You do realize that Doom 3 is limited to 4 players only in the Doom "mod" itself, right? It can be changed to however many players to mod creator likes (within the limits of the engine). As for Half-Life 2, Valve announced they will be releasing mod tools before the game was released.
Except the license prohibits you from running it in an internet cafe, and you can install only one copy per computer for your LAN party. By the way, I'm reporting you.
Sounds like someone has never heard of commercial liscensing. Most companies have some sort of liscensing agreements either from themselves (Like Blizzard) or through third party entities. The owners subscribe to these and can use the software ina commercial enviroment.
The last part was one from of Black Bush's aids eating a basket of chicken. Right before the sketch ended he yells it out. Doesn't sound anything like Deans outburst. Though my spelling probably lends a lot of different pronunciations of the onomonopia.
"Y'all need to stop worrying about the middle east and the economy. I got that under control! And we aint stoppin' at the moon. Write this down. M-A-R-S, Mars bitches. We're going to Mars. Red Rocks!"
When "Keep my up to date automatically" is checked by default on XP, I don't think double clicking an icon that says "Updates are ready to install" is that difficult.
Yeah, but ATI deserved it. The whole Quake/"Quack" debacle didn't get nearly as much press as it should've.
That was one of the most profoundly ignorant things I think I have ever had the misfortune of reading.
Nevermind the fact that since the Quake/Quack issue was widely publicized among hardware review sites, there was no coverge that the final release of the drivers (yes, they were betas) fixed the IQ issue and maintained the performance.
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Not a fan of the G4TV as well. Arena I think burns my ass the most. LAN parties are enough of a social nightmare to go to in the first place, but when these people are put on TV and shown to play games while bantering back and forth about "ownage", it's a case to make for complete FCC dominance of the cable networks.
One more thing that irked me a bit. On an E3 preview show, the hosts were talking about Knights of the Old Republic 2. But instead of saying, "Knights of the Old Republic 2" they would sound out the acronym. So every time it left their mouths it came out as "coat-oar two."
The reporting got me the most. Ugh, it was shameful.
I recall when the nVidia clip planes in 3dmark03 were discovered, it hit most of the major news sites. When TechTV (via The Screen Savers) read the Inquirer article about it, they showed the clip planes and said it was ATI cheating.
Huh, I like it. "Merchants of Cool" was the only other Frontline episode I have seen (that was what, 3-4 years ago?) and now will eagerly watch it again.
I found it interesting how in MoC (acronyms rule) they followed the careers of the Insane Clown Posse as a fringe-indy band that did claimed to do it for the music. Afetr they got signed to a major label, their tune quickly changed to, "It's all about the cash."
Not that I had any emotional stock in the Insane Clown Possey, but the sudden shift in attitude was funny to see.
I don't work in IT, so whenever I do work for friends or family on their PC's (backup, spyware, firewall, etc) I always charge cost of parts and a case of beer.
Tampering with delivery services (UPS, FedEx, etc) is tantamount to felony mail tampering in the US. I know at UPS employees are informed right up front that theft of parcel is a felony that carries jail time and/or pricey fines.
Maybe, but if you're including the chips being put into consoles, you have to include the chips being built into low-end motherboards. ATI doesn't exactly have a large share in integrated video.
Except for the fact that ATi already has a substantial lead in integrated mobile solutions over their closest competitor, Nvidia. Not to mention ATi has had a liscencing agreement with intel for some time to produce motherboards with integrated graphics solutions (see: RS300 with 9100IGP).
I'm just going by what I was told by him. He really enjoyed his visit and doesn't have a penchant for lying, so I have no reason to doubt what he was saying.
As for him being woken up by their entering, he wasn't staying at the Ritz. It was a very impoverished town and his lodgings were provided by the lowest bidder. He talekd about he had a problem with large spiders getting into his room because there was basicly no sealed doors.
The AK47 deal can be wrong, I agree. He wasn't taking down model names when he had guns in his face. Generally when woken up by armed police, one doesn't think, "Was that a 30 round banana clip?"
But it's noce to see that someone thinks I "made up" the story. There is much more I can tell you about his trip that I "made up", like how he was stuck sleeping in the airport for a few days because of passport and monetary issues. Or how his computer was "displaced" when trying to go through the red tape ins ending it back. of course why would you believe it since I "made it up" because......well I can't think why I would make this up. Ass.
A friend went to China about 2 years ago to teach English as a seond language to Chinese students. It was a nice little gig, he had to pay for airfare and food, but got free accomodations. It was also a program designed for people that don't speak Chinese. The idea was to teach kids who already knew a bulk of english how to use pronunciation.
Anyway, he kept in touch with me and other people through the use of internet cafes, so we talked fairly often. Then a few days went by where he wasn't logging on. It turns out government monitors had flagged his usage because he had been visitng a lot of American web sites. He told me he woke up one moring with AK-47's pointed at his face and was taken to a local precinct.
A rep from the agency he was working for had explained the sitation to the police, but from there on he was forced to fill out paperwork outlining his planned usage activities on the terminals.
And for a funny tidbit, he didn't realize the massage parlors in the city he worked were of the "full release" variety.
This reminds me of an episode of Law & Order where the stereotypical 13 year old computer prodigy was put on trial for manslaughter for making a virus that would infect medical computers to increase the perscribed dosage of insulin to diabetes patients. The patients would go into shock and then die. Damn, that was a good episode.
I miss DA Adam Schiff.
I can't agree more with what you said. I dabbled in Spanish and German in high school. Both classes made me appreciate the intricacies and nuances of language. I had a better appreciation for not only other languages, but my own as well.
And I am most definitely a part of that backlash. When I see "loose" being used in place of "lose", my blood starts boiling.
Of course, none of this excuses my notoriously poor typing skills. Typo-s aplenty!
"I think you're talking abuot softmodded 9500s to 9700s. The Radeon 9500 had 8 pipelines, and so did the 9700, it was just that the 9500 was clocked slower."
The 9500 had 8 pipelines on the PCB, yes, but only 4 were active. The driver soft mod activated those four pipelines. Some pople that tried the softmod saw corruption on the screen, a sure fire sign that one of the pipelines was, indeed, bad.
" Isn't the image quality usually like this?
Matrox > ATI > NVIDIA"
It's depends on what is going on. Matrox clearly has the upper edge in 2d. In 3d, it's hard to say because each card has it's strengths of certain aspects. Like my previous example,
But high FPS is also subjective matter. If I get a steady 30fps, I consider that good. Other say they need at least 60. It's a strange fascination people have with high FPS. If I am getting FPS in the 100's and it starts dipping down to the 50's, I can really notice it and get pissed. But if it's steady (thank you, vertical sync) I can play fine and afford to turn up the eye candy.
As for IQ, it would be considerably hard to do, but that's not to say it hasn't been done. It's widely accepted that on the current generation, ATi's FSAA is superior to nVidias across the board. In AF, ATi doesn't apply the settings to 45 degree angles, so nVidia's is superior. And then you factor in drivers. For instance, the 52.16 detonators (now Forceware) do not render some lighting properly in Halo (among others), so it could be said that their IQ is inferior in many apps.
"Actually I think thats possible. Wasn't the 5800 clocked at 500mhz and the 5900 clocked at lower speeds. Though I don't think the 5800 should really be counted as it never was really distibuted in large numbers."
I'm not sure what the effect raw clock speed has on AquaMark, but you'd think the considerably better memory controller and slight architectural advances on the 5900's would make up for that, and not leave it in the dust.
Not to mention driver trickery which makes things even more difficult to compare.
The article is filled with innaccuracies and inconsistancies. Calling the FX architecture 8x1 when it always operates in 4x2, the strange results of the FX 5800 ultra beating the 5900 ultra in Aquamark (by a considerable amount).
The "Fbucks" is a nice idea, but only mentions one important aspect of video cards, the FPS. What about image quality? Features? Drivers? To greater extent, bundles with the brands? The chart is also listing cards that have long been out of production and are becoming exceedingly difficult to come by (see: Geforce FX 5800 series, Radeon 9500 sries).
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You do realize that Doom 3 is limited to 4 players only in the Doom "mod" itself, right? It can be changed to however many players to mod creator likes (within the limits of the engine). As for Half-Life 2, Valve announced they will be releasing mod tools before the game was released.
Except the license prohibits you from running it in an internet cafe, and you can install only one copy per computer for your LAN party. By the way, I'm reporting you.
Sounds like someone has never heard of commercial liscensing. Most companies have some sort of liscensing agreements either from themselves (Like Blizzard) or through third party entities. The owners subscribe to these and can use the software ina commercial enviroment.
The last part was one from of Black Bush's aids eating a basket of chicken. Right before the sketch ended he yells it out. Doesn't sound anything like Deans outburst. Though my spelling probably lends a lot of different pronunciations of the onomonopia.
Ummm....I mean Black Bush. Next time I need to preview everything.
"Y'all need to stop worrying about the middle east and the economy. I got that under control! And we aint stoppin' at the moon. Write this down. M-A-R-S, Mars bitches. We're going to Mars. Red Rocks!"
/very ad-libbed
"Yeai yeaaaaii!"
When "Keep my up to date automatically" is checked by default on XP, I don't think double clicking an icon that says "Updates are ready to install" is that difficult.
Put panels on an umbrella, then it gives you shade and power. Not only that, but build the antenna into the umbrella shaft.
Yeah, but ATI deserved it. The whole Quake/"Quack" debacle didn't get nearly as much press as it should've.
That was one of the most profoundly ignorant things I think I have ever had the misfortune of reading.
Nevermind the fact that since the Quake/Quack issue was widely publicized among hardware review sites, there was no coverge that the final release of the drivers (yes, they were betas) fixed the IQ issue and maintained the performance.
Not a fan of the G4TV as well. Arena I think burns my ass the most. LAN parties are enough of a social nightmare to go to in the first place, but when these people are put on TV and shown to play games while bantering back and forth about "ownage", it's a case to make for complete FCC dominance of the cable networks.
One more thing that irked me a bit. On an E3 preview show, the hosts were talking about Knights of the Old Republic 2. But instead of saying, "Knights of the Old Republic 2" they would sound out the acronym. So every time it left their mouths it came out as "coat-oar two."
The reporting got me the most. Ugh, it was shameful.
I recall when the nVidia clip planes in 3dmark03 were discovered, it hit most of the major news sites. When TechTV (via The Screen Savers) read the Inquirer article about it, they showed the clip planes and said it was ATI cheating.
Huh, I like it. "Merchants of Cool" was the only other Frontline episode I have seen (that was what, 3-4 years ago?) and now will eagerly watch it again.
I found it interesting how in MoC (acronyms rule) they followed the careers of the Insane Clown Posse as a fringe-indy band that did claimed to do it for the music. Afetr they got signed to a major label, their tune quickly changed to, "It's all about the cash."
Not that I had any emotional stock in the Insane Clown Possey, but the sudden shift in attitude was funny to see.
I don't work in IT, so whenever I do work for friends or family on their PC's (backup, spyware, firewall, etc) I always charge cost of parts and a case of beer.
Tampering with delivery services (UPS, FedEx, etc) is tantamount to felony mail tampering in the US. I know at UPS employees are informed right up front that theft of parcel is a felony that carries jail time and/or pricey fines.
Nuculure. Use some strategery, morans.
Maybe, but if you're including the chips being put into consoles, you have to include the chips being built into low-end motherboards. ATI doesn't exactly have a large share in integrated video.
Except for the fact that ATi already has a substantial lead in integrated mobile solutions over their closest competitor, Nvidia. Not to mention ATi has had a liscencing agreement with intel for some time to produce motherboards with integrated graphics solutions (see: RS300 with 9100IGP).
Except for the fact that Nvidia's card haven't hit the market yet. X800 pro's are already shipping and the x800XT is soon to follow.
I'm just going by what I was told by him. He really enjoyed his visit and doesn't have a penchant for lying, so I have no reason to doubt what he was saying.
As for him being woken up by their entering, he wasn't staying at the Ritz. It was a very impoverished town and his lodgings were provided by the lowest bidder. He talekd about he had a problem with large spiders getting into his room because there was basicly no sealed doors.
The AK47 deal can be wrong, I agree. He wasn't taking down model names when he had guns in his face. Generally when woken up by armed police, one doesn't think, "Was that a 30 round banana clip?"
But it's noce to see that someone thinks I "made up" the story. There is much more I can tell you about his trip that I "made up", like how he was stuck sleeping in the airport for a few days because of passport and monetary issues. Or how his computer was "displaced" when trying to go through the red tape ins ending it back. of course why would you believe it since I "made it up" because......well I can't think why I would make this up. Ass.
A friend went to China about 2 years ago to teach English as a seond language to Chinese students. It was a nice little gig, he had to pay for airfare and food, but got free accomodations. It was also a program designed for people that don't speak Chinese. The idea was to teach kids who already knew a bulk of english how to use pronunciation.
Anyway, he kept in touch with me and other people through the use of internet cafes, so we talked fairly often. Then a few days went by where he wasn't logging on. It turns out government monitors had flagged his usage because he had been visitng a lot of American web sites. He told me he woke up one moring with AK-47's pointed at his face and was taken to a local precinct.
A rep from the agency he was working for had explained the sitation to the police, but from there on he was forced to fill out paperwork outlining his planned usage activities on the terminals.
And for a funny tidbit, he didn't realize the massage parlors in the city he worked were of the "full release" variety.
This reminds me of an episode of Law & Order where the stereotypical 13 year old computer prodigy was put on trial for manslaughter for making a virus that would infect medical computers to increase the perscribed dosage of insulin to diabetes patients. The patients would go into shock and then die. Damn, that was a good episode. I miss DA Adam Schiff.
I can't agree more with what you said. I dabbled in Spanish and German in high school. Both classes made me appreciate the intricacies and nuances of language. I had a better appreciation for not only other languages, but my own as well.
And I am most definitely a part of that backlash. When I see "loose" being used in place of "lose", my blood starts boiling.
Of course, none of this excuses my notoriously poor typing skills. Typo-s aplenty!
"I think you're talking abuot softmodded 9500s to 9700s. The Radeon 9500 had 8 pipelines, and so did the 9700, it was just that the 9500 was clocked slower." The 9500 had 8 pipelines on the PCB, yes, but only 4 were active. The driver soft mod activated those four pipelines. Some pople that tried the softmod saw corruption on the screen, a sure fire sign that one of the pipelines was, indeed, bad.
" Isn't the image quality usually like this? Matrox > ATI > NVIDIA" It's depends on what is going on. Matrox clearly has the upper edge in 2d. In 3d, it's hard to say because each card has it's strengths of certain aspects. Like my previous example,
FSAA: ATi > nVidia AF: nVidia > ATi
But high FPS is also subjective matter. If I get a steady 30fps, I consider that good. Other say they need at least 60. It's a strange fascination people have with high FPS. If I am getting FPS in the 100's and it starts dipping down to the 50's, I can really notice it and get pissed. But if it's steady (thank you, vertical sync) I can play fine and afford to turn up the eye candy.
As for IQ, it would be considerably hard to do, but that's not to say it hasn't been done. It's widely accepted that on the current generation, ATi's FSAA is superior to nVidias across the board. In AF, ATi doesn't apply the settings to 45 degree angles, so nVidia's is superior. And then you factor in drivers. For instance, the 52.16 detonators (now Forceware) do not render some lighting properly in Halo (among others), so it could be said that their IQ is inferior in many apps.
"Actually I think thats possible. Wasn't the 5800 clocked at 500mhz and the 5900 clocked at lower speeds. Though I don't think the 5800 should really be counted as it never was really distibuted in large numbers." I'm not sure what the effect raw clock speed has on AquaMark, but you'd think the considerably better memory controller and slight architectural advances on the 5900's would make up for that, and not leave it in the dust. Not to mention driver trickery which makes things even more difficult to compare.
The article is filled with innaccuracies and inconsistancies. Calling the FX architecture 8x1 when it always operates in 4x2, the strange results of the FX 5800 ultra beating the 5900 ultra in Aquamark (by a considerable amount). The "Fbucks" is a nice idea, but only mentions one important aspect of video cards, the FPS. What about image quality? Features? Drivers? To greater extent, bundles with the brands? The chart is also listing cards that have long been out of production and are becoming exceedingly difficult to come by (see: Geforce FX 5800 series, Radeon 9500 sries).