It seems like European countries and Sweden in particular, as well as Japan, have awesome internet technology compared to the US. Here the companies are really lazy and only try to maximize profits, and most consumers are probably ignorant of what they could be getting. I've also seen population density commonly cited as the reason we don't have fiber everywhere, but I find that hard to believe since there are definitely some areas that are rather dense yet still don't have fiber.
Yeah, so if I am understanding this correctly that part only applies to their samples and such, not stuff you write? Or is that mentioned somewhere else... legalese gives me a headache.
Hmm, coincidentally I'm about to install VC++ Express 2008, and will probably use it for some open source software development eventually. Can you provide a reference to this? I've never heard of it before and of course I (foolishly) didn't RTFEULA. Of course, I can always use Dev-C++ for anything open source, and some stuff I just use notepad++ and cygwin/mingw for so hopefully it shouldn't affect me. And I don't know if this is just a common myth on slashdot, but how enforceable are EULAs?
Well, what I'm saying is that harassing telemarketers isn't helping anything, it just makes both of you unhappy (unless you enjoy that of course). I'm not saying to actually hunt down the companies and complain to them, but it would be a more fruitful action than simply annoying the telemarketer. Unless of course you are able to get the telemarketer to remove you from their lists or whatever.
People always seem to "shoot the messenger" rather than the company doing the actual advertising. It's not the poor telemarketer's fault, they may have no other job options and they need to eat too.
Well, I suppose that's true, but it really depends on whether programs choose to store settings in the AppData folders where they're supposed to or the Registry, which I think they're trying to kill (but of course it's like a hydra at this point...) But from my experience, my parents' computer's hard drive had a bit of corruption recently which rendered Windows unbootable, and then I used Linux to back up the hard drive and copied their profile folder onto the freshly installed copy of Windows, and Firefox and Thunderbird (the main programs they use really) had all the settings as if they had never been wiped. The problem is that Microsoft created the registry, and now it can't get rid of it because legacy apps would break, but as long as companies keep using it they can't get rid of it.
Uh, one nice thing about Vista, and XP sort of has it too, is that the profile folders are at least in theory supposed to contain everything. Vista does it a little better where instead of C:\Documents and Settings\username\ profile folders are under C:\Users\username\ and then they took out all the useless "My"s in front of everything. XP made it hard to find your user profile folder (can't go My Documents and then up) but in Vista it's one of those sidebar things. So the same idea works, just do a robocopy C:\Users\username\ D:\backup\.
The thing is, squatters rely on the money back thing so that they never actually pay for a domain, they just return it after three days and then instantly renew it again. I learned about this when the domain of my school's robotics club got squatted by some assholes because the guy who owned the domains had gone to college and wouldn't respond to my emails, and I was trying to catch them on the small gap when they didn't own the domain, but eventually one of the squatters gave up on the.net domain (we had.com,.net. and.org) so we just bought that and gave up on the other two.
Acid3 is just a stress test, it's just one measure of standards compliance, and certainly isn't a measure of actual design practices in use currently. Also, right now the Firefox devs are just trying to squash all the remaining bugs and push Firefox 3 out the door, it's nearing beta 5 and I don't think they had even intended for a beta 4 originally. Also, Firefox 3 nightlies do a whole lot better on Acid3 than IE8 beta, which gets around 10/100 (can't really see the score, some obnoxious box of XML pops up in front of it). MoFo/Co isn't shooting for Acid3 compliance because it's not much more than a pissing contest in the web browser arena, realistically it doesn't matter because no one's going to use that kind of CSS until the 800 lb gorilla (IE) starts supporting those features, because even now IE still has a majority of the browser market share, and a lot of that is stil IE6, which has absolutely horrible standards support.
To add (and one-up) to that, all new ATI cards have Video out as well, perhaps in the form of a set of cables you can plug in depending on what you want. My card has a little port thing that you can plug Composite, Component, or S-Video adapter cable things into, and it's VI/VO so I can also take Composite/S/Component In as well. And then there's an HDMI adapter for the DVI port, and even my motherboard's integrated ATI Xpress 1250 has an HDMI port as default instead of DVI (strange, but it's more of an HTPC motherboard).
There, fixed that for ya.
But seriously, the change from 3.1 to 95 is 100x bigger than that from XP to Vista, which makes me think that either you're exaggerating, outright lying, stupid, or never actually used Windows 3.1. Sure, they shuffled some settings seemingly at random but the menus and everything are pretty much the same, and the actual options/control panel dialogs are nearly identical to XP.
Curious, what driver issues? I would have though XP x64 would have more issues since it was never really a mass-market OS. I'm running almost the same setup (Athlon 64 x2 5000+, 2GB DDR2-800, Vista x64) and I have driver no issues whatsoever, and SP1 only made the few annoying parts better (slow files copies and file extraction, but I rarely use Windows' built in zip extraction anyway).
I suppose it depends on the person, but my group of friends who are all going into engineering majors in the fall (myself included) write a lot better than most of the people in our classes, except for a select few. Also, saying school isn't about brain power is only partially true and mostly wrong; over 4 years of high school I've become very good at playing the multiple choice game, and coast through multiple choice tests without reading the book and get higher grades than everyone else. This in AP classes with a large proportion of supposed over-achievers. But then, part of it is because I actually pay attention in class instead of goofing off/texting like the other idiots. I suppose I'm proving the whole arrogance thing with that statement, but then part of it is deserved.
Hear hear, I'm going into college next year and majoring in EE and I know that it's going to be hard, but I'm doing it because I like being challenged and not bored out of my mind. But at the same time, I'm fascinated by social sciences and really wish we didn't have to specialize to get a job in this day and age.
Err, what? I know what IRC is, the OP was saying that it only removed one thing as he recalled, and the GGP thought he meant it removed IRC. If that was an attempt at humor, it wasn't a very good one.
IIRC=if I recall correctly. Unless, this is some joke that's gone over my head, I really wonder how someone with a relatively low UID could have escaped this knowledge for so long.
Actually, that's a pretty good idea, although I think the limit keeps people from wasting modpoints on obviously good posts and spreads the mod point love around.
Are you serious? Predictions? More like bullshit guesses with no basis in factuality.
Apps for Android will be few and far between. Most of them will be ports of games from other java mobile platforms that hasn't done well.
Why would there be few apps for Android compared to say, the iPhone or Palm? Just saying this without any reasoning to back it up is foolish, and considering Android is the most open platform it should attract tons of great developers, and many talented young developers as well since Java is so widely taught now.
Apps will be slow. It's like compact.NET...
Again, try to learn what you're talking about before you talk. Have you ever made anything in Java, or used Java programs beyond applets? Also,.Net isn't as slow as you'd like to believe. Just-in-time compilers can make managed code run nearly as well as native code, and Google is using a custom VM no doubt optimized for performance. If you had seen their demo videos on prototype hardware you would have known that the alpha-level apps they've got right now are already extremely smooth and fast.
original apps for Android will be crappy in quality. (very few consumer level application written in Java has done well, also think CS101)
What does Java have to do with how good apps for Android will be? Google has and is attracting a lot of talent with their platform. There's nothing about a language that magically impedes good software development.
Social apps for Android will fail because of the lack of users.
Well, considering no one has a consumer version of an Android headset yet, I think it's a bit premature to say that there will be a lack of users. Also, why would social apps that tie into things like Facebook have a lack of users?
Android is unable to attract ISV's because a 10Mil prize pool is 10x smaller than a 100Mil prize pool.
Perhaps, but with all the restrictions of Apple's SDK they're already turning away companies like Sun, who actually wanted to develop for their platform. Although Sun might have a bit of clout with Apple, being Sun and all, it seems like porting Java would pretty much break open Apple's tight application policies, so I don't think they'll give Sun an acception.
Android apps will be hard to install.
What? How can you judge something like install procedures before Android is even out? And I'm sure that considering one of the main draws of Android is its openness, why would they make it hard to install apps? Google has a knack for designing simple, effective interfaces and I'm sure it will be dead easy to install apps onto an Android phone.
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It seems like European countries and Sweden in particular, as well as Japan, have awesome internet technology compared to the US. Here the companies are really lazy and only try to maximize profits, and most consumers are probably ignorant of what they could be getting. I've also seen population density commonly cited as the reason we don't have fiber everywhere, but I find that hard to believe since there are definitely some areas that are rather dense yet still don't have fiber.
Yeah, so if I am understanding this correctly that part only applies to their samples and such, not stuff you write? Or is that mentioned somewhere else... legalese gives me a headache.
Hmm, coincidentally I'm about to install VC++ Express 2008, and will probably use it for some open source software development eventually. Can you provide a reference to this? I've never heard of it before and of course I (foolishly) didn't RTFEULA. Of course, I can always use Dev-C++ for anything open source, and some stuff I just use notepad++ and cygwin/mingw for so hopefully it shouldn't affect me. And I don't know if this is just a common myth on slashdot, but how enforceable are EULAs?
Well, what I'm saying is that harassing telemarketers isn't helping anything, it just makes both of you unhappy (unless you enjoy that of course). I'm not saying to actually hunt down the companies and complain to them, but it would be a more fruitful action than simply annoying the telemarketer. Unless of course you are able to get the telemarketer to remove you from their lists or whatever.
People always seem to "shoot the messenger" rather than the company doing the actual advertising. It's not the poor telemarketer's fault, they may have no other job options and they need to eat too.
Well, I suppose that's true, but it really depends on whether programs choose to store settings in the AppData folders where they're supposed to or the Registry, which I think they're trying to kill (but of course it's like a hydra at this point...) But from my experience, my parents' computer's hard drive had a bit of corruption recently which rendered Windows unbootable, and then I used Linux to back up the hard drive and copied their profile folder onto the freshly installed copy of Windows, and Firefox and Thunderbird (the main programs they use really) had all the settings as if they had never been wiped. The problem is that Microsoft created the registry, and now it can't get rid of it because legacy apps would break, but as long as companies keep using it they can't get rid of it.
Uh, one nice thing about Vista, and XP sort of has it too, is that the profile folders are at least in theory supposed to contain everything. Vista does it a little better where instead of C:\Documents and Settings\username\ profile folders are under C:\Users\username\ and then they took out all the useless "My"s in front of everything. XP made it hard to find your user profile folder (can't go My Documents and then up) but in Vista it's one of those sidebar things. So the same idea works, just do a robocopy C:\Users\username\ D:\backup\.
The thing is, squatters rely on the money back thing so that they never actually pay for a domain, they just return it after three days and then instantly renew it again. I learned about this when the domain of my school's robotics club got squatted by some assholes because the guy who owned the domains had gone to college and wouldn't respond to my emails, and I was trying to catch them on the small gap when they didn't own the domain, but eventually one of the squatters gave up on the .net domain (we had .com, .net. and .org) so we just bought that and gave up on the other two.
Acid3 is just a stress test, it's just one measure of standards compliance, and certainly isn't a measure of actual design practices in use currently. Also, right now the Firefox devs are just trying to squash all the remaining bugs and push Firefox 3 out the door, it's nearing beta 5 and I don't think they had even intended for a beta 4 originally. Also, Firefox 3 nightlies do a whole lot better on Acid3 than IE8 beta, which gets around 10/100 (can't really see the score, some obnoxious box of XML pops up in front of it). MoFo/Co isn't shooting for Acid3 compliance because it's not much more than a pissing contest in the web browser arena, realistically it doesn't matter because no one's going to use that kind of CSS until the 800 lb gorilla (IE) starts supporting those features, because even now IE still has a majority of the browser market share, and a lot of that is stil IE6, which has absolutely horrible standards support.
To add (and one-up) to that, all new ATI cards have Video out as well, perhaps in the form of a set of cables you can plug in depending on what you want. My card has a little port thing that you can plug Composite, Component, or S-Video adapter cable things into, and it's VI/VO so I can also take Composite/S/Component In as well. And then there's an HDMI adapter for the DVI port, and even my motherboard's integrated ATI Xpress 1250 has an HDMI port as default instead of DVI (strange, but it's more of an HTPC motherboard).
But seriously, the change from 3.1 to 95 is 100x bigger than that from XP to Vista, which makes me think that either you're exaggerating, outright lying, stupid, or never actually used Windows 3.1. Sure, they shuffled some settings seemingly at random but the menus and everything are pretty much the same, and the actual options/control panel dialogs are nearly identical to XP.
Curious, what driver issues? I would have though XP x64 would have more issues since it was never really a mass-market OS. I'm running almost the same setup (Athlon 64 x2 5000+, 2GB DDR2-800, Vista x64) and I have driver no issues whatsoever, and SP1 only made the few annoying parts better (slow files copies and file extraction, but I rarely use Windows' built in zip extraction anyway).
Nah, unless they're just lazy/want you to upgrade, I'm almost sure any XP driver should work on 2K as well.
I suppose it depends on the person, but my group of friends who are all going into engineering majors in the fall (myself included) write a lot better than most of the people in our classes, except for a select few. Also, saying school isn't about brain power is only partially true and mostly wrong; over 4 years of high school I've become very good at playing the multiple choice game, and coast through multiple choice tests without reading the book and get higher grades than everyone else. This in AP classes with a large proportion of supposed over-achievers. But then, part of it is because I actually pay attention in class instead of goofing off/texting like the other idiots. I suppose I'm proving the whole arrogance thing with that statement, but then part of it is deserved.
Hear hear, I'm going into college next year and majoring in EE and I know that it's going to be hard, but I'm doing it because I like being challenged and not bored out of my mind. But at the same time, I'm fascinated by social sciences and really wish we didn't have to specialize to get a job in this day and age.
Err, what? I know what IRC is, the OP was saying that it only removed one thing as he recalled, and the GGP thought he meant it removed IRC. If that was an attempt at humor, it wasn't a very good one.
I do believe that 3G radios are going to be in the next gen EeePC 900, and I know they'll have HSDPA and WiMax.
IIRC=if I recall correctly. Unless, this is some joke that's gone over my head, I really wonder how someone with a relatively low UID could have escaped this knowledge for so long.
This is slashdot, not some wussy web forum. Learn basic html or get out ;)
Hmm, I'm curious what the plain text method will post as. This should be on a second line, but we'll see..
Actually, that's a pretty good idea, although I think the limit keeps people from wasting modpoints on obviously good posts and spreads the mod point love around.
Hey, this is slashdot, I applaud you for that.
Seriously, if I could get FiOS I would grab it in a heartbeat, no questions asked.
There's also an experimental Jabber server for AIM, I think the GMail interface has to do more with that than with this.
For more information, see http://wiki.jabber.org/index.php/AOL_Alpha . Haven't gotten it to work myself with Pidgin though.
Hmm, how did I get modded overrated when I wasn't modded at all previously? Crazy mods... thank goodness for meta-moderation.