I know in one recent study rats/mouses got tumors in the mouth cavity (is that the right word? hole?) and blood, but that one wasn't considered reliable by the FDA and EU I belive.
I want a better source than that, there is two studies from 2004 and later which have made me worried, but before that Aspartame where considered safe. I think I've read that work-within-FDA-part before somewhere but I would like to have a reliable source on that it was canceled "because it was poison" a few times before and so on. On a page like that much can be peoples own conclusions.
Aspartame breaks down to two amino acids and metanol, the later is in very small amounts (10% and aspartame is 200 times sweeter than sacharose) so some fruit juices contain even more, but always together with etanol which makes the liver break it down slower (because it works with etanol aswell) and therefor some metanol leaves your body thru sweat and so on. Anyway the problem is that the metanol breaks down to what in Swedish is called "myrsyra" (ant acid), I have no idea what the name is in english, and that is the part which can ruin your sight due to "metanol poisoning", later that breaks down to formaldehyd which is something you definitly don't want in your body. But still it's small amount.
I think in two late studies rats/mouses have actually got cancer, but in a very large one there tens of thousands americans where compared one didn't found any connection between aspartame consumption and cancer.
Also I belive I've heard aspartame makes you dumber, something I don't want to happen, but I haven't read the study and I don't know where to find it.
But sure, it probably doesn't do you anything good atleast, but acesulfam-k sucks aswell, saccarine and cyclamate even more, and I would be surprised if we never finds out that sucralose was bad for you aswell. But sugar sucks aswell. Better stay of the sweets in that case, but they taste good;)
The registration is what makes demonoid much better than the pirate bay, because than all those cheap adsl leechers can't just download and limited their upload speed / leave asap because they have to care about their ratio. And therefor torrents are more well seeded and have much higher download speeds.
I hate TPB, it's useless, I can't understand why anyone would call it the largest bittorrent tracker in the world, what do they count? Amount of torrents created? Doesn't it matter anything if you can actually DOWNLOAD them?
Except the first one is a good thing, the later one isn't.
Of course gay people shall be allowed to get married if they want to, why not? The spaghetti monster will get upset of some male to male or female to female love?
Ok, you are right that the scheduler might not be the most important part. Heck, I can't even understand why Linux can't ship with many different ones and let you choose when you build the kernel or with some system utilitity. Solaris offers a range of different schedulers.
Anyway, what Linux needs is GAMES, not functionality. The best way to help with the situation would probably be to write and release some quite simple games, maybe downloadable for free but with monthly fees to make more people pick them up and then get stuck;)
If you're someone who will run Linux to play games you are probably smart enough to choose Nvidia anyway, but what does good 3D drivers help when there are no games to play?
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Yeah, I know they are for "being able to play the game", but there isn't much joy in running everything at the lowest settings and still notice lots of slow downs even thought it "works".
I don't play custom games, I play 2on2 or 3on3 RT, for 1on1 I could probably raise the settings from mid 1024x768 but in 2on2 or 3on3 the fights obviously involves more units and light effects and stuff and it slows down to the point there it's not that easy to micro your units (partly because it's hard to see the mouse pointer among all the flashing lights to begin with;D)
Exactly, it might be playable on say 1.5GHz, GF2 TI4200 with 512MB ram or so in 800x600 low settings, but me I would prefer atleast say 20 fps and 1280x1024 mid or high settings, and the we are probably talking a quite new machine, a year old or so back from the release date I guess.
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Warcraft III system requirements: 400 MHz PII, 128MB ram, 8MB 3D video card (TNT, Voodoo 3, rage 128,..) 400 MHz G3, 128MB ram, 16MB nvidia/ATI graphics card
Recommended: 600Mhz, 256MB ram, 32MB video card.
On my Athlon-XP 2100+ with 512MB ram and GeForce 2 Ultra 64MB that game lagged quite a lot running tower defence (lots of units) with quite low details if I remember correctly.
At my current Athlon64 3000+ with 1.5GB 333 MHz DDR and a nv6800le 128MB in OS X it gets to slow (I don't know, 10 fps?) during some fights in 1024x768 everything mid settings.
So well, sure the games run on low end machines, but to enjoy them in a decent resolution and with decent details on you need a real machine just as with any other game, there are no magic in Blizzard games. (Mind you the game would work decent in Windows thought, atleast in that resolution.)
Starcraft II looks way better and will support more units and people expect higher resolutions and even more details, so the system requirements will probably be huge.
Yeah, I remember reading that eventually the Via chipsets couldn't do that many interupts or something and that it might had been because of that or whatever =P, anyway might be a combo of shitty chipset and therefor also bad drivers from Sun. I bought the case, psu, motherboard, cpu, 256MB ram and 52x cd-rom for 500 sek so I can't complain so much on the hardware even thought I know the motherboard (and CPU) is shit and I wouldn't have bought these things if I would buy anything new.
I wanted to use and learn Solaris, I really did, but I don't have a work and even less at a huge company with lots of Sun machines (please mail me if you want to get me one;D) and I only had a 64-bit machine which I could play around more with ZFS in and so on so I installed it as desktop.
But that failed completely for me and I found myself booting Windows XP all the time which I only had installed to be able to play Warcraft III, why is that? Where did Solaris fail on me?
1) Desktop performance. This might be 50% because of the fact that I have a VIA-based motherboard (MSI MS-6702 with Via K8T800 chipset to be precise) but probably also 50% because of Sun since the motherboard works decent with other OSes. Anyway, when I ran torrent which put just a little network or disk load on the system, or connected my digital camera thru USB, the system become dog slow and was a major pain to use. I have no idea if this is because of some OS design, bug in the drivers for my system or hardware issues, but it made me so fucking angry about everything that it was unusable to me.
2) Package management. Sure there are sun freeware, blastwave, netbsds pkgsrc and so on, Sun even ships a companion CD, but all the options suck! Blastwaves package manager are decent but all the packages you want aren't there, so then you might have to get some from sun freeware which isn't as convenient, and you end up with multiple versions of stuff you already had. Also Blastwave didn't hosted the patches/source code which where used so you didn't got any help or advice from old ports on how to get a new one running. Solaris needs a unified package manager which works and where all the developers/porters can focus their effort and the user find whatever they need.
3) Open Sound System support. Sun uses "sunaudio", sure it might be decent on a Sun machine, not so decent on my Creative Audigy. There is sunaudio drivers for it downloadable from the web but they didn't offered all the functionallity of the card and I never got Ekiga to work good with it (that is I got it to compile but it where unusable as a telephone.) The packages need to be built with OSS support so that they will work if you choose to install it. It's free now aswell isn't it? Maybe even open source? What are the excuse?
4) Ekiga didn't worked. I read that this would be fixed, was fixed, and whatever, but it never WORKED. And I only use SIP for my home telephony, I don't wanna live without telephone, another show stopper.
5) No up to date KDE port. IMHO KDE is the best desktop environment there is out there, I don't want to run Gnome. Some german made a KDE port which where linked from Sun freeware but it seems like he stopped and since then there haven't been a KDE 3.5 port. I hate to be forced to use Gnome, why does so many commercial dists/oses seem to like it so much? KDE is far superior. Sun needs to make sure that KDE runs.
6) Various versions of tools. This have already been mentioned among others, so you want to compile something and it expect another version of the shell, install, compiler or whatever, sure you can change your PATH settings to something else but what about the other things which want Suns versions or whatever? Another major pain in the ass.
7) Somehow blindfolded community. When you point some of these things out, such as the package management issues, the old school users will want to just forget about it and tell you that hey! You can compile and install the software yourself! I don't want to, it takes time, I'm sorta lame so I can't figure out all the troubles, it takes time again, why do the same work over and over again and finally it takes a lot of time!
What I did like about Solaris: Stable kernel. Stable environment (code and binary compatiblitity). ZFS for server environments, not as much needed for desktop but still nice. Zones! Those are awesome and so easy to use. The very friendly people in #opensolaris at freenode. Free
Yeah, I had a similair thought, why can't they just ship it with all of them and let the user choose whatever they want when compiling the kernel or thru some tool? Solaris let you switch between various schedulers, why can't Linux (if it can't that is, I have no idea if Linux ships with various schedulers or not?)
But there do exist HFS+, ext2, and whatever drivers for Windows? So how is your comment correct? It's not impossible, althought it wouldn't come bundled with the OS.
Regarding smear I would assume that they compare it to VGA and not DVI. I have no idea if that resolution at whatever framerate would lead to smear using VGA but I guess it's possible.
I use it and you are sort of right, there are issues with it and I hate the lame developers who can't even use the same filenames everywhere and therefor messes it up, but the issues are small and solvable so I haven't bothered turning it of.
I have issues with Photoshop CS 2 but that is quite old so I can understand that, but I also had it with CS 3 beta (don't know about final), which is very lame.
I also have it with Warcraft III and thought I would have wanted Blizzard to fix it the game is old and atleast they have made a universal binary of it. I don't expect them to fix it but it would be nice.
I've solved it by just creating two of those filesystem images using scalable sizes (or well, one max size but they don't use more storage than you put into them) and HFS+ as "internal" filesystem. Just install to the image file and voila.
I would have wanted to give you all my 5 mod points insightful if it wasn't that I had already answered in the thread.
Your post is spot on, I play WC3 quite often but I'd say that most people seems to play DOTA, Angel Arena (is that the name of it?) and similair, atleast very many. And yes, CS are played waay more than regular Half Life.
Thought I'm not sure that's related to this game since it might not work the same for this title and be as good, but you can do maps aswell and not only be creative with your character design? The later part is cool and I would like to have one as avatar but it doesn't gurantee a good game.
Another game where user created content helped a lot is Elastomanias Across. Lemmings with user created maps would be sweet to.
I'm for sure isn't and wheren't going "apeshit" over Super Paper Mario when released because for understandable reasons they changed target platform from Gamecube to Wii, but I don't own a Wii and won't own one for a while and there are no reason why this game would need a Wii except that they saw more sales there and Wii owners are more likely to buy Wii games than Gamecube games. Still sad thought. It was the best "no, this isn't for Wii, it's for Gamecube, you know the cube is good aswell"-argument I had =P
Oh how much the "Mario like characters" part made me feel bad, the game looks awesome (in graphics) / cute but it's all because of the characters, it would be totally ruined by having mario, luigi and so on in it.
Not all Nintendo games need them.. I'm not that much impressed by the non-mario-games-containing-mario.
I'm very sure i read somethere that THD was the same for the new quad cores as the old dual cores, and that they would use the same cooling solutions and sockets because of that. And the dual core ones doesn't run so hot do they? Aren't they on par or eventually even better than the Intel (non laptop) ones?
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I know in one recent study rats/mouses got tumors in the mouth cavity (is that the right word? hole?) and blood, but that one wasn't considered reliable by the FDA and EU I belive.
I want a better source than that, there is two studies from 2004 and later which have made me worried, but before that Aspartame where considered safe. I think I've read that work-within-FDA-part before somewhere but I would like to have a reliable source on that it was canceled "because it was poison" a few times before and so on. On a page like that much can be peoples own conclusions.
;)
..)
Aspartame breaks down to two amino acids and metanol, the later is in very small amounts (10% and aspartame is 200 times sweeter than sacharose) so some fruit juices contain even more, but always together with etanol which makes the liver break it down slower (because it works with etanol aswell) and therefor some metanol leaves your body thru sweat and so on. Anyway the problem is that the metanol breaks down to what in Swedish is called "myrsyra" (ant acid), I have no idea what the name is in english, and that is the part which can ruin your sight due to "metanol poisoning", later that breaks down to formaldehyd which is something you definitly don't want in your body. But still it's small amount.
I think in two late studies rats/mouses have actually got cancer, but in a very large one there tens of thousands americans where compared one didn't found any connection between aspartame consumption and cancer.
Also I belive I've heard aspartame makes you dumber, something I don't want to happen, but I haven't read the study and I don't know where to find it.
But sure, it probably doesn't do you anything good atleast, but acesulfam-k sucks aswell, saccarine and cyclamate even more, and I would be surprised if we never finds out that sucralose was bad for you aswell. But sugar sucks aswell. Better stay of the sweets in that case, but they taste good
(And people smoke and drink
The registration is what makes demonoid much better than the pirate bay, because than all those cheap adsl leechers can't just download and limited their upload speed / leave asap because they have to care about their ratio. And therefor torrents are more well seeded and have much higher download speeds.
I hate TPB, it's useless, I can't understand why anyone would call it the largest bittorrent tracker in the world, what do they count? Amount of torrents created? Doesn't it matter anything if you can actually DOWNLOAD them?
Except the first one is a good thing, the later one isn't.
Of course gay people shall be allowed to get married if they want to, why not? The spaghetti monster will get upset of some male to male or female to female love?
Do you got a link/source/referense who tells the story about rejection and why? For NutraSweet that is.
"Hey I wrote a program which doesn't accept patented features and now I can't use them!! boho!"
Straight on target there Sir.
Solution: Release your application which needs support for it under another license.
Ok, you are right that the scheduler might not be the most important part. Heck, I can't even understand why Linux can't ship with many different ones and let you choose when you build the kernel or with some system utilitity. Solaris offers a range of different schedulers.
;)
Anyway, what Linux needs is GAMES, not functionality. The best way to help with the situation would probably be to write and release some quite simple games, maybe downloadable for free but with monthly fees to make more people pick them up and then get stuck
If you're someone who will run Linux to play games you are probably smart enough to choose Nvidia anyway, but what does good 3D drivers help when there are no games to play?
Yeah, I know they are for "being able to play the game", but there isn't much joy in running everything at the lowest settings and still notice lots of slow downs even thought it "works".
;D)
I don't play custom games, I play 2on2 or 3on3 RT, for 1on1 I could probably raise the settings from mid 1024x768 but in 2on2 or 3on3 the fights obviously involves more units and light effects and stuff and it slows down to the point there it's not that easy to micro your units (partly because it's hard to see the mouse pointer among all the flashing lights to begin with
Exactly, it might be playable on say 1.5GHz, GF2 TI4200 with 512MB ram or so in 800x600 low settings, but me I would prefer atleast say 20 fps and 1280x1024 mid or high settings, and the we are probably talking a quite new machine, a year old or so back from the release date I guess.
Warcraft III system requirements: ..)
400 MHz PII, 128MB ram, 8MB 3D video card (TNT, Voodoo 3, rage 128,
400 MHz G3, 128MB ram, 16MB nvidia/ATI graphics card
Recommended:
600Mhz, 256MB ram, 32MB video card.
On my Athlon-XP 2100+ with 512MB ram and GeForce 2 Ultra 64MB that game lagged quite a lot running tower defence (lots of units) with quite low details if I remember correctly.
At my current Athlon64 3000+ with 1.5GB 333 MHz DDR and a nv6800le 128MB in OS X it gets to slow (I don't know, 10 fps?) during some fights in 1024x768 everything mid settings.
So well, sure the games run on low end machines, but to enjoy them in a decent resolution and with decent details on you need a real machine just as with any other game, there are no magic in Blizzard games. (Mind you the game would work decent in Windows thought, atleast in that resolution.)
Starcraft II looks way better and will support more units and people expect higher resolutions and even more details, so the system requirements will probably be huge.
Yeah, I remember reading that eventually the Via chipsets couldn't do that many interupts or something and that it might had been because of that or whatever =P, anyway might be a combo of shitty chipset and therefor also bad drivers from Sun. I bought the case, psu, motherboard, cpu, 256MB ram and 52x cd-rom for 500 sek so I can't complain so much on the hardware even thought I know the motherboard (and CPU) is shit and I wouldn't have bought these things if I would buy anything new.
I've seen it before but how much of that strategy image are from before Jonathan Schwartz took over and how much is actually true after that?
I wanted to use and learn Solaris, I really did, but I don't have a work and even less at a huge company with lots of Sun machines (please mail me if you want to get me one ;D) and I only had a 64-bit machine which I could play around more with ZFS in and so on so I installed it as desktop.
But that failed completely for me and I found myself booting Windows XP all the time which I only had installed to be able to play Warcraft III, why is that? Where did Solaris fail on me?
1) Desktop performance.
This might be 50% because of the fact that I have a VIA-based motherboard (MSI MS-6702 with Via K8T800 chipset to be precise) but probably also 50% because of Sun since the motherboard works decent with other OSes.
Anyway, when I ran torrent which put just a little network or disk load on the system, or connected my digital camera thru USB, the system become dog slow and was a major pain to use. I have no idea if this is because of some OS design, bug in the drivers for my system or hardware issues, but it made me so fucking angry about everything that it was unusable to me.
2) Package management.
Sure there are sun freeware, blastwave, netbsds pkgsrc and so on, Sun even ships a companion CD, but all the options suck! Blastwaves package manager are decent but all the packages you want aren't there, so then you might have to get some from sun freeware which isn't as convenient, and you end up with multiple versions of stuff you already had. Also Blastwave didn't hosted the patches/source code which where used so you didn't got any help or advice from old ports on how to get a new one running.
Solaris needs a unified package manager which works and where all the developers/porters can focus their effort and the user find whatever they need.
3) Open Sound System support.
Sun uses "sunaudio", sure it might be decent on a Sun machine, not so decent on my Creative Audigy. There is sunaudio drivers for it downloadable from the web but they didn't offered all the functionallity of the card and I never got Ekiga to work good with it (that is I got it to compile but it where unusable as a telephone.)
The packages need to be built with OSS support so that they will work if you choose to install it. It's free now aswell isn't it? Maybe even open source? What are the excuse?
4) Ekiga didn't worked.
I read that this would be fixed, was fixed, and whatever, but it never WORKED. And I only use SIP for my home telephony, I don't wanna live without telephone, another show stopper.
5) No up to date KDE port.
IMHO KDE is the best desktop environment there is out there, I don't want to run Gnome. Some german made a KDE port which where linked from Sun freeware but it seems like he stopped and since then there haven't been a KDE 3.5 port. I hate to be forced to use Gnome, why does so many commercial dists/oses seem to like it so much? KDE is far superior. Sun needs to make sure that KDE runs.
6) Various versions of tools.
This have already been mentioned among others, so you want to compile something and it expect another version of the shell, install, compiler or whatever, sure you can change your PATH settings to something else but what about the other things which want Suns versions or whatever? Another major pain in the ass.
7) Somehow blindfolded community.
When you point some of these things out, such as the package management issues, the old school users will want to just forget about it and tell you that hey! You can compile and install the software yourself! I don't want to, it takes time, I'm sorta lame so I can't figure out all the troubles, it takes time again, why do the same work over and over again and finally it takes a lot of time!
What I did like about Solaris:
Stable kernel.
Stable environment (code and binary compatiblitity).
ZFS for server environments, not as much needed for desktop but still nice.
Zones! Those are awesome and so easy to use.
The very friendly people in #opensolaris at freenode.
Free
Yeah, I had a similair thought, why can't they just ship it with all of them and let the user choose whatever they want when compiling the kernel or thru some tool? Solaris let you switch between various schedulers, why can't Linux (if it can't that is, I have no idea if Linux ships with various schedulers or not?)
Ok, I don't know much about that kind of stuff, I just noticed that the numbers where different :)
But there do exist HFS+, ext2, and whatever drivers for Windows? So how is your comment correct? It's not impossible, althought it wouldn't come bundled with the OS.
Regarding smear I would assume that they compare it to VGA and not DVI. I have no idea if that resolution at whatever framerate would lead to smear using VGA but I guess it's possible.
Considering everyone seems to buy 6-bit displays I guess no.
But then your average consumer are retarded.
Weird
I use it and you are sort of right, there are issues with it and I hate the lame developers who can't even use the same filenames everywhere and therefor messes it up, but the issues are small and solvable so I haven't bothered turning it of.
I have issues with Photoshop CS 2 but that is quite old so I can understand that, but I also had it with CS 3 beta (don't know about final), which is very lame.
I also have it with Warcraft III and thought I would have wanted Blizzard to fix it the game is old and atleast they have made a universal binary of it. I don't expect them to fix it but it would be nice.
I've solved it by just creating two of those filesystem images using scalable sizes (or well, one max size but they don't use more storage than you put into them) and HFS+ as "internal" filesystem. Just install to the image file and voila.
Oh the irony that it's the proprietarian filesystem instead of an open which is the best cross platform one.
All hail GPL.. or wait, don't.
I would have wanted to give you all my 5 mod points insightful if it wasn't that I had already answered in the thread.
Your post is spot on, I play WC3 quite often but I'd say that most people seems to play DOTA, Angel Arena (is that the name of it?) and similair, atleast very many. And yes, CS are played waay more than regular Half Life.
Thought I'm not sure that's related to this game since it might not work the same for this title and be as good, but you can do maps aswell and not only be creative with your character design? The later part is cool and I would like to have one as avatar but it doesn't gurantee a good game.
Another game where user created content helped a lot is Elastomanias Across. Lemmings with user created maps would be sweet to.
I'm for sure isn't and wheren't going "apeshit" over Super Paper Mario when released because for understandable reasons they changed target platform from Gamecube to Wii, but I don't own a Wii and won't own one for a while and there are no reason why this game would need a Wii except that they saw more sales there and Wii owners are more likely to buy Wii games than Gamecube games. Still sad thought. It was the best "no, this isn't for Wii, it's for Gamecube, you know the cube is good aswell"-argument I had =P
Oh how much the "Mario like characters" part made me feel bad, the game looks awesome (in graphics) / cute but it's all because of the characters, it would be totally ruined by having mario, luigi and so on in it.
Not all Nintendo games need them.. I'm not that much impressed by the non-mario-games-containing-mario.
Of course it will? Or more, maybe not at highest settings and 2560x1920 resolution thought.
I'm very sure i read somethere that THD was the same for the new quad cores as the old dual cores, and that they would use the same cooling solutions and sockets because of that. And the dual core ones doesn't run so hot do they? Aren't they on par or eventually even better than the Intel (non laptop) ones?