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Other Discussion / Re: Difference between celeron and pentium?

« on: September 23, 2007, 12:57:48 pm »

In this case I think the Celeron is much faster. It's even possible that it has a larger cache since it's of a newer model.

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Debates / Re: What happens after you die?

« on: September 21, 2007, 10:04:04 pm »

ok then, thank you for insulting me and my religion.

and there's nothing to disprove the bible.

So now criticizing is insulting? Yay!

Actually, I think I did insult you, when I think about it. But I criticized "your" religion.

EDIT: Oh, and you're welcome.

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Debates / Re: What happens after you die?

« on: September 21, 2007, 09:22:14 pm »

i kinda left out a little bit about the millenial reign of Christ and the apocolypse, but i didn't need it for this explanation.

Of course you did, including it would make your story look even sillier than it does now. You really are kidding with your post, right?

no, i am not.  those are all facts from the bible.  go read revalation, NOW!  if you're having trouble finding it, it's the last book of the bible.

o_O?

The only trouble for me to find it is that I really don't want to try to find it. Even less read it. Crap, it might even make me as silly as you are.

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Other Discussion / Re: Game Maker FOR Mac

« on: September 17, 2007, 10:33:56 am »

Alright, you get out too. ¬_¬

Hey, it's true. Even the hardest of the hardcore Mac fans (*cough*) realize that there is more software out there for Windows. Developers develop for the most used platform, and thusly, will make more money.

$5 says that Venus barges in and goes on a tirade about proprietary software.

...

Now send me the five dollars you promised.


P.S: Both Windows and Mac are proprietary. That means your freedom is denied! Read more: http://www.gnu.org/ and http://www.fsf.org/

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Other Discussion / Re: What is a good linux to install on an older computer?

« on: September 16, 2007, 08:30:07 am »

Maybe not for the graphics card but I guess you won't use heavy graphic applications (games) with this anyway? You could easily use software rendering through VESA or something for ordinary desktop applications. It will still run pretty smooth if you disable all eye-candy.

http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/07/09/12/1747202.shtml

Looks like ATI users will have some great open source drivers soon that are as good as the proprietary ones. This is great news for the free world. Especially as two of my family members use ATI graphics cards (giving them the choice to have really slow OpenGL support or use proprietary drivers).

In my experience ATI cards run fine on free drivers except when it comes down to OpenGL (which they should never be used with). So no OpenGL games, desktop effects, etc. Pretty good deal to preserve your freedom and, soon enough, you'll have very capable free drivers.

That's for a new card yes. He's talking about a really old one. From what I've heard any drivers at all (proprietary or free) are non-existent for old ATI cards and even some newer ones. And for those that it does exist, it only supports 2D functions. You can however still use software rendering and only use the graphics card as a gate to the monitor. Sure, it's not even close to as fast, but it works and is enough for regular computer-desktop use.

If you want 100% free drivers for 100% functionality of a chip you can use an Intel graphics card (you would need to replace the whole motherboard since they're integrated). It's what I looked for when I bought my laptop. It works sweet and it's a bit better than the middle-range nVidia 5xxx cards.

Also, from what I've heard Intel will soon make "real" graphics cards (non-integrated) and also release free software drivers for it. I plan to get one of those for my new desktop, if they become available.

P.S: If that's really true about ATI then we would soon see free drivers for nVidia cards as well since they can't compete with ATI otherwise. I always *knew* it was a question about getting one or the other to release specs/free drivers, then both will. And yay, that finally means I can use hardware acceleration for 3D on my Gainward GeForce 6800, which I paid several hundreds for at one time.

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Other Discussion / Re: Thompson sends own son on personal sting operation against Best Buy

« on: September 15, 2007, 09:44:49 am »

This is exacerbated by his son purchasing the M-rated game from the same Best Buy store Thompson sent his son to buy Grand Theft Auto: Vice City at when he was 10-years-old. Thompson is demanding that Best Buy fire the store's manager and the girl with the "piercing through her right eyebrow" who sold his son the game. [/i]

And the girl just didn't do her job? She would probably get fired if she refused to sell it, too. You Americans have no respect for workers, and you always blame them. Pffft. McDonald's is making kids and adults become fat in the U.S.? Let's fire all the teenagers who work there, I'm sure it's their fault. Pffffffft, I say... Pfffffffffffft!

Let me start by saying that I do not like Jack Thompson.

That being said, let me correct some generalizations of yours:

1. The American public doesn't "hate" its workers, and I don't know where you're getting such a dumbass stereotype.

I never said the American public. I said "you Americans". I then meant generally because most !@#$% like this I hear comes from America.

2. According to government standards in the US, it is illegal to sell an M-rated game to a person under 17 years of age. So yes, it was technically illegal what that girl did, just like it would be for me to sell cigarettes to a minor at my job. I would be fined for that, because it is my responsibility as a worker. This does not necessarily mean she was a bad worker, it could just mean his kid looked of age.

But you're (the general you) blaming on someone who's not in charge. She ONLY did her job. She was told to stay at the counter and that's it. The whole store is to blame, and definitely it's owners/management/employers.

3. Why would she get fired if she refused to sell it? Please, do explain why an employer would fire her for FOLLOWING THE LAWS.

I think she would be fired because the employer would not be satisfied if she was trying to not sell everything customers want. Then he get a new guy to do the exact same thing and hopes this new one is more obedient. The worker-protection laws are pretty much non-existent in the U.S.. In Sweden it would be pretty much illegal to fire the employee, at least just like that.



It's just like the AOL scandal(s) where they blamed the telephone-support guy and asked him to be fired. Instead they should blame the whole AOL and it's owners. While I think it's a little unethical to be an obedient employee for a terrible company it's not as unethical as the whole company. Punishing workers all the time wouldn't progress society at all. The company just hire a new guy to do the exact same thing they told the last one to do.

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Other Discussion / Re: What is a good linux to install on an older computer?

« on: September 14, 2007, 09:28:44 pm »

The problem is that at this moment, I really know nothing about the different distributions...
Which would be a good free one to start with?

Well, if gNewSense works for you, then it's a very good start distribution. It's basically a more free version of Ubuntu (which is popular). If it doesn't work properly, it's because your hardware requires proprietary drivers/firmware. Ubuntu does supply these, for user convenience, although it however goes against the ethics of free software. gNewSense is basically Ubuntu with these removed, to better accept the freedom of the user (at the cost of some convenience if the user has proprietary only hardware). If gNewSense doesn't work for you, you could either choose to buy some new hardware with supported free software drivers, or if you rather give up your freedom to make life easier (*laughs*) you could just install Ubuntu and enable the proprietary drivers. Oh, and for some hardware there might not even be proprietary drivers available. I think it would work fine in this case though. Maybe not for the graphics card but I guess you won't use heavy graphic applications (games) with this anyway? You could easily use software rendering through VESA or something for ordinary desktop applications. It will still run pretty smooth if you disable all eye-candy.

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Other Discussion / Re: Thompson sends own son on personal sting operation against Best Buy

« on: September 14, 2007, 04:31:44 pm »

This is exacerbated by his son purchasing the M-rated game from the same Best Buy store Thompson sent his son to buy Grand Theft Auto: Vice City at when he was 10-years-old. Thompson is demanding that Best Buy fire the store's manager and the girl with the "piercing through her right eyebrow" who sold his son the game. [/i]

And the girl just didn't do her job? She would probably get fired if she refused to sell it, too. You Americans have no respect for workers, and you always blame them. Pffft. McDonald's is making kids and adults become fat in the U.S.? Let's fire all the teenagers who work there, I'm sure it's their fault. Pffffffft, I say... Pfffffffffffft!

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Other Discussion / Re: What is a good linux to install on an older computer?

« on: September 14, 2007, 04:24:32 pm »

You could probably get in any modern distribution there. In contrast to MS most Linux distributors keep compatibility with older computers and let you turn off eye-candy. Don't go using beryl compiz fusion or anything fancy like that. Using a standard distribution with a Gnome desktop environment would work fine.

And I think Damn Small Linux is overkill. It's suited for putting on small USBs or mini-CDs, not exactly necessarily more suited for older computers (unless the hard-drive is like reaaaally small; less than five or ten gig).


Also, please note that you can't "learn" Linux. First of all, learning Linux is learning the kernel, and you probably don't want to start with that. Not at all. What you probably mean is that you want to learn use UNIX-compatible operating systems, and then possibly learn to work with a desktop environment. All/most desktop environments, i.e. Gnome, KDE and so on, are different, and is the most user interacting thing for the average computer user. A desktop environment is a suite of general purpose (and some special purpose) programs. You will sooner or later realize that you can't really compare how Windows is designed with how most GNU+Linux+(Gnome or KDE or ...) distributions are designed. You will learn that the average "Linux" users never actually *sees* Linux, or even use it directly. Instead it's these desktop environments that could be considered what you use, or the whole distribution. GNU is the core tools that mostly are command-line tools, but GUI software uses them in the background.

Another thing. Freespire is probably the worst !@#$% you could possibly get. At least if you are looking for a free operating system, Freespire is the worst alternative you can use. While it does use a lot of free software, it also includes proprietary software, and so the whole point is ruined.

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Other Discussion / Re: Plead topic for Isaac.

« on: September 13, 2007, 08:09:50 pm »

If he just wants to get updates on that game why not let him read but not write? Of course, unless he deserves the punishment to not be able to read.

Or the same way he contacted asking for his 3496th ban, the other person could contact him with the updates of Oracle of Life. Also, sorry, but that was a pretty made excuse, insert a new coin and try again.

*Shrugs* It was just a suggestion to get him to shut up. It wasn't an excuse. I didn't really try/want to defend him either, tight butthole <_<

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Other Discussion / Re: Plead topic for Isaac.

« on: September 13, 2007, 07:42:10 pm »

If he just wants to get updates on that game why not let him read but not write? Of course, unless he deserves the punishment to not be able to read.

Either way, I'm neutral on this. I don't care whether he's banned or not.

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Other Discussion / Re: FEMDEFENCE

« on: September 04, 2007, 08:42:54 pm »

What's stopping the rapist from just taking it out before the rape? o_O
And no, don't give me the "he's too horny and won't think so far".

If these defenses *cough*weapons*cough* is used by everyone (well, all women at least >.>) then rapists will know what to do, right?

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Debates / Re: Time travel and "aliens"

« on: September 04, 2007, 03:27:07 pm »

To go over it we would probably need negative mass

isn't that not even possible since mass is scalar, not vector?

*shrugs* I don't think it being a scalar proves anything. And if it were a vector wouldn't prove it can be negative, either. Or rather, it wouldn't make difference in the nature since we only use the sign to specify direction. The nature is supposed to work the same in any direction, as you probably know. But I mean in a way you could maybe fool the nature and maybe in some way make something appear as negative mass, or at least no mass at all. Kinda hard to explain D:

But I still agree that it's probably not possible. But you never know

Now with another thinking I don't think negative mass would make any difference at all, even if it could be negative. :S I don't remember how I actually was thinking there.

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Other Discussion / Re: Dual Core question!

« on: September 01, 2007, 09:56:27 pm »

Ah I see, so actually Dual Core is only good if you want to run several things with no slowdown? So if you really want to game well you should have just one strong CPU?

No no no. The game will use many of the cores at the same time. Disturbingly simplified, one core could be executing the AI of one enemy, while another executes the physics while another executes player control input. One 1.8 Ghz dual core could very well be much faster than a for example some 4.0 GHz single core. Of course, it wouldn't be true if the computer only executed one thing. But it hardly does on modern operating systems and modern games, where you run many many processes at the same time, which themselves run many threads.

Yep, pretty much. Unless your game uses multiple processes, in which case it might help. I doubt it, though.

Don't doubt it. It really is faster. Much faster in fact.

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Other Discussion / Re: Where can you

« on: September 01, 2007, 04:05:06 pm »

For CryEngine, just download it from http://www.crytek.com/technology/index.php (you'll also need farcry to actually use it..)

For Source, http://steampowered.com download steam, buy a half-life 2 package that contains the source SDK and yer good to go.

You don't need a license, they're open source.

No they aren't. They are both proprietary.

Also, for most open source and free software software, unless it's in the public domain, you still need a license to use it. It's just that you automatically have the license as long as you received a copy from someone and that you follow the requirements in the license.

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Other Discussion / Re: Dual Core question!

« on: September 01, 2007, 11:21:48 am »

It's not *really* comparable to a 3.6 GHz. It could, depending on situation, be even faster than a 3.6 GHz would be.

As long as the game (or any program) uses threading it will automatically use one, many or all the cores (the operating system makes this happen, and decides). If the game only uses on thread, the actual main process, it will not utilize more than one core at the same time. Do not worry about this, though. New games and also most older games uses threading. The only ones I can think of that do not, is maybe old DOS games and such that were played on a OS that didn't really even support threads (it only allowed one process at a time). You don't really need to use many of fast cores/processors to run a DOS game anyway

Basically, many cores makes it possible to actually physically execute many processes/threads at the same time. With only one processor this is just something "fake" and virtual and it's often implemented by the OS simply letting every process execute for some milliseconds and then letting another execute for some milliseconds and so on. With many cores, the OS still makes such fake parallel execution, although not as many since it can physically execute two or four or whatever (the number of cores) processes at the same time.

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Other Discussion / Re: Is it possible to make folders invisible for other people?

« on: August 29, 2007, 09:38:58 pm »

I don't understand how your school can dictate how you use your PC... Is it really yours? Did you have to register your PC? Is it a school lent PC which you can only use this semester/year?

Well, it's their internet connection, they have a right to regulate how you use it.

Doesn't really give them right to look in people own computers.


Also, a lot of people in this thread needs to learn the difference between "Illegally downloading stuff" and "Downloading illegal stuff". The former is downloading copyrighted material from which you are restricted to use it (e.g. because you haven't paid the license). The latter is like downloading child pornography (which IS illegal). Of course, "downloading illegal stuff" often also mean you "illegally download stuff", but it's not necessarily true the other way. Some of you use "Downloading illegal stuff" when you really mean "illegally downloading stuff".



About hiding folders. It's quite possible on at least Unix systems such as GNU+Linux to have file systems in user space where you encrypt folders real time. The file system will be in a single file and you will only "mount" it (i.e. make the OS output it to the main file-tree) when you actually need it. So then you just don't mount it while you're in school

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Debates / Re: What happens after you die?

« on: August 28, 2007, 09:43:02 am »

if you took Jesus as you're savior you're going to heaven and other wise hell

Oh, if it means I don't have to !@#$% hear about that man anymore then hell sounds like a great place. ^.^;

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Discussion / Re: Free Software GM

« on: August 27, 2007, 09:35:35 pm »

Having it compatible with GM7 files is not possible. Mark clearly stated against it and added encryption to the source files. G-Java was originally a gm6 to java converter, now it has to just be a java game maker.

They broke it. And it's legal.

It's easy enough to break, but that doesn't mean you're allowed to do it. I don't know about the legality of it, but the creator did ask for it to be stopped.

Well, the "creator" (like if you're talking about a god here? lol ) can dream on as long as there are no laws for it, or even laws that permit it. The U.S. has the DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act) which does make some kinds of reverse engineerings illegal. Europe thankfully has no such laws (AFAIK), and hopefully never will. It's very possible to make the reverse engineering in Europe and then Americans can receive the results from Europeans (at least in form of a program/software, but possibly also in the form of a spec). GameMaker is made in Europe though so the DMCA doesn't applies at all in this case. I'm not a lawyer though so I can be wrong. I'm pretty sure I'm not though.

I think the world needs a generic GameMaker implementation though. The g-Java one is too specific to work for everyone. A raw library in C would be more usable because then we could make GUIs as a separate application. That's kinda what my version is.

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Other Discussion / Re: My seat lost another !@#$% leg >:(

« on: August 26, 2007, 08:33:06 pm »

I don't think there are freeware chairs.

I expect a mile long post from Venus complaining about civil rights and the fact that there are no chairs under the GPL

That's an interesting thing you say there. But I'm really not complaining. A chair is not a piece of software, so you can't say they should allow you to be free in the same way. For example, you can't copy a chair. It makes no sense to have the right to copy it. Although it would make sense to have the right to build another one that looks the same. So to have something like a GPL for chairs we would first have to define freedom in use of chair. It's not really possible to directly compare chairs with software, that's what I'm talking about.

Btw, in the same way you can't really compare software which is used for technical use with for example music which is used for artistic and entertainment purposes. Freedom for them too have to be defined differently. For example, while you should have the right to modify software at any time you want because it's actually used to do work (it's used to do something useful), you maybe shouldn't have the right to change another's piece of music in let's say the first five years. After a certain time though I believe you should be able to modify and build on and adapt even artistic works.

EDIT: Oh, and if you didn't already know by now: freeware != free software