Either they are doing it because they like nature, in which case they are probably a druid (and likely true neutral as a result), or they do it because it attracts more customers (and profit), which is a distinctly chaotic neutral trait.
Better than most companies, which tend towards chaotic evil.
stop that stupid behavior (return to farking ini files in the app directory instead of the incredibly stupid registry) and stop installing 65,000 random dll's in the system directories. Re: "return to farking ini files in the app directory" No, that would require all users having write access to the application's directory, and all users would share the same settings, which is just asking for trouble. Config files in the User's "Application Data" folder is the best option. In a correctly set up domain, this even allows their preferred settings to follow them from machine to machine.
Re: "stop installing 65,000 random dll's in the system directories" "Pretty much everything" has, but not "everything", unfortunately. The contents of the OS folder shouldn't be modified except in OS updates.
On Win32 the API doesn't really change when you go to 64 bit. And the LLP model means int and long stay 32 bit, only the pointers change size. So code that reads bitmaps for example won't break. Now you can argue about this, but it means if you've spent ages developing Win32 code it only takes a few days to port a large application to Win64. Only if it's well written, and written in a language with a 64-bit compiler. And even for C/C++, some lines that won't work properly or crash when built for 64-bit: (int)(pSomePointer);// storing a memory address in a stupid type, eg int, instead of storing a memory address in a pointer (int)(pOther-pSomePointer);// storing an offset from one memory address to another in an int, basically a variant of the above void** pDoublePointer = malloc(4);// hard-coded memory sizes instead of sizeof() asm{}// pretty much any assembler code will probably be broken assert(!(pPointer&0x80000000));// Code that assumes bit 31 being set means OS-only memory and treats it as an error...// Using external libraries that don't have a 64-bit version (yet) or have some of the above problems
Some apps may need to be re-written for Win64 if they were written badly enough to begin with.
[...] also explain when to expect such mechandise in your local stores. That's easy, the whole time from late January to late April, regardless of when Easter is. The same way you start getting Christmas stuff in store as soon as Halloween is over, and it doesn't all disappear until January.
If you had the google toolbar (like I do, it's the only toolbar I ever install) then you already had a nice easy way to search the current site with google. Just type some keywords in the google search box, and pick "current site" off the search dropdown. It also has a nice handy button to highlight the words you searched for in the page so you can find them if the site has a lot of text (not likely) as well as one button for each word you searched for that performs a find in the page for that word.
Yes location again, it was in-city vs out-of-city.
I also already said that the way the article (and even more so Slashdot) sensationalised "beer drinking Czech ornithologists have fewer papers cited by others" to "Scientists' failure correlated with beer" was nasty, but taking a conclusion from one area and saying that it applies in general is completely different to comparing two different areas (Canada and Denmark, city and countryside, using your examples) and using the data to claim that two other factors are correlated.
To use your second example, it's the difference between taking "City-dwelling parakeet owners are more likely to get lung cancer than countryside-dwelling dog owners" and turning it into: "parakeet owners are more likely to get lung cancer than dog owners" and taking: "City-dwelling parakeet owners are more likely to get lung cancer than city-dwelling dog owners" and turning it into: "parakeet owners are more likely to get lung cancer than dog owners"
The former fails the rule that your two groups should only be statistically different in two ways, the supposed cause and effect, yet they are different in a 3rd way, location.
The second is only exaggeration / sensationalisation, and it is this category that this article falls into.
Your (admittedly intentionally stupid) example has THREE factors, not only two. Leaving the location out of the conclusion is stupid. If you can find a stupid correlation that doesn't involve two groups separated by location you might have a better point.
The article's inverse correlation between beer and success is inside a single country, and seems to be among scientists of only one science. Extending the conclusion to apply to the world and all kinds of science is admittedly a stretch, but not as bad as your example.
It's simple, the number is XYY0, with X = series number (manufacturer specific), YY = performance number (within series, higher=better).
ATI had a 9xxx series years ago (2002), because they didn't start with a "Radeon 1", instead it was the 7000 to match Direct-X 7.0. nVidia started with the "GeForce", followed by 2, then 3, then changed to the standard "thousands" naming with the GeForce 4000 series, also released in 2002.
nVidia has overlapped ATI's graphics card numbers since the GeForce 7000 series a couple of years ago, but few people noticed because ATI's 7000 cards weren't that memorable. However pretty much everyone who has been building PCs for more than 6 years will still remember the ATI 9800, and how it beat nVidia's "GeForce FX" 5800 so soundly that they had to release a revised version called the 5900, and then ANOTHER revised version called the 5950 in an attempt to beat it.
I don't yet see a need to get a GeForce 9800, I haven't found any games that my GeForce 8800 GTS r1 (320MB) can't run perfectly fine on high settings. Let me know if one turns up.
From the article:
[...] inside a retractable, swiveling pod called the turret [...] This makes it sound like most people don't know what a turret is. I mean, it's just a fairly ordinary gun turret. Except it fires a laser instead of machine gun rounds of course.
Plus Firefox's spell-checker insists that it should be spelt "swivelling".
How long until they reinvent usenet? It used to be that every ISP had a usenet server, and via that you could download or upload _anything_.
It mostly died out because binaries on usenet are a pain in the arse, and he storage needed for a full usenet server (including the binaries groups) nowadays is phenomenal.
Ok, so the only real advantage ftp has over http is the ability to "list" files in a machine-understandable way to allow mass-downloads?
I can't think of anything else.
The only other "feature" that I know of is that the protocol supports one client requesting a file transfer for a different client, but is that ever used?
[...] and enjoy it on my rather nice home theatre system viewed on my 60" Sony HD television set. Go go £20 2nd-hand projector projecting a 4' (48", 1.2m) approx picture. It's like being in the cinema, but with a comfortable chair and better food.
I've used stereo shutter glasses as recently as the geforce 6000 series. Nvidia have the drive listed on their website as "consumer 3d stereo" and it is a plugin for the normal geforce driver.
Unfortunately it hasn't been updated since.
Are there any stereo solutions that work with a dvi-connected tft?
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Either they are doing it because they like nature, in which case they are probably a druid (and likely true neutral as a result), or they do it because it attracts more customers (and profit), which is a distinctly chaotic neutral trait.
Better than most companies, which tend towards chaotic evil.
No, that would require all users having write access to the application's directory, and all users would share the same settings, which is just asking for trouble.
Config files in the User's "Application Data" folder is the best option. In a correctly set up domain, this even allows their preferred settings to follow them from machine to machine.
Re: "stop installing 65,000 random dll's in the system directories"
"Pretty much everything" has, but not "everything", unfortunately. The contents of the OS folder shouldn't be modified except in OS updates.
Wait, Kingston Comms? As in the owners of the Hull-only legendarily bad ISP "Karoo"?
Don't take them as representative of the UK.
"One" is not a representative sample.
And even for C/C++, some lines that won't work properly or crash when built for 64-bit:
(int)(pSomePointer);
(int)(pOther-pSomePointer);
void** pDoublePointer = malloc(4);
asm{}
assert(!(pPointer&0x80000000));
Some apps may need to be re-written for Win64 if they were written badly enough to begin with.
What did?
The first I heard of Turbografx was on the Wii Virtual Console, and all the games from it don't seem to be worth my money.
Perhaps this is because I live in the UK, and apparently it was never officially sold here.
The same way you start getting Christmas stuff in store as soon as Halloween is over, and it doesn't all disappear until January.
If you had the google toolbar (like I do, it's the only toolbar I ever install) then you already had a nice easy way to search the current site with google. Just type some keywords in the google search box, and pick "current site" off the search dropdown. It also has a nice handy button to highlight the words you searched for in the page so you can find them if the site has a lot of text (not likely) as well as one button for each word you searched for that performs a find in the page for that word.
Whatever, you understood what I meant. :)
Yes location again, it was in-city vs out-of-city.
I also already said that the way the article (and even more so Slashdot) sensationalised "beer drinking Czech ornithologists have fewer papers cited by others" to "Scientists' failure correlated with beer" was nasty, but taking a conclusion from one area and saying that it applies in general is completely different to comparing two different areas (Canada and Denmark, city and countryside, using your examples) and using the data to claim that two other factors are correlated.
To use your second example, it's the difference between taking
"City-dwelling parakeet owners are more likely to get lung cancer than countryside-dwelling dog owners"
and turning it into:
"parakeet owners are more likely to get lung cancer than dog owners"
and taking:
"City-dwelling parakeet owners are more likely to get lung cancer than city-dwelling dog owners"
and turning it into:
"parakeet owners are more likely to get lung cancer than dog owners"
The former fails the rule that your two groups should only be statistically different in two ways, the supposed cause and effect, yet they are different in a 3rd way, location.
The second is only exaggeration / sensationalisation, and it is this category that this article falls into.
So, location again?
I can't find anything remotely like that quote using my google-fu.
What episode?
Your (admittedly intentionally stupid) example has THREE factors, not only two. Leaving the location out of the conclusion is stupid. If you can find a stupid correlation that doesn't involve two groups separated by location you might have a better point.
The article's inverse correlation between beer and success is inside a single country, and seems to be among scientists of only one science. Extending the conclusion to apply to the world and all kinds of science is admittedly a stretch, but not as bad as your example.
Oops, failed by html. this is what I meant to put:
Prefixes of competing nVidia and ATI graphics cards:
GeForce <=> Radeon
1 <=> -
2 <=> -
3 <=> 7
4 <=> 8
5 <=> 9
6 <=> X
7 <=> X1
8 <=> HD 2
9 <=> HD 3
Prefixes of competing nVidia and ATI graphics cards:
GeForce Radeon
1 -
2 -
3 7
4 8
5 9
6 X
7 X1
8 HD 2
9 HD 3
It's simple, the number is XYY0, with X = series number (manufacturer specific), YY = performance number (within series, higher=better).
ATI had a 9xxx series years ago (2002), because they didn't start with a "Radeon 1", instead it was the 7000 to match Direct-X 7.0. nVidia started with the "GeForce", followed by 2, then 3, then changed to the standard "thousands" naming with the GeForce 4000 series, also released in 2002.
nVidia has overlapped ATI's graphics card numbers since the GeForce 7000 series a couple of years ago, but few people noticed because ATI's 7000 cards weren't that memorable. However pretty much everyone who has been building PCs for more than 6 years will still remember the ATI 9800, and how it beat nVidia's "GeForce FX" 5800 so soundly that they had to release a revised version called the 5900, and then ANOTHER revised version called the 5950 in an attempt to beat it.
I don't yet see a need to get a GeForce 9800, I haven't found any games that my GeForce 8800 GTS r1 (320MB) can't run perfectly fine on high settings. Let me know if one turns up.
Plus Firefox's spell-checker insists that it should be spelt "swivelling".
How long until they reinvent usenet? It used to be that every ISP had a usenet server, and via that you could download or upload _anything_.
It mostly died out because binaries on usenet are a pain in the arse, and he storage needed for a full usenet server (including the binaries groups) nowadays is phenomenal.
You can't get out of it that easily, if you were joking you would have been modded "Funny" not "3, Insightful".
Moderation hint: ---> I AM JOKING. ---
Where's the "prophetic" moderation when you need it?
The coward has a point, "utter" is a real word, meaning "say" as a verb or "complete/total/upper limit of" as an adjective.
"Complete and utter" is often used as a single adjective meaning "absolute".
Ok, so the only real advantage ftp has over http is the ability to "list" files in a machine-understandable way to allow mass-downloads?
I can't think of anything else.
The only other "feature" that I know of is that the protocol supports one client requesting a file transfer for a different client, but is that ever used?
Much better than my 17" combi tv/dvd thing.
Though thankfully I only live in the "51st State", the UK.
I've used stereo shutter glasses as recently as the geforce 6000 series. Nvidia have the drive listed on their website as "consumer 3d stereo" and it is a plugin for the normal geforce driver.
Unfortunately it hasn't been updated since.
Are there any stereo solutions that work with a dvi-connected tft?
There's also one called "The last question", which seems relevant and is worth reading.
In fact, all of Isaac Asimov's stories are worth reading.