If it's anything like when XP came out, the calls (at least to the OEMs like Dell) will go more like:
User: "I have Windows Vista, and I'd like to..."
Tech: "Uh, you have Vista...um *frantic click noises combined with muffled expletives* Please hold."
Tech puts user on hold and calls Mentor/Supervisor/L2: "Um, this guy's got Vista, and nobody's trained me on it, nor have I ever seen it before."
Mentor/Supervisor/L2: "Don't worry, just start cust on a full format and reinstall, and make sure he hangs up while it's slow-formatting. Hopefully, by the time we run him around a few times, we'll have at least some techs trained to support Vista."
Tech takes customer off hold, who, by now, has been on hold so long that he's forgotten his original question: "Wow, that's sounds like a very frustrating issue, I can understand why you would feel so upset. Now, I'd like you to insert the disc that came with your computer, that says 'Windows Vista' on it...."
I gotta agree with you there. I bought the DVD boxed sets when they came out a couple years ago (I wasn't going to shell out $800 for the single-disc editions), and when I popped in the first disc and watched that old title sequence I remembered from childhood but hadn't really paid attention to in a few years, it still sent chills down my spine, close to thirty years since I first saw it. Someone earlier linked to a YouTube with some questionable CGI added to 'Doomsday Machine', including a re-worked title sequence, and even with the exact original sound, the altered graphics were too much of a distraction.
I'm not sure about their market, here. Are they trying to 're-monetize' their original TOS footage, so they'll have some HDTV Trek to release on HD-DVD and Blu-ray besides Enterprise, to keep sellings discs? Or are they trying to give younger new fans a bone, those who can't get into the older Trek but like the newer offerings, by bringing the visuals closer together?
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Believe it or not, iTunes hides the Shuffle from Windows.
Wonder how it does this...you'd think it'd take something like a rootkit to hide drives from an OS. Wonder if there's an attack vector hidden in there.
90% accuracy is nowhere near enough for voice recognition in a dictation context
Depends on your own context...I deployed (admittedly, an older version) of Dragon NaturallySpeaking in an office full of mobility-impaired employees. They found it much easier to spend 10% of their writing time fixing errors than 100% of it trying to, for example, type with the onscreen keyboard. If you can't use a keyboard, even crappy voice recognition is a godsend.
They could create a market for mainboards with upgradeable video memory...GDDR4 slots or whatever. They'd still be profitable from the market that buys the latest and greatest every six month, but they'd just be dropping in the GPU and using their existing system's video memory, reducing manufacturing costs.
Wow. That scenario would make for an interesting marketplace...ATi merges with AMD, gets swallowed by nVidia. Now we have one super-company, with two world-class GPU design teams, a world class CPU maker, and a world-class chipset maker. No need to hide sources from what are now themselves, so we'd have a much better chance at proper docs or even (gasp) shared-source, the design teams can be re-organized, so one dept focuses on gaming, and another on multimedia devices (HTPC, hardware video decoding/scaling, etc). Matrox and VIA still do graphics, so it's not a total monopoly, and they're still competing with Intel, who'd have a much bigger stick behind them. I kinda hope it falls out that way. Heck, in a few years and a die shrink or two, we could be seeing 'multi-core' combined CPU/GPU designs...interconnects on the silicon must be faster than PCI-e or whatever's coming next.
got the same alert on my Gatway laptop with the origional factory installed XP Home. I'm too cheap to use MS Office, so I use OpenOffice & other Openish type software. Suspiciously, the second time I rebooted after this "Update," I also found that a six month old 1 GB memory chip (that had been working properly) went bad.
A dead memory chip is a hardware change. It's probably some check WGA has to prevent drive images from being passed to other computers, but it seemed to have the unintended side-effect of giving you the heads-up on the bad RAM.
He's not actually gone yet...I wonder if he decided to step down in two years, cuz the legal team figures it'll take that long for the EU to start looking at personal jail time for the executives...
How exactly do you shut down or prohibit a company from operating when they have that type of a market share?
Declare their products to be public domain in the EU. If Microsoft doesn't like it, their army can take it up with the armies of the EU nations, or they can stop pussy-footing around and toe the line. These are governments we are talking about...they get to write the laws. A public domain Vista would remove much of the interoperability issues, as that nicely solves any non-disclosure problems as well as permitting more drastic techniques to create the necessary interoperability, and making their product a free download from the government would hurt the company without hurting the end users, making it a good (albeit, somewhat 'nuclear') punishment.
The job described in that article sounds damn near perfect, to me...especially the anecdote that was supposed to 'chill my bones'. A repetitive job, requiring some thing but hardly any physical labour; huge hours at an hourly wage; being able to sleep at work to get more of those paid hours in; job perks like a new wardrobe, or cocaine...where do I sign? Games aren't really any fun for me, as it is, but I'd love a job I could lose myself in.
One of the best jobs I had in my life, I was working 80 hour weeks, often sleeping at the office, doing the same sinple things to the same seven computers every day...only downside was the $400/month salary. If I'd been making even the minimum hourly wage (and if personality conflicts hadn't arisen...which is unrelated), I'd still there, doing the same things.
Sure, it's not for everyone, but some of us really thrive on that kind of environment.
It could be worse. I doubt I have any of my own numbers on my computer, but I have lots of other people's, because of my work. Luckily for them, I don't dispose of hard drives at all...when they die or have outlived their usefulness, they are wiped as thoroughly as I know how, then go into storage.
If you can't get rid of something properly, don't get rid of it.
After Jeremy, they didn't release any videos for a long time. Someone took concert footage of Animal and Daughter and made them into unofficial videos, but the band had nothing to do with that. Recently, they've dipped their toes back in, what with 'Do The Evolution' from Yield, 'I Am Mine' from Riot Act and now this. Binaural may have had a video, too...I can't recall.
There's an old video floating around for 'Oceans', but I don't believe that was ever officially released, as well as the original video for 'Jeremy' (not the one you remember, there's a different one that never aired).
I'm going to bite here, and disagree with your assertion. IM is a relatively new technology to hit the masses. Until very recently, new technologies weren't conceived with malicious users in mind (consider email: when it first became widely available, it presented dozens of ways for a malicious user to fuck with things. same goes for other new communications technology, like Bluetooth, the web, even the telephone). When something like IM becomes mature, like, say, the telephone (they weren't designed with *69 or Call Display at first), both the technology and the users will be more equipped to handle malicious uses (you don't see so many people making prank calls as you used to years ago, now that people have something they can do about it, and know how to do it). When IM catches up, it will undoubtedly be more safe to use, for everyone.
The full not-free AVG has all the features you need, and they have a generous discount for nonprofits, and are generally nice and flexible. Sure, it's not free, but it's not as expensive as you might think.
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So they got a part...do we really need a blow-by-blow?
How bout a big red screen?
If it's anything like when XP came out, the calls (at least to the OEMs like Dell) will go more like:
User: "I have Windows Vista, and I'd like to..."
Tech: "Uh, you have Vista...um *frantic click noises combined with muffled expletives* Please hold."
Tech puts user on hold and calls Mentor/Supervisor/L2: "Um, this guy's got Vista, and nobody's trained me on it, nor have I ever seen it before."
Mentor/Supervisor/L2: "Don't worry, just start cust on a full format and reinstall, and make sure he hangs up while it's slow-formatting. Hopefully, by the time we run him around a few times, we'll have at least some techs trained to support Vista."
Tech takes customer off hold, who, by now, has been on hold so long that he's forgotten his original question: "Wow, that's sounds like a very frustrating issue, I can understand why you would feel so upset. Now, I'd like you to insert the disc that came with your computer, that says 'Windows Vista' on it...."
I gotta agree with you there. I bought the DVD boxed sets when they came out a couple years ago (I wasn't going to shell out $800 for the single-disc editions), and when I popped in the first disc and watched that old title sequence I remembered from childhood but hadn't really paid attention to in a few years, it still sent chills down my spine, close to thirty years since I first saw it. Someone earlier linked to a YouTube with some questionable CGI added to 'Doomsday Machine', including a re-worked title sequence, and even with the exact original sound, the altered graphics were too much of a distraction.
I'm not sure about their market, here. Are they trying to 're-monetize' their original TOS footage, so they'll have some HDTV Trek to release on HD-DVD and Blu-ray besides Enterprise, to keep sellings discs? Or are they trying to give younger new fans a bone, those who can't get into the older Trek but like the newer offerings, by bringing the visuals closer together?
A really great eye doctor.
Believe it or not, iTunes hides the Shuffle from Windows.
Wonder how it does this...you'd think it'd take something like a rootkit to hide drives from an OS. Wonder if there's an attack vector hidden in there.
I believe you mean something like LETS.
90% accuracy is nowhere near enough for voice recognition in a dictation context
Depends on your own context...I deployed (admittedly, an older version) of Dragon NaturallySpeaking in an office full of mobility-impaired employees. They found it much easier to spend 10% of their writing time fixing errors than 100% of it trying to, for example, type with the onscreen keyboard. If you can't use a keyboard, even crappy voice recognition is a godsend.
Seventh hit on that page: "Porn makes you blind."
;)
Nuff said
They could create a market for mainboards with upgradeable video memory...GDDR4 slots or whatever. They'd still be profitable from the market that buys the latest and greatest every six month, but they'd just be dropping in the GPU and using their existing system's video memory, reducing manufacturing costs.
Wow. That scenario would make for an interesting marketplace...ATi merges with AMD, gets swallowed by nVidia. Now we have one super-company, with two world-class GPU design teams, a world class CPU maker, and a world-class chipset maker. No need to hide sources from what are now themselves, so we'd have a much better chance at proper docs or even (gasp) shared-source, the design teams can be re-organized, so one dept focuses on gaming, and another on multimedia devices (HTPC, hardware video decoding/scaling, etc). Matrox and VIA still do graphics, so it's not a total monopoly, and they're still competing with Intel, who'd have a much bigger stick behind them. I kinda hope it falls out that way. Heck, in a few years and a die shrink or two, we could be seeing 'multi-core' combined CPU/GPU designs...interconnects on the silicon must be faster than PCI-e or whatever's coming next.
got the same alert on my Gatway laptop with the origional factory installed XP Home. I'm too cheap to use MS Office, so I use OpenOffice & other Openish type software. Suspiciously, the second time I rebooted after this "Update," I also found that a six month old 1 GB memory chip (that had been working properly) went bad.
A dead memory chip is a hardware change. It's probably some check WGA has to prevent drive images from being passed to other computers, but it seemed to have the unintended side-effect of giving you the heads-up on the bad RAM.
BTW - WTF is a name that a terrorist wouldn't use?
I'd be pretty mad at the world if I had to go through life named "WTF".
...is a ticket to prison or a firing squad.
Cute. The results will be out in September...well after they might make a difference in anyone's purchasing choices for the upcoming school year.
Gosh, it really sucks now that Bill is gone.
He's not actually gone yet...I wonder if he decided to step down in two years, cuz the legal team figures it'll take that long for the EU to start looking at personal jail time for the executives...
How exactly do you shut down or prohibit a company from operating when they have that type of a market share?
Declare their products to be public domain in the EU. If Microsoft doesn't like it, their army can take it up with the armies of the EU nations, or they can stop pussy-footing around and toe the line. These are governments we are talking about...they get to write the laws. A public domain Vista would remove much of the interoperability issues, as that nicely solves any non-disclosure problems as well as permitting more drastic techniques to create the necessary interoperability, and making their product a free download from the government would hurt the company without hurting the end users, making it a good (albeit, somewhat 'nuclear') punishment.
So, what this article is really saying is, MSN Search isn't even worth feeding to the dogs.
The job described in that article sounds damn near perfect, to me...especially the anecdote that was supposed to 'chill my bones'. A repetitive job, requiring some thing but hardly any physical labour; huge hours at an hourly wage; being able to sleep at work to get more of those paid hours in; job perks like a new wardrobe, or cocaine...where do I sign? Games aren't really any fun for me, as it is, but I'd love a job I could lose myself in.
One of the best jobs I had in my life, I was working 80 hour weeks, often sleeping at the office, doing the same sinple things to the same seven computers every day...only downside was the $400/month salary. If I'd been making even the minimum hourly wage (and if personality conflicts hadn't arisen...which is unrelated), I'd still there, doing the same things.
Sure, it's not for everyone, but some of us really thrive on that kind of environment.
Now all you need is a dual personality, and you have a set. ;)
It could be worse. I doubt I have any of my own numbers on my computer, but I have lots of other people's, because of my work. Luckily for them, I don't dispose of hard drives at all...when they die or have outlived their usefulness, they are wiped as thoroughly as I know how, then go into storage.
If you can't get rid of something properly, don't get rid of it.
After Jeremy, they didn't release any videos for a long time. Someone took concert footage of Animal and Daughter and made them into unofficial videos, but the band had nothing to do with that. Recently, they've dipped their toes back in, what with 'Do The Evolution' from Yield, 'I Am Mine' from Riot Act and now this. Binaural may have had a video, too...I can't recall.
There's an old video floating around for 'Oceans', but I don't believe that was ever officially released, as well as the original video for 'Jeremy' (not the one you remember, there's a different one that never aired).
I'm going to bite here, and disagree with your assertion. IM is a relatively new technology to hit the masses. Until very recently, new technologies weren't conceived with malicious users in mind (consider email: when it first became widely available, it presented dozens of ways for a malicious user to fuck with things. same goes for other new communications technology, like Bluetooth, the web, even the telephone). When something like IM becomes mature, like, say, the telephone (they weren't designed with *69 or Call Display at first), both the technology and the users will be more equipped to handle malicious uses (you don't see so many people making prank calls as you used to years ago, now that people have something they can do about it, and know how to do it). When IM catches up, it will undoubtedly be more safe to use, for everyone.
Yes, yes, we're all insensitive clods.
The full not-free AVG has all the features you need, and they have a generous discount for nonprofits, and are generally nice and flexible. Sure, it's not free, but it's not as expensive as you might think.