Hardcore Quake heads do (we need 125 fps for the additional 'physics' benefits). Everyone else who can make do with a steady 60fps can use much higher resolutions..:)
We have proper support for our video-card, not these shitty broken binary-only drivers that nVidia puts out, plus we get decent 3D performance and superior 2D quality too. I can get a constant 125 fps in Quake 3 at 800x600x32, what more can you want?
Deer hunter may have been the best selling PC game of all time in America, but it really didn't sell too well over here in Europe (in fact it seems it was released over here merely to give us more ammunition to make jokes about yankee rednecks).
The Sims sells incredibly well all over the world.
Erm.. wtf are you talking about? 13 second ping time???!!!
Maximum size of an IP packet using fiber = 4470 bytes. Transfer rate of 50 mbytes/second.
Ping time is therefore 8ms according to my calculations, although I really suck at maths, so I could be wrong..:)
As for using a modem to handle control traffic.. the modem wouldn't be able to send back ACK packets nearly fast enough, it'd seriously limit the transfer speed..
As a resident of the UK, I don't get to ride American roller coasters much. The best theme park I've been to was Busch Gardens, Florida, which ISTR had some pretty damn fine coasters. From reading this article I get the feeling I'm really missing out on some seriously good roller-coasters.. anyone care to enlighten me as to exactly where they are?:)
The X-Files was a great show up until around the end of season 2. After then things went downhill - and fast.
X-Files should have never tried to run for more than a couple of series - there are only so many times the main charecters can almost see something eerie, but not quite, maintaining that skeptic vs believer thing. Once Scully believed Mulder, the show was over IMO.
I hadn't considered this possibility, but from what I know of telecoms systems (I don't write telephony software, but I have some knowledge of the domain) what you say certainly sounds possible.
Without further evidence it's impossible to say, but either explanation could be correct. Also, if it were the hotels that were compromised, it could be not a group of 'uber-hackers', but instead just an old-fashioned case of bribery and corruption, with hotels paid/forced to alter their exchanges by the mob.
callers from outside Vegas, or from payphones and cell phones, get through, he says, but hotel callers frequently get false busy signals, or reach silence
This sounds to me like systematic hacking of hotel telephone exchanges, so assuming Sprint isn't responsible for these (I don't see why it would be) I'm really not sure that this is Sprint's fault or problem.
I went for the 'straight-to-a-career' option. I took a job doing tech support for a large OEM, and hated. Fortunately I got promoted to a much better job within the company. I could have stayed there and done pretty well, but I noticed that despite all the extra money I had from working all my friends who went straight to University seemed to be having a much better time than I was. After a year of working, I started my University course.
Now after three years at University, I'm about to finish (here in the UK degree courses are only three years), and I'm finding that job-wise the degree isn't actually helping all that much. Most employers are far more interested in the work I did during summer breaks and part time than the degree course.
Basically, career wise going to University was probably of little benefit. But do I regret it? No way, I'm really not looking forward to having to work for a living again instead of getting drunk and stoned most of the time (although I hear in America you have these strange laws where you can't purchase alcahol until the age of 21, but I can't believe that much attention gets paid to that crap..:)). The first year of University I partied as hard as I could, the second year I eased off on the partying a bit and did more University work, this year has been mainly Uni-work with relativly little partying. Also, don't believe everyone who tells you the only way to learn is by doing. You learn a lot that way, but it's certainly not the only way to learn and it's not always the best way either. The extra time you have at Uni means that you can look into something in more depth, read up on the theory behind it, try stuff out etc etc - I found that at work it was mainly a case of getting something to the stage where it worked and then moving on to the next project. There was rarely any time to properly analyse things like you can when you're studying.
Essentially what I'm saying is that whatever you choose you can do well for yourself, but IMO choosing the college route will probably proove to be more fun:) Also, don't think that once you've chosen one path you have to stick with it - you can always decide to go and get a degree later, or drop out of college if you decide it's not for you after all.
Are that the ethernet and 56k modem adaptors will be sold for just $34.95 each. Nintendo were looking as thought they weren't going to bring these out previously so this is damn good news - finally PSO without loads of hacked-up charecters (hopefully...)
Actually, under Communism everything is owned by everyone. 'Private property is theft' does not mean that there cannot be property, just that property belongs to the state, which itself consists of everyone.
What we are heading towards is something far, far darker than this, where everything is owned by a corporation accountable only to its shareholders (and how accountable it is to them is debateable anyway).
That a few months or so after it's been released on DVD there's a special 'uncut' version on a 12 certificate, with an extra 1 second of never-before seen footage!
You're quite right, I did read the article, but after reading many comments speaking about Ted Turner there was a buffer overflow and Ted Turner got written to the stack in place of Jamie Kellner..:)
It's called the BBC. You pay a flat fee, and you get to watch quality TV programs (and shitty TV programs too if you so desire) without any adverts!
Ted Turner has a good point, adverts as an advertising medium haev passed their sell-by date. What a shame his company will go out of business because he'd rather bitch about it than get a new revenue model.
Fortunately most of the Razor1911 members aren't in the Americas. I believe DoD were targetted because most of their members were. I suspect that assuming the authorities feel that games piracy is a worthy target too (apps piracy seems to be their usual target, presumably because at $3000 for a piece of software it's much easy to invent these massive 'losses due to piracy', despite the fact that the vast majority of people downloading wouldn't have a hope of getting $3000 to spend on anything, let alone a piece of software they barley need) CLASS will be the next target, assuming they're still active (I'm not really into the warez scene any more, or at least not the PC warez scene..:))
I decided that it would be better to reply to your mis-information than simply mod you down.. I'll leave that job to somebody else..:)
nvidia
Bzzt.. wrong! nVidia provide binary-only drivers. There are stability issues, and there's no way they're going to be resolved, because no-one's got the source to fix it.
ATI (sortof. at least their linux drivers sucks as much as windows one..)
I've got an ATI Radeon in my machine, my gf has an ATI Radeon in her Windows 2000 box, and I can confidently say that the Linux drivers are far better than those for Windows, probably because ATI didn't write them. ATI (unlike nVidia) have been very good about releasing specs to the community.
There's one company everyone seems to be missing out here: Adaptec. They took over maintenance of the SCSI drivers for their cards in the Linux kernel a while ago, and they've put a lot of work into them.
Saying 802.11a is widespread now is like saying GSM was widespread five years ago - it was in some places, with other countries completely lacking in support.
And where is your proof that said 'psychos, rapists and stalkers' 'get worse because of pornography'.
(Hint: editorials from far-right websites don't count).
Don't get me wrong, I feel extremely uneasy about the concept of 'virtual' kiddie porn, but there's no evidence it's harmful, and the law as it stood certainally was. By being so vauge in the way it was written, it could easily stop what could justifiably be called art.
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Hardcore Quake heads do (we need 125 fps for the additional 'physics' benefits). Everyone else who can make do with a steady 60fps can use much higher resolutions.. :)
We have proper support for our video-card, not these shitty broken binary-only drivers that nVidia puts out, plus we get decent 3D performance and superior 2D quality too. I can get a constant 125 fps in Quake 3 at 800x600x32, what more can you want?
The Sims sells incredibly well all over the world.
Maximum size of an IP packet using fiber = 4470 bytes. Transfer rate of 50 mbytes/second. :)
Ping time is therefore 8ms according to my calculations, although I really suck at maths, so I could be wrong..
As for using a modem to handle control traffic.. the modem wouldn't be able to send back ACK packets nearly fast enough, it'd seriously limit the transfer speed..
As a resident of the UK, I don't get to ride American roller coasters much. The best theme park I've been to was Busch Gardens, Florida, which ISTR had some pretty damn fine coasters. :)
From reading this article I get the feeling I'm really missing out on some seriously good roller-coasters.. anyone care to enlighten me as to exactly where they are?
I they want us atheists to run it, they'd better sort that out..
The X-Files was a great show up until around the end of season 2. After then things went downhill - and fast.
X-Files should have never tried to run for more than a couple of series - there are only so many times the main charecters can almost see something eerie, but not quite, maintaining that skeptic vs believer thing. Once Scully believed Mulder, the show was over IMO.
Without further evidence it's impossible to say, but either explanation could be correct.
Also, if it were the hotels that were compromised, it could be not a group of 'uber-hackers', but instead just an old-fashioned case of bribery and corruption, with hotels paid/forced to alter their exchanges by the mob.
Pinochet was a benign dictator? This man tortured and killed thousands of people. I'd hardly call that benign..
10 PRINT "PS2 RULEZ"
20 PRINT GOTO 10
This sounds to me like systematic hacking of hotel telephone exchanges, so assuming Sprint isn't responsible for these (I don't see why it would be) I'm really not sure that this is Sprint's fault or problem.
I went for the 'straight-to-a-career' option. I took a job doing tech support for a large OEM, and hated. Fortunately I got promoted to a much better job within the company. I could have stayed there and done pretty well, but I noticed that despite all the extra money I had from working all my friends who went straight to University seemed to be having a much better time than I was. After a year of working, I started my University course.
Now after three years at University, I'm about to finish (here in the UK degree courses are only three years), and I'm finding that job-wise the degree isn't actually helping all that much. Most employers are far more interested in the work I did during summer breaks and part time than the degree course.
Basically, career wise going to University was probably of little benefit. But do I regret it? :)). The first year of University I partied as hard as I could, the second year I eased off on the partying a bit and did more University work, this year has been mainly Uni-work with relativly little partying.
No way, I'm really not looking forward to having to work for a living again instead of getting drunk and stoned most of the time (although I hear in America you have these strange laws where you can't purchase alcahol until the age of 21, but I can't believe that much attention gets paid to that crap..
Also, don't believe everyone who tells you the only way to learn is by doing. You learn a lot that way, but it's certainly not the only way to learn and it's not always the best way either. The extra time you have at Uni means that you can look into something in more depth, read up on the theory behind it, try stuff out etc etc - I found that at work it was mainly a case of getting something to the stage where it worked and then moving on to the next project. There was rarely any time to properly analyse things like you can when you're studying.
Essentially what I'm saying is that whatever you choose you can do well for yourself, but IMO choosing the college route will probably proove to be more fun :) Also, don't think that once you've chosen one path you have to stick with it - you can always decide to go and get a degree later, or drop out of college if you decide it's not for you after all.
I only have a PS2 one (it's actually just a USB network adaptor), but that certainally works fine behind a NAT'd connection.
Are that the ethernet and 56k modem adaptors will be sold for just $34.95 each. Nintendo were looking as thought they weren't going to bring these out previously so this is damn good news - finally PSO without loads of hacked-up charecters (hopefully...)
What we are heading towards is something far, far darker than this, where everything is owned by a corporation accountable only to its shareholders (and how accountable it is to them is debateable anyway).
That a few months or so after it's been released on DVD there's a special 'uncut' version on a 12 certificate, with an extra 1 second of never-before seen footage!
Many 802.11b PCI cards are PCI 2.2 only though, which no 486 will be (in fact only quite recent boards are).
You're quite right, I did read the article, but after reading many comments speaking about Ted Turner there was a buffer overflow and Ted Turner got written to the stack in place of Jamie Kellner.. :)
Ted Turner has a good point, adverts as an advertising medium haev passed their sell-by date. What a shame his company will go out of business because he'd rather bitch about it than get a new revenue model.
Fortunately most of the Razor1911 members aren't in the Americas. I believe DoD were targetted because most of their members were. I suspect that assuming the authorities feel that games piracy is a worthy target too (apps piracy seems to be their usual target, presumably because at $3000 for a piece of software it's much easy to invent these massive 'losses due to piracy', despite the fact that the vast majority of people downloading wouldn't have a hope of getting $3000 to spend on anything, let alone a piece of software they barley need) CLASS will be the next target, assuming they're still active (I'm not really into the warez scene any more, or at least not the PC warez scene.. :))
Bzzt.. wrong! nVidia provide binary-only drivers. There are stability issues, and there's no way they're going to be resolved, because no-one's got the source to fix it.
I've got an ATI Radeon in my machine, my gf has an ATI Radeon in her Windows 2000 box, and I can confidently say that the Linux drivers are far better than those for Windows, probably because ATI didn't write them. ATI (unlike nVidia) have been very good about releasing specs to the community.
There's one company everyone seems to be missing out here: Adaptec. They took over maintenance of the SCSI drivers for their cards in the Linux kernel a while ago, and they've put a lot of work into them.
I pity the poor editor that has to correct Taco's spelling and grammar..
Saying 802.11a is widespread now is like saying GSM was widespread five years ago - it was in some places, with other countries completely lacking in support.
(Hint: editorials from far-right websites don't count).
Don't get me wrong, I feel extremely uneasy about the concept of 'virtual' kiddie porn, but there's no evidence it's harmful, and the law as it stood certainally was. By being so vauge in the way it was written, it could easily stop what could justifiably be called art.
Maybe you're using a crappy browser?