"For instance, Home Basic users can't copy ISOs to their hard drives, can't run in a virtualized environment, and can only share files and printers to a maximum of 5 network devices."
Let me translate what this statement means to me:
"For instance, I won't be installing this crippled operating system when I've finally wrestled XP to work the way I want it to. I can copy as many ISO's as I want, I can run it in a virtualized environment, and I can share as many damn files and as many damn printers to as many damn machines as I see fit."
If this comes to pass, I can't see myself buying any version of Vista. I was "pro" XP because it was an actual improvement over 98SE, and I actually own several different, legitimate flavors. I cannot, however, fathom even considering purchasing such a restrictive piece of software. Excuse me, what I meant to say was that I won't rent a disposable license at over a hundred bucks a pop for the basic, most restricted version, all because I like to play with hardware. (I've rebuilt my system at least 6 times in the past year.)
Screw you, Microsoft, and I long for the day when I can get all of my Windows-dependent software (read: games) to work in an easy, trouble-free Linux environment. That is to say that until I can:
a: install Linux Flavor-du-jour
b: d/l and install my specific hardware drivers
c: install my game
d: install game updates
e: and play my game
WITHOUT compiling any kernels or drivers or anything, or learning how to write code. I don't plan on giving up on popular titles any time soon, so it looks like I'll be playing games on XP until something better comes along. Lord I hope they reconsider this. Sorry for the rant, but this really makes me angry. Maybe it's time to learn how to do all that crazy Linux stuff anyhow...
Double reason to hate: When I do watch tv, it's usually crap, and I'm bombarded by shows I don't like so I end up watching less tv. When I actually do like a show, it gets canceled, I get discouraged, so I end up watching less tv. Draw your own conclusions, but I'll probably end up watching less tv whatever you conclude.
Any networks want to hire me (pay me) to like a rival network's shows?
...why does it seem that every new "tanuki suit" that comes out has its inventors touting its usefulness in a hospital environment? I just seem to recall hearing about a new suit every couple of years or so that enhances muscles, and it seems like the first thing the inventors say is that it can be used to lift fat (oops I mean large or unweildy) patients and toss them around like mere feathers?
I claim BS. You know damn well that most of this research is gov't funded to create uber-soldiers of the 'Battlefield of Tomorrow', but of course that doesn't make for getting the public behind your cause.
Of course, that's the cynic in me. I can imagine dozens of uses outside of a hospital or Iraq. Construction, for starters...
Queue Popular Science article in three, two, one...
...rebuilding a "logic board". Such as the little kid was doing right before his mom took him away before the goon squad showed up.
There are two ways of looking at this IMHO:
1, the kid is actually a super-uber-genius and was actually rebuilding a real "logic board" with a soldering iron and spare parts, or:
2, it was simply dumbed-down techno-speak for the masses. I'm inclined to believe this scenario, and it kind grated on me afterwards.
That having been said, I have actually resurected a dead mobo by "hot-swapping" the bios chip--we were able to recover from a corrupted bios flash by using an identical board. I was pretty stoked that it worked as well as it did and that I didn't fry both motherboards in the process:)
...is the bloody horrible LAG in this game. It has nothing to do with your hardware; I can only stumble around at about 5-10 FPS in moderately populated areas with my dual-core, 7900GT machine with 2gb ram. I want to like this game so much but when you're used to playing other huge MMO's like WoW at smooth-as-glass framerates, walking around as if you are trapped in a slideshow is unbearable.
I hope they upgrade their hardware soon, because I'm willing to give it another go.
...the time I spent $50 on Battlefield 1942, and then installed Desert Combat. I didn't buy another game for nearly TWO YEARS after DC.25!!! Oh man. You know how most people spent time on MMO's? My routine was this: Eat dinner, log on to Ventrillo, fire up ASE, locate my buddies, and frag the night away. Stalingrad, Bocage, Berlin, Basrah Nights, Gaz, El Al, Bulge, and then all the crazy mods that people came up with. Hyper-speed buggies, humvees with miniguns. Oh, and who could forget the Humvees made of tissue paper? You looked at the thing the wrong way and it blew up. It sucked so bad that it made it all that more special when you were actually able to drive it anywhere and come back alive.
I remember when I finally learned how to fly the Apache and the Hind, and how proud I was of that. I remember my first flyover with the awesome A10, and circling over the red base at El Al with the Gunship and 4 decent gunners, mowing down EVERYTHING. The 50 cal sniper. The SAW and mowing them down in Lost Village. Chucking C4. Swooping and grabbing the flag with a jet.
If I sound like a fan boy, that's because I was. I swear that was the best $50 I have and probably will ever spend. I made life-long friends (Death From Above!) and I still fire up a little DC when everything else just seems too boring. I'll even play it in reference over BF2 (but that's only because I can't tolerate BF2's bugs). So the best out of the last 10 years of gaming for me would have to be 2003-2005, the Desert Combat years.
Horsepower is right, especially when you're shopping for the generator you're going to have to lug around just to power the damned thing for more than a couple of hours of Oblivion...
I actually wandered into an apple store inside Microcenter the other night to find out if I could buy just an Apple case. Ha ha ha.
Seriously though, I'm actually in the market for a reverse-ATX case, for a couple different reasons. First, I'm building a highly overclocked system that will need lots of cooling, and second, because I've long lamented the fact that I couldn't see the "tops" of my add-in cards whith a normal, windowes case. Yes, I actually prefer a window (nothing too gaudy, just a square pane of acrylic) because I'm an electronics nerd and I like the way a well-routed pc looks. I'm close to settling for a Lian Li; I bought and returned a Silverstone TJ06 because it looked great in the store but turned out to be quite flimsy when I got it home.
I'm pretty sure THG didn't need to post this article; I'd much prefer if they did a roundup of current model server towers or something, but hopefully it helped some people.
So here's another angle. The original silicon valley is suffering from the current housing "bubble" that has yet to "burst". What this means is that as the average cost of living (i.e.: housing costs, gas, etc.) go up, fewer and fewer people can afford to live here. So all the young talent now are forced to migrate elsewhere.
I can barely afford it; I am an entry-level field service technician at a semicon equipment supplier. And if you figure I'm on par with an recent college grad (10 years Naval service, Electronics Technician), then what hope do they have what with the massive school loans they are also trying to pay off in conjunction with starting a new career? If it weren't for my awesome girlfriend of 5 years who makes substantially more than me, I could barely afford a studio appartment anywhere near San Jose or Fremont. BTW, side note, at $22/hour I'm grossing over $1800 every two weeks but net pay is only $1200. THAT's what you get for living in California, number one, and number two is that there is no way in hell I'd even consider trying to own even a modest home when the average 1200 sq ft, two bedroom house near the East foothills (at least 10-20 miles from anywhere) goes for around $600,000.
Entry level. $600k for a house/condo. $2400/month. 10 years experience in the electronics field. You do the math, and try to pay for a car and gas and all the other bills. I'm getting the hell out of the valley as soon as I possibly can because it simply costs too damn much. Me and everyone else. So what happens when we leave (or refuse to settle to begin with), and the current crop of "founders" retires (think about it, it's happening now...)? What are you left with?
Silicon Valley has enjoyed a good run, but higher taxes and cost of living are going to prevail when it comes to where the nerds will settle and prosper. Don't get me wrong, I love this industry (I work as a tool vendor at frikken Intel for chrissakes--a geek's veritable wet dream if you will) but like I said, in less than 5 years I'm out of here.
Back to the "housing bubble". Even if it levels off (might be happening, who knows, it's becoming more and more fashionable to live here) then it's not going to go down, it will just stay at the current level--unaffordable.
everyone's still bummed out about the delays announced in the past few weeks. It's almost like someone is pulling the strings thusly:
PR machine: "Yeah, we know you feel real let down by the delay but OOH, LOOK! Something SHINY! Right.. over.. THERE!"
Teaming masses: "Ooh, we love shiny things. Vista is going to be so great again!"
Hmm. What's this "Sharepoint" he speaks of...
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SharePoint puts me in touch with lots of people deep in the organization. It's like having a super-website that lets many people edit and discuss--far more than the standard practice of sending e-mails with enclosures. And it notifies you if anything comes up in an area you're interested in.
Soooo... Bill's discovered forums, eh?
That struck me as funny, I'm not sure why. But it is interesting to gain such an insight on one of the more spot-lighted people in our digital world. I'm guessing that if this article had appeared in the onion, it would have read something like this:
Well, the first thing I do when I un-jack from my Borg Support Chamber in the morning is... bah, nevermind, it's too easy and also cliche.
..L.A.'s (and the rest of Cali's) freeway systems weren't built with "dark lanes" to which they could simply hook up a router (tollbooth) to enable more throughput. How short-sighted of them.
Ya, you sort of have to suspend belief sometimes. I can't tell you how often I've thought "No, that's wrong" when one of the crew says something blatantly wrong, but to their credit, they usually correct themselves later on.
I for one find this show enormously entertaining and hope they continue to air it for a long time. Sure beats "desparate housewives" or any other dreck on tv.
ps: I've never seen DH and never want to.
PPS: I just move to the Bay Area and am tickled pink that I could go to the shops the Mythbusters use to find random parts.:)
Computer Games magazine. Written by adults, for adults. Go ahead, check it out next time you're at B&N or Borders, read a review on a new game, then shuffle over to PC Gamer or CGW and read a review about the same game. You'll see what I mean.
Oops, didn't mean to offend. It's just that I've lived all over the world, and the majority of US citizens fall under some sort of misguided, puritanical, biblical "code". Sure, other societies have their stereotypes (yes I mean the French, who I am ashamed to be biased against, but I am) but you have to admit that we garner our fair share of laughter at the expense of the rest of the world.
People want something that does one or two things extremely well, not something that does lots of things not as well. There are maybe %5 of consumers out there that ride the leading edge (early adopters, i.e.) and want, no, crave lots of techy gadgetry while the other %95 of us just want useful tools and gadgets that don't require a PhD in quantum mechanics to operate.
Over simplification, perhaps, but you get the gist.
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"For instance, Home Basic users can't copy ISOs to their hard drives, can't run in a virtualized environment, and can only share files and printers to a maximum of 5 network devices."
Let me translate what this statement means to me:
"For instance, I won't be installing this crippled operating system when I've finally wrestled XP to work the way I want it to. I can copy as many ISO's as I want, I can run it in a virtualized environment, and I can share as many damn files and as many damn printers to as many damn machines as I see fit."
If this comes to pass, I can't see myself buying any version of Vista. I was "pro" XP because it was an actual improvement over 98SE, and I actually own several different, legitimate flavors. I cannot, however, fathom even considering purchasing such a restrictive piece of software. Excuse me, what I meant to say was that I won't rent a disposable license at over a hundred bucks a pop for the basic, most restricted version, all because I like to play with hardware. (I've rebuilt my system at least 6 times in the past year.)
Screw you, Microsoft, and I long for the day when I can get all of my Windows-dependent software (read: games) to work in an easy, trouble-free Linux environment. That is to say that until I can:
a: install Linux Flavor-du-jour
b: d/l and install my specific hardware drivers
c: install my game
d: install game updates
e: and play my game
WITHOUT compiling any kernels or drivers or anything, or learning how to write code. I don't plan on giving up on popular titles any time soon, so it looks like I'll be playing games on XP until something better comes along. Lord I hope they reconsider this. Sorry for the rant, but this really makes me angry. Maybe it's time to learn how to do all that crazy Linux stuff anyhow...
5. Pirates!
4. Civ 2.
3. Homeworld.
2. Starflight.
1. Battlefield 1942.
Double reason to hate: When I do watch tv, it's usually crap, and I'm bombarded by shows I don't like so I end up watching less tv.
When I actually do like a show, it gets canceled, I get discouraged, so I end up watching less tv. Draw your own conclusions, but I'll probably end up watching less tv whatever you conclude.
Any networks want to hire me (pay me) to like a rival network's shows?
[The] Doctor Who Makes Guiness [is in the] World Records
I swear that's how I read it at first. My eyes must be playing tricks on me.
We won't even get to enjoy this as long as Napster...
...why does it seem that every new "tanuki suit" that comes out has its inventors touting its usefulness in a hospital environment? I just seem to recall hearing about a new suit every couple of years or so that enhances muscles, and it seems like the first thing the inventors say is that it can be used to lift fat (oops I mean large or unweildy) patients and toss them around like mere feathers?
I claim BS. You know damn well that most of this research is gov't funded to create uber-soldiers of the 'Battlefield of Tomorrow', but of course that doesn't make for getting the public behind your cause.
Of course, that's the cynic in me. I can imagine dozens of uses outside of a hospital or Iraq. Construction, for starters...
Queue Popular Science article in three, two, one...
...rebuilding a "logic board". Such as the little kid was doing right before his mom took him away before the goon squad showed up.
:)
There are two ways of looking at this IMHO:
1, the kid is actually a super-uber-genius and was actually rebuilding a real "logic board" with a soldering iron and spare parts, or:
2, it was simply dumbed-down techno-speak for the masses. I'm inclined to believe this scenario, and it kind grated on me afterwards.
That having been said, I have actually resurected a dead mobo by "hot-swapping" the bios chip--we were able to recover from a corrupted bios flash by using an identical board. I was pretty stoked that it worked as well as it did and that I didn't fry both motherboards in the process
...is the bloody horrible LAG in this game. It has nothing to do with your hardware; I can only stumble around at about 5-10 FPS in moderately populated areas with my dual-core, 7900GT machine with 2gb ram. I want to like this game so much but when you're used to playing other huge MMO's like WoW at smooth-as-glass framerates, walking around as if you are trapped in a slideshow is unbearable.
I hope they upgrade their hardware soon, because I'm willing to give it another go.
Hahaha! Dude, have you tried a joystick? My friends swear by it but I'm old-school, I use the keyboard only when I fly anything. Frag on, mate.
...the time I spent $50 on Battlefield 1942, and then installed Desert Combat. I didn't buy another game for nearly TWO YEARS after DC .25!!! Oh man. You know how most people spent time on MMO's? My routine was this: Eat dinner, log on to Ventrillo, fire up ASE, locate my buddies, and frag the night away. Stalingrad, Bocage, Berlin, Basrah Nights, Gaz, El Al, Bulge, and then all the crazy mods that people came up with. Hyper-speed buggies, humvees with miniguns. Oh, and who could forget the Humvees made of tissue paper? You looked at the thing the wrong way and it blew up. It sucked so bad that it made it all that more special when you were actually able to drive it anywhere and come back alive.
I remember when I finally learned how to fly the Apache and the Hind, and how proud I was of that. I remember my first flyover with the awesome A10, and circling over the red base at El Al with the Gunship and 4 decent gunners, mowing down EVERYTHING. The 50 cal sniper. The SAW and mowing them down in Lost Village. Chucking C4. Swooping and grabbing the flag with a jet.
If I sound like a fan boy, that's because I was. I swear that was the best $50 I have and probably will ever spend. I made life-long friends (Death From Above!) and I still fire up a little DC when everything else just seems too boring. I'll even play it in reference over BF2 (but that's only because I can't tolerate BF2's bugs). So the best out of the last 10 years of gaming for me would have to be 2003-2005, the Desert Combat years.
Horsepower is right, especially when you're shopping for the generator you're going to have to lug around just to power the damned thing for more than a couple of hours of Oblivion...
I actually wandered into an apple store inside Microcenter the other night to find out if I could buy just an Apple case. Ha ha ha.
Seriously though, I'm actually in the market for a reverse-ATX case, for a couple different reasons. First, I'm building a highly overclocked system that will need lots of cooling, and second, because I've long lamented the fact that I couldn't see the "tops" of my add-in cards whith a normal, windowes case. Yes, I actually prefer a window (nothing too gaudy, just a square pane of acrylic) because I'm an electronics nerd and I like the way a well-routed pc looks. I'm close to settling for a Lian Li; I bought and returned a Silverstone TJ06 because it looked great in the store but turned out to be quite flimsy when I got it home.
I'm pretty sure THG didn't need to post this article; I'd much prefer if they did a roundup of current model server towers or something, but hopefully it helped some people.
So here's another angle. The original silicon valley is suffering from the current housing "bubble" that has yet to "burst". What this means is that as the average cost of living (i.e.: housing costs, gas, etc.) go up, fewer and fewer people can afford to live here. So all the young talent now are forced to migrate elsewhere.
I can barely afford it; I am an entry-level field service technician at a semicon equipment supplier. And if you figure I'm on par with an recent college grad (10 years Naval service, Electronics Technician), then what hope do they have what with the massive school loans they are also trying to pay off in conjunction with starting a new career? If it weren't for my awesome girlfriend of 5 years who makes substantially more than me, I could barely afford a studio appartment anywhere near San Jose or Fremont. BTW, side note, at $22/hour I'm grossing over $1800 every two weeks but net pay is only $1200. THAT's what you get for living in California, number one, and number two is that there is no way in hell I'd even consider trying to own even a modest home when the average 1200 sq ft, two bedroom house near the East foothills (at least 10-20 miles from anywhere) goes for around $600,000.
Entry level. $600k for a house/condo. $2400/month. 10 years experience in the electronics field. You do the math, and try to pay for a car and gas and all the other bills. I'm getting the hell out of the valley as soon as I possibly can because it simply costs too damn much. Me and everyone else. So what happens when we leave (or refuse to settle to begin with), and the current crop of "founders" retires (think about it, it's happening now...)? What are you left with?
Silicon Valley has enjoyed a good run, but higher taxes and cost of living are going to prevail when it comes to where the nerds will settle and prosper. Don't get me wrong, I love this industry (I work as a tool vendor at frikken Intel for chrissakes--a geek's veritable wet dream if you will) but like I said, in less than 5 years I'm out of here.
Back to the "housing bubble". Even if it levels off (might be happening, who knows, it's becoming more and more fashionable to live here) then it's not going to go down, it will just stay at the current level--unaffordable.
Geeks are smart. You will see.
Point taken. And you're probably right. I withdraw my comment.
What is this? I hope this site was translated from another language...
"and even though many of the old games still is very enjoyable"
Sorry to troll, but really!
everyone's still bummed out about the delays announced in the past few weeks. It's almost like someone is pulling the strings thusly:
PR machine: "Yeah, we know you feel real let down by the delay but OOH, LOOK! Something SHINY! Right.. over.. THERE!"
Teaming masses: "Ooh, we love shiny things. Vista is going to be so great again!"
SharePoint puts me in touch with lots of people deep in the organization. It's like having a super-website that lets many people edit and discuss--far more than the standard practice of sending e-mails with enclosures. And it notifies you if anything comes up in an area you're interested in.
Soooo... Bill's discovered forums, eh?
That struck me as funny, I'm not sure why. But it is interesting to gain such an insight on one of the more spot-lighted people in our digital world. I'm guessing that if this article had appeared in the onion, it would have read something like this:
Well, the first thing I do when I un-jack from my Borg Support Chamber in the morning is... bah, nevermind, it's too easy and also cliche.
..L.A.'s (and the rest of Cali's) freeway systems weren't built with "dark lanes" to which they could simply hook up a router (tollbooth) to enable more throughput. How short-sighted of them.
so that's why I didn't feel a thing when I fell of the balcony at that kegger...
oh, wait...
Ya, you sort of have to suspend belief sometimes. I can't tell you how often I've thought "No, that's wrong" when one of the crew says something blatantly wrong, but to their credit, they usually correct themselves later on.
:)
I for one find this show enormously entertaining and hope they continue to air it for a long time. Sure beats "desparate housewives" or any other dreck on tv.
ps: I've never seen DH and never want to.
PPS: I just move to the Bay Area and am tickled pink that I could go to the shops the Mythbusters use to find random parts.
Computer Games magazine. Written by adults, for adults. Go ahead, check it out next time you're at B&N or Borders, read a review on a new game, then shuffle over to PC Gamer or CGW and read a review about the same game. You'll see what I mean.
http://www.cgonline.com/
Oops, didn't mean to offend. It's just that I've lived all over the world, and the majority of US citizens fall under some sort of misguided, puritanical, biblical "code". Sure, other societies have their stereotypes (yes I mean the French, who I am ashamed to be biased against, but I am) but you have to admit that we garner our fair share of laughter at the expense of the rest of the world.
I'd mod you up one. I'm American and not offended, and I don't get us either.
I totally forgot about this one. Hope it doesn't pancake.
People want something that does one or two things extremely well, not something that does lots of things not as well. There are maybe %5 of consumers out there that ride the leading edge (early adopters, i.e.) and want, no, crave lots of techy gadgetry while the other %95 of us just want useful tools and gadgets that don't require a PhD in quantum mechanics to operate.
Over simplification, perhaps, but you get the gist.