Posted 11/03/2009 at 02:24:28pm

The title has been corrected.

Posted 11/03/2009 at 02:20:32pm

They say that they want to "Grow" and "Innovate" and they're happy with their current staff ("he cites the success of Google Earth, Android, and Google Chrome"). So happy, in fact, that they even gave them a "Founders Award, a multimillion-dollar stock bonus". And if that's not enough, the linked article states that "innovation that's only possible when you can attract and retain the world's finest minds". If they're so proud of their Earth, Android and Chrome innovations then they obviously plan to retain those people, and have clearly stated that. Where could you possibly get the idea that they want to fire anyone? This is not even speculation, it's pure fabrication.

Posted 11/03/2009 at 02:01:46pm

If by hiring new people they meant firing old ones, then that contradicts: "This is a much different attitude from earlier this year when Google made job cuts".

Also, Schmidt said, "Innovation is the technological pre-condition for growth", the important word being "growth", which means hiring new people in order to expand, not replacing existing positions.

Posted 11/03/2009 at 01:54:40pm

Even after you change "Threat" to "Treat", it still doesn't make sense. Why would Google dangle a treat in front of its own engineers when it's trying to recruit new engineers?

Posted 11/03/2009 at 01:51:22pm

-Erroneous post-

Posted 11/03/2009 at 07:14:37am

So what massive threat did Google dangle in front of its engineers?

Posted 10/26/2009 at 01:10:00pm

This applies all the way back to Windows 2000. Even back then, when the computer was in a domain, pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del didn't bring up the Task Manager, but rather the Lock Workstation window since Ctrl+Shift+Esc was always the true shortcut for the Task Manager. The oddity was that in 2000 and XP, when pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del while not in a domain, it brought up the Task Manager (probably to appease the Win 9x crowd). This was fixed in Vista, whereby each keyboard shortcut always does the same thing regardless of whether the computer was part of a domain or not.

Posted 10/26/2009 at 12:23:30pm

You're completely missing the point. It's not about "waiting" for the next jump in capacity of lower prices or whatever. That's short term. The article is about the long term - whether flash memory is truly a viable, sustainable and affordable technology for mass storage, or more accurately, whether it can compete with magnetic storage in the long run.

Posted 10/23/2009 at 06:06:24am

As you said, this applies to everything, not just taskbar preview. The most problematic one is tooltips - if they appear immediately that would be quite annoying.

Posted 10/22/2009 at 05:29:12pm

Windows 7 comes with WMP12, and with it brings native support for DivX/XviD (MPEG4) and hardware accelerated H.264 video. Unfortunately, the MPEG4 support is kind of spotty resulting in some videos playing the audio only, and hardware acceleration doesn't work for all H.264 content, causing high CPU usage when the codec falls back to software decoding.

Installing the XviD or CoreAVC codecs doesn't solve the problem - WMP12 changed its codec policy, and now it always prefers its built-in codecs over any other codecs you install (even ignoring merit levels). The web is littered with registry hacks to force certain codecs, none of which worked for me.

Upon further research, I came across a program that did work for me, and included a convenient user interface which gave the ability to choose between a default Microsoft codec and other codecs installed on your system. It's called "Windows 7 DirectShow Filter Tweaker" and is currently at version 1.9. Download it here: http://www.codecguide.com/windows7_preferred_filter_tweaker.htm.