OK read the whole post and then comment... this is an INQ *story* and this is nothing to be worried about. Knowing the kind of crap that INQ has posted in the past I would be very cautious believing this. Like people already said this is a dev kit that has only a resemblence to the final product and also I would really like to know where the heck INQ got ANY information because you still have to sign a nondisclosure agreement in order to get access to a PS3 devkit. 16mbps.... rolf those guys really pull numbers out of their arses.
well they should finally fix outstanding bugs. Wasn't the whole point that OSS offers a faster responce time for bug fixes because so many people are looking at the code? I think that the comunity leaders should step in and let the big corporations know that while the door is open for anyone to contribute, there are some standards and principles. Otherwise you might see linux highjacked in a couple of years and that would be a damn shame.
Oh and Linux is just the kernel and NOT some gui based software so pls stop with all the bs. I really though that this issue was cleared up by now but I guess there are always dumb people. One thing that I still can't belive that hasn't been fixed is tha fact that a poorly written application can lock up xorg which in tern can lock up the whole system. And unfortunatelly this goes for any process. The kernel need some kind of fail safe that works a little bit better than what is currently in place for cituations like this one. Relying on the software developer's skills is just asking for trouble. The problem though is that I haven't seen anything being done in that particular direction in a very long time. Maybe the linux developers should look at what's happening in some other *nix communities and maybe imulate.
This is totally misleading. The article compares what each of the 2 governments spends on health care and it's common knowledge that health care in the US is a private matter and very much not covered by the state. Public healthcare in the US is a joke and yes if you rely on it you are as good as dead in many cases.
Also note that the article gives absolutelly no numbers because the less than an year of difference in most cases would really break the illusion. When you have differences this small they could very well be attributed to problems with your data or the methods of approximation used. Yes stress is a contributer to a lot of diceases in every society but keep in mind that there are a lot of immigrants that come to the US every year. They come from a far worst place ( in most cases ) and hence come with a lot less preserved health than people who have lived in GB all their life. Now how does this factor in the equation?
Yes it is very possible that the US health system is not doing enough to preserve the population and I am not the one to argue otherwise. However, I am also not the one to take and article like this one seriously. If you really want to know the truth find the study published in the medical journal and you might be surprised at the slightly different results.
this thing is complete junk. The box is huge and really ugly. Beige is out but ugly is in and even if this is cheap it still sux. Plus Intel is kinda late for the kiosk market in developing countries. Kiosks exist only in cities large enough to have enough userbase and most of those computers use Celeron CPUs as far as I know. I was kinda surprised to find out how popular Celerons are in developing countries when you really don't hear anything about them in the US. But then the price is a lot better so it's not that surprising. Anyway all this aside this has no chance compeating against the $100 pc project. I am pretty sure this will cost several times as much and the worst part is that while the $100 pc actually brings new ideas to the table and think in terms of how to best server an environment that is totally different from the US one, Intel only took an idea that already exists i.e. kiosk pc. Hey if I was some one with a really low budget and had to choose between the 2 products I would go with the $100 pc any day. Plus if you live in South Africa you might actually get one for free. ( well the covernment pays for it but it's free for the end user )
What I want to know is what happened to the ultra slim mini mac lookalike pc that Intel demoed not long ago? Is it really that expensive or did they sell the design to Apple?
what will happen is that the specs of the lowest end pcs will be beefed up ( not by a lot ) and also sp1 for vista will probably fix some of the memory overhead that everybody is talking about. I really don't know where you guys get your information from since there has yet to come out an RC for Vista. Beta build might very well still have debuging stuff enabled and that will most definitely eat up huge chunks of memory.
Anyway, those of you that remember the pre XP days will also recall that 128mb ram was standard on lowend PC at that time and now it's 256 and up. So going up to 512 is a no brainer. Also sata drives are pretty much standard on any level for the IBM compatible PC. I also seem to reacall that Intel promiced a Vista compatible onboard video solution by the time Vista comes out and I'm sure that others will follow the trend. ( and I am talkign about a gpu that can handle Aero ) Yes the price of the really lowend PCs might go up a little but I really doubt that most people would even feel the difference. After all OEMs are capable of getting MUCH better deals than any consumer can.
This a very good post in the sence that it gets the way the Apple business models works ( in a way ). However, the writer keeps on repeating that it is the great customer service that sets Apple appart and this is just wrong. Apple's customer service is not that great and if you buy a computer from say Gateway or any of the highend manufacturers like Voodoo and Falcon Northwestern you will get awsome customer support. You pretty much get what you pay for with customer service and it is an expensive thing. Anyway, the point that the writer gets is that Apple is not just selling a computer or an OS or a media player, apple is selling a service. Apple's whole business is based arround the idea that people by something because of whan they want to do with it. You woun't just buy a computer but you would buy one with an OS and software that does neat stuff. So if a company can sell you the whole package and provide support for the whole package then you would be a lot happier. There are people who like to build their own computers and Apple is deffinitelly not for them. But as far as everyone else goes Apple's business model is the winning one.
It is pretty much the same thing with the iPod. It is not just an audio player but it's a way for you to listen to music. You can get both the player and the music from Apple and this is why it is such a success. This is exactly why for so long Apple has no competition. Yes Creative players are better is some aspects but they offer only hardware and this makes them very unatractive. Most people are not willing to rip CDs because it seems too complicated and also why should you buy as CD then rip it and then put it on your portable audio player when you can buy the already ripped version and it would cost you less thant the physical CD? Well most people wouldn't buy the CD.
But all of the above hardly has anything to do with customer service. Every company offers customer service and there are quite a few that are a lot better than Apple only there are almost none that will offer support for the whole package and not just the hardware or just the software. It is not quality that sets Apple appart ( though it is at a pretty high level ) it is the kind of service offered.
I am currently running the latest beta release from 20th of March on windows xp and I DO NOT have IE installed at all. Apparently when you install even the beta of IE 7 you are allowed to uninstal IE compleatelly. Now this might only seem to be the case so I am not claming that MS have really removed the IE explorer linking. IE 7 shows up as a windows update just like Media Player and all the security updates. Also since I removed IE from the system components I experienced an IE crash for no apparent reason and some other weird behavior like after the crash the reboot and system load took forever. Since then everything seems to be working fine. Well it is a beta so bugs are expected and I am really not complaining. Just letting you know what my experience has been so far. Also the latest beta seem to be a slightly polished version compared to the previos one but clicking on links that open in new window is sometimes a problem.This is apparently not the final verion of IE 7 and some of the features are likelly still missing so if you decide to use it keep that in mind. It is a step in the right direction though and will give Firefox some very stiff competition as the quality of the software seems to be somewhat better.
well what can I say... Intel is about to take one more for the team... a law suit for unfare competition that is...
Other than that I really could care less about skype and their limit of 5 people on a conference call. The only cituation that you would use a conference call with more than 5 users is a corporate environment and I have yet to hear about one that uses Skype.
I this might be a very bad idea. It is not about the security that you need to be worried about but about the lifetime of a laptop. First there is going to be the price increase since a typical desktop cost a lot more than a typical laptop ( and I not even talking about the insane reduction that most colleges get from Dell and the likes ). Once you go pass the higher price and lower speed there is the factor of are the faculty going to be allowed to take the notebooks home. If so who would pay for a notebook if it gets damaged? I can gurantee you that 8 out of 10 faculty members would prefer having a desktop if they are liable for the laptop damages. Plus if a faculty member is not allowed to take the machine home, what is the point of switching to a portable machine?
As far as licencing goes I can tell you right now that students will not get any software for free because of the huge cost that it would be to the college. ( it all depends on the size of the college and the funding that you get but in most cases licencing for the whole student body is way too expensive ). All this is fine for the students since they don't get free software anyway.
As far as servicing all these computers goes, well this is another can of worms. You will have to take extra care of the network as it would be easier for viruses to spread. A corporate grade AV software with enabled autoupdating and preferably a local update server would be a MUST. In my experience SAV does a great job ( it used to be called Norton AV Corp. up untill 2-3 versions back ). You will probably have to create a wi-fi network if you don't have one and deal with things like computer registration ( mac or otherwise ) which means more networking jobs or more chores for the current staff. My experience is from a school with about 15,000 students plus about 2,500 faculty. I can tell you that the beggining of the school year is hell with all the people trying to register their computer. We went to a web based registration system which reduced the load by a lot but there are still quite a few students having problems or not really computer literate so there is still stuff to do. If you can, stay away from simple mac registering. It don't work anyway. Ok if anything happens to one of the faculty notebooks I can almost gurantee you that you will need at least double the time that you used to, when you had desktops, to repair it. Laptops are not very service friendly and every time we used to get one for some sort of repair it stayed about a week at the shop. It was fine because notebooks were never used as primary computers at the school and noone complained.
Also I am guessing that once you replace the desktops with laptops there are no longer going to be any student labs. I am not 100% certain but I think that this will turn out to be a mistake. When a student's desktop/laptop breaks down he/she can still do his/here homework in the lab but this will no longer be an option in your case.
Don't get me wrong, I love notebooks and I work exclusively on one for the last year or so. However, this is for home use and plus I can fix everything that I break. Also mobility is a great thing but I like a lot more the way that Sun has done it than the way your school is about to. If you don't know about Sun, they use a personal key card that lets you unlock your desktop from any workstation in the company. Provided that this costs a lot of money and is probably not that suitable for a college, it is still a much better idea that going all mobile. If I had a say in this I'd say stick with desktops and maybe get several notebooks for key faculty members. As far as the student body goes, well forcing them to buy a notebook is gay but if they choose to have one it shouldn't be a problem to support it as far as internet connectivity and simple stuff like that goes. That's what most colleges do anyway.
ok if you are going to hide something in your software it has to at least be cool. This is one of the dumbest things that I have read and what's * way uncool * is that Apple's people couldn't come up with something better. At least the easter egg was funny at the time...
Since when does the law treat averybody as guilty untill prooven inocent? Also if MS would to put a backdoor in their OS ( current or future one ) they would be obligated to put some information in the EULA. Many people might not care but then there are enough that would and this decission would eventually hurt MS pretty bad. I highly doubt that there is any way for any government to persuade MS to put a backdoor in the OS. The only thing is that if you are a government you can get access to the source code of the FS and provided that you have some bright people for you, the encription could be broken. So this supposed professor should stick to his books and maybe read some more... Decripting is a tougth job but when you have the source and a couple of super computers at your disposal it's really not that bad.
Am I mistaken or is everybody posting KDE 4 screenshots all of a sudden? Also what I would like to know is how certain is it that these are screenshots of what is actually going to be in KDE 4 ( vanilla maybe ) and not some concept that a dev is working on? Seen a lot of the latter ones so it is a fair question.
Other than that KDE 4 is shaping up to be a fairly large step up so I think I like it.
i suppose nvidia knows of a device that is not yet announced otherwise a resolution like the one proposed is a huge waste. Also most of the cell phone manufacturers prefer that developers use Java rather than native code so 3D gaming capabilities are a little bit too much at the moment. Maybe nvidia should focus on their partners' network a little bit more ( just like they did with the desktop chips ).
All I have to say is READ THE EULA. This software is not stable and no one at MS ever claimed to be. You should also keep in mind that while some companies ( Google for one ) use the term beta very loosely MS does not. Beta usually means that the features are finalized but the software is till not stable. Plus if you chose to use beta software you are pretty much signing up to be a tester so stop complaining.
Ok considering that most people use lcds turning clear type on is actully a great idea. Plus there is an option to turn it off so stop whining. Also the deault search engine is MSN and NOT yahoo and there is an option to add google or one of 20 or so others. Though Firefox does have a wider support. The memory usage is also not that different from firefox although it is somewhat higher at times. It is a beta though. The interface looks great IMHO and is a deffinite step up from the usual MS look. Also the interface provides several features that I really love ( the zoom in level for one ). The phishing is NOT turned on by default and on the first use it asks you to chose how you want it to be. All in all this is pretty good software and does catch up with the trends in modern web browsing. Oh yeah, the menu bar is missing which could be confusing for some people. A little Opera style but other than that it's cool. Considering that the rendering engine for some backgrounds is way better than gecko I might actully start using IE again.
Overall I really find this new version of IE to be worth the wait. It is a huge step from what IE6 is. There also seems to be a slight change in the IE icon. Not sure what that is about but I like the old one better.
First Ubuntu/Kubuntu is NOT debian and worst of all DOES NOT follow the debian ideas. The only thing that Ubuntu and Debian have in common is the technology. Ubuntu and Debian don't even feel the same so don't even get me started on how disappointed I am with what Ubuntu has done with Debian. As far as updates go... well I'd admit that certain things in debian take and awful long time to be admited to even the testing branch ( firefox 1.5 for one ). However, the stable branch is designed for maximum security which usually means servers and such and when you are talking about security that means that every package accepted has good through a lot of testing and has been found safe ( as far as the developers know ). There are also 3 other branches ( testing, unstable, experimental ) and if you want bleeding edge with decent stability you can always try unstable. Yes some of the packages are a little bit older that those in ubuntu but man the whole OS feels so much better plus if I don't wan't gnome I don't have to install it and the same goes for pretty much everything else. Oh yeah and last I checked there was still no net install CD for Ubuntu.
I appreciate the free CDs that Ubuntu sends but I still think that forking Debian was about the dumbest thing that they could have done. It also doesn't help the linux community at all. But that's just me. As far as Debian goes, it's a lot easier that some people have come to believe it to be.
This made me laugh at first though it is a sad matter. Yes rent-a-coder is full of write-my-homework projects and has been this way ever since I first found out about it ( several years ago ). However, it is not the only place where you can pay someone to do your homework for you. There are countless sites that sell already written essays on pretty much any topic that is covered in college. The difference is that those essays are sold to many people and the chance of getting caught with one of them is huge. Anyway, the honor code at most colleges/universities has a clause agains cheating an getting someone else to write yoru homework is most deffinitelly considered cheating. If you get caught and you are really lucky you will be put on academic probation and you will fail the class. Some schools will kick you out for cheating and no you do not get your money back. So if anyone is thinking of using rent-a-coder or any other place like that, I'd strongly advise against it. You might get lucky but in most cases the risk is really not worth it. Plus write your damn homework man...
Well the original idea of Firefox might have incuded the size issue but this is hardly a concern anymore. Plus the idea was more like to build a browser from mozilla that was simple and cleaned out from all those *useless* fetures that over bloat mozilla. As far as small goes well look at your ram usage and I am pretty sure that you will get a different idea. When you add the fact that the rendering engine ( though good ) has problems with certain pages and backgrounds ( nothing fancy yet still a problem for gecko ) then you get the point of why the person though that adding new features is what browser devs do most of the time. Only the firefox devs are not developing this extention so NO that's not true at all.
One thing that I would really like to see is some quality control when it comes to extentions and firefox. Seems like everybody is developing an extention and some are really far from being decent and then many do the same thing. But then this is not really related to the topic...
As far as AllPeers goes I doubt that it will even be able to put a dent in BT. It's not that it won't be any good but people like what they are used to so no luck there...
Well what he probably means by " gut feeling" is that he uses Apple computers for most other tasks so he went with their server line because of the good experiences that he has had. After all he is no geek or as sys admin so he can't give you 10 technological reason why he chose Apple over MS or linux. Plus isn't that the same reason why people chose MS Server over linux/unix most of the time...
I am sure that the hardware of the device is great and could easily kick nintendo's butt and probably psp too. However, linux is highly experimental by nature and the programs that this device relies on have a lot to be desired from. Linux's weakes side is gaming and that's a fact. Several years back I bought into the whole Zaurus - linux pda thing and I can tell you tha the openes of an OS does not mean that the device will get support for a long time. As some of you know Zaurus is pretty much dead outside Japan. Yes there is OpenZaurus and other projects but even those do not really like to support older hardware. ( and Zaurus has a relativelly large userbase compared to this device ) I hope I am wrong but I think that a linux gaming device is doomed for failure. It seems like there isn't any strong corporate support or community support for the device and the platform and I am very reluctant spending close to $200 on a device like that. After all when I play games the last thing that I want to do it troubleshoot software problems or debug poor code. This is where Nintendo and PSP are way ahead and after all ( judging from PS2 vs. Xbox ) software matters a lot more than hardware when it comes to gaming.
Oh, and I still use my zaurus though it has some problems syncing with my pc.
first of all the reason for people going death is that they seem to overuse their devices at volumes that are way above reasonable level. A good practice is to set the volume to a level that is low but still good enough for you to hear. After a few minutes at the most your ears adjust to the low volume and it no longer bother you. The same thing happens with high volumes only this time your ears start responding only to high enough volumes hence you get hearing loss.
It is also important to note that cheap/poor quality heardphones ( as are most of the earbuds in use ) accelerate the process of hearing loss. Those headphonse produce a very limited sound range and very much unnatural sound and your ears get "lazy". Listening to high volumes on cheap headphones is also really bad for your ears not just because of the volume but because of the distortion that they create.
On a sidenote, yes musicials do use in the ear style headphones but anyone who has ever looked at the price of FSI or any compatible monitors know that those are a totally different grade of headphones. Even the pro grade headphones can cause hearing loss though so moderation should be observed at all times. Oh yeah and you should probably listed the warnings in the manual ( at least this time ).
As far as this article being news goes... you gotta be kidding, this is such an overplayed story... but it's good so I'll give it some credit.
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for as long as MS/windows holds over 95% of the desktop market there is absolutelly no poit in using gtk. Gtk+ performs pretty bad on windows and yes it is a huge pain to include an 8mb lib just so you can run a small program. That said gaim i great and I use it all the time but programming in c with custom classes over c++... you have to be joking. Yes I know there are c++ wrapper but the programing lang. is the least of the problems that gtk+ has. Apparently the gui libs are developed by the same natzi who are leading the gnome project to it's inevitable doom. You cannot contantly mess with the UI and change things arroud just because someone though that it would be better. First of all OSS projects do not have enough money in order to actully condict a study on what the user thinks is best and 2nd if the gnome and gtk+ teams don't realize that software is written for the end user and NOT for the developer, both of these projects would stand no chance against any competition. For crying out loud this is one of the first principles in any OS textbook and those people are supposed to be way above a textbook level.
SO should you use gtk+ I really don't think so. After all there are qt and wxwidgets and they both do a better job. Oh and I cannot stress enough how important documentation is. But I guess some people don't think so... sad...
Ajax is not an all-cure medecine and it is not supposed to be used as such. Half of the points that the article rises are not valid at all. Say you were building some site that needed an online design system. What possible good is it to book mark a step of the process? Also the back button was put in a browser and it did not just exist there. Anything that was made by man would be broken by man so quit bitching.
All that said Ajax does have some problems but this is to be expected at such a stage of development. Oh yeah and if you don't like it well just don't use it. Simple as that.
All I have to say about Ajax is that change is good and at least they are doing something about a very real problem.
Dude you are really messed up. Games DONOT bleed into reality ever. The only thing that games might do it totally destroy your social life i.e. your real life and there are plenty of people that can vouche for that. Oh and as far as your little problem goes with confusing reality after a prolonged exposure to video games I am confident that there are some pretty good specialists in your area that can help you with that.
Though I must admit that... maybe... there are real life situations that resemble video games, but this is exactly where your common sence kicks in and tells that mere resemblence does not equal to being the same. Dude this is like saying that riding roller coasters causes people to break the speed limit laws and the road safety regulations. This is an absurd thought and even more absurd statement...
geography was never one of my good subjects but since when is California a New England state? Well I suppose some TV shows would support any cause as long as it gains some more viewers. Plus CSI Miami is the crappiest one of the 3 CSI shows and I really couldn't care less about it.
As far as the game goes I think it's a lot better killing a couple of cops in a game after you got a speeding ticket than doing it in real life. Oh yeah and if your kids don't know the difference between real life and a video game, boy you are in for some serious phychiatric bills. You can't blame a game for the choises that YOU make and if any judge is dumb enough to say otherwise I think he or she really has the wrong profession. Plus if you teach your kids that anything other than them is responsible for their choises or actions you can't expect them to become decent and productive adults. Hey the bad man and his stories made me strap on explosives to my body, blow up the building, and kill all those people. It's not MY fault. Yeah only all this BS never stands when you are on the receiving end and no longer a spectator.
Anyway, to sum all this up I think you should just accept people's choices to play violent 3D games and do whatever they want in a virtual environment. It might actually save your life by letting the freak next door release some preasure...
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OK read the whole post and then comment ... this is an INQ *story* and this is nothing to be worried about. Knowing the kind of crap that INQ has posted in the past I would be very cautious believing this. Like people already said this is a dev kit that has only a resemblence to the final product and also I would really like to know where the heck INQ got ANY information because you still have to sign a nondisclosure agreement in order to get access to a PS3 devkit. 16mbps .... rolf those guys really pull numbers out of their arses.
well they should finally fix outstanding bugs. Wasn't the whole point that OSS offers a faster responce time for bug fixes because so many people are looking at the code? I think that the comunity leaders should step in and let the big corporations know that while the door is open for anyone to contribute, there are some standards and principles. Otherwise you might see linux highjacked in a couple of years and that would be a damn shame. Oh and Linux is just the kernel and NOT some gui based software so pls stop with all the bs. I really though that this issue was cleared up by now but I guess there are always dumb people. One thing that I still can't belive that hasn't been fixed is tha fact that a poorly written application can lock up xorg which in tern can lock up the whole system. And unfortunatelly this goes for any process. The kernel need some kind of fail safe that works a little bit better than what is currently in place for cituations like this one. Relying on the software developer's skills is just asking for trouble. The problem though is that I haven't seen anything being done in that particular direction in a very long time. Maybe the linux developers should look at what's happening in some other *nix communities and maybe imulate.
This is totally misleading. The article compares what each of the 2 governments spends on health care and it's common knowledge that health care in the US is a private matter and very much not covered by the state. Public healthcare in the US is a joke and yes if you rely on it you are as good as dead in many cases. Also note that the article gives absolutelly no numbers because the less than an year of difference in most cases would really break the illusion. When you have differences this small they could very well be attributed to problems with your data or the methods of approximation used. Yes stress is a contributer to a lot of diceases in every society but keep in mind that there are a lot of immigrants that come to the US every year. They come from a far worst place ( in most cases ) and hence come with a lot less preserved health than people who have lived in GB all their life. Now how does this factor in the equation? Yes it is very possible that the US health system is not doing enough to preserve the population and I am not the one to argue otherwise. However, I am also not the one to take and article like this one seriously. If you really want to know the truth find the study published in the medical journal and you might be surprised at the slightly different results.
this thing is complete junk. The box is huge and really ugly. Beige is out but ugly is in and even if this is cheap it still sux. Plus Intel is kinda late for the kiosk market in developing countries. Kiosks exist only in cities large enough to have enough userbase and most of those computers use Celeron CPUs as far as I know. I was kinda surprised to find out how popular Celerons are in developing countries when you really don't hear anything about them in the US. But then the price is a lot better so it's not that surprising. Anyway all this aside this has no chance compeating against the $100 pc project. I am pretty sure this will cost several times as much and the worst part is that while the $100 pc actually brings new ideas to the table and think in terms of how to best server an environment that is totally different from the US one, Intel only took an idea that already exists i.e. kiosk pc. Hey if I was some one with a really low budget and had to choose between the 2 products I would go with the $100 pc any day. Plus if you live in South Africa you might actually get one for free. ( well the covernment pays for it but it's free for the end user ) What I want to know is what happened to the ultra slim mini mac lookalike pc that Intel demoed not long ago? Is it really that expensive or did they sell the design to Apple?
what will happen is that the specs of the lowest end pcs will be beefed up ( not by a lot ) and also sp1 for vista will probably fix some of the memory overhead that everybody is talking about. I really don't know where you guys get your information from since there has yet to come out an RC for Vista. Beta build might very well still have debuging stuff enabled and that will most definitely eat up huge chunks of memory. Anyway, those of you that remember the pre XP days will also recall that 128mb ram was standard on lowend PC at that time and now it's 256 and up. So going up to 512 is a no brainer. Also sata drives are pretty much standard on any level for the IBM compatible PC. I also seem to reacall that Intel promiced a Vista compatible onboard video solution by the time Vista comes out and I'm sure that others will follow the trend. ( and I am talkign about a gpu that can handle Aero ) Yes the price of the really lowend PCs might go up a little but I really doubt that most people would even feel the difference. After all OEMs are capable of getting MUCH better deals than any consumer can.
This a very good post in the sence that it gets the way the Apple business models works ( in a way ). However, the writer keeps on repeating that it is the great customer service that sets Apple appart and this is just wrong. Apple's customer service is not that great and if you buy a computer from say Gateway or any of the highend manufacturers like Voodoo and Falcon Northwestern you will get awsome customer support. You pretty much get what you pay for with customer service and it is an expensive thing. Anyway, the point that the writer gets is that Apple is not just selling a computer or an OS or a media player, apple is selling a service. Apple's whole business is based arround the idea that people by something because of whan they want to do with it. You woun't just buy a computer but you would buy one with an OS and software that does neat stuff. So if a company can sell you the whole package and provide support for the whole package then you would be a lot happier. There are people who like to build their own computers and Apple is deffinitelly not for them. But as far as everyone else goes Apple's business model is the winning one. It is pretty much the same thing with the iPod. It is not just an audio player but it's a way for you to listen to music. You can get both the player and the music from Apple and this is why it is such a success. This is exactly why for so long Apple has no competition. Yes Creative players are better is some aspects but they offer only hardware and this makes them very unatractive. Most people are not willing to rip CDs because it seems too complicated and also why should you buy as CD then rip it and then put it on your portable audio player when you can buy the already ripped version and it would cost you less thant the physical CD? Well most people wouldn't buy the CD. But all of the above hardly has anything to do with customer service. Every company offers customer service and there are quite a few that are a lot better than Apple only there are almost none that will offer support for the whole package and not just the hardware or just the software. It is not quality that sets Apple appart ( though it is at a pretty high level ) it is the kind of service offered.
I am currently running the latest beta release from 20th of March on windows xp and I DO NOT have IE installed at all. Apparently when you install even the beta of IE 7 you are allowed to uninstal IE compleatelly. Now this might only seem to be the case so I am not claming that MS have really removed the IE explorer linking. IE 7 shows up as a windows update just like Media Player and all the security updates. Also since I removed IE from the system components I experienced an IE crash for no apparent reason and some other weird behavior like after the crash the reboot and system load took forever. Since then everything seems to be working fine. Well it is a beta so bugs are expected and I am really not complaining. Just letting you know what my experience has been so far. Also the latest beta seem to be a slightly polished version compared to the previos one but clicking on links that open in new window is sometimes a problem.This is apparently not the final verion of IE 7 and some of the features are likelly still missing so if you decide to use it keep that in mind. It is a step in the right direction though and will give Firefox some very stiff competition as the quality of the software seems to be somewhat better.
well what can I say ... Intel is about to take one more for the team ... a law suit for unfare competition that is ...
Other than that I really could care less about skype and their limit of 5 people on a conference call. The only cituation that you would use a conference call with more than 5 users is a corporate environment and I have yet to hear about one that uses Skype.
I this might be a very bad idea. It is not about the security that you need to be worried about but about the lifetime of a laptop. First there is going to be the price increase since a typical desktop cost a lot more than a typical laptop ( and I not even talking about the insane reduction that most colleges get from Dell and the likes ). Once you go pass the higher price and lower speed there is the factor of are the faculty going to be allowed to take the notebooks home. If so who would pay for a notebook if it gets damaged? I can gurantee you that 8 out of 10 faculty members would prefer having a desktop if they are liable for the laptop damages. Plus if a faculty member is not allowed to take the machine home, what is the point of switching to a portable machine? As far as licencing goes I can tell you right now that students will not get any software for free because of the huge cost that it would be to the college. ( it all depends on the size of the college and the funding that you get but in most cases licencing for the whole student body is way too expensive ). All this is fine for the students since they don't get free software anyway. As far as servicing all these computers goes, well this is another can of worms. You will have to take extra care of the network as it would be easier for viruses to spread. A corporate grade AV software with enabled autoupdating and preferably a local update server would be a MUST. In my experience SAV does a great job ( it used to be called Norton AV Corp. up untill 2-3 versions back ). You will probably have to create a wi-fi network if you don't have one and deal with things like computer registration ( mac or otherwise ) which means more networking jobs or more chores for the current staff. My experience is from a school with about 15,000 students plus about 2,500 faculty. I can tell you that the beggining of the school year is hell with all the people trying to register their computer. We went to a web based registration system which reduced the load by a lot but there are still quite a few students having problems or not really computer literate so there is still stuff to do. If you can, stay away from simple mac registering. It don't work anyway. Ok if anything happens to one of the faculty notebooks I can almost gurantee you that you will need at least double the time that you used to, when you had desktops, to repair it. Laptops are not very service friendly and every time we used to get one for some sort of repair it stayed about a week at the shop. It was fine because notebooks were never used as primary computers at the school and noone complained. Also I am guessing that once you replace the desktops with laptops there are no longer going to be any student labs. I am not 100% certain but I think that this will turn out to be a mistake. When a student's desktop/laptop breaks down he/she can still do his/here homework in the lab but this will no longer be an option in your case. Don't get me wrong, I love notebooks and I work exclusively on one for the last year or so. However, this is for home use and plus I can fix everything that I break. Also mobility is a great thing but I like a lot more the way that Sun has done it than the way your school is about to. If you don't know about Sun, they use a personal key card that lets you unlock your desktop from any workstation in the company. Provided that this costs a lot of money and is probably not that suitable for a college, it is still a much better idea that going all mobile. If I had a say in this I'd say stick with desktops and maybe get several notebooks for key faculty members. As far as the student body goes, well forcing them to buy a notebook is gay but if they choose to have one it shouldn't be a problem to support it as far as internet connectivity and simple stuff like that goes. That's what most colleges do anyway.
ok if you are going to hide something in your software it has to at least be cool. This is one of the dumbest things that I have read and what's * way uncool * is that Apple's people couldn't come up with something better. At least the easter egg was funny at the time ...
Since when does the law treat averybody as guilty untill prooven inocent? Also if MS would to put a backdoor in their OS ( current or future one ) they would be obligated to put some information in the EULA. Many people might not care but then there are enough that would and this decission would eventually hurt MS pretty bad. I highly doubt that there is any way for any government to persuade MS to put a backdoor in the OS. The only thing is that if you are a government you can get access to the source code of the FS and provided that you have some bright people for you, the encription could be broken. So this supposed professor should stick to his books and maybe read some more ... Decripting is a tougth job but when you have the source and a couple of super computers at your disposal it's really not that bad.
Am I mistaken or is everybody posting KDE 4 screenshots all of a sudden? Also what I would like to know is how certain is it that these are screenshots of what is actually going to be in KDE 4 ( vanilla maybe ) and not some concept that a dev is working on? Seen a lot of the latter ones so it is a fair question. Other than that KDE 4 is shaping up to be a fairly large step up so I think I like it.
i suppose nvidia knows of a device that is not yet announced otherwise a resolution like the one proposed is a huge waste. Also most of the cell phone manufacturers prefer that developers use Java rather than native code so 3D gaming capabilities are a little bit too much at the moment. Maybe nvidia should focus on their partners' network a little bit more ( just like they did with the desktop chips ).
All I have to say is READ THE EULA. This software is not stable and no one at MS ever claimed to be. You should also keep in mind that while some companies ( Google for one ) use the term beta very loosely MS does not. Beta usually means that the features are finalized but the software is till not stable. Plus if you chose to use beta software you are pretty much signing up to be a tester so stop complaining.
Ok considering that most people use lcds turning clear type on is actully a great idea. Plus there is an option to turn it off so stop whining.
Also the deault search engine is MSN and NOT yahoo and there is an option to add google or one of 20 or so others. Though Firefox does have a wider support.
The memory usage is also not that different from firefox although it is somewhat higher at times. It is a beta though. The interface looks great IMHO and is a deffinite step up from the usual MS look. Also the interface provides several features that I really love ( the zoom in level for one ). The phishing is NOT turned on by default and on the first use it asks you to chose how you want it to be. All in all this is pretty good software and does catch up with the trends in modern web browsing. Oh yeah, the menu bar is missing which could be confusing for some people. A little Opera style but other than that it's cool. Considering that the rendering engine for some backgrounds is way better than gecko I might actully start using IE again.
Overall I really find this new version of IE to be worth the wait. It is a huge step from what IE6 is.
There also seems to be a slight change in the IE icon. Not sure what that is about but I like the old one better.
First Ubuntu/Kubuntu is NOT debian and worst of all DOES NOT follow the debian ideas. The only thing that Ubuntu and Debian have in common is the technology. Ubuntu and Debian don't even feel the same so don't even get me started on how disappointed I am with what Ubuntu has done with Debian. As far as updates go ... well I'd admit that certain things in debian take and awful long time to be admited to even the testing branch ( firefox 1.5 for one ). However, the stable branch is designed for maximum security which usually means servers and such and when you are talking about security that means that every package accepted has good through a lot of testing and has been found safe ( as far as the developers know ). There are also 3 other branches ( testing, unstable, experimental ) and if you want bleeding edge with decent stability you can always try unstable. Yes some of the packages are a little bit older that those in ubuntu but man the whole OS feels so much better plus if I don't wan't gnome I don't have to install it and the same goes for pretty much everything else. Oh yeah and last I checked there was still no net install CD for Ubuntu.
I appreciate the free CDs that Ubuntu sends but I still think that forking Debian was about the dumbest thing that they could have done. It also doesn't help the linux community at all. But that's just me. As far as Debian goes, it's a lot easier that some people have come to believe it to be.
This made me laugh at first though it is a sad matter. Yes rent-a-coder is full of write-my-homework projects and has been this way ever since I first found out about it ( several years ago ). However, it is not the only place where you can pay someone to do your homework for you. There are countless sites that sell already written essays on pretty much any topic that is covered in college. The difference is that those essays are sold to many people and the chance of getting caught with one of them is huge. ...
Anyway, the honor code at most colleges/universities has a clause agains cheating an getting someone else to write yoru homework is most deffinitelly considered cheating. If you get caught and you are really lucky you will be put on academic probation and you will fail the class. Some schools will kick you out for cheating and no you do not get your money back. So if anyone is thinking of using rent-a-coder or any other place like that, I'd strongly advise against it. You might get lucky but in most cases the risk is really not worth it. Plus write your damn homework man
Well the original idea of Firefox might have incuded the size issue but this is hardly a concern anymore. Plus the idea was more like to build a browser from mozilla that was simple and cleaned out from all those *useless* fetures that over bloat mozilla. As far as small goes well look at your ram usage and I am pretty sure that you will get a different idea. When you add the fact that the rendering engine ( though good ) has problems with certain pages and backgrounds ( nothing fancy yet still a problem for gecko ) then you get the point of why the person though that adding new features is what browser devs do most of the time. Only the firefox devs are not developing this extention so NO that's not true at all. One thing that I would really like to see is some quality control when it comes to extentions and firefox. Seems like everybody is developing an extention and some are really far from being decent and then many do the same thing. But then this is not really related to the topic ...
As far as AllPeers goes I doubt that it will even be able to put a dent in BT. It's not that it won't be any good but people like what they are used to so no luck there ...
Well what he probably means by " gut feeling" is that he uses Apple computers for most other tasks so he went with their server line because of the good experiences that he has had. After all he is no geek or as sys admin so he can't give you 10 technological reason why he chose Apple over MS or linux. Plus isn't that the same reason why people chose MS Server over linux/unix most of the time ...
I am sure that the hardware of the device is great and could easily kick nintendo's butt and probably psp too. However, linux is highly experimental by nature and the programs that this device relies on have a lot to be desired from. Linux's weakes side is gaming and that's a fact. Several years back I bought into the whole Zaurus - linux pda thing and I can tell you tha the openes of an OS does not mean that the device will get support for a long time. As some of you know Zaurus is pretty much dead outside Japan. Yes there is OpenZaurus and other projects but even those do not really like to support older hardware. ( and Zaurus has a relativelly large userbase compared to this device ) I hope I am wrong but I think that a linux gaming device is doomed for failure. It seems like there isn't any strong corporate support or community support for the device and the platform and I am very reluctant spending close to $200 on a device like that. After all when I play games the last thing that I want to do it troubleshoot software problems or debug poor code. This is where Nintendo and PSP are way ahead and after all ( judging from PS2 vs. Xbox ) software matters a lot more than hardware when it comes to gaming. Oh, and I still use my zaurus though it has some problems syncing with my pc.
first of all the reason for people going death is that they seem to overuse their devices at volumes that are way above reasonable level. A good practice is to set the volume to a level that is low but still good enough for you to hear. After a few minutes at the most your ears adjust to the low volume and it no longer bother you. The same thing happens with high volumes only this time your ears start responding only to high enough volumes hence you get hearing loss. It is also important to note that cheap/poor quality heardphones ( as are most of the earbuds in use ) accelerate the process of hearing loss. Those headphonse produce a very limited sound range and very much unnatural sound and your ears get "lazy". Listening to high volumes on cheap headphones is also really bad for your ears not just because of the volume but because of the distortion that they create. On a sidenote, yes musicials do use in the ear style headphones but anyone who has ever looked at the price of FSI or any compatible monitors know that those are a totally different grade of headphones. Even the pro grade headphones can cause hearing loss though so moderation should be observed at all times. Oh yeah and you should probably listed the warnings in the manual ( at least this time ). As far as this article being news goes ... you gotta be kidding, this is such an overplayed story ... but it's good so I'll give it some credit.
for as long as MS/windows holds over 95% of the desktop market there is absolutelly no poit in using gtk. Gtk+ performs pretty bad on windows and yes it is a huge pain to include an 8mb lib just so you can run a small program. That said gaim i great and I use it all the time but programming in c with custom classes over c++ ... you have to be joking. Yes I know there are c++ wrapper but the programing lang. is the least of the problems that gtk+ has. Apparently the gui libs are developed by the same natzi who are leading the gnome project to it's inevitable doom. You cannot contantly mess with the UI and change things arroud just because someone though that it would be better. First of all OSS projects do not have enough money in order to actully condict a study on what the user thinks is best and 2nd if the gnome and gtk+ teams don't realize that software is written for the end user and NOT for the developer, both of these projects would stand no chance against any competition. For crying out loud this is one of the first principles in any OS textbook and those people are supposed to be way above a textbook level.
SO should you use gtk+ I really don't think so. After all there are qt and wxwidgets and they both do a better job. Oh and I cannot stress enough how important documentation is. But I guess some people don't think so ... sad ...
Ajax is not an all-cure medecine and it is not supposed to be used as such. Half of the points that the article rises are not valid at all. Say you were building some site that needed an online design system. What possible good is it to book mark a step of the process? Also the back button was put in a browser and it did not just exist there. Anything that was made by man would be broken by man so quit bitching.
All that said Ajax does have some problems but this is to be expected at such a stage of development. Oh yeah and if you don't like it well just don't use it. Simple as that.
All I have to say about Ajax is that change is good and at least they are doing something about a very real problem.
Dude you are really messed up. Games DONOT bleed into reality ever. The only thing that games might do it totally destroy your social life i.e. your real life and there are plenty of people that can vouche for that. Oh and as far as your little problem goes with confusing reality after a prolonged exposure to video games I am confident that there are some pretty good specialists in your area that can help you with that. Though I must admit that ... maybe ... there are real life situations that resemble video games, but this is exactly where your common sence kicks in and tells that mere resemblence does not equal to being the same. Dude this is like saying that riding roller coasters causes people to break the speed limit laws and the road safety regulations. This is an absurd thought and even more absurd statement ...
geography was never one of my good subjects but since when is California a New England state? Well I suppose some TV shows would support any cause as long as it gains some more viewers. Plus CSI Miami is the crappiest one of the 3 CSI shows and I really couldn't care less about it. As far as the game goes I think it's a lot better killing a couple of cops in a game after you got a speeding ticket than doing it in real life. Oh yeah and if your kids don't know the difference between real life and a video game, boy you are in for some serious phychiatric bills. You can't blame a game for the choises that YOU make and if any judge is dumb enough to say otherwise I think he or she really has the wrong profession. Plus if you teach your kids that anything other than them is responsible for their choises or actions you can't expect them to become decent and productive adults. Hey the bad man and his stories made me strap on explosives to my body, blow up the building, and kill all those people. It's not MY fault. Yeah only all this BS never stands when you are on the receiving end and no longer a spectator. Anyway, to sum all this up I think you should just accept people's choices to play violent 3D games and do whatever they want in a virtual environment. It might actually save your life by letting the freak next door release some preasure ...