foobar2000. I use it on both Windows and my Android phone. No bloat, no adware, extensible with plugins, and all the features I want in a player, plus more.
(I somewhat regret not keeping a copy of the DRDOS source from when it was freely available.)
I still have my Caldera OpenDOS ver. 7.01 CD that I picked up at their booth at a yuuuge computer event back in 1997 (I think it was called Computex). It has a crack in the outside edge of it, which I only just discovered when I dug it out, but I was able to rip an ISO of it as there's only about 40MB of data on the disc. There were a handful of projects that tried making something of the code, but I don't think they went very far.
I still have my copy of the 6th edition of PC Intern in English (with many translation errors throughout the text, particularly in the latter parts discussing Windows). It was a great book, with some of the most in-depth coverage of many aspects of the PC, though the Win section seems like they rushed a bit to get that in.
I haven't been able to part with my old DOS-era books. Ralf Brown's Interrupt List, a couple books on DOS extenders, Schulman's Undocumented DOS, and the once highly respected Programmer's Guide to the EGA, VGA and SuperVGA by Ferraro (just checked Amazon, apparently that last one goes for almost $300.00 CDN for a used copy!). While they're not really relevant any more, I still enjoy reading them.
I've often wondered if anyone in the FreeDOS dev community would be interested in them, were I to offer to donate them. Then again, most of the information they contained can be found on the Internet now.
Uhh..why are you booting from USB? There is your problem, Asus boards really don't like booting from USB, if you want to boot from USB a lot an Asrock or gigabyte would have been a better choice.
I have used ASUS boards exclusively for almost a decade, from early Athlons, to an Athlon64, to a Core2 notebook, to both an 1156 and 1155 Core i5, as well as a few replacement boards for dead computers repaired for friends. I have never had an issue booting from USB, ever.
While that's anecdotal evidence, your claim contained no evidence, so I guess my point is... ummm... neener neener?
Seriously, I've never had an issue with ASUS products, except for Steam suddenly (and mysteriously) breaking my ASUS wifi adapter.
As an off and on WoW subscriber since shortly after launch, I cancelled my sub again last month. Instead, I've been enjoying some other games as, over the years, I've amassed a respectable library on Steam. Lately it's been SimCity 4 and Sims 3, but before that was Dragon Age Origins. I will get to Bioshock Infinite eventually.
When I need my MMO fix, I play Lord of the Rings Online (the lifetime subscription/VIP status I picked up at launch has more than paid for itself).
My son, who I played WoW with for a few months, bounces back and forth between games like an indecisive hummingbird stuck between multiple feeders full of sugary goodness. I walk by him and he's on Diablo 2 or 3, make a cup of tea and walk by again and it's League of Legends, 20 minutes later it's something else. The only thing that remains constant is that he hasn't shut up since he discovered Skype.
The old Doctor Who had the occasional grim-and-gritty (the kind that made Question Time in Parliament complain about it). The new Who is full of "if you hope and feel hard enough, you can overcome alien technology, incomprehensible gods and the laws of physics". Even the last episode was proof enough of that.
You've summarized almost everything I hate about the new Doctor Who, although you missed mentioning the overuse of the Sonic Screwdriver as a solution for everything. While I do enjoy the new Doctor Who, I have nowhere near the love for it that I did for the classic series. It's unfortunate, but the new Who is science-fantasy, rather than science-fiction.
Anyone else remember when people had thick enough skins they could just roll their eyes, shrug their shoulders, and not give a crap about what other people were doing or saying (provided no one's really getting hurt)?
I am tired of everyone feeling so entitled - the whole world has to conform to their ideals, and if it doesn't then by Gawd they're going to bitch, complain, threaten legal action, and sue until they get what they want.
Shit like this just pisses me off no end and makes me pine for the days when the Internet was an exclusive club for us nerds (and perverts).
Today the evidence for Jesus can be seen in people. In lives changed from being ruined to being fixed, in people serving meals at soup kitchens, in caring for others and in answered prayers of Christians.
That's not got much to do with Jesus from what I see. That's people doing things.
Where's Jesus during the rampant abductions, murders and rapes that are going on every day?
I perused the NeoWin "article" linked elsewhere, and followed a few other links. It appears the problem is not (specifically) with the chip; rather it appears the driver for the integrated graphics is crap and doesn't like running Metro apps, at least that's what folks on the Intel support forum are complaining about.
IMHO, it's just incompetence. They just don't seem to be able to do *anything* these days. I remember the Microsoft whose products could be guaranteed to be technically excellent, and I look at the modern day Microsoft with despair.
I read that with snarky emphasis on the word technically, because I do not remember a time when Microsoft's products could be referred to as excellent.
Clearly you are unaware of Nvidia fiasco and following litigation. It wasnt "share of the units". It was Majority of them. Basically finding a working laptop with nv8xxx/9xxx GPU is considered lucky (they ALL die sooner or later, ticking bombs), and there are companies doing nothing else but fixing them.
I have an ASUS F8Sn-B1, from 2008, with a 9500M GS that still works fine. It saw moderate use playing World of Warcraft and Lord of the Rings Online for three years. I've never considered myself lucky, but I have been careful to ensure there was proper airflow. It still works, runs Linux Mint and (occasionally) Windows 7, and is mostly used for web browsing and simple stuff now.
I too recommend VirtualBox. I use it on my desktop Win 7 machine as well as my four year old notebook running Linux Mint. The fact that it's more-or-less free, and essentially identical on both platforms is a definite advantage. Thus far I've used it to play with various LInux distributions and FreeDOS/MS-DOS. I've even been messing with Windows 98 SE and OS/2 Warp lately, although they required a bit of head scratching to get running.
Let him rewrite the Zahn trilogy for screen and it might have a chance (but I doubt it will appeal to the kind of audience Disney wants...)
The problem with this is the original actors are far too old to play the characters. As a fan of the original trilogy, I consider Luke, Leia and Han to be sacrosanct; I really don't think I'd want to see a film where they were portrayed by different actors.
"It's a social awkwardness like a stranger in a foreign land", he said. "They don't know what to say. They don't know what to do."'"
In my youth, before porn and videogames (well, beyond a few hours of Nintendo here and there) I never knew what to say, or what to do. Didn't stop me from making a couple babies. [bitter]And after the wife left me for someone else, porn and videogames have done an adequate job of filling her role anyway.[/bitter]
I am more concerned about young men viewing women as little more than a couple orifices and a pair of boobs.
I think I know why North American readers may never heard of it. (USA and Canada represent well over two-thirds of the population of industrialized anglophone countries.) From the article:
in Saarbrücken, Germany
For some reason they never have demo parties like this in North America. Why is that?
I'm Canadian, and I know of the demoscene and all the related terminology the GP doesn't. While I never had the opportunity to attend a party, I loved watching what some of these groups put out. The Amiga era was a few years before my time; I got into it in the mid-90's when names like Renaissance, Future Crew and Triton were the big guns.
There are caps of some of the big name demos from back in the day available on YouTube, with Future Crew's probably being the most popular. I still remember the awe I experienced when I first saw Triton's (later Starbreeze Studios) Into the Shadows demo. I purchased their subsequent game, Enclave, because of that demo (and they were the guys who wrote FastTracker 2).
For those who don't know what the big deal is, way back when PC hardware was pretty crappy these groups were putting out some of the most demanding and advanced programs, stuff that put a lot of what the game companies were pushing to shame. The aforementioned Into the Shadows demo was released in 1995. This is long before 3D accelerators and hardware floating-point math were standard. It really was impressive at the time, and it was being done by groups of kids.
Both are atheists. "Agnostic" was a term coined by a man who admitted that the term "atheist" applied to him but didn't want to be lumped in with other people the term also applied to.
[citation needed]
atheist - a person who denies or disbelieves the existence of a supreme being or beings. agnostic - a person who holds that the existence of the ultimate cause, as God, and the essential nature of things are unknown and unknowable, or that human knowledge is limited to experience.
When I reached intellectual maturity and began to ask myself whether I was an atheist, a theist, or a pantheist; a materialist or an idealist; Christian or a freethinker; I found that the more I learned and reflected, the less ready was the answer; until, at last, I came to the conclusion that I had neither art nor part with any of these denominations, except the last. The one thing in which most of these good people were agreed was the one thing in which I differed from them. They were quite sure they had attained a certain "gnosis,"–had, more or less successfully, solved the problem of existence; while I was quite sure I had not, and had a pretty strong conviction that the problem was insoluble. So I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of "agnostic." It came into my head as suggestively antithetic to the "gnostic" of Church history, who professed to know so much about the very things of which I was ignorant. To my great satisfaction the term took. - Huxley, Thomas. Collected Essays. pp. 237–239. ISBN 1-85506-922-9 (via Wikipedia).
I find white-space denotion unintuitive and awkward at best. I also think it is a fallacy that it improves code formatting habits when compared to braces. It all comes down to the consistency of the individual programmer(s). Perhaps it is my code upbringing (mostly C and C-like languages) but I'll take my Whitesmith over anything else any day. To each their own.
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foobar2000. I use it on both Windows and my Android phone. No bloat, no adware, extensible with plugins, and all the features I want in a player, plus more.
(I somewhat regret not keeping a copy of the DRDOS source from when it was freely available.)
I still have my Caldera OpenDOS ver. 7.01 CD that I picked up at their booth at a yuuuge computer event back in 1997 (I think it was called Computex). It has a crack in the outside edge of it, which I only just discovered when I dug it out, but I was able to rip an ISO of it as there's only about 40MB of data on the disc. There were a handful of projects that tried making something of the code, but I don't think they went very far.
http://www.resoo.org/docs/dos/...
I still have my copy of the 6th edition of PC Intern in English (with many translation errors throughout the text, particularly in the latter parts discussing Windows). It was a great book, with some of the most in-depth coverage of many aspects of the PC, though the Win section seems like they rushed a bit to get that in.
I haven't been able to part with my old DOS-era books. Ralf Brown's Interrupt List, a couple books on DOS extenders, Schulman's Undocumented DOS, and the once highly respected Programmer's Guide to the EGA, VGA and SuperVGA by Ferraro (just checked Amazon, apparently that last one goes for almost $300.00 CDN for a used copy!). While they're not really relevant any more, I still enjoy reading them.
I've often wondered if anyone in the FreeDOS dev community would be interested in them, were I to offer to donate them. Then again, most of the information they contained can be found on the Internet now.
Untrue. VME was broken on Ryzen at launch. Fixed with a microcode update.
I DON'T LIKE SYSTEMD!
+1 virtual mod point for making me giggle.
Argument from authority is a popular tactic with Creationists. Nye/Ham demonstrated that quite well, given that Ham's whole opening was such.
While I agree with your meaning, I think it more accurate to say religion does not demonstrate, rather than prove. Proof is for mathematics.
Wow there's a butt-tonne of comments, so I may as well be talking to myself, but...
Windows on my desktop because I am a gamer, and Microsoft has me by the testicles.
Linux Mint (KDE atm) on the notebook because I fucking love Linux.
Android on the phone because I fucking love Linux (and fuck you Apple).
Uhh..why are you booting from USB? There is your problem, Asus boards really don't like booting from USB, if you want to boot from USB a lot an Asrock or gigabyte would have been a better choice.
I have used ASUS boards exclusively for almost a decade, from early Athlons, to an Athlon64, to a Core2 notebook, to both an 1156 and 1155 Core i5, as well as a few replacement boards for dead computers repaired for friends. I have never had an issue booting from USB, ever.
While that's anecdotal evidence, your claim contained no evidence, so I guess my point is... ummm... neener neener?
Seriously, I've never had an issue with ASUS products, except for Steam suddenly (and mysteriously) breaking my ASUS wifi adapter.
... or S3 users are now using like me Chrome.
Yep, but I'm alright with that since I am really not a fan of the stock browser on the S3, anyway.
As an off and on WoW subscriber since shortly after launch, I cancelled my sub again last month. Instead, I've been enjoying some other games as, over the years, I've amassed a respectable library on Steam. Lately it's been SimCity 4 and Sims 3, but before that was Dragon Age Origins. I will get to Bioshock Infinite eventually.
When I need my MMO fix, I play Lord of the Rings Online (the lifetime subscription/VIP status I picked up at launch has more than paid for itself).
My son, who I played WoW with for a few months, bounces back and forth between games like an indecisive hummingbird stuck between multiple feeders full of sugary goodness. I walk by him and he's on Diablo 2 or 3, make a cup of tea and walk by again and it's League of Legends, 20 minutes later it's something else. The only thing that remains constant is that he hasn't shut up since he discovered Skype.
If they can only make GIMP a Photoshop replacement tool. I actually find Paint.NET does a better job then GIMP for replacing my Photoshop needs.
Claims like this are usually more a reflection of the capabilities of the user, rather than the software.
The old Doctor Who had the occasional grim-and-gritty (the kind that made Question Time in Parliament complain about it). The new Who is full of "if you hope and feel hard enough, you can overcome alien technology, incomprehensible gods and the laws of physics". Even the last episode was proof enough of that.
You've summarized almost everything I hate about the new Doctor Who, although you missed mentioning the overuse of the Sonic Screwdriver as a solution for everything. While I do enjoy the new Doctor Who, I have nowhere near the love for it that I did for the classic series. It's unfortunate, but the new Who is science-fantasy, rather than science-fiction.
Anyone else remember when people had thick enough skins they could just roll their eyes, shrug their shoulders, and not give a crap about what other people were doing or saying (provided no one's really getting hurt)?
I am tired of everyone feeling so entitled - the whole world has to conform to their ideals, and if it doesn't then by Gawd they're going to bitch, complain, threaten legal action, and sue until they get what they want.
Shit like this just pisses me off no end and makes me pine for the days when the Internet was an exclusive club for us nerds (and perverts).
Today the evidence for Jesus can be seen in people. In lives changed from being ruined to being fixed, in people serving meals at soup kitchens, in caring for others and in answered prayers of Christians.
That's not got much to do with Jesus from what I see. That's people doing things.
Where's Jesus during the rampant abductions, murders and rapes that are going on every day?
Is this a joke, FUD, or idiocy?
A little of each, methinks.
I perused the NeoWin "article" linked elsewhere, and followed a few other links. It appears the problem is not (specifically) with the chip; rather it appears the driver for the integrated graphics is crap and doesn't like running Metro apps, at least that's what folks on the Intel support forum are complaining about.
IMHO, it's just incompetence. They just don't seem to be able to do *anything* these days. I remember the Microsoft whose products could be guaranteed to be technically excellent , and I look at the modern day Microsoft with despair.
I read that with snarky emphasis on the word technically, because I do not remember a time when Microsoft's products could be referred to as excellent.
Well, technically it's excellent, but...
Clearly you are unaware of Nvidia fiasco and following litigation. It wasnt "share of the units". It was Majority of them. Basically finding a working laptop with nv8xxx/9xxx GPU is considered lucky (they ALL die sooner or later, ticking bombs), and there are companies doing nothing else but fixing them.
I have an ASUS F8Sn-B1, from 2008, with a 9500M GS that still works fine. It saw moderate use playing World of Warcraft and Lord of the Rings Online for three years. I've never considered myself lucky, but I have been careful to ensure there was proper airflow. It still works, runs Linux Mint and (occasionally) Windows 7, and is mostly used for web browsing and simple stuff now.
TL;DR mine still works, 5 years later.
I too recommend VirtualBox. I use it on my desktop Win 7 machine as well as my four year old notebook running Linux Mint. The fact that it's more-or-less free, and essentially identical on both platforms is a definite advantage. Thus far I've used it to play with various LInux distributions and FreeDOS/MS-DOS. I've even been messing with Windows 98 SE and OS/2 Warp lately, although they required a bit of head scratching to get running.
Let him rewrite the Zahn trilogy for screen and it might have a chance (but I doubt it will appeal to the kind of audience Disney wants...)
The problem with this is the original actors are far too old to play the characters. As a fan of the original trilogy, I consider Luke, Leia and Han to be sacrosanct; I really don't think I'd want to see a film where they were portrayed by different actors.
"It's a social awkwardness like a stranger in a foreign land", he said. "They don't know what to say. They don't know what to do."'"
In my youth, before porn and videogames (well, beyond a few hours of Nintendo here and there) I never knew what to say, or what to do. Didn't stop me from making a couple babies. [bitter]And after the wife left me for someone else, porn and videogames have done an adequate job of filling her role anyway.[/bitter]
I am more concerned about young men viewing women as little more than a couple orifices and a pair of boobs.
The narrator sounds like Kermit the Frog finally hit puberty.
I think I know why North American readers may never heard of it. (USA and Canada represent well over two-thirds of the population of industrialized anglophone countries.) From the article:
in Saarbrücken, Germany
For some reason they never have demo parties like this in North America. Why is that?
I'm Canadian, and I know of the demoscene and all the related terminology the GP doesn't. While I never had the opportunity to attend a party, I loved watching what some of these groups put out. The Amiga era was a few years before my time; I got into it in the mid-90's when names like Renaissance, Future Crew and Triton were the big guns.
There are caps of some of the big name demos from back in the day available on YouTube, with Future Crew's probably being the most popular. I still remember the awe I experienced when I first saw Triton's (later Starbreeze Studios) Into the Shadows demo. I purchased their subsequent game, Enclave, because of that demo (and they were the guys who wrote FastTracker 2).
For those who don't know what the big deal is, way back when PC hardware was pretty crappy these groups were putting out some of the most demanding and advanced programs, stuff that put a lot of what the game companies were pushing to shame. The aforementioned Into the Shadows demo was released in 1995. This is long before 3D accelerators and hardware floating-point math were standard. It really was impressive at the time, and it was being done by groups of kids.
Both are atheists. "Agnostic" was a term coined by a man who admitted that the term "atheist" applied to him but didn't want to be lumped in with other people the term also applied to.
[citation needed]
atheist - a person who denies or disbelieves the existence of a supreme being or beings.
agnostic - a person who holds that the existence of the ultimate cause, as God, and the essential nature of things are unknown and unknowable, or that human knowledge is limited to experience.
When I reached intellectual maturity and began to ask myself whether I was an atheist, a theist, or a pantheist; a materialist or an idealist; Christian or a freethinker; I found that the more I learned and reflected, the less ready was the answer; until, at last, I came to the conclusion that I had neither art nor part with any of these denominations, except the last. The one thing in which most of these good people were agreed was the one thing in which I differed from them. They were quite sure they had attained a certain "gnosis,"–had, more or less successfully, solved the problem of existence; while I was quite sure I had not, and had a pretty strong conviction that the problem was insoluble. So I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of "agnostic." It came into my head as suggestively antithetic to the "gnostic" of Church history, who professed to know so much about the very things of which I was ignorant. To my great satisfaction the term took. - Huxley, Thomas. Collected Essays. pp. 237–239. ISBN 1-85506-922-9 (via Wikipedia).
I find white-space denotion unintuitive and awkward at best. I also think it is a fallacy that it improves code formatting habits when compared to braces. It all comes down to the consistency of the individual programmer(s). Perhaps it is my code upbringing (mostly C and C-like languages) but I'll take my Whitesmith over anything else any day. To each their own.