There is no Microsoft desktop OS that will [support] more than 2 physical processors. I see nothing confusing about the statement. You'd need a Microsoft server OS to handle the 4 CPUs.
Now, if it makes no sense that Microsoft arbitrarily limits the user's desktop, well I agree.
I've only ever been interested in the drum kit for these games because it is teaching me how to play the drums in a fun and non-tedious way. Granted, I may be picking up some bad habits, but I don't have any aspirations of joining a band. For a real student of the drums, Guitar Hero/Rock Band will not be their sole source of information... hopefully, they will have a teacher.
I believe that file sharing infringes on all money earning parties concerned. The music that was created, was given away and distributed for free. This not only infringes on the distributor that lost income, but the distributor's contract with all other parties in the chain both down to the "customer" and up to the creators was affected monetarily.
This is, of course, ignoring advertising costs. Perhaps one of those shared files or albums will generate interest by the recipient enough that the recipient will actually spend the money to legitimately receive the content. I know I have spent money on albums from music I have received for free.
Tax assistant: I see you pay your home mortgage in full and on time. It has been determined that you do not pay enough and must help out the "poor" who refuse to pay their home mortgages because they were irresponsible and bought too much house.
/don't blame me, I didn't vote for them.:rolls eyes:
Sorry, I guess I should have been explicit:
4 Facebook
5 MySpace
6 a Blog of some sort
x (who knows how many more open IE windows)
I did enjoy the responses... hehe
Oh, and I did forget some others: a media player or two, flash components on websites, open pdf reader (maybe), bittorrent or someother filesharing program
Car analogy time:
Do you need to try a different steering wheel if the one that is bundled with the car works just fine?
Now, granted, the bundled steering wheel, in MS's case, will sometimes come off the steering column, perhaps turn the car left when you turn the wheel right, and you have a 17% chance of airbag failure in head-on collision. Obviously, these are good reasons to search... [Name your alternative browser here] has fewer problems (some may only not turn right).
I imagine the typical teenager would have the following open:
1 MSN Messenger
2 AOL AIM
3 Yahoo! Chat
6 Facebook, MySpace, Blog (and who knows how many more open IE windows)
7 Perhaps Word to switch to when the parents walk in (I'm doing homework!)
8 Maybe a game or two open (nothing heavy, but something)
9 E-mail (Thunderbird, OE, etc)
10 Video Chat window
Anything else I'm missing?
I was most intrigued when I got this message when my wife wanted to install the package. I thought, "That's interesting. I couldn't get it before because I didn't want to pay for it. But now, it appears, I'm paying for it."
Granted, my rates didn't increase, but now a portion of my rate is going to the service. This is certainly not a good sign. It means that the ISPs are setting themselves up to being bullied.
What are we going to see next? Activision/Blizzard demand that an ISP pay a fee to allow their customers access to WoW servers? Are we going to be denied access to Steam services because our ISP doesn't see the value in paying for that service?
The difference is you choose to install Flash. You knowingly (in most cases) go to Adobe, download the flash installer, agree to some sort of EULA, and install Flash with the understanding that it will be modifying third party software.
Microsoft is doing this in an update without notifying its users (as far as has been reported) that this update will be modifying third party software with no easy way to prevent or uninstall the change.
Given that, I am curious to know how this addon will improve my web experience in Firefox. Will it open security holes beyond what is already in Firefox and my other addons? Will it slow or decrease performance of FF? What benefit is it to FF (I thought.NET was already compatible with FF and other webbrowsers.)
Vista was written on top of XP on top of 2000 on top of NT. The problem with Windows 7 is that it appears to be a Vista rebranding. Microsoft took a huge hit on Vista and every geeks cousin's mother won't touch Vista, so much that Dell is highly recommended as that is one of the few places that sells pre-loaded XP boxes.
Doom ]|[ also had a serious amount of work and talent put into. At the time, it was also a hog on system performance. It demanded all sorts of vector calculation, etc. But it was still a shade of black on black.
My point? A lot of work can go into making a game the *best*, whether it be the prettiest or most technical, if it fails to run on hardware even a few generations later, then something is wrong.
(I do believe Doom ]|[ does run quite well on current top of the line GPUs, so the comparison isn't completely valid between that and Crysis.)
It stinks that developers don't put enough time to do a decent port of a game. Sure, the XBox 360 is supposed to be a type of Windows XP... but that's just it, it is a type of Windows XP, it isn't Windows XP Desktop.
There are test warehouses out there, if you are going to do a port and not have myriad of hardware to test on, send it to one of these warehouses and let those $10/hour (because I'm in the games industry!!1@21!) testers crank out the bugs for you. (I'm looking at you Neversoft!)
But that is also a problem strictly looking at the games market. How many people bought the PS3 because it was an excellent Blue-ray player that happens to be a gaming console for the price of a cheap Blue-ray only player that isn't nearly as good at Br processing? Heck, that's what I'm thinking of doing.
I'm not a fan of spending $50+ on a single game, my price point is $0-$30. (Wii Fit and Guitar Hero World Tour Complete Band Kit notwithstanding...) Plus, PS3 doesn't have any compelling games over XBox (teen-adult market) or Nintendo (casual gamer)
I followed you right up to the dell value consumer desktop of 4 years ago. Any OEM that was selling a Windows XP machine with 256MB of RAM should be prosecuted. A machine that is purchased under that condition must be purchased on the premise that the user is also purchasing a memory upgrade from a cheaper source at the same time. 1.5GHz Celeron/Duron, I'll go with. 64MB dedicated to onboard graphics is too high. I'm working with a couple of dells that max at 8MB dedicated to onboard graphics. Hmm, 4 years ago... I'd say that baseline HDD is more likely at the 40GB line.
Increase the CPU speed, double the RAM, and I think you've got a decent argument.
Heh, that's naive to think that because McCain brought him up over and over that the media investigated Joe W. Personally, I think the MSM are really pretty bored and have too much money.
If you've got to learn a new system anyway, why not learn a flavor of Linux or BSD? Vista has done more for Mac sales than Apple ever could have done. People are willing to learn a new system and are doing so.
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There is no Microsoft desktop OS that will [support] more than 2 physical processors. I see nothing confusing about the statement. You'd need a Microsoft server OS to handle the 4 CPUs.
Now, if it makes no sense that Microsoft arbitrarily limits the user's desktop, well I agree.
I've only ever been interested in the drum kit for these games because it is teaching me how to play the drums in a fun and non-tedious way. Granted, I may be picking up some bad habits, but I don't have any aspirations of joining a band. For a real student of the drums, Guitar Hero/Rock Band will not be their sole source of information... hopefully, they will have a teacher.
No no no MY comment shows MY ignorance.
Wait... what?
I believe that file sharing infringes on all money earning parties concerned. The music that was created, was given away and distributed for free. This not only infringes on the distributor that lost income, but the distributor's contract with all other parties in the chain both down to the "customer" and up to the creators was affected monetarily.
This is, of course, ignoring advertising costs. Perhaps one of those shared files or albums will generate interest by the recipient enough that the recipient will actually spend the money to legitimately receive the content. I know I have spent money on albums from music I have received for free.
So, now Pluto gets to be the butt of all the jokes.
Just check out the chewing tobacco industry... it works for them! /laugh it's funny (until you see rotted out jaws)
there really should be more CYA with the porn industry... oh, wait.
Tax assistant: I see you pay your home mortgage in full and on time. It has been determined that you do not pay enough and must help out the "poor" who refuse to pay their home mortgages because they were irresponsible and bought too much house.
:rolls eyes:
/don't blame me, I didn't vote for them.
Sorry, I guess I should have been explicit:
4 Facebook
5 MySpace
6 a Blog of some sort
x (who knows how many more open IE windows)
I did enjoy the responses... hehe
Oh, and I did forget some others: a media player or two, flash components on websites, open pdf reader (maybe), bittorrent or someother filesharing program
Car analogy time:
Do you need to try a different steering wheel if the one that is bundled with the car works just fine?
Now, granted, the bundled steering wheel, in MS's case, will sometimes come off the steering column, perhaps turn the car left when you turn the wheel right, and you have a 17% chance of airbag failure in head-on collision.
Obviously, these are good reasons to search... [Name your alternative browser here] has fewer problems (some may only not turn right).
I imagine the typical teenager would have the following open:
1 MSN Messenger
2 AOL AIM
3 Yahoo! Chat
6 Facebook, MySpace, Blog (and who knows how many more open IE windows)
7 Perhaps Word to switch to when the parents walk in (I'm doing homework!)
8 Maybe a game or two open (nothing heavy, but something)
9 E-mail (Thunderbird, OE, etc)
10 Video Chat window
Anything else I'm missing?
I was most intrigued when I got this message when my wife wanted to install the package. I thought, "That's interesting. I couldn't get it before because I didn't want to pay for it. But now, it appears, I'm paying for it."
Granted, my rates didn't increase, but now a portion of my rate is going to the service. This is certainly not a good sign. It means that the ISPs are setting themselves up to being bullied.
What are we going to see next? Activision/Blizzard demand that an ISP pay a fee to allow their customers access to WoW servers? Are we going to be denied access to Steam services because our ISP doesn't see the value in paying for that service?
The difference is you choose to install Flash. You knowingly (in most cases) go to Adobe, download the flash installer, agree to some sort of EULA, and install Flash with the understanding that it will be modifying third party software.
.NET was already compatible with FF and other webbrowsers.)
Microsoft is doing this in an update without notifying its users (as far as has been reported) that this update will be modifying third party software with no easy way to prevent or uninstall the change.
Given that, I am curious to know how this addon will improve my web experience in Firefox. Will it open security holes beyond what is already in Firefox and my other addons? Will it slow or decrease performance of FF? What benefit is it to FF (I thought
Vista was written on top of XP on top of 2000 on top of NT. The problem with Windows 7 is that it appears to be a Vista rebranding. Microsoft took a huge hit on Vista and every geeks cousin's mother won't touch Vista, so much that Dell is highly recommended as that is one of the few places that sells pre-loaded XP boxes.
I don't know about that. Go to the emergency room, tell them you don't have insurance and are an illegal alien. They'll still treat you.
Doom ]|[ also had a serious amount of work and talent put into. At the time, it was also a hog on system performance. It demanded all sorts of vector calculation, etc. But it was still a shade of black on black.
My point? A lot of work can go into making a game the *best*, whether it be the prettiest or most technical, if it fails to run on hardware even a few generations later, then something is wrong.
(I do believe Doom ]|[ does run quite well on current top of the line GPUs, so the comparison isn't completely valid between that and Crysis.)
It stinks that developers don't put enough time to do a decent port of a game. Sure, the XBox 360 is supposed to be a type of Windows XP... but that's just it, it is a type of Windows XP, it isn't Windows XP Desktop.
There are test warehouses out there, if you are going to do a port and not have myriad of hardware to test on, send it to one of these warehouses and let those $10/hour (because I'm in the games industry!!1@21!) testers crank out the bugs for you. (I'm looking at you Neversoft!)
Agreed. A person can spend $400 on a PC and have better specs than an Xbox 360 or PS3 (minus BD player).
I'd like to see the issue posted in the "worse-than-failure" website (i.e. what the programmer did to screw up the software.)
But that is also a problem strictly looking at the games market. How many people bought the PS3 because it was an excellent Blue-ray player that happens to be a gaming console for the price of a cheap Blue-ray only player that isn't nearly as good at Br processing? Heck, that's what I'm thinking of doing. I'm not a fan of spending $50+ on a single game, my price point is $0-$30. (Wii Fit and Guitar Hero World Tour Complete Band Kit notwithstanding...) Plus, PS3 doesn't have any compelling games over XBox (teen-adult market) or Nintendo (casual gamer)
If I'm people... yes. But, then, I guess I'm only person.
I learned a lot about Linux because I installed and re-installed Gentoo a bunch of times, once successfully, once successfully by accident, heh.
I followed you right up to the dell value consumer desktop of 4 years ago. Any OEM that was selling a Windows XP machine with 256MB of RAM should be prosecuted. A machine that is purchased under that condition must be purchased on the premise that the user is also purchasing a memory upgrade from a cheaper source at the same time. 1.5GHz Celeron/Duron, I'll go with. 64MB dedicated to onboard graphics is too high. I'm working with a couple of dells that max at 8MB dedicated to onboard graphics. Hmm, 4 years ago... I'd say that baseline HDD is more likely at the 40GB line.
Increase the CPU speed, double the RAM, and I think you've got a decent argument.
Heh, that's naive to think that because McCain brought him up over and over that the media investigated Joe W. Personally, I think the MSM are really pretty bored and have too much money.
If you've got to learn a new system anyway, why not learn a flavor of Linux or BSD? Vista has done more for Mac sales than Apple ever could have done. People are willing to learn a new system and are doing so.