It still takes me 5 minutes to configure wireless networking in Vista, same as XP. Granted, it takes more mouseclicks in Vista because I'm still trying to find which of the three new fancy windows does what. And it may take a minute or more because Vista failed to connect because of a bad driver issue, or whatever (though this can still happen in XP.)
(Of course, discussions like this completely miss the point that how well something runs on very old hardware is basically irrelevant.)
Until you're the techie that's called in to "fix" the PC that STILL contains Windows ME on it. It just happens they were the 1% of ME installs that actually worked longer than a few hours.
I seem to recall a large amount of technical equipment with hardware and software connected to me when I was in the hospital. I would hope that equipment has gone through the rigors of an engineering method.
I figured you weren't religious by the nature of your first post. I just wanted to clear up the fact that if you consider Mormons crazy because of the Book of Mormon, you must also consider Bible believers crazy; and Mormons believe in the Bible, too. I'm currently reading through St. Peter I. (I'll probably get modded negatively for that comment, ah well.)
Also, I want you to know that any self-respecting Mormon understands the need to keep religion and politics separate. We believe the Constitution was a God inspired document, which includes the Keep-Religion-Out-Of-Government aspect. In our church we specifically, from the pulpit, state that there shall be no campaigning for any candidate in the church, and the Church does not endorse one candidate over another. Also, I don't know where you live, but in many southern states (I live in KY), a person might go to vote in a church. Our church will not allow that, because Church and State must remain separate.
Really? Have you read the Bible? Lots of crazy crap happened in there, much more crazy than finding gold tablets and translating them. But I digress.
McCain has a positive fiscal conservativeness? You've got to be kidding?
McCain is straighttalking? Really!
/That youtube video is very enlightening! //As Rush is always saying concerning the McCain supporters, "They just want us to shut up and fall in line."
This is no joke. Strangely enough, Ann Coulter really put it well on an interview with Hannity & Colmes last week. Hillary Clinton, in some aspects, is more conservative than McCain.
Many conservatives believe a McCain nomination is a guarantee for the Democrat nominee. Really, the only people saying McCain is the best Republican candidate are the Democrats and more liberal Republicans and Republican politicians who want jobs on a McCain cabinet. It's similar to the Republicans saying they want Hillary as a candidate. There is such a great distaste by many moderates for the Clintons.
I would almost be glad to have Hillary over McCain. At least Hillary states who she really is, a liberal Democrat. Obama appears more sincere and honest (though I despise his stance on almost everything), at least he hasn't shown himself to be liars like the Clintons and McCain.
The Democrats will crucify McCain during the general election if he is the nominee. The only major attacks I've heard against Romney are personal attacks, while he has dealt out nothing but attacks on issues to his opponents. I will give that there are certainly some issues that Romney might be weak on that conservatives would take pause on. However, the major issues that conservatives are for are ones that McCain is against with the one exception of the Global War On Terror. Though, most Republicans and Hillary Clinton will also be strong on this cause.
Hmm, having only seen the first line of your comment (which is how I've setup/.) I was about to lambast you for using the commercial flagging. But then I saw you were going to do this the correct way. It is strange, this one event is more popular for its commercials than for the actual game.
I have had a friend who purchased a Vista loaded laptop and he was able to get Civ4 to run without much problem. We've also got one of the expansions.
If you are having a problem with the patches with the game, try downloading the developer's version of DirectX9. For whatever reason, Firaxis felt it necessary to make its users use a dll that is only found in the developer's DirectX9 redistributable.
We want the competition to be crap so that others are finally forced to look at alternatives. Once the alternatives establish a foothold, it makes the monopoly look at its business and actually start improving. It takes a long time for a mass of people who get something that appears to be free (because MS Win comes pre-loaded and the cost is built into the purchase of a PC) for them to move away from that pre-load to a new system.
Internet Explorer did not improve until Firefox gained a foothold. And it was only after people started to move away in droves to Firefox (and other browsers) that Microsoft finally decided, "Hey, we better do something before we fall to 75% market share." And it wasn't site statistics that made Microsoft quiver, it was that people were actively seeking out and downloading Firefox even though MSIE came free on the OS.
That is interesting they still haven't provided a decent text editor. But now, any PC I touch gets notepad++. I suppose Microsoft should just leave most utilities off of the OS and let us find F/LOSS (or a variant) or a commercial product to get everything they need. It is a difficult balance for a company most consider a monopoly to include just enough utilities to allow functionality, but not have these utilities be too feature-rich to be accused of monopolistic and anti-competitive practices. (Although, this didn't stop them from MSIE vs. Netscape or MSOffice vs. Wordperfect.)
I don't know. I want one device that does a bunch of things for me, but where the phone is a secondary function. Perhaps I am one of those holdouts. I really like my Palm Tungsten E2 (besides the really crappy two stroke writing style). I want my Palm device to be able to make a phone call.
What I don't want is my phone to attempt to be a PDA. A phone's screen is not big enough to handle the amount of information I want on the screen (and me able to see it clearly.) But a PDA's screen is easily large enough to handle phone functions and has a processor fast enough to handle voice recognition calling.
I wish more companies would have software like Citi does. I can open up my Virtual Account Number generator, and generate a VAN that is tied to my account. This number has a limited amount on it, has its own CVN number, expires in one month, and is only good for one purchase... only. (I've tried to use a number twice, because I didn't know this.)
I use this service for all my online store purchases.
The slick thing about this VAN software is that you can click a button and it populates all the fields in Internet Explorer for you. Unfortunately, I use Firefox, and I've yet to get it to work. So I just copy the numbers across.
Sure, your cards are getting double-hammered. But that just makes the fraud more conspicuous. Hopefully, your CC company has anti-fraud measures in place to track suspicious purchases.
They even admitted a mistake and didn't release a follow-up on a new survey, as this comment implies.
Actually, the comment implies that the MPAA will take these corrected numbers, claim they are new and claim that, as the parent stated, "Efforts are working, but more needs to be done."
The comment does not imply anything about the LEK group.
Oh, yeah. That sentence is confusing. What I meant was, "I've never visited General Motors website or my favorite cereal company's website, or my laundry detergent's manufacturer's website." I was trying to cover a wide base of products.
My question is how often does the average consumer really visit a website like mpaa.org, riaa.org, or any other corporate entity presence? For me, it is less than 0.005 (or less than a 1/2%). I think the last time I visited riaa.org was a couple years ago when/. mentioned the site had been hacked. I've never visited a General Motors website, the company that makes my favorite breakfast cereal or laundry detergent. I've just never had the desire.
I suspect that the average person visits their favorite news site, gaming portal (like games.yahoo.com or legitgames.com or whatever), fark/digg/slashdot, and blogs of the different varieties. My wife will occasionally do searches for recipes, information on baby stuff, etc. We'll hit newegg.com, amazon.com, or other storefronts.
Am I wrong in my thinking that the average person would visit a site like mpaa.org, riaa.org, or other industry specific org sites? We all use tires to drive on, have you ever visited the site for Michelen or Dunlap tires? Do they have a trade org site that issues news, warnings, and user information regarding recalls/defects of certain tires? If so, I've never even considered searching it out.
My point is that very few people would see it to make it worth putting information touting your propaganda. However, if it was outrageous enough, perhaps it would make news and people might visit (by which time it would be too late, as the site would be fixed).
Counting the votes is not the problem. Yes, both parties have teams watching the counters with an eagle eye. The problem occurs when you get votes from non-citizens of the community and dead people that vote. They all appear legitimate to the counters.
Vote early, vote often!
Yes, just imagine what would have happened had Harley Davidson pulled this kind of stunt? HD built there current market strength on the backs of their ex-fans by going out and finding out what they wanted, not just what the company thought they wanted, and what made the ex-fans "ex".
The company quickly rebounded and gained those fans and customer base back. (It certainly helped that the bikes sounded tough.)
It's like the 'stang of the 60's & 70's and 2000's, not the wimpy 80's & 90's versions.
/of course, those in the know will know I have fairly little knowledge in what I just spouted. (except for the HD re-imaging itself, which the US motor companies are failing badly at doing.)
I use my extracted magnet to magnetize all my non-magnetized screwdrivers. Just put the two together and swipe in one direction for about 5 minutes, and you will have a very good magnetized screwdriver.
Use two IBM Deathstars in RAID-0 on a Highpoint controller. It will take care of that by itself:) I thought you were going to say, "on an Alderaan controller."
No, I buy them because I cannot reduce carbon output any more than I already do. The scary thing about this statement is that it sounds like you are willing to be taxed for the carbon output offset. I don't want to be taxed any more. In fact, I want my taxes to decrease, government programs reduced or removed, and people to generally care about themselves, others, and the environment... but I don't want to be taxed to do so. Utopia, I know.
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It still takes me 5 minutes to configure wireless networking in Vista, same as XP. Granted, it takes more mouseclicks in Vista because I'm still trying to find which of the three new fancy windows does what. And it may take a minute or more because Vista failed to connect because of a bad driver issue, or whatever (though this can still happen in XP.)
(Of course, discussions like this completely miss the point that how well something runs on very old hardware is basically irrelevant.)
Until you're the techie that's called in to "fix" the PC that STILL contains Windows ME on it. It just happens they were the 1% of ME installs that actually worked longer than a few hours.
It's the same thing as the Supreme Court calling Tomatoes a vegetable. It is a fruit. But because veggies were taxed more, the tomato became a veggie.
I seem to recall a large amount of technical equipment with hardware and software connected to me when I was in the hospital. I would hope that equipment has gone through the rigors of an engineering method.
I figured you weren't religious by the nature of your first post. I just wanted to clear up the fact that if you consider Mormons crazy because of the Book of Mormon, you must also consider Bible believers crazy; and Mormons believe in the Bible, too. I'm currently reading through St. Peter I. (I'll probably get modded negatively for that comment, ah well.)
Also, I want you to know that any self-respecting Mormon understands the need to keep religion and politics separate. We believe the Constitution was a God inspired document, which includes the Keep-Religion-Out-Of-Government aspect. In our church we specifically, from the pulpit, state that there shall be no campaigning for any candidate in the church, and the Church does not endorse one candidate over another. Also, I don't know where you live, but in many southern states (I live in KY), a person might go to vote in a church. Our church will not allow that, because Church and State must remain separate.
Really? Have you read the Bible? Lots of crazy crap happened in there, much more crazy than finding gold tablets and translating them. But I digress.
McCain has a positive fiscal conservativeness? You've got to be kidding?
McCain is straight talking? Really!
/That youtube video is very enlightening!
//As Rush is always saying concerning the McCain supporters, "They just want us to shut up and fall in line."
B) Romney also won Maine with 52% of the votes. Ron Paul almost beat McCain in Maine (19%, 21%, resp.)
Romney should get the nomination. Ron Paul should get the nomination if this was race occurred before the 1910s.
/I'm either not voting if McCain is the nominee (why would I choose between two Democrats) or writing in my favorite.
This is no joke. Strangely enough, Ann Coulter really put it well on an interview with Hannity & Colmes last week. Hillary Clinton, in some aspects, is more conservative than McCain.
Many conservatives believe a McCain nomination is a guarantee for the Democrat nominee. Really, the only people saying McCain is the best Republican candidate are the Democrats and more liberal Republicans and Republican politicians who want jobs on a McCain cabinet. It's similar to the Republicans saying they want Hillary as a candidate. There is such a great distaste by many moderates for the Clintons.
I would almost be glad to have Hillary over McCain. At least Hillary states who she really is, a liberal Democrat. Obama appears more sincere and honest (though I despise his stance on almost everything), at least he hasn't shown himself to be liars like the Clintons and McCain.
The Democrats will crucify McCain during the general election if he is the nominee. The only major attacks I've heard against Romney are personal attacks, while he has dealt out nothing but attacks on issues to his opponents. I will give that there are certainly some issues that Romney might be weak on that conservatives would take pause on. However, the major issues that conservatives are for are ones that McCain is against with the one exception of the Global War On Terror. Though, most Republicans and Hillary Clinton will also be strong on this cause.
Hmm, having only seen the first line of your comment (which is how I've setup /.) I was about to lambast you for using the commercial flagging. But then I saw you were going to do this the correct way. It is strange, this one event is more popular for its commercials than for the actual game.
This is offtopic, but on topic to the last post.
I have had a friend who purchased a Vista loaded laptop and he was able to get Civ4 to run without much problem. We've also got one of the expansions.
If you are having a problem with the patches with the game, try downloading the developer's version of DirectX9. For whatever reason, Firaxis felt it necessary to make its users use a dll that is only found in the developer's DirectX9 redistributable.
We want the competition to be crap so that others are finally forced to look at alternatives. Once the alternatives establish a foothold, it makes the monopoly look at its business and actually start improving. It takes a long time for a mass of people who get something that appears to be free (because MS Win comes pre-loaded and the cost is built into the purchase of a PC) for them to move away from that pre-load to a new system.
Internet Explorer did not improve until Firefox gained a foothold. And it was only after people started to move away in droves to Firefox (and other browsers) that Microsoft finally decided, "Hey, we better do something before we fall to 75% market share." And it wasn't site statistics that made Microsoft quiver, it was that people were actively seeking out and downloading Firefox even though MSIE came free on the OS.
That is interesting they still haven't provided a decent text editor. But now, any PC I touch gets notepad++. I suppose Microsoft should just leave most utilities off of the OS and let us find F/LOSS (or a variant) or a commercial product to get everything they need. It is a difficult balance for a company most consider a monopoly to include just enough utilities to allow functionality, but not have these utilities be too feature-rich to be accused of monopolistic and anti-competitive practices. (Although, this didn't stop them from MSIE vs. Netscape or MSOffice vs. Wordperfect.)
I don't know. I want one device that does a bunch of things for me, but where the phone is a secondary function. Perhaps I am one of those holdouts. I really like my Palm Tungsten E2 (besides the really crappy two stroke writing style). I want my Palm device to be able to make a phone call.
What I don't want is my phone to attempt to be a PDA. A phone's screen is not big enough to handle the amount of information I want on the screen (and me able to see it clearly.) But a PDA's screen is easily large enough to handle phone functions and has a processor fast enough to handle voice recognition calling.
That's interesting. Last I checked, "We're not Verizon" is really four words.
(Unless I'm mistaken and contractions are considered a single word even though it is made up of two words.)
I use this service for all my online store purchases.
The slick thing about this VAN software is that you can click a button and it populates all the fields in Internet Explorer for you. Unfortunately, I use Firefox, and I've yet to get it to work. So I just copy the numbers across.
Sure, your cards are getting double-hammered. But that just makes the fraud more conspicuous. Hopefully, your CC company has anti-fraud measures in place to track suspicious purchases.
The comment does not imply anything about the LEK group.
Oh, yeah. That sentence is confusing. What I meant was, "I've never visited General Motors website or my favorite cereal company's website, or my laundry detergent's manufacturer's website." I was trying to cover a wide base of products.
My question is how often does the average consumer really visit a website like mpaa.org, riaa.org, or any other corporate entity presence? For me, it is less than 0.005 (or less than a 1/2%). I think the last time I visited riaa.org was a couple years ago when /. mentioned the site had been hacked. I've never visited a General Motors website, the company that makes my favorite breakfast cereal or laundry detergent. I've just never had the desire.
I suspect that the average person visits their favorite news site, gaming portal (like games.yahoo.com or legitgames.com or whatever), fark/digg/slashdot, and blogs of the different varieties. My wife will occasionally do searches for recipes, information on baby stuff, etc. We'll hit newegg.com, amazon.com, or other storefronts.
Am I wrong in my thinking that the average person would visit a site like mpaa.org, riaa.org, or other industry specific org sites? We all use tires to drive on, have you ever visited the site for Michelen or Dunlap tires? Do they have a trade org site that issues news, warnings, and user information regarding recalls/defects of certain tires? If so, I've never even considered searching it out.
My point is that very few people would see it to make it worth putting information touting your propaganda. However, if it was outrageous enough, perhaps it would make news and people might visit (by which time it would be too late, as the site would be fixed).
Counting the votes is not the problem. Yes, both parties have teams watching the counters with an eagle eye. The problem occurs when you get votes from non-citizens of the community and dead people that vote. They all appear legitimate to the counters. Vote early, vote often!
Yes, just imagine what would have happened had Harley Davidson pulled this kind of stunt? HD built there current market strength on the backs of their ex-fans by going out and finding out what they wanted, not just what the company thought they wanted, and what made the ex-fans "ex".
The company quickly rebounded and gained those fans and customer base back. (It certainly helped that the bikes sounded tough.)
It's like the 'stang of the 60's & 70's and 2000's, not the wimpy 80's & 90's versions.
/of course, those in the know will know I have fairly little knowledge in what I just spouted. (except for the HD re-imaging itself, which the US motor companies are failing badly at doing.)
I use my extracted magnet to magnetize all my non-magnetized screwdrivers. Just put the two together and swipe in one direction for about 5 minutes, and you will have a very good magnetized screwdriver.
But, then, only one Deathstar is really needed.
Actually, I think the states get more green from taxes than the fed. gov't. I get almost 100% of my fed. taxes refunded.