Ok, redhat linux became fecesdora. Every other unix became SCO property. It's a shitty year for OSS in 2003.
RIght when I decided to run redhat 9 permanently, the best damn linux version ever, everything else goes down the drain. Whoopie dooo.... can't wait till 2004. When SCO partners up with M$ to destroy sun and ibm remains the same. And 8 million startups create linux distributions, and united linux goes no where because SCO is a part of it.
I am sorry but apple is all cheery about iPods etc. That's like microsoft getting all joyful when they have a top selling router.
It's like the lousy baseball player who gets pity compassion from the crowd. You know he can't play, so you are happy to see him get hit by the ball and take first base.
Ok, I bought a Sapphire atlantis ATI Radeon 9800 Pro just alittle before Christmas and it took a massive amount of effort to get everything working. These cards IMHO are excellent assuming you know what you are doing, but definitely not ready for the masses. Simple games like RTCW enemy territory, call of duty, delta force bhd, battlefield1942 all took an insane amount of tweaking and research to get working perfect.
Things to do to reach Nirvana
1.) catalyst 3.10 driver was the best there is, and I had to completely reinstall windows xp to get it working flawlessly.
2.) The key components I had to update was RAM (from generic to Kingston) and powersupply (from 300W to 600W). I know it sounds irrelevant but I cannot tell you how many mod_errors I got in games until these were updated.
3.) I now run completely open cased on BOTH SIDES! They mind as well call it ATI OVEN 9800 PRO. I still get the occasional overheat and get spotty dots on the screen if I leave my computer on 4-5 days in a roll.
4.) I disabled fast write and also the VPU feature in the catalyst software.
5.) I also reshuffled the PCI cards next to the agp slot so that the smallest cards were next to the graphic card to give it more air space.
Hurry up with the damn formats. I am looking at companies like Plextor who ordinarily release a couple models a year, even they are riding the slow train in 2003 cause of the damn formats.
It's a conspiracy I swear, they want you to buy DVD+R, DVD+-, DVD+-x%, DVD-XXX. They are going to change formats every two years so you have to buy new drives again and again.
"My blade is smarter than you, so is the industry" - Grim Reaper
You had my attention up to the point where you mentioned "redhat". The company that doesn't care about their nonprofit distro. Whoopie, now you got a vpn on it.
This is a fact, when people think indie games they have a certain image of the game being real shabby. These are some things people told me when I was younger trying to pull some indie product together. Damn disencouraging...
1.) The game will have no real customer support
2.) The indie programmers couldn't have tested it on all these hardware
3.) Indie games are probably too short
4.) If it's so good, why isn't it in stores
5.) By the time you're done the technology has changed
The ads in U.S actually pertain to the content of the shows even if they suck. For example, I watch an NBA game, I expect commercials about sneakers and Yao Ming selling laptops etc etc.
If you have been to some other countries, their TV broadcasts are just completely off subject. Showing a rerun of Cartoons, then viagra commercial. Maybe some music karoke hour show, followed by insurance commercial about death and terrorism. It's that bad. Sport broadcasting always have lingerie and some fat chocolate commercials. It's unbelievable.
The karoke craze has been around for decades in most asian countries. Especially Hong Kong and Japan.
If they had made a sing-along game it would be a hit in asian anytime. But until it is a hot seller also in the U.S, it's not considered a real million dollar success.
I have seen many asian folks who buy on a regular basis sing-along karoke VCDs from music of their own culture. It's something going on for a long time down there. For years Americans are considered lame and gay singing karoke style. Things have changed.
I am finding it difficult to see Sun's position in the market more and more each year. The best thing to have happened to this company was free downloads of solaris 9 x86. It is virtually impossible to convince my manager to buy Sun anything nowadays.
For high end stuff we have AIX. It comes with LVM and other critical stuff. It has ridiculously stable support for fibre channels and just the most outstanding support.
For middle to low end we have PCs with windows and linux.
I can't seem to see where Sun (with or without their cobalt server) fits in today's market anymore.
There seems to be a new google section popping up every other day. What ever happened to the days when people actually know how to use a search engine with advanced searches.
Why do I want a system with such superior hardware yet every other game comes out later, and every other good application is not readily available before the PC. OSX has no reason to exist. Go ahead Mac users, flame me. All 4 of you.
"The best thing about Apple is the nutritional value, not Steve Jobs." - Richard Simmons
In japan, every major console released has a line waiting for preorder and a ton of folks waiting to buy the system.
PSX was the only sony console that required no line at all. Virtually any joe schmole could have bought the system on opening day without any wait time. This tells you the PSX is just one unecessary addition.
There is no way in hell WiFi can offer the same entertainment value.
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I worry about the potential of any new software company nowadays. Personally I know 2 people who attempted to start their own business. One started a software consulting company, the other a restaurant.
The software consulting company charges thousands of dollars for any gig and the business comes WAY too slow. I am talking once a month on the best case scenario. The other person started a restaurant and makes couple thousand daily. Just on take outs alone, $30 + $30 + $50... you get the idea, it adds up fast in volume. People can't get away with not eating. They can get away with no software upgrading.
Basically if I had the money, I would start a gym, a club, a bar, a restaurant, a stripe club... anything but a software company in today's market. It's a shame to see globalization and everything IT related go so downhill.
Anytime someone mention cell phone and games, I think of lousy tetris or pacman type games with 16bit graphics at best.
Anytime someone mention wireless cell phone and games, I think of Nokia N-Gage the most poorly launched video game system in the history of the gaming industry.
If you ask me, cell phones, wireless and gaming just don't mix yet. This stuff is targeting an audience that are anything but hardcore gamers who play only half hour of games in a whole day.
You want to put any OS to the ultimate test, you should run cheap generic hardware. I swear it's an industry conspiracy that generic parts struggle a boat load. If your parts don't come from the big boys (DELL, gateway, etc), you are likely going to see issues down the line.
Get some ECS motherboard, generic RAM... bang. You're in for the evening.
When the PSP (Playstation Portable) comes out, Nintendo will have the first real handheld competition in its history. All other previous competitors like SegaGamegear, Lynx and many countless others have been a complete joke.
If Nintendo can't hold up on its last leg... it'll have to do what Sega did to survive. That is to make Sonic the hedgehog and many other Sega titles appear on other hardware.
Sega didn't have much problem swimming torward this direction. But I got a feeling Nintendo is one of those extremely tradition japanese companies that would go down kamakazi style.
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Ok, redhat linux became fecesdora. Every other unix became SCO property. It's a shitty year for OSS in 2003.
RIght when I decided to run redhat 9 permanently, the best damn linux version ever, everything else goes down the drain. Whoopie dooo.... can't wait till 2004. When SCO partners up with M$ to destroy sun and ibm remains the same. And 8 million startups create linux distributions, and united linux goes no where because SCO is a part of it.
What good will my PC hardware have when EFI hits the market full strength?
I am sorry but apple is all cheery about iPods etc. That's like microsoft getting all joyful when they have a top selling router.
It's like the lousy baseball player who gets pity compassion from the crowd. You know he can't play, so you are happy to see him get hit by the ball and take first base.
Ok, I bought a Sapphire atlantis ATI Radeon 9800 Pro just alittle before Christmas and it took a massive amount of effort to get everything working. These cards IMHO are excellent assuming you know what you are doing, but definitely not ready for the masses. Simple games like RTCW enemy territory, call of duty, delta force bhd, battlefield1942 all took an insane amount of tweaking and research to get working perfect.
Things to do to reach Nirvana
1.) catalyst 3.10 driver was the best there is, and I had to completely reinstall windows xp to get it working flawlessly.
2.) The key components I had to update was RAM (from generic to Kingston) and powersupply (from 300W to 600W). I know it sounds irrelevant but I cannot tell you how many mod_errors I got in games until these were updated.
3.) I now run completely open cased on BOTH SIDES! They mind as well call it ATI OVEN 9800 PRO. I still get the occasional overheat and get spotty dots on the screen if I leave my computer on 4-5 days in a roll.
4.) I disabled fast write and also the VPU feature in the catalyst software.
5.) I also reshuffled the PCI cards next to the agp slot so that the smallest cards were next to the graphic card to give it more air space.
Hurry up with the damn formats. I am looking at companies like Plextor who ordinarily release a couple models a year, even they are riding the slow train in 2003 cause of the damn formats.
It's a conspiracy I swear, they want you to buy DVD+R, DVD+-, DVD+-x%, DVD-XXX. They are going to change formats every two years so you have to buy new drives again and again.
"My blade is smarter than you, so is the industry" - Grim Reaper
You had my attention up to the point where you mentioned "redhat". The company that doesn't care about their nonprofit distro. Whoopie, now you got a vpn on it.
This is a fact, when people think indie games they have a certain image of the game being real shabby. These are some things people told me when I was younger trying to pull some indie product together. Damn disencouraging...
1.) The game will have no real customer support
2.) The indie programmers couldn't have tested it on all these hardware
3.) Indie games are probably too short
4.) If it's so good, why isn't it in stores
5.) By the time you're done the technology has changed
I mind as well dangle $100 dollars on the kite and let it fly around.
Nowadays some 17-year old sniper will probably shoot down my kite cam for the fun of it.
The ads in U.S actually pertain to the content of the shows even if they suck. For example, I watch an NBA game, I expect commercials about sneakers and Yao Ming selling laptops etc etc.
If you have been to some other countries, their TV broadcasts are just completely off subject. Showing a rerun of Cartoons, then viagra commercial. Maybe some music karoke hour show, followed by insurance commercial about death and terrorism. It's that bad. Sport broadcasting always have lingerie and some fat chocolate commercials. It's unbelievable.
The karoke craze has been around for decades in most asian countries. Especially Hong Kong and Japan.
If they had made a sing-along game it would be a hit in asian anytime. But until it is a hot seller also in the U.S, it's not considered a real million dollar success.
I have seen many asian folks who buy on a regular basis sing-along karoke VCDs from music of their own culture. It's something going on for a long time down there. For years Americans are considered lame and gay singing karoke style. Things have changed.
It's a first person game so technically been done a thousand times. But it's original in many ways. Yes, it's hella good.
1.) AGP slot that has a special opening for giant sized fans
2.) allowing multiple power supply
3.) allowing as many as 8 fans on the side.
4.) enable water cooling to graphics card and cpu
5.) water tank that can be refilled externally
6.) convenient screwless case
7.) case that can slide the entire motherboard out easily without any recabling
8.) 10 external and 10 internal bays
9.) firewire, usb and headphone jack at front
10.) case opens up top conveniently for cooling
Damn I can go on forever.
I am finding it difficult to see Sun's position in the market more and more each year. The best thing to have happened to this company was free downloads of solaris 9 x86. It is virtually impossible to convince my manager to buy Sun anything nowadays.
For high end stuff we have AIX. It comes with LVM and other critical stuff. It has ridiculously stable support for fibre channels and just the most outstanding support.
For middle to low end we have PCs with windows and linux.
I can't seem to see where Sun (with or without their cobalt server) fits in today's market anymore.
What is wrong with FPS nowadays, every game gets darker and darker. I have my brightness maxed out on my monitor and gamma way up.
I heard a myth that game engines can generate more polygons in the dark. Can someone verify if this is complete BS?
If shirts with bullet holes can be a medium, powerpoint is definitely eligible to be one.
Though how much did M$ pay this guy?
There seems to be a new google section popping up every other day. What ever happened to the days when people actually know how to use a search engine with advanced searches.
Why do I want a system with such superior hardware yet every other game comes out later, and every other good application is not readily available before the PC. OSX has no reason to exist. Go ahead Mac users, flame me. All 4 of you.
"The best thing about Apple is the nutritional value, not Steve Jobs." - Richard Simmons
In japan, every major console released has a line waiting for preorder and a ton of folks waiting to buy the system.
PSX was the only sony console that required no line at all. Virtually any joe schmole could have bought the system on opening day without any wait time. This tells you the PSX is just one unecessary addition.
There is no way in hell WiFi can offer the same entertainment value.
I worry about the potential of any new software company nowadays. Personally I know 2 people who attempted to start their own business. One started a software consulting company, the other a restaurant.
The software consulting company charges thousands of dollars for any gig and the business comes WAY too slow. I am talking once a month on the best case scenario. The other person started a restaurant and makes couple thousand daily. Just on take outs alone, $30 + $30 + $50... you get the idea, it adds up fast in volume. People can't get away with not eating. They can get away with no software upgrading.
Basically if I had the money, I would start a gym, a club, a bar, a restaurant, a stripe club... anything but a software company in today's market. It's a shame to see globalization and everything IT related go so downhill.
Anytime someone mention cell phone and games, I think of lousy tetris or pacman type games with 16bit graphics at best.
Anytime someone mention wireless cell phone and games, I think of Nokia N-Gage the most poorly launched video game system in the history of the gaming industry.
If you ask me, cell phones, wireless and gaming just don't mix yet. This stuff is targeting an audience that are anything but hardcore gamers who play only half hour of games in a whole day.
Another Bad Creation. Need I say more.
You want to put any OS to the ultimate test, you should run cheap generic hardware. I swear it's an industry conspiracy that generic parts struggle a boat load. If your parts don't come from the big boys (DELL, gateway, etc), you are likely going to see issues down the line.
Get some ECS motherboard, generic RAM... bang. You're in for the evening.
When the PSP (Playstation Portable) comes out, Nintendo will have the first real handheld competition in its history. All other previous competitors like SegaGamegear, Lynx and many countless others have been a complete joke.
If Nintendo can't hold up on its last leg... it'll have to do what Sega did to survive. That is to make Sonic the hedgehog and many other Sega titles appear on other hardware.
Sega didn't have much problem swimming torward this direction. But I got a feeling Nintendo is one of those extremely tradition japanese companies that would go down kamakazi style.
Thats what the site should be called. This site is milking advertisers more and more each year.
There is no need for every hardware review spans about 30 pages. There are more banners here than aol. That's sick.
And why the hell does a "hardware" site review video games?