In my country (Venezuela), over 50% of the users visiting my site are using IE6, so that's what i keep using at work. I don't want to bother with virtual machines and such. For IE8, i had to modify some conditional css tags so our css menu looked all right in the browser (instead of checking for IE7, i am now checking for IE7 and up)
Ummm I'm pretty sure thats the ability to act as a wifi access point, which windows can't do yet.
Yes it can, i use it daily so i can connect to the internet with my cell phone using my laptop's net connection over wifi. Just turn on internet connection sharing and create an ad-hoc network.
I don't need 10M+ speeds, but it is nice to have if I watch streaming video or other things requiring greater bandwidths. I do not download music and movies illegally, but I do grab iso images of Linux discs regularly. 1.5M would be slow, but meet my needs. Problem is it is $35+/month. I would love to have a WISP available. I live less than 2 miles from a mountain that could service a large city if there was a WISP. I would switch if I had the choice.
It must be nice to have cheap internet. In my country, a 1024kbps adsl connection costs 50$ a month. And that's the highest speed you can get.
After seeing enough reports on the switch on TV, my wife who hates computers, asked me last night "Can you find the shows I watch online?" After we found them, she then said "What do we need the TV for?" And that is the big question.
Typical slashdot elitism. While a TV may not be needed at your home, you are a minority, because:
-Most monitors are under 30 inches. Most TVs nowadays are over 30 inches -Bandwidth isn't that good and ubiquitous yet. Who wants to wait while their shows get streamed? How about full HD shows? Is your bandwidth up for it?
Families can't sit around computer monitors yet and with a remote control "switch channels" and begin to watch shows. You need to visit a site, find the show, click watch... It is too cumbersome for most people.
Better yet, i can't believe people install the 64 bit version, only to get the same performance and software incompatibilities. Unless you have over 4 gigs in ram it isn't worth it. It won't go faster if the software is not optimized to use the additional memory or cpu registers.
To play devil's advocate, they could just say that you could activate over the phone or something (but that would make the crack easier to make, since the valid registration code would be found inside the game itself)
looking at the other side of the coin, the reason microsoft has trouble evolving windows, is that the OS is simply mature. linux with X/kde/gnome is developing features that windows has had for ages, and macosx is only about 8 years old.
i actually like xp, it runs most windows software, fast. try running a 7 year old distro and see if it runs today's software.
anyone has problems since yesterday with the layout? the tagging words appear too close to the read more links on firefox 3. on IE the spacing is better but the css and/or javscript has issues and doesn't look right.
Enough with the stupid "memory consumption" pseudo-benchmarks. It doesn't "consume" your memory, it uses it. If I have 2 or 4 or 8 GB sitting there, why would I want my software to not use it?
Maybe because you want to run a second application, and want to have some free memory to run it? True, the OS could use all of your RAM and "hold it" until a new application requests some.
Google Update Task keeps your Google software up to date. If Google Update Task is disabled or stopped, your Google software may not be kept up to date, meaning we can't fix security vulnerabilities that may arise, and features in your Google software may not work. Google Update Task uninstalls itself when there is no Google software using it. It may take a few hours for Google Update to detect it is time to uninstall.
I just got my laptop stolen. As i understand, there is no way to log in to a Vista laptop if you don't know the password to the machine's only administrator account. If they can't log in, they will just reformat.
If i would have logged in with no password , yes maybe i could have tracked them with their ip address and such, but then they would have had access to all my files which of course i don't want to.
So, is this really needed? Next laptop i will also set a password in the BIOS.
Between all the division splitting , they lost their focus. The sole idea of scrapping the palm os development and start to focus on windows mobile must tell you something.
Their current devices were fine for five years ago, but not now.
CDMA is not only used in the United States. For example, all spanish-based Movistar locations (owned by Telefonica) are using CDMA right now (but migrating to GSM soon), and that's a lot of countries.
The wii costs over 1200$ in Venezuela. Anything not made here costs a lot more. Stuff made here that isn't widely available (such as food) is very expensive too. The goverment just raised minimum wage 30%. And they think this won't race inflation. This problem is almost everywhere in latin america.
Safari is now at 99/100, and their code base will allow them to release a stable version first. Sure, opera "won" , but safari actually has a better implementation.
Eww. They changed the modal window that asks to remember the password. Now it appears inline at the top of the browser viewstate. This is not bad, but you can't use keyboard shortcuts any more!
But that does not affect my determination to fight on, in every caucus and primary remaining, and at the convention for our ideas, with just as many delegates as I can get
He is just expressing that he also wants to win the primary for his congressional seat.
Although the only way for him to become president is for McCain and Huckabee to drop dead.
True. I wonder if that's the same in most countries. In mine (Venezuela), we only get charged for sent messages. Still, phone rates here are too expensive. I pay a little bit more than 15$ for 3600 _SECONDS_ per month and 200 sms.
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In my country (Venezuela), over 50% of the users visiting my site are using IE6, so that's what i keep using at work. I don't want to bother with virtual machines and such. For IE8, i had to modify some conditional css tags so our css menu looked all right in the browser (instead of checking for IE7, i am now checking for IE7 and up)
Ummm I'm pretty sure thats the ability to act as a wifi access point, which windows can't do yet.
Yes it can, i use it daily so i can connect to the internet with my cell phone using my laptop's net connection over wifi. Just turn on internet connection sharing and create an ad-hoc network.
I don't need 10M+ speeds, but it is nice to have if I watch streaming video or other things requiring greater bandwidths. I do not download music and movies illegally, but I do grab iso images of Linux discs regularly. 1.5M would be slow, but meet my needs. Problem is it is $35+/month. I would love to have a WISP available. I live less than 2 miles from a mountain that could service a large city if there was a WISP. I would switch if I had the choice.
It must be nice to have cheap internet. In my country, a 1024kbps adsl connection costs 50$ a month. And that's the highest speed you can get.
It's all relative, isn't it?
After seeing enough reports on the switch on TV, my wife who hates computers, asked me last night "Can you find the shows I watch online?" After we found them, she then said "What do we need the TV for?" And that is the big question.
Typical slashdot elitism. While a TV may not be needed at your home, you are a minority, because:
-Most monitors are under 30 inches. Most TVs nowadays are over 30 inches
-Bandwidth isn't that good and ubiquitous yet. Who wants to wait while their shows get streamed? How about full HD shows? Is your bandwidth up for it?
Families can't sit around computer monitors yet and with a remote control "switch channels" and begin to watch shows. You need to visit a site, find the show, click watch... It is too cumbersome for most people.
TVs are here to stay for now.
Better yet, i can't believe people install the 64 bit version, only to get the same performance and software incompatibilities.
Unless you have over 4 gigs in ram it isn't worth it. It won't go faster if the software is not optimized to use the additional memory or cpu registers.
To play devil's advocate, they could just say that you could activate over the phone or something (but that would make the crack easier to make, since the valid registration code would be found inside the game itself)
looking at the other side of the coin, the reason microsoft has trouble evolving windows, is that the OS is simply mature. linux with X/kde/gnome is developing features that windows has had for ages, and macosx is only about 8 years old.
i actually like xp, it runs most windows software, fast. try running a 7 year old distro and see if it runs today's software.
anyone has problems since yesterday with the layout? the tagging words appear too close to the read more links on firefox 3.
on IE the spacing is better but the css and/or javscript has issues and doesn't look right.
get the nokia e62, it is a smartphone without a camera
It should be a highschool requirement...
You may laugh, but it IS a highschool requirement here in Venezuela!
Enough with the stupid "memory consumption" pseudo-benchmarks. It doesn't "consume" your memory, it uses it. If I have 2 or 4 or 8 GB sitting there, why would I want my software to not use it?
Maybe because you want to run a second application, and want to have some free memory to run it? True, the OS could use all of your RAM and "hold it" until a new application requests some.
I just found this in the task scheduler:
Google Update Task keeps your Google software up to date. If Google Update Task is disabled or stopped, your Google software may not be kept up to date, meaning we can't fix security vulnerabilities that may arise, and features in your Google software may not work. Google Update Task uninstalls itself when there is no Google software using it. It may take a few hours for Google Update to detect it is time to uninstall.
So it indeed uninstalls itself, but takes time.
On a laptop you can do that without opening it? Of course on desktops it is extremely easy, but i don't think it would be easy on laptops
I just got my laptop stolen. As i understand, there is no way to log in to a Vista laptop if you don't know the password to the machine's only administrator account. If they can't log in, they will just reformat.
If i would have logged in with no password , yes maybe i could have tracked them with their ip address and such, but then they would have had access to all my files which of course i don't want to.
So, is this really needed? Next laptop i will also set a password in the BIOS.
Is there a windows build somewhere for those of us forced to use windows at work?
Between all the division splitting , they lost their focus. The sole idea of scrapping the palm os development and start to focus on windows mobile must tell you something.
Their current devices were fine for five years ago, but not now.
AT&T will carry this phone, according to this
CDMA is not only used in the United States. For example, all spanish-based Movistar locations (owned by Telefonica) are using CDMA right now (but migrating to GSM soon), and that's a lot of countries.
So what has audience response been in other countries?
Venezuelan here, i loved the tv series (called Meteoro), but this movie looks like someone was doing heavy LSD or other drugs.
I wanted a real action movie that was kind of real, using special effects just for the obvious stuff. I will skip this one.
The wii costs over 1200$ in Venezuela. Anything not made here costs a lot more. Stuff made here that isn't widely available (such as food) is very expensive too.
The goverment just raised minimum wage 30%. And they think this won't race inflation.
This problem is almost everywhere in latin america.
Safari is now at 99/100, and their code base will allow them to release a stable version first. Sure, opera "won" , but safari actually has a better implementation.
I don't remember the exact words. If anyone remembers better, please post.
Catbert, evil director of human resources.
Catbert: Did you know that petting a cat results in lower blood pressure?
(employee begins to rub catbert's tummy)
Catbert: HA HA, IT'S A HEALTH BENEFIT! NOW I WILL CUT DOWN EVERYONE'S SALARY!!!
Eww. They changed the modal window that asks to remember the password. Now it appears inline at the top of the browser viewstate. This is not bad, but you can't use keyboard shortcuts any more!
This is really bad...
Geez, will you RTFA? He hasn't quit, quote:
But that does not affect my determination to fight on, in every caucus and primary remaining, and at the convention for our ideas, with just as many delegates as I can get
He is just expressing that he also wants to win the primary for his congressional seat.
Although the only way for him to become president is for McCain and Huckabee to drop dead.
Having to pay to send and receive SMS.
True. I wonder if that's the same in most countries. In mine (Venezuela), we only get charged for sent messages. Still, phone rates here are too expensive. I pay a little bit more than 15$ for 3600 _SECONDS_ per month and 200 sms.