I work in an environment where clients rent areas for meetings and seminars. We supply a limited amount of equipment, which includes computers, projection systems, and even the capability to provide a satelite downlink or teleconferencing. The main problem with the way this works is that often, clients will bring in thier own equipment like computers, and expect that you will automatically be thier tech support. When you tell them "I am sorry, but that is not our equipment, we can't help you set it up" they seem absolutely floored by your response. It is also just outrageous that absolutely none of them know how to work their computers.
Support people take alot of crap from their customers. If a client arrives 5 min before their presentation time, and expects you to work some sort of magic, then they are just sorely mistaken. They can't understand the concept of testing the equipment before assuming that it will all work just fine. Is it too much to ask that some yuppie arrives with ample time to hook his computer up so that he can show his silly powerpoint slideshow? I think not. If something goes wrong, you are always the first to blame.
The same kinda thing goes for the people who do tech support on the phone. Rude, ignorant customers drive people in support to hate their jobs. Low pay doesn't help the situation.
Literally everything you said here is wrong. For starters, there are only mild differences between NTSC-UC and NTSC-J. My American Televesions will work with ANY Japanese NTSC products. China, Europe, and a few other places use the PAL format. That is not compatible with NTSC. Often, you can get a picture from a PAL device on an NTSC television, but it doesn't look right.
And to answer some people's questions about territorial lockouts... That's easy... Money! If you published a game in the US, would you want it to be imported to Japan to be sold? Maybe... That would give you more money. But the original Japanese publisher would be tweaked because your game got you a few bucks but shafted his company out of selling a unit. Different countries have different publishers- just like with books or movies.
I believe that the PS2 has i.Link, not Firewire. i.Link is half the speed of Firewire, and tops at about 200 Mbps. That isn't slow, but still isn't as fast as true Firewire.
The PS2 is one of the WORST DVD players that you can buy. My $149 Apex kicks it's ass in terms of features and picture/sound quality.
The PS2 doesn't have the video RAM to accomidate the limited textures in Tux Racer.
Slackware is perhaps the only real linux distro that keeps Linux simple, yet includes all of the important utilities. Other commercial companies need to get with the picture. Red Hat... Cough cough.
Sorting through 5 disks worth of packages is not my idea of fun... By all means though, you go ahead and have fun with it. Tell me if that isn't bloated. In fact... Even the freebie Red Hat disks that come with magazines are loaded with too much crap. To play fair I will admit that a distro is a matter of preference. I think that is one of the greatest advantages to having so many dirtibutions. I know a physics instructor who swears by Red Hat, and that is what he teaches in his Linux classes. That is fine by me. It certainly doesn't make him any less of a Linux enthusiast by using it.
Perhaps this is thier way of making up for the stability issues in the release of 7.0. Doesn't effect me, I guess. I don't use that bloaded distro...
If I wanted Windows, I would buy Windows... Not Red Hat Linux.
Actually. The code only had one set of "B A" at the end. The SNES games were replaced with "L and R" trigger buttons and the extra "B A" was added.
God... What in the hell am I saying. I must be a dork.
That's exactly why I don't use Windows at home anymore. I have to have it at work for some database stuff, but even then- I have my work machine set as a dual boot running Slackware. On top of that, I use Opera 5 on both operating systems. I can handle the banner ads in order to have a fast/lean web browser. As soon as the Linux version gets all of the normal features, I will actually pay the get rid of the ads and support the company. Windows users don't realize that they pay for IE when they pay for Windows. Do you want to pay for faulty software?
I don't hate Microsoft, nor do I hate Windows. I just don't care to use thier products because of reasons like this. I got sick of the machine trying to configure hardware by itself and doing it incorrectly of all things! I also got sick of the frequent puking occasions that my machine fell victim to under regular use. I NEVER experience crashes with Slackware 7.1 , weather it be the OS itself or even XF86. The only time I experience a program crash is if the program is poorly written. Loosing the ability to play new, Direct X based games is only a small price to pay to have the functionality that I want.
It's all up to all of you. I really could care less what OS you use, though I am quite surprised at the number of MSIE and Outlook users that frequent Slashdot.
Actually... It isn't unique. Lots of old 3d Accelerators like "Obsidian?" Voodoo 2 had more than one chip. The only the difference is that they were accelerators, graphics processors on the V2 cards. The new Voodoo 5 I believe has multiple GPUs. The name "Graphics Synthesizer" is just a silly buzzword that they use to draw people's attention to the hardware, which I believe is highly over-rated. Gamecube has a chip that was designed by ArtX. They were purchased by ATi or 3DFX. I cant remember exactly. I believe it was 3DFX. ArtX also made the 3D accelerator on the N64.
Hé Retard. Pourquoi vous continuez à signaler les guillemet d'autres que vous traduisez en d'autres langages. Vous opressing me par le Spamming les panneaux. Quitté en être par dipshit!!!
Upon searching the VDDV website www.vddv.com (They make the Apex DVD 600 A players for dist. in the US) I discovered that these players are for sale on the VDDV website. You can buy them from China at a price of $180 US. This does not include shipping. They say that these are for SAMPLE USE ONLY and are not to be used as retail DVD players. It may be that these do not have the regional lock-out, and VDDV is trying to cash in on the demand for this player. I might look into getting one. Anyone know if this is the revised model, or the one with the "Secret Loophole" menu. Check out www.vddv.com and select "Buy Sample." Also check out thier other stuff. Some of thier products look kinda interesting. I am curious as to who dist. some of them in the US. 13Echo
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Too late. Some friends and I just purchased 600 in bulk at $.15 each. All your CDR are belong to us!
I work in an environment where clients rent areas for meetings and seminars. We supply a limited amount of equipment, which includes computers, projection systems, and even the capability to provide a satelite downlink or teleconferencing. The main problem with the way this works is that often, clients will bring in thier own equipment like computers, and expect that you will automatically be thier tech support. When you tell them "I am sorry, but that is not our equipment, we can't help you set it up" they seem absolutely floored by your response. It is also just outrageous that absolutely none of them know how to work their computers. Support people take alot of crap from their customers. If a client arrives 5 min before their presentation time, and expects you to work some sort of magic, then they are just sorely mistaken. They can't understand the concept of testing the equipment before assuming that it will all work just fine. Is it too much to ask that some yuppie arrives with ample time to hook his computer up so that he can show his silly powerpoint slideshow? I think not. If something goes wrong, you are always the first to blame. The same kinda thing goes for the people who do tech support on the phone. Rude, ignorant customers drive people in support to hate their jobs. Low pay doesn't help the situation.
Literally everything you said here is wrong. For starters, there are only mild differences between NTSC-UC and NTSC-J. My American Televesions will work with ANY Japanese NTSC products. China, Europe, and a few other places use the PAL format. That is not compatible with NTSC. Often, you can get a picture from a PAL device on an NTSC television, but it doesn't look right. And to answer some people's questions about territorial lockouts... That's easy... Money! If you published a game in the US, would you want it to be imported to Japan to be sold? Maybe... That would give you more money. But the original Japanese publisher would be tweaked because your game got you a few bucks but shafted his company out of selling a unit. Different countries have different publishers- just like with books or movies.
I believe that the PS2 has i.Link, not Firewire. i.Link is half the speed of Firewire, and tops at about 200 Mbps. That isn't slow, but still isn't as fast as true Firewire.
The PS2 is one of the WORST DVD players that you can buy. My $149 Apex kicks it's ass in terms of features and picture/sound quality. The PS2 doesn't have the video RAM to accomidate the limited textures in Tux Racer.
Slackware is perhaps the only real linux distro that keeps Linux simple, yet includes all of the important utilities. Other commercial companies need to get with the picture. Red Hat... Cough cough.
Sorting through 5 disks worth of packages is not my idea of fun... By all means though, you go ahead and have fun with it. Tell me if that isn't bloated. In fact... Even the freebie Red Hat disks that come with magazines are loaded with too much crap. To play fair I will admit that a distro is a matter of preference. I think that is one of the greatest advantages to having so many dirtibutions. I know a physics instructor who swears by Red Hat, and that is what he teaches in his Linux classes. That is fine by me. It certainly doesn't make him any less of a Linux enthusiast by using it.
I'm just not fond of all of the crap that comes with Red Hat. I prefer a more "lean" distro like Slackware.
Perhaps this is thier way of making up for the stability issues in the release of 7.0. Doesn't effect me, I guess. I don't use that bloaded distro... If I wanted Windows, I would buy Windows... Not Red Hat Linux.
And some of you wonder why the many of us use Linux... Gee. I wonder why.
Actually. The code only had one set of "B A" at the end. The SNES games were replaced with "L and R" trigger buttons and the extra "B A" was added. God... What in the hell am I saying. I must be a dork.
That's exactly why I don't use Windows at home anymore. I have to have it at work for some database stuff, but even then- I have my work machine set as a dual boot running Slackware. On top of that, I use Opera 5 on both operating systems. I can handle the banner ads in order to have a fast/lean web browser. As soon as the Linux version gets all of the normal features, I will actually pay the get rid of the ads and support the company. Windows users don't realize that they pay for IE when they pay for Windows. Do you want to pay for faulty software? I don't hate Microsoft, nor do I hate Windows. I just don't care to use thier products because of reasons like this. I got sick of the machine trying to configure hardware by itself and doing it incorrectly of all things! I also got sick of the frequent puking occasions that my machine fell victim to under regular use. I NEVER experience crashes with Slackware 7.1 , weather it be the OS itself or even XF86. The only time I experience a program crash is if the program is poorly written. Loosing the ability to play new, Direct X based games is only a small price to pay to have the functionality that I want. It's all up to all of you. I really could care less what OS you use, though I am quite surprised at the number of MSIE and Outlook users that frequent Slashdot.
Actually... It isn't unique. Lots of old 3d Accelerators like "Obsidian?" Voodoo 2 had more than one chip. The only the difference is that they were accelerators, graphics processors on the V2 cards. The new Voodoo 5 I believe has multiple GPUs. The name "Graphics Synthesizer" is just a silly buzzword that they use to draw people's attention to the hardware, which I believe is highly over-rated. Gamecube has a chip that was designed by ArtX. They were purchased by ATi or 3DFX. I cant remember exactly. I believe it was 3DFX. ArtX also made the 3D accelerator on the N64.
Yeah... It is called Dreamcast. Sega has just started releasing the multiplayer games. NFL 2k1 runs perfectly on the system's 56k modem.
Hé Retard. Pourquoi vous continuez à signaler les guillemet d'autres que vous traduisez en d'autres langages. Vous opressing me par le Spamming les panneaux. Quitté en être par dipshit!!!
Upon searching the VDDV website www.vddv.com (They make the Apex DVD 600 A players for dist. in the US) I discovered that these players are for sale on the VDDV website. You can buy them from China at a price of $180 US. This does not include shipping. They say that these are for SAMPLE USE ONLY and are not to be used as retail DVD players. It may be that these do not have the regional lock-out, and VDDV is trying to cash in on the demand for this player. I might look into getting one. Anyone know if this is the revised model, or the one with the "Secret Loophole" menu. Check out www.vddv.com and select "Buy Sample." Also check out thier other stuff. Some of thier products look kinda interesting. I am curious as to who dist. some of them in the US. 13Echo
We need to realize that there are more "average joes" out there than "Technically advanced users." Besides... There will be workarounds.