Then she should buy a PC with no OS or XP already installed. And yes, it is as simple as that. If you don't want vista, don't buy it. If you absolutely have to buy a pc with vista and just have to have xp, sell your COA sticker to someone who isn't afraid of change. Personally, I prefer Linux, but vista isn't worth suing over. Our courts have more important things to do.
"Why is sound such a mess? That was a solved problem 15 years ago!"
The same reason we have so many projects with duplicated efforts: Because every two years someone else comes along and says, "No, no, thats all wrong, I can do it better." And instead of adding their resources to an existing project and furthering it, they start their own.
The current "Ultimate" beta runs just fine on my lenovo s10 (1.6G atom, 1.5GB ram, gma950) All I want is a version that is rid of media center, and other "ultimate extras". I would think three versions would be fine. Basic, Home and Business. Let volume licensees have their own and pick and choose what componants they want (Stripped UI, no media center, etc.) Roll media center and the "ultimate extras" into the live stuff and let those who want it download it for free.
We should have an event to celebrate the "Battle of the slightly different looking service packs that'll run you a hundred bucks or so". I can't remember the last time the two coordinated patch releases. As for the apple ad... One company spending a bunch on ads poking fun at another company for spending a bunch on ads? I guess that's thinking different...
"but IE has this bad habit of loading the 64bit executable even when you explicitly launch it from the x86 directory causing all 32bit plugins and ActiveX controls to not work."
You say that like it's a bad thing in a corp. environment...
The freezing on video playback is a known issue with xpdm drivers. You'll need to install a wddm driver (if one exists). I ran into the same thing with my intel 915 based laptop. You can increase stability by turning off hardware acceleration for the display adapter, but that will probably render playback unwatchable.
Check the actual I/O usage. Load up perfmon and watch the disk queue. I've seen plenty of boxes with tons of free ram and cpu, but one damned thing is hitting the disk like it's their child or something and everything else has to wait. If the total queue is high, you can add the counters for read and write. Once you see which one is the hog go back to taskmanager and add the appropriate column and sort.
My guess is that the offending photos were set to screen saver, wallpaper, incoming call picture, and possibly even a vinyl skin covering the outside of the device... Or more likely, the student was shouting "L@@k at the hawt nekkid pix 0f my gf!!!1!! in the middle of class.
Not so fast. The "Liquidation Sale" for comp usa was not good at all. It looked more like a "Here's all the shit we found when we moved the fixtures and decided to sell at full retail" sale.
But seriously, I like gnome and other stuff built on gtk. I tried KDE 4 and I didn't like it. I tried K3B, and I prefer Brasero. To me Amarok is just an unintuitive mess, while Rhythmbox is straightforward without sacrificing features. I did like the new prefrences dialog lifted straight from osx, but the vista-esque taskbar/menu has to go. Of course thats my opinion, as I'm sure others out there feel the exact opposite. I've given up on the whole "Unite under one desktop and crush microsoft" mentality, I use what works for me. Personally, the whole KDE project and all related projects could shut down tomorrow and I wouldn't notice. And for some folks, the same could be said about gnome. That's the beauty of open source: Choice.
Actually I think spyware and the like had more of an effect. As more 9x boxes got on the net at higher speeds, they got more crapware and started slowing down sooner. An of course, when your pc slows down, it means it's time for a new one... Which just happens to have the latest ms offering pre-installed.
Or perhaps without 10 solid hours a day of "Judge" programming, they may find the motivation to get a job or create some art or plant a tree. Maybe even take responsibility for their actions and parent their child...
The rest are on corporate networks that block windows update (but still allow popups proclaiming "Ur 'puter i$ uNproteccteded!!!!1! Clic hear n0W!") or are still on dialup where running windows update, even on a fresh sp3 install is a royal time consuming, prone to failure pain.
Oh they've figured it out. They figured out that they can charge whatever they want, and a growing number of "Gamers" will just pay it. Sure they make noises that used sales hurt them, and piracy hurts them and what not, but they are still sitting pretty. If they were really in trouble, they could always:
Cut executive salaries. I still wonder how anyone justifies the huge gap between those who create the product and those who oversee the marketing material that accompanies the salesman who begs a client to buy it. I think all org charts should come with rough salary estimates. Circulate that around your company and see what happens...
Focus on quality. Quit milking the same franchises and be innovative. What looks better on the bottom line, selling a few copies of a thousand titles, or selling thousands of copies of a few titles? I think if game play became goal #1, the latter just may be it.
Quit nickel and dimeing us. I paid $60 for Soul Caliber 4, and you want an extra $5 for Yoda? You want me to rent a movie for twice what it costs at blockbuster? You want me to buy A CD, then some "digital copy", and then again to use in a popular game? At $18 each? And you expect us to believe that piracy is really the problem?
No, they know these things, they know they should be doing them and everyone would be much happier. They also know it's much easier (and profitable for those at the top) to keep things as they are and blame the consumers when questioned. Come to think of it, I can boil it down to this (and it can be applied to any industry):
Which kind of describes the feeling I just had trying to get my wifi working (the trick to getting atheros wifi working is to disable support for atheros wifi apparently) Of course i was bound to be irritated as I had to hold down the spacebar for 20 seconds during the boot process to get it to work (It has something to do with those awesome drivers for atheros) I didn't do any investigation, but I have a feeling the old madwifi and the new madwifi (now in the kernel) are both attempting to work out of the box. I didn't bother finding out, and wiped the partition. The wifi trouble along with the nvidia trouble (never was before, but now it just doesn't work) along with the pulse audio tomfoolery make me long for plain old debian. Or I could just run the os that came with the laptop and not have to tinker. But alas, I'm a geek, and a tinkerin' I shall go...
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"I think it would actually be cheaper to buy direct from the US and pay shipping and import taxes!"
Hot Damn, I just came up with the basis for our next "Bubble"! Move over Cash4Gold and title loan refinancing, there's a new infomercial in town!
Then she should buy a PC with no OS or XP already installed. And yes, it is as simple as that. If you don't want vista, don't buy it. If you absolutely have to buy a pc with vista and just have to have xp, sell your COA sticker to someone who isn't afraid of change. Personally, I prefer Linux, but vista isn't worth suing over. Our courts have more important things to do.
"Why is sound such a mess? That was a solved problem 15 years ago!"
The same reason we have so many projects with duplicated efforts: Because every two years someone else comes along and says, "No, no, thats all wrong, I can do it better." And instead of adding their resources to an existing project and furthering it, they start their own.
The current "Ultimate" beta runs just fine on my lenovo s10 (1.6G atom, 1.5GB ram, gma950) All I want is a version that is rid of media center, and other "ultimate extras". I would think three versions would be fine. Basic, Home and Business. Let volume licensees have their own and pick and choose what componants they want (Stripped UI, no media center, etc.) Roll media center and the "ultimate extras" into the live stuff and let those who want it download it for free.
We should have an event to celebrate the "Battle of the slightly different looking service packs that'll run you a hundred bucks or so". I can't remember the last time the two coordinated patch releases. As for the apple ad... One company spending a bunch on ads poking fun at another company for spending a bunch on ads? I guess that's thinking different...
"but IE has this bad habit of loading the 64bit executable even when you explicitly launch it from the x86 directory causing all 32bit plugins and ActiveX controls to not work."
You say that like it's a bad thing in a corp. environment...
I agree, it's about time someone came out with a Leopard skin for Windows 7.
The freezing on video playback is a known issue with xpdm drivers. You'll need to install a wddm driver (if one exists). I ran into the same thing with my intel 915 based laptop. You can increase stability by turning off hardware acceleration for the display adapter, but that will probably render playback unwatchable.
For a nominal fee, I'll send you a PDF detailing the complicated technical ins and outs of using your iPod.
Check the actual I/O usage. Load up perfmon and watch the disk queue. I've seen plenty of boxes with tons of free ram and cpu, but one damned thing is hitting the disk like it's their child or something and everything else has to wait. If the total queue is high, you can add the counters for read and write. Once you see which one is the hog go back to taskmanager and add the appropriate column and sort.
My guess is that the offending photos were set to screen saver, wallpaper, incoming call picture, and possibly even a vinyl skin covering the outside of the device... Or more likely, the student was shouting "L@@k at the hawt nekkid pix 0f my gf!!!1!! in the middle of class.
Not so fast. The "Liquidation Sale" for comp usa was not good at all. It looked more like a "Here's all the shit we found when we moved the fixtures and decided to sell at full retail" sale.
I think it's more exciting for RAM sales...
But seriously, I like gnome and other stuff built on gtk. I tried KDE 4 and I didn't like it. I tried K3B, and I prefer Brasero. To me Amarok is just an unintuitive mess, while Rhythmbox is straightforward without sacrificing features. I did like the new prefrences dialog lifted straight from osx, but the vista-esque taskbar/menu has to go. Of course thats my opinion, as I'm sure others out there feel the exact opposite. I've given up on the whole "Unite under one desktop and crush microsoft" mentality, I use what works for me. Personally, the whole KDE project and all related projects could shut down tomorrow and I wouldn't notice. And for some folks, the same could be said about gnome. That's the beauty of open source: Choice.
You must have had your +10 year modifier on. The correct answer is 1996.
Actually I think spyware and the like had more of an effect. As more 9x boxes got on the net at higher speeds, they got more crapware and started slowing down sooner. An of course, when your pc slows down, it means it's time for a new one... Which just happens to have the latest ms offering pre-installed.
Or perhaps without 10 solid hours a day of "Judge" programming, they may find the motivation to get a job or create some art or plant a tree. Maybe even take responsibility for their actions and parent their child...
Nah, riots it'll be.
The rest are on corporate networks that block windows update (but still allow popups proclaiming "Ur 'puter i$ uNproteccteded!!!!1! Clic hear n0W!") or are still on dialup where running windows update, even on a fresh sp3 install is a royal time consuming, prone to failure pain.
Weird, I just lost mine in a fire... I'm a little disappointed that I don't get to be a part of this...
And just what does God need with a starship anyway?
Oh they've figured it out. They figured out that they can charge whatever they want, and a growing number of "Gamers" will just pay it. Sure they make noises that used sales hurt them, and piracy hurts them and what not, but they are still sitting pretty. If they were really in trouble, they could always:
Cut executive salaries. I still wonder how anyone justifies the huge gap between those who create the product and those who oversee the marketing material that accompanies the salesman who begs a client to buy it. I think all org charts should come with rough salary estimates. Circulate that around your company and see what happens...
Focus on quality. Quit milking the same franchises and be innovative. What looks better on the bottom line, selling a few copies of a thousand titles, or selling thousands of copies of a few titles? I think if game play became goal #1, the latter just may be it.
Quit nickel and dimeing us. I paid $60 for Soul Caliber 4, and you want an extra $5 for Yoda? You want me to rent a movie for twice what it costs at blockbuster? You want me to buy A CD, then some "digital copy", and then again to use in a popular game? At $18 each? And you expect us to believe that piracy is really the problem?
No, they know these things, they know they should be doing them and everyone would be much happier. They also know it's much easier (and profitable for those at the top) to keep things as they are and blame the consumers when questioned. Come to think of it, I can boil it down to this (and it can be applied to any industry):
Don't be greedy shits.
Along with it's companion book, "Liquid Laptop Cooling, This sort of thing is my bag baby." by one Steve Jobs?
Relax. Once inside the prison system, those petty criminals and drug users will be turned into harcore criminals in no time...
Yes, so bad that a thin majority replaced him with a Baboon for the last eight...
Depending on just where we're ramming those pogs, that actually sounds better than the vague fuzziness that "Developer" has become.
Which kind of describes the feeling I just had trying to get my wifi working (the trick to getting atheros wifi working is to disable support for atheros wifi apparently) Of course i was bound to be irritated as I had to hold down the spacebar for 20 seconds during the boot process to get it to work (It has something to do with those awesome drivers for atheros) I didn't do any investigation, but I have a feeling the old madwifi and the new madwifi (now in the kernel) are both attempting to work out of the box. I didn't bother finding out, and wiped the partition. The wifi trouble along with the nvidia trouble (never was before, but now it just doesn't work) along with the pulse audio tomfoolery make me long for plain old debian. Or I could just run the os that came with the laptop and not have to tinker. But alas, I'm a geek, and a tinkerin' I shall go...