the card produced by s3 , virge seems to be the best bang for the buck unless you have money to burn and do nothing like enjoying your computer playing high resolution games and having it move faster than 15fps.
just like banning guns in order to make a more safer society.
it doesn't occur to people who make this argument that criminals will always have access to guns because they don't obey the law.
then when guns are out of the hands of law abiding people, they can have a big upperhand in taking advantage of those helpless people.
that's why anywhere in the world where guns are banned or most access is prohibited, the crime rate skyrockets. the criminals know that the populace is unarmed are free to do what they please.
i'm starting to understand this immensely ignorant attitude towards blaming the victim.
you and people like you think that SOLE responsibility lies with the person(s) who did not take enough precations. the fact that burglars/crackers/viruses/worms get in and damage your system, is entirely the fault of the owner of said system(s). which implies that law enforcement or any type of response should not be taken against said "cute cuddly (cr)hackers"; since they clearly are not to blame at all.
i've seen this ignorant goddamn logic a lot in the MMORPG world. one recent event lead to the discovery of an exploit in the server code. it enabled virtually anyone (mostly crackers, since they follow shit like this) to gain access to anyones accounts. they went in and pillaged the characters, stole all their items, then delete the characters ( most of which took hundreds of hours of time to get to that point). i was quite worried that my accounts would be next. i went into the chat area and heard a lot of people talking about, not only condoning it but actually doing it themselves. these fucking cocksuckers were totally screwing over the people who those accounts belonged to. now by your logic, the account holders are ENTIRELY responsible, because they didn't obviously anticipate the !!!exploit!!! beforehand and therefore fully deserved it.
just one of the many examples of the fucking filth that now inhabit the wonderful world of multiplayer gaming.
i'm not necessarily saying you support everything i said above but your logic clearly lies inside the area.
now, without any punishment, the above becomes far more commonplace...
thankfully, there are some people who do have the use of more than.00001% of their brains. maybe over time , that kind of mentality can spread.. but i won't hold my breath.
the reason that kind of logic is twisted and sick is because it emanates from sick and twisted people.
these people have no sense of justice and holding people responsible for their actions. they would rather repeat some bullshit they heard someone else say than to think "wait a minute... why are we blaming the victims".
by and large, most of them are ignorant kiddies, which is somewhat excusable because they will get older and wiser with time (hopefully). the adults are certainly more accounatable for this garbage they call "thinking".
it's like blaming a rape victim for not being strong and smart enough to outmaneuver their attacker.
it takes a really dumb motherfucker to think that way. but... there is hope. humans have a capability called, get this, LEARNING. over time, one can change one's programming to adapt and see things differently.
responsibility is only part of the equation. !severe! punishment for crackers is the first step.
the fact that you don't think criminals are the first step in responsibility, says a lot about your mentality.
no one would argue that you shouldn't take due precautions but the argument is that the crackers are the instigators and the prime cause and need to be punished and held accountable.
they ought to have both of their hands cut off. then we can start to have some semblance of justice in this world.
crime without appropriate punishement for the offenders = massive injustice. it'll lead to the downfall of the society stupid enough to not have common sense. no.. they wouldn't deserve it, but they would have earned it. subtle but important difference.
yeah... i have a chainsaw and some guns... i'll come over to your house and kill you and your family. that'll help make our planet's gene pool much stronger. since if you were strong, you would have anticipated someone coming over and butchering you and your family. clearly you would deserve it.
killing off the weak helps everyone. i say everyone should get up in the morning and kill some weak people.
fucking pussies like you make me sick to my stomach. i'd really beat the shit out of you if it weren't illegal and/or immoral. the ends don't justify the means. it never has and never will. learn and adapt or your levi's genes will wither and not be propogated.
the above scenario/statements are only a joke. it will never be attempted. it does not constitute a threat. only for discussion purposes. it is entirely harmless.
we had anything near SANE copyright laws, as envisioned by people who wrote the original constitution, then the percent of people copyright infringing on music would be 5% or lower. since most of the songs being copied tend to be 10 years or older.
no... but go ahead and support itunes(RIAA).
being cool is certainly far better than supporting decency.
it's NOT a contract. it doesn't have any similarities to one. it is entirely one-sided. it doesn't require a signature or an acknowledgement (a mouse click is hardly a signature... it's all local anyway).
if i were a judge, i'd make companies who ever used EULAs to offer 1 million bucks per customer who bought their products as restitution.
this is a disgraceful and atrocious practice and needs to end. but thanks to those co**suckers in high places, it will even get worse.
the real problem is with the apathy of "consumers" like yourself.
on the other hand, us CUSTOMERS are very angry about shit such as this.
that they can demand what people do with products they buy , is ludicrous and extremely obscene.
battle.net is a piece of junk. if we weren't forced to use it, very few people would still be playing there now. choice is always a good thing in cases like this.
but clearly, you are not intelligent enough to understand the importance of this case. this has very important ramifications for the entire industry.
yeah... china censors its blogs... and western socities pass laws that are NOT in the best interest of its peoples.. against all odds... time and time again..
and i wouldn't be so quick to be proud of australia.
your PM is a US lapdog and went against the clear wishes of the people in order to invade a helpless nation. with no WMD and no connect to 9-11 or al qaeda. funny how the people reelected him...
so don't delude yourself into thinking you live in anything other than a dictatorship. they learned from the soviets and the chinese... don't make it so damn obvious otherwise the people'll catch on.
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and they can be devoid of any 3d features.
if all you want is a high end 2d card, why not say so in the begining?
once 3d comes into the picture, the die real estate and power requirements sky rocket.
find a nice matrox card... one built specifically and custom for you without any 3d... you can run it without even a heatsink.
i'll buy nvidia if there's a good reason to.
... aka cheating.
and the #1 reason i would need is if they stop massively cheating.
in one of the reviews i read today... they only just now stopped "shader replacement"
yes ati cheats too.. but not nearly to the degree that nvidia does. they even threatened 3dmark when they added a cheating check to their benchmark.
frankly, nvidia produces inferior hardware currently imo. it's very good but not as good as ati's.
and one last thing... brand loyalty should have died a death a long time ago. it doesn't belong in the 21st century.
there hasn't been a completely new gpu from nvidia since the geforce1.
it's the same as the nv40/45 with some tweaks.
COMPLETELY new means something totally different.
try looking up COMPLETELY in a dictionary.
seeing as how even the most sophisticated games don't put out more than 15-20 million p/sec... seems that number is complete BS.
the card produced by s3 , virge seems to be the best bang for the buck unless you have money to burn and do nothing like enjoying your computer playing high resolution games and having it move faster than 15fps.
just like banning guns in order to make a more safer society.
it doesn't occur to people who make this argument that criminals will always have access to guns because they don't obey the law.
then when guns are out of the hands of law abiding people, they can have a big upperhand in taking advantage of those helpless people.
that's why anywhere in the world where guns are banned or most access is prohibited, the crime rate skyrockets. the criminals know that the populace is unarmed are free to do what they please.
i'm starting to understand this immensely ignorant attitude towards blaming the victim.
.00001% of their brains. maybe over time , that kind of mentality can spread.. but i won't hold my breath.
you and people like you think that SOLE responsibility lies with the person(s) who did not take enough precations. the fact that burglars/crackers/viruses/worms get in and damage your system, is entirely the fault of the owner of said system(s). which implies that law enforcement or any type of response should not be taken against said "cute cuddly (cr)hackers"; since they clearly are not to blame at all.
i've seen this ignorant goddamn logic a lot in the MMORPG world. one recent event lead to the discovery of an exploit in the server code. it enabled virtually anyone (mostly crackers, since they follow shit like this) to gain access to anyones accounts. they went in and pillaged the characters, stole all their items, then delete the characters ( most of which took hundreds of hours of time to get to that point). i was quite worried that my accounts would be next. i went into the chat area and heard a lot of people talking about, not only condoning it but actually doing it themselves. these fucking cocksuckers were totally screwing over the people who those accounts belonged to. now by your logic, the account holders are ENTIRELY responsible, because they didn't obviously anticipate the !!!exploit!!! beforehand and therefore fully deserved it.
just one of the many examples of the fucking filth that now inhabit the wonderful world of multiplayer gaming.
i'm not necessarily saying you support everything i said above but your logic clearly lies inside the area.
now, without any punishment, the above becomes far more commonplace...
thankfully, there are some people who do have the use of more than
the reason that kind of logic is twisted and sick is because it emanates from sick and twisted people.
these people have no sense of justice and holding people responsible for their actions. they would rather repeat some bullshit they heard someone else say than to think "wait a minute... why are we blaming the victims".
by and large, most of them are ignorant kiddies, which is somewhat excusable because they will get older and wiser with time (hopefully). the adults are certainly more accounatable for this garbage they call "thinking".
it's like blaming a rape victim for not being strong and smart enough to outmaneuver their attacker.
it takes a really dumb motherfucker to think that way. but... there is hope. humans have a capability called, get this, LEARNING. over time, one can change one's programming to adapt and see things differently.
responsibility is only part of the equation. !severe! punishment for crackers is the first step.
the fact that you don't think criminals are the first step in responsibility, says a lot about your mentality.
no one would argue that you shouldn't take due precautions but the argument is that the crackers are the instigators and the prime cause and need to be punished and held accountable.
ignorant kiddies.
the thieves are the dickheads.
temptation is NO excuse.
they ought to have both of their hands cut off. then we can start to have some semblance of justice in this world.
crime without appropriate punishement for the offenders = massive injustice. it'll lead to the downfall of the society stupid enough to not have common sense. no.. they wouldn't deserve it, but they would have earned it. subtle but important difference.
how about we cane the crackers in singaporean style 50 times for each computer they damage?
then afterwards we can focus on making better secure products.
how about acknowledging that crackers are criminals and need to be treated as such.
that was the entire point of the article.
yeah... i have a chainsaw and some guns... i'll come over to your house and kill you and your family. that'll help make our planet's gene pool much stronger. since if you were strong, you would have anticipated someone coming over and butchering you and your family. clearly you would deserve it.
killing off the weak helps everyone. i say everyone should get up in the morning and kill some weak people.
fucking pussies like you make me sick to my stomach. i'd really beat the shit out of you if it weren't illegal and/or immoral. the ends don't justify the means. it never has and never will. learn and adapt or your levi's genes will wither and not be propogated.
the above scenario/statements are only a joke. it will never be attempted. it does not constitute a threat. only for discussion purposes. it is entirely harmless.
has nothing to do with being lazy or defeating security.
it has to do with making sure you call those sobs criminals.
they are attacking your systems and your data. they don't have the right.
it's not about anything other than placing the blame where it's due.
faster nv40.
wait for the next, next-generation.
we had anything near SANE copyright laws, as envisioned by people who wrote the original constitution, then the percent of people copyright infringing on music would be 5% or lower. since most of the songs being copied tend to be 10 years or older.
no... but go ahead and support itunes(RIAA).
being cool is certainly far better than supporting decency.
a EULA is only as valid as the customer wants.
it's NOT a contract. it doesn't have any similarities to one. it is entirely one-sided. it doesn't require a signature or an acknowledgement (a mouse click is hardly a signature... it's all local anyway).
if i were a judge, i'd make companies who ever used EULAs to offer 1 million bucks per customer who bought their products as restitution.
this is a disgraceful and atrocious practice and needs to end. but thanks to those co**suckers in high places, it will even get worse.
the real problem is with the apathy of "consumers" like yourself.
on the other hand, us CUSTOMERS are very angry about shit such as this.
that they can demand what people do with products they buy , is ludicrous and extremely obscene.
battle.net is a piece of junk. if we weren't forced to use it, very few people would still be playing there now. choice is always a good thing in cases like this.
but clearly, you are not intelligent enough to understand the importance of this case. this has very important ramifications for the entire industry.
and what about the rights of the customers?
blizzard's rights end where my money meets the salesperson's hand.
EULA = pointless garbage and hostile towards decency and users.
basically, they can suck our collective roosters.
try www.gamefaqs.com
they have faqs (surprise), cheats, hints for all games of all systems.
if they're about quality.. they shouldn't have linked up with the likes of the satan of the x86 world.
that's like RMS trying to switch all of his personal systems to run Windows. even if it offered a slight improvement, he'd be selling his soul for it.
then again, i don't think i would compare apple to RMS, that'd be unfair.
is to announce away from artificial vendor lock-in.
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open up the mac. you don't have to support unrecommended configurations, it should be made clear but let people install osx on any x86 system.
no support whatsoever but let people run software on their hw. this aint a console OS, it's for computers.
short sighted
let's hear it for "democracy".
yeah... china censors its blogs... and western socities pass laws that are NOT in the best interest of its peoples.. against all odds... time and time again..
well new zealand at least has a leader who deals more harshly with spies than most others.
but it's obviously a far cry from executing them, which they have the authority and right to do.
they fixed that in the US.
they changed it to "campaign donations".
see? all better.
and i wouldn't be so quick to be proud of australia.
your PM is a US lapdog and went against the clear wishes of the people in order to invade a helpless nation. with no WMD and no connect to 9-11 or al qaeda. funny how the people reelected him...
so don't delude yourself into thinking you live in anything other than a dictatorship. they learned from the soviets and the chinese... don't make it so damn obvious otherwise the people'll catch on.