That stuff you guys are complaining about all came from DOS, which was targetted at the original PC. It's lack of sophistication could be overlooked in those days, however, those features haven't been improved much since.
Probably because it is such a simplistic mess and poorly thought out the DOS based shells couldn't be improved much anyway.
So, the best idea is to start fresh--sounds like that's what they are going to do.
Interesting article, some of the text seems familiar, I have read it already and forgotten;).
The new AMD chips are fantastic, that's for sure, their memory subsystem is probably the best in the industry... however, if you read down to the end he explains most of the G5's problems stem from the "asthmatic" OS X and compiler. It's too bad, so much room for improvement.
Oh well, I'm a big fan of the pentium M. Hopefully Apple will be able to go straight to some souped up dual core version, and pretend Pentium 4 never existed.
Ok, you're right. I remember him being in the hood during the earlier episodes.
However, him "losing focus" isn't a very satisfying answer. And he had to get that way somehow, unless there is a species of badly scarred green humans on one of the planets. It sounds like a minor plot hole to me, unless lucas has cleared the matter up in an interview or something.
From my read of the scene, the lightning reflected back at him was what supposed to have caused the scarring. Of course, I could be wrong. But the movie was so sloppy in so many areas, who could know definitively anyway?
Turns out the answer wasn't really worth waiting for. In the battle between Samuel Jackson jedi guy (can't remember char's name) and palpatine, palpatine was holding him back by using the lightning from his finger tips trick.
Then Sam started pushing closer and reflecting the lightning back at palpatine with his lightsaber. Palpy couldn't stop because Sam was coming at him and he had no other weapon. So he just sat there and got burnt up until Anakin cut Sam's arm off to make him stop.
I don't know why the lightning never burnt anyone before, maybe it was the duration.
I'm happy with the latest totem and nautilus cd burner. Seem to work fine and are simple, nothingn to configure. Just a command to the package manager and it was ready to go.
I'm not a big fan of those big skinned media progams anyway, they are just annoying. On windows in the old days, I just used winamp. It did what it was told, and got out of the way.
- People who use mainstream MS products have been a danger to the rest of us. - We're tired of hearing all the complaints about spam and viruses.
Actually, I don't really care what other people use until they start sending me spam, or slowing down the entire goddamned internet because they are owned by the latest bug. Then I care.
That's why I've tried to convert a the few people I have.
Yeah, styrofoam is bad, but it doesn't give off radiation. It can also be gathered up and burnt if need be, unlike nuclear waste.
Actually I believe nuclear power COULD be safe, if humans were removed from the equation. It's them I don't trust, not the nuclear part. People are just too shortsided and greedy to be trusted with it. The minute they can save a dollar and shift the problem to someone else, they will.
Given the timescale, the probababilty of that happening approaches one. There's just no margin for error with nuclear fission, that's why I'll never support it.
I hear this explanation often, but I wonder how valid it is. Why?
Well, I've been using computers almost 15 years now. That means I've owned quite a few generations in my time. I've always turned my computers off every night to save energy, because I'm a stingy bastard.
My experience is that I've never once experienced any damage from 'expansion and contraction' even from the notebook I owned for over 5 years.
All of my computers were obsolete and ready for the landfill long before temperature cycling became an issue. Therefore, I'm glad I saved the money and energy, and recommend others do the same.
Yes, off by default is good design, but the way MS implements it is completely lame. It amounts to stupid warnings and locked out features, practically forcing you to defeat the "security" to get your work done.
"This is locked! Don't mess with this!! You shouldn't be here! Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!!"
Making an incredibly insecure browser, and then warning you to not run it, is not security. Especially when you need the browser to download some patches, drivers, or whatever.
Contrast that with a more proper implementation of security, i.e. no runnable objects allowed in the browser (by default), good privacy controls, and no "integration" with the core OS, etc.
When this is the case, tedious, stupid warnings are unnecessary and irrelevant.
As long as I can remember you've been able to configure the service to log in under another account, and then you set the password right there in the control panel. The passwords have to match, of course. It's on one of the other tabs when configuring the service.
Check the services control panel or computer management MMC.
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That stuff you guys are complaining about all came from DOS, which was targetted at the original PC. It's lack of sophistication could be overlooked in those days, however, those features haven't been improved much since.
Probably because it is such a simplistic mess and poorly thought out the DOS based shells couldn't be improved much anyway.
So, the best idea is to start fresh--sounds like that's what they are going to do.
Luke uses dark force powers? please elaborate.
shouldn't that be...
- unreadable fonts
- the 20th century
?
you seem to have completely misunderstood the grandparent's post in your rush to condemn it.
Interesting article, some of the text seems familiar, I have read it already and forgotten
The new AMD chips are fantastic, that's for sure, their memory subsystem is probably the best in the industry
Oh well, I'm a big fan of the pentium M. Hopefully Apple will be able to go straight to some souped up dual core version, and pretend Pentium 4 never existed.
Except that 3+ghz AMD cpus don't exist.
Dual G5 @2.5 vs. Dual AMD64 @2.5 would be an interesting contest.
10k? we bought whole workstations for 5-7k a few years ago.
oops, neighborhood
Try farming out the work to a neiborhood kid and splitting the profits... they love to do that kind of stuff.
Sorry, sounds too much like GUANO to me.
Ok, you're right. I remember him being in the hood during the earlier episodes.
However, him "losing focus" isn't a very satisfying answer. And he had to get that way somehow, unless there is a species of badly scarred green humans on one of the planets. It sounds like a minor plot hole to me, unless lucas has cleared the matter up in an interview or something.
From my read of the scene, the lightning reflected back at him was what supposed to have caused the scarring. Of course, I could be wrong. But the movie was so sloppy in so many areas, who could know definitively anyway?
Yeah, I was waiting for that too...
Turns out the answer wasn't really worth waiting for. In the battle between Samuel Jackson jedi guy (can't remember char's name) and palpatine, palpatine was holding him back by using the lightning from his finger tips trick.
Then Sam started pushing closer and reflecting the lightning back at palpatine with his lightsaber. Palpy couldn't stop because Sam was coming at him and he had no other weapon. So he just sat there and got burnt up until Anakin cut Sam's arm off to make him stop.
I don't know why the lightning never burnt anyone before, maybe it was the duration.
Yeah, I did that in System 7 back around '94(?) on the first generation power macs at school.
I'm happy with the latest totem and nautilus cd burner. Seem to work fine and are simple, nothingn to configure. Just a command to the package manager and it was ready to go.
I'm not a big fan of those big skinned media progams anyway, they are just annoying. On windows in the old days, I just used winamp. It did what it was told, and got out of the way.
Because,
- People who use mainstream MS products have been a danger to the rest of us.
- We're tired of hearing all the complaints about spam and viruses.
Actually, I don't really care what other people use until they start sending me spam, or slowing down the entire goddamned internet because they are owned by the latest bug. Then I care.
That's why I've tried to convert a the few people I have.
Ok, so my question now is ... why centos and not rhel? I believe you can download red hat for free still.
I like dvdshrink at dvdshrink.org. Lets you keep all the menus, etc while removing unneeded stuff and shrinking the rest. Still a lot of space tho'.
Yeah, styrofoam is bad, but it doesn't give off radiation. It can also be gathered up and burnt if need be, unlike nuclear waste.
Actually I believe nuclear power COULD be safe, if humans were removed from the equation. It's them I don't trust, not the nuclear part. People are just too shortsided and greedy to be trusted with it. The minute they can save a dollar and shift the problem to someone else, they will.
Given the timescale, the probababilty of that happening approaches one. There's just no margin for error with nuclear fission, that's why I'll never support it.
I hear this explanation often, but I wonder how valid it is. Why?
Well, I've been using computers almost 15 years now. That means I've owned quite a few generations in my time. I've always turned my computers off every night to save energy, because I'm a stingy bastard.
My experience is that I've never once experienced any damage from 'expansion and contraction' even from the notebook I owned for over 5 years.
All of my computers were obsolete and ready for the landfill long before temperature cycling became an issue. Therefore, I'm glad I saved the money and energy, and recommend others do the same.
Hmm, somewhere in that pro-nuclear prose you forgot about the part where the toxic waste doesn't break down for hundreds of thousands of years!!
Don't they have the Virtual PC available for that now?
Yes, off by default is good design, but the way MS implements it is completely lame. It amounts to stupid warnings and locked out features, practically forcing you to defeat the "security" to get your work done.
"This is locked! Don't mess with this!! You shouldn't be here! Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!!"
Making an incredibly insecure browser, and then warning you to not run it, is not security. Especially when you need the browser to download some patches, drivers, or whatever.
Contrast that with a more proper implementation of security, i.e. no runnable objects allowed in the browser (by default), good privacy controls, and no "integration" with the core OS, etc.
When this is the case, tedious, stupid warnings are unnecessary and irrelevant.
I don't understand how you can use 'their' correctly half the time, and not the other half.
if it wasn't for those darn meddling kids!!!
(Mwaaahhhh-ha-ha-ha!)
Easy,
As long as I can remember you've been able to configure the service to log in under another account, and then you set the password right there in the control panel. The passwords have to match, of course. It's on one of the other tabs when configuring the service.
Check the services control panel or computer management MMC.