Where's an offtopic mod when you need one? Oh, right -- they're out there modding down anyone who doesn't blindly follow Stalin. Here goes some more bad karma!
"I loath the administration and what they've done to the fundamental rights of humans, all in the name of "protection". "
How is the Bush II administration any different from the many other socialist presidents we've had since FDR that have eroded individual rights in the name of "justice" (such as Affirmative Action or the Americans with Disabilities Act) and "security" (such as welfare, social security, etc)? For the better part of a century our governments been stealing more money and power and leaving citizens with fewer and fewer rights -- this isn't a Bush thing. Land of the free? Hah, that's a joke. Just because we don't have it as bad as people in the EU doesn't mean we're free -- and if many in congress have their way, we'll be identical to the EU very soon.
"However, just running everything across HyperTransport is an obviously worse approach for core-to-core communication than shared L2."
I know that AMD is still using HyperTransport 2.0, but it's only logical that in the very near future they'll switch to HyperTransport 3.0. With a bandwidth of 41.6 GB/s, I think that will bring transfer time down to essentially nil.
I ran Win98 for a few years and had frequent crashes. I've run XP on that same system for years and I can count the number of crashes on one hand. Same users in the family (meaning same computer illiterate mother and sister) and same hardware -- yet nowhere near the instability.
"who liked Windows 98 because it was stable, predictable, and still worked fine"
You're being sarcastic, right? I have no quarrel with MS (I don't love them, don't hate them -- I'm getting ready to dual-boot with Ubuntu and XP Pro purely for gaming reasons or else it would be pure Linux), yet '98 was HORRIBLE. Unless you have some copy of Win98 that was blessed by Jesus himself, I've never heard of a fully functional copy of Win98.
"Nobody has commented, though, on the seriousness of the kids' behaviour."
If you're more concerned about kids breaking tree branches to build a fort than the cops locking them up for it, then you need to seek professional help. It's not even like the kids were doing it because they wanted to destroy something, they were trying to get some wood to build something -- so do you think that anyone who cuts down a tree to procure lumber should be locked up? If a kid breaking a couple branches is worthy of all this, then someone cutting down multiple trees should be given at least 10 years in jail *note sarcasm*.
Which is why Blizzard instituted 'tax' on your gold based on your number of troops with Warcraft 3 -- so that way people would actually learn to use strategy. That's why I rarely play RTS games online.....the other people have no mind, they just think "build lots real quick, rush, done" -- wheres the fun in that?
Nothing wrong with it -- IF you tell consumers beforehand. When you install on your AMD machineand are limited to half the calls you friend can handle on his Intel machine and you weren't informed before purchasing that this would be the case, then it's a bunch of bullshit. That's like building a car that will ONLY run on gas from BP stations but not telling anyone about it.
.........a monopoly would mean that they had no competition -- which is not true here. If you don't want Windows, buy a mac or install any one of a million different versions of Linux -- hell, you can write your own OS if you're so opposed to them! Merely because more people choose them does NOT make them a monopoly -- it makes them successful. Once again, the good Marxists are showing how they thing success should be punished........
"When you're a monopoly you cannot bundle competitive products(ie a Browser or Media Player)." In the modern world, people expect to be able to install their OS and be able to get down to things without having to install an individual program for every imaginable task -- you start shipping an OS (regardless of what OS) without things like an internet browser, a picture viewer, or a media player and people will be royally pissed.
"It doesn't matter whether teaching these things is WoW's purpose. The point is that it does teach these things, and that is a matter of concern."
If you have to learn your work ethic or how to behave in society from a bloody game, then you have serious issues.
"Having some 1 man instances with as good drops wouldn't be such a bad idea, imho."
I agree -- I tend to play solo or with 2-3 friends most of the time.
However, I disagree with "The point is that there is no way for a single player to get as good equipment as one playing in 40 man raids will get. And that's because blizzard has put all good drops on bosses which you cannot manage yourself".
In real life, many times you cannot get to a higher level (say in your own private business) without working with others. If you want to be a better guitar player, you not only have to work on your own, but (in many cases) need to seek guidance from someone better than you.
"When the United States occupies an Islamic nation on pretenses of WMD and Iraq/al-Qaeda connections that were (at best) wildly inaccurate"
Actually, there are mountains of proof for both of those (including testimonies from aformer Iraqi General). John Miniter has a book called "Disinformation" -- you should try reading those two chapters in it sometime.
"Then why aren't any Muslims in the United States rioting?"
Because, unlike sissy Europe, we won't tolerate that and the police / national guard / military would hand them their asses real quick and they'd all be in jail (with most likely a few being killed in the process of quelling the riots). They're not entirely stupid and know to go for the weaklings first.
"in islam it is extremely forbidden to have any image depicting the prophet mohammed because often prophets become idolised and worshipped and people forget about the true reason of the religion and that is god."
Actually that "no images of Muhammed" rule was invented fairly recently. From the origin of Islam up until the not too distant past it was quite common for there to be images of Muhammed.
"A DVD player being expensive when it first game out has no bearing on whether or not a blu-ray player will be expensive when it first comes out. None."
You obviously aren't a hardware junkie then. With (to my knowledge) NO exceptions, hardware always costs more when it is first introduced to the market and the price then drops as production increases and sales increase (as well as the technology to manufacture such hardware becoming less expensive over time).
"it provided better handling characteristics for the vast majority of drivers (oversteer will fuck up your day in a heartbeat, understeer is more 'predictable'),"
Not really (if you know what you're doing). As an editor in a car mag recently put it -- "Oversteer means that when you go too fast around a corner you'll smash through the fence butt first -- Understeer means that when you go around that same corner too fast you'll smash through the same fence facing forward".
Except no one playing a game thinks about the Red Cross. No one says "Oh, this health pack was provided for me by a non-profit humanitarian organization". They think "Shit, I'm gonna die -- where's a med kit?!"
"A couple of years ago, Ralph Lauren (the designer) sued the US Polo Association (est. 1890) over trademarked use of the word "Polo". Lauren, who launched the brand in 1967, won."
And that is the epitomy of how horribly flawed our court system is in this country.
"If you were hesitating to buy that SUV you wanted, well, now, you may as well get it. "
H2's get essentially the worse gas mileage out there (there is the rare car that gets worse, but they're few and far between). A private jet burns up more fuel in a trip from NY to LA than a typical H2 would in a year. You want to bitch about wasting fuel? Complain about people that never fly commercial. *Note: I hate SUV's and trucks and think anyone that drives one without a legitimate reason to (cargo / towing wise) is an idiot, so this is not defending them at all, merely pointing out that there are much worse things out there.
You prefer believing in "real" scientists that we are causing temperature changes -- fine, but how do your "real" scientists explain all the temperature changes before the industrial revolution? Remember the Ice Age? Yea, how are you going to blame that on Halliburton?
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Where's an offtopic mod when you need one? Oh, right -- they're out there modding down anyone who doesn't blindly follow Stalin. Here goes some more bad karma!
"I loath the administration and what they've done to the fundamental rights of humans, all in the name of "protection". "
How is the Bush II administration any different from the many other socialist presidents we've had since FDR that have eroded individual rights in the name of "justice" (such as Affirmative Action or the Americans with Disabilities Act) and "security" (such as welfare, social security, etc)? For the better part of a century our governments been stealing more money and power and leaving citizens with fewer and fewer rights -- this isn't a Bush thing. Land of the free? Hah, that's a joke. Just because we don't have it as bad as people in the EU doesn't mean we're free -- and if many in congress have their way, we'll be identical to the EU very soon.
when you give a government that much power, they own you and can do whatever they please.
"However, just running everything across HyperTransport is an obviously worse approach for core-to-core communication than shared L2."
I know that AMD is still using HyperTransport 2.0, but it's only logical that in the very near future they'll switch to HyperTransport 3.0. With a bandwidth of 41.6 GB/s, I think that will bring transfer time down to essentially nil.
I ran Win98 for a few years and had frequent crashes. I've run XP on that same system for years and I can count the number of crashes on one hand. Same users in the family (meaning same computer illiterate mother and sister) and same hardware -- yet nowhere near the instability.
"who liked Windows 98 because it was stable, predictable, and still worked fine"
You're being sarcastic, right? I have no quarrel with MS (I don't love them, don't hate them -- I'm getting ready to dual-boot with Ubuntu and XP Pro purely for gaming reasons or else it would be pure Linux), yet '98 was HORRIBLE . Unless you have some copy of Win98 that was blessed by Jesus himself, I've never heard of a fully functional copy of Win98.
"Nobody has commented, though, on the seriousness of the kids' behaviour."
If you're more concerned about kids breaking tree branches to build a fort than the cops locking them up for it, then you need to seek professional help. It's not even like the kids were doing it because they wanted to destroy something, they were trying to get some wood to build something -- so do you think that anyone who cuts down a tree to procure lumber should be locked up? If a kid breaking a couple branches is worthy of all this, then someone cutting down multiple trees should be given at least 10 years in jail *note sarcasm*.
Just remember comrade, 2 + 2 = 5!
Which is why Blizzard instituted 'tax' on your gold based on your number of troops with Warcraft 3 -- so that way people would actually learn to use strategy. That's why I rarely play RTS games online.....the other people have no mind, they just think "build lots real quick, rush, done" -- wheres the fun in that?
Nothing wrong with it -- IF you tell consumers beforehand. When you install on your AMD machineand are limited to half the calls you friend can handle on his Intel machine and you weren't informed before purchasing that this would be the case, then it's a bunch of bullshit. That's like building a car that will ONLY run on gas from BP stations but not telling anyone about it.
"Perhaps a secure operating system (rather than one which keeps on popping idiot messages up) is the solution?"
Or perhaps the average American not being a total idiot might be a better solution?
"When you're a monopoly you cannot bundle competitive products(ie a Browser or Media Player)." In the modern world, people expect to be able to install their OS and be able to get down to things without having to install an individual program for every imaginable task -- you start shipping an OS (regardless of what OS) without things like an internet browser, a picture viewer, or a media player and people will be royally pissed.
"It doesn't matter whether teaching these things is WoW's purpose. The point is that it does teach these things, and that is a matter of concern." If you have to learn your work ethic or how to behave in society from a bloody game, then you have serious issues.
"Having some 1 man instances with as good drops wouldn't be such a bad idea, imho." I agree -- I tend to play solo or with 2-3 friends most of the time. However, I disagree with "The point is that there is no way for a single player to get as good equipment as one playing in 40 man raids will get. And that's because blizzard has put all good drops on bosses which you cannot manage yourself". In real life, many times you cannot get to a higher level (say in your own private business) without working with others. If you want to be a better guitar player, you not only have to work on your own, but (in many cases) need to seek guidance from someone better than you.
Actually, there are mountains of proof for both of those (including testimonies from aformer Iraqi General). John Miniter has a book called "Disinformation" -- you should try reading those two chapters in it sometime.
Because, unlike sissy Europe, we won't tolerate that and the police / national guard / military would hand them their asses real quick and they'd all be in jail (with most likely a few being killed in the process of quelling the riots). They're not entirely stupid and know to go for the weaklings first.
"in islam it is extremely forbidden to have any image depicting the prophet mohammed because often prophets become idolised and worshipped and people forget about the true reason of the religion and that is god." Actually that "no images of Muhammed" rule was invented fairly recently. From the origin of Islam up until the not too distant past it was quite common for there to be images of Muhammed.
You obviously aren't a hardware junkie then. With (to my knowledge) NO exceptions, hardware always costs more when it is first introduced to the market and the price then drops as production increases and sales increase (as well as the technology to manufacture such hardware becoming less expensive over time).
"it provided better handling characteristics for the vast majority of drivers (oversteer will fuck up your day in a heartbeat, understeer is more 'predictable')," Not really (if you know what you're doing). As an editor in a car mag recently put it -- "Oversteer means that when you go too fast around a corner you'll smash through the fence butt first -- Understeer means that when you go around that same corner too fast you'll smash through the same fence facing forward".
Except no one playing a game thinks about the Red Cross. No one says "Oh, this health pack was provided for me by a non-profit humanitarian organization". They think "Shit, I'm gonna die -- where's a med kit?!"
"A couple of years ago, Ralph Lauren (the designer) sued the US Polo Association (est. 1890) over trademarked use of the word "Polo". Lauren, who launched the brand in 1967, won."
And that is the epitomy of how horribly flawed our court system is in this country.
So you're saying we should outlaw lawyers then?
"If you were hesitating to buy that SUV you wanted, well, now, you may as well get it. " H2's get essentially the worse gas mileage out there (there is the rare car that gets worse, but they're few and far between). A private jet burns up more fuel in a trip from NY to LA than a typical H2 would in a year. You want to bitch about wasting fuel? Complain about people that never fly commercial. *Note: I hate SUV's and trucks and think anyone that drives one without a legitimate reason to (cargo / towing wise) is an idiot, so this is not defending them at all, merely pointing out that there are much worse things out there.
I want to know when his book "Liberals War on Reason and Facts" is coming out.
You prefer believing in "real" scientists that we are causing temperature changes -- fine, but how do your "real" scientists explain all the temperature changes before the industrial revolution? Remember the Ice Age? Yea, how are you going to blame that on Halliburton?