Seems to be working ok for me - I can't really spot any serious changes. Even if they did take out the address bar (down the bottom) it's still better than Vista as far as I'm concerned.
What if I were to die in an accident or by my own hand or someone else? So many of us have our thoughts, feelings and memories digitally tied up in text, chat logs, emails etc.
Is it ethical for someone else to have it? Yes it was meant to be private but that person is now gone, you could lose valuble memories for the rest of the family if pictures are not found.
Example, I'm 30 and obviously a dork / geek (look where I'm posting) - the number of analogue photos of me after the age of 10 are slim at best, the quantity of digital photos of me that family and friends (which family know well!) have is pretty slim too. To be honest, in death I don't think I care who finds what in my stuff, I'm gone - it should be there for someone to take.
Also on topic: how did this used to work previously? Lock boxes at the post office or bank, pin codes for bank accounts, car keys, safes, things like that?
I honestly think it's a little sad that if I were to die, no one will flip through a nice book of pictures or read handwritten letters to or from me, they'll just have a DVD or two with some files on it, it doesn't seem the same.
That one worries me a lot more, no word at all on FF3 support (yes, I know it's in beta - there's still been no word, despite a heap of attempts to contact them by people on the google firefox addons newsgroup.):/
A very wise slashdot poster (your name escapes me, sorry) once made a post which really resonated with me because I'd never thought of it before.
Discrimination against 'the ugly' - it's something many of us do without even thinking about it, the disfigured, the disabled, the elderly, the ugly - all these people, you can visually pick the quality of their genes quite quickly with your own inbuilt instinct, no machines required. Check out the service an ugly person with a lisp gets, no matter how polite at random stores? Look at when famous hot people are put inside a fat suit for the day and try to deal with everyday society.
We don't need discrimination laws against people for their genes, as long as they aren't visually appealing 'enough' our instinct tells us it's not worth talking to them (to an extent) It's terrible stuff, it's also life but it's terrible, there will always be hotter, younger people than you or I and if we're lucky there will always be uglier too - but one day if fiddling with DNA is allowed enough - you may find even average looking people are in the minority.
Who knows where we're going but overall, things don't look good from where I'm sitting.
(Admitedly they change the name / details somewhat) but god damn that was a brilliant simulation for the C64, really great gameplay - well thought out levels and sadly it even taught me some geography (I still know where those SAMS are located in the Libyan campaigns)
You hit the nail on the head, precisely - it really is as simple as that. We did some calculations at work on an ebay account we have and in some situations you pay about 15% of the final sale price of the item once you factor in paypal and ebay fees - it's absoloutely insane (depending on the cost of the item of course)
I really REALLY want a competitor now, I've had enough of this ghastly company and I look forward to an alternative A.S.A.P! Google please come through, they'd still make an absoloute MINT of money if they just charged 2% of sale price, let alone FIFTEEN.
There are audiophiles out there who claim you can easily spot the difference with a high end audio card vs an onboard solution. I guess it depends on your use of the thing, are you a music listener? Movie watcher, perhaps a gamer?
I am all 3 (only occassionally, I admit) but I have a 'proper' but basic home theatre reciever from a loungeroom hooked up to my onboard asus soundcard, it's a Pioneer VSX-D711 nothing major but it is a proper Dolby 7.1 reciever, accepts DD 5.1 signals, I think DTS and of course standard 3xRCA headphone analog signals. It's coupled with 4 actual DECENT speakers, the sound I get out of my PC is far far superior to what most people have with a high end soundcard and 'PC Speakers"
Sure I might get better sound from a proper sound card too but I would wager that speakers and headphone quality is far far far more important than soundcard quality. http://www.dansdata.com/m4kit.htm 4 of those, 400$ AUD 1 half decent reciever from ebay - 250$ AUD
No need to pay 120$ for a soundcard, not buying some crappy 'box set' of Klipsch, Bose or Logitech speakers either.
Onboard has been 'good enough' for a long long time. Oh and as a bonus, if I ever give up PC gaming and move in with a wife / girlfriend / whatever I can put my Pioneer reciever under a half ddecent TV in the spare room, hook up my 4 'proper' speakers and use it as originally intended as a spare amp for TV / Xbox 360 / PS3 (since no doubt the wife would 'steal' the current receiver and HDTV in the regular loungeroom)
Damnit I've already commented and can't mod you up.
Spot on, but most of the idiots on this rock (hell, me included) are simply to selfish or naive to realise it. One day, one day long in the future the hippies will be regarded with 'those wise ones we should have listened to'
It may even be in my life time, if it lasts long when the shit does hit the fan.
Considering what you've written and how many of us believe something (to that effect approximately) do we want to bring children into this world NOW?...
I really do hope that this next one is better than Benders Big Score:/ - honestly, it was ok I spose but considering how long they've had to think about a script, it just seemed well pretty bad, more like a video game than a Futurama movie.
As a "diehard CRT fanboy" I'd like to pay my respects.
About 9 months ago, I finally caved in, I fought tooth and nail to the bitter end, from forum to forum across the web, valiantly defending the honour of CRT vs LCD in the great debate, I held on long, much longer than most of the die hard CRT junkies, there's few of us left.
I am a man who had slowly given up PC gaming I finally bit the dust, accepted a good price for the sale of my old 22" trinitron (philips 202P40) and accepted the new Dell 2407 WFP HC model into my life also at a great price, it was a combination I couldn't refuse.
Sure I loved the desk space saved, I loved the crisp text in the native resolution, hell even in games I didn't mind non native resolution honestly, once you're playing, it doesn't matter. Also the monitor was appealing to look at, it came with USB, CF, SD and other such ports, it was sexier, it was lighter etc etc!
Still.. to this day as a die hard CRT fanboy, I can not use that Dell 24" LCD in dark (DARK!) games, like Doom, like Oblivion, the black levels, despite what the 'forum people' tell me! are STILL not good enough.
I seriously do not exaggerate for a second, when I say widescreen Oblivion, the sides of the monitor - with it's huge width, tight viewing angle and so on, combined in to the 'perfect storm' of shimmery, nasty black levels, which made the walls in the caves of Oblivion quite honestly impossible to look at. I felt as if 'sleep' as in my eye - I was constantly rubbing it to get the shimmery light sappy stuff from my eyes out. Obviously though... it wasn't really in my eyes to begin with.
I love my LCD for so many reasons but for so many others, I still hate it. Co-incidentally the night of this news article, it's in a box behind me now, being re-sold to someone else. Sure I'm typing this on a 19" LCD but I don't intend to play games on it, I'll wait for something with REAL black levels, with REAL viewing angels, something actually, genuinely superior to the CRT I so foolishly sold for my the LCD. (100hz at 1600x1200 no less!, it was a good CRT!)
Yes CRT has it's flaws, yes it's heavy, no it's not ultra crisp but that almost gives it a 'free AA' feel to be honest Sure they are rare now but if one feature hasn't been surpassed it's by far the black levels, by a long, long way! When you can plonk me down, in front of a widescreen LCD and I can say the picture surpasses my old CRT - then I'll be a happy man.
Sorry it came across that way, I'd had a few drinks at the time of posting and was somewhat blunt - I still stand by the post though, it just doesn't feel like news that matters on an even remotely serious topic to me.:/
The Vista classic UI is BROKEN, it has several flaws which make it inferior to the XP classic interface, it's messy, confusing and infact there's at least one bug I know of which isn't even in XP.
I have a beefcake machine I'd run Vista if the classic was worth a damn, it's not - it's bloody terrible.
but is this really newsworthy? I mean come on, it's a broken 360, like the plebs in the service centre REALLY give a shit about his signatures.
For goodness sakes, it's some scribble on the side of a piece of hardware? News for nerds, stuff that matters? Yeah I'll sook like a mother2#%er when my 360 dies too but I won't cry over dopey signatures.
This used to happen a lot with DVD's and frankly bravo! If the DVD is identical to the original, same packaging and the only difference is I'm not paying universal or paramount big $ well good times for all. DVD's are somewhat cheaper now but perhaps the same thing will happen for blu-rays (sorry but 40$ AUD (35$ US) for a movie is just unreasonable, HD or not)
Drop DVD's to 12$ AUD (9$ US) and Blu-ray to 25$ AUD or 20$ US (approximately) and sales will swing up. Their loss, I'll just go without for the moment.
Having not tried Firefox 3, I feel I'm definately in a position to speak with authority here,..
More seriously though, I haven't used it but I can absoloutely see both parties points, I for one prefer my software to be predictable, learning things can be fantastic but if you're an ultra fast keyboard guy like I am (no I'm not trying to be a hero) I need things to remain absoloutely consistent for me.
Example the XP start bar (the luna one) which remembers new apps or commonly used apps for you, it's useless if you're dead fast on the keyboard and want a nice ctrl-esc,s,c (control panel) - if some other dopey program steals the 's' position (etc etc)
Have an option for this new feature would be nice, I'm happy to try it but at first guess, I can definately understand frustration with it.
Sorry, still to expensive for some of those old games, maybe 10$ for 3 of them would be nice or something. They are still getting a 10$ transaction but the user gets to chose his 3 games.
Sure 7$ a pop is still selling but I'd think they would be likely to sell many more at more reasonable pricing.
I am under the impression that XBMC for PS3 has been postponed or cancelled due to the lock out of the RSX processor actually, so if what you claim about using the SPE's for the driver performance boost is true, this could be a good thing.
I know few people have tried XBMC but those lucky enough to have put in the time and effort to get it working are very well rewarded. It is an absoloutely fantastic application and one of the few things I've been willing to donate towards on the internet, it's only real failure is sadly the lack of HD output which is what the PS3 could overcome.
Initial versions of Xbox Media Player (original title) and XBMC were unstable but now it just plain works and works well. Some argue that the X360 and PS3 can play media divx over lan now using a Windows Media Player sharing system, I've tried this and found it to be unreliable and difficult to navigate compared to a standard SMB share, further to this many many divx files are simply incapable of being played. I can chose my audio channel if it supports multiple channels along with subtitle selection and so on, it even 'upscales' DVD to 720p or 1080i and just plain looks nice.
I really do hope that development continues to port it to the PS3 sometime soon, it's actually part of the reason I purchased the PS3, the slim chance it could one day replace my Xbox 1.
ONLY when signed in to your Xbox Live account, other users of your Xbox have to now use your account to access the stuff they could previously get under their own 'local' profiles.
Actually both operating systems will need to deal with the fragmented file system.
Example if XP has to write to cluster 211, 212, 250, 251 and 9999 When you over-write the file, it will still write to those clusters.
Same thing will happen under Vista, so it shouldn't make any difference - it may slow the total time to copy the file down but it will still be an equal hampering per OS.
Ideally though, empty disks would still be best for clean results.
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Seems to be working ok for me - I can't really spot any serious changes.
Even if they did take out the address bar (down the bottom) it's still better than Vista as far as I'm concerned.
What if I were to die in an accident or by my own hand or someone else?
So many of us have our thoughts, feelings and memories digitally tied up in text, chat logs, emails etc.
Is it ethical for someone else to have it? Yes it was meant to be private but that person is now gone, you could lose valuble memories for the rest of the family if pictures are not found.
Example, I'm 30 and obviously a dork / geek (look where I'm posting) - the number of analogue photos of me after the age of 10 are slim at best, the quantity of digital photos of me that family and friends (which family know well!) have is pretty slim too.
To be honest, in death I don't think I care who finds what in my stuff, I'm gone - it should be there for someone to take.
Also on topic: how did this used to work previously? Lock boxes at the post office or bank, pin codes for bank accounts, car keys, safes, things like that?
I honestly think it's a little sad that if I were to die, no one will flip through a nice book of pictures or read handwritten letters to or from me, they'll just have a DVD or two with some files on it, it doesn't seem the same.
That one worries me a lot more, no word at all on FF3 support (yes, I know it's in beta - there's still been no word, despite a heap of attempts to contact them by people on the google firefox addons newsgroup.) :/
Oh it's definately just you - sorry man, I'm selling my body for this game unfortunately the budget isn't looking too good right about now.
Offtopic, what? Please.
A very wise slashdot poster (your name escapes me, sorry) once made a post which really resonated with me because I'd never thought of it before.
Discrimination against 'the ugly' - it's something many of us do without even thinking about it, the disfigured, the disabled, the elderly, the ugly - all these people, you can visually pick the quality of their genes quite quickly with your own inbuilt instinct, no machines required.
Check out the service an ugly person with a lisp gets, no matter how polite at random stores?
Look at when famous hot people are put inside a fat suit for the day and try to deal with everyday society.
We don't need discrimination laws against people for their genes, as long as they aren't visually appealing 'enough' our instinct tells us it's not worth talking to them (to an extent)
It's terrible stuff, it's also life but it's terrible, there will always be hotter, younger people than you or I and if we're lucky there will always be uglier too - but one day if fiddling with DNA is allowed enough - you may find even average looking people are in the minority.
Who knows where we're going but overall, things don't look good from where I'm sitting.
I dunno about you fella's but I've already booked my time off work, perhaps I can check out SP3 some time in May.
http://www.rockstargames.com/IV/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-19_Stealth_Fighter
(Admitedly they change the name / details somewhat) but god damn that was a brilliant simulation for the C64, really great gameplay - well thought out levels and sadly it even taught me some geography (I still know where those SAMS are located in the Libyan campaigns)
Ok I wasn't aware of that, this is really not good now at all :/
I could mod you up but someone else will anyhow.
You hit the nail on the head, precisely - it really is as simple as that.
We did some calculations at work on an ebay account we have and in some situations you pay about 15% of the final sale price of the item once you factor in paypal and ebay fees - it's absoloutely insane (depending on the cost of the item of course)
I really REALLY want a competitor now, I've had enough of this ghastly company and I look forward to an alternative A.S.A.P!
Google please come through, they'd still make an absoloute MINT of money if they just charged 2% of sale price, let alone FIFTEEN.
There are audiophiles out there who claim you can easily spot the difference with a high end audio card vs an onboard solution.
I guess it depends on your use of the thing, are you a music listener? Movie watcher, perhaps a gamer?
I am all 3 (only occassionally, I admit) but I have a 'proper' but basic home theatre reciever from a loungeroom hooked up to my onboard asus soundcard, it's a Pioneer VSX-D711 nothing major but it is a proper Dolby 7.1 reciever, accepts DD 5.1 signals, I think DTS and of course standard 3xRCA headphone analog signals.
It's coupled with 4 actual DECENT speakers, the sound I get out of my PC is far far superior to what most people have with a high end soundcard and 'PC Speakers"
Sure I might get better sound from a proper sound card too but I would wager that speakers and headphone quality is far far far more important than soundcard quality.
http://www.dansdata.com/m4kit.htm
4 of those, 400$ AUD
1 half decent reciever from ebay - 250$ AUD
No need to pay 120$ for a soundcard, not buying some crappy 'box set' of Klipsch, Bose or Logitech speakers either.
Onboard has been 'good enough' for a long long time.
Oh and as a bonus, if I ever give up PC gaming and move in with a wife / girlfriend / whatever I can put my Pioneer reciever under a half ddecent TV in the spare room, hook up my 4 'proper' speakers and use it as originally intended as a spare amp for TV / Xbox 360 / PS3 (since no doubt the wife would 'steal' the current receiver and HDTV in the regular loungeroom)
Damnit I've already commented and can't mod you up.
Spot on, but most of the idiots on this rock (hell, me included) are simply to selfish or naive to realise it.
One day, one day long in the future the hippies will be regarded with 'those wise ones we should have listened to'
It may even be in my life time, if it lasts long when the shit does hit the fan.
Considering what you've written and how many of us believe something (to that effect approximately) do we want to bring children into this world NOW?...
I don't.
I really do hope that this next one is better than Benders Big Score :/ - honestly, it was ok I spose but considering how long they've had to think about a script, it just seemed well pretty bad, more like a video game than a Futurama movie.
As a "diehard CRT fanboy" I'd like to pay my respects.
About 9 months ago, I finally caved in, I fought tooth and nail to the bitter end, from forum to forum across the web, valiantly defending the honour of CRT vs LCD in the great debate, I held on long, much longer than most of the die hard CRT junkies, there's few of us left.
I am a man who had slowly given up PC gaming I finally bit the dust, accepted a good price for the sale of my old 22" trinitron (philips 202P40) and accepted the new Dell 2407 WFP HC model into my life also at a great price, it was a combination I couldn't refuse.
Sure I loved the desk space saved, I loved the crisp text in the native resolution, hell even in games I didn't mind non native resolution honestly, once you're playing, it doesn't matter.
Also the monitor was appealing to look at, it came with USB, CF, SD and other such ports, it was sexier, it was lighter etc etc!
Still.. to this day as a die hard CRT fanboy, I can not use that Dell 24" LCD in dark (DARK!) games, like Doom, like Oblivion, the black levels, despite what the 'forum people' tell me! are STILL not good enough.
I seriously do not exaggerate for a second, when I say widescreen Oblivion, the sides of the monitor - with it's huge width, tight viewing angle and so on, combined in to the 'perfect storm' of shimmery, nasty black levels, which made the walls in the caves of Oblivion quite honestly impossible to look at.
I felt as if 'sleep' as in my eye - I was constantly rubbing it to get the shimmery light sappy stuff from my eyes out.
Obviously though... it wasn't really in my eyes to begin with.
I love my LCD for so many reasons but for so many others, I still hate it.
Co-incidentally the night of this news article, it's in a box behind me now, being re-sold to someone else.
Sure I'm typing this on a 19" LCD but I don't intend to play games on it, I'll wait for something with REAL black levels, with REAL viewing angels, something actually, genuinely superior to the CRT I so foolishly sold for my the LCD.
(100hz at 1600x1200 no less!, it was a good CRT!)
Yes CRT has it's flaws, yes it's heavy, no it's not ultra crisp but that almost gives it a 'free AA' feel to be honest
Sure they are rare now but if one feature hasn't been surpassed it's by far the black levels, by a long, long way!
When you can plonk me down, in front of a widescreen LCD and I can say the picture surpasses my old CRT - then I'll be a happy man.
So long trinitrons, alas - we knew thee well.
Sorry it came across that way, I'd had a few drinks at the time of posting and was somewhat blunt - I still stand by the post though, it just doesn't feel like news that matters on an even remotely serious topic to me. :/
I could re-post this a million times in response to those 'classic mode, no aero fixes all!' posts..
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=364823&cid=21406737
The Vista classic UI is BROKEN, it has several flaws which make it inferior to the XP classic interface, it's messy, confusing and infact there's at least one bug I know of which isn't even in XP.
I have a beefcake machine I'd run Vista if the classic was worth a damn, it's not - it's bloody terrible.
but is this really newsworthy?
I mean come on, it's a broken 360, like the plebs in the service centre REALLY give a shit about his signatures.
For goodness sakes, it's some scribble on the side of a piece of hardware?
News for nerds, stuff that matters? Yeah I'll sook like a mother2#%er when my 360 dies too but I won't cry over dopey signatures.
This used to happen a lot with DVD's and frankly bravo!
If the DVD is identical to the original, same packaging and the only difference is I'm not paying universal or paramount big $ well good times for all.
DVD's are somewhat cheaper now but perhaps the same thing will happen for blu-rays (sorry but 40$ AUD (35$ US) for a movie is just unreasonable, HD or not)
Drop DVD's to 12$ AUD (9$ US) and Blu-ray to 25$ AUD or 20$ US (approximately) and sales will swing up.
Their loss, I'll just go without for the moment.
My kingdom for more mod points,........ absoloutely, if they fix this and the download window locking stuff up, I'll be a happy, happy man.
Having not tried Firefox 3, I feel I'm definately in a position to speak with authority here,..
More seriously though, I haven't used it but I can absoloutely see both parties points, I for one prefer my software to be predictable, learning things can be fantastic but if you're an ultra fast keyboard guy like I am (no I'm not trying to be a hero) I need things to remain absoloutely consistent for me.
Example the XP start bar (the luna one) which remembers new apps or commonly used apps for you, it's useless if you're dead fast on the keyboard and want a nice ctrl-esc,s,c (control panel) - if some other dopey program steals the 's' position (etc etc)
Have an option for this new feature would be nice, I'm happy to try it but at first guess, I can definately understand frustration with it.
Sorry, still to expensive for some of those old games, maybe 10$ for 3 of them would be nice or something.
They are still getting a 10$ transaction but the user gets to chose his 3 games.
Sure 7$ a pop is still selling but I'd think they would be likely to sell many more at more reasonable pricing.
I am under the impression that XBMC for PS3 has been postponed or cancelled due to the lock out of the RSX processor actually, so if what you claim about using the SPE's for the driver performance boost is true, this could be a good thing.
I know few people have tried XBMC but those lucky enough to have put in the time and effort to get it working are very well rewarded.
It is an absoloutely fantastic application and one of the few things I've been willing to donate towards on the internet, it's only real failure is sadly the lack of HD output which is what the PS3 could overcome.
Initial versions of Xbox Media Player (original title) and XBMC were unstable but now it just plain works and works well.
Some argue that the X360 and PS3 can play media divx over lan now using a Windows Media Player sharing system, I've tried this and found it to be unreliable and difficult to navigate compared to a standard SMB share, further to this many many divx files are simply incapable of being played.
I can chose my audio channel if it supports multiple channels along with subtitle selection and so on, it even 'upscales' DVD to 720p or 1080i and just plain looks nice.
I really do hope that development continues to port it to the PS3 sometime soon, it's actually part of the reason I purchased the PS3, the slim chance it could one day replace my Xbox 1.
"5.) All content accessible."
ONLY when signed in to your Xbox Live account, other users of your Xbox have to now use your account to access the stuff they could previously get under their own 'local' profiles.
Actually both operating systems will need to deal with the fragmented file system.
Example if XP has to write to cluster 211, 212, 250, 251 and 9999
When you over-write the file, it will still write to those clusters.
Same thing will happen under Vista, so it shouldn't make any difference - it may slow the total time to copy the file down but it will still be an equal hampering per OS.
Ideally though, empty disks would still be best for clean results.