IMHO I think wrestling more accurately portrays a much older theme: that of ancient Rome and the gladiatorial battles that throngs of people came to see. Only with the gladiators it was real and people actually died. And there were lions. And weapons.
Nevermind.
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I had to explain this to my wife one time.
She's from Thailand (Bangkok), and they get their share of American tourists. Her stereotypical idea of an American, based on her experiences, is that of a loud-mouthed, demanding person that's always smacking gum and throwing money around. Once she moved here to the US she saw things alot differently.
The problem with foreign perception of Americans is that about the only Americans that travel and make it overseas are rich jackasses. They treat people like shit here and going overseas doesn't magically change that. So other countries get the worst upper-crust nimrods and the rest of us nice folks take the rap for them. I think if most foreigners that hate Americans actually come visit Texas or some other state for a year, they'll learn what Americans are really like.
Re:This is what's good/bad about the West
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So true, so true. The main reason corporate america keeps doing invasive drug screening on prospective employees is to weed out the weed smokers.
Pot smokers traditionally have little drive for working. They're usually happy to sit on the couch in front of a playstation and make bong loads disappear. If they're late for work, no worry. Miss a day or two? No worry. That's corporate america's biggest enemy: apathy. If you don't care about your job they have no power over you.
I'm not saying all stoners are lazy bastards, but most stoners would rather do something creative (make a new bong out of odd materials or play hacky sack with friends) than go to work. I can't say I don't blame them. I had my own halcyon days that I'm beginning to miss. Damn this western world.
Thanks for destroying my bandwidth with your wget leeching folks. I'm taking supermame down for a short time so I can actually USE my network here.
Damn I can't believe I nearly got slashdotted. People, downloading a few roms here and there is fine, just DON'T leech the ENTIRE folder. I only have 60KB/sec up here. I'd like to be able to deal with my servers remotely once in awhile.
Keep in mind that when Transgaming has made enough money to cover all their development costs (through subscriptions etc.) they're merging all their new code back into the standard Wine tree. Eventually 95% of what they've done will be free and open source, excluding the Safedisc and other licensed protection schemes of course. Those generally aren't a problem anyway due to no-cd cracks and the like.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Bioware, like most other 'here's a linux client' companies, requires you to buy the Windows version anyway and will allow you to download the linux binaries when they're released.
I'll second that. I keep 98 on my machine for the occasional 'game that winex can't handle yet' and the install is about 8 months old now. It's a record-holder at this point because 6 months is usually it's turning point, the point at which it goes to hell very quickly. I think the 8 month record is due to the fact that I only boot into windows twice a month or so. Tried de-crufting the registry with a variety of tools to no avail. It's latest surprise is not recognizing/seeing my usb Microsoft Sidewinder gamepad. Thank god a modprobe sidewinder is all it needs under linux.
If he's using the ancient ext2 filesystem, yes, this is a possibility. You have to realize that these days, reiserfs and ext3 are the new defaults. They both journal and both are very well behaved if you kill the power unexpectedly. A fsck under reiser takes seconds (sometimes less) which is alot different than the ext2 of old. Keep up with the times friend.
Oh ok, now we get to the root of your problem. Most people aren't going to read your mind to realize that divx has sync problems when you're skipping forwards and backwards through a clip.
I've seen this on my box too, generally I just pause the clip and hit play again. Takes all of a half second and the sync matches easily. I use either mplayer or xine and xine tends to do this more often than mplayer.
Beats the hell out of using Windows Media player though.
Until a single codec comes along and wipes the others out in every single category, you're just going to have to deal with having a bunch of different players...
Uh, this happened already, it's called DiVX;-) and is freely available to everyone. I don't know if it'll stream or not or what it takes to stream it if it will though.
I guess you could always use a divx codec in a quicktime wrapper, leave it in an mpeg wrapper for those of us without macs.
Re:I'd switch to Apple / OSX Tomorrow...
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You're an easy man to impress...I took one look at that page and nearly lost my cookies. That dopey look, those gigantic teeth, just...frightening.
Then again I married a woman from Thailand so my concept of beauty probably doesn't match the average american's.
Silly rabbit, representatives don't listen to constituents, they listen to big corporate and special interest payoffs....ahh to be young and naive again.:)
Where will all of this end? Does the MPAA/RIAA actually need the right to attack individuals over the internet for having an mp3 of Stairway to Heaven on their pc? Is there anything dsl/cable/whatever providers can do to protect their customers from this?
I'll second that. I bought an NVIDIA tnt2 ultra 32mb card a few years ago. During the time I had it, I saw about 4 revisions of drivers, with each revision the 3d output got more full-featured and faster. The very last driver release (while I was using it, upgraded last year) nearly doubled the framerate it was getting.
I can only pray that they're able to squeeze performance like that out of my geforce4 ti4200 in the future. I can already overclock the hell out of it but it's just not wise:)
Matrox engineers probably would claim that at this point. Basically dual head technology is old news and anyone can make a dual-headed card. This isn't nvidia's bread and butter and never was, so I doubt they took the time to reverse engineer Matrox's stuff.
It's a wonder Matrox is still alive in this day and age. Sure, they have what is considered the best 2d card of all time, and that's nice for OEMs and a handful of windows-using graphic designers, but the margins just aren't there. They lost the 3d race more than 5 years ago. ATI is barely keeping up and their driver quality is too poor to help them win.
Nvidia just owns the 3d market now, have for the last 2 years or more.
Render farms don't even need video cards from any company to render from raw data. All you need is a cluster of headless, keyboardless clones and you're in business.
Now the people doing the modeling..well they're probably not using linux anyway. Most likely they've got a nice high-end SGI box in front of them.
Um, you realize of course that most distros start with alot of services running and you have to disable the ones you don't need. That's step one from the linux security book. Also linux precaches many things and if another app needs the ram a sleeping process is using, it gets written to disk and the new app gets the ram. It's called efficient memory usage, you should read up on it. Coming from a windows world you may not be aware of it.
That's true, the speed is relative to the track being burned. On my 16x burner, if I burn an iso using webmin I notice it starts out at 12x and eventually, about halfway through the burn, it'll jump up to 16x or a little faster. I think this is due to the location on the disc it's burning (distance from the center).
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What's the name for the new one?
Indiana Jones and the Nazi Relic Temple of Terror?
I want a terminator hand from the t1000. The ultimate in cybernetic skillz.
IMHO I think wrestling more accurately portrays a much older theme: that of ancient Rome and the gladiatorial battles that throngs of people came to see. Only with the gladiators it was real and people actually died. And there were lions. And weapons.
Nevermind.
I had to explain this to my wife one time.
She's from Thailand (Bangkok), and they get their share of American tourists. Her stereotypical idea of an American, based on her experiences, is that of a loud-mouthed, demanding person that's always smacking gum and throwing money around. Once she moved here to the US she saw things alot differently.
The problem with foreign perception of Americans is that about the only Americans that travel and make it overseas are rich jackasses. They treat people like shit here and going overseas doesn't magically change that. So other countries get the worst upper-crust nimrods and the rest of us nice folks take the rap for them. I think if most foreigners that hate Americans actually come visit Texas or some other state for a year, they'll learn what Americans are really like.
So true, so true. The main reason corporate america keeps doing invasive drug screening on prospective employees is to weed out the weed smokers.
Pot smokers traditionally have little drive for working. They're usually happy to sit on the couch in front of a playstation and make bong loads disappear. If they're late for work, no worry. Miss a day or two? No worry. That's corporate america's biggest enemy: apathy. If you don't care about your job they have no power over you.
I'm not saying all stoners are lazy bastards, but most stoners would rather do something creative (make a new bong out of odd materials or play hacky sack with friends) than go to work. I can't say I don't blame them. I had my own halcyon days that I'm beginning to miss. Damn this western world.
There goes my hopes for Crocodile Dundee 3. Of all the rotten luck....
I'll argue with a porn webmaster, but you won't catch me arguing with Ron Jeremy.
Thanks for destroying my bandwidth with your wget leeching folks. I'm taking supermame down for a short time so I can actually USE my network here.
Damn I can't believe I nearly got slashdotted. People, downloading a few roms here and there is fine, just DON'T leech the ENTIRE folder. I only have 60KB/sec up here. I'd like to be able to deal with my servers remotely once in awhile.
That $55 fuels the Linux development. Sure, you have to wait, but at least you're not a Mac user.
Keep in mind that when Transgaming has made enough money to cover all their development costs (through subscriptions etc.) they're merging all their new code back into the standard Wine tree. Eventually 95% of what they've done will be free and open source, excluding the Safedisc and other licensed protection schemes of course. Those generally aren't a problem anyway due to no-cd cracks and the like.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but Bioware, like most other 'here's a linux client' companies, requires you to buy the Windows version anyway and will allow you to download the linux binaries when they're released.
I'll second that. I keep 98 on my machine for the occasional 'game that winex can't handle yet' and the install is about 8 months old now. It's a record-holder at this point because 6 months is usually it's turning point, the point at which it goes to hell very quickly. I think the 8 month record is due to the fact that I only boot into windows twice a month or so. Tried de-crufting the registry with a variety of tools to no avail. It's latest surprise is not recognizing/seeing my usb Microsoft Sidewinder gamepad. Thank god a modprobe sidewinder is all it needs under linux.
If he's using the ancient ext2 filesystem, yes, this is a possibility. You have to realize that these days, reiserfs and ext3 are the new defaults. They both journal and both are very well behaved if you kill the power unexpectedly. A fsck under reiser takes seconds (sometimes less) which is alot different than the ext2 of old. Keep up with the times friend.
Oh ok, now we get to the root of your problem. Most people aren't going to read your mind to realize that divx has sync problems when you're skipping forwards and backwards through a clip.
I've seen this on my box too, generally I just pause the clip and hit play again. Takes all of a half second and the sync matches easily. I use either mplayer or xine and xine tends to do this more often than mplayer.
Beats the hell out of using Windows Media player though.
Might just be your slow box, you never know.
To quote from the Linux User Top 10 Bad Sayings, "It works fine for me".
Until a single codec comes along and wipes the others out in every single category, you're just going to have to deal with having a bunch of different players...
Uh, this happened already, it's called DiVX;-) and is freely available to everyone. I don't know if it'll stream or not or what it takes to stream it if it will though.
I guess you could always use a divx codec in a quicktime wrapper, leave it in an mpeg wrapper for those of us without macs.
You're an easy man to impress...I took one look at that page and nearly lost my cookies. That dopey look, those gigantic teeth, just...frightening.
Then again I married a woman from Thailand so my concept of beauty probably doesn't match the average american's.
Silly rabbit, representatives don't listen to constituents, they listen to big corporate and special interest payoffs. ...ahh to be young and naive again. :)
Where will all of this end? Does the MPAA/RIAA actually need the right to attack individuals over the internet for having an mp3 of Stairway to Heaven on their pc? Is there anything dsl/cable/whatever providers can do to protect their customers from this?
More questions and a film at 11.
I'll second that. I bought an NVIDIA tnt2 ultra 32mb card a few years ago. During the time I had it, I saw about 4 revisions of drivers, with each revision the 3d output got more full-featured and faster. The very last driver release (while I was using it, upgraded last year) nearly doubled the framerate it was getting.
:)
I can only pray that they're able to squeeze performance like that out of my geforce4 ti4200 in the future. I can already overclock the hell out of it but it's just not wise
Matrox engineers probably would claim that at this point. Basically dual head technology is old news and anyone can make a dual-headed card. This isn't nvidia's bread and butter and never was, so I doubt they took the time to reverse engineer Matrox's stuff.
It's a wonder Matrox is still alive in this day and age. Sure, they have what is considered the best 2d card of all time, and that's nice for OEMs and a handful of windows-using graphic designers, but the margins just aren't there. They lost the 3d race more than 5 years ago. ATI is barely keeping up and their driver quality is too poor to help them win.
Nvidia just owns the 3d market now, have for the last 2 years or more.
Render farms don't even need video cards from any company to render from raw data. All you need is a cluster of headless, keyboardless clones and you're in business.
Now the people doing the modeling..well they're probably not using linux anyway. Most likely they've got a nice high-end SGI box in front of them.
This just really isn't very important right now.
The trolls disappoint today. Where's the predictable goatse.cx link in response to this post?
Um, you realize of course that most distros start with alot of services running and you have to disable the ones you don't need. That's step one from the linux security book. Also linux precaches many things and if another app needs the ram a sleeping process is using, it gets written to disk and the new app gets the ram. It's called efficient memory usage, you should read up on it. Coming from a windows world you may not be aware of it.
That's true, the speed is relative to the track being burned. On my 16x burner, if I burn an iso using webmin I notice it starts out at 12x and eventually, about halfway through the burn, it'll jump up to 16x or a little faster. I think this is due to the location on the disc it's burning (distance from the center).