I'd have to say that it doesn't, as the computer in question is at least three years old, and while I have upgraded the RAM and video cards, I've never upgraded the motherboard.
Still, wouldn't it be the case industry-wide for software upgrades that it's far easier to deal with and have less problems with older hardware rather then the newer stuff?
Oddly enough, I had the opposite happen. Okay, keeping in mind that probably 95% of what I use my computer for revolves around browsing, e-mail and games, I wasn't having that many problems before, but I was getting the occassional (like once every two or three days) complete freeze-up of World of Warcraft. After SP2 was installed, it has happened once. And that more likely had to do with me running WinAMP and a web browser at the same time, alt-tabbing between them to look up item drop rates and changing playlists.
Yes, it's not 100% perfect. No upgrade ever is. Especially considering the staggering amount of code in XP. But for some of us, it's working just fine.
Integrate well? Eh.... sometimes. Maybe even usually. But there are the giant gaping holes where it doesn't integrate well with other products and hardware. The color format in MS Office blows chunks, as MS decided to make their own format, rather then go with a standard CMYK format, to the point where I can't count the number of times that "Microsoft blue" comes out purplish on any number of the printers in the store. And when you have people who insist on using Word to create the 2ft. x 3ft. signboards in Word instead of using something that actually handles colors properly (like Pagemaker or Illustrator, or even Quark Express), well instead of it being their fault for using a program with shitty color handling, it's our fault for not changing the text to "blue". (I mean, come on, really, is it that goddamn difficult to use a color standard that is not proprietary?)
Actually, I thought the same thing you did. I mean, after the abortion that was Enterprise, you couldn't go much worse then a comedic sci-fi show set in the Federation.
"I wish to register a complaint. This tribble you sold me. It's stone dead."
And I'm getting less and less. One e-mail address (my main one) gets almost none. (Although, in all honesty, I have a decent ISP and a damn fine filter.)
The other e-mail, the yahoo one, gets maybe 10 spam e-mails a day. This is the e-mail address I use at any site that says it needs an e-mail address for verification purposes. And it gets 10 a day. This is down from the 40-50 a day I was getting there this time last year.
It's almost to the point where I'm betting they (the/. editors) have a story they're sitting on that is incredibly implausible but actually true, and they will post it later in the day, with "No, really!" at the end of the post.
Sounds about right. I went to North Carolina several months ago, for a convention, after not leaving Columbia, SC for several years. I was slightly worried that by Friday my credit card would no longer work because I was out of my "home area", but because most of the purchases were in/around a hotel, it was handled fine.
Now, Discover... those guys are dicks. Pretty much the same situation, but oh no, he couldn't have traveled anywhere, let's cut off his Discover card halfway through a weekend trip out of state, and make him jump through hoops when he gets home to have it reactivated. Needless to say, I don't have a Discover card any more. (When you ask to speak to their supervisor, and then tell the supervisor to cram it up his ass, it sends the appropriate message.)
Actually, the Comic Book Code which sprung from the "Seduction of the Innocent" era is now largely ignored. I don't think I've seen a Marvel or DC title carry the CBC tag in years.
Correlation, not causation. If video games could so drastically affect behavior, where are all the Pac-Man addicts who should be running around eating everything in sight? Where are the vast numbers of Halo and UT who should be sniping at people off of rooftops?
Most people can play videogames and not think that the room-mate who refuses to do the dishes needs to be fragged. It's those sad sacks who can't, and their parents (who in all likelyhood are just as responsible for Junior being a clue-impaired moron) who should be held responsible, not the game companies.
Parents need to actively involved in raising their kids, not letting the TV or the X-Box do it for them. Buckley hit the nail on the head with that one.
No, it's "if people are too lazy to return video tapes or DVDs, then companies are perfectly within their rights to charge you the price of replacing the copy of the movie".
Look, I agree that this thing by Blockbuster is a load of fetid dingo's kidneys, but if you _never_ return the movie, then you owe them for the movie. Rather, the cost to get a rentable copy to replace the one still in your VCR/DVD player.
If you can't make the time to take the movie back, you probably don't need to be renting the damn movie in the first place.
What about those of us who like seeing the MMORPG news (even if I did know about it a couple days ago), and would rather not see VOIP or HDTV or (gasp!) Linux news as every third article? Are we somehow less important as Slashdot readers?
Again, just because it doesn't matter to you doesn't mean it isn't news.
You're right in that it doesn't affect me. I don't own a car. I don't drive anywhere. I do maintain a driver's license for proof of identity and, if necessary, to be a designated driver for my friends if the need comes up. I'm also not a Republican, btw. Nor am I a Democrat.
I still fail to see what is wrong with having a national standard for driver's licenses and requiring states to share their DMV databases. There are far worse "violations" of "privacy" already, and no-one screams at those. Everything you buy with a credit card is kept in a database for who knows how long, for one example.
Practically all the things they want on the 'standard' driver's license are already on the license I have. I'm not giving up anything I haven't already willingly given the DMV already. So, shockingly, it's not a big deal to me.
When a cop pulls me over, it is completely irrelevant to the matter at hand how many points are on my licence or what previous violations exist. In fact it would be a violation of equal protection if I were to be treated differently based on this information.
Bullshit. If you've lost your license because of DUI and are driving around in another state, it is of extreme importance. If you are wanted on felony charges, it is of extreme importance.
It would be a violated of equal protection if you were pulled over because of your ethnicity, but there is no equal protection for people with poor driving records.
I've never understood the point of limiting a mouse to one button. I mean, I have a three-button mouse with a scroll wheel, and I've got it set up so I can use all four buttons in conjunction with World of Warcraft.
And yet, every time I use the Mac at work, it's an exercise in frustration. Part of it is the unfamiliarity with the way to do things on a Mac (bass-ackwards, it seems, is the rule of the day), but part of it is sheer torture (font handling, for instance). And every time I use it, I find myself trying to use the one-button mouse as though it were a two-button mouse.
Ah well. Luckily, I don't have to use it that often... save for those projects that unfortunately require the Mac version of Quark Express.
If the person you told were a minor, you would be contributing to the delinquency of a minor. If they're not, it's possibly criminal facilitation of a felony.
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I'd have to say that it doesn't, as the computer in question is at least three years old, and while I have upgraded the RAM and video cards, I've never upgraded the motherboard.
Still, wouldn't it be the case industry-wide for software upgrades that it's far easier to deal with and have less problems with older hardware rather then the newer stuff?
Kierthos
Oddly enough, I had the opposite happen. Okay, keeping in mind that probably 95% of what I use my computer for revolves around browsing, e-mail and games, I wasn't having that many problems before, but I was getting the occassional (like once every two or three days) complete freeze-up of World of Warcraft. After SP2 was installed, it has happened once. And that more likely had to do with me running WinAMP and a web browser at the same time, alt-tabbing between them to look up item drop rates and changing playlists.
Yes, it's not 100% perfect. No upgrade ever is. Especially considering the staggering amount of code in XP. But for some of us, it's working just fine.
Kierthos
Integrate well? Eh.... sometimes. Maybe even usually. But there are the giant gaping holes where it doesn't integrate well with other products and hardware. The color format in MS Office blows chunks, as MS decided to make their own format, rather then go with a standard CMYK format, to the point where I can't count the number of times that "Microsoft blue" comes out purplish on any number of the printers in the store. And when you have people who insist on using Word to create the 2ft. x 3ft. signboards in Word instead of using something that actually handles colors properly (like Pagemaker or Illustrator, or even Quark Express), well instead of it being their fault for using a program with shitty color handling, it's our fault for not changing the text to "blue". (I mean, come on, really, is it that goddamn difficult to use a color standard that is not proprietary?)
Kierthos
Yes, you're right. It would be like living in South Carolina.
Kierthos
You swerve across three lanes of traffic, piling into an oncoming tractor-trailer. Better stick with the easy listening on the morning commute.
Kierthos
I, for one, welcome our patented orbital robotic overlords.
Kierthos
You are a TV geek.
Actually, I thought the same thing you did. I mean, after the abortion that was Enterprise, you couldn't go much worse then a comedic sci-fi show set in the Federation.
"I wish to register a complaint. This tribble you sold me. It's stone dead."
Kierthos
And I'm getting less and less. One e-mail address (my main one) gets almost none. (Although, in all honesty, I have a decent ISP and a damn fine filter.)
The other e-mail, the yahoo one, gets maybe 10 spam e-mails a day. This is the e-mail address I use at any site that says it needs an e-mail address for verification purposes. And it gets 10 a day. This is down from the 40-50 a day I was getting there this time last year.
Kierthos
It's almost to the point where I'm betting they (the /. editors) have a story they're sitting on that is incredibly implausible but actually true, and they will post it later in the day, with "No, really!" at the end of the post.
Or it just same shit, different April Fools' Day.
Kierthos
Sounds about right. I went to North Carolina several months ago, for a convention, after not leaving Columbia, SC for several years. I was slightly worried that by Friday my credit card would no longer work because I was out of my "home area", but because most of the purchases were in/around a hotel, it was handled fine.
Now, Discover... those guys are dicks. Pretty much the same situation, but oh no, he couldn't have traveled anywhere, let's cut off his Discover card halfway through a weekend trip out of state, and make him jump through hoops when he gets home to have it reactivated. Needless to say, I don't have a Discover card any more. (When you ask to speak to their supervisor, and then tell the supervisor to cram it up his ass, it sends the appropriate message.)
Kierthos
What's the problem here? I live in the southern U.S. and I could understand them fine.... (and I've never been to the UK...)
Kierthos
Or you could realize that it's a quote from the end of the movie "Sneakers".
Kierthos
Actually, the Comic Book Code which sprung from the "Seduction of the Innocent" era is now largely ignored. I don't think I've seen a Marvel or DC title carry the CBC tag in years.
Kierthos
Correlation, not causation. If video games could so drastically affect behavior, where are all the Pac-Man addicts who should be running around eating everything in sight? Where are the vast numbers of Halo and UT who should be sniping at people off of rooftops?
Most people can play videogames and not think that the room-mate who refuses to do the dishes needs to be fragged. It's those sad sacks who can't, and their parents (who in all likelyhood are just as responsible for Junior being a clue-impaired moron) who should be held responsible, not the game companies.
Parents need to actively involved in raising their kids, not letting the TV or the X-Box do it for them. Buckley hit the nail on the head with that one.
Kierthos
If you'd clicked the link, you'd have seen that "AC" in this case stands for Arcade Controls.
Not that there's anything wrong about having, say, a six-pack of Anonymous Cowards to use to deflect things...
Kierthos
No, it's "if people are too lazy to return video tapes or DVDs, then companies are perfectly within their rights to charge you the price of replacing the copy of the movie".
Look, I agree that this thing by Blockbuster is a load of fetid dingo's kidneys, but if you _never_ return the movie, then you owe them for the movie. Rather, the cost to get a rentable copy to replace the one still in your VCR/DVD player.
If you can't make the time to take the movie back, you probably don't need to be renting the damn movie in the first place.
Kierthos
What about those of us who like seeing the MMORPG news (even if I did know about it a couple days ago), and would rather not see VOIP or HDTV or (gasp!) Linux news as every third article? Are we somehow less important as Slashdot readers?
Again, just because it doesn't matter to you doesn't mean it isn't news.
Kierthos
You're right in that it doesn't affect me. I don't own a car. I don't drive anywhere. I do maintain a driver's license for proof of identity and, if necessary, to be a designated driver for my friends if the need comes up. I'm also not a Republican, btw. Nor am I a Democrat.
I still fail to see what is wrong with having a national standard for driver's licenses and requiring states to share their DMV databases. There are far worse "violations" of "privacy" already, and no-one screams at those. Everything you buy with a credit card is kept in a database for who knows how long, for one example.
Practically all the things they want on the 'standard' driver's license are already on the license I have. I'm not giving up anything I haven't already willingly given the DMV already. So, shockingly, it's not a big deal to me.
Get a grip, it's not that big a deal.
Kierthos
South Carolina has all of those. Hell, it even has height and weight stats on there.
Kierthos
When a cop pulls me over, it is completely irrelevant to the matter at hand how many points are on my licence or what previous violations exist. In fact it would be a violation of equal protection if I were to be treated differently based on this information.
Bullshit. If you've lost your license because of DUI and are driving around in another state, it is of extreme importance. If you are wanted on felony charges, it is of extreme importance.
It would be a violated of equal protection if you were pulled over because of your ethnicity, but there is no equal protection for people with poor driving records.
Kierthos
It never stopped anyone here....
Kierthos
Wait... people actually RTFA? What, did I fall asleep for 20 years and wake up to a completely different Slashdot?
Kierthos
I've never understood the point of limiting a mouse to one button. I mean, I have a three-button mouse with a scroll wheel, and I've got it set up so I can use all four buttons in conjunction with World of Warcraft.
And yet, every time I use the Mac at work, it's an exercise in frustration. Part of it is the unfamiliarity with the way to do things on a Mac (bass-ackwards, it seems, is the rule of the day), but part of it is sheer torture (font handling, for instance). And every time I use it, I find myself trying to use the one-button mouse as though it were a two-button mouse.
Ah well. Luckily, I don't have to use it that often... save for those projects that unfortunately require the Mac version of Quark Express.
Kierthos
If the person you told were a minor, you would be contributing to the delinquency of a minor. If they're not, it's possibly criminal facilitation of a felony.
:P
IANAL. But I watch Law & Order regularly.
Kierthos
No, see, they want it to be smarter then a normal mouse.
Kierthos