The alternative that they point out to web developer is devoid of any features. You can edit the page in cache, and then tell it to reload from cache, oh, and you can do some validation. Do they even give you an easy way of opening the file in cache? or do you have to go seek it out yourself? Can you view all the form information by with 2 clicks? Can you edit the css and see the changes in real time without reloading the document from cache? Can I click on any part of the page and have it immediatly show me which styles are being applied to it, and which files those styles are coming from? Can I view all the comments in a page with 2 clicks? Can I easily outline all table cells, rows, divs, spans, or any other html element? The's a lot more to web developer than what they give you in opera.
The only thing that makes me like Firefox more than Opera is the idea of Extensions. The fact that the browser can be enhanced by the users creates a big advantage in my mind. I wouldn't want all those features built into the browser, because it would be huge and bloated, and there's a lot of extensions that without them my life would be a lot harder. The web developer extension makes my life so much easier, but i'm sure that 99% of internet users in the world would have absolutely no use for.
It doesn't make business sense for MS to release buggy software either. It would be a lot easier if they just released software with fewer bugs. People would be happier, and they wouldn't have to spen so much time fixing it. It's always less work to design something right the first time, then to try to fix it later, after it's been released. Just because it seems like it makes better business sense, doesn't mean MS is going to follow that path. I think that MS should do what Apple did, and drop their old OS, to get rid of all the legacy crap that's holding them back, but that doesn't mean they'll do it.
Toasters are probably the worst appliances of all. Leave them on the same setting, and sometimes the bread is burnt, and other times, the bread is lightly toasted. This is even if you just use it once a day, with the same kind of bread. Trying do toast right after the previous batch has just popped is impossible. Then there's all the problems with different kinds of breads that toast at different rates. The best toaster's I've ever seen was when I worked form McDonalds. The buns go fed between two teflon conveyer belts that were vertical. You dropped it in the top, and it came out the bottom perfectly toasted. Although I think a system like this may be a little much for home use. Using some insulation between the heating element definitely helped to get a more consistent toasting. The same reason I find that it's easier to cook in a cast iron pan that a cheap dollar store pan. When the material is so much thicker, it heats up much more evenly, and makes much better food.
Would this really be that hard though. Embed an RFID in the clothes that contains the washing instructions, and have some sort of system that drops it in separte baskets to wash. And then does the laundry whenever you accumulater a full load of laundry. Extra features that would be cool include telling the machine that you want your green shirt clean for the next day and it would ensure that it's ready for you. Although Washing machines make things so much easier than they used to be. Seriously people are so lazy, with dishwashers, laundry machines, disposable cleaning things like swiffer, that I can't believe that people still complain. You think you have it hard, try cleaning your laundry on a Washboard
This makes me wonder if you could make money by remotely managing somebody's computer for them. Install all the updates, make sure everything runs smoothly, clean off the malware and viruses. You could probably get the system automated. I know a lot of people who's computers are always taken over by viruses, or they just end up installing stuff that they use once and never again (I don't know why windows develops problems when you install too many programs, my Linux box has hundreds of programs installed, and doesn't slow down a bit. Anyway, I think there's a lot of people who'd be willing to pay a monthly subscription fee if you kept their coomputer running fast and organized. With all the required updates and stuff. I think Dell could offer something like this to their customers. Although they probably make more money when they buy a new computer every year when their old one gets slow.
I don't think that most of the slowdown with antiviral software comes from the processor usage, but rather from it having to read every file you try to access before you access it. My NAV at work was set up to scan every single file every single time it was opened. That's a major resource hog. Espcially since things like txt or XML files (which can get large) have 0 chance of maintaining viruses. A smart virus scanner may just do an md5 sum of the file, and then it it hasn't changed, then don't bother scanning. Although I don't know if that would be any faster. Myself, I use Linux at home, so I don't worry so much about virus scanners.
My boss has a 19 inch laptop. It's big, it doesn't get a lot of battery power, but he likes it. He drives back and forth to work, so it's no more trouble than a 12 inch laptop would be. He doesn't travel too much, and it's pretty powerful. However, for myself, i'd look for something in the 12 to 15 inch laptop. I'm not so obsessed with screen size as i am about thickness and weight. the only reason that i'd rather have a 12 inch than a 15 inch is because everything is smaller. If they could make 17 inch laptops really thin and light, i might consider buying one, but I don't know if that's possible with the battery required for the extra screen size. I knew a guy in univerity who had a cheap, thick, heavy, with a large power block, laptop. It was crazy for him to drag it around walking back and forth to school and around campus everyday. So it depends on your lifestyle. If you mostly drive, and don't fly much, than a large laptop might be a really good choice. But if you're riding the bus back and forth to work, and maybe even want to be able to work on the bus or on a flight, a small laptop is better. I mean, at least the 20 inch laptop isn't this bad.
You are quite aware that you can download that Beck album and play it on an iPod. iPods play mp3s too, and without any conversion necessary. I have an iPod and have never bought a song from iTunes. I buy all my music on CD and rip it to MP3.
And their virtual desktop powertoy is just that, a toy. It sucks compared 10 year old versions of Unix with the virtual desktop. Windows was never designed to have virtual desktops, so any attempt to make them is a hack, and it turns out really bad.
Well, the word steal predates any laws which may use the word, and make the act of stealing illegal. I can say you are stealing my intellectual property by not paying me for it's use. It wouldn't technically be theft, in the sense of the law, but it's still immoral.
The point is, is that maybe not you, but many other people would be crying foul if MS was doing this, because there's simply no way of knowing what they are doing with the data. Because it's opera, we assume that they aren'd doing anything, or we just hope they are, or we assume that their users are smarter than average and will know to turn it off if they don't want it. However, I think that if MS put in the same feature, we'd be saying that it was a breach of privacy, because most people are too uninformed to bother turning it off.
How often does opera update it's servers? Is it often enough? Is it immediately after the site is put up, even before anybody knows about it? How about every time you want to visit a URL, it gets a list of everything that's been added since you last clicked, probably a short or empty list most times, and uses that. That way, you don't have to update every so often, because it updates before you go to any site, and you don't have to worry about them finding out which sites your visiting.
Would you be fine with it if MS had the same feature in IE, had it enabled by default, but allowed it to be turned off? Never mind most users wouldn't know about it, but they could turn it off. It's not like MS would ever use this kind of data for Evil purposes, or surrender the data to the DOJ on request. Shouldn't something like this only be explicitly opt-in, and only if the user goes searching for it? I wouldn't even bother building a system like this. Too many problems that can happen with it. Why not have users download a list every so often? They wouldn't have to send out every request to some third party, and they could still ensure that they are being safe. Would be a lot easier on the server too if every url visited from every user didn't have to get checked.
Also, unless the requests are sent encrypted I imagine that somebody sitting outside opera's server, could intercept the requests and use them for whatever they wanted.
I buy used specifically because I never get around to playing them. There's plenty of old used games that I haven't tried yet. Why would I spend $60 on a new game when I know that there's plenty of games that I haven't played, and want to play just as much for $15? There are a couple that I've bought new, but the vast majority of my games are bought used. And most of them remain unbeaten because I don't have the time to play all the way through.
Oh, but couldn't you just plug in more RAM, and disable the swap? I don't want to imagine how fast a flash drive would wear out if you were constantly writing to it as a swap file. If it was something static like a boot drive that didn't change too often, then it might be a good solution. However speeding up the computer by having it swap to a faster harddrive isn't a better solution than using RAM so that you don't have to swap at all, especially when the hard drive will wear out faster. I don't see how this is such a technological leap either. All it's doing is using a flash drive for a swap drive rather than an old fashioned hard drive. I'm not sure if you can set up a swap drive on a removable drive on windows XP, but I don't see it being a big technological leap. I don't imagine it's much different to do a swap drive on a hard drive, 3.5 inch floppy or a USB key when it's really just a file that the system is writing to and reading from.
First, I don't want an iMac. For me, that's a really stupid idea. The upgradability is limited, and the computer is built into the monitor. There pretty much is no PC equivalent to something like that. Also, the Mac Pro doesn't fit my needs. I'm not looking for something that high end. I'm looking to spend around $1000 on a computer. Visiting Apple.ca, I can only find a MacPro which is some dual-dual-core (two dual core chips) that costs $2800. Sorry, no thanks, I don't need that kind of power. I find macs to either buy the uber high end, which isn't priced that bad, but is way beyond my needs, or buy some integrated computer that costs more because you have to buy a new monitor every time you want to upgrade the motherboard. I already have a 19 inch LCD. Why would I want to buy an iMac that requires me to buy another monitor.
There's not so many games anymore that really draw you in like some of the old ones did. I remember playing Alone In The Dark, and getting really scared at some points. For a game to scare you, it has to really draw you in, so that it's the only thing you are focusing on. I find that I got scared a lot playing Metroid Prime. Not because it had a horror theme or anything, but because the atmosphere of the game really drew you in, and when some enemy jumps in front of you when you are already on edge, you tend to jump a bit.
What he's saying, is that Nintendo will always be there, whether or not their first place or whatever, and then there's the other guys. Hopefully there's 2 other guys, because if there isn't well then the other guy gets complacent and doesn't make a good product. As far I'm concerned, all we need is Nintendo.
It's Limited, that means there's going to be increased demand for it even if people aren't really that interested in playing it. It also means that it won't mean much for the 360 in Japan, because it won't increase the number of people in Japan with a 360 by a large amount. Because it's limited.
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The alternative that they point out to web developer is devoid of any features. You can edit the page in cache, and then tell it to reload from cache, oh, and you can do some validation. Do they even give you an easy way of opening the file in cache? or do you have to go seek it out yourself? Can you view all the form information by with 2 clicks? Can you edit the css and see the changes in real time without reloading the document from cache? Can I click on any part of the page and have it immediatly show me which styles are being applied to it, and which files those styles are coming from? Can I view all the comments in a page with 2 clicks? Can I easily outline all table cells, rows, divs, spans, or any other html element? The's a lot more to web developer than what they give you in opera.
Myself, I can't even bring myself to start IE, so I download my copy of firefox with the command line ftp client for windows.
The only thing that makes me like Firefox more than Opera is the idea of Extensions. The fact that the browser can be enhanced by the users creates a big advantage in my mind. I wouldn't want all those features built into the browser, because it would be huge and bloated, and there's a lot of extensions that without them my life would be a lot harder. The web developer extension makes my life so much easier, but i'm sure that 99% of internet users in the world would have absolutely no use for.
It doesn't make business sense for MS to release buggy software either. It would be a lot easier if they just released software with fewer bugs. People would be happier, and they wouldn't have to spen so much time fixing it. It's always less work to design something right the first time, then to try to fix it later, after it's been released. Just because it seems like it makes better business sense, doesn't mean MS is going to follow that path. I think that MS should do what Apple did, and drop their old OS, to get rid of all the legacy crap that's holding them back, but that doesn't mean they'll do it.
Toasters are probably the worst appliances of all. Leave them on the same setting, and sometimes the bread is burnt, and other times, the bread is lightly toasted. This is even if you just use it once a day, with the same kind of bread. Trying do toast right after the previous batch has just popped is impossible. Then there's all the problems with different kinds of breads that toast at different rates. The best toaster's I've ever seen was when I worked form McDonalds. The buns go fed between two teflon conveyer belts that were vertical. You dropped it in the top, and it came out the bottom perfectly toasted. Although I think a system like this may be a little much for home use. Using some insulation between the heating element definitely helped to get a more consistent toasting. The same reason I find that it's easier to cook in a cast iron pan that a cheap dollar store pan. When the material is so much thicker, it heats up much more evenly, and makes much better food.
Would this really be that hard though. Embed an RFID in the clothes that contains the washing instructions, and have some sort of system that drops it in separte baskets to wash. And then does the laundry whenever you accumulater a full load of laundry. Extra features that would be cool include telling the machine that you want your green shirt clean for the next day and it would ensure that it's ready for you. Although Washing machines make things so much easier than they used to be. Seriously people are so lazy, with dishwashers, laundry machines, disposable cleaning things like swiffer, that I can't believe that people still complain. You think you have it hard, try cleaning your laundry on a Washboard
This makes me wonder if you could make money by remotely managing somebody's computer for them. Install all the updates, make sure everything runs smoothly, clean off the malware and viruses. You could probably get the system automated. I know a lot of people who's computers are always taken over by viruses, or they just end up installing stuff that they use once and never again (I don't know why windows develops problems when you install too many programs, my Linux box has hundreds of programs installed, and doesn't slow down a bit. Anyway, I think there's a lot of people who'd be willing to pay a monthly subscription fee if you kept their coomputer running fast and organized. With all the required updates and stuff. I think Dell could offer something like this to their customers. Although they probably make more money when they buy a new computer every year when their old one gets slow.
I don't think that most of the slowdown with antiviral software comes from the processor usage, but rather from it having to read every file you try to access before you access it. My NAV at work was set up to scan every single file every single time it was opened. That's a major resource hog. Espcially since things like txt or XML files (which can get large) have 0 chance of maintaining viruses. A smart virus scanner may just do an md5 sum of the file, and then it it hasn't changed, then don't bother scanning. Although I don't know if that would be any faster. Myself, I use Linux at home, so I don't worry so much about virus scanners.
My boss has a 19 inch laptop. It's big, it doesn't get a lot of battery power, but he likes it. He drives back and forth to work, so it's no more trouble than a 12 inch laptop would be. He doesn't travel too much, and it's pretty powerful. However, for myself, i'd look for something in the 12 to 15 inch laptop. I'm not so obsessed with screen size as i am about thickness and weight. the only reason that i'd rather have a 12 inch than a 15 inch is because everything is smaller. If they could make 17 inch laptops really thin and light, i might consider buying one, but I don't know if that's possible with the battery required for the extra screen size. I knew a guy in univerity who had a cheap, thick, heavy, with a large power block, laptop. It was crazy for him to drag it around walking back and forth to school and around campus everyday. So it depends on your lifestyle. If you mostly drive, and don't fly much, than a large laptop might be a really good choice. But if you're riding the bus back and forth to work, and maybe even want to be able to work on the bus or on a flight, a small laptop is better. I mean, at least the 20 inch laptop isn't this bad.
You are quite aware that you can download that Beck album and play it on an iPod. iPods play mp3s too, and without any conversion necessary. I have an iPod and have never bought a song from iTunes. I buy all my music on CD and rip it to MP3.
And their virtual desktop powertoy is just that, a toy. It sucks compared 10 year old versions of Unix with the virtual desktop. Windows was never designed to have virtual desktops, so any attempt to make them is a hack, and it turns out really bad.
Well, the word steal predates any laws which may use the word, and make the act of stealing illegal. I can say you are stealing my intellectual property by not paying me for it's use. It wouldn't technically be theft, in the sense of the law, but it's still immoral.
It makes sense since the Boy Scouts of America shares its initials with the Business Software Alliance
Wouldn't using the word customer in this situation be a little misleading? If they are so pissed off, why are they your customer.
The point is, is that maybe not you, but many other people would be crying foul if MS was doing this, because there's simply no way of knowing what they are doing with the data. Because it's opera, we assume that they aren'd doing anything, or we just hope they are, or we assume that their users are smarter than average and will know to turn it off if they don't want it. However, I think that if MS put in the same feature, we'd be saying that it was a breach of privacy, because most people are too uninformed to bother turning it off.
How often does opera update it's servers? Is it often enough? Is it immediately after the site is put up, even before anybody knows about it? How about every time you want to visit a URL, it gets a list of everything that's been added since you last clicked, probably a short or empty list most times, and uses that. That way, you don't have to update every so often, because it updates before you go to any site, and you don't have to worry about them finding out which sites your visiting.
Would you be fine with it if MS had the same feature in IE, had it enabled by default, but allowed it to be turned off? Never mind most users wouldn't know about it, but they could turn it off. It's not like MS would ever use this kind of data for Evil purposes, or surrender the data to the DOJ on request. Shouldn't something like this only be explicitly opt-in, and only if the user goes searching for it? I wouldn't even bother building a system like this. Too many problems that can happen with it. Why not have users download a list every so often? They wouldn't have to send out every request to some third party, and they could still ensure that they are being safe. Would be a lot easier on the server too if every url visited from every user didn't have to get checked.
Also, unless the requests are sent encrypted I imagine that somebody sitting outside opera's server, could intercept the requests and use them for whatever they wanted.
I buy used specifically because I never get around to playing them. There's plenty of old used games that I haven't tried yet. Why would I spend $60 on a new game when I know that there's plenty of games that I haven't played, and want to play just as much for $15? There are a couple that I've bought new, but the vast majority of my games are bought used. And most of them remain unbeaten because I don't have the time to play all the way through.
Oh, but couldn't you just plug in more RAM, and disable the swap? I don't want to imagine how fast a flash drive would wear out if you were constantly writing to it as a swap file. If it was something static like a boot drive that didn't change too often, then it might be a good solution. However speeding up the computer by having it swap to a faster harddrive isn't a better solution than using RAM so that you don't have to swap at all, especially when the hard drive will wear out faster. I don't see how this is such a technological leap either. All it's doing is using a flash drive for a swap drive rather than an old fashioned hard drive. I'm not sure if you can set up a swap drive on a removable drive on windows XP, but I don't see it being a big technological leap. I don't imagine it's much different to do a swap drive on a hard drive, 3.5 inch floppy or a USB key when it's really just a file that the system is writing to and reading from.
First, I don't want an iMac. For me, that's a really stupid idea. The upgradability is limited, and the computer is built into the monitor. There pretty much is no PC equivalent to something like that. Also, the Mac Pro doesn't fit my needs. I'm not looking for something that high end. I'm looking to spend around $1000 on a computer. Visiting Apple.ca, I can only find a MacPro which is some dual-dual-core (two dual core chips) that costs $2800. Sorry, no thanks, I don't need that kind of power. I find macs to either buy the uber high end, which isn't priced that bad, but is way beyond my needs, or buy some integrated computer that costs more because you have to buy a new monitor every time you want to upgrade the motherboard. I already have a 19 inch LCD. Why would I want to buy an iMac that requires me to buy another monitor.
What's so different about Vista that makes this drive benefit from Vista. Will the drive not work in Windows XP, Linux or Mac OSX machines?
There's not so many games anymore that really draw you in like some of the old ones did. I remember playing Alone In The Dark, and getting really scared at some points. For a game to scare you, it has to really draw you in, so that it's the only thing you are focusing on. I find that I got scared a lot playing Metroid Prime. Not because it had a horror theme or anything, but because the atmosphere of the game really drew you in, and when some enemy jumps in front of you when you are already on edge, you tend to jump a bit.
What he's saying, is that Nintendo will always be there, whether or not their first place or whatever, and then there's the other guys. Hopefully there's 2 other guys, because if there isn't well then the other guy gets complacent and doesn't make a good product. As far I'm concerned, all we need is Nintendo.
It's Limited, that means there's going to be increased demand for it even if people aren't really that interested in playing it. It also means that it won't mean much for the 360 in Japan, because it won't increase the number of people in Japan with a 360 by a large amount. Because it's limited.