No! No, that's not irony either. Irony is when something is the opposite of expected. Not the same as something else. That's just a coincidence. And it would be funny.
Well, I wouldn't say the whole universe collapsed. There are still all those books. I have no faith in Lucas' ability to make a decent movie anymore, however. It's amazing that I, formerly a Star Wars superfreak, no longer cares about the movies. And really don't read the books or basically do anything besides play the video games.
Lucas has destroyed one of the core elements of my being.
These are two different programs. there's Messenger (Or Windows Messenger) and MSN Messenger. Messenger shows the terrible popup windows. MSN Messenger is a chat program.
A fun way to disable MSN Messenger easily and safely is to rename the folder that it's in! Hah! Works wonders.
I never have issues, honestly. I peak at over 900MB memory usage, with only 256MB of real RAM! It only crashes in direct relation to one piece of crappy hardware, which I have since removed.
Also, I care about the color of your socks more than I care about where the code came from. It works. I use it. Hooray.
And so what if he's talking about it on a home use basis? That's what I'm saying too. NOBODY is arguing that it's the best for servers, it's not and we all know it. But we're not running servers, as you said. So why should we care?
I think XP is faster than 98 on this machine. Why do I think so? Because I have both. I've used both. XP is simply faster, right off startup. Granted, I fine tuned it for maximum performance. But the difference is almost significant. This is on a AMD 2100+ with 256 DDR400, by the way. In case that somehow matters to you. (I now have triple that RAM, but only got it a few days ago and haven't booted to 98 since. I have a feeling that now any speed difference will just be completely impossible to notice.) I've had this machine since February, and it has crashed under only three circumstances.
First, I have this Pinnacle TV card that I want to smash into millions of itty bitty bits, but I refrain. Whenever I use it, the system locks up a few seconds later. In three out of several hundred attempts, though, it did work. This is hardware, though, and it's almost certainly more Pinnacle's fault than MS's.
Second, I had this nasty virus once. Had to reformat. That happens.
Third, I had some issues installing that new 512MB of RAM I mentioned above.
None of these really seem like serious instabilities to me. Note that I'm not really all that kind to this machine in general, my memory usage (including virtual) peaks at over 900MB, and these are still the ONLY instances I have of crashes. That looks pretty good to me.
And I haven't had to update this in a month, and that took less than two minuts from clicking 'okay' to finishing the reboot. Note that you don't have to reboot right then, either, you can just wait until it's convenient. Also, you might want to look up something on what actually happened with that Blaster virus. Wasn't really a problem at all.
I didn't assemble this machine myself, I got it from Cyberpower, short a few parts I didn't need or already had lying around from old systems (CD drive, an extra HD). It's NOT top of the line, I know, but some cheap upgrades I'm working on now are helping out. Now, I spent $532 on this. $433 before shipping.. For everything but the monitor and the CD drive. I have no DVD burner, this I regret...But, you know what, I have the bill here. I'll copy this over. Some of it is crazy. I know. I so reccomend Cyberpower...
This is exactly what the bill says. And it's what I have, and it's what I paid.
$0 Leadtek K7NCR18D NForce2 MB $0 EVGA GeForce4 MX440 64MB $351 AMD XP-2100+ $0 256MB DDR $10 Maxtor 60GB HD $0 CPU fan $0 Case fan (x2) $35 SBLive! 5.1 $0 3.5 Floppy $0 Black ATX Medium Case $0 PS2 Mouse (silver) $0 PS2 Keyboard (silver) $9 Fan LED's (Heh. Heheh.) $9 Mechwarrior 4 (Hey. I like it.) $0 1-Year Onsite Service
That totals at $433. This was in February of this year. Oh yes.
Well, it also makes it untrue. I bet there's somebody somewhere who built a faster machine and runs Windows on it, at least some of the time. (I think I know one such person, actually...) So, that would be a machine on the Windows side that it can't beat.
Nyah!
I think buying one of this is absolutely bleeping insane. I can get four or five machines powerful to at least run any game on the market without a hitch for less than this monstrosity costs. I realize that for a lot of you gaming isn't something you'd even spend time on, but Apple is ridiculously expensive. I just don't understand why you would waste the money.
Plus, the last sentence of that summary is a bit asinine. Comparing hardware to software, eh? Interesting.
Some teachers at my school DID used to do just that.
Then they got sued.
It just doesn't work that way. It's a rare professor who wants to waste their students' cash on books, but it's generally their only real option.
Well, I know they (they being PJ, crew, and even cast) really do understand the characters and the changes they go through. I'm sure they'll write in scenes or dramatize existing ones to make sure people get the impression.
I know they don't skimp on portrayals of the great responsibility taken on my Merry and Pippin in RotK, that much is clear from the various previews. Of course, things from the very end are still very much shrouded in mystery, so how they'll show the effect on Frodo is hard to say, but from a saga that's over 10 hours long, I'm sure we'll have a significant amount of time after the destruction of the ring--just not a whole new subplot--and there really are plenty of opportunities for that, I think.
I'd like to see the lasting effects of his two wounds mentioned, though...
Oh, yeah. That scene would be good to see. If I remember, though it was just talked about, and not explicitly described...though it's been a while and I don't have my books here (Gak!). It would be nice to have it shown as a conflict between Aragorn and Sauron as much as possible, since that's how I see it myself. Heh.
Yeah, all the changes have been rather...too bad. But I can accept all of them, as much as it bothers me to see Faramir being...not so nice. In a movie, you really have to keep the action moving, and make the climax at the END, which means that the removal of Bombadil, and even the Scouring, are necessary. And I can understand why Faramir was changed, too. In the movie, it's far more difficult to show the ring as an evil thing. You can't just use subtleties, you have to come out and say it. And if Faramir had been all nice about it, the idea wouldn't have come across at all.
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No! No, that's not irony either. Irony is when something is the opposite of expected. Not the same as something else. That's just a coincidence. And it would be funny.
Well, I wouldn't say the whole universe collapsed. There are still all those books. I have no faith in Lucas' ability to make a decent movie anymore, however. It's amazing that I, formerly a Star Wars superfreak, no longer cares about the movies. And really don't read the books or basically do anything besides play the video games. Lucas has destroyed one of the core elements of my being.
These are two different programs. there's Messenger (Or Windows Messenger) and MSN Messenger. Messenger shows the terrible popup windows. MSN Messenger is a chat program. A fun way to disable MSN Messenger easily and safely is to rename the folder that it's in! Hah! Works wonders.
I never have issues, honestly. I peak at over 900MB memory usage, with only 256MB of real RAM! It only crashes in direct relation to one piece of crappy hardware, which I have since removed.
Also, I care about the color of your socks more than I care about where the code came from. It works. I use it. Hooray.
And so what if he's talking about it on a home use basis? That's what I'm saying too. NOBODY is arguing that it's the best for servers, it's not and we all know it. But we're not running servers, as you said. So why should we care?
I think XP is faster than 98 on this machine. Why do I think so? Because I have both. I've used both. XP is simply faster, right off startup. Granted, I fine tuned it for maximum performance. But the difference is almost significant. This is on a AMD 2100+ with 256 DDR400, by the way. In case that somehow matters to you. (I now have triple that RAM, but only got it a few days ago and haven't booted to 98 since. I have a feeling that now any speed difference will just be completely impossible to notice.) I've had this machine since February, and it has crashed under only three circumstances.
First, I have this Pinnacle TV card that I want to smash into millions of itty bitty bits, but I refrain. Whenever I use it, the system locks up a few seconds later. In three out of several hundred attempts, though, it did work. This is hardware, though, and it's almost certainly more Pinnacle's fault than MS's.
Second, I had this nasty virus once. Had to reformat. That happens.
Third, I had some issues installing that new 512MB of RAM I mentioned above.
None of these really seem like serious instabilities to me. Note that I'm not really all that kind to this machine in general, my memory usage (including virtual) peaks at over 900MB, and these are still the ONLY instances I have of crashes. That looks pretty good to me.
And I haven't had to update this in a month, and that took less than two minuts from clicking 'okay' to finishing the reboot. Note that you don't have to reboot right then, either, you can just wait until it's convenient. Also, you might want to look up something on what actually happened with that Blaster virus. Wasn't really a problem at all.
I was going to say the same thing.
I didn't assemble this machine myself, I got it from Cyberpower, short a few parts I didn't need or already had lying around from old systems (CD drive, an extra HD). It's NOT top of the line, I know, but some cheap upgrades I'm working on now are helping out. Now, I spent $532 on this. $433 before shipping.. For everything but the monitor and the CD drive. I have no DVD burner, this I regret...But, you know what, I have the bill here. I'll copy this over. Some of it is crazy. I know. I so reccomend Cyberpower...
This is exactly what the bill says. And it's what I have, and it's what I paid.
$0 Leadtek K7NCR18D NForce2 MB
$0 EVGA GeForce4 MX440 64MB
$351 AMD XP-2100+
$0 256MB DDR
$10 Maxtor 60GB HD
$0 CPU fan
$0 Case fan (x2)
$35 SBLive! 5.1
$0 3.5 Floppy
$0 Black ATX Medium Case
$0 PS2 Mouse (silver)
$0 PS2 Keyboard (silver)
$9 Fan LED's (Heh. Heheh.)
$9 Mechwarrior 4 (Hey. I like it.)
$0 1-Year Onsite Service
That totals at $433. This was in February of this year. Oh yes.
Well, it also makes it untrue. I bet there's somebody somewhere who built a faster machine and runs Windows on it, at least some of the time. (I think I know one such person, actually...) So, that would be a machine on the Windows side that it can't beat. Nyah!
I think buying one of this is absolutely bleeping insane. I can get four or five machines powerful to at least run any game on the market without a hitch for less than this monstrosity costs. I realize that for a lot of you gaming isn't something you'd even spend time on, but Apple is ridiculously expensive. I just don't understand why you would waste the money. Plus, the last sentence of that summary is a bit asinine. Comparing hardware to software, eh? Interesting.
Some teachers at my school DID used to do just that. Then they got sued. It just doesn't work that way. It's a rare professor who wants to waste their students' cash on books, but it's generally their only real option.
Well, I know they (they being PJ, crew, and even cast) really do understand the characters and the changes they go through. I'm sure they'll write in scenes or dramatize existing ones to make sure people get the impression. I know they don't skimp on portrayals of the great responsibility taken on my Merry and Pippin in RotK, that much is clear from the various previews. Of course, things from the very end are still very much shrouded in mystery, so how they'll show the effect on Frodo is hard to say, but from a saga that's over 10 hours long, I'm sure we'll have a significant amount of time after the destruction of the ring--just not a whole new subplot--and there really are plenty of opportunities for that, I think. I'd like to see the lasting effects of his two wounds mentioned, though...
Oh, yeah. That scene would be good to see. If I remember, though it was just talked about, and not explicitly described...though it's been a while and I don't have my books here (Gak!). It would be nice to have it shown as a conflict between Aragorn and Sauron as much as possible, since that's how I see it myself. Heh.
Yeah, all the changes have been rather...too bad. But I can accept all of them, as much as it bothers me to see Faramir being...not so nice. In a movie, you really have to keep the action moving, and make the climax at the END, which means that the removal of Bombadil, and even the Scouring, are necessary. And I can understand why Faramir was changed, too. In the movie, it's far more difficult to show the ring as an evil thing. You can't just use subtleties, you have to come out and say it. And if Faramir had been all nice about it, the idea wouldn't have come across at all.
Ah, still. It makes me sad.