I guess it has something to do with the fact that MIT is considered one of the U.S.'s best engineering schools and by implication is attended and staffed by some of the best technical minds in the country.
actually MIT is considered the best U.S. engineering school and quite possibly the best world wide. Which is precisely why I will not get in with a 3.4 GPA, 26 ACT, and 1180 SAT scores:(
100? there are only so many/8 networks, few of which are committed to using open-source tools, and i highly doubt MIT's is at the bottom of that list.
I can make another one in my house right now if I wanted to and assign a whopping 6 IPs, just in my room alone! There are only so many/8 networks that are routable. Anyone can setup a Class A-F network if they wanted to, whether or not the rest of the world sees it as that on the other hand is another question.
is it just me, or is anyone who is actually going to buy a new Radeon already owns all of those titles and probably would have bought half-life 2 (not to mention already has a build) anyway. Now the HL2 bundle is nice, but what's the point of bundling the other HL games? Most everyone already owns them!
Maya is right up there with 3D Studio and the like when it comes to 3D packages
I've been using Maya since Maya 1.0. Maya is an amazing piece of software because it allows the ability to model in nurbs not just polygons. No other 3D Software can come anywhere near Maya when it comes to making anything 3D. 3D Studio Max has got to be the lowest end on the 3D software market. Lightwave 6 is better than 3DSM, and Maya is just... wow.
Anyone else that was wondering, Maya runs natively on IRIX, Windows NT, and Mac OS X. It only runs on Mac OS X b/c Mac OS X is FreeBSD (or is it Open BSD?) based
So what if a disgruntled citizen or employee hacks the entire system of computers for the Justice Department. All sentences are issued via that network now anyway, and probably somewhere someone decided it would be smart to connect it to the internet. Imagine someone writing a virus that would literally destroy all hardware in a system. Say a virus which would hijack the BIOS and force it to direct more voltage than allowable by the threshold to all devices and perephrials... no more computer =/
No, Valve was a stable in the gaming industry. Then they made the pile of shit known as Steam. Not only did this alienate many of their target audience, but also forced many others, like my self, to be unable to play any of the new Valve releases simply because I do not have a broadband connection. I tried, Steam does not work on a 56k, even after all the updates.
Ok I understand the curvature of the Earth thing. But damnit! HAM Radios don't have to be line of site. Why the hell do I have to be within line of site of my friends house to reach his bandwidth!
Blocks are the amount of data is that is stored in one piece of data; or Allocation Unit Size. This is defined by the file system. I believe the XBox uses XFS (I may be wrong) and it's block size is 2^12 bytes; 4096 bytes. Another example is that NTFS can be formated to use 512, 1024, 2048, or 4096 bytes of data for the Allocation Unit Size.
claiming that their advertising deceptively overstates the true capacity of their hard drives.
The companies marketing the drives and systems clearly state the capacity in Gigabytes. This means 1000 megabytes. While many customers believe that Gigabyte means 1024 Megabytes. This is not true. Refer to the list below.
Therefore, the users are simply ignorant and the lawsuit should be thrown out. Yet I do feel that they should make the capicity in MiB, GiB, TiB, etc. Oh, and OS's are programed that 1024 MB = GB instead of 1000 MB = GB. So that would fool people too, maybe we should all sue Microsoft, Linus, and ATT.
So this means I can no longer take my pee break and grab a snack while waiting for my box to boot up? I used to do that when I ran Win2k, my primary OS is WinXP and now I can't do that. I just started using the Debian distro and it takes roughly 2 minutes to boot as opposed to the 30 seconds I am used to =/
Ok first of FFX has to be one of the very worst FF installments. The only reason I can see why people liked it was because it used voice acting and people didn't have to read. Yes, the sphere grid system was interesting, but it was just the interesting. The main character lead was more annoying than Cloud's inept personality. All the character in FFX were poorly developed and the gameplay was extremely linear. DOAXBV isn't even a good volley ball game. Most of the players are hormone driven teenage males. Hell, I'm one of them, but just because a game has cyber-babes doesn't mean it's a good game.
Perhaps with IP phones instead of adding new phonelines you will be able to assign IPs to each phone in your house and then have an extention to that phone so if someone calls xxx-xxxx they will get your house, then xxx and get the designated phone. Yes many companies do this already, but it's not widely used. Would be nice for people to call my parents and call their phone instead of call the house and ask for them when I pick up.
With IPv6 on the verge of being implemented, how will this affect domain names? There will be a plethora of IPs but less and less usable domain names to bind to. Unless of course people want to start using stuff like y4h00.com! or 47t4v15t4.com; registering unused domains for comerical purposes is a detriment to the world wide web, and also, forces developing groups to use awkward domain names.
First off sharing music has been around for a long time, this arguement has been around for longer than that. P2P networks and sharing of files is not the problem, the problem is that people don't want to buy music that costs too damn much especially if the band is not that good. I will only buy music to support a band, and even then the band makes more money from tours then they do from the RIAA. The RIAA is becoming an almost worthless organization, hell, RIAA may as well be SCO.
Wouldn't carrying a signal over an internal network that is still connected to the internet be carrying the signal over an internet backbone. Also, if I am not mistaken, aren't most internet backbones an internal network anyway. You can't possibly be able to ping every router your packet goes through, because you can't see it unless you go through another router that is directly connected to that one.
Ok a computer has only 65536 ports, that is if I am not mistaken. Not all of which are used, but let's say some viruses take advanatage of exploits, the next virus does the same etc. etc. Then all 65536 ports become blocked. Then we'll have to come up with a whole new protocol for data transfer.
am I the only one bothered by the fact that the latest generation of graphics cards still can't output high framerates on new games such as UT2k3 and Doom III?? The Radeon 9800 Pro 256MB and the GeForce FX 5900 Ultra run these games fine. Yet if you take a 9700 Pro or a 5800 Ultra, the games get sub 100 FPS, even sub 60 in 1024x768! These cards were released after the games were developed! This is just wrong. I high end card should be able to output 100+FPS at 1600x1200 resolutions on the latest game that is available when the card is released. I am almost afraid to run Deus Ex 2 or Doom III on my GeForce FX 5200.
Well thanks for being ignorant. I live in Ohio and broadband is all around me, problem is Verizon says DSL is not available even though the CO is reported live on broadbandreports.com, Time Warner services every house withing a quarter mile radius of my house, but doesn't service my house. The only broadband I could get is sattelite, and that's a minimum of a 700ms ping. Wireless? that gives you fairly low pings but shitty transfer rates and is only really available in metropolitan areas. Oh and BTW I play CS on my dial up all the time, and a 200ms ping is not too much, I can still kick ass. So you can go back to being ignorant or you can open your eyes and see reality.
Steam right now is used for beta testing and is currently in beta form. I used it to play CS 1.6 without much of an issue, problem is, my primary connection is still dial up. I can't get anything fater unless I get a T-1 line ran to my house and I can't afford that. My experience with steam is that even if one file is changed in a game or program it downloads and verifies all the files. So instead of patching it downloads all the code again. This is quite time consuming. Now for the linux part...
Valve uses steam to keep software up to date etc. Couldn't it use steam to also release new code and make it available so that if you buy HL2, when they rework the code to include native linux support then you will have it available because you have a valid Steam ID? Would be intersting if valve could pull that off, and would actually rework the code to work with linux.
I feel as if games should be more like Deus Ex. Have a plot, but the gameplay be completely open ended. The difficulty settings range from whatever to completely and utterly reaslistic. i.e. Easy you can get blasted a few times before you die, in realistic you can get killed from one shot. Also, open ended gameplay in the game allows the player to choose how to solve problems in the game. While in Deus Ex you did have to use force once, in Deus Ex 2 you don't at all. Too many games force you to take on a certain role even if they are supposed to be open ended games they don't allow you to fully interact with the enviroment etc. A game wouldn't be boring if you felt you could do anything you wanted in the game, make it so you are the character instead of forcing you to make decisions based on what the character would think.
This guy didn't understand the ending to FFVII at all which leads me to believe he barely played the game or didn't understand the game. The "beams of light" were the visual of the Holy Materia/Holy Magic being used by Aeris. If you recal the game stated that only holy could destroy meteor that is why Aeris had to sacrifice herself in order to save the world (yeah yeah it's been done before in other games).
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I think they already have a HTML editor that rivals FP and DW for Linux that is 100% OSS. It's called Mozilla Composer, it's bundled with a browser.
I guess it has something to do with the fact that MIT is considered one of the U.S.'s best engineering schools and by implication is attended and staffed by some of the best technical minds in the country. actually MIT is considered the best U.S. engineering school and quite possibly the best world wide. Which is precisely why I will not get in with a 3.4 GPA, 26 ACT, and 1180 SAT scores :(
100? there are only so many /8 networks, few of which are committed to using open-source tools, and i highly doubt MIT's is at the bottom of that list.
I can make another one in my house right now if I wanted to and assign a whopping 6 IPs, just in my room alone! There are only so many /8 networks that are routable. Anyone can setup a Class A-F network if they wanted to, whether or not the rest of the world sees it as that on the other hand is another question.
is it just me, or is anyone who is actually going to buy a new Radeon already owns all of those titles and probably would have bought half-life 2 (not to mention already has a build) anyway. Now the HL2 bundle is nice, but what's the point of bundling the other HL games? Most everyone already owns them!
Maya is right up there with 3D Studio and the like when it comes to 3D packages
I've been using Maya since Maya 1.0. Maya is an amazing piece of software because it allows the ability to model in nurbs not just polygons. No other 3D Software can come anywhere near Maya when it comes to making anything 3D. 3D Studio Max has got to be the lowest end on the 3D software market. Lightwave 6 is better than 3DSM, and Maya is just... wow. Anyone else that was wondering, Maya runs natively on IRIX, Windows NT, and Mac OS X. It only runs on Mac OS X b/c Mac OS X is FreeBSD (or is it Open BSD?) based
So what if a disgruntled citizen or employee hacks the entire system of computers for the Justice Department. All sentences are issued via that network now anyway, and probably somewhere someone decided it would be smart to connect it to the internet. Imagine someone writing a virus that would literally destroy all hardware in a system. Say a virus which would hijack the BIOS and force it to direct more voltage than allowable by the threshold to all devices and perephrials... no more computer =/
No, Valve was a stable in the gaming industry. Then they made the pile of shit known as Steam. Not only did this alienate many of their target audience, but also forced many others, like my self, to be unable to play any of the new Valve releases simply because I do not have a broadband connection. I tried, Steam does not work on a 56k, even after all the updates.
Ok I understand the curvature of the Earth thing. But damnit! HAM Radios don't have to be line of site. Why the hell do I have to be within line of site of my friends house to reach his bandwidth!
Blocks are the amount of data is that is stored in one piece of data; or Allocation Unit Size. This is defined by the file system. I believe the XBox uses XFS (I may be wrong) and it's block size is 2^12 bytes; 4096 bytes. Another example is that NTFS can be formated to use 512, 1024, 2048, or 4096 bytes of data for the Allocation Unit Size.
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Source: My Damn Windows Box and the Help File + the Format Window for my drives http://pinguin.ph-freiburg.de/pipermail/xbox-linu
claiming that their advertising deceptively overstates the true capacity of their hard drives.
The companies marketing the drives and systems clearly state the capacity in Gigabytes. This means 1000 megabytes. While many customers believe that Gigabyte means 1024 Megabytes. This is not true. Refer to the list below.
1024bytes = 1KiB (kibibit)
1024KiB = 1MiB (mebibyte)
1024MiB = 1GiB (gibibyte)
1024GiB = 1TiB (tebibyte)
1000 bytes = 1KB (kilobyte)
1000KB = 1MB (megabyte)
1000MB = 1GB (gigabyte)
1000GB = 1TB (terabyte)
Therefore, the users are simply ignorant and the lawsuit should be thrown out. Yet I do feel that they should make the capicity in MiB, GiB, TiB, etc. Oh, and OS's are programed that 1024 MB = GB instead of 1000 MB = GB. So that would fool people too, maybe we should all sue Microsoft, Linus, and ATT.
So this means I can no longer take my pee break and grab a snack while waiting for my box to boot up? I used to do that when I ran Win2k, my primary OS is WinXP and now I can't do that. I just started using the Debian distro and it takes roughly 2 minutes to boot as opposed to the 30 seconds I am used to =/
Ok first of FFX has to be one of the very worst FF installments. The only reason I can see why people liked it was because it used voice acting and people didn't have to read. Yes, the sphere grid system was interesting, but it was just the interesting. The main character lead was more annoying than Cloud's inept personality. All the character in FFX were poorly developed and the gameplay was extremely linear. DOAXBV isn't even a good volley ball game. Most of the players are hormone driven teenage males. Hell, I'm one of them, but just because a game has cyber-babes doesn't mean it's a good game.
What about the PS2 owners that are still on dial up. emerge sync would really suck :(
Just imagine what Halo would be without vehicles... sorry, but vehicles improve gameplay a lot
Perhaps with IP phones instead of adding new phonelines you will be able to assign IPs to each phone in your house and then have an extention to that phone so if someone calls xxx-xxxx they will get your house, then xxx and get the designated phone. Yes many companies do this already, but it's not widely used. Would be nice for people to call my parents and call their phone instead of call the house and ask for them when I pick up.
With IPv6 on the verge of being implemented, how will this affect domain names? There will be a plethora of IPs but less and less usable domain names to bind to. Unless of course people want to start using stuff like y4h00.com! or 47t4v15t4.com; registering unused domains for comerical purposes is a detriment to the world wide web, and also, forces developing groups to use awkward domain names.
First off sharing music has been around for a long time, this arguement has been around for longer than that. P2P networks and sharing of files is not the problem, the problem is that people don't want to buy music that costs too damn much especially if the band is not that good. I will only buy music to support a band, and even then the band makes more money from tours then they do from the RIAA. The RIAA is becoming an almost worthless organization, hell, RIAA may as well be SCO.
Wouldn't carrying a signal over an internal network that is still connected to the internet be carrying the signal over an internet backbone. Also, if I am not mistaken, aren't most internet backbones an internal network anyway. You can't possibly be able to ping every router your packet goes through, because you can't see it unless you go through another router that is directly connected to that one.
Ok a computer has only 65536 ports, that is if I am not mistaken. Not all of which are used, but let's say some viruses take advanatage of exploits, the next virus does the same etc. etc. Then all 65536 ports become blocked. Then we'll have to come up with a whole new protocol for data transfer.
If you still have the orignal CD you should be able to send it back to valve and then they'll send you a new CD with a new CD key.
am I the only one bothered by the fact that the latest generation of graphics cards still can't output high framerates on new games such as UT2k3 and Doom III?? The Radeon 9800 Pro 256MB and the GeForce FX 5900 Ultra run these games fine. Yet if you take a 9700 Pro or a 5800 Ultra, the games get sub 100 FPS, even sub 60 in 1024x768! These cards were released after the games were developed! This is just wrong. I high end card should be able to output 100+FPS at 1600x1200 resolutions on the latest game that is available when the card is released. I am almost afraid to run Deus Ex 2 or Doom III on my GeForce FX 5200.
Well thanks for being ignorant. I live in Ohio and broadband is all around me, problem is Verizon says DSL is not available even though the CO is reported live on broadbandreports.com, Time Warner services every house withing a quarter mile radius of my house, but doesn't service my house. The only broadband I could get is sattelite, and that's a minimum of a 700ms ping. Wireless? that gives you fairly low pings but shitty transfer rates and is only really available in metropolitan areas. Oh and BTW I play CS on my dial up all the time, and a 200ms ping is not too much, I can still kick ass. So you can go back to being ignorant or you can open your eyes and see reality.
Steam right now is used for beta testing and is currently in beta form. I used it to play CS 1.6 without much of an issue, problem is, my primary connection is still dial up. I can't get anything fater unless I get a T-1 line ran to my house and I can't afford that. My experience with steam is that even if one file is changed in a game or program it downloads and verifies all the files. So instead of patching it downloads all the code again. This is quite time consuming. Now for the linux part...
Valve uses steam to keep software up to date etc. Couldn't it use steam to also release new code and make it available so that if you buy HL2, when they rework the code to include native linux support then you will have it available because you have a valid Steam ID? Would be intersting if valve could pull that off, and would actually rework the code to work with linux.
I feel as if games should be more like Deus Ex. Have a plot, but the gameplay be completely open ended. The difficulty settings range from whatever to completely and utterly reaslistic. i.e. Easy you can get blasted a few times before you die, in realistic you can get killed from one shot. Also, open ended gameplay in the game allows the player to choose how to solve problems in the game. While in Deus Ex you did have to use force once, in Deus Ex 2 you don't at all. Too many games force you to take on a certain role even if they are supposed to be open ended games they don't allow you to fully interact with the enviroment etc. A game wouldn't be boring if you felt you could do anything you wanted in the game, make it so you are the character instead of forcing you to make decisions based on what the character would think.
This guy didn't understand the ending to FFVII at all which leads me to believe he barely played the game or didn't understand the game. The "beams of light" were the visual of the Holy Materia/Holy Magic being used by Aeris. If you recal the game stated that only holy could destroy meteor that is why Aeris had to sacrifice herself in order to save the world (yeah yeah it's been done before in other games).