Swings and roundabouts - although you get glare from all angles heading towards your face, glare which would otherwise head to your face is diffused off at all angles.
Most of the companies that do configure-your-system options give you the choice, and companies like HP which just crap a whole lot of variations on a particular model onto the marketplace usually do a decent spread of glossy and matte machines. It's usually not difficult to get your preference satisfied.
It wasn't all Virgin's decision to drop the Sky channels. Sky's contract with Virgin came up for renewal and Virgin refused to pay what Sky were asking for the channels (which included a "no matter how many people subscribe, you must pay us this minimum charge2 clause). Of couse it sucks if you're a customer, but Sky would just as happily exist in a world where we all used ADSL, had £60-per-month basic satellite subscriptions, and most of the hardware support was provided through really dodgy outside contractors, so it was kind of nice to see somebody sticking it to them.
Nah, seems that HP have only shipped top-end Vista models to reviewers. I guess that by shipping top-end hardware with the most resource-hungry OS they thought it would create results representitive of an average configuration.
50M units isn't a crazy amount for the kind of market they're aiming for - the pre-release publicity was pushing it as a "lifestyle accessory" which people would buy as unthinkingly as a new mobile phone. For comparison, the Razr sold 50M units in about two years, the iPod shifted over 100M in 6 years, and the Nokia 3310 sold 126M in about 5 years.
The reviews seem to suggest that although the 1.6GHz CPU can run Vista Business perfectly soundly, it keeps the temps high and the fan running and only gets a scant 2 hours out of the basic battery. So it probably shouldn't be on Vista.
It's called the Mini-Note. It's aimed at the education market in general as well as "mobile professionals", not just schools. It can be configured with SuSE, Vista Home Basic, or Vista Business, and storage goes from 4GB SSDs to 160GB 7200RPM hard drives (accelerometer-based drive protection features are included for the HDD versions). The Netbook is something else entirely, and is made by Intel. There are dozens of reviews of the machine out already with better info than that Yahoo article. The HP press release is a good start.
I've seen it a lot too, but only really on ADSL connections. On cable it's nowhere to be seen. Of course, Virgin are going to be agressively snooping to look for dodgy P2P traffic in exchange for (supposedly unsnooped) free binary newsgroups access, so I doubt cable's going to be a good choice for long.
The generic name for that gadget is a nicotine inhaler. They were reasonably successful over here in the UK in the 1990s (Nicroette still sell theirs) but they don't seem to bother marketing much now. Of course, it never looked much like a cigarette which is a drawback. You could disguise it in a cigar, I guess.
It's funny you should bring that up, it was mentioned a while back that Microsoft are in talks with Asus about doing a version of Windows 7 that's suited to these low-end machines. It'll be interesting to see how the "race to the bottom" affects Windows bloat - if the market forces Microsoft to create a kernel which can scale from 1GHz ULV machines to Core 2 Quads, then this could actually (gasp) result in a version of Windows which is worth upgrading to out of choice.
"When you see something decline with increasing velocity, it's a concern". Especially when it's a chair making its way down from office building above you.
Don't be a fool, everyone knows that the special cameras created homeopathic van Allen radiation in the regiolith which destroyed the original set through a Golden Ratio masonic pyramid conspiracy.
That's not a Vista-specific problem, I had to do the same reactivation process when doing an HDD swap on my XP machine, on 3 non-consecutive occasions.
I dunno, the Wikipedia articles on most things have those sorts of tags. "More references", "better references" and "please clear it up a big" are basic policies. It's just as likely to be legitimate editors as Scientlologists.
It wasn't released-then-pulled. An update for the updater app, which would've allowed people to install SP1 in future, was pulled when it turned out it borked systems. SP1 itself has yet to hit any form of Windows Update.
DRM and other crackdowns on how we can obtain, and what we can do with, legitimate digital copies of programming are giving customers massive disincentives to seek these legitimate copies out. Even ignoring price, the best product currently available is the pirated one, so it's no wonder that customers are voting with their mice.
Wikipedia admins can, and often do, remove versions of pages from the history when they portray the editor of those pages in a bad light, or in particularly serious examples, edits which portray the Wikipedia or the subject of the article in a bad light. For example, Merkey's rants against Wikipedia in the arbitration committee meeting that banned him in 2007 have been hidden to preserve his dignity.
You're damn right that none of the assertions have been substantiated. Here's the timeline:
October 15, 2005: Merkey has been involved in a massive edit dispute over the contents of his page, and has been making legal threats left, right, and centre. Following an arbitration commitee discussion, he gets banned indefinitely for his behavior. May 2006: Merkey makes a donation. Jimbo Wales semi-protects the article and scrubs it, calling for a fresh start and an end to Merkey-Wikipedia hostilities. That's SEMI-PROTECTS. The Merkey article was as restricted as the one on the Xbox 360. Established ditors could, and did, begin rewriting. Merkey is still banned. January, 2007: Merkey asks nicely and gets unbanned by the admins. May, 2007: Another edit dispute, and Merkey finds himself before the ArbCom again. He makes all sorts of legal threats, demands to be made a sysop so he can get articles to express his "right" view more accurately, and gives the general impression that if he goes down, he's taking the Wikimedia Foundation with him. Banned, for a year. 10 March, 2008: A passing admin removes the semi-protection. Now anonymous, as well as registered, users can edit the page. Now:Merkey, still banned, comes out of the woodworks claiming that he paid money and therefore got special treatment, a Jimbo-only version of his page, etc. etc. He's spent most of the time since his donation banned from editing!
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I don't follow the comics that well but isn't Iron Man just a big right-wing straw-man lately anyway? Maybe we're meant to like this "villain".
Swings and roundabouts - although you get glare from all angles heading towards your face, glare which would otherwise head to your face is diffused off at all angles.
Most of the companies that do configure-your-system options give you the choice, and companies like HP which just crap a whole lot of variations on a particular model onto the marketplace usually do a decent spread of glossy and matte machines. It's usually not difficult to get your preference satisfied.
It wasn't all Virgin's decision to drop the Sky channels. Sky's contract with Virgin came up for renewal and Virgin refused to pay what Sky were asking for the channels (which included a "no matter how many people subscribe, you must pay us this minimum charge2 clause). Of couse it sucks if you're a customer, but Sky would just as happily exist in a world where we all used ADSL, had £60-per-month basic satellite subscriptions, and most of the hardware support was provided through really dodgy outside contractors, so it was kind of nice to see somebody sticking it to them.
Nah, seems that HP have only shipped top-end Vista models to reviewers. I guess that by shipping top-end hardware with the most resource-hungry OS they thought it would create results representitive of an average configuration.
50M units isn't a crazy amount for the kind of market they're aiming for - the pre-release publicity was pushing it as a "lifestyle accessory" which people would buy as unthinkingly as a new mobile phone. For comparison, the Razr sold 50M units in about two years, the iPod shifted over 100M in 6 years, and the Nokia 3310 sold 126M in about 5 years.
The reviews seem to suggest that although the 1.6GHz CPU can run Vista Business perfectly soundly, it keeps the temps high and the fan running and only gets a scant 2 hours out of the basic battery. So it probably shouldn't be on Vista.
Yes, what I'm really looking for in a carry-anywhere writing machine is a 15.6-inch, 5lb desktop replacement.
It's called the Mini-Note. It's aimed at the education market in general as well as "mobile professionals", not just schools. It can be configured with SuSE, Vista Home Basic, or Vista Business, and storage goes from 4GB SSDs to 160GB 7200RPM hard drives (accelerometer-based drive protection features are included for the HDD versions). The Netbook is something else entirely, and is made by Intel. There are dozens of reviews of the machine out already with better info than that Yahoo article. The HP press release is a good start.
I've seen it a lot too, but only really on ADSL connections. On cable it's nowhere to be seen. Of course, Virgin are going to be agressively snooping to look for dodgy P2P traffic in exchange for (supposedly unsnooped) free binary newsgroups access, so I doubt cable's going to be a good choice for long.
The generic name for that gadget is a nicotine inhaler. They were reasonably successful over here in the UK in the 1990s (Nicroette still sell theirs) but they don't seem to bother marketing much now. Of course, it never looked much like a cigarette which is a drawback. You could disguise it in a cigar, I guess.
I suppose they wouldn't go for "MS Shithouse", no matter how appropriately robust it sounds.
What day is it? Who am I? Where is the President?!
It's number one now... based on a story saying it was number one in January and that may have been a temporary artefact of gift card sales? What?
It's funny you should bring that up, it was mentioned a while back that Microsoft are in talks with Asus about doing a version of Windows 7 that's suited to these low-end machines. It'll be interesting to see how the "race to the bottom" affects Windows bloat - if the market forces Microsoft to create a kernel which can scale from 1GHz ULV machines to Core 2 Quads, then this could actually (gasp) result in a version of Windows which is worth upgrading to out of choice.
"When you see something decline with increasing velocity, it's a concern". Especially when it's a chair making its way down from office building above you.
I'm thinking rocks. They have a lot of those.
Don't be a fool, everyone knows that the special cameras created homeopathic van Allen radiation in the regiolith which destroyed the original set through a Golden Ratio masonic pyramid conspiracy.
That's not a Vista-specific problem, I had to do the same reactivation process when doing an HDD swap on my XP machine, on 3 non-consecutive occasions.
I dunno, the Wikipedia articles on most things have those sorts of tags. "More references", "better references" and "please clear it up a big" are basic policies. It's just as likely to be legitimate editors as Scientlologists.
It wasn't released-then-pulled. An update for the updater app, which would've allowed people to install SP1 in future, was pulled when it turned out it borked systems. SP1 itself has yet to hit any form of Windows Update.
DRM and other crackdowns on how we can obtain, and what we can do with, legitimate digital copies of programming are giving customers massive disincentives to seek these legitimate copies out. Even ignoring price, the best product currently available is the pirated one, so it's no wonder that customers are voting with their mice.
Wikipedia admins can, and often do, remove versions of pages from the history when they portray the editor of those pages in a bad light, or in particularly serious examples, edits which portray the Wikipedia or the subject of the article in a bad light. For example, Merkey's rants against Wikipedia in the arbitration committee meeting that banned him in 2007 have been hidden to preserve his dignity.
You're damn right that none of the assertions have been substantiated. Here's the timeline:
October 15, 2005: Merkey has been involved in a massive edit dispute over the contents of his page, and has been making legal threats left, right, and centre. Following an arbitration commitee discussion, he gets banned indefinitely for his behavior.
May 2006: Merkey makes a donation. Jimbo Wales semi-protects the article and scrubs it, calling for a fresh start and an end to Merkey-Wikipedia hostilities. That's SEMI-PROTECTS. The Merkey article was as restricted as the one on the Xbox 360. Established ditors could, and did, begin rewriting. Merkey is still banned.
January, 2007: Merkey asks nicely and gets unbanned by the admins.
May, 2007: Another edit dispute, and Merkey finds himself before the ArbCom again. He makes all sorts of legal threats, demands to be made a sysop so he can get articles to express his "right" view more accurately, and gives the general impression that if he goes down, he's taking the Wikimedia Foundation with him. Banned, for a year.
10 March, 2008: A passing admin removes the semi-protection. Now anonymous, as well as registered, users can edit the page.
Now:Merkey, still banned, comes out of the woodworks claiming that he paid money and therefore got special treatment, a Jimbo-only version of his page, etc. etc. He's spent most of the time since his donation banned from editing!
Or you could go out, and find the paper citation, and put it in the article.