Another thing to point out, Bing is the only other search engine on the market that can compare to Google's search results, and often times it is a good alternative if you weren't able to find what you were looking for. Being the only other option available, naturally you're going to get some extra traffic that way.
Only thing I'm using it for at the moment is Bing cash back. If you're searching for something that you can buy, many websites have teamed up with Bing to offer discounts and money back if you found the link through Bing. The deals aren't really that great though when you do the research, many of these websites are offering the same promotions via coupon codes and back entrances on their websites, and when it is a bargain, that can be accounted for by the fact that you pay the money all upfront and receive the money back later, after they've managed to earn interest and been able to do other things with your money (ala mail-in rebates). It's also a great way for these websites to promote itself with tech savvy buyers that know the ins and outs of bargain hunting on the Internet.
http://web.archive.org/web/*/paypal.x.com/*
I knew it was familar, being a PayPal member since 2000.
Hasn't PayPal always owned x.com? if I recall, you used to access the website at paypal.x.com and it wasn't until a few years ago that they started using paypal.com.
With Intel My WiFi, the computer acting as a access-point opens up the door for a lot of devices that won't connect to ad-hoc networks, such as Nintendo's Wii and DS. Configuration is also simplified because IPs and DNS don't work over ad-hoc without configuration (like manually assigning IPs), whereas the access point includes DHCP and DNS servers that set all that up for you (useful for LAN gaming, filesharing, etc).
Does this mean Intel has been "exploiting" Windows Virtual WiFi with the "My WiFi" feature on their 5000 series WiFi adapters all this time?
Old news, it's absolutely not an exploit or some hack and has already been in use by Intel for months if not the past year.
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.
The hardest part of climbing the ladder of success is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
