I suppose I need to add on that since my problem affected something like the upper 67% of my memory, it turned out to be easy to spot. I guess if the failure is limited to like... 8 bytes out of 512M... it's going to be a bit more difficult.
Even still, you'd still see a similar random pattern of unreprodicable errors.
When I added some memory to my computer, it was really picky about the order of the sticks. I apparently did it wrong and ended up with timing problems, causing random memory corruption.
The symptoms were fairly easy to diagnose as being memory related:
Windows wouldn't boot up most of the time but instead freeze... but it wasn't consistent. Sometimes it would boot.
When it did boot, programs randomly crashed.
Microsoft programs would throw Data Execution Prevention Errors (which has never happened to me outside of memory problems...). Those of you with hardware DEP would probably notice this more as every program would be affected. Of course some third party programs can't work without executing data (or they're just buggy) but for this purpose I assume you'd notice programs throwing DEP errors that normally don't.
These are pretty good indications you should boot from a linux partition or live CD and run memtest. I eventually fixed my specific problem by moving memory sticks around until memtest made it through a test cycle with no errors.
When you get a.docx file you can't read, you say the same thing Office 2003 users say... "I can't open DOCX files, send it in DOC". The only difference is that Office 2k3 has Office 2k7 format plugins, but really, only the people who already know about them are probably going to be finding and using them.
Furthermore, considering that OOXML is basically Office 2k3 formats converted to plaintext and zipped up, I'd have thought there would ALREADY be support in OO.org by now... at least, soon. OOXML was made to allow devs to easily generate their own or read them so I'd expect writing loading/saving functions would be quicker than the original Office 2k3 format functions...
Better to set up a system to pick a random sampling of people from all over and MAKE them serve...That should keep the majority from having any desire to be there at all.
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Actually Microsoft has a better software development process now, which they developed because Longhorn/Vista was unsatisfactory and they needed to rewrite chunks of it over. I shudder to think of what Vista would've been like if they HADN'T developed this new process... new PCs would probably already be back to shipping with XP, for one. Or perhaps OSX.
Team Fortress is the most fun multiplayer I've had in a long time. I can't wait to play Portal (try the spiritual precursor, Narbacular Drop). Episode 2 looks like fun as well.
I think Valve's main problem is that they were working on OTHER projects too (Portal, TF2).
I mean, I PREFER having more games from Valve, but I think the proper way to do episodic content is to channel as much energy (ie staff working on it) as possible to shorten the development time. But like I said, I'm really looking forward to Portal and TF2 is a lot of fun. Quite frankly, it's harder to do episodic with a FPS rather than something like Sam and Max. Sam and Max reuses some of its main locations, which cuts down some of the work Telltale has to do, whereas Half-Life 2 Episodes have all been about trying NEW things... concepts, puzzles... with completely NEW areas and enemies. Alyx sticking by you the whole game. The scene with the "thing" in a pod. Reprogramming roller mines. Stalkers as enemies. The awesome ending cutscene.
Our gov't reminds me of my little brother. Well not so little anymore, but he still accuses me of cheating every time I win a game. We need more mature people in there!
I got Office Pro 2007 through a Microsoft promotion for free. There was also a recent promotion for college students to get Office Ultimate 2007 for $60.
You say the vendor doesn't want unhappy customers. So the vendor tells the customers they need to buy the OS separately now. They put up huge signs that say "REMEMBER: New PCs no longer come with Windows!" or something similar so customers are informed of the chance. They advertise services where you pick a PC and an OS and you get it installed right there in the store for you before you take it hope (or some other legal loophole where the computer is sold to the customer BEFORE the OS goes on).
I had this exact same problem when I first got Windows XP on a new computer with almost ALL games I tried... I eventually figured out it was the junk that was bundled with the PC. Once I removed all that games worked well. It might not be unwelcome junk in your case, but try seeing if you can get it working with minimal programs running.
Except that there are multiple menu bars, one for every window. Right now with the multiple window model I don't think there's any other good way to do it... they might have to go to a single window model to fix it.
Also I think MS had something with Office where they removed most of the menus. The GIMP team should try and slim their menus up.
I already have HL2 and HL2EP1 but I bought Orange Box anyway. It's $35 cheaper than buying the games I didn't have, and it includes "Peggle Extreme", an Orange Box exclusive PopCap game... Peggle Deluxe with a Half-Life 2 theme! It's hilarious.
OpenOffice 2.3 won't install until I uninstall OpenOffice 2.2. OpenOffice 2.2 won't uninstall until I present the original OpenOffice 2.2 installer, which I deleted right after I installed it, and probably isn't widely available anymore.
And this isn't the first time I've had uninstall problems with Windows Installer either. It's just a bloated, buggy mess. The most annoying part is that the OpenOffice installer seems to use NSIS. From experience in using programs that use both, I find NSIS far superior. I've never had an NSIS uninstaller fail on me, and when an NSIS installer failed it was because of some amateurish mistake of the person who made the install script, not because of NSIS itself, and they were isolated incidents. I don't see why OOo doesn't just use NSIS instead of using a Windows Installer packed inside an NSIS self-extracting archive... that just seems dumb.
It uses a CLI (it's got a GUI too but who needs that pffft) and it keeps its codecs locally rather than using system ones. This might not be a plus in all cases, but it sure makes it portable and easy to set up (after a system reinstall I don't have to worry about reinstalling codecs).
Yeah, because to leave Facebook would mean leaving the group, which makes it appear weaker. Not to mention they never say WHEN they'd leave. So right now we have 53,482 liars in that group. Until the group membership drops to 0. Then either they've all left or they've changed their minds, we can never tell! <3 irony. They should've thought it through more. All 53,482 of them.
I knew I forgot to download something! Thanks protesters for reminding me!
But really, saying the game isn't like war is like pointing out real life doesn't have a "respawn" key. It also ignores the quite probable fact (I don't know this for sure, I don't have any data to back this up, this is just what I think is probably true) that plenty of people play FPSs... including AA... without ever intending to join the army or pick up a real gun.
Plus, let's say it WAS very close to the real thing as a virtual game could get... I don't think anyone who died even once in the game would want to try their luck in the real army...
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I suppose I need to add on that since my problem affected something like the upper 67% of my memory, it turned out to be easy to spot. I guess if the failure is limited to like... 8 bytes out of 512M... it's going to be a bit more difficult.
Even still, you'd still see a similar random pattern of unreprodicable errors.
When I added some memory to my computer, it was really picky about the order of the sticks. I apparently did it wrong and ended up with timing problems, causing random memory corruption.
The symptoms were fairly easy to diagnose as being memory related:
These are pretty good indications you should boot from a linux partition or live CD and run memtest. I eventually fixed my specific problem by moving memory sticks around until memtest made it through a test cycle with no errors.
When you get a .docx file you can't read, you say the same thing Office 2003 users say... "I can't open DOCX files, send it in DOC". The only difference is that Office 2k3 has Office 2k7 format plugins, but really, only the people who already know about them are probably going to be finding and using them.
Furthermore, considering that OOXML is basically Office 2k3 formats converted to plaintext and zipped up, I'd have thought there would ALREADY be support in OO.org by now... at least, soon. OOXML was made to allow devs to easily generate their own or read them so I'd expect writing loading/saving functions would be quicker than the original Office 2k3 format functions...
In short: There's still hope for OO.org. :)
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Actually Microsoft has a better software development process now, which they developed because Longhorn/Vista was unsatisfactory and they needed to rewrite chunks of it over. I shudder to think of what Vista would've been like if they HADN'T developed this new process... new PCs would probably already be back to shipping with XP, for one. Or perhaps OSX.
Team Fortress is the most fun multiplayer I've had in a long time. I can't wait to play Portal (try the spiritual precursor, Narbacular Drop). Episode 2 looks like fun as well.
I think Valve's main problem is that they were working on OTHER projects too (Portal, TF2).
I mean, I PREFER having more games from Valve, but I think the proper way to do episodic content is to channel as much energy (ie staff working on it) as possible to shorten the development time. But like I said, I'm really looking forward to Portal and TF2 is a lot of fun. Quite frankly, it's harder to do episodic with a FPS rather than something like Sam and Max. Sam and Max reuses some of its main locations, which cuts down some of the work Telltale has to do, whereas Half-Life 2 Episodes have all been about trying NEW things... concepts, puzzles... with completely NEW areas and enemies. Alyx sticking by you the whole game. The scene with the "thing" in a pod. Reprogramming roller mines. Stalkers as enemies. The awesome ending cutscene.
Our gov't reminds me of my little brother. Well not so little anymore, but he still accuses me of cheating every time I win a game. We need more mature people in there!
Don't forget TPB is a hole bigger than both their fists.
A number of people have verified the bug, and it's quite improbable they ALL have the same model of CPU.
If this had been a bug with, say, some iPhone spreadsheet program, it would have been found and posted launch day.
Why has it taken so long for someone to find this? Other than the plausible explanation that MS' push for people to upgrade isn't going so well...
I got Office Pro 2007 through a Microsoft promotion for free. There was also a recent promotion for college students to get Office Ultimate 2007 for $60.
You say the vendor doesn't want unhappy customers. So the vendor tells the customers they need to buy the OS separately now. They put up huge signs that say "REMEMBER: New PCs no longer come with Windows!" or something similar so customers are informed of the chance. They advertise services where you pick a PC and an OS and you get it installed right there in the store for you before you take it hope (or some other legal loophole where the computer is sold to the customer BEFORE the OS goes on).
I had this exact same problem when I first got Windows XP on a new computer with almost ALL games I tried... I eventually figured out it was the junk that was bundled with the PC. Once I removed all that games worked well. It might not be unwelcome junk in your case, but try seeing if you can get it working with minimal programs running.
Except that there are multiple menu bars, one for every window. Right now with the multiple window model I don't think there's any other good way to do it... they might have to go to a single window model to fix it.
Also I think MS had something with Office where they removed most of the menus. The GIMP team should try and slim their menus up.
I already have HL2 and HL2EP1 but I bought Orange Box anyway. It's $35 cheaper than buying the games I didn't have, and it includes "Peggle Extreme", an Orange Box exclusive PopCap game... Peggle Deluxe with a Half-Life 2 theme! It's hilarious.
OpenOffice 2.3 won't install until I uninstall OpenOffice 2.2. OpenOffice 2.2 won't uninstall until I present the original OpenOffice 2.2 installer, which I deleted right after I installed it, and probably isn't widely available anymore.
And this isn't the first time I've had uninstall problems with Windows Installer either. It's just a bloated, buggy mess. The most annoying part is that the OpenOffice installer seems to use NSIS. From experience in using programs that use both, I find NSIS far superior. I've never had an NSIS uninstaller fail on me, and when an NSIS installer failed it was because of some amateurish mistake of the person who made the install script, not because of NSIS itself, and they were isolated incidents. I don't see why OOo doesn't just use NSIS instead of using a Windows Installer packed inside an NSIS self-extracting archive... that just seems dumb.
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It uses a CLI (it's got a GUI too but who needs that pffft) and it keeps its codecs locally rather than using system ones. This might not be a plus in all cases, but it sure makes it portable and easy to set up (after a system reinstall I don't have to worry about reinstalling codecs).
Yeah, because to leave Facebook would mean leaving the group, which makes it appear weaker. Not to mention they never say WHEN they'd leave. So right now we have 53,482 liars in that group. Until the group membership drops to 0. Then either they've all left or they've changed their minds, we can never tell! <3 irony. They should've thought it through more. All 53,482 of them.
I knew I forgot to download something! Thanks protesters for reminding me!
But really, saying the game isn't like war is like pointing out real life doesn't have a "respawn" key. It also ignores the quite probable fact (I don't know this for sure, I don't have any data to back this up, this is just what I think is probably true) that plenty of people play FPSs... including AA... without ever intending to join the army or pick up a real gun.
Plus, let's say it WAS very close to the real thing as a virtual game could get... I don't think anyone who died even once in the game would want to try their luck in the real army...
But how will he spellcheck the code for his spellchecker before he's done writing it? :(
I can't wait! No really. I'm not going to wait.
Yeah, that's one thing Microsoft got right. I mean, it's an HOURGLASS that never stops running! Incredible!
Oh wait. They replaced it with a teal pinwheel in Vista, I forgot. Pfft.