As much as I hate Apple, I will always remember Steve for creating the NeXT computer system which first introduced me to Unix on a state of the art system back in high school. R.I.P.
Exactly! I have always thought that this is one of MS Windows biggest mistakes, no decent default categorization. Every program free to install wherever it wants with no rhyme or reason. I always create 6-8 basic categories at the first level under Programs and install all apps that let me under one of them and any that don't give me the choice I manually move into a category later. Unfortunately most Windows users don't know how or care enough to organize their programs. It drives me absolutely nuts when I have to try to find a program on someone else's computer and they have 2 or 3 pages of programs under their start menu. Rather than removing the Start menu, they should just fix it by adding some default categories and prompting people at every install which category they want to put it in until new installers start to adopt that standard and put their stuff in proper categories by default.
I have been using Firefox 6 since the day it came out and I have never had a crash with it. Perhaps it is "all the plugins" that you use, or 1 in particular. I use 20 Add-ons/Extensions myself, but I have never seen a Firefox 6 crash.
Inductive Charging has become the new standard for some time on most Verizon smart phones at the very least. It is already available for the Thunderbolt, Charge, and Droid 3 and others, so yes, I am sure it will be available for the Bionic as well.
Apple has not released iTunes for Android, nor do they currently intended to. I think this is where they are making a huge mistake. They are so focused on making iTunes an exclusive feature of the iPhone that they are missing out on all of the revenue that they could be generating if they also made an Android version. It is no different than making a Windows version of iTunes as well as a Mac version. Where do you think iTunes would be if they had left it only available on Macs? So, now I buy my music from the Amazon MP3 Store and I have not bought anything from my Windows iTunes since getting an Android phone. One more customer lost and a lot of song purchases.
Now that sounds like the next big crossover movie. AvPvT. I can almost imagine the plot now. The Predators come back to Earth to seed a few more Aliens to hunt like the last AvP movies, but this time they find that Skynet has taken over and they fight for their lives with the Terminators, but in the end they lose leaving their ship behind. Then, in the sequel to this movie (the first big summer block buster with no actual human dialogue), Skynet incorporates the Predator tech sending a ship full of souped up Terminators with cloaking abilities back to the Predator home world to take it over. They will, of course, lose, because they lack the Predators fighting spirit. Then, the Predators will return one last time and nuke Earth from orbit. It is the only way to be sure.
Governor's School (ND GS '93) was one of the defining experiences of my life as well, not only did I learn a lot about critical thinking and get my earliest tastes of real computer programming, I also gained many great life experiences. We went on many excellent field trips including a Canoe trip that I will never forget (I did fine because I was also a Boy Scout, but it taught some of the other "Nerds" there some really valuable life lessons). I learned how to survive on 4 hours of sleep a night with nothing but a little extra caffeine (although I did officially get sun glasses banned from our 7am PSD class, lol). And finally, I found family, after spending 6 weeks with these like minded individuals this only child felt like I had 39 new brothers and sisters. The reunion was a blast, we almost got kicked out of the restaurant we met in, lol.
I grew up with the shuttles and I am just old enough to remember the first launch. I want to say something really profound, but I just find myself really sad and numb feeling and very disappointed that we do not already have a better replacement ready to fly.
What has happened to us? If feels like despite the tremendous technological breakthroughs that have occurred since the first shuttle flight we have actually gone backwards some how.
Yes, Thunderbird and IMAP For The Win. I have several email address that I need to continue to monitor, one which has a quite small limit and a Gmail account with its 7+ GB of space. I frequently archive my older account to my Gmail account which is a simple drag and drop in Thunderbird.
I am a die hard Mozilla/Firefox lover, but even I have been pissed off by broken Extensions. Some may say it is the fault of the authors for not keeping them up-to-date, but I think there should be some sort of feature checking going on, not just a simple number check. I had 2 Extensions disabled going from 4 to 5: Bookmark Duplicate Detector IE Tab + I also had at least 6 disabled when going from 3 to 4: FEBE FoxTab Linkification Locate in Bookmark Folders PageStyle2Tab Tab Effect 2
I started programming BASIC when I was 10 (1985) and that is where I developed my love of programming. Sure, as a Java developer now, I know BASIC does little more than teach bad programming habits, but it was FUN and it helped me develop The Knack. There is plenty of time to learn proper OOPs methods later once you develop the interest to learn more about programming.
A big part of the perceived slowness depending on the pages you are loading is that tables are no longer displayed as they are loading, but not until they are done due to a change made for html5. By disabling it, tables will display instantly again.
Go into about:config and set:
html5.parser.enable=false
IAASTN, many people have already addressed the multiusefulness of a phaser from stun to burn to vaporize, but I want to specifically address the Tommy Gun scene. First off, it made for good TV. But, technically, I think either the Borg's shields only blocked energy based attacks and not physical attacks such as from a bullet, or, my favorite theory, it wasn't a real Tommy Gun at all. They were on a HoloDeck with the "safety protocols disengaged". He was not holding an actual gun firing real bullets, he was holding a holographically generated gun firing holographic bullets given substance by the forcefield generators in the holodeck. Small high-power bullet-shaped force fields generated by a starship traveling at high velocity capable of punching through a Borg's little personal force field generator like a hot knife through butter.
The problem is that people need to look at what they are buying and choose something with an appropriate resolution and not just the cheapest POS that they can find. My current laptop has a 15.6" screen that has a 1680x1050 resolution which works perfectly with my work computer that has a 24" 1680x1050 screen when I remote in to it. They are harder to find than they should be, which is what the original article is saying, but they are available if you just check the specs and options of some laptops and choose appropriately. Even my little Atom Ion Netbook that I just picked up for $350 sports a 1280x800 screen which isn't too bad for most tasks.
The reason that a lot of free apps need location information is because they also contain AdMob to support them which requires location to give you targeted ads. As annoying as AdMob may be that is often the price you have to pay for free apps. So, the best way to avoid that problem is to avoid any apps that use AdMob (or root your phone and disable AdMob).
Well, my company made it in to the top 25, and I can honestly say that I would not rather work for any of the companies ahead of mine. It is the best IT company to work for in our state.
Only if it is a Zombie game, pictures of people with just guns had little effect.
Perhaps the Resident Evil or Left 4 Dead games could be good immune boosters.
I have never really minded game copy protection too much, until recently. I got a new game for Christmas (Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War II by THQ) and finally decided to install and play it a couple of weeks ago. It took over and hour and half and 5 GBs on my hard drive before I was finally able to play and by then I had about lost interest.
First it had to install Steam on my computer and I had to go out and create an account for that.
Then it had to install 4+ GBs of game on my computer which took about 20 mins, why don't games give the option of using content from the DVD anymore?
Then Steam had to download a bunch of updates before it would let me play, about 40 more minutes.
Then once I finally got the game started Games for Windows/Windows Live made me create a login which failed repeatedly from inside the game so I had to exit and do it from a web browser. More time wasted.
Then, after I got back in to the game and logged in to Windows Live and then told me I needed an update for that. But then, it failed to download the update, and refused to let me play the game without it. After searching around in forums and FAQs I found that I had to download a Windows Hotfix for XP to provide some download ability that Vista comes with by default. Finally, after manually installing a Hotfix and rebooting and installing the Windows Live update, after another half hour or so, it let me play.
After all of that, I barely wanted to play, I tried one quick level and called it a day. This is not even to mention all of the new processes like Steam that I had running even after a reboot (which I proceeded to clean up). All in all, I think I will be avoiding anything that uses Steam or Windows Live in the future.
Slashdot Mirror
As much as I hate Apple, I will always remember Steve for creating the NeXT computer system which first introduced me to Unix on a state of the art system back in high school. R.I.P.
Exactly! I have always thought that this is one of MS Windows biggest mistakes, no decent default categorization. Every program free to install wherever it wants with no rhyme or reason. I always create 6-8 basic categories at the first level under Programs and install all apps that let me under one of them and any that don't give me the choice I manually move into a category later. Unfortunately most Windows users don't know how or care enough to organize their programs. It drives me absolutely nuts when I have to try to find a program on someone else's computer and they have 2 or 3 pages of programs under their start menu. Rather than removing the Start menu, they should just fix it by adding some default categories and prompting people at every install which category they want to put it in until new installers start to adopt that standard and put their stuff in proper categories by default.
I have been using Firefox 6 since the day it came out and I have never had a crash with it. Perhaps it is "all the plugins" that you use, or 1 in particular. I use 20 Add-ons/Extensions myself, but I have never seen a Firefox 6 crash.
Inductive Charging has become the new standard for some time on most Verizon smart phones at the very least. It is already available for the Thunderbolt, Charge, and Droid 3 and others, so yes, I am sure it will be available for the Bionic as well.
Apple has not released iTunes for Android, nor do they currently intended to. I think this is where they are making a huge mistake. They are so focused on making iTunes an exclusive feature of the iPhone that they are missing out on all of the revenue that they could be generating if they also made an Android version. It is no different than making a Windows version of iTunes as well as a Mac version. Where do you think iTunes would be if they had left it only available on Macs? So, now I buy my music from the Amazon MP3 Store and I have not bought anything from my Windows iTunes since getting an Android phone. One more customer lost and a lot of song purchases.
Now that sounds like the next big crossover movie. AvPvT. I can almost imagine the plot now. The Predators come back to Earth to seed a few more Aliens to hunt like the last AvP movies, but this time they find that Skynet has taken over and they fight for their lives with the Terminators, but in the end they lose leaving their ship behind. Then, in the sequel to this movie (the first big summer block buster with no actual human dialogue), Skynet incorporates the Predator tech sending a ship full of souped up Terminators with cloaking abilities back to the Predator home world to take it over. They will, of course, lose, because they lack the Predators fighting spirit. Then, the Predators will return one last time and nuke Earth from orbit. It is the only way to be sure.
Governor's School (ND GS '93) was one of the defining experiences of my life as well, not only did I learn a lot about critical thinking and get my earliest tastes of real computer programming, I also gained many great life experiences. We went on many excellent field trips including a Canoe trip that I will never forget (I did fine because I was also a Boy Scout, but it taught some of the other "Nerds" there some really valuable life lessons). I learned how to survive on 4 hours of sleep a night with nothing but a little extra caffeine (although I did officially get sun glasses banned from our 7am PSD class, lol). And finally, I found family, after spending 6 weeks with these like minded individuals this only child felt like I had 39 new brothers and sisters. The reunion was a blast, we almost got kicked out of the restaurant we met in, lol.
I grew up with the shuttles and I am just old enough to remember the first launch. I want to say something really profound, but I just find myself really sad and numb feeling and very disappointed that we do not already have a better replacement ready to fly.
What has happened to us? If feels like despite the tremendous technological breakthroughs that have occurred since the first shuttle flight we have actually gone backwards some how.
Yes, Thunderbird and IMAP For The Win. I have several email address that I need to continue to monitor, one which has a quite small limit and a Gmail account with its 7+ GB of space. I frequently archive my older account to my Gmail account which is a simple drag and drop in Thunderbird.
As I just posted above with more detail:
I had 2 Extensions disabled going from 4 to 5:
Bookmark Duplicate Detector
IE Tab +
I am a die hard Mozilla/Firefox lover, but even I have been pissed off by broken Extensions. Some may say it is the fault of the authors for not keeping them up-to-date, but I think there should be some sort of feature checking going on, not just a simple number check.
I had 2 Extensions disabled going from 4 to 5:
Bookmark Duplicate Detector
IE Tab +
I also had at least 6 disabled when going from 3 to 4:
FEBE
FoxTab
Linkification
Locate in Bookmark Folders
PageStyle2Tab
Tab Effect 2
I started programming BASIC when I was 10 (1985) and that is where I developed my love of programming. Sure, as a Java developer now, I know BASIC does little more than teach bad programming habits, but it was FUN and it helped me develop The Knack. There is plenty of time to learn proper OOPs methods later once you develop the interest to learn more about programming.
Although I generally agree with you, I haven't actually seen one of these ad things in years:
Get: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/
A big part of the perceived slowness depending on the pages you are loading is that tables are no longer displayed as they are loading, but not until they are done due to a change made for html5. By disabling it, tables will display instantly again.
Go into about:config and set:
html5.parser.enable=false
A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals.
- K
IAASTN, many people have already addressed the multiusefulness of a phaser from stun to burn to vaporize, but I want to specifically address the Tommy Gun scene. First off, it made for good TV. But, technically, I think either the Borg's shields only blocked energy based attacks and not physical attacks such as from a bullet, or, my favorite theory, it wasn't a real Tommy Gun at all. They were on a HoloDeck with the "safety protocols disengaged". He was not holding an actual gun firing real bullets, he was holding a holographically generated gun firing holographic bullets given substance by the forcefield generators in the holodeck. Small high-power bullet-shaped force fields generated by a starship traveling at high velocity capable of punching through a Borg's little personal force field generator like a hot knife through butter.
Sounds like:
A. The truth hurts
B. She may be as "Frightfully dim" as she accuses her students of being.
Did anyone else read BEER Robot when they first seen this headline?
The problem is that people need to look at what they are buying and choose something with an appropriate resolution and not just the cheapest POS that they can find. My current laptop has a 15.6" screen that has a 1680x1050 resolution which works perfectly with my work computer that has a 24" 1680x1050 screen when I remote in to it. They are harder to find than they should be, which is what the original article is saying, but they are available if you just check the specs and options of some laptops and choose appropriately. Even my little Atom Ion Netbook that I just picked up for $350 sports a 1280x800 screen which isn't too bad for most tasks.
The reason that a lot of free apps need location information is because they also contain AdMob to support them which requires location to give you targeted ads. As annoying as AdMob may be that is often the price you have to pay for free apps. So, the best way to avoid that problem is to avoid any apps that use AdMob (or root your phone and disable AdMob).
Well, my company made it in to the top 25, and I can honestly say that I would not rather work for any of the companies ahead of mine. It is the best IT company to work for in our state.
When did the acronym ICE in reference to vehicles switch from Internal Combustion Engine to In-Car Entertainment anyway?
Only if it is a Zombie game, pictures of people with just guns had little effect.
Perhaps the Resident Evil or Left 4 Dead games could be good immune boosters.
I can't wait to try E out on my new Pandora!
http://www.open-pandora.org/
I have never really minded game copy protection too much, until recently. I got a new game for Christmas (Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War II by THQ) and finally decided to install and play it a couple of weeks ago. It took over and hour and half and 5 GBs on my hard drive before I was finally able to play and by then I had about lost interest.
First it had to install Steam on my computer and I had to go out and create an account for that.
Then it had to install 4+ GBs of game on my computer which took about 20 mins, why don't games give the option of using content from the DVD anymore?
Then Steam had to download a bunch of updates before it would let me play, about 40 more minutes.
Then once I finally got the game started Games for Windows/Windows Live made me create a login which failed repeatedly from inside the game so I had to exit and do it from a web browser. More time wasted.
Then, after I got back in to the game and logged in to Windows Live and then told me I needed an update for that. But then, it failed to download the update, and refused to let me play the game without it. After searching around in forums and FAQs I found that I had to download a Windows Hotfix for XP to provide some download ability that Vista comes with by default. Finally, after manually installing a Hotfix and rebooting and installing the Windows Live update, after another half hour or so, it let me play.
After all of that, I barely wanted to play, I tried one quick level and called it a day. This is not even to mention all of the new processes like Steam that I had running even after a reboot (which I proceeded to clean up). All in all, I think I will be avoiding anything that uses Steam or Windows Live in the future.