Theoretically, the OEM is suppose to do everything (and Microsoft won't walk you through running OEM restore CDs). If you got Windows from an OEM you're suppose to pay the $35/call fee (a steal, provided you get a good tech). In practice, one of Microsoft's main selling points to OEMs seems to be providing a dumping ground for those custs who won't format and are too cheap to pay someone to come and fix it.
Dude, it's not hard to get free support from Microsoft, call your OEM and they'll tell you how:). Besides, if you just called tech support for a product refund, they'd send you back to cust serve for a refund first ($35/call) and then give you the product refund #. Much as I hate Microsoft (typing this on slack 10), they're pretty easy going about software returns your purchase from them. So long as it's in 60 days, they don't argue, and they only want to know why you're returning the product for marketing.
Blame your OEM for not letting you return your copy of XP. You didn't buy it from Microsoft, you bought it from Dell (or whoever), and it's because of them that returning it's such a pain.
Yeah, I know that's not strickly true, but it wouldn't take much effort on Dell's part to get MS in line with a refund program. They don't want to because they don't want the support costs. For every one Linux nut you get who never bothers the company again, you'll get 10 nitwits wanting to know why you don't support this damn 'puter just 'cause they loaded RH7 on it.
Finally, if you don't like the Microsoft Tax, there's always www.retrobox.com...
when the motor dies (which it will). They can use load balancing at the hardware level to keep the limit from being reached in practice though, and on a 16GB harddrive it'd expect them too.
The NeoGeo was arcade hardware repackaged for the high end home market. It was never intented to compete with the SNES and Genesis, but to offer a high end gaming platform for arcade lovers. The price never really went down because of this.
It's expected that the price of the new consoles will go down significantly after launch. The high launch price is to grab early adopters.
Yeah, 'cause it's a great idea to have critical aspects of your military and/or gov't's communications network dependent on foriegn electronics...
Seriously, if the argument works for Linux on the other side of the pond, it ought to mean the same for electronics the the States. Trouble is, Linux is free, Americans working in electronic factories are expensive.
Frankly, linux just works for me as a desktop (yes, I know I'm in an extremely small minority). The ports of pan I've seen are just not up to snuff, and I've never found a news reader that was anywhere near as easy to use and reliable. With KDE, I can drag and drop mp3s into my Creative lab's Muvo mp3 player directly, and I have easy access to a tool chain for converting my.flacs. tvtime is simply the best tuner app for cheapskates. Sure, you buy a $150 dollar tuner you probably get bells and wistles, pick up a $32 dollar el cheapo on newegg though and you'll be thanking God for TVtime. K3b is simply the simplest, most straight forward burning app I've ever used. I hate it when I've got to burn something in Nero or EZCD on someone else's machine. Plus, when I make DVDs, I can mount the images loop back and burn the data directly, which has proven much more reliable than any other methond I've come across.
Linux has real advantages on the desktop, believe it or not.
What's a good, cheap card for Myth TV. Neweggs got tons of cards under $80 bucks, so many it's hard to decide. I'm looking to replace my aging STB bt848 base card (it's got these weird wavey blue bars in the picture that're driving me nuts, doesn't show up in capture though, go fig).
sure, you'll go out and buy your favorite series to see them in the best quality possible, but will you buy that so-so series that you kinda wanted to see, or will you just download it and live with the quality loss? I want to see Escaflowne in perfect quality, Divergence Eve on the other hand...
Probably you've got click-focus on one of the adds. Highlight some text in the article and then try scrolling, and make sure you don't mouse over the adds. It's trying to scroll inside the adds instead of the page.
As for why this isn't going to come to the states, two reasons. One, you don't piss Microsoft off. Two, Americans expect, nay demand, free, year round support (preferably 24/7). I've watched many the small time outfit try and compete with the big guys, only to go under when the find out that their customer base can't understand why they can't call up the tech at home at 3am and get help installing directx 9.0a to play the latest Dear Hunter game they just bought at Walmart. It doesn't matter that OEM support is horendously bad, all that matters is that it's there. American's don't give a rat's behind about quality. The evaluate first on price, then features, then convience, style, poplularity and anything else they can come up with, and finally, having exhausted all else, consider quality.
a large part of the expense of Hollywood movies is overpaying actors. This is a necessary component of Hollywood, since a big part of the movie experience (at least in the states) is living vicariously through your favorite rich star/starlet. It's that whole 'glammor' thing they built up in the 50's and 60's. Gaming just doesn't have this, and for good reason. For one thing, your favorite programmer usually doesn't look too good on a magazine cover (lack of sunlight will kinda do that to a guy). Moreover, the publishers are going out of their way to keep it from happening. You'll notice EA doesn't brand studios or programmers. Hell, as far back as Atari programmers had to use tricks to get their name on stuff (Yars revenge, if memory servers).
And of course, John Romero and Daikatana didn't exactly help gaming personalities take off...
That's because it's easier to get a regulatory body to do what you want than to wait for Congress to do it. Cheaper too, since when loopholes pop up you don't need to buy a revision to the law to close 'em. The only downside is a judge can rule the regulatory body isn't vested with the necessary power. But you cross that bridge when you get there.
You see, that's why I was drawing a distinction between the Safari project and it's programmers and the Apple Computer Corporation and it's managers...
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or forking. Forking implies someone with different goals/ideals starting a new project in keeping with those goals/ideals. As near as anyone can tell the Safari projects goals are perfectly in line with khtml's, it's just the corporation making things a little rough around the edges. What's bothering everyone here is that if it was just between projects then there's no technical, legal or political reason everyone couldn't just play nice together. Having a large corp involved is complicating things. This isn't necessarilly the end of the world. There's people at Apple no doubt trying to work this out.
At any rate, if people don't complain a bit, how's Apple going to know we want them to shape up the code a bit.
I've heard some of these flat panels only last ~5 years, and aren't at all repairable. That sucks for a variety of reasons. It'd be nice (for everyone but tv manufacturers) if they lasted longer.
they can easily get 12 hours (asuming no fancy LEDs) and 15 minute recharging. If Sony can do it with a CD player, Microsoft can pull it off with a gamepad. And there are advancements comming down the pipe that increase battery life and reduce charging. Why anyone would use regular batteries for devices with frequent power needs (PDAs, mp3 players, etc) is beyond me.
with people dumping on Masters of Teras Kasi. It wasn't that bad a game. People act like it's the PS1's equivalent of E.T. or something. There were plenty of worse fighters in that generation. Any one who thinks Masters of Teras Kasi is bad needs to dig up a copy of Criticom to see how truly awful a game can be.
all they did was rule the FCC didn't have the authority. It takes 1 act of congress to give them that authority. The only real hope here is this'll delay things long enough that flag free hardware will become the standard, and people'll start to expect it. Then again, if congress forces the flag down everyone's throats, what good is a defacto standard?
If your expecting a public outcry, don't. The content providers will just wait to start flagging their shows until flagged hardware is everwhere and everything. People won't know/care until it's too late.
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Theoretically, the OEM is suppose to do everything (and Microsoft won't walk you through running OEM restore CDs). If you got Windows from an OEM you're suppose to pay the $35/call fee (a steal, provided you get a good tech). In practice, one of Microsoft's main selling points to OEMs seems to be providing a dumping ground for those custs who won't format and are too cheap to pay someone to come and fix it.
Dude, it's not hard to get free support from Microsoft, call your OEM and they'll tell you how :). Besides, if you just called tech support for a product refund, they'd send you back to cust serve for a refund first ($35/call) and then give you the product refund #. Much as I hate Microsoft (typing this on slack 10), they're pretty easy going about software returns your purchase from them. So long as it's in 60 days, they don't argue, and they only want to know why you're returning the product for marketing.
Blame your OEM for not letting you return your copy of XP. You didn't buy it from Microsoft, you bought it from Dell (or whoever), and it's because of them that returning it's such a pain.
Yeah, I know that's not strickly true, but it wouldn't take much effort on Dell's part to get MS in line with a refund program. They don't want to because they don't want the support costs. For every one Linux nut you get who never bothers the company again, you'll get 10 nitwits wanting to know why you don't support this damn 'puter just 'cause they loaded RH7 on it.
Finally, if you don't like the Microsoft Tax, there's always www.retrobox.com...
I can break a graphics card too, and I'm not even 1337.
when the motor dies (which it will). They can use load balancing at the hardware level to keep the limit from being reached in practice though, and on a 16GB harddrive it'd expect them too.
The NeoGeo was arcade hardware repackaged for the high end home market. It was never intented to compete with the SNES and Genesis, but to offer a high end gaming platform for arcade lovers. The price never really went down because of this.
It's expected that the price of the new consoles will go down significantly after launch. The high launch price is to grab early adopters.
it aint nukes keeping China off our backs, we could stave them out long before they'd win any war.
Yeah, 'cause it's a great idea to have critical aspects of your military and/or gov't's communications network dependent on foriegn electronics...
Seriously, if the argument works for Linux on the other side of the pond, it ought to mean the same for electronics the the States. Trouble is, Linux is free, Americans working in electronic factories are expensive.
we couldn't just build our own electronics industry. That'd be nuts.
Frankly, linux just works for me as a desktop (yes, I know I'm in an extremely small minority). The ports of pan I've seen are just not up to snuff, and I've never found a news reader that was anywhere near as easy to use and reliable. With KDE, I can drag and drop mp3s into my Creative lab's Muvo mp3 player directly, and I have easy access to a tool chain for converting my .flacs. tvtime is simply the best tuner app for cheapskates. Sure, you buy a $150 dollar tuner you probably get bells and wistles, pick up a $32 dollar el cheapo on newegg though and you'll be thanking God for TVtime. K3b is simply the simplest, most straight forward burning app I've ever used. I hate it when I've got to burn something in Nero or EZCD on someone else's machine. Plus, when I make DVDs, I can mount the images loop back and burn the data directly, which has proven much more reliable than any other methond I've come across.
Linux has real advantages on the desktop, believe it or not.
What's a good, cheap card for Myth TV. Neweggs got tons of cards under $80 bucks, so many it's hard to decide. I'm looking to replace my aging STB bt848 base card (it's got these weird wavey blue bars in the picture that're driving me nuts, doesn't show up in capture though, go fig).
sure, you'll go out and buy your favorite series to see them in the best quality possible, but will you buy that so-so series that you kinda wanted to see, or will you just download it and live with the quality loss? I want to see Escaflowne in perfect quality, Divergence Eve on the other hand...
Probably you've got click-focus on one of the adds. Highlight some text in the article and then try scrolling, and make sure you don't mouse over the adds. It's trying to scroll inside the adds instead of the page.
As for why this isn't going to come to the states, two reasons. One, you don't piss Microsoft off. Two, Americans expect, nay demand, free, year round support (preferably 24/7). I've watched many the small time outfit try and compete with the big guys, only to go under when the find out that their customer base can't understand why they can't call up the tech at home at 3am and get help installing directx 9.0a to play the latest Dear Hunter game they just bought at Walmart. It doesn't matter that OEM support is horendously bad, all that matters is that it's there. American's don't give a rat's behind about quality. The evaluate first on price, then features, then convience, style, poplularity and anything else they can come up with, and finally, having exhausted all else, consider quality.
a large part of the expense of Hollywood movies is overpaying actors. This is a necessary component of Hollywood, since a big part of the movie experience (at least in the states) is living vicariously through your favorite rich star/starlet. It's that whole 'glammor' thing they built up in the 50's and 60's. Gaming just doesn't have this, and for good reason. For one thing, your favorite programmer usually doesn't look too good on a magazine cover (lack of sunlight will kinda do that to a guy). Moreover, the publishers are going out of their way to keep it from happening. You'll notice EA doesn't brand studios or programmers. Hell, as far back as Atari programmers had to use tricks to get their name on stuff (Yars revenge, if memory servers).
And of course, John Romero and Daikatana didn't exactly help gaming personalities take off...
That's because it's easier to get a regulatory body to do what you want than to wait for Congress to do it. Cheaper too, since when loopholes pop up you don't need to buy a revision to the law to close 'em. The only downside is a judge can rule the regulatory body isn't vested with the necessary power. But you cross that bridge when you get there.
You see, that's why I was drawing a distinction between the Safari project and it's programmers and the Apple Computer Corporation and it's managers...
or forking. Forking implies someone with different goals/ideals starting a new project in keeping with those goals/ideals. As near as anyone can tell the Safari projects goals are perfectly in line with khtml's, it's just the corporation making things a little rough around the edges. What's bothering everyone here is that if it was just between projects then there's no technical, legal or political reason everyone couldn't just play nice together. Having a large corp involved is complicating things. This isn't necessarilly the end of the world. There's people at Apple no doubt trying to work this out.
At any rate, if people don't complain a bit, how's Apple going to know we want them to shape up the code a bit.
Great, I'm gonna need more speakers and wire now, damn it.
I've heard some of these flat panels only last ~5 years, and aren't at all repairable. That sucks for a variety of reasons. It'd be nice (for everyone but tv manufacturers) if they lasted longer.
Brave boy, but foolish.
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they can easily get 12 hours (asuming no fancy LEDs) and 15 minute recharging. If Sony can do it with a CD player, Microsoft can pull it off with a gamepad. And there are advancements comming down the pipe that increase battery life and reduce charging. Why anyone would use regular batteries for devices with frequent power needs (PDAs, mp3 players, etc) is beyond me.
the overhead from running 3 OSs combined would slow things up too much. I guess Win98 crashing early on would help though....
with people dumping on Masters of Teras Kasi. It wasn't that bad a game. People act like it's the PS1's equivalent of E.T. or something. There were plenty of worse fighters in that generation. Any one who thinks Masters of Teras Kasi is bad needs to dig up a copy of Criticom to see how truly awful a game can be.
Microsoft.
all they did was rule the FCC didn't have the authority. It takes 1 act of congress to give them that authority. The only real hope here is this'll delay things long enough that flag free hardware will become the standard, and people'll start to expect it. Then again, if congress forces the flag down everyone's throats, what good is a defacto standard?
If your expecting a public outcry, don't. The content providers will just wait to start flagging their shows until flagged hardware is everwhere and everything. People won't know/care until it's too late.