b) MacOS doesn't have "windows-style "uninstall" functionality" because uninstalling is trivial.
What really surprises me is that there is no uninstall functionality on macs, which you seem to be saying. Having an option to automatically clean an installed program from a system is actually really nice, and makes life much less complicated for inexperienced users (who I thought Apple was trying to target.) Honestly, I thought the task of manually cleaning program files had disappeared with the era of MS-DOS.
3. Wheee! Cute, but the payoff is lame. Firefox just wants to sleep? Confused again.
Firefox doesn't want to sleep. It just wants the other browsers to shut up because they're being completely annoying (and stupid.) I thought this was the best video and people with even a little bit of knowledge about browsers can understand it.
"The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it."
Dang, if he owned the rights to English, just imagine how much money he could get by suing the people who abuse it daily for damages!
(Sorry, this is probably about as funny as the quotes themselves.)
I was having some sort of signal problems with one of my old video capture cards; there was a bunch of noise going down the picture in pretty specific locations. I was using a cheap $10 s-video cable. (This is the ONLY time I've ever seen noise like this from s-video.) I ended up buying a $30 monster cable. Guess what? The problem wasn't with the cables.
Everytime I go into these stores I usually get asked if I need help, but I always decline since I am probably more knowledgable about what hardware I'm looking for than the sales staff. (Say "no thanks, I'm just looking," it works REALLY well!) Other than that, I've noticed that you will often have a high risk of making a bad hardware purchase if you know nothing about the specific models that you're looking at.
I went to look at wireless access points, and while they still exist on the shelves of CompUSA and Staples, it was hard to ascertain much other than their supported link speed; the descriptions on the boxes were of not much help, and some of the more interesting hardware specifications were not even displayed on them. Besides that, unless you know of the types of reviews that all of the hardware that you're looking at generally got, which is unlikely, you probably shouldn't pick up the first box you see (bad idea, of course.) I ended up going home, reading a bunch of reviews on the WAPs that I did see in the stores, and eventually went back and bought something from Linksys, which ended up working out pretty nicely. I could have saved a lot of effort by just buying a WAP online, but I was willing to go to a store and pay the "got to have it now" tax. However, I didn't bother to at least check out each store's web site to see what might actually be in them, which was a big mistake.
I usually prefer making my hardware purchases online, because it's cheaper and easier to sort the good stuff from the bad stuff without making long trips to and from the store.
There have been many fascinating finds in this field over just the last couple of years, from the discovery that you can externally trigger feelings of volition to be associated with artificially stimulated actions (i.e. make you feel like you CHOSE to move your arm, when in fact it was the scientists stimulating your nerves), to the discovery that religious ecstasy can be likewise triggered.
Are you serious? You do realize that your brain controls your thoughts and actions for your body. If you go poking around then, yes, weird things will happen. If you went poking around the inside of your computer's memory, its behavior would change, but that's only because you started messing with it.
I know that some GeForce cards have hidden driver settings that let you adjust the speed of the fan if your hardware supports it. RivaTuner is such a tool that, among other things, will let you set the speed of your card's fan when apps are using 3D features and not. My "fancy" eVGA GeForce 6600GT can't set its own fan speed apparently, which is disappointing since it's the noisiest thing in my case.
Ha. I seriously thought they were trying to figure out a way to make disposable DVDs that you could burn to "hide the evidence" when I read that title.
I doubt you read the article, but I'm pretty sure that your car's defrosters don't make any icy buildups slide off in large chunks instantly. Watch the video for flying ice action.
Well it might be possible to make a two color LED display (black and white), who would buy it?
Modern displays (excluding most projectors) use spatial color mixing to make different colors. Take a magnifying glass to a CRT monitor, a TV, or an LCD monitor; you will notice that every color is made by displaying red, green, and blue dots with varying levels of brightness closely next to each other. Once you step back far enough, it looks like each color is represented by a single dot on the display, but this is not actually the case.
a game in which the player plays a hitman, someone who kills for money.
That's right
An ad for this game feature someone killed execution style, with the words 'beautifly executed'...nope not related at all.
You "missed the boat" on this one. It says "beautifully executed" while showing a picture of a woman dressed in skimpy clothing with a bullet through her head. It's a pun, but also a bit sexist. I doubt you could put a man in the same clothes and position and have it mean the same thing.
You either have a pixel or you don't; unless someone has made a screen that displays fractions of pixels. If they're saying 1.5 pixels, does this mean they're basing their measurement on the value of each pixel?
I really don't have a problem with Windows+L, but having to carry around a remote (and remembering to carry it) to lock/unlock the computer would be a pain.
Unfortunately for me, Comcast cable is our only option around here. There are random service outages but I guess I can't complain too much being a home user.
15 minutes per disc can be quite a long time to wait. Just think, does it take 8 hours for you to load-up a 20GB iPod? Would you find that acceptable? Besides that, CD-RWs have to be complete erased, and rewritten every time you want to make the smallest change... That gets old very fast.
Well, these CD based players aren't for everyone, which is what I hope I made clear in my original post. It works for me, but you obviously have different requirements. As for CD-RW erasing, there is a "quick erase" option that most applications will present you with that only erases a small portion of the disc (takes about 1 minute) instead of erasing the entire thing.
And then you'll go through $100 worth of batteries in a month thanks to the 6 hour run-time...
Well, it all depends on how you're planning to use it. The cheapest players probably don't have the greatest battery life, but the Philips player that I bought (a bit more expensive) claims a run time of 40+ hours (depending on use) on 2 AAs. It has worked out very well for me too. Of course, there are several other options available: Use rechargable AA batteries, plug the player into the wall or use a car adapter.
I've never seen a spindle of 100 CD-RWs, actually, and CD-RWs aren't exactly cheap (or terribly fast for that matter).
Neither have I, but if you're worried about speed, you might as well be using the CD-Rs. Even so, CD-RWs run at an acceptable speed and aren't *THAT* slow. Transfering 700MB to a disc at 12x doesn't really take all that long.
I don't have a usual MP3 player, much like the author, but I do have a CD player that can play MP3s off of discs. I do think these types of devices are handy and are probably even more likable than the proprietary Mini Disc player that Sony has made.
1.) These devices are cheap. Cheap as in, you can buy a CD player that can play MP3s at walmart for $25. These players are much cheaper than the flash/HDD MP3 players making them much more accessible to people who don't want to break the bank on something they won't use every day.
2.) The media is much cheaper than the Mini Discs. Most players can even read from CD-RWs. The cheap media is also a plus over the priceier MDs. (Your "unlimited storage" costs less; MDs don't come on spindles of 100 last time I checked.) You can also play your music in a computer if you wanted to using CDs rather than MDs.
3.) You can use MP3s! You don't need to transcode to Sony's format. But some people will probably want to reencode lower bit rate MP3s anyway.
Summary: Cheaper, non-proprietary, works with your existing hardware and software, some players have excellent battery life.
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What really surprises me is that there is no uninstall functionality on macs, which you seem to be saying. Having an option to automatically clean an installed program from a system is actually really nice, and makes life much less complicated for inexperienced users (who I thought Apple was trying to target.) Honestly, I thought the task of manually cleaning program files had disappeared with the era of MS-DOS.
It might be fun for you, but if I have to listen to someone's loud buckling keys for hours while I'm trying to work, it drives me frick'in insane.
"I think I just logged onto my inter-net" -Lenny
Firefox doesn't want to sleep. It just wants the other browsers to shut up because they're being completely annoying (and stupid.) I thought this was the best video and people with even a little bit of knowledge about browsers can understand it.
Dang, if he owned the rights to English, just imagine how much money he could get by suing the people who abuse it daily for damages!
(Sorry, this is probably about as funny as the quotes themselves.)
I was having some sort of signal problems with one of my old video capture cards; there was a bunch of noise going down the picture in pretty specific locations. I was using a cheap $10 s-video cable. (This is the ONLY time I've ever seen noise like this from s-video.) I ended up buying a $30 monster cable. Guess what? The problem wasn't with the cables.
I went to look at wireless access points, and while they still exist on the shelves of CompUSA and Staples, it was hard to ascertain much other than their supported link speed; the descriptions on the boxes were of not much help, and some of the more interesting hardware specifications were not even displayed on them. Besides that, unless you know of the types of reviews that all of the hardware that you're looking at generally got, which is unlikely, you probably shouldn't pick up the first box you see (bad idea, of course.) I ended up going home, reading a bunch of reviews on the WAPs that I did see in the stores, and eventually went back and bought something from Linksys, which ended up working out pretty nicely. I could have saved a lot of effort by just buying a WAP online, but I was willing to go to a store and pay the "got to have it now" tax. However, I didn't bother to at least check out each store's web site to see what might actually be in them, which was a big mistake.
I usually prefer making my hardware purchases online, because it's cheaper and easier to sort the good stuff from the bad stuff without making long trips to and from the store.
Are you serious? You do realize that your brain controls your thoughts and actions for your body. If you go poking around then, yes, weird things will happen. If you went poking around the inside of your computer's memory, its behavior would change, but that's only because you started messing with it.
I know that some GeForce cards have hidden driver settings that let you adjust the speed of the fan if your hardware supports it. RivaTuner is such a tool that, among other things, will let you set the speed of your card's fan when apps are using 3D features and not. My "fancy" eVGA GeForce 6600GT can't set its own fan speed apparently, which is disappointing since it's the noisiest thing in my case.
Ha. I seriously thought they were trying to figure out a way to make disposable DVDs that you could burn to "hide the evidence" when I read that title.
But their name doesn't include the exclamation point after Live!
I doubt you read the article, but I'm pretty sure that your car's defrosters don't make any icy buildups slide off in large chunks instantly. Watch the video for flying ice action.
You don't have to upgrade. You could always go back to using candles!
Modern displays (excluding most projectors) use spatial color mixing to make different colors. Take a magnifying glass to a CRT monitor, a TV, or an LCD monitor; you will notice that every color is made by displaying red, green, and blue dots with varying levels of brightness closely next to each other. Once you step back far enough, it looks like each color is represented by a single dot on the display, but this is not actually the case.
That's right
You "missed the boat" on this one. It says "beautifully executed" while showing a picture of a woman dressed in skimpy clothing with a bullet through her head. It's a pun, but also a bit sexist. I doubt you could put a man in the same clothes and position and have it mean the same thing.
The original poster might want to read this: Firefox "Memory Leak" is a Feature
You either have a pixel or you don't; unless someone has made a screen that displays fractions of pixels. If they're saying 1.5 pixels, does this mean they're basing their measurement on the value of each pixel?
Then the Urectum jokes will commence!
I was wondering where the "spinner" got its name from..
I really don't have a problem with Windows+L, but having to carry around a remote (and remembering to carry it) to lock/unlock the computer would be a pain.
Unfortunately for me, Comcast cable is our only option around here. There are random service outages but I guess I can't complain too much being a home user.
Well, these CD based players aren't for everyone, which is what I hope I made clear in my original post. It works for me, but you obviously have different requirements. As for CD-RW erasing, there is a "quick erase" option that most applications will present you with that only erases a small portion of the disc (takes about 1 minute) instead of erasing the entire thing.
Well, it all depends on how you're planning to use it. The cheapest players probably don't have the greatest battery life, but the Philips player that I bought (a bit more expensive) claims a run time of 40+ hours (depending on use) on 2 AAs. It has worked out very well for me too. Of course, there are several other options available: Use rechargable AA batteries, plug the player into the wall or use a car adapter.
Neither have I, but if you're worried about speed, you might as well be using the CD-Rs. Even so, CD-RWs run at an acceptable speed and aren't *THAT* slow. Transfering 700MB to a disc at 12x doesn't really take all that long.
1.) These devices are cheap. Cheap as in, you can buy a CD player that can play MP3s at walmart for $25. These players are much cheaper than the flash/HDD MP3 players making them much more accessible to people who don't want to break the bank on something they won't use every day.
2.) The media is much cheaper than the Mini Discs. Most players can even read from CD-RWs. The cheap media is also a plus over the priceier MDs. (Your "unlimited storage" costs less; MDs don't come on spindles of 100 last time I checked.) You can also play your music in a computer if you wanted to using CDs rather than MDs.
3.) You can use MP3s! You don't need to transcode to Sony's format. But some people will probably want to reencode lower bit rate MP3s anyway.
Summary: Cheaper, non-proprietary, works with your existing hardware and software, some players have excellent battery life.