These concerns and more are probably exactly why it says China is sending people to Redmond. They aren't going to just hand out all the source code on disc and say "here you go!" They have a lab setup for this purpose, and I'm sure the Chinese won't be taking the source home with them.
You have got to be kidding me. Several hundred thousand people download and install an update and a small handful have problems and somehow QA is inadequate? It says in the article it caused compatibility problems with 3rd party security/firewall software. Is MS supposed to test every single piece of 3rd party software out there before releasing any network-related updates? Even MS doesn't have the resources to test every single PC and software configuration in existence. I don't know the specific details of this particular problem or whether QA is really to blame but problems are always going to slip through. Every other product is the same way. I do agree that this is not news however. This isn't the first patch to be pulled from Windows Update.
I don't remember having any games screw up my system since I stopped playing half-life. I built a new system a couple months ago and it hasn't crashed once. I had a win98 system last a bit past 30 days with regular use once and it was terribly hosed by the time I rebooted. Win2k or XP can last until your power goes out, you kick the surge protector, or you need to reboot to install drivers/software/hotfixes;)
If only it was as simple as you say. Creating drivers that run devices made by many different manufacturers means you have to take all of their differences into account in order to get the same behavior from all devices. For Example: If one chipset powers down a certain device during a reboot/standby/hibernate/etc and another chipset doesn't, you can run into strange behavior. Throw laptops and APCI into the mix and we're lucky things work as well as they do:) I think we're probably just lucky most of these things are isolated from end-users.
I have several machines that won't even POST with certain configurations of USB devices plugged in. I think it is a BIOS issue.. Probably trying to fiddle with devices to do HID support or booting from storage devices and it is probably either hanging the BIOS or the hardware.
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You laugh now, just wait until Windows longhorn ships.
I agree. From what I've seen of it on IA64 systems at workI don't care for it at all. It reminds me of my old Alpha. Hopefully they'll improve it considerably before forcing it into the workstation/home market. Right now it is about as friendly as a kick in the crotch.
I was working at a small company at the time these drives were being made and put them into all our new systems. I had at least 7 of them fail on me within the first few months. (20%?) A guy at the company I bought them from said "if they last past the first couple months they'll last forever"
How is it "crippled"? It is basically the same thing as xp pro with a nice frontend for being controlled with a remote. They took the DRM stuff out, and the system can still be used to do whatever a normal windows system can. I agree with you about the market though. It seems that their target market can't afford these things, so I imagine it won't do too well. I think they should've gone for HDTV and tried to capture the home theater market instead. Those are the people with money to blow, not college students.
A robot with a built in toilet.. imagine the possibilities! No more quitting that online game just to go to the bathroom. Just call the robot on your cell phone and tell it to wheel itself to your desk.
I heard that the data on the game discs is backwards and that the dvd-rom in the xbox spins backwards. (the spirals go the opposite way).
They have 1 session that is readable by normal dvd drives containing a video that says to put the disc in an xbox. The rest of the data isn't readable by a pc. Perhaps if people figured out how to get the xbox dvdrom running on their pc it could be done. Maybe it has already and I just don't know.
You have to keep in mind that IR detectors will detect light from sources other than just the emitter, unless you modulate it in a way that it can tell the difference between flourescent lights/the sun and the emitter.
No they aren't. They are shots taken with a developer or pre-release version of the game which supposedly allowed you to change the resolution. The final game doesn't support the HD resolution the screen shots were taken at.
Or better yet try using a version of windows that isn't 3 years old. XP doesn't do any of the things you mentioned. You can install most things with no reboots.
That is true. I ran rc5 benchmarks on a 733mhz ia64 with 4 gigs of ram and it was about half the speed of a p2 450. OTOH they are fast for other things. I want one to use as a terminal server.
Well good thing I've been using google for 2 or 3 years now. It is just as cool now as it was the first time I tried it. This toolbar is going to save me entire minutes every day:)
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Yes, it has an optical out which can do Dolby Digital in game. Good stuff.
These concerns and more are probably exactly why it says China is sending people to Redmond. They aren't going to just hand out all the source code on disc and say "here you go!"
They have a lab setup for this purpose, and I'm sure the Chinese won't be taking the source home with them.
Gimme a break.. what are you using, win98? I've never had an IE problem force me to reboot.
You have got to be kidding me. Several hundred thousand people download and install an update and a small handful have problems and somehow QA is inadequate? It says in the article it caused compatibility problems with 3rd party security/firewall software. Is MS supposed to test every single piece of 3rd party software out there before releasing any network-related updates? Even MS doesn't have the resources to test every single PC and software configuration in existence. I don't know the specific details of this particular problem or whether QA is really to blame but problems are always going to slip through. Every other product is the same way. I do agree that this is not news however. This isn't the first patch to be pulled from Windows Update.
I don't remember having any games screw up my system since I stopped playing half-life. I built a new system a couple months ago and it hasn't crashed once. ;)
I had a win98 system last a bit past 30 days with regular use once and it was terribly hosed by the time I rebooted. Win2k or XP can last until your power goes out, you kick the surge protector, or you need to reboot to install drivers/software/hotfixes
If only it was as simple as you say. :) I think we're probably just lucky most of these things are isolated from end-users.
Creating drivers that run devices made by many different manufacturers means you have to take all of their differences into account in order to get the same behavior from all devices. For Example: If one chipset powers down a certain device during a reboot/standby/hibernate/etc and another chipset doesn't, you can run into strange behavior. Throw laptops and APCI into the mix and we're lucky things work as well as they do
I have several machines that won't even POST with certain configurations of USB devices plugged in. I think it is a BIOS issue.. Probably trying to fiddle with devices to do HID support or booting from storage devices and it is probably either hanging the BIOS or the hardware.
You laugh now, just wait until Windows longhorn ships.
I agree. From what I've seen of it on IA64 systems at workI don't care for it at all. It reminds me of my old Alpha. Hopefully they'll improve it considerably before forcing it into the workstation/home market. Right now it is about as friendly as a kick in the crotch.
The dreamcast isn't 128 bit. The graphics chip in it may be but it has a 32 bit cpu. ;)
I was working at a small company at the time these drives were being made and put them into all our new systems. I had at least 7 of them fail on me within the first few months. (20%?)
A guy at the company I bought them from said "if they last past the first couple months they'll last forever"
How is it "crippled"? It is basically the same thing as xp pro with a nice frontend for being controlled with a remote. They took the DRM stuff out, and the system can still be used to do whatever a normal windows system can. I agree with you about the market though. It seems that their target market can't afford these things, so I imagine it won't do too well. I think they should've gone for HDTV and tried to capture the home theater market instead. Those are the people with money to blow, not college students.
Haven't they figured out how to pirate norton antivirus?
A robot with a built in toilet.. imagine the possibilities! No more quitting that online game just to go to the bathroom. Just call the robot on your cell phone and tell it to wheel itself to your desk.
I heard that the data on the game discs is backwards and that the dvd-rom in the xbox spins backwards. (the spirals go the opposite way).
They have 1 session that is readable by normal dvd drives containing a video that says to put the disc in an xbox. The rest of the data isn't readable by a pc. Perhaps if people figured out how to get the xbox dvdrom running on their pc it could be done. Maybe it has already and I just don't know.
Saturday Night Fever was much worse.
So what you're saying is that they both look like crap? Personally the vcd format makes me sick. Do you output the captures you make to a tv?
You have to keep in mind that IR detectors will detect light from sources other than just the emitter, unless you modulate it in a way that it can tell the difference between flourescent lights/the sun and the emitter.
step 1) require digital tuners in all new tvs
step 2)
step 3) profit!
"This site has been taken down due to a denial service attack which keeps persisting, sorry for the incovenience" - www.antigames.com
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Thats 7.5 months, not 2 weeks. That is a lot of money if the other employees are getting nothing.
No they aren't. They are shots taken with a developer or pre-release version of the game which supposedly allowed you to change the resolution. The final game doesn't support the HD resolution the screen shots were taken at.
Or better yet try using a version of windows that isn't 3 years old. XP doesn't do any of the things you mentioned. You can install most things with no reboots.
That is true. I ran rc5 benchmarks on a 733mhz ia64 with 4 gigs of ram and it was about half the speed of a p2 450. OTOH they are fast for other things. I want one to use as a terminal server.
It wasn't Fury 3, it was Fury ^3 as in Fury Cubed, aka 3D.
Well good thing I've been using google for 2 or 3 years now. It is just as cool now as it was the first time I tried it. This toolbar is going to save me entire minutes every day :)