Wow, this has to be some of the best revisionism I've heard in a while.
Questions to keep in mind when reading the parent: * Just how in debt was the Australian government when they sold off nationally owned utilities, debt which they inherited from the previous administration, who's in power currently? * Just how pathetically overbearing was Telstra, given that it owned both a consumer branch, and the infrastructure, and could essentially charge whatever they liked? * Who's benefited in the meantime thanks to organisations like the TIO and/or the ACCC? * How painful was it for third party ISPs to get wholesale ADSL and layer-2 routing from Telstra at a break-even price until the above organizations stepped in?
This isn't to say that there aren't concerns here (particularly on the filtering/censoring front), but separating the infrastructure from Telstra has the opportunity to ensure that wholesale to alternate ISPs is not trodden on again.
What extra heat source would that be? They removed one by combining it with the other and then using 45nm fabrication processes to cut down on the power requirements... Protip: that's less heat, not more.
From the reports i've seen, usb flash is a bit slower to write to, generally, but read speed is roughly the same. (read this as: takes longer to rip, once ripped, is about the same)
This is based on simple benchmarks that the roosterteeth guys did, though, not sure if it was exhaustive, or if there was some problem with their setup/keys/xbox.
I was wondering about that too. That said, the controls for the dashboard/media center stuff that work with Kinect (i keep wanting to type kinetic) seem to be able to notice when someone has their hand palm-up facing the camera. But how fine of a control you can get through that (detecting twists of the wrist)? I'm guessing not fine enough to get something decent like the spin on a bowling ball, or top-spin on a tennis ball:S
The problem then would be that it'd have to be disc 1, and ONLY disc 1 that worked this way, or you'd effectively have multiple copies of the game handy.
I think Forza 3 actually did this, mind you. It had a second disc, and offered to let you install it to the hard drive. More games should do this, i guess, but they don't want to force a HD onto anyone, since it's possible to buy an xbox without one.
The original XBox had a life-span of about 4 years, not really enough time to recoup losses made. I'm not surprised that as the consoles get more expensive to make, that people want to push them out longer to make a reasonable profit on them.
Uh. Local servers should be running people's copy of visual studio?
The idea here is to allow developer workstations and test systems to go to sleep when not in use, since they just waste power. We're not talking fileservers or webservers here, which have an arguable need for response time and constant powerdown/powerup cycles can be bad for hardware if done too frequently.
The difference being that that add-in was arguably useful. It enabled click-once in firefox, iirc, which is a fairly handy experience for running small apps over the web. If I recall, Java does the same thing. The problem then was that firefox had no way to distinguish between a version with a flaw, and a version without a flaw, so they had no choice but to temporarily blacklist it (and there was that issue with not being able to disable it due to permissions).
Browser toolbars, however, never strike me as a nice addition to a product without asking.
Agreed. Win7 was remarkably stable even in the beta/RC period. My main problems came from the video drivers (I'm looking at you ATI, and at you to a lesser extent, NVidia). Fortunately, neither of these are instant-kill for the most part (Except ATI, I've had a few moments where video has been permanently hosed, but fortunately, the pwoer button still triggered a normal "turn off" process)
They're firewall rules. At home, i use "Home", and my homegroup stuff is immediately visible. At work, it gets automatically assigned "Work/Domain" by group policy. At a wifi hotspot, i use "Public" and none of my filesharing stuff is visible. Works great on a laptop. Less useful on a desktop, of course, but then you only have to click "Home" once and things tend to just work.
Out of Curiosity, what kind of "Network Setup" are we talking? IP/DNS assignment? Or something else? I could see you needing to select wireless settings if you're on the go, and that can get a little annoying, but any other scenario is pretty automagic if you have a NATing router/gateway in your home (which is by far the easiest to use scenario) Setting IPs manually is definitely more of a pain, but who wants to regularly use a network where they have to actually do that kind of thing? I certainly don't. I deliberately run bind/dhcpd on a gateway to specifically avoid it, and anyone who's just turned on their consumer-grade router has the exact same thing. This isn't Win9x we're talking about here:)
You get used to the text-less icons pretty quickly. Particularly since most of the modern apps use high-resolution icons and are quite visible at the default icon size. Visually the Word, Explorer, IE/Chrome/Firefox buttons are all immediately identifiable, in a way that text just isn't.
Also, since you can order the buttons, and pin them, you essentially get Win-1 through Win-9 or so to launch/access them. Adding shift to make it Shift-Win-1 will launch a new copy. Alt-Win-1 launches the context menu. It becomes far more quick to use, and can become muscle memory reasonably quickly. Beats the pants off the quick-launch bar that any app could poison with its own icons during install for. That kind of stuff used to piss me off.
Why even open the control panel? Just hit the start menu button, and start typing the name of the control panel tool you want to get to. Sometimes, it'll match against something else over a control panel icon, but often, you can find a keyword that makes the control panel item first.
I find i almost never navigate the start menu beyond the search box anymore.
They're basically planning to, once the release of office 2010 hits the shelves next month. Onenote should be available via skydrive when office 2010 is released, so you can sync locally, on skydrive, with phones, etc.
Not to mention that you're better off just learning the keyboard shortcuts. I find the ribbon actually lends itself to much quicker discovery of the various keyboard chords than the old menus did.
Uh. No they didn't. File -> Options -> Mail -> Replies and Forwards Turn on "Preface comments with..." and then just toss 'inline' at the top of the email, and edit whereever you want. (Note, this is in Office 2010, i don't have 2007 handy, don't remember where they put it, but it's a similar option.)
Then you can insert a comment, and it'll have your tag, be a different colour and will easily stand out.
It just gets a bit messy after this happens a few times in a back and forth-exchange, and can be tricky to catch up on the history of a thread if you come in half-way.
Because in a business setting, you're more likely to say "Hey, such and such deals with XYZ, I'll CC him" and he has the entire thread, not chunks of it from the most current email that have been pruned of the initial context. This is less likely to be the case on a public discussion list, where everyone is defacto-opted in to the discussion (except in private flamewars, of course:) )
Of course, what ticks me off is when people go back through the history and annotate it. (fortunately, my co-workers who do this have the habit of using individual colors, but it can still be a pain to read things in the right order when you come in half-way through a thread.
Wait, who lost their lives, exactly? and by which means? I mean, i could understand if someone lost their livelihood, and thus, couldn't pay health insurance and died, but are we talking murder here?
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Wow, this has to be some of the best revisionism I've heard in a while.
Questions to keep in mind when reading the parent:
* Just how in debt was the Australian government when they sold off nationally owned utilities, debt which they inherited from the previous administration, who's in power currently?
* Just how pathetically overbearing was Telstra, given that it owned both a consumer branch, and the infrastructure, and could essentially charge whatever they liked?
* Who's benefited in the meantime thanks to organisations like the TIO and/or the ACCC?
* How painful was it for third party ISPs to get wholesale ADSL and layer-2 routing from Telstra at a break-even price until the above organizations stepped in?
This isn't to say that there aren't concerns here (particularly on the filtering/censoring front), but separating the infrastructure from Telstra has the opportunity to ensure that wholesale to alternate ISPs is not trodden on again.
I wouldn't have been surprised if it was actually one of the ad servers the site uses.
What extra heat source would that be? They removed one by combining it with the other and then using 45nm fabrication processes to cut down on the power requirements... Protip: that's less heat, not more.
And concentrate all of the unit's cooling focus onto one area instead of two, which should reduce the noise comparatively.
From the reports i've seen, usb flash is a bit slower to write to, generally, but read speed is roughly the same. (read this as: takes longer to rip, once ripped, is about the same)
This is based on simple benchmarks that the roosterteeth guys did, though, not sure if it was exhaustive, or if there was some problem with their setup/keys/xbox.
I was wondering about that too. That said, the controls for the dashboard/media center stuff that work with Kinect (i keep wanting to type kinetic) seem to be able to notice when someone has their hand palm-up facing the camera. But how fine of a control you can get through that (detecting twists of the wrist)? I'm guessing not fine enough to get something decent like the spin on a bowling ball, or top-spin on a tennis ball :S
I don't buy games in stores for this reason nowadays. Steam or independent download only.
The problem then would be that it'd have to be disc 1, and ONLY disc 1 that worked this way, or you'd effectively have multiple copies of the game handy.
I think Forza 3 actually did this, mind you. It had a second disc, and offered to let you install it to the hard drive. More games should do this, i guess, but they don't want to force a HD onto anyone, since it's possible to buy an xbox without one.
Uh, who made this "5-year rule" up, exactly? You?
Microsoft sure didn't.
The original XBox had a life-span of about 4 years, not really enough time to recoup losses made. I'm not surprised that as the consoles get more expensive to make, that people want to push them out longer to make a reasonable profit on them.
Uh. Local servers should be running people's copy of visual studio?
The idea here is to allow developer workstations and test systems to go to sleep when not in use, since they just waste power. We're not talking fileservers or webservers here, which have an arguable need for response time and constant powerdown/powerup cycles can be bad for hardware if done too frequently.
So it's Silicon's fault? Clearly this means we need to ban sand immediately.
That's it! No Sand In The Datacenter!
The difference being that that add-in was arguably useful. It enabled click-once in firefox, iirc, which is a fairly handy experience for running small apps over the web. If I recall, Java does the same thing. The problem then was that firefox had no way to distinguish between a version with a flaw, and a version without a flaw, so they had no choice but to temporarily blacklist it (and there was that issue with not being able to disable it due to permissions).
Browser toolbars, however, never strike me as a nice addition to a product without asking.
Maybe you should have tried clicking on the icon and the popup instead? Why did you wait? :P
Uh. Not me? Static assignment via DHCP. Not all routers support that kind of thing, but many certainly do.
Agreed. Win7 was remarkably stable even in the beta/RC period. My main problems came from the video drivers (I'm looking at you ATI, and at you to a lesser extent, NVidia). Fortunately, neither of these are instant-kill for the most part (Except ATI, I've had a few moments where video has been permanently hosed, but fortunately, the pwoer button still triggered a normal "turn off" process)
They're firewall rules.
At home, i use "Home", and my homegroup stuff is immediately visible. At work, it gets automatically assigned "Work/Domain" by group policy. At a wifi hotspot, i use "Public" and none of my filesharing stuff is visible. Works great on a laptop. Less useful on a desktop, of course, but then you only have to click "Home" once and things tend to just work.
Out of Curiosity, what kind of "Network Setup" are we talking? IP/DNS assignment? Or something else? I could see you needing to select wireless settings if you're on the go, and that can get a little annoying, but any other scenario is pretty automagic if you have a NATing router/gateway in your home (which is by far the easiest to use scenario) :)
Setting IPs manually is definitely more of a pain, but who wants to regularly use a network where they have to actually do that kind of thing? I certainly don't. I deliberately run bind/dhcpd on a gateway to specifically avoid it, and anyone who's just turned on their consumer-grade router has the exact same thing. This isn't Win9x we're talking about here
You get used to the text-less icons pretty quickly. Particularly since most of the modern apps use high-resolution icons and are quite visible at the default icon size. Visually the Word, Explorer, IE/Chrome/Firefox buttons are all immediately identifiable, in a way that text just isn't.
Also, since you can order the buttons, and pin them, you essentially get Win-1 through Win-9 or so to launch/access them. Adding shift to make it Shift-Win-1 will launch a new copy. Alt-Win-1 launches the context menu. It becomes far more quick to use, and can become muscle memory reasonably quickly.
Beats the pants off the quick-launch bar that any app could poison with its own icons during install for. That kind of stuff used to piss me off.
Didn't all the smart kids move to usenet?
Why even open the control panel? Just hit the start menu button, and start typing the name of the control panel tool you want to get to. Sometimes, it'll match against something else over a control panel icon, but often, you can find a keyword that makes the control panel item first.
I find i almost never navigate the start menu beyond the search box anymore.
They're basically planning to, once the release of office 2010 hits the shelves next month. Onenote should be available via skydrive when office 2010 is released, so you can sync locally, on skydrive, with phones, etc.
Not to mention that you're better off just learning the keyboard shortcuts. I find the ribbon actually lends itself to much quicker discovery of the various keyboard chords than the old menus did.
Uh. No they didn't.
File -> Options -> Mail -> Replies and Forwards
Turn on "Preface comments with..." and then just toss 'inline' at the top of the email, and edit whereever you want. (Note, this is in Office 2010, i don't have 2007 handy, don't remember where they put it, but it's a similar option.)
Then you can insert a comment, and it'll have your tag, be a different colour and will easily stand out.
It just gets a bit messy after this happens a few times in a back and forth-exchange, and can be tricky to catch up on the history of a thread if you come in half-way.
Because in a business setting, you're more likely to say "Hey, such and such deals with XYZ, I'll CC him" and he has the entire thread, not chunks of it from the most current email that have been pruned of the initial context. This is less likely to be the case on a public discussion list, where everyone is defacto-opted in to the discussion (except in private flamewars, of course :) )
Of course, what ticks me off is when people go back through the history and annotate it. (fortunately, my co-workers who do this have the habit of using individual colors, but it can still be a pain to read things in the right order when you come in half-way through a thread.
Newegg has a crapload of them. You just want to search for 'directional antenna'. There are ones that are rated for outdoor usage (water-tight casing) which you can just strap to a pole with line-of-site. see http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&Description=directional+antenna
Wait, who lost their lives, exactly? and by which means?
I mean, i could understand if someone lost their livelihood, and thus, couldn't pay health insurance and died, but are we talking murder here?