Actually... they did grep the drivers...
and found references to "uake 3" which when changed to quack 3 caused the benchmarks in Quake 3 to slow down.
It would be nice if the people who submitted these stories read them before commenting on them.
The slant of the HardOCP story is that optimizing for the programs people are running is a perfectly reasonable concept.
The fact that Quake 3 is used to benchmark video cards just confuses the issue. Really, isn't that part of why we have separate benchmarking programs in the first place?
(If the driver was optimized for 3dWinMark200? whatever then there would definitely be a problem.)
You gotta like someone with the cajones to make
two contradictory statements one right after
another.
He insists that their tech preserves "fair use" rights and then says the only wait to use
the copies you make of the music is to keep the original cd in your machine.
Now THERE's a useful redefining of a copy. Hmmm.. if it doesn't work without the original cd around then it's not a copy is it? It might as
well be a Windows shortcut to the cd drive. It would save space.
Yeah, the results of the test are quite interesting. Of course, you could buy 2 or 3 Athlons for the price of one P4 and have them
waiting around for when your heatsink/fan fails...
(grin)
Heh... I remember that... "incident" Bradley put
a lot of effort into trying to get someone fired
over a harmless prank.
Details:
Bradley Kuhn did a lot of preaching about how you
should never refer to Linux but only to GNU/Linux.
Apparently in a very "in-your-face" manner.
Somebody who was running the mailing list some of
these discussions happened on decided it would
be funny to set up a script that would prefix GNU/
onto the word Linux whenever it appeared on the list.
Unfortunately, he screwed up and it appended GNU/
onto EVERY word in the messages.
Bradley then proceeded to attempt to convince the ISP that the guy worked for to fire him for
being an evil/unethical sysadmin. and was persistant about it.
That's because you aren't looking in the right places.
go to www.webscriptions.net.
Baen books is publishing all their new books in
electronic format with no ridiculous copy protection. Why? Because they realized that
when you read the first book of a really
good series you want to go buy the other ones.
Sure worked on me...:)
Of course, if you hate scifi and fantasy then your
out of luck...
Heh... well I've got a working 3645-3650 machine also.
and a full set of manuals... (grin)
Color? who needs color?:P
Re:It was drek, but the graphics were amazing.
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Grrr... Ok... am I the ONLY one who heard that
long speech about the scientist discovering that
the power that animates living things was what they were using to power their shield and guns.
Hmmm... sounds like an explanation for why shooting the ghosts worked just fine... eh?
FWIW, My wife and I went to see this movie yesterday and enjoyed it quite a bit. Neither of us has ever played a FF game. (Though not for lack of trying on my part... damn FF7 on the PC ahem...)
It was quite a beautiful piece of eye candy with with some surprisingly slow moving people in it (grin).
AdamHaun said:
""You say that guns are far more "difficult" to get today, but I have to wonder if that's entirely true. Yes, there are more laws regulating possesion of guns, but guns are also cheaper and in wider availability than, say, 50 years ago""
This comment is SO incredibly offbase that it's hard to believe you said it with a straight face.
50 years ago you could buy handguns or rifles and walk home with them with no age limits or strange
responses from passers by. And they were incredibly cheap compared to today's prices. (Even
accounting for inflation)
for example. in 1951 you could mail-order direct
from Sears a JC Higgins.22 caliber rifle for $12!
Direct to your door with no background check or anything... can you find easier availability than
that now?
Re:Accidents, far more than firearms
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Bzzt... sorry... we have plenty of laws that make it illegal for criminals to own or use firearms...
Guess what... it makes no difference. There's no legal gun ownership in Japan and guess what... their rate of gun crimes has been steadily climbing.
When are people going to wake up and take a look around and realize that disarming non-criminals isn't going to help anybody except the criminals.
Re:DOD also targets those with high SATs too
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Bzzt... sorry... maybe folks who score over 1200
and listed criminal science as their primary
interests? I was over 1200 and never got a brochure... grumble...:P
Re:Accidents, far more than firearms
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Glad to see someone else noticed the general silliness of that statement. He included firearms in his list of causes. Wouldn't it have been better to list WHO was using them to hurt children? Oh dear... there I go again... trying to use logic in a discussion of this type...:P
Never claimed my funds wouldn't be effected by
flucuations(sp) in sector equities.
By their very definition index funds will be effected by the stock market. That's the point of
an index fund. It reflects the overall market.
If you're willing to put your money in an index fund and ignore the day-to-day bullshit put out
by people who have a vested interest in getting
you to do lots of trades(brokers...) for a decade or two you'll be just fine.
Can you say "dollar cost averaging", boys and girls?
Funny... I've been a Foolish investor since
I started paying attention to the stock market
a few years back and frankly, the Nasdaq's
rollercoaster ride had no real effect on me.
I'm still on track to retire with more than
I'm likely to ever need. Just quietly investing
5k a year(to start) in an index fund.
It also helps to remember the fact that he/she was dealing with a population who knew they could get the lumps/bumps dealt with for free and with little hassle.
Contrast that with the real world where going to the doctor involves insurance hassles and time hassles that can easily prevent someone from dealing with something like a probably benign cyst.
I just wanted to publicly thank Mr. Billington for standing up those of us who aren't a member of the elite. He is bravely protecting our ability to read some of those precious,decaying tomes that only the Library of Congress contains. It would be a terrible thing if those disintegrating copies of various works were saved and made accessible. I mean really, someone might actually get to READ THEM!!!
I think what we are seeing here is the opinion of someone who is nothing more than a high level bureaucrat with no idea what is really going on in his library.
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Actually... they did grep the drivers...
and found references to "uake 3" which when changed to quack 3 caused the benchmarks in Quake 3 to slow down.
It would be nice if the people who submitted these stories read them before commenting on them.
The slant of the HardOCP story is that optimizing for the programs people are running is a perfectly reasonable concept.
The fact that Quake 3 is used to benchmark video cards just confuses the issue. Really, isn't that part of why we have separate benchmarking programs in the first place?
(If the driver was optimized for 3dWinMark200? whatever then there would definitely be a problem.)
You gotta like someone with the cajones to make
two contradictory statements one right after
another.
He insists that their tech preserves "fair use" rights and then says the only wait to use
the copies you make of the music is to keep the original cd in your machine.
Now THERE's a useful redefining of a copy. Hmmm.. if it doesn't work without the original cd around then it's not a copy is it? It might as
well be a Windows shortcut to the cd drive. It would save space.
Yeah, the results of the test are quite interesting. Of course, you could buy 2 or 3 Athlons for the price of one P4 and have them
waiting around for when your heatsink/fan fails...
(grin)
Heh... I remember that... "incident" Bradley put
a lot of effort into trying to get someone fired
over a harmless prank.
Details:
Bradley Kuhn did a lot of preaching about how you
should never refer to Linux but only to GNU/Linux.
Apparently in a very "in-your-face" manner.
Somebody who was running the mailing list some of
these discussions happened on decided it would
be funny to set up a script that would prefix GNU/
onto the word Linux whenever it appeared on the list.
Unfortunately, he screwed up and it appended GNU/
onto EVERY word in the messages.
Bradley then proceeded to attempt to convince the ISP that the guy worked for to fire him for
being an evil/unethical sysadmin. and was persistant about it.
Feh.
That's because you aren't looking in the right places. go to www.webscriptions.net. Baen books is publishing all their new books in electronic format with no ridiculous copy protection. Why? Because they realized that when you read the first book of a really good series you want to go buy the other ones. Sure worked on me... :)
Of course, if you hate scifi and fantasy then your
out of luck...
Yeah, for those who want info on attending, the
next Hamvention in Dayton is May of 2002.
Their website is at:
http://www.hamvention.org/
Heh... well I've got a working 3645-3650 machine also. :P
and a full set of manuals... (grin)
Color? who needs color?
Grrr... Ok... am I the ONLY one who heard that
long speech about the scientist discovering that
the power that animates living things was what they were using to power their shield and guns.
Hmmm... sounds like an explanation for why shooting the ghosts worked just fine... eh?
FWIW, My wife and I went to see this movie yesterday and enjoyed it quite a bit. Neither of us has ever played a FF game. (Though not for lack of trying on my part... damn FF7 on the PC ahem...)
It was quite a beautiful piece of eye candy with with some surprisingly slow moving people in it (grin).
Of course... so you're saying that the "left" has
discovered that the human soul is located in the... spleen?
FYI... Diablo 2 was up around 3 million copies sold last I heard.
Check out www.lurkerlounge.com. Sure seems to be an awful lot of strategy discussion going on for a game with no strategy... (grin)
AdamHaun said:
.22 caliber rifle for $12!
""You say that guns are far more "difficult" to get today, but I have to wonder if that's entirely true. Yes, there are more laws regulating possesion of guns, but guns are also cheaper and in wider availability than, say, 50 years ago""
This comment is SO incredibly offbase that it's hard to believe you said it with a straight face.
50 years ago you could buy handguns or rifles and walk home with them with no age limits or strange
responses from passers by. And they were incredibly cheap compared to today's prices. (Even
accounting for inflation)
for example. in 1951 you could mail-order direct
from Sears a JC Higgins
Direct to your door with no background check or anything... can you find easier availability than
that now?
Bzzt... sorry... we have plenty of laws that make it illegal for criminals to own or use firearms...
Guess what... it makes no difference. There's no legal gun ownership in Japan and guess what... their rate of gun crimes has been steadily climbing.
When are people going to wake up and take a look around and realize that disarming non-criminals isn't going to help anybody except the criminals.
Bzzt... sorry... maybe folks who score over 1200 :P
and listed criminal science as their primary
interests? I was over 1200 and never got a brochure... grumble...
Glad to see someone else noticed the general silliness of that statement. He included firearms in his list of causes. Wouldn't it have been better to list WHO was using them to hurt children? Oh dear... there I go again... trying to use logic in a discussion of this type... :P
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I know that I went and snagged copies of the
Baen books bundles that had Flint books in them
as soon as I heard about this....
Nah... lotteries are for people too stupid to understand what $5 and compound interest can do...
Never claimed my funds wouldn't be effected by
flucuations(sp) in sector equities.
By their very definition index funds will be effected by the stock market. That's the point of
an index fund. It reflects the overall market.
If you're willing to put your money in an index fund and ignore the day-to-day bullshit put out
by people who have a vested interest in getting
you to do lots of trades(brokers...) for a decade or two you'll be just fine.
Can you say "dollar cost averaging", boys and girls?
Funny... I've been a Foolish investor since
I started paying attention to the stock market
a few years back and frankly, the Nasdaq's
rollercoaster ride had no real effect on me.
I'm still on track to retire with more than
I'm likely to ever need. Just quietly investing
5k a year(to start) in an index fund.
Not to detract from your attempt at fearcasting
but how exactly is making an uninformed decision
about something superior to an informed decision?
sapient (sp-nt) adj. Having great wisdom and discernment.
[Middle English from Old French from Latin sapins, sapient-, present participle of sapere, to
taste, be wise; see sep- in Indo-European Roots.]
Seems pretty old for a meaningless word.
If you want to REALLY get the first reviews
of a movie go to mrqe.com.
Movie Review Query Engine for those who
haven't been there before.
They've had 6 reviews of the Xmen movie up
for the last few days...
First review... pheh...
It also helps to remember the fact that
he/she was dealing with a population who
knew they could get the lumps/bumps dealt
with for free and with little hassle.
Contrast that with the real world where
going to the doctor involves insurance
hassles and time hassles that can easily
prevent someone from dealing with something
like a probably benign cyst.
I just wanted to publicly thank Mr. Billington for standing up those of us who aren't a member of the elite. He is bravely protecting our ability to read some of those precious,decaying tomes that only the Library of Congress contains.
It would be a terrible thing if those disintegrating copies of various works were saved and made accessible. I mean really, someone might actually get to READ THEM!!!
I think what we are seeing here is the opinion of someone who is nothing more than a high level bureaucrat with no idea what is really going on in his library.
And then there are those of us whose name IS being used by a company... checked out edsmith.com lately?