Why are the engineering samples allowed out for advertising when you know that more than likely the release product will never perform as well as the engineering samples? Doesn't this constitute false advertising?
This is twice you've said he deserves to die. So man up and do it or shut up about it.
For real. I've got the balls to take EA to court. Some Iraqi has the balls to toss his shoes at the President of the USA. Theaveng needs to get off his ass and do something instead of talking.
The older versions of Scorched3D weren't as intensive, the engine was a bit more primitive. Now it's been upgraded and improved, so it does take up quite a bit.
My GeForce 6800 still handles it at 1024x768 max everything no biggie. A little choppy in some places, usually during multiple warheads or flying creatures being rendered, but otherwise it's smooth.
"hundreds of fun, recognizable ROMs already bundled as torrents...not legal."
BULLSHIT! If you happen to own every game in that torrent file, it's legal. Oh, you can pick and choose the files you can download, as well, so even if there were a thousand games in the torrent, you'd only have to download the ten you own.
I'm sorry, but technology has pretty much gone way past anything you're thinking about. I still own over 300+ NES cartridges, but no working NES. So I download the ROMs from the internet and emulate using FCEUltra.
It's only illegal *IF YOU DON'T ALREADY OWN IT.*
Sony tried this bullshit with me once for downloading FFVII. I brought my three-disc physical copy, disc 3 mangled, into the small claims court, and won within five minutes.
I abhor the "War on Drugs" but knowing several dealers and co-op owners, what I say is how they operate. Clientele sometimes finds other sources and moves on to that source, and thus offering discounts to either the customer being lost or to new potential customers in order to keep clientele has to be done. In this particular business (specifically medical cannabis,) word of mouth usually isn't enough. Some places advertise free 8ths for your first visit, discounts on vaporizers, etc. just to lure in customers or as an attempt to keep existing clientele happy by taking a monetary loss in the name of "customer service."
Trust me, keeping it in stock is NOT an issue in any of the Medical Marijuana states - it's keeping the clientele.
Umm, writing an emulator is perfectly legal. Downloading an emulator is perfectly legal. Format-shifting your PSX bios from one piece of hardware to another is perfectly legal a long as you OWN the system you're transferring from. Using the said BIOS in an emulator to play games you legally purchased is LEGAL.
Get that illegality nonsense out of your damned head - ever hear of BLEEM!? COMMERCIALLY SOLD EMULATION SOFTWARE.
Catch up with the times, even though those times were nearly a DECADE AGO.
"You can't sell something for less then it costs to produce it."
Actually, you can. Drug dealers do it all the time to establish a customer base by giving potential clientele a cheap sample of an expensive product in the hopes they'll stick with that supplier.
It's called spending money and taking acceptable losses to make money.
"as for the USA not being a super power anymore, your on drugs, their military can wipe the floor with anyone"
VIETNAM.
My now-deceased grandfather fought the war and came back with BOOKS full of journal entries about how badly and WHY we got our asses kicked despite superior technology (minus the AK-47 vs M-14) and a defensive strategy.
So if you think the US Military can wipe the floor with anybody - remember we got our asses kicked by guys that did not much more than lay booby-traps and fire home-made arrows at us, and had far inferior military power. The will of the Vietnamese people beat our asses and sent us home, and Communism took hold.
I suggest you stop huffing the Agent Orange. It's causing brain damage.
Guess how much would be saved had DRM not been forced onto the developer thanks to the insistence of the PUBLISHER?
Guess what these companies save by incorporating DRM? NOTHING. In fact, they LOSE more! Money lost in purchasing a product that not only FAILS to protect their product, but has the potential to cause issues to users hardware, thus incurring lawsuits, which cost even more money to defend against.
I can show you in a few hundred ways how DRM is the ABSOLUTE cause of money loss, not piracy. The lawsuit I'm in against EA right now should be more than enough proof of just how much money DRM is costing companies.
Although it was here in California, it was rather large, made a nice bright streak across the sky. I wonder if it happened to be part of some freak storm and the meteorite that hit that warehouse might've been part of it.
Nanosolar-coated Wind Turbines, made from carbon fiber types for strength, light weight, and for conductivity (no need for wires to transmit power when you could dope some carbon fiber to be nonconductive.)
I already proposed this to the Governor's office here in CA. Since most of the turbines face east/west out here where I live, you could easily maximize energy collection in that manner.
Annoying them is the best thing to do. Piss them off enough to lose control, slip up, and then we nail them in court and put and end to this nonsense once and for all.
Forgot to mention your favorite site with millions of typos can't even tell the difference between different-gen MXM slots. the 9420/9440s have an MXM slot and HP's parts inventory lists the cards for it as such, MXM Type-II.
These guys confuse wit the newer Type-III MXM format.
IOW, they're total morons and I'd not be visiting that site any more.
You likely got the first-gen model. The second-gen engineering revision fixed the thermal module issues. Wasn't a motherboard problem.
The DVD Ejecting was caused by faulty mounting case that wouldn't secure properly, again first-gen.
I sit here on my DV9825 (consumer-end) and don't have a problem. I did with the first generation, which had the shit nvidia geforce 8 with faulty die packaging, but after that was replaced everything has been a breeze. I'm actually warming up to Vista, even. This machine runs it like nobody's business.
I'm willing to bet this is a cable issue, most likely the ribbon cable connected to the display itself is slightly off in the socket, easily caused by flexing the screen by opening the laptop improperly.
Swap out graphics cards. There's an MXM slot inside that holds your graphics card.
I used to be the lead commercial-line repair tech. I loved those models (minus the disassembly, which is far more complicated than the DV line excepting the DV8000 series,) because of the upgradable card.
Seriously, take it apart. The CPU and GPU share the same heatsink/heatpipe so you'll have to deal with that but otherwise it's not so bad nor is it particularly difficult.
What's sad is I tried to submit this cable as a story to Slashdot a while back. Too bad it never got accepted because we certainly would've torn that company a new one for such a patent lie in advertising.
"c) Installs some fucking crap ass community software that was never asked for or mentioned when making the initial purchase over steam. This shiet from Rockstar goes in the system tray and puts up a fricken splash screen at every reboot on your desktop just to play their game."
That's one reason EA has a class-action suit against them. So perhaps you should start talking to a lawyer.
Yes, you can 'return' the game. Go to the store and try. If they say no, you leave and do this:
You call the credit card company, and you say "I want a chargeback and refund on my card. (make sure you know the transaction number - check through your records) I bought this game, it was not of promised quality, they refuse to refund my money despite repeated attempts to return the item with receipt and all original content included. I want my refund on grounds of failure to deliver."
You get your refund and get to keep the game. The CC company won't even bother to ask any questions.
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Why are the engineering samples allowed out for advertising when you know that more than likely the release product will never perform as well as the engineering samples? Doesn't this constitute false advertising?
This is twice you've said he deserves to die. So man up and do it or shut up about it.
For real. I've got the balls to take EA to court. Some Iraqi has the balls to toss his shoes at the President of the USA. Theaveng needs to get off his ass and do something instead of talking.
You haven't been to a church in the South, where they TELL their congregation how to game the government system.
The older versions of Scorched3D weren't as intensive, the engine was a bit more primitive. Now it's been upgraded and improved, so it does take up quite a bit.
My GeForce 6800 still handles it at 1024x768 max everything no biggie. A little choppy in some places, usually during multiple warheads or flying creatures being rendered, but otherwise it's smooth.
"hundreds of fun, recognizable ROMs already bundled as torrents ...not legal."
BULLSHIT! If you happen to own every game in that torrent file, it's legal. Oh, you can pick and choose the files you can download, as well, so even if there were a thousand games in the torrent, you'd only have to download the ten you own.
I'm sorry, but technology has pretty much gone way past anything you're thinking about. I still own over 300+ NES cartridges, but no working NES. So I download the ROMs from the internet and emulate using FCEUltra.
It's only illegal *IF YOU DON'T ALREADY OWN IT.*
Sony tried this bullshit with me once for downloading FFVII. I brought my three-disc physical copy, disc 3 mangled, into the small claims court, and won within five minutes.
I abhor the "War on Drugs" but knowing several dealers and co-op owners, what I say is how they operate. Clientele sometimes finds other sources and moves on to that source, and thus offering discounts to either the customer being lost or to new potential customers in order to keep clientele has to be done. In this particular business (specifically medical cannabis,) word of mouth usually isn't enough. Some places advertise free 8ths for your first visit, discounts on vaporizers, etc. just to lure in customers or as an attempt to keep existing clientele happy by taking a monetary loss in the name of "customer service."
Trust me, keeping it in stock is NOT an issue in any of the Medical Marijuana states - it's keeping the clientele.
Umm, writing an emulator is perfectly legal. Downloading an emulator is perfectly legal. Format-shifting your PSX bios from one piece of hardware to another is perfectly legal a long as you OWN the system you're transferring from. Using the said BIOS in an emulator to play games you legally purchased is LEGAL.
Get that illegality nonsense out of your damned head - ever hear of BLEEM!? COMMERCIALLY SOLD EMULATION SOFTWARE.
Catch up with the times, even though those times were nearly a DECADE AGO.
Scorched 3D ran on old 3Dfx cards.
Current intel graphics would more than handle it.
"You can't sell something for less then it costs to produce it."
Actually, you can. Drug dealers do it all the time to establish a customer base by giving potential clientele a cheap sample of an expensive product in the hopes they'll stick with that supplier.
It's called spending money and taking acceptable losses to make money.
"as for the USA not being a super power anymore, your on drugs, their military can wipe the floor with anyone"
VIETNAM.
My now-deceased grandfather fought the war and came back with BOOKS full of journal entries about how badly and WHY we got our asses kicked despite superior technology (minus the AK-47 vs M-14) and a defensive strategy.
So if you think the US Military can wipe the floor with anybody - remember we got our asses kicked by guys that did not much more than lay booby-traps and fire home-made arrows at us, and had far inferior military power. The will of the Vietnamese people beat our asses and sent us home, and Communism took hold.
I suggest you stop huffing the Agent Orange. It's causing brain damage.
Allow me to educate you.
Guess how much would be saved had DRM not been forced onto the developer thanks to the insistence of the PUBLISHER?
Guess what these companies save by incorporating DRM? NOTHING. In fact, they LOSE more! Money lost in purchasing a product that not only FAILS to protect their product, but has the potential to cause issues to users hardware, thus incurring lawsuits, which cost even more money to defend against.
I can show you in a few hundred ways how DRM is the ABSOLUTE cause of money loss, not piracy. The lawsuit I'm in against EA right now should be more than enough proof of just how much money DRM is costing companies.
Although it was here in California, it was rather large, made a nice bright streak across the sky. I wonder if it happened to be part of some freak storm and the meteorite that hit that warehouse might've been part of it.
Nanosolar-coated Wind Turbines, made from carbon fiber types for strength, light weight, and for conductivity (no need for wires to transmit power when you could dope some carbon fiber to be nonconductive.)
I already proposed this to the Governor's office here in CA. Since most of the turbines face east/west out here where I live, you could easily maximize energy collection in that manner.
No, in Aliens it's "You want some of this?!" as said by Hudson.
Quite a few. HP does, I know for a fact.
Annoying them is the best thing to do. Piss them off enough to lose control, slip up, and then we nail them in court and put and end to this nonsense once and for all.
I've been out of NDA for well over two years.
Forgot to mention your favorite site with millions of typos can't even tell the difference between different-gen MXM slots. the 9420/9440s have an MXM slot and HP's parts inventory lists the cards for it as such, MXM Type-II.
These guys confuse wit the newer Type-III MXM format.
IOW, they're total morons and I'd not be visiting that site any more.
You likely got the first-gen model. The second-gen engineering revision fixed the thermal module issues. Wasn't a motherboard problem.
The DVD Ejecting was caused by faulty mounting case that wouldn't secure properly, again first-gen.
I sit here on my DV9825 (consumer-end) and don't have a problem. I did with the first generation, which had the shit nvidia geforce 8 with faulty die packaging, but after that was replaced everything has been a breeze. I'm actually warming up to Vista, even. This machine runs it like nobody's business.
the grey lines are horizontal.
I'm willing to bet this is a cable issue, most likely the ribbon cable connected to the display itself is slightly off in the socket, easily caused by flexing the screen by opening the laptop improperly.
Guess what your HP nw9440 can do?
Swap out graphics cards. There's an MXM slot inside that holds your graphics card.
I used to be the lead commercial-line repair tech. I loved those models (minus the disassembly, which is far more complicated than the DV line excepting the DV8000 series,) because of the upgradable card.
Seriously, take it apart. The CPU and GPU share the same heatsink/heatpipe so you'll have to deal with that but otherwise it's not so bad nor is it particularly difficult.
that's because (with the exception of LED backlit panels) the cathode tube for backlighting is in the bottom of the LCD screen.
What's sad is I tried to submit this cable as a story to Slashdot a while back. Too bad it never got accepted because we certainly would've torn that company a new one for such a patent lie in advertising.
"c) Installs some fucking crap ass community software that was never asked for or mentioned when making the initial purchase over steam. This shiet from Rockstar goes in the system tray and puts up a fricken splash screen at every reboot on your desktop just to play their game."
That's one reason EA has a class-action suit against them. So perhaps you should start talking to a lawyer.
Yes, you can 'return' the game. Go to the store and try. If they say no, you leave and do this:
You call the credit card company, and you say "I want a chargeback and refund on my card. (make sure you know the transaction number - check through your records) I bought this game, it was not of promised quality, they refuse to refund my money despite repeated attempts to return the item with receipt and all original content included. I want my refund on grounds of failure to deliver."
You get your refund and get to keep the game. The CC company won't even bother to ask any questions.