I think you have way bigger problems than removing the battery if you spill some liquid on a laptop. I've never been able to bring back a laptop after spilling coffee on it (twice now). And I don't know of anyone that has recover a laptop after liquid accident. My cousin just did that last month to his Thinkpad. Immediately removed the battery and used the rice trick, doesn't work.
To the average person the only recent perceptible level of improve comes from SSD, and most computers don't come with SSD. So most people don't buy new machines every 2 or 3 years like they use to. I remember back in the mid '90s to early 2000s, I would be building a new machine every 18 months because the level of performance increase could be seen (Rendition and 3dfx:( RIP) or felt Celeron 300A (oc to 464Mhz). Now, I'm hard press to see real improvement between my old Core 2 Duo and Sandy Bridge computers under daily operations.
Computers are now just appliances, if it ain't broke they're not going to be replaced.
I remember I had this discussion with a friend when RIM announced that the Playbook relied heavily on Flash. It was the wrong strategy because the logic of the strategy was "Let's do the exact opposite of Apple. If Apple was not going to support Flash, we will support it everywhere in our OS." They could have moved and maintain old Blackberry OS down the line to feature phones and develop BBOS10 as the "smarter" phone platform with technologies they could control.
They got their focus group from the Microsoft cafeteria.
I agree, I'm about the only person on Win7 that rarely touches the Start Menu. Most people I know just defaults to the Start Menu because it's the thing they've been using since Win95. Or they drop a shortcut to their desktop and launch their applications from there.
Canonical, Google, Red Hat, Novell? I don't think so. The OEM are stuck with working with the devil because there are no other viable option. Basically, MSFT is going to try to take the high-end, high-margin Apple market and the OEMs will be left with the low-end, razor thin margin market.
In Iran? Non-Iranian websites are already blocked in Iran, so it's not like people in Iran will see it on Google Maps. And it's the Iranians won't in a US court. Maybe France since the French don't like American companies.
I don't transcode and my Excel sheets aren't that complicated. I suspect that most people are like me, we do basic work and play a game or two. I play TF2 on my laptop, it's 3 year old laptop with a new SSD. Plays fine. I can't think of the last time that I was truly CPU limited. I've been GPU limited since Crysis. I can't play that beyond low detail level.
What's new? Microsoft has been de-bundling software to push more expensive SKUs for awhile. Last year, my friend was very upset that that his new Windows 7 desktop no longer had support for additional languages, he would have to get the Ultimate Edition. It's a very annoying de-bundling for some people because it's a feature that's been there for at least Win95. "Upgrading" to the Ultimate Edition is not exact cheap, plus he would lose out on the extended support of his "Pro" version. I just dropped by his house recently, saw a new iMac. Microsoft pushed him too hard to extract extra money and they pushed him to Apple. His logic was that it cost pretty much the same for a new all-in-one Win7 with Ultimate or an iMac, and he's tire of dealing with Microsoft's bs.
For Windows 15, all we would get is a "C:\" at startup. You want a graphic interface, pay for that part. Oh, connecting to anything else besides the authentication server, gotta pay for that too. Printing, that's going to cost you.
There's so much porn and gay sex going on in there for a thousand protests.
What I want is for someone to rewrite the bible stories without any of the religious text. Let's see how long before we get a good old fashion book burning.
Your network was probably hacked because you used lousy passwords and/or your employees got phished. If Iran didn't do it, someone else eventually would.
The overunity people just collectively heard the sound of cash registers. "Look it's proven by people from MIT. Our new device harnesses the power of LED at the atomic level."
Meanwhile, Steorn Ltd. calls up their investors and tells them there's been a breakthrough coming from America.
I had the Nook Color (running CM7) and overclocked (1.2 Ghz) but it still felt laggy. I gave that away over Christmas so I need a new cheapie tablet that doesn't lag. The Playbook felt fine when I was testing it, but without a lot of apps it would just be used as a web tablet.
Better than the last few years. Generally a better mood by everyone (vendors, attendees, etc.) Swags were decent this year. Booth babes are trashier than previous years. Maybe this is a result of the adult convention following CES this year instead of it happening at the same time or some overlapping as in other years. Usually, the booth babes are pretty models, this year they look like strippers with duck lips. Nothing really caught my eyes, the 8K display was nice but I don't know when I can have that in my house.
I blame the failure of the Mars Climate Orbiter on the French insistence of forcing the world to go metric. "The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it."
I get the old version of Google if I'm using my desktop but the new one with my laptop. It's very annoying. Reminds me of the multiple versions of yahoo that I use to get. And worse, it's starting to feel that google.com is turning into the latest "portal" website.
The new interface requires more mouse movement than the older and cleaner google. It now takes one drop menu and one side expansion menu to get to "finance". Plus, sometimes my search query doesn't transfer from "web" (now "search") to "images" or "finance".
I was going to buy Crysis 2 yesterday on Amazon, it was on sale for $10. Then I remember that EA has terrible DRM with a 5 install limit. I'm not sure if that is still the case but I was too lazy to figure out what the current EA DRM situation is.
So DRM cost EA $10 yesterday. I could pirate it but I do want to support Crytek, just not EA.
I love previews, they keep my hopes of good movies alive. In fact, most of the times the previews are much better than the actual movie. I don't mind the unwashed masses because I usually go at odd times with the girlfriend and we usually see movies that have been in theaters for awhile. And we do enjoy the much better sound of a real theater instead of being at home.
What I do mind is the ridiculous prices for tickets. If it wasn't for Costco ($8/ticket), I wouldn't go to the movies ever. $12 to $13 a ticket is stupid and they're charging $3 extra for 3D. Now you're looking at $40 for two people with popcorn and drinks. That's like two games on Steam. Or in her words, that's "1/10 of a new purse."
Tickets should be $5 for matinee, $7 regular, $9 for 3D. That's how get more people back into the theaters. Or how about a refund if you don't enjoy the first half of the movie? I paid almost $100 for me, her, her two nieces, and a nephew to see Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs in 3D. About 1/3 of the way through the kids (all under 10) went "this movie is terrible, can we see something else." On one hand, I didn't want to teach the kids the bad habit of theater hopping but I also just spent $100.
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I think you have way bigger problems than removing the battery if you spill some liquid on a laptop. I've never been able to bring back a laptop after spilling coffee on it (twice now). And I don't know of anyone that has recover a laptop after liquid accident. My cousin just did that last month to his Thinkpad. Immediately removed the battery and used the rice trick, doesn't work.
I wonder how many fake Larry Page will be created. Or Eric Schmidt.
To the average person the only recent perceptible level of improve comes from SSD, and most computers don't come with SSD. So most people don't buy new machines every 2 or 3 years like they use to. I remember back in the mid '90s to early 2000s, I would be building a new machine every 18 months because the level of performance increase could be seen (Rendition and 3dfx :( RIP) or felt Celeron 300A (oc to 464Mhz). Now, I'm hard press to see real improvement between my old Core 2 Duo and Sandy Bridge computers under daily operations.
Computers are now just appliances, if it ain't broke they're not going to be replaced.
I saw a lot of chinese android powered Wii-like consoles for $99 at CES this year.
FreeBSD FTW.
I remember I had this discussion with a friend when RIM announced that the Playbook relied heavily on Flash. It was the wrong strategy because the logic of the strategy was "Let's do the exact opposite of Apple. If Apple was not going to support Flash, we will support it everywhere in our OS." They could have moved and maintain old Blackberry OS down the line to feature phones and develop BBOS10 as the "smarter" phone platform with technologies they could control.
They got their focus group from the Microsoft cafeteria.
I agree, I'm about the only person on Win7 that rarely touches the Start Menu. Most people I know just defaults to the Start Menu because it's the thing they've been using since Win95. Or they drop a shortcut to their desktop and launch their applications from there.
If not MSFT, where else can OEMs get their OS?
Canonical, Google, Red Hat, Novell? I don't think so. The OEM are stuck with working with the devil because there are no other viable option. Basically, MSFT is going to try to take the high-end, high-margin Apple market and the OEMs will be left with the low-end, razor thin margin market.
In Iran? Non-Iranian websites are already blocked in Iran, so it's not like people in Iran will see it on Google Maps. And it's the Iranians won't in a US court. Maybe France since the French don't like American companies.
I don't transcode and my Excel sheets aren't that complicated. I suspect that most people are like me, we do basic work and play a game or two. I play TF2 on my laptop, it's 3 year old laptop with a new SSD. Plays fine. I can't think of the last time that I was truly CPU limited. I've been GPU limited since Crysis. I can't play that beyond low detail level.
What's new? Microsoft has been de-bundling software to push more expensive SKUs for awhile. Last year, my friend was very upset that that his new Windows 7 desktop no longer had support for additional languages, he would have to get the Ultimate Edition. It's a very annoying de-bundling for some people because it's a feature that's been there for at least Win95. "Upgrading" to the Ultimate Edition is not exact cheap, plus he would lose out on the extended support of his "Pro" version. I just dropped by his house recently, saw a new iMac. Microsoft pushed him too hard to extract extra money and they pushed him to Apple. His logic was that it cost pretty much the same for a new all-in-one Win7 with Ultimate or an iMac, and he's tire of dealing with Microsoft's bs.
For Windows 15, all we would get is a "C:\" at startup. You want a graphic interface, pay for that part. Oh, connecting to anything else besides the authentication server, gotta pay for that too. Printing, that's going to cost you.
I don't need to play games on my computer or console (see SONY story from earlier). I still have a back log of 40 games that have never gone through.
Honey roasted peanuts.
I must be the most boring person around because I never see advertising on FB. My "Sponsored" area is always blank.
There was a movie? Fahrenheit 451 is one of those books that doesn't look like it would ever work as a movie.
Of course, Equilibrium was basically the same premise and worked out well as a movie.
There's so much porn and gay sex going on in there for a thousand protests.
What I want is for someone to rewrite the bible stories without any of the religious text. Let's see how long before we get a good old fashion book burning.
Your network was probably hacked because you used lousy passwords and/or your employees got phished. If Iran didn't do it, someone else eventually would.
The overunity people just collectively heard the sound of cash registers. "Look it's proven by people from MIT. Our new device harnesses the power of LED at the atomic level."
Meanwhile, Steorn Ltd. calls up their investors and tells them there's been a breakthrough coming from America.
I had the Nook Color (running CM7) and overclocked (1.2 Ghz) but it still felt laggy. I gave that away over Christmas so I need a new cheapie tablet that doesn't lag. The Playbook felt fine when I was testing it, but without a lot of apps it would just be used as a web tablet.
Better than the last few years. Generally a better mood by everyone (vendors, attendees, etc.) Swags were decent this year. Booth babes are trashier than previous years. Maybe this is a result of the adult convention following CES this year instead of it happening at the same time or some overlapping as in other years. Usually, the booth babes are pretty models, this year they look like strippers with duck lips. Nothing really caught my eyes, the 8K display was nice but I don't know when I can have that in my house.
I blame the failure of the Mars Climate Orbiter on the French insistence of forcing the world to go metric. "The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets 40 rods to the hogshead and that's the way I likes it."
I get the old version of Google if I'm using my desktop but the new one with my laptop. It's very annoying. Reminds me of the multiple versions of yahoo that I use to get. And worse, it's starting to feel that google.com is turning into the latest "portal" website.
The new interface requires more mouse movement than the older and cleaner google. It now takes one drop menu and one side expansion menu to get to "finance". Plus, sometimes my search query doesn't transfer from "web" (now "search") to "images" or "finance".
I was going to buy Crysis 2 yesterday on Amazon, it was on sale for $10. Then I remember that EA has terrible DRM with a 5 install limit. I'm not sure if that is still the case but I was too lazy to figure out what the current EA DRM situation is.
So DRM cost EA $10 yesterday. I could pirate it but I do want to support Crytek, just not EA.
I love previews, they keep my hopes of good movies alive. In fact, most of the times the previews are much better than the actual movie. I don't mind the unwashed masses because I usually go at odd times with the girlfriend and we usually see movies that have been in theaters for awhile. And we do enjoy the much better sound of a real theater instead of being at home.
What I do mind is the ridiculous prices for tickets. If it wasn't for Costco ($8/ticket), I wouldn't go to the movies ever. $12 to $13 a ticket is stupid and they're charging $3 extra for 3D. Now you're looking at $40 for two people with popcorn and drinks. That's like two games on Steam. Or in her words, that's "1/10 of a new purse."
Tickets should be $5 for matinee, $7 regular, $9 for 3D. That's how get more people back into the theaters. Or how about a refund if you don't enjoy the first half of the movie? I paid almost $100 for me, her, her two nieces, and a nephew to see Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs in 3D. About 1/3 of the way through the kids (all under 10) went "this movie is terrible, can we see something else." On one hand, I didn't want to teach the kids the bad habit of theater hopping but I also just spent $100.
It would be a waste of technology if it didn't make bacon taste even better.