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| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=16272 |  larsig (593) Jun 29, 2007 - 03:22 pm
| | As funny as that sounds, to an extent they're right. Of course the stuff in MMOs are greatly simplified but the core stuff like leadership and cooperation is there. Of course... that doesn't apply to those people that play solo most of the time and just get massively rich and powerful just from grinding 24/7... Well, never said studies are 100% accurate. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=16245 | larsig (593) Jun 28, 2007 - 07:28 am
| | Still got no idea what Blizzard was thinking with that. So many years and so much $ down the drain when they dropped it. First heard about it in junior high, waited for it throughout high school, forgot about it in college until I learned it was dropped. Wow, that was a lot of years. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=4266 | larsig (593) Jun 27, 2007 - 07:27 am
| Basically... It looks like it failed as a phone. Good at some other stuff, but fails with it's basic function. Guess some of the stuff they mentioned can be fixed with software updates but I gotta wonder... Why not do it right from the start? I mean, it is a phone, it should work well as one from the start.
I can feel the apple fanboys getting into a frenzy over my post viciously thinking up ways to argue against my statements or otherwise being hostile... Flag this | Edit this post |
| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=4259 | larsig (593) Jun 26, 2007 - 03:53 pm » Edited on Jun 26, 2007 - 03:56 pm
| | To die laughing huh. I still prefer to die the way the old guy died in Old School. You guys know what I mean ;). Nothing like going out with a stroke or whatever that was, can't quite remember. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=16167 | larsig (593) Jun 26, 2007 - 07:18 am
| Huh, really? Never knew they based it off of 10 instead of 2. I always thought the base 10 notation had an i in it. As in TB -> TiB etc. I always assumed the lower actual storage was just a byproduct of formatting and finding unusable sectors. Guess you learn something new every day.
Oh yeah, as for the thing about words, 8 bits is just a byte, there's no reason to have more than 1 name for it :). A word actually references the amount of data that can be held in a register on the CPU. So for 32 bit systems it is 4 bytes while 64 bit systems are 8 bytes. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=4254 | larsig (593) Jun 23, 2007 - 11:09 pm
| | That's pretty sad... Have people forgotten how to talk to someone else face to face? Do they need to have a phone between them for them to be able to talk? Come on, 1 million pounds? Unless the exchange ratio got even more messed up, that's about $2million US. I'd take it. Hell, with that money I could hire someone with a cell phone and have them make calls for me. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=16148 | larsig (593) Jun 23, 2007 - 01:57 pm
| | Just a comment about the wars... You're proud of having entire generations of your people killed off because of a web of ill made alliances? You're also proud of the fact that Europe wasted a good several hundred years suppressing any sort of scientific or technological advancement? Much of it actually being the result of these wars that you are so proud of? Hell, you guys had a few wars where you went off massacring innocent people for a "holy purpose" when you were really after was money and land. Not to mention you got your asses kicked for most of those. Now, about WWI and WWII, the US saved a bunch of your sorry asses and then beat the rest of you to a pulp. Frankly I don't think you should be all that proud of that. Frankly with what you said, I think you topped Bush on arrogance. So really now, war wise the US got nothing? Without the US you would all be a bunch of fascists yelling "Heil Hitler". Did i forget to mention that US has enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world? You know that little thing called the Cold War between the US and the Soviet Union? Where the world could have been destroyed at any time? Where was Europe in that? Sitting in a little corner licking their wounds and watching from the sidelines. Nothing more than a staging platform for attacks on the Soviet Union by the US should things get too out of hand. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=16088 | larsig (593) Jun 21, 2007 - 07:17 pm
| Performance performance performance... Honestly, if you want the most performance out of your machine go back to using plain old unix on command line and going through the long process of installing only the features that you want. The performance hit is on the CPU and the memory primarily. If you wanna talk games, that performance hit is nothing. If you got a good 2ghz cpu and about a gig of ram you're probably gonna be bound by the GPU. Not to mention that the majority of these processes have a low priority and get shoved to page files if your physical memory gets filled. Seriously, just people nit picking on something that in the end has little impact on the end result.
As for your thing about power consumption... You do realize how ram and stuff work right? There's no magic fairy that shuts down blocks of memory that are not being used. Power is ALWAYS flowing through that ram, so in the end it doesn't matter if you got data in them or not, the power consumption is gonna be the same. As for the extra power to spin the hard drives and the use of them lowering their lifespan, do you realize how much the caching actually takes up? Once it fills however much it needs to cache, it doesn't need to do anymore. That is what, 2 gigs max? And this would really only happen on startup. How long would it take to fill it? Less than a minute? And how long is the MTBF on older hard drives? 400,000 hours? More recent ones goto what, over a million hours? Seriously, just starting your computer every morning has a more significant impact on your hard drive's lifespan. Environmental impact my ass. Never use your computer again cause that actually does have an impact on the environment. As for what gets cached, there is a built in AI that watches what programs you launch the most so that it will only cache what you use most often. And if you're gonna bitch about how the calculations are negatively impacting the environment, IT DOESN'T DO ANYTHING. Power is flowing through that CPU no matter what, it'll use the same amount of power regardless of if you are idle or not. You might as well put that idle time to some use. The only reason you bring up environmental impact is cause you got no idea what you're talking about. If you wanna save the environment, stop playing games and using those power hungry GPUs. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=16114 | larsig (593) Jun 21, 2007 - 06:02 pm
| Never said that I liked vampires nor that I have fantasies of being one, just that you seem to really hate them for some reason that is beyond me. Vampires are fictional, and have been a rather significant part of our culture whether you like it or not. In case you haven't noticed, fictional monsters don't need to have anything to do with science. Note FICTIONAL, made up, not real.
And if you wanna talk about evolution, 10000 years isn't all that long. In the last 10000 years humans have not changed a great deal either. Yes, there are differences, but not extremely significant. As for the dead walking around and sucking our blood... I mean, that is already pretty different isn't it?
As for learning problems, it's a major issue with human physiology. Yeah, our ability to learn degrades over time, but that has more to do with damage to our brains accumulated over time and genes starting to exert their effect. If you wanna go with all the vampire stories, this process would probably be greatly slowed if not stopped. Damage like that is supposed to be regenerated or something right?
Frankly, not sure why I even bothered to try and put vampires in a more scientific view, but there you go. Besides, they're fictional, meant to provide us with entertainment and imagination. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=16088 | larsig (593) Jun 21, 2007 - 07:44 am » Edited on Jun 21, 2007 - 07:59 am
| | The extra resources these things eat up are pretty negligable considering what computers have today... So what, IE preloads a bit on windows startup, that's what, 5 megs of ram? tops? I'm not gonna mention hd space cause that amounts to almost nothing in hard drive cost. The absolute minimum to be able to run xp or vista is pretty low considering that many computers today will come with a gig of ram. Oh, wait, you're gonna bring up the massive memory footprint of Vista. Well, vista is a little different, it caches programs that you use most often to memory to make startup faster. This is any program I'm talking about here, Visual Studio, Firefox, Eclipse, games, etc. That means that if you have it, that 2 gigs of ram wont necessarily go to waste all the time. You complain about it eating up resources. Yeah, that might have mattered 5 years ago but today the extra space is pretty cheap. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=16097 | larsig (593) Jun 20, 2007 - 04:57 pm
| | What do you expect? Hell, there's 3 years where we can smoke, vote, watch porn, and get an RPG shoved in out face, but we can't drink alcohol. Seriously, what the hell is up with that? I think that 1 year between M and AO makes a hell of a lot more sense than that. Oh yeah, Mature is supposed to mean people 17 and younger should only play the game with parental consent while AO is where you can't have it at all if you're under 18. Slight diff, not that it makes much of a difference. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=16089 | larsig (593) Jun 20, 2007 - 04:43 pm
| | AMD definitely has a hard time in front of them. The exponential increase in costs for production isn't likely to help. I'm kinda interested in how their combined cpu/gpu would work out. Wonder if it's gonna be like a mini sun in temperature, that would be interesting. Hope they last long enough and do well enough to support that goal and make it a reality. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=16088 | larsig (593) Jun 20, 2007 - 04:33 pm
| | Would you like to spend several hours checking boxes choosing what features of Windows you want to install? I'm gonna assume no. Same story with the Mac OS. They come with features preinstalled. And if you want to claim that Windows Vista does not allow Google desktop search to install and run, you should come and see my computer. I have the little google search icon here that and it functions perfectly. Yet another person slandering Microsoft without realizing the situation. Google isn't suing Microsoft for not allowing their search bar to work, they're suing them cause the built in feature provides a pretty good alternative to their product and they fear it. It's there, you're not forced to use it. If you want to use another one, there's nothing stopping you. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=16055 | larsig (593) Jun 19, 2007 - 08:08 am
| | Yeah. Speaking of lack of competition, there is only 1 cable provider here and their prices are freaking ridiculous. seriously, almost $100 for cable and internet combined here while in downtown chicago my brother pays about $70 for comcast cable and internet, and he gets HD channels. It sucks living in a college town, such a ripoff. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=4232 | larsig (593) Jun 18, 2007 - 09:37 pm
| | And we would call you a commie ;). Not bad ideas, but a lot of people wouldn't want to do it otherwise you guys would have it. And when I say a lot of people, I mean the people with power. And when I say the people with power I mean the people with money. Everything always comes down to money. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=16020 | larsig (593) Jun 18, 2007 - 03:49 pm
| ... Yay... time to deal with a Nintendo fanboy that lacks much reasoning. Why the hell would I be talking as if it were 15 years ago? Seriously, anything that you talk about tech related has to be with the mindset of within a few years of the piece of tech you're talking about. Hell, if you wanted to, go back to the 1500s and be burned as a witch for talking about magical boxes that run on tiny magical gnomes and entertains you with pictures.
Let me reiterate in the simplest terms I can put it. SNES and anything older = primitive chips sitting on PCB boards inside a plastic shell. THAT WAS IT. You can take those and throw them off a building and as long as the boards inside are intact they will work fine. And those boards are pretty damn tough. Take any modern console and toss if off the same building and there's a good chance that it isn't gonna last long assuming it turns on in the first place. The reason? Well, first lets consider that that one circuit board has a few more things attached to it. For example, it actually has fans on it now. Don't forget the optical drive, those have some moving parts that can get knocked apart with a large enough shock. And more commonly with the 360 and PS3 we get the magical hard drive. Ever wonder why you're not supposed to move a hard drive while it's being used? Well, those are pretty fragile no matter who made it. You know that thing called physics? Well, a spinning disk tends to not want to change it's orientation when you try to move it. So if you move it while the head is down and reading/writing, guess what happens? Ooops, the disk ran into the head. Oops, you scratched the delicate surface of the disk and damaged the fine magnetic coating on it. Oops, you damaged your hard drive, and now your system runs into errors left and right trying to read/write to the disk. With modern consoles A LOT can go wrong, so much more than those old consoles that it's painful that I even had to explain it. Ooooh, the SNES was advanced compared to the NES. WHAT IS YOUR POINT??? Are you gonna try to argue that a brand new top of the line gaming computer today has the same number and type of potential problems as one from over a decade ago cause they both had computers that are more primitive than them?
I'll stop ranting now, yeah I snapped, but that post was just to moronic that... yeah. I am not a 360 fanboy. I do not own a 360, and I've played games on it for a grand total of like... 10 hours or so, just trying out a few games. I have spent plenty of time watching my friends play some games on it. I am not trying to deny that the 360 has some hardware issues. If the console was perfect and there were no problems articles like this one would never even have appeared, or people would pay little or no attention to it. All I'm saying is that the problem is blown out of proportions. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=16020 | larsig (593) Jun 17, 2007 - 10:14 am
| So what? You gotta remember that the 360 is a pretty advanced piece of technology, and the more advanced you get it tends to have more problems. Just mentioning old consoles like the snes as being durable is pointless. Hell, I can take mine and throw it against a wall and it'll probably work fine. Do that with any of the recent consoles and I'm pretty damn sure you're gonna get problems very soon, if not immediately. Reason? all it really consisted of was a few boards with chips on em. Today you got basically a pretty advanced computer packed into a small package, hard drive and all. Go back a decade and your computer doesn't need a freaking liquid nitrogen cooling system. All it had for cooling was the PSU fan, CPU fan, and maybe 1 chassis fan.
Really all I'm trying to say is that the problem is blown out of proportion, mostly because Microsoft is more or less denying that the problem exists. They're definitely doing a bad job of handing it, but a combo of the media hating Microsoft and that is making this into a big deal. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=4224 | larsig (593) Jun 15, 2007 - 04:17 pm
| | I got it sometime last month, probably cause the account has been there for at least 6 or 7 years... Damn... I'm starting to feel old. Wish I can share that space with my school's email, or even our workstations. It's sad when you can't proceed any further on a programming project due to no more hard drive space. Even sadder when that happens to 400 students in the same class. Flag this | Edit this post |
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