It is different. On a first run, if you choose the non-default provider, it opens your choices in a hidden tab. That it, it puts search providers in the second tab, then opens a third tab at the same time and makes the third tab active. Subtle manipulation, but some users will either not notice or close the browser, forgetting to change their provider. If you do go back to the second tab to choose your search provider, you will find google about half way down.
By contrast, if you want to change providers after the first run, you will find google on the second page. It's silly because the search provider icons are much bigger than they need to be and there aren't very many on the second page. They could have easily included them all on the first page by making the icons smaller and/or leaving it to the user to scroll down. Further, it's unnecessarily different from the first run provider choice page.
Back to IE's first run. What a ridiculous dialogue. Have you ever tried using hotkeys to get through this interrogation? There's the easy way, just hit enter a bunch of times and you'll be quickly saddled with all kinds of safety tools, update checkers, and--of course--Bing as your search provider. Note that the search provider isn't the first choice or the last, it's couched somewhere in the middle of the whole process. Now try hotkeying through and choose the non-default answers:...dang. First run is disabled on this domain, so I don't know all the keystrokes. But it's ridiculous. There's a different alt key for every non-default option, and one of them doesn't even have a hotkey, so you have to grab the mouse in the middle and click on a single option.
On the surface, these might have the appearance of minor inconveniences, but we all know that people are inherently lazy, or conditioned rather, to ignore computer popups or just click through or hit enter. MS has trained users this way. Google will lose its position as defualt search provider on a percentage of IE user's profiles due to this fact, and MS knows it.
I have to agree, although I registered a vote for PFSense above. PFS is based on m0n0wall and both are excellent routers filling slightly different niches. I currently use PFS at home for its packages (freeswitch, squid), but I recently worked for a growing WISP and got them onto m0n0wall, now serving something in the neighbourhood of a thousand customers.
If you want pure simplicity, go m0n0wall. Otherwise, I strongly recommend looking at PFSense for the squid caching and adjust-on-the-fly connection table size.
Definitely PFSense. I prefer the traffic shaping in Linux (can't speak for the traffic shaping in BSD), but PFSense is sufficient in that regard, and excels at everything else. You can't beat the interface for visual presentation and ease of management.
If it absolutely has to be linux though, I love Tomato. It's mostly aimed at less-powerful hardware though, so I'm not sure how much you could scale it up.
Not necessarily all international, mind you, but "approximately 600 airports certified for large commercial aircraft" according to the article. Somebody more familiar with FAA terminology might be able to glean the information from their site.
And furthermore, there is a difference between hating a person and hating their actions, hence the saying "love the sinner, hate the sin". I strongly disagree with the statement "God hates fags", while maintaining that the bible's condemnation of homosexual acts is ever relevant.
Wow, and yet your seem angry about this. You own GM now. You should be HAPPY people want to buy YOUR CARS.
Or, like 300 million Americans, I'm guessing Rogerborg doesn't own GM now, so back to the sad reality that the government has decided that his money should fund other persons's car purchases.
I've seen one great use for a netbook: For a year I did wireless internet installation, where I stood on 3 roofs per day, holding an aluminum pole with a yagi antenna on the end, slowly turning it and watching the radio's web interface for the best signal. Hard drives tend to freeze up around -18C, and a 7" screen hanging on a lanyard around the neck is a lot better than 14" under the arm when climbing a ladder or riding a boom with limited space. Unfortunately for me, the Eee was only introduced as I was leaving that job, so while my trainee got one, I was quite used to lugging around the much larger Compaq and a spare battery.
Other than that, I can't think of a good use for the things, and I'm quite happy with my 13" Timeline. Some pangs of envy since the 11.6" model was introduced with the same resolution, but the CULV+LED+SSD combination does not leave me wanting for speed or usability.
Spoken like a true victim of the 2-minute startup. I have computers on which the POST is more than half the time from power on to usable desktop. (As an aside, I'm pretty sure the '360' in Norton 360 represents the average increase in startup time after installing it.)
...except that this law has nothing to do with government's enforcement of religion, and everything to do with the protection of persons from things "grossly abusive or insulting in relation to matters sacred". Surely you can see the difference.
Or could it be that he was asking for a citation to support lgftsa's claim that the Catholic holy book (the bible?) has opposed the idea of life on other planets? That's the half of the OP's straw man that you, he, and all the universe have so far failed to support, and now you have apparently attempted to throw up a smokescreen around it with tasteless ad hominem attacks.
Hey, you don't like religion. We get it. Some of us don't like blanket insults aimed at people in consequence of their beliefs, and the Irish have agreed to outlaw the same. If you can't live with that then stay out of Ireland.
I love the Atom 330 processor. If you want a cheap media center PC, go Mini-ITX, unless of course you want mega HD/blu-ray/confounded new age this and that.
And if you do want the new age this and that, the atom is still a contender when coupled with the Ion. I've watched many a 1080p title on this combination. It leaves nothing to be desired in a HTPC, with the added bonus of quiet. Throw away the little CPU/GPU fan and use a well-ventilated case. Use an SSD or PXE boot and you have a virtually silent low-energy media powerhouse.
The most interesting benchmark in the article is the effect that the Ion GPU has. There's another netbook review that is linked in the article to an $800 machine with a beefier CPU, the ASUS CLUV. That machine is unable to play 1080p video clips without stuttering.
I question that result. I have a $800 Acer Timeline 3810T: 1.4GHz CULV + 4500MHD + 80GB SSD, and it plays 1080p just fine using Intel Clear Video (Intel's flavour of DXVA, comparable to what you saw the ion do in the linked review).
Only problem : not all video codecs are accelerated this well. Do any players/codecs out there let you watch the usual x264 video clips that pirates put up on the net with Ion GPU acceleration?
I also have a Zotac Ion-itx board. It's currently employed as a NAS, but when I fist got it I had to try it out a couple months as a desktop. Honestly, aside from the Atom's inability to play youtube HD or HQ (and the flash 10.1 plugin has now supposedly fixed that too with DXVA), I never missed my Athlon X2 or 8600GT. That ion plays 1080p.mkv/h.264 files just fine with minimal CPU usage, same with VC-1 formats. The dual-core hyperthreaded atom was almost totally adequate for my needs on a 1920x1200 monitor.
Maybe you could pick up an external enclosure off newegg along with an SSD, and put the mechanical drive to use as a backup disk. Put in an OCZ vertex SSD, and make this machine scream.
Agreed. Anand recently wrote words to the effect that an Atom is a waste of an SSD, but I completely disagree. My desktop ion experience used an OCZ Vertex (which is now back in my primary desktop). I've built a couple atom 330-based desktops with inexpensive Kingston V Series SSDs and WinXP for family and neighbors, and they couldn't be happier. I would pit one of those 26-Watt machines against any modern processor + spinning HDD for your typical mother-in-law computer tasks any day.
USB or PXE It's much quicker, and you can customize each install without wasting another CD/DVD.
and watch DVD's.
Again, the NAS.
All of those are harder without an optical drive,
It may be for your use-case scenario, I don't doubt that, but I've owned and used a 13" notebook for three months now with zero regrets. Granted, there are people and situations that may just require shoving an optical disc into the computer, but I haven't had one of those situations yet, and with a bit of planning I really don't expect to. Windows and Linux both install much faster from USB or PXE.
Besides Windows, I can't think of the last piece of software I had worth installing that wasn't available on some other medium, and Windows just went straight from the DVD onto a friendlier medium.
And don't tell me about the poor guy that has no other computer with an optical drive. We are talking about netbooks here. If that's really all he has, then his problems are bigger than figuring out how to reinstall Windows on his EEE. Maybe he needs to look at an OS that doesn't have a 15 year-old media as a prerequisite.
I'm not saying it was fair to the consumer, only that there's more than one way to respond. The attitude of "I got screwed" is about the least empowering for the consumer, and affirms the content-provider's perception of the consumer as the unconditional dependent.
Religious? yes. Bullcrap? your point of view. Self-righteous? not at all.
I found that last part a little out of place, but then that's their site, so let them post whatever testimonial they want. Is it any worse or more out of place than the testimonials for atheism or libertarianism or whatever-ism found right here in this discussion and elsewhere on this site (which is not anybody's site, but a public forum)?
The consumer got screwed by the supplier in this instance.
If DRM prevails, this will be the reason why: the general public tends to view the consumption of media as if it were the consumption of food or oxygen. As if our only options are to cough up the asking price, or assume the life of a 'pirate', skulking around shady web sites grabbing torrents for the latest content.
What ever happened to the option of just not consuming? Shouldn't we say, instead of "the consumer got screwed", "the consumer received yet another demonstration of some of the flaws in the DRM model"? Wouldn't you rather seize the power that you have as a consumer and make a choice to spend your dollars elsewhere, and influence your friends to do the same, than to take the victim's stance and believe that we are totally helpless when somebody like the MPAA screws up and just assumes that we'll quietly get in the next line?
The simple fact is that DRM cannot succeed unless the consumer chooses to support it.
Agreed. If not for VDPAU, which I enjoy at least weekly (sometimes more), I could be happily running just about any video card and free driver under the sun. VDPAU is a game changer, however, and I shall continue to use my 8600GT and its closed binary driver until some viable alternative makes me reconsider.
The A model takes DC input and ships with a 90W power brick. The other Atom 330 model takes standard ATX power input.
I have watched plenty of trouble-free 1080p on my IonITX-A board running Ubuntu (no XBMC, just smplayer with the vdpau patches) all while seeding multiple torrents from the same internal hard drive.
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It is different. On a first run, if you choose the non-default provider, it opens your choices in a hidden tab. That it, it puts search providers in the second tab, then opens a third tab at the same time and makes the third tab active. Subtle manipulation, but some users will either not notice or close the browser, forgetting to change their provider. If you do go back to the second tab to choose your search provider, you will find google about half way down.
By contrast, if you want to change providers after the first run, you will find google on the second page. It's silly because the search provider icons are much bigger than they need to be and there aren't very many on the second page. They could have easily included them all on the first page by making the icons smaller and/or leaving it to the user to scroll down. Further, it's unnecessarily different from the first run provider choice page.
Back to IE's first run. What a ridiculous dialogue. Have you ever tried using hotkeys to get through this interrogation? There's the easy way, just hit enter a bunch of times and you'll be quickly saddled with all kinds of safety tools, update checkers, and--of course--Bing as your search provider. Note that the search provider isn't the first choice or the last, it's couched somewhere in the middle of the whole process. Now try hotkeying through and choose the non-default answers: ...dang. First run is disabled on this domain, so I don't know all the keystrokes. But it's ridiculous. There's a different alt key for every non-default option, and one of them doesn't even have a hotkey, so you have to grab the mouse in the middle and click on a single option.
On the surface, these might have the appearance of minor inconveniences, but we all know that people are inherently lazy, or conditioned rather, to ignore computer popups or just click through or hit enter. MS has trained users this way. Google will lose its position as defualt search provider on a percentage of IE user's profiles due to this fact, and MS knows it.
No reason a person can't run linux (or a half-dozen other unix-derived router platforms) on good quality, no moving parts hardware.
I have to agree, although I registered a vote for PFSense above. PFS is based on m0n0wall and both are excellent routers filling slightly different niches. I currently use PFS at home for its packages (freeswitch, squid), but I recently worked for a growing WISP and got them onto m0n0wall, now serving something in the neighbourhood of a thousand customers.
If you want pure simplicity, go m0n0wall. Otherwise, I strongly recommend looking at PFSense for the squid caching and adjust-on-the-fly connection table size.
Definitely PFSense. I prefer the traffic shaping in Linux (can't speak for the traffic shaping in BSD), but PFSense is sufficient in that regard, and excels at everything else. You can't beat the interface for visual presentation and ease of management.
If it absolutely has to be linux though, I love Tomato. It's mostly aimed at less-powerful hardware though, so I'm not sure how much you could scale it up.
Not necessarily all international, mind you, but "approximately 600 airports certified for large commercial aircraft" according to the article. Somebody more familiar with FAA terminology might be able to glean the information from their site.
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And furthermore, there is a difference between hating a person and hating their actions, hence the saying "love the sinner, hate the sin". I strongly disagree with the statement "God hates fags", while maintaining that the bible's condemnation of homosexual acts is ever relevant.
And this one. And this one.
Wow, and yet your seem angry about this. You own GM now. You should be HAPPY people want to buy YOUR CARS.
Or, like 300 million Americans, I'm guessing Rogerborg doesn't own GM now, so back to the sad reality that the government has decided that his money should fund other persons's car purchases.
I thought "you're actions have consequences" was a positive statement. Consider the alternative.
Underrated.
I've seen one great use for a netbook: For a year I did wireless internet installation, where I stood on 3 roofs per day, holding an aluminum pole with a yagi antenna on the end, slowly turning it and watching the radio's web interface for the best signal. Hard drives tend to freeze up around -18C, and a 7" screen hanging on a lanyard around the neck is a lot better than 14" under the arm when climbing a ladder or riding a boom with limited space. Unfortunately for me, the Eee was only introduced as I was leaving that job, so while my trainee got one, I was quite used to lugging around the much larger Compaq and a spare battery.
Other than that, I can't think of a good use for the things, and I'm quite happy with my 13" Timeline. Some pangs of envy since the 11.6" model was introduced with the same resolution, but the CULV+LED+SSD combination does not leave me wanting for speed or usability.
Spoken like a true victim of the 2-minute startup. I have computers on which the POST is more than half the time from power on to usable desktop. (As an aside, I'm pretty sure the '360' in Norton 360 represents the average increase in startup time after installing it.)
...except that this law has nothing to do with government's enforcement of religion, and everything to do with the protection of persons from things "grossly abusive or insulting in relation to matters sacred". Surely you can see the difference.
Or could it be that he was asking for a citation to support lgftsa's claim that the Catholic holy book (the bible?) has opposed the idea of life on other planets? That's the half of the OP's straw man that you, he, and all the universe have so far failed to support, and now you have apparently attempted to throw up a smokescreen around it with tasteless ad hominem attacks.
Hey, you don't like religion. We get it. Some of us don't like blanket insults aimed at people in consequence of their beliefs, and the Irish have agreed to outlaw the same. If you can't live with that then stay out of Ireland.
we're hoping that at some point they'll just vanish from the scene
If that's not unfounded faith then I don't know what is! Congratulations on the most ironic statement so far this year.
I love the Atom 330 processor. If you want a cheap media center PC, go Mini-ITX, unless of course you want mega HD/blu-ray/confounded new age this and that.
And if you do want the new age this and that, the atom is still a contender when coupled with the Ion. I've watched many a 1080p title on this combination. It leaves nothing to be desired in a HTPC, with the added bonus of quiet. Throw away the little CPU/GPU fan and use a well-ventilated case. Use an SSD or PXE boot and you have a virtually silent low-energy media powerhouse.
The most interesting benchmark in the article is the effect that the Ion GPU has. There's another netbook review that is linked in the article to an $800 machine with a beefier CPU, the ASUS CLUV. That machine is unable to play 1080p video clips without stuttering.
I question that result. I have a $800 Acer Timeline 3810T: 1.4GHz CULV + 4500MHD + 80GB SSD, and it plays 1080p just fine using Intel Clear Video (Intel's flavour of DXVA, comparable to what you saw the ion do in the linked review).
Only problem : not all video codecs are accelerated this well. Do any players/codecs out there let you watch the usual x264 video clips that pirates put up on the net with Ion GPU acceleration?
I also have a Zotac Ion-itx board. It's currently employed as a NAS, but when I fist got it I had to try it out a couple months as a desktop. Honestly, aside from the Atom's inability to play youtube HD or HQ (and the flash 10.1 plugin has now supposedly fixed that too with DXVA), I never missed my Athlon X2 or 8600GT. That ion plays 1080p .mkv/h.264 files just fine with minimal CPU usage, same with VC-1 formats. The dual-core hyperthreaded atom was almost totally adequate for my needs on a 1920x1200 monitor.
Maybe you could pick up an external enclosure off newegg along with an SSD, and put the mechanical drive to use as a backup disk. Put in an OCZ vertex SSD, and make this machine scream.
Agreed. Anand recently wrote words to the effect that an Atom is a waste of an SSD, but I completely disagree. My desktop ion experience used an OCZ Vertex (which is now back in my primary desktop). I've built a couple atom 330-based desktops with inexpensive Kingston V Series SSDs and WinXP for family and neighbors, and they couldn't be happier. I would pit one of those 26-Watt machines against any modern processor + spinning HDD for your typical mother-in-law computer tasks any day.
I use them to install large software suites,
I use the NAS for that.
upgrade/change the OS,
USB or PXE It's much quicker, and you can customize each install without wasting another CD/DVD.
and watch DVD's.
Again, the NAS.
All of those are harder without an optical drive,
It may be for your use-case scenario, I don't doubt that, but I've owned and used a 13" notebook for three months now with zero regrets. Granted, there are people and situations that may just require shoving an optical disc into the computer, but I haven't had one of those situations yet, and with a bit of planning I really don't expect to. Windows and Linux both install much faster from USB or PXE.
Besides Windows, I can't think of the last piece of software I had worth installing that wasn't available on some other medium, and Windows just went straight from the DVD onto a friendlier medium.
And don't tell me about the poor guy that has no other computer with an optical drive. We are talking about netbooks here. If that's really all he has, then his problems are bigger than figuring out how to reinstall Windows on his EEE. Maybe he needs to look at an OS that doesn't have a 15 year-old media as a prerequisite.
I'm not saying it was fair to the consumer, only that there's more than one way to respond. The attitude of "I got screwed" is about the least empowering for the consumer, and affirms the content-provider's perception of the consumer as the unconditional dependent.
Religious? yes. Bullcrap? your point of view. Self-righteous? not at all.
I found that last part a little out of place, but then that's their site, so let them post whatever testimonial they want. Is it any worse or more out of place than the testimonials for atheism or libertarianism or whatever-ism found right here in this discussion and elsewhere on this site (which is not anybody's site, but a public forum)?
The consumer got screwed by the supplier in this instance.
If DRM prevails, this will be the reason why: the general public tends to view the consumption of media as if it were the consumption of food or oxygen. As if our only options are to cough up the asking price, or assume the life of a 'pirate', skulking around shady web sites grabbing torrents for the latest content.
What ever happened to the option of just not consuming? Shouldn't we say, instead of "the consumer got screwed", "the consumer received yet another demonstration of some of the flaws in the DRM model"? Wouldn't you rather seize the power that you have as a consumer and make a choice to spend your dollars elsewhere, and influence your friends to do the same, than to take the victim's stance and believe that we are totally helpless when somebody like the MPAA screws up and just assumes that we'll quietly get in the next line?
The simple fact is that DRM cannot succeed unless the consumer chooses to support it.
Agreed. If not for VDPAU, which I enjoy at least weekly (sometimes more), I could be happily running just about any video card and free driver under the sun. VDPAU is a game changer, however, and I shall continue to use my 8600GT and its closed binary driver until some viable alternative makes me reconsider.
Don't even waste your time.
The A model takes DC input and ships with a 90W power brick. The other Atom 330 model takes standard ATX power input.
I have watched plenty of trouble-free 1080p on my IonITX-A board running Ubuntu (no XBMC, just smplayer with the vdpau patches) all while seeding multiple torrents from the same internal hard drive.