Agreed. I believe that humans are not able to distinguish framerates over something like 200fps (correct me if I am wrong please.) So instead of wasting that power on frames, put it to good use (like new rendering techniques - pixel shading was a step in the right direction.)
Once you have built one element of 3D to the top, start at the bottom of another and keep building it up. This is the way the actual *TECHNOLOGY* improves.
Besides, I can live with 30-40fps on ANY game.
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I heard people complaining in my school computer lab: "Yo, I sucked so bad at that CS game, my framerate was only like 70fps, I should get a new video card"... Yes. I really heard this. No one believed me when I said I could play just as well at 30fps.
</anecdote>
I almost can't stand it when I buy a new flashy graphics card that is praised by every magazine, and then a NEWER card comes out, that supports DX8 pixel shaders, etc., etc. (IE I bought a Radeon 64MB DDR card....two weeks later, hello GeForce3)
I hope if I buy a GeForce4, it'll last, in both speed and 3D technology.
You go! Dig Dug is teh absolute 0wnz0r...I've been playing way too much Max Payne recently. The plot is great. And I keep running out of Bullet Time. Noteworthy mention Deus Ex
Hopefully, they may release the code once they are happy with it and anyone with a compiler can build it for whatever OS they are using - but that has a bad side: someone could hack the code to actually track the keys pressed and send them in the same kind of pulse. If the current software isn't already doing so... =)
Why OS/2?
I'm wondering the same thing. Even a Mac port would make (marginally) more sense. OS/2 is dead and, according to Maximum PC's 'glitch' in May 2000:
"The [Pan-OS] Council estimates there are currently 60 active OS/2 users on the West Coast, 55 active users on the East Coast, and another 35 to 45 active users nesting in underground hovels and effluvial drainage pipes throughout the rest of the country."
I don't recall seeing any real non-TechTV ads on the channel. But then again I live in Hong Kong...w00t...so probably they strip out the american ads, just as CNBC Asia shows local ads during Squawk Box commercial time. Actually - I kind of like the TechTV ads with all of the 3d stuff.
However, I feel for you people...I wouldn't want to watch Microsoft/other shit company ads for shit products.
I bet they just want to patent something pretty common so that when someone else comes out with something remotely similar they can be sued, and in comes the money. IANAL, though, so I'm not sure if that would work or not.
That's disgustingly Microsoft. Either you pay, or you take the trouble to reformat and re-install. Looks like I'll be getting Windows 2000 instead...Any fishy registration business on that one? I don't think so, at least as not as much as XP.
So, it bothers me when people go through such tremendous lengths to silence spammers. Granted, they're annoying. Granted, they're one step lower than a leech. There's honestly not much to like about them.
Just like junk mail that you find crammed into your mail box, or the calls that you get from people offering you free issues of some crap magazine. But generally, spam wastes more time. You can just chuck anything that looks flashy/seedy in the trash, and hang up on telemarketers. Here in Hong Kong you get a few calls a week from telemarketers. Once I hear the tell-tale, recording-like stream of Cantonese that doesn't let you get a word in edgewise, I hang up. They call back, I recognize the voice, I hang up. It's pretty fun doing that actually.:p
Thats 12 seconds per spam if I recieve 25 a day. Do the math, thats 30 *hours* a year dealing with spam.
30 hours that could be well spent playing a good oldskool RPG:P
I'm surprised that people in the US get so much spam...the most I got in one day was four. And that's with no hokey hotmail junk mail filter. (I use it now, but it doesn't really seem to help at all now that spammers are getting hold of lists of email addresses.)
On an unrelated note, I wonder why Bernie boy makes such a fuss out of people reporting his endless stream of crap. Is it the challenge, whether he can convince anyone that he can sue with his army of imaginary lawyers? Ah well maybe we'll never know...
Windows for desktops was Bill Gates' original dream. He intended it so that the world could use a computer without the admittedly stiff learning curve for *nix. I believe that Windows 3.x was actually a pretty damn good effort to do that. 3.11 for workgroups brought BASIC networking capability, making it accessible to *nix servers and such, ^^....
I admit that right now I am running on a Wintel box, for schoolwork convenience, IM, and such. Convenience at a price: my machine locks up about twice a day, if I'm lucky only once. One program crashes. Then another. Then another. Then a looping BSOD which basically is Windows saying I can't fscking pick myself up off the ground. But because it's on every single computer in the school...
Needless to say, my Linux box only froze once in its entire existence of two years. And that was when I put the computer into an endless loop by mistake.
Agreed, then. IN GENERAL, Windows rocks for gaming and day-to-day work. I don't have to compile all of the programs I want to use, I don't have to tell it whether my Aureal Vortex 2 is on IRQ 11, address 0x220, and DMA 1, I don't have to recompile my kernel for network card support.
So why are they trying to get a bite out of the server business? Win2K server is a bitch to admin (however I admit that I've had no admin experience on a *nix box.) Microsoft's dream is monopoly, and they'll force-feed companies with their products no matter what it takes - bribery, getting unreputable companies to put NT4 and Red Hat boxen head-to-head, etc.
If Linux can be made as easy to use as Windows is, while retaining the kernel stability that has made it famous for servers etc., and added widespread PnP support for hardware, and a mostly no-brainer installation experience (Red Hat-quality, minus the arcane RPM package names)...
Linux will be a HIT. It would be free and good and, to _all_, high and above Windows.
I agree. What are the implications if MS intended for this to be leaked. Perhaps it's meant to be a decoy for other companies, to carefully steer them to a different company strategy... but then again, no company is so gullible.
Either MS has something brewing, or they're incredibly stupid. The message sounds like something out of a Dilbert book.
Mindcraft Study. They were caught red-handed once and I don't see why they would not try again. In fact:
"The Red Hat participants left before Mindcraft completed the Phase 3 tests for Windows NT Server in order to make a flight home. PC Week did oversee these tests."
Since Red Hat isn't around, NT4 Server results can be bumped up a little bit, while keeping Red Hat's results constant to show they match with Red Hat's official results. That's one situation. If a 'reputable' company like Mindcraft can be made to bias, why not a small magazine like PC Week? Of course nobody can say for sure, but I think there's something fishy, as with anything involving Microsoft. To end:
"The information in this publication is subject to change without notice."
With keyboards like this, how would you be able to whack your monitor with it in frustration? I mean, your hands offer increased dexterity and precision, of course, but there's nothing like bashing your monitor with a nice large keyboard.
Wait until someone starts taking time to make giant 80x25 ascii banner ads for something like gnut...I made one but obviously it encountered the lameness filter.
I think that this GPT crap is more MS monopolizing evilness. I use a program called Ranish Partition Manager to partition my drives. Using its special IPL it can create as many partitions as you want on a single drive (actually up to 99 i think but what kind of user needs that many?!?) They all appear as primary partitions if you go to FDISK and I've had no problems with it so far on my drive.
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Agreed. I believe that humans are not able to distinguish framerates over something like 200fps (correct me if I am wrong please.) So instead of wasting that power on frames, put it to good use (like new rendering techniques - pixel shading was a step in the right direction.)
... Yes. I really heard this. No one believed me when I said I could play just as well at 30fps.
Once you have built one element of 3D to the top, start at the bottom of another and keep building it up. This is the way the actual *TECHNOLOGY* improves.
Besides, I can live with 30-40fps on ANY game.
<anecdote>
I heard people complaining in my school computer lab: "Yo, I sucked so bad at that CS game, my framerate was only like 70fps, I should get a new video card"
</anecdote>
I almost can't stand it when I buy a new flashy graphics card that is praised by every magazine, and then a NEWER card comes out, that supports DX8 pixel shaders, etc., etc. (IE I bought a Radeon 64MB DDR card....two weeks later, hello GeForce3)
I hope if I buy a GeForce4, it'll last, in both speed and 3D technology.
robotic bar prostitutes?
I mean, they've already synthesized skin, or a reasonable facsimile thereof.
*remembers A.I. and that electronic gigolo*
All hail the Finnish!
I don't recall seeing any real non-TechTV ads on the channel. But then again I live in Hong Kong...w00t...so probably they strip out the american ads, just as CNBC Asia shows local ads during Squawk Box commercial time. Actually - I kind of like the TechTV ads with all of the 3d stuff.
;)
However, I feel for you people...I wouldn't want to watch Microsoft/other shit company ads for shit products.
Long live Laporte!
I bet they just want to patent something pretty common so that when someone else comes out with something remotely similar they can be sued, and in comes the money. IANAL, though, so I'm not sure if that would work or not.
That's disgustingly Microsoft. Either you pay, or you take the trouble to reformat and re-install. Looks like I'll be getting Windows 2000 instead...Any fishy registration business on that one? I don't think so, at least as not as much as XP.
Ah well. (holds up pir8 copy of Win98 SE)
I'm surprised that people in the US get so much spam...the most I got in one day was four. And that's with no hokey hotmail junk mail filter. (I use it now, but it doesn't really seem to help at all now that spammers are getting hold of lists of email addresses.)
On an unrelated note, I wonder why Bernie boy makes such a fuss out of people reporting his endless stream of crap. Is it the challenge, whether he can convince anyone that he can sue with his army of imaginary lawyers? Ah well maybe we'll never know...
Windows for desktops was Bill Gates' original dream. He intended it so that the world could use a computer without the admittedly stiff learning curve for *nix. I believe that Windows 3.x was actually a pretty damn good effort to do that. 3.11 for workgroups brought BASIC networking capability, making it accessible to *nix servers and such, ^^....
I admit that right now I am running on a Wintel box, for schoolwork convenience, IM, and such. Convenience at a price: my machine locks up about twice a day, if I'm lucky only once. One program crashes. Then another. Then another. Then a looping BSOD which basically is Windows saying I can't fscking pick myself up off the ground. But because it's on every single computer in the school...
Needless to say, my Linux box only froze once in its entire existence of two years. And that was when I put the computer into an endless loop by mistake.
Agreed, then. IN GENERAL, Windows rocks for gaming and day-to-day work. I don't have to compile all of the programs I want to use, I don't have to tell it whether my Aureal Vortex 2 is on IRQ 11, address 0x220, and DMA 1, I don't have to recompile my kernel for network card support.
So why are they trying to get a bite out of the server business? Win2K server is a bitch to admin (however I admit that I've had no admin experience on a *nix box.) Microsoft's dream is monopoly, and they'll force-feed companies with their products no matter what it takes - bribery, getting unreputable companies to put NT4 and Red Hat boxen head-to-head, etc.
If Linux can be made as easy to use as Windows is, while retaining the kernel stability that has made it famous for servers etc., and added widespread PnP support for hardware, and a mostly no-brainer installation experience (Red Hat-quality, minus the arcane RPM package names)...
Linux will be a HIT. It would be free and good and, to _all_, high and above Windows.
Could that ever happen?
Either MS has something brewing, or they're incredibly stupid. The message sounds like something out of a Dilbert book.
Mindcraft Study. They were caught red-handed once and I don't see why they would not try again. In fact:
"The Red Hat participants left before Mindcraft completed the Phase 3 tests for Windows NT Server in order to make a flight home. PC Week did oversee these tests."
Since Red Hat isn't around, NT4 Server results can be bumped up a little bit, while keeping Red Hat's results constant to show they match with Red Hat's official results. That's one situation. If a 'reputable' company like Mindcraft can be made to bias, why not a small magazine like PC Week? Of course nobody can say for sure, but I think there's something fishy, as with anything involving Microsoft. To end:
"The information in this publication is subject to change without notice."
With keyboards like this, how would you be able to whack your monitor with it in frustration? I mean, your hands offer increased dexterity and precision, of course, but there's nothing like bashing your monitor with a nice large keyboard.
Wait until someone starts taking time to make giant 80x25 ascii banner ads for something like gnut...I made one but obviously it encountered the lameness filter.
-d
Crap flows thru my Open Source. Hey, it's true.
Listen to the merger press release conference NOW at http://www.compaq.com/newsroom/presspaq/090401/ind ex.html!!!!
Don't hesitate, or your iPaq/Jornada will crash.
I think that this GPT crap is more MS monopolizing evilness. I use a program called Ranish Partition Manager to partition my drives. Using its special IPL it can create as many partitions as you want on a single drive (actually up to 99 i think but what kind of user needs that many?!?) They all appear as primary partitions if you go to FDISK and I've had no problems with it so far on my drive.