The graph on that page shows that in 1024x600 only "desktop apps" will be supported, not Metro, which will require a minimum of 1024x768.....Which means that a large percentage of currentNetbooks won't be compatible with Win8/Metro.
This increases what Adobe must now host as far as server farms and will, probably, raise the price of Photoshop in doing so.
Except companies like Adobe seem to drool a the chance of having their apps be essentially thin clients for a central server, because going that route would pretty much guarantee that every single one of their users would have to actually purchase the product in question, and it basically becomes impossible to pirate.
Of course, at the same time I'm sure that there will a lot of resistance of paying customers to switch to an online-only environment as well, so it's hard to predict whether or not it will be a net positive or negative effect for them.
There's a bunch of them that are very popular in certain regions, but nothing that has critical mass across Europe -- Facebook has eclipsed them.
(But for example, in The Netherlands 'Hyves' was the most popular -- over 10 million accounts on a population of 16 million)
Being able to repair a live volume is a pretty bog one - with ntfs checkdisk can't make repairs to a volume while it is being used, forcing a reboot and often extended downtime to repair large volumes.
Hate to see the removal of folder compression, though.
Unfortunately it is often much easier to find a different job while you are already employed than it is when you are unemployed - potential employers often assume there must be a good reason you don't already have a job elsewhere.
I wasn't very happy with the IT guy who "warned" me about my having created an account for my wife on my work (Mac) laptop.
He probably wasn't "very happy" either that you give your family members access to company property either, especially since said people probably haven't had the same background check they gave you before hiring you.
You're offended that you got a warning? In many places that would have been enough to get you fired.
Expect it to take a long time for prices to come down to the 'old' levels again: We're down to just three harddrive manufacturers in the world now, and only two of those make 3.5" drives.
- Western digital (which just got the greenlight to acquire the Hitatchi HDD division)
- Seagate (which took took over the samsung HDD division)
- Toshiba (which only makes 2.5" HDDs)
The only real pressure to drop prices again would come from competition with SSDs, and those can't compete at all in in TB-range
Now, if you are in the market for a new HDD, your current best bet is to look at the brick and mortar department stores: Much of their remaining on-the-shelf stock hasn't caught up to the rapidly raises prices yet, which currently makes them a lot cheaper than online vendors... Provided you can still find them. Earlier today I saw a bunch of 1.5TB western digital elements drives on the shelf in Target for $79, while Amazon.com wants $129 for the same drive. 2TB for $89, instead of $159. But with the christmas shopping season starting, I'm sure that the department stores will run out of their cheap stock pretty soon.
Of course it's hard to truthfully advertise how "good" or "bad" a screen would look, since they are both being displayed on whatever screen you are currently using... And there is a visible difference between VGA and DVI in many cases, albeit subtle.
Monitor advertisements have a long history of deception, though: back in the early days of LCD monitors, I remember being annoyed at how pretty much every company all of a sudden started advertising their CRTs as "flat screen monitor" -- which is merely a trinitron-type CRT with a flat piece of glass in front, instead of the more old-fashioned curved tubes. But the vast majority of less educated customers would see the "flat screen!" bullet point in their local computer ad and immediately interprete it as flatpanel. Especially since they invariably used photos showing the monitor in question straight from the front, completely obscuring the depth of the CRT tube. (Actual LCD's were typically shown at an angle showing off their thinness of course)
While technically truthful, the combination of the "flat screen" phrase combined with a picture obscuring the depth was definitely deceptive, and undoubtedly a not insignificant number of customers didn't end up getting what they were expecting.
No, the evidence from the Mythbusters showed that we wander in either direction. No consistency.
During the Mythbusters experiment, they also showed them stating multiple times that they had the feeling they might be drifting slightly in a particular direction (even when this was not the case) -- Just 'compensating' for that feeling (whether consciously or not) would explain the seeming randomness to their wanderings.
Do you know why that is? I understand why my right arm is more powerful than my left, because I use it for more things. I don't understand why my left leg is more powerful than my right.
One of your legs tends to be dominant too, although it may not look as obvious as it does with your hands.
For example:
- If you start paying attention, you'll probably find that you tend to land on the same leg each time you jump.
- When sitting with your legs crossed, you tend to cross your legs in the same position, which could influence circulation, muscle tension, etc.
- When you you stand still, you may center the bulk of your mass over one of your legs.
Lots of small differences, but it all adds up. If you look at the soles of a pair of old shoes, you may find that they have different wear patterns.
Does somebody know why it's so hard for them to find it? I would assume that it's properly secured against crashes, and has a GPS/transmitter on board? What causes this to be so hard?
Yes, supposedly it was broadcasting at first -- but you are talking about an incredibly weak signal under 2.5 miles of ocean... Let alone that it can get an accurate GPS lock under water, and you probably have a significant amount of drift during that 2.5 mile descent
Then the additional problem is that the emergency batteries would have run out after a few weeks, so after that time-frame passed it became even more difficult to locate.
Personally, I find it amazing they were able to locate it at all given the difficulties involved.
In my mind the best solution would be to have all data+voice streamed real-time from the airplane to an external source by satellite for the entire flight, so you don't have to depend on locating the black box at all to determine what happened... But from what I've read, the problem there is pilot unions objecting to being recorded and 'monitored' all day long.
There will always be a place for the command line:
GUI's make easy tasks easier, but hard tasks impossible.
(I have half a dozen command shell windows open at any given time in Windows -- unixtools for windows (sed, awk, grep, etc.) are absolutely invaluable to stay sane.)
Here's a better question: why not put it up for the whole wide world? Let's say you're the 1 in 1,000,000 that winds up on a billboard in Hungary. Who cares? If anything it's kind of cool. You were never going to get paid for your photos, and now you still aren't. Big deal.
Congratulations, you have just been selected to be the new genital herpes poster child.
Sometimes people flat out don't agree with the company or products advertised, and don't want to be associated with said entities at all. What if your boss finds you in an ad for the competitor? What if it's an embarrassing medical condition?
Why on earth would it be OK in any way for corporations to profit from your images without prior consent? Let them hire their own photographers, or use existing images in accordance with the licenses they were released under by their creators/subjects.
Why is it that problems never seem to get corrected until they are well and truly disastrous in scope.
Because there is next to no benefit in being the first on your block to make the switch when it comes to the IPv4 -> IPv6 migration. It's a big hassle to overhaul existing infrastructure to make it compatible, especially when using older equipment that may not talk IPv6 yet. There is a good chance that your upstream providers don't talk IPv6 yet either, so there often is no discernible immediate gain.
Sure, in the long run having everyone on IPv6 is a good thing...
But it's hard to write a good case for why you need to do it NOW instead of next year. Or the year after that.
Although I'd think that 3D-without-glasses could only work with a very shallow viewing angle, and be near impossible to implement so everyone in the room would be able to see the 3D effect properly.
Really, 3D TV is one of those areas where it does NOT pay to be an early adopter. If nothing else, the technology needs a little longer to mature to a format that actually works without the hassle that most of the current models entail.
Can you, with normal headlights on, see a pedestrian a kilometer away?
Regardless of whether you can or not, it will only last until you meet another car traveling the opposite direction that does have its headlights on, instantly destroying your nightvision for the next 15 minutes... (Or any other time when that road takes you near any artificial lights...)
All in all it seems like a pretty big gamble that your night vision continues to be unaffected by anything, because as soon as it does you have pretty much zero visibility.
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The graph on that page shows that in 1024x600 only "desktop apps" will be supported, not Metro, which will require a minimum of 1024x768. ....Which means that a large percentage of currentNetbooks won't be compatible with Win8/Metro.
It's turtles, all the way down.
This increases what Adobe must now host as far as server farms and will, probably, raise the price of Photoshop in doing so.
Except companies like Adobe seem to drool a the chance of having their apps be essentially thin clients for a central server, because going that route would pretty much guarantee that every single one of their users would have to actually purchase the product in question, and it basically becomes impossible to pirate.
Of course, at the same time I'm sure that there will a lot of resistance of paying customers to switch to an online-only environment as well, so it's hard to predict whether or not it will be a net positive or negative effect for them.
How have you dealt with dispersing of shared data
If only there were a way to make multiple copies of digital information...
There's a bunch of them that are very popular in certain regions, but nothing that has critical mass across Europe -- Facebook has eclipsed them. (But for example, in The Netherlands 'Hyves' was the most popular -- over 10 million accounts on a population of 16 million)
...Except that passport is going to have to be renewed after a couple of years to remain usable, and only Sweden has the power to do so.
Being able to repair a live volume is a pretty bog one - with ntfs checkdisk can't make repairs to a volume while it is being used, forcing a reboot and often extended downtime to repair large volumes. Hate to see the removal of folder compression, though.
They are pretty much the same: 1 Canadian dollar is 0.99 US dollar at the moment.
Unfortunately it is often much easier to find a different job while you are already employed than it is when you are unemployed - potential employers often assume there must be a good reason you don't already have a job elsewhere.
Not really: since IE 9 is not available for XP, there will still be millions of IE 8 installs around evem after a forced update to the latest version.
I wasn't very happy with the IT guy who "warned" me about my having created an account for my wife on my work (Mac) laptop.
He probably wasn't "very happy" either that you give your family members access to company property either, especially since said people probably haven't had the same background check they gave you before hiring you.
You're offended that you got a warning? In many places that would have been enough to get you fired.
Expect it to take a long time for prices to come down to the 'old' levels again: We're down to just three harddrive manufacturers in the world now, and only two of those make 3.5" drives.
- Western digital (which just got the greenlight to acquire the Hitatchi HDD division)
- Seagate (which took took over the samsung HDD division)
- Toshiba (which only makes 2.5" HDDs)
The only real pressure to drop prices again would come from competition with SSDs, and those can't compete at all in in TB-range
Now, if you are in the market for a new HDD, your current best bet is to look at the brick and mortar department stores: Much of their remaining on-the-shelf stock hasn't caught up to the rapidly raises prices yet, which currently makes them a lot cheaper than online vendors... Provided you can still find them. Earlier today I saw a bunch of 1.5TB western digital elements drives on the shelf in Target for $79, while Amazon.com wants $129 for the same drive. 2TB for $89, instead of $159. But with the christmas shopping season starting, I'm sure that the department stores will run out of their cheap stock pretty soon.
Of course it's hard to truthfully advertise how "good" or "bad" a screen would look, since they are both being displayed on whatever screen you are currently using... And there is a visible difference between VGA and DVI in many cases, albeit subtle.
Monitor advertisements have a long history of deception, though: back in the early days of LCD monitors, I remember being annoyed at how pretty much every company all of a sudden started advertising their CRTs as "flat screen monitor" -- which is merely a trinitron-type CRT with a flat piece of glass in front, instead of the more old-fashioned curved tubes. But the vast majority of less educated customers would see the "flat screen!" bullet point in their local computer ad and immediately interprete it as flatpanel. Especially since they invariably used photos showing the monitor in question straight from the front, completely obscuring the depth of the CRT tube. (Actual LCD's were typically shown at an angle showing off their thinness of course)
While technically truthful, the combination of the "flat screen" phrase combined with a picture obscuring the depth was definitely deceptive, and undoubtedly a not insignificant number of customers didn't end up getting what they were expecting.
No, the evidence from the Mythbusters showed that we wander in either direction. No consistency.
During the Mythbusters experiment, they also showed them stating multiple times that they had the feeling they might be drifting slightly in a particular direction (even when this was not the case) -- Just 'compensating' for that feeling (whether consciously or not) would explain the seeming randomness to their wanderings.
Do you know why that is? I understand why my right arm is more powerful than my left, because I use it for more things. I don't understand why my left leg is more powerful than my right.
One of your legs tends to be dominant too, although it may not look as obvious as it does with your hands.
For example:
- If you start paying attention, you'll probably find that you tend to land on the same leg each time you jump.
- When sitting with your legs crossed, you tend to cross your legs in the same position, which could influence circulation, muscle tension, etc.
- When you you stand still, you may center the bulk of your mass over one of your legs.
Lots of small differences, but it all adds up. If you look at the soles of a pair of old shoes, you may find that they have different wear patterns.
Netflix is already on the droid, although they only support half a dozen different phones. Works like a charm on my HTC Incredible, though.
Does somebody know why it's so hard for them to find it? I would assume that it's properly secured against crashes, and has a GPS/transmitter on board? What causes this to be so hard?
Yes, supposedly it was broadcasting at first -- but you are talking about an incredibly weak signal under 2.5 miles of ocean... Let alone that it can get an accurate GPS lock under water, and you probably have a significant amount of drift during that 2.5 mile descent
Then the additional problem is that the emergency batteries would have run out after a few weeks, so after that time-frame passed it became even more difficult to locate.
Personally, I find it amazing they were able to locate it at all given the difficulties involved.
In my mind the best solution would be to have all data+voice streamed real-time from the airplane to an external source by satellite for the entire flight, so you don't have to depend on locating the black box at all to determine what happened... But from what I've read, the problem there is pilot unions objecting to being recorded and 'monitored' all day long.
Pound is a good sized amount of food, while kg is too much and 100g is too little
Two words: "metric pound" (500 grams, or ~1.1 lbs.)
Let's say they added multiple desktop support
They already did, a decade or so ago - see Virtual Desktop Manager.... Except it's an optional (free) powertoys download,and not bundled by default.
There will always be a place for the command line:
GUI's make easy tasks easier, but hard tasks impossible.
(I have half a dozen command shell windows open at any given time in Windows -- unixtools for windows (sed, awk, grep, etc.) are absolutely invaluable to stay sane.)
Vista had internal version number 6.0. Windows 7 identifies itself as 6.1 (type 'ver' at the command prompt and see for yourself) So... yes.
Here's a better question: why not put it up for the whole wide world? Let's say you're the 1 in 1,000,000 that winds up on a billboard in Hungary. Who cares? If anything it's kind of cool. You were never going to get paid for your photos, and now you still aren't. Big deal.
Congratulations, you have just been selected to be the new genital herpes poster child.
Sometimes people flat out don't agree with the company or products advertised, and don't want to be associated with said entities at all. What if your boss finds you in an ad for the competitor? What if it's an embarrassing medical condition?
Why on earth would it be OK in any way for corporations to profit from your images without prior consent? Let them hire their own photographers, or use existing images in accordance with the licenses they were released under by their creators/subjects.
Why is it that problems never seem to get corrected until they are well and truly disastrous in scope.
Because there is next to no benefit in being the first on your block to make the switch when it comes to the IPv4 -> IPv6 migration. It's a big hassle to overhaul existing infrastructure to make it compatible, especially when using older equipment that may not talk IPv6 yet. There is a good chance that your upstream providers don't talk IPv6 yet either, so there often is no discernible immediate gain.
Sure, in the long run having everyone on IPv6 is a good thing...
But it's hard to write a good case for why you need to do it NOW instead of next year. Or the year after that.
Hence we wait. And so does everyone else.
Until you can make 3D TVs which don't require glasses and do allow you to show objects which go outside the screen, it will always be a gimmick.
Several manufacturers are currently working on exactly that:
http://topnewsbuzz.com/3d-tv-without-glasses-currently-being-developed-by-sony-and-toshiba/9493
Although I'd think that 3D-without-glasses could only work with a very shallow viewing angle, and be near impossible to implement so everyone in the room would be able to see the 3D effect properly.
Really, 3D TV is one of those areas where it does NOT pay to be an early adopter. If nothing else, the technology needs a little longer to mature to a format that actually works without the hassle that most of the current models entail.
Can you, with normal headlights on, see a pedestrian a kilometer away?
Regardless of whether you can or not, it will only last until you meet another car traveling the opposite direction that does have its headlights on, instantly destroying your nightvision for the next 15 minutes... (Or any other time when that road takes you near any artificial lights...)
All in all it seems like a pretty big gamble that your night vision continues to be unaffected by anything, because as soon as it does you have pretty much zero visibility.