Comment harmless entertainment, who cares? (Score 1) 572
These companies need to stick by their actions. Coming out to apologize only gives the perception that something was done wrong, and gives the company bad press.
These companies need to stick by their actions. Coming out to apologize only gives the perception that something was done wrong, and gives the company bad press.
No matter what other people prefer, I'll stick with my WMA Lossless and FLAC anyday. I'm very sensitive, maybe it's just my set up (Zune 120 + Westone 3 earphones).
The worst of the worst lossy compression I've ever heard was with QuickTime/iTunes AAC encoder, it cuts all the low frequencies and leaves the bass really dull.
The general population shouldn't have input in things like this anyway. Leave it to the educated people please.
Just my 2 cents. o_O
So, Nintendo just released the Nintendo DSi and there hasn't been a single game designed to use it's hardware on the market, and Nintendo is already on the path to replace it next year. This might piss all the guys that bought DSi thinking it would be the next-generation Nintendo portable platform only to be as unsupported as the Sega CD or 32x. Developers won't like this either...
nVidia's drivers are worse than ATI's. Microsoft released data showing that nVidia drivers cause 30% of all Windows crashes, greater than any other source, whereas ATI's less than 10%. I have had the chance to test nVidia GeForce Go 7900 GS and ATI Radeon Mobility X1400 in the same laptop and have seen some signifcant difference, with the GeForce graphics are a lot worse, things like image tearing and flickering, lines and pixels where the mipmap levels are, and in Aero blocks and corrupted graphics while resizing and moving windows around. With the Radeon graphics quality looks a lot better all around, textures have more detail, trilinear texture filtering is real trlinear texture filtering, mipmaps and textures don't shimmer, and on the desktop things like flash, windows resizing, and going from page to page and window to window are faster with no graphics distortion.
Windows NT properly supports media keys without special drivers or software. In media applications, there's usually support for those keys natively and have the option of whether they respond to it globalled or locally, ie when the program is out of focus (globally) or only when it is in focus (locally). An example of this is foobar200 and Winamp.
I'm sort of surprised people think the scroll lock is the most useless key. I don't use it all the time, but on my Dell laptop it functions as a F-lock key, and as previous people have mentioned, it's used a lot in terminals and KVM switches. It's useful as a button that doesn't do much in some other contextes and can be reprogrammed for other use.
Windows key is very useful, Win+L to lock my computer is my most common use.
Pause/break? Great for use with the Windows key, it functions as a shortcut to the system control panel.
I personally voted the caps lock the most useless, there's no reason to type in all capitol letters and it's only ever served to screw up password entries and make mistakes I have to go back and redo.
You're all off base; net neutrality is in regards to how the data being transferred over the Internet itself is handled (the pipes) and what ISPs are allowed to do with it. As a user (computer connected to the internet) you have control of to whom and what is sent, what connections are allowed; we want to keep this open and unrestricted with net neutrality.
The services people offer over the Internet are completely up to the people, this is about defining and enforcing what the Internet is, an open/public data type network/utility and protecting how it should be operated, making all data and service transferred over the actual network equal and prevent discrimination. People are allowed to transfer what ever they want to whoever they want, or not.
You're stupid.
WiMAX beats your 10/10mbit line throughput wise, and is capable of more.
Current users are getting 16Mbps/6Mbps. Latency as low as 40ms (portland to Seattle WA).
"which means 10.5Mbps in either direction"
Wrong! Sprint 4G users currently getting 16Mbps down and 6Mbps up.
Better still, there's btjunkie.org.
I just tried it and it routed me through Google search.
That's incorrect. I have a Dell Inspiron E1705 with Core Duo T2500 2GHz (first generation Core Duo) and it fully supports virtualization. Dell has the option to change it in the BIOS. There are budget versions of the Core Duo Txx50 that don't have support for it, though. It's true there's no 64-bit support however..
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