I rebooted it and this time I had a brilliant white screen with pretty pink and green virticle lines all over it.
That happens when the Startup Disk setting is forgotten from the PRAM. Zapping the PRAM doesn't fix it; only reinforces the same problem. The solution is to boot off an Installer disc and fix the Startup Disk from there.
I'm not defending the problem, just pointing out what it is.
The reason he hasn't been sued for libel or slander is because of freedom of speech.
Freedom of speech doesn't protect libel nor slander.
Actually, it has been proven that almost every fact he uses in his movies are twisted lies and propoganda.... I would not want be surprised if Mr. Moore was hired by the Democratic party but no one will ever know, and do you know why?... There are millions of inconsistancies such as these in his movie... The media has become so one sided, that Democrats can get away with murder and Republicans can't get away with not crossing a t.
Crumple zones benefit both vehicles in a collision even if only one vehicle has them. Until they are fully crumpled, both vehicles will still be decelerating.
If both cars crumple well, then it's fairly good for both. If, however, one vehicle is both more rigid and more massive--something common to older cars--then the situation is greatly weighted in that vehicle's favor.
You're half right, which is just a nice way of saying you're very wrong.
More massive does help because in a head-on collision the more massive car will have a reduced change in momentum.
However more rigid is always worse than having a crumple zone. A crumple zone absorbs the energy that will otherwise have to be absorbed by the only other crumpling parts left in the car; the passengers.
Do the maths for a 2.5 ton rigid oldsmobile crashing into a 1.5 ton modern sedan in a 60mph head-on... the sedan driver is going to come off much better than the oldsmobile driver (who will probably be dead). The oldsmobile is a death trap because even though the deacceleration is less than that of the sedan it will occur in a very short period of time, resulting in an extremely high impact.
Movies have "been so bad lately" because you've been exposed to higher quality entertainment elsewhere... in the form of the modern mini-series. The mini-series has more time and therefore has a greater opportunity for character and plot development. The result is that you've been spoilt; you'll watch a great series like Lost or Babylon 5 and suddenly a 90 minute movie seems "bad" by comparison. Movies feel rushed because they're trying to cram in too much content: the Pirates of the Caribbean 2 movie is a perfect example.
This isn't my idea, although I do wish I'd thought of it. Clive James recently expressed the idea on National Radio. His example was Saving Private Ryan - admittedly a good movie but it pales into insignificance compared to Band of Brothers. I thought "Clive's gone crazy" but then I reflected and realised that I watch mini-series far more often than I watch movies. I enjoy them more. There is simply more content in a mini-series; a greater number of plot twists and side stories, more interaction between the characters, and each week I'm left with a cliff hanger. It's far more enjoyable than a movie.
I don't think it's a coincidence that several famous movie directors have experimented with high-budget mini-series, and some have already made the transition from movies to television.
So you want millions of uninformed uncaring citizens to start determining national policy?
The problem with voluntary voting systems - such as in the USA - is that the voluntary voters aren't necessarily informed. However the voluntary voters are almost certainly opinionated.
The end result is the vote is decided by minority groups with political agendas. Mandatory voting forces the politicians to appeal to the largest demographics, rather than the noisiest minorities.
Oh, and why should anyone care what the UN thinks? It's the most useless organization ever invented.
You sound like you get your "eduction" from talkback radio.
For you to label the World Health Organisation, World Food Programme, UNICEF and UNESCO as "useless organisations" simply reinforces what I'm saying. The USA is out of touch with the rest of the world. You have no idea of the perception of the USA (or the UN for that matter) outside of your walls.
Criticize your employer and be prepared for the consequences, including job termination, even if you are 100% correct. No one should be surprised. Hopefully the woman in the article has another job lined up.
Except the CIA is a government department. She is a citizen of the US and so she is the employer and the CIA works for her. I'm surprised that such a simple civic lesson - that the government works for the citizens, not the other way around - was not in your education.
You guys have slipped from a representative democracy into a fascist autocracy so smoothly that you didn't even notice.
Oh, please; don't play semantics. Being 'civilized' is not an absolute. Instead we should look at it as the degree of civilization. I would say that while the US is not at the edge closest to 'Civilized', there are many (most) more countries closer to 'Barbaric' than the US. Don't indict an entire country's populace because of it's administration that most of the country disagrees with.
The grandparent was talking about perception within the walls versus perception outside the walls. In that respect he is entirely correct. The perception from outside the wall is that the USA is barbaric. That perception didn't begin with the war on Afghanistan (remember; that was the country you dicks bombed before invading Iraq on false pretences). The slow decline of the US has been going on since the 50s.
After WWII the USA were the heroes. The entire world loved you guys. Since then you've done everything possible to make the rest of the world hate you and right now - considering torture, illegal detainment, unjustified wars, ignoring the United Nations, wiretaps on your own citizens, destruction of civil liberties - you're honestly looking not much better than one of those tinpot dictatorships in South Africa.
If you disagree with your current adminstration then do the honorable thing: rise up, overthrow them, and hold them accountable for their crimes. But don't you dare get all holier than thou while allowing the current administration to get away (literally) with murder.
I hate Steam. I just hate everything about it - clumsy interface, annoying ads, whining message boxes when it can't find the intenet. guess what Steam, I know when I'm connected and when I'm not, but thanks.
I think Steam is great. I just click on the game I want, it takes my credit card details, the game appears in my list and is ready to play. Updates are downloaded and installed for me automatically. I hate other games where the updates are necessary but you need a doctorate in patchology to work out which patches are relevant to your platform. I've got boxed games I have never played because they didn't work out of the box and I couldn't be bothered to find patches hidden deep in the bowels of the distributor's website. PC gaming got so frustrating at one point that I gave up on it entirely and went exclusively to consoles (no patching, no stupid installations, It Just Worked). Steam brought me back to PC gaming because it made it all simple again.
And it's not that I couldn't figure it out. I just don't want to. Steam takes all the effort out of it. They've got my vote.
As for FPS games, Half-Life is probably the best game I've ever played but I've never touched Half-Life 2 because I'm not giving Valve the honour of installing their Steam spyware on my PC - I don't care how good the game is.
Half-Life 2 is the best game I've ever played. You're missing out.
Except that with currently available hardware, XEN isn't a VM layer, its a hypervisor. Technology asside, that means that only OS's that have been specificly altered to run on it work, and so far that includes only (some) OSS OSs, unless you have an accademic/research license with Microsoft or work in Provo.
That is not true. You can buy a Core processor (or any processor with Intel-VT support) and run Windows XP under Xen right now.
And text files. It shows text files. But that's it.
Yeah, and that breakout game. And the parachute game. But really, that's it. Music, video, notes, games... that's it.
Oh right, the photos thing. It does photos too. Music, video, notes, games, photos... really, I think that's it.
No wait, I forgot about the address book. Everybody forgets that one! Music, video, notes, games, photos, address book... is that it?
Hey, its got a clock too! It's a world clock as well. Music, video, notes, games, photos, address book, world clock... anything else?
Damn, it's got a calendar too. Music, video, notes, games, photos, address book, world clock, calendar... surely that's it!
I mean, we all agree the iPod is "so simple". The iPod "plays music/videos and that's it" afterall!
Frankly I think Microsoft's product is going to be a dud because it'll be too complicated.
Yeah, stupid Microsoft, they'd do something complicated like put a stopwatch in their player!
PS: I remember 12 months ago, people just like you saying that the iPod would never play video because that would be "too complicated".
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Unfortunately, Rockbox lacks all the elegance and grace which characterizes the Apple iPod interface. It looks and feels like it was designed by an autistic chimpanzee.
Rockbox supports gapless playback.
So you go play with your "elegant graceful interface". I prefer to listen to the music.
Sounds as though you've never had the pleasure of maintaining the DL380 (G3 and G4). I've got ~1,200 of them under my control and damn if they aren't crap; each and every last one of them. Nary a day goes by without losing a few DIMMS, disk controllers, backplanes, PSUs,... the list goes on. Our RedHat installs run fine, so it's not the OS.
Well, yeah, that's because you have 1200 of them. MTBF is about 5 years so you should expect 1-2 failures every day.
I couldn't disagree more.
I think that nowadays the demographic is spread about much farther. Instead of switching from 5-15 year olds to 25-35 year olds, we switched from 5-15 year olds to 5-35 year olds.
"Mr Minter, writing in his regular column for Edge, said: 'They seem absolutely certain that even when they say it's going to be considerably more expensive than existing consoles... nevertheless us eager customers will rush out in droves to buy it because it's, hey, a new PlayStation.'"
Well, no, I'll be buying it to play the games.
What amazes me is that an expensive console is nothing new. The Playstation was almost twice the cost of the next dearest console. The Playstation 2 was also the most expensive console from that generation. I bought both of them. Approximatedly 100 million people bought the damn things. Obviously cost isn't that important an issue.
So what is the important issue? The games, of course. There are games on the PS3 that won't exist on other consoles. I'll be buying the console to play the games. I don't buy it because it's "new". In fact, I'm most likely to wait for the first price drop because there will be too few compelling launch titles.
And what's this about price?
when they say it's going to be considerably more expensive than existing consoles
I don't care! That's not an issue. It might have been an issue back when I was a teenager and had to beg my parents for money, but I have a job now and I can afford to buy things. The cost of a PS3 pales in comparison to the cost of running my car. My "video game habit" is still an order of magnitude cheaper than the booze and cigarette habit that infects 99% of the population.
These "analysts" need to realise that the video game demographic has grown up. The age group is no longer 5-15 years old, begging our parents to buy a Sega Master System for Christmas. The dominant demographic is 25-35 years old with gobs of cash. The price sticker on a PS3 doesn't bother us in the slightest.
"After an incident that occurred on a popular television show's internet stream, the Australian government has once again demonstrated that it simply does not understand the internet by indicating that they intend to regulate streaming video. I wonder what these geniuses plan on doing with porn streamed from Europe?"
The government is just trying to stop the TV stations from exploiting loopholes in the legislation. Capital 10 (one of the Big Five stations in Australia) broadcast some sexually explicit material live through their website. Apparently that's legal because it wasn't broadcast over the television band. The government reckons that's a copout and I agree.
Now bear in mind that Australia has some very relaxed rules for sexual content on TV. The stations are allowed to broadcast sexual intercourse, full frontal nudity, and even fetishes. One of the stations SBS is sometimes called "Sex Before Soccer" because they'd frequently schedule something blue from Europe before the live soccer broadcasts. The stations just have to show that content at certain times and put an appropriate disclaimer at the start of the show. There is censorship but it's very mild (eg, no penetration unless it's educational).
In this case, Capital 10 stepped over the line and was enabling children to view filthy content via the Internet. The dominant audience for Big Brother is the 12-14 year old teen market. Do you think it's appropriate for young teens to see a bunch of dimwitted Big Brother contestants teabagging a female contestant who was being held down against her will? I don't.
I think the government is doing the right thing here. Personally I wish they'd say "we're backdating this new legislation and slapping you with a big fine for being jerks". I'd support any bending of the law necessary to force Big Brother off the airwaves.
"What's your reasoning here? The XB versions of "non-exclusives" usually offer better graphics and sound, XB Live support, and other advantages. When a game's available for multiple consoles, why not grab the best version?"
Those are the Xbox games that I do have; the ones that are released for both platforms so I buy the Xbox version. However most of my games are PS2 exclusives. I'm sorry I didn't make that clearer.
And let the mythical "invisible hand of the free market" take care of consumers? Yeah, right.
I reckon a "free market" could solve all the problems with iTunes. However there are a few steps required before we reach that free market.
First, we have to get rid of copyright, because that creates an artificial monopoly on the reproduction of the music.
Second, we have to get rid of patents, so competitors to Apple can produce clones of iPods and stores that compete directly with iTunes.
Third, we have to provide perfect information to consumers about DRM and how it affects them in the long-term (and they have to understand that information).
Fourth, we have to remove all taxes and royalties because they artificially affect pricing.
So no copyright, no patents, no taxes, no royalties, educated customers... now we have a free market. Sounds awesome. Unfortunately back in reality I'm quite happy with the French for doing something practical. The grandparent needs to understand, like you clearly already understand, that the free market is a myth.
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That happens when the Startup Disk setting is forgotten from the PRAM. Zapping the PRAM doesn't fix it; only reinforces the same problem. The solution is to boot off an Installer disc and fix the Startup Disk from there.
I'm not defending the problem, just pointing out what it is.
Nah, it's always been this bad.
Freedom of speech doesn't protect libel nor slander.
You're nuttier than a health bar.
Good point :-)
You're half right, which is just a nice way of saying you're very wrong.
More massive does help because in a head-on collision the more massive car will have a reduced change in momentum.
However more rigid is always worse than having a crumple zone. A crumple zone absorbs the energy that will otherwise have to be absorbed by the only other crumpling parts left in the car; the passengers.
Do the maths for a 2.5 ton rigid oldsmobile crashing into a 1.5 ton modern sedan in a 60mph head-on... the sedan driver is going to come off much better than the oldsmobile driver (who will probably be dead). The oldsmobile is a death trap because even though the deacceleration is less than that of the sedan it will occur in a very short period of time, resulting in an extremely high impact.
Movies have "been so bad lately" because you've been exposed to higher quality entertainment elsewhere... in the form of the modern mini-series. The mini-series has more time and therefore has a greater opportunity for character and plot development. The result is that you've been spoilt; you'll watch a great series like Lost or Babylon 5 and suddenly a 90 minute movie seems "bad" by comparison. Movies feel rushed because they're trying to cram in too much content: the Pirates of the Caribbean 2 movie is a perfect example.
This isn't my idea, although I do wish I'd thought of it. Clive James recently expressed the idea on National Radio. His example was Saving Private Ryan - admittedly a good movie but it pales into insignificance compared to Band of Brothers. I thought "Clive's gone crazy" but then I reflected and realised that I watch mini-series far more often than I watch movies. I enjoy them more. There is simply more content in a mini-series; a greater number of plot twists and side stories, more interaction between the characters, and each week I'm left with a cliff hanger. It's far more enjoyable than a movie.
I don't think it's a coincidence that several famous movie directors have experimented with high-budget mini-series, and some have already made the transition from movies to television.
The problem with voluntary voting systems - such as in the USA - is that the voluntary voters aren't necessarily informed. However the voluntary voters are almost certainly opinionated.
The end result is the vote is decided by minority groups with political agendas. Mandatory voting forces the politicians to appeal to the largest demographics, rather than the noisiest minorities.
You sound like you get your "eduction" from talkback radio.
For you to label the World Health Organisation, World Food Programme, UNICEF and UNESCO as "useless organisations" simply reinforces what I'm saying. The USA is out of touch with the rest of the world. You have no idea of the perception of the USA (or the UN for that matter) outside of your walls.
Except the CIA is a government department. She is a citizen of the US and so she is the employer and the CIA works for her. I'm surprised that such a simple civic lesson - that the government works for the citizens, not the other way around - was not in your education.
You guys have slipped from a representative democracy into a fascist autocracy so smoothly that you didn't even notice.
The grandparent was talking about perception within the walls versus perception outside the walls. In that respect he is entirely correct. The perception from outside the wall is that the USA is barbaric. That perception didn't begin with the war on Afghanistan (remember; that was the country you dicks bombed before invading Iraq on false pretences). The slow decline of the US has been going on since the 50s.
After WWII the USA were the heroes. The entire world loved you guys. Since then you've done everything possible to make the rest of the world hate you and right now - considering torture, illegal detainment, unjustified wars, ignoring the United Nations, wiretaps on your own citizens, destruction of civil liberties - you're honestly looking not much better than one of those tinpot dictatorships in South Africa.
If you disagree with your current adminstration then do the honorable thing: rise up, overthrow them, and hold them accountable for their crimes. But don't you dare get all holier than thou while allowing the current administration to get away (literally) with murder.
I think Steam is great. I just click on the game I want, it takes my credit card details, the game appears in my list and is ready to play. Updates are downloaded and installed for me automatically. I hate other games where the updates are necessary but you need a doctorate in patchology to work out which patches are relevant to your platform. I've got boxed games I have never played because they didn't work out of the box and I couldn't be bothered to find patches hidden deep in the bowels of the distributor's website. PC gaming got so frustrating at one point that I gave up on it entirely and went exclusively to consoles (no patching, no stupid installations, It Just Worked). Steam brought me back to PC gaming because it made it all simple again.
And it's not that I couldn't figure it out. I just don't want to. Steam takes all the effort out of it. They've got my vote.
Gamers do not represent the average user.
Half-Life 2 is the best game I've ever played. You're missing out.
That is not true. You can buy a Core processor (or any processor with Intel-VT support) and run Windows XP under Xen right now.
There are even HOWTOs doing the usual rounds.
Your information is 3 weeks out of date :-)
Red Hat has been bundling Xen for nearly 18 months now.
Debian has been bundling vserver for nearly 6 months now.
Sounds to me like Microsoft is playing catchup to the Linux distributions (again).
Yeah, music and video, that's it.
And text files. It shows text files. But that's it.
Yeah, and that breakout game. And the parachute game. But really, that's it. Music, video, notes, games... that's it.
Oh right, the photos thing. It does photos too. Music, video, notes, games, photos... really, I think that's it.
No wait, I forgot about the address book. Everybody forgets that one! Music, video, notes, games, photos, address book... is that it?
Hey, its got a clock too! It's a world clock as well. Music, video, notes, games, photos, address book, world clock... anything else?
Damn, it's got a calendar too. Music, video, notes, games, photos, address book, world clock, calendar... surely that's it!
I mean, we all agree the iPod is "so simple". The iPod "plays music/videos and that's it" afterall!
Yeah, stupid Microsoft, they'd do something complicated like put a stopwatch in their player!
PS: I remember 12 months ago, people just like you saying that the iPod would never play video because that would be "too complicated".
Rockbox supports gapless playback.
So you go play with your "elegant graceful interface". I prefer to listen to the music.
Well, yeah, that's because you have 1200 of them. MTBF is about 5 years so you should expect 1-2 failures every day.
Read this.
I hope that helps.
Well, no, I'll be buying it to play the games.
What amazes me is that an expensive console is nothing new. The Playstation was almost twice the cost of the next dearest console. The Playstation 2 was also the most expensive console from that generation. I bought both of them. Approximatedly 100 million people bought the damn things. Obviously cost isn't that important an issue.
So what is the important issue? The games, of course. There are games on the PS3 that won't exist on other consoles. I'll be buying the console to play the games. I don't buy it because it's "new". In fact, I'm most likely to wait for the first price drop because there will be too few compelling launch titles.
And what's this about price?
I don't care! That's not an issue. It might have been an issue back when I was a teenager and had to beg my parents for money, but I have a job now and I can afford to buy things. The cost of a PS3 pales in comparison to the cost of running my car. My "video game habit" is still an order of magnitude cheaper than the booze and cigarette habit that infects 99% of the population.
These "analysts" need to realise that the video game demographic has grown up. The age group is no longer 5-15 years old, begging our parents to buy a Sega Master System for Christmas. The dominant demographic is 25-35 years old with gobs of cash. The price sticker on a PS3 doesn't bother us in the slightest.
Compared to a Core Duo? No comparison. Also no iSight, Frontrow, iLife... forget it, the iMac is better value.
The government is just trying to stop the TV stations from exploiting loopholes in the legislation. Capital 10 (one of the Big Five stations in Australia) broadcast some sexually explicit material live through their website. Apparently that's legal because it wasn't broadcast over the television band. The government reckons that's a copout and I agree.
Now bear in mind that Australia has some very relaxed rules for sexual content on TV. The stations are allowed to broadcast sexual intercourse, full frontal nudity, and even fetishes. One of the stations SBS is sometimes called "Sex Before Soccer" because they'd frequently schedule something blue from Europe before the live soccer broadcasts. The stations just have to show that content at certain times and put an appropriate disclaimer at the start of the show. There is censorship but it's very mild (eg, no penetration unless it's educational).
In this case, Capital 10 stepped over the line and was enabling children to view filthy content via the Internet. The dominant audience for Big Brother is the 12-14 year old teen market. Do you think it's appropriate for young teens to see a bunch of dimwitted Big Brother contestants teabagging a female contestant who was being held down against her will? I don't.
I think the government is doing the right thing here. Personally I wish they'd say "we're backdating this new legislation and slapping you with a big fine for being jerks". I'd support any bending of the law necessary to force Big Brother off the airwaves.
Magnatune is even better because the artists get fair payment for each sale.
"What's your reasoning here? The XB versions of "non-exclusives" usually offer better graphics and sound, XB Live support, and other advantages. When a game's available for multiple consoles, why not grab the best version?" Those are the Xbox games that I do have; the ones that are released for both platforms so I buy the Xbox version. However most of my games are PS2 exclusives. I'm sorry I didn't make that clearer.
I reckon a "free market" could solve all the problems with iTunes. However there are a few steps required before we reach that free market.
First, we have to get rid of copyright, because that creates an artificial monopoly on the reproduction of the music.
Second, we have to get rid of patents, so competitors to Apple can produce clones of iPods and stores that compete directly with iTunes.
Third, we have to provide perfect information to consumers about DRM and how it affects them in the long-term (and they have to understand that information).
Fourth, we have to remove all taxes and royalties because they artificially affect pricing.
So no copyright, no patents, no taxes, no royalties, educated customers... now we have a free market. Sounds awesome. Unfortunately back in reality I'm quite happy with the French for doing something practical. The grandparent needs to understand, like you clearly already understand, that the free market is a myth.