It's like the summary says: over here in Europe we're upping the pressure on companies that force DRM on consumers, and I feel that US customers should do the same.
oops. Creative Labs offers the "Zen Vision:M", not a "Zen Move". Its features are impressive, especially the USB host function (for the 80MB variety) and the FM tuner/recorder.
According to CNET, there's a bunch of entries in the 30GB category: linky
In practice there's 2 colour varieties of iPod, 7 of Creative labs Zen Move and 2 of Zune. There's also a device by Cowon and finally the Zune twin brother by Toshiba.
As for no. 2, the way I see it, instead of Qui-Gon Jin, it should have been Samuel L Jackson's character on the other side of the barrier, and *then* there could have been some serious conversation between the 2 of them...
It's not so much a matter of panicking, I think. It's more of rethinking how important do people think national borders really are. Land has been disputed for ages in civilized and uncivilized countries as well, causing millions to die or to be displaced. Now, it seems that a lot of land will be lost to sea, affecting both rich and poor nations.
Even if not much else changes, and I'm thinking of disaster movie scenarios, there is going to be a lot of cold(er) water where before there were cities. As the battle against tides becomes obviously a waste of time and resources, there may be a lot of places where there's just not enough land to try carry on business as usual. if/When that time comes, I'm curious to see if sleeping regional conflicts will be more a priority over the emergency displacement of thousands of people.
that would depend on if iPhone will work without a SIM card at all. a lot of GSM phones will not work without SIM except to dial the national emergency number. This being a "smart" phone, I'd expect it to be different, for those folks who want to use it for Wi-Fi / music/video only.
not having Cingular or phone capability on your device is not a problem at all. the prices they disclosed yesterday are for the device under a contract with Cingular, you can just expect to pay a bit extra for a SIM-unlocked iPhone from any electronics retail. Considering the price of Nokia tablets and other similar devices, it should be something like US$859.
and in its place is a steering wheel and foot pedals and a streamlined context-sensitive dash-board control with only a few buttons, but only the buttons that you happen to need at the time
On the demo version I downloaded from MS, the streamlined bla bla bla fails because:
the label on each set of buttons on the ribbon is displayed with the same colour scheme of the buttons - labels don't do anything but they look like they should;
dialog boxes, scroll bars, drop-list boxes and other elements that do not follow the overall theme
In short, it's different, feels strange and not that logical. I'll be missing them toolbars...
A home user willing to change his/her OS of choice may also be interested in VMware player or such:
1) you can try out your new operating system from within your normal OS of choice, without breaking anything (including the bank)
2) for a Windows 98/XP user, there may be benefits from keeping your old, familiar OS running in a virtual machine on top of Linux (or OS X).
This is useful to transfer files from NTFS partitions, from Outlook PST files or simply to go back to some old application you've grown to like or be proficient with. In this case, accessing the virtual windows box with Remote Desktop is a really neat trick.
Not all my PCs have had this, but most PSUs I've used have 2 plugs in them: one to get power from the wall outlet, another to power the screen. If I were to connect the screen to some other source and keep more peripherals running off of the computer's PSU, that would probably shut them down as the computer goes to sleep, right? I'm thinking of speakers, printer, scanner, ie: all the stuff that doesn't do anything when the PC sleeps/is off.
I'm struggling to understand what kind of Firefox security updates can be deemed critical for a linux user... what kind of malware and exploits are they talking about there?
Now all we can do is have the Slashdot effect move outside the borders of teh intarweb. eveytime you see someone considering buying something from Sony, spread some FUD aloud so all shoppers hear you.
At some point this "playing nice with others" becomes a huge issue. Either you try to adapt your users to your policy or you have to adjust your policy to every single user.
I'd support a fork of OOo that made it lighter, even at the expense of "playing nice with others". Remove 80% of features, clean up the remaining 20%, remove all formats but OASIS and that should work well. For all other formats there's www.zamzar.com Users that are uncomfortable with this can buy MS Office or get the full OOo, the remaining people will realise that comitting to the decision of just one format (ODF) is the best for all.
Furthermore, the only people still stuck on Windows 2000 are paranoid weirdos that run all the ATM in my country. and it's working so far therefore I expect them not to mess with the machines for no good reason.
P2P doesn't steal files, users do.... In my experience, people sharing files with P2P don't delete the original after they finish their copy, so let keep the "stealing" out of this, mmmkay?
Most CDs do not have any copy protection and can be copied to a PC and to an MP3 player easily
AFAIK, to be called a "CD", the disk cannot have random protection schemes stuffed in it. Companies should be forbidden from selling such disks as CDs. and pay a fine of EUR0.3 per unit sold. to me.
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It's like the summary says: over here in Europe we're upping the pressure on companies that force DRM on consumers, and I feel that US customers should do the same.
oops. Creative Labs offers the "Zen Vision:M", not a "Zen Move". Its features are impressive, especially the USB host function (for the 80MB variety) and the FM tuner/recorder.
In practice there's 2 colour varieties of iPod, 7 of Creative labs Zen Move and 2 of Zune. There's also a device by Cowon and finally the Zune twin brother by Toshiba.
As for no. 2, the way I see it, instead of Qui-Gon Jin, it should have been Samuel L Jackson's character on the other side of the barrier, and *then* there could have been some serious conversation between the 2 of them...
That would probably be the worst possible way of finding extraterrestrial civilizations...
not enough DRM in it.
Fire up your web browser, drag "home" onto "favourites".
Even if not much else changes, and I'm thinking of disaster movie scenarios, there is going to be a lot of cold(er) water where before there were cities. As the battle against tides becomes obviously a waste of time and resources, there may be a lot of places where there's just not enough land to try carry on business as usual. if/When that time comes, I'm curious to see if sleeping regional conflicts will be more a priority over the emergency displacement of thousands of people.
that would depend on if iPhone will work without a SIM card at all. a lot of GSM phones will not work without SIM except to dial the national emergency number. This being a "smart" phone, I'd expect it to be different, for those folks who want to use it for Wi-Fi / music/video only.
not having Cingular or phone capability on your device is not a problem at all. the prices they disclosed yesterday are for the device under a contract with Cingular, you can just expect to pay a bit extra for a SIM-unlocked iPhone from any electronics retail. Considering the price of Nokia tablets and other similar devices, it should be something like US$859.
perhaps those 5% of people with odd requirements outspend the other 95% of people who don't need bigger disks?
On the demo version I downloaded from MS, the streamlined bla bla bla fails because:
- the label on each set of buttons on the ribbon is displayed with the same colour scheme of the buttons - labels don't do anything but they look like they should;
- dialog boxes, scroll bars, drop-list boxes and other elements that do not follow the overall theme
In short, it's different, feels strange and not that logical. I'll be missing them toolbars...1) you can try out your new operating system from within your normal OS of choice, without breaking anything (including the bank)
2) for a Windows 98/XP user, there may be benefits from keeping your old, familiar OS running in a virtual machine on top of Linux (or OS X).
This is useful to transfer files from NTFS partitions, from Outlook PST files or simply to go back to some old application you've grown to like or be proficient with. In this case, accessing the virtual windows box with Remote Desktop is a really neat trick.
In this case, try naming this upgrade/switch something like "Upgrade from Windows XP to Windows Vista KDE edition".
1 ox, 2 oxen
1 box, 2 boxes?
wtf?
(these are honest questions, english is a foreign language to me)
Not all my PCs have had this, but most PSUs I've used have 2 plugs in them: one to get power from the wall outlet, another to power the screen. If I were to connect the screen to some other source and keep more peripherals running off of the computer's PSU, that would probably shut them down as the computer goes to sleep, right? I'm thinking of speakers, printer, scanner, ie: all the stuff that doesn't do anything when the PC sleeps/is off.
an LCD TV is 2x more energy efficient than a CRT for the same screen size?
I'm struggling to understand what kind of Firefox security updates can be deemed critical for a linux user... what kind of malware and exploits are they talking about there?
Now all we can do is have the Slashdot effect move outside the borders of teh intarweb. eveytime you see someone considering buying something from Sony, spread some FUD aloud so all shoppers hear you.
I'd support a fork of OOo that made it lighter, even at the expense of "playing nice with others". Remove 80% of features, clean up the remaining 20%, remove all formats but OASIS and that should work well. For all other formats there's www.zamzar.com Users that are uncomfortable with this can buy MS Office or get the full OOo, the remaining people will realise that comitting to the decision of just one format (ODF) is the best for all.
I hear Mr. Goatse will be collecting the award in person.
Furthermore, the only people still stuck on Windows 2000 are paranoid weirdos that run all the ATM in my country. and it's working so far therefore I expect them not to mess with the machines for no good reason.
P2P doesn't steal files, users do.... In my experience, people sharing files with P2P don't delete the original after they finish their copy, so let keep the "stealing" out of this, mmmkay?
AFAIK, to be called a "CD", the disk cannot have random protection schemes stuffed in it. Companies should be forbidden from selling such disks as CDs. and pay a fine of EUR0.3 per unit sold. to me.
that would be cool :D