A long lost relative that you have never heard of shows up. Your family gets to know him and everyone hates him, but you like him so much that you decide to airbrush him into all of your 35mm family reunion footage. You, being the official family archivist.
I even tried a larger power supply. I changed EVERY component, down to the case.
I am not the only one who's had these problems. Diablo II, Dungeon Siege I could write off as bad programming. But Quake 3? I will not badmouth Dr. Karmack.:)
I thought of that. The only component I reused was the Geforce 2 MMX. I had a friend try it out for a week just to make sure that was not the problem. It wasn't.
I have bought Athlon the past two times I built a computer.
I hate to say it, but both computers suffer from problems such as lock-ups, random reboots, and other compatability issues, especially when playing directx games. I bought the second board (and chip) because the first one did not work. I even bought the board that TomsHardware recommended as the best athlon board at the time (MSI K7-Master S).
The AMD chip is faster, but my Intelly friends have had NONE of the problems I have had when running the very same programs. Therefore, no matter how much more it costs, or how much slower it goes, I will buy Intel in the future, and recommend that my friends do the same.
It is a real shame, because I think the Athlon is a better chip. I just won't trust Athlon boards anymore. If they made a chip that was compatible with an Intel board, I'd buy it.
This is by far the most meaningless drivel that he has posted to date.
1. Spiderman opened on about 6 times more screens than AOTC.
2. Spiderman has been around since the sixties, so I fail to see any point whatsoever to this rambling expectoration of a misbegotten idea for what I hesitate to call an article.
There's no evidence that water or carbon are necessary. Many scientists have suggested that ammonia-based life is possible. It has to do with the number of things that will combine with it.
I think carbon combines with more elements than any other element or compound as far as we know, but ammonia (yes, I know it's a compound) combines with a lot of other elements/compounds as well.
Water and carbon are necessary for carbon based life. So what?
Believe it or not, discs are actually different than frisbees. They have a smaller surface area, greater mass, more accuracy, better aerodynamics, and if you tried to catch one it would probably bruise you quite badly.
What do you have against disc golfers anyway? Is it any sillier than ball golf?
Two-click shopping. Then I'll patent three-click shopping. Pretty soon, no one will be able to buy anything off of the web without they have to pay me some MONEY. Except Amazon. Ah, well, that's the breaks.
Some of you seem not to have understood the ending of the series. The "Truth" is that we will be invaded by aliens, and that there's nothing we can do to stop it, and that this will happen in the year 2012. Resistance is futile and all that.
No shit. "Pagan" simply means "Not Christian". How often these terms get confused by the uneducated.
Perhaps that is how dictionary.com defines the word. If you base your education on dictionary.com, perhaps I am "uneducated".
Pagan can also have the connotation of nature worship. Wikkens describe themselves as Pagan, but that does not mean they get to define the term Pagan, either.
Christianity already has a word for "Not Christian" - heretic. Pagan is not simply another word for heretic, even if that was the definition of the word over a thousand years ago, as one poster said earlier in the discussion.
If you hear the word heretic, and the word Pagan, and think the same thing, you really are missing the true meaning of the word. Words are often not as simple as a dictionary definition, but carry subtle meanings and connotations depending on the audience.
A "Pagan" is not a "Satanist". It makes me very angry when I hear those two terms interchanged.
Perhaps some of those deaths seem suspicious, but please: a murder-suicide by an associate of the deceased? I really do not see how the "spooks" could cause something like that.
I can safely say that in terms of your DNA, you're no more "evolved" than any other human animal, unless you're severely mutated, in which case, we can't really call you a human, now can we?
An Anonymous Farqwad wrote: Stop supporting software with licensing you don't like. The software makers have no way of knowing you didn't agree with their terms, and so they will continue to use such EULAs. Send a message.
Your point might be valid if the agreement was on the box. Perhaps even if the retailer would take the software back, should you disagree with the license.
As far as I know, neither of those things are generally true. In most cases, in order to read the license, you must purchase the software. In order to return it, you must send it back to the manufacturer, who may not take it because it says right there in the license that you should return it to the retailer.
This tactic seems to me to be about as likely to stand up in court as if you poured white-out all over your lease/mortgage/deed restriction before signing it and returning it, then decide to paint your apartment/house lavender, with little yellow polka-dots.
Be sure not to get the board and the chip seperately. Buy from a vendor that will install and test the chip for free. You can scratch the die on Athlons, and ruin them or cause them not to clock as high as they're rated.
Also, some Athlons just don't go the speed they're supposed to.
This has happened to me and a couple of my friends, so save yourself the hassle of taking the parts back.
StartupMonitor prompts you to confirm ANY program that tries to load itself to run on startup (including Windows Service Packs).
I don't know of any spyware that can get around it.
Startup control panel will allow you to get rid of anything already set to run on startup. Get them here
If you don't have a firewall, get ZoneAlarm while you're at it, and you will receive a prompt any tima a program tries to use the internet. I've killed spyware without any complicated install/uninstall procedures, just by using these programs.
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I hate to break it to you, but Windows already is the established player.
I used to hate windows just as much as the next/dotter. I find Windows 2000 to be rather stable, with a nice interface and good hardware integration (if not horribly secure).
Sure, someone could snooker me into hitting my back button and own my machine.
"Unix" comes in many flavors, as I am sure you know. Each dist has bugs of its own, and individual applications can bust really wide holes in the security if they are written poorly. It happens that some of the bundled applications (most especially IE) are shown to be insecure fairly often.
Should you run a webserver on it: No! Should you play Fallout on it: Why not?
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The EFF is making a good statement here, without even issuing a statement.
1. Parodies are be protected speech, and the same content that is legal in "traditional" media should be legal on the internet.
2. Disney really sucks
3. Peer-to-Peer file-sharing software is not merely for eypatch wearing, parrot on their shoulder types. People actually use it legitimately.
A bunch of HP printer cartridges. Those damn things were exPENsive! I couldn't afford them as a student.
A long lost relative that you have never heard of shows up. Your family gets to know him and everyone hates him, but you like him so much that you decide to airbrush him into all of your 35mm family reunion footage. You, being the official family archivist.
If I was in that family, I'd change my name.
I even tried a larger power supply. I changed EVERY component, down to the case.
:)
I am not the only one who's had these problems. Diablo II, Dungeon Siege I could write off as bad programming. But Quake 3? I will not badmouth Dr. Karmack.
I thought of that. The only component I reused was the Geforce 2 MMX. I had a friend try it out for a week just to make sure that was not the problem. It wasn't.
I have bought Athlon the past two times I built a computer.
I hate to say it, but both computers suffer from problems such as lock-ups, random reboots, and other compatability issues, especially when playing directx games. I bought the second board (and chip) because the first one did not work. I even bought the board that TomsHardware recommended as the best athlon board at the time (MSI K7-Master S).
The AMD chip is faster, but my Intelly friends have had NONE of the problems I have had when running the very same programs. Therefore, no matter how much more it costs, or how much slower it goes, I will buy Intel in the future, and recommend that my friends do the same.
It is a real shame, because I think the Athlon is a better chip. I just won't trust Athlon boards anymore. If they made a chip that was compatible with an Intel board, I'd buy it.
This is by far the most meaningless drivel that he has posted to date.
1. Spiderman opened on about 6 times more screens than AOTC.
2. Spiderman has been around since the sixties, so I fail to see any point whatsoever to this rambling expectoration of a misbegotten idea for what I hesitate to call an article.
There's no evidence that water or carbon are necessary. Many scientists have suggested that ammonia-based life is possible. It has to do with the number of things that will combine with it.
I think carbon combines with more elements than any other element or compound as far as we know, but ammonia (yes, I know it's a compound) combines with a lot of other elements/compounds as well.
Water and carbon are necessary for carbon based life. So what?
What a waste of a mod point!
Believe it or not, discs are actually different than frisbees. They have a smaller surface area, greater mass, more accuracy, better aerodynamics, and if you tried to catch one it would probably bruise you quite badly.
What do you have against disc golfers anyway? Is it any sillier than ball golf?
Two-click shopping. Then I'll patent three-click shopping. Pretty soon, no one will be able to buy anything off of the web without they have to pay me some MONEY. Except Amazon. Ah, well, that's the breaks.
Some of you seem not to have understood the ending of the series. The "Truth" is that we will be invaded by aliens, and that there's nothing we can do to stop it, and that this will happen in the year 2012. Resistance is futile and all that.
Thank you sire, can I have another? :P
Offtopic? I thought the article was the topic.
Perhaps that is how dictionary.com defines the word. If you base your education on dictionary.com, perhaps I am "uneducated".
Pagan can also have the connotation of nature worship. Wikkens describe themselves as Pagan, but that does not mean they get to define the term Pagan, either.
Christianity already has a word for "Not Christian" - heretic. Pagan is not simply another word for heretic, even if that was the definition of the word over a thousand years ago, as one poster said earlier in the discussion.
If you hear the word heretic, and the word Pagan, and think the same thing, you really are missing the true meaning of the word. Words are often not as simple as a dictionary definition, but carry subtle meanings and connotations depending on the audience.
1. You seem a little too arrogant for your own good, even if your claims are true.
2. If I see you light a candle with Chi power, I won't forget it!
A "Pagan" is not a "Satanist". It makes me very angry when I hear those two terms interchanged.
Perhaps some of those deaths seem suspicious, but please: a murder-suicide by an associate of the deceased? I really do not see how the "spooks" could cause something like that.
Besides, evolution doesn't apply to trolls.
Good day.
The point being that the software vendor does not agree to the change.
Stop supporting software with licensing you don't like. The software makers have no way of knowing you didn't agree with their terms, and so they will continue to use such EULAs. Send a message.
Your point might be valid if the agreement was on the box. Perhaps even if the retailer would take the software back, should you disagree with the license.
As far as I know, neither of those things are generally true. In most cases, in order to read the license, you must purchase the software. In order to return it, you must send it back to the manufacturer, who may not take it because it says right there in the license that you should return it to the retailer.
This tactic seems to me to be about as likely to stand up in court as if you poured white-out all over your lease/mortgage/deed restriction before signing it and returning it, then decide to paint your apartment/house lavender, with little yellow polka-dots.
Be sure not to get the board and the chip seperately. Buy from a vendor that will install and test the chip for free. You can scratch the die on Athlons, and ruin them or cause them not to clock as high as they're rated.
Also, some Athlons just don't go the speed they're supposed to.
This has happened to me and a couple of my friends, so save yourself the hassle of taking the parts back.
I don't know of any spyware that can get around it.
Startup control panel will allow you to get rid of anything already set to run on startup. Get them here
If you don't have a firewall, get ZoneAlarm while you're at it, and you will receive a prompt any tima a program tries to use the internet. I've killed spyware without any complicated install/uninstall procedures, just by using these programs.
I hate to break it to you, but Windows already is the established player.
/dotter. I find Windows 2000 to be rather stable, with a nice interface and good hardware integration (if not horribly secure).
I used to hate windows just as much as the next
Sure, someone could snooker me into hitting my back button and own my machine.
"Unix" comes in many flavors, as I am sure you know. Each dist has bugs of its own, and individual applications can bust really wide holes in the security if they are written poorly. It happens that some of the bundled applications (most especially IE) are shown to be insecure fairly often.
Should you run a webserver on it: No!
Should you play Fallout on it: Why not?
Open Source != Perfect code.