Which means anyone with a software engineering degree will have wasted their time? Or is spending 20k a healthy price to pay for a hobby you can never gain employment for?
Guys! Don't you know? The only reason they took so long developing it is because they had to recode the whole thing for its exclusive release for the Infinium Labs Phantom!
...assuming they don't use a port that they know one of their other services already uses, which would be the logical choice if they wanted their packets to get through. I'm sure someone who's blocked it can tell me what port it is, but my guess it that it'd probably be the same as the Application Layer Gateway service (alg.exe) uses.
"58. ATI Radeon X1900 XTX
Graphics Board ($600) Cards based on ATI's X1900 XTX chip and on nVidia's GeForce 7900 GTX chip (#92) compete for the fastest gaming performance. We think the ATI board delivers slightly better image quality, hence its higher ranking."
WTF? "Better image quality"? It's a graphics card you dolt! Not a camera! It deserves a higher ranking because it's faster sure, but you can not be telling me you can tell the difference in a still frame image. They probably tested on different monitors >.<
Skipping to the 7900GTX:
"92. nVidia GeForce 7900 GTX
GPU ($549) Graphics cards that use this power-hungry processor are so expensive that you'll need to sign on for a second paper route to pay for it. But the payoff is excellent gaming performance."
Except the 1900XTX is more expenisve... You knew that right?
The way I see it, outside of techies who just love gadgets, there would be two groups who would use smartphones:
1. Business persons using them in a PDA style application.
and
2. Silly boys/girls with rich parents who think they're better people because their phones are more expensive.
Now I find it unlikely that a business person would accept a bluetooth transfer if they didn't know what it was, assuming they weren't in a rush at the time. Even if they WERE in a rush, they'd probably walk out of transfer range (or snipe area with the bluetooth gun) before the transfer was complete.
We gadget-loving geeks wouldn't accept it either, obviously.
So that leaves the one susceptable group: the rich kids. Whoop-de-freaking doo! So now the question is: Why do we care?
If these people screw up their little toys why should we give so much as a passing glance? If they ran their convertables into a stop sign or if they dropped their iPods in the gutter would we care? No!
In its current form mobile phone virii aren't going to affect people who have a critical use for their phone. All it will do is break a few toys.
"Who has actually used it and found it to be shit?"
Me. 98 SE had a chance to be a half-way decent OS. Then ME came along and gave 98SE a raping, leaving it crying in the dirt, stripped of the little stability it had, with a lack compatability for... pretty much anything. Sure it sported a slightly improved UI, but if it always crashed the prettier icons weren't much good to me.
Oh, and the No DOS mode thing... that pissed me off.
Yeah I thought that when I submitted the article... suprised I haven't seen any women calling me sexist yet.
Probaqbly because they're in the kitchen where they damn well belong =p
A very very small number that actually do any programming on their calculators. In my entire school there's only about three geeks that can script or code in any form. The only thing they teach us in school IT is javascript, which lays down some foundation for syntaxing, but that's about it. All we do is make an Ant move around a page to pick up markers using predefined functions. The only JS I know that is practicle I taught myself.
Alls the decent languge I know is self taught, and all I have for reference is online texts and the limited collection of programming books at the city library.
Nobody's forcing you to look at a website in high DPI, they're just enabling you to do so.
In the same way that websites now don't force me to view them with tables 400pixels wide, or Images in Threads scale so they don't break a layout (Except punbb of course).
There's going to be a bunch of people who will make websites that are "High DPI" only, probably without even realising it just because they have 24" LCDs and have no concept of compatability... not every designer is a coder.
Yeah! I mean, since now you've achieved your life goal, everything you do after this point will be entirely meaningless. I mean, you could just go kill yourself now and save a few tons of raw materials for us to use later!
Or we could let them make their own mistakes?
To me is seems like a tool of over-parenting rather than parenting-substitution. It's true a kid won't listen to you if you tell them something's bad, but it's also true, as was pointed out before, that if you try to restrict a kid in a way that's unfair in their view, they'll find a way around it, normally in a worse manner.
As a child, my mother didn't allow my sister any junk food at all. The problem with this is that eventually my sister WAS exposed to junk food and surprise surprise she would no longer eat anything except junk, and continues to this day (She's now 15) to avoid anything close to real food.
Have you even noticed it's the kids with the most restrictive parents that do the most drugs and have the most regrettable one night stands? I have a friend who's a really nice girl until her parents get in to her head for something stupid like failing an exam or coming home for school late, and then suddenly she's drunk on Absynth with some random guy or doing meth with some loser "new friend".
Children aren't going to take your word for it that the puppy will bite, but they won't pat it again after it does. Sometimes they have to figure it out for themselves.
Actually the loss would be negligable going from MP3 to CD to MP3. If you're using a similar encoder engine (like whichever one is built into iTunes), chances are the loss is pretty much the same. WMA tracks would be a bit of a problem, because it's going from one lossless format to another, but if you buy from iTunes and they're AAC, just rip them as AAC again.
The point wasn't to change the quality, it was to get rid of DRM, so it's more like open a JPEG, save it as a TIFF. Open the TIFF, and save it as a PNG. Sure, it will be worse quality than your normal PNG, but it'll be the same quality as your original JPEG.
Unless you were actually going to run 4 graphics cards, there really wouldn't be much point, I mean who is actually going to use a x/16/8/8 or an 8/8/16/x configuration? Neither of these modes allow you to do SLi as slots 2 and 3 are at different speeds, so really you only options are 8/8/8/8 or 1/16/16/1.
All the other high-end boards run SLi at x16 anyway, but at that price point the rest of them are offering better sound (MSI Diamond) or perhaps better cooling solutions like this ASUS board.
Perhaps if you were running 4 PCI-E x1 cards it might be worth it, however if you're running SLi you already lose access to a PCI and a PCIEx1 slot anyway, leaving you with just three x1s. It'd be a smarter move to go for a boards that has say, two x1s, one x4 and a couple of normal PCI slots for backwards compatability (like on the ASUS linked above).
Also, a lot is sacrificed in flexability, for example, if you have a full length GTX card you lose access to IDE-1, and the poorly placed capacitors near the CPU means you'll have trouble installing large aftermarket HSFs, and if you're spending this much on your PC, then you definitely should NOT be using the Intel standard HSF. Those pesky capacitors also mean you have to hit the graphics card release with pliers if you have a beefy card, with there being scarce room for fingers between the card heatsink and the capacitors (Reference: AtomicMPC Issue 62).
A big plus to Gigabyte for Innovation, but it's not really a practicle solution.
You know he had a chance to raise a fantastic case against Vista, but he was too busy riding the *nix wagon through town to even bother.
First off, the concept that you can have the SuperFetch cache on any attached storage drive. Oh noes! Someone might try to run it from a detachable drive! We're doomed! Seriously, was this his mother doing his homework for him?
"Oh, we have to run DX10 and DX9 at the same time and it's so horrible I just might die!" Why not pick out something that's actually an issue in DX10, like Microsoft's "We hate triple buffering" stance, or that MS have done the unthinkable and are wrapping DirectX around OpenGL. Can anyone here say Nerfed?
It might have been acceptable if he didn't scream "OMG LINUX" in every second line, unfortunately he neglects the fact that most of the world dont want to use Linux, sad I know, but true. You'd be doing yourself a huge favour if you wrote to get the Gamers and the video enthusiasts and the network administators on your side, rather than marginalising your self and your own voice by making it painfully clear you're in love with a competing operating system.
Valentines day is a rather silly (yet good) example of the insecurities and fickleness of Human beings. (Now before you put me down as a cynic, I'd like to note I'm in a great relationship with a girl and we both agree on this. I gave her choclate eggs anyway, because she said she wanted some =D.)
I mean, I get to school and I immediately have 2 friends (Let's call them L and J). L's crying because she hasn't had any luck with love (since she dated me =S) and J is doing his whole "Emo and depressed singles awareness day" thing.
Next we have all the plastic girls competeing to see who bought them the most fake roses, the poor guys petitioned all week into spend $2.50 on something not only inedible, but also meaningless.
Then on the train home, there's two girls ranting to their boyfriends over the phone, one complaining that not only did her boyfriend only get her a dozen roses, but he wasn't even man enough to come and hand deliver them to her, instead forcing her to wait until she gets over to his house in 15 minutes (Oh noes!). The other one is so upset because her boyfriend of 25 minutes didn't call her to say "Happy Valentines" that she's choking on her own tears, having to hand the phone over to her friend who gives the awful man an earful on how Valentine's is "about us girls" and that he has to make "us girls feel special". Is grammar so atrocious everywhere else in the world?
Seriously, if you really loved your significant other, then not only would your gifts be spontaneous and fun things, but you'd also appreciate any gifts given to you regardless of their expense.
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Which means anyone with a software engineering degree will have wasted their time? Or is spending 20k a healthy price to pay for a hobby you can never gain employment for?
Guys! Don't you know? The only reason they took so long developing it is because they had to recode the whole thing for its exclusive release for the Infinium Labs Phantom!
Duh!
OMG I can't wait! It's going to be the best post since the last one you made!
...assuming they don't use a port that they know one of their other services already uses, which would be the logical choice if they wanted their packets to get through. I'm sure someone who's blocked it can tell me what port it is, but my guess it that it'd probably be the same as the Application Layer Gateway service (alg.exe) uses.
"58. ATI Radeon X1900 XTX Graphics Board ($600) Cards based on ATI's X1900 XTX chip and on nVidia's GeForce 7900 GTX chip (#92) compete for the fastest gaming performance. We think the ATI board delivers slightly better image quality, hence its higher ranking. "
WTF? "Better image quality"? It's a graphics card you dolt! Not a camera! It deserves a higher ranking because it's faster sure, but you can not be telling me you can tell the difference in a still frame image. They probably tested on different monitors >.<
Skipping to the 7900GTX:
"92. nVidia GeForce 7900 GTX GPU ($549) Graphics cards that use this power-hungry processor are so expensive that you'll need to sign on for a second paper route to pay for it. But the payoff is excellent gaming performance."
Except the 1900XTX is more expenisve... You knew that right?
*sigh* bring on the troll mods
The way I see it, outside of techies who just love gadgets, there would be two groups who would use smartphones:
1. Business persons using them in a PDA style application.
and
2. Silly boys/girls with rich parents who think they're better people because their phones are more expensive.
Now I find it unlikely that a business person would accept a bluetooth transfer if they didn't know what it was, assuming they weren't in a rush at the time. Even if they WERE in a rush, they'd probably walk out of transfer range (or snipe area with the bluetooth gun) before the transfer was complete.
We gadget-loving geeks wouldn't accept it either, obviously.
So that leaves the one susceptable group: the rich kids. Whoop-de-freaking doo! So now the question is: Why do we care?
If these people screw up their little toys why should we give so much as a passing glance? If they ran their convertables into a stop sign or if they dropped their iPods in the gutter would we care? No!
In its current form mobile phone virii aren't going to affect people who have a critical use for their phone. All it will do is break a few toys.
"Who has actually used it and found it to be shit?"
Me. 98 SE had a chance to be a half-way decent OS. Then ME came along and gave 98SE a raping, leaving it crying in the dirt, stripped of the little stability it had, with a lack compatability for... pretty much anything. Sure it sported a slightly improved UI, but if it always crashed the prettier icons weren't much good to me.
Oh, and the No DOS mode thing... that pissed me off.
So where the hells is this "free" version of AVG? I haven't been able to find a download link on grisoft.com for years.
+1
Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost, if you *keep* it a *secret*! Why didn't you tell the world, EH?
Download: Here
"Piepatch": Here
And voila! Crappy pr0n galore!
Yeah I thought that when I submitted the article... suprised I haven't seen any women calling me sexist yet. Probaqbly because they're in the kitchen where they damn well belong =p
"No, I can't sweat. Simmons' stupid sweat glands don't even work right."
"What? They were working when I gave them to you."
"Please, I'm not moist in any of the usual places. If you want 'em back so bad, take 'em."
"I can't. Sarge said that sweat makes my cyborg parts rusty, so, I'm cooled by freon now."
"Ah, delicious freon."
No they're not.
A very very small number that actually do any programming on their calculators. In my entire school there's only about three geeks that can script or code in any form. The only thing they teach us in school IT is javascript, which lays down some foundation for syntaxing, but that's about it. All we do is make an Ant move around a page to pick up markers using predefined functions. The only JS I know that is practicle I taught myself.
Alls the decent languge I know is self taught, and all I have for reference is online texts and the limited collection of programming books at the city library.
Nobody's forcing you to look at a website in high DPI, they're just enabling you to do so.
In the same way that websites now don't force me to view them with tables 400pixels wide, or Images in Threads scale so they don't break a layout (Except punbb of course).
There's going to be a bunch of people who will make websites that are "High DPI" only, probably without even realising it just because they have 24" LCDs and have no concept of compatability... not every designer is a coder.
Yeah! I mean, since now you've achieved your life goal, everything you do after this point will be entirely meaningless. I mean, you could just go kill yourself now and save a few tons of raw materials for us to use later!
The internet is useless pretty much all the time dude, it's just no one here has anything better to do.
Crap sorry about lack of paragraphing. Stupid html.
Or we could let them make their own mistakes? To me is seems like a tool of over-parenting rather than parenting-substitution. It's true a kid won't listen to you if you tell them something's bad, but it's also true, as was pointed out before, that if you try to restrict a kid in a way that's unfair in their view, they'll find a way around it, normally in a worse manner. As a child, my mother didn't allow my sister any junk food at all. The problem with this is that eventually my sister WAS exposed to junk food and surprise surprise she would no longer eat anything except junk, and continues to this day (She's now 15) to avoid anything close to real food. Have you even noticed it's the kids with the most restrictive parents that do the most drugs and have the most regrettable one night stands? I have a friend who's a really nice girl until her parents get in to her head for something stupid like failing an exam or coming home for school late, and then suddenly she's drunk on Absynth with some random guy or doing meth with some loser "new friend". Children aren't going to take your word for it that the puppy will bite, but they won't pat it again after it does. Sometimes they have to figure it out for themselves.
Only 24bit PNGs.
Actually the loss would be negligable going from MP3 to CD to MP3. If you're using a similar encoder engine (like whichever one is built into iTunes), chances are the loss is pretty much the same. WMA tracks would be a bit of a problem, because it's going from one lossless format to another, but if you buy from iTunes and they're AAC, just rip them as AAC again.
The point wasn't to change the quality, it was to get rid of DRM, so it's more like open a JPEG, save it as a TIFF. Open the TIFF, and save it as a PNG. Sure, it will be worse quality than your normal PNG, but it'll be the same quality as your original JPEG.
Unless you were actually going to run 4 graphics cards, there really wouldn't be much point, I mean who is actually going to use a x/16/8/8 or an 8/8/16/x configuration? Neither of these modes allow you to do SLi as slots 2 and 3 are at different speeds, so really you only options are 8/8/8/8 or 1/16/16/1.
All the other high-end boards run SLi at x16 anyway, but at that price point the rest of them are offering better sound (MSI Diamond) or perhaps better cooling solutions like this ASUS board.
Perhaps if you were running 4 PCI-E x1 cards it might be worth it, however if you're running SLi you already lose access to a PCI and a PCIEx1 slot anyway, leaving you with just three x1s. It'd be a smarter move to go for a boards that has say, two x1s, one x4 and a couple of normal PCI slots for backwards compatability (like on the ASUS linked above).
Also, a lot is sacrificed in flexability, for example, if you have a full length GTX card you lose access to IDE-1, and the poorly placed capacitors near the CPU means you'll have trouble installing large aftermarket HSFs, and if you're spending this much on your PC, then you definitely should NOT be using the Intel standard HSF. Those pesky capacitors also mean you have to hit the graphics card release with pliers if you have a beefy card, with there being scarce room for fingers between the card heatsink and the capacitors (Reference: AtomicMPC Issue 62).
A big plus to Gigabyte for Innovation, but it's not really a practicle solution.
PS: The board's been around to two months =S.
You know he had a chance to raise a fantastic case against Vista, but he was too busy riding the *nix wagon through town to even bother.
First off, the concept that you can have the SuperFetch cache on any attached storage drive. Oh noes! Someone might try to run it from a detachable drive! We're doomed! Seriously, was this his mother doing his homework for him?
"Oh, we have to run DX10 and DX9 at the same time and it's so horrible I just might die!" Why not pick out something that's actually an issue in DX10, like Microsoft's "We hate triple buffering" stance, or that MS have done the unthinkable and are wrapping DirectX around OpenGL. Can anyone here say Nerfed?
It might have been acceptable if he didn't scream "OMG LINUX" in every second line, unfortunately he neglects the fact that most of the world dont want to use Linux, sad I know, but true. You'd be doing yourself a huge favour if you wrote to get the Gamers and the video enthusiasts and the network administators on your side, rather than marginalising your self and your own voice by making it painfully clear you're in love with a competing operating system.
Nice try though =PValentines day is a rather silly (yet good) example of the insecurities and fickleness of Human beings. (Now before you put me down as a cynic, I'd like to note I'm in a great relationship with a girl and we both agree on this. I gave her choclate eggs anyway, because she said she wanted some =D.)
I mean, I get to school and I immediately have 2 friends (Let's call them L and J). L's crying because she hasn't had any luck with love (since she dated me =S) and J is doing his whole "Emo and depressed singles awareness day" thing.
Next we have all the plastic girls competeing to see who bought them the most fake roses, the poor guys petitioned all week into spend $2.50 on something not only inedible, but also meaningless.
Then on the train home, there's two girls ranting to their boyfriends over the phone, one complaining that not only did her boyfriend only get her a dozen roses, but he wasn't even man enough to come and hand deliver them to her, instead forcing her to wait until she gets over to his house in 15 minutes (Oh noes!). The other one is so upset because her boyfriend of 25 minutes didn't call her to say "Happy Valentines" that she's choking on her own tears, having to hand the phone over to her friend who gives the awful man an earful on how Valentine's is "about us girls" and that he has to make "us girls feel special". Is grammar so atrocious everywhere else in the world?
Seriously, if you really loved your significant other, then not only would your gifts be spontaneous and fun things, but you'd also appreciate any gifts given to you regardless of their expense.
Happy Human's Are Retarded Day kids.