Listen, and understand. That Jack Thompson is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.
Right. The only way you can really be screwed by new hardware coming out is if you buy right before a price reduction. If you pay attention to the market, you pretty much know when those are going to happen. Athlon X2 price drop when Conroe was released, Penryn price drop when Phenom II was released, etc.
Plus most hardware review sites tend to say "If you can't play it at full settings, it's not worth it.";)
I first played HL2 on a GeForce 4 MX 440, at 640x480, on minimal settings. That was alright, but the real problem was that if you set the game to DX7 (which is all the GF4 was capable of), then the draw distance for models was greatly reduced. That meant the chapter where you had to use your grav gun to get objects to stand on top of the sand was a real pain, cause you couldn't see any boxes that were more than 15 feet away unless you zoomed in, and you couldn't use the grav gun while zoomed. Zoom in, find an object, zoom out, pull it, zoom back in to see if you lost it, repeat.
However, other than that chapter, the game ran fine, and I still had an enjoyable experience. If that card had been capable of running DX8, then I would've had just as much fun as with a top-of-the-line card. If the designers are smart, as Valve's people are, then the game experience will not be affected by hardware.
Well of course Half Life 2 is choppy on the platform -- the Source engine is very CPU-intensive. Almost every system is going to be CPU-bound with Valve games, unless you happen to be running a Core i7 with an entry-level video card, at 1920x1200. As for the other games, you're still running on integrated graphics, and there's only so much you can do before you need a separate card.
Disclaimer: I work for Intel, but I've been a fan of Valve's games for much longer than that.
Well, at least it means that BitTorrent's local-user-finder feature (I forget the real name of it) will let you download off your neighbor at ~1Gbps, right?:)
I read the summary twice and it just made my head spin.
There's a big presumption in the summary that we've heard of Lucene before. I don't even know what they do. Do they search... the web?...your LAN?...your desktop?
her computer's behavior was not the default setting for Vista
Ummm... last I heard, default for Windows post-XP-SP2 is "Auto download, auto install". Now, I set it to "Notify only", but I'm pretty sure Vista is "Auto download, auto install" too, by default. Good for security, bad for usability.
As long as you're not endangering people (yelling "fire" for instance)...
There's a fine point that many people miss...
It's perfectly legal to shout "fire" in a crowded theater, if there's actually a fire. However, if you're shouting "fire" for no better reason than to cause a panic, then it becomes illegal.
That was several months ago. This is about a judge not understanding the difference between breaking a contract and breaking access-control mechanisms.
Besides what orclevegame said, there's also the fact that you need cooling for things other than the CPU, GPU, and chipset, assuming you get water cooling blocks for all three of those components. Hard drives, for instance, also like to have airflow.
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Listen, and understand. That Jack Thompson is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.
He's made me want to get into racketeering!
Right. The only way you can really be screwed by new hardware coming out is if you buy right before a price reduction. If you pay attention to the market, you pretty much know when those are going to happen. Athlon X2 price drop when Conroe was released, Penryn price drop when Phenom II was released, etc.
Plus most hardware review sites tend to say "If you can't play it at full settings, it's not worth it." ;)
I first played HL2 on a GeForce 4 MX 440, at 640x480, on minimal settings. That was alright, but the real problem was that if you set the game to DX7 (which is all the GF4 was capable of), then the draw distance for models was greatly reduced. That meant the chapter where you had to use your grav gun to get objects to stand on top of the sand was a real pain, cause you couldn't see any boxes that were more than 15 feet away unless you zoomed in, and you couldn't use the grav gun while zoomed.
Zoom in, find an object, zoom out, pull it, zoom back in to see if you lost it, repeat.
However, other than that chapter, the game ran fine, and I still had an enjoyable experience. If that card had been capable of running DX8, then I would've had just as much fun as with a top-of-the-line card. If the designers are smart, as Valve's people are, then the game experience will not be affected by hardware.
Well of course Half Life 2 is choppy on the platform -- the Source engine is very CPU-intensive. Almost every system is going to be CPU-bound with Valve games, unless you happen to be running a Core i7 with an entry-level video card, at 1920x1200. As for the other games, you're still running on integrated graphics, and there's only so much you can do before you need a separate card.
Disclaimer: I work for Intel, but I've been a fan of Valve's games for much longer than that.
Oh?
From Wikipedia
PDF is an open standard that was officially published on July 1, 2008 by the ISO as ISO 32000-1:2008.
This isn't the same as DeCSS cracking CSS or OpenOffice cracking the .doc format.
Personally, I've never had a problem with Adobe Reader on any platform, and this site seems to be blatantly against it.
Uh-oh. You're going to evoke the Nerd Rage(tm) of all the rabid soldiers of the FOSS movement that inhabit /.
Watch out!
Obligatory link:
http://xkcd.com/243/
You overestimate the number of people that watch the Stanley Cup.
There's a good reason that the Super Bowl is the #1 advertising space on TV.
Hell, I love hockey, but I hate the NHL. Much rather watch a college game.
Well, at least it means that BitTorrent's local-user-finder feature (I forget the real name of it) will let you download off your neighbor at ~1Gbps, right? :)
Sorry, that second comment of mine was supposed to be more sarcastic. Re-reading it, it just sounds like I'm schizophrenic. Sorry. :/
I read the summary twice and it just made my head spin.
There's a big presumption in the summary that we've heard of Lucene before. I don't even know what they do. Do they search... the web? ...your LAN? ...your desktop?
Silence! This is clearly an affront to Fair Use, and I will not have you suppressing my Nerd Rage!
her computer's behavior was not the default setting for Vista
Ummm... last I heard, default for Windows post-XP-SP2 is "Auto download, auto install". Now, I set it to "Notify only", but I'm pretty sure Vista is "Auto download, auto install" too, by default. Good for security, bad for usability.
http://thatsthejoke.ytmnd.com/
As long as you're not endangering people (yelling "fire" for instance)...
There's a fine point that many people miss...
It's perfectly legal to shout "fire" in a crowded theater, if there's actually a fire. However, if you're shouting "fire" for no better reason than to cause a panic, then it becomes illegal.
That was several months ago. This is about a judge not understanding the difference between breaking a contract and breaking access-control mechanisms.
Implement a device that allows people to walk through each other. Problem solved.
Besides what orclevegame said, there's also the fact that you need cooling for things other than the CPU, GPU, and chipset, assuming you get water cooling blocks for all three of those components. Hard drives, for instance, also like to have airflow.
I agree with what your premise, but one of your quotes was never uttered:
http://www.guncite.com/gun_control_gcbogus.html
Maybe it would generate enough to power the case fans?
Mechanical computers are viable as well, but not too terribly practical.
As proved in 1991.
I agree completely, I mean I haven't had a crash or rebo
Polonium 209 is good, too. :)
Speaking of God-like personae...
He Must Be Like Putin