I absolutely love Windows Media Center on Windows 7.
I have a quad tuner Win7 Media Center machine with a dedicated remote, and it's difficult to beat the DVR experience. I'd take it over DirectTV and FiOS's DVRs any day. But as great as it was (and still is), it was a flop with consumers. The dedicated media center extender hardware products were killed off, and the MCE laptops from Dell and HP disappeared (built-in tuners, remotes, dedicated button for "TV"), and they eventually just killed WMC altogether. Too bad, I think it really worked well.
The XBOX has one thing going for it.. it's already located in family rumpas room and connected to a big display, but I don't think was going to be enough for it to get traction. In my experience trying to use an XBOX 360 to watch TV, the menus are a mess, and it's difficult to fight past the ads, the tiles, the recommendations, the apps, settings, required XBOX account sign-in, forced software updates and restarts that take 5 minutes.
Average consumers need a dedicated DVR, and I salute MS for recognizing that.
Remember the 1990s, before everyone had a cell phone, and hotels charged around $2.00 for a local call, and $2.00 + $2.00/minute for domestic long distance?
I do, I was a hotel general manager at the time, and it was common to see a $25, $50, even $100 dollars in long distance calls on a guest room folio. If the guest complained, we'd give them a 50% discount, and still make out like bandits. I say bandits, because we were practically robbing the guests. I hated it, but had no control over the company-wide phone contracts and required fees.
Relax, I didn't say that I don't *think* they're gaming the system, but given the facts, it's conjecture, not fact. There is a big difference, and that's my point.
There is clear evidence of engineering intent in the VW case. There is no evidence for the other auto manufacturers at this point.
"This provides clear evidence that the automotive industry is designing its cars to follow the letter of the law (passing tests), but not the spirit (actually reducing pollution)."
While that statement could be true, it's a bit presumptive.
I think the facts as presented show clear evidence that cars are emitting significantly more pollution in realistic driving conditions than when being tested, but I don't think it proves that the automotive industry is designing cars to do so (with the exception of VW).
It could be any number of things. Maybe the testing methodology doesn't reflect realistic driving conditions. Maybe only new cars are tested, but emissions change over time. There are many possible causes, and at this point, there aren't enough facts for the other makes to know. The cause for VW is known. Don't apply that assumption to the other makes until you know.
The DallasNews story makes Ahmed look really innocent, and the school officials / police look really islamophobic. I admit, there is a good chance that's the case here (and if so, heads should roll at the school, ISD, police department, and possibly even the city), I can't help but think there is more to the story. It doesn't feel unbiased.
I need more information from all sides before I judge.
I'm also skeptical because no school administrators or teachers, nor anyone in the police organization tapped the brakes on the arrest, handcuffs, search, and demand for the written admission. My kids would have gone to MacArthur High School (we since moved to a different community), and at that school, this kid wouldn't stand out at all due to his name or skin color.
Finally, the "Yup. That’s who I thought it was" comment makes me wonder if the police already knew who Ahmed was for other reasons.
I couldn't care less about the Caps Lock. I rarely use it, but it doesn't bother me.
My frustration is when I use different keyboards, and the Home, End, PgUp, PgDown, and Delete keys are in different places, or are shaped differently (double height delete key, for example). The same goes for arrow keys.
I use the HELL out of the Right Click Context key on my keyboard. I've noticed that Logitech has been replacing that key with a FN key to switch the purpose of F1-F12 to other stupid things no one cares about.
I also use the crap out of the Windows key to start searches or enter UNC paths to get to network resources quickly. Though if it wasn't there, I would learn and use it's alternative shortcut key.
That may be true of 2014, the future of mobile pay was shaky to say the least, with high profile retailers Best Buy and 7-Eleven pulling out (they're back in now), but with Apple pushing mobile payments, new tap to pay checkout devices are showing up on the counters of retailers every day, and I expect it to be the norm by the end of this year.
I currently use tap to pay 7+ times per week, and expect that to double by January. I love how fast it is, and that I don't have to hand my CC over.
I'm not worried about speaker placement, camera specs, removable battery (assuming the battery is of sufficient mah), or removable flash storage, but no NFC will makes this device a non-starter for me.
I doubt this will come as a surprise to the nav nerds at Google, this is their business. This seems like a productive request, and hopefully meets with healthy dialog.
What a coincidense, Tumblr is forcing me to reset my password due to suspicious activity, and I want to use my generic low security password, which len = 9, and includes both numbers and lower case letters,. It's not strong enough for them though, "Please choose a stronger password." Give me a break.
I volunteer at a non-profit 1x/wk, and they struggle with technology. They have a full time "CIO" on staff, but I don't think he really knows what he's doing, and basically manages a few contracts for their website, a file server, network management, and he spends the rest of his time driving social media. The rest of the staff (about 25) come to me for help anything and everything, and I'm only there 4 hours a week.
I'm to the point where I don't really enjoy the cube life and program management, I wouldn't mind working at the non-profit full time in an operations capacity, my skills would definitely improve their technology abilities, and make things more efficient.
We do the exact same thing Vermifax, and after 10 years of installing Windows Critical Updates on servers, we've never once had a problem in production with this approach. In fact, I can only recall two times that a patch caused an issue with our applications in non-prod and we had to investigate prior to deploying (or not deploying) in prod.
I think you're at higher risk with all the red tape and heavy process potentially resulting in servers with unpatched vulnerabilities.
After years of using either TaxACT or TurboTax, I hired a CPA last year to complete my 2012 federal and state income tax returns, and I used him again this year. It's not cheap, just north of five bills. I might shop around next year to try to get that down around $300.
I have multiple K1s, one from a foreign investment, which was downright nasty, and TurboTax wasn't up to the task. Plus, a lot of other unusual stuff that TurboTax didn't address directly.
You hit the nail on the head with your comment about OSs being merely file managers and application launchers to many people (me included).
XP is far superior at those basic tasks than newer generations of Windows OS, which are slower, fatter, and less intuitive with all the file system libraries, jumbled up start menus, and whatnot.
I still have a 9 year old desktop machine running XP (the box is occasionally wiped and reinstalled), and it still gets a lot of use for SOHO web browsing. I prefer it over my Win7 lappy and Win8 AIO. I really hate to see it go, It's perfectly capable, except that it is now a security risk.
I was pretty good about noticing the "renewal" emails, but I knew it was just a matter of time before either I missed an email, or they terminated free service.
I just bought a two year TLD from Namecheap, with WhoIsGuard service for $27 total. Not bad. There are a handful of DNS updater apps available for Namecheap, including a Chrome extension, so this should work out fine.
So long, DynDNS, it was a great ride while it lasted!
The only irreplaceable data that I posses is digital home videos and digital photos of the family/kids. I have a lot, but it's super easy to back up to an external HDD that I keep locked up at work. To protect against HDD failure between those monthly off-site backups, I replicate the data partition on our main PC to a second PC in my house using a scheduled Sync Toy job.
Didn't close the city because, "..money would have been lost, people would have complained."
Aren't people of power in power because they can make decisions that might not be popular the the greater good? Look at the complaints and money lost now.. You're a worldwide laughing stock, and the economic impact is massive. Nice going.
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I absolutely love Windows Media Center on Windows 7.
I have a quad tuner Win7 Media Center machine with a dedicated remote, and it's difficult to beat the DVR experience. I'd take it over DirectTV and FiOS's DVRs any day. But as great as it was (and still is), it was a flop with consumers. The dedicated media center extender hardware products were killed off, and the MCE laptops from Dell and HP disappeared (built-in tuners, remotes, dedicated button for "TV"), and they eventually just killed WMC altogether. Too bad, I think it really worked well.
The XBOX has one thing going for it.. it's already located in family rumpas room and connected to a big display, but I don't think was going to be enough for it to get traction. In my experience trying to use an XBOX 360 to watch TV, the menus are a mess, and it's difficult to fight past the ads, the tiles, the recommendations, the apps, settings, required XBOX account sign-in, forced software updates and restarts that take 5 minutes.
Average consumers need a dedicated DVR, and I salute MS for recognizing that.
No thanks. It was fun for about two weeks, then I made friends with people I actually wanted to spend time with, and they weren't my dorm mates.
Remember the 1990s, before everyone had a cell phone, and hotels charged around $2.00 for a local call, and $2.00 + $2.00/minute for domestic long distance?
I do, I was a hotel general manager at the time, and it was common to see a $25, $50, even $100 dollars in long distance calls on a guest room folio. If the guest complained, we'd give them a 50% discount, and still make out like bandits. I say bandits, because we were practically robbing the guests. I hated it, but had no control over the company-wide phone contracts and required fees.
Relax, I didn't say that I don't *think* they're gaming the system, but given the facts, it's conjecture, not fact. There is a big difference, and that's my point.
There is clear evidence of engineering intent in the VW case. There is no evidence for the other auto manufacturers at this point.
Am I wrong?
"This provides clear evidence that the automotive industry is designing its cars to follow the letter of the law (passing tests), but not the spirit (actually reducing pollution)."
While that statement could be true, it's a bit presumptive.
I think the facts as presented show clear evidence that cars are emitting significantly more pollution in realistic driving conditions than when being tested, but I don't think it proves that the automotive industry is designing cars to do so (with the exception of VW).
It could be any number of things. Maybe the testing methodology doesn't reflect realistic driving conditions. Maybe only new cars are tested, but emissions change over time. There are many possible causes, and at this point, there aren't enough facts for the other makes to know. The cause for VW is known. Don't apply that assumption to the other makes until you know.
The DallasNews story makes Ahmed look really innocent, and the school officials / police look really islamophobic. I admit, there is a good chance that's the case here (and if so, heads should roll at the school, ISD, police department, and possibly even the city), I can't help but think there is more to the story. It doesn't feel unbiased.
I need more information from all sides before I judge.
I'm also skeptical because no school administrators or teachers, nor anyone in the police organization tapped the brakes on the arrest, handcuffs, search, and demand for the written admission. My kids would have gone to MacArthur High School (we since moved to a different community), and at that school, this kid wouldn't stand out at all due to his name or skin color.
Finally, the "Yup. That’s who I thought it was" comment makes me wonder if the police already knew who Ahmed was for other reasons.
I couldn't care less about the Caps Lock. I rarely use it, but it doesn't bother me.
My frustration is when I use different keyboards, and the Home, End, PgUp, PgDown, and Delete keys are in different places, or are shaped differently (double height delete key, for example). The same goes for arrow keys.
I use the HELL out of the Right Click Context key on my keyboard. I've noticed that Logitech has been replacing that key with a FN key to switch the purpose of F1-F12 to other stupid things no one cares about.
I also use the crap out of the Windows key to start searches or enter UNC paths to get to network resources quickly. Though if it wasn't there, I would learn and use it's alternative shortcut key.
"People just don't use it as much as anticipated"
That may be true of 2014, the future of mobile pay was shaky to say the least, with high profile retailers Best Buy and 7-Eleven pulling out (they're back in now), but with Apple pushing mobile payments, new tap to pay checkout devices are showing up on the counters of retailers every day, and I expect it to be the norm by the end of this year.
I currently use tap to pay 7+ times per week, and expect that to double by January. I love how fast it is, and that I don't have to hand my CC over.
I'm not worried about speaker placement, camera specs, removable battery (assuming the battery is of sufficient mah), or removable flash storage, but no NFC will makes this device a non-starter for me.
It's not like they're going around blocks to accomplish this. That's too simplified.
Think of it as making the routes more clockwise shaped than counter-cockwise when possible (all other things being equal).
I missed the part of the story that endorses gun deaths. I guess that as long as NYC has crime (a city of 8.5 million), it's unacceptable to
Aw, never mind.
Exactly.
I doubt this will come as a surprise to the nav nerds at Google, this is their business. This seems like a productive request, and hopefully meets with healthy dialog.
Chrome has a "Data Saver" feature in settngs; enable that.
I think it compresses and/or down-scales images on a proxy before sending them to your device.
My Data Saver reports that it has saved me 32% in the last 30 days sample.
What a coincidense, Tumblr is forcing me to reset my password due to suspicious activity, and I want to use my generic low security password, which len = 9, and includes both numbers and lower case letters,. It's not strong enough for them though, "Please choose a stronger password." Give me a break.
If only you were kidding. I think they call it Exa-Gouge, and ORCL sales weasels sell the shit out of it.
My Oracle Support will be another fun experience for Micros admins.
Then why, pray tell, does every municipal government on the planet restrict parking near them?
Saving money for residents is great and all, but the bigger win is the fact that cars are blocking fire hydrants less often now.
Maybe something about big how data helped NYC enhance protection of life and property.
I volunteer at a non-profit 1x/wk, and they struggle with technology. They have a full time "CIO" on staff, but I don't think he really knows what he's doing, and basically manages a few contracts for their website, a file server, network management, and he spends the rest of his time driving social media. The rest of the staff (about 25) come to me for help anything and everything, and I'm only there 4 hours a week.
I'm to the point where I don't really enjoy the cube life and program management, I wouldn't mind working at the non-profit full time in an operations capacity, my skills would definitely improve their technology abilities, and make things more efficient.
We do the exact same thing Vermifax, and after 10 years of installing Windows Critical Updates on servers, we've never once had a problem in production with this approach. In fact, I can only recall two times that a patch caused an issue with our applications in non-prod and we had to investigate prior to deploying (or not deploying) in prod.
I think you're at higher risk with all the red tape and heavy process potentially resulting in servers with unpatched vulnerabilities.
After years of using either TaxACT or TurboTax, I hired a CPA last year to complete my 2012 federal and state income tax returns, and I used him again this year. It's not cheap, just north of five bills. I might shop around next year to try to get that down around $300.
I have multiple K1s, one from a foreign investment, which was downright nasty, and TurboTax wasn't up to the task. Plus, a lot of other unusual stuff that TurboTax didn't address directly.
You hit the nail on the head with your comment about OSs being merely file managers and application launchers to many people (me included).
XP is far superior at those basic tasks than newer generations of Windows OS, which are slower, fatter, and less intuitive with all the file system libraries, jumbled up start menus, and whatnot.
I still have a 9 year old desktop machine running XP (the box is occasionally wiped and reinstalled), and it still gets a lot of use for SOHO web browsing. I prefer it over my Win7 lappy and Win8 AIO. I really hate to see it go, It's perfectly capable, except that it is now a security risk.
I was pretty good about noticing the "renewal" emails, but I knew it was just a matter of time before either I missed an email, or they terminated free service.
I just bought a two year TLD from Namecheap, with WhoIsGuard service for $27 total. Not bad. There are a handful of DNS updater apps available for Namecheap, including a Chrome extension, so this should work out fine.
So long, DynDNS, it was a great ride while it lasted!
Tell him to stop hording. Streaming is good!
The only irreplaceable data that I posses is digital home videos and digital photos of the family/kids. I have a lot, but it's super easy to back up to an external HDD that I keep locked up at work. To protect against HDD failure between those monthly off-site backups, I replicate the data partition on our main PC to a second PC in my house using a scheduled Sync Toy job.
Cheap, very effective.
Didn't close the city because, "..money would have been lost, people would have complained."
Aren't people of power in power because they can make decisions that might not be popular the the greater good? Look at the complaints and money lost now.. You're a worldwide laughing stock, and the economic impact is massive. Nice going.
Chrome Remote Desktop doesn't have all the bells and whistles that LogMeIn has, but it's simple and works well.
Vending machines aren't already online?