AMD Athlon XP 1800 (1.53 ghz)
256MB pc133
Nvidia GeForce 2 MX 400 (64mb, AGP 2x, 150mhz GPU)
Guillemot Muse $15 sound card with stock C-Media chipset
Windows 98 SE
With this setup and I can play any modern game at maximum graphical settings at barely any performance loss (a tiny bit of skipping every now-and-again). Games that I currently own and play at maximum settings:
War Craft 3
No One Lives Forever 2
Grand Theft Auto 3
Operation Flashpoint
Jedi Knight 2
When the next generation of games comes out, I'll buy 256 MB more RAM and maybe a geForce 3. It's funny to me how many people actually buy the latest and greatest, too.
Why is a novice computer user's rant about video software on the front page of Slashdot? This is the same kind of stuff that we IT people come here to get away from! The guy just needs to figure out how to use his computer box thingy better, that's all.
I wonder if they are concerned with current events in Soviet Russia, or if "Natalie Portman" is a valid answer to "How do you feel about Veteran Affairs, and how should we appropriate tax dollars should increase veteran benefits?".
My post was the only well constructed and non-judgemental arguement in the bunch. $50 says that the mod that got me for flamebait is this guy's boyfriend.
Now that's flamebait (a post with obvious intentions to furiate, frustrate, and nuture further ill-willed posts), you fat geek. Make a note grasshopper.
For humor, try "Golden Boy". If you have not seen this series, find it. It's a tremendous paradoy of the worst (or best, if that's your opinion) aspects of anime. My friend showed me this gem about 2 years ago.
Depends on your taste in art, as a whole, and how you percieve entertainment. I don't expect blockbuster scripts in my animated sci-fi, and I don't always expect to see pioneering art forms in my cartoons.
There are in the business of making and selling video games and hardware. That's what they are doing here, and doing so in a time frame that makes them competitive. Durr.
If your abilities and intellect actually anything to do with gaining public office, then the United States would be ran by a panel of brilliant scientific minds, military geniuses, and business gurus. Instead conveyed image and special interests dictate the course of our politics.
When you really think about it, what does our current president have on Steve Jobs? Steve-O is a product of the American system, a true capalist that used a brilliant and strategic mind to bring the world personal computing (well, a pioneer anyways). He's talented, creative, and tangible. Bush got a free ride through life and can hardly speak correctly. Now he's president.
It would be cheaper to just live with a single PVR for day-to-day recording, and buy DVDs and/or VHS tapes of the content you want. You might not be able to catch all of your desired programs, and it might not be possible to order all of the content you miss on DVD or VHS, but it certaingly is more simplistic and cheaper then building a friggin cluster and hacking code in order to tape stuff off TV.
There are a number of open file formats available to any computer using person. The use of these open formats guarantee that the receiver is capable of reading the document regardless of what office suite, email client, web browser, or text editor they use.
You don't have to be as gruff about it as Stallman, but all you have to do is ask:
"In regards to your last email, can you please send this document to me in *insert open format here*? I am not using Microsoft Office.
Yea, I used CVS to update my mplayer so I could watch some newer Windows Media files sent to be by some nice young woman at "Brintey_XXX_Hot_NAKED_ J-LO_CAUGHT_ACTION@hotmail.com". Shortly thereafter, I came back from the bathroom to discover that my desktop image was replaced by a big penis with the KDE gears for testicles, and I couldn't start any programs.
This might sound stupid, but I get this picture of McNeely from Sun Microsystems hyping this up in an interview. You know the kind, where he basically puts the interviewer in a head lock and keeps saying "Sun ONE Platform" over and over. Only in this case, he is drilling the guy about how awesome and legendary the Phantom Game Console will be, and how it will help developers realize the pure beatiful power of the ONE Platform. THE ONE PLATFORM!!
The same way proprietary companies do: sell the software, and make it worth your customer's while to purchase future upgrades and/or support. An open source license doesn't render software free of cost.
IBM doesn't seem to be having a problem with their open source solutions.
.com's best at nothing?
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What are you kidding me?.com's are the stellar leaders in the innovative digital distribution of adult entertainment worldwide. No nobody can beat them at this game.
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"using Cadmium Selenium Quantum Dots as the electron-hole recombination layer"....."small molecule and polymer type OLEDs"....."Using quantum dots as the emissive layer in OLEDs potentially solves both of these problems since they are inorganic and won't degrade, and they have a theoretical maximum quantum efficiency of near 100%."
I feel like I'm reading the transcript of a conversation between the cyborg and the Reading Rainbow guy on Star Trek.
I very recently purchased a hard drive off of Ebay for a friend that had at least 12 modern games installed, all with cracks and no-CD patches applied. Jedi Knight 2, Quake 3, Unreal Tournament 2003, Civilization, you name it, this guy had it. We had tons of fun for a while (hell, I imaged the hard drive right away:-) )
For one, all new innovations or pioneering techniques in the process of democracy causes controversy.
Something like this probably doesn't baffle/alarm/confuse the techie crowd (I.E. us) at all. The average AOL-using citizen, on other hand, is receptive to all of the coming conspiracy theories which will be based on misunderstandings of such technology or blatant ignorance of the facts.
This isn't even a big deal to me, we should have started testing this form of voting earlier. For one, the convienence of voting at home will persuade many people into actually using their personal political power (voting).
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AMD Athlon XP 1800 (1.53 ghz)
256MB pc133
Nvidia GeForce 2 MX 400 (64mb, AGP 2x, 150mhz GPU)
Guillemot Muse $15 sound card with stock C-Media chipset
Windows 98 SE
With this setup and I can play any modern game at maximum graphical settings at barely any performance loss (a tiny bit of skipping every now-and-again). Games that I currently own and play at maximum settings:
War Craft 3
No One Lives Forever 2
Grand Theft Auto 3
Operation Flashpoint
Jedi Knight 2
When the next generation of games comes out, I'll buy 256 MB more RAM and maybe a geForce 3. It's funny to me how many people actually buy the latest and greatest, too.
Why is a novice computer user's rant about video software on the front page of Slashdot? This is the same kind of stuff that we IT people come here to get away from! The guy just needs to figure out how to use his computer box thingy better, that's all.
I wonder if they are concerned with current events in Soviet Russia, or if "Natalie Portman" is a valid answer to "How do you feel about Veteran Affairs, and how should we appropriate tax dollars should increase veteran benefits?".
Now that's flamebait (a post with obvious intentions to furiate, frustrate, and nuture further ill-willed posts), you fat geek. Make a note grasshopper.
For humor, try "Golden Boy". If you have not seen this series, find it. It's a tremendous paradoy of the worst (or best, if that's your opinion) aspects of anime. My friend showed me this gem about 2 years ago.
But hey, that's just me.
Now all college students will have the luxury of learning how to script creative stories concerning octopus demons, feces, and Catholic school girls.
There are in the business of making and selling video games and hardware. That's what they are doing here, and doing so in a time frame that makes them competitive. Durr.
The PS 3 will launch in 2004
When you really think about it, what does our current president have on Steve Jobs? Steve-O is a product of the American system, a true capalist that used a brilliant and strategic mind to bring the world personal computing (well, a pioneer anyways). He's talented, creative, and tangible. Bush got a free ride through life and can hardly speak correctly. Now he's president.
It would be cheaper to just live with a single PVR for day-to-day recording, and buy DVDs and/or VHS tapes of the content you want. You might not be able to catch all of your desired programs, and it might not be possible to order all of the content you miss on DVD or VHS, but it certaingly is more simplistic and cheaper then building a friggin cluster and hacking code in order to tape stuff off TV.
Do you plan on making software that will help kids who can't read good and want to learn to do other things well?
Joke. ;)
You know you're a geek when you get excited about the release of new fonts.
People were rooting for the cause, not the person. If motives change, so does opinion. DUH. Welcome to humanity.
You don't have to be as gruff about it as Stallman, but all you have to do is ask:
"In regards to your last email, can you please send this document to me in *insert open format here*? I am not using Microsoft Office.
Thanks,
Your Name"
Yea, I used CVS to update my mplayer so I could watch some newer Windows Media files sent to be by some nice young woman at "Brintey_XXX_Hot_NAKED_ J-LO_CAUGHT_ACTION@hotmail.com". Shortly thereafter, I came back from the bathroom to discover that my desktop image was replaced by a big penis with the KDE gears for testicles, and I couldn't start any programs.
Maybe I just drink too much.
IBM doesn't seem to be having a problem with their open source solutions.
What are you kidding me? .com's are the stellar leaders in the innovative digital distribution of adult entertainment worldwide. No nobody can beat them at this game.
New addition for next revision: Mandrake
I feel like I'm reading the transcript of a conversation between the cyborg and the Reading Rainbow guy on Star Trek.
I very recently purchased a hard drive off of Ebay for a friend that had at least 12 modern games installed, all with cracks and no-CD patches applied. Jedi Knight 2, Quake 3, Unreal Tournament 2003, Civilization, you name it, this guy had it. We had tons of fun for a while (hell, I imaged the hard drive right away :-) )
Something like this probably doesn't baffle/alarm/confuse the techie crowd (I.E. us) at all. The average AOL-using citizen, on other hand, is receptive to all of the coming conspiracy theories which will be based on misunderstandings of such technology or blatant ignorance of the facts.
This isn't even a big deal to me, we should have started testing this form of voting earlier. For one, the convienence of voting at home will persuade many people into actually using their personal political power (voting).
I don't understand the concept of something being wrong and not illegal, yet I have no trouble at all with things that are illegal but not wrong.