Glossy displays look pretty in the store shelves, but they do not offer more or less protection that standard screens. They may offer a "crisper" image but the con of annoying glare outweigh that pro very easily.
The matte finish is for glare reduction only. It's not an indication of more or less protection.
A laptop screen needs more physical protection from behind - period. Manufactures are starting to add better protection from behind to withstand the abuse laptops go through - like my T61p that has a magnesium cage to prevent the display from getting shoved into the keyboard in transit.
If you're bashing your display from the front - you probably shouldn't be using a laptop and go get yourself a nice helmet to wear on the short bus.
The key on the bottom of your T61p (that came with vista+bloatware) will register a clean install of Vista Ultimate without having to call Microsoft's support line.
2nding the T61. We have trouble finding high-end laptops that don't come with subwoofers and Splinter Cell stickers; our new T61 fits the bill exactly and has a matte 1920x1200 screen. I'll also agree. But don't get me wrong... the T61p I have with the nivida 570m graphics chip still plays splinter cell and team fortress 2 without a problem at 1900x1200.:)
Your hand is not going to permanently damage an LCD panel. That simply isn't possible. Plastic isn't nearly that soft unless a ring is involved.... Get yourself some glass cleaner and a completely clean microfiber cloth and it should take the smudge right off. That said, glossy LCDs show smudges much worse than matte LCDs.
If you have dust, grit, or other hard contaminates on the screen - and your "IT guru" drags his dirty mits across the screen - yes, the hand can permanently damage the screen by dragging the abrasive material through the plastic.
I've had an IBM service tech do the exact same thing while I watched him replace the LCD panel on my thinkpad. He flicked a bit of something off the screen - but left a nice scratch in the panel.
An honest mistake - but I wasn't going to accept it. He was back cheerfully the next day with another new one and wrote off the old one as damaged.
Sure, spam sucks and it's nice to see ISPs raining down lawyers on spammers - but if Comcast wasn't such a collection of corporate asshats, I would feel infinitely better about them winning in court.
It's like seeing the grade school bully ace a math test.
Pepsi had a huge (American Football) Superbowl halftime show that was in 3d using some form of 3d glasses that didn't rely on red/blue color scheme. It was actually pretty neat.
Each server is purchased with a service contract, albeit its up to the customer to decide on 24hr or 4hr. (stand by - double checking my facts) In this comparison it was two servers with the highest support contracts.
You should have been looking into alternatives years ago.
Anyone can build and sell a server - supporting it is where the company wins or loses.
I call IBM at 3am when a server up and dies. Tech is onsite in two hours, new parts arrive 45 mins later... a bad power regulator fried all 16 sticks of ram. They didn't have enough on hand, so three other couriers were dispatch from two other states with more than enough ram to get the server up and running.
Three hours later the box was back up.
Dell - will argue to the enth degree about predicted drive failures alarms from their raid controllers... we just call them dead now so they'll send replacements. The drives take about two days to show up which is about enough time for the drive to finally fail.
OK I'm sorry but I am gonna call bullshit on that. Right now this very second I am running 3 putty windows, firefox (with 2 tabs open), and I am using 560 mb of ram. I am wondering if Vista is really using that much more RAM than XP or is it that Vista made it so easy to get that information (the side bar, and the Task Manager in Vista tells you the % of Ram used unlike XP) and therefore more noticeable.
No, he's pretty much accurate. But it's no big secret Vista was rewritten to cache more data in ram and so appears to be using more memory. I stopped looking at memory usage along time ago... when I'm on a machine that is paging a lot, then it's time to pay attention.
On Vista, though, you do get an easy to read resource monitor that will give you much more information about the resources you're using. I like the memory section that gives you percentage of physical memory in use and the number of hard faults per second.
You can drill down for more detail, but those two items are pretty much all I need for most performance investigations.
Blogging is just another form of published media - it can be used for any reason. People have just been lured into believing blogs are personal posts from individuals.
It figures some duschebag media mogul would sell off a historic domain name to the highest bidder than to give it to someone who actually would be willing to maintain the historic content.
Too right... stand along yahoo and altavista search engines were (and still are) free for a reason. Most other enterprise search tools are too Microsoft Office centric to be useful for web based documentation.
"Clandestine Operations at Google", puhleeeze. This story is so much FUD I can't take it. Google sells search appliances to the government. The appliances are 2U Dell servers running a locked down, customized version of RedHat. These appliances contain a crawler, a ton of storage, and a customized application to create a very good search index and interface with the data. They can also be clustered to offer even more capacity... but they don't report any of their findings to Google, the run on their own in their own network.
If you need to have Google service the appliance, you can instruct the device to SSH to a Google server where the tech will access it remotely and make changes or troubleshoot. Or you can plug a modem into the serial port and the tech can dial in.
Either way - you control access.
We have two of these appliances at work churning through wikis, sharepoint sites, NFS stores, and company intranet pages. SharePoint search sucks - so that was the first to get axed. Everything else was added, just because we could.
I, for one, am glad the government is using modern technology to improve efficiency. Someone actually gets it.
It is virtualized. Thus, it is going to run significantly slower than a native install.
I disagree with this statement. VMWare doesn't introduce a lot of overhead in their virtual machines. A few percentages difference from running it "on metal".
Take a look at http://wubi-installer.org/ and see for your self. Essentially it uses a large file on your windows OS as the file system. When you install it, it modifies your bootloader to give you the option of booting to that machine.
If you decide you don't like it, just reboot into Windows and uninstall it via add/remove programs.
Performance is slightly slower due to the extra hoops your *nix OS has to jump through, but you won't notice if you're running on modern hardware. I liken it to being able to boot to a VMWare image.
No, you dumbass... I think you don't understand that P2P was the answer to all the things you did to piss off consumers.
Forcing TiVo to eliminate the commercial skip pissed off consumers. Using outdated ratings and canceling popular shows pissed off consumers. Eliminating popular distribution methods (like ITMS) pissed off consumers.
When you alienate enough of them - they fix the problem themselves. P2P is the solution to the problems you created.
TV itself was a gamble when it first came to the public. NBC invested in it. Now they say they won't invest in new mediums because of pirates... give me a damn break. Quit your bitching and listen to your viewers - yes, even the pirates.
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Glossy displays look pretty in the store shelves, but they do not offer more or less protection that standard screens. They may offer a "crisper" image but the con of annoying glare outweigh that pro very easily.
The matte finish is for glare reduction only. It's not an indication of more or less protection.
A laptop screen needs more physical protection from behind - period. Manufactures are starting to add better protection from behind to withstand the abuse laptops go through - like my T61p that has a magnesium cage to prevent the display from getting shoved into the keyboard in transit.
If you're bashing your display from the front - you probably shouldn't be using a laptop and go get yourself a nice helmet to wear on the short bus.
I couldn't recommend this enough - perform a clean vista install using these instructions;
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=144783
The key on the bottom of your T61p (that came with vista+bloatware) will register a clean install of Vista Ultimate without having to call Microsoft's support line.
I love this laptop.
Your hand is not going to permanently damage an LCD panel. That simply isn't possible. Plastic isn't nearly that soft unless a ring is involved.... Get yourself some glass cleaner and a completely clean microfiber cloth and it should take the smudge right off. That said, glossy LCDs show smudges much worse than matte LCDs.
If you have dust, grit, or other hard contaminates on the screen - and your "IT guru" drags his dirty mits across the screen - yes, the hand can permanently damage the screen by dragging the abrasive material through the plastic.I've had an IBM service tech do the exact same thing while I watched him replace the LCD panel on my thinkpad. He flicked a bit of something off the screen - but left a nice scratch in the panel.
An honest mistake - but I wasn't going to accept it. He was back cheerfully the next day with another new one and wrote off the old one as damaged.
Sure, spam sucks and it's nice to see ISPs raining down lawyers on spammers - but if Comcast wasn't such a collection of corporate asshats, I would feel infinitely better about them winning in court.
It's like seeing the grade school bully ace a math test.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these!
I love how the subtle sarcasm wasn't modded down by Apple fanboys.
/.
Well played,
No, no, no... Sony's batteries already have this feature.
Pepsi had a huge (American Football) Superbowl halftime show that was in 3d using some form of 3d glasses that didn't rely on red/blue color scheme. It was actually pretty neat.
Each server is purchased with a service contract, albeit its up to the customer to decide on 24hr or 4hr. (stand by - double checking my facts) In this comparison it was two servers with the highest support contracts.
You should have been looking into alternatives years ago.
Anyone can build and sell a server - supporting it is where the company wins or loses.
I call IBM at 3am when a server up and dies. Tech is onsite in two hours, new parts arrive 45 mins later... a bad power regulator fried all 16 sticks of ram. They didn't have enough on hand, so three other couriers were dispatch from two other states with more than enough ram to get the server up and running.
Three hours later the box was back up.
Dell - will argue to the enth degree about predicted drive failures alarms from their raid controllers... we just call them dead now so they'll send replacements. The drives take about two days to show up which is about enough time for the drive to finally fail.
No, he's pretty much accurate. But it's no big secret Vista was rewritten to cache more data in ram and so appears to be using more memory. I stopped looking at memory usage along time ago... when I'm on a machine that is paging a lot, then it's time to pay attention.
On Vista, though, you do get an easy to read resource monitor that will give you much more information about the resources you're using. I like the memory section that gives you percentage of physical memory in use and the number of hard faults per second.
You can drill down for more detail, but those two items are pretty much all I need for most performance investigations.
SharePoint is a typical MS Hack...
It does nothing exceptionally well and is universally hated by all who are forced to use it.
Blogging is just another form of published media - it can be used for any reason. People have just been lured into believing blogs are personal posts from individuals.
Someone is going to be very busy...
It figures some duschebag media mogul would sell off a historic domain name to the highest bidder than to give it to someone who actually would be willing to maintain the historic content.
Too right... stand along yahoo and altavista search engines were (and still are) free for a reason. Most other enterprise search tools are too Microsoft Office centric to be useful for web based documentation.
I love the GSA we have... it *just works*.
"Clandestine Operations at Google", puhleeeze. This story is so much FUD I can't take it. Google sells search appliances to the government. The appliances are 2U Dell servers running a locked down, customized version of RedHat. These appliances contain a crawler, a ton of storage, and a customized application to create a very good search index and interface with the data. They can also be clustered to offer even more capacity... but they don't report any of their findings to Google, the run on their own in their own network.
If you need to have Google service the appliance, you can instruct the device to SSH to a Google server where the tech will access it remotely and make changes or troubleshoot. Or you can plug a modem into the serial port and the tech can dial in.
Either way - you control access.
We have two of these appliances at work churning through wikis, sharepoint sites, NFS stores, and company intranet pages. SharePoint search sucks - so that was the first to get axed. Everything else was added, just because we could.
I, for one, am glad the government is using modern technology to improve efficiency. Someone actually gets it.
I'm going to start tuning into more car chase coverage on the news if those drones are packing a pair of hellfires!
Yes, yes... I'm sure they'll be unarmed, or at least the ones they show you up close.
I disagree with this statement. VMWare doesn't introduce a lot of overhead in their virtual machines. A few percentages difference from running it "on metal".
Take a look at http://wubi-installer.org/ and see for your self. Essentially it uses a large file on your windows OS as the file system. When you install it, it modifies your bootloader to give you the option of booting to that machine.
If you decide you don't like it, just reboot into Windows and uninstall it via add/remove programs.
Performance is slightly slower due to the extra hoops your *nix OS has to jump through, but you won't notice if you're running on modern hardware. I liken it to being able to boot to a VMWare image.
That's okay, your Google Web Accelerator followed the link and cached the content for you on your PC, automatically. Wasn't that nice?
Comparing a new laptop with a six model old laptop isn't very sporting.
The T61p that I use on a daily basis only makes noise if I playing a modern 3D game... and then it's just the fan making a barely audible sound.
I've frankly never heard the 100GB 7200RPM Sata drive... ever.
Election year brings out the three ring circus.
Trained bears, elephants, trapeze artists, clowns, fire eaters, sword swallowers, and all the rest.
But mostly clowns...
Wow, imagine the size of a T-bone from a whale sized cow...
No, you dumbass... I think you don't understand that P2P was the answer to all the things you did to piss off consumers.
Forcing TiVo to eliminate the commercial skip pissed off consumers.
Using outdated ratings and canceling popular shows pissed off consumers.
Eliminating popular distribution methods (like ITMS) pissed off consumers.
When you alienate enough of them - they fix the problem themselves. P2P is the solution to the problems you created.
TV itself was a gamble when it first came to the public. NBC invested in it. Now they say they won't invest in new mediums because of pirates... give me a damn break. Quit your bitching and listen to your viewers - yes, even the pirates.