Ignore page faults? Why would anyone suggest something like that? You do know what a page fault is, do you? Do you really want the system to ignore that the needed page is not in memory right now, and use whatever page there is instead?
I like the amount of terraforming they visualize around the structure in the rendering you linked. Makes it look like it's going to be erected somewhere in Britain, or central Europe. Those green fields would have to be watered 24/7, turning the expected ecological advantage of the Ziggurat to, please excuse the pun, dust.
There's definitely no ecosystem _now_ where they propose to build the Ziggurat (unless you consider some sand worms and flies as constitutive for one).
I know Dubai from some visits, so I guess this structure wouldn't be left for good in the middle of a wasteland like the pictures make it seem right now, yet anyway: if they don't build recreational facilities and large sheltered parks _within_ it, what kind of people do the creators imagine moving there?
One million slashdot otaku? It sure beats your mother's basement, but...
Actually, they will re-do the Soup Nazi sketch (here, "The Driver Nazi"), with a Steve Jobs lookalike kindly asking for driver support for his hardware (and some aero dressing, while they're at it), and Seinfeld in an Ahmadeehnedjad disguise, answering, "You're pushing your luck, little man. No driver for you, come back, NEXT YEAR!!"
MP3 is widely accepted and ok, as far as I'm concerned, but the ones I downloaded for a quick test were all in 128kbit/s, joint stereo, which is so --dunno-- 1999?. Why go through all that hassle and not offer at least some audible 192kbit/s true stereo files?
Let's see which one of you comes forth with the foulest smell, then.
As for me, I'm confused. I thought the next Windows OS was to be called 'Mojave', but maybe that sounded too dry? And now, Midori, as everyone except my mother knows, is Japanese for 'Green', which is probably the lamest name they could come up with. Let's see, 'lame' is 'dasai' in Japanese, and MS Windows Dasai sounds, surprisingly, rather cool.
That's awfully subjective. I find the GG interface to be an exercise in masochism.
Well I'm sure there's something in the alt.* tree for you!
Oh noes, I'm sorry, but you blew the joke! That should have read: "I agree, and as folks I agree with should be rewarded, I left a present for you in the alt.* tree."
Haha, is that the author of TFA scolding some comment he doesn't get, and being modded flamebait because of that? Please do wake up to 2008, Sascha, what you are missing about Usenet is now called Slashdot.
For me and some other people here, Usenet has never been much more than a repository for binary files, and yes, that's since before 1993.
It's ok for you to turn your back on it, though: Usenet belongs below the radar.
Bah, that's last century's technology, then. I must know, I'm typing this on a rock(et) solid X-61. Must figure out the 'shooting things out of the sky' feature, though, can't find it in the ThinkVantage menu yet.
Yes, but to be more precise: [i] one person (A) needs to focus on driving, while [ii] everyone else inside (B, C, D,...) needs to be properly sedated to the point of not interfering with A's concentration.
I'm sure you can have [ii] with the help of some Microsoft Media Center, Mobile Edition, but it looks like that would exclude [i]. Plus, you know how it would play out with Microsoft offering the 'best all-around experience and performance': See, the on-board computer is a cluster of four Atom CPUs, it can handle the on-board circuitry as well as ignition, traction control, active steering, AND three personal workstations, one in front, two for the back seats, and Vista Ultimate will handle it well.
Well, at least until that point in time when little Timmy in the back will have finished downloading and installing the 'cheating crack' for Halo, On The Road Edition, from the website 'Cuil Ch3at0rZ' via the on-board internet connection. "Um, dear, Hon? What does 'kernel panic' mean, exactly? And how do we 'reboot this car' at 50 mph on the highway?"
Morale of the story: people will justify stealing stuff as long as they can find some argument, however pathetic, to support them. Just another case of Internet anonymity gone wrong.
Stealing. You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.
Oh dear. 'Hole' in one language. 'Rear' in another. Let's pray we don't find another one that translates 'cuil' as anything that refers to goats.
And then imagine they knew all that and chose the word in spite, or worse, because of all those connotations. As for me, I'll be arsed to enter any search phrase in _there_.
Right. I'm not even convinced that 'cool' is the natural pronunciation in English, either. Needless to say, in every other language it definitely isn't: 'coyl' is what it looks to sound like to me, and that doesn't sound cool at all in the (admittedly few) languages I know. Apart from that it looks like it's a Dutch word, but I don't dare to look it up in a dictionary.;)
Still, all you are doing is pointing fingers at Matsushita, when it could well be Apple's configuration, as I pointed out, or Sony's DRM policy enforcement agencies that kindly asked the drive maker to do as they did.
That's why I asked you to google for the model id, not for 'apple superdrive', and you can do the same for the drive in your VAIO to see if they are set up that same way in each and every laptop maker's configuration. No, I won't do it for you. I have no affiliation with Matsushita/Panasonic whatsoever, but I do get mad at clueless finger pointing, especially when all your examples involve companies that are either notorious for less than optimal hardware (Apple), or rigorously enforced DRM (Sony), respectively. AND I am a Sony fanboy, normally.
The "superdrive" (made by MatSHITa, a well deserving name) claims to burn [...]
Sorry about your troubles, but by Matshita you don't mean the company Matsushita, by any chance? The same company that sells their products under the brand name Panasonic overseas, to be exact? I would advise googling the model number of that drive to find if it is really the drive that's at fault in your iMac, or if it is not rather the motherboard, SATA bus, or some other bottleneck that causes it to be slow.
Or maybe blaming a renowned maker because of anecdotal evidence is half the fun, in which case I'd like to state before the jury that out of all the hard drives I've ever owned (twelve, more or less), exactly three did fail and could not be recovered, and of those three drives, three (meaning, 100%) were manufactured by a company called Seagate. Personally, I won't ever buy anything labeled Seagate (or Maxtor, guilty by association) again, but do I run around claiming Seagate is The Evil? No wait, I guess I do, but then I got _three_ pieces of evidence. Or so it goes...
I know you're just trying to pull a joke (and it's working ok so far), but that example is of course true if, and only if you use either of those two OSs in a real time environment, which neither of them is exactly famous for excelling at.
That's the one application I really can appreciate a straw man argument like yours in: some lame joke.
Uh, right, floppy disks, I can see how that is _just_ the same thing. Except, floppies were replaced by something (actually, a myriad of things, from CDs to removable flash memory, and Blu-ray) better, whereas the Wii-Mote: cool-factor -- great. Accuracy and user-friendliness (try to use one for eight business hours on end) -- not so good.
And no, I wouldn't recommend using a Sixaxis or Dualshock controller either, at least not for that purpose.
Next up: the combination of both those future bound GUI technologies, The WiiPhone (TM). It doesn't have any screen at all, you just throw it at whoever you want to talk to! Now if all things were that simple...
I'm not lecturing anyone, please do read the parent's post I replied to. I was just making fun of the obviously naive statement (implicit as it may have been) that as soon as the recession would be over, everything would be good again, at least in all things Wii. I have no idea either when the economical valley will lie behind (us all, I'm in Europe, mind you, that downward curve is global after all), I'm just picking up signals (read: reading some analysts' reports) that suggest we might be in for a long, hard ride.
Not trying to pee on someone's Wii parade at all, if that's a fitting picture (I guess not).
Brawl, Mario Party, Metroid...
There are more than two Wii games.
And I don't think you've EVER talked to ANYONE who WANTED a PS3.
I wonder, are you both deluded AND retarded, or just one of those? So there are three Wii games, I'll give you that, but what is the anti-PS3 rant about? You don't think _any_ gamer worth his salt wouldn't crave a Playstation after watching someone play Metal Gear Solid 4, or even some good old Warhawk?
There's different tastes concerning console flavors, as there are with everything, but there's no need to mark new lows in argumentation. I'll even ignore your 360 fanboyism, but making sh*t up is just not going to cut it. I think at least 30 percent of those 360 owners who have just had to mail in their third console because of RRoD will see the PS3 in another light, by now.;)
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Ignore page faults? Why would anyone suggest something like that? You do know what a page fault is, do you? Do you really want the system to ignore that the needed page is not in memory right now, and use whatever page there is instead?
Interesting. Some fun with Windows, at last!
I like the amount of terraforming they visualize around the structure in the rendering you linked. Makes it look like it's going to be erected somewhere in Britain, or central Europe. Those green fields would have to be watered 24/7, turning the expected ecological advantage of the Ziggurat to, please excuse the pun, dust.
There's definitely no ecosystem _now_ where they propose to build the Ziggurat (unless you consider some sand worms and flies as constitutive for one).
I know Dubai from some visits, so I guess this structure wouldn't be left for good in the middle of a wasteland like the pictures make it seem right now, yet anyway: if they don't build recreational facilities and large sheltered parks _within_ it, what kind of people do the creators imagine moving there?
One million slashdot otaku? It sure beats your mother's basement, but...
Actually, they will re-do the Soup Nazi sketch (here, "The Driver Nazi"), with a Steve Jobs lookalike kindly asking for driver support for his hardware (and some aero dressing, while they're at it), and Seinfeld in an Ahmadeehnedjad disguise, answering, "You're pushing your luck, little man. No driver for you, come back, NEXT YEAR!!"
Now come on, obviously English is not his mother tongue. My guess, he's half Australian, half Mount Everest.
Yes, but that was an on-topic Rickroll for once, or wouldn't you agree Rick Astley actually is an android?
"I like these calm little moments before the storm."
To story submitter: Watch out. The communication disruption can only mean one thing: ----- no carrier
MP3 is widely accepted and ok, as far as I'm concerned, but the ones I downloaded for a quick test were all in 128kbit/s, joint stereo, which is so --dunno-- 1999?. Why go through all that hassle and not offer at least some audible 192kbit/s true stereo files?
That's not M as in Million, it's M as in Mousand.
Let's see which one of you comes forth with the foulest smell, then.
As for me, I'm confused. I thought the next Windows OS was to be called 'Mojave', but maybe that sounded too dry? And now, Midori, as everyone except my mother knows, is Japanese for 'Green', which is probably the lamest name they could come up with. Let's see, 'lame' is 'dasai' in Japanese, and MS Windows Dasai sounds, surprisingly, rather cool.
Well, like I said, I'm confused today.
Well I'm sure there's something in the alt.* tree for you!
Oh noes, I'm sorry, but you blew the joke! That should have read: "I agree, and as folks I agree with should be rewarded, I left a present for you in the alt.* tree."
Haha, is that the author of TFA scolding some comment he doesn't get, and being modded flamebait because of that? Please do wake up to 2008, Sascha, what you are missing about Usenet is now called Slashdot.
For me and some other people here, Usenet has never been much more than a repository for binary files, and yes, that's since before 1993.
It's ok for you to turn your back on it, though: Usenet belongs below the radar.
Bah, that's last century's technology, then. I must know, I'm typing this on a rock(et) solid X-61. Must figure out the 'shooting things out of the sky' feature, though, can't find it in the ThinkVantage menu yet.
Yes, but to be more precise: [i] one person (A) needs to focus on driving, while [ii] everyone else inside (B, C, D, ...) needs to be properly sedated to the point of not interfering with A's concentration.
I'm sure you can have [ii] with the help of some Microsoft Media Center, Mobile Edition, but it looks like that would exclude [i]. Plus, you know how it would play out with Microsoft offering the 'best all-around experience and performance': See, the on-board computer is a cluster of four Atom CPUs, it can handle the on-board circuitry as well as ignition, traction control, active steering, AND three personal workstations, one in front, two for the back seats, and Vista Ultimate will handle it well.
Well, at least until that point in time when little Timmy in the back will have finished downloading and installing the 'cheating crack' for Halo, On The Road Edition, from the website 'Cuil Ch3at0rZ' via the on-board internet connection. "Um, dear, Hon? What does 'kernel panic' mean, exactly? And how do we 'reboot this car' at 50 mph on the highway?"
Morale of the story: people will justify stealing stuff as long as they can find some argument, however pathetic, to support them. Just another case of Internet anonymity gone wrong.
Stealing. You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.
Oh dear. 'Hole' in one language. 'Rear' in another. Let's pray we don't find another one that translates 'cuil' as anything that refers to goats.
And then imagine they knew all that and chose the word in spite, or worse, because of all those connotations. As for me, I'll be arsed to enter any search phrase in _there_.
And yeah, Cuil is a dumb name.
Right. I'm not even convinced that 'cool' is the natural pronunciation in English, either. Needless to say, in every other language it definitely isn't: 'coyl' is what it looks to sound like to me, and that doesn't sound cool at all in the (admittedly few) languages I know. Apart from that it looks like it's a Dutch word, but I don't dare to look it up in a dictionary. ;)
Still, all you are doing is pointing fingers at Matsushita, when it could well be Apple's configuration, as I pointed out, or Sony's DRM policy enforcement agencies that kindly asked the drive maker to do as they did.
That's why I asked you to google for the model id, not for 'apple superdrive', and you can do the same for the drive in your VAIO to see if they are set up that same way in each and every laptop maker's configuration. No, I won't do it for you. I have no affiliation with Matsushita/Panasonic whatsoever, but I do get mad at clueless finger pointing, especially when all your examples involve companies that are either notorious for less than optimal hardware (Apple), or rigorously enforced DRM (Sony), respectively. AND I am a Sony fanboy, normally.
The "superdrive" (made by MatSHITa, a well deserving name) claims to burn [...]
Sorry about your troubles, but by Matshita you don't mean the company Matsushita, by any chance? The same company that sells their products under the brand name Panasonic overseas, to be exact? I would advise googling the model number of that drive to find if it is really the drive that's at fault in your iMac, or if it is not rather the motherboard, SATA bus, or some other bottleneck that causes it to be slow.
Or maybe blaming a renowned maker because of anecdotal evidence is half the fun, in which case I'd like to state before the jury that out of all the hard drives I've ever owned (twelve, more or less), exactly three did fail and could not be recovered, and of those three drives, three (meaning, 100%) were manufactured by a company called Seagate. Personally, I won't ever buy anything labeled Seagate (or Maxtor, guilty by association) again, but do I run around claiming Seagate is The Evil? No wait, I guess I do, but then I got _three_ pieces of evidence. Or so it goes...
I know you're just trying to pull a joke (and it's working ok so far), but that example is of course true if, and only if you use either of those two OSs in a real time environment, which neither of them is exactly famous for excelling at.
That's the one application I really can appreciate a straw man argument like yours in: some lame joke.
That's because he was on board the original lunatic lander. Or was that lunar?
Uh, right, floppy disks, I can see how that is _just_ the same thing. Except, floppies were replaced by something (actually, a myriad of things, from CDs to removable flash memory, and Blu-ray) better, whereas the Wii-Mote: cool-factor -- great. Accuracy and user-friendliness (try to use one for eight business hours on end) -- not so good.
And no, I wouldn't recommend using a Sixaxis or Dualshock controller either, at least not for that purpose.
Next up: the combination of both those future bound GUI technologies, The WiiPhone (TM). It doesn't have any screen at all, you just throw it at whoever you want to talk to! Now if all things were that simple...
I'm not lecturing anyone, please do read the parent's post I replied to. I was just making fun of the obviously naive statement (implicit as it may have been) that as soon as the recession would be over, everything would be good again, at least in all things Wii. I have no idea either when the economical valley will lie behind (us all, I'm in Europe, mind you, that downward curve is global after all), I'm just picking up signals (read: reading some analysts' reports) that suggest we might be in for a long, hard ride.
Not trying to pee on someone's Wii parade at all, if that's a fitting picture (I guess not).
Brawl, Mario Party, Metroid... There are more than two Wii games. And I don't think you've EVER talked to ANYONE who WANTED a PS3.
I wonder, are you both deluded AND retarded, or just one of those? So there are three Wii games, I'll give you that, but what is the anti-PS3 rant about? You don't think _any_ gamer worth his salt wouldn't crave a Playstation after watching someone play Metal Gear Solid 4, or even some good old Warhawk?
;)
There's different tastes concerning console flavors, as there are with everything, but there's no need to mark new lows in argumentation. I'll even ignore your 360 fanboyism, but making sh*t up is just not going to cut it. I think at least 30 percent of those 360 owners who have just had to mail in their third console because of RRoD will see the PS3 in another light, by now.