....as opposed to the ridiculous IE integration issue. I think MS was well within their rights to integrate IE into their system, even if it did hurt competitors, and it can be argued that Windows users benefit from the decision.
However, I see no benefit from the exclusivity shit that they pull, and I think it will be much harder for MS to defend, both in the court of law and in the public eye.
All of these attempts to rip IE from the OS make the government look infantile, and give the impression that they're just bullying MS for being successful. Concentrate on the exclusivity threats, and the case will look much better.
You touch on something that royally pisses me off. I too have been burned by having the right motherboard model, but the wrong revision. (My Abit BH-6 can only go up to 600 Mhz, but a newer revision can go up to 8-900 I believe). If there is going to be a major difference between revisions, then I think that they should have to change the model number (even to the xxx-II or something) or be guilty of false advertising.
Heh, I have Optimum Online, and as long as you have a Terabit Terajet Cable Modem, you can achieve almost 8Mbps dl(!!!)
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True. They probably don't know. But in the end, does it really matter? They mass-produced a poster of Bin Laden with a FUCKING PUPPET!!!!!! I don't know what thought process occurred where someone thought that a FUCKING PUPPET was a natural part of the photograph.
Have you ever tried getting into an OpenNap server these days? It's virtually impossible. They're always filled up with users and wont let any more in now.
....are confusing me, especially since theyare associated with each other. Can anyone explain the significance and differences between the following names: gnome, ximian, nautilus, and eazel?
Ok, you've got a good point.
But, again, what games currently on the market actually _take advantage of_ HW T&L? I think there's Quake3 and MDK2, but can't recall anything else.
I still own a TNT2 Ultra, and am happy with it (I'm content with playing at 800x600 resoltution).
Now, one of the big features of the GeForce was the hardware Transform and Lighting capabilities.
Question: What game(s) out there actually take advantage of this (or the GeForce in general) in a way other than frame rate? Remember, it's been over a year since the GeForce was introduced, so consider this before running out to get a GeForce 3.
Do the Linux drivers fully support the 300SE now? I rembemer trying them last year, but they tended to mangle my songs (placed in wrong bitrate, causing songs to play faster then normal, cut off songs, etc).
Thanks to $$$ and their ridiculous hype machine, Sega is toast. Im glad to see that the mod chip for the American PS2 finally came out, so now I can get even with Sony in my own little way.....
Now *this* kinda worries me. A lot of companies depend on banner ads to make their revenue. My company s one of them (though I hope in my case it isn't very serious - we run local newspaper websits that get 2-3 million page views a day for at least half of them, so I hope we'll remain attractive to advertisers).
I have no time for a sig.
Well, for one, the Amiga 500 and 2000 were already available during the Nintendo days - and they had games on par with the Sega Genesis before it even existed!
I'm just curious, if I wanted to pick up an AMD Thunderbird 1 Ghz CPU and motherboard, would I still be able to use my PC100 SDRAM, even though I will experience a bit of a bottleneck with it? At one point, I would upgrade the RAM, but since I only bought what I have about a year ago, I'm not ready yet. Suggestions?
Um....if it's not being enforced by a government agency, the term CANNOT be considered to be 'censorship', in this case, it is simply called 'editing'.
We have about 12 Va FullOn 2x2's (What a ridiculous name, by the way), and overall they work ok, but VA puts some ridiculous rules on their products:
Hard Drives: You must buy the machine with a Quantum Atlas SCA disk.
Now, we buy lots of Seagate SCA disks well in advance, so we wanted to use what we already own, not to mention that we've found Quantum drives to be very unreliable (they died too often). So, we just wanted machines with no disks. Not possible with VA.
Drive sleds: VA was very reluctant to send us empty disk rails for use in futute disks that we may add as needed. They wanted to sell a Quantum drive with it. They ultimately allowed this but they gave us a much bigger hassle over this than they should have. We should be allowed to buy whatever drive we want.
Anyway, we now buy our systems from AS Labs which sport nicer cases (made by Intel) and none of the hassles (they ship with 4 bare drive chassis by default! What a concept!)
I guess that's true, but that would only be effective against a repeat offender. If they wanted to get Joe Shmoe who downloaded a Metallica song from Gnutella last Thursday, and never returned, then there would be nothing the feds can do.
Just today I'm getting about 10 emails/hour from people complaining about email they're getting with the subject "I love it when you slap it on my face", not bothering to look at email headers to see that it did not come from our domain. I get the postmaster mail, but I practically never respond since it's a waste of my time better spent putting out REAL fires. It really gets on my nerves though. When I see the first complaint on a Friday I think "Oh boy, here comes a weekend full of mass email deletions". It could potentially give our company a bad name. So, I fully support prosecuting spammers that do this. This sig's for you
Nope, it's definitely compiled in the kernel itself. I try to avoid using modules whenever possible. Mind you, this doesn't happen all the time, but since we have 12 servers, with over a million page views a day each, it happens often enough to be a hassle (like once every week or so).
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....as opposed to the ridiculous IE integration issue. I think MS was well within their rights to integrate IE into their system, even if it did hurt competitors, and it can be argued that Windows users benefit from the decision.
However, I see no benefit from the exclusivity shit that they pull, and I think it will be much harder for MS to defend, both in the court of law and in the public eye.
All of these attempts to rip IE from the OS make the government look infantile, and give the impression that they're just bullying MS for being successful. Concentrate on the exclusivity threats, and the case will look much better.
So wanting to put your penis inside another man's anus makes you an independent thinker?? Sheesh!
Um, that would be _liberal_ bug counting, wouldn't it? Conservative would mean that they try to announce as few bugs as possible, only when prudent.
Can this drive make perfect copies of DVD movie disks? For backup purposes, of course.
Use wget to grab the .asf file, then use mplayer (which uses windows .dlls for codecs) to play ythe file. Works for me.
You touch on something that royally pisses me off. I too have been burned by having the right motherboard model, but the wrong revision. (My Abit BH-6 can only go up to 600 Mhz, but a newer revision can go up to 8-900 I believe). If there is going to be a major difference between revisions, then I think that they should have to change the model number (even to the xxx-II or something) or be guilty of false advertising.
Heh, I have Optimum Online, and as long as you have a Terabit Terajet Cable Modem, you can achieve almost 8Mbps dl(!!!)
True. They probably don't know. But in the end, does it really matter? They mass-produced a poster of Bin Laden with a FUCKING PUPPET!!!!!! I don't know what thought process occurred where someone thought that a FUCKING PUPPET was a natural part of the photograph.
Have you ever tried getting into an OpenNap server these days? It's virtually impossible. They're always filled up with users and wont let any more in now.
....are confusing me, especially since theyare associated with each other. Can anyone explain the significance and differences between the following names: gnome, ximian, nautilus, and eazel?
Ok, you've got a good point. But, again, what games currently on the market actually _take advantage of_ HW T&L? I think there's Quake3 and MDK2, but can't recall anything else.
I still own a TNT2 Ultra, and am happy with it (I'm content with playing at 800x600 resoltution). Now, one of the big features of the GeForce was the hardware Transform and Lighting capabilities. Question: What game(s) out there actually take advantage of this (or the GeForce in general) in a way other than frame rate? Remember, it's been over a year since the GeForce was introduced, so consider this before running out to get a GeForce 3.
Do the Linux drivers fully support the 300SE now? I rembemer trying them last year, but they tended to mangle my songs (placed in wrong bitrate, causing songs to play faster then normal, cut off songs, etc).
Thanks to $$$ and their ridiculous hype machine, Sega is toast. Im glad to see that the mod chip for the American PS2 finally came out, so now I can get even with Sony in my own little way.....
And how will these Intel chips be attractive to "people on a budget" when there's no direct competition to keep the price down?
I have no time for a sig.
Now *this* kinda worries me. A lot of companies depend on banner ads to make their revenue. My company s one of them (though I hope in my case it isn't very serious - we run local newspaper websits that get 2-3 million page views a day for at least half of them, so I hope we'll remain attractive to advertisers). I have no time for a sig.
Well, for one, the Amiga 500 and 2000 were already available during the Nintendo days - and they had games on par with the Sega Genesis before it even existed!
I'm just curious, if I wanted to pick up an AMD Thunderbird 1 Ghz CPU and motherboard, would I still be able to use my PC100 SDRAM, even though I will experience a bit of a bottleneck with it? At one point, I would upgrade the RAM, but since I only bought what I have about a year ago, I'm not ready yet. Suggestions?
Um....if it's not being enforced by a government agency, the term CANNOT be considered to be 'censorship', in this case, it is simply called 'editing'.
Hard Drives: You must buy the machine with a Quantum Atlas SCA disk.
Now, we buy lots of Seagate SCA disks well in advance, so we wanted to use what we already own, not to mention that we've found Quantum drives to be very unreliable (they died too often). So, we just wanted machines with no disks. Not possible with VA.
Drive sleds: VA was very reluctant to send us empty disk rails for use in futute disks that we may add as needed. They wanted to sell a Quantum drive with it. They ultimately allowed this but they gave us a much bigger hassle over this than they should have. We should be allowed to buy whatever drive we want.
Anyway, we now buy our systems from AS Labs which sport nicer cases (made by Intel) and none of the hassles (they ship with 4 bare drive chassis by default! What a concept!)
How long has CDs been much cheaper to produce than cassettes? And how long have they costed around 3 times as much as cassettes?
I guess that's true, but that would only be effective against a repeat offender. If they wanted to get Joe Shmoe who downloaded a Metallica song from Gnutella last Thursday, and never returned, then there would be nothing the feds can do.
You could always say that you don't log users' activities. Is there a law saying that you MUST log IPs for users if you're an ISP?
Just today I'm getting about 10 emails/hour from people complaining about email they're getting with the subject "I love it when you slap it on my face", not bothering to look at email headers to see that it did not come from our domain. I get the postmaster mail, but I practically never respond since it's a waste of my time better spent putting out REAL fires. It really gets on my nerves though. When I see the first complaint on a Friday I think "Oh boy, here comes a weekend full of mass email deletions". It could potentially give our company a bad name. So, I fully support prosecuting spammers that do this. This sig's for you
Nope, it's definitely compiled in the kernel itself. I try to avoid using modules whenever possible. Mind you, this doesn't happen all the time, but since we have 12 servers, with over a million page views a day each, it happens often enough to be a hassle (like once every week or so).