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Bush doesn't tell Carly Fiona how to run her business. Neither does he tell Dell how to run their business. They make their own firing and hiring decisions for whatever reason, except for where politcal-correctness/equal-opportunity apply. Executives are the problem here. They won't swallow their pride in order to take a paycut, which would improve their companies FAR more than laying off Americans and offshoring the jobs to foreigners. That, and I'm strongly pro-life. No way am I going to vote for a democrat when my personaly opinion is that abortion is nothing more than glorified legalized murder. Again, that's my opinion and little more. I would also feel awkward about voting for Kerry (who has made some good points, I'll hand that to him) when he said one thing about affirmative action, and later retracted his statement; or if I'd voted for Dean, who has flip-flopped on the gun control issue. I'm going to feel awkward however I vote this year, I'm just aiming for the candidate I think would come closest to representing me. And don't think that only republicans can be bought. Keep in mind that our oft-loathed DMCA was signed into being by ol' Billy-boy. But it's OK -- He feels our pain (why oh why can I just see Kerry saying that?).

AMD right now. if IBM ever makes x86 chips that rock like the PPC970/G5 then yeah, I'll plan on purchasing an IBM chip. I'll definately be grabbing the new Via Mini-ITX board with the IBM-made chip when it becomes available.

Where do you guys go to get all this spyware?

Tight race so far. I threw a vote in for Dubya. Thanks to him, I get a nice tax return this year, and I've ben out of work for 7 months. It might change sooner if all these blasted executives stop shoring the tech jobs to foreign nations. Seriously, you'd think the CEO of HP could deal with making less than 1 billion a year, but nnOOoo, she's gotta lay off those overpriced Americans and pay foreigners who do a lousy job less than minimum wage. She keeps her billion, customer service falls through the floor, and amercian workers are out of a job. Everybody's happy! oh wait...

"HTML and stuff"... WTF? For starters, HTML is simply a markup language. Your browser (probably iexplore.exe) has a "view source" feature, either in a context menu or under the "View" menu. Check that, and you can view the source for the page. It's nothing fancy, and you can read up on the newer standards at http://www.w3c.org. The standard to conform to nowadays is XHTML 1.1, for web developement. People who make their websites entirely in Flash should be shot, then hung, then shot some more while they are hanging. Annoying bastards. As for your perception of what hacking is... shut the hell up. now. I percieve you to be some sort of script kiddie, or a wannabe. You'll probably boast of your eliteness -- excuse me, "31337n355" -- as soon as you manage to dupe someone into loading Sub7 or Netbus or BackOrifice onto their win32 box. "hacking" isn't this.. this childish means of mischief. Hacking is the means by which the internal workings of complex systems become known. Hacking is what revealed the workings of the CSS DVD encryption scheme, hacking is what causes people to screw up their windows registry 5 times before they figure out what the heck it's doing, but then figure it out and browse around it with ease. Hacking is what causes Norwegian college students to write a free and open POSIX-compliant UNIX clone, completely with original code. So if you're out their to cause trouble, I encourage a mod to delete this thread. As far as software cracks... why the heck are people still paying for proprietary software? Openoffice, Firebird, Thunderbird, The GIMP, MySQL, X-Chat, and a boatload of other projects... the Free Open Source Software community has provided a plethora of alternatives to lousy commercial software, and they've done it without burdening the user with restrictive licenses. http://www.sf.net http://www.freshmeat.net

C++ is a standardized programming language. It's an open standard, I forget whether it's defined by ANSI or OSI. There are lots of compilers available, Sun's C++ compiler (for compiling under SunOS and Solaris), Intel's C++ compiler (proprietary and commercial, optimized code for Intel CPUs though), the compiler in Microsoft Visual C++ (a developing environment bundled with a compiler. costs money and is proprietary). There's also a compiler from a company called Borland. Don't hear much from them these days... Then you have GCC, the GNU C Compiler. There's a G++ extension, which basically adds C++ support. This compiler is free, and it's also free. That is to say, it's gratis and libre. The source is open, and it costs nothing. GCC runs on any UNIX-like OS (Linux, FreeBSD, and I believe there's a port for MacOS). There's a port for MS Windows called MinGW. GCC has companies rather ricked off... it's made it so that it's impractical to commercially develop a C compiler. http://www.gnu.org

So far I'm really enjoying getting beat around. I was pulling off DMs and LDMs with ease before switching to english arcade mode (from european console mode with japanese text), after that, it became hard to do. I like Iori's LDM. Duolon provides my Hizoku-disciple fix, although his costume is all over the place, making the action kinda hard to follow. Good having Gato in the game. On difficulty 4, the Korean team (my 3rd opponents) kicked me around so hard I had to set the difficulty down to 3. I managed to fight Chizuru and Maki. DAMN. They've got moves coming from everywhere. I would be using Andy+Iori+Kyo, but Andy's not readily available. Very fast-paced, and a good game. This feels like 2001, only on speed, and with tighter controls.

download and install BitTorrent for windows (I'm assuming you run windows and use IE, by the quality of your post). Then run the.torrent file. simple as that. The torrent file simply points you to the download. This is needed, because BitTorrent is a distributed download method. Whereas a link to the file on an FTP or HTTP server can become saturated, and die, a torrent will stay alive so long as at least one person is seeding it. At the moment, I'm downloading the torrent, and it has over 750 seeds. This file should be available for quite some time. grab it at http://bitconjurer.org/BitTorrent/. one of the best utilities you can install. While you're downloading useful stuff, check into grabbing mozilla ( http://www.mozilla.org ). Might can recover some sanity from all the crap IE's put you through.

Those of you who claim not to pay for software: You probably do, provided you order computers from HP or Dell or Gateway. If you slap a PC together yourself, however, you can pirate even windows. I used to pirate software. Lately I've been looking to the free, legal alternatives. I'm looking to learning how to use The GIMP instead of Photoshop (which is worth the money, I might add; I just don't have any). I've abandoned MS Office for OpenOffice. Internet Explorer has moved aside for Mozilla Firebird, and Mozilla Thunderbird is now my e-mail client of choice. The next step is to ditch Windows in favor of Linux. Game piracy is an entirely different matter, though. I had a pirated copy of GTA3 and GTA Vice CIty. They didn't stay installed for long, I don't feel they are worth my money simply because they lack multiplayer features. Games made by Blizzard are worth my money. I've bought Diablo, Diablo II (and the expansion), Warcraft 2 (+expansion), Warcraft 3 (+expansion), Starcraft (+expansion), and I intend to buy Starcraft: Ghost and World of Warcraft when they become available as well. The feature I love most about these game (multiplayer) won't work if the game is pirated. I payed for the Original Half-Life way back when... doubt I'll be paying for it+expansions now that valve has ruined hte whole deal with Steam. Same goes for Half Life 2. Doom 3 is likely to be purchased by me, though. I've got some old text adventure games here I didn't pay for. The original company no longer exists. As for the ROMs I have... Well, ya got me there. The only arcades with KoF or Metal Slug or Samurai Shodown are hundreds of miles away, and I ain't drivin' just to play samsho5.

Wherever he's from, he's a troll. A big nasty international troll; a pimple on the face of the emulation scene, and every time something like Kof2003 comes around the pimple swells and gets irritating, but no-one seems to think it's a good idea to pop it. Same thing happened back with SvC: Chaos. We'd be best ignoring him and his site, and those who praise him (trolls like sharim1111).

There's 2 reasons to use Ogg over MP3: 1- It's patent-free. There's a patent on the MP3 codec which costs developers and manufacters money in royalty fees when they make MP3 players. Also, the Fraunhoffer (sp?) corporation doesn't like open source MP3 encoders. This spurred the open-source, patent-free solution that is Ogg. 2- It sounds much better. I only have a few Ogg files (grabbed from http://www.machinaesupremacy.com ) and Although their file size is larger, I have to admit that I've never heard an MP3 sound so clean and distortion-free. MP3 is a very lossy compression method, and if you have a decent sound setup you can hear distortions in bitrates as high as 192 kbps. Ogg is also a lossy method, but not nearly as much. As for Ogg winning against MP3, don't bet on it. MP3 is already incredibly popular, and I believe that there's no possibility for DRM in Ogg files. The crappy format that is WMA and Apple's own little AAC codecs are the alternatives to MP3, Ogg is for people who have a ton of CDs in decent condition, and would like to make high-quality backups to their computers. You won't find many Ogg files for download over P2P networks. Also, if you have an iPod, you can't play Ogg files on it. Complain to apple all you want, they won't add Ogg support to the iPod firmware. If you want Ogg support in a portable audio player, cruise over to http://www.rioaudio.com and check out the Karma (The One True Audio Device of Power). Let's see... I'm a bit of an open source zealot, so I'm supposed to provide links... http://www.vorbis.com http://www.goingware.com/tips/legal-downloads.html and for the heck of it, http://www.boycott-riaa.com

what? nnnnNNNNNOOOOOOOooooooooooooo...... The animation was only marginally acceptible, and that because I happen to like angst. I wonder how many ways this project can be ruined. (not that it has much of a chance of not sucking in the first place ) So is Jackson actually directing, or did they simply include that quip for PR purposes?

of course, you could just violate the EULA and load Linux onto the thing and lose the game console functionality, but gain support for DVD, MP3, Ogg, etc.

Theyve made a Fatal Frame 2? *shudder*. As for the whole Survival/Horror genre... They really need to improve the quality of the voice acting. It's almost unbearable. Oh, and if you head to #ROMS on the soulseek network, you can access my files and download infocom's The Lurking Horror, an old text adventure game that effectivly manipulates your imagination. Careful when lifting that iron plate near the altar. my username is cbpye and the game is in the folder \infocom\lurking\. You'll need the manual found in \infocom\_manuals\. I probably won't be back on soulseek for a while though. Syncronizing my slackware-current folder.

I'm annoyed by many things. -The ringing of telephones -music being played so loudly my vehicles windows are rattling -stupid things on job application sites (3 years experience with windows 2000... in the year 2000; five years experience with Java... in 1996) -Schools which don't effectively maintain mirrors of Linux distributions (Perdue, I'm looking at YOU) -Not being able to get DSL even when I'm literally on the edge of the service area -Goons who insist on polluting the internet with Flash content -PHBs who insist on recieving my resume in Microsoft Word format, and that they send everything else in MSWord format (forget the fact that not everyone has a license for MS Word, forget that PDF is far more secure and universal) -Microsoft, for leaving Internet Explorer in a state of brokenness for over 2 years (still lousy support for HTML standards, and horrible support for 24 bit PNGs. if my avatar's background looks brown, it's because you're using Internet Explorer. go grab mozilla.) -Unemployment -People who have gone to school and have various titles appended to their name, and thereby think that they are brilliant even though they lack some common sense. (PhD = Piled higher and Deeper) -People who want to call me a racist just because I've lived in Georgia all my life. -People who associate bigotry with the Old South even though it's always been as much of a problem elsewhere. -People who would say I'm a moron for believeing in Christ and God. -People who know nothing about a topic and yet give horribly biased input and comments (Celebrities, for the love of God, please stay out of politics) -The MPAA and RIAA and their brainchild that is the DMCA (straight out of the YMCA, if you read me) -what mostly irritates me today though is the horrible state of the English language on the Internet. I want to beat Sharim1111 to a bloody pulp for his horrible english alone. Like all annoyances, these too shall pass. It just seems like forever while we have them.

I think this site has increased in popularity because we get links, lots of links, and the default language isn't Chinese or Spanish. Beats getting emu-news from gamefaqs boards.

Lottery, AKA: "A tax on those who suck at math." How much has she spent on Lottery tickets? How many times has she won anything? Has she recovered her expenses for purchasing the tickets? My guess is no. Hopefully the lesser Georgians will keep wasting their money on lotto tickets so the more intelligent Georgians can take advantage of the increase in grant money that it brings. In this case though, it looks like a common blend of greed and overwhelming stupidity. "I've never gotten the winning numbers, so I'll say that this guy who has claimed the winning ticket found my ticket, which was lost, and then I shall sue, and milk the system for lots of cash." Sad, Sad world.

when something says 8x AGP it means it can operate at a speed comparable to 8 times that of the original AGP spec. It will have no problem running at 4x. As for your Athlon being a 2200+ and displaying that it's 1.8 Ghz... Intel screwed the market up permanently by embedding it into peoples' minds that a processors raw speed was the determining factor in how powerful it was. Brilliant marketing which unfortunately is still costing us today, as processors are consuming insane amounts of power and, although they are running fast, they aren't making efficient use of their time. This caused people to say things like "Apple sux cause their CPUs are half as fast as Intel's." Apple's CPUs were actually about as good because they made more efficient use of their time than Intel CPUs did. Intel processors have more cycles per second, but their competitors processors perform more operations per cycle, and some use less power than an Intel CPU. AMD is really starting to whup up on Intel in the technology department. Unfortunately, Intel still has all that cash for marketing. The 2200+ on your CPU means that it's performance is comparable to an Intel CPU running at 2.2 Ghz. Considering that it's doing this with only 1.8 Ghz, AMD is to be desired over intel simply on the virtue that they are not as lazy as Intel.

Been there and done all that, man. At least in Doom, the audio cues were better and it was easier to find secrets. There were just areas where secrets "felt right." I can't think of any game I've ever played that's made me sick. Watching Event Horizon gave me the creeps though. F-Zero GX gave my little bro headaches, that's as close as I've been to someone affected by fast/3D games. --Nezumi, eagerly awaiting Doom3 (anyone wanna donate to my video card fund? )

My brother pointed this out to me a long time ago, back in the Mortal Kombat 2 on the SNES days, but during complex/long commands, I would open and move my jaw. When I noticed it, I stopped doing it (it was really stupid). Nowadays at arcades I tend to go through a warmup routine. I prepare to stand properly in order to keep my arms and hands and elbows at the right height, and I try to position my fingers so as not to let them cramp. Upon a glorious victory, I may slam my fist into my opposing palm (much like Galford from samsho5).

http://www.slackware.com http://www.openoffice.org happy hacking

-VIOLENCE-, that's a 9000 pro. I don't know what you have at the moment, but the 9000 is quite old-hat (pre-dates the big changes that were introduced with the 9600 and 9800). As for your AGP being maxed at 4x, that's no problem. Currently, cards which take advantage of 8x AGP really don't offer that much of an increase over when they're installed on mobos with 4x AGP. If money is no object, go for the Radeon 9800 XT. If money is most certainly an object, go with a Radeon 9600 Pro. NVIDIA appears to be losing the race as of late, becoming the new 3Dfx if you will. I can't really recommend an NVIDIA card unless you're also planning to run Linux and there's problems with ATI's Linux drivers (and I believe both companies have spotty support for Linux, but this may not even be an issue for you). to the guy who wanted to know how his computer would handle half life 2: Grab that video card in addition to another half-gig of RAM. You'll notice improvements system-wide. And since this is the thread where we give our tech specs... DUALIE SETUP Motherboard: Tyan TigerMP CPU1: AMD Athlon MP (Palamino core) 1800+ (1533 Mhz clock) CPU2: AMD Athlon MP (Palamino core) 1800+ (1533 Mhz clock) 768 MB RAM Philips Acoustic Edge (soon to be replaced by the Linux-compatible SB Audigy Gamer) NVIDIA GeForce 2 MX (at least I can play Diablo and Warcraft in addition to many MAME games) Lousy southeastern Georgia-style dialup MINI-ITX PC Motherboard Via Epia M-9000 (933 Mhz) 256 MB RAM Onboard audio, video and ethernet Currently using it for the study of Linux networking. it will eventually be a Linux-based DVD-player/set-top-box OLD SCHOOL Miscelaneous Pentium (133 Mhz) 32 MB RAM Sound Blaster AWE 32 ATI Xpert@PLAY (8 MB) (remember these? ) I plan to set it up for running Linux with Fluxbox and OpenOffice, and old Interactive Fiction games (gogo Frotz!)

Lemme tell you something dude... I got a Rio Karma for Christmas... it's the iPod killer. It's smaller, has a better screen, it's incredibly easy to use, works under any OS thanks to the ethernet port built into its docking station (it gets an IP address and has a webserver, how cool is that? of course, it can use USB under Windows), and it encourages people to keep their ID3 tags in check. High powered output too, I've heard of people pushing some seriously hungry headphones off of this thing. Oh, the dock also has stereo RCA outputs, so I can hook it up to a stereo if I'm going to a party (which I actually did on new years eve, supplied music for the whole night). The thing is just plain powerful. I've seen an iPod work in person before, and there's no way at all it can measure up to the Rio Karma, the One True Audio Device. Oh, and the iPod doesn't support Ogg or FLAC formats, either. Karma does. Rio's customer support and their whole feeling of community is excellent too. The company welcomes critiscims and comparisons, something which other companis (iRiver and Creative come to mind) detest openly. I'm not a Hindi, but I do have Good Karma. www.rioaudio.com www.riovolution.com

Throughout the whole ordeal I didn't make a post concerning Sharim the Unintelligable or his amazing time machine which allows him to dump roms from mid-2005. I didn't think I'd have to. Well, that, and I'd hate having to reply to someone with such broken English as sharim's should he reply to a post I made. Then I see people getting their hopes up that he's being honest and can actually deliver, and that's just sad (note, I'm not naming any names here, mainly because I can't remember any details of the posts from the thread in question). I think there's an easy way we can avoid this in the future though... 1- Mention of one "BillyJr." I don't think I've ever heard one good thing about this individual, so if someone should appear extoling the aforementioned individual, perhaps its best to ignore him. Raise a red flag on positive mention of BillyJr. 2- Horrible English. Now I'm aware that english is a second (or even third) language for many people, but punctuation is a thing which is used in every language (to the best of my knowledge, anyhow). Sharim's posts were full of unintelligable english which were completely void of punctuation. Just like a troll about the age of a junior high-schooler. I don't know what his IP or hostname were, so I can't tell if he was posting from America or wherever he may have claimed to originate from but if I had to guess it, I'd say he was a 13 year old American who had yet to pay attention in any of his classes. Raise a red flag on lack of punctuation. (note, don't mistake this for anti-americanism. I'm an American, but I all too frequently point out the sorry state of public education here. My 8-year old brother reads better than most 7th graders.) 3- Can Not Deliver. N3oGhost got onto his FTP and verified he was full of it when he claimed to have mslug5 working in 2 emulators other than MAME. Quickly raise a red flag at the sight of straightforward lying. Only you can prevent troll proliferation. Only slightly OT: did we come under a DoS attack today? I noticed that the forum was ungodly slow, and at one time I couldn't even connect to 1emulation.com. Paranoia kicked in and I assumed that 1337 kiddo, Sharim the UnTrue, to have launched a DDoS in retaliation.

Notice also that they're differentiating between Kusanagi and Kyo, and that in the top-right shot only one name is listed on player 2's side rather than 3. And there's the whole "Andy's supposed to be sitting this one out taking care of Hokutomaru" thing. Aside from that, nice screens. Where'd these come from?