Or like me... I have a GeForce256 and will wait for the next Geforce still before getting a new one. *counts*... that's 5 generations skipped (well, if you include the two geforceFXs as separate generations). Or then again, this might just be because I don't have any money:)
Hmm... does anybody else see the connection between this and the upcoming MS "Athens" PC? *ponder ponder*
Will it be the goddess that Athens relies on?
We must be terrorists or something. Yes, we are. And we're contemplating crashing various flying vehicles into various tall buildings in the US. Please come, invade us, and give us freedom and "proper punctuations" in numbers. You can have our oil too.
Although I agree with you on some accounts, I do think there have been games since Dungeon Keeper and Theme Hospital that fulfill the things you mention; Civilization 2 and 3, Heroes of Might and Magic 3 and 4, Neverwinter Nights, Baldur's Gate 2 etc. all "kept my attention for days without getting repetitive".
In case anyone should misunderstand that, due to my horrible lack of linebreaks: [16:06:45] * Now talking in #LFS [16:07:23] * HIghoS changes topic to 'Die, slashdot, die! http://quasar.highos.com/mrtg/'
Now why would anybody want to pirate Eminem? Why would anybody even download Eminem songs for free? I honestly think I would have to be paid to listen to Eminem!
Let's hope the Iraqis pirate Eminem like hell, put him out of business, and ultimately, make him their makeshift Saddam beat-up-doll!
Linux is great, but nothing is perfect... what do you feel is linux's SINGLE greatest weakness at the present? (And no, I won't believe you if you answer "the fact that everybody isn't running Lindows").
What more would they need than kernel.org?;) Make sure they don't see a pic of Cox though, or they might be scarred for life... apart from him, kernel.org must be the world's most children-friendly site!
I agree, but you're not exactly helping by posting the link to the original DC client, which is just plain hell! DC++ is an open-source client and a MUCH better alternative, imho!
*Checks calendar* - nope, not April 1st.
*Reads thread a third time* - nope, doesn't make sense.
*Runs it through several freetranslation.com translations with various languages* - nope no sense still.
*Reaches the conclusion this thread just doesn't make sense!*
What the Bush does shareware have to do with this?
It is not, primarily, the cow farts, although they alone probably cause more global warming than any 0.00005/year change in solar output. Carbon dioxide [bovik.org], from whatever source, forces heat that would normally be radiated into space to remain in the atmosphere.
But clearly cow fart consists mainly of methane (which in turn is an even stronger greenhouse gas than carbondioxide, yes).
"Why not do it?" is usually a bad question, but in this particular case, I think it's a good one. If there is no performance penalty when running in Legacy Mode, and if the Hammer is going to be cheap (read: reasonably priced compared to the P4), why NOT buy it?
It doesn't hurt, and it prepares you for the future, a future that will come, now or later. This way there'll at least be a chicken... then we can just wait for the eggs to appear. It's foolish to think that any eggs will appear before the chickens do. Afterall, the only place you can get a chicken from before there are eggs, is from AMD's chicken replication facility.
If people have to share CPU cycles like that, so many would start tampering with it, making life hard for the companies that pay for the processing power. One thing is Seti@Home (and the such), where users share their CPU cycles because they want to, and tampered-with data units make up a vanishingly tiny percentage of the total number of data units. Forcing users to process data (especially for research companies (biotech in particular)) will only cause too many users to sabotage their data units.
Here in Norway, dialup access was for a long time monopolized by Telenor (aka Telehor, which means Telehore), but over the past years, other providers have entered the market. For those unlucky creatures still on dialup, there are now plenty of available services without a monthly fee, and only ordinary phone rates (which are relatively reasonable here).
On the broadband side, ADSL is by far the most common type. For a little while, the Swedish provider Bredbåndsbolaget operated here, offering 10(?) mbit lines for a very good price. Unluckily, only a handful of people (mostly in Oslo) ever got this, before Bredbåndsbolaget halted their activities in Norway. With them gone, ADSL and Cable remain as the connections of choice for private users.
Two or three major providers dominate the ADSL market, and a fundamental problem is found here as everywhere else in the Norwegian telecom market: Telenor owns all the phonelines (from the days when they were the state owned "Televerket"). Still, some providers manage to deliver ADSL at a lower cost than Telenor, even though they have to pay Telenor for permission to use the lines. Apart from Telenor, we have only one provider that has its own ADSL centrals (the others share them with Telenor, at a cost).
So, all in all, we have two major, competitive, ADSL providers, with their own centrals. As Telenor has recently imposed a ridiculous 1GB/month transfer limit on its cheapest services, customers are fleeing to the other provider.
Damn I'm ranting now... anyway, as for the actual availability of ADSL, it is very good in the major cities (Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim and Stavanger in particular), but as Norway is pretty sparsely populated, it just isn't economic to expand the availability too much. Estimates show that half of all Norwegians will never get ADSL, simply because they live too far away from densely populated areas.
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Or like me... I have a GeForce256 and will wait for the next Geforce still before getting a new one. *counts* ... that's 5 generations skipped (well, if you include the two geforceFXs as separate generations). Or then again, this might just be because I don't have any money :)
Sorry folks, May 17th is taken! It's Norway's national day, and we don't wanna share it with some telecom day! Grr! :)
Hmm... does anybody else see the connection between this and the upcoming MS "Athens" PC? *ponder ponder* Will it be the goddess that Athens relies on?
We must be terrorists or something. Yes, we are. And we're contemplating crashing various flying vehicles into various tall buildings in the US. Please come, invade us, and give us freedom and "proper punctuations" in numbers. You can have our oil too.
Now we just need to put some more planets under our control... piece of cake.
Although I agree with you on some accounts, I do think there have been games since Dungeon Keeper and Theme Hospital that fulfill the things you mention; Civilization 2 and 3, Heroes of Might and Magic 3 and 4, Neverwinter Nights, Baldur's Gate 2 etc. all "kept my attention for days without getting repetitive".
Buying stuff on the Internet? Are you crazy? What if some virus hijacks your browser and makes you purchase thousands of... things?
In case anyone should misunderstand that, due to my horrible lack of linebreaks:
:)
[16:06:45] * Now talking in #LFS
[16:07:23] * HIghoS changes topic to 'Die, slashdot, die! http://quasar.highos.com/mrtg/'
Don't you feel the love?
[16:06:45] * Now talking in #LFS [16:07:23] * HIghoS changes topic to 'Die, slashdot, die! http://quasar.highos.com/mrtg/' Don't you feel the love? :)
Now why would anybody want to pirate Eminem? Why would anybody even download Eminem songs for free? I honestly think I would have to be paid to listen to Eminem! Let's hope the Iraqis pirate Eminem like hell, put him out of business, and ultimately, make him their makeshift Saddam beat-up-doll!
Linux is great, but nothing is perfect... what do you feel is linux's SINGLE greatest weakness at the present? (And no, I won't believe you if you answer "the fact that everybody isn't running Lindows").
Yeah, most people are Chinese, or Indian...
What more would they need than kernel.org? ;)
Make sure they don't see a pic of Cox though, or they might be scarred for life... apart from him, kernel.org must be the world's most children-friendly site!
You didn't say it could possibly render the floppy unusable! I'm gonna sue you now! :-\
I agree, but you're not exactly helping by posting the link to the original DC client, which is just plain hell! DC++ is an open-source client and a MUCH better alternative, imho!
Yeah that would be just as silly as measuring weight in pounds! *shrugs*
Let's just hope the meteors don't adopt an American way of life, and turn into SUVs! :-\
*Checks calendar* - nope, not April 1st.
*Reads thread a third time* - nope, doesn't make sense.
*Runs it through several freetranslation.com translations with various languages* - nope no sense still.
*Reaches the conclusion this thread just doesn't make sense!*
What the Bush does shareware have to do with this?
It is not, primarily, the cow farts, although they alone probably cause more global warming than any 0.00005/year change in solar output. Carbon dioxide [bovik.org], from whatever source, forces heat that would normally be radiated into space to remain in the atmosphere.
But clearly cow fart consists mainly of methane (which in turn is an even stronger greenhouse gas than carbondioxide, yes).
"Why not do it?" is usually a bad question, but in this particular case, I think it's a good one. If there is no performance penalty when running in Legacy Mode, and if the Hammer is going to be cheap (read: reasonably priced compared to the P4), why NOT buy it?
It doesn't hurt, and it prepares you for the future, a future that will come, now or later. This way there'll at least be a chicken... then we can just wait for the eggs to appear. It's foolish to think that any eggs will appear before the chickens do. Afterall, the only place you can get a chicken from before there are eggs, is from AMD's chicken replication facility.
If people have to share CPU cycles like that, so many would start tampering with it, making life hard for the companies that pay for the processing power. One thing is Seti@Home (and the such), where users share their CPU cycles because they want to, and tampered-with data units make up a vanishingly tiny percentage of the total number of data units. Forcing users to process data (especially for research companies (biotech in particular)) will only cause too many users to sabotage their data units.
"Sony :P It is two-year advance-Taiwan economy paper (2) from an injection within S three years, and a plan."
They're just kidding...
Maybe he's trying to say that Sun did NOT take ANY time and put it around their waists? Beats me...
*Oh no, the moon will be red!
-No problem, just send some people up there with some white paint, and paint the letters Coca Cola on it.
Here in Norway, dialup access was for a long time monopolized by Telenor (aka Telehor, which means Telehore), but over the past years, other providers have entered the market. For those unlucky creatures still on dialup, there are now plenty of available services without a monthly fee, and only ordinary phone rates (which are relatively reasonable here). On the broadband side, ADSL is by far the most common type. For a little while, the Swedish provider Bredbåndsbolaget operated here, offering 10(?) mbit lines for a very good price. Unluckily, only a handful of people (mostly in Oslo) ever got this, before Bredbåndsbolaget halted their activities in Norway. With them gone, ADSL and Cable remain as the connections of choice for private users. Two or three major providers dominate the ADSL market, and a fundamental problem is found here as everywhere else in the Norwegian telecom market: Telenor owns all the phonelines (from the days when they were the state owned "Televerket"). Still, some providers manage to deliver ADSL at a lower cost than Telenor, even though they have to pay Telenor for permission to use the lines. Apart from Telenor, we have only one provider that has its own ADSL centrals (the others share them with Telenor, at a cost). So, all in all, we have two major, competitive, ADSL providers, with their own centrals. As Telenor has recently imposed a ridiculous 1GB/month transfer limit on its cheapest services, customers are fleeing to the other provider. Damn I'm ranting now... anyway, as for the actual availability of ADSL, it is very good in the major cities (Oslo, Bergen, Trondheim and Stavanger in particular), but as Norway is pretty sparsely populated, it just isn't economic to expand the availability too much. Estimates show that half of all Norwegians will never get ADSL, simply because they live too far away from densely populated areas.