yeah MS didn't know how to use thier own gettickcount function properly. When using that function you have to be aware that on machines of long uptime it WILL rollover.
Of course on 9x most people didn't notice it because it was very unusual for a 9x system to keep running that long without crashing for some other reason. Look like there were some bugs related to it on the NT line but none quite as serious.
not so, I play an online text based mmorpg called nightmist, it finally started working under wine fairly recently but occasonally it crashes and worse when it does it has a tendancy to take X with it.
as an aside, why is this a problem with EVERY SINGLE NEW OS Microsoft releases, for at least the first year? How hard is shutting down??? Hard.
The os has to unload and shut down every driver. Those drivers may be in virtually any state. It only takes one bug in a drivers unload code or in library code that it calls to hang or crash the shutdown.
Hauppauge says this is a vista driver model issue If a card or bus that doesn't support 64 bit addressing needs to DMA read or write to a location beyond the 4GB mark (due to other stuff in the addres space having 4GB of ram means you have ram at addressed beyong the 4GB mark) windows gets it to DMA to a buffer below the 4GB mark and copies the data at appropriate points.
I suspect hauppage have made incorrect assumptions about how windows DMA works and are getting bitten when windows tries to do this.
Have you tried the card under any other version of windows that supports more than 4GB of physical address space in a machine with 4GB or more of ram? If not then I don't think it is right to blame vista for this.
P.S. I consider it plain negligent to not test a driver for a PC perhipheral on machines with 4GB of ram right through development.
Many OEMs including Dell, are put off by lacklustre user feedback to Vista maybe
they are preloading Linux and XP instead. Dell at least in the uk are offering XP on thier buisness orientated lines but not on most of thier consumer orientated lines. As for linux they only offer it on a few lines. Many OEMs are even worse.
but it's a very dicey prospect bcos July 2008 will be the last chance for OEMs to bundle XP. If they want they can buy system builder packs until january 2009 and I don't think there is anything stopping people stocking up on those packs.
wouldn't the obvious soloution be to set up your hospital on a ship just outside US terratorial waters. That way you need only deal with those who will pay what the procedure really costs.
as others have said the viking landers dug up samples and ran some tests on them but didn't bring them back.
The problem is that by the time you have hardened a sensor for space use, got it approved and then got it to mars it will probablly be over a decade behind the technology we have on earth and if you want to retest with better sensors you have to send a whole new mission.
By bringing the sample back here it can be studied with the latest equipment we have and we can retest as new equpiment becomes availible.
afaict trafficmaster is a lot more than your basic satnav. Real time information to help you avoid congestion but iirc it does have a subscription cost (I couldn't spot any pricing info on that trafficmaster site) which you have to consider when deciding if it is worth it for your driving pattern.
Ordinary satnavs use static maps that are often very outdated and are of little or no help in avoiding traffic problems.
In case people don't know why the parent made that post - you can't make any sort of turn on red in the UK. Red means stop, and stop is what it means. No wiggle room. True but most larger junctions have green arrows which when lit mean you can go in the direction of the arrow regardless of other lights.
Indeed. However that happens to a *tiny* fraction of a percentage of all bands who try. Oh sure but I can't think of a single example of a band in recent history in the western world who has reached the point of being a major success without signing up to a major record label (or one of thier partners/subsidaries that maintain a facade of independence).
If you care about music then make music Most people who care about producing music want thier music to be heared widely and to get paid enough for it that they can give up thier day job. The major labels give them that in exchange for locking them into a contract that means few of them will see anything beyond thier advance for the sales of the music they produced under the contract.
Block ciphers can be used to encrypt/decrypt any data stream, including generic file I/O operations True provided the software supports it.
there is no reason you should think of tape storage media as any different from any other type of media. tape has very different characteristics from most types of media. Tape is read and written for the most part in a linear fassion with seeking involving winding large ammounts of tape backwards and forwards which takes a lot of time.
For this reason most operating systems and storage busses treat tape devices as a seperate category of device. Therefore to encrypt data going to and from tape the encryption software must be explicitly designed to support working between a tape device and a program expecting a tape device. This will almost certainly require very different code to sitting between a block device and a filesystem expecting a block device.
premier and buisness paypal accounts do charge fees for receiving money. there is a per tranaction fee (minimum fee $0.30 for those in the USA, £0.20 for those of us in britan) and a percentage fee (2.9% for those in the USA, 1.4% in britan).
Not quite as bad as some smaller merchants pay in card fees but still significant especially for small payments.
You can avoid the fees by running everything through a basic personal account but while I have not tried to run a paypal based buisness I strongly suspect they do things to make it impractical for buisnesses to use basic personal accounts.
There is also a 2.5% exchange fee for transactions between different currencies (this is generally payed by the buyer though).
I guess whether it is practical for micropayments depends on what proportion of your payments you are prepared to see go to fees and how micro you mean by micropayments.
but most large chains don't have it because they can afford to eat the cost. IIRC large chains also tend to get much more favorable deals from the card companies.
I doubt it is anti piracy, giving someone a copy which will presumablly have a retail style key isn't going to help the pirates much.
I suspect the reasons are more likely either regulatory (have to be carefull about varying privacy laws) or they simply want to study the american market only.
What I used to do was create a database as they went out- put in the ISBN, date, time, author, title, etc, etc, etc, and the lendee. Worked pretty well, and I slowly built up the database book by book. Not a bad move, seems similar to what the library at university do. When a new book is purchased or a book not on the computer system is borrowed it is entered onto the computer system and a barcode stuck on (libraries have to use thier own barcodes because they have multiple copies of many books and also have some stuff that doesn't have an ISBN barcode) but they don't bother trying to add all the books that predate the computer system to it.
The problem is most cellphone customers don't think about reliability and those that do have no way of getting good data on the backup measures in place for the areas they use thier cellphone in so it is not in the cell providers interests to provide robust service just to provide service that works most of the time.
But people not thinking about something doesn't mean it's not important. With more and more people abandoning conventional landlines reliability of other communication services during disasters is going to become more and more important.
More bands should get with the program and opt out of the RIAA as well. It is not as simple as that.
Bands who don't take the oppertunity when and if they are given it to sign up with a major label (who will be a member of the RIAA and similar organisations in other countries) are likely to remain obscure forever unless they are really lucky.
and once a band has signed they can't just opt out, they have to fulfil thier side of the contrace.
so the band who is offered a record contract has two choices, stay small and obscure and not make much money or become big and famous, still not make much money off record sales but at least have the possibility of other avenues for making money (tours, merchandising etc).
The way to make real money as a band is to go through a record contract, fulfill all the obligations and come out the other side but very few bands manage this.
Taxes are too stressful, we should automatically deduct what you owe from your bank account. In Canada, and South Korea (the only countries where i have (officially) worked, the government does deduct taxes from your paycheque automatically. and in the USA and in the uk too.
it is a great convienience It also makes people think far less about the large chunk of thier money that goes to the governement. This is a boon for those who support big governemnt.
Sure american citizens are allowed some weapons but I don't think that helps you very much in organising a revoloution.
Anyone who gets caught trying to arrange a revoloution will be labeled as a terrorist and treated as such and they will probablly get caught long before they get big enough to challange police/military forces who have both access to better weapons and better training as well as a very large number of men.
I thought the keys running out was solved by the minor update known as SP2C
I belive SP3 will allow XP to be activated in the same way as vista though (a big boon for corps who are worried about thier VLKs getting leaked and put on the WGA shitlist).
I have yet to find a tool that allows me to treat zip files as part of the filesystem like Explorer does. I feel the opposite. I find it very jarring to have zips that look like part of the file system but don't act like it.
I remember using a tool called zipmagic that really made zips act like part of the filesystem but the version I had was 9x only and also it had the potential to break things that relied on zip files acting like files.
No I'll bet the only way you can defend Vista is that you didn't pay $400 for it I bet very few people pay that for windows. The small proportion who didn't get the edition they want with thier PC or want to upgrade an XP machine and now want ultimate or want windows for a PC that never had it may pay that much and don't want to bend the rules on whitebox OEM packs and don't want to pirate and aren't on a volume license program but such people are by far the exception. Most people either keep the version they got with their PC or get their upgrades through a volume license program.
If you get windows with your PC then afaict you pay no more for vista than you would have paid for the equivilent edition of XP (though ultimate doesn't really have an equivilent edition of XP, there was no edition of XP with both the features of MCE and the features of PRO).
I doubt marketing had much if anything to do with it.
PC and external storage manufacturers have to decide which format is least likely to piss off thier users. In other words whether a user is more likely to hit the problems with fat (fragility, wasted space on large volumes, filesize limit that prevents handling DVD images) or the problems with NTFS (incompatibility with very old versions of windows, macs and all but the most recent linux distros). Ordinary users typically won't know or care which they are using until they hit one of the problems and have to get help/advice from somewhere.
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yeah MS didn't know how to use thier own gettickcount function properly. When using that function you have to be aware that on machines of long uptime it WILL rollover.
Of course on 9x most people didn't notice it because it was very unusual for a 9x system to keep running that long without crashing for some other reason. Look like there were some bugs related to it on the NT line but none quite as serious.
not so, I play an online text based mmorpg called nightmist, it finally started working under wine fairly recently but occasonally it crashes and worse when it does it has a tendancy to take X with it.
as an aside, why is this a problem with EVERY SINGLE NEW OS Microsoft releases, for at least the first year? How hard is shutting down???
Hard.
The os has to unload and shut down every driver. Those drivers may be in virtually any state. It only takes one bug in a drivers unload code or in library code that it calls to hang or crash the shutdown.
Hauppauge says this is a vista driver model issue
If a card or bus that doesn't support 64 bit addressing needs to DMA read or write to a location beyond the 4GB mark (due to other stuff in the addres space having 4GB of ram means you have ram at addressed beyong the 4GB mark) windows gets it to DMA to a buffer below the 4GB mark and copies the data at appropriate points.
I suspect hauppage have made incorrect assumptions about how windows DMA works and are getting bitten when windows tries to do this.
Have you tried the card under any other version of windows that supports more than 4GB of physical address space in a machine with 4GB or more of ram? If not then I don't think it is right to blame vista for this.
P.S. I consider it plain negligent to not test a driver for a PC perhipheral on machines with 4GB of ram right through development.
Yes, with vista business and higher you have the right to downgrade to Windows XP Pro.
That is for OEM versions.
Full retail and retail upgrade do not come with downgrade rights.
IIRC volume licenses come with downgrade rights to XP pro, 2K pro, 98, NT 4 and 95.
Many OEMs including Dell, are put off by lacklustre user feedback to Vista
maybe
they are preloading Linux and XP instead.
Dell at least in the uk are offering XP on thier buisness orientated lines but not on most of thier consumer orientated lines. As for linux they only offer it on a few lines. Many OEMs are even worse.
but it's a very dicey prospect bcos July 2008 will be the last chance for OEMs to bundle XP.
If they want they can buy system builder packs until january 2009 and I don't think there is anything stopping people stocking up on those packs.
wouldn't the obvious soloution be to set up your hospital on a ship just outside US terratorial waters. That way you need only deal with those who will pay what the procedure really costs.
as others have said the viking landers dug up samples and ran some tests on them but didn't bring them back.
The problem is that by the time you have hardened a sensor for space use, got it approved and then got it to mars it will probablly be over a decade behind the technology we have on earth and if you want to retest with better sensors you have to send a whole new mission.
By bringing the sample back here it can be studied with the latest equipment we have and we can retest as new equpiment becomes availible.
afaict trafficmaster is a lot more than your basic satnav. Real time information to help you avoid congestion but iirc it does have a subscription cost (I couldn't spot any pricing info on that trafficmaster site) which you have to consider when deciding if it is worth it for your driving pattern.
Ordinary satnavs use static maps that are often very outdated and are of little or no help in avoiding traffic problems.
In case people don't know why the parent made that post - you can't make any sort of turn on red in the UK. Red means stop, and stop is what it means. No wiggle room.
True but most larger junctions have green arrows which when lit mean you can go in the direction of the arrow regardless of other lights.
Indeed. However that happens to a *tiny* fraction of a percentage of all bands who try.
Oh sure but I can't think of a single example of a band in recent history in the western world who has reached the point of being a major success without signing up to a major record label (or one of thier partners/subsidaries that maintain a facade of independence).
If you care about music then make music
Most people who care about producing music want thier music to be heared widely and to get paid enough for it that they can give up thier day job. The major labels give them that in exchange for locking them into a contract that means few of them will see anything beyond thier advance for the sales of the music they produced under the contract.
Block ciphers can be used to encrypt/decrypt any data stream, including generic file I/O operations
True provided the software supports it.
there is no reason you should think of tape storage media as any different from any other type of media.
tape has very different characteristics from most types of media. Tape is read and written for the most part in a linear fassion with seeking involving winding large ammounts of tape backwards and forwards which takes a lot of time.
For this reason most operating systems and storage busses treat tape devices as a seperate category of device. Therefore to encrypt data going to and from tape the encryption software must be explicitly designed to support working between a tape device and a program expecting a tape device. This will almost certainly require very different code to sitting between a block device and a filesystem expecting a block device.
premier and buisness paypal accounts do charge fees for receiving money.
there is a per tranaction fee (minimum fee $0.30 for those in the USA, £0.20 for those of us in britan) and a percentage fee (2.9% for those in the USA, 1.4% in britan).
Not quite as bad as some smaller merchants pay in card fees but still significant especially for small payments.
You can avoid the fees by running everything through a basic personal account but while I have not tried to run a paypal based buisness I strongly suspect they do things to make it impractical for buisnesses to use basic personal accounts.
There is also a 2.5% exchange fee for transactions between different currencies (this is generally payed by the buyer though).
I guess whether it is practical for micropayments depends on what proportion of your payments you are prepared to see go to fees and how micro you mean by micropayments.
but most large chains don't have it because they can afford to eat the cost.
IIRC large chains also tend to get much more favorable deals from the card companies.
I doubt it is anti piracy, giving someone a copy which will presumablly have a retail style key isn't going to help the pirates much.
I suspect the reasons are more likely either regulatory (have to be carefull about varying privacy laws) or they simply want to study the american market only.
did you actually read the article you linked?! MS was running low on keys so they put out a version that accepted more. No big deal.
What I used to do was create a database as they went out- put in the ISBN, date, time, author, title, etc, etc, etc, and the lendee. Worked pretty well, and I slowly built up the database book by book.
Not a bad move, seems similar to what the library at university do. When a new book is purchased or a book not on the computer system is borrowed it is entered onto the computer system and a barcode stuck on (libraries have to use thier own barcodes because they have multiple copies of many books and also have some stuff that doesn't have an ISBN barcode) but they don't bother trying to add all the books that predate the computer system to it.
The problem is most cellphone customers don't think about reliability and those that do have no way of getting good data on the backup measures in place for the areas they use thier cellphone in so it is not in the cell providers interests to provide robust service just to provide service that works most of the time.
But people not thinking about something doesn't mean it's not important. With more and more people abandoning conventional landlines reliability of other communication services during disasters is going to become more and more important.
More bands should get with the program and opt out of the RIAA as well.
It is not as simple as that.
Bands who don't take the oppertunity when and if they are given it to sign up with a major label (who will be a member of the RIAA and similar organisations in other countries) are likely to remain obscure forever unless they are really lucky.
and once a band has signed they can't just opt out, they have to fulfil thier side of the contrace.
so the band who is offered a record contract has two choices, stay small and obscure and not make much money or become big and famous, still not make much money off record sales but at least have the possibility of other avenues for making money (tours, merchandising etc).
The way to make real money as a band is to go through a record contract, fulfill all the obligations and come out the other side but very few bands manage this.
Taxes are too stressful, we should automatically deduct what you owe from your bank account. In Canada, and South Korea (the only countries where i have (officially) worked, the government does deduct taxes from your paycheque automatically.
and in the USA and in the uk too.
it is a great convienience
It also makes people think far less about the large chunk of thier money that goes to the governement. This is a boon for those who support big governemnt.
Sure american citizens are allowed some weapons but I don't think that helps you very much in organising a revoloution.
Anyone who gets caught trying to arrange a revoloution will be labeled as a terrorist and treated as such and they will probablly get caught long before they get big enough to challange police/military forces who have both access to better weapons and better training as well as a very large number of men.
I thought the keys running out was solved by the minor update known as SP2C
I belive SP3 will allow XP to be activated in the same way as vista though (a big boon for corps who are worried about thier VLKs getting leaked and put on the WGA shitlist).
I have yet to find a tool that allows me to treat zip files as part of the filesystem like Explorer does.
I feel the opposite. I find it very jarring to have zips that look like part of the file system but don't act like it.
I remember using a tool called zipmagic that really made zips act like part of the filesystem but the version I had was 9x only and also it had the potential to break things that relied on zip files acting like files.
No I'll bet the only way you can defend Vista is that you didn't pay $400 for it
I bet very few people pay that for windows. The small proportion who didn't get the edition they want with thier PC or want to upgrade an XP machine and now want ultimate or want windows for a PC that never had it may pay that much and don't want to bend the rules on whitebox OEM packs and don't want to pirate and aren't on a volume license program but such people are by far the exception. Most people either keep the version they got with their PC or get their upgrades through a volume license program.
If you get windows with your PC then afaict you pay no more for vista than you would have paid for the equivilent edition of XP (though ultimate doesn't really have an equivilent edition of XP, there was no edition of XP with both the features of MCE and the features of PRO).
I doubt marketing had much if anything to do with it.
PC and external storage manufacturers have to decide which format is least likely to piss off thier users. In other words whether a user is more likely to hit the problems with fat (fragility, wasted space on large volumes, filesize limit that prevents handling DVD images) or the problems with NTFS (incompatibility with very old versions of windows, macs and all but the most recent linux distros). Ordinary users typically won't know or care which they are using until they hit one of the problems and have to get help/advice from somewhere.