Fuck you - what exactly about that first comment was a TROLL comment??? It's a valid concern, and just because you or some dumb ass mod doesn't think so, doesn't mean it was a TROLL. A TROLL is someone who posts something completely unrelated to a topic to cause trouble. I didn't do that, I posted a valid concern.
And I pity the birds/people/other mammals that get in the path of this. I hope they like cancer, or at the very least large amounts of radition blasting through their bodies.
Lose money on windows? Not a chance. Even though they sell it cheap, they still make money on the OEM shipments. Think abou it - it doesn't cost them a dime with OEMs for the most part, the OEMs just slap the drive image onto each machine complete with OEM printed discs the OEM's make themselves, all they need is a key from M$....
My point to that original post is that no matter what you do, Microsoft isn't going to make it easy to access OWA using any browser but their own. They used ActiveX to do that this time around. If somebody came up with an ActiveX compatible browser extension, they'd figure out another way to jam up Firefox/Opera/Safari, whatever. I'm not ignoring the problem, and yes, I do realize what a pain in the ass it is - I'm a network/system admin who uses Exchange 5.5, 2000, and 2003 for several sites - and I've known from day one that OWA looks like shit using any browser but IE - but there it nothing you or I can do it, except this:
Don't use Exchange, and complain loudly about this problem. Only then, when a majority of MS customers stop using Exchange, will they change.
There is no such thing as DHTML (as others have said many times, DHTML = Javascript + HTML + CSS) - all they mean is that Firefox doesn't support JavaScript and CSS properly, which is crap. It does. You have to understand who writes Outlook Web Access... Oh, right. Microsoft. Gee, imagine that their webmail doesn't work in anything but IE, I never would have guessed. The real test is to visit that using Opera which spoofs the IE user agent. I'm curious to see what happens then.
Perhaps it depends what CD/DVD burning apps you have installed. I currently have around 7 on my machine, and I'd be curious to see what this game complains about specifically.
That's the smartest thing I've read on here all day - it's so true. When tech companies specifically break code because it's a competitor, just like Microsoft with IE only pages, it goes to show they can't compete, so they have to resort to intentionally breaking things, which only hurts the consumer.
I hear this argument a lot, and you're right - it would work... but here's the thing - If you put a pentium I computer with a 2 gig hd or something up in front of an entire lab for internet access, I would wonder about the reliability. What I mean is, at work here I was doing something similar - but when the non-rendundant power supply in the 1995 based computer died, my entire part of the office lost net access, which is bad.
There is always something to be said about having a real server act as a firewall. For home use, sure, use an old computer running linux - but for anything that you would like to count on a reliable, get a real piece of hardware to put that linux distro on, and you'll be happier.
That's a great comment - because if your one and only laptop works fine, then the rest of the Dell laptops on Earth must work fine as well. Congratulations for posting the stupidest comment I have ever read.
Our service agreement says nothing about the ability of other networks to get our communications by their own choice - and also, my main point is that technically, changing entire class C's is not reasonable for a large company. It's a lot of work and overhead costs to make this happen.
I agree 100% - when buying a notebook, you can't swap the gpu out like I wish you could. I have some dell notebooks at work with ATI cards in them, and the drivers are horrible, and that's being nice... Half the time the machines start up, they revert back to 800x600 res and insist the driver is corrupt. I download a newer version, install, reboot and they might work fine for a month. Then it happens again. I hate ATI for this, and I also had a lot of AiW cards back in the day - half the features on the box didn't work yet, due to driver support. I felt ripped off and lied to by the marketing department because the card couldn't do what they promised me.
Availability has nothing to do with being blacklisted. Also, I said TECHNICAL reasons, which no lawyer can help with. Imagine having to sit down and change all your dns records and router config every time you wanted to move. For a large corporation, this is not reasonable.
Right on - a company can't simply get out of an ISP contract for a lot of reasons. Technical reasons aside, imagine getting out of a 3 yr contract after 2 months. It's not going to happen.
What you're talking about - the OC'n with crazy-low temps thanks to extreme cooling... most of the time when things become unstable there, it's due to the massive amounts of power you have to feed a system like that with the higher multiplier. Only time will tell how far AMD can crank the clock speed of the A64. I'm betting my money they easily hit 3 GHZ by year end with the FX chips. SOI and 65 nm should help them reach that mark. I'm not sure what Intel has up their sleeves, but it should be based off the Pentium M architecture if we're lucky.
I don't think you're correct - they don't have to push their cpus at all right now, they have the peformance crown - if they have to, they will increase clock speed. Intel can't move the P4 up to 4 GHZ like they wanted, while AMD can move up a bit. Why do a I say this you ask? Have you seen the power consumption and heat dissipation of the new A64s? I have one running right here - 2.0 GHZ, Athlon 64 3200+ and it's only running at 30 C. Under full load, it hits 40 C. That's with stock cooling. That's 90 nm, wait until 65 - AMD has PLENTY of head room right now. They just aren't being forced to use it because Intel can't ramp the P4 at all - the 90 nm P4 actually put out MORE heat than the 130.
I agree that competition rules - I'm just not sure Intel will take the lead again... unless they can also incorporate an on-die memory controller like AMD and they license Hyper Transport from AMD, or invent their own. All AMD has to do is shrink to 65 nm and start ramping clock speeds, and they are ensured great performance numbers.
Finally, somebody makes a true comparison to what goes on all the time with electronics - they sell something with certain specs with battery life, and then a year or two later, it's not what you bought. I had an IBM thinkpad, which after only 1 year of use, no longer held a charge in the battery. I replaced the battery for $190, a completel rip off. Again, less than 1 year later, the damn thing won't hold a charge. It's even worse with apple though because you can't replace the battery easily and without voiding your warranty.
No, I'm not bothered, and here's why: mainly because these midicloreans or whatever they are help you hear the force according to Quigon in Ep I. The more you have, the easier it is for you to use the force. It does not mean that nobody else can use it, it simply makes it easier according to my understanding. So, if you really want to use the force, you have to work at it - just more so if you don't have these things in your blood. But maybe I misunderstood...
I agree the innvoation is gone - except in graphics. I mean, sure Quake was a great game and very addicting - and the graphics looked good for the time... But games like Doom 3 look amazing, and I think that for people just getting into these type of games, it's probably a very fun game to play, just like we had our fun back in the days of Quake.
You misunderstood - I'm not talking about Carbon, or the iTunes app iteslf - I'm talking about the drivers for the CD burning part of iTunes, which has nothing to do with Carbon. They *will* have to come out with them, or people won't use iTunes because they can't use their legally purchased music to burn music CDs, which defeats the purpose of using iTunes for a lot of people.
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Atleast I have the balls to post with my account, and not hide like you because you can't back up what you say.
Fuck you - what exactly about that first comment was a TROLL comment??? It's a valid concern, and just because you or some dumb ass mod doesn't think so, doesn't mean it was a TROLL. A TROLL is someone who posts something completely unrelated to a topic to cause trouble. I didn't do that, I posted a valid concern.
TROLL?? Bullshit, this is a legitimate concern - are you mods that stupid????
And I pity the birds/people/other mammals that get in the path of this. I hope they like cancer, or at the very least large amounts of radition blasting through their bodies.
What are you talking about, results? They are the richest company in the world - and don't think windows revenue didn't play a massive role in that.
Lose money on windows? Not a chance. Even though they sell it cheap, they still make money on the OEM shipments. Think abou it - it doesn't cost them a dime with OEMs for the most part, the OEMs just slap the drive image onto each machine complete with OEM printed discs the OEM's make themselves, all they need is a key from M$....
My point to that original post is that no matter what you do, Microsoft isn't going to make it easy to access OWA using any browser but their own. They used ActiveX to do that this time around. If somebody came up with an ActiveX compatible browser extension, they'd figure out another way to jam up Firefox/Opera/Safari, whatever. I'm not ignoring the problem, and yes, I do realize what a pain in the ass it is - I'm a network/system admin who uses Exchange 5.5, 2000, and 2003 for several sites - and I've known from day one that OWA looks like shit using any browser but IE - but there it nothing you or I can do it, except this:
Don't use Exchange, and complain loudly about this problem. Only then, when a majority of MS customers stop using Exchange, will they change.
I don't see this happening any time soon.
There is no such thing as DHTML (as others have said many times, DHTML = Javascript + HTML + CSS) - all they mean is that Firefox doesn't support JavaScript and CSS properly, which is crap. It does. You have to understand who writes Outlook Web Access... Oh, right. Microsoft. Gee, imagine that their webmail doesn't work in anything but IE, I never would have guessed. The real test is to visit that using Opera which spoofs the IE user agent. I'm curious to see what happens then.
Perhaps it depends what CD/DVD burning apps you have installed. I currently have around 7 on my machine, and I'd be curious to see what this game complains about specifically.
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That's the smartest thing I've read on here all day - it's so true. When tech companies specifically break code because it's a competitor, just like Microsoft with IE only pages, it goes to show they can't compete, so they have to resort to intentionally breaking things, which only hurts the consumer.
I hear this argument a lot, and you're right - it would work... but here's the thing - If you put a pentium I computer with a 2 gig hd or something up in front of an entire lab for internet access, I would wonder about the reliability. What I mean is, at work here I was doing something similar - but when the non-rendundant power supply in the 1995 based computer died, my entire part of the office lost net access, which is bad.
There is always something to be said about having a real server act as a firewall. For home use, sure, use an old computer running linux - but for anything that you would like to count on a reliable, get a real piece of hardware to put that linux distro on, and you'll be happier.
That's a great comment - because if your one and only laptop works fine, then the rest of the Dell laptops on Earth must work fine as well. Congratulations for posting the stupidest comment I have ever read.
Our service agreement says nothing about the ability of other networks to get our communications by their own choice - and also, my main point is that technically, changing entire class C's is not reasonable for a large company. It's a lot of work and overhead costs to make this happen.
I agree 100% - when buying a notebook, you can't swap the gpu out like I wish you could. I have some dell notebooks at work with ATI cards in them, and the drivers are horrible, and that's being nice... Half the time the machines start up, they revert back to 800x600 res and insist the driver is corrupt. I download a newer version, install, reboot and they might work fine for a month. Then it happens again. I hate ATI for this, and I also had a lot of AiW cards back in the day - half the features on the box didn't work yet, due to driver support. I felt ripped off and lied to by the marketing department because the card couldn't do what they promised me.
Availability has nothing to do with being blacklisted. Also, I said TECHNICAL reasons, which no lawyer can help with. Imagine having to sit down and change all your dns records and router config every time you wanted to move. For a large corporation, this is not reasonable.
Right on - a company can't simply get out of an ISP contract for a lot of reasons. Technical reasons aside, imagine getting out of a 3 yr contract after 2 months. It's not going to happen.
What you're talking about - the OC'n with crazy-low temps thanks to extreme cooling... most of the time when things become unstable there, it's due to the massive amounts of power you have to feed a system like that with the higher multiplier. Only time will tell how far AMD can crank the clock speed of the A64. I'm betting my money they easily hit 3 GHZ by year end with the FX chips. SOI and 65 nm should help them reach that mark. I'm not sure what Intel has up their sleeves, but it should be based off the Pentium M architecture if we're lucky.
I don't think you're correct - they don't have to push their cpus at all right now, they have the peformance crown - if they have to, they will increase clock speed. Intel can't move the P4 up to 4 GHZ like they wanted, while AMD can move up a bit. Why do a I say this you ask? Have you seen the power consumption and heat dissipation of the new A64s? I have one running right here - 2.0 GHZ, Athlon 64 3200+ and it's only running at 30 C. Under full load, it hits 40 C. That's with stock cooling. That's 90 nm, wait until 65 - AMD has PLENTY of head room right now. They just aren't being forced to use it because Intel can't ramp the P4 at all - the 90 nm P4 actually put out MORE heat than the 130.
I agree that competition rules - I'm just not sure Intel will take the lead again... unless they can also incorporate an on-die memory controller like AMD and they license Hyper Transport from AMD, or invent their own. All AMD has to do is shrink to 65 nm and start ramping clock speeds, and they are ensured great performance numbers.
Finally, somebody makes a true comparison to what goes on all the time with electronics - they sell something with certain specs with battery life, and then a year or two later, it's not what you bought. I had an IBM thinkpad, which after only 1 year of use, no longer held a charge in the battery. I replaced the battery for $190, a completel rip off. Again, less than 1 year later, the damn thing won't hold a charge. It's even worse with apple though because you can't replace the battery easily and without voiding your warranty.
Then you would guess wrong.
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You're probably thinking of Intel's offerings, which are not compatible with the current crop of intel-based motherboards out there.
No, I'm not bothered, and here's why: mainly because these midicloreans or whatever they are help you hear the force according to Quigon in Ep I. The more you have, the easier it is for you to use the force. It does not mean that nobody else can use it, it simply makes it easier according to my understanding. So, if you really want to use the force, you have to work at it - just more so if you don't have these things in your blood. But maybe I misunderstood...
I agree the innvoation is gone - except in graphics. I mean, sure Quake was a great game and very addicting - and the graphics looked good for the time... But games like Doom 3 look amazing, and I think that for people just getting into these type of games, it's probably a very fun game to play, just like we had our fun back in the days of Quake.
You misunderstood - I'm not talking about Carbon, or the iTunes app iteslf - I'm talking about the drivers for the CD burning part of iTunes, which has nothing to do with Carbon. They *will* have to come out with them, or people won't use iTunes because they can't use their legally purchased music to burn music CDs, which defeats the purpose of using iTunes for a lot of people.