Comment Re:Availability has decreased drastically (Score 2) 318
I've seen it purchased, but I live in a college town. Twice a year Mommy and Daddy come in to decorate junior's dorm room on the cheap, and the rest of the year it sits.
I've seen it purchased, but I live in a college town. Twice a year Mommy and Daddy come in to decorate junior's dorm room on the cheap, and the rest of the year it sits.
I'd sure like to add wake-on-signal...
Yes! This would be great to have. I have media centers attached to all my TV's, but still need the TV remotes just to turn them on and off. A wake-on-lan for my TV would keep it down to one remote (or phone, web interface, etc.).
Yes. I don't quite think it will double, but there are quite a few that have been waiting. My wife won't give up her Verizon service for anything and as a result she is very excited to get the iPhone there. When she gets one, her mother will get one so they can do facetime. Not a huge jump for gaming, but definitely one for apps in general.
I'll voice my support as well. For quick bash scripts, restarting services, etc. I haven't found a better one out there. The built-in VNC tunneling makes this absolutely worth $10 and then some. Then again, I've never been in a coffee shop and needed to debug lines of code in my scripts because the remote backups failed.
iSSH does exactly what I need it to do- quick and easy SSH and VNC tunneling in between games of Angry Birds.
The problem with the auto-update feature in Skype vs. gaming is that most gaming computers will be close to top-of-the-line. Most computers used for Skyping will not be top of the line.
From experience, the 5.0 version of Skype doesn't work as well as the 3.8 branch. Switching between windowed and full-screen video on the 5.0 branch takes ~4 sec to accomplish, with the audio becoming choppy at the same time. In addition, the video is choppy and audio quality is scratchy at best. The 3.8 branch doesn't have these issues, but can't do multi-user video either. This is an older machine running XP (P4 3.0HT w/ 2GB PC2-6400 memory), but should still be capable of doing things with the newer version.
+1 Agreed
I personally use caps lock for parts of some passwords, for headings on papers and documentation (sometimes), as well as upper case letters. For my typing, the only time I use shift is when I need to type a symbol. For me the shift+letter combination is much slower than the caps+letter[or multiples]+caps.
Why would it even need to be taken away? Leave the key there and let the user map it. This seems very much like one of those "lets do this because I don't use this so no one does" things. Just like the tabs-at-the-top browser, this is something that doesn't need to change for change's sake.
I go back to Postres every now and then, but find that some module that I want to install only provides code for MySQL, and I end up having to go back. Most of the major modules will support either, but I've found a lot of "it'd be cool to have that" modules don't. YMMV.
I'm accounting the tablet in the personal computers and the stuff it prints off in the imaging and printing. I think it's fair to say those items fit into the respective categories.
HP isn't trying to influence business printing, regardless of it being at the office or home office. Businesses are going to print stuff. Just because the printing happens from your home doesn't mean it's "home" printing.
They're trying to get Mom to print off her recipe rather than writing it down on a piece of paper. Or get her to send those photos Jimmy just e-mailed from college to her local printer rather than the local Walgreens. And similarly if I can send my grandma a tablet and printer at the same time, with the possibility of them already being configured to work together out of the box, they have a better chance of getting my business than the Samsung folk.
I agree it's a stereotype, and while it may not be "fact", it certainly is far from fiction. HP wants to continue selling their unicorn-blood-laced-ink to the masses, and convert all those that switched to Epson, Canon, or Brother back to them with a better selling point: the integrated platform. You and I aren't their target market with this.
My primary searches come from the right-hand corner search bar. But when I tweak those searches, I'd rather go to the box in the middle of the screen than the top right. As a side note, I have disabled that damn annoying instant search. Maybe it would work if it was on a timer that changed every 10 seconds or so rather than every character I type. All it does is add noise to the search.
If you found a codec pack that works, that's half the battle. I just install those two immediately when building and I've never had an issue playing anything. And I agree about the music part of XBMC lacking. I found boxee and MediaPortal were much better, but we hardly use ours for music. Our stuff is mostly ripped TV shows and Movies, and use the iPhone app for remotes as well.
I don't get the part about the glass- my IR receiver is about the size of a 3.5mm jack, and the Gyration remote is RF, so there is nothing showing for that in front of the TV.
And all three are much better at picking up the metadata (actors, DVD covers, synopsis, etc.) than WMC, IMO. I'm currently helping a friend move his stuff to XBMC because of all the xml files and thumbs he has to keep for the metadata to show up in his WMC install. Maybe they've improved it for Win7, but I've found the XP and Vista ones just horrible for any large movie and TV show collection.
I tend to agree. On my wife's XP machine, Opera loads just as fast as Firefox, but loses out in the long run because the page is sitting on 22/23 items loaded and has yet to display anything. Firefox, on the other hand, displays everything as fast as it can, even though the progress bar at the bottom shows there is plenty more to be loaded. Technically they load almost equally, but I'd rather stare at a page being loaded/rendered than a blank white page.
He sat there for a good hour going through painstaking detail of simple desktop operations and just how mind boggling bad Ubuntu/Gnome is in comparision.
He sat there for a whole hour and you can't give us one example? I smell troll.
The earth is like a tiny grain of sand, only much, much heavier.