I don't know about concerts, but in night clubs it's because people are bad dancers. Low volume, people do wobble randomly. Loud enough to actually feel the sound and people actually dance in unison, decreasing the chance of an elbow to your face.
It's not on the application level. The ipconfig output shows an IPv4 for the localhost and router, and a IPv6 for the nameservers. The router routes perfectly any IPv4 address, and thus you can surf the net if you bother using IP-adresses instead of hostnames. Now when Vista tries to resolve an name it fails as the home router haves no idea where to route the IPv6 packet destined for the nameserver.
I do not know where Vista gets that IPv6 nameserver address. Usually it's an local, sometimes something completely random. I've even seen a invalid IPv6 address. A '%' in the middle of the address. If that is not a bug, I don't know what is.
Machines with XP and linux etc. gets the correct IPv4 adress and works fine.
Well, most home routers don't use IPv6 either. Still Vista can get a IPv4 IP-adress for itself, and get a IPv6 nameserver adress. I work in software support. If a customer calls in with Vista and network trouble, we disable IPv6. Solves maybe 2/3 of the problems.
Actually, Corel DRAW used to be the de facto standard for illustration, side by side with QuarkExpress and PageMager for layout. Corel isn't crap, it simply evolved slower than Illustrator.
Um, it not randomly at all. It is perfectly calculated, and as soon as you learn what the blending modes does, you'll quickly figure out in your head what happens with which style.
"Maybe because those of you in Europe couldn't stop Hitler yourselves?"
That is why we hate you. Cut that crap already. Sure, you fought against Hitler, but was it decisive? I don't know, and you neither.
"The EU doesn't have the means to "atomic-bitchslap" the United States or Russia."
Please read about the Second World War. About how Soviet attacked Finland, and the 10-to-1 kill ratio. That was the reason that the United States intervened, as someone else showed that the Red Army was not so good as it appeared. If you do not understand the scale of that accomplishment, pretend that Florida is a country you need to invade, and you fail at it.
Now consider Germany who got subdued when Russia, USA, England and France ganged up on them. What about when France, Germany and England gangs up on somebody else?
>Unless you live near a major active fault line, in which case a "flimsy cardboard box" would be a really good idea. We don't see many brick houses around here.
Why do you live there? Not like you are running out of space in that country.
1: Find coffee beans 2: Grind them, use rocks to crush them if you don't have anything else handy 3: Boil water 4: Pour in the ground beans 5: Boil 6: Let it sink for a while 7: Pour coffee into mug 8: Do not drink the last of the coffee. The ground coffee is heavier than water, and thus remains in the bottom of the kettle and/or cup.
That's how people have been making coffee for ages. Since the introduction of coffee a thousand years ago, up until my grandparents. Or me, when I'm out camping, and have to use *gasp* open fire.
In a article about people's irrational dependancy on technology, you write that you cannot make coffee without an coffee maker? How deliciously ironic...
Anyways, coffee has been used for over a thounsand years. Coffee makers and electricity have not.
> Since it can take several seconds to reach the target Okay, so we are talking about space battles with distances of several light-seconds. Remembering that the distance between earth and the moon is about a light-second, I wonder how long it would take for that nuclear missile of yours...
If you boost it to a very high speed (lets say ten thousand kilometres per second), you will not have much manuevering possibilities, due to to the massive amount of energy needed to divert it. And still at that speed, the distance of two light seconds will take a full minute. And a missile that goes at such ludicrous speed is way beyond what can be built today, maybe as far away as real space battles:)
You are aware that your ancestors are from Europe too? They came in a wiggly little boat a few hundred years ago, cramped with other poor, lower class Europeans
As a Finnish guy who recently moved to the Netherlands, I can say that you are a fucking retard. That's like saying people from Canada, USA and Mexico see themselves first as Americans, then nationals.
Fuck, we are almost likely letting Turkey in. They are not Europeans. Islam? WTF? Read up on history and see how much moslems and europeans have been chopping each other into pieces for the past... well, human history.
1: Please find a capacitor that can run a laptop for half an hour 2: Charge it 3: Short it with your fingers 4: Your lack of fingers will now clearly show you the reason why capacitors aren't used in laptops.
That's why we give the opportunity for the customer to keep their dignity. "Well, it's a known issue with your network adapter, that the cables will not always get a connection. Can you unplug and replug the network cable?"
Customer: "I cannot access internet/my bank/whatever" Me: "Did you install IE7 recently?" "Yup" "Okay, use system restore. Here's a complimentary link to firefox."
That's right. Friend of mine worked at a software company, which used activation keys for its products. The technical support people were not allowed to call customers a liar, even though they could see the key was used for attempted activation tens of thousands times around the world, and the customer claimed it was in his unopened package. Shut up, believe the customer and give out a new key was the policy.
Greetings from software support. Not microsoft though.
People _do_ call in with pirated software, and lie about it.
People claim the activation key that has been used about 20.000 times is theirs and not downloaded from the Internet. They claim the software came with their computer, even though that software has never been sold/bundled from the company I work at. "No, I didn't drop my laptop, the screen spontaneously cracked"
People say anything to get something, software or hardware, from support.
I work in techical support, so I have to know about computers in general. This really pisses the IT-staff off. My co-worker recently had a headcrash on his computer. Now the noise that comes from a headcrashed harddisk is fairly obvious, so when he wrote a trouble ticket mentioning his harddisk was broken, and requested a new one. Well, the reply was a angry message urging him not to diagnose the problem himself, but to open a new ticket, saying his computer is broken, and requesting IT to have a look.
Hey, wtf? He helps some 30ish customers every day with random computer problems, and IT considers him incapable of diagnosing his own computer.
Other detail is that out computers are locked down with a padlock, and we have no local administrator rights. When I started I got migranes from the display, because of the bad picture. Nice new flat panel and nice new computer, but a VGA cable. I instantly requested a DVI cable. IT replied by giving me a thicker VGA cable. I had to physically break the padlock to install a card with DVI out, and break the admin password to get the drivers in.
And then the IT-staff wonders why nobody talks to them at corporate parties.
Read again. I wasn't saying that gnome doesn't work with 512 megs of ram. I said photoshop (or the linux equivalent, GIMP). That application doesn't work without trashing, especially when dealing with poster size images. If it would, I would donate the money I've saved up to some open source developer, instead of getting a memory upgrade.
But, sadly, there is no such thing as magic in computer science. Like my co-worker said to a customer: "Well, your harddrive is broken, reinstalling the OS will not help. But, then again it's christmas, and miracles do happen".:)
Wow. It's also a capital in a country in europe. You do know where europe is? Founded some 2500 years ago. Not like it sprung up over night, like the maybe dozen Viennas you got in USA
Actually, it runs suprisingly fast. I work in technical support, so I have been forced to learn vista for a while already.
At the moment I'm running it on a core duo laptop with 512MB memory and a intel 945 graphics adapter. And yes, aero works nicely. Wasn't it so that vista required a lot of ram and a good video card? Quite low on those stats, this laptop, right?
Running a webbrowser and other light stuff, I can't really tell a speed difference between vista and xp. Running something like photoshop... well, 512 megs of ram, so both vista and xp dies. Even gnome trashes itself to death.
If you have any decent computer it doesn't matter which OS you use. All work just as fast. Only thing what matters is how you want to maintain it. Want it to work out of the box, and then later fix it? Get windows Want to spend a day configuring it and then forget about it? Use linux Want it to simply work, but have no application support? Get beos
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It's an add-in card. If it breaks swap or remove it.
I don't know about concerts, but in night clubs it's because people are bad dancers.
Low volume, people do wobble randomly.
Loud enough to actually feel the sound and people actually dance in unison, decreasing the chance of an elbow to your face.
It's not on the application level. The ipconfig output shows an IPv4 for the localhost and router, and a IPv6 for the nameservers. The router routes perfectly any IPv4 address, and thus you can surf the net if you bother using IP-adresses instead of hostnames. Now when Vista tries to resolve an name it fails as the home router haves no idea where to route the IPv6 packet destined for the nameserver.
I do not know where Vista gets that IPv6 nameserver address. Usually it's an local, sometimes something completely random. I've even seen a invalid IPv6 address. A '%' in the middle of the address. If that is not a bug, I don't know what is.
Machines with XP and linux etc. gets the correct IPv4 adress and works fine.
Well, most home routers don't use IPv6 either. Still Vista can get a IPv4 IP-adress for itself, and get a IPv6 nameserver adress.
I work in software support. If a customer calls in with Vista and network trouble, we disable IPv6. Solves maybe 2/3 of the problems.
Actually, Corel DRAW used to be the de facto standard for illustration, side by side with QuarkExpress and PageMager for layout. Corel isn't crap, it simply evolved slower than Illustrator.
Um, it not randomly at all. It is perfectly calculated, and as soon as you learn what the blending modes does, you'll quickly figure out in your head what happens with which style.
So, with USA with a impeding economical crisis, can afford similar stuff?
Come on, big enough countries can afford a few bases anytime. Simply leave a few homeless without food.
"Maybe because those of you in Europe couldn't stop Hitler yourselves?"
That is why we hate you. Cut that crap already. Sure, you fought against Hitler, but was it decisive? I don't know, and you neither.
"The EU doesn't have the means to "atomic-bitchslap" the United States or Russia."
Please read about the Second World War. About how Soviet attacked Finland, and the 10-to-1 kill ratio. That was the reason that the United States intervened, as someone else showed that the Red Army was not so good as it appeared. If you do not understand the scale of that accomplishment, pretend that Florida is a country you need to invade, and you fail at it.
Now consider Germany who got subdued when Russia, USA, England and France ganged up on them. What about when France, Germany and England gangs up on somebody else?
>Unless you live near a major active fault line, in which case a "flimsy cardboard box" would be a really good idea. We don't see many brick houses around here.
Why do you live there? Not like you are running out of space in that country.
HOW-TO: make coffee in a kettle of boiling water.
1: Find coffee beans
2: Grind them, use rocks to crush them if you don't have anything else handy
3: Boil water
4: Pour in the ground beans
5: Boil
6: Let it sink for a while
7: Pour coffee into mug
8: Do not drink the last of the coffee. The ground coffee is heavier than water, and thus remains in the bottom of the kettle and/or cup.
That's how people have been making coffee for ages. Since the introduction of coffee a thousand years ago, up until my grandparents. Or me, when I'm out camping, and have to use *gasp* open fire.
In a article about people's irrational dependancy on technology, you write that you cannot make coffee without an coffee maker?
How deliciously ironic...
Anyways, coffee has been used for over a thounsand years. Coffee makers and electricity have not.
> Since it can take several seconds to reach the target
:)
Okay, so we are talking about space battles with distances of several light-seconds.
Remembering that the distance between earth and the moon is about a light-second, I wonder how long it would take for that nuclear missile of yours...
If you boost it to a very high speed (lets say ten thousand kilometres per second), you will not have much manuevering possibilities, due to to the massive amount of energy needed to divert it. And still at that speed, the distance of two light seconds will take a full minute. And a missile that goes at such ludicrous speed is way beyond what can be built today, maybe as far away as real space battles
You are aware that your ancestors are from Europe too? They came in a wiggly little boat a few hundred years ago, cramped with other poor, lower class Europeans
As a Finnish guy who recently moved to the Netherlands, I can say that you are a fucking retard. That's like saying people from Canada, USA and Mexico see themselves first as Americans, then nationals.
Fuck, we are almost likely letting Turkey in. They are not Europeans. Islam? WTF? Read up on history and see how much moslems and europeans have been chopping each other into pieces for the past... well, human history.
1: Please find a capacitor that can run a laptop for half an hour
2: Charge it
3: Short it with your fingers
4: Your lack of fingers will now clearly show you the reason why capacitors aren't used in laptops.
That's why we give the opportunity for the customer to keep their dignity.
"Well, it's a known issue with your network adapter, that the cables will not always get a connection. Can you unplug and replug the network cable?"
Customers always have the right to request any and all data stored about him in a database. I smell lawsuits if that bit would be implemented.
Greetings from technical support.
Customer: "I cannot access internet/my bank/whatever"
Me: "Did you install IE7 recently?"
"Yup"
"Okay, use system restore. Here's a complimentary link to firefox."
They do not call again.
That's right. Friend of mine worked at a software company, which used activation keys for its products.
The technical support people were not allowed to call customers a liar, even though they could see the key was used for attempted activation tens of thousands times around the world, and the customer claimed it was in his unopened package. Shut up, believe the customer and give out a new key was the policy.
Greetings from software support. Not microsoft though.
People _do_ call in with pirated software, and lie about it.
People claim the activation key that has been used about 20.000 times is theirs and not downloaded from the Internet.
They claim the software came with their computer, even though that software has never been sold/bundled from the company I work at.
"No, I didn't drop my laptop, the screen spontaneously cracked"
People say anything to get something, software or hardware, from support.
I work in techical support, so I have to know about computers in general. This really pisses the IT-staff off.
My co-worker recently had a headcrash on his computer. Now the noise that comes from a headcrashed harddisk is fairly obvious, so when he wrote a trouble ticket mentioning his harddisk was broken, and requested a new one. Well, the reply was a angry message urging him not to diagnose the problem himself, but to open a new ticket, saying his computer is broken, and requesting IT to have a look.
Hey, wtf? He helps some 30ish customers every day with random computer problems, and IT considers him incapable of diagnosing his own computer.
Other detail is that out computers are locked down with a padlock, and we have no local administrator rights.
When I started I got migranes from the display, because of the bad picture. Nice new flat panel and nice new computer, but a VGA cable. I instantly requested a DVI cable. IT replied by giving me a thicker VGA cable. I had to physically break the padlock to install a card with DVI out, and break the admin password to get the drivers in.
And then the IT-staff wonders why nobody talks to them at corporate parties.
"conduct a database search narrowed to three criteria: a specific amount of money, a specific time period and a specific receiver account."
You probably are a consultant if you need data mining or big, nasty joins to dig out information based on those criteria.
Read again.
:)
I wasn't saying that gnome doesn't work with 512 megs of ram. I said photoshop (or the linux equivalent, GIMP).
That application doesn't work without trashing, especially when dealing with poster size images. If it would, I would donate the money I've saved up to some open source developer, instead of getting a memory upgrade.
But, sadly, there is no such thing as magic in computer science.
Like my co-worker said to a customer: "Well, your harddrive is broken, reinstalling the OS will not help. But, then again it's christmas, and miracles do happen".
Wow. It's also a capital in a country in europe. You do know where europe is?
Founded some 2500 years ago. Not like it sprung up over night, like the maybe dozen Viennas you got in USA
Actually, it runs suprisingly fast. I work in technical support, so I have been forced to learn vista for a while already.
At the moment I'm running it on a core duo laptop with 512MB memory and a intel 945 graphics adapter. And yes, aero works nicely.
Wasn't it so that vista required a lot of ram and a good video card? Quite low on those stats, this laptop, right?
Running a webbrowser and other light stuff, I can't really tell a speed difference between vista and xp. Running something like photoshop... well, 512 megs of ram, so both vista and xp dies. Even gnome trashes itself to death.
If you have any decent computer it doesn't matter which OS you use. All work just as fast. Only thing what matters is how you want to maintain it.
Want it to work out of the box, and then later fix it? Get windows
Want to spend a day configuring it and then forget about it? Use linux
Want it to simply work, but have no application support? Get beos