There are laws and there are "social laws". No one is legally committed to paying income tax as taxable income is only defined by the Supreme Court as profits (AKA Corporate America pays "income tax"). The Federal Reserve isn't even a government building or branch but a private bank who's owners are unknown to the public. Maybe Slashdot should report this unless 1 trillion a year in stolen money isn't important news? Anyone also notice how these seemingly harmless midnight bills getting passed would make it difficult for the American to rebel against their government and take back control of America?
No, it's GRAPHICS people who threaten web design. ALL Flash pages?! Photoshop slices?! Might I remind people America is not #1 but the 18th in the world for broadband adoption! How many sites are over 300KB in size that will take a minute or more to load on dialup?
Web font support is sketchy but CSS is not! You can specify a hundred various web font's if need be and you can even use the * selector for all elements if you're looking to minimize your code. Need to override the * selector? Just adjust the fonts AFTER (below) the * selector. Why are we talking about Flash again?
Flash, nothing is more obnoxious then hidden music and long pointless movies when I'm looking for resources online. If you can make nice looking graphics or movies great, go to Hollywood or YouTube or something but that stuff disorganizes a website. Flash can only be good when it's PART of a website.
Let's talk XHTML 1.1, application/xhtml+xml (plus editing XML Schemas (to give attributes ill removed items such as tabindex on divisible elements), CSS, JavaScript, JavaScript + Flash interaction, AJAX, accessibilities, and a little PHP and MySQL. THAT is a well rounded Web Design book.
The functional design between Vista and XP is inconsistent. I can not perform the same tasks as easily as I could with XP. I LIKE my buttons sometimes in Windows Explorer now I ONLY can use the keyboard short cuts. That might be fine for normal use but what about when I am laying down casually editing my website? It hogs resources and where does 680 megabytes of my ram go? (still no explanation from those who posted replies) The GUI is a complete mess and while there are plenty of improvements in Vista over XP it's a compromise on every level. Hell I can't set my media folder on an non-OS media hard drive as my My Documents folder! The registry is actually WORSE then XP's! What a waste of money. I've already been looking in to various Linux distros but I hear Wine can be painful to use. We'll see...
No one here has still actually discussed how to identify what this memory usage is, just statements. Also the last time I checked Solitaire isn't 50 MB. So if it's disk cache what exactly is it caching...with everything disabled?
This is like repeating yourselves saying, "You have to pay your taxes" but failing to show the law that says someone has to pay taxes.
The point is WHAT is it? Vista does not identify it (disk cache or not). There is no option I'm aware of to disable this usage of memory. It's just there. I don't appreciate warnings about only running Vista, WOW, and Firefox at the same time and "running out" of memory with 2GB and VM disabled. It's more then enough on XP.
I posted a whole news article that got reject and apparently Vista using 680MB of RAM for no reason isn't important or worth discussing? Turn off virtual memory, all startup progams, and all services not critical to Vista. You'll count 20-30MB tops on startup (minus the task manager of course). Where is the other 680MB of RAM that's being used going to? My assumption is that this release is just to boost sales of computer hardware.
It's everyone's fault really. The media and government hype terrorism for certain political forces to establish a "comfort zone" in the middle east by trying to scare the crap out of Americans.
Then the same people who own the media companies are trying anything to make money like any other big businesses and it's no secret that bad publicity is somehow good publicity because people are still talking about it versus not.
Only 6% of my users so far this year are using Firefox 1.5x compared to 68% using Firefox 2.0. There are still about 4% of users who are using IE 6 without service pack 2 on XP (or are using IE6 on older versions of Windows). Point: it's a vulnerability that hackers won't bother to exploit and Mozilla will probably patch quickly anyway.
If the price of a CD should be $33 then the wage for the dude who screws up my burger should be roughly $20. Corporate America created piracy because no one in their right mind is going to walk in to a mall and buy three CDs for a hundred dollars at FYE. Three episodes on a single DVD for Dragon Ball Z for over $20? That's little 14 year old Jimmy's allowance for the rest of the month burned on roughly 60-70 minutes of entertainment.
The people who own and run the big media companies are not our friends and do not have our best interests in mind. Flame? No, truth. Besides, I can't even watch the History channel anymore without hearing blatant bias even by the narrator much less swallow the vast majority of stuff that comes out. Plus it's overwhelmingly discriminatory against most people such as myself but most people will never awaken to that because you see it so much you must assume it's normal.
I have had numerous issues with installing both retail and OEM versions of XP on Dell computers including their own copies from similar models! You simply were lucky not to deal with the aggravation I had to deal with in the past.
Dell computers all suck and it only gives Intel a bad association when their processors are given a feeble 128 or 256 MB of memory. Also try installing XP or Vista without the CD/DVD that was shipped with you.
Call me crazy but I haven't noticed any slow downs on the internet except for the occasional outage that can be explained through a a tracert.
Torrents have their weak point: connections. If you make too many active connections with your torrent client you effectively kill your ability to surf the web simultaneously at least here in Florida with Comcast.
I can't believe this was posted without a screenshot! Sheesh!
What does NOT work fine and IS worthy of Slashdot is the fact that most MS apps open websites up in IE regardless of the fact that Firefox is my default browser.
This is not good for AMD. No CPU regardless of how fast it is will earn the positive points running in a computer equipped with only 512MB of RAM (or worse, 256). While it may mean more processors sold it also means AMD will be available in the least reputable (but most popular / least reputable) computer dealer. Dell should stick to giving the Celeron a bad name.
After the stunt the International Astronomical Union I no longer recognize them as a credible authority on astronomy. Their definition makes all 9 planets non-planets because non of the nine-planets clear their orbit in their new "definition".
Those discs are only good for storing data right now. Sure you can buy a 4GB flash drive to store in your pocket but they aren't big enough to back up audio and video work for example. The capacities they are talking about are better suited for backing up data and that is where they should be pushing to sell these large capacity DVDs. Besides there are not many good movies coming out of Hollywood to justify high-definition viewing.
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There are laws and there are "social laws". No one is legally committed to paying income tax as taxable income is only defined by the Supreme Court as profits (AKA Corporate America pays "income tax"). The Federal Reserve isn't even a government building or branch but a private bank who's owners are unknown to the public. Maybe Slashdot should report this unless 1 trillion a year in stolen money isn't important news? Anyone also notice how these seemingly harmless midnight bills getting passed would make it difficult for the American to rebel against their government and take back control of America?
No, it's GRAPHICS people who threaten web design. ALL Flash pages?! Photoshop slices?! Might I remind people America is not #1 but the 18th in the world for broadband adoption! How many sites are over 300KB in size that will take a minute or more to load on dialup? Web font support is sketchy but CSS is not! You can specify a hundred various web font's if need be and you can even use the * selector for all elements if you're looking to minimize your code. Need to override the * selector? Just adjust the fonts AFTER (below) the * selector. Why are we talking about Flash again? Flash, nothing is more obnoxious then hidden music and long pointless movies when I'm looking for resources online. If you can make nice looking graphics or movies great, go to Hollywood or YouTube or something but that stuff disorganizes a website. Flash can only be good when it's PART of a website. Let's talk XHTML 1.1, application/xhtml+xml (plus editing XML Schemas (to give attributes ill removed items such as tabindex on divisible elements), CSS, JavaScript, JavaScript + Flash interaction, AJAX, accessibilities, and a little PHP and MySQL. THAT is a well rounded Web Design book.
The functional design between Vista and XP is inconsistent. I can not perform the same tasks as easily as I could with XP. I LIKE my buttons sometimes in Windows Explorer now I ONLY can use the keyboard short cuts. That might be fine for normal use but what about when I am laying down casually editing my website? It hogs resources and where does 680 megabytes of my ram go? (still no explanation from those who posted replies) The GUI is a complete mess and while there are plenty of improvements in Vista over XP it's a compromise on every level. Hell I can't set my media folder on an non-OS media hard drive as my My Documents folder! The registry is actually WORSE then XP's! What a waste of money. I've already been looking in to various Linux distros but I hear Wine can be painful to use. We'll see...
No one here has still actually discussed how to identify what this memory usage is, just statements. Also the last time I checked Solitaire isn't 50 MB. So if it's disk cache what exactly is it caching...with everything disabled? This is like repeating yourselves saying, "You have to pay your taxes" but failing to show the law that says someone has to pay taxes.
The point is WHAT is it? Vista does not identify it (disk cache or not). There is no option I'm aware of to disable this usage of memory. It's just there. I don't appreciate warnings about only running Vista, WOW, and Firefox at the same time and "running out" of memory with 2GB and VM disabled. It's more then enough on XP.
I posted a whole news article that got reject and apparently Vista using 680MB of RAM for no reason isn't important or worth discussing? Turn off virtual memory, all startup progams, and all services not critical to Vista. You'll count 20-30MB tops on startup (minus the task manager of course). Where is the other 680MB of RAM that's being used going to? My assumption is that this release is just to boost sales of computer hardware.
It's everyone's fault really. The media and government hype terrorism for certain political forces to establish a "comfort zone" in the middle east by trying to scare the crap out of Americans. Then the same people who own the media companies are trying anything to make money like any other big businesses and it's no secret that bad publicity is somehow good publicity because people are still talking about it versus not.
Only 6% of my users so far this year are using Firefox 1.5x compared to 68% using Firefox 2.0. There are still about 4% of users who are using IE 6 without service pack 2 on XP (or are using IE6 on older versions of Windows). Point: it's a vulnerability that hackers won't bother to exploit and Mozilla will probably patch quickly anyway.
If the price of a CD should be $33 then the wage for the dude who screws up my burger should be roughly $20. Corporate America created piracy because no one in their right mind is going to walk in to a mall and buy three CDs for a hundred dollars at FYE. Three episodes on a single DVD for Dragon Ball Z for over $20? That's little 14 year old Jimmy's allowance for the rest of the month burned on roughly 60-70 minutes of entertainment. The people who own and run the big media companies are not our friends and do not have our best interests in mind. Flame? No, truth. Besides, I can't even watch the History channel anymore without hearing blatant bias even by the narrator much less swallow the vast majority of stuff that comes out. Plus it's overwhelmingly discriminatory against most people such as myself but most people will never awaken to that because you see it so much you must assume it's normal.
I have had numerous issues with installing both retail and OEM versions of XP on Dell computers including their own copies from similar models! You simply were lucky not to deal with the aggravation I had to deal with in the past.
Dell computers all suck and it only gives Intel a bad association when their processors are given a feeble 128 or 256 MB of memory. Also try installing XP or Vista without the CD/DVD that was shipped with you.
Call me crazy but I haven't noticed any slow downs on the internet except for the occasional outage that can be explained through a a tracert. Torrents have their weak point: connections. If you make too many active connections with your torrent client you effectively kill your ability to surf the web simultaneously at least here in Florida with Comcast.
I can't believe this was posted without a screenshot! Sheesh! What does NOT work fine and IS worthy of Slashdot is the fact that most MS apps open websites up in IE regardless of the fact that Firefox is my default browser.
Who said Microsoft had to develop Vista to run on a Mac? This is a stupid new topic.
This is not good for AMD. No CPU regardless of how fast it is will earn the positive points running in a computer equipped with only 512MB of RAM (or worse, 256). While it may mean more processors sold it also means AMD will be available in the least reputable (but most popular / least reputable) computer dealer. Dell should stick to giving the Celeron a bad name.
After the stunt the International Astronomical Union I no longer recognize them as a credible authority on astronomy. Their definition makes all 9 planets non-planets because non of the nine-planets clear their orbit in their new "definition".
Welcome to non-planet Earth.
Those discs are only good for storing data right now. Sure you can buy a 4GB flash drive to store in your pocket but they aren't big enough to back up audio and video work for example. The capacities they are talking about are better suited for backing up data and that is where they should be pushing to sell these large capacity DVDs. Besides there are not many good movies coming out of Hollywood to justify high-definition viewing.