If you can come up with an OS patcher/installer that always knows every piece of available malware/spyware and all of the various combinations that happen depending on what nefarious apps a person's machine has been compromised with, and then can take corrective action that is always 100% applicable to the precise compromised machine configuration you should go into business, genius.
It's really not hard for a reasonably intelligent person to understand - SP2 replaces windows system files with new versions. Some of those files may have been previously overwritten w/ known compromised versions by a malware installation. After SP2 is installed the malware which loads on bootup is out of sync, due to the now good files on the HD, and crashes horribly.
In that case just what, exactly, do you expect Microsoft could do? They can't just randomly uninstall apps on a users machine, and they can't possibly come up with the mythical installer I mentioned above. If a user can't administer their pre SP2 machines to a reasonable degree then they are going to have issues.
There is also no denying that there was more wrong to the machine than the "ocsional script error in IE". An SP2 installation is very unforgiving to a machine that has a lot of malware/spyware in it. A lot of that same software will cause IE to act flaky.
Chances are your friend has a very compromised machine and SP2 couldn't install properly because of it. An installation of SP2 is not just a matter of "letting it grind away for 5 minutes". It takes a good amount of time for the installer to download the files and an even greater amount of time for it to scan your system, back up files, and install the new ones. 30+ minutes is a more realistic time estimate.
It's against the XBox dev agreement to use the HD as an installation location. To be approved by Microsoft an XBox game has to run from the DVD. The HD is used only for downloadable content, save games, and streaming media.
Yeah, and let's all be good little Neo-Con ditto-heads and only believe what they tell us instead of using our Constitutionally granted rights to question everything the Government does.
"Mandate My Ass" will be a great rally-cry for the next four years. The 'Pubs are already hot to inform everyone, ad nasuem, that Bush had the largest number of ballots cast for him in any Presidential election. But, you know who the person with the second largest number of ballots cast for him is? Kerry. That means that Bush had the largest number of votes cast *against* him in any presidential election in US history.
His margin of victory is the smallest in a US Presidential election since Wilson beat Taft in 1913.
"Mandate My Ass" and who gives a flying $#@! about who thinks who won. We need the recount just because we can do it.
This is just going to confuse people. Why not release one box and sell upgrades/enhancements for it down the line.
Peripherals for consoles never achieve any decent amount of sell-through. This is because developers will never support it.
They can either develop a game that works on 100% of the installed base of consoles or develop a game that woks on n% of the installed base, where n is a sufficiently small number.
The XBoxHD will offer increased functionality but probably not things that are of any dramatic benefit to gamers. Yeah, it might alleviate the need for a memory card or allow for some limited downloadable content. More than likely, though, it will offer TiVO like functionality and a way to store and playback media files.
Seriously?
I knew that some large-format books were done in the late '90s but I had no idea the series had been resurrected recently. Can you post any more information?
XMen features regulation of mutants by the government as a central theme. The now out of print but still excellent Wild Card series of novels deals with super-heroesque mutations and how the government and the rest of the world deals with them--including segregation and registration.
The juxtaposition of racism to superhero-ism isn't that hard to conceive...for anyone. Moore's take on it in Watchmen is as good as the rest, but it's not overly unique in any way.
There's nothing "Mac OS exclusive" about widgets. Apple didn't do them first, just like they didn't do alpha blended shadows, app skinning, a dock, etc... first. But, for some reason, Apple users like to attribute all sorts of misplaced creative distinction to the folks in Cupertino.
Exactly.
For everyone who doesn't understand this I have a simple experiment for them to try:
*Go to your favorite video store.
*Rent a newly released title.
*Keep it forever.
*Explain how you can be righteously indignant about that, but feel that PPV movies are somehow Pay-Per-I-Get-To-Keep-It-Indefinately because you say so.
Actually, I just purchased an XBox remote.
Why? Well, I wanted the HD AV pack for my XBox so I could get 5.1 sound and component out. My interlace scanning 37" Sony Wega only has 1 set of component inputs and my amp doesn't do component switching.
The HD AV pack and $30 for the XBox remote allowed me to wire my XBox up to the existing component cables, pipe the 5.1 sound into my amp, and reduce the appliances and cable clutter in my entertainment center by getting rid of my DVD player.
Don't ick the Dell 18" LCD. Compared to their 19" LCD monitor it is a dream.
The FP1901 has a horrendous color cast, very desaturated and pushed more towards red/orange. It also has noticeable ghosting on fast movement, even with the mouse cursor.
The only thing the 19" has over the 18" is the height adjustable stand
Nope, it doesn't work that way, at least under Windows. MAME, for instance, is programmed to accept input via DirectInput. If the PowerMate driver isn't talking via DirectInput then MAME will never see the commands issued.
I bring up MAME because the PowerMate for Windows manual specifically mentions MAME and Tempest as something that can be controlled via PowerMate. It's a lie, pure and simple. As I said, I was told that by a rep from Griffin.
If they can't get a simple driver coded correctly and rely instead on false advertising to sell their product I can't trust that some of their other products might be better. The same people designed, built, and support them.
Bought a PowerMate for Windows soon after it was released. Mostly on their claims of game compatibility (think Tempest under MAME), and as a nice jog/shuttle dial for Adobe Premiere/After Effects.
The Windows drivers suck, to put it mildly. They don't use DirectInput, so there is no games support, regardless of what the marketing brochures and manual say, and the USB integration is so piss poor that every time you plug the PowerMate in it installs another copy of the drivers, regardless of how many previous copies might already be on the system. At first I though it was just mildly stupid and wanted a new driver for each USB port. Nope, it will reinstall/add drivers ad infinitum if you just keep plugging it into the same USB port.
Griffin acknowledged the problem to me in email about 2 years ago. Not after a long story from their engineer about how driver writing is "hard" and I should just be happy it works at all and shut up. They said 6 months out there would be better drivers. The version number hasn't changed from 1.5.2 in over 24 months.
It's a piece of junk and I suspect, based on other reviews I've read, that other Griffin products are of the same poor quality.
...leaving Bush at a deficit of 585,000 jobs from where he started. If he averages 150,000 jobs for the last four months of his term, he will net positive job growth.
While 585,000 / 4 = ~150,000 that isn't the entire story. The economy needs to have about 150K jobs created per month just to keep up with population growth and the number of new people entering the job market(s). If Bush only averages 150,000 / month for the rest of the year he'll still end his first (and hopefully only) term with a net loss of over 1/2 million jobs. That would (will) make him the first President in 70 years to end a term with less jobs than when he started.
To reduce his.5 million jobs deficit Bush needs to have closer to 300,000 jobs created in each of the next four months. That's a number he hasn't been able to achieve at any point of the last 3.66 years. I doubt he can do it now, as his plan for the economy was never anything that sitmulated job growth.
Just curious but the shuttle encounters alot of heat upon re-entry...
No, no it doesn't. It doesn't encounter any heat whatsoever. It's quite cold in the upper atmosphere. The Shuttle generates a lot of heat upon re-entry, though. That heat is created by the friction of doing an atmospheric entry at a low angle and with high speed.
The genius of SpaceShipOne is that it essentially tumbles back into the atmosphere at a high angle of attack, with a high drag configuration, and very low speed. The low speed entry generates very little friction and therefore negligable heat.
What type of contact info have you had to hand over for a pre-order?
Never, in all of the times I've pre-ordered, have I ever had to give anything other than my name and a contact phone #. The phone # has only ever been used to call me to let me know the game is in. I've never once received an unwanted phone solictation from the game retailer, or any game related company.
I don't pre-order often, just for games I know will sell out early (e.g. Doom3). But, to dismiss pre-ordering is bad because of a claim of invasion of privacy is just spreading FUD.
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"Monitoring warezed HL2 files on torrent networks" is not the same thing as "Valve populated torrent networks with warezed HL2 files."
It's really not hard for a reasonably intelligent person to understand - SP2 replaces windows system files with new versions. Some of those files may have been previously overwritten w/ known compromised versions by a malware installation. After SP2 is installed the malware which loads on bootup is out of sync, due to the now good files on the HD, and crashes horribly.
In that case just what, exactly, do you expect Microsoft could do? They can't just randomly uninstall apps on a users machine, and they can't possibly come up with the mythical installer I mentioned above. If a user can't administer their pre SP2 machines to a reasonable degree then they are going to have issues.
There is also no denying that there was more wrong to the machine than the "ocsional script error in IE". An SP2 installation is very unforgiving to a machine that has a lot of malware/spyware in it. A lot of that same software will cause IE to act flaky. Chances are your friend has a very compromised machine and SP2 couldn't install properly because of it. An installation of SP2 is not just a matter of "letting it grind away for 5 minutes". It takes a good amount of time for the installer to download the files and an even greater amount of time for it to scan your system, back up files, and install the new ones. 30+ minutes is a more realistic time estimate.
It's against the XBox dev agreement to use the HD as an installation location. To be approved by Microsoft an XBox game has to run from the DVD. The HD is used only for downloadable content, save games, and streaming media.
Not to be pendantic, but you do know that Arnold S. legally can never be President of the US, right?
Yeah, and let's all be good little Neo-Con ditto-heads and only believe what they tell us instead of using our Constitutionally granted rights to question everything the Government does.
"Mandate My Ass" will be a great rally-cry for the next four years. The 'Pubs are already hot to inform everyone, ad nasuem, that Bush had the largest number of ballots cast for him in any Presidential election. But, you know who the person with the second largest number of ballots cast for him is? Kerry. That means that Bush had the largest number of votes cast *against* him in any presidential election in US history.
His margin of victory is the smallest in a US Presidential election since Wilson beat Taft in 1913.
"Mandate My Ass" and who gives a flying $#@! about who thinks who won. We need the recount just because we can do it.
Peripherals for consoles never achieve any decent amount of sell-through. This is because developers will never support it. They can either develop a game that works on 100% of the installed base of consoles or develop a game that woks on n% of the installed base, where n is a sufficiently small number. The XBoxHD will offer increased functionality but probably not things that are of any dramatic benefit to gamers. Yeah, it might alleviate the need for a memory card or allow for some limited downloadable content. More than likely, though, it will offer TiVO like functionality and a way to store and playback media files.
Um,...how about WinAMP? Just because they stopped developing it doesn't mean that the current version will stop working.
Seriously? I knew that some large-format books were done in the late '90s but I had no idea the series had been resurrected recently. Can you post any more information?
The juxtaposition of racism to superhero-ism isn't that hard to conceive...for anyone. Moore's take on it in Watchmen is as good as the rest, but it's not overly unique in any way.
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There's nothing "Mac OS exclusive" about widgets. Apple didn't do them first, just like they didn't do alpha blended shadows, app skinning, a dock, etc... first. But, for some reason, Apple users like to attribute all sorts of misplaced creative distinction to the folks in Cupertino.
Those scientists are germain to what, exactly?
Exactly. For everyone who doesn't understand this I have a simple experiment for them to try: *Go to your favorite video store.
*Rent a newly released title.
*Keep it forever.
*Explain how you can be righteously indignant about that, but feel that PPV movies are somehow Pay-Per-I-Get-To-Keep-It-Indefinately because you say so.
And Linux runs on it.
Nope. Not at all. I have this thing called a "life".
Way to push the Republican agenda there, Lil' W.
Actually, I just purchased an XBox remote. Why? Well, I wanted the HD AV pack for my XBox so I could get 5.1 sound and component out. My interlace scanning 37" Sony Wega only has 1 set of component inputs and my amp doesn't do component switching. The HD AV pack and $30 for the XBox remote allowed me to wire my XBox up to the existing component cables, pipe the 5.1 sound into my amp, and reduce the appliances and cable clutter in my entertainment center by getting rid of my DVD player.
The FP1901 has a horrendous color cast, very desaturated and pushed more towards red/orange. It also has noticeable ghosting on fast movement, even with the mouse cursor. The only thing the 19" has over the 18" is the height adjustable stand
They're designed to do that.
I bring up MAME because the PowerMate for Windows manual specifically mentions MAME and Tempest as something that can be controlled via PowerMate. It's a lie, pure and simple. As I said, I was told that by a rep from Griffin.
If they can't get a simple driver coded correctly and rely instead on false advertising to sell their product I can't trust that some of their other products might be better. The same people designed, built, and support them.
The Windows drivers suck, to put it mildly. They don't use DirectInput, so there is no games support, regardless of what the marketing brochures and manual say, and the USB integration is so piss poor that every time you plug the PowerMate in it installs another copy of the drivers, regardless of how many previous copies might already be on the system. At first I though it was just mildly stupid and wanted a new driver for each USB port. Nope, it will reinstall/add drivers ad infinitum if you just keep plugging it into the same USB port.
Griffin acknowledged the problem to me in email about 2 years ago. Not after a long story from their engineer about how driver writing is "hard" and I should just be happy it works at all and shut up. They said 6 months out there would be better drivers. The version number hasn't changed from 1.5.2 in over 24 months.
It's a piece of junk and I suspect, based on other reviews I've read, that other Griffin products are of the same poor quality.
While 585,000 / 4 = ~150,000 that isn't the entire story. The economy needs to have about 150K jobs created per month just to keep up with population growth and the number of new people entering the job market(s). If Bush only averages 150,000 / month for the rest of the year he'll still end his first (and hopefully only) term with a net loss of over 1/2 million jobs. That would (will) make him the first President in 70 years to end a term with less jobs than when he started.
To reduce his .5 million jobs deficit Bush needs to have closer to 300,000 jobs created in each of the next four months. That's a number he hasn't been able to achieve at any point of the last 3.66 years. I doubt he can do it now, as his plan for the economy was never anything that sitmulated job growth.
And you, the one with the outstanding grasp of the English language, are the genius?
No, no it doesn't. It doesn't encounter any heat whatsoever. It's quite cold in the upper atmosphere. The Shuttle generates a lot of heat upon re-entry, though. That heat is created by the friction of doing an atmospheric entry at a low angle and with high speed.
The genius of SpaceShipOne is that it essentially tumbles back into the atmosphere at a high angle of attack, with a high drag configuration, and very low speed. The low speed entry generates very little friction and therefore negligable heat.
Never, in all of the times I've pre-ordered, have I ever had to give anything other than my name and a contact phone #. The phone # has only ever been used to call me to let me know the game is in. I've never once received an unwanted phone solictation from the game retailer, or any game related company.
I don't pre-order often, just for games I know will sell out early (e.g. Doom3). But, to dismiss pre-ordering is bad because of a claim of invasion of privacy is just spreading FUD.