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  1. Comp Wont Boot

    in Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista, and XP

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    So i was trying to update drivers for my computer, so I uninstalled them, used driver cleaner. All that good stuff like you are suppose to. Boot up to try and install the new drivers, Blue Screen! So windows stops, in every single mode, safe, normal, last good config. So i pop in the xp disk, try to get to the recovery section, as soon as its done doing its whole loading deal, BOOM, Blue screen.

    So now i have no idea how im suppose to fix this, cant boot from xp disk to reformat if i needed to, cant get into any mode of windows =/

    I have no idea what could be wrong, or how to fix it. You guys are my last hope.

  2. Programming Road

    in Programming

    Posted

    Since your young, im guessing you might still be in high school, if so, see what courses in programming in offer and start with what they have, and then join the class. I found its REALLY hard to start on your own because you lose motivation, or you try to do something too hard too fast and yu dont think you can do it. While in a classroom setting they give you small projects to get use to it.

    My school taugh Java, i learned it, and have gotten better than the teacher, in fact i havnt done anything in the class in almost a year. :)

    It's fun

    Just remember

    Motivation IS the hard part.

  3. Ms Delays Vista Release Again

    in On The Web

    Posted

    I was kind of rootin for it to come, so that I can finally upgrade my PC. Its getting about that time and now im stuck between a rock and a hard place. Stay with what I got, Upgrade a bit and end up wasitng all that money, or just painfully wait it out...

    Im opting for the painful wait, im sure i can do it, just not gonna be fun :P

  9. Learn C

    in Programming

    Posted

    I'm interested in learning C, does anyone know of some exceptional tutorials or recomend any compiliers or anything like that? Any helpful links would be greatly apreciated.

  13. Piracy Is Good!

    in On The Web

    Posted · Edited by fubz

    I'm not promoting piracy at all. But this article is very interesting.

    Piracy is good

    Sometimes the link doesn't want to work right.... so copy and paste!

    Galactic Civilzations 2 has no copy protection

    Wednesday March 08th 2006, 2:52 pm

    “We just got our report on the first week of sales of Galactic Civilizations II. Despite some availability problems, we’re told that we’re presently the best selling software title at Walmart. Let me be clear: Not just #1 PC game, but overall software.

    Best Buy, EB, and Gamestop have put in additional orders that actually exceed their initial sell-in orders (which you may recall were 3X what GalCiv I’s initial retail presence was).

    How is this possible? No one is ever going to accuse us of being a marketing juggernaut. It’s not like there was a 6 month build up of “hype†or whatever. Few reviews are up yet.

    It’s word of mouth. You guys. Individual people from around the world simply getting the game and telling their friends that they liked it.

    And here’s another thing to consider — Galactic Civilizations II has no copy protection whatsoever. Not even a CD check. Heck, you can install the game and toss out the CD and use the included serial # (which you don’t even have to use to install) to redownload the entire game from us even years in the future.

    So what about piracy? Remember? That’s the argument why games need all kinds of DRM and CD protection — piracy. Yet retail sales are very high. Very high despite the fact that any one of the 50,000+ people who have already purchased could zip up the CDs and put them on-line because there’s no copy protection.

    One might argue that not having copy protection decreases the piracy on the game because there’s no copy protection to crack and distribute. And perhpas some people who might have been on the fence decided to buy the game because they didn’t have to worry about losing their CD or worrying that some copy protection scheme was going to create headaches.

    It will be interesting to see what the overall monthly sales stats will be when they’re published next month (i.e. the ones publicly available).

    Thanks to the Internet and the ease of communication, it is looking very possible that the balance of power in PC entertainment software has shifted decidedly to the players and away from the traditional avenues.

    As soon as the generally available sales stats are out, we’ll link to them.†- Galciv2

    Whoops. Don’t let EA or Ubi Soft see! Piracy works? Works for who? The game! Noway! This is so… out there, someone’s head might explode!

    Don’t you love it when you’ve been saying something for years, but now finally the evidence is starting to back it up?

    “Today something unprecedented happened — for us anyway. Several retail chains re-ordered more units in a single go than their initial order. EB Canada, for instance re-ordered a very large number. Yay Canada!

    See, typically what happens at retail is that you get your initial “sell-inâ€. Re-orders are only designed to bring stocking levels back to that initial sell-in level. So over time, the game fades away. It’s very unusual for a game to actually increase its retail stocking after the release.

    So now we’re in unknown territory. We no longer have any idea how many units the game will sell. The first one sold roughly 75,000 units in North America and roughly that many overseas / electronic. We’ve shipped around 50,000 so far and we’re starting to run into a back order so availability is going to get tight in the coming days as we’re now rush manufacturing another batch to handle.

    This all happened before the reviews even started to come out. The reviews should certainly help. But it goes to show how powerful word of mouth is. And if there’s other small developers out there, bear in mind, Galactic Civilizations II had only a handful of full time developers and roughly that many artists on it. If you’re at home, open up one of your game manuals and look at the credits to see what’s the norm.

    You can be a small development house and still make a game people like. Word of mouth is absolutely crucial. I also am convinced that having the developers themselves interact in the forums directly is important as well. It lets us hear issues people run into. We’ve also learned a lot in the process. I also think that putting out timely regular updates is key as well. In fact, we’re planning to put up the final version of 1.0X tonight. Lots of new video options, AI tweaks, glitch fixes, that nasty hard drive formatting bug if you’re using an ATI or nVidia card (just kidding) should help spice things up.â€

  19. Dell Dj Hd

    in Electronics & Hardware

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    My friend is selling his Dell DJ, its around 2 years old, hes planning on selling it to me for fairly cheap, around $45 and a 6month warrenty b/c he says its had a rough time. Basicully over the last 2 years it has been dropped, frozen, and experienced extreme temps (sits in car a lot). He says sometimes the HD makes weird noises, and i was wondering if the HD is able to take the beating and last another year or two?