You're 100% correct. When I built my first gaming computer, I put a 9700pro and a 2500+ Barton in it simply because they were the best out at the time; not to mention the 9700pro completely trounced Nvidia's offerings. Since then I've upgraded to a 9800pro to an x800pro then to a x1800xt, which I still have currently. My cpu has gone from a 2500+ barton, to a 3200+ A64 and to a AMD X2 3800+ (which currently use now and have crazily OC'ed on water cooling:D).
However, I was almost getting ready to buy a 8800GT for my christmas upgrade until I saw the numbers for the 3850 and 3870. they may be marginally lower than the 8800GT, but they are also marginally cheaper. Lucky for ATI (AMD) that I didn't upgrade sooner or else I would have had to betray my loyalty to them.
That being said, the numbers for the Phenom aren't looking too promising. I'm pretty sure my next CPU will either be a C2D or a Q6600 (OC'ed to high heavens).
I prefer not watching Youtube videos. Not having flash installed gives me an excuse not to click on every god damned youtube link people send me and tell me to watch.
It's an annoying trend; linking to videos instead of text. I can easily skim a news article or posting. It's impossible to do the same thing with a video.
A friend opened my eyes to Opera about a year ago and I haven't used Firefox since. Like you said, the only problem I have with it is flash. (although, seeing as how half of the banner ads are flash now, not having flash installed isn't really a bad thing). If there is really a flash applet I want to see, I fire up the website in IE6.
Anandtech had a good insight about this release. I'll just quote it directly instead of trying to paraphrase:
"Almost as soon as we had Phenom samples, Intel made the decision to sample a CPU requiring a FSB that wasn't officially supported by any chipset at the time. No, 1600MHz FSB support won't come until next year with the X48 chipset, but it didn't matter to Intel; we were getting chips now.
Take a moment to understand the gravity of what I just said; Intel, the company that would hardly acknowledge overclocking, was now sampling a CPU that required overclocking to run at stock speeds. Even more telling is that Intel got the approval of upper management to sample these unreleased processors, requiring an unreleased chipset, in a matter of weeks. This is Intel we're talking about here, the larger of the two companies, the Titanic, performing maneuvers with the urgency of a speed boat.
It's scary enough for AMD that Intel has the faster processor, but these days Intel is also the more agile company."
clearly you have never played a game on your PC, encoded a video, ran F@H, or anything else CPU intensive. The hard drive is only the bottle neck while loading. And it's a bottleneck that's going away; SSD's are becoming faster and faster very quickly.
Once the HDD bottleneck is eliminated, I wonder what the next one will be? The user?
Indeed. I wonder what their turn over rate is? I quit last winter, my main friend I played with quit at the same time, and all the other people we knew quit long before us.
The day I give money to Netflix or Blockbuster is the day my newsgroups access disappears. I pay $30/mo for giganews. With my uni connection, I can get a movie in 5 minutes. It usually takes me longer than that to actually find a movie I want to watch. It really doesn't get more convenient than that.
Hell, with the uni connection speed, I can actually stream an HD-DVD or Blu-ray in real time.
Slysoft is safeguarding their decryption method. So you won't see any t-shirts this time around. They worked hard to get here first, and they want to make their money off of it before others crack it also. Well deserved in my opinion.
I've always felt that seeing advertisement in games that are for real companies makes it more realistic. Like seeing billboards for mc Donalds or something while driving on the street in a racing game.
Do you really think that someone would go through that much trouble just to trash a few articles on wikipedia (that are easily revertible).
But even as I write this, I know that there are probably a few people out who would do exactly that...
I'd rather (and so would most of the readers here I imagine) read about some random tech at Google than read about the latest killing, rape, robbery, threat of global warming or whatever the hell is passes as news these days.
I got to the University of Cincinnati in Ohio and I noticed this same problem. Anything after the first 8 digits of the password is ignored. So "lawlpewpew" is the same thing as "lawlpewpewLAZERBEAM". I emailed the IT tech support people asking them about it, but all I got in reply was some default, automated response. In the end, they didn't do anything to fix it either.
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You're 100% correct. When I built my first gaming computer, I put a 9700pro and a 2500+ Barton in it simply because they were the best out at the time; not to mention the 9700pro completely trounced Nvidia's offerings. Since then I've upgraded to a 9800pro to an x800pro then to a x1800xt, which I still have currently. My cpu has gone from a 2500+ barton, to a 3200+ A64 and to a AMD X2 3800+ (which currently use now and have crazily OC'ed on water cooling :D).
However, I was almost getting ready to buy a 8800GT for my christmas upgrade until I saw the numbers for the 3850 and 3870. they may be marginally lower than the 8800GT, but they are also marginally cheaper. Lucky for ATI (AMD) that I didn't upgrade sooner or else I would have had to betray my loyalty to them.
That being said, the numbers for the Phenom aren't looking too promising. I'm pretty sure my next CPU will either be a C2D or a Q6600 (OC'ed to high heavens).
I prefer not watching Youtube videos. Not having flash installed gives me an excuse not to click on every god damned youtube link people send me and tell me to watch. It's an annoying trend; linking to videos instead of text. I can easily skim a news article or posting. It's impossible to do the same thing with a video.
A friend opened my eyes to Opera about a year ago and I haven't used Firefox since. Like you said, the only problem I have with it is flash. (although, seeing as how half of the banner ads are flash now, not having flash installed isn't really a bad thing). If there is really a flash applet I want to see, I fire up the website in IE6.
Anandtech had a good insight about this release. I'll just quote it directly instead of trying to paraphrase:
"Almost as soon as we had Phenom samples, Intel made the decision to sample a CPU requiring a FSB that wasn't officially supported by any chipset at the time. No, 1600MHz FSB support won't come until next year with the X48 chipset, but it didn't matter to Intel; we were getting chips now.
Take a moment to understand the gravity of what I just said; Intel, the company that would hardly acknowledge overclocking, was now sampling a CPU that required overclocking to run at stock speeds. Even more telling is that Intel got the approval of upper management to sample these unreleased processors, requiring an unreleased chipset, in a matter of weeks. This is Intel we're talking about here, the larger of the two companies, the Titanic, performing maneuvers with the urgency of a speed boat.
It's scary enough for AMD that Intel has the faster processor, but these days Intel is also the more agile company."
http://anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3153&p=2
clearly you have never played a game on your PC, encoded a video, ran F@H, or anything else CPU intensive. The hard drive is only the bottle neck while loading. And it's a bottleneck that's going away; SSD's are becoming faster and faster very quickly. Once the HDD bottleneck is eliminated, I wonder what the next one will be? The user?
no kidding, I made it to page 6 or so of ads before I gave up.
Indeed. I wonder what their turn over rate is? I quit last winter, my main friend I played with quit at the same time, and all the other people we knew quit long before us.
I beg to differ about the ending of Portal. While it was satisfying, it most definately was the opposite of closure.
The day I give money to Netflix or Blockbuster is the day my newsgroups access disappears. I pay $30/mo for giganews. With my uni connection, I can get a movie in 5 minutes. It usually takes me longer than that to actually find a movie I want to watch. It really doesn't get more convenient than that. Hell, with the uni connection speed, I can actually stream an HD-DVD or Blu-ray in real time.
Slysoft is safeguarding their decryption method. So you won't see any t-shirts this time around. They worked hard to get here first, and they want to make their money off of it before others crack it also. Well deserved in my opinion.
Some more info about it at http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=130527&page=5 Knew it was only a matter of time...
Really? Damn, I could've swore Japan was region 1. Oh well. Just make an htpc and you won't have to deal with regions.
pretty sure japan is Region 1. The same as the U.S. ... that is of course, assuming you live in the US.
I've always felt that seeing advertisement in games that are for real companies makes it more realistic. Like seeing billboards for mc Donalds or something while driving on the street in a racing game.
Am I the only one who thought of Muse's song, "Super Massive Black Hole" when I saw that wikipedia link?
Do you really think that someone would go through that much trouble just to trash a few articles on wikipedia (that are easily revertible). But even as I write this, I know that there are probably a few people out who would do exactly that...
If you thought that it was a "long article" I can't imagine you've read much. Have you ever read a novel? Or even a short story for that matter?
How is this useful when you can bring a laptop out of standby (or hibernate ot a lesser extent) in mere seconds?
I'd rather (and so would most of the readers here I imagine) read about some random tech at Google than read about the latest killing, rape, robbery, threat of global warming or whatever the hell is passes as news these days.
As posted on Arstechnica 6 hours before this was posted on Slashdot, Dell already apologized for overreacting. The apology can be read here: http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2007/06/16/ 18397.aspx
I got to the University of Cincinnati in Ohio and I noticed this same problem. Anything after the first 8 digits of the password is ignored. So "lawlpewpew" is the same thing as "lawlpewpewLAZERBEAM". I emailed the IT tech support people asking them about it, but all I got in reply was some default, automated response. In the end, they didn't do anything to fix it either.