Nope. It's because of how the twitter trending algorithm works. They don't allow the same topics to continually trend, otherwise Justin Bieber would be almost all the top trends all the time. This was explained to me by my pro-wikileaks friend even before the wikileaks fiasco occurred and who also happens to work for twitter. He also re-explained this to me during the whole wikileaks mess. This is also the explanation twitter gave.
Everyone, can we please move on from this conspiracy theory?
That would be Iron Man 1. I own it on bluray, and I have a 55 inch samsung 8500 series LED/LCD TV. I can't see anything like that. Furthermore, film is a bit sharper than 1080p even, so wouldn't everyone who saw it in the theaters complain about the same problem?
I know there are live CD's out there, but can someone tell me where I can find a Live CD with the proprietary nvidia drivers (haven't had too much luck with google)? I know there are legal issues, but folks have made linux live CD's in the past that shipped with the closed drivers in the past. Nouveau (sic?) probably won't work for me since I have a GTX 580.
I'm a huge KDE fan (since kde 2). Once it got past the development releases (4.3?), I liked KDE4, I love KDE4.6. With all the constant whining even about recent KDE4 releases which I personally think are great, then I figure gnome 3.0 is at least worth a shot with all the hate it's getting.:)
FUCK! Now I don't have the fastest chip anymore.:(
While I'm certainly not going to drop another grand ($999.99 on newegg) on a new CPU that's slightly faster, I'll have to read the article more closely and see if they fixed the cache latency issue. The 980x has 12 megs of cache (50% more than the the quadcore i7's) but the cache was somewhat slower. This caused the the 980x to be a little slower than the 45nm i7 quad core extreme edition (975x I think) in some situations.
It's not so much consoles that are killing arcade's in the states. They're more a symptom than a cause. It has a lot more to do with local city governments and their belief that arcade's are the bane of society. City governments decided long ago that arcades are responsible for truancy, drugs, gang activity, and probably a lot of other things (nevermind that these things still occur now that arcades are nearly dead). As a result, you have a bunch of ridiculous hoops to jump through just to get an arcade open. City governments can't outright ban arcades, so instead they make it as difficult as possible to open arcades and make it just as difficult to keep them open.
So of course game companies aren't going to make games for arcades... when there's hardly any around. When new arcade games are released, there are still issues. I'll use Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition as an example:
1) Game is released on crappy PC hardware (tx2) for _$10,000_.
2) A few months later, the game's price drops to "only" $6,000 (that's still a lot of games before you recoup your money).
3) In a few months, there will be a console port released, and it will be perfect because although the PS3 and 360 have been out for years, their hardware is far superior to what's used in the arcade. So why go to the arcade to play? A long time ago, arcade hardware was generally much better than what you found in consoles, so even if you had the home port, you still had motivation to play at the aracde.
4) Super Street Fighter 4 AE is only being released to arcades in Japan, so you have to import it. This is not a huge deal, but it's yet another hoop to jump through.
How do I know all of this? I'm a co-owner of an arcade.
What about World Heroes: Perfect? Admittedly I've never tried it, but I've heard it's the best of the series, and I own World Heroes 2 and World Heroes 2 jet AES catridges for my Neo Geo.
And yet a Q9650 still costs the same as it did 2 years ago. Fuck you, Intel.
Because intel wants you to upgrade to their latest and greatest... and if you're not in a position to buy a new system, then it's established that you're not in any position to get a cheaper processor to upgrade to. If you can't afford to build a new system, you can't afford to build a new system just for a cheaper AMD processor or a newer budget intel processor.
That said, while I was irritated with the price I paid for my Q9650 ~9 months ago, but I would say the upgrade from the Q6600 was worth it. Certainly not a massive upgrade, but bigger than I expected (my expectations were low). Uses a tad less power too.
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It should also be noted that the QT 4/Nvidia problems have largely been remedies. Qt 4 used Xrender heavily, and Nvidia's driver had a piss-poor Xrender implementation. The forthcoming Qt 4.5 is supposed to move away from using Xrender all over the place, and the latest Nvidia driver has much better Xrender support to boot. openSUSE even provides a repo with weekly snapshots of the KDE 4.2 branch compiled against the weekly snapshots of Qt 4.5. In theory it is unstable, but I've had good luck with it so far.
I'll second this. I recently switched from an nvidia card (using nvidia's drivers) to a radeon (using the fglrx drivers). Certain things that were unusably slow with nvidia (such as scrolling folder views on the desktop) became snappy using the radeon!
The past few GTA releases on the PC were also nearly flawless
Speak for yourself. Towards the end of Vice City, my saves tend to get corrupted. If that doesn't happen, the final part of the game refusers to trigger, so I've never been able to finish the game!
This doesn't sound any different from how the United States operate.
The US taps phone calls in an attempt to uncover evidence of violent crimes, to prevent them from happening, and to prosecute and jail those responsible.
Wait... are you talking about the calls tapped with a warrant or without? Because one is about uncovering evidence of crimes and jailing those responsible, and the other is about spying on US citizens.
I have a doctor who couldn't pass organic chemistry. We call them "nurse practitioners".
I asked my girlfriend (who happens to be an RN) about this. While most RN's only get their associates degree in nursing, she went ahead and got her bachelors. According to her, the associates degree for nursing doesn't require o-chem, but the bachelors degree does. A nurse practitioner is required to have a masters degree.
It's possible, but I doubt the o-chem requirement varies from school to school.
...and they happen so often that most users can't even tell if it's because of their own actions, or those of a malicious attack.
Makes me wonder if there's been a virus that pops up Vista 'security' messages, like "Vista wants to increase the size of your p3n1s, Cancel or Allow?"
It's funny, isn't it... all the GPL/GNU zealots talk shit about Freedom, but it's the BSD folks that quietly have the principles.
What? You're saying this because there are no proprietary radeon drivers for BSD?
What about the closed source nvidia drivers? There aren't any proprietary radeon drivers for BSD, because AMD/ATI feel BSD doesn't have enough users to be important, not because of the principles of the BSD folks.
And what happens when the FreeBSD developers decide they want to include GPL _and_ CDDL code?
I think this is part of why the developers of the various BSD's have tried to remain license pure.
My father grew up religious as a child and because of that _hates_ organized religion as an adult. Due to problems (he was regularly getting infections under his foreskin that were very painful), he had to be circumcised at the age of 11, a very unpleasant experience to say the least. Because he did not want me to go through that same ordeal, he made sure I was circumcised when I was born. He was very clean (at least after the first infection), yet it still kept happening.
My girlfriend (who's been registered nurse for 5 years) has witnessed a lot of circumcisions on people even older than I am now (29) because of the same infections my father used to get. For some people they get infections under their foreskin no matter how clean they keep it.
Sure, it was done to me before I had a chance to make up my own mind, but I certainly don't think it was "barbaric" by any stretch.
The force was so much more in ep 4,5,6. Why did they have to screw it up with Midichlorians? It's more like an invisible link between all living and intert objects just like the summary says. How do you think Yoda lifted that rock?
In some states, public indecency will get you on the sex offender list (I think West Virginia is one)*. So, for merely getting caught peeing behind a tree at a bar after drinking a lot, you can get labeled a sex offender for life. The only victim of that crime is the person convicted...
Gears of War uses the UT3 engine, or at least is based on an earlier revision.
Will GoW not have cross platform when it's released to PC? I've always suspected it wouldn't. I have GoW for 360, and I have a lot of friends with PC's that refuse to pay for an expensive console that I'd like to play with.
I was planning on getting UT3 for PC anyway since it's supposed to support Linux and I have a box that's up to the task, and playing an FPS with a control pad is painful to me. (GoW seems to have been designed with a pad in mind, so while aiming isn't as precise, I think overall I prefer it with a pad).
Okay, flat out denying sales to kids, because of bad grades is a bad idea.
Offering a discount to kids with good grades is a good idea.
So far a lot of slashdotters have stated the first, and many have stated the 2nd as a good idea (I think it's probably a good idea myself).
But what I haven't really seen is that denying sales to kids with bad grades might be a bad idea, because bad grades are not necessarily an indicator of playing too many video games or being lazy. My grades in high school were often bad (and at times very bad though sometimes I got pretty good grades), because I hated being there so much. I hated all the busy work. I wasn't learning anything interesting (I wasn't learning much at all), I was just being told what to do. It wasn't until college that I finally realized why I did so bad in high school. I did pretty well at the junior college, and I'm currently doing well pretty well at the university. Both of which are far more difficult academically-wise (my high school before it was shut down was one of the worst performing schools in San Francisco).
So yeh, giving a discount to kids with good grades while neither rewarding nor punishing the kids who didn't get good grades would have been a much smarter route to go.
Interesting... I'm going to start ordering the parts to build my next system on about the 10th (which I believe is when AMD's new quad core is out so I can see if it's worth buying). My problem with going AMD/ATI for the GPU on this system is that no good drivers are out at this time, and I am going to be cautious and wait to make sure they're really going to release enough information.
I don't really feel like buying an AMD/ATI GPU based graphics card and then waiting and waiting and waiting until some decent drivers come out.
But this is awesome news, and it looks look I know what my next desktop and laptop will have...
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Nope. It's because of how the twitter trending algorithm works. They don't allow the same topics to continually trend, otherwise Justin Bieber would be almost all the top trends all the time. This was explained to me by my pro-wikileaks friend even before the wikileaks fiasco occurred and who also happens to work for twitter. He also re-explained this to me during the whole wikileaks mess. This is also the explanation twitter gave.
Everyone, can we please move on from this conspiracy theory?
That would be Iron Man 1. I own it on bluray, and I have a 55 inch samsung 8500 series LED/LCD TV. I can't see anything like that. Furthermore, film is a bit sharper than 1080p even, so wouldn't everyone who saw it in the theaters complain about the same problem?
I know there are live CD's out there, but can someone tell me where I can find a Live CD with the proprietary nvidia drivers (haven't had too much luck with google)? I know there are legal issues, but folks have made linux live CD's in the past that shipped with the closed drivers in the past. Nouveau (sic?) probably won't work for me since I have a GTX 580.
:)
I'm a huge KDE fan (since kde 2). Once it got past the development releases (4.3?), I liked KDE4, I love KDE4.6. With all the constant whining even about recent KDE4 releases which I personally think are great, then I figure gnome 3.0 is at least worth a shot with all the hate it's getting.
FUCK! Now I don't have the fastest chip anymore. :(
While I'm certainly not going to drop another grand ($999.99 on newegg) on a new CPU that's slightly faster, I'll have to read the article more closely and see if they fixed the cache latency issue. The 980x has 12 megs of cache (50% more than the the quadcore i7's) but the cache was somewhat slower. This caused the the 980x to be a little slower than the 45nm i7 quad core extreme edition (975x I think) in some situations.
It's not so much consoles that are killing arcade's in the states. They're more a symptom than a cause. It has a lot more to do with local city governments and their belief that arcade's are the bane of society. City governments decided long ago that arcades are responsible for truancy, drugs, gang activity, and probably a lot of other things (nevermind that these things still occur now that arcades are nearly dead). As a result, you have a bunch of ridiculous hoops to jump through just to get an arcade open. City governments can't outright ban arcades, so instead they make it as difficult as possible to open arcades and make it just as difficult to keep them open.
So of course game companies aren't going to make games for arcades... when there's hardly any around. When new arcade games are released, there are still issues. I'll use Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition as an example:
1) Game is released on crappy PC hardware (tx2) for _$10,000_.
2) A few months later, the game's price drops to "only" $6,000 (that's still a lot of games before you recoup your money).
3) In a few months, there will be a console port released, and it will be perfect because although the PS3 and 360 have been out for years, their hardware is far superior to what's used in the arcade. So why go to the arcade to play? A long time ago, arcade hardware was generally much better than what you found in consoles, so even if you had the home port, you still had motivation to play at the aracde.
4) Super Street Fighter 4 AE is only being released to arcades in Japan, so you have to import it. This is not a huge deal, but it's yet another hoop to jump through.
How do I know all of this? I'm a co-owner of an arcade.
Still funny to this day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y1da7FqyTw
This looks like a good book, but it covers OpenGL 3.3. Can someone provide a high-level overview of the differences between OpenGL 3.3 and 4.1?
So like... what? Has 4chan become the Internet Love Machine now?
What about World Heroes: Perfect? Admittedly I've never tried it, but I've heard it's the best of the series, and I own World Heroes 2 and World Heroes 2 jet AES catridges for my Neo Geo.
And yet a Q9650 still costs the same as it did 2 years ago. Fuck you, Intel.
Because intel wants you to upgrade to their latest and greatest... and if you're not in a position to buy a new system, then it's established that you're not in any position to get a cheaper processor to upgrade to. If you can't afford to build a new system, you can't afford to build a new system just for a cheaper AMD processor or a newer budget intel processor.
That said, while I was irritated with the price I paid for my Q9650 ~9 months ago, but I would say the upgrade from the Q6600 was worth it. Certainly not a massive upgrade, but bigger than I expected (my expectations were low). Uses a tad less power too.
It should also be noted that the QT 4/Nvidia problems have largely been remedies. Qt 4 used Xrender heavily, and Nvidia's driver had a piss-poor Xrender implementation. The forthcoming Qt 4.5 is supposed to move away from using Xrender all over the place, and the latest Nvidia driver has much better Xrender support to boot. openSUSE even provides a repo with weekly snapshots of the KDE 4.2 branch compiled against the weekly snapshots of Qt 4.5. In theory it is unstable, but I've had good luck with it so far.
I'll second this. I recently switched from an nvidia card (using nvidia's drivers) to a radeon (using the fglrx drivers). Certain things that were unusably slow with nvidia (such as scrolling folder views on the desktop) became snappy using the radeon!
The past few GTA releases on the PC were also nearly flawless
Speak for yourself. Towards the end of Vice City, my saves tend to get corrupted. If that doesn't happen, the final part of the game refusers to trigger, so I've never been able to finish the game!
Just once I'm going to turn it off during one of these messages just to see what happens. If I don't make it out alive, tell my wife I love her.
I'm going to try it too. If I don't make it out alive, tell my wife I said hello.
In fact, it did cost more. About .8 billion more.
The US taps phone calls in an attempt to uncover evidence of violent crimes, to prevent them from happening, and to prosecute and jail those responsible.
Wait... are you talking about the calls tapped with a warrant or without? Because one is about uncovering evidence of crimes and jailing those responsible, and the other is about spying on US citizens.
I have a doctor who couldn't pass organic chemistry. We call them "nurse practitioners".
I asked my girlfriend (who happens to be an RN) about this. While most RN's only get their associates degree in nursing, she went ahead and got her bachelors. According to her, the associates degree for nursing doesn't require o-chem, but the bachelors degree does. A nurse practitioner is required to have a masters degree.
It's possible, but I doubt the o-chem requirement varies from school to school.
Makes me wonder if there's been a virus that pops up Vista 'security' messages, like "Vista wants to increase the size of your p3n1s, Cancel or Allow?"
Allow, allow!
It's funny, isn't it... all the GPL/GNU zealots talk shit about Freedom, but it's the BSD folks that quietly have the principles.
What? You're saying this because there are no proprietary radeon drivers for BSD? What about the closed source nvidia drivers? There aren't any proprietary radeon drivers for BSD, because AMD/ATI feel BSD doesn't have enough users to be important, not because of the principles of the BSD folks.
And what happens when the FreeBSD developers decide they want to include GPL _and_ CDDL code? I think this is part of why the developers of the various BSD's have tried to remain license pure.
My father grew up religious as a child and because of that _hates_ organized religion as an adult. Due to problems (he was regularly getting infections under his foreskin that were very painful), he had to be circumcised at the age of 11, a very unpleasant experience to say the least. Because he did not want me to go through that same ordeal, he made sure I was circumcised when I was born. He was very clean (at least after the first infection), yet it still kept happening.
My girlfriend (who's been registered nurse for 5 years) has witnessed a lot of circumcisions on people even older than I am now (29) because of the same infections my father used to get. For some people they get infections under their foreskin no matter how clean they keep it.
Sure, it was done to me before I had a chance to make up my own mind, but I certainly don't think it was "barbaric" by any stretch.
The force was so much more in ep 4,5,6. Why did they have to screw it up with Midichlorians? It's more like an invisible link between all living and intert objects just like the summary says. How do you think Yoda lifted that rock?
With midichlorians, duh.
In some states, public indecency will get you on the sex offender list (I think West Virginia is one)*. So, for merely getting caught peeing behind a tree at a bar after drinking a lot, you can get labeled a sex offender for life. The only victim of that crime is the person convicted...
:(
What about the tree?
Gears of War uses the UT3 engine, or at least is based on an earlier revision.
Will GoW not have cross platform when it's released to PC? I've always suspected it wouldn't.
I have GoW for 360, and I have a lot of friends with PC's that refuse to pay for an expensive
console that I'd like to play with.
I was planning on getting UT3 for PC anyway since it's supposed to support Linux and I have a
box that's up to the task, and playing an FPS with a control pad is painful to me. (GoW seems
to have been designed with a pad in mind, so while aiming isn't as precise, I think overall
I prefer it with a pad).
Okay, flat out denying sales to kids, because of bad grades is a bad idea.
Offering a discount to kids with good grades is a good idea.
So far a lot of slashdotters have stated the first, and many have stated the 2nd as a good idea (I think it's probably a good idea myself).
But what I haven't really seen is that denying sales to kids with bad grades might be a bad idea,
because bad grades are not necessarily an indicator of playing too many video games or being lazy.
My grades in high school were often bad (and at times very bad though sometimes I got pretty good grades),
because I hated being there so much. I hated all the busy work. I wasn't learning anything interesting
(I wasn't learning much at all), I was just being told what to do. It wasn't until college that I finally
realized why I did so bad in high school. I did pretty well at the junior college, and I'm currently doing
well pretty well at the university. Both of which are far more difficult academically-wise (my high school
before it was shut down was one of the worst performing schools in San Francisco).
So yeh, giving a discount to kids with good grades while neither rewarding nor punishing the kids who
didn't get good grades would have been a much smarter route to go.
Interesting... I'm going to start ordering the parts to build my next system on about the 10th (which I believe is when AMD's new quad core is out so I can see if it's worth buying). My problem with going AMD/ATI for the GPU on this system is that no good drivers are out at this time, and I am going to be cautious and wait to make sure they're really going to release enough information.
I don't really feel like buying an AMD/ATI GPU based graphics card and then waiting and waiting and waiting until some decent drivers come out.
But this is awesome news, and it looks look I know what my next desktop and laptop will have...