Same here. I've been on hotmail since 1999 and I haven't had this happen to me ONCE.
The thing you have to be careful with on Hotmail is what you put in your trash. MS wipes the trash bins clean every x minutes or hours, and it doesn't care how long something has been left in your trash.
Normally, this is fine. But I've had it happen a few times where I put something in the trash by accident, and in the minute it took me to realize, and try to go get it back, the server had already erased it.
The nVidia drivers aren't 100% bad either. Performace in Diablo 2 is abysmal, but Max Payne 2 and other newer stuff I've tried runs fine. Then again, Splinter Cell crashes to hell.
Seems the tables have turned, ATI used to be notorious for shit drivers, now it's nVidia.
Vista runs great on the baseline new machine I bought it with. It's only an Athlon 3500 with 512 mb.
Startups and shutdown are very quick. I get minimal swapping. My 1gb/dual core machine running XP isn't half as quick doing all these basic things in XP and it swaps to hell all the time in places where the Vista machine just does it smoothly
I don't have trouble using any peripherals or my printer.
The nvidia openGL drivers on vista are shit. But they'll get better, not Vista's fault. So OpenGL apps usually crash on exit, or hang with 100% cpu.
That's been my only issue. Other than that, it's been my favourite windows OS ever.
You can disable that keyboard switching stuff. I forget how I did it. Right click on the keyboard icon, and uninstall everything you don't want, then remove the keyboard icon permanently from the tray.
I've never seen the disappearing windows resources in Vista, but I've seen it in older versions of windows when I was running multiple apps that would eat all my ram, like 3d editors. Then I'd lose fonts and other misc GUI widgets.
I thought Diablo 2 had a very good story, and if the movie was long enough, it would make for something good on the big screen. The in game cinematics were well done and they would look good in the film as well.
Maybe the movie can tell me how to get D2 to run on Vista. It'd be worth every cent.
Don't all these companies slap all that stuff on a hidden partition on the HD now? I haven't gotten any CDs in a while. You have to burn your own off the hidden HD partition when you get it home.
You should see them on VISTA, you get a disclaimer that they are a work in progress, and aren't well suited for actually accelerating 3d graphics, and that you accept them as-is.
The more of these online music sites that go down, the harder it becomes for Timbaland to 'compose' more music!
The tabs should have been encrypted. Then the RIAA would be on the hook for hacking the encryption to find out that there was in fact tabs in there. Apparently, even Rot13 would have been good enough. ROT13 > RIAA
I suffer from that as well on my dish, but it takes a heavy rain or snowfall completely covered the dish to drop seconds of signal. The signal source from the HDMI device, such as a blue ray player is already being error corrected as it is read off the disc. Why do it twice?
For all you guys know, you were getting the same signal, but the digital box's error correction was messing up because of the fuzz. You see a little bit of fuzz because the analog just takes it as it comes, no checking is done, and the fuzz is the result of the bad parts of the signal.
The fuzz is handled differently on the digital box, and it gets dropped. Static on analog shows up as snowy fuzz. 'Static' on digital shows up as dropped frames, or a messed up picture with bad 'blocks' of the image until a keyframe comes to fix it all up. The digital stuff works like mpeg, and has to recover from that, while the analog just keeps getting full frames.
Your coaxial cables, RCA jacks, rabbit ears, turntable needle, and etc didn't do error checking either. It's a closed connection. You probably lose a few pixels every billion, not really a big deal. It's just a video stream. Nothing 'important'.
It's released under the GPL, yet you can't view the source or anything because it's packed away in an installer.exe that only works if you have a working copy of 3ds max 8+ installed, doesn't this violate the GPL somewhat?
And I guess Cryptic Deluxe will be under the GPL too, since it will be built over the GPL'd lite version.
There was a point when your random, off the shelf encyclopedia didn't have a reputation either. That's built up over time. And a cheap disc of Wikipedia can be very helpful to some people. The fact that anyone can add to it doesn't change the fact that it's still an encyclopedia.
It's biggest strength of wikipedia is also it's biggest weakness. You can't read about any software that isn't under the gpl without seeing a page that's been hijacked by GPL zealots time after time. Hell, the fact that 3DS Max is NOT under the GPL and free is somehow more important than anything else about the software, despite the fact that's it's the industry leader/standard 3d modeller and renderer. The articles about 3D software are all really about how you should be using Blender instead, because it's GPL. Just like every other software page. So much for the NPOV policy.
An article about a person in the public eye often turns into a battle gound and then a daily log of that person's life by an obssessed fan who thinks what they had for breakfast on friday is important information. Factual information that paints them in negative light is often editted out by these same people.
Then we have magazines and newspapers editors who think it's funny to write articles about how they vandalized an article. We have Stephen Colbert logging onto Wikipedia during his show, and making article edits. Even my local newspaper had an article written that detailed a spree of silly article edits along the lines of turning into a werewolf if you visit a certain country on a certain date. This is a columnist in his 50s, not a 15 year old kid.
The whole thing is overrun by GPL Zealots, anti corporate hippies, immature kids, obssessed fans, bible thumpers, etc. None of these types are competant enough to make Neutral Point Of View contributions. Not to mention the fanboys who flood serious articles with video game, comic book, and star wars|trek references.
How is a 12 year old kid, taking everything in there at face value, supposed to seperate the BS from the truth so they can get their school project done? Especially when you have older people who should know better, filling it with such facts as 'E = MC Hammer'.
The disc distribution can solve that, and users can feel confident that the information contained therein is actually worth something. The disc may be the only version that is ever really usefull as an encyclopedia. The online version could be best used as a temporary editing version, with real versions being pressed and distributed, and competantly edited.
Good classic art direction, and substance will always beat out fancy new graphical tricks. Squaresoft is another developper who knows how to pull the most out of any system, and their games tend to look like the hardware they are running on shouldn't be able to handle it.
Not that the new graphical tricks are bad. But they will never compensate for mediocre art.
Just don't buy the track packs at that price. If everyone put their money where their mouth was, and the track packs ended up flopping, they will have to lower the price, and will be wary of releasing future live content at those prices.
Instead, everyone is going to bitch about it, but end up buying them anyways.
It'd be at least twice as large. Even the smallest DVD player is larger than the discs that go inside it, right? The PSP is already quite large enough. As a portable, if the thing is on the large end of the spectrum already, making it twice as big makes it less than half as useful.
Pick up a jewel case, now stack 1 or 2 more on top of it. That's 3 times the size of a disc, and bigger than some discmans I've seen already. Hold the bottom like it was a game controller, (make it rounder around the edges obviously). That's not much bigger than a PSP, it might even use up less horizontal space.
How much larger is a discman? I've seen them get pretty small. They aren't that much bigger than a PSP. Just make it flat, open the thing down the middle, and put the disc in. It would still fit in your hand just as easily, it would just be a bit taller.
U being for Useless. I've never seen why anyone was supposed to want to own one of these. This is the same company that made the discman, so why didn't they make the machine able to open up and take DVDs, instead of these crappy UMD things they came up with?
UMDs suck, and most of the games are ports, or substandard originals. Load times are often said to be abysmal too.
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Name this star Kirk.
Actually, Stroustrup is a phoney. Everyone knows Al Gore invented C++!
When Sony is done with them, they'll be lucky if just to be Parallel Parking.
Same here. I've been on hotmail since 1999 and I haven't had this happen to me ONCE.
The thing you have to be careful with on Hotmail is what you put in your trash. MS wipes the trash bins clean every x minutes or hours, and it doesn't care how long something has been left in your trash.
Normally, this is fine. But I've had it happen a few times where I put something in the trash by accident, and in the minute it took me to realize, and try to go get it back, the server had already erased it.
I hear the ATI drivers aren't bad.
The nVidia drivers aren't 100% bad either. Performace in Diablo 2 is abysmal, but Max Payne 2 and other newer stuff I've tried runs fine. Then again, Splinter Cell crashes to hell.
Seems the tables have turned, ATI used to be notorious for shit drivers, now it's nVidia.
Odd, I've had the opposite experience.
Vista runs great on the baseline new machine I bought it with. It's only an Athlon 3500 with 512 mb.
Startups and shutdown are very quick. I get minimal swapping. My 1gb/dual core machine running XP isn't half as quick doing all these basic things in XP and it swaps to hell all the time in places where the Vista machine just does it smoothly
I don't have trouble using any peripherals or my printer.
The nvidia openGL drivers on vista are shit. But they'll get better, not Vista's fault. So OpenGL apps usually crash on exit, or hang with 100% cpu.
That's been my only issue. Other than that, it's been my favourite windows OS ever.
You can disable that keyboard switching stuff. I forget how I did it. Right click on the keyboard icon, and uninstall everything you don't want, then remove the keyboard icon permanently from the tray.
I've never seen the disappearing windows resources in Vista, but I've seen it in older versions of windows when I was running multiple apps that would eat all my ram, like 3d editors. Then I'd lose fonts and other misc GUI widgets.
I thought Diablo 2 had a very good story, and if the movie was long enough, it would make for something good on the big screen. The in game cinematics were well done and they would look good in the film as well.
Maybe the movie can tell me how to get D2 to run on Vista. It'd be worth every cent.
If I was living in a radioctive waste land, and my dogs started to disappear, I'd assume Swamp Thing before a pack of wolves.
Don't all these companies slap all that stuff on a hidden partition on the HD now? I haven't gotten any CDs in a while. You have to burn your own off the hidden HD partition when you get it home.
You should see them on VISTA, you get a disclaimer that they are a work in progress, and aren't well suited for actually accelerating 3d graphics, and that you accept them as-is.
The more of these online music sites that go down, the harder it becomes for Timbaland to 'compose' more music!
The tabs should have been encrypted. Then the RIAA would be on the hook for hacking the encryption to find out that there was in fact tabs in there. Apparently, even Rot13 would have been good enough. ROT13 > RIAA
I suffer from that as well on my dish, but it takes a heavy rain or snowfall completely covered the dish to drop seconds of signal. The signal source from the HDMI device, such as a blue ray player is already being error corrected as it is read off the disc. Why do it twice?
For all you guys know, you were getting the same signal, but the digital box's error correction was messing up because of the fuzz. You see a little bit of fuzz because the analog just takes it as it comes, no checking is done, and the fuzz is the result of the bad parts of the signal.
The fuzz is handled differently on the digital box, and it gets dropped. Static on analog shows up as snowy fuzz. 'Static' on digital shows up as dropped frames, or a messed up picture with bad 'blocks' of the image until a keyframe comes to fix it all up. The digital stuff works like mpeg, and has to recover from that, while the analog just keeps getting full frames.
Your coaxial cables, RCA jacks, rabbit ears, turntable needle, and etc didn't do error checking either. It's a closed connection. You probably lose a few pixels every billion, not really a big deal. It's just a video stream. Nothing 'important'.
I honestly haven't had a single bluescreen since I moved away from Windows 98se.
It's released under the GPL, yet you can't view the source or anything because it's packed away in an installer .exe that only works if you have a working copy of 3ds max 8+ installed, doesn't this violate the GPL somewhat?
And I guess Cryptic Deluxe will be under the GPL too, since it will be built over the GPL'd lite version.
http://www.crypticar.com/LICENSE.TXT
Pointless? I think that's way off base.
There was a point when your random, off the shelf encyclopedia didn't have a reputation either. That's built up over time. And a cheap disc of Wikipedia can be very helpful to some people. The fact that anyone can add to it doesn't change the fact that it's still an encyclopedia.
It's biggest strength of wikipedia is also it's biggest weakness. You can't read about any software that isn't under the gpl without seeing a page that's been hijacked by GPL zealots time after time. Hell, the fact that 3DS Max is NOT under the GPL and free is somehow more important than anything else about the software, despite the fact that's it's the industry leader/standard 3d modeller and renderer. The articles about 3D software are all really about how you should be using Blender instead, because it's GPL. Just like every other software page. So much for the NPOV policy.
An article about a person in the public eye often turns into a battle gound and then a daily log of that person's life by an obssessed fan who thinks what they had for breakfast on friday is important information. Factual information that paints them in negative light is often editted out by these same people.
Then we have magazines and newspapers editors who think it's funny to write articles about how they vandalized an article. We have Stephen Colbert logging onto Wikipedia during his show, and making article edits. Even my local newspaper had an article written that detailed a spree of silly article edits along the lines of turning into a werewolf if you visit a certain country on a certain date. This is a columnist in his 50s, not a 15 year old kid.
The whole thing is overrun by GPL Zealots, anti corporate hippies, immature kids, obssessed fans, bible thumpers, etc. None of these types are competant enough to make Neutral Point Of View contributions. Not to mention the fanboys who flood serious articles with video game, comic book, and star wars|trek references.
How is a 12 year old kid, taking everything in there at face value, supposed to seperate the BS from the truth so they can get their school project done? Especially when you have older people who should know better, filling it with such facts as 'E = MC Hammer'.
The disc distribution can solve that, and users can feel confident that the information contained therein is actually worth something. The disc may be the only version that is ever really usefull as an encyclopedia. The online version could be best used as a temporary editing version, with real versions being pressed and distributed, and competantly edited.
Cowboy Neal.
How long until the pirates launch a giant 'mirror' (pun intended)?
Steam has officially gone up in smoke? =0)
Good classic art direction, and substance will always beat out fancy new graphical tricks. Squaresoft is another developper who knows how to pull the most out of any system, and their games tend to look like the hardware they are running on shouldn't be able to handle it.
Not that the new graphical tricks are bad. But they will never compensate for mediocre art.
Just don't buy the track packs at that price. If everyone put their money where their mouth was, and the track packs ended up flopping, they will have to lower the price, and will be wary of releasing future live content at those prices.
Instead, everyone is going to bitch about it, but end up buying them anyways.
How much larger is a discman? I've seen them get pretty small. They aren't that much bigger than a PSP. Just make it flat, open the thing down the middle, and put the disc in. It would still fit in your hand just as easily, it would just be a bit taller.
U being for Useless. I've never seen why anyone was supposed to want to own one of these. This is the same company that made the discman, so why didn't they make the machine able to open up and take DVDs, instead of these crappy UMD things they came up with?
UMDs suck, and most of the games are ports, or substandard originals. Load times are often said to be abysmal too.
Even your average game demo runs about a gig these days.