Now can someone sue the crap out of the companies that make FPS cheats? I consider them the same as an attack on a server, and the people that use them should be prosecuted as such. We spend alot of money hosting our servers, and theres always some douchebag with an aimbot or commander hack ruining it for everyone.
I think I'll keep my mouse thanks, however gratifying it might be to poke the other players in Crysis with my finger, I think after awhile I would get a callous.
My biggest concern would be that these wiretaps would be used to promote one parties agenda. We have already seen how the administration has been "cleaning house" by going after democratic judges and attorneys, I wouldn't put it past them to use this to go after people who's views don't jibe with theirs. They used the National Security letters a few thousand times against people with no terrorist ties, and are not exactly transparent in much that they do, nevermind that they are taking away the right of people to have their day in court over the warrantless wiretapping that has already gone on, and new allegations of corruption pop up regularly.
Why would anyone concerned about performance EVER install Vista to begin with? for directX games XP works MUCH faster, and has fewer issues... as far as I'm concerned Vista is just another layer of bloat.
From the look of the benckmarks, neither the SLI 9800's nor the new card tame crysis at all. You can't make a poorly coded game fluid with more power I guess.
First of all, there are a LOT of people with gaming computers... hundreds of them pass through our BF2 server everyday. Which leads me to that game, and the two before it, as well as CS Source (go take a look there are 5 thousand playing right now) and all the mods for these two games, Unreal tourney is not one of the good PC games... its always just been a quake clone for skill less kids to play. I think at this point I have 14 games I play online on this computer and there is no lack of players for any of them. Second, console controllers suck. They just plain don't work for FPS games and barely work for RTS games, aren't upgradable, and tend to die off quickly (especially 360) and the cost of them is MORE than a decent gaming rig, $700 for a console? $200 for a video card that makes most games playable if you not an idiot. There are those of us that spend THOUSANDS on our computer hardware every year, and this douche is bad mouthing his meal ticket? I won't buy another game on this engine or from this company again (none of them were any good anyway)
My 8800 Ultra still beats this thing hands down, and I could put another one in SLI for way less than buying one of these ATI cards... And for all those that say why do you need this? You don't NEED it any more than you need a 4X4 SUV when you only drive in the city... or $200 basketball sneakers to walk down the street. I buy it because I want it.
I purposely send email containing keywords the government looks for... now thinking about playing O.B.L. speaches on skype on loops..., if they want to spy, I want to make it as exspensive and annoying as possible for them to do so. Whether they do it legally or not they have proven to be untrustworthy (the government(s))
WOW alright, I had no idea that that many people were into this game... I mean its the same thing over and over and over an over... My kid wanted me to get it for him, but instead I bought him a DS and brain age... no way am I letting that game into my house, I hear that they allow openly gay people to play it online, and there are roving packs of lesbians.
Uh I'm not Native, and I'm not an immigrant. My family has been in this Country for almost 200 years. My house was built by my great grandfather 126 years ago. Also there were humans here when we arrived... they sold us most of their land for shiny beads, blankets and booze and we are so grateful we have given them their own private communities to live on, and give them money twice a month for booze.
Its damn hard to perfect code with all these polar bears trying to eat our igloos, and mashing the keyboards in mittens makes for some pretty long debugging sessions. Also someone spilled beer on the one copy of "html for dummies" the government makes us share. So soon as we come down from the marijuana and finish the cheetos we'll go over the code again. Has anyone seen my keyboard de-icer? (Hope you can read comments in Frenglish, it was written in Ottawa)
I worked for a number of years for Teletech, who provide technical support for Verizon internet services. Verizon's stance on customers calling in for technical support is this "Get them off the phone in less than 15 minutes" PERIOD. They do not want us to provide help if it takes longer than that, if a consumer calls too often they are labeled according to the frequency of their calls, and agents know upon receiving the call if the consumer is "trouble" (meaning they call to often) or not. The biggest solution to peoples connectivity issues is to tell them "You have a spyware issue you need to resolve" usually they don't, but your job is to basically search the users computer using gotoassist, and find a reason why we don't "support" their particular issue. If a level 2 agent has trouble getting someone off their phone there is an automatic elevation to "tier three" support, who are more skilled at getting customers to disconnect, and will usually submit a "support ticket" which in reality does nothing. The worst of the worst is the choice to use Verizon Yahoo one of the two available portals (the other is MSN premium) A support ticket to fix your Yahoo internet security (doesn't really work at all) or your Yahoo email, doesn't actually go anywhere helpful, in my two years in that particular department I saw very few actual resolutions to problem existing on the yahoo end of the connection, in fact I would sometimes tell people whom I felt sorry for that they have a much better chance of having working email if they go to the other portal (Verizon MSN ugh) or if they simply choose a free webmail account elsewhere. The point I'm making here is that choosing to use verizon internet services is generally not a great idea, as they really don't care whether you actually recieve service, and that they pay people to literally LIE to get you off of the support phone lines to save them some money, and if you cancel your service they really don't care at all as they already have enough new customers to take money from. I quit my position at Teletech the first opportunity I had. The moral there is horrible, no one like to go home at the end of the day feeling like they only screwed some people out of their money all day long. (except maybe Bank employees and government officials)
Not completely on topic, but I had to put in my two cent on this.
Not a very reliable way to judge SLI systems, since most of the Source games on steam don't need/allow SLI anyway, my last 4 rigs have had 2X Nvidia cards in them, and I have two running dual cards in this room now. Also MOST ppl don't send their info to Steam when they install, and its pretty much the CSS stress test that gives them their stats, and CSS is not what you would call a high end game. I keep seeing ppl trying to use Steams stats to show that SLI is a failure, when its not even an accurate sampling of gamers, just a small percentage of Counter Strike players. Most people don't choose to send their results to Steam after running the oh so obsolete CSS stress test, which is where these results come from. If no one is running SLI, how come the SLI bundled video cards are always sold out on Newegg and Tiger direct?
Using Steam for info on who is using SLI is not very accurate, Steam is for source game freaks, and alot of them play them because they DON'T have good systems... Counter Strike being the most popular. Source is not really very hard on the graphics card, but since they released COD 4 that is built with SLI in mind, Tiger direct keeps selling out of SLI bundles, and as for the 30% framerate increase, thats the LOW end, its actually 30% to 75% increases. I have a machine running two 7300GT cards on an AMD 3200+ that gets 80FPS in Battlefield 2, so its cheap AND fast, also have a Pentium D with two 8800's that will run Crysis at 50-60fps with the graphics cranked. The market for SLI is not just expensive Quad core high end cards, its another way to build fast cheap gaming systems by linking two older cards together as well. $400 Canadian will get you an SLI barebones that will run current game titles with ease. Also some of us just get excited about building these systems and seeing how far we can push them, I honestly have more fun putting machines together and running benchmarks than I do playing some of the games...
Theres this thing called "terms of service" that comes up when you install these games, and if people read it they would know about things like buying outside your geographical area... Either way Halflife is about the best single player game ever made IMHO and I will buy it and episode 3,4 and 5 if they continue to make em fun to play, and with Orange we get TF2 AND portal... I would pay the $55CAN just for portal alone... Steam itself is one of the best content delivery systems out there, and I have never had any problems with it, and I own most of the content that you can buy through it at this point. So READ YOUR TOS and ffs stop whining like women.
EA has been using this Ad system for awhile now in 2142... there are billboard ads for Intel mostly (not just the Intel sponsored map) but I have seen a couple of different ones pop up. I actually rarely notice them because I'm too busy playing, if they use ads to sponser new content, maps booster packs etc, I don't have a problem with it, but if they start just spamming ads ingame everywhere and ruin the abience, I'm sure there will be a way to get rid of them. All in all not really too surprised as EA IS the most evil game company on the planet.
I see alot of people pretty pissed off about the whole spying row, but how many of you have tossed your Iphones and cut ATT out of your households? Will you stand up and take away the money from these criminal companies? or just bitch endlessly on the internet? Personally I will not spend one cent on any of their products or services again, I switched ISP's the day I read about this bullshit and I will not use one of these companies ever again, even if I have to sacrifice some services to do so. I hope I'm not alone.
I only use the.doc format if I am sending out resume's, other than that odf is fine, in fact I feel a little guilty each time I save a.doc, like I'm being unfaithful to my pc or something:P
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Now can someone sue the crap out of the companies that make FPS cheats? I consider them the same as an attack on a server, and the people that use them should be prosecuted as such. We spend alot of money hosting our servers, and theres always some douchebag with an aimbot or commander hack ruining it for everyone.
I think I'll keep my mouse thanks, however gratifying it might be to poke the other players in Crysis with my finger, I think after awhile I would get a callous.
I'm shocked that anyone actually purchases XP for home use...
My biggest concern would be that these wiretaps would be used to promote one parties agenda. We have already seen how the administration has been "cleaning house" by going after democratic judges and attorneys, I wouldn't put it past them to use this to go after people who's views don't jibe with theirs. They used the National Security letters a few thousand times against people with no terrorist ties, and are not exactly transparent in much that they do, nevermind that they are taking away the right of people to have their day in court over the warrantless wiretapping that has already gone on, and new allegations of corruption pop up regularly.
You have only the rights they say you have. Period.
Why would anyone concerned about performance EVER install Vista to begin with? for directX games XP works MUCH faster, and has fewer issues... as far as I'm concerned Vista is just another layer of bloat.
From the look of the benckmarks, neither the SLI 9800's nor the new card tame crysis at all. You can't make a poorly coded game fluid with more power I guess.
In the time it would take to do the study, the women would change their minds 4 times making the results invalid...
and here I thought it was so you could act all smug towards non-linux users...
First of all, there are a LOT of people with gaming computers... hundreds of them pass through our BF2 server everyday. Which leads me to that game, and the two before it, as well as CS Source (go take a look there are 5 thousand playing right now) and all the mods for these two games, Unreal tourney is not one of the good PC games... its always just been a quake clone for skill less kids to play. I think at this point I have 14 games I play online on this computer and there is no lack of players for any of them. Second, console controllers suck. They just plain don't work for FPS games and barely work for RTS games, aren't upgradable, and tend to die off quickly (especially 360) and the cost of them is MORE than a decent gaming rig, $700 for a console? $200 for a video card that makes most games playable if you not an idiot. There are those of us that spend THOUSANDS on our computer hardware every year, and this douche is bad mouthing his meal ticket? I won't buy another game on this engine or from this company again (none of them were any good anyway)
Who says it wasn't just cut?
My 8800 Ultra still beats this thing hands down, and I could put another one in SLI for way less than buying one of these ATI cards... And for all those that say why do you need this? You don't NEED it any more than you need a 4X4 SUV when you only drive in the city... or $200 basketball sneakers to walk down the street. I buy it because I want it.
I purposely send email containing keywords the government looks for... now thinking about playing O.B.L. speaches on skype on loops..., if they want to spy, I want to make it as exspensive and annoying as possible for them to do so. Whether they do it legally or not they have proven to be untrustworthy (the government(s))
WOW alright, I had no idea that that many people were into this game... I mean its the same thing over and over and over an over... My kid wanted me to get it for him, but instead I bought him a DS and brain age... no way am I letting that game into my house, I hear that they allow openly gay people to play it online, and there are roving packs of lesbians.
Its just a survey and some software to install that monitors PC use, no freebies to be found...
Uh I'm not Native, and I'm not an immigrant. My family has been in this Country for almost 200 years. My house was built by my great grandfather 126 years ago. Also there were humans here when we arrived... they sold us most of their land for shiny beads, blankets and booze and we are so grateful we have given them their own private communities to live on, and give them money twice a month for booze.
Its damn hard to perfect code with all these polar bears trying to eat our igloos, and mashing the keyboards in mittens makes for some pretty long debugging sessions. Also someone spilled beer on the one copy of "html for dummies" the government makes us share. So soon as we come down from the marijuana and finish the cheetos we'll go over the code again. Has anyone seen my keyboard de-icer? (Hope you can read comments in Frenglish, it was written in Ottawa)
I worked for a number of years for Teletech, who provide technical support for Verizon internet services. Verizon's stance on customers calling in for technical support is this "Get them off the phone in less than 15 minutes" PERIOD. They do not want us to provide help if it takes longer than that, if a consumer calls too often they are labeled according to the frequency of their calls, and agents know upon receiving the call if the consumer is "trouble" (meaning they call to often) or not. The biggest solution to peoples connectivity issues is to tell them "You have a spyware issue you need to resolve" usually they don't, but your job is to basically search the users computer using gotoassist, and find a reason why we don't "support" their particular issue. If a level 2 agent has trouble getting someone off their phone there is an automatic elevation to "tier three" support, who are more skilled at getting customers to disconnect, and will usually submit a "support ticket" which in reality does nothing. The worst of the worst is the choice to use Verizon Yahoo one of the two available portals (the other is MSN premium) A support ticket to fix your Yahoo internet security (doesn't really work at all) or your Yahoo email, doesn't actually go anywhere helpful, in my two years in that particular department I saw very few actual resolutions to problem existing on the yahoo end of the connection, in fact I would sometimes tell people whom I felt sorry for that they have a much better chance of having working email if they go to the other portal (Verizon MSN ugh) or if they simply choose a free webmail account elsewhere. The point I'm making here is that choosing to use verizon internet services is generally not a great idea, as they really don't care whether you actually recieve service, and that they pay people to literally LIE to get you off of the support phone lines to save them some money, and if you cancel your service they really don't care at all as they already have enough new customers to take money from. I quit my position at Teletech the first opportunity I had. The moral there is horrible, no one like to go home at the end of the day feeling like they only screwed some people out of their money all day long. (except maybe Bank employees and government officials) Not completely on topic, but I had to put in my two cent on this.
Not a very reliable way to judge SLI systems, since most of the Source games on steam don't need/allow SLI anyway, my last 4 rigs have had 2X Nvidia cards in them, and I have two running dual cards in this room now. Also MOST ppl don't send their info to Steam when they install, and its pretty much the CSS stress test that gives them their stats, and CSS is not what you would call a high end game. I keep seeing ppl trying to use Steams stats to show that SLI is a failure, when its not even an accurate sampling of gamers, just a small percentage of Counter Strike players. Most people don't choose to send their results to Steam after running the oh so obsolete CSS stress test, which is where these results come from. If no one is running SLI, how come the SLI bundled video cards are always sold out on Newegg and Tiger direct?
Using Steam for info on who is using SLI is not very accurate, Steam is for source game freaks, and alot of them play them because they DON'T have good systems... Counter Strike being the most popular. Source is not really very hard on the graphics card, but since they released COD 4 that is built with SLI in mind, Tiger direct keeps selling out of SLI bundles, and as for the 30% framerate increase, thats the LOW end, its actually 30% to 75% increases. I have a machine running two 7300GT cards on an AMD 3200+ that gets 80FPS in Battlefield 2, so its cheap AND fast, also have a Pentium D with two 8800's that will run Crysis at 50-60fps with the graphics cranked. The market for SLI is not just expensive Quad core high end cards, its another way to build fast cheap gaming systems by linking two older cards together as well. $400 Canadian will get you an SLI barebones that will run current game titles with ease. Also some of us just get excited about building these systems and seeing how far we can push them, I honestly have more fun putting machines together and running benchmarks than I do playing some of the games...
Theres this thing called "terms of service" that comes up when you install these games, and if people read it they would know about things like buying outside your geographical area... Either way Halflife is about the best single player game ever made IMHO and I will buy it and episode 3,4 and 5 if they continue to make em fun to play, and with Orange we get TF2 AND portal... I would pay the $55CAN just for portal alone... Steam itself is one of the best content delivery systems out there, and I have never had any problems with it, and I own most of the content that you can buy through it at this point. So READ YOUR TOS and ffs stop whining like women.
EA has been using this Ad system for awhile now in 2142... there are billboard ads for Intel mostly (not just the Intel sponsored map) but I have seen a couple of different ones pop up. I actually rarely notice them because I'm too busy playing, if they use ads to sponser new content, maps booster packs etc, I don't have a problem with it, but if they start just spamming ads ingame everywhere and ruin the abience, I'm sure there will be a way to get rid of them. All in all not really too surprised as EA IS the most evil game company on the planet.
I see alot of people pretty pissed off about the whole spying row, but how many of you have tossed your Iphones and cut ATT out of your households? Will you stand up and take away the money from these criminal companies? or just bitch endlessly on the internet? Personally I will not spend one cent on any of their products or services again, I switched ISP's the day I read about this bullshit and I will not use one of these companies ever again, even if I have to sacrifice some services to do so. I hope I'm not alone.
I only use the .doc format if I am sending out resume's, other than that odf is fine, in fact I feel a little guilty each time I save a .doc, like I'm being unfaithful to my pc or something :P
Funny as hell to see the complaints about this, since generally linux fanboys are all about the "do it yourself" lol