I'm pretty sure I can build my own working R2D2 for a fraction of that. But most people can't and this thing has a shitload of features crammed into it. I realize it's excessive and unnecessary but that's what makes it fun. I thought it was very cool and it prompted me to get back to my Star Wars Lego game on the Xbox 360.
Yes it does. Read the original post.
Volume levels were set at 75 Db at 1000K Hz. A high quality recording of smooth, trio, easy listening jazz was played (Piano, drums, bass). None of us had heard this group or CD before, therefore eliminating biases
Keeping us blind folded, my brother switched out the Belden wire (are you ready for this) with simple coat hanger wire! Unknown to me and our 12 audiophile buddies, prior to the ABX blind test, he took apart four coat hangers, reconnectd them and twisted them into a pair of speaker cables. Good enough for me, although I already beleived this anyway. A wire is a wire is a wire and only fools think otherwise.
This is the biggest increase I can remember for Firefox. One informal test for me was how many tabs of digg.com I could open before the browser locked up. With 2.x by the 4th or 5th tab the entire browser is locked up for several seconds at a time for up to a minute. With 3.0 beta 4 that never happens. The speed increase I'm seeing feels comparable to the lastest Webkit nightlies. Impressive.
Somehow I don't see any businesses caring one bit. Businesses don't care if Linus is a loon. They care that Red Hat, Novell, or whomever their reseller is supports the product they bought. End of story. Btw Linux hasn't had to try and look like "a true contender" for a decade. Where have you been?
They fiddled with several key underpinnings of the OS. For example, rebuilt the network stack? Why? Why do that and add more features when the features you want to implement are reliant on running on a stable feature complete OS in the first place?
Dogfood or not, this really seems like a case of the left hand not knowing what the ride hand was doing. Or they overshot. Or they tried too hard and failed to copy OS X. Or they just need to start over. IMHO Sandbox XP->98 apps and start fresh with a whole new OS. They HAVE to do that sometime, why not now?
Exactly what I heard from people in the know like the Samba project. This is a big FU to the OSS community and anyone who wants better interoperability with Microsoft's products. For pete's sake, split the freaking company into pieces already. The individuals companies would be thrilled to not have MS's entertainment divisions dragging them all over the place.
Not to excuse them but I understand why they got such a big head. Suddenly every single computer in the world needed their software to browse the web(other less popular browsers excluded). To know that every single company in the world was literally lining up to buy their product must have been something. Many a company would have done the same exact thing in Netscape shoes.
It had to come to a head at some point. ISPs have been bitching about P2P for a while now. Let's get those secret docs on "unlimited" usage out in the open. Let's define what is acceptable and let's give users the ability to meter their usage. My prediction is 95-99% of us won't be affected by these new open bandwidth policies and ISPs can go back into the business of providing dumb pipes.
"I'm atheist, and I'm anti-gay marriage. Not in the ceremonial sense of the word. I think you can do whatever you like as far as ceremonies are concerned. However, I do think that the gov't should encourage breeding amongst people who are productive as they tend to produce more productive people."
What the fuck are you talking about? Your worried that if the Gov endorses gay marriage that more straight people will turn gay thus leading to a decline in both population and productivity? Somehow I don't see that happening. You think that gays who are paying their taxes and health insurance bills need to have their partners benefits denied? Anyone who takes the step of getting married in the legal sense deserves to enjoy the benefits. We aren't talking about someone marrying a horse here, we are talking about two human beings. We are talking about millions of individuals, not some tiny fraction of the world's population
Natural selection be damned, people are going to love whomever they want to. That's just the way love is, how would you feel if everyone told you that loving your wife/girlfriend/whatever was immoral and non sanctionable? Just because a portion of society chooses to live a lifestyle you don't approve of doesn't mean they shouldn't get the same protections that straight couples get when they dedicate their lives to one another. You think that by denying people this right that you can go to your grave thinking you've somehow improved life on this tiny planet?
Whether you realize it or not, you my friend are a Homophobe trying to hide behind flawed logic.
If that was a good idea. Microsoft spent so much time replacing things that worked with XP, for example Networking, that on Vista they were not mature at launch. I'm sure the new kernel is actually a nice piece of work, but IMHO they should wait until Windows Server 2008 SP1 then replace the kernel on Vista with one that is leaner and proven to be stable.
You know it's not that we don't like new features and upgrades, it's just that by 2007-2008 we expected Microsoft to be better at designing OSs. Should they get an automatic pass with every OS release just because "hey, you know they will get it right by SP2". I say phooey to that. Demand more.
Russia is pretty much telling the US and everyone else to go F*** themselves these days. There was that slight glimmer of hope that things would work out not too long ago, but alas that didn't come to pass. Hey, but at least we both believe in having a strong President who wields unlimited power. That's a good thing, right?
Won't it be funny if when Windows 7 comes out next year and PC Vendors are still offering XP as an option? Let's sure as hell hope that MS learned with Vista and hired all new programmers to code Windows 7.
For Google Bot and to get the word out(whether MS is ready or not) Windows 7 is coming out in 2009. Windows 7 is coming out in 2009.
WSUS or Windows Server Update Systems is an addon for Microsoft Windows networks. It allows you to control which updates clients get and instead of every client going to MS's servers, clients go to the WSUS server which can save a crapload of bandwidth. Regular home users are not affected.
The poster is modded Flamebait but how long till that comes to past? Is anyone here really naive enough to believe that in 5, 10, or 20 years every bit of data that Google has collected won't be sold to marketers? Maybe that data won't be super useful because Google will have unlinked users from their searches, but don't think for one second that do no harm will last forever.
I've been having hanging and intermittent logon problems for weeks now. I keep hearing they have everything under control and yet myself and friends in different geographic locations are still having problems.
This is where you can squarely blame Microsoft. Both Windows and Office became more bloated with each revision. Should businessmen really need $1000.00 worth of hardware just to work on Word and Excel docs and browse the web while on the road?
I've seen the few public sessions he's attended on this and it is just so clear that he is a total douchebag running his own personal agenda(supervised by big business of course). The democrats on committee are against it, the public is clearly against it and yet there he goes in a total rush to force more consolidation. It's very sad and frustrating to see someone so who has been paid off(either now or in the very near future from big media) sit there and lie to our faces. You can watch a summary and a great piece of video here http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/11162007/profile2.html
To see just how screwed up Microsoft is regarding codec support. http://msmvps.com/blogs/chrisl/archive/2007/09/24/1212782.aspx Each piece of hardware they sell can play only certain file formats. Zune goes outside of WMP 11 to purchase music. Previous Plays for Sure users got screwed when the Zune and the new music store came out. Xbox 360 has an all together different store for buying movies and TV. Zune has retarded restrictions on how it interacts with Windows Media Center. Regular XP and Vista users can't access the Xbox 360 store. Talk about a fucked up and disjointed ecosystem.
To make matters worse the rest of the industry still thinks it is a good idea to fragment things even more. You have an ever increasing number of companies that want to sell things directly and bypass both Apple and Microsoft. Within a few years we will have 50 different place to buy movies and music from all with their own software interfaces and supported hardware.
Is there really still any wonder at all why consumers stick to downloading movies and music from P2P and Newsgroups?
You can stream or play Divx files from everything BUT Windows Media Center. Why the hell would they prevent that? Either a) they continue to not understand what users want or b) they don't want dvix/xvid competing with WMV for people who use Microsoft's preferred setup of WMC and an Xbox extender. Thank god for Transcode 360 but I was looking forward to ditching that and having native support.
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Where can you buy Canon ink for $6? Retail everywhere for canon stuff is like $12 offline and $10 online.
I have a 5yr i560 that still prints beautiful photos. I'll never buy another HP inkjet.
What the hell are you talking about?
This is the biggest increase I can remember for Firefox. One informal test for me was how many tabs of digg.com I could open before the browser locked up. With 2.x by the 4th or 5th tab the entire browser is locked up for several seconds at a time for up to a minute. With 3.0 beta 4 that never happens. The speed increase I'm seeing feels comparable to the lastest Webkit nightlies. Impressive.
"Because nobody wants to deal with a crazy zealot."
Right.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMU0tzLwhbE
Somehow I don't see any businesses caring one bit. Businesses don't care if Linus is a loon. They care that Red Hat, Novell, or whomever their reseller is supports the product they bought. End of story.
Btw Linux hasn't had to try and look like "a true contender" for a decade. Where have you been?
They fiddled with several key underpinnings of the OS. For example, rebuilt the network stack? Why? Why do that and add more features when the features you want to implement are reliant on running on a stable feature complete OS in the first place?
Dogfood or not, this really seems like a case of the left hand not knowing what the ride hand was doing. Or they overshot. Or they tried too hard and failed to copy OS X. Or they just need to start over. IMHO Sandbox XP->98 apps and start fresh with a whole new OS. They HAVE to do that sometime, why not now?
Good catch. Also from the list, remind me to never try and run Webroot on Vista. Too bad the document isn't language searchable.
Exactly what I heard from people in the know like the Samba project. This is a big FU to the OSS community and anyone who wants better interoperability with Microsoft's products. For pete's sake, split the freaking company into pieces already. The individuals companies would be thrilled to not have MS's entertainment divisions dragging them all over the place.
Not to excuse them but I understand why they got such a big head. Suddenly every single computer in the world needed their software to browse the web(other less popular browsers excluded). To know that every single company in the world was literally lining up to buy their product must have been something. Many a company would have done the same exact thing in Netscape shoes.
It had to come to a head at some point. ISPs have been bitching about P2P for a while now. Let's get those secret docs on "unlimited" usage out in the open. Let's define what is acceptable and let's give users the ability to meter their usage. My prediction is 95-99% of us won't be affected by these new open bandwidth policies and ISPs can go back into the business of providing dumb pipes.
"I'm atheist, and I'm anti-gay marriage. Not in the ceremonial sense of the word. I think you can do whatever you like as far as ceremonies are concerned. However, I do think that the gov't should encourage breeding amongst people who are productive as they tend to produce more productive people."
What the fuck are you talking about? Your worried that if the Gov endorses gay marriage that more straight people will turn gay thus leading to a decline in both population and productivity? Somehow I don't see that happening. You think that gays who are paying their taxes and health insurance bills need to have their partners benefits denied? Anyone who takes the step of getting married in the legal sense deserves to enjoy the benefits. We aren't talking about someone marrying a horse here, we are talking about two human beings. We are talking about millions of individuals, not some tiny fraction of the world's population
Natural selection be damned, people are going to love whomever they want to. That's just the way love is, how would you feel if everyone told you that loving your wife/girlfriend/whatever was immoral and non sanctionable? Just because a portion of society chooses to live a lifestyle you don't approve of doesn't mean they shouldn't get the same protections that straight couples get when they dedicate their lives to one another. You think that by denying people this right that you can go to your grave thinking you've somehow improved life on this tiny planet?
Whether you realize it or not, you my friend are a Homophobe trying to hide behind flawed logic.
If that was a good idea. Microsoft spent so much time replacing things that worked with XP, for example Networking, that on Vista they were not mature at launch. I'm sure the new kernel is actually a nice piece of work, but IMHO they should wait until Windows Server 2008 SP1 then replace the kernel on Vista with one that is leaner and proven to be stable.
You know it's not that we don't like new features and upgrades, it's just that by 2007-2008 we expected Microsoft to be better at designing OSs. Should they get an automatic pass with every OS release just because "hey, you know they will get it right by SP2". I say phooey to that. Demand more.
Russia is pretty much telling the US and everyone else to go F*** themselves these days. There was that slight glimmer of hope that things would work out not too long ago, but alas that didn't come to pass. Hey, but at least we both believe in having a strong President who wields unlimited power. That's a good thing, right?
Won't it be funny if when Windows 7 comes out next year and PC Vendors are still offering XP as an option? Let's sure as hell hope that MS learned with Vista and hired all new programmers to code Windows 7.
For Google Bot and to get the word out(whether MS is ready or not)
Windows 7 is coming out in 2009.
Windows 7 is coming out in 2009.
WSUS or Windows Server Update Systems is an addon for Microsoft Windows networks. It allows you to control which updates clients get and instead of every client going to MS's servers, clients go to the WSUS server which can save a crapload of bandwidth. Regular home users are not affected.
The poster is modded Flamebait but how long till that comes to past? Is anyone here really naive enough to believe that in 5, 10, or 20 years every bit of data that Google has collected won't be sold to marketers? Maybe that data won't be super useful because Google will have unlinked users from their searches, but don't think for one second that do no harm will last forever.
I've been having hanging and intermittent logon problems for weeks now. I keep hearing they have everything under control and yet myself and friends in different geographic locations are still having problems.
Those morons better not make this a requirement to visit support.microsoft.com.
The site is clogged up with nerds who already have cable/satellite/fios and who have no need for these boxes to begin with.
This is where you can squarely blame Microsoft. Both Windows and Office became more bloated with each revision. Should businessmen really need $1000.00 worth of hardware just to work on Word and Excel docs and browse the web while on the road?
"So this begs the question, exactly how will average consumer benefit from an OS and software that can make optimum use of multiple cores"
.25ms faster.
AOL 10.0 will say "You got mail!"
I've seen the few public sessions he's attended on this and it is just so clear that he is a total douchebag running his own personal agenda(supervised by big business of course). The democrats on committee are against it, the public is clearly against it and yet there he goes in a total rush to force more consolidation. It's very sad and frustrating to see someone so who has been paid off(either now or in the very near future from big media) sit there and lie to our faces. You can watch a summary and a great piece of video here http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/11162007/profile2.html
To see just how screwed up Microsoft is regarding codec support. http://msmvps.com/blogs/chrisl/archive/2007/09/24/1212782.aspx Each piece of hardware they sell can play only certain file formats. Zune goes outside of WMP 11 to purchase music. Previous Plays for Sure users got screwed when the Zune and the new music store came out. Xbox 360 has an all together different store for buying movies and TV. Zune has retarded restrictions on how it interacts with Windows Media Center. Regular XP and Vista users can't access the Xbox 360 store. Talk about a fucked up and disjointed ecosystem.
To make matters worse the rest of the industry still thinks it is a good idea to fragment things even more. You have an ever increasing number of companies that want to sell things directly and bypass both Apple and Microsoft. Within a few years we will have 50 different place to buy movies and music from all with their own software interfaces and supported hardware.
Is there really still any wonder at all why consumers stick to downloading movies and music from P2P and Newsgroups?
From section 10 of the blog entry
You can stream or play Divx files from everything BUT Windows Media Center. Why the hell would they prevent that? Either a) they continue to not understand what users want or b) they don't want dvix/xvid competing with WMV for people who use Microsoft's preferred setup of WMC and an Xbox extender. Thank god for Transcode 360 but I was looking forward to ditching that and having native support.