How is this modded troll? While there is no shortage of reasons to not like Microsoft, I don't really see how they are running a racket with Windows and/or Office.
They don't actually reuse numbers - this is policy.
Well, they may have to rethink their policy in a couple of decades. As it stands, social security numbers have nine digits, which means there are only a billion unique numbers. Given a current population of about 300 million, I would guess that about 1/3 of them have been used already.
So? I can get full eye-candy under Windows XP using the integrated Intel graphics on an old PIII system, and full eye-candy in Fluxbox on some 4MB STB card from 1996.
What happens when Obama steps up and says something completely innocent, then Clinton's aides get their hands on it and start picking comments that make Obama look bad to the democratic party, and only show that?
Have you paid any attention to the past few elections at all? They'll pretty much do the same thing now, except that it would probably be a voiceover on top of some generic grainy black and white footage: "Senator Obama says he wants to rape babies and eat them for breakfast..." or whatever. Pretty much the only change is that they could show an actual clip of the debates rather than the cheesy voiceover thing they like to do now. The only real change is that the debates would not be the property of some large corporate entity, which is a good thing in my eyes.
Apparently many RAID controllers write to the harddisks information about the RAID. It's cheaper to it this way, as the RAID controller doesn't need it's own storage medium (flash, whatever). That's why my cheap motherboard RAID has to go out and detect the disks everytime I turn the computer on, then read them to find outI have them in RAID1. Of course, this design has some advantages - I should be able to plug my disks into a replacement motherboard and it should find them and just work. In the case of RAID1, I've been able to pull the drives out, and plug the disks straight into a standard controller or a USB enclosure and read them just fine, so atleast in my case the extra information the controller hides on the drive doesn't seem to affect anything else.
For laptops, it isn't that unreasonable. Corporate laptops are often heavily used, and the users generally don't take as good of care of them as they do if it was their personal laptop. And then there is support - they want to be able to get the machine repaired, and repaired quickly. While this is pretty easy for old desktops, given similar older machines to cannabolize, it's much harder for laptops. It's just easier to replace them every 2-3 years.
The R series is IBM/Lenovo's budget line up, and is not as solidly built as the T series. It's no surprise that you find the T22 so solid. Though don't get me wrong on the R-series, while they may be the least sturdy Thinkpad, they are still better than the most everything else out there that isn't a Thinkpad.
1 - SD tv from your cable company looks incredibly bad on a HDTV. All that blockyness was smudged into an acceptable picture on your 32" Tube TV set. that nice crisp 720P display shows all the digital cable glory of blocks and artifacts. The HD channels that they do get and their DVD's look better, but the 90% of the channels they watch look crappier now.
Oh they also notice their Tivo looks crappy and the 40 hour unit become a 8 hour unit as they have to up the record quality to maximum to not get disgusted, this pisses them off more.
Considering that almost every HDTV I have seen is set up to distort 4:3 content by stretching it way out, and no one seems to notice - I seriously doubt that Joe Average is going to care about how awful that SD broadcast is on their HDTV.
Then why have the delete key at all? Sure, you may be safe in Finder, but you could have an important document open, and your cat could delete it all.
Besides, it's not really that dangerous. In Windows, you get a confirm dialog, and then it would only move it to the Recycle Bin anyway. I've had a lot worse luck killing filesystems in Linux than in Windows.
t's called "FItts' Law." The edge-of-screen menu is a much easier target to access. This has been covered to death before. Who wrote this article? A million monkeys with typewriters?
Just because it has a fancy name doesn't mean it's a good idea, especially in these days of large screens and multiple monitors becoming more and more common. I will grant that it did work pretty good back when the Mac came with a tiny 9" screen though.
Apple literally wrote the book on UI and to claim otherwise is simply ignorant. The Apple Human Interface Guidelines have been the de facto standard for years.
And why exactly should this be held up as the golden standard for UI's? Notice that Apple themselves doesn't even follow it.
I disagree, the Del and Enter keys are right next to each other on a PC keyboard. Deleting an item is very quick, and can be accomplished with one hand - 'Del' then 'Enter'. The Mac way involves me moving my hand from the mouse to keyboard so I can press Command + Delete to do the same thing. It's a lot slower, and lot less convienent.
You'll also note that the Mac way of doing it truly is a "Mac-ism", while the Windows way of doing it isn't really a "Window-ism" since every other GUI I have ever used behaves the same way. Which is one of the reasons why people complain about the Mac behavior so much.
Well, if you want to carry less stuff, then what's the deal with an AA powered charger? Standard AA's have less energy density than a lithium-ion spare, so you end up with more stuff for the same amount of power. They are really only useful when you're in a pinch, or you have a crippled phone where you can't change the battery easily.
Seriously - check your facts. Bush wasn't in charge in 1998.:D Clinton was, and Clinton was saying and doing all the same things since 1995 against Iraq that Bush got pushed through. You *REALLY* need to check your history.
You should try to remember your history better. Remember those airstrikes back in 1998, the ones where the Republicans were accusing Clinton of wagging the dog? That pretty much put an end to Saddam's weapons programs.
Oh, and it was the Italians that allegedly manipulated the 'yellowcake' information.. which in fact, was not manufactured at all, but accurate and true according to Sadaam's henchman himself... I don't 'spect you actually read Slate, though.
Good thing we sent our own agents out to find out the truth then, which they did. Too bad it was a pointless exercise, as the administration decided to completely ignore the truth.
I think it would be more reasonable to have disapproval voting. Vote against whomever you want not to win, and the candidate that instills the least fear wins. Most of the campaigns will come down to "vote for me, the other guy is a mother stabber and father raper" anyway; it seems like the voting process ought to parallel the campainging process.
I've thought about too, and the problem is that the winner would be something like the Grassroots party that no one has ever heard of, hence no one really hates them. However, this may not be entirely a bad thing.
What might make more sense is a modified approval voting - you can vote all canidates on the list +1, -1, or 0 (no vote). The canidates with the most votes wins. The Republicans and the Democrats would still likely end up with negative votes, but the stronger and more moderate third parties would likely win.
The only thing a Live CD gets you is the ability to boot your computer up into a known state. Once it's up and running, there is no reason someone couldn't root a Knoppix box.
You're forgetting that all those things like security and proper memory management require more horsepower behind the scenes, which is easy to forget in these days of ram sizes measured in gigabytes, and processors in gigahertz. Windows 98 ran pretty well a lower end machine with 16MB of ram, while the Unixes would just choke. It was also considerably better than the Mac OS of 1998 which was simply terrible. Besides I could regularly get 2 weeks or so with it between reboots, and longer for light duty machines.
Of course, Windows 98 did have its fair share of issues. It was rather fragile, was purely a single user OS with no security, and would randomly trash its registry and require a reinstall.
He wasn't complaining about Quicktime crashing the OS, he was just complaining about Quicktime crashing in general. Which isn't that surprising, since Quicktime for Windows has sucked since the Windows 3.1 days.
What about all that material from decades past, where we only have copies left? I could easily envision in that 100 years into the future, some movies may only exist as some disks found in someone's attic that no one knows how to decipher the DRM on them.
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How is this modded troll? While there is no shortage of reasons to not like Microsoft, I don't really see how they are running a racket with Windows and/or Office.
They don't actually reuse numbers - this is policy.
Well, they may have to rethink their policy in a couple of decades. As it stands, social security numbers have nine digits, which means there are only a billion unique numbers. Given a current population of about 300 million, I would guess that about 1/3 of them have been used already.
So? I can get full eye-candy under Windows XP using the integrated Intel graphics on an old PIII system, and full eye-candy in Fluxbox on some 4MB STB card from 1996.
Maybe they aren't all the same thing?
What happens when Obama steps up and says something completely innocent, then Clinton's aides get their hands on it and start picking comments that make Obama look bad to the democratic party, and only show that?
Have you paid any attention to the past few elections at all? They'll pretty much do the same thing now, except that it would probably be a voiceover on top of some generic grainy black and white footage: "Senator Obama says he wants to rape babies and eat them for breakfast..." or whatever. Pretty much the only change is that they could show an actual clip of the debates rather than the cheesy voiceover thing they like to do now. The only real change is that the debates would not be the property of some large corporate entity, which is a good thing in my eyes.
Apparently many RAID controllers write to the harddisks information about the RAID. It's cheaper to it this way, as the RAID controller doesn't need it's own storage medium (flash, whatever). That's why my cheap motherboard RAID has to go out and detect the disks everytime I turn the computer on, then read them to find outI have them in RAID1. Of course, this design has some advantages - I should be able to plug my disks into a replacement motherboard and it should find them and just work. In the case of RAID1, I've been able to pull the drives out, and plug the disks straight into a standard controller or a USB enclosure and read them just fine, so atleast in my case the extra information the controller hides on the drive doesn't seem to affect anything else.
Wait for OS X 10.5 and "Time Machine".
Time machine isn't really a backup. If your harddrive craps out, you still lose everything.
There are many bytes on your computer, but the chances of one being this number is astronomically low.
I would normally agree, however, anyone visiting slashdot today likely has it sitting in their browser's cache, multiple times.
For laptops, it isn't that unreasonable. Corporate laptops are often heavily used, and the users generally don't take as good of care of them as they do if it was their personal laptop. And then there is support - they want to be able to get the machine repaired, and repaired quickly. While this is pretty easy for old desktops, given similar older machines to cannabolize, it's much harder for laptops. It's just easier to replace them every 2-3 years.
The R series is IBM/Lenovo's budget line up, and is not as solidly built as the T series. It's no surprise that you find the T22 so solid. Though don't get me wrong on the R-series, while they may be the least sturdy Thinkpad, they are still better than the most everything else out there that isn't a Thinkpad.
1 - SD tv from your cable company looks incredibly bad on a HDTV. All that blockyness was smudged into an acceptable picture on your 32" Tube TV set. that nice crisp 720P display shows all the digital cable glory of blocks and artifacts. The HD channels that they do get and their DVD's look better, but the 90% of the channels they watch look crappier now.
Oh they also notice their Tivo looks crappy and the 40 hour unit become a 8 hour unit as they have to up the record quality to maximum to not get disgusted, this pisses them off more.
Considering that almost every HDTV I have seen is set up to distort 4:3 content by stretching it way out, and no one seems to notice - I seriously doubt that Joe Average is going to care about how awful that SD broadcast is on their HDTV.
Then why have the delete key at all? Sure, you may be safe in Finder, but you could have an important document open, and your cat could delete it all.
Besides, it's not really that dangerous. In Windows, you get a confirm dialog, and then it would only move it to the Recycle Bin anyway. I've had a lot worse luck killing filesystems in Linux than in Windows.
t's called "FItts' Law." The edge-of-screen menu is a much easier target to access. This has been covered to death before. Who wrote this article? A million monkeys with typewriters?
Just because it has a fancy name doesn't mean it's a good idea, especially in these days of large screens and multiple monitors becoming more and more common. I will grant that it did work pretty good back when the Mac came with a tiny 9" screen though.
Apple literally wrote the book on UI and to claim otherwise is simply ignorant. The Apple Human Interface Guidelines have been the de facto standard for years.
And why exactly should this be held up as the golden standard for UI's? Notice that Apple themselves doesn't even follow it.
I disagree, the Del and Enter keys are right next to each other on a PC keyboard. Deleting an item is very quick, and can be accomplished with one hand - 'Del' then 'Enter'. The Mac way involves me moving my hand from the mouse to keyboard so I can press Command + Delete to do the same thing. It's a lot slower, and lot less convienent.
You'll also note that the Mac way of doing it truly is a "Mac-ism", while the Windows way of doing it isn't really a "Window-ism" since every other GUI I have ever used behaves the same way. Which is one of the reasons why people complain about the Mac behavior so much.
If you think there is anything wrong with this country but you did not vote you CANNOT complain.
What if you consider the voting system broken?
You don't have the computer's BIOS set up to spin down the harddrive after a while, do you? Generally, CF cards don't like that much.
Well, if you want to carry less stuff, then what's the deal with an AA powered charger? Standard AA's have less energy density than a lithium-ion spare, so you end up with more stuff for the same amount of power. They are really only useful when you're in a pinch, or you have a crippled phone where you can't change the battery easily.
Seriously - check your facts. Bush wasn't in charge in 1998. :D Clinton was, and Clinton was saying and doing all the same things since 1995 against Iraq that Bush got pushed through. You *REALLY* need to check your history.
You should try to remember your history better. Remember those airstrikes back in 1998, the ones where the Republicans were accusing Clinton of wagging the dog? That
pretty much put an end to Saddam's weapons programs.
Oh, and it was the Italians that allegedly manipulated the 'yellowcake' information.. which in fact, was not manufactured at all, but accurate and true according to Sadaam's henchman himself... I don't 'spect you actually read Slate, though.
Good thing we sent our own agents out to find out the truth then, which they did. Too bad it was a pointless exercise, as the administration decided to completely ignore the truth.
I think it would be more reasonable to have disapproval voting. Vote against whomever you want not to win, and the candidate that instills the least fear wins. Most of the campaigns will come down to "vote for me, the other guy is a mother stabber and father raper" anyway; it seems like the voting process ought to parallel the campainging process.
I've thought about too, and the problem is that the winner would be something like the Grassroots party that no one has ever heard of, hence no one really hates them. However, this may not be entirely a bad thing.
What might make more sense is a modified approval voting - you can vote all canidates on the list +1, -1, or 0 (no vote). The canidates with the most votes wins. The Republicans and the Democrats would still likely end up with negative votes, but the stronger and more moderate third parties would likely win.
The only thing a Live CD gets you is the ability to boot your computer up into a known state. Once it's up and running, there is no reason someone couldn't root a Knoppix box.
Hey, atleast with a Nokia you can carry around a spare battery if needed...
You're forgetting that all those things like security and proper memory management require more horsepower behind the scenes, which is easy to forget in these days of ram sizes measured in gigabytes, and processors in gigahertz. Windows 98 ran pretty well a lower end machine with 16MB of ram, while the Unixes would just choke. It was also considerably better than the Mac OS of 1998 which was simply terrible. Besides I could regularly get 2 weeks or so with it between reboots, and longer for light duty machines.
Of course, Windows 98 did have its fair share of issues. It was rather fragile, was purely a single user OS with no security, and would randomly trash its registry and require a reinstall.
He wasn't complaining about Quicktime crashing the OS, he was just complaining about Quicktime crashing in general. Which isn't that surprising, since Quicktime for Windows has sucked since the Windows 3.1 days.
I think they are refering to the combined cost of one black and one color cartridge. $45 is about right.
What about all that material from decades past, where we only have copies left? I could easily envision in that 100 years into the future, some movies may only exist as some disks found in someone's attic that no one knows how to decipher the DRM on them.