I know. However, it doesn't on mine, and my point is that at that point I was pretty much stuck. There is a KB article about the issue which is no help at all, and a long long list of forum posts by people with the same problem and no solution.
When I've had comparable issues with Linux (a piece of supported hardware mysteriously doesn't work), there has always been something I can do about it.
No one uses distros fron 2001, because Linux distros get regular updates.
I had to insert a driver floppy (and therefore spend the extra ~£7 to have a floppy drive on that machine) during XP install, for a very common SATA controller. This was before Vista was out, not that it's an appropriate solution now either.
It should be possible to configure everything via GUI which is still not a case for too many situations and operations.
If regedit.exe counts as a GUI, so does your favourite text editor. Navigating to a path (in the registry or in the filesystem) and changing a cryptic string for another cryptic string is necessary on Windows to do interesting things, same as Linux. It is not generally necessary on either platform if you just want to listen to music and write emails.
Also, to add an unscientific anecdote about hardware support, I now find it easier to make hardware work on Linux. Having bought a Vista laptop, I installed Windows XP and Linux on it, and have every piece of hardware working perfectly on Linux, but many missing/unreliable drivers (and, bizarrely, no support for USB keyboards) on XP.
I cannot imagine that, in the near future, a mobile device will draw more power by just using full processor speed than it would by having to power all those sensors and interpret their data.
As wireless improves, so will wired. I don't think wireless is going to overtake wired in terms of transfer speeds any time soon, and there will always be people who want/need better transfer speeds (someone above mentioned moving VM images around, for example).
It just occurred to me: until ships can be unmanned, why not have a saferoom for the crew? In the event of pirates boarding the ship, they could retreat to a bulletproof room and lock themselves in, depriving the pirates of any hostages to keep the appropriate nation's special forces away with. Being motivated by profit rather than ideology means the pirates don't want to die, so they can't really threaten to blow the whole ship up.
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What's the difference between "creating our own mix" and "just dumping an egg, milk, and oil into a bowl...stir it"?
Also: no flour?
Gambling is the traditional and, to some extent, still the normal meaning of "gaming" for people who don't play video games.
Summary assumed you already read Slashdot?
They don't speak Arabic in Iran, you fool.
Was that an attempt at a +5 Troll?
Did you end up paying?
No, Vista is not good at battery life. I'm not sure why you think that.
Something usually free is already widely used.
Yes, and it is a fault in the Windows development model that anyone is using a 2001 OS.
(Well, these days it's also a fault in vista's design philosophy).
I know. However, it doesn't on mine, and my point is that at that point I was pretty much stuck. There is a KB article about the issue which is no help at all, and a long long list of forum posts by people with the same problem and no solution.
When I've had comparable issues with Linux (a piece of supported hardware mysteriously doesn't work), there has always been something I can do about it.
There was someone a couple of years back who implanted tiny magnets in his fingers. He said he could feel vibration from alternating fields.
No one uses distros fron 2001, because Linux distros get regular updates.
I had to insert a driver floppy (and therefore spend the extra ~£7 to have a floppy drive on that machine) during XP install, for a very common SATA controller. This was before Vista was out, not that it's an appropriate solution now either.
Neither does Windows, in an annoyingly large number of cases.
If regedit.exe counts as a GUI, so does your favourite text editor. Navigating to a path (in the registry or in the filesystem) and changing a cryptic string for another cryptic string is necessary on Windows to do interesting things, same as Linux. It is not generally necessary on either platform if you just want to listen to music and write emails.
Also, to add an unscientific anecdote about hardware support, I now find it easier to make hardware work on Linux. Having bought a Vista laptop, I installed Windows XP and Linux on it, and have every piece of hardware working perfectly on Linux, but many missing/unreliable drivers (and, bizarrely, no support for USB keyboards) on XP.
Ignorant people can be educated. Stupid people really, really can not.
I cannot imagine that, in the near future, a mobile device will draw more power by just using full processor speed than it would by having to power all those sensors and interpret their data.
I prefer UrT. I just meant that they aren't really the same genre.
UrT isn't really comparable with CS. Also, IIRC UrT used to have flashbangs, before they were replaced with smoke.
What does "SPAM" stand for?
CAN-Spam is irrelevant, because the spammers are either not in the USA, or are pretending not to be in the USA.
As wireless improves, so will wired. I don't think wireless is going to overtake wired in terms of transfer speeds any time soon, and there will always be people who want/need better transfer speeds (someone above mentioned moving VM images around, for example).
+1 Insightful; until now I never truly understood why people wanted more bandwidth.
Modded "Troll" because you think the US doesn't build illegal weapons, or because you think the U2 flights deep into USSR airspace were legal?
It just occurred to me: until ships can be unmanned, why not have a saferoom for the crew? In the event of pirates boarding the ship, they could retreat to a bulletproof room and lock themselves in, depriving the pirates of any hostages to keep the appropriate nation's special forces away with. Being motivated by profit rather than ideology means the pirates don't want to die, so they can't really threaten to blow the whole ship up.
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