@contextfree`: What's the problem with classical music? I don't have any and find the experience to be like that with CDs.

@magicalclick: Tag your files properly. There are fields for artist (TPE1) and album artist/band (TPE2). Set artist to the artist of the track and band to "Various Artists" and they'll show up correctly in the software and on the device/phone. For properly tagging sampler discs you can also set the compilation tag (TCMP) to "1" even though that is not required.

For the others who are offended, please tell that to the artist of the content. I am pretty sure the Zune team would like (and should) to represent the artist's titling intentions when delivering their contents. I for one want them to do that and I'd wish censorship to die, entirely. I would respect your choice of words, even if I don't feel quite comfortable listening to those words you chose.

If anything should change, then it should only be a setting, like in DVD playback software, which determines which types of content to deny access to as an option for the user.

Did you replace the images on the server? Wouldn't it have been easier to change the URLs in the reference file?

The C9 emoticons are in http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/content/images/emoticons/C9/*
& the normal ones are in http://ecn.channel9.msdn.com/o9/content/images/emoticons/*

Developers, developers, developers!

(haven't watched it yet, gonna watch it later to see how good it really is, but nothing beats the idea)

Doesn't turn into

anymore.

ZippyV said:

Dr Herbie said:

*snip*

Let's say they encrypted the challenge with AES. What are we supposed to do with it? Bruteforce?

If they would have encrypted it with AES, that would've been much more fun to solve, especially since a reverse key analysis still takes months using smart guesses on the round modifier on a small supercomputer. And it would take even longer if the S-box (Rijndael S-Box) wasn't derived from a matrix multiplication for fast encryption.

Back to the dreams: Do you want dreaming to be turned off? Would it be better, if you weren't dreaming at all? I think dreaming is fun, but if you want it turned off, it'd save big on resources... :)

spivonious said:

I think the majority of people don't like Luna because it's too colorful. I don't mind it myself. It's loads better than the Win95 theme.

I remember people complaining about the large fonts and the colors, when XP first came out. "It's for blind people", they said...

After a year they got used to it, and well, we all know how long XP was around for, for all the people to love (and hate).

Bass said:

jamie said:

*snip*

This problem of limited fonts has already been solved

 

Go to the following site with basically any web browser other then Internet Explorer:

 

http://www.opentype.info/demo/webfontdemo.html

 

IE9 will probably support font embedding in this manner.

 

Works in every IE since IE 4.0: http://www.microsoft.com/typography/WEFT.mspx

Matthew van Eerde said:

vesuvius said:

*snip*

The .me website (like all two-letter TLDs) is the property of a country - in this case, Montenegro.

 

Ever since Tuvalu sold out in 2000, countries have been trying to figure out a way to cash in on their country code...

TLDs in Europe are usually very cheap with DNS. You can get them at the local registry for ~$2or less. For COM $7 is normal and for NET/ORG $12 is quite normal. The only TLDs that are expensive are those of small countries, because they have to run a root DNS system for very few users.

Shining Arcanine said:

CannotResolveSymbol said:

*snip*

Well, I just came up with an algorithm to do it. Unfortunately, it is O(2^n), which will most likley not terminate in my life time (unless I become incredibly lucky), so I need to come up something better than it. I am thinking if I can some how eliminate the execution paths in a divide and conquer type approach, I could do this, but I have no idea how such an approach could be done, so I have nothing to show for my brainstorming. I think I will continue to think about how to solve this, although I am starting to feel like I am trying to square the circle.

Brute force cracking is infeasable, unless you've got the money for like... 147 billion CPU/GPUs with 340 cores each... and then it still takes a very long time.

Minh said:

ManipUni said:

*snip*

Why?

 

Haven't standards been a good thing for companies spinning their wheels fighting each other? I'm not saying html today is awesome though... it's horrible

Companies, and even divisions of large companies like Microsoft need to be able to fight each other, or at some point we would no longer have progress. That's the one and only reason.

Not trust, because trust doesn't really matter.

CreamFilling512 said:

CSMR said:

*snip*

 

Also from the screenshot the Nexus UI looks like crap, and the screen is unusable outdoors, great!

OLED is dead for now, from an engineering perspective. In large TV sets, laser display technology emerges (brighter, less power consumption) and for mobile devices pixel brightness is an issue, making OLED displays almost impossible to read under direct sunlight.

OLED displays can be produced at very low costs, but all the sampling runs and the engineers working on them are prohibitively expensive. If OLED gets somewhere, it's Samsung's AMOLED technology that's the most promising (they have paper like AMOLED displays).

If it's disk I/O, you could use Win32_PerfRawData_PerfOS_Processor/PercentUserTime and Win32_PerfRawData_PerfDisk_PhysicalDisk Class/SplitIOPerSec. And I am not sure, but maybe Win32_PerfRawData_PerfOS_System/ProcessorQueueLength helps?

@PaoloM: DEC died long before it was bought by Compaq in 1998 (thank Intel and ARM).

Dr Herbie said:

(Recalled from university lectures about 20 years ago, so sketchy and possible out of date so I've given Wikipedia pages for more detail)

 

The brain effectively has 3 areas for memory: short term memory, medium term memory (or working memory), long term memory.

 

Simple summary:

When you first absorb some fact it goes into short-term memory.  You then subconciously prioritise it and if it's important enough it gets transferred into medium-term memory, then it is again prioritised and if important moved to long-term memory.

 

So if you make the effort to not think about the items in your list (say by distracting yourself with something else) they may not get moved to long-term memory in the first place.

 

Herbie

 

The brain permanently grows new cells and old cells die. Also, all information processed initiates a cell growth for permanent storage. Information never gets lost, but may become inaccessible over time as cells die (synaptical dysfunction) or get transported to another section of the body via the bloodstream (recycled in the kidneys).

base link flow impulse; instant operational memory; short short term memory; long short term memory; mid-short term memory; stack memory; active work memory; longterm memory; long longterm memory; base (genetic) synapsis pattern! (in order of low to high permanence)

The brain acts upon task specific links where cells grow in places to improve link speed (weird, huh?).

By giving your brain the task to forget something, you will only increase building of synapses, thereby causing cellular imprint into permanent (long long-term) memory.

To delete data, you need to keep filling your mind with other things, constantly going back to the tasks you would like to have remaining. However, you won't be able to do that, because of the way you composed your list. You will always think of the list, trying to list its contents, realizing the part you would like to dismiss did not disappear or you will realize it does not need to be removed.

So in order to forget (short term, working memory), you need to utilize a task, like for example reading the data sets multiple times, with the one missing that should disappear. To remove from the long longterm memory (grown around base) you need to degenerate the brain cells. To remove specific memory, it is required that someone else (this can also be an electronic system) obtains knowledge about where your memory cells are active during "remembering". Those cells and their surrouding tissue needs to be killed, this can be done by burning tiny vessels for blood supply for that section, or cutting it out. Due to the fact that you need cells to degenerate, reaching them is important. Not all cells of relevance will be in imminent reach and infomration is stored in access type patterns. By removing cells, other memory may be compromised.

PS: I am a crazy nut, this is based on personal research in my own brain, your brain may differ and/or operate otherwise. Deleting information has never been tested due to the risks involved. I take no responsibility over any damages caused to your brain by utilizing this information. Good we had this talk about legal crap.

You may be able to get an 8-port business grade wired router for ~100 bucks though. You can attach a LAN powered wifi hotspot on it and have 7 ports left. Though, all those 3G hotspot things make it a little hard right now to find one of those LAN port sticks for sale. Maybe you should ask Proxim Wireless (they bought ORiNOCO).

Dovella said:

PS try this solution

 

Start -> Msconfig ................

 

 

unchek ALL

That's a bad idea. Windows automatically detects the number of cores and can use 256 at once. If Windows doesn't use all 8 cores under load situations, that's a BIOS issue. Intel Core iX and Xeon 5500 CPUs disable cores to save power and turn them back on when needed. This however requires BIOS and operating system support. Using the BIOS, power capping can be forced to do all kinds of funny things, though. Usually you'll find relevant options there.

You shouldn't change the kernel options from the defaults, that may have funny results. If for whatever reason those options were set, there should have been a reason for it, even if unchacked is the default.

magicalclick said:

W3bbo said:

*snip*

You mean this thread was up in the first page because they deleted the replys which was nacrotheaded recently? I guess that make sense. I was like 2000 views and no replies, weird. I think if admin post a note saying NacroDelete would make everything less confusing.

 

That's not how it works. Posts and threads don't get deleted from the database, I've been told, just hidden. That's kinda why the thread doesn't disappear after spam removal...

Flos said:

Zane said:

*snip*

Today i found a nice video driver.... everything works except AERO!

working:

-backlite turn off !!!

-Multimonitor support

-Sleep

-Hibernate

-Rotation if you set the flag in the .inf file

 

The XP driver version is 67.42 you can get it from laptopvideo2go...

set the "RotateFlag," in the modified
nv4dispd.inf file from 4 to 0x40 and now.

for more information look in the tabletpcbuzz forum

 

@JimNemesis

Yes, i use the same driver vor the SD-Card but i didn't test the drive speed... im just happi that i can read the sd cards even if its slow.

 

So i wish you all a Happy time with windows 7 and the M200 portegé!

 

You can use the Windows XP driver, but DirectX video playback acceleration is broken in all of them and the GPU power management features cause a bluescreen if the device doesn't respond soon enough. It's not a WDDM driver, wherefor the system cannot restart the device driver if there's a problem.This may cause you to loose your work in running applications and I wouldn't recommend you use the Windows XP drivers on either Windows Vista or Windows 7. If you don't need hardware graphics acceleration or AERO support, you should use the default graphics driver of Windows 7, it also supports powering off the display backlight. Though, closing the lid isn't too much trouble.