It wouldn't surprise me if a substantial number of those saying they have an "HD DVD player" actually own Blu-Ray devices.
Yes, I was thinking that too. Especially as (if the order in the results table is the same as the order in the questionnaire) the question for HD-DVD is a couple of questions before the one for Blu-Ray, so some of the respondents might not immediately realize the distinction.
If you look at the chart, they've separated out the PS3 owners from the Blu-Ray player owners. Combine the 7% Blu-Ray owners with the 9% PS3 owners, and that's 16%. I'm sure that most PS3 owners didn't feel the need to buy a separate Blu-Ray player.
On the other hand, some of the people who owned a PS3 and no other separate BD player, might have ticked Yes to both questions. In other words, you can't necessarily add together the numbers for BD players and PS3s together, as you may be counting some devices twice.
If you are a cat-lover, I recommend not even reading the first link in TFS. It doesn't contain the video but it does graphically describe what was in it, which has left me quite shaken.
> Possibly, too, those who participate in the Popularity Contests are not typical users of either Ubuntu or Debian.
I don't know about Debian, but the Popularity Contest (listed in the Software Sources window as 'Submit statistical information') is turned off by default in Ubuntu, and I don't expect many people turn it on given people's wish for privacy. So indeed, I don't think the results will be from typical users.
I was going to say that naming a program after your initials wasn't a great idea, except that someone told me that the real 'df' command was written by David Ford. (Sorry, no reference, but David currently works in Oxford University if you want to track him down and ask him).
Yes, this has happened to one of my colleagues where I work. All his workstations are under control of a WSUS server and so should not install any MS updates that he doesn't approve. Yet his workstations all installed the latest Windows Desktop Search client.
I like to try before I buy. Short of finding one in a physical shop, is there any way to play with a demo of the N810 OS? For example, an emulator, or a downloadable virtual machine?
Personally, I would find this service useful as a way to find an episode which you know you've seen in the past but can't remember which one it was, as you could look through them and hopefully recognise it. Or alternatively, if you think you may have missed an episode in a season, you could check through to see which ones you don't recognise. You could then download or buy the full episodes that you want to see from somewhere else. I don't always find that summaries in episode guides are enough to jog my memory, but a video summary might do the trick.
Did the original poster mean to say FrontPage? FrontPage is not an Adobe product, which is what I thought this article was about. Maybe he meant Dreamweaver.
I realise it's only security via obscurity, but I quite like the way that the Firefox cache filenames don't reveal at a glance what type of sites I've been visiting. It can be embarrassing running, for example, a virus scanner over a Windows/IE machine and seeing all the filenames of the pron the person has being viewing!
I don't remember any mirror moving or fire-arrow switch activating puzzles in Twilight Princess (although I suppose the bomb-arrows were similar to fire-arrows). I'm not saying I disagree that Zelda is a bit samey, but it just seemed a strange couple of examples to pick.
I love the series, but I thought Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask were superior to Twilight Princess. Wind Waker was somewhere in between - very good in parts but very disappointing in others.
The Locationbar2 Firefox addon can highlight the hostname to help distinguish it. I realise your point is that this should be built-in rather than an addon (as users who are savvy enough to install addons probably wouldn't get fooled by phishing), but I thought the link was interesting as a model of how it could look.
It's a shame that MAC also refers to Mandatory Access Controls. MAC already means Media Access Control, as in MAC Address. And when I ask someone to tell me their MAC address so I can register them on the network, they sometimes say that they have a PC not a Mac, so it already has at least two IT meanings. What with the new meaning of KVM, it's all getting a bit confusing.
I wouldn't take a laptop, and I wouldn't take an mp3 player either. Apart from the long boring plane trip, you won't need it. Imagine walking around interesting places while listening to the latest pop hits!
Take a PDA if you must, or even better a PDA combined with a phone to take one fewer device. Take plenty of storage cards for your camera, rather than worrying about offloading pics to another device.
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I agree. At small sizes, the motion blur just looks, well, blurry, so I think movement lines would be better.
It wouldn't surprise me if a substantial number of those saying they have an "HD DVD player" actually own Blu-Ray devices.
Yes, I was thinking that too. Especially as (if the order in the results table is the same as the order in the questionnaire) the question for HD-DVD is a couple of questions before the one for Blu-Ray, so some of the respondents might not immediately realize the distinction.
If you look at the chart, they've separated out the PS3 owners from the Blu-Ray player owners. Combine the 7% Blu-Ray owners with the 9% PS3 owners, and that's 16%. I'm sure that most PS3 owners didn't feel the need to buy a separate Blu-Ray player.
On the other hand, some of the people who owned a PS3 and no other separate BD player, might have ticked Yes to both questions. In other words, you can't necessarily add together the numbers for BD players and PS3s together, as you may be counting some devices twice.
If you are a cat-lover, I recommend not even reading the first link in TFS. It doesn't contain the video but it does graphically describe what was in it, which has left me quite shaken.
Well go on then, what was the name of the company? You're posting anonymously, and it doesn't sound like you still work there.
> Possibly, too, those who participate in the Popularity Contests are not typical users of either Ubuntu or Debian.
I don't know about Debian, but the Popularity Contest (listed in the Software Sources window as 'Submit statistical information') is turned off by default in Ubuntu, and I don't expect many people turn it on given people's wish for privacy. So indeed, I don't think the results will be from typical users.
I was going to say that naming a program after your initials wasn't a great idea, except that someone told me that the real 'df' command was written by David Ford. (Sorry, no reference, but David currently works in Oxford University if you want to track him down and ask him).
The release notes don't say what's new since RC1. Does anyone know?
Hmm, I'm getting malware popups from 'trustedbrowser.com' from the site in TFA.
Possibly because I use adblock, I don't know which advert you mean. Link?
Yes, this has happened to one of my colleagues where I work. All his workstations are under control of a WSUS server and so should not install any MS updates that he doesn't approve. Yet his workstations all installed the latest Windows Desktop Search client.
I like to try before I buy. Short of finding one in a physical shop, is there any way to play with a demo of the N810 OS? For example, an emulator, or a downloadable virtual machine?
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales
Surely TFA is actually about the history of the CD, not the CD-ROM, unlike the title of the slashdot article.
Personally, I would find this service useful as a way to find an episode which you know you've seen in the past but can't remember which one it was, as you could look through them and hopefully recognise it. Or alternatively, if you think you may have missed an episode in a season, you could check through to see which ones you don't recognise. You could then download or buy the full episodes that you want to see from somewhere else. I don't always find that summaries in episode guides are enough to jog my memory, but a video summary might do the trick.
There was a 256MB SD card from Sandisk which also included a Wifi adapter, which was useful for Wifi-less PDA owners. Is this going to be similar?
Although they say it's for XP and Vista only, Safari seems to work on Windows 2000 too, although I haven't pushed it very hard yet.
Did the original poster mean to say FrontPage? FrontPage is not an Adobe product, which is what I thought this article was about. Maybe he meant Dreamweaver.
I realise it's only security via obscurity, but I quite like the way that the Firefox cache filenames don't reveal at a glance what type of sites I've been visiting. It can be embarrassing running, for example, a virus scanner over a Windows/IE machine and seeing all the filenames of the pron the person has being viewing!
I don't remember any mirror moving or fire-arrow switch activating puzzles in Twilight Princess (although I suppose the bomb-arrows were similar to fire-arrows). I'm not saying I disagree that Zelda is a bit samey, but it just seemed a strange couple of examples to pick.
I love the series, but I thought Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask were superior to Twilight Princess. Wind Waker was somewhere in between - very good in parts but very disappointing in others.
Why is Social Computing abbreviated as SoC? What's wrong with SC?
The Locationbar2 Firefox addon can highlight the hostname to help distinguish it. I realise your point is that this should be built-in rather than an addon (as users who are savvy enough to install addons probably wouldn't get fooled by phishing), but I thought the link was interesting as a model of how it could look.
> BTW, is there any way to get rid of it temporarily if I don't want to use it? It takes up so much space that could have better use sometimes.
You can drag the dividing bar down to the bottom of the screen. Annoyingly, if you quit and restart Thunderbird you have to drag it down again.
It's a shame that MAC also refers to Mandatory Access Controls. MAC already means Media Access Control, as in MAC Address. And when I ask someone to tell me their MAC address so I can register them on the network, they sometimes say that they have a PC not a Mac, so it already has at least two IT meanings. What with the new meaning of KVM, it's all getting a bit confusing.
I wouldn't take a laptop, and I wouldn't take an mp3 player either. Apart from the long boring plane trip, you won't need it. Imagine walking around interesting places while listening to the latest pop hits! Take a PDA if you must, or even better a PDA combined with a phone to take one fewer device. Take plenty of storage cards for your camera, rather than worrying about offloading pics to another device.