Astounding! Your stupidity manifests itself with greater strength only when you try to display real intelligence!
How about we enter the field of logic? You are committing the fallacy of "false dichotomy". How? Well, I shall tell you, dear Jeeves! You say that since the context had nothing to do with programming, it had to be mathematical in nature! However, those are NOT the only choices of context! Thus, false dichotomy. The context was actually freeform, and attempted to follow NO rules of programming, mathematics, or otherwise.
As for the question of your intelligence...well...the verdict is in, and you're a fucking idiot, Jeeves.:)
Oh, like the Xbox made the Geforce4 look silly? Oh wait, the Xbox houses a modified Geforce3, that's right. Silly ME. You know, if graphics weren't that much of an issue, they should have at least thrown an at-the-time current processor in the Xbox as well. The graphics card & processor in the released Xbox 2 won't even be equivalent to the mid- to high-end graphics cards & processors that are on the market when it is released, because at a certain point during the development of the Xbox 2 the hardware choices are frozen. You don't think they just throw them in three days before release, do you?
Let's say they're developing the Xbox2 right now....you'll have your nice Xbox2 with an ATI Radeon 9700 for its gfx and--if you're _lucky_--a 2GHz proc (but if history repeats itself, you'll more likely get a 1.6). At the time the Xbox2 is released, even middle-end machines will naturally be a decent bit ahead of the game, and high end machines (the domain of hardcore gamers) will definitely be way ahead.
Like I said, I'm not going to list all the PC games that have made many people's lists of "top pc gaming favs of this year" (or last year, for that matter). There are plenty of places out on the net for you to find things like that.
I honestly think you don't have any real intention of finding the good PC games--you're enjoying kicking back on the couch in front of the tv holding a single controller in your hand and playing Halo or whatnot. More power to you--just don't cast aspersions on PC gamers because PC gaming isn't "comfortable" for you right now.
That being said, please oh PLEASE don't make statements like "I think the Xbox is much more fun and enjoyable"--make statements like "I think the games I play on the Xbox are more fun and enjoyable"...unless, of course, you're outside playing baseball with your Xbox. Again, your issue never seemed to be with the hardware./me adjusts his panties
Wow, Tommy realizes he has an audience. How exciting!
I'm only bold enough to have sex with your mom, as we both know. And if you were the "Mr. Hax0r" you like to think you are, you would already know if I had other accounts and what they are. Idiot.
By the way, you stupid fucking goblin-ass, saying "You=Stupid" has nothing to do with programming unless I put it in that context. Your statement points out the fact that you're a fucking idiot who only just cracked open a C++ or Java book and is pleased to have made it through the section that deals with assignment statements without your head exploding.
PS: If I get to be the nigger, you get to be the fag!
Hey man, your mom is calling for you to come back in the house. Yeah, you should do it right away--the bitch can scream pretty loud, and the fact that I'm laying beside her right now after a night of DIRTY SEX with her doesn't help matters. FUCK, aw christ, MY EAR! SHUTUP BITCH! *smack* *smack*
I am looking at trailers for a videogame that, regardless of whether or not it's finished, has an OBVIOUS featureset and OBVIOUS capabilities that cannot possibly be taken advantage of in full on a 700MHz P3. My bias is not against the Xbox; rather, it is against Xbox users who persist in claiming that their old hardware can play next-generation games that even people with high-end PC's of _today_ fear they will have to get upgrades to play.
I dislike Microsoft. I dislike their tactics. I am not making my statements based on those dislikes--I am making them based on plain facts.
You can't be serious. Do you actually believe that an Xbox can compete against, say, a 2.4GHz machine (AMD or P4) with an ATI Radeon 9700 and a gig of PC3200 DDR RAM? How deluded are you? Oh, wait, I know the answer to that one: very!
The Xbox couldn't even compete with my 1.8 AMD XP w/ 128MB Geforce4 and 512MB DDR RAM. Right now, this IS a mid-level machine. Hell, I know some people would argue against even that rating. That aside, the hardware dictates what the machine is capable of handling. Why is this so hard for some Xbox owners to understand?
Ah, RTCW on your TV. I'm assuming you mean a TV and NOT an HDTV. You are aware that it's running at an insanely low resolution, right? IIRC the resolution on your TV is 320x240 (standard non-HDTV TV resolution). Resolution isn't an issue on an Xbox because you're running at such a low resolution.
There's no need to argue over keyboard/mouse vs. controller. The winner in that battle is obvious.
By the way, your problem seems to be with one or both of two things: game developers and/or your lack of an ability to pick up good PC game titles. Do you think the devs developing games for PC's are just simply "stupider"? Oh! Or maybe they're just not as cool as the console game devs! Wrong on both counts, especially because many development houses develop games for PC's _and_ consoles. And as far as your inability to find good games: that's your problem, man. I shouldn't have to sit here and list all the PC games I've played over the years because you can't pick up a few simple gaming magazines or check out some gaming forums (try the Ars Technica GESC). In truth, I think you're just lazy, and it's just easier for you to just go out and rent every Xbox title on the shelf until you hit a few good ones.
Anyway, off on a rant. To sum it up, You=Stupid, Xbox="Good for a console, underpowered compared to a PC".
An Xbox is not going to be able to handle Half-Life 2, graphics _aside_. When I made my "snide and dismissive" post, I did NOT focus on the graphics issue--I quite clearly mentioned the speed of the processor in the Xbox, which is going to be the Xbox's main barrier to a quality port of Half-Life 2. The huge yet complex environments chock full of objects & structures that are completely interactive....human & alien enemies with nex-gen realistic AI (remember, Half-Life 1 was given much praise for its advances in enemy AI)....I won't go on, because I don't need to. If you think Half-Life 2 for the Xbox is NOT going to be BADLY crippled, then you're so deluded that I just can't help you. There is no hope for you, so you may as well lock yourself in the closet with your Xbox and play Halo until the world ends. Oh, and if you get the chance, check out the E3 trailer of Half-Life 2 for chrissakes. Maybe it'll knock some of the stupid out of you.
...to what a P3 700 w/ a GeForce 3/4 hybrid can handle. I wonder if all these Xbox owners anxiously awaiting Half-Life 2 for their console actually _saw_ the E3 footage and realized that any release of this game for the Xbox would be _horribly_ neutered compared to the PC version. The Xbox is a child now compared to even middle-end PC's.
of hearing Tim O'Reilly's monologues. The most annoying thing about them is how he's been verbally sex0ring amazon for the last few YEARS. Stick to running your company, Tim--there are plenty of other people in the world who can write musings about amazon if they want.
I understand when people take the moral high ground where warezing etc. are concerned. However, the moral high ground here is on the side of the person sharing his connection between his home computers. A person should not expect to have to open a different cable/dsl/dialup account for each computer in his home. Hell, the broadband companies should be THANKING people who use firewalls; if they're worried about bandwidth hogs, what's worse: one 300KBps cable connection shared between 3 p2p'ers in the house, maxed out at ALL times, or 3 separate 300KBps cable connections (one for each system in the house) maxed out at ALL times? The answer is obvious.
Like, say, maybe not running the configure script as root? The only command in the "./configure $opts && make && make install" process that needs to be run as root is "make install".
HI DUMBASS! Yes, Kubrick directed the film--but he DIDN'T write the damn book the film is based on! He may have directed the film during the writing of the book, in direct collaboration with Clarke, but he still didn't write the book.
If you're going to write a story about something, at least know an eensy little bit about THE FIRST DAMN THING YOU TALK ABOUT.
Christ--it's bad enough that there's so many illiterate fucktards in the world today. It's even worse that the literate ones still would rather watch the movie and deny the existence of the book it was based on. Fuck that.
was CRAP! Maybe if it were just a standalone movie it would have been fantastic (yes, the visuals were pretty nice in some places), but since it's based on a _book_, it should hold to it. A movie (or miniseries) is made from a book because the book was impressive enough (in and of ITSELF and its OWN plot and its OWN details) to be chosen in the first place. Why the hell can't the director at least stay _slightly_ within the confines of the book when making the movie? Sorry, there was no big Muad'dib statue in Stilgar's sietch. Sorry, Paul can't make water appear out of nowhere with his "magical Kwisatz Haderach powers". And sorry, but if I'm not mistaken, in the book Paul Atreides wasn't a whiny little bitch.
not to be trusted, but mainstream lusers think they're the best thing since sliced bread (despite the continuous crashes and the shitty software). While we resolve to keep our information to ourselves (who the hell needs to store their documents on other people's systems? you don't trust yourself?), mainstream lusers will make the service indispensable to themselves, thus giving microsoft the same dominance in that area (in the same way) as all the other areas it's gained dominance. It's not Microsoft that must be stopped....it's the idiot lusers.
Right, Redhat != Linux. Debian != Linux, Suse != Linux, Slackware != Linux, Caldera != Linux, and the list goes on and on. These are all distributions.
The kernel = Linux, plain and simple. Of course, without packages like binutils, etc., etc., you won't really be able to do anything with just the kernel, but it's still a simple fact.
If you're concerned with how much crap is getting installed by mainstream distros, and you have a little bit of time on your hands and want to learn something new, try http://www.linuxfromscratch.org. You'll be building your own linux implementation from the ground up (from source code), step by step. I discovered it last year and a distro hasn't touched my machine since.
_Fuck_ ads, and _fuck_ the commercialization of the net. Sure, it's fucking awesome that "more people using computers"="more companies developing cool new shit"="cool new shit for real techs (or whatever the hell we should be referred to as, but you know what i mean)", but is it really worth it? Yes, I know that everybody's a newbie at some point, but there's also a shitload of newbies that never go any further than windows and yahoo chat. Do we really need these people encouraging the clogging of our bandwidth? I say _fuck_ them all, time to take back the internet that was created _by_ techs _for_ techs. They can have their MTV and their little lives, let us have the technology that _we_ understand and _we_ use to the fullest.
True, nobody owns the words "cracker" or "hacker", and nobody can make anyone else use one word instead of the other. That's not the issue, though. The issue is that people who use the word "hackers" instead of "crackers" sound like fucking idiots to people who have a fucking clue. Stupid newbies who think they know everything and moronic reporters make me physically sick. Maybe one day we'll have something like in the matrix, where you can almost instantly educate someone about something if they want to learn it. Until then, we're going to have to deal with these fucking idiots.
That made NO sense. You could elect a crackwhore president, and it wouldn't make a damn bit of difference (well, other than having the first female president) about this "big brother crap". Think about it.
Slashdot Mirror
Astounding! Your stupidity manifests itself with greater strength only when you try to display real intelligence!
:)
How about we enter the field of logic? You are committing the fallacy of "false dichotomy". How? Well, I shall tell you, dear Jeeves! You say that since the context had nothing to do with programming, it had to be mathematical in nature! However, those are NOT the only choices of context! Thus, false dichotomy. The context was actually freeform, and attempted to follow NO rules of programming, mathematics, or otherwise.
As for the question of your intelligence...well...the verdict is in, and you're a fucking idiot, Jeeves.
Oh, like the Xbox made the Geforce4 look silly? Oh wait, the Xbox houses a modified Geforce3, that's right. Silly ME. You know, if graphics weren't that much of an issue, they should have at least thrown an at-the-time current processor in the Xbox as well. The graphics card & processor in the released Xbox 2 won't even be equivalent to the mid- to high-end graphics cards & processors that are on the market when it is released, because at a certain point during the development of the Xbox 2 the hardware choices are frozen. You don't think they just throw them in three days before release, do you?
/me adjusts his panties
Let's say they're developing the Xbox2 right now....you'll have your nice Xbox2 with an ATI Radeon 9700 for its gfx and--if you're _lucky_--a 2GHz proc (but if history repeats itself, you'll more likely get a 1.6). At the time the Xbox2 is released, even middle-end machines will naturally be a decent bit ahead of the game, and high end machines (the domain of hardcore gamers) will definitely be way ahead.
Like I said, I'm not going to list all the PC games that have made many people's lists of "top pc gaming favs of this year" (or last year, for that matter). There are plenty of places out on the net for you to find things like that.
I honestly think you don't have any real intention of finding the good PC games--you're enjoying kicking back on the couch in front of the tv holding a single controller in your hand and playing Halo or whatnot. More power to you--just don't cast aspersions on PC gamers because PC gaming isn't "comfortable" for you right now.
That being said, please oh PLEASE don't make statements like "I think the Xbox is much more fun and enjoyable"--make statements like "I think the games I play on the Xbox are more fun and enjoyable"...unless, of course, you're outside playing baseball with your Xbox. Again, your issue never seemed to be with the hardware.
Wow, Tommy realizes he has an audience. How exciting!
I'm only bold enough to have sex with your mom, as we both know. And if you were the "Mr. Hax0r" you like to think you are, you would already know if I had other accounts and what they are. Idiot.
By the way, you stupid fucking goblin-ass, saying "You=Stupid" has nothing to do with programming unless I put it in that context. Your statement points out the fact that you're a fucking idiot who only just cracked open a C++ or Java book and is pleased to have made it through the section that deals with assignment statements without your head exploding.
PS: If I get to be the nigger, you get to be the fag!
Hey man, your mom is calling for you to come back in the house. Yeah, you should do it right away--the bitch can scream pretty loud, and the fact that I'm laying beside her right now after a night of DIRTY SEX with her doesn't help matters. FUCK, aw christ, MY EAR! SHUTUP BITCH! *smack* *smack*
Hrm. I fed a troll today.
I am looking at trailers for a videogame that, regardless of whether or not it's finished, has an OBVIOUS featureset and OBVIOUS capabilities that cannot possibly be taken advantage of in full on a 700MHz P3. My bias is not against the Xbox; rather, it is against Xbox users who persist in claiming that their old hardware can play next-generation games that even people with high-end PC's of _today_ fear they will have to get upgrades to play.
I dislike Microsoft. I dislike their tactics. I am not making my statements based on those dislikes--I am making them based on plain facts.
You can't be serious. Do you actually believe that an Xbox can compete against, say, a 2.4GHz machine (AMD or P4) with an ATI Radeon 9700 and a gig of PC3200 DDR RAM? How deluded are you? Oh, wait, I know the answer to that one: very!
The Xbox couldn't even compete with my 1.8 AMD XP w/ 128MB Geforce4 and 512MB DDR RAM. Right now, this IS a mid-level machine. Hell, I know some people would argue against even that rating. That aside, the hardware dictates what the machine is capable of handling. Why is this so hard for some Xbox owners to understand?
Ah, RTCW on your TV. I'm assuming you mean a TV and NOT an HDTV. You are aware that it's running at an insanely low resolution, right? IIRC the resolution on your TV is 320x240 (standard non-HDTV TV resolution). Resolution isn't an issue on an Xbox because you're running at such a low resolution.
There's no need to argue over keyboard/mouse vs. controller. The winner in that battle is obvious.
By the way, your problem seems to be with one or both of two things: game developers and/or your lack of an ability to pick up good PC game titles. Do you think the devs developing games for PC's are just simply "stupider"? Oh! Or maybe they're just not as cool as the console game devs! Wrong on both counts, especially because many development houses develop games for PC's _and_ consoles. And as far as your inability to find good games: that's your problem, man. I shouldn't have to sit here and list all the PC games I've played over the years because you can't pick up a few simple gaming magazines or check out some gaming forums (try the Ars Technica GESC). In truth, I think you're just lazy, and it's just easier for you to just go out and rent every Xbox title on the shelf until you hit a few good ones.
Anyway, off on a rant. To sum it up, You=Stupid, Xbox="Good for a console, underpowered compared to a PC".
An Xbox is not going to be able to handle Half-Life 2, graphics _aside_. When I made my "snide and dismissive" post, I did NOT focus on the graphics issue--I quite clearly mentioned the speed of the processor in the Xbox, which is going to be the Xbox's main barrier to a quality port of Half-Life 2. The huge yet complex environments chock full of objects & structures that are completely interactive ....human & alien enemies with nex-gen realistic AI (remember, Half-Life 1 was given much praise for its advances in enemy AI)....I won't go on, because I don't need to. If you think Half-Life 2 for the Xbox is NOT going to be BADLY crippled, then you're so deluded that I just can't help you. There is no hope for you, so you may as well lock yourself in the closet with your Xbox and play Halo until the world ends. Oh, and if you get the chance, check out the E3 trailer of Half-Life 2 for chrissakes. Maybe it'll knock some of the stupid out of you.
...to what a P3 700 w/ a GeForce 3/4 hybrid can handle. I wonder if all these Xbox owners anxiously awaiting Half-Life 2 for their console actually _saw_ the E3 footage and realized that any release of this game for the Xbox would be _horribly_ neutered compared to the PC version. The Xbox is a child now compared to even middle-end PC's.
of hearing Tim O'Reilly's monologues. The most annoying thing about them is how he's been verbally sex0ring amazon for the last few YEARS. Stick to running your company, Tim--there are plenty of other people in the world who can write musings about amazon if they want.
I understand when people take the moral high ground where warezing etc. are concerned. However, the moral high ground here is on the side of the person sharing his connection between his home computers. A person should not expect to have to open a different cable/dsl/dialup account for each computer in his home. Hell, the broadband companies should be THANKING people who use firewalls; if they're worried about bandwidth hogs, what's worse: one 300KBps cable connection shared between 3 p2p'ers in the house, maxed out at ALL times, or 3 separate 300KBps cable connections (one for each system in the house) maxed out at ALL times? The answer is obvious.
Hmm, "extremely careful"....
Like, say, maybe not running the configure script as root? The only command in the "./configure $opts && make && make install" process that needs to be run as root is "make install".
Looks like somebody forgot an . Bad slashdot.
reads slashdot:
"Our geeks have faith in us! Give it all you've got, devs!"
um...
HI DUMBASS! Yes, Kubrick directed the film--but he DIDN'T write the damn book the film is based on! He may have directed the film during the writing of the book, in direct collaboration with Clarke, but he still didn't write the book.
If you're going to write a story about something, at least know an eensy little bit about THE FIRST DAMN THING YOU TALK ABOUT.
Christ--it's bad enough that there's so many illiterate fucktards in the world today. It's even worse that the literate ones still would rather watch the movie and deny the existence of the book it was based on. Fuck that.
was CRAP! Maybe if it were just a standalone movie it would have been fantastic (yes, the visuals were pretty nice in some places), but since it's based on a _book_, it should hold to it. A movie (or miniseries) is made from a book because the book was impressive enough (in and of ITSELF and its OWN plot and its OWN details) to be chosen in the first place. Why the hell can't the director at least stay _slightly_ within the confines of the book when making the movie? Sorry, there was no big Muad'dib statue in Stilgar's sietch. Sorry, Paul can't make water appear out of nowhere with his "magical Kwisatz Haderach powers". And sorry, but if I'm not mistaken, in the book Paul Atreides wasn't a whiny little bitch.
not to be trusted, but mainstream lusers think they're the best thing since sliced bread (despite the continuous crashes and the shitty software). While we resolve to keep our information to ourselves (who the hell needs to store their documents on other people's systems? you don't trust yourself?), mainstream lusers will make the service indispensable to themselves, thus giving microsoft the same dominance in that area (in the same way) as all the other areas it's gained dominance. It's not Microsoft that must be stopped....it's the idiot lusers.
At what point in your career did you realize that your end goal was to become a turncoat?
You could always try Linux From Scratch. Find out more about it on www.linuxfromscratch.org. There _is_ a PPC guide.
Mandy Moore butt-nekkid. Her and Christina Aguilera--together. Ooooh yeah...I'm waiting.
Right, Redhat != Linux. Debian != Linux, Suse != Linux, Slackware != Linux, Caldera != Linux, and the list goes on and on. These are all distributions.
The kernel = Linux, plain and simple. Of course, without packages like binutils, etc., etc., you won't really be able to do anything with just the kernel, but it's still a simple fact.
If you're concerned with how much crap is getting installed by mainstream distros, and you have a little bit of time on your hands and want to learn something new, try http://www.linuxfromscratch.org. You'll be building your own linux implementation from the ground up (from source code), step by step. I discovered it last year and a distro hasn't touched my machine since.
_Fuck_ ads, and _fuck_ the commercialization of the net. Sure, it's fucking awesome that "more people using computers"="more companies developing cool new shit"="cool new shit for real techs (or whatever the hell we should be referred to as, but you know what i mean)", but is it really worth it? Yes, I know that everybody's a newbie at some point, but there's also a shitload of newbies that never go any further than windows and yahoo chat. Do we really need these people encouraging the clogging of our bandwidth? I say _fuck_ them all, time to take back the internet that was created _by_ techs _for_ techs. They can have their MTV and their little lives, let us have the technology that _we_ understand and _we_ use to the fullest.
That's ridiculous. Putting Gnome on Windows is like teasing the retarded kid.
True, nobody owns the words "cracker" or "hacker", and nobody can make anyone else use one word instead of the other. That's not the issue, though. The issue is that people who use the word "hackers" instead of "crackers" sound like fucking idiots to people who have a fucking clue. Stupid newbies who think they know everything and moronic reporters make me physically sick. Maybe one day we'll have something like in the matrix, where you can almost instantly educate someone about something if they want to learn it. Until then, we're going to have to deal with these fucking idiots.
An old ISP buddy of mine told me it was a 3-year-old boy.
*LOL*
That made NO sense. You could elect a crackwhore president, and it wouldn't make a damn bit of difference (well, other than having the first female president) about this "big brother crap". Think about it.