Didn't the guy who figured out this technology, win invention of the year either last year or year before?
They had talked about using it in grocery stores, so that as you looked at items it would tell you what the specials were on just the products in front of you.
I can't remember where i read that. I may have dreamed it. Can somebody confirm that i'm not totally crazy?
Lighten up. It is a word, i'm sure it was used correctly. But that does change the fact that to Americans, where it's generally just "math" it reads like a LOLCATZ picture.
It's a "fad" so long as a minority group of people can act smug and self-righteous about not going with the flow:)
woo hoo, so Windows is a just a fad! can't wait til that one blows over. Then in 2020, we can all look back, and laugh and say "remember when using Windows was all cool, and all those sheeple ran around using it like it was the greatest thing ever?"
I've seen this happen before too. Opened up a case to install a new hd for a buddy of mine, and the entire bottom of the case, the top of the cd rom drive, the hard drives, floppy drives, pretty much everything was covered in mouse turds and big yellow/black urine stains. How the computer was still running was beyond me. I set the jumper on it and just explained how to hook it up. He hooked it up himself and didn't even bother cleaning up the mess (or to put out mouse traps for that matter) Computer ran just fine for several years after that. How the motherboard withstood it is beyond me.
I've been using the Western Digital Drives exclusively for I dunno, maybe 6 or 7 years now. Usually the WD800JB, more recently the WD1200JB. Have yet to have any of them go out on me, and that's with about 18 purchased in that time period for a couple computers at home and various computers at my current and previous places of employment. Even picked up a few to replace bad hds in computers I've worked on for other people. No complaints, and everyone I installed one for was amazed by how much faster their computer was (though the fresh windows install helped a little there). I stopped using Maxtor when my friend went through 3 of them in a little over a year, and then my 4GB Maxtor died. But I guess YMMV.
That's just a real quick browse on ZZF, I didn't really look into the parts, but i've always been a big fan of ASUS. Any body see anything i should change? or any major screw ups on my part?
I've done some research on this. From what i could find, it only really seemed to help windows if the partition was on a different hard drive. It also recommended formating it as FAT, because there is more overhead reading an ntfs partition. Anybody have a reason this is/isn't true? I only use windows at work, so it's not something I've gotten to tinker with.
"it's been six months or so since I've tried Linux, but I've been trying it every six months to a year since 2000, each time someone has told me it had improved enough to not give me troubles - no go so far). I've tried MacOS, same result, except it isn't free."
I can understand having problems with Linux, but Mac's? Come on. Of all the problems I have with Apple, having a difficult to use operating system isn't among them.
"but overally, many people have not had many problems with Windows."
You didn't say "most" so I really can't argue this point, because it all depends on your definition of the word "many". If you think 10 people who don't connect their computer to the internet, or rarely bother to turn it on, is "many" then i guess, yeah, this is true.
"You see, the OP suggested that a user was fooled before Vista."
Oh, lets just run down the list:
Windows 98 SE, a patched OS sold as an operating system.
Windows ME, Windows 98SE with a new skin and more bugs.
Windows NT, Windows 98 with better networking abilities. I once heard it described as "trying to make a car fly by gluing wings on it" I couldn't agree more.
Windows XP - While easily the best OS they've released so far, that's not really saying much. That's like being the smartest kid on the short bus. I've ranted enough about how much I hate XP. But here's a quick run down: From a security stand point it was Swiss Cheese when it was released. The activation process is a PITA and really only hurt people who bought XP (much like WGA), seeing as it available online without it almost as soon as it was released.
And now Vista.
That doesn't include their other software. Like Media Player, IE, Outlook, Office (which is such great software, that their own email and msgr services wont allow you to send any doc created with it through them)
But yeah, Microsoft makes great OS's.
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me a bunch, shame I'm too big a douche to learn Linux"
Seems like I always remember hearing Doom referred to as 2.5D. Because while objects width and depth, they all had infinite height. Nothing could ever be placed over something, and you didn't have to aim up and down.
And in other news Jack Thompson has filed suit against Microsoft Game Studios, creator of Forza Motorsport, and Eurasia Investments, the production company behind Cannonball Run. Mr. Thompson was quoted as saying "These driving games can not be allowed to reach our children. And movies about breaking the law and driving fast are endangering the lives of our loved ones. We can not let this continue. Ole Roy can claim he was inspired by Rendez-vous, but we all know no one ever learns anything from those frogs, except maybe how to surrender."
French Prime Minister François Fillon is quoted as saying "Mr. Thompson also says you can train to shoot from the game "Doom". You don't even aim up and down. Vous n'avez pas viser haut et le bas!"
Disabling Automatic Updates is not foolish. Not installing updates at all is. And that's only slightly more foolish than blindly letting Microsoft handle your updates.
Personally, I set any computer I have to work on regularly to prompt me for updates. Windows or Linux. And I never set a computer to reboot without asking me first. Thats right up there with the foolish things i mentioned earlier. And that "let it do it at 3 am when i'm not in front of it" argument is silly and it will eventually come back to haunt you. What if your working on an important project of some kind and your [significant other/offspring/parental unit] [goes into labor/wrecks his/her car/has a stroke]. Is saving what your doing and getting your computer ready for that 3am reboot at the top of your list of things to do? Or are you just hauling ass to the hospital?
That's exactly what i was thinking as i scrolled through these comments. Think maybe Microsoft managed to get a company to write some kind of bot to take old/. posts about linux, switch the words windows and linux around and repost them in any windows related threads?:)
Yeah, I LUV windows too. Because it breaks. A lot. And people give me good money to fix it. So I say Microsoft's monopoly is just job security. But I'll still use linux at home.
I think a lot of it has to do with going public. Instead of worrying about making a good product and turning a profit, they have to worry about INCREASING profit. It can never be good enough. They have to constantly make more and more money to keep the stockholders happy. Eventually, they have to screw the customer for the sake of the stockholder.
I'm still not sold on IIS. The last time i used it, I was tinkering with some ASP scripting and the system was online for about 3 minutes on a dial up connection. It still managed to be hacked and they edited the file i had open. So I gave up on that and went back to LAMP for anything that would be exposed to the internet.
I think the worst case of this that I've seen was at radio shack.
"Oh, so you need it for email and word processing. Then you should get this one with the (fastest pentium on the market at the time) and we'll double the ram for ya, cuz you'll need that to surf the internet. And you said you had DSL? You'll need this $120 Linksys router ($50 at walmart) and this wireless pci card for $100 ($50 at walmart)"
That's one of the things i liked about Black. They stripped out all the puzzle solving, ladder climbing, jumping, button pushing, crap and left it as a true and pure FPS just as god intended. You wanna go through a door, break out the shotgun and shoot that sucker down. I loved that. Tho as a general rule I'm not a big FPS fan.
/. as a homepage? your a brave man. I tried it once. But every time i hopped online "real quick" to check the price of rice in china or whatever, i ended up spending 2 hours on/. and never looking up whatever the hell i got on for. So google is my homepage, and i have no shortcuts to slashdot anywhere.
Why couldn't you boot from this? i seem to recall watching a video of windows xp booting off a PCI card that held 4 1gb sticks of ram and a battery for data retention when the unit was off. Booted in just under 4 seconds i believe.
As a pro feminist, I was in favor of the law. We really need to get rid of pornography. It is degrading to women and it severely cripples the feminist movement. Pornography is not an art form. It does not deserve protection. It is indecent and vile. It is time to "clean up the tubes." I am a shareholder of Time Warner. I have submitted a proposal for voting at the next shareholder meeting for Time Warner to only allow access to whitelisted sites by default and eventually become mandatory.
Wow, you want to ban something you don't like. That's a rather self-centered way to view the world. I admit that part of the porn industry (like any other industry, only more so) is corrupt and vile. But not all of it. Some people ENJOY being watched while performing coitus. And some people enjoy WATCHING. Porn can be a perfectly healthy part of a relationship. It can make things more exciting and it can help rekindle a dying love life. This ban on pornography, while making you feel like you've done some good, could easily hurt other people. When you don't like something, stay away from it and keep your kids away from it. Turn off the tv, disconnect from the internet, whatever makes you feel safe. Don't, however, go on a moral crusade and try to force your beliefs on everyone else. Not everyone agrees with you.
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Bush has the comic shop guys keep track of that kinda stuff. Just the other day, i walked in and the guy behind the counter said "Back again, eh?"
Now if that isn't proof i don't know what is!
Didn't the guy who figured out this technology, win invention of the year either last year or year before?
They had talked about using it in grocery stores, so that as you looked at items it would tell you what the specials were on just the products in front of you.
I can't remember where i read that. I may have dreamed it. Can somebody confirm that i'm not totally crazy?
Lighten up. It is a word, i'm sure it was used correctly. But that does change the fact that to Americans, where it's generally just "math" it reads like a LOLCATZ picture.
"I'M DOIN UR MATHS!"
Well, you've convinced me. I'll be in church on Sunday.
woo hoo, so Windows is a just a fad! can't wait til that one blows over. Then in 2020, we can all look back, and laugh and say "remember when using Windows was all cool, and all those sheeple ran around using it like it was the greatest thing ever?"
I've seen this happen before too. Opened up a case to install a new hd for a buddy of mine, and the entire bottom of the case, the top of the cd rom drive, the hard drives, floppy drives, pretty much everything was covered in mouse turds and big yellow/black urine stains. How the computer was still running was beyond me. I set the jumper on it and just explained how to hook it up. He hooked it up himself and didn't even bother cleaning up the mess (or to put out mouse traps for that matter) Computer ran just fine for several years after that. How the motherboard withstood it is beyond me.
I've been using the Western Digital Drives exclusively for I dunno, maybe 6 or 7 years now. Usually the WD800JB, more recently the WD1200JB. Have yet to have any of them go out on me, and that's with about 18 purchased in that time period for a couple computers at home and various computers at my current and previous places of employment. Even picked up a few to replace bad hds in computers I've worked on for other people. No complaints, and everyone I installed one for was amazed by how much faster their computer was (though the fresh windows install helped a little there). I stopped using Maxtor when my friend went through 3 of them in a little over a year, and then my 4GB Maxtor died. But I guess YMMV.
This mobo has everything integrated (sound, video, sata/raid and dual gb nics) for about $64.
looks like a low end proc for it would run about $50, zzf has 2 gig Corsair ram kits on sale for $35 after rebate.
Then case and power supply would run about $120 (for a good ps and a cheapo case)
then a couple of these WD 500gb sata drives for $166.
That's $435 + shipping.
did i forget anything?
That's just a real quick browse on ZZF, I didn't really look into the parts, but i've always been a big fan of ASUS. Any body see anything i should change? or any major screw ups on my part?
Windows ME is like Highlander 2, they just pretend it never happened.
I've done some research on this. From what i could find, it only really seemed to help windows if the partition was on a different hard drive. It also recommended formating it as FAT, because there is more overhead reading an ntfs partition. Anybody have a reason this is/isn't true? I only use windows at work, so it's not something I've gotten to tinker with.
"it's been six months or so since I've tried Linux, but I've been trying it every six months to a year since 2000, each time someone has told me it had improved enough to not give me troubles - no go so far). I've tried MacOS, same result, except it isn't free."
I can understand having problems with Linux, but Mac's? Come on. Of all the problems I have with Apple, having a difficult to use operating system isn't among them.
"but overally, many people have not had many problems with Windows."
You didn't say "most" so I really can't argue this point, because it all depends on your definition of the word "many". If you think 10 people who don't connect their computer to the internet, or rarely bother to turn it on, is "many" then i guess, yeah, this is true.
"You see, the OP suggested that a user was fooled before Vista."
Oh, lets just run down the list:
Windows 98 SE, a patched OS sold as an operating system.
Windows ME, Windows 98SE with a new skin and more bugs.
Windows NT, Windows 98 with better networking abilities. I once heard it described as "trying to make a car fly by gluing wings on it" I couldn't agree more.
Windows XP - While easily the best OS they've released so far, that's not really saying much. That's like being the smartest kid on the short bus. I've ranted enough about how much I hate XP. But here's a quick run down: From a security stand point it was Swiss Cheese when it was released. The activation process is a PITA and really only hurt people who bought XP (much like WGA), seeing as it available online without it almost as soon as it was released.
And now Vista.
That doesn't include their other software. Like Media Player, IE, Outlook, Office (which is such great software, that their own email and msgr services wont allow you to send any doc created with it through them)
But yeah, Microsoft makes great OS's.
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me a bunch, shame I'm too big a douche to learn Linux"
Seems like I always remember hearing Doom referred to as 2.5D. Because while objects width and depth, they all had infinite height. Nothing could ever be placed over something, and you didn't have to aim up and down.
And in other news Jack Thompson has filed suit against Microsoft Game Studios, creator of Forza Motorsport, and Eurasia Investments, the production company behind Cannonball Run. Mr. Thompson was quoted as saying "These driving games can not be allowed to reach our children. And movies about breaking the law and driving fast are endangering the lives of our loved ones. We can not let this continue. Ole Roy can claim he was inspired by Rendez-vous, but we all know no one ever learns anything from those frogs, except maybe how to surrender."
French Prime Minister François Fillon is quoted as saying "Mr. Thompson also says you can train to shoot from the game "Doom". You don't even aim up and down. Vous n'avez pas viser haut et le bas!"
Disabling Automatic Updates is not foolish. Not installing updates at all is. And that's only slightly more foolish than blindly letting Microsoft handle your updates.
Personally, I set any computer I have to work on regularly to prompt me for updates. Windows or Linux. And I never set a computer to reboot without asking me first. Thats right up there with the foolish things i mentioned earlier. And that "let it do it at 3 am when i'm not in front of it" argument is silly and it will eventually come back to haunt you. What if your working on an important project of some kind and your [significant other/offspring/parental unit] [goes into labor/wrecks his/her car/has a stroke]. Is saving what your doing and getting your computer ready for that 3am reboot at the top of your list of things to do? Or are you just hauling ass to the hospital?
That's exactly what i was thinking as i scrolled through these comments. Think maybe Microsoft managed to get a company to write some kind of bot to take old /. posts about linux, switch the words windows and linux around and repost them in any windows related threads? :)
Yeah, I LUV windows too. Because it breaks. A lot. And people give me good money to fix it. So I say Microsoft's monopoly is just job security. But I'll still use linux at home.
I think a lot of it has to do with going public. Instead of worrying about making a good product and turning a profit, they have to worry about INCREASING profit. It can never be good enough. They have to constantly make more and more money to keep the stockholders happy. Eventually, they have to screw the customer for the sake of the stockholder.
I'm still not sold on IIS. The last time i used it, I was tinkering with some ASP scripting and the system was online for about 3 minutes on a dial up connection. It still managed to be hacked and they edited the file i had open. So I gave up on that and went back to LAMP for anything that would be exposed to the internet.
I think the worst case of this that I've seen was at radio shack.
"Oh, so you need it for email and word processing. Then you should get this one with the (fastest pentium on the market at the time) and we'll double the ram for ya, cuz you'll need that to surf the internet. And you said you had DSL? You'll need this $120 Linksys router ($50 at walmart) and this wireless pci card for $100 ($50 at walmart)"
That's one of the things i liked about Black. They stripped out all the puzzle solving, ladder climbing, jumping, button pushing, crap and left it as a true and pure FPS just as god intended. You wanna go through a door, break out the shotgun and shoot that sucker down. I loved that. Tho as a general rule I'm not a big FPS fan.
/. as a homepage? your a brave man. I tried it once. But every time i hopped online "real quick" to check the price of rice in china or whatever, i ended up spending 2 hours on /. and never looking up whatever the hell i got on for. So google is my homepage, and i have no shortcuts to slashdot anywhere.
but, alas, here i am...
Why couldn't you boot from this? i seem to recall watching a video of windows xp booting off a PCI card that held 4 1gb sticks of ram and a battery for data retention when the unit was off. Booted in just under 4 seconds i believe.
Yes yes! for god's sake, think of the boot time!
Wow, you want to ban something you don't like. That's a rather self-centered way to view the world. I admit that part of the porn industry (like any other industry, only more so) is corrupt and vile. But not all of it. Some people ENJOY being watched while performing coitus. And some people enjoy WATCHING. Porn can be a perfectly healthy part of a relationship. It can make things more exciting and it can help rekindle a dying love life. This ban on pornography, while making you feel like you've done some good, could easily hurt other people. When you don't like something, stay away from it and keep your kids away from it. Turn off the tv, disconnect from the internet, whatever makes you feel safe. Don't, however, go on a moral crusade and try to force your beliefs on everyone else. Not everyone agrees with you.
That ones easy. WinME. Easily the worst thing pushed out of redmond since Bob.
Well, lets just list all our favorite trackers so the MAFIAA can shut them down too! :)
Actually, I would believe this is hardware failure before them being shutdown. Demonoid is always goin down for something.