If this organization says one in two PC's, how are they defining a PC? Is a PC a computer that is already running XP, or is it any computer running any version of Windows including those still on 3.1 or 2000? Or even worse (for sake of their statistic), is it any personal computer, including Macs, or personal linux boxes being used for simple tasks with a simple 8mb graphics card?
I'd guess that almost half of all PC's today can't even adequately run Windows XP without being bogged down because of graphics and RAM requirements.
While I'm sure that many PC's won't be able to run the new Aero Glass of Windows Vista, I think the Researcher should have been a little bit more specific about his estimate. People have uses for computers without upgrading to the "latest and greatest."
Yeah, same thing happened to me and TWO epson brand printers! I thought I was getting a deal buying generic print cartridges for both my inkjet and my fathers. Little did I know that a couple months later, the printers would be rendered completely useless for color printing. Even after constant "Cleaning of the print heads" from the installed software, the blues would come out magenta, and there would be HUGE gaps in anything yellow. This happened with BOTH printers, and even after replacing the ink with a second set of the cheesy cheap ink carts. This is possibly because I had used the Epson cartridges that came with the printers first, and it reactived with whatever leftover Epson ink was in there, you you've said. Finally, I put in an official cartridge in my epson, but I was receiving the same flawed results.
Since then, I've bought another inkjet printer for myself, and vowed to stick with only official brand print cartidges.
Half Moon Bay? I don't beleive it. The place is filled with some of California's finest tractor tugging rednecks. The place gets most of their money from pumpkins and christmas trees. I live about 30 minutes south of there, and only visit for the beaches. /flamebait
anyways, here's an article. It seems to only be talking about a 5 block area of the downtown area, unlike the place this article is about, Grand Haven, Michigan, where the WiFi is city-wide.
Sports on Segways are going to be the next BIG THING. Just wait, we'll be cheering Segway baseball, Segway basketball, and Segway football with the cutest Segway cheerleaders in no time!
At least, that's what the networks are going to be putting on TV. XFL anybody?
www.cantenna.com
This was brought up in a chat the other day as we were discussing wiFi options. I read another story (can't find the article now) about a man who set up his own antenna, to get internet from the Starbucks several blocks away.
From The Article: Longer play. Coast-to-coasters rejoice: the new iPods are rated for 12 hours of rockin' between charges--a 50 percent boost in battery life. This is accomplished, Apple says, not by a heavier battery but diligent conservation of power.
Better battery conservation? Can anybody tell me if this would be a hardware or software thing? I have a 3G iPod, and if they found a way to give it better battery conservation simply by updating the firmware, I'll be sure to rejoice!
...I think that the developers have missed one important design: a black (or dark) theme. Is it just me who thinks that a black iPod would just look sweet?
Well, White has often been used to signify cleanliness, and purity (Hospitals, Weddings Gowns, etc.) Maybe the developers were thinking that the white is a great metaphor for the iPod. A PURE(ly great) music player.
Their website has this picture displaying products based on their architecture.
Of note: Microsoft, Portalplayer (iPod Interface), Philips, Redhat, IBM, LG, NetBSD, Texas Instruments. WOW, there's too many to list them all, but this is pretty crazy. Looks like a monopoly to me, but does anybody know the names of ARM's competitors?
"My mom certainly has no clue that there even IS anything other than IE to use. Most of our mothers probably don't even realize that IE is not "the Internet".
Wow is this true. not just mothers however. Too many times have I asked my computer-illiterate friends to open up "Interent Explorer" only to hear a response like, "Huh? You mean the Internet? Here..." and then open up IE.
Well, from reading earlier posts, I think it's fair to say that the slashdot community is above and beyond searching for wares on p2p networks such as kazaa. We use methods such as IRC, Usenet, etc. These networks are much safer, because they contain a much smaller percentage of lamers. Ok, so lets go under the assumption that there's more lamer computer users than techies like us. They don't have the knowledge or brain capacity to understand IRC and usenet (sarcasm). So they turn to the p2p networks, like kazaa. It's true. Do a search on kazaa for "Photoshop" or "Nero" and you WILL come up with results. That's proof that people use p2p networks to trade wares. And if more people use p2p networks, than use IRC or Usenet, there may be a connection between p2p networks and software losses.
Oh, and lets not forget. In the past year or so, BitTorrent has become HUGE. There are dozens of sites now that offer trackers for torrents. And let's be honest guys, a lot of it's usage isn't as legitimate as we had hoped. Anybody know if BitTorrent is included in these figures?
I believe if you use FileVault, the password for that cannot be recovered no matter what.
In addition, there are firmware ways to disable singleuser boots that can be used to access files.
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If this organization says one in two PC's, how are they defining a PC? Is a PC a computer that is already running XP, or is it any computer running any version of Windows including those still on 3.1 or 2000? Or even worse (for sake of their statistic), is it any personal computer, including Macs, or personal linux boxes being used for simple tasks with a simple 8mb graphics card?
I'd guess that almost half of all PC's today can't even adequately run Windows XP without being bogged down because of graphics and RAM requirements.
While I'm sure that many PC's won't be able to run the new Aero Glass of Windows Vista, I think the Researcher should have been a little bit more specific about his estimate. People have uses for computers without upgrading to the "latest and greatest."
and link to research press release: http://www.jonpeddie.com/index.shtml#vista
Yeah, same thing happened to me and TWO epson brand printers! I thought I was getting a deal buying generic print cartridges for both my inkjet and my fathers. Little did I know that a couple months later, the printers would be rendered completely useless for color printing. Even after constant "Cleaning of the print heads" from the installed software, the blues would come out magenta, and there would be HUGE gaps in anything yellow. This happened with BOTH printers, and even after replacing the ink with a second set of the cheesy cheap ink carts. This is possibly because I had used the Epson cartridges that came with the printers first, and it reactived with whatever leftover Epson ink was in there, you you've said. Finally, I put in an official cartridge in my epson, but I was receiving the same flawed results.
Since then, I've bought another inkjet printer for myself, and vowed to stick with only official brand print cartidges.
The widget doesn't actually run when it's installed! It is simply placed in your dashboard. It won't run until you:
1) Activate Dashboard
2) Press the + sign to turn on widgets
3) Select the widget you want to have turned on
It's essentially the same as opening an unknown file on your desktop, except instead of being on your desktop, it's in the dashboard.
From the NFO:
not one member in our group name is frank and not one of the 3 members did the interview.
Hey, as the article said, Frank was a pseudonym. And why would whichever member that did the interview admit to it?
the other 10% consisted of him looking at pr0n
Half Moon Bay? I don't beleive it. The place is filled with some of California's finest tractor tugging rednecks. The place gets most of their money from pumpkins and christmas trees. I live about 30 minutes south of there, and only visit for the beaches.
/flamebait
anyways, here's an article. It seems to only be talking about a 5 block area of the downtown area, unlike the place this article is about, Grand Haven, Michigan, where the WiFi is city-wide.
"AC Propulsion's first car to transmit excess power was this all-electric VW Beetle, before it was totaled. "
GOTTA love the caption on the picture of the first car to sell electricity back to the power grids!
Sports on Segways are going to be the next BIG THING. Just wait, we'll be cheering Segway baseball, Segway basketball, and Segway football with the cutest Segway cheerleaders in no time!
At least, that's what the networks are going to be putting on TV. XFL anybody?
www.cantenna.com This was brought up in a chat the other day as we were discussing wiFi options. I read another story (can't find the article now) about a man who set up his own antenna, to get internet from the Starbucks several blocks away.
From The Article: Longer play. Coast-to-coasters rejoice: the new iPods are rated for 12 hours of rockin' between charges--a 50 percent boost in battery life. This is accomplished, Apple says, not by a heavier battery but diligent conservation of power.
Better battery conservation? Can anybody tell me if this would be a hardware or software thing? I have a 3G iPod, and if they found a way to give it better battery conservation simply by updating the firmware, I'll be sure to rejoice!
...I think that the developers have missed one important design: a black (or dark) theme. Is it just me who thinks that a black iPod would just look sweet?
Well, White has often been used to signify cleanliness, and purity (Hospitals, Weddings Gowns, etc.) Maybe the developers were thinking that the white is a great metaphor for the iPod. A PURE(ly great) music player.
I was joking. Besides, this one post on slashdot that you read provides no evidence that I use slashdot more than you do.
>I suggest better prizes. Y'know, like a girlfriend
Sure, I'll donate mine, the chick is a skanky bitch.
>> And asking someone out on IM is just bad.
>Yeah, but dumping someone on IM is worse.
How about text messaging? Bad or not, it's not like I'm gonna be talkin to THAT ho again!
Their website has this picture displaying products based on their architecture.
Of note: Microsoft, Portalplayer (iPod Interface), Philips, Redhat, IBM, LG, NetBSD, Texas Instruments. WOW, there's too many to list them all, but this is pretty crazy.
Looks like a monopoly to me, but does anybody know the names of ARM's competitors?
But does it double as a remote control for Videolan?
C li cker/
http://homepage.mac.com/jonassalling/Shareware/
"My mom certainly has no clue that there even IS anything other than IE to use. Most of our mothers probably don't even realize that IE is not "the Internet". Wow is this true. not just mothers however. Too many times have I asked my computer-illiterate friends to open up "Interent Explorer" only to hear a response like, "Huh? You mean the Internet? Here..." and then open up IE.
You better keep quiet unless you want to get fragged.
Well, from reading earlier posts, I think it's fair to say that the slashdot community is above and beyond searching for wares on p2p networks such as kazaa. We use methods such as IRC, Usenet, etc. These networks are much safer, because they contain a much smaller percentage of lamers.
Ok, so lets go under the assumption that there's more lamer computer users than techies like us. They don't have the knowledge or brain capacity to understand IRC and usenet (sarcasm). So they turn to the p2p networks, like kazaa. It's true. Do a search on kazaa for "Photoshop" or "Nero" and you WILL come up with results. That's proof that people use p2p networks to trade wares. And if more people use p2p networks, than use IRC or Usenet, there may be a connection between p2p networks and software losses.
Oh, and lets not forget. In the past year or so, BitTorrent has become HUGE. There are dozens of sites now that offer trackers for torrents. And let's be honest guys, a lot of it's usage isn't as legitimate as we had hoped. Anybody know if BitTorrent is included in these figures?
Wait, does this mean you watched Gigli? Ugh, I downloaded it, but never made it past 15 minutes of the flick.
Now that iTunes includes Apples own Lossless Encoder, one could fill up a 60GB iPod easy using the new lossless format for all of their CD's.
There are several recent articles praising the Apple Lossless Encoder if you are skeptical of using the new format.
And I know I could go for a 60GB iPod considering I have about 71GB of MP3.
I believe if you use FileVault, the password for that cannot be recovered no matter what. In addition, there are firmware ways to disable singleuser boots that can be used to access files.
4-5 downloads?
Maybe it's because Apple doesn't write checks for less than 25 cents. lol
uhh, obviously!
It's CONVENIENT for me to not have to pay 15-20 dollars for a stinkin CD!