The best heatsink/fan combos were at about 72C, IIRC.
Is that the state of cooling nowadays? I have an old Sempron based system along with a pretty standard fan cooler that you would expect from a few years ago. It idles at around 50C and running full out it's only 56C or so.
Intel's 65nm quadcores are just a bit hot. OTOH they idle much cooler than their stress-test temp (more than 30ÂC lower in the THG test).
AFAIK the latest - 45nm - quads run significantly cooler.
IMO providing a link to a source* where one could find answers to similar questions in the future can be more useful than a response without one.
* personally, I usually turn to wikipedia, acronym finder or urban dictionary depending on the information; having "keywords" in FF for those makes searching less troublesome
You do know that other PC games besides Spore will be released in the mean time?
It's also not like you won't be able to upgrade your video card and likely the CPU when it does come out, if you find your current hardware inadequate.
Those corporations should be required to pay the same wages in US$$ as they should be paying in Europe or the USA.
OK, but why would those corporations choose to build factories in the poor countries instead of EU/US in that case (assuming the products would be intended for the US/EU market)?
Actually, it kind of comments on the inefficiency of the mouse as an input device that it is so much faster to use a physical button compared to an onscreen one. The mouse is mainly useful as a FPS game controller, and needs to step down from the UI throne.
I find mouse gestures comparable to keyboard shortcuts in speed; plus you don't need to have your other hand on the keyboard (...) which is much neater if you aren't sitting at a desk but in some comfy chair and want to just read/watch stuff on the net (I suspect a wireless trackball would be ideal).
Most of the students here in Poland have never owned a real textbook, everyone buys photocopies.
Don't exaggerate.
AFAIK that's sort-of true. Books needed for University students are awfully expensive, and possibly hard to find (IIRC it was something around 300PLN/$100 for one?).
I think I used to buy all text books for one year of "high school" for about half of that.
Bit Torrent doesn't need a user present to seed, and it tends to make the firewall more active because of the high traffic...
I wonder how a new $500-$600 PC would fair against the PS3 when folding (I'm guesstimating that one could purchase a bare PC with some cheaper A64 X2 and an X1950XT at that price).
If you do, then there's always http://www.acronymfinder.com/ . It recognizes a surprisingly large number of acronyms, and if it doesn't recognize yours you can add it. Personally, I just add it to keyword search in firefox.
...easy for camera phones to decode... Most low-end prepaid cell phones that I have seen in stores in my part of the United States do not include a digital camera. Therefore, Fujitsu would have to either 1. market this technology to advertisers trying to reach people with high-end phones, or 2. deploy more camera phones. Unless it's vastly different in the US, I'm pretty sure you'd get some camera-phone nearly-free with a contract. I believe separate, basic, camera-phones aren't prohibitively priced either.
It's not like these are only high-end models - I think it's rarer for a mobile phone to come without a camera nowadays.
btw. we also usually get both - netto and brutto - prices for the product on price tags/price lists, so it's not like we lose anything, unless you aks for the price, and in that case I don't see why you would care for the one before tax...
I think the Bard you get before the Cleric can also do some healing.
I just bought a lot of Cure X Wounds potions in one of the Temples.
That brings me to one of the things that I found most irritating - when you'd want to buy a lot of potions there is no way (that I found) to specify the amount you want - you have double click the potion and then confirm the transaction in the dialog that pops up. This is awful if you have to do it 50 times.
My workaround was to place the wares window so that the "OK" in the pop-up dialog appears right above the potion so that you can just keep clicking without moving the mouse....not that that is important, as I hear they fixed it in the last patch:)
The patcher requires lots of free space to run - practically as much as the game install takes up (~7GB) - as it creates the patched versions of all the data while preserving the old versions until it finishes the patching successfully.
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The spiders eat them.
'cause it sounds cool?
The best heatsink/fan combos were at about 72C, IIRC.
Is that the state of cooling nowadays? I have an old Sempron based system along with a pretty standard fan cooler that you would expect from a few years ago. It idles at around 50C and running full out it's only 56C or so.
Intel's 65nm quadcores are just a bit hot. OTOH they idle much cooler than their stress-test temp (more than 30ÂC lower in the THG test).
AFAIK the latest - 45nm - quads run significantly cooler.
IMO providing a link to a source* where one could find answers to similar questions in the future can be more useful than a response without one.
* personally, I usually turn to wikipedia, acronym finder or urban dictionary depending on the information; having "keywords" in FF for those makes searching less troublesome
You do know that other PC games besides Spore will be released in the mean time?
It's also not like you won't be able to upgrade your video card and likely the CPU when it does come out, if you find your current hardware inadequate.
OK, but why would those corporations choose to build factories in the poor countries instead of EU/US in that case (assuming the products would be intended for the US/EU market)?
I don't find the anonymizing features interesting, but "streamed results" is very neat, and direct links to image sources seem pretty useful too.
I find mouse gestures comparable to keyboard shortcuts in speed; plus you don't need to have your other hand on the keyboard (...) which is much neater if you aren't sitting at a desk but in some comfy chair and want to just read/watch stuff on the net (I suspect a wireless trackball would be ideal).
AFAIK that's sort-of true. Books needed for University students are awfully expensive, and possibly hard to find (IIRC it was something around 300PLN/$100 for one?).
I think I used to buy all text books for one year of "high school" for about half of that.
To clarify - you can usually still hear the original voices (albeit quietly).
Some people prefer the "narrator" to dubbed voices that sound nothing like the original actors.
AFAIK retail DVDs usually include PL subtitles and original sound along with the narrated track, so it really applies only to stuff on TV.
But won't you eventually use the saved money for some bigger purchase?
Bit Torrent doesn't need a user present to seed, and it tends to make the firewall more active because of the high traffic...
I wonder how a new $500-$600 PC would fair against the PS3 when folding (I'm guesstimating that one could purchase a bare PC with some cheaper A64 X2 and an X1950XT at that price).
If you do, then there's always http://www.acronymfinder.com/ . It recognizes a surprisingly large number of acronyms, and if it doesn't recognize yours you can add it. Personally, I just add it to keyword search in firefox.
It's not like these are only high-end models - I think it's rarer for a mobile phone to come without a camera nowadays.
...easy for camera phones to decode...
You can see blurry cars on the second highest magnification, so the eye should be visible.
But yeah, they should have used at least 2-car high font.
btw. we also usually get both - netto and brutto - prices for the product on price tags/price lists, so it's not like we lose anything, unless you aks for the price, and in that case I don't see why you would care for the one before tax...
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No it's not...
The free version of NetLimiter can show you that and will also monitor how much bandwidth applications use complete with day/week/month/year history.
I ran it on an Athlon XP without the problems you mention, so maybe it has more to do with the CPU being dual-core?
I can't say that the frame-rate was smooth, as it often dipped below 25fps, but it was still entirely playable at ~15fps.
I think I also alt-f4'd it a few times and it closed normally, though I'm running Vista.
I think the Bard you get before the Cleric can also do some healing. I just bought a lot of Cure X Wounds potions in one of the Temples. That brings me to one of the things that I found most irritating - when you'd want to buy a lot of potions there is no way (that I found) to specify the amount you want - you have double click the potion and then confirm the transaction in the dialog that pops up. This is awful if you have to do it 50 times. My workaround was to place the wares window so that the "OK" in the pop-up dialog appears right above the potion so that you can just keep clicking without moving the mouse. ...not that that is important, as I hear they fixed it in the last patch :)
I don't think it has anything to do with piracy.
The patcher requires lots of free space to run - practically as much as the game install takes up (~7GB) - as it creates the patched versions of all the data while preserving the old versions until it finishes the patching successfully.
I think you can even look straight up in NWN2...
There are even actual ceilings in the "closed" maps, which is neat.