Not all 32 bit software works in 64 bit Windows 7 (or Vista). I've been running 7 for less than a week. I've already found that three of my favorite Windows utilities don't run under 64 bit Windows. Yea, I tried all of the compatibility settings. One developer is working on 64 bit support. The other says "don't even ask." The third makes no mention of 64 bit Windows even existing.
My freshman writing class at Carnegie Mellon University taught me that white people are bad, straight people are bad, and men are bad. I paid $5000 to learn that as a white, straight, male I'm the worst thing ever. Apparently, I'm an oppression machine! : O Straight white women mostly get a pass because they have to put up with white straight men who are the worst thing ever. White lesbians are pretty much golden because their femaleness and gayness more than offsets their whiteness. I tried to work out equations but I could never get it completely figured out...
Grades in my class were proportional to each student's acceptance of the premises. Those who believed (or pretended to believe) and could also produce grammatically correct English sentences received A's. Those who argued or intelligently debated received lower grades.
I received an A. I'm good at making people think that I agree with them when I don't.
If you were born a man you can never be a woman. You can be a castrated man. You can be a man who takes female hormones. You can be both. But you can never be a woman.
It's not quite as bad as The South or Middle America but Pittsburgh PA is it's own little brand of inbred white trash hell.
I'm amazed beyond belief with all of these people who JUST LOVE PITTSBURGH. There are 100's of developers with graduate degrees from good schools WHO FREELY CHOSE TO "LIVE" IN PITTSBURGH. These people could go anywhere and yet they choose to rot here in Pittsburgh! What's wrong with them? I wish I knew!
I'm counting the days until I can leave this place.
(I'm a Pittsburgh native. I've been all over the country. I've lived out of state for a number of years. Sadly, I currently reside in Pittsburgh.)
Ok, I'm so lame that I went to google and typed in "Tricia Helfer porn." To my utter surprise and amazement a bunch of hits came up. I clicked a few and found tons of real, topless Tricia Helfer pics. Thank the gods! Made my f'ing weekend...
Also, how is my comment above -1 flamebait? I could understand -1 loser or -1 pervert but flamebait? Show me one straight male BSG fan who doesn't want to see Ms. Helfer doin' the nasty and I'll show you someone who is either dead, gay, or a robot posing as a human.
I'm praying that the end of BSG opens the door to Tricia Helfer starring in a few pornos. My god, that would rock my world! Come on Tricia, give it a try. Just one little lesbian scene. All the girls are doin' it. There's even a song about it on the radio. Puhleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeze!
If Stockholm can build a decent mass-transit system, any city of 2 million or more in the USA can build one.
A majority of suburban Americans don't want better mass transit. In fact, a lot of them would love to eliminate the existing systems.
I've lived in two major American cities over the past 10 years. Both cities continue to have strong suburban voting blocks that vehemently oppose any extension or improvement of the mass transit system.
This is their reasoning: They have worked their asses off so that they can afford to move far away from racial group XYZ. Improved mass transit will allow members of racial group XYZ to infiltrate their idyllic suburban bubble. Hence, mass transit is bad, very, very bad.
In my current city the bus routes were recently extended farther out into suburbia. This has allowed certain urban populations to shop at previously inaccessible shopping centers and two malls. It's a few years later now and the newly serviced areas are in sharp decline. The shops are deserted (save for the inner-city folks) and 1/2 the shop fronts in the malls are vacant. One mall is in such poor financial shape they have roped off the raised level of parking because they cannot afford to maintain it in a safe condition. People are moving out in droves. Housing prices have fallen and, yes, this began long before the current economic crisis began.
Until the USA fixes it's racial issues we will never have good mass transit.
I am a atomic/nuclear physicist and do all my work on 17" MBP with 1920x1200 hires screen. Now let's see where you fit in between that and 'twittering and myspacing'.
Sorry, nuclear physicist != computer geek. Plenty of smart people in NERDY disciplines do their work on laptops. That doesn't makes them geeks.
I can't speak for everyone here, but personally I consider installing cut down linux, or similar, on a tiny embedded device with minute amounts of RAM/disk space far 'geekier' than going down to your local computer store and spending thousands on a ludicriously overpowered machine. Each unto his own I suppose.
Buying the machine isn't the geeky part. Pluging the parts together isn't the geeky part either. The geeky part comes in the full use and appreciation of the resulting machine and the yearning for a few more cores, another gig or ram, another couple TB of disk, etc.
Minimal stuff is cool too but buying a netbook and futzing with a Linux install isn't very hardcore. The real geek designs and builds his own minimalist boards based on sweet little ARM processors like the AT91SAM7 or OMAP3530 and then proceeds to write his own realtime kernel and micro TCP stack.
I'm just tired of all these SUPPOSED geeks who are happy with lame laptops and have zero appreciation and even less knowledge of the hardware. If you're not into hardware you're not a computer geek, period. Maybe you're a CS kind of guy? No, what you really are is a MATH NERD.
Hardcore CS dude who doesn't give a flip about the hardware* != Computer Geek
Hardcore CS dude who doesn't give a flip about the hardware* == Math Nerd
* This includes anyone who used to care about the hardware but doesn't anymore because "It's fast enough for everything I want to do these days."
WHOOSH! That's the sound of you're geek card being revoked. REAL GEEKS cared about the hardware before personal computers could anything practical. They cared when they had to twiddle machine code into front panel switches for and hour and their only payback was a few blinking LEDs.
Sorry, I simply can not take seriously any post that contains fake backspace characters. Write another reply without the ^H^H^H^H^H chars and we can talk.
Raid 1 isn't for haxors it's for people who don't want to lose data to disk failures. Full disk encryption works great on desktops by the way. Oh, and it sure is nice to have a few extra cores to handle all of that crypto work.
Everyone and everything is fair game for a harmless laugh. When you label certain things (aka homosexuality) as being off limits to some light humor you piss people off and make life a little less worth living. Seriously, what harm comes from poking some fun at the fact that gay guys like Macs? SERIOUSLY!
Are redneck trailerpark jokes off limits too? Is REDNECKPHOBIA something that must be stamped out with nazi-like zeal as well? Somehow I think you wouldn't take the same stand for other groups.
Get over yourself. Next thing you'll be telling me that holocaust jokes are a no-no.
The idea of taking your storage with you is remarkably quaint though, I like it. I'm tempted to bookmark this post and refer you to it in ten years.
Wow, you're living ten years in the future! How are gas prices? Is Britney fat again?
Way back here in 2008 there are no wireless services that can shuttle data to and fro at anywhere near SATA speeds. Besides, the providers we do have like to cancel accounts after too many gigs of traffic in one day. I bet things are different in the future! Do you have a flying car? Oh, probably not. I doubt you need it. You're a whole TEN YEARS from my version of "now." Every square inch of the good ole USA is served by quick, efficient, mass transit by then. I bet the skybus is free...or maybe...no, they pay you! And they serve free drinks too. And all the skybus flight attendants are really hot. Well, of course they are! There are no ugly people in the future. What was I thinking???
Consumer NAS boxes makes me cringe. They hang blazing fast disks off a glorified microcontroller. The anemic processor is never able to handle anywhere near the disks' sustained transfer rates. Then the whole shebang is hung off the end of a low bandwidth high latency link. Spring for a full tower case and put your disks where they belong. Every decent motherboard on the planet sports six SATA ports these days.
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Not all 32 bit software works in 64 bit Windows 7 (or Vista). I've been running 7 for less than a week. I've already found that three of my favorite Windows utilities don't run under 64 bit Windows. Yea, I tried all of the compatibility settings. One developer is working on 64 bit support. The other says "don't even ask." The third makes no mention of 64 bit Windows even existing.
You expect "professional" behavior on Slashdot? Are you new here?
If anyone can deliver fairy dust it's Apple.
Wow, that woodgrain texture is sweet! I'm *so* gonna use that.
you can even rent cheap hookers there
Thank you, Craig Newmark!
The open source radeon driver does immaculate, tear-free video with every player, no gl required. I've been running it on an R600 card for months.
My freshman writing class at Carnegie Mellon University taught me that white people are bad, straight people are bad, and men are bad. I paid $5000 to learn that as a white, straight, male I'm the worst thing ever. Apparently, I'm an oppression machine! : O Straight white women mostly get a pass because they have to put up with white straight men who are the worst thing ever. White lesbians are pretty much golden because their femaleness and gayness more than offsets their whiteness. I tried to work out equations but I could never get it completely figured out... Grades in my class were proportional to each student's acceptance of the premises. Those who believed (or pretended to believe) and could also produce grammatically correct English sentences received A's. Those who argued or intelligently debated received lower grades. I received an A. I'm good at making people think that I agree with them when I don't.
If you were born a man you can never be a woman. You can be a castrated man. You can be a man who takes female hormones. You can be both. But you can never be a woman.
There are two explanations for that. #1 You haven't put enough work into learning them. #2 You're not smart enough to be a programmer.
It's not quite as bad as The South or Middle America but Pittsburgh PA is it's own little brand of inbred white trash hell.
I'm amazed beyond belief with all of these people who JUST LOVE PITTSBURGH. There are 100's of developers with graduate degrees from good schools WHO FREELY CHOSE TO "LIVE" IN PITTSBURGH. These people could go anywhere and yet they choose to rot here in Pittsburgh! What's wrong with them? I wish I knew!
I'm counting the days until I can leave this place.
(I'm a Pittsburgh native. I've been all over the country. I've lived out of state for a number of years. Sadly, I currently reside in Pittsburgh.)
I did not know! But I do now. Man, I'm going to sleep well tonight!
My BSG "re-imaginings" don't discriminate based upon age or race. Tricia, Grace Park, Mary McDonnell, and Katee Sackhoff all play star roles.
Ok, I'm so lame that I went to google and typed in "Tricia Helfer porn." To my utter surprise and amazement a bunch of hits came up. I clicked a few and found tons of real, topless Tricia Helfer pics. Thank the gods! Made my f'ing weekend...
Also, how is my comment above -1 flamebait? I could understand -1 loser or -1 pervert but flamebait? Show me one straight male BSG fan who doesn't want to see Ms. Helfer doin' the nasty and I'll show you someone who is either dead, gay, or a robot posing as a human.
I'm praying that the end of BSG opens the door to Tricia Helfer starring in a few pornos. My god, that would rock my world! Come on Tricia, give it a try. Just one little lesbian scene. All the girls are doin' it. There's even a song about it on the radio. Puhleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeze!
A number of scientific studies have found that 30 to 50 percent of women cheat.
You're welcome!
If Stockholm can build a decent mass-transit system, any city of 2 million or more in the USA can build one.
A majority of suburban Americans don't want better mass transit. In fact, a lot of them would love to eliminate the existing systems.
I've lived in two major American cities over the past 10 years. Both cities continue to have strong suburban voting blocks that vehemently oppose any extension or improvement of the mass transit system.
This is their reasoning: They have worked their asses off so that they can afford to move far away from racial group XYZ. Improved mass transit will allow members of racial group XYZ to infiltrate their idyllic suburban bubble. Hence, mass transit is bad, very, very bad.
In my current city the bus routes were recently extended farther out into suburbia. This has allowed certain urban populations to shop at previously inaccessible shopping centers and two malls. It's a few years later now and the newly serviced areas are in sharp decline. The shops are deserted (save for the inner-city folks) and 1/2 the shop fronts in the malls are vacant. One mall is in such poor financial shape they have roped off the raised level of parking because they cannot afford to maintain it in a safe condition. People are moving out in droves. Housing prices have fallen and, yes, this began long before the current economic crisis began.
Until the USA fixes it's racial issues we will never have good mass transit.
I am a atomic/nuclear physicist and do all my work on 17" MBP with 1920x1200 hires screen. Now let's see where you fit in between that and 'twittering and myspacing'.
Sorry, nuclear physicist != computer geek. Plenty of smart people in NERDY disciplines do their work on laptops. That doesn't makes them geeks.
I can't speak for everyone here, but personally I consider installing cut down linux, or similar, on a tiny embedded device with minute amounts of RAM/disk space far 'geekier' than going down to your local computer store and spending thousands on a ludicriously overpowered machine. Each unto his own I suppose.
Buying the machine isn't the geeky part. Pluging the parts together isn't the geeky part either. The geeky part comes in the full use and appreciation of the resulting machine and the yearning for a few more cores, another gig or ram, another couple TB of disk, etc.
Minimal stuff is cool too but buying a netbook and futzing with a Linux install isn't very hardcore. The real geek designs and builds his own minimalist boards based on sweet little ARM processors like the AT91SAM7 or OMAP3530 and then proceeds to write his own realtime kernel and micro TCP stack.
I'm just tired of all these SUPPOSED geeks who are happy with lame laptops and have zero appreciation and even less knowledge of the hardware. If you're not into hardware you're not a computer geek, period. Maybe you're a CS kind of guy? No, what you really are is a MATH NERD.
Hardcore CS dude who doesn't give a flip about the hardware* != Computer Geek
Hardcore CS dude who doesn't give a flip about the hardware* == Math Nerd
* This includes anyone who used to care about the hardware but doesn't anymore because "It's fast enough for everything I want to do these days."
WHOOSH! That's the sound of you're geek card being revoked. REAL GEEKS cared about the hardware before personal computers could anything practical. They cared when they had to twiddle machine code into front panel switches for and hour and their only payback was a few blinking LEDs.
Sorry, I simply can not take seriously any post that contains fake backspace characters. Write another reply without the ^H^H^H^H^H chars and we can talk.
Raid 1 isn't for haxors it's for people who don't want to lose data to disk failures. Full disk encryption works great on desktops by the way. Oh, and it sure is nice to have a few extra cores to handle all of that crypto work.
Everyone and everything is fair game for a harmless laugh. When you label certain things (aka homosexuality) as being off limits to some light humor you piss people off and make life a little less worth living. Seriously, what harm comes from poking some fun at the fact that gay guys like Macs? SERIOUSLY!
Are redneck trailerpark jokes off limits too? Is REDNECKPHOBIA something that must be stamped out with nazi-like zeal as well? Somehow I think you wouldn't take the same stand for other groups.
Get over yourself. Next thing you'll be telling me that holocaust jokes are a no-no.
Oh, shit...
Wow, you're living ten years in the future! How are gas prices? Is Britney fat again?
Way back here in 2008 there are no wireless services that can shuttle data to and fro at anywhere near SATA speeds. Besides, the providers we do have like to cancel accounts after too many gigs of traffic in one day. I bet things are different in the future! Do you have a flying car? Oh, probably not. I doubt you need it. You're a whole TEN YEARS from my version of "now." Every square inch of the good ole USA is served by quick, efficient, mass transit by then. I bet the skybus is free...or maybe...no, they pay you! And they serve free drinks too. And all the skybus flight attendants are really hot. Well, of course they are! There are no ugly people in the future. What was I thinking???
Damn, It must be nice to live in the future!
Consumer NAS boxes makes me cringe. They hang blazing fast disks off a glorified microcontroller. The anemic processor is never able to handle anywhere near the disks' sustained transfer rates. Then the whole shebang is hung off the end of a low bandwidth high latency link. Spring for a full tower case and put your disks where they belong. Every decent motherboard on the planet sports six SATA ports these days.
When the size of another man's dick is the first thing that pops into you mind after reading his post to Slashdot...
Lemme guess, you're a laptop guy! I'm thinking Macbook Pro with a red iPod in tow. Hey, if the shoe fits. : )
P.S. It's not scary huge but it is very nicely above average thank you.
Outside in the park? Out at the pub! With friends??? Lounging at a coffee shop!!! These people you speak of are NOT geeks.