Actually, it DOES clutter the interface. On smaller laptops the Luna theme uses up a couple more pixels in each direction on every window. When you've only got 800 vertical pixels, losing 2-4 of them to window themeing in every decorated window is a hell of a hit and displaces a lot of content. It's an entire line of text even if it's just a single window as compared to the Win2K-style decorations.
...that's not discoverable at ALL. There is no other application that I know of that has a context menu in the damned taskbar. That's not an example of "good UI" by any stretch of the imagination. They're changing the game, and not giving people hints. I'm sure it's the first time most people have heard of the "right-click on the application listing in the taskbar to get a unique menu you can't get elsewhere" school of UI design.
My only complaint with the programming interface is that it requires Windows. It's actually pretty straightforward if you can get through the logic of it. And if you can figure out what devices you need to turn on to do something with your media center, you can get through the logic of it.
BTW, that 4-digit code doesn't cover every model or every feature. The Harmony database supports over 225,000 different devices. Some of those can be grouped, but others can't. I really think that Logitech's solution is the closest to sane given the current way that IR codes are done with consumer devices.
There's a serious difference between nuking a BIOS and infecting it. A disease doesn't survive long if it instantly kills whoever it infects. Same thing with a computer virus. The news is that this isn't like the W95.CIH bug, it doesn't kill the host, it just embeds itself so deeply that it is near impossible to remove and just keeps spreading, like the Herpes virus in humans.
Sure they are! They're selling more than the other HD capable console. It's like Ferrari leading Lamborghini in sales, while both of them are being out-profited by Toyota, which actually makes something normal people want and can afford and enjoy;)
MediaPC? I bought a cheap Vista remote and use the receiver from that. So total of $50+$20 for the remotes. And anyone can use the 550 pretty easily, and it's braindead easy. My family doesn't want to have to use a keyboard for the media center and a different remote for everything. We just hit "Activities" and choose what we want to do. If you have other people that use the machine, it's well worth getting a cheap Vista MCE remote from Newegg for $20 to get an IR receiver so you can use the 880 you've got. Or just send it to me;)
With your WiFi control, you have to use a Windows driver I assume? That would put it right out for most MythTV users (such as me).
You just need a smarter remote. I have a MythTV machine, DVD player, stereo, TV and cable box all controlled by the same remote. Just get something like a Harmony, and things tend to work better than the Sorny brand one you buy at el Discounto for $15.
It's not the same buttons. It's changing to different buttons depending on what you're doing. You do different things with different pieces of equipment. I don't need play and pause when I play the Wii, but I do want them when I'm watching a DVD.
And I have a Harmony 550 that cost $50 that ANYONE can use. It's not just me! And if I leave the house with my phone? Someone else can use the TV and all of my entertainment system pieces, including my MythTV machine.
I just got one of those for my media center, and it flies for 1080p decoding (mplayer-mt is awesome). The 7750 is the Black edition, so the multiplier is unlocked. It runs at 2.7GHz stock, it'll overclock to 3GHz without really breaking a sweat in my experience, not to mention having all the extra cache that sricetx noted.
The thermal envelopes in most current processors aren't that different until you start looking at the extreme top end, and if you're looking in that price range, you don't really care about the cost anyway. Besides, a couple bucks a month isn't that much of a deal for most people, the initial capital outlay and overall performance are MUCH more important... it really only becomes a serious concern when you're running datacenter numbers of machines.
Basically, the spec was written one way, but the actual behavior was slightly different. Even though the standard didn't guarantee something to be written, most filesystems did it anyway. When EXT4 didn't write things immediately to improve performance, the applications that depended on filesystems writing data ASAP (even though it wasn't required behavior) started risking data loss in case of a crash and data not being written explicitly. br/>
The mechanism (fsync) has been around for ages, it's just that most apps didn't use it when they should because there wasn't a "need" to until EXT4, and other systems like XFS which are less popular and tend to be run by people who know what behavior to expect.
That's not proper. Per default it should install to %ProgramFiles%, which is often C:\Program Files, but not always. The user local location is a good safe place to install for most apps, especially beta versions. We really need to get away from the Windows "The only user is me, and I can do anything!" mentality that causes so many problems.
When was the last time you got a popup on Firefox? I have yet to find a sites that won't let me hit the "back" button to get out of where I am, or pop up windows that don't allow me to close what I'm browsing, and I intentionally look for porn.
My main argument is that megapixels right now are enough for most users, and that there would be much more tangible benefits for most people by improving the low-light performance and reducing the delay between hitting the button and taking the picture than by increasing the pixel count. It's like saying that a 130hp engine in a car is enough for most people. It'll get them up to highway speed, and keep them there, so it's more important to make a nicer radio or seats or make the engine more efficient than make it more powerful.
And it actually did mean something, just not what everyone took it for. An Athlon with a PR4000 would be as fast as a Thunderbird core Athlon at 4GHz, even if it was only running at 2.4GHz or whatever.
That's the problem. There aren't many creatures that prey even primarily on mosquitoes. They're relatviely hard to catch, and provide very little energy for the amount required to get them as compared to something like ants or whatnot. Just because you think people would be better served by that doesn't make it true.
An affordable digital medium format runs into economic and somewhat physics problems... it's very hard to get good yields out of the larger chips that you'd need for medium format, not to mention you get significantly fewer chips out of the same size wafer, so the economy doesn't scale, they have to profit more per chip to make it worthwhile.
You're also a somewhat special case with what you photograph. The average pocket point-n-shoot type will not see any benefit from more megapixels. They won't ever get a printout larger than 11x13 or whatever. The vast majority of people will see much more benefit from better low-light pictures and faster response than more megapixels. Those are much more serious problems to even the average prosumer.
It sounds like you're trying to treat Linux like it was Windows, but free. The people that have the most problems switching to Linux are those that are Windows power-users. Linux is not Windows.
Remember, you're a newbie when you go to Linux, and there are a lot of people (like me) who use it as their only OS, where Windows is relegated to the "toy" system. It is possible. Just gotta change the way you think.
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I mean, this is the same state that gave us the amazingly anti-science George W. "I believe God wants me to run for president" Bush.
Actually, it DOES clutter the interface. On smaller laptops the Luna theme uses up a couple more pixels in each direction on every window. When you've only got 800 vertical pixels, losing 2-4 of them to window themeing in every decorated window is a hell of a hit and displaces a lot of content. It's an entire line of text even if it's just a single window as compared to the Win2K-style decorations.
...that's not discoverable at ALL. There is no other application that I know of that has a context menu in the damned taskbar. That's not an example of "good UI" by any stretch of the imagination. They're changing the game, and not giving people hints. I'm sure it's the first time most people have heard of the "right-click on the application listing in the taskbar to get a unique menu you can't get elsewhere" school of UI design.
Only since the Mormons got ahold of them...
And don't forget to drop the BSA card... an unhappy employee (or ex-employee) can easily report them and cause lots of problems.
Awesome! I'll check it out. Thank you!
My only complaint with the programming interface is that it requires Windows. It's actually pretty straightforward if you can get through the logic of it. And if you can figure out what devices you need to turn on to do something with your media center, you can get through the logic of it.
BTW, that 4-digit code doesn't cover every model or every feature. The Harmony database supports over 225,000 different devices. Some of those can be grouped, but others can't. I really think that Logitech's solution is the closest to sane given the current way that IR codes are done with consumer devices.
There's a serious difference between nuking a BIOS and infecting it. A disease doesn't survive long if it instantly kills whoever it infects. Same thing with a computer virus. The news is that this isn't like the W95.CIH bug, it doesn't kill the host, it just embeds itself so deeply that it is near impossible to remove and just keeps spreading, like the Herpes virus in humans.
Sure they are! They're selling more than the other HD capable console. It's like Ferrari leading Lamborghini in sales, while both of them are being out-profited by Toyota, which actually makes something normal people want and can afford and enjoy ;)
MediaPC? I bought a cheap Vista remote and use the receiver from that. So total of $50+$20 for the remotes. And anyone can use the 550 pretty easily, and it's braindead easy. My family doesn't want to have to use a keyboard for the media center and a different remote for everything. We just hit "Activities" and choose what we want to do. If you have other people that use the machine, it's well worth getting a cheap Vista MCE remote from Newegg for $20 to get an IR receiver so you can use the 880 you've got. Or just send it to me ;)
With your WiFi control, you have to use a Windows driver I assume? That would put it right out for most MythTV users (such as me).
You just need a smarter remote. I have a MythTV machine, DVD player, stereo, TV and cable box all controlled by the same remote. Just get something like a Harmony, and things tend to work better than the Sorny brand one you buy at el Discounto for $15.
It's not the same buttons. It's changing to different buttons depending on what you're doing. You do different things with different pieces of equipment. I don't need play and pause when I play the Wii, but I do want them when I'm watching a DVD.
And I have a Harmony 550 that cost $50 that ANYONE can use. It's not just me! And if I leave the house with my phone? Someone else can use the TV and all of my entertainment system pieces, including my MythTV machine.
Trolls in collusion with someone who comments well enough to get mod points, it seems.
I just got one of those for my media center, and it flies for 1080p decoding (mplayer-mt is awesome). The 7750 is the Black edition, so the multiplier is unlocked. It runs at 2.7GHz stock, it'll overclock to 3GHz without really breaking a sweat in my experience, not to mention having all the extra cache that sricetx noted.
The thermal envelopes in most current processors aren't that different until you start looking at the extreme top end, and if you're looking in that price range, you don't really care about the cost anyway. Besides, a couple bucks a month isn't that much of a deal for most people, the initial capital outlay and overall performance are MUCH more important... it really only becomes a serious concern when you're running datacenter numbers of machines.
Basically, the spec was written one way, but the actual behavior was slightly different. Even though the standard didn't guarantee something to be written, most filesystems did it anyway. When EXT4 didn't write things immediately to improve performance, the applications that depended on filesystems writing data ASAP (even though it wasn't required behavior) started risking data loss in case of a crash and data not being written explicitly.
br/> The mechanism (fsync) has been around for ages, it's just that most apps didn't use it when they should because there wasn't a "need" to until EXT4, and other systems like XFS which are less popular and tend to be run by people who know what behavior to expect.
That's not proper. Per default it should install to %ProgramFiles%, which is often C:\Program Files, but not always. The user local location is a good safe place to install for most apps, especially beta versions. We really need to get away from the Windows "The only user is me, and I can do anything!" mentality that causes so many problems.
When was the last time you got a popup on Firefox? I have yet to find a sites that won't let me hit the "back" button to get out of where I am, or pop up windows that don't allow me to close what I'm browsing, and I intentionally look for porn.
My main argument is that megapixels right now are enough for most users, and that there would be much more tangible benefits for most people by improving the low-light performance and reducing the delay between hitting the button and taking the picture than by increasing the pixel count. It's like saying that a 130hp engine in a car is enough for most people. It'll get them up to highway speed, and keep them there, so it's more important to make a nicer radio or seats or make the engine more efficient than make it more powerful.
It was always a "PR", not a "P"
And it actually did mean something, just not what everyone took it for. An Athlon with a PR4000 would be as fast as a Thunderbird core Athlon at 4GHz, even if it was only running at 2.4GHz or whatever.
That's the problem. There aren't many creatures that prey even primarily on mosquitoes. They're relatviely hard to catch, and provide very little energy for the amount required to get them as compared to something like ants or whatnot. Just because you think people would be better served by that doesn't make it true.
An affordable digital medium format runs into economic and somewhat physics problems... it's very hard to get good yields out of the larger chips that you'd need for medium format, not to mention you get significantly fewer chips out of the same size wafer, so the economy doesn't scale, they have to profit more per chip to make it worthwhile.
You're also a somewhat special case with what you photograph. The average pocket point-n-shoot type will not see any benefit from more megapixels. They won't ever get a printout larger than 11x13 or whatever. The vast majority of people will see much more benefit from better low-light pictures and faster response than more megapixels. Those are much more serious problems to even the average prosumer.
It sounds like you're trying to treat Linux like it was Windows, but free. The people that have the most problems switching to Linux are those that are Windows power-users. Linux is not Windows.
Remember, you're a newbie when you go to Linux, and there are a lot of people (like me) who use it as their only OS, where Windows is relegated to the "toy" system. It is possible. Just gotta change the way you think.