Hmmm... problem is *not* with the data itself.. I've examined my extensive DivX "backup" collection, they all seem to be fine. What gives?
My theory is that Divx compression somehow protects the data from potential ruination. I guess this means that (Kazaa/gnutella client/IRC/whatever) is basically taking on the role of "backup medium" now, instead of "piratical menace."
You obviously haven't shopped Chinatown for the latest pre-released DVD's my friend! Welcome to a whole new world of quality products, where every movie has caption from the Lion King back of movie case, regardless of picture on front. Also cheap! Only 8 dollar! (Canadian - that's like five bucks to a Yank eh?)
However - one quick note - D3d programs all die just fine, from my experience with Win2K. Wrong driver, or game locks up? Windows button, task manager, kill process. Explorer automatically restarts when it dies, and there's only a couple seconds lost.. plus that only seems to happen once every three months or so. So what'll it be, amigo? Guinness? We don't serve Budweiser here.
Dependencies are a thing of the past, friend, with the new InstallShield technology only for Win32!!! No longer will you have multiple versions of your favourite libraries cluttering up your drive - with InstallShield's new "glibc-free" features, you can say "No Way!" to extra crap.
"Oh sure," you say, "that sounds great JW Troll, but the thing is - I kinda like typing commands into my CLI. Plus it makes me look 1337 in front of my script kiddie friends!" Well, worry no longer - InstallShield comes with command-line options too!
Want a giant package? Welcome to Windoze:)
Do you Think it's about time for your programs to stop crashing your X-Windows server? Well have we got a treat for you, dear sir! With Windows XP's patented "Xfree-free" advantages, you get a responsive GUI (thanks to "multi-threading" technology - another excellent innovation still misunderstood by Xfree developers) and RDP (much faster across the wire) plus, best of all, there's NO X server to crash! No kicker app to crash, NO Konqueror to mysteriously vanish while taking down Xfree - in fact, no ANYthing that you've come to know and loathe about the Linux platform. Welcome to Win32, baby!
Xfree might be nice for you but what about all those people with lower spec systems? My main machine is a P3-600 with 192MB RAM and the latency of Xfree makes KDE look like shit. Even Blackbox ain't so great..
See, the whole problem I have with Xfree isn't anything to do with fonts or translucency - it's all about performance. Performance is what keeps me (and quite a few others I know) on Win2K. Apps? I'll make do with Mozilla and KOffice, but only if my GUI is responsive enough to justify it. "Looks" don't matter. Skins don't make a difference. Speed is what matters, and Xfree is the bottleneck. Toast Xfree, and an OSX-like GUI becomes possible. Imagine all those neat little effects and what-not running on top of Xfree's bloat!
Proprietary technology?? You mean postscript display as implemented in Quartz? I don't see a problem there.. surely there are other ways to render fonts and vector graphics that would be adaptable. Sure Aqua isn't exactly an open standard, but it's obviously what people like. Xfree is useless on the desktop.
Linux is good for Mac OS X and vice versa, because of the ease of porting across the platforms (soon to get easier with the X11 on Max OS X)
This is bad, people.. the whole point of a Mac is that it makes a great desktop machine. Throwing Xfree onto it is the ass-backwards approach! If anybody here had their heads on straight, people would be trying to clone Aqua for Linux - NOT putting nasty Xfree86 on a perfectly good OS. Seriously, I hope somebody reads this and is in a position to actually fix the problem.
I'm still waiting to see these Open Sores "gurus" photoshop a picture with the precious CLI. Really. I've heard how wonderful CLI media players are, and how efficient the CLI is for everything but now I want to see just how special the CLI is for myself.
For that matter, I'd also like to know how to play my DivX movies within KDE or GNOME at full framerate (and colour depth) using any media player.. something seemingly impossible under Red Hat 7.2, Mandrake 9 or Lycoris. Strangely enough Windows 2000 has no problem performing as I require. Of course, everything else under Win2K is so much faster I'd be amazed if Linux could do video better.
Cost of producing an album for me? About $5000 tops. That's including software, but excluding hardware like my protools and mic. Recording digitally is so easy any sucker can do it... remember Afro Man? Cuz I Was High? That was done in a basement with cheap synth crap equipment, and I'll bet it cost less than $1000 to do the entire thing.
Of course, costs of producing an album rise drastically when you gots your hoes and coke to supply.. note that it costs SNoop Dogg 90 g's in hoes alone to make a video. Figure about a half ounce per roadie of premium bud, probly about a grand a day in coke per performer, strippers, a Bentley, and maybe payments to various law enforcers - shit adds up when yore a real rap superstar. Other side of the coin is Remy Shand, who built a platinum record in his parents' basement in less than four years, and spent almost every cent on just buying the equipment.. no recording studio time for that lad. It's all so relative - I mean, somebody can spend billions developing an operating system that's only marginally better than the next best OS which was built by freak hobbyists working out their parents' basements.
for those who care, I'm recording an album right now in my parents' basement. I'll be trolling/. with my website as soon as we're done.
all I know is, any dimwit who sends me that crap ends up on my own personal killfile. Start educating those retards, man. While yer at it, enlighten 'em as to the manifold benefits of the BCC field. I'm sure they'll get the hint.
he's referring to the crappy applications that run on top of Linux, obviously. I've experienced the same thing and it pisses me off. Every three months I try the latest Red Hat, Mandrake, and Lycoris. Yes, I'm a geek with waaaay too much time on my hands, but I shouldn't be beta testing applications that are marked stable for crying out loud. KDE should be labelled "alpha 0.3.1" by commercial standards.
I think you meant to say, "so don't run Mozilla or KDE or GNOME or BlackBox or Enlightenment (especially Enlightenment!) or Nautilus or Konqueror or the GIMP then.. sheesh!"
yeah, or maybe you could just run KDE or GNOME or Konqueror or Mozilla or any of the other thousands of apps that crash regularly.. Those sure do a good job of making Linux look like shit to any desktop user who's used to Windows 2000/XP. Especially the Kicker or whatever panel app might be running. I think it's a joke that my frigging panel app can crash (and frequently has, BTW) whereas under Win2K I haven't seen ANYthing crash in over 8 months of daily usage. Curious dichotomy, that..
I have Phillip Glass' Candyman soundtrack, a limited edition of which only 1000 were made. Do you think I shouldn't back this up simply because the RIAA feels insecure? I don't want to be limited in my freedom, but your argument that I 'see nothing wrong with ripping off the argument' doesn't have any logical basis... also, if I can rip my CD collection, then I can make a backup of many CD's onto one single CDR. That's a fair use of my own property.
Citrix is a boon for those of us who run hundreds of 486-class machines and don't want to upgrade just to run Win2K. It's hella administrative annoyance sometimes, but justified when you think how much saved over 10 years of not upgrading those desktops.
you can laugh now, but i'll tell you -- if I was a multi-multi-mega-billionaire, I'd be toted around on a lectica, borne by 24 Asian babes wearing nothing more than thousand-dollar bills stitched together. I'll flagrantly light fine Cubans with hundred-dollar bills in the middle of your ghetto, and I'll rub it in that I'm soooo much richer than your wildest fantasies that you'll cry and wail and weep with eternal envy of even the smallest fraction of my wealth.
You should be full of admiration of Ballmer for showing restraint, man, instead of making fun of his ridiculous pastime of lapdancing for strangers.
Signs You are Forgetting the Difference Between Your Eyes and Your GeForce By Will Walker, Jesse Lee John LaCourse and Mark Vonhoffe
11. You look at sunset and think "I wonder if I can get this in 1024x768".
10. You blink and think "crap, more frame loss".
9. You stare at a leaf for hours and hours trying to discern the pixels.
8. You refer to people who use artificial things like Glasses and Contacts as "lousy VooDoo folk".
7. You avoid large groups for fear of overloading your Polygon renderer.
6. Looking towards the horizon, you proudly announce "I found the Clipping plane".
5. Your vision get blurry and immediately you think "crap, need new drivers."
4. When you drive and the other guy has his brights on, you curse the Gamma rates.
3. You seriously believe one eye has better OpenGL support than the other.
2. You complain to your doctor about biased benchmarks after failing your eye exam.
1. You sing the praises of nvidia engineers each time you see your reflection in a car bumper.
You've got problems. Do you get off by telling people what to do and what not to do? Your deprecation of the word "gay" is hardly a reason not to use it, since it's a perfectly valid expression and used in colloquially correct form. It's not unfortunate that I can't appreciate a decent FPS - I can appreciate one, and it seems you missed the point of the post entirely. I've got plenty of FPS in my collection and don't want another. What I want (and since this is an opinion not a dissertation I am completely justified in expressing my views, despite what you, in your pathetic guise of the Speech Nazi, may think)is another game with the playability of StarCraft and the gameplay that made it the best RTS out there. I'm an avid SC/BW fan and I think it's a shame that SC has become a FPS. It's too bad.
umm... i think it's quite disappointing that they've exorcised everything I enjoyed about StarCraft while preserving exactly nothing of value. Can you play as the Zerg? Nope. Can you be a Protoss? Nope. Do you get to command whole armies of aliens to run rampant over your enemies?? Hell no. You do, however, get to
Leverage the Resources of an Entire Army -Call down massive Battlecruiser and Siege Tank strikes
-Take control of familiar StarCraft vehicles
-Wield a variety of familiar weapons, such as the Gauss Rifle and Perdition Flamethrower
-Join your allies in battle and do your part to ensure mission success
which of course means you have an intercom interface with the rest of your forces... hardly a command, you get to "leverage" instead. Gay.
They even made it into another FPS (like we need more of those for consoles - we already have Halo, thanks) to dilute whatever strategic fun remained. I don't like FPS, and that's WHY I enjoyed SC and Brood War so much. Dammit.
as the world's largest buyer of neck-up beef, and by employing my big bro Dan, i think that McDonald's has earned its reputation for quality food and cleanliness except when Dan squeezes his pimples all over the screen like he does in real life while making burgers at McD's and at home while playing himself as a Sim who works for McD's
you might be running WinXP and that could make the game run like shit. try Win2K and turn off all the extraneous services if you really want to play games properly. unless you happen to like universal plug'n'play and IPSEC controller services running on your home gaming system. and that stupid administrative alert service too, so your loser step-brother can net-send you f*cking retarded messages while you play.. thereby reducing your framerate because the popups don't stop coming, and you don't have a clue what to do cuz you're a moron who can't even get a f*cking video game going properly on a Windoze machine with a GeForce4 and 2GHz machine.
Hear hear! How about Val Kilmer or George Clooney for worst Batman?? Keaton was perfect, and Tim Burton's style is incomparable. Of course, the other Batman movies were written by toy-producers, so you know they weren't going to be great... when the Batmobile loses its menace and the villians have no class, this story is done. They should have quit at Batman Returns.
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Hmmm... problem is *not* with the data itself.. I've examined my extensive DivX "backup" collection, they all seem to be fine. What gives?
My theory is that Divx compression somehow protects the data from potential ruination. I guess this means that (Kazaa/gnutella client/IRC/whatever) is basically taking on the role of "backup medium" now, instead of "piratical menace."
You obviously haven't shopped Chinatown for the latest pre-released DVD's my friend! Welcome to a whole new world of quality products, where every movie has caption from the Lion King back of movie case, regardless of picture on front. Also cheap! Only 8 dollar! (Canadian - that's like five bucks to a Yank eh?)
I owe ye a drink ;)
However - one quick note - D3d programs all die just fine, from my experience with Win2K. Wrong driver, or game locks up? Windows button, task manager, kill process. Explorer automatically restarts when it dies, and there's only a couple seconds lost.. plus that only seems to happen once every three months or so.
So what'll it be, amigo? Guinness? We don't serve Budweiser here.
Dependencies are a thing of the past, friend, with the new InstallShield technology only for Win32!!!
:)
No longer will you have multiple versions of your favourite libraries cluttering up your drive - with InstallShield's new "glibc-free" features, you can say "No Way!" to extra crap.
"Oh sure," you say, "that sounds great JW Troll, but the thing is - I kinda like typing commands into my CLI. Plus it makes me look 1337 in front of my script kiddie friends!"
Well, worry no longer - InstallShield comes with command-line options too!
Want a giant package? Welcome to Windoze
Do you Think it's about time for your programs to stop crashing your X-Windows server?
Well have we got a treat for you, dear sir! With Windows XP's patented "Xfree-free" advantages, you get a responsive GUI (thanks to "multi-threading" technology - another excellent innovation still misunderstood by Xfree developers) and RDP (much faster across the wire) plus, best of all, there's NO X server to crash! No kicker app to crash, NO Konqueror to mysteriously vanish while taking down Xfree - in fact, no ANYthing that you've come to know and loathe about the Linux platform. Welcome to Win32, baby!
Xfree might be nice for you but what about all those people with lower spec systems? My main machine is a P3-600 with 192MB RAM and the latency of Xfree makes KDE look like shit. Even Blackbox ain't so great..
See, the whole problem I have with Xfree isn't anything to do with fonts or translucency - it's all about performance. Performance is what keeps me (and quite a few others I know) on Win2K. Apps? I'll make do with Mozilla and KOffice, but only if my GUI is responsive enough to justify it.
"Looks" don't matter. Skins don't make a difference. Speed is what matters, and Xfree is the bottleneck. Toast Xfree, and an OSX-like GUI becomes possible. Imagine all those neat little effects and what-not running on top of Xfree's bloat!
Sounds like you could benefit from Windows 2000, friend. I'll just bet you like that GUI wizard, and aren't you lucky I've got a helluva deal for you!
Are you Sick of dependencies?
Perhaps you Don't have all weekend to compile?
Are Hardware requirements for the latest KDE/GNOME just a little stiff??
Try Win2K! The Easy Way®
Proprietary technology?? You mean postscript display as implemented in Quartz? I don't see a problem there.. surely there are other ways to render fonts and vector graphics that would be adaptable.
Sure Aqua isn't exactly an open standard, but it's obviously what people like. Xfree is useless on the desktop.
If anybody here had their heads on straight, people would be trying to clone Aqua for Linux - NOT putting nasty Xfree86 on a perfectly good OS. Seriously, I hope somebody reads this and is in a position to actually fix the problem.
I'm still waiting to see these Open Sores "gurus" photoshop a picture with the precious CLI. Really. I've heard how wonderful CLI media players are, and how efficient the CLI is for everything but now I want to see just how special the CLI is for myself.
For that matter, I'd also like to know how to play my DivX movies within KDE or GNOME at full framerate (and colour depth) using any media player.. something seemingly impossible under Red Hat 7.2, Mandrake 9 or Lycoris.
Strangely enough Windows 2000 has no problem performing as I require. Of course, everything else under Win2K is so much faster I'd be amazed if Linux could do video better.
i meant to say "about half an oz good weed per roadie per sesh"
what retard drinks budweiser when there's Guinness to be had?? poor schmuck.
Cost of producing an album for me? About $5000 tops. That's including software, but excluding hardware like my protools and mic. Recording digitally is so easy any sucker can do it... remember Afro Man? Cuz I Was High? That was done in a basement with cheap synth crap equipment, and I'll bet it cost less than $1000 to do the entire thing.
/. with my website as soon as we're done.
Of course, costs of producing an album rise drastically when you gots your hoes and coke to supply.. note that it costs SNoop Dogg 90 g's in hoes alone to make a video.
Figure about a half ounce per roadie of premium bud, probly about a grand a day in coke per performer, strippers, a Bentley, and maybe payments to various law enforcers - shit adds up when yore a real rap superstar.
Other side of the coin is Remy Shand, who built a platinum record in his parents' basement in less than four years, and spent almost every cent on just buying the equipment.. no recording studio time for that lad. It's all so relative - I mean, somebody can spend billions developing an operating system that's only marginally better than the next best OS which was built by freak hobbyists working out their parents' basements.
for those who care, I'm recording an album right now in my parents' basement. I'll be trolling
all I know is, any dimwit who sends me that crap ends up on my own personal killfile. Start educating those retards, man.
While yer at it, enlighten 'em as to the manifold benefits of the BCC field. I'm sure they'll get the hint.
he's referring to the crappy applications that run on top of Linux, obviously. I've experienced the same thing and it pisses me off. Every three months I try the latest Red Hat, Mandrake, and Lycoris.
Yes, I'm a geek with waaaay too much time on my hands, but I shouldn't be beta testing applications that are marked stable for crying out loud. KDE should be labelled "alpha 0.3.1" by commercial standards.
I think you meant to say, "so don't run Mozilla or KDE or GNOME or BlackBox or Enlightenment (especially Enlightenment!) or Nautilus or Konqueror or the GIMP then.. sheesh!"
yeah, or maybe you could just run KDE or GNOME or Konqueror or Mozilla or any of the other thousands of apps that crash regularly.. Those sure do a good job of making Linux look like shit to any desktop user who's used to Windows 2000/XP. Especially the Kicker or whatever panel app might be running. I think it's a joke that my frigging panel app can crash (and frequently has, BTW) whereas under Win2K I haven't seen ANYthing crash in over 8 months of daily usage. Curious dichotomy, that..
I have Phillip Glass' Candyman soundtrack, a limited edition of which only 1000 were made. Do you think I shouldn't back this up simply because the RIAA feels insecure? I don't want to be limited in my freedom, but your argument that I 'see nothing wrong with ripping off the argument' doesn't have any logical basis ... also, if I can rip my CD collection, then I can make a backup of many CD's onto one single CDR. That's a fair use of my own property.
Citrix is a boon for those of us who run hundreds of 486-class machines and don't want to upgrade just to run Win2K. It's hella administrative annoyance sometimes, but justified when you think how much saved over 10 years of not upgrading those desktops.
you can laugh now, but i'll tell you -- if I was a multi-multi-mega-billionaire, I'd be toted around on a lectica, borne by 24 Asian babes wearing nothing more than thousand-dollar bills stitched together. I'll flagrantly light fine Cubans with hundred-dollar bills in the middle of your ghetto, and I'll rub it in that I'm soooo much richer than your wildest fantasies that you'll cry and wail and weep with eternal envy of even the smallest fraction of my wealth.
You should be full of admiration of Ballmer for showing restraint, man, instead of making fun of his ridiculous pastime of lapdancing for strangers.
By Will Walker, Jesse Lee John LaCourse and Mark Vonhoffe
You've got problems. Do you get off by telling people what to do and what not to do? Your deprecation of the word "gay" is hardly a reason not to use it, since it's a perfectly valid expression and used in colloquially correct form. It's not unfortunate that I can't appreciate a decent FPS - I can appreciate one, and it seems you missed the point of the post entirely. I've got plenty of FPS in my collection and don't want another. What I want (and since this is an opinion not a dissertation I am completely justified in expressing my views, despite what you, in your pathetic guise of the Speech Nazi, may think)is another game with the playability of StarCraft and the gameplay that made it the best RTS out there. I'm an avid SC/BW fan and I think it's a shame that SC has become a FPS. It's too bad.
They even made it into another FPS (like we need more of those for consoles - we already have Halo, thanks) to dilute whatever strategic fun remained. I don't like FPS, and that's WHY I enjoyed SC and Brood War so much. Dammit.
as the world's largest buyer of neck-up beef, and by employing my big bro Dan, i think that McDonald's has earned its reputation for quality food and cleanliness except when Dan squeezes his pimples all over the screen like he does in real life while making burgers at McD's and at home while playing himself as a Sim who works for McD's
you might be running WinXP and that could make the game run like shit. try Win2K and turn off all the extraneous services if you really want to play games properly. unless you happen to like universal plug'n'play and IPSEC controller services running on your home gaming system. and that stupid administrative alert service too, so your loser step-brother can net-send you f*cking retarded messages while you play.. thereby reducing your framerate because the popups don't stop coming, and you don't have a clue what to do cuz you're a moron who can't even get a f*cking video game going properly on a Windoze machine with a GeForce4 and 2GHz machine.
Hear hear! How about Val Kilmer or George Clooney for worst Batman?? Keaton was perfect, and Tim Burton's style is incomparable. Of course, the other Batman movies were written by toy-producers, so you know they weren't going to be great... when the Batmobile loses its menace and the villians have no class, this story is done. They should have quit at Batman Returns.