Nvidia recommends at least a 300W power supply for the 9400 GT, 300W or 400W for the 9600 GT (depending on which model you get), and at least 400W for the 9800 GT.
Granted, if you run these cards with the minimum power supply rating you're going to have a hard time throwing in a RAID array or somesuch nonsense, but the machines in TFA are using 2.5" hard drives and special "ECO" 9800 GTs which use "40% less power than a standard 9800 GT" (putting it easily under the 300W mark).
You're not going to get the same performance out of it as you would out of a beefed-up 9800GT, you're going to have a hard time upgrading one of these very much, and personally I wouldn't call this machine a "gaming PC", but they're not actually lying.
Just a nitpick. I used to play online games via encrypted 802.11g on a laptop, and I'd regularly see 5ms ping times (round trip time), and this was in an area where there were two dozen other networks in range (i.e. there was plenty of interference). Granted, the router's connection to the world was 15Mbps fiber, but my point is that the wireless connection was not a bottleneck.
Wireless is fine for online gaming, as long as you're not trying to play a hundred yards from the router.
If they figured out the protocol "from scratch" (without inside info from ex-Apple employees) then there wouldn't be any reason for them not to be able to use the protocol.
Yep, because those political parties are just lackeys of special interests that I have none of my interests at heart.
You appear to have a very different understanding of the phrase "represents your views" than I do. You see, when I say John represents some particular set of views, I mean he actively works to put those views into action. You appear to mean that John might hold those views himself but ignores them in favor of some special interest or other. If you are correct, John can hardly be said to represent those views, can he?
My use of the phrase mirrors closely the meaning of the words, while your apparent understanding of the phrase removes its meaning and replaces it with useless drivel.
I'm pretty sure the word "device" refers to a physical object, at least in this context, and therefore use of the word "device" in this context would refer to a physical device on which the software is installed.
Yes, the employee could troll the job boards, but why do you want to force the employee to do the work when head hunters are paid to find them? I bet you're a Republican.
As a Republican who wants companies to find me (rather than finding them myself), I'm very confused by your characterization of Republicans as people who want the employees to do all the work. I've never heard a representative of the Republican Party make that claim, and I've never known a Republican who believes it.
I'm sure there's some logical fallacy that applies here, but I'm too lazy to look it up. Maybe I can get it to look me up...
File systems lack tons of features that iTunes has, like album art, smart playlists, easy device synchronization and media backups.
At the risk of sounding like a Microsoft-supporter, I'd like to point out that Windows Explorer (ok, so it's not the file system, but it's the usual way you interact with the FS in Windows) does (or can do) most of that pretty trivially (everything in that list except for the smart playlists).
While my sibling poster is, perhaps, being over offensive, I think he has a point; Apple didn't reject an RSS reader whose purpose is to convey obscene content. Apple rejected an RSS reader whose purpose is to convey information from the EFF blogs, and it was simply coincidence that the blog post that happened to be in the list when they reviewed it linked to a video that contained an obscene subtitle for half a second.
Let me rephrase that. The blog post in question didn't contain obscene content. The blog post simply linked to a video. The audio of the video doesn't contain obscene content, nor does the imagery; there is only one occurrence of a swear word, and it is only on-screen for half a second.
I should point out that the subtitle in question is not at the beginning of the video, it's halfway through the 4-minute video. Did Apple's app reviewers have nothing better to do than read an EFF blog post and watch the fair use video made by the blogger? While I agree that they should give apps more than a cursory glance, it is possible to go too far, and it its quite obvious that this is one of those cases.
In any case, I have several games which, in Windows Vista and Windows 7, actually perform better with the game's "3D acceleration" option turned off. (Peggle, or Plants Vs Zombies, for example, are simply unplayable until the option is disabled, at which point they perform quite well. In XP the option didn't make much difference.)
Some games, however, simply lose over half their framerate compared to XP on the same machine (CS: Source, going from 50fps to 20fps), while other games go from "barely playable" on XP to "slightly less than playable" (Left 4 Dead, going from 20fps to 15fps).
All these are DirectX games, as far as I'm aware.
Granted, these are likely driver issues, but nVidia doesn't really update the drivers for the GeForce Go 7300 anymore...
I have enough trouble getting DirectX to work in a bearable fashion in Vista/7. Don't curse me by making OpenGL stop working... (I've got a Dell laptop with a GeForce Go 7300, if anyone cares and/or has a solution.)
Why should POSIX care which order it happens in? Allowing these two separate operations to be reordered could (in theory) allow a filesystem driver to increase performance by ordering the operations such that the drive head travels the shortest distance.
Granted, operations on a single file shouldn't be reordered, but there's little reason that operations on unrelated files should have to remain ordered.
My Google skills are apparently lacking, as I'm unable to locate the POSIX specs for file system operations. Anyone have a link handy?
You're using a different situation than your parent post gave to try to prove him wrong.
He used a two-operation sequence as an example, saying POSIX doesn't guarantee they'll happen in order: create B, then delete A. He said nothing about renaming B over A.
Your example was one operation: rename B over A. Yes, this is one operation, and yes, POSIX guarantees it will happen atomically.
Neither of you is wrong (as far as I can tell) and there's no reason both of you can't be right (since you're describing different situations).
It would be very odd indeed for Sun to just barely finish (or come close to finishing, I forget which) open-sourcing Java, only to add more proprietary things into it. I concur that your second possibility is more likely.
And regarding the reply issue, for me the text looks fine but the title bar (which should be green) is missing entirely. (Using FF 3.0.10)
I remember getting a phone call from campus IT telling me they'd blocked one of my spare computers for the same reason. Somehow it got infected in the day or two between setting it up and bothering to install antivirus software...
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Nvidia recommends at least a 300W power supply for the 9400 GT, 300W or 400W for the 9600 GT (depending on which model you get), and at least 400W for the 9800 GT.
Granted, if you run these cards with the minimum power supply rating you're going to have a hard time throwing in a RAID array or somesuch nonsense, but the machines in TFA are using 2.5" hard drives and special "ECO" 9800 GTs which use "40% less power than a standard 9800 GT" (putting it easily under the 300W mark).
You're not going to get the same performance out of it as you would out of a beefed-up 9800GT, you're going to have a hard time upgrading one of these very much, and personally I wouldn't call this machine a "gaming PC", but they're not actually lying.
Just a nitpick. I used to play online games via encrypted 802.11g on a laptop, and I'd regularly see 5ms ping times (round trip time), and this was in an area where there were two dozen other networks in range (i.e. there was plenty of interference). Granted, the router's connection to the world was 15Mbps fiber, but my point is that the wireless connection was not a bottleneck.
Wireless is fine for online gaming, as long as you're not trying to play a hundred yards from the router.
If they figured out the protocol "from scratch" (without inside info from ex-Apple employees) then there wouldn't be any reason for them not to be able to use the protocol.
Then again, IANAL, so YMMV.
I didn't say it was inaccurate... I simply said it's a problem ;)
Yep, because those political parties are just lackeys of special interests that I have none of my interests at heart.
You appear to have a very different understanding of the phrase "represents your views" than I do. You see, when I say John represents some particular set of views, I mean he actively works to put those views into action. You appear to mean that John might hold those views himself but ignores them in favor of some special interest or other. If you are correct, John can hardly be said to represent those views, can he?
My use of the phrase mirrors closely the meaning of the words, while your apparent understanding of the phrase removes its meaning and replaces it with useless drivel.
I think we're done here.
So you wouldn't vote for someone that represents your views almost perfectly, simply because they associate themselves with a party?
Wow. That's sad.
I'm pretty sure the word "device" refers to a physical object, at least in this context, and therefore use of the word "device" in this context would refer to a physical device on which the software is installed.
I wouldn't vote for a Republican in a million years.
Not even if the views of the Republican party changed such that they reflected your own views with near-perfect accuracy?
Never say never. Remember, overall Republican (and Democrat) views have changed numerous times over the last several decades.
Yes, the employee could troll the job boards, but why do you want to force the employee to do the work when head hunters are paid to find them? I bet you're a Republican.
As a Republican who wants companies to find me (rather than finding them myself), I'm very confused by your characterization of Republicans as people who want the employees to do all the work. I've never heard a representative of the Republican Party make that claim, and I've never known a Republican who believes it.
I'm sure there's some logical fallacy that applies here, but I'm too lazy to look it up. Maybe I can get it to look me up...
The problem with the loop you've given is that in it, Apple rejects two apps for stupid reasons but only reconsiders for one of them :(
The funniest part of that line was that "Stallman" coincided with the word "Stalin" in the audio ^_^
File systems lack tons of features that iTunes has, like album art, smart playlists, easy device synchronization and media backups.
At the risk of sounding like a Microsoft-supporter, I'd like to point out that Windows Explorer (ok, so it's not the file system, but it's the usual way you interact with the FS in Windows) does (or can do) most of that pretty trivially (everything in that list except for the smart playlists).
I think you just ruined cantaloupe for me.
*sigh*. It never fails; hit submit and instantly see a typo.
That should be "overly" in the first sentence.
While my sibling poster is, perhaps, being over offensive, I think he has a point; Apple didn't reject an RSS reader whose purpose is to convey obscene content. Apple rejected an RSS reader whose purpose is to convey information from the EFF blogs, and it was simply coincidence that the blog post that happened to be in the list when they reviewed it linked to a video that contained an obscene subtitle for half a second.
Let me rephrase that. The blog post in question didn't contain obscene content. The blog post simply linked to a video. The audio of the video doesn't contain obscene content, nor does the imagery; there is only one occurrence of a swear word, and it is only on-screen for half a second.
I should point out that the subtitle in question is not at the beginning of the video, it's halfway through the 4-minute video. Did Apple's app reviewers have nothing better to do than read an EFF blog post and watch the fair use video made by the blogger? While I agree that they should give apps more than a cursory glance, it is possible to go too far, and it its quite obvious that this is one of those cases.
Sure, it's underpowered *now*... but it wasn't so bad two years ago when I bought it ;P
I'll try things with Aero disabled and see what happens. Thanks for the tip.
Interesting.
In any case, I have several games which, in Windows Vista and Windows 7, actually perform better with the game's "3D acceleration" option turned off. (Peggle, or Plants Vs Zombies, for example, are simply unplayable until the option is disabled, at which point they perform quite well. In XP the option didn't make much difference.)
Some games, however, simply lose over half their framerate compared to XP on the same machine (CS: Source, going from 50fps to 20fps), while other games go from "barely playable" on XP to "slightly less than playable" (Left 4 Dead, going from 20fps to 15fps).
All these are DirectX games, as far as I'm aware.
Granted, these are likely driver issues, but nVidia doesn't really update the drivers for the GeForce Go 7300 anymore...
Hmm... this is *way* off topic. Ah well.
I have enough trouble getting DirectX to work in a bearable fashion in Vista/7. Don't curse me by making OpenGL stop working... (I've got a Dell laptop with a GeForce Go 7300, if anyone cares and/or has a solution.)
These systems serviced by the secrete fiber are something completely different then the main systems you keep hearing about with the breaches.
Well there's your problem... the fiber is leaking!
Why should POSIX care which order it happens in? Allowing these two separate operations to be reordered could (in theory) allow a filesystem driver to increase performance by ordering the operations such that the drive head travels the shortest distance.
Granted, operations on a single file shouldn't be reordered, but there's little reason that operations on unrelated files should have to remain ordered.
My Google skills are apparently lacking, as I'm unable to locate the POSIX specs for file system operations. Anyone have a link handy?
You're using a different situation than your parent post gave to try to prove him wrong.
He used a two-operation sequence as an example, saying POSIX doesn't guarantee they'll happen in order: create B, then delete A. He said nothing about renaming B over A.
Your example was one operation: rename B over A. Yes, this is one operation, and yes, POSIX guarantees it will happen atomically.
Neither of you is wrong (as far as I can tell) and there's no reason both of you can't be right (since you're describing different situations).
It used to in C#... I'm half-sure they've fixed it by now.
It would be very odd indeed for Sun to just barely finish (or come close to finishing, I forget which) open-sourcing Java, only to add more proprietary things into it. I concur that your second possibility is more likely.
And regarding the reply issue, for me the text looks fine but the title bar (which should be green) is missing entirely. (Using FF 3.0.10)
I remember getting a phone call from campus IT telling me they'd blocked one of my spare computers for the same reason. Somehow it got infected in the day or two between setting it up and bothering to install antivirus software...
I'm sure they assumed that someone infected with a trojan is probably not running Linux or OSX or *BSD or what have you.