You realize that its jargon, and jargon can ignore grammar and spelling rules?
That, and languages evolve. If everyone did what you are doing, we would all still be speaking Latin (i know, not the first language, but you get the point)
I never had a chance to play around with software too much, our machines were Uber-locked down (and i didn't really know much besides concepts). But i did find a nifty way to use scotch-tape, and a mechanical pencil. Done just right, you can insulate the contacts of an RJ-45 invisibly:P
Needless to say i disabled the network connection on half of our library. I would imagine that was a pain to fix, as you literally could not see the tape.
Only because it is not an inferior operating system. It has its place (EI most of the internet servers) just like Windows (Desktop) and Mac (content creation, from what i know).
Linux is in the process of becoming desktop-ready. It is almost there. It will not be an "inferior" OS in a couple years.
How do they know only 2.5 million watched it? Is there some kind of tracking device in my TV i should know about? Not that i'm complaining about Enterprise going down...
How is this flamebait? This is from personal experience. If you have low RAM free, try to go do/launch something else. This is on a 2.8ghz 512DDR system.
Same deal with the wireless connectivity. Windows takes too long, and it has no reason to.
Also the fact that it typically takes about 30 seconds or more to enable/disable/repair a wireless connection. You know how long that takes on *NIX and OSX? Not even half that long.
And it also drags ass if you are doing anything in the least bit memory intensive.
The heat generated by a pile of popcorn this big (ever hear of sawdust fires? how about haybails incinerating themselves?) will be large. All it would take is his heating equipment, a hot day, or something left on and you just burned down the guys house.
These buttons require software to recognize them. I have this laptop you speak of. Neither buttons function outside of windows easily. The wireless doesnt work without HP's wireless driver, either.
How long is "a while now"? I just checked the readme, nothing there has anything to do with pixel shaders.
The only reason i can't run DX:IW or Thief 3 is because my GeForce2 has no pixel shaders. This is on a computer that can handle HL2 on medium comfortably, 1024x768x32.
As a game/CG-Movie gets too real, you see all the little things that arn't right - people start looking dead/slack ect, instead of all the things that ARE right (wow, that lip-sync looks so perfect).
Different people have different thresholds. I haven't met mine yet, but i can't play HL2 above low/medium, and i lack pixel-shader support.
You don't think that if that happens someone will crack it? You might even end up with community patches, provided the game is popular enough to get a large reverse-engineering crowd behind it.
They might even go the way MS went with Allegiance, and hand out the server code to someone (freeallegiance.org if your curious).
With the company out of business, who's to stop anyone from cracking/distributing it?
The password is encrypted in the registry, but the problem is the key is always constant - you can simply do a google search and find the source.
Browse to the key, type it into the program, and it spits the VNC password out.
I don't think versions for other OSes have this issue, but i have tested it both with tightVNC and the latest VNC that you pay for.
All i need is read access to the registry and i got you. When your sitting down at the machine in question (and you know all the others would use the same password) its not hard to nab it.
So, if you use VNC at work on windows machines, look into this problem ASAP.
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You realize that its jargon, and jargon can ignore grammar and spelling rules?
That, and languages evolve. If everyone did what you are doing, we would all still be speaking Latin (i know, not the first language, but you get the point)
I never had a chance to play around with software too much, our machines were Uber-locked down (and i didn't really know much besides concepts). But i did find a nifty way to use scotch-tape, and a mechanical pencil. Done just right, you can insulate the contacts of an RJ-45 invisibly :P
Needless to say i disabled the network connection on half of our library. I would imagine that was a pain to fix, as you literally could not see the tape.
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Only because it is not an inferior operating system. It has its place (EI most of the internet servers) just like Windows (Desktop) and Mac (content creation, from what i know).
Linux is in the process of becoming desktop-ready. It is almost there. It will not be an "inferior" OS in a couple years.
Allow me to be the first to say
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Well, if its not enforced extremely, if you can get around the licence, you obviously know enough of what your doing anyways.
Maybe ISPs should do it, instead of the government. Or something. The idea has its merits.
I say patents should last a specific amount of time, and once patented, it cannot be so again.
For example, Ford obtains patent for round lights. Patent expires on one year. Round lights may never be patented again.
How do they know only 2.5 million watched it? Is there some kind of tracking device in my TV i should know about? Not that i'm complaining about Enterprise going down...
How is this flamebait? This is from personal experience. If you have low RAM free, try to go do/launch something else. This is on a 2.8ghz 512DDR system.
Same deal with the wireless connectivity. Windows takes too long, and it has no reason to.
There is a power toy that adds multi-desktop functionality to windows.
r toys/xppowertoys.mspx
n stall/2/WXP/EN-US/DeskmanPowertoySetup.exe
It doesn't work as well as it could, but its better than just one desktop.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powe
Direct Link:
"Manage up to four desktops from the Windows taskbar with this PowerToy."
http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/I
Also the fact that it typically takes about 30 seconds or more to enable/disable/repair a wireless connection. You know how long that takes on *NIX and OSX? Not even half that long.
And it also drags ass if you are doing anything in the least bit memory intensive.
The heat generated by a pile of popcorn this big (ever hear of sawdust fires? how about haybails incinerating themselves?) will be large. All it would take is his heating equipment, a hot day, or something left on and you just burned down the guys house.
Sounds just like me, but i haven't bought the converter yet.
Radio is worthless for anything but traffic reports.
Why? How can a question in the first post be redundant (even if it was answered in the article, it wasn't redundant).
I will be nice and not pull out wikipedia, im sure you know what redundant means.
These buttons require software to recognize them. I have this laptop you speak of. Neither buttons function outside of windows easily. The wireless doesnt work without HP's wireless driver, either.
Just because the retail PC game market may die doesn't mean PC games will die. Actually, that would probably help out freeware/shareware/FOSS games.
How long is "a while now"? I just checked the readme, nothing there has anything to do with pixel shaders.
The only reason i can't run DX:IW or Thief 3 is because my GeForce2 has no pixel shaders. This is on a computer that can handle HL2 on medium comfortably, 1024x768x32.
Yes you can. Log out, and use an anonymous proxy. There are lots available for free on those proxy-list sites at any one time.
You forget that the box sais "Internet Connection Required".
The "Uncanny Valley". (google for it)
As a game/CG-Movie gets too real, you see all the little things that arn't right - people start looking dead/slack ect, instead of all the things that ARE right (wow, that lip-sync looks so perfect).
Different people have different thresholds. I haven't met mine yet, but i can't play HL2 above low/medium, and i lack pixel-shader support.
You don't think that if that happens someone will crack it? You might even end up with community patches, provided the game is popular enough to get a large reverse-engineering crowd behind it.
They might even go the way MS went with Allegiance, and hand out the server code to someone (freeallegiance.org if your curious).
With the company out of business, who's to stop anyone from cracking/distributing it?
OH i HATE that thing.
At least you can turn off the pain on the right of the screen (intentional spelling error).
Theres a big problem with VNC on windows.
The password is encrypted in the registry, but the problem is the key is always constant - you can simply do a google search and find the source.
Browse to the key, type it into the program, and it spits the VNC password out.
I don't think versions for other OSes have this issue, but i have tested it both with tightVNC and the latest VNC that you pay for.
All i need is read access to the registry and i got you. When your sitting down at the machine in question (and you know all the others would use the same password) its not hard to nab it.
So, if you use VNC at work on windows machines, look into this problem ASAP.
Stop fighting it, languages evolve.
Virii is jargon, just like boxen. It doesn't have to fit grammar perfectly.
Increment your text size up once and down once, it corrects the inproperly rendered page. CTRL+ and CTRL-, if i remember correctly.
I think he meant to post in the "AOL Kills Usenet Access" story, but typed in the wrong window.