New icons, transparency pervasive throughout the OS (task bar, window borders, icons). What's the value of transparency, anyway? What does it give you? It seems like probably one of the first things I'd turn off. Looks cool, but ultimately makes the OS less useful as it drops the contrast between a foreground object and the objects behind it. All the most highly touted features of Vista were retracted anyway, so why is there any excitement over this at all? All you get with Vista is more DRM.
Oh, and in the one screenshot showing the new Windows Media Player, there's no song by the Who called "Teenage Wasteland". It's called "Baba O'Riley".
Seems like a great trick, and I think Archimedes would have been smart enough to be able to engineer it to work, but it doesn't seem very practical. Yeah, it's intimidating to burn a ship at a great distance from shore...
Until the enemy attacks at dawn, or night, or on a cloudy day, or foggy...
And what if there are too many ships approaching to burn them all?
Given the ease of countermeasures, I doubt that they would have bothered to develop this novelty.
$1600 box from 2000 I have sitting around doing nothing since I upgraded last year vs. going to the store and dropping $100 on another gadget that won'd do exactly what I want... hmm...
Yeah, but this sonic blast will result in the torpedo detonating, so you get BOTH. Of course it will be bad for wildlife in the area. Pretty much any warfare is bad for the ecology. But hopefully it won't happen that often. If it does, we have other things to worry about.
It's pretty ridiculous to ship an OS with a broken security model AND the antivirus and firewall to fix the problems. Why not just design it right in the first place?
The "buy-once customer". They'll buy this once, and then never again. Fortunately for MS, there's a fool born every minute. Unfortunately for MS, the internet can spread information to warn would-be marks very, very quickly.
Also, it'll get broken 2 seconds before it gets launched.
Having ethics is an impediment to success in many fields. If the GPL weren't there to enforce the ethic of keeping the source open, of course it'd be more readily adoptable.
You'd maybe see software technologies developed for linux integrated into proprietary commercial closed-source applications, just as they did with the BSD implementation of TCP/IP in MS Windows, or BSD/Darwin into Mac OS X.
It wouldn't bring about the desired effect of keeping software Free, though. What do we want Linux to be?
All you need for home theater is good 2-D rendering, 16MB of memory, and a decent TV-out. Seriously. Why do you need 3D accelleration for TV? Does this card even have a TV-tuner?
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Hell, when it restarts, it could come back up to the same page the user was browsing when he/she quit a few seconds ago.
My Firefox *does* do this, thanks to an Extension I use, called SessionSaver. It's an indespensible, must-have extension as far as I'm concerned. Go download it and give it a try.
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New icons, transparency pervasive throughout the OS (task bar, window borders, icons). What's the value of transparency, anyway? What does it give you? It seems like probably one of the first things I'd turn off. Looks cool, but ultimately makes the OS less useful as it drops the contrast between a foreground object and the objects behind it. All the most highly touted features of Vista were retracted anyway, so why is there any excitement over this at all? All you get with Vista is more DRM.
Oh, and in the one screenshot showing the new Windows Media Player, there's no song by the Who called "Teenage Wasteland". It's called "Baba O'Riley".
Seems like a great trick, and I think Archimedes would have been smart enough to be able to engineer it to work, but it doesn't seem very practical. Yeah, it's intimidating to burn a ship at a great distance from shore...
Until the enemy attacks at dawn, or night, or on a cloudy day, or foggy...
And what if there are too many ships approaching to burn them all?
Given the ease of countermeasures, I doubt that they would have bothered to develop this novelty.
It's still a neat idea though.
$1600 box from 2000 I have sitting around doing nothing since I upgraded last year vs. going to the store and dropping $100 on another gadget that won'd do exactly what I want... hmm...
Yeah, but this sonic blast will result in the torpedo detonating, so you get BOTH. Of course it will be bad for wildlife in the area. Pretty much any warfare is bad for the ecology. But hopefully it won't happen that often. If it does, we have other things to worry about.
Can I pay for these virtual licenses with virtual dollars?
I always wondered what a ping sounds like.
Bollocks. The same is true of freeware as well.
It's pretty ridiculous to ship an OS with a broken security model AND the antivirus and firewall to fix the problems. Why not just design it right in the first place?
There's the original manuscript of Alice in Wonderland on there, too. Very cool!
I guess 99 cents per movie wasn't enough for those greedy Hollywood studios.
The sky is still blue.
..."Dragons Hard"? I'm thinking, whoa rpg geek pron game. Then I see it's just a regular game. Oh well.
Because, only a robot is capable of shouting "WARNING!! WARNING!!" and flailing its arms about in a reassuring manner.
The "buy-once customer". They'll buy this once, and then never again. Fortunately for MS, there's a fool born every minute. Unfortunately for MS, the internet can spread information to warn would-be marks very, very quickly.
Also, it'll get broken 2 seconds before it gets launched.
Having ethics is an impediment to success in many fields. If the GPL weren't there to enforce the ethic of keeping the source open, of course it'd be more readily adoptable.
You'd maybe see software technologies developed for linux integrated into proprietary commercial closed-source applications, just as they did with the BSD implementation of TCP/IP in MS Windows, or BSD/Darwin into Mac OS X.
It wouldn't bring about the desired effect of keeping software Free, though. What do we want Linux to be?
Head over to Neiman Marcus and put in your order, they're only $3.5 million.
Can we retire this joke now? Flying cars are here if you want them. At least, as here as they're ever likely to be.
Well, it had noise, but the RIAA is preventing it from being distributed... for once.
Q: What do you call a moon with no planet?
A: Uranus.
Get it? A MOON with no planet? Haw haw haw.
They don't know that yet, do they? RTFA, they are HOPING to be able to extract DNA from this spider.
I'm moving to F*CKING Delaware...
Well, now that BitTorrent has $17.4 million, they should be able to crank out something TWICE as good!
/., let's go for 3 in a row!
Way to go
All you need for home theater is good 2-D rendering, 16MB of memory, and a decent TV-out. Seriously. Why do you need 3D accelleration for TV? Does this card even have a TV-tuner?
Hell, when it restarts, it could come back up to the same page the user was browsing when he/she quit a few seconds ago.
My Firefox *does* do this, thanks to an Extension I use, called SessionSaver. It's an indespensible, must-have extension as far as I'm concerned. Go download it and give it a try.
Yeah, exactly. And likewise with the correlation of google's results for searching for "iPod Nano scratch" and the number of actual problems.
I didn't leap to a conclusion, I reducto ad absurdem'ed the parent.
Googling 'ipod nano screen scratch' yields 521,000 results.
Geez, have they sold that many of them already? That's amazing if they have.