I know they're doing it for their own benefits, but i actually think it's a good thing. If i buy a DVD movie somewhere i don't want it to be a illegal copy either. Not because it's worse quality than the legit copy (maybe the cover print is worse but whatever), but because i believe i'm buying the Real Thing® so that's what i want to receive, i certainly don't want to be part of a scam like this. (if you don't care if a DVD is copied or not, think of buying a car and get a stolen model from poland instead of what you think you're buying)
Microsoft won't stop people pirating like this, they help people who wanted to get the legit copy to actually own a legit copy.
And Microsoft will of course gain profit in the end.
I see, thanks for explaining.
The article is bringing up the lack of natural resources of sodium borohydride why? I guess the current annual global production of sodium borohydride wouldn't be enough with 10,000 tons then.
..the vehicle can travel three times farther than a scooter powered by a nickel-cadmium cell, saying that the technology can also be applied in automobiles, laptop computers and mobile phones.
That's a great achievement, except that it can not be applied in automobiles, laptop computers and mobile phones because there's just not enough sodium borohydride in the entire world to produce enough fuel for this to work on a large scale.
Did they know this at development or did the question where all this sodium borohydride would have to come from pop up later?
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When my parents' vcr broke i gave them mine. I wasn't using it anyway. Also i gave them about 20 tapes to record things on. I had compiled a lot of stuff on these tapes over the years. Duckman, Simpsons, Futurama, Young Ones, Bottom...
I thought i'd want to keep these tapes forever but i realized by the time i would actually have time to watch all that stuff again it would probably be available on a much nicer format anyway (hdd, dvd, whatever comes next). Same thing with my 200+ audiotapes. I enjoyed them at the time, but they didn't stand the test of time, i just can't be bothered with them anymore. I put them on an ebay type site for the low price of 0 and there hasn't even been 1 person responding.
But my parents are happy with my vcr to record sports and crappy crime tv series. They don't even own a dvd player.
And neither do i (well, not a stand-alone that is, i do have a NEC dvd burner i rarely use)
But i don't think the wife will appreciate
We both love playing pinball in the arcade, something we're fairly good at and so it doesn't cost a fortune either to play a couple of hours.
Unfortunately the arcades have pretty much disappeared in my country (NL).
Now this big screen thing might work and i think $5/hour is not too bad but when it's really good they probably won't be able to provide enough facilities for everyone to play when they want, and what's worse than having to wait in line or book a spot 2 days ahead to be able to play your favorite game.
As if trying to make sites look the same in IE and Firefox isn't fun enough...
It's nice to have choice but i wish some browser (preferably firefox) would just take over so we can forget about browser compatibility
It's easy to say Disney won't pull this off without Pixar. I'm just going to wait and see, they might actually be able to make it work. Always time to say told you so! later.
Whenever i look for something on Wikipedia i always forget to check who actually submitted the content and how it was moderated/edited. It's easy to think everything is true and correct, but you have to wonder.. Kinda like watching CNN and wondering why some things are reported slightly different from what i heard on BCC World Radio earlier that day.
I like the idea of using keycards or something for logging onto the computers at work. Usually employees already have a card they clock in with, get coffee at the machine, pay lunch etc. Why not use it also on the computer. Saves the helpdesk a lot of trouble on mondays unlocking accounts after another mandatory password change on fridays..
I've used SP2 on my game/internet machine for a while. First thing i did was disable the firewall and Anti-virus notices (it wouldn't see symantec antivir) and disable automatic updates.
I didn't have spyware or virus problems before, don't have them now. Using kerio for firewall, outlook 2003 for mail (no problem with virus or anything at all) and firefox and maxthon for browsing. I have pretty much the same thing on a machine running SP1 that's online 24/7 and i don't really notice any difference between SP1 and SP2 except more critical updates are available for SP1 usually.
I think all it does is try to load a webpage or whatever. No spyware, adware.. if you're paranoid just block winamp connecting to any internet service in your firewall.
I think winamp 2 was great, at the time only sonique once lured me over to switch but stability issues made me go back. winamp 3 was a mistake but winamp 5 is pretty slick. It runs great on a modern machine and has all the features i'd like in a player so i don't see any reason for changing players anyway.
I used to think it was cool when me and my buddy teamed up with quake and got 1st and 2nd place in many consecutive games, but we didn't really keep track of stats.
With single player FPS though i used to quickload/save many many times to get a perfect run in a level (90%-100% health, use as little ammo as possible etc.)
Even when i'd have huge amounts of big weapons and ammo i would still use the smaller gun just to save for what was to come. In recent FPS games they discourage this kinda thing though because new levels usually mean you get 100% health and clean amount of weapons/health..
These kind of cds are what started my cd collection some 10 years ago. It's a great way of discovery new music you hadn't heard of before. Like half the bands on this cd i don't know and it's a great opportunity for them to get me interested in buying their latest and greatest.
Although it's true i was downloading much more mp3 when i first got my broadband some years ago, there's still a good amount of mp3 material sitting on my hdd. Also there's a couple hundred cdroms with mp3 on them waiting for me have a listen.
Basic reason for not downloading so much anymore would be that i have too many mp3s to be able to listen to in my life time anyway, and a lot of new music isn't really music i like (like people with a couple hundred cds, at some point you got the classics of whatever music you like and your collection stops its rapid growth). So unless it's some really interesting music i wouldn't download it so quickly anymore.
Why is this modded 5, Interesting?
If you are unable to keep your XP machine running fine and there's no software you need to keep you on XP then don't use it if it's such a big problem to you. I keep my systems' virusscanners up to date, apply security patches and generally know what i'm doing and i haven't had security or virus problems for years. Especially with XP it's become much easier to keep things safe. I'm no genius, if i can do it so can you.
People, don't mod someone up because they are incapable of maintaining their machine and they 'just can't handle it anymore'..
I don't think it's such a strange idea, pornography is sinful.
But this is not the way to go about it, blocking content does not take away the sinful nature of people. I got my dose of pornography at the early years of the www, and it got boring pretty quickly. But i can see how i would've been trying to see it much more if it was blocked back then.
Whenever i hear fanatic Christians speak about the 'evil' that's internet i think they don't have a clue what they are talking about. I have to be on the internet for my job all day long and i rarely see any pornographic images on my screen. And even if there is the occasional bare breast in some banner i don't even notice it. Get over it, people will have to decide for themselves what they want to see and what not. You can easily block these images and such on the local computer. Overcoming sin isn't supposed to be easy anyway i think.
And parents, get a clue.
I have to admit this will be the first dvd device in my machine ever. I have not really had any need to be able to play dvds of any sort on my machine so i never felt like buying a player even. For backup purposes i felt the rather limited capacity of dvds combined with the time it takes to burn them and the price of media held me back for a long time, so i mirrored stuff on a second hdd instead. I know dvd will be just the 5,25" inch floppy disk of the future and i will be tranferring my data from one media to the next again but for now the cost/speed of dvdr is good enough for me
It uses IE right now but hopefully gecko will be supported soon and i'll drop Firefox instantly. Maxthon has many of the features Firebird has and you don't need to install a bunch of extensions. Also i don't like the Firefox about:config thingie, there's some pretty general stuff in there that shouldn't be 'advanced' options.
In my opinion Firefox can still make stuff somewhat more user friendly. My mom's no computer person and she wouldn't know how to make links all open in new tabs instead of windows and such...
I never had a problem with Word for my own text proccessing needs really. I did try OpenOffice but i didn't see a reason to switch to it since i generally found it slower and since i write simple docs i don't care about more/better features it might have.
The one thing that bothered me with Word recently though has been the styles and formatting . My wife has been doing a lot of group work in school lately and i've been the appointed clean-up-guy for all the docs they create. Throwing together docs with different formatting and getting all the headings, margins, bullets and what not to be the same style is a real pain. I wish combining a bunch of docs would somehow have Word ask me to uniform headings and such into one style/formatting.
Don't know if OpenOffice does this but that would be nice.
The article is kinda silly, the complaints seem to be Office somehow didn't get installed properly, i experience no such problems with my installation.
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I know they're doing it for their own benefits, but i actually think it's a good thing. If i buy a DVD movie somewhere i don't want it to be a illegal copy either. Not because it's worse quality than the legit copy (maybe the cover print is worse but whatever), but because i believe i'm buying the Real Thing® so that's what i want to receive, i certainly don't want to be part of a scam like this. (if you don't care if a DVD is copied or not, think of buying a car and get a stolen model from poland instead of what you think you're buying)
Microsoft won't stop people pirating like this, they help people who wanted to get the legit copy to actually own a legit copy. And Microsoft will of course gain profit in the end.
I see, thanks for explaining. The article is bringing up the lack of natural resources of sodium borohydride why? I guess the current annual global production of sodium borohydride wouldn't be enough with 10,000 tons then.
..the vehicle can travel three times farther than a scooter powered by a nickel-cadmium cell, saying that the technology can also be applied in automobiles, laptop computers and mobile phones.
That's a great achievement, except that it can not be applied in automobiles, laptop computers and mobile phones because there's just not enough sodium borohydride in the entire world to produce enough fuel for this to work on a large scale.
Did they know this at development or did the question where all this sodium borohydride would have to come from pop up later?
When my parents' vcr broke i gave them mine. I wasn't using it anyway. Also i gave them about 20 tapes to record things on. I had compiled a lot of stuff on these tapes over the years. Duckman, Simpsons, Futurama, Young Ones, Bottom...
I thought i'd want to keep these tapes forever but i realized by the time i would actually have time to watch all that stuff again it would probably be available on a much nicer format anyway (hdd, dvd, whatever comes next). Same thing with my 200+ audiotapes. I enjoyed them at the time, but they didn't stand the test of time, i just can't be bothered with them anymore. I put them on an ebay type site for the low price of 0 and there hasn't even been 1 person responding.
But my parents are happy with my vcr to record sports and crappy crime tv series. They don't even own a dvd player.
And neither do i (well, not a stand-alone that is, i do have a NEC dvd burner i rarely use)
But i don't think the wife will appreciate
We both love playing pinball in the arcade, something we're fairly good at and so it doesn't cost a fortune either to play a couple of hours. Unfortunately the arcades have pretty much disappeared in my country (NL).
Now this big screen thing might work and i think $5/hour is not too bad but when it's really good they probably won't be able to provide enough facilities for everyone to play when they want, and what's worse than having to wait in line or book a spot 2 days ahead to be able to play your favorite game.
As if trying to make sites look the same in IE and Firefox isn't fun enough... It's nice to have choice but i wish some browser (preferably firefox) would just take over so we can forget about browser compatibility
It's easy to say Disney won't pull this off without Pixar. I'm just going to wait and see, they might actually be able to make it work. Always time to say told you so! later.
Whenever i look for something on Wikipedia i always forget to check who actually submitted the content and how it was moderated/edited. It's easy to think everything is true and correct, but you have to wonder.. Kinda like watching CNN and wondering why some things are reported slightly different from what i heard on BCC World Radio earlier that day.
I like the idea of using keycards or something for logging onto the computers at work. Usually employees already have a card they clock in with, get coffee at the machine, pay lunch etc. Why not use it also on the computer. Saves the helpdesk a lot of trouble on mondays unlocking accounts after another mandatory password change on fridays..
i guess the geforce 2 will not do here, if only they would lower the price of the 9800pro cards a bit..
I've used SP2 on my game/internet machine for a while. First thing i did was disable the firewall and Anti-virus notices (it wouldn't see symantec antivir) and disable automatic updates. I didn't have spyware or virus problems before, don't have them now. Using kerio for firewall, outlook 2003 for mail (no problem with virus or anything at all) and firefox and maxthon for browsing. I have pretty much the same thing on a machine running SP1 that's online 24/7 and i don't really notice any difference between SP1 and SP2 except more critical updates are available for SP1 usually.
I think all it does is try to load a webpage or whatever. No spyware, adware.. if you're paranoid just block winamp connecting to any internet service in your firewall.
I think winamp 2 was great, at the time only sonique once lured me over to switch but stability issues made me go back. winamp 3 was a mistake but winamp 5 is pretty slick. It runs great on a modern machine and has all the features i'd like in a player so i don't see any reason for changing players anyway.
I used to think it was cool when me and my buddy teamed up with quake and got 1st and 2nd place in many consecutive games, but we didn't really keep track of stats. With single player FPS though i used to quickload/save many many times to get a perfect run in a level (90%-100% health, use as little ammo as possible etc.)
Even when i'd have huge amounts of big weapons and ammo i would still use the smaller gun just to save for what was to come. In recent FPS games they discourage this kinda thing though because new levels usually mean you get 100% health and clean amount of weapons/health..
i like that equation best when it comes to music (nomeansno)
These kind of cds are what started my cd collection some 10 years ago. It's a great way of discovery new music you hadn't heard of before. Like half the bands on this cd i don't know and it's a great opportunity for them to get me interested in buying their latest and greatest.
Although it's true i was downloading much more mp3 when i first got my broadband some years ago, there's still a good amount of mp3 material sitting on my hdd. Also there's a couple hundred cdroms with mp3 on them waiting for me have a listen. Basic reason for not downloading so much anymore would be that i have too many mp3s to be able to listen to in my life time anyway, and a lot of new music isn't really music i like (like people with a couple hundred cds, at some point you got the classics of whatever music you like and your collection stops its rapid growth). So unless it's some really interesting music i wouldn't download it so quickly anymore.
i spot 2 dupes in these 3 lines
Why is this modded 5, Interesting? If you are unable to keep your XP machine running fine and there's no software you need to keep you on XP then don't use it if it's such a big problem to you. I keep my systems' virusscanners up to date, apply security patches and generally know what i'm doing and i haven't had security or virus problems for years. Especially with XP it's become much easier to keep things safe. I'm no genius, if i can do it so can you. People, don't mod someone up because they are incapable of maintaining their machine and they 'just can't handle it anymore'..
I don't think it's such a strange idea, pornography is sinful. But this is not the way to go about it, blocking content does not take away the sinful nature of people. I got my dose of pornography at the early years of the www, and it got boring pretty quickly. But i can see how i would've been trying to see it much more if it was blocked back then.
Whenever i hear fanatic Christians speak about the 'evil' that's internet i think they don't have a clue what they are talking about. I have to be on the internet for my job all day long and i rarely see any pornographic images on my screen. And even if there is the occasional bare breast in some banner i don't even notice it. Get over it, people will have to decide for themselves what they want to see and what not. You can easily block these images and such on the local computer. Overcoming sin isn't supposed to be easy anyway i think. And parents, get a clue.
I have to admit this will be the first dvd device in my machine ever. I have not really had any need to be able to play dvds of any sort on my machine so i never felt like buying a player even. For backup purposes i felt the rather limited capacity of dvds combined with the time it takes to burn them and the price of media held me back for a long time, so i mirrored stuff on a second hdd instead. I know dvd will be just the 5,25" inch floppy disk of the future and i will be tranferring my data from one media to the next again but for now the cost/speed of dvdr is good enough for me
It uses IE right now but hopefully gecko will be supported soon and i'll drop Firefox instantly. Maxthon has many of the features Firebird has and you don't need to install a bunch of extensions. Also i don't like the Firefox about:config thingie, there's some pretty general stuff in there that shouldn't be 'advanced' options.
In my opinion Firefox can still make stuff somewhat more user friendly. My mom's no computer person and she wouldn't know how to make links all open in new tabs instead of windows and such...
There's numureous ways according to this
You'd think i wrote the parent in Word... ;)
I never had a problem with Word for my own text proccessing needs really. I did try OpenOffice but i didn't see a reason to switch to it since i generally found it slower and since i write simple docs i don't care about more/better features it might have.
The one thing that bothered me with Word recently though has been the styles and formatting . My wife has been doing a lot of group work in school lately and i've been the appointed clean-up-guy for all the docs they create. Throwing together docs with different formatting and getting all the headings, margins, bullets and what not to be the same style is a real pain. I wish combining a bunch of docs would somehow have Word ask me to uniform headings and such into one style/formatting.
Don't know if OpenOffice does this but that would be nice.
The article is kinda silly, the complaints seem to be Office somehow didn't get installed properly, i experience no such problems with my installation.