"now any vendor can make a cheap $150 knockoff to a $400 board"... um yeah... it must be easy to do that because you said it was. I mean that's clearly why Intel fell off all those years ago when they released specs to programmers everywhere telling them how to make programs for their chips. Man if Intel hadn't done that they might still be around today.
The problem isn't technical, quality, or trade secret, it's IP Law. No one wants to get sued plain and simple.
I don't know my eMachines m6805's hard drive died, and they sent me a new one next day air, with replacement restore CD's because I lost the originals. When my video card started acting up they sent me a pre postaged box, I packed it up, and sent it off, the day I called, yeah it took them 3 work days to turn it around, but I wouldn't say that was poor service by any stretch of the word. I'm sure Apple has good customer service, but that doesn't mean that everyone else doesn't.
First week of owning a Dell laptop that we purchased the accidental damage, spills and drops coverage on. My bosses son spilled a 12 ounce can of regular coke on the machine while it was on, and totally fried it. I called up the rep, said my bosses son spilled coke on the machine, and they picked it up, and replaced the whole machine. Yeah if you get a $400 laptop that their making a 10% profit on, you're going to get piss-poor customer service, but I've found that most OEM supported extended warranties are fairly good. So your $400 laptop is now $700, but you get treated like a star.
Peace, -manno
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Are you crazy you actualy use the drivers supplied on CD's? I thought everyone knew that those are usualy outdated piles of junk, be it nVidia, ATI, Via, SIS, Intel, HP, Creative, Ricoh... anybody. Always get the latest drivers off the website and toss the CD's that come with your hardware, immediatly if not sooner.
So you're saying that there is a card that costs $400 less than a Radeon X1900XT, and has 97% of its performance? Please let me know where you've seen this. There is a significant difference between a 7900GT, and a 7600GT, and I'm posotive that the difference between the 7600GS,a nd GT wil be sizable as well. Particularly if you turn of effects like AA, Ansio, and HDR. Not to mention with all the high res panels out there now with minimun resolutions of 1680x1050, and the like you will notice a difference. Now if you're talking about people who use SLI... I can agree that the extra $400 dollars for a card is a waste, particularly, when you consider in just 6 short months a single card will come along that's just as fast as an SLI setup, and will pull 25% of the juice. And once that newer card comes out you can ebay your previous $400 card for $200, and buy the new $400 card for $200.
Forget that how about a movie that doesn't involve super elaborate 100 to 1 fight scenes? Want to see a genuinely good fight scene, go get "In the Heat of the Night"
and watch the scene where Sidney Poitier' character, gets corned by 4 guys and notice the completely unrealistic lack of roundhouse kicks, and wire-aided double-back-flip kicks to the face. I mean in the face of four attackers, he doesn't even manage to "one-punch knock-out" any of them.
Fight scenes in movies suck hard now-a-days none of them resemble anything you'd see on the street. In some movies that's fine in others it ruins immersion. Super polished coriographed fights have there place in some movies, not ALL movies. 99.9% of the population CAN'T do a backward somersault, and 100% of the population can't do it fast, or hard enough to stop and attacker even if they hit them in the face with it.
Seeing a good fight scene where two guys duke it out street style is hard, if not impossible now-a-days, and it detracts from movies rather than adds to them. The transporter 2 sucked and I don't care how cool you think the fights looked.
There is no way it takes all the power of a dual P4/Yohan to push 10 way calling, I'd feel prety confident in saying a single core athlon 3200, or p4 3.2 would easily handle 20 calls with ease. Sure it's anti competative for intel to do this, but it realy did this to force people to upgrade once again. Processors, even single core ones are so fast that typical home/office use could be easily done on a chip that's 4 years old. I got compliments on my trusty old p3 700 with Windows XP up until I replaced it last year. most people who used it (just for papers, excel, and checking email) called it the fastest pc they ever used. Just because it was packed with RAM, and bloat/spyware free. I'm sure Intel did this as a jab at AMD in some sense, but to this day Intel's greatest competitor is all the processors out there from within the last 3-4 years.
Are we going to create another suttle-type craft, one that can be flown more ecconomicaly? Or are we just going to make a bunch of disposable rockets?
I've used radiant, and worldcraft.
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I could never get the hang of Radiant, Worldcraft was/is so much easier to work with. It's unfortunate because back when I was a mapper, I saw some of the things other mappers were doing with Quake 3, and Radiant, and they were great. I was spoiled with Worldcraft and couldn't make the transition to radiant's clunky UI.
I can attest to being incompitent, and prefering Sage to Myth... A LOT. I REALY, REALY want to get myth to work, but after spending over 24 hours trying to do so... I lost my patience.
I specifically stated that the RIAA's arguments were just as flawed as P2P's. Both sides are using broad brush strokes to try and paint things in the best possible light for themselves. And there is a significant difference between an analog copy of a piece of media, and a digital one. Before P2P a mix tape was the RI's biggest realistic threat, a threat buffered by the fact that there's a tariff on analog cassette tapes. Now they're facing the very real situation of people downloading millions songs the RI paid to have dubbed, marketed, and distributed all for a payout of $0.0, and a big "F.U." in their general direction.
I'm sorry but me going onto a strangers hardrive, and making an exact copy of every copywrited file he has and saying that where there was once one and there is now two perfectly identical copies possessed now by two completely different parties somehow constitutes sharing is a farce. It's not exactly theft, but it's also not entirely on the up, and up.
It's not being shared it's being distributed, in a very unfair way. Their own content is their biggest competitor. Is DRM the answer no, it's easily circumvented, and is by definition tougher on those of us who pay for content than those who get it from P2P. I buy content grudgingly knowing I could easily be getting cheaper, and easier from a P2P service. After payment all I get is a crippled version of the song I could of got of of gnutella. It pisses me off, but I know it's wrong to go out and pull anything I want of a strangers harddrive without compensating the people that made that song possible.
Will there be a time where content is directly distributed to end users without the need of the RI middle men? Where artists give consumers of their music direct access to it, and they get paid for by doing appearances, and concerts. Where DRM isn't considered a solution by any party in the system. I hope and would like to think so, but we're not there right now. There here-and-now of it is the current P2P/RIAA situation is a moral wasteland, inhabited by the morally corrupt, all of whom are claiming moral incorruptibility. One just feeds the other, because both are right, and both are wrong.
You're French? Good a lot of post say that their is a tax on harddrives, CD's flash memory, how big is the tax? Is it a percentage of the item's value? Is it a flat fee, per device/disck, or is it per megabyte?
I kind of agree, particularly when you consider the fact that a lot of these P2P companies are selling the software for profit, or selling ads in the software for profit.
Calling the current state of P2P apps "sharing" is still one of the most intelligence insulting stances I think a person could argue from. How is making an exact bit for bit copy of a song/program/whatever file on a strangers computer considered sharing. If I share an XBOX game with a friend, we either both sit down and play it together, or I physically give him the DVD therefore precluding me from using it at the same time. How would me burning the game to another disk, a disk from which he could make an exact bit for bit copy, and give to another friend, and so on and so on... be considered "sharing"? It's wrong, and the fact that so many people choose to defend P2P and burning bit-for-bit copies of CD's as sharing, is an insult to content distributors everywhere, from Adobe, to the RIAA, even Shareman Networks put a stop to DietKazza/KazzaLight.
Both sides are guilty of putting forward faulty logic in an effort win the argument. Both the RIAA, and the P2P community. I hate DRM just as much as the next guy, and I think it's something that shouldn't be necessary, but in this pro P2P era, where forgery is considered correct, and defensible by so many people. How could you blame content distributors for trying to protect their products. Do I feel that they're going about this the wrong way? Absolutely. However I can see why the P2P communities actions as a whole, encourages such drastic responses. The worst part is P2P's actions are giving them incentive, and desperately needed fodder to further advance the idea of DRM into the commercial, and legislative arena.
"a 9600SE actually, but that is pretty much a 9200 for as far as drivers go"
Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. Radeon 9550, and 96xx, series are based off of ATI's 4 pipe core that's based of of the 97xx architecture, they are DirectX 9 parts (Shader Model 2) with fully programmable shaders. your 9600SE is no where near similar to the 9200, as far as architecture goes. Driver wise the 9200 drivers should work on a 9600, but your cutting off a huge portion of the 9600's potential. The 9200 is an old 2 pipe core that's a DX 8.1 (Shader Model 1.x) you are castrating your already castrated 9600SE using drivers for a 9200
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"now any vendor can make a cheap $150 knockoff to a $400 board"...
um yeah... it must be easy to do that because you said it was. I mean that's clearly why Intel fell off all those years ago when they released specs to programmers everywhere telling them how to make programs for their chips. Man if Intel hadn't done that they might still be around today.
The problem isn't technical, quality, or trade secret, it's IP Law. No one wants to get sued plain and simple.
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I don't know my eMachines m6805's hard drive died, and they sent me a new one next day air, with replacement restore CD's because I lost the originals. When my video card started acting up they sent me a pre postaged box, I packed it up, and sent it off, the day I called, yeah it took them 3 work days to turn it around, but I wouldn't say that was poor service by any stretch of the word. I'm sure Apple has good customer service, but that doesn't mean that everyone else doesn't.
First week of owning a Dell laptop that we purchased the accidental damage, spills and drops coverage on. My bosses son spilled a 12 ounce can of regular coke on the machine while it was on, and totally fried it. I called up the rep, said my bosses son spilled coke on the machine, and they picked it up, and replaced the whole machine. Yeah if you get a $400 laptop that their making a 10% profit on, you're going to get piss-poor customer service, but I've found that most OEM supported extended warranties are fairly good. So your $400 laptop is now $700, but you get treated like a star.
Peace,
-manno
Are you crazy you actualy use the drivers supplied on CD's? I thought everyone knew that those are usualy outdated piles of junk, be it nVidia, ATI, Via, SIS, Intel, HP, Creative, Ricoh... anybody. Always get the latest drivers off the website and toss the CD's that come with your hardware, immediatly if not sooner.
So you're saying that there is a card that costs $400 less than a Radeon X1900XT, and has 97% of its performance? Please let me know where you've seen this. There is a significant difference between a 7900GT, and a 7600GT, and I'm posotive that the difference between the 7600GS,a nd GT wil be sizable as well. Particularly if you turn of effects like AA, Ansio, and HDR. Not to mention with all the high res panels out there now with minimun resolutions of 1680x1050, and the like you will notice a difference. Now if you're talking about people who use SLI... I can agree that the extra $400 dollars for a card is a waste, particularly, when you consider in just 6 short months a single card will come along that's just as fast as an SLI setup, and will pull 25% of the juice. And once that newer card comes out you can ebay your previous $400 card for $200, and buy the new $400 card for $200.
peace
-manno
Ow man I know that feeling I'm pulling for you bro.
I mean with a name like CowboyKneel ...
It has to be good!
Forget that how about a movie that doesn't involve super elaborate 100 to 1 fight scenes? Want to see a genuinely good fight scene, go get "In the Heat of the Night"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061811/
and watch the scene where Sidney Poitier' character, gets corned by 4 guys and notice the completely unrealistic lack of roundhouse kicks, and wire-aided double-back-flip kicks to the face. I mean in the face of four attackers, he doesn't even manage to "one-punch knock-out" any of them.
Fight scenes in movies suck hard now-a-days none of them resemble anything you'd see on the street. In some movies that's fine in others it ruins immersion. Super polished coriographed fights have there place in some movies, not ALL movies. 99.9% of the population CAN'T do a backward somersault, and 100% of the population can't do it fast, or hard enough to stop and attacker even if they hit them in the face with it.
Seeing a good fight scene where two guys duke it out street style is hard, if not impossible now-a-days, and it detracts from movies rather than adds to them. The transporter 2 sucked and I don't care how cool you think the fights looked.
There is no way it takes all the power of a dual P4/Yohan to push 10 way calling, I'd feel prety confident in saying a single core athlon 3200, or p4 3.2 would easily handle 20 calls with ease. Sure it's anti competative for intel to do this, but it realy did this to force people to upgrade once again. Processors, even single core ones are so fast that typical home/office use could be easily done on a chip that's 4 years old. I got compliments on my trusty old p3 700 with Windows XP up until I replaced it last year. most people who used it (just for papers, excel, and checking email) called it the fastest pc they ever used. Just because it was packed with RAM, and bloat/spyware free. I'm sure Intel did this as a jab at AMD in some sense, but to this day Intel's greatest competitor is all the processors out there from within the last 3-4 years.
Why mod me down as troll? It was an honest question.
how will these stack up against what other countries have, the Russians, Japanese, and Europeans for instance?
Are we going to create another suttle-type craft, one that can be flown more ecconomicaly? Or are we just going to make a bunch of disposable rockets?
I could never get the hang of Radiant, Worldcraft was/is so much easier to work with. It's unfortunate because back when I was a mapper, I saw some of the things other mappers were doing with Quake 3, and Radiant, and they were great. I was spoiled with Worldcraft and couldn't make the transition to radiant's clunky UI.
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ahh the pimpage.
-manno
Oh come on just a mod 2 funny?
this is easily 3 territory, and judging by what's usualy called funny around here it's easily a 5
Great now I need to get a DS. Son of a...
use this with something like
http://www.google.com/ig
http://www.live.com/
http://www.eskobo.com/
if they work with the DS version of Opera that would make the DS absolutly KILLER
How does Kbuntu handle sound?
A huge thanks to you for sharing it. I'm going to try to run myth for the 3000, time. Probably with the same success as the first 2999 times though.
I can attest to being incompitent, and prefering Sage to Myth... A LOT. I REALY, REALY want to get myth to work, but after spending over 24 hours trying to do so... I lost my patience.
You make some good points, I'm to out of it right now to comment, but I'll get back to you.
I specifically stated that the RIAA's arguments were just as flawed as P2P's. Both sides are using broad brush strokes to try and paint things in the best possible light for themselves. And there is a significant difference between an analog copy of a piece of media, and a digital one. Before P2P a mix tape was the RI's biggest realistic threat, a threat buffered by the fact that there's a tariff on analog cassette tapes. Now they're facing the very real situation of people downloading millions songs the RI paid to have dubbed, marketed, and distributed all for a payout of $0.0, and a big "F.U." in their general direction.
I'm sorry but me going onto a strangers hardrive, and making an exact copy of every copywrited file he has and saying that where there was once one and there is now two perfectly identical copies possessed now by two completely different parties somehow constitutes sharing is a farce. It's not exactly theft, but it's also not entirely on the up, and up.
It's not being shared it's being distributed, in a very unfair way. Their own content is their biggest competitor. Is DRM the answer no, it's easily circumvented, and is by definition tougher on those of us who pay for content than those who get it from P2P. I buy content grudgingly knowing I could easily be getting cheaper, and easier from a P2P service. After payment all I get is a crippled version of the song I could of got of of gnutella. It pisses me off, but I know it's wrong to go out and pull anything I want of a strangers harddrive without compensating the people that made that song possible.
Will there be a time where content is directly distributed to end users without the need of the RI middle men? Where artists give consumers of their music direct access to it, and they get paid for by doing appearances, and concerts. Where DRM isn't considered a solution by any party in the system. I hope and would like to think so, but we're not there right now. There here-and-now of it is the current P2P/RIAA situation is a moral wasteland, inhabited by the morally corrupt, all of whom are claiming moral incorruptibility. One just feeds the other, because both are right, and both are wrong.
thanks
It does, and thanks.
You're French? Good a lot of post say that their is a tax on harddrives, CD's flash memory, how big is the tax? Is it a percentage of the item's value? Is it a flat fee, per device/disck, or is it per megabyte?
I kind of agree, particularly when you consider the fact that a lot of these P2P companies are selling the software for profit, or selling ads in the software for profit.
Calling the current state of P2P apps "sharing" is still one of the most intelligence insulting stances I think a person could argue from. How is making an exact bit for bit copy of a song/program/whatever file on a strangers computer considered sharing. If I share an XBOX game with a friend, we either both sit down and play it together, or I physically give him the DVD therefore precluding me from using it at the same time. How would me burning the game to another disk, a disk from which he could make an exact bit for bit copy, and give to another friend, and so on and so on... be considered "sharing"? It's wrong, and the fact that so many people choose to defend P2P and burning bit-for-bit copies of CD's as sharing, is an insult to content distributors everywhere, from Adobe, to the RIAA, even Shareman Networks put a stop to DietKazza/KazzaLight.
Both sides are guilty of putting forward faulty logic in an effort win the argument. Both the RIAA, and the P2P community. I hate DRM just as much as the next guy, and I think it's something that shouldn't be necessary, but in this pro P2P era, where forgery is considered correct, and defensible by so many people. How could you blame content distributors for trying to protect their products. Do I feel that they're going about this the wrong way? Absolutely. However I can see why the P2P communities actions as a whole, encourages such drastic responses. The worst part is P2P's actions are giving them incentive, and desperately needed fodder to further advance the idea of DRM into the commercial, and legislative arena.
"a 9600SE actually, but that is pretty much a 9200 for as far as drivers go"
Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.
Radeon 9550, and 96xx, series are based off of ATI's 4 pipe core that's based of of the 97xx architecture, they are DirectX 9 parts (Shader Model 2) with fully programmable shaders. your 9600SE is no where near similar to the 9200, as far as architecture goes. Driver wise the 9200 drivers should work on a 9600, but your cutting off a huge portion of the 9600's potential. The 9200 is an old 2 pipe core that's a DX 8.1 (Shader Model 1.x) you are castrating your already castrated 9600SE using drivers for a 9200