It is starting to sound like the myth that the PS2 boots off of the 2nd DVD layer is nothing but hogwash
It is. The XBox uses this trick to some extent, not the PS2. I should know, I've got a dozen DVDR discs sitting right next to my console (too bad the DVD burner's on RMA right now - piece of shiznit).
The difference between PC and Mac is like Ford and Toyota.
Toyotas are somewhat 'prettier' according to the general populace, and they might last longer than the other guy. They're also made with the complete idiot in mind; it's a car for everyday people, not just wrench heads.
Fords are more 'core', they don't make their vehicles look like they're smiling. They don't use kids in the TV commercials in a shameless attempt to grab naive young moms. And their cars tend to die a little younger than their asian counterparts if you treat them equally. However their cars are designed with the hobbyist's aftermarket in mind. You can rip out parts and upgrade the engine/tranny if you have the slightest idea where you're going.
That's how I see Mac vs PC. Macs work well, they're nice machines for the common user, and you can't do shit with'em unless Steve Jobs said you could (licensing). Sure, there are a few clever folks who have learned the arcane art of Mac tweaking, but it is grossly undocumented and beyond the reach of 99% of their userbase. I don't see myself desoldering stuff on the mobo just to push a G4 from 500 to 550mhz. Na-uh!
PC's are cobbled together from a bunch of different sources.. board from Asus, cpu from AMD, ram from Micron, etc. You can make a sucky PC, or you can build the '68 Mustang of all boxen. Or what if you've already got a piece of shit ? You can swap things out and make it better at minimal cost. Get that queer TNT2-M64 out of there and throw in a Radeon or Geforce2. Throw in a Globalwin heatsink and clock that mutha' out! Or what if something breaks ? Don't ship your entire box to the manufacturer or store, just throw out the dead part and buy another one, then send it back on RMA and sell it off when it comes back.
The bottom line is that it's still a debate on Quality vs Hackability, with many people on each side. There is little point in battling between these factions, but it is good to remind ourselves the mindset behind each of them, instead of just mindlessly bashing one another.
What might be inaudible to you and many others, is what makes the difference to the remaining golden ears. I despise Kazaa because everyone seems to have only 128kbit rips, and many of them use low-quality encoders such as the Fraunhofer licensed crap that's included in MusicMatch Jukebox.
On the typical Soundblaster-equipped PC this might not be an issue, but burn that MP3 to CD and throw it in a half-decent home or car stereo and you'll hear the difference, especially if you crank it up. "Eww, what's up with the wishy-washy hihats ?"
I rip everything between 192/256 kbps, and it makes a good difference to both my ears and my speakers. Poorly encoded MP3 will try its best to emphasize the mid-range, where vocals and lead melody tend to reside; as a side-effect, it will over-compress sub-bass and quantize the high-end. In layman's terms, the loudness of the subwoofer will drop whenever the mid-range takes over, and the hihats and techno tweaks will sound like muffled FM static.
It's like hearing only the predominant part of the music, when the true pleasure of listening is all about being saturated with subtle highlights that keep your subconscious in the clouds.
Well geez, if it's that easy maybe you should start a mail-order poli-sci-bride business and get filthy fucking rich so you could buy your own ferrari and silicone girl and stop being jealous about it all!
I know alot of pointy-headed IM/IT managers will gobble this up like hot semen, but Borland (read; Inprise) is still a big hulking piece of marketing. Their products _used_ to rock, but a few years ago (starting with BC++ 5.0) they just caved in and started producing expensive unfinished crap.
Yes, this compiler will probably produce better code than gcc and it will surely be much faster, but remember this is Borland. They're trying to 'Embrace the Linux platform', just like they tried to do with Kylix, and I have yet to see any serious Kylix-made projects in widespread use, probably because of their unfriendly license for free users.
Is BC++/Linux a piece of shit ? Not really. Is it going to be useful to most of us ? Not really.
The work is great, I like the concept. Just keep doing it the way it is, it's fine. Perhaps you could provide some method for users to contribute back to the Flidget repository.. but it's off to a good start.
Beh.. he should keep the car and sell his girlfriend instead. A geek knockout who can design her own maps AND kick my ass at Quake simultaneously.. finally some proof that there is a god out there!:)
Well, I'd personally love to beat the crap out of all these cyber-pimps who try to sell me "Absolutely free triple-breasted fresh tight goat-fucking teens from amsterdam".. but the hard part is tracking the beeotch down and mailing your left fist to his jaw.
Email is relatively anonymous, which is a bit of a good thing since I wouldn't want a chemically unbalanced Usenet lurker to come knocking on my front door because he doesn't like my sig. That 'security by obscurity' has these obvious drawbacks, we either have to live with them or forfeit the privilege entirely.
Check out the Pro Pinball series. They're the most stunning pinball simulations I've ever played, with very elaborate tables and multiple goals. Their latest release, Fantastic Journey, really requires you to think if you want to score big, as the riches lie in collecting combo bonuses and activating special modes. All in all, a very solid series of pinball killers.
Abit tunes their boards in order to allow such overclocks. They make many design decisions that sacrifice a bit of system stability in exchange for 2% more memory bandwidth, or to allow a wider range of bus speeds just so you can brag that your Athlon 1333 at 147 x9 can saturate the GeForce2's bus a few hairs quicker than mine at 133 x10. For tweak-freaks, that's fine, but for everyone else we just want something that can run Win98/2k for a couple days without a reboot, just like my old P2 system used to.
With my personal opinion of canadian colleges and the incredibly bland atmosphere they all share (please check your brain at the door), I think breaking the crypto in their exam only proves that you are bored stupid. Only stupid people submit to stupid exams to be admitted in a stupid school that only cares about your stupid money.
Sure, crypto involves advanced math and logic skills, but if you already know that, you can probably learn whatever else you need on your own, without paying a bunch of incompetent profs.
It sounds stupid doesn't it ? Print out a thumbnail album with references to the filenames (and folders). That way when you're looking for a pic, you just flip a book instead of just randomly banging every dir on your HD.
Sometimes computers are the problem, not the solution.
I'll second that : Iwill boards are consistently better than average in terms of both performance and stability. Abit sucks ass though, they try to push things too far and forget that a super-overclocked machine that hangs every hour isn't worth shit.
ECS are off to a very impressive start with the K7S5A board. Using the SIS 735 chipset, it is unsurpassed in reliability and offers very decent performance as well. Overclocking isn't its strong point, but at a mere 65$ price tag you can invest the money saved on a faster CPU.
(no I'm not sponsored by ECS, I just hate my Abit KT7-Raid and am jealous of all my friends who have the ECS board)
Oh well.. I guess I'll have to declare a "Burn all canadian-flag-GIFs day". Why does this strike me as an incredibly stupid move from TBS ? I thought the flag was supposed to be an icon of pride, not shame.
Since it's just a filter (I.E. not a person reading everything), wouldn't it be just obvious to encrypt everything ? Or just purposely mis-spell text.. or just type it into a paint program and send the Jpeg of the text..
Keywork filtering is stupid.. just like the chinese government. Ha.
Check out Koolance for a similar product that's been out for over a year now, they're up to the 2nd revision that's much safer and elegant than the original POS.
For every N'Sync and Britney Spears, there are hundreds of low-profile artists that have TRUE talent and dedication that you'll never hear about, because they aren't in touch with the media monsters so they get squeezed out of the big picture.
It wasn't always like this.. in my mind, this whole music prostitution started about fifteen years ago with the "New Kids On The Block". Mega cheese, mega publicity, zero talent. They released a handful of tapes within a couple of years, then vanished into oblivion. The poor fools who've tried solo careers barely got their 15 minutes of fame, so much they suck.
Each big-name disc or tape that sells means another smaller artist that doesn't sell. Survival of the fittest marketing, that's all that matters anymore.
HP's server hardware is decent, but their desktops are C-R-A-P! I was fortunate enough to be given the corporate credit card to go build my own Athlon system last year, while everyone else just bought HPs and Dells with the NMSO. Guess who's got a rock-stable machine ?
The problem with HP (and most others') desktops is that they throw in a fast CPU, then wrap a bunch of crap around it. Pathetic sound chips, onboard video with flaky drivers, and slow IDE controllers. They often suck more than the 300$ 'budget' shite your inlaws bought at CompuCentre.
Their support is excellent though, with same-or-next day replacement, and I've found that the hardware rarely fails (except a hard drive or two). It's just very flaky by design, so you get frequent hangs and crashes.
This place needs a new mod flag : "+1, Pathetic". For those who've just tuned in, Morpheus _IS_ Kazaa.. or to be more precise, they are both clients for the FastTrack P2P network.
What will happen when someone decides to build non-compliant recorder that simply ignores the 'do-not-copy' flag ? The asian markets are a natural birthing pool for these kinds of aftermarket gadgets.
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If anyone wanted to run Bleem! on the PS2, I'd have to shake them vigourously for a few minutes. The PS2 already runs legacy PSX games natively.
Or maybe there's some hidden extra feature I've never heard of in Bleem!. Then again maybe not.
It is starting to sound like the myth that the PS2 boots off of the 2nd DVD layer is nothing but hogwash
It is. The XBox uses this trick to some extent, not the PS2. I should know, I've got a dozen DVDR discs sitting right next to my console (too bad the DVD burner's on RMA right now - piece of shiznit).
The difference between PC and Mac is like Ford and Toyota.
Toyotas are somewhat 'prettier' according to the general populace, and they might last longer than the other guy. They're also made with the complete idiot in mind; it's a car for everyday people, not just wrench heads.
Fords are more 'core', they don't make their vehicles look like they're smiling. They don't use kids in the TV commercials in a shameless attempt to grab naive young moms. And their cars tend to die a little younger than their asian counterparts if you treat them equally. However their cars are designed with the hobbyist's aftermarket in mind. You can rip out parts and upgrade the engine/tranny if you have the slightest idea where you're going.
That's how I see Mac vs PC. Macs work well, they're nice machines for the common user, and you can't do shit with'em unless Steve Jobs said you could (licensing). Sure, there are a few clever folks who have learned the arcane art of Mac tweaking, but it is grossly undocumented and beyond the reach of 99% of their userbase. I don't see myself desoldering stuff on the mobo just to push a G4 from 500 to 550mhz. Na-uh!
PC's are cobbled together from a bunch of different sources.. board from Asus, cpu from AMD, ram from Micron, etc. You can make a sucky PC, or you can build the '68 Mustang of all boxen. Or what if you've already got a piece of shit ? You can swap things out and make it better at minimal cost. Get that queer TNT2-M64 out of there and throw in a Radeon or Geforce2. Throw in a Globalwin heatsink and clock that mutha' out! Or what if something breaks ? Don't ship your entire box to the manufacturer or store, just throw out the dead part and buy another one, then send it back on RMA and sell it off when it comes back.
The bottom line is that it's still a debate on Quality vs Hackability, with many people on each side. There is little point in battling between these factions, but it is good to remind ourselves the mindset behind each of them, instead of just mindlessly bashing one another.
I'd like to be the guy working at the car pound when this little critter gets towed in after a good crash. "Does anybody have a can opener ?"
What might be inaudible to you and many others, is what makes the difference to the remaining golden ears. I despise Kazaa because everyone seems to have only 128kbit rips, and many of them use low-quality encoders such as the Fraunhofer licensed crap that's included in MusicMatch Jukebox.
On the typical Soundblaster-equipped PC this might not be an issue, but burn that MP3 to CD and throw it in a half-decent home or car stereo and you'll hear the difference, especially if you crank it up. "Eww, what's up with the wishy-washy hihats ?"
I rip everything between 192/256 kbps, and it makes a good difference to both my ears and my speakers. Poorly encoded MP3 will try its best to emphasize the mid-range, where vocals and lead melody tend to reside; as a side-effect, it will over-compress sub-bass and quantize the high-end. In layman's terms, the loudness of the subwoofer will drop whenever the mid-range takes over, and the hihats and techno tweaks will sound like muffled FM static.
It's like hearing only the predominant part of the music, when the true pleasure of listening is all about being saturated with subtle highlights that keep your subconscious in the clouds.
Well geez, if it's that easy maybe you should start a mail-order poli-sci-bride business and get filthy fucking rich so you could buy your own ferrari and silicone girl and stop being jealous about it all!
I know alot of pointy-headed IM/IT managers will gobble this up like hot semen, but Borland (read; Inprise) is still a big hulking piece of marketing. Their products _used_ to rock, but a few years ago (starting with BC++ 5.0) they just caved in and started producing expensive unfinished crap.
Yes, this compiler will probably produce better code than gcc and it will surely be much faster, but remember this is Borland. They're trying to 'Embrace the Linux platform', just like they tried to do with Kylix, and I have yet to see any serious Kylix-made projects in widespread use, probably because of their unfriendly license for free users.
Is BC++/Linux a piece of shit ? Not really. Is it going to be useful to most of us ? Not really.
Everyone who gets extorted by this should file in small claims court. You pay for service, you don't abuse the service, they have no defense.
FUck em, HARD!
The work is great, I like the concept. Just keep doing it the way it is, it's fine. Perhaps you could provide some method for users to contribute back to the Flidget repository.. but it's off to a good start.
Beh.. he should keep the car and sell his girlfriend instead. A geek knockout who can design her own maps AND kick my ass at Quake simultaneously .. finally some proof that there is a god out there! :)
Well, I'd personally love to beat the crap out of all these cyber-pimps who try to sell me "Absolutely free triple-breasted fresh tight goat-fucking teens from amsterdam".. but the hard part is tracking the beeotch down and mailing your left fist to his jaw.
Email is relatively anonymous, which is a bit of a good thing since I wouldn't want a chemically unbalanced Usenet lurker to come knocking on my front door because he doesn't like my sig. That 'security by obscurity' has these obvious drawbacks, we either have to live with them or forfeit the privilege entirely.
Check out the Pro Pinball series. They're the most stunning pinball simulations I've ever played, with very elaborate tables and multiple goals. Their latest release, Fantastic Journey, really requires you to think if you want to score big, as the riches lie in collecting combo bonuses and activating special modes. All in all, a very solid series of pinball killers.
Abit tunes their boards in order to allow such overclocks. They make many design decisions that sacrifice a bit of system stability in exchange for 2% more memory bandwidth, or to allow a wider range of bus speeds just so you can brag that your Athlon 1333 at 147 x9 can saturate the GeForce2's bus a few hairs quicker than mine at 133 x10. For tweak-freaks, that's fine, but for everyone else we just want something that can run Win98/2k for a couple days without a reboot, just like my old P2 system used to.
With my personal opinion of canadian colleges and the incredibly bland atmosphere they all share (please check your brain at the door), I think breaking the crypto in their exam only proves that you are bored stupid. Only stupid people submit to stupid exams to be admitted in a stupid school that only cares about your stupid money.
Sure, crypto involves advanced math and logic skills, but if you already know that, you can probably learn whatever else you need on your own, without paying a bunch of incompetent profs.
It sounds stupid doesn't it ? Print out a thumbnail album with references to the filenames (and folders). That way when you're looking for a pic, you just flip a book instead of just randomly banging every dir on your HD.
Sometimes computers are the problem, not the solution.
I'll second that : Iwill boards are consistently better than average in terms of both performance and stability. Abit sucks ass though, they try to push things too far and forget that a super-overclocked machine that hangs every hour isn't worth shit.
ECS are off to a very impressive start with the K7S5A board. Using the SIS 735 chipset, it is unsurpassed in reliability and offers very decent performance as well. Overclocking isn't its strong point, but at a mere 65$ price tag you can invest the money saved on a faster CPU.
(no I'm not sponsored by ECS, I just hate my Abit KT7-Raid and am jealous of all my friends who have the ECS board)
Oh well.. I guess I'll have to declare a "Burn all canadian-flag-GIFs day". Why does this strike me as an incredibly stupid move from TBS ? I thought the flag was supposed to be an icon of pride, not shame.
Since it's just a filter (I.E. not a person reading everything), wouldn't it be just obvious to encrypt everything ? Or just purposely mis-spell text.. or just type it into a paint program and send the Jpeg of the text..
Keywork filtering is stupid.. just like the chinese government. Ha.
Check out Koolance for a similar product that's been out for over a year now, they're up to the 2nd revision that's much safer and elegant than the original POS.
For every N'Sync and Britney Spears, there are hundreds of low-profile artists that have TRUE talent and dedication that you'll never hear about, because they aren't in touch with the media monsters so they get squeezed out of the big picture.
It wasn't always like this.. in my mind, this whole music prostitution started about fifteen years ago with the "New Kids On The Block". Mega cheese, mega publicity, zero talent. They released a handful of tapes within a couple of years, then vanished into oblivion. The poor fools who've tried solo careers barely got their 15 minutes of fame, so much they suck.
Each big-name disc or tape that sells means another smaller artist that doesn't sell. Survival of the fittest marketing, that's all that matters anymore.
HP's server hardware is decent, but their desktops are C-R-A-P! I was fortunate enough to be given the corporate credit card to go build my own Athlon system last year, while everyone else just bought HPs and Dells with the NMSO. Guess who's got a rock-stable machine ?
The problem with HP (and most others') desktops is that they throw in a fast CPU, then wrap a bunch of crap around it. Pathetic sound chips, onboard video with flaky drivers, and slow IDE controllers. They often suck more than the 300$ 'budget' shite your inlaws bought at CompuCentre.
Their support is excellent though, with same-or-next day replacement, and I've found that the hardware rarely fails (except a hard drive or two). It's just very flaky by design, so you get frequent hangs and crashes.
This place needs a new mod flag : "+1, Pathetic". For those who've just tuned in, Morpheus _IS_ Kazaa.. or to be more precise, they are both clients for the FastTrack P2P network.
What will happen when someone decides to build non-compliant recorder that simply ignores the 'do-not-copy' flag ? The asian markets are a natural birthing pool for these kinds of aftermarket gadgets.
Well then.. he should have told the judge he didn't like being sucked off by hot teens.
"Please Your Honor! Not the cocksucking teens!"
They've finally discovered : (drumroll) DUST!
Ladies and gentlemen, your tax dollars at work.