I completely agree. I will admit that I like win2k (gasp!), as for me it has always been extremely stable. Just like any other windows version it can succumb to the cruft mentioned in the article, but it does not have to be that way. Everything you talked about (manually cleaning the registry, deleting files/dirs left behind by lazy uninstall progs) goes a long way in keeping your system running. I participate in this kind of housecleaning and it definitely pays off. Every icon in the systray and task that is running is one that I ask for. My box is virtually never off and has gone many months without a reboot, and I don't think I have ever had a bsod with it in the year and half I've had it. All of the problems that other people talk about with windows versions rarely ever occur to me.
And it's all thanks to this gestapo-like control over your own computer. It is just like owning a car. Sure you could driver around on flat tires with worn belts and 6000 mile-old oil, with puke stains in the interior and an inch of bird crap on the windshield, but you shouldn't expect it to fix and clean itself or run and be anywhere near as (seemingly) perfect as the day you bought it.
It takes effort as the parent poster said, and that's all there it to it.
This has got to be the most insane thing I have ever heard of. A hacker, and I bet that includes someone who would launch a DoS attack too, does endanger human life the simple way a murderer does. So how can it be that they would life imprisonment whereas a killer would get maybe 20 years. This is ridiculous. It is a gross construement of moral values on the House's part. But a I guess we now truly know that they value the money being put into their wallets by the computer industry more than their own principles for sure now.
The trend I am talking about is the recent trend of organizations who supply services and/or content are no longer thinking about what the recipients of that service want? The MPAA and RIAA are continuously aiming for more restrictive controls, legislation, and whatnot. This just does not make sense to me. How can it be possible that an organization whose sole purpose is to make money by supplying consumers with what they want no longer be paying attention to what the consumers want? It baffles me, that they are now attempting to lock-in the recipient of their services, rather than adapt and give the recipient what they want.
Why is it that organizations so huge can become so blatantly selfish? Without consumers, they cannot make money -- their ultimate goal. Yes this is also selfish, but not in the same sense that they are no longer paying attention to what is wanted of them. They have been forced with a situation where consumers wants have changed, and they can no longer continue to make money doing what they currently do. They have to options, keep giving the consumers what they are getting now -- but what they no longer want. Or, give them what they want.
The choice they chose is obvious.
It is just disturbing how organizations like this have lost so much respect for the buying public.
This is definitely a sign of why games seem to be losing their appeal lately.
Though Microsoft hoped the introduction of a hard disk and other features would inspire developers to write more exciting games than for the PlayStation 2
Why do games have to be exciting? Excitation is not the only valuable quality of a video game! A game needs to be unique and wonderful and truly inspiring! Nobody needs excitement 24/7, nor does every video game have to be about excitement. Continuing to produce games with this mentality will only result in the withering of the game industry into mind-numbing all-fire and bullets and explosions-all-the-time games that nobody wants to play. A constant flow of over-the-top games will only reduce gamers' desire for such, as even the World's Greatest Rollercoaster can get boring after a while.
The single greatest reason the Xbox and it's successors will fail.
I think the real secret about this "dual head" laptop is that is it easier to manufacture than a laptor with a 1600x1200 screen. It's just two 1024x768's on end. Really, who would want to use this? The page orientation I think would be an immediate turn-off, and even looking at the pictures imaginging seeing something there was already making me uncomfortable with it.
And so it seems like this was created just to get rid of some old or cheap inventory.
Ahead of it's time? I remember when I first heard about the Jaguar I knew it was going to die. It was coming in at the time that the Saturn and PSX were reigning ( or at least beginning to reign), ie, it was dead before it came out. I remember when Atari was reduced to/ desperate enough to say the jaguar constituted a 64-bit machine. It had two 32 bit processors, and they pawned that off as meaning it was 64 bit. Their slogan was even "Do the math.". I did, and 32 bits + 32 bits equals 32 freaking bits!. Ahead of it's time, yes. 32 bits, no cdrom drive, poor if any 3D hardware support, and joypads that looked more like overly complex numpads. I daresay that it was behind the times, and died accordingly.
If you have ever actually been involved with an engineering project, or with real design, you would simply not be bashing C. Without C, there would be absolutely zero technology in place. Just think, the computer you posted your message was running a C based kernel, and C based driver, and even the firmware in your monitor and keyboard, AND mouse, if not written in assembly was written in C. There is just no better language for writing anything complicated than C. C# and Java are by no means portable or even viable in any sort of embedded or critical application. A kernel based on, good Lord, C# or Java? That is unquestionable, unless you are prepared to have an extrememly large footprint and processing requirements (those VM's are bitches). Try to imagine your cell phone running a java based operating system. Or simply trying to even control hardware through C#. It won't work, will it? Somewhere there must be C.
And so before bashing the language which simply is responsible for virtually all of the technology we have, realize that using a different language will not make software better. A good design will be good design, regardless of the language. A bad design may result in an average program, but will more than likely result in an extrememly bad program. Java, I don't know why you considered C++ on par with it,simply protects the programmer from him/herself. If the programmer/designer cannot be relied on to provide a good design, then they should not be employed.
Are you serious? *looks around* Is he serious?? You expect me to believe that I can go out and buy cd's of the music I am looking for? FUCKING-SHIT I would if I could. Audio galaxy was simply the only way to find obscure and new music that will NEVER be sold on cd's, or available in my (seemingly)hillbillie home state of kentucky. It is bullshit to think that downloading that kind of music is hurting the copyright owner, but there is simply no way that I could help that copyright owner if I wanted to.
I agree whole-heartedly with this fine poster! Audiogalaxy was the best way to get new techno/trance/etc tracks that I have ever found. I love this type of music but lord knows no person is able to attend every dance club/rave to hear and listen and find out about good djs. As such, this decision is a serious blow in my opinion, to anybody wanting to find about new and interesting music, especially in the techno/trance genre.
I totally agree. To think that somehow math that has been around for centuries will all of the sudden be seen with more insight now that kids can have the graphs and functions plotted for them quicker is baffling. Please, if you don't understand it well enough to draw it on your own, you still won't understand it when it's being drawn for you.
Wow,I really wish that the ti-83 had had this much storage when I was in high school going through the calculator phase. Way too many times did I have to delete a very cool game or OS in order to still be able to do anything with it. And another thing, you could practically program cheats for every class of every year of your schooling in there! That just makes it too easy.
On the front page of the article they say "The Texas-based company may propably not be too happy about these early benchmark results. "
.....what? The benchmarks show that it totally spanks everything else that is within range of it. I fail to understand how these could possibly be unsatisfying results for AMD.
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I completely agree. I will admit that I like win2k (gasp!), as for me it has always been extremely stable. Just like any other windows version it can succumb to the cruft mentioned in the article, but it does not have to be that way. Everything you talked about (manually cleaning the registry, deleting files/dirs left behind by lazy uninstall progs) goes a long way in keeping your system running. I participate in this kind of housecleaning and it definitely pays off. Every icon in the systray and task that is running is one that I ask for. My box is virtually never off and has gone many months without a reboot, and I don't think I have ever had a bsod with it in the year and half I've had it. All of the problems that other people talk about with windows versions rarely ever occur to me.
And it's all thanks to this gestapo-like control over your own computer. It is just like owning a car. Sure you could driver around on flat tires with worn belts and 6000 mile-old oil, with puke stains in the interior and an inch of bird crap on the windshield, but you shouldn't expect it to fix and clean itself or run and be anywhere near as (seemingly) perfect as the day you bought it.
It takes effort as the parent poster said, and that's all there it to it.
This has got to be the most insane thing I have ever heard of. A hacker, and I bet that includes someone who would launch a DoS attack too, does endanger human life the simple way a murderer does. So how can it be that they would life imprisonment whereas a killer would get maybe 20 years.
This is ridiculous. It is a gross construement of moral values on the House's part. But a I guess we now truly know that they value the money being put into their wallets by the computer industry more than their own principles for sure now.
The trend I am talking about is the recent trend of organizations who supply services and/or content are no longer thinking about what the recipients of that service want? The MPAA and RIAA are continuously aiming for more restrictive controls, legislation, and whatnot. This just does not make sense to me. How can it be possible that an organization whose sole purpose is to make money by supplying consumers with what they want no longer be paying attention to what the consumers want? It baffles me, that they are now attempting to lock-in the recipient of their services, rather than adapt and give the recipient what they want.
Why is it that organizations so huge can become so blatantly selfish? Without consumers, they cannot make money -- their ultimate goal. Yes this is also selfish, but not in the same sense that they are no longer paying attention to what is wanted of them. They have been forced with a situation where consumers wants have changed, and they can no longer continue to make money doing what they currently do. They have to options, keep giving the consumers what they are getting now -- but what they no longer want. Or, give them what they want.
The choice they chose is obvious.
It is just disturbing how organizations like this have lost so much respect for the buying public.
This is definitely a sign of why games seem to be losing their appeal lately.
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Though Microsoft hoped the introduction of a hard disk and other features would inspire developers to write more exciting games than for the PlayStation 2
Why do games have to be exciting? Excitation is not the only valuable quality of a video game! A game needs to be unique and wonderful and truly inspiring! Nobody needs excitement 24/7, nor does every video game have to be about excitement. Continuing to produce games with this mentality will only result in the withering of the game industry into mind-numbing all-fire and bullets and explosions-all-the-time games that nobody wants to play. A constant flow of over-the-top games will only reduce gamers' desire for such, as even the World's Greatest Rollercoaster can get boring after a while.
The single greatest reason the Xbox and it's successors will fail.
geez.
(whew - thanks for the rant.
I think the real secret about this "dual head" laptop is that is it easier to manufacture than a laptor with a 1600x1200 screen. It's just two 1024x768's on end. Really, who would want to use this? The page orientation I think would be an immediate turn-off, and even looking at the pictures imaginging seeing something there was already making me uncomfortable with it.
And so it seems like this was created just to get rid of some old or cheap inventory.
Ahead of it's time? I remember when I first heard about the Jaguar I knew it was going to die. It was coming in at the time that the Saturn and PSX were reigning ( or at least beginning to reign), ie, it was dead before it came out. I remember when Atari was reduced to/ desperate enough to say the jaguar constituted a 64-bit machine. It had two 32 bit processors, and they pawned that off as meaning it was 64 bit. Their slogan was even "Do the math.". I did, and 32 bits + 32 bits equals 32 freaking bits!. Ahead of it's time, yes. 32 bits, no cdrom drive, poor if any 3D hardware support, and joypads that looked more like overly complex numpads. I daresay that it was behind the times, and died accordingly.
If you have ever actually been involved with an engineering project, or with real design, you would simply not be bashing C. Without C, there would be absolutely zero technology in place. Just think, the computer you posted your message was running a C based kernel, and C based driver, and even the firmware in your monitor and keyboard, AND mouse, if not written in assembly was written in C. There is just no better language for writing anything complicated than C. C# and Java are by no means portable or even viable in any sort of embedded or critical application. A kernel based on, good Lord, C# or Java? That is unquestionable, unless you are prepared to have an extrememly large footprint and processing requirements (those VM's are bitches). Try to imagine your cell phone running a java based operating system. Or simply trying to even control hardware through C#. It won't work, will it? Somewhere there must be C.
And so before bashing the language which simply is responsible for virtually all of the technology we have, realize that using a different language will not make software better. A good design will be good design, regardless of the language. A bad design may result in an average program, but will more than likely result in an extrememly bad program. Java, I don't know why you considered C++ on par with it,simply protects the programmer from him/herself. If the programmer/designer cannot be relied on to provide a good design, then they should not be employed.
Are you serious? *looks around* Is he serious??
You expect me to believe that I can go out and buy cd's of the music I am looking for? FUCKING-SHIT I would if I could. Audio galaxy was simply the only way to find obscure and new music that will NEVER be sold on cd's, or available in my (seemingly)hillbillie home state of kentucky. It is bullshit to think that downloading that kind of music is hurting the copyright owner, but there is simply no way that I could help that copyright owner if I wanted to.
I agree whole-heartedly with this fine poster! Audiogalaxy was the best way to get new techno/trance/etc tracks that I have ever found. I love this type of music but lord knows no person is able to attend every dance club/rave to hear and listen and find out about good djs. As such, this decision is a serious blow in my opinion, to anybody wanting to find about new and interesting music, especially in the techno/trance genre.
I totally agree. To think that somehow math that has been around for centuries will all of the sudden be seen with more insight now that kids can have the graphs and functions plotted for them quicker is baffling. Please, if you don't understand it well enough to draw it on your own, you still won't understand it when it's being drawn for you.
Wow,I really wish that the ti-83 had had this much storage when I was in high school going through the calculator phase. Way too many times did I have to delete a very cool game or OS in order to still be able to do anything with it.
And another thing, you could practically program cheats for every class of every year of your schooling in there! That just makes it too easy.
On the front page of the article they say "The Texas-based company may propably not be too happy about these early benchmark results. "
.....what? The benchmarks show that it totally spanks everything else that is within range of it. I fail to understand how these could possibly be unsatisfying results for AMD.