They're abusing a system, and exploiting the power that they were given. Thats hardly a good idea, thats like...
a gas station setting up pilons and signs on the road that FORCE every person off the road int he right lane if they didn't 'see' it intime to go into the gas station... BS BS BS
Mod it up, and whoever said Re:what the fuck? (Score:3, Funny)
by SpookyFish (195418) Should be removed from moderation!!!
Yes they settings where the same (SAME Config) aswell as res and refresh rates!
Why don't you try it, run Quake3 for example and benchmark the FPS in windows then linux..you can see the difference...
Kind of offtopic but I was able to host 4+ q3 servers at lan on my 750 athlon(which is debian) and I was only able to host 2 without lag on my winblows box (XP 1800+)
http://www.theclq.com/ hmm I was going to point to that to show the usage of games... Sales cannot be used for stats as millions of copies are pirated every year...
My basic point is that the games that are 'Action' games, overwhelm other games with usage statistics. Almost all Action games are available in a Linux port.. you do however show that there isn't much for 'kids' games on Linux (The Sims *). But realistically how many 'kids' use Linux?
Sure Windows has more 'games'... but if you take the top 10 games in the last say 5-7years..
Q2,Q3, Tribes, Q1?, Unreal, U2k3, Half-Life, etc..
I'm guessing what... all of those run under Linux? if not most.. I dunno about you but I don't consider the other games very 'important'...
but my position in recent years has been that Linux is a OS for getting work done, and Windows is an excellent platform for games.
You've got to be joking... run any game in Windows (that can be run in linux)..and you'll notice that not only will the game get higher FPS but games seem to run smoother.
My brother had WinXP and Debian running on his Desktop PC...he got 33FPS on Average more in Linux playing Half-Life (Couter-Strike).
-Spl0it
I think you misunderstood me, I was just advertising that we like beer I myself as a Canadian enjoy a good canadian beer anyday, especially a free one.
Who cares if they didn't call you or inconvenience you... there still a telemarketer and many others like them have harrased you time and time again...you have a right to call them and complain about there harrassing phone calls to the general public/your discust with their method of marketing. (You have a right to call them... in the US or Canada.)
My $0.01:P
Although it's quite obvious that RIAA's "offer" is full of shit, remind yourself that the burden will be on the plaintiff to prove their case. The only realistic chance of winning this case would be to come up with someone who did sign on RIAA's dotted line, but then got sued anyway. Has this happen to anyone, yet? Unless this happens, everything is mere speculation and hypothesis.
Actually, because the Offer is misleading and fails to offer what it promises then they are misleading the average joe with false promises and that would be the same as false advertising, you can't say product A makes you turn into superman if it doesn't... thats called false advertising... just because someone hasn't 'signed and then been sued' doesn't mean the offer is still legit... if it fails to offer what it promises ('Legal Amnesty') then it is unlawful and unjust.
Hence the lawsuit.
Hehe 50 a year at $14.95 (isn't that a low price????) it would only take until year 2005 unless you've allready purchased some this year then 2006:)
btw. I havn't bought a CD since....uhm....1994 or 1995:)
and I'm 21 lol:)
drunk drivers is not the result of alcohol, its the result of stupid people, and poor decesions.. I enjoy drinking, sometimes even getting wasted till I can't walk... do I make poor decesions to drive under the influence No... do I drink all day long, no.. because my brain tells me that can/will cause problems.
Use your head.
Alcohol is not a problem. Only stupidity can make alcohol a problem.
I've helped wearegamers.com host smackdown (a London Ontario Lan Party) 3 times... and attended all 4.
I takes 6-10months of prep. time..and lots of dedication.
I would first start with room costs, sponsors and power/network costs.
That is the majority of the budget.
Honestly though... if you don't have at least 4months prep time.. I would fall to under 50 seats.. use it as a trial/test lan.. and then plan another one in the future...once you've had a taste of running a lan party.
I eat on average 4-8x the amount any person I know...
I'm 6'0, 165lbs, I eat anything I want and don't gain wait, I exercise and don't gain weight, only thing that really causes weight gain is excessive muscle workouts, ie. working with garage doors all day long (no not fixing them, moving them by yourself).
Well, it's 6:04am, and I've been reading these posts for the last few hours..and I must say there are some really good points here.
I learned that eventually some kid, some business, some offshore company, SOMEONE.. will find a way to beat these rule pushing money pinching bastards, and everyone will cheer!:)
Until that day, I'll continue with my "boycott" of cd's, which has now hit year 6.. and to be honest I never download anything, radio only for me, except occasionally (two or three times a year) I will get a bunch of mp3 dance/trance or just a few "good ones" I heard on the radio from a friend.
Anyone else realize how narrow minded some of these organizations are?
Christmas gift
$24 + tax for friken 11songs, what a joke... I bet 10 of them suck anyways.. btw how much does the artist get out of the $24 dollars? do they even get $0.50cents?
What is really sad is most of the software that is pirated is never worth the time it took to download it.
Virtually all pieces of software are pirated!! Are you saying all Software sucks?
Have you ever bought something (software) only to realize it works like garbage, conflicts with some or all of your hardware or frankly just doesn't do what everyone "stated" it would do.. at least not for you, with your other software/hardware your using.. ? If you havn't then I understand why your supporting these busts! I'm not going to lie most of the software I'm using is either freeware or downloaded, but things I enjoy I go out and purchase, ie. Quake3, CounterStrike.. everything else on here is free, and of course the OS came with my computer but I could care less about that I'm installing Linux after christmas.:P
Yes, I think that's about the worse idea! (Use isp's for a model)!!
Frankly, as a 56k gamer, stuck on the edge of his seat with slow connections, even I myself have made at least 5 notable switches of ISP's due to poor service, this this is offtopic, but when you call up a service providers ROUTING company (MCI World in Toronto Ontario), explain and show through TRACERT and PING commands to the techy on the other line the enormous problem for him to say "shit I'll send that to the network admins right away" and then for them to say "sorry we can't help you your not our customer"? ?oh I say? ok so I call my ISP yes I'll mention names it was NetRover... they frankly argued to me their were no problems and would not do anything to assist or "validate" any problems that thus existed!
What'd I say about that?
Thank God my 1year contract finishes in 3weeks!
And don't forget that because Microsoft win2k for example isn't open source they can:
-Stop making good software for it
-Stop supporting your new hardware
-Stop supporting your hardware of choice
-Drop all old support because it's "cluttering" things up
-Make you start paying for updates!
wait lemme look at that.. lol anyone see the problem haha!
frankly nvidia has the stablest graphics card I've seen, I'm happy with my gf2 256DDR 32meg card!:P and yes amd and gf2 work great together!
After christmas I'll have this in a new computer a 1.4gig, with that card, I expect to get nice fps, and still not have these crashes that shepd speaks of, which seems to remind me more of my voodoo2's then an nvidia product!
Note:
I may be biased as all my friends and me run one of the nvidia cards and have no problems, or wait a second, doesn't that mean we all just like not having crashes, and having consistant and good drivers?:)
Actually those ppl do it because it's really friken easy.. if you have some interest in securing systems and are a cracker as ppl love to deam those ppl then they will target un*x more the M$:P
btw.. 5years ago I was an avid linux user who would enter systems without authorization to play aroud and learn things:o..yes I know it's wrong but I never used it for negative things (ie. steal cc#, take down sites, etc..)
I only say this because my nick name was my idea of a new name which I invented from the word
"Exploit"
First of all as reported several times, only 5% of the people connected to the internet have broadband, thus telling us one thing... we sure aren't close to having a fast broadband network.. now of course that percentile is higher in canada and the us.. however I myself am still stuck on 56k, and being in Ontario, right close to London, I must say that since London was the second testing city in canada to get cable modems, over 5years ago, I am glad to see that within 2months I'll finally have cable.
Going on.. 80ping and 5ping, yes they make a remarkable difference, not to mention have you tried gaming between 8-12pm EST lately? most broadband connections show wonderful 300ms delays all over the place, and there is few services out there that provide good, solid, consistant pings anywhere in north-america. As well, I dunno what kind of lan parties you goto but, 80ping vs. 5 ping and a lan vs. internet is a huge diff., lan parties are extremely fun, you should check out a big exciting, fun lan party, it would sway your opinion no doubt about it. (checkout the url I have listed above)
Games out today? even the newest games still are ping dependant, sure I must admit their getting better, but I've played alot of games, and nothing has ever been "good" or to an "acceptable level" for 56k play... the best I've experienced is Q2, with tweaked settings, and FPS caps enabled.. mind you I've tried plenty of games online, and I will be very happy when cable arrives, well providing it works too.:)
One more quick note, broadband is having massive problems right now in north-america, I mean @HOME is horrible and has been for along time, ppl are losing service and getting re-routed to things that are even worse.. when you have a problem with your connection you rarely get it fixed in a timely fashion, I've heard things such as people with old TV sets cause noise on the lines for cable modem users, and until they replace those TV sets, then they're isn't much anyone really does to fix the problem, besides setting up new lines etc.. still causes major problems.. and there's so many other factors, the problems are endless it seems... take for example Videotron cable in quebec, they had consistant pings from 10-60 up and down the east coastline for the last year, however in the past 3months they've had nothing but horrid 900ms delays from the hours of say 5:00pm to 12:30am EST.. which just goes to show ya, broadband suppliers want money, not to offer a good, gaming connection.:o
Well ya of course that's a big set back, not! have you ever got on say a dual-t3 at 3:45am and pinged texas over mci routers? you get a under 25ms ping consistantly, if everything was 100gig/sec you'd get 50ms everywhere in north-america even at peak times.. and I'm sure the 5sec all accross the east coast would make alot of ppl smile!:)
I've been only for 8years now.. and I've never had a virus, well one, but my stupid brother downloaded it! none the less in the last 5years. running and only being the single sole user of my personal computer I have not had a virus, and no I don't have a virus scanner, if something is up, or some odds things go astry I check but yet I've still not had one.. so why should you deserve to be infected? if your not a moron you don't run shit that came from
2342352@hotmail.com etc.. like give me a break, if someone mails you an evenlope that smells like dog shit, and has brown stains on it.. and you don't know where it comes from, do you use your teeth to open it? @#%@#
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Ever since AMD released their K6-2 chip with 3dNOW, the market has been gradually and consistantly moving in their favour!
Yes, intel has higher mhz chips, but they all run slower, maybe the reason why your p2 400 and p3 dual 1gig don't run much different is because frankly the one is just faster mhz, and nothing more? eh?
look at the comparisons between amd and intel
intel has faster mhz
amd has slower mhz
intel's chips cost more
and's chips cost less
amd's chip still run faster and do more per cycle then intel
therefore
AMD > Intel..
I'll never buy intel again after that wonderfull k6-2:)
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They're abusing a system, and exploiting the power that they were given. Thats hardly a good idea, thats like...
a gas station setting up pilons and signs on the road that FORCE every person off the road int he right lane if they didn't 'see' it intime to go into the gas station... BS BS BS Mod it up, and whoever said Re:what the fuck? (Score:3, Funny) by SpookyFish (195418) Should be removed from moderation!!!
-Spl0it
Guess its time to update that! expect one tommorow!
:o
I got Cable 2years ago...but for 7years I was gaming on a 56k.. and the lan was 300+ ppl lan on a 100mbit network
-Spl0it
Yes they settings where the same (SAME Config) aswell as res and refresh rates!
Why don't you try it, run Quake3 for example and benchmark the FPS in windows then linux..you can see the difference...
Kind of offtopic but I was able to host 4+ q3 servers at lan on my 750 athlon(which is debian) and I was only able to host 2 without lag on my winblows box (XP 1800+)
-Spl0it
http://www.theclq.com/ hmm I was going to point to that to show the usage of games... Sales cannot be used for stats as millions of copies are pirated every year...
My basic point is that the games that are 'Action' games, overwhelm other games with usage statistics. Almost all Action games are available in a Linux port.. you do however show that there isn't much for 'kids' games on Linux (The Sims *). But realistically how many 'kids' use Linux?
-Spl0it
Sure Windows has more 'games'... but if you take the top 10 games in the last say 5-7years.. Q2,Q3, Tribes, Q1?, Unreal, U2k3, Half-Life, etc..
I'm guessing what... all of those run under Linux? if not most.. I dunno about you but I don't consider the other games very 'important'...
but maybe thats because I like to compete! www.wearegamers.com/smackdown
-Spl0it
My brother had WinXP and Debian running on his Desktop PC...he got 33FPS on Average more in Linux playing Half-Life (Couter-Strike). -Spl0it
I think you misunderstood me, I was just advertising that we like beer I myself as a Canadian enjoy a good canadian beer anyday, especially a free one.
Hahahha!!!! Don't forget to offer everyone you speak to a beer! Canadians love beer!
Who cares if they didn't call you or inconvenience you... there still a telemarketer and many others like them have harrased you time and time again...you have a right to call them and complain about there harrassing phone calls to the general public/your discust with their method of marketing. (You have a right to call them... in the US or Canada.) My $0.01 :P
Actually, because the Offer is misleading and fails to offer what it promises then they are misleading the average joe with false promises and that would be the same as false advertising, you can't say product A makes you turn into superman if it doesn't... thats called false advertising... just because someone hasn't 'signed and then been sued' doesn't mean the offer is still legit... if it fails to offer what it promises ('Legal Amnesty') then it is unlawful and unjust. Hence the lawsuit.
1994 or 1995 till today without a RIAA CD! What have you done today?
Hehe 50 a year at $14.95 (isn't that a low price????) it would only take until year 2005 unless you've allready purchased some this year then 2006 :)
btw. I havn't bought a CD since....uhm....1994 or 1995 :)
and I'm 21 lol :)
drunk drivers is not the result of alcohol, its the result of stupid people, and poor decesions.. I enjoy drinking, sometimes even getting wasted till I can't walk... do I make poor decesions to drive under the influence No... do I drink all day long, no.. because my brain tells me that can/will cause problems. Use your head. Alcohol is not a problem. Only stupidity can make alcohol a problem.
Is there an agency in Canada like the ACCC????
I've helped wearegamers.com host smackdown (a London Ontario Lan Party) 3 times... and attended all 4. I takes 6-10months of prep. time..and lots of dedication. I would first start with room costs, sponsors and power/network costs. That is the majority of the budget. Honestly though... if you don't have at least 4months prep time.. I would fall to under 50 seats.. use it as a trial/test lan.. and then plan another one in the future...once you've had a taste of running a lan party.
I eat on average 4-8x the amount any person I know...
:P
I'm 6'0, 165lbs, I eat anything I want and don't gain wait, I exercise and don't gain weight, only thing that really causes weight gain is excessive muscle workouts, ie. working with garage doors all day long (no not fixing them, moving them by yourself).
Keep in mind everyone's different.
Well, it's 6:04am, and I've been reading these posts for the last few hours..and I must say there are some really good points here.
:)
I learned that eventually some kid, some business, some offshore company, SOMEONE.. will find a way to beat these rule pushing money pinching bastards, and everyone will cheer!
Until that day, I'll continue with my "boycott" of cd's, which has now hit year 6.. and to be honest I never download anything, radio only for me, except occasionally (two or three times a year) I will get a bunch of mp3 dance/trance or just a few "good ones" I heard on the radio from a friend.
Anyone else realize how narrow minded some of these organizations are?
Christmas gift
$24 + tax for friken 11songs, what a joke... I bet 10 of them suck anyways.. btw how much does the artist get out of the $24 dollars? do they even get $0.50cents?
What is really sad is most of the software that is pirated is never worth the time it took to download it.
:P
Virtually all pieces of software are pirated!! Are you saying all Software sucks?
Have you ever bought something (software) only to realize it works like garbage, conflicts with some or all of your hardware or frankly just doesn't do what everyone "stated" it would do.. at least not for you, with your other software/hardware your using.. ? If you havn't then I understand why your supporting these busts! I'm not going to lie most of the software I'm using is either freeware or downloaded, but things I enjoy I go out and purchase, ie. Quake3, CounterStrike.. everything else on here is free, and of course the OS came with my computer but I could care less about that I'm installing Linux after christmas.
Yes, I think that's about the worse idea! (Use isp's for a model)!!
Frankly, as a 56k gamer, stuck on the edge of his seat with slow connections, even I myself have made at least 5 notable switches of ISP's due to poor service, this this is offtopic, but when you call up a service providers ROUTING company (MCI World in Toronto Ontario), explain and show through TRACERT and PING commands to the techy on the other line the enormous problem for him to say "shit I'll send that to the network admins right away" and then for them to say "sorry we can't help you your not our customer"? ?oh I say? ok so I call my ISP yes I'll mention names it was NetRover... they frankly argued to me their were no problems and would not do anything to assist or "validate" any problems that thus existed!
What'd I say about that?
Thank God my 1year contract finishes in 3weeks!
-Stop making good software for it
-Stop supporting your new hardware
-Stop supporting your hardware of choice
-Drop all old support because it's "cluttering" things up
-Make you start paying for updates!
wait lemme look at that.. lol anyone see the problem haha!
frankly nvidia has the stablest graphics card I've seen, I'm happy with my gf2 256DDR 32meg card!
After christmas I'll have this in a new computer a 1.4gig, with that card, I expect to get nice fps, and still not have these crashes that shepd speaks of, which seems to remind me more of my voodoo2's then an nvidia product!
- Note:
I may be biased as all my friends and me run one of the nvidia cards and have no problems, or wait a second, doesn't that mean we all just like not having crashes, and having consistant and good drivers?Actually those ppl do it because it's really friken easy.. if you have some interest in securing systems and are a cracker as ppl love to deam those ppl then they will target un*x more the M$ :P
:o..yes I know it's wrong but I never used it for negative things (ie. steal cc#, take down sites, etc..)
btw.. 5years ago I was an avid linux user who would enter systems without authorization to play aroud and learn things
I only say this because my nick name was my idea of a new name which I invented from the word "Exploit"
oh your so outta the loop...
:)
:o
First of all as reported several times, only 5% of the people connected to the internet have broadband, thus telling us one thing... we sure aren't close to having a fast broadband network.. now of course that percentile is higher in canada and the us.. however I myself am still stuck on 56k, and being in Ontario, right close to London, I must say that since London was the second testing city in canada to get cable modems, over 5years ago, I am glad to see that within 2months I'll finally have cable.
Going on.. 80ping and 5ping, yes they make a remarkable difference, not to mention have you tried gaming between 8-12pm EST lately? most broadband connections show wonderful 300ms delays all over the place, and there is few services out there that provide good, solid, consistant pings anywhere in north-america. As well, I dunno what kind of lan parties you goto but, 80ping vs. 5 ping and a lan vs. internet is a huge diff., lan parties are extremely fun, you should check out a big exciting, fun lan party, it would sway your opinion no doubt about it. (checkout the url I have listed above)
Games out today? even the newest games still are ping dependant, sure I must admit their getting better, but I've played alot of games, and nothing has ever been "good" or to an "acceptable level" for 56k play... the best I've experienced is Q2, with tweaked settings, and FPS caps enabled.. mind you I've tried plenty of games online, and I will be very happy when cable arrives, well providing it works too.
One more quick note, broadband is having massive problems right now in north-america, I mean @HOME is horrible and has been for along time, ppl are losing service and getting re-routed to things that are even worse.. when you have a problem with your connection you rarely get it fixed in a timely fashion, I've heard things such as people with old TV sets cause noise on the lines for cable modem users, and until they replace those TV sets, then they're isn't much anyone really does to fix the problem, besides setting up new lines etc.. still causes major problems.. and there's so many other factors, the problems are endless it seems... take for example Videotron cable in quebec, they had consistant pings from 10-60 up and down the east coastline for the last year, however in the past 3months they've had nothing but horrid 900ms delays from the hours of say 5:00pm to 12:30am EST.. which just goes to show ya, broadband suppliers want money, not to offer a good, gaming connection.
Well ya of course that's a big set back, not! have you ever got on say a dual-t3 at 3:45am and pinged texas over mci routers? you get a under 25ms ping consistantly, if everything was 100gig/sec you'd get 50ms everywhere in north-america even at peak times.. and I'm sure the 5sec all accross the east coast would make alot of ppl smile! :)
I've been only for 8years now.. and I've never had a virus, well one, but my stupid brother downloaded it! none the less in the last 5years. running and only being the single sole user of my personal computer I have not had a virus, and no I don't have a virus scanner, if something is up, or some odds things go astry I check but yet I've still not had one.. so why should you deserve to be infected? if your not a moron you don't run shit that came from 2342352@hotmail.com etc.. like give me a break, if someone mails you an evenlope that smells like dog shit, and has brown stains on it.. and you don't know where it comes from, do you use your teeth to open it? @#%@#
Ever since AMD released their K6-2 chip with 3dNOW, the market has been gradually and consistantly moving in their favour! Yes, intel has higher mhz chips, but they all run slower, maybe the reason why your p2 400 and p3 dual 1gig don't run much different is because frankly the one is just faster mhz, and nothing more? eh? look at the comparisons between amd and intel intel has faster mhz amd has slower mhz intel's chips cost more and's chips cost less amd's chip still run faster and do more per cycle then intel therefore AMD > Intel.. I'll never buy intel again after that wonderfull k6-2 :)