If you come across any women who meet your aforementioned criteria, and are thus disqualified from your rigorous selection process. Please send them our way.
"I know people that buy inexpensive new printers when they run out of ink because new printers come with new cartridges - and are usually cheaper ($35) than replacement cartridges (~$45). "
Most of these buyers don't realize that the "free" ink cartridges that come with these crappy printers (Lexmark comes to mind) are usually only "demo" cartridges. They almost always contain on half the ink of the refills.
Not to say that this is a bad deal, if you have very low print volumes (Toss away a printer every 3 - 4 months) this is still a possible way to go.
I've done it myself with crappy Lexmark printers, but in the long run its probably a better idea to buy a decent printer from a non-Evil(TM) manufacturer.
I highly recommend Canon's Pixma series of printers, the printers are not horribly expensive and they are fairly high quality inkjet printers. Most importantly though their refills are reasonably priced.*
Overdramatized pat on the back for Law Enforcement.
e.g. " The HangUp Team has been operating in Russia with impunity for years. Some members are allegedly based in Archangelsk, an Arctic Circle city of rusting Soviet nuclear submarines and nearly perpetual winter."
IANARH (not a russian hacker)
Firstly there is really no point to the stupid above statement. Secondly its most likely 100% untrue, as romantic as the post apocalyptic rusting submarine hulks and perpetual winter may be..
whatever that means, hope it doesn't become some new meme..
The only way Nintendo could "Pull a Sega" is if they decided to run Windows CE on the Revolution, then have its copy protection smashed wide open say..three months after launch.
After which all the developers move to other console platforms and they decide to quit the hardware business and stick to producing software.
ALU: Arithmetic Logic Unit L2: Level 2 (stored external to microprocessor) PLD: Programmable Logic Device BIOS: Basic Input/Output System DDR: Dual Data Rate SDRAM: Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory RDRAM: Rambus DRAM EDO: Extended Data Output BEDO: Burst EDO FPM: Fast Page Mode ACPI: Advanced Configuration and Power Interface VESA: Video Electronics Standards Association ISA: Industry Standard Architecture PCI: Peripheral Component Interconnect IDE: Intelligent Drive Electronics ATA: Advanced Technology Attachment SATA: Serial ATA SCSI: Small Computer Systems Interface RAID: Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks UDP: User Datagram Protocol TCP: Transmission Control Protocol AMD: Advanced Micro Devices USB: Universal Serial Bus EPROM: Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory PSU: Power Supply Unit FSB: Frontside Bus HSF: Heatsink Fan PCMCIA:Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
"However, the LCD will have better color reproduction than your pos CRT, MUCH longer life, the colors won't be mostly faded out 5 years after you buy it
I have yet to see an affordable LCD with better color reproduction than your average (not el cheapo) CRTs.
Along with your supposed much longer life, you run the risk of developing stuck or dead pixels, maybe stuck pixels don't bother you, but I can't abide them.
The only real factor LCDs have going for them are smaller desktop footprint (which I could care less about) and lower power consumption (which is not, for me as important as image quality)
It may all just have to do with disposable income available. When I have wads of money to throw around, I'd most likely pick up a nice huge expensive LCD display as well.
For now as a gamer who has to live with a budget, I'll stick to my CRTs.
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" A modern LCD looks just as good as 99% of all CRTs.
not true, 99% of LCDs in fact look like crap.
Not only are you stuck in native resolution, unless you want your output interpolated (making it look even crappier.)
This is a huge no-no for gaming. Being stuck at 1024x768 or even worse 1600x1200.
I personally don't play all games at the same resolution, partially because of the demand on your graphics card. Generally I try to get games to run at 1024x768@85Hz : 4x - 6x AA, 8x - 16x Anisotropic Filtering
I am presently using a Radeon X800Pro AGP. And whilst most games will run at their highest settings at 1024x768, most won't at 1600x1200, and many won't at 1280x1024.(e.g. Far Cry, Doom 3..etc)
Lets say you have an LCD with 1280x1024 native resolution. And you decide to play Doom 3.
Aside from going out and blowing money on an Nvidia SLI PCI-e motherboard and 2 video cards.
Your choices are lower the resolution and play with crappy looking interpolated 1024x768 or lower the detail and play with slightly less crappy but slightly laggier 1280x1024 with all the rendering options lowered.
High end CRTs don't really exist any more, but the consumer grade ones (Viewsonic, LG, Phillips) still look much better than almost all of the Analog LCDs and most of the DVI ones.
Have you tried Color correcting LCD output for photographic and graphics editing? It sucks.
Japanese PSP Sales Nearly Double DS - "Media Create has released its latest hardware sales charts covering the week ending March 20th, 2005. Sales in general saw a slight dip, and PSP sales were nearly double that of the DS. Xbox saw a slight increase in sales, likely due to the critical acclaim that Fable received from publications such as Famitsu.
PlayStation Portable: 43,644 (Annual: 580,120) PlayStation 2: 40,270 (Annual: 602,316) Nintendo DS: 22,446 (Annual: 429,545) Game Boy Advance SP: 11,013 (Annual: 197,776) GameCube: 3,357 (Annual: 70,016) Game Boy Advance: 477 (Annual: 6,253) Xbox: 345 (Annual: 4,606)" http://www.gamepro.com/sony/psp/games/news/43769.s html
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"PSP sales outpace the DS in Japan - The most popular handheld in Japan is still the Nintendo DS. However, the DS sold an impressive 1.09 million units during December, a total that Sony has only just now reached after four months of sales.
The PSP, suffering from production delays, sold only 330,000 units in December. The DS continued to beat the PSP in January, selling 450,000 units to the PSP's 360,000 units.
But the tables turned in February, when 195,000 PSP units were sold, edging out 121,000 DS units. PSP sales increased by a small margin in March, reaching 202,000 units, and DS sales also increased, reaching 136,000 units.
While these new numbers are encouraging for Sony, the PSP still lags behind the DS in overall penetration: Japanese consumers currently own 1.09 million PSPs and 1.8 million DSes." http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/04/12/news_61221 17.html
I pretty much agree with you, but having played FFXI (though I cancelled my subscription a few months before WoW launched,) I have to say that it will most likely not be shutting down anytime soon.
Aside from being powered by no less than Square-Enix, FFXI has a fanatical following of Japanese MMORPGers.
Can you think of any other major Japanese or Japanese-centric MMO? heh, me either.
Add to that the fact that the cost of entry is fairly low (PS2, Network Adapter, FFXI and Harddrive bundle)
And it is most definately the only "real mmorpg" that has ever been available on any console. I guess you could argue that EQ:OA is a real mmorpg.
FFXI while most find its boring and tedious after a few months (myself included) has a great deal of depth in the gameplay, as well as the mechanics (though not so much in the story arc.) Players can literally level every single class in the game (on the same character) to level 75, switching jobs as they please, with no penalty.
It has a surprisingly big population of hardcore players (a large percentage of which are probably Japanese) I seriously doubt its going to disappear anytime soon.
Ultima Online and Everquest both still have active subscribers, it boggles the mind.
I like you, had similar bad experiences with earlier AMD chips.
The K6-2s and more recently their Thunderbird series of CPUs.
There was a span of 4 months that I went through two Thunderbird 1.0ghz cpus and a Tbird 1.1ghz CPU along with two ABIT KT7-RAID motherboards and two MSI K7T-Pro motherboards. To make things worse I also used a pair of IBM Deathstar 75GXPs for the RAID 0 configuration.
The nightmare seemed like it would never end.
Even though people were having problems with chipping/physically damaging the exposed cores, I didn't experience these problems. Instead they just one by one inexplicably started failing, sometimes it was the CPU, sometimes the motherboard, sometimes both.
Luckily everything was under warranty, but this definately made for a really reaaally bad experience. I swore off VIA Chipsets and AMD processors obviously after that.
I went to the Dark side of CPUs from them on, using only Intel processors, and building only with Intel processors for PCs I had to service and support for the last 4 years.
Recently I decided to give AMD a try again (using my own rig as an experiment, so I would only have myself to blame if things still sucked)
I was pleasantly surprised at how well AMD runs now, and it seems as though the problems with VIA chipset motherboards have also been resolved, also you can choose to go the nForce route, but I didn't as I am still using an AGP X800Pro and can't justify the switch to PCI-e.
In short, yes AMD processors used to fucking suck.
They are now much better, run cooler and more importantly offer a better price to performance ratio than Intel cpus. I've returned from the Dark side, and with renewed faith in AMD cpus and motherboard chipsets am now only building and recommending configurations which aren't Intel based.
(Using an Asus A8V Deluxe Rev2 and Athlon64 3200+ if you're curious.)
Square-Enix declares that About.com's Adrien-Luc Sanders' days are about over.
Sounds just about as plausible, which is to say not at all But then again, chances are About.com or at least Mr Sanders will be gone long before Final Fantasy is.
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_rich_ nerds make better "lovers"
whats wrong with his spellerizing?
burglarize
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burglarized, burglarizing
1. To burgle.
Etymology: 19c.
Dear Mr Tezza,
If you come across any women who meet your aforementioned criteria, and are thus disqualified from your rigorous selection process.
Please send them our way.
Thanks,
Slashdot.
Anyone stupid enough to be mailing sensitive information using their company email accounts deserves to be busted.
If the corporations decide to start tapping all their employees home phonelines and setting 24/7 surveillance on them, then it would be news.
I call your bluff, what server is this you're playing on?
Let us know and we'll come check it out, I want to see a server with a 2:1 Horde majority.
"I know people that buy inexpensive new printers when they run out of ink because new printers come with new cartridges - and are usually cheaper ($35) than replacement cartridges (~$45).
"
Most of these buyers don't realize that the "free" ink cartridges that come with these crappy printers (Lexmark comes to mind) are usually only "demo" cartridges. They almost always contain on half the ink of the refills.
Not to say that this is a bad deal, if you have very low print volumes (Toss away a printer every 3 - 4 months) this is still a possible way to go.
I've done it myself with crappy Lexmark printers, but in the long run its probably a better idea to buy a decent printer from a non-Evil(TM) manufacturer.
I highly recommend Canon's Pixma series of printers, the printers are not horribly expensive and they are fairly high quality inkjet printers. Most importantly though their refills are reasonably priced.*
*IANACE (a Canon employee)
Inform all participants in advance of your decision, and set a zero tolerance policy.
Request that anyone who does not wish to adhere to "no piracy" rules to not attend the event.
If they insist on attending and engaging in copyright infringement, round them up and politely escort them off the premises.
That sounds like a hassle.
Wouldn't it have been much easier to just download the mp3s then go mail a buck to your favorite artiste?
umm Digimon World 4 torrents arrived a few days ago for Xbox and PS2..
hmm poor gamecube (not nintendo)
Overdramatized pat on the back for Law Enforcement.
e.g. " The HangUp Team has been operating in Russia with impunity for years. Some members are allegedly based in Archangelsk, an Arctic Circle city of rusting Soviet nuclear submarines and nearly perpetual winter."
IANARH (not a russian hacker)
Firstly there is really no point to the stupid above statement. Secondly its most likely 100% untrue, as romantic as the post apocalyptic rusting submarine hulks and perpetual winter may be..
Here's some Pictures of Archangelsk
whatever that means, hope it doesn't become some new meme..
The only way Nintendo could "Pull a Sega" is if they decided to run Windows CE on the Revolution, then have its copy protection smashed wide open say..three months after launch.
After which all the developers move to other console platforms and they decide to quit the hardware business and stick to producing software.
Here, have some more :P
ALU: Arithmetic Logic Unit
L2: Level 2 (stored external to microprocessor)
PLD: Programmable Logic Device
BIOS: Basic Input/Output System
DDR: Dual Data Rate
SDRAM: Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory
RDRAM: Rambus DRAM
EDO: Extended Data Output
BEDO: Burst EDO
FPM: Fast Page Mode
ACPI: Advanced Configuration and Power Interface
VESA: Video Electronics Standards Association
ISA: Industry Standard Architecture
PCI: Peripheral Component Interconnect
IDE: Intelligent Drive Electronics
ATA: Advanced Technology Attachment
SATA: Serial ATA
SCSI: Small Computer Systems Interface
RAID: Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
UDP: User Datagram Protocol
TCP: Transmission Control Protocol
AMD: Advanced Micro Devices
USB: Universal Serial Bus
EPROM: Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
PSU: Power Supply Unit
FSB: Frontside Bus
HSF: Heatsink Fan
PCMCIA:Personal Computer Memory Card International Association
"However, the LCD will have better color reproduction than your pos CRT, MUCH longer life, the colors won't be mostly faded out 5 years after you buy it
I have yet to see an affordable LCD with better color reproduction than your average (not el cheapo) CRTs.
Along with your supposed much longer life, you run the risk of developing stuck or dead pixels, maybe stuck pixels don't bother you, but I can't abide them.
The only real factor LCDs have going for them are smaller desktop footprint (which I could care less about) and lower power consumption (which is not, for me as important as image quality)
It may all just have to do with disposable income available. When I have wads of money to throw around, I'd most likely pick up a nice huge expensive LCD display as well.
For now as a gamer who has to live with a budget, I'll stick to my CRTs.
" A modern LCD looks just as good as 99% of all CRTs.
not true, 99% of LCDs in fact look like crap.
Not only are you stuck in native resolution, unless you want your output interpolated (making it look even crappier.)
This is a huge no-no for gaming. Being stuck at 1024x768 or even worse 1600x1200.
I personally don't play all games at the same resolution, partially because of the demand on your graphics card. Generally I try to get games to run at 1024x768@85Hz : 4x - 6x AA, 8x - 16x Anisotropic Filtering
I am presently using a Radeon X800Pro AGP. And whilst most games will run at their highest settings at 1024x768, most won't at 1600x1200, and many won't at 1280x1024.(e.g. Far Cry, Doom 3..etc)
Lets say you have an LCD with 1280x1024 native resolution. And you decide to play Doom 3.
Aside from going out and blowing money on an Nvidia SLI PCI-e motherboard and 2 video cards.
Your choices are lower the resolution and play with crappy looking interpolated 1024x768 or lower the detail and play with slightly less crappy but slightly laggier 1280x1024 with all the rendering options lowered.
High end CRTs don't really exist any more, but the consumer grade ones (Viewsonic, LG, Phillips) still look much better than almost all of the Analog LCDs and most of the DVI ones.
Have you tried Color correcting LCD output for photographic and graphics editing? It sucks.
Japanese PSP Sales Nearly Double DS -
s html
1 17.html
"Media Create has released its latest hardware sales charts covering the week ending March 20th, 2005. Sales in general saw a slight dip, and PSP sales were nearly double that of the DS. Xbox saw a slight increase in sales, likely due to the critical acclaim that Fable received from publications such as Famitsu.
PlayStation Portable: 43,644 (Annual: 580,120)
PlayStation 2: 40,270 (Annual: 602,316)
Nintendo DS: 22,446 (Annual: 429,545)
Game Boy Advance SP: 11,013 (Annual: 197,776)
GameCube: 3,357 (Annual: 70,016)
Game Boy Advance: 477 (Annual: 6,253)
Xbox: 345 (Annual: 4,606)"
http://www.gamepro.com/sony/psp/games/news/43769.
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"PSP sales outpace the DS in Japan -
The most popular handheld in Japan is still the Nintendo DS. However, the DS sold an impressive 1.09 million units during December, a total that Sony has only just now reached after four months of sales.
The PSP, suffering from production delays, sold only 330,000 units in December. The DS continued to beat the PSP in January, selling 450,000 units to the PSP's 360,000 units.
But the tables turned in February, when 195,000 PSP units were sold, edging out 121,000 DS units. PSP sales increased by a small margin in March, reaching 202,000 units, and DS sales also increased, reaching 136,000 units.
While these new numbers are encouraging for Sony, the PSP still lags behind the DS in overall penetration: Japanese consumers currently own 1.09 million PSPs and 1.8 million DSes."
http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/04/12/news_6122
So by your rationale and with the table from your provided link.
Its reasonable to say that Xbox is totally fucked GBA is not doing so good, and PS2 Reigns surpreme?
ROFL, from that link, "Vita Radium Suppositories"
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http://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/quackcures/qua
I pretty much agree with you, but having played FFXI (though I cancelled my subscription a few months before WoW launched,) I have to say that it will most likely not be shutting down anytime soon.
Aside from being powered by no less than Square-Enix, FFXI has a fanatical following of Japanese MMORPGers.
Can you think of any other major Japanese or Japanese-centric MMO? heh, me either.
Add to that the fact that the cost of entry is fairly low (PS2, Network Adapter, FFXI and Harddrive bundle)
And it is most definately the only "real mmorpg" that has ever been available on any console.
I guess you could argue that EQ:OA is a real mmorpg.
FFXI while most find its boring and tedious after a few months (myself included) has a great deal of depth in the gameplay, as well as the mechanics (though not so much in the story arc.) Players can literally level every single class in the game (on the same character) to level 75, switching jobs as they please, with no penalty.
It has a surprisingly big population of hardcore players (a large percentage of which are probably Japanese) I seriously doubt its going to disappear anytime soon.
Ultima Online and Everquest both still have active subscribers, it boggles the mind.
I like you, had similar bad experiences with earlier AMD chips.
The K6-2s and more recently their Thunderbird series of CPUs.
There was a span of 4 months that I went through two Thunderbird 1.0ghz cpus and a Tbird 1.1ghz CPU along with two ABIT KT7-RAID motherboards and two MSI K7T-Pro motherboards. To make things worse I also used a pair of IBM Deathstar 75GXPs for the RAID 0 configuration.
The nightmare seemed like it would never end.
Even though people were having problems with chipping/physically damaging the exposed cores, I didn't experience these problems. Instead they just one by one inexplicably started failing, sometimes it was the CPU, sometimes the motherboard, sometimes both.
Luckily everything was under warranty, but this definately made for a really reaaally bad experience. I swore off VIA Chipsets and AMD processors obviously after that.
I went to the Dark side of CPUs from them on, using only Intel processors, and building only with Intel processors for PCs I had to service and support for the last 4 years.
Recently I decided to give AMD a try again (using my own rig as an experiment, so I would only have myself to blame if things still sucked)
I was pleasantly surprised at how well AMD runs now, and it seems as though the problems with VIA chipset motherboards have also been resolved, also you can choose to go the nForce route, but I didn't as I am still using an AGP X800Pro and can't justify the switch to PCI-e.
In short, yes AMD processors used to fucking suck.
They are now much better, run cooler and more importantly offer a better price to performance ratio than Intel cpus. I've returned from the Dark side, and with renewed faith in AMD cpus and motherboard chipsets am now only building and recommending configurations which aren't Intel based.
(Using an Asus A8V Deluxe Rev2 and Athlon64 3200+ if you're curious.)
I wonder if GPUs point downwards on cards because they are typically right beside the CPU Heatsink.
Maybe its because its just the way it was traditionally done, before tower-style casings became the norm.
Any EEs care to explain why reference designs place the GPU and its cooling solution on the underside?
What you want then, is FFX: International Edition.
Its in Japanese or English with Japanese or English dialogue.
Also its a "director's cut" of sorts with added scenes/areas and a slightly tweaked sphere grid.
She won't let those robots destroy us!
Square-Enix declares that About.com's Adrien-Luc Sanders' days are about over.
Sounds just about as plausible, which is to say not at all
But then again, chances are About.com or at least Mr Sanders will be gone long before Final Fantasy is.
mmm
/. is hellbent on convincing me that I'm not human..better go check with Gaius.
*fires up Azureus in anticipation*
--sigh,
Hmm odd the Calculator has AthlonXPs and P4 Prescotts as pulling the same wattage (89 watts) is that right?