Not to knock the multiplatform and OS aspects of this but I had Vista Ultimate under Virtual PC on XP with a single core sempron 2800 and I found it surprisingly responsive/usable.
All of that was all arbitrary "fuck-you" coding style anyways, and it should have been written flexibly from the start, like Grub.
Why would a company that makes it's bread and butter off it's operating system take time to code support for alternative operating system's in their boot loader??? The fact of the matter is as a prior post pointed out simply use the windows boot loader can make things much easier. Boot.ini is right there a C:\
Exactly. Microsoft is preparing for virtual computing which means that you have only screen, keyboard and small terminal with internet connection at home. All data and stuff gets placed into Microsoft server and you are using your terminal only to access it - from anywhere that you want.
My we all have such short term memories do we not? The thin client model has been touted as the future in one guise or another since it's hey day.
If I had a website that offered full MS Office functionality and compatibility for $10/month...
I concur, there would be probably be tremendous interest. I just wonder if it being a Microsoft branded product wouldn't be a detriment to it's success as opposed to it being judged purely on the merits of what it offers. But allow me to play the devil's advocate for a moment and suggest for gamers this might not be such a bad thing. (Potentially) Less OS on the hard disk could mean lower resource utilization and I'm sure a few enterprising users would find further ways to enhance performance maybe something a kin to tuning current Window's services so as to prevent unnecessary network access?
If all you want is a list of your favorite sites accessible through a keypress, that's what bookmarks are for. I can see how that feature would be nice, but it really belongs as some sort of smart bookmarks, not in the address bar.
But it does work with book marks, if you notice the little star at the end of the address bar, that will allow you to easily bookmark any number of sites, then using the awesome bar to find the site not always by it's address but also by it's title I think is a marvelous thing after a few days use.
The Olympics are a HUGE revenue source for a lot of people, and as we've seen quite often, economics will trump ethics 9 times in 10.
I don't know if your use of caps was really warranted. If you look at the data for the 2004 games NBC brought home 30-80 million. Fast forward to today with estimates that GE has spent anywhere from 200-900 million on the games (depending on what data you read) and I dunno there are plenty more sponsors but still HUGE seems pretty relative to me considering GE is due to be one of the front runners when it comes to cashing in on this event and from the data on the last summer games it doesn't look like an incredible return on investment if this year is going to be much similar. Also consider US gave out 22.739 billion in developmental assistance in 2006 alone. For all the goings ons I really think the proper thing to do would be to boycott the games, the value of the message would by far exceed the cost to the games.
I've always been able to access most of my sites with little more than a key press or two. Hit 's' and slashdot.org is right there.
Yes but when I hit 't' that gives me The pirate bay, youtube, myspace, slashdot, flickr, in that order. I'm sorry but that is convenient. And I'm sure I could hit a different key for better results, but I'm pretty happy being able to visit nearly all my sites with one key press and a click. You pair that up with proper RSS feeds and you're golden.
As someone who grew up in and amongst the debate surrounding the spotted owl it would seem you gloss over the very real impact the issue had on thousands of people. It was more then a mere political litmus test, it was a divisive issue that in some areas really made one weigh the benefits and trade offs of economic development.
That's IE. I have IE8 installed and I've noticed a dramatic difference in the way it renders fonts as opposed to Firefox. Someone got a little AA happy I suppose.
Haven't we already covered this? The cost in electricity for them to use my "unused" resources is not worth it for SETI which offers and most likely will never offer any tangible benefit to our society.
To the issues of 2600 at the book store in the mall, to the anarchist's cookbook and to the old text file archives of yore this information has been around for as long as we've wanted to learn it. Sure the FBI (or some other organization) might puff up with hubris but I doubt it and in fact I think it's high time we start seeing more things like this. And I think this place is a good start...
Way to be a jerk. Slashdot isn't only about the latest iPhone release, or patent trolling. It's about everything technical, and this is good question.
I'm a big fan of plain text email and copy and past really isn't all that time consuming if I were forced to save anything worth saving for longer than 180 days.
Not very surprising. I'm 25 years old and I would be hard pressed to find anyone I know that has even seen it let a lone someone that would be excited for a sequel (myself.. I'm leaning towards meh on the whole thing). With that insipid 2 in the name and the almost certainty it will be another 3D eye candy stroke fest (Beowulf anyone?) I'm finding it hard to get pumped, I know.. I know.. fast shiny motorbikes I should have a hard on and a taste for red meat and a bar fight, but I just don't!
I patented trees in general in 1992. I'm going to sue.
That's kind of an interesting point here, they were granted the patent in '97 but I fail to recall any lawsuits over such a thing... Much ado about nothing?
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Didn't we go through this all once before?
Not to knock the multiplatform and OS aspects of this but I had Vista Ultimate under Virtual PC on XP with a single core sempron 2800 and I found it surprisingly responsive/usable.
All of that was all arbitrary "fuck-you" coding style anyways, and it should have been written flexibly from the start, like Grub.
Why would a company that makes it's bread and butter off it's operating system take time to code support for alternative operating system's in their boot loader??? The fact of the matter is as a prior post pointed out simply use the windows boot loader can make things much easier. Boot.ini is right there a C:\
Exactly. Microsoft is preparing for virtual computing which means that you have only screen, keyboard and small terminal with internet connection at home. All data and stuff gets placed into Microsoft server and you are using your terminal only to access it - from anywhere that you want.
My we all have such short term memories do we not? The thin client model has been touted as the future in one guise or another since it's hey day.
Bad guys would no longer need physical access to your box, Only access to your network.
Any computer connected to a network is a security risk on one level or another.
If I had a website that offered full MS Office functionality and compatibility for $10/month...
I concur, there would be probably be tremendous interest. I just wonder if it being a Microsoft branded product wouldn't be a detriment to it's success as opposed to it being judged purely on the merits of what it offers. But allow me to play the devil's advocate for a moment and suggest for gamers this might not be such a bad thing. (Potentially) Less OS on the hard disk could mean lower resource utilization and I'm sure a few enterprising users would find further ways to enhance performance maybe something a kin to tuning current Window's services so as to prevent unnecessary network access?
If all you want is a list of your favorite sites accessible through a keypress, that's what bookmarks are for. I can see how that feature would be nice, but it really belongs as some sort of smart bookmarks, not in the address bar.
But it does work with book marks, if you notice the little star at the end of the address bar, that will allow you to easily bookmark any number of sites, then using the awesome bar to find the site not always by it's address but also by it's title I think is a marvelous thing after a few days use.
The Olympics are a HUGE revenue source for a lot of people, and as we've seen quite often, economics will trump ethics 9 times in 10.
I don't know if your use of caps was really warranted. If you look at the data for the 2004 games NBC brought home 30-80 million. Fast forward to today with estimates that GE has spent anywhere from 200-900 million on the games (depending on what data you read) and I dunno there are plenty more sponsors but still HUGE seems pretty relative to me considering GE is due to be one of the front runners when it comes to cashing in on this event and from the data on the last summer games it doesn't look like an incredible return on investment if this year is going to be much similar. Also consider US gave out 22.739 billion in developmental assistance in 2006 alone. For all the goings ons I really think the proper thing to do would be to boycott the games, the value of the message would by far exceed the cost to the games.
I've always been able to access most of my sites with little more than a key press or two. Hit 's' and slashdot.org is right there.
Yes but when I hit 't' that gives me The pirate bay, youtube, myspace, slashdot, flickr, in that order. I'm sorry but that is convenient. And I'm sure I could hit a different key for better results, but I'm pretty happy being able to visit nearly all my sites with one key press and a click. You pair that up with proper RSS feeds and you're golden.
Why read the article when there's a 'first post' to be had. :/
No why read an article that says something like:
...DNS (Domain Name System)...
So that's what that stands for!
It probably is seeing as how it is a national park in Japan.
I hope so, the Awesome bar was the only reason why I switched back to Firefox 2. I really don't understand how they could do something so wrong.
I thought the same thing, now I enjoy being able to access most of my sites with little more than a key press or two.
As someone who grew up in and amongst the debate surrounding the spotted owl it would seem you gloss over the very real impact the issue had on thousands of people. It was more then a mere political litmus test, it was a divisive issue that in some areas really made one weigh the benefits and trade offs of economic development.
Either that or he has altered the text size... CTRL+0 on FF..
That's IE. I have IE8 installed and I've noticed a dramatic difference in the way it renders fonts as opposed to Firefox. Someone got a little AA happy I suppose.
Haven't we already covered this? The cost in electricity for them to use my "unused" resources is not worth it for SETI which offers and most likely will never offer any tangible benefit to our society.
The also had this same story back on the 19th...
And, finally, does FBI understand it?
To the issues of 2600 at the book store in the mall, to the anarchist's cookbook and to the old text file archives of yore this information has been around for as long as we've wanted to learn it. Sure the FBI (or some other organization) might puff up with hubris but I doubt it and in fact I think it's high time we start seeing more things like this. And I think this place is a good start...
Way to be a jerk. Slashdot isn't only about the latest iPhone release, or patent trolling. It's about everything technical, and this is good question.
I'm a big fan of plain text email and copy and past really isn't all that time consuming if I were forced to save anything worth saving for longer than 180 days.
The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the growing bureaucracy.
i don't give a shit.
Not very surprising. I'm 25 years old and I would be hard pressed to find anyone I know that has even seen it let a lone someone that would be excited for a sequel (myself.. I'm leaning towards meh on the whole thing). With that insipid 2 in the name and the almost certainty it will be another 3D eye candy stroke fest (Beowulf anyone?) I'm finding it hard to get pumped, I know.. I know.. fast shiny motorbikes I should have a hard on and a taste for red meat and a bar fight, but I just don't!
Pay up, slashy!
And who do you think they'll come to first for the cash?
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Sung Koo Kim is that you?
I patented trees in general in 1992. I'm going to sue.
That's kind of an interesting point here, they were granted the patent in '97 but I fail to recall any lawsuits over such a thing... Much ado about nothing?
I professionally install home theater systems, and most of our customers are very happy with the end result.
Anyone who spends several grand on the latest and greatest is going to like it regardless of any actual improvements or (more likely) disappointments.