu-bar, instead of poking around Windows Vista style to find out where all the options are hiding.
While I did uninstall Chrome, I did install Iron, simply to be able to validate web pages I am developing:
Looking at the 3G iPhone I see two screw near the connector. Surely unscrewing those two screws would allow you to open the case to replace the battery? Or am I being overly optimistic? Has anyone even attempted to see how complicated it is?
The employees typically turn on their computers and then LEAVE THE OFFICE to get Starbucks coffee or whatever. A 10 minute wait turns into 30 minutes of non-productivity.
Or get a Mac. Although it you shouldn't need to go that extreme, one feature I have seen on Macs is the ability to auto boot at a certain specified time. If you know its going to take 10 minutes to be ready for use then get it to boot 10 minutes before your normal arrival time. The only question I have now is whether this feature is available in any non-Apple branded computers, and configurable via MS-Windows or Vista?
Oy vey - you really missed it. The problem with adding charging points at gas station is hanging out at one for four hours waiting for your car to charge.
This is where more convenient energy transport solutions, such as Hydrogen become interesting. I call Hydrogen an 'energy transport' solution because you have to use electricity to produce it, and in turn you need something else to produce the electricity. Once you have the problems of storage and transportation sorted out then Hydrogen becomes viable, until then there are issues to sort out. In fact petrol succeeds because, despite its inefficiency, it is a convenient solution and this is where alternative energy sources for transportation need to work on, amongst other things.
If we decide to stick to the approach of charging cars directly, then the battery will have to change. The break though technology will be in ultra-capacitors, but there is still a lot of work to be done before it is a viable solution for use in transportation.
As to the people spending ridiculous amounts of money, with the conversion kits, I say "thank you" since it is by getting people experimenting that the technology will improve and come down in price. These are the early adopters that pay a fortune to save us late comers a fortune.
It seems to me that it would be better to OCR everything and contract the proof-reading to the Chinese firm. The wide variation of writing styles and letter forms may make 100% accuracy of OCR impossible for this task, but starting from OCR should reduce the task, shouldn't it?
It would probably be more costly to OCR it and then proof read it, especially if the error rate is higher than a certain amount, say 50%. There are written texts that I have a hard enough recognising, and only context allows me to work out what something is, so in this case a person is still a better resource.
I've worked with Marketing people before and can easily believe that they had no clue about the infrastructure requirements and possible fail points. Actually, even if they did, they wouldn't have asked a techie. They would have asked the techie's manager who probably told them "don't worry about
And thus I say unto you: Poof! http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/aviation/SAR/ELT_History.htm However, ELT's frequently fail to be of any use, as they are often too damaged in the crash to send a full-strength signal or sometimes even operate at all.
Is this a design issue or simply a limitation of what can be achieved?
I wonder whether mandatory crash beacons would be of any benefit in cases like this? Sure it wouldn't save the pilot, but it would be easier to locate the crashed vehicle. I am thinking of a $1000 box that combines GPS and an emergency transmission beacon that can either be activated manually or after sudden G-spike?
You need to enable IPv6 when IPv4 runs out around 2011 so that you can communicate with IPv6-only users. There's no benefit to turning it on early (unless you want to do debugging for vendors). Articles about how some country or another is "ahead" or "behind" in IPv6 are misguided because they're measuring the wrong thing. What is important is not who is running IPv6 today, but who is buying IPv6-capable equipment today so that they can turn it on "for free" in 2011.
You may not get much of a benefit, other than a static IP address are freedom from NAT. Just make sure to bitch to your ISP about wanting ISP. Oh, and you will probably want the Apple Airport Extreme, if you don't want to have to hack you DSL router, since it is the only one that currently supports IPv6 out of the box.
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When they can be bothered to release a linux version let me know then I might be able to give answer.
WebKit is open source and as for the Linux version, let me point you towards an Ars Technica article:
http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2008/09/02/google-unveils-chrome-source-code-and-linux-port
I took a look at some of the screen shots, and quite honestly I get the feeling unpaid open source developers could have done a better job. It doesn't feel like a qualified UI expert sat down to really improve thing. If they don't put a proper effort into the UI design, then Ubuntu is going to be the better OS.
I have an iphone but no one's ever called me. Sigh.
If you share your number with us I am sure this could be changed. I am not promising that you would actually want to talk with these people ;)
Mod parent up. Cell phones have been doing this since my old Nokia to my new Blackjack II.
Yup and with some computers you hear static over the speakers before the cell phone rings.
That is the biggest reason we need real change on Nov. 4th and one of the main reasons I am voting for Obama.
Here's hoping he gets in and that is more than talk. If the Mcain gets in, I am scared that his running mate could do worse to the USA than Bush.
What's pointless about a house with no running water, no sewage system, and no electricity? I mean, come one, with Wifi and a cellphone what could the residents be missing?
Also taking into account, that your house can now also walk away from where you just took a dump.
The problem is, that for the target market it is horribly overpriced. This guy had to go out of his way to ignore all the similarly TARGETED machines that you can find in your Sunday circular for $500 to $800. Some of them even have discreet graphics at that price.
This is the thing which puzzles me. I walked into the a coffee shop near the local university campus and I was shocked to see a large percentage of people using Macs (think 60%+). Obviously the price is not an issue for a lot of students, or their parents.
Sure this was McGill, but still this shows that there is clearly a market. What I find scary is that Microsoft doesn't seem to understand this, or if they do don't really seem to be doing anything to make a more user-friendly operating system.
All engineered to standards that don't even exist yet.
I don't know but that sounds very IEish to me. Basically it sounds like "we can't call it a standard, but in some possible future is may or may not be one".
lets just switch to IPv6, it's more functional and future proof
Yup and it is probably much simpler. Trying to reclaim addresses involves political issues, finding out who to talk to, bureaucracy and some technical issues. Switching to IPv6 is about technical stuff and just getting going. You are going to have to switch to IPv6 at some point, so why spend energy twice?
see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisplayPort
"Newly featured in version 1.1 is the support of HDCP content protection and support for fiber optic cables as an alternative to copper, allowing a much longer reach between source and display without image degradation"
Go ahead and buy a glossy screen. On the way home stop by the grocery store and pick up some steel wool. Rub the screen with the steel wool and Voila!! A beautiful matte screen.
I know you are joking, but I wonder whether you could get a matt stick-on screen protector to reduce the reflectiveness?
In my opinion, is not your antivirus fault than flagging chrome.exe as a virus, maybe is caused by the wrong decision to install it on %LOCAL_APP_DATA%, you see the name "data" not programs
I hadn't thought of that possibility, but now you mention it, it certainly sound like a possibility. I'll check it out next time I give Chrome another go, though Iron is a suitable alternative for the little I use it.
A better link for downloading Iron is:
http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron.php
At work I am using Windows, so I was able to give Chrome a go, but after a week Mcafee ant-virus was flagging chrome.exe as a virus, followed by its installer. There wasn't much I could do to get round the issue. My main browser is Firefox and I like to have a menu-bar, instead of poking around Windows Vista style to find out where all the options are hiding.
While I did uninstall Chrome, I did install Iron, simply to be able to validate web pages I am developing:
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/09/24/iron-chrome-for-privacy-fanatics/
This is essentially the same browser, but tailored to "privacy fanatics". It has yet to get my anti-virus in a fit.
At home I am using a Mac, so Chrome is not even an option.
BT ... can one expect anything useful of them??
True and BT will probably only go IPv6 once they are required to by the regulators.
Looking at the 3G iPhone I see two screw near the connector. Surely unscrewing those two screws would allow you to open the case to replace the battery? Or am I being overly optimistic? Has anyone even attempted to see how complicated it is?
Because you get lousy resolution with Geo-pos-IP, and even the bad services available today are pretty expensive.
An none work with IPv6.
The employees typically turn on their computers and then LEAVE THE OFFICE to get Starbucks coffee or whatever. A 10 minute wait turns into 30 minutes of non-productivity.
Or get a Mac. Although it you shouldn't need to go that extreme, one feature I have seen on Macs is the ability to auto boot at a certain specified time. If you know its going to take 10 minutes to be ready for use then get it to boot 10 minutes before your normal arrival time. The only question I have now is whether this feature is available in any non-Apple branded computers, and configurable via MS-Windows or Vista?
See the "Schedule Sleep or Shut Down" section at: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2490?viewlocale=en_US
Oy vey - you really missed it. The problem with adding charging points at gas station is hanging out at one for four hours waiting for your car to charge.
This is where more convenient energy transport solutions, such as Hydrogen become interesting. I call Hydrogen an 'energy transport' solution because you have to use electricity to produce it, and in turn you need something else to produce the electricity. Once you have the problems of storage and transportation sorted out then Hydrogen becomes viable, until then there are issues to sort out. In fact petrol succeeds because, despite its inefficiency, it is a convenient solution and this is where alternative energy sources for transportation need to work on, amongst other things.
If we decide to stick to the approach of charging cars directly, then the battery will have to change. The break though technology will be in ultra-capacitors, but there is still a lot of work to be done before it is a viable solution for use in transportation.
As to the people spending ridiculous amounts of money, with the conversion kits, I say "thank you" since it is by getting people experimenting that the technology will improve and come down in price. These are the early adopters that pay a fortune to save us late comers a fortune.
It seems to me that it would be better to OCR everything and contract the proof-reading to the Chinese firm. The wide variation of writing styles and letter forms may make 100% accuracy of OCR impossible for this task, but starting from OCR should reduce the task, shouldn't it?
It would probably be more costly to OCR it and then proof read it, especially if the error rate is higher than a certain amount, say 50%. There are written texts that I have a hard enough recognising, and only context allows me to work out what something is, so in this case a person is still a better resource.
I've worked with Marketing people before and can easily believe that they had no clue about the infrastructure requirements and possible fail points. Actually, even if they did, they wouldn't have asked a techie. They would have asked the techie's manager who probably told them "don't worry about
Reminds me of a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcQ7RkyBoBc
And thus I say unto you: Poof! http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/aviation/SAR/ELT_History.htm However, ELT's frequently fail to be of any use, as they are often too damaged in the crash to send a full-strength signal or sometimes even operate at all.
Is this a design issue or simply a limitation of what can be achieved?
I wonder whether mandatory crash beacons would be of any benefit in cases like this? Sure it wouldn't save the pilot, but it would be easier to locate the crashed vehicle. I am thinking of a $1000 box that combines GPS and an emergency transmission beacon that can either be activated manually or after sudden G-spike?
You need to enable IPv6 when IPv4 runs out around 2011 so that you can communicate with IPv6-only users. There's no benefit to turning it on early (unless you want to do debugging for vendors). Articles about how some country or another is "ahead" or "behind" in IPv6 are misguided because they're measuring the wrong thing. What is important is not who is running IPv6 today, but who is buying IPv6-capable equipment today so that they can turn it on "for free" in 2011.
You may not get much of a benefit, other than a static IP address are freedom from NAT. Just make sure to bitch to your ISP about wanting ISP. Oh, and you will probably want the Apple Airport Extreme, if you don't want to have to hack you DSL router, since it is the only one that currently supports IPv6 out of the box.
With a name like that I am just wondering whether I should be opening the box. ;)