I never understand when companies decide to drop the better, free product and buy some crap from Microsoft that just makes everyone less productive and resentful. Like I used to work at a company who wanted a Wiki. What do they do? Go out and buy the ONE WIKI THAT'S NOT COMPLETELY FREE. How lame.
Ummm I don't know about you but all my friends are extremely paranoid of answering the phone if they don't recognize the number. It's really annoying if I'm ever trying to call them from someone else's phone because they never pick up, and you can't really ask them to call back on some stranger's phone. Sometimes I really loathe caller ID.
Preview took about 15 seconds to load it in OS X 10.4 (on a dual 2.6GHZ dual-core Intel Xeon with 3GB ram), and it was a little chunky at first, but then I had no problem zooming in and scrolling.
Chase.com: They have the most annoying system where you have to call them and authorize whenever you try to login from a new IP address, and yet they send your password in cleartext!. (The login page is on the homepage and is not https. Every other credit card company I use has a https homepage...) I complained about it years ago but they still haven't done anything about it, except for adding the way overdone IP authorization feature!
In a related note, how come none of the credit card companies let you use special characters in your password? Do they want hackers to guess it?
The summary is wrong. From TFA: "So far Rossy and his sponsors, including the Swiss watch company Hublot, have poured more than $285,000 and countless hours of labor into building the device."
From TFA: "As required of all public-opinion polling in China, either the survey or the surveyors must be approved by the government."
So yeah, even the survey was censored. And yet this article still spouts off these statistics like they actually reflect the opinion of the majority of Chinese people. What a worthless read.
He did vote for to renew, although he opposed its form at the time and proposed waiting to renew it so they could make it more sensible. A "compromise," he called it.
This would be really easy too just by taking an MD5 hash of the image file, then you could search for duplicates of images anywhere on the web. In fact it would be awesome to have this capability for ANY file; just type in your MD5 hash and get a list of links to different places hosting the file. Great for finding lost MP3s, remembering the source of where you downloaded that image, etc...
I use a Mac every day at work, and boy can I say I miss my Windows XP! I really want to dual boot and say goodbye to OSX forever, but my company relies too much on Mac-only software (even though all our servers are Windows).
The UI of OSX is just too sluggish and caters too much to dumb users to get any real work done. The Finder is ridiculous (everyone knows that the Windows Explorer style tree-view/filelist split is the fastest way to explore and manipulate a filesystem), and even on my "blazing fast" Quad-core, this thing is less responsive than my 2Ghz XP machine at home. You may not want to admit it, but you pay for those pretty drop shadows and useless GUI effects that plague OSX like a fat lady in an elevator. All the everyday tasks I have to do on a computer are just a tiny bit slower and a tiny bit more annoying on a Mac, which adds up to a lot when you do them hundreds of times a day.
Sure UNIX is great, but that's what Cygwin is for. Everyone makes such a big fuss about Apple because of their design, but designing something to look pretty and designing something to get your work done the fastest and easiest way are two completely different things./rant
"People we think are not buying music are buying music. They're just not buying it in formats we can measure."
Finally someone gets it. I buy about 4-5 CDs a month, but not one from a music store, online or otherwise. I usually buy them straight from the musicians after their show. Now, of course, not everyone has access to the wide array of great independent music like I do here in San Francisco, but I'm sure there's plenty of music out there being sold every day that the big record labels have no way of tracking.
Maybe their CD sales numbers are going down because people are buying more independent music and less manufactured crap.
I'm pretty sure it's not the phone manufacturer that locks the phone down, it's the service provider. My T-Mobile Razr can do a hellof a lot more than my friend's Verizon Razr. T-Mobile is usually pretty good about letting you use your phone without having to pay extra for every little feature that other providers disable by default...
So this seems like its moving toward a holograph writer which you could install in your PC. Then you could write holograms just like you burn a CD, but would these holograms have more or less storage capacity than what we have now?
There are definitely some left! Right now Firefox is taking up 1.5GB RAM and 2.2GB virtual of memory on my Mac with about 10 tabs open across 2 windows. If I force quit and then restore the same session, it take up about 0.7GB RAM and 1GB virtual (and that will just keep climbing as long as I leave it on). If that's not a memory leak I don't know what is...
This would be easily fixed by just putting the LEDs on your fingers, instead of reflective tape. Yeah, you'd have to wear some kind of glove thing, but you could also pulsate different gloves' LEDs at different frequencies and have multi-multi-touch for situations with more than one player.
What they should have done is when you paid (or didn't pay) for the album, they would give you a choice to download the zip file or just a torrent. I have a feeling a lot of people would have downloaded the torrent and kept Radiohead's bandwidth usage to a minimum. Plus, with the amount of downloaders in the first few days, you would get the album in seconds instead of the 15 minutes it took me to download it from their poor, overworked server!
Every time I see a show and someone is playing a Gibson, it is ALWAYS slightly out of tune, or the intonation is off, or something. Even when the guy tunes it, it will go out of tune before the song is over. I see it again and again on these Gibsons; they are most often responsible for that "indie-rock-badly-tuned-twang-guitar" sound. So is this auto-tune thing just a workaround instead of an actual fix?
Yeah, my brand new Macbook Pro often will not connect to my Wii remote, which is really annoying. I don't know if it's a Max problem or a problem with the laptop, but sometimes it takes 10 minutes of clicking "connect" to get it to actually connect.
Windows is an modern operating system. Part of being a modern operating system is to have multimedia and communication capability. This is why Windows comes with WMP and MSN messenger. Apple does it, Linux does it (to a far greater degree), so why should Microsoft be punished for offering a complete operating system to their customers?
I agree that the software they offer is crap, but I use WMP everyday because I'm too lazy to search for and download an alternative that is free and can play every media file I encounter. I think it is lame on South Korea's part to force Microsoft to cripple their OS; it seems like a desparate gold-digging attempt by some sneaky South Korean lawyers.
If they really wanted to increase competition, why not force Microsoft to bundle competitor's players with the OS? Apple has included WMP with their OS along with their own Quicktime; I think Microsoft should do the same.
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I never understand when companies decide to drop the better, free product and buy some crap from Microsoft that just makes everyone less productive and resentful. Like I used to work at a company who wanted a Wiki. What do they do? Go out and buy the ONE WIKI THAT'S NOT COMPLETELY FREE. How lame.
Ummm I don't know about you but all my friends are extremely paranoid of answering the phone if they don't recognize the number. It's really annoying if I'm ever trying to call them from someone else's phone because they never pick up, and you can't really ask them to call back on some stranger's phone. Sometimes I really loathe caller ID.
They opened Flash so you can write your own interpreter. I guess they're hoping someone else will make it less of a CPU hog.
Preview took about 15 seconds to load it in OS X 10.4 (on a dual 2.6GHZ dual-core Intel Xeon with 3GB ram), and it was a little chunky at first, but then I had no problem zooming in and scrolling.
This is really sad. It's not UNIX until I can type
%> search "lindsay lohan\'s (boobs|tits|chest|underwear|bank account.*[0-9]+)"
Now if it was a real shell binary that you could run IN UNIX then I might be slightly impressed. I could make this "shell" in 10 lines of CSS!
Chase.com: They have the most annoying system where you have to call them and authorize whenever you try to login from a new IP address, and yet they send your password in cleartext!. (The login page is on the homepage and is not https. Every other credit card company I use has a https homepage...) I complained about it years ago but they still haven't done anything about it, except for adding the way overdone IP authorization feature!
In a related note, how come none of the credit card companies let you use special characters in your password? Do they want hackers to guess it?
The summary is wrong. From TFA: "So far Rossy and his sponsors, including the Swiss watch company Hublot, have poured more than $285,000 and countless hours of labor into building the device."
From TFA: "As required of all public-opinion polling in China, either the survey or the surveyors must be approved by the government." So yeah, even the survey was censored. And yet this article still spouts off these statistics like they actually reflect the opinion of the majority of Chinese people. What a worthless read.
Jesus wouldn't recognize any form of Christianity. Jesus was not a Christian.
He did vote for to renew, although he opposed its form at the time and proposed waiting to renew it so they could make it more sensible. A "compromise," he called it.
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What about CowboyAnnealing?
This would be really easy too just by taking an MD5 hash of the image file, then you could search for duplicates of images anywhere on the web. In fact it would be awesome to have this capability for ANY file; just type in your MD5 hash and get a list of links to different places hosting the file. Great for finding lost MP3s, remembering the source of where you downloaded that image, etc...
I use a Mac every day at work, and boy can I say I miss my Windows XP! I really want to dual boot and say goodbye to OSX forever, but my company relies too much on Mac-only software (even though all our servers are Windows). The UI of OSX is just too sluggish and caters too much to dumb users to get any real work done. The Finder is ridiculous (everyone knows that the Windows Explorer style tree-view/filelist split is the fastest way to explore and manipulate a filesystem), and even on my "blazing fast" Quad-core, this thing is less responsive than my 2Ghz XP machine at home. You may not want to admit it, but you pay for those pretty drop shadows and useless GUI effects that plague OSX like a fat lady in an elevator. All the everyday tasks I have to do on a computer are just a tiny bit slower and a tiny bit more annoying on a Mac, which adds up to a lot when you do them hundreds of times a day. Sure UNIX is great, but that's what Cygwin is for. Everyone makes such a big fuss about Apple because of their design, but designing something to look pretty and designing something to get your work done the fastest and easiest way are two completely different things. /rant
"People we think are not buying music are buying music. They're just not buying it in formats we can measure." Finally someone gets it. I buy about 4-5 CDs a month, but not one from a music store, online or otherwise. I usually buy them straight from the musicians after their show. Now, of course, not everyone has access to the wide array of great independent music like I do here in San Francisco, but I'm sure there's plenty of music out there being sold every day that the big record labels have no way of tracking. Maybe their CD sales numbers are going down because people are buying more independent music and less manufactured crap.
I'm pretty sure it's not the phone manufacturer that locks the phone down, it's the service provider. My T-Mobile Razr can do a hellof a lot more than my friend's Verizon Razr. T-Mobile is usually pretty good about letting you use your phone without having to pay extra for every little feature that other providers disable by default...
So this seems like its moving toward a holograph writer which you could install in your PC. Then you could write holograms just like you burn a CD, but would these holograms have more or less storage capacity than what we have now?
Wow. Good thing the terrorists aren't as smart as this 14-year-old.
Literally.
I can't find this feature on Google's Experimental page. Did they remove it already? Did they get slashdotted?
There are definitely some left! Right now Firefox is taking up 1.5GB RAM and 2.2GB virtual of memory on my Mac with about 10 tabs open across 2 windows. If I force quit and then restore the same session, it take up about 0.7GB RAM and 1GB virtual (and that will just keep climbing as long as I leave it on). If that's not a memory leak I don't know what is...
This would be easily fixed by just putting the LEDs on your fingers, instead of reflective tape. Yeah, you'd have to wear some kind of glove thing, but you could also pulsate different gloves' LEDs at different frequencies and have multi-multi-touch for situations with more than one player.
What they should have done is when you paid (or didn't pay) for the album, they would give you a choice to download the zip file or just a torrent. I have a feeling a lot of people would have downloaded the torrent and kept Radiohead's bandwidth usage to a minimum. Plus, with the amount of downloaders in the first few days, you would get the album in seconds instead of the 15 minutes it took me to download it from their poor, overworked server!
Every time I see a show and someone is playing a Gibson, it is ALWAYS slightly out of tune, or the intonation is off, or something. Even when the guy tunes it, it will go out of tune before the song is over. I see it again and again on these Gibsons; they are most often responsible for that "indie-rock-badly-tuned-twang-guitar" sound. So is this auto-tune thing just a workaround instead of an actual fix?
Yeah, my brand new Macbook Pro often will not connect to my Wii remote, which is really annoying. I don't know if it's a Max problem or a problem with the laptop, but sometimes it takes 10 minutes of clicking "connect" to get it to actually connect.
Windows is an modern operating system. Part of being a modern operating system is to have multimedia and communication capability. This is why Windows comes with WMP and MSN messenger. Apple does it, Linux does it (to a far greater degree), so why should Microsoft be punished for offering a complete operating system to their customers? I agree that the software they offer is crap, but I use WMP everyday because I'm too lazy to search for and download an alternative that is free and can play every media file I encounter. I think it is lame on South Korea's part to force Microsoft to cripple their OS; it seems like a desparate gold-digging attempt by some sneaky South Korean lawyers. If they really wanted to increase competition, why not force Microsoft to bundle competitor's players with the OS? Apple has included WMP with their OS along with their own Quicktime; I think Microsoft should do the same.