I wish I could tell which electronics were higher quality, though. They price the shit up there with the nice stuff, and sometimes it even comes from the same company. Of course I'm gonna buy cheaper when I can't be sure that it'll work better if it's more expensive. Hell, just look at the XBox360 fiasco... huge name, pretty expensive... and it's a piece of shit. 40%+ failure rate in the first year.
That, and most multiplayer games are shit like Halo and COD, which suck donkey cock on a control pad. It's just sad watching people play FPSs on a console.
Seconded. How is gameplay NOT one of the metrics? That's the main reason I buy games... I play Ratchet and Clank because it's just fun. There's no online play, no multiplayer, and it's not exceptionally cheap.
Have you ever tried to run one of those malware things in wine? Do it from a console... the error messages are amusing. Watching it fail to find DLL after DLL and program after program...
I take it you've never run into a page that refused to load because the damn ad server was not responding. Adblock has fixed MANY site responsiveness issues for me... almost every browsing speed problem I have had can be attributed to shitty ad servers.
I'd ignore ads if they load. If they prevent me from getting to the content though... fuck 'em. Adblock.
The GMA will play Quake 3 fine. Are you really expecting online ads and such to be more complex than that? If you're going to have an online game, sure, you'll have system requirements just like any other game. But a GMA, while crappy, is more than fast enough for basic 3D.
Skilled time is a scarcity, but trying to make an infinite good a scarce one to try to profit from that is a silly idea. I'm just going to legally mandate that people pay me for oxygen too, even though it's plentiful and available, they need to buy it from me in order to breathe.
What needs to happen is that you sell an actually scarce product. Give people a reason to buy the game... I own Civilization because of the manuals and maps included with the game. Make people your fans. I have bought the Ratchet and Clank add-ons and such because I am a fan of the games. Same with like, BNL, where I can get show recordings from the band without going through the RIAA.
You know why people feel entitled? Because they've been fucked over by the media companies. Constantly. DVD's that won't work in one region or another, released at different times, same with music, price gouging by equating a dollar to the euro or the pound... what sane person doesn't feel taken advantage of by the media companies? People will pay when they feel they're getting a fair deal. They haven't gotten one yet.
The magic is that Linux works with the hardware at all is amazing. It's been hacked counter to the support of the companies providing the hardware. They create the drivers for Windows, and do jack shit for Linux. I know you come from a "I just want it to work" point of view, but you have to realize that your point of view is what allows companies to keep fucking you over with license fees and software that is explicitly designed to limit your rights and what you can do (DRM, HDMI, etc.)
In all fairness, Christian protesters were crazy well before EA falsely implicated them in this instance. They've protested lesser things. Remember kids, not all Christians are the same. Just as not all Atheists are, either.
The main shady part (IMHO) is that they encouraged you to accost women for "lust". Sure, you might get some to go along with it, but there are enough douchebags out there that will take it as a free pass to be... well, themselves, that it's just irresponsible for EA to do that.
The 200M should be well supported by the radeon driver. Ubuntu 9.10 will include the KMS for R500 and older (your 200M is an RS480), so you should see pretty decent performance in 3D and otherwise out of the box with it. The drivers in 9.04 and 9.10 for the older radeons should be worlds apart.
If you break wax down into small enough particles, I'm sure it can be absorbed through the same mechanism. That doesn't change the fact that wax is otherwise non-toxic. Check the article on Phagocytosis, and how things like bacteria can be absorbed that way.
ATI's fglrx driver is awful. I'm hearing very good things about the open source drivers, though. They're moving very quickly forward, and it's proper open-source. If you don't mind compiling a bit, you can get Quake 3 and more (up to OpenGL 1.4 I believe) running on the latest 4xxx Radeons. Next steps from what I hear are GLSL and Gallium3D support, now that KMS is merged into the kernel and mesa is supporting the Radeon DRI.
Go check over at Phoronix if you're curious. The ATI employed open-source driver developers post and discuss things pretty much daily.
That video problem was a side-effect of how video acceleration was done in the driver. Only one screen at a time can have the extra buffers necessary for fast screen updating with some drivers and cards.
Yes, it does. Toxicity relates to chemical reactivity, not to radiation. If it's non-toxic, it won't contaminate your body... it'll be passed through like any other waste material.
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Shit... I shouldn't do that? I'll... uhhh... be back. Just gotta go run some errands...
I wish I could tell which electronics were higher quality, though. They price the shit up there with the nice stuff, and sometimes it even comes from the same company. Of course I'm gonna buy cheaper when I can't be sure that it'll work better if it's more expensive. Hell, just look at the XBox360 fiasco... huge name, pretty expensive... and it's a piece of shit. 40%+ failure rate in the first year.
That, and most multiplayer games are shit like Halo and COD, which suck donkey cock on a control pad. It's just sad watching people play FPSs on a console.
Seconded. How is gameplay NOT one of the metrics? That's the main reason I buy games... I play Ratchet and Clank because it's just fun. There's no online play, no multiplayer, and it's not exceptionally cheap.
Have you ever tried to run one of those malware things in wine? Do it from a console... the error messages are amusing. Watching it fail to find DLL after DLL and program after program...
I'm betting educational kickbac^Wincentives.
I take it you've never run into a page that refused to load because the damn ad server was not responding. Adblock has fixed MANY site responsiveness issues for me... almost every browsing speed problem I have had can be attributed to shitty ad servers.
I'd ignore ads if they load. If they prevent me from getting to the content though... fuck 'em. Adblock.
The GMA will play Quake 3 fine. Are you really expecting online ads and such to be more complex than that? If you're going to have an online game, sure, you'll have system requirements just like any other game. But a GMA, while crappy, is more than fast enough for basic 3D.
Skilled time is a scarcity, but trying to make an infinite good a scarce one to try to profit from that is a silly idea. I'm just going to legally mandate that people pay me for oxygen too, even though it's plentiful and available, they need to buy it from me in order to breathe.
What needs to happen is that you sell an actually scarce product. Give people a reason to buy the game... I own Civilization because of the manuals and maps included with the game. Make people your fans. I have bought the Ratchet and Clank add-ons and such because I am a fan of the games. Same with like, BNL, where I can get show recordings from the band without going through the RIAA.
You know why people feel entitled? Because they've been fucked over by the media companies. Constantly. DVD's that won't work in one region or another, released at different times, same with music, price gouging by equating a dollar to the euro or the pound... what sane person doesn't feel taken advantage of by the media companies? People will pay when they feel they're getting a fair deal. They haven't gotten one yet.
The magic is that Linux works with the hardware at all is amazing. It's been hacked counter to the support of the companies providing the hardware. They create the drivers for Windows, and do jack shit for Linux. I know you come from a "I just want it to work" point of view, but you have to realize that your point of view is what allows companies to keep fucking you over with license fees and software that is explicitly designed to limit your rights and what you can do (DRM, HDMI, etc.)
In all fairness, Christian protesters were crazy well before EA falsely implicated them in this instance. They've protested lesser things. Remember kids, not all Christians are the same. Just as not all Atheists are, either.
The main shady part (IMHO) is that they encouraged you to accost women for "lust". Sure, you might get some to go along with it, but there are enough douchebags out there that will take it as a free pass to be... well, themselves, that it's just irresponsible for EA to do that.
The 200M should be well supported by the radeon driver. Ubuntu 9.10 will include the KMS for R500 and older (your 200M is an RS480), so you should see pretty decent performance in 3D and otherwise out of the box with it. The drivers in 9.04 and 9.10 for the older radeons should be worlds apart.
Seconded. As long as you "safely remove" (AKA, unmount) the drive in Windows, you can use NTFS with impunity.
I can delete a word with fewer keystr^W button presses than you!
It's the lack of shame that makes it possible in the first place
What scares me more is that there are that many people that don't even do a cursory glance at their credit card bill. WTF?
So you're that annoying pirate singing fuck in those freecreditreport.com commercials... ;)
One meeeelion dollars!
If you break wax down into small enough particles, I'm sure it can be absorbed through the same mechanism. That doesn't change the fact that wax is otherwise non-toxic. Check the article on Phagocytosis, and how things like bacteria can be absorbed that way.
Plug your thumb drive into a different USB port and tell me nothing's wrong.
ATI's fglrx driver is awful. I'm hearing very good things about the open source drivers, though. They're moving very quickly forward, and it's proper open-source. If you don't mind compiling a bit, you can get Quake 3 and more (up to OpenGL 1.4 I believe) running on the latest 4xxx Radeons. Next steps from what I hear are GLSL and Gallium3D support, now that KMS is merged into the kernel and mesa is supporting the Radeon DRI.
Go check over at Phoronix if you're curious. The ATI employed open-source driver developers post and discuss things pretty much daily.
That video problem was a side-effect of how video acceleration was done in the driver. Only one screen at a time can have the extra buffers necessary for fast screen updating with some drivers and cards.
Yes, it does. Toxicity relates to chemical reactivity, not to radiation. If it's non-toxic, it won't contaminate your body... it'll be passed through like any other waste material.