Mr.Guvernment

lol with ALLL of the problems peoplehave with our company (software) - it is usually AOL related for one - most of our customers who use AOL on our site - get disconnected often, seems either: ever 45mins , 60 mins, or 2 hrs. Ping times from players on AOL are always a joke - upon doing a report almost ALL AOL users on our site (often around 100 +) all have ridiculously high pings - as opposed to anyone else. Email: I think this is simply people do now kno whow to use a "reply" so they never include the previous email (for support) Connection speed - for the many that i have asked what speed they are conneceted at - i would say average is probably about 37-40kb. - Sorry, but unless u got crappy old phone lines, u should not get anyless then 45k. U can use IE after..LOL - i spent almost 2 horus with a person tryihng to get IE to work - it would not work! it would not display ANy pages and evr time u started it up, it would ask to dial up and connect with AOL - even though they were alreadyt connected. Also, another person - had AOL and a DSL with another company - The person who try to connect with the dsl - AOL would pop up! - check setting - set it to "never dial a connection" - guess what AOL would still pop up. Someone else - removed ALL aol software from add/ remove - got new dial up account - tried to connect - window pops up - Connection via AOL. U are right - AOL has gone for the "family" market, but they are not so frendly to me, if they work, great, you are one of the FEW lucky ones! so yeah enough AOl bashing for me - check out: http://www.nomoreaolcds.com/

I should have put ATI in the title as well NVIDIA & ATI sinking to a new low....? from techSpot.com My daily rant by Per Hansson on Fri 14 Feb 2003, 8:01 AM Yesterday I read this article on 3DMark03 over at [H]ard|OCP and today they have posted somewhat of a follow-up "Benchmarking Right". I have to say I agree with everything they have to say in there. Now, when I visited their site again later I found this: NVIDIA has released the latest drivers, version 42.68 for all 3DMark03 testing and benchmarking. This driver will greatly improve your benchmark performance when running the 3DMark03. You can download the driver from this link. (File Size : 8.44MB) We received these drivers directly from NVIDIA, and it's available at their Press FTP. I mean, is there anything more pointless to optimize your code for, hours of coding that could instead have been used to fix bugs and optimize the code for real games?! Be sure to read the above articles and also Nvidias own words on how they feel about 3DMark (scroll down half a page) then post your comments right below. UPDATE: I've read Nvidia's own lab report myself now and can thus confirm that the information posted at Hardware Extreme (linked above) is authentic. This information is however confidential so I can not give you the file, so don't even bother asking for it.[/list:u]

^^^^ exactly! which is more or less aquest i have been on, every forum i see now, i see people always mentiongin their 3dmark score and how it should be better! what i started on one place: Quote: Mathiau S Feb 08, 2003, 02:35 AM Send Message - User Profile - Add Buddy Hey all, yes i am failry new here, and this post may not make me many friends, but heck, it is driving me nuts!!! From what i see, and not to be rude at all.......... FAR!!!! too many people on these forums judge their cards by a score from a predujice app!(or i am simple miss reading their posts) this app would be 3dmark!!! - almost every post i have read about a card - has mention of some 3dmark scores, and how the box said this and that and comapred to other systems i should have better scores blah blah, the box said i should have a million points!! the box don't mean jack - cause other things come into play CPU / MEMORY/ HD speed / system resources when the test is run! look at cold hard details, numbers from the manufactuers and people's REAL thoughts on the cards from their actual experience in use! not some number that can be altered at will. You should NOT go buy 3dmark on how great your card is - put it to some REAL world tests and judge for yourself. Just cause your score says 10,000, but a box on the card says u should get 15,000 does not mean run out and buy a new card!!! Your card is fine! there are FAR too many factors which affect a 3d mark score! run the test over and over about 10 times, and you will see your score get lower, and lower, and lower and lower! Use Quake 3, or UT demo to do testing, or some 3d rendering type stuff, the stuff that truely works your system. All i ask, is ONLY! use 3dmark to get an IDEA of how your card is doing -BUT!!!! do NOT judge how good a card is simply on a 3d mark score!!!, that is just rediculous and unfair. some quotes from some friends that i thought were well done" to which i included some quotes from people here 9of course giving credit to them)

lol whoops! - say bubye screen shots! did not read it in enough detail i guess .(

from a forum i post on - a friend posted this Quote: I have a question about burners aswell. I was looking into buying a DVD burner, but I was told there is a program you can buy (or steal) that allows you to use your existing burner to burn DVD's. Anyone know about this? Quote: Well my computer studies professor seems to think otherwise.... He said some 15 year old kid "cracked the code" and now there's a program out there.... Is this true? frankly i thought that cdrom lasers are simply not capable of reading multi-layered disks? i looked for details but could not find it, so if someone can perhaps fill this thread wirth facts etc - i would like to give them to my friend so he can possibly have his professor fired for stupidity? BUT if this is true - why is it not simething widely availible? who ever made it could be fairly well off.

yeah it is definetly good - but am starting to get bored of it already same ol thing - just prettier graphics. but kick'n the GLS ass is fun with china or the us - drop a nice big fat nuke - or use the partical cannon!! i usually build about 5 of them, then all at once BAM! and do a a-10 fly over as well

no clue - but i noticed that as well, why the heck would they choose an off res? vewy vewy verid!

kew, i ahd thought so, like i know the obvious of copying dvd / ripping them etc etc! but did not think a regualr good old 52x cdrom could read a dvd! thnx guys! shall tell my friend to tell his prof. this

Hey all, did a few searches on here under recording and streming, but could not find a post that really had this. i need a program to record live streaming audio, mainly from this site www.digitallyimnported.com it streams either via winamp or via media player, i look on google, but found nothing that seemed decent. any recommendations?

Quote: Fill out a bug report and send to MS. bauauaahhah! - yeah, and be responsible for alot of pissed of people who have also figured this out? lol i grabbed streamripper for winamp - as it labels the mp3 with the original tags and all (song name and artist! and will even tell u if a song is not complete or not, i have already grabbed about 196 mp3s, about 9 of them 70+mb mixes. It also ends when a song ends, so u don't end up with one huge long wav file u got to edit after.

streamripper works like a charm!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

streamripper! that is what a friend was trying to tell me about! well, i just realised as well...LOL stupid me!!!! i got a 2 computers, the one already runs audio out into my dell, and i can simply use my dell to record from the line in!!>.lol i know it could be done, with free software - as i used to always do it with my old comp and my sound blaster software or just did an audio out to my tape deck. thn x guys! shall see what i can do!

^^^ well said is like take an image that fades from one color to another, try it with both 16bit and 32bit - the 32bit will show a smoother transition from color to color - where as 16bit - u are likely to see the obvious changes in color.

sad thing is is that it is compltly legal to do that, set up a phone line and u get the $$ for it. unless of course you are falsly advertising a service to which you then do not provide. i say sue this mofo! for false advertising and copyright infringement.

hehe, had to post..lol (not that this score means jack to me but amusing to see how excited some people get over it!) work system below (p4 2.4) - fresh install - standard tests - 14543 - no tweaks, no over clocking. Code: Score: 14543 Date: 2003-01-14 CPU: Intel Pentium 4 2386 MHz GPU: ATI RADEON 9700/9500 Series OS: Microsoft Windows XP Res: 1024x768 32bit http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=5630581

Hey all yesterday i bought a Hp scanner (could not find the epson one i wanted). So i go ahead and install the HP software for the scanner, all is well, and i figure just use there software. Well, after installation, there is an icon on my desktop called "Share-to-Web Upload Folder" see, i like a clean desktop, the only icon i got on it is my recy. bin, all other go into my quicklaunch. So, i highlight the icon, "delete" - nothing........ mmmm, try it again......nothing.... still there, okay.. Right click on it - "remove from desktop" .................. nothing, mmmmmmmm, weird. documents and settings /user/ desktop - does not even show an icon as being on ther desktop. So, wtf has HP done so that i can not delete this useless!!! icon from my desktop, to force me to have an icon i do not want, nor will ever use is a stupid move if you ask me!!! So: 1. how dare hp! 2. how the heck can i get ride of this ugly icon on my desktop! (with out uninstalling there software...?)

[edit!] stupid me!>.lol there was a wizard for the share thing, but on the properties, when ever i tried to run it would not do anything, so i ran it from the installed dir, and it worked was an option to turn it off..lol stupid matt! *smacks head!* DOH!

hehehe u could get a hurricane going in there!! i think it is time for like a super duper giant server case, heck just get a server closet and put in an A/C unit

what the HECK!!! are some people thinking? whatw as she doing some kind of extreme weather testing on laptops?..lol

StyleXP? - http://www.themexp.org/ not sure, but some of the icons downloads i got from that site where kinds cool, as well as many of the skins they used - but then their site crashed and they lost alot of stuff, not sure if they ever got it all back.

well for one, to me, if your running XP - u should have a MIN of 256mb of ram! 128 just does NOT cut it anymore..lol

i can't wait for the full one! and like wtf is with nvidia putting their logo into all these games now.!!

alot of html pages do not allow you to see the source - it is know as html locking - so people can not copy the html. This has bene going on for a while. get mozilla, or opera, they allow you to see all source code. As for dragging pics to your desktop, never knew u could do that, i just do a right click / save.

Quote: The problem is Americans only get patriotic when tragedy hits. I never saw any US Flag bumper stickers until 9-11. Then 9-11 faded and the stickers came down. Now that Columbia is gone, the stickers and flags are back... f^ckin trendy people!!! I have been a fan of the space program (a real fan) since 1986. I have been to Kennedy Space Center Twice, and even sat in one of the shuttles (Explorer I beleive). It is very sad to see people ACT so concerned. In 3 weeks it will be forgotten, again. Actually it is called moving on in life, if everyone sat and mournd everyday - this would not be a good thing. Quote: NASA said that the 2nd most feared "Incident" are the tiny (and not so tiny) particles of space debris that fly around the earth at super speeds. A fleck of paint flying at 20K+ MPH can go through steel! It amazes me that they hardly ever get hit! They strategically orbit the shuttles at angles to which the most vital and volitile parts of the ship are made smaller targets for space debris to hit. I would love to ride... I was reading up on that the other day, that particles(even smaller then paint chips), that can dissplace atoms and such, have entered the earth in the artic, and gone right through and exited down by Africa. - they just recently have been finding this occurance by going over old records recorded from sizemographs?(typo?) was a very interesting read. people pay their respects and get on with life. Simply because the bumper stickers fall off does not mean that they have forgotten, simply moved on to other things.

Quote: I honor the fallen astronauts as well as every other person who has served our great nation at the cost of their lives. a life is a life and every life is equal - to morn one persons death - we should morn the millions of people who die a day - they may not of affected us - but they affected many others through out their time on earth. Although millions of people go unoticed by the rest of the world, often due to ignorance of what is occuring in our world as they are too concerned with there front door and there small limited lives instead of opening up some form if information to realize there is a whole world out there that goes beyond your front yard. This was telvised due to the majority of people who know about the space prorgam. Frankly - i think a good amount, but DEFINETLY NOT all of the U.S only takes into consideration of issues that directly affect them, as do many other countries - but many other countries also cover WORLD news, not just what affects them directly in some way. but again, i am sure this occurs in most every country to some degee.