in Windows 7 where they took away the ability to sort folders manually
Ummm, what? What exactly are you describing by sorting folders manually? I've never had any problem with Explorer sorting the contents of a directory based off of any attribute the files may have. And what do you mean by manually? Computers are phenomenal at sorting, why would you not have the computer do the sorting?
Whatever percentage that Linux has on end user computer is still higher than Windows RT. Who knows, for all we know Linux will always have a higher marketshare than Windows RT. Would Mozilla still worry about Windows RT then?
Why would anyone choose Microsoft's Media Center over XBMC?
I can tell you why I did. I purchased my little Acer Nettop (doesn't have an optical drive) plugged the HDMI into the TV, plugged the tuner in, had Windows Media Center scan for channels, and I could watch/record live TV. Could hardly have been easier.
When I heard about XBMC I installed it and ran it. It loaded faster then WMC and the menu navigation was faster. I found it's theming to be a little haphazard (a different background for every menu?) but that's forgivable. I couldn't find anything about TV. So looking online I discovered that XBMC is a media client and that I'd need to install a media server to get TV. The XBMC webpage mentioned two that it worked with, but it was also plastered with warnings that neither were official solutions and that there would be crashes when using either. I tried both media servers. While I could get both of them to recognize the tuner, neither of them would find a single TV channel. So I uninstalled the media server and XBMC still sits somewhere on the harddrive, completely unused.
I have 0 movie files on my HTPC, 0 music files, and only a handful of pictures for desktop wallpapers. I use my HTPC for a TV guide, recording TV, Netflix, Vudu, and streaming from any other random website we find. XMBC doesn't help with doing any of those things out of the box. That's why I chose Windows Media Center over XMBC.
DSL is not a competitor worth mentioning since the speeds are not high enough in most areas to support quality streaming.
I find my DSL speeds to be sufficient. Most of the entertainment my family watches on the TV comes from either Netflix streaming or Vudu. We have no desire to get cable.
So, if you have no cable at all how do you propose getting Netflix, Hulu (which is going to require you have cable!), etc?
Cable isn't the only source of internet connections. I don't have cable, yet I can still access the internet. Cable internet actively competes with DSL and FiOS.
I wasn't suggesting that Fannie and Freddy were to root cause of the crisis, but their mortgage purchasing policies were enablers. The article you link to does end with
They were, at first, not-so-innocent semi-bystanders and, eventually, too-willing accomplices who followed Wall Street as it led the nation’s economy off a cliff.
Which is why selling to Fannie and Freddy is step 3 in a plan, not the entire evil scheme.
current Windows Phones will not be eligible to receive an upgrade to Win Phone 8
Can you tell me which phones you've purchased because of a promised upgrade? Were you successfull in the OS upgrade with the blessing/support of the carrier? I have yet to know anyone whose purchased a phone not based off of what it currently does, but because of a promise that it'll get upgraded later.
Step 3 is selling to mortgage to Fannie and Freddie, who were instructed by Congress to buy every mortgage they could, regardless of the safety of the mortgage. Congress wanted their constituents to have houses and reward their Congress members for creating a system that would allow them to have a house. You reelect your Congressman and Congress makes it possible for you to own a house, every body is happy. With Fannie and Freddie buying every piece of crap they could lay their hands on, what would prevent a banker from making horrible mortgages?
But putting the 'best and brightest' in charge has usually been far worse. They actually believe they can make everything better with central planning.
Perhaps best is subjective. I think of the American Founding Fathers as the 'best'. They tended to be well read, educated, and were generally sucessfull in business and their communities. I like the 'we fear government and power by default' system they set up. They did not create a system with central planning. It's since changed in the last century, but they tried their hardest to setup a system that would take a long time to change.
I was really excited about the heat maps in that blog post, but I've found that they haven't quite executed on that idea entirely. For example, you want to run an app as administrator, once you right click on the app you have to move the mouse all the way to the bottom of the screen to run as admin. There are other little things, but the result is that now I think of all of my in the heat map concept and find that about half of the time Metro follows the heat map, and the other half does exactly the wrong thing.
If you use Windows Live Mesh you can have a subset of the 25 GB auto sync. I forget if it's 2 GB or 5 GB, though. I don't use the auto sync, so I don't know for sure.
The issue is that meetings should be public so the public can know what's being discussed, can be there to watch, and be able comment on the proceedings
I think that this is one of the reasons why people find government to be so slow. Personally, I kind of wish that government behaved faster, and was able to solve problems with more efficiency. By having the paper trail (of the emails) the public can look at what was decided, and then re-elect/remove the officials as needed. By not having every single last interest group gumming up the works, the public officials might actually get something done. Do I want public officials to run around unbound? No. But by not having to have every decision go through 2 billion commitee's, they might actually get some work done. I do want to enable public officials to do the job they were elected to do, and then be held accountable for their actions during their performance evaluations/elections.
So, are any of these reviews going to give us any idea, at all, of call or sound quality on these phones? Or have we just completely given up on the "phone" part of the functionality?
From what I can tell about reading non proffesional online reviews/comments, all many techincal people care about are the number of cores on the device. Doesn't matter if they're turned on or off, or are even fast. They apparently only buy phones for the cores in them.
I don't think that it has so much to do with control as it does with ROI. If you get a higher return on investment by not making something open, a business will be inclined to not make it open.
If Adam and Eve were the first humans, then who wrote the biblical story?
While this has no bearing on the topic at hand, the answer to your question is: Moses. As a prophet, Moses had revelation to the spiritually relevant aspects of how the children of Isreal came to be. So he wrote it down and taught it to them. Moses wrote the first five books of the Bible.
Now if you don't believe that Moses could have had divine inspiration, then Moses must have assembled some myth's based off of what some of the children of Isreal could kind of remember from their pre-Egypt days.
There are lots of clients that Firefox runs have which have H.264. Why focus on using it for just mobile? Using pre-existing technologies on the system, regardless of its mobileness, should be the right thing to do.
I can see this being aimed at tech-dumb parents/grandparents.
It could also be for parents who don't like re-purchasing DVD's. I've never had a DVD break in my household, but periodically it'll be in a story I read that some poor mom has to keep on re-buyin her kids favorite DVD because they keep on stepping on it (apparently that's what kids do to things they love). So they pay $2 to get something that can't be stepped on. Now instead of paying $60 for a movie over a three year period, they've paid $22.
Now I know what you're thinking "She should just rip it and burn copies." That requires extra hardware and software, which she may not have, and therefore would be an extra expense. Plus the time it takes her to do the ripping, storing, and managing, may be worth more than $2 per movie to her. To me it's not, but I realize that different people in the market have different costs than I do.
Well, if believing in intelligent design is not enough to get you fired, believing that you were fired because you believe in intelligent design, and telling people that, is probably evidence of other factors that could get you fired from NASA.
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in Windows 7 where they took away the ability to sort folders manually
Ummm, what? What exactly are you describing by sorting folders manually? I've never had any problem with Explorer sorting the contents of a directory based off of any attribute the files may have. And what do you mean by manually? Computers are phenomenal at sorting, why would you not have the computer do the sorting?
Whatever percentage that Linux has on end user computer is still higher than Windows RT. Who knows, for all we know Linux will always have a higher marketshare than Windows RT. Would Mozilla still worry about Windows RT then?
Why is everybody trying to make me wave my hands in the air or lift my forearms off the desk to drag my fingers across a screen?
Because that's what the actors do in the all of the futuristic movies.
Why would anyone choose Microsoft's Media Center over XBMC?
I can tell you why I did. I purchased my little Acer Nettop (doesn't have an optical drive) plugged the HDMI into the TV, plugged the tuner in, had Windows Media Center scan for channels, and I could watch/record live TV. Could hardly have been easier.
When I heard about XBMC I installed it and ran it. It loaded faster then WMC and the menu navigation was faster. I found it's theming to be a little haphazard (a different background for every menu?) but that's forgivable. I couldn't find anything about TV. So looking online I discovered that XBMC is a media client and that I'd need to install a media server to get TV. The XBMC webpage mentioned two that it worked with, but it was also plastered with warnings that neither were official solutions and that there would be crashes when using either. I tried both media servers. While I could get both of them to recognize the tuner, neither of them would find a single TV channel. So I uninstalled the media server and XBMC still sits somewhere on the harddrive, completely unused.
I have 0 movie files on my HTPC, 0 music files, and only a handful of pictures for desktop wallpapers. I use my HTPC for a TV guide, recording TV, Netflix, Vudu, and streaming from any other random website we find. XMBC doesn't help with doing any of those things out of the box. That's why I chose Windows Media Center over XMBC.
Are they going to ban VLC and other 3rd party players? If not, I'm happy not to have to pay for those licences as a part of my Windows licence
When has Microsoft ever banned anything from running on any of their desktop/server OS's?
DSL is not a competitor worth mentioning since the speeds are not high enough in most areas to support quality streaming.
I find my DSL speeds to be sufficient. Most of the entertainment my family watches on the TV comes from either Netflix streaming or Vudu. We have no desire to get cable.
So, if you have no cable at all how do you propose getting Netflix, Hulu (which is going to require you have cable!), etc?
Cable isn't the only source of internet connections. I don't have cable, yet I can still access the internet. Cable internet actively competes with DSL and FiOS.
They were, at first, not-so-innocent semi-bystanders and, eventually, too-willing accomplices who followed Wall Street as it led the nation’s economy off a cliff.
Which is why selling to Fannie and Freddy is step 3 in a plan, not the entire evil scheme.
current Windows Phones will not be eligible to receive an upgrade to Win Phone 8
Can you tell me which phones you've purchased because of a promised upgrade? Were you successfull in the OS upgrade with the blessing/support of the carrier? I have yet to know anyone whose purchased a phone not based off of what it currently does, but because of a promise that it'll get upgraded later.
Step 3 is selling to mortgage to Fannie and Freddie, who were instructed by Congress to buy every mortgage they could, regardless of the safety of the mortgage. Congress wanted their constituents to have houses and reward their Congress members for creating a system that would allow them to have a house. You reelect your Congressman and Congress makes it possible for you to own a house, every body is happy. With Fannie and Freddie buying every piece of crap they could lay their hands on, what would prevent a banker from making horrible mortgages?
But putting the 'best and brightest' in charge has usually been far worse. They actually believe they can make everything better with central planning.
Perhaps best is subjective. I think of the American Founding Fathers as the 'best'. They tended to be well read, educated, and were generally sucessfull in business and their communities. I like the 'we fear government and power by default' system they set up. They did not create a system with central planning. It's since changed in the last century, but they tried their hardest to setup a system that would take a long time to change.
I was really excited about the heat maps in that blog post, but I've found that they haven't quite executed on that idea entirely. For example, you want to run an app as administrator, once you right click on the app you have to move the mouse all the way to the bottom of the screen to run as admin. There are other little things, but the result is that now I think of all of my in the heat map concept and find that about half of the time Metro follows the heat map, and the other half does exactly the wrong thing.
If you use Windows Live Mesh you can have a subset of the 25 GB auto sync. I forget if it's 2 GB or 5 GB, though. I don't use the auto sync, so I don't know for sure.
5 GB is at the high end of current free offerings
SkyDrive is 25 GB and free.
The issue is that meetings should be public so the public can know what's being discussed, can be there to watch, and be able comment on the proceedings
I think that this is one of the reasons why people find government to be so slow. Personally, I kind of wish that government behaved faster, and was able to solve problems with more efficiency. By having the paper trail (of the emails) the public can look at what was decided, and then re-elect/remove the officials as needed. By not having every single last interest group gumming up the works, the public officials might actually get something done. Do I want public officials to run around unbound? No. But by not having to have every decision go through 2 billion commitee's, they might actually get some work done. I do want to enable public officials to do the job they were elected to do, and then be held accountable for their actions during their performance evaluations/elections.
So, are any of these reviews going to give us any idea, at all, of call or sound quality on these phones? Or have we just completely given up on the "phone" part of the functionality?
From what I can tell about reading non proffesional online reviews/comments, all many techincal people care about are the number of cores on the device. Doesn't matter if they're turned on or off, or are even fast. They apparently only buy phones for the cores in them.
Jet Stress does a good job of runnig the storage media through a lot of work.
people *hate* to give up control
I don't think that it has so much to do with control as it does with ROI. If you get a higher return on investment by not making something open, a business will be inclined to not make it open.
But you're so confined into that little seat that most directions are blocked off, preventing the item to become much of a projectile.
um who changes barber I have gone to a total of 3 barbers in my life and I am 50 ish
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why we have public school prayer when the bible prohibits it
Do you have book, chapter and verse on where the Bible prohibits prayers in school?
If Adam and Eve were the first humans, then who wrote the biblical story?
While this has no bearing on the topic at hand, the answer to your question is: Moses. As a prophet, Moses had revelation to the spiritually relevant aspects of how the children of Isreal came to be. So he wrote it down and taught it to them. Moses wrote the first five books of the Bible.
Now if you don't believe that Moses could have had divine inspiration, then Moses must have assembled some myth's based off of what some of the children of Isreal could kind of remember from their pre-Egypt days.
There are lots of clients that Firefox runs have which have H.264. Why focus on using it for just mobile? Using pre-existing technologies on the system, regardless of its mobileness, should be the right thing to do.
I can see this being aimed at tech-dumb parents/grandparents.
It could also be for parents who don't like re-purchasing DVD's. I've never had a DVD break in my household, but periodically it'll be in a story I read that some poor mom has to keep on re-buyin her kids favorite DVD because they keep on stepping on it (apparently that's what kids do to things they love). So they pay $2 to get something that can't be stepped on. Now instead of paying $60 for a movie over a three year period, they've paid $22.
Now I know what you're thinking "She should just rip it and burn copies." That requires extra hardware and software, which she may not have, and therefore would be an extra expense. Plus the time it takes her to do the ripping, storing, and managing, may be worth more than $2 per movie to her. To me it's not, but I realize that different people in the market have different costs than I do.
Well, if believing in intelligent design is not enough to get you fired, believing that you were fired because you believe in intelligent design, and telling people that, is probably evidence of other factors that could get you fired from NASA.
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