Absolutely none. I'm convinced that there's still some DOS lurking in the NT kernel, of course I can't prove that.
Why would there be? NT is a completely seperate operating system. It was built from the ground up, the only thing related to DOS that it has is an emulated command line.
There is as much DOS in the NT kernal as there is OS/400 in the NT kernal.
Actually, someone claimed the other day in a conversation that 2K and XP still boot a "DOS kernel" before the 32-bit kernel. If any knowledgeable person can avoid being tagged as a troll, I'd appreciate any light shed on the subject.
Yah it is bull, NT IS the Kernel, period!
The only CLI is tacked on top of the rest of the system, this can be shown when you go into the emergency console recovery mode, it is definitely NOT DOS, missing 1/2 the functionality of a true DOS prompt, but it can do some very nifty Windows centric things.
DOS is emulated, it does not exist, it is added on, a text mode thingy is booted into but that is just until the graphics system gets up and running.:)
Unreal 2k3 stutters on a 2GHz? Hell it runs just fine on my p3 800 with a geforce2! Fairly smooth too. Sure I can't run it at insane resolutions with full antialiasing and everything cranked up to the max, but it is perfectly playable.
I'm playing it at 700mhz with my Geforce1SDR. ^_^
640x480 res sure, but hell, better then Half-Life on my Riva128 and 266mhz Pentium 2, 320x240, whoohoo!
the "must upgrade my machine now" game when it came out. ^_^
Don't forget about graphic artists!!! Always needing more power!
Until Painter's response time no longer makes me want to drag out the brushes and paints and do it the 'old fashion way' I am going to need to keep on upgrading my CPU. ^_^
And try farting around in Photoshop with 5-10 megapixel images, eeek!
Not to mention the render time on 4d fractals, those things take forever, I want 30FPS real time exploration of them minimum.:-D (which would require a CPU a few thousand times faster then currently available consumer models, so hah I plan on getting upgrades for quite some time.:-D )
KDE and Gnome are both a little too bloated. They try to pull users away from Windows with even more useless junk than Windows itself has.
Get yourself a decent Window Manager (like IceWM, fluxbox (a little more advanced), qvwm,...), and it will be a lot faster.
Windows has alpha blending, font anti-aliasing, and opaque window dragging (evil of vidoes!) and it runs on slower machines. . ..
With Window Blinds I can have the Win2K interface looking like darn near anything I want, have tons of performance, and have all the eye candy, even on a "lower end" machine.
Well now that depends, if I fix her computer for free..uh, yeah;)
Yet another advantage of being a kind hearted techie;
GOOD FOOD!!!:)
Seriously, you think I look like I am starving or something for the royal arseloads of food that I get thrown at me!!! Not that I am complaining, food is goood, hehehehe.:)
And what have those Slashdot subscribers really seen that makes it worth their money?
What amazing new features have really come to fruition?
It seems to me that the only 'slashdot update' on the subscription program was when they added the ability to take credit cards in addition to paypal. It isnt a very convincing argument for paying for slashdot when they arent offering anything for the payment.
It is the same with non-paying customers really, but maybe they have less of a right to complain. Maybe.
Slashdot has done nothing to improve its journalistic integrity, and the site itself hasn't seen any major technical improvements in a while. My opinion is the only people that *possibly* do their jobs at slashdot these days are the advertising guys and the admins who keep the site up and running.
Ok its a troll, but an irritating one./. has added assloads of new features, friend/foe system is tweaked to hell constantly, the amiagos thing, the Karma system is being experimented with, aww screw it, just read CmdrTaco's journal.
Netscape got screwed because of exculsive contracts that blocked it from being preloaded on most PCs.
Well that, and they, err
started sucking.
Badly.
Even die hard 4.x users on Windows started seeing the light after numerious crashs, the constantly slow rendering times, and the fact that Netscape couldn't go a week without redesigning their homepage.
but the intra-city buses suck hard. Dirty, late, expensive and confusing...not a good mix.
I disagree.
Expensive, well yah, thank tim iman for that one.
Late? Rarely. The times posted are the times that they leave for the stopnot their arrival time AT the stop!
Add five minutes to the given time, no problem.
Dirty? Maybe the few older ones they have yet to replace.
Confusing? It is a root hub system, nearly all buses go to downtown, then you transfer to what ever bus goes out from downtown to the part of the city you want to travel to.
If, say, 75% of men find developed girls aged 14-18 attractive, is it really logical to say 75% of men are crazy? Or perhaps, being attracted to a 14-year old isn't "whacked" (though photographing them nude may be traumatic to them).
No, these aren't real statistics, but I would say that, judging by what you see on porn sites ("barely legal" is HUGELY popular) it is not too far off to say most men have an attraction in some form to young (14->18), yet developed, girls.
I'm not saying make it legal to make of course, just that you aren't a sick pedophile who is going to assault girls if you find an 18 year old attractive (sexually). There isn't even a close correlation.
Children 14 (ie before they have developed sexually) is a whole other bag of hammers.
I chalk a lot of it up as backlash to the "silicon queens" that currently dominate "western societies view of what female sex objects should look like."
Hell now days if they aren't young enough to still have some baby fat on them odds are they have starved every possible inch of natural flesh off. . . .
Usually, when i hear integrated sound or/and video, i run away screaming. (I had to help assemble and later on, help in trying to fix drivers issues on a lot of computers when those cheap integrated mobos appeared long ago, and dont want to hear about it anymore. trauma.)
I am with you there, but after reading enough reviews I was eventually convinced that the motherboard manufacturers finaly learned how to integrate things properly. ^_^
Heck the machine I am on right now has integrated USB2, Firewire, Bluetooth, Sound, and I almost wish I had gotten the integrated LAN option as well, heh.
Many of the newer boards coming out now days that even performance computer users use are darn well expected to come with at least a good deal of items integrated onto the board, with the bare minimum being LAN integration, frees up a PCI slot and all that.:)
The Shuttle boards that are being used in thse micro-ATX cases have integrated everything and they work great for A/V centers.:)
Video is surprisingly undemanding, I have little problems with my 64meg 266mhz machine with my Riva128 card, shared memory is not really all that much of an issue, and built in sound has progressed to the point now days where it no longer sucks.
Heck my motherboard has optical out 5.1 integrated sound, hehe.:)
I dont know about whereve you're from... but here in Ontario (and I'm pretty sure at least the rest of Canada), skilled trade is very organized in that respect.
Mechanics, Technicians, Electricians, Plumbers, etc... are required by law to provide an estimate before any work is done. This estimate provides the consumer with a list of what labour is to be done, approximately how long it will take (in hours), and what parts are required.
Oh fuck man that is sweet, here in the states they charge you extra for that, "estimation fee", hehe. Some places give that to you for "free" but it depends on the shop. ^_^
The genetic molecules really are the blueprints for the enzymes, antibodies, and other protiens that build every facet of the food. And BTW, I don't buy the ecological argument against GMO's but I so think that there is a public safety issue.
Most of the freak-outs I have seen againt geneticaly modified foods have been in the form of "But the genes will get into us!!!!"
*sigh* That argument gets very irritating very quickly.
For example: Some people are alergic to peanuts. The allergy is actually a reaction to certain protiens in the food itself. These protiens are built based on the structure of the DNA (DNA -> RNA -> protiens). Now if you take the gene responsible for this allergy and move it to say, corn because maybe you get better pest resistance, what happens when someone eats a piece of cornbread and dies of the allergic reaction? This is the fundamental public safety issue. If it affects, say one person in 500, that would have a minimal ecological impact, but the public safety issue would be pretty severe. Basically one could no longer controll allergies well by avoiding certain classes of foods.
Any chemical that has major allergies in society is not going to get engineered into food, a corporation would have to not just be Certified Suit Stupid but more like G.W. Bush stupid to do something like that.
Remember the companies are aiming to increase profits on crops, if the crops starting selling for less because of severe concerns about allergies that would defeat the purpose of the initial genetic modification.
Chemicals that foods are engineered to manufacture are highly researched to make sure that they do
gtg
The other argument against GMO's in food is an economic one-- companies like Mon$anto are trying to proprietize what is fundamentally a commodity market-- food. They want to license the food to farmers, particularly in the third world. In this way, they seek to controll the very food supply we all depend on, and that is a very dangious issue too. The battle against GMO's is the same as the battle for open source software.
E.g. genetic manipulated Soja needs to be noted as incridience in european food(by law). Europeans as majority do not buy genetic manipulated food. Feeding animals with genetic manipulated food is not allowed,
as it gets to difficult to prove its absence in the final products (like ham).
I am amazed at how ignorant people are of the basis of genetics. . ..
Genetically engineered food is, err,
*sigh*
food but with just a few molecules changed in the GENETIC STRUCTURE.
This has ZERO effect on the food after it has BEEN DIGESTED.
Genetic structures are inherently weak, unless they are protected by some coating such as certain bacteria or viruses have, they are EASILY dissolved by the high acidity in most mammalian stomachs.
And even if they weren't, plant genes are NOT going to cause your children to take root to the ground. If that was so then REGULAR UNMODIFIED FOOD would effect you the same as GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD.
But hell, if Europeans want to pay more for their food, they can go right ahead and do so.
Suckers.
Now I will admit that a number of genetic food companies are total pricks and I will not buy from them for various reasons (being horrible "corporate citizens" and all) but I am all for genetically modified food in general.
I like getting all those pornographic e-mails of hot asian chicks!
*G*
Seriously though, one of my spam trap e-mail addresses gets tons of crud from Russia and from China. For a span of time I was getting a regular dose of pornographic e-mail from some asian country.
The kicker is, it is not like that is a major bandwidth sucker. Downloading a file consumes bandwidth at a far faster pace, I wonder what they are so freaked out about.
Two monopolies merge, there is still the same amount of competition: i.e. none. AT&T And Comcast dont really compete right now. Joing them does not eliminate competition.
Ensures there never will be any competition though.
Actualy I am just opposed to it all because Comcast sucks just that much more then ATTBI does.
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Why would there be? NT is a completely seperate operating system. It was built from the ground up, the only thing related to DOS that it has is an emulated command line.
There is as much DOS in the NT kernal as there is OS/400 in the NT kernal.
Yah it is bull, NT IS the Kernel, period!
The only CLI is tacked on top of the rest of the system, this can be shown when you go into the emergency console recovery mode, it is definitely NOT DOS, missing 1/2 the functionality of a true DOS prompt, but it can do some very nifty Windows centric things.
DOS is emulated, it does not exist, it is added on, a text mode thingy is booted into but that is just until the graphics system gets up and running.
--->evil
bleeming spell checker. . . .
I'm playing it at 700mhz with my Geforce1SDR. ^_^
640x480 res sure, but hell, better then Half-Life on my Riva128 and 266mhz Pentium 2, 320x240, whoohoo!
the "must upgrade my machine now" game when it came out. ^_^
Don't forget about graphic artists!!! Always needing more power!
:-D (which would require a CPU a few thousand times faster then currently available consumer models, so hah I plan on getting upgrades for quite some time. :-D )
Until Painter's response time no longer makes me want to drag out the brushes and paints and do it the 'old fashion way' I am going to need to keep on upgrading my CPU. ^_^
And try farting around in Photoshop with 5-10 megapixel images, eeek!
Not to mention the render time on 4d fractals, those things take forever, I want 30FPS real time exploration of them minimum.
Get yourself a decent Window Manager (like IceWM, fluxbox (a little more advanced), qvwm,
Windows has alpha blending, font anti-aliasing, and opaque window dragging (evil of vidoes!) and it runs on slower machines. . .
With Window Blinds I can have the Win2K interface looking like darn near anything I want, have tons of performance, and have all the eye candy, even on a "lower end" machine.
*raises hand* I am!
Yet another advantage of being a kind hearted techie;
GOOD FOOD!!!
Seriously, you think I look like I am starving or something for the royal arseloads of food that I get thrown at me!!! Not that I am complaining, food is goood, hehehehe.
Well now that depends, if I fix his computer for free;
uh, yah.
(see, it is called exchange of labor.
Verizon announced a merger today with the Department of Homeland Security.
What amazing new features have really come to fruition?
It seems to me that the only 'slashdot update' on the subscription program was when they added the ability to take credit cards in addition to paypal. It isnt a very convincing argument for paying for slashdot when they arent offering anything for the payment.
It is the same with non-paying customers really, but maybe they have less of a right to complain. Maybe.
Slashdot has done nothing to improve its journalistic integrity, and the site itself hasn't seen any major technical improvements in a while. My opinion is the only people that *possibly* do their jobs at slashdot these days are the advertising guys and the admins who keep the site up and running.
Ok its a troll, but an irritating one.
The smart people learn about the computer and are the ones paid to
Well that, and they, err
started sucking.
Badly.
Even die hard 4.x users on Windows started seeing the light after numerious crashs, the constantly slow rendering times, and the fact that Netscape couldn't go a week without redesigning their homepage.
I disagree.
Expensive, well yah, thank tim iman for that one.
Late? Rarely. The times posted are the times that they leave for the stop not their arrival time AT the stop!
Add five minutes to the given time, no problem.
Dirty? Maybe the few older ones they have yet to replace.
Confusing? It is a root hub system, nearly all buses go to downtown, then you transfer to what ever bus goes out from downtown to the part of the city you want to travel to.
Passed by 800 votes, heh.
Huge tax increase to pay for it, 1.75 billion for FOURTEEN MILES OF FRIGGIN TRACK
Whoopitidy do da.
No, these aren't real statistics, but I would say that, judging by what you see on porn sites ("barely legal" is HUGELY popular) it is not too far off to say most men have an attraction in some form to young (14->18), yet developed, girls.
I'm not saying make it legal to make of course, just that you aren't a sick pedophile who is going to assault girls if you find an 18 year old attractive (sexually). There isn't even a close correlation.
Children 14 (ie before they have developed sexually) is a whole other bag of hammers.
I chalk a lot of it up as backlash to the "silicon queens" that currently dominate "western societies view of what female sex objects should look like."
Hell now days if they aren't young enough to still have some baby fat on them odds are they have starved every possible inch of natural flesh off. . . .
I am with you there, but after reading enough reviews I was eventually convinced that the motherboard manufacturers finaly learned how to integrate things properly. ^_^
Heck the machine I am on right now has integrated USB2, Firewire, Bluetooth, Sound, and I almost wish I had gotten the integrated LAN option as well, heh.
Many of the newer boards coming out now days that even performance computer users use are darn well expected to come with at least a good deal of items integrated onto the board, with the bare minimum being LAN integration, frees up a PCI slot and all that.
The Shuttle boards that are being used in thse micro-ATX cases have integrated everything and they work great for A/V centers.
Video is surprisingly undemanding, I have little problems with my 64meg 266mhz machine with my Riva128 card, shared memory is not really all that much of an issue, and built in sound has progressed to the point now days where it no longer sucks.
Heck my motherboard has optical out 5.1 integrated sound, hehe.
Don't laugh, there is an actual school of thought that thinks that. . .
Myself, I am still at least a fair bit teed that my parents did not force me to learn to play some sort of instrument from an early age. . . . grrr.
Mechanics, Technicians, Electricians, Plumbers, etc... are required by law to provide an estimate before any work is done. This estimate provides the consumer with a list of what labour is to be done, approximately how long it will take (in hours), and what parts are required.
Oh fuck man that is sweet, here in the states they charge you extra for that, "estimation fee", hehe. Some places give that to you for "free" but it depends on the shop. ^_^
Being France's bitch has already caused to many problems. . . .
...
They have commies as elected officals, do we really have to keep on supporting them?
The genetic molecules really are the blueprints for the enzymes, antibodies, and other protiens that build every facet of the food. And BTW, I don't buy the ecological argument against GMO's but I so think that there is a public safety issue.
Most of the freak-outs I have seen againt geneticaly modified foods have been in the form of "But the genes will get into us!!!!"
*sigh* That argument gets very irritating very quickly.
For example: Some people are alergic to peanuts. The allergy is actually a reaction to certain protiens in the food itself. These protiens are built based on the structure of the DNA (DNA -> RNA -> protiens). Now if you take the gene responsible for this allergy and move it to say, corn because maybe you get better pest resistance, what happens when someone eats a piece of cornbread and dies of the allergic reaction? This is the fundamental public safety issue. If it affects, say one person in 500, that would have a minimal ecological impact, but the public safety issue would be pretty severe. Basically one could no longer controll allergies well by avoiding certain classes of foods.
Any chemical that has major allergies in society is not going to get engineered into food, a corporation would have to not just be Certified Suit Stupid but more like G.W. Bush stupid to do something like that.
Remember the companies are aiming to increase profits on crops, if the crops starting selling for less because of severe concerns about allergies that would defeat the purpose of the initial genetic modification.
Chemicals that foods are engineered to manufacture are highly researched to make sure that they do
gtg
The other argument against GMO's in food is an economic one-- companies like Mon$anto are trying to proprietize what is fundamentally a commodity market-- food. They want to license the food to farmers, particularly in the third world. In this way, they seek to controll the very food supply we all depend on, and that is a very dangious issue too. The battle against GMO's is the same as the battle for open source software.
I am amazed at how ignorant people are of the basis of genetics. . .
Genetically engineered food is, err,
*sigh*
food but with just a few molecules changed in the GENETIC STRUCTURE.
This has ZERO effect on the food after it has BEEN DIGESTED.
Genetic structures are inherently weak, unless they are protected by some coating such as certain bacteria or viruses have, they are EASILY dissolved by the high acidity in most mammalian stomachs.
And even if they weren't, plant genes are NOT going to cause your children to take root to the ground. If that was so then REGULAR UNMODIFIED FOOD would effect you the same as GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD.
But hell, if Europeans want to pay more for their food, they can go right ahead and do so.
Suckers.
Now I will admit that a number of genetic food companies are total pricks and I will not buy from them for various reasons (being horrible "corporate citizens" and all) but I am all for genetically modified food in general.
[/end europo rant]
I like getting all those pornographic e-mails of hot asian chicks!
*G*
Seriously though, one of my spam trap e-mail addresses gets tons of crud from Russia and from China. For a span of time I was getting a regular dose of pornographic e-mail from some asian country.
The kicker is, it is not like that is a major bandwidth sucker. Downloading a file consumes bandwidth at a far faster pace, I wonder what they are so freaked out about.
Ensures there never will be any competition though.
Actualy I am just opposed to it all because Comcast sucks just that much more then ATTBI does.