@RoderigoApplesauce: Look, io9, evolution isn't a ladder that you just climb up and down on. It's a series of tubes! And those tubes can get clogged.
Why just the other day I got an evolution from my staff that took 500,000 years to get to me.
@jmb8504: GENESIS?!?!? Genesis allowed is not. Is episode forbidden!
Just when I thought your writing couldn't get any worse, you go and ...
COMPLETELY REDEEM YOURSELF!
@jupiterthunder: wait, why would you give cosmetics to a bisexual MAN?
Seriously? Not funny at all.
Protip: if it's featured on funny or die, it sucks.
@MoroseQQ: oops. my response to this got orphaned. it is the comment directly below this one.
@interficio: interesting. I still can't find any information regarding the "Err" keyword, either for nVidia or Westinghouse. This tells me this is a very rare or special set of conditions you're up against.
I'm continuing to look. In the mean time, you might see if there are updated nVidia drivers for your system. If you have access to a friend's external monitor, you might plug your system in there and see if the problem reproduces. That will tell us if the problem originates from your Dell or from your Westinghouse monitor.
This article just makes me sad with it's excessive level of fail. Annalee's sense of sexuality and romance is a serious turn off.
Also, there was no naked wedding in Star Trek. Shut up.
@MISS MERCY STREET: NO MORE RETRACTING HANGARS!!!
@y0urm0msname: yeah, yeah, yeah, I played Tank Wars and Scorched Earth. They were great. But you know what both were lacking? Gorillas with bananas. You can't beat that, man. You just can't.
@par20pinspot: Mutant FutureCats™
@Phoshi: don't count nuclear power out so fast. In fact, our current use of uranium is highly inefficient. We posses the technology to recycle and use our uranium 7x over. However, Jimmy Carter implemented policy in the 70's that prevents us from even attempting to recycle/regenerate uranium. What a dick!
eta: on t-mobile, send your text message to "500" and include the recipient's e-mail address in the beginning of the message.
@fredygamer: for phone messaging, the two standards are SMS and MMS.
MMS supports multimedia and was intended to have e-mail destinations, which is why many phones allows you to natively enter an e-mail address when sending a picture message.
SMS, by contrast, is the original standard for just text and isn't natively built to send to e-mail addresses. Each carrier has built their own series of hacks to pipe SMS messages to an e-mail destination. Your phone may or may not support one of those hacks.
For example, if someone sends an e-mail to your "yourtelephonenumber@yourcarrier.com" you might receive it on your phone as a message from "501". When you reply to "501" your message gets piped back to the sender's e-mail address.
In another example, some carriers have a hack that lets you send SMS to an e-mail address if you address the SMS to a special number "like 701" and put the recipient's e-mail address at the beginning of the message. The special code tells your carrier's SMS system to handle the message in a special way.
See your carrier's website help for details on whether any of these hacks are officially supported.
@jgbuffs: the nVidia control panel should have options for this specific issue.
in the nVidia Control Panel, open "Video and Television Settings" and select "Modify Full Screen Video Options"
I don't have access to an nVidia chip at the moment, so I cannot verify that this solution will work for you.
@se7a7n7: Yes, they are trying to lose people. People like you.
@jabrieske: the quick & easy answer is to use VLC. It includes built-in DVD playing capabilities without needing 3rd party drivers or apps.
The popular codec megapacks (like K-Lite) usually include Media Player Classic, which is a retooled version of the old Windows Media Player 6.4. It also has DVD playing power built-in, but it is not as friendly to use as VLC.
@DavinClytias: Vista comes with .Net 3.0 integrated, which is why you don't see it in add/remove programs.
It's interesting that .Net 3.5 had trouble installing but now says it is installed. Keep in mind that after .Net 3.5 installs on Vista, it can spend up to an hour precompiling its binaries, which will eat your CPU and HD alive. If .Net can't complete its precompiling, then other apps that rely on .Net will fail to operate and return any number of strange error messages.
I think you should roll back all of your recent work: uninstall Paint.net and VWD Express, then uninstall .Net 3.5. Restart, then install .Net 3.5 and monitor its activity closely. Don't reboot until your computer is truly idle. Then, install the rest of your apps.
If you run into any errors, see if you can capture the specific error messages/numbers and report them here.
@Michelle Gauvreau: first, verify that you are a victim of throttling. Use [www.measurementlab.net] to run a battery of tests on your connection.
Next, verify that your modem isn't just a piece of junk. Perhaps it's easiest to simply call your broadband provider and ask if they have a newer model modem you could upgrade to.
Protip: after all of this, make sure you use an up-to-date torrent client like uTorrent with the encryption features turned on to avoid any new tricks your broadband provider may employ to foil your attempts at copyright rebellion.
@ericesque: you must own an iPhone and sleep with one of the admins.
Ironically, I'm still waiting for Jason to call "the next day."
On my iPhone.
I feel so alone.
