"By the way, the verdict against DVD-Jon is NOT going to be appealed!"
I don't see how this is such a good thing. Wouldn't be better to see the corporations be trashed in High Court instead of now, just letting if pass, ready to be picked up with someone else and at a more convenient time.
"Your mind sees approximately 22-30 frames per second." - I hope you mean motion blured frames per second, since otherwise you can easily see the difference between 30fps and 60 fps and up to ~72fps.
"I'm all for the freedom of information in most cases, but I do not believe my neighbors and the billions of people across the world that hate the United States should have access to this kind of information."
-But you need guns to protect yourself and your family, why not rocket launchers and atomic weapon. Heaven knows that nothing protects you better than some heavy duty atomic weapons.
Oh, and for the rest of the world, you don't think they could come up with these sorts of things themselves... Remember, most people involved in rocketry and nuclear innovation didn't even grow up in US. US only importet people after the second world war.... Or did you forget?
From the 5 star my post got on Dell user forums + all the 'thank you' mails from people having the same problem but got it fixed by removing patch 'SP2 Q328310' I'm pretty sure the problem was with that patch and I'm fairly certain it was not just me.....
Installing that patch breaks BattleField 1942 (black screen), Asheron's Call (a really curious bug here) + a few more games I don't remember right now, removing it makes the games run like normal.
Sure thing. The patch might not do anything which directly affects the 3D rendering, but it's without doubt the trigger for a strange bug that DO affect the 3D rendering.
For Asheron's Call the bug will actually let you start the game and go ingame, but it won't render any 3D graphics. Your ingame panel will be visible but nothing from the game world will be drawn. But again, removing patch SP2 Q328310 fixes the bug, installing patch SP2 Q328310 introduces the bug.
What have me a bit worried right now, is that MS will include this patch in the service pack.
this Service Pack doesn't break anything 'useful'... *sigh*
With WinXP I got into some serious trouble with my computer and trying to play games. At first everything worked as it should then after a weekend not a single game would play, black screen on launching a game. After A LOT of work the conclusion was that quickfix 'SP2 Q328310', which had been auto download from MS, did something which stopped a lot of games which need 3D support from working.
Now I always gets a message when I start windows, about 'new updates available': -Yeah sure! It's still buggering me to download the patch.
This really helps MS too, I'm so much more willing to download updates/patches when I know that a quickfix to lets say notepad, might break something totally unrelated; like the ability to shut down WinXP >:(
"'d rather spend my $20,000,000 on a long vacation in Moraco."
Well, duh! Don't you think he's done that too? I'm pretty sure he hasn't got exactly $20mill but probably a little more or maybe A LOT more $$$.
If I had $21mill I would have done this at once. You've got one life, why spend it in Monaco with greedy and utterly boring people with probably nothing more to think about than what to wear and when they do open their mouth the utter stupidity of what's being said will make your braincells wither away. Also.... If you are a normal person you'll get bored at a place like Monaco after a weekend...
G'damn... I would love to be able to be in space *sigh*
for region codes, would be if the actual disc + cover was manufactered in the country it's sold in. As a way to protect local company/workers. I wouldn't mind paying a lot of money for a dvd if it was also printed here in Norway and the money went to support national economy.
As it is now a DVD is made/printed in China for 0.5Nkr (I've got no idea about how much it is but 0.5Nkr sounds reasonable) and is sold here for 299Nkr (~$44) with region code so that you actually are forced to buy it at a ridiculous price, without any of the money going back into 'the system'.
It's even worse for PS-2 games with prices here in Norway in the $85-100 range.
If I saw you do something 'extreme' (read: stupid), like drive at 200mph through a town just to go straight out of a curve and crash, yes I would not stop and help you. Maybe I would stop and make sure you were dead but that's all. Or I might drive home, make dinner, watch the telly and then phone 911.
I think that scenario compares much better to the story than your comparison.
I wish I had some moderation points now, since then I would have modded parent down-down-down.
Please tell me what life and death situation we have when my doctor sits there, slowly typing away on his computer so he can write out a prescription? Or when the hospital staff is reserving time for the x-ray machine etc.
And if there are some super critical computers by which the life of a patient is depending on I would sure as hell not want it to be a MS product anyway.
... that whenever I bought a new motherboard + CPU, and then after 6 months decided to upgrade I would ALWAYS have to by a new motherboard + CPU.
They changed their CPU specs faster than I change between my two pair of socks. (almost..)
It was like whenever they released a faster Celeron or P3 you would have to buy a new motherboard because the number of pins were (your current pins) + 1, and then we had the Slot-1 to socket 370,371,372,373.... Dunno where we are now.
" Also, why shouldnt stores be doing this with R-rated movies or Parental-Advisory CDs?"
I've never seen a child or children sitting for 10+ hours at a time watching a movie or listning to a CD. I guess, neither have you...
Video games can't be compared to CDs or ordinary movies on DVD/VHS or at the cinema. You don't have marathon sessions watching/playing them as you do with games. It's much easier to get all caught up in a game than any other media, and also much easier to have your reality altered.
What they really should rate 18+ is the mmorpg games....:)
Take the game 7th Quest! It was one of the first game released on CD only. And it even came on two CDs. This was around the time that other games came on ~10 3.5" diskettes and people had maybe a 200mb harddrive. Obviously this was a game almost impossible to copy. CD burners had a price $1000 and empty CD-r were expensive. Adding to this we had the developers and distributors raving about how ceap it was to release a game on CD than on say 10 3.5" diskettes.
You should think by all this that 7th Guest would be priced LOWER than other games, but no. It had a price tag of around 649-749NKr ($80-100), when other games used to cost 349-399NKr.
Software/game creators will take the price they can get for they products. Pircay isn't even in their calculation.
If the price was a factor of pircay we wouldn't have 'platinum series': games which are released with a silver border on their cover and costs 1/2 or 1/3 of their original price.
Don't sit home and watch the telly or play computer games. I really don't see much difference between working at home or at my office. I don't like to be disturbed when I'm working at either place.
Join a martial arts club (I did). You need the exercise, and most often you get to meet A LOT of interesting people who are in the martial arts community. Or do something else... Join a vine club etc.
I've got two Dell Inspiron 8200 here on my desk, and I can't seem to find any desktop computer here. *wonders*
Both comes with 64mb Ati Radeon 9000 graphic chip, 768mb memory and 60gb harddrive.
They are both 14-15 months old and I still don't see any need to replace them. They are kickass computers for whatever need you could have, except for the extreme ones:p Want to play games? 99fps in CS, or runs Silent Storm pretty good (even desktop computers have trouble with that game)
The screen resoultion is best at either 1280x1024 or 1600x1200. I'll never-ever get another desktop computer.
I don't understand all the people yearning for equality and fairness for everybody.
Yes! A lot of people are very poor in our world right now. A lot of people die of hunger and illness.
But what happens if everyone did get enough food, water and whatnot required for them to live. Our population would grow beyond imagination and come to a sudden stop when we reach whatever limit this earth can possible support. After that we'll have pandemonium.
I see no greater danger than every person on earth striving for equality and getting there. Where would we set the limit? American standards? We would all die of pollution and over consumption. Like Tibetan Munks? Everyone from the western worlds would go to war against anyone even suggesting that we lower or standards or change our way of life.
We are already too many on this earth. And no, I won't kill myself, that would be waste of enery, my worth in enery spent and possibly 'returns' (in whatever way you value them) will most likely be higher than for someone less fortunate and living in poor conditions.
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"By the way, the verdict against DVD-Jon is NOT going to be appealed!"
I don't see how this is such a good thing. Wouldn't be better to see the corporations be trashed in High Court instead of now, just letting if pass, ready to be picked up with someone else and at a more convenient time.
"Your mind sees approximately 22-30 frames per second." - I hope you mean motion blured frames per second, since otherwise you can easily see the difference between 30fps and 60 fps and up to ~72fps.
is the sound from Magic Carpet, whenever you used that 'boost speed' spell.
It's like 'ssSSSSSSwooOOOoing'-kinda type of sound. It's seem to be at least one commercial using that sound on TV at any given time.
"I'm all for the freedom of information in most cases, but I do not believe my neighbors and the billions of people across the world that hate the United States should have access to this kind of information."
-But you need guns to protect yourself and your family, why not rocket launchers and atomic weapon. Heaven knows that nothing protects you better than some heavy duty atomic weapons.
Oh, and for the rest of the world, you don't think they could come up with these sorts of things themselves... Remember, most people involved in rocketry and nuclear innovation didn't even grow up in US. US only importet people after the second world war.... Or did you forget?
You usually have double or tripple buffer, where you draw to one buffer, then swap it with the one which was displayed.
From the 5 star my post got on Dell user forums + all the 'thank you' mails from people having the same problem but got it fixed by removing patch 'SP2 Q328310' I'm pretty sure the problem was with that patch and I'm fairly certain it was not just me.....
Installing that patch breaks BattleField 1942 (black screen), Asheron's Call (a really curious bug here) + a few more games I don't remember right now, removing it makes the games run like normal.
Sure thing. The patch might not do anything which directly affects the 3D rendering, but it's without doubt the trigger for a strange bug that DO affect the 3D rendering.
For Asheron's Call the bug will actually let you start the game and go ingame, but it won't render any 3D graphics. Your ingame panel will be visible but nothing from the game world will be drawn. But again, removing patch SP2 Q328310 fixes the bug, installing patch SP2 Q328310 introduces the bug.
What have me a bit worried right now, is that MS will include this patch in the service pack.
this Service Pack doesn't break anything 'useful'... *sigh*
With WinXP I got into some serious trouble with my computer and trying to play games. At first everything worked as it should then after a weekend not a single game would play, black screen on launching a game.
After A LOT of work the conclusion was that quickfix 'SP2 Q328310', which had been auto download from MS, did something which stopped a lot of games which need 3D support from working.
Now I always gets a message when I start windows, about 'new updates available': -Yeah sure! It's still buggering me to download the patch.
This really helps MS too, I'm so much more willing to download updates/patches when I know that a quickfix to lets say notepad, might break something totally unrelated; like the ability to shut down WinXP >:(
"'d rather spend my $20,000,000 on a long vacation in Moraco."
Well, duh! Don't you think he's done that too? I'm pretty sure he hasn't got exactly $20mill but probably a little more or maybe A LOT more $$$.
If I had $21mill I would have done this at once. You've got one life, why spend it in Monaco with greedy and utterly boring people with probably nothing more to think about than what to wear and when they do open their mouth the utter stupidity of what's being said will make your braincells wither away. Also.... If you are a normal person you'll get bored at a place like Monaco after a weekend...
G'damn... I would love to be able to be in space *sigh*
Better patent something fast!
for region codes, would be if the actual disc + cover was manufactered in the country it's sold in. As a way to protect local company/workers.
I wouldn't mind paying a lot of money for a dvd if it was also printed here in Norway and the money went to support national economy.
As it is now a DVD is made/printed in China for 0.5Nkr (I've got no idea about how much it is but 0.5Nkr sounds reasonable) and is sold here for 299Nkr (~$44) with region code so that you actually are forced to buy it at a ridiculous price, without any of the money going back into 'the system'.
It's even worse for PS-2 games with prices here in Norway in the $85-100 range.
I can't help stop thinking that this is pure madness :p
From a geeky point of view I think it's quite cool but damn... Trying to think like an ordinary person I constantly think: -Madness!
I actually haven't got the faintest clue about what this is.....
"Seven Swans-a-Swimming" -?
"Pear tree" -?
I've never bought this at Christmas.
*cringes under heavy brain spasms*
If I saw you do something 'extreme' (read: stupid), like drive at 200mph through a town just to go straight out of a curve and crash, yes I would not stop and help you. Maybe I would stop and make sure you were dead but that's all.
Or I might drive home, make dinner, watch the telly and then phone 911.
I think that scenario compares much better to the story than your comparison.
What's the point?
IF you don't like this site, don't come here, and at least don't post here.. -duh!
IF you like this site why wouldn't you buy a subscription or at least leave the adds alone?
Or are you so cheap and old school that you still think 'the Internet should be free'
I wish I had some moderation points now, since then I would have modded parent down-down-down.
Please tell me what life and death situation we have when my doctor sits there, slowly typing away on his computer so he can write out a prescription?
Or when the hospital staff is reserving time for the x-ray machine etc.
And if there are some super critical computers by which the life of a patient is depending on I would sure as hell not want it to be a MS product anyway.
... that whenever I bought a new motherboard + CPU, and then after 6 months decided to upgrade I would ALWAYS have to by a new motherboard + CPU.
They changed their CPU specs faster than I change between my two pair of socks. (almost..)
It was like whenever they released a faster Celeron or P3 you would have to buy a new motherboard because the number of pins were (your current pins) + 1, and then we had the Slot-1 to socket 370,371,372,373.... Dunno where we are now.
" Also, why shouldnt stores be doing this with R-rated movies or Parental-Advisory CDs?"
:)
I've never seen a child or children sitting for 10+ hours at a time watching a movie or listning to a CD. I guess, neither have you...
Video games can't be compared to CDs or ordinary movies on DVD/VHS or at the cinema. You don't have marathon sessions watching/playing them as you do with games. It's much easier to get all caught up in a game than any other media, and also much easier to have your reality altered.
What they really should rate 18+ is the mmorpg games....
You are so way off it's not even funny.
Take the game 7th Quest!
It was one of the first game released on CD only. And it even came on two CDs. This was around the time that other games came on ~10 3.5" diskettes and people had maybe a 200mb harddrive. Obviously this was a game almost impossible to copy. CD burners had a price $1000 and empty CD-r were expensive. Adding to this we had the developers and distributors raving about how ceap it was to release a game on CD than on say 10 3.5" diskettes.
You should think by all this that 7th Guest would be priced LOWER than other games, but no. It had a price tag of around 649-749NKr ($80-100), when other games used to cost 349-399NKr.
Software/game creators will take the price they can get for they products. Pircay isn't even in their calculation.
If the price was a factor of pircay we wouldn't have 'platinum series': games which are released with a silver border on their cover and costs 1/2 or 1/3 of their original price.
Don't sit home and watch the telly or play computer games.
I really don't see much difference between working at home or at my office. I don't like to be disturbed when I'm working at either place.
Join a martial arts club (I did). You need the exercise, and most often you get to meet A LOT of interesting people who are in the martial arts community.
Or do something else... Join a vine club etc.
Go out with friends.
I've got two Dell Inspiron 8200 here on my desk, and I can't seem to find any desktop computer here. *wonders*
:p
Both comes with 64mb Ati Radeon 9000 graphic chip, 768mb memory and 60gb harddrive.
They are both 14-15 months old and I still don't see any need to replace them. They are kickass computers for whatever need you could have, except for the extreme ones
Want to play games? 99fps in CS, or runs Silent Storm pretty good (even desktop computers have trouble with that game)
The screen resoultion is best at either 1280x1024 or 1600x1200.
I'll never-ever get another desktop computer.
The new 'paper clip'-helper for windows longhorn.
The right image should be this:
Canadian Battleship
I don't understand all the people yearning for equality and fairness for everybody.
Yes! A lot of people are very poor in our world right now. A lot of people die of hunger and illness.
But what happens if everyone did get enough food, water and whatnot required for them to live. Our population would grow beyond imagination and come to a sudden stop when we reach whatever limit this earth can possible support. After that we'll have pandemonium.
I see no greater danger than every person on earth striving for equality and getting there. Where would we set the limit? American standards? We would all die of pollution and over consumption. Like Tibetan Munks? Everyone from the western worlds would go to war against anyone even suggesting that we lower or standards or change our way of life.
We are already too many on this earth. And no, I won't kill myself, that would be waste of enery, my worth in enery spent and possibly 'returns' (in whatever way you value them) will most likely be higher than for someone less fortunate and living in poor conditions.
The bible is _just_ a book.
"The objects reside in a ring-shaped region called the Kuiper Belt"
So?... They found slightly bigger rocks between all the other rocks?