That bumlicking attitude is exactly why I stoped buying pcgamer and pcmags in general and went online for my information.
I really do not get why a person with access to the internet would pay what,7 pound's for a bunch of screenshots,add's and shity biased reviews splatered with even worse cheap pub humor.
The xbox offers nothing signifigantly different to the ps2.
It may be the technicaly better console but at the end of the day No one cares about that unless they can see the difference in the games.To be able to see this you need a hdtv and the majority of us plebs do not have this device.
Game developers want to sell software,when they are deciding if they want to make games for a console they look at the console's user base, the console with the largest userbase is the console that is most profitable to develop for.To date sony have sold 27 million ps2's,microsoft are looking to sell 4.5 to 6 million they have not met this target , that means that atm the xbox's userbase is less than one fifth of of the ps2's.
Now at this point I am sure some one will say,"but it is easy to port pcgames to the xbox", or,"but microsoft can just give developers loads of money to develop for the console".The problem's with these points are one in the same.The games were not made for the xbox and they are not exclusive to the xbox.Pcgames that get ported to consoles usualy suffer in terms of implimentation,(for example redalert on psone or maxpayne on the ps2/xbox both of which have problems in the console version,(area loading problems in mp),),and do not set the xbox apart from other console's.
If the xbox does not have a large user base you can not expect game developers to develop exclusive title's for the xbox which take full advantage of the xbox's hardware and which would set it apart from its competition,( gamecube , ps2),and if there is nothing which sets the xbox apart from the ps2 why buy it.
From the very start,I saw the xbox as a typical microsoft product. An unimaginative copy which was not done very well and which had little or nothing to set it apart from it's competition. I say this as gamer and not as some one just taking a cheap shot at microsoft.Unless microsoft do something drastic Like say bring out a ps2 emulator which would allow you to play copied ps2 games or some other amazing feature The xbox will fail and microsoft will not get a second chance.
So Many card owning zealot's on both sides Have expressed there views and now I the confused consumer find myself attempting to interpret and hence pick and purchase.
Initialy I was in the market for 2 new card's,one to play my current favorite fps and one to record tv to mpeg2,(at a decent resolution), both of which had to work under linux and both had to be within my budget.
Now initialy the choice seemed simple , a nvidia card for gaming and some other card for tv.Then the 8500/7500radeon'swith all of the seemingly nice pvr options came out and suddenly my inital options seemed a bit broader.
I have yet to see some one lay out the pro's and con's of the 8500/7500dv in a non biased way. There are plenty of reviews of the card's performance under window's , I have yet to see a review of how the card performes under linux.This I presume is due to the ati linux driver situation Which so many nvidia users have gleefully pointed out.
So many ati fans laud the fact that nvidia's drivers are closed,(?), and so many nvidia fans point out that ati's linux performance is less than amazing and that ati's drivers are only slightly more open than nvidia's,(???).To me this whole situation is confusing.
Basicly from what I can decipher atm ati's radeon 8500/7500 dv drivers for linux do not full fill what I want them to do,(capture tv and play games under linux ), and therefore atm these two cards are not for me.
I would prefer to support ati over nvidia as they 'seem' the more open of the two companies However there performance or rather the performance of the 3rd party people who develop there drivers seems under somewhat under par.
So in conclusion I think I am going to stick with an nvidia card for gaming under linux and shop around for a different capture card.I am really looking for suggestions as to what i should buy and would be happy to listen to any advice anyone has to offer on this matter
But,"these people were just plain weak, always have been, and always will be",They will not always be weak if they kill themselves they will be dead,there is no future tense for people who commit suicide there is only the past tense.
Past Tense.
The guy said,"Suicide is for the weak",he was correct.If you do not do something about your depression and you kill yourself then it was because of the depression that you killed yourself and because depression was the cause of your suicide therefore that depression was the weakness which made you kill yourself.
On the other hand people with mental illness's can conquer ther illness,(weakness if you prefer),and can be strong in the present and future tenses.The guy did not talk about people with mental illness's specificaly He/she may have been a little blunt in his opinion's but in my view in 'what he actualy said' he was correct.Here is what he said
"nah, the weak kill themselves. The real world sucks, thats obvious, but that doesnt mean commiting suicide is better. If the SSSCA or whatever law passes, the whole online escape will be ruined for me, it doesnt mean i'll commit suicide, because there WAS a time when i didnt have this online escape, I'll just have to find a new escape.
//If you oppose the SSSCA, DMCA, http://www.anti-cbdt.org/ http://eff.org, forget petitions"
I am looking for a good cheap tv capture card which can record mpeg2 at a dcent resolution,(i want full screen play back), Any one got any suggestions?
"It's still a powerfull truck, it just has a small problem that is affecting it in a major way. " But that small problem is still a weakness of the truck regardless of Whether that weakness can or can not be fixed.If the trucks problem is fixed then the truck no longer has that particular weakness.If it is not fixed then the truck still has a weakness.
"A chemical imbalance can be easly fixed today, so I think it's a little silly so label someone as weak because of it."But if the chemical imbalance is not,"fixed", then the chemical imbalance remains present and therefore remains a weakness.
" But I think my point was that you can't just label someone who is suicidal weak, because sometimes, a mental illness is just a chemicl imbalance."If a person is suffering from a mental illness,even if that mental illness comes from a chemical imbalance that mental illness is still a weakness or weak point of the person in question.If they treat the problem or,'fix', it then it is no longer a weakness.If they kill themselves as a result of the chemical imbalance then they did not,'fix', the problem and therefore died as a result of that problem.An individual is not nessecarily responsible for the weakness's he/she possess, a person who is,'weak', or has a,"weakness", may not be responsible for that,weakness,.
Synonyms: weak, feeble, frail, 1fragile, infirm, decrepit, debilitated These adjectives mean lacking or showing a lack of strength. Weak is the most widely applicable: "These poor wretches... were so weak they could hardly sit to their oars" (Daniel Defoe). Feeble suggests pathetic or grievous physical or mental weakness or hopeless inadequacy: a feeble intellect; a feeble effort. Frail implies delicacy and inability to endure or withstand: "an aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small" (Thomas Hardy.). What is fragile is easily broken, damaged, or destroyed: a fragile, expensive vase; a fragile state of mind after the accident. Infirm implies enfeeblement: "a poor, infirm, weak, and despis'd old man" (Shakespeare). Decrepit describes what is weakened, worn out, or broken down by hard use or the passage of time: a decrepit building slated for demolition. Debilitated suggests a gradual impairment of energy or strength: a debilitated constitution further weakened by overwork.
What makes a person anything ? what makes a person strong what makes a person happy.These are all things which are subjective.
"You seem to say it as if anyone who commits suicide is a feeble and weak person" That is true, suicide,(in this particular context), comes from an inability to deal with life which implies that the person is/was not strong enough to deal with there own personal situation,(i.e they were to weak to do so),and hence took there own life.
However mental strength is a relative term.Some people can deal with life better than other's.So when the guy said,"nah, the weak kill themselves.",he was in my opinion correct, weak people do kill them selves.
"Are you somehow much stronger and better person than all these people that commit suicide? "
"And when someone else breaks onto her system and runs 'Porn', which pops up a series of dirty pictures in XV and then opens a window and request 'talk' with her, she'll have yet another feature of the system she can use."
First off my mothers machine is behind my openbsd firewall which I administer which keeps my home network as safe AS I NEED IT and secondly on its own I would trust freebsd over windows in terms of security any day.I find your arguments to be both weak,ignorant and non specific?Please enlighten me oh security expert as to how,(and if so why?),you would break in to my mothers machine
"Try putting it on your Mom's/Dad's/Grandma's PC and see how they'll do with it."
My mum has my old pc in her room.It runs freebsd and uses windowMaker for a gui.I have it set up so that after it boots and she logs in,(gui login), she is confronted with a series of big shiny buttons. MAil,WEB.OFF. when she boots the computer goes online automaticaly. WHEN she clicks on the mail button a mail program,(which I wrote),launches.When she clicks on the web button mozilla launches when she has finished she clicks on the off button and that shuts down the pc.That is all she wants a pc for.If she wants to listen to music or do pretty much anything else she can email me and I will make a new button for her.She finds freebsd set up in this particular way easier to use than windows.She does not need Microsoft office and she is not an avid gamer.This solution I admit is not an ideal solution for every one but bsd's and linux varients are flexible you can configure them for your own particular situation.My point is that There is no law against leaving out options and features which could confuse some one .
Still if I produce music and if I ran a coffe shop I would stream my music to the customers. if they would like the music or not... wel thats another matter;)
I will not be buying Warcraft III or any blizzard products.
"it's perfectly possible and not hypocritical to hate Blizzard and want to fuck them five ways from Friday and still enjoy Warcraft III. "
That may be true , but it is hypocritical to whine on about companies doing 'bad' thing's,(you do not agree ), and then to go out and buy the product.I would even go so far as to say that it would be hypocritical for some who diss agreed with what blizzard did to bnetd to even play the pirated version of Warcraft III .
First off,The whole question of universal freedom for software should be kept seperate from the whole argument that people who come from the west or well off areas are in some way precluded from having an opinion in certan matters and that there opinion is worth less because of the fact that they are living the so called good life.
Rms believes all software should be free,(as in speech not nessecarily price),.Rms comes from the west and it could rightly and easily be said that the fact that he comes from this well off area makes it easy for him to have this point of view.But The question is not whether it is easy or not for him to have this point of view but rather do you agree with him or do you think he is wrong?
If rms was from india would it make what he says any more right or wrong ? What rms say's should be the issue and not where he is from.If you agree or dissagree with him on the point that all software should be free,well that is a matter of opinion and that is another issue.
India has a rich philosophical and cultural tradition,(despite being impoverished),and this was in my opinion what rms was alluding to when he made the comment,"In India there are a number of people who are capable of seeing free software as an ethical and social issue".I think that the Indians are more than capable of grasping the ethical and social issues that free software highlights and deciding individualy how they want to live and deal with it.If indians decide that a concept is right or a concept is wrong,it will not matter where that concept came from.
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And Broadband in ireland is also a sham and an expensive one at that!
A bold new direction for micrdoft just read about it here!
That bumlicking attitude is exactly why I stoped buying pcgamer and pcmags in general and went online for my information.
,7 pound's for a bunch of screenshots,add's and shity biased reviews splatered with even worse cheap pub
I really do not get why a person with access to the internet would pay what
humor.
I have not seen the xbox or any of its games for rent in any rental store over here.
Oh ok just wondering .
didn't IBm's stock just drop 17billion yesterday ?
The xbox offers nothing signifigantly different to the ps2.
,when they are deciding if they want to make games for a console they look at the console's user base, the console with the largest userbase is the console that is most profitable to develop for.To date sony have sold 27 million ps2's ,microsoft are looking to sell 4.5 to 6 million they have not met this target , that means that atm the xbox's userbase is less than one fifth of of the ps2's.
,"but it is easy to port pcgames to the xbox", or ,"but microsoft can just give developers loads of money to develop for the console" .The problem's with these points are one in the same.The games were not made for the xbox and they are not exclusive to the xbox.Pcgames that get ported to consoles usualy suffer in terms of implimentation ,(for example redalert on psone or maxpayne on the ps2/xbox both of which have problems in the console version ,(area loading problems in mp),),and do not set the xbox apart from other console's.
,( gamecube , ps2),and if there is nothing which sets the xbox apart from the ps2 why buy it .
,I saw the xbox as a typical microsoft product. An unimaginative copy which was not done very well and which had little or nothing to set it apart from it's competition.
It may be the technicaly better console but at the end of the day No one cares about that unless they can see the difference in the games.To be able to see this you need a hdtv and the majority of us plebs do not have this device.
Game developers want to sell software
Now at this point I am sure some one will
say
If the xbox does not have a large user base you can not expect game developers to develop exclusive title's for the xbox which take full advantage of the xbox's hardware and which would set it apart from its competition
From the very start
I say this as gamer and not as some one just taking a cheap shot at microsoft.Unless microsoft do something drastic Like say bring out a ps2 emulator which would allow you to play copied ps2 games or some other amazing feature The xbox will fail and microsoft will not get a second chance.
http://www.linuxhardware.org/article.pl?sid=01/03/ 19/0357219&mode=thread
So Many card owning zealot's on both sides Have expressed there views and now I the confused consumer find myself attempting to interpret and hence pick and purchase.
.
Initialy I was in the market for 2 new card's,one to play my current favorite fps and one to record tv to mpeg2,(at a decent resolution), both of which had to work under linux and both had to be within my budget.
Now initialy the choice seemed simple , a nvidia card for gaming and some other card for tv.Then the 8500/7500radeon'swith all of the seemingly nice pvr options came out and suddenly my inital options seemed a bit broader.
I have yet to see some one lay out the pro's and con's of the 8500/7500dv in a non biased way
There are plenty of reviews of the card's performance under window's , I have yet to see a review of how the card performes under linux.This I presume is due to the ati linux driver situation Which so many nvidia users have gleefully pointed out.
So many ati fans laud the fact that nvidia's drivers are closed,(?), and so many nvidia fans
point out that ati's linux performance is less than amazing and that ati's drivers are only slightly more open than nvidia's,(???).To me this whole situation is confusing.
Basicly from what I can decipher atm ati's radeon 8500/7500 dv drivers for linux do not full fill what I want them to do,(capture tv and play games under linux ), and therefore atm these two cards are not for me.
I would prefer to support ati over nvidia as they 'seem' the more open of the two companies
However there performance or rather the performance of the 3rd party people who develop there drivers seems under somewhat under par.
So in conclusion I think I am going to stick with an nvidia card for gaming under linux and shop around for a different capture card.I am really looking for suggestions as to what i should buy and would be happy to listen to any advice anyone has to offer on this matter
I am in the market for good mpeg2 capture card which is supported by linux.do you have any recomendations ,(preferably not pricey),?
"Spoken by someone who is not an avid game player, obviously". 3d game player.
But ,"these people were just plain weak, always have been, and always will be",They will not always be weak if they kill themselves they will be dead ,there is no future tense for people who commit suicide there is only the past tense.
,"Suicide is for the weak",he was correct.If you do not do something about your depression and you kill yourself then it was because of the depression that you killed yourself
Past Tense.
The guy said
and because depression was the cause of your suicide therefore that depression was the weakness which made you kill yourself.
On the other hand people with mental illness's can conquer ther illness,(weakness if you prefer),and can be strong in the present and future tenses.The guy did not talk about people with mental illness's specificaly He/she may have been a little blunt in his opinion's but in my view in 'what he actualy said' he was correct.Here is what he said
"nah, the weak kill themselves.
The real world sucks, thats obvious, but that doesnt mean commiting suicide is better.
If the SSSCA or whatever law passes, the whole online escape will be ruined for me,
it doesnt mean i'll commit suicide, because there WAS a time when i didnt have this online escape, I'll just have to find a new escape.
//If you oppose the SSSCA, DMCA, http://www.anti-cbdt.org/ http://eff.org, forget petitions"
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I am looking for a good cheap tv capture card which can record mpeg2 at a dcent resolution,(i want full screen play back), Any one got any suggestions?
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"It's still a powerfull truck, it just has a small problem that is affecting it in a major way. "
,even if that mental illness comes from a chemical imbalance that mental illness is still a weakness or weak point of the person in question .If they treat the problem or ,'fix', it then it is no longer a weakness.If they kill themselves as a result of the chemical imbalance then they did not,'fix', the problem and therefore died as a result of that problem .An individual is not nessecarily responsible for the weakness's he/she possess, a person who is ,'weak', or has a ,"weakness", may not be responsible for that ,weakness,.
But that small problem is still a weakness of the truck regardless of Whether that weakness can or can not be fixed.If the trucks problem is fixed then the truck no longer has that particular weakness.If it is not fixed then the truck still has a weakness.
"A chemical imbalance can be easly fixed today, so I think it's a little silly so label someone as weak because of it."But if the chemical imbalance is not,"fixed", then the chemical imbalance remains present and therefore remains a weakness.
" But I think my point was that you can't just label someone who is suicidal weak, because sometimes, a mental illness is just a chemicl
imbalance."If a person is suffering from a mental illness
"What makes a person weak?"
,"nah, the weak kill themselves.",he was in my opinion correct, weak people do kill them selves.
Synonyms: weak, feeble, frail, 1fragile, infirm, decrepit, debilitated
These adjectives mean lacking or showing a lack of strength. Weak is the most widely applicable: "These poor wretches... were so weak they could hardly sit to their oars" (Daniel Defoe). Feeble suggests pathetic or grievous physical or mental weakness or hopeless inadequacy: a feeble intellect; a feeble effort. Frail implies delicacy and inability to endure or withstand: "an aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small" (Thomas Hardy.). What is fragile is easily broken, damaged, or destroyed: a fragile, expensive vase; a fragile state of mind after the accident. Infirm implies enfeeblement: "a poor, infirm, weak, and despis'd old man" (Shakespeare). Decrepit describes what is weakened, worn out, or broken down by hard use or the passage of time: a decrepit building slated for demolition. Debilitated suggests a gradual impairment of energy or strength: a debilitated constitution further weakened by overwork.
What makes a person anything ? what makes a person strong what makes a person happy.These are all things which are subjective.
"You seem to say it as if anyone who commits suicide is a feeble and weak person"
That is true, suicide,(in this particular context), comes from an inability to deal with life which implies that the person is/was not strong enough to deal with there own personal situation,(i.e they were to weak to do so),and hence took there own life.
However mental strength is a relative term.Some people can deal with life better than other's.So when the guy said
"Are you somehow much stronger and better person than all these people that commit suicide? "
now that is a question I can not answer.
"And when someone else breaks onto her system and runs 'Porn', which pops up a series of dirty pictures in XV and then opens a window and request 'talk' with her, she'll have yet another feature of the system she can use."
,ignorant and non specific?Please enlighten me oh security expert as to how ,(and if so why?),you would break in to my mothers machine
First off my mothers machine is behind my openbsd firewall which I administer which keeps my home network as safe AS I NEED IT and secondly on its own I would trust freebsd over windows in terms of security any day.I find your arguments to be both weak
Thank you very much.The two replys to my coment were pedantic in the extreme and I was not going to respond to them.
"Try putting it on your Mom's/Dad's/Grandma's PC and see how they'll do with it."
.It runs freebsd and uses windowMaker for a gui.I have it set up so that after it boots and she logs in ,(gui login), she is confronted with a series of big shiny buttons. MAil ,WEB .OFF. when she boots the computer goes online automaticaly. WHEN she clicks on the mail button a mail program ,(which I wrote),launches .When she clicks on the web button mozilla launches when she has finished she clicks on the off button and that shuts down the pc .That is all she wants a pc for .If she wants to listen to music or do pretty much anything else she can email me and I will make a new button for her.She finds freebsd set up in this particular way easier to use than windows.She does not need Microsoft office and she is not an avid gamer.This solution I admit is not an ideal solution for every one but bsd's and linux varients are flexible you can configure them for your own particular situation .My point is that There is no law against leaving out options and features which could confuse some one .
My mum has my old pc in her room
Still if I produce music and if I ran a coffe shop I would stream my music to the customers. if they would like the music or not ... wel thats another matter ;)
I will not be buying Warcraft III or any blizzard products.
"it's perfectly possible and not hypocritical to hate Blizzard and want to fuck them five ways from Friday and still enjoy Warcraft III. "
That may be true , but it is hypocritical to whine on about companies doing 'bad' thing's,(you do not agree ), and then to go out and buy the product.I would even go so far as to say that it would be hypocritical for some who diss agreed with what blizzard did to bnetd to even play the pirated version of Warcraft III .
Would be pretty cool to be able to stream music to ipods thow .
Not according to this article
First off,The whole question of universal freedom for software should be kept seperate from the whole argument that people who come from the west or well off areas are in some way precluded from having an opinion in certan matters and that there opinion is worth less because of the fact that they are living the so called good life.
,well that is a matter of opinion and that is another issue.
,(despite being impoverished),and this was in my opinion what rms was alluding to when he made the comment,"In India there are a number of people who are capable of seeing free software as an ethical and social issue".I think that the Indians are more than capable of grasping the ethical and social issues that free software highlights and deciding individualy how they want to live and deal with it.If indians decide that a concept is right or a concept is wrong ,it will not matter where that concept came from.
Rms believes all software should be free,(as in speech not nessecarily price),.Rms comes from the west and it could rightly and easily be said that the fact that he comes from this well off area makes it easy for him to have this point of view.But The question is not whether it is easy or not for him to have this point of view but rather do you agree with him or do you think he is wrong?
If rms was from india would it make what he says any more right or wrong ? What rms say's should
be the issue and not where he is from.If you agree or dissagree with him on the point that all software should be free
India has a rich philosophical and cultural tradition
Ignore a troll and he'll stay around for one post. reply to him , and he'll stay with you for the rest of his life.