I was thinking the same thing. It's absolutely ridiculous to change the game rating because some player decides to make a modification that contains "mature" content. Why should the game maker have to suffer because someone writes an unsupported mod? (See GTA: San Andreas). Should game companies be forced to now prevent users from modifying the game to protect themselves from rating changes, etc..
I wonder if Oblivion will lose sales due to this (stores that don't stock Mature games, does Walmart still do this?). Or maybe Oblivion will gain sales from the all the free publicity of the ratings being changed. I think there's already enough hype and buzz behind it (the original game), sales will probably just increase.
where did you find it in Canada for $199? NCIX seems to be charging more.
At a local chinese computer store about 15min from my house. http://www.cty.ca/
They have great prices, got a 250gig western digital harddrive for $100 even ($115 after 15% tax) Plus I just built a pretty killer dual core Athlon64 gaming rig for $1200 canadian after tax all parts bought through them.
I live around Markham-Richmond Hill, pretty much all the computer shops around here are asian run, but this area is highly asian so that makes sense I guess =)
$300 is the most I would ever pay for a graphics card.
I got a Sapphire Radeon X800 GTO2 LE (Limited Edition) for $199 Canadian.
For some reason ATI Tool says it's an R430 core (x800) with 16 pipelines already unlocked. I thought I read in a few places that it was a R480 core (x850) with only 12 of the 16 pipelines enabled. Is mine a later model or is ATITool just reporting it incorrectly? Anyone know about this?
I just bought a new computer a week and a half ago myself.
Got an Athlon64 X2 3800+, 2x1gig Kingston dual channel DDR400, 250gig Western Digital Caviar 7200rpm SATA-II, Sapphire Radeon X800 GTO2 256mb limited edition, etc. etc..
Total cost of the system was $1200 canadian after tax, the graphics card was only $199 but runs as fast as a $300 card or better.
My X800 GTO2 came with the 16 pipelines already unlocked so I didn't need to mod it =)
It's probably one of the coolest graphics cards I've ever had, it's so easy to overclock it aswell with the built in Sapphire Trixx software. I stopped buying nvidia a while ago as all my nvidia cards' fans would die after 1 or 2 months. So far Radeon has treated me very well and haven't had any fans seizing up and dying on me yet.
I just got a new computer with a Sapphire Radeon X800 GTO2 (already unlocked to 16 pipelines).
I paid $199 canadian for it. The card is absolutely amazing, I get 90fps in UT2004 with max settings at 1280x1024 and around 60fps in Call of Duty 2 and Doom 3 at 1024x768 and high quality settings.
the Sapphire Radeon X800 GTO2 (limited edition) is definitely a special card for the price! Paying a huge chunk of money for 1 graphic card or even more for a SLI setup is just crazy, these mid-range graphics cards perform well enough as it is IMO.
Blizzard was using AT&T to host Battle.net way back in the day aswell I believe. Back in the day when I played Diablo 2 on BNET, I used to say AT&T stood for Astronomical Transfer Times. It's amazing that AT&T is still providing subpar service to Blizzard many years later, and yet Blizzard still puts up with it!
I just built myself a new computer yesterday and I want this baby to run nice and cool (I don't plan on overclocking, it's fast enough as it is, I just want to make sure the CPU isn't running too hot).
Here's my new setup:
Antec Sonata II (1x120mm fan, thinking about adding a second 120mm for good measure) MSI K8N Neo4F Motherboard AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ 2gig Kingston 250gig Western Digital SATA-II Sapphire Radeon X800 GTO2 (so far I love! this card, haven't tried to unlock the extra 4 pipelines to make it 16 pipelines yet though)
I live on the 3rd floor, my room is a huge loft, but around this time of year and all through summer my room is literally a sauna. Since it's 3 floors up the central A/C doesn't pump out very much cold air through the ducts this far away from the basement. My room feels over 45 celcius in the summer, and like 100% humidity. I don't want to run my nice new box in my room at that insane ambient temperature so I've decided to move my computer down to an empty room on my 2nd floor (feels 10 degrees cooler then my loft).
In my loft the temperature of my CPU at idle was around 38 degrees celcius, after playing a game for 30min it was over 46 degrees. Now that I've moved my box downstairs a level my cpu idle temperature is now around 30 degrees instead of 38 degrees (it still gets upto around 46 degrees under load.) Currently my cpu temperature is 33C and my motherboard temperature is 35C at 1% load.
I'm not familiar with AMD, this is my first AMD system, I've owned 5 Intel systems in the past. I'm wondering if anyone knows what temperature range is "safe" for my Athlon64 X2 3800+?
I ran two copies of Prime95 on each of my 2 cores for about 5minutes before I cancelled it because the CPU temperature went from 38 to 44 in 5 minutes, I didn't want the temperature to keep raising that quickly so I cancelled both Prime95 tests and the CPU temperature quickly dropped back down. I'm just wondering if this is normal for an AMD dual core to heat up and cool down that quickly? I'm seriously trying to decide whether I need a better HSF or maybe I just worry too much? I never worried about my old Pentium 4 space heater, dunno why I'm so worried about my new system... Anyone experienced with Athlon 64 X2's wanna give me some advice? =)
My experience with Apple has been the opposite. I own a 4G iPod that is still under warranty that is basically dying (songs skip, crashes, sometimes can't boot up, updating song list through itunes fails, this is sometimes called the "iPod Death Spiral" on forums). I sent it in to be fixed and Apple sent it back 2 weeks later claiming to have fixed it without replacing any of its internal hardware, but a week later the same problems were back. Now I have to send it in for a second time, I'm going to demand that they replace the unit altogether or replace the internal hardware. It's still under warranty and I can't even use it so they should replace it.
This whole ordeal has caused me alot of fustration and stress over the last 2 months as I try to get my $400 ipod fixed. I've seen endless complaints on forums about broken ipods and it pisses me off that I spent $400 for a device that only lasts 1 year. In a way I was lucky that I decided to get the extended 2 year warranty because my ipod started to die just after the 1 year warranty would have expired. I would have been screwed and had to fork over anywhere from $50 to $299 to get the damn thing fixed. My only hope is that Apple fixes my unit that is still under warranty.
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BusyCursor has been replaced by Xalf according to the README on the site you linked.
According to the Xalf Website, Xalf stands for X11 Application Launch Feedback (or: "Something to look at while Netscape is loading")
Xalf comes with a Gnome Control Center capplet (screenshot) for easy configuration.
It looks like Xalf hasn't been updated in 3 years though, quote from the website:
2003-04-06 GNOME 2.X does not contain Xalf hooks, like GNOME 1.X did. Instead, GNOME2 includes support for the startup-notification protocol instead. This is a robust and future-safe solution to the problem Xalf was originally designed to solve. I'm pleased to see that support for launch feedback finally is gaining widespread support. The Xalf project has succeeded!
So it looks like Xalf was discontinued after Gnome 2.x came out with the startup-notification protocol.
I don't mind spam so much, but I really hate phishers. Lately I've been getting Chase Bank phishing scams daily in my hotmail account, which I find humourous, considering I don't even have a Chase Bank account. Today I decided to actually take a look at the message and see where it was coming from.
Here is a text copy of one of the emails, I removed my own email address for privacy: From : Sent : February 26, 2006 11:52:48 PM To: Subject : Account ID 439177 IMPORTANT: Client's Details Confirmation
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Well I tried http://www.zillow.com/ but it appears it only works if you live in the United States. I guess I'm stuck with Google Maps since I live in Canada.
I wish they would get rid of this tax aswell. It is unfair for people like myself that don't even use blank cds for burning music, I own an ipod. All I use blank cds and dvds for is backing up data, why should I be giving any money to the recording industry for that?
My ISP, Rogers Cable, has implemented some scheme which makes bittorrent painfully slow to the point of making it not worth using at all. You'll be lucky to get 10k/sec using bittorrent, while I can get over 300k/sec from websites, ftp, etc.. Even if I try and download a legitimate torrent, my upload rate will be higher then my download rate 99% of the time. So now I'm back to using IRC and xdcc list bots for my downloading needs.
Science is concerned with gaining knowledge about the natural world by observation. To do their job, scientists systematically describe phenomena, classify observations, and reach conclusions. This often involves controlled and replicable laboratory experiments, such as those in chemistry or psychology, but it may also consist of detailed observation without experiment. Some fields cannot solely rely on experiments; these are called historical sciences. Geology, evolutionary biology and archeology are historical sciences that deal with past events that no longer can be directly observed. The evidence left behind, however, can be studied to reconstruct what took place (Ashmore and Sharer 1996:10).
My minidisc player just died because of the blankdisc error [minidisc.ch] - an inevitable ribbon cable snap (which everyone will require eventually) due to opening/closing 'too many times'. An almost $400 'walkman' inevitably requiring a $100 fixed rate repair a few years later. The new mp3 walkman don't have backlit screens (what happens at night?), and they're bigger than cheaper 3rd party ones.
iPod suffers just as much if not more problems then your minidisc player (speaking from experience, my $400 iPod died last month after 1 year)
If you look at the rating for the game you can see that it is intended for ages 17+
Pretty much every online game has the line "Game experience may change during online play", usually at the bottom left corner of game's main menu screen. Game makers have to do this to protect themselves from getting into trouble because some kid uses inapropriate language, racial, sexual or other discriminatory remark.
I truly hope they make a good product that can compete with the iPod. I own a 4th gen 20g iPod and it died after 1 year, I still haven't gotten it back from Apple yet. I want to see an mp3 player that is simple and uses an EXTERNAL battery. My original mp3 player (WaveX TS-300 128mb) still works because it was designed to last I guess, where as the iPod is all about buying a new one every year for another $400 because they break down so often (great business model though). I'm probably a bit bitter over my dead ipod though..your results may vary.
Apple has a great product (I own one myself, and I LOVED it), but the ipods have a few flaws, ok,ALOT of flaws.
If Amazon could design a device that a) has a battery that doesnt die after 1 year b) has a hard drive that doesn't die after 1 year I'd be alot happier.
I have a 5 year old mp3 player that still works great (too bad it only holds 128 megs). My 4G ipod just died after 1 year 1 month exactly (never dropped it or anything which would damage it in any way). Now, I understand hardware can die, but for $400, I'd expect it to last more then a year. Luckily I bought a 2 year warranty so I got mine replaced for free, but many other people weren't so lucky and now have a $400 paperweight.
If your ipod isn't under warranty you can always get the battery replaced for around $60-70, if its the hard drive, you might aswell buy a new one. I will never buy another iPod or Apple product again after the stress and fustration this ordeal has caused me.
This last christmas, my sister and her husband decided to buy themselves 2 ipod nanos, they ended up returning them and getting replacements about 5 times because they didnt work (each replacement didnt work either). They eventually gave up on the nano and bought 2 ipod videos.
I'll probably be modded down for speaking out against Apple/ipod.
Hopefully Amazon's "ipod" will work for more then a year. I could care less about how it looks, it will be in my pocket 99% of the time anyway. So please, design something that is a quality product, not just pretty looking.
Lots of games now are going the route of criminal activity, not just this game or the GTA series.
Look at Need for Speed Underground or Need For Speed Most Wanted, it's all about illegal street racing which can be just as bad
Oh, and coincidentally, they found a copy of Need for Speed next to the driver in one of the 2 cars that was racing:
Police investigating the accident found a copy of the video game Need for Speed in one of the cars. The game involves street racing, drag racing and pursuit racing, where players attempt to evade police.
This is one of the reasons I haven't bought a music CD in 10 years. That and all got all the music I would ever need back when Napster was around. I still support the artists by going to their concerts, etc.. I just refuse to give any money to an organized crime syndicate (RIAA).
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I was thinking the same thing. It's absolutely ridiculous to change the game rating because some player decides to make a modification that contains "mature" content. Why should the game maker have to suffer because someone writes an unsupported mod? (See GTA: San Andreas). Should game companies be forced to now prevent users from modifying the game to protect themselves from rating changes, etc..
I wonder if Oblivion will lose sales due to this (stores that don't stock Mature games, does Walmart still do this?). Or maybe Oblivion will gain sales from the all the free publicity of the ratings being changed. I think there's already enough hype and buzz behind it (the original game), sales will probably just increase.
where did you find it in Canada for $199? NCIX seems to be charging more.
At a local chinese computer store about 15min from my house. http://www.cty.ca/
They have great prices, got a 250gig western digital harddrive for $100 even ($115 after 15% tax)
Plus I just built a pretty killer dual core Athlon64 gaming rig for $1200 canadian after tax all parts bought through them.
I live around Markham-Richmond Hill, pretty much all the computer shops around here are asian run, but this area is highly asian so that makes sense I guess =)
$300 is the most I would ever pay for a graphics card.
I got a Sapphire Radeon X800 GTO2 LE (Limited Edition) for $199 Canadian.
For some reason ATI Tool says it's an R430 core (x800) with 16 pipelines already unlocked. I thought I read in a few places that it was a R480 core (x850) with only 12 of the 16 pipelines enabled. Is mine a later model or is ATITool just reporting it incorrectly? Anyone know about this?
I just bought a new computer a week and a half ago myself.
Got an Athlon64 X2 3800+, 2x1gig Kingston dual channel DDR400, 250gig Western Digital Caviar 7200rpm SATA-II, Sapphire Radeon X800 GTO2 256mb limited edition, etc. etc..
Total cost of the system was $1200 canadian after tax, the graphics card was only $199 but runs as fast as a $300 card or better.
My X800 GTO2 came with the 16 pipelines already unlocked so I didn't need to mod it =)
It's probably one of the coolest graphics cards I've ever had, it's so easy to overclock it aswell with the built in Sapphire Trixx software. I stopped buying nvidia a while ago as all my nvidia cards' fans would die after 1 or 2 months. So far Radeon has treated me very well and haven't had any fans seizing up and dying on me yet.
I just got a new computer with a Sapphire Radeon X800 GTO2 (already unlocked to 16 pipelines).
I paid $199 canadian for it. The card is absolutely amazing, I get 90fps in UT2004 with max settings at 1280x1024 and around 60fps in Call of Duty 2 and Doom 3 at 1024x768 and high quality settings.
the Sapphire Radeon X800 GTO2 (limited edition) is definitely a special card for the price! Paying a huge chunk of money for 1 graphic card or even more for a SLI setup is just crazy, these mid-range graphics cards perform well enough as it is IMO.
Nintendo has been around since November 6, 1889, I doubt they'll be self-destructing anytime soon.
Maybe Blizzard's servers are slow because they have to redirect all their traffic to the NSA.
Blizzard was using AT&T to host Battle.net way back in the day aswell I believe. Back in the day when I played Diablo 2 on BNET, I used to say AT&T stood for Astronomical Transfer Times. It's amazing that AT&T is still providing subpar service to Blizzard many years later, and yet Blizzard still puts up with it!
I just built myself a new computer yesterday and I want this baby to run nice and cool (I don't plan on overclocking, it's fast enough as it is, I just want to make sure the CPU isn't running too hot).
Here's my new setup:
Antec Sonata II (1x120mm fan, thinking about adding a second 120mm for good measure)
MSI K8N Neo4F Motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+
2gig Kingston
250gig Western Digital SATA-II
Sapphire Radeon X800 GTO2 (so far I love! this card, haven't tried to unlock the extra 4 pipelines to make it 16 pipelines yet though)
I live on the 3rd floor, my room is a huge loft, but around this time of year and all through summer my room is literally a sauna. Since it's 3 floors up the central A/C doesn't pump out very much cold air through the ducts this far away from the basement. My room feels over 45 celcius in the summer, and like 100% humidity. I don't want to run my nice new box in my room at that insane ambient temperature so I've decided to move my computer down to an empty room on my 2nd floor (feels 10 degrees cooler then my loft).
In my loft the temperature of my CPU at idle was around 38 degrees celcius, after playing a game for 30min it was over 46 degrees.
Now that I've moved my box downstairs a level my cpu idle temperature is now around 30 degrees instead of 38 degrees (it still gets upto around 46 degrees under load.)
Currently my cpu temperature is 33C and my motherboard temperature is 35C at 1% load.
I'm not familiar with AMD, this is my first AMD system, I've owned 5 Intel systems in the past. I'm wondering if anyone knows what temperature range is "safe" for my Athlon64 X2 3800+?
I ran two copies of Prime95 on each of my 2 cores for about 5minutes before I cancelled it because the CPU temperature went from 38 to 44 in 5 minutes, I didn't want the temperature to keep raising that quickly so I cancelled both Prime95 tests and the CPU temperature quickly dropped back down. I'm just wondering if this is normal for an AMD dual core to heat up and cool down that quickly? I'm seriously trying to decide whether I need a better HSF or maybe I just worry too much? I never worried about my old Pentium 4 space heater, dunno why I'm so worried about my new system... Anyone experienced with Athlon 64 X2's wanna give me some advice? =)
My experience with Apple has been the opposite. I own a 4G iPod that is still under warranty that is basically dying (songs skip, crashes, sometimes can't boot up, updating song list through itunes fails, this is sometimes called the "iPod Death Spiral" on forums). I sent it in to be fixed and Apple sent it back 2 weeks later claiming to have fixed it without replacing any of its internal hardware, but a week later the same problems were back. Now I have to send it in for a second time, I'm going to demand that they replace the unit altogether or replace the internal hardware. It's still under warranty and I can't even use it so they should replace it.
This whole ordeal has caused me alot of fustration and stress over the last 2 months as I try to get my $400 ipod fixed. I've seen endless complaints on forums about broken ipods and it pisses me off that I spent $400 for a device that only lasts 1 year. In a way I was lucky that I decided to get the extended 2 year warranty because my ipod started to die just after the 1 year warranty would have expired. I would have been screwed and had to fork over anywhere from $50 to $299 to get the damn thing fixed. My only hope is that Apple fixes my unit that is still under warranty.
Apparently he isn't handling the publicity very well. Oklahoma man asks Reg to turn off the internet
According to the Xalf Website, Xalf stands for X11 Application Launch Feedback (or: "Something to look at while Netscape is loading")
Xalf comes with a Gnome Control Center capplet (screenshot) for easy configuration.
It looks like Xalf hasn't been updated in 3 years though, quote from the website:
2003-04-06
GNOME 2.X does not contain Xalf hooks, like GNOME 1.X did. Instead, GNOME2 includes support for the startup-notification protocol instead. This is a robust and future-safe solution to the problem Xalf was originally designed to solve. I'm pleased to see that support for launch feedback finally is gaining widespread support. The Xalf project has succeeded!
So it looks like Xalf was discontinued after Gnome 2.x came out with the startup-notification protocol.
Here is a text copy of one of the emails, I removed my own email address for privacy:
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The email origined from bloc17.suceava.rdsnet.ro which is a Romanian domain. I did a domain lookup of www.chase-all.com and got some interesting info:
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Well I tried http://www.zillow.com/ but it appears it only works if you live in the United States. I guess I'm stuck with Google Maps since I live in Canada.
I wish they would get rid of this tax aswell. It is unfair for people like myself that don't even use blank cds for burning music, I own an ipod. All I use blank cds and dvds for is backing up data, why should I be giving any money to the recording industry for that?
My ISP, Rogers Cable, has implemented some scheme which makes bittorrent painfully slow to the point of making it not worth using at all. You'll be lucky to get 10k/sec using bittorrent, while I can get over 300k/sec from websites, ftp, etc.. Even if I try and download a legitimate torrent, my upload rate will be higher then my download rate 99% of the time. So now I'm back to using IRC and xdcc list bots for my downloading needs.
I still play Unreal Tournament 2004, which is an Atari game. A damn good game at that.
Science is concerned with gaining knowledge about the natural world by observation. To do their job, scientists systematically describe phenomena, classify observations, and reach conclusions. This often involves controlled and replicable laboratory experiments, such as those in chemistry or psychology, but it may also consist of detailed observation without experiment. Some fields cannot solely rely on experiments; these are called historical sciences. Geology, evolutionary biology and archeology are historical sciences that deal with past events that no longer can be directly observed. The evidence left behind, however, can be studied to reconstruct what took place (Ashmore and Sharer 1996:10).
iPod suffers just as much if not more problems then your minidisc player (speaking from experience, my $400 iPod died last month after 1 year)
Pretty much every online game has the line "Game experience may change during online play", usually at the bottom left corner of game's main menu screen. Game makers have to do this to protect themselves from getting into trouble because some kid uses inapropriate language, racial, sexual or other discriminatory remark.
I truly hope they make a good product that can compete with the iPod. I own a 4th gen 20g iPod and it died after 1 year, I still haven't gotten it back from Apple yet. I want to see an mp3 player that is simple and uses an EXTERNAL battery. My original mp3 player (WaveX TS-300 128mb) still works because it was designed to last I guess, where as the iPod is all about buying a new one every year for another $400 because they break down so often (great business model though). I'm probably a bit bitter over my dead ipod though..your results may vary.
Apple has a great product (I own one myself, and I LOVED it), but the ipods have a few flaws, ok,ALOT of flaws.
If Amazon could design a device that a) has a battery that doesnt die after 1 year b) has a hard drive that doesn't die after 1 year I'd be alot happier.
I have a 5 year old mp3 player that still works great (too bad it only holds 128 megs). My 4G ipod just died after 1 year 1 month exactly (never dropped it or anything which would damage it in any way). Now, I understand hardware can die, but for $400, I'd expect it to last more then a year. Luckily I bought a 2 year warranty so I got mine replaced for free, but many other people weren't so lucky and now have a $400 paperweight.
If your ipod isn't under warranty you can always get the battery replaced for around $60-70, if its the hard drive, you might aswell buy a new one. I will never buy another iPod or Apple product again after the stress and fustration this ordeal has caused me.
This last christmas, my sister and her husband decided to buy themselves 2 ipod nanos, they ended up returning them and getting replacements about 5 times because they didnt work (each replacement didnt work either). They eventually gave up on the nano and bought 2 ipod videos.
I'll probably be modded down for speaking out against Apple/ipod.
dead ipods faulty ipods
Ipod Battery Class Action Lawsuit Class Action Lawsuit against Apple for their faulty Ipod Nano Apple settles Ipod Class Action Lawsuit
The iPod Customer Service Story and Other Fairy Tales
http://www.ipodsdirtysecret.com/
Hopefully Amazon's "ipod" will work for more then a year. I could care less about how it looks, it will be in my pocket 99% of the time anyway. So please, design something that is a quality product, not just pretty looking.
Lots of games now are going the route of criminal activity, not just this game or the GTA series. Look at Need for Speed Underground or Need For Speed Most Wanted, it's all about illegal street racing which can be just as bad
Oh, and coincidentally, they found a copy of Need for Speed next to the driver in one of the 2 cars that was racing:
Police investigating the accident found a copy of the video game Need for Speed in one of the cars. The game involves street racing, drag racing and pursuit racing, where players attempt to evade police.
This is one of the reasons I haven't bought a music CD in 10 years. That and all got all the music I would ever need back when Napster was around. I still support the artists by going to their concerts, etc.. I just refuse to give any money to an organized crime syndicate (RIAA).
How was this modding fucking troll? I made a legitimate comment that was in no way trolling. So the comment was incorrect, I made a mistake.