There is a benefit to getting rid of the steering wheel altogether. In these crash test concious times mechanical steering means a lot of ironwork that needs to be kept away from the driver. A simple joystick control means no wheel to crush your chest and no pedals to cut your feet off.
Still it would feel odd driving without a mechanical connection to the wheels.
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That's a compatibility fudge to run old install programs that don't have a manifest saying whether they need admin privs or not.
Try it with with setup.exe, update.exe or anything that sounds like it might be an installer. Vista assumes it's an installer and tries to run it as admin.
For extra fun rename a text file to be setup.exe. Try to run it. Vista will give you a UAC prompt, then discover it's not a real executable and finally give you a cute little message box saying 'The application didn't install correctly'
I'll take a punt that the first human into space was under a helium balloon.
I can't remember what the program was called, but I saw an interview with the pilot. He mentioned a problem with a faulty glove causing his hand to swell. He also remarked that the atmosphere was so thin that on the way back down (by jumping off with a parachute!) there was no sensation of falling or of air rushing past.
I was listening to a review of this show on the radio and one of the criticisms levelled was that the characters in this series were less immediately familiar to both Enfield and the audience. Because of this they were much less funny than the likes of Loadsamoney and Stavros. Everyone knew somebody like one of those two. In fact IIRC Stavros was based on Enfield's local shop keeper.
I played with a Mac Mini and an S-video dongle on a standard def TV and it was fine for watching video, but nearly impossible to use the desktop to open the video in the first place (this was before Front Row et al)
In the UK at least, the only reason I can see for getting an HDTV is to plug a Mac Mini into it!
You think the Romans wouldn't have torn it down if they could have? It's not like they had reliable explosives to make it collapse like we do now. Imagine you'd have to tear down that stadium with pickaxes.
Buildings didn't get torn down and the rubble carted away like they do now. That would be far too much work. Instead they simply got used as quarries for new buildings. It's a lot easier to bash niceley squared stone blocks off an old building than it is to dig new ones out of the ground.
Thus buildings would slowly 'evaporate' rather than be demolished.
In the UK Woolworths sold a Samsung DVD player which was I think the first sub £200 DVD player you could buy in the high street. They sold a ton of these and were very good about taking them back again when they wouldn't play the Matrix.
IIRC early PS2s didn't care too much for the Matrix either.
I wonder how many hands people will have to lose before they consider allowing exceptions to this one?
Not a big risk in the home but in the UK at least, the wiring/lighting regs for industrial use say that adjacent flourescent lights must be spread across the three phase supply to eliminate the possiblity of the 'stroboscopic accidents' you suggest.
Under virtualization everyone's virtual hardware is the same and VMware or whoever supply all the drivers for it. That kill a ton of problems right there.
Plus if Windows doesn't work in a virtual machine, most likely you're going to complain to the supplier of the virtualization product. So that should make Microsoft happy.
The two pin electic razor socket is used in bathrooms and for a good reason.
Contained within the socket is an isolating transformer so there's no return path to earth if you touch a live wire with one hand and a nicely earthed metal tap with the other.
I therefore backup the drivers folder, format the hard disk and reinstall XP
I wish I had your foresight. On the last Dell I had I just ran the thing to make a recovery CD, wiped the disk and reinstalled. Only to discover the recovery CD didn't have drivers for anything. Not even the network card worked. That made downloading new drivers fun.
Thanks Dell.
On the flip side apart from the MS Office trial, the iMac I have now came loaded with actual useful stuff. Why can't Dell do that?
Chris de Burgh
"...he was in serious pain, just below the knee, and I felt the area above had been traumatised. I started feeling and I'd say within 20 minutes, he was walking again. It took away the pain."
I know who Chris de Burgh is and believe me if he was feeling up my leg I'd be walking away too, no matter what was broken!
It really irrtates telemarketers when you talk to them.
Think about it. If every 'no sale' call hangs up immediately they can get through hundreds each day.
What you should do is use their own tactics against them. They want you to stay on the line while they make their pitch. Don't let them. Be polite, keep them talking about anything and everything. When they give in and try to close the call just keep it going. Simple human nature means its hard for them to simply hang up on you when you're being so nice.
Or if you're lazy. When they ask for Mr Whoever ask them to wait while you go fetch him, leave the phone and go and have a nice sit down.
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Nothing new there. When I upgraded to XP Nero promptly broke.
Type 'Gerald Ratner' into Google and see what you get.
Just be glad you don't live in India where it seems anyone with a mobile phone has been able to do that.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7103585.stm/Steer by wire is already in use by disabled drivers http://www.tetraplegicliving.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=25&Itemid=50/. OK the wheel is still there but it's not like it's any use to the driver.
There is a benefit to getting rid of the steering wheel altogether. In these crash test concious times mechanical steering means a lot of ironwork that needs to be kept away from the driver. A simple joystick control means no wheel to crush your chest and no pedals to cut your feet off.
Still it would feel odd driving without a mechanical connection to the wheels.
That's a compatibility fudge to run old install programs that don't have a manifest saying whether they need admin privs or not.
Try it with with setup.exe, update.exe or anything that sounds like it might be an installer. Vista assumes it's an installer and tries to run it as admin.
For extra fun rename a text file to be setup.exe. Try to run it. Vista will give you a UAC prompt, then discover it's not a real executable and finally give you a cute little message box saying 'The application didn't install correctly'
By that time, we should have identified another customer whom we can sue.
You might have something there. On their website it says this:
SCO intends to maintain business as usual throughout the Chapter 11 proceedings.
I thought Macs had always been popular in Japan since the early days when PCs were DOS and Macs had a nice Japanese-friendly GUI.
"Nate is CNET.co.uk's expert on digital music and portable media" Er, I think that means he's the one who's got an iPod.
I'll take a punt that the first human into space was under a helium balloon. I can't remember what the program was called, but I saw an interview with the pilot. He mentioned a problem with a faulty glove causing his hand to swell. He also remarked that the atmosphere was so thin that on the way back down (by jumping off with a parachute!) there was no sensation of falling or of air rushing past.
run Windows natively or seamlessly alongside Mac OS X with packages like Parallels Desktop at least bears repeating.
Or maybe even without Parallels in Leopard...
Core Duo is faster and nothing an iMac is likely to be used for will benefit much from 64 bits.
64 bits don't always mean better. Remember the Atari Jaguar.
It's absolutely not free energy -- it's paid for by the motorist.
As Obi-Wan said, "Energy that someone else pays for is free energy. From a certain point of view."
I was listening to a review of this show on the radio and one of the criticisms levelled was that the characters in this series were less immediately familiar to both Enfield and the audience. Because of this they were much less funny than the likes of Loadsamoney and Stavros. Everyone knew somebody like one of those two. In fact IIRC Stavros was based on Enfield's local shop keeper.
Absolutely.
I played with a Mac Mini and an S-video dongle on a standard def TV and it was fine for watching video, but nearly impossible to use the desktop to open the video in the first place (this was before Front Row et al)
In the UK at least, the only reason I can see for getting an HDTV is to plug a Mac Mini into it!
Buildings didn't get torn down and the rubble carted away like they do now. That would be far too much work. Instead they simply got used as quarries for new buildings. It's a lot easier to bash niceley squared stone blocks off an old building than it is to dig new ones out of the ground.
Thus buildings would slowly 'evaporate' rather than be demolished.
Yep I had that too.
In the UK Woolworths sold a Samsung DVD player which was I think the first sub £200 DVD player you could buy in the high street. They sold a ton of these and were very good about taking them back again when they wouldn't play the Matrix.
IIRC early PS2s didn't care too much for the Matrix either.
I wonder how many hands people will have to lose before they consider allowing exceptions to this one?
Not a big risk in the home but in the UK at least, the wiring/lighting regs for industrial use say that adjacent flourescent lights must be spread across the three phase supply to eliminate the possiblity of the 'stroboscopic accidents' you suggest.
I'm not remotely surprised. XP was a huge upgrade from Win 98. In comparison Vista's more like Win Me
I think the opposite is more likely.
Under virtualization everyone's virtual hardware is the same and VMware or whoever supply all the drivers for it. That kill a ton of problems right there.
Plus if Windows doesn't work in a virtual machine, most likely you're going to complain to the supplier of the virtualization product. So that should make Microsoft happy.
The two pin electic razor socket is used in bathrooms and for a good reason.
Contained within the socket is an isolating transformer so there's no return path to earth if you touch a live wire with one hand and a nicely earthed metal tap with the other.
I wish I had your foresight. On the last Dell I had I just ran the thing to make a recovery CD, wiped the disk and reinstalled. Only to discover the recovery CD didn't have drivers for anything. Not even the network card worked. That made downloading new drivers fun.
Thanks Dell.
On the flip side apart from the MS Office trial, the iMac I have now came loaded with actual useful stuff. Why can't Dell do that?
None of that matters. If you don't wet the sponge, the resulting fire will kill the bacteria just fine.
Chris de Burgh "...he was in serious pain, just below the knee, and I felt the area above had been traumatised. I started feeling and I'd say within 20 minutes, he was walking again. It took away the pain."
I know who Chris de Burgh is and believe me if he was feeling up my leg I'd be walking away too, no matter what was broken!It really irrtates telemarketers when you talk to them. Think about it. If every 'no sale' call hangs up immediately they can get through hundreds each day. What you should do is use their own tactics against them. They want you to stay on the line while they make their pitch. Don't let them. Be polite, keep them talking about anything and everything. When they give in and try to close the call just keep it going. Simple human nature means its hard for them to simply hang up on you when you're being so nice. Or if you're lazy. When they ask for Mr Whoever ask them to wait while you go fetch him, leave the phone and go and have a nice sit down.
I thought it was a psychotic dolphin that Sky had...