I thought that's what MS released service packs for, right?
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This is why we had one really. Do I honestly think the thing is going to save my kids life? Not really. What it did do however was allow my wife and I to go to sleep ourselves instead obsessively looking at the baby monitor trying to determine if she was still breathing through that. It was more of a hack to work around our own insanity really. When I think back on all the piles of weird baby stuff we own that we barely used, that device actually seemed like a bargain at $80-100.
Well, the lack of any consistency in clothing size even with the same item for one. My recent pants shopping expedition has shown that one size 34 waist pants from the same brand, in the same store taken off the same shelf as another can still be wildly different in fit, length and waist. The QA and manufacturing on these things is so horrible that you'll never know how any individual item fits unless you tried it on.
This is by design. The goal is to get people stuck in Microsoft's crap store where they get a fat 30% cut of all software sales by trickery. That's why you had the Surface Pro...the flag ship product that could do it all and actually filled a niche. And then there's the Surface RT, the turd no one could love if they knew its dark secret...but its a Surface and it was cheap so whoops I bought it because I got confused like I was supposed to be.
But the word is out RT means abomination now. So its time to go with the even more ambiguous Surface nothing to muddy up the waters even more. Coming next year expect the RT version 3 to be re-branded as "Surface Pro E" or maybe they'll go for the full power bait and switch and just call it Surface Pro 3.0. This last change would have come eventually though, the obvious end game to shoe-horning their app store into existence is to close the door on any software sales they don't get a cut of.
I think the opposite sort of happened though. RT actually ruined the whole Surface brand rather than the Pro artificially elevating it. Probably a lot of people (ok, probably not that many people) bought the RT under the mistaken assumption it could do things only the Pro could and then returned it to the store before washing their hands of Surface tablets altogether. Here's the part where Microsoft screwed up, they forgot its a lot easier for a customer to return a tablet to a store than it is for OEMs or customers to return Windows 8 operating system software.
With XP I think you need a valid volume license key, which I'm not really sure how hard that is to find. I seem to remember some hubbub about MS blacklisting keys and the regular keys I think they did some kind of checking (since they should only match a single machine by nature). This was back when XP came out though so my memory is hazy. Prior to that any old key could be used and I wouldn't be surprised if half of China had the same 98se install key. Anyway, the Windows Genuine Advantage Activation tool was not part of the original XP release and is separate from all released service packs. You can decline the update. I always do since it provides no end user benefit anyway.
If it was a dog it would have been put down already. But killer whales are much more expensive and difficult to procure. Their training is also an expense. Human trainers are an inexpensive commodity in comparison.
Do you mean vt-d/AMD-Vi (i and d being the important bits)
It does seem AMD hasn't actually market segmented this feature out to the level of near pointlessness like Intel but I can't seem to find good information on which chips do and don't support it. If e-350 does though that is a good sign.
I'm not sure I'd say they were all bad based on your experience. Mine ran all of the water in the house at the same time almost the entire time he was there to try and force any drainage issues to the surface. At the time I wouldn't have thought to do something like that.
Well, the answer to "Why shouldn't they be?" is because they are supported by the state they reside in under the premise they will support the local populace first. Essentially they are getting the benefits of being a state school while shirking the inherent responsibilities that come with that.
I don't doubt that was true when it first came out, but with the exception of a really old winmodem I had no problems finding or using any drivers whatsoever.
That was my thought as well. They're probably making assumptions based off those same old faulty broadband maps that count an entire zip code as having broadband if one person in it has broadband. I just got DSL service last week for the first time, and I have no other options. My area is fairly rural I'll admit but the United States has large swaths of space that are just like here.
2018 seems completely unreasonable and sounds like the myopic suggestion of some one that has lived entirely in high population density areas. And I'm not even going to go into the change averse nature of our large elderly population who statistically are going to need reliable 911 service the most.
I love to complain about stupid things more than your average person, but is this really a problem? Put a repeater in the window. My heating bill, on a 1980s house is by far once of the most cash sucking and depressing aspects of my budget.
And as an added bonus, maybe it'll keep neighbors from stealing everyone's wifi.
I've seen the same thing happen on K-12. Renovations were needed at my high school, but a pie in the sky expansion was put forth instead involving the construction of a redundant gym and a number of other unnecessary architectural changes. Using the time honored "shave 0.01% and resubmit to voters repeatedly until it passes" strategy it...eventually passed. After the standard cost and time overruns the project was completed. They then couldn't afford funding for class materials and were cutting courses to save money. The voters are of course even less interested in passing budgets since most of them feel they were tricked and enrolled had been on a downward trend for the past 15 years...but hey we got an extra gym now so now the kids can get that broad education they deserve...in playing kickball in a fancier building I guess?
I'll admit the college level is probably more embarrassing, but at least when its a private college you can route around the incompetence.
I'd be surprised if they found success. As near as I can tell, Gamestop's only area of expertise is in acting as a middleman selling used product. I'm over-simplifying, but they basically have the same skill set as some guy on ebay or at a flee market with only a change in scale.
They appear to have no experience in actually producing or even marketing anything whatsoever. They have no experience designing/marketing/distributing consoles, phones, hand-held game devices, games or software. So we are to assume that they will compete in the chaotic and fast moving phone/tablet market against seasoned major hardware producers like Apple and seasoned software producers like Microsoft and Google. I don't think they understand the market they want to be in other than that it is currently hot and growing. They will not be up against lucky incompetents and they don't seem to be aware they are really late to the party.
Plus they have no marketing experience. The used games sales engine functions my latching onto the game and console producers own marketing like a parasite. They've never actually promoted their own products. There is also a negative legacy here. I think we can safely assume Gamestop will not be producing any appreciable amount of first party titles, meaning they will have to rely on other companies' software. I can't foresee them getting any exclusivity agreements from software companies that likely see them as a parasite that has been siphoning off their new game sales for years. Not with out piles and piles of cash.
They purchased a digital distribution company so I guess we can give them that they now have some experience in that. Although that company's focus was on the PC games market, a market that they abandoned long ago. If I had to guess, I'd say they will make little effective use of that. And I sort of doubt there is a talent pool available from that purchase to develop the things they need to develop.
I think they'll probably just take another company's tablet product, install some redundant and probably buggy download service on it along with a gamestop OS skin or something. It'll be the product equivalent of a wet fart, personally unpleasant but not enough people will know about it to be to embarrassing.
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I thought that's what MS released service packs for, right?
This is why we had one really. Do I honestly think the thing is going to save my kids life? Not really. What it did do however was allow my wife and I to go to sleep ourselves instead obsessively looking at the baby monitor trying to determine if she was still breathing through that. It was more of a hack to work around our own insanity really. When I think back on all the piles of weird baby stuff we own that we barely used, that device actually seemed like a bargain at $80-100.
Well, the lack of any consistency in clothing size even with the same item for one. My recent pants shopping expedition has shown that one size 34 waist pants from the same brand, in the same store taken off the same shelf as another can still be wildly different in fit, length and waist. The QA and manufacturing on these things is so horrible that you'll never know how any individual item fits unless you tried it on.
I thought they were working on a feature that allows you do this...again like in the good old days, kind of.
http://store.steampowered.com/sharing/
This is by design. The goal is to get people stuck in Microsoft's crap store where they get a fat 30% cut of all software sales by trickery. That's why you had the Surface Pro...the flag ship product that could do it all and actually filled a niche. And then there's the Surface RT, the turd no one could love if they knew its dark secret...but its a Surface and it was cheap so whoops I bought it because I got confused like I was supposed to be.
But the word is out RT means abomination now. So its time to go with the even more ambiguous Surface nothing to muddy up the waters even more. Coming next year expect the RT version 3 to be re-branded as "Surface Pro E" or maybe they'll go for the full power bait and switch and just call it Surface Pro 3.0. This last change would have come eventually though, the obvious end game to shoe-horning their app store into existence is to close the door on any software sales they don't get a cut of.
I think the opposite sort of happened though. RT actually ruined the whole Surface brand rather than the Pro artificially elevating it. Probably a lot of people (ok, probably not that many people) bought the RT under the mistaken assumption it could do things only the Pro could and then returned it to the store before washing their hands of Surface tablets altogether. Here's the part where Microsoft screwed up, they forgot its a lot easier for a customer to return a tablet to a store than it is for OEMs or customers to return Windows 8 operating system software.
As a yacht salesmen I must respectfully disagree.
With XP I think you need a valid volume license key, which I'm not really sure how hard that is to find. I seem to remember some hubbub about MS blacklisting keys and the regular keys I think they did some kind of checking (since they should only match a single machine by nature). This was back when XP came out though so my memory is hazy. Prior to that any old key could be used and I wouldn't be surprised if half of China had the same 98se install key. Anyway, the Windows Genuine Advantage Activation tool was not part of the original XP release and is separate from all released service packs. You can decline the update. I always do since it provides no end user benefit anyway.
If it was a dog it would have been put down already. But killer whales are much more expensive and difficult to procure. Their training is also an expense. Human trainers are an inexpensive commodity in comparison.
I don't know, when was the first version of Microsoft Office released?
Do you mean vt-d/AMD-Vi (i and d being the important bits)
It does seem AMD hasn't actually market segmented this feature out to the level of near pointlessness like Intel but I can't seem to find good information on which chips do and don't support it. If e-350 does though that is a good sign.
I'm not sure I'd say they were all bad based on your experience. Mine ran all of the water in the house at the same time almost the entire time he was there to try and force any drainage issues to the surface. At the time I wouldn't have thought to do something like that.
IIRC all ants in a colony are essentially clones, which makes the situation even more strange.
Well, the answer to "Why shouldn't they be?" is because they are supported by the state they reside in under the premise they will support the local populace first. Essentially they are getting the benefits of being a state school while shirking the inherent responsibilities that come with that.
The test has been redone: http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/HD_5870_PCI-Express_Scaling/25.html and things haven't really changed.
Keep in mind that PCI-E 2.0 doubles bandwidth though, making todays 1x yesterdays 2x.
I don't doubt that was true when it first came out, but with the exception of a really old winmodem I had no problems finding or using any drivers whatsoever.
What's wrong with XP x64? I rocked it for the last 3-4 years and never had a problem with it.
Now for a truly terrifying experience, imagine what would have happened if he wasn't grossly incompetent.
That was my thought as well. They're probably making assumptions based off those same old faulty broadband maps that count an entire zip code as having broadband if one person in it has broadband. I just got DSL service last week for the first time, and I have no other options. My area is fairly rural I'll admit but the United States has large swaths of space that are just like here.
2018 seems completely unreasonable and sounds like the myopic suggestion of some one that has lived entirely in high population density areas. And I'm not even going to go into the change averse nature of our large elderly population who statistically are going to need reliable 911 service the most.
Does it? I thought caffeine caused the bitter flavor associated with coffee. I suppose one could argue that is desirable.
Nope. Everyone else already paid up their campaign contributions and lobbying fees.
That's not true. He'll probably still be assumed to be guilty by a large percentage of people even after he is proven innocent.
Wait...so its innovation was being Dreamcast II?
I love to complain about stupid things more than your average person, but is this really a problem? Put a repeater in the window. My heating bill, on a 1980s house is by far once of the most cash sucking and depressing aspects of my budget.
And as an added bonus, maybe it'll keep neighbors from stealing everyone's wifi.
I've seen the same thing happen on K-12. Renovations were needed at my high school, but a pie in the sky expansion was put forth instead involving the construction of a redundant gym and a number of other unnecessary architectural changes. Using the time honored "shave 0.01% and resubmit to voters repeatedly until it passes" strategy it...eventually passed. After the standard cost and time overruns the project was completed. They then couldn't afford funding for class materials and were cutting courses to save money. The voters are of course even less interested in passing budgets since most of them feel they were tricked and enrolled had been on a downward trend for the past 15 years...but hey we got an extra gym now so now the kids can get that broad education they deserve...in playing kickball in a fancier building I guess?
I'll admit the college level is probably more embarrassing, but at least when its a private college you can route around the incompetence.
I'd be surprised if they found success. As near as I can tell, Gamestop's only area of expertise is in acting as a middleman selling used product. I'm over-simplifying, but they basically have the same skill set as some guy on ebay or at a flee market with only a change in scale.
They appear to have no experience in actually producing or even marketing anything whatsoever. They have no experience designing/marketing/distributing consoles, phones, hand-held game devices, games or software. So we are to assume that they will compete in the chaotic and fast moving phone/tablet market against seasoned major hardware producers like Apple and seasoned software producers like Microsoft and Google. I don't think they understand the market they want to be in other than that it is currently hot and growing. They will not be up against lucky incompetents and they don't seem to be aware they are really late to the party.
Plus they have no marketing experience. The used games sales engine functions my latching onto the game and console producers own marketing like a parasite. They've never actually promoted their own products. There is also a negative legacy here. I think we can safely assume Gamestop will not be producing any appreciable amount of first party titles, meaning they will have to rely on other companies' software. I can't foresee them getting any exclusivity agreements from software companies that likely see them as a parasite that has been siphoning off their new game sales for years. Not with out piles and piles of cash.
They purchased a digital distribution company so I guess we can give them that they now have some experience in that. Although that company's focus was on the PC games market, a market that they abandoned long ago. If I had to guess, I'd say they will make little effective use of that. And I sort of doubt there is a talent pool available from that purchase to develop the things they need to develop.
I think they'll probably just take another company's tablet product, install some redundant and probably buggy download service on it along with a gamestop OS skin or something. It'll be the product equivalent of a wet fart, personally unpleasant but not enough people will know about it to be to embarrassing.