The hardware isn't really solid. I was new getting into PDAs and asked my uncle what he thought of his treo. He said is was great when it worked but personally went through 4-6 of em per year. Either my uncle runs them over with his lexus, or the units don't stand up to hardcore business use.
Dude, I bought mediocre 486 IBM-clone in the 90s for over 2k. Now I can get a fully functioning dell with a monitor for $350. Unless you're going for the very high-end, computer prices have plummeted over the years.
Vista is already far better than XP IMO (with the exception of network file transfer). IMO the only real challenge to MS is OSX, which is in most ways a superior OS, but in a few ways incredibly annoying. Make windows 7 just like vista but much faster, add expose and OSX-like install, and you have a killer OS IMO.
Take the thing back, it probably has a hardware failure. I've never had to hard boot my vista laptop (other than annoying vista updates that require a reset).
Am I the only one that thinks although firefox 3 is much faster, firefox 2 was much more stable? I'm running it on vista, XP sp3, and ubuntu machines and FF3 crashes on all 3 of them.
Vista gets a lot of flak, but all it really needs is to be faster and a little more stable (the OS for more is more stable than XP, but for some reason firefox 3 keeps crashing). Both of which are not selling features to the general public, they generally won't upgrade unless something is more shiny or has "500 new features".
com, net, org, gov, and edu make sense, and I believe most people can differentiate between them (edu for school, net for ISP email). Everything else can be dumped..info makes sense but I don't think I've ever purposefully typed in a.info address, so that can be dumped too.
Bullshit, the big players at the time were os/2 and apple. You also had amiga and commodore, who didn't have the business sense to be able to do what MS did. os/2 and apple were both tied to proprietary hardware (os/2 particularly with their lack of support for non-ibm drivers) so if they stuck around we would likely still be paying $2-3k for PCs. I'm also calling bullshit that some random startup would be able to write a consumer friendly OS with good hardware support and somehow get one of the computer hardware vendors to back em up when ibm and apple were pretty much established and gunning for their own OS. Linux now is gaining ground (apple even more so) but it has taken a long time.
Warning, if you are using firefox 2 clear your history before upgrading to firefox 3. Tools->clear private data does delete the "history" but seems to keep everything from my FF2 history in the awesomebar. I have everything checked in clear history options except for passwords.
I'm not an alcohol snob, I rarely pay more than $10 for 750ml bottle of vodka, and I used to drink it pretty heavily (now only rarely). I never get hangovers, and one day I said screw it, and bought one of the "$6 in a plastic bottle" type of deals. I didn't notice much difference in taste, but the next morning was hell, and I learned my lesson. Could be placebo, could be impurities, but it's not worth it to try it again.
I think my hatred is more of a generational type thing. As a teen in the 90s, metal was actually pretty mainstream for quite some time with the release of the Black album. Then rap and alternative started to explode and (mainstream) metal started to die. Us metal-heads were looking for one good Metallica album to come out to save the genre and then they cut their hair and released Load; essentially the death kneel for the metal era. Now, I know lots of good metal was being released at the time, but at the time I would have rather heard metal on the radio rather than nirvana for the 1000th time. Then nu-metal came and that's an entirely different story.
No experience there but I've had good experience with Fujitsu. Hold times under 10 minutes, someone that speaks excellent english, problems resolved quickly. The only problem I've seen with them is that if a product is more than a couple years old they don't release any new drivers for it, and most items ship from japan so there is a slight delay in getting them.
Yep, my dad just bought a computer without consulting me first, and it was a $299 acer at best buy with windows vista. Now I have nothing against vista, it runs great on my laptop, but I highly doubt a $299 machine has the specs to make it run nicely. Thankfully he bought more ram, I just hope the machine has a decent processor.
Those look totally different, it doesn't match the shape on the bottom left, the indentation on the bottom, and most of the right side. The only place it appears to somewhat match are the top left curve, and there are only so many ways you can draw an apple.
Hmm, maybe I should give linux another try. After looking at screenshots it seemed KDE appealed to me more, so I installed kubuntu, which was horribly sluggish on my core 2 duo with 2 gigs of ram. I'll setup a partition of just ubuntu and give it another go.
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The hardware isn't really solid. I was new getting into PDAs and asked my uncle what he thought of his treo. He said is was great when it worked but personally went through 4-6 of em per year. Either my uncle runs them over with his lexus, or the units don't stand up to hardcore business use.
Dude, I bought mediocre 486 IBM-clone in the 90s for over 2k. Now I can get a fully functioning dell with a monitor for $350. Unless you're going for the very high-end, computer prices have plummeted over the years.
Vista is already far better than XP IMO (with the exception of network file transfer). IMO the only real challenge to MS is OSX, which is in most ways a superior OS, but in a few ways incredibly annoying. Make windows 7 just like vista but much faster, add expose and OSX-like install, and you have a killer OS IMO.
Yah, it's over 100 here in phoenix. 90 fahrenheit would be colder than the outside air.
No, but if I install a car stereo and the car blows up I do blame the manufacturer. It's 2008, we should be above having extensions crash browsers.
Take the thing back, it probably has a hardware failure. I've never had to hard boot my vista laptop (other than annoying vista updates that require a reset).
Am I the only one that thinks although firefox 3 is much faster, firefox 2 was much more stable? I'm running it on vista, XP sp3, and ubuntu machines and FF3 crashes on all 3 of them.
Vista gets a lot of flak, but all it really needs is to be faster and a little more stable (the OS for more is more stable than XP, but for some reason firefox 3 keeps crashing). Both of which are not selling features to the general public, they generally won't upgrade unless something is more shiny or has "500 new features".
com, net, org, gov, and edu make sense, and I believe most people can differentiate between them (edu for school, net for ISP email). Everything else can be dumped. .info makes sense but I don't think I've ever purposefully typed in a .info address, so that can be dumped too.
Bullshit, the big players at the time were os/2 and apple. You also had amiga and commodore, who didn't have the business sense to be able to do what MS did. os/2 and apple were both tied to proprietary hardware (os/2 particularly with their lack of support for non-ibm drivers) so if they stuck around we would likely still be paying $2-3k for PCs. I'm also calling bullshit that some random startup would be able to write a consumer friendly OS with good hardware support and somehow get one of the computer hardware vendors to back em up when ibm and apple were pretty much established and gunning for their own OS. Linux now is gaining ground (apple even more so) but it has taken a long time.
Warning, if you are using firefox 2 clear your history before upgrading to firefox 3. Tools->clear private data does delete the "history" but seems to keep everything from my FF2 history in the awesomebar. I have everything checked in clear history options except for passwords.
I'm not an alcohol snob, I rarely pay more than $10 for 750ml bottle of vodka, and I used to drink it pretty heavily (now only rarely). I never get hangovers, and one day I said screw it, and bought one of the "$6 in a plastic bottle" type of deals. I didn't notice much difference in taste, but the next morning was hell, and I learned my lesson. Could be placebo, could be impurities, but it's not worth it to try it again.
I think my hatred is more of a generational type thing. As a teen in the 90s, metal was actually pretty mainstream for quite some time with the release of the Black album. Then rap and alternative started to explode and (mainstream) metal started to die. Us metal-heads were looking for one good Metallica album to come out to save the genre and then they cut their hair and released Load; essentially the death kneel for the metal era. Now, I know lots of good metal was being released at the time, but at the time I would have rather heard metal on the radio rather than nirvana for the 1000th time. Then nu-metal came and that's an entirely different story.
No experience there but I've had good experience with Fujitsu. Hold times under 10 minutes, someone that speaks excellent english, problems resolved quickly. The only problem I've seen with them is that if a product is more than a couple years old they don't release any new drivers for it, and most items ship from japan so there is a slight delay in getting them.
He said play, not rip, blu-ray movies, which you can currently do.
I haven't had a piece of spam go into my inbox in Outlook in over a year, it seems to be doing a good enough job.
Yep, my dad just bought a computer without consulting me first, and it was a $299 acer at best buy with windows vista. Now I have nothing against vista, it runs great on my laptop, but I highly doubt a $299 machine has the specs to make it run nicely. Thankfully he bought more ram, I just hope the machine has a decent processor.
Those look totally different, it doesn't match the shape on the bottom left, the indentation on the bottom, and most of the right side. The only place it appears to somewhat match are the top left curve, and there are only so many ways you can draw an apple.
Well my pocket PC with 64mb ram runs about 12 medical programs at the same time, so potentially tons?
According to secunia Vista has 2 minor vulnerabilities unpatched, Ubuntu 0, and OS X 6 vulnerabilities.
The results for the other machines are in, at the end of day 2 the Vista and Ubuntu laptops have yet to be compromised:
http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2008/03/27/day-two-of-cansecwest-pwn-to-own---we-have-our-first-official-winner-with-picture
If you look at their blog it seems the Vista and Ubuntu laptops are still not hacked yet at the end of day 2:
http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2008/03/27/day-two-of-cansecwest-pwn-to-own---we-have-our-first-official-winner-with-picture
Hmm, maybe I should give linux another try. After looking at screenshots it seemed KDE appealed to me more, so I installed kubuntu, which was horribly sluggish on my core 2 duo with 2 gigs of ram. I'll setup a partition of just ubuntu and give it another go.
I think office 2004 trial came preinstalled when I bought my macbook.
The HTC shift is essentially an eee pc with GSM. See here for actual specs: http://www.htc.com/www/product.aspx?id=600