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whan you upgrde with Vista service Pack-1 realtek HD sound and Network Will Stop working as a rule.
This true mostly of Acer/HP machines.
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I have BMW/Mercedes/VW/GM Vehicles.
But I think CRV-1998 is the best for Canadian Cold. It is extreme reliable. for 1/3 the price of Benz-300D. No wonder people are buying Honda by the droves. all electrical connections have moulding and A+ quality. Worst is VW( costs double the ford)/Ford. Vw/Ford products even have design flaws.
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Ya just cant beat a 1980 VC commodore[^]
I sold mine early this year as we wanted something a little safer with the baby but man that car would just not die. When I sold it there was more than 500,000kms on the clock from the original engine and drive train. In the three years I owned it we did about 50,000 kms in it. All I did was change the oil every now and then, had the carby serviced once, bogged up some rust in the doors and put new tires on it.
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The readtek HD Sound is not working with Service pack. Any clue. It is Asus Integrated board based server. I playing with driver rollback.
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In short : Got Fallout 3 from the Steam last friday. Finished the main quest an hour ago at level 17 (out of 20)!! and I'm not a hard-core gamer
The graphics are really nice, the engine is based on the same engine that was used for the Oblivion game; game play is similar (control, behavior, look'n'feel and ambiance). Since the game takes place after a nuclear war, the land is destroyed, the cities are in ruins; what is left is a civilization trying to get back on its feet.
The Good :
- The 3D engine, the scenery.
- The Role-playing aspect (similar to Oblivion) it could have been better.
- The semi turn based attack system : You can engage an enemy in real time and fight it off like other "shooters" or you can stop the action and use a turn based system where you can have more precise control on your attacks (you can directly target body parts and the weapon of the enemy). When in
this more, you have better chance for critical hits. Another good aspect of it is that you see your
attack in "slow-mo" from different angles and when you really hit something, you see the "gore" in its full glory.
The Bad :
- Way too short : for a casual player, it should at least last 4 weeks of regular play(1, 2 hours per day) to complete ONLY the main quest. The number of quests seems small.
- Level cap at 20 : after getting there, there is no point in continuing because you cannot level up
and try new "perks" (stuff you get when leveling up. for example,the first time you play, you put points in guns and stuff like that, but if you want to try some other "build" you need to start from scratch and rebuild your character.
- You die when you complete the main quest : If you want to continue playing, you will need to load an earlier game and not do the main quest and continue playing, and there is no "hype" when doing the main quest, you do something and the you just die.
- too easy (IMO).
- Monsters : there are about 10 different monsters (with different levels) in the game (ants, scorpions, scavangers, soldiers, mutant, robots, ...)
so in short : 6/10 (will see if I can replay without getting bored)
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So, if you try to pass CancelEventArgs.Empty, you'll get an error that it can't be converted from EventArgs to CancelEventArgs. Someone will tell me that you can't vary a method or property by return type, and probably point out a templated method I could use, ( please do, I can't find it ), but it still sucks to the point of worthlessness.
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You did not create the CancelEventArgs class so what really are you expecting?
Of course, if you doing it yourself, you could have provided
public class CancelEventArgs : EventArgs
{
new public static CancelEventArgs Empty = new CancelEventArgs();
public CancelEventArgs()
{
}
}
Christian Graus wrote: but it still sucks to the point of worthlessness.
Unless things are exactly just how you want it? It seems you are growing old. 
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I'm porting my development to a virtual machine, have a nice big 4gb 7zip archive of it that will just fit on a dvd so I go to burn it and basically my day comes to a complete halt.
Some beard with an ignorant buffoon hanging off it at Microsoft thought it would be a good idea to make 2 copies of the file you're about to burn before you even get the option to burn.
It spent 2 minutes copying it to some mysterious location in the bowels of the local app data folder, as it's copying it starts popping up this bubble telling me I have files ready to burn, I don't dare click on burn because it's still copying something. When it's finally done I select burn and it then proceeds to recopy the frigging files somewhere else to build an image.
Found this ImgBurn program that seems to do the job and it sanely just copies the file to the dvd in one go.
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And another thing that irritates me is why the hell they insist on UDF? Why can't we just burn old-fashioned ISO CDs/DVDs? 
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OMG U R Such a Noob. 
You use windows firewall, don't you? And Windows Explorer to zip files? Do you use the built in tool to defrag you drive as well? Do you convert all your mp3s to wma and use windows media player to mange you music?
I know the built in tool is A.I.D.S., but what did you expect? If the OS did everything in a smart, efficient and user friendly manner then we'd have no 3rd party software.
Just kidding, they're are quite a few features in Vista that were obviously afterthoughts.
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Sounds like you were using the 'Mastered' format. The 'Live File System' format copies the files to disc right away whereas Mastered puts them in a 'staging' area. ISO is the way to go but you can't do that with Windows, it's not just a Vista thing.
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Anyone tried/using it? My WMP just stopped working for no reason, so I grabbed SongBird. Looks promising.
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I'm quite happy with WinAmp, so haven't bothered looking at anything else.
On a lark, I tried it. It sucked. It is so focused on MP3 tags, it ignores the directory structure. Worse, if there is no tag, it lists the song name in lower case. On top of that it looks like iTunes and I hate iTunes.
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Over the last two years or so (maybe three?) I've tried for a day or two, and then just dumped it. Wasn't really that impressed with it other than as a showcase for Mozilla tech.
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Fiddled with it for a day, then went back to  Winamp
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I could swear I saw some recommendations here in the Lounge but the name escapes me..
With the usual caveat, 'determined can bla bla', 'put it behind the service' etc:
Are there any decent products for licensing, protecting software, Internet activation, on-demand delivery/auto-updates etc that don't get broken by H20, OzOne and friends within few weeks?
MS has recently pulled out from its idea that didn't live longer than few months, Dotfuscator guys are still charging silly money and so on..
Both native and managed hints would be welcome, and ideally without a 4 digit price for proprietary 'invention' that will be busted sooner or later, or not work with reflection and who knows what else... Dongles, drivers, PKI-based, anything would be acceptable..
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That sounds extreme. If the copy-protection is that critical, never releasing it is the best way to make sure it will never be copied 
Depending on the software, the copy-protection may cost you more than it will make back. Especially since most people who aren't going to pay for it, aren't going to pay for it. If it's protected by extreme measures such as dongels "they" will just move on and get something else. And look where Spore's DRM got it..
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I found that never writing it in the first place is even more secure. 
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