Although i hate to defend Microsoft, i grudgingly agree that Windows 7 is far better than XP for gaming. CoH:ToV runs far faster on a 9800GTX+ card. nVIDIA & microsoft did something right for a change. If you switch off the damn UAC completely, you will be amazed at how responsive it is. Plus if you want, you can use the Vista Tweak tool provided with Object Desktop that allows me to make it even faster. I was thinking of upgrading to a new CPU (AMD Phenom) but i have instead overclocked existing one by 10% and i get amazing performance.
There's a saying: "Truth is stranger than fiction, because while fiction is bound by imagination, truth is not." Never in my wildest dreams would i have thought i have to defend one Microsoft product against another Microsoft product in slashdot. Here it goes: Obviously you are expressing a dry sarcasm associated with a hatred of Microsoft's ALL new products in General. Tell me, how many times have you reinstalled XP so far? If you say none at all, then you are a liar. Tell me you didn't add extra RAM, change the graphics card, or upgraded the CPU in past 5 years. Tell me you NEVER faced a display driver issue that forced you to reboot into Safe Mode to repair or rollback.
All Windows are inherently painful to work with. The degree of resolution and the ether provided to us minimizes the pain. Windows 7 goes a long way in reducing that pain. It does not remove the need for surgery, but it provides fine laser scalpels and angiograms instead of by-pass surgery.
If you can switch off your sarcasm filter for a moment and look at something new objectively, you may do yourself a favor.
I used to love XP. Not anymore. Once i installed Windows 7, i have no intention of going back to stupid XP. Windows 7 for me is more stable, faster and less crashing. Benefits: 1) Windows 7 installs faster and less intrusive than XP. 2) Windows 7 networking is far more advanced than the usual XP crap. 3) Display drivers crash do not cause a BSOD. Hell my nvidia beta driver crashed when i was running CoH:ToV. Windows 7 quietly told me the situation, restarted the driver and asked me if i wanted to roll back to previous version. I did. 4) Windows 7 is faster than XP in many ways. Multitasking, file operations, USB access, etc., all are much faster. 5) Device Manager shoots XP out of the water. I can pin point exact problems, roll back only those that are needed, and more.
For me, Windows 7 is a god-send. I haven't used Vista, but i love Windows 7 and would definitely pay good money for this.
Hopefully Windows 7 will come with an even more strict WGA and OGA to extract more pain from consumers. Maybe they'll wake up
Microsoft better get Windows 7 right. Getting WGA and a strict OGA will hurt Microsoft and not customers. Microsoft is allowing installable ISO editions of its Windows 7. This is really Great! I could buy online, download it online and install it. BeOS failed because it did not coexist with anybody else. OS/2 is still running ATMs. IBM pulled it from Retail because it realized that its strong point is mainframe. Both of them did not go under because of piracy. Get your facts right.
According to RIAA you only have a license to listen. Not to criticize (in Amazon), not to sing-along and certainly not try to create mixtapes. Inspite of paying $29.99 for a CD. This is not new. When the Telegraph first came out, newspapers sued them non-stop. Slowly they realized that they could create Reuters which would disseminate information froma single source to all newspapers. Similar was the case with Gramaphone and Telephone. Telephone was used to pipe music to homes. Something that Edison strongly opposed as it would lead to music being heard by someone who did not pay for the same. RIAA, MPAA and even newspapers are modern-day neocons. They don't understand that internet stands for truly available globally. That is why iTunes can't sell me Akon songs with an non-US indian credit card. RIAA will not realize this because realizing this means they are out of the job. Games in Amazon i can't buy are many. So are many Audible books. Sigh... Fortunately i have RS and ML. I need content in my way when i want it. You are not willing to provide it? Fine. I will get it somehow. Don't like it? Sue me.
Simple. Stop online banking for him, stop paying bills online, and prevent him from taking notes when a lawyer argues. Once he realizes his dumbness he will change,
India is a corrupt democracy. The more rules and laws are present, the more corrupt the government becomes. I bet my ass that billions of dollars will be spent to implement it, with doubtful results. The really criminal and refugees will escape by paying the local officials and politicians. The poor lower end will get their cards after they pay some money. The middle class will be harassed since most move around the contry. The uber-rich will not care. In short another fiasco to add to the many fiascos called government programmes.
I used Engineers to repair the HQ. Nope. Its as if nothing is happening. And no, am not playing any mods. And FYI i have been playing since 2006 from the first CoH. So i guess i know something about what repairs or not.
What pisses me off is the ability of Engineers or repairers to have abilities that Human players don't have. For instance in CoH:ToV you can't repair your own HQ. The AI can and does exactly that.
"We see it all the time," Allen said. "It makes it harder for law enforcement. It makes it tougher for prosecutors."
..but the same AG's and District Attorneys NEVER prosecute a Governor or high-ranking politcian of the same crimes. Those critters shed a bunch of crocodile tears on TV and escape to get elected again and "abuse" others. Unless a district attorney or a state's AG brings charges against a sitting Governor or a major politician and argues for conviction in court, i would say they are all cowards. Armchair Generals. Fight someone of your own size you cowards!
Exactly. And i need to be a member of the Mafia to understand its internals. What hogwash is the Swedish court saying??? If this were US, the judgement would be set aside. All Nordic countries are stupid and dumb.
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The hospital is under no compulsion to accept insurance. It can charge patients directly, sue them, ruin their credit and run them into ground. The RoR by dropping patients while not refunding their premiums is higher than accepting the patient claim and paying the doctor. So the incentive for curing is lost. Corporate psychology states that corporations are pathological liars and criminals. Unless the law changes to criminalize dropping of a patient, forcing it to repay premiums with interest and fines if patient is dropped, and providing incentives for paying a claim rather than disputing it, such criminal dropping will continue. Turning a cure into treating symptoms by a medical regimen is financially beneficial to doctors too. After all they are the ones prescribing medicines and its a rare doctor who prescribes generic brands. Where do you think the money comes for jaunts, cruises, etc? Transparency is the last thing anyone likes. Hospitals hate it more because it forces them to explain $350 for mucus removal system (tissue paper), and $450 for a drip of glucose. In short, the law has to change. Corporates don't and will not change unless the law forces them to do so. Unfortunately congressmen are bought and paid for. So the law will not change.
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You are talking an "ideal" scenario where capitalism works ideally. That is not so. First of all if i (AIG) can receive premiums AND the ability to drop patients once they make a claim without suffering legal consequences, that is what i will do. Premiums are income. And if i don't have expenses (payouts) then all that income is profit. Second, curing patients of their diseases reduces the customer base. Why would i (pharma cos) want to send a customer away for the next 20 years or so, and wait for the next one? I would rather want the customer to return back to me every month with a regular payment. Thirdly, why would i (doctors) want transparency that comes with IT since that opens me up for lawsuits and increases my professional insurance premium?
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HIPAA is something you MUST do. Federal Law states it. The law doesn't state i should like what iam tasked to do.
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...there are multiple reasons and road blocks (natural and artificial): 1) Healthcare is about making profit. It is not about caring for health. I have seen many IT companies bite the dust during proposals by stating their systems could help caring for health quicker and much better. That's the last thing Blue Cross or anyone else wants. The idea for IT companies is to open a presentation with how to increase profits. That, as far as i know, is the only presentation which interests the healthcare company. 2) There are combinational factors; for instance doctors and software don't go well together psychologically except in times of peace, which is rare. Instead of adopting touch screen systems and throw-away laptops small enough and tough enough, most companies insist on producing massive software run in PCs and Servers in a serene a/c room. Excuse me, which doctor has sanguinely traversed through a maze of Visual Basic or PowerBuilder application menus? 3) IT companies should seriously stop considering "integrated" systems which connect doctors with nurses with patients with pharmacies. No, for the last fcuking time, no we don't need integrated crap. All we need is a simple system that can be accessed with a max of three clicks and accepts voice input. 4) Record management: HIPAA is not exactly an easy job. Any standard created by a committee is, by definition, an as$ to work with. 5) Changes in systems result in changes in behavior and processes: something hated by surgeons, doctors and hospitals. Don't attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity.
And that's also why UMD on PSP is a flop and why PSP itself is a flop. Companies won;t acknowledge or agree that their lockin strategy is wrong. They prefer to plod into oblivion by choosing a wrong path than acknowledge that they were wrong. ATRAC
Thanks for the MUCH, MUCh detailed explanation of each newspaper in UK. I used to like The Times occassionally for its 4th page reporting when i was i London, but i prefer the web for news. Thanks once again. Someone please mod him up!
That's because national pride is associated with war mongering in Germany. And No, it was not Hitler. It was Kaiser who raised this jingoism. Since 1890s, whenever the Germans & their Kaiser had rattled their swords and talked about raining death on France, the other countries laughed at them and thought it was a joke. Not for the french. For them it was a terrifying truth. In 1917 the Germans came very, very close to achieving this aim. While the tanks may have threatened them, it did not make them flee. What did them was the same thing that did them in WW2: Reserves. They simply did not have the depth of reserves that France had in 1917 and later Russia in 1942. So, most the populace of Germany was involved in the war effort. Plus add to the fact that the Germans have been known as humorless people for long (Germans are the perfect Vulcans: emotionless). Even today German products (like Hidelberg) are hghly appreciated, but Germans are not.
Why don't our corporate controlled, drug-addled newspapers act like their British counterparts? Ours is a direct republic, so in theory, our press must be more active in exposing the illegal, false and corrupt expense accounts of the numerous Ted Stevens clones that walk the same halls that Lincoln and Jackson walked. Why don't our media have a daily expose show at 7 PM detailing the latest claims our diseased congressmen and senators claim as expenses? British press is so Cool!
My God! You are so logical, so correct yet somehow so disconcerting that i would admit you admire Dr.Goebbels' way of propaganda. Isn't it? (no, am NOT sarcastic or angry. Am just saying it because your answers seem to so casual, yet so cruel)
An excellent suggestion. Best is if a sponsor proposes a law that is struck down by the courts, he/she must subject herself to waterboarding for 3 days for first offense, 6 days for 2md offense and 12 days for every subsequent offense. This enables the lawmakers to be more careful and also provides valuable employment to the ex-waterboarders in Gitmo.
How do you ban video games on certain criteria? What prevents you from banning books, newspapers and and meetings based on same criteria? If video games are banned because of violence in them, then books also need to be banned. So do newspapers. So do meetings which discuss such newspapers. Where do start and where do we end? Because while Germans as individuals are the best of the human race, as a group they are capable of the worst behavior. And no, i didn't say this.
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Although i hate to defend Microsoft, i grudgingly agree that Windows 7 is far better than XP for gaming.
CoH:ToV runs far faster on a 9800GTX+ card.
nVIDIA & microsoft did something right for a change.
If you switch off the damn UAC completely, you will be amazed at how responsive it is.
Plus if you want, you can use the Vista Tweak tool provided with Object Desktop that allows me to make it even faster.
I was thinking of upgrading to a new CPU (AMD Phenom) but i have instead overclocked existing one by 10% and i get amazing performance.
There's a saying: "Truth is stranger than fiction, because while fiction is bound by imagination, truth is not."
Never in my wildest dreams would i have thought i have to defend one Microsoft product against another Microsoft product in slashdot.
Here it goes:
Obviously you are expressing a dry sarcasm associated with a hatred of Microsoft's ALL new products in General.
Tell me, how many times have you reinstalled XP so far? If you say none at all, then you are a liar.
Tell me you didn't add extra RAM, change the graphics card, or upgraded the CPU in past 5 years.
Tell me you NEVER faced a display driver issue that forced you to reboot into Safe Mode to repair or rollback.
All Windows are inherently painful to work with. The degree of resolution and the ether provided to us minimizes the pain.
Windows 7 goes a long way in reducing that pain. It does not remove the need for surgery, but it provides fine laser scalpels and angiograms instead of by-pass surgery.
If you can switch off your sarcasm filter for a moment and look at something new objectively, you may do yourself a favor.
I used to love XP.
Not anymore.
Once i installed Windows 7, i have no intention of going back to stupid XP.
Windows 7 for me is more stable, faster and less crashing.
Benefits:
1) Windows 7 installs faster and less intrusive than XP.
2) Windows 7 networking is far more advanced than the usual XP crap.
3) Display drivers crash do not cause a BSOD. Hell my nvidia beta driver crashed when i was running CoH:ToV. Windows 7 quietly told me the situation, restarted the driver and asked me if i wanted to roll back to previous version. I did.
4) Windows 7 is faster than XP in many ways. Multitasking, file operations, USB access, etc., all are much faster.
5) Device Manager shoots XP out of the water. I can pin point exact problems, roll back only those that are needed, and more.
For me, Windows 7 is a god-send. I haven't used Vista, but i love Windows 7 and would definitely pay good money for this.
Unless i see proof in person of these specimens you talk about, i can't accept your theory.
Hopefully Windows 7 will come with an even more strict WGA and OGA to extract more pain from consumers. Maybe they'll wake up
Microsoft better get Windows 7 right.
Getting WGA and a strict OGA will hurt Microsoft and not customers.
Microsoft is allowing installable ISO editions of its Windows 7. This is really Great!
I could buy online, download it online and install it.
BeOS failed because it did not coexist with anybody else.
OS/2 is still running ATMs. IBM pulled it from Retail because it realized that its strong point is mainframe.
Both of them did not go under because of piracy.
Get your facts right.
I pay taxes. With them I buy civilization
Income tax is a form of slavery. You are buying slavery.
Sales tax forces everyone to pay for their consumption, and not income.
According to RIAA you only have a license to listen. Not to criticize (in Amazon), not to sing-along and certainly not try to create mixtapes.
Inspite of paying $29.99 for a CD.
This is not new.
When the Telegraph first came out, newspapers sued them non-stop. Slowly they realized that they could create Reuters which would disseminate information froma single source to all newspapers.
Similar was the case with Gramaphone and Telephone. Telephone was used to pipe music to homes. Something that Edison strongly opposed as it would lead to music being heard by someone who did not pay for the same.
RIAA, MPAA and even newspapers are modern-day neocons.
They don't understand that internet stands for truly available globally.
That is why iTunes can't sell me Akon songs with an non-US indian credit card.
RIAA will not realize this because realizing this means they are out of the job.
Games in Amazon i can't buy are many. So are many Audible books.
Sigh...
Fortunately i have RS and ML.
I need content in my way when i want it. You are not willing to provide it? Fine. I will get it somehow. Don't like it? Sue me.
What the hell are you blabbering about?
Simple. Stop online banking for him, stop paying bills online, and prevent him from taking notes when a lawyer argues.
Once he realizes his dumbness he will change,
India is a corrupt democracy.
The more rules and laws are present, the more corrupt the government becomes.
I bet my ass that billions of dollars will be spent to implement it, with doubtful results.
The really criminal and refugees will escape by paying the local officials and politicians.
The poor lower end will get their cards after they pay some money.
The middle class will be harassed since most move around the contry.
The uber-rich will not care.
In short another fiasco to add to the many fiascos called government programmes.
I used Engineers to repair the HQ.
Nope.
Its as if nothing is happening.
And no, am not playing any mods.
And FYI i have been playing since 2006 from the first CoH.
So i guess i know something about what repairs or not.
What pisses me off is the ability of Engineers or repairers to have abilities that Human players don't have.
For instance in CoH:ToV you can't repair your own HQ. The AI can and does exactly that.
"We see it all the time," Allen said. "It makes it harder for law enforcement. It makes it tougher for prosecutors."
..but the same AG's and District Attorneys NEVER prosecute a Governor or high-ranking politcian of the same crimes.
Those critters shed a bunch of crocodile tears on TV and escape to get elected again and "abuse" others.
Unless a district attorney or a state's AG brings charges against a sitting Governor or a major politician and argues for conviction in court, i would say they are all cowards.
Armchair Generals.
Fight someone of your own size you cowards!
Exactly.
And i need to be a member of the Mafia to understand its internals.
What hogwash is the Swedish court saying???
If this were US, the judgement would be set aside.
All Nordic countries are stupid and dumb.
The hospital is under no compulsion to accept insurance. It can charge patients directly, sue them, ruin their credit and run them into ground.
The RoR by dropping patients while not refunding their premiums is higher than accepting the patient claim and paying the doctor.
So the incentive for curing is lost. Corporate psychology states that corporations are pathological liars and criminals. Unless the law changes to criminalize dropping of a patient, forcing it to repay premiums with interest and fines if patient is dropped, and providing incentives for paying a claim rather than disputing it, such criminal dropping will continue.
Turning a cure into treating symptoms by a medical regimen is financially beneficial to doctors too. After all they are the ones prescribing medicines and its a rare doctor who prescribes generic brands. Where do you think the money comes for jaunts, cruises, etc?
Transparency is the last thing anyone likes. Hospitals hate it more because it forces them to explain $350 for mucus removal system (tissue paper), and $450 for a drip of glucose.
In short, the law has to change. Corporates don't and will not change unless the law forces them to do so.
Unfortunately congressmen are bought and paid for. So the law will not change.
You are talking an "ideal" scenario where capitalism works ideally.
That is not so.
First of all if i (AIG) can receive premiums AND the ability to drop patients once they make a claim without suffering legal consequences, that is what i will do. Premiums are income. And if i don't have expenses (payouts) then all that income is profit.
Second, curing patients of their diseases reduces the customer base.
Why would i (pharma cos) want to send a customer away for the next 20 years or so, and wait for the next one? I would rather want the customer to return back to me every month with a regular payment.
Thirdly, why would i (doctors) want transparency that comes with IT since that opens me up for lawsuits and increases my professional insurance premium?
HIPAA is something you MUST do. Federal Law states it.
The law doesn't state i should like what iam tasked to do.
...there are multiple reasons and road blocks (natural and artificial):
1) Healthcare is about making profit. It is not about caring for health. I have seen many IT companies bite the dust during proposals by stating their systems could help caring for health quicker and much better. That's the last thing Blue Cross or anyone else wants.
The idea for IT companies is to open a presentation with how to increase profits. That, as far as i know, is the only presentation which interests the healthcare company.
2) There are combinational factors; for instance doctors and software don't go well together psychologically except in times of peace, which is rare. Instead of adopting touch screen systems and throw-away laptops small enough and tough enough, most companies insist on producing massive software run in PCs and Servers in a serene a/c room. Excuse me, which doctor has sanguinely traversed through a maze of Visual Basic or PowerBuilder application menus?
3) IT companies should seriously stop considering "integrated" systems which connect doctors with nurses with patients with pharmacies. No, for the last fcuking time, no we don't need integrated crap. All we need is a simple system that can be accessed with a max of three clicks and accepts voice input.
4) Record management: HIPAA is not exactly an easy job. Any standard created by a committee is, by definition, an as$ to work with.
5) Changes in systems result in changes in behavior and processes: something hated by surgeons, doctors and hospitals.
Don't attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity.
And that's also why UMD on PSP is a flop and why PSP itself is a flop.
Companies won;t acknowledge or agree that their lockin strategy is wrong.
They prefer to plod into oblivion by choosing a wrong path than acknowledge that they were wrong.
ATRAC
Thanks for the MUCH, MUCh detailed explanation of each newspaper in UK.
I used to like The Times occassionally for its 4th page reporting when i was i London, but i prefer the web for news.
Thanks once again.
Someone please mod him up!
That's because national pride is associated with war mongering in Germany.
And No, it was not Hitler.
It was Kaiser who raised this jingoism.
Since 1890s, whenever the Germans & their Kaiser had rattled their swords and talked about raining death on France, the other countries laughed at them and thought it was a joke.
Not for the french. For them it was a terrifying truth.
In 1917 the Germans came very, very close to achieving this aim. While the tanks may have threatened them, it did not make them flee. What did them was the same thing that did them in WW2: Reserves.
They simply did not have the depth of reserves that France had in 1917 and later Russia in 1942.
So, most the populace of Germany was involved in the war effort.
Plus add to the fact that the Germans have been known as humorless people for long (Germans are the perfect Vulcans: emotionless).
Even today German products (like Hidelberg) are hghly appreciated, but Germans are not.
Why don't our corporate controlled, drug-addled newspapers act like their British counterparts?
Ours is a direct republic, so in theory, our press must be more active in exposing the illegal, false and corrupt expense accounts of the numerous Ted Stevens clones that walk the same halls that Lincoln and Jackson walked.
Why don't our media have a daily expose show at 7 PM detailing the latest claims our diseased congressmen and senators claim as expenses?
British press is so Cool!
My God!
You are so logical, so correct yet somehow so disconcerting that i would admit you admire Dr.Goebbels' way of propaganda. Isn't it?
(no, am NOT sarcastic or angry. Am just saying it because your answers seem to so casual, yet so cruel)
An excellent suggestion.
Best is if a sponsor proposes a law that is struck down by the courts, he/she must subject herself to waterboarding for 3 days for first offense, 6 days for 2md offense and 12 days for every subsequent offense.
This enables the lawmakers to be more careful and also provides valuable employment to the ex-waterboarders in Gitmo.
How do you ban video games on certain criteria?
What prevents you from banning books, newspapers and and meetings based on same criteria?
If video games are banned because of violence in them, then books also need to be banned. So do newspapers. So do meetings which discuss such newspapers.
Where do start and where do we end?
Because while Germans as individuals are the best of the human race, as a group they are capable of the worst behavior. And no, i didn't say this.