yup, Opera is now my main browser. i jumped to it because i got fed up with Fx's memory leaks. funnily enough, i find similar problems with Opera, but its not *as* slow. i can't figure out whats causing memory use to keep climbing in both browsers yet. also like you i miss some plugins, but most of the vital stuff like mouse gestures and tab controls is in there, and its not so bad (lack of adblock or other content control) if you run everything through a proxy (proxomitron) anyway. i should add i do a ridiculous amount of web browsing and have both browsers open most of the time. i can't really decide which i like more, they're both great. i'm sure Opera is more normal-person (i was going to say newbie, but thats unfair) friendly though, so most people i set up get Opera now. and firefox is more flexible with its extension setup so probably better for geeks and people with "special needs".
well maybe not productive;). but you should have the right to see things you've bought w/o needing another "licence". grandparent, i hope you're being paid by the **AA, if not, why are you shilling for them?
an Atari Lynx?;) (model 2)
man, i loved that console. res looks really bad though when you try it now. but neither go in your pocket without you looking like you're *very* pleased to see *everyone* 'nuff said.
not sure about that one, but codec packs are a pretty bad idea, they can install so much crap it'll take hours to work out what happened when something goes wrong with filter merits etc leading often to windows reinstalls. also, they're pretty pointless when ffdshow plays almost everything. i agree that MPC is good though, and it includes a lot of its own splitters so you don't need to install much else.
i think no (free) player includes DVD playback as MPEG2 decoding needs a license (or some part of it, but some open source apps seem to get around it:D).
Good media players: ZoomPlayer (for DVD playback is not free) or MPC (is, but less pretty). use Dscaler5 and ffdshow and you're set. oh, add something like DVD43 for de-CSS and other bullshit removal. I use this on my HTPC and with some careful setup its the bees knees. Certainly nothing complains about piracy here:D. Glad to be of service.
So they are correcting conservative misinformation, exactly as they set out to do. How about you point out what's wrong on that site? Who has a skewed view? O'Reilly hates it (he recommended that site on his show;) because they tell the truth about him.
O'Reilly is not civil. he's a thug and bully who has to get his own way and be seen to "win" every argument on his show and can't stand it when someone stands up to him.
one word to sort this problem out: falafel.
BTW just about any day on http://mediamatters.org/ will point out his outrageous statements. sharp and civil it ain't, unless we're using very differnt definitions of the word.
yup, in the UK i pay £1.20 to as much as ooooh £1.50 (!) per ink cartridge (Canon BCI-3 or 6, InkRite). That's $2.something to the Americans. And that's whole replacement cartridges - I used to go even cheaper by buying by the bottle and refilling, but decided with cartridges that cheap it wasn't worth the hassle and mess. people working out costs based on the RRP of official ink are being misleading, or naive imho... but then again, many people do pay that much:/
I have a question which is only tangentially related to this topic, but does anyone know if Canon's new "ChromaLife 100 system" requires new ink? Or have they carried on using the same BCI-6 cartridges (as it appears) with the same ink, and if so, how are they getting such greater fade resistance? Is it in the paper, the head, or what? Or is it no different, but now they're certifying it? And finally, has anyone compared the life of prints made with official vs unofficial (but still branded) inks in some fairly scientific way?
lots of good point there, i've been thinking/noticing some of the same things
weren't video games supposed to be the big entertainment of the future? Is it still what pundits predict? could we just be going through an ebb in what's still a relatively young medium, before a new explosion in creativity, perhaps with new controller ideas like the Revolution and new game genres?
It also makes me a bit sad, the thought that children might not have the gaming experiences i had growing up. The weekend with a friend playing Super Metroid, one of us navigating, the other playing. or with two friends on Secret of Mana. Happy times with a SNES. maybe they'll have better experiences with new forms of entertainment and new games, but the increasing range of options/decreasing time spent on each activity does seem like it might be less satisfying and possibly even harmful to a child's mental development. or maybe its better for them, who knows, i'm no expert. but now it's seems all "graphics graphics graphics", then 5 minutes later something else because they've lost interest (or the games haven't held their interest). maybe it's just the kids i see and somewhere theres kids getting really properly spend-all-weekend keep-playing-till-its-done stuck into games still:)
but i suspect, not so much.
have any studies been done on this? sounds like it's something worth funding.
how do you make cloned system drives start reliably on different hardware? (talking about Windows here mostly). e.g. if one machine is AMD, one Intel, or one single processor, the other multi-core? this is just something i was wondering about in relation to backup.
heh, something went wrong with the site, there were no comments appearing, everyone replied to the root, thought they had first post maybe, and then they all appeared, and now it looks v silly:p
you need to keep a positive pressure inside the PC (so blow the fans IN, more than out), and then you can filter the air on the intake and not have dust getting in anywhere else... as for what filter material you use, i don't know, hopefully others can suggest something cheap and easily available in large rolls (i'm thinking of aquarium filter, probably not fine enough though for air). you want some fine mat material that you can replace or blow out every few weeks. i've been meaning to solve this problem myself because it cant be good for component life either. you have parrots in the same room as the PC?!:)
great, but you are actually making the case thinner. scratching the rest of it down to the same level as the scratch. you can't do this many times, and you're weakening it.(someone correct me if im wrong).
mod this baby right up. to most people "security" is about locking physical doors and such.. mention it in relation to computers and they just say things like "theres nothing interesting on my computer anyway". don't even go there - unless the person has already expressed concerns with security. "FUN", put in the right, non-condescending way could work. show them some themes and maybe (simple) extensions and now you're talking. just resist the temptation to get into any underlying tech reasons why FF is better/IE sucks, unless they ask.
btw, all the people blaming users for scratching theirs - if it scratches as easily as the article makes out - that's ridiculous. "keep it the right way in your pocket"? what, and keep perfectly still so it doesn't move around? no, duh, the solution is make the screen not scratch, at least to the level of say a good wrist watch. don't blame the consumer, they expect a portable device to be usable and stay nice as advertised for a reasonable period of time, like a year (people dancing about etc, you know!)
yeah but why were we not hearing about this problem with previous ipods? is it because the screen is smaller, so scratches matter more? or because they changed materials? or because everything else is so perfect, its all theres left to complain about;) i think Apple screwed up, and this could hurt them, because sales depend on people seeing others and going "hey, that looks cool", hmm? i'm sure they'll sell very well anyway.
When you rant about how great the design of something is, Sod's law will come and bite you on the arse (yes i love good product design, and don't hate Apple). Was a scratch resistant material rejected on cost grounds? How easily is the screen replaced? (or not at all?) Will owners get free replacements? How many Nano's have already been sold? (Hence, what does this cost the company?) We're assuming this is a design rather than manufacturing error, remember Apple don't make all the parts.. but it's most likely a design error.
oh you're talking about degradation of media? oh well if it's gone, it's gone. maybe you can recover some, but thats current tech, and it's digital, so nothing magical is likely to happen there. anything that people care about is naturally being preserved through copying.. p2p could save the world, who'da thunk it;)
reading CDs will be trivial for evermore.. unless something really serious happens to the human race, and then we'll have much bigger things to worry about, like how to build vehicles, or houses. i really find this kind of scenario bizzarre. 2045 is only 40 years away. when was the LP invented? could you build a rudimentary LP player in 10 years? i think so. its only going to get easier. now, reading old hard disks could be more difficult because both the reader and media are combined, i,e, the interface between the two is not standard, ironically as that should make it simpler?
I know Excel is the spreadsheet part of MS Office, but i'm wondering what Excell is. Some enterprise app? or just a typo? or was the article writer taking the piss? googling shows lots of software/tech service related companies using the name "Excell" (serious Q, i just wonder what they were trying to define..)
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even if i have flash blocked by the proxy? thanks for the tip though.
yup, Opera is now my main browser. i jumped to it because i got fed up with Fx's memory leaks. funnily enough, i find similar problems with Opera, but its not *as* slow. i can't figure out whats causing memory use to keep climbing in both browsers yet. also like you i miss some plugins, but most of the vital stuff like mouse gestures and tab controls is in there, and its not so bad (lack of adblock or other content control) if you run everything through a proxy (proxomitron) anyway. i should add i do a ridiculous amount of web browsing and have both browsers open most of the time. i can't really decide which i like more, they're both great. i'm sure Opera is more normal-person (i was going to say newbie, but thats unfair) friendly though, so most people i set up get Opera now. and firefox is more flexible with its extension setup so probably better for geeks and people with "special needs".
well maybe not productive ;). but you should have the right to see things you've bought w/o needing another "licence". grandparent, i hope you're being paid by the **AA, if not, why are you shilling for them?
your informative spurred me to reply ;)
ffdshow is now an encoder aswell, and handles audio. it's come a long way.
RTFA, this is not about accuracy, it's about longevity. or rather, both together, which is the hard part.
an Atari Lynx? ;) (model 2)
man, i loved that console. res looks really bad though when you try it now.
but neither go in your pocket without you looking like you're *very* pleased to see *everyone* 'nuff said.
not sure about that one, but codec packs are a pretty bad idea, they can install so much crap it'll take hours to work out what happened when something goes wrong with filter merits etc leading often to windows reinstalls. also, they're pretty pointless when ffdshow plays almost everything. i agree that MPC is good though, and it includes a lot of its own splitters so you don't need to install much else. :D).
i think no (free) player includes DVD playback as MPEG2 decoding needs a license (or some part of it, but some open source apps seem to get around it
Good media players: ZoomPlayer (for DVD playback is not free) or MPC (is, but less pretty). use Dscaler5 and ffdshow and you're set. oh, add something like DVD43 for de-CSS and other bullshit removal. I use this on my HTPC and with some careful setup its the bees knees. Certainly nothing complains about piracy here :D. Glad to be of service.
So they are correcting conservative misinformation, exactly as they set out to do. How about you point out what's wrong on that site? Who has a skewed view? O'Reilly hates it (he recommended that site on his show ;) because they tell the truth about him.
O'Reilly is not civil. he's a thug and bully who has to get his own way and be seen to "win" every argument on his show and can't stand it when someone stands up to him.
one word to sort this problem out: falafel.
BTW just about any day on http://mediamatters.org/ will point out his outrageous statements. sharp and civil it ain't, unless we're using very differnt definitions of the word.
dude, if you just looked at the included plugins you'd find that's optional.
that's NOT a urinal, and he's at risk of electrocution.
I have a question which is only tangentially related to this topic, but does anyone know if Canon's new "ChromaLife 100 system" requires new ink? Or have they carried on using the same BCI-6 cartridges (as it appears) with the same ink, and if so, how are they getting such greater fade resistance? Is it in the paper, the head, or what? Or is it no different, but now they're certifying it? And finally, has anyone compared the life of prints made with official vs unofficial (but still branded) inks in some fairly scientific way?
weren't video games supposed to be the big entertainment of the future? Is it still what pundits predict? could we just be going through an ebb in what's still a relatively young medium, before a new explosion in creativity, perhaps with new controller ideas like the Revolution and new game genres?
It also makes me a bit sad, the thought that children might not have the gaming experiences i had growing up. The weekend with a friend playing Super Metroid, one of us navigating, the other playing. or with two friends on Secret of Mana. Happy times with a SNES. maybe they'll have better experiences with new forms of entertainment and new games, but the increasing range of options/decreasing time spent on each activity does seem like it might be less satisfying and possibly even harmful to a child's mental development. or maybe its better for them, who knows, i'm no expert. but now it's seems all "graphics graphics graphics", then 5 minutes later something else because they've lost interest (or the games haven't held their interest). maybe it's just the kids i see and somewhere theres kids getting really properly spend-all-weekend keep-playing-till-its-done stuck into games still :)
but i suspect, not so much.
have any studies been done on this? sounds like it's something worth funding.
how do you make cloned system drives start reliably on different hardware? (talking about Windows here mostly). e.g. if one machine is AMD, one Intel, or one single processor, the other multi-core? this is just something i was wondering about in relation to backup.
heh, something went wrong with the site, there were no comments appearing, everyone replied to the root, thought they had first post maybe, and then they all appeared, and now it looks v silly :p
you need to keep a positive pressure inside the PC (so blow the fans IN, more than out), and then you can filter the air on the intake and not have dust getting in anywhere else... as for what filter material you use, i don't know, hopefully others can suggest something cheap and easily available in large rolls (i'm thinking of aquarium filter, probably not fine enough though for air). you want some fine mat material that you can replace or blow out every few weeks. :)
i've been meaning to solve this problem myself because it cant be good for component life either.
you have parrots in the same room as the PC?!
great, but you are actually making the case thinner. scratching the rest of it down to the same level as the scratch. you can't do this many times, and you're weakening it.(someone correct me if im wrong).
mod this baby right up. to most people "security" is about locking physical doors and such.. mention it in relation to computers and they just say things like "theres nothing interesting on my computer anyway". don't even go there - unless the person has already expressed concerns with security. "FUN", put in the right, non-condescending way could work. show them some themes and maybe (simple) extensions and now you're talking. just resist the temptation to get into any underlying tech reasons why FF is better/IE sucks, unless they ask.
btw, all the people blaming users for scratching theirs - if it scratches as easily as the article makes out - that's ridiculous. "keep it the right way in your pocket"? what, and keep perfectly still so it doesn't move around?
no, duh, the solution is make the screen not scratch, at least to the level of say a good wrist watch. don't blame the consumer, they expect a portable device to be usable and stay nice as advertised for a reasonable period of time, like a year (people dancing about etc, you know!)
yeah but why were we not hearing about this problem with previous ipods? is it because the screen is smaller, so scratches matter more? or because they changed materials? or because everything else is so perfect, its all theres left to complain about ;) i think Apple screwed up, and this could hurt them, because sales depend on people seeing others and going "hey, that looks cool", hmm? i'm sure they'll sell very well anyway.
When you rant about how great the design of something is, Sod's law will come and bite you on the arse (yes i love good product design, and don't hate Apple).
Was a scratch resistant material rejected on cost grounds?
How easily is the screen replaced? (or not at all?)
Will owners get free replacements?
How many Nano's have already been sold? (Hence, what does this cost the company?)
We're assuming this is a design rather than manufacturing error, remember Apple don't make all the parts.. but it's most likely a design error.
oh you're talking about degradation of media? oh well if it's gone, it's gone. maybe you can recover some, but thats current tech, and it's digital, so nothing magical is likely to happen there. anything that people care about is naturally being preserved through copying.. p2p could save the world, who'da thunk it ;)
reading CDs will be trivial for evermore.. unless something really serious happens to the human race, and then we'll have much bigger things to worry about, like how to build vehicles, or houses. i really find this kind of scenario bizzarre. 2045 is only 40 years away. when was the LP invented? could you build a rudimentary LP player in 10 years? i think so. its only going to get easier.
now, reading old hard disks could be more difficult because both the reader and media are combined, i,e, the interface between the two is not standard, ironically as that should make it simpler?
I know Excel is the spreadsheet part of MS Office, but i'm wondering what Excell is. Some enterprise app?
or just a typo? or was the article writer taking the piss? googling shows lots of software/tech service related companies using the name "Excell" (serious Q, i just wonder what they were trying to define..)