Does Any Hate Microsoft Vista as Much as Me?

It's not just that it is super slow, that many of my applications don't work so I have to keep my old PC going, or that what used to be 2 clicks is now many clicks, blah blah blah. No it's Vistas disappearing tricks, my Control Panel which won't open, and applications that have their icons which appear in the the little panel next to the clock have their icons disappear even though the app is still working.

I often see people moaning about Vista but do they really hate it like I do?

CyberCarpet opens way to Pompeii

A stroll around the ancient city of Pompeii will be made possible this week thanks to an omni-directional treadmill developed by European researchers.

The treadmill is a "motion platform" which gives the impression of "natural walking" in any direction.

The platform, called CyberCarpet, is made up of several belts which form an endless plane along two axes.

Scientists have combined the platform with a tracking system and virtual reality software recreating Pompeii.

The key to the CyberCarpet is a platform with a large chain drive.

The chain drive is made up of 25 conventional treadmills which move in one direction, at right angles to the direction the chain is pulling.

The platform gives "walkers" a walking area of 4.5m by 4.5m and moves fast enough to allow jogging at about two metres per second.

Omni-directional treadmills are not new and have been in development for many years, including work done by the US military.

"This is the first omni-directional platform that allows near natural walking," said Dr Marc Ernst, research group leader at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, in Tubingen, Germany.

Source BBC News

Internet advertising set to overtake TV

With the increase in internet use over the past few years has been closely followed by the increase in advertising. For many years it has been TV which holds the top spot for advertising revenues in the UK, but with broadband being available in most parts of the country now, so advertisers have seen the opportunity that it presents.

Internet marketing has grown at such a staggering rate that it is set to overtake the TV as the largest market for advertising in the UK, which is in fact the worlds most developed market for this type of marketing.

In 2006 the advertising market share was steady at around 11.4%, but by last year this had grown to 15.3%, which is an astonishing increase and with the TV market at 21.8% and the press at 19.9% the internet will be homing in this possibly this year on taking the top spot.

This goes to show how exciting the internet is going to become for advertisers over the coming years.

Source TechWatch

Vista : I can see in Color!

After a year or so I can see natural colors on my Vista PC, there has been an upgrade of the driver!

Pity I can't load the Control Panel though. Hmm must read the FAQ on fixing problems with Control Panel, ah here it is "First Open the Control Panel"