We still use Windows 98 very regularly. My parents bought our family a computer in '99, and said if we wanted a better one, but it ourselves. Me and 3 of my siblings have bought ourselves newer computers, but my mother and brother still use the '98 machine every day with no problems whatsoever.
Computers may be cheap, but free is a hard price to beat.
DRM? Is it even (legally) possible to take a screenshot of a full-res HD DVD or Blu-Ray movie? I think it needs an encrypted channel to the monitor or it refuses to display in full-res
You can mute the microphone.
In Windows, go to Volume Control, Options>Properties, select Recording, then either select a different recording device, or move the slider under Microphone all the way down
I wouldn't call mouse gestures dumb... it drives me crazy using Firefox on other people's computers who don't have it installed.
It makes things so much quicker and easier.
I don't know how the monitor, which as far as I know just receives a whole bunch of pixels to display, would be able to tell where edges were to apply the AA to...
The graphics card knows "This is the edge of a polygon... I can AA this" but the monitor just knows "This is a blue pixel next to another slightly different colored blue pixel"
Many other sites besides microsoft update are redirected.
I've had to fix computers who's HOSTS file redirects google, microsoft, ebay, amazon, mcafee, norton, et al, to ad-laden websites that just confuse the user. Some even try to trick you by adding many blank lines to the host file, so at first glance upon opening the host file it looks fine, but if you scroll down several pages you notice that there are dozens of redirected sites.
Safeguarding your host file would be a very important thing to do, whether you think so or not.
That's cool and all that they did that, but it'll suck when it comes time to move it. Imagine the weight of a computer, plus gallons of oil, PLUS it sloshes around when you move it, so it's hard to keep a balance.
Definitely not good for a computer that gets moved around a lot.... which is probably why it is a desktop and not a notebook:)
To get the date and time, I'd think that most consumer printers would need to be sent the information through a printer driver (although I'm sure more expensive printers, which these dots are probably printed on, would have a built-in clock).
It would be interesting if someone had a cheaper printer with no-built in clock experienced these yellow dots, and if cheaper printers do have them, to find out what else the print driver is sending besides the document.
The PDF order form was only made August 2005... maybe they had there system date set wrong in 2003? Or maybe they just didn't start selling them 2 years ago.
Which came out first? The N64 or the Playstation's analog controllers?
It seems to me that the Playstation's controllers came out first (I know the original PS controllers didn't have the analog sticks), but I don't know.
Anyone have any dates on who the first major player with the analog stick was? Nintendo or Sony?
I understand these are just 'drafts' of ads, but they can't even decide on numbers.
"50% faster, 66% more energy efficient"
"In independent lab tests versus Dell, engineers concluded it saved 56% in energy costs"
"About 63% more energy than the new industry standard Sun x64 server"
Come on, is it 56%, 63% or 66%? At least make all of your ads say the same thing.
My 54Mbps wireless usually get about 33... I have *never* seen it go to 54Mbps. My wired network (100Mbps) has transfer speeds of a little less than 10,000KB/s, which I figure to be about 80% of the rated speed. My wireless connection (54Mbps) gets transfer speeds around 3,000KB/s, which is closer to 45% of the rated speed. You are either very lucky, or wrong, with your wireless reaching it's rated speed. Enjoy your 8 Gbps cable modem...
What was meant was, all of the fixes they did were javascript vulnerability fixes.
It should have been something like,
Firefox has been updated to 1.0.4 and they have fixed a few critical security holes, all of which were javascript vulnerabilities
I recall there being some sort of lawsuit about Acuvue selling there 3 week contacts as disposables (1 day)...
I really don't see what's wrong with this... but apparently a lot of people do, so I dunno...
We've ordered 3 Dell's on some preferred-accounts employee purchase program through my dad's work, they come within a week:)
Complete with all your credit cards, and ads.
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Anyone else notice on the pre-order page... "Why do you want a Pocket Vault?" -- "Coupons/Promotions deliverd(sic) to my wallet."
Just what I want: To open my wallet to pay for something, and before I have a chance to select the card I want to use, I'm told about the interest rates on another company's credit card.
200$ for a billboard that helps steal credit cards?
We got a Dell early 2001, and it shipped with a 45gb 75GXP harddrive. It worked great for 2 years.
In the last year of our 3-year warranty, we had 1 replacement harddrive DOA, another only lasted a month. They sent us an 80gb harddrive (also an IBM GXP, not sure whether it was 120GXP or 180GXP). I was very happy with nearly double the harddrive space. Too bad it only lasted 2 months. After that, they sent us another 45gig 75GXP, and our warranty expired. The harddrive failed shortly after our warranty expired.
So 4 replacement harddrives later, I was SOL, and the India-based tech support was not much help.
So, in conclusion, we went out and got a 120gig Western Digital for about 80$ and have been happy for nearly a year, no problems.
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We still use Windows 98 very regularly. My parents bought our family a computer in '99, and said if we wanted a better one, but it ourselves. Me and 3 of my siblings have bought ourselves newer computers, but my mother and brother still use the '98 machine every day with no problems whatsoever.
Computers may be cheap, but free is a hard price to beat.
And you think for such a simple site, they could have easily made it pass W3C validation.
DRM? Is it even (legally) possible to take a screenshot of a full-res HD DVD or Blu-Ray movie? I think it needs an encrypted channel to the monitor or it refuses to display in full-res
You can mute the microphone.
In Windows, go to Volume Control, Options>Properties, select Recording, then either select a different recording device, or move the slider under Microphone all the way down
Yes. I can just about guarantee you were the absolute only one.
I wouldn't call mouse gestures dumb... it drives me crazy using Firefox on other people's computers who don't have it installed. It makes things so much quicker and easier.
I bet porn for blind users isn't quite as good.
I hadn't heard anything about airports being threatened by ballistic missiles...
Is this a genuine threat, or just some company thought "Hey, I bet I can get them to buy this!"
I don't know how the monitor, which as far as I know just receives a whole bunch of pixels to display, would be able to tell where edges were to apply the AA to...
The graphics card knows "This is the edge of a polygon... I can AA this" but the monitor just knows "This is a blue pixel next to another slightly different colored blue pixel"
Jeeze, I come here to read the comments and there aren't any?
Come on, this is Slashdot, I'm not going to read the article.
For some reason I thought you were talking about running it on POS systems.. you know, those Point Of Sale touch screen restaurants have.
Many other sites besides microsoft update are redirected.
I've had to fix computers who's HOSTS file redirects google, microsoft, ebay, amazon, mcafee, norton, et al, to ad-laden websites that just confuse the user. Some even try to trick you by adding many blank lines to the host file, so at first glance upon opening the host file it looks fine, but if you scroll down several pages you notice that there are dozens of redirected sites.
Safeguarding your host file would be a very important thing to do, whether you think so or not.
That's cool and all that they did that, but it'll suck when it comes time to move it. Imagine the weight of a computer, plus gallons of oil, PLUS it sloshes around when you move it, so it's hard to keep a balance. Definitely not good for a computer that gets moved around a lot.... which is probably why it is a desktop and not a notebook :)
To get the date and time, I'd think that most consumer printers would need to be sent the information through a printer driver (although I'm sure more expensive printers, which these dots are probably printed on, would have a built-in clock). It would be interesting if someone had a cheaper printer with no-built in clock experienced these yellow dots, and if cheaper printers do have them, to find out what else the print driver is sending besides the document.
The PDF order form was only made August 2005... maybe they had there system date set wrong in 2003? Or maybe they just didn't start selling them 2 years ago.
Which came out first? The N64 or the Playstation's analog controllers? It seems to me that the Playstation's controllers came out first (I know the original PS controllers didn't have the analog sticks), but I don't know. Anyone have any dates on who the first major player with the analog stick was? Nintendo or Sony?
I understand these are just 'drafts' of ads, but they can't even decide on numbers. "50% faster, 66% more energy efficient" "In independent lab tests versus Dell, engineers concluded it saved 56% in energy costs" "About 63% more energy than the new industry standard Sun x64 server" Come on, is it 56%, 63% or 66%? At least make all of your ads say the same thing.
My 54Mbps wireless usually get about 33... I have *never* seen it go to 54Mbps. My wired network (100Mbps) has transfer speeds of a little less than 10,000KB/s, which I figure to be about 80% of the rated speed. My wireless connection (54Mbps) gets transfer speeds around 3,000KB/s, which is closer to 45% of the rated speed. You are either very lucky, or wrong, with your wireless reaching it's rated speed. Enjoy your 8 Gbps cable modem...
What was meant was, all of the fixes they did were javascript vulnerability fixes. It should have been something like, Firefox has been updated to 1.0.4 and they have fixed a few critical security holes, all of which were javascript vulnerabilities
XBOX with emulators :)
of course, you have to use the XBOX controller, which doesn't work quite as well as a good ol' NES controller on some games.
I recall there being some sort of lawsuit about Acuvue selling there 3 week contacts as disposables (1 day)... I really don't see what's wrong with this... but apparently a lot of people do, so I dunno...
We've ordered 3 Dell's on some preferred-accounts employee purchase program through my dad's work, they come within a week :)
Anyone else notice on the pre-order page... "Why do you want a Pocket Vault?" -- "Coupons/Promotions deliverd(sic) to my wallet." Just what I want: To open my wallet to pay for something, and before I have a chance to select the card I want to use, I'm told about the interest rates on another company's credit card. 200$ for a billboard that helps steal credit cards?
We got a Dell early 2001, and it shipped with a 45gb 75GXP harddrive. It worked great for 2 years.
In the last year of our 3-year warranty, we had 1 replacement harddrive DOA, another only lasted a month. They sent us an 80gb harddrive (also an IBM GXP, not sure whether it was 120GXP or 180GXP). I was very happy with nearly double the harddrive space. Too bad it only lasted 2 months. After that, they sent us another 45gig 75GXP, and our warranty expired. The harddrive failed shortly after our warranty expired.
So 4 replacement harddrives later, I was SOL, and the India-based tech support was not much help.
So, in conclusion, we went out and got a 120gig Western Digital for about 80$ and have been happy for nearly a year, no problems.