So tell NVIDIA and ATI to 'fix' their drivers, since they don't fit into your reboot logic. It's quite a bit different than Linux in this respect. I can change Nvidia drivers at will with no reboot in Linux, and that's impossible in Windows.
BTW what is a boot disk driver? Is it something that you'd use if you, say, hot swapped your boot drive from IDE to SATA? Makes no sense my friend.
Yeah but the dead giveaway with Starforce is that it requires a reboot after you install the game. We all know why Windows needs to reboot post-install: drivers.
Well, actually, Windows will reboot post install for a number of reasons, but for a game using Starforce, it makes sense.
I was using the standard PC way of judging RAM. When someone asks how much ram is in my machine, I don't include the video ram because it's not available to the OS persay. I say I have a gig of ram. Video ram is altogether separate. Thanks for the clarification though.
"A simple example is GTA3 to GTA3: SA. It's not like the PS3 suddenly grew 3X the memory... And yet GTA3:SA is dramatically more rich in terms of both total content as well as content running at any given time."
Um, I just checked on this, and while the PS2 has a measly 32mb of ram, the PS3 is sporting at least 256mb (down from the initial 512mb Sony originally intended). So, the PS3 DOES have more than 3x the memory.
Unless you meant to say PS2, in which case you have a point. Numbers are everything when it comes to stuff like this.;)
What struck me as weird is that he was willing to do this *himself*. With the collective nerd force at Intel, you think they'd have one dude that could be suckered into doing it for him under the pretense that 'it's good to do favors for the Big Boss'.
Those Aeron's aren't very good fart batteries, you're correct. However, personally I prefer that myself and others sit on fart battery chairs. If I were in an office with occasionally gassy people sitting in Aeron's, there would definitely be a problem.
So, you're saying it's unreasonable to trust the bank with your information and your money? Well, what's the point of having a bank account then? I know a guy named Vinnie down the street that'll loan me money and hold my money for me. The only difference here is that Vinnie won't leak information and won't lose my money.
Bank of Vinnie: Now 99% more secure than Bank of America.
Agreed. The video was crap, both in quality and content. I've seen better compression out of Real Video circa 1998. You could barely hear the interviewer and in some scenes you couldn't hear him at all over the din of the background noise. You know, there's a thing called dubbing, where you can record OVER the sound you already recorded for situations like this. I know, I know, it's pretty advanced.
Also I was ready to ridicule the shit out of these unknowing folks but the material just wasn't there. Kids dressed up? That's ok. Swordfighting? Normal. The chewbacca dudes trying to sound like Wookies and not talk was dorky, but not too hilarious. Basically I was expecting Conan O'Brien's keen eye for editing along with an interviewer that would rip on people...but the people were pretty damn normal and the questions were average. I'd venture to say that some of these people are ON slashdot daily. Maybe that's stretching it.;)
Yeah but that was before Luke found out that Darth Vader was actually a cool guy beneath all the scary exterior. Although, when your Dad chops off your hand in a sword fight, I guess it affects your judgement a little.
He's an evil demon because his master commands him to be. This was made clear after he saved Luke from imminent doom in VI when he threw the Emperor out the portal. After he's laying there all cooked and waiting to die, we find he's a human after all, with a soft spot for his son. He gave his life for his own son basically.
In ROTS, Darth Vader offhandedly mentions to Padme that he could become more powerful than the Emperor and overthrow him someday. Interesting that ultimately that's the way it works out. It makes me wonder if Luke had pretended to turn to the dark side, maybe Darth would have let him in on a plan to overthrow the Emperor. After all, 2 jedis are better than one, and you know that Vader had to hate being a lapdog to the Emperor.
The books which go beyond the trilogy, however, disagree. Supposedly the Emperor lives in cloned bodies, and the dark side consumes the bodies so he has to get a new one ever so often. At the point where he's thrown out, and he falls through that hole, ostensibly someone catches him and transfers his spirit into yet another clone. The Emperor never dies according to some comic books.
Yeah it's something poking fun at chatters and it's been around for awhile. Google is full of examples. I was going to end it with a WTF but went all the way.
Ok, who the fuck allowed this submission to go through? A whole 2% of Slashdot readership will probably be able to read this, the rest of us are left in the dark. Are longer bars better, or worse? WTFOMGBBQ?!
"...most of the time the discussion descend into noise and the logically founded arguments get lost."
That's pretty much true with anything that has strong opinions on both sides of the fence. Notice how anything Microsoft security related gets 500+ posts. You end up with a pretty high noise/signal ratio.
Do what I do when I moderate: only read the first page, and just randomly skip through the threads until something catches your eye, then start reading seriously. When you've gotten the gist, skip down a few more threads. You avoid alot of bullshit this way at the expense of missing only a few gems. Never, ever browse at 0 or -1. Tubgirl awaits at those depths. My elitist side says anyone with a valid point will login.
Since you must be new here, even though your user number would suggest otherwise, I'll briefly outline why his analogies don't hold water.
Copyright infringement is what's at stake here, not 'stolen property'. Most property, if you were to steal it, the owner would not have anymore. The stolen Ferrari in the grandparent's post would indeed be gone from the dealership and is considered stolen in the most real sense.
On the other hand, if I copy a movie from you, and you still have the original, then I'm *kinda* stealing it from you. I'm violating copyright. You still have the original, which you can sell or make copies of to sell (if you're the original copyright owner of course). This is how property theft and copyright infringement differ. Same goes with software or anything else you can copy but the owner keeps the original of.
It's been said a billion times before on Slashdot and I hope to god this is the last time anyone has to explain it.
Seems like I was missing a few details. While I was waiting for the word from my uncle, I did a little googling. Looks like in addition to the engine pivot there's a serious shaft-driven fan that blows lots of cold air out of the rear exhaust port (which pivots) as well as 2 ports beneath each wing for roll control. Fascinating system.
JSF's VTOL is much improved over the Harrier. My uncle actually works for Lockheed Martin and emailed me a video of the VTOL system in testing. (Yes it was cleared, he's very anal about security.)
The Harrier simply rotates jet exhaust ports downwards to provide it with lift. This is somewhat inefficient. The JSF rotates _the entire engine assembly_ so the full exhaust thrust is aimed straight down. It's kinda revolutionary and works better than the Harrier. It may start some brush fires but oh well. I imagine the Harrier did too.
Yeah I was about to mention the necessary strength of a Harrier myself.
Most aircraft are designed to land on a nice smooth stretch of tarmac. Harriers and the future JSF *can* but don't require it. Harriers were originally designed with 'no tarmac' in mind, you can land one in a low brush pile if you must.
Just consider the fact that most landings occur with the airplane coming in at a nice smooth angle and touching down. The Harriers can land vertically, and basically drop themselves on their landing gear, so the gear and the support structure is that much stronger to handle the stress.
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So tell NVIDIA and ATI to 'fix' their drivers, since they don't fit into your reboot logic. It's quite a bit different than Linux in this respect. I can change Nvidia drivers at will with no reboot in Linux, and that's impossible in Windows.
BTW what is a boot disk driver? Is it something that you'd use if you, say, hot swapped your boot drive from IDE to SATA? Makes no sense my friend.
Yeah but the dead giveaway with Starforce is that it requires a reboot after you install the game. We all know why Windows needs to reboot post-install: drivers.
Well, actually, Windows will reboot post install for a number of reasons, but for a game using Starforce, it makes sense.
I was using the standard PC way of judging RAM. When someone asks how much ram is in my machine, I don't include the video ram because it's not available to the OS persay. I say I have a gig of ram. Video ram is altogether separate. Thanks for the clarification though.
"A simple example is GTA3 to GTA3: SA. It's not like the PS3 suddenly grew 3X the memory... And yet GTA3:SA is dramatically more rich in terms of both total content as well as content running at any given time."
;)
Um, I just checked on this, and while the PS2 has a measly 32mb of ram, the PS3 is sporting at least 256mb (down from the initial 512mb Sony originally intended). So, the PS3 DOES have more than 3x the memory.
Unless you meant to say PS2, in which case you have a point. Numbers are everything when it comes to stuff like this.
What struck me as weird is that he was willing to do this *himself*. With the collective nerd force at Intel, you think they'd have one dude that could be suckered into doing it for him under the pretense that 'it's good to do favors for the Big Boss'.
Those Aeron's aren't very good fart batteries, you're correct. However, personally I prefer that myself and others sit on fart battery chairs. If I were in an office with occasionally gassy people sitting in Aeron's, there would definitely be a problem.
I'm still praying for a -10 'Stupid' modifier, both for the mods and the metamods. You know you'd use it if it were available.
Again, no explosions, just lots and lots of drama.
I dated a redhead once. She's really fat now, just like all aging redheads seem to get. I think it might have something to do with the redhead genes.
Terry Wogan is also mentioned briefly in a song from the Goldie Lookin' Chain. Guess he's some kind of pop culture figure.
"...so let get some money to gether and buy a congress person or two"
We'll let you be the spokesperson, you seem to have a strong grasp of the language.
So, you're saying it's unreasonable to trust the bank with your information and your money? Well, what's the point of having a bank account then? I know a guy named Vinnie down the street that'll loan me money and hold my money for me. The only difference here is that Vinnie won't leak information and won't lose my money.
Bank of Vinnie: Now 99% more secure than Bank of America.
Agreed. The video was crap, both in quality and content. I've seen better compression out of Real Video circa 1998. You could barely hear the interviewer and in some scenes you couldn't hear him at all over the din of the background noise. You know, there's a thing called dubbing, where you can record OVER the sound you already recorded for situations like this. I know, I know, it's pretty advanced.
;)
Also I was ready to ridicule the shit out of these unknowing folks but the material just wasn't there. Kids dressed up? That's ok. Swordfighting? Normal. The chewbacca dudes trying to sound like Wookies and not talk was dorky, but not too hilarious. Basically I was expecting Conan O'Brien's keen eye for editing along with an interviewer that would rip on people...but the people were pretty damn normal and the questions were average. I'd venture to say that some of these people are ON slashdot daily. Maybe that's stretching it.
Yeah but that was before Luke found out that Darth Vader was actually a cool guy beneath all the scary exterior. Although, when your Dad chops off your hand in a sword fight, I guess it affects your judgement a little.
However, cold or hot, the drivers never seem to assemble themselves properly.
He's an evil demon because his master commands him to be. This was made clear after he saved Luke from imminent doom in VI when he threw the Emperor out the portal. After he's laying there all cooked and waiting to die, we find he's a human after all, with a soft spot for his son. He gave his life for his own son basically.
In ROTS, Darth Vader offhandedly mentions to Padme that he could become more powerful than the Emperor and overthrow him someday. Interesting that ultimately that's the way it works out. It makes me wonder if Luke had pretended to turn to the dark side, maybe Darth would have let him in on a plan to overthrow the Emperor. After all, 2 jedis are better than one, and you know that Vader had to hate being a lapdog to the Emperor.
The books which go beyond the trilogy, however, disagree. Supposedly the Emperor lives in cloned bodies, and the dark side consumes the bodies so he has to get a new one ever so often. At the point where he's thrown out, and he falls through that hole, ostensibly someone catches him and transfers his spirit into yet another clone. The Emperor never dies according to some comic books.
Yeah it's something poking fun at chatters and it's been around for awhile. Google is full of examples. I was going to end it with a WTF but went all the way.
Ok, who the fuck allowed this submission to go through? A whole 2% of Slashdot readership will probably be able to read this, the rest of us are left in the dark. Are longer bars better, or worse? WTFOMGBBQ?!
"...most of the time the discussion descend into noise and the logically founded arguments get lost."
That's pretty much true with anything that has strong opinions on both sides of the fence. Notice how anything Microsoft security related gets 500+ posts. You end up with a pretty high noise/signal ratio.
Do what I do when I moderate: only read the first page, and just randomly skip through the threads until something catches your eye, then start reading seriously. When you've gotten the gist, skip down a few more threads. You avoid alot of bullshit this way at the expense of missing only a few gems. Never, ever browse at 0 or -1. Tubgirl awaits at those depths. My elitist side says anyone with a valid point will login.
Since you must be new here, even though your user number would suggest otherwise, I'll briefly outline why his analogies don't hold water.
Copyright infringement is what's at stake here, not 'stolen property'. Most property, if you were to steal it, the owner would not have anymore. The stolen Ferrari in the grandparent's post would indeed be gone from the dealership and is considered stolen in the most real sense.
On the other hand, if I copy a movie from you, and you still have the original, then I'm *kinda* stealing it from you. I'm violating copyright. You still have the original, which you can sell or make copies of to sell (if you're the original copyright owner of course). This is how property theft and copyright infringement differ. Same goes with software or anything else you can copy but the owner keeps the original of.
It's been said a billion times before on Slashdot and I hope to god this is the last time anyone has to explain it.
Walk on cameo, yeah. A whole lot of episodes starring Harrison Ford? I don't see it happening.
Maybe he'll live on through the magic of CGI just like the Yoda puppet we all used to love. Or not.
Their nearest competitor, who is steadily gaining ground with the men in the lucrative 18-34 age bracket?
Whore.
Thank you, I'll be here all week.
Seems like I was missing a few details. While I was waiting for the word from my uncle, I did a little googling. Looks like in addition to the engine pivot there's a serious shaft-driven fan that blows lots of cold air out of the rear exhaust port (which pivots) as well as 2 ports beneath each wing for roll control. Fascinating system.
JSF's VTOL is much improved over the Harrier. My uncle actually works for Lockheed Martin and emailed me a video of the VTOL system in testing. (Yes it was cleared, he's very anal about security.)
The Harrier simply rotates jet exhaust ports downwards to provide it with lift. This is somewhat inefficient. The JSF rotates _the entire engine assembly_ so the full exhaust thrust is aimed straight down. It's kinda revolutionary and works better than the Harrier. It may start some brush fires but oh well. I imagine the Harrier did too.
Battlefield Vietnam played through Cedega?
All I know is, the helicopters are hard to fly, and the jets are damn near impossible.
Yeah I was about to mention the necessary strength of a Harrier myself.
Most aircraft are designed to land on a nice smooth stretch of tarmac. Harriers and the future JSF *can* but don't require it. Harriers were originally designed with 'no tarmac' in mind, you can land one in a low brush pile if you must.
Just consider the fact that most landings occur with the airplane coming in at a nice smooth angle and touching down. The Harriers can land vertically, and basically drop themselves on their landing gear, so the gear and the support structure is that much stronger to handle the stress.