Evening Reading
by Steve Gibson, May 21, 2002 6:25pm PDTApologies for the really light/sporadic updates today. All kinds of things eating up time today and of course Maarten and Jason are both on airplanes and whatnot today. Sander will be showing up tomorrow to help out with the daytime coverage. Going to be a little more server prepping this evening which may mean some brief server fruityness. It's for the greater good though! Here's stuff:
- 12yr old kid knocked up his teacher and wants money - RIAA vs internet radio, internet is winning - More anti-spam laws in the works - AOL users not happy Wha?!?!Lastly, ok I promise to get that update in on the GeForce4 Ti4600 contest tonight. Honest!. The contest ends tomorrow and judging will go down once we return from E3. This is a shiny videocard so someone will be happy.
Daily Filter: Sleeping Dogs, Transformers: Fall of Cybertron
Kingdoms of Amalur needed 3 million sales 'to break even,' RI governor says
Former Modern Warfare devs wanted to give Call of Duty series a 'rest'
Konami accused of bank loan fraud over Def Jam Rapstar
Capcom aims to shorten development cycle
Is there any utility out there that allows me to display more than one clock in Windows 2000 / xp ? Basicly I'm after a util that will allow me to display one ( or more ) clocks, with varying times - so I can setup at a glance multiple time zones and stuff.
yes I'm doing this to get a better idea of when teh shack is updated in relevance to the time in teh states, and more importantly for e3 stuff :D
I'm pretty sure this stuff is out there - but I thought the Shack is gonna be the best place to ask :D
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1 post per 1minute
2 posts per 5minutes
3 posts per 10minutes
it will pretty much kill any small chatter around here for 3 days, sorry. we'll be handing out banhammers to anyone who attempts to bypass the post rate limits.
the cap will probably be lifted during the late evenings. yeah i'd like to setup a separate "chatty" area for the regulars, but cant really get that done right now. while im talking about stuff i'd like, i'd like 10million dollars.
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*SPOILER*
Just finished the game!
Duke dies at the end of Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project!
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I'm told the top six are new: http://www.perfect10z.net/jenniferlovehewitt/
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Irregardless is the fucking dumbest word and should be stripped from the english language. You sound like George W when you say it.
It is spelled DEFINITELY, not definAtely. Definite stems from finite, which is redundant like irregardless, but for fuck's sake there is no "finate" for the word to stem from.
ok?
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Press Ctrl-V and Hit Post
Mine:
First check if there are any unreversed 'reversable' adjustments associated with this return
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GTA3 runs slow for me, unless I'm in the overhead view.
In certain areas, it look like it drops down to about 5fps, other areas are fine. I would be happy with 20fps if it never droped below that.
Specs:
Athon 750 - 256MB ram
Geforce 1 DDR - 32MB (Creative CT6971 (Annihilator PRO) - noi sure what driver version it says:
Display Driver : 3dbgfw9x.drv(v4.12.01.2302.03.0522)
Device Driver : nvmini.vxd(v4.12.01.0522)
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Desktop: 1280x1024x16 75hz Game: 640x480x16
view distance - 2 notches, Trails OFF, sync and limit frame ON
Are there any settings that I can play with to improve my frame rate or should i just go out and get a cheap Geforce 3 ? would the latest Detinator drivers help (or another version such as 12.x ) ? I'm planning on getting a new computer this fall so I would like to avoid a hardware purchase if possible (but the game is nearly imposible to play in certain areas). Thanks!
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Fucking nerds!
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http://www.ibelite.com/single.php?articleid=1290
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EVERYONE OUT OF THE POOL!
http://www.shacknews.com/funk.y?comments=20593
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I did this and got a nice improvement in performance
Turn off Sync Frames
Turn off Framerate Limiter
Turn off Trails
Lower than normal resolutions
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Always gotta argue over the smallest inconsequential bullshit just to prove to everyone how cranially superior they are over everyone else.
Hey #hardocp... *SPOILER* You will die alone.
Post'em if you got'em!
http://home.swbell.net/huds0n/desktopmay2.jpg
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SOF2 COMES OUT TODAY! WAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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I'm about 10 feet away from this guy (filming) doing a 270km/hr pass on an R1. It's the second bike/pass.
http://www.geocities.com/icip2002/highspeedpass2.html
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the best part is, you think I'm joking.
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STOP READING IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT
I hate it when they don't show the "future" in sci-fi movies. Tom Cruise wakes up and the movie ends.... I want to see what his life has become after 150 years asleep. Is that so much to ask?
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any chance of getting together somewhere in the los angeles area for some drinks and stuff?
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Is there really that much difference between a 200fsb Athlon, a 266 fsb Athlon and a AthlonXP? What about SDRAM and DDR? Will I really notice that big of a jump in typical applications outside of pure gaming? Argh.
Won't I see a bigger increase using SCSI or RAID-0 over strait IDE?
http://navarrone.com/tesla/tesla4.html
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