This is why some people (not me though) think PC gaming is dead. Let's see some random PCs from Dell:
Dell Inspiron 530: Video Cards: Integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3100 (Can't run shit)
Dell XPS 210 (so-called "Performance PCs") Video Cards: Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 3000 (Yet again, horrible shitty integrated cards that CANT RUN SHIT)
Dell XPS 630 (finally!) Video Cards: nVidia GeForce 8800 GT 512MB (finally, something that can RUN GAMES!)
So 2/3 of the desktops Dell sells will NOT run any games, but the ones that cost over $1,100 dollars will? And you HAVE to buy that? Wow, I wouldn't be suprised if newegg saw profits rise over this!
So that's why PC gaming is "dying", most average PCs use those fucking cheap integrated "graphics" cards that can't run anything!
Wireless Internet on cell phones is completely useless right now. Sure, it would be a great convience to use the full Internet on your phone, but there is a huge problem here: phone companies are quick and eager to start these new services, but most customers are still on those dumb "1 cent per kb" deals! They are upgrading the technology, but not the business model.
If Verizon, or any cell phone company for that matter want to ever succeed in making these services popular, they have to change their lame fees. 1 cent per kilobyte, or fees like that, were good back in the days of GPRS when all you had was a text based Internet on phones, but this simply won't do now that you can easily transfer over a dollar in kilobytes in 1 website!
I don't even bother using the Internet or text messages on my older phone, waaaay to expensive!
So if these companies want to ever hope to attract consumers to use the Internet services that would come out of this, they have to change their lame business model, or they will lose money.
With m$ being sued for simply making products that infringe on patents filed just so Alcatel could sue, did Alcetel (and every other patent troll) just make a new enemy? A very powerful, trillion dollar enemy?
It seems that over the past 5 years, Microsoft has put $$$ over the quailty or productovity of their products. Just look at Vista. They divided it into 6 damn versions, all of which SUCK! If m$ ever wants to succeeded, they had better smarten up and make sure the quality of the OS is first!
Group policies lock EVERYTHING on our high school computers out, to the point where all the GPs themselves fuck everything up more than the users could ever do with admin access...
So simple things like adding a printer or using Task Manager require a call to the 2 IT people in the ENTIRE DISTRICT to help.
From Humorix's "2008: The Year in Preview" (http://humorix.org/articles/2008/01/preview/)
June 10 -- Word leaks that the major credit bureaus have teamed up with the Republican Party to tabulate a "Gullibilty Score" on every American citizen. The system assigns a score based on how easily each person can be swayed with propaganda and shiny things.
Using the system, the GOP compiles a list of the top 12 million most gullible voters and starts a saturation campaign to hit them with mailings, automated phone calls, and door-to-door visits. Explains a campaign worker, "We've been wasting our time trying to fool all of the people some of the time. Instead, we now have a list with some of the people that we can fool all of the time!"
The timing's a little off, but it seems to line up:)
He was yapping on and on about why we should switch to Comcast Digital Voice, and we can save over $100 if we bundle pack our services (we have Internet and cable from Comcast right now).
But my dad said we were thinking about canceling our Comcast cable and getting FiOS, then the Comcast guy, noticing our spiffy new HDTV, starting going on and on about how we would have like 50 new "HD" channels by the end of the year, all at MUCH better quality.
Yea right! What a LIE that Comcast guy was saying! I told him we will think about getting Comcast phone service when BitTorrent works on our Internet like:)
It always tells me "Express Install not supported by this version of the Flash Player..." But I have the latest version of Flash for Linux installed...
My high school, due to a "budget crisis", fired all the IT staff and hired 2 IT people for the entire school district a week before school started. Yes, you heard me right: these 2 people were responsible for maintaining not only the computers for a high school with 2,000 kids in it, but also the 16 other elementary, middle, and high schools in the district. Basically, the main domain for the district is in the high school, and all the other domain controllers in the other schools connect via VPN to the high school.
They were horribly over-worked, and often the students suffered. For instance, they recently installed a new server, which required them to take down the old server and copy all the files to it... during the school day because the district couldn't afford to pay them overtime. So for a week we had NO COMPUTERS because the server was being fixed. And, whenever an issue were to happen at another school, the IT people would have to run over there, leaving no one to fix the problem they were working on before.
So many of the things the school makes them do causes all the issues. Like the Group Policy settings that restrict EVERYTHING imaginable, from the File menu to the Task Manager. This causes major headaches because students and teachers have to call them down to fix something because the Group Policy blocks them from fixing it themselves, like switching printers and program shortcuts, taking more time away from them.
I think he listened to me about the Group Policy though, one day they were less restrictive (although they were still very annoying, you could at least use Task Manager to end processes, which is very important because programs crash on those computers every day).
But if I were an IT person like that 11 year old, things would be different. Linux would be used instead, no expensive office programs or tutoring software, just open-source stuff that does everything the current expensive programs do, and decent support.
Sometimes the over-workness shows. For instance, in my middle school, I noticed that there were no security permissions on everyone's files, so anyone who knew how to load the Finder on the Mac computers and navigate to the servers (like me) could get access to EVERYTHING on them. I told the IT person about the issue, she fixed it in a day. But God only knows how long those files were accessible...
With kids learning more about computers (I learned basic computer stuff when I was 6, older programming languages like QBasic and Visual Basic when I was 10, Linux when I was 12, and C++ right now), why not give the kids who can be trusted these responsibilities?
I switched from a shitty Intel integrated graphics card to a nVidia 8600GT a few months ago, no crashes yet! I'm running Windows Vista and Linux on this computer (Vista I only use for gaming), no game has ever crashed (except for one, but I overloaded it by accident), and no OS issue has ever happened caused by the graphics card in Windows or Linux.
However, you know how many times the drivers for the shitty Intel 845G integrated graphics card my computer came with caused the computer to crash? Too many to count! When I would try to perform simple and specific tasks (for instance, load a specific level or play on a specific online level in games), the program would crash, and it would spit back a c0000005 Access Violation error (this has NEVER happened since I got the nVidia card by the way), or a message that says "Graphics driver intel845g had to be restarted".
And then there was the time Vista completely fucked up because of the driver (One day, I could NOT get on Windows because of a c0000005 Access Violation which caused a BSoD). I had to REINSTALL VISTA!
The sad part: Almost ALL casual user PCs have Intel graphics cards in them! Most Dells, Gateways, and HP PCs in the $500-700 range have these cards that can't run any games! There's the real problem!
I recently bought a new computer for $499.99 (a Gateway GT5428, not the best computer in the world, but it works). It came with a shitty Intel integrated graphics card that couldn't run ANY game that uses DirectX 9+ without crashing!
That's the problem here, almost all home PCs are not even built for gaming! Integrated graphics suck for gaming, most can't even run simple games. But I checked online, and almost all namebrand computers in the $300-$800 range use these broken graphics "cards"! Wtf?
So then I bought a new PSU for $89.99 and a nVidia 8600GT graphics card (the 8800 was too much money unfortunately) for $149.99-$169.99. Now I can play games like Call of Duty 4 and Unreal Tournament on MAX settings, and everything runs smoothly:)
That's the ultimate goal of the REAL ID Act: To be able to monitor and track EVERY American. There was a film I saw recently that highlighted the significants of the REAL ID Act and how it's really being used: Zeitgeist: REAL ID/RFID conspiracy.
The government just want RFID chips being a necessary of life so they can shut your chip off if you don't trust everything the government says! And it's only a matter of time before we have implantable chips IN OUR HEADS!
That's why the United States is behind many other major industrialized countries in Internet speeds. Because companies in the United States care about the $$$, not about innovation or advancing technology.
I guess the ISPs decided trying to wiretap MANs would be too hard because they have no way of proving that a certain data packet came from a certain person, and because then everyone wouldn't have to pay outrageous ripoff prices for a watered down, censored Internet...
Because m$ has to be morons and try to sell their horrible Vista to gamers (btw I have had serious issues with Vista gaming, like for some reason older games don't run good with newer high end cards), holding the entire PC gaming market back because no one can make DX10 games because no one is running Vista!
The only ones that don't have to worry are game developers using the Unreal Engine for game development!
So the people that accidentally click on these ads (like the page moves down a little and they end up clicking on the pr0n ad) will get arrested to?
This is looking even worse than the RIAA's legal fiasco...
What's next, putting fake torrents of movies, TV shows, and music up on the Internet, and arresting anyone who downloads these torrents????
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... The government! Who wouldn't be paranoid of Big Brother?
I remember when people were trying to sue McDonald's because they said the restaurant made them fat... gotta love America!
This is why some people (not me though) think PC gaming is dead. Let's see some random PCs from Dell:
Dell Inspiron 530:
Video Cards:
Integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3100 (Can't run shit)
Dell XPS 210 (so-called "Performance PCs")
Video Cards:
Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 3000 (Yet again, horrible shitty integrated cards that CANT RUN SHIT)
Dell XPS 630 (finally!)
Video Cards:
nVidia GeForce 8800 GT 512MB (finally, something that can RUN GAMES!)
So 2/3 of the desktops Dell sells will NOT run any games, but the ones that cost over $1,100 dollars will? And you HAVE to buy that? Wow, I wouldn't be suprised if newegg saw profits rise over this!
So that's why PC gaming is "dying", most average PCs use those fucking cheap integrated "graphics" cards that can't run anything!
Wireless Internet on cell phones is completely useless right now. Sure, it would be a great convience to use the full Internet on your phone, but there is a huge problem here: phone companies are quick and eager to start these new services, but most customers are still on those dumb "1 cent per kb" deals! They are upgrading the technology, but not the business model.
If Verizon, or any cell phone company for that matter want to ever succeed in making these services popular, they have to change their lame fees. 1 cent per kilobyte, or fees like that, were good back in the days of GPRS when all you had was a text based Internet on phones, but this simply won't do now that you can easily transfer over a dollar in kilobytes in 1 website!
I don't even bother using the Internet or text messages on my older phone, waaaay to expensive!
So if these companies want to ever hope to attract consumers to use the Internet services that would come out of this, they have to change their lame business model, or they will lose money.
With m$ being sued for simply making products that infringe on patents filed just so Alcatel could sue, did Alcetel (and every other patent troll) just make a new enemy? A very powerful, trillion dollar enemy?
It seems that over the past 5 years, Microsoft has put $$$ over the quailty or productovity of their products. Just look at Vista. They divided it into 6 damn versions, all of which SUCK! If m$ ever wants to succeeded, they had better smarten up and make sure the quality of the OS is first!
And I won't be buying no damn Windows 7!
Group policies lock EVERYTHING on our high school computers out, to the point where all the GPs themselves fuck everything up more than the users could ever do with admin access...
So simple things like adding a printer or using Task Manager require a call to the 2 IT people in the ENTIRE DISTRICT to help.
From Humorix's "2008: The Year in Preview" (http://humorix.org/articles/2008/01/preview/)
:)
June 10 -- Word leaks that the major credit bureaus have teamed up with the Republican Party to tabulate a "Gullibilty Score" on every American citizen. The system assigns a score based on how easily each person can be swayed with propaganda and shiny things.
Using the system, the GOP compiles a list of the top 12 million most gullible voters and starts a saturation campaign to hit them with mailings, automated phone calls, and door-to-door visits. Explains a campaign worker, "We've been wasting our time trying to fool all of the people some of the time. Instead, we now have a list with some of the people that we can fool all of the time!"
The timing's a little off, but it seems to line up
He was yapping on and on about why we should switch to Comcast Digital Voice, and we can save over $100 if we bundle pack our services (we have Internet and cable from Comcast right now).
:)
:)
But my dad said we were thinking about canceling our Comcast cable and getting FiOS, then the Comcast guy, noticing our spiffy new HDTV, starting going on and on about how we would have like 50 new "HD" channels by the end of the year, all at MUCH better quality.
Yea right! What a LIE that Comcast guy was saying! I told him we will think about getting Comcast phone service when BitTorrent works on our Internet like
First post w00t
It always tells me "Express Install not supported by this version of the Flash Player..." But I have the latest version of Flash for Linux installed...
My high school, due to a "budget crisis", fired all the IT staff and hired 2 IT people for the entire school district a week before school started. Yes, you heard me right: these 2 people were responsible for maintaining not only the computers for a high school with 2,000 kids in it, but also the 16 other elementary, middle, and high schools in the district. Basically, the main domain for the district is in the high school, and all the other domain controllers in the other schools connect via VPN to the high school.
They were horribly over-worked, and often the students suffered. For instance, they recently installed a new server, which required them to take down the old server and copy all the files to it... during the school day because the district couldn't afford to pay them overtime. So for a week we had NO COMPUTERS because the server was being fixed. And, whenever an issue were to happen at another school, the IT people would have to run over there, leaving no one to fix the problem they were working on before.
So many of the things the school makes them do causes all the issues. Like the Group Policy settings that restrict EVERYTHING imaginable, from the File menu to the Task Manager. This causes major headaches because students and teachers have to call them down to fix something because the Group Policy blocks them from fixing it themselves, like switching printers and program shortcuts, taking more time away from them.
I think he listened to me about the Group Policy though, one day they were less restrictive (although they were still very annoying, you could at least use Task Manager to end processes, which is very important because programs crash on those computers every day).
But if I were an IT person like that 11 year old, things would be different. Linux would be used instead, no expensive office programs or tutoring software, just open-source stuff that does everything the current expensive programs do, and decent support.
Sometimes the over-workness shows. For instance, in my middle school, I noticed that there were no security permissions on everyone's files, so anyone who knew how to load the Finder on the Mac computers and navigate to the servers (like me) could get access to EVERYTHING on them. I told the IT person about the issue, she fixed it in a day. But God only knows how long those files were accessible...
With kids learning more about computers (I learned basic computer stuff when I was 6, older programming languages like QBasic and Visual Basic when I was 10, Linux when I was 12, and C++ right now), why not give the kids who can be trusted these responsibilities?
I switched from a shitty Intel integrated graphics card to a nVidia 8600GT a few months ago, no crashes yet! I'm running Windows Vista and Linux on this computer (Vista I only use for gaming), no game has ever crashed (except for one, but I overloaded it by accident), and no OS issue has ever happened caused by the graphics card in Windows or Linux. However, you know how many times the drivers for the shitty Intel 845G integrated graphics card my computer came with caused the computer to crash? Too many to count! When I would try to perform simple and specific tasks (for instance, load a specific level or play on a specific online level in games), the program would crash, and it would spit back a c0000005 Access Violation error (this has NEVER happened since I got the nVidia card by the way), or a message that says "Graphics driver intel845g had to be restarted". And then there was the time Vista completely fucked up because of the driver (One day, I could NOT get on Windows because of a c0000005 Access Violation which caused a BSoD). I had to REINSTALL VISTA! The sad part: Almost ALL casual user PCs have Intel graphics cards in them! Most Dells, Gateways, and HP PCs in the $500-700 range have these cards that can't run any games! There's the real problem!
I can't even open this damn "program". I get a message that says:
"Express install is not supported by this version of the Flash Player..."
Photoshop Express broken by yet another Adobe product...
I recently bought a new computer for $499.99 (a Gateway GT5428, not the best computer in the world, but it works). It came with a shitty Intel integrated graphics card that couldn't run ANY game that uses DirectX 9+ without crashing!
:)
That's the problem here, almost all home PCs are not even built for gaming! Integrated graphics suck for gaming, most can't even run simple games. But I checked online, and almost all namebrand computers in the $300-$800 range use these broken graphics "cards"! Wtf?
So then I bought a new PSU for $89.99 and a nVidia 8600GT graphics card (the 8800 was too much money unfortunately) for $149.99-$169.99. Now I can play games like Call of Duty 4 and Unreal Tournament on MAX settings, and everything runs smoothly
That's the ultimate goal of the REAL ID Act: To be able to monitor and track EVERY American. There was a film I saw recently that highlighted the significants of the REAL ID Act and how it's really being used: Zeitgeist: REAL ID/RFID conspiracy.
The government just want RFID chips being a necessary of life so they can shut your chip off if you don't trust everything the government says! And it's only a matter of time before we have implantable chips IN OUR HEADS!
Seriously, the Xbox 360 is such an over-capitalized ripoff. That's why I went with the PS3, and I'm glad i did :)
That's why the United States is behind many other major industrialized countries in Internet speeds. Because companies in the United States care about the $$$, not about innovation or advancing technology.
I guess the ISPs decided trying to wiretap MANs would be too hard because they have no way of proving that a certain data packet came from a certain person, and because then everyone wouldn't have to pay outrageous ripoff prices for a watered down, censored Internet...
What about the backup copies? They _have_ to have backup data somewhere. Let's just hope that whoever finds it is willing to leak them :)
What if the NSA's warrantless wiretapping program backfired and accedently wiretapped the White House? Then the NSA would have that data!
Because m$ has to be morons and try to sell their horrible Vista to gamers (btw I have had serious issues with Vista gaming, like for some reason older games don't run good with newer high end cards), holding the entire PC gaming market back because no one can make DX10 games because no one is running Vista!
The only ones that don't have to worry are game developers using the Unreal Engine for game development!
I started using Linux last year, and my favorite desktop enviroment has ALWAYS been GNOME. I tried KDE once, but I didn't like it one bit...
I got a new cable box a month ago (a HD box for my HDTV). After reading this, I made a note and stuck it on the front of the box :)
I can't wait until stupid Verizon is avaiable here, now I'm canceling my Comcast cable to. Way to go Comcast!
So the people that accidentally click on these ads (like the page moves down a little and they end up clicking on the pr0n ad) will get arrested to? This is looking even worse than the RIAA's legal fiasco... What's next, putting fake torrents of movies, TV shows, and music up on the Internet, and arresting anyone who downloads these torrents????
With all that RAM, projects like Folding@home, SETI@home, and all these distributed computing projects could have endless RAM.
:)
We could cure diseases by doing research on those systems!
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Look at the comment below this...
:)
Sorry, I was the First Poster
HA HA HA lol
This just goes to show you what happens when the money obsessed CEOs of corporations argue: The customers lose!
:)
First post btw