Sony did lots of things to encourage everyone to have multiple accounts in Everquest (later on, but not in the beginning). This is yet another way to make the game miserable for those with only one account. Sony even tried the Legends server idea to squeeze more money out of people (it was an expensive server with some rather trivial perks).
Get 3 accounts and make Sony happy. Personally I will chose not to play the game. I'll wait for the next game that's actually designed for the players and not just for the Sony coffers.
pair.net has been around for a long time. I've used them for a couple years now. Prices are decent and their system is well automated. Load times on my websites are always fast and I've never noticed any downtime.
I have a friend who bought an Xbox and it stopped working after 5 months. He was told it would be at least $200 to fix it and apparently this is quite common.
Either find a reseller who's willing to warranty it for a year themselves or don't bother buying one, you've been warned.
Re:How does the FPS compare to Windows??
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The Linux version uses Opengl and the windows version uses D3D by default. Their Opengl code is a lot slower then their D3D code so the Linux version ends up being quite a bit slower.
If they focused on only doing an Opengl renderer it would be fast on all platforms, apparently only id understands this logic.
It's not a technical limitation (well not with my cable company anyways) it's something the cable company does to screw people who run programs like kazaa or any server programs for that matter.
I've got both cable and dsl here, I've had cable for a several years and the cable didn't used to have this problem. All of a sudden it started happening where if you were uploading to people your download speed was terrible.
My dsl connection doesn't suffer from this at all though, I can do max up/down at the same time no problems.
This is using shaw cable and telus dsl in victoria BC Canada for anyone wondering.
There's some really great internet radio out there these days.
Check out http://yp.shoutcast.com/ if you haven't already.
One of my favorites is college comedy talk radio, the one broadcast from indiana.edu, just choose comedy as the genre on the shoutcast page and it's usually several down from the top.
"Good! I'm glad that no cheezy teen pop videos will be staged on the ISS. At least not in the near future..." What concerns me more is that I was happy not knowing about this and for some reason slashdot has decided this was "news for nerds. stuff that matters.". Anything that concerns a boy band member is _not_ something that matters.
"where the GUI is running within the kernal" the gui is explorer and it doesn't run in the kernel.
"and how X runs non natively" huh? you mean in user space. The graphics in windows 2k/xp run in the kernel which is what you actually mean by all this.
"pushing play on an MP3 the video display and the sound are not synched" This has to do with the sound being buffered in xmms, the video is rendered from samples as they are placed into the sound buffer instead of when you actually hear them. This has nothing to do with anything but xmms.
Title pretty much says it all. The rendering looked great I thought, animation wasn't so fluid and quite poor in parts but worst of all the script and storyline were absolutely terrible. The movie deserved what it got, if it wasn't for the small bit of wow factor in watching the well rendered scenes I would of shut it off after 10 minutes.
Not on Ebay, Playerauctions.com
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Since Ebay stopped Everquest auctions a while ago under preasure from Sony Playerauctions.com is the main site for Everquest auctions and has been for a while.
You can usually just a search for your server name or use their catagories. Doing a search for "prexus" as an example will show all the auctions on that server.
It was likely pronounced maroofookoo or something like that. Ignorant english speaking people screw everything up, this is why matsushita is called panasonic in north america. Matsushita is pronounced something like mastu-shtika in japan, I've visited and heard them say it but it's hard to spell out how it sounds, it certainly doesn't sound anything like matsu-shit-a
Where's that DVD audio I've been waiting for. I'm tired of these lousy sounding CD's. People only think they sound good because 99% of them have never heard music reproduced at a higher quality. It's about time the world moved to a higher quality format and 24bit 96Khz would be a good start.
Requirements only lists "Intel Pentium", no AMD
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I thought this was rather odd but the requirements page says "Geniune Intel Pentium" and doesn't say anything else. Now I would assume it would work on anything of course.
http://24.69.0.145/new-imac.html
Ok this isn't quite a mirror, I ripped the text and put the relevant image at the top, I got it under 40K. I didn't read it over but I think it's all there and the formatting came out right.
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/pc/pc_cf_p rodChassis.jsp?comm=ST&pfam=Satellite&pmod=P25
Wake up, ATI has been kicking Nvidia's ass since the release of the 9700 Pro which was quite a long time ago.
At first I screwed around with mplayer, tried to compile faad2 support so it would work but got errors.
Then I played it in Xine and video/audio worked perfectly. (xine-lib 1 beta10)
Apparently some people can't do simple math and they still get modded up by everyone else who apparently can't do simple math either.
Common sense should tell you that running 1000 cpu's isn't going to cost you 3.2M/month as that would be $3200 a cpu a month, duh!
Like you said, it's actually $3274/month which wouldn't be a big deal for a company like Pixar.
Sony did lots of things to encourage everyone to have multiple accounts in Everquest (later on, but not in the beginning). This is yet another way to make the game miserable for those with only one account. Sony even tried the Legends server idea to squeeze more money out of people (it was an expensive server with some rather trivial perks).
Get 3 accounts and make Sony happy. Personally I will chose not to play the game. I'll wait for the next game that's actually designed for the players and not just for the Sony coffers.
pair.net has been around for a long time. I've used them for a couple years now. Prices are decent and their system is well automated. Load times on my websites are always fast and I've never noticed any downtime.
I have a friend who bought an Xbox and it stopped working after 5 months. He was told it would be at least $200 to fix it and apparently this is quite common.
Either find a reseller who's willing to warranty it for a year themselves or don't bother buying one, you've been warned.
The Linux version uses Opengl and the windows version uses D3D by default. Their Opengl code is a lot slower then their D3D code so the Linux version ends up being quite a bit slower.
If they focused on only doing an Opengl renderer it would be fast on all platforms, apparently only id understands this logic.
Buy a laser printer and your problems will be over.
I'm using a Samsung ML-1210.
Same here, had mine for about 6 months and it's worked perfectly.
I'll never buy another inkjet.
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Trolls are busy at work today I see.
I actually wasted about 15 minutes looking into this.
It's not a technical limitation (well not with my cable company anyways) it's something the cable company does to screw people who run programs like kazaa or any server programs for that matter.
I've got both cable and dsl here, I've had cable for a several years and the cable didn't used to have this problem. All of a sudden it started happening where if you were uploading to people your download speed was terrible.
My dsl connection doesn't suffer from this at all though, I can do max up/down at the same time no problems.
This is using shaw cable and telus dsl in victoria BC Canada for anyone wondering.
Try Gentoo, I can't see how you'd go back.
There's some really great internet radio out there these days.
Check out http://yp.shoutcast.com/ if you haven't already.
One of my favorites is college comedy talk radio, the one broadcast from indiana.edu, just choose comedy as the genre on the shoutcast page and it's usually several down from the top.
Awesome stuff out there, lets not lose it!
-Malakin
http://grcsucks.com/
"Good! I'm glad that no cheezy teen pop videos will be staged on the ISS. At least not in the near future..."
What concerns me more is that I was happy not knowing about this and for some reason slashdot has decided this was "news for nerds. stuff that matters.". Anything that concerns a boy band member is _not_ something that matters.
"where the GUI is running within the kernal" the gui is explorer and it doesn't run in the kernel.
"and how X runs non natively" huh? you mean in user space. The graphics in windows 2k/xp run in the kernel which is what you actually mean by all this.
"pushing play on an MP3 the video display and the sound are not synched" This has to do with the sound being buffered in xmms, the video is rendered from samples as they are placed into the sound buffer instead of when you actually hear them. This has nothing to do with anything but xmms.
"Microsoft tried to launch a graphics standard for PC hardware in the early '90s" We'd be talking 96 here, not early 90's.
"is sticking to his own graphics technology" It's called opengl.
I didn't bother to read further, obviously the article is written by someone who is clueless.
Title pretty much says it all. The rendering looked great I thought, animation wasn't so fluid and quite poor in parts but worst of all the script and storyline were absolutely terrible. The movie deserved what it got, if it wasn't for the small bit of wow factor in watching the well rendered scenes I would of shut it off after 10 minutes.
Since Ebay stopped Everquest auctions a while ago under preasure from Sony Playerauctions.com is the main site for Everquest auctions and has been for a while.
You can usually just a search for your server name or use their catagories. Doing a search for "prexus" as an example will show all the auctions on that server.
It was likely pronounced maroofookoo or something like that. Ignorant english speaking people screw everything up, this is why matsushita is called panasonic in north america. Matsushita is pronounced something like mastu-shtika in japan, I've visited and heard them say it but it's hard to spell out how it sounds, it certainly doesn't sound anything like matsu-shit-a
Where's that DVD audio I've been waiting for. I'm tired of these lousy sounding CD's. People only think they sound good because 99% of them have never heard music reproduced at a higher quality. It's about time the world moved to a higher quality format and 24bit 96Khz would be a good start.
I thought this was rather odd but the requirements page says "Geniune Intel Pentium" and doesn't say anything else. Now I would assume it would work on anything of course.
http://24.69.0.145/new-imac.html
Ok this isn't quite a mirror, I ripped the text and put the relevant image at the top, I got it under 40K. I didn't read it over but I think it's all there and the formatting came out right.