I have no idea what version of XP sp2 the TFA author was using, because I've probably never had a crash over the numerous years I've used it. XP is by far the most stable OS of them all.
However, anecdotally atleast, I keep hearing of Vista crashing all the time. So the author claiming Vista is more stable than XP sp2 is just a load of bull, which makes me doubt the rest of his story.
Your "irregular heart beat" could have been heart burn, and changing to a more healthy diet could easily have been the curing factor. Also stress and other factors could cause it.
I don't reccommend eating food with lots of MSG in it, you should never just eat one type of food. But some every now and then is not going to hurt you.
This was actually what I was wondering. DirectX10 could be the problem as well. Vista so far seems quite unpopular and forcing gamers to it isn't going making anyone happy.
This is infact not normal behaviour, I don't know where you got this from. In countries with functioning mobile phone markets (that would be almost everywhere else except the US) the customers will quickly abandon any company cripling their phones for another one.
I agree with you fully. There certainly are problems, especially the one you mentioned. The difference between Wikipedia and Enc.Britannica is, that Britannica won't change whereas Wikipedia apparently HAS that ability.
There are a few minor issues I have with the new winds blowing over at Wikipedia, but these are not pressing enough for me to get all worked up over them.
Over all I'm positively surprised at Wikipedia's ability to continually get better, work on not only the content but also the form factor.
A greater emphasis on references and citations has greatly contributed to some articles.
There are a few problems, such as the fact that important and well known scientists are still reluctant to contribute.
Overall though, Wikipedia is continually evolving and getting better, which is a whole lot more than can be said about Britannica or any other encyclopedia which have pretty much kept to their centuries old methods ideas.
Opera is hardly an ideal solution. It's got lots of nice features, hell, I'm even using it right now.
I wish someone would de-bloat Opera, then add to it the usability and customization of Firefox.
It's like the world is currently devoid of the perfect browser, but if you could combine the best parts of most browsers, you'd have it.
I do agree that Firefox is starting to suffer from bloat as well. My suggestion is to trim it down and come up with "official" extensions giving it features that currently come as standard (and hopefully don't suck up memory like it's going out of style).
I suspect Asustek's EEE PC is one reason they decided to join. They're going to hit the po' folks crowd with a $200 dollar laptop and let OLPC worry about indoctrinating their children.
I remember reading an article about schools in the US who have given out laptops to children. The article concluded, that laptops have been a mixed blessing, and certainly have not contributed to higher grades. In fact, they have been deemed a nuisance in the classroom by some, causing disruption and being a distraction to students (surfing porn in class, lol). Maintenance issues have also been cited as a major drawback of such programs.
Of course the OLPC is directed at very young children, children who live in third world countries and have software that is specifically designed for classroom use.
Laptops in classrooms are certainly the future, but the whole thing needs to be well thought out and isn't just a matter of handing out laptops.
Having said that, I do support the OLPC project and hope western countries will realize the benefit of these computers.
Simple: Ubuntu has a charismatic millionaire behind it. That's really all there is to it. Marketing is everything. No, you are simply wrong. I've been an off-and-on linux user for a few years now, but I've always gone back to XP due to never coming to grips with using the command line and hating it when you have get something to work it's a pain in the ass to get working.
Also installing programs was always so easy with XP and a pain with most linux distros.
Now with Ubuntu, I've for the VERY FIRST TIME ran into a distro that is in many respects better than XP! I'm astounded by how much better the usability is.
Not only that, but it's the first distro that's totally agreeable to the "don't click that, computer will explode" -crowd.
I've been saying they need something like this for a long time. Your phone could be equivalent to an earpiece and any surfing the web or anything more complex than calling and texting could be done with your internet tablet which you may or may not want to bring along.
I find it interesting, that the US has probably the most liberalized mobile communication market out there -and is always lagging behind the rest of the world in mobile phone technology.
This even though it's one of the top economies in the world.
Most popular phones are old fashioned, the service is lacking, spotty and uses several standards and only in the US could they come out with a brand new smart phone and NOT feature 3G on it -and sell a shitton of them anyway!
I find his device bizarrely fascinating specifically because I don't see his particular cheat just yet. Uhh, there is no device, there is no video, there is nothing to see a cheat or no cheat on.
Just saying it's all hype. So fascinating hype at best.
I should maybe add to this, that parking was easy. Like someone said, you can park nose first (not a problem in "no rules" Greece) and even if you can't park that way, parallel parking with it is about as easy as it gets.
I also like the "mini race car" look of it, the fat rear tires and how the wheels stick out.
Another bonus is the hi-tech style of the thing. It's packed with electronics and it has that "modern computer car" feel to it. While all you do is steer, accelerate or brake, the car does all kinds of things do make it do these.
A lot of people here have compared it to other cars, but there really isn't anything quite like it. The closest competitors I think are the Toyota Aygo and Chevrolet Matiz. Granted, these seat more people, but are longer and lower down, have larger engines, aren't rear wheel drive and aren't full of hi-tech. Also neither of these is sold in the US.
I was skeptical at first, but figured I'd rent it for the experience. Having driven it for two days I'm a total convert. When you get into it, you notice that it not only has plenty of room inside for two people and their stuff, but that you actually sit higher up than in most regular cars. The car seems quite stable, even at speed up to 100kmh and probably faster, but I didn't really have a chance to take it any faster an this.
The suspension is maybe a bit too hard and sporty in it's feel, you can feel rough roads a bit too well. The interior quality was excellent and I like the dash design. The seats were very comfy and it was very easy to find a good seating position. Like I said, there's plenty of room for even big and tall people.
The engine is small and turbo charged and has plenty of oomh, though only at higher rpm's and you have to wait for the turbo to spool. It has six gears and an automatic transmission. You can use the shifter to go up and down the gears on your own or switch it into automatic. My only gripe is the automatic taking way too long to downshift when you want to surge, but supposedly that's been fixed in the newer version (ours was the 1st gen).
Really truly the best part was the pitiful amount of fuel it used. I filled the tank up as soon as I got it, and the gauge indicated a full tank (a very unscientific 5 bar gauge) when I returned it to the rental place. I actually felt a bit cheated by it, since I didn't use most of the gas I put in the tank:(
Like I said, I have reservations about high speed handling in an emergency. I've seen the crash test videos, and I believe the car to be safe enough in crash, it's avoiding one I'm still not sure about. The car does have every electronic measure available, ABS, stability control and other stuff, but I didn't want to test it on public roads.
On the other hand, most SUV's will flip easily if you do a high speed left-right, so it's a matter of being careful I guess.
My other gripe is the transmission, though I can live with it and as I said, it's been fixed in the newer model.
All in all, I'm seriously looking into buying one as a second car. A Smart would fulfill about 95% of my motoring needs, but I would still need my current large gas guzzler for transporting more than me and my spouse and driving to see our relatives through elk infested wintry roads at night.
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I have no idea what version of XP sp2 the TFA author was using, because I've probably never had a crash over the numerous years I've used it. XP is by far the most stable OS of them all.
However, anecdotally atleast, I keep hearing of Vista crashing all the time. So the author claiming Vista is more stable than XP sp2 is just a load of bull, which makes me doubt the rest of his story.
Your "irregular heart beat" could have been heart burn, and changing to a more healthy diet could easily have been the curing factor. Also stress and other factors could cause it.
I don't reccommend eating food with lots of MSG in it, you should never just eat one type of food. But some every now and then is not going to hurt you.
Remember that movie Brazil by Terry Gilliam? They botch the paperwork and Buttle instead of Tuttle gets arrested by the swat team.
Also, the clip is on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIDggzJ1mWc
This was actually what I was wondering. DirectX10 could be the problem as well. Vista so far seems quite unpopular and forcing gamers to it isn't going making anyone happy.
Multilingual typing, or atleast an easy way to switch between languages.
So if they could fix the problem of having to click to focus a window instead of just pointing to focus? It's the little things that count you know.
Click here for hot sexy Arabic babes frolicking on the beach! Satisfaction guaranteed!
Actually, Kerala in India is one of the richer states of India and is *gasp* socialist.
This is infact not normal behaviour, I don't know where you got this from. In countries with functioning mobile phone markets (that would be almost everywhere else except the US) the customers will quickly abandon any company cripling their phones for another one.
Sorry for being inaccurate, I meant "well known and important in their respective scientific communities" not "popular science" -well known.
I agree with you fully. There certainly are problems, especially the one you mentioned. The difference between Wikipedia and Enc.Britannica is, that Britannica won't change whereas Wikipedia apparently HAS that ability.
Hopefully things will change.
There are a few minor issues I have with the new winds blowing over at Wikipedia, but these are not pressing enough for me to get all worked up over them.
Over all I'm positively surprised at Wikipedia's ability to continually get better, work on not only the content but also the form factor.
A greater emphasis on references and citations has greatly contributed to some articles.
There are a few problems, such as the fact that important and well known scientists are still reluctant to contribute.
Overall though, Wikipedia is continually evolving and getting better, which is a whole lot more than can be said about Britannica or any other encyclopedia which have pretty much kept to their centuries old methods ideas.
Ha, ran in to this on Digg myself and immediately got a red warning light flashing in my head.
I do think it's worth posting about on Slashdot since it'll get a better quality debunking here than on Digg.
Opera is hardly an ideal solution. It's got lots of nice features, hell, I'm even using it right now.
I wish someone would de-bloat Opera, then add to it the usability and customization of Firefox.
It's like the world is currently devoid of the perfect browser, but if you could combine the best parts of most browsers, you'd have it.
I do agree that Firefox is starting to suffer from bloat as well. My suggestion is to trim it down and come up with "official" extensions giving it features that currently come as standard (and hopefully don't suck up memory like it's going out of style).
I suspect Asustek's EEE PC is one reason they decided to join. They're going to hit the po' folks crowd with a $200 dollar laptop and let OLPC worry about indoctrinating their children.
I remember reading an article about schools in the US who have given out laptops to children. The article concluded, that laptops have been a mixed blessing, and certainly have not contributed to higher grades. In fact, they have been deemed a nuisance in the classroom by some, causing disruption and being a distraction to students (surfing porn in class, lol). Maintenance issues have also been cited as a major drawback of such programs.
Of course the OLPC is directed at very young children, children who live in third world countries and have software that is specifically designed for classroom use.
Laptops in classrooms are certainly the future, but the whole thing needs to be well thought out and isn't just a matter of handing out laptops.
Having said that, I do support the OLPC project and hope western countries will realize the benefit of these computers.
Also installing programs was always so easy with XP and a pain with most linux distros.
Now with Ubuntu, I've for the VERY FIRST TIME ran into a distro that is in many respects better than XP! I'm astounded by how much better the usability is.
Not only that, but it's the first distro that's totally agreeable to the "don't click that, computer will explode" -crowd.
I've been saying they need something like this for a long time. Your phone could be equivalent to an earpiece and any surfing the web or anything more complex than calling and texting could be done with your internet tablet which you may or may not want to bring along.
I find it interesting, that the US has probably the most liberalized mobile communication market out there -and is always lagging behind the rest of the world in mobile phone technology.
This even though it's one of the top economies in the world.
Most popular phones are old fashioned, the service is lacking, spotty and uses several standards and only in the US could they come out with a brand new smart phone and NOT feature 3G on it -and sell a shitton of them anyway!
If I remember correctly, the most accurate forecast you can make is "the weather tomorrow will be the same as today".
So probably every little bit helps.
The photo you mention is something that has been seen long before today.
If I make something out of tinfoil and coat hangers and rant on about perpetual energy, the photos of my contraption make it no more real.
Seriously, so far it's been NOTHING but hype. And I've been following this story since it began.
Just saying it's all hype. So fascinating hype at best.
I should maybe add to this, that parking was easy. Like someone said, you can park nose first (not a problem in "no rules" Greece) and even if you can't park that way, parallel parking with it is about as easy as it gets.
I also like the "mini race car" look of it, the fat rear tires and how the wheels stick out.
Another bonus is the hi-tech style of the thing. It's packed with electronics and it has that "modern computer car" feel to it. While all you do is steer, accelerate or brake, the car does all kinds of things do make it do these.
A lot of people here have compared it to other cars, but there really isn't anything quite like it. The closest competitors I think are the Toyota Aygo and Chevrolet Matiz. Granted, these seat more people, but are longer and lower down, have larger engines, aren't rear wheel drive and aren't full of hi-tech. Also neither of these is sold in the US.
I just rented out a Smart for two days this week.
:(
I was skeptical at first, but figured I'd rent it for the experience. Having driven it for two days I'm a total convert. When you get into it, you notice that it not only has plenty of room inside for two people and their stuff, but that you actually sit higher up than in most regular cars. The car seems quite stable, even at speed up to 100kmh and probably faster, but I didn't really have a chance to take it any faster an this.
The suspension is maybe a bit too hard and sporty in it's feel, you can feel rough roads a bit too well. The interior quality was excellent and I like the dash design. The seats were very comfy and it was very easy to find a good seating position. Like I said, there's plenty of room for even big and tall people.
The engine is small and turbo charged and has plenty of oomh, though only at higher rpm's and you have to wait for the turbo to spool. It has six gears and an automatic transmission. You can use the shifter to go up and down the gears on your own or switch it into automatic. My only gripe is the automatic taking way too long to downshift when you want to surge, but supposedly that's been fixed in the newer version (ours was the 1st gen).
Really truly the best part was the pitiful amount of fuel it used. I filled the tank up as soon as I got it, and the gauge indicated a full tank (a very unscientific 5 bar gauge) when I returned it to the rental place. I actually felt a bit cheated by it, since I didn't use most of the gas I put in the tank
Like I said, I have reservations about high speed handling in an emergency. I've seen the crash test videos, and I believe the car to be safe enough in crash, it's avoiding one I'm still not sure about. The car does have every electronic measure available, ABS, stability control and other stuff, but I didn't want to test it on public roads.
On the other hand, most SUV's will flip easily if you do a high speed left-right, so it's a matter of being careful I guess.
My other gripe is the transmission, though I can live with it and as I said, it's been fixed in the newer model.
All in all, I'm seriously looking into buying one as a second car. A Smart would fulfill about 95% of my motoring needs, but I would still need my current large gas guzzler for transporting more than me and my spouse and driving to see our relatives through elk infested wintry roads at night.
You are correct of course, I was oversimplifying to try to make a point go through thick skulls.