Fark and Digg.com are ----------> that way.
I thought we got rid of all you guys years ago. Everything goes full circle I guess. Why am I arguing anyway, what kind of person calls someone a pussy and posts as AC?
(Answer: an even bigger pussy.)
Who hasn't been hassled by the police for cryin out loud? You talk as if this is the disease, but it's just a symptom.
Funny you should mention this. When I was just a kid of about 12 or 13 years old the going modem rate was 2400 baud and BBS's were where it was at. The rules to get access to the adult sections were always crazy like send in a photocopy of a drivers license, and often times pretending to be a girl and flirting with the sysop gained you entry within 10 minutes, no ID required. Most of the time I just typed out word for word the bs letters from penthouse/playboy I'd found in my dad's closet. (In these days porn 'video' found online was usually about 12 frames of animation that was looped very well so the male was in a perpetual thrusting motion. Hilarious.)
The best is when they called you out for downloading porn that obviously was predominately female, and telling the sysop that you really liked girls as well as guys and before you know it you have superuser status. You could download all kinds of things with that. (I think this is how I played police quest 2.) I remember having to setup fake 'meetings' with some of these sysops, just to keep status for a few more days. Nothing elevated user privelages faster than the possibility of some "hot chick" who is into girls and wants to meet you. Then I'd hide out for a few months and repeat the process all over again.
My pops at the time didn't have unlimited local calling for the phone line and our first months phone bill was something like 700 dollars. Ah, those were the days.
Anyway, don't always assume that the "chatroom moderator" isn't just out to find some busty images back in those days. Often it was guys pretending to be girls.
I can't imagine why you would be worried enough to post AC because you talked about the ex-USSR. You even got modded Informative and misquoted.
I'll grant that the GP is right about disbanding the DHLS. There is no question that this will end up being a pox on a "free society". You are also correct that the DHLS encompasses some of the powers of the ex-KGB. With with torture camps in foreign countries and Halliburton building internment/containment camps within the continental US, there is no doubt that it's going to get worse before it gets better. The fact that you are too paranoid to talk about it in a public forum already speaks volumes about how far we've come in such a short time if you otherwise would have posted.
I'm not offering up conspiracy theories, I'm just watching what is happening around me. You have to admit, it's very odd.
Robots.txt may not have any special standing in law, but Archive.org would be wise to demonstrate that the spider looks for these things.
You mock the GPs attempt at hyberbole... with a feeble attempt at statistics. Just admit it, you have no clue how many people know about robots.txt, and it doesn't matter. What matters is if they tried to obey a robots.txt file if it existed on the server and if she had one on her site. You are in no way qualified to talk about the vast majority of people, so spare us your speculation passed off as fact.
All that matters is that your post added nothing to this conversation, and furthermore you are in no place to dicate who is or isn't qualified to TALK about something, you self righteous prick, you. The whole point of a forum if to exchange ideas and information and unless your name is CmdrTaco or CowboyNeal, you can stfu about who has a right to speak out here.
Hard to tell you how many units Sony has shipped since they aren't telling anyone but piecing together different stories shows they shipped 1m to the U.S. and likely 1m in Japan.
According to this 1.41 million have sold. That would be a 590,000 surplus worldwide. That is providing they gave the US as many as they gave fans in Japan. Logic would dictate that Japan would get more, but calling them even would be a conservative estimate.
I think the problem with idiots such as yourself is that you never seem to realize that both sides are screwing you equally. The GP makes a general statement about politics and you turn around like the retard you are and make it an us vs. them partisan debate.
The best part is that idiots such as yourself always seem to point at the other side as to why things don't get done, regardless of who controls the government at any given time.
And to make matters even worse you wasted a mod point on your real account modding up an AC comment. A real winner you are sir!
Stay out of politics, you don't have the head for it. Stick to things you have the brain for, like Jenga or American Idol.
Personally I think the reason for all the anti-Americanism is the wild capitalism we export. Making money is the only thing and that causes concern as the old cultural values and communities are slowly being whitewashed with nothing but consumerism. Being only a few hundred years old with no common heritage (being the melting pot) it is hard for us to understand a culture of thousands of years.
There used to be a line between culture and profits but that slowly disappeared during the 80's. Now some would argue that unrestrained profiteering is our culture, and that is precisely the problem. It need not be the case.
While our government is claiming to bring democracy to the Middle East, it is very evident that what they are really bringing is shopping malls, KFC, and Gap stores. I'm guessing that importing consumerism under the false pretense of democracy is the big issue here, and one that the world seems to be able to see right through with the exception of the American people.
That being said, I don't know what happened 150 years ago to harbor the resentment, but it is easy for powerful orgainizations to sway public opinion, as we all know.
I teach video game art and design at a local college and I can attest to the opposite of this. For every person I talk to about Sony's attitude and the rootkit fiasco, they simply don't care. Every single one of them has said they will be getting a PS3 regardless of all this other bullshit. They grew up with PS just as the generation before them grew up with Atari and Nintendo and Sega.
They don't care how much it costs, they don't care about rootkits, and they certainly don't care if the CEO makes them into sheep. They want Final Fantasy, they want the PS3.
You are wrong to think that people won't buy this because of Sony's past behavior, they indeed will buy it. It's easy to decry it here on/. where anyone can go from star to stink with majority support, but real life isn't like slashdot, it is far far more stupid and careless.
No, the reason for the absurd space requirements are people buying games for the whiz bang factor of the "realistic graphics". Gamers of today care far more a bout looks than substance, even though you aren't one of those people.
You can refuse incoming calls that are number-blocked. I believe it is *82. This will disable blocked numbers from calling you on a land line.
Perhaps it varies from city to city or company to company, but I haven't had a "courtesy" call since I did this.
Correction there, most game artwork is done at mid level detail and then rez'ed up or down to suit needs. Also, it costs exactly the same to export a texture at 1024x1024 as 256x256. You always work on the texture large and export it out small to hide any flaws it may have. Same applies to visual effects.
No one uses the high poly model for the game, it's for cinematics and for normal map creation. Having worked with Maya and 3D studio max for 5 years now, I can assure you there is no magic tool that lowers your poly count without totally wrecking your model. You have to do it by hand, no matter what.
Also, no game model has 1m or 5m polygons. 10k is approaching the limit of lag fest for a model. Keep in mind you often have 20 models on the screen at the same time.
As for your third point, well, who wants to get the hardcore gaming system "lite" version? No one. They are marketing it as 'hard core' and who wants to be $100 less hard core than the Joneses? No one who would spend $500 on a game system that is for sure.
With gas going up 30% this year and the value of the dollar dropping 35% since the beginning of this year, I seriously doubt most people think $600 is cheap. Especially considering that it will come with 1 controller and likely be crippled in some other way as well. (For example: $30 bucks for the cable to connect to your super expensive tv to get better than NTSC resolution from it.)
I could get the best gfx card around and a gig of ram for my computer for that kind of money. If the "Next-gen" console has lesser hardware than my damn computer, isn't upgradable, locks my DVD purchases and rentals into a 50/50 crap shoot, what is my incentive to buy that thing again?
Or... if I had to have a new game console, I could buy a Nintendo for 200 bucks that plays every game for every system they ever made and even better, girls seem to love it if E3 was any indicator. With the $400 bucks I saved I could buy 6 or so games for it and the 2nd controller to match.
Hmm... let me think. An overhyped and overpriced system that locks me into a certain format for all future movies purchases from a company that surreptitiously installs rootkits on my computer without my permission or knowledge and demos burned crappy DVD-R's as the genuine McCoy... or... a game console built from the ground up to redefine gaming and put the fun back into it, get people off the couch and moving, 100% backwards compatible with all past games they have made, from a company that has been making fun games (not just video games) since 1889?
I own a private company. I have employees sign agreements that state what is acceptable behavior at the office. They have NO RIGHTS beyond what is on that paper. I can bug their cell phones and search their personal belongings for any reason or no reason. The paper said nothing about my right to capture them into my secret underground private company lair to tie them up and torture them while they press plastic bags for 2.5 cents per 1000.
I can violate all their Constitutional rights because thay are not enumerated on that paper they signed. All they can do about it is work somewhere else.
Logically, wouldn't that mean that the low hum sound would play at all times, or at least at all times when there was sound instead of just when watching a SACD? I installed a few car stereos and home theater systems and when there is feedback, there is always feedback. At least in my cases.
If it happened always for the OP, regardless of what's in the drive, then he probably wouldn't have mentioned it. If it only happened only when playing SACD, to me it would't matter what was causing it, only that the stupid thing doesn't work.
I probably don't know as much about it as you, so maybe I am missing something.
The issue I am trying to illustrate is that you cannot compare the Oblivion on the PC with Oblivion on the Xbox. Xbox loses hands down. Just because it costs less to process graphics doesn't mean you are getting a good deal. You cannot compare the two, they are so different.
You said "Fine, please let me know where I can get a rig for under $400 that will play Oblivion comparably to the Xbox 360. Custom or not, it doesn't exist." - That WAS your full post.
You left so many factors out of the equation you should be ashamed. For starters, you haven't factored in the price of the TV you are playing it on. So it isn't just $400 is it? If you don't have hi-def TV, you are already behind in graphics processing. With the mod "old-blivion" you could play the game at comparable settings on your dated PC because your TV has 1/3 the resolution of your monitor, unless its a good $2000 TV. And there where are we? Back where we started.
I am saying that this is comparing apples to oranges because in your little world the only difference is in the price. You are not recognizing that these two systems are producing different products with the same name. That was my point. You argument is basically stating that Xbox is cheaper, so it is better. I am saying that you are wrong.
You may have saved money on the system, but you got 1/2 the game everyone else got. Most 'gaming computers' come with a monitor. Xbox does not come with a TV. If you use crappy old hardware on a PC to run the game you get the same graphics as a shiny new Xbox on an old TV.
If you feel your post is about economics only, then I ask you:
What good is a $400 game system if you don't have a TV that is good enough to take advantage of it? And why isn't that included in your price?
I could show you plenty of $400 graphics cards that will play oblivion just dandy. That's the real comparison here, not 1 Xbox vs. a whole gaming rig.
Sadly, the joke is on you because you think the game is all about graphics. It has always been about the mods, which the Xbox has limited support for. You cannot run many of the good mods out for it already, and MS is getting ready to charge you "MS Bucks" to install them in the future.
You got hosed because all you are thinking about is the graphics. You fell for it.
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Fark and Digg.com are ----------> that way. I thought we got rid of all you guys years ago. Everything goes full circle I guess. Why am I arguing anyway, what kind of person calls someone a pussy and posts as AC? (Answer: an even bigger pussy.) Who hasn't been hassled by the police for cryin out loud? You talk as if this is the disease, but it's just a symptom.
The best is when they called you out for downloading porn that obviously was predominately female, and telling the sysop that you really liked girls as well as guys and before you know it you have superuser status. You could download all kinds of things with that. (I think this is how I played police quest 2.) I remember having to setup fake 'meetings' with some of these sysops, just to keep status for a few more days. Nothing elevated user privelages faster than the possibility of some "hot chick" who is into girls and wants to meet you. Then I'd hide out for a few months and repeat the process all over again.
My pops at the time didn't have unlimited local calling for the phone line and our first months phone bill was something like 700 dollars. Ah, those were the days.
Anyway, don't always assume that the "chatroom moderator" isn't just out to find some busty images back in those days. Often it was guys pretending to be girls.
"Ministry of _____" is 1984.
I can't imagine why you would be worried enough to post AC because you talked about the ex-USSR. You even got modded Informative and misquoted.
I'll grant that the GP is right about disbanding the DHLS. There is no question that this will end up being a pox on a "free society". You are also correct that the DHLS encompasses some of the powers of the ex-KGB. With with torture camps in foreign countries and Halliburton building internment/containment camps within the continental US, there is no doubt that it's going to get worse before it gets better. The fact that you are too paranoid to talk about it in a public forum already speaks volumes about how far we've come in such a short time if you otherwise would have posted.
I'm not offering up conspiracy theories, I'm just watching what is happening around me. You have to admit, it's very odd.
Posting normally for obvious reasons.
You mock the GPs attempt at hyberbole... with a feeble attempt at statistics. Just admit it, you have no clue how many people know about robots.txt, and it doesn't matter. What matters is if they tried to obey a robots.txt file if it existed on the server and if she had one on her site. You are in no way qualified to talk about the vast majority of people, so spare us your speculation passed off as fact.
All that matters is that your post added nothing to this conversation, and furthermore you are in no place to dicate who is or isn't qualified to TALK about something, you self righteous prick, you. The whole point of a forum if to exchange ideas and information and unless your name is CmdrTaco or CowboyNeal, you can stfu about who has a right to speak out here.
True. I was just trying to provide something as far as stats. Point conceded however.
According to this 1.41 million have sold. That would be a 590,000 surplus worldwide. That is providing they gave the US as many as they gave fans in Japan. Logic would dictate that Japan would get more, but calling them even would be a conservative estimate.
This makes far less sense than the /. collective data. Who gives a shit about sales figures if PS3s aren't selling?
Portland, Oregon -> No Wiis, many PS3s
Vancouver, Washington -> No Wiis, many PS3s.
And then there is this. Is is basically what you are asking for.
Be sure to cite it in further discussion on this topic.
Overall sales a bit more telling.
I wrote a nice scathing reply to your post, however my verification word was "gentler" so I offer this instead.
BOO!
I think the problem with idiots such as yourself is that you never seem to realize that both sides are screwing you equally. The GP makes a general statement about politics and you turn around like the retard you are and make it an us vs. them partisan debate.
The best part is that idiots such as yourself always seem to point at the other side as to why things don't get done, regardless of who controls the government at any given time.
And to make matters even worse you wasted a mod point on your real account modding up an AC comment. A real winner you are sir!
Stay out of politics, you don't have the head for it. Stick to things you have the brain for, like Jenga or American Idol.
I wonder when the people will demand cameras in all aspects of public office. It's our government right?
Broadcast on the web 24/7 the governors, senators, and representatives activities. Phone broadcast as well.
Would it push governments underground?
Personally I think the reason for all the anti-Americanism is the wild capitalism we export. Making money is the only thing and that causes concern as the old cultural values and communities are slowly being whitewashed with nothing but consumerism. Being only a few hundred years old with no common heritage (being the melting pot) it is hard for us to understand a culture of thousands of years.
There used to be a line between culture and profits but that slowly disappeared during the 80's. Now some would argue that unrestrained profiteering is our culture, and that is precisely the problem. It need not be the case.
While our government is claiming to bring democracy to the Middle East, it is very evident that what they are really bringing is shopping malls, KFC, and Gap stores. I'm guessing that importing consumerism under the false pretense of democracy is the big issue here, and one that the world seems to be able to see right through with the exception of the American people.
That being said, I don't know what happened 150 years ago to harbor the resentment, but it is easy for powerful orgainizations to sway public opinion, as we all know.
I teach video game art and design at a local college and I can attest to the opposite of this. For every person I talk to about Sony's attitude and the rootkit fiasco, they simply don't care. Every single one of them has said they will be getting a PS3 regardless of all this other bullshit. They grew up with PS just as the generation before them grew up with Atari and Nintendo and Sega.
/. where anyone can go from star to stink with majority support, but real life isn't like slashdot, it is far far more stupid and careless.
They don't care how much it costs, they don't care about rootkits, and they certainly don't care if the CEO makes them into sheep. They want Final Fantasy, they want the PS3.
You are wrong to think that people won't buy this because of Sony's past behavior, they indeed will buy it. It's easy to decry it here on
My 2 cents.
Vox
Not to nit pick, but Oregon State is the beavers, and feel free to throw as much of that my way as you choose.
University of Oregon is the ducks.
No, the reason for the absurd space requirements are people buying games for the whiz bang factor of the "realistic graphics". Gamers of today care far more a bout looks than substance, even though you aren't one of those people.
You can refuse incoming calls that are number-blocked. I believe it is *82. This will disable blocked numbers from calling you on a land line. Perhaps it varies from city to city or company to company, but I haven't had a "courtesy" call since I did this.
Sometimes they do. I interned for $500 a month, twice. Once at Penn State and another time at the Academy of Art College in S.F.
Correction there, most game artwork is done at mid level detail and then rez'ed up or down to suit needs. Also, it costs exactly the same to export a texture at 1024x1024 as 256x256. You always work on the texture large and export it out small to hide any flaws it may have. Same applies to visual effects.
No one uses the high poly model for the game, it's for cinematics and for normal map creation. Having worked with Maya and 3D studio max for 5 years now, I can assure you there is no magic tool that lowers your poly count without totally wrecking your model. You have to do it by hand, no matter what.
Also, no game model has 1m or 5m polygons. 10k is approaching the limit of lag fest for a model. Keep in mind you often have 20 models on the screen at the same time.
As for your third point, well, who wants to get the hardcore gaming system "lite" version? No one. They are marketing it as 'hard core' and who wants to be $100 less hard core than the Joneses? No one who would spend $500 on a game system that is for sure.
With gas going up 30% this year and the value of the dollar dropping 35% since the beginning of this year, I seriously doubt most people think $600 is cheap. Especially considering that it will come with 1 controller and likely be crippled in some other way as well. (For example: $30 bucks for the cable to connect to your super expensive tv to get better than NTSC resolution from it.)
I could get the best gfx card around and a gig of ram for my computer for that kind of money. If the "Next-gen" console has lesser hardware than my damn computer, isn't upgradable, locks my DVD purchases and rentals into a 50/50 crap shoot, what is my incentive to buy that thing again?
Or... if I had to have a new game console, I could buy a Nintendo for 200 bucks that plays every game for every system they ever made and even better, girls seem to love it if E3 was any indicator. With the $400 bucks I saved I could buy 6 or so games for it and the 2nd controller to match.
Hmm... let me think. An overhyped and overpriced system that locks me into a certain format for all future movies purchases from a company that surreptitiously installs rootkits on my computer without my permission or knowledge and demos burned crappy DVD-R's as the genuine McCoy... or... a game console built from the ground up to redefine gaming and put the fun back into it, get people off the couch and moving, 100% backwards compatible with all past games they have made, from a company that has been making fun games (not just video games) since 1889?
Decisions decisions.
I own a private company. I have employees sign agreements that state what is acceptable behavior at the office. They have NO RIGHTS beyond what is on that paper. I can bug their cell phones and search their personal belongings for any reason or no reason. The paper said nothing about my right to capture them into my secret underground private company lair to tie them up and torture them while they press plastic bags for 2.5 cents per 1000.
I can violate all their Constitutional rights because thay are not enumerated on that paper they signed. All they can do about it is work somewhere else.
Logically, wouldn't that mean that the low hum sound would play at all times, or at least at all times when there was sound instead of just when watching a SACD? I installed a few car stereos and home theater systems and when there is feedback, there is always feedback. At least in my cases.
If it happened always for the OP, regardless of what's in the drive, then he probably wouldn't have mentioned it. If it only happened only when playing SACD, to me it would't matter what was causing it, only that the stupid thing doesn't work.
I probably don't know as much about it as you, so maybe I am missing something.
You act as if the Dems and Reps aren't on the same side.
The issue I am trying to illustrate is that you cannot compare the Oblivion on the PC with Oblivion on the Xbox. Xbox loses hands down. Just because it costs less to process graphics doesn't mean you are getting a good deal. You cannot compare the two, they are so different.
You said "Fine, please let me know where I can get a rig for under $400 that will play Oblivion comparably to the Xbox 360. Custom or not, it doesn't exist." - That WAS your full post.
You left so many factors out of the equation you should be ashamed. For starters, you haven't factored in the price of the TV you are playing it on. So it isn't just $400 is it? If you don't have hi-def TV, you are already behind in graphics processing. With the mod "old-blivion" you could play the game at comparable settings on your dated PC because your TV has 1/3 the resolution of your monitor, unless its a good $2000 TV. And there where are we? Back where we started.
I am saying that this is comparing apples to oranges because in your little world the only difference is in the price. You are not recognizing that these two systems are producing different products with the same name. That was my point. You argument is basically stating that Xbox is cheaper, so it is better. I am saying that you are wrong.
You may have saved money on the system, but you got 1/2 the game everyone else got. Most 'gaming computers' come with a monitor. Xbox does not come with a TV. If you use crappy old hardware on a PC to run the game you get the same graphics as a shiny new Xbox on an old TV.
If you feel your post is about economics only, then I ask you:
What good is a $400 game system if you don't have a TV that is good enough to take advantage of it? And why isn't that included in your price?
I could show you plenty of $400 graphics cards that will play oblivion just dandy. That's the real comparison here, not 1 Xbox vs. a whole gaming rig.
Sadly, the joke is on you because you think the game is all about graphics. It has always been about the mods, which the Xbox has limited support for. You cannot run many of the good mods out for it already, and MS is getting ready to charge you "MS Bucks" to install them in the future.
You got hosed because all you are thinking about is the graphics. You fell for it.
You'd only waste them anyway.