Not to be nasty, But if it werent for the users, the admins and just about everyone using their products expexting, nay demanding backwards support for their crusty DOS 6.1 and Windows X edition apps then just maybe MS wouldn't have to deal with that kind of crap.
I remember reading here or perhaps somewhere else that MS have in their company a totally new OS, built from the ground up as a new OS, its totally unsellable because it wouldnt be compatible with the old apps, so there it stays. Sitting on dev machines:(
Yes and later She'll have to come back for the free soup and bread because she has nothing left with which to take care of herself. Giving without thought or care to yourself is reckless and foolish. Its a nice quote, but really stop trying to hate on the guy for giving what he felt he could afford to give. Or maybe he should just take it all back and buy say, 2 or 3 Stealth bombers ?
heh yeah thats what I liked. It wasnt all shiny and sterile like american films. Their was some mmm.. reality to the whole thing. And the characters and story were interesting. I have to agree that they did cut it down, thinking back on it it does seem like bits were missing. Personally I'm waiting for the next one:)
Actually, One of the best films I've seen this year was a Russian film called Night watch. brutal a bit grusome but a fun film:) I hope to see more stuff coming from russia soon.
Hi there, I just thought I should point out something in your comment that explains the RIAA/MPAA's worries.
See when you take a car out for a test drive you can tell if its crap or not quite quickly. Its the same with films, most are ones you'd only ever watch once and then never think about again. The problem is that the MPAA/RIAA know this and normally they would hype up the film and get as many sales in the first week then let it die while still making back most if not all of their money even though the film was crap. By losing the zero day sales due to people knowing its crap and telling their friends in warning their loosing their business.
I'm not defending them just explaining what i see to be the problem:)
I'm sorry but a well built, properly built pc with parts that have been pre checked for both quality and compatibility will be very stable. the problem is that many people ( I wont say your friend in specific as I don't know their skill level) just go out buy bits slap it all together and expect it to work, which is wrong. If you don't know what each part does and how it interacts with the others then you probably shouldn't be building that PC, sure it'll probably work if you don't know but probably not as well (stability wise) as a system setup by someone that researched it all.
I've read over the article albeit briefly and I find myself thinking that the quote in the summary is total hype for a chip, sure a PS3 will cost about 600, but I seem to recall those EE chips being as much if not more and given that this chip is newer then the P4ee's no doubt it will cost even more.
And that's not counting the cost of video cards etc.
Like another person said. Problem with weeding them out is that your effectivly getting rid of the guys who ENJOY reading up on new things and learning new stuff, so long as the work machines are fine let them tweak and play away they might even come up with usefull helpfull things for your production/work machines.
Forgive me, but I fail to see how doing something that makes sence for the company is somehow, "evil". That said have you tried contacting them again, or by phone or have you just sent one letter and assumed they've ignored it?
well right at this moment, having just opened firefox, and with 2 tabs open on sites that are mostly text with just some images, maybe at most 2 mbs per page, its using 38mb of memory. I've had it happily eat up memory, i've had it crash horribly in such a way that i have to close the program through the task manager in order to recover my system.
That said i like it, but then i like IE too, the only thing stopping me from going back to IE is lack of tabs, and that i cannot import my bookmarks to it easily.
So... Were they to let me do that, and bring in tabs (hello IE 7) then i might just swap back, atleast for a while.
Uh... I'm with Esat. They arent capping my rates, theirs just a lot of crappy seeders. Of course Eircom are gits but TBH unless your in a big town the ISP's dont give a toss how much bandwidth you use. I regularly go past 20gig a month and they dont even bat an eyelid.
I'm not sure if i'm going to spell this rigth, but does anyone recall shenmu on the Dreamcast? that game was just a joy to play and jam packed with interactive cutscenes, lots of fun, if a bit short.. and sadly the 2nd and 3rd parts never came out on dreamcast.. or outside the asian area i think ?
It's called busy work. Basically as part of the national child care service, what you know as school, they assign your kids busy work to keep them occupied in the evenings so theoretically at least your sproglets are in school 9 or so hours, in transit for 1 and have at least 2-3 hours work per night, totalling an impressive 12-13 hours of the day which you do not have to come up with a reason to ignore your kids.
Great isn't it?
Of course as they get older the workload increases thus keeping them out of your hair longer, in theory.
Schools aren't about learning or about much else other then busy work and standardised testing. Of course I imagine some might disagree with me, but it is how I feel after my experiences.
Well Okay, for customers using "custom" windows like say dell or Compaq then yes, their SOL but for other normal people I fail to see how MS would A know that your using a slipstreamed disk, and B how they could even tell you not to since its what they themselves tell their techs to do. And I've yet to hear the MSDN people get bad letters from MS about their extensive guides to installing windows via slipstreamed disks:P
That said if you look up theirs a guy suggesting you get the ISO of the latest updates since sp2, so I would suggest going and getting that, then running if after installing windows but before running auto update at the very least it saves bandwidth and some time.
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Not to be nasty,
:(
But if it werent for the users, the admins and just about everyone using their products expexting, nay demanding backwards support for their crusty DOS 6.1 and Windows X edition apps then just maybe MS wouldn't have to deal with that kind of crap.
I remember reading here or perhaps somewhere else that MS have in their company a totally new OS, built from the ground up as a new OS, its totally unsellable because it wouldnt be compatible with the old apps, so there it stays.
Sitting on dev machines
Good on you :) :)
BG2 rocks, theirs also a huge fan following and a large mod community.
I'm still playing it to this day, and I got it when it came out
Yes and later She'll have to come back for the free soup and bread because she has nothing left with which to take care of herself.
Giving without thought or care to yourself is reckless and foolish.
Its a nice quote, but really stop trying to hate on the guy for giving what he felt he could afford to give.
Or maybe he should just take it all back and buy say, 2 or 3 Stealth bombers ?
Anyone have the cache or perhaps a copy of the content?
Uh.. :)
It was a joke.
Sarcasm look it up sometime
Also it was a repost copy/paste from some guys post a few months back?
heh yeah thats what I liked. It wasnt all shiny and sterile like american films. :)
Their was some mmm.. reality to the whole thing. And the characters and story were interesting. I have to agree that they did cut it down, thinking back on it it does seem like bits were missing.
Personally I'm waiting for the next one
Actually, One of the best films I've seen this year was a Russian film called Night watch. :)
brutal a bit grusome but a fun film
I hope to see more stuff coming from russia soon.
Hi there,
:)
I just thought I should point out something in your comment that explains the RIAA/MPAA's worries.
See when you take a car out for a test drive you can tell if its crap or not quite quickly. Its the same with films, most are ones you'd only ever watch once and then never think about again.
The problem is that the MPAA/RIAA know this and normally they would hype up the film and get as many sales in the first week then let it die while still making back most if not all of their money even though the film was crap.
By losing the zero day sales due to people knowing its crap and telling their friends in warning their loosing their business.
I'm not defending them just explaining what i see to be the problem
What their getting at is not the lifespan of the drive, but rather its ability to withstand people dropping it, kicking it, knocking etc.
I'm sorry but a well built, properly built pc with parts that have been pre checked for both quality and compatibility will be very stable.
the problem is that many people ( I wont say your friend in specific as I don't know their skill level) just go out buy bits slap it all together and expect it to work, which is wrong.
If you don't know what each part does and how it interacts with the others then you probably shouldn't be building that PC, sure it'll probably work if you don't know but probably not as well (stability wise) as a system setup by someone that researched it all.
I've read over the article albeit briefly and I find myself thinking that the quote in the summary is total hype for a chip, sure a PS3 will cost about 600, but I seem to recall those EE chips being as much if not more and given that this chip is newer then the P4ee's no doubt it will cost even more. And that's not counting the cost of video cards etc.
Like another person said.
Problem with weeding them out is that your effectivly getting rid of the guys who ENJOY reading up on new things and learning new stuff, so long as the work machines are fine let them tweak and play away they might even come up with usefull helpfull things for your production/work machines.
Forgive me, but I fail to see how doing something that makes sence for the company is somehow, "evil".
That said have you tried contacting them again, or by phone or have you just sent one letter and assumed they've ignored it?
Actually at the shop i work in we see more dell's then anything else, so it's quite obvious that people rather buy from dell and get it fixed by us.
I seem to recall their being 1000+ NPC's in the game, or so i read. Thats enough for me :)
Great, but don't you mean flippant?
I'm curious and I do not mean to sound offensive, but would you rather that Microsoft do nothing and not improve their products at all?
:)
It seems that Microsoft cannot do anything right, but then this is Slashdot.
Oh and a curious thing, it seems Slashdot is automatically capitalized in MS word, seems they must read this also
Why not Quail hunt ?
:)
Bonus points if you hit the lawyer
well right at this moment, having just opened firefox, and with 2 tabs open on sites that are mostly text with just some images, maybe at most 2 mbs per page, its using 38mb of memory.
I've had it happily eat up memory, i've had it crash horribly in such a way that i have to close the program through the task manager in order to recover my system.
That said i like it, but then i like IE too, the only thing stopping me from going back to IE is lack of tabs, and that i cannot import my bookmarks to it easily.
So... Were they to let me do that, and bring in tabs (hello IE 7) then i might just swap back, atleast for a while.
Uh...
I'm with Esat.
They arent capping my rates, theirs just a lot of crappy seeders.
Of course Eircom are gits but TBH unless your in a big town the ISP's dont give a toss how much bandwidth you use. I regularly go past 20gig a month and they dont even bat an eyelid.
I Totally agree, and the best part is that if you run out of Tp, well theirs still the readers digest :D
:D
:D )
The papers surprisingly aborbative, quite handy in a pinch
(I'm going for +5 funny here folks, c'mon you KNOW you want to
I'm not sure if i'm going to spell this rigth, but does anyone recall shenmu on the Dreamcast?
that game was just a joy to play and jam packed with interactive cutscenes, lots of fun, if a bit short.. and sadly the 2nd and 3rd parts never came out on dreamcast.. or outside the asian area i think ?
Heh, sproglet is a kinda effectionate term for a kid, or atleast that is what I understand it to be :)
It's called busy work.
Basically as part of the national child care service, what you know as school,
they assign your kids busy work to keep them occupied in the evenings so theoretically at least your sproglets are in school 9 or so hours, in transit for 1 and have at least 2-3 hours work per night, totalling an impressive 12-13 hours of the day which you do not have to come up with a reason to ignore your kids.
Great isn't it?
Of course as they get older the workload increases thus keeping them out of your hair longer, in theory.
Schools aren't about learning or about much else other then busy work and standardised testing.
Of course I imagine some might disagree with me, but it is how I feel after my experiences.
Well Okay, for customers using "custom" windows like say dell or Compaq then yes, their SOL but for other normal people I fail to see how MS would A know that your using a slipstreamed disk, and B how they could even tell you not to since its what they themselves tell their techs to do. :P
And I've yet to hear the MSDN people get bad letters from MS about their extensive guides to installing windows via slipstreamed disks
That said if you look up theirs a guy suggesting you get the ISO of the latest updates since sp2, so I would suggest going and getting that, then running if after installing windows but before running auto update at the very least it saves bandwidth and some time.