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Comment: Re:Ok, how do they know? (Score 1) 862

by BcNexus (#37618890) Attached to: Microsoft Killed the Start Menu Because No One Uses It
Read the rest of the article.They found that pinning is popular.

Good. It should be obvious by now, but that is what I do. I've pinned 23 items to my Start Menu: Assorted Libraries, Calculator, Command Prompt, Firefox, IE, Chrome, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.

If they don't have pinning or something like it ... (O-o)

Comment: Re:Ok, how do they know? (Score 1) 862

by BcNexus (#37618808) Attached to: Microsoft Killed the Start Menu Because No One Uses It
Gah! Pinning to the taskbar! Horrible!

They took away* Quick launch, so I tried using the taskbar as my "go to place" for shortcuts, but pinning it to it sucked.

I therefore switched to pinning things to the Start Menu (even though there is no Right click - > "Sort my pinned items by name" option). Now they want to take it away?!? Not cool.

I've put a few hours of testing in with the Windows 8 Developers preview, and let me tell you, if users don't know how to use shit now, wait till they see tiles. Can you click and drag to swipe? Noooo. You have to use the scroll wheel. Can you ever reach the edge of the tiles by scrolling? Nooooo.


*Hid it/buried it/made it generally inaccessible

Comment: Judge's ruling pro-biz, anti-law (Score 3, Interesting) 189

by BcNexus (#36964592) Attached to: Zediva Shut Down By Federal Judge, MPAA Parties!
Judge went above and beyond in the scope of his/her ruling so far that he/she is blindly favoring the MPAA:

The 12-page injunction took issue with nearly every argument Zediva made in its defense, and even went further, arguing that since Zediva's users could occasionally encounter movies that were "out of stock," consumers would be confused about how streaming video services work, potentially ruining the market for Hollywood.

Oddly, Martin also argued that Zediva's service, which charges per movie, could cause "confusion or doubt regarding whether payment is required for access to the Copyrighted Works."

Comment: October, 2009 (Score 1) 249

by BcNexus (#36368396) Attached to: The last time I switched my usual GUI:
I switched from "Luna" (I think) to Aero, when I switched from XP to Windows 7.

I love Start Search, Aero Peek, Aero Snap...

On the otherhand, I'm not too happy with how MS combined the Task Bar with the Quick Start area. Grouping application windows on the task bar kind of bothers me. I wish I could group and ungroup application windows quickly, so I didn't have to chose between grouped or ungrouped. Pinning documents to icons in the Quick Start area is an odd metaphor. I think recent documents/files belong in a list somewhere else.
Power

'Pruned' Microchips Twice As Fast and Efficient 127

Posted by timothy
from the use-the-tiny-tin-snips dept.
Zothecula writes "If you had to use a commuting bicycle in a race, you would probably set about removing the kickstand, fenders, racks and lights to make the thing as fast and efficient as possible. When engineers at Houston's Rice University are developing small, fast, energy-efficient chips for use in devices like hearing aids, it turns out they do pretty much the same thing. The removal of portions of circuits that aren't essential to the task at hand is known as 'probabilistic pruning,' and it results in chips that are twice as fast, use half the power, and are half the size of conventional chips."

Comment: Blaze's biz "is to increase download times" (Score 1) 260

by BcNexus (#35523250) Attached to: Nexus S Beats iPhone 4 In 'Real World' Web Browsing Tests
Users don't always notice the speed gap because websites are sometimes tailored to mobile phones, Blaze said. The difference will become more obvious as users demand richer experiences and move to tablet computers with larger screens, said Guy Podjarny, chief technology officer of Blaze, whose business is helping companies increase website download times.

Maybe their customers are ISPs who charge by usage?

Comment: Re:Oh yeah (Score 1) 215

by BcNexus (#34295742) Attached to: Microsoft Says Kinect Left Open By Design
Windows Mobile 6.1 and 6.5 phones handle the Exchange Active Sync (EAS) protocol great. You can buy a mainstream HTC Touch HD2 or Touch Pro 2 and sync all you like on my Exchange server if you work in my organization.

There are two rasons why I use a Touch Pro 2:
1. Full EAS support.
2. Google has chosen to snub MS by making Android (for the moment, at least) support remote wipe and encryption only through Google Apps accounts.
Google

Google offers more enterprise controls for Android->

Submitted by BcNexus
BcNexus writes "It seems that Google is trying to get Android powered mobile devices into the corporate workplace, but not the way some might expect. While MS offers device encryption, remote wipe and password policies through their Exchange Active Sync protocol, Google hasn't licensed the technology. Instead, Google has announced that they're now offering similar controls through Google Apps. A Google Apps domain administrator can enable mobile policies such as "Remotely wipe all data from lost or stolen mobile devices", "Lock idle devices after a period of inactivity", "Require a device password on each phone", "Set minimum lengths for more secure passwords", and "Require passwords to include letters and numbers".
However, end-users have to install the Google Apps Device Policy application before their administrator can enforce polices. There doesn't seem to be a policy for device and storage card encryption in the list of policies."

Link to Original Source

Comment: If only my organization was social net enlightened (Score 1) 130

by BcNexus (#33933480) Attached to: How To Tame the Social Network At Work
SCENE: MOZILLA FIREFOX WINDOW

Firefox title bar: "Access to this site is blocked"
Firefox document body:

Content blocked by your organization

Reason:
This Websense category is filtered: Denied.

URL: http://www.facebook.com/

Options:
Click more_information to learn more about your access policy.
Click Go_Back or use the browser's Back button to return to the previous page.

More_information link leads to this not-so-helpful explanation:
Your Websense policy blocks this page at all times.

/facepalm

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