Yay... That can pay for another single & useless shuttle trip to the utter waste of money we all know as the ISS. NASA will undoubtedly spend this money on some useless/failed mission or missions that accomplish nothing of note. Why not pump that billion dollars into grants for PRIVATE space firms and actually watch something cool happen.
Vista, with my new image, installed in less than 15 minutes. I tweaked the hades out of Vista before trying this...and all that tweaking work didnt do half of what vLite did in the performance category. vLite might take a little effort to set up, but it will save you loads of time in the long run, both in the extra time it would take you to tweak everything out, as well as the extra time Vista itself would be taking to do everything.
It depends on what you remove. Certain things like Mail and Calendar, if removed, will keep SP's from installing. My install is strictly a gaming machine. I dual boot XP and Vista. When SP1 comes out officially, I'll slipstream it into a new image, vLite that image, format, reinstall, and put my games back on. Not a huge deal depending on the person.
Obviously this book, as well as vLite, are not for everyone.
If you want to alleviate Vista annoyances, and you MUST use Vista, use vLite and make a custom Vista install image with ONLY the stuff you want on it. I just did this yesterday and it works wonders. Vista doesn't feel like a slug anymore.
The standard macbook could easily be pronounced as "just as ultra mobile as the Sir" since, in fact, the only thing different about the size is a marginal difference in thickness at ONE END. Other than the thickness, the X-Y footprint is the same, the weight difference is basically negligible in a backpack, and you get a 100% better feature set at 50% the price. I'm not seeing how ANYONE can defend this thing anymore. I'd buy a standard macbook over this thing at the SAME price, let alone the ridiculous price they have the AIR set at.
They should have revamped the Macbook to be "a bit thinner with the a couple more features and NO less," refreshed the Macbook Pro, Waited until the keynote to talk about the Mac Pro refresh, come out with a matte screen iMac, and people would have thrown a party. Not this drivel though.
Apple legal is just a mini implementation of the Microsoft version. 99% chance of having no clue what they're talking about, but a 100% chance of making jackasses out of themselves in the process of pursuing their so-called goals.
People really started hating MS when they started this same stuff so Apple shouldn't for a second think they're somehow immune to that same wide-spread hate. I use apple products because I like them, but I'm not going to kid myself and think they're somehow "thinking different" in any aspect but product-design.
It's totally a store policy. While it's probably not the best idea to go out and buy your 11 year old Manhunt 2, it's also not against the law. These stores are just looking out for their bottom line. You can hardly blame them...
I wonder how long it'll be before that "skeleton key" becomes public knowledge and makes the entire encryption scheme more worthless than it already is.
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I actually bought some TV trays from Walmart a while back. I removed the legs from one and use the top surface as a lapdesk. No padding or anything like that. It's big enough for my 15" MBP, time machine HDD, and mouse.
yeah sure. Trample the constitution, due process, rights to privacy, heck; FREEDOM all in the name of false security. The patriot act and what went with it is the single largest attack on the constitution in this nations history and then we have trolls like you supporting it. Not to mention the useless SCOTUS sitting on their butts and doing absolutely nothing about the unconstitutionality of the whole thing. You can take Rep/Dem sides if you want, but they're BOTH wrong and they BOTH support the patriot act (and what happens as a result of it). It's all about Unlimited Power with zero Responsibility. Absolute power corrupts....etc.
The patriot act is the exact opposite of its namesake.
I'll agree with that. I'm about 1/3 through the game right now and there have been many points at which I was truly surprised by the ability of the PS3 to keep up with what was going on. Just the fact that there can be thousands of items on screen (bolts, raritanium, enemies, stuff happening in the background), they can ALL have their own pretty little effects and animations going, and the framerate is 100% liquid...it's just astounding.
I'm pretty unbiased in my standings between the 360 and PS3. I own both consoles and enjoy both. The PS3 really did pull one out with this game though. I only hope that the more "hardcore" gamers aren't turned off by the initial cartoony nature of the game. Once you get into it you realize how beautiful and incredibly well done it is. Some of the in-game rendered cutscenes look like something straight out of pixar.
These very thoughts came to my mind when I was reading all the Halo3 Reviews... When a game has so-so single player and awesome multiplayer...how does that get the game loads of perfect scores? A perfect game wouldn't need to make up for areas of lacking ANYWHERE. That aside, even the multiplay, while fun, is far from perfect. Halo3 was, and is, a great package but it's nowhere near a "perfect" game. I'm not just picking on Halo3 here either. HL2 for instance was a phenomenal game....but to call it "perfect" (like so many reviewers did) is just naive and downright inaccurate.
They're testing the effects of shockwaves, which types of light and how much of them are emitted in the blast, what exactly goes on (at the visible and molecular level) in the milliseconds after detonation, and PLENTY of other things. They were also testing new bomb designs and making sure they worked.
Regardless of what conspiracy theorist ideas you may have, they didn't spend billions developing these bombs, and then cause lots of (localized) damage testing them just for the pretty fireworks show. The tests DID have a point.
Not that I'm saying I LIKE the idea that the things are hanging around anymore. The idea that one bomb could kill millions and the idiotic world leaders wave them around like a revolver in the hands of a drunk is just a little on the "what the hades, are you totally insane??" side of things. It's a sad state of affairs we live in when people talk about "nukes for nukes" instead of the lives of the people that would be vaporized without a chance. If you've gotta use weapons, make them conventional or there won't be much of a world left to argue over...yaknow?
came to mac with the whole "Well, i can run windows on it" in mind. 5 months later, I've cleared off all my windows partitions and am running OSX exclusively. It has a way of drawing you in if you give it a chance.
To each his own though. I own a 360 and other than Halo2, I've never had an XBOX1 game. I don't even have Halo2 anymore. What's valuable and what's expensive are different to different people.
For people like myself who never owned a PS2 that isn't an issue...
My main gripe with the system is that they don't ship it with component cables and then charge you $50 more than a 360 which DOES come with the cables.
A $400 system definitely sounds better than the $600 one.
I'm pretty close to the same. I only use ODF stuff locally, but if someone else needs it that I know is using MSO, i save the document as a.doc. I don't see the.doc format as somehow evil, i just like ODF much better for obvious reasons. At the end of the day,.doc still gets the job done.
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My guess is: 04/01
Except that there are a lot of supporting links. Hmmm. Sucks bigtime if It's true though. Hopefully the "temporary" is as "temporary" as it can be.
time for you to RTFA
Apple has already responded and said the EULA statement was an oversight. It's fixed in the next release and it's not binding anyway.
Yay... That can pay for another single & useless shuttle trip to the utter waste of money we all know as the ISS. NASA will undoubtedly spend this money on some useless/failed mission or missions that accomplish nothing of note. Why not pump that billion dollars into grants for PRIVATE space firms and actually watch something cool happen.
Vista, with my new image, installed in less than 15 minutes. I tweaked the hades out of Vista before trying this...and all that tweaking work didnt do half of what vLite did in the performance category. vLite might take a little effort to set up, but it will save you loads of time in the long run, both in the extra time it would take you to tweak everything out, as well as the extra time Vista itself would be taking to do everything.
It depends on what you remove. Certain things like Mail and Calendar, if removed, will keep SP's from installing. My install is strictly a gaming machine. I dual boot XP and Vista. When SP1 comes out officially, I'll slipstream it into a new image, vLite that image, format, reinstall, and put my games back on. Not a huge deal depending on the person.
Obviously this book, as well as vLite, are not for everyone.
If you want to alleviate Vista annoyances, and you MUST use Vista, use vLite and make a custom Vista install image with ONLY the stuff you want on it. I just did this yesterday and it works wonders. Vista doesn't feel like a slug anymore.
My XBL problems never got better in the first place. I still can't seem to get logged in about 90%+ of the time. Really dang annoying.
typo: "Just as mobile as the Air"
The standard macbook could easily be pronounced as "just as ultra mobile as the Sir" since, in fact, the only thing different about the size is a marginal difference in thickness at ONE END. Other than the thickness, the X-Y footprint is the same, the weight difference is basically negligible in a backpack, and you get a 100% better feature set at 50% the price. I'm not seeing how ANYONE can defend this thing anymore. I'd buy a standard macbook over this thing at the SAME price, let alone the ridiculous price they have the AIR set at.
They should have revamped the Macbook to be "a bit thinner with the a couple more features and NO less," refreshed the Macbook Pro, Waited until the keynote to talk about the Mac Pro refresh, come out with a matte screen iMac, and people would have thrown a party. Not this drivel though.
Apple legal is just a mini implementation of the Microsoft version. 99% chance of having no clue what they're talking about, but a 100% chance of making jackasses out of themselves in the process of pursuing their so-called goals.
People really started hating MS when they started this same stuff so Apple shouldn't for a second think they're somehow immune to that same wide-spread hate. I use apple products because I like them, but I'm not going to kid myself and think they're somehow "thinking different" in any aspect but product-design.
I'm still wondering why this is a Libertarians worst nightmare. Maybe my local librarian has some books on phonics I can borrow...
It's totally a store policy. While it's probably not the best idea to go out and buy your 11 year old Manhunt 2, it's also not against the law. These stores are just looking out for their bottom line. You can hardly blame them...
I wonder how long it'll be before that "skeleton key" becomes public knowledge and makes the entire encryption scheme more worthless than it already is.
I actually bought some TV trays from Walmart a while back. I removed the legs from one and use the top surface as a lapdesk. No padding or anything like that. It's big enough for my 15" MBP, time machine HDD, and mouse.
It's neat how they re-wrote the definition of "most." I know I'm going to train up my child in the way he should go...er...play. ;)
yeah sure. Trample the constitution, due process, rights to privacy, heck; FREEDOM all in the name of false security. The patriot act and what went with it is the single largest attack on the constitution in this nations history and then we have trolls like you supporting it. Not to mention the useless SCOTUS sitting on their butts and doing absolutely nothing about the unconstitutionality of the whole thing. You can take Rep/Dem sides if you want, but they're BOTH wrong and they BOTH support the patriot act (and what happens as a result of it). It's all about Unlimited Power with zero Responsibility. Absolute power corrupts....etc.
The patriot act is the exact opposite of its namesake.
I'd REALLY like to see the oddworld games on 360, esp the most recent one. :-/
I'll agree with that. I'm about 1/3 through the game right now and there have been many points at which I was truly surprised by the ability of the PS3 to keep up with what was going on. Just the fact that there can be thousands of items on screen (bolts, raritanium, enemies, stuff happening in the background), they can ALL have their own pretty little effects and animations going, and the framerate is 100% liquid...it's just astounding.
I'm pretty unbiased in my standings between the 360 and PS3. I own both consoles and enjoy both. The PS3 really did pull one out with this game though. I only hope that the more "hardcore" gamers aren't turned off by the initial cartoony nature of the game. Once you get into it you realize how beautiful and incredibly well done it is. Some of the in-game rendered cutscenes look like something straight out of pixar.
These very thoughts came to my mind when I was reading all the Halo3 Reviews... When a game has so-so single player and awesome multiplayer...how does that get the game loads of perfect scores? A perfect game wouldn't need to make up for areas of lacking ANYWHERE. That aside, even the multiplay, while fun, is far from perfect. Halo3 was, and is, a great package but it's nowhere near a "perfect" game. I'm not just picking on Halo3 here either. HL2 for instance was a phenomenal game....but to call it "perfect" (like so many reviewers did) is just naive and downright inaccurate.
They're testing the effects of shockwaves, which types of light and how much of them are emitted in the blast, what exactly goes on (at the visible and molecular level) in the milliseconds after detonation, and PLENTY of other things. They were also testing new bomb designs and making sure they worked.
Regardless of what conspiracy theorist ideas you may have, they didn't spend billions developing these bombs, and then cause lots of (localized) damage testing them just for the pretty fireworks show. The tests DID have a point.
Not that I'm saying I LIKE the idea that the things are hanging around anymore. The idea that one bomb could kill millions and the idiotic world leaders wave them around like a revolver in the hands of a drunk is just a little on the "what the hades, are you totally insane??" side of things. It's a sad state of affairs we live in when people talk about "nukes for nukes" instead of the lives of the people that would be vaporized without a chance. If you've gotta use weapons, make them conventional or there won't be much of a world left to argue over...yaknow?
came to mac with the whole "Well, i can run windows on it" in mind. 5 months later, I've cleared off all my windows partitions and am running OSX exclusively. It has a way of drawing you in if you give it a chance.
To each his own though. I own a 360 and other than Halo2, I've never had an XBOX1 game. I don't even have Halo2 anymore. What's valuable and what's expensive are different to different people.
For people like myself who never owned a PS2 that isn't an issue...
My main gripe with the system is that they don't ship it with component cables and then charge you $50 more than a 360 which DOES come with the cables.
A $400 system definitely sounds better than the $600 one.
I'm pretty close to the same. I only use ODF stuff locally, but if someone else needs it that I know is using MSO, i save the document as a .doc. I don't see the .doc format as somehow evil, i just like ODF much better for obvious reasons. At the end of the day, .doc still gets the job done.