Some of the entries point to Beta drivers. They should at least make a note on the website that the drivers are not final. Many of the drivers are XP drivers (the ZIP file contains WinXP in its name).
Users are better off just going directly to the manufacturer's websites. If drivers are Beta they may not find them easily, but at least they'll be warned. And if there's no Vista driver they won't download an XP driver and try to use it without warning.
Nope, that wasn't me. I just happened to try to play HL2 this afternoon and it crashed (again) so I remembered I was running in 3GB mode.
I also happen to work with 3dsmax and other heavy graphics intensive apps and we do need 3GB, but we also do run in problems where the drivers need the 2-3GB space, forcing us to use the/USERVA specifying less than 3GB to be used.
Try to play HL2 or any demanding Direct3D game in a Windows XP 32 bit system using the 3GB switch and the game will crash within 2 minutes. It doesn't surprise me to hear the same happening in Apple systems since the drivers are probably not so different.
Well, maybe this time they will integrate databases and realize, for the 6th year, that I am not a US Citizen. Maybe they will stop sending me Jury Duty requests and will also stop sending me Elections related ads and documents, including requests for me to register to vote, which I can't because I am not a citizen.
Brazilian Media says the blacklist is not true
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According to the Brazilian media, the local courts have only asked Youtube to remove the video. There is no DNS blacklist or anything like that.
"The version of that all the YouTube would have of being removed of air arrived to be propagated by some Brazilian sites and international agencies in the thursday, but it was contradicted by the Court of Justice. Justice only determined that the YouTube hinders the propagation it video with Daniela Cicarelli."
People *would* upgrade their Acrobat Reader, if they hadn't turned off that horrendous update screen that pops up every single time you open a PDF file. Adobe could surely learn how to make a more user friendly "update is available" screen, kinda like Firefox does.
Once I was asked to check my hand luggage. I told them I had a laptop and they said it was OK. I then asked for written proof that they would be responsible for the laptop in case something happened. They refused to give me one, so I told them I was not checking it.
Taking a look at United's "Damaged baggage" information:
For international travels, including the domestic portions, subject to the Warsaw Convention, the liability limit for delay, damage or loss is approximately $9.07 per pound ($20.00 per kg) for checked baggage and approximately $400 per passenger for unchecked baggage. United is not liable for damage to fragile items, spoilage of perishables, loss/damage/delay of money, jewelry, cameras, electronic/video/photographic equipment, computer equipment, heirlooms, antiques, artwork, silverware, precious metals, negotiable papers/securities, commercial effects, valuable papers, or other irreplaceable items and/or any item where a liability release was signed by the passenger.
If that's the case, then a laptop would not be covered by their insurance, so I think they're in trouble asking people to check it in.
I'm in favor of a unified "ID Card" Format. I've never seen an ID from Dellaware, or Virginia, or many others of the 50 different ID formats that exist in the US. How am I supposed to know if those IDs are valid or not? I could easily print and laminate something from a different state and "pretend" it's an ID.
It's just an ID Card. The amount of Info in the "ID Card", that's another question.
In my country we had IDs per state and it was a mess. Some 20 years ago they unified the format and now it's better.
I read the article and could only see pictures when I clicked one of the links referred in the article. I'm disappointed to see that an article talking about some cool "viewing" device has no pictures of such device. The one of Chuck Close showed in the 2nd link was only a 8 1/2 x 11 picture of him (which was at the SF MoMa until recently) and does not portrait the large screen viewing devices mentioned in the article.
Isn't Google Talk based on Jabber? Why are they only suing Google Talk?
Don't Yahoo, AIM and MSN, Netmeeting, Skype also allow voice communication as well as dozens other apps out there? Why are they only suing Google Talk?
Go figure...
But then I remembered - governments want to appear "up to date" with the newest technologies and darcodes are soooo 1980s. To them, RFID is a buzz word, just like AJAX. So they go for it...
Also, remember, they want to know about you before you're close to them, so RFID has some advantages for them...
IF, and IF this is true, then they need to place a warning in the box stating which "supported devices" can play the given CD.
That allows a buyer to make an appropriate decision and not buy it if he cannot play it in his device. To my knowledge where I live companies are supposed to make such disclaimers, and stores need to accept returns if things do not work (CDs fall into the "non returnable" categories).
>>Oh, and have you seen the cost of distilled water?
Can't you make it at home for almost no cost? Boil, collect the vapor, done. And you can use solar energy or other things to do it too. May take a couple $$s to build a setup, but it'll be infinitelly cheap afterwards.
Two agents of the Intergalactic Intelligence Agency (IIA) transferred to the higher planes as an entire solar system was consumed by a black hole this morning.
Sources from the IIA said they were monitoring a primitive race that lived in the third planet. That race was experimenting with sub-atomic particles trying to achieve sustainable fusion, which we all know can lead to an unstable black hole condition. The agents weren't able to interfere in time to avoid the catastrophe.
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Measure your age in Hex - it'll make you look younger:-)
Did you read how the map works? It bases itself on what happened recently to predict the near future. It's not a crystal ball telling you where "not" to be tomorrow.
Here in San Francisco there's a 50% chance of a 5.0 quake in the next five years, but it doesn't mean it will happen or not. It's statistics based on previous events.
I have a Pentium IV Prescott that runs pretty hot. To reduce the noise of the system fans and still run at a decent speed, I tried underclocking it. The drawback: it started measuring time faster, and all of a sudden it would say it's 8pm but the time was actually 7:50pm. Since I run a PVR in the computer, that isn't good news and I started losing some shows.
Just something to keep in mind if you try to underclock.
Microsoft will likely charge extra money for licenses that cover an extra CPU core as they do charge extra for extra CPUs.
That's not what Microsoft says here
Here's part of the text, for those who do not want to follow the link to RTA:
... On October 19, 2004, Microsoft announced that its server software that is currently licensed on a per-processor model will continue to be licensed on a per-processor, and not on a per-core, model. This policy will allow customers to recognize more performance and power from Microsoft software on a multicore processor system without incurring additional software licensing fees.
Licensing on a per-processor rather than a per-core basis ensures that customers will not face additional software licensing requirements or incur additional licensing fees when they choose to adopt multicore processor technology. Customers who use software from vendors that license by individual core, as other software vendors currently do, may face increased software costs when they upgrade to multicore processor systems. Multicore processor systems licensed on a per-processor basis will also help make this new enterprise computing technology affordable to mid-size and small business customers....
That's not true. Open Task Manager, select the process, right-click it and choose Set Afinity. There you can enable which processor(s) that process can use.
Interpol arrested a hacker who was trying to claim a prize for having developed the successful virus that affected thousands of Macintosh computers last week...
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Let's stop reading Harry Potter books! Harry Potter has a map of his school, so he's a terrorist.
Some of the entries point to Beta drivers. They should at least make a note on the website that the drivers are not final. Many of the drivers are XP drivers (the ZIP file contains WinXP in its name).
Users are better off just going directly to the manufacturer's websites. If drivers are Beta they may not find them easily, but at least they'll be warned. And if there's no Vista driver they won't download an XP driver and try to use it without warning.
Nope, that wasn't me. I just happened to try to play HL2 this afternoon and it crashed (again) so I remembered I was running in 3GB mode. I also happen to work with 3dsmax and other heavy graphics intensive apps and we do need 3GB, but we also do run in problems where the drivers need the 2-3GB space, forcing us to use the /USERVA specifying less than 3GB to be used.
Try to play HL2 or any demanding Direct3D game in a Windows XP 32 bit system using the 3GB switch and the game will crash within 2 minutes. It doesn't surprise me to hear the same happening in Apple systems since the drivers are probably not so different.
Well, maybe this time they will integrate databases and realize, for the 6th year, that I am not a US Citizen. Maybe they will stop sending me Jury Duty requests and will also stop sending me Elections related ads and documents, including requests for me to register to vote, which I can't because I am not a citizen.
According to the Brazilian media, the local courts have only asked Youtube to remove the video. There is no DNS blacklist or anything like that.
Read yourself (in Portuguese) at Folha de Sao Paulo or, use Google Translator to translate it.
"The version of that all the YouTube would have of being removed of air arrived to be propagated by some Brazilian sites and international agencies in the thursday, but it was contradicted by the Court of Justice. Justice only determined that the YouTube hinders the propagation it video with Daniela Cicarelli."
People *would* upgrade their Acrobat Reader, if they hadn't turned off that horrendous update screen that pops up every single time you open a PDF file.
Adobe could surely learn how to make a more user friendly "update is available" screen, kinda like Firefox does.
Please RTFA before posting: "According to a post on the company's IE blog, that high-priority update could be IE7"
These new hard drives run pretty hot. I wonder why they did not post a temperature comparison...
Taking a look at United's "Damaged baggage" information:
For international travels, including the domestic portions, subject to the Warsaw Convention, the liability limit for delay, damage or loss is approximately $9.07 per pound ($20.00 per kg) for checked baggage and approximately $400 per passenger for unchecked baggage.
United is not liable for damage to fragile items, spoilage of perishables, loss/damage/delay of money, jewelry, cameras, electronic/video/photographic equipment, computer equipment, heirlooms, antiques, artwork, silverware, precious metals, negotiable papers/securities, commercial effects, valuable papers, or other irreplaceable items and/or any item where a liability release was signed by the passenger.
If that's the case, then a laptop would not be covered by their insurance, so I think they're in trouble asking people to check it in.
I'm in favor of a unified "ID Card" Format. I've never seen an ID from Dellaware, or Virginia, or many others of the 50 different ID formats that exist in the US. How am I supposed to know if those IDs are valid or not? I could easily print and laminate something from a different state and "pretend" it's an ID.
It's just an ID Card. The amount of Info in the "ID Card", that's another question.
In my country we had IDs per state and it was a mess. Some 20 years ago they unified the format and now it's better.
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Wearing new glasses so I can C#
I read the article and could only see pictures when I clicked one of the links referred in the article.
I'm disappointed to see that an article talking about some cool "viewing" device has no pictures of such device. The one of Chuck Close showed in the 2nd link was only a 8 1/2 x 11 picture of him (which was at the SF MoMa until recently) and does not portrait the large screen viewing devices mentioned in the article.
Isn't Google Talk based on Jabber? Why are they only suing Google Talk?
Don't Yahoo, AIM and MSN, Netmeeting, Skype also allow voice communication as well as dozens other apps out there? Why are they only suing Google Talk?
Go figure...
I thought the same thing: Why not use a barcode?
But then I remembered - governments want to appear "up to date" with the newest technologies and darcodes are soooo 1980s. To them, RFID is a buzz word, just like AJAX. So they go for it...
Also, remember, they want to know about you before you're close to them, so RFID has some advantages for them...
This is irrefutable archeologycal proof of the existance of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
This may have an impact on the holy books, but I'm sure the clergy is already handling the matter.
IF, and IF this is true, then they need to place a warning in the box stating which "supported devices" can play the given CD.
That allows a buyer to make an appropriate decision and not buy it if he cannot play it in his device. To my knowledge where I live companies are supposed to make such disclaimers, and stores need to accept returns if things do not work (CDs fall into the "non returnable" categories).
>>Oh, and have you seen the cost of distilled water?
Can't you make it at home for almost no cost? Boil, collect the vapor, done. And you can use solar energy or other things to do it too. May take a couple $$s to build a setup, but it'll be infinitelly cheap afterwards.
Two agents of the Intergalactic Intelligence Agency (IIA) transferred to the higher planes as an entire solar system was consumed by a black hole this morning.
:-)
Sources from the IIA said they were monitoring a primitive race that lived in the third planet. That race was experimenting with sub-atomic particles trying to achieve sustainable fusion, which we all know can lead to an unstable black hole condition. The agents weren't able to interfere in time to avoid the catastrophe.
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Measure your age in Hex - it'll make you look younger
Once free of a parachute, Phoenix will depend upon an "ease on down" propulsion system that was last utilized on the failed Mars Polar Lander mission.
Why?? Why use a system that has no success history instead of using a system that has succeeded 3 times already?
I just don't get it.
Reproducible steps:
Map a place in San Francisco (1500 Mission St)
Click "Hybrid"
Wait for the hybrid map to load
Click "Map" to return to original view
SEE: IE Crashes
System specs: Win2K with all (released) updates.
IE 6.0.2800.1106
Did you read how the map works? It bases itself on what happened recently to predict the near future. It's not a crystal ball telling you where "not" to be tomorrow.
Follow the How do we do this map? link and you'll get to an explanation of how the map is made. Or you can go directly here: http://eqint.cr.usgs.gov/eq/html/eqprob.html
Here in San Francisco there's a 50% chance of a 5.0 quake in the next five years, but it doesn't mean it will happen or not. It's statistics based on previous events.
I have a Pentium IV Prescott that runs pretty hot. To reduce the noise of the system fans and still run at a decent speed, I tried underclocking it. The drawback: it started measuring time faster, and all of a sudden it would say it's 8pm but the time was actually 7:50pm. Since I run a PVR in the computer, that isn't good news and I started losing some shows.
Just something to keep in mind if you try to underclock.
Here's part of the text, for those who do not want to follow the link to RTA:
Licensing on a per-processor rather than a per-core basis ensures that customers will not face additional software licensing requirements or incur additional licensing fees when they choose to adopt multicore processor technology. Customers who use software from vendors that license by individual core, as other software vendors currently do, may face increased software costs when they upgrade to multicore processor systems. Multicore processor systems licensed on a per-processor basis will also help make this new enterprise computing technology affordable to mid-size and small business customers.
That's not true. Open Task Manager, select the process, right-click it and choose Set Afinity. There you can enable which processor(s) that process can use.
In the news:
Interpol arrested a hacker who was trying to claim a prize for having developed the successful virus that affected thousands of Macintosh computers last week...