GeomanNL

Ok suit yourself. But your win8 problem indicates a problem with your system, if you leave it like that you'll run into problems sooner or later.

Those tests don't mean much. You've got a situation where a windows 7 install works perfectly and a windows 8 install works like crap. They use different parts of memory and HDD, during both install and operation. The logical conclusion is that there's something wrong there even if tests show no problem. My brother had a problem like that once, one version of windows installed fine but a newer version of windows failed to install correctly and he couldn't find the problem

That sounds more like a problem with a piece of hardware/driver. Probably a bad sector in the HDD or a bad memory stick. Because then it's coincidence which one runs best: the win8 install is the unlucky one which is installed incorrectly because of the bad memory, or it's installed on a bad sector.

There are some things best left untouched... like... some of the presents the Wooly Mammoths left for us in the ice, which are starting to thaw now...

My 2 cents: nope, impossible. To be part of the EU, the Ukraine have to implement laws to protect human rights and freedom of speech and travel, which don't jive well with the Russian semi-dictators. Those laws will make it impossible for Ukraine to become an integrated part of a new Russian empire.

Ok... I just thought it was a funny little article. About a little glacier during the Litlle Ice age. It grew, moved a few rocks around, then disappeared. Kinda charming.

Add an external graphics card for a few bucks and then you can play some pretty decent games with that computer. And a P4... I thought those went extinct 10 years ago, how did you manage for so long with such a slow computer? A P4 must be a 100 times as slow as today's modern PCs.

This provides some evidence for the little ice age. http://www.livescience.com/42765-scotland-had-glacier-400-years-ago.html It's interesting to note that a mere 1.5 degrees drop in temperature would've been enough for permanent snow-cover to occur on the (highest) mountains of Scotland.

And who created the path? He and his father.

When I read your comments, it sounds like MS will turn your own PC into some kind of XBOX or an apple iPad, with in-built limitations. But that would be the end of the digital world as we know it. It's hard for me to believe that. Isn't that just some kind of conspiracy-theory? If MS would really do that, PC owners will turn to Linux-based systems.

I don't see what an app store has to do with a radical change in interface design...

I've never seen Win 8 in action, but I do think that MS has "balls". They've the guts to try something new and I respect that, even if it turns out less than nice for many people.

I've read that it was a scare article from a site, with the intent to boost sales of their own iodine. It was 14 million doses, or 700 thousand boxes for as many people (20 doses each) so it wasn't a major purchase. For the whole us (about 300 million people) you'd need 6 billion doses.

Companies already have a "fair use" clause in their contracts with consumers. Meaning that if a consumer uses too much bandwidth, he could be punished. In theory at least, I don't think that right is excercised in practice, because there's enough bandwidth available. In the Netherlands at least. And someone who wants to download more, he just chooses a more expensive service. And sure people can switch to another ISP, but will they really do that? Instead of going th

Oh this was a necroed topic. Sorry.

It's just a discussion on a game forum that's all. I'm not some global activist or anything, I just think it's interesting. Do you realize how much things have changed in the last 15 years. Until then, almost nobody was interested in the Arctic or Antarctic. It was a place where some obscure under-ice submarine cold war was waged, and that was it. Nowadays it's in the news all the time. Either for discoveries of minera

You may be in for more heat waves if you would believe this study: http://www.livescience.com/42704-extreme-el-ninos-may-double.html In the article they concluded that El Ninos will occur more often sometime soon. But they couldn't conclude that from surface ocean temperatures, the models weren't conclusive about those. So they changed their definition of what constitute

That article makes it sounds so simple, but it's not that simple to change provider. You've to cancel your contract (and if it's one that lasts a year, then you've to wait a whole year). You also lose your email address. And when you lose your email, you've to change the email with all the accounts you have. If you don't do that, you can run into problems with your password (if you forget it).

Well those fish were certainly interesting. They clearly made the wrong choice there. And the moose... how did he get there, maybe he walked on thin ice and it cracked and he got stuck?

Yes... well at least we won't get another ice age. Imho that's worse than a few degrees of warming. Freezing my ass off has never appealed to me, I don't like the cold. And if that means that the Netherlands won't be able to have world-class skaters anymore... so be it. I'll gladly trade them for more sunshine.

Hologram cannot beat triangulation.

[quote who="starkers" reply="109" id="3434392"]And how would we know it died of radiation poisoning if nobody's around to run a geiger counter over it.[/quote] It probably didn't. It was probably a very old parrot and it died from a heart attack from all the stress during the evacuation. [quote who="starkers" reply="109" id="3434392"] is it more radioactive at high tide or low tide?[/quote] Yes. [quote who="starkers" reply="111"

Yes and to make things even more obvious: That parrot is a dead parrot. It's deceased. It's pushing up daisies. It's a LATE parrot.

The data of over 100 MILLION people ??? [e digicons]8O[/e] As an IT "professional" I'm positively impressed. More of these types of events and people won't trust internet sites anymore... Those assholes. *flushing* my job down the toilet.

It is a shame that global warming will not make the sun shine any longer. For the last 3 days, the skies were cloudy with the occasional shower. I mean... really dark grey clouds, those that block the sun completely. And it's still winter, so the sun is still very weak. It rises after 8 AM and sets before 6 PM... and that's already an improvement over december. And it's cold. It's such gloomy and depressing weather, I hate it. Who knows