No 32 bit version of Windows 7 at all, whatsoever. Since I didn't get a chance to RTFA so if this is on the list, sorry. MS had their chance with Vista to do this but decided on getting rid of XP and forcing the x86 and x64 versions of Vista instead of having Vista the preferred x64 OS and XP as the x86 OS of choice.
Legal sanction and proposed disbarring for Jack Thompson, then the FCC actually moves in the direction of net neutrality completely ignoring the ideals of a large corporation.
What is going on? Did I wake up in a parallel universe this week? Are we going to die?
parching droughts and intense hurricanes as global temperatures warm (www.climatescience.gov). I don't know where the hell they are conducting these studies at but it sure is not Ohio. Lately from what I'm used to the tempatures seem anywhere from 10-20 degrees lower then usual for this time of year and I don't like it. Global Warming? Bring it on, I'm sick of snow and winter.
I guess my question is... how the **** do you guys put up with it! It sounds like your living in some internet stone age where regional monopolies are trying to squeeze every dime out of you they can without having to provide much service to their customers at all... it sounds outragous! It is outrageous, America is so far behind in bandwidth because the providers are allowed by our government to give us the shittiest service available and rip us off. Though as Americans we also have the power to do something about it, i.e. boycott but people have seemed to stray so far away from the ideals the country was founded on. So we sit here and openly bitch about paying as much as we do and complain about getting throttled though we could collectively hurt them where it matters most and everyone cancel their service.
You don't need the internet to get to work to pay bills and you could live without it but no one will do what it is going to take because they "need" the internet because they "have" to check myspace.
I personally have books, single player games, movies, the outdoors which will keep me going without stimulation from the internet. If people wanted to boycott I'd do it, but the other 98% of America is either too lazy or hooked on their addiction to do anything about it.
Yes it is outrageous, but we (the United States consumers) are not going to do anything about it. Please feel free to ignore our pointless bitching.
I don't know if it supports linux. Oh it does, my travel laptop at work is running Kubuntu 8.04 and I can access any citrix application hosted on the company's servers flawlessly. Just download the linux x86 ica client from www.citrix.com, install, import the SSL certificate issuer's public cert (if necessary I know I had to but it is easy to do) and you are done.
What I see happening is a demand for the manufacturers that will not release boards with this TPM and avoidance of any company embedding them. They will eventually be cracked anyways, so even when they do exist they will eventually become uneffective.
Look at all the anti-piracy measures for the available consoles. They have been cracked, sometimes taking longer but it will be done. Hell it might even bring about mod chips for PCs and as the post's title goes, I'll gladly fire up my soldering iron to bypass this bullshit.
Fry: So Seymour might still exist?
Farnsworth: Perhaps, for a few minutes. It's dolemite, baby!
Leela: It says this part of The Hustle implores the gods to grant a favor. Usually a Trans-AM.
Fry: Aww. Poor little guy. You look like you haven't eaten in a month. Here, (He offers the dog a slice) but if Mr Panucci asks, your name is Seymour Asses!
Fry: Look Bender, this has nothing to do with you.
Bender: That's impossible!
Fry: Now if you'll excuse me I'm working on Seymour's doghouse.
Bender: No one ever asks if Bedner would like to live in a tiny little house. Not that I would. A tiny little house that says "Bender" on it.
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When you have Comcast or Cox Cable, it is a good bet to blame the ISP first.
WoW even runs faster since I switched to Linux.:-) Hmm, I wish I had that problem when I was still playing WoW.
I checked the winehq.com app DB. It is basically at a "Garbage" rating. Installer works but the game will not launch. Though most of the testing was done during the AoC beta, maybe the full version will be better.
I always make sure that I use the transport encryption settings within Azureus. Enable RC4 encryption block non-encrypted both ways and enable the "cryptoport" tracker extension is on. Then I make sure I cap everything out at 80% of my total upload. Sure it lowers my total connections but anything to keep from getting throttled.
This is the only thing I have seen that will allow me to get speeds on torrent networks where they should be. If I didn't do this Cox cable red flag me for days and my internet drags for a couple of days until they decided to uncap me.
I would have not been able to get Kubuntu 8.04 when it launched without using bit-torrent so don't give me the bit-torrent=pirate bullsh*t. All the Http and FTP distribution servers were overloaded that day.
What about that Windows PC? Well, if you must know, I'm addicted to PC games. Half Life 2, Oblivion - waiting for Fallout 3... I'd rather play them in Linux, but WINE performance and stability isn't acceptable yet. There, games are the killer app.
Now, if I wasn't a gamer, and I wasn't a movie maker, I would absolutely love to use GNU/Linux as my only OS. If I need to run a Windows program, I don't mind doing it in virtualization.
The problem is that games typically don't work, or don't work well, in virtualized environments. Neither does video editing software (which is why I have no desire to run a virtualized MacOSX - what am I going to use it for if it renders video at a turtle's pace?)
GNU/Linux is at a strange place in it's adoption cycle, and this is a real concern: By the time you are savvy enough with computers to think outside of the marketing and go with Linux as an easy, usable operating system that does everything a beginning user does - you're no longer a beginning user and probably have some application - productivity, gaming, whatever - for which there is no Linux equivalent. I know exactly how you feel, I can't get enough of Half Life, Crysis, Bioshock etc. I would love to run Kubuntu on my home desktop but it is not going to happen until the day games work as well or better on Linux.
Kubuntu is great for my laptop because I don't game with it and if I'm not using a computer for gaming there is NO reason to run windows.
yeah I went from phone monkey level 1 to phone monkey level 2. I know they have no intentions of moving me anywhere out of the help desk where I am at now but after four years I couldn't stand the though of going to another help desk job from this one.
I've been working one sh*tty help desk job to the next ever since getting out of school four years ago. I've been trying to get into server administration unix/windows and received several certifications but I only receive letters back from people interested in putting me into another dead end help desk job.
To me I feel working in help desk positions has pretty much been a case of terminal brain cancer for my career.
Yes but on the flip side if I went out and bought a console seeing I don't own a TV I'd have to go spend at least 1500 dollars to buy a TV which is good enough to display the HD content from console games. Granted the TV will outlast the life span of a expensive video card but I can get a nice mid range card right now which is good enough to play any game on the market for 150-200 dollars. PCs and consoles will always cost the consumer one way or another.
Even the Vista SP1 release candidates show that Vista outperforms XP in several areas including startup/shutdown times, application starts, file saving, and overall desktop performance. I'm currently running SP1 and Microsoft did something right, they must have been listening because my gaming performance has increased significantly.
All the games I tested before hand and after I installed SP1 increased by either slightly or I got a huge performance gain. The biggest gain was in World of Warcraft, I am now getting the frame rates that I once got when I had XP installed.
Vista is not as bad as everyone claims it is and with SP1 installed I'd take Vista over XP any day.
Right... a book on home internet from security from Symantec.
I'd defiantly trust pointers on internet security from a company which makes anti-malware software which is incapable of stopping threats or detecting them in the first place.
I had a hard time deciding whether or not I enjoyed Crysis or Half Life 2 Orange Box more but when I really think about it I'd have to go with the Orange Box. Episodes One and Two helped take the depth and the involvement of the characters within the game to a whole new level. I can't say much but the ending on Episode Two showed how good of writers the Valve Software team really are, the whole time I felt as if I was watching a movie.
As far as Portal goes, this game was not just fun but the ending was so funny I was in tears of laughter, I have never laughed that hard in my entire life.
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No 32 bit version of Windows 7 at all, whatsoever. Since I didn't get a chance to RTFA so if this is on the list, sorry. MS had their chance with Vista to do this but decided on getting rid of XP and forcing the x86 and x64 versions of Vista instead of having Vista the preferred x64 OS and XP as the x86 OS of choice.
What is going on? Did I wake up in a parallel universe this week? Are we going to die?
18 months until the release? Maybe not, I'm thinking 18 months until the first set of delays.
Farnsworth: Well, in those days, Mars was just a dreary uninhabitable wasteland. Much like Utah. But unlike Utah, it was eventually made livable.
I did a sudo apt-get install firefox-3.0 and installed it on my laptop, I wonder if this still counts towards the record?
It is really apparent they don't give a damn about their customers if they give away and recommend you use McAfee.
You don't need the internet to get to work to pay bills and you could live without it but no one will do what it is going to take because they "need" the internet because they "have" to check myspace.
I personally have books, single player games, movies, the outdoors which will keep me going without stimulation from the internet. If people wanted to boycott I'd do it, but the other 98% of America is either too lazy or hooked on their addiction to do anything about it.
Yes it is outrageous, but we (the United States consumers) are not going to do anything about it. Please feel free to ignore our pointless bitching.
It is time to bring back Alucard
What I see happening is a demand for the manufacturers that will not release boards with this TPM and avoidance of any company embedding them. They will eventually be cracked anyways, so even when they do exist they will eventually become uneffective.
Look at all the anti-piracy measures for the available consoles. They have been cracked, sometimes taking longer but it will be done. Hell it might even bring about mod chips for PCs and as the post's title goes, I'll gladly fire up my soldering iron to bypass this bullshit.
This is why someone needs to invent Bachelor Chow already and no substitutions I want exactly how it is in Futurama.
Fry: So Seymour might still exist?
Farnsworth: Perhaps, for a few minutes. It's dolemite, baby!
Leela: It says this part of The Hustle implores the gods to grant a favor. Usually a Trans-AM.
Fry: Aww. Poor little guy. You look like you haven't eaten in a month. Here, (He offers the dog a slice) but if Mr Panucci asks, your name is Seymour Asses!
Fry: Look Bender, this has nothing to do with you.
Bender: That's impossible!
Fry: Now if you'll excuse me I'm working on Seymour's doghouse.
Bender: No one ever asks if Bedner would like to live in a tiny little house. Not that I would. A tiny little house that says "Bender" on it.
When you have Comcast or Cox Cable, it is a good bet to blame the ISP first.
I checked the winehq.com app DB. It is basically at a "Garbage" rating. Installer works but the game will not launch. Though most of the testing was done during the AoC beta, maybe the full version will be better.
I think I know what you are hinting at with the solution. I believe it starts with an L, ends with an X, has "inu" between the L and x?
This is the only thing I have seen that will allow me to get speeds on torrent networks where they should be. If I didn't do this Cox cable red flag me for days and my internet drags for a couple of days until they decided to uncap me. I would have not been able to get Kubuntu 8.04 when it launched without using bit-torrent so don't give me the bit-torrent=pirate bullsh*t. All the Http and FTP distribution servers were overloaded that day.
yeah I went from phone monkey level 1 to phone monkey level 2. I know they have no intentions of moving me anywhere out of the help desk where I am at now but after four years I couldn't stand the though of going to another help desk job from this one.
I've been working one sh*tty help desk job to the next ever since getting out of school four years ago. I've been trying to get into server administration unix/windows and received several certifications but I only receive letters back from people interested in putting me into another dead end help desk job.
To me I feel working in help desk positions has pretty much been a case of terminal brain cancer for my career.
Yes but on the flip side if I went out and bought a console seeing I don't own a TV I'd have to go spend at least 1500 dollars to buy a TV which is good enough to display the HD content from console games. Granted the TV will outlast the life span of a expensive video card but I can get a nice mid range card right now which is good enough to play any game on the market for 150-200 dollars. PCs and consoles will always cost the consumer one way or another.
All the games I tested before hand and after I installed SP1 increased by either slightly or I got a huge performance gain. The biggest gain was in World of Warcraft, I am now getting the frame rates that I once got when I had XP installed.
Vista is not as bad as everyone claims it is and with SP1 installed I'd take Vista over XP any day.
Right... a book on home internet from security from Symantec. I'd defiantly trust pointers on internet security from a company which makes anti-malware software which is incapable of stopping threats or detecting them in the first place.
I had a hard time deciding whether or not I enjoyed Crysis or Half Life 2 Orange Box more but when I really think about it I'd have to go with the Orange Box. Episodes One and Two helped take the depth and the involvement of the characters within the game to a whole new level. I can't say much but the ending on Episode Two showed how good of writers the Valve Software team really are, the whole time I felt as if I was watching a movie. As far as Portal goes, this game was not just fun but the ending was so funny I was in tears of laughter, I have never laughed that hard in my entire life.