Better than naming places which flat out don't exist. There's a piece of land in eastern Utah called Big Park which is not referenced on any state databases or on any other mapping service. It is located out in truly desolate country with no services for miles. Going out there without adequate preparations is likely to get someone stranded or killed.
Google Maps is accountable to no one. That is the problem with these corporations.
Actually in South Korea it's more likely than not the kids will be studying at any number of academies until midnight. I doubt there's any opportunity for them to get into trouble.
Vista's new Start menu is pretty much unusable for me. Instead of expanding 'All Programs' to the right as in previous versions, the list of programs now expands inside this cramped column; the delay while waiting for the list to populate is agonizing, and it can't be changed.
The idea is that you're supposed to type a few letters in the search box to find the program you're looking for. It just seems to me having to search with the keyboard for a program you want to open is counterintuitive.
As far as gamepads go, my recommendation is the Saitek P880 Dual Analog pad. It is ergonomically designed, and it comes with programmable software.
It is superior over the Playstation pad for a number of reasons:
The PSX's D-pad is stiff and rigid, not suitable for fighting games. Diagonal movement is cumbersome to achieve. This gamepad has a fully rotatable D-pad
6 right-side buttons on this gamepad, as opposed to 4 on the PSX's. This is handy when you are playing Capcom arcade fighters, or Sega Genesis games that require 6 buttons.
There are a few odd quirks with this pad - the shoulder buttons are far too big; a second set of shoulder buttons could have fit easily. It's a good pad and it's not too expensive ($20). It's also USB-only.
Anyways, I would withhold judgement until driver optimizations come out for this card. Remember, ATI's Radeon 8500 had extremely poor drivers at first, but since CATALYST, the 8500 showed tremendous performance gains. This is true of all new graphics cards.
As for people buying NVIDIA cards, sure, plenty of people are buying them. NVIDIA's TNT2 is a popular low-cost 3D accelerator card that OEMS like Dell and emachines like to market.
By the way, NVIDIA phased out the 'leaf blower' attachment. They learned from their mistakes.
One of my fondest memories was cracking open a Macintosh Plus (with the 'security' Torx screws) and sautering the board. You see, my particular fanless Macintosh had a habit of flatlining - literally, because the heat would melt the sauter. The only way to correct it was to open the Mac and sauter some connections on the board to get the video back. Even with a fan on top of the Mac, it would still lose video.
IIRC, didn't the fanless iMacs have a problem with heat if you covered the vents? People tend to do that...
My Shuttle HOT-591P motherboard, which I got back in 1998, had no PS/2 slots. Instead, I was given an AT port and a serial port.
I don't understand - why are PS/2 ports labeled as "legacy"? They do their job well enough - a fast typist will hardly tax a PS/2 port, PS/2 keyboards have been the standard since, oh, AT keyboards went out of style. PS/2 keyboards will also work in any OS as opposed to a USB keyboard (unless your BIOS has an option for 'legacy USB keyboard' support). Finally, the IBM Model M keyboard (that old clicky keyboard that's built like a tank) is made only for PS/2, which is a reason Apples are inferior:)
Is it because of consumer idiocy? "Too many ports"? What?
I will not upgrade to a SoundBlaster Audigy. Creative just dropped any incentive for me to upgrade by eliminating the game/MIDI port on the back of their card.
Parallel ports can be faster than USB in some cases - my Micro Solutions 4x CD-RW is designed for a parallel port. In one mode, USB transfers SLOWER than an ECP/EPP parallel port does!
I completely agree. This is one of the biggest annoyances I have with Linux: that there is a percievable delay between clicking, say, the "File" menu in a GTK-based app and the contents of the File menu showing up.
However, I doubt that it's XFree86's fault, as the port of X-Chat (which was built with GTK) to Windows shows the same menu behavior as its Linux counterpart. On Linux, however, IceWM exhibits no menu delay whatsoever.
Then, of course, you have to take into account if you're running a theme that uses pixmaps. If you're running bubbles-gradient, for example, you're more than likely wasting a horrendous amount of CPU cycles just to highlight a button. Even with fast themes like thinice, the delay is still there.
It's this kind of clunkiness that makes me wonder how people can use themes like this
..but after spending hours trying to get Quake 3 Arena and Unreal Tournament to work, I had little hope for their future. I checked their support newsgroups some time back; Unreal Tournament support was active with about 4000 posts. Let me detail my experiences with Unreal Tournament:
- Downloaded and installed it with Windows CD.
-./UnrealTournament. Takes an eternity to load, but I blame that on my slow hard drive and K6/2 500.
- Crashes: Cannot find Glide drivers, even though Glide v3 was installed (Voodoo Banshee, by the way), and libglide.so was sitting plainly in one of the main/lib directories, I forget which.
- To cut a long story short, I was sent on a wild goose chase, trying hack after hack after hack (DRI, Utah-GLX, recompile OpenGL^HMesa, recompile kernel) until I finally decided that I will never try one of Loki's games again unless they can successfully make Unreal Tournament work on a Banshee. Mandrake 7.2, BTW.
Asking on IRC was futile, as my problem was unique.
This experience isn't new for me. LinuxGames.com's instructions on emulating UltraHLE in WINE must involve some sort of magic, as I have never been able to get that working. Quake 3 Arena's demo segfaulted on startup.
Considering that Adobe Photoshop costs $600, I'm not really surprised at this decision. Adobe could have lowered prices for their Asian market, but instead they just took their ball and went home.
Can anybody possibly justify paying $600 for a flimsy cardboard box and a plastic CD?
IceWM rocks. It's small, fast, themable, and has an integrated window manager so you don't have to fiddle with anything else. It also is a Win95 lookalike which is a definite plus in my opinion, and it does not attempt to take over your graphical login screen like GNOME does.
It also has an extremely responsive menu - fastest I've seen so far.
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Better than naming places which flat out don't exist. There's a piece of land in eastern Utah called Big Park which is not referenced on any state databases or on any other mapping service. It is located out in truly desolate country with no services for miles. Going out there without adequate preparations is likely to get someone stranded or killed.
Google Maps is accountable to no one. That is the problem with these corporations.
No need to abandon ship or to hang on to an older version. Pale Moon has been fixing Firefox's stupidity for quite a while now. Give it a try.
A big limitation of Sumatra is that it doesn't support filling out interactive forms, which makes it a no-go in my organization
The activation servers will still be there after 2014.
See:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/250774/will_i_be_able_to_activate_xp_after_2014_.html
Prayaya v3 won't run at all in 64-bit windows because of PatchGuard
I really wonder what this guy's strategy is for convincing a country where 60% of Internet users still use IE6 to upgrade
Actually in South Korea it's more likely than not the kids will be studying at any number of academies until midnight. I doubt there's any opportunity for them to get into trouble.
The embargo won't end anytime soon - the Helms-Burton act specifies that as long as a Castro remains in power, the embargo will remain enforced.
You just can't argue with a keyboard that has a 2mm steel plate.
The VPN users will be very happy with you.
Vista's new Start menu is pretty much unusable for me. Instead of expanding 'All Programs' to the right as in previous versions, the list of programs now expands inside this cramped column; the delay while waiting for the list to populate is agonizing, and it can't be changed.
The idea is that you're supposed to type a few letters in the search box to find the program you're looking for. It just seems to me having to search with the keyboard for a program you want to open is counterintuitive.
It is superior over the Playstation pad for a number of reasons:
There are a few odd quirks with this pad - the shoulder buttons are far too big; a second set of shoulder buttons could have fit easily. It's a good pad and it's not too expensive ($20). It's also USB-only.
Anyways, I would withhold judgement until driver optimizations come out for this card. Remember, ATI's Radeon 8500 had extremely poor drivers at first, but since CATALYST, the 8500 showed tremendous performance gains. This is true of all new graphics cards.
As for people buying NVIDIA cards, sure, plenty of people are buying them. NVIDIA's TNT2 is a popular low-cost 3D accelerator card that OEMS like Dell and emachines like to market.
By the way, NVIDIA phased out the 'leaf blower' attachment. They learned from their mistakes.
It sounds reasonable, considering that some 4M people are using Kazaa right now, I'd think that a fair portion of those are downloading movies.
I believe this will do the trick
What kind of a person are you?
One of my fondest memories was cracking open a Macintosh Plus (with the 'security' Torx screws) and sautering the board. You see, my particular fanless Macintosh had a habit of flatlining - literally, because the heat would melt the sauter. The only way to correct it was to open the Mac and sauter some connections on the board to get the video back. Even with a fan on top of the Mac, it would still lose video.
IIRC, didn't the fanless iMacs have a problem with heat if you covered the vents? People tend to do that...
So, what's your solution to updating a BIOS from a protected-mode OS like W2K or WinXP?
My Shuttle HOT-591P motherboard, which I got back in 1998, had no PS/2 slots. Instead, I was given an AT port and a serial port.
:)
I don't understand - why are PS/2 ports labeled as "legacy"? They do their job well enough - a fast typist will hardly tax a PS/2 port, PS/2 keyboards have been the standard since, oh, AT keyboards went out of style. PS/2 keyboards will also work in any OS as opposed to a USB keyboard (unless your BIOS has an option for 'legacy USB keyboard' support). Finally, the IBM Model M keyboard (that old clicky keyboard that's built like a tank) is made only for PS/2, which is a reason Apples are inferior
Is it because of consumer idiocy? "Too many ports"? What?
I will not upgrade to a SoundBlaster Audigy. Creative just dropped any incentive for me to upgrade by eliminating the game/MIDI port on the back of their card.
Parallel ports can be faster than USB in some cases - my Micro Solutions 4x CD-RW is designed for a parallel port. In one mode, USB transfers SLOWER than an ECP/EPP parallel port does!
I completely agree. This is one of the biggest annoyances I have with Linux: that there is a percievable delay between clicking, say, the "File" menu in a GTK-based app and the contents of the File menu showing up.
However, I doubt that it's XFree86's fault, as the port of X-Chat (which was built with GTK) to Windows shows the same menu behavior as its Linux counterpart. On Linux, however, IceWM exhibits no menu delay whatsoever.
Then, of course, you have to take into account if you're running a theme that uses pixmaps. If you're running bubbles-gradient, for example, you're more than likely wasting a horrendous amount of CPU cycles just to highlight a button. Even with fast themes like thinice, the delay is still there.
It's this kind of clunkiness that makes me wonder how people can use themes like this
..but after spending hours trying to get Quake 3 Arena and Unreal Tournament to work, I had little hope for their future. I checked their support newsgroups some time back; Unreal Tournament support was active with about 4000 posts. Let me detail my experiences with Unreal Tournament:
./UnrealTournament. Takes an eternity to load, but I blame that on my slow hard drive and K6/2 500.
/lib directories, I forget which.
- Downloaded and installed it with Windows CD.
-
- Crashes: Cannot find Glide drivers, even though Glide v3 was installed (Voodoo Banshee, by the way), and libglide.so was sitting plainly in one of the main
- To cut a long story short, I was sent on a wild goose chase, trying hack after hack after hack (DRI, Utah-GLX, recompile OpenGL^HMesa, recompile kernel) until I finally decided that I will never try one of Loki's games again unless they can successfully make Unreal Tournament work on a Banshee. Mandrake 7.2, BTW.
Asking on IRC was futile, as my problem was unique.
This experience isn't new for me. LinuxGames.com's instructions on emulating UltraHLE in WINE must involve some sort of magic, as I have never been able to get that working. Quake 3 Arena's demo segfaulted on startup.
Sorry to see you go, Loki.
Considering that Adobe Photoshop costs $600, I'm not really surprised at this decision. Adobe could have lowered prices for their Asian market, but instead they just took their ball and went home.
Can anybody possibly justify paying $600 for a flimsy cardboard box and a plastic CD?
IceWM rocks. It's small, fast, themable, and has an integrated window manager so you don't have to fiddle with anything else. It also is a Win95 lookalike which is a definite plus in my opinion, and it does not attempt to take over your graphical login screen like GNOME does.
It also has an extremely responsive menu - fastest I've seen so far.
I think that the author was referring to the fact that you could use the keyboard to wipe your sweaty mouse hands on.
I was able to mow down anybody who opposed me in Descent I/II using nothing but the keyboard. So don't bash us keyboarders.