Anything that's tied to your browser is only useful if you a) leave your system on 24/7 and b) only work from a single machine. Google Reader automatically handles fetching content continually and the read/unread/favorites statuses are always consistent across all browsers accessing it.
I wish I could say that I shared your experience. While I at one point had Vista working reasonably well on one of my systems, it just refuses to play nice with anything I own at this point (including the same machine where it once ran... not great, but on par with XP which is great for Windows standards I guess). I couldn't even get the damn thing to install properly using Boot Camp on my Mac Pro, and if any system has the horsepower to run Vista, that thing does. To its credit, it works as expected in a VM on the same system, save for the lack of Aero Glass due to the VMWare graphics drivers.
It's got a lot of great improvements over XP, and I'd really like to prefer it. However for every major improvement in usability (Start Menu quicksearch, for example), it seems like they had two other areas take a turn for the worse (getting to the properties of anything takes about twice as many clicks; network filesharing is flaky as hell and typically equally slow). Perhaps it's a factor of familarity, but at least I was used to the nonsensical method to get to various settings in XP, where now I need a longer and even more nonsensical method to get to the same setting in Vista.
Not that it's Microsoft's fault, but it seems that nVidia is still giving out problem Vista drivers, at least for my card. A system that works with 100% reliability (again, as far as Windows goes) in XP can't even recover from system standby in Vista without a flood of irreversible graphical anomalies that can only be fixed by a hard reboot.
Whatever. I'll stick with OS X, thank you very much. It's still software and as such is imperfect, but it's far more stable, just about everything is where you'd expect it to be (file sharing under the sharing section of system preferences? no wai!), and the apps that I use day-to-day are a hell of a lot better.
China is world-renowned for their rampant piracy (see: Windows). It would seem that they start caring when they "own" the content, rather than someone else. Or perhaps the Chinese government gets a cut of sales of knock-off copies of XP; I have no idea nor do I think it's especially relevant to the point at hand.
And make no mistake, the anti-piracy organizations in the US would shoot you without a second thought if they could get away with it, and then sue your family for the cost of the bullet.
You can't blame just the MPAA, here. While look for Linux distros on TPB's top 100 *cough*, I found that the I-don't-have-words-to-describe-something-that-stupid show "So You Think You Can Dance" is among the top ten videos.
The latest Mummy movie taking the top spot may be the fault of the MPAA, but it's unfair even to them to claim that they had anything to do with the trashiest of reality TV.
If studios start producing decent content again, they'll have something worthwhile to sell rather than touting how awesome having over a thousand lines of resolution can make the experience. I'm not denying that it looks better, but if image quality is your main concern than it's really not worth watching.
By the time Blu-Ray burners and media are reasonably priced, you'll have a good enough internet connection to negate the need for the higher density media.
Welcome to the global economy. Also do consider that the cost of living is not the same over there as it is here. Even just within the US, look at Silicon Valley and... I dunno... Kansas? You're comparing apples to bowling balls.
If the price in USD hasn't increased at greater than the rate of inflation, then your overall cost has decreased. It may not be obvious as the dollar figure didn't drop, but a dollar isn't worth what it used to be worth these days.
Of course, the amount that your employer covers may have gone down considerably too; there's no need for them to discuss that with you, nor do they have any obligation to lower your costs accordingly.
But the sad fact is people wanted cheap, and they got cheap. In order to meet the financial demands of customers, they had to reduce space to increase seating capacity; I don't blame the airlines, I blame us. Same thing with WalMart... complain all you want, but if people continue to shop there, they will continue to take over and close out smaller businesses. People prefer cheapness over quality.
People who don't realize that Wal-Mart's half-price socks wear out four times faster prefer cheapness over quality, and they end up spending more in the long run. Not everyone is that foolish. Most, but not all.
Well legally speaking, a corporation "is" a person (in the sense that it can own property, write checks, etc). The government, on the other hand, well... it's the government. It'll do what it damn well pleases and you'll like it.
It depends what you're doing, but IE7 tends to respect my CSS fairly well, all things considered. A couple of pixels off here and there, but nothing too horrible most of the time (that could come down to a matter of luck or just knowing the right tricks to use beforehand though, like text-align:center; in the parent of the div that gets the margin: 0 auto; [and the text-align:left; to correct previous] for IE centering).
IE6, on the other hand... well, <!--[if LTE IE6]><style type="text/css">* { display: none; }</style><![endif]--> should get the point across well enough.
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Why don't you tell that to my dozen Hummer H2s.
Anything that's tied to your browser is only useful if you a) leave your system on 24/7 and b) only work from a single machine. Google Reader automatically handles fetching content continually and the read/unread/favorites statuses are always consistent across all browsers accessing it.
I wish I could say that I shared your experience. While I at one point had Vista working reasonably well on one of my systems, it just refuses to play nice with anything I own at this point (including the same machine where it once ran... not great, but on par with XP which is great for Windows standards I guess). I couldn't even get the damn thing to install properly using Boot Camp on my Mac Pro, and if any system has the horsepower to run Vista, that thing does. To its credit, it works as expected in a VM on the same system, save for the lack of Aero Glass due to the VMWare graphics drivers.
It's got a lot of great improvements over XP, and I'd really like to prefer it. However for every major improvement in usability (Start Menu quicksearch, for example), it seems like they had two other areas take a turn for the worse (getting to the properties of anything takes about twice as many clicks; network filesharing is flaky as hell and typically equally slow). Perhaps it's a factor of familarity, but at least I was used to the nonsensical method to get to various settings in XP, where now I need a longer and even more nonsensical method to get to the same setting in Vista.
Not that it's Microsoft's fault, but it seems that nVidia is still giving out problem Vista drivers, at least for my card. A system that works with 100% reliability (again, as far as Windows goes) in XP can't even recover from system standby in Vista without a flood of irreversible graphical anomalies that can only be fixed by a hard reboot.
Whatever. I'll stick with OS X, thank you very much. It's still software and as such is imperfect, but it's far more stable, just about everything is where you'd expect it to be (file sharing under the sharing section of system preferences? no wai!), and the apps that I use day-to-day are a hell of a lot better.
China is world-renowned for their rampant piracy (see: Windows). It would seem that they start caring when they "own" the content, rather than someone else. Or perhaps the Chinese government gets a cut of sales of knock-off copies of XP; I have no idea nor do I think it's especially relevant to the point at hand.
And make no mistake, the anti-piracy organizations in the US would shoot you without a second thought if they could get away with it, and then sue your family for the cost of the bullet.
And ThePirateBay has exclusive broadcast rights for Sweden. The only difference here is that they're quite unlikely to pay their license fees.
You can't blame just the MPAA, here. While look for Linux distros on TPB's top 100 *cough*, I found that the I-don't-have-words-to-describe-something-that-stupid show "So You Think You Can Dance" is among the top ten videos.
The latest Mummy movie taking the top spot may be the fault of the MPAA, but it's unfair even to them to claim that they had anything to do with the trashiest of reality TV.
If studios start producing decent content again, they'll have something worthwhile to sell rather than touting how awesome having over a thousand lines of resolution can make the experience. I'm not denying that it looks better, but if image quality is your main concern than it's really not worth watching.
By the time Blu-Ray burners and media are reasonably priced, you'll have a good enough internet connection to negate the need for the higher density media.
Not according to them.
If you're not sharing your public key... umm, I'm no cryptologist, but that doesn't seem very public, does it?
What the hell is this, Schrödinger's Mod Point?
Welcome to the global economy. Also do consider that the cost of living is not the same over there as it is here. Even just within the US, look at Silicon Valley and... I dunno... Kansas? You're comparing apples to bowling balls.
Indeed. And saving seven cents isn't at all worth the mental anguish associated with subjecting yourself to Wal-mart.
If the price in USD hasn't increased at greater than the rate of inflation, then your overall cost has decreased. It may not be obvious as the dollar figure didn't drop, but a dollar isn't worth what it used to be worth these days.
Of course, the amount that your employer covers may have gone down considerably too; there's no need for them to discuss that with you, nor do they have any obligation to lower your costs accordingly.
Why the hell would you fly that over? We have this thing called the Internet, and this protocol called SFTP. You may want to look into them.
People who don't realize that Wal-Mart's half-price socks wear out four times faster prefer cheapness over quality, and they end up spending more in the long run. Not everyone is that foolish. Most, but not all.
Ok, your spouse/child/relative is on the plane. What now?
So what you're really saying is that you need a mop to wipe up the remains of my exploded head.
Thanks for that.
Let's not forget the crowbar.
True, but I've yet to come across the hot chick that'll give me a blowjob while I attempt to crack the password :(
Having a strong defense and completely misusing resources that were allocated for said defense are two entirely separate issues.
<nazi type="grammar">
alias 'sandwitch'='sandwich'
</nazi>
In Soviet Russia, insensitive sharks tote Fibonacci, you Hitler-based laser crystal!
Well legally speaking, a corporation "is" a person (in the sense that it can own property, write checks, etc). The government, on the other hand, well... it's the government. It'll do what it damn well pleases and you'll like it.
It depends what you're doing, but IE7 tends to respect my CSS fairly well, all things considered. A couple of pixels off here and there, but nothing too horrible most of the time (that could come down to a matter of luck or just knowing the right tricks to use beforehand though, like text-align:center; in the parent of the div that gets the margin: 0 auto; [and the text-align:left; to correct previous] for IE centering).
IE6, on the other hand... well, <!--[if LTE IE6]><style type="text/css">* { display: none; }</style><![endif]--> should get the point across well enough.