It's not just cleaning tools like Norton SystemSweep (or whatever it was) and CCleaner that cause issues.
After uninstalling Office 2000 on one machine to install Office 2007 in its place the Windows Find function broke - it would open the window but GPF after about five seconds, even if you touched nothing else after Windows-F. Seems that the Office 2000 uninstaller broke parts of the User registry as backing-up user files and restoring them to a new account profile made the issue go away.
Bottom line: the Windows Registry is a fragile piece of crap.
I expect we'll all be connected to the Google Hive mind and communicating with Google Talk long before we need to worry about the robots equipped with Google Buzz saws breaking out of the Google Labs.
I agree: Gimp's graphics engine is seriously in need of upgrading. Who actually cares about the UI when you can get add-ins like GimpShop if you want to feel "more at home" as an ex-Photoshop user?
Top of my list is 16-bit channel support, especially in filters. It bugs me that I can open 16-bit files but they have to be downgraded to 8-bit to work with any of the filters. I do a lot of work with astronomy imagery and, unfortunately, Gimp just cannot do this so I have to use Photoshop. I'd rather use Gimp. Getting more mainstream, though, how many digital photographers do you think are out there wanting to process RAW files from their camera which are typically 10, 12, 14 or 16-bits per channel?
While it's not important in my work, having worked in the print industry before I know that additional colour spaces such as CMYK would be extremely useful to graphics professionals in the print industry. I could see Gimp getting a foothold in such places as budgets are typically tight (read: non-existent) and a free (workable) alternative to Photoshop would be welcomed with open arms.
I don't know any of this surprises you. Media outlets are very Businesslike. Like businesses, they are driven to be Profitlike. You make profit by maximising your income (none, or maybe banner clicks) while minimising your expenses (lights, power, reporters' salaries).
Thus, we have "no truth in advertising - nor in news media."
No I haven't been a teacher, but I have been the subject of bullying. And I was getting bullied in full-view of teachers who did nothing about it for a prolonged period of time.
Complaints to the teachers, school administration and the parents of the bully yielded no change in anyone's behaviour. He was a "sports star" and the jewel in everyone's eye, so he could do pretty well anything he wanted and get away with it.
The only time a teacher did anything about it was when I'd finally had enough and physically picked-up the guy and threw him down two flights of stairs after my pencil case that he'd just thrown down there. I nearly got suspended over it. The other guy got off with a serious scare and a couple of scratches - but he did stop bullying me after that.
East won't be pressuring Microsoft to build (desktop) Windows for ARM in any way with his statements.
Anyone with enough Windows experience will remember that Microsoft used to have SPARC and Itanium builds of Windows but decided to dump them and stay in the x86 camp. I'm not saying that was a good or bad decision on their part, but it will make them less-inclined to start supporting other platforms again.
I doubt that there's enough processing power, market interest or other incentives to make Microsoft consider porting (desktop) Windows to ARM - they've already got Windows CE/Pocket PC for that platform in any case (crap, though it is).
Here in Western Australia, the courts "ask" you to surrender your phone. Doesn't even matter if it doesn't have a camera.
Similar here in Queensland... my fiancee went through jury duty for a civil case last year and jurors were required to surrender all electronic devices for the duration of their case (phones, PDA's, pagers, games, etc.).
When outside the court room all jurors were required to remain with the Sheriff and my fiancee, who has a lift phobia, was basically told to "suck it up" when the jury had to all cram into the hotel lift together (essentially because the Sheriff didn't want to climb stairs).
The most bizarre thing about the whole affair, though... there was a long weekend in the middle of the case and the jurors were allowed to go home for the weekend. WTF???
The problem I see with OOo is that it is marketed and used as "hey, there is a free (as in beer) MS Office clone!" rather than "Hey, this is better than MS Office" but the problem is the second statement isn't true.
I'd say OOo is already better than MS Office because it doesn't have those annoyingly stupid ribbons. What a way to complicate usage - makes it difficult to find anything. (I have to use the MS version at work, unfortunately - damned SOE's.)
If OOo *ever* gets ribbons I'll stomp on the feet of the developer who added them!
The bullies at my school tended to be "stars" in one sport or another and were allowed to be bullies because teachers and parents turned a blind eye to the situation.
We keep kinds back (retain them in lower grades) for academic reasons, but seldom for social reasons. Often, I suspect, simply delaying entry into school for socially awkward kids might solve a lot of this. Either that or enroll overly aggressive kids a year ahead of time.
Are you f'n serious? Keep bullied kids back a year and further bully them ("The System" bullies them by keeping them back a year), encouraging more bullying (the bullies are now armed with, "dumb dumb just got kept back a year") and docking them one year of pay (they now lose out on one year's income potential before retirement)?
Fix the problem: punish the bullies and the teachers and parents that turn a blind eye to them.
It's only impossible because voters are stupid and gullible.
Really? I thought it was impossible because all politicians are lying bastards.
Past experience has shown that it doesn't matter who you vote for, they'll always have some hidden agenda that comes out long after the election and it's almost never good for the people who voted them in.
I tend to agree with you that this sort of thing should still be relatively easy to pickup in logs - on proxies as well as the border routers.
A lot of people are probably forgetting that SSL through proxies still needs a CONNECT originserver:443 HTTP/1.x request, which gets logged, even if all of the traffic is encrypted on the tunnel after that.
Actually if you add up the figures quoted in TFA (which only accounts for 86.73% of the browsers recorded) then Microsoft IE (6/7/8) still accounts for 56.96% of the market with Firefox (3.0/3.5) taking the next 22.3%.
I'm curious to know what browsers make up the remaining 13.27% - guess I'll just have to go read the NetApps survey.
No, I had a series 1 N-gage. I actually found it pretty comfortable for gaming but it had major issues:
1. You had to remove and replace the battery to insert or change a game card. Aside from all the fumbling around to do that, sitting there waiting for the phone to reboot so you could play a game was really annoying. What were they thinking?
2. Side-talking. Really hated it.
3. Under-powered. One of the "show case" games released for it was Tomb Raider. It would get very choppy and slow in a lot of places because the phone was underpowered for the task.
Nokia did release a series 2 N-gage that fixed some of the issues (no more side-talking and game cards were inserted/ejected from the top), but by that time I'd binned my N-gage and wasn't interested in a gaming phone any more.
I think it's funny that an article talking about commas being "sort of like parmesan cheese that you sprinkle on your words" uses too many commas itself.
If I have 1 person at a property running a bit torrent client, I know for a fact that I'll have a dozen calls from other "legitimate" users of the network.
So, essentially you're saying that you've underprovisioned your network by doing something like putting 20 customers on 1500/256 plans on a DSLAM with a 2 megabit connection. Am I reading that right?
ISP's are in the business to make money. Just as we pay them money for bandwidth they have to pay their upstream providers for bandwidth. I would have expected ISP's to welcome P2P protocols since they help to reduce upstream traffic just as FTP/HTTP file mirrors and proxy servers do.
Properly designed P2P protocols are meant to get load off of the backbones and origin servers by trying to download from the closest peers that have the data blocks you're looking for. If those closest peers are sitting next door and using the same ISP then it's saved the traffic going through the ISP's border routers at all by being completely internal traffic. This is a win-win situation - ISP saves dollars on upstream traffic and customers get faster downloads.
I'll start out by saying I don't use BitTorrent or any similar product. I will say that I don't buy the "BitTorrent is harmful to networks" crap I regularly see, either.
I'm paying my ISP a sum of money to get an uninterrupted stream of bits down my internet connection. They're using that money to invest in their network infrastructure and pay their employees, with any excess being declared "profit" and divided-up amongst their shareholders. It shouldn't matter whether my uninterrupted stream of bits is FTP, HTTP, HTTPS, BitTorrent or any other protocol - it's meant to be uninterrupted.
If my stream of bits is overtaxing the network then the ISP has underprovisioned the network and they need to upgrade it - even if that means increasing subscriber fees to all of their customers.
ComCast (and other ISPs) should come out and say they're scared of being dragged into copyright infringement suits and cut the nonsense that it adversely impacts their networks.
It all depends on the discharge/charge ratings for the cells. We regularly punish Li cells in hotliner electric gliders.
For example, a 1,000mAH Li-Ion cell with a 5C charge rating can be safely charged at 5,000mA from near flat in 10 to 12 minutes. The charge ratings tend to go down as cell sizes increase, though, due to ventilation issues - you just can't dissipate the heat from the battery packs quickly enough unless you involve forced-flow systems, and if it gets too hot you'll get a runaway situation and BOOM.
Didn't anyone ever tell you that the fuse is *meant* to be the weakest link? Now, with your 200 amp fuse/breaker in place you'll burn out the house wiring instead.
The only two recorded Prius battery changes in Australia (at the time of the article) where at 350,000km (220,000mi) and 500,000km (310,000mi). That's pretty good mileage and they're thrashing these things about in Taxis clocking up around 200,000km (125,000mi) per annum.
Let's say the newer Li-Air cells will have a similar service life and are twice the cost, so US$6,000 - how much will you be paying in electricity to recharge the cells for 250,000 miles?
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It's not just cleaning tools like Norton SystemSweep (or whatever it was) and CCleaner that cause issues.
After uninstalling Office 2000 on one machine to install Office 2007 in its place the Windows Find function broke - it would open the window but GPF after about five seconds, even if you touched nothing else after Windows-F. Seems that the Office 2000 uninstaller broke parts of the User registry as backing-up user files and restoring them to a new account profile made the issue go away.
Bottom line: the Windows Registry is a fragile piece of crap.
Don't worry, your plan is still good if you intend to take over the world. Contrary to popular (US) opinion, the world does extend beyond US borders.
I expect we'll all be connected to the Google Hive mind and communicating with Google Talk long before we need to worry about the robots equipped with Google Buzz saws breaking out of the Google Labs.
I agree: Gimp's graphics engine is seriously in need of upgrading. Who actually cares about the UI when you can get add-ins like GimpShop if you want to feel "more at home" as an ex-Photoshop user?
Top of my list is 16-bit channel support, especially in filters. It bugs me that I can open 16-bit files but they have to be downgraded to 8-bit to work with any of the filters. I do a lot of work with astronomy imagery and, unfortunately, Gimp just cannot do this so I have to use Photoshop. I'd rather use Gimp. Getting more mainstream, though, how many digital photographers do you think are out there wanting to process RAW files from their camera which are typically 10, 12, 14 or 16-bits per channel?
While it's not important in my work, having worked in the print industry before I know that additional colour spaces such as CMYK would be extremely useful to graphics professionals in the print industry. I could see Gimp getting a foothold in such places as budgets are typically tight (read: non-existent) and a free (workable) alternative to Photoshop would be welcomed with open arms.
I don't know any of this surprises you. Media outlets are very Businesslike. Like businesses, they are driven to be Profitlike. You make profit by maximising your income (none, or maybe banner clicks) while minimising your expenses (lights, power, reporters' salaries).
Thus, we have "no truth in advertising - nor in news media."
No I haven't been a teacher, but I have been the subject of bullying. And I was getting bullied in full-view of teachers who did nothing about it for a prolonged period of time.
Complaints to the teachers, school administration and the parents of the bully yielded no change in anyone's behaviour. He was a "sports star" and the jewel in everyone's eye, so he could do pretty well anything he wanted and get away with it.
The only time a teacher did anything about it was when I'd finally had enough and physically picked-up the guy and threw him down two flights of stairs after my pencil case that he'd just thrown down there. I nearly got suspended over it. The other guy got off with a serious scare and a couple of scratches - but he did stop bullying me after that.
Care to provide some examples of features that were previously available through the menus but are now inaccessible with the ribbon?
In Outlook, the "Edit Message" function cannot be added to Ribbons, but can be added to the Quick Access Toolbar beside the Orb menu.
East won't be pressuring Microsoft to build (desktop) Windows for ARM in any way with his statements.
Anyone with enough Windows experience will remember that Microsoft used to have SPARC and Itanium builds of Windows but decided to dump them and stay in the x86 camp. I'm not saying that was a good or bad decision on their part, but it will make them less-inclined to start supporting other platforms again.
I doubt that there's enough processing power, market interest or other incentives to make Microsoft consider porting (desktop) Windows to ARM - they've already got Windows CE/Pocket PC for that platform in any case (crap, though it is).
Here in Western Australia, the courts "ask" you to surrender your phone. Doesn't even matter if it doesn't have a camera.
Similar here in Queensland... my fiancee went through jury duty for a civil case last year and jurors were required to surrender all electronic devices for the duration of their case (phones, PDA's, pagers, games, etc.).
When outside the court room all jurors were required to remain with the Sheriff and my fiancee, who has a lift phobia, was basically told to "suck it up" when the jury had to all cram into the hotel lift together (essentially because the Sheriff didn't want to climb stairs).
The most bizarre thing about the whole affair, though... there was a long weekend in the middle of the case and the jurors were allowed to go home for the weekend. WTF???
The problem I see with OOo is that it is marketed and used as "hey, there is a free (as in beer) MS Office clone!" rather than "Hey, this is better than MS Office" but the problem is the second statement isn't true.
I'd say OOo is already better than MS Office because it doesn't have those annoyingly stupid ribbons. What a way to complicate usage - makes it difficult to find anything. (I have to use the MS version at work, unfortunately - damned SOE's.)
If OOo *ever* gets ribbons I'll stomp on the feet of the developer who added them!
The bullies at my school tended to be "stars" in one sport or another and were allowed to be bullies because teachers and parents turned a blind eye to the situation.
We keep kinds back (retain them in lower grades) for academic reasons, but seldom for social reasons. Often, I suspect, simply delaying entry into school for socially awkward kids might solve a lot of this. Either that or enroll overly aggressive kids a year ahead of time.
Are you f'n serious? Keep bullied kids back a year and further bully them ("The System" bullies them by keeping them back a year), encouraging more bullying (the bullies are now armed with, "dumb dumb just got kept back a year") and docking them one year of pay (they now lose out on one year's income potential before retirement)?
Fix the problem: punish the bullies and the teachers and parents that turn a blind eye to them.
It's only impossible because voters are stupid and gullible.
Really? I thought it was impossible because all politicians are lying bastards.
Past experience has shown that it doesn't matter who you vote for, they'll always have some hidden agenda that comes out long after the election and it's almost never good for the people who voted them in.
I tend to agree with you that this sort of thing should still be relatively easy to pickup in logs - on proxies as well as the border routers. A lot of people are probably forgetting that SSL through proxies still needs a CONNECT originserver:443 HTTP/1.x request, which gets logged, even if all of the traffic is encrypted on the tunnel after that.
Actually if you add up the figures quoted in TFA (which only accounts for 86.73% of the browsers recorded) then Microsoft IE (6/7/8) still accounts for 56.96% of the market with Firefox (3.0/3.5) taking the next 22.3%.
I'm curious to know what browsers make up the remaining 13.27% - guess I'll just have to go read the NetApps survey.
Was the N-gage flaw that it wasn't square?
No, I had a series 1 N-gage. I actually found it pretty comfortable for gaming but it had major issues:
1. You had to remove and replace the battery to insert or change a game card. Aside from all the fumbling around to do that, sitting there waiting for the phone to reboot so you could play a game was really annoying. What were they thinking?
2. Side-talking. Really hated it.
3. Under-powered. One of the "show case" games released for it was Tomb Raider. It would get very choppy and slow in a lot of places because the phone was underpowered for the task.
Nokia did release a series 2 N-gage that fixed some of the issues (no more side-talking and game cards were inserted/ejected from the top), but by that time I'd binned my N-gage and wasn't interested in a gaming phone any more.
I think it's funny that an article talking about commas being "sort of like parmesan cheese that you sprinkle on your words" uses too many commas itself.
If I have 1 person at a property running a bit torrent client, I know for a fact that I'll have a dozen calls from other "legitimate" users of the network.
So, essentially you're saying that you've underprovisioned your network by doing something like putting 20 customers on 1500/256 plans on a DSLAM with a 2 megabit connection. Am I reading that right?
ISP's are in the business to make money. Just as we pay them money for bandwidth they have to pay their upstream providers for bandwidth. I would have expected ISP's to welcome P2P protocols since they help to reduce upstream traffic just as FTP/HTTP file mirrors and proxy servers do.
Properly designed P2P protocols are meant to get load off of the backbones and origin servers by trying to download from the closest peers that have the data blocks you're looking for. If those closest peers are sitting next door and using the same ISP then it's saved the traffic going through the ISP's border routers at all by being completely internal traffic. This is a win-win situation - ISP saves dollars on upstream traffic and customers get faster downloads.
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I'll start out by saying I don't use BitTorrent or any similar product. I will say that I don't buy the "BitTorrent is harmful to networks" crap I regularly see, either.
I'm paying my ISP a sum of money to get an uninterrupted stream of bits down my internet connection. They're using that money to invest in their network infrastructure and pay their employees, with any excess being declared "profit" and divided-up amongst their shareholders. It shouldn't matter whether my uninterrupted stream of bits is FTP, HTTP, HTTPS, BitTorrent or any other protocol - it's meant to be uninterrupted.
If my stream of bits is overtaxing the network then the ISP has underprovisioned the network and they need to upgrade it - even if that means increasing subscriber fees to all of their customers.
ComCast (and other ISPs) should come out and say they're scared of being dragged into copyright infringement suits and cut the nonsense that it adversely impacts their networks.
It all depends on the discharge/charge ratings for the cells. We regularly punish Li cells in hotliner electric gliders.
For example, a 1,000mAH Li-Ion cell with a 5C charge rating can be safely charged at 5,000mA from near flat in 10 to 12 minutes. The charge ratings tend to go down as cell sizes increase, though, due to ventilation issues - you just can't dissipate the heat from the battery packs quickly enough unless you involve forced-flow systems, and if it gets too hot you'll get a runaway situation and BOOM.
Didn't anyone ever tell you that the fuse is *meant* to be the weakest link? Now, with your 200 amp fuse/breaker in place you'll burn out the house wiring instead.
More stuff on Prius battery ranges here.
The only two recorded Prius battery changes in Australia (at the time of the article) where at 350,000km (220,000mi) and 500,000km (310,000mi). That's pretty good mileage and they're thrashing these things about in Taxis clocking up around 200,000km (125,000mi) per annum.
If you look at existing (NiMH) battery technology for something like a Toyota Prius, you could expect an 8-year service life (based on the 8-year warranty) with a battery replacement cost of around US$3,000 afterward. And Toyota's saying that their cells are still going strong after 200,000 miles. Mind you, those NiMH cells aren't powering the entire vehicle for the entire trip.
Let's say the newer Li-Air cells will have a similar service life and are twice the cost, so US$6,000 - how much will you be paying in electricity to recharge the cells for 250,000 miles?