I had no idea Kutaragi was arrogant enough to actually turn GTA4 as an exclusive. That is, without doubt one of the most stupid things I've ever ever heard - hot jesus that's stupid!
I hate to admit I'm a rabid fanboy for something, but I would without doubt drop the full 1.1k$ it would cost me (AUD) to purchase a PS3 and GTA4 if it was exclusive - no hesitation.
No other game do I rate that highly - that man is nuts - bye bye Ken, glad to see you go.
Everytime flash comes even close, hard disks decrease in cost and tripple in available space. Please to be showing me the 1TB 90mb write, 60mb read sustained flash drives under 400$ right now.
Ok show me something even close to that, without read / write cycle problems.
It's not going to happen, they will always remain behind, at best we'll get little ones in our machines to hold the OS only or something but not the real data.
There's always always a new disk technology around the corner, something finally bigger, faster, better than magnetic, it's always 5 years away.
Honest guys! the 2TB holographic drive, with 3 lasers (top,front side) into something the size of a sugar cube is coming! (I heard that one nearly 10 years ago)
Seagate, WD, Fujitsu, Hitachi would / will / have / may band together to hold any tech like this back or at least 'stagger' the release of it.
If they ever _EVER_ release a disk under 500$ US which is say 4x bigger than the current largest (say a 4TB now) and obscenely fast it will sell like absoloute hotcakes, 500$ or not - seriously. It will decimate their current inventory and manufacturing tools overnight, I for one would have absoloutely no hesitation in dropping that kind of cash - maybe even a grand.
So, to summarize..... I guess one day this might come - but by the time it does, if it does you can be darn sure they'll make sure it's only marginally better than what they just released earlier.......
I know it's third hand information but I regularly speak with people on a popular gaming messageboard and one of the guys there is up to seven consoles, he has no reason to lie, seriously.
He's used a UPS , Power conditioner, he's even moved house (co-incidentally) I think he's tried multiple TV's - he's pretty much eliminated all the variables and still 7 down. He loves the games on the system and is always |_| so close to swapping to a PS3 but ultimately the games he loves are on the 360.
It's a real shame and it's why I don't own one yet myself (and dipshit Microsoft love halting the release of products in other regions! Hello, Australia want the elite too!) Either way, that's an appauling amount of consoles to fail. Also one of the members of this particular forum ran a 'survey' system which had about 500 or so users on there, each time one failed they incrimented the number for each user. A large quantity of guys only had 1 console, no failures but ultimately it worked out to around a 20% failure rate according to his survey, with of course the guy with 7 dead ones at the top of the list.
Crazy stuff, I'm waiting for the 'fixed' edition! (it better come out before GTA4 goddamnit!)
The replies to that post are fantastic. The couple who decked out that kids room, while thoughtful and probably quite intelligent are also dorks (not the good kind!) that poor kid is totally going to rebel just as the comments say.
I work with notes all day long in a govt organisation and I can tell you know, as a PLAIN EMAIL CLIENT it's garbage, complete trash.
Yes it does some other stuff, no doubting it but as a pure email too, ugh. I just wish we'd switch to outlook for people who don't give a shit about bloody quickplaces and what not.
Christ even Outlook with the Notes plugin but good lord that email client stinks.
Peter definately does hype his stuff up and yeah they never are as good as he claims, that being said Fable is quite a good game and Black and white was certainly new and innovative fun for at least 8hours:/
I'm looking forward to Fable 2, although I must admit I couldn't care less about the dog sidekick or the terrible bland graphics from the demo but I'll still play the game, it'll hopefully be as good as Fable 1.
Also, Peter made Syndicate and really, that deserves a lifelong pass as far as I'm concerned!
First off the PCI-e 2.0 support is apparently in the X38 'enthusiast' chipset so that's one scratch. Also the P35 seems fairly good with DDR3 but it's a hell of a price premium and certainly not an insane speed bump. On top of this, the P35 supports the 45nm Penryn CPU, guess what? the 965 chipset also supports Penryn if the boards are designed with this in mind, some may not work, some may only need a bios update - but you will see Penryn working on 965 boards soon. Then there's cost - the DDR3 I mentioned plus the board itself is expensive.
I'm sure in 9 months we'll all be using these and the 965 will be gone, however right now it's not something even enthusiasts should care too much about, wait for the X38 which may (partially) future proof your machine or at least wait for a price drop.
I'm sure in another 6->12 months we'll see yet another Intel chipset with improvements (surprise surprise!) hopefully the next round will be something so amazing that it's simply a no brainer to purchase.
Firstly, the kid should be controlled, do children need a damned mobile phone? Maybe I'm old fasioned but we didn't have them 15 years ago when I was a kid. Why not use a prepaid, why not use an account with cheaper SMS?
The second problem I have with this is the goddamn phone companies charging so much for text! In some markets where the consumers aren't idiots, the rate for a text is 1c or even less - in Australia it's a nice butt rapingly harsh 22 or 25c on average:/
The third problem I have is with companies that let exaggerated bills generate in the first place, I realise it's not their responsibility to an extent but every few years you hear of little Jonny dialing a 1800 number to speak to hot wet sluts for 300 hours in a month and his family end up owing 25grand or something - credit card companies put a freeze on excessive bills, where's this freeze for mobile plans?
But really,.... get a damn plan with unlimited SMS or something.
In all fairness the IBM / Hitachi failure period was over 5 years ago and specific to the 75GXP line (15gb per platter if I recall, maximum 5 platters, hence the 75GXP naming)
5 years later, it's likely more than fixed up, I mean I recall the giant 1.6gb Western Digital fiasco, that was a disaster. (or was it 1.2gb?)
Anyhow, Hitachi is probably fine but Seagate is really on a good roll (however I've only experienced 7200.8's and 7200.9's - like I said the 7200.10 could be a noisy bastard:( ? who knows) I will say though, Seagate was beating WD in price and performance, heat, etc for years but finally - in the past 12 it's got to Seagate's head and there is a 10% premium sadly.
If you want be cheap and save some $ - you could always buy Maxtor (lol, be sure to back that crap up!)
"Firefox's page-cache mechanism, for example, introduced in version 1.5, stores the last eight visited pages in the computer's memory. Caching pages in memory allows faster back browsing, but it can also leave a lot less memory for other applications to use. Less available RAM equals a less-responsive computer. Firefox addresses this issue somewhat, setting the default cache lower on computers with less than a gigabyte of RAM. Though the jury is still out on where the perfect balance between too many and too few features lies, one truth is apparent: The new web is pushing our browsers to the limit."
Errr no! When I heard about this I was ecstatic, it's an awesome concept and frankly I'd like my damn browser even faster. I don't care if it uses 500mb, memory is so damn cheap - sure if it has an option to change the memory use it would be nice but honestly, performance = win.
While I'm at it, we need a damn decent DNS caching tool, I used to use a small package called 'easy dns' (IIRC) which run in the system tray and I set my local machine to point to it as a DNS server, it had a cache of sites and ips and basically sped up browsing quite a bit.
Even on an ADSL2 10mbit link at home browsing is STILL not fast enough on dual core machines with 2gb, I mean it's text and images - it should be damned snappy (it's not terrible but it's not good enough)
If any devs of FF are reading this, please feel free to do whatever you like to make the package even faster! If you get any spare time, send some snippets of code to MS to fix up the explorer interface snappiness too! (Explorer, not IE)
The Hitach is a 1000mb drive with 5x200gb platters. The Seagate (due soon) is a 1000mb drive with 4x250gb platters and (iirc) 32mb of cache.
The increased platter density will slightly increase performance and theoretically decrease cost, it'll slightly reduce heat and also power use too.
On top of this Seagate offer a 5 year warranty on all drives (Hitachi may also, sorry not sure) and Seagate used to be one of the quietest available to boot. (although I hear the 7200.10's suck for noise, apparently some kind of patent issue with using low acoustic mode - hope that's sorted?)
Anyhow, what this does mean for us end users is you'll see 2 platter, 500gb drives which weigh less, cost less, run faster and cost substantially less than the 1000mb models, also the glorious 750gb will become a 3 platter model instead of a 4 platter (my personal 'limit' is 3playtters - after that I find it too prone to noise / heat / failure rate)
I'd say we'll see 80$ (rebate) 500gb drives within 3 months and we'll see the 750's at 169$ or something soon(ish)
I recall seeing a similar post on/. over a year ago and it hadn't even occured to me till then.
It's amazing when you actually think about it and realise it really is quite true, the ugly are very frequently discriminated against and as a bonus zing, there's no 'anti-ugly' discrimination because it's normally more subtle things, like quality of service from people, respect in the workplace, that kind of thing
Ubuntu is fantastic if you manage to have a chunk of hardware which works out of the box with it, if however you don't you're in a world of pain (then again all linux distro's suffer this)
I've been fiddling with Ubuntu as a mid-range user since 5.04 and had all kinds of joys and problems with it. See initially my ipw2200 card wouldn't work at all. Then I figured out how to get it working, WEP only mind you but working. Eventually I got an RT2500 which worked easier, but still fiddly and WPA = pain. I also picked up an Atheros PCMCIA card, this worked for my intended purpose (wardriving) but again WPA was a fiddle.
With each subsequent release of Ubuntu the way to get things working has changed, I've had to re-read updated how-to's and so on at the Ubuntu forums. I ended up sticking with 6.06 because that particular version I could hook up my ethernet cable for internet and use my atheros card for wardriving my apartment block, however upgrading the version of firefox, well frankly I was embaressed at how tricky it was, I tried using Synaptic but it didn't give me a newever version and I knew if I marked all upgrades it would give me 6.10 at the time.
I ended up finding another chap on the Ubuntu forums who had exactly the same problem, some guy came to our rescue and gave us a script to run, I felt like a tool but for the life of me I couldn't do it manually, I ran his script and it worked fine, I don't think the chap rooted us, very good of him, great community.
Now another problem, if I recall was when I was on 6.06 and DID try to grab the 6.10 updates, it borked my ability to use kismet, I think there was a driver change for the Atheros card. (Don't quote me exactly but I recall something which was working before I upgraded, then - dead) Either way some of you guys post how awesome it is your parents are working fine or grandparents and you just remotely update them once a week, I have to cast some doubt on that based on my experiences, once it's working don't fix it seems to be the best for me.
Finally to sum up my problems, I've grabbed 7.04, it looks fantastic, this new graphical effect is nice and I'm not normally one for graphical effects (Vista, ugh) however there's 'glitchy' lines on the ATI Mobility 9600 range of laptop cards (I believe specific to Dell's revision) ARGH! (More information here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=414740 ) So I have to use the bad drivers, I forget the term, I think it's closed source or binary but there's a different name used for them (restricted?). this kills the nice 3D effects. A chap sent me a link to a tutorial on how to get the 3D effects working in XGL (or something?) but good lord, it wasn't a short tutorial, I haven't had the balls to try it yet.
I like Ubuntu, I like it being free. I like the interface, I like Firefox and Open office, but honestly I can't 100% switch to it yet, maybe I don't research hard enough but I just simply don't find it works well enough 'out of the box' for me to switch on over, the other HUGE problem for linux is that I can just plain old re-boot back to Windows if something goes wrong, it's so easy to be lazy. (sorry but it's true)
Here's what I WANT
A recent version of Ubuntu, using my RT2500 or IPW2200 minipci card working with full WPA on my network at 54mbit. My Atheros card working with Kismet, Aircrack-ng, Aircrack-ptw and I guess optionally WPA - but primarily just a WEP hunter. Ability to playback video's including recent codecs, examples *cough* Sopranos episodes or Mythbusters for example. Ability to use Azureus (pretty sure I can do that now) Hibernate / suspend to ram / disk ability. Ability to connect to and map Samba shares.
Optional: 3D desktop effects Burn DVD-Video, ISO's Emulate Windows or VM-Ware / run a 'real' Windows in a Window for things which require it. Sync my T-630 phone with a good calendar package and sync said calendar pac
Do I blow the mod points or do I flame you? Well I think I'm going with option B.
What the FUCK are you talking about? If you paid damned attention to the game you'd soon become accustomed to where you are, which roads go where, what landmarks to look out for etc.
The game was nothing short of awesome, that huge landscape really really led to a hell of a lot of fun and exploration, finding cool stuff dumped in towns in the middle of nowhere.
Complaining about a game being 'too big' is right up there with one of the stupidest things I've seen posted here, seriously, I bet you still get lost on E1M1.
Also: GTA4 will be smaller but more detailed anyhow, so you get your wish.
There was an episode of the Sopranos aired last week (around 1 week after VT?) People on the imdb forums were complaining about the writers being insensitive because there was a violent asian on the episode. (and not just one or two people)
Seriously, an episode written, filmed, edited and finalised probably 3-6 months ago and the violence was not with a weapon.
I was dumbfounded totally, the fact that people this stupid exist worries me and should worry minorities even more, I truely feel badly for muslims and asians alike, any single one person in a minority makes a mistake and the rest of them are crucified.
I also was the class clown and soon discovered it was definately an escape from being picked on by the school vermin.
That being said, ultimately it cost me a hell of a lot of my education and a bad standing with many of the teachers, some of which knew I was a fairly ok guy, others well I was a dick to them because in all honesty it made me more popular and saved me from the hassles from the higher ups on the stupid male ego pecking order.
I've had discussions with a friend of mine who was also picked on in school (him far more than I sadly) and in the long run, we both agree, as taboo as this sounds (frankly I just don't care) that we both SLIGHTLY sympathise with the columbine kids (the ones who pulled the triggers) - I don't endorse what they did but the choice of targetting jocks? The built up anger? wrong for sure but totally understandable too.
Glad to see you like something different, I can assure you there's a huge huge group of gamers who don't like multi-player games and prefer single.
Don't get me wrong though, this post isn't 'pro-wii' and 'who cares if the wii isn't online?' - far from it. The wii is a 'party' gamers console for people to play at home with friends or online.
What I speak of is single player story focused gamers, those of us who like Psychonauts, Beyond Good and Evil, God of War, Half Life, KOTOR, Fable, Broken Sword 3, Metal Gear Solids etc. I for one couldn't care less about online gaming like graw or socom or sports (online racing however - hmm)
Trust me there's still a big market for completly SP games and it has nothing to do with 'masturbation' as you seem to put it.
While this guy was silly enough to use the "could care less" english abortion his opinion is not entirely validated to the levels of troll people
If a company promises backwards compatibility it shouldn't be selective. On top of that, even if one is to let that slip under the ASSUMPTION things will get better the least they can do is tell the truth consistently.
In regards to B/C MS has not done that - I specifically recall the line "all new Xbox 1 games released after the X360 is released will be B/C as of launch date"
Give this dude a break, it might not be +5 but the -1 troll moderation should be left for harsher posts.
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I had no idea Kutaragi was arrogant enough to actually turn GTA4 as an exclusive.
That is, without doubt one of the most stupid things I've ever ever heard - hot jesus that's stupid!
I hate to admit I'm a rabid fanboy for something, but I would without doubt drop the full 1.1k$ it would cost me (AUD) to purchase a PS3 and GTA4 if it was exclusive - no hesitation.
No other game do I rate that highly - that man is nuts - bye bye Ken, glad to see you go.
You're kidding yourself, absoloutely kidding yourself.
Everytime flash comes even close, hard disks decrease in cost and tripple in available space.
Please to be showing me the 1TB 90mb write, 60mb read sustained flash drives under 400$ right now.
Ok show me something even close to that, without read / write cycle problems.
It's not going to happen, they will always remain behind, at best we'll get little ones in our machines to hold the OS only or something but not the real data.
There's always always a new disk technology around the corner, something finally bigger, faster, better than magnetic, it's always 5 years away.
Honest guys! the 2TB holographic drive, with 3 lasers (top,front side) into something the size of a sugar cube is coming!
(I heard that one nearly 10 years ago)
Seagate, WD, Fujitsu, Hitachi would / will / have / may band together to hold any tech like this back or at least 'stagger' the release of it.
If they ever _EVER_ release a disk under 500$ US which is say 4x bigger than the current largest (say a 4TB now) and obscenely fast it will sell like absoloute hotcakes, 500$ or not - seriously.
It will decimate their current inventory and manufacturing tools overnight, I for one would have absoloutely no hesitation in dropping that kind of cash - maybe even a grand.
So, to summarize..... I guess one day this might come - but by the time it does, if it does you can be darn sure they'll make sure it's only marginally better than what they just released earlier.......
I know it's third hand information but I regularly speak with people on a popular gaming messageboard and one of the guys there is up to seven consoles, he has no reason to lie, seriously.
He's used a UPS , Power conditioner, he's even moved house (co-incidentally) I think he's tried multiple TV's - he's pretty much eliminated all the variables and still 7 down.
He loves the games on the system and is always |_| so close to swapping to a PS3 but ultimately the games he loves are on the 360.
It's a real shame and it's why I don't own one yet myself (and dipshit Microsoft love halting the release of products in other regions! Hello, Australia want the elite too!)
Either way, that's an appauling amount of consoles to fail.
Also one of the members of this particular forum ran a 'survey' system which had about 500 or so users on there, each time one failed they incrimented the number for each user.
A large quantity of guys only had 1 console, no failures but ultimately it worked out to around a 20% failure rate according to his survey, with of course the guy with 7 dead ones at the top of the list.
Crazy stuff, I'm waiting for the 'fixed' edition! (it better come out before GTA4 goddamnit!)
The replies to that post are fantastic.
The couple who decked out that kids room, while thoughtful and probably quite intelligent are also dorks (not the good kind!) that poor kid is totally going to rebel just as the comments say.
Lotus Notes (and still use it daily.... ugh)
I work with notes all day long in a govt organisation and I can tell you know, as a PLAIN EMAIL CLIENT it's garbage, complete trash.
Yes it does some other stuff, no doubting it but as a pure email too, ugh.
I just wish we'd switch to outlook for people who don't give a shit about bloody quickplaces and what not.
Christ even Outlook with the Notes plugin but good lord that email client stinks.
Surprisingly no Molyneux bashers today, weird!
:/
Peter definately does hype his stuff up and yeah they never are as good as he claims, that being said Fable is quite a good game and Black and white was certainly new and innovative fun for at least 8hours
I'm looking forward to Fable 2, although I must admit I couldn't care less about the dog sidekick or the terrible bland graphics from the demo but I'll still play the game, it'll hopefully be as good as Fable 1.
Also, Peter made Syndicate and really, that deserves a lifelong pass as far as I'm concerned!
I just read the techreport article this morning.
First off the PCI-e 2.0 support is apparently in the X38 'enthusiast' chipset so that's one scratch.
Also the P35 seems fairly good with DDR3 but it's a hell of a price premium and certainly not an insane speed bump.
On top of this, the P35 supports the 45nm Penryn CPU, guess what? the 965 chipset also supports Penryn if the boards are designed with this in mind, some may not work, some may only need a bios update - but you will see Penryn working on 965 boards soon.
Then there's cost - the DDR3 I mentioned plus the board itself is expensive.
I'm sure in 9 months we'll all be using these and the 965 will be gone, however right now it's not something even enthusiasts should care too much about, wait for the X38 which may (partially) future proof your machine or at least wait for a price drop.
I'm sure in another 6->12 months we'll see yet another Intel chipset with improvements (surprise surprise!) hopefully the next round will be something so amazing that it's simply a no brainer to purchase.
Firstly, the kid should be controlled, do children need a damned mobile phone? Maybe I'm old fasioned but we didn't have them 15 years ago when I was a kid.
:/
Why not use a prepaid, why not use an account with cheaper SMS?
The second problem I have with this is the goddamn phone companies charging so much for text!
In some markets where the consumers aren't idiots, the rate for a text is 1c or even less - in Australia it's a nice butt rapingly harsh 22 or 25c on average
The third problem I have is with companies that let exaggerated bills generate in the first place, I realise it's not their responsibility to an extent but every few years you hear of little Jonny dialing a 1800 number to speak to hot wet sluts for 300 hours in a month and his family end up owing 25grand or something - credit card companies put a freeze on excessive bills, where's this freeze for mobile plans?
But really,.... get a damn plan with unlimited SMS or something.
In all fairness the IBM / Hitachi failure period was over 5 years ago and specific to the 75GXP line (15gb per platter if I recall, maximum 5 platters, hence the 75GXP naming)
:( ? who knows)
5 years later, it's likely more than fixed up, I mean I recall the giant 1.6gb Western Digital fiasco, that was a disaster.
(or was it 1.2gb?)
Anyhow, Hitachi is probably fine but Seagate is really on a good roll (however I've only experienced 7200.8's and 7200.9's - like I said the 7200.10 could be a noisy bastard
I will say though, Seagate was beating WD in price and performance, heat, etc for years but finally - in the past 12 it's got to Seagate's head and there is a 10% premium sadly.
If you want be cheap and save some $ - you could always buy Maxtor (lol, be sure to back that crap up!)
Err
5 is the maximum physically possible in a 3.5" half height form factor. (to my knowledge)
5x200 = 1000
or
4x250 = 1000
Where do you get 6 from?
"Firefox's page-cache mechanism, for example, introduced in version 1.5, stores the last eight visited pages in the computer's memory. Caching pages in memory allows faster back browsing, but it can also leave a lot less memory for other applications to use. Less available RAM equals a less-responsive computer. Firefox addresses this issue somewhat, setting the default cache lower on computers with less than a gigabyte of RAM. Though the jury is still out on where the perfect balance between too many and too few features lies, one truth is apparent: The new web is pushing our browsers to the limit."
Errr no! When I heard about this I was ecstatic, it's an awesome concept and frankly I'd like my damn browser even faster.
I don't care if it uses 500mb, memory is so damn cheap - sure if it has an option to change the memory use it would be nice but honestly, performance = win.
While I'm at it, we need a damn decent DNS caching tool, I used to use a small package called 'easy dns' (IIRC) which run in the system tray and I set my local machine to point to it as a DNS server, it had a cache of sites and ips and basically sped up browsing quite a bit.
Even on an ADSL2 10mbit link at home browsing is STILL not fast enough on dual core machines with 2gb, I mean it's text and images - it should be damned snappy (it's not terrible but it's not good enough)
If any devs of FF are reading this, please feel free to do whatever you like to make the package even faster!
If you get any spare time, send some snippets of code to MS to fix up the explorer interface snappiness too! (Explorer, not IE)
The Hitach is a 1000mb drive with 5x200gb platters.
The Seagate (due soon) is a 1000mb drive with 4x250gb platters and (iirc) 32mb of cache.
The increased platter density will slightly increase performance and theoretically decrease cost, it'll slightly reduce heat and also power use too.
On top of this Seagate offer a 5 year warranty on all drives (Hitachi may also, sorry not sure) and Seagate used to be one of the quietest available to boot. (although I hear the 7200.10's suck for noise, apparently some kind of patent issue with using low acoustic mode - hope that's sorted?)
Anyhow, what this does mean for us end users is you'll see 2 platter, 500gb drives which weigh less, cost less, run faster and cost substantially less than the 1000mb models, also the glorious 750gb will become a 3 platter model instead of a 4 platter (my personal 'limit' is 3playtters - after that I find it too prone to noise / heat / failure rate)
I'd say we'll see 80$ (rebate) 500gb drives within 3 months and we'll see the 750's at 169$ or something soon(ish)
This should be the only +6 post here, seriously.
/. over a year ago and it hadn't even occured to me till then.
I recall seeing a similar post on
It's amazing when you actually think about it and realise it really is quite true, the ugly are very frequently discriminated against and as a bonus zing, there's no 'anti-ugly' discrimination because it's normally more subtle things, like quality of service from people, respect in the workplace, that kind of thing
Ubuntu is fantastic if you manage to have a chunk of hardware which works out of the box with it, if however you don't you're in a world of pain (then again all linux distro's suffer this)
I've been fiddling with Ubuntu as a mid-range user since 5.04 and had all kinds of joys and problems with it.
See initially my ipw2200 card wouldn't work at all.
Then I figured out how to get it working, WEP only mind you but working.
Eventually I got an RT2500 which worked easier, but still fiddly and WPA = pain.
I also picked up an Atheros PCMCIA card, this worked for my intended purpose (wardriving) but again WPA was a fiddle.
With each subsequent release of Ubuntu the way to get things working has changed, I've had to re-read updated how-to's and so on at the Ubuntu forums.
I ended up sticking with 6.06 because that particular version I could hook up my ethernet cable for internet and use my atheros card for wardriving my apartment block, however upgrading the version of firefox, well frankly I was embaressed at how tricky it was, I tried using Synaptic but it didn't give me a newever version and I knew if I marked all upgrades it would give me 6.10 at the time.
I ended up finding another chap on the Ubuntu forums who had exactly the same problem, some guy came to our rescue and gave us a script to run, I felt like a tool but for the life of me I couldn't do it manually, I ran his script and it worked fine, I don't think the chap rooted us, very good of him, great community.
Now another problem, if I recall was when I was on 6.06 and DID try to grab the 6.10 updates, it borked my ability to use kismet, I think there was a driver change for the Atheros card.
(Don't quote me exactly but I recall something which was working before I upgraded, then - dead)
Either way some of you guys post how awesome it is your parents are working fine or grandparents and you just remotely update them once a week, I have to cast some doubt on that based on my experiences, once it's working don't fix it seems to be the best for me.
Finally to sum up my problems, I've grabbed 7.04, it looks fantastic, this new graphical effect is nice and I'm not normally one for graphical effects (Vista, ugh) however there's 'glitchy' lines on the ATI Mobility 9600 range of laptop cards (I believe specific to Dell's revision) ARGH!
(More information here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=414740 )
So I have to use the bad drivers, I forget the term, I think it's closed source or binary but there's a different name used for them (restricted?). this kills the nice 3D effects.
A chap sent me a link to a tutorial on how to get the 3D effects working in XGL (or something?) but good lord, it wasn't a short tutorial, I haven't had the balls to try it yet.
I like Ubuntu, I like it being free.
I like the interface, I like Firefox and Open office, but honestly I can't 100% switch to it yet, maybe I don't research hard enough but I just simply don't find it works well enough 'out of the box' for me to switch on over, the other HUGE problem for linux is that I can just plain old re-boot back to Windows if something goes wrong, it's so easy to be lazy. (sorry but it's true)
Here's what I WANT
A recent version of Ubuntu, using my RT2500 or IPW2200 minipci card working with full WPA on my network at 54mbit.
My Atheros card working with Kismet, Aircrack-ng, Aircrack-ptw and I guess optionally WPA - but primarily just a WEP hunter.
Ability to playback video's including recent codecs, examples *cough* Sopranos episodes or Mythbusters for example.
Ability to use Azureus (pretty sure I can do that now)
Hibernate / suspend to ram / disk ability.
Ability to connect to and map Samba shares.
Optional:
3D desktop effects
Burn DVD-Video, ISO's
Emulate Windows or VM-Ware / run a 'real' Windows in a Window for things which require it.
Sync my T-630 phone with a good calendar package and sync said calendar pac
I actually agree, non stackable items suck! and bright nasty colours are so gaudy :( I like plain stuff.
Don't tell me, they all have goatee's?
^^^^^ Aforementioned black man, trying to lay low.
Do you guys actually have 'in god we trust' written on your currency????
(I have no idea, posting from Australia)
Do I blow the mod points or do I flame you? Well I think I'm going with option B.
What the FUCK are you talking about?
If you paid damned attention to the game you'd soon become accustomed to where you are, which roads go where, what landmarks to look out for etc.
The game was nothing short of awesome, that huge landscape really really led to a hell of a lot of fun and exploration, finding cool stuff dumped in towns in the middle of nowhere.
Complaining about a game being 'too big' is right up there with one of the stupidest things I've seen posted here, seriously, I bet you still get lost on E1M1.
Also: GTA4 will be smaller but more detailed anyhow, so you get your wish.
There was an episode of the Sopranos aired last week (around 1 week after VT?)
People on the imdb forums were complaining about the writers being insensitive because there was a violent asian on the episode.
(and not just one or two people)
Seriously, an episode written, filmed, edited and finalised probably 3-6 months ago and the violence was not with a weapon.
I was dumbfounded totally, the fact that people this stupid exist worries me and should worry minorities even more, I truely feel badly for muslims and asians alike, any single one person in a minority makes a mistake and the rest of them are crucified.
Sad stuff.
I also was the class clown and soon discovered it was definately an escape from being picked on by the school vermin.
That being said, ultimately it cost me a hell of a lot of my education and a bad standing with many of the teachers, some of which knew I was a fairly ok guy, others well I was a dick to them because in all honesty it made me more popular and saved me from the hassles from the higher ups on the stupid male ego pecking order.
I've had discussions with a friend of mine who was also picked on in school (him far more than I sadly) and in the long run, we both agree, as taboo as this sounds (frankly I just don't care) that we both SLIGHTLY sympathise with the columbine kids (the ones who pulled the triggers) - I don't endorse what they did but the choice of targetting jocks? The built up anger? wrong for sure but totally understandable too.
School, what a ghastly place.
Glad to see you like something different, I can assure you there's a huge huge group of gamers who don't like multi-player games and prefer single.
Don't get me wrong though, this post isn't 'pro-wii' and 'who cares if the wii isn't online?' - far from it.
The wii is a 'party' gamers console for people to play at home with friends or online.
What I speak of is single player story focused gamers, those of us who like Psychonauts, Beyond Good and Evil, God of War, Half Life, KOTOR, Fable, Broken Sword 3, Metal Gear Solids etc.
I for one couldn't care less about online gaming like graw or socom or sports (online racing however - hmm)
Trust me there's still a big market for completly SP games and it has nothing to do with 'masturbation' as you seem to put it.
While this guy was silly enough to use the "could care less" english abortion his opinion is not entirely validated to the levels of troll people
If a company promises backwards compatibility it shouldn't be selective.
On top of that, even if one is to let that slip under the ASSUMPTION things will get better the least they can do is tell the truth consistently.
In regards to B/C MS has not done that - I specifically recall the line "all new Xbox 1 games released after the X360 is released will be B/C as of launch date"
Give this dude a break, it might not be +5 but the -1 troll moderation should be left for harsher posts.