Of course, in order to get a decent gaming experience from your PC, you're probably going to have to spend about as much on it as you would on those 3 or 4 consoles combined. A GeForce3 Ti200 alone costs about as much as if not more than a PS2.
You won't be spending the same amount over a period of time.
Assuming you have a have to have a computer in your home, upgrading that computer for good gaming performance will cost much less in the long run than maintaining that computer AND purchasing all of the consoles and their new versions.
If you play anything with digital white noise bursts in it cranked all the way up then you deserved to have your stereo trashed, because whoever play's there stereo past the 3/4 volume level is a moron to begin with.
I think that you're a moron for turning the volume up past 11/16ths.
Anonymous Coward said: Have you ever had a friend test you to see if you could tell the difference between approximately 192 VBR and 256 VBR? I bet at least 98% of/.ers can't.
YM 'I bet at least 98% of/. Anonymous Cowards spew forth unsupported statistical claims about other/.ers'
No one has given a satisfactory answer as to why extending the eyes of the police is any different to putting more police on the street.
That's really easy to answer.
Here's one way: Take a group of 10 people and give them some pictures or short video clips to study. Have them write down what they believe is happening in those situations. (this is done in many US elementary schools to prove a point)
You'll see many COMPLETELY conflicting explanations.
That's because the context of the events has been removed.
Not to mention, ASN.1 does not generally reduce the document size by more than 40% compared to XML. Think about it: how much space is really taken by tags?
A HUGE amount of space in most cases. A very good example is this page that you are looking at right now.
The first numbers shown (the graph) are the # of hits on Incident.com servers, split up by hour.
If an infected IIS server hit 4 (or 40) of the Incident's servers during any of those hours, only 1 infection would count and be added to the Total Infection Number.
Washington Post says:
"To protect your system from re-infection, install Microsoft's patch for the Code Red vulnerability problem:"
Shouldn't that be "...install Microsoft's patch for the serious IIS security hole that Code Red is exploiting"?
I know I'm being picky, but I wish I had a nickle for every person who thinks that the MS patch is for Code Red and not for a serious security hole in IIS.
CERT is guilty of misleading (bad wording) people from the start of all this. That's probably one of the main reasons news organizations are spreading an inaccurate description of the patch.
Learning to use Linux or BSD is about as hard as learning to use DOS. Millions of people learned about DOS when it was the main option, learned how to make a boot disk to get their games to work, etc
True, but then again those people were a very large chunk of the population that were able to understand (or cared about) programming. Those who could deal with computers had them, but now anyone can and almost all of them just want to hear "You've Got Mail" [sic] and don't care about the rest.
It won't be long before the US required auto-makers to have tire pressure monitoring systems installed on all cars.
You'll be able to drive your car any way you want, unless of course you do so without adhering to the manufacturer's recommended tire pressure.
In that case, you'll probably get pulled over and arrested for endangering the public. (thanks to the next step which will be that the system will be required to broadcast your tire inflation status)
Not only that, a prosecutor could win almost every case he has by withholding evidence and holding trial after trial until the defendant runs out of $$$.
The difference is, with SlashDot you're learning to be more informative and less annoying; to use the brains you have. You can modulate your style and choices from post to post.
That isn't any different from taking different types of pictures.
And, the geeks run the servers that Windows users play on most. Take the top FPS servers for instance (traffic/#of players), http://www.theclq.com is once source.
The highest number of quake/FPS windows servers in the top 20 I've ever seen is 3. Normally it's 1-2.
It's incredible that online game developers think mostly about how many units they will sell instead of how good of an experience those players will have online.
Better experiences == more word of mouth advertising == more units sold. Of course, everyone here already knows that.
A web site which is not universally accessible is an indication of gross incompetence on the part of its designer.
Or, the web site is aimed at a limited (known) audience.
Currently, I tend to feel SAFER buying stuff online from trusted merchants with my credit card than giving it to someone who works in a store
Especially when it's an over-the-phone transaction.
I can guarrantee you this (from my experience at 5 stores), when you phone in an order, your CC# is entered into a normal CC receipt/validation machine. The receipt from that (which contains your FULL credit card number) travels to the person who finds the merchandise, then given to someone who takes it to shipping, then the shipping person puts it in the box and seals that box.
FOUR people have had the chance to copy and distribute that CC #
OTOH, when it comes to ecommerce, the only person who sees the full CC# is the main web site person/programmer. S/he will pass on a receipt that only contains the last 4 digits of the CC# to the order fillers
Unreal/UT/Deus Ex look and run like crap on OpenGl cards compared to the iD based games.
They don't want to support OpenGL...RTFM to see it in their own words.
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Of course, in order to get a decent gaming experience from your PC, you're probably going to have to spend about as much on it as you would on those 3 or 4 consoles combined. A GeForce3 Ti200 alone costs about as much as if not more than a PS2.
You won't be spending the same amount over a period of time.
Assuming you have a have to have a computer in your home, upgrading that computer for good gaming performance will cost much less in the long run than maintaining that computer AND purchasing all of the consoles and their new versions.
If you play anything with digital white noise bursts in it cranked all the way up then you deserved to have your stereo trashed, because whoever play's there stereo past the 3/4 volume level is a moron to begin with.
I think that you're a moron for turning the volume up past 11/16ths.
Remember: Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, he'll buy a boat and drink beer every day.
Anonymous Coward said: Have you ever had a friend test you to see if you could tell the difference between approximately 192 VBR and 256 VBR? I bet at least 98% of /.ers can't.
/. Anonymous Cowards spew forth unsupported statistical claims about other /.ers'
YM 'I bet at least 98% of
HTH
It depends on who's rule-of-thumb you are using.
For me, a 50-60 minute CD takes up 100-120 megs of space.
(VBR 256 rate minimum)
I'm not so sure if it will always work
Since you asked... Most people install IIS because they want to serve HTML or ASP pages, or maybe just FTP.
IIS is automatically installed and enabled for anyone who upgrades from a full (all packages) install of Win98.
No one has given a satisfactory answer as to why extending the eyes of the police is any different to putting more police on the street.
That's really easy to answer.
Here's one way: Take a group of 10 people and give them some pictures or short video clips to study. Have them write down what they believe is happening in those situations. (this is done in many US elementary schools to prove a point)
You'll see many COMPLETELY conflicting explanations.
That's because the context of the events has been removed.
Not to mention, ASN.1 does not generally reduce the document size by more than 40% compared to XML. Think about it: how much space is really taken by tags?
A HUGE amount of space in most cases. A very good example is this page that you are looking at right now.
The first numbers shown (the graph) are the # of hits on Incident.com servers, split up by hour.
If an infected IIS server hit 4 (or 40) of the Incident's servers during any of those hours, only 1 infection would count and be added to the Total Infection Number.
Washington Post says: "To protect your system from re-infection, install Microsoft's patch for the Code Red vulnerability problem:"
Shouldn't that be "...install Microsoft's patch for the serious IIS security hole that Code Red is exploiting"?
I know I'm being picky, but I wish I had a nickle for every person who thinks that the MS patch is for Code Red and not for a serious security hole in IIS.
CERT is guilty of misleading (bad wording) people from the start of all this. That's probably one of the main reasons news organizations are spreading an inaccurate description of the patch.
Learning to use Linux or BSD is about as hard as learning to use DOS. Millions of people learned about DOS when it was the main option, learned how to make a boot disk to get their games to work, etc
True, but then again those people were a very large chunk of the population that were able to understand (or cared about) programming. Those who could deal with computers had them, but now anyone can and almost all of them just want to hear "You've Got Mail" [sic] and don't care about the rest.
It won't be long before the US required auto-makers to have tire pressure monitoring systems installed on all cars.
You'll be able to drive your car any way you want, unless of course you do so without adhering to the manufacturer's recommended tire pressure.
In that case, you'll probably get pulled over and arrested for endangering the public. (thanks to the next step which will be that the system will be required to broadcast your tire inflation status)
Not to mention the bookies in Vegas that will be able to take bets on how long famous celebrities using the device will live...
Not only that, a prosecutor could win almost every case he has by withholding evidence and holding trial after trial until the defendant runs out of $$$.
SEX is excluded of course!
The difference is, with SlashDot you're learning to be more informative and less annoying; to use the brains you have. You can modulate your style and choices from post to post.
That isn't any different from taking different types of pictures.
And, the geeks run the servers that Windows users play on most. Take the top FPS servers for instance (traffic/#of players), http://www.theclq.com is once source. The highest number of quake/FPS windows servers in the top 20 I've ever seen is 3. Normally it's 1-2. It's incredible that online game developers think mostly about how many units they will sell instead of how good of an experience those players will have online. Better experiences == more word of mouth advertising == more units sold. Of course, everyone here already knows that.
A web site which is not universally accessible is an indication of gross incompetence on the part of its designer. Or, the web site is aimed at a limited (known) audience.
Currently, I tend to feel SAFER buying stuff online from trusted merchants with my credit card than giving it to someone who works in a store
Especially when it's an over-the-phone transaction.
I can guarrantee you this (from my experience at 5 stores), when you phone in an order, your CC# is entered into a normal CC receipt/validation machine. The receipt from that (which contains your FULL credit card number) travels to the person who finds the merchandise, then given to someone who takes it to shipping, then the shipping person puts it in the box and seals that box.
FOUR people have had the chance to copy and distribute that CC #
OTOH, when it comes to ecommerce, the only person who sees the full CC# is the main web site person/programmer. S/he will pass on a receipt that only contains the last 4 digits of the CC# to the order fillers
Online FPS numbers by game
Breakdown of Halflife by mod (over 29k counterstrike players when this was posted)
Unreal/UT/Deus Ex look and run like crap on OpenGl cards compared to the iD based games. They don't want to support OpenGL...RTFM to see it in their own words.
I would guess that they must be 5 times lighter also :)
Just what the hell does 'five times thinner' mean anyway?!?!?
Think about it.
YM "It has never happened to me so it never happens", HTH