And exactly how many Libraries of Congress-worth of information will be generated? And where is the automobile analogy??? This place looks more and more like D*gg every day.
Is it not possible that the infection rates are dropping (or are low) because of the comprehensive immunization programmes in place in most developed nations?
How much more per month would you be willing to pay for MSFT to provide data centers and low-latency, high-bandwidth network connections in all the major population centers of the world?
Personally my Live account is priced just right. I don't mind hosting games - and I will drop from a laggy/stuttering game if I'm not hosting.
The design reminds me of the way bittorrent distributes the load. It reduces the MSFT infrastructure needs to a few "tracker"-type servers and then cuts them out of the loop. It's easier for them to provide reliable, robust infrastructure and keeps their costs down; and thus they can price competitively.
Only if you can get an app that uses libFLAC onto the iPhone.
AFAIK iTunes doesn't play/support FLAC files natively so I'm guessing the iPhone doesn't either.
Agreed. Some sales reports of the recent Wal-Mart price cut of the Toshiba HD-A2 suggest sales in excess of 90,000 HD-DVD players in the last couple of weeks... http://www.videobusiness.com/article/CA6498141.html Whereas Blu-Ray players are gathering dust.
I'm personally staying out of this mess until there's a single, industry-wide standard. And it doesn't look like Blu-Ray is going to be it. Take a look at this Gizmodo article http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/exclusive/the-state-of-blu+ray-320077.php describing the THREE Blu-Ray ""Profiles". Holy crap. As if there wasn't enough confusion in the typical consumer's mind.
I guess you haven't seen "Once Upon a Time in the West" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064116/ The credits are widely regarded as a masterpiece in themselves. They last for about 10 minutes into the movie and actively contribute to the pacing and epic quality of the movie.
So, if one fools one's dupe with the come-on: "It's a codec you need to view these files," it's a pretty good scam. All of the additional clicking and password-entering will be motivated by the same reason why the user downloaded and installed the codecs I mentioned above. You can avoid using the porn^H^H^H^H media site's codecs if they use one of the more common formats such as wmv, divx/xvid/3ivx, mpeg4/mp4. There are excellent open source media players and codecs available for Macs.
I use the Perian codec http://www.perian.org/ and the VLC player http://www.videolan.org/. Both are FOSS and both work very well for me on Tiger (Intel and PowerPC). I haven't looked through the source code; so I don't know if they built in a keylogger etc.
Afterwards, with UAC on, mysteriously all the executable files cannot be run at all, even answering "Allow" to the UAC prompts. Useless. Permission repairing, setting security, etc., I could not figure out how to get those executable installers running again. If the UAC is on: try right-clicking on the installer executable and choosing "run as administrator" (can't remember the exact wording - I'm posting from my Mac). The UAC uses a "manifest" file to determine what privileges an executable needs; but most current apps and installers do not have said manifests.... hence the sucky behaviour.
The problem is that not everyone can afford a $3k gaming rig; nor do they necessarily want to spend the time/energy keeping the thing running; or paying through the nose for perpetual upgrades. Screw that!
I love the fact that I can pick up any Xbox game and play it on my utterly standard 360. Whereas when I was into PC gaming I had to scrutinize the box to work out if the game would even install on my year-old PC.
So yes, PC games are capable of vastly better graphics and audio but that doesn't necessarily make the game better, neither does it reach the broadest market. Unlike/.-ers most home gamers want a game "appliance" with the complexity of a toaster (maybe less).
To my mind this is the single biggest reason to even think about installing 2008. I work in a mixed Windows/*nix environment - and when I want to quickly check config or run a script I don't want to fire up Remote Desktop/PCAnyWhere/whatever to connect to a fileserver. I'm faster with a CLI. Furthermore - why do my fricking Windows AD Domain Controllers need a fatass GUI eating up resources? Unnecessary. GUI admin tools that run on an admin's Windows PC: that I can understand.
And yes, I do know about the Winternals/Sysinternals/Resource Kit tools and the new Vista scripting engine etc. sshd would be fricking awesomer.
Problem with that is that she'll wonder why you still don't have a deck; and why the damn car never starts on damp days and then she'll see your goatse and 420chan archives. Cue marital apocalypse.
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Here's the thing: those rants are quickly becoming more annoying than the actual problems. Have you ever sat next to a loud, yammering jackass on a commuter bus or train? I'd guess not. In the mass transit zones around major cities it's a total nightmare. (Except Tokyo - people talk on their 'phones but lower their voices and shield their mouth/microphone with a cupped hand.)
Now imagine that hell on a crowded 'plane where you can't move away and you could be shot by an air marshall if you punch the dickhead.
If someone is on a 'plane ranting about fat people taking up too much room etc the cabin crew would take action. So how can you say that the rants are more annoying than the actual problems? If you're reading the rants on/. just move to the next comment, close the browser, get back to work etc... Lots of options for escaping. Being forced to listen to half of a boring, self-important conversation would probably be more like having the/. rants randomly popup as modal dialogue windows forcing you to click to acknowledge and close them.
Basically I have no faith that people will behave with consideration and courtesy towards their fellow passengers so we shouldn't even give them the chance to make cattle class even worse. And no I don't feel I should have to pay a premium for the cellphone-free section.
If the airlines absolutely must do this I hope they set up designated areas to stand and talk (another poster's suggestion of the wing or the ground seems reasonable) with a time limit and a limit to the number of assholes.
The fact that companies hire iSupply doesn't mean that iSupply know what they're doing. Haven't you ever worked in a company that hired "Consultants" that don't know their asses from their elbows?
Or, if like me you live in the northeastern USA you could wait until the next mass blackout. You could see stars in Times Square.
Interestingly the crime rate didn't go through the roof that night.
Softgrid's been around for at least a couple of years (as Softricity's Softgrid). M$FT acquired the company and is rolling the product into the "Desktop Optimization Pack".
We implemented Softgrid in our company a few years ago - works like a charm. It's wonderful for those awful apps that are extremely sensitive to.dll or OS version levels or cannot play nicely with other apps. It is also a great solution for a Citrix environment - apps are deployed quickly and they are not natively installed on the servers.
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/jul0 6/07-17SoftricityPR.mspx
There are competing products (Altiris SVS for example) but Softgrid was our preference.
BTW I have no financial or other connection with any of the companies I've mentioned.
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And exactly how many Libraries of Congress-worth of information will be generated? And where is the automobile analogy??? This place looks more and more like D*gg every day.
And you must hit balls in golf.
Is it not possible that the infection rates are dropping (or are low) because of the comprehensive immunization programmes in place in most developed nations?
How much more per month would you be willing to pay for MSFT to provide data centers and low-latency, high-bandwidth network connections in all the major population centers of the world?
Personally my Live account is priced just right. I don't mind hosting games - and I will drop from a laggy/stuttering game if I'm not hosting.
The design reminds me of the way bittorrent distributes the load. It reduces the MSFT infrastructure needs to a few "tracker"-type servers and then cuts them out of the loop. It's easier for them to provide reliable, robust infrastructure and keeps their costs down; and thus they can price competitively.
Must have been a really good shirt.
Install one of these suckers in the next iPod/iPhone and all those whiners complaining about the battery replacement fee will shut up.
Only if you can get an app that uses libFLAC onto the iPhone.
AFAIK iTunes doesn't play/support FLAC files natively so I'm guessing the iPhone doesn't either.
Agreed. Some sales reports of the recent Wal-Mart price cut of the Toshiba HD-A2 suggest sales in excess of 90,000 HD-DVD players in the last couple of weeks... http://www.videobusiness.com/article/CA6498141.html Whereas Blu-Ray players are gathering dust.
I'm personally staying out of this mess until there's a single, industry-wide standard. And it doesn't look like Blu-Ray is going to be it. Take a look at this Gizmodo article http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/exclusive/the-state-of-blu+ray-320077.php describing the THREE Blu-Ray ""Profiles". Holy crap. As if there wasn't enough confusion in the typical consumer's mind.
I guess you haven't seen "Once Upon a Time in the West" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064116/
The credits are widely regarded as a masterpiece in themselves. They last for about 10 minutes into the movie and actively contribute to the pacing and epic quality of the movie.
You can avoid using the porn^H^H^H^H media site's codecs if they use one of the more common formats such as wmv, divx/xvid/3ivx, mpeg4/mp4. There are excellent open source media players and codecs available for Macs.
I use the Perian codec http://www.perian.org/ and the VLC player http://www.videolan.org/. Both are FOSS and both work very well for me on Tiger (Intel and PowerPC). I haven't looked through the source code; so I don't know if they built in a keylogger etc.
If the UAC is on: try right-clicking on the installer executable and choosing "run as administrator" (can't remember the exact wording - I'm posting from my Mac). The UAC uses a "manifest" file to determine what privileges an executable needs; but most current apps and installers do not have said manifests.... hence the sucky behaviour.
The problem is that not everyone can afford a $3k gaming rig; nor do they necessarily want to spend the time/energy keeping the thing running; or paying through the nose for perpetual upgrades. Screw that!
/.-ers most home gamers want a game "appliance" with the complexity of a toaster (maybe less).
I love the fact that I can pick up any Xbox game and play it on my utterly standard 360. Whereas when I was into PC gaming I had to scrutinize the box to work out if the game would even install on my year-old PC.
So yes, PC games are capable of vastly better graphics and audio but that doesn't necessarily make the game better, neither does it reach the broadest market. Unlike
To my mind this is the single biggest reason to even think about installing 2008. I work in a mixed Windows/*nix environment - and when I want to quickly check config or run a script I don't want to fire up Remote Desktop/PCAnyWhere/whatever to connect to a fileserver. I'm faster with a CLI. Furthermore - why do my fricking Windows AD Domain Controllers need a fatass GUI eating up resources? Unnecessary. GUI admin tools that run on an admin's Windows PC: that I can understand.
And yes, I do know about the Winternals/Sysinternals/Resource Kit tools and the new Vista scripting engine etc. sshd would be fricking awesomer.
Problem with that is that she'll wonder why you still don't have a deck; and why the damn car never starts on damp days and then she'll see your goatse and 420chan archives. Cue marital apocalypse.
http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2007/10/15/portal-the-skinny/
Have you ever sat next to a loud, yammering jackass on a commuter bus or train? I'd guess not. In the mass transit zones around major cities it's a total nightmare. (Except Tokyo - people talk on their 'phones but lower their voices and shield their mouth/microphone with a cupped hand.)
Now imagine that hell on a crowded 'plane where you can't move away and you could be shot by an air marshall if you punch the dickhead.
If someone is on a 'plane ranting about fat people taking up too much room etc the cabin crew would take action. So how can you say that the rants are more annoying than the actual problems? If you're reading the rants on
Basically I have no faith that people will behave with consideration and courtesy towards their fellow passengers so we shouldn't even give them the chance to make cattle class even worse. And no I don't feel I should have to pay a premium for the cellphone-free section.
If the airlines absolutely must do this I hope they set up designated areas to stand and talk (another poster's suggestion of the wing or the ground seems reasonable) with a time limit and a limit to the number of assholes.
It was just a proof of concept. It was scrapped before development on the production release started.
The fact that companies hire iSupply doesn't mean that iSupply know what they're doing. Haven't you ever worked in a company that hired "Consultants" that don't know their asses from their elbows?
Or, if like me you live in the northeastern USA you could wait until the next mass blackout. You could see stars in Times Square.
Interestingly the crime rate didn't go through the roof that night.
You just need to pass the vapour through some kind of cold coil to recover it. No alcohol lost; and it could be purer than before.
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Who are you fooling? "girlfriend"? On
Softgrid's been around for at least a couple of years (as Softricity's Softgrid). M$FT acquired the company and is rolling the product into the "Desktop Optimization Pack".
.dll or OS version levels or cannot play nicely with other apps. It is also a great solution for a Citrix environment - apps are deployed quickly and they are not natively installed on the servers.
0 6/07-17SoftricityPR.mspx
We implemented Softgrid in our company a few years ago - works like a charm. It's wonderful for those awful apps that are extremely sensitive to
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/jul
There are competing products (Altiris SVS for example) but Softgrid was our preference.
BTW I have no financial or other connection with any of the companies I've mentioned.
Shouldn't you wrap that in a loop and print it 8 million times?
Aren't Lamborghinis made by a tractor company? No conversion necessary.
You save $20 (10%) and get over $100-worth of movies. So the saving is substantial (if you want the movies).