Ok, time for me to rant/troll for a bit. Why is it that every time people bring up cheating there is always the guy that screams "but but but Ive been playing since Counter Strike pre conception alpha -7 and thats why I pwnzors yuor facezzzzzz."
Ummm some of us with diabetes did not get a "lifestyle" disease.
Some of us were born with it...
But very few are born with aids, most catch it from unprotected sex. Which is why as politically incorrect as it sounds, I dont really care if a cure is found or not. There are many other diseases that need to be cured first which arent preventable, such as cancer (yes i know smoking etc make it worse but some people get cancer having never smoked in their lives)
I hate to say it but this seems to be more of a fanboi rant than anything. The vista operating system is new and drivers reflect that, I'll give you that. I'll also give you the fact that the nvidia control panel is a complete waste of time since it only confuses the hell out of people and makes it difficult to change the settings you want, but you can always revert and use the old control panel.
Now what I will NOT give you is the XP stability bit. Ive been using their drivers pretty much since XP came out and the ONLY problem I EVER had was with the 23.10 and the 23.11 driver set that caused XP to randomly bsod and reboot.
I also dont agree with your complaints regarding video editing software and the problems. Dont forget the fact that the 8800 series is a CONSUMER card made primarily for GAMING. If you want something for use in professional apps, then get a professional card such as their quadro line
Am I the only one who feels insulted by this comment?
"We don't feel like the Wii customer and the Xbox customer are the same thing," he said. "We think that as soon as the Wii customer turns 14 they want something else."
This seems like hes trying to say that the only people that buy a wii are kids under 14. I for one find this offensive. Since when does a game have to show extreme violence, language and nudity just to not be lumped into the "for kids" arena?
There are a bit of fun games for the wii that arent "for kids" such as COD and Trauma Center. Just because nintendo ends up being the console that most "child friendly" developers choose does NOT mean the system is for kids
You are correct, i have cellular one here in WV and get the entire state of WV and PA for $50 a month, unlimited calls. Partner line for $45. I use over 2000 minutes on my phone and my wife around 2500 so we dropped the land line and havent looked back
I work in a company where Dumb Terminals were installed a few years back because they were "the wave of the future" and as it turns out, its a wave I didnt like being a part of. It was a constant struggle with bandwidth and apps locking taking 100% of a servers cpu thus slowing eveyone down to a crawl.
We are currently in the process of moving people to real pc's and the difference in productivity is very noticable. Also the line about them being more reliable since they have no moving parts is BS, we use Neoware terminals and end up sending them back or throwing them away fairly often due to the network controller on them crapping out, or the onboard ROM gets corrupt somehow.
I can see where they would be very useful in places like autozone where they are dedicated to a single app, but thats about as far as i would go with them.
A friend of mine has a little hobby of collecting and displaying warning labels on his cubicle wall at work, just a few days ago he brought one in his girlfriend gave him that has a picture of a curling iron in someones eye and a warning that says "caution, product can burn eyes"
I've been married for 3 years now and previous to that dated her for 6 years. We were together since high school and she knew that I was going into IT but I dont think she really knew what was in store for her as the wife of an IT guy. The 3am calls, the random "I have to work 5 hours over", along with the leaving the movie theater/dinner because I got a message on my blackberry saying a server is down takes its toll on her. She understands the fact that the industry I work in is like this, but at the same time she gets angry because to her this means I love my job more than I love her.
This could not be further from the truth, I dont enjoy these kinds of events but that doesnt stop her feelings that she should be more important. We've had the discussion about it many times and while she is understanding of the issue she doesnt like it. I can see how the OP feels like IT is the reason for his divorce, it is stressful on a relationship but I dont think it was the only reason. More than likely it was just something extra putting stress on a relationship that wasnt stable in the first place
As their THERMS of use point out, they can use this to install other crap on your machine
SOFTWARE INSTALLATION: Components bundled with our software may report to Licensor and/or its affiliates the installation status of certain marketing offers, such as toolbars, and also generalized installation information, such as language preference and operating system version, to assist Licensor in its product development. No personal information will be communicated to VCODEC or its affiliates during this process. Licensor may offer additional components through our version checking/update system. These components include: Toolbar, Popup advertising solution, Commercial homepage manager, Commercial messenger.
No thanks, I'll keep my machine the way it is thankyouverymuch
Even "hardware" firewalls are running software. They just dont do it on the host machine which is where most of nasties reside and thus attempt to disable/circumvent the firewall
I've always been of the general mind set that if you do not like how a company treats you LEAVE. If you dont like what a company does ethicly, LEAVE. I firmly believe that if we would stop bitching about places like this and DO something that hurts their bottom line then they would wake up a little bit. I personally have a long list of companies I refuse to do business with either because of pricipal or becuase of crappy service in the past.
Bottom line is, hit BOA where it hurts, move your accounts and tell them why. I just did
Not to mention that most scientific applications run mostly under *nix like Linux or BSD, for which GFX driver support isn't always incredible, specially for recent models,
I have the good fortune of working at a resort environment where we have a building that is connected via fiber about 3/4 mile away. Thats where i store my backups on a file server there. The way i figure it, if both buildings are knocked out then i have bigger issues than data recovery.
Kudos to IBM for making this breakthrough however, im sure there are TONS of people it will benefit.
Let me get this straight. I'm paying the same price for a non-portable, digitally restricted file that is going to use MY hard drive to store, take forever to download, use MY connection to upload to others, while at the same time not giving me any of the box art and saving the big studio money on distrobution costs?
Jack Thompson is an attention whore plain and simple, he WANTS people to call him an idiot and give him hell. If we would just stop listening to him at all and acting as though he didnt exist he would finally give up and go away. So I hate to beat a very dead horse but "theres nothing to see here"
I used to use "Mandrake" back in the day when Wal*Mart sold it. I was about 15 at the time (23 now) and loved it other than the fact that I had a winmodem and it didnt work for me to connect to the internet. I toggled back and forth with it as each release came out thinking each new release was a step in the right direction.
Then someone showed me ubuntu and I havent looked back, it does everything I've always wanted from a distro right out of the box with no tweaking necessary, at least in my case. I may start a virtual machine and load mandriva just to see if it has improved on anything, but right now I am content with the latest ubuntu
I'm another member of the "notachanceinhellthatillbuythis" club. For years new technology has come along and given us reasons to upgrade our equipment for this new wave of entertainment, but HDDVD and Bluray both leave me wanting more. The "awe" factor just isnt there for me. Sure it looks a little better but then I have to rebuy my TV so it can support HD, rebuy my DVD player, and then deal with DRM BS out the wazoo.
Forgive me for finally becoming that jaded old guy that screams about these kids now days and their damn gadgets.
I'm not sure if it is this way everywhere, but here in West Virginia at around 5th grade it is offered at school, but your parents must sign a permission slip. It is free of charge, but many students do not take the paper home because they do not want to get the shot.
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Anyway, what's a Men's magazine doing producing fibre-optic monitor extenders?
The mens magazine is called MAXIM the hard drive manufacturer is called MAXTOR, the video card manufacturer is called MATROX
Ok, time for me to rant/troll for a bit. Why is it that every time people bring up cheating there is always the guy that screams "but but but Ive been playing since Counter Strike pre conception alpha -7 and thats why I pwnzors yuor facezzzzzz."
Ummm some of us with diabetes did not get a "lifestyle" disease.
Some of us were born with it...
But very few are born with aids, most catch it from unprotected sex. Which is why as politically incorrect as it sounds, I dont really care if a cure is found or not. There are many other diseases that need to be cured first which arent preventable, such as cancer (yes i know smoking etc make it worse but some people get cancer having never smoked in their lives)
I hate to say it but this seems to be more of a fanboi rant than anything. The vista operating system is new and drivers reflect that, I'll give you that. I'll also give you the fact that the nvidia control panel is a complete waste of time since it only confuses the hell out of people and makes it difficult to change the settings you want, but you can always revert and use the old control panel.
Now what I will NOT give you is the XP stability bit. Ive been using their drivers pretty much since XP came out and the ONLY problem I EVER had was with the 23.10 and the 23.11 driver set that caused XP to randomly bsod and reboot.
I also dont agree with your complaints regarding video editing software and the problems. Dont forget the fact that the 8800 series is a CONSUMER card made primarily for GAMING. If you want something for use in professional apps, then get a professional card such as their quadro line
Am I the only one who feels insulted by this comment?
"We don't feel like the Wii customer and the Xbox customer are the same thing," he said. "We think that as soon as the Wii customer turns 14 they want something else."
This seems like hes trying to say that the only people that buy a wii are kids under 14. I for one find this offensive. Since when does a game have to show extreme violence, language and nudity just to not be lumped into the "for kids" arena?
There are a bit of fun games for the wii that arent "for kids" such as COD and Trauma Center. Just because nintendo ends up being the console that most "child friendly" developers choose does NOT mean the system is for kids
You are correct, i have cellular one here in WV and get the entire state of WV and PA for $50 a month, unlimited calls. Partner line for $45. I use over 2000 minutes on my phone and my wife around 2500 so we dropped the land line and havent looked back
I work in a company where Dumb Terminals were installed a few years back because they were "the wave of the future" and as it turns out, its a wave I didnt like being a part of. It was a constant struggle with bandwidth and apps locking taking 100% of a servers cpu thus slowing eveyone down to a crawl.
We are currently in the process of moving people to real pc's and the difference in productivity is very noticable. Also the line about them being more reliable since they have no moving parts is BS, we use Neoware terminals and end up sending them back or throwing them away fairly often due to the network controller on them crapping out, or the onboard ROM gets corrupt somehow.
I can see where they would be very useful in places like autozone where they are dedicated to a single app, but thats about as far as i would go with them.
A friend of mine has a little hobby of collecting and displaying warning labels on his cubicle wall at work, just a few days ago he brought one in his girlfriend gave him that has a picture of a curling iron in someones eye and a warning that says "caution, product can burn eyes"
He could grip it by the husk
I've been married for 3 years now and previous to that dated her for 6 years. We were together since high school and she knew that I was going into IT but I dont think she really knew what was in store for her as the wife of an IT guy. The 3am calls, the random "I have to work 5 hours over", along with the leaving the movie theater/dinner because I got a message on my blackberry saying a server is down takes its toll on her. She understands the fact that the industry I work in is like this, but at the same time she gets angry because to her this means I love my job more than I love her.
This could not be further from the truth, I dont enjoy these kinds of events but that doesnt stop her feelings that she should be more important. We've had the discussion about it many times and while she is understanding of the issue she doesnt like it. I can see how the OP feels like IT is the reason for his divorce, it is stressful on a relationship but I dont think it was the only reason. More than likely it was just something extra putting stress on a relationship that wasnt stable in the first place
The goggles! They do nothing!
As their THERMS of use point out, they can use this to install other crap on your machine
SOFTWARE INSTALLATION: Components bundled with our software may report to Licensor and/or its affiliates the installation status of certain marketing offers, such as toolbars, and also generalized installation information, such as language preference and operating system version, to assist Licensor in its product development. No personal information will be communicated to VCODEC or its affiliates during this process. Licensor may offer additional components through our version checking/update system. These components include: Toolbar, Popup advertising solution, Commercial homepage manager, Commercial messenger.
No thanks, I'll keep my machine the way it is thankyouverymuch
Even "hardware" firewalls are running software. They just dont do it on the host machine which is where most of nasties reside and thus attempt to disable/circumvent the firewall
I think we need a war on politics, personally. Might actually have some benefits for the public in the long term.
Hell It would have a great effect in the short term as well!
I've always been of the general mind set that if you do not like how a company treats you LEAVE. If you dont like what a company does ethicly, LEAVE. I firmly believe that if we would stop bitching about places like this and DO something that hurts their bottom line then they would wake up a little bit. I personally have a long list of companies I refuse to do business with either because of pricipal or becuase of crappy service in the past.
Bottom line is, hit BOA where it hurts, move your accounts and tell them why. I just did
Not to mention that most scientific applications run mostly under *nix like Linux or BSD, for which GFX driver support isn't always incredible, specially for recent models,
e ptID=894&task=knowledge&folderID=27 try using them sometime rather than listening to your tech gods at the local geek squad....
This is nothing but FUD, nVidia has always had great support for *nix OS's http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html even ATI has some support for *nix OS's https://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?d
I have the good fortune of working at a resort environment where we have a building that is connected via fiber about 3/4 mile away. Thats where i store my backups on a file server there. The way i figure it, if both buildings are knocked out then i have bigger issues than data recovery.
Kudos to IBM for making this breakthrough however, im sure there are TONS of people it will benefit.
Let me get this straight. I'm paying the same price for a non-portable, digitally restricted file that is going to use MY hard drive to store, take forever to download, use MY connection to upload to others, while at the same time not giving me any of the box art and saving the big studio money on distrobution costs?
SIGN ME UP!
Jack Thompson is an attention whore plain and simple, he WANTS people to call him an idiot and give him hell. If we would just stop listening to him at all and acting as though he didnt exist he would finally give up and go away. So I hate to beat a very dead horse but "theres nothing to see here"
OMG 17z s0 fuck1/\/g X7|23/\/\3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111
Sorry, I couldnt resist. You know it has to be bad ass if its extreme
I used to use "Mandrake" back in the day when Wal*Mart sold it. I was about 15 at the time (23 now) and loved it other than the fact that I had a winmodem and it didnt work for me to connect to the internet. I toggled back and forth with it as each release came out thinking each new release was a step in the right direction.
Then someone showed me ubuntu and I havent looked back, it does everything I've always wanted from a distro right out of the box with no tweaking necessary, at least in my case. I may start a virtual machine and load mandriva just to see if it has improved on anything, but right now I am content with the latest ubuntu
Maybe I'm way off, but does the psp REALLY have so many accessories that it needs a website dedicated to reviewing them? Also, is this really news?
I'm another member of the "notachanceinhellthatillbuythis" club. For years new technology has come along and given us reasons to upgrade our equipment for this new wave of entertainment, but HDDVD and Bluray both leave me wanting more. The "awe" factor just isnt there for me. Sure it looks a little better but then I have to rebuy my TV so it can support HD, rebuy my DVD player, and then deal with DRM BS out the wazoo.
Forgive me for finally becoming that jaded old guy that screams about these kids now days and their damn gadgets.
Link that works, with pic http://uk.gizmodo.com/2006/05/04/thermal_greasy_ap ple_sics_lawy.html
I'm not sure if it is this way everywhere, but here in West Virginia at around 5th grade it is offered at school, but your parents must sign a permission slip. It is free of charge, but many students do not take the paper home because they do not want to get the shot.