but the problem is.. the money you speak of is not currently available on anything except the x86 platform.. It is so dominating. The money is in that market.. period.
I think the customers I support, with hundreds and thousands of Sun boxes would disagree. Sparc may not be popular for home users, hobbiests, and Linux hackers, but in the business world, they're immensely popular. There is indeed money in that market.
Well, I'm one of 'Creative's market share' and my comment is "probably never again"
I've never seen such bad software (both Windows drivers, and on-board software), and having a bigger hard drive for less money than the iPod is starting to wear thin as an excuse for it.
I definitely agree. I used to always buy Creative sound cards, however, their driver quality has tanked in recent years. My most recent sound card purchase was an M-Audio Revolution 7.1, and I couldn't be happier. Simple, SMALL drivers that work, without a bunch of crap applications I'd never use.
Why didn't you guys plan an exit event when AOL bought you? Why stick around in a new corporate culture anyway?
Is anybody from the original Winamp team even left? I don't even know who this Eric Caoili dude is, but I'm almost positive he wasn't part of the original team.
Is the Half Life brand name so unknown they should be forced to deal with a publisher to make sales?
With a brand name as popular as this, I am sure Valve was in a position to tell Vivendi "jump" if Vivendi said no to a copy protection free game.
Of course, now, they've signed a contract and, worse yet, the game is on the shelves. The damage is done. And another set of consumers are casualties of this odd war against them.
Apparently, you're not aware of all the litigation between Valve and Vivendi at this point. I wouldn't put it past Vivendi to postpone the release, just to screw Valve (Apparently, they've already threatened to push the release back until next year).
But the linux geeks still have to pay for windows. HP could act like laptop sellers in my country: put DOS on these devices. So those who want windows, can install pirated windows, and those who want linux don't have to pay for windows. Thats even better: everyone but microsoft is happy.
That'd be really helpful, considering the device is designed to be hooked up to the TV in your living room. Grandma's going to have a fun time getting THAT to work.
Maybe they need to add an arcade in the game which the character can play on when the player is bored of the story line. I heard Dance Dance Revolution is good.
you laugh, but apparently there IS a DDR-like minigame.
Hitachi took over IBM's Desktop hard drive business.
And I believe IBM actually had 2 lines that had issues (The 75 GXP and, to a lesser extent, the 60 GXP).
I had 2 30 GB 75 GXP drives, I think I ended up going through 3 RMAs. Eventually, IBM replaced one with a 60 GB 120GXP (I believe it was the 120 GXP) with an 8mb cache (original drives only had 2mb cache). While the RMAs were a hassle, IBM did a pretty good job of taking care of me.
I don't understand. It isn't legal for me to drive to Vancouver or wherever, buy a Canadian smart, drive that puppy back over the border and register it?
It's legal, but, I think it'd end up costing you more in the long-run (especially with the insanely high exchange rate right now).
You'd have to pay taxes, duty, etc. I imagine, to bring it over to the US.
A newbie thats considering Yoper, Arch or something equally obscure is asking for unnecessary trouble - as a quick question to a help board, chat channel, newsgroup, etc, will reveal.
Cairo really was supposed to be NT 4. But, half of the features ended up being dropped by the time NT 4 made it out the door. At some point between NT 4 and Windows 2000, Cairo morphed from being a product to being a set of technologies, some of which seem to get implemented with each new release (and others, like the object-oriented filesystem, which are promised over and over again, but never implemented).
What I can say though is that after doing some TCP and UDP IP socket programming in Windows and in linux the API, header files, and what not sure seem to be earily similar for Microsofts TCP/IP stack to be a "clean room" implementation from non "tainted" programmers.
The Windows TCP/IP stack has large amounts of BSD code in it. I wouldn't be surprised if the Linux stack had a fair amount as well. Regardless, MS can hardly be found at fault here.
One of the things I haven't seen here that I like to do is drag the Applications folder to the right-hand side of the Dock (Between the Trash and the bar that separates open apps from the other dock items). Once you've done that, Ctrl-Click (or Right-click) on the Applications icon in the dock, and you'll get a nice pop-up menu of all the Applications available on your system. You can repeat this with any folder, so you can easily get to the contents, without having to drill-down through Finder windows.
A short while ago, Apple posted a message on their site from AutoCad, to see if there would be a market for AutoCad on the Mac. Not sure if anything came of that or not, though.
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WTF? the Mac is getting a new keyboard? There's no alt key. Maybe you mean CMD-tab ;-)
Sure it does.. alt/option key.. between ctrl and command..
I suspect it is the same reason iD hasn't released Doom III for the Mac, simply put the current OpenGL code cannot push that much data
iD hasn't released Doom III for the Mac yet because Aspyr is. Why iD isn't doing there own port though, is beyond me.
but I can't alt-tab between windows in the same program.
That's because it'sALT-~ to switch between windows in the same app, and ALT-TAB to switch between applications.
The DWP admitted 80,000 staff were not able to process new pensions and benefits claims for several days, but regular payments were unaffected.
Technical experts have worked around the clock to find the fault
It said it would have received 60,000 new claims during that time.
So does this mean it takes 80,000 government employees to process 60,000 claims? Kinda brings government inefficiency to a new level..
but the problem is.. the money you speak of is not currently available on anything except the x86 platform.. It is so dominating. The money is in that market.. period.
I think the customers I support, with hundreds and thousands of Sun boxes would disagree. Sparc may not be popular for home users, hobbiests, and Linux hackers, but in the business world, they're immensely popular. There is indeed money in that market.
Well, I'm one of 'Creative's market share' and my comment is "probably never again"
I've never seen such bad software (both Windows drivers, and on-board software), and having a bigger hard drive for less money than the iPod is starting to wear thin as an excuse for it.
I definitely agree. I used to always buy Creative sound cards, however, their driver quality has tanked in recent years. My most recent sound card purchase was an M-Audio Revolution 7.1, and I couldn't be happier. Simple, SMALL drivers that work, without a bunch of crap applications I'd never use.
Building on this idea, I hereby patent the remote control internet drive-by.
Why didn't you guys plan an exit event when AOL bought you? Why stick around in a new corporate culture anyway?
Is anybody from the original Winamp team even left? I don't even know who this Eric Caoili dude is, but I'm almost positive he wasn't part of the original team.
As for creating an install CD, try this: steam://backup/
If I'd known this, I probably would've purchased my copy through Steam, rather than retail. It's unfortunate Valve doesn't advertise that more.
Where does THIS say ANYTHING about internet connection?
Well, if Amazon can't list the requirements correctly, that's their fault, not Valve's or Vivendi's.
The box clearly states an internet connection is required.
Are there actual Bill Gates fans who are desperately scanning these articles to see if anything good is said about him
Yes. Paul Thurrott.
Is the Half Life brand name so unknown they should be forced to deal with a publisher to make sales?
With a brand name as popular as this, I am sure Valve was in a position to tell Vivendi "jump" if Vivendi said no to a copy protection free game.
Of course, now, they've signed a contract and, worse yet, the game is on the shelves. The damage is done. And another set of consumers are casualties of this odd war against them.
Apparently, you're not aware of all the litigation between Valve and Vivendi at this point. I wouldn't put it past Vivendi to postpone the release, just to screw Valve (Apparently, they've already threatened to push the release back until next year).
But the linux geeks still have to pay for windows. HP could act like laptop sellers in my country: put DOS on these devices. So those who want windows, can install pirated windows, and those who want linux don't have to pay for windows. Thats even better: everyone but microsoft is happy.
That'd be really helpful, considering the device is designed to be hooked up to the TV in your living room. Grandma's going to have a fun time getting THAT to work.
Maybe they need to add an arcade in the game which the character can play on when the player is bored of the story line. I heard Dance Dance Revolution is good.
you laugh, but apparently there IS a DDR-like minigame.
What does that have to do with LiveUpdate? LiveUpdate is the service for downloading new updates, it has nothing to do with the actual virus scan.
Sounds to me like you're talking about Norton AutoProtect, not LiveUpdate.
(A protocol allows desktop software to interact with the web browser.)
You learn something new every day...
Hitachi took over IBM's Desktop hard drive business.
And I believe IBM actually had 2 lines that had issues (The 75 GXP and, to a lesser extent, the 60 GXP).
I had 2 30 GB 75 GXP drives, I think I ended up going through 3 RMAs. Eventually, IBM replaced one with a 60 GB 120GXP (I believe it was the 120 GXP) with an 8mb cache (original drives only had 2mb cache). While the RMAs were a hassle, IBM did a pretty good job of taking care of me.
And of course:
Mac OS X.
I don't understand. It isn't legal for me to drive to Vancouver or wherever, buy a Canadian smart, drive that puppy back over the border and register it?
It's legal, but, I think it'd end up costing you more in the long-run (especially with the insanely high exchange rate right now).
You'd have to pay taxes, duty, etc. I imagine, to bring it over to the US.
A newbie thats considering Yoper, Arch or something equally obscure is asking for unnecessary trouble - as a quick question to a help board, chat channel, newsgroup, etc, will reveal.
Because newbies frequent such venues...
Bzzzt, wrong answer, but thanks for playing.
"Cairo" = NT 5 = Windows 2000.
BZZZT!! Wrong answer!
Cairo really was supposed to be NT 4. But, half of the features ended up being dropped by the time NT 4 made it out the door. At some point between NT 4 and Windows 2000, Cairo morphed from being a product to being a set of technologies, some of which seem to get implemented with each new release (and others, like the object-oriented filesystem, which are promised over and over again, but never implemented).
If I recall correctly, it's been there since the Developer Previews.
What I can say though is that after doing some TCP and UDP IP socket programming in Windows and in linux the API, header files, and what not sure seem to be earily similar for Microsofts TCP/IP stack to be a "clean room" implementation from non "tainted" programmers.
The Windows TCP/IP stack has large amounts of BSD code in it. I wouldn't be surprised if the Linux stack had a fair amount as well. Regardless, MS can hardly be found at fault here.
One of the things I haven't seen here that I like to do is drag the Applications folder to the right-hand side of the Dock (Between the Trash and the bar that separates open apps from the other dock items). Once you've done that, Ctrl-Click (or Right-click) on the Applications icon in the dock, and you'll get a nice pop-up menu of all the Applications available on your system. You can repeat this with any folder, so you can easily get to the contents, without having to drill-down through Finder windows.
A short while ago, Apple posted a message on their site from AutoCad, to see if there would be a market for AutoCad on the Mac. Not sure if anything came of that or not, though.