No it's very definitely not worth calling it off. I've held the exact same grudge ever since they made their own SDRAM spec for some of their systems. I think they were trying to be Apple for a while cuz that's one of their old tricks. They took a standard SDRAM module and moved the notches over ONE PIN so that if you wanted to upgrade, you had to buy the ram from them at 2 or 3 times the cost:P What a bunch of wankers. I didn't like them before that but that was the final nail in the coffin. And then they bought DEC and all but buried the Alpha...they deserve to be beaten with a live electric eel and forced to answer their own help desk lines for a week straight or until they get it through their heads that THEIR PRODUCTS SUCK!!
This rant has been brought to you by serious sleep deprivation and a lot of caffeine.
To this day it never ceases to amaze me how many people shared experiences almost identical to mine in HS. I won't go into mine because you've already basically covered it all. The jocks/popular guys (they were one and the same where I went) picking on the geeks (basically me since it wasn't a very large school), the trailer trash girls latching onto the popular guys, and those same popular guys who are now working gas stations and grunt manufacturing jobs at just above minimum wage. I actually have proof of this - every time I'm home and see one of my classmates, they're working in the lumber yard or at the local grain elevator or something similar.
I also share your depression problem, I've dealt with mine for about 11 years or so. I'm beginning to get the feeling this is , very unfortunately, the norm among geeks our age (it's been 5 years since HS for me). And, from the looks of things, it's just getting worse. But nobody does anything to stop it because "that's the way it is". Honestly, I know a lot of teachers are downright SCARED of the bullies, especially later in HS. Because a lot of the kids wouldn't blink for a second before beating the teacher as well. They know they'll get more community service hours..but seeing as they already probably have more than could be worked off in a single lifetime, they don't give a damn. And if the teachers are scared, who can help? Put a 300 lb police officer in every classroom? Yes it'd probably work but not effectively. I don't know...I share the same anger and scare as you do. There are a large number of former classmates of mine I'd like to see put through a meat grinder or something similar. I don't think I hate them as much as what they did to me and how they've influenced the formation of my personality through the scars they left. I hope they fry...
Don't get me wrong though, life HAS gotten 100 times better since HS. What college I did go to (got tired of it in the end) was a blast! I'm now married to a wonderful woman, have a fun decently paying job, and lotsa computer toys to play with;) It CAN only get better from here...just keep telling yourself that and you'll (hopefully) make it through.:) Or get online and play Q3 or CS and BLOW THE F***ING HELL OUT OF EVERYTHING IN SIGHT!! It's helped me deal with a lot of anger:) I'd have to say that FPS games have helped calm me down a LOT, not the other way around. I use them very much as a stress beater and they're quite effective.
Anyway I'd better stop writing...the facilities people are already vacuuming the office and want me to leave;) It's just nice to get it all out in the open every once in a while.:)
Don't like what I've said, well PISS OFF! =)
If Apple opened up their specs so that all those dinkum ROC chaps could start producing compatible parts, and somebody like Dell or IBM could start assembling licensed clones for a small cut... then Apple could get the costs down and the sales back up
Actually they did this for a while. Granted not totally open but they had licensed clone makers (i.e. Power Computing and Daystar). But they ran into a bit of a snag. The clone makers were outselling AND underpricing Apple. They were making the same or better machines and selling them for less and the users loved it. An illustrator I worked with still has a Power Computing G3 and he says it runs quite a bit more reliably than the Apple G3 he has sitting right next to it AND was cheaper.
Now as to your point about opening the hardware, I think that would be an absolutely wonderful thing to do for the computing community. You'd have a flurry of activity right away on clones and hardware compatability, and I think we would be better off for it. Now is this going to happen? Don't bet your Mac on it. Apple makes their money selling very high priced boxes to places who are committed to them, such as recording studios and some graphics houses. Without the income from their hardware sales they really wouldn't have much in the way of profits. It'd be very nice, but don't hold your breath.
This proves clearly that Pentium 4 lives from the high memory bandwidth that RDRAM is finally able to deliver.
Even though the floating point of the P4 was benchmarked in the initial article as being abysmal, he had a positive word for the RDRAM memory bandwidth.
As to pricing and bundling, why would we WANT DDR2100 bundled with an Athlon? Most people who are willing to pop enough for a brand new Athlon or P4 and RAM don't WANT to get it bundled. They want the most flexibility in choosing all of their parts to make sure they get the best possible. Honestly you sound like a Microsoft marketing guy - remember getting it bundled is always better! Now that may be a matter of opinion but I happen to be a highly opinionated individual and I personally think bundling can bite my big white monkey. But I digress. I'm responding to your facts, not railing M$. I'll have to do that another day.
Yes, this is real performance on real motherboards and yes someone finally did design a decent controller with enough power. The latency problem is still there though. AFAIK they are doing interleave to somewhat sidestep the problem, which actually isn't too bad of a solution. However remember it took them QUITE a long time to make that decent controller and the incomplete versions were released to the market with large flaws. Intel isn't the only company to ever have done that but my point is that they DID do it, and deserve to be berated for it just as much or little as any other company. We personally have about 500 brand new cp's at the company I work for, all with RDRAM. The controllers on these boards were so bad that we eventually ended up having to replace all the boards to get then to run correctly. Once they were running, they've run fairly reliably (aside from other hardware problems not associated with Intel or Rambus). But be that as it may I still don't really like them. My system at home is only slightly clock speed faster than these but it would whoop the pc's at work any day, even with simple old PC-133 SDRAM. I'm not saying this as official benchmark stuff, simply that I'm not satisfied with RDRAM so far.
And as to the subject of cooling, yes people strab mammoth heat sinks to their processors. It's become somewhat of a sport for the daring/rich. However cooling RAM is an entirely different issue. For one thing, RDRAM runs so hot just clocked normally that it has to go into different sleep states to avoid basiclaly melting itself. This is a big part of what's behind the large latency associated with RDRAM. And since they're running so hot already, this seriously inhibits your ability to overclock your bus (the only way to overclock a P4 anyway). Cooling your RAM is very difficult even if you did want to do it because most of it is mounted perpendicular to the board, as opposed to the CPU that is now mounted parallel. And when the cpu's WERE mounted perpendicular, there had to be a large amount of clear space around it to fit the heat sink/fan, space that really couldn't be used for much else. You could blow a fan on the mem, but this defintely isn't the most efficient way. So they left in the sleep modes and the overclocking is limited...in other words the heat problem really does remain, just not really in a form you and I deal with.
I hope this was an acceptable response to your facts as you posted them. I sincerely enjoyed the intellectual discussion.:)
Well if you'd been following the technology of RAMBUS and actually READING the reviews that you mentioned, you'd know that while RDRAM has wonderful bandwidth, it has horrible latency, heat, power, and timing problems. They've known about all of these problems since RDRAM came out and they're painfully obvious now. It may have oodles of more bandwidth than sdram BUT if the latency is bad or if you can't power it or design a decent chipset/memory controller for it, it's really worthless except possibly at the high end server market where people are willing to pay oodles of $$ for extreme bandwidth with massive cooling solutions.
I believe it's mentioned in Revelation along with when the sun will become blood red and dogs and cats playing together. But imho this is a LONG time in coming. I'm really even surprised that the judge based a ruling on such a technical issue - it shows you that there really ARE judges out there willing to wade through the technical stuff and issue judgements (or at least injunctions) on it. Now as to whether or not this will continue, we'll see. I just pray to god it will!
That's my arguemnt exactly - it's all in the way you perceive it. As the cliche states, it's all relative. It's just nice to have a little vindication/agreement from the community to show I'm not totally off my rocker;)
Actually, YOUR date system is backwards if you want to read it out loud. When you read the date as written in our "stupid, backwards, dumb ass system we use for notating dates", you read March fourteenth, two thousand one, which is exactly as printed. When you read the date using your "intelligent, forwards, smart ass system you use for notating dates" you read fourteen march, two thousand one. So you see there's really nothing backwards about it, it more relates to how you want to read it. It's the same argument with so-called "regular" number notation and reverse polish notation (RPN). Written, the "regular" system is entered [3] [+] [4] [=] and is read the same way: three plus four equals. Using RPN you enter it [3] [4] [+] [=], and I don't think anybody speaks "three four plus equals". But there are a lot of arguments that say using RPN is more efficient when entering data. So you see it's really more in the perception of the system than in how it actually is used that makes a particular system "intelligent, correct, and smart ass" or "stupid, backwards, and dumb ass". So please remember to think before you flame:)
I agree! I'm heading down there as soon as I'm done with work this afternoon! Everybody in the Boston area should be down there and havin a great old time! I'll bring my Pi shirt, my Visual Representation of Pi poster, Cherry Pie, and anything else Pi related I can find. The nerd event of the century!!
I have to wholeheartedly agree with you on that one. I also have played in numerous bands and know quite a few people who have gone on and signed record contracts. Invariably, in the end they come out poorer than they were before, even if they DO sell a lot of albums. Why, you ask? Because of this little thing called "recoupable cost". That refers to such things as recording studio time and basically anything you can pay for. The record company generally encourages the artist to stay in the studio as long as they need, to get every little detail perfect - which is a good thing on the surface. However, hidden in the contract is the clause that they have to pay back ALL studio time and other costs. This is generally taken from the already-meager percentage of sales profits that the artist is "entitled" to. Also, especially on the band's first contract, they have basically no artistic control over the album. The execs and promoters tell them what to play, how to play it, etc. So in the end you end up with music that probably doesn't reflect your band at all and a mountain of bills. But I have to say I'm EXTREMELY glad there are more people like pezpunk and myself who play for the fun and love of music. Sure it'd be nice to get rich - but that's NOT what music is all about. I copyright my music not to get paid for it but to make sure someone else ISN'T getting paid for it. I played in an orchestra for 7 years, practicing on the weekend and playing on Sundays every 2 months or so. I played in numerous bands who practiced in the evenings and played whenever/wherever we could find a place to plug in. I sweat away nights until 5 or 6 AM at my computer, writing a new song until my eyes fall out or the puter crashes. And why do I do it? Because I LOVE music. I'm not earning a cent - in fact most people who hear the music that I've written think it sounds more like a computer having a hernia than music. But I'll keep on writing, even if nobody ever hears it because it's fun. If you want to copy my music onto Napster, please do! Just make sure I get credit for it, that's all I ask. Now don't get me wrong that I think swapping free songs is a good thing to do. But when the artist doesn't receive jack $h1t for his recording, I see nothing wrong with it. Almost all artists I know earn their money almost exclusively from touring and make jack crap from record sales. From my viewpoint, it's GOOD to get your songs out there and listened to. For one, it says "Jack the damn record company!" and for another, the more people who listen to your music, the more who come to your shows where you DO make money. So in short, I love Napster as related to the current heierarchy of the recording and music industry. This could change if the whole industry was reorganized, but hey, let's face it, it's more likely that a blind quadrapalegic monkey will get a strike while bowling:P
You too? Half my department is scared of me because I read/. and work on my puter every night or play games (currently in the middle of Deus Ex with occasional breaks to play CS) instead of ever going anywhere. Their view is that anybody who doesn't act like the cookie-cutter Joe Public (i.e. own a car, go to bars or clubs on the weekend, watch football, drink outrageous amounts of beer, etc.) are abnormal and to be shunned. Oh well...the worlds of Deus Ex and CS is so much more exciting;)
Read the previous installments of this article. One of them (don't remmeber which of the two) is actually about this very thing - that the "establishment" is basically having a moral panic about gaming and gamers in general because it's so different from everything they know.:)
Wow you really ARE a UNIX bigot! At least you admit it though...that's halfway to being cured:) Don't get me wrong, UNIX does kick soooo much ass. But it's NOT RISCM/b> - that's entirely dependent on the processor you run it on. Whereas Win32 is 32 bits on any processor - from the 486 on up. So maybe you could call it "EUNUCH64AssKickingFastandStable" 8)
Amen brotha! UT allll the waaayyyy!!! Q3A has NOTHING on UT - one of those games better left unreleased:P I also have to say the same about HalfLife CounterStrike. I admit TFC is a sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet mod but the game engine is so dated that after playing some good fast UT it seems as if I'm crawling through some thick molasses playing TCF. It's SO much slower and unrefined, especially the controls. Don't get me wrong the mod is nothing short of a wonder in itself but did that and counterstrike REALLY deserve their own game? What they REALLY deserve is to be ported to the UT engine in all their glory - THAT would be seriously kewl and l337 8)
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I would think it would be patently obvious to the casual observer that you would NOT use a mouse when using electronic voting. The machines that the actual voting is done on would more than likely be some sort of custom-constructed kiosks with touch screens and large buttons. I read an article on Discover.com that detailed a test a company conducted in California of a demo electronic voting system. They used touch screens and invited EVERYBODY to try it and according to the arcitle 100% of the people who tried it thought it was great. They even had 80 year old women and DRUNKS using it! If you can't handle the same things an 80 year old woman and a drunk can handle, you shouldn't be voting. Just my two cents:)
Hey weenie boy...and I quote, "Please regard any of the previous statements as products of a delusional psychosis brought on by too many PC crashes induced by late night kernel hacking..." So get a life and a sense of humor;)
W00!! Amen brother, I was waiting for someone to say that;) The true processors are built by a company that doesn't put pansy-ass serial numbers in their processors for them to broadcast and say, "Here I am! Pllllease (a la Roger Rabbit) come hack me and rape my puter cuz you are a 311t hax0r and I worship y0u!" AMD rules! Someday you'll all wake up and thank me for pointing this out when you all have Wintel processors embedded in your skulls and you bow down to Bill in homage to him as he sits on his throne of darkness, filling your mind with evil vile and cruel software and making you the BORG!! RESIST, my friends! Resist and throw off the yoke of burden that has been cast upon you by the Evil Empire! Only then will you know TRUE freedom and be able to walk through the beautiful fields of daisies without transmitting everything you see to the Almighty Bill! Only then will you be able to pet cute little kitties without infecting them with the evil M$-BORG virus! DIIIIEEEEEEE!! DIII- err...time for my pill...please disregard any of the previous statements as products of a delusional psychosis brought on by too many PC crashes induced by late night kernel hacking...
Actually that's the basis for Borda voting - you list the candidates in order that you think are qualified to be in the office. Check out a good piece here from Discover magazine that explains several different voting systems.
Actually, if I remember correctly, C&C is just another Warcraft clone;) However I am getting tired of the Quake clones...I can't wait til Serious Sam comes out =)
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Although I hear the nagging module will be hard-wired...damn engineers...
I can't wait until cyborg gf's...no more flowers, no more jewelry, and you can turn them off when they get annoying ;)
No it's very definitely not worth calling it off. I've held the exact same grudge ever since they made their own SDRAM spec for some of their systems. I think they were trying to be Apple for a while cuz that's one of their old tricks. They took a standard SDRAM module and moved the notches over ONE PIN so that if you wanted to upgrade, you had to buy the ram from them at 2 or 3 times the cost :P What a bunch of wankers. I didn't like them before that but that was the final nail in the coffin. And then they bought DEC and all but buried the Alpha...they deserve to be beaten with a live electric eel and forced to answer their own help desk lines for a week straight or until they get it through their heads that THEIR PRODUCTS SUCK!!
This rant has been brought to you by serious sleep deprivation and a lot of caffeine.
lol...so true... I just had to put in a long and cruel laugh at someone else's expense ;)
To this day it never ceases to amaze me how many people shared experiences almost identical to mine in HS. I won't go into mine because you've already basically covered it all. The jocks/popular guys (they were one and the same where I went) picking on the geeks (basically me since it wasn't a very large school), the trailer trash girls latching onto the popular guys, and those same popular guys who are now working gas stations and grunt manufacturing jobs at just above minimum wage. I actually have proof of this - every time I'm home and see one of my classmates, they're working in the lumber yard or at the local grain elevator or something similar. I also share your depression problem, I've dealt with mine for about 11 years or so. I'm beginning to get the feeling this is , very unfortunately, the norm among geeks our age (it's been 5 years since HS for me). And, from the looks of things, it's just getting worse. But nobody does anything to stop it because "that's the way it is". Honestly, I know a lot of teachers are downright SCARED of the bullies, especially later in HS. Because a lot of the kids wouldn't blink for a second before beating the teacher as well. They know they'll get more community service hours..but seeing as they already probably have more than could be worked off in a single lifetime, they don't give a damn. And if the teachers are scared, who can help? Put a 300 lb police officer in every classroom? Yes it'd probably work but not effectively. I don't know...I share the same anger and scare as you do. There are a large number of former classmates of mine I'd like to see put through a meat grinder or something similar. I don't think I hate them as much as what they did to me and how they've influenced the formation of my personality through the scars they left. I hope they fry... Don't get me wrong though, life HAS gotten 100 times better since HS. What college I did go to (got tired of it in the end) was a blast! I'm now married to a wonderful woman, have a fun decently paying job, and lotsa computer toys to play with ;) It CAN only get better from here...just keep telling yourself that and you'll (hopefully) make it through. :) Or get online and play Q3 or CS and BLOW THE F***ING HELL OUT OF EVERYTHING IN SIGHT!! It's helped me deal with a lot of anger :) I'd have to say that FPS games have helped calm me down a LOT, not the other way around. I use them very much as a stress beater and they're quite effective.
Anyway I'd better stop writing...the facilities people are already vacuuming the office and want me to leave ;) It's just nice to get it all out in the open every once in a while. :)
Don't like what I've said, well PISS OFF! =)
As to pricing and bundling, why would we WANT DDR2100 bundled with an Athlon? Most people who are willing to pop enough for a brand new Athlon or P4 and RAM don't WANT to get it bundled. They want the most flexibility in choosing all of their parts to make sure they get the best possible. Honestly you sound like a Microsoft marketing guy - remember getting it bundled is always better! Now that may be a matter of opinion but I happen to be a highly opinionated individual and I personally think bundling can bite my big white monkey. But I digress. I'm responding to your facts, not railing M$. I'll have to do that another day.
Yes, this is real performance on real motherboards and yes someone finally did design a decent controller with enough power. The latency problem is still there though. AFAIK they are doing interleave to somewhat sidestep the problem, which actually isn't too bad of a solution. However remember it took them QUITE a long time to make that decent controller and the incomplete versions were released to the market with large flaws. Intel isn't the only company to ever have done that but my point is that they DID do it, and deserve to be berated for it just as much or little as any other company. We personally have about 500 brand new cp's at the company I work for, all with RDRAM. The controllers on these boards were so bad that we eventually ended up having to replace all the boards to get then to run correctly. Once they were running, they've run fairly reliably (aside from other hardware problems not associated with Intel or Rambus). But be that as it may I still don't really like them. My system at home is only slightly clock speed faster than these but it would whoop the pc's at work any day, even with simple old PC-133 SDRAM. I'm not saying this as official benchmark stuff, simply that I'm not satisfied with RDRAM so far.
And as to the subject of cooling, yes people strab mammoth heat sinks to their processors. It's become somewhat of a sport for the daring/rich. However cooling RAM is an entirely different issue. For one thing, RDRAM runs so hot just clocked normally that it has to go into different sleep states to avoid basiclaly melting itself. This is a big part of what's behind the large latency associated with RDRAM. And since they're running so hot already, this seriously inhibits your ability to overclock your bus (the only way to overclock a P4 anyway). Cooling your RAM is very difficult even if you did want to do it because most of it is mounted perpendicular to the board, as opposed to the CPU that is now mounted parallel. And when the cpu's WERE mounted perpendicular, there had to be a large amount of clear space around it to fit the heat sink/fan, space that really couldn't be used for much else. You could blow a fan on the mem, but this defintely isn't the most efficient way. So they left in the sleep modes and the overclocking is limited...in other words the heat problem really does remain, just not really in a form you and I deal with.
I hope this was an acceptable response to your facts as you posted them. I sincerely enjoyed the intellectual discussion.
Well if you'd been following the technology of RAMBUS and actually READING the reviews that you mentioned, you'd know that while RDRAM has wonderful bandwidth, it has horrible latency, heat, power, and timing problems. They've known about all of these problems since RDRAM came out and they're painfully obvious now. It may have oodles of more bandwidth than sdram BUT if the latency is bad or if you can't power it or design a decent chipset/memory controller for it, it's really worthless except possibly at the high end server market where people are willing to pay oodles of $$ for extreme bandwidth with massive cooling solutions.
I believe it's mentioned in Revelation along with when the sun will become blood red and dogs and cats playing together. But imho this is a LONG time in coming. I'm really even surprised that the judge based a ruling on such a technical issue - it shows you that there really ARE judges out there willing to wade through the technical stuff and issue judgements (or at least injunctions) on it. Now as to whether or not this will continue, we'll see. I just pray to god it will!
That's my arguemnt exactly - it's all in the way you perceive it. As the cliche states, it's all relative. It's just nice to have a little vindication/agreement from the community to show I'm not totally off my rocker ;)
Actually, YOUR date system is backwards if you want to read it out loud. When you read the date as written in our "stupid, backwards, dumb ass system we use for notating dates", you read March fourteenth, two thousand one, which is exactly as printed. When you read the date using your "intelligent, forwards, smart ass system you use for notating dates" you read fourteen march, two thousand one. So you see there's really nothing backwards about it, it more relates to how you want to read it. It's the same argument with so-called "regular" number notation and reverse polish notation (RPN). Written, the "regular" system is entered [3] [+] [4] [=] and is read the same way: three plus four equals. Using RPN you enter it [3] [4] [+] [=], and I don't think anybody speaks "three four plus equals". But there are a lot of arguments that say using RPN is more efficient when entering data. So you see it's really more in the perception of the system than in how it actually is used that makes a particular system "intelligent, correct, and smart ass" or "stupid, backwards, and dumb ass". So please remember to think before you flame :)
I agree! I'm heading down there as soon as I'm done with work this afternoon! Everybody in the Boston area should be down there and havin a great old time! I'll bring my Pi shirt, my Visual Representation of Pi poster, Cherry Pie, and anything else Pi related I can find. The nerd event of the century!!
Nah...got lots of friends to play with who understand me =~) Besides I'm married...it fights the loneliness with startling efficiency ;)
I have to wholeheartedly agree with you on that one. I also have played in numerous bands and know quite a few people who have gone on and signed record contracts. Invariably, in the end they come out poorer than they were before, even if they DO sell a lot of albums. Why, you ask? Because of this little thing called "recoupable cost". That refers to such things as recording studio time and basically anything you can pay for. The record company generally encourages the artist to stay in the studio as long as they need, to get every little detail perfect - which is a good thing on the surface. However, hidden in the contract is the clause that they have to pay back ALL studio time and other costs. This is generally taken from the already-meager percentage of sales profits that the artist is "entitled" to. Also, especially on the band's first contract, they have basically no artistic control over the album. The execs and promoters tell them what to play, how to play it, etc. So in the end you end up with music that probably doesn't reflect your band at all and a mountain of bills. But I have to say I'm EXTREMELY glad there are more people like pezpunk and myself who play for the fun and love of music. Sure it'd be nice to get rich - but that's NOT what music is all about. I copyright my music not to get paid for it but to make sure someone else ISN'T getting paid for it. I played in an orchestra for 7 years, practicing on the weekend and playing on Sundays every 2 months or so. I played in numerous bands who practiced in the evenings and played whenever/wherever we could find a place to plug in. I sweat away nights until 5 or 6 AM at my computer, writing a new song until my eyes fall out or the puter crashes. And why do I do it? Because I LOVE music. I'm not earning a cent - in fact most people who hear the music that I've written think it sounds more like a computer having a hernia than music. But I'll keep on writing, even if nobody ever hears it because it's fun. If you want to copy my music onto Napster, please do! Just make sure I get credit for it, that's all I ask. Now don't get me wrong that I think swapping free songs is a good thing to do. But when the artist doesn't receive jack $h1t for his recording, I see nothing wrong with it. Almost all artists I know earn their money almost exclusively from touring and make jack crap from record sales. From my viewpoint, it's GOOD to get your songs out there and listened to. For one, it says "Jack the damn record company!" and for another, the more people who listen to your music, the more who come to your shows where you DO make money. So in short, I love Napster as related to the current heierarchy of the recording and music industry. This could change if the whole industry was reorganized, but hey, let's face it, it's more likely that a blind quadrapalegic monkey will get a strike while bowling :P
You too? Half my department is scared of me because I read /. and work on my puter every night or play games (currently in the middle of Deus Ex with occasional breaks to play CS) instead of ever going anywhere. Their view is that anybody who doesn't act like the cookie-cutter Joe Public (i.e. own a car, go to bars or clubs on the weekend, watch football, drink outrageous amounts of beer, etc.) are abnormal and to be shunned. Oh well...the worlds of Deus Ex and CS is so much more exciting ;)
Read the previous installments of this article. One of them (don't remmeber which of the two) is actually about this very thing - that the "establishment" is basically having a moral panic about gaming and gamers in general because it's so different from everything they know. :)
goddamit my typing has been soooo bad lately...please forgive my rampant bold tag :> I go now to torture myself for this slight of /. ettiquette.
Wow you really ARE a UNIX bigot! At least you admit it though...that's halfway to being cured :) Don't get me wrong, UNIX does kick soooo much ass. But it's NOT RISCM/b> - that's entirely dependent on the processor you run it on. Whereas Win32 is 32 bits on any processor - from the 486 on up. So maybe you could call it "EUNUCH64AssKickingFastandStable" 8)
Amen brotha! UT allll the waaayyyy!!! Q3A has NOTHING on UT - one of those games better left unreleased :P I also have to say the same about HalfLife CounterStrike. I admit TFC is a sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet mod but the game engine is so dated that after playing some good fast UT it seems as if I'm crawling through some thick molasses playing TCF. It's SO much slower and unrefined, especially the controls. Don't get me wrong the mod is nothing short of a wonder in itself but did that and counterstrike REALLY deserve their own game? What they REALLY deserve is to be ported to the UT engine in all their glory - THAT would be seriously kewl and l337 8)
I would think it would be patently obvious to the casual observer that you would NOT use a mouse when using electronic voting. The machines that the actual voting is done on would more than likely be some sort of custom-constructed kiosks with touch screens and large buttons. I read an article on Discover.com that detailed a test a company conducted in California of a demo electronic voting system. They used touch screens and invited EVERYBODY to try it and according to the arcitle 100% of the people who tried it thought it was great. They even had 80 year old women and DRUNKS using it! If you can't handle the same things an 80 year old woman and a drunk can handle, you shouldn't be voting. Just my two cents :)
Hey weenie boy...and I quote, "Please regard any of the previous statements as products of a delusional psychosis brought on by too many PC crashes induced by late night kernel hacking..." So get a life and a sense of humor ;)
W00!! Amen brother, I was waiting for someone to say that ;) The true processors are built by a company that doesn't put pansy-ass serial numbers in their processors for them to broadcast and say, "Here I am! Pllllease (a la Roger Rabbit) come hack me and rape my puter cuz you are a 311t hax0r and I worship y0u!" AMD rules! Someday you'll all wake up and thank me for pointing this out when you all have Wintel processors embedded in your skulls and you bow down to Bill in homage to him as he sits on his throne of darkness, filling your mind with evil vile and cruel software and making you the BORG!! RESIST, my friends! Resist and throw off the yoke of burden that has been cast upon you by the Evil Empire! Only then will you know TRUE freedom and be able to walk through the beautiful fields of daisies without transmitting everything you see to the Almighty Bill! Only then will you be able to pet cute little kitties without infecting them with the evil M$-BORG virus! DIIIIEEEEEEE!! DIII- err...time for my pill...please disregard any of the previous statements as products of a delusional psychosis brought on by too many PC crashes induced by late night kernel hacking...
Actually that's the basis for Borda voting - you list the candidates in order that you think are qualified to be in the office. Check out a good piece here from Discover magazine that explains several different voting systems.
In a word...YES!!! This has been a public service announcement.
Actually, if I remember correctly, C&C is just another Warcraft clone ;) However I am getting tired of the Quake clones...I can't wait til Serious Sam comes out =)