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I'm going to get modded down -1 Troll, Flamebait, Offtopic, Racist...
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Half the people I call for tech support @ IBM, Dell, ______ Software, they all can barely speak fluent English. IF they can, they have such a horrible accent it doesn't matter anway.
What are these people doing phone support for? Router configuration is the same in French/English/Klingong, but phone support?
Back on topic, I don't think the language barrier will be THAT big of a deal. At least it isn't over here.
I really enjoy reading the history of the big computer companies. The battles in the 80's, rags to riches and back to rags stories of Borland, WordPerfect...Early days of Apple, Microsoft...
And if this goes well, will the Windows version eventually use a Gecko-based browser, too?
I almost said "No, not unless it's 100% compatible with sites that want to see IE"
But then I thought about how screwy the AOL browsers have been in the past.
I'd just fire up AOL and run IE, but 99% of AOL users don't know you can do that. The only twisted view of the world wide web they have is from inside of the AOL Browser.
Remember all the porn sites that used to say, "AOL-friendly?"
The ISB Pro800turbo is Nexland's flagship. It is the only box of its kind to feature dual modem ports faster browsing speeds by load balancing two broadband accounts. Mix, Cable, DSL, SDSL and/or T1 connections. Auto-Failover between ports.
The 8-port switch supports up to 253 computers making it easy to set up a small network in a snap. The Pro800turbo also contains Nexland's proprietary technology which allows unlimited IPsec tunnels over NAT.
Looks like it'd be alright...Haven't personally used it, but for $379 it can't be all that bad.
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They've beat NVIDIA, at least for now
Also, the red PCB is nice
I'm going to get modded down -1 Troll, Flamebait, Offtopic, Racist...
BUT
Half the people I call for tech support @ IBM, Dell, ______ Software, they all can barely speak fluent English. IF they can, they have such a horrible accent it doesn't matter anway.
What are these people doing phone support for? Router configuration is the same in French/English/Klingong, but phone support?
Back on topic, I don't think the language barrier will be THAT big of a deal. At least it isn't over here.
Puhleeease!
Or is it adobe property?
linux people won't make/use fonts (or anything else) unless everything about them is free
I really enjoy reading the history of the big computer companies. The battles in the 80's, rags to riches and back to rags stories of Borland, WordPerfect...Early days of Apple, Microsoft...
Any other good computer history sites?
Playing Solitare and looking at porn
are the same thing!
Video game graphics don't have to be 'correct', they just have to look 'correct'
Doubles the price of the CPU(s), too!
Broken elevator, and you've got to move 4 PC's up to the third floor?
Load the van up with ladders, boxes of cat 5, tool boxes?
Brute force of moving big servers, 48U racks, 21 inch monitors!
Big printers are heavy as all hell!
Just because I can write a OpenGL Teapot viewer, doesn't mean Nintendo should hire me.
,and a program to import the Quake III textures, light maps....
Basically, you're writing a model viewer
After you draw/load one poly, you just loop to do the rest.
Does your viewer run at an insane speed?
Back when iD published their own games, they were very successful too.
Too bad 'Shareware games' don't exist at the level that they did in the 90's. Apogee, iD, Epic.....*sigh*
But other games used the Wolfenstien Engine, and a couple of games used the Doom engine, and a bunch used the Quake/Quake II engine.
Excellent. I wish I had read it when I was 12!
Who wants to listen to those? Who wants to re-record that quality?
Who even HAS those? Mine or melted or were sold at the garage sales.
We've replaced a few of them with some newer Dells, but that's just the guys who use AutoCAD, and some people who use Quark, Photoshop.....
Everyone is fine with their machine. We'll replace them as the crap out. Some of them are dying already.
And if this goes well, will the Windows version eventually use a Gecko-based browser, too?
I almost said "No, not unless it's 100% compatible with sites that want to see IE"
But then I thought about how screwy the AOL browsers have been in the past.
I'd just fire up AOL and run IE, but 99% of AOL users don't know you can do that. The only twisted view of the world wide web they have is from inside of the AOL Browser.
Remember all the porn sites that used to say, "AOL-friendly?"
The kid who died because of playing EverQuest?
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Shawn Wooley, we miss you! RIP!
Any word?
I guess since Sun is in the 64 bit domain....it might not make sense. But then again, it might!
sure, something you throw together in perl in 5 minutes is going to beat some widely known and secure algorithim
Of when 1 guy could code a game in a month, down in his parents basement, using graph paper to design 'sprites' ?
Fast-forward 15 years...
"Remember when it only took 4 CGI animators, 5 texture artists, and 6 3D modellers to create the cutscenes in a game?"
Quake and Doom and Doom 2
The only people who can keep secrets are dead.
Yes, remember in "Forever Young"?
Mel Gibson had those blood clots, and he'd make cool faces, fall over, and get back up 5 years older?
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The ISB Pro800turbo is Nexland's flagship. It is the only box of its kind to feature dual modem ports faster browsing speeds by load balancing two broadband accounts. Mix, Cable, DSL, SDSL and/or T1 connections. Auto-Failover between ports.
The 8-port switch supports up to 253 computers making it easy to set up a small network in a snap. The Pro800turbo also contains Nexland's proprietary technology which allows unlimited IPsec tunnels over NAT.
Looks like it'd be alright...Haven't personally used it, but for $379 it can't be all that bad.
On the second day of January, Microsoft had generated more operating system revenue than the Linux community (will for the entire year)
How many days in the year does it take for Microsoft to pay all 49,000 of it's employees?
What about, RedHat for instance?