It sure does read FAT 32 and FAT16, but it's why I stated that FAT32 is dying. As far as I'm concerned the only one they truly support is NTFS. The fdisk utility included can't make FAT32 partitions above 32? GB, even though FAT 32 supports up to 8 TiB. Microsoft intentionally cripples FAT32, so that more people will use NTFS. Mandatory Wikipedia link. So, while windows does support FAT32, it's becoming less and less prominent (except on thumb drives and cameras) because MS limits the size of the volume to 32 GB.
For some reason, I received no spam on halloween. No kidding. My Email was working, I received all my regular mail, but no spam. I usually receive 30-50 spam messages a day, all but 1 or 2 of which are blocked by gmail. On Halloween, no spam, kind of weird....
I seriously think MS should support more than 1 filesystem (FAT32 is dieing). This 1 filesystem to rule them all business is terrible. Linux has not trouble offering tons of file systems that are supported. I see no reason why windows couldn't support at least 3 or 4. The fact that windows is used everywhere from the home desktop right up to the enterprise servers means that using a single file system just doesn't make sense.
I've known about this feature for a long time. I once had thoughts of implementing a feature into my site where I automatically got the information off the clipboard and sent it to my server, just to see what I could pick up. I decided not to, however, I'm sure many people are not as honest as I am.
But don't cable and DSL signals end up using analog signals to transfer the data? Granted it's at a vastly different frequency, which probably makes a lot of difference, but the signal travelling over the wire is always analog. Even the signals going between the internal parts of your computer are analog, such that it has to differentiate between +5 and -5 to determine what the bit value actually is.
But if it's a work day, you don't have very much time to get all those drinks down. You wouldn't have a drink when you wake up, possibly have 1 at lunch, but then that still leaves 3 or 4 for after work. So basically you'd be getting tipsy every night.
What is it about dial-up that gives such bad ping times. The data is travelling over the same wire as DSL. Why should it be so slow? I remember having dial-up and trying to play Descent III over the connection. Ping times were up around 3500 MS. I understand the slow data transfer rates, but why the slow ping times?
Firefox doesn't pass the Acid2 test because they haven't made it a priority to pass the test. They realize that CSS support is important, but they also realize that there's a lot of other things that go into making a good browser. To me it doesn't matter if Firefox passes the Acid2 test. What I care about is real world performance. And in the real world, Firefox gets CSS rendering right more often than Safari or Opera. There's a reason why Safari passes the Acid2 test while konquerer, which uses the same engine does not. Because they wrote specific hacks, just to be able to pass the test.
This outlines the problem. Safari has been "Fixed" so that the acid2 test renders correctly, yet still contains lots of rendering bugs. I would have to say as a web developer that I run into many more rendering bugs on Safari than I do on Firefox (although IE is the worst). I can probably code a browser that correctly renders the acid 2 test in 3 days. It won't render any other pages properly, but it will render the acid2 test.
I think it has a lot to do with the marketing. Not a day goes by that I don't see an ad for the iPod in some form (print, tv, billboard), but I don't think I have seen an ad for the Zune yet. Sure there's lots of talk about it on websites, but there's nobody pushing the message in your face to buy a Zune. You can look around and find out how cool the Zune is, but for mass adoption, you have to have commercials telling people how cool it is. You can't just make a product and expect it to sell without advertising it.
Oh please no. Say it isn't so. They had this feature in windows 95. I think it was enabled by default. What happens is you're trying to navigate to a folder that's 7 folders away, and then you end up having 7 windows open, only the last of which you wanted open. I don't know who thought this was a good idea, but it's not. Just put the history of folders you've visited along the top (ala Next) and be done with it. Seriously, who wants to open up 5 windows (C:,\WINNT,\System32,\drivers,\etc) just to get to the hosts file.
However, taking away the need to type the password is the problem. If all they have to do is click OK, then they will just do it. It's like the dialog box for deleting a read-only file. People just click OK, and are done with it. If they have to type their password, they might stop and think about why it's asking for their password. I could even see lots of instances of the dialog popping up and the user just accidentally hitting enter. Possibly because they were typing in some other window, and the form stole the focus. Taking out the requirement for entering the password removes all good points about this feature.
Why not just buy real RAM, instead of using a flash drive. For a couple hundred dollars you can get yourself 2 Gigs of real memory. That should be just about enough for any desktop user. If it's not, then you're probably need a lot of power, and are still better off buying real memory. Flash drives would die pretty fast if you tried to use them as swap space. They might offer some advantage if you had all the boot information on there, and booted from it, but I don't think you'd notice a significant increase over using the hard drive for swap that would pay off when you had to buy a new memory stick every 2 months.
However, with XP, the OEMs could get away with selling a computer with 256 megs of RAM and a crappy onboard video card. With Vista, this won't suffice. You need good 3D acceleration, and at least 512 megs of RAM, probably more like 1 Gig from what i've read. No more $299 Dell that can actually run the OS.
Actually to play the file I actually downloaded on iTunes on another computer I have to install iTunes on said computer, and ask permission(via software) for the file to be playable. It's too bad if you want to play the file under a platform that doesn't support iTunes. Or if you even want to use some other non-memory hogging application to play your music. Sure you can burn it to CD and play that just about anywhere, But what if you don't have a CD burner? What if I buy a new MP3 player, and I want to listen to my iTunes files on it. Sorry, it's not an iPod, and it won't play, so I'd have to burn, rip, and encode to some other format, Losing quality, the metadata, and time in the process, Plus I have to be smart enough to figure out this 3 step process, and have 2 copies of every music file on my computer..
How is this any different than music on iTunes? You can make millions of copies of the iTunes files and distribute them where ever you want to. Getting them to play on an unlicensed computer is another story entirely. I don't see the difference between this and WGA. You can "Install" the music wherever you want, but don't try "using" the song without the activing the iTunes account on that computer.
Strategy games is another area where PC games beat consoles, again because you need a mouse and keyboard to effectively play strategy games. I'm sure the wiimote would offer some nice ways to play strategy games, but I think you'd still need the keyboard to have lots of different keys for quickly doing certain actions. Anyway, about driving games. I find that driving games are much better on PC because of 2 reasons. The first is that on PC you are often able to customize games much more. On NFS 4, you could download tons of new tracks and cars for free. Not so with any console game I've seen. And the second reason is ad-hoc network games. Just call/IM a friend or 2 or 8, exchange IP addresses, and have a network game, for free, without having to worry about whether or not the server is down.
Which is why a couple years ago, I just gave up on PC gaming and bought a GameCube. I really like some aspects of PC Games, such as the mouse and keyboard for FPS, but other than that, I can't really think of any reason to play games on a PC rather than a game console. For the price of a good video card, you can buy a 2 year old console, and have tons of worry free gaming.
It's because the MySpace users have more to lose. They don't want someone defacing their website. Employees on the other hand probably don't care if someone logs into their computer.
Do people actually remember how an insert on a B-Tree works 10 years after they've taken a class, and never had to write their own B-Tree implementation, because it's a solved problem? I'd ask them to do something a little more creative. Rather than just being able to spew out facts, that anybody could figure out with a 5 minute look in a computer science textbook, ask them how to they would design something. Ask them anything except something that can be memorized. Present a problem, and then ask what data structures they would use, and justify their answer with an explanation.
If there's enough demand, then people can patch it themselves. Oh the magic of open source. It's not like with IE7, (which also doesn't run on 95/98/ME), where if Microsoft cuts off support for IE6, then there's no way to get patches. If there is enough demand for people who want to run firefox on windows 98/ME, then I'm sure that there will be somebody creating fixed for firefox 2.
I don't see the argument for it being too hard to remember. Mind you, my student ID number was 7 digits and not 11, but having to remember an 11 digit number isn't that bad. It's no longer than a phone number with area and country code. Having to write my student number on every assignment, and test helped me remember my student number quite quickly. Although I could see them needing the social security number for tax purposes as tuition fees are tax deductible, at least in Canada.
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It sure does read FAT 32 and FAT16, but it's why I stated that FAT32 is dying. As far as I'm concerned the only one they truly support is NTFS. The fdisk utility included can't make FAT32 partitions above 32? GB, even though FAT 32 supports up to 8 TiB. Microsoft intentionally cripples FAT32, so that more people will use NTFS. Mandatory Wikipedia link. So, while windows does support FAT32, it's becoming less and less prominent (except on thumb drives and cameras) because MS limits the size of the volume to 32 GB.
For some reason, I received no spam on halloween. No kidding. My Email was working, I received all my regular mail, but no spam. I usually receive 30-50 spam messages a day, all but 1 or 2 of which are blocked by gmail. On Halloween, no spam, kind of weird....
I seriously think MS should support more than 1 filesystem (FAT32 is dieing). This 1 filesystem to rule them all business is terrible. Linux has not trouble offering tons of file systems that are supported. I see no reason why windows couldn't support at least 3 or 4. The fact that windows is used everywhere from the home desktop right up to the enterprise servers means that using a single file system just doesn't make sense.
I've known about this feature for a long time. I once had thoughts of implementing a feature into my site where I automatically got the information off the clipboard and sent it to my server, just to see what I could pick up. I decided not to, however, I'm sure many people are not as honest as I am.
But don't cable and DSL signals end up using analog signals to transfer the data? Granted it's at a vastly different frequency, which probably makes a lot of difference, but the signal travelling over the wire is always analog. Even the signals going between the internal parts of your computer are analog, such that it has to differentiate between +5 and -5 to determine what the bit value actually is.
But if it's a work day, you don't have very much time to get all those drinks down. You wouldn't have a drink when you wake up, possibly have 1 at lunch, but then that still leaves 3 or 4 for after work. So basically you'd be getting tipsy every night.
What is it about dial-up that gives such bad ping times. The data is travelling over the same wire as DSL. Why should it be so slow? I remember having dial-up and trying to play Descent III over the connection. Ping times were up around 3500 MS. I understand the slow data transfer rates, but why the slow ping times?
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Firefox doesn't pass the Acid2 test because they haven't made it a priority to pass the test. They realize that CSS support is important, but they also realize that there's a lot of other things that go into making a good browser. To me it doesn't matter if Firefox passes the Acid2 test. What I care about is real world performance. And in the real world, Firefox gets CSS rendering right more often than Safari or Opera. There's a reason why Safari passes the Acid2 test while konquerer, which uses the same engine does not. Because they wrote specific hacks, just to be able to pass the test.
This outlines the problem. Safari has been "Fixed" so that the acid2 test renders correctly, yet still contains lots of rendering bugs. I would have to say as a web developer that I run into many more rendering bugs on Safari than I do on Firefox (although IE is the worst). I can probably code a browser that correctly renders the acid 2 test in 3 days. It won't render any other pages properly, but it will render the acid2 test.
I think it has a lot to do with the marketing. Not a day goes by that I don't see an ad for the iPod in some form (print, tv, billboard), but I don't think I have seen an ad for the Zune yet. Sure there's lots of talk about it on websites, but there's nobody pushing the message in your face to buy a Zune. You can look around and find out how cool the Zune is, but for mass adoption, you have to have commercials telling people how cool it is. You can't just make a product and expect it to sell without advertising it.
Oh please no. Say it isn't so. They had this feature in windows 95. I think it was enabled by default. What happens is you're trying to navigate to a folder that's 7 folders away, and then you end up having 7 windows open, only the last of which you wanted open. I don't know who thought this was a good idea, but it's not. Just put the history of folders you've visited along the top (ala Next) and be done with it. Seriously, who wants to open up 5 windows (C:,\WINNT,\System32,\drivers,\etc) just to get to the hosts file.
However, taking away the need to type the password is the problem. If all they have to do is click OK, then they will just do it. It's like the dialog box for deleting a read-only file. People just click OK, and are done with it. If they have to type their password, they might stop and think about why it's asking for their password. I could even see lots of instances of the dialog popping up and the user just accidentally hitting enter. Possibly because they were typing in some other window, and the form stole the focus. Taking out the requirement for entering the password removes all good points about this feature.
Why not just buy real RAM, instead of using a flash drive. For a couple hundred dollars you can get yourself 2 Gigs of real memory. That should be just about enough for any desktop user. If it's not, then you're probably need a lot of power, and are still better off buying real memory. Flash drives would die pretty fast if you tried to use them as swap space. They might offer some advantage if you had all the boot information on there, and booted from it, but I don't think you'd notice a significant increase over using the hard drive for swap that would pay off when you had to buy a new memory stick every 2 months.
However, with XP, the OEMs could get away with selling a computer with 256 megs of RAM and a crappy onboard video card. With Vista, this won't suffice. You need good 3D acceleration, and at least 512 megs of RAM, probably more like 1 Gig from what i've read. No more $299 Dell that can actually run the OS.
Might be a really good question if the computer is a Mac Mini.
Actually to play the file I actually downloaded on iTunes on another computer I have to install iTunes on said computer, and ask permission(via software) for the file to be playable. It's too bad if you want to play the file under a platform that doesn't support iTunes. Or if you even want to use some other non-memory hogging application to play your music. Sure you can burn it to CD and play that just about anywhere, But what if you don't have a CD burner? What if I buy a new MP3 player, and I want to listen to my iTunes files on it. Sorry, it's not an iPod, and it won't play, so I'd have to burn, rip, and encode to some other format, Losing quality, the metadata, and time in the process, Plus I have to be smart enough to figure out this 3 step process, and have 2 copies of every music file on my computer..
How is this any different than music on iTunes? You can make millions of copies of the iTunes files and distribute them where ever you want to. Getting them to play on an unlicensed computer is another story entirely. I don't see the difference between this and WGA. You can "Install" the music wherever you want, but don't try "using" the song without the activing the iTunes account on that computer.
Strategy games is another area where PC games beat consoles, again because you need a mouse and keyboard to effectively play strategy games. I'm sure the wiimote would offer some nice ways to play strategy games, but I think you'd still need the keyboard to have lots of different keys for quickly doing certain actions. Anyway, about driving games. I find that driving games are much better on PC because of 2 reasons. The first is that on PC you are often able to customize games much more. On NFS 4, you could download tons of new tracks and cars for free. Not so with any console game I've seen. And the second reason is ad-hoc network games. Just call/IM a friend or 2 or 8, exchange IP addresses, and have a network game, for free, without having to worry about whether or not the server is down.
Which is why a couple years ago, I just gave up on PC gaming and bought a GameCube. I really like some aspects of PC Games, such as the mouse and keyboard for FPS, but other than that, I can't really think of any reason to play games on a PC rather than a game console. For the price of a good video card, you can buy a 2 year old console, and have tons of worry free gaming.
It's because the MySpace users have more to lose. They don't want someone defacing their website. Employees on the other hand probably don't care if someone logs into their computer.
Do people actually remember how an insert on a B-Tree works 10 years after they've taken a class, and never had to write their own B-Tree implementation, because it's a solved problem? I'd ask them to do something a little more creative. Rather than just being able to spew out facts, that anybody could figure out with a 5 minute look in a computer science textbook, ask them how to they would design something. Ask them anything except something that can be memorized. Present a problem, and then ask what data structures they would use, and justify their answer with an explanation.
If there's enough demand, then people can patch it themselves. Oh the magic of open source. It's not like with IE7, (which also doesn't run on 95/98/ME), where if Microsoft cuts off support for IE6, then there's no way to get patches. If there is enough demand for people who want to run firefox on windows 98/ME, then I'm sure that there will be somebody creating fixed for firefox 2.
I don't see the argument for it being too hard to remember. Mind you, my student ID number was 7 digits and not 11, but having to remember an 11 digit number isn't that bad. It's no longer than a phone number with area and country code. Having to write my student number on every assignment, and test helped me remember my student number quite quickly. Although I could see them needing the social security number for tax purposes as tuition fees are tax deductible, at least in Canada.
Why did you give them your SSN when they had no use for it?