Indeed. The past 2 computers I've bought have had XP installed, with Vista upgrade CDs. Two more 'sales' of Vista, but I haven't bothered to take them out of the packaging.
The Doctor is alien - Tennant, for example, is Scottish. From the 'making of' episodes following each Who episode, his native accent is quite contrasted.
For that matter, how come all the aliens speak the Queen's English, given the show is filmed in Wales?
Try this for the regeneration episode... Explain as a plot device, in trek terms, that the Universal Translator is broken. Which is why when landing all the 'native' dialogue is subtitled into English from a language that sounds remarkably to viewers' ears like Welsh! The doctor regenerates but can initially only speak this alien language. Consequently, we have a new doctor with a non-English accent:
Ioan Gruffudd, no stranger to scifi through Fantastic4.
Since everything M$ does with CLR, C# and.NET is a direct re-imagining of what Sun did with Java, then sure it makes sense to have a seamless in-browser/local toolkit.
Sun had that a decade ago with applets vs. applications and Swing. "But," I hear you say " client Java is dead". Agreed, but it's been re-born as JavaFX and the ability to drag applets out of the browser to run locally with Java6u10. Sun are pumping money into reviving a corpse! They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery; now it is Sun flattering Microsoft. Time will tell, of course, whether anyone will use it - most Java EE projects are content with browser based clients in web-framework generated HTML.
In all fairness, the RRP costing might have been done before the recent dramatic devaluation of the $AU - A couple of months back it was around $US.95 - The Australian price could actually go UP in coming months to cushion Dell Australia's profits.
But anyway, as I noted in another reply, I purchased an HP 'notebook' for a similar Australian price about a month ago. I mightn't be Dell's target user but, at the same price, I would still prefer to buy the 12" HP.
I'm happy enough with my 12" HP 2230s, though it doesn't come with a cheap webcam built in. It's fatter and heavier because it includes a DVDRW drive. But for around the same price as this Dell (it's an HP; flame away), mine came with 3GB of RAM (expandable to 8GB allegedly), pre-installed with XP (Vista upgrade disks included), with a Core 2 Duo and an HDMI port.
I'd prefer better performance over a slightly thinner and lighter notebook.
The timing depends, of course, on the severity of the current global economic meltdown. But very soon Kevin 007 is going to be handing out hundreds of millions of dollars as part of the Emissions Trading Scheme to companies who substantially reduce their carbon footprint.
AGL currently have a very high carbon footprint given they supply natural gas and electricity. This way they'll probably get a government grant for innovative technologies to tackle climate change, i.e. electric cars.
Where's the renewable energy going to come from? There will be very few cars actually be using the charging grid in the near future, so the current need for renewable energy will be minimal too. When the carbon credits market reaches critical mass and they get a big cash injection will be the time their R&D has perfected cheaper solar, wind and other renewable technologies. Big carbon emitters will be begging AGL to 'plant more windmills' in order to reduce their carbon liabilities.
And if they corner the market NOW, no one else has claimed the market yet, they can charge whatever they like for re-charging later. Petroleum will be at least $AU2/litre in 2012 and only set to rise.
The government handouts alone are worth the establishment costs long term.
Assuming of course climate change skeptics, The Coalition, don't get back in power in 2010/11 before a delayed ETS is operating.
*If* this encourages web designers to make their websites more flexible w.r.t screen real estate, it's a good thing. It's not always just a reduction of height but width, also. e.g. Nokia's maemo devices using an 800x480 screen.
No more horizontal scrollbars!
At the other end of the scale, websites that use a fixed width narrow band of content surrounded by side ads are most annoying on a pixel dense screen - you're sometimes left with vast empty expanses either side and text too small to read in the middle. Increasing font size doesn't help if the width doesn't scale - you just end up with fewer words! Scaling (ctrl-scrollwheel) works a little better.
Generally, yes, sub-13" "notebooks" are quite pricey compared to their 15" equivalents.
I just bought a HP 2230s. Core 2 Duo, 3GB RAM with a 12" 1280x800 screen. Unlike certain netbooks it has bluetooth, which should be standard in any consumer device. It also has a HDMI port for when I purchase a 24" LCD!
For around $US1K, it has similar specs but in a smaller form factor at less than half the price of a notebook I bought 18 months ago - which has sadly just died, out of warranty:(
It's powerful enough for my professional uses (Java coding) and I couldn't imagine going any smaller with respect to keyboard width. YMMV but for me the netbooks didn't have enough grunt but around $1K seems like a sweet spot, price wise.
And, yeah, there's heaps of extra space in my old backpack!
Whoa. You're trying to run the Windows version of Chrome in Linux and there are issues. Google is somehow to blame because wine isn't mature enough to run Chrome?
Wine is a work in progress and if anything their developers ought to be pleased that Chrome didn't run flawlessly from day 1. Each application they liberate from Windows-only is one step closer to Win32 completeness.
It isn't just Chrome that has issues under wine; pick any major application and watch all the FIXME lines scroll past on the console. They may have stubbed enough functionality to get something working but, as I say, every application that fails to work in wine initially benefits the platform overall.
As for optimized JavaScript, I've noticed Chrome shaves several seconds off loading the gmail inbox page from login compared with Firefox 3.0.1 - so yes we do need optimizations. Pushing the envelope on performance is good competition for firefox, safari and others, no?
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'Hit' the ground??? This is an Apple laptop; the reality distortion field will morph the pavement as it descends.
I believe it's tied to a new version of WinCE, so as long as you're just transferring between a WinCE device and Vista, you should be okay.
Otherwise, normal fat as usual.
history lesson: Yahoo were the previous Google, back in the mid 90s.
Have a 'server' with a decent GPU and use the magic of TCP/IP.
Performance surely couldn't suck any worse than running it locally?
640-core CPUs should be enough for anyone.
No, seriously, MS have just pioneered a revolution in gaming. It's called "super super super slow-mo".
We've already got the CIA spying on the Asia Pacific region from Pine Gap.
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Been hiding under a rock? The Indians just spanked us.
Indeed. The past 2 computers I've bought have had XP installed, with Vista upgrade CDs. Two more 'sales' of Vista, but I haven't bothered to take them out of the packaging.
Software such as web browsers can perform actions via mouse gestures. But what if you don't have a mouse? Use a webcam!
Google "gesture webcam" and you'll get links to demos on youtube and software. I'm not sure how mature this idea is but it sounds cool!
Have no keyboard? learn sign-language! :) For deaf people that can sign faster than they can type researchers are developing webcam recognition.
Those that don't grok sign-language could potentially use character-based gesture input modeled on Palm's Graffiti.
Fielding isn't in government, just the senate.
I suspect Steve just made a deal with Intel.
A few years ago, everything was G3, G4, G5.
Now, look out for iMac i7, coming to a macworld expo near you.
The Doctor is alien - Tennant, for example, is Scottish. From the 'making of' episodes following each Who episode, his native accent is quite contrasted.
For that matter, how come all the aliens speak the Queen's English, given the show is filmed in Wales?
Try this for the regeneration episode... Explain as a plot device, in trek terms, that the Universal Translator is broken. Which is why when landing all the 'native' dialogue is subtitled into English from a language that sounds remarkably to viewers' ears like Welsh! The doctor regenerates but can initially only speak this alien language. Consequently, we have a new doctor with a non-English accent:
Ioan Gruffudd, no stranger to scifi through Fantastic4.
Since everything M$ does with CLR, C# and .NET is a direct re-imagining of what Sun did with Java, then sure it makes sense to have a seamless in-browser/local toolkit.
Sun had that a decade ago with applets vs. applications and Swing. "But," I hear you say " client Java is dead". Agreed, but it's been re-born as JavaFX and the ability to drag applets out of the browser to run locally with Java6u10. Sun are pumping money into reviving a corpse! They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery; now it is Sun flattering Microsoft. Time will tell, of course, whether anyone will use it - most Java EE projects are content with browser based clients in web-framework generated HTML.
In all fairness, the RRP costing might have been done before the recent dramatic devaluation of the $AU - A couple of months back it was around $US.95 - The Australian price could actually go UP in coming months to cushion Dell Australia's profits.
But anyway, as I noted in another reply, I purchased an HP 'notebook' for a similar Australian price about a month ago. I mightn't be Dell's target user but, at the same price, I would still prefer to buy the 12" HP.
I'm happy enough with my 12" HP 2230s, though it doesn't come with a cheap webcam built in. It's fatter and heavier because it includes a DVDRW drive. But for around the same price as this Dell (it's an HP; flame away), mine came with 3GB of RAM (expandable to 8GB allegedly), pre-installed with XP (Vista upgrade disks included), with a Core 2 Duo and an HDMI port.
I'd prefer better performance over a slightly thinner and lighter notebook.
Anyone for tennis analogies? We are talking about Agassi after all.
Sounds like a brilliant idea.
The timing depends, of course, on the severity of the current global economic meltdown. But very soon Kevin 007 is going to be handing out hundreds of millions of dollars as part of the Emissions Trading Scheme to companies who substantially reduce their carbon footprint.
AGL currently have a very high carbon footprint given they supply natural gas and electricity. This way they'll probably get a government grant for innovative technologies to tackle climate change, i.e. electric cars.
Where's the renewable energy going to come from? There will be very few cars actually be using the charging grid in the near future, so the current need for renewable energy will be minimal too. When the carbon credits market reaches critical mass and they get a big cash injection will be the time their R&D has perfected cheaper solar, wind and other renewable technologies. Big carbon emitters will be begging AGL to 'plant more windmills' in order to reduce their carbon liabilities.
And if they corner the market NOW, no one else has claimed the market yet, they can charge whatever they like for re-charging later. Petroleum will be at least $AU2/litre in 2012 and only set to rise.
The government handouts alone are worth the establishment costs long term.
Assuming of course climate change skeptics, The Coalition, don't get back in power in 2010/11 before a delayed ETS is operating.
Slap a bit of paint on them; good as new!
A couple of months ago there was a story about a university using shipping containers for student housing.
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*If* this encourages web designers to make their websites more flexible w.r.t screen real estate, it's a good thing. It's not always just a reduction of height but width, also. e.g. Nokia's maemo devices using an 800x480 screen.
No more horizontal scrollbars!
At the other end of the scale, websites that use a fixed width narrow band of content surrounded by side ads are most annoying on a pixel dense screen - you're sometimes left with vast empty expanses either side and text too small to read in the middle. Increasing font size doesn't help if the width doesn't scale - you just end up with fewer words! Scaling (ctrl-scrollwheel) works a little better.
I just bought a HP 2230s. Core 2 Duo, 3GB RAM with a 12" 1280x800 screen. Unlike certain netbooks it has bluetooth, which should be standard in any consumer device. It also has a HDMI port for when I purchase a 24" LCD!
For around $US1K, it has similar specs but in a smaller form factor at less than half the price of a notebook I bought 18 months ago - which has sadly just died, out of warranty :(
It's powerful enough for my professional uses (Java coding) and I couldn't imagine going any smaller with respect to keyboard width. YMMV but for me the netbooks didn't have enough grunt but around $1K seems like a sweet spot, price wise.
And, yeah, there's heaps of extra space in my old backpack!
Whoa. You're trying to run the Windows version of Chrome in Linux and there are issues. Google is somehow to blame because wine isn't mature enough to run Chrome?
Wine is a work in progress and if anything their developers ought to be pleased that Chrome didn't run flawlessly from day 1. Each application they liberate from Windows-only is one step closer to Win32 completeness.
It isn't just Chrome that has issues under wine; pick any major application and watch all the FIXME lines scroll past on the console. They may have stubbed enough functionality to get something working but, as I say, every application that fails to work in wine initially benefits the platform overall.
As for optimized JavaScript, I've noticed Chrome shaves several seconds off loading the gmail inbox page from login compared with Firefox 3.0.1 - so yes we do need optimizations. Pushing the envelope on performance is good competition for firefox, safari and others, no?
When you put it that way, Chrome is the next emacs?
Have a soy latte instead.
Rhymes with Noël?