It flies so fast that the target probably won't have time to move out of the way. And with such an enormous speed you'll need a lot of power (probably comparable to the launch itself) to change the trajectory anyway.
Word 2007 is much better for technical documents. The features that were hidden in 2003 (like styles) are now very easily accessed. Another example is tables: in 2003, you either had to browse through menus to open the Tables and Borders toolbar and then close it to save screen space, now you simply switch to the Tables tab. Also, a lot of buttons have labels beside them, meaning you don't need to hold the cursor near every button for 1 second in order to see the tooltip. Oh, and did I mention instant previews when choosing styles? And the new equation editor simply rocks. It combines the best of TeX, Classic Equation Editor and OpenOffice Writer's equivalent. You can write some TeX code, press the Space key and Word automatically converts it to a WYSIWYG formula, which behaves pretty much like the equations in the Classic version.
>Buy MP3s from AllofMP3.com. Legal in Russia. I'd say that the most popular way of getting music in Russia is downloading it from your LAN (completely free, of course). It's illegal but there's no RIAA here and the only people who risk fines are CD factories which make CDs in large quantities and warehouses that store pirated material.
Well, you could place a hardware MPEG-2 or WMV or whatever codec the video is encoded in so that you'll have a 10 MB/s instead of a 200 MB/s stream. Quality will drop, but the system will work pretty much the way FairPlay can be broken.
What I hate in PDAs is that if you're playing music and the headphone jack disconnects, the internal speaker plays music loudly for everyone to hear. That's why I'm using a separate mp3 player. And if you're playing a game on your phone and someone calls, you have a chance that pressing a button that does something in the game (jump/shoot etc.), you'll simply drop the call. That's why I use my PDA for games. I'd love to see someone getting a call while listening to music and playing Solitaire at the same time. Ouch!
Noone buys XP N edition in Europe except for a few government agencies. Imagine a customer asking "What's the difference between N and ordinary XP?" an getting a reply of "N is XP without media player but for the same price". That's like buying an iPod without headphones (for those who already have their own) but costing just as much as the headphone-pack.
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Here's an easier way: 1. Buy Sealand on credit, you can get a loan anywhere these days. 2. You own Sealand, you are king. 3. Create a law that forbids the King of Sealand to release loans;-)
VHS and Beta have completely different tapes and mechanisms. A VHS/Beta combo device be two different players sharing the case, power supply unit and interfaces.
Uhm, Vista runs the GUI faster that WinXP if you have a decent GPU. Just like QT4's Arthur, it uses hardware to do rendering, which is great because even when the system is under heavy load you can still do basic tasks like moving and minimizing windows. The system feels much more responsive.
Yup, I had a simular idea in mind - buying a Cardbus/CompactFlash adapter (cause CF cards are the cheapest) and plugging it in the Cardbus slot (that's not used anyway). After that I'd leave about 10% space for backups and use the rest for ReadyBoost (which seems to be intelligent enough to cache stuff).
What's more, because there are less drivers for OS X than for Windows (especially internal stuff like drive controllers, chipsets, soundcards etc.), we'll be hearing even more Apple-bashing.
Since Vista isn't in stores yet Microsoft doesn't know if people are going to buy it or if it will collect dust on store shelves. I've installed my copy on my laptop and most people who saw it asked me how can they get a copy. And they weren't n00bz who only want more eyecandy.
Maybe they just wanted to say "thank you"? That's becoming common of Microsoft, for example they gave a free copy of Vista Ultimate to every person who submitted at least one bugreport from Beta or RC Vista. I mean, a copy of an expensive OS just for submitting one bug! Although think that it's a downloaded version and not the nice boxed edition...
A bit offtopic, but still... The screenshot of Vista in TFA is not the final build and not even RC1 but rather some older beta. The "About system" dialog has the old XP-like icon instead of Vista's Windows Orb. And that dialog's side has an XP-like background. The article's author clearly hasn't used Vista and probably downloaded the first screenshot of Vista from Google Images. I guess other stuff is reviewed and tested a lot better:-)
Vista was released for MSDN subscribers a month ago as well for business customers two weeks ago. The final build was compiled forty days ago. What's more, the SQL Server developers probably ran Beta and RC versions of Vista so they should have been developing the solution for at least a month.
And what kind of app that was, a calculator or a lite version of a large database server? Some old DOS apps still work with Vista, but that's because they don't rely on weird features or specific hardware. Visual Studio 2005 says it doesn't work with Vista, but the only real problem is that some kinds of apps can't be debugged, something to do with UAC which is quite obvious since UAC was introduced after VS2005 was released. SQL Server probably has some quirks with the firewall or other security features.
When you need a 12-meg download to run a 160k applet, users will probaply turn away. Remember how it was difficult to redistribute.NET Framework apps because noone would install a 50 meg library just to run the small program they've downloaded? Or even worse, requiring asministrator priveleges, the latest service pack and Internet Explorer to be installed? That just like the problem when nobody writes Linux games because there aren't a lot of Linux gamers because there aren't a lot of Linux games. And big Java applications like Matlab and Maple and Oracle JDeveloper keep their own version of JRE installed which is invisible to other apps, something to do with compability. That's right, I have 4 independent copies of JRE: one for Maple, one for Matlab, one from JDK and one for everything else. What I'm trying to say that until Java gets installed on every PC out there, it would be hard to convince users to install it. However since Microsoft seems to be abandoning ActiveX Java has a chance.
I'd recommend using the Stop Autoplay extension for Firefox. It works just like Flashblock, but for movies and sounds. And it blocks background sounds and music as well.
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It flies so fast that the target probably won't have time to move out of the way. And with such an enormous speed you'll need a lot of power (probably comparable to the launch itself) to change the trajectory anyway.
Word 2007 is much better for technical documents. The features that were hidden in 2003 (like styles) are now very easily accessed. Another example is tables: in 2003, you either had to browse through menus to open the Tables and Borders toolbar and then close it to save screen space, now you simply switch to the Tables tab. Also, a lot of buttons have labels beside them, meaning you don't need to hold the cursor near every button for 1 second in order to see the tooltip. Oh, and did I mention instant previews when choosing styles?
And the new equation editor simply rocks. It combines the best of TeX, Classic Equation Editor and OpenOffice Writer's equivalent. You can write some TeX code, press the Space key and Word automatically converts it to a WYSIWYG formula, which behaves pretty much like the equations in the Classic version.
>Buy MP3s from AllofMP3.com. Legal in Russia.
I'd say that the most popular way of getting music in Russia is downloading it from your LAN (completely free, of course). It's illegal but there's no RIAA here and the only people who risk fines are CD factories which make CDs in large quantities and warehouses that store pirated material.
Well, you could place a hardware MPEG-2 or WMV or whatever codec the video is encoded in so that you'll have a 10 MB/s instead of a 200 MB/s stream. Quality will drop, but the system will work pretty much the way FairPlay can be broken.
What I hate in PDAs is that if you're playing music and the headphone jack disconnects, the internal speaker plays music loudly for everyone to hear. That's why I'm using a separate mp3 player.
And if you're playing a game on your phone and someone calls, you have a chance that pressing a button that does something in the game (jump/shoot etc.), you'll simply drop the call. That's why I use my PDA for games.
I'd love to see someone getting a call while listening to music and playing Solitaire at the same time. Ouch!
Noone buys XP N edition in Europe except for a few government agencies. Imagine a customer asking "What's the difference between N and ordinary XP?" an getting a reply of "N is XP without media player but for the same price". That's like buying an iPod without headphones (for those who already have their own) but costing just as much as the headphone-pack.
Here's an easier way: ;-)
1. Buy Sealand on credit, you can get a loan anywhere these days.
2. You own Sealand, you are king.
3. Create a law that forbids the King of Sealand to release loans
Power is not a "key", it's a "button" ;-)
VHS and Beta have completely different tapes and mechanisms. A VHS/Beta combo device be two different players sharing the case, power supply unit and interfaces.
Uhm, Vista runs the GUI faster that WinXP if you have a decent GPU. Just like QT4's Arthur, it uses hardware to do rendering, which is great because even when the system is under heavy load you can still do basic tasks like moving and minimizing windows. The system feels much more responsive.
Yup, I had a simular idea in mind - buying a Cardbus/CompactFlash adapter (cause CF cards are the cheapest) and plugging it in the Cardbus slot (that's not used anyway). After that I'd leave about 10% space for backups and use the rest for ReadyBoost (which seems to be intelligent enough to cache stuff).
Check out Ballmer's July 2004 speech: the dominant words are "innovation" and "blah" :-)
What's more, because there are less drivers for OS X than for Windows (especially internal stuff like drive controllers, chipsets, soundcards etc.), we'll be hearing even more Apple-bashing.
Since Vista isn't in stores yet Microsoft doesn't know if people are going to buy it or if it will collect dust on store shelves. I've installed my copy on my laptop and most people who saw it asked me how can they get a copy. And they weren't n00bz who only want more eyecandy.
Maybe they just wanted to say "thank you"?
That's becoming common of Microsoft, for example they gave a free copy of Vista Ultimate to every person who submitted at least one bugreport from Beta or RC Vista. I mean, a copy of an expensive OS just for submitting one bug! Although think that it's a downloaded version and not the nice boxed edition...
Google already has this, only they've decided that pigeons are best for the job.
HP is probably the only laptop manufacturer that publishes COMPLETE disassembly/repair manuals. My nx6310 had a manual with instructions on removing and replacing the keyboard, heatsink, CPU, display and other parts. You may download the manual freely here: http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/C oreRedirect.jsp?redirectReason=DocIndexPDF&prodSer iesId=1839143&targetPage=http%3A%2F%2Fh20000.www2. hp.com%2Fbc%2Fdocs%2Fsupport%2FSupportManual%2Fc00 805752%2Fc00805752.pdf
Looks like the camera was designed to allow this kind of "hack".
What next, are we going to get an article about adding RAM to an HP laptop?
Scanner, PDA sync cable, HASP key, USB-to-serial device connected to legacy hardware.
Because you don't have to run to the switch every time you need to switch the scanner to your PC.
A bit offtopic, but still... :-)
The screenshot of Vista in TFA is not the final build and not even RC1 but rather some older beta. The "About system" dialog has the old XP-like icon instead of Vista's Windows Orb. And that dialog's side has an XP-like background.
The article's author clearly hasn't used Vista and probably downloaded the first screenshot of Vista from Google Images. I guess other stuff is reviewed and tested a lot better
Vista was released for MSDN subscribers a month ago as well for business customers two weeks ago. The final build was compiled forty days ago. What's more, the SQL Server developers probably ran Beta and RC versions of Vista so they should have been developing the solution for at least a month.
And what kind of app that was, a calculator or a lite version of a large database server? Some old DOS apps still work with Vista, but that's because they don't rely on weird features or specific hardware.
Visual Studio 2005 says it doesn't work with Vista, but the only real problem is that some kinds of apps can't be debugged, something to do with UAC which is quite obvious since UAC was introduced after VS2005 was released. SQL Server probably has some quirks with the firewall or other security features.
When you need a 12-meg download to run a 160k applet, users will probaply turn away. Remember how it was difficult to redistribute .NET Framework apps because noone would install a 50 meg library just to run the small program they've downloaded? Or even worse, requiring asministrator priveleges, the latest service pack and Internet Explorer to be installed? That just like the problem when nobody writes Linux games because there aren't a lot of Linux gamers because there aren't a lot of Linux games.
And big Java applications like Matlab and Maple and Oracle JDeveloper keep their own version of JRE installed which is invisible to other apps, something to do with compability. That's right, I have 4 independent copies of JRE: one for Maple, one for Matlab, one from JDK and one for everything else.
What I'm trying to say that until Java gets installed on every PC out there, it would be hard to convince users to install it. However since Microsoft seems to be abandoning ActiveX Java has a chance.
I'd recommend using the Stop Autoplay extension for Firefox. It works just like Flashblock, but for movies and sounds. And it blocks background sounds and music as well.