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Vista Won't Play With Old DVD Drives
tlhIngan writes "From a developer's blog, Windows Vista will no longer support DVD-ROM drives that do not handle region coding in hardware (RPC1 drives) - thus preventing playback of DVDs that are region/CSS encoded with those drives. Not a big problem, as RPC1 drives haven't been officially manufactured since 2000 (and Microsoft claims their drives are all broken), but for those with hacked drives (RPC2 with RPC1 firmware), or move the RPC1 drive to new computers, well, no more DVD movies for you!"
Obviously, the children don't bother to learn what us old folks know. A "troll" is someone who intentioally takes the opposite view of yours for no reason than to play "devil's advocate" but in a somewhat hostile manner. The Soviet jokes are old and stale, yes. I wish that people who utter them would die horribly because THEY ARE NO LONGER FUNNY. But they are not trolls. They are at worst redundant and at best overrated.
Kids these days...
My friend is a bit of a linux fanatic and every now and then I get tempted by linux, so I try it, normally i don't keep it for more than a few weeks because I either don't use it enough and/or (and sometimes as a knock on effect against me keeping linux) it doesn't support a pretty crucial bit of my hardware. I don't like MS that much but in my circumstances I have to use it because I use programs that linux can not run and I need to use things on windows. I am very exited about Ubuntu as I think that will be quite good for me. Last time I tried ubuntu it wrecked my boot loader amoungst other stuffs. Like you I am hoping that by the time I need to upgrade from XP and or to another computer there will be a linux distribution which can sort out my needs. I use alot of open source programs which I hope will make my transition to linux easier but I still need windows and I wont settle for anything less that what I have now. With software and hardware (etc) i'm not one of these people who uses certain software over others because of who makes it. For example if MS makes a revolutionary program (very unlikely) im not going to be one of these people who say no, its not open, if there are no other F/OSS alternatives then I will buy it if i have the money, however if there is an alternative that can satisfy my needs and is free or cheap then I will get that instead.
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A "troll" is someone who intentioally takes the opposite view of yours for no reason than to play "devil's advocate" but in a somewhat hostile manner. The Soviet jokes are old and stale, yes. I wish that people who utter them would die horribly because THEY ARE NO LONGER FUNNY. But they are not trolls.
The Soviet Russia trolls take the opposite view of yours (i.e. that it is funny) for no reason than to play devil's advocate in a hostile manner.
And by replying to them, you are feeding the trolls. Do stop.
You can't take the sky from me...
The Soviet Russia trolls take the opposite view of yours (i.e. that it is funny) for no reason than to play devil's advocate in a hostile manner.
Sorry, but I have to disagree here. The Soviet Russia posts are merely old jokes that no one except the poster finds to be funny anymore because the humor is long since worn out. They're neither hostile nor devil's advocate. They're just stupid jokes that for some uncanny reason some people just don't know to stop using.
A "troll" is indeed more applicable to someone who intentially tries to disrupt in a hostile manner, like a KKK guy posting to a Black Panther's newsgroup or the GNAA/penis parrot posts. The "Soviet Russia" jokes - with the exception of the rare ones that actually to apply to the article - are nothing more than pathetic, overusefd jokes from people who are funny in their own minds, but most certainly not "trolls".
And I won't go so far as to say that I personally need a rocking chair, but I will (unfortunately) confess that I at least was using the Internet heavily since the mid-1980s. I've seen my share of trolls on BBSs and newsgroups, so I have to agree with the GP that the Soviet posts are not trolls.
Not that it matters in the grand sceme of things.
Have a good new year!
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