goa or psy trance remixes with the original AKIRA music would be killer in my opinion. I swear I heard a track at a record shop being played that had part of the first motorcycle scene's music looped in it.
or maybe i should just lay off the illegal subs*cough*.......
To me it appears that SiSoft Sandra's memory bandwidth measurement is completely useless.
It literally takes specific values and just calculates what the bandwidth should be. I really do not understand what the true purpose of even providing this benchmark is anymore.
Ever since I saw THIS I thought SiSoft Sandra and other synthetic benchmarks are obsolete and completely inaccurate.
I honestly would love to meet someone in real life who would actually suggest and believe the idea of changing the movie's name so I could actually kick their ass. (unfortunately, that one person would probably be my mother.)
I think I definately surround myself with people that would never suggest an obsurd idea as that though.
-- "I don't believe in America, or the 'American Dream'. I don't believe in Nationalism, we're all the same." - Anti-Flag
Well, VNC in windows puts a little icon in the system tray thingie. All you need to do is put the mouse cursor over top the icon and it pops up the IP address.
My Radeon is performing quite well actually under mandrake 8.1 w/ no real tweaking around on the install.
2D performance, absolutely nothing to complain about. Works quick and sharp and i'm quite happy. (Remember - clean Mandrake 8.1 install, no added RPMs, no new drivers installed)
3D performance is good for Tux Racer and Return to Castle Wolfenstein. (Haven't tried Quake 3 - i'd assume it would work good as well.)
BUT - where 3D performance does suck is when i use Wine or WineX to play an OpenGL game. People are reporting getting awesome frames/sec in Half-Life/Counter-Strike using an nVidia based card under Mandrake 8.1 - while on my Radeon I get 20FPS at 640x480, while in Windows I'd play at 60FPS at 1280x1024. On the Transgaming message boards the response I received had something to do w/ WineX and not the Radeon drivers.
Interesting point w/ Transgaming is, they put a lot of effort towards getting good compatibility w/ the nVidia cards - and it seems the Radeon will be looked into after.
Hopefully something in XFree86 4.2.0 clears some of these issues up - and the next WineX release.
When I worked at a small, non-major retail chain of a computer store, Windows 95 OEM licenses were about $60CDN compared to the Retail box licenses at $120CDN. (These were COST prices, not tag prices..) This store could sell OEM licenses w/ the computers they built and sold. We were in a contract which forbid us to sell them w/ out a computer w/ Windows 95 installed on it before it was sold to the customer. So yes, that is substantially cheaper, but not the $15 you put it at. I'm assuming if the company was Dell, Compaq, or IBM then the licenses could very well be as low as $15. Or maybe when I worked there I did not fully understand how this all worked.
It also does not seem obvious on the charges of overpricing as well. I can't say "hey Look! OS/2 was selling for $100 and Windows was selling for $500!" that wasn't the case as you pointed out.
Hmm... ultimately we won't know until those lawyers pull out their evidence.
From the article: "Class-action attorneys from California have argued the money should be reimbursed directly to customers who were overcharged for Microsoft software."
This is interesting. How does someone actually determine the worth or 'price' of software? Generally you want to take all your overhead, add some profit, and take a good estimate of what your sales will be. Then you'd determine a price. (I realize this is very OVER simplified) You would also compare your product against competitive products and see where you sit in comparison to them price/value wise.
Since Microsoft essentially had a monopoly on the PC market for sales of Operating Systems, their competition was none. They could charge any price to the OEMs and Consumers for the retail packages they felt like, which at least appeared to be a reasonable price to most customers.
But how would they determine if someone was overcharged by Microsoft? Is the very fact that when you buy a PC, you automatically have Windows installed on it and are also paying for the OEM version of Windows that was installed on that PC?
This could easily be argued as a 'value-added' feature of that PC. Where the customer ultimately benefits because the cost of an OEM Windows license is less than the Retail Windows license.
I personally loathe Windows, and don't use it. But I'm more curious on how they determined that Microsoft overcharged it's customers.
Since they banned guns thei crime rate has steadily risen. Good job!
Sorry, I can't help but laugh at that statement.
I'm also VERY interested in seeing those statistics... I'm sure crimes related to guns have dropped dramatically. And eventhough there are less murders/deaths in a crime, the crime rate can still go up due to increases in theft, fraud, and smaller forms of crime. It all depends on how you measure crime.
But to me that comment screams of a bullshit stat., at least you did not write a number as well...
Communism?... Copyright?!!! You don't even have to look to some imagined communist utopia to see a society without copyright. Just look to the Soviet Union. Even in the nasty brutal realisations of the communist ideal, copyright was eliminated!
Yah, I look back at my original post and I see the flaw I mentioned in the portion about copyright. There would be no copyright because ultimately the workers/people would own all intellectual property as a whole.
If you go read the Anarchist Faq, the development of Linux and GNU based software in general follows an anarchist model closest above all.
Communism would require the government or a directing body to ultimately own or control the software and it's direction, while with Anarchy the workers/developers determine the path which it ultimately follows.
Plus, GNU software projects can branch at anytime, and co-exist w/ other branches. But no one actually can control the development of the software. In a Communist model, copyright would be used to prevent branching and ensure the development stays with the main project. The copyright owners ultimately being the government. Which someone in 'Authority' would ultimately determine what happens.
A group of developers could ditch Linus' development path, take the kernel code and do their own tree. And no one can ultimately stop them. True, they might not be able to call it Linux because Linus owns the trademark, but they can call is Loonix or anything else. Everyone will still know it's the Linux kernel, but gone down a different development path.
True anarchy allows for this to happen, and the GPL uses current law to enforce this. So yah, not communism -- but anarchy.:-)
I've had MANY MANY poor experiences w/ UPS and "Customs/Brokerage" fees.
I had ordered a USB attachment for my Samsung YEPP from Samsung, and a really bad case for it. This totalled up to be about $60CDN with shipping included. They wanted me to pay $30CDN in brokerage and customs fees.
Ordered an Athlon motherboard from a company in Texas who I found on pricewatch.com. This was one of the older Slot A motherboard, which was only $40US+shipping, I paid $40CDN in brokerage and customs fees.
LOL, I ordered a few shirts, some Chia mix, stickers, and other fun stuff from Thinkgeek.com . Customs had it for 2 WEEKS. 2 WEEKS, WTF took them 2 weeks to examine!? And then when the package arrived, $20CDN in customs/brokerage shit again.
ALL THESE PACKAGES WERE DELIVERED THROUGH UPS.
Only company i've ever had a problem with. I've decided to no longer deal with companies who do their deliveries through UPS. It's just not worth it.
... instantly came to my mind when I read the heading.:-)
We have now 'robotic miners', plans to make mines on other planets/moons... this is just asking for an AI takeover of all these mines by low-polygon robots which seem to have equipped themselves with missles.
The damn robot generator sections were always a pain in the ass though, and at least I haven't read about any plans for that.
I just love how in that game you could be shooting insane amounts of missles, and no mine shafts would collapse.
fucking goatse.cx link for the ign.com link
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Good troll man, you actually got me on that ign.com link. I read w/ no moderation points listed, so I had no warning whatsoever. First goatse.cx link i've clicked on in many many months......
.. to an extent. If the meetings were not held in secret, it would silence people like me. Who would like to know what the ACTUAL agenda is for these meetings, in detail, and how it effects us.
There will still be protesters regardless, but it would shut up a vast majority of people. (at least my group who went to Quebec City).
I think I accidently slipped in the thing about guns being the source of the problem. I'm sure easy access to guns doesn't make things any better, but I was more focusing on the idea that, I should be a psycho because I fill all the other requirements to go on a massive shooting rampage like those trenchcoat mafia guys.
I wasn't trying to shift blame, but just point out that "I am almost EXACTLY like those guys" - especially when I was 16, and I never went on a murderous rampage at my school. I played the same games, listened to the music, I guess it was the punk scene influence that maybe prevented this...
I feel like I'm not cool now. I've been playing video games that are violent what seems like forever now. I remember when I was 12, playing Wolfenstien for hours on end, and then moved up the ranks w/ Doom, Rainbow 6, Counter-Strike, Soldier of Fortune, and now Day of Defeat.
And I'm not cool cause I didn't go blow away any of the kid's who were teasing me in high school (and trust me, it did cross my mind for a way to get back at them somehow)... I'm sure if I had access to guns I'd be more likely to think about shooting these people, but I don't. It is next to impossible for me to get a gun w/ the people I know. And this is ANY gun. (yes, I live in Canada)
Hehe, I also listen to KMFDM, and Marilyn Manson. I probably would have been friend's w/ the Trenchcoat guys.
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So you're telling me that all the OSS and GPL'd code in the World was created by selfish people who had no incentive to create?
Not buying that argument.
goa or psy trance remixes with the original AKIRA music would be killer in my opinion. I swear I heard a track at a record shop being played that had part of the first motorcycle scene's music looped in it.
or maybe i should just lay off the illegal subs*cough*.......
To me it appears that SiSoft Sandra's memory bandwidth measurement is completely useless.
It literally takes specific values and just calculates what the bandwidth should be. I really do not understand what the true purpose of even providing this benchmark is anymore.
Ever since I saw THIS I thought SiSoft Sandra and other synthetic benchmarks are obsolete and completely inaccurate.
Like - here's a 12.8GHz processor.
I wish these benchmarking people would just drop the synthetic benchmarks completely.
it's trolling. :-)
I honestly would love to meet someone in real life who would actually suggest and believe the idea of changing the movie's name so I could actually kick their ass. (unfortunately, that one person would probably be my mother.)
I think I definately surround myself with people that would never suggest an obsurd idea as that though.
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"I don't believe in America, or the 'American Dream'. I don't believe in Nationalism, we're all the same." - Anti-Flag
Using 'communist' or 'commie' as a derogatory
term is back! People are calling each other 'commies' in such fashionable ways:
You FUCKING COMMIE!
Go suck some red dick!
or my favourite
GODLESS COMMIE SCUM!
You too can take part in political slander! Join now!
Well, VNC in windows puts a little icon in the system tray thingie. All you need to do is put the mouse cursor over top the icon and it pops up the IP address.
Or is that too difficult still?
(VNC over dialup would be pretty brutal though)
My Radeon is performing quite well actually under mandrake 8.1 w/ no real tweaking around on the install.
2D performance, absolutely nothing to complain about. Works quick and sharp and i'm quite happy. (Remember - clean Mandrake 8.1 install, no added RPMs, no new drivers installed)
3D performance is good for Tux Racer and Return to Castle Wolfenstein. (Haven't tried Quake 3 - i'd assume it would work good as well.)
BUT - where 3D performance does suck is when i use Wine or WineX to play an OpenGL game. People are reporting getting awesome frames/sec in Half-Life/Counter-Strike using an nVidia based card under Mandrake 8.1 - while on my Radeon I get 20FPS at 640x480, while in Windows I'd play at 60FPS at 1280x1024. On the Transgaming message boards the response I received had something to do w/ WineX and not the Radeon drivers.
Interesting point w/ Transgaming is, they put a lot of effort towards getting good compatibility w/ the nVidia cards - and it seems the Radeon will be looked into after.
Hopefully something in XFree86 4.2.0 clears some of these issues up - and the next WineX release.
When I worked at a small, non-major retail chain of a computer store, Windows 95 OEM licenses were about $60CDN compared to the Retail box licenses at $120CDN. (These were COST prices, not tag prices..) This store could sell OEM licenses w/ the computers they built and sold. We were in a contract which forbid us to sell them w/ out a computer w/ Windows 95 installed on it before it was sold to the customer. So yes, that is substantially cheaper, but not the $15 you put it at. I'm assuming if the company was Dell, Compaq, or IBM then the licenses could very well be as low as $15. Or maybe when I worked there I did not fully understand how this all worked.
It also does not seem obvious on the charges of overpricing as well. I can't say "hey Look! OS/2 was selling for $100 and Windows was selling for $500!" that wasn't the case as you pointed out.
Hmm... ultimately we won't know until those lawyers pull out their evidence.
From the article: "Class-action attorneys from California have argued the money should be reimbursed directly to customers who were overcharged for Microsoft software."
This is interesting. How does someone actually determine the worth or 'price' of software? Generally you want to take all your overhead, add some profit, and take a good estimate of what your sales will be. Then you'd determine a price. (I realize this is very OVER simplified) You would also compare your product against competitive products and see where you sit in comparison to them price/value wise.
Since Microsoft essentially had a monopoly on the PC market for sales of Operating Systems, their competition was none. They could charge any price to the OEMs and Consumers for the retail packages they felt like, which at least appeared to be a reasonable price to most customers.
But how would they determine if someone was overcharged by Microsoft? Is the very fact that when you buy a PC, you automatically have Windows installed on it and are also paying for the OEM version of Windows that was installed on that PC?
This could easily be argued as a 'value-added' feature of that PC. Where the customer ultimately benefits because the cost of an OEM Windows license is less than the Retail Windows license.
I personally loathe Windows, and don't use it. But I'm more curious on how they determined that Microsoft overcharged it's customers.
Since they banned guns thei crime rate has steadily risen. Good job!
... I'm sure crimes related to guns have dropped dramatically. And eventhough there are less murders/deaths in a crime, the crime rate can still go up due to increases in theft, fraud, and smaller forms of crime. It all depends on how you measure crime.
Sorry, I can't help but laugh at that statement.
I'm also VERY interested in seeing those statistics
But to me that comment screams of a bullshit stat., at least you did not write a number as well...
17:10 - 17:30 Luckily pulls out the prize (opportunity is rare, do not have to miss yo!)
.. do not have to miss 'yo!'.
HAHA
Communism? ... Copyright?!!! You don't even have to look to some imagined communist utopia to see a society without copyright. Just look to the Soviet Union. Even in the nasty brutal realisations of the communist ideal, copyright was eliminated!
Yah, I look back at my original post and I see the flaw I mentioned in the portion about copyright. There would be no copyright because ultimately the workers/people would own all intellectual property as a whole.
Oh well, thank you for the non-flaming reply.
If you go read the Anarchist Faq, the development of Linux and GNU based software in general follows an anarchist model closest above all.
:-)
Communism would require the government or a directing body to ultimately own or control the software and it's direction, while with Anarchy the workers/developers determine the path which it ultimately follows.
Plus, GNU software projects can branch at anytime, and co-exist w/ other branches. But no one actually can control the development of the software. In a Communist model, copyright would be used to prevent branching and ensure the development stays with the main project. The copyright owners ultimately being the government. Which someone in 'Authority' would ultimately determine what happens.
A group of developers could ditch Linus' development path, take the kernel code and do their own tree. And no one can ultimately stop them. True, they might not be able to call it Linux because Linus owns the trademark, but they can call is Loonix or anything else. Everyone will still know it's the Linux kernel, but gone down a different development path.
True anarchy allows for this to happen, and the GPL uses current law to enforce this. So yah, not communism -- but anarchy.
I have the flash5 plugin w/ it, and i'm not surprised they work. Whoever thought they only work in IE obviously didn't do any research into it.
But I've noticed these types of 'fucker'-ads showing up on other sites. I think i'm going to boycott sites that use these ads....
... comes to mind when you mentioned the hacking other humans. You literally turn other people into 'zombie machines' that will do your bidding.
I've had MANY MANY poor experiences w/ UPS and "Customs/Brokerage" fees.
I had ordered a USB attachment for my Samsung YEPP from Samsung, and a really bad case for it. This totalled up to be about $60CDN with shipping included. They wanted me to pay $30CDN in brokerage and customs fees.
Ordered an Athlon motherboard from a company in Texas who I found on pricewatch.com. This was one of the older Slot A motherboard, which was only $40US+shipping, I paid $40CDN in brokerage and customs fees.
LOL, I ordered a few shirts, some Chia mix, stickers, and other fun stuff from Thinkgeek.com . Customs had it for 2 WEEKS. 2 WEEKS, WTF took them 2 weeks to examine!? And then when the package arrived, $20CDN in customs/brokerage shit again.
ALL THESE PACKAGES WERE DELIVERED THROUGH UPS.
Only company i've ever had a problem with. I've decided to no longer deal with companies who do their deliveries through UPS. It's just not worth it.
Almost forgot, I live in Southern Ontario.
... instantly came to my mind when I read the heading. :-)
... this is just asking for an AI takeover of all these mines by low-polygon robots which seem to have equipped themselves with missles.
We have now 'robotic miners', plans to make mines on other planets/moons
The damn robot generator sections were always a pain in the ass though, and at least I haven't read about any plans for that.
I just love how in that game you could be shooting insane amounts of missles, and no mine shafts would collapse.
Good troll man, you actually got me on that ign.com link. I read w/ no moderation points listed, so I had no warning whatsoever. First goatse.cx link i've clicked on in many many months......
The correct link is Here
it says like 232 Comments... :-)
Unfortunately, I can't seem to read any of them except this one.
This kind of clothing could bring a WHOLE new meaning to 'flashing' your CMOS.
.. to an extent. If the meetings were not held in secret, it would silence people like me. Who would like to know what the ACTUAL agenda is for these meetings, in detail, and how it effects us.
There will still be protesters regardless, but it would shut up a vast majority of people. (at least my group who went to Quebec City).
but this caught my attention, because it's true.
:-)
oh ya - and DK rule.
I think I accidently slipped in the thing about guns being the source of the problem. I'm sure easy access to guns doesn't make things any better, but I was more focusing on the idea that, I should be a psycho because I fill all the other requirements to go on a massive shooting rampage like those trenchcoat mafia guys.
...
I wasn't trying to shift blame, but just point out that "I am almost EXACTLY like those guys" - especially when I was 16, and I never went on a murderous rampage at my school. I played the same games, listened to the music, I guess it was the punk scene influence that maybe prevented this
I feel like I'm not cool now. I've been playing video games that are violent what seems like forever now. I remember when I was 12, playing Wolfenstien for hours on end, and then moved up the ranks w/ Doom, Rainbow 6, Counter-Strike, Soldier of Fortune, and now Day of Defeat.
... I'm sure if I had access to guns I'd be more likely to think about shooting these people, but I don't. It is next to impossible for me to get a gun w/ the people I know. And this is ANY gun. (yes, I live in Canada)
And I'm not cool cause I didn't go blow away any of the kid's who were teasing me in high school (and trust me, it did cross my mind for a way to get back at them somehow)
Hehe, I also listen to KMFDM, and Marilyn Manson. I probably would have been friend's w/ the Trenchcoat guys.