it's so fucking crazy, when you tell people about it they're not liable to be outraged, just incredulous. Seriously, I'm still not sure if this is a joke or not. Jesus, if it's not, this is without a doubt the most fucked up thing I've ever seen.
Is it just me, or is it getting harder and harder to buy a decent card for less then $200? I gotta say, I miss the days of $99 Voodoo Banshees. Heck, if you ask me cards in the $100 range should at least play last years games at 800x600x60fps, and a lot don't. Nvidia's and ATI's naming schemes don't exactly help here either (I especially like how ATI 8500s are faster than many 9200s and the ever increasing alphabet soup trailing off Nvidia card names).
Wow, you really missed my point. The astonishing thing is you've got my point right in your post, and you still missed it. Let's review, shall we?
Dems are running against corruption.. but how can you run a platform against corruption when you yourself are corrupt?
and that, ladies and gentlemen, is the point. It's not that the dems want to be less corrupt (they don't), it's that they have to be. It's expected of them. The Republicans on the other hand... well, everyone earning under $50k/year is expecting a good ass reaming from them already so no harm, no foul when it happens.
the dems aren't any better, the advantage with them is they're running against all the corruption and evil, so they get away with less. It's kinda hard to run on a platform opposing corruption only to be corrupt. Plus since the media is owned by Republicans, the dems get scrutinized more. It's not that they're less evil, they're just given fewer opportunites. Plus, the current administration's tactic of being so openly corrupt that nobody can stand to believe they'd act that way in plain sight wouldn't fly with dems.
heading to the internet, which in turn drives up prices. A lot of times you're competing for goods with people that have a higher cost of living. To me in Arizona $15 bucks for used Greatest Hits title is too much, someone in California might see it different. Add a couple million more people just makes this worse.
It's perfectly legal to sell your retail copy of office, and no Microsoft isn't going to sue you. It's grey area whether you can sell OEM (the license agreement may or may not prevent that). OTOH, there are lots of small businesses that can't sell Microsoft Products because Microsoft's legal team bullied them after catching them selling a few pirate copies.
but what's really needed is something just like 'DRM'. i.e. catchy, sensible and gets the point across without sounding silly (sorry, DUM is kinda silly). I've heard 'Digital Restrictions Management' thrown about, but it's got too many syllables and doesn't flow off the tongue right. Maybe 'Digitally Restricted Music'? I think the 'Restricted Music' part is fine but when you add 'Digitally' it falls about; too many syllables again. I don't know, what I'd like to see is something that conveys the fact that rights are being taken away and fits in 7 syllables with each letter being one syllable (no 'W's and whatnot) and starts with a 'D' (to tie it to DRM). Right now, the trouble is DRM is such a great acronym that even people against it use it.
I went through 2 via boards on linux before settling on an Nvidia board because I just couldn't get the damn things stable (to be fair, the soyo board was stable so long as I didn't plug anything into the pci slots).
The other thing I'd love to know is if it can do full screen, high res divx in linux, or if there's a mini itx case that can. I figure most of these boards aren't going to run an accelerated X, but I haven't done enough research yet.
and India too, what the heck do they need us for? Seriously, if they're exporting, what are they importing? High end machinery that takes billions to build, food and our entertainment I suppose. But how much longer will they need/want that?
ya know, I've been steadfastly holding back on complaining about Zonk (gotta love his name), but come on, this is a news site. Come on Zonk, post you comments with the article like the rest of us.
how do you get that 2.6.13 kernel installed? For the life of me I can never figure it out, and always cop out and just compile my own. I don't remember there being an option during install and I seem to remember it taking more than just installpkg afterwards.
as the game that got the masses playing multiplayer FPS's. And you're right, where the heck's mario 64. It's up there with FFVII for influnce. And where the heck is Tekken (Sony's answer to the immensely popular Virtua Fighter 2)? Tekken 2 was particularily noteworthy for being _better_ then the arcade (still a big deal at the time).
Random overweight fan from football game
Random harpy from God of War
Random crack-ho from 50 Cent
Random US Senator from the Playboy game no one played Main character from Darkwatch
The entire monster cast of Hellgate: London in a nude free-for-all.
The controversy isn't just about adding a little sex to an already atrociously violent game, it's about that sex slipping past the review board. The industry is desparte to stay self regulated and stuff like this doesn't help. That said this isn't that big a deal, anyone remember the Roger Rabbit laserdisc fiasco?
on the notoriously buggy Via chipsets? Has Via cleaned up it's act? I remember for ages not being able to use the nvidia agp port driver because of a timing bug on my mobo (which nvidia, not Via fixed). I also had nothing but trouble on a couple of ~2ghz class KT boards I tried to build with (one cheapo, and a really nice Soyo after that), and finally gave up bought an nForce. The boards worked fine in windows after loading via's 4in1, crashed like crazy in linux (to be fair, the Soyo worked fine until you put something in a pci slot:) ). The nvidia board had some trouble that was quickly fixed in a bios update.
I miss cheap Via hardware, and later gen S3 cards rock for the money, but I can't deal with the instability.
and you can read and write above a 3rd grade level. Lots of people can't do that. The idea would be to have all the information needed or wanted readily at hand, so that someone too stupid to browse a web site could find it.
Video is useful for the illiterate (ditto pictures) and voip's for the dumb who can't look up phone #'s. In addition to the stupid, you've also got people who can't speak english let alone read it. Ya, that sucks and probably shouldn't happen, but they're a powerful minority, and won't be a minority for too much longer...
Oh, and you don't want to print, because someone has to pay for those printouts.
When all this drm crap hits, I'll just stop consuming. I've got books, Go, and decades worth of games in the form of old cartidges, cds and dvds. I'll miss playing the new Morrowind game, but oh well. I'm just not going to work that hard so I can watch crap.
any SMS owners out there know what I'm talking about? That one jump on Level 2 (I think). If you couldn't just fly over it with Ninja Magic, you might as well restart:D.
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it's so fucking crazy, when you tell people about it they're not liable to be outraged, just incredulous. Seriously, I'm still not sure if this is a joke or not. Jesus, if it's not, this is without a doubt the most fucked up thing I've ever seen.
Is it just me, or is it getting harder and harder to buy a decent card for less then $200? I gotta say, I miss the days of $99 Voodoo Banshees. Heck, if you ask me cards in the $100 range should at least play last years games at 800x600x60fps, and a lot don't. Nvidia's and ATI's naming schemes don't exactly help here either (I especially like how ATI 8500s are faster than many 9200s and the ever increasing alphabet soup trailing off Nvidia card names).
and that, ladies and gentlemen, is the point. It's not that the dems want to be less corrupt (they don't), it's that they have to be. It's expected of them. The Republicans on the other hand... well, everyone earning under $50k/year is expecting a good ass reaming from them already so no harm, no foul when it happens.
the dems aren't any better, the advantage with them is they're running against all the corruption and evil, so they get away with less. It's kinda hard to run on a platform opposing corruption only to be corrupt. Plus since the media is owned by Republicans, the dems get scrutinized more. It's not that they're less evil, they're just given fewer opportunites. Plus, the current administration's tactic of being so openly corrupt that nobody can stand to believe they'd act that way in plain sight wouldn't fly with dems.
heading to the internet, which in turn drives up prices. A lot of times you're competing for goods with people that have a higher cost of living. To me in Arizona $15 bucks for used Greatest Hits title is too much, someone in California might see it different. Add a couple million more people just makes this worse.
Competition's a dual edge sword.
It's perfectly legal to sell your retail copy of office, and no Microsoft isn't going to sue you. It's grey area whether you can sell OEM (the license agreement may or may not prevent that). OTOH, there are lots of small businesses that can't sell Microsoft Products because Microsoft's legal team bullied them after catching them selling a few pirate copies.
and you do not want to see me dressed as Ivy.
just don't use the official client.
That said, 8.75 million? Wow. That'll buy a ton of dvd-r's.
but what's really needed is something just like 'DRM'. i.e. catchy, sensible and gets the point across without sounding silly (sorry, DUM is kinda silly). I've heard 'Digital Restrictions Management' thrown about, but it's got too many syllables and doesn't flow off the tongue right. Maybe 'Digitally Restricted Music'? I think the 'Restricted Music' part is fine but when you add 'Digitally' it falls about; too many syllables again. I don't know, what I'd like to see is something that conveys the fact that rights are being taken away and fits in 7 syllables with each letter being one syllable (no 'W's and whatnot) and starts with a 'D' (to tie it to DRM). Right now, the trouble is DRM is such a great acronym that even people against it use it.
I went through 2 via boards on linux before settling on an Nvidia board because I just couldn't get the damn things stable (to be fair, the soyo board was stable so long as I didn't plug anything into the pci slots).
The other thing I'd love to know is if it can do full screen, high res divx in linux, or if there's a mini itx case that can. I figure most of these boards aren't going to run an accelerated X, but I haven't done enough research yet.
This joke hadn't been invented yet, now those were the days.
and India too, what the heck do they need us for? Seriously, if they're exporting, what are they importing? High end machinery that takes billions to build, food and our entertainment I suppose. But how much longer will they need/want that?
ya know, I've been steadfastly holding back on complaining about Zonk (gotta love his name), but come on, this is a news site. Come on Zonk, post you comments with the article like the rest of us.
how do you get that 2.6.13 kernel installed? For the life of me I can never figure it out, and always cop out and just compile my own. I don't remember there being an option during install and I seem to remember it taking more than just installpkg afterwards.
as the game that got the masses playing multiplayer FPS's. And you're right, where the heck's mario 64. It's up there with FFVII for influnce. And where the heck is Tekken (Sony's answer to the immensely popular Virtua Fighter 2)? Tekken 2 was particularily noteworthy for being _better_ then the arcade (still a big deal at the time).
Random overweight fan from football game
Random harpy from God of War
Random crack-ho from 50 Cent
Random US Senator from the Playboy game no one played
Main character from Darkwatch
The entire monster cast of Hellgate: London in a nude free-for-all.
The controversy isn't just about adding a little sex to an already atrociously violent game, it's about that sex slipping past the review board. The industry is desparte to stay self regulated and stuff like this doesn't help. That said this isn't that big a deal, anyone remember the Roger Rabbit laserdisc fiasco?
on the notoriously buggy Via chipsets? Has Via cleaned up it's act? I remember for ages not being able to use the nvidia agp port driver because of a timing bug on my mobo (which nvidia, not Via fixed). I also had nothing but trouble on a couple of ~2ghz class KT boards I tried to build with (one cheapo, and a really nice Soyo after that), and finally gave up bought an nForce. The boards worked fine in windows after loading via's 4in1, crashed like crazy in linux (to be fair, the Soyo worked fine until you put something in a pci slot :) ). The nvidia board had some trouble that was quickly fixed in a bios update.
I miss cheap Via hardware, and later gen S3 cards rock for the money, but I can't deal with the instability.
I can't wait to see him paired with Dan Hibiki in Marvel vs Capcom 3: Hyper Salad Bowl Fighting Champion Edition!
No, I belive that honor goes to Water Closet. And if you don't know what I'm talking about, lucky you.
and you can read and write above a 3rd grade level. Lots of people can't do that. The idea would be to have all the information needed or wanted readily at hand, so that someone too stupid to browse a web site could find it.
Video is useful for the illiterate (ditto pictures) and voip's for the dumb who can't look up phone #'s. In addition to the stupid, you've also got people who can't speak english let alone read it. Ya, that sucks and probably shouldn't happen, but they're a powerful minority, and won't be a minority for too much longer...
Oh, and you don't want to print, because someone has to pay for those printouts.
When all this drm crap hits, I'll just stop consuming. I've got books, Go, and decades worth of games in the form of old cartidges, cds and dvds. I'll miss playing the new Morrowind game, but oh well. I'm just not going to work that hard so I can watch crap.
when you flipped the score.
any SMS owners out there know what I'm talking about? That one jump on Level 2 (I think). If you couldn't just fly over it with Ninja Magic, you might as well restart :D.