Okay, this would not work so well with say, Everquest or Ultima Online...
But if the genre has space for it, say anarchy online for instance, why not go ahead and have Pepsi and Coke machines and IBM ads on the sides of public transportation or even as someone else posted, billboards? When I am playing a future war game like fallout, there is always the obligatory Heckler & Koch MP999 or the Smith & Wesson 5000 or whatever... well just take that to the next logical extreme and sell product placement.
Hell you can get pretty blatant with it, always have the protagonist in Ralph Loren clothes or holding a can of Seven-Up. If this made a game free after I bought the box, hell I would welcome the attention to detail. Make it clever.
Though I do not want to see a banner ad hanging over my paladin as he rides the hounds of hell. No. I play games to suspend my disbelief and embrace the fiction created, and that is just a touch too intrusive.
The Music Industry and Microsoft can do and say and rattle whatever they want.
Water always follows the path of least resistance, and they are pissing uphill.
Consumers vote with dollars, and the product that they have been selling lately
is mediocre at best. Now they want adults to jump through flaming loops to enjoy
the music they bought (since most sheeple are still grabbing shrinkwrapped plastic)
and they expect savvy kids to roll over and except SDMI?
This is so doomed to fail that i liken it to the music industry sawing off
thier own legs. Bravo RIAA! Well Done MPAA! Your marketing weasles have
convinced you that the impossible is possible and that you are of course much
smarter then we are. Then you expect the high courts to defend the fact that
anyone that doesn't fall in line is a criminal. yeah sure, that will last you...
morons.
I am less afraid of the scary orwellian music industry as i am kind of delighted
to watch it self-distruct. It won't be quick, but it will be painful.
I for one couldn't be more delighted. Having to ditch the browser because you stumbled into a shitty web porn glue trap is about as intrusive and evil as code gets without being viral.
hmmm... then again i wonder how all this bodes for microsoft... Smart Links indeed...
depending on how closely they can tweak
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the resolution, couldn't this kind of tech have saved lives at the WTC? A lot of us talked about sending voice or data messages to victims cell phones and tracking them that way. But this seems to be a hell of a lot more intuitive (unless it is only accurate to say 300 meters or whatever).
As to the big brother angle; hell that is preposterous. More of the same reactionist claptrap that so inundate these discussions. To think the government would use this lifesaving technology to spy on it's own... why, everyone knows that Americans citizens have had microchips inserted into them under the guise of "polio vaccine" since the 60's.
One would assume that the spam server in the states is indeed blacklisted as well, if it hadn't been already.
i think the push of this article is that since aus only has two backbones. the blacklisting of Optus is really going to effect the population at large (in australia).
Well this is going to cost me another G4 tower... I just got OS 10.1 up and
happy (yes, it does rock, no. it doesn't suck) but now I want Mac on Linux running
up next to OS X not instead of it.
Talk about a horse race? here is in opportunity to run both classic apps (read:
applications that get me paid) on *nix environments. One on a BSD based system
supported by a huge ass company with a huge ass budget (and stake). The other,
Linux based and supported by the Screaming Linux Jihad.
I choose to exploit everything and see what works best. zealously is for jackasses.
Great little piece. The bad news is that most of us all here have already been
nodding at this argument furiously for so long, migraines are setting in.. What
this needs is to be disseminated amounst the sheeple in the same carcinogenic
manor as half assed "Nostradamus Predicted this" emails that
have filled my box faster then sircam did.
Crypto Doesn't Kill - People Do
The second amendment of the statue of liberty clearly states: "cool guys
shall have the unalienable liberty to wield strong crypto in order to insure
against the prospect of a tyrannical state." Or at least I think it does,
I am not sure as I have been playing Wolfstenstien for the last six day in a
row and can't be bothered to check.
When crypto is outlawed, only outlaws will have crypto. You can have my copy
of PGP when you pull if from my cold dead fingers!
Does anyone else besides me see the parallel between ad serving and ad blocking
software and the anchient struggle between ballistics versus fortification?
The only thing that bothers me is ballistics usually has the upper hand. Then
again try telling that to the engineers that maintain Mt. Cheyenne. (You know...
because ad serving scum are the enemies of liberty... and ad blocking software
is the good hearted men and women that defend freedom, justice... and the American Way (Ouch, metaphor gives me headaches.)
Re:CIA tried to do this once. only quietly.
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Okay one more google search,
this is about the "Glomar Explorer" the ship that was purpose built to attempt the covert raising of the K-129 back in 1974
http://www.fas.org/irp/program/collect/jennifer. ht m
CIA tried to do this once. only quietly.
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The CIA tried to do something just like this in the 70's it only kinda worked out for them though.
Here is a blurb about it:
1974
The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency attempted to raise a Soviet Golf-class diesel-powered boat, K-129, which sank in 1968. The agency did so under cover of a deep-ocean mineral recovery effort using a ship built for the purpose, the Glomar Explorer. The submarine apparently broke apart and the stern half fell back to the bottom.
I stole that from NOVA online by they way.
Too tired for more google searches, but perhaps you aren't.
All of this is opinion, it reflects nothing like policy, save your flames about that.
This is not a matter of the wolves being let out of the cage. This is a matter of the wolves wanting protected hunting grounds where they already feed.
The unofficial slogan for the Illinois State Police's intelligence division is, "In god we trust, all others we monitor". In most cases, the laws that would seem to newly empower law enforcement exist or are proposed only to validate prosecution after the fact.
The fact of the matter is that after meeting and being privy to the discussions of various members of the Chicago Police Intelligence Unit as well as the Illinois State Police's, that any expectation of privacy (once deeds warrant the attention of these organizations) is a façade.
When I hear the stories it all seems appropriate and sometimes heroic. But I am sure I have not heard all the stories. And I am sure that pretty damned un-American things happen, not just in my city, in my state, but in most if not all of yours.
Now don't get me wrong, these are good guys and the certainly one wouldn't think they would task the resources and manpower it takes for good surveillance on any random Joe. But if they have what they feel is solid intelligence that you are a "bad guy", you will be monitored. Court order or no, warrants or no, take the moral or ethical discourse out of the equation and these guys just want to put "bad people" away. Yeah, that scares me too.
We all know what power does; we all know that police powers tend to corrupt, but again. I find myself getting into a theoretical argument. And all I wanted to do was state that this goes on, has for sometime, whether we like it or not. And no one ever asked you or your mom and dad how he or she felt about it.
Sorry it's late. I'm very tired, and haven't the capacity for eloquence. I will leave you with something I saw on a Intelligence cop's tee-shirt about three years ago though; "There is nothing wrong with a Police State... as long as you are the Police."
The problem with short posts is that they can sometimes sound glib. I didn't mean to sound glib. I really enjoy the GBA, it does so much well that I can actually desire pissing away time with it more then say on my laptops or my palm IIIc.
I am really glad you are enjoying your Gameboy Advance. I am not starting an anti-GBA political movement. No.
So basically all the rant about Nintendo being bad is directed squarely on (what is IMHO) the worst possible display, ever. Now the GBA itself is capable of displaying wonderfully vibrant and delightful images. Unfortunately I don't want the migraines caused by trying to get it not to reflect every damn thing in the world while only having half the display adequately lit at any one time.
I am guessing, and I am aware that this is a (dangerous) sweeping generalization, that you would have paid $30 bucks more at the Best Buy if you noticed that the GBA came with a lovely, bright display that was actually easy on your eyes. I personally would not have hesitated.
Also: Nintendo is so still going to get my Gamecube money. I have that recessive gene that makes me by consoles that I will never have time to play with. And no I will sell any of them (nor my GBA) on Ebay. Ebay scares me; I don't want to do business with people shopping for human infant adenoids or whatever...
I love that new commercial where the kid is playing with his GBA while at church (never mind all the class inferred by that... marketing weasels...). That is just absolute bullshit. I can barely play Tony Hawk 2 in my kitchen much less a room with low amounts of ambient lighting. They had to be filming that commercial looking at each other like... "Hey, it's not my lawsuit".
Adam is a deity. Nintendo owes every damn one of us an apology.
He (Adam) says it best when he comments that the glass covering the Worlds Most Useless Display is more like a mirror then anything else. So all the lame "Shark Lights, Wiggie Lights, PokoLights, Very Happy Joy Fun Lights" or whatever does nothing more then throw glare over the entire screen.
I'd pay thirty bucks to take something useless and render it otherwise.
I love being robbed, so I choose... Napster!
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Oh come on now, Napster has been compromised completely.
The MPAA got everything it wanted. It convinced people that the industry thinks file sharing is "bad" when actually all they wanted to do is be able to control it increase revenue another 100%. Why should they change their distribution model from plastic and shrink-wrap to online digital when they can have both?
You want an outlaw metaphor? Here's your outlaw metaphor:
SILICON VALLEY- A.P.P
The once proud rebel leader Napster has been abducted by MPAA/RIAA forces and subjected to financial/litigious torture and bizarre mind-altering terror, the result is that Napster is now an MPAA/RIAA loyalist, under complete control, sent back into the world to confuse and pervert the young and feeble-minded. "We will have them sucking on our teat again in no time", an account executive from Sony was quoted saying...
"Led Zeppelin_stairway_to_heaven.nap", indeed... they can take their encoded header and ram it verily (and often) directly inside their collective colons.
There are so many better file sharing apps available now that I am sure I myself am probably not even using the best one. (I'm digging morpheus because of the wealth of.ogg I'm finding. Gnutella clients are fun as well, when I have all day...)
Well I could plagiarize it for the free karma, or I could just point out the obvious and mention there is a ten page feature in this month's Wired about Tolkien the man, the author, the professor, his books, his legacy... and why this movie is going to be such a big f**king deal.
hell, half the posts i have read already quote it word for word... interestingly without giving credit...
After reading that post, certainly I am not the only person wondering; "How will all this interference manifest to future or current military operations?"
Could this have happened at a worse time for us really? If indeed the press is not just pandering a disinformation agenda, we are still in the roll out and deploy phase.
But what of the assets (covert ops, special forces) that may or may not be already inserted in hostile territory? Are Sat/com uplinks going to be possible? Are these guys stranded? (send in the British messenger pigeon experts?)
Is GPS effected to the degree that it will effect naval and ground movements? Does the navy have a redundant system to coordinate entire modern fleet movements? It seems like this effect disrupts all the obvious ones. (microwave, radio, satellite burst crypto transmissions etc..)
I'm a bit worried about our guys (all of them, allies and coalition members included), it's dangerous enough just have large scale maneuvers during peacetime when the solar weather is fine without having some fatalities due to mishap and so on.
Keeping my fingers crossed, how horrible and demoralizing if the first news that comes from this action is that we lost good people to technical failures.
Does anyone remember Diamond back in the good old days before S3 bought them and immediately turned one of the finest American component companies to shit?
Remember that Diamond specialized in taking reference boards and just tweaking the crap out of them and then crowing it all with rock steady drivers? Whether it was Voodoo, Nvidia, Aureal or whatever. Diamond products where as solid as bank vaults and then raised the bar for everyone else. (The Soundblaster Live! Turned out as good as it did because Diamond was the first company to release a PCI audio card that was not only magnificent, but could be found at your local Best Buy, unlike Turtle Beach products, which were also excellent but not as widely or as well distributed. Since the Soundblaster AWE was Ubiquitous and still an ISA part. This kinds of terrorized them)
Okay my point. Not only am I somewhat excited by the potential of the nForce, but I am kind of giddy to see that NVidia groks audio as well as it does video. I am not happy Soundblaster has a lock on Audio peripherals (though the Hercules Game Theater XP is pretty hot) and would love to see real geeks with solid parts and solid drivers up on those same shelves.
Has anyone heard if NVidia is thinking about releasing the audio end of the nforce as a separate PCI part? Does NVidia have any plans to enter into the aftermarket component market?
No one has yet to fill Diamonds shoes, It would be fun to see Nvidia try.
I had been aware of that actually, though you win the prize for bringing that to light first. No, that is not what killed the poor bastards.
and i like the golden orbs, though i have seen better since i picked up that lot. still the boxes that i have used them on stay quite cool even after doing a quake III demo break in. (though the nvidia cards get hot, have to bring air over those bastards)
"It shipped?? On computers?? Were they in Boxes?? Did anyone get a good look at the Hologram??"...
So instead I am going to ask some humble questions since I really haven't been following the XP thing as closely as perhaps I should have. But since I do run a couple of Windows boxes, I'm curious..
Does it run games better then Win2K? About eight months ago I got lazy and stopped booting into 98 to play games. I found that on adequate system (gobs of inexpensive ram, thank you crucial) 2k runs games quite well. So yeah, my windows boxes are my game boxes.
Suppose I had acquired a copy, should I be versed in this XP crack (that I.. Uh... Heard some hoodlum teens talking about behind the 7-11) before I install it? Or does the crack apply to subsequent installations.
Is this thing as compromised in an Orwellian manor as I have heard? BS or fact, how much polling of my box does Microsoft get away with? Suppose I whip ZoneAlarm on it and I block access to M$? Does this pretty much break the system?
Other then increased speed and stability (bug fixes) is there any compelling reason for someone running a workstation/game machine to even look at this fetid piece of shit?
And seriously... Does Microsoft really think they are going to get away with this shit? Isn't this really all about the first stage in deploying digital encryption/copyrighting on a global scale? Are they not in on the MPAA mafia's brilliant scheme to block recordable media from storing copyrighted material and also trying to "urge" and "gently nudge" the sheeple from actually enjoying said material? (media player not ripping at 128 and so on... Like anyone rips with media player...) for the life of me I have yet to find a reason as to what exactly am I missing by not letting this thing into my house...
Since OS 10.1 is supposed to be out on Tuesday (Seybold) and since I haven't slept in 32 hours and will probably spend Tuesday migrating my proper workstations to it (woo woo low level driver support, finally get my wacom tablets to run on it) I will probably sleep through all the wealth of XP juju bandied about on Monday in a beloved coma. So if anyone has any wisdom on any of this I would certainly appreciate it.
heheh, no, no NRA membership, no ACLU membership, not extream left or right or anything at all. just a good american like yoursel... whoops no. strike that.
by the way i love canadians. if you ever your fair and beautiful land was in need, be it an act of god or act of man, i would lend my support with every resource i could muster.
All my personal boxes are currently Athlon 1.2 and 1.4 GHz 266FSBs running DDR, except for a little sad rarely used mother that was once my main box, a 1GHz P-III on a Asus "Black Pearl" BX board.
So I love AMDs, they are swell. But there is one thing about Athlons that frosts my ass, well no, the opposite. I have had to build in the odd year of 2001, twenty-two separate AMD Athlon/Thunderbird boxes. I have had seven Athlons burn on and die on boot up (stinky silicon).
I am not a retard. And that is just unacceptable.
I have never dealt with a chip as volatile as the Thunderbird. Some are just hardy little bastardos, others need a level of anal retentiveness that borders on owning ones own clean room. For me and my absolute need to have a box that makes apps open before I can remove finger from the enter key, or off the mouse on the second click. This is okay. When I am building a blah beige business box, for a client, or a friend or Auntie Ann. Then this makes me borderline homicidal.
The fact of the matter is, any monkey with a hammer can knock together a P-III box. Intel chips tend to be as robust as those freaky bubble glass ashtrays that weigh fifty pounds. I can knock together a P-III box and have an operating system installed in an hour, mostly while I am doing something more important then watching Win2K load or whatever.
I honestly wanted to see a nice Asus/Abit P4 board available so I can do more of the same for business clients ("Oh! goodness Bob! look! ONE POINT EIGHT GIGAHERTZ!!! INTEL BOB!!! HAVE AT IT BAYBE!!!... But first, pay me.")
Cheap boxes that run as stable and reliable as hell and can be assembled almost by remote control rock, the extra cash keeps me in Geforce 3 cards and klipsch speakers and other shiny things I see in the forest. I would be happy as a clam to see this whole i845 thing straighten it's wings and head into the promised land that the BX chipset promised us exists. Speaking of BX, that Asus black pearl box in the corner. It's not nearly as fast as my other three Athlon boxes, but damn it, it is as reliable as my subzero fridge.
As for myself, I will stick to my yummy AMD goodness until the data becomes more compelling otherwise. I am still a sucker when I notice that something is really "noticeably faster"
This is not BS, i am pretty sure Ellison went and bought himself a MIG.(!)
he flys in a MIG... no wonder he wants to get authentication pushed through a national database... 'acause... you know... it's life during wartime... and what if someone was to hack his trasnponder... not that anyone should... no.
Slashdot Mirror
Okay, this would not work so well with say, Everquest or Ultima Online...
But if the genre has space for it, say anarchy online for instance, why not go ahead and have Pepsi and Coke machines and IBM ads on the sides of public transportation or even as someone else posted, billboards? When I am playing a future war game like fallout, there is always the obligatory Heckler & Koch MP999 or the Smith & Wesson 5000 or whatever... well just take that to the next logical extreme and sell product placement.
Hell you can get pretty blatant with it, always have the protagonist in Ralph Loren clothes or holding a can of Seven-Up. If this made a game free after I bought the box, hell I would welcome the attention to detail. Make it clever.
Though I do not want to see a banner ad hanging over my paladin as he rides the hounds of hell. No. I play games to suspend my disbelief and embrace the fiction created, and that is just a touch too intrusive.
The Music Industry and Microsoft can do and say and rattle whatever they want. Water always follows the path of least resistance, and they are pissing uphill. Consumers vote with dollars, and the product that they have been selling lately is mediocre at best. Now they want adults to jump through flaming loops to enjoy the music they bought (since most sheeple are still grabbing shrinkwrapped plastic) and they expect savvy kids to roll over and except SDMI?
This is so doomed to fail that i liken it to the music industry sawing off thier own legs. Bravo RIAA! Well Done MPAA! Your marketing weasles have convinced you that the impossible is possible and that you are of course much smarter then we are. Then you expect the high courts to defend the fact that anyone that doesn't fall in line is a criminal. yeah sure, that will last you... morons.
I am less afraid of the scary orwellian music industry as i am kind of delighted to watch it self-distruct. It won't be quick, but it will be painful.
I for one couldn't be more delighted. Having to ditch the browser because you stumbled into a shitty web porn glue trap is about as intrusive and evil as code gets without being viral.
hmmm... then again i wonder how all this bodes for microsoft... Smart Links indeed...
the resolution, couldn't this kind of tech have saved lives at the WTC? A lot of us talked about sending voice or data messages to victims cell phones and tracking them that way. But this seems to be a hell of a lot more intuitive (unless it is only accurate to say 300 meters or whatever).
As to the big brother angle; hell that is preposterous. More of the same reactionist claptrap that so inundate these discussions. To think the government would use this lifesaving technology to spy on it's own... why, everyone knows that Americans citizens have had microchips inserted into them under the guise of "polio vaccine" since the 60's.
dear lord... must be an international date line or something.
Optusnet.com.au, reports they have shut down the dynamic-DNS spam service run by the Dean Westbury gang on their network.
In response, the SPEWS listed network addresses were removed from the list.
Updated listing for Dean Westbury: http://spews.org/html/S453.html
One would assume that the spam server in the states is indeed blacklisted as well, if it hadn't been already.
i think the push of this article is that since aus only has two backbones. the blacklisting of Optus is really going to effect the population at large (in australia).
now. back to drinking.
Well this is going to cost me another G4 tower... I just got OS 10.1 up and happy (yes, it does rock, no. it doesn't suck) but now I want Mac on Linux running up next to OS X not instead of it.
Talk about a horse race? here is in opportunity to run both classic apps (read: applications that get me paid) on *nix environments. One on a BSD based system supported by a huge ass company with a huge ass budget (and stake). The other, Linux based and supported by the Screaming Linux Jihad.
I choose to exploit everything and see what works best. zealously is for jackasses.
Great little piece. The bad news is that most of us all here have already been nodding at this argument furiously for so long, migraines are setting in.. What this needs is to be disseminated amounst the sheeple in the same carcinogenic manor as half assed "Nostradamus Predicted this" emails that have filled my box faster then sircam did.
Crypto Doesn't Kill - People Do
The second amendment of the statue of liberty clearly states: "cool guys shall have the unalienable liberty to wield strong crypto in order to insure against the prospect of a tyrannical state." Or at least I think it does, I am not sure as I have been playing Wolfstenstien for the last six day in a row and can't be bothered to check.
When crypto is outlawed, only outlaws will have crypto. You can have my copy of PGP when you pull if from my cold dead fingers!
Does anyone else besides me see the parallel between ad serving and ad blocking software and the anchient struggle between ballistics versus fortification?
The only thing that bothers me is ballistics usually has the upper hand. Then again try telling that to the engineers that maintain Mt. Cheyenne. (You know... because ad serving scum are the enemies of liberty... and ad blocking software is the good hearted men and women that defend freedom, justice... and the American Way (Ouch, metaphor gives me headaches.)
Okay one more google search,
. ht m
this is about the "Glomar Explorer" the ship that was purpose built to attempt the covert raising of the K-129 back in 1974
http://www.fas.org/irp/program/collect/jennifer
The CIA tried to do something just like this in the 70's it only kinda worked out for them though.
Here is a blurb about it:
1974
The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency attempted to raise a Soviet Golf-class diesel-powered boat, K-129, which sank in 1968. The agency did so under cover of a deep-ocean mineral recovery effort using a ship built for the purpose, the Glomar Explorer. The submarine apparently broke apart and the stern half fell back to the bottom.
I stole that from NOVA online by they way.
Too tired for more google searches, but perhaps you aren't.
All of this is opinion, it reflects nothing like policy, save your flames about that.
This is not a matter of the wolves being let out of the cage. This is a matter of the wolves wanting protected hunting grounds where they already feed.
The unofficial slogan for the Illinois State Police's intelligence division is, "In god we trust, all others we monitor". In most cases, the laws that would seem to newly empower law enforcement exist or are proposed only to validate prosecution after the fact.
The fact of the matter is that after meeting and being privy to the discussions of various members of the Chicago Police Intelligence Unit as well as the Illinois State Police's, that any expectation of privacy (once deeds warrant the attention of these organizations) is a façade.
When I hear the stories it all seems appropriate and sometimes heroic. But I am sure I have not heard all the stories. And I am sure that pretty damned un-American things happen, not just in my city, in my state, but in most if not all of yours.
Now don't get me wrong, these are good guys and the certainly one wouldn't think they would task the resources and manpower it takes for good surveillance on any random Joe. But if they have what they feel is solid intelligence that you are a "bad guy", you will be monitored. Court order or no, warrants or no, take the moral or ethical discourse out of the equation and these guys just want to put "bad people" away. Yeah, that scares me too.
We all know what power does; we all know that police powers tend to corrupt, but again. I find myself getting into a theoretical argument. And all I wanted to do was state that this goes on, has for sometime, whether we like it or not. And no one ever asked you or your mom and dad how he or she felt about it.
Sorry it's late. I'm very tired, and haven't the capacity for eloquence. I will leave you with something I saw on a Intelligence cop's tee-shirt about three years ago though; "There is nothing wrong with a Police State... as long as you are the Police."
The problem with short posts is that they can sometimes sound glib. I didn't mean to sound glib. I really enjoy the GBA, it does so much well that I can actually desire pissing away time with it more then say on my laptops or my palm IIIc.
I am really glad you are enjoying your Gameboy Advance. I am not starting an anti-GBA political movement. No.
So basically all the rant about Nintendo being bad is directed squarely on (what is IMHO) the worst possible display, ever. Now the GBA itself is capable of displaying wonderfully vibrant and delightful images. Unfortunately I don't want the migraines caused by trying to get it not to reflect every damn thing in the world while only having half the display adequately lit at any one time.
I am guessing, and I am aware that this is a (dangerous) sweeping generalization, that you would have paid $30 bucks more at the Best Buy if you noticed that the GBA came with a lovely, bright display that was actually easy on your eyes. I personally would not have hesitated.
Also: Nintendo is so still going to get my Gamecube money. I have that recessive gene that makes me by consoles that I will never have time to play with. And no I will sell any of them (nor my GBA) on Ebay. Ebay scares me; I don't want to do business with people shopping for human infant adenoids or whatever...
I love that new commercial where the kid is playing with his GBA while at church (never mind all the class inferred by that... marketing weasels...). That is just absolute bullshit. I can barely play Tony Hawk 2 in my kitchen much less a room with low amounts of ambient lighting. They had to be filming that commercial looking at each other like... "Hey, it's not my lawsuit".
Adam is a deity. Nintendo owes every damn one of us an apology.
He (Adam) says it best when he comments that the glass covering the Worlds Most Useless Display is more like a mirror then anything else. So all the lame "Shark Lights, Wiggie Lights, PokoLights, Very Happy Joy Fun Lights" or whatever does nothing more then throw glare over the entire screen.
I'd pay thirty bucks to take something useless and render it otherwise.
Oh come on now, Napster has been compromised completely.
.ogg I'm finding. Gnutella clients are fun as well, when I have all day...)
The MPAA got everything it wanted. It convinced people that the industry thinks file sharing is "bad" when actually all they wanted to do is be able to control it increase revenue another 100%. Why should they change their distribution model from plastic and shrink-wrap to online digital when they can have both?
You want an outlaw metaphor? Here's your outlaw metaphor:
SILICON VALLEY- A.P.P
The once proud rebel leader Napster has been abducted by MPAA/RIAA forces and subjected to financial/litigious torture and bizarre mind-altering terror, the result is that Napster is now an MPAA/RIAA loyalist, under complete control, sent back into the world to confuse and pervert the young and feeble-minded. "We will have them sucking on our teat again in no time", an account executive from Sony was quoted saying...
"Led Zeppelin_stairway_to_heaven.nap", indeed... they can take their encoded header and ram it verily (and often) directly inside their collective colons.
There are so many better file sharing apps available now that I am sure I myself am probably not even using the best one. (I'm digging morpheus because of the wealth of
you are jokeing aren't you?
Well I could plagiarize it for the free karma, or I could just point out the obvious and mention there is a ten page feature in this month's Wired about Tolkien the man, the author, the professor, his books, his legacy... and why this movie is going to be such a big f**king deal.
hell, half the posts i have read already quote it word for word... interestingly without giving credit...
After reading that post, certainly I am not the only person wondering; "How will all this interference manifest to future or current military operations?"
Could this have happened at a worse time for us really? If indeed the press is not just pandering a disinformation agenda, we are still in the roll out and deploy phase.
But what of the assets (covert ops, special forces) that may or may not be already inserted in hostile territory? Are Sat/com uplinks going to be possible? Are these guys stranded? (send in the British messenger pigeon experts?)
Is GPS effected to the degree that it will effect naval and ground movements? Does the navy have a redundant system to coordinate entire modern fleet movements? It seems like this effect disrupts all the obvious ones. (microwave, radio, satellite burst crypto transmissions etc..)
I'm a bit worried about our guys (all of them, allies and coalition members included), it's dangerous enough just have large scale maneuvers during peacetime when the solar weather is fine without having some fatalities due to mishap and so on.
Keeping my fingers crossed, how horrible and demoralizing if the first news that comes from this action is that we lost good people to technical failures.
okay now that is funny.
for the other guy, a nice haiku for you mister English major.
I'm not a retard
unacceptable came next
haikus are for fags.
thank you very much ladies and gentleman and goodnight.
Does anyone remember Diamond back in the good old days before S3 bought them and immediately turned one of the finest American component companies to shit?
Remember that Diamond specialized in taking reference boards and just tweaking the crap out of them and then crowing it all with rock steady drivers? Whether it was Voodoo, Nvidia, Aureal or whatever. Diamond products where as solid as bank vaults and then raised the bar for everyone else. (The Soundblaster Live! Turned out as good as it did because Diamond was the first company to release a PCI audio card that was not only magnificent, but could be found at your local Best Buy, unlike Turtle Beach products, which were also excellent but not as widely or as well distributed. Since the Soundblaster AWE was Ubiquitous and still an ISA part. This kinds of terrorized them)
Okay my point. Not only am I somewhat excited by the potential of the nForce, but I am kind of giddy to see that NVidia groks audio as well as it does video. I am not happy Soundblaster has a lock on Audio peripherals (though the Hercules Game Theater XP is pretty hot) and would love to see real geeks with solid parts and solid drivers up on those same shelves.
Has anyone heard if NVidia is thinking about releasing the audio end of the nforce as a separate PCI part? Does NVidia have any plans to enter into the aftermarket component market?
No one has yet to fill Diamonds shoes, It would be fun to see Nvidia try.
I had been aware of that actually, though you win the prize for bringing that to light first. No, that is not what killed the poor bastards.
and i like the golden orbs, though i have seen better since i picked up that lot. still the boxes that i have used them on stay quite cool even after doing a quake III demo break in. (though the nvidia cards get hot, have to bring air over those bastards)
damn i need sleep.
What exactly is an "on topic" post to this story?
"It shipped?? On computers?? Were they in Boxes?? Did anyone get a good look at the Hologram??"...
So instead I am going to ask some humble questions since I really haven't been following the XP thing as closely as perhaps I should have. But since I do run a couple of Windows boxes, I'm curious..
Does it run games better then Win2K? About eight months ago I got lazy and stopped booting into 98 to play games. I found that on adequate system (gobs of inexpensive ram, thank you crucial) 2k runs games quite well. So yeah, my windows boxes are my game boxes.
Suppose I had acquired a copy, should I be versed in this XP crack (that I.. Uh... Heard some hoodlum teens talking about behind the 7-11) before I install it? Or does the crack apply to subsequent installations.
Is this thing as compromised in an Orwellian manor as I have heard? BS or fact, how much polling of my box does Microsoft get away with? Suppose I whip ZoneAlarm on it and I block access to M$? Does this pretty much break the system?
Other then increased speed and stability (bug fixes) is there any compelling reason for someone running a workstation/game machine to even look at this fetid piece of shit?
And seriously... Does Microsoft really think they are going to get away with this shit? Isn't this really all about the first stage in deploying digital encryption/copyrighting on a global scale? Are they not in on the MPAA mafia's brilliant scheme to block recordable media from storing copyrighted material and also trying to "urge" and "gently nudge" the sheeple from actually enjoying said material? (media player not ripping at 128 and so on... Like anyone rips with media player...) for the life of me I have yet to find a reason as to what exactly am I missing by not letting this thing into my house...
Since OS 10.1 is supposed to be out on Tuesday (Seybold) and since I haven't slept in 32 hours and will probably spend Tuesday migrating my proper workstations to it (woo woo low level driver support, finally get my wacom tablets to run on it) I will probably sleep through all the wealth of XP juju bandied about on Monday in a beloved coma. So if anyone has any wisdom on any of this I would certainly appreciate it.
heheh, no, no NRA membership, no ACLU membership, not extream left or right or anything at all. just a good american like yoursel... whoops no. strike that.
by the way i love canadians. if you ever your fair and beautiful land was in need, be it an act of god or act of man, i would lend my support with every resource i could muster.
now shut up.
All my personal boxes are currently Athlon 1.2 and 1.4 GHz 266FSBs running DDR, except for a little sad rarely used mother that was once my main box, a 1GHz P-III on a Asus "Black Pearl" BX board.
So I love AMDs, they are swell. But there is one thing about Athlons that frosts my ass, well no, the opposite. I have had to build in the odd year of 2001, twenty-two separate AMD Athlon/Thunderbird boxes. I have had seven Athlons burn on and die on boot up (stinky silicon).
I am not a retard. And that is just unacceptable.
I have never dealt with a chip as volatile as the Thunderbird. Some are just hardy little bastardos, others need a level of anal retentiveness that borders on owning ones own clean room. For me and my absolute need to have a box that makes apps open before I can remove finger from the enter key, or off the mouse on the second click. This is okay. When I am building a blah beige business box, for a client, or a friend or Auntie Ann. Then this makes me borderline homicidal.
The fact of the matter is, any monkey with a hammer can knock together a P-III box. Intel chips tend to be as robust as those freaky bubble glass ashtrays that weigh fifty pounds. I can knock together a P-III box and have an operating system installed in an hour, mostly while I am doing something more important then watching Win2K load or whatever.
I honestly wanted to see a nice Asus/Abit P4 board available so I can do more of the same for business clients ("Oh! goodness Bob! look! ONE POINT EIGHT GIGAHERTZ!!! INTEL BOB!!! HAVE AT IT BAYBE!!!... But first, pay me.")
Cheap boxes that run as stable and reliable as hell and can be assembled almost by remote control rock, the extra cash keeps me in Geforce 3 cards and klipsch speakers and other shiny things I see in the forest. I would be happy as a clam to see this whole i845 thing straighten it's wings and head into the promised land that the BX chipset promised us exists. Speaking of BX, that Asus black pearl box in the corner. It's not nearly as fast as my other three Athlon boxes, but damn it, it is as reliable as my subzero fridge.
As for myself, I will stick to my yummy AMD goodness until the data becomes more compelling otherwise. I am still a sucker when I notice that something is really "noticeably faster"
This is not BS, i am pretty sure Ellison went and bought himself a MIG.(!)
he flys in a MIG... no wonder he wants to get authentication pushed through a national database... 'acause... you know... it's life during wartime... and what if someone was to hack his trasnponder... not that anyone should... no.