I know, it's horrible! My brother fried ONE chip one day, his Athlon, and his computer wouldn't boot! Of course, the same could be said of the northbridge in current architectures.
Funny, my experience has been exactly the opposite.
I am currently the owner of two Asus boards: the A7N8X deluxe (NForce2) and the P2B-F (yes, that's the old-ass BX chipset). Until recently, I was also the owner of an ABit KA7-100 (Slot A, Via kt133). Both Asus boards were plug-and-chug. Fired it up, bam, stability and performance right away. All three KA7-100s (because the first two died due to the somewhat infamous capacitor debacle, in which ABit seemed to have been hit the hardest) needed to be played with for hours to get anything resembling stability. For the longest time, even once I had it stable, I was getting absolutely horrible 3d performance. When I upgraded my video card, and put the old one in the Asus machine, it got MUCH better performance.
Oh yeah, and the community had to hack together bios upgrades for the RAID controller if they wanted the newer releases that were available, since ABit stopped including them in their BIOS updates very early on. Although it was a wholly crappy controller anyways, so maybe I should fault them more for making a poor choice than dropping support for their mistake.
When it came time to upgrade, it was between ditching the Asus/850 Celeron (used to be p2-400 when I first got it) or the Abit/800 Athlon. In most benchmarks on similar boards with the same chipsets, the Celeron got whipped. Should have been even worse with the 133MHz memory bus on the Via chipset. At my house, with those two boards, the Celeron won. While the A7N8X deluxe hasn't been around long enough for me to speak in the long-term, I can honestly say that the Asus P2B-F was the single best purchase I've ever made in my entire life, and the ABit KA7-100 was one of the worst.
There was a legal issue recently over a book, "Breaking the Da Vinci Code", whose author was sued because of potential name confusion, as in the Lin/Win case. Last I heard, the "Breaking" author only had to put a sticker on the book that says "A critical analysis of The Da Vinci Code".
By that logic, can't Lindows do the same? Like put a nice gif on their front page saying "A free alternative to Microsoft Windows (insert lots of trademark symbols here)"?
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I don't know about the different colors part. I can just see it now: Premium = red text on purple icon on white background Free = white text on white icon on white background
I could go into detail about how the conversation between the unknown pilot and his superiors, and the behavior of the "weapon" itself, gave strong hints to the "weapon" being a teleportation device that scans the pattern of the target without the mess of actually moving matter around (and naturally destroying the originals, they already had enough doppleganger episodes), or I could just point to the big "To Be Continued..." sign.
I think I'm going to clear and refill my randomizer lists with MGS style attribute / animal names. Although really, Firefox and the default randomizer list populations aren't that far off:)
Or maybe I'll just set it to run as Mozilla RevolverOcelot all the time. Who knows
If you RTFA or even RTFP, you'll see that the Python crew and Rainbow Films are marketing it as an alternative to Passion. Passion is the very reason they're re-releasing it now. It's satire, social commentary, it's the very foundation of Monty Python.
People have been saying this would bring console controllers to PCs for ported-from-console games. But what about bringing your mouse/trackball and keyboard over to your XBox? You might lose some of the comfort of sitting on the sofa with a controller, but I'm sure many will find the accuracy in FPS games worth it. Of course, in online console FPS games, those who opt for the controller may find themselves second-class citizens.
Even absent bringing over your mouse and keyboard, it could lead to more innovative controllers. How about having a dual-stick controller for some games, and for other games a stick/trackball controller (or just throw two sticks AND a trackball one one if you can find the room).
I pre-ordered mine from BestBuy for $29.99. Unfortunately its on back-order, but I can wait I heard that once the special edition is gone, it's gone. That's why I didn't go to Best Buy, they're not known for living up to promotions with their supply (well, that and GameStop gave me a chrome painted plastic U logo as a preorder gift:D ). They may very well get more in though, good luck.
I'd hate to borrow a cup of sugar from you, or "hammer" on your door with my "requests" to say hi and tell you I just moved in next door. Your neighbors' addresses must be plastered all over newspapers nationwide with inappropriate personal ads.
In just the past two days, Unreal Tournament 2004 keygen and cracks have become popular filenames.
I pre-ordered the special DVD edition of UT 2k4 about 2 weeks ago. $42 and change. I get it home, pop it in a DVD drive on a different machine in the network, mount the drive on mine, and install. Try to run it? *BZZT* "Wrong disc inserted." Many people on the official forums had the same error with the game in a drive on their local machines. Crack -> piracy? No. It's been rather long established that at least a few paying customers will have problems with the cd check. I can't say about UT2k3, but in the original UT, they removed the cd check in an official patch since so many had problems.
Although I was smart enough to get it from somewhere reputable. They could have gotten something a LOT worse than an IP tracker.
I could have been holding the legally purchased, pressed media, wearing the free headset and finding a place for my free Atari shameless-self-promotion stickers while these people posted my IP address (or even more information, I didn't actually go to the list to see) with a pirate label. (note: On their site, the images of the popup say "don't worry your secret is safe with me", and now the list has even been/.ed. Cute.)
It's not that there aren't "real serious" games on linux. All the UTs, all the Quakes, America's Army, just to name a few. It's that, if even one "real serious" game comes out for windows and not linux/wine, you suddenly have to go back, and if you're gonna have to go back anyway, what's the point of leaving?
I'd like to run linux as my main OS, I really would. However, one of my favorite games, as of the last time I checked, nobody had gotten it to work under wine and it wasn't popular enough for developers to go out of their way for. It was already several years old at that point, so I'm not holding my breath. Every time I get curious, it goes the same way: Install, run for awhile, boot to windows to play games, boot to linux the next morning, boot to windows to play games, boot to windows the next morning, delete linux partitions next month to make room for more games.
I believe that Nintendo has previously confirmed that the two screens will be next to each other, and can be used as one. This pretty much means that it's going to be layed out GB/GBC/GBASP style, with the controls below the screens, and not GBA classic style, with the screen between the controls, which would give it a really funky form factor that nobody would want to hold. Assuming this has been confirmed, there is almost no way that one of the screens will be touch sensitive, since you'd have to move one hand to reach a screen. However, with the two screens side by side, to make a rectangular clamshell form factor, there would be space in between the standard button sets, perfect for a standard touchpad.
Now let's think about this. Nintendo only really started doing 3d with the N64, when they introduced an analog stick to the controller. It's quite difficult to play a true 3d game with only a digital pad. However, you can't throw a stick on a handheld unit, it'll break off leaving many-a-user pissed. So the touchpad is probably going to be a replacement for the analog stick.
Basically I got all this from the premise that both screens are going to be next to each other, so in any case I'm almost definitely wrong, but speculation is fun!
DirecTV sounds like a great choice Aren't/. readers as a whole blasting EV1servers for caving in to Evil Company X's immoral and potentially illegal ultimatums? Yet the articles posted on THIS subject all carry an editorial spin of abandonment when a DN stands up against Evil Company Y's extortionist tactics? WTF?
The biggest things I missed from the original were a real sniper rifle and Assault mode, both of which are back in 2k4:D Although they kept the "lightning gun" sniper rifle clone in the game for some maps. I guess to keep down on the campers in certain areas. It can be hard to see snipers in the foliage in certain areas (I know first hand, even with the lightning trail giving away your position, someone has to be looking to see it:D)
All in all, must of my gripes about 2k3 (which I didn't buy) are gone now, and I'm almost certainly going to buy it. I just hope they fix the lag that makes it hard to walk on an elevated platform without falling to your doom.
I disagree, at least in my laptopless mindset when I was still in college, the laptop should be pretty well portable, specifically to take it basically *everywhere* with you. All the CS and CompE areas are covered with wireless, better than scribbling in a notebook, be able to build sample code as it's being discussed, and there's always games for the spectacularly boring classes. And if you have a tues/thurs class without an available outlet, good luck with this laptop's expected battery life of 1 hour (when most tues/thurs classes run 1:15)
A decimal and/or metric conversion error causes the moon to hit Mars at a bad angle, slowing it down significantly. While life is spawned/renewed in the following chaos, Mars slowly spirals towards the Sun. Years later, practically covered with simple organisms, Mars is incinerated. Congratulations, you've just committed genocide!
Of course, if you're REALLY unlucky, Mars could come hit us on the way down to the Sun.
How about draw latencies? Sometimes, whatever optimization trick they used in the engine takes awhile to load a model/texture/whatever, and instead of pausing you for a split second, it'll choose to let you keep driving while it loads.
In VC (on my PC which was ok-but-not-great at the time), there's this one bridge that, if you're doing top speed in any decent car, you can't see the walls of the bridge until after you've hit one or made it onto the bridge. It looks like you can save a lot of time by cutting across the grass, but if you overshoot the turn, you hit a small wall of invisibility, and typically your car flies over it and into the river. Nothing in any game has pissed me off more than that bridge.
Incorrect. The contrapositive of patch->exploit is no exploit->no patch, which is not really a truth. The inverse of patch->exploit is no patch->no exploit, but the inverse of a true statement does not have to be true.
Downplaying the announcement wasn't just to keep down the shame of following their chief rival, it was also to confuse those in the current market for a new server. From what I understand, Itanium/Itanic has been a serious flop thus far. What will the motivation be for IT departments to buy Itaniums now if they know something more compatible and better for them is coming along Real Soon Now?
Type this longer number too lightly to casue the pressure sensor to register and varying your pressure only on the 'key' digits
The last time I read an article about these, the camera could see both the pad and the screen. I have yet to see an ATM that doesn't put up a dummy character when you actually hit a key.
Like many technological restrictions (see also:copy protection), this will only stop the casual offender. People who have no remorse over vehicular manslaughter are the people who would be least inconvenienced by this measure, because they'll go in to the garage and hack around it the day they get the car (see also:console modchips).
Still, I could *almost* see it in every car, and definately see it in every repeat offender's car, if it was just for starting. As the proposal stands, however, it would be quite optimistic to think that the blow while you roll or get an alarm isn't going to cause deaths on its own.
The real solution is to actually put repeat drunk drivers in jail, and not for some vacation on the order of months. "Oh no, you took my license even though I've already shown a blatent disrespect of the law" is neither a deterrent nor a punishment. The apparent majority (apparent = "my own eyes, could be wrong") of stories of true drunk driving tragedies come people who have already established a very public record of disregard for human life. Doing something about them will be much more effective than a hack that only stops those honest enough not to circumvent it.
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I know, it's horrible! My brother fried ONE chip one day, his Athlon, and his computer wouldn't boot! Of course, the same could be said of the northbridge in current architectures.
Funny, my experience has been exactly the opposite.
I am currently the owner of two Asus boards: the A7N8X deluxe (NForce2) and the P2B-F (yes, that's the old-ass BX chipset). Until recently, I was also the owner of an ABit KA7-100 (Slot A, Via kt133). Both Asus boards were plug-and-chug. Fired it up, bam, stability and performance right away. All three KA7-100s (because the first two died due to the somewhat infamous capacitor debacle, in which ABit seemed to have been hit the hardest) needed to be played with for hours to get anything resembling stability. For the longest time, even once I had it stable, I was getting absolutely horrible 3d performance. When I upgraded my video card, and put the old one in the Asus machine, it got MUCH better performance.
Oh yeah, and the community had to hack together bios upgrades for the RAID controller if they wanted the newer releases that were available, since ABit stopped including them in their BIOS updates very early on. Although it was a wholly crappy controller anyways, so maybe I should fault them more for making a poor choice than dropping support for their mistake.
When it came time to upgrade, it was between ditching the Asus/850 Celeron (used to be p2-400 when I first got it) or the Abit/800 Athlon. In most benchmarks on similar boards with the same chipsets, the Celeron got whipped. Should have been even worse with the 133MHz memory bus on the Via chipset. At my house, with those two boards, the Celeron won. While the A7N8X deluxe hasn't been around long enough for me to speak in the long-term, I can honestly say that the Asus P2B-F was the single best purchase I've ever made in my entire life, and the ABit KA7-100 was one of the worst.
There was a legal issue recently over a book, "Breaking the Da Vinci Code", whose author was sued because of potential name confusion, as in the Lin/Win case. Last I heard, the "Breaking" author only had to put a sticker on the book that says "A critical analysis of The Da Vinci Code".
By that logic, can't Lindows do the same? Like put a nice gif on their front page saying "A free alternative to Microsoft Windows (insert lots of trademark symbols here)"?
I don't know about the different colors part. I can just see it now:
Premium = red text on purple icon on white background
Free = white text on white icon on white background
I could go into detail about how the conversation between the unknown pilot and his superiors, and the behavior of the "weapon" itself, gave strong hints to the "weapon" being a teleportation device that scans the pattern of the target without the mess of actually moving matter around (and naturally destroying the originals, they already had enough doppleganger episodes), or I could just point to the big "To Be Continued..." sign.
I think I'm going to clear and refill my randomizer lists with MGS style attribute / animal names. Although really, Firefox and the default randomizer list populations aren't that far off :)
Or maybe I'll just set it to run as Mozilla RevolverOcelot all the time. Who knows
If you RTFA or even RTFP, you'll see that the Python crew and Rainbow Films are marketing it as an alternative to Passion. Passion is the very reason they're re-releasing it now. It's satire, social commentary, it's the very foundation of Monty Python.
People have been saying this would bring console controllers to PCs for ported-from-console games. But what about bringing your mouse/trackball and keyboard over to your XBox? You might lose some of the comfort of sitting on the sofa with a controller, but I'm sure many will find the accuracy in FPS games worth it. Of course, in online console FPS games, those who opt for the controller may find themselves second-class citizens.
Even absent bringing over your mouse and keyboard, it could lead to more innovative controllers. How about having a dual-stick controller for some games, and for other games a stick/trackball controller (or just throw two sticks AND a trackball one one if you can find the room).
Technically, if . was a TLD, the address would be http:///...
I pre-ordered mine from BestBuy for $29.99. Unfortunately its on back-order, but I can wait :D ). They may very well get more in though, good luck.
I heard that once the special edition is gone, it's gone. That's why I didn't go to Best Buy, they're not known for living up to promotions with their supply (well, that and GameStop gave me a chrome painted plastic U logo as a preorder gift
I'd hate to borrow a cup of sugar from you, or "hammer" on your door with my "requests" to say hi and tell you I just moved in next door. Your neighbors' addresses must be plastered all over newspapers nationwide with inappropriate personal ads.
In just the past two days, Unreal Tournament 2004 keygen and cracks have become popular filenames.
/.ed. Cute.)
I pre-ordered the special DVD edition of UT 2k4 about 2 weeks ago. $42 and change. I get it home, pop it in a DVD drive on a different machine in the network, mount the drive on mine, and install. Try to run it? *BZZT* "Wrong disc inserted." Many people on the official forums had the same error with the game in a drive on their local machines. Crack -> piracy? No. It's been rather long established that at least a few paying customers will have problems with the cd check. I can't say about UT2k3, but in the original UT, they removed the cd check in an official patch since so many had problems.
Although I was smart enough to get it from somewhere reputable. They could have gotten something a LOT worse than an IP tracker.
I could have been holding the legally purchased, pressed media, wearing the free headset and finding a place for my free Atari shameless-self-promotion stickers while these people posted my IP address (or even more information, I didn't actually go to the list to see) with a pirate label. (note: On their site, the images of the popup say "don't worry your secret is safe with me", and now the list has even been
Yarr indeed.
It's not that there aren't "real serious" games on linux. All the UTs, all the Quakes, America's Army, just to name a few. It's that, if even one "real serious" game comes out for windows and not linux/wine, you suddenly have to go back, and if you're gonna have to go back anyway, what's the point of leaving?
I'd like to run linux as my main OS, I really would. However, one of my favorite games, as of the last time I checked, nobody had gotten it to work under wine and it wasn't popular enough for developers to go out of their way for. It was already several years old at that point, so I'm not holding my breath. Every time I get curious, it goes the same way: Install, run for awhile, boot to windows to play games, boot to linux the next morning, boot to windows to play games, boot to windows the next morning, delete linux partitions next month to make room for more games.
I believe that Nintendo has previously confirmed that the two screens will be next to each other, and can be used as one. This pretty much means that it's going to be layed out GB/GBC/GBASP style, with the controls below the screens, and not GBA classic style, with the screen between the controls, which would give it a really funky form factor that nobody would want to hold. Assuming this has been confirmed, there is almost no way that one of the screens will be touch sensitive, since you'd have to move one hand to reach a screen. However, with the two screens side by side, to make a rectangular clamshell form factor, there would be space in between the standard button sets, perfect for a standard touchpad.
Now let's think about this. Nintendo only really started doing 3d with the N64, when they introduced an analog stick to the controller. It's quite difficult to play a true 3d game with only a digital pad. However, you can't throw a stick on a handheld unit, it'll break off leaving many-a-user pissed. So the touchpad is probably going to be a replacement for the analog stick.
Basically I got all this from the premise that both screens are going to be next to each other, so in any case I'm almost definitely wrong, but speculation is fun!
DirecTV sounds like a great choice /. readers as a whole blasting EV1servers for caving in to Evil Company X's immoral and potentially illegal ultimatums? Yet the articles posted on THIS subject all carry an editorial spin of abandonment when a DN stands up against Evil Company Y's extortionist tactics? WTF?
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The biggest things I missed from the original were a real sniper rifle and Assault mode, both of which are back in 2k4 :D :D)
Although they kept the "lightning gun" sniper rifle clone in the game for some maps. I guess to keep down on the campers in certain areas. It can be hard to see snipers in the foliage in certain areas (I know first hand, even with the lightning trail giving away your position, someone has to be looking to see it
All in all, must of my gripes about 2k3 (which I didn't buy) are gone now, and I'm almost certainly going to buy it. I just hope they fix the lag that makes it hard to walk on an elevated platform without falling to your doom.
And most other games' vehicles don't have horns that play La Cucaracha(Manta) and Dixie(Scorpion) :)
I disagree, at least in my laptopless mindset when I was still in college, the laptop should be pretty well portable, specifically to take it basically *everywhere* with you. All the CS and CompE areas are covered with wireless, better than scribbling in a notebook, be able to build sample code as it's being discussed, and there's always games for the spectacularly boring classes. And if you have a tues/thurs class without an available outlet, good luck with this laptop's expected battery life of 1 hour (when most tues/thurs classes run 1:15)
Can't lose?
A decimal and/or metric conversion error causes the moon to hit Mars at a bad angle, slowing it down significantly. While life is spawned/renewed in the following chaos, Mars slowly spirals towards the Sun. Years later, practically covered with simple organisms, Mars is incinerated. Congratulations, you've just committed genocide!
Of course, if you're REALLY unlucky, Mars could come hit us on the way down to the Sun.
How about draw latencies? Sometimes, whatever optimization trick they used in the engine takes awhile to load a model/texture/whatever, and instead of pausing you for a split second, it'll choose to let you keep driving while it loads.
In VC (on my PC which was ok-but-not-great at the time), there's this one bridge that, if you're doing top speed in any decent car, you can't see the walls of the bridge until after you've hit one or made it onto the bridge. It looks like you can save a lot of time by cutting across the grass, but if you overshoot the turn, you hit a small wall of invisibility, and typically your car flies over it and into the river. Nothing in any game has pissed me off more than that bridge.
Incorrect. The contrapositive of patch->exploit is no exploit->no patch, which is not really a truth. The inverse of patch->exploit is no patch->no exploit, but the inverse of a true statement does not have to be true.
Downplaying the announcement wasn't just to keep down the shame of following their chief rival, it was also to confuse those in the current market for a new server. From what I understand, Itanium/Itanic has been a serious flop thus far. What will the motivation be for IT departments to buy Itaniums now if they know something more compatible and better for them is coming along Real Soon Now?
Type this longer number too lightly to casue the pressure sensor to register and varying your pressure only on the 'key' digits
The last time I read an article about these, the camera could see both the pad and the screen. I have yet to see an ATM that doesn't put up a dummy character when you actually hit a key.
let the outcome of virtual wars be accepted as if it had really happened (minus the loss of life)
If both sides were trusting and trustworthy enough to follow those rules, there wouldn't be a need for war in the first place.
Like many technological restrictions (see also:copy protection), this will only stop the casual offender. People who have no remorse over vehicular manslaughter are the people who would be least inconvenienced by this measure, because they'll go in to the garage and hack around it the day they get the car (see also:console modchips).
Still, I could *almost* see it in every car, and definately see it in every repeat offender's car, if it was just for starting. As the proposal stands, however, it would be quite optimistic to think that the blow while you roll or get an alarm isn't going to cause deaths on its own.
The real solution is to actually put repeat drunk drivers in jail, and not for some vacation on the order of months. "Oh no, you took my license even though I've already shown a blatent disrespect of the law" is neither a deterrent nor a punishment. The apparent majority (apparent = "my own eyes, could be wrong") of stories of true drunk driving tragedies come people who have already established a very public record of disregard for human life. Doing something about them will be much more effective than a hack that only stops those honest enough not to circumvent it.