Thats right horribly evil RIAA lawyers, I deleted my mp3s, so please don't sue me. Its not like I just moved them out of the shared folder or anything. Wait....oh crap.
but that doesn't mean there isn't a lot of people who want it. I say start a couple petitions. I think I might startt one myself. Nintendo if you want to save me the trouble of collection millions of signatures, release a boxset of the music from every single Mario game ever.
If Longhorn is going to be as big of a "leap" as 95 was, I hope they take the time to work with hardware developers as the os is being developed so drivers can be out as fast as possible. I had to wait almost 6months to get all my hardware supported by XP when it first came out, and I bought it the same year as the release.
Oh yeah, more security blah blah blah. And oh please, please turn off that useless firewall by default. Causes nothing but problems.
I've been using two monitors for quite some time, I think since Windows98 supported it (badly I should add). People usually give me a weird look when I tell them, but now I can print this out and show them that I'm not insane, I'm an innovator:) For windows, imho the only way to go is with a high end Nvidia card as the primary and a decent secondary card. Before you ati guys start frothing at the mouth, let me explain. Nvidia's detenators come with a great feature called Nview. Nview is designed to make it easier to work with dual monitors and luckily it works with a non-nvidia secondary card (mine is an ati 3d rage pro:) ). It puts itself right next to the window controls on the top right and gives you tons of control. i.e. I can easily set a window to be ontop of all the others, send a window to a paticular monitor, maximize a window over multiple monitors, and much more. I don't know if the new ATI cards do this, but if they don't, they should. Of course gamers can understand the benefit of dual monitors. The benefits aren't limited to flight sims either. I tend to keep an irc window or a messenger window open on my secondary monitor while I'm full screen in a game on my primary. Or even watch tv with my tv tuner card. Not to mention how convenient it is when you are outputing to a tv and need a place to keep controls open for sound, video, etc. Its just convinent as hell. Course there are some problems. Some games don't properly scroll because the cursor ends up on the second monitor. I'm stuck using the arrow keys to move around in Civ3, a total pain in the ass. Not to mention the icon the amount of icons I can fit on the screen. I suggest anyone who has dual monitors switch their icon size to atleast 96x96. Mine are 128x128 and it'll amaze you how much easier your machine is to use.
I suggest you grab a copy from mame.dk or for maybe just get the rom for the genesis version. The whole game is just one bad acting scene. My favorite has to be: Villin:"You can not escape" Hero:"You'll be the one whos escaping"
Why the hell was this modded up. Obviously this person has no idea about what they are talking about when it comes to Palm powered devices these days. Pound for pound palm makes some of the best handhelds on the market, and if you compare them feature by feature to Wince/Pocket PC machines you will see that they have surpassed them in features, price, and soon in expandability.. As it stands Palm and Sony make THE best handhelds with the best feature set. Do some research before you start trolling. Btw, the word fuck or shit doesn't improve your troll factor either.
Yes I know it doesn't run linux. But not everyone wants linux on their handheld.
Yeah thats awesome linux guys, but I really have to put my.02 in this. I have one player for everything in windows. Media Player Classic does everything I ever wanted in a media player. Combine it with the codec pack and the quicktime/realmedia alternative codec packs you can get from here . It can play everything you throw at it because all it does is use all the codecs on your system. You can set priority if you want things specific and dolby ex quality dvds play perfectly.
Man that sounds exciting. I wish I COULD have gone but I had to...uh.....hmm....I'll get back to you. Oh yeah do something interesting. You gotta be kidding me, the main focus was the color for search.cpan.org...guys...can't we make perl seem even a bit interesting. I'm not spending my weekends reading this o'reilly book because I want to battle of page colors once I finally get invited to one of these conferences.
I don't know about you guys but I don't think whether its necessary is important. Is there really a justifiable reason not to have an OSS community run bug tracking site? If you think about it, it can benefit a lot of people, and maybe even speed up patches/fixes/updates/whatever. I'd also like to see something like this supported by major firms, maybe just by setting up a system where the community can easily communicate with firms regarding security and bug issues.
I recently found my old icq number and ventured to log back in to maybe talk to some of my old friends from back when ICQ was THE messaging client. Well it turns out back then ICQ didn't store your "buddy list" online so its pretty much a waste of time. ICQ imho is a dieing messaging system. The only people I know who use it are software pirates. Not that I'm saying ICQ attracts software pirates. I don't think the liquor industry attracts organized crime either. Infact......oh nevermind.
Am I alone in feeling that lately slashdot has turned into a personalized search engine. I feel like I'm visiting that old miningco search engine that let you ask real questions and people would look it up for you. What the frell is wrong with the editors and the submitters. Do some freakin research!
I too have been looking into putting together a small media server/web services
machine. A little research turned up, Mini-ITX.
I would start here, its a pretty good site that has a lot of information of
what you can do with mini-itx and features note worthy products as they come
out. Personally I think what you need is a HUSH.
Its the size of a dvd player, its completely silent and its so low power that
the power supply (95watts I think it is) is external. It might not be the cheapest
itx option out there but it fits all your (and mine) requirements and adds the
nice look factor aswell. They seem like a pretty good shop and they even let
you buy it without an OS, which I'm sure you'll (and me too but for different
reasons) appreciate. If you do get one I suggest getting it with 128ram and
buying more ram elsewhere, they're based in Germany and the value of the Euro
really shoots up the price of ram (and everything else I imagine). Btw I don'
work for these guys so don't assume I do, but I'd gladly trade a free one for
advertising these guys as often as possible.
And before anyone says it, I have imagined a beowulf cluster of these:)
Hail! I am the great and most large in the PR Gates! For too long me and my worshippers have suffered from reports of "bugs" from you non-believers. While it is true that the majority of my worshippers ignore your attacks, I have not. SO hear me, this is a sign of things to come. If you...you.../.ers continue to attack my numerous features by labeling them bugs, I will so attack each of YOU directly. For example, I hear this Taco fellow comes up short in where it matters. You see! DO you now see the power that you contend with. You have been warned.
Scared to release a dvd only game? How about smart not to. Believe it or not, not everyone has a dvd drive. And what the hell do you care what a game comes on if its the same game? Is your life so important that you can't swap the discs 4 times so you can play enter the matrix? I'm not trolling or anything I'm just tired of people complaining about the game industry not releasing on dvds, its always the same people who also complain about them pushing newer hardware.
To be fair, it is the/. crowd that 3dmark appeals to. 3dmark has never been more than a simulation of a game and as such should be considered useless. Games that people actually play are the only real benchmarks as they represent real-world results, the only results that matter. Nvidia optimizes it's drivers for games(benchmarks) and so does every other 3D video card manufacturer, is that cheating? No thats improving performance by tailoring the drivers for a specific enviroment. Thats optimization. Is compiling for athlons cheating? Course its not. The only cheating is on futuremark's part for selling a product that they claim is a valid benchmark for 3d gaming when it is nothing of the sort.
This is certainly good news for the ppc crowd. Competition never hurts and imho is one of the major reasons ppcs never overtook x86s. If the new motos can perform as promised, apple could find space in their product line for them, maybe we'll see moto based ibooks/powerbooks and ibm based tower systems.
I don't know, I'm running the 1.51 patch with a crack so I don't need to keep the cd in, I have amazing performance. Its actually turned into a better game because of it. Moves are now smooth and when I use focus its not choppy at all. Also it alt-tabs just fine. However, there are some problems. For some reason by default with gamma on at any setting it goes to as dark as possible. I have to up the gamma through my gf's control panel. Other than that 1.51 is good:)
I'd just like to say that I had to re-edit and dumb down the review cause it wouldn't go through the lameness filter. Big Words=Junk Characters.
Ok guys, this is my review of Enter The Matrix. Hope you enjoy.
The action is very well done. Combat moves look amazing. Try to think of all the combat moves that were done in the matrix. You can do them all. From neo's cartwheel gunshooting to trinity's cannonbal move. It really feels like you are controlling a zionian. The story is awesome because it starts right after the last flight of the osiris (the animatrix episode) ends. So it feels like everything thats out for the matrix is connected. Not a bad way to sell stuff imho. While you are enjoying the awesome action you also enjoy an amazing musical score. Its freakin amazing!! I have noticed that framerates get very-low in large area locations, but I think the recent patches will fix it. Its games like this that keep giving me a reason to say "I can live with windows and all its MANY faults as long as I can keep playing these games".
I'm sorry if this reads weird, I've been doing bonghits all night.
Well I don't know about the actual signal, I never have a problem, but the billing is getting to be insane. They say I owe them $700 because I went over my plan (1000/6500 for 2 phones) in one month by 1200 minutes. If you ask me they are full of shit and if they think I'm going to actually pay, they have a rude awakening coming their way.
Well this just pisses me off a tad,2002-09-18 23:25:33 New news feature at Google (articles,news) (rejected). Nice to see that slashdot doesn't ignore its readers, it just waits 5 days before it starts to care.
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Thats right horribly evil RIAA lawyers, I deleted my mp3s, so please don't sue me. Its not like I just moved them out of the shared folder or anything. Wait....oh crap.
Ahh screw it. I can't afford to imagine it.
but that doesn't mean there isn't a lot of people who want it. I say start a couple petitions. I think I might startt one myself. Nintendo if you want to save me the trouble of collection millions of signatures, release a boxset of the music from every single Mario game ever.
Gentlemen, I thank you for your time.
If Longhorn is going to be as big of a "leap" as 95 was, I hope they take the time to work with hardware developers as the os is being developed so drivers can be out as fast as possible. I had to wait almost 6months to get all my hardware supported by XP when it first came out, and I bought it the same year as the release.
Oh yeah, more security blah blah blah.
And oh please, please turn off that useless firewall by default. Causes nothing but problems.
I've been using two monitors for quite some time, I think since Windows98 supported it (badly I should add). People usually give me a weird look when I tell them, but now I can print this out and show them that I'm not insane, I'm an innovator :) :) ). It puts itself right next to the window controls on the top right and gives you tons of control. i.e. I can easily set a window to be ontop of all the others, send a window to a paticular monitor, maximize a window over multiple monitors, and much more. I don't know if the new ATI cards do this, but if they don't, they should.
:)
For windows, imho the only way to go is with a high end Nvidia card as the primary and a decent secondary card. Before you ati guys start frothing at the mouth, let me explain.
Nvidia's detenators come with a great feature called Nview. Nview is designed to make it easier to work with dual monitors and luckily it works with a non-nvidia secondary card (mine is an ati 3d rage pro
Of course gamers can understand the benefit of dual monitors. The benefits aren't limited to flight sims either. I tend to keep an irc window or a messenger window open on my secondary monitor while I'm full screen in a game on my primary. Or even watch tv with my tv tuner card. Not to mention how convenient it is when you are outputing to a tv and need a place to keep controls open for sound, video, etc. Its just convinent as hell.
Course there are some problems. Some games don't properly scroll because the cursor ends up on the second monitor. I'm stuck using the arrow keys to move around in Civ3, a total pain in the ass. Not to mention the icon the amount of icons I can fit on the screen. I suggest anyone who has dual monitors switch their icon size to atleast 96x96. Mine are 128x128 and it'll amaze you how much easier your machine is to use.
Oh yeah, 2 wallpapers is pretty sweet too
I suggest you grab a copy from mame.dk or for maybe just get the rom for the genesis version. The whole game is just one bad acting scene. My favorite has to be:
Villin:"You can not escape"
Hero:"You'll be the one whos escaping"
Why the hell was this modded up. Obviously this person has no idea about what they are talking about when it comes to Palm powered devices these days. Pound for pound palm makes some of the best handhelds on the market, and if you compare them feature by feature to Wince/Pocket PC machines you will see that they have surpassed them in features, price, and soon in expandability.. As it stands Palm and Sony make THE best handhelds with the best feature set.
Do some research before you start trolling.
Btw, the word fuck or shit doesn't improve your troll factor either.
Yes I know it doesn't run linux. But not everyone wants linux on their handheld.
Yeah thats awesome linux guys, but I really have to put my .02 in this. I have one player for everything in windows. Media Player Classic does everything I ever wanted in a media player. Combine it with the codec pack and the quicktime/realmedia alternative codec packs you can get from here . It can play everything you throw at it because all it does is use all the codecs on your system. You can set priority if you want things specific and dolby ex quality dvds play perfectly.
I'd like to have whatever hes having. And make it a double!
No
Man that sounds exciting. I wish I COULD have gone but I had to...uh.....hmm....I'll get back to you. Oh yeah do something interesting. You gotta be kidding me, the main focus was the color for search.cpan.org...guys...can't we make perl seem even a bit interesting. I'm not spending my weekends reading this o'reilly book because I want to battle of page colors once I finally get invited to one of these conferences.
I don't know about you guys but I don't think whether its necessary is important. Is there really a justifiable reason not to have an OSS community run bug tracking site? If you think about it, it can benefit a lot of people, and maybe even speed up patches/fixes/updates/whatever.
I'd also like to see something like this supported by major firms, maybe just by setting up a system where the community can easily communicate with firms regarding security and bug issues.
I recently found my old icq number and ventured to log back in to maybe talk to some of my old friends from back when ICQ was THE messaging client. Well it turns out back then ICQ didn't store your "buddy list" online so its pretty much a waste of time. ICQ imho is a dieing messaging system. The only people I know who use it are software pirates. Not that I'm saying ICQ attracts software pirates. I don't think the liquor industry attracts organized crime either. Infact......oh nevermind.
Am I alone in feeling that lately slashdot has turned into a personalized search engine. I feel like I'm visiting that old miningco search engine that let you ask real questions and people would look it up for you.
What the frell is wrong with the editors and the submitters. Do some freakin research!
But as everyone knows, the big stinker that year was Disney's it came from the....oh forget it, I'm gonna go make a sandwich.
I too have been looking into putting together a small media server/web services
machine. A little research turned up, Mini-ITX.
I would start here, its a pretty good site that has a lot of information of
what you can do with mini-itx and features note worthy products as they come
out. Personally I think what you need is a HUSH.
Its the size of a dvd player, its completely silent and its so low power that
the power supply (95watts I think it is) is external. It might not be the cheapest
itx option out there but it fits all your (and mine) requirements and adds the
nice look factor aswell. They seem like a pretty good shop and they even let
you buy it without an OS, which I'm sure you'll (and me too but for different
reasons) appreciate. If you do get one I suggest getting it with 128ram and
buying more ram elsewhere, they're based in Germany and the value of the Euro
really shoots up the price of ram (and everything else I imagine). Btw I don'
work for these guys so don't assume I do, but I'd gladly trade a free one for
advertising these guys as often as possible.
And before anyone says it, I have imagined a beowulf cluster of these :)
Hail! I am the great and most large in the PR Gates! For too long me and my worshippers have suffered from reports of "bugs" from you non-believers. While it is true that the majority of my worshippers ignore your attacks, I have not. SO hear me, this is a sign of things to come. If you...you.../.ers continue to attack my numerous features by labeling them bugs, I will so attack each of YOU directly. For example, I hear this Taco fellow comes up short in where it matters. You see! DO you now see the power that you contend with. You have been warned.
Scared to release a dvd only game? How about smart not to. Believe it or not, not everyone has a dvd drive. And what the hell do you care what a game comes on if its the same game? Is your life so important that you can't swap the discs 4 times so you can play enter the matrix?
I'm not trolling or anything I'm just tired of people complaining about the game industry not releasing on dvds, its always the same people who also complain about them pushing newer hardware.
To be fair, it is the /. crowd that 3dmark appeals to. 3dmark has never been more than a simulation of a game and as such should be considered useless. Games that people actually play are the only real benchmarks as they represent real-world results, the only results that matter. Nvidia optimizes it's drivers for games(benchmarks) and so does every other 3D video card manufacturer, is that cheating? No thats improving performance by tailoring the drivers for a specific enviroment. Thats optimization. Is compiling for athlons cheating? Course its not.
The only cheating is on futuremark's part for selling a product that they claim is a valid benchmark for 3d gaming when it is nothing of the sort.
This is certainly good news for the ppc crowd. Competition never hurts and imho is one of the major reasons ppcs never overtook x86s. If the new motos can perform as promised, apple could find space in their product line for them, maybe we'll see moto based ibooks/powerbooks and ibm based tower systems.
I don't know, I'm running the 1.51 patch with a crack so I don't need to keep the cd in, I have amazing performance. Its actually turned into a better game because of it. Moves are now smooth and when I use focus its not choppy at all. Also it alt-tabs just fine. However, there are some problems. For some reason by default with gamma on at any setting it goes to as dark as possible. I have to up the gamma through my gf's control panel. Other than that 1.51 is good :)
I'd just like to say that I had to re-edit and dumb down the review cause it wouldn't go through the lameness filter. Big Words=Junk Characters.
Ok guys, this is my review of Enter The Matrix. Hope you enjoy.
The action is very well done. Combat moves look amazing. Try to think of all the combat moves that were done in the matrix. You can do them all. From neo's cartwheel gunshooting to trinity's cannonbal move. It really feels like you are controlling a zionian. The story is awesome because it starts right after the last flight of the osiris (the animatrix episode) ends. So it feels like everything thats out for the matrix is connected. Not a bad way to sell stuff imho. While you are enjoying the awesome action you also enjoy an amazing musical score. Its freakin amazing!! I have noticed that framerates get very-low in large area locations, but I think the recent patches will fix it. Its games like this that keep giving me a reason to say "I can live with windows and all its MANY faults as long as I can keep playing these games".
I'm sorry if this reads
weird, I've been doing
bonghits all night.
Still no cure for cancer.
*You are not your fucking Khakis
Well I don't know about the actual signal, I never have a problem, but the billing is getting to be insane. They say I owe them $700 because I went over my plan (1000/6500 for 2 phones) in one month by 1200 minutes. If you ask me they are full of shit and if they think I'm going to actually pay, they have a rude awakening coming their way.
Well this just pisses me off a tad,2002-09-18 23:25:33 New news feature at Google (articles,news) (rejected). Nice to see that slashdot doesn't ignore its readers, it just waits 5 days before it starts to care.