Yes, I've tried installing/removing the NVidia drivers multiple times (version 181.x IIRC, I'm not on my home PC).
Merely trying to patch Band Of Brothers 1 crashes with a BSOD. The thing is that the driver involved in the blue explosion or the reason, is not always the same one (from IRQ_NO_LESS_EQUAL to a fault in usbsys).
All in all, I find it really ironical that I kept a Windows XP only for gaming but now the only one that would run is WoW, which besides Ventrilo works just as well on Linux.
Besides the dual-screen on Linux that, despite what many commenters say is far from ideal and not working very well when screens with different sizes are involved.
I wish I'd be as lucky as you.
Not a single game that I own works on RC1, besides Starcraft and World Of Warcraft, which isn't surprising since Blizzard games are known to (close) always work, whatever outrageous things one could have done to the OS.
The irony is that to run any "Microsoft Games" such as Age Of Empire III, I have to use Wine on Ubuntu.
Otherwise, it's an assured BSOD every time I try to launch one with W7.
My guess would be that DirectX (11?) and the NVidia drivers for my card (a 9500GT) just don't like each other.
I am in the same opinion, with an addition: if the web is the best way to deliver information, why does this delivery has to happen in one god application called "Teh Web Browser". I think the web browser should die, and other UI paradigms are required to make this delivery happen, and really innovate.
Google OS promises to be less than innovative, which is annoying as it just adds noise to the existing.
With my Linux fan cap on, as a personal opinion, I'd say that on top of adding noise to the OS market, a new effort for an OS still based on Linux seems like a waste of efforts where said efforts could be directed to successful projects that are live and kicking such as Ubuntu. Unfortunately, the motivation is clear: add PROFIT to the set of librairies the OS implements.
I am also not sure the average household laptop consumer really needs yet another OS to get confused with. In that matter, the switch to Google OS coudl well not happen as Google could plan, by lack of will from your dad and gran'ma (who are the real targets, not us, tech savvy folks).
All that is nice and well but bloated web application happen and will happen. There is no difference between a web application and a "native" one if they are coded bloatedly - they will act bloatedly. And a bloated javascript app is just as horrible as any other.
Which is the case of a lot of M$ apps as there's a decade of legacy crap under the hood.
This will allow for the development of much cheaper netbooks!
Sorry, I fail to see how a notebook will be less expensive using Google OS. You assume every notebook has "Windows XP" or some such on it. The reality is notebook manufacturers SELL you a non-free OS which bumps the price of the notebook. You can make your notebook cheaper by not fitting it with expensive softwares that have free (as in beer) equivalents...That works well
No, you and all who claim that's a difference in treatment just don't understand. Because you do not know the facts and the details of how things happened, you can't really discuss it and shout injustice to the world, only reacting with your own feelings.
The reason why there is a court process is exactly to establish FACTS that are not obvious and try to find some truth among all the various points of view of disputing parties. Apparently the only wrongdoing of that NFL guy was driving drunk, but that was not the cause of the accident.
Reading a bit more, the 59 years old dad was just another stupid candidate for the Darwin Awards. Trying to cross a 6 lane highway is simply suicide. Not worth putting someone else in jail for life because of your own stupid actions, is it? That is my point of view, and it has nothing to do with million of dollars for 24 worthless songs from so-called "artists" of the 21 century. And that's all I know about this case so I just can't judge.
And what if he was simply someone who can't afford an IPhone, living in a poor area of town and not being as rich as the 3 kids with their laptop and their mobile phones, and with nothing else to attack people with than a bus ticket?
Danger starts with paranoia: in your head. The world is much less scary than what people have you believe.
No, it shows that US society is screwed, not just suburbia, since nobody can trust anyone to not get shot in the face, in any kind of situation. This is sad, but it's the reality.
No, I have never said you are a bad parent.
What I am saying is that it makes you someone who doesn't see the benefits of hitting multiple targets with a single stone.
You have no right to waste the time of your students by getting them to produce this guy's latest Christmas Card Project.
And you sir probably should have limited rights when it'll be time to educate your own kids, or should have the right to subscribe to free parenting lessons.
What the poster suggests is actually a very nice and educative thing to do for a Christmas. It teaches the kids to give without waiting anything in return and to say thank you when they're being given something.
I've been reading Slashdot forever now, and I think THIS idea probably ranks top 5 in every post I've read here so far.
It's because you're a too fucking young fucker. During our grandparent's fucked time, vocabulary freedom was much more restrictive and anything fucking remotely related to fucking (as in 'sex') was just not a verbal option.
Truth is, young fucker, that our last generations have fucking lost the sense of good grammar and verbal expression. Reducing sentences to the simplest denominator ('fuck') works for the unwashed masses too.
Try Shakespearian speak to see how many people will understand you.
On strong national defense, I visited the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as part of a congressional delegation to investigate for myself the issues surrounding the proposed closure of that facility.
There is no match for our detention facility in Cuba. The natural geographical barriers, remote location and physical structure are uniquely suited to securely detain those who wish our country harm. Furthermore, interrogation techniques like waterboarding are not used there.
Just that sentence makes me think this guys is a zozo who just wants to grab votes and don't think a second what he says about freedom, laws or anything remotely related. Or worse, he can't have a personal opinion. That totally invalides the rest of the article.
Another sick moron in the political space. No thanks.
Am I the only one to find this kind of moves totally unfair to the people who aren't obese or have a healthier life/diet?
Weighting less than 90 pounds at adult age, I am offended by efforts regarding obesity generated by junk food business and junk food lovers. Obesity is a condition that can more easily be worked around than trying to gain weight, believe it or not.
Having to pay another tax when I go watch a movie or rent one because the suckers next to me can't refrain from chomping on pop-corns, slurping on sugar-exploded sodas, or absorbing other smelly crap while ruining the whole movie theater ambiance in the process, outrages me to no end.
The problem here has nothing to do with medicare, medicaid or anything other than behavioural problems and big companies taking advantage of that. Time for our "modern" society to look back at the fat belly button and change our ways.
Good points on very specific issues.
I can't say about the shutdown beep since I actually physically cut the speaker wire, but I've ran in the same kind of troubles as you, simply because of silly default values:
-- Dual screens: enable Xinerama.
-- No freaking sound whatever you do: uncheck "Use output cable" or some such well-hidden settings in the Sound device settings.
There's a lot of things that users will find nice when set with proper default values and just not working with stupid defaults. Some softwares in Ubuntu unfortunately are set with the most unexpected default settings (who wants their sound card to NOT direct sound to their speakers by default, but to a wire output 90% of people have not connected to anything), which makes people think it just doesn't work.
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Thanks for your reply.
Yes, I've tried installing/removing the NVidia drivers multiple times (version 181.x IIRC, I'm not on my home PC).
Merely trying to patch Band Of Brothers 1 crashes with a BSOD. The thing is that the driver involved in the blue explosion or the reason, is not always the same one (from IRQ_NO_LESS_EQUAL to a fault in usbsys).
All in all, I find it really ironical that I kept a Windows XP only for gaming but now the only one that would run is WoW, which besides Ventrilo works just as well on Linux.
Besides the dual-screen on Linux that, despite what many commenters say is far from ideal and not working very well when screens with different sizes are involved.
I wish I'd be as lucky as you. Not a single game that I own works on RC1, besides Starcraft and World Of Warcraft, which isn't surprising since Blizzard games are known to (close) always work, whatever outrageous things one could have done to the OS. The irony is that to run any "Microsoft Games" such as Age Of Empire III, I have to use Wine on Ubuntu. Otherwise, it's an assured BSOD every time I try to launch one with W7. My guess would be that DirectX (11?) and the NVidia drivers for my card (a 9500GT) just don't like each other.
I am in the same opinion, with an addition: if the web is the best way to deliver information, why does this delivery has to happen in one god application called "Teh Web Browser". I think the web browser should die, and other UI paradigms are required to make this delivery happen, and really innovate.
Google OS promises to be less than innovative, which is annoying as it just adds noise to the existing.
With my Linux fan cap on, as a personal opinion, I'd say that on top of adding noise to the OS market, a new effort for an OS still based on Linux seems like a waste of efforts where said efforts could be directed to successful projects that are live and kicking such as Ubuntu. Unfortunately, the motivation is clear: add PROFIT to the set of librairies the OS implements.
I am also not sure the average household laptop consumer really needs yet another OS to get confused with. In that matter, the switch to Google OS coudl well not happen as Google could plan, by lack of will from your dad and gran'ma (who are the real targets, not us, tech savvy folks).
All that is nice and well but bloated web application happen and will happen. There is no difference between a web application and a "native" one if they are coded bloatedly - they will act bloatedly. And a bloated javascript app is just as horrible as any other.
Which is the case of a lot of M$ apps as there's a decade of legacy crap under the hood.
This will allow for the development of much cheaper netbooks!
Sorry, I fail to see how a notebook will be less expensive using Google OS. You assume every notebook has "Windows XP" or some such on it. The reality is notebook manufacturers SELL you a non-free OS which bumps the price of the notebook. You can make your notebook cheaper by not fitting it with expensive softwares that have free (as in beer) equivalents...That works well
You've been modded Troll, why?
The reason why there is a court process is exactly to establish FACTS that are not obvious and try to find some truth among all the various points of view of disputing parties. Apparently the only wrongdoing of that NFL guy was driving drunk, but that was not the cause of the accident.
Reading a bit more, the 59 years old dad was just another stupid candidate for the Darwin Awards. Trying to cross a 6 lane highway is simply suicide. Not worth putting someone else in jail for life because of your own stupid actions, is it? That is my point of view, and it has nothing to do with million of dollars for 24 worthless songs from so-called "artists" of the 21 century. And that's all I know about this case so I just can't judge.
Text of such quality are very rare on /.
Thank you.
And what if he was simply someone who can't afford an IPhone, living in a poor area of town and not being as rich as the 3 kids with their laptop and their mobile phones, and with nothing else to attack people with than a bus ticket?
Danger starts with paranoia: in your head. The world is much less scary than what people have you believe.
No, it shows that US society is screwed, not just suburbia, since nobody can trust anyone to not get shot in the face, in any kind of situation. This is sad, but it's the reality.
So, nothing in your text correspond to anything said by the author. Aren't you glad you made an arse of yourself, once again?
No, I have never said you are a bad parent. What I am saying is that it makes you someone who doesn't see the benefits of hitting multiple targets with a single stone.
Or was Oracle/Sun tentatively testing the waters to see the community's reaction?
It'd be great if my fellow slashdotters stop giving in the PROFIT conspiration theory, just one time.
A meteor ? Noway. We in Slashdot all know that it's a coup from our new Alien overlords since Mankind has difficulties welcoming any alien, for one.
You have no right to waste the time of your students by getting them to produce this guy's latest Christmas Card Project.
And you sir probably should have limited rights when it'll be time to educate your own kids, or should have the right to subscribe to free parenting lessons.
What the poster suggests is actually a very nice and educative thing to do for a Christmas. It teaches the kids to give without waiting anything in return and to say thank you when they're being given something.
I've been reading Slashdot forever now, and I think THIS idea probably ranks top 5 in every post I've read here so far.
It's just that (4) isn't clear.
Aaaahh I wish I had just ONE mod point.
You win the day.
The UI pieces were probably done using DECForms
DECForms? Oh hell!
Please there are kids in this forum. They don't deserve to hear about this. Let's pretend that thing never existed.
Why did I first read
Biggest work around? I'd say having to use windows to try to do my hand job.
Seriously?
It's because you're a too fucking young fucker. During our grandparent's fucked time, vocabulary freedom was much more restrictive and anything fucking remotely related to fucking (as in 'sex') was just not a verbal option.
Truth is, young fucker, that our last generations have fucking lost the sense of good grammar and verbal expression. Reducing sentences to the simplest denominator ('fuck') works for the unwashed masses too.
Try Shakespearian speak to see how many people will understand you.
And yeah, this is fucked up.
Did I right that right?
On strong national defense, I visited the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as part of a congressional delegation to investigate for myself the issues surrounding the proposed closure of that facility. There is no match for our detention facility in Cuba. The natural geographical barriers, remote location and physical structure are uniquely suited to securely detain those who wish our country harm. Furthermore, interrogation techniques like waterboarding are not used there.
Just that sentence makes me think this guys is a zozo who just wants to grab votes and don't think a second what he says about freedom, laws or anything remotely related. Or worse, he can't have a personal opinion. That totally invalides the rest of the article.
Another sick moron in the political space. No thanks.
Am I the only one to find this kind of moves totally unfair to the people who aren't obese or have a healthier life/diet?
Weighting less than 90 pounds at adult age, I am offended by efforts regarding obesity generated by junk food business and junk food lovers. Obesity is a condition that can more easily be worked around than trying to gain weight, believe it or not.
Having to pay another tax when I go watch a movie or rent one because the suckers next to me can't refrain from chomping on pop-corns, slurping on sugar-exploded sodas, or absorbing other smelly crap while ruining the whole movie theater ambiance in the process, outrages me to no end.
The problem here has nothing to do with medicare, medicaid or anything other than behavioural problems and big companies taking advantage of that. Time for our "modern" society to look back at the fat belly button and change our ways.
Good points on very specific issues.
I can't say about the shutdown beep since I actually physically cut the speaker wire, but I've ran in the same kind of troubles as you, simply because of silly default values: -- Dual screens: enable Xinerama.
-- No freaking sound whatever you do: uncheck "Use output cable" or some such well-hidden settings in the Sound device settings.
There's a lot of things that users will find nice when set with proper default values and just not working with stupid defaults. Some softwares in Ubuntu unfortunately are set with the most unexpected default settings (who wants their sound card to NOT direct sound to their speakers by default, but to a wire output 90% of people have not connected to anything), which makes people think it just doesn't work.
"System>>Preferences>>Appearance anything but easy?"
I think in "easy" he also meant "intuitive". The Appearance settings in Ubuntu really is not.