I think it depends on the included drivers SP2 entirely. I installed SP2 on a Gigabyte motherboard (for a Core 2 Duo E6600) with SATA disk and emulation was most definitely not enabled. (I disabled it to try, because I wanted to know the veracity of this rumour). Worked fine, without a glitch. This was a Volume Licence CD, slipstreamed to SP2, but *only* SP2.... No extra software nor manufacturer drivers
So, if the SP2 fails on pure SATA installations, then it might be a newer chipset that isn't supported. The one I used, was supported.
I would have the same objection to FAT32, but you could keep your data entirely on ext2 because you can get an NTFS implementation of ext2 for Windows which works fine. Linky.
These days, the only place where FAT32 is appropriate is an USB stick.
Why don't you homeschool your child if they can't function without bringing dangerous substances into the schoolyard.
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Same way that your child is asked not to bring dangerous weapons (knives, guns) to school regardless of weather [sic] or not your child is likely to use them in a criminal way.
I feel for your daughter, but there is a difference between the two situations. Peanut-oil/-butter/-etc is not a dangerous substance. Your daughter is allergic to a normally non dangerous substance.
Bringing really dangerous stuff, like weapons, is dangerous to every kid on the premises. Peanut butter is not. Imagine a kid that could not be in the same room as a loaf of bread. Would you ban the other schoolkids from bringing bread?
The problem here is not peanuts, but your daughters condition. I do understand you're worried about the whole thing, but consider this: next time you take her to the mall, there could be a promotional stand with someone serving peanut butter.... or someone just ate lunch and didn't notice some peanut butter left on his hands and he happens to stand behind her in the line. You can easily imagine a dozen situation in which she'll be exposed to peanut butter. Not directly, after all, you claim she can get problems by just being in vicinity of it.
Fact is: your daughter is going to have a terrible life because of this disability. She'll be safe nowhere, with the possible exception of "at home". I feel for her, but you're not going to be able to protect her. You have to realise that a 100 years ago, your kid would have died at an early age and you wouldn't even have known that it was because of peanuts. Don't mistake me for saying that your daughter should die: I only want to put this in perspective for you.
The world is a dangerous place.... For everyone, but due to her condition, more to your daughter.
My guess is MS will offer a version of XP with a little bit of extra stripping down and keep that on the market until the hardware in theese [sic] devices has caught up with the hardware requirements of vista.
Technically, they don't even need to strip the thing. I had a P-III 600MHz laptop with 512Meg RAM and a 6Gig harddisk. Sure, it had 1024x768 resolution and I ran it in "Classic", but it was very usable for normal office work. OpenOffice.org 2, iTunes 6, Firefox 1.5.x and Thunderbird 1.5.x ran side by side, so even multitasking wasn't a big issue. It was my primary machine up until Jan 2007, when I grabbed a new machine on sale. (The old laptop began to physically fall apart. The electronics were still good though)
That machine was less equipped than the Asus EEE PC and it ran wonderfully.
Well, it replaced a P-III 600MHz / 512Meg RAM / 80Gig HD laptop running XP and I really only replaced that machine because it started to physically fall apart. So, well, I got quite more power than I was used to.
Strangely enough, I can play Halflife 2, Portal, etc... on my wifes 2003 desktop with no problem. Okay, okay, I quadrupled the memory and replaced her DX8 graphics card with a DX9 one, but I didn't spend more than 250€. It's all in the graphics card methinks....
Well, I have been in the "industry" for so long.... I was used that a new machine, regardless the "oomph" it has could run older games. Guess, I have to adapt to the new paradigm.
Not that I care too much: it runs Ubuntu now, but it's sad that it can't do compiz.
Putty defaults to white on black, so when I'm stuck in Windows land, that's it.
You can still change the colours, and if you use the "save session" functionality (which would be better named "save settings") then you can even store a different colour per connection. The default colour can also be changed, just change the colour and save the "Default Settings". When putty is running, you can also change the colours by clicking "Change Settings" in the top-left menu (where windows show the application icon)
Well, I would have expected that Halflife 2 would work fine at native resolution (1280x800). Halflife 2 from late 2004, I bought this laptop in january 2007. I'd think that would be a "reasonable expectation".
Of course, I do realise that it's was an el-cheapo laptop.
ATI's chipsets and embedded graphics, which are quite good
Quite good? Holy maloney! Ehm, I have a laptop with an ATI X1100 chipset. Under Windows MCE (which the laptop came with) it was pure suckage. Games? Forget it. Now under Ubuntu Linux, I can't even run Stellarium (or compiz).
ATI's chipsets aren't quite good. They're crap. They were good in the P-III days with the ATI Mobility, yeah...
It is hard to use while proporting to be easy to use. It holds your hand wand walks you right off a cliff.
Use the GIMP, it leads you straight to the cliff.... Just kidding. My mom uses Ubuntu Linux and she knows by now how to resize her pictures by using the Gimp to 800x600 so that she can sent them by email. The Gimp ain't hard, just like in photoshop you need to explain how it works.
Photo manipulation is not easy and that's the whole thing to remember.
I wouldn't even know where to find a rough area in my city, but I don't live in the US. It's one of the weird side effects in living in a very very small country. Yet, we still have low-income people doing 8h jobs.
Besides, I *know* people doing exactly such jobs and most of them (if not all) are hardworking upstanding citizens. They just weren't gifted for academics.
And in your world courts take no time at all? If your case takes ten years and the health bill of the poor kid you nearly damned killed, costs 1000000$ then no normal being on earth is going to be able to pay without going into bankruptcy.
If they don't have sufficient assets to cover the damages then a portion of their income is turned over to the victim until the debt is repaid.
You're dreaming. It's not how it works. I've known a guy who now is in a wheelchair. His parents had to pay all his expenses for years until finally the courts decided that the other guy really really was at fault.
In the tech world? Probably no-one. However, go and look at your local supermarket: the cashiers, the stockers, etc... Those do 8h a day or more. Most manual labour, I guarantee you that. You're usually tightly supervised and you're gonna have time for a cigarette or a coffee a few times a day, but that's it.
Okay, try the following. You drive at 55mph and a deer crosses the road, you manage to steer out of the way, but go head first into the oncoming car. Both cars are wrecked, both drivers are hospitalized. Who's at fault?
Technically you are... You did something and caused the damage. So your insurance should pay: the health costs of your injuries and your material damage. The other guy is fucked.... Sure, he might have an insurance that pays for him, but his insurance premium will rise for something he simply didn't do!
Another scenario: you pass (too fast, evidently) a bus letting out people, and a kid runs (over the walkway, so in its right) over the street and you fail to brake in time and hit it. Kid seriously injured, needs to be hospitalized. You're fine, your car is damaged, but that's not a problem because your insurance will pay for that. To hell with the kid, let it die, after all, it didn't have an insurance to be on the road. It parents could have bought a leach, right?
The concept of liability insurance is to make sure that innocents are spared from paying for the idiocy or recklessness of others. If you find it okay, that damage caused by you should be paid off by others (not all accidents are car-on-car), then your system is golden (and great for abuse too, by the way).
Of course, but *my* point is that they dug their own grave. They made it that way themselves instead of favouring diversity and art, they favoured run-of-the-mill-pop-starlets. They could have had a business respected by everyone, being fair to the artists and customers (not comsumers!) and promoting art... but noooooo.... Quick buck was better, because the alternative means hard work.
At Wal-Mart, we're a commodity and have to fight for shelf space like Colgate fights for shelf space.
And you expect sympathy somehow? I mean, let's be serious: the music industry did all it could to make music a "commodity and throwaway product". I sorry, but what did you expect? You wanted to sell a commodity product, then you live by the rules of commodity products. Geez.... These people are obtuse...
60 miles per hour is about 27m/s. Assume you need 20 seconds to get there. That's an acceleration of 1.35 m/(s^2). What interests us now is the travelled distance to measure how long the ramp must be. You do this with s=Vo*t+((a*t^2)/2). I'm going to be silly and assume that Vo=0, which is pretty much never the case when merging on a highway. So, remains: s=((a*(t^2)/2). We know a, we know t and as such we can calculate s. s=(1.35*(20^2))/2 => s=270 metres.
Are you telling me that ramps are shorter than 300 yards?
So, 20 seconds should be safe, assuming ramps of 300 yards or more.
Be a bit fair... His Rabbit was from 1981 and your Touran is from 2004. The technology is frigging 23 years apart! Besides, he says "Diesel" and you reply with "Turbo Diesel". That little word "Turbo" means a lot, and I have driven a TDI where the "T" was broken. We rented it on Maillorca and after a few days the performance was in the gutter. Not fun if you know Maillorca is a bit "hilly" (at least in the part were we were) We only later found out the turbo was broken.
So, yes, your Touran does 0 to 60 in a bit over 10 seconds. I can believe that his Rabbit took at least 3 times more to get from 0 to 60.
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Seeing doc putting in that banana peel was just too much :-)
I think it depends on the included drivers SP2 entirely. I installed SP2 on a Gigabyte motherboard (for a Core 2 Duo E6600) with SATA disk and emulation was most definitely not enabled. (I disabled it to try, because I wanted to know the veracity of this rumour). Worked fine, without a glitch. This was a Volume Licence CD, slipstreamed to SP2, but *only* SP2.... No extra software nor manufacturer drivers
So, if the SP2 fails on pure SATA installations, then it might be a newer chipset that isn't supported. The one I used, was supported.
I would have the same objection to FAT32, but you could keep your data entirely on ext2 because you can get an NTFS implementation of ext2 for Windows which works fine. Linky.
These days, the only place where FAT32 is appropriate is an USB stick.
I feel for your daughter, but there is a difference between the two situations. Peanut-oil/-butter/-etc is not a dangerous substance. Your daughter is allergic to a normally non dangerous substance.
Bringing really dangerous stuff, like weapons, is dangerous to every kid on the premises. Peanut butter is not. Imagine a kid that could not be in the same room as a loaf of bread. Would you ban the other schoolkids from bringing bread?
The problem here is not peanuts, but your daughters condition. I do understand you're worried about the whole thing, but consider this: next time you take her to the mall, there could be a promotional stand with someone serving peanut butter.... or someone just ate lunch and didn't notice some peanut butter left on his hands and he happens to stand behind her in the line. You can easily imagine a dozen situation in which she'll be exposed to peanut butter. Not directly, after all, you claim she can get problems by just being in vicinity of it.
Fact is: your daughter is going to have a terrible life because of this disability. She'll be safe nowhere, with the possible exception of "at home". I feel for her, but you're not going to be able to protect her. You have to realise that a 100 years ago, your kid would have died at an early age and you wouldn't even have known that it was because of peanuts. Don't mistake me for saying that your daughter should die: I only want to put this in perspective for you.
The world is a dangerous place.... For everyone, but due to her condition, more to your daughter.
And that is exactly the reason why you disable automatic updates if you want to stay in control of your computer....
Technically, they don't even need to strip the thing. I had a P-III 600MHz laptop with 512Meg RAM and a 6Gig harddisk. Sure, it had 1024x768 resolution and I ran it in "Classic", but it was very usable for normal office work. OpenOffice.org 2, iTunes 6, Firefox 1.5.x and Thunderbird 1.5.x ran side by side, so even multitasking wasn't a big issue. It was my primary machine up until Jan 2007, when I grabbed a new machine on sale. (The old laptop began to physically fall apart. The electronics were still good though)
That machine was less equipped than the Asus EEE PC and it ran wonderfully.
Well, it replaced a P-III 600MHz / 512Meg RAM / 80Gig HD laptop running XP and I really only replaced that machine because it started to physically fall apart. So, well, I got quite more power than I was used to.
Strangely enough, I can play Halflife 2, Portal, etc... on my wifes 2003 desktop with no problem. Okay, okay, I quadrupled the memory and replaced her DX8 graphics card with a DX9 one, but I didn't spend more than 250€. It's all in the graphics card methinks....
Well, I have been in the "industry" for so long.... I was used that a new machine, regardless the "oomph" it has could run older games. Guess, I have to adapt to the new paradigm.
Not that I care too much: it runs Ubuntu now, but it's sad that it can't do compiz.
You can still change the colours, and if you use the "save session" functionality (which would be better named "save settings") then you can even store a different colour per connection. The default colour can also be changed, just change the colour and save the "Default Settings". When putty is running, you can also change the colours by clicking "Change Settings" in the top-left menu (where windows show the application icon)
Well, I would have expected that Halflife 2 would work fine at native resolution (1280x800). Halflife 2 from late 2004, I bought this laptop in january 2007. I'd think that would be a "reasonable expectation".
Of course, I do realise that it's was an el-cheapo laptop.
Quite good? Holy maloney! Ehm, I have a laptop with an ATI X1100 chipset. Under Windows MCE (which the laptop came with) it was pure suckage. Games? Forget it. Now under Ubuntu Linux, I can't even run Stellarium (or compiz).
ATI's chipsets aren't quite good. They're crap. They were good in the P-III days with the ATI Mobility, yeah...
The One True Keyboard?. I have one of those, my wife hates it because of the sound.
Use the GIMP, it leads you straight to the cliff.... Just kidding. My mom uses Ubuntu Linux and she knows by now how to resize her pictures by using the Gimp to 800x600 so that she can sent them by email. The Gimp ain't hard, just like in photoshop you need to explain how it works.
Photo manipulation is not easy and that's the whole thing to remember.
You're conceding on slashdot? Sir, I tip my hat to you.... No-one has ever done that before!
I wouldn't even know where to find a rough area in my city, but I don't live in the US. It's one of the weird side effects in living in a very very small country. Yet, we still have low-income people doing 8h jobs.
Besides, I *know* people doing exactly such jobs and most of them (if not all) are hardworking upstanding citizens. They just weren't gifted for academics.
No surprise with Windows Vista success and the inevitable delays of Windows 7 ;-)))
Many people have to do these jobs for the rest of their lives. Think of them next time you yell at a clerk at a store. That's what I try to do.
Some people really don't have the intellectual capacity to go beyond high school. It's not always a matter of being lazy.
You're dreaming. It's not how it works. I've known a guy who now is in a wheelchair. His parents had to pay all his expenses for years until finally the courts decided that the other guy really really was at fault.
In the tech world? Probably no-one. However, go and look at your local supermarket: the cashiers, the stockers, etc... Those do 8h a day or more. Most manual labour, I guarantee you that. You're usually tightly supervised and you're gonna have time for a cigarette or a coffee a few times a day, but that's it.
Okay, try the following. You drive at 55mph and a deer crosses the road, you manage to steer out of the way, but go head first into the oncoming car. Both cars are wrecked, both drivers are hospitalized. Who's at fault?
Technically you are... You did something and caused the damage. So your insurance should pay: the health costs of your injuries and your material damage. The other guy is fucked.... Sure, he might have an insurance that pays for him, but his insurance premium will rise for something he simply didn't do!
Another scenario: you pass (too fast, evidently) a bus letting out people, and a kid runs (over the walkway, so in its right) over the street and you fail to brake in time and hit it. Kid seriously injured, needs to be hospitalized. You're fine, your car is damaged, but that's not a problem because your insurance will pay for that. To hell with the kid, let it die, after all, it didn't have an insurance to be on the road. It parents could have bought a leach, right?
The concept of liability insurance is to make sure that innocents are spared from paying for the idiocy or recklessness of others. If you find it okay, that damage caused by you should be paid off by others (not all accidents are car-on-car), then your system is golden (and great for abuse too, by the way).
Of course, but *my* point is that they dug their own grave. They made it that way themselves instead of favouring diversity and art, they favoured run-of-the-mill-pop-starlets. They could have had a business respected by everyone, being fair to the artists and customers (not comsumers!) and promoting art... but noooooo.... Quick buck was better, because the alternative means hard work.
And you expect sympathy somehow? I mean, let's be serious: the music industry did all it could to make music a "commodity and throwaway product". I sorry, but what did you expect? You wanted to sell a commodity product, then you live by the rules of commodity products. Geez.... These people are obtuse...
60 miles per hour is about 27m/s. Assume you need 20 seconds to get there. That's an acceleration of 1.35 m/(s^2). What interests us now is the travelled distance to measure how long the ramp must be. You do this with s=Vo*t+((a*t^2)/2). I'm going to be silly and assume that Vo=0, which is pretty much never the case when merging on a highway. So, remains: s=((a*(t^2)/2). We know a, we know t and as such we can calculate s. s=(1.35*(20^2))/2 => s=270 metres.
Are you telling me that ramps are shorter than 300 yards?
So, 20 seconds should be safe, assuming ramps of 300 yards or more.
Be a bit fair... His Rabbit was from 1981 and your Touran is from 2004. The technology is frigging 23 years apart! Besides, he says "Diesel" and you reply with "Turbo Diesel". That little word "Turbo" means a lot, and I have driven a TDI where the "T" was broken. We rented it on Maillorca and after a few days the performance was in the gutter. Not fun if you know Maillorca is a bit "hilly" (at least in the part were we were) We only later found out the turbo was broken.
So, yes, your Touran does 0 to 60 in a bit over 10 seconds. I can believe that his Rabbit took at least 3 times more to get from 0 to 60.