Doesn't anyone know how many issues this thing has? Most people fear the dreaded VIA 4-in-1 driver problems and incompatibilities. There have been numerous mentions of VIA problems on sites like tomshardware.com and anandtech.com.
The AMD cpu's are great, but who wants to deal with the problems of the VIA chipset?!
I heard about this game through a friend. I can still remember sitting in class and him saying how he just played this new game and it's so great. Well, I happened across the shareware disks for sale at a big rummage sale type event. It cost me $9 for the first episode on 3 disks plus an extra fourth disk that had utilities and whatever.
Did I mention I bought it BEFORE we even owned a computer? I bought it just to play at my Dad's work after hours! Without sound or anything. And it was still the best game ever!
After my parents bought a PC (a super fast 486/66!) we figured out BBS's and how to play this 4-player, and I don't think to this day, that I've ever had so much fun with a PC game as those days of 4-player Doom on the local BBS.
Some are actually easier and faster to install. I installed a distro called Lycoris the other week that has a similar approach to Lindows. I'm not saying this is the way to go, but it was really fast and simple to install, and the PC looks and reacts similar to Windows XP, but costs $0.
In other words, my computer illiterate Dad could use it.
If Windows didn't already come pre-installed (due to the monopoly factor) then people like my Dad probably would be considering the free alternative if he was made aware of it. Fact is that I don't know ANYONE that has purchased Windows at full price, for personal use. It's always bundled or corporate.
I had an experience similar to this with a Sony Clie PDA. I found out he scammed others as well for a variety of different things like computer parts, car stereos, etc. We got the guy too...through a group effort. I also had a contact in the guy's local area who checked out the house for me and stuff like that.
It has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with "Mac fanatics" or whatever you want to call them. People generally WANT to help catch these crooks, because no one likes being ripped off!
I didn't use eBay. I used the Anandtech Forums. Kinda like a classified ad. Some guy swindled me out of the equivalent of $450 of PDA goodness and the authorities (Peoria, IL Police, FBI, etc) couldn't care less. Soon after I realized I was taken I found out that this guy had taken other people on other forums in the same way. Car stereos, computer parts, etc.
There was much discussion and nothing happened for about 5 months. Then, out of the blue, I got a call from the scammer himself. It seemed that (Lucky for me!) someone convinced the Attorney General to take on the case and once he got the heat on this guy (we had his real address, obviously) the 23 year old kid made good on all his scams. I got my money and I read about other people getting theirs.
I'm now of the opinion that the *only* way to catch people is if you can find others that they've ripped off and get a group effort rolling. The authorities simply do not care about single indiviuals.
You don't need to deal with 3rd party apps like that with mozilla.
Problem: Mozilla is slower and doesn't handle XP themes.
Solution: Phoenix. Faster and uses native windows themes. Apparently, you've never had the joy of using tabbed browsing...
The difference being that I tried Mozilla 1.1 along with my default IE6 side-by-side for a while. Mozilla 1.1 WAS slower. And I don't like things to be slow. I really liked the feature-set of Mozilla though.
Then came Phoenix 0.3. This is all of the features I find useful in Moz PLUS some extra niceties like native widgets, without the crap I don't use.
It is everything I've wanted. Now, when I have to use someone else's IE, it is a horrible experience usually involving lots of middle clicking by accident.
Requested pop-ups (when you click a button) work just fine in Phoenix 0.4.
What is the problem?
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I bought The Sims back in the day. I couldn't get over how slow it ran on a P3 with a geforce card even. I mean, I could play quake3, UT, AVP, Half-life, etc just perfectly on that PC. The Sims, however, was just dog ass slow. I can only *imagine* how slow the online version is going to be after all that MMP lag is introduced to a game engine that's already a pile of crap.
Ever notice how after you open a PDF in a browser session, the AcroRdr32.exe process, which takes up a whopping 20+ MB of RAM, stays resident even AFTER you close that window?
Every time I close a PDF in a browser session now, the first thing I do is go to Task Manager and kill the damn thing. Man, that's annoying.
Listen to the radio, then. The radio is a nice format where the artists get royalties, and you don't have to shell out for the CD.
You can't be serious... Are you not aware of ClearChannel? Does anyone WANT to listen to the stuff that CC force feeds onto the radio soley on the basis of who's the highest bidder? Do you have ANY IDEA what the situation is with radio and the CC monopoly, legalized "payola", and how artists are *indeed* screwed over? Geez...
[They are fucking the artists up the ass] Yet strangely artists keep on signing up with them. Those big artists who start crying that they don't get enough royalties, you see, usually bled the music associations for YEARS, but then when they're really raking in the dough they want more.
That's because new bands are (usually) just kids who don't know understand the legal jargon, etc. Is it their fault if they don't get a lawyer before signing a contract? Yes. Should the record companies be allowed to "contract them for life" and take all their profits? No. And what are you supposed to do if all the major labels make contracts like this? There isn't much to do except settle to keep playing the bar & grills around your neighborhood, even if your talent deserves better.
However, you can't change the options for the extentions! I installed the mouse gesture add-on right away, but I had to disable it when I found that there's currently no way to change the (idiotic) default from left mouse button to right mouse button.
I have 20 of them. and as I said the bulk of these phone have this problem. as well as the single send/end/menu button is the stupidest design... I have had many extra-long calls on the phones here because the user though they pressed end but it was currently at menu.
and from what the AT&T wireless techs tell me... this is VERY common as they are cheap phones.
That's funny. I'm a college student. As you probably can guess, pretty much every single one of my friends has a cell phone. We don't use landlines at all anymore. Also, pretty much every single one started with a Nokia 5100 series. And guess what? I've never heard of *ANY* of the problems you describe.
I have also never heard of anyone having a problem with the send/end/menu button. In fact, you don't even NEED to end a call because as soon as the other party hangs up, your call is terminated and pressing END won't do anything. The only way to make it not say "END" during a call is by pressing the arrow keys after you've dialed. It sounds to me like your users are the problem here.
So you're saying you have 2 users call each other, both push the arrow keys during the call, and neither hang up? Gee, how very likely....
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Yes Yes YES!! Go Dreamweaver go!
I can't BELIEVE that ANYONE uses frontpage!
That "trainwreck of a program" is exactly what FP is.
If you are creating web content in FP, that tells me a lot about how well you know what you're doing...
Doesn't anyone know how many issues this thing has? Most people fear the dreaded VIA 4-in-1 driver problems and incompatibilities. There have been numerous mentions of VIA problems on sites like tomshardware.com and anandtech.com.
The AMD cpu's are great, but who wants to deal with the problems of the VIA chipset?!
Who would use Windows Media Player to rip their mp3s? That's doing touchup work on images in MS Paint.
One of the first quesitions asked when diagnosing a connection problem: "Have you ever used AOL on this computer before?"
It's easy to use because it takes over your computer. Sure AOL will work great. The problem being that NOTHING ELSE WILL!
I heard about this game through a friend. I can still remember sitting in class and him saying how he just played this new game and it's so great. Well, I happened across the shareware disks for sale at a big rummage sale type event. It cost me $9 for the first episode on 3 disks plus an extra fourth disk that had utilities and whatever.
Did I mention I bought it BEFORE we even owned a computer? I bought it just to play at my Dad's work after hours! Without sound or anything. And it was still the best game ever!
After my parents bought a PC (a super fast 486/66!) we figured out BBS's and how to play this 4-player, and I don't think to this day, that I've ever had so much fun with a PC game as those days of 4-player Doom on the local BBS.
Some are actually easier and faster to install. I installed a distro called Lycoris the other week that has a similar approach to Lindows. I'm not saying this is the way to go, but it was really fast and simple to install, and the PC looks and reacts similar to Windows XP, but costs $0.
In other words, my computer illiterate Dad could use it.
If Windows didn't already come pre-installed (due to the monopoly factor) then people like my Dad probably would be considering the free alternative if he was made aware of it. Fact is that I don't know ANYONE that has purchased Windows at full price, for personal use. It's always bundled or corporate.
I had an experience similar to this with a Sony Clie PDA. I found out he scammed others as well for a variety of different things like computer parts, car stereos, etc. We got the guy too...through a group effort. I also had a contact in the guy's local area who checked out the house for me and stuff like that.
It has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with "Mac fanatics" or whatever you want to call them. People generally WANT to help catch these crooks, because no one likes being ripped off!
I didn't use eBay. I used the Anandtech Forums. Kinda like a classified ad. Some guy swindled me out of the equivalent of $450 of PDA goodness and the authorities (Peoria, IL Police, FBI, etc) couldn't care less. Soon after I realized I was taken I found out that this guy had taken other people on other forums in the same way. Car stereos, computer parts, etc.
There was much discussion and nothing happened for about 5 months. Then, out of the blue, I got a call from the scammer himself. It seemed that (Lucky for me!) someone convinced the Attorney General to take on the case and once he got the heat on this guy (we had his real address, obviously) the 23 year old kid made good on all his scams. I got my money and I read about other people getting theirs.
I'm now of the opinion that the *only* way to catch people is if you can find others that they've ripped off and get a group effort rolling. The authorities simply do not care about single indiviuals.
Ahahahahah you can click on ANY of the links Adobe posted under the last 5 legal questions.
Don't they check these things before they post them?
I don't know what's more unbelievable. That Adobe posted this link or that no one on /. has caught it yet!
-Go to Adobe's press release.
-Scroll down to the last question.
-Click on the US Attorney's office link.
Something tells me that Sophy's going to be getting a lot of revenge real soon... LMAO!
You don't need to deal with 3rd party apps like that with mozilla.
Problem: Mozilla is slower and doesn't handle XP themes.
Solution: Phoenix. Faster and uses native windows themes. Apparently, you've never had the joy of using tabbed browsing...
trying Dreamweaver is like using IE and then trying Mozilla/Phoenix.
Same jaw-dropping results.
The difference being that I tried Mozilla 1.1 along with my default IE6 side-by-side for a while. Mozilla 1.1 WAS slower. And I don't like things to be slow. I really liked the feature-set of Mozilla though.
Then came Phoenix 0.3. This is all of the features I find useful in Moz PLUS some extra niceties like native widgets, without the crap I don't use.
It is everything I've wanted. Now, when I have to use someone else's IE, it is a horrible experience usually involving lots of middle clicking by accident.
Requested pop-ups (when you click a button) work just fine in Phoenix 0.4. What is the problem?
I bought The Sims back in the day. I couldn't get over how slow it ran on a P3 with a geforce card even. I mean, I could play quake3, UT, AVP, Half-life, etc just perfectly on that PC. The Sims, however, was just dog ass slow. I can only *imagine* how slow the online version is going to be after all that MMP lag is introduced to a game engine that's already a pile of crap.
Just joined ./ huh? Welcome!
This is quite interesting indeed!
Ever notice how after you open a PDF in a browser session, the AcroRdr32.exe process, which takes up a whopping 20+ MB of RAM, stays resident even AFTER you close that window?
Every time I close a PDF in a browser session now, the first thing I do is go to Task Manager and kill the damn thing. Man, that's annoying.
Has anyone else played the Doom 3 alpha? (v0.02)
Even in a tiny little windowed screen, on (supposedly) low detail, it made my lowly P3 1GHz & geforce2 combo cry.
I averaged 3 FPS. And that's while there wasn't a monster in sight.
I'm stealing this quote :)
Listen to the radio, then. The radio is a nice format where the artists get royalties, and you don't have to shell out for the CD.
You can't be serious... Are you not aware of ClearChannel? Does anyone WANT to listen to the stuff that CC force feeds onto the radio soley on the basis of who's the highest bidder? Do you have ANY IDEA what the situation is with radio and the CC monopoly, legalized "payola", and how artists are *indeed* screwed over? Geez...
[They are fucking the artists up the ass]
Yet strangely artists keep on signing up with them. Those big artists who start crying that they don't get enough royalties, you see, usually bled the music associations for YEARS, but then when they're really raking in the dough they want more.
That's because new bands are (usually) just kids who don't know understand the legal jargon, etc. Is it their fault if they don't get a lawyer before signing a contract? Yes. Should the record companies be allowed to "contract them for life" and take all their profits? No. And what are you supposed to do if all the major labels make contracts like this? There isn't much to do except settle to keep playing the bar & grills around your neighborhood, even if your talent deserves better.
However, you can't change the options for the extentions! I installed the mouse gesture add-on right away, but I had to disable it when I found that there's currently no way to change the (idiotic) default from left mouse button to right mouse button.
And guess what? I've never heard of *ANY* of the problems you describe.
I have also never heard of anyone having a problem with the send/end/menu button. In fact, you don't even NEED to end a call because as soon as the other party hangs up, your call is terminated and pressing END won't do anything. The only way to make it not say "END" during a call is by pressing the arrow keys after you've dialed. It sounds to me like your users are the problem here.
So you're saying you have 2 users call each other, both push the arrow keys during the call, and neither hang up? Gee, how very likely....
From CarAndDriver.com: And why wouldn't you want a *6-speed* for a sports car?
Where do you live that movies costs FIVE DOLLARS? Around here (Milwaukee), they are at least $8.00.