I paid £220 for a HTC Advantage / T-Mobile Ameo a couple of months ago, with an 18 month contract. So that's a phone with Bluetooth, HSDPA, Wifi, GPS, 8 gig HD, 5 inch 640x480 touch-screen, 3 mega-pixel camera, VGA-out.
The 8 gig onboard helps to make it a little more directly comparable to an iPhone.
GP's right - I just drag and dropped a shortcut from one Start Menu folder to another. I got:
"You'll need to provide administrator permission to move this file" Continue / Skip / Cancel
"Windows needs your permission to continue / If you started this action continue" Continue / Cancel
and then the Copying file dialog.
Count em, 3 dialogs.
I have to admit, I don't mind Vista, it's not that bad, and is responsive enough on my 2.4 Ghz Core 2 Duo / 1 gig / Geforce 7800 AGP, with a 2 gig Flash disk used for Readyboost. I can multitask between Photoshop CS3, Dreamweaver CS3 and VS 2005 well enough, Office 2007 runs smoothly, and most of the latest games (Portal, HL2 Ep 2, TF2) are running just fine, with most settings on high. Even some older games that have had problems on XP, such as Worms Armageddon, can run on Vista with patches and "Use XP SP2 Compatability".
The tracking software runs fine under Vista. Sure, you have to run under Windows XP SP2 compatability mode, run it as Administrator, it doesn't follow Vista's practice for file management and so files get saved in compatability storage, and the window causes Aero to reset to running in basic mode, but... sorry, what was my point again?
I'd like to applaud the commitment and bravery of the researchers in bringing this information into the public domain.
I'm from a similar underground organization, and have been monitoring Vista for some time. Notable connections we have so far made are:
Dinosauroid-like Alien Reptiles using Vista UMPCs are dominating the World
Apollo 11 Moon Landings were faked by Vista
September 11 was orchestrated by the U. S. government using Vista and Workflow Foundation
etc.
It's pretty conclusive stuff, people.
(Conspiracies kindly provided by http://www.2spare.com/item_43133.aspx - note it's on an IIS server - don't trust it. The truth is out there!)
There are good UK ISP's out there. I've just moved to one that stresses they sell you a bandwidth package - in my case, 30 gig peak, 300 gig off-peak. What you do with that bandwidth is your call.
If a market demands it (And considering the UK market is near-enough completely traffic-management / FUP - certainly amongst the big players), then services willing to take your money to provide the service you want will spring up.
When having kids becomes a career move, that provides free housing, a regular income, and 7 days a week of holiday time, it's time to say "We need to make some changes".
Yep, apparently a bug that only applies to XP Media Center 2005. Can someone who experiences this problem confirm that they are not using Vista Home Premium or Ultimate?
What a load of politically correct bullshit it is when speaking the truth, whether it hurts or not, is deemed a troll. If I lived in India, and I called and got support from Indian call centres, I would be happy. Living in the UK, it's an absolute pain to have to talk to people who barely understand English - I don't care if they're Indian, Nigerian, French, German, whatever.
What's really funny is that companies in the UK generally avoid putting people with strong regional accents, generally Birmingham or Liverpool, on to phone duty, because it's often believed it reflects badly upon the company. Hell, to quote a report on this:
"If you want to get ahead in business and don't speak the Queen's English, it is better to sound as if you are from America, Europe, India or indeed Scotland than from any English region.
Right, so businesses believe it's better to have an Indian accent on the phone than a regional English accent, in England. Given how often people say "Not another bloody Indian call centre", I'm guessing it's not actually all that great a business decision from a customer POV.
I 'need' a UMPC due to a large amount of time spent travelling via train to and from work, that I could be spending productively. I've currently got a HTC Universal PDA mobile phone - allowing me to edit Word docs, Excel, surf the net etc while on the go. However, my phone contract's up in August, and I'm looking for the next ideal purchase - and I think I've found it!
The HTC Shift will provide a mobile phone in a Vista UMPC form-factor. apparently "it is about the same size as two DVD cases", yet features include "full QWERTY keyboard, 7" touchscreen, 1Gb of RAM and a 30Gb hard drive" (Source
... when looking around the Microsoft Vista site for information about a future UMPC purchase, I stumbled across the Origami Experience Pack ( WGA validation required before downloading )
It's available for download now, and contains three programs aimed at UMPC use on Vista. It comes with a Sudoku game (?), a "designed for UMPC" shell for movies, music, pictures and programs, and apparently some improved touch-screen functionality. Would be interested to hear feedback from those with UMPC's using this on Vista.
I thought a site couldn't be held liable for the contents of sites it links to? Surely if you could, the entire Internet would fall over?
$DEFENDER: Yes your Honour, I put the link on my site. However, Google links to me. If the proescution hadn't come to me via a Google search, he would not have been infected. Thus, Google are to blame.
$Google_Defense: Yes your Honour, we linked to his site. However, Microsoft Live Search linked to us. ...
(Optional)
$Microsoft_Defense: Yes your Honour, we linked to their site. And we are to blame, because no one ever links to us.
That was the beauty of it. I admit I came in late, with the Spectrum +2, sporting 128k, built-in tape drive, and plastic keys. Oh the luxury!
I remember my older brother sitting down with me - I must have been 6 or 7, and helping me input the Spectrum BASIC hangman game that was in the back of the manual. The fun I had with that machine, and the hours I spent coding it, and playing the games. I'd alternate between the Speccy and my Lego - wholesome kid fun! As a bonus, my Mom and Dad owned a newsagents that sold the cassette games - try before you buy!
Actually, on a down-er note, I remember my Dads heart problem kicked off playing a golf game (can't remember the name) - it got him so wound up he got chest pains:(
But for sheer educational value - it was probably my most important computer, starting me off coding - the Amiga was a beautiful machine to upgrade to, but the Spectrum was a classic for its time. Manic Miner, Bear Bovver, Target: Renegade, Barbarian - oh for the good old days.
As I sit here now, coding and writing up my dissertation in Computer Science... I almost certainly wouldn't of been sat here doing this if it wasn't for Sinclair.
With the greatest respect considering the current situation, one thing the UK doesn't seem to see a lot of, that we're sadly seeing a lot on our TV over here happening in the US, is a maniac walking into a school, college, or Uni, and shooting a lot of people...
It is *your* data. They can't retain it. If you paid for their services and want to move to another service provider, they *have to* deliver *your* data (in a CD, DVD, zip file,...). So if I have a service contract with Google to provide my business with Gmail, and I stop paying - they are obliged to provide me with my data, be it on CD, DVD, or as a ZIP file? That's certainly news to me. Do they provide a 3.5 inch floppy option?
I don't want to have a team just to test their updates... They are supposed to test it, and they are supposed to be responsible for make it working fine. In any other company, if you deliver an update that makes anything crash (deletes emails, sends cash to wrong people,...) you get sued:-)
So you'd roll out every update you received from companies, for critical business software, without doing a limited test across a few machines first - on the basis that they should work A-ok across whatever configuration of hardware and software you have...? And if it breaks, you'll sue them...
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I paid £220 for a HTC Advantage / T-Mobile Ameo a couple of months ago, with an 18 month contract. So that's a phone with Bluetooth, HSDPA, Wifi, GPS, 8 gig HD, 5 inch 640x480 touch-screen, 3 mega-pixel camera, VGA-out.
The 8 gig onboard helps to make it a little more directly comparable to an iPhone.
Count em, 3 dialogs.
I have to admit, I don't mind Vista, it's not that bad, and is responsive enough on my 2.4 Ghz Core 2 Duo / 1 gig / Geforce 7800 AGP, with a 2 gig Flash disk used for Readyboost. I can multitask between Photoshop CS3, Dreamweaver CS3 and VS 2005 well enough, Office 2007 runs smoothly, and most of the latest games (Portal, HL2 Ep 2, TF2) are running just fine, with most settings on high. Even some older games that have had problems on XP, such as Worms Armageddon, can run on Vista with patches and "Use XP SP2 Compatability".
Iron Python count? http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?ProjectName =IronPython
You refer to Winblows, Windoze, and Windows. Are these three different OS's?
Sweeten the deal, get it signed. We can change it to include DRM later.
The tracking software runs fine under Vista. Sure, you have to run under Windows XP SP2 compatability mode, run it as Administrator, it doesn't follow Vista's practice for file management and so files get saved in compatability storage, and the window causes Aero to reset to running in basic mode, but... sorry, what was my point again?
I'd like to applaud the commitment and bravery of the researchers in bringing this information into the public domain.
I'm from a similar underground organization, and have been monitoring Vista for some time. Notable connections we have so far made are:
Dinosauroid-like Alien Reptiles using Vista UMPCs are dominating the World
Apollo 11 Moon Landings were faked by Vista
September 11 was orchestrated by the U. S. government using Vista and Workflow Foundation
etc.
It's pretty conclusive stuff, people.
(Conspiracies kindly provided by http://www.2spare.com/item_43133.aspx - note it's on an IIS server - don't trust it. The truth is out there!)
There are good UK ISP's out there. I've just moved to one that stresses they sell you a bandwidth package - in my case, 30 gig peak, 300 gig off-peak. What you do with that bandwidth is your call.
If a market demands it (And considering the UK market is near-enough completely traffic-management / FUP - certainly amongst the big players), then services willing to take your money to provide the service you want will spring up.
When having kids becomes a career move, that provides free housing, a regular income, and 7 days a week of holiday time, it's time to say "We need to make some changes".
Yep, apparently a bug that only applies to XP Media Center 2005. Can someone who experiences this problem confirm that they are not using Vista Home Premium or Ultimate?
What a load of politically correct bullshit it is when speaking the truth, whether it hurts or not, is deemed a troll. If I lived in India, and I called and got support from Indian call centres, I would be happy. Living in the UK, it's an absolute pain to have to talk to people who barely understand English - I don't care if they're Indian, Nigerian, French, German, whatever.
What's really funny is that companies in the UK generally avoid putting people with strong regional accents, generally Birmingham or Liverpool, on to phone duty, because it's often believed it reflects badly upon the company. Hell, to quote a report on this:
Regional accents bad for trade
Right, so businesses believe it's better to have an Indian accent on the phone than a regional English accent, in England. Given how often people say "Not another bloody Indian call centre", I'm guessing it's not actually all that great a business decision from a customer POV.
Now not only can your noses, your breasts, your pecks and so forth be plastic, but your blood can be plastic too!
"Plastic to the core, baby!"
Transcript from webchat with the head of ID card scheme
Petition to Tony Blair & response
No2ID - UK-wide, non-partisan campaign opposing the government's planned ID card and National Identity Register
We're trying. Truly, we are.
Intellectual property is a Take-Away. That's one copy of Vista Ultimate, and a scale-replica of Disneyland to go!
I 'need' a UMPC due to a large amount of time spent travelling via train to and from work, that I could be spending productively. I've currently got a HTC Universal PDA mobile phone - allowing me to edit Word docs, Excel, surf the net etc while on the go. However, my phone contract's up in August, and I'm looking for the next ideal purchase - and I think I've found it!
The HTC Shift will provide a mobile phone in a Vista UMPC form-factor. apparently "it is about the same size as two DVD cases", yet features include "full QWERTY keyboard, 7" touchscreen, 1Gb of RAM and a 30Gb hard drive" (Source
I can't wait to have a look at it.
... when looking around the Microsoft Vista site for information about a future UMPC purchase, I stumbled across the Origami Experience Pack ( WGA validation required before downloading )
It's available for download now, and contains three programs aimed at UMPC use on Vista. It comes with a Sudoku game (?), a "designed for UMPC" shell for movies, music, pictures and programs, and apparently some improved touch-screen functionality. Would be interested to hear feedback from those with UMPC's using this on Vista.
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There you go.
Damnit, AJAX mod system and not being able to correct mistakes without making a post.
I thought a site couldn't be held liable for the contents of sites it links to? Surely if you could, the entire Internet would fall over?
...
$DEFENDER: Yes your Honour, I put the link on my site. However, Google links to me. If the proescution hadn't come to me via a Google search, he would not have been infected. Thus, Google are to blame.
$Google_Defense: Yes your Honour, we linked to his site. However, Microsoft Live Search linked to us.
(Optional)
$Microsoft_Defense: Yes your Honour, we linked to their site. And we are to blame, because no one ever links to us.
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Ahh, how things change.
And what if I do?
That was the beauty of it. I admit I came in late, with the Spectrum +2, sporting 128k, built-in tape drive, and plastic keys. Oh the luxury! I remember my older brother sitting down with me - I must have been 6 or 7, and helping me input the Spectrum BASIC hangman game that was in the back of the manual. The fun I had with that machine, and the hours I spent coding it, and playing the games. I'd alternate between the Speccy and my Lego - wholesome kid fun! As a bonus, my Mom and Dad owned a newsagents that sold the cassette games - try before you buy! Actually, on a down-er note, I remember my Dads heart problem kicked off playing a golf game (can't remember the name) - it got him so wound up he got chest pains :(
But for sheer educational value - it was probably my most important computer, starting me off coding - the Amiga was a beautiful machine to upgrade to, but the Spectrum was a classic for its time. Manic Miner, Bear Bovver, Target: Renegade, Barbarian - oh for the good old days.
As I sit here now, coding and writing up my dissertation in Computer Science... I almost certainly wouldn't of been sat here doing this if it wasn't for Sinclair.
http://www.tomrafteryit.net/oreilly-trademarks-web -20-and-sets-lawyers-on-itcork/
I seem to remember hearing this, way back when.
With the greatest respect considering the current situation, one thing the UK doesn't seem to see a lot of, that we're sadly seeing a lot on our TV over here happening in the US, is a maniac walking into a school, college, or Uni, and shooting a lot of people...
So if I have a service contract with Google to provide my business with Gmail, and I stop paying - they are obliged to provide me with my data, be it on CD, DVD, or as a ZIP file? That's certainly news to me. Do they provide a 3.5 inch floppy option? I don't want to have a team just to test their updates... They are supposed to test it, and they are supposed to be responsible for make it working fine. In any other company, if you deliver an update that makes anything crash (deletes emails, sends cash to wrong people,
So you'd roll out every update you received from companies, for critical business software, without doing a limited test across a few machines first - on the basis that they should work A-ok across whatever configuration of hardware and software you have...? And if it breaks, you'll sue them...
LIMITATION ON AND EXCLUSION OF DAMAGES. YOU CAN RECOVER FROM MICROSOFT AND ITS SUPPLIERS ONLY DIRECT DAMAGES UP TO THE AMOUNT YOU PAID FOR THE SOFTWARE. YOU CANNOT RECOVER ANY OTHER DAMAGES, INCLUDING CONSEQUENTIAL, LOST PROFITS, SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES. http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/downloads