I don't really care about fps, so long as its smooth the vast majority of the time. It is nice to turn on some or all of the eye candy at higher resolution and still maintain, this is what newer cards can offer.
As far as drivers are concerned, Linux does have a few mainstream games to play, but this appears to be a budget gamer's card, which, at the moment, pretty much relegates it to the Windows realm.
As a sidenote the best fps was not Starsiege Tribes, it was just plain old Starsiege. It still pisses me off that Tribes got sequeled after selling less copies than Starsiege, it was just pirated more, where Starsiege was not easily,(at all for all intents and purposes), copied at the time. And Linux need not apply to either, at least as far as I know, I could be wrong.
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Limited saves are a copout for hardcore gamers to make themselves feel better. For the most part, the people that don't want them don't need them, and, for the most part, the people that want them need them, or at least want insurance so that they won't have to shoot their way through the same part of the level that is a bitch several times just to progress. Hard drive space isn't much of an issue to most people these days, especially to those who game.
It pisses me off to no end that the folks willing to spend 5+ hours a day to devote to a game cry for limited save options. By definition, games with save options are single player games. Why should they give much of a shit how I play a game offline?
I'll volunteer to be hit next, or anyone I know or care about in even the slightest fashion. True security will never be achieved. Given the likelihood that I or anyone else I am even remotely associated with will be a little more than overwhelmingly likely to suffer from much more mundane ends, I don't worry about it. Car accident? Possibly. Slip in the shower? Maybe. Terrorist victim? Might as well buy some lottery tickets.
I'll add a corollary to the oft quoted Ben Franklin saying, though I'm not sure who wrote it. "A ship in a harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are for." Give up your rights, build your own prison and do the safe thing by moving under a proverbial microscope. Please do not overreact when I don't jump to do the same thing or resist you wanting me to do so.
Actually, this could be very interesting. Imagine artificially inseminating a St. Bernard female with a Chihuahua's semen. Not that I would suggest this, but imagine a 2' at the shoulder greyhound type body with a broad head that barks at everything under the sun.
To some people, yes they are that important. It seems a litle nuts to me, but yes, its that important. I'm an avid gamer, a pc one at that. I spent $1800 US putting together a new system recently, but that's what I do. Some people rice out their cars. Some people put together their ultimate home stereo. Some people lavish their cash on a band while touring; I recently saw Paul Mcartney in concert where there were two (Hot!!)Brazilian chicks determined to follow him around the world.
It's ok to snicker a bit to yourself, but good God, everyone has their kick, would you freak about someone, God forbid, putting siding on their house at a cost of thousands of dollars, or buying a Caddilac(sp?)? How about an RV? How about a software engineer that is paid 60k a year, gosh!!! contributing to free software.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but isn't that equivalent to worrying about the Sahara desert getting bigger because someone dumped a couple of truckloads worth of sand into it?
No, its not obvious. PDA's have screen protectors because you quite often use those items by rubbing a pointed,(albeit plastic,) stylus against them. While its somewhat necessary for a touch type of interface, its not necessary for an Ipod, or a digital camera for that matter. They should have took the 50 cent/unit cost hit and used a piece of glass/synthetic crystal, or a combination of polycarbonate covered by glass/synthetic crystal.
My $30 Casio watchface will not scratch if I rub it with a butterknife with light pressure, why should my Ipod be any different?
I can kind of see your point. I think this one might be more appropriate. Look at the part you didn't quote, where the cool thing about the Hulk is SMASH, which is what the game seems mostly about. Your beginning of a list is also inadequate. Final Fantasy's movie was good, except it faired poorly because Americans hate to lose a hero, and Tomb Raider was also reasonably translated. I'll definitely give you Super Mario Bros. and Wing Commander, but none of them claimed to be Cecil B. DeMille productions. While they all can be considered sequels or remakes, they are at least a slight breath of air compared to most productions these days
I'll offer a counterexample: the KOTOR games were very enjoyable to many. I was reticient at first to them, but they sucked me right in.
You might be right, the new Hulk game sucks. But for God's sake keep an open mind. Counterculture beliefs are fun for awhile, until you realize that there are a few things that general society gets right.
I don't know, but my personal theory of why anime isn't quite accepted in the US, and this inludes Final Fantasy, is because it is rarely a case of the good guys just winning. Most animes portray the good guys winning, but paying a price, which is somewhat antithetical to the American ideal of winning out completely against incredible odds. I'd be willing to bet if the male lead in Final Fantasy had survived at the end, its ratings in the US would have been much higher.
Isn't this just Divx all over again? And tell me, why exactly do I want to maybe make the provisions,(router, cable) to hook this into my internet connection?
While I happen to have my A/V equipment right next to my box, and hence my connection, most people don't. Average Joe also does not have extra open ethernet ports either with stock DSL or cable equipment.
You may be right. Let's close down all fertility clinics. How many lives,(read tiny groups of a few thousand cells) are destroyed every day?
Does that make fertility treatments,(Experiments; Will it work? Don't know, but we have 23 embryos left), right?
So it is for propogation of the species. How is that different from saving a member of our species?
And not only are you helping propogate the species, but,(sometimes, but not all), you are propogating their relative infertility. And if the second generation go to fertility doctors we are destroying more lives.
If it's ok to destroy ones that will be destroyed, why not make more?
Or will you ignore those questions and not talk about them?
By the very nature of the discussion, there are so-called stem cell lines, and it would be beneficial if those lines could be augmented and kept current. Organlegging is not much of a problem in the world,(yes it does happen, but rarely), even in spite of huge demand.
Organ donation lists routinely(Always?) outstrip availability. Where is the mass harvesting? If stem cell research takes off, will we be rounding up our women for ova harvesting? No. And factories for human embryos that are to be destroyed for research are also sometimes called fertility clinics.
This seems a little backwards to me. Its ok to create new life, but not save the older life? Who is playing God now? As soon as a kid is delivered from a Petri dish, i'll agree with you.
Back in 1992, the Preview Channel for at least some of the USA's cable was run on an Amiga, and I used to use my monitor to watch movies through its RCA ports.
One day, after an afternoon of gaming, I decided to watch a movie to take the edge off. Imagine my shock and horror as I switched off my Amiga 1000, switched to the composite input, and a Guru error was superimposed on top of the Preview Channel. In a moment that was both brief and endless, I thought I'd totally screwed up my computer, VCR, and monitor in one shot, even as I stared at the Amiga's power switch in the off position.
I think you underestimate the effect of advertising. True, it is at a supersaturation point at the moment, but the reason it exists at all is because it works. At the end of the article you provide, it says that both ends of the long tail are likely needed, both the pop and the long fizzle.
Its way easier to make a network legally secure as opposed to actually secure. In fact, its better to make a network only legally secure so then fines can be collected and court costs levied, or at least that is what the gov will tell you.
You are over complicating his argument. He says that we pay for something over time, and then it is ours. His argument is that just like a creditor shouldn't be able to arbitrarily extend the length of payment, copyright should not be continually extended and works kept out of the public domain.
Artists should be compensated for their works, but their great-grandchildren should not get royalty checks. Take the song "Happy Birthday". Its roots are in the 19th century, and first appeared in a songbook in 1924. With the latest copyright extension it will not enter the public domain until 2030. Its a wonderful work, I don't know anyone that can't sing it at least horribly, but copyright owners should not be collecting royalties until the seventh generation for its public performance.
And who is distributing here, the downloader? No, it is who is uploading to him.Ask your Dad, but as far as I know, under US law, someone who downloads a file is not distributing anything, per se.
Not that I am trying to advocate copyright infringement, but call a spade a spade, not someone who rapes, robs, and kills on the high seas. Yes, I know it has been in the lexicon for decades, nay centuries, but, tell me, what do you think those folks were trying to do, maybe relate copyright infringment to one of the worst offenses imagineable at the time as a political gesture?
I have yet to need a gun either, but I'd rather have one and not need it as opposed to not having a gun and maybe needing it. I don't want to kill anyone, hurt anyone or get into trouble, so I act as safe as possible with my gun, just like with my automobile. I've often had people ask me, (Generally from Europe, where private firearm ownership is often banned or very difficult to obtain), are my possessions worth someone else's life if they try to steal them from me. My answer is, for the most part no, but you shouldn't be asking me that, you should be asking the guy who is threatening me or mine. I'm thankful that my gun has so far stayed in the closet, except for target shooting, and no one has forced me to use it. I hope it stays that way.
Its dangerous to invade my home and threaten me or try to steal from me, just like skating on a pond immediately following the first frost of winter. If a criminal wants to avoid dying I suggest he not break into homes or threaten people.
The last time I really paid attention to the possibility of a flat tax, I thought the same thing. Then my stepdad explained what I missed, that there would be one deduction allowed, similar to the standard deduction of today. He told me that each taxpayer would pay no taxes on their first $37k. The details are kind of foggy, but that's what I remember, I could be wrong.
Such a system would be the way to do the flat tax, although I admit I don't at what the minimum income should be before the tax would kick in. I'm sure that average black household would be delighted with both the prospect of not having to pay any federal income tax, and, even better, not having any federal income tax withholding deducted from their paychecks.
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I don't really care about fps, so long as its smooth the vast majority of the time. It is nice to turn on some or all of the eye candy at higher resolution and still maintain, this is what newer cards can offer.
As far as drivers are concerned, Linux does have a few mainstream games to play, but this appears to be a budget gamer's card, which, at the moment, pretty much relegates it to the Windows realm.
As a sidenote the best fps was not Starsiege Tribes, it was just plain old Starsiege. It still pisses me off that Tribes got sequeled after selling less copies than Starsiege, it was just pirated more, where Starsiege was not easily,(at all for all intents and purposes), copied at the time. And Linux need not apply to either, at least as far as I know, I could be wrong.
Limited saves are a copout for hardcore gamers to make themselves feel better. For the most part, the people that don't want them don't need them, and, for the most part, the people that want them need them, or at least want insurance so that they won't have to shoot their way through the same part of the level that is a bitch several times just to progress. Hard drive space isn't much of an issue to most people these days, especially to those who game.
It pisses me off to no end that the folks willing to spend 5+ hours a day to devote to a game cry for limited save options. By definition, games with save options are single player games. Why should they give much of a shit how I play a game offline?
I'll volunteer to be hit next, or anyone I know or care about in even the slightest fashion. True security will never be achieved. Given the likelihood that I or anyone else I am even remotely associated with will be a little more than overwhelmingly likely to suffer from much more mundane ends, I don't worry about it. Car accident? Possibly. Slip in the shower? Maybe. Terrorist victim? Might as well buy some lottery tickets.
I'll add a corollary to the oft quoted Ben Franklin saying, though I'm not sure who wrote it. "A ship in a harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are for." Give up your rights, build your own prison and do the safe thing by moving under a proverbial microscope. Please do not overreact when I don't jump to do the same thing or resist you wanting me to do so.
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So who is the Solrain of this new Netdevil game, i.e. what faction do the dev's play? I don't want to miss out on being on the team with best stuff.
Actually, this could be very interesting. Imagine artificially inseminating a St. Bernard female with a Chihuahua's semen. Not that I would suggest this, but imagine a 2' at the shoulder greyhound type body with a broad head that barks at everything under the sun.
To some people, yes they are that important. It seems a litle nuts to me, but yes, its that important. I'm an avid gamer, a pc one at that. I spent $1800 US putting together a new system recently, but that's what I do. Some people rice out their cars. Some people put together their ultimate home stereo. Some people lavish their cash on a band while touring; I recently saw Paul Mcartney in concert where there were two (Hot!!)Brazilian chicks determined to follow him around the world.
It's ok to snicker a bit to yourself, but good God, everyone has their kick, would you freak about someone, God forbid, putting siding on their house at a cost of thousands of dollars, or buying a Caddilac(sp?)? How about an RV? How about a software engineer that is paid 60k a year, gosh!!! contributing to free software.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but isn't that equivalent to worrying about the Sahara desert getting bigger because someone dumped a couple of truckloads worth of sand into it?
If you mention extortion again, I'll have your legs broken.
No, its not obvious. PDA's have screen protectors because you quite often use those items by rubbing a pointed,(albeit plastic,) stylus against them. While its somewhat necessary for a touch type of interface, its not necessary for an Ipod, or a digital camera for that matter. They should have took the 50 cent/unit cost hit and used a piece of glass/synthetic crystal, or a combination of polycarbonate covered by glass/synthetic crystal.
My $30 Casio watchface will not scratch if I rub it with a butterknife with light pressure, why should my Ipod be any different?
I can kind of see your point. I think this one might be more appropriate. Look at the part you didn't quote, where the cool thing about the Hulk is SMASH, which is what the game seems mostly about.
Your beginning of a list is also inadequate. Final Fantasy's movie was good, except it faired poorly because Americans hate to lose a hero, and Tomb Raider was also reasonably translated. I'll definitely give you Super Mario Bros. and Wing Commander, but none of them claimed to be Cecil B. DeMille productions. While they all can be considered sequels or remakes, they are at least a slight breath of air compared to most productions these days
I'll offer a counterexample: the KOTOR games were very enjoyable to many. I was reticient at first to them, but they sucked me right in.
You might be right, the new Hulk game sucks. But for God's sake keep an open mind. Counterculture beliefs are fun for awhile, until you realize that there are a few things that general society gets right.
Not to put too fine of a point on it, but those were movies based off of games. This appears to be a game based off of a movie.
I'll give it half a chance, especially since most forget the power, glory and simplicity of the Hulk: HULK SMASH!!!
I don't know, but my personal theory of why anime isn't quite accepted in the US, and this inludes Final Fantasy, is because it is rarely a case of the good guys just winning. Most animes portray the good guys winning, but paying a price, which is somewhat antithetical to the American ideal of winning out completely against incredible odds. I'd be willing to bet if the male lead in Final Fantasy had survived at the end, its ratings in the US would have been much higher.
Isn't this just Divx all over again? And tell me, why exactly do I want to maybe make the provisions,(router, cable) to hook this into my internet connection?
While I happen to have my A/V equipment right next to my box, and hence my connection, most people don't. Average Joe also does not have extra open ethernet ports either with stock DSL or cable equipment.
You may be right. Let's close down all fertility clinics. How many lives,(read tiny groups of a few thousand cells) are destroyed every day? Does that make fertility treatments,(Experiments; Will it work? Don't know, but we have 23 embryos left), right?
So it is for propogation of the species. How is that different from saving a member of our species?
And not only are you helping propogate the species, but,(sometimes, but not all), you are propogating their relative infertility. And if the second generation go to fertility doctors we are destroying more lives.
If it's ok to destroy ones that will be destroyed, why not make more?
Or will you ignore those questions and not talk about them?
By the very nature of the discussion, there are so-called stem cell lines, and it would be beneficial if those lines could be augmented and kept current. Organlegging is not much of a problem in the world,(yes it does happen, but rarely), even in spite of huge demand.
Organ donation lists routinely(Always?) outstrip availability. Where is the mass harvesting? If stem cell research takes off, will we be rounding up our women for ova harvesting? No. And factories for human embryos that are to be destroyed for research are also sometimes called fertility clinics.
This seems a little backwards to me. Its ok to create new life, but not save the older life? Who is playing God now? As soon as a kid is delivered from a Petri dish, i'll agree with you.
Back in 1992, the Preview Channel for at least some of the USA's cable was run on an Amiga, and I used to use my monitor to watch movies through its RCA ports.
One day, after an afternoon of gaming, I decided to watch a movie to take the edge off. Imagine my shock and horror as I switched off my Amiga 1000, switched to the composite input, and a Guru error was superimposed on top of the Preview Channel. In a moment that was both brief and endless, I thought I'd totally screwed up my computer, VCR, and monitor in one shot, even as I stared at the Amiga's power switch in the off position.
I think you underestimate the effect of advertising. True, it is at a supersaturation point at the moment, but the reason it exists at all is because it works. At the end of the article you provide, it says that both ends of the long tail are likely needed, both the pop and the long fizzle.
Its way easier to make a network legally secure as opposed to actually secure. In fact, its better to make a network only legally secure so then fines can be collected and court costs levied, or at least that is what the gov will tell you.
You are over complicating his argument. He says that we pay for something over time, and then it is ours. His argument is that just like a creditor shouldn't be able to arbitrarily extend the length of payment, copyright should not be continually extended and works kept out of the public domain.
Artists should be compensated for their works, but their great-grandchildren should not get royalty checks. Take the song "Happy Birthday". Its roots are in the 19th century, and first appeared in a songbook in 1924. With the latest copyright extension it will not enter the public domain until 2030. Its a wonderful work, I don't know anyone that can't sing it at least horribly, but copyright owners should not be collecting royalties until the seventh generation for its public performance.
And who is distributing here, the downloader? No, it is who is uploading to him.Ask your Dad, but as far as I know, under US law, someone who downloads a file is not distributing anything, per se.
Not that I am trying to advocate copyright infringement, but call a spade a spade, not someone who rapes, robs, and kills on the high seas. Yes, I know it has been in the lexicon for decades, nay centuries, but, tell me, what do you think those folks were trying to do, maybe relate copyright infringment to one of the worst offenses imagineable at the time as a political gesture?
Ahem.
Hmm, I like my car to go two different ways, parking and subsequently driving away without ever having to push is handy sometimes.
I have yet to need a gun either, but I'd rather have one and not need it as opposed to not having a gun and maybe needing it. I don't want to kill anyone, hurt anyone or get into trouble, so I act as safe as possible with my gun, just like with my automobile. I've often had people ask me, (Generally from Europe, where private firearm ownership is often banned or very difficult to obtain), are my possessions worth someone else's life if they try to steal them from me. My answer is, for the most part no, but you shouldn't be asking me that, you should be asking the guy who is threatening me or mine. I'm thankful that my gun has so far stayed in the closet, except for target shooting, and no one has forced me to use it. I hope it stays that way.
Its dangerous to invade my home and threaten me or try to steal from me, just like skating on a pond immediately following the first frost of winter. If a criminal wants to avoid dying I suggest he not break into homes or threaten people.
The last time I really paid attention to the possibility of a flat tax, I thought the same thing. Then my stepdad explained what I missed, that there would be one deduction allowed, similar to the standard deduction of today. He told me that each taxpayer would pay no taxes on their first $37k. The details are kind of foggy, but that's what I remember, I could be wrong.
Such a system would be the way to do the flat tax, although I admit I don't at what the minimum income should be before the tax would kick in. I'm sure that average black household would be delighted with both the prospect of not having to pay any federal income tax, and, even better, not having any federal income tax withholding deducted from their paychecks.