I am still baffeld at how and why SPAM still works?!?! Everyone i know complains about spam, even the most non-technical people... Yet, apparently, some of them still go and buy stuff...
I'd be very curious to see some figures on how much money was spent on spam-started purchases last year....
Ofcourse it changes the TCO... but the difference here isn't Licenses + Support (MS) vs Support only (Linux)...
I think the TCO thing takes for granted that a lot more people are pre-trained on windows during school/college... versus training people for linux's cost falls on to the company...
But I wasn't even talkinga about TCO.. just wanted to dispute the claim that MS support is bad.
This is completely wrong. In the last 3 corporations i've worked for in the past 6 yrs, Microsoft support has been nothing short of impressive. Ofcourse, provided you pay for the right support, Microsoft really takes ownership of a problem and always fixes it. Perhaps i've just been lucky, but I've always been impressed with MS's support.
Mod parent up!!! Personally, I was very impressed by these guys who pieced all this toghether and I'm sadened by all you who think this is lame and only see 'just another simulator' with flaws. You fail to see the coolness behind taking things appart and putting them toghether in a new and fun way.
The point isn't that if you want to drive, drive a real car... the point is that they hooked up a car's steering wheel, breaks, all gauges, etc... to a pc and got it working in a game... i'm damned impressed... expecially with the electronic gauges...
The nice thing about these, which may help proppel it into a standard, is that one side is the HD side with 30+ GB, and the other side is a standard DVD 8.5 GB... meaning you can play the 8.5 side on regular dvd players which everyone has, and still own the HD version of the movie when you upgrade later....
Yes you can, but you need a hex editor. Load up the exe and goto this address: 23HX,12BA... change the H to an F... This will let you literally drag and drop simulation (.sim) files in the loader and run them.
I showed this to my boss earlier today and he's been busi all morning creating sim files to try out.
I've always wondered, would a program like Photoshop, benefite from 512 Video RAM??? Or does it work some other way where it doesn't use video ram like that. Ofcourse, let's assume that you are working with 600+ MB PSD files....
The voice quality did it... I haven't tried some of the ones u mentioned, but skype is by far the best quality i've heard.. a lot of times better than my pots phone
Speaking of smart cards, anyone know where how to obtain a simple smart card home solution? All resources i've found are for large enterprize distributions... i'm only looking for 2 or 3 smart cards..
Meanwhile, everyone's complaining that MS is bundling a friggin media player and internet browser with THEIR OWN OS!!!
I've always wondered, and i'm sure (err hope) there's a good explanation... Why doesn't Apple get sued for packaging everything with their OS?
I can't belive this.... For every other company, people bitch how the company is no longer inovative and only worries about ROI to its investors...
And here's some wank who's essentially complaning that Google isn't worrying enough about it's shareholders' ROI...
fuck man...
"So you are no longer the guy who will bring a company tons of money threw web sales, but the guy who needs to make sure the now built website doesn't crash, and if it did then there is lost money."
You hit the nail on the head! mod parent up
Or instead of looking at the EKG result of you MOVING your arm, they could program it by the EKG of you IMAGINING that you're moving your arm (or imaigning that the TV is on... the WILLING it to be on)
As paranoid as it is, this will never happen.
I read a wired article once, which mentioned such implants. One of the doctors were sending electrical inpulses to the motor-skills parts ofthe brain and found a place which made the patients arm rise. The patient said he wasn't doing it it, but was able w/o effort to put his arm back down and overide the electrodes.
On a side note, brain-PC technology will be amazing once developed. In time, your brain will be able to adapt so well to this that you won't have to think individual letters to spell words.. eventually, just thinking of ideas and daydreaming, could automatically translate into sentences and pagragraphs.
Imagine the same for graphic/3D applications... after the system is trained and your brain adapts (years of practice, ofcourse - which is how long it takes to learn to write, btw), a designer could just sit and his imagination would drive the pc.
I can't wait!!!!! If anyone needs test subjects, let me know!!!!!
taking the place of short-range connections such as USB and Firewire, and providing fast data links between consumer goods
Wasn't bluetooth suposed to do this? How fast is bluetooth, anway?
I guess the advantage would be the distance... BT only allows a few meters at best.
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I am still baffeld at how and why SPAM still works?!?! Everyone i know complains about spam, even the most non-technical people... Yet, apparently, some of them still go and buy stuff...
I'd be very curious to see some figures on how much money was spent on spam-started purchases last year....
Ofcourse it changes the TCO... but the difference here isn't Licenses + Support (MS) vs Support only (Linux)...
I think the TCO thing takes for granted that a lot more people are pre-trained on windows during school/college... versus training people for linux's cost falls on to the company...
But I wasn't even talkinga about TCO.. just wanted to dispute the claim that MS support is bad.
where support ispatchy at best
This is completely wrong. In the last 3 corporations i've worked for in the past 6 yrs, Microsoft support has been nothing short of impressive. Ofcourse, provided you pay for the right support, Microsoft really takes ownership of a problem and always fixes it. Perhaps i've just been lucky, but I've always been impressed with MS's support.
Why, is dissing other people's creative work getting YOU laid?
Mod parent up!!! Personally, I was very impressed by these guys who pieced all this toghether and I'm sadened by all you who think this is lame and only see 'just another simulator' with flaws. You fail to see the coolness behind taking things appart and putting them toghether in a new and fun way.
The point isn't that if you want to drive, drive a real car... the point is that they hooked up a car's steering wheel, breaks, all gauges, etc... to a pc and got it working in a game... i'm damned impressed... expecially with the electronic gauges...
The nice thing about these, which may help proppel it into a standard, is that one side is the HD side with 30+ GB, and the other side is a standard DVD 8.5 GB... meaning you can play the 8.5 side on regular dvd players which everyone has, and still own the HD version of the movie when you upgrade later....
Yes you can, but you need a hex editor. Load up the exe and goto this address: 23HX,12BA... change the H to an F... This will let you literally drag and drop simulation (.sim) files in the loader and run them. I showed this to my boss earlier today and he's been busi all morning creating sim files to try out.
I've always wondered, would a program like Photoshop, benefite from 512 Video RAM??? Or does it work some other way where it doesn't use video ram like that. Ofcourse, let's assume that you are working with 600+ MB PSD files....
What if you tried doing what you enjoy and have a passion for, rather than what's in demand. That's why IT so saturated right now.
The voice quality did it... I haven't tried some of the ones u mentioned, but skype is by far the best quality i've heard.. a lot of times better than my pots phone
Speaking of smart cards, anyone know where how to obtain a simple smart card home solution? All resources i've found are for large enterprize distributions... i'm only looking for 2 or 3 smart cards..
this got a +4 Informative??? Seriously.... I guess all major corps use windows because dell ships it preloaded, eh?
and by 'mob' you mean 59million people who voted to keep bush in office.
Meanwhile, everyone's complaining that MS is bundling a friggin media player and internet browser with THEIR OWN OS!!! I've always wondered, and i'm sure (err hope) there's a good explanation... Why doesn't Apple get sued for packaging everything with their OS?
I don't know what you find VERY THING about 130 x 2 + 1.5 mm that's over 9 inches
Yeiks.. you will also be able to search the transcript of the show.... Wonder if they'll transcribe every video. This is pretty crazy
It looks like you will be able to watch 24!! The full hour too.
I can't belive this.... For every other company, people bitch how the company is no longer inovative and only worries about ROI to its investors... And here's some wank who's essentially complaning that Google isn't worrying enough about it's shareholders' ROI... fuck man...
Aawww fuck!!! Didn't even occur to me this was a joke. Thanks!! I hate april fools..
Reprezentati!!!
Script kidding just don't get you that kind of respect anymore, do it?
"So you are no longer the guy who will bring a company tons of money threw web sales, but the guy who needs to make sure the now built website doesn't crash, and if it did then there is lost money." You hit the nail on the head! mod parent up
Or instead of looking at the EKG result of you MOVING your arm, they could program it by the EKG of you IMAGINING that you're moving your arm (or imaigning that the TV is on... the WILLING it to be on)
As paranoid as it is, this will never happen. I read a wired article once, which mentioned such implants. One of the doctors were sending electrical inpulses to the motor-skills parts ofthe brain and found a place which made the patients arm rise. The patient said he wasn't doing it it, but was able w/o effort to put his arm back down and overide the electrodes. On a side note, brain-PC technology will be amazing once developed. In time, your brain will be able to adapt so well to this that you won't have to think individual letters to spell words.. eventually, just thinking of ideas and daydreaming, could automatically translate into sentences and pagragraphs. Imagine the same for graphic/3D applications... after the system is trained and your brain adapts (years of practice, ofcourse - which is how long it takes to learn to write, btw), a designer could just sit and his imagination would drive the pc. I can't wait!!!!! If anyone needs test subjects, let me know!!!!!
taking the place of short-range connections such as USB and Firewire, and providing fast data links between consumer goods Wasn't bluetooth suposed to do this? How fast is bluetooth, anway? I guess the advantage would be the distance... BT only allows a few meters at best.