If you want to play games with no troubles, I suggest you get a console. I've done video games on computers, and I'm tired of trying to keep up with the video driver updates, directx updates, game patches, trying to figure out if my computer has enough power, and borked copy protection schemes that make games not work.
Kodak has their hands in a lot more pies than you seem to think. They're still the ones making all the photo paper for all those digital prints you get printed out from your digital camera. And they also make pretty good digital cameras. I have a C875 and it's a really great camera. Kodak saw the light years ago, and started to change their business model when they saw that film cameras was going to be a dead market.
In my experience, Inkjets are terrible for casual users. I need to use my printer about once every 3 to 4 weeks. Because it's inkjet, and I use it so infrequently, the cartridge is dried out every time I need to use it. So I've given up on the thing and it sits in a corner. When I need to print something, i'll use the printer at work, or go to the UPS store. For Photos I have Walmart. The next printer I'm going to buy will be a laser, because I don't want to have to worry about the ink drying out. On another note, what happened to dot matrix printers. I remember we had a dot matrix printer and the cartdges (ribbons?) were $5 each and laster for well over 1000 pages.
I recently bought a USB SD reader. And while it's a little larger than most thumb drives, I think it's nice to have something that's expandable. It's much easier to buy another SD card when they go on sale, and have a couple lying around, then to have a bunch of thumb drives all over the place. I don't know why this isn't more popular. Why buy a USB drive that can only be used in computers, when you can buy an SD card, and have it work in Cameras, PDAs, Computers, Wiis, and many other electronic devices.
I had a Palm 100 that used to erase itself when you took the battery out, or when the memory ran out. I never understood why they didn't use non-volatile memory on those things. Or at least have a backup battery. Even my TI-86 has that.
I am fed up being told that I can't encrypt data on my USB drive.
If you want to encrypt the data, just use TrueCrypt. It offers many different ciphers and is available for multiple platforms, including Windows and Linux.
You could always tweak the themes or make your own. How does PowerPoint 2007 help with that? I tend not to use templates or themes when I use powerpoint/word, because it's really obvious when it's done, and I find it looks really cheap and that you didn't spend any time putting the presentation together.
My problem with the themes in Powerpoint is that they get really old, really fast. After sitting through 17 presentations using the same theme they all start to look just as bad. I don't think the themes in the previous versions were that bad, but after seeing them so many times, they start to lose their appeal.
I wasn't quite aware of ARD's capabilities, but when I saw people pushing that as a solution along with SSH and VNC, as well as the remote desktop name, I kind of assumed it was just another similar tool. Although I think to really have good enterprise administration that you'd need something like Apple's Open Directory system. I just don't like it when people recommend solutions like using SSH to administer 1000 machines.
For all those recommending Apple remote desktop, I don't think that's what the parent was referring to. going to each and every computer over VNC or something similar is almost as difficult as making house calls. What he's looking for is something like Active Directory with group policies and automatic updates so that the configuration changes are made one place and reflected on all the machines.
I think that would only have caused companies not to upgrade MS Office either. MS Office 2000 is probably good enough for most businesses (as is 97). With the amount of retraining that 2007 will take, I don't think than most businesses will want to make that move either.
That should be: Lithium can be oxidated by anything, Especially water.
Doesn't anybody remember the demonstration in science class where the teacher took out the lithium, dropped it in water, and you watched it react. Although the potassium was much more impressive. Boom. That's all I gotta say.
I didn't say that. What I said was that they can be passed by studying to pass the test. I know a guy who got his MCDBA certification and couldn't write a simple SQL select query to save his life. He got a bunch of old test questions, and studied those and was able to pick out the correct query when presented with the multiple choice answers. But if you showed him a bunch of tables, and asked him to write a query to get a certain set of information, he would be completely lost. Maybe you're taking different exams that I did in university, but my university exams required thinking and application of knowledge to pass the exams. Also, assignments made us actually learn how to apply the information we were learning. I'm not saying that there wasn't any questions that just expected you to memorize stuff, but that was only a part of the exams, and not all they encompassed.
The problem with that is that it's very easy to teach someone to pass a test. Look at all the other standardized tests out there. A+, MCSE, MCDBA, MSWhatever. It's easy to just do tons of practice questions and pass the exams without actually knowing anything.
Not only that, but Ontario universities require that you take certain courses (calculus, physics, algebra, finite) to actually get into certain math/science/eng. related programs. You can get into an English program without taking any math courses, but don't try getting into science/engineering. It just won't happen. I guess that's one of the advantages of having the OUAC take care of keeping track of all this information.
Their motive is staying afloat so they don't have to see all that hard work go to waste. They're looking for ways to keep their cash flow out of the red so that they can continue to operate the site. If that requires selling Wikipedia on DVDs, or putting up a couple non-intrusive text ads, then I'm all for it. You can't pay for bandwidth and servers with smiles and good feelings.
It would be nice to be able to take wikipedia with you when you don't have a net connection, even if you usually have one. If you're using your laptop on the plane, it might be nice to look up something on wikipedia. That being said, I think they should implement it differently. I'm not sure how their repository system works, but it should be possible to download the whole thing, and then download only the changes when you need it updated. Kind of like with CVS or SVN.
The problem isn't holes in the operating systems. It's holes in the users brains. How can MS stop you from running a program that you want to run? Who are they to say which programs are safe to run? Sure there's been a few problems with open ports and network worms, or automatically executing email attachments, but the majority of malware out there comes from people who download, install, and run it out of their own free will. How is MS or any other OS vendor supposed to stop that?
That reminds me of the blackberry case where there was an injunction for everybody except the US government. Wouldn't want your elected representatives to go without their blackberry, they might actually see how messed up the patent system really is. Luckily in this case RIM came up with a technical work-around and never had to actually shut down their system.
Personally I think Godiva is overpriced crap. I like Lindt myself. I like Lindt better and it contains only ingredients that should be in Chocolate, and not stuff like Malitol. It's a lot cheaper too, and is available in just about every corner store and pharmacy, at least in Canada.
What I want to know is why it requires super duper computing abilities even with the "Turbo Hyper-Fighting Championship Edition graphics mode". It's not doing anything that's not being done on OSX or Linux (Compiz, Beryl). So why does Vista require so much power when Linux and OSX can do it on half the hardware?
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Free internet is a good thing, but if the people in poverty don't have electricity, than how are they supposed to use the internet?
If you want to play games with no troubles, I suggest you get a console. I've done video games on computers, and I'm tired of trying to keep up with the video driver updates, directx updates, game patches, trying to figure out if my computer has enough power, and borked copy protection schemes that make games not work.
Kodak has their hands in a lot more pies than you seem to think. They're still the ones making all the photo paper for all those digital prints you get printed out from your digital camera. And they also make pretty good digital cameras. I have a C875 and it's a really great camera. Kodak saw the light years ago, and started to change their business model when they saw that film cameras was going to be a dead market.
In my experience, Inkjets are terrible for casual users. I need to use my printer about once every 3 to 4 weeks. Because it's inkjet, and I use it so infrequently, the cartridge is dried out every time I need to use it. So I've given up on the thing and it sits in a corner. When I need to print something, i'll use the printer at work, or go to the UPS store. For Photos I have Walmart. The next printer I'm going to buy will be a laser, because I don't want to have to worry about the ink drying out. On another note, what happened to dot matrix printers. I remember we had a dot matrix printer and the cartdges (ribbons?) were $5 each and laster for well over 1000 pages.
I recently bought a USB SD reader. And while it's a little larger than most thumb drives, I think it's nice to have something that's expandable. It's much easier to buy another SD card when they go on sale, and have a couple lying around, then to have a bunch of thumb drives all over the place. I don't know why this isn't more popular. Why buy a USB drive that can only be used in computers, when you can buy an SD card, and have it work in Cameras, PDAs, Computers, Wiis, and many other electronic devices.
I had a Palm 100 that used to erase itself when you took the battery out, or when the memory ran out. I never understood why they didn't use non-volatile memory on those things. Or at least have a backup battery. Even my TI-86 has that.
You could always tweak the themes or make your own. How does PowerPoint 2007 help with that? I tend not to use templates or themes when I use powerpoint/word, because it's really obvious when it's done, and I find it looks really cheap and that you didn't spend any time putting the presentation together.
What's with the headline? Who publishes OS kernels? I guess it could be grammatically correct and all that, but it sounds a little weird to me.
My problem with the themes in Powerpoint is that they get really old, really fast. After sitting through 17 presentations using the same theme they all start to look just as bad. I don't think the themes in the previous versions were that bad, but after seeing them so many times, they start to lose their appeal.
I wasn't quite aware of ARD's capabilities, but when I saw people pushing that as a solution along with SSH and VNC, as well as the remote desktop name, I kind of assumed it was just another similar tool. Although I think to really have good enterprise administration that you'd need something like Apple's Open Directory system. I just don't like it when people recommend solutions like using SSH to administer 1000 machines.
For all those recommending Apple remote desktop, I don't think that's what the parent was referring to. going to each and every computer over VNC or something similar is almost as difficult as making house calls. What he's looking for is something like Active Directory with group policies and automatic updates so that the configuration changes are made one place and reflected on all the machines.
I think that would only have caused companies not to upgrade MS Office either. MS Office 2000 is probably good enough for most businesses (as is 97). With the amount of retraining that 2007 will take, I don't think than most businesses will want to make that move either.
That should be: Lithium can be oxidated by anything, Especially water.
Doesn't anybody remember the demonstration in science class where the teacher took out the lithium, dropped it in water, and you watched it react. Although the potassium was much more impressive. Boom. That's all I gotta say.
I didn't say that. What I said was that they can be passed by studying to pass the test. I know a guy who got his MCDBA certification and couldn't write a simple SQL select query to save his life. He got a bunch of old test questions, and studied those and was able to pick out the correct query when presented with the multiple choice answers. But if you showed him a bunch of tables, and asked him to write a query to get a certain set of information, he would be completely lost. Maybe you're taking different exams that I did in university, but my university exams required thinking and application of knowledge to pass the exams. Also, assignments made us actually learn how to apply the information we were learning. I'm not saying that there wasn't any questions that just expected you to memorize stuff, but that was only a part of the exams, and not all they encompassed.
The problem with that is that it's very easy to teach someone to pass a test. Look at all the other standardized tests out there. A+, MCSE, MCDBA, MSWhatever. It's easy to just do tons of practice questions and pass the exams without actually knowing anything.
Not only that, but Ontario universities require that you take certain courses (calculus, physics, algebra, finite) to actually get into certain math/science/eng. related programs. You can get into an English program without taking any math courses, but don't try getting into science/engineering. It just won't happen. I guess that's one of the advantages of having the OUAC take care of keeping track of all this information.
But the PS3's Cell processor has 3 cores, so maybe they took the number or PS3s, and multiplied it by 3.
I guess they're using the same system they use to count the number of PS3's they've sold.
Their motive is staying afloat so they don't have to see all that hard work go to waste. They're looking for ways to keep their cash flow out of the red so that they can continue to operate the site. If that requires selling Wikipedia on DVDs, or putting up a couple non-intrusive text ads, then I'm all for it. You can't pay for bandwidth and servers with smiles and good feelings.
It would be nice to be able to take wikipedia with you when you don't have a net connection, even if you usually have one. If you're using your laptop on the plane, it might be nice to look up something on wikipedia. That being said, I think they should implement it differently. I'm not sure how their repository system works, but it should be possible to download the whole thing, and then download only the changes when you need it updated. Kind of like with CVS or SVN.
The problem isn't holes in the operating systems. It's holes in the users brains. How can MS stop you from running a program that you want to run? Who are they to say which programs are safe to run? Sure there's been a few problems with open ports and network worms, or automatically executing email attachments, but the majority of malware out there comes from people who download, install, and run it out of their own free will. How is MS or any other OS vendor supposed to stop that?
That reminds me of the blackberry case where there was an injunction for everybody except the US government. Wouldn't want your elected representatives to go without their blackberry, they might actually see how messed up the patent system really is. Luckily in this case RIM came up with a technical work-around and never had to actually shut down their system.
Personally I think Godiva is overpriced crap. I like Lindt myself. I like Lindt better and it contains only ingredients that should be in Chocolate, and not stuff like Malitol. It's a lot cheaper too, and is available in just about every corner store and pharmacy, at least in Canada.
What I want to know is why it requires super duper computing abilities even with the "Turbo Hyper-Fighting Championship Edition graphics mode". It's not doing anything that's not being done on OSX or Linux (Compiz, Beryl). So why does Vista require so much power when Linux and OSX can do it on half the hardware?