EasyBCD is free you know... 3 hours of "messing with the new BCD crap" is completely unnecessary, and adding your XP x64 boot entry would have taken a mere minute. And this "new" stuff isn't really new, unless you consider "since Vista" to be new.
But yes, I suppose it could be mildly upsetting that the bootloader didn't automatically pick up on your other Windows installations. You really made the troubleshooting hard on yourself though.:)
Is it really -that- difficult for you to check beforehand whether or not the driver version you are currently using will work properly with the kernel upgrade? You do realize that you never ever absolutely have to upgrade your kernel if everything is working hunky-dory, right? Right? You get what you deserve if you upgrade willy-nilly without taking into account such a thing.
That list shows a whole bunch of relatively trivial user interface changes, many of which could easily be achieved by third party add-ons for XP already e.g. launchy instead of new start menu).
Maybe people like having the stuff built into the OS instead of going out and collecting a bunch of third party applications to provide basic functionality. On the topic of launchy, I found it to be completely useless and no substitute for the start menu, and guess what, a lot of people feel that way too. You know, a lot of people don't even like Firefox! I'm not one of those people though, it's my favorite browser, but I digress...
Many of the changes are just arbitrary, and many are completely irrelevant to me - new media player (don't use it) etc... They complete whacked up the configuration part (LAN/IP settings), at least before SP1. Haven't tried it since.
And this is where we get to some real beef of your post, which proves that you have no clue what you're talking about. You admit that you haven't tried post-SP1, and I'm willing to bet your pre-SP1 experiences lasted about a day or two. That's how things seem to go with Vista bashers. The changes are not just arbitrary, though I will grant that not all of them are going to be relevant to you. When was the last time you saw a new Linux kernel release, or Ubuntu/Fedora/Debian release, where every single change was applicable to you and entirely beneficial? The answer, none. I find that the figure of 25% which you pulled out of your ass is about 24% higher than the amount of useful stuff for me when it comes to new Linux distro or kernel releases (Which is, by the way, a completely irrelevant metric to be using because I am not the center of the universe). Does that mean that Linux distros are just throwing on a bunch of fluff because it's not always stuff that is directly applicable to me and my usage scenarios? Not in the least.
The new media player was a welcome addition for the people who actually enjoy using it, and the people who have to use it from time to time. I know this might be hard for you to understand, but diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks. One of my old friends would insist on WMP because of his multimedia keys, among other things. Other friends just plain like it. You can't convert everyone to software that you personally feel is superior (I always push VLC). The TCP/IP configuration, I have no idea what the hell you are talking about because undearneath all of the new stuff, behind the new Networking Center, it's got the same goddamn configuration dialogs that have been here since 2k/XP. Boo hoo you might have to dig one level deeper to get to something. Every Average Joe desktop user I come across likes the way the Networking Center presents information instead of just having Interface 1 Interface 2 Wireless 1, stuff like that. It's more accessible and it gives more information on the surface, with the same amount of depth underneath.
At a quick glance I can find no major "killer" feature - just a bunch of minor changes. Out of these:
- 25% are nice and useful
- 25% I hate
- 25% Are complete useless to me (new fonts, media player, language support etc...)
- 25% are arbitrary interface changes
Are you so dense that you can't understand that stuff like language support and an enhanced user interface are things that most users appreciate? Language support especially because uhhh hey guess what, lots of people like to use their computer in their own language/locale. Localization progress is touted by every software project including Windows because it's important. If you really think these are arbitrary user interface changes then what it really boils down to is how resistant you are to change your own computing habits, even if those changes would ultimately result in increased workflow and production. When you stop resisting these changes and start learning their advantages, the reas
None of it is DRM, did you not even bother to notice that the protected media path is not even being enabled/requested by any content yet because Hollywood hasn't decided to start the push yet? Playing the DRM card is nonsensical and completely irrelevant to the issue of Vista performance woes.
The biggest problem with Windows Vista was the changes to how things like file copy progress is indicated as compared to previous Windows releases and the complete lack of readiness on the part of hardware vendors (Which can largely be attributed to them simply being incredibly lazy, they had plenty of time to write proper drivers). Vista reached parity for XP in most if not all desktop tasks a long time ago, as well as gaming performance. Does it use more resources? Sure, there will be some additional CPU cycles being chewed up because the OS simply has more features and capabilities. Is this noticeable on recommended or better hardware? Definitely not.
Note that I specifically do not mention workloads like the ones described in this article. Environments like that are probably better left to XP unless they need to migrate, and you can (and plenty of people do) say the same thing about moving to Linux 2.6 from 2.4. Different versions have different strengths and weaknesses, but Windows 7 does seem to do a lot of fixing (primarily focusing on feeling faster, which was a big issue for Vista in the early days especially. It wasn't exactly slow, it just didn't feel as snappy. This has been, at least in my experiences, completely resolved).
P.S. -- Please stop parroting the line that there is nothing new in Vista compared to XP. The list of improvements is very long, and the list of improvements only gets longer once you look at Windows 7.
I like Schneier and respect him with regards to a lot of positions but on this particular topic I don't think I can. You say that Bruce is on Gutmann's side as if Schneier had some some sort of analysis on Gutmann's claims in order to verify their authenticity. He did not, he simply discussed the article in question and said that he agrees. Nobody has ever posted an actual analysis of the XP and Vista systems to see if indeed the DRM path is the culprit in anything. Maybe instead of attacking the DRM path for playing protected media (Which I might add is only invoked when one decides to playback DRMed content) people should focus their ire on the true culprit - Lazy programming that causes slowdowns in certain situations.
You may want to have a look at the entire section here on Wikipedia about this particular issue, which specifically mentions Guttman's article. The most important bit to note, in my opinion, is one of the responses from Paul Smith (There are many good ones):
# Vista does not degrade or refuse to play any existing media, CDs or DVDs. The protected data paths are only activated if protected content requires it.
Emphasis mine on the second half of that, and right before that bullet point is the pointing out that this stuff isn't even supposed to be turned on until 2010 or 2012.
Sounds like you've got bigger problems than the Vista audio stack if you have problems like that. Read: you have shitty drivers. My Q6600 has no issues like the one you describe, and nobody I know with single a single core, dual core or better processor has that issue. But hey, it's much easier to just blame the Vista sound subsystem than to actually deduce what the real culprit is.
It is pretty frustrating to see a Vista install balloon, it's because of the winsxs folder mostly. My Windows folder is currently at 12.9GB (Windows 7 x64 upgraded from Vista x64). 5.82GB of that is the winsxs folder alone.
Keep telling yourself that, it won't make it any less laughable. Take a look at this and then this and then finally this. Nevermind the fact that most driver developers abandoned 2k long ago, if they ever bothered to support it at all. And I'm talking about average user stuff not back-end business that really should have been migrated by now to either some sort of *nix solution or a newer Windows. For average users, 2k does not compare to any of the newer Windows systems. But I digress.
The original point was that Internet Explorer 7 uses hooks that take advantage of their more modern OSes, and to expect legacy support forever is completely unreasonable. You have diverted this so far from trying to make it seem like this (No IE7 on 2k) was an artificial limitation to simply attacking Microsoft because they aren't as in love with their old OS as you are. Go cry about your upgrade treadmill where someone actually cares, it was my sore mistake to expect any sort of discussion instead of this circular crap that ignores Microsoft is a business that, like every other business that stays in business, cuts costs when it won't bother a significant portion of their market. To quote Jacobim Mugatu "I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!" You really expect them to care about less than 2%?
It's spun in a rational way instead of your ridiculous assertions that the only or main reason IE7 isn't available on Windows 2000 is because of trivially-addressed issues that Microsoft only ignores because they want to keep people upgrading. Grow up and understand that it's wholly unreasonable to expect Microsoft to bother coddling your dying OS. It's not in their interests and ultimately it's not in their customers interests. The platform is less secure, it's less capable and it's almost 9 years old. You make it seem like their only interest is pushing the upgrade cycle, when it's not. You must be pretty upset that so many other software development outfits feel the same way about wasting resources on a shrinking market that is not worth their effort, they're all helping Microsoft push their upgrade cycle, after all!
It's not like most systems capable of running Windows 2000 can't run IE7 in a virtual machine anyways. It doesn't take a whole lot of power to run a simple web browser.
Some information for you to look at. The Microsoft blurb from the article states:
It should be no surprise that we do not plan on releasing IE7 for Windows 2000. One reason is where we are in the Windows 2000 lifecycle. Another is that some of the security work in IE7 relies on operating system functionality in XPSP2 that is non-trivial to port back to Windows 2000.
So it seems that the enhancements are not merely XP-specific but XPSP2-specific. You can complain all you want about them not caring enough to backport but the fact remains that as far as they're concerned doing so is non-trivial and it's not in their best interests to bother with an aging platform. You can hazard guesses all you want but that doesn't make anything so. There is a lot of software, not merely Microsoft software, which won't work on pre-SP2 systems. They don't have as much interest in pushing the newer stuff over the older stuff aside from consolidating their own development effort working around the shortcomings of old and more insecure designs.
Where in that link was there anything about wireless enhancements? Maybe you should have clicked it to actually see what his point was, which is that there are many changes in how Windows works between 2k to XP. That is kinda the territory that the thread started heading towards, you know.
I don't have any idea what you could be referencing to with the brief unexplained slowdowns (Maybe you need to be running on more than 512MB of RAM? Maybe not having crappy drivers?) but those BSODs were caused by Apple, who apologized and issued an updated iTunes specifically to address the issue. If you're going to post about something, at least take the time to Google it (Hint: The correct combination of terms is 'itunes bsod vista x64' pretty hard I know). Otherwise, you sound like you don't really care about being right.
Likewise XP x64 is nothing but grief when you have crappy drivers. This is not the OS's fault, but rather vendors. XP x64 is actually built off the 2k3 code base, and I don't see many people calling that a complete failure, because it was a very solid system as well.
Holy unsubstantiated and ridiculous claims, Batman!
Like TheThiefMaster said, the code base is pretty much the same, and if you've got any solid proof to back up your theory I'd love to hear it. And anecdotal evidence doesn't count. Vista x64 even outperforms its 32-bit counterpart in a lot of situations, if only marginally at times. Throw 64-bit compiled software into the mix that actually takes advantage of the extra capabilities (Audio/video encoding/decoding, for example) and it flies compared to 32-bit. But you don't care about any of that and probably are basing your judgments on horrid driver support for Windows XP x64. That OS Microsoft and hardware manufacturers pretend never existed.
And Microsoft, why can't I have a taskbar on each monitor? One that shows just the windows open on that monitor? Maybe I'll patent the idea and sell it to them.
Just in case you don't know about UltraMon already, it provides just what you ask for. I agree though, it really should be functionality included in the core system.
Or they could be trying to keep their apps open while they play their games that are becoming increasingly larger in footprint. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Clear Sky requires upwards of 1.6GB of memory for the game itself when you have it turned all the way up in DX10 mode. World of Warcraft routinely consumes at least half of my 2GB of memory.
April 12, 1861 - At 4:30 a.m. Confederates under Gen. Pierre Beauregard open fire with 50 cannons upon Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. The Civil War begins.
Every single other source of information I can find supports that the Confederates were the first to open fire on anyone in this civil war. Here is the link where that came from. The Confederacy attempted to lay claim to federal forts, and that is a big no-no, then and now and forever.
Congratulations on getting your tripe modded up when it ignores the fact that the Fallout 3 game setting takes place in the former capital wastes where mutants and humans from the ashes of America are vying for control. We're talking about your character who is a Vault-dweller for crying out loud. When is he supposed to have immigrated from any other place in post-apocalyptia? Take your frothing at the mouth elsewhere, where you actually have a leg to stand on.
This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. Indeed, journalism is dead. The only difference between the "mainstream media" and conservative talk radio is that the radio people are more honest, as in they admit that what they are doing is opinion, and state plainly their stances whilst the old media pretends to be "unbiased".
BTW, could it be that people are waking up to this have something to do with ALL the major newspapers losing circulation rapidly, and the Big 3 networks also continuing to lose viewers? Fox News is #1 not because they are any less biased, but because they ALONE in major media gives voice to the other side.
#1 in which way? As far as I can tell Fox News has been losing ground to the other networks with regards to ratings. Specifically ABC and CNN. In other words, [citation needed].
While I wouldn't call it slavery, I think it should be pointed out that studying English, math, etc. benefits only the student. Mandatory community service is different in that regard.
Personally, I think it's a waste of time. It will degrade the effectiveness of existing community service organizations as kids coast along "doing their time".
Doesn't educating someone theoretically benefit the community that someone will be a part of?
So you voted against a black man because you hold the unwavering belief that Obama would raise taxes just to pour it back into the black community? That's probably the most woefully ignorant racist sentiment I've ever heard. If he were half-latino, would you expect him to raise taxes merely to help other latinos? You probably don't realize that your line of thinking leads one to the conclusion that McCain would harm other groups so that he could funnel it to more of his whities?
Obama has never and will never support reparations, same as any serious political candidate, and it's disingenuous to imply that because he's black and should understand black problems and hardships that blacks are inevitably the only people he will look out for. It doesn't matter if that was your prediction before he won the nomination of his party, what matters is that you assume he wants to jilt everyone but blacks just because he's half-black, and that's intellectually dishonest.
You mean O'Reilly has the capacity to tone down his asshole nature from time to time? I, for one, am amazed. It doesn't change the fact that he's one of the most bull-headed talking heads out there.
Sorry, their free version is still the best in terms of quality. It's small, fast and has the best detection rates pretty consistently. Too many things I've seen get past any of the others that Avira catches, and I don't use anything but it anymore as a result.
AVG is nice though, I still like it. Avast! as well. Thankfully it's not a disaster for me when the Avira pop-up shows up when the daily definitions update occurs, but I can see how for some people it could be a real problem depending on what they're doing at the time.
Yeahbecauserepublicansalways getreamed by the media when they say stupid and offensive things. Why don't we stop pretending that Republicans get all the flak while Democrats get off without even a warning?
Do things slip through the cracks with regards to mainstream media reporting things? Of course, nobody is going to argue that. But to pretend one party has been issued a pass while the other is being heckled at every step is just ridiculous. Hell, it wasn't even too long ago that the media couldn't shut up about that Reverend everyone kept hearing so much of, and that supposed tape of Michelle Obama yelling about "whitey".
Back in the day more people had respect for a man showing the most raw emotions that we all feel at one point or another, and time does very little to deaden the loss of people near and dear to your heart (I cannot fathom just how great a loss a wife and daughter would be). It's a shame that Bidens heartfelt moment on stage is ridiculed by sad individuals such as yourself who thinks everyone should be stone-cold, and if they aren't they're some kind of sissy or just trying to get sympathy votes.
I'll tell you this right now, nobody is voting for the Obama/Biden ticket because of that emotional slip, if it did anything it harmed the ticket because of the emotionally-dead state most of this nation is living in. Why you insist on claiming this man is just letting out crocodile tears is bewildering, and I don't need to ask, I know what kind of heartless fuck you are. You probably think that Abraham Lincoln was a big baby, but that's OK, because it's not like anyone needs your validation anyways, prick.
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EasyBCD is free you know... 3 hours of "messing with the new BCD crap" is completely unnecessary, and adding your XP x64 boot entry would have taken a mere minute. And this "new" stuff isn't really new, unless you consider "since Vista" to be new.
But yes, I suppose it could be mildly upsetting that the bootloader didn't automatically pick up on your other Windows installations. You really made the troubleshooting hard on yourself though. :)
Is it really -that- difficult for you to check beforehand whether or not the driver version you are currently using will work properly with the kernel upgrade? You do realize that you never ever absolutely have to upgrade your kernel if everything is working hunky-dory, right? Right? You get what you deserve if you upgrade willy-nilly without taking into account such a thing.
Maybe people like having the stuff built into the OS instead of going out and collecting a bunch of third party applications to provide basic functionality. On the topic of launchy, I found it to be completely useless and no substitute for the start menu, and guess what, a lot of people feel that way too. You know, a lot of people don't even like Firefox! I'm not one of those people though, it's my favorite browser, but I digress...
And this is where we get to some real beef of your post, which proves that you have no clue what you're talking about. You admit that you haven't tried post-SP1, and I'm willing to bet your pre-SP1 experiences lasted about a day or two. That's how things seem to go with Vista bashers. The changes are not just arbitrary, though I will grant that not all of them are going to be relevant to you. When was the last time you saw a new Linux kernel release, or Ubuntu/Fedora/Debian release, where every single change was applicable to you and entirely beneficial? The answer, none. I find that the figure of 25% which you pulled out of your ass is about 24% higher than the amount of useful stuff for me when it comes to new Linux distro or kernel releases (Which is, by the way, a completely irrelevant metric to be using because I am not the center of the universe). Does that mean that Linux distros are just throwing on a bunch of fluff because it's not always stuff that is directly applicable to me and my usage scenarios? Not in the least.
The new media player was a welcome addition for the people who actually enjoy using it, and the people who have to use it from time to time. I know this might be hard for you to understand, but diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks. One of my old friends would insist on WMP because of his multimedia keys, among other things. Other friends just plain like it. You can't convert everyone to software that you personally feel is superior (I always push VLC). The TCP/IP configuration, I have no idea what the hell you are talking about because undearneath all of the new stuff, behind the new Networking Center, it's got the same goddamn configuration dialogs that have been here since 2k/XP. Boo hoo you might have to dig one level deeper to get to something. Every Average Joe desktop user I come across likes the way the Networking Center presents information instead of just having Interface 1 Interface 2 Wireless 1, stuff like that. It's more accessible and it gives more information on the surface, with the same amount of depth underneath.
Are you so dense that you can't understand that stuff like language support and an enhanced user interface are things that most users appreciate? Language support especially because uhhh hey guess what, lots of people like to use their computer in their own language/locale. Localization progress is touted by every software project including Windows because it's important. If you really think these are arbitrary user interface changes then what it really boils down to is how resistant you are to change your own computing habits, even if those changes would ultimately result in increased workflow and production. When you stop resisting these changes and start learning their advantages, the reas
None of it is DRM, did you not even bother to notice that the protected media path is not even being enabled/requested by any content yet because Hollywood hasn't decided to start the push yet? Playing the DRM card is nonsensical and completely irrelevant to the issue of Vista performance woes.
The biggest problem with Windows Vista was the changes to how things like file copy progress is indicated as compared to previous Windows releases and the complete lack of readiness on the part of hardware vendors (Which can largely be attributed to them simply being incredibly lazy, they had plenty of time to write proper drivers). Vista reached parity for XP in most if not all desktop tasks a long time ago, as well as gaming performance. Does it use more resources? Sure, there will be some additional CPU cycles being chewed up because the OS simply has more features and capabilities. Is this noticeable on recommended or better hardware? Definitely not.
Note that I specifically do not mention workloads like the ones described in this article. Environments like that are probably better left to XP unless they need to migrate, and you can (and plenty of people do) say the same thing about moving to Linux 2.6 from 2.4. Different versions have different strengths and weaknesses, but Windows 7 does seem to do a lot of fixing (primarily focusing on feeling faster, which was a big issue for Vista in the early days especially. It wasn't exactly slow, it just didn't feel as snappy. This has been, at least in my experiences, completely resolved).
P.S. -- Please stop parroting the line that there is nothing new in Vista compared to XP. The list of improvements is very long, and the list of improvements only gets longer once you look at Windows 7.
I like Schneier and respect him with regards to a lot of positions but on this particular topic I don't think I can. You say that Bruce is on Gutmann's side as if Schneier had some some sort of analysis on Gutmann's claims in order to verify their authenticity. He did not, he simply discussed the article in question and said that he agrees. Nobody has ever posted an actual analysis of the XP and Vista systems to see if indeed the DRM path is the culprit in anything. Maybe instead of attacking the DRM path for playing protected media (Which I might add is only invoked when one decides to playback DRMed content) people should focus their ire on the true culprit - Lazy programming that causes slowdowns in certain situations.
You may want to have a look at the entire section here on Wikipedia about this particular issue, which specifically mentions Guttman's article. The most important bit to note, in my opinion, is one of the responses from Paul Smith (There are many good ones):
Emphasis mine on the second half of that, and right before that bullet point is the pointing out that this stuff isn't even supposed to be turned on until 2010 or 2012.
Sounds like you've got bigger problems than the Vista audio stack if you have problems like that. Read: you have shitty drivers. My Q6600 has no issues like the one you describe, and nobody I know with single a single core, dual core or better processor has that issue. But hey, it's much easier to just blame the Vista sound subsystem than to actually deduce what the real culprit is.
It is pretty frustrating to see a Vista install balloon, it's because of the winsxs folder mostly. My Windows folder is currently at 12.9GB (Windows 7 x64 upgraded from Vista x64). 5.82GB of that is the winsxs folder alone.
Keep telling yourself that, it won't make it any less laughable. Take a look at this and then this and then finally this. Nevermind the fact that most driver developers abandoned 2k long ago, if they ever bothered to support it at all. And I'm talking about average user stuff not back-end business that really should have been migrated by now to either some sort of *nix solution or a newer Windows. For average users, 2k does not compare to any of the newer Windows systems. But I digress.
The original point was that Internet Explorer 7 uses hooks that take advantage of their more modern OSes, and to expect legacy support forever is completely unreasonable. You have diverted this so far from trying to make it seem like this (No IE7 on 2k) was an artificial limitation to simply attacking Microsoft because they aren't as in love with their old OS as you are. Go cry about your upgrade treadmill where someone actually cares, it was my sore mistake to expect any sort of discussion instead of this circular crap that ignores Microsoft is a business that, like every other business that stays in business, cuts costs when it won't bother a significant portion of their market. To quote Jacobim Mugatu "I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!" You really expect them to care about less than 2%?
It's spun in a rational way instead of your ridiculous assertions that the only or main reason IE7 isn't available on Windows 2000 is because of trivially-addressed issues that Microsoft only ignores because they want to keep people upgrading. Grow up and understand that it's wholly unreasonable to expect Microsoft to bother coddling your dying OS. It's not in their interests and ultimately it's not in their customers interests. The platform is less secure, it's less capable and it's almost 9 years old. You make it seem like their only interest is pushing the upgrade cycle, when it's not. You must be pretty upset that so many other software development outfits feel the same way about wasting resources on a shrinking market that is not worth their effort, they're all helping Microsoft push their upgrade cycle, after all!
It's not like most systems capable of running Windows 2000 can't run IE7 in a virtual machine anyways. It doesn't take a whole lot of power to run a simple web browser.
Some information for you to look at. The Microsoft blurb from the article states:
So it seems that the enhancements are not merely XP-specific but XPSP2-specific. You can complain all you want about them not caring enough to backport but the fact remains that as far as they're concerned doing so is non-trivial and it's not in their best interests to bother with an aging platform. You can hazard guesses all you want but that doesn't make anything so. There is a lot of software, not merely Microsoft software, which won't work on pre-SP2 systems. They don't have as much interest in pushing the newer stuff over the older stuff aside from consolidating their own development effort working around the shortcomings of old and more insecure designs.
Where in that link was there anything about wireless enhancements? Maybe you should have clicked it to actually see what his point was, which is that there are many changes in how Windows works between 2k to XP. That is kinda the territory that the thread started heading towards, you know.
I don't have any idea what you could be referencing to with the brief unexplained slowdowns (Maybe you need to be running on more than 512MB of RAM? Maybe not having crappy drivers?) but those BSODs were caused by Apple, who apologized and issued an updated iTunes specifically to address the issue. If you're going to post about something, at least take the time to Google it (Hint: The correct combination of terms is 'itunes bsod vista x64' pretty hard I know). Otherwise, you sound like you don't really care about being right.
Likewise XP x64 is nothing but grief when you have crappy drivers. This is not the OS's fault, but rather vendors. XP x64 is actually built off the 2k3 code base, and I don't see many people calling that a complete failure, because it was a very solid system as well.
Holy unsubstantiated and ridiculous claims, Batman!
Like TheThiefMaster said, the code base is pretty much the same, and if you've got any solid proof to back up your theory I'd love to hear it. And anecdotal evidence doesn't count. Vista x64 even outperforms its 32-bit counterpart in a lot of situations, if only marginally at times. Throw 64-bit compiled software into the mix that actually takes advantage of the extra capabilities (Audio/video encoding/decoding, for example) and it flies compared to 32-bit. But you don't care about any of that and probably are basing your judgments on horrid driver support for Windows XP x64. That OS Microsoft and hardware manufacturers pretend never existed.
And Microsoft, why can't I have a taskbar on each monitor? One that shows just the windows open on that monitor? Maybe I'll patent the idea and sell it to them.
Just in case you don't know about UltraMon already, it provides just what you ask for. I agree though, it really should be functionality included in the core system.
Or they could be trying to keep their apps open while they play their games that are becoming increasingly larger in footprint. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Clear Sky requires upwards of 1.6GB of memory for the game itself when you have it turned all the way up in DX10 mode. World of Warcraft routinely consumes at least half of my 2GB of memory.
April 12, 1861 - At 4:30 a.m. Confederates under Gen. Pierre Beauregard open fire with 50 cannons upon Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina. The Civil War begins.
Every single other source of information I can find supports that the Confederates were the first to open fire on anyone in this civil war. Here is the link where that came from. The Confederacy attempted to lay claim to federal forts, and that is a big no-no, then and now and forever.
Congratulations on getting your tripe modded up when it ignores the fact that the Fallout 3 game setting takes place in the former capital wastes where mutants and humans from the ashes of America are vying for control. We're talking about your character who is a Vault-dweller for crying out loud. When is he supposed to have immigrated from any other place in post-apocalyptia? Take your frothing at the mouth elsewhere, where you actually have a leg to stand on.
This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. Indeed, journalism is dead. The only difference between the "mainstream media" and conservative talk radio is that the radio people are more honest, as in they admit that what they are doing is opinion, and state plainly their stances whilst the old media pretends to be "unbiased".
BTW, could it be that people are waking up to this have something to do with ALL the major newspapers losing circulation rapidly, and the Big 3 networks also continuing to lose viewers? Fox News is #1 not because they are any less biased, but because they ALONE in major media gives voice to the other side.
#1 in which way? As far as I can tell Fox News has been losing ground to the other networks with regards to ratings. Specifically ABC and CNN. In other words, [citation needed].
While I wouldn't call it slavery, I think it should be pointed out that studying English, math, etc. benefits only the student. Mandatory community service is different in that regard.
Personally, I think it's a waste of time. It will degrade the effectiveness of existing community service organizations as kids coast along "doing their time".
Doesn't educating someone theoretically benefit the community that someone will be a part of?
So you voted against a black man because you hold the unwavering belief that Obama would raise taxes just to pour it back into the black community? That's probably the most woefully ignorant racist sentiment I've ever heard. If he were half-latino, would you expect him to raise taxes merely to help other latinos? You probably don't realize that your line of thinking leads one to the conclusion that McCain would harm other groups so that he could funnel it to more of his whities?
Obama has never and will never support reparations, same as any serious political candidate, and it's disingenuous to imply that because he's black and should understand black problems and hardships that blacks are inevitably the only people he will look out for. It doesn't matter if that was your prediction before he won the nomination of his party, what matters is that you assume he wants to jilt everyone but blacks just because he's half-black, and that's intellectually dishonest.
You mean O'Reilly has the capacity to tone down his asshole nature from time to time? I, for one, am amazed. It doesn't change the fact that he's one of the most bull-headed talking heads out there.
Sorry, their free version is still the best in terms of quality. It's small, fast and has the best detection rates pretty consistently. Too many things I've seen get past any of the others that Avira catches, and I don't use anything but it anymore as a result.
AVG is nice though, I still like it. Avast! as well. Thankfully it's not a disaster for me when the Avira pop-up shows up when the daily definitions update occurs, but I can see how for some people it could be a real problem depending on what they're doing at the time.
Yeah because republicans always get reamed by the media when they say stupid and offensive things. Why don't we stop pretending that Republicans get all the flak while Democrats get off without even a warning?
Do things slip through the cracks with regards to mainstream media reporting things? Of course, nobody is going to argue that. But to pretend one party has been issued a pass while the other is being heckled at every step is just ridiculous. Hell, it wasn't even too long ago that the media couldn't shut up about that Reverend everyone kept hearing so much of, and that supposed tape of Michelle Obama yelling about "whitey".
Back in the day more people had respect for a man showing the most raw emotions that we all feel at one point or another, and time does very little to deaden the loss of people near and dear to your heart (I cannot fathom just how great a loss a wife and daughter would be). It's a shame that Bidens heartfelt moment on stage is ridiculed by sad individuals such as yourself who thinks everyone should be stone-cold, and if they aren't they're some kind of sissy or just trying to get sympathy votes.
I'll tell you this right now, nobody is voting for the Obama/Biden ticket because of that emotional slip, if it did anything it harmed the ticket because of the emotionally-dead state most of this nation is living in. Why you insist on claiming this man is just letting out crocodile tears is bewildering, and I don't need to ask, I know what kind of heartless fuck you are. You probably think that Abraham Lincoln was a big baby, but that's OK, because it's not like anyone needs your validation anyways, prick.