A book would be impossible to sell without some sort of protection. could you imagine if the #1 best selling book of all time had no sort of copy protection? umm...the #1 best selling book of all time is the Bible...and that sells pretty good I hear. *shrug*
the budget for NASA in 2003 was $1.5 Billion (ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/budget/2003/budget_summary.pdf) and the best we can do is a 400MB hard drive?
Hey Shana Dale, tell you what. You gimme one of them fancy commemorative medallions for the remaining space shuttle missions and I will spiff you a 250GB HDD I bought last week for $60 mmkay?
what does a bum fan have to do with the chipset? the most popular socket 939 series boards (the A8N series from Asus of which I have 3) were notorious for bad fans...but it was a nforce 4 board so is it the chipset's fault? crack open that wallet, drop a sawbuck and buy a new fan. I promise, it won't hurt.
I can understand what your frustration is and you are correct in assuming that the latest and greatest is not for you...its not for 99% of the people out there but that's what gets put into the mainstream for the rest of us is last years bleeding edge.
You don't need 1000$ for a low-end pci-e system. Provided you still have the peripherals, the HDD and the optical drive then you can replace it with a nearly top of the line system for 700$ clean from the egg:
E6850 Proc - 270
8800gt 512Mb - 229
2GB DDR2 800 - 44
550W PSU - 56
P35 Motherboard - 90
and that can always be trimmed more but you will need variations of all of these new components listed, including the power supply...never underestimate how much power you need and how much you will wish you had a decent one when the budget one you bought fries your system.
good luck
Here I am paying them good money each month so that I can download all 7 seasons of ST:TNG and they have the audacity to restrict my bandwidth AND pack the room with their paid stooges? Where is the justice? What code of terrible ethics to they live by?!?! I want to be able to torrent my movies and tv shows in peace! Down with shady ethic filled people! BOO Bad Ethics!
The OP never said that there was no link! Re-read what they wrote, they simply said that it is against the law in UT, that less than 50% of the state is Mormon and that it is against the bylaws of the LDS Church. Where did they say there is no link to Utah and polygamy? And then you start spouting your rhetoric, claiming it fact, when you have a problem with what he said. Do you see the problem with your logic?
Oh, and the 50k 'Mormon' polygamists you claim that live in and around UT aren't Mormon. They can try to call themselves 'Fundamentalist Mormons' or whatever they want but they are not members of the LDS Church. So before you start accusing someone of not having their facts straight, stop reading from the liberalist media and do some research on your own...who knows, you might actually learn something and not look quite as foolish to those that do know a thing or to about the subject.
the individual licensing is a great idea, I know that with my current group of friends (50+) a dozen of us have purchased COD4 at various times over the past 2 months and a general license would have helped with adoption and made infinity ward and the rest a lot more money from our group for example. Maybe an online purchasing option is something they should develop for games, every business license that I use can be obtained that way.
As far as the frustration of having to put the physical media in the drive, there are fixed.exe's that you can obtain...the legalities of such if you own the game can be debated but it a process that I ascribe to as I have found that no manufacturer of games likes to replace disks that have become worn over time with constant placing in optical drive trays....and why would they? they just try to force you to buy a new copy of the game, gives them another $30-$50.
That would be 'most games don't work natively in linux' Bob.
But that also doesn't mean its a contradictory statement, I am very heavily into gaming and I am running Ubuntu on my home fileserver so I suppose it is possible:)
anything more powerful is at least $500? did you read the article or are you just trolling to apear 1337? have you done any shopping lately? My 8800gts 640MB brand-new when it came out a year ago was $400 and the card they referenced would make the 1950pro (an AGP card none-the-less) look like a commodore64...hell, it beats my 8800gts 640MB and it can be found for 250$
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No it's not, nostalgia was so much better back in the day...
hmm...you both raise good points and things i didnt think about...
i will still offer her my HDD for those medals however, i got one back in 6th grade and its one of the coolest things i own IMO.
the budget for NASA in 2003 was $1.5 Billion (ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/budget/2003/budget_summary.pdf) and the best we can do is a 400MB hard drive? Hey Shana Dale, tell you what. You gimme one of them fancy commemorative medallions for the remaining space shuttle missions and I will spiff you a 250GB HDD I bought last week for $60 mmkay?
what does a bum fan have to do with the chipset? the most popular socket 939 series boards (the A8N series from Asus of which I have 3) were notorious for bad fans...but it was a nforce 4 board so is it the chipset's fault? crack open that wallet, drop a sawbuck and buy a new fan. I promise, it won't hurt.
I can understand what your frustration is and you are correct in assuming that the latest and greatest is not for you...its not for 99% of the people out there but that's what gets put into the mainstream for the rest of us is last years bleeding edge. You don't need 1000$ for a low-end pci-e system. Provided you still have the peripherals, the HDD and the optical drive then you can replace it with a nearly top of the line system for 700$ clean from the egg: E6850 Proc - 270 8800gt 512Mb - 229 2GB DDR2 800 - 44 550W PSU - 56 P35 Motherboard - 90 and that can always be trimmed more but you will need variations of all of these new components listed, including the power supply...never underestimate how much power you need and how much you will wish you had a decent one when the budget one you bought fries your system. good luck
It depends on if they grip it by the husks or hold it under the dorsal feather I hear.
Here I am paying them good money each month so that I can download all 7 seasons of ST:TNG and they have the audacity to restrict my bandwidth AND pack the room with their paid stooges? Where is the justice? What code of terrible ethics to they live by?!?! I want to be able to torrent my movies and tv shows in peace! Down with shady ethic filled people! BOO Bad Ethics!
The OP never said that there was no link! Re-read what they wrote, they simply said that it is against the law in UT, that less than 50% of the state is Mormon and that it is against the bylaws of the LDS Church. Where did they say there is no link to Utah and polygamy? And then you start spouting your rhetoric, claiming it fact, when you have a problem with what he said. Do you see the problem with your logic? Oh, and the 50k 'Mormon' polygamists you claim that live in and around UT aren't Mormon. They can try to call themselves 'Fundamentalist Mormons' or whatever they want but they are not members of the LDS Church. So before you start accusing someone of not having their facts straight, stop reading from the liberalist media and do some research on your own...who knows, you might actually learn something and not look quite as foolish to those that do know a thing or to about the subject.
the individual licensing is a great idea, I know that with my current group of friends (50+) a dozen of us have purchased COD4 at various times over the past 2 months and a general license would have helped with adoption and made infinity ward and the rest a lot more money from our group for example. Maybe an online purchasing option is something they should develop for games, every business license that I use can be obtained that way. As far as the frustration of having to put the physical media in the drive, there are fixed .exe's that you can obtain...the legalities of such if you own the game can be debated but it a process that I ascribe to as I have found that no manufacturer of games likes to replace disks that have become worn over time with constant placing in optical drive trays....and why would they? they just try to force you to buy a new copy of the game, gives them another $30-$50.
Take your old EZ-Bake Bulbs and send them to Al Gore, I hear his kids are complaining that all the other kids have larger carbon footprints!
That would be 'most games don't work natively in linux' Bob. But that also doesn't mean its a contradictory statement, I am very heavily into gaming and I am running Ubuntu on my home fileserver so I suppose it is possible :)
anything more powerful is at least $500? did you read the article or are you just trolling to apear 1337? have you done any shopping lately? My 8800gts 640MB brand-new when it came out a year ago was $400 and the card they referenced would make the 1950pro (an AGP card none-the-less) look like a commodore64...hell, it beats my 8800gts 640MB and it can be found for 250$