This laptop is designed for people who need casual portability, like taking the machine home with you at night or on a weekend.
I think it's just a blatant attempt at one-upsmanship on Apple's famous 17" Powerbook (yes, I'm aware there are other seventeen inch laptops in existance).
It's funny how people complain about having to show their ID and being tracked everywhere and fortifying borders for 'national security'. They make claims that if things get much worse they're moving to Canada. They seem to miss the big picture.
With all these sealed national borders and national ID card initiatives getting pushed through Congress, you may wake up one day and find you couldn't leave the U.S. if you wanted to.
Maybe we all need to take a breather and reread select chapters from Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.
Who wants to bet that Microsoft will continue this silly strategy with Longhorn? I can see it now: Longhorn Home, Longhorn Professional, Longhorn Advanced Server, Longhorn Lite, Longhorn Media Edition, Longhorn Tablet Edition, Longhorn Pocket Edition... And what will developers target? (This requires Longhorn Home, with some bits of Longhorn Server, but is incompatible with the display driver in Longhorn Tablet...)
The variations have been known for a little while and can be found here.
"The number one reason we are sticking with Microsoft though is textbooks. The textbooks are written for Microsoft Office. The buisness teachers, for the most part, are not savy enough to explain how to find similar functionality in a different program. If they follow the step by step in the book and it doesn't work, we get a call. Anyone know of any good textbooks for Open Source software?"
Sounds like you guys (well, the business department anyway) should be looking for good textbooks period--even if you stick with MS Office. (Though I don't know if any exist in that genre.)
Maybe they should be looking for business teachers who know a little bit more about business software. The teachers appear to be as useful as the lousy step-by-step textbooks if they can't figure out OOo for themselves when the MS Office instructions don't match up.
It's about people realizing they need to take responsability for keeping themselves and their children safe from online predators, instad of expecting someone to be a parent for them.
It's also about a corporation making promises it really can't deliver on, even with background checks.
The potential predator was only caught because a co-worker got nosy. Let's not read this as some kind of peer review buddy system that is designed to have employees self-regulate their department, which is what AOL will be spinning this into.
"Today's devices require the use of two hands; Microsoft wants to reduce this to one. Usability tests showed, however, that some users had difficulty adjusting to the thumb movements"
Does anyone else find this amusing when compared to the Apple one button/two button mouse arguement?
Except, one reason I use Adblock is so I don't have to wait for hugely colorful, animated, flashy ads to load over my dialup connection. I can get on with what I came there to do: browse the web.
Paramount has declared that they will not be accepting any amount of money from fans to continue to produce Star Trek Enterprise.
Because we can't be giving people the idea that, you know, the audience ha anything to do with whether shows stay or get axed. That's for suits in a skyscraper to decide, not the viewing public.
The other night my sister was trying to open a link in her Yahoo mail, but was unable to.
The reason was the link led to a PDF file. I had just updated Adobe Reader from 6.0.x to 7 and that involved agreeing to a new EULA on first launch. But I hadn't done that. She couldn't click Agree because she was on an non-admin account (the EULA screen just ignores the click). She had to force quit Firefox to regain control of the machine. Also, there was a Windows Journal Viewer Insatller that gets triggered automatically by Adobe Reader. You have to be in an admin account to install it and the only way to bypass it is to click cancel on the installer over and over again (like a 12-20 times, literally, it launches again and again). This installer has been a thorn in the side of me and my coworkers on the work LAN for awhile.
To fix my sister's problem. I had to log in (I'm admin), open her email and try to open the link so I could agree to the new EULA, and maybe the Journal Viewer finished too in the background, I couldn't tell. Then she could open PDF links normally.
With silliness like this is it any wonder everyone runs their user accounts as admin?
Join the club. I have the same issue with T-Mobile. I'm happy with the service overall, but their phones are just lousy. Nothing slim and high feature. I keep seeing the ones I'm interested in end up exclusively in Cingular dealers' windows.
I guess this is the price you pay for not being on Cingular or Sprint's rousters.
Meanwhile, there will be a second shuttle on standby, just in case the first one has problems after being hit by foam, etc.
And what will that second shuttle be used for? Wasn't the result of the first shuttle being damaged by foam that it blew up? The second shuttle obviously wont be needed for any rescue operation. Are they going to keep a second crew as well, on standby to take over the mission?
If so, I don't think I'll be the first to call NASA a bunch of insensitive clods for going ahead with their plans instead of waiting and mourning for our lost astronauts, dying in the name of science.
Notice the inclusion of a RC0 build, which is unusual. The last time Microsoft shipped an RC0 build of a Windows product, I believe, was with Windows Millennium Edition (Me)....
Though these plans could change, Microsoft is currently planning to ship an amazing array of product editions, or SKUs, in the Windows Longhorn family. These are the currently-scheduled versions that will ship in May 2006:
Longhorn Starter Edition Longhorn Home Edition Longhorn Media Center Edition Longhorn Professional Edition Longhorn Small Business Edition Longhorn Mobility/Tablet PC Edition Longhorn Premium Edition
None of these product names are final, of course, and all versions except Starter Edition will ship in both 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x64) variants.
So technically, there will be 13 versions of Longhorn.
Wow, this release is looking more and more interesting all the time.
Wasn't that the mantra when it was in its pre-1.0 days. I remember people complaining then, but the response was "it's not yet 1.0, what do you expect".
Yes, the original probelm was some people were getting weird browser behavior when they installed directly on top of the old version of Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox. When they unintalled completely and reinstalled form scratch the probelms went away.
I know it usually works when you install directly on top and old version. I didn't even remove the old verisons when I first started using Firebird, but when the double add/remove programs thing started and Mozillazine made a bunch of noise about taking out the old version first (around 0.8 I believe), I started to.
I only posted this because the parent poster was complaining specifically about the extra entries in Add/Remove Programs. I don't feel it should be necessary to remove the old version manually, the installer for the new version should do it for you if it needs to.
You should be uninstalling the old version before you install the new one.
All you bookmarks and extensions will still be there after you install the new version. Those are saved in your profile directory, which is not deleted when you uninstall the old Firefox.
Mozilla has an advantage with the fact that they can release a new version practically anytime, with updates nightly or anything. IE updates have to go out to everyone using it, and in general the people will not know as much, therefore creating more trouble.
What's ironic is one would assume Microsoft would have the upper hand in the updates game since they have their automatic update mechanism to changes things a few KB at a time if they wish.
Whereas installing a Firefox update usually means reinstalling the entire application.
Wont this lead to lots of overhead on the connections for encryption/security? If everyone is using wireless to connect all their printers, keyboards, mice, ect, there exists a very real threat of data theft over the air, especially with the range of WiFi compared to existing Bluetooth devices. Forget spyware keyloggers on your machine, how about ones across the street!
We'll need a secure channel of communications for every device, even one as low bandwidth consumption as a keyboard.
I notice on the Party Shuffle sometimes in a ten song section of it I'll have the same song listed two or three times. And while I have the "play higher rated songs more often" checkbox on, the song being repeated isn't necessisarily a high rated or highly played track. Maybe iTunes thinks being helpful by playing something that I frequently don't listen to?
I just chalk it up to a bad shuffle mechanism.
In fact, I already had Party Shuffle before Apple added it, and I like my verion better. I have a smart playlist set up as:
Match all of the following conditions:
My rating is greater than 3 stars
Last played is not in the last two weeks
Genre does not contain audiobook
Genre does not contain comedy
Genre does not contain television
Genre does not contain theme
Limit to seventy minutes selected by random (so I can burn a CD for the car quickly if I choose).
Live Updating.
The only downside is I can only skip tracks until I reach the bottom of the list, as new tracks don't fill in until a track is played and taken off the list for not meeting the "last played in" stipulation.
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This laptop is designed for people who need casual portability, like taking the machine home with you at night or on a weekend.
I think it's just a blatant attempt at one-upsmanship on Apple's famous 17" Powerbook (yes, I'm aware there are other seventeen inch laptops in existance).
With all these sealed national borders and national ID card initiatives getting pushed through Congress, you may wake up one day and find you couldn't leave the U.S. if you wanted to.
Maybe we all need to take a breather and reread select chapters from Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale.
there will be no Natalie Portman covered with hot grits scene then, given it's only a PG-13?
TURN OFF YOUR CAPS LOCK!!!
Wouldn't a severe weather warning be a reason to shout?
The variations have been known for a little while and can be found here.
"The number one reason we are sticking with Microsoft though is textbooks. The textbooks are written for Microsoft Office. The buisness teachers, for the most part, are not savy enough to explain how to find similar functionality in a different program. If they follow the step by step in the book and it doesn't work, we get a call. Anyone know of any good textbooks for Open Source software?"
Sounds like you guys (well, the business department anyway) should be looking for good textbooks period--even if you stick with MS Office. (Though I don't know if any exist in that genre.)
Maybe they should be looking for business teachers who know a little bit more about business software. The teachers appear to be as useful as the lousy step-by-step textbooks if they can't figure out OOo for themselves when the MS Office instructions don't match up.
auto-defragmenting in the background
Like Mac OSX gained in 10.3, a couple years ago.
the ability to have files in more than one folder simultaneously
Like Mac OSX 10.4 has, just now.
and the new ad campaign Microsoft is running to get people excited about Windows
Whoops. That's new. Apple only knows how to get people excited about iPods.
Mentions are also made of the competition from Linux, OS X Tiger, and Google
At least Linux has been upgraded from 'nuisence' to 'competition' in Microsoft's world.
It's about people realizing they need to take responsability for keeping themselves and their children safe from online predators, instad of expecting someone to be a parent for them.
It's also about a corporation making promises it really can't deliver on, even with background checks.
The potential predator was only caught because a co-worker got nosy. Let's not read this as some kind of peer review buddy system that is designed to have employees self-regulate their department, which is what AOL will be spinning this into.
"Today's devices require the use of two hands; Microsoft wants to reduce this to one. Usability tests showed, however, that some users had difficulty adjusting to the thumb movements"
Does anyone else find this amusing when compared to the Apple one button/two button mouse arguement?
Except, one reason I use Adblock is so I don't have to wait for hugely colorful, animated, flashy ads to load over my dialup connection. I can get on with what I came there to do: browse the web.
Paramount has declared that they will not be accepting any amount of money from fans to continue to produce Star Trek Enterprise.
Because we can't be giving people the idea that, you know, the audience ha anything to do with whether shows stay or get axed. That's for suits in a skyscraper to decide, not the viewing public.
The other night my sister was trying to open a link in her Yahoo mail, but was unable to.
The reason was the link led to a PDF file. I had just updated Adobe Reader from 6.0.x to 7 and that involved agreeing to a new EULA on first launch. But I hadn't done that. She couldn't click Agree because she was on an non-admin account (the EULA screen just ignores the click). She had to force quit Firefox to regain control of the machine. Also, there was a Windows Journal Viewer Insatller that gets triggered automatically by Adobe Reader. You have to be in an admin account to install it and the only way to bypass it is to click cancel on the installer over and over again (like a 12-20 times, literally, it launches again and again). This installer has been a thorn in the side of me and my coworkers on the work LAN for awhile.
To fix my sister's problem. I had to log in (I'm admin), open her email and try to open the link so I could agree to the new EULA, and maybe the Journal Viewer finished too in the background, I couldn't tell. Then she could open PDF links normally.
With silliness like this is it any wonder everyone runs their user accounts as admin?
"Welcome! ... You've got voicemail!"
Slashback is back after a long absence being devoured by gnomes.
So will there be a Kslashback to fill in?
Join the club. I have the same issue with T-Mobile. I'm happy with the service overall, but their phones are just lousy. Nothing slim and high feature. I keep seeing the ones I'm interested in end up exclusively in Cingular dealers' windows.
I guess this is the price you pay for not being on Cingular or Sprint's rousters.
Meanwhile, there will be a second shuttle on standby, just in case the first one has problems after being hit by foam, etc.
And what will that second shuttle be used for? Wasn't the result of the first shuttle being damaged by foam that it blew up? The second shuttle obviously wont be needed for any rescue operation. Are they going to keep a second crew as well, on standby to take over the mission?
If so, I don't think I'll be the first to call NASA a bunch of insensitive clods for going ahead with their plans instead of waiting and mourning for our lost astronauts, dying in the name of science.
that most consumers are as smart as primates.
From Thurmont's site (emphasis mine):
...
Notice the inclusion of a RC0 build, which is unusual. The last time Microsoft shipped an RC0 build of a Windows product, I believe, was with Windows Millennium Edition (Me).
Though these plans could change, Microsoft is currently planning to ship an amazing array of product editions, or SKUs, in the Windows Longhorn family. These are the currently-scheduled versions that will ship in May 2006:
Longhorn Starter Edition
Longhorn Home Edition
Longhorn Media Center Edition
Longhorn Professional Edition
Longhorn Small Business Edition
Longhorn Mobility/Tablet PC Edition
Longhorn Premium Edition
None of these product names are final, of course, and all versions except Starter Edition will ship in both 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x64) variants.
So technically, there will be 13 versions of Longhorn.
Wow, this release is looking more and more interesting all the time.
Wasn't that the mantra when it was in its pre-1.0 days. I remember people complaining then, but the response was "it's not yet 1.0, what do you expect".
Yes, the original probelm was some people were getting weird browser behavior when they installed directly on top of the old version of Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox. When they unintalled completely and reinstalled form scratch the probelms went away.
I know it usually works when you install directly on top and old version. I didn't even remove the old verisons when I first started using Firebird, but when the double add/remove programs thing started and Mozillazine made a bunch of noise about taking out the old version first (around 0.8 I believe), I started to.
I only posted this because the parent poster was complaining specifically about the extra entries in Add/Remove Programs. I don't feel it should be necessary to remove the old version manually, the installer for the new version should do it for you if it needs to.
You should be uninstalling the old version before you install the new one.
All you bookmarks and extensions will still be there after you install the new version. Those are saved in your profile directory, which is not deleted when you uninstall the old Firefox.
Mozilla has an advantage with the fact that they can release a new version practically anytime, with updates nightly or anything. IE updates have to go out to everyone using it, and in general the people will not know as much, therefore creating more trouble.
What's ironic is one would assume Microsoft would have the upper hand in the updates game since they have their automatic update mechanism to changes things a few KB at a time if they wish.
Whereas installing a Firefox update usually means reinstalling the entire application.
Wont this lead to lots of overhead on the connections for encryption/security? If everyone is using wireless to connect all their printers, keyboards, mice, ect, there exists a very real threat of data theft over the air, especially with the range of WiFi compared to existing Bluetooth devices. Forget spyware keyloggers on your machine, how about ones across the street!
We'll need a secure channel of communications for every device, even one as low bandwidth consumption as a keyboard.
I'm sure the other method will be calling Microsoft so they can make sure you're not using pirated Windows.
It's made me invisible to women for 10 years now.
I wish I could turn it off.
I just chalk it up to a bad shuffle mechanism.
In fact, I already had Party Shuffle before Apple added it, and I like my verion better. I have a smart playlist set up as:
Match all of the following conditions:
My rating is greater than 3 stars
Last played is not in the last two weeks
Genre does not contain audiobook
Genre does not contain comedy
Genre does not contain television
Genre does not contain theme
Limit to seventy minutes selected by random (so I can burn a CD for the car quickly if I choose).
Live Updating.
The only downside is I can only skip tracks until I reach the bottom of the list, as new tracks don't fill in until a track is played and taken off the list for not meeting the "last played in" stipulation.