I don't see what the big deal is... The line that caused all the controversy, "Kill all the Haitians!", is referring to a gang called "The Haitians", not to an ethnic group. Sure they're all Haitian but that's how they got their name. On that mission you don't just go killing anyone and everyone in the Haitian neighborhood, you kill the gang members wearing the gang colors. It's not about killing a racial group, it's about killing the rivals of another gang.
RPG, FPS, RTS, Adventure - I'll agree, I haven't seen any on the consoles that can come close to comparing with the RPGs for the computer. Although I bought Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic for the PC and it kicked ass! If it's anywhere near as good on the XBox (and came out months ahead) then they can't be all bad...
Platformers - Very true... As a computer user, you don't get exposed much to platformer games, but they can be VERY fun... I played Mario 64 on an emulator and thought it was very fun. You just don't see these for the PC (unfortunately).
Driving Games - Not so sure bout this one... I haven't played many driving games on a console. I played Grand Theft Auto 3 on the PC and thought it was AWESOME. I played GTA: Vice City on the PS2 at a friend's house (granted, I was quite drunk on Wild Turkey) and thought the console controls sucked for both driving and gaming. When I got GTA: Vice City on my PC though I thought it rocked!
Puzzle Games - Haven't played these on a console or multiplayer, but there are quite a few fun puzzle games for the PC, a lot of which can be played for free on the shockwave website. Also you should look up the "Smart Games" series (2 and 3 are a blast I know) if interested in some fun mind games.
Fighting Games - I 100% agree here. I haven't found a fun fighting game on my computer since my Commodore 64 with Karate and I can't think of the other, something to do with Bruce Lee I think. Consoles kick total ass in this arena. I spent $250 for a Dreamcast and "Soul Calibur" when it came out because I spent 5 minutes playing it in CompUSA and got hooked. I haven't been dissappointed, I still play it with friends every now and then.
Like I said in another post, the G5 only really beat the opteron on two tests. One of them clearly isn't designed to take advantage of two processors (the single processor G5 scored the same as the dual processor G5 even), although that doesn't matter much since the G5 won anyway. The other is clearly optimized to take advantage of a dual-processor Mac, but probably not a dual-processor Opteron (plugin for AfterEffects).
Now that's all fine and dandy, even if those are completely unbiased fully optimized for the Opteron tests, that's just two out of five. The opteron kicked the G5's ass on the Photoshop tests, which are the ones traditionally held up by Macphiles since they have always been on top of those.
Ok, there were only 5 non-3d-gaming tests. The slashdot article says "The G5 spanks the Opteron in many of the non-gaming tests, except for the Photoshop tests."
First off, the Photoshop tests have traditionally been what the Mac people cling to on benchmarks - "Well, the G5 did better on Photoshop so it's better at processing graphics." Well, the operton is 15% faster on MP and 10% faster on non-MP operations.
Second, how can you use the word "MANY" when you're talking about two tests? From reading the slashdot writeup I assumed there were 10+ tests and the G5 cleaned house on most of them. The Cinebench test was very close, the dual Opeteron system was about 2% slower than the dual G5 (51 score versus 50). The "Bryce 5" test doesn't appear to be optimized for multiple processors, meaning it's probably not even multi-threaded. If it was, why would the single processor G5 1.8ghz score the same (25) as the dual processor G5 1.8ghz? Adobe AfterEffects has a plugin to improve performance on multi-processor Mac based systems, but not for multi-processor Intel/AMD systems.
I think the surprising thing that should have been highlighted in the slashdot writeup is that the G5 finally got spanked on the Photoshop tests. Has anyone seen SPECINT tests with the Opteron?
c) UT2003 amd Q3A aren't CPU benchmarks. They'r GPU benchmarks and the 9800XT won - good work guys...
Actually at the 640x480 resolution with a scene that is full of action the graphics card isn't the bottleneck anymore. Put that 9800XT in a 1 ghz Pentium 3 and see what FPS you get...
The page on Microsoft's site lists 4 patents, all having to do with long filenames in FAT32. I think FAT32 is the only thing they are trying to say is patented, with patents starting in 1996 for the ones they listed. Windows 95 didn't have FAT32, that didn't come out until Windows 98 and Windows 95 OEM Service Release 2 which was released in 1996.
If they patent the uncoded DNA of all living creatures, then when the patent expires they will all be in the public domain and no one else can ever recreate this stupidity again.
Supposedly the QUnlock.exe program will permanently unlock the drive, but then again it could be some kind of TiVo "locking" and not the hard drive password locking we're talking about.
I think the purpose of double jeopardy was better said by our founding fathers, "It's better to let 10 criminals go free than to put one innocent man in jail." America was founded on the idea of personal freedom, and I think it's a horrible misjustice to put a man in jail for two years because he tried to watch a DVD that he purchased on a system other than the creators of the DVD intented.
Fabulous book, very interesting. I just hate how towards the end it becomes one big war and I didn't really understand who the good guys were or what they were fighting for (maybe too much like real life).
They did get the required court order for surveillance. Presumably they had to go to court with enough evidence to persuade a judge to sign off on it.
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Ah, so since they claim Linux is a derivative of SYSV, they are violating the contract. Is a car that has the same brake lights of another car a derivative of it?
Can you name one of these "wonderful projects" that costs "bigger bucks" than if it was done for profit? There have been stories before on cities laying out fiber to homes and in my limited research the result has always been better and cheaper service for the customer. I have seen some pages put up by the cable and phone companies showing how it didn't work out and was costing more money, but their claims are weak and fall apart under scrutiny. Of course they would like to maintain their monopolies.
In the article it says the cable company is spending some $350 million to upgrade their speeds. The fiber project will cost $470 million, only 35% more. Yet it will provide much faster access, and the cable companies say "Why buy a rolls Royce when a Chevrolet will do?" Well, why are they spending $350 million to upgrade their speed if we have enough? And why not upgrade to the even faster fiber? Are they just going to be spending another $350 million in 5-10 years to upgrade to fiber speed again? Why not do it now? The reasons the municipalities can do it is because they can raise the capital.
I'm stuck in my area with DSL for high speed access. I had cable but it turned out to be unreliable, going down for 30 seconds several times a night and finally spending most of the day not working. It was faster than DSL sometimes, but not during busy times of the day. With DSL I get a full 1 megabit pipe, but I'm spending a whole lot more than it looks like I would be with fiber. Even with the cheapest plans it is like $30 for 128 kilobit access and you get kicked off after 2 hours and can't sign on for 5 minutes. If you want a stable connection it's at least $40. If you want 640k it's more like $60. To me, $30 for a 1.5mbit/128kbit connection sounds like heaven.
If a judge was to strip copyrights from Linux, wouldn't that make it ALL public domain? In order to maintain their copyrights, SCO would have to show exactly what code was theirs finally.
Assigning copyrights to SCO would be out of the question. This is the only ending I believe that would allow SCO to actually keep charging for Linux. They didn't write any of the original code and any new code they wrote they specifically put under the GPL themselves. Assigning the copyrights for thousands of documents from hundreds of contributors to a company that had little to do with the combined work has no basis in law.
I believe Dungeon Siege contains major crossover potential because of its unique blend of action and fantasy, on the order of Lord of the Rings.
How can you compare a video game with a so-so at best backstory to one of the greatest literary works of the 20th century? They'd better have better script writers than the Dungeons and Dragons movie did...
Since SCO is willfully violating the copyright of every contributor to Linux and making a profit off it, they are violating criminal law. Copyright is not just about civil penalties that would arise from suing comeone, there are actual federal fines and even prison time involved for people that do this sort of thing. Usually they are reserved for people that are intentionally making money off other people's copyrighted material, such as a company that sells music CDs they make themselves without the right to do so. Isn't that exactly what SCO is doing now, selling other people's copyrighted works without the right to do so?
I don't know about Utah, but some states have laws where private citizens can sue to force the district attorney to bring criminal charges against someone (such as Colorado). Can't something be done about this? I would be very willing to contribute to a fund to do this. Or would this be more difficult to do since it would be a federal case?
I signed up for AOL once, CompUSA was giving $200 off the laptop I was buying for trying out AOL for 30 days, no-risk. I think I was a little late cancelling (I forgot) and was charged once, but when they saw I hadn't even signed into the service once they credited my card back.
x-play was much better when it was Extended Play. It was more about the games back then and I didn't have to listen to Adam and Morgan's moronic banter. I know Morgan has big ta-tas, but her voice is quite annoying and her and Adam don't have very good on-screen chemistry.
I don't know where they get the firgure that only 1 out of every 10,750 kg of carbon from plant life made it into oil...
There is debate on whether oil even comes from ancient plant matter. Scientists have made oil from granite, water, and immense pressure in the lab, they think that the oil we use today could have just as easily been made by that process than by the decay of plant matter, maybe even more easily.
The $200+ for the OS and another $50 plus a yearly subscription for anti-virus software are not small potatoes for a non-profit, especially if they are getting multiple-computers. If you have 10 linux-based computers there running OpenOffice, they should naturally develop some in-house expertise. If all they're doing is starting up and opening OpenOffice, there's really not that much to it.
If they have Windows and don't constantly check their security bulletins or accidentally open the wrong Outlook attachment, cleaning up their computer network could cost much more than the software ever did...
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I don't see what the big deal is... The line that caused all the controversy, "Kill all the Haitians!", is referring to a gang called "The Haitians", not to an ethnic group. Sure they're all Haitian but that's how they got their name. On that mission you don't just go killing anyone and everyone in the Haitian neighborhood, you kill the gang members wearing the gang colors. It's not about killing a racial group, it's about killing the rivals of another gang.
Platformers - Very true... As a computer user, you don't get exposed much to platformer games, but they can be VERY fun... I played Mario 64 on an emulator and thought it was very fun. You just don't see these for the PC (unfortunately).
Driving Games - Not so sure bout this one... I haven't played many driving games on a console. I played Grand Theft Auto 3 on the PC and thought it was AWESOME. I played GTA: Vice City on the PS2 at a friend's house (granted, I was quite drunk on Wild Turkey) and thought the console controls sucked for both driving and gaming. When I got GTA: Vice City on my PC though I thought it rocked!
Puzzle Games - Haven't played these on a console or multiplayer, but there are quite a few fun puzzle games for the PC, a lot of which can be played for free on the shockwave website. Also you should look up the "Smart Games" series (2 and 3 are a blast I know) if interested in some fun mind games.
Fighting Games - I 100% agree here. I haven't found a fun fighting game on my computer since my Commodore 64 with Karate and I can't think of the other, something to do with Bruce Lee I think. Consoles kick total ass in this arena. I spent $250 for a Dreamcast and "Soul Calibur" when it came out because I spent 5 minutes playing it in CompUSA and got hooked. I haven't been dissappointed, I still play it with friends every now and then.
Now that's all fine and dandy, even if those are completely unbiased fully optimized for the Opteron tests, that's just two out of five. The opteron kicked the G5's ass on the Photoshop tests, which are the ones traditionally held up by Macphiles since they have always been on top of those.
First off, the Photoshop tests have traditionally been what the Mac people cling to on benchmarks - "Well, the G5 did better on Photoshop so it's better at processing graphics." Well, the operton is 15% faster on MP and 10% faster on non-MP operations.
Second, how can you use the word "MANY" when you're talking about two tests? From reading the slashdot writeup I assumed there were 10+ tests and the G5 cleaned house on most of them. The Cinebench test was very close, the dual Opeteron system was about 2% slower than the dual G5 (51 score versus 50). The "Bryce 5" test doesn't appear to be optimized for multiple processors, meaning it's probably not even multi-threaded. If it was, why would the single processor G5 1.8ghz score the same (25) as the dual processor G5 1.8ghz? Adobe AfterEffects has a plugin to improve performance on multi-processor Mac based systems, but not for multi-processor Intel/AMD systems.
I think the surprising thing that should have been highlighted in the slashdot writeup is that the G5 finally got spanked on the Photoshop tests. Has anyone seen SPECINT tests with the Opteron?
Actually at the 640x480 resolution with a scene that is full of action the graphics card isn't the bottleneck anymore. Put that 9800XT in a 1 ghz Pentium 3 and see what FPS you get...
The page on Microsoft's site lists 4 patents, all having to do with long filenames in FAT32. I think FAT32 is the only thing they are trying to say is patented, with patents starting in 1996 for the ones they listed. Windows 95 didn't have FAT32, that didn't come out until Windows 98 and Windows 95 OEM Service Release 2 which was released in 1996.
If they patent the uncoded DNA of all living creatures, then when the patent expires they will all be in the public domain and no one else can ever recreate this stupidity again.
TiVo hacking faq on drive locking
Unlock program for Quantum TiVo hard drive
Supposedly the QUnlock.exe program will permanently unlock the drive, but then again it could be some kind of TiVo "locking" and not the hard drive password locking we're talking about.
I don't know how much younger Gandalf would look at 2940 years old instead of 3000...
Well, actually double-jeopardy was to prevent a person from being harassed by the prosecution and tried over and over when he was innocent...
I think the purpose of double jeopardy was better said by our founding fathers, "It's better to let 10 criminals go free than to put one innocent man in jail." America was founded on the idea of personal freedom, and I think it's a horrible misjustice to put a man in jail for two years because he tried to watch a DVD that he purchased on a system other than the creators of the DVD intented.
Fabulous book, very interesting. I just hate how towards the end it becomes one big war and I didn't really understand who the good guys were or what they were fighting for (maybe too much like real life).
Yeah, but in America kids are taught about it and we don't ignore it, I think that was the author's point.
Oh my God! I'm drowning!
They did get the required court order for surveillance. Presumably they had to go to court with enough evidence to persuade a judge to sign off on it.
Ah, so since they claim Linux is a derivative of SYSV, they are violating the contract. Is a car that has the same brake lights of another car a derivative of it?
In the article it says the cable company is spending some $350 million to upgrade their speeds. The fiber project will cost $470 million, only 35% more. Yet it will provide much faster access, and the cable companies say "Why buy a rolls Royce when a Chevrolet will do?" Well, why are they spending $350 million to upgrade their speed if we have enough? And why not upgrade to the even faster fiber? Are they just going to be spending another $350 million in 5-10 years to upgrade to fiber speed again? Why not do it now? The reasons the municipalities can do it is because they can raise the capital.
I'm stuck in my area with DSL for high speed access. I had cable but it turned out to be unreliable, going down for 30 seconds several times a night and finally spending most of the day not working. It was faster than DSL sometimes, but not during busy times of the day. With DSL I get a full 1 megabit pipe, but I'm spending a whole lot more than it looks like I would be with fiber. Even with the cheapest plans it is like $30 for 128 kilobit access and you get kicked off after 2 hours and can't sign on for 5 minutes. If you want a stable connection it's at least $40. If you want 640k it's more like $60. To me, $30 for a 1.5mbit/128kbit connection sounds like heaven.
No, that was Jeron Criswell.
Assigning copyrights to SCO would be out of the question. This is the only ending I believe that would allow SCO to actually keep charging for Linux. They didn't write any of the original code and any new code they wrote they specifically put under the GPL themselves. Assigning the copyrights for thousands of documents from hundreds of contributors to a company that had little to do with the combined work has no basis in law.
How can you compare a video game with a so-so at best backstory to one of the greatest literary works of the 20th century? They'd better have better script writers than the Dungeons and Dragons movie did...
I don't know about Utah, but some states have laws where private citizens can sue to force the district attorney to bring criminal charges against someone (such as Colorado). Can't something be done about this? I would be very willing to contribute to a fund to do this. Or would this be more difficult to do since it would be a federal case?
I signed up for AOL once, CompUSA was giving $200 off the laptop I was buying for trying out AOL for 30 days, no-risk. I think I was a little late cancelling (I forgot) and was charged once, but when they saw I hadn't even signed into the service once they credited my card back.
x-play was much better when it was Extended Play. It was more about the games back then and I didn't have to listen to Adam and Morgan's moronic banter. I know Morgan has big ta-tas, but her voice is quite annoying and her and Adam don't have very good on-screen chemistry.
There is debate on whether oil even comes from ancient plant matter. Scientists have made oil from granite, water, and immense pressure in the lab, they think that the oil we use today could have just as easily been made by that process than by the decay of plant matter, maybe even more easily.
If they have Windows and don't constantly check their security bulletins or accidentally open the wrong Outlook attachment, cleaning up their computer network could cost much more than the software ever did...