Quoting: I usually don't watch a lot of tv, or at least I didn't until last night. I just got a new satellite dish, with so many channels I don't know what to do with them all. Today's my last day at work, and I'm off next week, so I was planning a week-long porn marathon, watching nothing but porn, and maybe even a little bit of sports, Chinese newscasts, home shopping channels, cartoons, infomercials, Hungarian soap operas...
Well, if you would actually read the entire article, you'd see the following paragraph:
Both Halo and Far Cry show that Nvidia means business with the NV4x architecture, here we again see the GeForce 6800 Ultra consistently outperforming the Radeon 9800 XT and not by a just a small margin. At a 1024x768 resolution the GeForce 6800 Ultra leads in Halo by 81%, this lead increases to over 100% as the resolution is bumped up to 1280x1024 and 1600x1200. Far Cry starts off with the GeForce 6800 Ultra having a performance advantage of just 29%, but increasing that performance lead to 60% at a 1600x1200 resolution. That's actually amazing, especially if you consider the performance penalty the Radeon 9800 XT takes going from 1024x768 to 1600x1200, performance drops by as much as 85%. The GeForce 6800 Ultra however takes a performance penalty of 48%, the penalty the Radeon 9800 XT takes is about twice as large, which is significant.
. ..which refers to this, this, and (nearly) this.
And what's interesting about that is that UT2K4 runs worse on Linux than it does on Windows (because UT2K4 is written for D3D and not OpenGL -- it's all in the readme). What I'd much rather see is a poll of Enemy Territory users, I'm sure it would be much closer to 50/50 or even higher still.
As a matter of fact, I'm going to start one on the Splashdamage forums.
In all seriousness, I've actually wondered how that will pan out with my own children. My fiance and I both use Linux, and our children certainly will as well. I just know we'll run into problems down the road when gradeschools start to implement more and more "Interactive (win32) CDroms" with their textbooks the way that Universities do. So, yeah, our kids will be outcasts, but they'll also probably be the only vegan straightedge kids in gradeschool.
So I recently heard that songs "Maps" by a rather obscure band called the "Yeah Yeah Yeahs." The song is infectious. So I downloaded their entire CD from the soulseek network (using nicotine) and hated it. I hated it so much I actually *deleted* it (which is rare for me).
And if not for P2P, I would have wasted nearly $20USD on that piece of crap.
Actually, I wouldn't have, because I wouldn't have bought the CD, ever, even if P2P did not exist. It's a genre that I don't typically listen to, but P2P gives me the freedom to "expand my musical horizons" to be cliche about it. Now, consider if I had loved this CD. I would probably consequently buy some of the band's tshirts, or visit them in concert. Would I buy the CD? Eh...still, probably not. P2P doesn't detract from people that are going to buy the albums, it just gives people who WOULDN'T buy the album a chance to listen without being tied down financially to something. I honestly don't see the harm in that.
Huh?
You're trying to tell me that when you click on "Send" after a program crashes in Windows XP, that information DOESN'T go to a publicly-available database of bug reports?!
The pirate is not taking revenue from HBO and it is uncertain whether he/she would purchase HBO were the option to pirate it unavailable.
He wouldn't. Case in point, myself. I used to subscribe to HBO to watch the Sopranos and only to watch the Sopranos. It was an extra $8/month, so it was worth it. Then I moved to a different city and had a different cable provider. This provider said in order to get HBO, I had to get digital cable, which was another $10/mo., and then HBO was another $12 on top of that. A total of $22 more per month, just to watch a one-hour show that's on once a week? No thanks. So, in this case, my "pirating" is a direct result of overpricing and the general monopoly that a cable company has over a given area. This is just another example of refusing to pay for something that's obviously overpriced. If CDs cost $5, I'd buy them. And the artists should get HALF of the proceeds, not the penile 5% or whatever it is that they get now.
That is a good method for watching your favorite shows, however, you could be looking at jail-time.
But don't worry, I'll be there with you! (Weekly Sopranos on a CDRW)
I'd have to agree with the parent post, however, if console makers wanted to capture a large part of the PC-user market, all they would have to do is offer keyboard-like controllers (meaning: tons of configurable buttons, full QWERTY) with a high-sensitivity, seperate joystick that would yield the same aiming prowess that a mouse gives PC gamers. Give me something like that, ethernet, and a box capable of running D3 at high res and I'd gladly use that badboy on my bigscreen, and, I'd wager, so would every other PC gamer.
Actually, that is quite effective. I spent (wasted) the last six months of my life as a technician at Best Buy. You could call us the "trenches brigade" of IT personnel. Oh, your home page is continually reset to porn? STOP DOWNLOADING PORN. Oh, your CPU is running at 100% ALL OF THE TIME? STOP DOWNLOADING SPYWARE If someone came up to you on the street and offered you a TOTALLY FREE, TOTALLY HOT STRIPPER THAT DANCED IN YOUR LIVING ROOM, FOR FREE, EVERYDAY, FOR FREE would you open up your front door wide and say, "Yes, please come on in! And bring the fifty narrow-eyed gang members with you!"
Yes, I can fix all of these problems with your PC. It will cost you about $300. You can avoid trips back here by using common sense.
They usually paid and never came back...only the dumbest of the dumb came back, time and time again...but that's another story.
Now I'm back into a development position at a real company and couldn't be happier.
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I usually don't watch a lot of tv, or at least I didn't until last night. I just got a new satellite dish, with so many channels I don't know what to do with them all. Today's my last day at work, and I'm off next week, so I was planning a week-long porn marathon, watching nothing but porn, and maybe even a little bit of sports, Chinese newscasts, home shopping channels, cartoons, infomercials, Hungarian soap operas...
Eh...it only runs on Windows anyway. Who's gonna see the code?
Well, if you would actually read the entire article, you'd see the following paragraph:
.which refers to this, this, and (nearly) this.
Both Halo and Far Cry show that Nvidia means business with the NV4x architecture, here we again see the GeForce 6800 Ultra consistently outperforming the Radeon 9800 XT and not by a just a small margin. At a 1024x768 resolution the GeForce 6800 Ultra leads in Halo by 81%, this lead increases to over 100% as the resolution is bumped up to 1280x1024 and 1600x1200. Far Cry starts off with the GeForce 6800 Ultra having a performance advantage of just 29%, but increasing that performance lead to 60% at a 1600x1200 resolution. That's actually amazing, especially if you consider the performance penalty the Radeon 9800 XT takes going from 1024x768 to 1600x1200, performance drops by as much as 85%. The GeForce 6800 Ultra however takes a performance penalty of 48%, the penalty the Radeon 9800 XT takes is about twice as large, which is significant.
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And what's interesting about that is that UT2K4 runs worse on Linux than it does on Windows (because UT2K4 is written for D3D and not OpenGL -- it's all in the readme). What I'd much rather see is a poll of Enemy Territory users, I'm sure it would be much closer to 50/50 or even higher still. As a matter of fact, I'm going to start one on the Splashdamage forums.
Yes, but why the fuck was this moderated as Insightful?
In all seriousness, I've actually wondered how that will pan out with my own children. My fiance and I both use Linux, and our children certainly will as well. I just know we'll run into problems down the road when gradeschools start to implement more and more "Interactive (win32) CDroms" with their textbooks the way that Universities do. So, yeah, our kids will be outcasts, but they'll also probably be the only vegan straightedge kids in gradeschool.
So I recently heard that songs "Maps" by a rather obscure band called the "Yeah Yeah Yeahs." The song is infectious. So I downloaded their entire CD from the soulseek network (using nicotine) and hated it. I hated it so much I actually *deleted* it (which is rare for me).
And if not for P2P, I would have wasted nearly $20USD on that piece of crap.
Actually, I wouldn't have, because I wouldn't have bought the CD, ever, even if P2P did not exist. It's a genre that I don't typically listen to, but P2P gives me the freedom to "expand my musical horizons" to be cliche about it. Now, consider if I had loved this CD. I would probably consequently buy some of the band's tshirts, or visit them in concert. Would I buy the CD? Eh...still, probably not. P2P doesn't detract from people that are going to buy the albums, it just gives people who WOULDN'T buy the album a chance to listen without being tied down financially to something. I honestly don't see the harm in that.
Huh?
You're trying to tell me that when you click on "Send" after a program crashes in Windows XP, that information DOESN'T go to a publicly-available database of bug reports?!
If I had mod points, I'd mod you up as Funny, just to piss you off.
Sorta like how companies look at the percentage of PCs sold with Windows on them and think that's the percentage STILL running it?
The pirate is not taking revenue from HBO and it is uncertain whether he/she would purchase HBO were the option to pirate it unavailable.
He wouldn't. Case in point, myself. I used to subscribe to HBO to watch the Sopranos and only to watch the Sopranos. It was an extra $8/month, so it was worth it. Then I moved to a different city and had a different cable provider. This provider said in order to get HBO, I had to get digital cable, which was another $10/mo., and then HBO was another $12 on top of that. A total of $22 more per month, just to watch a one-hour show that's on once a week? No thanks. So, in this case, my "pirating" is a direct result of overpricing and the general monopoly that a cable company has over a given area.
This is just another example of refusing to pay for something that's obviously overpriced. If CDs cost $5, I'd buy them. And the artists should get HALF of the proceeds, not the penile 5% or whatever it is that they get now.
That is a good method for watching your favorite shows, however, you could be looking at jail-time. But don't worry, I'll be there with you! (Weekly Sopranos on a CDRW)
I'd have to agree with the parent post, however, if console makers wanted to capture a large part of the PC-user market, all they would have to do is offer keyboard-like controllers (meaning: tons of configurable buttons, full QWERTY) with a high-sensitivity, seperate joystick that would yield the same aiming prowess that a mouse gives PC gamers. Give me something like that, ethernet, and a box capable of running D3 at high res and I'd gladly use that badboy on my bigscreen, and, I'd wager, so would every other PC gamer.
Actually, that is quite effective. I spent (wasted) the last six months of my life as a technician at Best Buy. You could call us the "trenches brigade" of IT personnel.
Oh, your home page is continually reset to porn?
STOP DOWNLOADING PORN.
Oh, your CPU is running at 100% ALL OF THE TIME?
STOP DOWNLOADING SPYWARE
If someone came up to you on the street and offered you a TOTALLY FREE, TOTALLY HOT STRIPPER THAT DANCED IN YOUR LIVING ROOM, FOR FREE, EVERYDAY, FOR FREE would you open up your front door wide and say, "Yes, please come on in! And bring the fifty narrow-eyed gang members with you!"
Yes, I can fix all of these problems with your PC. It will cost you about $300. You can avoid trips back here by using common sense.
They usually paid and never came back...only the dumbest of the dumb came back, time and time again...but that's another story.
Now I'm back into a development position at a real company and couldn't be happier.