Good luck with the nuclear escalation plan there retard. Think everyone else wouldn't be joining in and obliterating you crazy bastards if you tried?
You would be destroyed by China in a land war - you can barely keep on top of a bunch of loonies with AKs in the middle east as it is - and youve been there almost 20 years off and on.
They are capable of kinetically intercepting satellites with a rocket shot from a moving vehicle. Closing velocity of 12km/sec.
Last the USA tried to knock a satellite out of orbit, they missed. With an explosive projectile as well. Not seeing much technological advantage to pull there...
What the fuck are you babbling about? Home Basic is the stripped down cheap edition for your mum, who is lucky to be doing two tasks at the same time (unless its webcam software and income spreadsheet).
Anyone who feels the need for 64 bit can pay the money to upgrade. Bugger all hardware comes with Basic. The laptop I'm typing this on was around $400 new, and had Premium preloaded.
Regardless, four options is not a massively confusing choice. If it is, well, you are "fucking retard" as I mentioned in my previous post.
Is everyone here fucking retarded? Theres a handful of versions. Two of them you can't buy - Enterprise (your IT staff will buy this for you, and presumably know how to read the basic damn features sheet) and Starter (which you can't get because you aren't in some shithole country).
That leaves 4 editions which are pretty clearly segregated by two decisions. Heres your damn lookup table:
Home shit (media center/shiny shit)? Home Premium Business shit (domains/efs)? Business Neither (cheapass): Home Basic Both (greedy fuck): Ultimate
Seriously, if people can't work this out then they must be retarded. Then when you get your shiny new disk, it lets you pick 32/64bit if your usage is likely to need it. (ie: No, home basic users don't need 64bit bs).
That's because it sucked. It worked only to the letter of the standard and looked unlike any other POSIX implementation. As such, one still had to be acutely aware of coding only to the barest minimum and the applications that one could make from Microsoft's POSIX really sucked, too.
Yeah I suppose what they did when providing W3 standards support was much better....
Most people don't realize this but 64bit is slower then 32 bit. Every instruction is twice as long, Executables are larger, and more IO back and forth from CPU to memory.
Your FSB is fast enough to deal. The pipeline in your CPU works on bigger chunks anyway. Heck, thats why vector processors were invented, MMX, SSE, etc - registers weren't wide enough. Executable size is insignificant, and instructions are varying length anyway (opcodes don't suddenly become 64bit on x64).
Heck they are not even properly using duel core.
Theres almost a thousand threads on my current box. I'd say thats taking advantage of both cores. Apart from algorithms that flat out don't parellelize (eg MD5ing a bunch of data) it seems to be going pretty good here...
As a Microsoft shareholder I'm glad they weren't pissing my money up a tree trying to improve products in markets they already dominated. Now FF is giving them some competition, I'm also glad they are getting their shit together to preserve the IE line (in the eyes of Joe Public, rather than developers on ten bucks an hour having butthurt over standards).
Well you can get Vista on a $400 laptop, so I wouldn't be going with "far less". "Ubuntu costs $25 less than OEM Vista" would be more intellectually honest.
At that kinda price difference its a no-brainer. You pick the one you want, and don't care which one is free. If you offered me two different supercars, one being free and the other being a couple of thousand bucks, I'd pick the one I like the most. Cost wouldnt come into it.
Program Access & Defaults. Click Opera. Click "Set this program as default for the file types and protocols it can open.".
Then go to add/remove windows components and remove IE.
Then if you want to be especially anal (which I have no doubt you do) you can track down the COM component and remove them. This will break every application that is expecting them there as part of the standard distribution (just as if you decided to rip out richedit or whatever the fuck else) - but they will be gone.
Windows Communication Foundation is a framework so an application can expose services over a variety of protocols with different config changes. One of the protocols supported out the box is SOAP.
Also you want to be very careful if you are providing Word documents to clients. If an OO document is exported to Word format and looks like ass then regardless of where the fault is, it looks like your fault.
This especially goes for submitting documents for tenders. You don't want to be rejected for a million bucks of work because you were too tight to pay the couple of hundred bucks in MS tax;)
Its ok, Arrington makes a living off hyping crap Web2.0 startups hes invested in. I'm sure he can handle generating a bit of hype for some little tablet.
Question is, is he pretending to be the next Jobs?:P
My tightass housemate uses them. He hasnt had crashes. As for servers, you obviously have to play on a cracked/unsecure server or the steamid authentication will boot you.
This wouldn't be a problem in this hypothetical Valve-free world, as all the servers would be unsecured as there would be no authentication servers to check against.
Personally I struggle to see how you could possibly go broke with such a massive userbase. Even a small ad down the bottom of the steam window would cover the cost of running the authentication servers - content being mirrored by ISPs anyway these days.
Actually it seems like the current pattern is more along the lines of releasing 1.0. Then on day one you release your 1.1 patch which was up your sleeve, pissing off all the people with their 0day.
Then usually around 1.3 they remove the copy protection.
Give Team Fortress 2 a go. They've sucked the use of twitch reflexes out with a mathematical precision. Everything is slow motion, and dare I say, strategic.
"Well, no. I'd more describe him as a crazy hippy who tried to save a few thousand bucks by switching all our servers to Linux based on advice he got on some open source message board. Now everything is totally fucked, and we can't find anyone to sort out his mess."
"Yes, next time we will hire someone who can do their own research."
Green beans and a popcorn maker. Roast what you need - takes around 5 mins.
Don't try to grind them while still hot.
Very easy to make your coffee too strong. A sign of "too strong" is when it tastes like someone ground up the entire coffee bush and put it in your cup.
Have you ordered from Dell? They have convenient little radio buttons with happy explanatory text to describe why you need to select them to make your purchase not suck.
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Good luck with the nuclear escalation plan there retard. Think everyone else wouldn't be joining in and obliterating you crazy bastards if you tried?
You would be destroyed by China in a land war - you can barely keep on top of a bunch of loonies with AKs in the middle east as it is - and youve been there almost 20 years off and on.
They are capable of kinetically intercepting satellites with a rocket shot from a moving vehicle. Closing velocity of 12km/sec.
Last the USA tried to knock a satellite out of orbit, they missed. With an explosive projectile as well. Not seeing much technological advantage to pull there...
What the fuck are you babbling about? Home Basic is the stripped down cheap edition for your mum, who is lucky to be doing two tasks at the same time (unless its webcam software and income spreadsheet).
Anyone who feels the need for 64 bit can pay the money to upgrade. Bugger all hardware comes with Basic. The laptop I'm typing this on was around $400 new, and had Premium preloaded.
Regardless, four options is not a massively confusing choice. If it is, well, you are "fucking retard" as I mentioned in my previous post.
Is everyone here fucking retarded? Theres a handful of versions. Two of them you can't buy - Enterprise (your IT staff will buy this for you, and presumably know how to read the basic damn features sheet) and Starter (which you can't get because you aren't in some shithole country).
That leaves 4 editions which are pretty clearly segregated by two decisions. Heres your damn lookup table:
Home shit (media center/shiny shit)? Home Premium
Business shit (domains/efs)? Business
Neither (cheapass): Home Basic
Both (greedy fuck): Ultimate
Seriously, if people can't work this out then they must be retarded. Then when you get your shiny new disk, it lets you pick 32/64bit if your usage is likely to need it. (ie: No, home basic users don't need 64bit bs).
Yeah I suppose what they did when providing W3 standards support was much better....
Your FSB is fast enough to deal. The pipeline in your CPU works on bigger chunks anyway. Heck, thats why vector processors were invented, MMX, SSE, etc - registers weren't wide enough. Executable size is insignificant, and instructions are varying length anyway (opcodes don't suddenly become 64bit on x64).
Theres almost a thousand threads on my current box. I'd say thats taking advantage of both cores. Apart from algorithms that flat out don't parellelize (eg MD5ing a bunch of data) it seems to be going pretty good here...
As a Microsoft shareholder I'm glad they weren't pissing my money up a tree trying to improve products in markets they already dominated. Now FF is giving them some competition, I'm also glad they are getting their shit together to preserve the IE line (in the eyes of Joe Public, rather than developers on ten bucks an hour having butthurt over standards).
Well you can get Vista on a $400 laptop, so I wouldn't be going with "far less". "Ubuntu costs $25 less than OEM Vista" would be more intellectually honest.
At that kinda price difference its a no-brainer. You pick the one you want, and don't care which one is free. If you offered me two different supercars, one being free and the other being a couple of thousand bucks, I'd pick the one I like the most. Cost wouldnt come into it.
As long as we don't see rule #34 sanctions against a bunch of old RIAA execs, then I'm happy.
You mean a qubit molester?
Twitter is that you? Hasn't there been a court order to stay on the meds yet?
For good reason. Loads of software depends on the COM components which make up IE. You can remove these if you like. Use regsvr32 /u ...
Don't blame me if half the apps you use die because they can't take the lazy way out of sticking HTML in an about box ;)
Program Access & Defaults. Click Opera. Click "Set this program as default for the file types and protocols it can open.".
Then go to add/remove windows components and remove IE.
Then if you want to be especially anal (which I have no doubt you do) you can track down the COM component and remove them. This will break every application that is expecting them there as part of the standard distribution (just as if you decided to rip out richedit or whatever the fuck else) - but they will be gone.
Windows Communication Foundation is a framework so an application can expose services over a variety of protocols with different config changes. One of the protocols supported out the box is SOAP.
So enjoy spreading that FUD.
Also you want to be very careful if you are providing Word documents to clients. If an OO document is exported to Word format and looks like ass then regardless of where the fault is, it looks like your fault.
This especially goes for submitting documents for tenders. You don't want to be rejected for a million bucks of work because you were too tight to pay the couple of hundred bucks in MS tax ;)
Its ok, Arrington makes a living off hyping crap Web2.0 startups hes invested in. I'm sure he can handle generating a bit of hype for some little tablet.
Question is, is he pretending to be the next Jobs? :P
My tightass housemate uses them. He hasnt had crashes. As for servers, you obviously have to play on a cracked/unsecure server or the steamid authentication will boot you.
This wouldn't be a problem in this hypothetical Valve-free world, as all the servers would be unsecured as there would be no authentication servers to check against.
Personally I struggle to see how you could possibly go broke with such a massive userbase. Even a small ad down the bottom of the steam window would cover the cost of running the authentication servers - content being mirrored by ISPs anyway these days.
Actually it seems like the current pattern is more along the lines of releasing 1.0. Then on day one you release your 1.1 patch which was up your sleeve, pissing off all the people with their 0day.
Then usually around 1.3 they remove the copy protection.
COD4 was $90 in stores and around $40 on Steam - until some greedy asshat at EA upped the price a week after release.
Lost them a sale from me.
Doesn't matter, cracks for the games already exist.
Give Team Fortress 2 a go. They've sucked the use of twitch reflexes out with a mathematical precision. Everything is slow motion, and dare I say, strategic.
"Yes, Bruce used to work here..."
"Yup, he was responsible for the 'upgrade'..."
"Well, no. I'd more describe him as a crazy hippy who tried to save a few thousand bucks by switching all our servers to Linux based on advice he got on some open source message board. Now everything is totally fucked, and we can't find anyone to sort out his mess."
"Yes, next time we will hire someone who can do their own research."
How do you think us poor people that are trying to sell a TCP/IP stack feel?
BURN THE WITCH
Its ok dude, I had her too.
Green beans and a popcorn maker. Roast what you need - takes around 5 mins.
Don't try to grind them while still hot.
Very easy to make your coffee too strong. A sign of "too strong" is when it tastes like someone ground up the entire coffee bush and put it in your cup.
Have you ordered from Dell? They have convenient little radio buttons with happy explanatory text to describe why you need to select them to make your purchase not suck.