"And that's exactly why the Corps of Engineers who was responsible for maintaining those levees is responsible. If the inevitable disaster was so obvious, why weren't they doing anything about it?"
Umm, blame Congress, which denied the ACE funding, since the 60's, to repair and reinforce the levee?
Crysis runs full everything 1920x1080 on a 9800GX+. I don't get below 45FPS until I get to the alien/battleship fight or the end boss.
As far as nearly a teraflop of double precision floating point performance, my 9800GTX+ has been just under that mark, with a 9800GX2 surpassing it. Teraflop processing power isn't exactly a new thing, although double precision is something pretty new to video cards.
1. Get Dosbox 2. Adjust the config file for a 2xhq filter plugin, set resolution. 3. Run game.
Anyone that's used emulators can tell you the HUGE difference a good quality filter can make for LCD gaming at low-res. Super 2XSAI or Super Eagle, for example, are well-known and awesome filters.
I've read the fucking definition, I'm pedantic about words. ORIGINAL MEANS ORIGINAL, if you didn't make it, you're not an OEM. Period. Thus, I will not ever consider Apple to be an OEM.
And having worked as an Apple repair tech, whoooo-boy you'd be surprised how many ideas Apple actually steals on a regular basis. Original my ass.
Personal Computer, n: a small digital computer based on a microprocessor and designed to be used by one person at a time. - Princeton Definition
A personal computer (PC) is any general-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and original sales price make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end user, with no intervening computer operator. - Wikipedia definition
Calculators are personal computers - THEY COMPUTE. They are mostly based on a microprocessor design. They are all pretty much designed to be used by one person at a time, at least I've never seen a dual-screen calculator with two sets of inputs for some serious head-to-head number-crunching excitement.
Most smart vinyl owners purchased doubles of their albums. First they'd dub to tape, then put the original album back in the sleeve and on the shelf. After the tape wore out or was accidentally de-magnetized, they'd repeat the process. This saved them considerable wear and tear on the vinyl, and the general sound was rather well preserved.
All of my unopened albums came from similar vinyl lovers garage sales.
Done, and sold my 1st-gen PS2 modded to work with newer games (soft-BIOS loader, the older BIOS wouldn't play Rogue Galaxy until I modded it.)
What? IT'S MY HARDWARE. I can do what I please with it the second I'm out of the store. I didn't advertise it to play pirated games, I advertised it as modded to be capable of playing newer games that required a later revision BIOS in order to function properly.
In fact, my modded console will NOT play burned games or out of region games.
If Sony wants to try suing me, they'll find out just how much legal standing I have, I'm setting precedents in courts - EA just being my most recent conquest.
Apple didn't manufacture the mobo, the processor, or anything but the case and proprietary connectors.
Dell makes their own. HP makes their own. Gateway does not - not exactly an OEM.
I have worked for OEMs, I know what truly qualifies a company as an OEM. The key word here is "ORIGINAL" which is not Apple in any sense or shape of the word.
I know of two people that have packed up their PCs and use a 360 instead, now. I personally use my PS3 for everything, even slashdot. The only time I'm not using the PS3 is when I'm doing photo editing and other fun stuff, and I've got a pentium 3 made just for that.
"No one has claimed that making a pop hit is easy."
No need to make a claim when it's already a well known fact - just loop a 30 second sample of someone else's music and rap over it - instant club hit and multi-platinum single.
"Indeed, that's utterly irrelevant to the claim that copyright terms should be no more than a few decades."
How so? If I can take any once-popular song, take a small section out of it, loop it endlessly, talk nonsense over it and turn it into a hit, then something needs to be done about copyright. For example, Dr. Dre should have paid royalties. Half of his 'work' is the work of others, and those others are still pretty much unrecognized while Dre sits his fat ass on all the money THEY should have had.
Metallica won a Grammy for Whiskey in the Jar - a song they never wrote. That kind of shit shouldn't be happening.
"whenever I hear Hotel California come on the radio it feels like someone is raping my eardrums."
Well then, turn the treble down FFS! It's supposed to be reminiscient of a harpsichord in the beginning of the song, of course the steel guitar fails miserably at that because there's just not enough internal room for sound development inside the small guitar body, so of course it will sound like that.
Also, that only sounds like that on the remastered/re-released Hotel California. On the original vinyl, the treble is much less powerful, so it sounds softer.
Apple is barely a hardware OEM. I don't see Apple processors or Apple motherboards, I see INTEL. The only thing Apple designed is the crappy cheap white plastic look and proprietary connectors to suck more money from fools.
Umm, gee, I wonder what the XBox and 360 are? Just paperweights? They look like personal computers to me! They play movies, they play 3D games, they have instant messaging, voice chat, streaming internet movies, holy fuck they even have an online store to purchase software!
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"And that's exactly why the Corps of Engineers who was responsible for maintaining those levees is responsible. If the inevitable disaster was so obvious, why weren't they doing anything about it?"
Umm, blame Congress, which denied the ACE funding, since the 60's, to repair and reinforce the levee?
Uh, duh?
No, it states you are not allowed to modify ANY of the hardware.
Third party battery pack? Modified hardware - banned - give us more money now to keep playing.
"Secondly you cannot try 4 million passwords in a second if its encrypted content, it takes a lot more than that."
Do you even know what a brute force attack is about? You most certainly CAN try 4 million passwords a second to GUESS THE ENCRYPTION KEY.
Who modded this nonsense up?
"Paint Shop Pro for less power users,"
Except Photoshop isn't used for compressible textures in 3d gaming.
In fact, it is Paint Shop Pro's format that gets used quite often in gaming.
Photoshop - still not for power users, just like anything Adobe.
Crysis runs full everything 1920x1080 on a 9800GX+. I don't get below 45FPS until I get to the alien/battleship fight or the end boss.
As far as nearly a teraflop of double precision floating point performance, my 9800GTX+ has been just under that mark, with a 9800GX2 surpassing it. Teraflop processing power isn't exactly a new thing, although double precision is something pretty new to video cards.
The page rendering is purely slashcode and not hardware-accelerated.
Bet we're all wishing /. site maintainers could actually program their way out of a paper bag.
Integrated Graphics SUCK.
Take Quake 3, for example. Using my old 64MB GeForce 4, I can pretty much nail the 999FPS barrier.
Now, take the onboard GeForce 6150, with 256MB of RAM. It can't pop more than 140FPS.
It has consistently been like this for at least a decade.
That's not your GPU that's STALKER itself. The X-ray engine is buggy as shit.
I ran it just fine 1280x1024 medium everything on a 6800Ultra, but it would still glitch and skip. Upgraded to a 9800GTX+, same issue.
It sucks even worse in STALKER: Clear Sky.
Anti-Sec couldn't hack their way into a Menuet box if they had physical access.
Fucking script kiddies.
I've never had a problem with DOSBox's filters and scalers. Everything looks great on my 22" Acer LCD. (Got Tyrian playing on it right now)
1. Get Dosbox
2. Adjust the config file for a 2xhq filter plugin, set resolution.
3. Run game.
Anyone that's used emulators can tell you the HUGE difference a good quality filter can make for LCD gaming at low-res. Super 2XSAI or Super Eagle, for example, are well-known and awesome filters.
I've read the fucking definition, I'm pedantic about words. ORIGINAL MEANS ORIGINAL, if you didn't make it, you're not an OEM. Period. Thus, I will not ever consider Apple to be an OEM.
And having worked as an Apple repair tech, whoooo-boy you'd be surprised how many ideas Apple actually steals on a regular basis. Original my ass.
Personal Computer, n: a small digital computer based on a microprocessor and designed to be used by one person at a time. - Princeton Definition
A personal computer (PC) is any general-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and original sales price make it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end user, with no intervening computer operator. - Wikipedia definition
Calculators are personal computers - THEY COMPUTE. They are mostly based on a microprocessor design. They are all pretty much designed to be used by one person at a time, at least I've never seen a dual-screen calculator with two sets of inputs for some serious head-to-head number-crunching excitement.
PS3, 360, PERSONAL COMPUTERS.
Most smart vinyl owners purchased doubles of their albums. First they'd dub to tape, then put the original album back in the sleeve and on the shelf. After the tape wore out or was accidentally de-magnetized, they'd repeat the process. This saved them considerable wear and tear on the vinyl, and the general sound was rather well preserved.
All of my unopened albums came from similar vinyl lovers garage sales.
Average return rate is around 4,000%.
The price sticker on these albums is Twenty-Five cents.
Adjust for inflation, etc, etc, and I'm still looking at well over 20,000% profit margin on these Eagles albums.
A friend has the black sabbath painted album, unopened. ten cent price tag. I'll guarantee you it's worth a quarter-million, EASY.
Done, and sold my 1st-gen PS2 modded to work with newer games (soft-BIOS loader, the older BIOS wouldn't play Rogue Galaxy until I modded it.)
What? IT'S MY HARDWARE. I can do what I please with it the second I'm out of the store. I didn't advertise it to play pirated games, I advertised it as modded to be capable of playing newer games that required a later revision BIOS in order to function properly.
In fact, my modded console will NOT play burned games or out of region games.
If Sony wants to try suing me, they'll find out just how much legal standing I have, I'm setting precedents in courts - EA just being my most recent conquest.
ORIGINAL EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURER.
Apple didn't manufacture the mobo, the processor, or anything but the case and proprietary connectors.
Dell makes their own.
HP makes their own.
Gateway does not - not exactly an OEM.
I have worked for OEMs, I know what truly qualifies a company as an OEM. The key word here is "ORIGINAL" which is not Apple in any sense or shape of the word.
I know of two people that have packed up their PCs and use a 360 instead, now. I personally use my PS3 for everything, even slashdot. The only time I'm not using the PS3 is when I'm doing photo editing and other fun stuff, and I've got a pentium 3 made just for that.
"No one has claimed that making a pop hit is easy."
No need to make a claim when it's already a well known fact - just loop a 30 second sample of someone else's music and rap over it - instant club hit and multi-platinum single.
"Indeed, that's utterly irrelevant to the claim that copyright terms should be no more than a few decades."
How so? If I can take any once-popular song, take a small section out of it, loop it endlessly, talk nonsense over it and turn it into a hit, then something needs to be done about copyright. For example, Dr. Dre should have paid royalties. Half of his 'work' is the work of others, and those others are still pretty much unrecognized while Dre sits his fat ass on all the money THEY should have had.
Metallica won a Grammy for Whiskey in the Jar - a song they never wrote. That kind of shit shouldn't be happening.
"whenever I hear Hotel California come on the radio it feels like someone is raping my eardrums."
Well then, turn the treble down FFS! It's supposed to be reminiscient of a harpsichord in the beginning of the song, of course the steel guitar fails miserably at that because there's just not enough internal room for sound development inside the small guitar body, so of course it will sound like that.
Also, that only sounds like that on the remastered/re-released Hotel California. On the original vinyl, the treble is much less powerful, so it sounds softer.
This is why early music adopters rarely lose out.
I own all of the Eagles works, on vinyl, unopened.
Bet that would sell for a shit ton more money than any collection of remastered CDs or MP3s.
"I'm not allowed to throw a mod chip on my Xbox and sell it."
Bullshit. You may sell it all you want, you can't guarantee that it will be allowed on the XBOX LIVE service.
Apple is barely a hardware OEM. I don't see Apple processors or Apple motherboards, I see INTEL. The only thing Apple designed is the crappy cheap white plastic look and proprietary connectors to suck more money from fools.
Linux is not a desktop, it is a kernel.
Which means that Gnome/KDE/et.al are at fault. THEY suck.
Umm, gee, I wonder what the XBox and 360 are? Just paperweights? They look like personal computers to me! They play movies, they play 3D games, they have instant messaging, voice chat, streaming internet movies, holy fuck they even have an online store to purchase software!
That's WAY more than my 8088 could do.