Get a toyota :)

I'm driving a 1992 hulux surf 2.4 turbo diesel (think they were called "tacomas" in the us) which has just clocked over 350,000 km and has had next to no work ever done on it.

I read somewhere the other day a response to just that suggestion - wish I could find the link for ya...

But basically they said with the density of people in cities, to give everyone gigabit connections over a wireless link you'd need a tower in *every* block.

Ouchies. Getting a vaccination from a needle 200 meters wide x 650 meters long doesn't sound "painless".

I read somewhere that the blowout preventer had been damaged, and wasn't functioning correctly. And the operators knew this. You'd think the required action here would be to stop work until the blowout preventer was fixed, but no, apparently they only had a few days of work to go so they continued and hoped for the best (possibly under pressure from BP)

I thought he said that to, but re-read it... he's talking about vista:

"Microsoft's most stunted OS since the much maligned Windows ME"

I'm sad to hear of your problems, but I doubt if your 64 bit OS is the problem. Yes bioware suck for not supporting your configuration, but unfortunately thats how things work. Most companies have muppets for support people, they aren't experts and they are just following a script for resolving a known set of problems.

Here at work all our servers are virtualized, except one... because its running an application written by a vendor that will not support running in a virtualized environment.
We're 100% sure virtulizing the server wouldn't cause any problems, but if we hit a problem and had to log a support call they wouldn't support us. Even though the problem was unrelated to the virtualized environment.

Back to your issue, An application or game CANNOT lock up the OS. Its not the game's fault, its something the game is doing that is triggering the bug elsewhere.

I'd suggest upgrading your GFX drivers, and checking you don't have an overheating problem (clean out heatsinks etc)

Windows x64 only runs an app as an x64 process if the app is compiled as a 64 bit app. If its a 32 bit app then it runs in a 32 bit process, and should (in theory) be 100% compatible.
The only problems I've ever heard of with games running on windows x64 have been caused by device drivers requred for DRM that are 32 bit only.

If windows locks it can only be one of 3 things
1) hardware problem
2) bug in a device driver
3) bug in the OS.

There are no exceptions to this. If an application locks up your pc then it is not at fault, it is doing something that is triggering one of the above problems.

Yeah they definitely are. Very reasonable prices and no DRM. He's a good author and well worth supporting. I've got nearly all of his ebooks.

Haha, all Peter Hamilton's books are awesome.
Each to their own, the commonwealth saga is my favourite series of books, evar. Night's dawn is right up there too.

Fallen dragon is pretty good too.

If you are into hard sci-fi, check out Michael McCollum's books. http://www.scifiaz.com/

"I have abandoned the quest for eternal youth and instead setttled for lifelong immaturity"

The best definition of porn I've heard is anything you lose interest in after you orgasm.

Jailbreak it. Seriously, just do it. Look up spirit, it will do a fully automated untethered jailbreak, meaning you *don't* have connect your phone to itunes while it boots for it to work. I've got an ipod touch 1g and I jailbroke it a while back for fun and I was amazed at how many of the things that bugged me about the whole itouch/iphone thing it removed. I installed backgrounder, kirikae and winterboard, and now I can customize the heck out of it, including enabling a background wallpaper on springboard. I can also easily enable any app to keep running in the background when I press home, and I hold home for a couple of seconds to bring up kirikae (task manager) to change to or shutdown a running app.

Actually, wasn't google's breach caused by a flash or acrobat vulnerability?

How about proper ACID compliance?
Not null constraints?

Of course, if you talk to MySQL users you soon realise most won't consider anything an "enterprisy feature" until it is supported by MySQL.

I nearly fell off my chair a while ago when I read the changelist for the last major MySQL release trumped the exciting new ability to do *online database backups*.

I mean, seriously? lets not kid ourselves, MySQL has its uses as a quick and dirty database, can be fast if you stay away from the slow bits (things like joining more than a couple of tables together, or concurrent updates) but its an enterprise database in the same way MS Access is.

I think the relevant US patent is this (5487069).

It appears to describe an special antenna setup as well as how to use the radio/antenna to get a data rate/ghz of bandwith ratio much better than previously practical.

So its not a math patent, or a pure software patent (although part of the implementation is software). It looks like something the patent system was designed to protect.

Wait, I thought the world's biggest cult was catholicism?

Anyway, as someone else once said:

"I don't get the point of religious conflict. Its just like two dudes fighting over who has the best imaginary friend"