With the new "GOBI" global high-speed wireless chipset from Qualcomm, you can use any HSPA or EV-Do carrier world-wide. HP has already announced they will start using it. I can't imagine that Asus and others will not soon follow. If the netbooks are offered free with contract as seems probable, you will be able to change carriers as soon as the contract is up, or buy your way out if you don't like the carrier you signed up for initially. You will still have a usable device that you can take to a different carrier. Netbooks or smart phones with GOBI and 802.11n could be a market changer with as much impact as the first handheld cell phones.
Best Batman ever. "The Incredibles" stole the concept of the government forcibly retiring superheroes and covering up their existence from Frank Miller.
Disabling the UAC resolves most issues with Vista, especially as in your case where the computer came preloaded with Vista. I've been running Vista since February on a "white box" AMD64 that was upgraded to Vista from XP and have only had one application that would not run on Vista. No performance or stability issues from the OS or PC itself.
It's not so complicated, just renumber the movies! Lucas did it. Star Trek the Motion Picture could become "Star Trek IV: A New Hairpiece". The "New" Star Trek could be "Star Trek I: The Phantom Storyline". Look how much money this strategy made for Lucas.
You're correct. I have used Vista Home Premium for 6 months, and never had a problem with web access or any web server. I'm not a big fan of Vista, but I needed to have one box running it to test software compatibility. Strangely enough, a lot of really old (Windows 3x, 9x and DOS) programs run fine, but it is programs written in the last 5 years that seem to have the most problems.
Bush & ATT together? I think you mean Steve Jobs and ATT joined together. That's right, the people repsponsible for this injustice are now Apple's friends and the locked in provider for iPhone service. Some old dirty tricks, different market.
And the lawyers from the "Car Talk" radio show will be in touch with you shortly to discuss your unauthorized use of their trademark. The Dewey, Cheatem & Howe offices are in Cambridge Massachusetts, not DC.
True story: At a medical transcription convention a doctor was trying a demo of the IBM speech recognition product.
Physician: The patient has acute angina.
Speech recognition: The patient has a cute vagina.
The problem Apple faces going up against Windows in business is the same problem personal media players have competing with the iPod: The established eco-system. The iPod is supported by thousands of companies making millions of products that are designed to protect it, improve it, make it look better, plug into you car, your alarm clock, etc. No other player stands a chance without that support structure. Windows has an even bigger eco-system built up around it. Sure you can find equivalent products for Apple OSX to replace a lot of them and Apple versions for some of them. But there are tens of thousands of programs that will only run on Windows. There is still a lot of software written back in the 80's and 90's for DOS, Windows 3.x and 9x that are still used every day. Dual-boot is a valid option for power users, but it would be a major hassle to support if used the average employees had to depend on it every day.
Thank you! I'm reading all the way down the list of comments thinking "OPEN DNS!, OPEN DNS!" How can any self-respecting geek not know about Open DNS? I've set all the routers at my company to use their DNS servers regardless of which ISP the connection uses. Sure they have some adds if you hit a typo for a domain name, but the proceeds pay for this FREE service. We've had zero problems with DNS issues since I switched. opendns.org
The last PC I bought had both McAfee and Norton anti-virus software installed from the manufacturer, as well as 10 or 15 more minor nuisances. If you buy almost any major brand PC other than a generic white-box you have to spend an hour or more removing all the useless software they preload on the PC to get their extra few dollars on each sale. Though I'm no longer a fan of Dell PC's since their support tanked, I do applaud their action of giving the buyer a choice to not have the preloaded software.
Warmest ever? Get real. Greenland was named by the Vikings because it had a temperate client and was so full of vegetation. When the ice melts from Greenland you may have a better argument.
The magic moment for me was typing a message on a chat-board and getting an answer back from an actual person in real time. It didn't matter that he lived only half a mile away and that we already knew each other. This was communicating over a COMPUTER!. Much more cool then a telephone call. My first daughter was born a couple of months later (November 1987) and I printed out pages of congratulatory messages from BBS friends to keep for her. It was a lot closer and more caring group than any other I've been around (well, Browncoats right up there as well!)
I went on to run a political discussion BBS. Two modems, two copies of Wildcat running under two DoubleDOS sessions on a 640KB RAM IBM XT with a 10 meg hard drive. The magic of Fido-Net allowed us to argue and discuss ideas with people on other BBS systems all over the country. You'd race to check for new forum messages each morning after the Fido-Net message transfer, and it felt like instant messaging to get a post back less than a day after posting yourself!
You're right Blincoln, I thought it was longer because the video clips were edited to make it look that way. There's also a hobbyist Juan Lozano in Mexico City who has built his own jetpack using hydrogen peroxide, and his only flies for the same twenty to thirty seconds. But he says the parts cost is "only" about $10,000. Of course he has spent 8 years and around a half-million to get there.
The Bell Rocketbelt used by The Rocketman was first flown in the early 1960's, and seems to be much more stable and with longer flying time than the Skywalker backpack. I don't know how the cost would compare, but 40 years of flying is a pretty good record for such an experimental device.
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For true geek cred they should be Beta tapes of Star Trek (The Original Series).
With the new "GOBI" global high-speed wireless chipset from Qualcomm, you can use any HSPA or EV-Do carrier world-wide. HP has already announced they will start using it. I can't imagine that Asus and others will not soon follow. If the netbooks are offered free with contract as seems probable, you will be able to change carriers as soon as the contract is up, or buy your way out if you don't like the carrier you signed up for initially. You will still have a usable device that you can take to a different carrier. Netbooks or smart phones with GOBI and 802.11n could be a market changer with as much impact as the first handheld cell phones.
your "google's results" link has to be the most appropriate on-topic link I've ever seen in a /. comment. You have my respect.
Best Batman ever. "The Incredibles" stole the concept of the government forcibly retiring superheroes and covering up their existence from Frank Miller.
Now that you've got indoor plumbing, sign up for Google TiSP (Beta) and you'll have the high-speed internet you need for VOIP. www.google.com/tisp/
Looks like someone got him, the site is down at 8:40 PM EST
Disabling the UAC resolves most issues with Vista, especially as in your case where the computer came preloaded with Vista. I've been running Vista since February on a "white box" AMD64 that was upgraded to Vista from XP and have only had one application that would not run on Vista. No performance or stability issues from the OS or PC itself.
It's not so complicated, just renumber the movies! Lucas did it. Star Trek the Motion Picture could become "Star Trek IV: A New Hairpiece". The "New" Star Trek could be "Star Trek I: The Phantom Storyline". Look how much money this strategy made for Lucas.
You're correct. I have used Vista Home Premium for 6 months, and never had a problem with web access or any web server. I'm not a big fan of Vista, but I needed to have one box running it to test software compatibility. Strangely enough, a lot of really old (Windows 3x, 9x and DOS) programs run fine, but it is programs written in the last 5 years that seem to have the most problems.
Bush & ATT together? I think you mean Steve Jobs and ATT joined together. That's right, the people repsponsible for this injustice are now Apple's friends and the locked in provider for iPhone service. Some old dirty tricks, different market.
And the lawyers from the "Car Talk" radio show will be in touch with you shortly to discuss your unauthorized use of their trademark. The Dewey, Cheatem & Howe offices are in Cambridge Massachusetts, not DC.
That wouldn't do you much good if you were 89 miles away from where your penis went.
True story: At a medical transcription convention a doctor was trying a demo of the IBM speech recognition product. Physician: The patient has acute angina. Speech recognition: The patient has a cute vagina.
The problem Apple faces going up against Windows in business is the same problem personal media players have competing with the iPod: The established eco-system. The iPod is supported by thousands of companies making millions of products that are designed to protect it, improve it, make it look better, plug into you car, your alarm clock, etc. No other player stands a chance without that support structure. Windows has an even bigger eco-system built up around it. Sure you can find equivalent products for Apple OSX to replace a lot of them and Apple versions for some of them. But there are tens of thousands of programs that will only run on Windows. There is still a lot of software written back in the 80's and 90's for DOS, Windows 3.x and 9x that are still used every day. Dual-boot is a valid option for power users, but it would be a major hassle to support if used the average employees had to depend on it every day.
Thank you! I'm reading all the way down the list of comments thinking "OPEN DNS!, OPEN DNS!" How can any self-respecting geek not know about Open DNS? I've set all the routers at my company to use their DNS servers regardless of which ISP the connection uses. Sure they have some adds if you hit a typo for a domain name, but the proceeds pay for this FREE service. We've had zero problems with DNS issues since I switched. opendns.org
Thank You!! I kept scrolling down the list thinking "Where's Duke?"
The last PC I bought had both McAfee and Norton anti-virus software installed from the manufacturer, as well as 10 or 15 more minor nuisances. If you buy almost any major brand PC other than a generic white-box you have to spend an hour or more removing all the useless software they preload on the PC to get their extra few dollars on each sale. Though I'm no longer a fan of Dell PC's since their support tanked, I do applaud their action of giving the buyer a choice to not have the preloaded software.
Warmest ever? Get real. Greenland was named by the Vikings because it had a temperate client and was so full of vegetation. When the ice melts from Greenland you may have a better argument.
The magic moment for me was typing a message on a chat-board and getting an answer back from an actual person in real time. It didn't matter that he lived only half a mile away and that we already knew each other. This was communicating over a COMPUTER!. Much more cool then a telephone call. My first daughter was born a couple of months later (November 1987) and I printed out pages of congratulatory messages from BBS friends to keep for her. It was a lot closer and more caring group than any other I've been around (well, Browncoats right up there as well!) I went on to run a political discussion BBS. Two modems, two copies of Wildcat running under two DoubleDOS sessions on a 640KB RAM IBM XT with a 10 meg hard drive. The magic of Fido-Net allowed us to argue and discuss ideas with people on other BBS systems all over the country. You'd race to check for new forum messages each morning after the Fido-Net message transfer, and it felt like instant messaging to get a post back less than a day after posting yourself!
You're right Blincoln, I thought it was longer because the video clips were edited to make it look that way. There's also a hobbyist Juan Lozano in Mexico City who has built his own jetpack using hydrogen peroxide, and his only flies for the same twenty to thirty seconds. But he says the parts cost is "only" about $10,000. Of course he has spent 8 years and around a half-million to get there.
The Bell Rocketbelt used by The Rocketman was first flown in the early 1960's, and seems to be much more stable and with longer flying time than the Skywalker backpack. I don't know how the cost would compare, but 40 years of flying is a pretty good record for such an experimental device.