So this is my first mobile post on my new HTC Hero, and I have to say, after a little bit of getting used to its prolly the best phone i have ever had.
The processor is a tad slow and it really can't stand much more than a few hour of constant useage before dieing, but all in all, its perdy solid.
This will be brief. I'm on a bathroom break so I don't have too much time but I will shoot up a shot from the phone so yall can see whaat kinda pics it takes. I even got a nice from @matthew on a shot I took with this ol' thing (that was exciting).
I'm at the MS nerd talk where they try to sell developers and sys admins on new MS soft. Heres some pics vids n highlights. I'm gonna try to keep this post updated througout the day, so if your into it stay posted.
Power point slides
Search feature "cost benfit" for moving to Vista/7
Multipul monitors in remote desktop
Printer drivers abandoned by printer manufactures.
- early ms software news
Early adoptor program email: dstolts@microsoft.com, "add to momentum" i subject, but you must provide feedback to participate
I got a relese candidate for Windows 7 should be good till Ocotber 22nd
NEW FEATURES: Direct Access = built in vpn, always connected when you can use protocols other than http. Gimps the new built in security when using 3rd party apps like GoTo My PC, etc...
Still 5 - 7 SKUs with different feature sets, price ranges still a ?
App locker - allows you to limit what apps can run on your system. Hash based has some quirks.
NEW FEATURE: Security Sheild - Any features that make changes to the system have a sheild next to them which throws an authentication dialog which flushes the keyboard and suspends all other apps.
Panarama of the first class
buncha old dudes
Answering the question: "Since 7 ships with IE8 how can I support 3rd party web soft that only runs in IE6"
One of which, unbeknownced to few is skateboarding.
I haven't done it in quite a while, but I still enjoy doing it from time to time.
When I started it, unfortunately was right around the time those damed Tony Hawk games were coming out, which is only crumby because it sorta lends my fandom to a fad, which it really had a lot less to do with.
You see I've loved skateboards since first seeing them in vision magazines that the 2 or 3 lil white dudes who were in my inner city grammar school brought in. I was never one to draw inside the lines and though only those kids were into skateboards I loved them and wanted one really bad.
I never though I could ask my mom for something like that. I thought everything those kids had were too expensive for me to ever ask for, which was bogus, but how could I know.
I thought I would die when after a "business trip" to San Fran my dad brought my brother and I back a couple of old school decks with fishtails that he likely bought from a street vendor for a quarter of the price. Alas, my street, though beautiful, was one of the last brick streets on the east side, so I ended up learning to skate in my driveway only, which was a very long driveway, but I digress...
Fast forward 10 years and at 22 I decided to start learning to skate on my own after my first year of snowboarding, but as I had a lot less time and friends who also skated I turned to as many outlets as I could to get the information and learn the skill.
Internet videos, video games, and the occasional friend weren't the least of which. I think the most influencial though was my army of finger skateboards. I was able to do dangerous things to learn how the board moved when some tricks were performed without the danger of trying them my self was additive. All form the safety of my boring HSBC Kodak check imager. I'm sure that I wouldn't know how to olie if it wasn't for my tech deck.
Fast forward about 10 more years and now I'm old and couched with so much responsibility that I don't have time to sratch my nose before 7:30 at night and then I saw this on the you tubes...
I've been teetering on weather I'd by an iphone or a g1 and I think the decider has just shown up.
Tesla Motors is an electric car company and they've started shipping their cars. If I was loaded I'd by two and give one away to raise awareness of this company, I guess my blog entry is going to have to suffice until the girls are out of college or I find an oil well in my backyard. The company is named after one of my favorite inventors too (who was played by David effin Bowie in the movie "The Prestige" which comes highly recommended by @imk2).
David Bowie as Nichola Tesla in "The Prestige"
There's so many things that are awesome about this car, and I feel like one day it will drive the market (no puns intended).
There's not many of them and even fewer persons who can service them so it has a USB keyslot so you can download the cars status data and send it to the company via these here inter webs.
OK. Here's a down/up side to it. It's noiseless, and legislation is coming through to make the car make noise (so babies aren't run over), and plans are being made to put speakers on the outside to support said legislation. The coolest news of all this is that you can choose what sound you want it to make, and at which times! That and it'll be a lot easier to pump my sweet beats when I'm driving through your quiet neighborhood (jyeah). Ok, most of that is heresay and speculation, but that's half the fun.
One of the nerds on TWIT is putting the sound of Sebulbas pod from episode I (ok, Star Wars: Episode 1 for all you normies).