Well, as anything in the MS world - it's "is it part of the OS or not":)
DirectX is something extra that goes on top of the OS. It's not that they made XP incompatiable with apps for Win95, which is more similar to the OSX-OS9 thing - sorta - but it's they app that is no longer compatiable with the OS.
The question ultimatly comes down to: Is there an actual technical reason that DirectX can not run on Win95. I'm guessing probably so, but who knows.
Okay...why can't I run iptables on the 2.0 kernel?
It's a conspiracy that I have to upgrade to 2.4 to get this functionality. In order to be productive I can't use Kernel 2.0 anymore.
Damn hardware companies are screwing me too cause I can't get the AGP Radeon to run in my VLB system.
So, for years people complain the problem with Windows is all the legacy code in it, and MS should just let go. Now, they have done that and are not making things backwards-compat to 95, which has some API diffs between it and 98, and people are complaining.
Things move forward. At some point you have to say enough. Looks like that's what MS did with DirectX.
Also, why can't she buy 98 or ME? I'm assuming if she has 95, that she's had it for a while and the "five years down the road" is now. If she just bought the computer you should have been a better friend and told her not to buy one with 95.
As for giving her Linux, is that gonna help her?
If she can't install the latest DirectX on her 95 box (and there must be a reason she is trying to) then how is she gonna install it on her Linux box? And now Junior won't be able to become an elite fragmaster in Quake VII and won't get that scholarship for his Bacheleor of Fragology.
Laugh - but in the late 80's there was a school where every prof and student had to have a mac. In the article about this, one of the professors they interviewed was talking about how useless he thought it was, and they had a picture of him with his never-opened computer being used as a stand for a lamp.
I forget what the latest estimate is, but Andromeda (M31) is supposed to pay us a visit sometime before 5 billion years is out.
Move along...nothing to see here.
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy defines space as big...really big....really really big. You thought it was a long walk down to the corner store, well that's nothing compared to the vastness of space.
The thing that blows my mind about how big space is would be what you mentioned - two galaxies "colliding". There is so much space between the stars that when galaxies collide, they just pass through each other, nothing colliding.
Of course, gravity is a bitch, and galaxies that interact kinda revolve around each other, passing through each other multiple times, till they merge.
Is there really anyplace the provides good customer service anymore?
Wait on the phone for 1 hour to be transfered and then disconnected. A myriad of reasons why they can't accept a return on a particular item.
Also, it seems as more and more things are basically computers with a different front end, problems are taking longer to creep up. By the time you may experience a problem, you are beyond the return date and you get to go through support hell.
I had an APEX DVD 600a for a month. At the end of the month, I got Stargate and got the infamous branching/looping problem. Up till that DVD it had been working fine. The there was basically something that the software couldn't handle properly. I was just able to return it, but if it had been a week later, I would have been screwed.
Well, you get some no name actors to play the dwarves, which cuts down on the cost. You get Ian Holm and Ian McKellan to play Bilbo and Gandalf. Of the 13 dwarves, you only give major parts to a few of them.
The interaction with all the CGI could add a little bit, but as the article was talking about having to get someone else to do the scripting, I was taking it as more difficult.
I love your review of FotR after the Shire. Personally, I think the movie was a front for the New Zealand Board of Tourism!
being a more difficult adaption with its large number of characters and shifting plotline
Okay...it is a pretty simple story. Wizard comes with dwarves to hire Buglar Baggins to go recover treasure from a Dragon.
Along the way they have some adventures:
- meet some trolls and find treasure
- meet some elves
- meet some goblins, lose their ponies, get lost
- get saved from said goblins
- Bilbo finds some treasure of his own that makes him invisible
- regroup, meet some more goblins, get saved by Eagles
- go into a scary forest, meet some more monsters, kill monsters, meet more elves
- get captured and escape
- meet people of Dale
- see dragon, annoy dragon, kill dragon
- have big war.
Good lord. If this doesn't sound like an easy Hollywood plot, I don't know what does. 90% of the time, all the main characters stay together (the dwarves and Bilbo) with Gandalf coming and going when needed.
Plenty of special effects and action sequences without all the history of LotR.
Remember, this was a story that JRRT told his kids. With the exception of having "The Greatest Adventure" playing over and over, the Rankin/Bass version did a decent enough job of this already.
If PJ can do a Balrog and tons of Orcs streaming out of Mordor, then Smaug and the Battle of Five Armies should be cake!
Easy...
Gimili: I can not run all the way to Isengard.
Aragorn: Okay...lets have some of that find lembas that Galadriel gave us before we left Lorien.
or
Hey Merry - those Orcs got you down...well I got my hands free and I still have some of the lembas Galadriel gave me.
My prefered method would have been showing the gifts and cutting the cave troll sequence, or one of the 4000 flash backs to Isildur cutting the ring off.
Why do you want monitors with built-in USB hubs? I don't find them that useful, especially nowadays most pre-built systems now have USB connectors in front of the system case.
My monitor is right in front of me, as is my keyboard. My case is about 5 feet away behind me. Too many USB devices don't come with long enough cables. By having in on the monitor or keyboard, I don't have wires stretched to their limit. A USB hub would work as well, but this means one less device hanging around in the way.
I don't know how many of you are aware of the beliefs in the Bible about the sign of the beast, whether or not you believe them it is important that you at least respect them.
Nothing personal, but this seems to be a contradiction. I don't have to believe what you believe, but I do have to pay heed to it?
What if my beliefs said that one should be marked on the hand or forehead to identify you as a servant of the greater one? While you don't have to believe this, you should respect it and give it some thought right?
Just playing devils (no pun intended) advocate here - the movie "Mark Of The Beast" left quite an impression on me as a kid.
Must be a local thing. My charter install consisted of the guy setting up my e-mail addresses in Outlook and a dial-in backup. Not because I needed him to, but because that is what he was supposed to do on installs, and I didn't want to be a pain in the ass to some guy just trying to do his job.
Discussed firewalls with him while he was doing this, and he told me you're not allowed to put one on, but the Linksys ones work great:)
I agree...and that is why Sharon was such a good thing for him when he released Blizzard. I'm not surprised he's supporting this, I'm just surprised he's out and about.:) He always seems to walk like he's about to pass out or something.
No you don't. You find one band that is successful and then you create or find about 200 clones of that band.
I wonder how much $$$ was lost in the 80s on the one-hit wonder MTV bands, whose first album was barely listenable sans one hit, and second album was pure tripe.
Those are some pretty serious names. Weezer, Agularia, Offspring - those are some current bands as well, and not exactly nobodies either.
I was surprised to see some big names...I was expecting like Nickelback, Left Front Tire, and a ton of stuff noone has heard of.
I was surprised to see Ozzy there. I wonder if he knows what is going on:) Poor guy...every time I see them he just looks more out of it.
Stevie Nicks? Trying to get some publicity?
As for the Britney Spears comment, I suppose she can always use her body to make it without the RIAA. At least for a quick million or two from Playboy.
I think it doesn't make any difference whether it is open source or closed source, it's a matter of identifying them once the product is released.
So...who cares if there are problems. We'll find them eventually - as soon as someone exploits them and we hear about it. I wonder if they release their code like that for QA as well. It's a matter of identifying bugs once the product is released.
I understand that you problems happen, but this is kinda like shoving things under the carpet and hoping no-one looks - or to use his analogies - letting the burgler in the front door of the apartment complex and hope that all the doors are locked, but ask him on the way out where he got the loot from.
True reason MS won't release the source code for a security audit:
~$ df
/home 200M free
~$ cd windows/source
~/windows/source$ find . -name "*.c*" -exec grep -l gets {} \; > ~/
volume/home: disk full
:)
My fave was a series between my room and the room next door. Just a bunch of small things here and there...nothing major like the MIT stuff
There was the usual buckets of water, soda cans stacked in front of a closed door so opening causes an inrush, placing the beds outside (fully made).
The two funniest were:
Removed the door next door and put up a sign saying "Damn Termites". Friend walked in, tearing down the sign saying "okay...what did you do?"
Made a small hole from our room to theirs, and ran a wire to his speakers, so when he had his girlfriend over later and had nice soft Enya playing, we replaced it with Slayer.
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Well, as anything in the MS world - it's "is it part of the OS or not" :)
DirectX is something extra that goes on top of the OS. It's not that they made XP incompatiable with apps for Win95, which is more similar to the OSX-OS9 thing - sorta - but it's they app that is no longer compatiable with the OS.
The question ultimatly comes down to: Is there an actual technical reason that DirectX can not run on Win95. I'm guessing probably so, but who knows.
Okay...why can't I run iptables on the 2.0 kernel?
It's a conspiracy that I have to upgrade to 2.4 to get this functionality. In order to be productive I can't use Kernel 2.0 anymore.
Damn hardware companies are screwing me too cause I can't get the AGP Radeon to run in my VLB system.
So, for years people complain the problem with Windows is all the legacy code in it, and MS should just let go. Now, they have done that and are not making things backwards-compat to 95, which has some API diffs between it and 98, and people are complaining.
Things move forward. At some point you have to say enough. Looks like that's what MS did with DirectX.
Also, why can't she buy 98 or ME? I'm assuming if she has 95, that she's had it for a while and the "five years down the road" is now. If she just bought the computer you should have been a better friend and told her not to buy one with 95.
As for giving her Linux, is that gonna help her?
If she can't install the latest DirectX on her 95 box (and there must be a reason she is trying to) then how is she gonna install it on her Linux box? And now Junior won't be able to become an elite fragmaster in Quake VII and won't get that scholarship for his Bacheleor of Fragology.
Laugh - but in the late 80's there was a school where every prof and student had to have a mac. In the article about this, one of the professors they interviewed was talking about how useless he thought it was, and they had a picture of him with his never-opened computer being used as a stand for a lamp.
Nope...not an Audigy either - there is no firewire on this thing either, which is why I guess I'll stick with getting an AudigyPlatEX
Excellant...it has what I've been looking for:
1 7
:)
1/4-inch Haedphone output jack w/ volume control from http://us.hercules.com/products/techspec.php3?id=
Do you know how hard it is to find a Haedphone jack nowadays
Yuppp....wasn't that the whole theory behind Buckaroo Banzzi? (Well, not so much the body being empty space, but matter in general.)
I forget what the latest estimate is, but Andromeda (M31) is supposed to pay us a visit sometime before 5 billion years is out.
Move along...nothing to see here.
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy defines space as big...really big....really really big. You thought it was a long walk down to the corner store, well that's nothing compared to the vastness of space.
The thing that blows my mind about how big space is would be what you mentioned - two galaxies "colliding". There is so much space between the stars that when galaxies collide, they just pass through each other, nothing colliding.
Of course, gravity is a bitch, and galaxies that interact kinda revolve around each other, passing through each other multiple times, till they merge.
Ramble for the day.
Is there really anyplace the provides good customer service anymore?
Wait on the phone for 1 hour to be transfered and then disconnected. A myriad of reasons why they can't accept a return on a particular item.
Also, it seems as more and more things are basically computers with a different front end, problems are taking longer to creep up. By the time you may experience a problem, you are beyond the return date and you get to go through support hell.
I had an APEX DVD 600a for a month. At the end of the month, I got Stargate and got the infamous branching/looping problem. Up till that DVD it had been working fine. The there was basically something that the software couldn't handle properly. I was just able to return it, but if it had been a week later, I would have been screwed.
Oh well...that's my bitch...off to bed.
Well, you get some no name actors to play the dwarves, which cuts down on the cost. You get Ian Holm and Ian McKellan to play Bilbo and Gandalf. Of the 13 dwarves, you only give major parts to a few of them.
The interaction with all the CGI could add a little bit, but as the article was talking about having to get someone else to do the scripting, I was taking it as more difficult.
I love your review of FotR after the Shire. Personally, I think the movie was a front for the New Zealand Board of Tourism!
being a more difficult adaption with its large number of characters and shifting plotline
Okay...it is a pretty simple story. Wizard comes with dwarves to hire Buglar Baggins to go recover treasure from a Dragon.
Along the way they have some adventures:
- meet some trolls and find treasure
- meet some elves
- meet some goblins, lose their ponies, get lost
- get saved from said goblins
- Bilbo finds some treasure of his own that makes him invisible
- regroup, meet some more goblins, get saved by Eagles
- go into a scary forest, meet some more monsters, kill monsters, meet more elves
- get captured and escape
- meet people of Dale
- see dragon, annoy dragon, kill dragon
- have big war.
Good lord. If this doesn't sound like an easy Hollywood plot, I don't know what does. 90% of the time, all the main characters stay together (the dwarves and Bilbo) with Gandalf coming and going when needed.
Plenty of special effects and action sequences without all the history of LotR.
Remember, this was a story that JRRT told his kids. With the exception of having "The Greatest Adventure" playing over and over, the Rankin/Bass version did a decent enough job of this already.
If PJ can do a Balrog and tons of Orcs streaming out of Mordor, then Smaug and the Battle of Five Armies should be cake!
Easy...
Gimili: I can not run all the way to Isengard.
Aragorn: Okay...lets have some of that find lembas that Galadriel gave us before we left Lorien.
or
Hey Merry - those Orcs got you down...well I got my hands free and I still have some of the lembas Galadriel gave me.
My prefered method would have been showing the gifts and cutting the cave troll sequence, or one of the 4000 flash backs to Isildur cutting the ring off.
C'mon...it was used in that disney movie Tron back in the 80's :)
Why do you want monitors with built-in USB hubs? I don't find them that useful, especially nowadays most pre-built systems now have USB connectors in front of the system case.
My monitor is right in front of me, as is my keyboard. My case is about 5 feet away behind me. Too many USB devices don't come with long enough cables. By having in on the monitor or keyboard, I don't have wires stretched to their limit. A USB hub would work as well, but this means one less device hanging around in the way.
What spyware? Never seen any. But I'll agree on the extra IP's/maxing bandwidth issue.
I don't know how many of you are aware of the beliefs in the Bible about the sign of the beast, whether or not you believe them it is important that you at least respect them.
Nothing personal, but this seems to be a contradiction. I don't have to believe what you believe, but I do have to pay heed to it?
What if my beliefs said that one should be marked on the hand or forehead to identify you as a servant of the greater one? While you don't have to believe this, you should respect it and give it some thought right?
Just playing devils (no pun intended) advocate here - the movie "Mark Of The Beast" left quite an impression on me as a kid.
Must be a local thing. My charter install consisted of the guy setting up my e-mail addresses in Outlook and a dial-in backup. Not because I needed him to, but because that is what he was supposed to do on installs, and I didn't want to be a pain in the ass to some guy just trying to do his job.
:)
Discussed firewalls with him while he was doing this, and he told me you're not allowed to put one on, but the Linksys ones work great
I agree...and that is why Sharon was such a good thing for him when he released Blizzard. I'm not surprised he's supporting this, I'm just surprised he's out and about. :) He always seems to walk like he's about to pass out or something.
No you don't. You find one band that is successful and then you create or find about 200 clones of that band.
I wonder how much $$$ was lost in the 80s on the one-hit wonder MTV bands, whose first album was barely listenable sans one hit, and second album was pure tripe.
Look at it this way
:) Poor guy...every time I see them he just looks more out of it.
Elton John, Billy Joel, The Eagles
Those are some pretty serious names. Weezer, Agularia, Offspring - those are some current bands as well, and not exactly nobodies either.
I was surprised to see some big names...I was expecting like Nickelback, Left Front Tire, and a ton of stuff noone has heard of.
I was surprised to see Ozzy there. I wonder if he knows what is going on
Stevie Nicks? Trying to get some publicity?
As for the Britney Spears comment, I suppose she can always use her body to make it without the RIAA. At least for a quick million or two from Playboy.
Oops...that should be
~/windows/source$ find . -name "*.c*" -exec grep -l gets {} \; > ~/msholes
I think it doesn't make any difference whether it is open source or closed source, it's a matter of identifying them once the product is released.
/home: disk full
So...who cares if there are problems. We'll find them eventually - as soon as someone exploits them and we hear about it. I wonder if they release their code like that for QA as well. It's a matter of identifying bugs once the product is released.
I understand that you problems happen, but this is kinda like shoving things under the carpet and hoping no-one looks - or to use his analogies - letting the burgler in the front door of the apartment complex and hope that all the doors are locked, but ask him on the way out where he got the loot from.
True reason MS won't release the source code for a security audit:
~$ df
/home 200M free
~$ cd windows/source
~/windows/source$ find . -name "*.c*" -exec grep -l gets {} \; > ~/
volume
:)
My fave was a series between my room and the room next door. Just a bunch of small things here and there...nothing major like the MIT stuff
There was the usual buckets of water, soda cans stacked in front of a closed door so opening causes an inrush, placing the beds outside (fully made).
The two funniest were:
Removed the door next door and put up a sign saying "Damn Termites". Friend walked in, tearing down the sign saying "okay...what did you do?"
Made a small hole from our room to theirs, and ran a wire to his speakers, so when he had his girlfriend over later and had nice soft Enya playing, we replaced it with Slayer.
Like I said...nothing major, but fun for us.
Thanks...I just about spit my soda on my monitor!
It's windows...that goes without saying :)
Go to Network in the control panel. Choose TCP/IP or Internet Protocol. Press Uninstall. Reboot, do the same, but click Install and choose TCP/IP.
:)
You can call MS for help...it'll cost you time and $245