bits by themselves aren't property but hard drives are. and destroying physical property like hard drives is illegal and by the same token, threatening HBO's headquarters is as well.
is that the same DIrectTV that sued anyone who owned/bought a card reader/writer?
directv is among the scum of the earth companies.
instead of promoting directv, go to their competitors and get cheaper satellite programming and do business with a company who won't sue you just for owning a piece of multi-use equipment.
directv is yet another a**hole corporation.
either you weren't aware of this or you conveniently forgot about it...
saying you can't take steps to ensure you own your property.
if you paid for the chips, you have a right to access them any way you please.
fuck sony, fuck microsoft and fuck nintendo.
under the guise of "fighting piracy" they !steal! your access rights to your own property.
get a clue... it has nothing to do with "piracy" but with control. their business model requires them to deny you the customers the ability to control your property so they can convince developers to pay them for the privilege of making games. but the problem with this is that IT'S YOUR PROPERTY because you paid for it and it's ILLEGAL for them to prevent you from accesssing your property.
fucking incompetent and bought judges/legislators.
their business model requires them to rent you machines under the premise of buying it outright. but if you buy it outright, you have every right to have unrestricted access... car dealers/manufacturers don't require you to get permission when you want to take a drive. and this is a physical product so the analogy holds.
fuck off and die you leeches. i fully endorse people taking back their property using any means necessary.
if you want to rent consoles, call it renting and then behave accordingly. what you are doing is unethical, immoral and illegal (bribed officials don't count). and you can go bankrupt for all i care. you treat your customers like shit and take away their lawful property rights.
the console business model almost makes the RIAA/MPAA's model look valid by comparison.
because i can't spend time sitting on a hard chair breaking my back.
i'd rather relax on a couch and play it.
otherwise, there's no reason to get the console version as the pc version would be far superior.
other pc games i can play for short stretches of time but an rpg like morrowind or oblivion cannot be fully enjoyed in 30 minute or 60 minute intervals having to endure the pain.
that's pretty much my only reason. i've gotten so many hours of fun from morrowind that it would be worth the price just for that one game alone.
i definitely agree with you and i would too buy a 360 just for oblivion but i cannot due to the way consoles lock you out of your own property.
i cannot perpetuate that illegal and unethical business model any longer in good conscience.
i'd rather relax back on a couch and play oblivion for hours rather than break my back sitting at my computer but i won't be buying any consoles from now until they decide that people who purchase consoles have a right to full access of the hardware... which is essentially never i'm guessing.
greedy sons of bitches. there are other ways of preventing games from being copied and played but they want to prevent you from owning your property and having full access to what you paid for.
this business model makes the RIAA/MPAA look good by comparison. at least you can make your own cds/dvds... and use fully the hardware that you bought.
obviously you missed the fact that when gaming at 1600x1200 and are using 4x antialiasing and 8x anisotropic filtering that the x1800xt beats the shit out of the gf7800.
if you're buying a 500 dollar card, are you seriously worried about benchmarks that are run without aa+af? this card even does HDR (hi dynamic range) plus AA, something that the gf7800 can't.
this card is way more sophisticated and highly refined that the brute force 7800. the 7800 isn't bad but that this card can do with 16 pipelines what the 7800 can't do with 24, says a lot.
and that's just raw performance with todays games. never mind the fact that the 1800xt comes with 512megs of super fast ram... ready for well into the next generation of games, whereas 256meg 7800's are already obsolete for the high end of the next generation. sure 256 will be enough if you pare down the resolution and lower the texture detail. one example is the game F.E.A.R... on the 1800xt it absolutely trounces the 7800 in performance.
my advice... read ALL the reviews you can get your hands on. there are too many discrepencies if you only read one or two. if you want to get a more full picture, get to reading.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -Martin Luther King Jr.
and please, no childish arguments comparing "digital" issues with civil rights being absurd... if you have more than 1 active working brain cell you can see that yourself.
laws not in the interest of the public, deserve no respect. - ME.
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aww, no one got the clever reference.
see, a teapot and kettle are both black, hence the same thing.
6 is just an upside down 9 or vice versa.
with a coronary, to go.
first, pull down your pants.
second, bend over on the appropriate table they have set up for people of differing heights.
third, profit.
note: lubrication is strictly prohibited. anyone caught with a slippery colon will not be allowed the "privilege" to read.
you cannot enter into a contract in which BOTH sides don't agree.
such is the nature of EULAs.
even if you say you agree (by clicking a mouse...?!@) how does the other side know?
the EULA is a contract in the sense that a twinkie is a gourmet dessert served exclusively in 5 star restaurants.
take them to small claims court.
it's the scam artists (read: businessman) wet dream to be able to change the contract on a whim.
it is ILLEGAL and absolutely illogical.
rip them a new one in court.
it's things like this that make people disregard all laws.
if a law is not in the best interest of the public, it is unjust. and unjust laws are not to be respected.
wasn't that case in '69?
you misunderstood my post.
i wasn't suggesting what you think i was.
bits by themselves aren't property but hard drives are. and destroying physical property like hard drives is illegal and by the same token, threatening HBO's headquarters is as well.
that's what i meant by HBO's physical property.
it would be just as illegal to destroy HBO's physical property but no one is suggesting anything of the kind.
copying does not equate to destroying property.
my cpu is idling and not consuming electricity.
thanks for the consideration though.
is that the same DIrectTV that sued anyone who owned/bought a card reader/writer?
directv is among the scum of the earth companies.
instead of promoting directv, go to their competitors and get cheaper satellite programming and do business with a company who won't sue you just for owning a piece of multi-use equipment.
directv is yet another a**hole corporation.
either you weren't aware of this or you conveniently forgot about it...
funny that people still support blizzard after their DMCA takedown of the bnetd project.
seems the users of any platform are still the suckers.
equating bnetd with "piracy" = equating region-free devices to "piracy".
artificial restrictions come from the colon of satan.
i wonder who benefits the most from dead psp's...
it's not like the RIAA/MPAA hire goons to poison p2p networks...
oh wait...
use a usb hard drive...
will cost less for more storage, faster and more versatile.
that is of course, if your DRM overlords allow you the privilege of hooking up "unapproved" storage devices to THEIR xbox360...
it is after all, their machine, is it not....?
oh wait.
ultimate swiss bank account.
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/. editors post nonsensical articles in order to cheer us up.
today is Lift Your Spirits day, in which the
thankfully they'll do it again in a few hours.
nerve of those assholes.
saying you can't take steps to ensure you own your property.
if you paid for the chips, you have a right to access them any way you please.
fuck sony, fuck microsoft and fuck nintendo.
under the guise of "fighting piracy" they !steal! your access rights to your own property.
get a clue... it has nothing to do with "piracy" but with control. their business model requires them to deny you the customers the ability to control your property so they can convince developers to pay them for the privilege of making games. but the problem with this is that IT'S YOUR PROPERTY because you paid for it and it's ILLEGAL for them to prevent you from accesssing your property.
fucking incompetent and bought judges/legislators.
their business model requires them to rent you machines under the premise of buying it outright. but if you buy it outright, you have every right to have unrestricted access... car dealers/manufacturers don't require you to get permission when you want to take a drive. and this is a physical product so the analogy holds.
fuck off and die you leeches. i fully endorse people taking back their property using any means necessary.
if you want to rent consoles, call it renting and then behave accordingly. what you are doing is unethical, immoral and illegal (bribed officials don't count). and you can go bankrupt for all i care. you treat your customers like shit and take away their lawful property rights.
the console business model almost makes the RIAA/MPAA's model look valid by comparison.
it's an apple biased board.
where have you been for the last 9 years?
exactly.
even though this generation is a healthy jump in performance, my current card will last me quite a long time (in computer time anyway).
i'll also be holding off from buying the "fall refresh" version r580/g80. when dx10/opengl 2.5/3.0 become available, then i'll probably upgrade.
but that's because i'm a graphics junkie... i still know how to be frugal and get my fix.
because i can't spend time sitting on a hard chair breaking my back.
i'd rather relax on a couch and play it.
otherwise, there's no reason to get the console version as the pc version would be far superior.
other pc games i can play for short stretches of time but an rpg like morrowind or oblivion cannot be fully enjoyed in 30 minute or 60 minute intervals having to endure the pain.
that's pretty much my only reason. i've gotten so many hours of fun from morrowind that it would be worth the price just for that one game alone.
i definitely agree with you and i would too buy a 360 just for oblivion but i cannot due to the way consoles lock you out of your own property.
i cannot perpetuate that illegal and unethical business model any longer in good conscience.
i'd rather relax back on a couch and play oblivion for hours rather than break my back sitting at my computer but i won't be buying any consoles from now until they decide that people who purchase consoles have a right to full access of the hardware... which is essentially never i'm guessing.
greedy sons of bitches. there are other ways of preventing games from being copied and played but they want to prevent you from owning your property and having full access to what you paid for.
this business model makes the RIAA/MPAA look good by comparison. at least you can make your own cds/dvds... and use fully the hardware that you bought.
let me be the first to say "meh" is not a word and only the intellectually lazy use pop culture terminology in actual conversations.
it's a deplorable habit, please stop.
actually the power requirements are on par with nvidias.
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both require obscenely high amount of power.. on the order of 200 watts at full load.
and the official specs call for a 450 watt power supply on a fully outfitted system (according to ati).
http://www.ati.com/products/RadeonX1800/Products.
if you want less power requirements, get a lesser card... but then you'll be trading performance for power consumption. it's a choice...
yeah, like releasing yet another "optimized" driver...
and by optimized i mean reducing visual quality in the drivers and cutting corners behind the users back.
ati is guilty of it too but not nearly to the same degree that nvidia is.
that's one reason why i will never purchase an nvidia card while ati or another manufacturer still produces cards.
nvidia is well on its way to being another intel or microsoft in regards to ethics. they're getting there but they still have a ways to go.
obviously you missed the fact that when gaming at 1600x1200 and are using 4x antialiasing and 8x anisotropic filtering that the x1800xt beats the shit out of the gf7800.
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this card is way more sophisticated and highly refined that the brute force 7800. the 7800 isn't bad but that this card can do with 16 pipelines what the 7800 can't do with 24, says a lot.
and that's just raw performance with todays games. never mind the fact that the 1800xt comes with 512megs of super fast ram... ready for well into the next generation of games, whereas 256meg 7800's are already obsolete for the high end of the next generation. sure 256 will be enough if you pare down the resolution and lower the texture detail. one example is the game F.E.A.R... on the 1800xt it absolutely trounces the 7800 in performance.
my advice... read ALL the reviews you can get your hands on. there are too many discrepencies if you only read one or two. if you want to get a more full picture, get to reading.
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=255
http://www.beyond3d.com/reviews/ati/r520/
http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews/r520reviewxvx
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,186711
http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/ati_radeon_x1
http://www.guru3d.com/article/Videocards/262/
http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=ODIy
http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=3603
http://www.hothardware.com/viewarticle.cfm?articl
http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Review
http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=172
http://www.tbreak.com/reviews/article.php?id=407
http://www.techreport.com/onearticle.x/8864
and check out the wicked new 3d tech demos... both are very impressive but the toystore demo is jawdropping.
http://www.ati.com/designpartners/media/edudemos/
wmv9 hi def format but plays fine in mplayer or VLC.
it's called breaking unjust laws.
perhaps you've heard of Rosa Parks?
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -Martin Luther King Jr.
and please, no childish arguments comparing "digital" issues with civil rights being absurd... if you have more than 1 active working brain cell you can see that yourself.
laws not in the interest of the public, deserve no respect. - ME.