I guess the point I was trying to make was missed. All I am saying is why haven't these cultures flourished the way ours has. We built our country from the ground up with no help from anyone. These people get BILLIONS in aide from us each year and they can't use it to do something good. They all just follow some dictator and live in poverty. It doesn't take much intelligence to live in poverty and eat rice all day. They are too busy killing each other off for religous reasons or getting Aids from having unprotected sex.
It isn't that they shouldn't be allowed to reproduce, it is that they are too stupid not to.
Look at what has happened in all of the major developed countries of the world. After inital booms in population over the last few centuries the populus has leveled off, and the birth rate is now declining in the US, Europe, Japan, etc.
If you go by darwin theory and the people who have the most kids will pass on their genes to the most people then we are doomed as a society if we keep this up. The smartest people are having the fewest kids and the dumest are having the most. This means that eventually the world will be filled with stupid people! (it already is)
Now if you notice that certain parts of the world seem to, no matter how bad it gets, pull themselves out of poverty and rebuild their socitety, aka Europe after both World Wars, Japan after WWII, the US after the Cival War. But in Africa, and most of Asia these people never do it.
They just leech money off the rest of us and multiply.
Now look at the 3 main causes of death in the world,
1. War - We as a world are preventing war on every inch of the globe at quite a successful rate, you might have a regional scirmish here and there but nothing where millions of men are fighting each other.
2. Disease - Again we as a world are fighting all diseases on all fronts. But the solution isn't just to find a cure. Again, stupidity comes in here. People in Africa have to know that 1 of 4 of their fellow country men have Aids, yet they still have sex unprotected. I say that is their own stupid fault, let them die.
3. Hunger. We feed the same people over and over again when they have trouble. They multiply over and over until they can't support themselves and then we have to pay to feed them, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Somalia, North Korea. This is all brought on by stupidity.
I am not saying that we should prevent them from having children, that would be wrong, what I am saying is that maybe we should find a way to give them incentive not to have children
Now the problem with giving people who can't have kids, the ability to have kids is that you are carrying on a polluted gene set. Who is to say that those kids will be able to have children? Or if they can will they have more medical problems?
If we start to depend on machines to reporduce then what does that say about our species?
The problem here is the degredation of the global gene pool.
It seems that the last few articles cringley has wrote have been about technology that is facinating and very exciting. So when am I going to get my fuelcell powered car with my uwb radio, that takes me with my laptop with a solid-state harddrive to my personal airplane?
Re:Rosaviakosmos, anyone?
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That's because there have been over 200 some Russians killed in their space program. Having only had a handful of Americans killed is quite an accomplishement if you ask me. There are so many variables in those launches that it's amazing more people didn't die. It is still sad that they did though.
This technology actually exists though, it has been proven to work, it has been around since the 60's. The guy who got it to work with cheap chips and software was featured in a wired article last year. He did it in his own back yard. All his collegues told him he was nuts
Man you are getting screwed at your campus. Mine has 10,000 students, over 700 computers, and a pipe so fat half the time my downloads are limited by ethernet, not the wan connection.
It will come to pass, this won't go the way of the 100mpg carpeaurator.
This had nothing to do with Oil. Either did Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Haiti, or Bosnia. We were in all of these places to either Stabalize a government, Help starving and dying people get food, or Establish order and prevent future bloodshed. The only war in recent memory that I can think of that was fought for Oil was Desert Storm.
If you are going to make a blanket statement about us only fighting for oil, then do your homework first. I see so many people on/. bitch about how bad our country is, it is so sad.
I just withdrew from the corporate entertainment consumption ring. We cancled our cable. You know what, I think It will be the best thing for my girlfriend and I, we can still see almost any show we want, Just download it! Getting rid of tv will make you spend more time talking with your family, (if your not glued to your puter)
The funny thing is that we canceled our cable on Monday, we still have it! A friend back home got to keep his for 2 years before they noticed one day, OOPS! I didn't notice you were giving me free cable! hehe.
It will be a sad day if we are subject to the whim of the networks. Kinda reminds me of Running Man.
Up here in North Dakota two guys waited in line for Episode 1 for like 2 weeks, had tents out and everything. Then the day of the show, 2 hours before they could get in, they got arrest for smoking pot. The guys in line started a fund to bail them out, but noone really cared. They were all just happy to get further up the line!
That would never fly unless we could easily get there to repair it. Think about how many times we have had to fix or upgrade the hubble while it has been in orbit. 4 that I know of. It would be nice though. If we could go past the asteroid belt with ease then I guess we would be colonizing Mars
The problem is the people who are on the net, as time goes by more and more of the packets on the net are going to be between buisnesses and between john q public who is going on that "internet thing" to buy something or check his stock quotes. Consolidation happens and what do you see? 99% of people go to B&N or Amazon to buy a book, it is the same for all other industries. The reason there are only 60 now and were 110 before is because 50 of them were probobly dot.com bombs and are now gone. Right now the vast majority of people on the internet either think AOL is the interent or just go on it like they sit and watch TV. It means nothing to them. They don't care about the culture behind it's formation and don't care if it fades away.
The one nice thing is that no matter how many corporations gobble up bandwith without a major change of the infastructure, all us geeks are still free to do what we like.
So this isn't bad news. It's just the natural motion in capitolism.
See, we don't have to get used to the word cracker, I for one will not lump all people who commit computer crimes into one group and give them a stupid name like "Cracker" if you break into a computer system and steal files then you are guilty of buglary, if you deface a website then you a vandal. Lumping them all into one group is a dangerous way of dealing with the problem. As for this mega migi stuff. Man, if you don't already expect your 45 gig hd you just bought to be 42gig then you are either a newbie or dumb so it wouldn't matter anyway. I think the whole thing will never work so we are just wasting our time. Kilo means 1000, mega means 1000000,
No, you are the one who is ignorant. This particular bug has a buffer overflow component to it. I read a press release from Gates a while back that said that Microsoft had gone through every line of code they had and gotten rid of all of the their buffer overflow problems. Obvioulsy they didn't because another one just came up for 9x and Xp,this bug. Just because a product has a larger user base doesn't mean it is going to be more vulnerable. A previous posted said it right. The OS should be designed by someone other then a monkey on a keyboard. If they put forth an actual effort or if they were held accountable for their bugs then maybe they would fix them and we could all move on. Until then this pattern will keep going over and over until people move to a different OS or Someone is actually killed because of a thier negligance, It will happen soon.
1. The us government does not have an unlimited budget.
2. Most meaningful research comes from the private sector (bell labs and the like) with a few exceptions (Darpa)
3. Even if the government had quantum computer level encription it couldn't get it's self organized enough to use it for more then maybe presidential level communication.
Remarkably, many students stated the following as gospel: "Microsoft produce high quality software products." Which helps explain why the Windows OS never crashes, doesn't it?
That right there stinks newbie a mile away.
I just graduated from an IT program and saw all sorts of people like this. They were MCSE and had never heard of linux. I talked to my old teacher the other day and he said that people that had gone through the program and didnt know how to format a harddrive! The kind of people who say stupid crap like that above are going into IT because they want to buy an SUV, not because they like computers
(Aother EX-Gateway Employee)
Yes, you men speak of the Destination Line
I remember it well, 36 inch moniter, wireless keyboard and mouse, tvtuner cards. They were quite nice. Back then Gateway was ahead of it's time. They trashed the line for no reason really, then said they were going to replace it with an HDTV rig but never did. Too bad
I personally think that this won't happen until you get real geeks in every home, alot of us already use S-Video and RCA to get audio and video to our tv from our comp, I have a wireles keyboard and mouse for this so I can sit in my living room and watch divx movies on my tv that come from my comp, I use my tv as a moniter for games too.
Most people wouldn't know how to do this nor want to. It is a long ways off, 10 years.
If you don't like Microsoft, don't user their products. Don't bitch about the registry if you use Windows, there is nothing you can do about it. Futhermore I have never had a registry problem i couldn't fix either with scanreg, by hand in the regedit or with a personal registry backup. Let Microsoft shoot themselves in the foot. When they do it people will be looking for alternatives and here is Linux to the rescue.
I work in the It department for my school and all the teachers have laptops. They break the screen, break the dongles, drop them, one actually ran over his with his car, and these are all PhD's, imagine what these kids are going to do with these things!
Civ 3 rocks, Every time a new civ release comes out I go right back to the game and abandon all others. I was a CS and UT junkie before Civ 3, now i'm back baby, WOOO HOOO
Don't get the tin "Deluxe" version, it is a waste of time. Please pay for civ 3, do not pirate it.
These guys do such a good job that they derserve the money. I have only bought 4 games in my ENTIRE LIFE. Even though I must possess 100 or so. I have only bought 4, Civ 1, Civ 2, UT and Civ3. (Yes the first person shooter craze got to me) but not anymore baby!
If you don't get it for christmas you being depribed.
2. second idea.
I want that cool laser watch on thinkgeek. that thing in neato but so far my Mom, Girlfriend, Dad and Grandparents have all told me they wouldn't get it for me, arrgh..
CPU is not problem anymore
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Unless you are ripping Divx movies left and right or a Seti@home freak you don't need a faster cpu, It will do nothing for you. Anyone notice that you pretty much have the same Harddrive as you did with your pentium 1 120, the size has increased but if you go IDE it is still 7200rpm and the data transfer rate isn't any faster.
It is funny, Xp Pro runs the exact same on my PII 400 with 384 meg of ram as it does on my PIII dual 1 gig with a gig of ram machine. The 400 actually boots faster!. So what does processor speed to for you in every day apps? everyone here knows exactly what i am saying. I am just complaining becaue we always hear about the new processor that is supposed to be so great that is coming out next year or whatever. WHEN AM I GOING TO SEE A SOLID STATE HARD DRIVE? Sure Serial ATA is coming up but the transfer rate on that is only starting at 166MB/s. ok. show me a harddrive that actually needs anything better than ata 100 first.
The bottleneck in every modern computer is still the hd, and the bus, we should fix those first and then jack up the mhz..
I agree, I, like you, always point out those things to people. Correct them when they read a slanted story and pass it on as the truth. Help to show people that their rights are being taken away one, by one, slowly.
I think of just giving up sometimes. Today I thought that to my self after hearing about that crap in Maryland where Santa can't come to the tree lighting seremony because two families found it offensive. Stuff like that makes you want to just give up on the human race. Think we are not going to make it as a country.
But then I hear about people like you, and everyone else on/. that do the same things you and I do, correct people, make them aware of what is going on around them. Try to help them and I realise that even though I play a little part and so do you. It still matters. We still help out just a little, and we can never give up to people who want to moniter our internet traffic for no reason other than, " It was deemed neccessary for national security" or "You are suspected of being a suspect in a suspected terrorist conspiracy"
I swear, that is the kind of crap you hear from AG Ashcroft and his cronies. "We need to moniter all internet traffic on the @home network because it could be used for the planning of terrorist acts. Listen carefully to the reasons they give for these things. Did you know that if you are suspected of a terrorist act you no longer have the attorney client privelage? Your conversations with your lawyer can now be monitered by the prosecution. Thanks to the new terrorism bill.
The saddest part of all of this is the speed for which people are willing to just give up their freedoms for "Security" , sure, moniter my internet traffic. Most people don't care because they don't think of the internet anymore then the TV where you can click on stuff.
Sure, get rid of the attorney client privelage for terrorists. Doesn't affect me any. So what if I demonstarate against a government action and am arrested for some reason. Am I now a terrorist? Will I be tried in a military tribunal for the "Security of the State"
Remember these things
Ok, this was way to long winded.
So, I already get 99fps in Counter Strike, I get 75 in UT and I have a Geforce 2 MX! I see no complelling reason to buy a Geforce 3 or 4 or 5 or whatever. They need to slow down and let their products mature more. Nvidia is starting to look like Microsoft. Release something new in 3/4 the time you took last time.
Maybe if a Geforce 3 was less than 400 bucks.
I'm sure there are guys out there who can use this stuff. But sorry guys, the video card isn't the bottleneck on most new systems. It is still bus bandwith and the DAMN HARDDRIVE
Ohh, noone is going to take it seriously? THis is an EXPERIMENTAL kernal. It has not been thoughly tested and has bugs. That is why it has been released to be tested. Microsoft software has worse bugs and it has been beta tested and released. If you look at kernal 2.2x it is rock solid. You should be flamed for making such an idiotic comment.
I really don't care what nation you are from, nor what you stand for. I am just telling you that you don't appreciate the good things that this country does. You brush us off as if we do no good in the world. Ok, lets stop and think where your part of the would be without the US.
1. The entire Middle east would be controlled by either A. Soviet Russia, or B. Nazi Germany.
You bitch now because we are athoritarian.
Ohh ok.
If the above wouldn't of happened.
2. Saddam Hussain and Iraq would control the entire Arabian Penninsula. He would be using Biological and Chemical Weapons on everyone that disagreed with him.
If the abobe wouldn't of happened
3. In less than 20 years every middle east government would of been overthrown by a Radical Militant Islamic group like the teleban. All of your rights would be gone. No COMPUTER ANYMORE
NO PHONE, NO TV. You think we are authoritive?
Gee we don't look so bad now do we.
From every American to you.
Your Welcome you undeserving son of a bitch
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I guess the point I was trying to make was missed. All I am saying is why haven't these cultures flourished the way ours has. We built our country from the ground up with no help from anyone. These people get BILLIONS in aide from us each year and they can't use it to do something good. They all just follow some dictator and live in poverty. It doesn't take much intelligence to live in poverty and eat rice all day. They are too busy killing each other off for religous reasons or getting Aids from having unprotected sex.
It isn't that they shouldn't be allowed to reproduce, it is that they are too stupid not to.
Look at what has happened in all of the major developed countries of the world. After inital booms in population over the last few centuries the populus has leveled off, and the birth rate is now declining in the US, Europe, Japan, etc.
If you go by darwin theory and the people who have the most kids will pass on their genes to the most people then we are doomed as a society if we keep this up. The smartest people are having the fewest kids and the dumest are having the most. This means that eventually the world will be filled with stupid people! (it already is)
Now if you notice that certain parts of the world seem to, no matter how bad it gets, pull themselves out of poverty and rebuild their socitety, aka Europe after both World Wars, Japan after WWII, the US after the Cival War. But in Africa, and most of Asia these people never do it.
They just leech money off the rest of us and multiply.
Now look at the 3 main causes of death in the world,
1. War - We as a world are preventing war on every inch of the globe at quite a successful rate, you might have a regional scirmish here and there but nothing where millions of men are fighting each other.
2. Disease - Again we as a world are fighting all diseases on all fronts. But the solution isn't just to find a cure. Again, stupidity comes in here. People in Africa have to know that 1 of 4 of their fellow country men have Aids, yet they still have sex unprotected. I say that is their own stupid fault, let them die.
3. Hunger. We feed the same people over and over again when they have trouble. They multiply over and over until they can't support themselves and then we have to pay to feed them, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Somalia, North Korea. This is all brought on by stupidity.
I am not saying that we should prevent them from having children, that would be wrong, what I am saying is that maybe we should find a way to give them incentive not to have children
Now the problem with giving people who can't have kids, the ability to have kids is that you are carrying on a polluted gene set. Who is to say that those kids will be able to have children? Or if they can will they have more medical problems?
If we start to depend on machines to reporduce then what does that say about our species?
The problem here is the degredation of the global gene pool.
It seems that the last few articles cringley has wrote have been about technology that is facinating and very exciting. So when am I going to get my fuelcell powered car with my uwb radio, that takes me with my laptop with a solid-state harddrive to my personal airplane?
That's because there have been over 200 some Russians killed in their space program. Having only had a handful of Americans killed is quite an accomplishement if you ask me. There are so many variables in those launches that it's amazing more people didn't die. It is still sad that they did though.
This technology actually exists though, it has been proven to work, it has been around since the 60's. The guy who got it to work with cheap chips and software was featured in a wired article last year. He did it in his own back yard. All his collegues told him he was nuts
Man you are getting screwed at your campus. Mine has 10,000 students, over 700 computers, and a pipe so fat half the time my downloads are limited by ethernet, not the wan connection.
It will come to pass, this won't go the way of the 100mpg carpeaurator.
This had nothing to do with Oil. Either did Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Haiti, or Bosnia. We were in all of these places to either Stabalize a government, Help starving and dying people get food, or Establish order and prevent future bloodshed. The only war in recent memory that I can think of that was fought for Oil was Desert Storm. /. bitch about how bad our country is, it is so sad.
If you are going to make a blanket statement about us only fighting for oil, then do your homework first. I see so many people on
I just withdrew from the corporate entertainment consumption ring. We cancled our cable. You know what, I think It will be the best thing for my girlfriend and I, we can still see almost any show we want, Just download it! Getting rid of tv will make you spend more time talking with your family, (if your not glued to your puter)
The funny thing is that we canceled our cable on Monday, we still have it! A friend back home got to keep his for 2 years before they noticed one day, OOPS! I didn't notice you were giving me free cable! hehe.
It will be a sad day if we are subject to the whim of the networks. Kinda reminds me of Running Man.
Up here in North Dakota two guys waited in line for Episode 1 for like 2 weeks, had tents out and everything. Then the day of the show, 2 hours before they could get in, they got arrest for smoking pot. The guys in line started a fund to bail them out, but noone really cared. They were all just happy to get further up the line!
That would never fly unless we could easily get there to repair it. Think about how many times we have had to fix or upgrade the hubble while it has been in orbit. 4 that I know of. It would be nice though. If we could go past the asteroid belt with ease then I guess we would be colonizing Mars
The problem is the people who are on the net, as time goes by more and more of the packets on the net are going to be between buisnesses and between john q public who is going on that "internet thing" to buy something or check his stock quotes. Consolidation happens and what do you see? 99% of people go to B&N or Amazon to buy a book, it is the same for all other industries. The reason there are only 60 now and were 110 before is because 50 of them were probobly dot.com bombs and are now gone. Right now the vast majority of people on the internet either think AOL is the interent or just go on it like they sit and watch TV. It means nothing to them. They don't care about the culture behind it's formation and don't care if it fades away.
The one nice thing is that no matter how many corporations gobble up bandwith without a major change of the infastructure, all us geeks are still free to do what we like.
So this isn't bad news. It's just the natural motion in capitolism.
See, we don't have to get used to the word cracker, I for one will not lump all people who commit computer crimes into one group and give them a stupid name like "Cracker" if you break into a computer system and steal files then you are guilty of buglary, if you deface a website then you a vandal. Lumping them all into one group is a dangerous way of dealing with the problem. As for this mega migi stuff. Man, if you don't already expect your 45 gig hd you just bought to be 42gig then you are either a newbie or dumb so it wouldn't matter anyway. I think the whole thing will never work so we are just wasting our time. Kilo means 1000, mega means 1000000,
No, you are the one who is ignorant. This particular bug has a buffer overflow component to it. I read a press release from Gates a while back that said that Microsoft had gone through every line of code they had and gotten rid of all of the their buffer overflow problems. Obvioulsy they didn't because another one just came up for 9x and Xp,this bug. Just because a product has a larger user base doesn't mean it is going to be more vulnerable. A previous posted said it right. The OS should be designed by someone other then a monkey on a keyboard. If they put forth an actual effort or if they were held accountable for their bugs then maybe they would fix them and we could all move on. Until then this pattern will keep going over and over until people move to a different OS or Someone is actually killed because of a thier negligance, It will happen soon.
1. The us government does not have an unlimited budget.
2. Most meaningful research comes from the private sector (bell labs and the like) with a few exceptions (Darpa)
3. Even if the government had quantum computer level encription it couldn't get it's self organized enough to use it for more then maybe presidential level communication.
Remarkably, many students stated the following as gospel: "Microsoft produce high quality software products." Which helps explain why the Windows OS never crashes, doesn't it?
That right there stinks newbie a mile away.
I just graduated from an IT program and saw all sorts of people like this. They were MCSE and had never heard of linux. I talked to my old teacher the other day and he said that people that had gone through the program and didnt know how to format a harddrive! The kind of people who say stupid crap like that above are going into IT because they want to buy an SUV, not because they like computers
(Aother EX-Gateway Employee)
Yes, you men speak of the Destination Line
I remember it well, 36 inch moniter, wireless keyboard and mouse, tvtuner cards. They were quite nice. Back then Gateway was ahead of it's time. They trashed the line for no reason really, then said they were going to replace it with an HDTV rig but never did. Too bad
I personally think that this won't happen until you get real geeks in every home, alot of us already use S-Video and RCA to get audio and video to our tv from our comp, I have a wireles keyboard and mouse for this so I can sit in my living room and watch divx movies on my tv that come from my comp, I use my tv as a moniter for games too.
Most people wouldn't know how to do this nor want to. It is a long ways off, 10 years.
If you don't like Microsoft, don't user their products. Don't bitch about the registry if you use Windows, there is nothing you can do about it. Futhermore I have never had a registry problem i couldn't fix either with scanreg, by hand in the regedit or with a personal registry backup. Let Microsoft shoot themselves in the foot. When they do it people will be looking for alternatives and here is Linux to the rescue.
I work in the It department for my school and all the teachers have laptops. They break the screen, break the dongles, drop them, one actually ran over his with his car, and these are all PhD's, imagine what these kids are going to do with these things!
Your problem is not Civ 3, it is WinME
I run civ 3 on XP and it runs ROCK SOLID
Civ 3 rocks, Every time a new civ release comes out I go right back to the game and abandon all others. I was a CS and UT junkie before Civ 3, now i'm back baby, WOOO HOOO
Don't get the tin "Deluxe" version, it is a waste of time. Please pay for civ 3, do not pirate it.
These guys do such a good job that they derserve the money. I have only bought 4 games in my ENTIRE LIFE. Even though I must possess 100 or so. I have only bought 4, Civ 1, Civ 2, UT and Civ3. (Yes the first person shooter craze got to me) but not anymore baby!
If you don't get it for christmas you being depribed.
2. second idea.
I want that cool laser watch on thinkgeek. that thing in neato but so far my Mom, Girlfriend, Dad and Grandparents have all told me they wouldn't get it for me, arrgh..
Unless you are ripping Divx movies left and right or a Seti@home freak you don't need a faster cpu, It will do nothing for you. Anyone notice that you pretty much have the same Harddrive as you did with your pentium 1 120, the size has increased but if you go IDE it is still 7200rpm and the data transfer rate isn't any faster.
It is funny, Xp Pro runs the exact same on my PII 400 with 384 meg of ram as it does on my PIII dual 1 gig with a gig of ram machine. The 400 actually boots faster!. So what does processor speed to for you in every day apps? everyone here knows exactly what i am saying. I am just complaining becaue we always hear about the new processor that is supposed to be so great that is coming out next year or whatever. WHEN AM I GOING TO SEE A SOLID STATE HARD DRIVE? Sure Serial ATA is coming up but the transfer rate on that is only starting at 166MB/s. ok. show me a harddrive that actually needs anything better than ata 100 first.
The bottleneck in every modern computer is still the hd, and the bus, we should fix those first and then jack up the mhz..
I agree, I, like you, always point out those things to people. Correct them when they read a slanted story and pass it on as the truth. Help to show people that their rights are being taken away one, by one, slowly. /. that do the same things you and I do, correct people, make them aware of what is going on around them. Try to help them and I realise that even though I play a little part and so do you. It still matters. We still help out just a little, and we can never give up to people who want to moniter our internet traffic for no reason other than, " It was deemed neccessary for national security" or "You are suspected of being a suspect in a suspected terrorist conspiracy"
I think of just giving up sometimes. Today I thought that to my self after hearing about that crap in Maryland where Santa can't come to the tree lighting seremony because two families found it offensive. Stuff like that makes you want to just give up on the human race. Think we are not going to make it as a country.
But then I hear about people like you, and everyone else on
I swear, that is the kind of crap you hear from AG Ashcroft and his cronies. "We need to moniter all internet traffic on the @home network because it could be used for the planning of terrorist acts. Listen carefully to the reasons they give for these things. Did you know that if you are suspected of a terrorist act you no longer have the attorney client privelage? Your conversations with your lawyer can now be monitered by the prosecution. Thanks to the new terrorism bill.
The saddest part of all of this is the speed for which people are willing to just give up their freedoms for "Security" , sure, moniter my internet traffic. Most people don't care because they don't think of the internet anymore then the TV where you can click on stuff.
Sure, get rid of the attorney client privelage for terrorists. Doesn't affect me any. So what if I demonstarate against a government action and am arrested for some reason. Am I now a terrorist? Will I be tried in a military tribunal for the "Security of the State"
Remember these things
Ok, this was way to long winded.
So, I already get 99fps in Counter Strike, I get 75 in UT and I have a Geforce 2 MX! I see no complelling reason to buy a Geforce 3 or 4 or 5 or whatever. They need to slow down and let their products mature more. Nvidia is starting to look like Microsoft. Release something new in 3/4 the time you took last time.
Maybe if a Geforce 3 was less than 400 bucks.
I'm sure there are guys out there who can use this stuff. But sorry guys, the video card isn't the bottleneck on most new systems. It is still bus bandwith and the DAMN HARDDRIVE
Ohh, noone is going to take it seriously? THis is an EXPERIMENTAL kernal. It has not been thoughly tested and has bugs. That is why it has been released to be tested. Microsoft software has worse bugs and it has been beta tested and released. If you look at kernal 2.2x it is rock solid. You should be flamed for making such an idiotic comment.
Ya, why is this a troll? that is friggin Hilarious!
I really don't care what nation you are from, nor what you stand for. I am just telling you that you don't appreciate the good things that this country does. You brush us off as if we do no good in the world. Ok, lets stop and think where your part of the would be without the US.
1. The entire Middle east would be controlled by either A. Soviet Russia, or B. Nazi Germany.
You bitch now because we are athoritarian.
Ohh ok.
If the above wouldn't of happened.
2. Saddam Hussain and Iraq would control the entire Arabian Penninsula. He would be using Biological and Chemical Weapons on everyone that disagreed with him.
If the abobe wouldn't of happened
3. In less than 20 years every middle east government would of been overthrown by a Radical Militant Islamic group like the teleban. All of your rights would be gone. No COMPUTER ANYMORE
NO PHONE, NO TV. You think we are authoritive?
Gee we don't look so bad now do we.
From every American to you.
Your Welcome you undeserving son of a bitch