I love free things, especially when it comes to gaming. However, the price paid for this free gaming is the wait to download. Usually if you have a good, strong connection to a good, strong server, downloading these files can usually be done in less than an hour (depending on size, of course). However, even with the best connection, one always has to deal with horrible servers with horrible rates. One of these horrible server holes is owned by CNet and goes by the name of Download.com.
Of course, everyone loves Download.com because of all the free things they can get on there legally. Actually, the web site is pretty nice for downloading some accessories that you'd rather not pay for. One thing that is extremely irritating about the site, however, is the piss-awful download rates. The fastest rate I recall seeing something download off Download.com is around 50kbps. I guess 50 isn't so bad, but for humongous files, it's suicide.
For example, I am currently downloading Hero Online from the Japan mirror. I guess that means the server that I'm downloading from is located around the world or something, but I'm not too sure. I am getting around 250kb/s, which is pretty fair for my connection. On the other side of the world, Download.com, a site owned by a multi-million dollar corporation, wanted me to wait to download a 600MB file at 32kb/s. I'm sorry, maybe I'm an impatient douche bag, but that's too God-damned slow. If this was a torrent, I'd be more understanding, but for an FTP download? Come on, that's horse shit! If your site is an FTP download based site, then you should at least get better servers or enough bandwidth to handle it!
So I guess what I've learned from downloading Hero is that how big a corporation is and how much money they can afford to spend on technology is inversely proportional to the quality of the equipment they use. *shrug*
2/15/2008
2/07/2008
lol 2008 (a bit late)
So I've started my second semester at GVLTEC, so far shit is going okay with that. Also I bought a new computer because my old computer was basically on USB Hub life support and was too small and slow for what I needed. This computer is awesome because it runs SL, Portal, and not to mention, Windows Vista like buttah. The entire machine (sans-upgrades) cost me under $500 too. Now it's time for some specs.
- Operating system: Genuine Windows Vista Home Premium
- Processor: AMD 2.6 GHz Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor 5000+
- Memory: 3072MB PC2-5300 DDR2 SDRAM
- Total memory slots: 4 DIMM
- Maximum memory expansion Expandable to 4GB
- Graphics Nvidia GeForce 6150 SE (replaced by PNY Nvidia Geforce 8500)
- PCI expansion 2 PCI slots (1 available), 1 PCI-E x16 slot (available), 1 PCI-E x1 slot (available)
- Hard disk drive(s): 400GB 7200RPM (Will, hopefully, be accompanied by a 1TB drive sometime soon :>)
- Primary CD/DVD drive: SuperMulti DVD Burner with LightScribe Technology
- Communications: 10/100Base-T network interface
- Sound card: High Definition Audio
- Speakers: 8-speaker configurable
- Front-side bus (processor dependent): 2000MT/s System Bus
- I/O ports: 15-in-1 memory card reader, 2 USB 2.0 ports, 1 FireWire (IEEE 1394) port, 1 Microphone/Headphone (I'm probably going to get a FireWire card when needed.)
[ Copypasta'd from woot.com. Plagiarism is bad, kids.]
Pretty sweet huh? The only thing it lacks is the power supply, which is 300W (horrible). The power supply can be upgraded, though.
I got tired of using meebo for AIM, so I installed AIM 6 the other day. Installing that pile of shit was the biggest mistake I have ever made. It's -- extremely -- bloaty and gives even my 3GHZ and my 3GB a tiny bit of trouble with some other programs. It also makes ZoneAlarm pop up with security messages asking for permission to let AOL access the internet. It does this to automatically take me to my home page. I've tried turning this off and it doesn't work. Trust me, I've tried and it keeps doing it. If you haven't figured out already, this annoys the hell out of me and fills me with rage. I have a GMail homepage, AOL ; I don't need your chintzy web page with my friends' statuses crapflooding my browser! Luckily I have come to my senses and have downgraded to AIM 4.9, which isn't near as bad and suprisingly runs fine on Vista, despite the fact that it was finished in 2001. If you hate AIM 6, Triton, Trillian, ect., then you can get versions 6 and previous here.
12/21/2007
dickseverywhere
On black friday, i got a hella good deal on an Acer 17" LCD Flatpanel monitor. its usually $189, but i got it at the register for 149 bucks and I just mailed in the rebate for 60 bucks. After the rebate comes in, I will have basically gotten this awesome monitor for 89 bucks. KICKASS.
The best part is that i didnt have to wait at like 6am to get it. I got it 30 minutes before i got off of work (about 9pm). I feel awesome.
It was funny, some dolt asked me at the register about some harddrive or sumfin, "hey if i buy this harddrive today and then find out it goes on sale for black friday can i get a price match? :>"
"uhm, no." I mean come on, if we did that there would basically be no black friday. The point of black friday is that there are awesome deals on everything, but in order to get them, you gotta be there and you gotta deal with the crowds. If you can handle that, your patience will be rewarded with awesome savings on things you want.
Anyway, I was scared shitless about 6 days ago. I did 3 of my finals for school but i realized i had misread the final schedule and missed my english final. I panick'd. HARD. I got my grades back from the teacher and the grade was a D. I then realized that he forgot to grade a paper that was worth 10% of my grade, so it showed a zero on my report card. I scanned the graded paper and sent him a copy via email. That paper had a C- grade on it, but i still got a 72% (C) grade after he graded it. I thought my gpa would still be fucked and my mom was really upset about it. I don't blame her, any less than a 3.0 gpa means no financial aid for college.
Well it turns out he didnt factor in the grade for another paper, my argument essay (worth 15% of my grade D:) so he factored that in and that raised my grade from a 72 to a 73 (it didnt raise as much because at first the essay wasn't even listed in the report card.) I thought i had exhausted all hope, but i went to my instructor anyway to get some papers. I had mentioned that i got a C or something and he was like "uhm no you made a B in the class."
Thats right, during the semester, the extra credit i did added like 6.11 percentage points to my grade, which raised my grade to a 79.somethingsomething. It was enough to make my grade a borderline case, so my teacher bumped my grade from a 79 to an 80, giving me a B in the class and a 3.0 GPA for all my classes.
I'm fucking amazing.
The best part is that i didnt have to wait at like 6am to get it. I got it 30 minutes before i got off of work (about 9pm). I feel awesome.
It was funny, some dolt asked me at the register about some harddrive or sumfin, "hey if i buy this harddrive today and then find out it goes on sale for black friday can i get a price match? :>"
"uhm, no." I mean come on, if we did that there would basically be no black friday. The point of black friday is that there are awesome deals on everything, but in order to get them, you gotta be there and you gotta deal with the crowds. If you can handle that, your patience will be rewarded with awesome savings on things you want.
Anyway, I was scared shitless about 6 days ago. I did 3 of my finals for school but i realized i had misread the final schedule and missed my english final. I panick'd. HARD. I got my grades back from the teacher and the grade was a D. I then realized that he forgot to grade a paper that was worth 10% of my grade, so it showed a zero on my report card. I scanned the graded paper and sent him a copy via email. That paper had a C- grade on it, but i still got a 72% (C) grade after he graded it. I thought my gpa would still be fucked and my mom was really upset about it. I don't blame her, any less than a 3.0 gpa means no financial aid for college.
Well it turns out he didnt factor in the grade for another paper, my argument essay (worth 15% of my grade D:) so he factored that in and that raised my grade from a 72 to a 73 (it didnt raise as much because at first the essay wasn't even listed in the report card.) I thought i had exhausted all hope, but i went to my instructor anyway to get some papers. I had mentioned that i got a C or something and he was like "uhm no you made a B in the class."
Thats right, during the semester, the extra credit i did added like 6.11 percentage points to my grade, which raised my grade to a 79.somethingsomething. It was enough to make my grade a borderline case, so my teacher bumped my grade from a 79 to an 80, giving me a B in the class and a 3.0 GPA for all my classes.
I'm fucking amazing.
11/18/2007
Awesome
So yesterday I just got my desktop back. Why did I not have it? Well I'd tell ya why but the reason involves me whining about how my parents are gay and take shit away from me. It was gone for about a month, so I used my laptop to do my everyday Internet surfing. By "everyday Internet surfing", I mean secondlife. Playing secondlife on a laptop that has vista with no graphics card and 1 gigabyte of ram, and getting 2 frames per second at any given time is my exact idea of fun. Seriously, I'd do it every day if i had the opportunity. So when i got my desktop back, which has a graphics card and is a bit faster, i was getting like 20fps in the game. Fuck yes.
About vista. Of course you're probably saying "yeah vista sucks ass why would anyone ever use it >:|" Well buddy, that's where you're wrong. Vista's actually pretty damn good, it's just the laptop I use for it is a piece of shit. Seriously I was talking to this one dude on secondlife and he's all "Well windows anything sucks balls. I installed linux on my computer and I get 50fps at any given time." and i was like "well what's the specs?" "well I got 3 Gigabytes of ram with a [some really nice ass processor i forgot the name] and a 500 gigabyte harddrive." Well SHIT no wonder you're getting 50 frames per second. You've just got one nice motherfucking computer.
So what if vista's kinda slow? If you have trouble running vista on your computer, you need to turn all the shit off on it. This includes that Aero theme, some graphics effects, a bunch of services, and using msconfig.exe to kill some startup programs. That's it, if you just do those 4 things and if you have at least 1 gigabyte of ram, you should be running vista like BUTTAH. If you still can't run it right, you should consider buying a new computer. Don't bitch about how vista is a resource hog or how microsoft makes too much money off of bloaty software. If you can't properly run an optimized vista, your computer sucks. It also pisses me off when people say "OH THIS GAME REQUIRES VISTA BUT VISTA IS A RESOURCE HOG SO IT'LL MAKE THE GAME GO ALOT SLOWER." If you are playing a computer game and its being slowed down by the operating system on your computer, then why are you playing games on the computer? Your computer should be doing things it was built to do, such as read and write .txt files, run DOS executables, or perhaps read data from 5 1/4" Floppy Diskettes.
Anyway, enough about vista. I got a trackball mouse the other day, and quite frankly I love it to bits. It fits my hand like a glove and its good for my severely cramped desk. It's funny though, I bought a much shittier one at Computer Direct outlet for about 30 bucks. It was one of those ones from logitech that looked sort of like an ugly tumor with a dotty red ball on top. So i get this thing and head to CompUSA. When i get to the mice isle of compusa, i see the exact same trackball mouse for $19.99, and a much nicer mouse for $34.99. While i was looking at this mouse, a sales guy was handling a customer behind me. He saw that i was looking for a mouse, so he did what any good sales rep would do: he took a horribly overpriced mouse, shoved it in my face and went back to his customer. The mouse was a basic wireless optical two button mouse with a scroll wheel. BAM! FIFTY BUCKS! Why so expensive? I can get a wireless opty mouse for half that price. Well this fifty dollar mouse has 1800DPI resolution!!! 8O and the sales guy said that i can "adjust the sensitivity on it! yknow, like make it go across the screen faster or slower" and he made a hand motion as if i was too goddamn stupid to understand what he was talking about. I was like lolno. So i returned the shitty mouse, got the nice one, and now it's on my desk. i wub it.
That was my awesome week(s). im gonna go to bed now im tired
night
About vista. Of course you're probably saying "yeah vista sucks ass why would anyone ever use it >:|" Well buddy, that's where you're wrong. Vista's actually pretty damn good, it's just the laptop I use for it is a piece of shit. Seriously I was talking to this one dude on secondlife and he's all "Well windows anything sucks balls. I installed linux on my computer and I get 50fps at any given time." and i was like "well what's the specs?" "well I got 3 Gigabytes of ram with a [some really nice ass processor i forgot the name] and a 500 gigabyte harddrive." Well SHIT no wonder you're getting 50 frames per second. You've just got one nice motherfucking computer.
So what if vista's kinda slow? If you have trouble running vista on your computer, you need to turn all the shit off on it. This includes that Aero theme, some graphics effects, a bunch of services, and using msconfig.exe to kill some startup programs. That's it, if you just do those 4 things and if you have at least 1 gigabyte of ram, you should be running vista like BUTTAH. If you still can't run it right, you should consider buying a new computer. Don't bitch about how vista is a resource hog or how microsoft makes too much money off of bloaty software. If you can't properly run an optimized vista, your computer sucks. It also pisses me off when people say "OH THIS GAME REQUIRES VISTA BUT VISTA IS A RESOURCE HOG SO IT'LL MAKE THE GAME GO ALOT SLOWER." If you are playing a computer game and its being slowed down by the operating system on your computer, then why are you playing games on the computer? Your computer should be doing things it was built to do, such as read and write .txt files, run DOS executables, or perhaps read data from 5 1/4" Floppy Diskettes.
Anyway, enough about vista. I got a trackball mouse the other day, and quite frankly I love it to bits. It fits my hand like a glove and its good for my severely cramped desk. It's funny though, I bought a much shittier one at Computer Direct outlet for about 30 bucks. It was one of those ones from logitech that looked sort of like an ugly tumor with a dotty red ball on top. So i get this thing and head to CompUSA. When i get to the mice isle of compusa, i see the exact same trackball mouse for $19.99, and a much nicer mouse for $34.99. While i was looking at this mouse, a sales guy was handling a customer behind me. He saw that i was looking for a mouse, so he did what any good sales rep would do: he took a horribly overpriced mouse, shoved it in my face and went back to his customer. The mouse was a basic wireless optical two button mouse with a scroll wheel. BAM! FIFTY BUCKS! Why so expensive? I can get a wireless opty mouse for half that price. Well this fifty dollar mouse has 1800DPI resolution!!! 8O and the sales guy said that i can "adjust the sensitivity on it! yknow, like make it go across the screen faster or slower" and he made a hand motion as if i was too goddamn stupid to understand what he was talking about. I was like lolno. So i returned the shitty mouse, got the nice one, and now it's on my desk. i wub it.
That was my awesome week(s). im gonna go to bed now im tired
night
10/08/2007
Helo thar
Well I woke up at 1am after a wonderful two and a half hours of sleep and its about 12:30pm right now. I hope to God that I don't get called in to work today. I probably wont, but with how nicely understaffed my office supplies store is at any given time, anything is possible. At least I used my 11 hours of free time usefully, as I now have all the materials for the rough draft of an english paper done. That took me about two hours, so I spent another 30 minutes studying what I needed to finish my music appreciation paper that is due tomorrow. I just screwed around for the other eight and a half hours. So basically when I get home, I've got to move stuff out of my room and finish my english paper. Lots of shit to do on 3 hours of sleep.
Oh well, I've done it under worse circumstances before.
Oh well, I've done it under worse circumstances before.
9/17/2007
You know what I hate?
I hate $100 dollar bills. Seriously, why the hell do they even exist anymore? I mean having a $100 dollar bill may be cool but when you have to take them at the cash register, you've got to check to make sure they're not counterfeit, give the person mountains of change, and exceed your allowed cash drawer total so you have to call a manager to get it taken care of.
What I hate the most about them is that most people who have them don't get them with big purchases. People usually just buy like 5 cents worth of shit and they give you a $100 dollar bill to pay for it. Assholes, just go to the bank and ask them to break it for you. Why the hell are you carrying a $100 dollar bill on you? Or better yet, why the hell are you carrying $100 dollars on you IN CASH? Carrying that much cash isn't safe, it's stupid! If you're looking to purchase something worth more than a $100 dollars, then just get a goddamn debit card or a check. It's not that hard and its a lot safer than carrying that much cash on you at any given time.
Why do $100 dollar bills even exist anymore? They're just nothing but trouble. someone ban plz.
What I hate the most about them is that most people who have them don't get them with big purchases. People usually just buy like 5 cents worth of shit and they give you a $100 dollar bill to pay for it. Assholes, just go to the bank and ask them to break it for you. Why the hell are you carrying a $100 dollar bill on you? Or better yet, why the hell are you carrying $100 dollars on you IN CASH? Carrying that much cash isn't safe, it's stupid! If you're looking to purchase something worth more than a $100 dollars, then just get a goddamn debit card or a check. It's not that hard and its a lot safer than carrying that much cash on you at any given time.
Why do $100 dollar bills even exist anymore? They're just nothing but trouble. someone ban plz.
8/27/2007
Links
You know what I find highly annoying? Like, really really really annoying? So annoying that every time someone does it I just want to tear a portal into the internet and reach my arm into the irc server/forum/ect. that they're in and stab them in the face with a compass? I hate people who lurk about an irc server/forum/whatever and whenever you even think about posting a link thats even the slightest bit ambiguous, they're like "<retard> LOL NO FUCK THAT SHIT IM NOT CLICKING THAT!"
Well I'm not annoyed that people dont click my links, I'm annoyed that they don't click them and they ANNOUNCE it to everyone on the server/forum/whatever like they're the king of links and that you should not go to any link on the internet before consulting him first.
k gotta go to work now bye
Well I'm not annoyed that people dont click my links, I'm annoyed that they don't click them and they ANNOUNCE it to everyone on the server/forum/whatever like they're the king of links and that you should not go to any link on the internet before consulting him first.
k gotta go to work now bye
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