Yeah, I read that and was very unimpressed. Haven't used this since '94. Their site says it does noise reduction from clipboard so I suppose you could sample some background hum and substract out the noise. I guess that's a start.
I was thinking the same thing. My office closed after 9-11 because our clients hugged their money in fear of what was going to happen. The market was so quiet, resumes were everywhere. CNN said the time to find a job increased by 40%. I definitely saw that first-hand, although I'm only one data point.
Sorry for asking an absurd question. I was thinking air handler on the ground, space copper elevator type thing, radiator in the sky. Sure, it sounds stupid. But I guess my question is, energy can do work... so why wouldn't we be able to cool ourselves off? Fusion, I thought, was so great because it's practically limitless (or at least really great).
Or maybe I'll get flamed more because the heat really isn't an issue compared to other global warming factors.
Or from TFA, the guy who traded in his two million Virgin frequent flyer miles for a free trip? Argh, I hate him. His business probably flew him around and he used a private CC to book the flights. So jealous.
I never thought about the heat. If it produces more energy than it consumes, could we cool the planet off? An A/C unit moves heat around but creates waste heat, could we overcome this by moving it off-planet? Set up reflecting discs?
Seems to me, limitless energy trumps everything because we could use the energy to fix any problems we had with generating it.
I'm exhausted. OSX vs Vista. Wii vs PS3. I just can't fight anymore./. and digg speculation really takes it out of me. Nevermind, it's just the digg comments that take it out of me.
I have a 360 and I enjoy playing it, but it doesn't fast-forward or rewind mp3s (what). The Wii looks so revolutionary but can't you hear "I love the wiimote, I wish the games looked as good as the PS3 does". I mean, it could really turn out gimmicky. I hate to kill the excitement but if you can't precisely wave Link's sword, it's just not going to work for me. But *who knows* is my point.
White Knight on the PS3 killed me, I was floored. I guess I'm in the "sees it turning out either way" camp. Especially since "I wish the Wiimote could control the PS3" is a severe possibility in 2007.
Isometrics are amazingly wonderful. Sit up against a wall as if a chair is there. I used to do this all the time and it's great for fast-twitch sprinting.
XP was and is really good imho. It was a clear decision up from 98 or ME. 2000 really wasn't as good in the home and XP was essentially carved from it. XP surprised everyone by booting quick. It still is snappy even with ClearType on. However... Windows still dies 2x a year for me and this has always been the case for me and everyone I know since 95. It just dies after a while when you're a power user, installing and uninstalling. Even right now, XP is starting to exhibit quirks and slowdowns that a fresh install would solve. And I'm not smart enough to explain why.
But, a button is a major, major feature of a mouse. These days, it's very gray. OSs play games, check email, surf the web.. but in what quality? And do we care? It's getting closer to art and music reviews really.
"Dude, you gotta check out this new album. It's called Vista!" "Yeah dude, I listened to it. It's ok. I dunno. Seems like I heard it before." "Oh, no way! It's totally awesome compared to their last album!" "Hmm. Ok, well, I'll give them another try on their next one."
Yeah I saw the 10.4 slowdown too. But then again, every file is indexed instantaneously. Is Vista going to do this only with WinFS (I haven't tried a search test yet on 5728)?
How come even when I say Vista copied the pathname no one sees my point? It was something, they changed it to match OSX. I'm not claiming they did this because they looked at OSX. But now it matches OSX's home directory structure. Infer all you want, it's another thing that is the same after the original is out.
God, even a string parser would agree with me provided minimal regex syntax./home/username was in the wild./export/home/username was in the wild./Users/username was in the wild and they chose this after getting so close to OSX on so many other things, why. Why would they throw gas on the fire like this?
"And at the end of the day, does it matter that it's the same on OS X?" Nope, it doesn't matter, people won't care. Vista will sell and run so wonderfully on those intel 945g cards that don't even know what h/w T&L (circa 1999) is. But who knows, it's all speculation.
Nothing in life is this cut and dry. With decision, there is trade-off. With choice, you have consequence.
Changes under the hood remain invisible because they are cramming more and more stuff into the hood without question. Bloat carries over. A:\ 5.25" B:\ 3.5" C:\ First HDD. That carries over. Migration is defintely not painless for people who don't want the home directories to change. This is easily fixed with some group policies etc, but you have to test it and roll it out. It's a change.
Who knows what market share is driven by. Mac doesn't have enterprise stuff, Linux is distro-d to hell and I can sell Windows to my boss because of group think. People like MTV, musicians hate it. I wish I were as sure about everything as you are, I wouldn't get so sad when I want ideal things.
But that doesn't mean Vista won't work. It will be good enough to work (after some early adoption) and the battle will continue forever until we find out some answers to bigger patterns. Does software development needs agility? Do computers do everything we need already? Are we at diminishing returns?
Active Desktop was so bad though. When it crashed (which it loved to do), it'd ask you if you wanted to restore the current state and all this nonsense. Not to mention the performance hit. Every game back then would tell you to turn it off. It's no wonder they scrapped it.
"Tire." "I saw that back in the stone age!" Ok fine, but the wheel hasn't been this good ever so thank god we have Tire.
And I remember Windows fanboys saying that OSX is a glossy fisher price toy. Now that Vista is blurry, I don't hear "yay blurry fisher price toy". The fact of the matter is, you're in a camp and it's subjective. However, I don't see why people are so against Mac getting maybe 5% more market share letting the consumer win because of competition.
Competition helps us. More competition means more OSX, more Linux or both.
I agree with the change, I just think it's funny in light of the other OSX-ish features. Not to be negative but I've been telling all my SA friends about this and they hate it to the point that they won't intentionally suggest Vista. But only because they run Citrix farms where Group Policy and a million other things are hardcoded to C:\Doc and Settings
Yes, services.msc is awful and has been around since 2000. It's this massive spreadsheet that defaults to the "extended" tab, which is supposed to provide notes on the services. But all the notes on the services are in the description column. Sure, it works. But it is not happy fun party time.
Yes, home directories have been around for a long time. They moved C:\Documents and Settings\username to C:\Users\username which is the exact path of OSX if you switched it to a UNIX path.
I agree with what you are saying about a ton of new features. However, the services (net start/stop) UI is the same as it was in 2000 (awful). Overall, I can't sum up what I think about Vista 5728, it's exciting to run a new OS but it's a mixed experience.
For sure, I fell out of my seat in horror when I saw where they moved C:\Documents and Settings\username
OSX =/Users/username Vista = C:\Users\username
Holy crap. I mean, it's a string! That's not even necessary, you could have named it whatever you wanted and that would be the standard, that would be law. I'll forgive security dialogs (sudo), gadgets (widgets), blurry (glossy), search icon (spotlight icon), winfs (spotlight), aero (aqua) but I can't forgive explictly copying OSX's home directory structure. It's plainly obvious that they are copying Apple.
It's also interesting that King Kong is coming out on HD-DVD, which MS is releasing the player for. You can almost touch the business deal. Good for him.
Just a few ideas. Centralized TiVO. Commercial game renting. Sync gentoo quick, heck have prebuilt images for your exact hardware ready. Rent apps over Citrix?
I've been hitting the submit button on the "Can I get FiOS?" site in Northern Virginia since I heard about it in 2004. So far, all I've gotten is a web redirect to their DSL offerings.
Speaking of DSL, I talked to Speakeasy (my dsl provider) and asked them if they'd ever be able to offer their open hosting policies over FiOS. Speakeasy said no because FiOS is regulated differently than your POTS lines. So this really put a damper on things because I won't get port 80 etc over blazing optics. Unless they strike a deal (unlikely?) or an act of congress happens (lobbying?). I'd love to know exactly why fiber is treated differently.
I know this is going to sound sophmoric and uninformed... but... I hate this attaching gambling legislation into the defense bill stuff. I'm sure it happens a lot, it's just grinds logic. Oil and water.
"Rumsfeld. You can have your $70B for Iraq but you're going to have to roll a 7 or an 11."
One problem with streaming game assets over the net in the future (imho) is nostalgia. Take NES FF1. It'll probably run on the Wii in 2006/2007. What happens in 2020 when I want to play FFXI? We going to wrap it all up in virtualization and have the vendor run the (then ancient) ffxi game servers? Community supported servers?
Take tradewars 2002. It's great that community supported servers still exist for this old BBS game. But we've lost simplicity. Instead of some simple.rom that I could dump from an old cartridge, I've got to have this client-server thing with telnet. So great, now telnet lives on. I dunno, maybe I answered my own question with the virtualization. Most people won't do nostalgia and a few will just virtualize it to get around the legacy stuff.
But my real point is, with the online game push, we've lost our simplisitc innocence of emulation. I wonder if this pattern will continue...
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Yeah, I read that and was very unimpressed. Haven't used this since '94. Their site says it does noise reduction from clipboard so I suppose you could sample some background hum and substract out the noise. I guess that's a start.
I was thinking the same thing. My office closed after 9-11 because our clients hugged their money in fear of what was going to happen. The market was so quiet, resumes were everywhere. CNN said the time to find a job increased by 40%. I definitely saw that first-hand, although I'm only one data point.
Sorry for asking an absurd question. I was thinking air handler on the ground, space copper elevator type thing, radiator in the sky. Sure, it sounds stupid. But I guess my question is, energy can do work ... so why wouldn't we be able to cool ourselves off? Fusion, I thought, was so great because it's practically limitless (or at least really great).
Or maybe I'll get flamed more because the heat really isn't an issue compared to other global warming factors.
Sorry.
Or from TFA, the guy who traded in his two million Virgin frequent flyer miles for a free trip? Argh, I hate him. His business probably flew him around and he used a private CC to book the flights. So jealous.
I never thought about the heat. If it produces more energy than it consumes, could we cool the planet off? An A/C unit moves heat around but creates waste heat, could we overcome this by moving it off-planet? Set up reflecting discs?
Seems to me, limitless energy trumps everything because we could use the energy to fix any problems we had with generating it.
I'm exhausted. OSX vs Vista. Wii vs PS3. I just can't fight anymore. /. and digg speculation really takes it out of me. Nevermind, it's just the digg comments that take it out of me.
I have a 360 and I enjoy playing it, but it doesn't fast-forward or rewind mp3s (what). The Wii looks so revolutionary but can't you hear "I love the wiimote, I wish the games looked as good as the PS3 does". I mean, it could really turn out gimmicky. I hate to kill the excitement but if you can't precisely wave Link's sword, it's just not going to work for me. But *who knows* is my point.
White Knight on the PS3 killed me, I was floored. I guess I'm in the "sees it turning out either way" camp. Especially since "I wish the Wiimote could control the PS3" is a severe possibility in 2007.
Isometrics are amazingly wonderful. Sit up against a wall as if a chair is there. I used to do this all the time and it's great for fast-twitch sprinting.
XP was and is really good imho. It was a clear decision up from 98 or ME. 2000 really wasn't as good in the home and XP was essentially carved from it. XP surprised everyone by booting quick. It still is snappy even with ClearType on. However ... Windows still dies 2x a year for me and this has always been the case for me and everyone I know since 95. It just dies after a while when you're a power user, installing and uninstalling. Even right now, XP is starting to exhibit quirks and slowdowns that a fresh install would solve. And I'm not smart enough to explain why.
But, a button is a major, major feature of a mouse. These days, it's very gray. OSs play games, check email, surf the web .. but in what quality? And do we care? It's getting closer to art and music reviews really.
"Dude, you gotta check out this new album. It's called Vista!"
"Yeah dude, I listened to it. It's ok. I dunno. Seems like I heard it before."
"Oh, no way! It's totally awesome compared to their last album!"
"Hmm. Ok, well, I'll give them another try on their next one."
Yeah I saw the 10.4 slowdown too. But then again, every file is indexed instantaneously. Is Vista going to do this only with WinFS (I haven't tried a search test yet on 5728)?
How come even when I say Vista copied the pathname no one sees my point? It was something, they changed it to match OSX. I'm not claiming they did this because they looked at OSX. But now it matches OSX's home directory structure. Infer all you want, it's another thing that is the same after the original is out.
/home/username was in the wild. /export/home/username was in the wild. /Users/username was in the wild and they chose this after getting so close to OSX on so many other things, why. Why would they throw gas on the fire like this?
God, even a string parser would agree with me provided minimal regex syntax.
"And at the end of the day, does it matter that it's the same on OS X?" Nope, it doesn't matter, people won't care. Vista will sell and run so wonderfully on those intel 945g cards that don't even know what h/w T&L (circa 1999) is. But who knows, it's all speculation.
Nothing in life is this cut and dry. With decision, there is trade-off. With choice, you have consequence.
Changes under the hood remain invisible because they are cramming more and more stuff into the hood without question. Bloat carries over. A:\ 5.25" B:\ 3.5" C:\ First HDD. That carries over. Migration is defintely not painless for people who don't want the home directories to change. This is easily fixed with some group policies etc, but you have to test it and roll it out. It's a change.
Who knows what market share is driven by. Mac doesn't have enterprise stuff, Linux is distro-d to hell and I can sell Windows to my boss because of group think. People like MTV, musicians hate it. I wish I were as sure about everything as you are, I wouldn't get so sad when I want ideal things.
But that doesn't mean Vista won't work. It will be good enough to work (after some early adoption) and the battle will continue forever until we find out some answers to bigger patterns. Does software development needs agility? Do computers do everything we need already? Are we at diminishing returns?
You _need_ Altivec for Quartz Extreme which is extremely needed when running OSX. So, only G4/G5 or Intel SSE for great justice.
Active Desktop was so bad though. When it crashed (which it loved to do), it'd ask you if you wanted to restore the current state and all this nonsense. Not to mention the performance hit. Every game back then would tell you to turn it off. It's no wonder they scrapped it.
"Tire."
"I saw that back in the stone age!"
Ok fine, but the wheel hasn't been this good ever so thank god we have Tire.
And I remember Windows fanboys saying that OSX is a glossy fisher price toy. Now that Vista is blurry, I don't hear "yay blurry fisher price toy". The fact of the matter is, you're in a camp and it's subjective. However, I don't see why people are so against Mac getting maybe 5% more market share letting the consumer win because of competition.
Competition helps us. More competition means more OSX, more Linux or both.
I agree with the change, I just think it's funny in light of the other OSX-ish features. Not to be negative but I've been telling all my SA friends about this and they hate it to the point that they won't intentionally suggest Vista. But only because they run Citrix farms where Group Policy and a million other things are hardcoded to C:\Doc and Settings
Yes, services.msc is awful and has been around since 2000. It's this massive spreadsheet that defaults to the "extended" tab, which is supposed to provide notes on the services. But all the notes on the services are in the description column. Sure, it works. But it is not happy fun party time.
Yes, home directories have been around for a long time. They moved C:\Documents and Settings\username to C:\Users\username which is the exact path of OSX if you switched it to a UNIX path.
I agree with what you are saying about a ton of new features. However, the services (net start/stop) UI is the same as it was in 2000 (awful). Overall, I can't sum up what I think about Vista 5728, it's exciting to run a new OS but it's a mixed experience.
/Users/username
For sure, I fell out of my seat in horror when I saw where they moved C:\Documents and Settings\username
OSX =
Vista = C:\Users\username
Holy crap. I mean, it's a string! That's not even necessary, you could have named it whatever you wanted and that would be the standard, that would be law. I'll forgive security dialogs (sudo), gadgets (widgets), blurry (glossy), search icon (spotlight icon), winfs (spotlight), aero (aqua) but I can't forgive explictly copying OSX's home directory structure. It's plainly obvious that they are copying Apple.
The message board apocalypse.
It's also interesting that King Kong is coming out on HD-DVD, which MS is releasing the player for. You can almost touch the business deal. Good for him.
Just a few ideas. Centralized TiVO. Commercial game renting. Sync gentoo quick, heck have prebuilt images for your exact hardware ready. Rent apps over Citrix?
I've been hitting the submit button on the "Can I get FiOS?" site in Northern Virginia since I heard about it in 2004. So far, all I've gotten is a web redirect to their DSL offerings.
Speaking of DSL, I talked to Speakeasy (my dsl provider) and asked them if they'd ever be able to offer their open hosting policies over FiOS. Speakeasy said no because FiOS is regulated differently than your POTS lines. So this really put a damper on things because I won't get port 80 etc over blazing optics. Unless they strike a deal (unlikely?) or an act of congress happens (lobbying?). I'd love to know exactly why fiber is treated differently.
I know this is going to sound sophmoric and uninformed ... but ... I hate this attaching gambling legislation into the defense bill stuff. I'm sure it happens a lot, it's just grinds logic. Oil and water.
"Rumsfeld. You can have your $70B for Iraq but you're going to have to roll a 7 or an 11."
One problem with streaming game assets over the net in the future (imho) is nostalgia. Take NES FF1. It'll probably run on the Wii in 2006/2007. What happens in 2020 when I want to play FFXI? We going to wrap it all up in virtualization and have the vendor run the (then ancient) ffxi game servers? Community supported servers?
.rom that I could dump from an old cartridge, I've got to have this client-server thing with telnet. So great, now telnet lives on. I dunno, maybe I answered my own question with the virtualization. Most people won't do nostalgia and a few will just virtualize it to get around the legacy stuff.
Take tradewars 2002. It's great that community supported servers still exist for this old BBS game. But we've lost simplicity. Instead of some simple
But my real point is, with the online game push, we've lost our simplisitc innocence of emulation. I wonder if this pattern will continue...