Site is ok, they are using RealPlayer format (YUCK) but they managed to pull it off better than most. Problems I had were for some reason I kept getting kicked out of the movie because it said I logged in from another location, which was not true and couldn't be since I just created the account 10 minutes before I got the first error message. Also when I log in to continue the movie it can take up to 200-300 seconds to rebuffer after finding the part of the movie I left off at.
Overall a cool idea but if I have to stop watching my movie all the time because of some flaw in their website, it will just end up making me mad.
I am running Windows XP and have been trying to get this problem solved for XP too. I have to put my GeForce 3 in "PCI Mode" in order to use any 3d apps or games and it crashes constantly in 2d, getting stuck in strange driver loops.
I'm not even close to the only person out there who's stuckk with crappy performance because of this problem. I know there's a problem somewhere between Microsoft, Via, and AMD but that's as far as I personally can get. Hopefully this will be taken care of soon.
Abit KT7A-RAID
Asus V8200 Deluxe GeForce 3
Athlon Thunderbird 1200/200
No offense meant here but I think Linuxwatch.org needs to better define what it thinks a normal user is. In my opinion, working in the IT field myself, this would be a waste on the "normal user".
How I personally define it is the medium of all the 100+ companies users I've met over the last few years.
In IL I have a *BAD* driving record. Not from doing dumb things like DUIs, etc. Just from a large amount of small violations and about 7 insurance violations (In 1 week, it's a record and a looong story). I can drive with a WI license legally though. If this links up then it sounds like I be in trouble.:)
From what I've seen alot of free software is started by someone with a good idea (Most of the time, heh). At the point they start needing donations is the point they've outgrown their current structure, which alot of the time is just as simple as "Joe Schmoe who does x project in his free time".
If you need actual funding for what you do, it's time to become an actual company and make a business plan. The reason for people becoming a company is because once you grow to a certain size (Doesn't even have to be big) the laws associated with becoming a company benefit you immensley, along with protect you and your customers.
The way alot of different developers do it now, it's like having a 50 PC peer to peer network. They just don't want to make the jump that they know they have to.
It's about fun, not which console is bigger or better.
Besides that, I'm waiting for the day where we get rid of having to buy a new console all the time and just have computers with bootable DVDs that load a mini OS that's just enough to run the game on the disc instead of buying a different console all the time or having 2-3 in your house or even running a game through windows/linux while 1,000 different things are going on in the background.
When you pay for an Anonymizing Service, they know who you are. Other people may not be able to directly track you but the Anonymizing service can....which means all they have to do is tell the people that want to know. How much do you trust your paid Anonymizing service?
Ever see the first "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective"? We *thought* Jim Carrey was just JOKING.:)
I moved from IL down to GA and I had no resources at the time. I had money for a plane and a little money left over to move some of my stuff. I decided that UPS couldn't be *that* bad and packaged my stuff up, sent it all through UPS.
When I get down there 3 of my boxes were damaged heavily. One box was my computer, the case was bent almost in half (The case I had was sturdey as hell). Another box was my DVD player, in which was packaged inside of about a large dresser full of clothes...it was cut in half, literally. The next was my VCR, that was bent sort of in a twizzler fassion.
I still to this day have no clue how they did this, especially since I made sure that my packages were packed as well as possible...after 4 months I got *most* of the money out of them. Suffice to say, I will not be using UPS again.
My momma done told me that I'd be a tech. The pays done sold me, I love that paycheck. My brain done gone numb, now I'm blue, sticking out like a soar thuuuummmb....:)
Well, I've been fooling around with computers since '93...I've done so many computer related things, I feel like I know it all. I know I don't know it all but it's so rare that I find a challenge, a problem that I can't solve relatively easily it's not even funny.
I've been working in the IT field for about 2-3 years and I've got to tell you that I feel there's not much left for me that I haven't done, other than becoming a game programmer, which I really don't want to do.
I skipped College because I've been making really good money since High School, good enough to get myself set for awhile. The problem I'm facing is the same, the Tech Blues and unfortunately I don't have a solution yet but at the same time, I'd miss that paycheck.
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No offense here, I've used Emacs and it's cool but I never really payed attention to the version before. Doesn't anyone think it's about time to give up on the whole Ver. 1, Ver. 2, Ver. 541 naming scheme? Ver. 21 is a *bit* high, heh.
All good sammaritan crimminals, I have a *great* idea. Voluntarily submit pictures, fingerprints, and the sort to us for our database, so that if a crime is commited you get may get referrenced! Doesn't that sound like a good thing to be part of? Look at the benefits you get, Oh God this is good.
OR we could have all good, honest people submit their information, then we can refference them when a crime is commited and if we can't blame one of them, then we can blame anyone who didn't put their information in because it's obvious that they have something to hide!
If they want to start a DoS war then everyone will lose. It's just like who will be the first to launch the nukes...only difference is that we can stop DoS'ing eachother immediately and have everything working shortly after and nukes are a bit more permanent.
Let's make goat-spider-crap deamons that spit fire!@!@ They could attack people and...actually they would pry never attack anyone because people would be scared shitless by looking at the freak goats. Maybe we can cybernetically graft a jet engine up the things ass too so that it could go 88 miles per hour like doc brown and travel into the future....I mean what else do we have to do, right?
Yes there are:
Compaq computers with Athlons and Durons in them, the Presario 5000 series.
http://athome.compaq.com/default.asp?ProductLineId =441&page=families
Gateway computers with Athlons in them:
http://www.gateway.com/consumer/matrix/hm_sel_Matr ix.shtml
Hewlett Packard PCs with Athlons in them, the X series:
http://www.hp-at-home.com/hpPavilionHome/series/se riesSummary.cfm?series=x
IBM computers with AMD Athlon in them:
http://commerce.www.ibm.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce/Cate goryDisplay?cgrfnbr=2059074&cntrfnbr=1&cgmenbr=1&c ntry=840&lang=en_US
As you can see Major PC manufacturers do sell AMD chips in their PCs. Dell is one of the few that don't, probably because they think they can live off of Intel's name...which is fine if that works for them. These are just a few examples of the thousands that I can find.
As far as AMD having shipping problems, they aren't and haven't for about a year, like I said. Here's a little help from www.tomshardware.com to back me up:
"Interestingly, I haven't seen any Pentium III processor ahead of its release for more than a year. Intel's latest high-end processors were mostly not even available after their release for quite a while. Finally AMD, which used to have the bad reputation of not being able to deliver, is now showing the signs we only knew from Intel so far. The situation has indeed shifted. A release of an AMD processor means you can buy it in your store latest by the time of its official launch. In case of the release of an Intel high-end processor you might be lucky and get one of the rare pieces weeks or months after their official launch."
Here's the URL to that article:
http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/00q4/001017/athlon -01.html
First of all the following sentance is not true at all: "Few, if any of the big-name business pc vendors even offer AMD-based pc's, since AMD cannot deliver a consistent supply of chips.". AMD has had a better record of supplying chips than Intel has in the last year, another spot where Intel is messing up.
Second I'm not saying that it's not a good price/performance chip (Which it isn't anyway..now I said it), I'm saying that Intel messed up on it's design, they designed it to soley make money and not to provide a good performing CPU and that they have been messing up more and more lately.
I work in the computer field and I know what's going on, especially with CPUs nowadays. I'm not just another lamer saying that it's too much cash or I don't know the difference between a K6/2, Pentium 2, and Pentium 3 or something. I've been around since my first computer, a 80286 with a 32MB hard drive.
You're correct in saying that the Pentium 4 was created to allow very high clock speeds. The reason for this is that most customers shop for clock speed only...because that's the only knowledge they have to measure performance of a CPU and computer in general. Intel made sure of that in their new design so that they would be able to keep the P4 design even longer than maybe they did with the P6 core.
However you can have a 500mhz CPU that kills a 1 ghz CPU if it's designed well. The fact of the matter is that the pentim 4 is the worst kind of CPU, made to sound flashy yet just doesn't deliver. Intel's engineers seem to have gone stupid but it's not that at all they are just being drivin by the companies greed. Intel right now is trying to put it's hand in as many markets as it can at once because they too have realized what they've done.
The Duron kills the Celeron, the Athlon kills the P3 and P4. It's obvious that AMD is the winner right now but it's a battle that never ends...we'll see what Intel does in the near future. According to their roadmap they're just going to keep riding mistakes.
Windows and Linux differ in many things, one of them is this:
Windows is shipped with minimal software, so that 3rd parties can move in on that market and make a better program than MS would have time to..while making good cash at it.
Linux is generally shipped with every known program possible that has a stable release. You can have 5 FTP clients, 3 browsers, etc, etc. There is no room left for the 3rd parties to make money because of the fact that all the software is free...so the 3rd party software is basically all included.
Both have their ups and downs. What I would like to see happen and what I think would help is for Linux not to do what Windows does but cut the early development stuff out and put in the most complete, stable, best programs in the regular distro. Sure some people like the command line and others like the GUIs...that's not a problem. If there are people that want the development or early editions of new software that is coming out then you can create an addon pack or a seperate distro for that itself. Those aren't the limit though, there's plenty of things that you could do.
I always said there's two types of people in this world. Those who make pop-up banner ads and those who close the window when it pops up.
Alot of people are getting so used to ads that they don't even notice them anymore. I go out of my way to ignore them at all costs. An ad popping up in the middle of my browse is like an ignorant telemarketer that can't respond to the word NO.
Sooner or later marketing "geniouses" will realize that annoying people just doesn't bring in the profit like they thought it would. That day my friend, I will go on a shopping spree of love. Until then, I'm shopping with 100% pure attitude.
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Site is ok, they are using RealPlayer format (YUCK) but they managed to pull it off better than most. Problems I had were for some reason I kept getting kicked out of the movie because it said I logged in from another location, which was not true and couldn't be since I just created the account 10 minutes before I got the first error message. Also when I log in to continue the movie it can take up to 200-300 seconds to rebuffer after finding the part of the movie I left off at.
Overall a cool idea but if I have to stop watching my movie all the time because of some flaw in their website, it will just end up making me mad.
With our new technilogical power we could make 8-tracks come back, or even find a neat way to span a movie over 20 or 30 audio cassettes!
...or we could use it to make sense! I'm not sure which one I feel like today, heh.
I am running Windows XP and have been trying to get this problem solved for XP too. I have to put my GeForce 3 in "PCI Mode" in order to use any 3d apps or games and it crashes constantly in 2d, getting stuck in strange driver loops.
I'm not even close to the only person out there who's stuckk with crappy performance because of this problem. I know there's a problem somewhere between Microsoft, Via, and AMD but that's as far as I personally can get. Hopefully this will be taken care of soon.
Abit KT7A-RAID
Asus V8200 Deluxe GeForce 3
Athlon Thunderbird 1200/200
Come on guys, they get *extra* props for having a URL like that. :)
No offense meant here but I think Linuxwatch.org needs to better define what it thinks a normal user is. In my opinion, working in the IT field myself, this would be a waste on the "normal user".
How I personally define it is the medium of all the 100+ companies users I've met over the last few years.
In IL I have a *BAD* driving record. Not from doing dumb things like DUIs, etc. Just from a large amount of small violations and about 7 insurance violations (In 1 week, it's a record and a looong story). I can drive with a WI license legally though. If this links up then it sounds like I be in trouble. :)
From what I've seen alot of free software is started by someone with a good idea (Most of the time, heh). At the point they start needing donations is the point they've outgrown their current structure, which alot of the time is just as simple as "Joe Schmoe who does x project in his free time".
If you need actual funding for what you do, it's time to become an actual company and make a business plan. The reason for people becoming a company is because once you grow to a certain size (Doesn't even have to be big) the laws associated with becoming a company benefit you immensley, along with protect you and your customers.
The way alot of different developers do it now, it's like having a 50 PC peer to peer network. They just don't want to make the jump that they know they have to.
It'll stop when the current John and Jane Q Fewer become the majority and do some of that old hardcore non-arguable logical complaint type stuff.
Until then, John and Jane Doe will use their AOL over Cable Modem services and be happy as Oprah in her kitchen with a hot applie pie.
LOL, "-1, Troll" Slashdot admins's heads are too big.
I posted that comment just to see how many flames and what score I would get.
I'm pro-Linux and the comment was a JOKE. I've never met more of an a$$ crowd than the pro-linux, Slashdot crowd.
The Windows Kernel is up to 5.1, Linux is lagging behind...
It's about fun, not which console is bigger or better.
Besides that, I'm waiting for the day where we get rid of having to buy a new console all the time and just have computers with bootable DVDs that load a mini OS that's just enough to run the game on the disc instead of buying a different console all the time or having 2-3 in your house or even running a game through windows/linux while 1,000 different things are going on in the background.
LOL, I'd like to know how I got changed from "Score: 2, Insightful" to "Score: 1, Flamebait"...for some reason that's pretty funny to me.
When you pay for an Anonymizing Service, they know who you are. Other people may not be able to directly track you but the Anonymizing service can....which means all they have to do is tell the people that want to know. How much do you trust your paid Anonymizing service?
Ever see the first "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective"? We *thought* Jim Carrey was just JOKING. :)
I moved from IL down to GA and I had no resources at the time. I had money for a plane and a little money left over to move some of my stuff. I decided that UPS couldn't be *that* bad and packaged my stuff up, sent it all through UPS.
When I get down there 3 of my boxes were damaged heavily. One box was my computer, the case was bent almost in half (The case I had was sturdey as hell). Another box was my DVD player, in which was packaged inside of about a large dresser full of clothes...it was cut in half, literally. The next was my VCR, that was bent sort of in a twizzler fassion.
I still to this day have no clue how they did this, especially since I made sure that my packages were packed as well as possible...after 4 months I got *most* of the money out of them. Suffice to say, I will not be using UPS again.
My momma done told me that I'd be a tech. The pays done sold me, I love that paycheck. My brain done gone numb, now I'm blue, sticking out like a soar thuuuummmb....:)
Well, I've been fooling around with computers since '93...I've done so many computer related things, I feel like I know it all. I know I don't know it all but it's so rare that I find a challenge, a problem that I can't solve relatively easily it's not even funny.
I've been working in the IT field for about 2-3 years and I've got to tell you that I feel there's not much left for me that I haven't done, other than becoming a game programmer, which I really don't want to do.
I skipped College because I've been making really good money since High School, good enough to get myself set for awhile. The problem I'm facing is the same, the Tech Blues and unfortunately I don't have a solution yet but at the same time, I'd miss that paycheck.
No offense here, I've used Emacs and it's cool but I never really payed attention to the version before. Doesn't anyone think it's about time to give up on the whole Ver. 1, Ver. 2, Ver. 541 naming scheme? Ver. 21 is a *bit* high, heh.
All good sammaritan crimminals, I have a *great* idea. Voluntarily submit pictures, fingerprints, and the sort to us for our database, so that if a crime is commited you get may get referrenced! Doesn't that sound like a good thing to be part of? Look at the benefits you get, Oh God this is good.
OR we could have all good, honest people submit their information, then we can refference them when a crime is commited and if we can't blame one of them, then we can blame anyone who didn't put their information in because it's obvious that they have something to hide!
If they want to start a DoS war then everyone will lose. It's just like who will be the first to launch the nukes...only difference is that we can stop DoS'ing eachother immediately and have everything working shortly after and nukes are a bit more permanent.
Rule #1: Don't buy stuff from people who are trying to teach you how to get rich quick!
Let's make goat-spider-crap deamons that spit fire!@!@ They could attack people and...actually they would pry never attack anyone because people would be scared shitless by looking at the freak goats. Maybe we can cybernetically graft a jet engine up the things ass too so that it could go 88 miles per hour like doc brown and travel into the future....I mean what else do we have to do, right?
Yes there are: Compaq computers with Athlons and Durons in them, the Presario 5000 series. http://athome.compaq.com/default.asp?ProductLineId =441&page=families
Gateway computers with Athlons in them:
http://www.gateway.com/consumer/matrix/hm_sel_Matr ix.shtml
Hewlett Packard PCs with Athlons in them, the X series:
http://www.hp-at-home.com/hpPavilionHome/series/se riesSummary.cfm?series=x
IBM computers with AMD Athlon in them:
http://commerce.www.ibm.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce/Cate goryDisplay?cgrfnbr=2059074&cntrfnbr=1&cgmenbr=1&c ntry=840&lang=en_US
As you can see Major PC manufacturers do sell AMD chips in their PCs. Dell is one of the few that don't, probably because they think they can live off of Intel's name...which is fine if that works for them. These are just a few examples of the thousands that I can find.
As far as AMD having shipping problems, they aren't and haven't for about a year, like I said. Here's a little help from www.tomshardware.com to back me up:
"Interestingly, I haven't seen any Pentium III processor ahead of its release for more than a year. Intel's latest high-end processors were mostly not even available after their release for quite a while. Finally AMD, which used to have the bad reputation of not being able to deliver, is now showing the signs we only knew from Intel so far. The situation has indeed shifted. A release of an AMD processor means you can buy it in your store latest by the time of its official launch. In case of the release of an Intel high-end processor you might be lucky and get one of the rare pieces weeks or months after their official launch."
Here's the URL to that article:
http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/00q4/001017/athlon -01.html
First of all the following sentance is not true at all: "Few, if any of the big-name business pc vendors even offer AMD-based pc's, since AMD cannot deliver a consistent supply of chips.". AMD has had a better record of supplying chips than Intel has in the last year, another spot where Intel is messing up. Second I'm not saying that it's not a good price/performance chip (Which it isn't anyway..now I said it), I'm saying that Intel messed up on it's design, they designed it to soley make money and not to provide a good performing CPU and that they have been messing up more and more lately. I work in the computer field and I know what's going on, especially with CPUs nowadays. I'm not just another lamer saying that it's too much cash or I don't know the difference between a K6/2, Pentium 2, and Pentium 3 or something. I've been around since my first computer, a 80286 with a 32MB hard drive.
You're correct in saying that the Pentium 4 was created to allow very high clock speeds. The reason for this is that most customers shop for clock speed only...because that's the only knowledge they have to measure performance of a CPU and computer in general. Intel made sure of that in their new design so that they would be able to keep the P4 design even longer than maybe they did with the P6 core. However you can have a 500mhz CPU that kills a 1 ghz CPU if it's designed well. The fact of the matter is that the pentim 4 is the worst kind of CPU, made to sound flashy yet just doesn't deliver. Intel's engineers seem to have gone stupid but it's not that at all they are just being drivin by the companies greed. Intel right now is trying to put it's hand in as many markets as it can at once because they too have realized what they've done. The Duron kills the Celeron, the Athlon kills the P3 and P4. It's obvious that AMD is the winner right now but it's a battle that never ends...we'll see what Intel does in the near future. According to their roadmap they're just going to keep riding mistakes.
Windows and Linux differ in many things, one of them is this: Windows is shipped with minimal software, so that 3rd parties can move in on that market and make a better program than MS would have time to..while making good cash at it. Linux is generally shipped with every known program possible that has a stable release. You can have 5 FTP clients, 3 browsers, etc, etc. There is no room left for the 3rd parties to make money because of the fact that all the software is free...so the 3rd party software is basically all included. Both have their ups and downs. What I would like to see happen and what I think would help is for Linux not to do what Windows does but cut the early development stuff out and put in the most complete, stable, best programs in the regular distro. Sure some people like the command line and others like the GUIs...that's not a problem. If there are people that want the development or early editions of new software that is coming out then you can create an addon pack or a seperate distro for that itself. Those aren't the limit though, there's plenty of things that you could do.
I always said there's two types of people in this world. Those who make pop-up banner ads and those who close the window when it pops up. Alot of people are getting so used to ads that they don't even notice them anymore. I go out of my way to ignore them at all costs. An ad popping up in the middle of my browse is like an ignorant telemarketer that can't respond to the word NO. Sooner or later marketing "geniouses" will realize that annoying people just doesn't bring in the profit like they thought it would. That day my friend, I will go on a shopping spree of love. Until then, I'm shopping with 100% pure attitude.