There was a PC Speaker sound driver for Windows 3.1. It could be used to play.WAV files, and didn't sound/too/ horrible if you remembered what you were using.
Slowed the crap out of the computer, though. It seemed to need nearly 100% CPU on the 25 MHz 486SX I had back then.
Linux had an unofficial Speaker driver in the 2.0 days. Someone used that to make a mini distro called Speaker Doom that included shareware Doom & played the full range of sound effects that you'd normally need a Sound Blaster for. It also sounded surprisingly good, especially versus the id-supplied Speaker sound effects.
It was common for games back then to fallback to the PC Speaker if there was no sound card available. It was also usual to support several types of sound hardware, such as the Adlib, Tandy, GUS, Roland MT-32, and Sound Blaster.
Your post leaves out why they're critics of the anti-missile system. Are they against the very idea of it because of not wanting to irritate the Russians? Or are they against it because the implementation is full of fail?
Plus if you're out in Indian country you don't want to have to fumble for your keys to get the tank (or Humvee) started so you can start shooting back.
Considering the GOP base's anti-intellectualism and their closeness to Christian fundamentalism, it's forgivable to automatically assume any criticism of science from a Republican is politically motivated.
Doesn't mean that you shouldn't look into it a bit before making up your mind, but it's a safe bet.
It's probably not perfect, but IMO the reason for sticking with 754 unless there's a real need for something else is:
Repeatability. If your code and language are standard-compliant, then you'll get the same floating-point math results as someone using another compliant language on any other platform. Not crucial for some tasks, but it certainly is for others, such as scientific work.
Sat and cable are too expensive, and I don't watch much anyway. Maybe someday I'll get a Slingbox or similar so I can do video-on-demand, but it's not a priority.
I'd be a lot more foolproof for the BIOS-update program to create a bootable USB stick and tell you how to set your system to boot off that.
I wouldn't trust any of my machines to the shite floppies that are made these days. You're apt to get a bad sector while it's in the middle of flashing.
It's apparently constitutional. I used to work at a loan servicer, and any customers who were Mass. residents we had to treat with kid gloves. We couldn't talk to their spouses even with permission, for example.
Not entirely true. You can integrate DriverPacks.net's drivers into an XP (and I'd assume Server '03) ISO image and burn it. I've done one of those with every driver those folks had available two years ago: storage, LAN, sound, video, chipset, wireless, even the AMD Cool & Quiet CPU driver. I further customized that with nLite so it wouldn't ask for a license key and had a few minor customizations.
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There was a PC Speaker sound driver for Windows 3.1. It could be used to play .WAV files, and didn't sound /too/ horrible if you remembered what you were using.
Slowed the crap out of the computer, though. It seemed to need nearly 100% CPU on the 25 MHz 486SX I had back then.
Linux had an unofficial Speaker driver in the 2.0 days. Someone used that to make a mini distro called Speaker Doom that included shareware Doom & played the full range of sound effects that you'd normally need a Sound Blaster for. It also sounded surprisingly good, especially versus the id-supplied Speaker sound effects.
It was common for games back then to fallback to the PC Speaker if there was no sound card available. It was also usual to support several types of sound hardware, such as the Adlib, Tandy, GUS, Roland MT-32, and Sound Blaster.
Yes, I was around back then.
That's all very nice, but for all I know you're putting words into their mouths. Show me where they're against the very idea.
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Your post leaves out why they're critics of the anti-missile system. Are they against the very idea of it because of not wanting to irritate the Russians? Or are they against it because the implementation is full of fail?
I believe encryption's been on the TODO for ext2/3/4 since the early ext2 days, though.
I learnt it as "clitmouse".
However, you shouldn't try to move it with your tongue.
At least for Office '03 and '07, there's a Registry hack to enable old "insecure" Office formats, which IIRC were disabled for '03 SP3.
I believe Microsoft has .REG files you can download to make this easier.
Unless that person happens to be your boss.
They're going into orbit around the galaxy. :P
Plus if you're out in Indian country you don't want to have to fumble for your keys to get the tank (or Humvee) started so you can start shooting back.
Considering the GOP base's anti-intellectualism and their closeness to Christian fundamentalism, it's forgivable to automatically assume any criticism of science from a Republican is politically motivated.
Doesn't mean that you shouldn't look into it a bit before making up your mind, but it's a safe bet.
It's probably not perfect, but IMO the reason for sticking with 754 unless there's a real need for something else is:
Repeatability. If your code and language are standard-compliant, then you'll get the same floating-point math results as someone using another compliant language on any other platform. Not crucial for some tasks, but it certainly is for others, such as scientific work.
It's the /tone/ that people object to. kdawson likes sensationalist language and loaded words.
I do vote against stupid articles, but after the fact - I usually can't be bothered to read the firehose.
It's kdawson. You can't expect fact-checking.
Sat and cable are too expensive, and I don't watch much anyway. Maybe someday I'll get a Slingbox or similar so I can do video-on-demand, but it's not a priority.
It /was/ bugged, but it's since been fixed. Try changing your theme again.
MS-DOS is not a real-time operating system.
I know why they did it, but it's still a WTF that they run antivirus (and Windows, really) on a CNC machine.
Precisely. I'm surprised that people aren't getting that.
I'd be a lot more foolproof for the BIOS-update program to create a bootable USB stick and tell you how to set your system to boot off that.
I wouldn't trust any of my machines to the shite floppies that are made these days. You're apt to get a bad sector while it's in the middle of flashing.
It's apparently constitutional. I used to work at a loan servicer, and any customers who were Mass. residents we had to treat with kid gloves. We couldn't talk to their spouses even with permission, for example.
Wrong. SP2 still needs SATA drivers. Some of the OEM discs don't - Dell, for example, has integrated Intel SATA drivers with at least their SP3 discs.
Not entirely true. You can integrate DriverPacks.net's drivers into an XP (and I'd assume Server '03) ISO image and burn it. I've done one of those with every driver those folks had available two years ago: storage, LAN, sound, video, chipset, wireless, even the AMD Cool & Quiet CPU driver. I further customized that with nLite so it wouldn't ask for a license key and had a few minor customizations.
Works very well.