I never take anything I read on/. seriously, especially when it comes to Microsoft or Sony. Things I have heard have come from "neutral" websites and/or friends who have personally toyed around with it
I'd say that the two minutes it takes to set a skill to train up while you go off to watch a movie
Beh, this was one of the major problems I had with Star Wars Galaxies...set up a macro to mine shit and just walk away...blech.
I don't like the idea of a game that I can play without actually being there to play it. I understand that with games that have that mechanism built-in, it's almost required in order to really get a good foothold on things...but still, I really don't like that. In my mind, it kinda defeats the purpose of playing a game.
I have been a long time Microsoft user (notice I didn't say supporter, simply user) I've given OSX and various flavours of Linux a shot, but for whatever reason I decide to stay with Windows every time...no particular reason, I just like the interface the best...maybe it's cause I was raised on it, I dunno. Been using windows regularly since Windows 3.1.
Now. That being said. Ever since I saw screens of "longhorn" and the list of proposed features, I was excited. I knew a lot of it wouldn't be in the retail release, but still...Microsoft had me more excited about an operating system than I had been since the first press releases of Windows 95. It wasn't just Aero (which frankly doesn't really sway me one way or the other), it was primarily the little tweaks and things that they were talking about. Vista looked like it was going to be mind blowing.
And then it was released. Every week, some new story surfaces about something not working right, or something being broken, or some kind of fucked compatability...as it stands, I don't think Vista will ever be on my computer. XP works fantastic for me (although I do have an Ubuntu box hooked up to my computer for movie and TV show playback), and Vista seems to case more problems than it solves.
Grats, MS. Unless you pull something out of your asses soon, you are going to lose more and more users such as myself. And we are important insofar as your desktop buisness goes, because we KNOW you are full of shit and we still don't care.
...A buddy of mine is of the "must have everything new right this second" school of thinking...he owns one of the hybrid players. His reasoning is that certain movies only come out on blu-ray, while certain movies only come out on HD-DVD...the amount of disposable income that he has is entirely disgusting (he is a contract lawyer, his wife is an MD) so the money really means nothing to him.
In watching movies both on blu-ray and on HD-DVD, the picture quality is more or less identical. Sure, there are some subtle things here and there that an audio/videophile magazine might be critical of, but to the "normal" person the difference wouldn't really be anything to write home about.
As it stands, the only reasons why I would see someone going with one option over another option is thus: which flavour has the movies that you want on it, and how much money you are willing to spend up front. The presentation of either format is practically the same, and the differences are tiny enough that it shouldn't really matter.
I will, however, say this: while it COULD be considered only a marginal increase over DVD quality, if you play a movie that is on DVD, then play it's HD counterpart, and then play the DVD again...that "marginal increase" becomes "a massive difference."
Yeah, but you also have to look at the demographic that WoW was/is trying to reach compared to who Eve is trying to reach. WoW was designed so that yes, you have to put in many MANY hours to get to the endgame, but you still feel like you accomplished SOMETHING even if you logged in for only an hour.
Eve, as amazing of a game as it is (and it really is an amazing game) requires at least a few hours per sitting to really feel worth it (similar to everquest) It's designed with a different type of gamer in mind (whereas WoW serves to try to suck in both gamers and non-gamers alike, hence it's "dumbed-down" gameplay)
I remember when that shit was going on in WoW...it was insane people were dropping like flies. Very much like the scene in 28 weeks later when everyone is locked in a room and they are slowly overtaken by infection.
You could literally stand on top of the bank in Org and watch the disease spread. It was actually a bit terrifying.
"God must be greater than the greatest of human weaknesses and, indeed, the greatest of human skill. God must even transcend our most remarkable-to emulate nature in its absolute splendor. How can any man or woman sin against such greatness of mind? How can one little carbon unit on Earth-in the backwaters of the Milky Way, the boondocks-betray God, ALMIGHTY? That is impossible. The height of arrogance is the height of control of those who create God in their own image." -Ramtha
And that, my dear chum, is exactly why I am an AMD fanatic:-) I think the cost savings on the CPU and motherboard (which, as you mentioned, can then be used on other parts of the system) outweigh the performance benefits of having an Intel CPU
I consider myself to be an AMD fanatic (haven't owned an intel-based system since my P166 with MMX) However, there is no way that you can deny both synthetic benchmarks and real-world gaming numbers: Intel's shit is vastly superior in performance.
I'm not saying their design is better or not better, I'm not saying they are doing things smarter or dumber, but the PERFORMANCE of their CPU's (at least in the desktop market...I don't really know anything about the server market) more or less decimates what AMD has to offer.
"You know, when I see those two twins on that Doublemint commercial? I'm almost embarrassed to say this but uh... I ain't thinkin' about gum..." -Bill Hicks
I love how you managed to drill windows in a topic that has NOTHING to do with it.
I personally have an XP box that has not been turned off in nearly 3 years and is quite virus and spyware free. It really isn't that much of a hassle to secure windows...A good software firewall setup, combined with not just browsing the 'net all willy nilly, is generally enough to keep a windows box very healthy.
I REALLY REALLY hate saying this because it's true (primarily due to what it means insofar as where we are as a "society"), but record companies wouldn't keep giving those multimillion dollar contracts if people weren't buying the music, however shitty it may be...
We all know the space fleet is beyond it's shelf life. So why hasn't it been scraped and reinvented with more pioneering technology?
Because every single solitary year, the budget for NASA is drastically reduced...it's at the point now where they are barely able to function.
Instead of investing in exploring the existance that surrounds us, we instead decide that our money is better spent destroying each other. To quote Bill Hicks:
"Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, NOT ONE, and united as one race we could explore inner and outer space in peace...for EVER."
"Your" means you have possession of something. "You're" is a contraction for "you are". Note the apostrophe, and notice how the addition of the apostrophe allows you to lose a letter (the "a"). That's how contractions work: you substitute the apostrophe for the missing letter(s) and combine the two words.
Notice how you put the period OUTSIDE of the parenthesis.
But it's actually an important thing to remember- contractions are easy and simple, and using them incorrectly makes you come across as an ignorant dumbfuck.
Being a grammar nazi when you yourself make such an elementary mistake makes you come accross as an ignorant dumbfuck.
::sigh:: once again, find somewhere in my post where I said he was wrong.
You won't, because he isn't. I own every console/handheld Sony has released, just like I own every Microsoft console (all two of them, lol) just like I own every Nintendo console/handheld (yes, even a virtual boy)
Once again, look at the way his post was worded, formatted, and constructed. You cannot sit there and tell me that was an everday joe-blow kind of post unless, once again, it was either A. a payed shill or B. a raving fanboy.
Just like no one talks lawyer-speak that you see on a contract in every day conversation, no one rails a product so entirely without acknowledging a single positive thing about it (once again) unless they are a shill or a fanboy.
In either case, It doesn't even matter. I never agreed nor disagreed with the guy (or gal, as it were) I simply commented on how every time someone on here speaks that way with that formatting about one company or another, it is ALWAYS posted by an AC. I think that's bullshit.
'Scuse me for wanting someone to have the balls to take credit for their "own" words.
What I would like to know is how is it that AMD got it's ass handed to itself so viciously by Intel with the Core 2, and yet STILL isn't even remotely close to having something that can compete?
AMD was "winning" for quite a long time...what happend that has made it impossible for them to come up with something even mildly exciting?
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I never take anything I read on /. seriously, especially when it comes to Microsoft or Sony. Things I have heard have come from "neutral" websites and/or friends who have personally toyed around with it
Beh, this was one of the major problems I had with Star Wars Galaxies...set up a macro to mine shit and just walk away...blech.
I don't like the idea of a game that I can play without actually being there to play it. I understand that with games that have that mechanism built-in, it's almost required in order to really get a good foothold on things...but still, I really don't like that. In my mind, it kinda defeats the purpose of playing a game.
...I'm getting overwhelming images of William S. Burroughs in my head...
I have been a long time Microsoft user (notice I didn't say supporter, simply user) I've given OSX and various flavours of Linux a shot, but for whatever reason I decide to stay with Windows every time...no particular reason, I just like the interface the best...maybe it's cause I was raised on it, I dunno. Been using windows regularly since Windows 3.1.
Now. That being said. Ever since I saw screens of "longhorn" and the list of proposed features, I was excited. I knew a lot of it wouldn't be in the retail release, but still...Microsoft had me more excited about an operating system than I had been since the first press releases of Windows 95. It wasn't just Aero (which frankly doesn't really sway me one way or the other), it was primarily the little tweaks and things that they were talking about. Vista looked like it was going to be mind blowing.
And then it was released. Every week, some new story surfaces about something not working right, or something being broken, or some kind of fucked compatability...as it stands, I don't think Vista will ever be on my computer. XP works fantastic for me (although I do have an Ubuntu box hooked up to my computer for movie and TV show playback), and Vista seems to case more problems than it solves.
Grats, MS. Unless you pull something out of your asses soon, you are going to lose more and more users such as myself. And we are important insofar as your desktop buisness goes, because we KNOW you are full of shit and we still don't care.
We are starting to care, though.
...A buddy of mine is of the "must have everything new right this second" school of thinking...he owns one of the hybrid players. His reasoning is that certain movies only come out on blu-ray, while certain movies only come out on HD-DVD...the amount of disposable income that he has is entirely disgusting (he is a contract lawyer, his wife is an MD) so the money really means nothing to him.
In watching movies both on blu-ray and on HD-DVD, the picture quality is more or less identical. Sure, there are some subtle things here and there that an audio/videophile magazine might be critical of, but to the "normal" person the difference wouldn't really be anything to write home about.
As it stands, the only reasons why I would see someone going with one option over another option is thus: which flavour has the movies that you want on it, and how much money you are willing to spend up front. The presentation of either format is practically the same, and the differences are tiny enough that it shouldn't really matter.
I will, however, say this: while it COULD be considered only a marginal increase over DVD quality, if you play a movie that is on DVD, then play it's HD counterpart, and then play the DVD again...that "marginal increase" becomes "a massive difference."
Yeah, but you also have to look at the demographic that WoW was/is trying to reach compared to who Eve is trying to reach. WoW was designed so that yes, you have to put in many MANY hours to get to the endgame, but you still feel like you accomplished SOMETHING even if you logged in for only an hour.
Eve, as amazing of a game as it is (and it really is an amazing game) requires at least a few hours per sitting to really feel worth it (similar to everquest) It's designed with a different type of gamer in mind (whereas WoW serves to try to suck in both gamers and non-gamers alike, hence it's "dumbed-down" gameplay)
I remember when that shit was going on in WoW...it was insane people were dropping like flies. Very much like the scene in 28 weeks later when everyone is locked in a room and they are slowly overtaken by infection.
You could literally stand on top of the bank in Org and watch the disease spread. It was actually a bit terrifying.
"God must be greater than the greatest of human weaknesses and, indeed, the greatest of human skill. God must even transcend our most remarkable-to emulate nature in its absolute splendor. How can any man or woman sin against such greatness of mind? How can one little carbon unit on Earth-in the backwaters of the Milky Way, the boondocks-betray God, ALMIGHTY? That is impossible. The height of arrogance is the height of control of those who create God in their own image." -Ramtha
And that, my dear chum, is exactly why I am an AMD fanatic:-) I think the cost savings on the CPU and motherboard (which, as you mentioned, can then be used on other parts of the system) outweigh the performance benefits of having an Intel CPU
In the eternal words of Dani Filth (well...I don't know if he coined the phrase but it's on a Cradle of Filth shirt...) "Dead girls don't say no"
I consider myself to be an AMD fanatic (haven't owned an intel-based system since my P166 with MMX) However, there is no way that you can deny both synthetic benchmarks and real-world gaming numbers: Intel's shit is vastly superior in performance.
I'm not saying their design is better or not better, I'm not saying they are doing things smarter or dumber, but the PERFORMANCE of their CPU's (at least in the desktop market...I don't really know anything about the server market) more or less decimates what AMD has to offer.
"You know, when I see those two twins on that Doublemint commercial? I'm almost embarrassed to say this but uh... I ain't thinkin' about gum..." -Bill Hicks
I love how you managed to drill windows in a topic that has NOTHING to do with it.
I personally have an XP box that has not been turned off in nearly 3 years and is quite virus and spyware free. It really isn't that much of a hassle to secure windows...A good software firewall setup, combined with not just browsing the 'net all willy nilly, is generally enough to keep a windows box very healthy.
I REALLY REALLY hate saying this because it's true (primarily due to what it means insofar as where we are as a "society"), but record companies wouldn't keep giving those multimillion dollar contracts if people weren't buying the music, however shitty it may be...
Nope. Just a bored cubicle dweller 8D
We all know the space fleet is beyond it's shelf life. So why hasn't it been scraped and reinvented with more pioneering technology?
Because every single solitary year, the budget for NASA is drastically reduced...it's at the point now where they are barely able to function.
Instead of investing in exploring the existance that surrounds us, we instead decide that our money is better spent destroying each other. To quote Bill Hicks:
"Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, NOT ONE, and united as one race we could explore inner and outer space in peace...for EVER."
And apparently, I'm an ignorant dumbfuck because the entire sentence wasn't inside a parenthesis. /slaps self /backs away
Look at my sig. What do you think?
::sigh:: once again, find somewhere in my post where I said he was wrong.
You won't, because he isn't. I own every console/handheld Sony has released, just like I own every Microsoft console (all two of them, lol) just like I own every Nintendo console/handheld (yes, even a virtual boy)
Once again, look at the way his post was worded, formatted, and constructed. You cannot sit there and tell me that was an everday joe-blow kind of post unless, once again, it was either A. a payed shill or B. a raving fanboy.
Just like no one talks lawyer-speak that you see on a contract in every day conversation, no one rails a product so entirely without acknowledging a single positive thing about it (once again) unless they are a shill or a fanboy.
In either case, It doesn't even matter. I never agreed nor disagreed with the guy (or gal, as it were) I simply commented on how every time someone on here speaks that way with that formatting about one company or another, it is ALWAYS posted by an AC. I think that's bullshit.
'Scuse me for wanting someone to have the balls to take credit for their "own" words.
Brewskie...Ruskie...I see what you did there.
...of you know what.
Hint: it's awefully frosty
What I would like to know is how is it that AMD got it's ass handed to itself so viciously by Intel with the Core 2, and yet STILL isn't even remotely close to having something that can compete?
AMD was "winning" for quite a long time...what happend that has made it impossible for them to come up with something even mildly exciting?