So I had a look at the banner mentioned, and I find it odd that it states "Please upgrade to one of these modern browsers" followed by only IE8, FF3.5, and Google Chrome. Why not mention (or even hint at) the fact that other "modern browsers" also exist. You know, browsers like Opera or Safari (the OS default for MAC users), or any others. Simply re-wording the banner to something like "Please upgrade to a modern browser such as the following" would be much more polite.
And here we go again. Yet another show I actually enjoyed watching (on a different day and time) is canceled prematurely. I am so sick of TV these days. 10 minutes of show for 20 minutes of commercials, one episode then two weeks of something else, then another episode. Only 10 or so episodes in a 52 week year. Crappy time slots. All these things are contributing to the downfall of TV.
rather than the average ten minutes that patrons used to spend eating there
I only ever sat there for 10 minutes because that's all it took for the diarrhea to activate after eating that addictive crap. Sitting any longer and the chairs would be a different color.
Watching a YouTube video is already a painful expreience. The very low quality of the video, and the extremely small size of the video frame just don't add up to a good viewing experience. So why should I pay for such crap. I won't. I'll just keep watching the free sites like Hulu. Sure there's a few commercial breaks in the program, but they are at least reasonable. 4, 30 second, single advertiser commercial breaks per TV show episode is far better than the massive advertising overdose that cable TV providers force down your throat and charge you for it as well.
Whenever I encounter a computer running ie6, I want to take a sledgehammer to the computer.
Me too. However I'd get fired if I did that:) We have a corporate IS policy at my work that does not permit any web browser other than IE6 to be installed or used on any of our corporate computers. I was foolish enough to ask why, and found out that some of our core business software uses a web based front-end that has compatibility issues with any other web browser (including IE7 and 8). Following in my foolishness, I asked why that software hadn't been upgraded and found out that it was because it would cost too much.
Windows XP in a Virtual Machine running under Windows 7 for the sake of legacy support !? Great. So when someone needs to run Windows XP because they connect to some hardware for which there are no Windows 7 device driver, how the hell is a Virtual Machine going to help with that?
If it really costs 4 billion dollars to put a man on the moon, is it worth it? What resources can be economically gained from going to the moon? Is the moon made of pure Gold? If so, the shuttle's 22,700Kg cargo capacity full of pure, refined, 24 karat gold 22 would need to have a value of $1,762.12 per gram in order to make the trip economically break even. With today's gold value somewhere under $100 per gram, and the fact that the moon is not made of refined 14 karat gold, I think it will be a long time before a trip to the moon is economically viable at a cost of 4 billion dollars.;)
Did you or your friend write a letter to Asus questioning their judgement and/or technical expertise?
No. Not all consumers write letters to manufacturers, and neither did we. We, like most consumers, simply allow our future purchase decisions speak for us; money talks. This is why returns of Linux based netbooks has been higher than that of Windows based netbooks; this is the consumer 'talking'.
To solve the engine issue, Mazda techs could have simply educated the Ford techs about the idiosyncracies of their design. Likewise, Linux users would have valuable information to netbook manufacturers, enhancing their products' useability.
Good example, but either way users are not techs, and it is the user experience that matters most to the user; not what it takes (technically) to get that user experience.
I had a friend who won an EEE netbook, which came with Linux. He liked it until he tried to use it on a website that contained Flash content. This netbook did not have Flash pre-installed, and he was unable to install it himself by following the links on the website, so he asked me for help. I am not very familiar with Linux (I try a distro each year to see if it is up to my standards yet). I was unable to determine what type of package the Linux distro on this machine supported, and was unable (through trial and error) to get any of Adobe's Flash for Linux packages to install. I ended up having to do it manually from the command line with an APT GET command that I found after a Google search. That is not an acceptable user experience for customers who expect to use this computer the same as they would use any other computer. And that is why you can expect high return rates for Linux Netbooks.
this is just more evidence that anti-virus/malware products need to be on bootable read-only CDs that can connect to the internet, obtain current definition files, and scan and clean a computer before actually installing any realtime protection software.
Google shouldn't police the internet, but just like a good tour guide in an unfamiliar country I would expect them to at least warn me that it may not be safe for me to be in a certain neighborhood after dark. And that's just what Google seems to be doing.
Open the case cover and use compressed air (while the system is off and unplugged) to clean it out internally. Then turn it on and examine all of the system's cooling fans to make sure they operate. If a system is overheating, it will slow down (if it doesn't completely fail) until it cools down at which point it will speed up again. As these physical check are quite easy to do, why not start with them?
You can't really reduce or eliminate interference very well without a lot of effort (like special wall materials that block wireless signals), but you can work around the interference well enough by using a wireless spectrum analyser to determine where the interference is the weakest. Me, I use a very cheap (and limited) spectrum analyser like device called 'Wi-Spy'. This is basically a wireless reciever tuned to the same frequency range used by 802.11g wireless networks, combined with software that graphically illustrates the wireless signal strength throughout that spectrum. Using the data gathered with this tool I was able to configure my wireless router to use a channel which had the least ammount of outside interference in my area. This has worked great for me.
The Full Disclosure link contains the source code of their program.
I don't know where you got your definition of "source code", but what was disclosed was definitely not the source, but something else entirely. I mean really, the first line isn't C, C++, C#, java, command scrips, Pascal, or any other source code language I have ever seen. Seriosly, what language is this: "QlpoOTFBWSZTWZCbNyYBVlN/"?
I love the part that says "due by Christmas". So does that mean that it's currently at least 3 weeks late, or does someone have a really aggressive marketing department that likes to announce things waaaay too early?
Yes, please please please develop more in-depth games for the Wii.
Here are two current games that I want, but have not purchased only because they are not available on the Wii, and I have not purchased any other console:
- Grand Theft Auto IV (I loved GTA III on the PC)
- F.E.A.R. II
And there are many others that I have passed up, the only reason being that they were not available on my console of choice (or more specifically, my controller of choice).
The population of the state of Kentucky is approximately 4 million people. Assuming a ridiculously high unemployment rate of 50% that would be 2 million people. Now, assuming that they all tried to file UI applications online at exactly the same time that would generate 2 million submissions. According to Wikipedia, the Intel Core2 CPU (which is less powerful than current server CPUs) can handle well over 20,000 MIPS (that's millions of instructions per second).
So, am I to understand that the software running on the government's UI application submission servers are so inefficient that they consume over 10 Billion processor instructions (20,000 MIPS divided by 2 million submissions) in order to accept and file the data for one single UI application? If so, then the programmers need to be quartered and hung!
I nominate the following as prime annoyances with Ubuntu (and most linux ditros):
- An inability to run the latest PC game that has 'Direct-X 10' in it's requirements list.
- Way too much funkiness (and reliance) on the command line. After all, when I see the following on a support forum I just get confused and turn the damn thing off.
# find / -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -liwZ GUI | xargs -0 rm -f
- Man pages! Are you kidding me, even Windows has a much more usable help file sturcture.
- Support resources (forums, man pages, etc) that assume that you want to spend a few weeks learning a whole new language just to be able to do something that should be simple like access a file on your Windows' C: drive.
Maybe I'll have a look at this book and see if it helps...
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So I had a look at the banner mentioned, and I find it odd that it states "Please upgrade to one of these modern browsers" followed by only IE8, FF3.5, and Google Chrome. Why not mention (or even hint at) the fact that other "modern browsers" also exist. You know, browsers like Opera or Safari (the OS default for MAC users), or any others. Simply re-wording the banner to something like "Please upgrade to a modern browser such as the following" would be much more polite.
And here we go again. Yet another show I actually enjoyed watching (on a different day and time) is canceled prematurely. I am so sick of TV these days. 10 minutes of show for 20 minutes of commercials, one episode then two weeks of something else, then another episode. Only 10 or so episodes in a 52 week year. Crappy time slots. All these things are contributing to the downfall of TV.
rather than the average ten minutes that patrons used to spend eating there
I only ever sat there for 10 minutes because that's all it took for the diarrhea to activate after eating that addictive crap. Sitting any longer and the chairs would be a different color.
Watching a YouTube video is already a painful expreience. The very low quality of the video, and the extremely small size of the video frame just don't add up to a good viewing experience. So why should I pay for such crap. I won't. I'll just keep watching the free sites like Hulu. Sure there's a few commercial breaks in the program, but they are at least reasonable. 4, 30 second, single advertiser commercial breaks per TV show episode is far better than the massive advertising overdose that cable TV providers force down your throat and charge you for it as well.
Whenever I encounter a computer running ie6, I want to take a sledgehammer to the computer.
Me too. However I'd get fired if I did that :)
We have a corporate IS policy at my work that does not permit any web browser other than IE6 to be installed or used on any of our corporate computers. I was foolish enough to ask why, and found out that some of our core business software uses a web based front-end that has compatibility issues with any other web browser (including IE7 and 8). Following in my foolishness, I asked why that software hadn't been upgraded and found out that it was because it would cost too much.
Windows XP in a Virtual Machine running under Windows 7 for the sake of legacy support !? Great. So when someone needs to run Windows XP because they connect to some hardware for which there are no Windows 7 device driver, how the hell is a Virtual Machine going to help with that?
If it really costs 4 billion dollars to put a man on the moon, is it worth it? What resources can be economically gained from going to the moon? Is the moon made of pure Gold? If so, the shuttle's 22,700Kg cargo capacity full of pure, refined, 24 karat gold 22 would need to have a value of $1,762.12 per gram in order to make the trip economically break even. With today's gold value somewhere under $100 per gram, and the fact that the moon is not made of refined 14 karat gold, I think it will be a long time before a trip to the moon is economically viable at a cost of 4 billion dollars. ;)
I guess that means they'll have enough power to easily hide the hydroponics operation ;)
Did you or your friend write a letter to Asus questioning their judgement and/or technical expertise?
No. Not all consumers write letters to manufacturers, and neither did we. We, like most consumers, simply allow our future purchase decisions speak for us; money talks. This is why returns of Linux based netbooks has been higher than that of Windows based netbooks; this is the consumer 'talking'.
To solve the engine issue, Mazda techs could have simply educated the Ford techs about the idiosyncracies of their design. Likewise, Linux users would have valuable information to netbook manufacturers, enhancing their products' useability.
Good example, but either way users are not techs, and it is the user experience that matters most to the user; not what it takes (technically) to get that user experience.
I had a friend who won an EEE netbook, which came with Linux. He liked it until he tried to use it on a website that contained Flash content. This netbook did not have Flash pre-installed, and he was unable to install it himself by following the links on the website, so he asked me for help. I am not very familiar with Linux (I try a distro each year to see if it is up to my standards yet). I was unable to determine what type of package the Linux distro on this machine supported, and was unable (through trial and error) to get any of Adobe's Flash for Linux packages to install. I ended up having to do it manually from the command line with an APT GET command that I found after a Google search. That is not an acceptable user experience for customers who expect to use this computer the same as they would use any other computer. And that is why you can expect high return rates for Linux Netbooks.
I wonder if 'download an app' applies to downloading updates for existing apps?
So from the headline, Digital Rights Management is made obsolete by a system that digitally manages the rights for playing the game?
this is just more evidence that anti-virus/malware products need to be on bootable read-only CDs that can connect to the internet, obtain current definition files, and scan and clean a computer before actually installing any realtime protection software.
This is almost exactly what I need for a little project I have in mind, except that it also needs to have a VGA video output port.
Google shouldn't police the internet, but just like a good tour guide in an unfamiliar country I would expect them to at least warn me that it may not be safe for me to be in a certain neighborhood after dark. And that's just what Google seems to be doing.
Open the case cover and use compressed air (while the system is off and unplugged) to clean it out internally. Then turn it on and examine all of the system's cooling fans to make sure they operate. If a system is overheating, it will slow down (if it doesn't completely fail) until it cools down at which point it will speed up again. As these physical check are quite easy to do, why not start with them?
Yep. It's been slashdoted
You can't really reduce or eliminate interference very well without a lot of effort (like special wall materials that block wireless signals), but you can work around the interference well enough by using a wireless spectrum analyser to determine where the interference is the weakest. Me, I use a very cheap (and limited) spectrum analyser like device called 'Wi-Spy'. This is basically a wireless reciever tuned to the same frequency range used by 802.11g wireless networks, combined with software that graphically illustrates the wireless signal strength throughout that spectrum. Using the data gathered with this tool I was able to configure my wireless router to use a channel which had the least ammount of outside interference in my area. This has worked great for me.
I tried to watch it but got a message stating that the video was removed due to copyright claims from Lucasfilm Ltd.
They should just publish their code.
They did.
The Full Disclosure link contains the source code of their program.
I don't know where you got your definition of "source code", but what was disclosed was definitely not the source, but something else entirely. I mean really, the first line isn't C, C++, C#, java, command scrips, Pascal, or any other source code language I have ever seen. Seriosly, what language is this: "QlpoOTFBWSZTWZCbNyYBVlN/"?
I love the part that says "due by Christmas". So does that mean that it's currently at least 3 weeks late, or does someone have a really aggressive marketing department that likes to announce things waaaay too early?
Yes, please please please develop more in-depth games for the Wii.
Here are two current games that I want, but have not purchased only because they are not available on the Wii, and I have not purchased any other console:
- Grand Theft Auto IV (I loved GTA III on the PC)
- F.E.A.R. II
And there are many others that I have passed up, the only reason being that they were not available on my console of choice (or more specifically, my controller of choice).
The population of the state of Kentucky is approximately 4 million people. Assuming a ridiculously high unemployment rate of 50% that would be 2 million people. Now, assuming that they all tried to file UI applications online at exactly the same time that would generate 2 million submissions. According to Wikipedia, the Intel Core2 CPU (which is less powerful than current server CPUs) can handle well over 20,000 MIPS (that's millions of instructions per second).
So, am I to understand that the software running on the government's UI application submission servers are so inefficient that they consume over 10 Billion processor instructions (20,000 MIPS divided by 2 million submissions) in order to accept and file the data for one single UI application? If so, then the programmers need to be quartered and hung!
I nominate the following as prime annoyances with Ubuntu (and most linux ditros):
- An inability to run the latest PC game that has 'Direct-X 10' in it's requirements list.
- Way too much funkiness (and reliance) on the command line. After all, when I see the following on a support forum I just get confused and turn the damn thing off.
# find / -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep -liwZ GUI | xargs -0 rm -f
- Man pages! Are you kidding me, even Windows has a much more usable help file sturcture.
- Support resources (forums, man pages, etc) that assume that you want to spend a few weeks learning a whole new language just to be able to do something that should be simple like access a file on your Windows' C: drive.
Maybe I'll have a look at this book and see if it helps...