The Vista interface You've heard all about the Aero interface and Glass effects, but did you know you can select from eight colors and vary the transparency of the see through window elements? There's no denying that the Vista interface is better looking than the bright blue XP Luna look...
So they called it Luna? I thought it was Fisher Price. And 8 colors to choose from? That means it's pre-programmed that way and not dynamic like the current appreance settings you can change.
File management Oh, and Vista has a Backup program you might actually use.
If I can't restore a backup on a different machine, it has no use.
Security There's no question that the new security features work as intended.
As intended by whom? Will it protect the user or just confuse/piss off? Is it just some default interface that professional Windows users will understand how to navigate AND is it easy enough to understand for a common person that may only spend 4 hours a week with the OS?
Performance and reliability Vista is packed with a bunch of features that have hardly received any publicity. You've probably seen the hokey Performance Rating dialog box, which measures your PC's resources and assigns a 1-5 rating. But I'll bet you haven't seen the Performance Diagnostic Console, which is like Task Manager's Performance tab on steroids, or the new Reliability Monitor, which sifts through event logs and helps you track down the cause of crashes and slowdowns.
My above comment hold true for this. How is a common person who uses email and stores images going to benefit from this when they won't even understand what they're looking at? This is more of a powertoy for heavy users and shouldn't be a featured bullet point of why someone should purchase this.
On the web...a suprisingly useful Calendar program
About damn time. Seriously Microsoft, always late to the party. And that should be a bullet point of an application that is included.
That effectively is what DRM is doing. Not able to tap a tune on your desk with your fingers or hum a few bars of a song without paying a fee each and every time to the copyright holders.
Can't you just burn it to a CD say for archival purposes and re-rip? Most people won't notice and re-compresion difference unless you're an audiophile and if you're an audiophile, you wouldn't be buying from iTunes anyway.
Viral marketing will have more play within the next 15 years than traditional methods.
Mattel won't be the one to squirt out platic for a geek fan movie but those off companies that only sell to SunCoast or other comic shops certainly will. At the point that demand outpaces supply, Mattel/Hasbro will listen.
What's wrong with iTunes DRM? It's pretty liberal. Yoo can burn it to a CD and you can transfer it to 5 different computers. Regarding upgrade paths every 3 years, that's 15 years and I think that within that time frame there will be another format that will sucker you into buying the same song again.
And if you want to be sly about it, you can burn it to CD and re-rip it again. I'm not a *AA fanboy by anymeans but content providers do want to make sure that you don't inadvertenly end up as a distributor without paying a cut to the content maker (artist, not distributor).
You must have meant Mike Badnarik because that poodle Kerry would have us all reading from the Quran by now.
Liberals like to label themselves progressives which would be correct, progressively stupid and a progressive loss of common sense. They're more like brain dead zombies with a sense of entitlement instead of hard working folk. They want money form people who earn it to pass it on to health care for self abusers and aids patients for a totally preventable condition. http://extremewisdom.com/images/Best.wmv
I am using a really old 27" NEC monitor that was manufactured in 1986 as my primary entertainment viewing device. It is a professional grade monitor and it was common to see them hanging in television studios at the time. I acquired it in 1988 and it pretty has been in my posession since I unpacked it in 1986. Up until 2000, there hasn't been a comparable monitor like it on the market. It has 3 inputs with a monitor thru and a video 2 thru. The jack for video 2 is on the front which took years for the home market to get that feature.
The color is pretty fantastic for a 20 year old monitor, there is no banding, bleeds, or weak vertical capacitance evident. Currently I have my DirecTV and a DVD player hooked to it. The 3rd input is a Sony VTR connector and is only mono but I did build an adapter for it to accept RCA type inputs.
This is the same monitor that was used to play video game systems from Japan when I had a friend that was an extra early adopter. Because of the 27" tube which is uncommmon for someone my age to have at the time and the stereo inputs in the front, it made it easy for video game fests to be played on that system. It hosted NES, Sega Master System, PCEngine (later Turbografx16), Super Famicom (later Super NES), N64, Sony Playstation, CDi, 3DO, AND I might add, an Atari 520ST
When I acquired my SuperNES as a used machine, it played fine on the same monitor when I purchased it 11 years ago. It only displays in Black and White now so either the video cable is internally brittle because the contacts look fine and I did buff them or there is some corrosion internally to the NES unit.
I still have a Genesis and a Super NES in a gaming box. A few weeks ago, I turned on the Super NES and all the games displayed in B&W. I didn't get all of the games for the NES that I would like to have nor for the Genesis. I sure don't want to spend any money on those consoles if I can only play the games in black and white.
I had N64 with a roomate for a short while and loaned out my copy of Shadows of the Empire and Pilotwings and never got it back.
I really don't want to buy an older N64 just to re-buy those games either mainly because I don't want a 3rd gaming box.
If Wii can take care of SuperNES and N64 and that orchestra thing with the potential of other cool stuff, I'll pay the $250 for it and ditch my Black and White SuperNES.
There was Super Mario 64(whatever the title was), Pilotwings, and Shadows of the Empire, the latter wasn't a Nintendo title but still released either at launch or extrememly shortly there after.
I don't know how any file in/etc would have file permission properties.
I just don't know how
"If that doesn't work, go into regedit (assuming XP Pro...otherwhise go to regedt32) and look for registry entries in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE related to your program. Grant them full access rights to "User" on that part of the tree. 99% of the programs"
and
"read up on cacls [microsoft.com]. Alas, in XP Home it is hard to configure access control on folders. For example: C:\> cacls C:\MyFolder\/T/E/G Users:F"
is easier than a right-click under KDE or Gnome in Linux to select file and folder properties.
We know how to change permissions in *nix using the command line, how is it done in Windows again?
"If that doesn't work, go into regedit (assuming XP Pro...otherwhise go to regedt32) and look for registry entries in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE related to your program. Grant them full access rights to "User" on that part of the tree. 99% of the programs"
and
"read up on cacls [microsoft.com]. Alas, in XP Home it is hard to configure access control on folders. For example: C:\> cacls C:\MyFolder\/T/E/G Users:F"
A right-click under KDE or Gnome under Linux would give the user an almost easier to understand matrix of permissions on a particular file or folder. Command-I under Mac would give easier permissions with the option to delve deeper into *nix type permissions.
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It's funny how no one has mentioned Microsoft, MTV, and the Urge! brand fit into this.
Talk about lockout.
I understand France's position on this but people still have a choice.
With Urge!, you only have 1 way and 1 OS to comply.
And when did MTV only require IE now to view their video content?
It's bundled applications too.
Google Earth vs. Windows Live
Picasa vs. whatever crap Vista will have with it
gmail vs. MSN/Hotmail/Passport
So they called it Luna? I thought it was Fisher Price. And 8 colors to choose from? That means it's pre-programmed that way and not dynamic like the current appreance settings you can change.
If I can't restore a backup on a different machine, it has no use.
As intended by whom? Will it protect the user or just confuse/piss off? Is it just some default interface that professional Windows users will understand how to navigate AND is it easy enough to understand for a common person that may only spend 4 hours a week with the OS?
My above comment hold true for this. How is a common person who uses email and stores images going to benefit from this when they won't even understand what they're looking at? This is more of a powertoy for heavy users and shouldn't be a featured bullet point of why someone should purchase this.
About damn time. Seriously Microsoft, always late to the party.
And that should be a bullet point of an application that is included.
PDF is open.
Interesting sig.
You are born with the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in the United States of America.
If you want to draw a circle in the sand, you are free to do so with your finger.
If a company has a copyright on the 'circle©' you would be infringing on their right to provide you with the official circle when you make that circle in the sand and you would be 'pirating' their copyighted image.
That effectively is what DRM is doing. Not able to tap a tune on your desk with your fingers or hum a few bars of a song without paying a fee each and every time to the copyright holders.
Well there is already a .travel for the travel industry.
Can't you just burn it to a CD say for archival purposes and re-rip? Most people won't notice and re-compresion difference unless you're an audiophile and if you're an audiophile, you wouldn't be buying from iTunes anyway.
I obviously missed the 'on windows' part and only paid attention to the 'commercial' part ;-)
Viral marketing will have more play within the next 15 years than traditional methods.
Mattel won't be the one to squirt out platic for a geek fan movie but those off companies that only sell to SunCoast or other comic shops certainly will.
At the point that demand outpaces supply, Mattel/Hasbro will listen.
Safari
iCab
Marketing and Tie-ins
Pixar surely isn't worried but the first time some toy company wants to foot the bill on some merchandise, they'll pay attention.
What's wrong with iTunes DRM? It's pretty liberal. Yoo can burn it to a CD and you can transfer it to 5 different computers. Regarding upgrade paths every 3 years, that's 15 years and I think that within that time frame there will be another format that will sucker you into buying the same song again.
And if you want to be sly about it, you can burn it to CD and re-rip it again.
I'm not a *AA fanboy by anymeans but content providers do want to make sure that you don't inadvertenly end up as a distributor without paying a cut to the content maker (artist, not distributor).
No, you have it all wrong. Al Gore says it's global warming and it's all the US' fault. Cereal.
If you don't have a car, you don't pay road taxes.
Of you don't have a car, you don't need fuel so there goes those taxes.
Public sidewalks are few and far between as those are funded by private property owners anyway.
Can you give me a stand Kerry is firm on?
Didn't think so.
The democrats are for larger government and openly say it.
The republicans say they aren't for larger government but do it anyway.
To hell with both of them.
Democrats want my money to give, GIVE they say, to some lazy ass bum that doesn't want to work.
I'm not happy with either of the 2 large parties but I dislike the democrats more because of entitlement and redistribution of income.
You must have meant Mike Badnarik because that poodle Kerry would have us all reading from the Quran by now.
Liberals like to label themselves progressives which would be correct, progressively stupid and a progressive loss of common sense. They're more like brain dead zombies with a sense of entitlement instead of hard working folk. They want money form people who earn it to pass it on to health care for self abusers and aids patients for a totally preventable condition.
http://extremewisdom.com/images/Best.wmv
I am using a really old 27" NEC monitor that was manufactured in 1986 as my primary entertainment viewing device. It is a professional grade monitor and it was common to see them hanging in television studios at the time. I acquired it in 1988 and it pretty has been in my posession since I unpacked it in 1986. Up until 2000, there hasn't been a comparable monitor like it on the market.
It has 3 inputs with a monitor thru and a video 2 thru. The jack for video 2 is on the front which took years for the home market to get that feature.
The color is pretty fantastic for a 20 year old monitor, there is no banding, bleeds, or weak vertical capacitance evident.
Currently I have my DirecTV and a DVD player hooked to it. The 3rd input is a Sony VTR connector and is only mono but I did build an adapter for it to accept RCA type inputs.
This is the same monitor that was used to play video game systems from Japan when I had a friend that was an extra early adopter.
Because of the 27" tube which is uncommmon for someone my age to have at the time and the stereo inputs in the front, it made it easy for video game fests to be played on that system.
It hosted NES, Sega Master System, PCEngine (later Turbografx16), Super Famicom (later Super NES), N64, Sony Playstation, CDi, 3DO, AND I might add, an Atari 520ST
When I acquired my SuperNES as a used machine, it played fine on the same monitor when I purchased it 11 years ago. It only displays in Black and White now so either the video cable is internally brittle because the contacts look fine and I did buff them or there is some corrosion internally to the NES unit.
I am using the composite. Never used RF.
I still have a Genesis and a Super NES in a gaming box. A few weeks ago, I turned on the Super NES and all the games displayed in B&W. I didn't get all of the games for the NES that I would like to have nor for the Genesis. I sure don't want to spend any money on those consoles if I can only play the games in black and white.
I had N64 with a roomate for a short while and loaned out my copy of Shadows of the Empire and Pilotwings and never got it back.
I really don't want to buy an older N64 just to re-buy those games either mainly because I don't want a 3rd gaming box.
If Wii can take care of SuperNES and N64 and that orchestra thing with the potential of other cool stuff, I'll pay the $250 for it and ditch my Black and White SuperNES.
There was Super Mario 64(whatever the title was), Pilotwings, and Shadows of the Empire, the latter wasn't a Nintendo title but still released either at launch or extrememly shortly there after.
Just make a bunch of glass logs out of the stuff and build moon/mars habitats out of it.
Stamp on the logs the radioactive icon with a clock icon and a date.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitrification
http://www.geomelt.com/
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Is origami out and do people want to use it other than technical curiosity?
Oh, wait. It's a tablet PC, just smaller. I get it. Does it run Linux?
I don't know how any file in /etc would have file permission properties.
/T /E /G Users:F"
I just don't know how
"If that doesn't work, go into regedit (assuming XP Pro...otherwhise go to regedt32) and look for registry entries in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE related to your program. Grant them full access rights to "User" on that part of the tree. 99% of the programs"
and
"read up on cacls [microsoft.com]. Alas, in XP Home it is hard to configure access control on folders.
For example:
C:\> cacls C:\MyFolder\
is easier than a right-click under KDE or Gnome in Linux to select file and folder properties.
We know how to change permissions in *nix using the command line, how is it done in Windows again?
The part of the comment I was referring to was:
/T /E /G Users:F"
"If that doesn't work, go into regedit (assuming XP Pro...otherwhise go to regedt32) and look for registry entries in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE related to your program. Grant them full access rights to "User" on that part of the tree. 99% of the programs"
and
"read up on cacls [microsoft.com]. Alas, in XP Home it is hard to configure access control on folders.
For example:
C:\> cacls C:\MyFolder\
A right-click under KDE or Gnome under Linux would give the user an almost easier to understand matrix of permissions on a particular file or folder.
Command-I under Mac would give easier permissions with the option to delve deeper into *nix type permissions.