:cough: easy to program for?:cough: that's my job man. tisn't easy either. At least not any easier than any other OS specific API I've ever programmed for.
Also, you mention that Windows sells more than all other OSes combined. This is true. Then you have to go on to say that the market is who set the price and chooses the OS. Tisn't so, sorry, just isn't. Most of the "market" doesn't even realize that anything else exists... mostly because of billions spent on marketing and because most people didn't even buy a computer until after MS had a deal with every major manufacturer for their "win9x" crap. If people knew there was a choice perhaps they'd change their mind.
Actually 3dfx produced some rather splendid linux drivers, though by modern standards they sorta sucked... but hey, my voodoo banshee worked better under linux than my tnt2 ever did (until fairly recently of course when nvidia's drivers got closed source and stopped sucking)
(by the way, I am an avid supporter of open source and if nvidia didn't have their sgi nda whatnot I'm sure they'd open source their drivers just like they used to... and on top of that there has already been some discussion of opening up certain portions of their drivers anyway...)
standard 3.5" floppy disk drive has a 1.44MB capacity.
standard 120mm cd-rom media has a ~640-700MB capacity.
even if the seek time is 2,3,4,5,16,40x slower, it'd still respond quicker. (personally I think that floppy drives should probably be done away with in favor of at LEAST something like ZIP... the floppy drive I have in my AthlonXP 2100+ system is a 12 year old NEC 3.5" drive... and it isn't AT ALL different from the ones that you'd buy at the store today... in fact it makes less noise than most of the newer ones... just my $0.02)
from what I understand though, the ultimate goal is rather to rely wholly upon the machines for facial recognition...no "human judgement" involved ... and I wasn't talking about scars, the guy who got into the car accident lost large pieces of his left cheekbone and his left eye entirely.
here's the specifics of what I wanna know both from Visage and from the State:
I know of at least two people who have had major amounts of facial damage dealt to them, one in a car accident and one on the football field. What safeguards are in place to assure these two people that they won't suddenly be denied their identity by facial scanners?
All too often I've seen software developers simply decide that they no longer feel like supporting/updating their project. I'd just LOVE to see all the turmoil when the developers of something important decide to drop their project and leave a 2 month timer inside... (dripping with sarcasm of course)
aside from that I hate being forced to do ANYTHING with my computer that I don't want to do... hell, it's my machine, I paid for all of the components, I chose which software to install...::snarls and random growling::
It's funny that you bother bringing this up. From what I remember nvidia was a really big nobody and 3dfx was the only real power in the 3D gaming market for YEARS. When 3dfx began to fail in keeping up with the times (think banshee, voodoo3 era)... they got run over. Simple as that. Also, when nvidia "bought 3DFX", they didn't buy the whole thing... only key assets... certain things that they wanted. Nvidia has said from the VERY BEGINNING that they did not take responsibility for supporting 3dfx's product lines. Anyone who expected them too anyway was either not listening or just plain dense. It simply wouldn't have made sense for them to do so.
So do whatever you like, buy ATI, buy Nvidia, buy 3DLabs, whatever... just get your facts at least relatively in order before you whine about them. (and it might be a good idea to check benchmark data before claiming one card is better than another)
(didn't/. run an article about this or something a few days ago? you'd think someone might have bothered to read, but oh well)
I don't know, I think even the mentally and physically handicapped would agree that sexual intercourse is probably, in itself, better than being "normal"
My friend has made a habit of naming all of his computers names that start with the letters Re
so far we have had:
Reliant
Resilient
Restless
Repressed
Repugnant
Redundant
and one other one that I can't remember
Sequel was a database "language" that existed before SQL was standardized. I do know beyond a shadow of a doubt that people who refer to SQL as Sequel are quite incorrect.
Sequel != SQL! (dang, it won't let me use the angle bracket not equal notation!)
if you tell me how to install W2K without IE, I would accept this argument.
How about the following (not for initial install, but anytime after). Make sure you have "show all files" turned on. Find the file C:\Winnt\inf\sysoc.inf. Open it in notepad. Remove all instances of "hide" in the file. Save the file. Now open up the Add/Remove Programs dialogue from the control panel and then go to the Add/Remove Windows Components section. See how much extra stuff you can actually install/uninstall there? (including IE). Frankly, Windows is crap without IE IMHO... but it's not much better with it so give it a go if you like...
(note: C:\winnt above should be replaced with the directory where you installed win2k)
the above that appears as an = was typed as a c less than or equal to statement, and the less than sign was apparently eaten somewhere in the middle. (html whatnot I imagine)
Unfortunately for BC++ 5.2, it sucks badly...very badly. It was released before the STL standards were fully finalized so they *guessed* at what they would be and it is really =80 percent compatible with real STL. 5.5 is somewhat better, but at that point you lose the functionality of the 5.2 gui. Borland C++ compilers (with the distinct exception of Builder 5!) are just a very bad idea. (I have had several classes in which I was required to write my programs in Borland 5.2 to "guarantee" compatability with the teacher's machine... problem is even on the constantly re-ghosted, as identical as humanly possible computers in my university's computer lab... one machine will compile your program totally differently (with random sets of errors) even as compared to the machine right next to it.) anyway, that's my rant.
I'm the network administrator for a small Indian tribe in Oklahoma. Recently we were forced to make a decision as to the operating system to use on our server for our newly laid network. One of our first ideas was Solaris, but as the tribe was far from willing to put out the money for a decent Sparc we were forced to stick to the x86 version. Unfortunately, although we tried 12 different machines that conformed to the Solaris HCL 100%, we were not once able to get the operating system up and running successfully. Each time when the machine finally booted (after several hours spent poking through one installer segment after the other (and trying to get the netscape kiosk whatsit to behave properly))... anyway... when the machine finally booted, the X server started and the machine froze hard. This is regardless of configuration. We tried IDE and SCSI, for video we tried Nvidia then ATI then S3 then 3dlabs. For network cards we tried everything from an Realtek 8139 (ew) to a 3com 3c905C. No matter what we tried we got the same result. Unfortunately the tribe then decided to spend 80K (4x what I make per year) on a huge rackmount compaq server with NT4 preinstalled. Grr to Solaris x86. That's all I have to say.
umm...hmmm. I think your friend might have issues. Gandalf is really quite kindly to the people (especially the hobbits, who he had a particular fondness for) who don't irritate the crap out of him (i.e. Saruman, Wormtongue, the Nazgûl (hehe), etc.) that's all.
But again you have to remember that if the person is determined enough and brave enough to walk up to the server, what's to prevent them from taking a screwdriver to reset the bios settings (and erase those passwords). You have to stop worrying at some point because this string of logic goes on forever.
This isn't quite what you're wanting, but my father stubbornly refuses to upgrade away from the 8086 that we've had since before time began. Yay for DOS! No by the way, it isn't a web server, but it still works every time he flips it on.
Well, I actually work on the holidays as much as I can even though I don't get special pay for it like some do. I simply have nothing else to do. If I take vacation I end up sitting at home staring at my computer screen all day. So I figure, if I'm going to be doing this, I may as well go to work and get something useful done while doing it (staring at the screen ya know).
Yes, as a matter of fact I can tune up my car's engine. Why do you ask?
(praying to the gods that be that they will take this comment for the joke that it is)
There is a point to be made there, but there is also a point to be made on a deeper level, beyond the world driven by "cold hard cash" as you put it. I am a network
administrator/programmer/whatever else they tell me for an Indian tribe(and so you'll know it isn't because I'm part of the tribe, I'm not, at all). I did not choose this job because it pays well, it doesn't. I was offered better paying jobs that allowed more vacation,shorter hours, etc. I chose this job because I have a heart for it. I can program for Windows and I can administer NT-based networks, but doing that would be going against myself. Microsoft is not a company that I care to support. Period. It's not where my heart is. In short, not everyone is in life for the money.
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:cough: easy to program for? :cough:
that's my job man. tisn't easy either. At least not any easier than any other OS specific API I've ever programmed for.
Also, you mention that Windows sells more than all other OSes combined. This is true. Then you have to go on to say that the market is who set the price and chooses the OS. Tisn't so, sorry, just isn't. Most of the "market" doesn't even realize that anything else exists... mostly because of billions spent on marketing and because most people didn't even buy a computer until after MS had a deal with every major manufacturer for their "win9x" crap. If people knew there was a choice perhaps they'd change their mind.
Actually 3dfx produced some rather splendid linux drivers, though by modern standards they sorta sucked... but hey, my voodoo banshee worked better under linux than my tnt2 ever did (until fairly recently of course when nvidia's drivers got closed source and stopped sucking)
(by the way, I am an avid supporter of open source and if nvidia didn't have their sgi nda whatnot I'm sure they'd open source their drivers just like they used to... and on top of that there has already been some discussion of opening up certain portions of their drivers anyway...)
"our computer has determined that Simon Phoenix will attempt to set up a drug lab and form a crime syndicate"...
the damned thing wasn't right that time either.
think.
standard 3.5" floppy disk drive has a 1.44MB
capacity.
standard 120mm cd-rom media has a ~640-700MB
capacity.
even if the seek time is 2,3,4,5,16,40x slower, it'd still respond quicker. (personally I think that floppy drives should probably be done away with in favor of at LEAST something like ZIP... the floppy drive I have in my AthlonXP 2100+ system is a 12 year old NEC 3.5" drive... and it isn't AT ALL different from the ones that you'd buy at the store today... in fact it makes less noise than most of the newer ones... just my $0.02)
...key one word here...
-->CLUSTER
the bus differences mean less than nothing
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sorry, moderators, just couldn't let the...
ehm... ignorance, yeah, that sounds good...
slide.
from what I understand though, the ultimate goal is rather to rely wholly upon the machines for facial recognition...no "human judgement" involved
... and I wasn't talking about scars, the guy who got into the car accident lost large pieces of his left cheekbone and his left eye entirely.
here's the specifics of what I wanna know both from Visage and from the State:
I know of at least two people who have had major amounts of facial damage dealt to them, one in a car accident and one on the football field. What safeguards are in place to assure these two people that they won't suddenly be denied their identity by facial scanners?
All too often I've seen software developers simply decide that they no longer feel like supporting/updating their project. I'd just LOVE to see all the turmoil when the developers of something important decide to drop their project and leave a 2 month timer inside... (dripping with sarcasm of course)
::snarls and random growling::
aside from that I hate being forced to do ANYTHING with my computer that I don't want to do... hell, it's my machine, I paid for all of the components, I chose which software to install...
It's funny that you bother bringing this up. From what I remember nvidia was a really big nobody and 3dfx was the only real power in the 3D gaming market for YEARS. When 3dfx began to fail in keeping up with the times (think banshee, voodoo3 era)... they got run over. Simple as that.
/. run an article about this or something a few days ago? you'd think someone might have bothered to read, but oh well)
Also, when nvidia "bought 3DFX", they didn't buy the whole thing... only key assets... certain things that they wanted. Nvidia has said from the VERY BEGINNING that they did not take responsibility for supporting 3dfx's product lines. Anyone who expected them too anyway was either not listening or just plain dense. It simply wouldn't have made sense for them to do so.
So do whatever you like, buy ATI, buy Nvidia, buy 3DLabs, whatever... just get your facts at least relatively in order before you whine about them. (and it might be a good idea to check benchmark data before claiming one card is better than another)
(didn't
That quote is accurate, but the military can and does refine the definition for non-civilian personnel.
I don't know, I think even the mentally and physically handicapped would agree that sexual intercourse is probably, in itself, better than being "normal"
My friend has made a habit of naming all of his computers names that start with the letters Re so far we have had:
Reliant
Resilient
Restless
Repressed
Repugnant
Redundant
and one other one that I can't remember
Sequel was a database "language" that existed before SQL was standardized. I do know beyond a shadow of a doubt that people who refer to SQL as Sequel are quite incorrect.
Sequel != SQL!
(dang, it won't let me use the angle bracket not equal notation!)
if you tell me how to install W2K without IE, I would accept this argument.
How about the following (not for initial install, but anytime after). Make sure you have "show all files" turned on. Find the file C:\Winnt\inf\sysoc.inf. Open it in notepad. Remove all instances of "hide" in the file. Save the file. Now open up the Add/Remove Programs dialogue from the control panel and then go to the Add/Remove Windows Components section. See how much extra stuff you can actually install/uninstall there? (including IE). Frankly, Windows is crap without IE IMHO... but it's not much better with it so give it a go if you like... (note: C:\winnt above should be replaced with the directory where you installed win2k)
the above that appears as an = was typed as a c less than or equal to statement, and the less than sign was apparently eaten somewhere in the middle. (html whatnot I imagine)
Unfortunately for BC++ 5.2, it sucks badly...very badly. It was released before the STL standards were fully finalized so they *guessed* at what they would be and it is really =80 percent compatible with real STL. 5.5 is somewhat better, but at that point you lose the functionality of the 5.2 gui. Borland C++ compilers (with the distinct exception of Builder 5!) are just a very bad idea. (I have had several classes in which I was required to write my programs in Borland 5.2 to "guarantee" compatability with the teacher's machine... problem is even on the constantly re-ghosted, as identical as humanly possible computers in my university's computer lab... one machine will compile your program totally differently (with random sets of errors) even as compared to the machine right next to it.) anyway, that's my rant.
Oh man, I haven't seen that movie in AGES and I loved it so much as a kid too :-) Anyway, go Tron on DVD! I hope it makes a fortune :-D!
I'm the network administrator for a small Indian tribe in Oklahoma. Recently we were forced to make a decision as to the operating system to use on our server for our newly laid network. One of our first ideas was Solaris, but as the tribe was far from willing to put out the money for a decent Sparc we were forced to stick to the x86 version. Unfortunately, although we tried 12 different machines that conformed to the Solaris HCL 100%, we were not once able to get the operating system up and running successfully. Each time when the machine finally booted (after several hours spent poking through one installer segment after the other (and trying to get the netscape kiosk whatsit to behave properly))... anyway... when the machine finally booted, the X server started and the machine froze hard. This is regardless of configuration. We tried IDE and SCSI, for video we tried Nvidia then ATI then S3 then 3dlabs. For network cards we tried everything from an Realtek 8139 (ew) to a 3com 3c905C. No matter what we tried we got the same result. Unfortunately the tribe then decided to spend 80K (4x what I make per year) on a huge rackmount compaq server with NT4 preinstalled. Grr to Solaris x86. That's all I have to say.
the book itself had a lengthy lead in narrative. it's called a prologue :-)
umm...hmmm. I think your friend might have issues. Gandalf is really quite kindly to the people (especially the hobbits, who he had a particular fondness for) who don't irritate the crap out of him (i.e. Saruman, Wormtongue, the Nazgûl (hehe), etc.) that's all.
But again you have to remember that if the person is determined enough and brave enough to walk up to the server, what's to prevent them from taking a screwdriver to reset the bios settings (and erase those passwords). You have to stop worrying at some point because this string of logic goes on forever.
This isn't quite what you're wanting, but my father stubbornly refuses to upgrade away from the 8086 that we've had since before time began. Yay for DOS! No by the way, it isn't a web server, but it still works every time he flips it on.
Well, I actually work on the holidays as much as I can even though I don't get special pay for it like some do. I simply have nothing else to do. If I take vacation I end up sitting at home staring at my computer screen all day. So I figure, if I'm going to be doing this, I may as well go to work and get something useful done while doing it (staring at the screen ya know).
Yes, as a matter of fact I can tune up my car's engine. Why do you ask?
(praying to the gods that be that they will take this comment for the joke that it is)
There is a point to be made there, but there is also a point to be made on a deeper level, beyond the world driven by "cold hard cash" as you put it. I am a network
administrator/programmer/whatever else they tell me for an Indian tribe(and so you'll know it isn't because I'm part of the tribe, I'm not, at all). I did not choose this job because it pays well, it doesn't. I was offered better paying jobs that allowed more vacation,shorter hours, etc. I chose this job because I have a heart for it. I can program for Windows and I can administer NT-based networks, but doing that would be going against myself. Microsoft is not a company that I care to support. Period. It's not where my heart is. In short, not everyone is in life for the money.