What has Apple done like this? The biggest annoyance like that I had was when I switched to OSX and the switched CMD-N from creating a new directory in Finder to creating a new Finder window. Microsoft has been doing this non-standard GUI crap for ages in their media players and the Office ribbon crap annoys the crap out of me...
I'm pretty weary of these new minimalist interfaces. Why is getting rid of the menu bar a good thing? Where did copy/cut/paste go? How do I open a file? How do you print a page? How do I access anything that was in the menus? I hate the new Office ribbon interface... everything that used to be in the menus is now scattered across several ribbons which I have to navigate through.
Standard keyboard shortcuts are well and good, but they don't make up for having a standard GUI interface.
I think, as a society, we need to just get rid of the idea that personal transport is a right. I've been nearly hit at least a dozen times in the last year by people who are too feeble or who were distracted.
We need to get people that aren't capable of safe driving off the road(SCREW grandpa's sense of entitlement!!!).
I think Apple started bundling a sync conduit for PalmOS in 10.3... I don't know exactly why Apple isn't shipping this conduit now, but they aren't blocking anything... has anyone actually tried installing Palm's Palm Desktop on Snow Leopard? http://kb.palm.com/wps/portal/kb/common/article/33219_en.html . It would be hillarious if this was actually a move to FIX PalmOS syncing... I don't have an old Palm or I'd try it.
From what I've heard, the built-in Palm syncing always sucked(which is why there were third party solutions).
Pretty much everything I watch is available on Hulu... except Craig Fergeson, and you can just setup a torrent download. I pay for basic cable because Charter charges you an extra $30 if you don't have TV service, and basic cable is only $10...
Charter basic cable sucks for me... it doesn't even have all the CW, which I get with my rabbit ears.
Ogg on devices with no floating point sucks... I have a iPod 2G and a DS which I have installed Ogg software on. Even to a non-audiophile it sounded terrible... I'm guessing way to much rounding.
Hmm, if you have a older PC to run Linux on, you could install MythTV and throw your BT878 card in their. A 1Ghz-ish class computer can compress raw BT878 video into MPEG4 using MythTV. http://www.mythtv.org/
MythTV is my favorite DVR, and is very easy to setup.
Too bad, I haven't dealt with BT878s under Windows much, but under Linux I've been using them for ~10years. I have two different very generic BT878 cards.
This is a BIOS limitation... if your BIOS doesn't allow remapping the PCI DMA ranges, then ~.75GB of memory in the first 4GB isn't usable. Just use 64bit FreeBSD and turn on remapping in your BIOS.
3.25GB is the normal limit unless you remap the swathes of memory addresses that are used by the PCI bus for DMA. Even if you are running in 64bit native mode, you need to remap memory addresses to get all your memory. There is usually a BIOS setting called something like "Memory Remap" which enables this remapping.
Support for PAE(36bit memory addressing) and memory remapping are separate technologies, but without PAE there wouldn't be anywhere for the BIOS to remap the memory to.
I'm pretty sure you can't buy a copy of XP from Microsoft in the UK...
You can find pretty much anything for sale on the internet http://www.retrosoftware.com/15639.html , whether it's currently being sold by the manufacturer or not.
What programs do you use that are supported on Win98? What programs have even supported Win98 within the last 5 years?
10.0 and 10.1 are throughly depreciated, but 10.2 works with a fare amount of real software(more than Win98). 10.4 is the first Intel OSX variant, the last variant to support G3s, and is supported by pretty much every application. 10.4 is likely going to be the XP of the OSX world... Programs will continue to support 10.4 because it is the least painful option for a large number of computers.
That's some hyperbole... Win98 is not a serious option and WinXP is only still viable because Vista is so amazingly awful. Why exactly did you keep your Mac up to date and not update your PCs?
I would also like to point out that you can't directly buy a viable version of Windows at this moment(Win7 isn't out, WinXP is only shipped with Netbooks as of 2008, and Vista is crap).
Personally I like it when the trolls try these huge cases rather than their normal piddly little extortions. Microsoft, IBM, and all the big software producers are still lobbying FOR stronger software patents in more countries. As said elsewhere here, you need to reform the patent system through legislation. Hopefully M$ and IBM get beaten up enough to finally realize that patents are doing them more harm than good and get their lobbying efforts on the right side.
Hmmm... I don't suffer from this affliction, but I am amazed at how people drop there phones in the worst places. My mother managed to drop her little Motorola in a cup of coffee.
For me a lanyard would probably get my phone destroyed. I'd try throwing it from one hand to the other, have the line go taught, and have it smash into something. The worst I've done it have the phone fall out of my pocket into a gutter(while it was raining). After the phone dried out it was fine, I love LG.
The original XBox burned down a couple houses, which is why all the early XBox1 owners got a replacement power cable with higher gauge wire and a GFCI wart on the end. The power cable on my XBox1 would actually get warm before this replacement.
Anyhoo, class-action lawsuits for products shipped with known flaws are pretty common(i.e. iPod battery not lasting long enough).
How would building up a massive portfolio with ambiguous wide-spanning patents on all your property imaginable not help deter patent trolls?
OK, then maybe your idea of how patents work is flawed... If Microsoft's patent X requires TrollBoy's patent Y to work, then Microsoft needs to license patent Y before they implement anything using Patent X. Most patent claims are nearly identical to hundreds of others with some minor thing either changed or added.
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What has Apple done like this? The biggest annoyance like that I had was when I switched to OSX and the switched CMD-N from creating a new directory in Finder to creating a new Finder window. Microsoft has been doing this non-standard GUI crap for ages in their media players and the Office ribbon crap annoys the crap out of me...
The big problems are that you can't reorganize title-bar-tabs by dragging, and that you can't just click anywhere in the titlebar to drag the window.
I'm pretty weary of these new minimalist interfaces. Why is getting rid of the menu bar a good thing? Where did copy/cut/paste go? How do I open a file? How do you print a page? How do I access anything that was in the menus? I hate the new Office ribbon interface... everything that used to be in the menus is now scattered across several ribbons which I have to navigate through.
Standard keyboard shortcuts are well and good, but they don't make up for having a standard GUI interface.
I think, as a society, we need to just get rid of the idea that personal transport is a right. I've been nearly hit at least a dozen times in the last year by people who are too feeble or who were distracted.
We need to get people that aren't capable of safe driving off the road(SCREW grandpa's sense of entitlement!!!).
It appears their mail server is run by XO Communication
http://www.democrats.org/page/s/techproblems
http://www.xo.com/forms/Campaign/Care/ContactCustomerCare/ContactCustomerCare.aspx
I think Apple started bundling a sync conduit for PalmOS in 10.3... I don't know exactly why Apple isn't shipping this conduit now, but they aren't blocking anything... has anyone actually tried installing Palm's Palm Desktop on Snow Leopard? http://kb.palm.com/wps/portal/kb/common/article/33219_en.html . It would be hillarious if this was actually a move to FIX PalmOS syncing... I don't have an old Palm or I'd try it.
From what I've heard, the built-in Palm syncing always sucked(which is why there were third party solutions).
I wonder if Apple was licensing the software that allowed PalmOS syncing... possibly from Palm...
Pretty much everything I watch is available on Hulu... except Craig Fergeson, and you can just setup a torrent download. I pay for basic cable because Charter charges you an extra $30 if you don't have TV service, and basic cable is only $10...
Charter basic cable sucks for me... it doesn't even have all the CW, which I get with my rabbit ears.
Ogg on devices with no floating point sucks... I have a iPod 2G and a DS which I have installed Ogg software on. Even to a non-audiophile it sounded terrible... I'm guessing way to much rounding.
Hmm, if you have a older PC to run Linux on, you could install MythTV and throw your BT878 card in their. A 1Ghz-ish class computer can compress raw BT878 video into MPEG4 using MythTV. http://www.mythtv.org/
MythTV is my favorite DVR, and is very easy to setup.
Too bad, I haven't dealt with BT878s under Windows much, but under Linux I've been using them for ~10years. I have two different very generic BT878 cards.
It's out of your price range, but the HDHomrunner is a great option if you don't need analog signals http://www.silicondust.com/products/hdhomerun . There is also the Sling Box, but it's even more expensive http://www.slingmedia.com/go/slingbox-prohd-connections . I have a HDHomrunner.
Try the 64bit K-TV with your old card http://www.planetamd64.com/lofiversion/index.php?t7188.html or try the generic BT878 WDM driver http://btwincap.sourceforge.net/supportedcards.html
Open source to the rescue... maybe
This is a BIOS limitation... if your BIOS doesn't allow remapping the PCI DMA ranges, then ~.75GB of memory in the first 4GB isn't usable. Just use 64bit FreeBSD and turn on remapping in your BIOS.
PAE is 36bit memory addressing support for 32bit OSs. The 32bit Windows Server kernels support PAE and the client versions don't...
This is more of a "because I can" hack than anything useful.
3.25GB is the normal limit unless you remap the swathes of memory addresses that are used by the PCI bus for DMA. Even if you are running in 64bit native mode, you need to remap memory addresses to get all your memory. There is usually a BIOS setting called something like "Memory Remap" which enables this remapping.
Support for PAE(36bit memory addressing) and memory remapping are separate technologies, but without PAE there wouldn't be anywhere for the BIOS to remap the memory to.
I know the TZ had an oversized battery, but that's pretty amazing. How many watt-hours is the battery pack you are using?
Have you manually disabled SuperFetch? Default Vista settings definitely spin up hard drives more often than any other OS I've used.
Your link is to OEM software... If you are going to pirate software, you might as well not pay for it.
http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/findsoftware/f/oemsoftware.htm
I'm pretty sure you can't buy a copy of XP from Microsoft in the UK...
You can find pretty much anything for sale on the internet http://www.retrosoftware.com/15639.html , whether it's currently being sold by the manufacturer or not.
What programs do you use that are supported on Win98? What programs have even supported Win98 within the last 5 years?
10.0 and 10.1 are throughly depreciated, but 10.2 works with a fare amount of real software(more than Win98). 10.4 is the first Intel OSX variant, the last variant to support G3s, and is supported by pretty much every application. 10.4 is likely going to be the XP of the OSX world... Programs will continue to support 10.4 because it is the least painful option for a large number of computers.
That's some hyperbole... Win98 is not a serious option and WinXP is only still viable because Vista is so amazingly awful. Why exactly did you keep your Mac up to date and not update your PCs?
I would also like to point out that you can't directly buy a viable version of Windows at this moment(Win7 isn't out, WinXP is only shipped with Netbooks as of 2008, and Vista is crap).
Personally I like it when the trolls try these huge cases rather than their normal piddly little extortions. Microsoft, IBM, and all the big software producers are still lobbying FOR stronger software patents in more countries. As said elsewhere here, you need to reform the patent system through legislation. Hopefully M$ and IBM get beaten up enough to finally realize that patents are doing them more harm than good and get their lobbying efforts on the right side.
Hmmm... I don't suffer from this affliction, but I am amazed at how people drop there phones in the worst places. My mother managed to drop her little Motorola in a cup of coffee.
For me a lanyard would probably get my phone destroyed. I'd try throwing it from one hand to the other, have the line go taught, and have it smash into something. The worst I've done it have the phone fall out of my pocket into a gutter(while it was raining). After the phone dried out it was fine, I love LG.
The original XBox burned down a couple houses, which is why all the early XBox1 owners got a replacement power cable with higher gauge wire and a GFCI wart on the end. The power cable on my XBox1 would actually get warm before this replacement.
Anyhoo, class-action lawsuits for products shipped with known flaws are pretty common(i.e. iPod battery not lasting long enough).
I think it's pretty clear that Windows' licenses require a refund that is separate from the computer.
How would building up a massive portfolio with ambiguous wide-spanning patents on all your property imaginable not help deter patent trolls?
OK, then maybe your idea of how patents work is flawed... If Microsoft's patent X requires TrollBoy's patent Y to work, then Microsoft needs to license patent Y before they implement anything using Patent X. Most patent claims are nearly identical to hundreds of others with some minor thing either changed or added.