Haha funny. Hmm, slashdot should have some sort of mini-moderation whereby you can mod people up by 0.01 if you don't have a modpoint, to increase the precision of moderation.
Uhh, back when I was 8 netscape was the most amazing thing ever, and IE sucked. That was only 10 years ago too... I'm sure a lot of younger people with more technically oriented families used netscape a lot. Heck, Firefox is the legacy of netscape and without the work that netscape did we probably wouldn't have as cool of an internet as we do now.
Err, WTF who mods grammar nazism up? Granted I was being a counter-grammar-nazi but still... and I'm pretty sure you don't moderate things underrated unless they are actually downmodded. But oh well, what do I care free karma for me?
Very true, especially since SSDs cost about as much or more than that. The only reason you might have is that you need a 64 bit OS to handle 4GB of RAM. Due to addressing issues, even though a 32 bit OS can address 4GB of memory a lot of the addressing space goes to bits of hardware besides RAM, and graphics RAM takes a large chunk of that so most users will see around 2.8-3.3GB as their effective maximum RAM in 32 bit Windows. SLI/Crossfire kills that - imagine (just for sake of argument, this is completely pointless) having dual 1GB 8800GTs! However, I'd say Vista x64 is as compatible as it's going to get on the Windows side, so now's the time to jump on the 64 bit bandwagon. I have, and it's great (well, by great I mean as good as Windows usually is, which is great for me but maybe not for others) although I don't have 4GB of RAM yet.
Yeah, as the AC said 6 months is long enough for a complete seasonal flip (perhaps from summer to winter, but you didn't provide any dates so we can't tell) and at least for me, temps drop around 10C from summer to winter so it may have just been environmental factors rather than the CF card. Then again, I do live in California, so perhaps other states don't have as much seasonal differences.
Yeah, and then there's the fact that the ARM7 is 33mhz and the ARM9 is 67mhz, a third of the 200mhz in these phones which will probably be low end anyway. Also, the ARM7 mostly does sound processing stuff. Of course, the DS does have dedicated graphics hardware too.
Yeah, I'm sure as time passes more and more people will be using Vista and realizing there's nothing really fundamentally wrong with it once you disable UAC (which I didn't really want to do because of the security feature but I really know what I'm doing and don't need 3 prompts when I want to change something in Program Files). And by the time Windows 7 rolls around everyone will be like "You can pry my Vista SP2 from my cold dead hands!" etc.
Wow, that sucks. I suppose their detection methods suck or something, because why would they think that a pirate would register pirated software? I guess there's also the stories about Vista WGA false positives deactivating people's computers, although as with anything anecdotal it's hard to gauge the impact of the situation. I guess one good thing companies often do is have the cheap university licenses, which is very nice.
Haha, I haven't seen netcraft confirms it in a long time - is netcraft dead? And Vista boots near instantly on my computer, but I understand it's a joke and also that I built my computer two months ago seeking out the best low-cost components possible, so my case may be something of an anomaly. But it's kind of funny because with XP I would usually hit the power switch, go take a piss or something, come back and find out that it still hasn't finished loading antivirus, firewall, etc... but that's more because of the sucky hardware than the OS.
Perhaps, but they could try and do some studies on how many CDs people buy normally (i.e. before piracy became widespread) or something like that and add 10% or so and make that a more realistic number. Even that has many flaws I suppose. But now I'm curious, how do they find out how many copies of their music have been pirated? I also find it interesting that software companies haven't started suing pirates yet, perhaps because software is a higher cost item so the losses are somewhat offset by people actually buying the software. There are all the antipiracy methods that companies employ such as activation, DRM and the like, but those are always cracked and they just keep making tougher ones instead of suing software pirates like the RIAA does with music pirates, although I suppose even then they only prosecuted against a handful among the millions of people who pirate music.
Yeah, which is why I said it's debatable. But Photoshop at $649 doesn't seem like something most people would be willing to pay for. The other poster made a good point that Adobe should make a Home edition for $150 or so, that's much more manageable. Another example is music; people downloading 100s of albums almost certainly would not have paid for all of them, but maybe around half or a third of them. But saying that companies are losing all the value of piracy is preposterous (not saying you said it, but companies that claim $x billion dollars of loss) because it's hard to determine how much of it people would have paid for the stuff they pirated.
Right, because megacorporation X is going to pirate Windows for all their computer or something like that. The argument that developers/artists/etc are losing money from piracy is debatable since if the person pirating didn't have the money to buy the software (eg. Photoshop) they wouldn't have bought it anyway. Meanwhile at least piracy increases mindshare. Personally, I just use GIMP but most people who pirate Photoshop wouldn't know that GIMP exists, and even then I guess it's just too different for their tastes.
No, wasn't is referring to office not lights. Office is the subject, full of guitar-controlled lights is a modifying phrase. If you're going to be pedantic, at least do it right...
Well if Nintendo doesn't hire him and he doesn't start his own gaming company these ideas will never land on the Wii itself, and while it would be cool to play games using this on the PC the market for people with the know-how to connect their wiimote to their PC (and get around all the stupid driver limitations and stuff) is exceedingly small compared to the market for people with Wiis.
Hmm, DOSBox perhaps for DOS applications? I think someone else mentioned it on this thread somewhere. And I don't know what applications wouldn't work on 32 bit Vista, but perhaps someone could enlighten me. And in any case, if anyone needed those apps there's no reason they couldn't stick with XP.
Btw are you the same tepples on the gbadev forums? I lurk there from time to time because I'm trying to learn ds homebrew coding and keep up with new homebrew releases, and I've seen a lot of posts by you.
Haha, I'm only in my last year of high school but the first computer I had (well my dad's) had three hard drives varying from 100 to 300MB. I tried to install Windows NT on it since we had a spare disk randomly but there wasn't enough space. I then decided to format it... and when my dad came home he was like WTF are you doing??!! but by then we never used it anyway.
Hmm? What types of apps don't work on Vista, or even x64? Vista x64 has some sort of virtualization or compatibility layer or something called Windows on Windows 64 (WoW64) that runs all 32 bit apps fine.
I believe you can bypass it by pressing F8 at boot time, and selecting to disable driver signing authentication. Unfortunately it seems like my bluetooth drivers have bigger issues since they aren't the ones that came with the adapter...
Yeah, that was one feature of OS X that I thought was really cool, although in some ways I kind of prefer the cryptic folder names and and things where you have access to the folder contents and such. I know that those icons are actually folders in disguise but somehow having all the nitty gritty stuff within easy access makes me feel better. Same with the registry, oddly enough. I guess it also helps keep the demand for technologically oriented people like/.ers up, because if all it takes to install or uninstall a program is drag-and-drop, who would need people like us?;)
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Haha funny. Hmm, slashdot should have some sort of mini-moderation whereby you can mod people up by 0.01 if you don't have a modpoint, to increase the precision of moderation.
Just being pedantic, but it's a 9 trillion dollar debt not deficit, a deficit is government spending less government revenue for a given year.
Uhh, back when I was 8 netscape was the most amazing thing ever, and IE sucked. That was only 10 years ago too... I'm sure a lot of younger people with more technically oriented families used netscape a lot. Heck, Firefox is the legacy of netscape and without the work that netscape did we probably wouldn't have as cool of an internet as we do now.
Err, WTF who mods grammar nazism up? Granted I was being a counter-grammar-nazi but still... and I'm pretty sure you don't moderate things underrated unless they are actually downmodded. But oh well, what do I care free karma for me?
Very true, especially since SSDs cost about as much or more than that. The only reason you might have is that you need a 64 bit OS to handle 4GB of RAM. Due to addressing issues, even though a 32 bit OS can address 4GB of memory a lot of the addressing space goes to bits of hardware besides RAM, and graphics RAM takes a large chunk of that so most users will see around 2.8-3.3GB as their effective maximum RAM in 32 bit Windows. SLI/Crossfire kills that - imagine (just for sake of argument, this is completely pointless) having dual 1GB 8800GTs! However, I'd say Vista x64 is as compatible as it's going to get on the Windows side, so now's the time to jump on the 64 bit bandwagon. I have, and it's great (well, by great I mean as good as Windows usually is, which is great for me but maybe not for others) although I don't have 4GB of RAM yet.
Yeah, as the AC said 6 months is long enough for a complete seasonal flip (perhaps from summer to winter, but you didn't provide any dates so we can't tell) and at least for me, temps drop around 10C from summer to winter so it may have just been environmental factors rather than the CF card. Then again, I do live in California, so perhaps other states don't have as much seasonal differences.
Hahah, this comment==win.
Yeah, and then there's the fact that the ARM7 is 33mhz and the ARM9 is 67mhz, a third of the 200mhz in these phones which will probably be low end anyway. Also, the ARM7 mostly does sound processing stuff. Of course, the DS does have dedicated graphics hardware too.
Yeah, I'm sure as time passes more and more people will be using Vista and realizing there's nothing really fundamentally wrong with it once you disable UAC (which I didn't really want to do because of the security feature but I really know what I'm doing and don't need 3 prompts when I want to change something in Program Files). And by the time Windows 7 rolls around everyone will be like "You can pry my Vista SP2 from my cold dead hands!" etc.
Wow, that sucks. I suppose their detection methods suck or something, because why would they think that a pirate would register pirated software? I guess there's also the stories about Vista WGA false positives deactivating people's computers, although as with anything anecdotal it's hard to gauge the impact of the situation. I guess one good thing companies often do is have the cheap university licenses, which is very nice.
Haha, I haven't seen netcraft confirms it in a long time - is netcraft dead? And Vista boots near instantly on my computer, but I understand it's a joke and also that I built my computer two months ago seeking out the best low-cost components possible, so my case may be something of an anomaly. But it's kind of funny because with XP I would usually hit the power switch, go take a piss or something, come back and find out that it still hasn't finished loading antivirus, firewall, etc... but that's more because of the sucky hardware than the OS.
Perhaps, but they could try and do some studies on how many CDs people buy normally (i.e. before piracy became widespread) or something like that and add 10% or so and make that a more realistic number. Even that has many flaws I suppose. But now I'm curious, how do they find out how many copies of their music have been pirated? I also find it interesting that software companies haven't started suing pirates yet, perhaps because software is a higher cost item so the losses are somewhat offset by people actually buying the software. There are all the antipiracy methods that companies employ such as activation, DRM and the like, but those are always cracked and they just keep making tougher ones instead of suing software pirates like the RIAA does with music pirates, although I suppose even then they only prosecuted against a handful among the millions of people who pirate music.
Yeah, which is why I said it's debatable. But Photoshop at $649 doesn't seem like something most people would be willing to pay for. The other poster made a good point that Adobe should make a Home edition for $150 or so, that's much more manageable. Another example is music; people downloading 100s of albums almost certainly would not have paid for all of them, but maybe around half or a third of them. But saying that companies are losing all the value of piracy is preposterous (not saying you said it, but companies that claim $x billion dollars of loss) because it's hard to determine how much of it people would have paid for the stuff they pirated.
Oh, I see. Yeah, I'm still not entirely sure what the OP's point is ;)
http://www.gimp.org/macintosh/ might help, I haven't looked at it much. The first link seems to have the type you can drag/drop but I'm not certain since I don't have much experience with installing software on OS X. http://www.wilber-loves-apple.org/forum.php?id=1 has dmg files.
Right, because megacorporation X is going to pirate Windows for all their computer or something like that. The argument that developers/artists/etc are losing money from piracy is debatable since if the person pirating didn't have the money to buy the software (eg. Photoshop) they wouldn't have bought it anyway. Meanwhile at least piracy increases mindshare. Personally, I just use GIMP but most people who pirate Photoshop wouldn't know that GIMP exists, and even then I guess it's just too different for their tastes.
*whoosh!* GP was saying that that mentality is a sad reaction to the OLPC, not that that's what he believes.
No, wasn't is referring to office not lights. Office is the subject, full of guitar-controlled lights is a modifying phrase. If you're going to be pedantic, at least do it right...
Well if Nintendo doesn't hire him and he doesn't start his own gaming company these ideas will never land on the Wii itself, and while it would be cool to play games using this on the PC the market for people with the know-how to connect their wiimote to their PC (and get around all the stupid driver limitations and stuff) is exceedingly small compared to the market for people with Wiis.
Hmm, DOSBox perhaps for DOS applications? I think someone else mentioned it on this thread somewhere. And I don't know what applications wouldn't work on 32 bit Vista, but perhaps someone could enlighten me. And in any case, if anyone needed those apps there's no reason they couldn't stick with XP. Btw are you the same tepples on the gbadev forums? I lurk there from time to time because I'm trying to learn ds homebrew coding and keep up with new homebrew releases, and I've seen a lot of posts by you.
Haha, I'm only in my last year of high school but the first computer I had (well my dad's) had three hard drives varying from 100 to 300MB. I tried to install Windows NT on it since we had a spare disk randomly but there wasn't enough space. I then decided to format it... and when my dad came home he was like WTF are you doing??!! but by then we never used it anyway.
Hmm? What types of apps don't work on Vista, or even x64? Vista x64 has some sort of virtualization or compatibility layer or something called Windows on Windows 64 (WoW64) that runs all 32 bit apps fine.
I believe you can bypass it by pressing F8 at boot time, and selecting to disable driver signing authentication. Unfortunately it seems like my bluetooth drivers have bigger issues since they aren't the ones that came with the adapter...
Hilarious, that exact thing used to happen to me with Warcraft III until I built a new computer recently.
Yeah, that was one feature of OS X that I thought was really cool, although in some ways I kind of prefer the cryptic folder names and and things where you have access to the folder contents and such. I know that those icons are actually folders in disguise but somehow having all the nitty gritty stuff within easy access makes me feel better. Same with the registry, oddly enough. I guess it also helps keep the demand for technologically oriented people like /.ers up, because if all it takes to install or uninstall a program is drag-and-drop, who would need people like us? ;)