The watch industry uses high quality glass with great success. My 5 year old Tissot has not a single visible scratch. But of course, it did cost 2-3 times what a Nano costs and I expect it to last way longer than an music player.
The irony here is that yes, I was thinking and talking about the Windows version, but here at work I use SuSE and I wholeheartedly agree that Acrobat 7 for Linux was a large step.
I strongly contend that. In my opinion Acrobat Reader 5 is the best so far. Version 6 was horrible, and 7 is merely 6 with parts launched at boot time, which I find atrocious.
Acrobat Reader 5 is fast and works with all PDF files I've seen.
Yes it does. BT 1.x is about 700 kbit/s, which is (only just) enough for raw CD audio. The newer BT 2 is over 2 Mbit/s.
And there is a BT profile called A2DP which is aimed exactly at delivering HiFi stereo audio. You can find several earphones that supports this on the market today.
I don't get this. Most systems, not to mention most users already have a rendering engine running. Using it to access an online IM system can't be a performance issue.
I just think it makes a lot more sense to keep applications that require online presence... online!
Don't think I didn't. Every single time I asked for a replacement, but the shop that actually repaired it was not the retailer, all they could do was fix the problems.
So I went to the retailer and personally spoke with their Toshiba rep, who said that in his many years as such he had never heard of Toshiba replacing a computer.
Problem was I bought it through my business, and B2B means that your "consumer rights" are basically none...
My experience with Toshiba was anything but good. I had the Portege P2000 sub-notebook, and in two years time I went through four hard drives, three motherboards, two keyboards and two glidepoints. And I pretty much used it as a desktop replacement!
All covered by warranty of course, and Toshiba insisted that this was completely normal. They must have lost thousands on that sale.
Probably a very atypical experience, but I'm not trying a Toshiba any time soon. I went IBM Thinkpad from that point.
We had a Google rep. come visit us at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm in April or so, to round up fresh engineers.
As far as I remember it, they are now on version three of their cluster design, and today it is simply rack mounted machines like you find in any cluster, but up until and including version two it was simply motherboards stacked on top of each other. And like the grand parent said, they were never replaced simply because you couldn't get them out of the stack. So the dead ones were just sitting there.
He showed us a few photos of it, it looked worse than any geek closet I have ever seen.
Microsoft release a ClearType calibration PowerToy a while back, and this made ClearType a whole lot better. Previously, I too thought it looked too blurred.
Hey, that's Karlsruhe on the map! What a coincidence. I'm writing my master's thesis here, and I actually live in a building clearly visible on the map they're using.
By the way, one of my favorite scenes from Family Guy is when it turns out that Peter Griffin used to be the red guy. Hilarious.
While I do value a sensible directory structure, I am too lazy to maintain one.
In fact, sometimes it is not even possible to do this propely, as a tree structure generally fails to grasp the nature of the data you store in it. Should I keep my video files separate from my music files, or should I order them by creator, language, file format, date?
Tagging data and searching instead of sorting is simply a much more sensible idea IMHO.
Just like I consider Gmail to be a true godsend because it lets me tag my mail or just archive it however it wants to,
instant desktop search will be a huge selling point for me, probably THE reason to upgrade to Longhorn.
For instance if I search for "ass" then I can either have it match too strictly and it will catch "class" and "passed" -- or too loosely and it will not catch "dumbass" and "jackass". Then think of all the -ed and -ing formations and it starts to become more and more of a tricky problem.
Assed I can see, but assing?
I guess you could say "This is quite an assing way to do this, but..."
Well, I would, except I really have no useful sources yet. There is one audio clip of the aforementioned phone call available (in Swedish, google for "antipiratbyrån flippar"), but it is a recording from radio, and not something SR published themselves, so we can't publish it without infringing on their copyright...
I'm waiting for the story to truly break, so I can cite some newspaper sources.
Now this will certainly crack you up, but it turns out that Swedish public access radio (SR) channel P3 did an interview with Antipiratbyrån (APB) a while ago. APB then went ahead and published this interview on their website. Naturally, republishing a recording from radio is an obvious copyright violation.
Somehow, SR discovered this. They brought their legal counsel into the studio, rang up APB, and confronted them. APB's response?
* Firstly, they try to claim that they only link to the audio clip, and not a copy of it. The legal counsel shoots this down immediately citing a court decision where linking directly to a file is equivalent to sharing a copy.
* Secondly, APB claim that what they are really looking for are pirates who make a lot of money from their piracy. As has been discussed pretty heavily in Swedish media, this kind of piracy is virtually nonexistent in Sweden.
* Thirdly, they dismiss the whole thing, because, and this is the best thing: THEY ARE TOO BUSY HUNTING DOWN PIRATES!
This news hasn't really broken yet, and because of easter holdays I believe it won't until early next week.
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Interesting. So would it be possible to manufacture these crystal sheets large enough for a Nano, or even large enough for say a PDA?
The watch industry uses high quality glass with great success. My 5 year old Tissot has not a single visible scratch. But of course, it did cost 2-3 times what a Nano costs and I expect it to last way longer than an music player.
And we all know who watches over all these principals: Superintendent Ballmer!
The irony here is that yes, I was thinking and talking about the Windows version, but here at work I use SuSE and I wholeheartedly agree that Acrobat 7 for Linux was a large step.
I strongly contend that. In my opinion Acrobat Reader 5 is the best so far. Version 6 was horrible, and 7 is merely 6 with parts launched at boot time, which I find atrocious.
Acrobat Reader 5 is fast and works with all PDF files I've seen.
Yes, parts of BeOS was used to create PalmOS Cobalt 6. Cobalt was however pretty much DOA, and has now been officially abandoned.
Yes it does. BT 1.x is about 700 kbit/s, which is (only just) enough for raw CD audio. The newer BT 2 is over 2 Mbit/s.
And there is a BT profile called A2DP which is aimed exactly at delivering HiFi stereo audio. You can find several earphones that supports this on the market today.
The moderation option I miss the most is "Craptacular".
Nah, lived in NZ for a year, can't say I was impressed.
But then again, I'm from Sweden.
I don't get this. Most systems, not to mention most users already have a rendering engine running. Using it to access an online IM system can't be a performance issue.
I just think it makes a lot more sense to keep applications that require online presence... online!
Considering what Google has done with Gmail, I'd say an AJAX client for Jabber would be the most likely way for them to approach IM.
Just imagine storing all your conversations online, and only having to sign in at one place. Excellent!
Don't think I didn't. Every single time I asked for a replacement, but the shop that actually repaired it was not the retailer, all they could do was fix the problems.
So I went to the retailer and personally spoke with their Toshiba rep, who said that in his many years as such he had never heard of Toshiba replacing a computer.
Problem was I bought it through my business, and B2B means that your "consumer rights" are basically none...
My experience with Toshiba was anything but good. I had the Portege P2000 sub-notebook, and in two years time I went through four hard drives, three motherboards, two keyboards and two glidepoints. And I pretty much used it as a desktop replacement!
All covered by warranty of course, and Toshiba insisted that this was completely normal. They must have lost thousands on that sale.
Probably a very atypical experience, but I'm not trying a Toshiba any time soon. I went IBM Thinkpad from that point.
We had a Google rep. come visit us at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm in April or so, to round up fresh engineers.
As far as I remember it, they are now on version three of their cluster design, and today it is simply rack mounted machines like you find in any cluster, but up until and including version two it was simply motherboards stacked on top of each other. And like the grand parent said, they were never replaced simply because you couldn't get them out of the stack. So the dead ones were just sitting there.
He showed us a few photos of it, it looked worse than any geek closet I have ever seen.
I have never tried ClearType on a CRT, I guess it is designed to look good on LCD.
But if you don't like sub-pixel hinting, can't you just use the old font smoothing?
Homer: "Do you want the job done right, or do you want it done fast?"
Marge: "Well, like all americans, fast, but..."
Microsoft release a ClearType calibration PowerToy a while back, and this made ClearType a whole lot better. Previously, I too thought it looked too blurred.
Apparently quite hard, since it is MB and kB. The latter is sometimes written just K, but never KB (which could of course mean Kelvin-Byte).
Will the real Slim Shady please Site Down?
Hey, that's Karlsruhe on the map! What a coincidence. I'm writing my master's thesis here, and I actually live in a building clearly visible on the map they're using.
By the way, one of my favorite scenes from Family Guy is when it turns out that Peter Griffin used to be the red guy. Hilarious.
While I do value a sensible directory structure, I am too lazy to maintain one.
In fact, sometimes it is not even possible to do this propely, as a tree structure generally fails to grasp the nature of the data you store in it. Should I keep my video files separate from my music files, or should I order them by creator, language, file format, date?
Tagging data and searching instead of sorting is simply a much more sensible idea IMHO.
Just like I consider Gmail to be a true godsend because it lets me tag my mail or just archive it however it wants to,
instant desktop search will be a huge selling point for me, probably THE reason to upgrade to Longhorn.
For instance if I search for "ass" then I can either have it match too strictly and it will catch "class" and "passed" -- or too loosely and it will not catch "dumbass" and "jackass". Then think of all the -ed and -ing formations and it starts to become more and more of a tricky problem.
Assed I can see, but assing?
I guess you could say "This is quite an assing way to do this, but..."
An HKEY is a Handle to a registry KEY, probably just a typedef'ed long value in the Windows API.
Well, I would, except I really have no useful sources yet. There is one audio clip of the aforementioned phone call available (in Swedish, google for "antipiratbyrån flippar"), but it is a recording from radio, and not something SR published themselves, so we can't publish it without infringing on their copyright...
I'm waiting for the story to truly break, so I can cite some newspaper sources.
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Now this will certainly crack you up, but it turns out that Swedish public access radio (SR) channel P3 did an interview with Antipiratbyrån (APB) a while ago. APB then went ahead and published this interview on their website. Naturally, republishing a recording from radio is an obvious copyright violation.
Somehow, SR discovered this. They brought their legal counsel into the studio, rang up APB, and confronted them. APB's response?
* Firstly, they try to claim that they only link to the audio clip, and not a copy of it. The legal counsel shoots this down immediately citing a court decision where linking directly to a file is equivalent to sharing a copy.
* Secondly, APB claim that what they are really looking for are pirates who make a lot of money from their piracy. As has been discussed pretty heavily in Swedish media, this kind of piracy is virtually nonexistent in Sweden.
* Thirdly, they dismiss the whole thing, because, and this is the best thing: THEY ARE TOO BUSY HUNTING DOWN PIRATES!
This news hasn't really broken yet, and because of easter holdays I believe it won't until early next week.
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