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I wonder, what's in it for AMD. Money? Too simplistic somehow.
Well, looking at their current cash reserves, and their first quarter issues, I would think a large infusion from particular sources would be a boon for them.
This will make choices much much easier when buying a card for a serious gamer, Nvidia or nothing, in particular people who want to use fraps or similar to make in game action vids.
I (in the past) purchased AMD products because from my testing, they were just as good for my uses as Intel and I wanted to help keep "the little guy" going by supporting them (so long as it doesn't cost me $$$), guess what, the little guy is playing the big boy games now, and not the fun kind.
Guess in this way Australian broadband is better handled than US, the ACCC (fair trade commission for Australia) requires ISPs to advertise their plans correctly, if you get an "unlimited" plan, it absolutely HAS TO BE unlimited, in all senses of the word (no shaping, no capping, no extra charges).
Me? I prefer a nice limited access account, with more DL than I could use in a month, no locked ports and with the option of increasing the cap for that month (going over cap just shapes you, no extra charges).
Get over it, new motherboards (particularly budget line with lots of features) is geek news.
As a worker at an OEM who has some input into buying decisions these sorts of things are handy to know, and also I am pretty sure you forgot the bit where this is only a geek blog;)
I believe you are looking for the nforce 410, 420, 430, 440 chipsets, all include integrated graphics (vista aero capable) and all have a spare pci-e 16x slot, that can run in addition to the on-board (handy for NAS boxes, can slot a pci-e raid card in there).
If you were trying to be funny, well you missed your mark ^_^
Great ISP, throttle you if you go over your limit, but allow you to upgrade (for that month only) to a higher limit with no extra fees apart from the difference in price.
Along with (as far as I have been with them) perfect uptime, I couldn't recommend them more. They peer with most of the tier 1 ISPs, they have the only premium Usenet server in the country... oh wait, you probably wanted US ISPs right?
Yup, this is the problem I (as a OEM system builder) found with the whole "image it and pre-load", you then have to lump a customer with the update windows process (not a nice thing to do).
We slipstream install all new PCs for this reason, it takes a little longer than image cloning, but with regular maintenance on the slipstream everything is up-to-date when its handed over.
Of course if I ever have to re-load my own pc, I can just load the apps/patches script from that slipstream and my pc is patched and has firefox, java, ad-aware, spybot and, well, damn near anything you need when it first starts up:)
That's intriguing. I am able to run a vista with "a few" things turned off (the "required" anti virus you mention, windows 2k interface, indexing, etc) idling on 270M of ram.
Yes with all the bells, and a lot of the whistles turned on, its a memory hog, but then so is XP once you load up your AV of choice, firefox faststart, google desktop and throw window blinds onto it.
Theres bloat there, of course, but it is mainly the interface and the extras, at its core (you know, the new driver model, dx10, etc) its only a little bigger than its predecessor.
You missed it all, the whole point is that they are studying how the brain reacts to these changed inputs, and how they can maybe use that to make the whole thing more integrated (plugs in the back of the head thing).
And if you think using a keyboard/mouse/monitor requires a "minimum amount of training" you have never tried to get someone who thinks the mouse looks like a foot pedal, who weilds a white out pen to fix the mistakes on the screen...
I am not personally familiar with the site in question, but all they really need is to have a waiver prior to submission stating what they are going to do with the submitted work and that by submitting it you agree to licence it to them (and that you are allowed to licence it to them) for this use.
Now if they didn't have any such click-through before submission, well, they are likely screwed.
They could maybe claim that by the student sending their work over the unencrypted internet they are effectively making it a public domain work, but that likely wouldn't hold water since there is a big differance in letting someone read something and letting them archive it and use it internally.
One thing this of course highlights is that to make a thumbnail view it has to open the file.
Now the obvious danger is that if it has some executable code in there and an 0-day buffer overflow it will own your pc (literally).
Not to mention what happens when the file just happens to be a high def video source you no longer need (say 720p avi in raw frames... fricking huge) and you try and delete it, windows cache will now be left trying to cache a few hundred gig video file just so you can delete it.
For those unwilling to read the forums (or who block all MS sites at their router), the problem relates to Vista making thumbnails of files, and trying to continue making them even when you have told it to delete a file, its not a transfer speed problem, and can be VERY easily stop gapped by disabling thumbnail views in the folder view settings:)
The thing I personally have a problem with in vista is folder browsing, I have not spent money on a good raid array (and made sure it had vista drivers) and lots of HDD just to have a half second pause when I double click ANY folder.
In particular the x2 3600 and 3800 seem to be 2 of the best bang-for-buck chips out there.
Yes ANY of the CPUs tested will leave them for dead, but if your user is running WinXP, doing a bit of this (video transcoding) and a bit of that (watching streamed video) and even a bit of the other, they will do it and leave them thinking "damn this thing is fast" all for pocket change compared to these other chips.
Not to mention a geekaholic would identify the biggest issue with this device, the fact that it uses a high trajectory, I mean, I am all for artillery, but over such a short distance a direct fire device would be much more timely, surely a pair of parallel rails and some high voltage power could give you an idea;)
Besides, making the thing target via a laser paint should at least enable you to destroy said painted object when it is fired, I mean sure you waste some beer, but it is only American beer (for all intents and purposes coca cola in its effectiveness, and taste).
The parent is indeed correct baring one minor point that he doesn't stress enough.... railguns.
If you fire a tau railgun, and it hits, it will (most of the time at least, squigoth and wraithlords are an exception to this) kill what it hits, with one shot.
Another example is necron warriors, their weapons get a special bonus (on average one shot in 6) that gives them a chance at taking out a vehicle in one hit.
Best example of out of kilter damage is the melta (fusion blaster on the tau commander suit), this thing on that suit will, 3 times out of 4 (or thereabouts) destroy a vehicle outright, they are the ultimate anti-vehicle unit, and yet DoW fubars them so badly.
And don't get me into the "static" tau tactic used in DoW, tau are ultra mobile, fast moveing, flanking/surprising/shooty army, they can be non-moving but it is generally considered to be the lesser of the 2 tactics for play.
There was a add on for dark age of Camelot (heavy pvp game) that scanned the incoming data and got the name, did a http lookup on the server to get info on level, class, amount of kills, etc and would then feed it back into the game as a graphic floating above the players head, expect similar for WoW when the pvpers get wind of this, the DaoC version is of course banned and if you are caught with it you will be suspended.
Hint: its not being made by the same devs as DoW was;)
At a guess I would say MMOFPS (aka planetside clone) which I for one would be perfectly happy with, just give me an xv8, a pair of missile pods and some targeting upgrades and I will be set;)
As for your "powerful vehicles" you do know most heavy weapons 1 shot them right?
And yet if your date is set wrong at time of install, you are labelled a pirate until it is fixed, maybe this is one grey area that they are re-badging.
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No, he is targeting game stores.
Well, looking at their current cash reserves, and their first quarter issues, I would think a large infusion from particular sources would be a boon for them.
This will make choices much much easier when buying a card for a serious gamer, Nvidia or nothing, in particular people who want to use fraps or similar to make in game action vids.
I (in the past) purchased AMD products because from my testing, they were just as good for my uses as Intel and I wanted to help keep "the little guy" going by supporting them (so long as it doesn't cost me $$$), guess what, the little guy is playing the big boy games now, and not the fun kind.
Guess in this way Australian broadband is better handled than US, the ACCC (fair trade commission for Australia) requires ISPs to advertise their plans correctly, if you get an "unlimited" plan, it absolutely HAS TO BE unlimited, in all senses of the word (no shaping, no capping, no extra charges).
Me? I prefer a nice limited access account, with more DL than I could use in a month, no locked ports and with the option of increasing the cap for that month (going over cap just shapes you, no extra charges).
Meh, little from column A, little from column B :)
Get over it, new motherboards (particularly budget line with lots of features) is geek news.
;)
As a worker at an OEM who has some input into buying decisions these sorts of things are handy to know, and also I am pretty sure you forgot the bit where this is only a geek blog
I believe you are looking for the nforce 410, 420, 430, 440 chipsets, all include integrated graphics (vista aero capable) and all have a spare pci-e 16x slot, that can run in addition to the on-board (handy for NAS boxes, can slot a pci-e raid card in there).
If you were trying to be funny, well you missed your mark ^_^
Great ISP, throttle you if you go over your limit, but allow you to upgrade (for that month only) to a higher limit with no extra fees apart from the difference in price.
:)
Along with (as far as I have been with them) perfect uptime, I couldn't recommend them more. They peer with most of the tier 1 ISPs, they have the only premium Usenet server in the country... oh wait, you probably wanted US ISPs right?
Still, the best of the Australian lot
Yup, this is the problem I (as a OEM system builder) found with the whole "image it and pre-load", you then have to lump a customer with the update windows process (not a nice thing to do).
:)
We slipstream install all new PCs for this reason, it takes a little longer than image cloning, but with regular maintenance on the slipstream everything is up-to-date when its handed over.
Of course if I ever have to re-load my own pc, I can just load the apps/patches script from that slipstream and my pc is patched and has firefox, java, ad-aware, spybot and, well, damn near anything you need when it first starts up
That's intriguing. I am able to run a vista with "a few" things turned off (the "required" anti virus you mention, windows 2k interface, indexing, etc) idling on 270M of ram.
Yes with all the bells, and a lot of the whistles turned on, its a memory hog, but then so is XP once you load up your AV of choice, firefox faststart, google desktop and throw window blinds onto it.
Theres bloat there, of course, but it is mainly the interface and the extras, at its core (you know, the new driver model, dx10, etc) its only a little bigger than its predecessor.
Definitely a case of Windows Vista-ME 2.0
You missed it all, the whole point is that they are studying how the brain reacts to these changed inputs, and how they can maybe use that to make the whole thing more integrated (plugs in the back of the head thing).
And if you think using a keyboard/mouse/monitor requires a "minimum amount of training" you have never tried to get someone who thinks the mouse looks like a foot pedal, who weilds a white out pen to fix the mistakes on the screen...
But not this one.
I am not personally familiar with the site in question, but all they really need is to have a waiver prior to submission stating what they are going to do with the submitted work and that by submitting it you agree to licence it to them (and that you are allowed to licence it to them) for this use.
Now if they didn't have any such click-through before submission, well, they are likely screwed.
They could maybe claim that by the student sending their work over the unencrypted internet they are effectively making it a public domain work, but that likely wouldn't hold water since there is a big differance in letting someone read something and letting them archive it and use it internally.
One thing this of course highlights is that to make a thumbnail view it has to open the file.
Now the obvious danger is that if it has some executable code in there and an 0-day buffer overflow it will own your pc (literally).
Not to mention what happens when the file just happens to be a high def video source you no longer need (say 720p avi in raw frames... fricking huge) and you try and delete it, windows cache will now be left trying to cache a few hundred gig video file just so you can delete it.
For those unwilling to read the forums (or who block all MS sites at their router), the problem relates to Vista making thumbnails of files, and trying to continue making them even when you have told it to delete a file, its not a transfer speed problem, and can be VERY easily stop gapped by disabling thumbnail views in the folder view settings :)
The thing I personally have a problem with in vista is folder browsing, I have not spent money on a good raid array (and made sure it had vista drivers) and lots of HDD just to have a half second pause when I double click ANY folder.
In particular the x2 3600 and 3800 seem to be 2 of the best bang-for-buck chips out there.
Yes ANY of the CPUs tested will leave them for dead, but if your user is running WinXP, doing a bit of this (video transcoding) and a bit of that (watching streamed video) and even a bit of the other, they will do it and leave them thinking "damn this thing is fast" all for pocket change compared to these other chips.
In some countries, yes, they are required to.
In the states at least, since the FCC have http://web.archive.org/web/20060503194404/www.para scope.com/articles/0497/sublimdc.htm already made their stance on this to broadcasting networks.
I think I read somewhere that the UN had a similar knee-jerk to it back then too and said the same, anyone got a link to it?
Not to mention a geekaholic would identify the biggest issue with this device, the fact that it uses a high trajectory, I mean, I am all for artillery, but over such a short distance a direct fire device would be much more timely, surely a pair of parallel rails and some high voltage power could give you an idea ;)
Besides, making the thing target via a laser paint should at least enable you to destroy said painted object when it is fired, I mean sure you waste some beer, but it is only American beer (for all intents and purposes coca cola in its effectiveness, and taste).
Whoa, late as hell reply but any who :)
The parent is indeed correct baring one minor point that he doesn't stress enough.... railguns.
If you fire a tau railgun, and it hits, it will (most of the time at least, squigoth and wraithlords are an exception to this) kill what it hits, with one shot.
Another example is necron warriors, their weapons get a special bonus (on average one shot in 6) that gives them a chance at taking out a vehicle in one hit.
Best example of out of kilter damage is the melta (fusion blaster on the tau commander suit), this thing on that suit will, 3 times out of 4 (or thereabouts) destroy a vehicle outright, they are the ultimate anti-vehicle unit, and yet DoW fubars them so badly.
And don't get me into the "static" tau tactic used in DoW, tau are ultra mobile, fast moveing, flanking/surprising/shooty army, they can be non-moving but it is generally considered to be the lesser of the 2 tactics for play.
Think satalite feeds.
I think maybe someone high up in "homeland security" watched ghost in the shell SAC and thought "if only we had those tools".
There was a add on for dark age of Camelot (heavy pvp game) that scanned the incoming data and got the name, did a http lookup on the server to get info on level, class, amount of kills, etc and would then feed it back into the game as a graphic floating above the players head, expect similar for WoW when the pvpers get wind of this, the DaoC version is of course banned and if you are caught with it you will be suspended.
Hint: its not being made by the same devs as DoW was ;)
;)
At a guess I would say MMOFPS (aka planetside clone) which I for one would be perfectly happy with, just give me an xv8, a pair of missile pods and some targeting upgrades and I will be set
As for your "powerful vehicles" you do know most heavy weapons 1 shot them right?
Yeah, we will have to cook up something better :P
And yet if your date is set wrong at time of install, you are labelled a pirate until it is fixed, maybe this is one grey area that they are re-badging.
Maybe they were ninja hippos?
Oh come on, its 8am on a Tuesday, that's as good as its going to get aright?