Details are here although many Slashdotters probably won't like to admit that on W2K/XP they might never actually see the fruits of their labour.
I've got a bad dimm on ram on my desk that I guarantee will give you a blue screen. I will sell to anyone that needs to test their BSOD mods, for a slight fee.
I've heard of netflix because I live in Canada even though it's not available here to my knowledge. Assuming that the rest of the world (what 4-5 billion) should know every american business is a bit of a stretch.
Let's face it, The Simpsons is not what it used to be and I can not see it going anywhere but down in the future. You just can't keep thinking up episode ideas forever.
Comments like these have been flying around for the last 10 years about the simpsons, and countless great episodes have been made since. Your problem is that you remember the good ones from the early seasons, and not the bad ones. So when you see an average one air you go : "It's not as funny as the first Sideshow Bob episode! Simpsons is dying".
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Hi, this is your PHB.
I warned you before about reading and posting on slashdot during work hours. Maybe you'll have better luck on your next job and your boss won't be a PHB.
Back in those days we were led to believe that it was because ROM was really expensive though.
I'm not sure how they justify it now, the cost of owning a lexus (some Ubisoft programmers made 140+ k last year), or a stable of Porsche and Ferraris (Romero, probably a couple of EA executives).
You can look at the pictures and then try to find the gadget. It usually went like this for me:
"Woah, nice!" "Oh, she's holding a phone."
This picture looks like a good concept. After beating up that guy for looking way better then me (see : Fight Club), I can mug him of that expensive gadget.
The PS2 costs about as much as the graphics card I would have to buy to get comperable performance out of my PC
That's a bit of an exageration, altough a common one. In canada, the base PS2 (not the online pack) is 200$. For less than that price I can get a GeForceFX 5600 or a Radeon 9600 pro based card that will totally wipe the floor with the PS2 as far as frame rate/eye candy/resolution goes. Actually I can even get a TNT2 for 19$, and it might have a chance of beating the PS2 at the same resolution that the PS2 operates in.
Not that your point is invalid, a PS2 is the cheapest alternative. The quoted statement was just a bit much. The reasons the top PC card cost so much is that they're built to run games with WAY more details than PS2 games at 1600X1200 with 60+ frames per second.
The FFXI + hd PS2 combo was released 4 days ago. Basically they made the game available to japanese at first, polished it up and made one expansion. Then they released to PC, and had a 6 month to iron out more details, and then they released for the biggest gaming market, english-language PS2.
This has the unfortunate side effect that some players got a head start, but all the really bad problems have been fixed, which avoids a "Star Wars : Galaxies" type fiasco.
Sum41 is right up there with Avril Lavigne and Simple Plan, those ex-"Reset" sell-outs that play those bland faux-teen songs and make money doing movie songs and being puppets for the RIAA.
I heard on the radio that Avril Lavigne once kicked a guy in the nuts because he was annoying her. Oooh, how tough is that? Please, someone protect me from the 85 pound girl! Oh, and her bring something to eat at the same time will you?
I'm not even posting this anonymously, that must REAL punk on their scale.
Oh man, you beat me to it. I'll go ahead and post with you as a parent, I had already written up my post. *
Does this make sense?
Fellow slashdotters, I have one final thing I want you to consider.
Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk, but Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now, think about that. That does not make sense! Why would a Wookiee - an eight foot tall Wookiee - want to live on Endor with a bunch of two foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense!
What does that have to do with domain names? Nothing. Fellow slashdotters, it has nothing to do with this case! It does not make sense!
Look at me, I'm a poster defending a registrar, and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca. Does that make sense? Fellow slashdotters, I am not making any sense. None of this makes sense.
This doesn't make sense. So you're saying that since some of the computers we can buy will come with a lousy graphic card, there's use for those cpus that costs 750+$?
How about buying the version of the computer with the 150$ cpu and switching the video card for a 150$ mid-end card from ATI or Nvidia? You'd wipe the floor with the 3.4EE computer with a lousy graphic card, and save 450$.
And also, how can you have both a "low-end graphic card" and a "top-of-the-line" graphic chipset? No offense, but the more I read your post the less insightful it gets.
Just to clarify a few points, I do live in Canada. Those systems were bought separately, but invoiced by the company as a system sold. I just dodged assembly cost by doing it myself, altough I also do that because I love putting them together.
I rarely see prices vary more than 5% between different shops. I usually check www.canadacomputers.com, www.microbytes.com and www.lcimtl.com, and use those prices to compare with various shops. When you check those prices just remember that it's in canadian $, and factor in no shipping.
Thanks for the clarifications for OEMs, altough the rules might differ a little in Canada.
They *can*, but they usually *won't*. Or they insist that you buy the major parts from them, which may end up ruining your deal-hunting.
The retailers have rules they have to abide to for selling these OEM version. I'm guessing they'll lose the right to sell them if it's discovered they sell them without systems. I'll call my prices at all the local shops carrying parts, and buy the parts from the shop where the total for everything is the lowest, not drive around and spend 10 bucks of gas to save 5$ off my RAM. And they *will* sell me an OEM version.
Is there such a thing as an "upgrade" OEM version?
No, there isn't. That sentence was put there so that people would compare the OEM prices with "full" versions. I'm pretty sure you weren't asking, just trying to be sarcastic towards me. I gave you an answer nonetheless.
Well, yeah, and if you ambush a truck and steal some video cards, that reduces your cost somewhat as well. That shouldn't figure in a post about "Look how cheap parts are these days."
No need to bring out absurdities. I was merely expanding on the OS part of the parent post. The parent brought up several subjects, and I took up one for my response. The fact that a lot of people do used cracked copy of windows is spot-on for the conversation.
It's possible to *avoid* buying a copy of Windows with a new computer?
I've bought two computers in the last 8 months without windows, it is perfectly possible. I order all my parts, pick them up, pay for them and leave. I've never had a problem doing this in Canada.
When you buy your parts at a local shop, the can sell you an OEM version of windows XP. Up north it's 138$ canadian for XP home, so I figure you could get it for around 100 US. It's only when you go to Best Buy and pick up a "full" version in a nice box on the shelves that you pay 299$ canadian (@futureshop.ca).
And yes, that OEM version is "full", not an upgrade. Some shop will even sell you an OEM copy if you buy a hard drive, so I could buy a 120 gig Maxtor HD for 132$ canadian and get my XP OEM copy. HD + XP = 270$, 29$ less than at futureshop for the OS alone.
Most people I knew when I was at the university simply used cracked copies, not very hard to find. I bought a copy with my new computer to save me the hassle of re-cracking it for service packs and such.
Hydro-Quebec had those up and running when I was in high school. I saw a couple of documentaries and in one of them they made a torque demonstration. They clamped the wheel down, and turned the motor on, proceding to totally deform the tire. This is just to show the amount of torque that the motor assembly could produce even when not turning.
They also had an intrepid fitted with 4 motors on all wheels, and were doing quarter mile runs with all 4 wheels smoking to test performance. What's great about these is the potential for very intelligent AWD systems where you control wheel slip by controlling torque output of each motor instead of using limited slip differentials.
Darl Mcbride to start amateur boxing career. His first opponents will be Mike Tyson, George Forman and Evander Holyfield.
When asked if he would honestly fight against these opponents, mr. McBride responded "Yes, after speaking with my counsels, the lawyers at Boies, we've determinated that these opponent would be perfect for me to initially test my skills. I applied my strategic expertise to the world of boxing, and these were natural matches, considering that these boxers are retired and I've been working out for 6 weeks".
I don't know, I'm on the road about 4 months a year, and moving my rig around is not an option. Playing some call of duty in the hotel at night or catching up on my MMORPG is a good way to kill time. You can alternate that with getting faced at the hotel bar.
Also, with MMORPGs, when you can't play for two months, you come back and all of your friend are riding dragons, and you're still at the rabbit killing stage.
Yes, except that if someone buy this for portable gaming purposes, he can play some but not all of the recent/upcoming games. If one of your favorite game only happens to run on wintel, you don't really have the option of going to apple.
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Details are here although many Slashdotters probably won't like to admit that on W2K/XP they might never actually see the fruits of their labour.
I've got a bad dimm on ram on my desk that I guarantee will give you a blue screen. I will sell to anyone that needs to test their BSOD mods, for a slight fee.
I've heard of netflix because I live in Canada even though it's not available here to my knowledge. Assuming that the rest of the world (what 4-5 billion) should know every american business is a bit of a stretch.
Linux is a product offered my many companies.
MS Windows is a product offered by Microsoft.
Simple enough for you?
Let's face it, The Simpsons is not what it used to be and I can not see it going anywhere but down in the future. You just can't keep thinking up episode ideas forever.
Comments like these have been flying around for the last 10 years about the simpsons, and countless great episodes have been made since. Your problem is that you remember the good ones from the early seasons, and not the bad ones. So when you see an average one air you go : "It's not as funny as the first Sideshow Bob episode! Simpsons is dying".
Hi, this is your PHB.
I warned you before about reading and posting on slashdot during work hours. Maybe you'll have better luck on your next job and your boss won't be a PHB.
Project Hades?
Or maybe project Zeus, with lightning being the metaphor to the elapsed time between the release of software supporting Janus and a hack/crack.
Back in those days we were led to believe that it was because ROM was really expensive though.
I'm not sure how they justify it now, the cost of owning a lexus (some Ubisoft programmers made 140+ k last year), or a stable of Porsche and Ferraris (Romero, probably a couple of EA executives).
Try also the Rage 3D site.
It's usually a site with boards for ATI users, but this morning I got there and was like "WTF? Did they sell out to some bogus company?".
You don't speak dates like this: "Meet me 17 April 2004."
"Rencontre moi le 17 avril 2004".
Well, you do in french. Anyone care to chip in a few other european languages?
The best part about this is Gabe posted alink to the alexa graph comparing both sites.
Infinium's traffic is so low it doesn't show up on the graph except for the days when it was linked to by PA.
You can look at the pictures and then try to find the gadget. It usually went like this for me :
"Woah, nice!"
"Oh, she's holding a phone."
This picture looks like a good concept. After beating up that guy for looking way better then me (see : Fight Club), I can mug him of that expensive gadget.
Actually, if the circumference is 25 000 miles you can reach any point of the globe in 12 500 miles assuming you use a straight line to get to it.
The PS2 costs about as much as the graphics card I would have to buy to get comperable performance out of my PC
That's a bit of an exageration, altough a common one. In canada, the base PS2 (not the online pack) is 200$. For less than that price I can get a GeForceFX 5600 or a Radeon 9600 pro based card that will totally wipe the floor with the PS2 as far as frame rate/eye candy/resolution goes. Actually I can even get a TNT2 for 19$, and it might have a chance of beating the PS2 at the same resolution that the PS2 operates in.
Not that your point is invalid, a PS2 is the cheapest alternative. The quoted statement was just a bit much. The reasons the top PC card cost so much is that they're built to run games with WAY more details than PS2 games at 1600X1200 with 60+ frames per second.
The FFXI + hd PS2 combo was released 4 days ago. Basically they made the game available to japanese at first, polished it up and made one expansion. Then they released to PC, and had a 6 month to iron out more details, and then they released for the biggest gaming market, english-language PS2.
This has the unfortunate side effect that some players got a head start, but all the really bad problems have been fixed, which avoids a "Star Wars : Galaxies" type fiasco.
Sum41 is right up there with Avril Lavigne and Simple Plan, those ex-"Reset" sell-outs that play those bland faux-teen songs and make money doing movie songs and being puppets for the RIAA.
I heard on the radio that Avril Lavigne once kicked a guy in the nuts because he was annoying her. Oooh, how tough is that? Please, someone protect me from the 85 pound girl! Oh, and her bring something to eat at the same time will you?
I'm not even posting this anonymously, that must REAL punk on their scale.
Oh man, you beat me to it. I'll go ahead and post with you as a parent, I had already written up my post.
*
Does this make sense?
Fellow slashdotters, I have one final thing I want you to consider.
Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk, but Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now, think about that. That does not make sense! Why would a Wookiee - an eight foot tall Wookiee - want to live on Endor with a bunch of two foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense!
What does that have to do with domain names? Nothing. Fellow slashdotters, it has nothing to do with this case! It does not make sense!
Look at me, I'm a poster defending a registrar, and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca. Does that make sense? Fellow slashdotters, I am not making any sense. None of this makes sense.
This doesn't make sense. So you're saying that since some of the computers we can buy will come with a lousy graphic card, there's use for those cpus that costs 750+$?
How about buying the version of the computer with the 150$ cpu and switching the video card for a 150$ mid-end card from ATI or Nvidia? You'd wipe the floor with the 3.4EE computer with a lousy graphic card, and save 450$.
And also, how can you have both a "low-end graphic card" and a "top-of-the-line" graphic chipset? No offense, but the more I read your post the less insightful it gets.
Just to clarify a few points, I do live in Canada. Those systems were bought separately, but invoiced by the company as a system sold. I just dodged assembly cost by doing it myself, altough I also do that because I love putting them together.
I rarely see prices vary more than 5% between different shops. I usually check www.canadacomputers.com, www.microbytes.com and www.lcimtl.com, and use those prices to compare with various shops. When you check those prices just remember that it's in canadian $, and factor in no shipping.
Thanks for the clarifications for OEMs, altough the rules might differ a little in Canada.
Yeah, the news on the grapevine is that is actual boot-up speed was nowhere near advertised, when it actually did bootup.
His 3D performance was also greatly exagerated. However she did admit that she never exceeded 15db when with him, so that part was correct.
I'll respond even though you're an obvious troll.
They *can*, but they usually *won't*. Or they insist that you buy the major parts from them, which may end up ruining your deal-hunting.
The retailers have rules they have to abide to for selling these OEM version. I'm guessing they'll lose the right to sell them if it's discovered they sell them without systems. I'll call my prices at all the local shops carrying parts, and buy the parts from the shop where the total for everything is the lowest, not drive around and spend 10 bucks of gas to save 5$ off my RAM. And they *will* sell me an OEM version.
Is there such a thing as an "upgrade" OEM version?
No, there isn't. That sentence was put there so that people would compare the OEM prices with "full" versions. I'm pretty sure you weren't asking, just trying to be sarcastic towards me. I gave you an answer nonetheless.
Well, yeah, and if you ambush a truck and steal some video cards, that reduces your cost somewhat as well. That shouldn't figure in a post about "Look how cheap parts are these days."
No need to bring out absurdities. I was merely expanding on the OS part of the parent post. The parent brought up several subjects, and I took up one for my response. The fact that a lot of people do used cracked copy of windows is spot-on for the conversation.
It's possible to *avoid* buying a copy of Windows with a new computer?
I've bought two computers in the last 8 months without windows, it is perfectly possible. I order all my parts, pick them up, pay for them and leave. I've never had a problem doing this in Canada.
When you buy your parts at a local shop, the can sell you an OEM version of windows XP. Up north it's 138$ canadian for XP home, so I figure you could get it for around 100 US. It's only when you go to Best Buy and pick up a "full" version in a nice box on the shelves that you pay 299$ canadian (@futureshop.ca).
And yes, that OEM version is "full", not an upgrade. Some shop will even sell you an OEM copy if you buy a hard drive, so I could buy a 120 gig Maxtor HD for 132$ canadian and get my XP OEM copy. HD + XP = 270$, 29$ less than at futureshop for the OS alone.
Most people I knew when I was at the university simply used cracked copies, not very hard to find. I bought a copy with my new computer to save me the hassle of re-cracking it for service packs and such.
Hydro-Quebec had those up and running when I was in high school. I saw a couple of documentaries and in one of them they made a torque demonstration. They clamped the wheel down, and turned the motor on, proceding to totally deform the tire. This is just to show the amount of torque that the motor assembly could produce even when not turning.
They also had an intrepid fitted with 4 motors on all wheels, and were doing quarter mile runs with all 4 wheels smoking to test performance. What's great about these is the potential for very intelligent AWD systems where you control wheel slip by controlling torque output of each motor instead of using limited slip differentials.
Darl Mcbride to start amateur boxing career. His first opponents will be Mike Tyson, George Forman and Evander Holyfield.
When asked if he would honestly fight against these opponents, mr. McBride responded "Yes, after speaking with my counsels, the lawyers at Boies, we've determinated that these opponent would be perfect for me to initially test my skills. I applied my strategic expertise to the world of boxing, and these were natural matches, considering that these boxers are retired and I've been working out for 6 weeks".
I don't know, I'm on the road about 4 months a year, and moving my rig around is not an option. Playing some call of duty in the hotel at night or catching up on my MMORPG is a good way to kill time. You can alternate that with getting faced at the hotel bar.
Also, with MMORPGs, when you can't play for two months, you come back and all of your friend are riding dragons, and you're still at the rabbit killing stage.
Yes, except that if someone buy this for portable gaming purposes, he can play some but not all of the recent/upcoming games. If one of your favorite game only happens to run on wintel, you don't really have the option of going to apple.