- Windows 7 rolls out to applause.
- Overlooked is the fact that MSFT will be selling PC’s on the website. Look for them in the MSFT stores too.
- Free ride for Hulu ending says News Corp. The company also says MySpace stopped innovating.
- No Blu-ray for the X-box.
- Is it really China hacking us?
- Droid coming next week.
- Some cables modems are at risk. Find out which ones.
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I wonder if Win7 has the same odd behavior as Vista reported did of automatically contacting servers at Halliburton, DoD and Department of Homeland Security when first connected to a network.
See here:
http://www.infopackets.com/news/government/2007/20070726_does_windows_vista_send_information_to_the_government.htm
What is with the opening? Why must you always kill granny?
Different phones John.
So they want to kill Hulu, eh? Good thing we still have bittorrent. Stupid suits still don’t get it.
I’d sort of like to stick a blue ray drive in my desk top to go with 30 inch monitor but then the anti copying crap ware wouldn’t let it work so bleep it.
The suits are crazy.
Not trying to thread jack here, just voicing a general concern:
I am a John C Dvorak fan living in Washington State. When I logged in to Dvorak Uncensored I was rather shocked to see sponsorship by eHarmony. eHarmony is a homophobic company that actively discourages gays and lesbians from using their services.
One of the things I appreciate about Dvorak, on the blog, and on T.W.i.T., is that I have never gotten the sense that he was interested in putting down his gay and lesbian fans. I could be wrong, but over the years I cannot recall any public insults or snide comments from him on that subject. Cloud computing – that’s another matter!
I am writing you to ask that you reconsider accepting money from eHarmony. I arrange my life so that the sites I visit don’t cross paths with people who wish me ill. And I certainly don’t want to give them a page view.
Thanks for your consideration.
I can’t see why it’s bad news for XBox because they don’t have a Blu-Ray add-on. The add-on would never be used for gaming and the add-on would probably cost more then a cheap stand alone Blu-Ray player so…?
#6 – Sean, are you a fudgepacker?
http://tinyurl.com/2arr98
#7 Do you even hear? The BD players won’t be added to the current ones (no add-on), the refreshers (updated version) of the 360 (a-la ps3 slim) nor next gen xbox.
Sorry for thinking you should hear the whole thing, you’re a macfan. You’re supposed to get things wrong.
Blu-Ray will be dead in 2 years as a video distribution anyways. Netflix HD will rule take over and it will be on demand.
Dvorak, Northrop is one of the biggest and most sophisticated government contractors in the US. If you had any idea what they really do you would be amazed. And no, I don’t work for or with them.
And read the report on China…its enlightening. The next world war will be won in the first 20 milliseconds.
I was press at the Windows 7 presentation here in Spain. First of all, they held the event in Seites Asturias. A tiny village in the Cantabric mountains on the north coast. They painted up the village and gave away some PC’s to the locals and showed them how to use 7. The presentation lasted less than an hour once started and consisted of a multimedia of the villagers using 7 and a real villager demonstrating how easy it is to do a panorama using a multiple selection of images and then context menu straight to an option. Yawn! Then they opened up to questions and I asked what the differences were between Vista and 7. We were told that Vista was a disappoinment to M$ and 7 was a new product, The big differences were; better and more drivers, She went on about multitouch but had no hardware to demonstrate it, told us that the system is much more secure thanks to security essentials, it conusmes less energy(undemonstrated or explained), and much easier to use and personalize. My conclusion, M$ had a product that wasn’t right so they fixed it and wanted to sell it but the name was jinxed. So they give it a new name and voila. The problem I see with that is charging the people who bought Vista the price of the upgrade. Add to that the fact that with the crisis upon us PC sales are down (by coincidence so are Vista OEM sales), and it looks like there’s no light at the end of the tunnel just yet.
#12
No doubt about that. But I don’t feel sorry for the Vista owners, especially the Ultimate. They should have known beforehand either by research or an “earlier” copy.
Win7 is a more polished Vista and being sold new under a new name. It’s really sucks in that aspect, as you’ve said, because there’s really not enough innovation in the OS for it to demand a new price. On the other hand it’s polished and for someone coming from XP or other OSes it’s a welcome experience.
#10
You’re living in a dream world if you think streaming HD content is sole dependent on companies like Netflix. Good luck with that. In the meantime there are those that continue to fight the bandwidth throttling and caps impose by cables companies. What good is it to have paid for HD streaming only to have it stopped in the middle, for example? You can’t blame Netflix that’s for sure and you can’t blame the cable company because by now they will already have you signed their BS contract.
Its not just that Eharmony is anti gay. they don’t mention this in their ads, but they are a christian focused service. Put in your profile that you’re not particularly devout or an atheist, no matches. Sign up as a hardcore fundamentalist and suddenly you’re the most eligible bachelor on the site.
Shouldn’t Christians be meeting nice single people at church anyway?
Pedro where did you see any details about the next xbox? Please link.
#14
I agreed with you and I’ve tried it lol. Funny thing is I’m a non-practicing Catholic but I choose no religion and 0 interests afterwards LMAO. I’ve tried match.com too and the ladies there scared me O.o!
But I’m glad that Dvorak.org took down the Evony ad, at least I don’t see it any longer. Chinese farming company fooling a lot of morons to think they are not. Pathetic. There are others like Evony as well where it’s haven to Chinese RMT players and I’m talking about spams and marketing lol.
Linus Torvalds gives Windows 7 a big thumbs up.
10, Personality,
Right. Bandwidth cap at 60GB. How many movies can I watch before I start hitting the limit? 2? And that means I can’t do ANYTHING ELSE on my pc? And I can’t bring over the movie to a friend/family home that doesn’t have highspeed, netflix, or Xbox RROD? That sounds like the best idea EVAR!
Yeah… Anyone who doesn’t think that streaming 1080p will happen in the next year or so hasn’t seen microsofts 1080p streaming technology. Lol bluray is not dead yet, but the paramedics need to get the paddles ready.
Also, isn’t it obvious??? Hulu is getting ready to sign exclusive agreement with xbox and wrap up the set top box war. Microsoft has been courting Hulu for a year now.
Lol bad time for f$f shills.
19, Postman,
LOL Xbox RROD during playback, LOL! Free redownload and rebate on bandwidth LOL? Can’t wait till traffic shaping comes to Netflix and Hulu transfers! LOL! Cause Time Warner and the rest of the cable guys like that lol competitoin lol! LOL!