If you were to have a SSD that small as the main drive in a computer everyone would complain. People expect a laptop to come with enough space to store all their pictures and videos on the computer.
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I would like to see them take the optical drive out of laptops and put in a HDD for data along side the smaller SSD for applications.
Last time I upgraded the HDD on my laptop, about a year ago, I used a drive imaging utility. I think it was EASUS Partition Manager.
The process consisted of putting the new HDD in a USB enclosure, attaching it to the PC, telling EASUS to do a clone of my drive onto the new one, including resizing partitions.
Once it was copied I shut off the laptop, but the new HDD in the laptop and booted it up. No reinstalling programs, not recreating user accounts.
When you buy iWork does the $79 only count for one license?
I know that purchasing Microsoft Office 2010 Home you get 3 licenses for $150, or cheaper if you find a sale. That brings the actual cost down to $50, if you use all three licenses. Or $75 if you only use two. With the number of multicomputer households I think most would at least use two of the licenses.
WP7 may be late, but I don't think it is too-little or too-late. There is still a huge number of people that don't have smart phones yet, you might even say that the majority of cell phone users in North America don't have a smart phone. Microsoft seems to be aiming WP7 at the untapped masses, and if this strategy works, they will be right up there with the iPhone, and Android within a few years.
I find rotating my monitor 45 degrees gives me the best of both worlds, more vertical pixels in some spots, more horizontal in others. Unfortunately I can't make WinXP play nicely with it.
I also find that the mouse is much worse than the keyboard for irritating my hands and wrists.
Recently I have gotten a second mouse that is a totally different shape than I have used before, actually one of the Microsoft Arc mice. Now I alternate which hand I use the mouse with and which mouse I use. I'm just glad that I can do most of my web browsing without a mouse thanks to Opera's fantastic keyboard shortcuts.
On the PS3, when you fast-forward a video at 10x you get the audio playing at 10x the speed with normal voice tone as well. It is very useful for fast-forwarding past credits because you can still hear when the music stops and the voices start.
I concede that the price of games hasn't kept up with inflation. Though it is not fair to bring that up without mentioning that in most of North America the working wage hasn't kept up with inflation either. So we actually have less disposable income than we did in the late 90's.
I don't know about 20 character password, but a 8-12 character password should be recallable by most humans.
Whenever I need a new password I actually just sit down and type a combination of letters and number, upper and lower case. Then I type it another 10 times and it is in my brain already. By not planning it out before I type it I believe my brain is creating a pseudo random combination that it will remember easily.
Detecting how a user types a password sounds like a great idea until I decide that my cheese burger is not worth putting down, and I try to type the password with one hand.
Or maybe I have cut my finger and have a bandaid on it, altering my typing speed and force distribution. Perhaps there is a crumb stuck under a key that alters the momentum of the press.
There are way too many possible ways for it to go wrong. There needs to be a backup method, and that is likely to remove most of the benefits of the scheme.
I decided to just delete my password since there seems to be no safe easy to remember password. However the only active login user name is "lnV6TbHXxRvxzMIw"
Agree that the patent portfolio was the only reason to buy Palm. If I remember correctly, back in the day of the PDA, Palm bought HandSpring, the better device maker, and got all their patents.
Very interesting, as someone who had to relearn how to balance after a sever head/brain injury at the age of 10, I have often wondered how this affected my general intelligence. According to my parents I was somewhat better at school and what not before the accident, though at the age of 10 it is hard to compare with anything. Even in spite of my brain trauma my IQ is above 125 and I like to blame my accident for not having over 130.
I also found that looking through all the charts on the linked page, if there is ever a tie between the AMD and Intel system, the Intel result gets a slightly longer bar on the bar graphs.
My final complaint with the linked article is that they are using a single synthetic benchmark for all of their results. To find a meaningful result I would expect them to run a full suite of benchmarks that would include: synthetic tests, rendering, gaming, productivity, etc. The average all the results in a meaningful way and use that average to determine the price / performance ratio.
I appreciate the post, however as I mentioned it wasn't that they items didn't exist, it was that they didn't function in a way that was efficient for my usage at the time.
Since this was 4 years ago my recollection is that whenever I added as section or moved headings or images around, the updated TOC, TOF often ended up with incorrect page numbers, so I had to read through my entire report every time I edited it to ensure that the contents were accurately reflected in the TOC, and TOF. Time was too valuable when doing my engineering degree, so I found a tool that ended up saving me time.
I will readily accept that Open Office might fill my needs at this time, however I own a copy of MS Office that I am completely happy with, which was used a lot for school and very little now.
It doesn't hurt that I really don't to any document editing at home now other than resumes every few years. When my copy of MS Office no longer is up to date or fills my needs, I will happily consider all alternatives, but until that time, it work fine for me.
LaTeX was something I wasn't introduced to until too late in my educational career for me to take the time to switch.
I do wish that I had learned of it earlier because it does look like a very nice piece of software.
Though even if I were to switch now, my wife, yes I have one, would still insist on Office. Some battles aren't worth the fight.
I will admit that the last time I tried Open Office was 4 years ago. Since then it may have improved on what I found lacking. However since then I have purchased my own copy of Office 2007 and now have no motivation to move back, now that I have a paid for license.
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If you were to have a SSD that small as the main drive in a computer everyone would complain. People expect a laptop to come with enough space to store all their pictures and videos on the computer.
br. I would like to see them take the optical drive out of laptops and put in a HDD for data along side the smaller SSD for applications.
Last time I upgraded the HDD on my laptop, about a year ago, I used a drive imaging utility. I think it was EASUS Partition Manager.
The process consisted of putting the new HDD in a USB enclosure, attaching it to the PC, telling EASUS to do a clone of my drive onto the new one, including resizing partitions.
Once it was copied I shut off the laptop, but the new HDD in the laptop and booted it up. No reinstalling programs, not recreating user accounts.
Of course they don't understand. They probably thought, "At least Facebook isn't part of the internet, so go ahead."
Cool, I didn't know this.
So iWork is significantly cheaper.
When you buy iWork does the $79 only count for one license? I know that purchasing Microsoft Office 2010 Home you get 3 licenses for $150, or cheaper if you find a sale. That brings the actual cost down to $50, if you use all three licenses. Or $75 if you only use two. With the number of multicomputer households I think most would at least use two of the licenses.
WP7 may be late, but I don't think it is too-little or too-late. There is still a huge number of people that don't have smart phones yet, you might even say that the majority of cell phone users in North America don't have a smart phone. Microsoft seems to be aiming WP7 at the untapped masses, and if this strategy works, they will be right up there with the iPhone, and Android within a few years.
I find rotating my monitor 45 degrees gives me the best of both worlds, more vertical pixels in some spots, more horizontal in others. Unfortunately I can't make WinXP play nicely with it.
I also find that the mouse is much worse than the keyboard for irritating my hands and wrists. Recently I have gotten a second mouse that is a totally different shape than I have used before, actually one of the Microsoft Arc mice. Now I alternate which hand I use the mouse with and which mouse I use. I'm just glad that I can do most of my web browsing without a mouse thanks to Opera's fantastic keyboard shortcuts.
On the PS3, when you fast-forward a video at 10x you get the audio playing at 10x the speed with normal voice tone as well. It is very useful for fast-forwarding past credits because you can still hear when the music stops and the voices start.
I concede that the price of games hasn't kept up with inflation. Though it is not fair to bring that up without mentioning that in most of North America the working wage hasn't kept up with inflation either. So we actually have less disposable income than we did in the late 90's.
Why are you looking at his /dev/null? That is as hard core as it gets.
I don't know about 20 character password, but a 8-12 character password should be recallable by most humans.
Whenever I need a new password I actually just sit down and type a combination of letters and number, upper and lower case. Then I type it another 10 times and it is in my brain already. By not planning it out before I type it I believe my brain is creating a pseudo random combination that it will remember easily.
Detecting how a user types a password sounds like a great idea until I decide that my cheese burger is not worth putting down, and I try to type the password with one hand.
Or maybe I have cut my finger and have a bandaid on it, altering my typing speed and force distribution. Perhaps there is a crumb stuck under a key that alters the momentum of the press.
There are way too many possible ways for it to go wrong. There needs to be a backup method, and that is likely to remove most of the benefits of the scheme.
I decided to just delete my password since there seems to be no safe easy to remember password. However the only active login user name is "lnV6TbHXxRvxzMIw"
Agree that the patent portfolio was the only reason to buy Palm. If I remember correctly, back in the day of the PDA, Palm bought HandSpring, the better device maker, and got all their patents.
Very interesting, as someone who had to relearn how to balance after a sever head/brain injury at the age of 10, I have often wondered how this affected my general intelligence. According to my parents I was somewhat better at school and what not before the accident, though at the age of 10 it is hard to compare with anything. Even in spite of my brain trauma my IQ is above 125 and I like to blame my accident for not having over 130.
And good bye to Linux.
HELLO Gnome!!
Keep up on the times, Opera already supports Theora. http://my.opera.com/haavard/blog/2007/04/17/try-opera-with-native-theora-video-support
Who is required to check the purple underwear policy?
And how is that a PlayStation Network feature?
That's funny, my PS3 has no problem playing LAME encoded MP3's
I am glad someone else noticed this.
I also found that looking through all the charts on the linked page, if there is ever a tie between the AMD and Intel system, the Intel result gets a slightly longer bar on the bar graphs.
My final complaint with the linked article is that they are using a single synthetic benchmark for all of their results. To find a meaningful result I would expect them to run a full suite of benchmarks that would include: synthetic tests, rendering, gaming, productivity, etc. The average all the results in a meaningful way and use that average to determine the price / performance ratio.
I appreciate the post, however as I mentioned it wasn't that they items didn't exist, it was that they didn't function in a way that was efficient for my usage at the time.
Since this was 4 years ago my recollection is that whenever I added as section or moved headings or images around, the updated TOC, TOF often ended up with incorrect page numbers, so I had to read through my entire report every time I edited it to ensure that the contents were accurately reflected in the TOC, and TOF. Time was too valuable when doing my engineering degree, so I found a tool that ended up saving me time.
I will readily accept that Open Office might fill my needs at this time, however I own a copy of MS Office that I am completely happy with, which was used a lot for school and very little now.
It doesn't hurt that I really don't to any document editing at home now other than resumes every few years. When my copy of MS Office no longer is up to date or fills my needs, I will happily consider all alternatives, but until that time, it work fine for me.
LaTeX was something I wasn't introduced to until too late in my educational career for me to take the time to switch. I do wish that I had learned of it earlier because it does look like a very nice piece of software. Though even if I were to switch now, my wife, yes I have one, would still insist on Office. Some battles aren't worth the fight.
I will admit that the last time I tried Open Office was 4 years ago. Since then it may have improved on what I found lacking. However since then I have purchased my own copy of Office 2007 and now have no motivation to move back, now that I have a paid for license.