That means that your speakers are not truly 'off'. I've had Boston Acoustics speakers that were "off" (i.e. the knob was turned off and the LED was off), but were still drawing 40W at the power brick and still received interference from a nearby phone. Turns out they only turned off the inputs, but not the outputs.
I hate that it automatically forgets where it is when you plug it into a computer--even just to charge. Great when you're partway through a 10 hour book on tape or 1 hour podcast.
Simple: automatically release works to the public domain after a limited time of protection. That's the way it originally was supposed to be: an artist is encouraged to create a work because they have a time-limited protected period to make money from it, and the expiration of that protection encourages the artist to continue creating. Now, an artist can sit on one successful work and make a lifetime of money from it.
Yeah, I remember picking up practice quiz software for the Windows 2000 test. The first question was about startup options, and I was asked how to do something obscure (go into Safe Mode with networking support or something.) Of course, my answer is, press F8 and select it from the boot menu, but the right answer was some stupid Ctrl-Shift-function key combo that to this day I don't remember. At that point, I deleted the software and went back to the real world.
I pay $100 per month for digital cable, and I'm a thief because I choose not to watch 8 minutes of advertising for every 22 minutes of content? They can go fuck themselves.
I have no problem with online ads. Google Adwords, for instance, are unobtrusive, load quickly and even have been interesting enough for me to occasionally click on. But as soon as your ad starts blinking, scrolling across the screen, covering the content, being NSFW or holding up the download of a web page, it gets blocked.
This sounds like a job for hybrid hard drives. atime updates can be cached in the drive's flash RAM, and the drive only needs to spin up when the cache nears full.
Yeah, brilliant move on IBM's part. Collect the money now, build a machine in 4 years for 1/10 as much as it would cost to deliver it, say, by Christmas.
This is the exact reason that people get put off using Linux. The response from most Linux users is condescension when people tell them that using Linux is too hard. You dismiss the users ability to use computers because he doesn't understand partitions and qualify his ability as only "Windows" proficiency. You fail to see that he has been using windows and didn't need to understand more about partitioning to get the tasks he uses his computer for done.
No, they're telling you the facts. The reason Windows is so easy is that it's preinstalled. Go buy an OEM or retail box of XP and try to install it without killing your existing partitions (whether they be Linux or older versions of Windows.) You'll find that the Windows installers are practically brain-dead: no partition shrinking capability, no dual-boot at all in some versions. Hell, until recently, you couldn't even boot Windows off any drive other than the first in the chain; you had to have the BIOS trick Windows to boot off the second drive in the system.
Yes, and if you buy a retail or OEM box copy of Windows XP, expecting to use it to dual-boot with anything else (even Windows 98 or 2000), you'll be just as frustrated with its partition manager in Setup (even more so--at least Linux attempts to install a bootloader that will multi-boot; I don't think XP even gives you that option.)
Or go to a company that uses heavily macro- and scripting-dependent Excel spreadsheets for reasonably routine documents, like expense report templates. The degree to which MS alternatives work depends on how deeply entrenched the company is with MS software.
I get the joke, but I can't tell you how many times PocketPuTTY on my MDA has saved my ass. While I wouldn't write shell scripts on it, it's great being able to add users, reset passwords and restart services out in the middle of nowhere.
Now if only somebody would release a Bluetooth keyboard for Windows Mobile like those old Palm foldup jobbies...
Yes, and all of those features have the same problems that XP did when it came out: they are buggy, and they consume too many resources to be useful for the majority of PCs on the road today. (And, for that matter, all of these new features mean more security holes, such as the recently patched UAC holes.)
XP SP2 is dead stable on 99.9% of hardware. I have XP on two home machines, as well as manage XP Pro on 125 desktops at work, from P3-800s with 512MB to dual core P4s with 4GB to Macbook Pros running Parallels, and I haven't had a blue screen in years on any of them. About 30% of those machines would need a RAM upgrade to run Vista (currently at 512MB), and another 30% would have to be thrown away and replaced entirely. We would also have to replace some of our software, including Quickbooks, which runs one of our smaller divisions, as well as all of our AV software.
Today, at the 1.0 release, there's little reason for anybody running W2K or WXP to upgrade to Vista. After SP1 gets released, the major bugs are worked out, the driver model is stabilized, the slower machines in our organization are ready to be replaced and updates to the software we use are released to support Vista more fully, then we will consider switching over. Of course, by then Microsoft already plans to have Windows 2008 out, so Vista might get skipped entirely.
Microsoft will continue to sell XP Professional System Builder licenses into 2009, and I read somewhere that support will end in 2011. So not a huge deal right now.
Or how about this? Instead of shoveling more $400 crap at us, why not just continue to improve and update XP, and charge consumers $15-20 a year for it? Then they will have the incentive to improve their existing OS, instead of overhauling it every five years for no reason, and consumers won't have to throw away their existing infrastructure every time Microsoft EOLs a product.
Imagine how much better an OS XP would be if MS had concentrated on improving it for the past five years, instead of sinking hundreds of millions into Vista. Hell, Vista hasn't even been declared seaworthy yet and they're already starting development on The Next Big Windows Release(tm).
And that's what got people off of 2000 and onto XP: faster perceived boot times, firewall (with SP2), excellent WiFi support, better support for some older games, and, other than activation, very little downside. What does Vista bring to the table? Vastly changed driver model, stability and security issues, "digital consumer enablement" crap and a huge bloated install.
XP works great for basic office tasks on a 1.8GHz P4 with 512MB of RAM. Why throw away perfectly good computers to 'upgrade' to Vista?
I think it's pretty obvious that when the battery does finally die in a couple of years, the iPhones available then will be so much beyond the current technology that you'd want to get a new phone anyway.
You'll need to travel more than 800 miles a month to make this thing cost effective at $7.3 per gallon for gas. Far more, if you calculate an economy car which gets closer to 40 mpg... In the US, with gas at ~$3 gallon -- I just don't see me using this to travel over 1300 miles a month to save "gas money"...
And then factor in the cost of oil changes, plugs, wires, air filters, fuel filter, smog checks, etc. The battery is the only major wear part in an electric car; a sealed AC motor has one moving part and two sealed bearings, and will go 250,000-500,000 miles with no maintenance whatsoever, and then you could change it yourself in an afternoon (it is, after all, three wires and four bolts) and have it rebuilt in a weekend for $500.
Half.com. Buy your music used, and you're much less likely to be putting money into the RIAA's pockets. Then, support your artists directly, either by buying merchandise from their website or going to their concerts.
Yeah, I think I heard the story about that on NPR. It's good that there's still an American brand that 'builds 'em like they used to'--unlike Radio Flyer, Schwinn, Zenith, Westinghouse, etc.
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That means that your speakers are not truly 'off'. I've had Boston Acoustics speakers that were "off" (i.e. the knob was turned off and the LED was off), but were still drawing 40W at the power brick and still received interference from a nearby phone. Turns out they only turned off the inputs, but not the outputs.
I hate that it automatically forgets where it is when you plug it into a computer--even just to charge. Great when you're partway through a 10 hour book on tape or 1 hour podcast.
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Simple: automatically release works to the public domain after a limited time of protection. That's the way it originally was supposed to be: an artist is encouraged to create a work because they have a time-limited protected period to make money from it, and the expiration of that protection encourages the artist to continue creating. Now, an artist can sit on one successful work and make a lifetime of money from it.
Yeah, I remember picking up practice quiz software for the Windows 2000 test. The first question was about startup options, and I was asked how to do something obscure (go into Safe Mode with networking support or something.) Of course, my answer is, press F8 and select it from the boot menu, but the right answer was some stupid Ctrl-Shift-function key combo that to this day I don't remember. At that point, I deleted the software and went back to the real world.
That's what blades are for. Run a ton of machines off a pair of redundant power supplies.
I pay $100 per month for digital cable, and I'm a thief because I choose not to watch 8 minutes of advertising for every 22 minutes of content? They can go fuck themselves.
I have no problem with online ads. Google Adwords, for instance, are unobtrusive, load quickly and even have been interesting enough for me to occasionally click on. But as soon as your ad starts blinking, scrolling across the screen, covering the content, being NSFW or holding up the download of a web page, it gets blocked.
That would be the inventors of the F-4 Phantom, right? :-)
Yeah. The summary seems like a paltry attempt to get some yuks from the audience. It seems pretty childish to me.
This sounds like a job for hybrid hard drives. atime updates can be cached in the drive's flash RAM, and the drive only needs to spin up when the cache nears full.
Yeah, brilliant move on IBM's part. Collect the money now, build a machine in 4 years for 1/10 as much as it would cost to deliver it, say, by Christmas.
No, they're telling you the facts. The reason Windows is so easy is that it's preinstalled. Go buy an OEM or retail box of XP and try to install it without killing your existing partitions (whether they be Linux or older versions of Windows.) You'll find that the Windows installers are practically brain-dead: no partition shrinking capability, no dual-boot at all in some versions. Hell, until recently, you couldn't even boot Windows off any drive other than the first in the chain; you had to have the BIOS trick Windows to boot off the second drive in the system.
Yes, and if you buy a retail or OEM box copy of Windows XP, expecting to use it to dual-boot with anything else (even Windows 98 or 2000), you'll be just as frustrated with its partition manager in Setup (even more so--at least Linux attempts to install a bootloader that will multi-boot; I don't think XP even gives you that option.)
Or go to a company that uses heavily macro- and scripting-dependent Excel spreadsheets for reasonably routine documents, like expense report templates. The degree to which MS alternatives work depends on how deeply entrenched the company is with MS software.
Now if only somebody would release a Bluetooth keyboard for Windows Mobile like those old Palm foldup jobbies...
XP SP2 is dead stable on 99.9% of hardware. I have XP on two home machines, as well as manage XP Pro on 125 desktops at work, from P3-800s with 512MB to dual core P4s with 4GB to Macbook Pros running Parallels, and I haven't had a blue screen in years on any of them. About 30% of those machines would need a RAM upgrade to run Vista (currently at 512MB), and another 30% would have to be thrown away and replaced entirely. We would also have to replace some of our software, including Quickbooks, which runs one of our smaller divisions, as well as all of our AV software.
Today, at the 1.0 release, there's little reason for anybody running W2K or WXP to upgrade to Vista. After SP1 gets released, the major bugs are worked out, the driver model is stabilized, the slower machines in our organization are ready to be replaced and updates to the software we use are released to support Vista more fully, then we will consider switching over. Of course, by then Microsoft already plans to have Windows 2008 out, so Vista might get skipped entirely.
Microsoft will continue to sell XP Professional System Builder licenses into 2009, and I read somewhere that support will end in 2011. So not a huge deal right now.
Imagine how much better an OS XP would be if MS had concentrated on improving it for the past five years, instead of sinking hundreds of millions into Vista. Hell, Vista hasn't even been declared seaworthy yet and they're already starting development on The Next Big Windows Release(tm).
XP works great for basic office tasks on a 1.8GHz P4 with 512MB of RAM. Why throw away perfectly good computers to 'upgrade' to Vista?
Well, there are the dozens of easily available external battery packs that you could use to charge the thing while on the road.
I think it's pretty obvious that when the battery does finally die in a couple of years, the iPhones available then will be so much beyond the current technology that you'd want to get a new phone anyway.
And then factor in the cost of oil changes, plugs, wires, air filters, fuel filter, smog checks, etc. The battery is the only major wear part in an electric car; a sealed AC motor has one moving part and two sealed bearings, and will go 250,000-500,000 miles with no maintenance whatsoever, and then you could change it yourself in an afternoon (it is, after all, three wires and four bolts) and have it rebuilt in a weekend for $500.
Half.com. Buy your music used, and you're much less likely to be putting money into the RIAA's pockets. Then, support your artists directly, either by buying merchandise from their website or going to their concerts.
Yeah, I think I heard the story about that on NPR. It's good that there's still an American brand that 'builds 'em like they used to'--unlike Radio Flyer, Schwinn, Zenith, Westinghouse, etc.