just because you don't like FPS games doesn't mean the rest of us don't too. Quake 2, Half-Life, Doom, Wolf3d, MOHAA (altho I didn't play much because I don't enjoy singleplayer games in general) are all excelent FPS games.
it's not about running around and shooting things: it's about creating an enviroment of the unexpected.
I just can't wait for planetside to come out - a fps mmorpg that requires skill, will be very exciting.
hate to bust your bubble, but it was somthing more along the lines of the government (with unlimited resources) helping on a product that directly competed with a commercial market (microsoft).
If you think ViewSonic monitors are good, then you have a vague sense of quality. All the ViewSonic monitors I have seen don't support decent refresh rates at high resolutions and don't even give a good image at the reccomended resolutions.
Additionally I have seen them virtually fall apart from bad handling, seems faster then others, although that's completly debatable.
I don't consider my monitor high end at all, but I have a CTX (value series) 19" monitor that has an absolutely awesome image compared to my friends' 19" ViewSonics. Mine isn't even a flat screen, but I would take it over those any day.
What's honestly wrong with the "old shit"? Can NT4 suddenly not serve webpages at a certian date? Can NT4 no longer run a database which it has been for years?
If it works in a business, I would be weary of changing it out overnight. Changing an operating system is a big deal and introduces incompatabilities.
Until Microsoft grasps that there are 10-20 year old mainframes still doing their job fine, they will not be able to control or understand the server market.
However, I agree that there is a point in time where upgrades are needed and old systems should be retired. The point is this time should come when the COMPANY feels it is worth switching out - not Microsoft.
So maybe, just maybe, you should have came up with a different business model. When you design a product and have 2 ways of selling it, only one is fundamentally flawed,... What were these people thinking?
I'm sorry, but if all these companies go broke, I could care less. The government/law should not protect a flawed business model.
You'd get the LCD, because a 21" CRT costs a lot more then 20 bucks to ship. 80lbs (insured) is not cheap to ship, and I would never want a cheap CRT to begin with. My eyes are worth more then saving a couple hundred bucks to me.
My brain. Microsoft seems to have done away with that requirement.
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Never. I type much faster then I can speak, and probably faster then I can think. Speaking also leaves a lot more room for error, altho that an opinion.
If I had a way to directly communicate my thoughts to the computer, however, that would be nice.
I believe that the model is failing because websites are too indiscriminate in chosing ads to run.
Exactly. Since most of the content on the internet I can simpley get somewhere else, I do exactly that. If your website is ugly, has a bad design, or has intrusive flash banners that impare reading -achem-, I go somewhere else. I have other things to do with my time then trying to discover how to navigate your inheritly flawed design.
Exactly why I use google, google news, google newsgroups, and CLICK on their ads. Their useful, non-intrusive, and they aren't bothering me when I'm serious about doing the task at hand (searching).
An example of bad design would be Slashdot's left bar, in my opinion. It is better filled with content than links most people won't click on. When I go to Slashdot, I am looking for news. If I was looking for the faq, awards, bugs, jobs, etc, I would scroll to the bottom and expect the links to be there.
But then again, since when did the customer matter anyway.
Slightly offtopic, but I figured I might as well take a shot- Has anyone successfuly piped audio from a Unix machine to a windows machine, across the network? I got it working using esd and a java version of esd, however the sound quality sucked (and java's sound support didn't like my 5.1 sound, I wouldn't mind but it had 0 bass).
I've looked but can not find a native sound server for windows at all, in any form. Even somthing compiled with cygwin would probably work, but no luck there either.
It was a huge chunk of ice (it was in Canada, not Texas summers:) ). I don't remember the size at all, but I would guess somthing like 20' x 5' x 5' at least.
It might not have lasted all summer, but it got the job done for the hot days.
My father grew up on an Amish farm, and my grandfather was an Amish bishop. I can say that from my expierences, they do shun all modern technology. That isn't to say that they don't come up with alternatives.
I do know that different Amish communities feel differently as to how worldly they should live, however they all share the basic resistance.
Where I was, I recall visiting a building where they had to keep a large room cooled over the warm summers. To do this, they cut out a huge block of ice from a nearby lake and hauled it into the building, and kept the room very cold by good air circulation all summer. They had fields like any other farm, greenhouses (I don't recall how they were constructed, tho), lots of horses - anything you would expect from a traditional farm.
I never saw anything modern that struck out as worldly as a cell phone (they went to a nearby town with a payphone if they absolutely had to), however we were only there a few days.
I will agree. I have a raedeon 9700 pro, and while I've had trouble getting the drivers installed correctly, I've had -absolutely- no problems with stability or usability. While their drivers may have sucked in the past, I can vouch that their current drivers work fine.
On the other hand, their red ATI logo is dead ugly.
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daoc already encrypts everything, the problem is the encryption simply sucks. If the client can decode it, 99% chance the 3rd party app can too.
a smart person will never get caught using it tho, that is true.
The nvidia drivers have excelent virtual desktop support too. Much better than what XP has. Still just doesn't feel right on windows to me.
I can imagine one big group of male, aged 13 to 21, made friends by this system due to the common porn interest.
just because you don't like FPS games doesn't mean the rest of us don't too. Quake 2, Half-Life, Doom, Wolf3d, MOHAA (altho I didn't play much because I don't enjoy singleplayer games in general) are all excelent FPS games.
it's not about running around and shooting things: it's about creating an enviroment of the unexpected.
I just can't wait for planetside to come out - a fps mmorpg that requires skill, will be very exciting.
Apparently they lock their linux users up in a cage and they don't even notice when nobody else is there.
I'd stay away from there if you don't run windows!
Anyway, pictures of all the nerd stuff are at http://bilder.jodal.no/tg03
hate to bust your bubble, but it was somthing more along the lines of the government (with unlimited resources) helping on a product that directly competed with a commercial market (microsoft).
that is, rightfully, wrong.
please publish the locations of the drives so we can access them too. Not that I plan to steal them or anything...
If you think ViewSonic monitors are good, then you have a vague sense of quality. All the ViewSonic monitors I have seen don't support decent refresh rates at high resolutions and don't even give a good image at the reccomended resolutions.
:)
Additionally I have seen them virtually fall apart from bad handling, seems faster then others, although that's completly debatable.
I don't consider my monitor high end at all, but I have a CTX (value series) 19" monitor that has an absolutely awesome image compared to my friends' 19" ViewSonics. Mine isn't even a flat screen, but I would take it over those any day.
They have a much better warranty IIRC too
You have to include fortune. It's nice to have somthing to read when you are frustrated to lighten the situation.
What's honestly wrong with the "old shit"? Can NT4 suddenly not serve webpages at a certian date? Can NT4 no longer run a database which it has been for years?
If it works in a business, I would be weary of changing it out overnight. Changing an operating system is a big deal and introduces incompatabilities.
Until Microsoft grasps that there are 10-20 year old mainframes still doing their job fine, they will not be able to control or understand the server market.
However, I agree that there is a point in time where upgrades are needed and old systems should be retired. The point is this time should come when the COMPANY feels it is worth switching out - not Microsoft.
the best man will win the race.
So maybe, just maybe, you should have came up with a different business model. When you design a product and have 2 ways of selling it, only one is fundamentally flawed, ... What were these people thinking?
I'm sorry, but if all these companies go broke, I could care less. The government/law should not protect a flawed business model.
You'd get the LCD, because a 21" CRT costs a lot more then 20 bucks to ship. 80lbs (insured) is not cheap to ship, and I would never want a cheap CRT to begin with. My eyes are worth more then saving a couple hundred bucks to me.
I'm completly ignorant on this subject, but that gets amazingly confusing and loses readability factor real quick.
complex statements would become hell to deal with by a human.
Just think of where you'll be in 20 years!
Amen on number 3. Quake 1 co-op wasn't really ment to be, but I still had a heck of a lot of fun doing it.
My brain. Microsoft seems to have done away with that requirement.
Never. I type much faster then I can speak, and probably faster then I can think. Speaking also leaves a lot more room for error, altho that an opinion.
If I had a way to directly communicate my thoughts to the computer, however, that would be nice.
Really? We use novell at my work. IBM mainframes for all the data stuff.
Exact same thing applies to both - mainframe software has specific user permissions, and novell has the best file permission scheme I have ever seen.
I hate to brake it to you, but even NT4 had decent file access schemes. In the real world, people have already fucking thought about that.
If your still running a windows 98 peer-to-peer network, then thats your thing- but don't run around making up numbers out of your ass.
gee, can you give me my fortune too?
I believe that the model is failing because websites are too indiscriminate in chosing ads to run.
Exactly. Since most of the content on the internet I can simpley get somewhere else, I do exactly that. If your website is ugly, has a bad design, or has intrusive flash banners that impare reading -achem-, I go somewhere else. I have other things to do with my time then trying to discover how to navigate your inheritly flawed design.
Exactly why I use google, google news, google newsgroups, and CLICK on their ads. Their useful, non-intrusive, and they aren't bothering me when I'm serious about doing the task at hand (searching).
An example of bad design would be Slashdot's left bar, in my opinion. It is better filled with content than links most people won't click on. When I go to Slashdot, I am looking for news. If I was looking for the faq, awards, bugs, jobs, etc, I would scroll to the bottom and expect the links to be there.
But then again, since when did the customer matter anyway.
Slightly offtopic, but I figured I might as well take a shot- Has anyone successfuly piped audio from a Unix machine to a windows machine, across the network? I got it working using esd and a java version of esd, however the sound quality sucked (and java's sound support didn't like my 5.1 sound, I wouldn't mind but it had 0 bass).
I've looked but can not find a native sound server for windows at all, in any form. Even somthing compiled with cygwin would probably work, but no luck there either.
It was a huge chunk of ice (it was in Canada, not Texas summers :) ). I don't remember the size at all, but I would guess somthing like 20' x 5' x 5' at least.
It might not have lasted all summer, but it got the job done for the hot days.
My father grew up on an Amish farm, and my grandfather was an Amish bishop. I can say that from my expierences, they do shun all modern technology. That isn't to say that they don't come up with alternatives.
I do know that different Amish communities feel differently as to how worldly they should live, however they all share the basic resistance.
Where I was, I recall visiting a building where they had to keep a large room cooled over the warm summers. To do this, they cut out a huge block of ice from a nearby lake and hauled it into the building, and kept the room very cold by good air circulation all summer. They had fields like any other farm, greenhouses (I don't recall how they were constructed, tho), lots of horses - anything you would expect from a traditional farm.
I never saw anything modern that struck out as worldly as a cell phone (they went to a nearby town with a payphone if they absolutely had to), however we were only there a few days.
I will agree. I have a raedeon 9700 pro, and while I've had trouble getting the drivers installed correctly, I've had -absolutely- no problems with stability or usability. While their drivers may have sucked in the past, I can vouch that their current drivers work fine.
On the other hand, their red ATI logo is dead ugly.