Granted, Fox News is pretty fluffy and silly
and politcally biased, but, well, sorry, that's
pretty common with news media.
What's the big deal about this one in paticular?
(I mean, how many 'oh fox news sucks' posts so
far?) That they're biased differently than your used to? Or that you agree with?
Is it that hard to understand that there is
no such thing as an unbiased journalist?
People are human. They have their biases.
Keep the grains of salt handy always.
At&t has promised multiple times that they'll
keep the cable running, even if they have to
replicate @home's portions of the service to
do it. Now I just wait to see if they actually
DO that, and if I'm interrupted from it.
I hate to break this to you, but that's what
humans -DO-. We don't adapt to the world, we
make it adapt to us. We've been futzing with
ecology to make it suit us for thousands of
years. New technology for doing that may be
coming about, but that's just an incremental
change, and an excuse for bored people to
whip themselves up into a frenzy.
Really this is a big crufty yawn to me. Be
pragmatic, okay people? It'll calm you down
a great deal and possibly help your blood
pressure.
I'm tired of this almost religious reverence for our government that seems to have taken hold lately.
Thank you, I am too. You'd think people would
realize that freedom means everyone DOESN'T
agree and that we recognize our government
has PLENTY of problems of it's own.
There's nothing wrong with wanting to stop
terrorists, but not only -CAN- it be done without
blindly turning into a closed, paranoid,
tyrannical society, it MUST be.
If it's not done in an open, free, and freely critcizable manner, the terrorists
win.
Not that I buy into the idiotic idea that
those people hate 'freedom and democracy and
apple pie'. Puuuhlease.
But to become your enemy in your attempts to
fight him is the worst kind of losing.
Let's
wake up, ok, people? I'm getting really sick
of saying this (and I have been since day one)
and getting called a 'traitor'. There's nothing
traitorous about wanting my country to be free.
Assuming your an American, you're fairly ungrateful to the 'FBI pigs' that are trying to protect you and your family.
Yeah, the FBI watching my every step, god
I feel safer and more secure already.
Either you're posting stupid things because
you like to start flames, or you're just plain
stupid; advocating that we become a police
state. Either way, why did you bother posting?
"Virii" is NOT a word, please refrain from using it. I'm sure you will find the plural sense of virus, "viruses", to be quite helpful in your journey across the vast plain that is the English language.
While you're at that, reach over and pull that
toothpick out of your rear end, will you? It's
making you post stupid spelling flames.
I don't think China wants to actually attack the U.S. Much too dangerous, too much common econmic interests, and much more of those ahead. Globalisation really makes wars between industrial states akin to economic suicide.
Exactly. Always follow the money.
One of the military connections to the US space program was the development of huge missiles. A missile that can launch a payload to go to the moon can also be used as an ICBM.
China may be interested in things like this.
And when they try, we can eventually beat 'em n court.
I'm sorry, but you're making a critical error.
People are ALWAYS trying to chip away at those
rights. The excuses vary to whatever sounds
good in the political climate of the time,
but the fight is constant. We haven't got this
far by waiting for the courts.
What we need is a legally binding promise not to enforce the patent.
Remember your basic contract law. A promise
for a promise. A promise on Party A's part is
not enforcible without an economically reasonable return promise on B's part.
Interesting. I didn't know that. But isn't essentially AGP doing the same stuff? The graphics card hogging your system RAM and disallowing access to it for the rest of the system. My previous system had 128Meg RAM and a 64Meg Aperture...now games woudn't fluidly play at all. Upgrading the mem was enough. Another system with 128Meg RAM and a PCI card ran the games I tried fluently even with a lot of lesser specs and same OS.
Nah, yer confusing address space with actual
memory. Having the address space shared between
video memory and system RAM have used the same
address space since the first PC, making it
easy to write directly to the screen.
But the actual memory IS separate. And
AGP Apeture is just a hole in the address
space where the video memory is set up to
appear. Your regular system memory is
still 128. The 64 is on the graphics card,
not stolen from your system. Of course,
128 mb isn't much anymore, depending on your
OS and what games you play.
In the
Xbox, as well as some cheapo HP PCs, the actual MEMORY itself is shared, there's no dedicated
video memory, the video card just takes some
system memory as needed. This is as big a crock
as it sounds. =)
{flame:Every time I forget how stupid tech-tv is,
something comes along to remind me. Like
these LOVELY ACTION SHOTS OF A BEER BELLY GUY
PULLING SCREWS! Gods, just photograph the hardware and leave the gut and 'athlon killing hands' out of it.}
So how long till someone cuts windows in the
case with neon lights, installs water cooling,
overclocks it, and installs linux? =)
You people must realize - consoles DO NOT crash. They don't release games or hardware that crash!
I hope you meant that as a joke/troll...
I've crashed console games before, just by
giving them bizarre input. (IE no patchers
or odd hardware). Being a console or a console game doesn't make something immune to bugs. Come
on now. =)
Am I the only person in the world over
18 that didn't suddenly forget being
under 18?
Seriously, kids are smarter than people
get them credit for. The world around us is
not edited.
You might not find something
tasteful and not want it around. I can
understand that fully.
But the idea that is portayed is that children
aren't capable of understanding reality and
need to be shielded from it, that's another
thing.
Come on! Doesn't ANYONE remember being a kid?
Didn't you laugh privately at the attempts to
'protect your mind'?
Don't automatically assume your children are
idiots. That's the shortest route to blowing
any possible respect they might have for you,
and ensures they'll never listen to anything
you have to say, wise or not.
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What's the big deal about this one in paticular? (I mean, how many 'oh fox news sucks' posts so far?) That they're biased differently than your used to? Or that you agree with?
Is it that hard to understand that there is no such thing as an unbiased journalist? People are human. They have their biases. Keep the grains of salt handy always.
God, just when 'big greedy companies' gets to be a cliche, it's drug back into the realm of truth...
I know someone that works in one of their call centers, there. They've been talked up down left and right about staying online, for what that's worth.
A paper mail letter I recieved stated the web site and so forth would ONLY go live if they needed it. So I'm not surprised you can't reach it =)
keep the cable running, even if they have to
replicate @home's portions of the service to
do it. Now I just wait to see if they actually
DO that, and if I'm interrupted from it.
I hate to break this to you, but that's what humans -DO-. We don't adapt to the world, we make it adapt to us. We've been futzing with ecology to make it suit us for thousands of years. New technology for doing that may be coming about, but that's just an incremental change, and an excuse for bored people to whip themselves up into a frenzy.
Really this is a big crufty yawn to me. Be pragmatic, okay people? It'll calm you down a great deal and possibly help your blood pressure.
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Good luck, BT. Hehehehe.
How many people got that? =)
Thank you, I am too. You'd think people would realize that freedom means everyone DOESN'T agree and that we recognize our government has PLENTY of problems of it's own.
There's nothing wrong with wanting to stop terrorists, but not only -CAN- it be done without blindly turning into a closed, paranoid, tyrannical society, it MUST be.
If it's not done in an open, free, and freely critcizable manner, the terrorists win.
Not that I buy into the idiotic idea that those people hate 'freedom and democracy and apple pie'. Puuuhlease.
But to become your enemy in your attempts to fight him is the worst kind of losing.
Let's wake up, ok, people? I'm getting really sick of saying this (and I have been since day one) and getting called a 'traitor'. There's nothing traitorous about wanting my country to be free.
Yeah, the FBI watching my every step, god I feel safer and more secure already.
Either you're posting stupid things because you like to start flames, or you're just plain stupid; advocating that we become a police state. Either way, why did you bother posting?
While you're at that, reach over and pull that toothpick out of your rear end, will you? It's making you post stupid spelling flames.
I don't think China wants to actually attack the U.S. Much too dangerous, too much common econmic interests, and much more of those ahead. Globalisation really makes wars between industrial states akin to economic suicide. Exactly. Always follow the money.
One of the military connections to the US space program was the development of huge missiles. A missile that can launch a payload to go to the moon can also be used as an ICBM.
China may be interested in things like this.
They don't already have them!?
It's shooting for the 'I OC'd so my penis is naturally much larger than your's' market.
No, I'm not joking. I don't mean to be crude but mindless dickwaving happens everywhere, even with computers.
I guess I must be some sort of freak, but I like some degree of fan noise, it's nice auditory feedback, from it I know the machine is up and purring.
There are limits of course, but people that bitch about fan noise like it's an air raid siren will forever confuse me.
Ok, EXCUSE ME, but it isn't any of the FBI's f***ing business what I'm looking at, be it porn or anything else.
Good god, have we really slid that far backward?
WAKE UP! YOU'RE HAPPILY TRIMMING OFF YOUR OWN FREEDOMS!
I'm sorry, but you're making a critical error. People are ALWAYS trying to chip away at those rights. The excuses vary to whatever sounds good in the political climate of the time, but the fight is constant. We haven't got this far by waiting for the courts.
Ha, I just wish I could have seen their faces...someone didn't back down in fear!
So let's repeat this once again, even though several other people have posted it:
THEY DID NOT 'OPTIMIZE'. THEY MADE HUGE CUTS IN QUALITY TO GET BETTER SPEED, ONLY ON A PROGRAM USED AS A BENCHMARK.
Tell me that isn't 'cheating'?
Remember your basic contract law. A promise for a promise. A promise on Party A's part is not enforcible without an economically reasonable return promise on B's part.
Nah, yer confusing address space with actual memory. Having the address space shared between video memory and system RAM have used the same address space since the first PC, making it easy to write directly to the screen.
But the actual memory IS separate. And AGP Apeture is just a hole in the address space where the video memory is set up to appear. Your regular system memory is still 128. The 64 is on the graphics card, not stolen from your system. Of course, 128 mb isn't much anymore, depending on your OS and what games you play.
In the Xbox, as well as some cheapo HP PCs, the actual MEMORY itself is shared, there's no dedicated video memory, the video card just takes some system memory as needed. This is as big a crock as it sounds. =)
So how long till someone cuts windows in the case with neon lights, installs water cooling, overclocks it, and installs linux? =)
One word: Teledildonics..
I hope you meant that as a joke/troll... I've crashed console games before, just by giving them bizarre input. (IE no patchers or odd hardware). Being a console or a console game doesn't make something immune to bugs. Come on now. =)
Seriously, kids are smarter than people get them credit for. The world around us is not edited.
You might not find something tasteful and not want it around. I can understand that fully.
But the idea that is portayed is that children aren't capable of understanding reality and need to be shielded from it, that's another thing.
Come on! Doesn't ANYONE remember being a kid? Didn't you laugh privately at the attempts to 'protect your mind'?
Don't automatically assume your children are idiots. That's the shortest route to blowing any possible respect they might have for you, and ensures they'll never listen to anything you have to say, wise or not.