i've been looking at getting a new phone since like forever... but i could never agree to a phone and then actually buy it... first it was the n900, then it was the streak, then it was the atrix...

long story short, i just want a new phone. the reason i wanted the atrix was for the webtop dock, which from what i've heard, isn't as good as originally thought. i guess i really should walk into a bell store and try one before i make up my mind, but the dock itself is totally overpriced, even for motorola. (maybe the price will come down before i buy, but that's being an optimist)

here i am again, looking at phones and specs... from what i can tell, i can't use UMA yet (whatever happened to kineto smart wifi?), but as long as it works on GSM and gives me EDGE or better, i guess i can live with it... but i want a phone that will last me a long time. i have a razr and a z6w, and i don't want to buy another phone that will go end-of-life two months after i buy it...

i'd take a look at my provider's phones, but they only have one and it looks like it's 2 years old... they sell it with 2.1, even though they have the 2.2 update on their website (i assume they want people to waste their bandwidth downloading it manually)...

so what's good? or are they all the same these days?

Quote from Amynue :

Even Eric don't delete our posts anymore.

and that's a bad thing, why?

he's a great big phoney!

i saw this on google news last week... when i heard about it, i was shocked to hear they destroyed a supercar, but when i heard why and what day they did it on, i must say it was a good publicity stunt, and i think it was justified.

that said, i did watch the video. are those guys weak, or does that car really take a pounding...

Quote from theirishnoob :

ahhh but they'll never catch MJ !

he's dead

awwwwwwwwwwwwww.

that's not a bug, install some video card drivers.

Quote from E.Reiljans :

How come CentOS is 3-4 days later than Scientific Linux is at updates, then? Are you implying that Scientific Linux gets updates before upstream?

Don't believe me? Check the centos wiki yourself.

Coincidentally, the SL wiki says the same thing.

Whichever gets it done first entirely depends on the distribution's developers.

oh lord, the world is turning upside down!

Quote :

id Software co-founder John Carmack built his popular game engines around the cross-platform OpenGL API. It therefore may be a surprise to learn that he considers Microsoft's DirectX to be a superior API. "I actually think that Direct3D is a rather better API today," he told bit-tech. "Microsoft had the courage to continue making significant incompatible changes to improve the API, while OpenGL has been held back by compatibility concerns. Direct3D handles multi-threading better, and newer versions manage state better."
That being said, Carmack won't be switching away from OpenGL anytime soon. Despite the advantages of DirectX, OpenGL is rooted deeply in the company's game and tool code and transitioning to the Microsoft camp would involve a lot of work. It could complicate supporting platforms like the Sony PlayStation 3 and the Apple Mac.
"It is really just inertia that keeps us on OpenGL at this point," Carmack said. "OpenGL still works fine and we wouldn't get any huge benefits by making the switch, so I can't work up much enthusiasm for cleaning it out of our codebase. If it was just a matter of the game code, we could quite quickly produce a DirectX PC executable, but all of our tool code has to share resources with the game renderer, and I wouldn't care to go over all of that for a dubious win."

http://www.techspot.com/news/4 ... s-better-than-opengl.html
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/g ... ck-directx-better-opengl/

Quote from Wordan :

Bunder, corporations pay for support because they don't have people with the necessary skills in their company to do what they want to do.

you mean, corporations can't hire a system administrator who knows how to run up2date or yum on a weekly basis? at work, we've been using rhel for years, and never once have had to contact them for support, aside from an issue arising from up2date not letting us download updates. (it turned out to be something account-related that rhel screwed up on their end)

on that note, we've never had to call hp about anything hp-ux related either.

Quote from E.Reiljans :

In case of RHEL, "precompiled update binaries" is part of "Support" too. And CentOS / Scientific Linux are like half a year behind RHEL (hi CentOS 6? nvm)

i hardly call hosting a repository of package updates (precompiled or not), support. they're merely updates.

as for centos being behind rhel, that's only in major releases. i've talked to some centos people, they said on average security updates are a day or two behind what rhel does. so my question to you is, "so what"?

long story short, corporations are so ingrained to pay for product support that they'll continue to do so, even though they don't really need to.

Last edited by bunder9999, Wed 16 Mar 2011, 01:31. Reason : oops, pronouns

Quote from xfirestorm :

Oh you are so wrong. RHEL is not free as in free beer. And people still use it.

only the corporate morons who think paying for support is actually needed.

i'm thinking two things...

the bios might have a maximum memory limit, but since it's a p4, that's probably not likely.

the other thing, is that the sticks might not be compatible with each other. when you acquire random sticks of ram, it's bound to happen... i've had it happen to me a few times. eg: stuff 128mb into a system, and then add a pair of 64's, and when it boots up, it shows 96mb. how it would end up with less than what it started with is a brain****.

Quote from Wordan :

Average 'pay what you want' for the Humble Indie Bundle games:
Average Windows:$7.84
Average Mac:$9.27
Average Linux:$13.78

i don't know who those people are, but one of the primary reasons people use linux is so they don't have to pay for software... and the easiest way to give back to the developers is to provide support for fellow users, as well as testing beta versions and reporting bugs. i'm not saying i wouldn't pay money for something i found to be useful and/or entertaining, but most of the time if someone develops a pay-application for linux, someone comes up with a free alternative. i mean, look at transgaming and their cedega/cider garbage... (i realize that wine came first in this instance, but wine is still leaps better in many cases. :shrug

i didn't even think this was possible...

i like popcorn.

oh boy, is this another spam thread?

there was an incident last year, where (i think) someone on montreal skated into one of these stanchions and smashed his hand... was out for weeks in that instance as well.

i don't blame chara for a freak accident... i can see how pacioretty can be mad though... but he should suck it up, he's always getting himself hurt.

having played both ms flight sim and flightgear, i'd give it a try if there was a demo.

can it boot disks? if it can't, maybe there's something wrong with the electronics of the drive... thing is, you'll have to test it with both cd's and dvd's because combo drives have two lasers in them.

Quote from Dj-Aeri :

I didn't test it with other games really, but I've tried LFS in 4 different distros in the last days, and I have the same crappy performance in all three. With the open ATI drivers, with Catalyst, with Wine out of the box, installing d3d... and still nothing.

I'm obviously doing something wrong but I don't have any idea what can be.

i hate to say this, but ati's drivers are terrible.

using a crappy router, perhaps?

isn't the rule "righty-tighty"?

Quote from Woz :

Looks like this is the reason nothing happened with NKP. It ended up a showcase to sell the physics engine from!

that's a shame. i never did get nkp running, but if they're not going to finish the game...

Quote :

06:05 <+bunder> someone is deleting posts from the forum again
06:05 <+bunder> i just went to quote something and the forum ****ed up and wouldn't let me post
06:06 <+bunder> this anti-eric censorship is unbelieveable
06:06 <+bunder> he dug himself a hole and jumped in, why are they denying it

yeah. i thought we got over this...

i thought the resident evil series had enough zombies.

Quote from dadge :

i'm sorry, that combination didn't even spell a word. how the buck did you understand it lol.

because it's an acronym.

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