This is only good if its done right!
The software should 1)block all popups, 2)allow easy (and I mean simple two click max) to get to the blocked popup, 3)allow sites to be added to a whitelist.
A vast majority fail at the 2nd (even google:)), and assuming all popups are bad, which is narrow minded and just stupid.
http://www.endpopups.com/ is the only popup manger that I've found that does both of these easily.
Because some people can't get to whatever random location and make the X.
And because a lot of people can't be arsed in the first place, making it less hassle for them means they contribute which in turn means its a more democratic process.
yea Waste, was kinda released Justin Frankell/Nullsoft.
It was quickly pulled, probly due to some harsh words from AOL/TW.
But its probly still floating around the net somewhere.
Don't buy it then, no ones forcing you to.
Oh and as for faster memory, Dual Channel DDR and DDR-II are here (or nearly here), both of which improve memory speeds.
So wireless carriers are afraid of loosing customers? Isn't that an admission that their current service is crap? In which case its a good thing that they loose customers, it should make them rethink their pricing/mobiles offered/extras etc.
Customer Loyalty needs to be earned not enforced with some draconian contract.
Its been working in the UK for years...people don't move as often as they used to but thats mainly because the phones that used to be heavily subsidised or free, are now starting to be priced nearer their actual value.
ZoomPlayer can handle Real(I would say video, but I don't think it can really be called that) and QuickTime, as well as the usual formats: http://www.inmatrix.com/
Can anyone show me an example of a good quality Real clip?
No they REDEFINED existing definitions for the benefit of the stupid, and it doing so they screw with existing rules of suffixes!
Any decent science education should have taught suffixes are made of two parts, the latter is the unit and the former the size.
The problem is that bytes are base 2 and not base 10 like most common system.
The reason for the problem is some stupid PR department of a HD manufacturer.
eDonkey has a problem in that it only works well if you leave it on for long periods, and like most people I've got other uses for the bandwidth and computer.
You still don't get it.
Having a limited service and appropriate charge is fine.
Whats wrong is when these ISP change the product (and not the price) because their 'system' can't handle it, and then they implement a cap but give the user no means of monitoring it...so the user just gets kicked off.
NTL aren't the worse, BT's various screwed up ADSL services are so limited it should be false advertising to call them 'broadband'
read the articles first!
It's not a low cost service, its the only one NTL were selling for the best part of 2 years.
They've now 'changed' it from unlimited to this 1gb capped...thats why people are pissed off, not because of the limit.
ditto...I've brought a lot of cd's based on mp3's I've downloaded. But I've also saved my self a lot of money buy not buying cd's that I've listend to and don't like.
I prefered the.doc's as they opened far quicker than the.pdf's.
And besides why can't they post in what ever format they want? You post in English, what about the millions that don't speak it?
The overall idea is nice and i'm glad they are pushing the system as a media centre and not a PC, as it shifts the emphasis from geeky tech to something useful:)
But their solution sucks...for one why has it got a GeForce in it? They are great cards but the ATI All-In-Wonders are much much better suited (despite the stupid name). Surely if alienware were so behind performance they would realise that one card is better than two?
Why have they gone for a standard wireless keyboard/mouse when MS's bluetooth solution would be more suited.
XP Media Centre is nice and designed for nice clear and simple displays, and you can install it on a normal pc but i wouldn't bother.
One thing these systems do raise is storage...the home user is too limited, if we are gonna be using the PC for all of this then we need easily expandable storage, NAS systems are a solution but way to expensive.
Oh and wheres the credit to Shuttle?
Why not let Microsoft create the standards, and let them enforce it, document it, market it and support it, because obviously the current guys can't do any of that. Then they also have to pay for it.
Or why not produce a product that is actually better than IE??
Tried it with Day of Defeat...its ok but jesus it takes ages. Ok I'm in the UK and servers are probly in the US, but even with out that it took 5-10 mins to get to the menu, and then another 15-20 to get into the game proper.
I would think a hybrid system would work best, ie you download a 30-50Mb core and then the steam system is used for the non essential items.
I think its obvious that people will try to be charged by a site to view its content, which seems fair to me except for a couple of points
1) Alot of web articles are either badly written, a copy of another article, or not what the link/headline say they are. 2) I shouldn't have to pay for the whole site, I doubt anyones read every page a site offers. 3) Some sites/pages don't even load
Take slashdot, I get the daily email. I click on some of the links and of those I click a few I click through to the article, some I just read the comments, and alot I just read the blurb and realize its not what I thought it was.
So I wouldn't pay for the entire site, cause I don't use the entire site.
The only solution that gets round these problems, that I can think of, is pay once a page is loaded, or more likely once you link off or close the page. You get a request for an amount, using something like paypal, which must be simple, as simple as giving cash for a chocolate bar. Then 'you' can give what you think the article is worth, and gets around the problems I mentioned.
Google, which I consider more of a service, I would consider paying a monthly fee for and I don't think the idea above could be used...as you've no idea how good google was until you've clicked on the results.
The problems with this idea is sites would have to be willing to be judged/valued on their content, and accept that some of the content is just not worth paying for, however garish the colours are:)
People would have to accept that sites aren't electronic magazines and cannot be treated in the same way.
Browser technology, I'm guessing, would be the area that needs changing to implement this.
Has this idea been considered by anyone? Any alternatives?
just a quickie...say ms were forced to release every bit of code via the open source route...who gets the job of mainting and supporting it?
Microsoft...why would they want to support other peoples bugs as well as their own? (i wouldn't expect them too either)
Nobody/Everybody...then how do the joe public's of the world get the latest version with support/manual etc (which imho is the biggest - against linux)
maybe i've missed sommit but the question seems relevant.
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This is only good if its done right! The software should 1)block all popups, 2)allow easy (and I mean simple two click max) to get to the blocked popup, 3)allow sites to be added to a whitelist. A vast majority fail at the 2nd (even google:)), and assuming all popups are bad, which is narrow minded and just stupid. http://www.endpopups.com/ is the only popup manger that I've found that does both of these easily.
Because some people can't get to whatever random location and make the X. And because a lot of people can't be arsed in the first place, making it less hassle for them means they contribute which in turn means its a more democratic process.
yea Waste, was kinda released Justin Frankell/Nullsoft. It was quickly pulled, probly due to some harsh words from AOL/TW. But its probly still floating around the net somewhere.
Don't buy it then, no ones forcing you to. Oh and as for faster memory, Dual Channel DDR and DDR-II are here (or nearly here), both of which improve memory speeds.
So wireless carriers are afraid of loosing customers? Isn't that an admission that their current service is crap? In which case its a good thing that they loose customers, it should make them rethink their pricing/mobiles offered/extras etc. Customer Loyalty needs to be earned not enforced with some draconian contract. Its been working in the UK for years...people don't move as often as they used to but thats mainly because the phones that used to be heavily subsidised or free, are now starting to be priced nearer their actual value.
ZoomPlayer can handle Real(I would say video, but I don't think it can really be called that) and QuickTime, as well as the usual formats:
http://www.inmatrix.com/
Can anyone show me an example of a good quality Real clip?
duh, cause its using the Quake engine!
No they REDEFINED existing definitions for the benefit of the stupid, and it doing so they screw with existing rules of suffixes! Any decent science education should have taught suffixes are made of two parts, the latter is the unit and the former the size. The problem is that bytes are base 2 and not base 10 like most common system. The reason for the problem is some stupid PR department of a HD manufacturer.
eDonkey has a problem in that it only works well if you leave it on for long periods, and like most people I've got other uses for the bandwidth and computer.
Isn't this the point of school? To teach these things? You can't blame computers for the downturn in handwriting ability, just the schools.
its basically lazy 'programming', and wastes the users time clicking through pointless animations just to get to some information.
You still don't get it. Having a limited service and appropriate charge is fine. Whats wrong is when these ISP change the product (and not the price) because their 'system' can't handle it, and then they implement a cap but give the user no means of monitoring it...so the user just gets kicked off. NTL aren't the worse, BT's various screwed up ADSL services are so limited it should be false advertising to call them 'broadband'
read the articles first! It's not a low cost service, its the only one NTL were selling for the best part of 2 years. They've now 'changed' it from unlimited to this 1gb capped...thats why people are pissed off, not because of the limit.
ditto...I've brought a lot of cd's based on mp3's I've downloaded. But I've also saved my self a lot of money buy not buying cd's that I've listend to and don't like.
I prefered the .doc's as they opened far quicker than the .pdf's.
And besides why can't they post in what ever format they want? You post in English, what about the millions that don't speak it?
The overall idea is nice and i'm glad they are pushing the system as a media centre and not a PC, as it shifts the emphasis from geeky tech to something useful:) But their solution sucks...for one why has it got a GeForce in it? They are great cards but the ATI All-In-Wonders are much much better suited (despite the stupid name). Surely if alienware were so behind performance they would realise that one card is better than two? Why have they gone for a standard wireless keyboard/mouse when MS's bluetooth solution would be more suited. XP Media Centre is nice and designed for nice clear and simple displays, and you can install it on a normal pc but i wouldn't bother. One thing these systems do raise is storage...the home user is too limited, if we are gonna be using the PC for all of this then we need easily expandable storage, NAS systems are a solution but way to expensive. Oh and wheres the credit to Shuttle?
whoopie doo and i'm sure both people that actually use those others will be very happy
Why not let Microsoft create the standards, and let them enforce it, document it, market it and support it, because obviously the current guys can't do any of that. Then they also have to pay for it.
Or why not produce a product that is actually better than IE??
Tried it with Day of Defeat...its ok but jesus it takes ages. Ok I'm in the UK and servers are probly in the US, but even with out that it took 5-10 mins to get to the menu, and then another 15-20 to get into the game proper.
I would think a hybrid system would work best, ie you download a 30-50Mb core and then the steam system is used for the non essential items.
I think its obvious that people will try to be charged by a site to view its content, which seems fair to me except for a couple of points
1) Alot of web articles are either badly written, a copy of another article, or not what the link/headline say they are.
2) I shouldn't have to pay for the whole site, I doubt anyones read every page a site offers.
3) Some sites/pages don't even load
Take slashdot, I get the daily email. I click on some of the links and of those I click a few I click through to the article, some I just read the comments, and alot I just read the blurb and realize its not what I thought it was.
So I wouldn't pay for the entire site, cause I don't use the entire site.
The only solution that gets round these problems, that I can think of, is pay once a page is loaded, or more likely once you link off or close the page. You get a request for an amount, using something like paypal, which must be simple, as simple as giving cash for a chocolate bar. Then 'you' can give what you think the article is worth, and gets around the problems I mentioned.
Google, which I consider more of a service, I would consider paying a monthly fee for and I don't think the idea above could be used...as you've no idea how good google was until you've clicked on the results.
The problems with this idea is sites would have to be willing to be judged/valued on their content, and accept that some of the content is just not worth paying for, however garish the colours are:)
People would have to accept that sites aren't electronic magazines and cannot be treated in the same way.
Browser technology, I'm guessing, would be the area that needs changing to implement this.
Has this idea been considered by anyone?
Any alternatives?
just a quickie...say ms were forced to release every bit of code via the open source route...who gets the job of mainting and supporting it?
Microsoft...why would they want to support other peoples bugs as well as their own? (i wouldn't expect them too either)
Nobody/Everybody...then how do the joe public's of the world get the latest version with support/manual etc (which imho is the biggest - against linux)
maybe i've missed sommit but the question seems relevant.