at least a close miss where I had to duck ;)
- WarLord
Glen, I had to laugh out loud in affection. I'm writing a paper on courage in the face of evil and your comment is just so well-timed. :)
- Melanie Reed
WarLord, you too, But I must say this make your name more ironic. No disrespect intended. All in affection. :)
- Melanie Reed
I take it that Mr. Haley's marksmanship could use some practice, Micah? ;)
- Melanie Reed
I hit 17 out of 25 clay discs on my first trap shoot ever.
- Josh Haley
I'd be willing to take the other 7 bullets for you, Josh. Maybe not in the head or the heart, but in the leg or something. ;) (tongue in cheek)
- Melanie Reed
My Windows 7 experience thread (Clean install from Vista Home Premium 32-bit to Windows 7 Professional 32-bit, 1.73GHz Core Duo, 2GB RAM, Performance Index 2.9).
Installation actually happened this past Sunday. It's just as fast as you heard it is. LOVE that you can keep your old documents even for clean installs (they get put into a Windows.old folder)
- LANjackal
Yes, it's FAST. I feel like I got a brand new PC. Not kidding.
- LANjackal
Tip: If you can't stand the large icons in the Start Menu, download Ultimate Windows Tweaker here http://www.thewindowsclub.com/ultimat... and toggle the "Use Small Icons" in the Start Menu settings
- LANjackal
It still takes way too many clicks to determine your own IP address. That's just silly.
- LANjackal
Boot and shutdown times have been greatly improved for sure
- LANjackal
I cranked the UAC settings up to the max, since I prefer to be reminded when anything that requires elevation is happening (the warning lets me think about what I'm doing, which I like). In 7, secure desktop loads a lot faster than it did in Vista, so the annoyance is minimal.
- LANjackal
Graphics performance is superb. PCs without discrete GPUs will fly through Aero Flip 3D, which wasn't previously the case
- LANjackal
Another (major) pro tip: Get Windows 7 Inside Out by Ed Bott. Excellent, excellent resource. I've been using that series since XP SP1 and love it. It will save you a lot of Googling and searching. It also comes with a PDF version on disc so you can search it from your PC too
- LANjackal
Windows 7 now stores all your credentials (including server logins) under your Account Settings. Upshot: centralized management. Downside: If you're not aware of it, it can be annoying. If you enter the wrong credentials for a server, tell 7 to recall them and the login fails, all you'll get is an error message with no way to change the credentials from Explorer. You'll have to go back...
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- LANjackal
The above trend of centralization and simplification continues throughout 7. For example, you can't pin a shortcut to BOTH the Start Menu & the Taskbar. MS is really trying to eliminate redundancy not only in the OS but also in user behavior IMO
- LANjackal
Earlier I'd posted that PS3 Media Server didn't work. Wrong. The trick is to reinstall the entire app if it can't install the service. I'm switching back to it and dumping TVersity, which seems to bloated for what I want it to do.
- LANjackal
WMP 12 continues to be an unsung standout among media players. The newest development: the Play tab can now manage several playlists at once via its own back/forward buttons. What this means is that you can create instant playlists from searches WITHOUT losing the one you were listening to before, even if that one wasn't saved to a hard copy. If you prefer WMP folderize and rename your music files for you, ensure you change the Rip Music folder to where the tracks are actually located or it won't.
- LANjackal
W7 just saved me $2K. How? Well, before I'd been planning to get a brand new high performance desktop from Alienware or the like. But my old laptop is so speedy after upgrading that I can comfortably shelve that idea and upgrading my LAN to 100% gigabit for under $200 instead
- LANjackal
The new taskbar really really changes the way you think about multitasking. Since shortcuts and open windows are now represented in the same space, you're no longer glaringly aware of how many windows you have open
- LANjackal
I love Win 7. I too saved money when I did a clean install on my four year old HP. BTW my PI is 3.1.
- Russellreno
TROUBLE IN DRIVERLAND: Took a picture earlier tonight with my Canon, inserted card into reader on laptop. Nada. Turns out 7 never recognized it to begin with. Fortunately the driver question seems pretty common - it's right on the Toshiba Support front page. I downloaded and installed it and the reader works now. Also installed a driver for my WiFi adapter, just in case since I haven't had to use it yet and don't wanna find out it doesn't work when I actually need it
- LANjackal
So, MS had publicly stated that all Vista drivers would work in Windows 7, and that's been mostly true from what I've seen. The fine print is that the installation process may not necessarily be the same & following the Vista instructions in 7 could result in some pretty odd - albeit reversible - problems. Such as this one: http://friendfeed.com/tech-su...
- LANjackal
Major annoyance: it is a documented fact that Windows 7 (and perhaps Vista) will allow USB connections to "sleep" when they're not used for long periods of time (apparently this is a power saving measure) The problem gets worse when a USB hub is involved. My printer and hub often disappear from the PC if I haven't actively used them for a long time, and a reboot is the only thing that fixes it.
- LANjackal
Not photoshopped. Screen captured directly from the video off CBS. Robert was geekin' out on the show. Double high 5'in folks as they came down to play.
- Adam Helweh
Imagining it now, he'd be checking the prices of things on his phone and UStreaming interviews of the people on each side of him....
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Later in the show they had a whole package available to win that had an iMac and a Canon SLR. I could see his mind whirling.
- Adam Helweh
I <3 Robert Scoble. That's just silly awesome.
- iTad
Maybe he is not excited. Maybe he is laughing at the poor soul who gets that outdated GPS? I like Johnny's caption.
- Adam Helweh
The price for that GPS was over $1,000. It was like, $1,250 or something.
- Rochelle
I so want to see a video of the double high 5's.
- Rodfather
I'm wondering how long he had to wait in line to get that perfect seat. He is on camera more than Drew Carey.
- Adam Helweh
OMG & Jason, I'm pretty sure the tag starts with "RO"
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Jimminy, I know what you're thinking: ROWAN ATKINSON. Spot on!
- Micah
from iPhone
At first I was looking at the 3 contestants and the Barkers Beauty (Not sure what they call those ladies now that Bob is gone); then I saw the gentleman in the brown shirt sitting in what appears to be the first or second row! Scoble!!!! Truly an out loud laughing moment. Thanks for posting this.
- David Damore
I just saw a post from Twitter referring to his experience. He's pretty sure he yelled "computer" or something . . .
- Auntie Buttinsky Botts
It is real. We taped this a couple of months ago. Drew Olanoff got us on and introduced us to Drew Carey. Very cool day and lots of fun!
- Robert Scoble
"Take care not to overfill the puff. The danger of overfilling the puffs was illustrated numerous times when one of us would bite into a profiterole and pastry cream went shooting out the other end. This is to be expected when dealing with incompressible fluids. That was some serious trajectory."
- Derrick
from Bookmarklet
I've been going half & half but using Chrome a lot more lately.
- Rodfather
Was there a specific feature that made you switch to Chrome?
- Rah-PM 2012
Firefox was being flaky a while back, so I switched to Chrome too. I like it.
- tab
Derrick- I started using Chrome as my default a few weeks ago. Liking it a lot.
- David Rothman (☤)
My only qualm is that Chrome is a memory hog. It was making everything else run a bit sluggishly at work today. Hmmm. #conflicted
- Derrick
Firefox--partly because I'd just as soon defy the Googleplex in its efforts to take over all of my computing life. (And, actually, Bing's turning out to be a good search engine.)
- Walt Crawford
I use Chromium (unbranded version of Chrome) at home on my desktop and netbooks running ubuntu 9.10. At work I'm stuck with Firefox because of some extensions that I wouldn't be able to do my job without (monitoring 5 screens on two monitors and trying to do other work doesn't get any better unless you have the Sideshow extension for firefox :P )
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
Good. He should have never left the X-Men.
- RAPatton
Will it be good storywise though? Do we need another? Heard Wolverine was 'meh'.
- Araceli
from email
You could do X-Men stories forever, just because one team did not do it well doesn't mean the next won't. You have 40 years of history to pull fully vetted, loved, storyboarded tales from.
- RAPatton
True. But you could say that for any movie.
- Araceli
from email
Not ever set of characters has 40 years of material that has been vetted, loved and storyboarded (comics by their nature are storyboarded). The X-Men are a treasure trove.
- RAPatton
A good chunk of those 40 years are far, far too convoluted to extract out the good bits IMO.
- Andrew C (✓)
They'll take the basic idea of Magneto and Xavier and make their own story. Ooh, casting ideas for 20-somethings for them?
- Araceli
from email
Anything is better than Ratner, right? ;) I didn't mind Singer's vision, so I doubt this could be that bad. It may be really awesome.
- Lauren
I didn't think X3 was that horrible like Spiderman3, but I didn't like that they killed off Scott and destroyed Scott/Jean, etc. Do you remember the X-Men cartoon Pryde of the X-Men? If it's kind of like that it could be good.
- Araceli
Although I do not like Scott, his death was not cool at all. (I'm not a Logan/Jean shipper either, I just don't like Scott.) Spiderman 3 was just awful. I need to find that gif...same gif I mentioned in the Tobey as Bilbo thread. Must go on ONTD! ;)
- Lauren
Killing Scott off was petty and stupid; he is the fulcrum
- RAPatton
from iPhone
Scott is my favorite X-Men. And I'ma big Scott/Jean shipper. Comics, cartoons, movies, etc.
- Araceli
Scott is important because he is the center that holds it all together. Without him, Jean isn't as interesting, or Emma, or even Wolverine. They killed him off in X3 to punish Marsden for going to Superman Returns with Singer
- RAPatton
Yeah, Scott & Jean's love it is what is stressed by Wolverine, and that love triangle is what is interesting. Wolverine has been involved with othe X-Men, but they don't stick in people's minds. You need Scott to do Madeline, and Scott's mental affair with Emma and his sway over her has been the dominant thread holding the X-Men together. This doesn't even take into account how he is needed to make his brother interesting or their endless brood of children.
- RAPatton
from iPhone
I always thought they killed Scott off because of Richard White. ;) Superman Returns was just grrr. (Words cannot express my frustration.) Killing him just didn't make sense to me, because of exactly what Rob pointed out. It frustrated me. Then again, that movie frustrated me more than once.
- Lauren
Well, yeah Scott and Jean are endlessly fascinating with all their love interests, children, relatives, alternate timelines, etc. But it always come back to them. I meant you think that they killed him off to punish for Superman Returns? And that movie was not that great.
- Araceli
Yes, fox killed Scott Summers in X3 because Marsden did Superman Returns
- RAPatton
from iPhone
Not that great, Araceli?! I think that is being incredibly kind to a movie that made me abhor Lois Lane. There's something wrong with that. The whole plot was ridiculous and the only person I cared for in the movie was Richard. I thought Kevin Spacey was going to play this amazing Lex (cause it's Spacey!) and nope, fell completely short. Thank goodness, I did not see this in theaters. Superman movies should just not be made.
- Lauren
What? I was being kind. I do have a heart. ;)
- Araceli
from email
Her: You're from TX? / Me: Yes / Her: Does that mean you're a right wing conservative? / Me: *see comment below* Well ... I'm an independent conservative / Her: Omigaaad that is SOOO HOT! We should hang out!
Cannot sensibly identify myself with the GOP of the past 24 months, and the region I live in is strongly liberal so I thought it was a trick question
- LANjackal
No, I didn't get her number, idk if we'll be hanging out at any point. She's hot but I prefer her friend, whom I spent most of the time at the bar with
- LANjackal
Friend left, decided to skip the "2 minute drills" (nod to /rjcc) and leave. Got work in the morning anyway
- LANjackal
The tech category on the mash post is missing #fail and #whale :)
- Micah
Item 2. Facebook Privacy Move Violates Contract http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive... Your name, profile picture, gender, current city, networks, Friends List, and all the pages you subscribe to are now publicly available information on Facebook. This means everyone on the web can see it; it is searchable. This represents just the...
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- Leo Laporte
The fact that Mark Zuckerberg initially had all his photos public after the most recent switch, then took them private again would seem to be an indication that *nobody* really understands all this stuff.
- Ken Sheppardson
Item 3. Microsoft China rips off Asia's No. 1 Microblogging Service - Plurk http://mashable.com/2009... the short of what we think has happened: • Microsoft China officially launched its own microblogging service, MSN Juku/Hompy/Mclub, some time in November, 2009. • The service’s design and UI is by and large an EXACT copy of...
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- Leo Laporte
Leo, that link is to an article written by a former Valleywag writer, linking to Gawker coverage. Hours after that Gawker coverage Zuckerberg announced he was going public. I don't know that he removed photos
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
You see any pictures, Marshall? http://www.facebook.com/zuck And I don't mean that to sound snarky... I don't. Maybe I just don't know how to get to them. Or he blocked me. :-)
- Ken Sheppardson
well, I'll be damned. I just asked Vark and two people said they couldn't see them either
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
my co-worker can. we must be friends of friends and he must set the photos to that
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
Yeah, either "Friends of Friends" or "Friends and Networks"... Seems odd those are mutually exclusive.
- Ken Sheppardson
Vanderchucks right, interaction and engaging your online followers/community is the key. (Leo says this also.) Merlin talks really fast (no offense) caffeine or just fast talker?
- echostreamer
Question for Vark: "Do people like softball questions?"
- Ken Sheppardson
so Leo, you are going to ask him about Arrington's report that Vark is going to be acquired by Google right? :) http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... tell him he should tell you first and me second.
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
I like that Merlin's stepping up on this. You should have him on to grill all the net@night guests, Leo ;-)
- Ken Sheppardson
I agree. Another reason on this countless list why I heart merlin. :D
- tehsnknplnt
Song of the Week - iPhone and Droid Face Off Contest (ENDS DEC 31st, 2009) http://www.indabamusic.com/submiss... You know whats nerdier than contrasting the merits of the iPhone versus those of the Motorola Droid (twice)? Pitting the two phones against each other in a sound effect remix battle. You know what’s even nerdier than that? Absolutely nothing. The folks over at...
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- Leo Laporte
fwiw, Sameer Paranjpye, former lead on Hadoop at Yahoo! (one of the biggest users of Hadoop) is now a key guy on Vark engineering team. there's heavy computing and a rock star team behind these guys.
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
So it's basically a "question routing engine"?
- Ken Sheppardson
i'd say so Ken. give it a try, we can be buds. it'll be great.
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
if you ask questions on twitter though, you end up bothering everyone. vark just bothers the right people, whom you know and who happen to be available in real time.
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
because "a friend of your good friend" is more likely to get you to answer a question
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
Leo: Will Merlin be on that special twit with Hodgman and Coulton?
- tehsnknplnt
"William Guinness" = William Holden + Alec Guinness. They were close :-)
- Ken Sheppardson
Hodgman Coulton and Mann sounds like a '70s supergroup
- Ken Sheppardson
Merlin = Top 8 hosts / guests on Twit. 1 of Leo's greatest abilities is to recognize talent or people who audiences will respond to. Brushwood is his latest win.
- echostreamer