Heck with all that stuff. I'm still laughing my ass off that they're claiming Altivec emulation. HAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAA!! I'd LOVE to see you try to emulate Altivec on an x86 chip! 162 128-bit vector instructions. SSE3 doesn't even come close to that. I'm sure it could be done, but it would be slower than an asthmatic turtle. The guy running this company is a total twatwaffle.
An estimated 10% of the autistic population
Bullshit. They must mean 10% of the low-functioning autism community. The rates of savantism are nowhere near that good for the Asperger/PDD crowd.
It's not that they made money, it's that they had announced Halo for Mac/PC and weren't too far from releasing it when they were bought up by Microsoft. Then they delayed it's release for two years. They fucked over the very people that put them where they are. The ports were third party and the network code is shit. You get nasty lag when two hogs knock into each other on a 100Mbps LAN. I've been a real fan since the days of Marathon, but fuck Bungie for selling out like they did and abandoning their very loyal fanbase. Buncha assholes.
Actually, VHS wasn't better.
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Maybe in the early days of the video wars, but Beta turned out to be a far superior format than VHS. The quality was better, less quality was lost when copying, the tapes were a bit smaller, Beta tapes last longer, etc. The reason VHS won was because a Beta would only hold one hour and a VHS would hold two when they were released. Later Beta tapes would hold 5 hours in an extended play format, and they'd lose less quality in the extended format as well. Sucks that VHS had to win.
I live in Grant County, Washington, where the local PUD made a metric asston of cash selling power to California. Now we have 100Mbps residential fiber optics for about $30 a month. I'm hosting a webserver out of my basement with pretty good speeds. I love it. 3Mbps cable seems like shit in comparison.
Mac OS X will allow the user to write to the System/Library/ directory (and any folder contained therein) without root access. I know this because I JUST DID IT on 10.3.5. It takes a system administrator (not the same thing as root) password to do it, but most installers require a password anway. This could be a problem. Maybe 10.3.6 or a security update will fix this vulnerability.
Ah, but they're not just portable music players. They're portable hard drives with a music player built around them, and not only that, they're BOOTABLE hard drives. I'll bet anything that Apple techs love the things. They can jam to music, back up their data, and they can also install Mac OS X on it and boot any Mac made in the past 5 years off of it and use troubleshooting tools, you guessed, installed right on the iPod. The charging via firewire is really handy too. But more than that, Apple just made it hip. I don't give a crap, but I love my old 5 gig model. Every other weekend, I drive an hour to, then an hour from. The thing has been invaluable on those trips. Much easier and more elegant than a discman and a bunch of CDs.
Atlivec is a 128-bit vector processing unit with 162 instructions. I would LOVE to see an x86 chip (32 or 64 bit) just TRY to emulate that at 80% speed. They'll be lucky to get 25%.
Think of the possibilities! If you could infect a pay-per-minute webcam site, then you get all the free live porn you could ever want! Anyone know how to get ahold of the data coming out of infected boxes?
Why this fucking horrid movie has such a devoted following is utterly beyond me. It was quite obviously low budget, the costumes stank, the acting was horrible (ESPECIALLY Nicol Williamson, the guy playing Merlin. That fucking hack couldn't be more ham-handed if he were fistfucking Ms. Piggy), the sets stank, it was crummily written and directed, the score often didn't fit, it was uneven and lurched all over the damn place at the drop of a hat, often it was utterly confusing and nonsensical...the list goes on. Need I mention that Boorman had just directed The Excorcist 2 (which is on the list) just before he laid this steamy pile?
I hope they don't have to run any 32-bit apps on this thing. If they do, it might achieve the computing power of a 233mhz Pentium 2. Why the hell are they building it out of Itanics? G5s or AMD 64s would produce a lot less heat and eat a lot less power and would probably trounce the Itanics anyway.
Yes, but how could Wal-Mart maintain their low level of quality? They'd have to make the service reps lumbering mutants, make the connection speeds fluctuate, sell it to mulleted trailer trash, and require every customer to use one of those smell-boxes so they can broadcast their terrific stench with every connection.
A 100Mbps fiber optic pipe, to be precise, and at my home in shitty Moses Lake, WA, no less. Our county is laying it all over the place. Wouldn't it be nice if everybody did this?
Now if they can just lock away all the other Spamming dirtbags (with special punishment dished out to Snotty Scotty Richter), then it'll be a good start. Spammers have gone lower on the detestability scale than lawyers.
They can only sell so many copies of XP, and Shoehorn wont be out for another 2 years at least, probably more. MS is languishing here. Even open browsers are starting to take a bite out of IE because all MS has done with it is plug up the multitude of security holes.
Halo isn't really a sequel. In the chronology, Halo actually takes place BEFORE Marathon. The colony ship was en route to Tau Ceti for several centuries, remember. I don't see Halo as existing in the same universe. Wouldn't the Covenant have run into the Pfhor at some point?
And Bungie didn't go to the PC side per se. They made several Mac/PC games, which was fine. But they sold out to MS and bragged about "Full publishing rights." BULLSHIT! They fucked their core fan base over with Halo! We had to wait 3 years for the Mac/PC version! They turned their backs on the very people that put them where they are today, the fucking sellouts. I hope Alex Seropian and Jason Jones (two men who I thought of as Gods as a youth) choke on the MS BS.
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Heck with all that stuff. I'm still laughing my ass off that they're claiming Altivec emulation. HAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAA!! I'd LOVE to see you try to emulate Altivec on an x86 chip! 162 128-bit vector instructions. SSE3 doesn't even come close to that. I'm sure it could be done, but it would be slower than an asthmatic turtle. The guy running this company is a total twatwaffle.
Yeah, just think of what would happen if they ran at an enemy shouting "LIGHTNING BOLT! LIGHTNING BOLT!" and throwing balls of tinfoil...
Probably redundant by now, but oh well.
An estimated 10% of the autistic population Bullshit. They must mean 10% of the low-functioning autism community. The rates of savantism are nowhere near that good for the Asperger/PDD crowd.
How long after I download this will my computer start threatening to kill me?
It's not that they made money, it's that they had announced Halo for Mac/PC and weren't too far from releasing it when they were bought up by Microsoft. Then they delayed it's release for two years. They fucked over the very people that put them where they are. The ports were third party and the network code is shit. You get nasty lag when two hogs knock into each other on a 100Mbps LAN. I've been a real fan since the days of Marathon, but fuck Bungie for selling out like they did and abandoning their very loyal fanbase. Buncha assholes.
Maybe in the early days of the video wars, but Beta turned out to be a far superior format than VHS. The quality was better, less quality was lost when copying, the tapes were a bit smaller, Beta tapes last longer, etc. The reason VHS won was because a Beta would only hold one hour and a VHS would hold two when they were released. Later Beta tapes would hold 5 hours in an extended play format, and they'd lose less quality in the extended format as well. Sucks that VHS had to win.
Just a little late on that one, pal. ;)
Now we will live forever! We will live forever! We will live forever!
Good. I hope they have their inboxes filled with junk in the joint.
I live in Grant County, Washington, where the local PUD made a metric asston of cash selling power to California. Now we have 100Mbps residential fiber optics for about $30 a month. I'm hosting a webserver out of my basement with pretty good speeds. I love it. 3Mbps cable seems like shit in comparison.
Mac OS X will allow the user to write to the System/Library/ directory (and any folder contained therein) without root access. I know this because I JUST DID IT on 10.3.5. It takes a system administrator (not the same thing as root) password to do it, but most installers require a password anway. This could be a problem. Maybe 10.3.6 or a security update will fix this vulnerability.
Ah, but they're not just portable music players. They're portable hard drives with a music player built around them, and not only that, they're BOOTABLE hard drives. I'll bet anything that Apple techs love the things. They can jam to music, back up their data, and they can also install Mac OS X on it and boot any Mac made in the past 5 years off of it and use troubleshooting tools, you guessed, installed right on the iPod. The charging via firewire is really handy too. But more than that, Apple just made it hip. I don't give a crap, but I love my old 5 gig model. Every other weekend, I drive an hour to, then an hour from. The thing has been invaluable on those trips. Much easier and more elegant than a discman and a bunch of CDs.
Atlivec is a 128-bit vector processing unit with 162 instructions. I would LOVE to see an x86 chip (32 or 64 bit) just TRY to emulate that at 80% speed. They'll be lucky to get 25%.
Think of the possibilities! If you could infect a pay-per-minute webcam site, then you get all the free live porn you could ever want! Anyone know how to get ahold of the data coming out of infected boxes?
Then it must suck if Boorman directed it. That hackassed mofo also did The Excorcist 2 and Excalibur, both horrible, horrible films.
Why this fucking horrid movie has such a devoted following is utterly beyond me. It was quite obviously low budget, the costumes stank, the acting was horrible (ESPECIALLY Nicol Williamson, the guy playing Merlin. That fucking hack couldn't be more ham-handed if he were fistfucking Ms. Piggy), the sets stank, it was crummily written and directed, the score often didn't fit, it was uneven and lurched all over the damn place at the drop of a hat, often it was utterly confusing and nonsensical...the list goes on. Need I mention that Boorman had just directed The Excorcist 2 (which is on the list) just before he laid this steamy pile?
I hope they don't have to run any 32-bit apps on this thing. If they do, it might achieve the computing power of a 233mhz Pentium 2. Why the hell are they building it out of Itanics? G5s or AMD 64s would produce a lot less heat and eat a lot less power and would probably trounce the Itanics anyway.
Yes, but how could Wal-Mart maintain their low level of quality? They'd have to make the service reps lumbering mutants, make the connection speeds fluctuate, sell it to mulleted trailer trash, and require every customer to use one of those smell-boxes so they can broadcast their terrific stench with every connection.
But broadband porno is a Constitutional right!
And how do you propose this be accomplished? How in the hell would a Democrat congress change anything?
A 100Mbps fiber optic pipe, to be precise, and at my home in shitty Moses Lake, WA, no less. Our county is laying it all over the place. Wouldn't it be nice if everybody did this?
Now if they can just lock away all the other Spamming dirtbags (with special punishment dished out to Snotty Scotty Richter), then it'll be a good start. Spammers have gone lower on the detestability scale than lawyers.
They can only sell so many copies of XP, and Shoehorn wont be out for another 2 years at least, probably more. MS is languishing here. Even open browsers are starting to take a bite out of IE because all MS has done with it is plug up the multitude of security holes.
He loses more money when he leaves chunk change in his pockets and puts the pants through the wash!
Halo isn't really a sequel. In the chronology, Halo actually takes place BEFORE Marathon. The colony ship was en route to Tau Ceti for several centuries, remember. I don't see Halo as existing in the same universe. Wouldn't the Covenant have run into the Pfhor at some point? And Bungie didn't go to the PC side per se. They made several Mac/PC games, which was fine. But they sold out to MS and bragged about "Full publishing rights." BULLSHIT! They fucked their core fan base over with Halo! We had to wait 3 years for the Mac/PC version! They turned their backs on the very people that put them where they are today, the fucking sellouts. I hope Alex Seropian and Jason Jones (two men who I thought of as Gods as a youth) choke on the MS BS.