I think it's really a matter of realizing you don't have to have the best video card or all the hottest new games. "You are not your AGP graphics card."
If nVidia isn't giving you what you want, buy a different brand. That is part of the problem... so many people are willing to pay top dollar for the best available card that all trailing companies go out of business or just can't compete.
Actually I don't see the problem here even with nVidia... I get by fine on cheap video cards from them; nVidia typically offers a top of the line card and a budget line... I buy budget line... in fact I'm using an nForce chipset built into the mother board.
Another thing is that you don't have to buy a new card that often. The longer you wait and make do with what you have the more satisfying the upgrade is anyway.
specifically "detournement"... literally, to turn back. The act itself (depositing a bunch of useless media on the doorstep of AOL) is not necessarily meaningful... it is the fact that it says something about AOL's wasteful marketing tactics to everyone who participates in it or even hears about it. It takes their tactics and turns it against them. It could be coupled with some kind of media campaign to get the word out for maximum effectiveness, although I think their plan to get lots of people to send them disks IS a publicity campaign. It should work because the next time [possibily] millions of people get their next AOL cd they might actually think about it more than just "junk mail... toss it." It kind of forces people to ask "why?" Why does AOL keep sending these out at great expense to themselves? The best culture jams startle people into looking at something they took as mundane into something new. The detournement will work even if they never actually deliver the disks to AOL in the end.
First get a job with $200,000 take home salary. Next, live off $5,000 a year. Invest to make 10% annual interest. After 67 years you will have a billion dollars.
(On a more realistic note, if you can take home $50,000 a year and live off of $10,000 a year, invest in 5% interest investments you can quit paid employment completely in only 6 years.)
I have several devices at home where the power button is a "soft" power button which only converts the device to standby. For example, the stereo receiver. The only way to turn it off completely is to unplug it or turn off the power strip it's plugged into. My DVD player turns power off if you push the mechanical power button but is only in standby if you turn it off using the remote control. My initial comment about AC/DC converters still stands. Although they draw less power when they are not being actively used, they still use power when they are plugged in. Devices which maintain any memory tend to be pretty bad, drawing 4-7 watts even when they are "off." In other words, the only true "off" for many devices is unplugged. I suppose you could turn everything off at the power strip level. Then your VCR, microwave, etc. will always blink 12:00, you will have to reprogram your TV stations every time you want to use it, etc. There are chips that electronics makers can put into a device to make it use 1 watt or less which is not as bad, however it increases the cost (50 cents is a lot to a manufacturer) and most consumers don't know or care about energy vampires.
He's talking about when they ARE off (generally in a "power-save" or standby mode) and still using electricity. Most devices at least have a AC/DC converter (internal or external) which uses some power constantly.
If you want your home DDR pads to last you need to take a trip down to Home Depot (or Lowes or whatever) get some supplies and mod your soft pad into a durable hard pad. Follow the instructions here: home modding
The "Randroid" part was referring to the part where you said government can do x, y, and z, not a, b, and c as if that was the only valid political opinion. Presumably that means that the government shouldn't be using our tax money to develop free software. However you previously stated (as you pointed out) that big business should not be protected against free software. The question is, does this mean you are for or against the NSA writing free software which "competes" with Microsoft?
Funny, I thought that government (established by the people) was the means by which people promoted their welfare.
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Good article, but the Commander Keen scrolling trick was old news by then. Lots of Apple II, Atari ST, and Amiga scrolling games did the same thing. Impressive? At the time, yes. But let's not get too carried away with giving Carmack credit for everything.
The article doesn't say that The Carmack invented smooth scrolling full stop. It said that he figured out how to do it in EGA mode on the PC. The market for EGA cards was much larger than any of those closed (but optimized for cool graphics and sound unlike the PC) platforms.
Kind of like how someone figured out how to [kind of] play digital sound through the standard PC beeper. Of course the Amiga, etc. could do that with dedicated hardware but that's not the point.
Why not boycott all of vivendi? Oh yeah, they make every media we might BUY!
You have a good point. Boycotting Blizzard was something I knew I could do in direct response to the DMCA action. Boycotting Blizzard is the focus of my site. You can always make it a bigger boycott... Vivendi, the entire MPAA and RIAA, all the way up to moving to a log cabin and growing your own food.
So, they claim that bnetd is made of Blizzard's copyrighted code. This is complete bull. I asked Tim Jung (the defendant in this case) what he knew about this claim:
I am not even sure what they are talking about when they say we copied their code, since they don't explain it at all or in any details. We have never had access to their servers so there is no way for us to copy their server code. We also did not decompile the clients to get information that we needed either, everything was figured out and guessed at by looking at packet traces and packet dumps of the traffic.
You can see his entire response on my site: Boycott Blizzard. boycottblizzard.org
You think Blizzard doesn't just care about money? Blizzard is owned by Vivendi Universal and I can guarantee you they only care about money. I run the boycottblizzard.org site.
From where we sit in modern times, ancient myths and legends are often considered little more than fairy tales. But given what we know about the effects of natural catastrophes - namely their ability to eradicate all traces of any civilization that once stood in their path - there is probably much that is buried, inundated or otherwise obscured from view.
Tolkien, is that you? That was pretty much the premise of Tolkien's work.
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It mentions activision. I'm pretty sure Yar's Revenge et. al. weren't from Activision.
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Whoever first mentions photoshop filters in a Mac performance discussion ends the conversation and concedes.
I think it's really a matter of realizing you don't have to have the best video card or all the hottest new games. "You are not your AGP graphics card."
If nVidia isn't giving you what you want, buy a different brand. That is part of the problem... so many people are willing to pay top dollar for the best available card that all trailing companies go out of business or just can't compete.
Actually I don't see the problem here even with nVidia... I get by fine on cheap video cards from them; nVidia typically offers a top of the line card and a budget line... I buy budget line... in fact I'm using an nForce chipset built into the mother board.
Another thing is that you don't have to buy a new card that often. The longer you wait and make do with what you have the more satisfying the upgrade is anyway.
specifically "detournement"... literally, to turn back. The act itself (depositing a bunch of useless media on the doorstep of AOL) is not necessarily meaningful... it is the fact that it says something about AOL's wasteful marketing tactics to everyone who participates in it or even hears about it. It takes their tactics and turns it against them. It could be coupled with some kind of media campaign to get the word out for maximum effectiveness, although I think their plan to get lots of people to send them disks IS a publicity campaign. It should work because the next time [possibily] millions of people get their next AOL cd they might actually think about it more than just "junk mail... toss it." It kind of forces people to ask "why?" Why does AOL keep sending these out at great expense to themselves? The best culture jams startle people into looking at something they took as mundane into something new. The detournement will work even if they never actually deliver the disks to AOL in the end.
The expression "I could care less" is sarcasm, which pedants are immune to.
And all the above is, of course, your humble opinion.
(On a more realistic note, if you can take home $50,000 a year and live off of $10,000 a year, invest in 5% interest investments you can quit paid employment completely in only 6 years.)
I have several devices at home where the power button is a "soft" power button which only converts the device to standby. For example, the stereo receiver. The only way to turn it off completely is to unplug it or turn off the power strip it's plugged into. My DVD player turns power off if you push the mechanical power button but is only in standby if you turn it off using the remote control. My initial comment about AC/DC converters still stands. Although they draw less power when they are not being actively used, they still use power when they are plugged in. Devices which maintain any memory tend to be pretty bad, drawing 4-7 watts even when they are "off." In other words, the only true "off" for many devices is unplugged. I suppose you could turn everything off at the power strip level. Then your VCR, microwave, etc. will always blink 12:00, you will have to reprogram your TV stations every time you want to use it, etc. There are chips that electronics makers can put into a device to make it use 1 watt or less which is not as bad, however it increases the cost (50 cents is a lot to a manufacturer) and most consumers don't know or care about energy vampires.
See also: CNN article
He's talking about when they ARE off (generally in a "power-save" or standby mode) and still using electricity. Most devices at least have a AC/DC converter (internal or external) which uses some power constantly.
... and Bruce can fix Sun's love/hate problem with OSS.
Ya right. Only after they fire Bill Joy. Article: Sun pioneer an open-source killjoy?
If you want your home DDR pads to last you need to take a trip down to Home Depot (or Lowes or whatever) get some supplies and mod your soft pad into a durable hard pad. Follow the instructions here: home modding
Think of the VW commercials (before TIVO days) where they said, "There are drivers and there are passengers", "Drivers wanted".
:-)
I like that slogan for reasons that are obvious from my login name. (FYI it's my first initial and last name)
It's called sarcasm. It's a direct parody of Microsoft's market-speak.
The "Randroid" part was referring to the part where you said government can do x, y, and z, not a, b, and c as if that was the only valid political opinion. Presumably that means that the government shouldn't be using our tax money to develop free software. However you previously stated (as you pointed out) that big business should not be protected against free software. The question is, does this mean you are for or against the NSA writing free software which "competes" with Microsoft?
You spout your Randroid nonsense as if it were gospel.
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Good article, but the Commander Keen scrolling trick was old news by then. Lots of Apple II, Atari ST, and Amiga scrolling games did the same thing. Impressive? At the time, yes. But let's not get too carried away with giving Carmack credit for everything.
The article doesn't say that The Carmack invented smooth scrolling full stop. It said that he figured out how to do it in EGA mode on the PC. The market for EGA cards was much larger than any of those closed (but optimized for cool graphics and sound unlike the PC) platforms.
Kind of like how someone figured out how to [kind of] play digital sound through the standard PC beeper. Of course the Amiga, etc. could do that with dedicated hardware but that's not the point.
Corn Palace? Wall Drug?
Spare me.
Check out the Journey Museum:
http://www.journeymuseum.org/english/
(Full disclosure: my Aunt works there. I'm from that area originally.)
Documentation. It's what you need. Some standardization would probably help too.
Bnetd doesn't work with warcraft 3 beta. You must be thinking of warforge.
You have a good point. Boycotting Blizzard was something I knew I could do in direct response to the DMCA action. Boycotting Blizzard is the focus of my site. You can always make it a bigger boycott... Vivendi, the entire MPAA and RIAA, all the way up to moving to a log cabin and growing your own food.
So, they claim that bnetd is made of Blizzard's copyrighted code. This is complete bull. I asked Tim Jung (the defendant in this case) what he knew about this claim:
I am not even sure what they are talking about when they say we copied their code, since they don't explain it at all or in any details. We have never had access to their servers so there is no way for us to copy their server code. We also did not decompile the clients to get information that we needed either, everything was figured out and guessed at by looking at packet traces and packet dumps of the traffic.
You can see his entire response on my site: Boycott Blizzard. boycottblizzard.org
You think Blizzard doesn't just care about money? Blizzard is owned by Vivendi Universal and I can guarantee you they only care about money. I run the boycottblizzard.org site.
Tolkien, is that you? That was pretty much the premise of Tolkien's work.