1) to get nvidia to work for a GeForce 8600 GTS (and in my case TwinView, for two displays), you need to download a beta driver straight from nvidia, It's funny...but when I had my previous laptop, it had a lowly ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 w/64MB DDR (it was several years old before I was mugged and it was taken) but it NEVER froze up the machine... EVER. Nvidia drivers on Ubuntu freeze the machine at any given time, for no reason at all. They're even troublesome under Windows. Once the new laptop reaches its EOL, I'll never buy anything with an Nvidia card again.
Let's see if I remember this from 1st Edition rules...
Stats magically raised above human potential: Of course.
Achieved level way, way above average in campaign: Hell, yes.
Sincere body of followers convinced of power: What do you think?
Am I missing anything, people? I know some of you out know this stuff, this is Slashdot, after all. You know he'll go up in a "great fanfare of light", to some greater place where men are men, and the women look like Lolth in in the frontispiece the first edition of Queen of the Demonweb Pits. Someone get Jeff Dee to draw him the right way:D
Seriously. So long, Gary. In an age of increasingly recycled meh, you assembled myths, legends and beings from around the world - spiced with some of your own design - to give us (okay, sell us;-) the tools to have fun and make wonder. We'll miss you:)
It's already happened. There's this case: http://www.ivf.net/ivf/deaf_lesbians_choose_to_try_for_deaf_child-o33-en.html
This deaf lesbian couple wanted to try for a deaf child, because they see deafness solely as a cultural attribute, instead of a disability. There certainly is deaf culture, I see plenty of people signing (I live in Washington DC, home of Galludet U.), but deliberately depriving an unborn child of one of his/her senses is complete madness.
Jimmy Page's house was broken into back in the early '80s, and a lot live soundboards and rough studio tapes were stolen - not that they actually recorded a lot of their shows.
Some have made it into circulation, Zeppelin was one of the most heavily bootlegged groups. Many complete shows are available, and fragments of others. The recordings are available on various websites, usually as (torrented) FLAC files. A certain amount of video is available, mostly fragments, but there are several nice versions of the 05/25/75 Earls Court show in circulation.
Some of the recordings sound pretty heinous, but others, especially the Millard ones, are wonderfully clear. The version of The Song Remains The Same on one DVD's menu clips on the DVD is from the 06/21/77 LA Forum show is part of a Millard tape. Some boots have been re-equalized, and others, where both a dry-sounding soundboard and more atmospheric-sounding audience tape exist, have been "matrixed" to yield a fuller sound.
The real question is, when will the hoarders of shows that are known to have been bootlegged, release those tapes...
from http://labs.live.com/photosynth/sysreq.htm
Operating System: Only Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista RC1 or later are supported at this time.
Web Browser: IE6, IE7, Firefox 1.5 and Firefox 2.0
Memory: 256 MB of memory is a bare minimum; 1GB recommended.
Disk: This technology preview uses almost no disk space. The ActiveX control is less than 5MB in size, and no local disk storage is used when the code is running.
Graphics: We have tested Photosynth on graphics cards that are "Vista Aero Ready". This includes: support for DirectX 9 graphics with a WDDM driver, 128 MB of graphics memory (minimum), and 32 bits per pixel. If you want to find out whether your card is suitable, the Vista Upgrade Advisor tool will tell you. Photosynth may run on cards that do not meet this requirement, but performance may be poor and functionality may be impaired. I think we can all see where this is going...
However I expect the idea of any resources being available to the application
is an anathema to Redmond so they will fix this problem to ensure that VISTA
keeps its design goal to consume 90% of available resources. That's why I swore I'd never use Vista. It's damned interesting how when I upgrade/throw a new Linux distro onto my 4-year old (and still reasonably-powerful) laptop, there's frequently a performance gain, not a drop-off. I don't want to use an operating system that won't run smoothly on a system with less than 1GB of RAM, that's insane. If Microsoft rejiggers Windows to take advantage of these cores, I'm sure one or two iterations down the line, Windows will need 4GB of RAM and 4 3Ghz cores just to tick over at the desktop. When are people - at least Americans - gonna wake up?
Did their clue bag get cut? Are they friends with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or David Duke or something? By avoiding teaching about one of the worst examples of intolerance and hatred in human history, they contribute to the problem. And let's face it, there are a lot of reports of Muslims in the UK becoming increasingly radicalized, because they are learning hatred and distorted history in the mosques. The Brits are cutting their own throats.
...that the OS so many think of as some kind of IP-lethal, grubby commie hippy project is now running a goodly part of Capitalism Itself. The worm has turned, and eats itself!
The result is a server system capable of permitting hundreds of thousands of computer users to interact in a three-dimensional simulated on-screen world described as a "metaverse."
Rumor has it Sun's designed this amazing new USB interface for this system: thought-activated, bio-compatible, and self-sustaining, provided you don't mind floating in goo
My officemate got it as the Britney / Paris porn thing twice this week. But she wasn't interested.
I got it once. I wasn't interested. I've gotten the "Spyware detected!" with the zip file attached three times: twice at work, and once on my Yahoo! account.
I work at Department of Agriculture, so I'm surprised they didn't install themselves;-)
I'd find the whole thing more credible if they had gotten someone very inexperienced with computers to test each OS for a week or two. Any experienced user will tout their preferred OS over the others. Someone without much experience in any of them would be better able to discuss the pros and cons of the three.
None of the familiar toolbars have survived, either. In their place is a wide, tabbed band of icons at the top of the screen called the Ribbon. Call me crazy, but this style of command layout sounds more like a Mac-style interface. Given the OS X-style glitz Aero has, it's looking to me like MS is by far a bigger Mac fanboi than any Mac zealot could ever be.
I know someone will mod this "-5 send him to Gitmo!", but:
I didn't watch ANY of the spin-offs after they stopped making ST:TNG.
Why?
I recognized the horse, as it were, was dead. Sometimes, even most times, it's better to let the thing rot and disperse back into the environment, instead of resurrecting it over and over again. It's looking a bit tatty now.
TOtally. Some of us would like to go back to school for paper creds and get into the IT field, but school so damn expensive. I aleady have a BA, but coming up with the bucks for even just a cert or an AA would be hard.
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Am I missing anything, people? I know some of you out know this stuff, this is Slashdot, after all. You know he'll go up in a "great fanfare of light", to some greater place where men are men, and the women look like Lolth in in the frontispiece the first edition of Queen of the Demonweb Pits. Someone get Jeff Dee to draw him the right way
Seriously. So long, Gary. In an age of increasingly recycled meh, you assembled myths, legends and beings from around the world - spiced with some of your own design - to give us (okay, sell us
Let's face it, folks no other state has its own category on Fark.com; the utter lunacy and stupidity down there has been neatly quantified.
It's already happened. There's this case: http://www.ivf.net/ivf/deaf_lesbians_choose_to_try_for_deaf_child-o33-en.html This deaf lesbian couple wanted to try for a deaf child, because they see deafness solely as a cultural attribute, instead of a disability. There certainly is deaf culture, I see plenty of people signing (I live in Washington DC, home of Galludet U.), but deliberately depriving an unborn child of one of his/her senses is complete madness.
How can you have an urban panic without modeling a big, gray, atomic-breathed monster? Are they gonna CGI him, or Tron in some guy in a suit? :D
Where's the Argo/Yamato? Tell 'em to power up the Wave Motion Gun to deal with this intergalatic menace!
Jimmy Page's house was broken into back in the early '80s, and a lot live soundboards and rough studio tapes were stolen - not that they actually recorded a lot of their shows.
Some have made it into circulation, Zeppelin was one of the most heavily bootlegged groups. Many complete shows are available, and fragments of others. The recordings are available on various websites, usually as (torrented) FLAC files. A certain amount of video is available, mostly fragments, but there are several nice versions of the 05/25/75 Earls Court show in circulation.
Some of the recordings sound pretty heinous, but others, especially the Millard ones, are wonderfully clear. The version of The Song Remains The Same on one DVD's menu clips on the DVD is from the 06/21/77 LA Forum show is part of a Millard tape. Some boots have been re-equalized, and others, where both a dry-sounding soundboard and more atmospheric-sounding audience tape exist, have been "matrixed" to yield a fuller sound.
The real question is, when will the hoarders of shows that are known to have been bootlegged, release those tapes...
Web Browser: IE6, IE7, Firefox 1.5 and Firefox 2.0
Memory: 256 MB of memory is a bare minimum; 1GB recommended.
Disk: This technology preview uses almost no disk space. The ActiveX control is less than 5MB in size, and no local disk storage is used when the code is running.
Graphics: We have tested Photosynth on graphics cards that are "Vista Aero Ready". This includes: support for DirectX 9 graphics with a WDDM driver, 128 MB of graphics memory (minimum), and 32 bits per pixel. If you want to find out whether your card is suitable, the Vista Upgrade Advisor tool will tell you. Photosynth may run on cards that do not meet this requirement, but performance may be poor and functionality may be impaired. I think we can all see where this is going...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Files_transferrer_ove r_shell_protocol
It's easy to drag and drop stuff within a domain in Windows. But how easy is it to do it across domains?
Did their clue bag get cut? Are they friends with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or David Duke or something? By avoiding teaching about one of the worst examples of intolerance and hatred in human history, they contribute to the problem. And let's face it, there are a lot of reports of Muslims in the UK becoming increasingly radicalized, because they are learning hatred and distorted history in the mosques. The Brits are cutting their own throats.
...that the OS so many think of as some kind of IP-lethal, grubby commie hippy project is now running a goodly part of Capitalism Itself. The worm has turned, and eats itself!
My officemate got it as the Britney / Paris porn thing twice this week. But she wasn't interested. I got it once. I wasn't interested. I've gotten the "Spyware detected!" with the zip file attached three times: twice at work, and once on my Yahoo! account.
I work at Department of Agriculture, so I'm surprised they didn't install themselves ;-)
Google did evil by posting pre-Katrina shots of N.O. long after the storm went through: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/30/google_reb uuilds_new_orleans/
so now, they're trying to make up with coverage with a different disaster.
...let's see the real dollar figures. If you're raking in several billion to begin with, a 50% drop is still a couple billion.
...to use an OS which, stitting there idling, needs 1GB of RAM to be happy.
I'd find the whole thing more credible if they had gotten someone very inexperienced with computers to test each OS for a week or two. Any experienced user will tout their preferred OS over the others. Someone without much experience in any of them would be better able to discuss the pros and cons of the three.
I know someone will mod this "-5 send him to Gitmo!", but:
I didn't watch ANY of the spin-offs after they stopped making ST:TNG.
Why?
I recognized the horse, as it were, was dead. Sometimes, even most times, it's better to let the thing rot and disperse back into the environment, instead of resurrecting it over and over again. It's looking a bit tatty now.
...I must confess that my skin color has never influenced any eletronics purchases I've made.
...and I don't have to look very far.
TOtally. Some of us would like to go back to school for paper creds and get into the IT field, but school so damn expensive. I aleady have a BA, but coming up with the bucks for even just a cert or an AA would be hard.