Honestly, I've gotten where I just hook up my G5 for gaming and leave my old MX500 at work for exactly this reason. I've never mapped the middle click for games, but given most browsers use it for opening/closing tabs, etc, it's more or less essential to me for anything other than games.
1) Something is wrong with your G5. Mine is smoove. This, of course, highlights the one big drawback with these fancy mice: you can't open them to clean them out or anything. My RMB has started sticking every now and then, and there's nothing I can do about it except run a toothpick through the groove.:/ Let me clarify -- the wheel itself is fine but it absolutely blows as a middle mouse button. They completely compromised the clickability to get a left-right action that I never use into the mouse.
I've been told the new MX Revolution is better, but I have no interest in wireless mice.
The SteelSeries mouse covered in TFA piqued my interest because it looks like they took the front button design from Microsoft mice, the rear ergonomics from Logitech mice, and tweaked them slightly for a bit more comfort. The $90 price tag is pretty steep, but as somebody that's been a pretty hardcore Logitech fan since I bought an MX500 a good 6 or so years ago, this is the first time I've considered defecting.
(Especially considering that the scroll wheel on my G5 is total garbage).
You can be pro-Apple yet severely damage them at the same time.
Wasn't this case centered around an audio interface device that has never seen the light of day? Apple could conceivably have their reputation damaged due to the 'promise' of a device that Apple was never ready to publicly announce.
You've already gotten the confirmations you were looking for, but I'd just like to add that while I don't think Blade Runner is a necessarily accessible film, I don't think the difficulty stems from it being sci-fi. I mean, if you really look at it, it's largely a noir film that happens to take place in a sci-fi setting as much as anything.
Watch Blade Runner and Chinatown back to back and I think you'd find that they have very similar approaches to story telling (Blade Runner is probably the more explicitly told story, IMO) even though they're ostensibly from completely different genres.
Whatever. The first version I saw was the director's cut and it makes sense if you're willing to pay attention. I've actually still not seen the theatrical cut, but consider Blade Runner one of my favorite films of all time. I'm very much looking forward to getting to see the final cut in a few weeks.
The RAM usage at startup for a newly-installed system is simply absurd. 600-700MB is not an exaggeration. The graphics card needs for the new environment (without which it's mostly XP right? It's not like there's a new object-oriented file system in there right?) are quite hgh for most business needs.
And yet another person who doesn't understand the new memory manager. High levels of allocated memory are a good thing for performance. Coding Horror has a decent primer on all of this, but the short version of the story is that people who are used to how Windows has traditionally handled memory management rather than how an ideal memory manager should work love to complain about Vista being a memory hog when, in fact, I'd suggest that the Vista memory manager may arguably be one of the best out there right now.
Presumably the reason you are sticking with a platform that has not really changed much in a decade is because you are too risk-averse to jump to something else.
The State of Georgia is one of Novell's single largest clients. When I worked for GA DHR about two years ago, we weren't technically even allowed to put any Linux boxes on the network.
They don't necessarily have to get damaged. They can simply be lost, too.
That said, I've had customers break everything from the USB connector to internal ICs off the the PCB. I can actually usually repair broken USB connectors to recover their stuff, but you'd be amazed how many people store their only copy of a file on a USB drive rather than keeping an extra copy on their HDD as well.
Somebody hasn't dealt with Gateway's service in a couple of years. I bought a Gateway MX6625 a couple of years ago because I got it at a steal. Really solid, well-designed notebook in general and that entire series of notebook was really easy to work on if something happened.
Anyway, the original AC adapter that came with mine was defective and would overheat every once in a while. I call up Gateway tech support, get somebody in the US who speaks clear English, and within 15 minutes (counting hold time) I had an RMA setup and they cross-shipped me a new adapter overnight.
About 8 months into my owning the notebook, the screen developed some backlight leakage in one corner. Again, I called up tech support and had an RMA within 15-20 minutes. Gateway payed for DHL overnight both ways. Once they received the notebook, it was given to a technician and fixed in about 4 hours. Long story short, my total downtime was less than 72 hours.
I've since sold that notebook to a friend of mine and bought a Macbook Pro, but as someone working in the business, I was absolutely [i]shocked[/i] at how solid Gateway's after sales support was, and would say without hesitation that it was probably the best in the industry and would (and did) recommend them to anyone that asked.
Gateway moved out of the ultra low-end of the market a few years ago. If you looked at their website, they had nothing in the $500 range that Dell and HP fight over and had instead been focusing on the mid-upper range of the market, and backing it with fantastic tech support.
I'm not sure how much clearer it gets than that. The writing has been on the wall for VFP for years and years now, and you would have to be borderline negligent as a dev not to realize that. A benefit of playing with proprietary frameworks is that the corporations that own them tend to be pretty up-front about their future. Around 2002 I was learning faux-OO VBScript/ASP (lol), but I quickly recognized that path was a dead end. Developers cannot afford to fall asleep at the switch. Anyone who was surprised by the death of ASP or FoxPro wasn't at all serious to begin with.
And as someone who recently went through complete hell trying to get a VFP app working properly in a networked environment for a client, all I can really say is that VFP deserved to die. I'm not sure I consider it any better than an Access database strung together with VBScript in this day and age.
Out of curiosity, how many video encoding applications support more than one core? The average user probably uses a one click solution to produce their dvds. Most of those tend to support only 1 cpu (are there any that don't).
x264 is definitely multithreaded. A quick bit of Googling would suggest that Nero's encoder, which is one of the more common ones I've seen among the average Joe crodw, is multithreaded, as well.
Is this a joke? Video encoding is a task that's relatively trivial to parallelize and is one of the more common tasks that receives pretty massive speed ups from it.
The average DVD ripping guy is going to see more benefit from a quad core at this point in time.
It's actually incredibly easy to create your own search keywords in Firefox, too. I've had 'gis' mapped to Google Image Search for years now, for example.
Bookmark Slashdot in Firefox. Now right-click the bookmark and select 'Properties'.
In the window that comes up, there's a field marked 'Keyword'. Enter/. into that field.
Now any time you enter/. as a the URL in your address bar, you'll be taken straight to Slashdot. If you think that's cool, do some looking into the keyword search bookmarks Firefox allows you to create.
(Accidentally posted this anonymous the first time. Reposting it so hopefully people see it.)
The move the Sunday is great, for me. See, even some of us geeks have something called a social life meaning that we're generally not home to catch the show on Friday nights at 9:00PM. Sunday night, on the other hand, means that I'll actually get to catch the show since nothing happens on Sundays anyway.
Slashdot Mirror
Honestly, I've gotten where I just hook up my G5 for gaming and leave my old MX500 at work for exactly this reason. I've never mapped the middle click for games, but given most browsers use it for opening/closing tabs, etc, it's more or less essential to me for anything other than games.
I've been told the new MX Revolution is better, but I have no interest in wireless mice.
The SteelSeries mouse covered in TFA piqued my interest because it looks like they took the front button design from Microsoft mice, the rear ergonomics from Logitech mice, and tweaked them slightly for a bit more comfort. The $90 price tag is pretty steep, but as somebody that's been a pretty hardcore Logitech fan since I bought an MX500 a good 6 or so years ago, this is the first time I've considered defecting.
(Especially considering that the scroll wheel on my G5 is total garbage).
Wasn't this case centered around an audio interface device that has never seen the light of day? Apple could conceivably have their reputation damaged due to the 'promise' of a device that Apple was never ready to publicly announce.
You've already gotten the confirmations you were looking for, but I'd just like to add that while I don't think Blade Runner is a necessarily accessible film, I don't think the difficulty stems from it being sci-fi. I mean, if you really look at it, it's largely a noir film that happens to take place in a sci-fi setting as much as anything.
Watch Blade Runner and Chinatown back to back and I think you'd find that they have very similar approaches to story telling (Blade Runner is probably the more explicitly told story, IMO) even though they're ostensibly from completely different genres.
Whatever. The first version I saw was the director's cut and it makes sense if you're willing to pay attention. I've actually still not seen the theatrical cut, but consider Blade Runner one of my favorite films of all time. I'm very much looking forward to getting to see the final cut in a few weeks.
And yet another person who doesn't understand the new memory manager. High levels of allocated memory are a good thing for performance. Coding Horror has a decent primer on all of this, but the short version of the story is that people who are used to how Windows has traditionally handled memory management rather than how an ideal memory manager should work love to complain about Vista being a memory hog when, in fact, I'd suggest that the Vista memory manager may arguably be one of the best out there right now.
You're making that way more complicated and less secure than it needs to be.
TrueCrypt natively supports hidden volumes for a reason.
As a Wikipedia user, I'd say that this attitude is exactly what's wrong with Wikipedia from an outsider's perspective.
The State of Georgia is one of Novell's single largest clients. When I worked for GA DHR about two years ago, we weren't technically even allowed to put any Linux boxes on the network.
They don't necessarily have to get damaged. They can simply be lost, too.
That said, I've had customers break everything from the USB connector to internal ICs off the the PCB. I can actually usually repair broken USB connectors to recover their stuff, but you'd be amazed how many people store their only copy of a file on a USB drive rather than keeping an extra copy on their HDD as well.
Ah, thanks for the clarification. I just knew I'd read a Supreme Court ruling on the matter from ~1988. Thanks again.
I'm pretty sure that the CoS lost their tax-exempt status during the late 80's, actually.
Somebody hasn't dealt with Gateway's service in a couple of years. I bought a Gateway MX6625 a couple of years ago because I got it at a steal. Really solid, well-designed notebook in general and that entire series of notebook was really easy to work on if something happened.
Anyway, the original AC adapter that came with mine was defective and would overheat every once in a while. I call up Gateway tech support, get somebody in the US who speaks clear English, and within 15 minutes (counting hold time) I had an RMA setup and they cross-shipped me a new adapter overnight.
About 8 months into my owning the notebook, the screen developed some backlight leakage in one corner. Again, I called up tech support and had an RMA within 15-20 minutes. Gateway payed for DHL overnight both ways. Once they received the notebook, it was given to a technician and fixed in about 4 hours. Long story short, my total downtime was less than 72 hours.
I've since sold that notebook to a friend of mine and bought a Macbook Pro, but as someone working in the business, I was absolutely [i]shocked[/i] at how solid Gateway's after sales support was, and would say without hesitation that it was probably the best in the industry and would (and did) recommend them to anyone that asked.
Gateway moved out of the ultra low-end of the market a few years ago. If you looked at their website, they had nothing in the $500 range that Dell and HP fight over and had instead been focusing on the mid-upper range of the market, and backing it with fantastic tech support.
And as someone who recently went through complete hell trying to get a VFP app working properly in a networked environment for a client, all I can really say is that VFP deserved to die. I'm not sure I consider it any better than an Access database strung together with VBScript in this day and age.
x264 is definitely multithreaded. A quick bit of Googling would suggest that Nero's encoder, which is one of the more common ones I've seen among the average Joe crodw, is multithreaded, as well.
Is this a joke? Video encoding is a task that's relatively trivial to parallelize and is one of the more common tasks that receives pretty massive speed ups from it.
The average DVD ripping guy is going to see more benefit from a quad core at this point in time.
I was wondering when the merger of Bellsouth and AT&T/SBC was going to screw over consumers in an obvious way.
Guess I know now.
Why would they do that when they're trying to peddle iWork?
How is that the best I 'can come up with?' I'm mainly pointing out that it's available in both browsers.
It's actually incredibly easy to create your own search keywords in Firefox, too. I've had 'gis' mapped to Google Image Search for years now, for example.
Here's a fun trick for you:
/. into that field.
/. as a the URL in your address bar, you'll be taken straight to Slashdot. If you think that's cool, do some looking into the keyword search bookmarks Firefox allows you to create.
Bookmark Slashdot in Firefox. Now right-click the bookmark and select 'Properties'.
In the window that comes up, there's a field marked 'Keyword'. Enter
Now any time you enter
(Accidentally posted this anonymous the first time. Reposting it so hopefully people see it.)
BSG is the only show on television I really bother keeping up with. Owning a Tivo or building a MythTV box just plain isn't worth it for me.
The move the Sunday is great, for me. See, even some of us geeks have something called a social life meaning that we're generally not home to catch the show on Friday nights at 9:00PM. Sunday night, on the other hand, means that I'll actually get to catch the show since nothing happens on Sundays anyway.