I agree. Vinyl Never vanished, just most people didn't notice that there are still record stores around. We have tons of records. Boston used to be chock-full with record stores. the 2 best punk stores eventually closed and moved online, but there's still plenty around. They pretty much always have people in them.
I mostly love how records (used to) cost $8, with a HUGE piece of beautiful artwork, instead of the same picture miniaturized to 1/4 it's original size!
Having gotten into classical music finally, I definitely notice that records are the only way to capture solo Piano without tons of clipping. CD's definitely suck at the dynamic range the intrument requires.
Saying "Mars ALSO experiences Global Warming" means to me: "Oh sh*t, we're experiencing Global Warming?! who cares about Mars, we're screwed!!!"
truth is: Man made, natural or whatever, if it's happening, it's a big f*ing deal. It's like saying "Hey, we've proven this gigantic asteroid heading towards Earth wasn't or fault. Now we can ignore it!"
If I remember correctly, Apple wasn't allowed to let their music downloads operate just like a CD: The music companies wanted there to be a one-user purchase. Thus this EU guy trying to make it open is like trying to get them to break the deals they made with the the music companies. I wonder if they can comply with the EU and keep the RIAA (or whoever it was) happy.
However, iTunes let's you burn as many CDs as you want of the purchased music, so are they really being that controlling?
PS.I believe there was a SlashDot link/article on how Apple's DRM wasn't implemented for any reason other than the requirement set by the RIAA/recording companies, in return for a licensing deal. Search for it in the Apple section.
Sure, they sound like they're saving the interweb from some kind of creeping disease, but upon reading the article it sounds less benvolent.
"Dyslexic Domain is to pay Microsoft £24,000 ($46,000), returning the profits it is estimated to have made from infringing domain names. [...] Microsoft will also reveal it has recovered 1,100 domain names since it began its campaign against cybersquatting last year."
"Recovering" 1,100 domain names... meaning now MS owns them. Did they just buy every typo variant of "www.microsoft.com" ? In fact, did they just get Paid $48k to acquire them?
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The main thing that popped into my head when I read the/. brief, and then started wondering why it sounds sorta fishy, is this: Can I start suing all those tons of (often large) companies that patent every damn thing they can think of, just so they can make money in the eventuality that someone with some real vision figures out how to do something useful with it?
[right, perhaps the difference here is previously existing "intellectual property". Still it would be great if companies formed just to think up random stuff and wait to make money of someone else's invention, through patent lawsuits only, would get screwed 'cuz I think they're much sleazier than domain squatters]
Sure, they sound like they're saving the interweb from some kind of creeping disease, but upon reading the article it sounds less benvolent.
"Dyslexic Domain is to pay Microsoft £24,000 ($46,000), returning the profits it is estimated to have made from infringing domain names.
[...]
Microsoft will also reveal it has recovered 1,100 domain names since it began its campaign against cybersquatting last year."
"Recovering" 1,100 domain names... meaning now MS owns them. Did they just buy every typo variant of "www.microsoft.com" ?
In fact, did they just get Paid $48k to acquire them?
------
The main thing that popped into my head when I read the/. brief, and then started wondering why it sounds sorta fishy, is this:
Can I start suing all those tons of (often large) companies that patent every damn thing they can think of, just so they can make money in the eventuality that someone with some real vision figures out how to do something useful with it?
[right, perhaps the difference here is previously existing "intellectual property". Still it would be great if companies formed just to think up random stuff and wait to make money of someone else's invention, through patent lawsuits only, would get screwed 'cuz I think they're much sleazier than domain squatters ]
They'll still suck at customer service because they're on the entire WRONG SIDE OF THE PLANET.
Let me talk to someone who works at the company I'm trying to call, Not a company hired via another company by the company I'm trying to call. Direct experience with the product and knowledge of the country and environment your customers are using it in are a big deal (people actually calling customer service are often trying to solve a more-difficult-than-usual problem).
you CAN get people to not drive SUVs, just not if your government absolutely loves the revenue it gets from SUV drivers!
The government is the entity with the ability to curb that sort of behaviour (similar to how they engineer people's driving habits in London using the tolls on the motorways). However, the government first has to care enough to do something about it, and then must actually spring into action (which the US gov't only does for monetary gain, never environmental reasons).
Here's a cool article from my own university, about the recent breakthrough a professor here had with his Indium-Phosphide bonding to Silicon (which is obviously much cheaper to make electronics on. InP is the material needed to make photonics like lasers etc. at optical communications wavelengths). Maybe this will enlighten a few of you that wanted more detail.
http://www.intel.com/research/platform/sp/hybridla ser.htm
The technology splitting up the polarizations of a lightwave is probably a regeneration technology, correcting for 'chirp' or 'dispersion' (a pulse broadening out after travelling) but they got it to work on SIlicon. Maybe even using Bower's InP/Si bonding technology. I'll go try to find the original MIT article and see...
enjoy!
You may be entirely surprised by this, but The google spreadsheet application is AMAZINGLY useful to my research group. There is no other (immediately obvious) way to have 40 people upadte, view or make entries into a spreadsheet. We log our equipment useage on it, and it is basically perfect for this application. Even google's Picasa is Very useful for use to show each other problems we see on our devices and in the lab. Go figure, I can't believe we're using Google's Apps to actually aid our productivity, and it's working so well!
So the OCPN research group here has already gotten our All-Optical packet-routing to work. All optical in that the signals is Never converted from Optical. The switching signals are still electronic, but an integral part of the system is the packet delay (so the signal is delayed while the switches are set).
We, at first, literally used strands of fiber to delay the signal (so a non-variable delay), now we're using the same fiber delay, but between the multiple strands of fiber are the typical 2x2 optical switch (like a Mach-Zender interferometer-based switch), allowing you to switch on/off various delay line segments (thus allowing you to choose the delay, so you can synchronize the incoming signal, etc.). For the next step we'll be integrating this system onto an InP chip (similar to what the article says has been done).
More importantly, what good is IndiumPhoside based technology if everything's made on Silicon??? John Bowers here, recently made the breakthrough in bonding InP to Silicon, paving the way for allowing this technology to actually become useful outside of the long-range communications industry!
Oh, and I've devised some great games using Adobe Photoshop, just a few simple rules, a board with some pieces for the players and hey Presto! A game that's fun for the whole family!!!
This is great, thanks so much for posting this link!
I've been searching for some fun PWOT games for the last 3-4 weeks, and this'll fill the void perfectly!
For those of you that keep saying there's no mac games, I think I know why:
I read the lists of "top 10 games of 2006" and "top 10 indy games" and all those things hoping for some good games: they all sucked.
They're full of fantastical role-playing games, not the kind of game where you can't just open it and play, but instead all these long, drawn out stories: absolutely not what I'm looking for. I want a fun game, not a soap opera or 2 month-long drama. You guys just want a different type of game.
I DID just install BootCamp for a game, in fact. 1/2 year ago, I tried SimCity (in Parallels/Windows), then deleted it. I Tried Halo then deleted it. This time I installed Windows solely for WORMS ARMAGEDDON, the best game ever invented (short of the Mario games)! (Pissed that I have to use BootCamp, it used to work great in VirtualPC, meaning I didn't have to shut down my servers just to play a game! Parallels doesn't do "DirectDraw" or some crap, so I gotta fully restart into Windoze)
So the games I've found are great. Ambrosia Software has Great Mac games (tho I wish they'd update some old one's out of Classic). I even found a new version of CrystalQuest for Mac OS X (in 3D!). That game absolutely kicks ass, the first game ever to really use the mouse as a totally new type of input device.
Also, NES and SNES emulators absolutely rule. Back before insane 3D graphics, people were forced to sell games on gameplay Only. Hey, I'm only 24 and I'm this into retro games, so it's not just nostalgia!
Interesting that it got fixed before it was all over the net that it even existed... who knew about this before the security update was posted (yesterday on my mac)?
A student at The Univ. of California, Santa Barbara just presented research showing the use of multi-junction devices using Gallium Nitride. This is awesome because Nitride materials are very well suited for a HUGE amount of the sun's radiation, and since he managed to perfect a way of sticking several layers of differently absorbing Nitride Materials together in ONE device, we could theoretically see solar cells that absorb the Entire spectrum of the sun's rays in the near future!
Tunnel Junctions - this is how you stick together many different layers of material, each layer with their own optimal absorption range (in terms of wavelength, aka. color): http://www.hitachi-cable.co.jp/ICSFiles/afieldfile /2005/11/28/review07.pdf (sorry, this is the best I could do, there was no simple paper explaining a tunnel junction. "tunnel" is for electron tunneling...)
In essence, you have different layers that absorb only one range of wavelengths (colors of light), and whatever isn't absorbed goes straight through, and the next layer absorbs another range, etc. etc.
As an aside, did you ever wonder how blue LEDs & lasers finally managed to get working? Nitrides paved the way for emission (and absorption) in a range of visible wavelengths, including blue. This is also why they're great for this application.
So I agree with this guy below,
Tho as an avid OS X user, I do have to say that #7 and #8 are not found on my computer.
I MUST point out something I feel most computer users don't get about macs: Mac OS X Tiger, with all it's whistles and bells (and a few more added for good measure) runs absolutely great on my DUAL 450 MHz G4 COMPUTER. Don't ask me how old this computer is. If I hadn't recieved this comp. as a present, I'd still be using my old Single Proc. 400 MHz G4.
So I use it for FTP (and SFTP/SSH), web server (apache, PHP etc.), audio streaming (via web), DVD burning, photoshop (intensively) and all that great stuff, all on my (by PC standards) ancient computer. With the newest OS. All those Dashboard, Exposé, and additional plugs (like multiple desktops, with transitions like 'cubing' for fun) all work.
I'll be DAMNED if I'm ever going to fall for the "Buy a WHOLE new computer every 2 years" B.S., i think that's really stupid. I had a hard drive *start* to act flaky a few years ago, and replaced it. I've NEVER reinstalled the OS from reformatting in 4 or 5 years. If your OS needs the brand-spankin' newest most hardcore processor and graphics card, that it's obviously REALLY BADLY MADE.
(obviously this holds for Linux too, but linux is definitely not for most people. For me, OSX is plenty Linux/Unix. i use the command line often, and install from source occasioanlly, but don't *have* to use command line all the time) I've noticed that every time a new version of OS X came out, it was *faster* that the last, not way way slower, as Vista sounds like it will be.
It's like the difference between getting the newest Honda or Nissan, vs. buying a new BMW or Benz. Pay a bit more, get a lot more that'll last for a longer time.
quote: by Yahweh Doesn't Exist (906833) on Saturday February 18, @09:41AM (#14750091) 1. new firewall almost as good as ZoneAlarm 2. new IE almost as good as Firefox 3. new eye-candy almost as good as OS X 4. new desktop search almost as good as Google Desktop 5. new update program almost as good as Mac Software Update 6. new media programs almost as good as iLife XX -> 7. new parental controls almost as good as proper parenting XX -> 8. new backups almost as good as things not breaking in the first place 9. new P2P almost as good as turning off your firewall 10. new quick install almost as good as all the other planned features that don't actually exist yet
PS. I wonder if quick install is actually anything new. Also, unfortunately any mac user knows that Firefox was a great port of Safari (with a few nice added features). I was really hoping Vista would have something COOL about it, but it's all just catching up with Apple again.
There are 2 GPS systems in the US, if I remember correctly. They may even be from the same sattellites. One is accturate to withing one meter (or so), and theother is accurate to within centimeters. The Military does not authorize public use of the higly accurate one, security issues or something. So we Have the same technology, but the public is not allowed to use it.
I am remembering this from a year ago or so when a TSA guy gave a lecture on GPS at my university.
There was Something that the EU version is supposed to do that ours doesn't, but I don't remember what it was (nothing terribly ground breaking I don't think, but it was something useful), but the primary difference is that theirs is entirely for public use and intended to generally help everyone who chooses to use it (especially government services, like transportation and such), keeping with the general socialist mentality they have that the U.S. doesn't.
I agree with some guy early one, who said users don't need this.
This whole thing must sound great if you're a network admin or something, but I can't say anything about it sounds particularly exciting, or even interesting, as I do not program, make web pages or Admin a huge network.
I don't even know what half the acronyms mean really... I think they don't apply to 90% of computer users. The only thing I've heard about it that sounds slightly useful is the "breadcrumbs" thing, that sounds like a cool feature. If you know what that is,then you know it isn't a terribly big deal, and thus I don't give a crap about WIndows Vista.
I wonder if that's how others feel?
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I agree. Vinyl Never vanished, just most people didn't notice that there are still record stores around. We have tons of records. Boston used to be chock-full with record stores. the 2 best punk stores eventually closed and moved online, but there's still plenty around. They pretty much always have people in them. I mostly love how records (used to) cost $8, with a HUGE piece of beautiful artwork, instead of the same picture miniaturized to 1/4 it's original size! Having gotten into classical music finally, I definitely notice that records are the only way to capture solo Piano without tons of clipping. CD's definitely suck at the dynamic range the intrument requires.
Saying "Mars ALSO experiences Global Warming" means to me:
"Oh sh*t, we're experiencing Global Warming?! who cares about Mars, we're screwed!!!"
truth is: Man made, natural or whatever, if it's happening, it's a big f*ing deal.
It's like saying "Hey, we've proven this gigantic asteroid heading towards Earth wasn't or fault. Now we can ignore it!"
If I remember correctly, Apple wasn't allowed to let their music downloads operate just like a CD:
The music companies wanted there to be a one-user purchase.
Thus this EU guy trying to make it open is like trying to get them to break the deals they made with the the music companies. I wonder if they can comply with the EU and keep the RIAA (or whoever it was) happy.
However, iTunes let's you burn as many CDs as you want of the purchased music, so are they really being that controlling?
PS.I believe there was a SlashDot link/article on how Apple's DRM wasn't implemented for any reason other than the requirement set by the RIAA/recording companies, in return for a licensing deal. Search for it in the Apple section.
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/. brief, and then started wondering why it sounds sorta fishy, is this:
Sure, they sound like they're saving the interweb from some kind of creeping disease, but upon reading the article it sounds less benvolent.
"Dyslexic Domain is to pay Microsoft £24,000 ($46,000), returning the profits it is estimated to have made from infringing domain names.
[...]
Microsoft will also reveal it has recovered 1,100 domain names since it began its campaign against cybersquatting last year."
"Recovering" 1,100 domain names... meaning now MS owns them. Did they just buy every typo variant of "www.microsoft.com" ?
In fact, did they just get Paid $48k to acquire them?
------
The main thing that popped into my head when I read the
Can I start suing all those tons of (often large) companies that patent every damn thing they can think of, just so they can make money in the eventuality that someone with some real vision figures out how to do something useful with it?
[right, perhaps the difference here is previously existing "intellectual property". Still it would be great if companies formed just to think up random stuff and wait to make money of someone else's invention, through patent lawsuits only, would get screwed 'cuz I think they're much sleazier than domain squatters]
Sure, they sound like they're saving the interweb from some kind of creeping disease, but upon reading the article it sounds less benvolent. "Dyslexic Domain is to pay Microsoft £24,000 ($46,000), returning the profits it is estimated to have made from infringing domain names. [...] Microsoft will also reveal it has recovered 1,100 domain names since it began its campaign against cybersquatting last year." "Recovering" 1,100 domain names... meaning now MS owns them. Did they just buy every typo variant of "www.microsoft.com" ? In fact, did they just get Paid $48k to acquire them? ------ The main thing that popped into my head when I read the /. brief, and then started wondering why it sounds sorta fishy, is this:
Can I start suing all those tons of (often large) companies that patent every damn thing they can think of, just so they can make money in the eventuality that someone with some real vision figures out how to do something useful with it?
[right, perhaps the difference here is previously existing "intellectual property". Still it would be great if companies formed just to think up random stuff and wait to make money of someone else's invention, through patent lawsuits only, would get screwed 'cuz I think they're much sleazier than domain squatters ]
They'll still suck at customer service because they're on the entire WRONG SIDE OF THE PLANET. Let me talk to someone who works at the company I'm trying to call, Not a company hired via another company by the company I'm trying to call. Direct experience with the product and knowledge of the country and environment your customers are using it in are a big deal (people actually calling customer service are often trying to solve a more-difficult-than-usual problem).
you CAN get people to not drive SUVs, just not if your government absolutely loves the revenue it gets from SUV drivers! The government is the entity with the ability to curb that sort of behaviour (similar to how they engineer people's driving habits in London using the tolls on the motorways). However, the government first has to care enough to do something about it, and then must actually spring into action (which the US gov't only does for monetary gain, never environmental reasons).
Here's a cool article from my own university, about the recent breakthrough a professor here had with his Indium-Phosphide bonding to Silicon (which is obviously much cheaper to make electronics on. InP is the material needed to make photonics like lasers etc. at optical communications wavelengths). Maybe this will enlighten a few of you that wanted more detail. http://www.intel.com/research/platform/sp/hybridla ser.htm
The technology splitting up the polarizations of a lightwave is probably a regeneration technology, correcting for 'chirp' or 'dispersion' (a pulse broadening out after travelling) but they got it to work on SIlicon. Maybe even using Bower's InP/Si bonding technology. I'll go try to find the original MIT article and see...
enjoy!
You may be entirely surprised by this, but The google spreadsheet application is AMAZINGLY useful to my research group. There is no other (immediately obvious) way to have 40 people upadte, view or make entries into a spreadsheet. We log our equipment useage on it, and it is basically perfect for this application. Even google's Picasa is Very useful for use to show each other problems we see on our devices and in the lab. Go figure, I can't believe we're using Google's Apps to actually aid our productivity, and it's working so well!
So the OCPN research group here has already gotten our All-Optical packet-routing to work. All optical in that the signals is Never converted from Optical. The switching signals are still electronic, but an integral part of the system is the packet delay (so the signal is delayed while the switches are set).
We, at first, literally used strands of fiber to delay the signal (so a non-variable delay), now we're using the same fiber delay, but between the multiple strands of fiber are the typical 2x2 optical switch (like a Mach-Zender interferometer-based switch), allowing you to switch on/off various delay line segments (thus allowing you to choose the delay, so you can synchronize the incoming signal, etc.). For the next step we'll be integrating this system onto an InP chip (similar to what the article says has been done).
More importantly, what good is IndiumPhoside based technology if everything's made on Silicon??? John Bowers here, recently made the breakthrough in bonding InP to Silicon, paving the way for allowing this technology to actually become useful outside of the long-range communications industry!
What you're talking about is the photonic crystal.
The Problem is the loss is WAY too high for practical use.
Oh, and I've devised some great games using Adobe Photoshop, just a few simple rules, a board with some pieces for the players and hey Presto! A game that's fun for the whole family!!!
heheh
This is great, thanks so much for posting this link!
I've been searching for some fun PWOT games for the last 3-4 weeks, and this'll fill the void perfectly!
For those of you that keep saying there's no mac games, I think I know why:
I read the lists of "top 10 games of 2006" and "top 10 indy games" and all those things hoping for some good games: they all sucked.
They're full of fantastical role-playing games, not the kind of game where you can't just open it and play, but instead all these long, drawn out stories: absolutely not what I'm looking for. I want a fun game, not a soap opera or 2 month-long drama. You guys just want a different type of game.
I DID just install BootCamp for a game, in fact. 1/2 year ago, I tried SimCity (in Parallels/Windows), then deleted it. I Tried Halo then deleted it. This time I installed Windows solely for WORMS ARMAGEDDON, the best game ever invented (short of the Mario games)! (Pissed that I have to use BootCamp, it used to work great in VirtualPC, meaning I didn't have to shut down my servers just to play a game! Parallels doesn't do "DirectDraw" or some crap, so I gotta fully restart into Windoze)
So the games I've found are great. Ambrosia Software has Great Mac games (tho I wish they'd update some old one's out of Classic). I even found a new version of CrystalQuest for Mac OS X (in 3D!). That game absolutely kicks ass, the first game ever to really use the mouse as a totally new type of input device.
Also, NES and SNES emulators absolutely rule. Back before insane 3D graphics, people were forced to sell games on gameplay Only. Hey, I'm only 24 and I'm this into retro games, so it's not just nostalgia!
Interesting that it got fixed before it was all over the net that it even existed... who knew about this before the security update was posted (yesterday on my mac)?
A student at The Univ. of California, Santa Barbara just presented research showing the use of multi-junction devices using Gallium Nitride. This is awesome because Nitride materials are very well suited for a HUGE amount of the sun's radiation, and since he managed to perfect a way of sticking several layers of differently absorbing Nitride Materials together in ONE device, we could theoretically see solar cells that absorb the Entire spectrum of the sun's rays in the near future!
u ll-spectrum-solar-cell.html
e /2005/11/28/review07.pdf
Here's some links:
Indium-Gallium-Nitride can be made to absorb the entire spectrum of solar rays:
http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/MSD-f
Tunnel Junctions - this is how you stick together many different layers of material, each layer with their own optimal absorption range (in terms of wavelength, aka. color):
http://www.hitachi-cable.co.jp/ICSFiles/afieldfil
(sorry, this is the best I could do, there was no simple paper explaining a tunnel junction. "tunnel" is for electron tunneling...)
In essence, you have different layers that absorb only one range of wavelengths (colors of light), and whatever isn't absorbed goes straight through, and the next layer absorbs another range, etc. etc.
As an aside, did you ever wonder how blue LEDs & lasers finally managed to get working? Nitrides paved the way for emission (and absorption) in a range of visible wavelengths, including blue. This is also why they're great for this application.
So I agree with this guy below,
Tho as an avid OS X user, I do have to say that #7 and #8 are not found on my computer.
I MUST point out something I feel most computer users don't get about macs:
Mac OS X Tiger, with all it's whistles and bells (and a few more added for good measure) runs absolutely great on my DUAL 450 MHz G4 COMPUTER. Don't ask me how old this computer is. If I hadn't recieved this comp. as a present, I'd still be using my old Single Proc. 400 MHz G4.
So I use it for FTP (and SFTP/SSH), web server (apache, PHP etc.), audio streaming (via web), DVD burning, photoshop (intensively) and all that great stuff, all on my (by PC standards) ancient computer. With the newest OS. All those Dashboard, Exposé, and additional plugs (like multiple desktops, with transitions like 'cubing' for fun) all work.
I'll be DAMNED if I'm ever going to fall for the "Buy a WHOLE new computer every 2 years" B.S., i think that's really stupid. I had a hard drive *start* to act flaky a few years ago, and replaced it. I've NEVER reinstalled the OS from reformatting in 4 or 5 years. If your OS needs the brand-spankin' newest most hardcore processor and graphics card, that it's obviously REALLY BADLY MADE.
(obviously this holds for Linux too, but linux is definitely not for most people. For me, OSX is plenty Linux/Unix. i use the command line often, and install from source occasioanlly, but don't *have* to use command line all the time) I've noticed that every time a new version of OS X came out, it was *faster* that the last, not way way slower, as Vista sounds like it will be.
It's like the difference between getting the newest Honda or Nissan, vs. buying a new BMW or Benz. Pay a bit more, get a lot more that'll last for a longer time.
quote:
by Yahweh Doesn't Exist (906833) on Saturday February 18, @09:41AM (#14750091)
1. new firewall almost as good as ZoneAlarm
2. new IE almost as good as Firefox
3. new eye-candy almost as good as OS X
4. new desktop search almost as good as Google Desktop
5. new update program almost as good as Mac Software Update
6. new media programs almost as good as iLife
XX -> 7. new parental controls almost as good as proper parenting
XX -> 8. new backups almost as good as things not breaking in the first place
9. new P2P almost as good as turning off your firewall
10. new quick install almost as good as all the other planned features that don't actually exist yet
PS. I wonder if quick install is actually anything new. Also, unfortunately any mac user knows that Firefox was a great port of Safari (with a few nice added features). I was really hoping Vista would have something COOL about it, but it's all just catching up with Apple again.
There are 2 GPS systems in the US, if I remember correctly. They may even be from the same sattellites. One is accturate to withing one meter (or so), and theother is accurate to within centimeters. The Military does not authorize public use of the higly accurate one, security issues or something. So we Have the same technology, but the public is not allowed to use it. I am remembering this from a year ago or so when a TSA guy gave a lecture on GPS at my university. There was Something that the EU version is supposed to do that ours doesn't, but I don't remember what it was (nothing terribly ground breaking I don't think, but it was something useful), but the primary difference is that theirs is entirely for public use and intended to generally help everyone who chooses to use it (especially government services, like transportation and such), keeping with the general socialist mentality they have that the U.S. doesn't.
What is WinFS?
I agree with some guy early one, who said users don't need this. This whole thing must sound great if you're a network admin or something, but I can't say anything about it sounds particularly exciting, or even interesting, as I do not program, make web pages or Admin a huge network. I don't even know what half the acronyms mean really... I think they don't apply to 90% of computer users. The only thing I've heard about it that sounds slightly useful is the "breadcrumbs" thing, that sounds like a cool feature. If you know what that is,then you know it isn't a terribly big deal, and thus I don't give a crap about WIndows Vista. I wonder if that's how others feel?