Tom will just note that you compare the latest and greatest from MS to
Apple's oldest model. Your having to resort to that to squeek out a
favorable comparison speaks volumes.
No, actually I compared it to the current iPod that sells for the same $249
price. That strikes you as unfair?
That
Do you think Amazon is charging over list because the unit is so
popular?
My mistake, I thought this had to do with features. Didn't realize it was a
popularity contest.
Apple notes that iPods with large drives do not sell in large numbers.
So a 120GB Zune is missing the point (as MS tends
So your statement should say, Maybe it's because a 32GB touch is
$359.98 while a 120GB Zune or iPod classic is $249?
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Go ahead and scoff at the iPod for being merely popular, but
achieving popularity is exactly the right measure. Popularity
is the sum total of all the features weighted by their
significance to the people manking [sic] the purchase.
So, that would mean that Windows is far superior to MacOS.
Old news. Corrected version is out.
So much for Vista's protected mode computing.
You really need to get someone to write you a new script.
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Many find the new UI changes hard to learn and unnecessary.
Sue wasn't talking about the UI. She was talking about the need to buy new
software whenever MS changes its mind, and that's what I was responding to.
There could have been changes made that don't stop quite
as many programs from
So in a little over seven hours the Large Hadron Collider will
be switched on...any takers on if we'll all survive?
I'm not worried. My Maytag range has a handy feature that I will use if
necessary:
http://justweirdstuff.blogspot.com/2008/08/only-maytag-has-this.html
I'm not sure if I can
Oops, I just didn't know, so sorry. When did Vista go Open Source?
I sure will sing the praises of MS now that they put their OS into
the public domain.
Oh, please. You know perfectly well what he was talking about.
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I'm starting to agree with Tom. If I have to buy new software every
time MS decides it's time for a change
That's a bit extreme, Sue. MS has always bent over backwards for
compatibility. As I've mentioned here before, I still use DOS programs that
were written in the early 80s for a CPU
Well, this guy thinks so, anyway:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080903/ap_on_hi_te/tec_tech_test_google_chrome_
2
He does seem to base his entire judgment on whether or not opening 50 pages
with Flash content brings his PC to its knees (Firefox: yes, Chrome: sort
of; IE8: no).
The on-air personalities seem to have trouble pronouncing Tom's name.
Not surprising. They weren't sure how to pronounce Sarah Palin's name for
the first day or two, either.
Of course, Tom is better known than Ms. Palin was until Friday afternoon.
Okay. Well explained. I accept that.
Thanks.
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Because when you enter a bid, anyone can manually outbid you, as long
as he has time. The earlier you do it, the more time people have to
manually outbid. If you do it at the last second, no one has time and
only automatic bids can outbid you.
If you really bid the maximum you were
I still don't get it.
eBay already lets you enter a maximum price, but the winning bid is set
by the second highest price plus the auction's increment.
Because when you enter a bid, anyone can manually outbid you, as long as he
has time. The earlier you do it, the more time people have to
No eSnipe still doesn't make any sense to me.
I think what you're missing is this: snipers would useless if everyone bid
their maximum, but a lot of people don't. They just enter a bid that's a
little higher than the current bid and come back later if they're outbid.
Suppose I've decided that
The Nokia E71 is getting rave reviews, even when compared directly to
iPhone:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/08/22.html
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/207654
http://www.boygeniusreport.com/2008/05/25/nokia-e71-review/
http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/reviews/item/Nokia_E71.php
I really don't see any comparison to the iPhone at all.
I guess they are saying that it can do the same stuff, more or less, so if
you want iPhone capabilities but (for whatever reason) don't want to an
iPhone, this is a good alternative? I don't know, since I don't use either
of them. Just
is this real looks like it, but never been asked for password
before!
NO WAY is this real. No real company would ever send out a message
requesting your user information and password.
There are other giveaways as well. First, the grammar is atrocious. Second,
the reply-to address is not
Where are Outlook Express messages and folder info located?
Search the old drive for all the .PST files.
.PST files are Outlook, not Outlook Express. Express files are *.DBX.
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.PST files are Outlook, not Outlook Express. Express files are *.DBX.
Going from one flavor of Outlook to another can be a real mess.
MS offers little compatability and little help. Different versions
of Outlook do different things.
Well, I guess you could argue that point of view, but I
Dell has announced a new laptop that can surf the web and get email without
starting Windows, which should make Tom very happy:
One of the most compelling features announced
includes Dell Latitude ON, which uses a dedicated
low-voltage sub-processor and OS that can enable
multi-day battery
If her iTunes library is mostly ripped from CDs or stolen
MP3s from P2P nets then the files can just be copied over.
Some are iTunes DRM and some are ripped from her own CDs. P2P is not
permitted in the house (and is blocked via OpenDNS). She is not trying to do
anything illegal.
But isn't
Are you comparing the 2008 Zune to Apple's 2001 classic iPod design or
Apple's 2008 iTouch design?
I'm not comparing anything to anything, my daughter is. She's comparing the
current Zune 80 to current iPod Classic. She likes the Zune better. She
doesn't have enough money for an iTouch.
MS
...do the fix with her so she can see how it's done...
No, she wants the Zune because she likes it better, not because of the
iTunes problems.
I have found frustration from many failures mostly being corrupted or
faulty software over the years from fortranIV to msdos3 to win3.1 to
win95
When I tried to Import messages using the Windows Mail utility,
pointing to the directory on the old drive where the outlook.pst file
resides, Windows Mail reported not finding any messages. Where are
Outlook Express messages and folder info located
Outlook.pst is Outlook, not Outlook
My daughter's iPod croaked and she wants to replace it with a Zune. The only
problem is her enormous iTunes library. I don't know anything about iTunes
(other than that the Windows version crashes constantly). Can she Zune her
tunes, or are they locked in the iTunes library forever?
at current rates of increase it will take 100 years
for the US to catch up with Japan's current level
of service
I don't know about 100 years, but it *is* a massive job to dig up and
replace all the Internet pipes. The one that comes into my house is still
terra cotta, for God's sake.
In your next email you mention using eudora. I'm wondering what sort
of pain Vista was. I've been using it since SP 1 came out and have
had no problems at all with it
Yeah, I was going to send the same basic message but I didn't want to sound
like a broken record with What problems exactly
This is not a technical article. It is an op ed by a WFB trying to spin
the issue in MS's favor. It is not worth the time to read. A waste.
A WFB, right. It's pretty apparent that you have no idea who Bright is.
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Unfortunate, yes, but not-as was reported in the immediate aftermath of the
presentation-evidence that Vista's security is useless, nor does this work
constitute a major security issue. And it's not game over, either.
Sensationalism sells, and there's no news like bad news, but
number 1, windows7 ...the other 9, likely stuff that works with
windows7 ...am I way off
Before you are allowed to predict that Win7 will be so bad, you need to list
all the stuff that's wrong with Vista.
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Vista is not so bad unless you want to run legacy software..
Of course I want to run legacy software. Workflows have been developed
over many years, sometimes decades. I don't want some punk programmer
telling me I have to re-engineer my business.
Again, an overstatement (the original, not
Does this sound like a good plan?
Get a new fast Vista machine because that is what is out there. Load
XP on a virtual machine running under Vista to handle legacy software.
Most users won't need to.
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FF2 is at the end of the road. FF3 Isn't an update to FF2 it is the
next step. Works fine and most of my favorite plugins are working fine.
Now, if FF3 were Vista, that would be phrased differently:
FF3 is not so bad unless you want to run legacy plug-ins.
Can that virtual folder be readily backed up? I.e., is the location of
the virtual folder obvious? Or does vista provide a new backup program
that can be readily used to back them up?
E.g., you can't write to Program Files any more, but a lot of old
programs try to. For those, Vista puts
You still run software from OS 8 on your mac os x machine?
Look at my email headers.
I think the point was, can you run ALL of your OS 8 stuff?
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I think the point was, can you run ALL of your OS 8 stuff?
Why would I want to do that? I'm not running a museum here.
So, Vista is useless because I have to run legacy software. OS X is fine
because I'm not running a museum.
OK, that makes sense.
Actually, 32 bit Vista doesn't get better with more RAM; 64 bit does.
How do you figure that?
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Actually, 32 bit Vista doesn't get better with more RAM; 64 bit
does.
How do you figure that?
32 bit can only address 3 gigs of ram for the OS.
Well, that's an oversimplification, but even so it's not the same as saying
that 32-bit Vista doesn't get better with more RAM. Vista with 2 or 3
Yeah, I know about that. However, the crowds twice elected a certain
individual whose name I won't mention but whose initials might include the
letters G, W, and B. In my view, this fact disproves the entire premise.
Read the Wikipedia article on The Wisdom of Crowds
Our federal government is supposed to reflect that
choice by the laws it passes. This is not always
the case and people may disagree with it.
I disagree with the supposed to part. They have a
number of democratic ideals, and a number of
constitutional provisions, to answer to, so, and
I'm trying to install tools for Visual Studio Express and I'm
Joe, you didn't post the actual error message you're seeing (as far as I
could see, anyway). Without that it's hard to know what to suggest.
In the meantime, you might look at the VSE installation forum. Lots of info
there:
Do you think the FCC will react to such impudence with the same fervor
as they applied to a wardrobe malfunction?
Of course not.
Common carriers' needs to maximize profits at the expense of the consumer
are perfectly in line with the current government's standards for Protection
of Corporate
On the other hand, no matter what you do or how you operate you
are bound to piss someone off.
You are kidding.
Nevertheless I want youall to know that I am a moderate. For example I
did not post Time Spent Using Zune
http://graphjam.wordpress.com/files/2008/07/15.png
Now, this just
i do not seem to have an attachments folder in vista. xp had
programsqualcomeudoraattachments. is there one? i searched the c
drive and cannot find a folder with that name.
I don't know about your other question, but Vista in general does not want
data to be stored under the Program Files
How would you install any programs if you can't write to that folder?
Installation is different. You can install programs into Program Files, but
the programs aren't allowed to write their own data there after
installation.
I had also forgotten something else in my earlier reply, which is why
I have my Eudora, with all data and setting
files in the Eudora directory, on a portable hard drive that I can plug
into any machine (in principle) and run my full mail client with all of
its features, address books, filters, and archives, etc. from any
machine that isn't locked down
Sorry,
But there's a difference between mentioning problems and taking
random, gratuitous potshots.
Should it be my problem that some folks have no sense of humor? Should
we all be required to dial down to low level gloom to accomodate the most
morose among us?
Ain't nothing wrong with my
The problem is that often there just isn't enough context to realize
that the person is trying to be humorous/ironic/sarcastic. In
traditional print, you'd have lots and lots of written words to
realize this. In realspace, you can judge the body language of the
person making the statement.
Do you think this needs a Smiley?
[ ] Yes
[X] No
[ ] What is a Smiley?
The only troubling thing is, should the above have '' or not? It is a
quote but also a reply. This is deeply concerning.
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(Or I guess you can sit around squirting people with your Zune.)
Congratulations on reaching your 17,500th gratuitous MS potshot.
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It seems to depend on what you search for. I can search for X and get
results, then search for Y and get load too high. Then I can repeat that
as many times as I want and get the same results. I have a sneaky suspicion
that load too high actually means I didn't find anything.
I just tried and
I don't recall you having one potshot at Apple...funny or FUD.
Mike
Probably because you don't pay attention. And you have certain
blinders on.
He does indeed post about Apple problems. That's fine. As is pointing out MS
problems--when it's relevant.
But there's a difference
So how does Vista do with removable drives in general? When one gets
the message the drive cannot be stopped now because a program is
accessing it does Vista either 1) tell you what program to shut down
so that no program is accessing the drive, or 2) provide an option to
force a stop /
1) How can I download the files from the FTP site in IE like I do in
Firefox?
2) Why can't I get Firefox to work on her computer, when it works fine
on mine (she has Administrator status on her computer, I had her do
the Firefox installation).
I can't answer you specifically because I
Microsoft has been very effective at marketing by fear. Their message
is that deviating from their products will make you an outcast. Your
computer will break, nobody will be able to read your files, and
everything sent to you will be gibberish.
Which ads were those?
I do remember some ads
Can we assume that he looked in Recent Documents and in Word's list of
recently opened files?
I refer to a client who lost a Word file. He said that he either did
not save them correctly or misplaced his edited version since he can
no longer find it.
This is a 24 monitor. My wife's computer with a 20 monitor doesn't do
this. Any relation?
I don't know what the problem is, but I can tell you that I also have a Dell
24 Ultrasharp, and there's no color fringing. I like it a lot.
A group I belong to is offering information, and in order to access
this information I need to install either iTtunes or Firefox.
Like Tony, this choice seems a bit odd to me--it's sort of like saying, in
order to do X you will need either a garden hose or a microwave oven.
In any event, I
Apple haters will constantly remind you of the old problems
[with iTunes] and not mention that recent versions work well.
Sigh.
1) I am not an Apple hater. I don't even know any Apple haters. I believe
that Apple makes, for the most part, very fine products. Your continuing
references to Apple
* AMD Phenom 9500 Quad Core Desktop Processor
* 3GB PC2-5300 DDR2 Memory
* 500GB 7200rpm SATA Hard Drive
* 16x DVD+/-RW Dual Layer Burner
* ATI Radeon X1250 Integrated Graphics
* AC'97 Audio
* Gigabit Ethernet
* Eight USB 2.0, One FireWire, 9-in-1 Card
is there a way to transfer them without reloading them(registry
problems), or do i just copy eveything onto an external, then load what
i want onto the new machine? i have acronis, but do not see an
advantage to using it.
Search Vista help for migration. There's a migration tool called
But, Now, When I try to open many(not all at once) of my programs, I
get the error message 'DestroyWindow could not be located in dynamic
link library user32.dll.'.
User32.dll is part of Windows. It's either been damaged or replaced by
something less desirable, and you need to repair or
When you ran the Doxpara test, what IP address did it report? For me,
it
reported a different IP address than either of the two (primary and
secondary) that we are supposed to use for OpenDNS (208.67.222.222 and
208.67.220.220). Rather, it reported 208.69.32.13. Is there some
sort of
If you Google Windows hosts file you get lots of information. Dunno
if it really works.
It does. :)
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Even including thefts, this just doesn't sound plausible. Can anyone
find the *actual study*? Following a bunch of links they all just seem
to link to each other.
Here it is. The study was sponsored by Dell.
http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/services/dell_lost_laptop_study.pdf
It says,
Most of this article seems pretty reasonable. I don't think, however, that
the overall theme of MS is frightened of this, only MS Research knows what
it's doing accurately reflects what we know (or think we know). Three
points:
1. Singularity is not the next Windows simply states the obvious.
Ballmer was only selected to continue the ruthless business tradition
(a la' Knife the baby.); not because he has any particular technical
leadership skills.
Nor did Lee Iacocca have any particular automobile engineering skills.
Ballmer is the CEO, not the chief software architect--that's Ray
It is off topic, but I think that you are incorrect - Mr. Iacocca
graduated from Lehigh U. as an engineer and began his career with Ford
as an engineer. While he spent much of his time at Ford in sales and
marketing, he had a much better grounding in automotive engineering
than most of his
Ballmer directs MS just as Gates did, and I was replying to Tom's message
and its reference to Gates.
I understand. I was just trying to make the point (not particularly well, I
guess) that the organization has changed over time, and that Ballmer's role
in the company isn't the same as Gates's
But here we are wiser. Taking cues from Microsoft, US businesses have
learned the benefits of incompatibility. The best way to retain clients
is to make them fearful of using any system but yours.
Well played! Nice job of working a gratuitous potshot at MS into a
conversation that has no
The super-duper efficient eh Canadian Health Care system saved
themselves the cost of a MRI. He died 3 months later. Amazingly
enough, from a heart attack.
Yep...that's just what we need. Good ol' soh-she-ah-lized medicine.
Yes, our system is way better.
Oh. Wow. I see your point. Our system just sucks so badly that we
should abandon it.
Not my point at all. My point was that neither healthcare system is without
serious flaws.
If I have the money, then the US system can't be beat (let's admit it, if
this woman had had enough money, she'd
You know, if you watch the ER video you will see someone walk by and ignore
the woman lying on the floor. It's a little fuzzy, but I'm pretty sure it
was Gates.
I think I'll take the high road here and just blame MS for it.
Obviously all the ills of the world are the fault of MS.
Okay. He doesn't completely agree with me. He knows Windows sucks, but
mistakenly thinks he can apply band aids to make it better.
Guess you haven't been keeping up to date on Singularity/Midori.
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According to the physicists, they settled it without the need for any
medical trials at all. The root cause of cancer is the disruption of
molecular bonds, and radio waves aren't energetic enough to do that.
I'm no physicist, but Bob Park (Voodoo Science) is, and that's what he
says...
On NPR there was a story claiming the US was a winner initially in the
lineup of those nations affording access to broadband internet being
amongst the top 4 while now we are 15th behing Luxembourg ...I know
this for sure having recently visited Belgium where ...
While it is certainly true
Here in the united states,
the entire effort of the advertising industry is to convince the
marketplace that an inferior product is the product of need.
get a logo, a color, and a jingle.
start with GM and ford, run through Procter gamble, continue with
BofA, citibank, and on
Also, they say that their drives use 30% less
energy than standard drives and they do not need a fan.
That is about as future-proof as you can get.
I wonder about the fan thing. I've noticed some user reviews indicating
that some of these drives get REAL hot in heavy use. One reviewer
To me, it looks like the game is played: Buy MS OS--whatever the latest
version. Use all MS products on it (browsers, email programs,
Office). Repeat about every 3 years.
I'm not sure this is a fair analysis, Sue. As I mentioned earlier, I'm still
using, with Vista, software that was
How many horses is enough for Vista to run well? Which version of Vista?
Well, I'm running Vista Ultimate with an Intel Core2 (dual processor) at
2.4GHz and 2GB of RAM. Not exactly top-of-the-line stuff any more...
Chris
And it's certainly more secure.
Chris
How do you know for sure?
My impression of improved security is tighter digital rights management
and IT's tighter control over what the user can do (in a corporate
environment).
I've never had an infection and my Windows 2000 is still running fine.
I ran the upgrade adviser and it shows only 15 of my applications won't
work with Vista -- better than I had expected. There were no device
problems except for Bluetooth which won't work with Vista.
I'm surprised that there were that many. That was certainly not my own
experience. When you
Yeah. Get a Mac.
While this suggestion was offered in jest (and got stomped
on by some humorless Windows types...
Oddly enough, I'm not actually considered all that humorless by my friends,
despite my Windows-type-busboy status.
The problem is that this particular joke was officially
What's wrong with Vista? Having to struggle to access many things that
should be transparently available..
db: I just noticed this... I'm curious, what sorts of things that should be
transparently available do you find that you have to struggle to access?
Chris
Can you list your reasons for why your XP box isn't as good as Vista?
It's sort of hard to put a finger on. Mostly it just feels better. But I
have found it to be more robust (XP was pretty good, but I did get the
occasional bluescreen or hangup--I've never had either with Vista). And
it's
Tom is a fan BOI, not boy. Glitterati are bois, not boys.
I stand corrected. It also explains why PC users are mostly busboys and not
busbois.
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I haven't tried Vista yet, but I think one problem might be that some
software doesn't work for Vista as it does for XP
I use a LOT of software and have had almost no trouble. A couple of things
had to run in XP compatibility mode and a couple more needed updates (which
were free in the specific
Don't be a jerk Mike. Lots of folks run old software for good reasons. I
have Mac clients using software that was discontinued 15 years ago.
And I use, every day, a program that I wrote twenty-five years ago for DOS
2.0. The fact that your clients can still use this software doesn't prove
Vista doesn't have significant enough business value for me to go through
the hassle of upgrading all the desktops to Vista.
Here's something I don't understand, Jeff. Why is there a need for
upgrading all the desktops to Vista? This is basically the same argument
that Eric makes in another
Busboys and the unemployed skew towards PCs. Doctors, lawyers, and the
glitterati skew towards Macs.
Good lord.
Here's the problem that we Windows fan-boys (to use the insulting phrase
that you like so much) have. We have nothing against Mac hardware and
software. It's Mac USERS who can be truly
I mean, I've known for a long time my users lacked glitter, but what can I
do to change that?
Really, the only solution is to rejigger your site so that it won't serve
busboys and similar undesirables. You don't need them, and with this
approach maybe they'll just go away and die.
Sounds like another case of Ms making up their own standard again ignoring
the ones everyone else came up with.
There are no standards that I'm aware of for a single file containing a
fully self-contained web page. MS came up with such a file but were under no
obligation to conform to anyone
PDF.
There are no standards that I'm aware of for a single file
containing a
fully self-contained web page.
No. PDF is not the same as MHT. For one thing, PDF dictates what a document
MUST look like; MHT does not. MHT is just a web page with everything that
must be displayed embedded in it.
Anybody out there still using a standalone usenet news reader? Any
recommendations? I had been using free agent 1.1, but it is a bit old, so I
was wondering what I was missing. Cheap=good, free=better.
Nothing else even comes close to Agent (the paid version, not Free Agent).
It's not very
I spent an hour on the phone trying to reach a live person.
Eventually I found the only way to reach someone was to select the
option to initiate new service.
*Everyone* should have www.gethuman.com bookmarked. It doesn't always work,
but very often it does...
I'll calm down when people can post information without using the words
blind Mac zealots. (Thus the reason I chose to begin addressing anti-mac
zealots.)
If I make intercede here just a bit: the phrase you mentioned, blind Mac
zealots referred to the people, not the machine. Specifically, it
Everyone can read the story and see for themselves that my summary was
accurate.
Well, I read it, and in fact your summary was not accurate at all, unless by
script you mean he directed the contest's organizers to visit a Web
site Pretty short script.
This has nothing to do with Windows fan
Around 6-1/2 hours with FiOS...
I wonder how long it will take me to download Night of the Living Dead
(4.1gb mpg2) from them?
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Boy, you Apple fanboys sure can take a funny comment seriously.
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