No, it's not a BIOS setting. It's a status check, it can't be disabled, and it's in the manual under "quiet time".
Its using FB ECC RAM. We don't bother with the memory check.
My "old" p4 1.8 / 512 machine boots win2k in 30 seconds; Ubuntu about the same. (That's timed from pressing the button to when you can start a program.)
Get a real automation system and wire your house up properly. Hell, with what you're spending on your phone "solution", you could easily get some PLC controls and wire up your house so that it will last for the life of your house.
Like you, I was once a computer gamer. I remember having a Hercules graphics card (like EGA, but in monochrome). Test Drive 3 was the first game I played with a sound card. I remember DOS boot disks. Before that, I had to write my own games - demos used to be pages of code in magazines. "Looks like fun? Code it up and give it a try." So I've been a PC gamer for a long time -- long before it was cool.
I played a lot of UO (admittedly, on a POL server.) I met a few friends on there - one even sent me a baby blanket when my daughter was born. We moved to NWN, and there was talk about moving to NWN2. I played a LOT of NWN, but I was never interested in spending hundreds of dollars upgrading my system just to play another game.
I decided that I wasn't going to bother fucking around every year or every release with a new video card or a new stick of RAM, or removing programs to play a game, &etc. Why spend $300 on a new card to play a $60 game when that same game will be ported to a console and is guaranteed to work?
I got a Wii last year. My wife and daughter both play it. Yes, it's a big DRM dongle that plays only the Wii titles. That's fine, because I knew that when I bought it. But you know what? It's going to work. I can buy any Wii title, put it in, and know that I can play it. Some games are crap, which is why I get them out from the library first. You can't do that with a PC game.
In fact, I got rid of my Windows install completely. My home machine runs Ubuntu, and I don't game with it at all anymore.
Have fun, PC game industry. You made it such a pain in the ass to play games on the PC that you've lost a lot of people.
Ah-hah! I've got the answer to our CAPTCHA problems:
We just make them so hard that it becomes impossible for a human to solve it. Then we invert the solution: if you pass the CAPTCHA, you're obviously a bot, because a human can't solve it. FAIL the CAPTCHA, we know that you're human.
"The rocks aren't really that old. They are made to look old by all humanly methods, including carbon dating. God is perfect and infallible, and has foreseen not only carbon dating, but any other future inventions that can check ages. By all human measurements, the rocks will appear to be hundreds of thousands of years old, although they are obviously not more than 4000 years old. You cannot disprove The Holy Bible by a mere technological invention."
The quotes are to clarify any problems with Poe's Law.
Maybe now we won't have to hear about him all the damn time.
~t
Not even close.
Jack is going to call out against video games until he dies or retires. He enjoys the attention and the money.
He's now completely free to so whatever he wants and say whatever he wants and act in any manner he pleases - he has no professional association to give him any oversight.
We haven't seen the last of him, not by a long shot.
Even if we had seen the last of him, that would be a bad thing. He's a raving loon, and if he represents those who are against violent games, that's good for those of us who are 30+ years old, have jobs, mortgages, kids, spouses, and the entire GTA series.
Well, when body cavity searches become routine (some may say they are) will you say, "I don't have anything to hide in my colon anyway; Have a gander!"?
That's what goatse man has been trying to warn us about for years.
No, you aren't safer. You're not in any more danger either.
What you see is the perceived risk - if a kid goes missing now, it's front page news, and you can see the news from any given city. Any time any kid goes missing, it's on CNN and Fox all day. It sells. Since they lead with that shit, it looks like we're in the middle of a kidnapping epidemic.
35 years ago, it wasn't as sensational. You didn't have the media doing freakout stories every time a kid goes missing.
Most kidnappings are from someone the kid knows. There's very little random crime.
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No.
There will always be people who are afraid of new and different things. Whether their fears manifest as racism, sexism, Icarian paranoia or something else is a question of semantics.
Why not design the car yourself - using bits and pieces found at your local junkyard? Better yet - smelt the metal in your garage and take up blacksmithing to make all the bits. Sort of like building your own computer from discrete transistors.
If you haven't built a small computer from discrete components, I'd say that you may have some gaps in your understanding.
It's a real pain, but there is a certain satisfaction of manually triggering the cycles and watching it read and write.
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It'll cost you $25,000 for the bits, plus zero dollars in manufacture, I hope.
Only if your time is worth zero dollars.
So just like Open Source Software, then.
It should go over very well here.
For the record, if my car wasn't under a very comprehensive warranty for the next five years, I'd order the parts and do the conversion just so I could say that I'd done it.
Hey, I had an N64 up until late last year. It was damned fast. With the introduction of the original Playstation, we had
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load times. Yes, we can fit a lot more data onto those 750MB disks than the cartridge tech of the time. Now they're giving away 1GB Flash drives with a box of cereal. You can easily buy 16GB drives now, and that's got 4x the info of a DVD.
It'll be much easier for "Them" to lock down each game with a globally unique serial number when you're burning Flash drives; much, much harder than when you're pressing CD / DVD runs. Microchip will sell you chips (by the reel, of course) that are pre-programmed and have an incrementing sequence in one section.
I don't know why you're marked troll. You shouldn't be.
Anyway, above a certain threshold, it starts to get a military-grade function, and therefore it's not something they want the general public to have. The general public includes America's Enemies.
It's the same reason why commercial GPS shuts down above 60,000 feet or faster than [can't remember the units].
I'm sure an American will point out that their 2nd Amendment grant the citizens rights to GPS-equipped military hardware.
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You mean raises the question.
No, it's not a BIOS setting. It's a status check, it can't be disabled, and it's in the manual under "quiet time".
Its using FB ECC RAM. We don't bother with the memory check.
My "old" p4 1.8 / 512 machine boots win2k in 30 seconds; Ubuntu about the same. (That's timed from pressing the button to when you can start a program.)
Well, I put together a new workstation for CAD work at work. The mobo is an Intel S5000XVN.
It requires 30-40 seconds of "quiet time" every time it's powered on. Those are Intel's words, and that's before the hard drives get started.
The board is one of the few that supports more than 8G RAM and has a PCI-e x16 slot.
Consumer-grade crap is crap and it'll fail.
Get a real automation system and wire your house up properly. Hell, with what you're spending on your phone "solution", you could easily get some PLC controls and wire up your house so that it will last for the life of your house.
Here's some less-expensive stuff, but still of very good quality:
http://web4.automationdirect.com/adc/Home/Home
Of course, I'm just an EE that works in automation and control. What do I know?
Your programming skills should not be tied to the language you use.
I agree. If I want to play, for example, Endless Ocean, I put on my diving gear and go for an actual real-life dive.
No, really.
Like you, I was once a computer gamer. I remember having a Hercules graphics card (like EGA, but in monochrome). Test Drive 3 was the first game I played with a sound card. I remember DOS boot disks. Before that, I had to write my own games - demos used to be pages of code in magazines. "Looks like fun? Code it up and give it a try." So I've been a PC gamer for a long time -- long before it was cool.
I played a lot of UO (admittedly, on a POL server.) I met a few friends on there - one even sent me a baby blanket when my daughter was born. We moved to NWN, and there was talk about moving to NWN2. I played a LOT of NWN, but I was never interested in spending hundreds of dollars upgrading my system just to play another game.
I decided that I wasn't going to bother fucking around every year or every release with a new video card or a new stick of RAM, or removing programs to play a game, &etc. Why spend $300 on a new card to play a $60 game when that same game will be ported to a console and is guaranteed to work?
I got a Wii last year. My wife and daughter both play it. Yes, it's a big DRM dongle that plays only the Wii titles. That's fine, because I knew that when I bought it. But you know what? It's going to work. I can buy any Wii title, put it in, and know that I can play it. Some games are crap, which is why I get them out from the library first. You can't do that with a PC game.
In fact, I got rid of my Windows install completely. My home machine runs Ubuntu, and I don't game with it at all anymore.
Have fun, PC game industry. You made it such a pain in the ass to play games on the PC that you've lost a lot of people.
Actually, I'm a vegetarian because I learned about how lax the standards that govern our food supply are.
It's for health reasons, not ethical ones, and I think PETA is bloody crazy. I wear leather with no qualms.
Ah-hah! I've got the answer to our CAPTCHA problems:
We just make them so hard that it becomes impossible for a human to solve it. Then we invert the solution: if you pass the CAPTCHA, you're obviously a bot, because a human can't solve it. FAIL the CAPTCHA, we know that you're human.
You'd get a response like this:
"The rocks aren't really that old. They are made to look old by all humanly methods, including carbon dating. God is perfect and infallible, and has foreseen not only carbon dating, but any other future inventions that can check ages. By all human measurements, the rocks will appear to be hundreds of thousands of years old, although they are obviously not more than 4000 years old. You cannot disprove The Holy Bible by a mere technological invention."
The quotes are to clarify any problems with Poe's Law.
Okay, yes, he's been forcibly retired from being a lawyer.
There's no "Crazy Fucker" Association that can do the same thing and prevent him from getting in front of a camera.
He fucking loves being in front of a camera and hearing himself talk.
I guarantee that he'll be all over the news for the next school shooting.
Maybe now we won't have to hear about him all the damn time.
~t
Not even close.
Jack is going to call out against video games until he dies or retires. He enjoys the attention and the money.
He's now completely free to so whatever he wants and say whatever he wants and act in any manner he pleases - he has no professional association to give him any oversight.
We haven't seen the last of him, not by a long shot.
Even if we had seen the last of him, that would be a bad thing. He's a raving loon, and if he represents those who are against violent games, that's good for those of us who are 30+ years old, have jobs, mortgages, kids, spouses, and the entire GTA series.
TERROSITS WHERE O FUCK
And historically... I wonder who has a higher body count, government goons or mere muggers.
Mosquitoes.
No.
Homosexuality occurs in nature, and tends to happen during overpopulation.
I'm not a biologist, but one did say that to me once.
No, not over drinks.
Are you kidding?
This is hilarious. I'm considering changing my sig to "a cat it no trade for integrity".
I thought about putting that in with an asterisk, but I thought, "hey, if I wanted that, I'd just go to fark instead."
You're right, though.
Well, when body cavity searches become routine (some may say they are) will you say, "I don't have anything to hide in my colon anyway; Have a gander!"?
That's what goatse man has been trying to warn us about for years.
THIS... IS YOUR FUTURE.
No, you aren't safer. You're not in any more danger either.
What you see is the perceived risk - if a kid goes missing now, it's front page news, and you can see the news from any given city. Any time any kid goes missing, it's on CNN and Fox all day. It sells. Since they lead with that shit, it looks like we're in the middle of a kidnapping epidemic.
35 years ago, it wasn't as sensational. You didn't have the media doing freakout stories every time a kid goes missing.
Most kidnappings are from someone the kid knows. There's very little random crime.
No.
There will always be people who are afraid of new and different things. Whether their fears manifest as racism, sexism, Icarian paranoia or something else is a question of semantics.
Maybe Unclonable(TM) is the brand name.
I wouldn't give it to the end of the year, unless it doesn't come out until xmas time.
Hey, wouldn't a warranty replacement be kind of hard to find?
Why not design the car yourself - using bits and pieces found at your local junkyard? Better yet - smelt the metal in your garage and take up blacksmithing to make all the bits. Sort of like building your own computer from discrete transistors.
If you haven't built a small computer from discrete components, I'd say that you may have some gaps in your understanding.
It's a real pain, but there is a certain satisfaction of manually triggering the cycles and watching it read and write.
Only if your time is worth zero dollars.
So just like Open Source Software, then.
It should go over very well here.
For the record, if my car wasn't under a very comprehensive warranty for the next five years, I'd order the parts and do the conversion just so I could say that I'd done it.
Hey, I had an N64 up until late last year. It was damned fast. With the introduction of the original Playstation, we had
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load times. Yes, we can fit a lot more data onto those 750MB disks than the cartridge tech of the time. Now they're giving away 1GB Flash drives with a box of cereal. You can easily buy 16GB drives now, and that's got 4x the info of a DVD.
It'll be much easier for "Them" to lock down each game with a globally unique serial number when you're burning Flash drives; much, much harder than when you're pressing CD / DVD runs. Microchip will sell you chips (by the reel, of course) that are pre-programmed and have an incrementing sequence in one section.
I don't know why you're marked troll. You shouldn't be.
Anyway, above a certain threshold, it starts to get a military-grade function, and therefore it's not something they want the general public to have. The general public includes America's Enemies.
It's the same reason why commercial GPS shuts down above 60,000 feet or faster than [can't remember the units].
I'm sure an American will point out that their 2nd Amendment grant the citizens rights to GPS-equipped military hardware.