Bush has talked about pushing hydrogen technology. His administration still hasn't funded it adequately. Bush is notorious for this kind of action. He says something in public that everyone likes, and then never funds it, or underfunds it so signifigantly that it cannot move forward. He did this both as a governor and now as a president.
The world would be a whole lot healthier and safer if we just let people choose their own poisons. Legalising both opiates and cocaine would take a lot of funds out of the hands of terrorists, criminals and dictators. And high (I'm talking massively high) taxation on these products could finally go to paying for the tremendous amount of damage that they do to individual health and society as a whole.
I have built a number of desktops in the past few years for myself and others, and have returned a lot of RAM. Premium RAM seems to have lower failure rates, but I have returned some damn expensive RAM too. I never had problems with older RAM. Are the quality control issues different now?
I agree that instancing is a major + for games with large populations. Spawn camping, or just overpopulated content areas is annyoing and drives away players. In a small population, instancing can destroy the social aspect of the game. Also, depending on the PvP rules of a game, instancing can create areas where players can avoid irritating PvP when they want to.
An interesting note. AD&D online is shooting for about 300 people per server, which is a situation where instancing would probably not be a good idea. I am not too into D&D at this point, but I would like to play that just to see how the social aspects of such a small server size works out.
Just project 10-20 years forward when these shiny new computerized voting machines many voted on today are still in use. Imagine the potential for skewed elections due to buggy hardware/firmware/software, etc...
I'd much rather my vote be mechanically cast than electronically. I don't care if the central counting location is computerised, but I think it is a bad idea to throw all of that potentially problematic hardware out to the precincts.
Yeah, but you've gotta stay alive long enough to get the good deals. I say buy early, pe prepared.
Drives over to the local military surplus store to beat the rush.
Don't forget that you can now arm yourself, in preperation for the upcoming Civil War, early, now that the assault weapons ban has expired. I suggest stockpiling Kalishnikovs, they are the choice of gurellias, insurgents and popular uprisings worldwide.
I agree. Robots are much more effiecient, per dollar, than sending humans to the moon. I am all for permanent human settlements on the moon, and Mars as well, but I think that robots will pave the way for us. Without having to worry about the lives of explorers, or waste money, space or weight on astronauts, we can lay a great foundation for permanent offworld settlement.
I think it is important to send humans to the moon, just not as a stunt. We should send them there to live, and work and expand the reach of our species beyond a single confining planet.
Not to mention that it affects the behavior of those who are afraid that their activist activities might be monitored under that provisions of the act. Not to mention the fear of being labeled as a terrorist for simply fielding opposition to the current administration, and suffering various stigmas because of it.
Probably. WoW has supposedly reasonable hardware demands. I used to routinely play SWG on a 4 year old laptop with a Geforce2go 32 Meg chip. Have fun on the road.
I just voted using the Inka-Vote system here in california that basically replaces the poking coles with ink dots, and it was very nice. I got a paper receipt, like I want, and there is no way in hell that my ballot could be misinterpreted. I feel bad for the folks using touchscreens and diebold machines.
I have two, actually. The one in front of me is a Sony Trinitron Multiscan 500PS, which is the more mundane of the two. My good one is at my studio, can't remember the manufaturer, though. The Sony is really crisp and has great colour, though.
I use a very, very nice 21" CRT that was handed down to me by a graphic designer friend of mine. The only reason I am not eager to put this beast out to pasture is the high cost of 21" or larger LCD displays. I haven't heard my gamer friends who use LCD displays complaining about ghosting/motion blur for a while now. I think they displays on the market are up to the job.
I am not going to argue that Macs can't do everything that PC's can do. I am arguing that there is little to no advantage to owning a Mac over a PC. Macs still have a high price point, even counting the costs of a Windows license, PCs are cheaper to implement than Macs for most tasks. When it comes to upgrading your Mac, have you ever tried installing Wi-Fi on some of the iMac models? An overpriced and unwieldy situation. Both the iMac and eMac models have notorious upgrade issues.
I use a Mac 2 days a week at work, I was the person who advised my employer to install them and ditch the old PC based network. This was basically to prevent employee stupidity related problems, and to provide simple platforms for the relatively computer-illeterate employees and interns that work in the non-profit arts industry. After spending 2 weeks with that idiotic mouse that came with my eMac, I had the early signs of nasty carpal tunnel syndrome. I use a mouse 4-12 hours every day, and I have never had wrist pain, until I tried using that stupid mouse. The dock, with its hopping icons, annoys the shit out of me.
I am coming at this issue with the perspective of someone who has used Macs for over 20 years, and finds them awkward and often times inefficient for the tasks at hand. I think many Mac enthusiasts feel that PC users would use Macs if we only knew "how great they are". Speaking as someone who is familiar with both platforms, I feel that the PC has a lot more potential and dollar for dollar, can provide vastly more performace at all office tasks, and many specialised ones. If Macs could play most games, no I would not switch. I find the Mac UI to be poorly designed, and I dislike not having the kind of gearhead control over my machine that I am used to. Besides Macs are so damn ugly.
About the photo/image editing issue. I built a custom PC for doing my professional imaging work. I work with vector graphics images that can take minutes or even chunks of an hour to render(on any platform). Frankly, buying a Mac designed for this purpose would not be an economic option for me, but building a custom PC that blows most Macs out of the water, was easy, cheap and fun. Most large imaging and effects houses either switching to or are doing their rendering on Linux systems/clusters, as they are cheaper and more effective per dollar than Macs. The Mac is no longer the digital imaging powerhouse that it once was, sorry. I personally believe that the reason you still see widespread use of Macs in the graphic design/photography world is that the userbase is accustomed to using them, not because there is some magic Mac component that, per dollar spent on hardware, renders images faster.
My system is faster, cheaper and more versatile than any Mac I have ever used. The PC UI for most imaging programs is damn near the same as it is for Macs, I just have a 3-button mouse and a scroll wheel to increase my productivity even more. I can upgrade components without having to deal with the Apple pricing/ripoff structure. I can download all kinds of Windows programs to carry out unusual or minor tasks, and I can pop over to my Linux partition and work on stuff there. I can play all of the latest games (my work deals with video game imagery, this is key for me) and I don't have any security/firewall issues. I spend less than 5 minutes a week actively doing security on my box, too.
I agree that out of the box, Macs have vastly fewer security issues than Windows computers do. That is the only reason I would reccomend using one, for environments where you cannot trust your employees not to create big security holes.
There is a whole hot-rod modding community for PC users out there. I can customise my machine in almost any way imaginable. Macs are not particularily casemod friendly.
Yeah, Mac Snobs are assholes.
When I built my latest computer from scratch, I put more love, care and design thought into it than went into either busted arm flatscreen or overheated mini-ITX cube. I have to use an eMac at work 2 days a week and it is like riding a big wheel, awkward, slow and limited in capability. Hell even my defiant usage of an ergonomically designed, 3 button, scroll wheel mouse indicates that I care more about my machine(and my wrist) than the imbicile that designed that hockey puck disaster.
As I sit here gazing into the plexiglas window of my PC, my room illuminated by the endless whirring of a nest of orange LED fans, I can't help but feel sorry for Mac users.
Regardless of Microsoft's policies, he may have a legitimate right to return his product. Anyone can legally return anything which they feel has not performed adequately as a product, withing any amount of time. All he has to do is demonstrate that 1 year of normal operation is not the lifespan of the product and the manufacturer must return it. In this case, it is painfully easy to demonstrate that "video game consoles" have an average lifespan longer than 1 year. In order to refute his claim, Microsoft would basically be forced to publicly state that their product has an unnaturally short lifespan, something that might be more damaging to them than the lawsuit itself, and definitely more costly than replacing a single defective unit.
If they are stupid enough not to quietly replace the defective unit, they might find themselves in a very messy legal situation, like a class action lawsuit. Large companies perform service or replace products long after the end of warranties or service agreements like this all of the time, in order to prevent publicised legal action against them. This general legal principle applies to most mechanical products, as well as items like apparel and household goods. If you buy a belt and it keeps breaking, you can return it months, or years later, after purchase. Another good reason to throw all of your receipts in a box, and to make copies of ones for important and expensive goods, like your laptop or desktop computer.
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Bush has talked about pushing hydrogen technology. His administration still hasn't funded it adequately. Bush is notorious for this kind of action. He says something in public that everyone likes, and then never funds it, or underfunds it so signifigantly that it cannot move forward. He did this both as a governor and now as a president.
The world would be a whole lot healthier and safer if we just let people choose their own poisons. Legalising both opiates and cocaine would take a lot of funds out of the hands of terrorists, criminals and dictators. And high (I'm talking massively high) taxation on these products could finally go to paying for the tremendous amount of damage that they do to individual health and society as a whole.
Or if the Thing's dork is made out of orange rock, either.
I hope there is KvK combat.
I have built a number of desktops in the past few years for myself and others, and have returned a lot of RAM. Premium RAM seems to have lower failure rates, but I have returned some damn expensive RAM too. I never had problems with older RAM. Are the quality control issues different now?
I agree that instancing is a major + for games with large populations. Spawn camping, or just overpopulated content areas is annyoing and drives away players. In a small population, instancing can destroy the social aspect of the game. Also, depending on the PvP rules of a game, instancing can create areas where players can avoid irritating PvP when they want to. An interesting note. AD&D online is shooting for about 300 people per server, which is a situation where instancing would probably not be a good idea. I am not too into D&D at this point, but I would like to play that just to see how the social aspects of such a small server size works out.
Just project 10-20 years forward when these shiny new computerized voting machines many voted on today are still in use. Imagine the potential for skewed elections due to buggy hardware/firmware/software, etc... I'd much rather my vote be mechanically cast than electronically. I don't care if the central counting location is computerised, but I think it is a bad idea to throw all of that potentially problematic hardware out to the precincts.
Yeah, but you've gotta stay alive long enough to get the good deals. I say buy early, pe prepared. Drives over to the local military surplus store to beat the rush.
Don't forget that you can now arm yourself, in preperation for the upcoming Civil War, early, now that the assault weapons ban has expired. I suggest stockpiling Kalishnikovs, they are the choice of gurellias, insurgents and popular uprisings worldwide.
The only ROMS I have are thew ones I own carts of or the ones that I played as a child. Yeah, that's it.
Tonight is total choas. Everyone is on the edge of their seat. Beginning of massive internal conflict in the U.S.? Who knows?
I agree. Robots are much more effiecient, per dollar, than sending humans to the moon. I am all for permanent human settlements on the moon, and Mars as well, but I think that robots will pave the way for us. Without having to worry about the lives of explorers, or waste money, space or weight on astronauts, we can lay a great foundation for permanent offworld settlement. I think it is important to send humans to the moon, just not as a stunt. We should send them there to live, and work and expand the reach of our species beyond a single confining planet.
Not to mention that it affects the behavior of those who are afraid that their activist activities might be monitored under that provisions of the act. Not to mention the fear of being labeled as a terrorist for simply fielding opposition to the current administration, and suffering various stigmas because of it.
I can't believe that people would do such a thing!
>>Goes back to plaing SNES ROMS
Hey! I posted this before I got to work. I have been to busy trolling other forums to post here today.
Probably. WoW has supposedly reasonable hardware demands. I used to routinely play SWG on a 4 year old laptop with a Geforce2go 32 Meg chip. Have fun on the road.
I just voted using the Inka-Vote system here in california that basically replaces the poking coles with ink dots, and it was very nice. I got a paper receipt, like I want, and there is no way in hell that my ballot could be misinterpreted. I feel bad for the folks using touchscreens and diebold machines.
I have two, actually. The one in front of me is a Sony Trinitron Multiscan 500PS, which is the more mundane of the two. My good one is at my studio, can't remember the manufaturer, though. The Sony is really crisp and has great colour, though.
I use a very, very nice 21" CRT that was handed down to me by a graphic designer friend of mine. The only reason I am not eager to put this beast out to pasture is the high cost of 21" or larger LCD displays. I haven't heard my gamer friends who use LCD displays complaining about ghosting/motion blur for a while now. I think they displays on the market are up to the job.
I am not going to argue that Macs can't do everything that PC's can do. I am arguing that there is little to no advantage to owning a Mac over a PC. Macs still have a high price point, even counting the costs of a Windows license, PCs are cheaper to implement than Macs for most tasks. When it comes to upgrading your Mac, have you ever tried installing Wi-Fi on some of the iMac models? An overpriced and unwieldy situation. Both the iMac and eMac models have notorious upgrade issues.
I use a Mac 2 days a week at work, I was the person who advised my employer to install them and ditch the old PC based network. This was basically to prevent employee stupidity related problems, and to provide simple platforms for the relatively computer-illeterate employees and interns that work in the non-profit arts industry. After spending 2 weeks with that idiotic mouse that came with my eMac, I had the early signs of nasty carpal tunnel syndrome. I use a mouse 4-12 hours every day, and I have never had wrist pain, until I tried using that stupid mouse. The dock, with its hopping icons, annoys the shit out of me.
I am coming at this issue with the perspective of someone who has used Macs for over 20 years, and finds them awkward and often times inefficient for the tasks at hand. I think many Mac enthusiasts feel that PC users would use Macs if we only knew "how great they are". Speaking as someone who is familiar with both platforms, I feel that the PC has a lot more potential and dollar for dollar, can provide vastly more performace at all office tasks, and many specialised ones. If Macs could play most games, no I would not switch. I find the Mac UI to be poorly designed, and I dislike not having the kind of gearhead control over my machine that I am used to. Besides Macs are so damn ugly.
About the photo/image editing issue. I built a custom PC for doing my professional imaging work. I work with vector graphics images that can take minutes or even chunks of an hour to render(on any platform). Frankly, buying a Mac designed for this purpose would not be an economic option for me, but building a custom PC that blows most Macs out of the water, was easy, cheap and fun. Most large imaging and effects houses either switching to or are doing their rendering on Linux systems/clusters, as they are cheaper and more effective per dollar than Macs. The Mac is no longer the digital imaging powerhouse that it once was, sorry. I personally believe that the reason you still see widespread use of Macs in the graphic design/photography world is that the userbase is accustomed to using them, not because there is some magic Mac component that, per dollar spent on hardware, renders images faster.
My system is faster, cheaper and more versatile than any Mac I have ever used. The PC UI for most imaging programs is damn near the same as it is for Macs, I just have a 3-button mouse and a scroll wheel to increase my productivity even more. I can upgrade components without having to deal with the Apple pricing/ripoff structure. I can download all kinds of Windows programs to carry out unusual or minor tasks, and I can pop over to my Linux partition and work on stuff there. I can play all of the latest games (my work deals with video game imagery, this is key for me) and I don't have any security/firewall issues. I spend less than 5 minutes a week actively doing security on my box, too.
I agree that out of the box, Macs have vastly fewer security issues than Windows computers do. That is the only reason I would reccomend using one, for environments where you cannot trust your employees not to create big security holes.
There is a whole hot-rod modding community for PC users out there. I can customise my machine in almost any way imaginable. Macs are not particularily casemod friendly.
Yeah, Mac Snobs are assholes. When I built my latest computer from scratch, I put more love, care and design thought into it than went into either busted arm flatscreen or overheated mini-ITX cube. I have to use an eMac at work 2 days a week and it is like riding a big wheel, awkward, slow and limited in capability. Hell even my defiant usage of an ergonomically designed, 3 button, scroll wheel mouse indicates that I care more about my machine(and my wrist) than the imbicile that designed that hockey puck disaster. As I sit here gazing into the plexiglas window of my PC, my room illuminated by the endless whirring of a nest of orange LED fans, I can't help but feel sorry for Mac users.
I wonder how many of us are actually going to shell out for new graphics hardware. We are kind of hitting the wall in performace here already.
Regardless of Microsoft's policies, he may have a legitimate right to return his product. Anyone can legally return anything which they feel has not performed adequately as a product, withing any amount of time. All he has to do is demonstrate that 1 year of normal operation is not the lifespan of the product and the manufacturer must return it. In this case, it is painfully easy to demonstrate that "video game consoles" have an average lifespan longer than 1 year. In order to refute his claim, Microsoft would basically be forced to publicly state that their product has an unnaturally short lifespan, something that might be more damaging to them than the lawsuit itself, and definitely more costly than replacing a single defective unit. If they are stupid enough not to quietly replace the defective unit, they might find themselves in a very messy legal situation, like a class action lawsuit. Large companies perform service or replace products long after the end of warranties or service agreements like this all of the time, in order to prevent publicised legal action against them. This general legal principle applies to most mechanical products, as well as items like apparel and household goods. If you buy a belt and it keeps breaking, you can return it months, or years later, after purchase. Another good reason to throw all of your receipts in a box, and to make copies of ones for important and expensive goods, like your laptop or desktop computer.