That's a major lack of insight into this situation. DivX also hasn't ever inherintly meant AVI. AVI it's a standard Windows container format and DivX is something completely different, the data that can be stored inside the AVI format.
Windows Media Player 12 (Win7) will play most MPEG4/AVC files, including XviD and DivX out of the box. I believe it's due out soon for previous versions of Windows.
Another thing to point out, Bing is the only other search engine on the market that can compare to Google's search results, and often times it is a good alternative if you weren't able to find what you were looking for. Being the only other option available, naturally you're going to get some extra traffic that way.
Only thing I'm using it for at the moment is Bing cash back. If you're searching for something that you can buy, many websites have teamed up with Bing to offer discounts and money back if you found the link through Bing. The deals aren't really that great though when you do the research, many of these websites are offering the same promotions via coupon codes and back entrances on their websites, and when it is a bargain, that can be accounted for by the fact that you pay the money all upfront and receive the money back later, after they've managed to earn interest and been able to do other things with your money (ala mail-in rebates). It's also a great way for these websites to promote itself with tech savvy buyers that know the ins and outs of bargain hunting on the Internet.
Hasn't PayPal always owned x.com? if I recall, you used to access the website at paypal.x.com and it wasn't until a few years ago that they started using paypal.com.
With Intel My WiFi, the computer acting as a access-point opens up the door for a lot of devices that won't connect to ad-hoc networks, such as Nintendo's Wii and DS. Configuration is also simplified because IPs and DNS don't work over ad-hoc without configuration (like manually assigning IPs), whereas the access point includes DHCP and DNS servers that set all that up for you (useful for LAN gaming, filesharing, etc).
These companies need to stick by their actions. Coming out to apologize only gives the perception that something was done wrong, and gives the company bad press.
No matter what other people prefer, I'll stick with my WMA Lossless and FLAC anyday. I'm very sensitive, maybe it's just my set up (Zune 120 + Westone 3 earphones).
The worst of the worst lossy compression I've ever heard was with QuickTime/iTunes AAC encoder, it cuts all the low frequencies and leaves the bass really dull.
So, Nintendo just released the Nintendo DSi and there hasn't been a single game designed to use it's hardware on the market, and Nintendo is already on the path to replace it next year. This might piss all the guys that bought DSi thinking it would be the next-generation Nintendo portable platform only to be as unsupported as the Sega CD or 32x. Developers won't like this either...
nVidia's drivers are worse than ATI's. Microsoft released data showing that nVidia drivers cause 30% of all Windows crashes, greater than any other source, whereas ATI's less than 10%. I have had the chance to test nVidia GeForce Go 7900 GS and ATI Radeon Mobility X1400 in the same laptop and have seen some signifcant difference, with the GeForce graphics are a lot worse, things like image tearing and flickering, lines and pixels where the mipmap levels are, and in Aero blocks and corrupted graphics while resizing and moving windows around. With the Radeon graphics quality looks a lot better all around, textures have more detail, trilinear texture filtering is real trlinear texture filtering, mipmaps and textures don't shimmer, and on the desktop things like flash, windows resizing, and going from page to page and window to window are faster with no graphics distortion.
You're all off base; net neutrality is in regards to how the data being transferred over the Internet itself is handled (the pipes) and what ISPs are allowed to do with it. As a user (computer connected to the internet) you have control of to whom and what is sent, what connections are allowed; we want to keep this open and unrestricted with net neutrality.
The services people offer over the Internet are completely up to the people, this is about defining and enforcing what the Internet is, an open/public data type network/utility and protecting how it should be operated, making all data and service transferred over the actual network equal and prevent discrimination. People are allowed to transfer what ever they want to whoever they want, or not.
That's incorrect. I have a Dell Inspiron E1705 with Core Duo T2500 2GHz (first generation Core Duo) and it fully supports virtualization. Dell has the option to change it in the BIOS. There are budget versions of the Core Duo Txx50 that don't have support for it, though. It's true there's no 64-bit support however..:/
It's full featured and well established browser and quality is unsurpassed, and it's in widespread use on other devices like cellphones, PDAs, gaming systems (Nintendo DSi), etc. The only problem Opera has is that no body is using it on the PC platform even though it's probably the best browser available. But still, compared to all the other browsers mentioned, it has a huge lead in market share and use, I think it's like the 4th or 5th most popular browser on the Internet.
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That's a major lack of insight into this situation. DivX also hasn't ever inherintly meant AVI. AVI it's a standard Windows container format and DivX is something completely different, the data that can be stored inside the AVI format.
Windows Media Player 12 (Win7) will play most MPEG4/AVC files, including XviD and DivX out of the box. I believe it's due out soon for previous versions of Windows.
Year 2000? Get with the times, since then nVidia has been the market leader.
This problem has existed in Windows for ages, and it's probably a problem caused by third party software and drivers.
Another thing to point out, Bing is the only other search engine on the market that can compare to Google's search results, and often times it is a good alternative if you weren't able to find what you were looking for. Being the only other option available, naturally you're going to get some extra traffic that way.
Only thing I'm using it for at the moment is Bing cash back. If you're searching for something that you can buy, many websites have teamed up with Bing to offer discounts and money back if you found the link through Bing. The deals aren't really that great though when you do the research, many of these websites are offering the same promotions via coupon codes and back entrances on their websites, and when it is a bargain, that can be accounted for by the fact that you pay the money all upfront and receive the money back later, after they've managed to earn interest and been able to do other things with your money (ala mail-in rebates). It's also a great way for these websites to promote itself with tech savvy buyers that know the ins and outs of bargain hunting on the Internet.
http://web.archive.org/web/*/paypal.x.com/*
I knew it was familar, being a PayPal member since 2000.
Hasn't PayPal always owned x.com? if I recall, you used to access the website at paypal.x.com and it wasn't until a few years ago that they started using paypal.com.
With Intel My WiFi, the computer acting as a access-point opens up the door for a lot of devices that won't connect to ad-hoc networks, such as Nintendo's Wii and DS. Configuration is also simplified because IPs and DNS don't work over ad-hoc without configuration (like manually assigning IPs), whereas the access point includes DHCP and DNS servers that set all that up for you (useful for LAN gaming, filesharing, etc).
Does this mean Intel has been "exploiting" Windows Virtual WiFi with the "My WiFi" feature on their 5000 series WiFi adapters all this time?
Old news, it's absolutely not an exploit or some hack and has already been in use by Intel for months if not the past year.
These companies need to stick by their actions. Coming out to apologize only gives the perception that something was done wrong, and gives the company bad press.
No matter what other people prefer, I'll stick with my WMA Lossless and FLAC anyday. I'm very sensitive, maybe it's just my set up (Zune 120 + Westone 3 earphones).
The worst of the worst lossy compression I've ever heard was with QuickTime/iTunes AAC encoder, it cuts all the low frequencies and leaves the bass really dull.
The general population shouldn't have input in things like this anyway. Leave it to the educated people please.
Just my 2 cents. o_O
So, Nintendo just released the Nintendo DSi and there hasn't been a single game designed to use it's hardware on the market, and Nintendo is already on the path to replace it next year. This might piss all the guys that bought DSi thinking it would be the next-generation Nintendo portable platform only to be as unsupported as the Sega CD or 32x. Developers won't like this either...
nVidia's drivers are worse than ATI's. Microsoft released data showing that nVidia drivers cause 30% of all Windows crashes, greater than any other source, whereas ATI's less than 10%. I have had the chance to test nVidia GeForce Go 7900 GS and ATI Radeon Mobility X1400 in the same laptop and have seen some signifcant difference, with the GeForce graphics are a lot worse, things like image tearing and flickering, lines and pixels where the mipmap levels are, and in Aero blocks and corrupted graphics while resizing and moving windows around. With the Radeon graphics quality looks a lot better all around, textures have more detail, trilinear texture filtering is real trlinear texture filtering, mipmaps and textures don't shimmer, and on the desktop things like flash, windows resizing, and going from page to page and window to window are faster with no graphics distortion.
nVidia drivers responsible for nearly 30% of Vista crashes
You're all off base; net neutrality is in regards to how the data being transferred over the Internet itself is handled (the pipes) and what ISPs are allowed to do with it. As a user (computer connected to the internet) you have control of to whom and what is sent, what connections are allowed; we want to keep this open and unrestricted with net neutrality.
The services people offer over the Internet are completely up to the people, this is about defining and enforcing what the Internet is, an open/public data type network/utility and protecting how it should be operated, making all data and service transferred over the actual network equal and prevent discrimination. People are allowed to transfer what ever they want to whoever they want, or not.
You're stupid.
WiMAX beats your 10/10mbit line throughput wise, and is capable of more.
Current users are getting 16Mbps/6Mbps. Latency as low as 40ms (portland to Seattle WA).
What others are getting.
"which means 10.5Mbps in either direction"
Wrong! Sprint 4G users currently getting 16Mbps down and 6Mbps up.
See for yourself.
Better still, there's btjunkie.org.
I just tried it and it routed me through Google search.
That's incorrect. I have a Dell Inspiron E1705 with Core Duo T2500 2GHz (first generation Core Duo) and it fully supports virtualization. Dell has the option to change it in the BIOS. There are budget versions of the Core Duo Txx50 that don't have support for it, though. It's true there's no 64-bit support however.. :/
http://ark.intel.com/ProductCollection.aspx?familyId=22731
It's full featured and well established browser and quality is unsurpassed, and it's in widespread use on other devices like cellphones, PDAs, gaming systems (Nintendo DSi), etc. The only problem Opera has is that no body is using it on the PC platform even though it's probably the best browser available. But still, compared to all the other browsers mentioned, it has a huge lead in market share and use, I think it's like the 4th or 5th most popular browser on the Internet.
"It even has over 50 radio stations."
50? Big deal; iTune's has over 350.