Comment Re:Features New to Windows 7 (Score 1) 898
Fine, I looked at the new features list. One or two interesting items, but nothing that makes me sit up and go "Gotta have it!"
Fine, I looked at the new features list. One or two interesting items, but nothing that makes me sit up and go "Gotta have it!"
I tossed it because it has such poor support for Win98 guests (no shared folders, or other tools). I run many older OSes as guests, so I'm sticking with VMWare.
It doesn't have to be that way.
You can take a basic app and write add-ons. Each customer that needs a new feature gets an add-on written (or possibly modified if there is an existing add-on that is close to what is needed). Customers only run the add-ons they need, keeping the interface uncluttered.
Don't people use auto-update?
The Recording Industry Association of America is declaring attorney-blogger Ray Beckerman a "vexatious" litigator and is seeking unspecified monetary sanctions to punish him in his defense of a New York woman accused of making copyrighted music available on the Kazaa file sharing system. The RIAA said Beckerman, one of the nation's few attorneys who defends accused file sharers, "has maintained an anti-recording industry blog during the course of this case and has consistently posted virtually every one of his baseless motions on his blog seeking to bolster his public relations campaign and embarrass plaintiffs," the RIAA wrote (.pdf) in court briefs. "Such vexatious conduct demeans the integrity of these judicial proceedings and warrants this imposition of sanctions.",
Beckerman is accused, among other things, of "providing false and misleading information and for unreasonably and vexatiously multiplying and prolonging this litigation."
How can they expect anyone to believe this crap?
The prototype also used a reduced clock signal distribution system. Whereas traditional CPUs assign about 30% of their power budget to clock distribution, according to Bautista, Tera-scale uses only about 10%, which was enabled by having fewer "repeaters" throughout.
Sure, Dell offers Win XP — but not on the hardware you want.
Sure, Dell offers a no OS option — but (you guessed it!) not on the hardware you want (or, apparently, outside the USA).
Sure Dell offers CPU upgrade options — but you have to pay more for your laptop, and then pay more again for the upgrade.
Sure, Ideastorm is a great idea — but Dell doesn't seem to be doing much with the suggestions.
Is anyone else having problems with Dell? Does the Slashdot crowd have any ideas for me?
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