I was a long time FF user since early alpha releases. Plugins are nice but FF has too many issues. I started to use Chrome and I like it. As long as it continues to work well and is fast (enough), I'll stick with Chrome.
Among the reasons I think a lot of people back when had a 'favorite' browser was standards compliance and rendering speed. All the major browser devs are working towards standards compliance *now* (as compared to severals years back) and we have faster computers, its negated much of the reasons to find a browser.
Maryland and Virginia aren't just normal government hubs. They're also the center of military, capital, state department and foreign embassies. If she were selling Cisco routers in Farming Field, Nebraska then I agree no red flags. This is a little too convenient a place to sell such devices.
MS is stuck and I think their audience of business, developers, investors and consumers are confused. It can't be everything to everyone for ever.
The thing with an OS is you can't be evolutionary and change the entire platform without ticking off your largest customers - OEMs and Fortune 500 types. So, instead as Windows users, we're stuck with persistent sucky features, and the new OS releases have stupid features that should have been replaced a long time ago. And when you get as big as MS, the software that comes with Windows has to be kind of crippled otherwise they'll have the DOJ burning them for monopoly stuff all over again.
So what are we stuck with?
- Wordpad and Notepad that are about as useful as they were in Windows 3.1 - A non-customizeable interface - A crappy and confusing command line (I haven't learned Powershell) but copy and move commands are seriously crap but better (somewhat) than the GUI version
And so what new features are we getting in Windows 8 other than GUI. I haven't followed this very closely, I admit, but lately they announced:
-- A faster boot time why didn't this get included with 7? -- A multi-threaded copy/move operation in Windows which correctly reports time to complete -- some new GUI you can turn on or off
As for Samsung tablet, I don't know what to say. I think the HP tablet firesale, is evidence enough, any tablet comparatively overpriced" compared to the iPad is not going to do any major volume. I think there's a $200 spot the market is willing to bear and that's it.
MS is also very conservative. Launching a trendy, hip product in front of a conservative crowd is probably not a good idea. Samsung should probably launch it on its own. Preferably with a guy in Jeans, a black turtle neck. Also put a hyponotizing background and spike the kool-aid at the conference. Tablet should do really well after.
Except then someone gets killed when it blows up. Wether or not they are military / intelligence or public, the country owning the device is in a heap of bad PR and diplomatic pressure.
Not saying right or wrong, the information or the tech might very well be life/death to protect.... just that you can NEVER win.
I went on the HP careers website. I typed in CEO and executive and there does not appear to be a job opening at the moment. Strange, I think, since many other employer websites are always accepting applications.
I don't have experience as a manager or executive. Over the years though, I have owned several HP last printers, a desktop and a laptop. This is probably more HP merchandise than all previous CEOs combined have ever purchased. So I know a bit about the company's products.
I'm not after the multi-million dollar salary - $900,000 ought to be good enough and I think it is survivable in this economy. I'll work as hard as I can for 6 hours a day. Between lunch and coffee breaks, I think this is about the most I can honestly commit. As additional compensation, I'll settle for Apple, Oracle and IBM stock options instead of HP's.
I think here on/. there seems to be an instant association with a CEO as either a psychopath or sociopath. I don't think you can just write off every CEO as being "either or".
The thing is, when someone is in a position of power and has a great network of people to play golf with, it goes to their head. They care about their image in the media more so than the employees and communities and world they effect.
There's also the pull the rug over your head effect. The CEOs when they make these moves probably already have them figured out months ahead of time. They just want to implement at the best possible time. Anyone who thinks he didn't have an opinion about what to do with HP, before working there is naive.
A CEO should do an MTV style 'a day in the life of' where we see them day to day doing their office work. Then for the next 10 episodes, they should do a job in each division of their company preferably in a labour position.
I want to see the CEO program a computer, assemble ink jet cartridges and pack them in boxes, smell the fumes of assembly lines in China and work 18 hour days on the line. I want to see him deliver a computer to a corporate client. I want to see him do some tech support.
All the words in this list focus on swearing and swearing only. The words that can actually cause harm to people, words that can be used to utter threats of violence are left out. There's no blocks on murder, stabbing, pipebomb.
The only thing I can conclude from their fine list is they don't care if the student's hurt or kill each other or express their desire to do so. They just don't want them to make love.
I've been after an HP Tablet lately simply because I want a cheap portable computer - $99 is a good price point.
I recently bought my first laptop 6 months ago and didn't realize how bloody fragile and poorly engineered they are. The battery was getting stuck. So I tried to push it out, managed to carefully yank it out using a credit card to release the lever. When I tried to reinsert it, the pins weren't connected properly. I didn't apply much pressure putting it in. I finally get the battery back in and now I find myself with a broken screen. Going to be $200 to fix I think which is 1/3 the price I paid.
I'm sure as hell, not buying another $500+ laptop, let alone "Tablet" or iPad. Desktop for me.
If you know some or part of the file name and/or want to search directories easily, Everything http://www.voidtools.com/ is the best utility for the job. It keeps a and db searches everything in seconds.
I didn't think of it much until I started reading about other user comments.
I do recall them clearly selling me an unsealed box. The games worked fine but, you would basically go to the counter with the empty game box or would ask them for the game. They'd pull out another proper box, take the disc and manual from behind the counter and stick a sticker on it to "seal" the box.
When I questionned them on the practice, they would say its perfectly fine, brand new copy.
So I'm going to buy a PS3 on the weekend. Guess which store I'm not going to buy the system and a few games from?
There was a moving train, a group of dangerous well-armed international terrorists and a former Navy Seal. It would actually make a great movie. Oh wait..... Under Siege 2 a reality?
The bill will be dropped fairly fast if all Canadians agree to it on one condition: real time uncensored logs of all Internet use (work and private) of all federal and provincial politicians, judges and anyone invovled in law enforcement or the court system. See how long the bill lasts.
" First off, we can assume that the FBI has more than one surveillance van, in which they can't all have the same SSID. They would include some sort of vehicle ID, etc."
What you mean like, FBI_SURVEILLANCE_VAN_(insert LICENCEPLATE#)
The government likes to inventory the hell out of everything. This makes it practical.
And when you're in a covert mission and there are 4 support vans and only one of them has the mission sensitive info you need, you have to know which one to connect to.
I'm considering setting up WiFi in my small apartment so I don't have cables going all over the place. To PS3, printer, desktop and laptop. If I setup my computers for WPA2/AES and change the key on a regular basis, is this considered secure enough? The printer and PS3 won't be on 24/7 so no one can run through 500 pgs and a couple of toners on me.
Its difficult to figure out all the ongoing wireless standards and security when you don't work in the industry.
Hmm.... I didn't know Motels are now referred to as mattress stores. Suppose John's don't explaining to the cops they are paying a woman to go to a mattress store. Just sayin'.
The music industry executives and laywers (or are they one and the same?) keeps crying a river to politicians, the public, the press and within the industry to its artists that they are losing 100's of millions a year and they can barely keep the boat aflot.
Meanwhile, they have hoardes of nerds illegally searching for file sharers. Have hired briefcase salespeople for presentations to politicians (yes there is a relationship to music here). They've also hired reams of lawyers to collect money from artisits. Have teams of people to make sure the star artists have their limos and clotes ready (sometimes the artist doesn't know they are being expensed for it). And spend millions on compaigns as bad as don't copy that floppy.
They also say that an album that sells millions of dollars still loses money.
I'm familiar with the idea of the Hollywood accouting system.
So, ummmmm... where the hell did all the money come from to do the above? Either you're losing millions a year in which case you should go out of business. Or here's a better idea: Control you Expenses!
All in all, until they can produce some numbers and have an independent audit of their books', they shouldn't be wasting taxpayers' money in many countries and they should get any media attention for their whining. I've purchased 100's of CDs in the last 10 years. You've shown no appreciation to your paying customers and I'm pretty fed up. Fact is, I'd like to say I don't have enough music and I'm always willing to buy more from your labels..... but enough is enough.
You never know who has developped the hardware/software in China and if there are any backdoors for law enforcement. Considering that they are running the Great Firewall of China, I wouldn't want to have all my data stored in the "Cloud" as I presume a lot of the iPhone data does right now or is moving that way.
If this phone doesn't do the Cloud storage, I would see this as a definite advantage for personal freedoms (relatively speaking) .
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The browser I use is good enough.
I was a long time FF user since early alpha releases. Plugins are nice but FF has too many issues. I started to use Chrome and I like it. As long as it continues to work well and is fast (enough), I'll stick with Chrome.
Among the reasons I think a lot of people back when had a 'favorite' browser was standards compliance and rendering speed. All the major browser devs are working towards standards compliance *now* (as compared to severals years back) and we have faster computers, its negated much of the reasons to find a browser.
Write everything about yourself in a book format. Hmmmm.... that's an Autobiography. Copyright the book. Ta-daa, your life story is now copyrighted.
After much study, the parent is correct.
I was not able to find any references to battery powered laptops in 1908. This is evidence enough of the improvement of battery technology.
Maryland and Virginia aren't just normal government hubs. They're also the center of military, capital, state department and foreign embassies. If she were selling Cisco routers in Farming Field, Nebraska then I agree no red flags. This is a little too convenient a place to sell such devices.
MS is stuck and I think their audience of business, developers, investors and consumers are confused. It can't be everything to everyone for ever.
The thing with an OS is you can't be evolutionary and change the entire platform without ticking off your largest customers - OEMs and Fortune 500 types. So, instead as Windows users, we're stuck with persistent sucky features, and the new OS releases have stupid features that should have been replaced a long time ago. And when you get as big as MS, the software that comes with Windows has to be kind of crippled otherwise they'll have the DOJ burning them for monopoly stuff all over again.
So what are we stuck with?
- Wordpad and Notepad that are about as useful as they were in Windows 3.1
- A non-customizeable interface
- A crappy and confusing command line (I haven't learned Powershell) but copy and move commands are seriously crap but better (somewhat) than the GUI version
And so what new features are we getting in Windows 8 other than GUI. I haven't followed this very closely, I admit, but lately they announced:
-- A faster boot time why didn't this get included with 7?
-- A multi-threaded copy/move operation in Windows which correctly reports time to complete
-- some new GUI you can turn on or off
As for Samsung tablet, I don't know what to say. I think the HP tablet firesale, is evidence enough, any tablet comparatively overpriced" compared to the iPad is not going to do any major volume. I think there's a $200 spot the market is willing to bear and that's it.
MS is also very conservative. Launching a trendy, hip product in front of a conservative crowd is probably not a good idea. Samsung should probably launch it on its own. Preferably with a guy in Jeans, a black turtle neck. Also put a hyponotizing background and spike the kool-aid at the conference. Tablet should do really well after.
Except then someone gets killed when it blows up. Wether or not they are military / intelligence or public, the country owning the device is in a heap of bad PR and diplomatic pressure.
Not saying right or wrong, the information or the tech might very well be life/death to protect .... just that you can NEVER win.
I went on the HP careers website. I typed in CEO and executive and there does not appear to be a job opening at the moment. Strange, I think, since many other employer websites are always accepting applications.
I don't have experience as a manager or executive. Over the years though, I have owned several HP last printers, a desktop and a laptop. This is probably more HP merchandise than all previous CEOs combined have ever purchased. So I know a bit about the company's products.
I'm not after the multi-million dollar salary - $900,000 ought to be good enough and I think it is survivable in this economy. I'll work as hard as I can for 6 hours a day. Between lunch and coffee breaks, I think this is about the most I can honestly commit. As additional compensation, I'll settle for Apple, Oracle and IBM stock options instead of HP's.
I think here on /. there seems to be an instant association with a CEO as either a psychopath or sociopath. I don't think you can just write off every CEO as being "either or".
The thing is, when someone is in a position of power and has a great network of people to play golf with, it goes to their head. They care about their image in the media more so than the employees and communities and world they effect.
There's also the pull the rug over your head effect. The CEOs when they make these moves probably already have them figured out months ahead of time. They just want to implement at the best possible time. Anyone who thinks he didn't have an opinion about what to do with HP, before working there is naive.
A CEO should do an MTV style 'a day in the life of' where we see them day to day doing their office work. Then for the next 10 episodes, they should do a job in each division of their company preferably in a labour position.
I want to see the CEO program a computer, assemble ink jet cartridges and pack them in boxes, smell the fumes of assembly lines in China and work 18 hour days on the line. I want to see him deliver a computer to a corporate client. I want to see him do some tech support.
All the words in this list focus on swearing and swearing only. The words that can actually cause harm to people, words that can be used to utter threats of violence are left out. There's no blocks on murder, stabbing, pipebomb.
The only thing I can conclude from their fine list is they don't care if the student's hurt or kill each other or express their desire to do so. They just don't want them to make love.
I've been after an HP Tablet lately simply because I want a cheap portable computer - $99 is a good price point.
I recently bought my first laptop 6 months ago and didn't realize how bloody fragile and poorly engineered they are. The battery was getting stuck. So I tried to push it out, managed to carefully yank it out using a credit card to release the lever. When I tried to reinsert it, the pins weren't connected properly. I didn't apply much pressure putting it in. I finally get the battery back in and now I find myself with a broken screen. Going to be $200 to fix I think which is 1/3 the price I paid.
I'm sure as hell, not buying another $500+ laptop, let alone "Tablet" or iPad. Desktop for me.
If you know some or part of the file name and/or want to search directories easily, Everything http://www.voidtools.com/ is the best utility for the job. It keeps a and db searches everything in seconds.
It does not search file contents.
I didn't think of it much until I started reading about other user comments.
I do recall them clearly selling me an unsealed box. The games worked fine but, you would basically go to the counter with the empty game box or would ask them for the game. They'd pull out another proper box, take the disc and manual from behind the counter and stick a sticker on it to "seal" the box.
When I questionned them on the practice, they would say its perfectly fine, brand new copy.
So I'm going to buy a PS3 on the weekend. Guess which store I'm not going to buy the system and a few games from?
I think I know what happened:
There was a moving train, a group of dangerous well-armed international terrorists and a former Navy Seal. It would actually make a great movie. Oh wait ..... Under Siege 2 a reality?
Really? I'm in an office tower downtown and didn't feel a thing. Maybe my building is better. ;)
AC, sorry I lost you after you stated to use Jello for the example. Next time, please use Pudding Pops and explain with a Bill Cosby voice..
IBM also makes really bad software. I'd say HP could start a profitable business by making better quality software. Then again ..... its HP.
The bill will be dropped fairly fast if all Canadians agree to it on one condition: real time uncensored logs of all Internet use (work and private) of all federal and provincial politicians, judges and anyone invovled in law enforcement or the court system. See how long the bill lasts.
" First off, we can assume that the FBI has more than one surveillance van, in which they can't all have the same SSID. They would include some sort of vehicle ID, etc."
What you mean like, FBI_SURVEILLANCE_VAN_(insert LICENCEPLATE#)
The government likes to inventory the hell out of everything. This makes it practical.
And when you're in a covert mission and there are 4 support vans and only one of them has the mission sensitive info you need, you have to know which one to connect to.
I'm considering setting up WiFi in my small apartment so I don't have cables going all over the place. To PS3, printer, desktop and laptop. If I setup my computers for WPA2/AES and change the key on a regular basis, is this considered secure enough? The printer and PS3 won't be on 24/7 so no one can run through 500 pgs and a couple of toners on me.
Its difficult to figure out all the ongoing wireless standards and security when you don't work in the industry.
Hmm .... I didn't know Motels are now referred to as mattress stores. Suppose John's don't explaining to the cops they are paying a woman to go to a mattress store. Just sayin'.
The music industry executives and laywers (or are they one and the same?) keeps crying a river to politicians, the public, the press and within the industry to its artists that they are losing 100's of millions a year and they can barely keep the boat aflot.
Meanwhile, they have hoardes of nerds illegally searching for file sharers. Have hired briefcase salespeople for presentations to politicians (yes there is a relationship to music here). They've also hired reams of lawyers to collect money from artisits. Have teams of people to make sure the star artists have their limos and clotes ready (sometimes the artist doesn't know they are being expensed for it). And spend millions on compaigns as bad as don't copy that floppy.
They also say that an album that sells millions of dollars still loses money.
I'm familiar with the idea of the Hollywood accouting system.
So, ummmmm... where the hell did all the money come from to do the above? Either you're losing millions a year in which case you should go out of business. Or here's a better idea: Control you Expenses!
All in all, until they can produce some numbers and have an independent audit of their books', they shouldn't be wasting taxpayers' money in many countries and they should get any media attention for their whining. I've purchased 100's of CDs in the last 10 years. You've shown no appreciation to your paying customers and I'm pretty fed up. Fact is, I'd like to say I don't have enough music and I'm always willing to buy more from your labels..... but enough is enough.
I'm also using Comodo and I'm using it all the time now for the last 6 months.
I'd been a FF user since beta 1.0 days. I've grown sick and tired of memory problems and bells and whistles with FF.
It took me a few weeks to really get used to Chrome but its a much better experience.
If they keep changing the contract terms, you should be able to opt out without penalty.
You never know who has developped the hardware/software in China and if there are any backdoors for law enforcement. Considering that they are running the Great Firewall of China, I wouldn't want to have all my data stored in the "Cloud" as I presume a lot of the iPhone data does right now or is moving that way.
If this phone doesn't do the Cloud storage, I would see this as a definite advantage for personal freedoms (relatively speaking) .
Canada. We have high quality software developers up here, like EA.
BTW - its not that cold up here. You'll mostly like the temperature during your invasion.