That is nonsense. EVT3 is no more immune to fragmentation than any other filesystem. Wow, it has clustered allocations! HFS has had those since 1986. And guess what? It doesn't fix the problem.
Until seek times fall to zero (i.e. SSDs), there will still be a reason to defragment in rare cases. Note that for the most part there hasn't been any reason to defragment any filesystem in years.
You can play without an internet connection (within restrictions) after you have set up the machine using an internet connection. You can play at your friend's house, but not without an internet connection.
Most importantly, you cannot sell your games or loan them to your friends, as you don't own them. And if Valve decides you have violated their terms of service and cut off your account, you lose all the games you "owned".
If they can take it away, then I never really owned it.
Steam limits you a lot. You just apparently don't mind the limitations. That doesn't mean they don't exist though.
Also, the government isn't THAT centralized in China. Different regions operate very differently. Officially they all operate the same, but enforcement varies greatly (especially if you have money for bribes).
I've been to China (Shanghai) and I liked it. But I have no tolerance for state run media and censorship, including that which you have in Canada. It's bad enough in the US that we have had unofficial/illegal censorship under the Bush regime, to have it officially on the books and thus even more likely to be used would be intolerable.
Okay, first: that's not quick. Second of all didn't I mention that typing a mu (in the case of uTorrent) is a pain? With Vista you don't have to start at the start of the name if that's inconvenient.
Second, that's nothing like what we were talking about. I can't just type select with that. I have to look at what is highlighted and press down arrow a variable number of times depending on where it is listed.
This is different: CTRL-ESC t o r r e n t RETURN
No need to look for feedback, to navigate with arrows.
Well, I can't say about quicker or slower. I suspect Vista is slower (more resource intensive), but I went from very early Athlon X2 to a Core i7 920, so everything is faster despite the code being more bloated.
The file browser in apps is a zillion times better. If you have a folder of folders (say a music folder with lots of albums in it) and you want to change which sub folder you are in (album to album), on XP, you have to go up, then the window shows a large list of folders and you have to find the folder you want (even though the window may be sorted in a way that mixes folders and files). On Vista, you just click the arrow next to the folder above the subfolder you are in up in the path list. It gives a drop down of all the folders in there, and you select it directly. It even highlights the folder you are in (but oddly doesn't auto scroll to it for you in the selector window). You can do this for the 2 or 3 folders above the folder you are in, so you can often switch between your documents and your downloads folder very quickly (for example).
As mentioned by others, it basically has Quicksilver or its lesser brother, Spotlight built in also. That makes a big difference.
Another thing I really like is that power management and sleep is mostly fixed on Vista. Instead of having to know that 3 modes (Laptop, Minimal power management and max battery life) are magic, you you can configure any mode, or just use the built-in modes and they work right.
The CD/DVD burn (data backup) system works in a far more straightforward fashion than XP.
Yeah, the desktop widgets are useless. And every time I see some old-style UI it bugs me. For example, try specifying a custom scan in Windows Defender. It makes you open folders starting from drive letter. So, if I want to scan my downloads folder,I have to open C: then Users then (my name) then check the box next to Downloads and press okay. Why can't I just select my home directory on the left and then see the Downloads folder there? Why should a user have to know that his home is stored in C:\Users\? This is no worse than XP, but no better either. It's ridiculous.
Search 4 isn't the same. I have search 4 on XP at work and Vista at home.
Primarily the difference is search 4 primarily improves the search that is already there. Vista has more places where search is available.
They even have internet search in their help system, which is good since the help system is awful in Vista. In the network configuration help (IPv6 I think it was) it describes options and checkboxes that aren't there. It seems to describe the Vista options more than the XP ones. Of course, internet search returns up to date results.
I installed it at home. I got a new computer with >4GB of RAM. And MS doesn't sell XP 64 anymore, so I installed Vista 64.
The UI is a ton better than XP.
Yes, it does have problems, sometimes it even burps while copying files, which is bizarre to me, since it's such a basic function.
But all in all it's pretty good, and I could hardly see going back to XP now.
Honestly, my biggest problem with Vista is that it appears MS is going to strand us Vista users and come out with Windows 7 next year with no affordable upgrade path.
Yeah, MS did some stupid stuff. Tying Direct X 10 to Vista was just one of them. But XP is past its prime.
Apple's sold 120M+ iPods. There's a lot of people with all kinds of problems, presumably including such things as having run over them with a car or dropped them in a toilet.
Again, your battery comments don't rise about the level of "I heard a guy say..."
If you read the GSM spec, you'll find when your phone is idle its transmitter is switched off. It listens to the closest towers, and when it notices its switched area (as in group of towers) it wakes up, notifys the BSC and goes back to sleep.
This is unequivocally wrong. Just put your "idle" phone next to a clock radio for 20 minutes. When it goes "dit dit dit" over the radio speaker, you'll know the transmitter is on. It generally checks in with the tower a couple times a hour, even when not switching towers.
In this it's tough to dismiss health concerns out of hand, especially with GSM. Name another device you have that frequently causes interference with nearly any device that has an audio amplifier? It's clear the RF energy characteristics of cell phones (esp. GSM) are not the same as other devices we are used to, so it's difficult to offhand say they couldn't possibly affect other parts of their environment (like our bodies) in different ways than other electronic devices.
You were going pretty good until the battery thing.
The other 3 things are easily demonstrated and documented. The battery thing is internet lore, with nothing but people who say "yeah, I had trouble". Furthermore, the Zune has a lot in common with the iPod on the battery front, including a non-replaceable battery.
Also last I checked, Zune doesn't allow 3rd party firmware either.
I have two network interfaces on my machine. Only one really has useful IPv6 connectivity. The other only has local network (maybe I should disable it completely). Well,the one with only local network had no IPv6 DNS configured, although the other did.
I added IPv6 DNS settings to that interface (to match the other) and now name lookups work fine in Firefox. Maybe I should write a bug against Firefox? Since nslookup does work with that configuration, just firefox doesn't.
You're talking about frame inversion. Many LCDs use line inversion (row inversion) actually. The voltages are altered (not always reversed) every line.
One thing you also should have mentioned is that the amount of twist (the brightness of the pixel, roughly) is determined only by the difference in voltages between the vertical and horizontal gridlines and not the polarity. As such, swapping the voltages between the two doesn't change the brightness if it is done correctly, negating both voltages doesn't either, since neither of these operations changes the difference in voltages between the two gridlines.
On my Mac (on right now), I can connect to IPv6 (http://ipv6.google.com/). On my PC on the same network, if I type http://ipv6.google.com/ into Firefox, it fails to connect. But I can use nslookup to look up ipv6.google.com (and get 2001:4860:0:2001::68), and then connect to http://200148600200168/ and it works fine.
Does Firefox not work correctly with IPv6 on Windows?
Just because a company wants to try to make money off selling a gun makes America gun-obsessed?
You may be surprised to find that most Americans don't own any guns. We don't talk about them constantly.
But you probably learned everything you know about Americans from movies. Clearly we all go around shooting people willy-nilly.
I also learned a lot about your country from movies. Most of your population spends most of their time fighting Germans and talking in Cockney Rhyming Slang. Another small but significant percentage of the female population spends its time gallivanting through time and space with timelords.
Please understand that I wish you well with your recent explosion of zombie outbreaks. Hopefully you can find the root cause of this and solve it once and for all.
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That is nonsense. EVT3 is no more immune to fragmentation than any other filesystem. Wow, it has clustered allocations! HFS has had those since 1986. And guess what? It doesn't fix the problem.
Until seek times fall to zero (i.e. SSDs), there will still be a reason to defragment in rare cases. Note that for the most part there hasn't been any reason to defragment any filesystem in years.
You can play without an internet connection (within restrictions) after you have set up the machine using an internet connection. You can play at your friend's house, but not without an internet connection.
Most importantly, you cannot sell your games or loan them to your friends, as you don't own them. And if Valve decides you have violated their terms of service and cut off your account, you lose all the games you "owned".
If they can take it away, then I never really owned it.
Steam limits you a lot. You just apparently don't mind the limitations. That doesn't mean they don't exist though.
Steam is DRM laden.
How can Steam fight DRM?
There weren't even four cuts.
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/04/0158249
So we're down to three actual cuts, tops. Two explained already by satellite footage and I guess the one you say was videotaped and no ships appear.
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/02/07/cable-cut-fever-and-the-fifth-cut/
There weren't five cuts. This was known 10 months ago. You seem to be selective about what you read.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War
Also, the government isn't THAT centralized in China. Different regions operate very differently. Officially they all operate the same, but enforcement varies greatly (especially if you have money for bribes).
I've been to China (Shanghai) and I liked it. But I have no tolerance for state run media and censorship, including that which you have in Canada. It's bad enough in the US that we have had unofficial/illegal censorship under the Bush regime, to have it officially on the books and thus even more likely to be used would be intolerable.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karla_Homolka#The_publication_ban
A bright shaft of light is going to sneak through the hole in the field and melt the Golden Gate Bridge. Just you wait.
At least we can be safe at night. ...Probably...
Okay, first: that's not quick. Second of all didn't I mention that typing a mu (in the case of uTorrent) is a pain? With Vista you don't have to start at the start of the name if that's inconvenient.
Second, that's nothing like what we were talking about. I can't just type select with that. I have to look at what is highlighted and press down arrow a variable number of times depending on where it is listed.
This is different:
CTRL-ESC t o r r e n t RETURN
No need to look for feedback, to navigate with arrows.
So, how do you "run" a recent document quickly from the keyboard in XP? Like Vista or like Quicksilver does it?
If you want to use the mouse, both have it. But that's not what we're talking about here.
Except in Vista, you don't have to type the whole path. Specifically, you don't have to start from the start.
For example, try launching torrent on XP this way. Typing the mu is annoying, but I can type "torr" really quickly.
Can you "run" a document you've opened recently on XP? Not that I know of. You can open it on Vista easily (like Quicksilver allows).
Well, I can't say about quicker or slower. I suspect Vista is slower (more resource intensive), but I went from very early Athlon X2 to a Core i7 920, so everything is faster despite the code being more bloated.
The file browser in apps is a zillion times better. If you have a folder of folders (say a music folder with lots of albums in it) and you want to change which sub folder you are in (album to album), on XP, you have to go up, then the window shows a large list of folders and you have to find the folder you want (even though the window may be sorted in a way that mixes folders and files). On Vista, you just click the arrow next to the folder above the subfolder you are in up in the path list. It gives a drop down of all the folders in there, and you select it directly. It even highlights the folder you are in (but oddly doesn't auto scroll to it for you in the selector window). You can do this for the 2 or 3 folders above the folder you are in, so you can often switch between your documents and your downloads folder very quickly (for example).
As mentioned by others, it basically has Quicksilver or its lesser brother, Spotlight built in also. That makes a big difference.
Another thing I really like is that power management and sleep is mostly fixed on Vista. Instead of having to know that 3 modes (Laptop, Minimal power management and max battery life) are magic, you you can configure any mode, or just use the built-in modes and they work right.
The CD/DVD burn (data backup) system works in a far more straightforward fashion than XP.
Yeah, the desktop widgets are useless. And every time I see some old-style UI it bugs me. For example, try specifying a custom scan in Windows Defender. It makes you open folders starting from drive letter. So, if I want to scan my downloads folder,I have to open C: then Users then (my name) then check the box next to Downloads and press okay. Why can't I just select my home directory on the left and then see the Downloads folder there? Why should a user have to know that his home is stored in C:\Users\? This is no worse than XP, but no better either. It's ridiculous.
Search 4 isn't the same. I have search 4 on XP at work and Vista at home.
Primarily the difference is search 4 primarily improves the search that is already there. Vista has more places where search is available.
They even have internet search in their help system, which is good since the help system is awful in Vista. In the network configuration help (IPv6 I think it was) it describes options and checkboxes that aren't there. It seems to describe the Vista options more than the XP ones. Of course, internet search returns up to date results.
I installed it at home. I got a new computer with >4GB of RAM. And MS doesn't sell XP 64 anymore, so I installed Vista 64.
The UI is a ton better than XP.
Yes, it does have problems, sometimes it even burps while copying files, which is bizarre to me, since it's such a basic function.
But all in all it's pretty good, and I could hardly see going back to XP now.
Honestly, my biggest problem with Vista is that it appears MS is going to strand us Vista users and come out with Windows 7 next year with no affordable upgrade path.
Yeah, MS did some stupid stuff. Tying Direct X 10 to Vista was just one of them. But XP is past its prime.
Apple's sold 120M+ iPods. There's a lot of people with all kinds of problems, presumably including such things as having run over them with a car or dropped them in a toilet.
Again, your battery comments don't rise about the level of "I heard a guy say..."
Oh, then every person they go against is innocent then. So why even bother to list it?
If you read the GSM spec, you'll find when your phone is idle its transmitter is switched off. It listens to the closest towers, and when it notices its switched area (as in group of towers) it wakes up, notifys the BSC and goes back to sleep.
This is unequivocally wrong. Just put your "idle" phone next to a clock radio for 20 minutes. When it goes "dit dit dit" over the radio speaker, you'll know the transmitter is on. It generally checks in with the tower a couple times a hour, even when not switching towers.
In this it's tough to dismiss health concerns out of hand, especially with GSM. Name another device you have that frequently causes interference with nearly any device that has an audio amplifier? It's clear the RF energy characteristics of cell phones (esp. GSM) are not the same as other devices we are used to, so it's difficult to offhand say they couldn't possibly affect other parts of their environment (like our bodies) in different ways than other electronic devices.
You were going pretty good until the battery thing.
The other 3 things are easily demonstrated and documented. The battery thing is internet lore, with nothing but people who say "yeah, I had trouble". Furthermore, the Zune has a lot in common with the iPod on the battery front, including a non-replaceable battery.
Also last I checked, Zune doesn't allow 3rd party firmware either.
I found it.
I'm not sure whose bug I would say it is.
I have two network interfaces on my machine. Only one really has useful IPv6 connectivity. The other only has local network (maybe I should disable it completely). Well,the one with only local network had no IPv6 DNS configured, although the other did.
I added IPv6 DNS settings to that interface (to match the other) and now name lookups work fine in Firefox. Maybe I should write a bug against Firefox? Since nslookup does work with that configuration, just firefox doesn't.
No. But thanks for the tip. I checked it right now. network.dns.disableIPv6 is set to false and network.dns.ipv4OnlyDomains is empty.
You're talking about frame inversion. Many LCDs use line inversion (row inversion) actually. The voltages are altered (not always reversed) every line.
http://www.techmind.org/lcd/
One thing you also should have mentioned is that the amount of twist (the brightness of the pixel, roughly) is determined only by the difference in voltages between the vertical and horizontal gridlines and not the polarity. As such, swapping the voltages between the two doesn't change the brightness if it is done correctly, negating both voltages doesn't either, since neither of these operations changes the difference in voltages between the two gridlines.
Hmm, before anyone complains, slashdot ate the brackets and colons in my IPv6 URL. I did type it properly according to the RFC, and it does work.
On my Mac (on right now), I can connect to IPv6 (http://ipv6.google.com/).
On my PC on the same network, if I type http://ipv6.google.com/ into Firefox, it fails to connect. But I can use nslookup to look up ipv6.google.com (and get 2001:4860:0:2001::68), and then connect to http://200148600200168/ and it works fine.
Does Firefox not work correctly with IPv6 on Windows?
Just because a company wants to try to make money off selling a gun makes America gun-obsessed?
You may be surprised to find that most Americans don't own any guns. We don't talk about them constantly.
But you probably learned everything you know about Americans from movies. Clearly we all go around shooting people willy-nilly.
I also learned a lot about your country from movies. Most of your population spends most of their time fighting Germans and talking in Cockney Rhyming Slang. Another small but significant percentage of the female population spends its time gallivanting through time and space with timelords.
Please understand that I wish you well with your recent explosion of zombie outbreaks. Hopefully you can find the root cause of this and solve it once and for all.
First of all, stop acting like all Americans are all alike. We're no more alike than all Brits are.
Second of all, mind your own business.
These are by far NOT the first few electric cars. And cars aren't the same as computers.
Cars will not shrink in size 1 millionfold+ over the next 30 years, for example.