FOSS though it may me, 7-zip does kinda suck compared to WinRAR.
I agree. 7-zip works great until you hit a corrupt file, that's when it stars crashing and being an all-round pain. 7-zip might have improved lately, but I bought a WinRAR license and never looked back.
It's not weird to drink both; what's weird is drinking both while actually caring about the difference. I, for example, don't care: I just drink whichever happens to be cheaper at the moment.
Now, I'm no expert, I'm not saying he's wrong, but what I do know is that this goes against everything I've been hearing around here.
It's old news that IE7 is theoretically more secure than Firefox when running on Vista, basically the an app (IE7 or Chrome) can run with reduced credentials, so it can't access the HDD or the registry, etc. A bit like Jail on linux, I believe.
In theory if IE7 gets compromised the attacker can only ruin your browser session - but there are still potential attack vectors out of this "jail" so it remains to be seen how effective it is.
As for RAM fragmentation, it's such a non-issue that it's worth explaining.
Actually, back in the day RAM fragmentation was an issue. On the Amiga, for instance, if your memory was fragmented you might not have enough continuous memory to run an application - even if you had enough free memory.
Modern systems are fitted with Memory Management Units that solve most of these problems, but memory fragmentation can still result in performance issues in cornerstone cases.
I even have CNN's own plugin for Firefox installed...but live streams will not play!
There are times when youtube videos refuse to play in Firefox (restarting the browser does not help), but the problem goes away eventually - In the meantime I just fire up ie.
The bug is odd as it seemingly only hit one video website at a time. It may have something to do with cashing, so try clearing your cache - or fire up another browser.
I made the switch from AltaVista to Google when I discovered Google would consistently return pretty much what I was looking for on the first page.
I switched from AltaVista since every time I misspelled it I was redirected to a porn site, which was an embarrassment waiting to happen.
AltaVista often did a better job then Google when searching for slightly obscure topics, and even today Google can be troublesome with its tendency to favor heavily linked sites - i.e. popular sites.
I can't recall the articles name;) but it was in association with a law case. IIRC it discussed how a layer can alter a witnesses memory by asking leading questions - leading witnesses to recall "red jackets" when earlier testimonies said otherwise.
Sometimes it causes me to recall events which may not have happened. I am literally processing garbage data.
Everyone remembers events that never happened. "False memory" they call it, and according to trusty old Wikipedia there's no way to distinguish between a false memory and a true one.
Those boxes can run Windows, but they don't have to. It surprises me still that Windows is popular on POS boxes, they've basically gone from being custom everything to being generic Windows PCs in fancy cases.
Though, I believe we will see less Windows in the future as the price of hardware drops - giving Windows less POS systems a competitive edge. But considering that many of those boxes could have managed with a "Game Boy" CPU...who knows?
I actually think The Dark Knight is the best movie ever
It's guys like you that ruins movies for us late comers. Hearing so much good about it I actually went to the cinema, hyped up and all, and almost fell asleep. Bastard, you!
Ohh... does it makes sense on WINTEL? Do not know how Vista runs on an SSD and if you have any space on a 64GIG drive after installing VISTA. Not flaming, I really do not know.
For what it's worth I got Vista installed on a 40 gig laptop.
As for the ideal laptop, why not an eee PC? Screen to small? The Mac Air seems way too big for there to be any point IMO, but if you need a big screen and can't use projectors then a big screen light weight laptop might be something.
1) In their wireless implementation 2) With help of addware 3) Called sticky keys and billed as a feature 4) All cheap wireless optical mice do this, and what do pirates use? 5) Garbaged print output, check. 6) Boot slows down by age, check. Random HD flicker, only in Vista but check. 7) Geeks visit slashdot, so check.
Not that pirates would switch to Linux for that reason. How can you pirate something that's free?
I've noticed that the power warts get quite hot. I'm not comfortable keeping them plugged in all the time. On off switches on the strip is in this case useless since you need to keep it on almost always (since something is charging).
Ahh, luxury problems. Aren't they sweet?
I dunno, I've always preferred a threaded mode of displaying forum posts. That's what I've got in the display of forum posts in my MessageBase code. While I've got a lot more work to do to it, it seems to make the discussions much easier to follow.
I dunno, I've always preferred a threaded mode of displaying forum posts. That's what I've got in the display of forum posts in my MessageBase code. While I've got a lot more work to do to it, it seems to make the discussions much easier to follow.
I find yours and similar layouts annoying. Having to click on every post to read them drives me away unless the topic truly interests me. (Which might be an advantage;)
Your layout is strangely common on technical forums though (perhaps they're based on Usenet?). But unlike them you have to comments load up without refreshing the page, which is a vast improvement.
The Atom is a bit on the slow side. Like using ARM chips for desktop computing; so why not simply use an ARM chip?
Still, if the Atom's paired with a super low powered chipset we might just finally have computers with more than 8 hours of battery life (while still being affordable/portable/small). Imagine taking your computer to work, and then leaving it on all day. A small detail, but makes a big difference.
The Nano is faster, but it also use about 8 watts more power (according to HardOCP). Those 8 watts is a big deal when it comes to battery life, but OTOH Atom is quite a bit faster than even the fastest Atom. The difference being big enough that HardOCP stated that Vista on Nano was notably more resposive - notable enough to be picked up on in blind tests.
On Vista (at least) the language files are quite sizable. Installing all of them would waste a good chunk of hard drive space. And for what benefit? So that the low 0.1% who has multilingual families get an easier time?
And with multilingual downloads, and webpages for that sake, someone will always think they can auto detect your language. I'm always presented with German when I hit upon them. Naturally I don't speak a word of German, though I've gotten quite good at finding illogically placed language options buried in German menus.
Nah. The Brits weren't squeamish at all. A lot of unarmed Indians died before the Brits quit India.
From the Wikipedia article: "As an Englishman, I cannot help but feel sorrow and shame at what he did...The massacre was the worst atrocity by a British officer ever recorded" (emphasis mine).
If that was the worst Britain ever did than they did "pretty good", and at least the Brits feels shame for what happened. Hey, many more people died during the east/west Pakistani swang afterwards, but who cares about that?
So basically you observed that IO is not the bottleneck in PNG compression.
*gasp*
Those are world shattering findings, you'd better write a paper or something, you'll be rich and famous is no time.
Woho, I'm on my way to riches. You OTOH have to work on your sarcasm.
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FOSS though it may me, 7-zip does kinda suck compared to WinRAR.
I agree. 7-zip works great until you hit a corrupt file, that's when it stars crashing and being an all-round pain. 7-zip might have improved lately, but I bought a WinRAR license and never looked back.
It's not weird to drink both; what's weird is drinking both while actually caring about the difference. I, for example, don't care: I just drink whichever happens to be cheaper at the moment.
There is a difference?
Shoes are taken off, as is the custom.
They don't do that anymore. Too many shoes got stolen that way.
Now, I'm no expert, I'm not saying he's wrong, but what I do know is that this goes against everything I've been hearing around here.
It's old news that IE7 is theoretically more secure than Firefox when running on Vista, basically the an app (IE7 or Chrome) can run with reduced credentials, so it can't access the HDD or the registry, etc. A bit like Jail on linux, I believe.
In theory if IE7 gets compromised the attacker can only ruin your browser session - but there are still potential attack vectors out of this "jail" so it remains to be seen how effective it is.
As for RAM fragmentation, it's such a non-issue that it's worth explaining.
Actually, back in the day RAM fragmentation was an issue. On the Amiga, for instance, if your memory was fragmented you might not have enough continuous memory to run an application - even if you had enough free memory.
Modern systems are fitted with Memory Management Units that solve most of these problems, but memory fragmentation can still result in performance issues in cornerstone cases.
so why on Earth is that guy getting compensated by Apple
Perhaps because he was helpfull?
I even have CNN's own plugin for Firefox installed...but live streams will not play!
There are times when youtube videos refuse to play in Firefox (restarting the browser does not help), but the problem goes away eventually - In the meantime I just fire up ie.
The bug is odd as it seemingly only hit one video website at a time. It may have something to do with cashing, so try clearing your cache - or fire up another browser.
I made the switch from AltaVista to Google when I discovered Google would consistently return pretty much what I was looking for on the first page.
I switched from AltaVista since every time I misspelled it I was redirected to a porn site, which was an embarrassment waiting to happen.
AltaVista often did a better job then Google when searching for slightly obscure topics, and even today Google can be troublesome with its tendency to favor heavily linked sites - i.e. popular sites.
I've got memories that are in third person, which is a pretty reliable indicator that at least some aspects of the memory are false :)
Good point. I think I got them too.
I can't recall the articles name ;) but it was in association with a law case. IIRC it discussed how a layer can alter a witnesses memory by asking leading questions - leading witnesses to recall "red jackets" when earlier testimonies said otherwise.
Check this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyewitness_memory
Sometimes it causes me to recall events which may not have happened. I am literally processing garbage data.
Everyone remembers events that never happened. "False memory" they call it, and according to trusty old Wikipedia there's no way to distinguish between a false memory and a true one.
Those boxes can run Windows, but they don't have to. It surprises me still that Windows is popular on POS boxes, they've basically gone from being custom everything to being generic Windows PCs in fancy cases.
Though, I believe we will see less Windows in the future as the price of hardware drops - giving Windows less POS systems a competitive edge. But considering that many of those boxes could have managed with a "Game Boy" CPU...who knows?
Most POS hardware I've seen run Windows. Before that it was OS/2 IIRC.
I actually think The Dark Knight is the best movie ever
It's guys like you that ruins movies for us late comers. Hearing so much good about it I actually went to the cinema, hyped up and all, and almost fell asleep. Bastard, you!
Ohh... does it makes sense on WINTEL? Do not know how Vista runs on an SSD and if you have any space on a 64GIG drive after installing VISTA. Not flaming, I really do not know.
For what it's worth I got Vista installed on a 40 gig laptop.
As for the ideal laptop, why not an eee PC? Screen to small? The Mac Air seems way too big for there to be any point IMO, but if you need a big screen and can't use projectors then a big screen light weight laptop might be something.
I think they do all this already:
1) In their wireless implementation
2) With help of addware
3) Called sticky keys and billed as a feature
4) All cheap wireless optical mice do this, and what do pirates use?
5) Garbaged print output, check.
6) Boot slows down by age, check. Random HD flicker, only in Vista but check.
7) Geeks visit slashdot, so check.
Not that pirates would switch to Linux for that reason. How can you pirate something that's free?
I've noticed that the power warts get quite hot. I'm not comfortable keeping them plugged in all the time. On off switches on the strip is in this case useless since you need to keep it on almost always (since something is charging). Ahh, luxury problems. Aren't they sweet?
you can only sell one chip per computer, while with memory, you can sell hundreds of chips per computer
Probably meant sense back then too - before Japan came on to the scene.
I dunno, I've always preferred a threaded mode of displaying forum posts. That's what I've got in the display of forum posts in my MessageBase code. While I've got a lot more work to do to it, it seems to make the discussions much easier to follow.
I dunno, I've always preferred a threaded mode of displaying forum posts. That's what I've got in the display of forum posts in my MessageBase code. While I've got a lot more work to do to it, it seems to make the discussions much easier to follow.
I find yours and similar layouts annoying. Having to click on every post to read them drives me away unless the topic truly interests me. (Which might be an advantage ;)
Your layout is strangely common on technical forums though (perhaps they're based on Usenet?). But unlike them you have to comments load up without refreshing the page, which is a vast improvement.
The Atom is a bit on the slow side. Like using ARM chips for desktop computing; so why not simply use an ARM chip?
Still, if the Atom's paired with a super low powered chipset we might just finally have computers with more than 8 hours of battery life (while still being affordable/portable/small). Imagine taking your computer to work, and then leaving it on all day. A small detail, but makes a big difference.
The Nano is faster, but it also use about 8 watts more power (according to HardOCP). Those 8 watts is a big deal when it comes to battery life, but OTOH Atom is quite a bit faster than even the fastest Atom. The difference being big enough that HardOCP stated that Vista on Nano was notably more resposive - notable enough to be picked up on in blind tests.
So perhaps Atom trades off too much performace...
why not ship all translations with every copy.
On Vista (at least) the language files are quite sizable. Installing all of them would waste a good chunk of hard drive space. And for what benefit? So that the low 0.1% who has multilingual families get an easier time?
And with multilingual downloads, and webpages for that sake, someone will always think they can auto detect your language. I'm always presented with German when I hit upon them. Naturally I don't speak a word of German, though I've gotten quite good at finding illogically placed language options buried in German menus.
I'm guessing it's an ARM chip. That would make it slower, unless laptop Pentium IIs were crippled.
Nah. The Brits weren't squeamish at all. A lot of unarmed Indians died before the Brits quit India.
From the Wikipedia article: "As an Englishman, I cannot help but feel sorrow and shame at what he did...The massacre was the worst atrocity by a British officer ever recorded" (emphasis mine).
If that was the worst Britain ever did than they did "pretty good", and at least the Brits feels shame for what happened. Hey, many more people died during the east/west Pakistani swang afterwards, but who cares about that?
not every single employee at Microsoft is evil
Are you sure?
So basically you observed that IO is not the bottleneck in PNG compression. *gasp* Those are world shattering findings, you'd better write a paper or something, you'll be rich and famous is no time.
Woho, I'm on my way to riches. You OTOH have to work on your sarcasm.