Let's restrict lot's and lot's of people from getting a product that makes their device use more products so that they won't be able to buy more products so that they can't give us more money, so that we can gouge them for more and more money, so that we can complain about how all their products that we want banned are actualy driving away money we don't have to begin with.
Wait a minute. If this information that they are SELLING is my PERSONAL info, then they are selling an item which belongs to me, without my permission or a contract from me. Isn't that the same thing that the RIAA is all up in arms about with the P2P stuff? Sale/Distribution of property (in their case, music, in our case, personal information) with out the legal consent or reimbursement of the original owner.
I say we start a multi-state class action lawsuit against any business that sells personal information.
Because we all know how gosh durned reliable cell phones are for simple voice, now we're goign to trust the same technology with our data.
Not to mention the hell this will cause with cellular service. Just imagine, thousands of kiddies downloading porn in the mean time, some poor soul in an accident is trying to call for help and he's getting "Thank you for using the Verizon/AOL cell service, all our lines are busy right now but you will be notified as sonn as one opens up.
No, the reason cell phones and the cell laptop connections work currently is because the actual numbr of people on the system at any given time is relatively low compared to the number of users. THis will kill our systems the same way 9/11 killed the cell service when everyone was calling everyone else to find out who was hurt.
nVidia has stated repeatedly they have no intentions of using opensource. So that was your mistake.
And like the others said. nVidia sends these "freebie" cards to lot's of other sites not just here in the US but all arroudn the world. They're only going to give freebies to the sites that have a very high reader base and get lot's of publicity. Since I have never heard of your site before, and never seen a review from your site posted here as a parent topic, you apparently don't have the reader base that nVidia is looking for.
I realize you might be ticked, but companies can only give up so much before they start loosing money. Remember, just because the product is new, doesn't mean they're making money on it. For the most part, they have little profit comming in from this product yet and therefore do not have the money to provide a freebie for every reviewer site. If you hadn't come here and whined and complained and said nVidia sux (I good way to ensure you always get told to fuck off) I would have suggested you waited a few months and tried again.
Think about it. If they get muchos publicity giving out X number of freebies to big name sites (Tom's, CNET etc) then it isn't really worth the cost to give you a freebie when they can sell that card to some consumer for a profit.
You must be one of them wierd mac folk that seem to think that the latest and greatest and fastest isn't nessesarily useful for day to day life.
Didn't you know that playing Quake at anythign less than 120 FPS is dog slow, you can't twitch fast enough if it's less than that. GEEZE, I bet you don't even go out and splurge $200 every six months for a new processor and MB.
You honestly think you couldn't buy the mac version from a store or elsewhere. And as someone before mentioned, you can always flash the rom and install drivers from the net
The new graphics cards in the G4s isn't as bad as people thought they were. Tom's seemed to find even the GForce4MX impressive (and the one with the G4s is the top of the line model the tech specs on Apples web site give a 64 MB DDR spec and only the top of the line MX had the DDR)
I can see these being used in a cluster setup, but that's about it. I didn't see anything about a built in screen, or any type of input device, so without it's dock it's sort of useless.
Now, if they could spead this thing out an make it thinner so that it could be embadded in say a professional notebook (you know, those funky little half folder half pads of paper things that profesionals seem to carry arround.) And incorporate a very small screen into it, I could see a use.
Or instead possibly combine this with a fully touch screen LCD, that would make it much more useful, but as it stands all this is, is an HD, Motherboard, processor and memory in a box, which except in extreme cases has very limmited uses.
Any one who uses cable internet (and actualy understands computers [thus being a person that would care about their bandwidth]) knows that a cable connection is a split line amongst multiple users throughout the niegborhood. There fore they understand that when a particular number of users or a particular person is using a lot of bandwidth, the connection will generaly be slower.
Now, the problem that seems to exist here is the little Johnny is monopolizing the bandwidth. If that is the case, than the problem actualy lies with the ISP, not with Johnny. If the ISP were doing things correctly, the bandwidth would be divided according to what each user is using, the more users the more dividing and at all times, bandwith usage should be at or near maximum, then, when another user requests more, it is taken equaly from the other users untill a medium is reached. for example:
Johny is playing quake over the net which uses 30% of the availible bandwidth. There are teo other users on, each actively using the connection for high speed access, 30% bandwidth goes to each them, this leaves 10% for the rest of the idle users. Now let's assume that the ISP wants to mantain 10% for idle users. Therefore when user nukmber 4 starts becoming active you then take the 90% bandwidth alloticated to normal users is divided 4 ways. So assume that user 4 only needs 9% (for the sake of making the math easy) of the bandwidth because he's simply checking and composing email. The service should then break up into 27%, 27%, 27%, 9% and 10%. Will johny and the other highspeed users see a drop, yes, but that's inherrent in a cable connection system. If you want dedicated bandwidth (that is, you want to be guarenteed your bandwith will never change) then go get a dedicated line. Normal users should not be punished for using their resources to the max, if the resources are being alloticated properly. And if their not, it's an ISP problem.
If you ask me, there is nothing wrong with cybersquatting, espesialy now. If you own a company now and you don't have the intelligence to go get your domain registered then you deserve to pay money for the name. The fact is, I paid for that domain name, the rights to it belong to me as long as I continue to pay for it. Just as when I buy a product I have the rights to that particular item. I can sell it at whatever price someone is willing to pay for it.
What really bugs me though are companies that take domains from other people because it's www.companysucks.com. Again, if the company wasn't bright enough to buy that site before hand, they deserve to pay whatever the other person wants for that domain. Remember, no one FORCES the company to pay outrages prices for a domain name, the company decides that that is what the doamin is worth to them. There is a reason before the release of a new product (i.e. iPod) Apple buys the domain, so that no one else gets to it first. Likewise, if I ever start my computer repair business (Orbit Computer Repair) I will register the domain before I star teh actual business. Of course there are many variations on that name that I could use, and let's not forget I could still use.org or.net sites technicaly, it just would be less obvious, but like I said, if your too slow, it's too bad.
The only rights they would have would be if they were hired beta testers, but even then the only right they really have is to wages. Otherwise as a volunteer, they were not obligated to give their time, therefore you are not obligated to reimburse them. For a look at a Beta Test licence that seems to work, check Ambrosia Software
As if we didn't have enough problems with copyright owners wanted ever computer user tagged and monitored all day long, we now have to run articles about how TV is going to get Napsterized? Is it just me or does this seem more detrimental to the computer community than helpful?
You should hit up pricewatch.com and check
networking->mac for some mac specific cards. With the lowest price being $5. Of course, as you get to more brand name items, they get more expensive, but personaly, if I was wanting to run the thing as a gateway and host mail and DNS services, I would prefer name brand over generic any day.
Also keep in mind that for many devices, macs have a generic driver set that works fine, for example, my harddrive (which only game with PC drivers [why drivers for an HD?] and no mac support ot be found anywhere) runs quite nicely in my computer, the only hassle I had was getting it to do the initial format (which had to be done in linux) but I think that had more to do with the fact that it's a 45 gig HD in a computer that was never designed to handle more than about 3.
I would suggest you try plugging in your bargin brand ethernet card and seeing if you can't get it to work (don't forget to check Apple's own web site for ethernet card drivers).
Ofcourse, I should also point out that your old 7200 is from an era when macs were highly incompatible, and since that particular mac probably can not run OS 9, you may not be able to get it to work. But the newer macs are much more compatible. And like I said, unless at adresses the x86 hardware specificaly, if it runs under Linux it will run under OS X if not OS 9
Personaly, I thought the the movie could have been good, if they had appealed to the Final Fantasy fans and not to every one else. One of the great things about the FF game series, is you can play one of them without ever playing any of the others and it will make sense. Most people couldn't have made heads or tails of this movie without knowing the mentality behind the Final Fantasy series. But even there they failed.
As some one already said, where were the sword fights? The summons and the spells? The dragoons and the armour? All of these elements are inherrent in every FF game (though they have definately changed over the years). These are all elements that we look for in something with the name Final Fantasy. This movie could have been great if they worked with the story development liek they do with their games. Personaly, I thought FF VIII was a great game, and had a very nice story line that would have made a great movie. VII and VI too. Even III had its moments that could have made it a movie.
The thing that makes the FF games great are the long engaging stories, the internal conflicts among the main characters, and the slightly eccentric characters that would seem out of place if it wasn't for the fact that they played into the story so well.
Of course, for the sake of making a movie, I was willing to forgive Square forgoing the elements of their games if they had incredible animation. But even there they failed. Don't get me wrong, some of it was incredible, but alot of it was not. None of the characters could smile, and when they tried to frown, it looked like they were choking. Their movement was stiff and for all the money they spent on the muscle and hair development (look at their hands, you can see the muscles and bones move), they didn't spens enough on the hands and fingers. When ever they grasped something, it didn't look like they were holding it.
Had the animation been flawless or at least smooth, perhaps it would have done better. But the animation was not enough to keep it alive, and the story ws not like the games, so it failed.
Computers used to store their entire OS in memory (see comodore 64). But with modern day OSes, changes occur to the system files too often for it to work in the old system.
However, many systems now can run from a RAM disk. Most mini linux distro's do. The mac OS has an option to create a RAM disk, and then have it save to the HD when you shut down, (so theoreticaly you could start from the RAM disk as I believe the first thing it does it read the file back to RAM.
I see your point, though personaly I would rather have a seperate router/firewall/DHCP server than commit one of my machines to it, but then again, I've only got 3 of em, maybe there's an advantage to using a computer instead of dedicated hardware.
If so, please tell me, I would be interested in what the benifits of using a comp over dedicated hardware is.
First of all, I am a mac user and would certainly enjoy mucking with the code (heck just for fun I prefer to run *NIX in entirely command mode). You confuse mac user with wimpy user, too different people. Yes the mac crowd is more user friendly oriented, but it doesn't change the fact that a lot of them are regular computer users who like code just as much as a wintel user.
Second, the reason it hasn't been done is because it's never needed to be, except in a few minor instnaces involving power surges, I have never seen the network card on a mac fail. Period. Maybe I've just been lucky, but the fact that the school I worked for never had those types of failures even in 8 and 9 year old macs (some of those by the way had a card put in them) seems to me a good indicator of the quality of the products put in a mac.
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Let's restrict lot's and lot's of people from getting a product that makes their device use more products so that they won't be able to buy more products so that they can't give us more money, so that we can gouge them for more and more money, so that we can complain about how all their products that we want banned are actualy driving away money we don't have to begin with.
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Wait a minute. If this information that they are SELLING is my PERSONAL info, then they are selling an item which belongs to me, without my permission or a contract from me. Isn't that the same thing that the RIAA is all up in arms about with the P2P stuff? Sale/Distribution of property (in their case, music, in our case, personal information) with out the legal consent or reimbursement of the original owner.
I say we start a multi-state class action lawsuit against any business that sells personal information.
Both, my college offers a one time $3,000 computer bonus.
Because we all know how gosh durned reliable cell phones are for simple voice, now we're goign to trust the same technology with our data.
Not to mention the hell this will cause with cellular service. Just imagine, thousands of kiddies downloading porn in the mean time, some poor soul in an accident is trying to call for help and he's getting "Thank you for using the Verizon/AOL cell service, all our lines are busy right now but you will be notified as sonn as one opens up.
No, the reason cell phones and the cell laptop connections work currently is because the actual numbr of people on the system at any given time is relatively low compared to the number of users. THis will kill our systems the same way 9/11 killed the cell service when everyone was calling everyone else to find out who was hurt.
Go back up a level from this reply and someone posted the terms of agreement for bestbuy's site, sorry, they dont' have to honnor it.
nVidia has stated repeatedly they have no intentions of using opensource. So that was your mistake.
And like the others said. nVidia sends these "freebie" cards to lot's of other sites not just here in the US but all arroudn the world. They're only going to give freebies to the sites that have a very high reader base and get lot's of publicity. Since I have never heard of your site before, and never seen a review from your site posted here as a parent topic, you apparently don't have the reader base that nVidia is looking for.
I realize you might be ticked, but companies can only give up so much before they start loosing money. Remember, just because the product is new, doesn't mean they're making money on it. For the most part, they have little profit comming in from this product yet and therefore do not have the money to provide a freebie for every reviewer site. If you hadn't come here and whined and complained and said nVidia sux (I good way to ensure you always get told to fuck off) I would have suggested you waited a few months and tried again.
Think about it. If they get muchos publicity giving out X number of freebies to big name sites (Tom's, CNET etc) then it isn't really worth the cost to give you a freebie when they can sell that card to some consumer for a profit.
You must be one of them wierd mac folk that seem to think that the latest and greatest and fastest isn't nessesarily useful for day to day life.
Didn't you know that playing Quake at anythign less than 120 FPS is dog slow, you can't twitch fast enough if it's less than that. GEEZE, I bet you don't even go out and splurge $200 every six months for a new processor and MB.
Wierdo.
You honestly think you couldn't buy the mac version from a store or elsewhere. And as someone before mentioned, you can always flash the rom and install drivers from the net
The new graphics cards in the G4s isn't as bad as people thought they were. Tom's seemed to find even the GForce4MX impressive (and the one with the G4s is the top of the line model the tech specs on Apples web site give a 64 MB DDR spec and only the top of the line MX had the DDR)
I can see these being used in a cluster setup, but that's about it. I didn't see anything about a built in screen, or any type of input device, so without it's dock it's sort of useless.
Now, if they could spead this thing out an make it thinner so that it could be embadded in say a professional notebook (you know, those funky little half folder half pads of paper things that profesionals seem to carry arround.) And incorporate a very small screen into it, I could see a use.
Or instead possibly combine this with a fully touch screen LCD, that would make it much more useful, but as it stands all this is, is an HD, Motherboard, processor and memory in a box, which except in extreme cases has very limmited uses.
Any one who uses cable internet (and actualy understands computers [thus being a person that would care about their bandwidth]) knows that a cable connection is a split line amongst multiple users throughout the niegborhood. There fore they understand that when a particular number of users or a particular person is using a lot of bandwidth, the connection will generaly be slower.
Now, the problem that seems to exist here is the little Johnny is monopolizing the bandwidth. If that is the case, than the problem actualy lies with the ISP, not with Johnny. If the ISP were doing things correctly, the bandwidth would be divided according to what each user is using, the more users the more dividing and at all times, bandwith usage should be at or near maximum, then, when another user requests more, it is taken equaly from the other users untill a medium is reached. for example:
Johny is playing quake over the net which uses 30% of the availible bandwidth. There are teo other users on, each actively using the connection for high speed access, 30% bandwidth goes to each them, this leaves 10% for the rest of the idle users. Now let's assume that the ISP wants to mantain 10% for idle users. Therefore when user nukmber 4 starts becoming active you then take the 90% bandwidth alloticated to normal users is divided 4 ways. So assume that user 4 only needs 9% (for the sake of making the math easy) of the bandwidth because he's simply checking and composing email. The service should then break up into 27%, 27%, 27%, 9% and 10%. Will johny and the other highspeed users see a drop, yes, but that's inherrent in a cable connection system. If you want dedicated bandwidth (that is, you want to be guarenteed your bandwith will never change) then go get a dedicated line. Normal users should not be punished for using their resources to the max, if the resources are being alloticated properly. And if their not, it's an ISP problem.
If you ask me, there is nothing wrong with cybersquatting, espesialy now. If you own a company now and you don't have the intelligence to go get your domain registered then you deserve to pay money for the name. The fact is, I paid for that domain name, the rights to it belong to me as long as I continue to pay for it. Just as when I buy a product I have the rights to that particular item. I can sell it at whatever price someone is willing to pay for it.
.org or .net sites technicaly, it just would be less obvious, but like I said, if your too slow, it's too bad.
What really bugs me though are companies that take domains from other people because it's www.companysucks.com. Again, if the company wasn't bright enough to buy that site before hand, they deserve to pay whatever the other person wants for that domain. Remember, no one FORCES the company to pay outrages prices for a domain name, the company decides that that is what the doamin is worth to them. There is a reason before the release of a new product (i.e. iPod) Apple buys the domain, so that no one else gets to it first. Likewise, if I ever start my computer repair business (Orbit Computer Repair) I will register the domain before I star teh actual business. Of course there are many variations on that name that I could use, and let's not forget I could still use
The only rights they would have would be if they were hired beta testers, but even then the only right they really have is to wages. Otherwise as a volunteer, they were not obligated to give their time, therefore you are not obligated to reimburse them. For a look at a Beta Test licence that seems to work, check Ambrosia Software
As if we didn't have enough problems with copyright owners wanted ever computer user tagged and monitored all day long, we now have to run articles about how TV is going to get Napsterized? Is it just me or does this seem more detrimental to the computer community than helpful?
what's your point?
You should hit up pricewatch.com and check
networking->mac for some mac specific cards. With the lowest price being $5. Of course, as you get to more brand name items, they get more expensive, but personaly, if I was wanting to run the thing as a gateway and host mail and DNS services, I would prefer name brand over generic any day.
Also keep in mind that for many devices, macs have a generic driver set that works fine, for example, my harddrive (which only game with PC drivers [why drivers for an HD?] and no mac support ot be found anywhere) runs quite nicely in my computer, the only hassle I had was getting it to do the initial format (which had to be done in linux) but I think that had more to do with the fact that it's a 45 gig HD in a computer that was never designed to handle more than about 3.
I would suggest you try plugging in your bargin brand ethernet card and seeing if you can't get it to work (don't forget to check Apple's own web site for ethernet card drivers).
Ofcourse, I should also point out that your old 7200 is from an era when macs were highly incompatible, and since that particular mac probably can not run OS 9, you may not be able to get it to work. But the newer macs are much more compatible. And like I said, unless at adresses the x86 hardware specificaly, if it runs under Linux it will run under OS X if not OS 9
Personaly, I thought the the movie could have been good, if they had appealed to the Final Fantasy fans and not to every one else. One of the great things about the FF game series, is you can play one of them without ever playing any of the others and it will make sense. Most people couldn't have made heads or tails of this movie without knowing the mentality behind the Final Fantasy series. But even there they failed.
As some one already said, where were the sword fights? The summons and the spells? The dragoons and the armour? All of these elements are inherrent in every FF game (though they have definately changed over the years). These are all elements that we look for in something with the name Final Fantasy. This movie could have been great if they worked with the story development liek they do with their games. Personaly, I thought FF VIII was a great game, and had a very nice story line that would have made a great movie. VII and VI too. Even III had its moments that could have made it a movie.
The thing that makes the FF games great are the long engaging stories, the internal conflicts among the main characters, and the slightly eccentric characters that would seem out of place if it wasn't for the fact that they played into the story so well.
Of course, for the sake of making a movie, I was willing to forgive Square forgoing the elements of their games if they had incredible animation. But even there they failed. Don't get me wrong, some of it was incredible, but alot of it was not. None of the characters could smile, and when they tried to frown, it looked like they were choking. Their movement was stiff and for all the money they spent on the muscle and hair development (look at their hands, you can see the muscles and bones move), they didn't spens enough on the hands and fingers. When ever they grasped something, it didn't look like they were holding it.
Had the animation been flawless or at least smooth, perhaps it would have done better. But the animation was not enough to keep it alive, and the story ws not like the games, so it failed.
Computers used to store their entire OS in memory (see comodore 64). But with modern day OSes, changes occur to the system files too often for it to work in the old system.
However, many systems now can run from a RAM disk. Most mini linux distro's do. The mac OS has an option to create a RAM disk, and then have it save to the HD when you shut down, (so theoreticaly you could start from the RAM disk as I believe the first thing it does it read the file back to RAM.
DO I collect a royalty fee or get stuck with a licence charge for every day I live?
I see your point, though personaly I would rather have a seperate router/firewall/DHCP server than commit one of my machines to it, but then again, I've only got 3 of em, maybe there's an advantage to using a computer instead of dedicated hardware.
If so, please tell me, I would be interested in what the benifits of using a comp over dedicated hardware is.
First of all, I am a mac user and would certainly enjoy mucking with the code (heck just for fun I prefer to run *NIX in entirely command mode). You confuse mac user with wimpy user, too different people. Yes the mac crowd is more user friendly oriented, but it doesn't change the fact that a lot of them are regular computer users who like code just as much as a wintel user.
Second, the reason it hasn't been done is because it's never needed to be, except in a few minor instnaces involving power surges, I have never seen the network card on a mac fail. Period. Maybe I've just been lucky, but the fact that the school I worked for never had those types of failures even in 8 and 9 year old macs (some of those by the way had a card put in them) seems to me a good indicator of the quality of the products put in a mac.
I guess it depends on whether this software could run on a PPC version of linux or only under OSX