How much does MS's latest piece of crap cost? $80 for WinXP Home? And NWN costs $35? No game is worth $115, plus shutting down background processes, rebooting, partitioning my harddrive to accomodate Windows and it's proprietary filesystem is totally unreasonable.
I agree. The only times I've played on random servers with people I don't know, they've all imported characters with GLOWING FISTS OF DOOM +2 or something and totally rape everything in sight (Including village NPCs). No fun if you're actually looking to build your character from scratch with others.
And just like most game servers out there, the admins log in about three hours into game play and slay everyone for no reason.
I don't mean this as a generalization for every server. There are some run by really good people who don't import characters and act maturely as admins. It's always more fun if you play with people you know in real life.
I currently own an old Canon printer and have been very happy with it, but am looking for a new printer to replace it (It busted just a couple days ago). I've ruled out another Canon as a possibility because the LinuxPrinting.org vendor report card gives Canon a C-. What printer do you have, which driver does it use, and does it work well under Linux?
This is so stupid. The added circuitry will only cost the consumers more and inhibit enthusiests. I fail to see the logic here. How many people actually overclock their processors? And does Intel think they'll keep customers who already overclock? I think it's safe to assume that the overclockers would either switch to AMD or simply would not bother with the incremental upgrades.
Of course, it'll be fun to see the neat tricks OC'ers will come up with to get around this technology:)
Good point. By the time Doom 3 makes it to retailers, everything will have changed in graphics and central processors. ATi and nVidia should have plenty of great new offerings available in video cards, plus this generation's products will be relatively cheap. S3's DeltaChrome also looks promising, though S3's historically been inept at writing drivers. Perhaps we'll even see 64-bit AMD CPUs by that time.
Hmm, I thought the phone company was supposed to be able to trace cell phone calls back to any geographical location from anywhere?
But to answer your question: Yes, I do value privacy, possibly more than life itself. Saying that goes a bit far for cell phone usage, but in principal, anyway. First our cell phones, then our cars, then our houses... IMO, Americans have gotten way too soft on their government.
How about this: A mass with an self-sustained atmosphere of measurable magnitude.
I swear, the reason we're not in flying cars powered by cold fusion is because the world's best and brightest are too busy arguing over stupid things like the definition of a planet. Maybe I need to rethink my concepts of "best" and "brightest."
Indeed. So what if the current PCI bus specs can't keep up? If we're going to have this standard around for years, possibly decades, then we need to think ahead.
Yep. Quite frankly, I don't give a shit which university I attend. If mine were to force bandwidth restrictions as tight as this, I'd move elsewhere at soon as the semester ended.
>>the thing I'm waiting for is the ability to change the resolution of the X-server without shutting it down.
Have you tried ctrl+alt+plus or minus in previous X versions? It won't change the color depth, but it should cycle resolutions for you. You have to define those resolutions in your XF86Config(-4) file.
Looks like the site was slashdotted, but somehow I doubt that even if I could get there I could find information about Linux performance. This is one area where nVidia's reigned ever since the release of their 1251 drivers almost two years ago. I know ATi has their own drivers for Linux now, but do those drivers actually give ATi an edge over nVidia in Linux?
If I remember, MS used to make a specific point about their MCSEs needing less qualification and thus less pay than Linux admins. Perhaps this is just Redhat's way of countering that--Get intelligent high school kids who can get the job done adequately into the job market without a degree and suddenly total cost of ownership drops like a brick.
Exactly. It's a trade-off with people versus talent. If you have a small group of people with extraordinary talent, they make a company and make a career off producing games. Parsec is a quite impressive effort by a few people in their spare time. I'm not saying the Parsec developers aren't talented, but if they had John Carmack or Tim Sweeny working on their project I think things might have turned out differently. At least now a vastly larger amount of time will be be put into the project.
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Didn't Bioware remove that limitation in the latest patch?
How much does MS's latest piece of crap cost? $80 for WinXP Home? And NWN costs $35? No game is worth $115, plus shutting down background processes, rebooting, partitioning my harddrive to accomodate Windows and it's proprietary filesystem is totally unreasonable.
I agree. The only times I've played on random servers with people I don't know, they've all imported characters with GLOWING FISTS OF DOOM +2 or something and totally rape everything in sight (Including village NPCs). No fun if you're actually looking to build your character from scratch with others.
And just like most game servers out there, the admins log in about three hours into game play and slay everyone for no reason.
I don't mean this as a generalization for every server. There are some run by really good people who don't import characters and act maturely as admins. It's always more fun if you play with people you know in real life.
And the LiveCD :)
I currently own an old Canon printer and have been very happy with it, but am looking for a new printer to replace it (It busted just a couple days ago). I've ruled out another Canon as a possibility because the LinuxPrinting.org vendor report card gives Canon a C-. What printer do you have, which driver does it use, and does it work well under Linux?
This is so stupid. The added circuitry will only cost the consumers more and inhibit enthusiests. I fail to see the logic here. How many people actually overclock their processors? And does Intel think they'll keep customers who already overclock? I think it's safe to assume that the overclockers would either switch to AMD or simply would not bother with the incremental upgrades.
:)
Of course, it'll be fun to see the neat tricks OC'ers will come up with to get around this technology
Didn't the Jaguar have two 32-bit processors?
Apple gets good exposure for upcoming products, and enthusiastic users get new features. How does this hurt anyone? This is how it should be.
Good point. By the time Doom 3 makes it to retailers, everything will have changed in graphics and central processors. ATi and nVidia should have plenty of great new offerings available in video cards, plus this generation's products will be relatively cheap. S3's DeltaChrome also looks promising, though S3's historically been inept at writing drivers. Perhaps we'll even see 64-bit AMD CPUs by that time.
Hmm, I thought the phone company was supposed to be able to trace cell phone calls back to any geographical location from anywhere?
But to answer your question: Yes, I do value privacy, possibly more than life itself. Saying that goes a bit far for cell phone usage, but in principal, anyway. First our cell phones, then our cars, then our houses... IMO, Americans have gotten way too soft on their government.
Cool. Well, if they're going to re-write textbooks, they might as well do it right.
How about this: A mass with an self-sustained atmosphere of measurable magnitude.
I swear, the reason we're not in flying cars powered by cold fusion is because the world's best and brightest are too busy arguing over stupid things like the definition of a planet. Maybe I need to rethink my concepts of "best" and "brightest."
Indeed. So what if the current PCI bus specs can't keep up? If we're going to have this standard around for years, possibly decades, then we need to think ahead.
Yep. Quite frankly, I don't give a shit which university I attend. If mine were to force bandwidth restrictions as tight as this, I'd move elsewhere at soon as the semester ended.
Give me Gentoo or give me death!
That's great to hear! I had some pretty severe problems with UT2003 crashing when I tried an RC release of XFree 4.2.
Are you talking about the IGP or add-in cards?
>>the thing I'm waiting for is the ability to change the resolution of the X-server without shutting it down.
Have you tried ctrl+alt+plus or minus in previous X versions? It won't change the color depth, but it should cycle resolutions for you. You have to define those resolutions in your XF86Config(-4) file.
>> Sure it will run faster, but do you seriously need that speed?
Sure, just like I needed more than 512K of RAM.
Looks like the site was slashdotted, but somehow I doubt that even if I could get there I could find information about Linux performance. This is one area where nVidia's reigned ever since the release of their 1251 drivers almost two years ago. I know ATi has their own drivers for Linux now, but do those drivers actually give ATi an edge over nVidia in Linux?
Or maybe he was? Check out the Dave Barry for President 2004 website.
(And yes, it's just a joke).
Read a couple flame wars between condescending Linux / Mac / Windows geeks and the answer will become obvious pretty quickly.
One word: Intolerance.
Indeed. Network security is key. Once someone has physical access to your machine, all bets are off.
If I remember, MS used to make a specific point about their MCSEs needing less qualification and thus less pay than Linux admins. Perhaps this is just Redhat's way of countering that--Get intelligent high school kids who can get the job done adequately into the job market without a degree and suddenly total cost of ownership drops like a brick.
*Ahem*
Linux driver performance?
Exactly. It's a trade-off with people versus talent. If you have a small group of people with extraordinary talent, they make a company and make a career off producing games. Parsec is a quite impressive effort by a few people in their spare time. I'm not saying the Parsec developers aren't talented, but if they had John Carmack or Tim Sweeny working on their project I think things might have turned out differently. At least now a vastly larger amount of time will be be put into the project.