I thought that on Windows XP the installation of unsigned drivers required user intervention (the "stop"/"continue anyway" dialog that most hardware vendors just say click "continue anyway" in their instructions) while the installations of signed drivers could be down without user intervention because that dialog does not appear. If that is true, then the CD protection drivers would have to be signed or it would be simple to just never install them in the first place.
Where I work, our installation program selects "Continue anyway" without user intervention and the message just quickly pops up and leave in about 1 second. Remember that a program you install under administrator has all the same privileges as you do under administrator.
This is what we call a paper release as pioneered by IBM in the good old days. When the competitors threaten to release a better product then yours, you claim that you are developing an even better product than them in order to prevent consumers from switching to the competitor. The actual release date doesn't matter, all that matters is that consumers anticipate that you will have an awesome product coming along that they will want to save money for. And as IBM proved, you don't even have to release the product. You might just want to do this in order to cause your competitor financial hardships.
The reason that AMD had to go this route is that the AMD architecture has the memory controller embedded in the CPU chip while the intel machines have the controller contained in the motherboard. This means that AMD have better overall memory performance, however, a change in memory technology forces them to redesign their CPU and use another socket for fear that consumers might put those new CPU's in older 939 motherboards and either fry them up or call for tech support too much.
Is it really worth it to be an AMD processor with a DDR2 memory controller? Sure this meant a lot for the intel architecture but from what I understood the AMD architecture will not gain a lot from this memory speed increase. Also, the latency on the memory will likely also increase which might cancel all gains made from the increased speed. Therefore, I'm waiting and seeing before I get me one of those.
I didn't get screwed: I bought the cheapest CPU with a socket 939 motherboard and will buy a better CPU once the prices go down much like 754 cpu went down once 939 came out.
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Open Source: Ensuring that my kids don't have to listen to Dad tell the same "Oh man, when I was your age I played this great game, but we'd need to find an old binary and a goddamn 60 year old computer to play it..." story over and over again.
What if 60 years from now you have the source code but you don't have a compiler for the now defunct C language?:D
I've used Ajax a bit to develop an enterprise application and it just tends to turn into one big mess (perhaps by my own fault but nevertheless;) ). Is there a completely object-oriented Ajax library out there because this would significantly improve the usability of ajax.
That's exactly what I mean. What Linux needs right now is a platform that will accomplish everything that joe sixpack wants to do right out of the box. I think that a script like automatix for ubuntu is a pretty nice feature in that it does take a lot of the guesswork out of installing the most common software needed. However, all the functionality in this script should be included in Ubuntu by default.
Also, what Linux needs the most is to have a media player that is well integrated inside firefox and that plays wma and wmv files. Either that, or make it possible to integrate windows media player inside firefox using wine.
The second most important thing to do for linux is to pour more resources into developing Wine. We need a windows emulator (I know it's not an emulator) that works flawlessly right now at least for games.
Linux is a great operating system. The main problem with adoption of this operating system in the mainstream is all the small things that makes its use difficult "out-of-the-box" and how most installation in Linux is so difficult.
Here is a list of problems I have encountered with linux pretty much in the order I encountered them when I started dicking around with it:
Installation stage:
1) Ooops, you have no hard drive! I had a SATA hard drive and teh distribution I was attempting to install (Mandrake linux) had no support for it. After trying a few distribution, only Fedora at the time seemed to support that hardware.
2) Hanging as the installation starts. Caused because of my newish graphics card. Therefore, I had to go through the text installation mode.
Hooray! Linux is installed!!!! WOOOOTTT!
3) Horror! My nice graphical interface hangs at startup! That will teach me to have an ATI graphics card. After dicking around with the ATI drivers for a few days, I finally managed to make it work.
4) Oh noes, now my usb optical mouse doesn't work, I have to find out how to get it to work. After much googling, I find out that I must make some changes to the xorg.conf file and I therefore happily go twiddle with the settings in there.
5) Yippeee, my mouse works and I have a nice graphical user interface, now let's listen to some mp3's. First of all, let's mount my NTFS drive that contains all my MP3's.... NOOOOO!!! NTFS is not recognized:(. At this point, I get fed up with Fedora core and don't touch it for a few months.
6) On the recommendation of my friend, I install Gentoo Linux, follow all the instructions with a custom kernel and reboot.
7) Oh noes! Horror, I have no hard drive. After much googling, I find out that SATA hard drive are under the "SCSI" category for the kernel options.
8) No networking now! I must now rebuild my kernel with the Reverse engineered NFORCE 4 driver!
9) Now, do an "emerge kde-meta" and wait
10) 10 hours later
11) Yeah, I can actually mount a NTFS hard drive now. And I can play MP3's too. Now let's go check out those video clips on launch.com.......
12) Try to get the totem plug-in to work in firefox. It finally sort of works but it's ugly and launch doesn't work anyways. But at least I can now watch my porn. Fiew...
13) After a session of "relaxation" let's now try to install half-life 2 on this machine.... I won't even go into how much effort I put into this and never got it to work anyways. FOllowing that, I put linux aside a couple of months and decided to try some other time.
14) I got sick of ATI being so buggy in linux and causing my system to crash after every logout and shelled out the cash for a NVIDIA graphics card
Therefore, the biggest problems to adoption of linux is: bad driver support (which ubuntu has fixed to a big degree but it still never got my graphics card right) and bad multimedia, gaming integration with the OS. The driver is fixable eventually if you tweak enough however it is inexcusable that an operating system will give you so much trouble in trying to play multimedia on the internet. I want to be able to watch my videoclips on launch.com dammit! The issue of gaming is being somewhat worked out with CEDEGA and wine but both are very buggy and iffy solutions. I got Deus Ex to work on my computer with Wine but all newer games refuse to install or get bizarre errors. Of course, if there is already a way to get all this to work in linux, let me know.
The idea of a long cable is not to get us out of the atmosphere, but to get us far away from the pull of Earth's gravity. If you climbed all the way to the end of the cable and let go, given you had escape velocity, you would get past anywhere.
Uhh, from what I understand, there is this huge object at the center of our solar system who's gravity keeps a bunch of planets and comets circling it. You DO need a certain escape velocity to get out of the solar system.
That is, until M$ does evil things to force people to upgrade, like releasing Vista-specific software and dropping patches for XP altogether.
Halo 2 comes to mind
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Unless I am mistaken, this is not retorical, it is a clear statement that piracy is being used to fund terrorism
So when is oil becoming illegal?
new fps = 3
Or 3 cps (crashes per second) in my case.
I'd rather see FB-DIMMs
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A maximum of 192 GB of RAM... Is that enough for windows Vista?
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx
OMG, 7% increase in performance! That means at least 2 extra frames per second on Oblivion!
and 939 was suppose to be "future proof."
And 64k was supposed to be more than anyone would ever need.
This is what we call a paper release as pioneered by IBM in the good old days. When the competitors threaten to release a better product then yours, you claim that you are developing an even better product than them in order to prevent consumers from switching to the competitor. The actual release date doesn't matter, all that matters is that consumers anticipate that you will have an awesome product coming along that they will want to save money for. And as IBM proved, you don't even have to release the product. You might just want to do this in order to cause your competitor financial hardships.
The reason that AMD had to go this route is that the AMD architecture has the memory controller embedded in the CPU chip while the intel machines have the controller contained in the motherboard. This means that AMD have better overall memory performance, however, a change in memory technology forces them to redesign their CPU and use another socket for fear that consumers might put those new CPU's in older 939 motherboards and either fry them up or call for tech support too much.
Is it really worth it to be an AMD processor with a DDR2 memory controller? Sure this meant a lot for the intel architecture but from what I understood the AMD architecture will not gain a lot from this memory speed increase. Also, the latency on the memory will likely also increase which might cancel all gains made from the increased speed. Therefore, I'm waiting and seeing before I get me one of those.
I didn't get screwed: I bought the cheapest CPU with a socket 939 motherboard and will buy a better CPU once the prices go down much like 754 cpu went down once 939 came out.
Open Source: Ensuring that my kids don't have to listen to Dad tell the same "Oh man, when I was your age I played this great game, but we'd need to find an old binary and a goddamn 60 year old computer to play it..." story over and over again.
:D
What if 60 years from now you have the source code but you don't have a compiler for the now defunct C language?
as much of 90 percent of the proprietary software in use in these developing countries consists of pirated copies.
;)
Problem solved!
Virtually all children who are molested are molested by their parents and step-parents, not by strangers on the internet.
You forgot about catholic priests.
EVERYONE! This man supports kiddie porn! Let's think of the children and BURN HIM!!!!!! ;)
I stand corrected...
I've used Ajax a bit to develop an enterprise application and it just tends to turn into one big mess (perhaps by my own fault but nevertheless ;) ). Is there a completely object-oriented Ajax library out there because this would significantly improve the usability of ajax.
incidentally, my main problem with slashdot is that formatting using whitespace is not preserved ;)
That's exactly what I mean. What Linux needs right now is a platform that will accomplish everything that joe sixpack wants to do right out of the box. I think that a script like automatix for ubuntu is a pretty nice feature in that it does take a lot of the guesswork out of installing the most common software needed. However, all the functionality in this script should be included in Ubuntu by default.
Also, what Linux needs the most is to have a media player that is well integrated inside firefox and that plays wma and wmv files. Either that, or make it possible to integrate windows media player inside firefox using wine.
The second most important thing to do for linux is to pour more resources into developing Wine. We need a windows emulator (I know it's not an emulator) that works flawlessly right now at least for games.
Linux is a great operating system. The main problem with adoption of this operating system in the mainstream is all the small things that makes its use difficult "out-of-the-box" and how most installation in Linux is so difficult. Here is a list of problems I have encountered with linux pretty much in the order I encountered them when I started dicking around with it: Installation stage: 1) Ooops, you have no hard drive! I had a SATA hard drive and teh distribution I was attempting to install (Mandrake linux) had no support for it. After trying a few distribution, only Fedora at the time seemed to support that hardware. 2) Hanging as the installation starts. Caused because of my newish graphics card. Therefore, I had to go through the text installation mode. Hooray! Linux is installed!!!! WOOOOTTT! 3) Horror! My nice graphical interface hangs at startup! That will teach me to have an ATI graphics card. After dicking around with the ATI drivers for a few days, I finally managed to make it work. 4) Oh noes, now my usb optical mouse doesn't work, I have to find out how to get it to work. After much googling, I find out that I must make some changes to the xorg.conf file and I therefore happily go twiddle with the settings in there. 5) Yippeee, my mouse works and I have a nice graphical user interface, now let's listen to some mp3's. First of all, let's mount my NTFS drive that contains all my MP3's.... NOOOOO!!! NTFS is not recognized :(. At this point, I get fed up with Fedora core and don't touch it for a few months.
6) On the recommendation of my friend, I install Gentoo Linux, follow all the instructions with a custom kernel and reboot.
7) Oh noes! Horror, I have no hard drive. After much googling, I find out that SATA hard drive are under the "SCSI" category for the kernel options.
8) No networking now! I must now rebuild my kernel with the Reverse engineered NFORCE 4 driver!
9) Now, do an "emerge kde-meta" and wait
10) 10 hours later
11) Yeah, I can actually mount a NTFS hard drive now. And I can play MP3's too. Now let's go check out those video clips on launch.com. ... ...
12) Try to get the totem plug-in to work in firefox. It finally sort of works but it's ugly and launch doesn't work anyways. But at least I can now watch my porn. Fiew...
13) After a session of "relaxation" let's now try to install half-life 2 on this machine. ... I won't even go into how much effort I put into this and never got it to work anyways. FOllowing that, I put linux aside a couple of months and decided to try some other time.
14) I got sick of ATI being so buggy in linux and causing my system to crash after every logout and shelled out the cash for a NVIDIA graphics card
Therefore, the biggest problems to adoption of linux is: bad driver support (which ubuntu has fixed to a big degree but it still never got my graphics card right) and bad multimedia, gaming integration with the OS. The driver is fixable eventually if you tweak enough however it is inexcusable that an operating system will give you so much trouble in trying to play multimedia on the internet. I want to be able to watch my videoclips on launch.com dammit! The issue of gaming is being somewhat worked out with CEDEGA and wine but both are very buggy and iffy solutions. I got Deus Ex to work on my computer with Wine but all newer games refuse to install or get bizarre errors. Of course, if there is already a way to get all this to work in linux, let me know.
Finally, I can download all that pron without getting those "disk out of memory" messages.
The idea of a long cable is not to get us out of the atmosphere, but to get us far away from the pull of Earth's gravity. If you climbed all the way to the end of the cable and let go, given you had escape velocity, you would get past anywhere. Uhh, from what I understand, there is this huge object at the center of our solar system who's gravity keeps a bunch of planets and comets circling it. You DO need a certain escape velocity to get out of the solar system.
Hmmmmm. Braaaaiiinnnsss.
That is, until M$ does evil things to force people to upgrade, like releasing Vista-specific software and dropping patches for XP altogether. Halo 2 comes to mind
He's a loser Marge, dump him! :sings: I travelled the world and the seven seas, I am watching you through a camera!
Could a link be provided to an english (non babelfish) link?