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| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=2954 |  deimos47 (449) Jun 16, 2006 - 08:09 pm
| Why does people have such a negative bias on North Korea? Why do they condemn the people and their nation?
And worst of all, why do people assume all the bad things they say about Korea, are the communists fault?
1. Look in back-woods of the US and you will find places much worse than what you see in those pictures. You dont even have to take the trip, Micheal Moore shows us what 50% unemployment in Flint Michigan has done.
2. There are many apartment buildings, and no sign of any homelessness or hooligans. Can you say the same for any US city? I just recently watched video of riot in Oakland.. sure there were pretty expensive cars on footage, but there were also people acting worse than animals.
3. Lots of people make fun of the Amish because they choose a different lifestyle. Perhaps you can argue that the NK are being brainwashed, etc.. but unless you are them, you can't be sure. They seem happy. They like it that way. Why should you or anyone else interfere.
4. Despite building of great monuments and wonderful works of architecture, its painfully obvious what sanctions against NK have done. Without their own oil or coal, the country cant even afford to keep the lights on at night. There are few if any cars on the wide spacious streets, and very few luxury/entertainment items like personal computers. Look at those pictures again, then go read up what Rumsfeld and company had to say about the threat of NK attacking our country... Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=10733 | deimos47 (449) Jun 16, 2006 - 12:47 pm
| I doesnt matter which one is cheaper!
EVERY new format was always more expensive at the beginning.. yes even DVD. Some of you are probably too young to remember the $700 CD-ROM drives, and the $1000 CD burners.
In short, nothing to see here, move along. These two formats will remain novelties for a few years.. perhaps then, when the dust has settled, it would be worth a look. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=10719 | deimos47 (449) Jun 15, 2006 - 06:03 pm
| Yeah, I never understood this. I thought the big reason to get Mac was to put the sour experience of Windows in the past.
At least with this product you dont have to choose one or the other. Being able to run Safari, while having Windows for compatibility/gaming, is pretty darn cool! Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=10709 | deimos47 (449) Jun 15, 2006 - 12:48 pm
| Wow that really brought back the memories. Back when I used to be young, I did the whole 24/7 gaming thing.
To add to that list:
Battlezone III - mechs,base building rts, all on a low gravity planet.. what else can you ask for.
Slave Zero II - 100ft robot roaming around skyscrapers crushing or shooting anything in sight.
Rune - cause when you're sick and tired of firing bullets, its nice to grab a long sword or battle axe and hack and slash your way through hordes of enemies.
Undying - um... well you wouldn't make a sequel but another game in this empty genre (except maybe Painkiller). Creepy crawly howlers coming at you from the ceiling, and ghosts and mosters moving through the walls.. now there is a challenging FPS.
There is just enough diversity in FPS anymore. Back in the day, they would come up with really crazy far-out ideas.. now its more of the same tactical soldier thing done 100 times over. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=2938 | deimos47 (449) Jun 14, 2006 - 02:46 pm
| Some claim that Nostradamus predicted many major global events, including planes, submarines, Hitler, Nazis, rise and fall of Communism, and even 9/11.
People back then had no idea of fundamental concepts like earth is round, regardless of mass things accelerate to the ground at the same speed, and touching those boils and warts is a bad idea m'kay.
Considering that only a few decades ago folks were dreaming about flying cars, widespread prevalance of atomic power even in cars, and huge supercomputers that would fill a stadium, you can be sure that any prediction of the future are bound to be just as comical in hind-sight.
Heck, forget about 1400's. You show a PDA to Steve Jobs or Bill Gates when they started, and they'd think they died and went to heaven. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=10656 | deimos47 (449) Jun 12, 2006 - 05:40 pm
| I'm shocked by some of you guys. AMD has almost always undercut Intel prices to barely stay alive in the market. For once, for a brief period they have slightly higher price on a better product, and some of you complain.
I think a good question you need to ask yourself is, if Conroe is really all that good, then why is Intel pricing it so cheap? Flag this | Edit this post |
| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=2928 | deimos47 (449) Jun 12, 2006 - 05:39 pm
| | yeah, I know its weird but I miss the smack of rolled up test papers on my head, or the crunch of a nice hardwood ruler on my knuckles. It kinda brought me back to reality from all the day-dreaming, and reasured me that I was indeed alive - for only the living feel pain. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=10643 | deimos47 (449) Jun 10, 2006 - 04:29 pm
| | I find it offensive you call it "excessive". Some people spend like half of their life at this thing called work, yet nobody, especially not the manger, call it excessive. Many people compulsivelly brush their teeth, or eat and drink regularly. Hey, you wanna know excessive: 24/7, doing it like thousands of times a day... breathing. Whats up with that. Yet nobody questions it.. games are bad, but air is ok? Give me a break. Take a little breath, and hold it for a few minutes/hours.. and save some for the rest of us. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=10643 | deimos47 (449) Jun 10, 2006 - 10:18 am
| Woah... at the home of the hardcore gamers, some users are trying to argue that games really aren't all that addictive1!??
I'm sorry but I didn't take a short nap, dreaming up better build orders, and now take well deserved daily 5 min break from Oblivion to hear you say that. Let the burden rest on your game-phobic soul, that you just ruined my 16 your quest streak. Now I'm so angry I might go to that HDR place where its all like brighter and all the textures are green and stuff.. legend has it that long ago the creator purchased the pandora's box out there in the badlands of that place. Or so the story goes. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=10557 | deimos47 (449) Jun 05, 2006 - 03:05 pm
| | I dont get it. There are hundreds of various emulators for arcade video game machines, NES, Sega, whatever. They all seem to work great. I dont understand why it would be preferable to add additional expensive and hardware. I'm quite sure even a mid-end P4 PC could emulate PS2. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=2893 | deimos47 (449) Jun 05, 2006 - 01:47 pm
| I think we should ban all buildings, bridges and other civil projects where there are two girders that intersect forming a cross. Its unnecessary subliminal Christian advertising. All right angles should be aboloshined because of bias to be considered correct. Come to think of it, lets just spend the next 100 years of our lives searching for each and every thing that MIGHT be considered offensive...
yeah.. this ice cream thing is pretty stupid. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=2882 | deimos47 (449) Jun 02, 2006 - 08:30 pm
| teachers having their way with students isn't anything new. Afterall, what do you think the deal was with those rulers in nun-run Catholic schools. I'll give you a hint. They didn't just hit your hands with it.
I think in the 60's and 70's it was kind of just accepted that some students would have a crush on some teachers, and one thing would lead to another. It was flower power, children of the sun, groovy man, etc. But, in today's day and age I'm shocked at such stuff happening.. afterall, you get in trouble for calling a special student a cripple, or pointing out that your friend is brown. Just wearing a cross, or saying god bless you could land you in a lot of trouble.
Although its way too late, I wouldn't mind my kids getting a thourough prep class in adult relationships before they head out into the real world. The more experience,the more power to them. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=10512 | deimos47 (449) Jun 01, 2006 - 08:09 pm
| | I get what you're saying. But, I think what he means is that since folks only got one mouse and one keyboard, vast majority of their computer use doesn't involve heavy multitasking that would require multiple processors. (having IM, windows time, etc in the system tray, although concurrently running processes, are easily time sliced since use very little processing) Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=10512 | deimos47 (449) Jun 01, 2006 - 08:06 pm
| I think you should reconsider your statement. Typically when applications are developed, or re-writen to take advantage of threads, there is no designed limit for how many processors they can use. A simple typical example is a server responding to requests over sockets (each socket connection requires a different process). A simple effective solution is to create a reasonable sized thread pool (to limit application footprint), and assign thread from threadpool for each request as it arrives, waiting if all used, and releasing once finished. Unless the developer wanted to criple their application after going through all the trouble of threading it, they wouldn't make the threadpool size only 2. That's just plain stupid.
BTW: Most enterprise apps have configuration for # agents so you can specify enough that all processors are used, but not too many that they create unreasonable resource contention. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=10512 | deimos47 (449) Jun 01, 2006 - 03:54 pm
| 'novelty'
thats the word I was looking for. Like you said, 90%+ (more like 99%) of applications aren't even multi-threaded. And even those that are, dont fully take advantage of it.
Historically, databases have run on large multi-processor servers. Hence, for a long time Oracle, DB2, TerraData etc.. are all multi-threaded and hence very scalable.
On the other hand, for decades home/office PCs have had only 1 processor, and thus the system and applications were built accordingly.
As for the example of multitasking (encoding while doing something else).. common, how often do you do that. You may have multiple processors, but still other limitations (memory bandwidth, IO, mutex, network bandwidth). While encoding, if you tried to defragment your hard drive, things would grind to halt.
4 cores would just mean that much more unused processing power. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=10512 | deimos47 (449) Jun 01, 2006 - 12:49 pm
| Is anyone here using the potential of two cores, let alone the four they propose (on two chips)?
There are hardly any games which show improvements with dual cores. And, they are typically small. But, at typical gaming settings and resolutions, the advantage of dual core is practically negligible. I thought everbody realized long ago that new faster video cards were the way to go.
Now, on the other hand, if you are sick and tired of encoding or rendering taking too long, thats another story. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=10496 | deimos47 (449) May 31, 2006 - 09:34 pm
| | I'm not sure what this tool does, but hopefully its more useful than just showing you the ping. Quite often I have sub 60ms ping in BF2, yet while playing its obvious something isn't quite right. Usually because downloading like 200k/s. Ping is just one attribute of the quality of service (QOS) of your connection. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=10469 | deimos47 (449) May 30, 2006 - 08:19 pm
| If anybody hasn't seen X3 yet.. do yourself a big favor.. DONT. Its like "X3: Deathmatch arena" hundreds of mutants run around hacking and slashing at each other, mysteriously being introduced only to be quickly killed off later.. and nobody in the movie seems to care. However, the movie is bloated with special effects of people grunting and huffing and puffing... I suppose if you're into that kind of stuff this is for you.
Oh and president of Iran says they are making X-men movie. It will have character development, real plot, good music and emotions. Locals were confused because dont read X-men comics. Flag this | Edit this post |
| Siteseeing Link » /news/siteseeingarticle.asp?searchid=2873 | deimos47 (449) May 30, 2006 - 03:11 pm
| He's 73 years old. So obviously BS. Religious people are seldom good with math. The trainer added up the weights and it was like 500 pounds. Then, a witness multiplied x2 because there are weights on both sides of the bar. Then Pat multiplies it x2 because he is using both legs and arms. Voila magic 2000.
Whats next... "Olympic and WR 100m sprint record broken by 73 year old white man"?
This claim is so absolutely ridiculous,I'm surprised they even dared to try.. but then again religious folks are known for making wild claims. Flag this | Edit this post |
| News Link » /news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=10458 | deimos47 (449) May 29, 2006 - 12:32 am
| » changes nothing
From the get go, it was an ambitious project. And, expectations are stratospheric. The typical reactions on the web - what else would you expect from die hard fans and adamant critics.
But in the end, it doesnt matter if it looks good, works well, or is affordable. If sony can sell enough to maintain market presence and turn a profit, then its a success. Flag this | Edit this post |
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