Interesting... those addresses appear to be real. The names most definitely do not appear to be made up (most names on 419 mails are obviously fictitious to any native observer.... Dr. john usman danjuma? please.)
I'd never attempt to buy anything online, least of all on ebay, mostly cos I'm sure the reputation built up on the 'net by these scammers will make anyone with half a brain throw my request in the bin as soon as he sees 'Lagos, Nigeria'. Such a pity, really. I've been thinking of getting myself a mastercard, but since I heard that amazon.com does not honour Nigerian billing addresses, I wondered, what's the point?
The irony of it all is this: Most goods acquired through credit card fraud and 'yahoo yahoo-ing' are sold dirt cheap, over here- much cheaper than if they had been purchased legitimately. *shrug* that's what life is like, ne?
A major problem with ROTS is that it doesnt pack as much of a punch if you do not watch the Clone Wars miniseries.
Grievous has the cough because of his disastrous run-in with Mace Windu earlier. When fighting Obi-wan he is near death and nothing like at his true level. We also learn that he isn't all-droid. More like a cyborg.
Qui-Gon and Maul using form 3 is WRONG. Maul is a sith, he does not use conventional forms, but rather allows his passion and bloodlust to drive himself. Qui-Gon uses form 4, which emphasizes twirls, spins, fluorishes and acrobatic maneuvers, force-assisted, but is incredibly difficult to master for this reason...hence the only real form 4 master is Yoda (as is demonstrated at the end of episode 2)
Obi-wan is using form 4 in episode 1, but isnt very good at it. By episode 2, he has switched to form 3, which emphasises a strong centre line, less acrobatic movement, and lightning speed hence the 'spazzy' appearance of the fights. Anakin is using form 4 here, but gets his hand sliced off. In episode 3 he is back to form 3 like Obi-wan. I was happy to see this, it shows he is paying more attention to Obi-wan's instruction.
Dooku uses form 2, which is the 'gentleman's style'. Probably a plot contrivance to accomodate Christopher Lee's reduced mobility, but it has poor defence which shows when he falters under Yoda's amazing form 4 assault. Interesting that he isn't using traditional sith-style, but then again, Anakin doesnt switch instantly to sith-style after 'turning', he is still using form 3 when fighting Obiwan at the end.
There are other forms, too. Mace Windu is the only jedi besides his one remaining student billaba who uses form 7, which is basically a jedi version of the sith style, relying on borderline rage which is a contradiction of sorts...everyone save mace and billaba who tried to use this style ended up as a dark jedi, but it is possibly the strongest style. I was happy to see Mace defeat Sidious in a saber battle- maintained consistency. Also explains Mace's heightened emotional state and desire to kill sidious: a double standard that became his own undoing.
There is also form 5 which basically translates to 'the style of Jedi who get killed like idiots', apparently a plot contrivance to explain Jedi getting slaughtered at the end of episode 2. It's a classical style that is practiced for personal improvement and not combat- diplomacy is encouraged in violent situations. ALL form 5 users are dead by the end of episode 2
Oh, and b4 I forget: form 3 users are also supposed to be good at deflecting laser blasts.
All this talk about forms should help you enjoy the saber battles in all 3 prequels better. Even in the sequels it can be applied: Vader and Obiwan both use form 3, and Luke uses form 4 because he was trained by Yoda, a form 4 master. In episode 4 we can see obi wan trying to teach Luke form 3, holding a centre line against a droid.
Consistency such as this makes me have respect for fight choreographers in the star wars universe. Such a pity that such information is left obscure, and never mentioned in the movie's narrative.
Add the 'VM Size' column to your task manager. Summing virtual and physical memory usage, it's closer to 19MB on my system, which is pretty close to his figure.
Perhaps more people would understand (and thus mod you higher) if you used the word 'immediate' rather than 'literal'.... this confused me for a while, actually.
As movies, the LOTR films flog the matrix, but the premise of the matrix is far superior.
I believe that, executed properly, the plot of the matrix trilogy would produce an experience far superior to that of LOTR. I enjoyed the LOTR movies, but none of them matched the feeling I got at the end of the first Matrix.
In short, they were nothing new. But they were nice.
Your opinion on Rurouni Kenshin may change when you watch the OVA series (4 episodes). Then you'll see what difference a bigger budget can make.
No time-wasting....just brutal, wonderfully animated battle scenes. Perfect pacing, drama, and a touching love story.
In fact, you may then approach the original TV episodes differently, since you now have background informaton on the events presented to you in such detail, and with such clarity.
wmplayer.exe and mplayer2.exe are different programs.
The classic skin for wmp7+ is just a 'familiar' UI for a new program.
There is some code that is shared, but these are codecs and filters that are common to most windows media players, I think, IANA MSFT programmer.
mplayer2 is leaner, faster and better than the new wmps. But wmp9 is close, much better than the horrible ver7, and it supports newer wmvs that don't play under mplayer2. PLUS it has a media library and playlist support, both lacking in mp 6.4
The 'filtergraph' gives you a much better view of exactly what software has been loaded to decode your media than MP 6.4's properties window, and also allows you to configure directshow filters.
MPC gives you more 'under the hood' capability than most windows media players.
Your SSCE examination results are a simple barrier between a chance at life and an existence without hope.
The only recourse for those who fail is to become Islamic clerics, Evangelists, or scam artists- among other things.
I'm talking about Nigeria, but I'm sure it's the same all over West Africa, the competition in secondary school is absolutely overwhelming, and the examinations are incredibly difficult, far above the standard of education in most schools.
This means that attending certain secondary schools almost guarantees failure.
By the way, something similar has been done in Nigeria for the J.A.M.B examinations.
other than disintegrating hellholes like Iraq or west Africa
I've lived in Lagos, Nigeria for close to twenty years now, and haven't witnessed a single gun-crime. The only guns I've seen are those used by the police to terrorize bus-drivers and motorcycle riders....and I've never seen one fired. For about ten of those years, I passed through some of the most decrepit slums of the region, three to four times a day, sometimes at unholy hours and only employing public transport. While I do know of some people who have been killed in armed robbery attacks, most people experience violence through the news, and not first hand.
Please be careful when making sweeping generalizations.
The rh9 bundled driver did not work at all, kept shutting down, claiming it could not change the sampling rate.
so I'm using alsa with OSS emulation. And only one program can write to dev/dsp at a time. Similarly, programs that only know how to write to dev/dsp, such as the mmap()- crazy quake games, cannot use sound when a software mixer (eg artsd, esd) is running.
I have sound with ALSA, I just don't have hardware sound mixing, as you say you do.
That's a big temptation to upgrade to core 1. The biggest excuse I've given myself to date is that compiling ALSA into the kernel and finally getting it to work with oss emulation was hell on RH9. However I recently bj0rked my X window system while trying to upgrade from a geforce 2 mx to an ati radeon 9200. The radeon worked fine without 3d support, but then I discovered that enabling 3d support was a black art. I never succeeded. Apparently I have messed around with my kernel sources one time too many and the drivers I try to install fail to compile. Was hoping Fedora would be an easy way out for me.
But then, when following the HOWTOs I noticed that the version of the sound codec on my mobo was not performing exactly as documented. I gave praises to the gods above when it finally worked, and promptly forgot at what stage in my trial-and-error-a-thon I was.It may be that your chipset is different from mine, and installing core 1 will just cause me grief.
Linux is great, when you finally get it working, that is!;)
Hmmm... I guess all those capital letters must have had the wrong effect.
Please, mods, could you try reading the post to the end before deciding it's a troll? It wasn't meant to be one, honestly.
I just meant to say that software mixing referred to esd and artsd, not programs like Kmix. I then said artsd is a terrible piece of code, which any honest linux user should know is not FUD.
Was my sin the act of saying that windows does mixing better than Linux? Perhaps someone could explain how this is not true, because that would be really helpful to me.
Hardware sound mixing on the via kt133 mobo on RH9?
Nothing worked properly for me until I installed ALSA, but as far as I know I'm not using hardware mixing. I do not in any way claim to know all there is to know about sound on linux, but the way things work now, if any program writes to dev/dsp it prevents any others from accessing it, so I have to depend on either artsd or esd. artsd works for me when using xmms, mplayer and KDE system sounds but other artsd-based programs such as kaboodle cause problems. (kaboodle hangs and causes all further calls to artsd to deliver garbage.)
Xmms is somewhat more stable when I tell it to use esd, but I prefer kde to gnome anyway.
By hardware mixing do you mean multiple programs can write to dev/dsp at the same time? If this is what you mean, kindly point me to the resource that helped you to achieve that. The alsa howto is what I've used so far.
you are...... IDIOT because you..... not.... UNDERSTAND SHIT!
lol!!!!!
I just love slashdot!:)
Anyways, don't get all fired up- I don't mean to insult, I'm just being silly.;)
And by the way, the parent poster was referring to software mixers like the enlightenment sound DEEEEEEMON (spelling wrong on purpose, lol!!!) and the arts DEEEEEEMON:)
And he's right, by the way. One of the few things windoze does better than l33t-Nuts is sound mixing. After battling with artsd on my via 82cxxxx based sound card (codec????) on red hat 9 it was always a relief to simply boot winxp and have no more problems whatsoever.
btw artsd= fucked up piece of shit. At least for users of craptastic on board sound codecs like me. But hey, we poor losers in developing nations deserve what we get cos we're too lazy, stupid and unintelligent to get the moolah to buy REAL L33T SHIT!!!!!!!!!
True. We used to be 15 males in the IT dept where I work. Lots of shouting across the office, confrontations, Bullshit, etc.
Now we are 17 males and 'just' 4 females...(3 of them raher hot) but their presence has caused everyone to 'grow up' all of a sudden. Perhaps if there were more women, new problems would surface, but as things are, they are pretty balanced.
By these definitions, a Linux box is more ready for the desktop than a Windows one is. I format a USB drives with a label and my box always mounts in the same spot, no matter what order I connect them. But if I connect USB drives in arbitrary order on XP, they might show up as E:, F: or whatever - all depending on how I connect them.
Not true. AND it is irrelevant to claim that drive letters being different would make any difference to the average user.
If I download mp3, vorbis and FLAC files, Linux plays them out-of-the-box. In Windows, downloading winamp or some other player is often a necessity.
Depends on your distro. Red hat Linux does NOT play mp3's out of the box- but all versions of windows since 95 have.
Vorbis and FLAC- you are correct- but I doubt the 'average user' has much use for those formats at the moment.
If I download WMV, DivX Quicktime and Realplayer movies, I'll need to download DivX codecs, Quicktime and Realplayer in Windows. mplayer handles them all in Linux without a problem.
If you can actually GET mplayer to install. I love being able to compile it from source, perhaps because that saves me from RPM hell. But I wager the average user will prefer installing divx codecs, realplayer and quicktime and having them work with no fuss.
btw: a compiled install of mplayer does not associate itself with media files. The user will have to rtfm in order to see that he needs to 1. compile mplayer to include a gui (2) start the gui from the CLI (3) actually know the filesystem location of the file he wishes to play
Under windows he just doubleclicks the codec installer, then doubleclicks the file.
Burning CD-ROMs in Linux is a drag-and-drop affair. As is ISOs. I haven't figured out how to burn ISOs in XP without downloading/buying something extra. Ripping is equally easy, and without the lame, Windows-specific, shift-key-to-bypass copy protection. Playing is a no-brainer, even with CDDB support.
burning in windows xp is a drag and drop affair....that doesnt require you to learn about SCSI emulation and cut your teeth with a couple dozen coasters. Ripping is MUCH easier in Linux- that's true...but only if you hate WMA. If you CAN stomach wma, then it is easier in windows.
burning ISO's is easy under Linux, that is true.
DVD's? I don't know. I don't have a dvd-rom drive and I dont own any DVDs.
At the end of the day, the point is that you shouldn't pretend that the problems with desktop linux are not there. Many people will argue that the characteristics of linux you describe are absent. While they are wrong, it shows what effect the current chaotic state of affairs has on the perception of the operating system. There is nothing besides gameplay and writing to ntfs that I can do on my XP install that I can't do on my redhat 9 install- but it took a LOT of work to get it that way. It was fun, and now the Linux partition is more like home to me (I built it myself). But I do NOT allow my younger brother to use Linux on my computer. Go figure.
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Interesting... those addresses appear to be real. The names most definitely do not appear to be made up (most names on 419 mails are obviously fictitious to any native observer.... Dr. john usman danjuma? please.)
I'd never attempt to buy anything online, least of all on ebay, mostly cos I'm sure the reputation built up on the 'net by these scammers will make anyone with half a brain throw my request in the bin as soon as he sees 'Lagos, Nigeria'. Such a pity, really. I've been thinking of getting myself a mastercard, but since I heard that amazon.com does not honour Nigerian billing addresses, I wondered, what's the point?
The irony of it all is this: Most goods acquired through credit card fraud and 'yahoo yahoo-ing' are sold dirt cheap, over here- much cheaper than if they had been purchased legitimately. *shrug* that's what life is like, ne?
A major problem with ROTS is that it doesnt pack as much of a punch if you do not watch the Clone Wars miniseries. Grievous has the cough because of his disastrous run-in with Mace Windu earlier. When fighting Obi-wan he is near death and nothing like at his true level. We also learn that he isn't all-droid. More like a cyborg.
On lightsaber forms:
Qui-Gon and Maul using form 3 is WRONG. Maul is a sith, he does not use conventional forms, but rather allows his passion and bloodlust to drive himself. Qui-Gon uses form 4, which emphasizes twirls, spins, fluorishes and acrobatic maneuvers, force-assisted, but is incredibly difficult to master for this reason...hence the only real form 4 master is Yoda (as is demonstrated at the end of episode 2)
Obi-wan is using form 4 in episode 1, but isnt very good at it. By episode 2, he has switched to form 3, which emphasises a strong centre line, less acrobatic movement, and lightning speed hence the 'spazzy' appearance of the fights. Anakin is using form 4 here, but gets his hand sliced off. In episode 3 he is back to form 3 like Obi-wan. I was happy to see this, it shows he is paying more attention to Obi-wan's instruction.
Dooku uses form 2, which is the 'gentleman's style'. Probably a plot contrivance to accomodate Christopher Lee's reduced mobility, but it has poor defence which shows when he falters under Yoda's amazing form 4 assault. Interesting that he isn't using traditional sith-style, but then again, Anakin doesnt switch instantly to sith-style after 'turning', he is still using form 3 when fighting Obiwan at the end.
There are other forms, too. Mace Windu is the only jedi besides his one remaining student billaba who uses form 7, which is basically a jedi version of the sith style, relying on borderline rage which is a contradiction of sorts...everyone save mace and billaba who tried to use this style ended up as a dark jedi, but it is possibly the strongest style. I was happy to see Mace defeat Sidious in a saber battle- maintained consistency. Also explains Mace's heightened emotional state and desire to kill sidious: a double standard that became his own undoing.
There is also form 5 which basically translates to 'the style of Jedi who get killed like idiots', apparently a plot contrivance to explain Jedi getting slaughtered at the end of episode 2. It's a classical style that is practiced for personal improvement and not combat- diplomacy is encouraged in violent situations. ALL form 5 users are dead by the end of episode 2
Oh, and b4 I forget: form 3 users are also supposed to be good at deflecting laser blasts.
All this talk about forms should help you enjoy the saber battles in all 3 prequels better. Even in the sequels it can be applied: Vader and Obiwan both use form 3, and Luke uses form 4 because he was trained by Yoda, a form 4 master. In episode 4 we can see obi wan trying to teach Luke form 3, holding a centre line against a droid.
Consistency such as this makes me have respect for fight choreographers in the star wars universe. Such a pity that such information is left obscure, and never mentioned in the movie's narrative.
Thanks!
Add the 'VM Size' column to your task manager. Summing virtual and physical memory usage, it's closer to 19MB on my system, which is pretty close to his figure.
Perhaps more people would understand (and thus mod you higher) if you used the word 'immediate' rather than 'literal'.... this confused me for a while, actually.
I believe that, executed properly, the plot of the matrix trilogy would produce an experience far superior to that of LOTR. I enjoyed the LOTR movies, but none of them matched the feeling I got at the end of the first Matrix.
In short, they were nothing new. But they were nice.
I was impressed.
No time-wasting....just brutal, wonderfully animated battle scenes. Perfect pacing, drama, and a touching love story.
In fact, you may then approach the original TV episodes differently, since you now have background informaton on the events presented to you in such detail, and with such clarity.
The classic skin for wmp7+ is just a 'familiar' UI for a new program.
There is some code that is shared, but these are codecs and filters that are common to most windows media players, I think, IANA MSFT programmer.
mplayer2 is leaner, faster and better than the new wmps. But wmp9 is close, much better than the horrible ver7, and it supports newer wmvs that don't play under mplayer2. PLUS it has a media library and playlist support, both lacking in mp 6.4
The 'filtergraph' gives you a much better view of exactly what software has been loaded to decode your media than MP 6.4's properties window, and also allows you to configure directshow filters.
MPC gives you more 'under the hood' capability than most windows media players.
The only recourse for those who fail is to become Islamic clerics, Evangelists, or scam artists- among other things.
I'm talking about Nigeria, but I'm sure it's the same all over West Africa, the competition in secondary school is absolutely overwhelming, and the examinations are incredibly difficult, far above the standard of education in most schools.
This means that attending certain secondary schools almost guarantees failure.
By the way, something similar has been done in Nigeria for the J.A.M.B examinations.
I've lived in Lagos, Nigeria for close to twenty years now, and haven't witnessed a single gun-crime. The only guns I've seen are those used by the police to terrorize bus-drivers and motorcycle riders....and I've never seen one fired. For about ten of those years, I passed through some of the most decrepit slums of the region, three to four times a day, sometimes at unholy hours and only employing public transport. While I do know of some people who have been killed in armed robbery attacks, most people experience violence through the news, and not first hand.
Please be careful when making sweeping generalizations.
Dude, did the WB's hire you to write the script for the Matrix: Revolutions?
I'm already using ALSA.
The rh9 bundled driver did not work at all, kept shutting down, claiming it could not change the sampling rate.
so I'm using alsa with OSS emulation. And only one program can write to dev/dsp at a time. Similarly, programs that only know how to write to dev/dsp, such as the mmap()- crazy quake games, cannot use sound when a software mixer (eg artsd, esd) is running.
I have sound with ALSA, I just don't have hardware sound mixing, as you say you do.
Automatically?
;)
That's a big temptation to upgrade to core 1. The biggest excuse I've given myself to date is that compiling ALSA into the kernel and finally getting it to work with oss emulation was hell on RH9. However I recently bj0rked my X window system while trying to upgrade from a geforce 2 mx to an ati radeon 9200. The radeon worked fine without 3d support, but then I discovered that enabling 3d support was a black art. I never succeeded. Apparently I have messed around with my kernel sources one time too many and the drivers I try to install fail to compile. Was hoping Fedora would be an easy way out for me.
But then, when following the HOWTOs I noticed that the version of the sound codec on my mobo was not performing exactly as documented. I gave praises to the gods above when it finally worked, and promptly forgot at what stage in my trial-and-error-a-thon I was.It may be that your chipset is different from mine, and installing core 1 will just cause me grief.
Linux is great, when you finally get it working, that is!
Hmmm... I guess all those capital letters must have had the wrong effect.
Please, mods, could you try reading the post to the end before deciding it's a troll? It wasn't meant to be one, honestly.
I just meant to say that software mixing referred to esd and artsd, not programs like Kmix. I then said artsd is a terrible piece of code, which any honest linux user should know is not FUD.
Was my sin the act of saying that windows does mixing better than Linux? Perhaps someone could explain how this is not true, because that would be really helpful to me.
Hardware sound mixing on the via kt133 mobo on RH9?
Nothing worked properly for me until I installed ALSA, but as far as I know I'm not using hardware mixing. I do not in any way claim to know all there is to know about sound on linux, but the way things work now, if any program writes to dev/dsp it prevents any others from accessing it, so I have to depend on either artsd or esd. artsd works for me when using xmms, mplayer and KDE system sounds but other artsd-based programs such as kaboodle cause problems. (kaboodle hangs and causes all further calls to artsd to deliver garbage.)
Xmms is somewhat more stable when I tell it to use esd, but I prefer kde to gnome anyway.
By hardware mixing do you mean multiple programs can write to dev/dsp at the same time? If this is what you mean, kindly point me to the resource that helped you to achieve that. The alsa howto is what I've used so far.
Thanks.
you are..... IDIOT.
..... not.... UNDERSTAND SHIT!
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you are...... IDIOT because you
lol!!!!!
I just love slashdot!
Anyways, don't get all fired up- I don't mean to insult, I'm just being silly.
And by the way, the parent poster was referring to software mixers like the enlightenment sound DEEEEEEMON (spelling wrong on purpose, lol!!!) and the arts DEEEEEEMON
And he's right, by the way. One of the few things windoze does better than l33t-Nuts is sound mixing. After battling with artsd on my via 82cxxxx based sound card (codec????) on red hat 9 it was always a relief to simply boot winxp and have no more problems whatsoever.
btw artsd= fucked up piece of shit. At least for users of craptastic on board sound codecs like me. But hey, we poor losers in developing nations deserve what we get cos we're too lazy, stupid and unintelligent to get the moolah to buy REAL L33T SHIT!!!!!!!!!
True. We used to be 15 males in the IT dept where I work. Lots of shouting across the office, confrontations, Bullshit, etc. Now we are 17 males and 'just' 4 females...(3 of them raher hot) but their presence has caused everyone to 'grow up' all of a sudden. Perhaps if there were more women, new problems would surface, but as things are, they are pretty balanced.
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Not true. AND it is irrelevant to claim that drive letters being different would make any difference to the average user.
If I download mp3, vorbis and FLAC files, Linux plays them out-of-the-box. In Windows, downloading winamp or some other player is often a necessity.
Depends on your distro. Red hat Linux does NOT play mp3's out of the box- but all versions of windows since 95 have.
Vorbis and FLAC- you are correct- but I doubt the 'average user' has much use for those formats at the moment.
If I download WMV, DivX Quicktime and Realplayer movies, I'll need to download DivX codecs, Quicktime and Realplayer in Windows. mplayer handles them all in Linux without a problem.
If you can actually GET mplayer to install. I love being able to compile it from source, perhaps because that saves me from RPM hell. But I wager the average user will prefer installing divx codecs, realplayer and quicktime and having them work with no fuss.
btw: a compiled install of mplayer does not associate itself with media files. The user will have to rtfm in order to see that he needs to 1. compile mplayer to include a gui (2) start the gui from the CLI (3) actually know the filesystem location of the file he wishes to play
Under windows he just doubleclicks the codec installer, then doubleclicks the file.
Burning CD-ROMs in Linux is a drag-and-drop affair. As is ISOs. I haven't figured out how to burn ISOs in XP without downloading/buying something extra. Ripping is equally easy, and without the lame, Windows-specific, shift-key-to-bypass copy protection. Playing is a no-brainer, even with CDDB support.
burning in windows xp is a drag and drop affair....that doesnt require you to learn about SCSI emulation and cut your teeth with a couple dozen coasters. Ripping is MUCH easier in Linux- that's true...but only if you hate WMA. If you CAN stomach wma, then it is easier in windows.
burning ISO's is easy under Linux, that is true.
DVD's? I don't know. I don't have a dvd-rom drive and I dont own any DVDs.
At the end of the day, the point is that you shouldn't pretend that the problems with desktop linux are not there. Many people will argue that the characteristics of linux you describe are absent. While they are wrong, it shows what effect the current chaotic state of affairs has on the perception of the operating system. There is nothing besides gameplay and writing to ntfs that I can do on my XP install that I can't do on my redhat 9 install- but it took a LOT of work to get it that way. It was fun, and now the Linux partition is more like home to me (I built it myself). But I do NOT allow my younger brother to use Linux on my computer. Go figure.
Hmmmm.... classic intros? One that I definitely will not forget is the Ninja Gaiden intro. But then there's always Zero Wing :-)
If we are talking about intros, surely someone should mention the INCREDIBLE Soul Edge Intro!!!!