Even without SFU, it's a convenient way for them to dispel FUD and counter ridiculous conspiracy theories made by zealots.
They can perhaps give some insight to corporate show-goers about how linux and Windows can exist on the same network, talk about TCO and whatnot.
There are two sides to every story. They belong there, IMO, to balance the zealot-crappery which would drag the convention down into the gutter with namecalling and uninformed software-bashing.
I play it at 800x600 without AA or AF, those arent game options anyways. The model details being maxed is taxing your CPU. The bigger textures tax the card. I turn down the textures, and give it a smaller screen to fill. It plays just peachy.
If 800x600 isn't an 'acceptable resolution' to you, then fine. It's acceptable to me and quite preferable to a $300 dent in my chequing account.
FSAA and AF and higer resolutions and ungodly framerates are all things you worry about if the game you're playing sucks, IMO. If you're having fun, you never notice that stuff missing.
While I applaud their bravery, being the only openly gay video game reviewers/cartoonists on the web, I'm not sure if they're the ones to be criticizing the quality of bias of any other 'gaming' site.
All reviews are biased nonsense, IMO. I can figure out what I like or not by myself. Stick to the cartoons.
I'd thought all they have is cheaply produced reality-TV.
Who wants to see some goofy music video when you can watch Joey brush his teeth while Freda waits outside the door, whining about how much she has to take a shit.
I'm being sarcastic, but it is true. Music videos alone killed MTV when they switched to a traditional business model based on Ad revenue. Noone watches it. Now the 'video' channels are a premium service.
And I probably never will. All the artists I listen to are dead or in drug-induced comas or something.
It became clear to me long before the whole P2P-vs-DRM issues that the music industry has nothing left to offer me. I already own all the music I'll ever want to listen to.
Likewise, I've never purchased a movie, and probably never will. I'm just not the type to watch a movie again after I've seen it, so I dont see the point in owning one.
That said, I don't give a rats ass what happens to the entertainment industry or P2P.
They can lock it all up with DRM so noone can hear it, they can make it all public domain and print the sheet music on toilet paper. They can charge $300 per minute of audio, or give it away for free. They can mandate that Yoko Ono is to do backup vocals for every song until the end of time just so people wont want to hear it.
They can go bankrupt, go to jail, go to hell.
I just dont give a shit.
And I'd wager that every day another handful of people like me come to the exact same realization. RIAA members sell images. Few people truly love music enough to pay to listen to it.
RMA the card. (Or replace it, since its surely out of warrantee).
STOP errors are 99.999% hardware. Run some diagnostics, it could be your RAM or something else as well.
The messages can be misleading, I was having STOP errors that always happened in my soundcard drivers, but the problem was a flaky DIMM that didn't like running at 333.
I play UT 2k3 with my Radeon 64DDR VIVO just fine, with everything turned up to max except for the texture size. It really isn't very demanding either. Nor is anything built on the Quake 3 engine.
His point is a valid one. Bleeding edge is absolutely unnessecary for gaming.
Games are designed to sell to as many people as possible, so they target the middle-of-the-road PCs, not $5000 uber-rigs.
If you spend out the ass for bleeding-edge and do nothing but play games, you are no less than the industries bitch.
Thing is, the industry convinces you that you need a 3.06 HT enabled P4, 2 gigs of DDR 400 and a Radeon9700 or GeForceFX to get buy. And people believe it.
I put together a couple little rigs for my kids for christmas, based around the Shuttle FV-25 flex atx board. They have 1 gig Celerons (Tualitan series with 256k cache), and 256 megs of PC133 each. The video is an onboard Savage Twister chipset.
I'd planned on just letting them do stuff like watch DVDs, play some of the cheesy flash-based edutainment games and whatnot. But I was surprised just how well modern games run on the things.
They even run Unreal Tournament 2k3 with no problems. Granted, it doesnt run at 1600x1200 with 8xFSAA and wizzlebling texture humping, but it runs and its playable.
I think it just annoys me that they've bred a generation of people calling themselves 'computer experts', and thinking that just means owning the very latest products.
There's something else wrong in your system then. You're probably overclocking. STOP errors are almost always a hardware failure and not drivers or software.
That said, I have an 'old' Radeon 64DDR VIVO and a 32meg PCI version, and haven't had any video issues under ME, 2K or XP in the almost 2 years I've been running either of them.
At best it's all confusing, with the boom bust boom bust rollercoaster ride that video games took in the 80s... Namco buys Atari who buys Midway who buys Namco who buys Hasbro who sells Konami who makes out with Capcom on the couch while Sega watches... etc etc etc
It's easier just to say Atari did everything until the 90s, then Nintendo did everything till the late 90s when Sony started doing everything.
Feds just mandated 22 mpg for SUVs starting in 2005 (I think, pretty sure about the 22 mpg, not so about 2005 but it's soon enough). I recently bought a newer model Jimmy which gets 18 city, 21 hwy. Most modern SUVs are more station wagon than truck.
Also of note is the fact that there is more oil in Alaska than in Iraq. Iraq relatively has shit for oil, that's why they invaded Kuwait in the first place.
Mexico and Canada are also exceedingly oil rich, that'll be where we take our shopping in the future.
Oh, and it's not well known, but they have SUVs in other countries too. I saw Crocodile Hunter driving around the outback in one. And he calls himself a nature lover.
The amount of fossil fuels that go into the electrics of my car save me MUCH more than 2 kgs worth of crude oil thats processed into gasoline. Over the lifetime of the car, those chips have a much greater overall benefit to the environment.
Likewise a fancy new digitally controlled oil furnace, compared to my 30 year old piece of shit that breaks down right in the middle of a fucking cold spell and I freeze my ass off i mean christ sakes who heard of a fucking furnace that doesnt fucking work if its too fucking cold out?
Ranting notwithstanding, computer technology in general has many environmental benefits.
If not for computers we wouldnt be able to as accurately model the environmental effects of computers.
In accordance with section 3b of this license the source code to those utilities is available from the Interix World Wide Web site, http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu.
Something tells me think that the 'T' key was broken in redmond when they added that URL.
Dont worry. Robin assures us the young pierced boy was the "hottest thing at the show".
Now all the ladies will show up next year.
"when hippie-hacker college students showed up at LinuxWorld like mad, and some of them ended up crashing in my room because they had no other place to sleep. "
Heh heh, the old "You can crash here, you want another beer? Why dont you change out of those wet clothes"
1) This would just incite groupthink. One might not bother to post a comment if he notices 95% of the existing ones detract from his point of view. One might just reiterate the other views to 'fit in' with the crowd. An unpopular, yet equally valid, view might be shouted down and flamed into oblivion. Keep it anonymous. Anything I have to say to $AGENCY is between them and me, and noone else.
2) if you just sit on your hands, there is a guarantee that noone will ever know what you think. Apathy doesn't change the system. Though, it probably will get read - depending on the validity of the comment, maybe several times.
Congressmen/Agnecies do read email that might mean something to them. Though like the moderation system here, staffers definately sift through it and weed out all the -1:Trolls and -1:Redundants. You cant expect them to personally reply to every "j00 R TeH sUx0rz!!!" note they get. And every congressman/senator will do his job in his own way. Just like some celebrities read fanmail, while some could give a rats ass.
I am positive, however, that an email/letter/phone call from a single constituent expressing his point of view carries more weight than a mass mailing or petition that reeks of agenda. That stuff just hits the trash can.
Pretty much every response in this thread is 'they wont do anything', 'they'll just ignore suggestions' etc etc..
This isn't the agencies themselves making a smoke-and-mirrors 'include the public' PR stunt, but a whole new agency which needs to show that it exists for a reason. So the new agency will pester the old agencies at our behest, and so far it's the best solution the public has.
Sure, one suggestion from one geek means absolutely SHIT, not just to the government, but to anyone. But when enough people start saying the same things, it becomes a valid viewpoint. And if the public starts having things to say, perhaps the government will listen.
Right now the only people speaking up are the vocal minorities. Hollywood elites like George Clooney can't keep their mouths shut, and actually presume they're speaking for all of america when they go off on some looney tangent.
If nothing else, the public speaking out can perhaps drown out the lunatic fringe who are actually being heard in Congress.
If someone said you should start going to the gym with him, you'd maybe ignore it. But if everyone you meet starts calling you Fatty Fatty Four-Eyes, you might reconsider that econo-sized bag of cheet-os for breakfast.
So maybe this wont change the world, but so far whining as ACs on slashdot hasn't either.
Yeah, but CDPD stinks on ice. I have to work with it all the time doing mobile client applications for police and fire/EMS.
Lots of cities/counties/states have big investments in CDPD jibber jabber, and it's the slowest most unreliable way of moving data I've ever had the misfortune of working with.
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Even without SFU, it's a convenient way for them to dispel FUD and counter ridiculous conspiracy theories made by zealots.
They can perhaps give some insight to corporate show-goers about how linux and Windows can exist on the same network, talk about TCO and whatnot.
There are two sides to every story. They belong there, IMO, to balance the zealot-crappery which would drag the convention down into the gutter with namecalling and uninformed software-bashing.
I play it at 800x600 without AA or AF, those arent game options anyways. The model details being maxed is taxing your CPU. The bigger textures tax the card. I turn down the textures, and give it a smaller screen to fill. It plays just peachy.
If 800x600 isn't an 'acceptable resolution' to you, then fine. It's acceptable to me and quite preferable to a $300 dent in my chequing account.
FSAA and AF and higer resolutions and ungodly framerates are all things you worry about if the game you're playing sucks, IMO. If you're having fun, you never notice that stuff missing.
The few girls here aren't the only /. readers who need to wear bras.
While I applaud their bravery, being the only openly gay video game reviewers/cartoonists on the web, I'm not sure if they're the ones to be criticizing the quality of bias of any other 'gaming' site.
All reviews are biased nonsense, IMO. I can figure out what I like or not by myself. Stick to the cartoons.
MTV plays music videos?
I'd thought all they have is cheaply produced reality-TV.
Who wants to see some goofy music video when you can watch Joey brush his teeth while Freda waits outside the door, whining about how much she has to take a shit.
I'm being sarcastic, but it is true. Music videos alone killed MTV when they switched to a traditional business model based on Ad revenue. Noone watches it. Now the 'video' channels are a premium service.
And I havent downloaded any mp3s either.
And I probably never will. All the artists I listen to are dead or in drug-induced comas or something.
It became clear to me long before the whole P2P-vs-DRM issues that the music industry has nothing left to offer me. I already own all the music I'll ever want to listen to.
Likewise, I've never purchased a movie, and probably never will. I'm just not the type to watch a movie again after I've seen it, so I dont see the point in owning one.
That said, I don't give a rats ass what happens to the entertainment industry or P2P.
They can lock it all up with DRM so noone can hear it, they can make it all public domain and print the sheet music on toilet paper. They can charge $300 per minute of audio, or give it away for free. They can mandate that Yoko Ono is to do backup vocals for every song until the end of time just so people wont want to hear it.
They can go bankrupt, go to jail, go to hell.
I just dont give a shit.
And I'd wager that every day another handful of people like me come to the exact same realization. RIAA members sell images. Few people truly love music enough to pay to listen to it.
RMA the card. (Or replace it, since its surely out of warrantee).
STOP errors are 99.999% hardware. Run some diagnostics, it could be your RAM or something else as well.
The messages can be misleading, I was having STOP errors that always happened in my soundcard drivers, but the problem was a flaky DIMM that didn't like running at 333.
It's not the drivers.
This is why 'PC Gaming' is dying.
It got a reprieve in the form of online gaming, this turned out to be a killer app as far as gaming goes.
But now XBox, PS2 and soon GameCube have caught up with broadband powers of their own.
There will always be games for PC, but it's heyday is over. Most new development is targetted at the consoles - thats where the money is.
I play UT 2k3 with my Radeon 64DDR VIVO just fine, with everything turned up to max except for the texture size. It really isn't very demanding either. Nor is anything built on the Quake 3 engine.
His point is a valid one. Bleeding edge is absolutely unnessecary for gaming.
Games are designed to sell to as many people as possible, so they target the middle-of-the-road PCs, not $5000 uber-rigs.
If you spend out the ass for bleeding-edge and do nothing but play games, you are no less than the industries bitch.
Thing is, the industry convinces you that you need a 3.06 HT enabled P4, 2 gigs of DDR 400 and a Radeon9700 or GeForceFX to get buy. And people believe it.
I put together a couple little rigs for my kids for christmas, based around the Shuttle FV-25 flex atx board. They have 1 gig Celerons (Tualitan series with 256k cache), and 256 megs of PC133 each. The video is an onboard Savage Twister chipset.
I'd planned on just letting them do stuff like watch DVDs, play some of the cheesy flash-based edutainment games and whatnot. But I was surprised just how well modern games run on the things.
They even run Unreal Tournament 2k3 with no problems. Granted, it doesnt run at 1600x1200 with 8xFSAA and wizzlebling texture humping, but it runs and its playable.
I think it just annoys me that they've bred a generation of people calling themselves 'computer experts', and thinking that just means owning the very latest products.
There's something else wrong in your system then. You're probably overclocking. STOP errors are almost always a hardware failure and not drivers or software.
That said, I have an 'old' Radeon 64DDR VIVO and a 32meg PCI version, and haven't had any video issues under ME, 2K or XP in the almost 2 years I've been running either of them.
Of course he could have RTFA and realized it plays VCDs as well.
Try here
I havent played it. But I took the 5 seconds out of my life to type 'Q*Bert clone' into google.
A bill for my services will be forwarded to your permanent address.
At best it's all confusing, with the boom bust boom bust rollercoaster ride that video games took in the 80s... Namco buys Atari who buys Midway who buys Namco who buys Hasbro who sells Konami who makes out with Capcom on the couch while Sega watches... etc etc etc
It's easier just to say Atari did everything until the 90s, then Nintendo did everything till the late 90s when Sony started doing everything.
You do know that there's a ton of rereleases of classic titles, Konami's Greatest Hits, Namco Museum, Activision Anthology, Midways Arcade Classics.
I know both BurgerTime and Dig Dug are available.
MAME really is no different from warez for what most people use it for.
I had the same reaction.
I wonder why slashdot posts these god-awful second rate attempts at parody.
If I were the conspiracy type I'd figure it was just to generate some ad revenue for their site.
Feds just mandated 22 mpg for SUVs starting in 2005 (I think, pretty sure about the 22 mpg, not so about 2005 but it's soon enough). I recently bought a newer model Jimmy which gets 18 city, 21 hwy. Most modern SUVs are more station wagon than truck.
Also of note is the fact that there is more oil in Alaska than in Iraq. Iraq relatively has shit for oil, that's why they invaded Kuwait in the first place.
Mexico and Canada are also exceedingly oil rich, that'll be where we take our shopping in the future.
Oh, and it's not well known, but they have SUVs in other countries too. I saw Crocodile Hunter driving around the outback in one. And he calls himself a nature lover.
I was going to make a similar point.
The amount of fossil fuels that go into the electrics of my car save me MUCH more than 2 kgs worth of crude oil thats processed into gasoline. Over the lifetime of the car, those chips have a much greater overall benefit to the environment.
Likewise a fancy new digitally controlled oil furnace, compared to my 30 year old piece of shit that breaks down right in the middle of a fucking cold spell and I freeze my ass off i mean christ sakes who heard of a fucking furnace that doesnt fucking work if its too fucking cold out?
Ranting notwithstanding, computer technology in general has many environmental benefits.
If not for computers we wouldnt be able to as accurately model the environmental effects of computers.
Because it's a LinuxWorld expo, not an Open Source expo.
Many of the most compelling products for linux are proprietary.
In accordance with section 3b of this license the source code to those
utilities is available from the Interix World Wide Web site,
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu.
Something tells me think that the 'T' key was broken in redmond when they added that URL.
Dont worry. Robin assures us the young pierced boy was the "hottest thing at the show".
Now all the ladies will show up next year.
"when hippie-hacker college students showed up at LinuxWorld like mad, and some of them ended up crashing in my room because they had no other place to sleep. "
Heh heh, the old "You can crash here, you want another beer? Why dont you change out of those wet clothes"
Wait, what do you mean, "Robin is a guy"?!
1) This would just incite groupthink. One might not bother to post a comment if he notices 95% of the existing ones detract from his point of view. One might just reiterate the other views to 'fit in' with the crowd. An unpopular, yet equally valid, view might be shouted down and flamed into oblivion. Keep it anonymous. Anything I have to say to $AGENCY is between them and me, and noone else.
2) if you just sit on your hands, there is a guarantee that noone will ever know what you think. Apathy doesn't change the system. Though, it probably will get read - depending on the validity of the comment, maybe several times.
Congressmen/Agnecies do read email that might mean something to them. Though like the moderation system here, staffers definately sift through it and weed out all the -1:Trolls and -1:Redundants. You cant expect them to personally reply to every "j00 R TeH sUx0rz!!!" note they get. And every congressman/senator will do his job in his own way. Just like some celebrities read fanmail, while some could give a rats ass.
I am positive, however, that an email/letter/phone call from a single constituent expressing his point of view carries more weight than a mass mailing or petition that reeks of agenda. That stuff just hits the trash can.
Pretty much every response in this thread is 'they wont do anything', 'they'll just ignore suggestions' etc etc..
This isn't the agencies themselves making a smoke-and-mirrors 'include the public' PR stunt, but a whole new agency which needs to show that it exists for a reason. So the new agency will pester the old agencies at our behest, and so far it's the best solution the public has.
Sure, one suggestion from one geek means absolutely SHIT, not just to the government, but to anyone. But when enough people start saying the same things, it becomes a valid viewpoint. And if the public starts having things to say, perhaps the government will listen.
Right now the only people speaking up are the vocal minorities. Hollywood elites like George Clooney can't keep their mouths shut, and actually presume they're speaking for all of america when they go off on some looney tangent.
If nothing else, the public speaking out can perhaps drown out the lunatic fringe who are actually being heard in Congress.
If someone said you should start going to the gym with him, you'd maybe ignore it. But if everyone you meet starts calling you Fatty Fatty Four-Eyes, you might reconsider that econo-sized bag of cheet-os for breakfast.
So maybe this wont change the world, but so far whining as ACs on slashdot hasn't either.
Or is anyone else sick of hearing about 802.11 and 3G wireless?
Let's see some articles about wires!
Cat3, Cat5e, Coax, Fiber, Copper strands, it makes no difference!
Wires are where it's at. Less NET, more WORK.
Yeah, but CDPD stinks on ice. I have to work with it all the time doing mobile client applications for police and fire/EMS.
Lots of cities/counties/states have big investments in CDPD jibber jabber, and it's the slowest most unreliable way of moving data I've ever had the misfortune of working with.