the untrained eye cannot distinguish between 60 and 120fps. the trained eye, however, can. play enough FPS games at 125fps (quakelive i'm staring at YOU!) and when something else happens on the PC that causes the framerate to drop (wife leaving farmville open, i'm staring at YOU!) believe me, you notice a drop down to 80fps.
Clearly you haven't been paying attention. South Australian Attorney General Michael Atkinson is the one Attorney General in the Australian council of AG's who has, consistently for years opposed and vetoed the introduction of an R-18+ rating for games. As I'm not from South Australia, I can't do anything to get rid of this idiot, but as an adult gamer aged 33, I would seriously like to be able to play games which are designed for someone my age.
The people making the threats are quite possibly teenagers however the campaign against him is being organised by a group of adult gamers who simply want him to wake up and realise that the average gamer is over the age of 18 and can handle the sight of boobies, sex and/or violence to the level of hundreds of movies which they can easily and legally get their hands on.
The Dell Latitude on my desk does. The Precision Mobile Workstation at home does, and the XPS my friend has does...
Oh yeah, that's right, the Vostro is the tightass model, maybe that's why yours doesn't...;)
Unfortunately for us Australian's, Senator Conroy won't see the humour or satire in your letter at all and will read it as deadly serious.
If we're lucky, he won't consider your suggestions, but if we protest about it, he will. And then try to tell us we're all supporting kiddy porn.
*sigh*
When they start to treat us like adults, and give us an R18+ rating, I'll start to care. I'm sick of having to pirate stuff that has been refused classification...
No. After spending that sort of money on security, we expect them to STFU about it.
This IS Government we're talking about, they're going to boast as far and wide as they can about these things. I expect that the "un-hackable" part came from someone in the media relations department believing the MS hype about Windows 7.
However, this initiative WAS NOT the Australian FEDERAL Government. It was the New South Wales Government. There is a big difference here folks... TFS got it wrong (surprise!)
I found out the other day that I could double my salary by driving trains. I'm seriously considering the career change right now, it's bound to be a lot less stressful.
that 200 meg plan may be enough for an average month.
My parents are in their early 60s. I wouldn't say that they are elderly (I'd be disinherited if I did!). I tried to get them to sign up with a more reasonable ISP like Netspace (who I'm with) but they have been on the interwebs since I was living at home with them (and I moved out in '96), and they have embraced it for all its glory in the last few years. They do far more than just checking a few websites and a few emails, and because they were comfortable with doing it on dial-up, they didn't choose to change until the Telstra sales people called them up and said for the same cost as their dialup plan ($29.95) they could be on broadband. They were easily doing 200mb on dialup, and with broadband making everything faster... well, you get the idea. Its a sad sign that they are more inclined to take the advice of a sales person than their own son, but I guess in the end they will be glad that I've retained ownership of my soul.
... until they get a a $280 bill for going over their transfer limit on their $29.95/month 200mb plan. Note I said transfer limit as Telstra include uploads and downloads in that.
My daughter spent 2 hrs on a kids games website at her grandparents house not long after they signed up to Telstra. This put their account over the limit, and combined with all the other traffic that went across the account in the first month, they received a $280 bill. Despite my repeatedly telling them that they should choose a better ISP (one which only includes downloads in the transfer limit for a start, and one that has a transfer limit that takes more than 10 minutes to chew through for another) I was the one who got yelled at. They were perfectly reasonable with the customer support person... *grumble*
Apparently the sales person told them that 200mb is more than they will ever need in a month for their account. I'd like to find someone in Telstra's sales department and see if they can convince me that they don't need wings to fly as i throw them from the nearest rooftop, by the sounds of things they might actually be able to convince me!
Not so much that, but making new laws just so you can fine people and increase the governmental revenue stream seems to be the way to go here. In the Melbourne CBD, there are around 500 parking inspectors wandering around the city from 6am till 1am, and if your car is parked somewhere for more than 3 minutes after it's allocated time, $110 fine. Even at 12:45am... in a 1 hr parking spot that I'd parked in at 11:50pm, I got fined - the onus fell on me to prove that I had been there less than one hour and I had no way of doing so. I remember this thing called presumption of innocence being taught in school... seems that it's the complete opposite in reality.
About 12 years ago heaps of people did this... I remember going to many LAN parties with my mid-sized tower PC and 15" CRT monitor, way back when. I even remember one guy rocking up with a full size tower PC, that was at least 4 foot tall.
Ahhh the memories... team games, winning competitions on dial-up pings, then totally kicking butt at LAN parties. SO MUCH FUN!
The 4th image reminds me of the description of the gravity distortion field generated by Edenist voidhawk and blackhawk space ships from the Night's Dawn trilogy...
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what kind of fucking retard tattoo's FIRST POST on their own cock?!?
Oi! That was my idea!
ok well maybe you don't, but I sure do.
your post lost any credibility it had when you linked a Bing search.
The people making the threats are quite possibly teenagers however the campaign against him is being organised by a group of adult gamers who simply want him to wake up and realise that the average gamer is over the age of 18 and can handle the sight of boobies, sex and/or violence to the level of hundreds of movies which they can easily and legally get their hands on.
geeze... narcissistic, much? :P
I want to post pictures in picassa,
so you like assigning the copyright for all your photo's to google?
The Dell Latitude on my desk does. The Precision Mobile Workstation at home does, and the XPS my friend has does... Oh yeah, that's right, the Vostro is the tightass model, maybe that's why yours doesn't... ;)
then you still have time... ;)
Unfortunately for us Australian's, Senator Conroy won't see the humour or satire in your letter at all and will read it as deadly serious. If we're lucky, he won't consider your suggestions, but if we protest about it, he will. And then try to tell us we're all supporting kiddy porn. *sigh*
Only an Iron Chef can save us. Send for Morimoto.
I'll take Iron Chef Chen Kenichi over Morimoto any day.
When they start to treat us like adults, and give us an R18+ rating, I'll start to care. I'm sick of having to pirate stuff that has been refused classification...
You're clearly not in Victoria or Queensland then... ;)
This IS Government we're talking about, they're going to boast as far and wide as they can about these things.
I expect that the "un-hackable" part came from someone in the media relations department believing the MS hype about Windows 7.
However, this initiative WAS NOT the Australian FEDERAL Government. It was the New South Wales Government. There is a big difference here folks... TFS got it wrong (surprise!)
"Except for herpes. That shit follows you home."
I found out the other day that I could double my salary by driving trains. I'm seriously considering the career change right now, it's bound to be a lot less stressful.
My parents are in their early 60s. I wouldn't say that they are elderly (I'd be disinherited if I did!). I tried to get them to sign up with a more reasonable ISP like Netspace (who I'm with) but they have been on the interwebs since I was living at home with them (and I moved out in '96), and they have embraced it for all its glory in the last few years. They do far more than just checking a few websites and a few emails, and because they were comfortable with doing it on dial-up, they didn't choose to change until the Telstra sales people called them up and said for the same cost as their dialup plan ($29.95) they could be on broadband. They were easily doing 200mb on dialup, and with broadband making everything faster... well, you get the idea. Its a sad sign that they are more inclined to take the advice of a sales person than their own son, but I guess in the end they will be glad that I've retained ownership of my soul.
How often do you have to directly contact a wholesaler, as a retail consumer?
Idiots exist everywhere, but there seems to be a particularly higher-than-average concentration of them in Queensland.
... until they get a a $280 bill for going over their transfer limit on their $29.95/month 200mb plan. Note I said transfer limit as Telstra include uploads and downloads in that.
My daughter spent 2 hrs on a kids games website at her grandparents house not long after they signed up to Telstra. This put their account over the limit, and combined with all the other traffic that went across the account in the first month, they received a $280 bill. Despite my repeatedly telling them that they should choose a better ISP (one which only includes downloads in the transfer limit for a start, and one that has a transfer limit that takes more than 10 minutes to chew through for another) I was the one who got yelled at. They were perfectly reasonable with the customer support person... *grumble*
Apparently the sales person told them that 200mb is more than they will ever need in a month for their account. I'd like to find someone in Telstra's sales department and see if they can convince me that they don't need wings to fly as i throw them from the nearest rooftop, by the sounds of things they might actually be able to convince me!
Not so much that, but making new laws just so you can fine people and increase the governmental revenue stream seems to be the way to go here. In the Melbourne CBD, there are around 500 parking inspectors wandering around the city from 6am till 1am, and if your car is parked somewhere for more than 3 minutes after it's allocated time, $110 fine. Even at 12:45am... in a 1 hr parking spot that I'd parked in at 11:50pm, I got fined - the onus fell on me to prove that I had been there less than one hour and I had no way of doing so. I remember this thing called presumption of innocence being taught in school... seems that it's the complete opposite in reality.
not that i ever paid that fine... arseholes!
compared with the recent model laptops that run so hot they fry your grapes?
About 12 years ago heaps of people did this... I remember going to many LAN parties with my mid-sized tower PC and 15" CRT monitor, way back when. I even remember one guy rocking up with a full size tower PC, that was at least 4 foot tall.
Ahhh the memories... team games, winning competitions on dial-up pings, then totally kicking butt at LAN parties. SO MUCH FUN!
The 4th image reminds me of the description of the gravity distortion field generated by Edenist voidhawk and blackhawk space ships from the Night's Dawn trilogy...