It's a shame British magazines are so expensive in the US/Canada: I find they have far better and more intelligent articles. Edge is one of my favourites, so is Computer Arts magazine, but as the parent said, it's a little bit hard to justify the subscription price. The main advantage is that you get the magazines about a month before the newsstand, since they're always late there.
If you're on a website, you can right click anywhere there's no image/flash, and you can see two options: Block Content (which lets you block ads and the like) and Edit site preferences. Under there you can change several settings, the plugins are under the content tab.
I know the plugins are global flags; though there's a seperate flag for GIF/SVG animations. Also, along with agent-id faking, Opera 9 allows per site preferences, so you can turn off/on plugins per site
That would probably work too (never used XP's LUA myself), I'd have to check it out, since the problems with WoW happened when it tried to patch itself, and hence right ot the Program Files directory.
I've been running on Vista, and most programs I've tried (Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Opera, WoW, Guild Wars, Trillian) run perfectly fine. Some I've had to run with admin access (WoW, utorrent), others just worked. The only program I've had trouble with is Nero. Nero 6.whatever doesn't load Nero Express, but the actual Nero Burning ROM program works. I tried installing the Nero 7 demo, but it won't run for some reason. I haven't tried MS WOrks.
This exact same sort of FUD about the 360 was going on in the months before it launched. But that has come and gone, and it's more fun to speculate/bash things that haven't come out yet instead of bashing things that have been out for months (old news).
It uses "virtual audio patch cable" device drivers to make lossless digital copies of the music while it plays in Media Player, even keeping any sounds generated by other applications separate from what's recording, so you can still use the PC while it works.
Just a note, I've used tunebite which employs the same process, and while it does keep sounds generated by other apps separate, it can be a CPU intensive process (especially if you're doing the recording at highspeed), and if you're using the PC while it's recording, it can at times overload the CPU and cause pauses and skips in the recording.
In Canada, you can send money through your bank accounts via email, as long as both of you have access to your bank's online banking. Unfortunately it's something not many people know about.
The real lying on Microsoft's part would be claiming it was there, shipping the product, and then people realize it isn't there. Companies can have high hopes for projects. They can fail. It's all part of project development: not everything ends up being successful. No one has purchased or paid for Windows Vista based on the availability of WinFS, because Vista isn't available for purchase yet.
Spoken like a true mac fan boy. Final Cut Pro is great, but Premiere Pro really cuts the gap. And After Effects still remains one of the better compositing tools out there.
You fail to realize that the Walkman Sony Ericsson phones are designed as an MP3 player and a phone, so they have pretty good usability as an MP3 player, and come with MemorySticks (mine came with 512), damned good headphones (that are better than the ones that come with iPods), drag&drop software (it seems to work with Media Player 11 by default though) and buttons dedicated to the MP3 player. How is it bullshit? I realized that I wasn't carrying around my Nano because my phone was doing it's functionality. It wasn't too heavy, it was just pointless. The only way I was limited was by the memory (only 512), so I sold my Nano and used that money to get the 4 gig MemoryStick to compensate).
A great gadget is the Sony Ericsson line of walkman phones (I have in particular the W800i, there are newer models). It's a great phone in and of itself, and as an MP3 player, well, I realized that I wasn't using my recently purchased Nano at all since I got it, so I sold that one and got a 4 gig MemoryStick for the phone, and I'm set. Another bonus advantage: the two megapixel camera is pretty good for quick snaps of random things (and a great replacement for a photocopier at libraries), and it's LED flash light can be turned on as a handy torch to see in dark places (ie, inside computer cases).
They're removing your choice to read their documentation without using their software!
The documentation is for their software. And that particular software (Vista) the documentation is for can read the file format fine without any extra downloads. And there's a.doc format which every program and his grandma can read.
So where exactly is this enlightening explanation? While the article was interesting and worth the read, there really was no explanation as to their success other than "gamers liked their games". The articles title, "Secret Sauce" was brought up in the last two paragraphs and not fully explained.
I don't get the difference between 'episodic content' and what we were used to: 'expansion packs'. Expansion packs allow developers to finish, test and deliver content faster, allowing players to have something more frequent to play with, and usually cost less than the full game. The only real difference here is rather than selling them in store, you get to download them.
That's your paranoia talking, because gmail worked perfectly in IE7 when I tried it. Not to mention that MSN's successor to Hotmail, Live Mail, heavily uses javascript too.
The issue here is that when IBM was making the same machines, in the same factories in China, this was no issue. Companies like Apple and Dell also manufacture their computers in the same factories in China, and don't run into the same problem.
Ultimately, that's why mainframes are still rare and Web 2.0 is hype. No one actually wants it. Which is better: maps.google.com or Google Earth? There's no contest, is there?
While I hate the phrase Web 2.0, it's not just hype. For what I use it, Google Maps is far superior to Google Earth. All I really need from time to time is to find out where a certain address is compared to where I live. Booting up Google Maps takes a second, wherever I am, rather than having to install Google Earth and wait for it to load, and all that. Also, sites like www.netvibes.com are handy for keeping all my RSS feeds, random notes, bookmarks, email checking and the like in one location so I can access it from my main PC, laptop and PC at work.
It seems like the new Word's interface and menus will match the new look of Vista. I think MS does think that the current Windows looks like crap, hence the interface change in Vista.
At the same time, its kind of ironic to cry foul when Microsoft adds a web browser, a media player, a messenger service and so on into their operating system. After all, these are things that people come to expect. What if Microsoft was forced not to do so? Then is it fair that OS X and Linux can continue to do so, just because they don't have a high percentage share of the market? If it's illegal for Microsoft to add a browser to their OS, then it should be illegal for Apple to do so. If not, then Apple then would have the advantage in its marketing that goes "Hey! We have built in Safari! And Quicktime! And iChat! And a text editor! Look! The competition doesn't! HAHA!"
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It's a shame British magazines are so expensive in the US/Canada: I find they have far better and more intelligent articles. Edge is one of my favourites, so is Computer Arts magazine, but as the parent said, it's a little bit hard to justify the subscription price. The main advantage is that you get the magazines about a month before the newsstand, since they're always late there.
If you're on a website, you can right click anywhere there's no image/flash, and you can see two options: Block Content (which lets you block ads and the like) and Edit site preferences. Under there you can change several settings, the plugins are under the content tab.
I know the plugins are global flags; though there's a seperate flag for GIF/SVG animations. Also, along with agent-id faking, Opera 9 allows per site preferences, so you can turn off/on plugins per site
Opera has an "Enable Plugins" checkbox (F12) which disables Flash and other plugins like Media Player and Quicktime.
That would probably work too (never used XP's LUA myself), I'd have to check it out, since the problems with WoW happened when it tried to patch itself, and hence right ot the Program Files directory.
I've been running on Vista, and most programs I've tried (Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Opera, WoW, Guild Wars, Trillian) run perfectly fine. Some I've had to run with admin access (WoW, utorrent), others just worked. The only program I've had trouble with is Nero. Nero 6.whatever doesn't load Nero Express, but the actual Nero Burning ROM program works. I tried installing the Nero 7 demo, but it won't run for some reason. I haven't tried MS WOrks.
This exact same sort of FUD about the 360 was going on in the months before it launched. But that has come and gone, and it's more fun to speculate/bash things that haven't come out yet instead of bashing things that have been out for months (old news).
Just a note, I've used tunebite which employs the same process, and while it does keep sounds generated by other apps separate, it can be a CPU intensive process (especially if you're doing the recording at highspeed), and if you're using the PC while it's recording, it can at times overload the CPU and cause pauses and skips in the recording.
In Canada, you can send money through your bank accounts via email, as long as both of you have access to your bank's online banking. Unfortunately it's something not many people know about.
And your resume gets tossed by the wayside and they look onto the next applicant that isn't trying to convert them onto something...
They were presented to developers. That's not the general public. The general public would be Joe and Shmoe, not the Slashdot crowd.
The real lying on Microsoft's part would be claiming it was there, shipping the product, and then people realize it isn't there. Companies can have high hopes for projects. They can fail. It's all part of project development: not everything ends up being successful. No one has purchased or paid for Windows Vista based on the availability of WinFS, because Vista isn't available for purchase yet.
No it isn't. It uses Flash 8, which Macromedia hasn't released a Linux client for.
Spoken like a true mac fan boy. Final Cut Pro is great, but Premiere Pro really cuts the gap. And After Effects still remains one of the better compositing tools out there.
You fail to realize that the Walkman Sony Ericsson phones are designed as an MP3 player and a phone, so they have pretty good usability as an MP3 player, and come with MemorySticks (mine came with 512), damned good headphones (that are better than the ones that come with iPods), drag&drop software (it seems to work with Media Player 11 by default though) and buttons dedicated to the MP3 player. How is it bullshit? I realized that I wasn't carrying around my Nano because my phone was doing it's functionality. It wasn't too heavy, it was just pointless. The only way I was limited was by the memory (only 512), so I sold my Nano and used that money to get the 4 gig MemoryStick to compensate).
A great gadget is the Sony Ericsson line of walkman phones (I have in particular the W800i, there are newer models). It's a great phone in and of itself, and as an MP3 player, well, I realized that I wasn't using my recently purchased Nano at all since I got it, so I sold that one and got a 4 gig MemoryStick for the phone, and I'm set. Another bonus advantage: the two megapixel camera is pretty good for quick snaps of random things (and a great replacement for a photocopier at libraries), and it's LED flash light can be turned on as a handy torch to see in dark places (ie, inside computer cases).
The documentation is for their software. And that particular software (Vista) the documentation is for can read the file format fine without any extra downloads. And there's a .doc format which every program and his grandma can read.
So where exactly is this enlightening explanation? While the article was interesting and worth the read, there really was no explanation as to their success other than "gamers liked their games". The articles title, "Secret Sauce" was brought up in the last two paragraphs and not fully explained.
I don't get the difference between 'episodic content' and what we were used to: 'expansion packs'. Expansion packs allow developers to finish, test and deliver content faster, allowing players to have something more frequent to play with, and usually cost less than the full game. The only real difference here is rather than selling them in store, you get to download them.
What happened to version 1.5? And does it run on Linux?
That's your paranoia talking, because gmail worked perfectly in IE7 when I tried it. Not to mention that MSN's successor to Hotmail, Live Mail, heavily uses javascript too.
The issue here is that when IBM was making the same machines, in the same factories in China, this was no issue. Companies like Apple and Dell also manufacture their computers in the same factories in China, and don't run into the same problem.
While I hate the phrase Web 2.0, it's not just hype. For what I use it, Google Maps is far superior to Google Earth. All I really need from time to time is to find out where a certain address is compared to where I live. Booting up Google Maps takes a second, wherever I am, rather than having to install Google Earth and wait for it to load, and all that. Also, sites like www.netvibes.com are handy for keeping all my RSS feeds, random notes, bookmarks, email checking and the like in one location so I can access it from my main PC, laptop and PC at work.
It seems like the new Word's interface and menus will match the new look of Vista. I think MS does think that the current Windows looks like crap, hence the interface change in Vista.
At the same time, its kind of ironic to cry foul when Microsoft adds a web browser, a media player, a messenger service and so on into their operating system. After all, these are things that people come to expect. What if Microsoft was forced not to do so? Then is it fair that OS X and Linux can continue to do so, just because they don't have a high percentage share of the market? If it's illegal for Microsoft to add a browser to their OS, then it should be illegal for Apple to do so. If not, then Apple then would have the advantage in its marketing that goes "Hey! We have built in Safari! And Quicktime! And iChat! And a text editor! Look! The competition doesn't! HAHA!"