I can only hope when somebody files a bug for something like say, "shuttle fires unreliably under ice conditions" nobody closes the bug and sets the status to "WORKS4ME".
Jump in front of his camera, say hi to my mother, thank all of the people who made this day possible, and send a shout out to my entire crew. Or nothing.
Way to make an example of somebody in front of the other moviegoers. If they wanted to go all the way, instead of turning on all the lights they would have put a spotlight on him.
First Thought: Good. Now all we have to do is get formerly blind people to copy all the movies.
Second Thought: Maybe they'll take the Microsoft approach and require all artificial vision devices to reduce to 320x240 when they detect the copyright flag in movie theaters or HDTV.
Third Thought: Vision-Corrected people will be forced to resort to looking anywhere but directly at the movie screen, and later play back what their implants recorded in peripheral vision. Movie Industry insists they're filthy pirates. Suspected pirates claim this is the only way they can actually view the movie above 320x240.
They could let everybody watch the movies for free, and then as they passed the brain zapper built into the exit, they could charge the people who want to keep the memory of movie for downloading from their brain. They could also incorporate the memory transfer device into the cash register. The credit card information could be downloaded from long term memory while the movie was downloaded from short term memory.
I had no trouble getting my aunt's Vista laptop and an iPod Touch to work with her Linksys router wirelessly. I had no trouble getting a musician's Windows XP and iPhone computer to work wirelessly in the same room with his Vista machine that has a wireless keyboard and mouse. And the list goes on. I'm thinking your friend's main problem is he has a go-to guy who knows nothing about Windows, or nothing about wireless.
I'm thinking you can write a program that hibernates the computer and set this program to run at startup. This looks promising. Then whenever you restart, it will run and hibernate the computer. Unless you can reprogram the power button, I don't know how you could automate the shutdown so I guess you would have to get used to restarting instead of shutting down. I think Windows allocates part of the hard disc for hibernation when hibernation is enabled. So it wouldn't be over-written and if there was a power failure, maybe in theory the system could just reload the last saved image. But I think it would just cold boot. In other words, I agree with everything you just said.
I think this is an excellent time for a car analogy. In the coldest of winter, I sit in my tiny subcompact sedan for 10 minutes waiting for it to reach a normal operating temperature. Would it be so bad if they found a way to make the car warm up in 4 seconds, with the side effect being it takes an extra 15 minutes go cold again after I turn it off?
At the risk of sounding self-centered, I think a lot of computer users are like me. They approach their computer and want it to start working as quickly as possible. When they're done with it, it doesnt matter how long it takes to shut down because they're not waiting on it. Concerning your laptop, I think the problem is more with you having it set up to suspend when you close the lid, rather than a slow power down time. Maybe you should set it up so it suspends with a key combination rather than a screen closing event?
Linux basically Just boots in 5 seconds. In a plain normal fashion......Whereas, for Windows, ASRock has to resort to abusing the sleep/hibernate system.
If they've found a way to boot Windows in 4 seconds, nobody other than haters is going to care how it was done. Calling the method an abuse of the hibernation system is as ridiculous as calling Jailbreaking an abuse of an iPod. It's your hardware.
The main implication is that the first time you boot, and after each system update (and you know that, given microsoft's track of security, you're still going to have patches coming often) or any other change that might render the pre-suspended image obsolete, you can't do this. You have to go through a slow boot, rebuild a pre-suspended state, and only after that it'll work.
They only come once a week, at most. Creating the new image can be done in the background after the system restarts, only taking as long as it would take to hibernate the computer. And you don't have to type in a password every time you get a system update.
personally i just use apple lossless for everything so i dont have to concern myself with whether or not i can hear a difference. there is NO difference from the source and the extra the space needed is minuscule in respect to drives these days, but I'm not trying to delude myself that I can tell the difference.
I don't know. I think that's kind of like using PNG instead of JPEG, just because some people claim they look different even at the highest quality level. I have a cabinet, in which I keep all my CD's. In the computer, I have the lossy version of every one of them, recorded in variable-bit-rate mp3. Until I can tell the difference between them and the original, even if I have enough disc space, I won't use it for lossless audio.
You know, if the recording has mono and stereo parts to it, I bet a stereo recording that switches to mono during the mono parts would sound exactly the same as one that keeps the whole thing in stereo.
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I think they usually use +1 Insightful for that.
Yes.
I can only hope when somebody files a bug for something like say, "shuttle fires unreliably under ice conditions" nobody closes the bug and sets the status to "WORKS4ME".
Jump in front of his camera, say hi to my mother, thank all of the people who made this day possible, and send a shout out to my entire crew. Or nothing.
Way to make an example of somebody in front of the other moviegoers. If they wanted to go all the way, instead of turning on all the lights they would have put a spotlight on him.
First Thought: Good. Now all we have to do is get formerly blind people to copy all the movies.
Second Thought: Maybe they'll take the Microsoft approach and require all artificial vision devices to reduce to 320x240 when they detect the copyright flag in movie theaters or HDTV.
Third Thought: Vision-Corrected people will be forced to resort to looking anywhere but directly at the movie screen, and later play back what their implants recorded in peripheral vision. Movie Industry insists they're filthy pirates. Suspected pirates claim this is the only way they can actually view the movie above 320x240.
They could let everybody watch the movies for free, and then as they passed the brain zapper built into the exit, they could charge the people who want to keep the memory of movie for downloading from their brain. They could also incorporate the memory transfer device into the cash register. The credit card information could be downloaded from long term memory while the movie was downloaded from short term memory.
My muffins are moist, fluffy, and ridiculously good. I'd encrypt them if I could.
No, he just lives in Peru.
I had no trouble getting my aunt's Vista laptop and an iPod Touch to work with her Linksys router wirelessly. I had no trouble getting a musician's Windows XP and iPhone computer to work wirelessly in the same room with his Vista machine that has a wireless keyboard and mouse. And the list goes on. I'm thinking your friend's main problem is he has a go-to guy who knows nothing about Windows, or nothing about wireless.
You can have even more fun if you get both...
I'm thinking you can write a program that hibernates the computer and set this program to run at startup. This looks promising. Then whenever you restart, it will run and hibernate the computer. Unless you can reprogram the power button, I don't know how you could automate the shutdown so I guess you would have to get used to restarting instead of shutting down. I think Windows allocates part of the hard disc for hibernation when hibernation is enabled. So it wouldn't be over-written and if there was a power failure, maybe in theory the system could just reload the last saved image. But I think it would just cold boot. In other words, I agree with everything you just said.
I think this is an excellent time for a car analogy. In the coldest of winter, I sit in my tiny subcompact sedan for 10 minutes waiting for it to reach a normal operating temperature. Would it be so bad if they found a way to make the car warm up in 4 seconds, with the side effect being it takes an extra 15 minutes go cold again after I turn it off?
At the risk of sounding self-centered, I think a lot of computer users are like me. They approach their computer and want it to start working as quickly as possible. When they're done with it, it doesnt matter how long it takes to shut down because they're not waiting on it. Concerning your laptop, I think the problem is more with you having it set up to suspend when you close the lid, rather than a slow power down time. Maybe you should set it up so it suspends with a key combination rather than a screen closing event?
Linux basically Just boots in 5 seconds. In a plain normal fashion... ...Whereas, for Windows, ASRock has to resort to abusing the sleep/hibernate system.
If they've found a way to boot Windows in 4 seconds, nobody other than haters is going to care how it was done. Calling the method an abuse of the hibernation system is as ridiculous as calling Jailbreaking an abuse of an iPod. It's your hardware.
The main implication is that the first time you boot, and after each system update (and you know that, given microsoft's track of security, you're still going to have patches coming often) or any other change that might render the pre-suspended image obsolete, you can't do this. You have to go through a slow boot, rebuild a pre-suspended state, and only after that it'll work.
They only come once a week, at most. Creating the new image can be done in the background after the system restarts, only taking as long as it would take to hibernate the computer. And you don't have to type in a password every time you get a system update.
It's not the religious nuts. It's the "think of the children" nuts.
I think it also might be illegal.
The problem appears to manifest itself in lockups for 30 seconds or so at a time which kills music streaming, video streaming, etc.
Maybe they got their firmware from Comcast...
In other words, if any of them come to the United States and have to use a computer at work, they'll be ready.
personally i just use apple lossless for everything so i dont have to concern myself with whether or not i can hear a difference. there is NO difference from the source and the extra the space needed is minuscule in respect to drives these days, but I'm not trying to delude myself that I can tell the difference.
I don't know. I think that's kind of like using PNG instead of JPEG, just because some people claim they look different even at the highest quality level. I have a cabinet, in which I keep all my CD's. In the computer, I have the lossy version of every one of them, recorded in variable-bit-rate mp3. Until I can tell the difference between them and the original, even if I have enough disc space, I won't use it for lossless audio.
You know, if the recording has mono and stereo parts to it, I bet a stereo recording that switches to mono during the mono parts would sound exactly the same as one that keeps the whole thing in stereo.
Leave Circuit City out of this.
It's not what the cool kids say.
Nonsense. It only works if you actually type the word. So it's unlikely that anybody will accidentally reboot
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Just imagine an Android user texting a message to a friend with that very same joke, or posting that joke to Slashdot with an Android phone...
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