World turns to geothermal energy. Mankind relieved at being saved from global warming. As a result, the Earth's core cools and solidifies and the planet's magnetic field breaks down. All life wiped out by cosmic radiation.
I've visited the US a number of times in the last few years and not once has my 6 year old machine-readable passport been actually looked at by anything other than a human immigration officer. I have no doubt that if visitors were required to have RFID passports it would be another decade before immigration people receive the scanners to read the things.
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I had the same problem with UT2004, the DVD would not read properly so I had to go download the warez version from Usenet and use my key to install the game. It's ironic that you have to turn to the pirates because you can't legitimately install the game yourself because of a copy protection that is intended to deter piracy!
Exactly. And PHBs everywhere will lap them up because 'no one ever got fired for buying Intel'.
But the PHBs don't have to work with the shit like their techies do. I work in in an all Dell shop and it's staggering how the quality of their desktops and more recently their servers has declined lately. And Intel has to partly shoulder the blame because these machines run hot. So hot that our air-con in the server rooom can't cope with the flames our new racks throw out.
But it would be a brave techie to stand up in a management meeting and suggest buying AMD kit. As you said, Dell have filled the hole in their line-up and care little if the thing actually performs.
I want a real warranty and tech support I can call
As someone who supports 300 Dell desktops, I wonder why you're under the illusion that Dell provide decent tech support?
Mind you, if you're speak fluent Hindi and can easily keep yourself occupied during the 1 hour minumum hold time then go knock yourself out.
Personally I think there is no better machine (other than self-build) than one put together by a local system builder. You can have it built exactly to your specifications and if you have any problems with it, just throw it in the back of your car and take it to them and explain your problem face to face. No waiting for some phone in India to ring and no packing it up and sending it back to them to wait several weeks only to have it returned and still find it not working. A small price premium to pay for this but well worth it IMO.
So fair competition in your eyes involves malicious litigation knowing that the legal burden will drive your much smaller competititor under?
The only real audio card maker to have the balls to stand up to Creative was Diamond (remember them?). All the others wouldn't touch Aureal's tech while there was question marks over the legitimacy of Creative's claims which meant Aureal lost even more money. Later the courts would throw out every one of Creative's claims but by then it was too late.
The real injustice was the fact that Creative after losing the court case was allowed to pick over the remains of Aureal and acquire their IP. There is something seriously wrong with capitalism when companies are allowed to do this. Whatever the outcome, Creative was going to end up the winner while you, I and Aureal were most definitely the losers.
I think my subject line is more appropropriate than yours.
If there's one hardware firm I despise over any other then it's Craptive for that very reason. Aureal had some superb tech waiting to be unleashed. A3D 2 was superb and was easily a 10 frag head start in Q3 and HL, you could hear exactly where your enemy was and where they were coming from. A3D 3 was going to be even better until Craptive decided to bury Aureal in litigation. Then the vultures bought what was left of them and A3D lies in their vaults while they palm off their inferior reverb engine that is EAX.
I still take out my Vortex 2 card and cradle it thinking of what could have been. Now I can only dream of Creative going under and someone like Nvidia and the ex-Aureal engineers they employed for SoundStorm finally bringing us true positional 3D audio.
I don't care how good their latest chip is, creative can fucking rot in hell for all I care.
Personally, I wouldn't take advice off someone who wastes their money on a dual-core P4 EE.
The high latency of ECC memory together with a P4EE with is like driving a sports car with an anchor tied to the back. Except the P4EE isn't much of a sports car compared to AMD's dual core offerings.
McDonalds, the world's largest restaurant chain that wins countless awards every year for culinary excellence and whose head chefs have sold millions of copies of their recipe books.
AOL, the geeks' favourite ISP reknowned for their quality tech support who can effortlessly guide you through tunneling VNC over SSH at 3 o'clock in the morning.
General Motors and Ford, the greatest car companies in the world who consistantly teach their Japanese counterparts lessons in safety and reliability.
Dell, the world's largest computer manufacturer...
Which is why it's only worth playing Roulette in Europe, nearly all the wheels I've seen there only have one '0'. The 0 on the wheel is how the casino makes its money, given that American casinos are making almost twice as much money on it I'm surprised anyone plays it at all with such apalling odds.
REALLY FUNNY considering we just had the anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. Perhaps you want to joke about the Jewish holocaust or the slaughter of the Native American indians.
Now joking about the Holocaust is one thing I will NOT do, especially since my grandfather died in a Nazi concentration camp.
In hindsight though, if he wasn't so drunk, maybe he wouldn't have fallen out of the guard tower.
I'm on a roll with these un-PC jokes today. Next..
It may be five year old technology but it was way ahead of it's time when it was launched. My first impression of Quake III was how crap it looked on my fairly up to date hardware back then. It was only a couple of years later when I bought a GeForce 3 did I finally see what a wonderful engine Carmack and co had come up with.
Parent is quite correct and not trolling. I live in one of the quieter parts of the UK and the market is healthier than it's ever been since 2000. Wages have risen greatly of the last 12 months and there's no shortage of work.
The company I work for has if fact had to ship some its development work to India, not for the usual cost reasons but simply because it can't fill the positions it advertises despite offering generous packages.
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This is what will will happen:
World turns to geothermal energy. Mankind relieved at being saved from global warming.
As a result, the Earth's core cools and solidifies and the planet's magnetic field breaks down.
All life wiped out by cosmic radiation.
Other than that it's not dangerous at all.
And the chances of your power supply being able to deliver half a kilowatt without going up in flames are...?
I've visited the US a number of times in the last few years and not once has my 6 year old machine-readable passport been actually looked at by anything other than a human immigration officer. I have no doubt that if visitors were required to have RFID passports it would be another decade before immigration people receive the scanners to read the things.
I had the same problem with UT2004, the DVD would not read properly so I had to go download the warez version from Usenet and use my key to install the game. It's ironic that you have to turn to the pirates because you can't legitimately install the game yourself because of a copy protection that is intended to deter piracy!
Exactly. And PHBs everywhere will lap them up because 'no one ever got fired for buying Intel'.
But the PHBs don't have to work with the shit like their techies do. I work in in an all Dell shop and it's staggering how the quality of their desktops and more recently their servers has declined lately. And Intel has to partly shoulder the blame because these machines run hot. So hot that our air-con in the server rooom can't cope with the flames our new racks throw out.
But it would be a brave techie to stand up in a management meeting and suggest buying AMD kit. As you said, Dell have filled the hole in their line-up and care little if the thing actually performs.
More worrying is that Iran are now believed to be in posession of a /24 subnet and are seeking to enrich it to a /16.
I want a real warranty and tech support I can call
As someone who supports 300 Dell desktops, I wonder why you're under the illusion that Dell provide decent tech support?
Mind you, if you're speak fluent Hindi and can easily keep yourself occupied during the 1 hour minumum hold time then go knock yourself out.
Personally I think there is no better machine (other than self-build) than one put together by a local system builder. You can have it built exactly to your specifications and if you have any problems with it, just throw it in the back of your car and take it to them and explain your problem face to face. No waiting for some phone in India to ring and no packing it up and sending it back to them to wait several weeks only to have it returned and still find it not working. A small price premium to pay for this but well worth it IMO.
I'm not sure if you're trolling or trying to be funny.
You not heard of this instruction set called AMD64 that Intel happen to be using at the moment?
Right.
So fair competition in your eyes involves malicious litigation knowing that the legal burden will drive your much smaller competititor under?
The only real audio card maker to have the balls to stand up to Creative was Diamond (remember them?). All the others wouldn't touch Aureal's tech while there was question marks over the legitimacy of Creative's claims which meant Aureal lost even more money. Later the courts would throw out every one of Creative's claims but by then it was too late.
The real injustice was the fact that Creative after losing the court case was allowed to pick over the remains of Aureal and acquire their IP. There is something seriously wrong with capitalism when companies are allowed to do this. Whatever the outcome, Creative was going to end up the winner while you, I and Aureal were most definitely the losers.
I think my subject line is more appropropriate than yours.
If there's one hardware firm I despise over any other then it's Craptive for that very reason. Aureal had some superb tech waiting to be unleashed. A3D 2 was superb and was easily a 10 frag head start in Q3 and HL, you could hear exactly where your enemy was and where they were coming from. A3D 3 was going to be even better until Craptive decided to bury Aureal in litigation. Then the vultures bought what was left of them and A3D lies in their vaults while they palm off their inferior reverb engine that is EAX.
I still take out my Vortex 2 card and cradle it thinking of what could have been. Now I can only dream of Creative going under and someone like Nvidia and the ex-Aureal engineers they employed for SoundStorm finally bringing us true positional 3D audio.
I don't care how good their latest chip is, creative can fucking rot in hell for all I care.
Exactly, and to keep it legitimate all the pornography I download is open source.
Personally, I wouldn't take advice off someone who wastes their money on a dual-core P4 EE.
The high latency of ECC memory together with a P4EE with is like driving a sports car with an anchor tied to the back. Except the P4EE isn't much of a sports car compared to AMD's dual core offerings.
They bet the farm on Itanium and will shortly pay the price.
Let's see..
McDonalds, the world's largest restaurant chain that wins countless awards every year for culinary excellence and whose head chefs have sold millions of copies of their recipe books.
AOL, the geeks' favourite ISP reknowned for their quality tech support who can effortlessly guide you through tunneling VNC over SSH at 3 o'clock in the morning.
General Motors and Ford, the greatest car companies in the world who consistantly teach their Japanese counterparts lessons in safety and reliability.
Dell, the world's largest computer manufacturer...
I'll stop now, I'm soooooo depressed.
All the light bulbs in my house are Mazdas, does this mean I have to stick a USB key in the wall every time I want light?
Oh wait..
Which is why it's only worth playing Roulette in Europe, nearly all the wheels I've seen there only have one '0'. The 0 on the wheel is how the casino makes its money, given that American casinos are making almost twice as much money on it I'm surprised anyone plays it at all with such apalling odds.
Nooo, you beat me to it!
/. again.
Anyway, we've gone and killed the camp guard joke now. RIP and may it never darken
REALLY FUNNY considering we just had the anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. Perhaps you want to joke about the Jewish holocaust or the slaughter of the Native American indians.
Now joking about the Holocaust is one thing I will NOT do, especially since my grandfather died in a Nazi concentration camp.
In hindsight though, if he wasn't so drunk, maybe he wouldn't have fallen out of the guard tower.
I'm on a roll with these un-PC jokes today. Next..
Overclocking experiment results in largest single release of thermal energy in Japan since 1945.
Casualty figures as yet unknown.
Ah yes, the HL2 engine, which judging by the leaked alpha version still contains Quake 1 code.
It may be five year old technology but it was way ahead of it's time when it was launched. My first impression of Quake III was how crap it looked on my fairly up to date hardware back then. It was only a couple of years later when I bought a GeForce 3 did I finally see what a wonderful engine Carmack and co had come up with.
Parent is quite correct and not trolling. I live in one of the quieter parts of the UK and the market is healthier than it's ever been since 2000. Wages have risen greatly of the last 12 months and there's no shortage of work.
The company I work for has if fact had to ship some its development work to India, not for the usual cost reasons but simply because it can't fill the positions it advertises despite offering generous packages.
mkdosfs is what you need. As you found out, XP doesn't format FAT32 partitions greater than 32GB. Formats as quick as Linux too.
It's because a fov of 90 made all the models look really thin, Gabe Newell got jealous and demanded it be set to 75.
Let's see if they manages to find it then :P
Everyone knows it's at the Castle Arrggh.