TRWTF - how does this article relate to slashdot? I'd understand if this were an Idle article but Technology? Come on guys are we really going to try and claim that the status of the road surface in Michigan is useful information for nerds? The few people here that *do* live in Michigan never leave their mom's basement anyway so what difference does it make? Now if this were about Michigan reverting all high-speed Internet connectivity back to dial-up...
Which was my exact reasoning for buying a mini. I'm using this for music recording. I don't need a laptop, it's not going anywhere, it's sitting in my studio. A mac pro would be nice but those cost as much as my entire studio budget and when you're just starting out they're total overkill. A new mini has the same or better specs than an old G5 and those run Pro Tools just fine TYVM.
Minis have also got the added advantage of being totally fanless. Which, when you're recording 5 feet from your computer, is a nice feature.
Oh, well that's even more awesome. That needs to be on the DailyWTF or something. That's like 1/8" stereo mini only being adaptable to RCA but not 1/4". I feel your pain. Maybe one day you'll get lucky and Apple will release a $100 adapter that doesn't work that you can use too!
Sadly I went through the exact same process. RAM from NewEgg is less than half the price of RAM from Apple. The installation process is frustrating to the say the least. Like you said, using a putty knife on your brand new toy (almost inevitably marring the surface in the process) is not fun.
My new Mini is actually my first Apple ever. So far, I have not been impressed.
That doesn't really help. It's a niche machine made by a niche PC maker. I'm not holding my breath that there will be a reasonably priced adapter that actually works anytime soon. It's all ridiculous anyway because it shouldn't even be necessary.
You forgot Apple:P *ducks fanboys*. Seriously though, I just bought a Mac Mini and I was extremely disappointed to find that it uses a proprietary mini-displayport connector. If you want to use dual link DVI to power a 30" monitor you have to buy a $100 adapter that doesn't even work. Standards are standard for a reason Apple!
I'm not so sure. Now if we needed a plane full of RIAA lawyers dealt with he's the man to send in. If you're looking to get birds killed you'd have better luck with a slingshots and a bunch of bored teenagers than you would Dick Cheney.
OMG, please, no, don't remind me. I remember someone told me I was wrong once. It was dreadful. We should outlaw that sort of hate speech in America before it gets out of hand.
Oh, sure, like drunken sports fans and tubby couch coaches aren't going to be important in the digital age. Those other countries just don't know what they're doing. Just wait, in a post-apocalyptic world we Americans will be ready to drink and fight with the best of them!
A) If you look at a photo of Earth at night, you'll see why a clear view of the night sky is not just a train-ride to the suburbs away. Huge swaths of land are blanketed in artificial light.
I live outside a relatively small metro area (1.5 million or so) and even from a good 60 miles away you can see the glow of the city. I will attest to the fact that you can't just drive a short distance away and see anything. You certainly can't expect to be able to take any sort of metro area mass transit and get far enough away to see anything. When I was younger I remember camping in more remote areas and spending hours staring at the stars. Kids in the city are missing out!
This, please God, this. I can't stand squatters. If more people start taking them to court and their domains get taken from them then maybe this ridiculous crap will stop.
The only reason XP has hung on so long is that it took so long for Vista to come out. Everyone was running XP and have continued to do so because Vista was expensive, it had problems until SP1 came out, and ancient XP machines couldn't run it. No one skipped from Win2k to Vista. Tons of people will be skipping from XP to 7. Just wait and see. New machines will have 7. Old machines will be replaced with machines running 7. Gamers running XP will switch to 7.
Isn't trying to beat their competition precisely what corporations should be doing? This isn't a special olympics race where everyone ends up winning regardless of how you badly you do.
And yet the XBox 360 lives on... I suppose it helps when you don't mind blowing $1 billion to make sure little Timmy wins.
You'd be surprised. In an effort to get people off of a version of our application that was over 9 years old we practically gave away upgrades to the current version and it was still a monumental effort. That was just for upgrading our application. I can't imagine what it would have been like trying to push an IE upgrade on them - something that could potentially cause other problems. Some people are so completely scared of change that even a significant discount would probably do little to convince them to upgrade. At the same time you also run the risk of devaluing your product.
Maybe if we jacked up the support costs as the software got older it would make upgrades more appealing. It's not a friendly thing to do but it really does take a ridiculous amount of effort to resolve an issue in a 9 year old application. There are only a few guys left that even know anything about it.
They released an update back around November or December that changed it so that anytime I tried to do that I would get an error from the game itself. You've encouraged me to give it a second look though... maybe it was just a bug and they've fixed it.
I agree 100%. I didn't realize they'd broken sv_search_key but that would explain why it hasn't worked for me in ages. I always just figured the servers I was trying to connect to were always just full... I should have known better.
The server issues have really ruined the game for me. It's truly great fun when you can get everything to work... but it's incredibly frustrating sitting in the lobby for literally 15 minutes trying to find a server. Then you finally get to one and everyone's ping is 300 (my friends and I are usually reasonably close together geographically and we're all in the US). Then you repeat the process all over again trying to find a server that doesn't have a terrible ping.
Sadly, none of this was an issue when the game was first released because you could easily host your own games. Typical comcast cable is plenty fast to support a 4 person L4D campaign (I even had some luck with versus). But then they changed it so that you couldn't do that unless you were on a LAN. When they made that change I stopped playing for a month. I just couldn't handle the problems with sitting in the lobby, servers crashing half-way through a campaign, and connecting to servers with ridiculous settings.
I'm really hoping they fix some of this crap for 2.
Our web application is geared exclusively toward huge corporate customers. Almost all of them continue to run IE6. I would kill to at least be able to get transparent PNG's to finally work. (Ugh). We push people to upgrade every chance we get, but when you're a vendor making an application that has to work on every desktop machine in their environment... you don't have much choice.
I keep hoping that one day someone will release some brutal worm for IE6 that goes unpatched for months and forces everyone to upgrade. Yes, I'm that desperate to see IE6 go away.
I'll see her standing by the monorail
She'll look the same except for bionic eyes
She lost the real ones in the robot wars
I'll say I'm sorry, she'll say it's not your fault
Or is it?
She'll eye me suspiciously
Hearing the whir of the servos inside
And she'll scream and try to run
But there's nowhere she can hide
When a crazy cyborg wants to make you his robot bride
Well it's gonna be the future soon
And I won't always be this way
When the things that make me weak and strange get engineered away
It's gonna be the future soon
I've never seen it quite so clear
And when my heart is breaking I can close my eyes and it's already here
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What happens when MS release the actual Windows 7 OS and breaks something you've previously verified as working?
No 64bit Windows Home Server connector for Vista and broken nVidia drivers for all of Vista is what happens. :(
TRWTF - how does this article relate to slashdot? I'd understand if this were an Idle article but Technology? Come on guys are we really going to try and claim that the status of the road surface in Michigan is useful information for nerds? The few people here that *do* live in Michigan never leave their mom's basement anyway so what difference does it make? Now if this were about Michigan reverting all high-speed Internet connectivity back to dial-up...
Relevant video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9ws2PpDw3o
Which was my exact reasoning for buying a mini. I'm using this for music recording. I don't need a laptop, it's not going anywhere, it's sitting in my studio. A mac pro would be nice but those cost as much as my entire studio budget and when you're just starting out they're total overkill. A new mini has the same or better specs than an old G5 and those run Pro Tools just fine TYVM.
Minis have also got the added advantage of being totally fanless. Which, when you're recording 5 feet from your computer, is a nice feature.
Oh, well that's even more awesome. That needs to be on the DailyWTF or something. That's like 1/8" stereo mini only being adaptable to RCA but not 1/4". I feel your pain. Maybe one day you'll get lucky and Apple will release a $100 adapter that doesn't work that you can use too!
This sums up the problems - http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB570Z/A
Sadly I went through the exact same process. RAM from NewEgg is less than half the price of RAM from Apple. The installation process is frustrating to the say the least. Like you said, using a putty knife on your brand new toy (almost inevitably marring the surface in the process) is not fun.
My new Mini is actually my first Apple ever. So far, I have not been impressed.
That doesn't really help. It's a niche machine made by a niche PC maker. I'm not holding my breath that there will be a reasonably priced adapter that actually works anytime soon. It's all ridiculous anyway because it shouldn't even be necessary.
You forgot Apple :P *ducks fanboys*. Seriously though, I just bought a Mac Mini and I was extremely disappointed to find that it uses a proprietary mini-displayport connector. If you want to use dual link DVI to power a 30" monitor you have to buy a $100 adapter that doesn't even work. Standards are standard for a reason Apple!
I'm not so sure. Now if we needed a plane full of RIAA lawyers dealt with he's the man to send in. If you're looking to get birds killed you'd have better luck with a slingshots and a bunch of bored teenagers than you would Dick Cheney.
I wish we had more signature space. I'd also like to add "its and it's" but there's no room.
OMG, please, no, don't remind me. I remember someone told me I was wrong once. It was dreadful. We should outlaw that sort of hate speech in America before it gets out of hand.
Oh, sure, like drunken sports fans and tubby couch coaches aren't going to be important in the digital age. Those other countries just don't know what they're doing. Just wait, in a post-apocalyptic world we Americans will be ready to drink and fight with the best of them!
A) If you look at a photo of Earth at night, you'll see why a clear view of the night sky is not just a train-ride to the suburbs away. Huge swaths of land are blanketed in artificial light.
I live outside a relatively small metro area (1.5 million or so) and even from a good 60 miles away you can see the glow of the city. I will attest to the fact that you can't just drive a short distance away and see anything. You certainly can't expect to be able to take any sort of metro area mass transit and get far enough away to see anything. When I was younger I remember camping in more remote areas and spending hours staring at the stars. Kids in the city are missing out!
This, please God, this. I can't stand squatters. If more people start taking them to court and their domains get taken from them then maybe this ridiculous crap will stop.
Heh, well at least someone appreciated it! The Zune seems to fit your description as well.
:-/
Apparently someone gave the xbox / msft fanbois mod points today. Not much you can do about that.
The only reason XP has hung on so long is that it took so long for Vista to come out. Everyone was running XP and have continued to do so because Vista was expensive, it had problems until SP1 came out, and ancient XP machines couldn't run it. No one skipped from Win2k to Vista. Tons of people will be skipping from XP to 7. Just wait and see. New machines will have 7. Old machines will be replaced with machines running 7. Gamers running XP will switch to 7.
Yeah... sure... if by, "intensely competitive," you mean that the DS / DSi are throttling all other handhelds.
Isn't trying to beat their competition precisely what corporations should be doing? This isn't a special olympics race where everyone ends up winning regardless of how you badly you do.
And yet the XBox 360 lives on... I suppose it helps when you don't mind blowing $1 billion to make sure little Timmy wins.
You'd be surprised. In an effort to get people off of a version of our application that was over 9 years old we practically gave away upgrades to the current version and it was still a monumental effort. That was just for upgrading our application. I can't imagine what it would have been like trying to push an IE upgrade on them - something that could potentially cause other problems. Some people are so completely scared of change that even a significant discount would probably do little to convince them to upgrade. At the same time you also run the risk of devaluing your product.
Maybe if we jacked up the support costs as the software got older it would make upgrades more appealing. It's not a friendly thing to do but it really does take a ridiculous amount of effort to resolve an issue in a 9 year old application. There are only a few guys left that even know anything about it.
What rules? Geez, you slashdot Nazis are ruining everything.
They released an update back around November or December that changed it so that anytime I tried to do that I would get an error from the game itself. You've encouraged me to give it a second look though... maybe it was just a bug and they've fixed it.
P.S. What's with plain old text ripping out newlines in the preview (and possibly submitted comment)?
All posts are HTML. You've got to use HTML formatting. Welcome to slashdot. :P
I agree 100%. I didn't realize they'd broken sv_search_key but that would explain why it hasn't worked for me in ages. I always just figured the servers I was trying to connect to were always just full... I should have known better.
The server issues have really ruined the game for me. It's truly great fun when you can get everything to work... but it's incredibly frustrating sitting in the lobby for literally 15 minutes trying to find a server. Then you finally get to one and everyone's ping is 300 (my friends and I are usually reasonably close together geographically and we're all in the US). Then you repeat the process all over again trying to find a server that doesn't have a terrible ping.
Sadly, none of this was an issue when the game was first released because you could easily host your own games. Typical comcast cable is plenty fast to support a 4 person L4D campaign (I even had some luck with versus). But then they changed it so that you couldn't do that unless you were on a LAN. When they made that change I stopped playing for a month. I just couldn't handle the problems with sitting in the lobby, servers crashing half-way through a campaign, and connecting to servers with ridiculous settings.
I'm really hoping they fix some of this crap for 2.
Our web application is geared exclusively toward huge corporate customers. Almost all of them continue to run IE6. I would kill to at least be able to get transparent PNG's to finally work. (Ugh). We push people to upgrade every chance we get, but when you're a vendor making an application that has to work on every desktop machine in their environment... you don't have much choice.
I keep hoping that one day someone will release some brutal worm for IE6 that goes unpatched for months and forces everyone to upgrade. Yes, I'm that desperate to see IE6 go away.