dclarkg

RicOlie_2 said:

Yeah, I still need to figure out how to get my sound to work on Windows 10, and there are other little annoyances.

 Yeah, high end graphic cards are having issues too because of the drivers. Windows 10 sucks right now but I'm sure that in a couple of months it will run rock solid. I'm on 8.1 right now and no complains at all.

If anyone has a reservation for a free upgrade don't rush to upgrade now since the free offer is for a full year since launching day. Also is better to do a clean system install than a upgrade, major OS upgrades in windows environment take a toll on performance at some point. I'm sure that MS soon will release some fresh windows 10 ISOs to do clean installs which is always recommendable.

doubleofive said:

Apple's Boot Camp now has Windows 10 drivers. Unfortunately my new MacBook Pro is too new to let me install 7 via Boot Camp so I can upgrade it to 10. :-/

 Install Win 8.1 and then upgrade. But I strongly recommend you waiting a few months before trying windows 10 since is still very buggy.

The only thing I want is that the movie itself doesn't suck. Color horrors and stuff like that can be fixed by somebody in the community and I'm certain someone will.

If the movie is really good  I don't mind seeing it in a pink-magenta palette, if the movie end up sucking PT-style then we have a real problem.

Lets hope that TFA turns out a good movie so it can set a starting point for all this SW-Disney stand alone films, I expect some consistency across the board  at the very least.

+1 on the best wishes poita!

Possessed said:

I can't get anything google related to load properly on any of the computers connected to my network, and even on my PS3.  I recently switched routers and network names, but anything else besides google is working fine, better than before in fact.  But youtube won't play the videos, gmail gets stuck on the loading screen (Sometimes if I refresh it like... 15 times it will eventually load), google search will come up with an error and not load at all, and I'm sure the others aren't working as well.  It's only google sites that are doing this, everything else is working fine.

 Configure your network settings to use the IP addresses 8.8.8.8 and/or 8.8.4.4 as your DNS servers and try again, those are google public DNS servers so it may solve the issue.

Allow me a minute to try this out,

English is not my native tongue and I may fail

but let me preach you about the GOUT

so you guys know when Lucas lost the trail

------------------------o------------------------

A long time ago

in a galaxy far, far away

a young man became a pro

on the ways to stray

------------------------o------------------------

He wandered on THX

which sounded complex,

America became a graffiti

about when things were meaty

------------------------o------------------------

Then he made the wars dash

with a star that worlds could smash

and lightsabers that clash

but don't forget it all started with Flash

------------------------o------------------------

He returned on track

like a producer on the sky

with the the Empire strikes back

and the Return of the Jedi

------------------------o------------------------

And the time went by

and the cash rolled with flow

and he became obsessed with dough

and he wanted all the pie

------------------------o------------------------

Then a mess of effects

VHS, BETA and LDs won respects

but give me Solo without the neck reflex

'cause the DVDs and BDs were wrecks

------------------------o------------------------

A disturbance in the force we sense

so we begged for a escape route

but since Lucas got already all the cents

he gave us the infamous GOUT

------------------------o------------------------

But please my friend don't fall in despair

because at the end of the tunnel there is a glow

and despite it comes slow

the real deal our forum will share.

RicOlie_2 said:

I did something else (can't remember exactly what) and my computer hasn't crashed in a couple days. If it crashes again, I'll try what you suggest, but hopefully I won't have to....

 Great! At least now you have an option if it happens again, let's hope you don't need to try it out

Leonardo said:

I always regret never finishing it.

 I know how you feel, never knew what to do with the poop balls in the disco :(

Molly said:

You can never have too much material. Ever.

 Amen

-Remove any AMD/Catalyst driver installed in your machine and reboot.
-Download this file*, install it and reboot.
-Profit

* www2.ati.com/drivers/amd-catalyst-omega-14.12-with-dotnet45-win7-64bit.exe

I'm assuming you have a 64 bit edition of Windows.

Which graphic card do you have?

RicOlie_2 said:

Does anyone know what sort of error would cause my computer screen to look like this?:

I'm on Windows 7; only Sleipnir 4 and Media Monkey were open (both times it happened, anyway). The computer didn't shut down afterwards, but was completely unresponsive, so I had to use the power button. This is the first and second time it's happened.

Most likely is the driver you installed (almost sure actually), I suggest doing a system restore and there shroud be one created just before the driver installation. Is not the screen but it could be the GPU bot for what you described it sounds like a driver issue.

I stumble upon a absurd/fun anime called Samurai Flamenco, is not my type of anime but it's very different of what I've seen. Is on Netflix in case anyone wants to check it out.

A dream come true! :')

Neglify said:

In Soviet Russa, THREAD CLOSES YOU.

 No if you support the Soviet Union and the Supreme Soviet ;)

Trident said:

Well that's kind of scary. Why would you want the USSR back? I think if the countries that left it wanted to be back in it they would have signed up by now right? So why would you use your one magic wish to make all those people get joined back into that place?

Now are you thinking of doing all that just to close this thread? That's a lot of work really. Maybe you should just wish this thread away.

The countries left Russia, not the Soviet Union. The only country that left the Communist party was Yugoslavia but it remained communist so If I bring back the USSR it will include all the original states.

I can leave the thread open, no worries.

Warbler said:

He didn't mention me.  : (

Trident said:

Thanks again for being such good pals Leonardo, Frink, danfun, and Duracell. And thanks for contributing to my threads Ryan McAvoy, neglify, dclarkg, and imperialscum (and Ric I hope you understood my PM).

 You are not a good pal nor contributed to his/her posts.

TV's Frink said:

We watched The Phantom Olie. A++++

Team Olie

 Just four pluses? What a crap.

Trident said:

Yes, I could only imagine the resistance to the idea, but I like exploring it to see what might have happened. 

I wonder if there is truly a perfect mass transit system?

 Maybe there is, but in a bigger picture the cars seem a natural first step in achieving perfect-clean-safe-cheap-universal long distance traveling. Cars a perfect blueprint for future technology and other than environmental benefits removing the cars would have negative effects like, I don't know, not being able to sustain the entire society as we know it, perhaps? :P

Trident said:

I guess that's true, but it just seems like such a harsh picture: kill yourself because you don't think you can change and can't stand making everyone else suffer or else make everyone suffer, but then know that it will just make them hate you later.

Maybe I'm just naive, but it seems like if I was a compulsive gambler I would just talk to my family about it--but maybe that's because I think of my own addictions as so much worse that gambling seems easier to talk about. Or maybe I just don't understand the thought process. But I mean if you've reached the point where you know what's going on and what's going to happen haven't you gotten to a place where you might be able to change?

Then again I don't think I can change and I've reached that same point so maybe you're right.

I understand your point but since you don't have the addiction you are boarding the subject with a non-addict mind, the underlying problems of the addictions is what make people with better and safer options to solve an issue to sometimes just waste their entire life on the addiction or in worst case scenarios, off themselves.

A better picture of this is the hoarding cases, people without hoarding issues will never let their house to become a junkyard because it's very easy for them to decide that if they have enough stuff to interfere with their everyday life they will just get rid of it, specially if it is trash. Hoarders can't literally see the difference between garbage and useless stuff and things they really need because the psychological attachment, not been able to differentiate between trash and not trash must be something rough.  

The addictions are a copping method for the underlying psychological issues, a symptom rather than the disease and that is what make addictions so hard to fight.

DrCrowTStarwars said:

Wow, that's great!

Thanks.

Hugely helpful.

I love audible because for what I used to pay for Netflix I can get anything from a Great Courses lecture series, to one of the Hornblower books each month.  it is a great value I just hate being tied to my computer to use it.

Thanks a bunch.

 Yes it has the biggest audio library collection I've ever seen, enjoy :)

Oh this will be a masterpiece! Respect maestro

I would use the power to restore the Soviet Union and then close this thread.

We should find better ways of improving public and private transport, better technology, better roads, etc. Banning one of the most indispensable items of society of the last 100 years doesn't sound a good idea and no corporation will even consider this.

Trident said:

I think we keep making the mistake of seeing history through our 'enlightened' eyes and not the eyes of the past.

Take slavery, for instance. Slavery was around for thousands of years and actually made a lot of sense for those times because it was actually thought of as merciful compared to the alternative for nations that were not developed enough to stand against more powerful ones. I mean anyone who was not enslaved after their land was taken over would otherwise be killed right? So while we might wag our heads at the idea, it was an improvement over the previous killing solution.

Now the treatment of Native Americans is a bit of a sad story too, but if we look at it in context with what was happening it was really the first time one group of people from a completely different continent had ever come into a different land and even tried to accomodate one another. I mean think about it, when in history did a bunch of Romans, Greeks, or Mongolians ever come over in a big group to another land and say, "Hey guys would it be cool if we lived here?"

I mean especially with having really superior technology and such. Up to that point it was one empire against another in a big game of risk to see who would out-compete the other empire so the very idea that they even tried to come in peace and hang together and smoke the odd peace pipe was actually a lot of progress.

And because it was a new scene it was like anything else people have ever tried: prone to screw-ups. I mean think about how little misunderstanding it took to provoke a war. I read once about a tribe near the New England states that made friends with the local commander of the guerrison, but then he got sick and was replaced by a new guy from England. They had no Web back then so he had no idea who these guys were who were camped outside his fort. So when a different tribe from a bit up the river came by and stole some of the horses belonging to the army he naturally got confused about who did it and retaliated against the wrong tribe.

Stuff like that caused by completely different languages and customs led to a lot of stories of atrocities on both sides that were probably exaggerated. So nobody could really say one side was perfect and the other scum because everyone was after different things. Some would try their best for months only to have a misunderstanding undo it all in a minute.

But still it was progress and the fact that we feel bad about it is a sign that we've learned from our past. That's never a bad thing as long as we know when to stop taking the blame.

 It's amazing how wishful thinking and scientific/cultural ignorance harmed our race (and still does) but at least we have made some progress.