I live in Seattle, and our cops have been out of control for a long time. They have long done what they want and let the courts deal with if it's right or wrong. Why do they do this? Because they never get in trouble for what they do. They don't get in trouble for killing people without weapons. They do not get in trouble for causing accidents (and deaths) for driving fast to calls after the "everything is alright" call.
There has been a few occasion that I wished our police cars had video camera's mounted on them so I, or a friend could have proof of what really went on with them, instead of "their word" in the police report. Which is funny, as the police are trained to lie, yet everything they say or write in a police report is taken at face value.
As much as I don't like invasion of privacy, I believe that police forces need to be closely monitored, mainly when they are on calls or dealing with "suspects" (their word, not mine, it's just that anytime they talk to someone they considered them to be a "suspect" regardless if the person is guilty or innoceint)
an lame AC posted: If you want to have a tonne of spyware/adware installed onto your system (specifically system32), load up this site with IE6. Fully patched or not, it will install several spywares automatically upon loading up the main site. No permission is asked, and no dialogs pop up. The only indication that anything's wrong is that there's a lot of activeX "plugin" mentions in the status bar, and a lot of warnings from your firewall as the spyware phones home.
http://www.torrentreactor.com
well, that explains why it takes forever to loadt his site in firefox and always errors out, even though all the torrent links are loaded.
if you went in to store and stole the physical package, you wouldn't be charge with stealing from Rockstar, you'd be charge with theft (shoplifting) from the place you stoled it from.
While downloading copyrighted material is against the law, you can in no way convince me that the company loses money that way. The stuff I download I would NOT every buy. if I like the game, then yes, I will buy it. Everyone I know is the same way, they will download the game to try it, and if they like it, they buy the game. Maybe if these companys stopped trying to pass off crap they would make a little more money.
gotta love it when people tell you a solution, yet they've never used it themselves.
Dreamcast divx player sucks. you have to reencode everything, lower the bit rate/ resolution.
Way too much work, mainly since this product is made so people who don't know much about computers, can watch the divx disks that they download or that they're friends give them.
Don't get me wrong, I have a Dreamcast and love it. But it barely plays VCD. Now maybe if someone with a professional SDK for the Dreamcast was to make a divx player, maybe it will be useable, but i'm not holding my breath.
Dreamcast is a great machine for learning to program on consoles, or playing with the homebrew community cheaply.
twiddlingbits said: "...The Gov't is only going to be reading your email if you are a "bad guy" anyway...."
no. The government wants to read EVERYBODY'S email to find the "bad guys".
and please note, "bad guys" is wrong also. You are innocent until proven guilty is supposed to be the american way. of course, only money gets you off.
but then, we are talking terrorism here, and it seems they are guilty and have no rights.
not my opinion, but fact in how our government treats these terrorist. though I don't recall any trials yet proving they are terrorist, so I'm not really sure. I recall when the lame ass american guy blew up the oklahoma place, he got a trial and was proven guilty. I liked that. Made me feel like some sort of justice was done. The way we've handled 9/11 makes me feel unsafe, from both terrorist and my government. It's a shame.
funny, very funny. What about us that don't have any friends, because we spend all our times playing vid games? And people on my "EQ Friends list" are not my friends, I don't even know most of their real names.
you are the one missing the point, benna. People watch it because they enjoy it. You do NOT obviously enjoy it, so I assume you do not watch it. If people didn't watch the show, they wouldn't make it, or if they did make it, wouldn't make money off of it (because networks wouldn't show it if they get too many complaints). That how tv works.
But crying about peoples bad taste, and trying to tell others not to watch it because YOU don't watch it is lame and selfish.
I personally don't watch much reality shows because I think they are stupid. So I watch other things on TV. Very simple, I just change the channel.
Everyone has different taste, the networks try to make money by showing stuff the appeals to some majority of people ('cept niche channels, like food, so on). They cannot please everyone all the time. hell, they can't please most people most the time. That's why there is feedback and Nelson ratings and so on.
So it's very simple, you don't like a show, don't watch it, complain to the network hosting the show, complain to the company producing the show.
But DO NOT try to blame people for watching the show. People are allowed to watch what they want, even if you do NOT like it. I know it hurts to hear that the world does no evolve around you, but it's true. I'm sorry.
it's not that they found him guilty in the civil courts, it's just that they found enough evidence to hold him responsible for their deaths.
what I always found amusing was a drug connection that the guy who was killed had. It seemed that there was some evidence or something to suggest that it could of been a drug related pay back or something. But the police didn't bother checking into it because they were sure they had there man. after all the gloved fit. my mistake, I guess the glove didn't fit.
In civil court you just basicly have to show that someone is responsible for what happened. Not that they are definetly the cause of it.
of course, IANAL, and this was awhile ago, and I'd reciting all of this from my memory, so take it as you will.
Upload limiting is a need feature of any software that acts like a server. Most broadband accounts have a way lower upload then download speed. I run, let's say a bit torrent client. it's eating all the upload bandwidth, it causes my computer to slow down. a friend wanted me to download a movie for him, had to use a torrent to get it. his roommate now thinks that those programs eats all the bandwidth, when that isn't the case. What happened was the torrent client (I think torrentstorm) was eating all the upload bandwidth, so it was causing problems with his EQ game he was playing. Trying to convince them that when I run a newsgroup binaries grabber won't 'cause lag has been a pain.
stebbivignir says, "...ARICE, the newest one of the two fiber-optic cables connecting Iceland to the rest of the world has the maximum bandwith of 720Gb/s and CANTAT-3 has the maximum bandwidth of 2,5Gb/s. Is that enough for the whole world?"
let's see, at one time 640k was thought to be more memory then anyone would ever need.
What's huge by todays terms, will not be huge down the road.
but yes, it does seem like they have a nice pipe that would be best hosting files for the world. =)
Like I explain to my friend, MDM (Millineum Digital Media, internet cable provider) is the only cable provider that still has bin newsgroups, so it's our duty to use them, while they are still there.
Funnier was another friend who was on MDM, got a letter saying that he downloaded then shared spider-man 2 game. they closed his account down until he signed a letter saying he wouldn't do that again. So he dropped his account and got MSN DSL. Then he asks me to show him how to use the newsgroups (which I'd been trying to get him to use the whole time he had MDM). Should of seen the look on his face when he realised that he just cancled his account from the best place to get newsgroup access in Seattle.
But he's one of those people who never listen to what you say because he thinks he has a better way to do things. so it was just karma biting him back...
actually, Intel is the giant. amd is a much smaller company.
The reason why I think it's split because the serious games all have homebuilt amd machines, while the casual games have dell, hp, etc. bought systems that have intel processors.
no, you don't do a clean install then go on the net to download the patches. you download the full patches, burn those to disk, or if you are able to follow instructions, you slipstream sp1 & sp2 onto a bootable window xp disk, then you don't have to worry about the firewall or patching it after you do the clean install.
Also, the utility Nlite http://nuhi.msfn.org/ will slipstream service packs and updates onto a disk image for you. It will also remove stuff off the windows disk, like drivers you don't need, apps you don't need, even Internet Explorer. Personally, I like that you can take MSN Explorer, Messenger, and other non need programs that are security risks. I haven't used the program yet, but it seems like a very nice one. You can also put the cdkey in the install program so you don't have to enter it when your installing. sweet.
88NoSoup4U88 says, "How about Hiring Charles Bronson ?..."
not that you or anyone cares, but poor old Charlies died. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000314/ So unless they restore heads futurerama style, no more Death Wishes...
(of course, now that I said that, someones going to make a new Death Wish movie...)
I have this friend who always talks about how bluetooth is the end all, it's so rad, blah, blah, blah. I then asked him to list all the devices he knows that uses it. Just the cell phone he thought about buying. He mistakenly thought that all computers had it, till I corrected him on that.
I personally don't think that bluetooth is ever going to catch on. It's not a bad idea, but no one is actually implementing it in things that could use it, now. LIke the ipod, like my pda's, my mp3 player, any of my wireless items, or any items I have that should be wireless.
am I wrong? It sounds to me like it's just hype. Like all the companies are waiting for the other companies to start putting it in their products. So they wait, and wait instead of implementing and using.
This is just my opinion based on what I see and experience. I personally would love a bluetooth type item so I don't have to bother connecting my pda/mp3/cell phone (can't even back my cell phone up as it is, pissess me off).
ByteSlicer posted, and I quote : "Lol, what movie did you watch yesterday? James Bond? As if the Russions would allow FBI agents (or any Americans) in their nuclear weapons facilities. Would make a nice movie though!"
Whats even funnier is I click on that posters name http://slashdot.org/~Bi()hazard and she(?) claims she's a 19 yo college ho, er, chick.
Of course, the bio could be a lie, but I'm pretty sure her story is one also.
I nave the Hauppauge WinTV PVR-PCI (model 880) it sucks. it does have hardware encoding, but i'd be damned if it uses it. I had bad audio problems when recording with it. Seems that putting another 512mb into my amd2600 (for 1 gig total, dual channel, was single channel before) helped that. I found a web page that makes drivers for bt8X8 vid decoder cards, which is: http://btwincap.sourceforge.net/
it's a great driver, I got it to work for my card. But I haven't done any recording for it. I'm going to be working on that in the future. Currently I'm using Hauppauges lame software because the TitanTV works nice, i'm going to test every which way I can do it, because I'd like to grab quality grabs for myself, so I can view them later if I want.
quoted above: " Agreed. I mean.. look at this quote:
prefer an outboard piece of equipment instead of cracking open their case and dropping in a daughter board.
Ok, exactly _how_ hard is it to open your case. Compared to all the trouble involved in getting new devices to work, setup programs etc. A really bad argument. I guess there might be a percentage or two of the population that cannot, and have noone to help them "cracking open their case...", but are those people likely to buy a TV-tuner anyway ? I have a BT878, just as the parent, and it works great."
well, most cases suck to open, actually, mainly those from HP and such. The newer cases, no, they are usually nice, but those people don't mind opening up their computer and putting in a new card.
Mom and pop, well, they don't open their computer usually, and seeing as they bought an HP Pavilion, with their uniform ugly and sucky case, well, pop ain't going to figure how to open it without busting the front panel. I've seen it happen.
umm, you can get 3.5" 7200 rpm 40gig drives for around $40 to $50. External Box with USB 2.0 (possible can get one with Firewire) $20+. Or you can go laptop 2.5" drives: 40 gigs around $100, plus $20 for external box (I have 3 of the boxes). with these I can get the power off the usb/ps/2 port, while the 3.5 require external power supply. plus the 3.5 drives you can put bigger drives in. I have 2 external boxes that are about 3x8x1 inches, one has both firewire400 and usb 2.0, the other is just usb 2.0 I like those because I can move stuff between all my systems and friends computers. I didn't warm up to my external 2.5 drives because it was smaller, slower, and for some reason, the power from the usb port on my laptop was not enough to poswer it (i used my ps/2 port for the power).
I think you are mostly paying for then installing the software onto the drives. But then, they only have to tailor the software once. Maybe they'll release the version they made for those.
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I live in Seattle, and our cops have been out of control for a long time. They have long done what they want and let the courts deal with if it's right or wrong. Why do they do this? Because they never get in trouble for what they do. They don't get in trouble for killing people without weapons. They do not get in trouble for causing accidents (and deaths) for driving fast to calls after the "everything is alright" call.
There has been a few occasion that I wished our police cars had video camera's mounted on them so I, or a friend could have proof of what really went on with them, instead of "their word" in the police report. Which is funny, as the police are trained to lie, yet everything they say or write in a police report is taken at face value.
As much as I don't like invasion of privacy, I believe that police forces need to be closely monitored, mainly when they are on calls or dealing with "suspects" (their word, not mine, it's just that anytime they talk to someone they considered them to be a "suspect" regardless if the person is guilty or innoceint)
I used to play wire-frame on a Mac Plus. Not because the Mac Plus wasn't able to run it at full speed shaded; but it made it even MORE tron-like!
The only thing "wire-frame" in Tron is in the movie, when the laser captured the item and broght it in, piece by piece.
Maybe you mean battlezone?
wow, our first clue. The anonymous Coward must be the one responsible.
after all, look at all the post AC had done over the years.
Defiently out to get linux users.
an lame AC posted:
If you want to have a tonne of spyware/adware installed onto your system (specifically system32), load up this site with IE6. Fully patched or not, it will install several spywares automatically upon loading up the main site. No permission is asked, and no dialogs pop up. The only indication that anything's wrong is that there's a lot of activeX "plugin" mentions in the status bar, and a lot of warnings from your firewall as the spyware phones home.
http://www.torrentreactor.com
well, that explains why it takes forever to loadt his site in firefox and always errors out, even though all the torrent links are loaded.
if you went in to store and stole the physical package, you wouldn't be charge with stealing from Rockstar, you'd be charge with theft (shoplifting) from the place you stoled it from.
While downloading copyrighted material is against the law, you can in no way convince me that the company loses money that way. The stuff I download I would NOT every buy. if I like the game, then yes, I will buy it. Everyone I know is the same way, they will download the game to try it, and if they like it, they buy the game.
Maybe if these companys stopped trying to pass off crap they would make a little more money.
gotta love it when people tell you a solution, yet they've never used it themselves.
Dreamcast divx player sucks. you have to reencode everything, lower the bit rate/ resolution.
Way too much work, mainly since this product is made so people who don't know much about computers, can watch the divx disks that they download or that they're friends give them.
Don't get me wrong, I have a Dreamcast and love it. But it barely plays VCD. Now maybe if someone with a professional SDK for the Dreamcast was to make a divx player, maybe it will be useable, but i'm not holding my breath.
Dreamcast is a great machine for learning to program on consoles, or playing with the homebrew community cheaply.
No, Internet Explorer used Active X
Mozilla does NOT use Active X
Active X is very insecure, and probably the leading cause of problems.
Because of that, is why Mozilla is more secure.
twiddlingbits said: "...The Gov't is only going to be reading your email if you are a "bad guy" anyway...."
no. The government wants to read EVERYBODY'S email to find the "bad guys".
and please note, "bad guys" is wrong also. You are innocent until proven guilty is supposed to be the american way. of course, only money gets you off.
but then, we are talking terrorism here, and it seems they are guilty and have no rights.
not my opinion, but fact in how our government treats these terrorist. though I don't recall any trials yet proving they are terrorist, so I'm not really sure.
I recall when the lame ass american guy blew up the oklahoma place, he got a trial and was proven guilty. I liked that. Made me feel like some sort of justice was done.
The way we've handled 9/11 makes me feel unsafe, from both terrorist and my government.
It's a shame.
funny, very funny. What about us that don't have any friends, because we spend all our times playing vid games? And people on my "EQ Friends list" are not my friends, I don't even know most of their real names.
Don't need friends, have games.
you are the one missing the point, benna. People watch it because they enjoy it. You do NOT obviously enjoy it, so I assume you do not watch it. If people didn't watch the show, they wouldn't make it, or if they did make it, wouldn't make money off of it (because networks wouldn't show it if they get too many complaints). That how tv works.
But crying about peoples bad taste, and trying to tell others not to watch it because YOU don't watch it is lame and selfish.
I personally don't watch much reality shows because I think they are stupid. So I watch other things on TV. Very simple, I just change the channel.
Everyone has different taste, the networks try to make money by showing stuff the appeals to some majority of people ('cept niche channels, like food, so on). They cannot please everyone all the time. hell, they can't please most people most the time. That's why there is feedback and Nelson ratings and so on.
So it's very simple, you don't like a show, don't watch it, complain to the network hosting the show, complain to the company producing the show.
But DO NOT try to blame people for watching the show. People are allowed to watch what they want, even if you do NOT like it. I know it hurts to hear that the world does no evolve around you, but it's true. I'm sorry.
it's not that they found him guilty in the civil courts, it's just that they found enough evidence to hold him responsible for their deaths.
what I always found amusing was a drug connection that the guy who was killed had. It seemed that there was some evidence or something to suggest that it could of been a drug related pay back or something. But the police didn't bother checking into it because they were sure they had there man. after all the gloved fit. my mistake, I guess the glove didn't fit.
In civil court you just basicly have to show that someone is responsible for what happened. Not that they are definetly the cause of it.
of course, IANAL, and this was awhile ago, and I'd reciting all of this from my memory, so take it as you will.
Upload limiting is a need feature of any software that acts like a server. Most broadband accounts have a way lower upload then download speed. I run, let's say a bit torrent client. it's eating all the upload bandwidth, it causes my computer to slow down. a friend wanted me to download a movie for him, had to use a torrent to get it. his roommate now thinks that those programs eats all the bandwidth, when that isn't the case. What happened was the torrent client (I think torrentstorm) was eating all the upload bandwidth, so it was causing problems with his EQ game he was playing. Trying to convince them that when I run a newsgroup binaries grabber won't 'cause lag has been a pain.
stebbivignir says, "...ARICE, the newest one of the two fiber-optic cables connecting Iceland to the rest of the world has the maximum bandwith of 720Gb/s and CANTAT-3 has the maximum bandwidth of 2,5Gb/s.
Is that enough for the whole world?"
let's see, at one time 640k was thought to be more memory then anyone would ever need.
What's huge by todays terms, will not be huge down the road.
but yes, it does seem like they have a nice pipe that would be best hosting files for the world. =)
Like I explain to my friend, MDM (Millineum Digital Media, internet cable provider) is the only cable provider that still has bin newsgroups, so it's our duty to use them, while they are still there.
Funnier was another friend who was on MDM, got a letter saying that he downloaded then shared spider-man 2 game. they closed his account down until he signed a letter saying he wouldn't do that again. So he dropped his account and got MSN DSL. Then he asks me to show him how to use the newsgroups (which I'd been trying to get him to use the whole time he had MDM). Should of seen the look on his face when he realised that he just cancled his account from the best place to get newsgroup access in Seattle.
But he's one of those people who never listen to what you say because he thinks he has a better way to do things. so it was just karma biting him back...
actually, Intel is the giant. amd is a much smaller company.
The reason why I think it's split because the serious games all have homebuilt amd machines, while the casual games have dell, hp, etc. bought systems that have intel processors.
well, I download the 3d engine, and the source code is included in the file.
Makes you feel real proud doesn't it?
Newsflash: your an idiot.
am I cool now also?
targo says after a cheap shot at Slashdot, "...you actually have to open and run the attachment yourself in Outlook in order for it to do anything..."
That used to be the case, then those clever people figured out how to do it so you don't have to click on anything.
evil, evil world...
no, you don't do a clean install then go on the net to download the patches. you download the full patches, burn those to disk, or if you are able to follow instructions, you slipstream sp1 & sp2 onto a bootable window xp disk, then you don't have to worry about the firewall or patching it after you do the clean install.
o otcd.html I have nothing to do with that web site, I just found it using google http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=slip stream+windows+xp+sp2+how+to&btnG=Google+Searc h it was the first link, there are many others.
for info on the slipstreaming, check out: http://www.windows-help.net/WindowsXP/winxp-sp2-b
Also, the utility Nlite http://nuhi.msfn.org/ will slipstream service packs and updates onto a disk image for you. It will also remove stuff off the windows disk, like drivers you don't need, apps you don't need, even Internet Explorer. Personally, I like that you can take MSN Explorer, Messenger, and other non need programs that are security risks. I haven't used the program yet, but it seems like a very nice one. You can also put the cdkey in the install program so you don't have to enter it when your installing. sweet.
88NoSoup4U88 says, "How about Hiring Charles Bronson ? ..."
not that you or anyone cares, but poor old Charlies died. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000314/ So unless they restore heads futurerama style, no more Death Wishes...
(of course, now that I said that, someones going to make a new Death Wish movie...)
I have this friend who always talks about how bluetooth is the end all, it's so rad, blah, blah, blah. I then asked him to list all the devices he knows that uses it. Just the cell phone he thought about buying. He mistakenly thought that all computers had it, till I corrected him on that.
I personally don't think that bluetooth is ever going to catch on. It's not a bad idea, but no one is actually implementing it in things that could use it, now. LIke the ipod, like my pda's, my mp3 player, any of my wireless items, or any items I have that should be wireless.
am I wrong? It sounds to me like it's just hype. Like all the companies are waiting for the other companies to start putting it in their products. So they wait, and wait instead of implementing and using.
This is just my opinion based on what I see and experience. I personally would love a bluetooth type item so I don't have to bother connecting my pda/mp3/cell phone (can't even back my cell phone up as it is, pissess me off).
man, I thought you were serious till the last post.
ByteSlicer posted, and I quote : "Lol, what movie did you watch yesterday? James Bond? As if the Russions would allow FBI agents (or any Americans) in their nuclear weapons facilities. Would make a nice movie though!"
Whats even funnier is I click on that posters name http://slashdot.org/~Bi()hazard and she(?) claims she's a 19 yo college ho, er, chick.
Of course, the bio could be a lie, but I'm pretty sure her story is one also.
lies, damn it, all lies!
I nave the Hauppauge WinTV PVR-PCI (model 880)
it sucks. it does have hardware encoding, but i'd be damned if it uses it. I had bad audio problems when recording with it. Seems that putting another 512mb into my amd2600 (for 1 gig total, dual channel, was single channel before) helped that.
I found a web page that makes drivers for bt8X8 vid decoder cards, which is: http://btwincap.sourceforge.net/
it's a great driver, I got it to work for my card. But I haven't done any recording for it. I'm going to be working on that in the future. Currently I'm using Hauppauges lame software because the TitanTV works nice, i'm going to test every which way I can do it, because I'd like to grab quality grabs for myself, so I can view them later if I want.
quoted above: " Agreed. I mean.. look at this quote:
prefer an outboard piece of equipment instead of cracking open their case and dropping in a daughter board.
Ok, exactly _how_ hard is it to open your case. Compared to all the trouble involved in getting new devices to work, setup programs etc. A really bad argument. I guess there might be a percentage or two of the population that cannot, and have noone to help them "cracking open their case...", but are those people likely to buy a TV-tuner anyway ? I have a BT878, just as the parent, and it works great."
well, most cases suck to open, actually, mainly those from HP and such. The newer cases, no, they are usually nice, but those people don't mind opening up their computer and putting in a new card.
Mom and pop, well, they don't open their computer usually, and seeing as they bought an HP Pavilion, with their uniform ugly and sucky case, well, pop ain't going to figure how to open it without busting the front panel. I've seen it happen.
too late, I know now.
=)
(at least the person I "borrow" my wifi from doesn't use any protection...)
umm, you can get 3.5" 7200 rpm 40gig drives for around $40 to $50. External Box with USB 2.0 (possible can get one with Firewire) $20+.
Or you can go laptop 2.5" drives:
40 gigs around $100, plus $20 for external box (I have 3 of the boxes).
with these I can get the power off the usb/ps/2 port, while the 3.5 require external power supply. plus the 3.5 drives you can put bigger drives in. I have 2 external boxes that are about 3x8x1 inches, one has both firewire400 and usb 2.0, the other is just usb 2.0 I like those because I can move stuff between all my systems and friends computers. I didn't warm up to my external 2.5 drives because it was smaller, slower, and for some reason, the power from the usb port on my laptop was not enough to poswer it (i used my ps/2 port for the power).
I think you are mostly paying for then installing the software onto the drives. But then, they only have to tailor the software once. Maybe they'll release the version they made for those.