We have these types of parking meters, but every meter also has a number on a pole on top of it and you can park your car and pay by calling a number and entering the zone number. When you step into the car you call the number again to stop the meter.
The system has been used in Amsterdam for several years, it is called 'Yellowbrick'. For me the greatest advantages is that I pay by the minute and don't need to carry a kg of coins with me, and I get a nice invoice in my e-mail every time I park, that's especially useful for business-related parking.
Yeah, I meant hibernate, suspend-to-disk or any other name of your liking (there are too many ambiguous terms). No that it really matters, a lot modern OSes use a combination of suspending and suspending-to-disk, so even if you just suspend it will also suspend-to-disk just in case... and I have to wait for it to finish if I take my laptop with me.
You must be working from a terminal client, the browser speed is often much slower, and Outlook is preloaded in the server with an exchange backend, not loaded from the local disk.
And lightweight means:
Gmail in Chrome - 50Mb RAM + 1-2% CPU usage
Outlook - always >500Mb + often 100% CPU for no apparent reason
Suspending is no valid alternative for me. I have a laptop with 4Gb memory and my harddisk is encrypted with TrueCrypt. Suspending and resuming takes much longer than just shutting down and staring up.
The startup time of my laptop isn't totally wasted, I just enter the password to let it boot and go get some coffee in the morning. But when i'm done working I want to get *out*, not wait over a minute for the great dumping of the memory to disk.
Yeah, I was dependent on Outlook for syncing too...
But Google finally has some exchange support! I now sync my calendar with google with mobile internet push technology. When I enter a new appointment in a browser I see it appear on my mobile within a minute (and the other way around too), no ActiveSync crapping up my computer needed!
Outlook be damned!
Computers need to get better. People want to get to their email instantly, without wasting time waiting for their computers to boot and browsers to start up. They want their computers to always run as fast as when they first bought them.
They are trying to fill a niche of an OS that boots fast and is basically just a browser. This OS will have a desktop with some online favourites... and that might be just what you need on a NETbook..!
Gmail already looks like a standalone app on Windows with Google Chrome and Offline enabled, you get a nice icon on the desktop. And when you click it it loads in a second, instead of the several minutes my Outlook used to take to even be barely useable. The choice is clear, sluggish native apps are becoming obsolete, and lightweight online apps are becoming more and more reliable. And when you only use these kind of netapps, why bother installing a bloated OS. This might just be the next revolution in the netbook industry.
On a side note: I can't wait until a new OS finally achieves the startup times of the good old trusy Commodore 64.:-)
HD-DVD and BlueRay both suck (and so does the PS3 and the HD-DVD extension for Xbox). They are all owned by the rippers + torrents + basic Xbox360.
When there were just a handfull of titles available (this was back when BlueRay was reportedly 'uncrackable') you could already find some great quality HD rips on torrent sites that *just played* in full HD on your Xbox360. Play over LAN (from the PC) or copy to harddisk and connect to USB, no sweat.
If a bunch of geeks can get the movies to your HDTV without hassle for free (obviously for you, but more importantly to them since they don't get payed or pay for any technology) why can't we just buy/rent HD movies for a small price directly on our TV. The reason is just as simple as it is stupid: money, greed, and of course lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Seconded!
Only when you're truly going to innovate make it 24h!
My big-ass notebook has a battery that is around 5% of the total volume (rough calculation) and it manages 2.5 hours of normal work or 2 hours of more intense usage. When you have a battery that is 50% of the volume of the tiny netbook (and the chipset is much less power hungry than an ordinary notebook) you can easily make the battery life tenfold of what it is today.
Myth #2: Internet Explorer is less secure than Firefox.
The Real Deal: Research proves that Internet Explorer 8 catches almost twice as much malware than the competition. That's "less secure?"
I guess they're talking about 'catching' in the sense of catching an STD...
This guy 'connect2raza' I see spamming almost all Iran discussions seems to have his CAPS key stuck for at least a year! This has to be some kind of record!!!
Just google his name and you'll find his little upper-case-copy-paste diamonds of high-pressure-brainwashing everywhere (most on press TV): http://www.google.nl/search?q=connect2raza
Is this the best netwar-soldier from the Iranian government, a loser with a broken-ass-keyboard?
Once they get it working every energy company on the planet will stall full-scale deployment of fusion (probably by scare-mongering and 'lobbying' a.k.a. bribes) until their current cow is milked dry... and even then they'll first try to get government subsidies (like coal plants already get right now!).
MANAGEMENT SUMMARY: AVG will cost more in workhours and years of your life than it will ever save you! USE WITH CAUTION!
AVG network is a huge mistake I made as an admin... Sure the cost is low, the central management is OK, and the virusscanner was pretty decent... Only with newer versions you get these free bonus PITA's:
- Bloat like the Linkscanner that 'enhances' your webbrowser by making it slower or freeze and crash
- Firewall that will sometimes lock for no reason at all (making me have to go to the server to reset it since remote management is made impossible)
- Updates that automatically f**k the PC, there was one well known AVG-update-crash that you'll probably remember but beside that there have been numerous other updates that have a success rate of installing of less than 50%, so you'll have to fix half the PC's manually.
- Updates that will turn the real-time-protection off automatically and not turn it on again (WTF, is this a 'pro' version used in networks and on servers?)
In the end, if you configure AVG to *only* install the AV part (only thing Grisoft is somewhat good at), and stay as far away from the crappy firewall and other bloat you'll save yourself a lot of trouble (and headache).
Why deal with uncertainties about who-killed-who in the past, when you can have a lot more fun with what could be in the future.
"Who killed obama?"... seems an inside job by Hillary is most probable just below a vicious murder by Ted Nugent. Scary!
IMHO, that is the real reason why people seem to like net radios so much: they rip tracks just like they used to record radio hits on cassette in years past.
Not really, net radio is an always-on source of music, so why record it? Instead of playing that recording you made you can just tune in again...
And when you listen regularly (like at work) you'll hear the same songs again and again so there is even less reason to record it.
Even my cellphone can stream internet radio, so even for portable usage you don't have to rip the stream.
Once there is a 100% all-you-can-eat streaming music service for a fixed fee (i'm hoping last.fm will create this) i'll be the first to ditch my music collection... No need to store that shit locally when you can enjoy all music ever made by man with the click of a button.
WMWifirouter works great, I got over 2mbps constant throughput with multiple laptops connecting over 1 cellphone (that's faster than the cheapest ADSL here). And an unlimited mobile data plan is less than 10 euro in the Netherlands!
Only one problem though: the battery drains fast. Even when charging with USB the battery still slowly leaks to 0 and the temperature of the phone goes up.
Good thing the program comes with some thermal-overload-shutdown before your phone explodes while you're browsing the internet on a hot summer day...;-)
This is a great idea since people are lazy so you should let a device do the power-saving all by itself.
But there are several solutions to automatically save some standby power!
Auto switching peripheral power bar - When the PC shuts down all my devices turn off automatically, I don't have to reach below the desk to manually switch anything so it's completely no difficulty but it does save a lot of standby power! And a nice extra is that it also protects my PC from power surges (everyone should get one of those anyway, do why not one that also saves power?). This saves me between 5 and 25 watt.
Power saving adapters - My (HP) laptop has a huge power requirement, and a huge power adapter to supply that... but if I leave the adapter plugged in it definitely automatically triggers some circuit breaker since it does not run hot (like normal adapters always do when you leave them plugged in, whether you use them or not). How do you know if your adapter does this too? Simple... check if isnt's hot when you don't use it, and also check how hot it is if you DO use it... My adapter can run so hot I can barely touch it! This saves me a COUPLE HUNDRED watt!!!
Well... actually I almost have... The HP Pavilion ZD8000-series has been around for quite some time and offers a much nicer HUGE wide laptop with said real numeric keypad. And the price is at least half of the brandless unit plugged here...
I have used my ZD8190 for like half a year now, and it is a really nice desktop replacement. Battery life sucks though... Like 1 hour with normal use.
/me wonders what battery life this advertised monstrosity has:)
A lot of people complain about the fact that politicians punish Microsoft for bundling software, and of course this is crazy - doesn't Microsoft have the right (and obligation) to give the end user a complete package so they can do all basic tasks with their computer right out of the box (In fact they already included software like Macromedia Flash with IE).
But what most people forget is that this is YOUR OWN FAULT. All computer geeks (that's you Slashdot crowd) have been complaining about unfair Microsoft for years now and this is where it will get you. Politicians never understand the heart of any case, they just hear a complaint, and when enough people complain they will take *some* action to save face, they do not care about the consequences of such an action... When there is compaining about unfair competition of Microsoft they will just make sure Microsoft can't bundle their usefull software with Windows. Finally the end user will pay the price, or worse - Microsoft/{insert any company here} will use the precedence of a case like this to get other companies to include their products.
Long story short: Well done, you got what's coming to you. Complaining to everyone (especially politicians) will NEVER get what you want nor expect.
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... and more photo's of said lawyers smiling happily in meetings with their head photoshopped over.
It's all about PR.
Why don't they make their own music distributor? Oh, that's right, because that takes work, and they don't want to do work. They just want free money.
I feel so sorry for them.
Not as sorry as they'll be when they have to pay their own store's 30 second previews and go bankrupt. :-)
Don't copy that floppy!
We have these types of parking meters, but every meter also has a number on a pole on top of it and you can park your car and pay by calling a number and entering the zone number. When you step into the car you call the number again to stop the meter. The system has been used in Amsterdam for several years, it is called 'Yellowbrick'. For me the greatest advantages is that I pay by the minute and don't need to carry a kg of coins with me, and I get a nice invoice in my e-mail every time I park, that's especially useful for business-related parking.
Yeah, I meant hibernate, suspend-to-disk or any other name of your liking (there are too many ambiguous terms). No that it really matters, a lot modern OSes use a combination of suspending and suspending-to-disk, so even if you just suspend it will also suspend-to-disk just in case... and I have to wait for it to finish if I take my laptop with me.
You must be working from a terminal client, the browser speed is often much slower, and Outlook is preloaded in the server with an exchange backend, not loaded from the local disk.
And lightweight means:
Gmail in Chrome - 50Mb RAM + 1-2% CPU usage
Outlook - always >500Mb + often 100% CPU for no apparent reason
Suspending is no valid alternative for me. I have a laptop with 4Gb memory and my harddisk is encrypted with TrueCrypt. Suspending and resuming takes much longer than just shutting down and staring up.
The startup time of my laptop isn't totally wasted, I just enter the password to let it boot and go get some coffee in the morning. But when i'm done working I want to get *out*, not wait over a minute for the great dumping of the memory to disk.
Yeah, I was dependent on Outlook for syncing too... But Google finally has some exchange support! I now sync my calendar with google with mobile internet push technology. When I enter a new appointment in a browser I see it appear on my mobile within a minute (and the other way around too), no ActiveSync crapping up my computer needed!
Outlook be damned!
yes, but lets hope it doesn't emulate the application loading times of the C64...
Ahhh yeah... I remember the tapes took especially long:
...
...
Some exiting splash screen in between...
...
:-)
Press play on tape...
loading
loading
loading
Now please reverse tape and press play to enjoy another 10 minutes of loading...
Good times!
Computers need to get better. People want to get to their email instantly, without wasting time waiting for their computers to boot and browsers to start up. They want their computers to always run as fast as when they first bought them.
They are trying to fill a niche of an OS that boots fast and is basically just a browser. This OS will have a desktop with some online favourites... and that might be just what you need on a NETbook..!
:-)
Gmail already looks like a standalone app on Windows with Google Chrome and Offline enabled, you get a nice icon on the desktop. And when you click it it loads in a second, instead of the several minutes my Outlook used to take to even be barely useable. The choice is clear, sluggish native apps are becoming obsolete, and lightweight online apps are becoming more and more reliable. And when you only use these kind of netapps, why bother installing a bloated OS. This might just be the next revolution in the netbook industry.
On a side note: I can't wait until a new OS finally achieves the startup times of the good old trusy Commodore 64.
... WTF is a Lego convention?
HD-DVD and BlueRay both suck (and so does the PS3 and the HD-DVD extension for Xbox). They are all owned by the rippers + torrents + basic Xbox360.
When there were just a handfull of titles available (this was back when BlueRay was reportedly 'uncrackable') you could already find some great quality HD rips on torrent sites that *just played* in full HD on your Xbox360. Play over LAN (from the PC) or copy to harddisk and connect to USB, no sweat.
If a bunch of geeks can get the movies to your HDTV without hassle for free (obviously for you, but more importantly to them since they don't get payed or pay for any technology) why can't we just buy/rent HD movies for a small price directly on our TV. The reason is just as simple as it is stupid: money, greed, and of course lies, damned lies, and statistics .
Seconded!
Only when you're truly going to innovate make it 24h!
My big-ass notebook has a battery that is around 5% of the total volume (rough calculation) and it manages 2.5 hours of normal work or 2 hours of more intense usage. When you have a battery that is 50% of the volume of the tiny netbook (and the chipset is much less power hungry than an ordinary notebook) you can easily make the battery life tenfold of what it is today.
Myth #2: Internet Explorer is less secure than Firefox.
The Real Deal: Research proves that Internet Explorer 8 catches almost twice as much malware than the competition. That's "less secure?"
I guess they're talking about 'catching' in the sense of catching an STD...
So... the germans are actually pulling a Godwin on themselves...
Only question left is: who loses?
This guy 'connect2raza' I see spamming almost all Iran discussions seems to have his CAPS key stuck for at least a year! This has to be some kind of record!!!
Just google his name and you'll find his little upper-case-copy-paste diamonds of high-pressure-brainwashing everywhere (most on press TV): http://www.google.nl/search?q=connect2raza
Is this the best netwar-soldier from the Iranian government, a loser with a broken-ass-keyboard?
Once they get it working every energy company on the planet will stall full-scale deployment of fusion (probably by scare-mongering and 'lobbying' a.k.a. bribes) until their current cow is milked dry... and even then they'll first try to get government subsidies (like coal plants already get right now!).
Fixed that for you.
MANAGEMENT SUMMARY: AVG will cost more in workhours and years of your life than it will ever save you! USE WITH CAUTION!
AVG network is a huge mistake I made as an admin... Sure the cost is low, the central management is OK, and the virusscanner was pretty decent... Only with newer versions you get these free bonus PITA's:
- Bloat like the Linkscanner that 'enhances' your webbrowser by making it slower or freeze and crash
- Firewall that will sometimes lock for no reason at all (making me have to go to the server to reset it since remote management is made impossible)
- Updates that automatically f**k the PC, there was one well known AVG-update-crash that you'll probably remember but beside that there have been numerous other updates that have a success rate of installing of less than 50%, so you'll have to fix half the PC's manually.
- Updates that will turn the real-time-protection off automatically and not turn it on again (WTF, is this a 'pro' version used in networks and on servers?)
In the end, if you configure AVG to *only* install the AV part (only thing Grisoft is somewhat good at), and stay as far away from the crappy firewall and other bloat you'll save yourself a lot of trouble (and headache).
Why deal with uncertainties about who-killed-who in the past, when you can have a lot more fun with what could be in the future. ... seems an inside job by Hillary is most probable just below a vicious murder by Ted Nugent. Scary!
"Who killed obama?"
you forgot the first two lines:
const int GEORGE_BUSH=1;
const int AL_GORE=GEORGE_BUSH;
IMHO, that is the real reason why people seem to like net radios so much: they rip tracks just like they used to record radio hits on cassette in years past.
Not really, net radio is an always-on source of music, so why record it? Instead of playing that recording you made you can just tune in again...
And when you listen regularly (like at work) you'll hear the same songs again and again so there is even less reason to record it.
Even my cellphone can stream internet radio, so even for portable usage you don't have to rip the stream.
Once there is a 100% all-you-can-eat streaming music service for a fixed fee (i'm hoping last.fm will create this) i'll be the first to ditch my music collection... No need to store that shit locally when you can enjoy all music ever made by man with the click of a button.
WMWifirouter works great, I got over 2mbps constant throughput with multiple laptops connecting over 1 cellphone (that's faster than the cheapest ADSL here). And an unlimited mobile data plan is less than 10 euro in the Netherlands! Only one problem though: the battery drains fast. Even when charging with USB the battery still slowly leaks to 0 and the temperature of the phone goes up. Good thing the program comes with some thermal-overload-shutdown before your phone explodes while you're browsing the internet on a hot summer day... ;-)
For Symbian phones there is also JoikuSpot b.t.w.
But there are several solutions to automatically save some standby power!
This saves me between 5 and 25 watt.
This saves me a COUPLE HUNDRED watt!!!
Well... actually I almost have... The HP Pavilion ZD8000-series has been around for quite some time and offers a much nicer HUGE wide laptop with said real numeric keypad. And the price is at least half of the brandless unit plugged here...
/me wonders what battery life this advertised monstrosity has :)
I have used my ZD8190 for like half a year now, and it is a really nice desktop replacement. Battery life sucks though... Like 1 hour with normal use.
A lot of people complain about the fact that politicians punish Microsoft for bundling software, and of course this is crazy - doesn't Microsoft have the right (and obligation) to give the end user a complete package so they can do all basic tasks with their computer right out of the box (In fact they already included software like Macromedia Flash with IE).
But what most people forget is that this is YOUR OWN FAULT. All computer geeks (that's you Slashdot crowd) have been complaining about unfair Microsoft for years now and this is where it will get you. Politicians never understand the heart of any case, they just hear a complaint, and when enough people complain they will take *some* action to save face, they do not care about the consequences of such an action... When there is compaining about unfair competition of Microsoft they will just make sure Microsoft can't bundle their usefull software with Windows. Finally the end user will pay the price, or worse - Microsoft/{insert any company here} will use the precedence of a case like this to get other companies to include their products.
Long story short: Well done, you got what's coming to you. Complaining to everyone (especially politicians) will NEVER get what you want nor expect.