Yes except often we WANT to force a restart when the power button no longer works. I've got a Dell PowerEdge 800 here that from time to time will not reboot via holding the power button down. That means unplugging it.
Battery backups are a LOT cheaper for now that exotic stateful memory solutions. You can have your speed and keep it too. Battery backups aren't very expensive.
Even a crummy laptop can standby for several days (my crummy 2002 Toshiba $1000 unit lasts 5 days)
Wouldn't it be against the DMCA to copy a CD to your computer at all? That was my understanding, surly people couldn't copy a DVD to their computer that'd be illigal too.
I'm seriously impressed that you're willing to admit something like that.
I'm now going to admit something.
I'm very pro patent, I think we SHOULD have VERY strong patents, however they should expire just 5 years after their filed OR give the patent holder the option of a much less restrictive patent with for examplke forced licenses at a fixed price for 10 years.
No Doc was killed by one of those mico H-bombs! duh.
Although I for one would rather mico H-bombs than full size ones... maybe then they'd be small enough to be useful.. save on munitions cost... yeah that's it... hey doc, what's that in your pock.... oh crudd
I wonder how well that goes over when Canada and the US have such vastly different laws regarding what a private person can do with broadcast content.
I wonder about GoogleTV, so if I search for a program on something rather ordinary like say soap will I get 1000 programs on SOAP ?
I KID I KID!
Also, I really like the new/. setup, although I was looking forward to XHTML 1.1 but I guess I can't have the world now can I? It's going to take a lot of work to get colapsable comment trees working in GreaseMonkey again:P
You need to look into things, The US has crashed a ton of stuff into mars over the years, it's just failed missions don't make for good CNN where as failed missions by others DO.
You knob. >1% market share meanst greater than not less than
Also Linux already has >1% share in a lot of market segmants, hey guess what a lot of segmants microsoft has next to or 0% share! gasp!
It's not like Linux has shareholders to please why should I give a crap if my grandma wants to use it?
The fact of the matter is Windows XP is pretty easy to use and pretty stable. I've had the same install on my laptop since Febuary 16 2002 and I use it every day, I install and uninstall and travel around plug into different networks I run all sorts of program and it never crashes... Unless I try and play a DVD because ATI doesn't support my card anymore, but then again my Ubuntu box crashes when I try and play a DVD aswell... funny.
Most users will buy neopolitan and then only eat the chocolate out of it tho and complain about how much it cost.
I sure hope they have Office Vista too so that people will be even more confused nothing like 14 products with the same name. The whole naming Office and Windows the same is one great big butt f*ck for IT people.
Atleast once a month someone asks me to reinstall Office XP on their computer, means Windows XP and gives me the wrong CD and then blames me for making things too complicated and saying I knew what they meant.
Look how fractured office comes now? And why can't I just buy Word and Excel and none of the other ass programs? No if you want both of those goodies you have to move on up the ladder.
I sure hope the media goes ape shit over all of the confusions (they won't, they will herald it as the new wonder os)
Good companies have shown us time and time again, too many options confuse people and make them pissed off.
More confusion means more people using other OSes even if it isn't Linux/BSD it's better. So I welcome this new useless mash of chocolate and crap flavours down at the Microsoft campus and I hope they learn their lesson.
You know what, Desktop Search isn't the best desktop search tool, there are ones that are considerably better, heck ones that even work with multiple users. I'd say that Desktop Search is NOT better than the search engine
Google Earth isn't even THEIR PRODUCT, they bought it, that's not innovation therefor it can't drive their peak higher, that said what the heck is it even good for, I'd file it under GAME.
Ok so what do we have that's spectacular, made by them, useful and recent, Gmail. But wait! That's not innovation either, heck I've been able to get to my IMAP mail for YEARS and do full text searches on it and even gasp STORE MORE THAN A GIG! Heck it even has a spiffy web interface, but who cares, I just keep a copy of my Thunderbird configuration on my web server and use Thunderbird wherever I go, however I will give FULL POINTS to Gmail because my mail setup is more complex and expensive, ie not free. Also it doesn't have clever targeted ads to remind me that I need to consume something.
Ok so we've got a search engine that's pretty good, oh but wait, have you checked out another one in the last six months? I imagine you have not. The competition is getting pretty darn good! Worse still the SEO companies are getting pretty good at tricking Google.
So has Google peaked? We won't know until they go bankrupt, which will eventually happen, or someone will buy them or the Internet will be phased out but corporations don't last forever, whatever the case may be the post mortem will be facinating. Until then, I'm happy to use their search engine every day and play with http://maps.google.ca/
But do I think their the be all to end all like the rest of the slashdot fanboys, no.
Do I think I could do better? Oh probably not but I do know some ways that Google could make it's services better.
Search Engine: *Allow me to specify a set of web sites I NEVER want to results for. *Allow me to specify that I never want to see another damn.doc or.pdf file again. *Allow me to sort my results by AGE, how can you know how old it was, crawl the sites and when it changes the contents of more than x percent of the sentaces longer than x mark it changed. *How about a ranking system? Give me the option to mod down a site and once a domain name gets enough people saying it's crap (*cough*about.com*cough*) drop it from the index
Gmail *DON'T HIDE THE GOD DAMN DELETE FEATURE UNDER A MENU! I don't care if you want me to keep my shit around forever I don't want to keep some moronic E-Mail about kittens, but that doesn't mean my friend is spamming me! *How about we have the notify app remember my password? That one would be super cause I already have to log onto my system and if little sally doesn't want her brother checking her email she can turn this off, or atleast give me the option to turn it on.
Talk *Make it connect to the MSN server too like GAIM does, Ok so I can use GAIM to connect to Talk but still, I'm not a GAIM fan.
Earth *How about a high speed grayscale only mode and integration with Talk so that I can put a pushpin into my map and send it to my friends? *Why does maps.google.ca have roads for places that Earth doesn't?
Toolbar *How about it could come with an integrated tool that stops other toolbars from being installed? That'd be fantastic then I could just put it on my family's computers and not worry about them installing more tool bars, or any software for that matter! *Integrate a clock, people like clocks! Oh and make sure it stays up to date:P
Desktop Search *Make it work on more than one user, this shouldn't even be that damn hard what's wrong with you people?
First of all I didn't RTFA I just looked at the picture. Why? Because I don't care.
I doubt that RAID0 will be a popular configuration for this however that's what I'd do because I hate the slowness of my laptop's HD and I backup plenty often.
That said, RAID0 generaly does a good deal better than 20% faster. In my experiance, as an owner of 3 RAID arrays all in RAID0 I found 50% better was the minimum. Although on who knows, right?
That said, most people wouldn't want RAID0 in a laptop they want RAID1 so that if the drive craps they can keep working.
that said, putting it in the base station wouldn't make it RAID and especially if it contained different data, then it's just a second hard drive and doesn't need any controler at all it's JBOD array (tounge in cheek).
That said, I'd want a mirror drive in my docing station that's a great idea! however backing up 20GB off of a laptop hard drive takes a while because their generaly not every fast and even if it were fast that's still a lot of data, so maybe so sort of automatic solutin is in order. However that'd be very cool.
Apparently you've never tried a large scale migration of non-technical staff to OopenOffice.org. Not only are they afraid of change and they can't put two and two together to get four and figure out if one part of a program works one way the rest should to. But it lacks TONs of features that Office has, good ones too not stupid ones and working with outside data in OopenOffice.org is crap too, no where as easy as Office 2003
Even with a roseta stone people can't figure out how to get by, too many advanced things in OopenOffice.org take too many steps the net betas are better but still not even close to Microsoft Office.
Oh so it's ok to believe it as long as they only believe it as something distant right?
You know just because Christianity was the prevailing religion in north america for a long time doesn't mean it's any more ok to poke fun at it than it is to poke fun at any other religion.
The Bible says that the events of the end times will come but not when and Christians are to watch for the signs.
If you don't agree with someone's faith you can take it up with them but to publicly assault it is something best left to facists and communists. Now then you wouldn't want to be associated with either of those scarry groups would you?
So is Firefox Mozilla's version of Internet Explorer or Mosaic?
The truth is FreeHand and Illustrator are VERY different programs, their even for different things, SHOCK!
I use FreeHand almost every day, I used to use Illustrator but I found FreeHand is a much better tool at a better price, tho learning to use it was considerably harder than Illustrator.
Also the FreeHand project started in 1988 which is plenty long enough ago to consider it a different product than Illustrator.
Sure we can go back and forth over which product is better but why bother?
I'd rather design a logo in Illustrator and I'd rather design a poster with that logo in FreeHand.
Isn't anyone else disturbed that it looks like a corpse?
I mean seriously the human brain is VERY good at picking out people from not people, this chunk of plastic doesn't pass my filters my brain tells me it's a corpse not a living person which naturaly causes my various body functions to go into their protective states and make me want to leave... not a real good selling point, someone should send them a makup pack with about 1/2 a L of blush
Well first of all that's a bit off topic as this is a 12" (30.48cm) subwoofer packaged in a heavy object. I'll assume that people actually want to know how much Helium they will need to dangle it fron a cord behind their car.
Given the weight on the page, and assuming the baloon's weight is compensated for by you NOT doing this at 0c you would need around 242 250L of helium that's a sphere about 7m across, at 0c...
That's about £183 of helium. Plus balloon and cord. This is MUCH larger than a weather balloon.
Be warned that the previos poster's opinion is wrong and he's not entitled to it. The PDF isn't related and the other blogger isn't better.
We don't have those fancy things in Canada as far as I know but I wouldn't buy em if we did. First of all it looks like you don't get very much coffee and second it looks expensive and third you're allways in driving distance of a Tim Hortons anyways.
How often are you so far from a power source that you can't spend $10 and get a small coffee cup sized hotplate?
Silly silly silly
On the other hand if you could somehow drain the coffee and put a heat activated smoke bomb or something in there than they'd sell
Just for reference not all Mennonites live in closed communities, their active members of their communities, they buy and use technology and frequently marry people from outside their church, their pretty normal and no they don't marry their cousins, atleast no more than any other group of americans.... IF you think it's weird for a woman to wear a dress she sewed, she might think it's weird that another woman paid $300 for some jeans that a poor child was paid $0.20 to make.
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Yes except often we WANT to force a restart when the power button no longer works. I've got a Dell PowerEdge 800 here that from time to time will not reboot via holding the power button down. That means unplugging it.
Battery backups are a LOT cheaper for now that exotic stateful memory solutions. You can have your speed and keep it too. Battery backups aren't very expensive.
Even a crummy laptop can standby for several days (my crummy 2002 Toshiba $1000 unit lasts 5 days)
Wouldn't it be against the DMCA to copy a CD to your computer at all? That was my understanding, surly people couldn't copy a DVD to their computer that'd be illigal too.
Poor Americans, move to Canada.
I'm seriously impressed that you're willing to admit something like that.
I'm now going to admit something.
I'm very pro patent, I think we SHOULD have VERY strong patents, however they should expire just 5 years after their filed OR give the patent holder the option of a much less restrictive patent with for examplke forced licenses at a fixed price for 10 years.
Oh come on, I'm shocked that it took this long for someone to make a joke.
THESE PEOPLE MAKE VACUMES FOR CRYING OUT LOUD
Way to stick the proverbial "it" to him!
I've installed Firefox on TONS of computers.
What I've found is most people don't care.
They don't care about tabs, they don't care about security and they don't care about speed.
They do care that most of the games the liked to play at work no longer load.
They do care that they still get popups.
They do care that it takes longer to load the browser (not pages tho) than IE
That said, there are SOME who love it to bits, and now I realize I should have shown them all how to install it on other people's computers.
I've found people love Thunderbird until their blue in the face tho. I've switched many people to it and their tickled with it.
No Doc was killed by one of those mico H-bombs! duh.
Although I for one would rather mico H-bombs than full size ones... maybe then they'd be small enough to be useful.. save on munitions cost... yeah that's it... hey doc, what's that in your pock.... oh crudd
I wonder how well that goes over when Canada and the US have such vastly different laws regarding what a private person can do with broadcast content.
/. setup, although I was looking forward to XHTML 1.1 but I guess I can't have the world now can I? It's going to take a lot of work to get colapsable comment trees working in GreaseMonkey again :P
I wonder about GoogleTV, so if I search for a program on something rather ordinary like say soap will I get 1000 programs on SOAP ?
I KID I KID!
Also, I really like the new
You need to look into things, The US has crashed a ton of stuff into mars over the years, it's just failed missions don't make for good CNN where as failed missions by others DO.
You knob.
>1% market share meanst greater than not less than
Also Linux already has >1% share in a lot of market segmants, hey guess what a lot of segmants microsoft has next to or 0% share! gasp!
It's not like Linux has shareholders to please why should I give a crap if my grandma wants to use it?
The fact of the matter is Windows XP is pretty easy to use and pretty stable. I've had the same install on my laptop since Febuary 16 2002 and I use it every day, I install and uninstall and travel around plug into different networks I run all sorts of program and it never crashes... Unless I try and play a DVD because ATI doesn't support my card anymore, but then again my Ubuntu box crashes when I try and play a DVD aswell... funny.
Most users will buy neopolitan and then only eat the chocolate out of it tho and complain about how much it cost.
I sure hope they have Office Vista too so that people will be even more confused nothing like 14 products with the same name. The whole naming Office and Windows the same is one great big butt f*ck for IT people.
Atleast once a month someone asks me to reinstall Office XP on their computer, means Windows XP and gives me the wrong CD and then blames me for making things too complicated and saying I knew what they meant.
Look how fractured office comes now? And why can't I just buy Word and Excel and none of the other ass programs? No if you want both of those goodies you have to move on up the ladder.
I sure hope the media goes ape shit over all of the confusions (they won't, they will herald it as the new wonder os)
Good companies have shown us time and time again, too many options confuse people and make them pissed off.
More confusion means more people using other OSes even if it isn't Linux/BSD it's better. So I welcome this new useless mash of chocolate and crap flavours down at the Microsoft campus and I hope they learn their lesson.
I knew you were kidding *pat* *pat* *pat* there there....
So when are articles going to get dates with years on them?
That one was a little sarcastic
You know what, Desktop Search isn't the best desktop search tool, there are ones that are considerably better, heck ones that even work with multiple users. I'd say that Desktop Search is NOT better than the search engine
.doc or .pdf file again.
:P
Google Earth isn't even THEIR PRODUCT, they bought it, that's not innovation therefor it can't drive their peak higher, that said what the heck is it even good for, I'd file it under GAME.
Ok so what do we have that's spectacular, made by them, useful and recent, Gmail. But wait! That's not innovation either, heck I've been able to get to my IMAP mail for YEARS and do full text searches on it and even gasp STORE MORE THAN A GIG! Heck it even has a spiffy web interface, but who cares, I just keep a copy of my Thunderbird configuration on my web server and use Thunderbird wherever I go, however I will give FULL POINTS to Gmail because my mail setup is more complex and expensive, ie not free. Also it doesn't have clever targeted ads to remind me that I need to consume something.
Ok so we've got a search engine that's pretty good, oh but wait, have you checked out another one in the last six months? I imagine you have not. The competition is getting pretty darn good! Worse still the SEO companies are getting pretty good at tricking Google.
So has Google peaked? We won't know until they go bankrupt, which will eventually happen, or someone will buy them or the Internet will be phased out but corporations don't last forever, whatever the case may be the post mortem will be facinating. Until then, I'm happy to use their search engine every day and play with http://maps.google.ca/
But do I think their the be all to end all like the rest of the slashdot fanboys, no.
Do I think I could do better? Oh probably not but I do know some ways that Google could make it's services better.
Search Engine:
*Allow me to specify a set of web sites I NEVER want to results for.
*Allow me to specify that I never want to see another damn
*Allow me to sort my results by AGE, how can you know how old it was, crawl the sites and when it changes the contents of more than x percent of the sentaces longer than x mark it changed.
*How about a ranking system? Give me the option to mod down a site and once a domain name gets enough people saying it's crap (*cough*about.com*cough*) drop it from the index
Gmail
*DON'T HIDE THE GOD DAMN DELETE FEATURE UNDER A MENU! I don't care if you want me to keep my shit around forever I don't want to keep some moronic E-Mail about kittens, but that doesn't mean my friend is spamming me!
*How about we have the notify app remember my password? That one would be super cause I already have to log onto my system and if little sally doesn't want her brother checking her email she can turn this off, or atleast give me the option to turn it on.
Talk
*Make it connect to the MSN server too like GAIM does, Ok so I can use GAIM to connect to Talk but still, I'm not a GAIM fan.
Earth
*How about a high speed grayscale only mode and integration with Talk so that I can put a pushpin into my map and send it to my friends?
*Why does maps.google.ca have roads for places that Earth doesn't?
Toolbar
*How about it could come with an integrated tool that stops other toolbars from being installed? That'd be fantastic then I could just put it on my family's computers and not worry about them installing more tool bars, or any software for that matter!
*Integrate a clock, people like clocks! Oh and make sure it stays up to date
Desktop Search
*Make it work on more than one user, this shouldn't even be that damn hard what's wrong with you people?
I've lost my rant will....
I'm going to go drink Tang now..
First of all I didn't RTFA I just looked at the picture. Why? Because I don't care.
I doubt that RAID0 will be a popular configuration for this however that's what I'd do because I hate the slowness of my laptop's HD and I backup plenty often.
That said, RAID0 generaly does a good deal better than 20% faster. In my experiance, as an owner of 3 RAID arrays all in RAID0 I found 50% better was the minimum. Although on who knows, right?
That said, most people wouldn't want RAID0 in a laptop they want RAID1 so that if the drive craps they can keep working.
that said, putting it in the base station wouldn't make it RAID and especially if it contained different data, then it's just a second hard drive and doesn't need any controler at all it's JBOD array (tounge in cheek).
That said, I'd want a mirror drive in my docing station that's a great idea! however backing up 20GB off of a laptop hard drive takes a while because their generaly not every fast and even if it were fast that's still a lot of data, so maybe so sort of automatic solutin is in order. However that'd be very cool.
You never know with those whacky physics students....
Apparently you've never tried a large scale migration of non-technical staff to OopenOffice.org. Not only are they afraid of change and they can't put two and two together to get four and figure out if one part of a program works one way the rest should to. But it lacks TONs of features that Office has, good ones too not stupid ones and working with outside data in OopenOffice.org is crap too, no where as easy as Office 2003
Even with a roseta stone people can't figure out how to get by, too many advanced things in OopenOffice.org take too many steps the net betas are better but still not even close to Microsoft Office.
And I still hate Microsoft...
Oooo I'm praising Office I must be a troll!
Oh so it's ok to believe it as long as they only believe it as something distant right?
You know just because Christianity was the prevailing religion in north america for a long time doesn't mean it's any more ok to poke fun at it than it is to poke fun at any other religion.
The Bible says that the events of the end times will come but not when and Christians are to watch for the signs.
If you don't agree with someone's faith you can take it up with them but to publicly assault it is something best left to facists and communists. Now then you wouldn't want to be associated with either of those scarry groups would you?
So is Firefox Mozilla's version of Internet Explorer or Mosaic?
The truth is FreeHand and Illustrator are VERY different programs, their even for different things, SHOCK!
I use FreeHand almost every day, I used to use Illustrator but I found FreeHand is a much better tool at a better price, tho learning to use it was considerably harder than Illustrator.
Also the FreeHand project started in 1988 which is plenty long enough ago to consider it a different product than Illustrator.
Sure we can go back and forth over which product is better but why bother?
I'd rather design a logo in Illustrator and I'd rather design a poster with that logo in FreeHand.
That's a hoot.
Isn't anyone else disturbed that it looks like a corpse?
I mean seriously the human brain is VERY good at picking out people from not people, this chunk of plastic doesn't pass my filters my brain tells me it's a corpse not a living person which naturaly causes my various body functions to go into their protective states and make me want to leave... not a real good selling point, someone should send them a makup pack with about 1/2 a L of blush
You can keep your unprovoked hate mongering to yourself thanks.
If you don't agree with people's religion you can keep it to yourself.
Mods, this isn't funny at all, it's trolling.
Would it be funny if he start making jokes about skin colour or perhaps their ethnic background.
Well first of all that's a bit off topic as this is a 12" (30.48cm) subwoofer packaged in a heavy object. I'll assume that people actually want to know how much Helium they will need to dangle it fron a cord behind their car.
Given the weight on the page, and assuming the baloon's weight is compensated for by you NOT doing this at 0c you would need around 242 250L of helium that's a sphere about 7m across, at 0c...
That's about £183 of helium. Plus balloon and cord. This is MUCH larger than a weather balloon.
Best patch ever!
Be warned that the previos poster's opinion is wrong and he's not entitled to it. The PDF isn't related and the other blogger isn't better.
We don't have those fancy things in Canada as far as I know but I wouldn't buy em if we did. First of all it looks like you don't get very much coffee and second it looks expensive and third you're allways in driving distance of a Tim Hortons anyways.
How often are you so far from a power source that you can't spend $10 and get a small coffee cup sized hotplate?
Silly silly silly
On the other hand if you could somehow drain the coffee and put a heat activated smoke bomb or something in there than they'd sell
Just for reference not all Mennonites live in closed communities, their active members of their communities, they buy and use technology and frequently marry people from outside their church, their pretty normal and no they don't marry their cousins, atleast no more than any other group of americans.... IF you think it's weird for a woman to wear a dress she sewed, she might think it's weird that another woman paid $300 for some jeans that a poor child was paid $0.20 to make.
To the tune of "Video Killed The Radio Star"
Linux killed the Unix star
Linux killed the Unix star
Cause in my mind and in my data center,
we can't recompile cause Linux bent'er
Oh Oh Over
OUCH!
And now we meet in an abandoned office
You see the logfile and it seems so long ago
And you remember, the jingles used to go,
Oh-a-oh
You were the first 64bit one
Oh-a-oh
You were the last one to shutdown
Linux killed the Unix star
Linux killed the Unix star
Cause in my mind and in my data center,
we can't recompile cause Linux bent'er
Oh Oh Over
Ow ow Owwwwwww
Linux killed the Unix star
Linux killed the Unix star
Cause in my mind and in my data center,
we can't recompile cause Linux bent'er
Oh Oh Over
Linux came and broke your back
So put all the blame on Linus