I'm getting the 'gist' of why this transaction needs to happen. AMD needs GPU functionality on the CPU. I think everyone kinda expected that to happen at some point. The Inq. then takes a left turn in the plot and mentions 'mini-cores' which are multi-cores with massive amount of threads. Sort of but not really like Intels' hyperthreading times 32x. Shitloads of threads.
Bottom line?
ATI will work on AMD's new cores. I don't know if they'll work on something that'll plug into a PCIe slot still like nVidia.
nVidia will still be around making graphic cards for AMD. Just won't necessarily be anything remotely similar to what's out on the stores today. AMD doesn't like closed technology like Intel does. So it'll be an open platform still which is a 'good thing' (tm).
Forget about GPU's and chipsets. The main innovation has to come from these new GCPU's.
ATI was going to lose its Intel chipset business anyway with or without this takeover. So no big loss here.
Intel has about a year lead on this tech and probably be first out to market with it.
CPU cores change radically every 5 years or so. With GCPU's, think more in terms of GPU's and radical changes every year to 18 months. Crazy shit.
Plenty of space at FAB 36 to build the new cores and the recently announced plant they are building in New York. So no more costly production runs in Taiwan.
If AMD didn't do this, they'd be out of business in 5 years. Period.
Hi, I'm new to the virtual crap and want to run some old games under a virtual windows 95. just for fun and see how well it compares to Dosbox version that I'm running.
What's a good link that gives a step by step guide in installing OS's? Drivers are like the first thing that comes to mind. Like how does that work? Does it need it?
I tried the free AV route before on my parents computer and it didn't turn out well. Tried AVG and a few months later they we're getting popups for this 'red dot' or whatever. I go over there and notice AVG is totally disabled and non functional. I pretty much bit my lip and told them to go buy a real AV software package. Of couse Norton & Mccaffe were two off my list the quickest. CA's eTrust was what I used personally before but that software disables itself if you don't close down the computer properly. It kept forcing me to reinstall it over and over every time that happend. That and the fact they supported Sony's rootkit thing which I sent one hell of an email back at them saying I'll never trust thier service ever again. So now it was a battle between NOD32 & PC-cillin. It basically boiled down to how much of a resource hog they were and NOD32 won that one easily. So I tossed it on my folks computer and that damn thing cleaned up the mess on there really good. Seems like my mom liked playing games from MyWay.com and it placed viruses in these java applets that spread everywhere else. NOD32 did an excellent job not only cleaning up the mess but clueing in as to where the problem was comming from. She wasn't too happy about not being allowed to go to that site anymore, of course. heh:)
The bottom line? This free crap ain't good enough. Period. Don't use it.
There's still a few missing programs that I use everyday that's stopping me from switching even though I've love to ASAP. Can't stand calling M$ up for 'permission' to reinstall my legally purchased copy of XP Pro.
- iTunes with thier DRM AAC supported & ablity to purchase songs & tv shows from thier online site. I hear this is comming eventually. When?:(
- Bitcomet or uTorrent. Azureus sucks.
- Creative X-Fi sound drivers & full software package that comes on the Windows install. This is impossible of course, so there's no point in trying a linux distro at all.
- DRM Microsoft file support (less of an issue but some websites require dl'ing a license to playback content).
Other bitches include a 'base' linux that's supported on all Linux distro's for drivers... ect. That and the KDE user interface is something only a programmer could like. It's not consumer friendly looking at all. I just don't get why the main program list menu has to break software packages down to like media, games, applications... ect on the main menu. They need to come up with something new and really simplified that puts all programs in one list. Vista start menu looks nice. It looks like something from 1994 still, and that's not a good thing at all. Same with open office too.
"- It does burn a custom Windows XP installation disc (no, this does not violate any Microsoft or Windows license agreement, as making custom Windows installation discs has been routine in IT shops for years)"
This is a little off-topic, sorry. You can make an unlimited amount of custom XP discs, but just how often are you allowed to use the Product Activation service? I mean, it seems like everytime I reinstall XP these days I got to call Microsoft up for a 60000 digit confirmation number. I'm getting sick of that. It's basically forcing me to give up reinstallations alltogether because of the hassle involved. And yes using Windows Update is critical in determining if a particual install I'm doing will work the way I want to or not since I don't know if I properly installed all the damn hotfixes from my custom made cd or not. Now I got this XP cd years ago and it seems like recently MS is bitching about OEM cd's, like the one I got with a power spitter cable at newegg, being tied to only one montherboard. Swap the MB out (like I have 4 times due to shitty MB's), and I would have been forced to by a new CD 4 times? Why didn't they clarify that years ago? Doesn't sound like a FULL OS if it's so restricted in reinstalls or upgrades you can do you your machine. I swear, I bitched about this issue to their manager when I was forced to do a reinstall AGAIN just after I bought a new creative soundcard which was the last piece of my major upgrade last November(found out it was a bios issue with my Abit MB).
I'm tired of calling them up and 'making up an excuse'. Why should I be forced to? Are custom CD's only good for like businesses that don't have to deal with this shit? Would paying $300 for the full retail version of XP/Vista solve this problem?
The way I see all this DRM issue heading is that the rootkit issue has hurt Sony a lot and forced them to rethink it. Hence the delay. This sounds like more than a DRM software upgrade issue. Something hardware based. Maybe even to cut costs.
That and didn't they just place an order for the circuit boards for the PS3 a few weeks back? Sounds like a delay on all areas of the machine. And games too since we havn't seen a damn thing yet.
I'm happy for Toys R Us because basically, and I think a lot of other people thought this too, is that I was buying toys from Amazon.com. So at least they get thier brand identity back. It was nice you can return the stuff to any Toys R Us store, though.
This does suck in a way as it'll be the end of the crazy super bargain deals where Toys R Us has a 33% off each item (3 item minimum) and an Amazon.com coupon for an additional %20 off that amount. It was a killer deal back in September where I got the Star Wars Lego Imperial Star Destroyer (reg price $300) for like 55% off. I'm going to miss those kind of deals. *sniff* *sniff*:).....
However when my apartment office recieved it and showed it to me I could actually see the lego box a few feet away since the box lid tape was completely torn off. That was a scary moment, but it wasn't damaged. They also sent another large lego set WITHOUT ANY BOX WHATSOEVER! Just slapped a sticker on it and shipped it.
So you know, I hope to god Toys R Us can ship things better than these bastards. I don't ever want the apartment management seeing what I got. So good riddence to amazon.com. Oh and don't even get me started with how I bought japanese jpop cd bootlegs from their zShops and didn't know about it for 9 months!
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I don't think people realize what kind of games the revolution is going to offer.
I mean it hinted at a lot of things to come...
1. Conduct your own orchastra/symphony.
2. Cook food. Chop up food quickly... ect.
3. Cool sword fights.
4. More natural type of baseball bat swing.
A real revolution? Yup.:) I want to see what this cooking game idea looks like.:)
I keep pinching myself in utter disbelief that the furture has come where a-la-carte programming would be real. Now it is and I can watch my favorite shows anywhere I want. iTunes is a direct download service with no viruses, dead torrent links, tracker downtime, RIAA threats, slow downloads, or any bothersome thing like that. Video quality is so nice on my 17" CRT monitor that it's just like watching a TV rip but better quality since there's no logo's anywhere or scrolling text, or weather updates or any crap like that. I tell ya, I wouldn't have it any other way. Freedom from commericals, folks. It's the read deal and I couldn't be any happier. NBC/ABC has all the good shows anyway like Lost, BSG, Monk, and The Office so we're not missing much from the other loser networks that refuse to join up with iTunes. That free Monk episode and SNL skit was just the icing on the cake.
As for buying all episodes on iTunes, that would be a mistake. I plan on buying Monk on DVD & ripping it so I can watch it again (some for the first time) on my PC. Too much glare watching it on an iPod but for long road trips life without it would be unbarable. But from time to time, like an SNL skit for example, it can't be beat./hugs Steve Jobs. =)....
Right now there are SHORTAGES of AMD processors. How can AMD make so much more to satisfy the sales demands of Dell PCs? They can't and that's the hold up here. come back in a year or two when Fab 36 is up and running at full steam.
However Dell is selling AMD processors separately for a while now which is awfully interesting in itself that doesn't get much attention.
Better pop-up extentions?
1. A popup blocker that works %100 of the time. Even with Firefox 1.5 Beta2 build, I still get a popup by clicking this link http://www.activewin.com/awin/default.asp and then clicking anywhere on the page at all. Appearently they have a javascript that knows when you're 'touching' a webpage? I have to highlight text to read better so I don't know why this is going on. I do have my settings set at opening pages or user clicked popups in the same window as the current tab. Don't know if that's causing it or not. Is there a nicer Windows news website than Activewin? I'm really starting to hate that pop-up infested site.
2. Flash pop-up detector. Go here. http://www.cleveland.com/ a flash ad flys across the page. I like using Flashblock that blocks all flash (yeah, right) until I allow it to. Happens sometimes on yahoo.com news pages too.
I guess I'm asking for a noscript type extension, but is dormant until I ask it to block scripts for a webpage since it's only these websites driving me nuts right now. A blacklist if you will. I spent more time messing with NoScript extension then going to my daily 45 websites. Plus I like installing a new clean install of firefox and updated extensions meaning I don't have time redoing this crap all the time. Disabling SOME scripts for websites would be cool too.
Spellcheck as you type for Firefox would be a killer extension too.:)
Specs are a form of communication. It's important that everyone knows what the other is doing and doing it the same way as everyone else.
Appearently he doesn't like that.
Linux is really starting to fall apart these days. Enough with all these crappy distro's. Free is great, but if everyone is doing thier own thing instead of making one product better, then it's pointless. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=26642
Basically with free software, you get a mess instead of a clear focus piece of software. Why? Lack of communication and getting everyone on the same page. That's why linux will never be mainsteam. How many distro's are out there? Too many, that's what. Red Hat, SuSe, and Mandrake. Everyone else can go home. Bye!:)
"We must blow up this business model, or we are all doomed. What do we want? What would be ideal?"
Shut up. Creativity brought down too many game companies before. Been there, done that, and having the ENTIRE game developer community do that will disinterest gamers more (i.e. wtf is THIS game about?). We don't need wierd new funky gameplay, we just need well excuted gameplay with, if I may dare say, A REAL FREAKIN STORY/PLOT! This is the reason for sequels because new franchises are harded to sell at all than if it was Bang-Bang-Boom 3: Your DEAD!
I was hoping Digital Extremes Pariah game would kick major ass but it didn't which disapointed me greatly since it wasn't a sequel unlike many others.
I sometimes think that gamers who play games all the time need to realise something. With reading many books, plots will become repetative and boring. With watching too much TV, every story seems to play out the same old cliche (OMG! It wasn't real! It was just a dream!!). With games it's the same old shit but due to cost factors, it sticks out more of a sore thumb.
Been there done that affects every industry. People just waking up to that fact or something?
As for new gameplay ideas, THEY ARE OUT THERE AND COMMING SOON FOLKS!! Spore, DNF, Prey, Gears of War.. ect. New game ideas take longer to execute properly so that's why you'll see less of them.
I can't believe people complain about stupid things like this. Oh wait, they're hardcore gamers/game reviewers so they HAVE to play everything. So how about this as a solution. You play too many games so admit that and shut up.
So what will they call our soon to be built, Freedom Tower in NYC?:)
The F****** Tower?
[Note: Think of a colorful medaphor that fills the missing letters:)]
Can anyone tell me of a press release stating that Sony or one of it's partners plans on selling discs you can burn any data too? Or is Blu-Ray a read-only solution? I have not seen any edvidence that Sony plans to put BD-DVD burning tech for the PS3 or any other future product of thiers.
I only ask this because I got this dumb for brains friend who's 'waiting' for 30GB rewritable discs to come on in the next 2 years. Trying to explain to him that this $79 NEC is 'da bomb' is pointless.:)
Uh huh, I can realistically see a 1TB hard disk drive in a laptop in 2 to 3 years.
I mean if that's average, laptops won't be running this thing. It's pretty much impossible HD space-wise & graphics wise. So are laptops stuck with XP forever or something?:)
Wait wait wait a sec, hold on here. Are you implying that MyWay is a semi-spyware website?!!!! How?!!!!! They read emails or something?
Dammit this is my main homepage & email for the last 2 years. I gotta know what's going on here.:(
God wouldn't it be nice if Xcors' plane could be used as a NASA shuttle replacement to and from the space station at least?
Has about the right design to it for that purpose based on what we've seen with NASA's ideas for a small shullte replacement.
Am I right here?
Would save quite a bit of development costs if this is chosen for that purpose. I do believe the ISS is in a low orbit too so this should work out well. This + next gen huge cargo space freighter might be a nice little combo for future space missions/space development. Now attach that small shuttle on a frieghter and drive that thing to the moon.:)
1. So specifically Java, Flash, Shockwave player, real one player plug-in, quicktime plug-in will be in the bundle? Is there a bug tracker for this feature?
2. Thanks for the tip for the Download manager.
3. Well the bookmark name issue goes like this. An inport and export of the file should stay the same.
Lets say you export to IE & then export that to Mozilla & then export back to IE &
get my drift? I don't care if it's a standard it's dataloss to me and messes up my bookmark names. *shrug*
4. some url's will be on top the folders in IE Favorites list. All URL's should go below the folders. some folders are spread out between bookmarks. By default it needs to go like this folder1 folder2 folder3 URL1 URL2.... ect.
This is the way it's shown in IE but not in Mozilla. It's difficult to descibe the issue if you don't have a lot of bookmarks but it happens to me on a constant basis.
5. For my autoscoll problem, try this link buddy.:) http://www.shacknews.com/screens.x/hd2/Hidden+ &+Da ngerous+2/2/thumbs/1560Central_Eur_Tommy_Gun.jpg So you're telling me that you can use your scrollwheel to move horizontally and diagonally? Wow, that's some great scrollwheel you got. Seriously, I'm right on this complaint and I guess I should be asking someone to make a quick extension for this or has someone already done it?
Anyhoo, thanks for the response! I just wish I could send you a private message instead of posting here.:/
Some of the best things I like about Mozilla Firefox 0.8:
1. Two words - Bookmark Management
Wow! I was able to modify/delete/rename/move 450 bookmarks in a few short hours. It was a combination of being able to edit bookmarks off the menu bar easily and opening a whole folder of websites in seconds. It makes Internet Explorer's 'Organize Favorites' look like a sick joke. Actually it is and I consider it one of the very weak things about Internet Explorer (lets call it IE for short). I simply cannot check all 450 bookmarks to see if the website still exists while using IE. With Mozilla Firefox, it only took like a half hour to get that part done. Tabbed browsing works. Big time. I used to use Tabbrowser Extensions to add some additional tweaks but found it hindered things more than helped. I'll mention what those are in my what I dislike about Mozilla Firefox section.
2. It doesn't crash
Oh Mozilla Firefox can still crash if there's bad code written for a web page, make no mistake about that. Still, it's very very rare and it's so much more stable than any Mozilla 1.x Application Suite release. Perhaps its because I have more confidence in Mozilla Firefox than with the Mozilla Application Suite (call it App. Suite for short), due to some previously bad experiences doing real web development with Composer with the 1.5 release. However, this whole crash issue is more of a release-by-release kind of thing. It's my hope that the Mozilla development team continues to focus on making Mozilla Firefox as crash proof as possible. Keep up the good work!
3. Mozilla Firefox loads up fast
It is way faster than the App. Suite due to it not preloading several applications I don't use at all. I have no confidence in using Mozilla Mail, nor do I use an email account with POP access. I've tried Composer and it crashed on a regular basis that it was a totally useless program. I also have no clue on how to use ChatZilla, and I keep my small address book in a text file. So my main focus has always been on how well the Mozilla web browser was. Now with Mozilla Firefox I have a web browser that loads almost as fast as IE and to me it's important that it loads fast because it greatly hindered me from switching over for good.
4. Properly displayed webpages
There's always going to be one minor annoyance per website since it was built with IE in mind, but all in all, Mozilla developer team finally nailed it. It's good enough for most webpages and when I can't view a webpage properly in Mozilla Firefox , I switch over to IE quickly. There's an extension called 'IE View' that adds a right-click menu option that'll open IE for whatever webpage you are currently on at the moment. Very handy feature and its something I use every now and then. Certain webpages that just don't work well include any Microsoft/MSN website, pages like this http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=1825 (try to click on the details link in the middle where they rate the anime, note the website seems down at the moment). MBNA payment page won't work anymore.. ect. Little things like this.
5. Options dialogue box
This was one of the things I always thought were desperately needed for a Mozilla web browser. The Application Suite way only shows a directory name (which is sometimes truncated), and you have to double click to see more directories underneath it in order to get to the specific preferences you wanted to change. First of all, you can't at a quick glance get to the section you want right away. There needed to be a visual aid to help guide you to the section you wanted. I always thought the most *ideal* way was a combination of icons and a word or two to describe the general section of preferences. I couldn't believe what I was seeing with the first release of Mozilla Firefox that I tested. Icons plus a short word or two that's not truncated plus I didn't need to do anymo
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*head asploded*
I'm getting the 'gist' of why this transaction needs to happen. AMD needs GPU functionality on the CPU. I think everyone kinda expected that to happen at some point. The Inq. then takes a left turn in the plot and mentions 'mini-cores' which are multi-cores with massive amount of threads. Sort of but not really like Intels' hyperthreading times 32x. Shitloads of threads.
Bottom line?
ATI will work on AMD's new cores. I don't know if they'll work on something that'll plug into a PCIe slot still like nVidia.
nVidia will still be around making graphic cards for AMD. Just won't necessarily be anything remotely similar to what's out on the stores today. AMD doesn't like closed technology like Intel does. So it'll be an open platform still which is a 'good thing' (tm).
Forget about GPU's and chipsets. The main innovation has to come from these new GCPU's.
ATI was going to lose its Intel chipset business anyway with or without this takeover. So no big loss here.
Intel has about a year lead on this tech and probably be first out to market with it.
CPU cores change radically every 5 years or so. With GCPU's, think more in terms of GPU's and radical changes every year to 18 months. Crazy shit.
Plenty of space at FAB 36 to build the new cores and the recently announced plant they are building in New York. So no more costly production runs in Taiwan.
If AMD didn't do this, they'd be out of business in 5 years. Period.
Hi, I'm new to the virtual crap and want to run some old games under a virtual windows 95. just for fun and see how well it compares to Dosbox version that I'm running. What's a good link that gives a step by step guide in installing OS's? Drivers are like the first thing that comes to mind. Like how does that work? Does it need it?
And this effects Firefox, how? Has FF implemented this yet or do they not have to? To me, I don't use IE, so I could care less about this patch.
I tried the free AV route before on my parents computer and it didn't turn out well. Tried AVG and a few months later they we're getting popups for this 'red dot' or whatever. I go over there and notice AVG is totally disabled and non functional. I pretty much bit my lip and told them to go buy a real AV software package. Of couse Norton & Mccaffe were two off my list the quickest. CA's eTrust was what I used personally before but that software disables itself if you don't close down the computer properly. It kept forcing me to reinstall it over and over every time that happend. That and the fact they supported Sony's rootkit thing which I sent one hell of an email back at them saying I'll never trust thier service ever again. So now it was a battle between NOD32 & PC-cillin. It basically boiled down to how much of a resource hog they were and NOD32 won that one easily. So I tossed it on my folks computer and that damn thing cleaned up the mess on there really good. Seems like my mom liked playing games from MyWay.com and it placed viruses in these java applets that spread everywhere else. NOD32 did an excellent job not only cleaning up the mess but clueing in as to where the problem was comming from. She wasn't too happy about not being allowed to go to that site anymore, of course. heh :)
The bottom line? This free crap ain't good enough. Period. Don't use it.
There's still a few missing programs that I use everyday that's stopping me from switching even though I've love to ASAP. Can't stand calling M$ up for 'permission' to reinstall my legally purchased copy of XP Pro. - iTunes with thier DRM AAC supported & ablity to purchase songs & tv shows from thier online site. I hear this is comming eventually. When? :(
- Bitcomet or uTorrent. Azureus sucks.
- Creative X-Fi sound drivers & full software package that comes on the Windows install. This is impossible of course, so there's no point in trying a linux distro at all.
- DRM Microsoft file support (less of an issue but some websites require dl'ing a license to playback content).
Other bitches include a 'base' linux that's supported on all Linux distro's for drivers... ect. That and the KDE user interface is something only a programmer could like. It's not consumer friendly looking at all. I just don't get why the main program list menu has to break software packages down to like media, games, applications... ect on the main menu. They need to come up with something new and really simplified that puts all programs in one list. Vista start menu looks nice. It looks like something from 1994 still, and that's not a good thing at all. Same with open office too.
"- It does burn a custom Windows XP installation disc (no, this does not violate any Microsoft or Windows license agreement, as making custom Windows installation discs has been routine in IT shops for years)"
This is a little off-topic, sorry. You can make an unlimited amount of custom XP discs, but just how often are you allowed to use the Product Activation service? I mean, it seems like everytime I reinstall XP these days I got to call Microsoft up for a 60000 digit confirmation number. I'm getting sick of that. It's basically forcing me to give up reinstallations alltogether because of the hassle involved. And yes using Windows Update is critical in determining if a particual install I'm doing will work the way I want to or not since I don't know if I properly installed all the damn hotfixes from my custom made cd or not. Now I got this XP cd years ago and it seems like recently MS is bitching about OEM cd's, like the one I got with a power spitter cable at newegg, being tied to only one montherboard. Swap the MB out (like I have 4 times due to shitty MB's), and I would have been forced to by a new CD 4 times? Why didn't they clarify that years ago? Doesn't sound like a FULL OS if it's so restricted in reinstalls or upgrades you can do you your machine. I swear, I bitched about this issue to their manager when I was forced to do a reinstall AGAIN just after I bought a new creative soundcard which was the last piece of my major upgrade last November(found out it was a bios issue with my Abit MB).
I'm tired of calling them up and 'making up an excuse'. Why should I be forced to? Are custom CD's only good for like businesses that don't have to deal with this shit? Would paying $300 for the full retail version of XP/Vista solve this problem?
The way I see all this DRM issue heading is that the rootkit issue has hurt Sony a lot and forced them to rethink it. Hence the delay. This sounds like more than a DRM software upgrade issue. Something hardware based. Maybe even to cut costs.
That and didn't they just place an order for the circuit boards for the PS3 a few weeks back? Sounds like a delay on all areas of the machine. And games too since we havn't seen a damn thing yet.
I'm happy for Toys R Us because basically, and I think a lot of other people thought this too, is that I was buying toys from Amazon.com. So at least they get thier brand identity back. It was nice you can return the stuff to any Toys R Us store, though.
:).....
This does suck in a way as it'll be the end of the crazy super bargain deals where Toys R Us has a 33% off each item (3 item minimum) and an Amazon.com coupon for an additional %20 off that amount. It was a killer deal back in September where I got the Star Wars Lego Imperial Star Destroyer (reg price $300) for like 55% off. I'm going to miss those kind of deals. *sniff* *sniff*
However when my apartment office recieved it and showed it to me I could actually see the lego box a few feet away since the box lid tape was completely torn off. That was a scary moment, but it wasn't damaged. They also sent another large lego set WITHOUT ANY BOX WHATSOEVER! Just slapped a sticker on it and shipped it.
So you know, I hope to god Toys R Us can ship things better than these bastards. I don't ever want the apartment management seeing what I got. So good riddence to amazon.com. Oh and don't even get me started with how I bought japanese jpop cd bootlegs from their zShops and didn't know about it for 9 months!
I don't think people realize what kind of games the revolution is going to offer.
:) I want to see what this cooking game idea looks like. :)
I mean it hinted at a lot of things to come...
1. Conduct your own orchastra/symphony.
2. Cook food. Chop up food quickly... ect.
3. Cool sword fights.
4. More natural type of baseball bat swing.
A real revolution? Yup.
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I keep pinching myself in utter disbelief that the furture has come where a-la-carte programming would be real. Now it is and I can watch my favorite shows anywhere I want. iTunes is a direct download service with no viruses, dead torrent links, tracker downtime, RIAA threats, slow downloads, or any bothersome thing like that. Video quality is so nice on my 17" CRT monitor that it's just like watching a TV rip but better quality since there's no logo's anywhere or scrolling text, or weather updates or any crap like that. I tell ya, I wouldn't have it any other way. Freedom from commericals, folks. It's the read deal and I couldn't be any happier. NBC/ABC has all the good shows anyway like Lost, BSG, Monk, and The Office so we're not missing much from the other loser networks that refuse to join up with iTunes. That free Monk episode and SNL skit was just the icing on the cake.
/hugs Steve Jobs. =)....
As for buying all episodes on iTunes, that would be a mistake. I plan on buying Monk on DVD & ripping it so I can watch it again (some for the first time) on my PC. Too much glare watching it on an iPod but for long road trips life without it would be unbarable. But from time to time, like an SNL skit for example, it can't be beat.
Right now there are SHORTAGES of AMD processors. How can AMD make so much more to satisfy the sales demands of Dell PCs? They can't and that's the hold up here. come back in a year or two when Fab 36 is up and running at full steam. However Dell is selling AMD processors separately for a while now which is awfully interesting in itself that doesn't get much attention.
What the hell are they going to call it? Space Port Zero? :)
Better pop-up extentions? 1. A popup blocker that works %100 of the time. Even with Firefox 1.5 Beta2 build, I still get a popup by clicking this link http://www.activewin.com/awin/default.asp and then clicking anywhere on the page at all. Appearently they have a javascript that knows when you're 'touching' a webpage? I have to highlight text to read better so I don't know why this is going on. I do have my settings set at opening pages or user clicked popups in the same window as the current tab. Don't know if that's causing it or not. Is there a nicer Windows news website than Activewin? I'm really starting to hate that pop-up infested site. 2. Flash pop-up detector. Go here. http://www.cleveland.com/ a flash ad flys across the page. I like using Flashblock that blocks all flash (yeah, right) until I allow it to. Happens sometimes on yahoo.com news pages too. I guess I'm asking for a noscript type extension, but is dormant until I ask it to block scripts for a webpage since it's only these websites driving me nuts right now. A blacklist if you will. I spent more time messing with NoScript extension then going to my daily 45 websites. Plus I like installing a new clean install of firefox and updated extensions meaning I don't have time redoing this crap all the time. Disabling SOME scripts for websites would be cool too. Spellcheck as you type for Firefox would be a killer extension too. :)
Specs are a form of communication. It's important that everyone knows what the other is doing and doing it the same way as everyone else. Appearently he doesn't like that. Linux is really starting to fall apart these days. Enough with all these crappy distro's. Free is great, but if everyone is doing thier own thing instead of making one product better, then it's pointless. http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=26642 Basically with free software, you get a mess instead of a clear focus piece of software. Why? Lack of communication and getting everyone on the same page. That's why linux will never be mainsteam. How many distro's are out there? Too many, that's what. Red Hat, SuSe, and Mandrake. Everyone else can go home. Bye! :)
"We must blow up this business model, or we are all doomed. What do we want? What would be ideal?"
Shut up. Creativity brought down too many game companies before. Been there, done that, and having the ENTIRE game developer community do that will disinterest gamers more (i.e. wtf is THIS game about?). We don't need wierd new funky gameplay, we just need well excuted gameplay with, if I may dare say, A REAL FREAKIN STORY/PLOT! This is the reason for sequels because new franchises are harded to sell at all than if it was Bang-Bang-Boom 3: Your DEAD!
I was hoping Digital Extremes Pariah game would kick major ass but it didn't which disapointed me greatly since it wasn't a sequel unlike many others.
I sometimes think that gamers who play games all the time need to realise something. With reading many books, plots will become repetative and boring. With watching too much TV, every story seems to play out the same old cliche (OMG! It wasn't real! It was just a dream!!). With games it's the same old shit but due to cost factors, it sticks out more of a sore thumb.
Been there done that affects every industry. People just waking up to that fact or something?
As for new gameplay ideas, THEY ARE OUT THERE AND COMMING SOON FOLKS!! Spore, DNF, Prey, Gears of War.. ect. New game ideas take longer to execute properly so that's why you'll see less of them.
I can't believe people complain about stupid things like this. Oh wait, they're hardcore gamers/game reviewers so they HAVE to play everything. So how about this as a solution. You play too many games so admit that and shut up.
So is Linspire getting sued for using an iTunes-like interface too? :)
So what will they call our soon to be built, Freedom Tower in NYC? :)
The F****** Tower?
[Note: Think of a colorful medaphor that fills the missing letters :)]
Great but what about Blu-Ray RECORDABLE discs?
:)
Can anyone tell me of a press release stating that Sony or one of it's partners plans on selling discs you can burn any data too? Or is Blu-Ray a read-only solution? I have not seen any edvidence that Sony plans to put BD-DVD burning tech for the PS3 or any other future product of thiers.
I only ask this because I got this dumb for brains friend who's 'waiting' for 30GB rewritable discs to come on in the next 2 years. Trying to explain to him that this $79 NEC is 'da bomb' is pointless.
Uh huh, I can realistically see a 1TB hard disk drive in a laptop in 2 to 3 years. I mean if that's average, laptops won't be running this thing. It's pretty much impossible HD space-wise & graphics wise. So are laptops stuck with XP forever or something? :)
Wait wait wait a sec, hold on here. Are you implying that MyWay is a semi-spyware website?!!!! How?!!!!! They read emails or something? Dammit this is my main homepage & email for the last 2 years. I gotta know what's going on here. :(
God wouldn't it be nice if Xcors' plane could be used as a NASA shuttle replacement to and from the space station at least? Has about the right design to it for that purpose based on what we've seen with NASA's ideas for a small shullte replacement. Am I right here? Would save quite a bit of development costs if this is chosen for that purpose. I do believe the ISS is in a low orbit too so this should work out well. This + next gen huge cargo space freighter might be a nice little combo for future space missions/space development. Now attach that small shuttle on a frieghter and drive that thing to the moon. :)
For all you kiddies who like to leave your computers on all the time, I'd suggest that you don't. This possible source leak worries me quite a bit. :/
1. So specifically Java, Flash, Shockwave player, real one player plug-in, quicktime plug-in will be in the bundle? Is there a bug tracker for this feature?
.... ect.
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2. Thanks for the tip for the Download manager.
3. Well the bookmark name issue goes like this. An inport and export of the file should stay the same.
Lets say you export to IE & then export that to Mozilla & then export back to IE &
get my drift? I don't care if it's a standard it's dataloss to me and messes up my bookmark names. *shrug*
4. some url's will be on top the folders in IE Favorites list. All URL's should go below the folders. some folders are spread out between bookmarks. By default it needs to go like this
folder1
folder2
folder3
URL1
URL2
This is the way it's shown in IE but not in Mozilla. It's difficult to descibe the issue if you don't have a lot of bookmarks but it happens to me on a constant basis.
5. For my autoscoll problem, try this link buddy.
http://www.shacknews.com/screens.x/hd2/Hidden
So you're telling me that you can use your scrollwheel to move horizontally and diagonally? Wow, that's some great scrollwheel you got. Seriously, I'm right on this complaint and I guess I should be asking someone to make a quick extension for this or has someone already done it?
Anyhoo, thanks for the response! I just wish I could send you a private message instead of posting here.
Mozilla Firefox 0.8 Review
.php?id=1825 (try to click on the details link in the middle where they rate the anime, note the website seems down at the moment). MBNA payment page won't work anymore.. ect. Little things like this.
Some of the best things I like about Mozilla Firefox 0.8:
1. Two words - Bookmark Management
Wow! I was able to modify/delete/rename/move 450 bookmarks in a few short hours. It was a combination of being able to edit bookmarks off the menu bar easily and opening a whole folder of websites in seconds. It makes Internet Explorer's 'Organize Favorites' look like a sick joke. Actually it is and I consider it one of the very weak things about Internet Explorer (lets call it IE for short). I simply cannot check all 450 bookmarks to see if the website still exists while using IE. With Mozilla Firefox, it only took like a half hour to get that part done. Tabbed browsing works. Big time. I used to use Tabbrowser Extensions to add some additional tweaks but found it hindered things more than helped. I'll mention what those are in my what I dislike about Mozilla Firefox section.
2. It doesn't crash
Oh Mozilla Firefox can still crash if there's bad code written for a web page, make no mistake about that. Still, it's very very rare and it's so much more stable than any Mozilla 1.x Application Suite release. Perhaps its because I have more confidence in Mozilla Firefox than with the Mozilla Application Suite (call it App. Suite for short), due to some previously bad experiences doing real web development with Composer with the 1.5 release. However, this whole crash issue is more of a release-by-release kind of thing. It's my hope that the Mozilla development team continues to focus on making Mozilla Firefox as crash proof as possible. Keep up the good work!
3. Mozilla Firefox loads up fast
It is way faster than the App. Suite due to it not preloading several applications I don't use at all. I have no confidence in using Mozilla Mail, nor do I use an email account with POP access. I've tried Composer and it crashed on a regular basis that it was a totally useless program. I also have no clue on how to use ChatZilla, and I keep my small address book in a text file. So my main focus has always been on how well the Mozilla web browser was. Now with Mozilla Firefox I have a web browser that loads almost as fast as IE and to me it's important that it loads fast because it greatly hindered me from switching over for good.
4. Properly displayed webpages
There's always going to be one minor annoyance per website since it was built with IE in mind, but all in all, Mozilla developer team finally nailed it. It's good enough for most webpages and when I can't view a webpage properly in Mozilla Firefox , I switch over to IE quickly. There's an extension called 'IE View' that adds a right-click menu option that'll open IE for whatever webpage you are currently on at the moment. Very handy feature and its something I use every now and then. Certain webpages that just don't work well include any Microsoft/MSN website, pages like this http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime
5. Options dialogue box
This was one of the things I always thought were desperately needed for a Mozilla web browser. The Application Suite way only shows a directory name (which is sometimes truncated), and you have to double click to see more directories underneath it in order to get to the specific preferences you wanted to change. First of all, you can't at a quick glance get to the section you want right away. There needed to be a visual aid to help guide you to the section you wanted. I always thought the most *ideal* way was a combination of icons and a word or two to describe the general section of preferences. I couldn't believe what I was seeing with the first release of Mozilla Firefox that I tested. Icons plus a short word or two that's not truncated plus I didn't need to do anymo