Theyre comparing the best NVidia has vs the best ATI has. Personally, I wish ATI had better drivers (including 64bit ones), but thats just me. I still wouldnt use them of course, as thats like buying windows 2k3-- It doesnt matter if a bad company finally makes something worth using, they're still a bad company. Knowing ATI, I'm just suprised they don't EOL their drivers for any kernel older than a week. On a related note, anyone else appreciate the performance enhancements NVidia's TNT2 cards get with the most current drivers? It's nice having a company actually support their customers.
When the guy infront of you is going 80mph, and the guy behind you is going 80mph, how fast do you go to avoid a collision? Is your life worth being able to say "but the sign said speed limit 60mph!"?
So what they're selling you is a license that you don't get to read until after you buy it, but what they're advertising is a game. Couldn't you bring them up on false advertisement? (IANAL)
"makes kickass games, provides us with endless hours of entertainment " They do what they have to do to turn a profit, that doesnt make them good. Its not like they've EVER released sourcecode, binaries for anything that they dont sell in stores , etc. Good is "I just do it because linux gives me a woody", not turning a profit. Granted, blizzards patch policy is nicer than most, but in the end they're just trying to retain customers so people play their games rather than someone elses.
Bnetd is useful because you can use it to avoid the extortion blizzard uses on lan center owners.
Without source you can still remove all the stupid "Install AOL 9.0 Optimized!OMGLOL!DOIT!" links everywhere, and only include links to launch the app where you want it(which would be set in some sort of aptwin32 preferences, or maybe as an option when installing?) Some apps can even be relocated safely so long as all their files are in the same dir, so you could get rid of stupid company name directories that you dont care about.
As for licensing.. Thats when the legal fun comes in. Have pre-packager download the installer, crack it so it skips the agreement part (easy, or just replace the agreement text with your own, or whatever.) Save to your network shared drive WITHOUT EVER CLICKING OK TO AN AGREEMENT, and then the real packager downloads it without you ever directly redistributing it. They install it without ever seeing an EULA, and thus never agreed. If theres an EULA on the download link, you'll just have to get a third person to hunt through it to find the actual exe
For that matter, why hasn't anyone ported apt(By far the best system IMO) to windows? Theres apt4rpm, entire debian ports to bsd kernels, apt on mac os x(Fink, iirc), and who knows what else. Windows on the other hand needs it the most. How many horrible windows installers are out there that clutter your quicklaunch, start menu, bookmarks, ie favorites, systray, desktop.. Only to put itself in some horrible nonstandard location? Apt keeps all packages' files in standard locations (like/usr/share/doc and such) even if the upstream's installer doesnt. The only problem is I can see cease&decists over breaking the license agreements of apps that forbid redistribution. This will either finally give some good EULA court tests, or completely kill the project.
Thats what happened to Fiesta Texas in san antonio tx. Anyone that went before the sixflags hostile takeover just call it Fiesta Texas. I assume touristy types call it six flags. I don't care, its like calling freebsd a linux.. anyone that really cares knows, and anyone that makes the mistake is someone you dont care about.
Each moderator gets 5 mod points, and then they arn't a moderator anymore. Hence: DIFFERENT MODERATORS EVERY DAY. A +5 funny is a -1 troll, it all depends on when you post it.
If you look around, You can find Red VS Blue playing on a ton of shoutcast NSV streams. Its a shame bandwidth costs make streaming video so hard to do freely, as chances are you'll have to wait in line to join a stream, but they're worth it.
Considering the age, just throw a few LEDs together and she'll be happy. Maybe make it interactive, like a few switches to control which group is on, whether theyre blinking, etc.
goat.cx has no ads, redirects, javascript, annoying embeds, or anything that would slow down the use of the site. Compare that to microsoft, tripod, etc.
Hate to reply twice, but also: whats the point of using google as your homepage? you can type search terms into the google bar (firefox or downloaded ie plugin) just as quickly. Frankly I've not even used a homepage since back in the days when lynx was my primary browser. In windows (or KDE, probably a gnome alternative too): Star->run-> http://whateveryouwanttogoto.com and just launch your browser directly to the website. Why load a start page that you dont intend on using?
No it doesnt, not unless you're on a SLIP 8000baud connection from iraq. On a modern connection with a modern computer, they both load within the same timeframe: instant. When you're on a 3mbit connection (average cable) with a reasonably fast machine they'll both load far faster than you'll be able to notice, something to the tune of 500ms
If you can actually notice a difference in loadtime, its time to upgrade. Even after going through mozilla's adblock filters it still loads just as fast as google.
Except that openbsd has far more exploits, local and remote. The only security you get with OpenBSD is the fact that NOONE wants access to a machine thats made to be hard to use, including hackers. Any OS made by someone with an ego as big as theos is fundamentaly insecure, because its been proven many times that theo would rather keep his ego than admit a fault, which is why the only way to patch most openbsd exploits is by asking the mailinglist about them, as if its not on bugtraq theo wont mention it in a changelog.
I hate having to go through all the trouble of driving down town, finding someone that looks like a prostitute, paying them my hard earned money for something they should be GIVING AWAY for free (it costs them nothing!), AND having to hide it from everyone. So instead I just hang out around middleschools and rape the most developed girls, luckily they're still ashamed of their bodies and feel its their fault, so they dont tell anyone for years. Works great and feels so good!
Their donation policy is pretty simple, They don't feel its right to accept money for something they're only partially responsible for, and its impossible to split any donations up to each and every person that ever wrote a patch or a plugin. Instead they prefer donations in the form of documentation, code, or beer.
Because they have no macs? Donate them a nice G5 and you'll probably start seeing mac builds. Or start building them yourself and get on the gaim devel team as the official mac guy?
Yeah, except for the Vchip in my parents TV malfunctioning and not letting us all watch southpark because of 'parental controls' that were never set, apparently its a known defect and the only work around was to use the backdoor code of 5555 every time it pops up (which wont even disable it, just get it away temporarily)
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Theyre comparing the best NVidia has vs the best ATI has. Personally, I wish ATI had better drivers (including 64bit ones), but thats just me. I still wouldnt use them of course, as thats like buying windows 2k3-- It doesnt matter if a bad company finally makes something worth using, they're still a bad company. Knowing ATI, I'm just suprised they don't EOL their drivers for any kernel older than a week. On a related note, anyone else appreciate the performance enhancements NVidia's TNT2 cards get with the most current drivers? It's nice having a company actually support their customers.
Works with eating chips also.
So Theo De Raddt took the time off from his perfect 100% secure operating system to work in the marketing department of a game company?
When the guy infront of you is going 80mph, and the guy behind you is going 80mph, how fast do you go to avoid a collision? Is your life worth being able to say "but the sign said speed limit 60mph!"?
So what they're selling you is a license that you don't get to read until after you buy it, but what they're advertising is a game. Couldn't you bring them up on false advertisement? (IANAL)
"makes kickass games, provides us with endless hours of entertainment " They do what they have to do to turn a profit, that doesnt make them good. Its not like they've EVER released sourcecode, binaries for anything that they dont sell in stores , etc. Good is "I just do it because linux gives me a woody", not turning a profit. Granted, blizzards patch policy is nicer than most, but in the end they're just trying to retain customers so people play their games rather than someone elses.
Bnetd is useful because you can use it to avoid the extortion blizzard uses on lan center owners.
I'm speaking out of my ass here, but if they're doing it like they should you'd have to crack their private key also, which might be a tad nontrivial.
On a related note, this will be used as the cooling requirement for AMD's newest chip.
Without source you can still remove all the stupid "Install AOL 9.0 Optimized!OMGLOL!DOIT!" links everywhere, and only include links to launch the app where you want it(which would be set in some sort of aptwin32 preferences, or maybe as an option when installing?) Some apps can even be relocated safely so long as all their files are in the same dir, so you could get rid of stupid company name directories that you dont care about.
As for licensing.. Thats when the legal fun comes in. Have pre-packager download the installer, crack it so it skips the agreement part (easy, or just replace the agreement text with your own, or whatever.) Save to your network shared drive WITHOUT EVER CLICKING OK TO AN AGREEMENT, and then the real packager downloads it without you ever directly redistributing it. They install it without ever seeing an EULA, and thus never agreed. If theres an EULA on the download link, you'll just have to get a third person to hunt through it to find the actual exe
For that matter, why hasn't anyone ported apt(By far the best system IMO) to windows? Theres apt4rpm, entire debian ports to bsd kernels, apt on mac os x(Fink, iirc), and who knows what else. Windows on the other hand needs it the most. How many horrible windows installers are out there that clutter your quicklaunch, start menu, bookmarks, ie favorites, systray, desktop.. Only to put itself in some horrible nonstandard location? Apt keeps all packages' files in standard locations (like /usr/share/doc and such) even if the upstream's installer doesnt. The only problem is I can see cease&decists over breaking the license agreements of apps that forbid redistribution. This will either finally give some good EULA court tests, or completely kill the project.
Thats what happened to Fiesta Texas in san antonio tx. Anyone that went before the sixflags hostile takeover just call it Fiesta Texas. I assume touristy types call it six flags. I don't care, its like calling freebsd a linux.. anyone that really cares knows, and anyone that makes the mistake is someone you dont care about.
Each moderator gets 5 mod points, and then they arn't a moderator anymore. Hence: DIFFERENT MODERATORS EVERY DAY.
A +5 funny is a -1 troll, it all depends on when you post it.
If you look around, You can find Red VS Blue playing on a ton of shoutcast NSV streams. Its a shame bandwidth costs make streaming video so hard to do freely, as chances are you'll have to wait in line to join a stream, but they're worth it.
Considering the age, just throw a few LEDs together and she'll be happy. Maybe make it interactive, like a few switches to control which group is on, whether theyre blinking, etc.
goat.cx has no ads, redirects, javascript, annoying embeds, or anything that would slow down the use of the site. Compare that to microsoft, tripod, etc.
Hate to reply twice, but also: whats the point of using google as your homepage? you can type search terms into the google bar (firefox or downloaded ie plugin) just as quickly. Frankly I've not even used a homepage since back in the days when lynx was my primary browser. In windows (or KDE, probably a gnome alternative too): Star->run-> http://whateveryouwanttogoto.com and just launch your browser directly to the website. Why load a start page that you dont intend on using?
I never logged in once. It picked up on my amazon cookie and went from there, really convinient.
I doubt it will be that relevant, many times I've had my mozilla broken so badly that I needed to use IE to download anything.
No it doesnt, not unless you're on a SLIP 8000baud connection from iraq. On a modern connection with a modern computer, they both load within the same timeframe: instant.
When you're on a 3mbit connection (average cable) with a reasonably fast machine they'll both load far faster than you'll be able to notice, something to the tune of 500ms
If you can actually notice a difference in loadtime, its time to upgrade. Even after going through mozilla's adblock filters it still loads just as fast as google.
Except that openbsd has far more exploits, local and remote. The only security you get with OpenBSD is the fact that NOONE wants access to a machine thats made to be hard to use, including hackers. Any OS made by someone with an ego as big as theos is fundamentaly insecure, because its been proven many times that theo would rather keep his ego than admit a fault, which is why the only way to patch most openbsd exploits is by asking the mailinglist about them, as if its not on bugtraq theo wont mention it in a changelog.
I hate having to go through all the trouble of driving down town, finding someone that looks like a prostitute, paying them my hard earned money for something they should be GIVING AWAY for free (it costs them nothing!), AND having to hide it from everyone. So instead I just hang out around middleschools and rape the most developed girls, luckily they're still ashamed of their bodies and feel its their fault, so they dont tell anyone for years. Works great and feels so good!
Their donation policy is pretty simple, They don't feel its right to accept money for something they're only partially responsible for, and its impossible to split any donations up to each and every person that ever wrote a patch or a plugin. Instead they prefer donations in the form of documentation, code, or beer.
"So why don't they do it then?"
Because they have no macs? Donate them a nice G5 and you'll probably start seeing mac builds. Or start building them yourself and get on the gaim devel team as the official mac guy?
Yeah, except for the Vchip in my parents TV malfunctioning and not letting us all watch southpark because of 'parental controls' that were never set, apparently its a known defect and the only work around was to use the backdoor code of 5555 every time it pops up (which wont even disable it, just get it away temporarily)
Parents link is apparently slashdotted. Anyone have a mirror?