out of curiousily, what do you use APIC for anyway? I guess hibernation and software shutdowns would be nice (it's hard work reaching for the power button after a shutdown, I feel your pain, brotha':D).
Seriously, does APIC offer features I don't know about? I just don't see any significant advantage to having it enabled, which is probably why no one's bothered fixing the driver...
Um, I'm running GPL for everything except my vid card. As for getting burned by the mobo manufacturer, the last Via I had was from Soyo and ran me $200. It still had a crippling bug (fixed in later revisions of the board's hardware and in the Via Windows software) that caused it to lock up whenever there was any bandwidth usage from the PCI slots. Reviews didn't catch this, because the board had just about anything you'd need built in, but I've got a PCI tv tuner and secondary ethernet.
used to be the lazy man's way to make sure you got a good mobo. You could always just buy an Intel branded board and you'd be good to go. With AMD, you had to navigate through several choices to avoid a crappy board (yes, I know those choices where there for Intel too, but they were so easy to avoid).
Whelp, Nvidia came along and changed that. Now I recommend AMD/Nforce to everyone I talk too, if only for the kick-@$$ sound on the higher end boards:).
woman didn't work much, and if the artist died, you wanted to make sure his family had support. ~1 Generation makes since (i.e. give time enough for the wife to die and the kids to grow up). Anything more is excessive, but so what. The current state of c/p law is meant to create a sort of Guild system ala the old European printer's guilds. And it's doing a damn fine job thank you very much.
They're probably making fun of Bush, not Woody Guthrie. They're just using Woody Guthrie's song to enhance their parody. Penny arcade had a simular problem when they did a comic about "American McGee's Strawberry Shortcake". Actually, Penny Arcade might have been able to win that case (the commic had Strawberry dolled up like a Dominatrix, and you could argue they where making fun of her overly sweet image by showing her in that light). Now, I haven't seen this flash, but I'm guessing it in no way makes fun of Folk songs/signers.
Now, the irony is having a champion of the little guy (Woody Guthrie), having his works controled by large corporations. Gotta love it.
Give Golden Eye or Perfect Dark or even Conqor's Bad Fur day (the FPS sequences) a try, and you'll see what I mean. The hard part is having auto aiming, but not making it so things get cheap. Now that I think about it, Rare's the only one's I've seen do that right (unless Metroid Prime wasn't Rare, I don't think it was, but I'm too lazy to look).
1. More people with more ram means less ram for me (i.e. higher prices)
and 2. People, especially in America, are cheap. Very cheap. And they buy cheap ram. Very cheap ram. Very bad cheap ram. Then they don't use it. Until it's time to install Windows XP again. Then winnt.exe uses their ram. All of it. Including the cheap, bad ram. And then it blows up. And they want to know why. And they want me to fix it. And they don't want to buy more ram. Because they already did that. Bad ram, but ram, nonetheless. These are not happy people.
Speaking as a Starwars fan who loved Jedi Knight II to death, I haven't been too happy about the last run of games (not counting the space sims, since don't play 'em I can't comment). What I've heard about Galaxies hasn't encouraged me. So I'm wondering, just how much does it affect play balance. I mean, one the one hand I can see you being mad if the Rebels are constantly getting their asses kicked by the Empire (or vice versa), on the other, if you're playing a dancer, then you kinda gotta expect getting you're ass whupped by Imperial Stormtroopers.
with a 256 color skin? If there isn't one already, it shouldn't be too hard to make. The MSI installer shouldn't be too hard to write either. Installing Firefox is basically just extracting the files and adding a few short cuts. Isn't the MSI api designed to make stuff like that easy?
it's easy to do. It's hard to believe just how relentlessly ignorant the average user is until you meet one face to face and tell them to click 'ok' instead of cancel to get to secure web sites.
Many users simply freeze up when prompted with an small changes to the UI. I've witnessed people lost when presented with Windows XP's classic style control panel (or the catagorical one, if they're used to classic). I think it's a combination of laziness and fear, coupled with the firm, marketing encouraged belief that, by God, this darn here compooter oughta be easy ta larn.
It bothers me, because people want so much from their computers, but put so little effort into them. It'd bother me less if people where willing to pay big bucks for the privilege of ignorance, but they also want their computers cheap and their support free.
Yeah, but you'll get two copies of the software for the same money. Plus the option of writing your own sys admin tools and telling sun to go to hell if the need arises.
There isn't enough metal on planet earth to support a robot driven economy. It's actually a much more immediate problem than robot induced unemployment. China and India are busy industrializing, but pretty soon enough of both nations will want to industrialize that it'll put a strain on the supply of metal. Baring intersteller mining, we're heading for a _really_ nasty war that'll last until enough people die for the leftovers to industrialize (i.e. WWIII).
it gives plenty of time for the Widow of the artist to die and the children to grow up and establish themselves. The idea is if the artist dies, there needs to be some way for his family to get by. The balance is to protect the artists families, not his employer. And it gets worse, since current copyright law now lets you sign away your copyright for all eternity (used to be after a set # of years, it went back to you, but a spellchecker working for congress put a rider on an unrelated bill and it passed. That spellchecker now works for the RIAA).
Speeding to a red light causes trafic jams because it takes time to get cars moving again. When it's one or two, the time is negligible. But Once you start gettting 10 or so (common at popular intersections in my town), then the 11th guy doesn't make it through. Now the next light still only lets 9 through, but there's one more stopped. So at the start of the next light cycle there's two people already waiting at the light. Each light cycle adds one person to the line (more probably, this is just a really simple example, I'm not smart enough to actually model this stuff out, if I was, I'd be designing roads for a living:). The end result is a hugh line of cars from 5pm - 6pm or so. If people followed the flow of traffic, everyone would just cruise through lights and this wouldn't happen.
I can't remember the guy's name, but the guy who writes (or used to write, I haven't seen the books in years) sun's core java series had a program that modeled this on his web site.
Microsoft is looking at getting cut out of profitable foreign markets (i.e., all those 2nd and 3rd world countries that are getting ready to industrialize). No country in it's right mind would allow critical IT infrastructure to be based on a closed source foreign company's products.
Meanwhile, their main market (America) is contracting, and will continue to (it's inevitable, as the rest of the world's standard of living rises, America's falls, baring some great technological leap in the next few years).
Share holders want growth, they want better profits every year. 'Ole Steve gets paid a _lot_ to make sure that growth happens. This is Steve trying to quite his bosses' fears.
That said, I think this is the beginning of the end for Microsoft. I don't think they can live without the amazing growth they've experienced every year. As old markets dry up and new ones close, they'll have to rape and pillage their locked in customers. It's only a matter of time before those customers wise up. Maybe it won't be linux, but I wouldn't be surprised to see Apple kicking ass and taking names in 5 years.
most people don't fix their computers until they no longer work at all. A virus like this would have little impact on the computer. If it was well hidden enough, it wouldn't get fixed when the person call tech support for other problems either. The key is being quite and unintrusive right up till the end, then you lay waste to the computer.
Frankly, I'm with the first poster. I good 'ole fashion hard disk reformatter would light some fires out there. I'm tired of seeing people with 5 or 6 viruses, uncountable spyware programs and everthing on their computer broken wanting the damn things fixed without a clean install because they don't know what a file is and have no idea how to back things up.
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out of curiousily, what do you use APIC for anyway? I guess hibernation and software shutdowns would be nice (it's hard work reaching for the power button after a shutdown, I feel your pain, brotha' :D).
Seriously, does APIC offer features I don't know about? I just don't see any significant advantage to having it enabled, which is probably why no one's bothered fixing the driver...
Um, I'm running GPL for everything except my vid card. As for getting burned by the mobo manufacturer, the last Via I had was from Soyo and ran me $200. It still had a crippling bug (fixed in later revisions of the board's hardware and in the Via Windows software) that caused it to lock up whenever there was any bandwidth usage from the PCI slots. Reviews didn't catch this, because the board had just about anything you'd need built in, but I've got a PCI tv tuner and secondary ethernet.
used to be the lazy man's way to make sure you got a good mobo. You could always just buy an Intel branded board and you'd be good to go. With AMD, you had to navigate through several choices to avoid a crappy board (yes, I know those choices where there for Intel too, but they were so easy to avoid).
:).
Whelp, Nvidia came along and changed that. Now I recommend AMD/Nforce to everyone I talk too, if only for the kick-@$$ sound on the higher end boards
Why sell XWvsTF 2 once for $50 when you can sell Galaxies + Expansion for $60-$80 and tack on a monthly fee to boot.
woman didn't work much, and if the artist died, you wanted to make sure his family had support. ~1 Generation makes since (i.e. give time enough for the wife to die and the kids to grow up). Anything more is excessive, but so what. The current state of c/p law is meant to create a sort of Guild system ala the old European printer's guilds. And it's doing a damn fine job thank you very much.
We're all gonna quit the computer gig and take up shovelling snow in Hell.
but maybe this time they'll make the dark side/light side choices something other than a) Kill innocent woman in cold blood or b) don't.
They're probably making fun of Bush, not Woody Guthrie. They're just using Woody Guthrie's song to enhance their parody. Penny arcade had a simular problem when they did a comic about "American McGee's Strawberry Shortcake". Actually, Penny Arcade might have been able to win that case (the commic had Strawberry dolled up like a Dominatrix, and you could argue they where making fun of her overly sweet image by showing her in that light). Now, I haven't seen this flash, but I'm guessing it in no way makes fun of Folk songs/signers.
Now, the irony is having a champion of the little guy (Woody Guthrie), having his works controled by large corporations. Gotta love it.
A BTX-inspired chassis design. I can't wait to see that.
Oh, probably off galavanting in some jungle I presume. Why do you ask?
Sorry, too easy.
Give Golden Eye or Perfect Dark or even Conqor's Bad Fur day (the FPS sequences) a try, and you'll see what I mean. The hard part is having auto aiming, but not making it so things get cheap. Now that I think about it, Rare's the only one's I've seen do that right (unless Metroid Prime wasn't Rare, I don't think it was, but I'm too lazy to look).
for two reasons:
1. More people with more ram means less ram for me (i.e. higher prices)
and 2. People, especially in America, are cheap. Very cheap. And they buy cheap ram. Very cheap ram. Very bad cheap ram. Then they don't use it. Until it's time to install Windows XP again. Then winnt.exe uses their ram. All of it. Including the cheap, bad ram. And then it blows up. And they want to know why. And they want me to fix it. And they don't want to buy more ram. Because they already did that. Bad ram, but ram, nonetheless. These are not happy people.
and they'll all be swapped out with S3 Virges
Speaking as a Starwars fan who loved Jedi Knight II to death, I haven't been too happy about the last run of games (not counting the space sims, since don't play 'em I can't comment). What I've heard about Galaxies hasn't encouraged me. So I'm wondering, just how much does it affect play balance. I mean, one the one hand I can see you being mad if the Rebels are constantly getting their asses kicked by the Empire (or vice versa), on the other, if you're playing a dancer, then you kinda gotta expect getting you're ass whupped by Imperial Stormtroopers.
with a 256 color skin? If there isn't one already, it shouldn't be too hard to make. The MSI installer shouldn't be too hard to write either. Installing Firefox is basically just extracting the files and adding a few short cuts. Isn't the MSI api designed to make stuff like that easy?
you should try konqueror's windows splitting feature. Now if only my monitor was bigger...
it's easy to do. It's hard to believe just how relentlessly ignorant the average user is until you meet one face to face and tell them to click 'ok' instead of cancel to get to secure web sites.
Many users simply freeze up when prompted with an small changes to the UI. I've witnessed people lost when presented with Windows XP's classic style control panel (or the catagorical one, if they're used to classic). I think it's a combination of laziness and fear, coupled with the firm, marketing encouraged belief that, by God, this darn here compooter oughta be easy ta larn.
It bothers me, because people want so much from their computers, but put so little effort into them. It'd bother me less if people where willing to pay big bucks for the privilege of ignorance, but they also want their computers cheap and their support free.
Yeah, but you'll get two copies of the software for the same money. Plus the option of writing your own sys admin tools and telling sun to go to hell if the need arises.
There isn't enough metal on planet earth to support a robot driven economy. It's actually a much more immediate problem than robot induced unemployment. China and India are busy industrializing, but pretty soon enough of both nations will want to industrialize that it'll put a strain on the supply of metal. Baring intersteller mining, we're heading for a _really_ nasty war that'll last until enough people die for the leftovers to industrialize (i.e. WWIII).
it gives plenty of time for the Widow of the artist to die and the children to grow up and establish themselves. The idea is if the artist dies, there needs to be some way for his family to get by. The balance is to protect the artists families, not his employer. And it gets worse, since current copyright law now lets you sign away your copyright for all eternity (used to be after a set # of years, it went back to you, but a spellchecker working for congress put a rider on an unrelated bill and it passed. That spellchecker now works for the RIAA).
Speeding to a red light causes trafic jams because it takes time to get cars moving again. When it's one or two, the time is negligible. But Once you start gettting 10 or so (common at popular intersections in my town), then the 11th guy doesn't make it through. Now the next light still only lets 9 through, but there's one more stopped. So at the start of the next light cycle there's two people already waiting at the light. Each light cycle adds one person to the line (more probably, this is just a really simple example, I'm not smart enough to actually model this stuff out, if I was, I'd be designing roads for a living :). The end result is a hugh line of cars from 5pm - 6pm or so. If people followed the flow of traffic, everyone would just cruise through lights and this wouldn't happen.
I can't remember the guy's name, but the guy who writes (or used to write, I haven't seen the books in years) sun's core java series had a program that modeled this on his web site.
I mean, if there's life, they're gonna need something to clean their windows.
Microsoft is looking at getting cut out of profitable foreign markets (i.e., all those 2nd and 3rd world countries that are getting ready to industrialize). No country in it's right mind would allow critical IT infrastructure to be based on a closed source foreign company's products.
Meanwhile, their main market (America) is contracting, and will continue to (it's inevitable, as the rest of the world's standard of living rises, America's falls, baring some great technological leap in the next few years).
Share holders want growth, they want better profits every year. 'Ole Steve gets paid a _lot_ to make sure that growth happens. This is Steve trying to quite his bosses' fears.
That said, I think this is the beginning of the end for Microsoft. I don't think they can live without the amazing growth they've experienced every year. As old markets dry up and new ones close, they'll have to rape and pillage their locked in customers. It's only a matter of time before those customers wise up. Maybe it won't be linux, but I wouldn't be surprised to see Apple kicking ass and taking names in 5 years.
It's not "we are about 17million+ console sales behind Sony", it's "we're only 18 million away from passing them". Think positive man!
most people don't fix their computers until they no longer work at all. A virus like this would have little impact on the computer. If it was well hidden enough, it wouldn't get fixed when the person call tech support for other problems either. The key is being quite and unintrusive right up till the end, then you lay waste to the computer.
Frankly, I'm with the first poster. I good 'ole fashion hard disk reformatter would light some fires out there. I'm tired of seeing people with 5 or 6 viruses, uncountable spyware programs and everthing on their computer broken wanting the damn things fixed without a clean install because they don't know what a file is and have no idea how to back things up.