My point is that Windows should automatically put the system reserved partition ON THE DRIVE TO WHICH IT IS BEING INSTALLED. I cannot think of a conceivable reason for a single installation of Windows to spread itself across two different hard drives by default, thus requiring both drives to be present and functioning to boot the system. I should simply be able to select the drive, tell it to go, and not worry about it. Please explain to me why it's necessary for Windows to do this by default.
My point is that the user shouldn't have to bloody worry about it. Why should I have to prepartition my drive just to keep Windows from messing with other drives? It should stick to the installation drive by default, not require extra steps to keep it from messing with other drives in the system. Plopping the 100MB system reserved partition on another drive by default means I need BOTH drives to boot, which is stupid. But yes, my bad for assuming Microsoft would do things in a logical fashion.
No dipshit, Hackintoshing has very little to do with it. As far as Windows 7 is concerned, it was simply another drive. That's all. The point of the matter is that it fucked up a partition that it didn't properly recognize. The same thing could happen to Linux installations as well. It's an ugly oversight that is NOT specific to Hackintoshes, so pull your head out of your ass.
It seems that if you install Windows 7 on the second hard drive, it will put it's system reserved boot partition on the first drive. This absolutely boggles my mind. Now I need both hard drives just to boot my system? I discovered this when Windows 7 fucked up my Chameleon installation. Then my Hackintosh wouldn't boot into OS X until I reinstalled Chameleon from the iAtkos disc. Then I had to unplug the OS X drive and reinstall Windows 7 so it would stick to it's own goddamned drive and leave the others alone.
Bad, BAD fucking move, Microsoft. Now Windows 7 can easily fuck up unrecognized partitions on other drives during installation. I really hope that gets fixed in the final version.
By "small obstructions" I mean very minor objects on the ground or protrusions from walls that stick out two inches. I've seen boomer barf stopped by these protrusions even though there was AMPLE space around it to hit the player.
Nope, I've seen the bouncing off people when pings were all under 100ms and even in LAN games where the highest ping is 8ms.
Um, you really haven't played with the AI, have you? I've seen hunters pounce players and the AI sits around shooting random little zombies for 10 seconds before getting the hunter off the player. It's utterly absurd. Players should take precedent over a few mindless zombies.
I have seen PLENTY of cheaters, from blatant speedhacks to aimbots to wallhacks and more. You really haven't played much, have you?
By "bugged" I mean "survivors move horizontally through thin air even though nothing is underneath them". I can see smokers pulling people over the right edge, but what about smoking people off the crate in Dead Air 2 and seeing them pulled ten feet above the nearest surface?
Pardon me, I meant the tank's ability to hit survivors, not survivors shooting the tank. Sometimes it seems that players can be a quarter of an inch to either side of the reticle and you can't fucking hit them because of it.
You really haven't played this game much. It's bloody obvious.
I'm not surprised with the screw. I certainly don't deny coverage if I notice that someone has opened it up unless I know that the repair is directly related to it. However, I am surprised at the screen. You got damned lucky on that one.
And as an Apple tech, that's my fear as well. Apple's already going this way with their stinking battery diagnostic (and adapter!). Yes, Apple is now checking with said diagnostic to see if batteries are consumed or bad. That much I can understand. If you wear out the battery with 500 cycles in less than a year, then sorry, you've used it up. However, this damned diagnostic also is required to replace the power adapters, I shit you not. Power adapters don't get used up. They work or they don't. In addition, I've seen the diagnostic claim that the battery is okay when it is definitely NOT okay. I recently had a repair be rejected because of that. Even though the battery was showing that it had 60:00 of runtime and over 1200% of it's actual capacity.
That's why I'm worried about this. I guarantee you that Apple will use it to deny claims left and right, even if there is no other evidence of abuse. If those sensors trip for any reason at all, you're done.
Oh man, I have some similar stories from the bench...
-Some bozo with his daughter and a cracked Macbook screen. She swore up and down that it "just happened" and her daddy refused to believe his precious snowflake would lie.
-A guy who left his Macbook in the back of his truck. It opened up and broke in half thanks to other heavy items and some rough road. Literally. The screen was smashed and snapped off the body. He was surprised that Applecare wouldn't cover it.
-A Macbook Pro that was just flat-out disgusting. Grime, crud, scratches, dents, and more. The screen was having issues, possibly because of an alarmingly large dent in the back. The keyboard reeked of coffee. Yeah, there was no coverage on that one.
-A Macbook Pro with several keys popped halfway off, which isn't entirely unusual, but they keys had chipped edges, which is. The bottom was bent upward right around the optical drive, and pretty noticeably, too. Problem: The keyboard and DVD drive don't work. Gee, I wonder why?
-A woman with an iBook G3 (about 7 years old at the time) that had died. She was incredulous that Apple wouldn't cover it, I kid you not. I told her to take it up with Apple because I didn't want to deal with that crap.
-An iMac that was absolutely FILLED with cigarette ash, nicotine stains, and other assorted grime. It was truly disgusting and reeked like ass. It most likely overheated and roasted itself. Turns out that Apple classifies that as abuse and the guy was out of luck. Don't smoke like a chimney around your computer.
I don't have any stories as dramatic as those with people trying to filch Apple, but man, you deal with some real tards in this business.
That's nice and all, but how about fixing the fucking problems with L4D before expanding it and making another one? I'm fucking SICK SICK SICK of players (including smoker tongues, hunter pounces, and boomer barf) being blocked by the smallest obstructions, hunters literally bouncing off of other players when lunging (I once landed and STOOD on someone's head after a pounce without tackling), the unspeakably fucking AWFUL survivor AI that will sit around with it's thumb up the ass while a hunter eats your intestines, survivors hanging off of the edge of something when the ground is two feet below them, smoker tongues breaking for no discernible reason at all, lousy anti-cheat protection, bugged instakill zones with smokers (ie, smoke someone off the crane dumpster from a nearby building in Dead Air lvl 2 and they drag horizontally through mid air. WTF?), the tank's hit window sometimes being ridiculously narrow for such a massive monster with huge, beefy arms that swing very wide...Christ, the list goes on.
Fix your shit first, Valve! Jesus, myself and many others are fucking SICK of these and so many more issues in an otherwise awesome game!
No, AT&T would sue and prosecute the living fuck out of anyone who tried and probably crack down harder on 4chan. Don't underestimate their lobbying power.
Um, no, it's because Anon has deliberately terrorized people before (calling in with death threats is something they've been known to do), so they get the label. Kinda silly, but the definition does fit.
"Better behaved"? Maybe when it comes to a very large corporate behemoth like AT&T, but when it comes to, say, Adam Goldstein, they'll make someone's life absolute hell. How about porno-bombing Youtube? DDoSes against websites they just happen to not like? Anon may not be the worst internet vigilante groups, but don't kid yourself. Anon is comprised mostly of maladjusted, misogynistic kids.
And since Anonymous is, well, anonymous, you don't get "cast out" without being b&.
Um, have you seen the threads on 4chan about this? Anon is going to fight this peacefully? Yeah, okay, sure, if by "peacefully" you mean "Make fake news stories that the AT&T CEO died to drop their stock price", then yeah.
Get over yourself. Most people don't know what/b/ is, and people on/b/ post horrific, nasty shit simply for the shock value. It's a site full of maladjusted, misogynistic kids and little more.
I've seen very, very few desktop PCs anywhere close to as small as a Mini. I recently grabbed a refurb current-gen Mini as my HTPC and it's working wonderfully. 1080p MKV + Plex = buttah smooth playback. Size and noise are a definite factor and the Mini wins hands down on both. Some people don't need a laptop but still factor size, noise, and power consumption into their desktop purchases.
And to some, that's fine. Others don't mind paying for a tiny desktop that makes almost zero noise (PC towers make considerably more) and eats far less juice. And let's face it, the Mini is more than adequate for most home users, who don't do much more than rip a few CDs, browse the web, and load up iPhoto./.ers are all about big performance, but most people don't give a crap as long as it does a few things well enough.
"Apple most popular among those who like to overspend and don't know the value of the dollar."
Same guts marked up and built for aesthetics instead of being engineered to be solid. Never underestimate the "Oooh! Shiny!" demographic.
Yeah, I guess that's why Apple consistently ranks highest in customer support surveys among major PC manufacturers. Yep, not solid at all. Overpriced? Quite possibly, depending on what you're looking for, but not engineered to be solid? Get outta town.
The Mac Mini isn't an economy option, especially refurbs as low as $419 on the Apple Store? Granted, you could build a cheap PC for less, but I'd hardly call $419 expensive, or even $599 expensive, putting aside arguments of what you get for the money.
The playlists are stored in the XML file. And exactly how hard would it be to put a basic GUI on their synching software? It's really not that difficult.
1. The Pre supports drag and drop. A GUI app of their own would be easier than relying on a third party app over which Palm has ZERO control and they know is going to keep breaking compatibility with their device.
2. See above point on Palm having no control over iTunes. How many other phones/MP3 players can use iTunes? Oh, none outside of Apple's brand. Why would anyone expect the Pre to be different if Palm didn't specifically build it in?
3. iTunes has ONE XML file for the library, and naturally it would use the XML file that is being used by the currently logged-in user. A simple reading of iTunes preferences for said user would tell the app which XML file to use.
4. Palm is dicking up their customers fighting this battle. They know that Apple is going to break compatibility and they know that they could write their own software. It's not so much that it pisses me off. This kind of thing happens all the time. It's the people bitching about Apple when Palm knew damn well that this would happen and went ahead anyway.
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My point is that Windows should automatically put the system reserved partition ON THE DRIVE TO WHICH IT IS BEING INSTALLED. I cannot think of a conceivable reason for a single installation of Windows to spread itself across two different hard drives by default, thus requiring both drives to be present and functioning to boot the system. I should simply be able to select the drive, tell it to go, and not worry about it. Please explain to me why it's necessary for Windows to do this by default.
My point is that the user shouldn't have to bloody worry about it. Why should I have to prepartition my drive just to keep Windows from messing with other drives? It should stick to the installation drive by default, not require extra steps to keep it from messing with other drives in the system. Plopping the 100MB system reserved partition on another drive by default means I need BOTH drives to boot, which is stupid. But yes, my bad for assuming Microsoft would do things in a logical fashion.
No dipshit, Hackintoshing has very little to do with it. As far as Windows 7 is concerned, it was simply another drive. That's all. The point of the matter is that it fucked up a partition that it didn't properly recognize. The same thing could happen to Linux installations as well. It's an ugly oversight that is NOT specific to Hackintoshes, so pull your head out of your ass.
It seems that if you install Windows 7 on the second hard drive, it will put it's system reserved boot partition on the first drive. This absolutely boggles my mind. Now I need both hard drives just to boot my system? I discovered this when Windows 7 fucked up my Chameleon installation. Then my Hackintosh wouldn't boot into OS X until I reinstalled Chameleon from the iAtkos disc. Then I had to unplug the OS X drive and reinstall Windows 7 so it would stick to it's own goddamned drive and leave the others alone.
Bad, BAD fucking move, Microsoft. Now Windows 7 can easily fuck up unrecognized partitions on other drives during installation. I really hope that gets fixed in the final version.
By "small obstructions" I mean very minor objects on the ground or protrusions from walls that stick out two inches. I've seen boomer barf stopped by these protrusions even though there was AMPLE space around it to hit the player.
Nope, I've seen the bouncing off people when pings were all under 100ms and even in LAN games where the highest ping is 8ms.
Um, you really haven't played with the AI, have you? I've seen hunters pounce players and the AI sits around shooting random little zombies for 10 seconds before getting the hunter off the player. It's utterly absurd. Players should take precedent over a few mindless zombies.
I have seen PLENTY of cheaters, from blatant speedhacks to aimbots to wallhacks and more. You really haven't played much, have you?
By "bugged" I mean "survivors move horizontally through thin air even though nothing is underneath them". I can see smokers pulling people over the right edge, but what about smoking people off the crate in Dead Air 2 and seeing them pulled ten feet above the nearest surface?
Pardon me, I meant the tank's ability to hit survivors, not survivors shooting the tank. Sometimes it seems that players can be a quarter of an inch to either side of the reticle and you can't fucking hit them because of it.
You really haven't played this game much. It's bloody obvious.
I'm not surprised with the screw. I certainly don't deny coverage if I notice that someone has opened it up unless I know that the repair is directly related to it. However, I am surprised at the screen. You got damned lucky on that one.
And as an Apple tech, that's my fear as well. Apple's already going this way with their stinking battery diagnostic (and adapter!). Yes, Apple is now checking with said diagnostic to see if batteries are consumed or bad. That much I can understand. If you wear out the battery with 500 cycles in less than a year, then sorry, you've used it up. However, this damned diagnostic also is required to replace the power adapters, I shit you not. Power adapters don't get used up. They work or they don't. In addition, I've seen the diagnostic claim that the battery is okay when it is definitely NOT okay. I recently had a repair be rejected because of that. Even though the battery was showing that it had 60:00 of runtime and over 1200% of it's actual capacity.
That's why I'm worried about this. I guarantee you that Apple will use it to deny claims left and right, even if there is no other evidence of abuse. If those sensors trip for any reason at all, you're done.
Oh man, I have some similar stories from the bench...
-Some bozo with his daughter and a cracked Macbook screen. She swore up and down that it "just happened" and her daddy refused to believe his precious snowflake would lie.
-A guy who left his Macbook in the back of his truck. It opened up and broke in half thanks to other heavy items and some rough road. Literally. The screen was smashed and snapped off the body. He was surprised that Applecare wouldn't cover it.
-A Macbook Pro that was just flat-out disgusting. Grime, crud, scratches, dents, and more. The screen was having issues, possibly because of an alarmingly large dent in the back. The keyboard reeked of coffee. Yeah, there was no coverage on that one.
-A Macbook Pro with several keys popped halfway off, which isn't entirely unusual, but they keys had chipped edges, which is. The bottom was bent upward right around the optical drive, and pretty noticeably, too. Problem: The keyboard and DVD drive don't work. Gee, I wonder why?
-A woman with an iBook G3 (about 7 years old at the time) that had died. She was incredulous that Apple wouldn't cover it, I kid you not. I told her to take it up with Apple because I didn't want to deal with that crap.
-An iMac that was absolutely FILLED with cigarette ash, nicotine stains, and other assorted grime. It was truly disgusting and reeked like ass. It most likely overheated and roasted itself. Turns out that Apple classifies that as abuse and the guy was out of luck. Don't smoke like a chimney around your computer.
I don't have any stories as dramatic as those with people trying to filch Apple, but man, you deal with some real tards in this business.
That's nice and all, but how about fixing the fucking problems with L4D before expanding it and making another one? I'm fucking SICK SICK SICK of players (including smoker tongues, hunter pounces, and boomer barf) being blocked by the smallest obstructions, hunters literally bouncing off of other players when lunging (I once landed and STOOD on someone's head after a pounce without tackling), the unspeakably fucking AWFUL survivor AI that will sit around with it's thumb up the ass while a hunter eats your intestines, survivors hanging off of the edge of something when the ground is two feet below them, smoker tongues breaking for no discernible reason at all, lousy anti-cheat protection, bugged instakill zones with smokers (ie, smoke someone off the crane dumpster from a nearby building in Dead Air lvl 2 and they drag horizontally through mid air. WTF?), the tank's hit window sometimes being ridiculously narrow for such a massive monster with huge, beefy arms that swing very wide...Christ, the list goes on. Fix your shit first, Valve! Jesus, myself and many others are fucking SICK of these and so many more issues in an otherwise awesome game!
It's like pissing into a sea of piss.
No, AT&T would sue and prosecute the living fuck out of anyone who tried and probably crack down harder on 4chan. Don't underestimate their lobbying power.
Um, no, it's because Anon has deliberately terrorized people before (calling in with death threats is something they've been known to do), so they get the label. Kinda silly, but the definition does fit.
"Better behaved"? Maybe when it comes to a very large corporate behemoth like AT&T, but when it comes to, say, Adam Goldstein, they'll make someone's life absolute hell. How about porno-bombing Youtube? DDoSes against websites they just happen to not like? Anon may not be the worst internet vigilante groups, but don't kid yourself. Anon is comprised mostly of maladjusted, misogynistic kids. And since Anonymous is, well, anonymous, you don't get "cast out" without being b&.
Um, have you seen the threads on 4chan about this? Anon is going to fight this peacefully? Yeah, okay, sure, if by "peacefully" you mean "Make fake news stories that the AT&T CEO died to drop their stock price", then yeah.
Get over yourself. Most people don't know what /b/ is, and people on /b/ post horrific, nasty shit simply for the shock value. It's a site full of maladjusted, misogynistic kids and little more.
Sure, but when it comes out of the oven you'll realize that it's just an apple with some fancy frosting on it...
I've seen very, very few desktop PCs anywhere close to as small as a Mini. I recently grabbed a refurb current-gen Mini as my HTPC and it's working wonderfully. 1080p MKV + Plex = buttah smooth playback. Size and noise are a definite factor and the Mini wins hands down on both. Some people don't need a laptop but still factor size, noise, and power consumption into their desktop purchases.
And to some, that's fine. Others don't mind paying for a tiny desktop that makes almost zero noise (PC towers make considerably more) and eats far less juice. And let's face it, the Mini is more than adequate for most home users, who don't do much more than rip a few CDs, browse the web, and load up iPhoto. /.ers are all about big performance, but most people don't give a crap as long as it does a few things well enough.
"Apple most popular among those who like to overspend and don't know the value of the dollar."
Same guts marked up and built for aesthetics instead of being engineered to be solid. Never underestimate the "Oooh! Shiny!" demographic.
Yeah, I guess that's why Apple consistently ranks highest in customer support surveys among major PC manufacturers. Yep, not solid at all. Overpriced? Quite possibly, depending on what you're looking for, but not engineered to be solid? Get outta town.
The Mac Mini isn't an economy option, especially refurbs as low as $419 on the Apple Store? Granted, you could build a cheap PC for less, but I'd hardly call $419 expensive, or even $599 expensive, putting aside arguments of what you get for the money.
Old DRM'ed tracks would be unplayable on any other device in the first place, so bringing them up in the Palm Pre debate is pretty darned pointless.
The playlists are stored in the XML file. And exactly how hard would it be to put a basic GUI on their synching software? It's really not that difficult.
1. The Pre supports drag and drop. A GUI app of their own would be easier than relying on a third party app over which Palm has ZERO control and they know is going to keep breaking compatibility with their device.
2. See above point on Palm having no control over iTunes. How many other phones/MP3 players can use iTunes? Oh, none outside of Apple's brand. Why would anyone expect the Pre to be different if Palm didn't specifically build it in?
3. iTunes has ONE XML file for the library, and naturally it would use the XML file that is being used by the currently logged-in user. A simple reading of iTunes preferences for said user would tell the app which XML file to use.
4. Palm is dicking up their customers fighting this battle. They know that Apple is going to break compatibility and they know that they could write their own software. It's not so much that it pisses me off. This kind of thing happens all the time. It's the people bitching about Apple when Palm knew damn well that this would happen and went ahead anyway.
Apple had a deal with Xerox to work with their stuff. Xerox was paid with lots of Apple stock. I wouldn't exactly call that stealing.