Perhaps the last time such people used Windows was in the Win98 days?
The really funny thing is that even in those days if you were dealing with a copy that came from a first-tier OEM, they used Microsoft's OEM Preload utilities to cache the installation files in \Windows\Options\Cabs.
That's why some people never understand what other people are talking about when they say that Windows always asked them for their CD...
You right-wing assholes should be in prison for your vile distortions
Yeah, because there sure isn't anyone who would distort truth by taking things out of context for the left-leaning people of the United States, is there?
(Don't flame me as a republican OR a democrat. I'm standing square in the most sought after crowd - the undecided moderates.)
I find it interseting how only the USA is allowed to have a nuclear arsenal.
United Kingdom France India Pakistan Israel Russia China
So I guess these countries don't actually have nukes of their own? I seem to remember the only country that once had nuclear arms and dismantled and destroyed all of them was South Africa. They also dismantled them of their own accord, as no one even knew they had them until after they told us they were all gone.
I guess it's not important to you that there are actually 8 nations that are known to have nuclear weapons. It's probably equally unimportant that all these nations actually realize what will happen to them if they use them on someone. Nuclear weapons in the hands of sane people are not a military threat, but political leverage.
Earlier in the week, they used a helicopter to drop a guy onto the lava dome in order to set up some instrumentation. The helo pilot was constantly monitoring... something so that if the "event" was about to occur, he could jerk him outta there and fly away.
I have a feeling that robot thing was Hollywood bunk.
While this is good for the Tacoma area, you have to remember that there is a large city (Portland) about 50 miles from St. Helens. Granted, all the lava will flow out of the north end because of the shaping of the crater, if 1980 is any indication of the worst-case, Portland could experience a nice covering of volcanic ash, and the Columbia River will be getting a not-healthy dose of sulphur-laden mud.
Some would say that it's a year short of a millenia as mankind surely didn't start at year 0 when Christ died
I really don't want to be the average nitpicky slashdot guy, but AD does not stand for "after death"
If you think about it, most people back then recorded things in either Hebrew, or Latin. AD stands for 'anno domini' in Latin. Therefore, we have BC (which, strangely, seems to actually stand for 'before Christ') to demarc the time before the birth of Jesus Christ, and AD, to mark the time after that event.
Besides, if we did the whole "Before Christ / After Death" thing, we'd miss out on about 34 years while the guy was still kicking around the Middle East, and that wouldn't do, would it!
Oh, and for you politically correct revisionists, there are new terms that don't mark important events based upon one guy's life in one particular religion - historians are starting to use the terms BCE (Before Common Era) and CE (Common Era) which exactly correspond with the BC and AD labels. Pretty stupid, actually...
I don't have any of the figures or statistics, but every energy solution has it's downsides:
Solar - inefficient at current technology levels. You would need entire fields of solar cells in order to do anything, which causes issues with paving over pristine wilderness; as well as the amount of chemicals and power it takes to make a solar cell in the first place.
Wind - same inefficiency as solar, requiring massive land use. Very non-friendly to birds, so as to get the moniker of 'Condor Cuisinarts'. Also extremely ugly to look at on a nice high-desert plain.
Hydro - causes massive changes in river ecosystems because of damming, and running thousands of fish through turbines. Causes salmon endangerment, etc. etc.
Fossil fuel use needs to go, but these other sources (hydro, solar, wind, geothermal, etc.) are good for supplemental, but you've got to either use something that hasn't been invented yet, or dig something out of the ground (coal, oil, U235, U238). Bummer situation, but that's the deal.
I knew someone was going to go here, and here's the issue that I have come up against with Windows XP about four different times, on three different machines:
After the BIOS is done posting, but before the white "chunker bar" (the one that you press F8 during to go to safe mode, etc.), I get a message saying:
Windows cannot load due to missing or corrupt files
C:\Windows\System32\Config
Blah Blah Blah.
As this has happened on three different systems, in three different locations, with very different hardware (one Dual Xeon on an Intel e7505-based board, one Pentium-4 1.8Ghz with i845, and one AMD Athlon XP 2400+ w/ NVidia nForce2), I don't see how a hardware issue could cause the files in this directory (otherwise known as the Windows Registry) to go corrupt. Soundcards and Video Cards don't do that very often.
Oh, and using the recovery console to go into that directory shows that everything is still there, and of size that would be normal. The registry just tore the hell out of itself and died.
While I see where you are coming from on this (I build every non-Apple box I use), some of the perception probably comes from the software that they run.
For example, I've had this PowerBook for two years, and I've had to reinstall the Mac OS once and that's only because I wanted to start fresh... there was nothing wrong with it.
However, the reference-platform dual Xeon workstation that I have in my home office has had four reinstalls of Windows 2000 and XP during the same time period, due to irrecoverable failures of the OS.
With that track record, I would say that my Mac lasts for a long time, where the x86 box fails sooner.
However, if I mix in Linux on that x86 box, we're in a whole new ballpark...
Switches are all well and good, but you forget about cable modems. While downstream traffic is only sent to the modem, all upstream traffic using QAM encoding techniques is a shared medium, so a sniffer on that wire could get some interesting traffic.
Packet sniffers are not a good thing to have just running, but an auto-propogating one is even worse, and should not be taken lightly.
Sure, marketing people never get carried away. I'm sure that all the drivvle to come from Dell, Gateway, NVidia, ATI, VIA, AMD, Intel, and Microsoft is perfectly accurate, and never EVER stretches anything.
Perhaps you like this better:
The iMac G5 offers mediocre built-in graphics capabilities. Like, for instance, the so-so widescreen display. Mac OS X version 10.3 "Panther," provides you with the world's most mid-range -- and most graphics-using -- operating system. And then there's the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra graphics processor with 64MB of DDR SDRAM. It's a combination that delivers middle-of-the-road 2D and 3D graphics performance and a semi-immersive, pixelated, and distorted gaming experience with half the frame rate of our professional systems.
Yeah, that makes me want to buy one. Hell, I'll buy two after that stunning writeup. Here's my credit card!!
Always remember that marketing people are SELLING product, and that by making a comparison to the last model, they can get away with saying things like "unparalleled performace"
The other thing to consider is that in some places, people don't like to see employees lugging in devices that are ONLY used for massive data storage from home. That makes some corps worry.
However, with an iPod you can at least *claim* that you are using it for listening to music while typing away in your cube, thereby complying with corporate policy about music files not being on corporate equipment, etc. etc.
THEN, tell me where Apple has a monopoly on anything? iTunes? Not hardly. Digital Music Distribution? Nope. MP3 Players? Not it. Operating Systems? No, that's someone else.
Sorry, antitrust law just doesn't apply here. It may be quite asshole of them to jerk around with the way it works specifically to break other stuff, but I don't think it's "illegal." In order to abuse a monopoly, you have to have one first.
The Internet (yes, the Internet) is running at the slowest speed ever, due to the clog being offered forth by the spam zombies, unpatched Windows boxes mass-scanning entire subnets due to virus and worm infection, and residential porn downloads.
As an iPod owner, I am not against the idea of there being multiple stores.
What I am against, is Real deciding that they didn't want to negotiate with Apple to license FairPlay (instead they threatened to work with Microsoft, at the same time they threatened Microsoft that they would work with Apple - we see how well THAT play worked out), and instead decided to shoehorn their way in and play the "ohh look at the big bad man who's grinding us down" card. There are a couple things wrong with this:
1. Apple will license FairPlay. They licensed it to Motorola.
2. Apple is not a monopoly for digital music distribution. They just have the market share lead. OD2 has distribution in Europe. Sony is trying their thing. There are other services that have been listed here MANY times.
3. Real hasn't caught on that they have worked themselves into irrelevance. The world doesn't need three formats all trying to be the leader. It really doesn't even need two, but Microsoft and Apple aren't about to kill Windows Media and QuickTime respectively, as they are huge foundations of the operating system capabilities of each platform, for better or for worse.
4. Real has constantly shunned the Macintosh platform, which turns off Mac users. There were versions of Windows Media Player out for Mac OS X before Real - that's pathetic!
To sum up, I don't care how many sources for music there are, but I'm going to put my dollars towards a company that doesn't act reprehensibly in order to get them. Real has done that, and they will never EVER see my money.
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Perhaps the last time such people used Windows was in the Win98 days?
The really funny thing is that even in those days if you were dealing with a copy that came from a first-tier OEM, they used Microsoft's OEM Preload utilities to cache the installation files in \Windows\Options\Cabs.
That's why some people never understand what other people are talking about when they say that Windows always asked them for their CD...
InstallShield X actually is Mac OS X native.
However, it is incredibly unclear as to if this is what they are referring to, or if they are talking about installer.app.
All in all, I won't be giving them $50 if they can't even be clear and concise about what I get for my $50...
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FUCK THE FCC!!!
I mean, seriously, have they done *anything* that this community, and society as a whole (if they were properly informed) like in the last two years?
Maybe Congress will reform them next after they get done shaking up the intelligence community...
£200-£300 UKP will get you a crap G3
That is just fantastic! =)
You right-wing assholes should be in prison for your vile distortions
Yeah, because there sure isn't anyone who would distort truth by taking things out of context for the left-leaning people of the United States, is there?
(Don't flame me as a republican OR a democrat. I'm standing square in the most sought after crowd - the undecided moderates.)
I find it interseting how only the USA is allowed to have a nuclear arsenal.
China
United Kingdom
France
India
Pakistan
Israel
Russia
So I guess these countries don't actually have nukes of their own? I seem to remember the only country that once had nuclear arms and dismantled and destroyed all of them was South Africa. They also dismantled them of their own accord, as no one even knew they had them until after they told us they were all gone.
I guess it's not important to you that there are actually 8 nations that are known to have nuclear weapons. It's probably equally unimportant that all these nations actually realize what will happen to them if they use them on someone. Nuclear weapons in the hands of sane people are not a military threat, but political leverage.
Earlier in the week, they used a helicopter to drop a guy onto the lava dome in order to set up some instrumentation. The helo pilot was constantly monitoring... something so that if the "event" was about to occur, he could jerk him outta there and fly away.
I have a feeling that robot thing was Hollywood bunk.
I thought CO2 emissions were something we had too much of. Is this like cholesterol, where there is a "good" CO2 and a "bad" CO2?
I'll shut up now and yield the floor to the "experts"
While this is good for the Tacoma area, you have to remember that there is a large city (Portland) about 50 miles from St. Helens. Granted, all the lava will flow out of the north end because of the shaping of the crater, if 1980 is any indication of the worst-case, Portland could experience a nice covering of volcanic ash, and the Columbia River will be getting a not-healthy dose of sulphur-laden mud.
so that by the time it falls to the ground the ground is already gone from under it.
So what you are essentially saying, is that it is throwing itself at the ground, and missing?
Some would say that it's a year short of a millenia as mankind surely didn't start at year 0 when Christ died
I really don't want to be the average nitpicky slashdot guy, but AD does not stand for "after death"
If you think about it, most people back then recorded things in either Hebrew, or Latin. AD stands for 'anno domini' in Latin. Therefore, we have BC (which, strangely, seems to actually stand for 'before Christ') to demarc the time before the birth of Jesus Christ, and AD, to mark the time after that event.
Besides, if we did the whole "Before Christ / After Death" thing, we'd miss out on about 34 years while the guy was still kicking around the Middle East, and that wouldn't do, would it!
Oh, and for you politically correct revisionists, there are new terms that don't mark important events based upon one guy's life in one particular religion - historians are starting to use the terms BCE (Before Common Era) and CE (Common Era) which exactly correspond with the BC and AD labels. Pretty stupid, actually...
I don't have any of the figures or statistics, but every energy solution has it's downsides:
Solar - inefficient at current technology levels. You would need entire fields of solar cells in order to do anything, which causes issues with paving over pristine wilderness; as well as the amount of chemicals and power it takes to make a solar cell in the first place.
Wind - same inefficiency as solar, requiring massive land use. Very non-friendly to birds, so as to get the moniker of 'Condor Cuisinarts'. Also extremely ugly to look at on a nice high-desert plain.
Hydro - causes massive changes in river ecosystems because of damming, and running thousands of fish through turbines. Causes salmon endangerment, etc. etc.
Fossil fuel use needs to go, but these other sources (hydro, solar, wind, geothermal, etc.) are good for supplemental, but you've got to either use something that hasn't been invented yet, or dig something out of the ground (coal, oil, U235, U238). Bummer situation, but that's the deal.
I knew someone was going to go here, and here's the issue that I have come up against with Windows XP about four different times, on three different machines:
After the BIOS is done posting, but before the white "chunker bar" (the one that you press F8 during to go to safe mode, etc.), I get a message saying:
Windows cannot load due to missing or corrupt files
C:\Windows\System32\Config
Blah Blah Blah.
As this has happened on three different systems, in three different locations, with very different hardware (one Dual Xeon on an Intel e7505-based board, one Pentium-4 1.8Ghz with i845, and one AMD Athlon XP 2400+ w/ NVidia nForce2), I don't see how a hardware issue could cause the files in this directory (otherwise known as the Windows Registry) to go corrupt. Soundcards and Video Cards don't do that very often.
Oh, and using the recovery console to go into that directory shows that everything is still there, and of size that would be normal. The registry just tore the hell out of itself and died.
While I see where you are coming from on this (I build every non-Apple box I use), some of the perception probably comes from the software that they run.
For example, I've had this PowerBook for two years, and I've had to reinstall the Mac OS once and that's only because I wanted to start fresh... there was nothing wrong with it.
However, the reference-platform dual Xeon workstation that I have in my home office has had four reinstalls of Windows 2000 and XP during the same time period, due to irrecoverable failures of the OS.
With that track record, I would say that my Mac lasts for a long time, where the x86 box fails sooner.
However, if I mix in Linux on that x86 box, we're in a whole new ballpark...
What, did you think that Novell threw all those millions of dollars at SuSE for fun? Oh no, SuSE is the core of the next NetWare.
Switches are all well and good, but you forget about cable modems. While downstream traffic is only sent to the modem, all upstream traffic using QAM encoding techniques is a shared medium, so a sniffer on that wire could get some interesting traffic.
Packet sniffers are not a good thing to have just running, but an auto-propogating one is even worse, and should not be taken lightly.
This thing can be dropped in your pocket...in a second
You must have some pretty damn big pockets and one hell of a belt if you're just dropping this thing in...
Creative Zen PMC: 5.6" x 3.2" x 1.0" @ 11.7 ounces.
That's basically like shoving a DVD case that weighs as much as a can of Coke®(TM)© into your pocket.
I seem to remember SkyLab being two Saturn-V shots in the Apollo Applications program. In the 1970s.
Now THAT's progress, boys!
(btw, I'm agreeing with you, if you aren't seeing through the thick layer of cynicism.)
Sure, marketing people never get carried away. I'm sure that all the drivvle to come from Dell, Gateway, NVidia, ATI, VIA, AMD, Intel, and Microsoft is perfectly accurate, and never EVER stretches anything.
Perhaps you like this better:
The iMac G5 offers mediocre built-in graphics capabilities. Like, for instance, the so-so widescreen display. Mac OS X version 10.3 "Panther," provides you with the world's most mid-range -- and most graphics-using -- operating system. And then there's the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra graphics processor with 64MB of DDR SDRAM. It's a combination that delivers middle-of-the-road 2D and 3D graphics performance and a semi-immersive, pixelated, and distorted gaming experience with half the frame rate of our professional systems.
Yeah, that makes me want to buy one. Hell, I'll buy two after that stunning writeup. Here's my credit card!!
Always remember that marketing people are SELLING product, and that by making a comparison to the last model, they can get away with saying things like "unparalleled performace"
The other thing to consider is that in some places, people don't like to see employees lugging in devices that are ONLY used for massive data storage from home. That makes some corps worry.
However, with an iPod you can at least *claim* that you are using it for listening to music while typing away in your cube, thereby complying with corporate policy about music files not being on corporate equipment, etc. etc.
... a massive supply of horrible focus and bad resolution porn has started to show up on the Internet. Film(s) at 11.
While we're at it, where's Voyager III? I guess we can file this under late-1970's-NASA-plans-that-got-scrapped...
First, have a definition of 'Monopoly'
THEN, tell me where Apple has a monopoly on anything?
iTunes? Not hardly.
Digital Music Distribution? Nope.
MP3 Players? Not it.
Operating Systems? No, that's someone else.
Sorry, antitrust law just doesn't apply here. It may be quite asshole of them to jerk around with the way it works specifically to break other stuff, but I don't think it's "illegal." In order to abuse a monopoly, you have to have one first.
The Internet (yes, the Internet) is running at the slowest speed ever, due to the clog being offered forth by the spam zombies, unpatched Windows boxes mass-scanning entire subnets due to virus and worm infection, and residential porn downloads.
As an iPod owner, I am not against the idea of there being multiple stores.
What I am against, is Real deciding that they didn't want to negotiate with Apple to license FairPlay (instead they threatened to work with Microsoft, at the same time they threatened Microsoft that they would work with Apple - we see how well THAT play worked out), and instead decided to shoehorn their way in and play the "ohh look at the big bad man who's grinding us down" card. There are a couple things wrong with this:
1. Apple will license FairPlay. They licensed it to Motorola.
2. Apple is not a monopoly for digital music distribution. They just have the market share lead. OD2 has distribution in Europe. Sony is trying their thing. There are other services that have been listed here MANY times.
3. Real hasn't caught on that they have worked themselves into irrelevance. The world doesn't need three formats all trying to be the leader. It really doesn't even need two, but Microsoft and Apple aren't about to kill Windows Media and QuickTime respectively, as they are huge foundations of the operating system capabilities of each platform, for better or for worse.
4. Real has constantly shunned the Macintosh platform, which turns off Mac users. There were versions of Windows Media Player out for Mac OS X before Real - that's pathetic!
To sum up, I don't care how many sources for music there are, but I'm going to put my dollars towards a company that doesn't act reprehensibly in order to get them. Real has done that, and they will never EVER see my money.