I thought the crazy whinning people who run the country had complained and got everything banned from being taught! If people in the US bitch loud enough, the math classes will start teaching that 2 + 2 = 5, and the number 6 will be removed entirely.
Not meant to be a flame, but the only thing I ever hear about US Schools is how the bar keeps being lowered to appease 'grownups' who can't handle the real world. Next thing you know, they might ban evolution... oh wait!
Next year we can have NVIDIA TRI, because 3 cards are better than 2! They can demonstrate with a realtime rednering of stubble that is 2x nicer, with HDR.
It depends on the games you play. Some games only load data off the disc for a few seconds with minutes between loads. A lot of newer games are constantly streaming from the disc. After about 30-60 minutes of the drive head slamming back and forth, a loud whirring fan comes on.
It sounds like revolving desk fan. But I can see how some people would never hear it, if they play in very short burst, or play games that aren't streaming constantly. The unit itself doesn't seem to require the fan, as I can play something that doesn't load from DVD much all through the night without it coming on (or maybe it's on at a low quiet speed?).
The fan isn't quiet. It's very audible over when it turns on. it doesn't seem to come on unless I've been playing a game that has been murdering the disc drive since I turned the unit on for an hour, then the machine gets hot, and the fan starts whirring.
These videos sound just like the tutorial videos that had already been on the discs in recent years. And as usual, they go over the heads of casual fans. They seem to cater only to the hardcore "I live a sporting life vicariously through EA's games" type of crowd. As a casual sports gamer, I watch these things and have only a vague idea of what I just saw. I'd feel pretty burned if I paid for them.
I have been getting these since the 90s. If you want to put a stop to them, find out what book these passages are from, and have the publishers take them out for copyright violation.
Microsoft has actually been bending over the backwards to help the anti-virus companies properly integrate their products into the new windows Vista. The problem comes from miscommunication. Billy is using his new speech-to-text program for all correspondece.
Can't turn them off without unplugging them. Just like the PS2. It has a fully on mode, and turning it 'off' enters standby mode. Hopefully it's not simply to power the clock and settings.
A death threat is a death threat. It's cut and dry. Black and white. Freedom of speech is about the right to speak your mind, not something to hide behind when you do these types of things. It doesnt matter if it was written in an IM avatar, on someone's locker, or on the wall in the men's room. In a day and age where this stuff actually does happen, you need to handle it at the first sign.
I've always hated the way windows handles fonts. It's horrible. You just dump them in the windows fonts folder, and that's it. It's a giant mess if you need to use a lot of fonts. Anyone can shove fonts in there, and you never know where the came from. This does happen a lot too. I only installed 10 fonts, and over the last few months I've acquired 20-30 rogues fonts from who knows where. It's very hard to track down where a font comes from and what you are allowed to do with it. When it's time to select a font, you just get a big pile of shit to wade through, with every font on the system, and the only info you get it what it's name is.
That said, if you need some free fonts, here are some good ones.
The BitStream Vera Collection (nice gnu fonts) AEnigma's Font Archive (free, and free to do with as you please)
The video card also made a big difference. We had two identical machines here with 486DX/66s and the one that had an addon videocard would get 10-15 fps more in doom, duke3d, and quake then the one with the usual crappy onboard card you got with a pre-assembled system.
The PS2 has a constant stream of good games coming in in almost every genre. It has free online play that some will say is worse than xbox live, but whatever, to me it's great. Also, a lot of the must play games are in the greatest hits collection which is cheaper than ever. I can see myself buying another 20 titles for the system over the next 2 years.
The more modern games are making use of higher polygon counts, and graphical effects such as fake HDR. They are looking very good. The average new PS2 title today looks a lot better than the average game 2 years ago. They are really starting to push it to it's limits.
Also, there is a new trend starting with the greatest hits releases where the developers will go back and add in new content to games instead of simply re-releasing them with only a 'greatest hits' tag on the case.
This is the one of the reasons OSS fails. Everytime someone in the OSS community tries to get ahead, the rest of the OSS community gets together, and does what they can to knock them back down a few pegs, and then the same cycle continues.
Sometimes you have to compromise. I don't see anyone making free OSS video cards. As usual, the community wants to piggyback on everyone else's technology, and even when they make efforts to give you what you want, it is rejected. No matter what they do, there will always be something wrong with it. They can't just give you working drivers, they have to hand over working drivers, and follow a long list of ridiculous demands.
I suspect that in 10 years, the OSS community as a whole will still be bickering back and forth over the GPL, and the same issues as always, while the rest of the technology world you want to change continues to pass you by.
I know OpenGL. I use it every day. I'm a C++/OpenGL/Win32 guy. It's not the same at all. You can't even use OpenGL unless you know how to init a win32 window, and then you have to learn how to link libraries (look in any newbie forum, asking why they get opengl linker errors drives a ton of them off. attempts to explain the linking process often fail for many attempts).
Just to get a suface that you can create 1 dot on, you need about 400 lines of code for the window and the frame buffer to be set up so you can even make a call. Then from there you need to understand how to make a program loop. You need to set a glColor3f(), have a glBegin(GL_POINTS)/End() pair and project a vertex into the frustum eg: glVertex3f(0.0f,0.0f,-25.0f). Then you need to flip your buffers.
Do you know how I put a dot on the screen when I was learning a few days after discovering qbasic?
SET MODE 13 --(320x200x256) COLOR 15 PSET 159,99
That's it. That's an entire program. I hit F5 and it popped up on the screen. There's no linking or compiler paths and all that junk. I also didn't have to read some several 500 page books to have a vague idea of what was going on.
I don't think the entry barrier is about the same.:)
The entry barrier is higher these days. When I was younger just getting into programming, I found a little program called QBasic.exe and I started messing around with it, and I moved on to C++ and all that after a few years.
What do you need to do to get started today? printf("Hello world"); has turned into 100 lines of WinMain()s and WindowProc()s. Maybe it's different in C#, I don't know, but it hasn't been around long enough to make a difference in this case anyways.
Add onto this the complexities of getting of making your software run properly on a limited user accounts, and the fact that the simplest windows program requires knowledge of most of the C language, and I can picture it being very hard to learn.
Seriously. In my lifetime I can't count the amount of times I got a chain letter forwarded to me by a well meaning user, and then indirectly my private e-mail address is being sent to ~600 people an hour as it stays in the body of the message and continues to go around and around until the end of time. So I'm getting spammed the next day. I started maintaining a list of people who forwarded me these messages and forwaring my junk mail back at them.
So it's all for the better. It's the end of this ->
MSG: (64 pages of e-mail addresses) (unfunny joke) + (fake picture of a spider in iraq)
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...and they want you to look under your N64 controller. It looks ljust like those patent drawings.
I thought the crazy whinning people who run the country had complained and got everything banned from being taught! If people in the US bitch loud enough, the math classes will start teaching that 2 + 2 = 5, and the number 6 will be removed entirely.
Not meant to be a flame, but the only thing I ever hear about US Schools is how the bar keeps being lowered to appease 'grownups' who can't handle the real world. Next thing you know, they might ban evolution... oh wait!
The old OPM when I used to read it, was indepedant and never shied away from giving a bad game a bad review.
Next year we can have NVIDIA TRI, because 3 cards are better than 2! They can demonstrate with a realtime rednering of stubble that is 2x nicer, with HDR.
It depends on the games you play. Some games only load data off the disc for a few seconds with minutes between loads. A lot of newer games are constantly streaming from the disc. After about 30-60 minutes of the drive head slamming back and forth, a loud whirring fan comes on.
It sounds like revolving desk fan. But I can see how some people would never hear it, if they play in very short burst, or play games that aren't streaming constantly. The unit itself doesn't seem to require the fan, as I can play something that doesn't load from DVD much all through the night without it coming on (or maybe it's on at a low quiet speed?).
While their at it, why not call it Wet Wiili? Then at least you could lick your Wiimote and stick it in your ear!
The fan isn't quiet. It's very audible over when it turns on. it doesn't seem to come on unless I've been playing a game that has been murdering the disc drive since I turned the unit on for an hour, then the machine gets hot, and the fan starts whirring.
These videos sound just like the tutorial videos that had already been on the discs in recent years. And as usual, they go over the heads of casual fans. They seem to cater only to the hardcore "I live a sporting life vicariously through EA's games" type of crowd. As a casual sports gamer, I watch these things and have only a vague idea of what I just saw. I'd feel pretty burned if I paid for them.
Good thing they paid up. Uncle RIAA thought it would be a shame if "something should happen to their nice office building".
I have been getting these since the 90s. If you want to put a stop to them, find out what book these passages are from, and have the publishers take them out for copyright violation.
This will be the minimum requirement to get any PC game running.
Microsoft has actually been bending over the backwards to help the anti-virus companies properly integrate their products into the new windows Vista. The problem comes from miscommunication. Billy is using his new speech-to-text program for all correspondece.
Except if it's IE 7.0, then the automatic download is bad because of introduced bugs.
Removed on the newer models.
Can't turn them off without unplugging them. Just like the PS2. It has a fully on mode, and turning it 'off' enters standby mode. Hopefully it's not simply to power the clock and settings.
Bring back Gladiator and LOW.
A death threat is a death threat. It's cut and dry. Black and white. Freedom of speech is about the right to speak your mind, not something to hide behind when you do these types of things. It doesnt matter if it was written in an IM avatar, on someone's locker, or on the wall in the men's room. In a day and age where this stuff actually does happen, you need to handle it at the first sign.
I've always hated the way windows handles fonts. It's horrible. You just dump them in the windows fonts folder, and that's it. It's a giant mess if you need to use a lot of fonts. Anyone can shove fonts in there, and you never know where the came from. This does happen a lot too. I only installed 10 fonts, and over the last few months I've acquired 20-30 rogues fonts from who knows where.
It's very hard to track down where a font comes from and what you are allowed to do with it. When it's time to select a font, you just get a big pile of shit to wade through, with every font on the system, and the only info you get it what it's name is.
That said, if you need some free fonts, here are some good ones.
The BitStream Vera Collection (nice gnu fonts)
AEnigma's Font Archive (free, and free to do with as you please)
The video card also made a big difference. We had two identical machines here with 486DX/66s and the one that had an addon videocard would get 10-15 fps more in doom, duke3d, and quake then the one with the usual crappy onboard card you got with a pre-assembled system.
You needed a 486 with an FPU. Intel 486s came in two flavours, SX and DX. The SX models lacked an FPU.
The PS2 has a constant stream of good games coming in in almost every genre. It has free online play that some will say is worse than xbox live, but whatever, to me it's great. Also, a lot of the must play games are in the greatest hits collection which is cheaper than ever. I can see myself buying another 20 titles for the system over the next 2 years.
The more modern games are making use of higher polygon counts, and graphical effects such as fake HDR. They are looking very good. The average new PS2 title today looks a lot better than the average game 2 years ago. They are really starting to push it to it's limits.
Also, there is a new trend starting with the greatest hits releases where the developers will go back and add in new content to games instead of simply re-releasing them with only a 'greatest hits' tag on the case.
It's a great time to be a PS2 gamer.
This is the one of the reasons OSS fails. Everytime someone in the OSS community tries to get ahead, the rest of the OSS community gets together, and does what they can to knock them back down a few pegs, and then the same cycle continues.
Sometimes you have to compromise. I don't see anyone making free OSS video cards. As usual, the community wants to piggyback on everyone else's technology, and even when they make efforts to give you what you want, it is rejected. No matter what they do, there will always be something wrong with it. They can't just give you working drivers, they have to hand over working drivers, and follow a long list of ridiculous demands.
I suspect that in 10 years, the OSS community as a whole will still be bickering back and forth over the GPL, and the same issues as always, while the rest of the technology world you want to change continues to pass you by.
I know OpenGL. I use it every day. I'm a C++/OpenGL/Win32 guy. It's not the same at all. You can't even use OpenGL unless you know how to init a win32 window, and then you have to learn how to link libraries (look in any newbie forum, asking why they get opengl linker errors drives a ton of them off. attempts to explain the linking process often fail for many attempts).
:)
Just to get a suface that you can create 1 dot on, you need about 400 lines of code for the window and the frame buffer to be set up so you can even make a call. Then from there you need to understand how to make a program loop. You need to set a glColor3f(), have a glBegin(GL_POINTS)/End() pair and project a vertex into the frustum eg: glVertex3f(0.0f,0.0f,-25.0f). Then you need to flip your buffers.
Do you know how I put a dot on the screen when I was learning a few days after discovering qbasic?
SET MODE 13 --(320x200x256)
COLOR 15
PSET 159,99
That's it. That's an entire program. I hit F5 and it popped up on the screen. There's no linking or compiler paths and all that junk. I also didn't have to read some several 500 page books to have a vague idea of what was going on.
I don't think the entry barrier is about the same.
The entry barrier is higher these days. When I was younger just getting into programming, I found a little program called QBasic.exe and I started messing around with it, and I moved on to C++ and all that after a few years.
What do you need to do to get started today? printf("Hello world"); has turned into 100 lines of WinMain()s and WindowProc()s. Maybe it's different in C#, I don't know, but it hasn't been around long enough to make a difference in this case anyways.
Add onto this the complexities of getting of making your software run properly on a limited user accounts, and the fact that the simplest windows program requires knowledge of most of the C language, and I can picture it being very hard to learn.
Seriously. In my lifetime I can't count the amount of times I got a chain letter forwarded to me by a well meaning user, and then indirectly my private e-mail address is being sent to ~600 people an hour as it stays in the body of the message and continues to go around and around until the end of time. So I'm getting spammed the next day. I started maintaining a list of people who forwarded me these messages and forwaring my junk mail back at them.
So it's all for the better. It's the end of this ->
MSG:
(64 pages of e-mail addresses)
(unfunny joke) + (fake picture of a spider in iraq)