they want to control all the information that's coming out of the area.
they don't want the rest of the nation to know that hundreds of THOUSANDS of people have died due to the direct negligence of this administration. they knew full well as far back as 2002 that new orleans would be in big trouble due to flooding and hurricanes. that's why they were in the middle of building levees. then all of a sudden the funding was cut off to pay for the iraq war.
there are many stories coming out of new orleans that the government and fema are doing all they can to prevent photos and news from leaking out rather than helping the afflicted. even stories of children being searched for cameras.
and just about every aid agency and foreign assistance is being turned away or being delayed as long as possible.
the fact that the rest of the world's news media are doing a far better job of covering this event than the US... is something to contemplate.
when they burned down fallujah and other cities and bombarded it with depleted uranium, which has a half life of millions of years..., and killed lots of civilians... it was ok with the US public. but when the administration redirected the funding of the new orleans levees to pay for the war and ended up causing the worst disaster in the history of the country... i just have to wonder why FEMA and this administration isn't doing everything it can to prevent the real death toll and damage assessment from coming out.
remember kids, war is good for the economy and ignorance is strength.
you cannot emulate the DRM of the x86 mac or the "EULA" of the ppc macs but you can install the basic vista on a ppc machine. the DRM (secure boot) isn't mandatory or you'd have several billion computers that vista couldn't be installed on.
that's what i mean by artificial restrictions. you can buy mac os or windows and install on any chip arch/hardware if the manufacturers don't go out of their way to prevent it. DRM and the like are artificial restrictions. because even when you pay for the software, you are at the mercy of the vendor and don't really own it.
ironic that apple said they won't prevent people from installing windows on osx86 but yet the reverse isn't true. what's apple's excuse?
people who buy region 2-5 dvd discs cannot play them on unapproved hardware (i.e. hw that has the ability to play multi-region). the fact is, the dvd consortium et al have no right whatsoever to tell you what hardware you may use to play it back on. if we had some competent judges and legislators they wouldn't be allowed to artificially restrict discs/software/movies/music to certain hardware in the first place. it places undue harm on the customers for no gain in return.
any hardware that has the capability to play and use the purchase is perfectly ok and legal. but the corollary to that isn't for the manufacturer to build custom chips to circumvent the then right (if we ever see the day when congress and judges do the right thing) for users to choose their hardware.
because you can install it on any hardware you choose.
replacing perfectly capable hardware to install another OS just isn't a good idea.
if you have gobs of money, perhaps you'd think about donating some of it to me. then i might consider getting a mac system. right now, i live very comfortably on my fast amd machine.
they far outclass the 600 dollar mac mini and those run tiger.
by the time vista ships, 600 bucks will buy you a lot more power than you "need" to run vista.
if you turn off the eye-candy , it'll run as well as xp does today.
you have it wrong, hardware requirements are not a good reason not to get vista. there are much better reasons not to get it, like the massive DRM and financially supporting ms, which is as good reason as any.
by definition, evolution requires a previous state, including matter and energy.
so no, any living or non living thing in the universe can create. they can build, assemble, fabricate, put together, etc but can't create.
if you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you'd have to create the universe first.. but you would have your existence already beforehand. so in effect, no. see below.
the problem with saying if god created the universe, then who created god is like saying the laws of physics stay the same near gravitationally massive objects (black holes). they don't. so normal logic would also not apply in the case of god and creation.
"Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?"
well why don't you volunteer to reduce the stupid population by one and kill yourself.
thanks for your time,
sincerely Chuck D.
the only stupid people are the ones that point out everyone else is stupid. if you don't recognize yourself as stupid, you have a lot of evolving left to do.
you can set the cluster size manually to anything between 512bytes to 4096+ bytes when you format.
but 4k is the default size for whatever reason.
i think someone who talks about databases and servers so authoratitively ought to know something about setting cluster sizes.
and in the example you gave above, 128k (spelling error?) you wouldn't waste any space at all since 128 is evenly divisible by 4.
and the drive specs as you put it, are a fraudulent practice endulged in by drive manufacturers. they know that just about everyone uses megabyte, gigabyte and terabyte to refer to HD space but they silently use the new deceptive standard and allow people to think they're getting more space than they really are.
it's !extremely! for a class action suit. i just am surprised why it's taking so long. yeah let the lawyers get the money... better than those dirty hard drive manufacturers.
i didn't say WoW was as bad as others but to make it appear as if it doesn't have it's share of problems like the aforementioned is plain incorrect. i've heard and read complaints from players. there are degrees. online games have jerks and cheaters on them, MMOGs even more so, then WoW will have its share of problems too. what's fallacious about that? i didn't mention to what degree but that wasn't central to my point.
but please don't get rude just because i spoke ill of a game you like.
i've seen tons of people complain about it... but they can't do anything about it except stop playing.
no i haven't played WoW but it's an online game, a MOG at that... with thousands of "entrepreneurs" who destroy the ability to play cheat, cracker, and a**hole free. it's a common problem in all online games. it's in quake and fps games, though not in the exact same way.
sure there are people who play and enjoy. that's fine. i'm simply saying i've had enough of the kind abuse people tolerate on a daily basis. the only place where you have that kind of control is offline, aka single player. hell, even a lan party is far better... you could physically deal with troublemakers. there's no recourse online.
and the cd key thing... guess you've never heard of trojans and keyloggers. they steal other people's keys. there's also other ways of obtaining keys, all illegal. and the reason i bring that up is simple. the moment they're banned, they're back online. and to be banned in the first place is a long shot in itself.
i'm glad you enjoy WoW. i'm just going to sit out online gaming... maybe indefintely. the crap to enjoyment ratio is not to my liking. don't take it personally.
many people have switched recently back to ati and have commented on how much better they were than nvidia's. (windows drivers).
clearly you have your opinion but it's not the only one that exists.
i think both drivers are roughly similar overall. ati's stability is excellent, at least as good as nvidia's. nvidia has an edge in opengl and ati in d3d. nvidia has a ton more cheats in their drivers than ati not to mention strongarming futuremark over 3dmark2003.
neither is good but one is the lesser of 2 evils. which says a lot about the state of business and ethics in modern society.
nvidia is more and more becoming an unethical company. now it's nowhere near as bad as ms and intel but i don't like where they're headed.
politics is a vital component in every transaction you make, whether you realize it or not. giving money and financially supporting (not to mention "mindshare" and viral marketing) companies who don't "get it" and behave in a way that's abhorrent only gives you more of the same in the future. that alone is reason enough to discontinue supporting them.
everything you do has a cause and effect... giving your business to unethical companies is not excluded.
i'm not saying to just give up everything and switch right away towards the most free and ethical solution but it's something one ought to keep in mind. in the long term, it's in our best interests to gravitate towards it.
seriously, that's one of the big reasons i stopped playing online games. the rampant cheating and cracking. not to mention all the rude foul-mouthed teenagers, "team-killers", people whose only reason to play was to screw others, etc etc.
and there's not a damn thing anyone can do about it. even in pay for play MOGs, there's a ton of cheating and the above going on.
it isn't worth the aggrivation. if you can find a group of players... well that's good for you. i was never able to find people to play with at the times i wanted. this is the single biggest challenge for the online game industry and it's the one most swept under the carpet / covered up.
single player is far more satisfying, if for no other reason (there are) than just to be in control and not to have to put up with other peoples' shit.
the so called online crime will be skyrocketing more and more as newcomers fill up the virtual worlds.
i have yet to find a single vendor even remotely crack down on cheating. but please don't mention blizzard... for every one cheater/cracker they catch and ban, 1000 new ones show up to take their place. in fact, their policies are very lax and only slightly have come up now that people pay monthly for one of their games (WoW). they want those cheaters/crackers paying monthly to play but they forget that the honest players far outnumber the a**holes. they are mixing up their priorities.
hell even sony set up a virtual game trading bazaar in order to get a piece of the criminal commerce. 99% of all items for sale online have been gotten through the use of bots (farming), cracking other peoples accounts and stealing their items or just plain scamming them from innocent people.
i stopped playing. that's my cure. and judging by the awareness of people of the addictive and click-festical nature of MOGs, not to mention the treadmill syndrome, more and more people are coming to the same conclusion.
well overall consistency is a very good thing but as you've pointed out, we're a long way away.
i personally object to having to use demeaning new standards that non-computer scientists have deemed to be the official nomenclature.
we need more education, not capitulation to confusing new standards, which i still believe is mostly for the benefit of the storage industry.
that would solve the problems which you bring up. people don't know about using small b for bits and capital B for bytes. and yes, it isn't confusing at all to have kilo mega giga etc mean one thing for the computing industry and another for every other field. it can be learned in a few minutes if given the opportunity of education. and quite frankly, the transfer rates of mechanical and optical devices is certainly fine being expressed in bits rather than bytes. again it doesn't take too much time or effort to convert from one unit to another.
progress is good but here it's just being done for the sake of change. take 60 seconds and explain the issue and most people will be just fine and ready to go.
actually, these cards are great for video and cheap home theater pcs.
they have great video acceleration and are cheap to buy.
they consistently beat or perform as well as high end ati and nvidia hardware in the video arena.
you can still use them to play slightly older 3d games at decent speed but you and i both know they don't compare to the mid or high end from the 2 behemoths of the 3d industry.
if there are open source drivers then they'd make great GNU/linux cards.
we've been using binary for as long as there have been computers.
suddenly the hard drive manufacturers want to inflate the size of their drives to deceive customers; that doesn't mean we have to adopt their nonsensical system.
ram isn't measured in kibbles n' bits, sorry i mean bibbybytes. no operating system or computer program uses dog food notation.
this is just a new way to deceive end users for the benefit of storage manufacturers.
anyone who knows anything about computers, knows that storage is measured in binary and not metric. it has a different meaning in computing technology and has since we've had computers. even now, unix, linux, windows, mac report the binary size for storage, including RAM.
so no, you bought their ridiculous propoganda and marketing but thankfully, not everyone did.
they can keep their fraudulent metric system and stuff it. i hear it's all the rage amongst dogs ages 1-5.
obviously you didn't understand and i didn't make it clear enough.
gamestop shrink-wraps returns and/or used games and puts them back on the shelf as new.
worst buy, frys and compusa shrink wrap returned merchandise and put them back on the shelf as new.
sometimes some of the contents of the box are missing, other times the device is purely defective/destroyed by the last person who bought it but is sold as brand new.
they do this to software, dvd movies, music cds, hardware, etc.
with software for consoles, it's usually harder to tell but the observant buyer can notice irregularities. typically, the shrink wrap is of significantly lower quality. i don't know but by now they would have invested in a better machine to handle that. also disc scratches and thumb prints on the discs themselves and the manual and case. and as unusual as it sounds, the package doesn't smell new.. if you buy frequently, you will recognize the odor and can tell what the baseline is.
the merchant that shrinkwraps used games and passes them off as new? not to mention charging the full retail price of a new game.
i suppose a call to the attorney general or the Better Business Bureau would be in order. and you can add Fry's, Best (worst) Buy and CompUSA to that list as well.
i'm sure there are others but these are the ones i can be absolutely sure of that are engaging in this illegal and unethical practice.
everytime an unethical business shrinkwraps used merchandise and passes it off as new, God resurrects a kitten and donates money to Stallman.
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they want to control all the information that's coming out of the area.
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they don't want the rest of the nation to know that hundreds of THOUSANDS of people have died due to the direct negligence of this administration. they knew full well as far back as 2002 that new orleans would be in big trouble due to flooding and hurricanes. that's why they were in the middle of building levees. then all of a sudden the funding was cut off to pay for the iraq war.
there are many stories coming out of new orleans that the government and fema are doing all they can to prevent photos and news from leaking out rather than helping the afflicted. even stories of children being searched for cameras.
and just about every aid agency and foreign assistance is being turned away or being delayed as long as possible.
the fact that the rest of the world's news media are doing a far better job of covering this event than the US... is something to contemplate.
when they burned down fallujah and other cities and bombarded it with depleted uranium, which has a half life of millions of years..., and killed lots of civilians... it was ok with the US public. but when the administration redirected the funding of the new orleans levees to pay for the war and ended up causing the worst disaster in the history of the country... i just have to wonder why FEMA and this administration isn't doing everything it can to prevent the real death toll and damage assessment from coming out.
remember kids, war is good for the economy and ignorance is strength.
http://www.veteransforpeace.org/war_is_a_racket_0
http://www.thinkprogress.org/katrina-timeline
virtual pc ring a bell?
through emulation at least.
you cannot emulate the DRM of the x86 mac or the "EULA" of the ppc macs but you can install the basic vista on a ppc machine. the DRM (secure boot) isn't mandatory or you'd have several billion computers that vista couldn't be installed on.
that's what i mean by artificial restrictions. you can buy mac os or windows and install on any chip arch/hardware if the manufacturers don't go out of their way to prevent it. DRM and the like are artificial restrictions. because even when you pay for the software, you are at the mercy of the vendor and don't really own it.
ironic that apple said they won't prevent people from installing windows on osx86 but yet the reverse isn't true. what's apple's excuse?
people who buy region 2-5 dvd discs cannot play them on unapproved hardware (i.e. hw that has the ability to play multi-region). the fact is, the dvd consortium et al have no right whatsoever to tell you what hardware you may use to play it back on. if we had some competent judges and legislators they wouldn't be allowed to artificially restrict discs/software/movies/music to certain hardware in the first place. it places undue harm on the customers for no gain in return.
any hardware that has the capability to play and use the purchase is perfectly ok and legal. but the corollary to that isn't for the manufacturer to build custom chips to circumvent the then right (if we ever see the day when congress and judges do the right thing) for users to choose their hardware.
why the heck not? they paid for it.
artificial restrictions. that's why.
it's called "competent journalism".
vista would win.
because you can install it on any hardware you choose.
replacing perfectly capable hardware to install another OS just isn't a good idea.
if you have gobs of money, perhaps you'd think about donating some of it to me. then i might consider getting a mac system. right now, i live very comfortably on my fast amd machine.
hardly.
have you seen current 600 dollar pcs?
they far outclass the 600 dollar mac mini and those run tiger.
by the time vista ships, 600 bucks will buy you a lot more power than you "need" to run vista.
if you turn off the eye-candy , it'll run as well as xp does today.
you have it wrong, hardware requirements are not a good reason not to get vista. there are much better reasons not to get it, like the massive DRM and financially supporting ms, which is as good reason as any.
that's only if i don't follow my own advice, for which you don't have any evidence to the contrary.
so actually, it isn't ironic at all.
an animal that chases away large blue things,
typically from a north-westerly direction.
well creation means from nothing.
by definition, evolution requires a previous state, including matter and energy.
so no, any living or non living thing in the universe can create. they can build, assemble, fabricate, put together, etc but can't create.
if you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you'd have to create the universe first.. but you would have your existence already beforehand. so in effect, no. see below.
the problem with saying if god created the universe, then who created god is like saying the laws of physics stay the same near gravitationally massive objects (black holes). they don't. so normal logic would also not apply in the case of god and creation.
"Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?"
well why don't you volunteer to reduce the stupid population by one and kill yourself.
thanks for your time,
sincerely Chuck D.
the only stupid people are the ones that point out everyone else is stupid. if you don't recognize yourself as stupid, you have a lot of evolving left to do.
but ThinkNerd does.
you can set the cluster size manually to anything between 512bytes to 4096+ bytes when you format.
but 4k is the default size for whatever reason.
i think someone who talks about databases and servers so authoratitively ought to know something about setting cluster sizes.
and in the example you gave above, 128k (spelling error?) you wouldn't waste any space at all since 128 is evenly divisible by 4.
and the drive specs as you put it, are a fraudulent practice endulged in by drive manufacturers. they know that just about everyone uses megabyte, gigabyte and terabyte to refer to HD space but they silently use the new deceptive standard and allow people to think they're getting more space than they really are.
it's !extremely! for a class action suit. i just am surprised why it's taking so long. yeah let the lawyers get the money... better than those dirty hard drive manufacturers.
do business honestly or don't do it at all.
actually the nerdiest of nerds would be the few you'd never expect to use them. unless you have another definition of nerd...
i didn't say WoW was as bad as others but to make it appear as if it doesn't have it's share of problems like the aforementioned is plain incorrect. i've heard and read complaints from players. there are degrees. online games have jerks and cheaters on them, MMOGs even more so, then WoW will have its share of problems too. what's fallacious about that? i didn't mention to what degree but that wasn't central to my point.
but please don't get rude just because i spoke ill of a game you like.
no i've played my share and i got sick of it.
i've seen tons of people complain about it... but they can't do anything about it except stop playing.
no i haven't played WoW but it's an online game, a MOG at that... with thousands of "entrepreneurs" who destroy the ability to play cheat, cracker, and a**hole free. it's a common problem in all online games. it's in quake and fps games, though not in the exact same way.
sure there are people who play and enjoy. that's fine. i'm simply saying i've had enough of the kind abuse people tolerate on a daily basis. the only place where you have that kind of control is offline, aka single player. hell, even a lan party is far better... you could physically deal with troublemakers. there's no recourse online.
and the cd key thing... guess you've never heard of trojans and keyloggers. they steal other people's keys. there's also other ways of obtaining keys, all illegal. and the reason i bring that up is simple. the moment they're banned, they're back online. and to be banned in the first place is a long shot in itself.
i'm glad you enjoy WoW. i'm just going to sit out online gaming... maybe indefintely. the crap to enjoyment ratio is not to my liking. don't take it personally.
so there isn't rampant botting and farming?
it's interesting that botters and farmers have access to lots of cd keys...
really?
many people have switched recently back to ati and have commented on how much better they were than nvidia's. (windows drivers).
clearly you have your opinion but it's not the only one that exists.
i think both drivers are roughly similar overall. ati's stability is excellent, at least as good as nvidia's. nvidia has an edge in opengl and ati in d3d. nvidia has a ton more cheats in their drivers than ati not to mention strongarming futuremark over 3dmark2003.
neither is good but one is the lesser of 2 evils. which says a lot about the state of business and ethics in modern society.
nvidia is more and more becoming an unethical company. now it's nowhere near as bad as ms and intel but i don't like where they're headed.
politics is a vital component in every transaction you make, whether you realize it or not. giving money and financially supporting (not to mention "mindshare" and viral marketing) companies who don't "get it" and behave in a way that's abhorrent only gives you more of the same in the future. that alone is reason enough to discontinue supporting them.
everything you do has a cause and effect... giving your business to unethical companies is not excluded.
i'm not saying to just give up everything and switch right away towards the most free and ethical solution but it's something one ought to keep in mind. in the long term, it's in our best interests to gravitate towards it.
the only way to win is not to play.
seriously, that's one of the big reasons i stopped playing online games. the rampant cheating and cracking. not to mention all the rude foul-mouthed teenagers, "team-killers", people whose only reason to play was to screw others, etc etc.
and there's not a damn thing anyone can do about it. even in pay for play MOGs, there's a ton of cheating and the above going on.
it isn't worth the aggrivation. if you can find a group of players... well that's good for you. i was never able to find people to play with at the times i wanted. this is the single biggest challenge for the online game industry and it's the one most swept under the carpet / covered up.
single player is far more satisfying, if for no other reason (there are) than just to be in control and not to have to put up with other peoples' shit.
the so called online crime will be skyrocketing more and more as newcomers fill up the virtual worlds.
i have yet to find a single vendor even remotely crack down on cheating. but please don't mention blizzard... for every one cheater/cracker they catch and ban, 1000 new ones show up to take their place. in fact, their policies are very lax and only slightly have come up now that people pay monthly for one of their games (WoW). they want those cheaters/crackers paying monthly to play but they forget that the honest players far outnumber the a**holes. they are mixing up their priorities.
hell even sony set up a virtual game trading bazaar in order to get a piece of the criminal commerce. 99% of all items for sale online have been gotten through the use of bots (farming), cracking other peoples accounts and stealing their items or just plain scamming them from innocent people.
i stopped playing. that's my cure. and judging by the awareness of people of the addictive and click-festical nature of MOGs, not to mention the treadmill syndrome, more and more people are coming to the same conclusion.
well overall consistency is a very good thing but as you've pointed out, we're a long way away.
i personally object to having to use demeaning new standards that non-computer scientists have deemed to be the official nomenclature.
we need more education, not capitulation to confusing new standards, which i still believe is mostly for the benefit of the storage industry.
that would solve the problems which you bring up. people don't know about using small b for bits and capital B for bytes. and yes, it isn't confusing at all to have kilo mega giga etc mean one thing for the computing industry and another for every other field. it can be learned in a few minutes if given the opportunity of education. and quite frankly, the transfer rates of mechanical and optical devices is certainly fine being expressed in bits rather than bytes. again it doesn't take too much time or effort to convert from one unit to another.
progress is good but here it's just being done for the sake of change. take 60 seconds and explain the issue and most people will be just fine and ready to go.
actually, these cards are great for video and cheap home theater pcs.
they have great video acceleration and are cheap to buy.
they consistently beat or perform as well as high end ati and nvidia hardware in the video arena.
you can still use them to play slightly older 3d games at decent speed but you and i both know they don't compare to the mid or high end from the 2 behemoths of the 3d industry.
if there are open source drivers then they'd make great GNU/linux cards.
:)
actually, you need to get with the times.
we've been using binary for as long as there have been computers.
suddenly the hard drive manufacturers want to inflate the size of their drives to deceive customers; that doesn't mean we have to adopt their nonsensical system.
ram isn't measured in kibbles n' bits, sorry i mean bibbybytes. no operating system or computer program uses dog food notation.
this is just a new way to deceive end users for the benefit of storage manufacturers.
anyone who knows anything about computers, knows that storage is measured in binary and not metric. it has a different meaning in computing technology and has since we've had computers. even now, unix, linux, windows, mac report the binary size for storage, including RAM.
so no, you bought their ridiculous propoganda and marketing but thankfully, not everyone did.
they can keep their fraudulent metric system and stuff it. i hear it's all the rage amongst dogs ages 1-5.
you would think that distributed compiling on 30k computers would help speed up the process.
obviously you didn't understand and i didn't make it clear enough.
gamestop shrink-wraps returns and/or used games and puts them back on the shelf as new.
worst buy, frys and compusa shrink wrap returned merchandise and put them back on the shelf as new.
sometimes some of the contents of the box are missing, other times the device is purely defective/destroyed by the last person who bought it but is sold as brand new.
they do this to software, dvd movies, music cds, hardware, etc.
with software for consoles, it's usually harder to tell but the observant buyer can notice irregularities. typically, the shrink wrap is of significantly lower quality. i don't know but by now they would have invested in a better machine to handle that. also disc scratches and thumb prints on the discs themselves and the manual and case. and as unusual as it sounds, the package doesn't smell new.. if you buy frequently, you will recognize the odor and can tell what the baseline is.
the merchant that shrinkwraps used games and passes them off as new? not to mention charging the full retail price of a new game.
i suppose a call to the attorney general or the Better Business Bureau would be in order. and you can add Fry's, Best (worst) Buy and CompUSA to that list as well.
i'm sure there are others but these are the ones i can be absolutely sure of that are engaging in this illegal and unethical practice.
everytime an unethical business shrinkwraps used merchandise and passes it off as new, God resurrects a kitten and donates money to Stallman.