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kosovo:
oyb you have not the slighest idea of what you are talking about, You are simply clueless as i suspected earlier but has been confirmed beyound any resonable doubt. I know you love your PC so dearly and will do any thing to over hype it, but the sad truth is that it is no way near the Power of Console gaming. . .  You get everything right in BOX. .

Full-HD
Motion control
True 3D
Massive Storage
Online Gaming
Online Store
Social hub (eg. Home)
Media Hub
Wifi


The list is endless

I am pretty sure true HD is on PC. Heck I am pretty sure you get even higher resolutions than on consoles.
Motion control is mainly for consoles true but there aren't that many excellent games for it.
I am pretty sure that NVIDIA had graphics cards that support True 3D. Besides I don't think that there are many 3D games on consoles now if any.
PC have even more storage than Consoles, you noob.
This one made me laugh. PC's have been doing online gaming for much longer than consoles, you noob.
PC's also have an online store. It's called "Steam", you noob.
Home isn't all that great from what I hear. I wouldn't be surprised if you found something like it on PC.
Media hub. What does that even mean?
Wifi exists on PC's too.

kosovo:
KillZone 3 will Put crysis to shame,

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! That is just hilarious.

kosovo:
Remember the best graphical PS3 game (God of War 3) used only 50% of the Power of the Ps3, Ps3 is just 4 years, wait till we start scraching the iner portion of the Monster manchine, Most developers have over the years confirmed that they were still scratching the surface of the PS3. Remember how God of War 2 on the Ps2 put the biased gaming journalist to shame, 10 years into the PlayStation 2, God of War 2 can still stand tall among some Xbox360 games.

I admit GOW3 is impressive, for a console game but it doesn't touch the best on a PC. Same goes for Killzone 3 and any other console game you care to mention. Also if GOW2 can touch some Xbox 360 games it can also touch some PS3 games but I seriously doubt it can do either.

oyb:
most of the stuff i've read indicates that you get a better experience with pcs than with consoles, probably because consoles don't come with graphics cards (thats just an assumption)

games experience can be said to scalable on pcs, the better your spec, the better the graphics etal , while its the same on all consoles, since these all have the same specs, so in a way developers have limited options

u will have an awful experience gaming on battery, imho - most laptops default to low power consumption states when power is cut off. your game will draaaaag

in the event that you run at normal power, at best 45 mins gaming time


the new 12 cells may help

as to gaming laptops being difficult to carry around - just get a good backpack


i have an alienware backpack - and that thing is sexy


a desktop is a better option, because its cheaper, and you can upgrade - all depends though.

sadly, a lot of developers seem to be committing to developing games for consoles only - because of piracy

hence no halo3, or gears of war 2 for pc

our chook eye has backfired.

they are losing wayy to much money and its true.

bioware released lair of the shadow broker, a mass effect 2 dlc on the 7th, i downloaded it on the 9th. and so did who knows how many others, rather than buy .


another advantage of pc over console - though that can be debated - is that you can customize your keyboard layout.

i for instance, use a logitech mouse which has buttons that can be mapped to the keyboard . beautifies my gaming experience

Of course console have graphics cards

PS3 an Nvidia card and Xbox360 has one from ATI

kosovo:
Console gamers have over the years and up till this moment be regarded as the rock of the gaming industry, the same can not be said of PC gamers, sad truth, PC gamers are loosers, they spend more but get less, i use a Sony viao quadcore laptop and have played all my PC games in the highest visuals and resolution possible, but the sad truth, it doest offer up to 40% of what my PS3 can offer, GT5 out in less than 2 months, how do i play that on my laptop?
alot of games comes on console first before it is ported to the PC, by the time the hype for a particular game in dead, the zeal to play that game dies along with it. . .

OFF topic. . .

I once said mass effect 2 was comming to the PS3, but it met alot of brick walls, some even began to question my 11 years of active gaming journalism. . Today, i have been vindicated once more . . . all my predictions are gaining momentum faster than expected, PS3 is 3 million less than the xbox 360, ( ps3 was 10.5 million less than the xbox 360 4 years ago and was  double the price of the xbox 360)  which GT5 could captalize on and hit the final nail on the xbox360.

brb

Yes but PC's have more power than consoles and many people prefer the Keyboard and mouse set up for Shooters and Strategy games and the like.

[quote author=ugo_2u link=topic=511252.msg6758537#msg6758537 date=1284560360]In all honesty, I have played both PC and Console and I will say that PC doesnt match console in anyway, if you want to play then buy a PS3 or XBOX 360, PC has many issues which includes graphic card compatibility, graphic quality, sound quality which varies across games, but console is standard and top quality all the way (no FPS issues), although I majorly play PC but am not a core gamer. Street Fighter 4, Far Cry 2, DMC 4, Halo, Crysis are the ones I play.[/quote]Yes PC games have compatibility issues but if you have a good powerful PC you can play games with much higher graphics quality that console. That said I personally prefer playing games on consoles. It really all comes down to what you prefer and what lets have more fun. Some prefer consoles and some prefer PC.

kosovo:
oyb you have not the slighest idea of what you are talking about, You are simply clueless as i suspected earlier but has been confirmed beyound any resonable doubt. I know you love your PC so dearly and will do any thing to over hype it, but the sad truth is that it is no way near the Power of Console gaming. . .  You get everything right in BOX. .

Full-HD
Motion control
True 3D
Massive Storage
Online Gaming
Online Store
Social hub (eg. Home)
Media Hub
Wifi


The list is endless

I am pretty sure true HD is on PC. Heck I am pretty sure you get even higher resolutions than on consoles.
Motion control is mainly for consoles true but there aren't that many excellent games for it.
I am pretty sure that NVIDIA had graphics cards that support True 3D. Besides I don't think that there are many 3D games on consoles now if any.
PC have even more storage than Consoles, you noob.
This one made me laugh. PC's have been doing online gaming for much longer than consoles, you noob.
PC's also have an online store. It's called "Steam", you noob.
Home isn't all that great from what I hear. I wouldn't be surprised if you found something like it on PC.
Media hub. What does that even mean?
Wifi exists on PC's too.

kosovo:
KillZone 3 will Put crysis to shame, Remember the best graphical PS3 game (God of War 3) used only 50% of the Power of the Ps3, Ps3 is just 4 years, wait till we start scraching the iner portion of the Monster manchine, Most developers have over the years confirmed that they were still scratching the surface of the PS3. Remember how God of War 2 on the Ps2 put the biased gaming journalist to shame, 10 years into the PlayStation 2, God of War 2 can still stand tall among some Xbox360 games.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Donpuzo:
The first has to do with Web design, but the second is Programming. I think for web application, you may get to learn Javaservlet pages and Java applet development, which in my opinion is better than the first!

Since you can get trained in the first online, and through materials, but the second may be difficult to comprehend without formal training!

Moreover the second is a bigger and better offer, to pay for!

I figured as much. Still programming is tough for me to push through. That said I'm alot more serious than I used to be.

Can you give me an example of the earning potential of the first vs the second.

I have been recommended to go NIIT. The problem is I have 2 or 3 courses to choose from.

The first is Dreamweaver and Flash which is close to what Enquirer recommended. I currently leaning towards this as it seems close to what I imagine myself doing as a web designer. I am not sure if I can do the two of them together as they came with two different pamphlets (however the two pamphlets were stapled tother).

The second is "Sun Java Web Component Developer". I am not sure what this is but from the course objectives it seems more technical and I would like to get a well rounded education so I could earn enough money. I am not sure if I can do this together with two above. So I may have to choose between them.

Any help would be appreciated.

P.S I am still also going to take advantages of video tutorial and stuff online I can find but this seems like a good opportunity and foundation for me.

tomcat:
indeed you can do it via the tracert from the command prompt, and see what kind of ping you are getting but there are simpler ways as well:

1. open your command prompt and type: ping www.yahoo.co.uk or any other site in UK (i always check with UK). If the ping is between 120-350ms it's fiber optic. If the ping is anything above 570-600ms it's satellite, as signal needs to travel all the way from here to the satellite and down to earth again.

As far as i know MTN 3g has switched traffic to main one.

2. Easier still: go to www.visualroute.com and go to livedemo. In there chose a server, normally i chose one from london UK, and then press start, it will show you all the hops that the traffic is passing to reach your computer, in most cases you can even tell which internet wholesale provider they are using.

I tried the first one with MTN 3g. These are the results I got.

Minimum = 232ms, Maximum = 266ms, Average = 241ms

goggs:
The absence of fibre links for some providers between Lagos and the rest of the country will mean that improved services will be restricted to the Lagos area for now. This, I think, is particularly true of Starcomms and etisalat. They will likely redirect their Lagos traffic (which is the bulk in terms of demand) through the undersea cables and for us in the rest of the country it will likely be access through slow satellite links. And the result is that costs are unlikely to come down soon and they will face harsh competition from Providers that have such links like glo and MTN.

NCC licensed some long distance carriers like NEPSKOM and Alheri Engineering. They were supposed provide the sort of cross country links that companies like starcomms and etisalat can buy capacity from. It will save them money as the infrastructure will be shared and maintained by the carrier company. As far as i know NEPSKOM is barely existing, Dangote (Alheri) strung some fibre between Lagos and Benin 2 years and now  cement business seem to be the most on his mind.  

Thats where glo has an advantage. It has fibre links from Lagos through, ibadan, Abuja, Kaduna, Kano. I hear also it runs from Abuja to Jos, Markurdi Yola and maiduguri. Dunno much about the coverage in the east sha. If and when they get their act together and truly launch, they can easily deploy this bandwidth further than most  providers cos of these cables. So that's why when glo made the announcement about their cable, people paid attention cos of this potential to reach inland but alas, information management is not their strong point hence the back and forth story telling and subsequent intense frustration we all feel.

As for MTN in Abuja, they are the network to beat. I can attest to the fact that their speeds have improved vastly. On browsing alone I get 1.5mbps on the average, when downlowning using accelerators i get up to 2.6mbps. My only gripe is that the data allowance is so expensive and runs out so fast. They also have extensive fiber network and they appear to be using them. They are really not much noise makers when it comes to infrastructure investments. I heard from a contractor of theirs the other day that MTN wants to incorporate Universities in their metro fibre link project to provide internet access to institutions in towns where their fibre passes. Now if its true, its fantastic and yet MTN may just keep quiet and spring a surprise. Imagine the bandwidth market in just half of Nigerian Universities.

If it were glo, they would be at the rooftops talking about what is not yet on ground using annoying superlative terms. MTN is annoying expensive, but action is better than noise. I'll go for expensive action other than cheap noise.

I hope glo learns to keep their mouths shut and their hands busy. I hope they launch sooner than later, cos the prospects are there

I did not know that MTN also had a local fibre network. That gives me a bit of hope. Still I hope glo gets their act together too. The more the better I say.

harakiri:
Hello all,

I have tried to open a game lounge twice (first in the late '90's and second in 2004) and each time i open up shop, i am either frustrated with irate parents coming around to embarrass me or law enforcement agents who raid the place as if i am selling hard drugs!

The parents usual story is "their kids used their pocket money/school fees to play there and they want it back or else". . . and i wonder if they would do the same if their kids went to pay to ride horse back in lekki beach OR if the kids went to ride electric cars at the amusement park OR if those kids went to Silverbird arcade to play games.I wonder if they would demand to see Ben Bruce! It's really pathetic but i can deal with that.It's the police raid issue that's something else.At some point, they almost carted the game consoles and TV's. . .i had to cough out a considerable amount of money to discourage them. For these two primary reasons, i have been forced to close shop. Gaming has been a passion of mine since i played Mario brothers 20 years ago and it still is. I still intend to open up another lounge in the near future but. . .

Is there anyone here running a decent gaming lounge without police interference? Any pointers you can give me?

Thanks.

Wow, this actually makes me pretty mad. Parents coming round ask for their money back is bad enough, but RAIDS by the idiotic, filthily corrupt Nigerian Police!?!?! AMAZING!!! I really hope you have better success in future. These are the sort of silly things we have to deal with as Nigerians. Sorry.

On an unrelated note, around the time Main One went like I got an extra eight hundred or so megabytes on my MTN 30 day 3gig plan. When I asked a person behind the counter at an MTN branch he claimed it might be an accumulation of MB's I didn't get from previous months though he didn't seem so sure of himself. In any case, it was just a one time thing so he might have been right. Still I though it was worth mentioning in light of Samir's experience with Etisalat and given the fact that MTN purchased bandwidth from Main One (as mentioned earlier I think).

Main One Cable: Hope of Cheap Telecom Services Dashed

Mike van den Berg, chief executive officer of Gateway Communications, said there is not enough business on the continent to support these cables, despite expectations that it would aid the provision of cheap internet services in the country.
According to Dr Hamadoun Touré, International Telecom Union’s (ITU) secretary general, the relation between cable connections and end-user price is not always straightforward. While competition usually drives down international prices for bandwidth, national bandwidth prices continue to remain high, usually due to a limited number of providers in the domestic market.

More in the link
http://businessworldng.com/web/articles/1549/1/Main-One-Cable-Hope-of-Cheap-Telecom-Services-Dashed/Page1.html

Enquirer:
If you were to be in Lagos, I'd say go to Computer Village and buy yourself video tuts on Dreamweaver, Fireworks (or Photoshop) and Flash for starters. When you've mastered your XHTML/CSS, then you can take a closer look at theme design for either Wordpress or Joomla or even both. That will expose to developing dynamic websites. Notice that I said theme design. That means creating themes from scratch, not installing free themes you get online or even premium templates. Installing themes other people created is not website design. As a designer, you must be able to create from scratch. You'll learn PHP/MYSQL along the way as you'll be using it a lot in either of the CMSes I mentioned.

As for online tuts, just use Google and you'd see loads of quality information but if you want to learn fast, stick to videos online or offline.

How much can you earn? It depends on the scope of the site, your perception of your client and most importantly on the quality of your skills. If you're sure of your skill set, you can earn at least 100k in any given month. That can come from a project or two. Beware of underpricing yourself as the work involved can at times be tedious otherwise you may lose your motivation and turn in a shoddy job.

Wow, thanks a lot.

samir101ng:
No, i don't work for MTN Nigeria. I was referring to people based in the Northern part of the country collectively. I am an avid internet user and always try out different service providers. MTN is currently the champion followed by Etisalat in the North.

Ok cool.

Interesting. I just might do that.

Another question is how much am I likely to earn for each website I build?

Hello, I was wondering if anyone new of a web design school or course in Abuja or anywhere in Nigeria or even online. Thanks.

samir101ng:
Glo-1 is a mirage as far as i am concerned. Glo has had a long history of pioneering innovations in Nigeria's GSM sector BUT in the end they always finish last. Its a classic example in the Looney Tunes cartoon where the Tortoise challenges the Rabbit (a.k.a Wabbit) to a race and always win in the end through ingenious means despite the natural strength and agility of the rabbit. I remember when Glo introduced the Per second Billing and Glo Mobile Internet and MMS. Glo was then shouting to the high heavens that they had the first and only 2.5G network in Nigeria. But what happened, to activate your sim you had to call customer care and request for the service which took a minimum of 5 working days. But MTN however enabled all their sims from the get go. Also, requesting internet/mms settings was so easy on MTN. Just send a text "SETTNGS" to 3888.

Secondly, Glo's 3G+ and EDGE network is practically non-existent in the Northern part of the country. I have travelled throughout the Northern part of Nigeria from the North Central (Nassarawa, Benue, Jos) and i challenge anybody to post a screenshot of Glo 3G+ or EDGE network. Even in Abuja at Garki II CBN Senior Staff Qtrs (Near Tantalizers), i cannot get Glo 3G+ or EDGE network only GPRS. I mean MTN has blanketed everywhere with EDGE service in the country. We even have full 3.5G service in Kaduna, Zaria, Kano, Maiduguri, Jos, Bauchi. If Glo's 3G+ network cannot even reach everywhere in Abuja, what hope is there about there Glo-1 fibre links service. What will happen will be that MTN will buy massive bandwidth on Main One or build their own and roll out service everywhere while Glo is still left holding the ball. Glo are too slow in pioneering innovations. MTN is offering DSTV Mobile people ! Supersport on your phone where there is DVB-H service and with a compatible phone. Anyhow, we dey rock Etibaba for now.

"We"? Do you work for MTN perchance? I'm just asking,

echowords:
where can i get mass effect i've seached everywhere for it

Try http://www.omagames.com/details.asp?ID=1479

If there other games you are looking for try http://www.omagames.com/index.asp

Even if they don't have a game you are looking for on their site, you can contact them and they will get it special for you.

Respond to this post if you have any problems.

donline:
we can suppply it to your doorstep, 4 more information visit donlineconcepts.com then click on ICT

I can't get the website to load. It says "no suitable nodes available to serve your requests."

I am not looking to buy now but I am looking to find them in the future. I need things like good CPU's, Graphics cards, motherboards, memory, HDD's, Cooling products etc. Here are examples of the kind of things I might need:

ATI's Radeon HD 5870 or 5970 video cards (or Nvidia's GTX 480 "fermi" card)
Intel's Core i5 or Core i7 processor line (or AMD's Phenom II X6 1090T six core processor)
Asus P6X58D Premium Motherboard or Asus P7P55D-E Motherboard
Arctic Cooling freezer Pro
Corsair XMS3 4GB Dual Channel DDR3 RAM or OZC Gold PC10666 DDR3 Dual Channel RAM'
A good 1TB Hard Drive (or more)
etc.

Any assistance would be much appreciated. Also if you you don't know where I can find the them in Abuja give me a good Lagos address. If you don't know where I can find them in Lagos (or anywhere in Nigeria), give a good site I can get them from online. Really, anything would be useful and appreciated.

Will I be able to find an ATI Radeon HD 5870 video card and an Intel Core i7 CPU at the Ikeja village and for how much?

From what I heard from someone I know using Etisalat, their Internet service has picked up.

goggs:
I can confirm that Glo is laying fiber all over Abuja including peripheral towns like Kubwa, Suleija, Gwagwalada etc.

I live along kubwa road and saw them laying the cables a few weeks back. I was wondering who was responsible. Good to know that its globacom.

I just finished Read Dead Redemption sometime last week. I am now saving towards my next purchase which will either be Halo Reach, Bad Company 2 or Rainbow Six Vegas 2

Main One has launched!

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-472412.0.html

sauwal:
i learnt that their launch day for the cable is next monday 21/6/2010

Is this Glo-1 or Main One?

nateevs:
If I understand your question well, my answer is; there can only be competition if other companies lay their own fibre to our doorsteps as well.
The other channel for competition is where companies buy bandwidth off Glo and sell to you.
That however can't be as competitive as where the company owns it's own infrastructure.
The companies will be selling just over the base rate that Glo offers them. . . Meaning everything (or yet most of) is still down to Glo.

Well, I hope that other companies lay down fibre to compete with Glo. Thank you.

nateevs:
The difference between them are:-

Glo are laying fibre right down to your neighbourhood. And they have a submarine cable as well.
Main one only have a submarine cable.


Main one takes things seriously.
Glo keeps dragging on and messing around.

So assuming glo lays fibre to general consumers, will competing cables have access to said fibre.

ok, cool.

One more question: Regarding Glo, what's the difference between it and Main One. You (or someone else) said Main One was only an international Gateway. Could explain further what this means?

Are you sure? Because according to this article they are still being built.

http://allafrica.com/stories/200901210237.html

At a ceremony in Benin recently, President of the Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, said Alheri Engineering had decided to collaborate with Phase3 Telecoms to build a 1,4000 kilometre fibre optic network across the country.

Regarding last mile, how do the fibre cables being laid out by Phase 3 Telecoms and Dangote's Alheri Engineering fit in. They are being laid along PHCN powerlines.

Its good to here that progress is being made with all these submarine cables (main one in particular).

That is not necessarily what Natal is doing. It has been known for a long time that the eye toy can do (basic) motion control, however, the technology is not as advanced as Natal. Here is a link about Natal from IGN:
http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/106/1061205p2.html

Here is a working link for those who want to see the video
http://n4g.com/news/525340/sony-steals-project-natals-thunder-before-e3-video-proof-is-here

That is not necessarily what Natal is doing. It has been known for a long time that the eye toy can do (basic) motion control, however, the technology is not as advanced as Natal. Here is an excerpt from IGN:

[b]Project Natal has a fully featured sensory array, according to Microsoft's spec sheet. For starters, it has a standard digital video camera. That will do everything you expect it to, from scanning in pictures of objects to recognizing patterns to letting Milo know what color shirt you're wearing.

But Natal is much more than a simple digital camera. It also has a CMOS infrared projector. This is what allows Project Natal to see in the dark and complete the three dimensional view of the player, including his or her distance from the TV. According to the magazine New Scientist, a person standing in front of a Natal unit is painted with infrared light, and a black-and-white camera measures how much of that light is reflected back to the device to determine depth and distance.

The last bit of the sensory array is a set of multiple microphones. This takes in the room's sounds multiple times, which gives Natal and your Xbox 360 enough data to locate where the sounds are coming from, separate them from other people in the room, and cut out the background noise. The end result is improved voice recognition.

Even with this set of sensors, Project Natal wouldn't work without some sophisticated software to run it. Popular Science recently ran an article outlining this software. In short, it uses a form of artificial intelligence to recognize the human body and recognize each part of the body and create a digital skeleton. Because Natal has been "trained" to recognize human faces, body parts and movement, it uses that information to keep track of a player's limbs (even when they stray out of range or behind an obstacle).It does this entire process 30 times a second.

Natal lead developer Alex Kipman says the system uses 10 to 15 percent of the Xbox 360's computing resources, and recognizing new figures and new poses takes less than a second. Although not as precise as professional motion capture systems, Natal is able to locate a part of the body to within a 4 cm cubes. That's pretty precise, and you don't even have to wear a black bodysuit bristling with electrodes.[/b]

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/106/1061205p2.html

Here is a working link for those who want to see the video
http://n4g.com/news/525340/sony-steals-project-natals-thunder-before-e3-video-proof-is-here