I'm so tired of anti-M$ cronies whining about how Xbox is an inferior system based on their mostly unfounded hatred of Microsoft. I don't think the PS2 is an entirely bad system, but for that same $300, you can get one hell of a better machine if you buy an Xbox instead.
Another comment that seems to be completely oblivious to the fact that the better machine is NOT the one that pushes the most mip-mapped texels blah blah blah per seconds, but the one with the better GAMES. This is clearly PS2's strong point right now, especially if you take account the huge library of PS1 games, the already great PS2 games out there, and the ones coming soon. For the same 300$, you can get one hell of a better GAMING machine if you buy a PS2.
No amount of whining about anti-M$ cronies will change those facts.
That has to be one of the most BS post i've ever seen. Having played hundreds of console games since the 80's, having owned Vectrex, Atari, NES, SNES, N64, PS2, having played extensively on friend's Sega Master systems and genesis, I can assurely tell you that dropping 50$ for a console game is a practicaly inexistant risk as far as game stopping bugs go.
The un-patchability of console games forces the publisher to publish a game without any defects, as opposed to pc publishers putting out half-finished game and patching it in the next 6 months that the game should have stayed in beta. About GT2 : even if you did top at 98%, did it stop you from playing and winning all the possible races? No? Then where's the problem?
Yes, Wakka sells his hand-crafted bongs and hemp clothing in a little stand on the beach. I'm really glad they were gutsy enough to include the only pothead of the FF series in a disney game.
Seriously, after every fight in FFX I expected him to say "Yah man, good fight, let's roll a big one to celebrate".
Btw I smoke pot on a regular basis, I'm not judging anybody, and I really DO like the Wakka character.
Is there a site somewhere that keeps a list of copy-protected cd's? I just bought Slipknot's new cd, iowa, and it craps out solidly when I try to play it in my cd-rom. It works fine in my roommate's cd-rom though. Actually I'm not surprised of this. Slipknot clearly state their affinity for satan, so they'd have no problem of agreeing with one of the dark one's ventures, the RIAA.
No it is not. How many time in the last few days have you clicked the OPEN button instead of saving the file? Well every one of those time someone could have "sent you up the bomb".
There is way more microsoft apologistism going on than there is unjustified bashing. I for one never doubted that the name of the file that IE showed me in the dialog box could be wrong, because I assumed it was a system message and that the name displayed was the name that was gonna be used on my local system, which it is not necessarily.
Bull, for anything science related you shouldn't touch a computer 'till after high school, or else you won't know the basics, you'll just blindly use the programs. For all the "human sciences" courses typing something on a computer doesn't make it any better than writing it on paper.
The number one use of the computers will be either games, porn or trading mp3's. Choose your favorite.
Am I the only one who thinks that the lack of a clear way of scoring the boards and declaring the winners makes the review completely subjective? The way I read the numbers the A7V-266-E outperformed the Soyo and perhaps the soltek. The epox wiped the floors in the benchmarks but since they had stability problems they didn't push the board, but never clearly said so. This combined with the fact that stability and vendor support are just as important(if not more) than performance in determining which board to buy makes me question their final verdict. It's been a couple of years now that I've been critical of what I read on Tom's, bias and tilt factor towards certain vendors make Tom's questionnable at time.
You're looking at this the wrong way. The first time you play the game you watch all the story parts, it's not 100% a game, it's an interactive story. Then you play again and skip all the story parts, this is where it starts to be a game. You have to develop your sense of execution and stealth to be able to get all the dog tags on the 5 difficulty level, unlocking cool stuff when you do so. Stopping after beating the game once on normal or easy(or worse, very easy) is like stopping playing diablo 2 after killing diablo in normal mode, a waste of a good game.
You're on your SIXTH ps2? WTF are you doing? I've had mine since march and we're three roommates and we play/watch dvd constantly on it. Do you keep the ps2 in place where heat can be discharged? The odds of you getting six defects in a row when most people have no problem is slim to none. The only crashes i've had is with NHL2001, which locked up about 3 times in the time it took to play a full season and win the stanley cup with 15 minutes games.
I agree totally. Getting MAME to run on the X-Box was a pretty logical step. It was a matter of time. To be ironic there would need to be an incongruity between what is happening now and what one would have expected to happen. But since pretty much everybody would have expected this it is not ironic. At all.
Hell yeah. I'm a last year student in mechanical engineering and let me tell you one thing, a guy that can pick up a napkin and sketch out a smart way to solve a problem is worth 100 guys that draw it in Catia and use Catia as a "black box". In fact my friend, who finished in the top 3 of his promotion never owned a computer during his studies, and it didn't hinder him a bit. Hell I spend most of my time playing games which keep me from studying.
Which is just the problem with teaching with computers, you usually end up specializing people in using the tools instead of making them understand the problem necessitating the tool and how to build that tool(figuratively speaking). And let me tell you one thing, people that rely on the "magic black box" to solve their problems usually lack the criticism to evaluate the answers given to them by the computers, and they end up making HUGE errors.
Will the RIAA start burning books because we could translate the music into multiple sinusoidal equations and print it on paper?
They're already on the right track with their repeated attacks on tab sites and OLGA in particular. Not only do they would they like to ban the knowledge to compress and share their music, they would ban the knowledge of how to play it on your own instrument.
Sorry to disapoint you, but your system is econo-marketing class. Just go have a look on audio sites and you'll see the sony DE line is very badly regarded, you should have gone with the DB line, which is of much better quality. Like another poster noted, Bose==marketing. At least you didn't buy an acoustimass but for the money you could have gone way better. Bang for bucks I would say Paradigm and PSB because they're the first that come to mind but you could have auditionned Mirage, Polk, B&W, etc.
Now don't take this the hard way, I just wanted to make sure that people that don't know a lot about this didn't think your system was upscale, just to put things in perspective. For example, I use a Pioneer VSX-D509S, which isn't any better than yours(more power though). I just didn't have the dough for a denon 2800 or 3300(this is where upscale would start, along with pioneer elite and the better yamahas, marantz, etc).
About Bell soon to be 1000kbytes in download, that's gonna be theoritical and the cable modems already have a better speed. It's 27Mbps on the coax side, 10Mbps on the 10base-t interface. It's also 10Mbps on the upload, but the witless engineers(well the engineering department anyways, since there's not that many engineers there but that's another story) decided to cap it at 128kbps about two years ago, without warning customer service or tech support first. They just put it in one night, and they could just as easily bring it up to 768kbps. Anyways they were just trying to always keep some upload free for the ip telephony tests, but since Quebecor canned any R&D at videotron after buying them the project's dead. It's not like Bell's internal network will be able to sustain 1000kbyte/s for its subscribers anyways.
But yeah, you're right the situation pretty good here. Videotron has more than 200 000 cable modems subscriber, about 50k dial-ups. Bell has way less DSL subscribers but probably triple the dial-ups. And then there's Cogeco that must have 10-20k cable subscribers. Videotron's making profit but it's hard these days because I'm 80% sure that the penalty they had to pay to Rogers(I think it's around 200 millions) for the failed merger(caused by Quebecor's hostile takeover) is being deducted right from Videotron's budget. If any wants to know why Pierre Karl Peladeau's an asshole ask away...
This is interesting because last night I was watching an interview with Pierre Berton on canadian tv. He mentionned one thing that really struck me. In the second world war there was a british attack(don't remember which one, I wasn't taking notes) that was one of the bloodiest ever. They lost 65 000 soldier in one day. But back home the "traditionnal" media were claiming that it was an astounding success with minimal losses. Some would say it was to keep morale up back home, but I say nay to apologists and think it's just pure deception.
Were this to happen nowadays, a government couldn't hide the truth to the masses because somewhere else in the world someone would post the truth on the net. And don't forget kids, don't be too quick to trust was you see on tv, they're excellent at showing only one side of the coin. To the medias defense, sometimes they're just being used without knowing it.
For AMD: I'd say don't buy anything until the KT266A (the A being VERY important) chipset is used by the manufacturer. Personally I'd wait until Asus churns out an A7V266 that uses the KT266A. The performance difference is staggering, it blows out of the water the Sis 735, which in turn outperforms the KT266 and AMD760 on mostapplications. Nforce reference board should be available soon for the benchmarkers, so we'll see what the 2X memory bandwidth does for the athlon.
I'm not enough of a whore to go out and find the links to kt266a reviews though.
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What about General Electric? That's a nice corporation. Hell you'd never expect them to under-handedly establish a new dish standard that would require Maytag to license their technology...
No, multi-tasking is actually running many tasks at once, not closing one and starting another one sequentially. Of course ram is infinite, that's why windoze uses a swap file. The low system resource message he got is probably due because windoze did a lousy job of managing the resources it had at hand.
Have you seen the movie? Well I have and let me tell you, everybody in the audience was laughing their head off from the start of the movie right to the end. It's been a long time since I went to a theater and saw everybody reacting that way to a movie. Hell I might see it again and I haven't went twice to see a movie since the first Jurassic Park. That, coupled to a couple of great action sequence, makes this an amazing summer movie that goes out and accomplishes even more than it set out to do. A must see.
Think of the space station has a Russian Space Station and an American&co station linked together. The russian part of the station(the back of the station) is all under they control, they don't have to lease time to use it. The Zaria and Zvesda modules are part of the Russian section, and then you have the american labs and everything in front that's allied, with the japanese lab & mini-arms at the very front.
Bottom line is the russian can do whatever they want with their part, if they want to shoot porn flics they can. Of course this is exagerating because they are in a joint venture and they have to stay serious to keep the respect of the other partners. So your half right, ISS is not theirs but the russian part IS.
do what I do: go check for that "red x of failure" before shelling out the cash, and buy one that's supported. For example I'm in the market for a cd writer and I was planning to use clonecd. I've spent some time cross-referencing the supported writers and in what mode they can write with the price lists of my local computer shops. Bottom line: you should have done some research first.
Reading your rant I kinda lost where "HP employees are asshole" became "Linux won't ever be mainstream". At some point when Linux gets big enough people will have access to the specs soon enough to have the drivers out at around the time the products hit the shelves.
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I'm so tired of anti-M$ cronies whining about how Xbox is an inferior system based on their mostly unfounded hatred of Microsoft. I don't think the PS2 is an entirely bad system, but for that same $300, you can get one hell of a better machine if you buy an Xbox instead.
Another comment that seems to be completely oblivious to the fact that the better machine is NOT the one that pushes the most mip-mapped texels blah blah blah per seconds, but the one with the better GAMES. This is clearly PS2's strong point right now, especially if you take account the huge library of PS1 games, the already great PS2 games out there, and the ones coming soon. For the same 300$, you can get one hell of a better GAMING machine if you buy a PS2.
No amount of whining about anti-M$ cronies will change those facts.
That has to be one of the most BS post i've ever seen. Having played hundreds of console games since the 80's, having owned Vectrex, Atari, NES, SNES, N64, PS2, having played extensively on friend's Sega Master systems and genesis, I can assurely tell you that dropping 50$ for a console game is a practicaly inexistant risk as far as game stopping bugs go.
The un-patchability of console games forces the publisher to publish a game without any defects, as opposed to pc publishers putting out half-finished game and patching it in the next 6 months that the game should have stayed in beta. About GT2 : even if you did top at 98%, did it stop you from playing and winning all the possible races? No? Then where's the problem?
Yes, Wakka sells his hand-crafted bongs and hemp clothing in a little stand on the beach. I'm really glad they were gutsy enough to include the only pothead of the FF series in a disney game.
Seriously, after every fight in FFX I expected him to say "Yah man, good fight, let's roll a big one to celebrate".
Btw I smoke pot on a regular basis, I'm not judging anybody, and I really DO like the Wakka character.
Is there a site somewhere that keeps a list of copy-protected cd's? I just bought Slipknot's new cd, iowa, and it craps out solidly when I try to play it in my cd-rom. It works fine in my roommate's cd-rom though. Actually I'm not surprised of this. Slipknot clearly state their affinity for satan, so they'd have no problem of agreeing with one of the dark one's ventures, the RIAA.
No it is not. How many time in the last few days have you clicked the OPEN button instead of saving the file? Well every one of those time someone could have "sent you up the bomb".
There is way more microsoft apologistism going on than there is unjustified bashing. I for one never doubted that the name of the file that IE showed me in the dialog box could be wrong, because I assumed it was a system message and that the name displayed was the name that was gonna be used on my local system, which it is not necessarily.
Bull, for anything science related you shouldn't touch a computer 'till after high school, or else you won't know the basics, you'll just blindly use the programs. For all the "human sciences" courses typing something on a computer doesn't make it any better than writing it on paper.
The number one use of the computers will be either games, porn or trading mp3's. Choose your favorite.
Am I the only one who thinks that the lack of a clear way of scoring the boards and declaring the winners makes the review completely subjective? The way I read the numbers the A7V-266-E outperformed the Soyo and perhaps the soltek. The epox wiped the floors in the benchmarks but since they had stability problems they didn't push the board, but never clearly said so. This combined with the fact that stability and vendor support are just as important(if not more) than performance in determining which board to buy makes me question their final verdict. It's been a couple of years now that I've been critical of what I read on Tom's, bias and tilt factor towards certain vendors make Tom's questionnable at time.
You're looking at this the wrong way. The first time you play the game you watch all the story parts, it's not 100% a game, it's an interactive story. Then you play again and skip all the story parts, this is where it starts to be a game. You have to develop your sense of execution and stealth to be able to get all the dog tags on the 5 difficulty level, unlocking cool stuff when you do so. Stopping after beating the game once on normal or easy(or worse, very easy) is like stopping playing diablo 2 after killing diablo in normal mode, a waste of a good game.
You're on your SIXTH ps2? WTF are you doing? I've had mine since march and we're three roommates and we play/watch dvd constantly on it. Do you keep the ps2 in place where heat can be discharged? The odds of you getting six defects in a row when most people have no problem is slim to none. The only crashes i've had is with NHL2001, which locked up about 3 times in the time it took to play a full season and win the stanley cup with 15 minutes games.
I agree totally. Getting MAME to run on the X-Box was a pretty logical step. It was a matter of time. To be ironic there would need to be an incongruity between what is happening now and what one would have expected to happen. But since pretty much everybody would have expected this it is not ironic. At all.
But it is cool.
Hell yeah. I'm a last year student in mechanical engineering and let me tell you one thing, a guy that can pick up a napkin and sketch out a smart way to solve a problem is worth 100 guys that draw it in Catia and use Catia as a "black box". In fact my friend, who finished in the top 3 of his promotion never owned a computer during his studies, and it didn't hinder him a bit. Hell I spend most of my time playing games which keep me from studying.
Which is just the problem with teaching with computers, you usually end up specializing people in using the tools instead of making them understand the problem necessitating the tool and how to build that tool(figuratively speaking). And let me tell you one thing, people that rely on the "magic black box" to solve their problems usually lack the criticism to evaluate the answers given to them by the computers, and they end up making HUGE errors.
Will the RIAA start burning books because we could translate the music into multiple sinusoidal equations and print it on paper?
They're already on the right track with their repeated attacks on tab sites and OLGA in particular. Not only do they would they like to ban the knowledge to compress and share their music, they would ban the knowledge of how to play it on your own instrument.
Sorry to disapoint you, but your system is econo-marketing class. Just go have a look on audio sites and you'll see the sony DE line is very badly regarded, you should have gone with the DB line, which is of much better quality. Like another poster noted, Bose==marketing. At least you didn't buy an acoustimass but for the money you could have gone way better. Bang for bucks I would say Paradigm and PSB because they're the first that come to mind but you could have auditionned Mirage, Polk, B&W, etc.
Now don't take this the hard way, I just wanted to make sure that people that don't know a lot about this didn't think your system was upscale, just to put things in perspective. For example, I use a Pioneer VSX-D509S, which isn't any better than yours(more power though). I just didn't have the dough for a denon 2800 or 3300(this is where upscale would start, along with pioneer elite and the better yamahas, marantz, etc).
About Bell soon to be 1000kbytes in download, that's gonna be theoritical and the cable modems already have a better speed. It's 27Mbps on the coax side, 10Mbps on the 10base-t interface. It's also 10Mbps on the upload, but the witless engineers(well the engineering department anyways, since there's not that many engineers there but that's another story) decided to cap it at 128kbps about two years ago, without warning customer service or tech support first. They just put it in one night, and they could just as easily bring it up to 768kbps. Anyways they were just trying to always keep some upload free for the ip telephony tests, but since Quebecor canned any R&D at videotron after buying them the project's dead. It's not like Bell's internal network will be able to sustain 1000kbyte/s for its subscribers anyways.
But yeah, you're right the situation pretty good here. Videotron has more than 200 000 cable modems subscriber, about 50k dial-ups. Bell has way less DSL subscribers but probably triple the dial-ups. And then there's Cogeco that must have 10-20k cable subscribers. Videotron's making profit but it's hard these days because I'm 80% sure that the penalty they had to pay to Rogers(I think it's around 200 millions) for the failed merger(caused by Quebecor's hostile takeover) is being deducted right from Videotron's budget. If any wants to know why Pierre Karl Peladeau's an asshole ask away...
This is interesting because last night I was watching an interview with Pierre Berton on canadian tv. He mentionned one thing that really struck me. In the second world war there was a british attack(don't remember which one, I wasn't taking notes) that was one of the bloodiest ever. They lost 65 000 soldier in one day. But back home the "traditionnal" media were claiming that it was an astounding success with minimal losses. Some would say it was to keep morale up back home, but I say nay to apologists and think it's just pure deception.
Were this to happen nowadays, a government couldn't hide the truth to the masses because somewhere else in the world someone would post the truth on the net. And don't forget kids, don't be too quick to trust was you see on tv, they're excellent at showing only one side of the coin. To the medias defense, sometimes they're just being used without knowing it.
For AMD: I'd say don't buy anything until the KT266A (the A being VERY important) chipset is used by the manufacturer. Personally I'd wait until Asus churns out an A7V266 that uses the KT266A. The performance difference is staggering, it blows out of the water the Sis 735, which in turn outperforms the KT266 and AMD760 on mostapplications. Nforce reference board should be available soon for the benchmarkers, so we'll see what the 2X memory bandwidth does for the athlon.
I'm not enough of a whore to go out and find the links to kt266a reviews though.
What about General Electric? That's a nice corporation. Hell you'd never expect them to under-handedly establish a new dish standard that would require Maytag to license their technology...
But what really killed me was my 63rd bong hit. You should stop at 62.
I stopped long ago relying on all the alarmist calls to decide on what's good for me.
No, multi-tasking is actually running many tasks at once, not closing one and starting another one sequentially. Of course ram is infinite, that's why windoze uses a swap file. The low system resource message he got is probably due because windoze did a lousy job of managing the resources it had at hand.
Have you seen the movie? Well I have and let me tell you, everybody in the audience was laughing their head off from the start of the movie right to the end. It's been a long time since I went to a theater and saw everybody reacting that way to a movie. Hell I might see it again and I haven't went twice to see a movie since the first Jurassic Park. That, coupled to a couple of great action sequence, makes this an amazing summer movie that goes out and accomplishes even more than it set out to do. A must see.
Yeah, I saw all of those things the other night too on the history channel.
Actually I was watching Judge Joe Brown the other day and that point came up. The judge said it's not stealing, it's reposessing.
Think of the space station has a Russian Space Station and an American&co station linked together. The russian part of the station(the back of the station) is all under they control, they don't have to lease time to use it. The Zaria and Zvesda modules are part of the Russian section, and then you have the american labs and everything in front that's allied, with the japanese lab & mini-arms at the very front.
Bottom line is the russian can do whatever they want with their part, if they want to shoot porn flics they can. Of course this is exagerating because they are in a joint venture and they have to stay serious to keep the respect of the other partners. So your half right, ISS is not theirs but the russian part IS.
do what I do: go check for that "red x of failure" before shelling out the cash, and buy one that's supported. For example I'm in the market for a cd writer and I was planning to use clonecd. I've spent some time cross-referencing the supported writers and in what mode they can write with the price lists of my local computer shops. Bottom line: you should have done some research first.
Reading your rant I kinda lost where "HP employees are asshole" became "Linux won't ever be mainstream". At some point when Linux gets big enough people will have access to the specs soon enough to have the drivers out at around the time the products hit the shelves.
Good point. Oh, uh, by the way, Microsoft Office has how many hundred million users?
Good point, in other news, my orange is a better orange than your apple.