That was probably because WinAMP attempted to access IE files, driver subsystem files contained in Windows\System32, etc. since that is what the program relies on to run - even the media library functions require at least the base files of IE to run. IE by default runs itself with higher system rights than the default system rights WinAMP gets assigned when it's installed, triggering the UAC.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. was also written to take advantage of any PhysX chips you might have in your system. If you don't have them, then the game engine attempts to use the GPU and CPU to perform the extra game physics and you end up with stuttering. Unfortunately for us, it wasn't written or patched (don't think it's actually possible to patch the issue without a complete re-write of the game engine) to take advantage of CUDA or anything like that after nVidia bought out the PhysX technology and AMD bought the HAVOK stuff and started incorporating it into their newer cards.
There should be settings in the game someplace to crank down some of the physics (or a work-around in some.ini file someplace).
Low-budget industry that is often the very first industry to use new tech when it's available well before most of the unwashed masses have even conceived of such a thing existing, let alone finding on the shelves of their local BigBoxMart.
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Sure you do. Ever hear of a tiny company in Washington State named Microsoft?
With games running 50 or more GBP for some titles, and given the current monetary exchange rates, the 75 he spent couldn't have bought more than one new-release game, perhaps two if the titles were heavily discounted as loss-leaders or in a discounted 'collection'.
I often wonder what monkeys at these companies do the price conversions from USD to Euros/GBP/AUSD, etc. It almost seems like they take the US price, add a random 9, 4 or 7 to the number after the demarcation point, and just change the symbol next to the amount and call it a day.
For instance, the current conversion rate of GBP to USD as per Google, is 1.6568 USD per 1 GBP. At this current rate, Modern Warfare 2, for example, which is averaging a price of 49.99 GBP, costs $82.82 (82.823432) USD before VAT and any other local taxes are applied. I don't blame people in those countries for getting pissed off and pirating games when there is that much of a discrepancy between prices, especially when those copies are manufactured locally (as UK, French, Italian, Spanish, and German copies of major titles usually are), and not imported.
Amazon.co.uk has Modern Warfare 2 at an apparent 42% discount right now, free shipping within the UK only, 32.00 GBP: Modern Warfare 2
Yes, the appropriate contacts in such organizations get informed. Chiefly, the CIOs and their assorted assistants down the IT chain. What they then do with that information is up to them. There's a reason these companies pay for their overpriced support contracts and license aggreements with Microsoft.
I know the major security vendors like Symantec are also informed.
This has been addressed several times (redundantly, I might add) in Slashdot articles over the years, and can probably even be confirmed by your own IT department.
They also route calls to the UK, who has no qualms about spying on its own citizens, and who is more than happy to share the gathered information with our government in exchange for recipricol treatment.
I don't understand why you're being modded a troll. You really aren't far off the mark on how these organizations view themselves and others, and aptly calls out their behavior.
They force 3rd-World nations to sign WIPO treaties in order to get any disaster/poverty relief aid from the World Bank/IMF, for instance. The only 3rd-World nations that get away with not signing them and still get the money are nations like Venezuela and Columbia (or any other 3rd World nation that has an abundance of A) drug/narco-production B) immense natural resources, such as diamonds, natural gas and oil), or that is controlled by a strong dictatorship that despises the 'Western' world, while wanting all of the money and benefits they can get from dealing with 'The Great Satan' and its allies.
Small note of interest: Baidu is the default in most of China, and in the case of any and all hotels/motels that are available to foreign travelers, Mandarin Chinese is dropped in favor of English-US or English-UK (mainly in Hong Kong and Shanghai for the English-UK option as default), with Dutch, German, French and Russian options the most commonly available upon request at the front desk or your concierge.
Not that I would actually log in to any websites, especially email or corporate VPNs over any lines provided in a Chinese hotel or motel. That's just crazy, and it assumes that you can even access them. I've found the restrictions normally applied are eased for foreign visitors somewhat, but only from the connections provided within the place you are staying.
Find new and interesting ways for this sort of huge area recon. Can a geek use roadway cameras effectively? Are there other ways of gathering this sort of information?
We already have this ability. It's called GPS, Twitter, Google Earth, Google Maps, and Google StreetView.
The last time I used the Windows port, it sucked balls. Memory leaks out the ass, and the client completely ignored any bandwidth settings you made in the options panel. Not to mention corrupt torrent downloads after it was finished because it didn't properly discard/check file chunks.
Not everyone gets a proper install disc/key combo though.
Remember that recent thing where if you bought Vista-installed systems you qualified for that free Win7 upgrade? Well guess what? Quite a few people were given Win7 -upgrade- discs and keys, not Retail or OEM install discs and keys.
My wife and my brother did this, and my wife got a Win7 upgrade disc for her Dell laptop and my brother got an upgrade disc for his HP laptop.
Have fun wiping and installing from that without having first to reinstall Vista.
You didn't keep one for a torrent box and/or remote ftp server? For shame:P
Also, you should try asking us fellow Slashdot members if we'd rather have them over the recycling company. I would have taken at least two of those off of your hands.
The easiest way to prevent an in-place Windows upgrade operation from going badly:
Make sure the system is disconnected from the network.
Disable -all- unnecessary services, and stop them, including Networking services. Volume Shadow Copy or similar related service should be left Enabled and set to Manual. Important when doing an in-place upgrade to Vista or Win7, as they install their components from inside *images*, and not the older-style binary/compressed file duality that Windows has used at least since 3.11 for Workgroups.
Uninstall -all- drivers for hardware that is extraneous to the upgrade (Printer, Wireless Device, Network Card, 3rd-Party video card drivers such as Omega or NGO, all non-native Mouse drivers).
Uninstall -all- AV and Firewall software that isn't native to the OS.
Uninstall -all- 3rd-party software that makes kernel hooks or replaces default Windows system files with their own versions. Patched Uxtheme.dll files, extra MSS styles, etc. Font packs also.
Make sure you have your backups ready to go.
Run the upgrade install.
Go through the normal Windows system setup nonsense, check running services, restore your backed up data, programs, and device drivers. Reboot when necessary.
Reconnect to the network after your Firewall and AV software is setup again.
Install any updates it pulls down, reboot as necessary.
Run it for a few days without installing anything new. Create an image of the OS drive for future use if nothing goes funky.
Enjoy your new OS as normal.
I've done it several times before and it's worked every time. I don't know where some people have gone to school, but where I went, we were taught this in *basic* PC Repair classes. It was also taught this way in several Windows Internals and Windows Backdoor manuals. It's not a short process, no, but it has a rather high success rate.
I mean I've read the horror stories. In most that I've come across, the author either forgot to do one of the above steps (or didn't know about some of them) or got lazy and thought they could just skip all the steps they wanted and be just fine, and then reaped the dubious rewards for doing so.
It's insane that the world has gone this long with using Windows, MacOS, Linux, Unix, etc and still manage to screw up everything possible on their computers. Computers that they use -!every single day!-
The backwards ideas about the human body and sexuality pervasive in "mainstream" American society can be directly traced back to fundamentalist Christians, and to the founding of our country. Puritans, Baptists, Methodists, (old-school) Catholics, Quakers, The Amish, etc all had direct and strict influences on how we as a culture developed, for better or for worse.
So, as usual, we can correctly blame the issue on Bible-thumping nincompoops spewing forth fire and brimstone damnation for anyone that even admires a bit of exposed ankle.
At least women aren't being branded with scarlet A's anymore for looking a married man in the eyes.
Then they obviously don't need it. Therefore, no Flash for the cubicle monkeys.
By the way, outside of Youtube or similar video site, has anyone actually found a *good* use for Flash?
All I normally see it used for are suck-ass forum games and annoying advertisements. Oh, and the random asshole site that decides to create their *entire site* in Flash. I shake my fist at those fucktards right before closing the tab and adding their stupid site to my HOSTS file.
I would argue that we've had a decrease in creative works (excluding the gaming industry) as a whole since the copyright increases were established. The quality of said works has also seemingly diminished in direct proportion to the length and breadth of copyright applied to the works.
It's extremely easy to see this in the visual arts and music industries. Outside of stuff from people like Warhol and Basquiat, for instance, there has been very little to compare to artists such as Rockwell, Monet, etc from a quality standpoint. I would dare say where are all of the good artists hiding at? Are there even any left?
I don't think I delve far into the music industry, as it's been obvious for quite some time the entire thing has been swirling down the toilet bowl. Even the quality of live shows has been degrading over the last few years, with entities such as Ticketmaster and LiveNation turning what should be a monetary and creative incentive directly to and for the artists and fans into a wasteland of corporate stupidity.
They can aggregate data across sites on individuals using such metrics as average word count per post, average grammatical error count, specific common grammatical errors, what type of topics these individuals tend to post to, which words appear most frequently per poster, euphemisms and other linguistic identifiers, etc. and pretty reliably narrow it down to who is who. Tie this in across different media formats, various databases, frequent flier programs, etc and you come up with a veritable gold mine of intel.
Your name saying Anonymous Coward doesn't seem to mean as much these days when such analysis is used.
You act as if there is any significant difference between the two.
Hint: Outside of paying your own money for someone to maintain it for you, or maintaining it yourself, there is no difference. Email is Email is Email. It all has the same basic functionality, no matter what fairy dust you attempt to sprinkle it with.
IMHO - Your fancy blahblahblah@fancybusinessdomain.com address means no more to me than an address at blahblahblahblah@gmail.com.
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That was probably because WinAMP attempted to access IE files, driver subsystem files contained in Windows\System32, etc. since that is what the program relies on to run - even the media library functions require at least the base files of IE to run. IE by default runs itself with higher system rights than the default system rights WinAMP gets assigned when it's installed, triggering the UAC.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. was also written to take advantage of any PhysX chips you might have in your system. If you don't have them, then the game engine attempts to use the GPU and CPU to perform the extra game physics and you end up with stuttering. Unfortunately for us, it wasn't written or patched (don't think it's actually possible to patch the issue without a complete re-write of the game engine) to take advantage of CUDA or anything like that after nVidia bought out the PhysX technology and AMD bought the HAVOK stuff and started incorporating it into their newer cards.
There should be settings in the game someplace to crank down some of the physics (or a work-around in some .ini file someplace).
Low-budget industry that is often the very first industry to use new tech when it's available well before most of the unwashed masses have even conceived of such a thing existing, let alone finding on the shelves of their local BigBoxMart.
Sure you do. Ever hear of a tiny company in Washington State named Microsoft?
Stranger things have happened. This is physics and space stuff we're talking about here.
With games running 50 or more GBP for some titles, and given the current monetary exchange rates, the 75 he spent couldn't have bought more than one new-release game, perhaps two if the titles were heavily discounted as loss-leaders or in a discounted 'collection'.
I often wonder what monkeys at these companies do the price conversions from USD to Euros/GBP/AUSD, etc. It almost seems like they take the US price, add a random 9, 4 or 7 to the number after the demarcation point, and just change the symbol next to the amount and call it a day.
For instance, the current conversion rate of GBP to USD as per Google, is 1.6568 USD per 1 GBP. At this current rate, Modern Warfare 2, for example, which is averaging a price of 49.99 GBP, costs $82.82 (82.823432) USD before VAT and any other local taxes are applied. I don't blame people in those countries for getting pissed off and pirating games when there is that much of a discrepancy between prices, especially when those copies are manufactured locally (as UK, French, Italian, Spanish, and German copies of major titles usually are), and not imported.
Amazon.co.uk has Modern Warfare 2 at an apparent 42% discount right now, free shipping within the UK only, 32.00 GBP: Modern Warfare 2
Either way, the result is the same.
Yes, the appropriate contacts in such organizations get informed. Chiefly, the CIOs and their assorted assistants down the IT chain. What they then do with that information is up to them. There's a reason these companies pay for their overpriced support contracts and license aggreements with Microsoft.
I know the major security vendors like Symantec are also informed.
This has been addressed several times (redundantly, I might add) in Slashdot articles over the years, and can probably even be confirmed by your own IT department.
They also route calls to the UK, who has no qualms about spying on its own citizens, and who is more than happy to share the gathered information with our government in exchange for recipricol treatment.
I don't understand why you're being modded a troll. You really aren't far off the mark on how these organizations view themselves and others, and aptly calls out their behavior.
They force 3rd-World nations to sign WIPO treaties in order to get any disaster/poverty relief aid from the World Bank/IMF, for instance. The only 3rd-World nations that get away with not signing them and still get the money are nations like Venezuela and Columbia (or any other 3rd World nation that has an abundance of A) drug/narco-production B) immense natural resources, such as diamonds, natural gas and oil), or that is controlled by a strong dictatorship that despises the 'Western' world, while wanting all of the money and benefits they can get from dealing with 'The Great Satan' and its allies.
My Toshiba player came that way straight from the manufacturer.
Completely ignores:
A) Region Codes
B) UOPs
C) Movie Menus (if I choose to have it skip to film in the player setup)
Plays: .AVI .MP4 .MKV .WMV .MP3 .WMA
Divx/XviD
VCD/SVCD/DVD+|-R/CD+|-RW/CD-R (and DVD+|-RW if I ever stop being lazy and update the firmware)
And several more formats and filetypes.
Sure there is. It's made up of three words that anyone in the corporate working world can understand.
"Corporate Death Penalty"
Small note of interest: Baidu is the default in most of China, and in the case of any and all hotels/motels that are available to foreign travelers, Mandarin Chinese is dropped in favor of English-US or English-UK (mainly in Hong Kong and Shanghai for the English-UK option as default), with Dutch, German, French and Russian options the most commonly available upon request at the front desk or your concierge.
Not that I would actually log in to any websites, especially email or corporate VPNs over any lines provided in a Chinese hotel or motel. That's just crazy, and it assumes that you can even access them. I've found the restrictions normally applied are eased for foreign visitors somewhat, but only from the connections provided within the place you are staying.
You can see plenty of things on StreetView you wouldn't normally think you can see, because it's supposed to be a street-level view.
People need to take into account reflections, space above low buildings, etc that appear :)
Find new and interesting ways for this sort of huge area recon. Can a geek use roadway cameras effectively? Are there other ways of gathering this sort of information?
We already have this ability. It's called GPS, Twitter, Google Earth, Google Maps, and Google StreetView.
The last time I used the Windows port, it sucked balls. Memory leaks out the ass, and the client completely ignored any bandwidth settings you made in the options panel. Not to mention corrupt torrent downloads after it was finished because it didn't properly discard/check file chunks.
Not everyone gets a proper install disc/key combo though.
Remember that recent thing where if you bought Vista-installed systems you qualified for that free Win7 upgrade? Well guess what? Quite a few people were given Win7 -upgrade- discs and keys, not Retail or OEM install discs and keys.
My wife and my brother did this, and my wife got a Win7 upgrade disc for her Dell laptop and my brother got an upgrade disc for his HP laptop.
Have fun wiping and installing from that without having first to reinstall Vista.
You didn't keep one for a torrent box and/or remote ftp server? For shame :P
Also, you should try asking us fellow Slashdot members if we'd rather have them over the recycling company. I would have taken at least two of those off of your hands.
The easiest way to prevent an in-place Windows upgrade operation from going badly:
Make sure the system is disconnected from the network.
Disable -all- unnecessary services, and stop them, including Networking services. Volume Shadow Copy or similar related service should be left Enabled and set to Manual. Important when doing an in-place upgrade to Vista or Win7, as they install their components from inside *images*, and not the older-style binary/compressed file duality that Windows has used at least since 3.11 for Workgroups.
Uninstall -all- drivers for hardware that is extraneous to the upgrade (Printer, Wireless Device, Network Card, 3rd-Party video card drivers such as Omega or NGO, all non-native Mouse drivers).
Uninstall -all- AV and Firewall software that isn't native to the OS.
Uninstall -all- 3rd-party software that makes kernel hooks or replaces default Windows system files with their own versions. Patched Uxtheme.dll files, extra MSS styles, etc. Font packs also.
Make sure you have your backups ready to go.
Run the upgrade install.
Go through the normal Windows system setup nonsense, check running services, restore your backed up data, programs, and device drivers. Reboot when necessary.
Reconnect to the network after your Firewall and AV software is setup again.
Install any updates it pulls down, reboot as necessary.
Run it for a few days without installing anything new. Create an image of the OS drive for future use if nothing goes funky.
Enjoy your new OS as normal.
I've done it several times before and it's worked every time. I don't know where some people have gone to school, but where I went, we were taught this in *basic* PC Repair classes. It was also taught this way in several Windows Internals and Windows Backdoor manuals. It's not a short process, no, but it has a rather high success rate.
I mean I've read the horror stories. In most that I've come across, the author either forgot to do one of the above steps (or didn't know about some of them) or got lazy and thought they could just skip all the steps they wanted and be just fine, and then reaped the dubious rewards for doing so.
It's insane that the world has gone this long with using Windows, MacOS, Linux, Unix, etc and still manage to screw up everything possible on their computers. Computers that they use -!every single day!-
The backwards ideas about the human body and sexuality pervasive in "mainstream" American society can be directly traced back to fundamentalist Christians, and to the founding of our country. Puritans, Baptists, Methodists, (old-school) Catholics, Quakers, The Amish, etc all had direct and strict influences on how we as a culture developed, for better or for worse.
So, as usual, we can correctly blame the issue on Bible-thumping nincompoops spewing forth fire and brimstone damnation for anyone that even admires a bit of exposed ankle.
At least women aren't being branded with scarlet A's anymore for looking a married man in the eyes.
Then they obviously don't need it. Therefore, no Flash for the cubicle monkeys.
By the way, outside of Youtube or similar video site, has anyone actually found a *good* use for Flash?
All I normally see it used for are suck-ass forum games and annoying advertisements. Oh, and the random asshole site that decides to create their *entire site* in Flash. I shake my fist at those fucktards right before closing the tab and adding their stupid site to my HOSTS file.
I would argue that we've had a decrease in creative works (excluding the gaming industry) as a whole since the copyright increases were established. The quality of said works has also seemingly diminished in direct proportion to the length and breadth of copyright applied to the works.
It's extremely easy to see this in the visual arts and music industries. Outside of stuff from people like Warhol and Basquiat, for instance, there has been very little to compare to artists such as Rockwell, Monet, etc from a quality standpoint. I would dare say where are all of the good artists hiding at? Are there even any left?
I don't think I delve far into the music industry, as it's been obvious for quite some time the entire thing has been swirling down the toilet bowl. Even the quality of live shows has been degrading over the last few years, with entities such as Ticketmaster and LiveNation turning what should be a monetary and creative incentive directly to and for the artists and fans into a wasteland of corporate stupidity.
This nation never was a Democracy. Ancient Athens in Greece was a true Democracy. We're a Constitutional Republic. There's a difference.
They can aggregate data across sites on individuals using such metrics as average word count per post, average grammatical error count, specific common grammatical errors, what type of topics these individuals tend to post to, which words appear most frequently per poster, euphemisms and other linguistic identifiers, etc. and pretty reliably narrow it down to who is who. Tie this in across different media formats, various databases, frequent flier programs, etc and you come up with a veritable gold mine of intel.
Your name saying Anonymous Coward doesn't seem to mean as much these days when such analysis is used.
You act as if there is any significant difference between the two.
Hint: Outside of paying your own money for someone to maintain it for you, or maintaining it yourself, there is no difference. Email is Email is Email. It all has the same basic functionality, no matter what fairy dust you attempt to sprinkle it with.
IMHO - Your fancy blahblahblah@fancybusinessdomain.com address means no more to me than an address at blahblahblahblah@gmail.com.