Thoroughly agree with that. The only piece of software I can think of that implements such a switch is the configuration dialog for XineUI. The first thing to do to make it useful is switch the experience level to "master of the known universe".
A similar thing is implemented more subtly throughout Windows though, there are "Advanced" tabs and buttons scattered thoughout the control panel dialogs. When helping non-technical family members with their computer problems, I've often found that the solution is an option within one of those tabs. They might have found it and solved the problem on their own but they see "Advanced" and think "that's not for me".
I was at the Open Tech conference and also saw this PVR box. Actually there wasn't much box to it. It consisted of several large capacity hard drives (maybe about five SATAs) and a few DVB PCI cards, connected to a motherboard on a wooden base, no case.
It recorded one WEEK's worth of video from, as far as I could tell, only the BBC's Freeview channels (BBC1, BBC2, BBC3, BBC4, News24, CBeebies, CBBC). The quality seemed fine judging from an episode of Doctor Who which went out on BBC3 the previous Thursday being projected behind the presenter.
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Thoroughly agree with that. The only piece of software I can think of that implements such a switch is the configuration dialog for XineUI. The first thing to do to make it useful is switch the experience level to "master of the known universe".
A similar thing is implemented more subtly throughout Windows though, there are "Advanced" tabs and buttons scattered thoughout the control panel dialogs. When helping non-technical family members with their computer problems, I've often found that the solution is an option within one of those tabs. They might have found it and solved the problem on their own but they see "Advanced" and think "that's not for me".
And Acorn had full system font anti-aliasing in the early nineties. As reported by The Register at the time ClearType was announced, here http://www.theregister.co.uk/1998/11/17/microsoft_ cleartype_reinvents_the_antialiased/
So it is very far from being a Microsoft innovation.
I was at the Open Tech conference and also saw this PVR box. Actually there wasn't much box to it. It consisted of several large capacity hard drives (maybe about five SATAs) and a few DVB PCI cards, connected to a motherboard on a wooden base, no case.
It recorded one WEEK's worth of video from, as far as I could tell, only the BBC's Freeview channels (BBC1, BBC2, BBC3, BBC4, News24, CBeebies, CBBC). The quality seemed fine judging from an episode of Doctor Who which went out on BBC3 the previous Thursday being projected behind the presenter.