Exactly! The Radeon 9600SE cards or GeForceFX 5200 cards that run about $50 are more than sufficient to run DOOM3 at medium quality, according to previous remarks by developers and the review posted here.
I see stories about people following such pathetic attempts at gaining recognition, it makes me want to retch.
I agree. This guy makes almost elicits pity from me, until I realize he's 32, been doing this for 7 years, and should know better by now.
I hope his "Internet girlfriend" gets some self-confidence, finds a real boyfriend, and this guy ends up fading out of any semblence of public notoriety.
This is SAD. This is nothing to report on, be heartened by, or even mildly entertained by. Well, maybe it could be entertaining, if you're into human misery.:)
"I wasted five years of my life trying to develop an Anal Bum Cover, Trebek... do not tifle with me!"
(My personal fave line in SNL Celebrity Jeopardy: "Trebek, what's teh difference between a mallard with a cold and your mom? One's a sick duck... and I don't remember the rest, but your mother's a whore!")
You do realize that as a Morman from BYU this man knows his bible. Personally, I think ken would win that matchup - don't even try to tell me that Pope JP3 is quick on the buzzer.
Despite the fact that it's spelled "Mormon," and John Paul II is Pope (there IS no JP3), I agree with your sentiment. He has shown his biblical knowledge several times, the Pope is slow and old, and I don't think the Cardinal would do well at the "Bubblegum" category.
Heh. Morman. (Shades of the "GET A BRAIN! MORANS" sign guy from Fark...)
Who the atech-ee-double-hockey-sticks runs "dos-based" systems anymore? I thought Microsoft abandoned the technology starting in 1995, and I personally submitted the "official end of life for DOS support" article to Slashdot several years ago.
We run heterogenious systems and support them because they provide different benefits and features for our many needs. Sometimes Windows OS servers actually are cheaper, more stable, and easier to support than their Unix counterparts. Sometimes not.
For instance, we have WebSphere running on Solaris and AIX as an app server platform, and it is great for high volume and failover. But we spend far more time (proportionally) troubleshooting that technology (and the hundred or so servers that run it) than the.NET application servers running on Windows 2000. As an app environment.NET is stable and actually quite fast, and run on much less expensive equipment. However there are only four of them and failover between boxes is sketchy, so on the rare occasion that there is a non-code related outage, it takes longer to get the environment back up to spec.
They are not talking about mirroring (RAID 1) exclusively. They are talking about RAID 0 so people can stripe drives and achieve considerable performance increases.
As for me, I have an 8-channel IDE raid card with 8 x 120GB drives, hardware RAID 5, and in 24 months have blown oh about 4 drives (3 on the same channel til I found a faulty cable)... I have really appreciated the 860GB array having fault tolerance. And yes, I do some backups of critical data, but I can't afford the storage required for regular full backups.
Are you forgetting that these were the days when a keyboard cost $150 when you spilled Tab into in, and a modem cost $300 when your cat chewed through the power cable? (I miss poor fluffy.)
You were paying for quality, and you can do the same today. My $50 Chaintech nForce 2 motherboard was OK, but I get a lot more stability and features (and hopefully, life expectancy) out of my $150 Asus.
I use hotmail as a "catchall" for people and companies that send me crap. I also use it to read POP mail at work. For $19.95 a year, it seemed like a good bargain. I always swore I would never keep anything there that was "valuable," because I knew MS would never guarantee availability.
What ended up happening is that I was in the middle of an ISP migration, and used Hotmail on March 30th to download all my remaining POP messages that I kept stored (e.g. important or frequently-accessed messages) on my ISP's server before my account was deactivited. Typically I would then go home and import that mail from Hotmail into a local mail file. What actually happened was I got busy for a couple of days, and when I logged in on 4/1 (April fool's day!) I had an empty Hotmail box.
I complained and got a form letter response a couple of days later, saying they hoped I understood, but they had experienced a system "event" and were working to restore data. Anything not restored within 72 hours would not be recovered. Thank you for understanding.
I never got a single message back. Fortunately, none of the info I lost was business-related, only family and event planning data, but it goes to show what MS gives you, even when you PAY for service.
You're going to pay 30-40 thousand US dollars per year to go there.
You're going to be living in a very urban area of the east side of Cleveland. I'm sorry, the east side isn't urban, it's CULTURED. I should know, I've lived on the east side of Cleveland for the better part of the past 16 years.
Sidebar: The other folks who are complaining about "the mistake on the lake" are either sheltered and have been stuck in Euclid for the past 10 years, or heard something bad about Clevland once in a joke (You know the RIVER caught on FIRE! Yeah. 35 years ago.).
I have lived all over the east coast and parts of the Mountain time zone. I have visited many other places. There are few other cities with such reasonable crime rates, reasonable access to arts and entertainment, reasonably nice people, and a wide variety of suburbs to choose from. I choose to live and work in Cleveland and I am quite happy about it, thanks.
It's nice to take a vacation during March/April, because 10 weeks of overcast skies and rain is kinda much, but still...;)
They knew who was calling, but not where he was calling from. The police found him by tracking down the originating phone number.
And by the way, I don't think GTA has a situation that would result in saying "there's a bomb, get out." Probably a multiplayer terrorist/anti-terrorist game, like a Clancy game on Xbox Live.
We had a similar situation here. We were in a status meeting discussing our new patch management scheme, when we looked at the package names: Critical Update NT MS04-013, Critical Update W2K MS04-014, Critical Update WXP MS03-038, etc.
The person packaging the patches for deployment had them listed as CUNT4-04013, etc. The young ladies in our office were not impressed.
Clicked on Redeem Song. Asked me to log on. Clicked Create Account. Page did not load. Navigated back, repeated several times. Popup comes up asking for information. Get submission errors if I try to submit without valid / complete CC info. Finally enter the info and await an email verification. Log on. Click redeem song, asks me to log on again. Log on with username and password. This time I'm allowed to enter codes. Once I find the song I want, it takes me 5 minutes to figure out that "Buy Song" is scrolled off the right side of my screen. Do a Help search to figure out how to buy the music in my cart. Realize I can't because nothing is in my cart, I'm "not logged in." Log in. Re-add song to cart. Click on Shopping Cart in left pane, click Buy Music. Enter username and password AGAIN. Confirm purchase (free).
I love iTunes, it's the best player/net radio/music file organizer/burner I have ever used, but the learning curve on the store's UI was ridiculous. Since then, I have had no problems redeeming 12 more codes.
Is it possible there were multiple account setup procedures? I spent almost an hour trying to set up an account. It would not let me leave the CC information fields blank.
I tried three times to not give it a credit card number when I first redeemed some caps, the first week of March. No dice. Was absolutely required to set up an iTunes account from iTunes for Windows 4.2 at that time. I was kind of upset, but used a pre-paid card with like $3 left on it to set up the account... so in the end, it was a minor hassle. I agree it would have been much easier for "winners" to redeem songs if the account setup process was easier, that took me far longer than it should have.
1) WindowsXP Pro, SP1a (Plus MS Security Update CD, then let run for a couple of trips through Windows Update) 2) Microsoft Plus! for WinXP 3) OfficeXP Pro (plus hotfixes) 4) iTunes 4.2 w/Quicktime 6.5 5) Trillian 6) K++ Codec MegaPack v1.0 (GO GET THIS NOW.) 7) Norton SystemWorks 8) WinRar 9) Quake3 and 4GB worth of maps and mods
9a) UT2004 and extra maps - soon to supercede 9. 10)Google Toolbar
Finally: Latest drivers for all devices (including mobo chipset), one last run at WindowsUpdate, Defrag system drive, and enjoy your "new" system.:)
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That was what Carmack was saying back during the GeForce 4 TI vs Radeon 8500 days.
The GeForce 6 6800 Ultra GT vs Radeon X800 XT PE (wish I were making the product names up) seem to have similar performance on the ARB2 render path.
Exactly! The Radeon 9600SE cards or GeForceFX 5200 cards that run about $50 are more than sufficient to run DOOM3 at medium quality, according to previous remarks by developers and the review posted here.
heterogenious.
Your sad attempt at being "punny" is spelled wrong.
I also advise you to consult a dictionary to learn the meaning of anecdotal.
"Based on casual observations or indications rather than rigorous or scientific analysis"
I think I used the term right. And I can't believe I'm wasting my time replying to someone who can't even be bothered to identify themselves.
I see stories about people following such pathetic attempts at gaining recognition, it makes me want to retch.
:)
I agree. This guy makes almost elicits pity from me, until I realize he's 32, been doing this for 7 years, and should know better by now.
I hope his "Internet girlfriend" gets some self-confidence, finds a real boyfriend, and this guy ends up fading out of any semblence of public notoriety.
This is SAD. This is nothing to report on, be heartened by, or even mildly entertained by. Well, maybe it could be entertaining, if you're into human misery.
This was my big night. Wheel of Fortune came on.
... and then my head aslpode ...
Clue: Book and Author
"##,### _______ _____ ___ ___ __ _____ _____"
They hadn't even turned over the "special characters" before I knew 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea by Jules Verne.
And now I sit here beign asked by the lameness filter to use fewer Junk Characters. *Sigh* sometimes those junk characters are NEEDED, man!
"I wasted five years of my life trying to develop an Anal Bum Cover, Trebek... do not tifle with me!"
(My personal fave line in SNL Celebrity Jeopardy: "Trebek, what's teh difference between a mallard with a cold and your mom? One's a sick duck... and I don't remember the rest, but your mother's a whore!")
You do realize that as a Morman from BYU this man knows his bible. Personally, I think ken would win that matchup - don't even try to tell me that Pope JP3 is quick on the buzzer.
Despite the fact that it's spelled "Mormon," and John Paul II is Pope (there IS no JP3), I agree with your sentiment. He has shown his biblical knowledge several times, the Pope is slow and old, and I don't think the Cardinal would do well at the "Bubblegum" category.
Heh. Morman. (Shades of the "GET A BRAIN! MORANS" sign guy from Fark...)
Can I ask an obvious question here?
.NET application servers running on Windows 2000. As an app environment .NET is stable and actually quite fast, and run on much less expensive equipment. However there are only four of them and failover between boxes is sketchy, so on the rare occasion that there is a non-code related outage, it takes longer to get the environment back up to spec.
Who the atech-ee-double-hockey-sticks runs "dos-based" systems anymore? I thought Microsoft abandoned the technology starting in 1995, and I personally submitted the "official end of life for DOS support" article to Slashdot several years ago.
We run heterogenious systems and support them because they provide different benefits and features for our many needs. Sometimes Windows OS servers actually are cheaper, more stable, and easier to support than their Unix counterparts. Sometimes not.
For instance, we have WebSphere running on Solaris and AIX as an app server platform, and it is great for high volume and failover. But we spend far more time (proportionally) troubleshooting that technology (and the hundred or so servers that run it) than the
Just my anecdotal experience.
So why make a RAID?
They are not talking about mirroring (RAID 1) exclusively. They are talking about RAID 0 so people can stripe drives and achieve considerable performance increases.
As for me, I have an 8-channel IDE raid card with 8 x 120GB drives, hardware RAID 5, and in 24 months have blown oh about 4 drives (3 on the same channel til I found a faulty cable)... I have really appreciated the 860GB array having fault tolerance. And yes, I do some backups of critical data, but I can't afford the storage required for regular full backups.
THAT was FUNNY! :)
Thanks for the laugh.
(PS - The Slashdot Lameness Filter is just about to make me quit posting altogether and join the lawless FARK forums... *SHUDDER*)
Are you forgetting that these were the days when a keyboard cost $150 when you spilled Tab into in, and a modem cost $300 when your cat chewed through the power cable? (I miss poor fluffy.)
You were paying for quality, and you can do the same today. My $50 Chaintech nForce 2 motherboard was OK, but I get a lot more stability and features (and hopefully, life expectancy) out of my $150 Asus.
Of course, you could always use Knoppix or something similar whenever buying on-line. This would also solve the problem for the truly paranoid.
:)
Of course, because everyone knows that retailers all use crackerjack security and are completely impenetrable by malicious forces.
(Everyone always forgets that these are two-party-- or more-- transactions.)
I use hotmail as a "catchall" for people and companies that send me crap. I also use it to read POP mail at work. For $19.95 a year, it seemed like a good bargain. I always swore I would never keep anything there that was "valuable," because I knew MS would never guarantee availability.
What ended up happening is that I was in the middle of an ISP migration, and used Hotmail on March 30th to download all my remaining POP messages that I kept stored (e.g. important or frequently-accessed messages) on my ISP's server before my account was deactivited. Typically I would then go home and import that mail from Hotmail into a local mail file. What actually happened was I got busy for a couple of days, and when I logged in on 4/1 (April fool's day!) I had an empty Hotmail box.
I complained and got a form letter response a couple of days later, saying they hoped I understood, but they had experienced a system "event" and were working to restore data. Anything not restored within 72 hours would not be recovered. Thank you for understanding.
I never got a single message back. Fortunately, none of the info I lost was business-related, only family and event planning data, but it goes to show what MS gives you, even when you PAY for service.
I've lived on south side for last 6... buying a house in Lake county now. FAR east side!
Downsides:
;)
You're going to pay 30-40 thousand US dollars per year to go there.
You're going to be living in a very urban area of the east side of Cleveland. I'm sorry, the east side isn't urban, it's CULTURED. I should know, I've lived on the east side of Cleveland for the better part of the past 16 years.
Sidebar:
The other folks who are complaining about "the mistake on the lake" are either sheltered and have been stuck in Euclid for the past 10 years, or heard something bad about Clevland once in a joke (You know the RIVER caught on FIRE! Yeah. 35 years ago.).
I have lived all over the east coast and parts of the Mountain time zone. I have visited many other places. There are few other cities with such reasonable crime rates, reasonable access to arts and entertainment, reasonably nice people, and a wide variety of suburbs to choose from. I choose to live and work in Cleveland and I am quite happy about it, thanks.
It's nice to take a vacation during March/April, because 10 weeks of overcast skies and rain is kinda much, but still...
WRONG!
They knew who was calling, but not where he was calling from. The police found him by tracking down the originating phone number.
And by the way, I don't think GTA has a situation that would result in saying "there's a bomb, get out." Probably a multiplayer terrorist/anti-terrorist game, like a Clancy game on Xbox Live.
Offtopic - What was the thing in the movie then, they had engineered the bees to deliver the virus instead of standard venom?
a pair ... discovered a buried network of wireless motion sensors on the public land surrounding the "operating location near Groom Lake, Nevada."
:)
Upon their arrival, hundreds of vents opened up and millions of alien-virus infected bees immediately started swarming around them...
Oops, wait, sorry... wrong movie.
We had a similar situation here. We were in a status meeting discussing our new patch management scheme, when we looked at the package names: Critical Update NT MS04-013, Critical Update W2K MS04-014, Critical Update WXP MS03-038, etc.
The person packaging the patches for deployment had them listed as CUNT4-04013, etc. The young ladies in our office were not impressed.
Congrats, you've just invented the Spinder Awards!
:)
How do I nominate someone? And when are the awards given?
iTunes for Windows 4.2 (see above).
Clicked on Redeem Song. Asked me to log on. Clicked Create Account. Page did not load. Navigated back, repeated several times. Popup comes up asking for information. Get submission errors if I try to submit without valid / complete CC info. Finally enter the info and await an email verification. Log on. Click redeem song, asks me to log on again. Log on with username and password. This time I'm allowed to enter codes. Once I find the song I want, it takes me 5 minutes to figure out that "Buy Song" is scrolled off the right side of my screen. Do a Help search to figure out how to buy the music in my cart. Realize I can't because nothing is in my cart, I'm "not logged in." Log in. Re-add song to cart. Click on Shopping Cart in left pane, click Buy Music. Enter username and password AGAIN. Confirm purchase (free).
I love iTunes, it's the best player/net radio/music file organizer/burner I have ever used, but the learning curve on the store's UI was ridiculous. Since then, I have had no problems redeeming 12 more codes.
Is it possible there were multiple account setup procedures? I spent almost an hour trying to set up an account. It would not let me leave the CC information fields blank.
I tried three times to not give it a credit card number when I first redeemed some caps, the first week of March. No dice. Was absolutely required to set up an iTunes account from iTunes for Windows 4.2 at that time. I was kind of upset, but used a pre-paid card with like $3 left on it to set up the account... so in the end, it was a minor hassle. I agree it would have been much easier for "winners" to redeem songs if the account setup process was easier, that took me far longer than it should have.
Whoops, sorry to reply to my own post, but I forgot:
AdAware 6.18 (+ recent update)
TweakUI
Acrobat Reader
Format as NTFS, then:
:)
1) WindowsXP Pro, SP1a
(Plus MS Security Update CD, then let run for a couple of trips through Windows Update)
2) Microsoft Plus! for WinXP
3) OfficeXP Pro (plus hotfixes)
4) iTunes 4.2 w/Quicktime 6.5
5) Trillian
6) K++ Codec MegaPack v1.0 (GO GET THIS NOW.)
7) Norton SystemWorks
8) WinRar
9) Quake3 and 4GB worth of maps and mods
9a) UT2004 and extra maps - soon to supercede 9.
10)Google Toolbar
Finally: Latest drivers for all devices (including mobo chipset), one last run at WindowsUpdate, Defrag system drive, and enjoy your "new" system.