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You know those "truth" cigaratte ads? We need propaganda that is on the opposite side like that for things like this as well. As much as the "truth" ads really bend the truth to really make cigarettes look even worse then they are, I like seeing those comercials, they are kinda funny even.
Well if you are in the midwest SBC area, they are putting up RTs in the most rural of areas with DSL capability. I am past 16k feet from the CO myself, but there is an RT less then 1000 feet from me. With regular ADSL my line is clear enough right now for 9mbit down easily, and that could get even faster with the newer dsl technologies I bet.
I think a lot of comcast territory has SBC as an option. I know most of Michigan does, and I can't help but laugh at all those commericials on comcast advertising their 3mbit as twice as fast as DSL, when its obviously only half as fast as my 6mbit dsl. "You're not at 3 megs? Get a life!" suuure... (oh and no invisible usage caps and I get a 3x faster upload)
The router I got with my 6016kbit/608kit package was a 2wire 1800 with a firewall thats on by default. I can easily configure the firewall to block/unblock ports via the web interface too. Its not much, but it works.
Whats stupid about it when I have a stack of CF cards, CF readers, and use CF like large floppy disks? I didn't just randomly pick from the CF cameras, but I didn't even consider any non-CF ones.
Honestly, this is why I stick to CF. Recently bought a new digital camera and my method of picking the camera out was to just walk in to circuit city and eliminate all the non-CF cameras. Ended up with the Canon Powershot G5. My very old 1 megapixel camera takes CF and it has no problem seeing any CF cards I have, even the brand new ones. Isn't the pin-out for CF the same as IDE, and the file system just a basic FAT16? Sure it might run into a limit at 2.1G if the device doesn't support FAT32, but I think most CF devices will use FAT32.
1 million rays per second on a high-end CPU does not seem all that impressively useful for games. It may get you about 320x240 at 13fps, which is not good at all for games. Hardly real time. For 640x480 at 60fps you need closer to 18 million rays per second. That would qualify as realtime. So I take it that means memory needs to get about 20 times faster then it is today. Thats going to be a while.
I have 1G of RAM and tried no swap, and tried only 128M of swap, but Windows 2000 keeps insisting that I am running out of virtual memory and it needs to increase the size of the paging file? Why does it do that? I told it the min and max size are the same. I upped min and max to 256M but still got that warning all the time. Now my swap file is fixed at 512M and I havn't seen the error recently, but who knows? My peak commit charge according to task manager hasn't hit 1G yet, so nothing I've had open in the 363:03:17 amount of time that the system idle process has clocked in so far has ever made me need more RAM that I have, right? I think Windows 2000 is just flawed. I shouldn't really NEED swap, but windows is just happier having it. I guess windows just really needs that 811516 Kbytes of "System Cache" it has right now.
Unfortunately, you can get written up for such a thing. Its the only thing I was ever written up for while at college. Go outside and go for a run at 12:30am? Campus police come knocking on your door and cite us for "Unusual Behaviour". Were we loud? nope. Break anything? nope. Go anyplace offlimits somehow? nope. 'We *could have been* raping people or looking into windows if people didn't close their blinds though'. Sure it was completely rediculous, and I fough it, and won, and had it removed from my record, but that doesn't mean everybody else will.
Without lead, am I going to be able to desolder the exploding tawain capacitors in order to replace them with good ones, or do I just have to buy a new computer every 6 months now?
(note to mods: if you still havn't heard of the capacitor problem, go google about it before modding)
They should be using Inno Setup. Its free, easy to use with text-based configuration, supports all the way back to win95 with no big bloated windows-installer-installer to include.
Personally, for most console games, I prefer the d-pad to the analog stick, which is why I would like to see a d-pad and a trackball, since the trackball is really for the games that would normally be better with a mouse. I've tried plugging a optical USB mouse into a PS2 as well, sure it lights up, but I haven't found a game that supports it yet. For the xbox, I'm mainly comparing Halo to playing RTCW:ET on the PC, since that is the latest 3D game I play a lot. Halo is incredibly blurry, its no wonder you need those cheat-radars to find the other players. I always play with the split screen, with 4 players per xbox, and 2-3 xboxes at the "halo parties" I've gone to. You really have to sit close to the TV and concentrate on the blur to see anything.
I'm not an expert on the PS2, but doesn't the whole thing share about 32M of RDRAM. Thats frame buffer, texture buffer, game code, etc, all in 32M? Doesn't leave room for a lot of 512x512 textures. I remember even when the PS2 first came out, my PC had sharper textures. I know there was still probably a price gab between my video card+system and the whole console though.
As for 720p - it sure would be a lot nicer for those 4 player split-screens. 720p would give each player about 640x360 pixels. Thats a TON better then the current 480i which gives each player about 360x240 pixels, interlaced so it looks even worse then 360x120 when you move around fast.
640x360 still doesn't compare to the 1280x1024 I play at right now though. Maybe they should start offering 4x video outputs just like they have 4x joystick inputs (on xbox at least). 4 progressive scan TVs is a lot though, hah, maybe 4x VGA outputs:)
If by dull, you mean blurred, then yes, the PS2 is pretty dull. Its mostly because of the limited amount of memory, the games have to use such small textures, that become stretched and blurred. Xbox does look slightly better then the PS2 from what I've seen, but both suck greatly if you have ever played a modern 3D game using a GF4 or some other nice video card with 128M+ video memory. Plus playing 3D games on an *interlaced* TV set really sucks when you try to move around fast. PS2/xbox are only worth looking at if you happen to have a progressive scan TV and the console actually uses it.
All I want in a future console is 3 things: * a LOT more memory then the current generation consoles. * progressive scan support. * joysticks with trackballs instead of stupid analog sticks, with support for optional mice you can buy separately.
The other night it was on the end of the Daily Show for like 3 seconds with sound. I was pretty amazed. Did not realize it was a new accomplishment though until today.
... well, no, since the sun is traveling around the center of the milky way, and the milky way itself it still moving.. relative to some point in space.
I'm not sure its part of MSYS. When you run it, the cmd prompt title chanegs to "MKS Korn Shell" and its icon has a picture of an ear of corn. No idea what its from or where I downloaded it, it was a long time ago.
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You know those "truth" cigaratte ads? We need propaganda that is on the opposite side like that for things like this as well. As much as the "truth" ads really bend the truth to really make cigarettes look even worse then they are, I like seeing those comercials, they are kinda funny even.
Well if you are in the midwest SBC area, they are putting up RTs in the most rural of areas with DSL capability. I am past 16k feet from the CO myself, but there is an RT less then 1000 feet from me. With regular ADSL my line is clear enough right now for 9mbit down easily, and that could get even faster with the newer dsl technologies I bet.
I think a lot of comcast territory has SBC as an option. I know most of Michigan does, and I can't help but laugh at all those commericials on comcast advertising their 3mbit as twice as fast as DSL, when its obviously only half as fast as my 6mbit dsl. "You're not at 3 megs? Get a life!" suuure...
(oh and no invisible usage caps and I get a 3x faster upload)
The router I got with my 6016kbit/608kit package was a 2wire 1800 with a firewall thats on by default.
I can easily configure the firewall to block/unblock ports via the web interface too. Its not much, but it works.
Whats stupid about it when I have a stack of CF cards, CF readers, and use CF like large floppy disks? I didn't just randomly pick from the CF cameras, but I didn't even consider any non-CF ones.
Honestly, this is why I stick to CF. Recently bought a new digital camera and my method of picking the camera out was to just walk in to circuit city and eliminate all the non-CF cameras. Ended up with the Canon Powershot G5. My very old 1 megapixel camera takes CF and it has no problem seeing any CF cards I have, even the brand new ones. Isn't the pin-out for CF the same as IDE, and the file system just a basic FAT16? Sure it might run into a limit at 2.1G if the device doesn't support FAT32, but I think most CF devices will use FAT32.
1 million rays per second on a high-end CPU does not seem all that impressively useful for games. It may get you about 320x240 at 13fps, which is not good at all for games. Hardly real time. For 640x480 at 60fps you need closer to 18 million rays per second. That would qualify as realtime. So I take it that means memory needs to get about 20 times faster then it is today. Thats going to be a while.
I have 1G of RAM and tried no swap, and tried only 128M of swap, but Windows 2000 keeps insisting that I am running out of virtual memory and it needs to increase the size of the paging file? Why does it do that? I told it the min and max size are the same. I upped min and max to 256M but still got that warning all the time. Now my swap file is fixed at 512M and I havn't seen the error recently, but who knows?
My peak commit charge according to task manager hasn't hit 1G yet, so nothing I've had open in the 363:03:17 amount of time that the system idle process has clocked in so far has ever made me need more RAM that I have, right? I think Windows 2000 is just flawed. I shouldn't really NEED swap, but windows is just happier having it. I guess windows just really needs that 811516 Kbytes of "System Cache" it has right now.
You can play any game you want over the internet if it supports a LAN mode: http://www.morpheussoftware.net/git/
Unfortunately, you can get written up for such a thing. Its the only thing I was ever written up for while at college. Go outside and go for a run at 12:30am? Campus police come knocking on your door and cite us for "Unusual Behaviour". Were we loud? nope. Break anything? nope. Go anyplace offlimits somehow? nope. 'We *could have been* raping people or looking into windows if people didn't close their blinds though'. Sure it was completely rediculous, and I fough it, and won, and had it removed from my record, but that doesn't mean everybody else will.
HTTPS is port 443, unless you do some unstandard setup.
Without lead, am I going to be able to desolder the exploding tawain capacitors in order to replace them with good ones, or do I just have to buy a new computer every 6 months now?
(note to mods: if you still havn't heard of the capacitor problem, go google about it before modding)
It seems you are claiming the BFG really does exist?
It means you aren't blocking advertisements properly.
also..
Can you get a magazine to a PO Box? Its not like its sent fedex. Whats it going to have on the cover, a top view of the post office maybe?
They should be using Inno Setup. Its free, easy to use with text-based configuration, supports all the way back to win95 with no big bloated windows-installer-installer to include.
Personally, for most console games, I prefer the d-pad to the analog stick, which is why I would like to see a d-pad and a trackball, since the trackball is really for the games that would normally be better with a mouse.
I've tried plugging a optical USB mouse into a PS2 as well, sure it lights up, but I haven't found a game that supports it yet.
For the xbox, I'm mainly comparing Halo to playing RTCW:ET on the PC, since that is the latest 3D game I play a lot. Halo is incredibly blurry, its no wonder you need those cheat-radars to find the other players. I always play with the split screen, with 4 players per xbox, and 2-3 xboxes at the "halo parties" I've gone to. You really have to sit close to the TV and concentrate on the blur to see anything.
I'm not an expert on the PS2, but doesn't the whole thing share about 32M of RDRAM. Thats frame buffer, texture buffer, game code, etc, all in 32M? Doesn't leave room for a lot of 512x512 textures. I remember even when the PS2 first came out, my PC had sharper textures. I know there was still probably a price gab between my video card+system and the whole console though.
As for 720p - it sure would be a lot nicer for those 4 player split-screens. 720p would give each player about 640x360 pixels. Thats a TON better then the current 480i which gives each player about 360x240 pixels, interlaced so it looks even worse then 360x120 when you move around fast.
640x360 still doesn't compare to the 1280x1024 I play at right now though. Maybe they should start offering 4x video outputs just like they have 4x joystick inputs (on xbox at least). 4 progressive scan TVs is a lot though, hah, maybe 4x VGA outputs
If by dull, you mean blurred, then yes, the PS2 is pretty dull. Its mostly because of the limited amount of memory, the games have to use such small textures, that become stretched and blurred. Xbox does look slightly better then the PS2 from what I've seen, but both suck greatly if you have ever played a modern 3D game using a GF4 or some other nice video card with 128M+ video memory.
Plus playing 3D games on an *interlaced* TV set really sucks when you try to move around fast. PS2/xbox are only worth looking at if you happen to have a progressive scan TV and the console actually uses it.
All I want in a future console is 3 things:
* a LOT more memory then the current generation consoles.
* progressive scan support.
* joysticks with trackballs instead of stupid analog sticks, with support for optional mice you can buy separately.
That was supposed to be:
/. ate my link
Look harder.
But
Look harder.
Wow. How did that happen?
m +Feeling+Lucky
Here's the lucky link:
http://www.google.com/search?q=bastards&btnI=I%27
The other night it was on the end of the Daily Show for like 3 seconds with sound. I was pretty amazed. Did not realize it was a new accomplishment though until today.
I'm not sure its part of MSYS. When you run it, the cmd prompt title chanegs to "MKS Korn Shell" and its icon has a picture of an ear of corn. No idea what its from or where I downloaded it, it was a long time ago.