I'm enjoying windows 7 a lot. I replaced XP with windows 7 on my old pc. (AMD 3500+ overclocked) and its running as fast, if not faster than xp was. I'm really happy with windows 7 on that machine considering how old it is.
On my quadcore extreme system... windows 7 is also screaming fast. Its very nice. Microsoft should get the propper praise for their hard work this time around.
Windows 7 may be an evolution of vista... but it sure as hell is not vista.
The simple answer would be... profit. More people profit from the wars, than Nasa.
Since we're always at a constant state of war in this stupid country of ours.... we have to build, and replace bombs, hardware, gear, vehicles, boats, etc...
Nasa does things releated to "what may be one day" where as the military is about "lets kill shit today and make a lot of money doing it"
Military Industrial Complex.
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Yes its always cheaper to do YOUR JOB, elsewhere... typically in China.
Is that our goal in life? To eliminate our well being? OUR jobs... for the sake of cheaper labor?
Yes, but those parts are built in various states due to it being American tax dollars and a government program.
IF they outsource most, if not all of the space program.... It will be done in china by either the chinese government, or private industry (multinational corporations) spondered by the chinese government.
Denver... as you've mentioned... wont even be a thought of any private company.
Guess who has cheap labor and a space program?
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China.
Lets outsource everything to china... that way the middle class can finally go completely broke... and the wealthy can take their joy rides into orbit.
I have heard that Creative purchased their drivers from a third party. I'm not sure that its completely true or any different than what Creative has done in the past. I'm pretty sure for a long time, Creative's products were all pretty much made and engineered overseas by tech companies they hired. I dont think Creative did any real driver producing ever... short of maybe the original SB for dos.
Your right, but i'm just using the line in so that 2 pc's audio come through the same speaker set.
I work in film and know plenty of audio guys. My best friend has a recording studio. I'm a visual fx artist, and photographer. I know gear pretty well... I was simply piping one PC's audio into another which had speakers attached.
Like I said, I work mostly in visual arts... so i didnt need a MOTU, M-Audio etc...
Just something for basic PC sound while i work and the occasional game when i'm tired of working:)
I took a break from creative for a long time. I owned the original SB many years ago, the AWE32, SB LIVes, and Audigy 1...
After that i was done with creative for sometime. Those cards were all good and I still had some faith in creative. For a long time they were a solid go to company for sound cards.... since the old dos days.
Recent years... i guess thats not true. I knew that when i went in on the XFI titantium, but my sigmatel onboard chip SUCKED. It had terrible driver support and broken functionality due to poor drivers.
I looked into other cards besides the XFI Fatality Titantium.. but they seemed even more iffy. So i gave Creative a try again.
Over all... I like the XFI a lot. Feature wise its nice, the drivers features are nice, and it works quite well, sounds better... and everything. Its just this dumb bug they've been battling for sometime. Apparently they solved the issue on most systems but from tiem to time it pops up on mine. (ITS NOT THAT BAD trust me)... but... it should work 100% for the price.
Not really, because the Sigmatel chip built into my Intel board... had serious problems with monitoring input. It had much worse drivers than Creative X-Fi Titanium.
To be fair to creative, they did fix a lot of the latency issues on the driver that were due to pcie timings... but they still pop up on my system from time to time.
Audio in a program will sometimes degrade into a crackling audio stream until i restart the program. Sometimes i ahve to restart the entire PC.
OVERALL, the drivers have some nice features... Its that one bug that is terrible.
I am actually a lot happier with the card over the Sigmatel chip which took them over 2 years to write a driver capable of monitoring the line in jack. And when they finally released that driver... it barely functioned right. It even had a memory leak that would balloon the audio service memory usage until you killed it.
They were caught doing this before, so much that users made a big stink on their forums and they had to respond with a public statement. Apparently they havent learned their lesson.
Then again its probably the only way they can stay in business so they'll do whatever it takes to make some money.
Either way... I dont care. I dont use the software. I did install it recently while looking for an alternative to pidgin.... I now regret that greatly.
There is no way I would pay for that right wing, nut job, propaganda they call NEWS....
Its bad enough that news in general is pathetic... but Murdoch is out of his fucking mind if he thinks anyone finds his "news" outlets are worth paying for.
Then again, Fox News viewers are the same nut jobs that pay every sunday to worship a fucking fairytale. I guess "How real" the content is, doesnt matter in either situation.
Ok us, 30 year olds that grew up with computers, through the bbs years, and warez scene.... with our nes, and our c64, and first macs, and 286s pcs....
We're still a minority relatively speaking.
Give it 40 years...
Those in their teens the past 10 years will have grown up with a better understanding of sharing information due to youtube, torrenting, napster... etc
They will grow up into the leaders of tomorrow. Granted relatively few... but we will have a better chance winning this war once the "infected" are in power:)
Right now... its still the Bush's, the Clintons... and older...
They dont get it and they never will.
This is a new world view that the old will never understand.
The question is... will power and corruption alter the leaders of tomorrow in the same way that it currently does now?
Just maybe we have a chance... that one day someone who grew up as a file sharer, a youtuber, a slashdotter, an anonymous member, etc... just maybe the kids of today will retain some sort of sense of what free information and fair use means to them.
Right now, its hard to be of our generation and in power because so many still are of the old world. So much that we look bad standing up for these issues. BUT.... give it 40 years and we will see many adults around us... who understand because their idea of information will be based on what they do today as a teenager/young adult. On that day we can look around and see others who understand.
Right now its like trying to explain to grandpa how email works.
If we're (and i mean they) are going to constantly check every damn game, or form of entertainment for "diversity" then lets just remove blacks, browns, and yellows from all games.
This is just getting stupid.
WHY must everything be looked at in terms of race? This constant need to evaluate everything in life by skin color is becoming racist in itself!
Even if such research is best intentioned and aimed at making sure we all "GET IT" that judging people alone, on the color of the skin is wrong..... this constant focus on race in everything is exhausting and a self fulfilling fear/problem.
I thought the entire idea of equality was to STOP prejudging individuals by race. It would seem the opposite has taken place. We just cant stop looking at things in terms of race, even when we're trying to end racism.
This stupid nonsense has to stop.
The Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson's must be rejected from society for they are the racists among us all for they are the ones that only see race in EVERY situation... especially ones that will potentially get them on the evening news, and make them money.
The solution is to simply remove all blacks, browns and yellows from videogames until we can actually be mature enough to NOT look at everything in terms of race.
Yes... how ironic... i know. Its even stupid... and its racist... BUT if we're going to look at everything in race.... we might as well have a real reason.
"We require our suppliers to treat all workers with dignity and respect."
Yeah right. Thats why Apple employs chinese workers who fear for their lives. Chinese labor is employed because its virtually slave labor. Its cheap, easily controlled, and cut throat business practices allow them to dispose of workers at will.
Either this guy was a spy, or he made an honest mistake. Whatever the case may be, its said that he took his life.
I still find it sick that Apple can say they require their suppliers to treat workers with dignity and respect in one breathe, but in practice they really do not care because look at who they employ!
The only thing is that your gamertag can only be on one console at a time.
Everytime i bring my gamertag to a friends house, i have to go through this download process to download my gamertag to his console. When i get back home, i have to then redownload my gamertag to my console at home.
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TPB hasnt broken any law. Its users do. (some of them)
There are legal torrents on the piratebay. It just so happens that they are few and far between.
I'm enjoying windows 7 a lot. I replaced XP with windows 7 on my old pc. (AMD 3500+ overclocked) and its running as fast, if not faster than xp was. I'm really happy with windows 7 on that machine considering how old it is.
On my quadcore extreme system... windows 7 is also screaming fast. Its very nice. Microsoft should get the propper praise for their hard work this time around.
Windows 7 may be an evolution of vista... but it sure as hell is not vista.
Windows 7 is a good os.
been saying this for a while.
32-bit is dead. Let it die.
The simple answer would be... profit. More people profit from the wars, than Nasa.
Since we're always at a constant state of war in this stupid country of ours.... we have to build, and replace bombs, hardware, gear, vehicles, boats, etc...
Nasa does things releated to "what may be one day" where as the military is about "lets kill shit today and make a lot of money doing it"
Military Industrial Complex.
Yes its always cheaper to do YOUR JOB, elsewhere... typically in China.
Is that our goal in life? To eliminate our well being? OUR jobs... for the sake of cheaper labor?
Where will you work? and what for?
Yes, but those parts are built in various states due to it being American tax dollars and a government program.
IF they outsource most, if not all of the space program.... It will be done in china by either the chinese government, or private industry (multinational corporations) spondered by the chinese government.
Denver... as you've mentioned... wont even be a thought of any private company.
China.
Lets outsource everything to china... that way the middle class can finally go completely broke... and the wealthy can take their joy rides into orbit.
I have heard that Creative purchased their drivers from a third party. I'm not sure that its completely true or any different than what Creative has done in the past. I'm pretty sure for a long time, Creative's products were all pretty much made and engineered overseas by tech companies they hired. I dont think Creative did any real driver producing ever... short of maybe the original SB for dos.
Your right, but i'm just using the line in so that 2 pc's audio come through the same speaker set.
I work in film and know plenty of audio guys. My best friend has a recording studio. I'm a visual fx artist, and photographer. I know gear pretty well... I was simply piping one PC's audio into another which had speakers attached.
Like I said, I work mostly in visual arts... so i didnt need a MOTU, M-Audio etc...
Just something for basic PC sound while i work and the occasional game when i'm tired of working :)
I took a break from creative for a long time. I owned the original SB many years ago, the AWE32, SB LIVes, and Audigy 1...
After that i was done with creative for sometime. Those cards were all good and I still had some faith in creative. For a long time they were a solid go to company for sound cards.... since the old dos days.
Recent years... i guess thats not true. I knew that when i went in on the XFI titantium, but my sigmatel onboard chip SUCKED. It had terrible driver support and broken functionality due to poor drivers.
I looked into other cards besides the XFI Fatality Titantium.. but they seemed even more iffy. So i gave Creative a try again.
Over all... I like the XFI a lot. Feature wise its nice, the drivers features are nice, and it works quite well, sounds better... and everything. Its just this dumb bug they've been battling for sometime. Apparently they solved the issue on most systems but from tiem to time it pops up on mine. (ITS NOT THAT BAD trust me)... but... it should work 100% for the price.
Not really, because the Sigmatel chip built into my Intel board... had serious problems with monitoring input. It had much worse drivers than Creative X-Fi Titanium.
To be fair to creative, they did fix a lot of the latency issues on the driver that were due to pcie timings... but they still pop up on my system from time to time.
Audio in a program will sometimes degrade into a crackling audio stream until i restart the program. Sometimes i ahve to restart the entire PC.
OVERALL, the drivers have some nice features... Its that one bug that is terrible.
I am actually a lot happier with the card over the Sigmatel chip which took them over 2 years to write a driver capable of monitoring the line in jack. And when they finally released that driver... it barely functioned right. It even had a memory leak that would balloon the audio service memory usage until you killed it.
Stupid X-Fi Fatality and its terrible drivers.
They were caught doing this before, so much that users made a big stink on their forums and they had to respond with a public statement. Apparently they havent learned their lesson.
Then again its probably the only way they can stay in business so they'll do whatever it takes to make some money.
Either way... I dont care. I dont use the software. I did install it recently while looking for an alternative to pidgin.... I now regret that greatly.
We dont disagree. The news, especially Television news... is a digusting joke all together.
Thats why i find it histerical that Mordoch would ever expect anyone to pay for it online
There is no way I would pay for that right wing, nut job, propaganda they call NEWS....
Its bad enough that news in general is pathetic... but Murdoch is out of his fucking mind if he thinks anyone finds his "news" outlets are worth paying for.
Then again, Fox News viewers are the same nut jobs that pay every sunday to worship a fucking fairytale. I guess "How real" the content is, doesnt matter in either situation.
March on Nazis.... March on.
Ok us, 30 year olds that grew up with computers, through the bbs years, and warez scene.... with our nes, and our c64, and first macs, and 286s pcs....
We're still a minority relatively speaking.
Give it 40 years...
Those in their teens the past 10 years will have grown up with a better understanding of sharing information due to youtube, torrenting, napster... etc
They will grow up into the leaders of tomorrow. Granted relatively few... but we will have a better chance winning this war once the "infected" are in power :)
Right now... its still the Bush's, the Clintons... and older...
They dont get it and they never will.
This is a new world view that the old will never understand.
The question is... will power and corruption alter the leaders of tomorrow in the same way that it currently does now?
Just maybe we have a chance... that one day someone who grew up as a file sharer, a youtuber, a slashdotter, an anonymous member, etc... just maybe the kids of today will retain some sort of sense of what free information and fair use means to them.
Right now, its hard to be of our generation and in power because so many still are of the old world. So much that we look bad standing up for these issues. BUT.... give it 40 years and we will see many adults around us... who understand because their idea of information will be based on what they do today as a teenager/young adult. On that day we can look around and see others who understand.
Right now its like trying to explain to grandpa how email works.
Apple is as evil as Microsoft and its about time people noticed.
Opera and Firefox are not allowed to compete with safari on the iphone and microsoft is forced to split IE from the OS.
Its about time that the game is played FAIR.
Microsoft has unfairly been the target for too long while Apple has continually been allowed to do the same nonsense.
itunes and quicktime for windows sucks.
If we're (and i mean they) are going to constantly check every damn game, or form of entertainment for "diversity" then lets just remove blacks, browns, and yellows from all games.
This is just getting stupid.
WHY must everything be looked at in terms of race? This constant need to evaluate everything in life by skin color is becoming racist in itself!
Even if such research is best intentioned and aimed at making sure we all "GET IT" that judging people alone, on the color of the skin is wrong..... this constant focus on race in everything is exhausting and a self fulfilling fear/problem.
I thought the entire idea of equality was to STOP prejudging individuals by race. It would seem the opposite has taken place. We just cant stop looking at things in terms of race, even when we're trying to end racism.
This stupid nonsense has to stop.
The Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson's must be rejected from society for they are the racists among us all for they are the ones that only see race in EVERY situation... especially ones that will potentially get them on the evening news, and make them money.
The solution is to simply remove all blacks, browns and yellows from videogames until we can actually be mature enough to NOT look at everything in terms of race.
Yes... how ironic... i know. Its even stupid... and its racist... BUT if we're going to look at everything in race.... we might as well have a real reason.
The problem is... when you dont do business with them, they sue you in court for stealing their music.
Windows 7 is Vista.
And why the hell is slash dot so screwy today. I'm typing in a tiny box the size of a postage stamp.
We're all going to miss it when we upgrade to windows 7 :)
I like vista in many ways, but not enough. Its still a poor OS in terms of UI, DRM, memory usage, and features.
BUT i do like that MS has been able to force hardware makers to supply 64bit and 32bit drivers for their hardware.
"We require our suppliers to treat all workers with dignity and respect."
Yeah right. Thats why Apple employs chinese workers who fear for their lives. Chinese labor is employed because its virtually slave labor. Its cheap, easily controlled, and cut throat business practices allow them to dispose of workers at will.
Either this guy was a spy, or he made an honest mistake. Whatever the case may be, its said that he took his life.
I still find it sick that Apple can say they require their suppliers to treat workers with dignity and respect in one breathe, but in practice they really do not care because look at who they employ!
This is correct. The police are there just doing their job. They uphold the laws made by the law makers who are the corrupt oppressors.
Kill the Kings, not the poor guys who carry out their orders. There will always be plenty of them to fill the ranks.
I HATE the "I have nothing to hide" crowd. They act as if the law is fair and abuses of power do not exist.
They act as if the law does not make mistakes!
Its amazing how easy it is for some people to just give up what many have fought and died for because they dont think it concerns them.
The only thing is that your gamertag can only be on one console at a time.
Everytime i bring my gamertag to a friends house, i have to go through this download process to download my gamertag to his console. When i get back home, i have to then redownload my gamertag to my console at home.