What happens then is that you need to buy a new $300 graphics card every year to be able to play the latest games nicely. My GF4Ti4200 is pretty much useless now, even Far Cry at 1024x768 is basically un-doable.
Bollocks. I'm using a GF2MX-200 card and playing some pretty new games, like IL-2 Sturmovik: Forgotten Battles and Soldier of Fortune II. The card's just fine as long as I turn down the details a bit or stick with 800x600.
You say that Half-Life was great, but not because of the graphics, so why are you whining (yes, whining) about your Ti-4200 not cutting it? If a game's any good, you can just turn down the graphics and keep on playing.
This article provokes a knee-jerk reaction against John Ashcroft, but the man has been quite fair in his carrying out of the laws of the United States, regardless of his personal beliefs.
D'you really think his religious beliefs had nothing to do with his attacking Oregon's state law (approved by a majority of Oregon voters) that allows assisted suicide? Suicide is an abomination in the sight of his god, you know.
WalMart is not strong arming suppliers--the suppliers don't have to supply WalMart if they don't want to.
If they don't supply Wal-Mart, someone else will and they'll be stuck with smaller, less profitable markets. So basically they have to do what they're told.
If Bush 2.0 gets in again I have every intent of booking it to Canada or England as soon as I can,
Horseshit. So many people said that in '00 when he was running the first time "I'll move to Canada if he wins!", and they're still here. They'll likely still be here if he wins again, and probably until they get their draft notices in the mail.
In short, I'm tired of hearing the move-to-Canada line. Nobody believes you.
So, in my mind, the real shocking story is that 2 out of 3 florists hate their job.
I expect it's not so black and white. The article said that 1 in 7 ITers were "very happy". This suggests a continuum like "very happy" "somewhat happy", "neutral", "somewhat unhappy", and "very unhappy".
So the numbers of job-hating florists are not as high as you think.
I can see one problem with your idea: compilers. Say that everything running on our machines must be compiled with the same rev of gcc. What if gcc on Platform A isn't as highly evolved or optimized as on Platform B?
Say that instead we use compilers made by the CPU manufacturers, since they presumably optimize the best. No, can't do that. AMD, for example, hasn't the resources of Intel and can't write their own.
The second FAT is actually right after the first copy. This is even worse, because if the first part of the disk is physically damaged, you're screwed.
That depends on who's in the White House. The President basically controls the Justice Department, and Bush... I'm sure you know what kind of a person Bush is by now.
We do have antitrust laws, but the Justice Department must enforce them.
Having absolutely everything running as an administrator is a huge mistake.
Something else that really should be done is enforcing Intel's privilege rings.
286+ processors have four privilege rings, 0 through 3. Processes running in ring 0 basically have root privs in the system, ring 1 processes can touch anything but those in ring 0, and so on.
It's intended that critical OS functions, like the memory manager, run in ring 0. Device drivers and such live in ring 1, and user processes live in ring 3.
Many operating systems, including Linux and all versions of Windows except NT 3.xx, run drivers in ring 0 because it's faster. However, it means that a bad driver can bring down the whole system. I bet the majority of Windows crashes lead back to crappy drivers, especially video drivers.
With DOS it was easy; everything which was embedded in command.com (thus the necessity to always carry an extra format.exe)
No. Only a subset of the DOS commands were built into command.com. Basic ones like dir, vol, and del. More complex ones (like format.com) were seperate files.
Five years of being a Linux weenie and I still remember almost everything about DOS. Oy.
I've seen far fewer spam messages (and Meower-style trolls) by simply telling my newsreader to killfile all crossposts. I use slrn, and added this to my Score file:
Netscape (which mozilla is built off) loaded within about 10 seconds on those machines....
No. Mozilla's built on an entirely different codebase. They did originally use code from the alpha of Netscape 5.0, but it was decided to be too crufty and so the Gecko code was substituted.
The only thing that NS2.0 and Mozilla have in common is the odd programmer.
I'm sure if you use the almighty Google, you could find a copy of NS2.0 for Windows. I've gotten NS3.03 Gold for Win32 fairly recently that way[1], but the Javascript is totally unuseable anymore - tons of errors pop up for the Netscape homepage.
My favorite example of the unfairly hard pixel-perfect jump is That Jump in world 8-2 of Super Mario Brothers. You know, the one right after a pipe (so you can't get a good running start) with two tiny "islands" right after the pipe, followed by the big giant pit. Since 1986, I've gotten past that jump once, and died soon after, requiring that I restart the entire level.
I remember when Nintendo created an artificial shortage of Zelda II cartridges (late 1988), claiming manufacturing difficulties. Of course, *everyone* had to have it, especially since it was scarce.
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You say that Half-Life was great, but not because of the graphics, so why are you whining (yes, whining) about your Ti-4200 not cutting it? If a game's any good, you can just turn down the graphics and keep on playing.
Why not tell them that?
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Sure beats bitching where they won't find your suggestion.
In short, I'm tired of hearing the move-to-Canada line. Nobody believes you.
So the numbers of job-hating florists are not as high as you think.
I can see one problem with your idea: compilers. Say that everything running on our machines must be compiled with the same rev of gcc. What if gcc on Platform A isn't as highly evolved or optimized as on Platform B?
Say that instead we use compilers made by the CPU manufacturers, since they presumably optimize the best. No, can't do that. AMD, for example, hasn't the resources of Intel and can't write their own.
Just being the devil's advocate.
I hereby declare war on (over)use of the word "kudos".
The second FAT is actually right after the first copy. This is even worse, because if the first part of the disk is physically damaged, you're screwed.
Something else that really should be done is enforcing Intel's privilege rings.
286+ processors have four privilege rings, 0 through 3. Processes running in ring 0 basically have root privs in the system, ring 1 processes can touch anything but those in ring 0, and so on.
It's intended that critical OS functions, like the memory manager, run in ring 0. Device drivers and such live in ring 1, and user processes live in ring 3.
Many operating systems, including Linux and all versions of Windows except NT 3.xx, run drivers in ring 0 because it's faster. However, it means that a bad driver can bring down the whole system. I bet the majority of Windows crashes lead back to crappy drivers, especially video drivers.
Food for thought.
Is it possible to desolder the 68000 and replace it with a 68010? The '10 had better integer performance and had an identical pinout.
No, it wasn't. Not in MS-DOS 5 or 6.xx. You may be thinking of Novell/DR/OpenDOS's xdel command.
Five years of being a Linux weenie and I still remember almost everything about DOS. Oy.
Are you talking about info(1)?
Me, I'm going to invest in hearing-aid companies so that when all the dumbass kids with obnoxious thumpy car stereos go deaf, I can profit.
Revenge is a dish best served cold.
Because they thought it would be clever.
It's like asking "Why do $BROWSER_1 and $BROWSER_2 use the same homepage? Does that mean they're the same thing?".
The only thing that NS2.0 and Mozilla have in common is the odd programmer.
I'm sure if you use the almighty Google, you could find a copy of NS2.0 for Windows. I've gotten NS3.03 Gold for Win32 fairly recently that way[1], but the Javascript is totally unuseable anymore - tons of errors pop up for the Netscape homepage.
[1] Out of a misplaced sense of nostalgia.
My favorite example of the unfairly hard pixel-perfect jump is That Jump in world 8-2 of Super Mario Brothers. You know, the one right after a pipe (so you can't get a good running start) with two tiny "islands" right after the pipe, followed by the big giant pit. Since 1986, I've gotten past that jump once, and died soon after, requiring that I restart the entire level.
I remember when Nintendo created an artificial shortage of Zelda II cartridges (late 1988), claiming manufacturing difficulties. Of course, *everyone* had to have it, especially since it was scarce.
I have to wonder if this is another PR stunt.