"MuwahAHahAHahAH... Hey, Tubs! I just lost my Jenga Jam!"
... "Don't you talk to me."
That is the best part of "Where's the Cheat?" It's even funnier that Homsar was created out of one of the early Strong Bad e-mails. Someone misspelled Homestar, and (as always), Strong Bad gave them some crap.
To put it bluntly, in this regard, Slashdot sucks.
The site is absolutely littered with horrible, nonstandard HTML, broken tags, tables, markup hacks, and other things that would confuse the bejesus out of any web accessibility tools.
Of course, the first step to solving this problem would be to overhaul Slashdot to resemble SOME form of web standards-compliance. That single step would improve accessibility tenfold. Instead, Slashdot has decided to ignore the problem and pretend it doesn't exist. I noticed they actually went so far as to block the w3c's validator from accessing Slashdot. (When you try to validate it, the validator complains that it received a 403.)
For such a widely popular website, Slashdot is poorly constructed, and has made no effort whatsoever to rectify the problem. For an example of a really nicely created site, take a look at Wired sometime. Run a page or two of theirs through the validator. View their source. They've learned to favor div tags over tables for formatting, and their pages actually validate properly.
The first step to accessibility is valid HTML. If you want to go further, there are some good resources available.
Ralsky agreed to this interview and the tour of his operation only if I promised not to print the address of his new home, which I found in Oakland County real estate records.
Yeah because, you know, he wouldn't want a bunch of unsolicited visitors annoying him and being a pain in the ass. And more and more would just end up showing up, enough to cause him a big headache, and creating problems in his attempts to get his daily activites done.
Apparently, you are not familiar with the "Even-Odd" rule of Star Trek movies. This is an even-numbered movie, and thus, will rock.
No, I'm familiar with it, however I think the rule was broken with Generations (Movie #7).
Yes, I thought Generations was better than First Contact, but that's not to say I didn't think First Contact was anything but good. Except the Borg Queen. I think her concept is stupid and ridiculous. The Borg have degraded in all appearences after The Best of Both Worlds.
Rather than rehash my thoughts on this particular subject, you can go read them here if you so desire.
This may very well be the last TNG movie, as the trailers say "A Generation's Final Journey". Seems to hint that this is the cap.
I always believed that after DS9, Trek as a whole should have taken a long hiatus. The gap between TOS and TNG was huge, and TNG turned out to be a fantastic series. But since TNG ended, it's been nothing but rapid-fire Star Trek, most of which can't hold a candle to TNG.
Now they're milking the franchise, and we get crap like Voyager and Enterprise. Insurrection wasn't that great either. I'm hoping Nemesis does something to redeem the TNG movies, as Insurrection kinda put it on a low note. Generations is the best TNG movie so far.
I'd like to see them put the entire franchise to a rest after Nemesis (and kill off Enterprise before the 7 season mark), and let it lie in wait until a team with a GOOD idea a few years down the line can put a fresh and interesting spin on it.
Indeed, I've screwed with the NvAGP settings serveral times, all with no luck. Plus, I've had the distributed.net client running continuously on this box for about three years. Granted, it was a single copy, but CPU heat has never exceeded tolerence levels. (I have an external LCD screen with temperature monitoring. The CPU hovers at around 95-100 degrees Fahrenheit.)
As I mentioned here, heat was briefly considered, but there is good cooling in my case. I also mentioned that I hadn't considered the power supply, and that could very well be the problem. That'll be my last attempt at a solution before I return the card.
If your problem is occurring across os platforms, then it's probably not an os, driver, or software issue. Since it happens in other opengl games, it's not a particular game issue. Since it's more than one card, it's not a faulty card.
These were my exact assumptions as well.
Heat was considered and quickly dismissed, as my case has adequate cooling - dedicated processor fan, dedicated video card fan, and a large rear case fan. I did not, however, even consider the power issue. I recently bought a new case with a 300W power supply, so if all else fails, perhaps I'll check that route. Thanks.
The problem with that theory is that the FAQ answer is stating that if you're using a processor with a 133 MHz FSB, that's when your AGP speeds get out of whack and off-spec. My PIII is running at 100 MHz.
In any event, this may be a problem anyway. The GeForce card I have is a 2x/4x AGP card, while the motherboard caps AGP at 2x. The card may simply be having trouble bussing down to 2x on this particular rig. Who knows.
That's too bad, because I was looking for another 3D card to buy for my system.
After asking around what options there were for good 3D support under Linux, I bought an nVidia GeForce 4. Problem is, I'm having some severe issues with it. Running anything OpenGL that has some intense rendering (Return to Castle Wolfenstein, for instance) will do one of two things: 1) cause X to lock up, flashing Scroll Lock and Caps Lock at me once every second, or 2) spontaneously reset my machine. Obviously, this is not a good thing, and I'm actually quite disappointed.
It appears to be something deeper than a driver issue, though, as I get RTCW to crash under Windows in the exact same manner, and under the exact same conditions as under Linux. (Windows bluescreens, while X locks up.) I've tried Quake3, RTCW, and other simple OpenGL apps (glxgears, fsv, etc.), and all cause my machine to shit itself.
It's not a problem with the card, either, as I bought two separate GeForce4 cards from two different manufacturers, and both had the exact same issues. Plus, my system doesn't contain any backwoods generic parts; Intel SE440BX-2 Motherboard, PIII Processor.
I just don't get it. It's a shame, too, because my previous card (3dfx Voodoo3) was a pain in the ass to get working with 3D in Linux. I e-mailed nVidia and posted a message to their forums, both of which have gotten me no replies.
I can't recommend nVidia at this time, and I've heard worse things about ATI's Linux support. Since Linux is my primary OS (I only installed Windows to test out the above scenario), I honestly don't know what to do.
During testing of my home-built car mp3 player, I had brought my monitor outside with me to see the screen output. After the initial tests were successful, I disconnected the monitor and decided to take a quick test-drive around the parking lot of my apartment complex.
I didn't realize I had left the monitor very close to the car, and while backing out of my space, I hit it going a good 3 to 5 MPH. I got out of the car and brought it right upstairs to my apartment.
Hooked it up, and it still worked fine. (Tis an old KFC monitor, too. I'd have hated to have lost it.)
The article says "No one is out in front of their mailbox with a shotgun to prevent direct marketers from distributing targeted print advertising."
That may be true, however with physical, direct-mail ads, the "viewer" has an extreme amount of control as to what he chooses to read, and what he chooses to throw away. He can look at something and say "crap, not interested", tear it up, and toss it in the trash. With television ads, however, all of them are thrown at the viewer on equal footing, and the viewer has to waste the time on them whether she or he watches them or not. (You can turn the TV off, but your show won't come on any sooner.)
This, of course, isn't true with recorded shows, but that's not what this is about. (Plus, the companies who think it's stealing when you ignore commercials are already working on ways to force you to watch ads, recorded or not, short of getting up from your couch. Fantastic.)
"And we never associate the set-top box address with a physical home address."
Maybe not, but I can imagine the set-top box address being associated with the unit's serial number, and the serial number in turn is what gets associated with the owner's name, address, phone number, etc - all of which is valuable to direct-mail and telemarketing.
With the onset of more and more invasive means of advertising (even sometimes popping up during shows), I'm glad I don't watch TV all that much anymore.
Slashdot Mirror
Ahem.
"A spectacle of graphics and sound."
do Do-DOO.
"MuwahAHahAHahAH... Hey, Tubs! I just lost my Jenga Jam!"
... "Don't you talk to me."
That is the best part of "Where's the Cheat?" It's even funnier that Homsar was created out of one of the early Strong Bad e-mails. Someone misspelled Homestar, and (as always), Strong Bad gave them some crap.
Homsar
Where's the Cheat?
Would you put that fweakin' sandwich down?!
Geologist Victor Cardenes says he stumbled across the microscopic creature while visiting Belize.
I read that, and pictured a scene similar to the following.
Man steps off a plane, enters an airport terminal.
"Ahh, Belize! I cannot WAIT to get to..." *trip* (Man trips over something invisible while walking through the terminal)
"My, word! What's this? I say, it appears to be a microscopic organism that feeds on compact discs!"
That's strange, this article didn't start out as funny, but I'm laughing. heh.
windows XP (which is really NT with lipstick)
That's a good analogy, but it'd be a bit more accurate to say "whore makeup".
I am not sure how comfortable with this i am [...] becuase linux is capable of failing.
Tell me... what sort of system is NOT capable of failing?
Answer: None. Your argument is pointless.
Uh, if that's true, then why is has the error been corrected?
Nonsense. I've seen a few scooting around in downtown Atlanta. Even the police are using them.
To put it bluntly, in this regard, Slashdot sucks.
The site is absolutely littered with horrible, nonstandard HTML, broken tags, tables, markup hacks, and other things that would confuse the bejesus out of any web accessibility tools.
Of course, the first step to solving this problem would be to overhaul Slashdot to resemble SOME form of web standards-compliance. That single step would improve accessibility tenfold. Instead, Slashdot has decided to ignore the problem and pretend it doesn't exist. I noticed they actually went so far as to block the w3c's validator from accessing Slashdot. (When you try to validate it, the validator complains that it received a 403.)
For such a widely popular website, Slashdot is poorly constructed, and has made no effort whatsoever to rectify the problem. For an example of a really nicely created site, take a look at Wired sometime. Run a page or two of theirs through the validator. View their source. They've learned to favor div tags over tables for formatting, and their pages actually validate properly.
The first step to accessibility is valid HTML. If you want to go further, there are some good resources available.
Ralsky agreed to this interview and the tour of his operation only if I promised not to print the address of his new home, which I found in Oakland County real estate records.
Yeah because, you know, he wouldn't want a bunch of unsolicited visitors annoying him and being a pain in the ass. And more and more would just end up showing up, enough to cause him a big headache, and creating problems in his attempts to get his daily activites done.
Sound familiar, asshole? Fucking lowlife spammers.
Apparently, you are not familiar with the "Even-Odd" rule of Star Trek movies. This is an even-numbered movie, and thus, will rock.
No, I'm familiar with it, however I think the rule was broken with Generations (Movie #7).
Yes, I thought Generations was better than First Contact, but that's not to say I didn't think First Contact was anything but good. Except the Borg Queen. I think her concept is stupid and ridiculous. The Borg have degraded in all appearences after The Best of Both Worlds.
Rather than rehash my thoughts on this particular subject, you can go read them here if you so desire.
This may very well be the last TNG movie, as the trailers say "A Generation's Final Journey". Seems to hint that this is the cap.
I always believed that after DS9, Trek as a whole should have taken a long hiatus. The gap between TOS and TNG was huge, and TNG turned out to be a fantastic series. But since TNG ended, it's been nothing but rapid-fire Star Trek, most of which can't hold a candle to TNG.
Now they're milking the franchise, and we get crap like Voyager and Enterprise. Insurrection wasn't that great either. I'm hoping Nemesis does something to redeem the TNG movies, as Insurrection kinda put it on a low note. Generations is the best TNG movie so far.
I'd like to see them put the entire franchise to a rest after Nemesis (and kill off Enterprise before the 7 season mark), and let it lie in wait until a team with a GOOD idea a few years down the line can put a fresh and interesting spin on it.
Anyone see any problem with this?
If not, sign the petition.
Screw this guy. Will you marry me?
Forgive my ignorance, but where is the AGP ratio set?
Indeed, I've screwed with the NvAGP settings serveral times, all with no luck. Plus, I've had the distributed.net client running continuously on this box for about three years. Granted, it was a single copy, but CPU heat has never exceeded tolerence levels. (I have an external LCD screen with temperature monitoring. The CPU hovers at around 95-100 degrees Fahrenheit.)
As I mentioned here, heat was briefly considered, but there is good cooling in my case. I also mentioned that I hadn't considered the power supply, and that could very well be the problem. That'll be my last attempt at a solution before I return the card.
Thanks for the suggestions.
My BIOS doesn't have these selections for AGP, but I did attempt to monkey with the AGP settings via the nVidia driver. Nothing helped, really.
On top of everything, X takes 18 seconds to initialize video with this card. It's depressing.
If your problem is occurring across os platforms, then it's probably not an os, driver, or software issue. Since it happens in other opengl games, it's not a particular game issue. Since it's more than one card, it's not a faulty card.
These were my exact assumptions as well.
Heat was considered and quickly dismissed, as my case has adequate cooling - dedicated processor fan, dedicated video card fan, and a large rear case fan. I did not, however, even consider the power issue. I recently bought a new case with a 300W power supply, so if all else fails, perhaps I'll check that route. Thanks.
1. I haven't tried that; it's a single slot board. I'll check it out.
2. RTCW didn't crash at all with my Voodoo3.
3. Thanks.
This was one of my last-ditch efforts to fix the problem. While I now benefit from an updated BIOS, the problem still exists.
Thanks anyway.
The problem with that theory is that the FAQ answer is stating that if you're using a processor with a 133 MHz FSB, that's when your AGP speeds get out of whack and off-spec. My PIII is running at 100 MHz.
In any event, this may be a problem anyway. The GeForce card I have is a 2x/4x AGP card, while the motherboard caps AGP at 2x. The card may simply be having trouble bussing down to 2x on this particular rig. Who knows.
That's too bad, because I was looking for another 3D card to buy for my system.
After asking around what options there were for good 3D support under Linux, I bought an nVidia GeForce 4. Problem is, I'm having some severe issues with it. Running anything OpenGL that has some intense rendering (Return to Castle Wolfenstein, for instance) will do one of two things: 1) cause X to lock up, flashing Scroll Lock and Caps Lock at me once every second, or 2) spontaneously reset my machine. Obviously, this is not a good thing, and I'm actually quite disappointed.
It appears to be something deeper than a driver issue, though, as I get RTCW to crash under Windows in the exact same manner, and under the exact same conditions as under Linux. (Windows bluescreens, while X locks up.) I've tried Quake3, RTCW, and other simple OpenGL apps (glxgears, fsv, etc.), and all cause my machine to shit itself.
It's not a problem with the card, either, as I bought two separate GeForce4 cards from two different manufacturers, and both had the exact same issues. Plus, my system doesn't contain any backwoods generic parts; Intel SE440BX-2 Motherboard, PIII Processor.
I just don't get it. It's a shame, too, because my previous card (3dfx Voodoo3) was a pain in the ass to get working with 3D in Linux. I e-mailed nVidia and posted a message to their forums, both of which have gotten me no replies.
I can't recommend nVidia at this time, and I've heard worse things about ATI's Linux support. Since Linux is my primary OS (I only installed Windows to test out the above scenario), I honestly don't know what to do.
"I've just received a message from the National Pancake Institute. It says, 'Fuck Waffles'."
Tip of the hat to Mr. George Carlin.
He was in The Lost Boys, but I'm pretty sure that was before the original Bill & Ted.
During testing of my home-built car mp3 player, I had brought my monitor outside with me to see the screen output. After the initial tests were successful, I disconnected the monitor and decided to take a quick test-drive around the parking lot of my apartment complex.
I didn't realize I had left the monitor very close to the car, and while backing out of my space, I hit it going a good 3 to 5 MPH. I got out of the car and brought it right upstairs to my apartment.
Hooked it up, and it still worked fine. (Tis an old KFC monitor, too. I'd have hated to have lost it.)
The article says "No one is out in front of their mailbox with a shotgun to prevent direct marketers from distributing targeted print advertising."
That may be true, however with physical, direct-mail ads, the "viewer" has an extreme amount of control as to what he chooses to read, and what he chooses to throw away. He can look at something and say "crap, not interested", tear it up, and toss it in the trash. With television ads, however, all of them are thrown at the viewer on equal footing, and the viewer has to waste the time on them whether she or he watches them or not. (You can turn the TV off, but your show won't come on any sooner.)
This, of course, isn't true with recorded shows, but that's not what this is about. (Plus, the companies who think it's stealing when you ignore commercials are already working on ways to force you to watch ads, recorded or not, short of getting up from your couch. Fantastic.)
"And we never associate the set-top box address with a physical home address."
Maybe not, but I can imagine the set-top box address being associated with the unit's serial number, and the serial number in turn is what gets associated with the owner's name, address, phone number, etc - all of which is valuable to direct-mail and telemarketing.
With the onset of more and more invasive means of advertising (even sometimes popping up during shows), I'm glad I don't watch TV all that much anymore.