Well, he's probably coming from the chess or pawn shop schools of thought.
In the chess school of thought, the pawn is the weakest piece (some would say the strongest, but that's a point for another post). So, if you "pawn" someone, you make them weak, or they were already weak and you kill them. Pawn becomes pwn in the 1337speak movement to shorten stuff.
In the pawn shop school of thought, the competitor that you just "pwned" you've deemed so worthless that you pawn him off. Again, pawn becomes pwn to shorten it.
I still prefer the "misspelled own" theory, so correct pronunciation would be "own".
Naturally, you're gonna have faster components on the top end - an FX-57 will blow any stock P-M, and some OC'd P-Ms, out of the water. Also, I believe that the GF Go 6800U has lower clocks than the desktop 6800U. Also, LCD users typically run their screens at the native resolution, which on most gaming laptops is higher than that of most sanely priced desktop LCDs.
However, that doesn't necessarily mean that a desktop user will beat a laptop user. Put someone who's never gamed before in front of the desktop, and put a pro in front of the laptop, and guess who wins...
A 386-based PDA? The Nokia Communicator 9000 was one, IIRC (VERY fuzzy on that stuff, b/c those models were non-US, and I've never set foot outside the US).
I still run at GMT-4/5 (4 during DST), but I'm about to lock everything I use at GMT, no DST adjustments.
Unfortunately, my cell locks to the current time zone, using whatever DST behavior is in effect. So, I guess I'd do one time sync every so often, then change the hour to match GMT...
You doubt that the "MS Team" would be entrusted with the name for a flagship product?
The code name for the processor that NT was designed to target was "N-Ten", so this OS/2 fork was internally called "NT". Then, some guy in the NT team, not in the marketing department, comes up with something to make NT into an acronym - "New Technology". Marketing loved it. Windows NT 3.1 was released in 1993.
Hmm... that's odd that you're having problems with 2000 and XP roaming profiles...
What server are you using?
My school uses Win2K Server, and we've got a mixed environment (one class of 2K, everywhere else is XP). No problems when we had roaming profiles, even moving between a 2K and a XP machine. (We don't even have LOCAL profiles anymore, though - if you don't have a floppy disk, UFD, or are lucky enough to have a network share, you can't save anything...)
If you count the CD key, and some of the stuff in the beginning of Windows setup, I think Xandros (3.0 OCE - I played around with it once) might actually be a little easier than WinXP to install...
Actually, I've never seen a Dell with a restore CD (in the sense that you put it in, you press Enter a couple of times, and your box is back to factory config).
I've seen Dells ship with the individual program CDs, though. Fine for me - I get to select what gets put on. Not fine for the people who actually buy Dells.
Unfortunately for Joe Blow (but fortunately for us), every Dell I've seen shipped with individual CDs (a Windows CD, a driver CD, an Office CD, etc., etc.), not a reimage set.
You put in the "Windows XP Home Edition with Service Pack 2" CD from your Dell, reboot, and it shows this weird blue screen that takes forever. It then comes up with some weird confusing stuff. If you get past that, then there's even more confusing stuff - stuff about NTFS, FAT, and partitions.
Get that somewhat right, and it finally gets easy.
Look at the easier Linux distros - put the CD in, boot, and it goes into a graphical setup that you can pretty much click Next on. Linux has surpassed Windows in ease of installation...
While she's VERY impressive, a calculator in C# isn't hard at all.
I don't know C#, but I've done one. In C#.
All it takes is VB knowledge, remembering that C# is C-derived, and requires == for comparison, and that you have to put a semicolon on the end of each line.
As he skipped his boat across the seas of Damogran he smiled quietly to himself about what a wonderful, exciting day it was going to be. He relaxed and spread his two arms lazily along the seat back. He steered with an extra arm he'd recently had fitted just beneath his right one to help improve his ski-boxing.
(my emphasis)
And, if anyone reading didn't get Tim's joke, think for a second. Zaphod's a guy. Two of the kind that talk, one of the other kind.
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Well, he's probably coming from the chess or pawn shop schools of thought.
In the chess school of thought, the pawn is the weakest piece (some would say the strongest, but that's a point for another post). So, if you "pawn" someone, you make them weak, or they were already weak and you kill them. Pawn becomes pwn in the 1337speak movement to shorten stuff.
In the pawn shop school of thought, the competitor that you just "pwned" you've deemed so worthless that you pawn him off. Again, pawn becomes pwn to shorten it.
I still prefer the "misspelled own" theory, so correct pronunciation would be "own".
If Pure Pwnage is to be believed, the p is pronounced as an o - so it's pronounced the same as "own".
The title sequence on each episode has the announcer saying "Pure Ownage" (my emphasis, but the announcer DOES stress the O pretty strongly).
Besides, "pwn" is a misspelling of "own". Being a misspelling, the pronunciation should be that of the original word.
Naturally, you're gonna have faster components on the top end - an FX-57 will blow any stock P-M, and some OC'd P-Ms, out of the water. Also, I believe that the GF Go 6800U has lower clocks than the desktop 6800U. Also, LCD users typically run their screens at the native resolution, which on most gaming laptops is higher than that of most sanely priced desktop LCDs.
However, that doesn't necessarily mean that a desktop user will beat a laptop user. Put someone who's never gamed before in front of the desktop, and put a pro in front of the laptop, and guess who wins...
A 386-based PDA? The Nokia Communicator 9000 was one, IIRC (VERY fuzzy on that stuff, b/c those models were non-US, and I've never set foot outside the US).
Hell, even the big gamers notebooks, they're going to the Pentium M... (*cough*XPS Gen 2*cough*)
Just for those of you who are seriously considering this, read this from that page:
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Hmm... I'll have to ask my friends on that one...
They're the ones that put Bailey's Irish Creme in coffee in the morning...
Of course, them doing it in the morning tells me that the caffeine outweighs the alcohol...
Sounds like it's already the Linux of beers, then.
Hard to set up, isn't that good, and you can add something to something more mainstream to make it do the same thing!
(just kidding!)
Yeah...
I still run at GMT-4/5 (4 during DST), but I'm about to lock everything I use at GMT, no DST adjustments.
Unfortunately, my cell locks to the current time zone, using whatever DST behavior is in effect. So, I guess I'd do one time sync every so often, then change the hour to match GMT...
Windows NT 3.1 was the first version that went under the Windows umbrella.
See, it was released a little after Windows 3.1, so they wanted it to complement it. Therefore, giving it the same version number made sense.
NT 1.0 would be OS/2 1.0, though, seeing as NT 3.1 was supposed to be OS/2 2.0...
The thing is, Mozilla ran into the same damn thing with Phoeni^WFirebir^WFirefox...
You doubt that the "MS Team" would be entrusted with the name for a flagship product?
The code name for the processor that NT was designed to target was "N-Ten", so this OS/2 fork was internally called "NT". Then, some guy in the NT team, not in the marketing department, comes up with something to make NT into an acronym - "New Technology". Marketing loved it. Windows NT 3.1 was released in 1993.
Windows XP Plus! SuperPack 2 (because SuperPack is already taken...)
Hmm... that's odd that you're having problems with 2000 and XP roaming profiles...
What server are you using?
My school uses Win2K Server, and we've got a mixed environment (one class of 2K, everywhere else is XP). No problems when we had roaming profiles, even moving between a 2K and a XP machine. (We don't even have LOCAL profiles anymore, though - if you don't have a floppy disk, UFD, or are lucky enough to have a network share, you can't save anything...)
Hmm...
If you count the CD key, and some of the stuff in the beginning of Windows setup, I think Xandros (3.0 OCE - I played around with it once) might actually be a little easier than WinXP to install...
Yes. I know that some manufacturers send out restore CDs.
However, I've actually never seen a Dell (and I've seen consumer ones - not just OptiPlexes and Latitudes) with a restore CD.
Actually, I've never seen a Dell with a restore CD (in the sense that you put it in, you press Enter a couple of times, and your box is back to factory config).
I've seen Dells ship with the individual program CDs, though. Fine for me - I get to select what gets put on. Not fine for the people who actually buy Dells.
Unfortunately for Joe Blow (but fortunately for us), every Dell I've seen shipped with individual CDs (a Windows CD, a driver CD, an Office CD, etc., etc.), not a reimage set.
Well, put yourself in Joe Blow's shoes.
You put in the "Windows XP Home Edition with Service Pack 2" CD from your Dell, reboot, and it shows this weird blue screen that takes forever. It then comes up with some weird confusing stuff. If you get past that, then there's even more confusing stuff - stuff about NTFS, FAT, and partitions.
Get that somewhat right, and it finally gets easy.
Look at the easier Linux distros - put the CD in, boot, and it goes into a graphical setup that you can pretty much click Next on. Linux has surpassed Windows in ease of installation...
Yeah...
Gangsta: Yeah, I've fucking killed 500 people just like *THAT* with one molotov cocktail.
Modern puritan: OK...
Very little reaction, see?
Gangsta: Oh, and I had great sex with my girlfriend last night.
Modern puritan: OMG, OMG, OMG SEX BEFORE MARRIAGE BURN THE HEATHENS AT THE STAKE!!!!1111oneoneone
Sex == natural. Blowing people up == not natural.
See something weird?
I think some of the copy-protected ones are allowed to be returned by some places, because they can be incompatible with a lot of stuff.
The class was an intro to computers class, and she mentioned Windows 97 when she was discussing operating systems.
I don't recall her having a MWUS...
Still, one should know that there isn't a Windows 97 - that's fairly basic.
While she's VERY impressive, a calculator in C# isn't hard at all.
I don't know C#, but I've done one. In C#.
All it takes is VB knowledge, remembering that C# is C-derived, and requires == for comparison, and that you have to put a semicolon on the end of each line.
(oops... I just admitted to knowing VB, didn't I?
I'm much better at Python, though...)
And, if anyone reading didn't get Tim's joke, think for a second. Zaphod's a guy. Two of the kind that talk, one of the other kind.
I gravitate towards Pinball (it's on 2000, ME, and XP, and it's in the 95 and 98 Plus packs...)
However, if my ONLY choices are Minesweeper and Solitaire, I'll go for good ol' sol.exe.
Reversi (the original game in Windows)? Better than Minesweeper, IMO, but not great.