Posts by TeeCee 9436 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Oct 2007
Try hitting the web service for more gadgets in Windows 7.
Rather than the comprehensive gadget gallery, you now get a brief selection of "more popular" ones, along with an explanation that says something like; "Fuck you, get Windows 8".
So, no gadgets in 8 + people find gadgets useful = pretend they don't exist.
I had one of those once.
In all the times I used it, only one merchant ever looked at the picture[1]. He studied the miniscule picture for a minute through glasses like milk-bottle bottoms and eventually declared that it might be me, but then again it might be just about anybody.
Maybe that's why they never took off?
[1] Well, only one for validation purposes. Loads of 'em caught sight and went "Ooo, it's got a picture on it. Who is it?".....
A shiny, new Motorola Milestone 2 (which looks astonishingly similar to the object depicted) can be had, sim free, for pretty much peanuts right now.
You'll be wanting to root it and put on a vanilla image though. The reason it's cheap is that the eejits at Motorola stuck "motoblur" onto it, which most reviewers reckon makes it run like a dog.
"Including a "publish" button in every copy of Word might just tip the balance, assuming the competition authorities don't notice."
Can't be any less competitive than flogging decent readers at heavily-subsidised, loss-leader prices which support a proprietary format and point to your store, tieing their users to you until hell freezes over.
Can't imagine that anyone would be allowed to get away with that.
Still, at least Apple's attempt to cartel the major suppliers and price-fix the entire eBook market seems to have come a cropper. One down, one to go.
Even more "stimulating" when you consider the "dangle it on a string and hope to Christ that all the suspension latches disengage on cue" approach that they have gone for. That's assuming that the "Skycrane" bit it'll be dangling from works flawlessly too.
An 85 million mile trip leading up to the Great-Grandmother of all squeaky bottom moments.
I think they're actually referring to naturally occurring ones, rather than those possibly cobbled together by little green men. There are a few things going on out there that make the likes of the LHC look like a pocket torch with a knackered AAA battery.
Quasars, Hypernovae, supermassive black holes running into each other at nosebleed-inducing velocities......all sorts of things apt to make subatomic particles crap themselves at the thought of being in the affected bits of spacetime.
A place to put those odd things that you run into while idly surfing.
To get started, here is a product review for hair removal gel, courtesy of our good friends at Amazon. Hat tip to one of the commentards on car4play for the spot.
Warning: NSFW and quite likely to cause your coworkers to think you've gone stark, raving mad.
I got a banner on logging in.
Turns out that the "manage storage" bit is yet another place in the wacky world of Windows Live that stuffs your language settings with whatever it thinks is appropriate courtesy of IP geolocation.
If anyone happens to be near to the arsehat at MS who's responsible for Windows Live's cavalier attitude to user language settings, could you give him a kicking for me? Thanks.
Valdimir, I totally agree with everything you said there.
Trouble is, Apple deserve everything they bloody get here. If it were not for their sterling work in enshrining the legal importance of the use of touchscreens, there would be no case.
It's their petard and they cannot be hoist too far by it in my book.
So what's that as a ratio then?
I'm running around 8:1 ups to downs at the moment. Personally I'd expect the ups to be generally higher as I'll happily upvote to something I approve of, but issuing a down is something I do rarely and only[1] when I reckon the comment really deserves to have raspberries blown at it.
[1] Well, that and when I push the wrong bloody button of course.
Yeah, but there's waaaay too much low-hanging fruit around in the "straight to video/DVD/SciFi channel" bin. Just buy a fiver's worth out of the bargain bin at Poundland to see what I mean, I guarantee a complete set of stinkers.
I reckon that to be a real classic turkey, a film must have at least one person or organisation associated with it who reckons it's worth a cinematic release and makes it happen.
Not to mention that having applications poking their grubby fingers around in the flash cache directly without the OS knowing about it is all going to end in tears when the data corruption fairies notice.
Programs that bypass the authority of the Supervisor program? They'll be driving around the system on stolen lightcycles next, mark my words......
Many of the above suggestions get a thumbs up from me, but one thing I really enjoyed recently was Elizabeth Moon's "Vatta's War" series.
Space Opera written by someone who both actually knows a thing or three about military tactics and can also do decent plot / human content? Bloody marvellous. Well written too.
Having a Velociraptor, a Win 7 machine with plenty of RAM and a spare, fast 8Gb memory stick, I have already tried this.
The answer is it makes absolutely bugger all difference, bar adding another flashing light to the box.
I reckon you probably need a USB3 stick and port to see any advantage that isn't chewed up by the overhead of running ReadyBoost in the first place when the spinning HDD is already fast.
Now, there were rumours when Win 7 was in gestation that it would provide the ability to tie an HDD and a small SSD together, to provide something like a DIY Momentus XT without the size limitations. Shame it never turned up. That'd be interesting, if only to see the interminable flame wars over the best SSD to HDD ratio this would undoubtably cause......
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