I dunno, I tend to be very anti-death-penalty. But, when someone comes into the court room and tries to get off on a technicality, or convince the jury to reduce the charge to manslaughter, or whatnot, I think we'd be more likely to hand out a death sentance.
When someone walks in and is like, "Yes, I admit I did it", how does that work? Thank you for saving the taxpayers lots of money by not going through a trial, and thank you for being upfront and honest about your crime; now, die!
If you're smart enough to get around having a legit copy of windows, then do it. If you're not, buy a copy. It's that smart.
Furthermore, I seriously belive that Microsoft doesn't give a shit about power users pirating windows. I work in a computer repair store, I fix people's dumb ass windows problems all day, everyday. The fact that I have access to windows makes me better at my job. By being better at my job, more people can buy a microsoft PC, and not care if the screw it up, because they know that the guys down at the repair shop can fix it. Plus, these users don't call microsoft wondering what's going on with their software.
In this way, it is better for Microsoft to not care if I have a legit copy for a couple of reasons - by knowing how to fix it, I have now become free tech support for everyone I know, taking the burden off of microsoft. Also, I am affording them additional marketshare in that I perpetuate the windows-is-ok idea.
The first hit contains this news story, published last week...
-----quote-----
Athlon 64 PCI-E chipset here by end of year 'for sure' By Tony Smith Published Friday 10th September 2004 12:05 GMT
The first PCI Express chipset supporting AMD's Athlon 64 processor line will have surfaced by the end of the year, an industry source situated not a million miles away from the integrated chipset business told us today.
"There'll be an AMD [Athlon 64] PCI Express product this year for sure," our knowledgeable source said. "At least in the integrated graphics space," he added.
The contrasts with what AMD itself is apparently saying. The CPU maker reckons PCI Express parts won't arrive until Q1 2005, though it's not clear whether it's referring to integrated or discrete chipsets.
Current speculation on the first integrated PCI Express chipset for Athlon 64 centres on Nvidia, which has been offering Athlon 64 chipsets for some time now, and ATI, whose RS480 chipset is said to support the AMD processor family.
Nvidia has already said "next-generation PCI Express [chipsets] are scheduled to be available later this year in time for AMD Sempron market availability", an admission made when AMD launched Sempron last July. Nvidia said its chipset is a Socket 939 part, and AMD's Socket 939 Sempron, the 3000+, is due to ship in Q4, according to AMD.
It's likely that our source was referring to the Nvidia part, but it's not beyond the bounds of possibility that he had an ATI chipset in mind. According to a Hexus report, citing sources familiar with ATI's plans, testing work on RS480 is "developing well, and a solid Q4 launch date is imminent".
VIA is also said to be working on an Athlon 64 PCI Express chipset, the K8T890, but it's release schedule isn't known. ®
See my reply to the guy above you, but as far as putting new parts into an old motherboard, I kind of got a motherboard that has future expandability in mind.
Actually, and you might think i'm crazy, but the P-4 ended up cheaper.
My first choice was going to be AMD 3400+, msi motherboard, 1GB DDR-400, ATI X800 pro, SB Audigy 2.
I ended up with a P-4 2.8Ghz socket-T, 1GB DDR-2 533, PCI-Express ATI X600, and no sound card. And its actually cheaper. What I gave up is I went with the X600 graphics card instead of the X800. So, like, I get the 5th fastest graphics card on the market instead of the 2nd. And the motherboard I got, with the Intel 915G chipset, has onboard digital 5 channel audio built in.
My thought was this: I upgrade every two years or so. In two years, a socket 734 is going to be hard to find stuff for, not to mention, at this moment, there's no motherboards that I know of that can handle more than 2 sticks of ram in DDR-400 (some amd64 boards can handle 3 sticks of 333ddr). Also, I suspect that in 2 years, AGP will be on its way out, and may be relegated to budget cheapie video cards. With this configuration, I give myself leeway - I can still go for the next generation video card in a few years, the Socket-T was just introduced and will carry me onward for a while, and I have DDR-2 slots on my motherboard for future developments. The DDR-2 sticks (2x512mb) were about $110 a piece, btw. Could have been worse.
Database applications come to mind. Granted, you'd have to have some pretty nice high end hard drive configurations, but that's par for the course - if you look at any enterprise solution, they have all the front end application servers, which are generally toned down, and then they have the database server, which is basically as powerful as possible.
Also, given fiberchannel or large disk array solutions, I can think of a lot of applications this would speed up. Anything that spawns new processes when accessed comes to mind - qmail for a university for instance, or webserving for a high volume site. Which is funny.... blog.sun.com...
I'm a big AMD fanboy. But, my last purchase was Intel, for a few reasons.
1.) It is vastly quieter in the default CPU cooling situation. I have an Antec Sonata and P-4 2.8GHz Socket-T, and when it's not doing 3D acceleration, it's damn near quiet.
2.) Hyperthreading is cool. Without having to spend the money on two physical items, I get some of the performance benifits of dual-procs. My system is more responsive while doing background tasks, like printing or burning a DVD - I can comfortably surf the web with no slowdown.
3.) Forward thinking technology. Origionally, I was going to buy the AMD Athlon 64 3200+, but after I started looking at it, I realized that the socket is at a dead end - if I ever wanted to upgrade, it would mean new motherboard. Also, no AMD boards that I'm aware of have PCI Express. And since the Memory controller is on the processor die, you're tied in to DDR memory forever with the chip. My new setup has DDR2 and PCI-express, so it's much more future proof than what I was looking at from the AMD camp.
I had messed with linux over a few years, but back in 2000, I just said to myself I'm going to completely ditch windows and run linux. I went to the store, bought Mandrake 7.something, backed up my data to a spare hard drive, and wiped windows and used linux as my primary for like 6 months.
That way, anything I wanted to do and didn't know how, I would have to learn how to do it.
That's because the most important aspect of being self taught isn't knowing the information, it's knowing where to look for the answer. There's still volumes about linux that I don't know, but when I run into a problem, I have a good idea where to start looking for the answers. It's kind of getting the zen of linux.
It's not even that - if we purchased the physical CD, there would be no obligation to replace it, but TIME AND TIME AGAIN, the RIAA has insisted that we buy a limited licence to listen to the music off of the origional media only.
So, yeah, if I bought not 10 Cognac glasses, but instead 10 limited licences to drink out of a Cognac glass, and two of them got broken, I'd expect an either free, or relatiely cheap, replacement of my glass, since I've already paid for the licence once, and the cost of the physical thing is a lot less than the licence.
My most valuable advice at school is to not be blinded by the expectations of friends, parents, dollar signs, significant others, etc, and to instead find yourself and your niche. Study what excites you. Enjoy going to classes, at least in-major ones.
If you don't feel you're enriching your life and enjoying your classes, you're in the wrong place, and it's not going to get better when you graduate and get a job.
I sold computers in retail for 3 years in high school, in college I was a Unix network admin for about 3 years, and now I've got a job as a tech for a local computer sales/repair/networking company. I went in thinking I wanted to be a computer engineer, or a computer science major, but I hated it - YMMV, but for me, it was completely devoid of any critical thinking and was all memorization and "think fast!" stuff. So, I got a history degree - something I thoroughly enjoy. I enjoyed going to class for almost every history class I took, and I found a love of and deep appreciation for Greek lit. Someday I'll get my teaching cert and go teach high school, but I don't regret switching majors a bit; in fact, I wish I had done it earlier.
Some people go to school knowing what they want to do. If that's not you, recognize it quickly and find something that excites you.
Also: Get involved, but don't overextend yourself. Join a club, or do intermural sports, or volunteer as a DJ at a student run station, or go to the football games, etc. Just... not all at once. Studying actually does help you get better grades (who knew?).
It depends... from the site, it appears to have a 16MB memory capacity, which at 2 megapixel is something like 50 or 60 pictures. Considering a decent disposable camera that takes 24 pics costs $5, this is less than twice as much per picture, and gives you the ability to preview and delete pics you don't want developed. Add to that the possibility of modding/hacking it and the potential environmental friendlyness of not using film, and you're not talking a huge cost for the value.
Yeah, I keep hearing this. Just the other day, I heard a thing on CNN about Doom3 being the game that's going to prop up the ailing computer video game industry. I'm like, do these people know how many games come out for the computer? There's new ones all the time, not to mention well-entrenched franchises, etc.
Not to mention the crap some people go through when they find out their CD Rom is no longer able to read the SafeDisc protection that a game has. For example, see Neverwinter Nights 1.32 patch. Bioware hated Atari for it, and you got the impression on the message board that there were a lot of bioware affiliates who were silently endorsing the idea of using Daemon Tools, or getting a noCD patch for your legit copy of the game if your CD drive didn't work.
From what I've heard on previous discussions on slashdot and elsewhere, these things as a general rule only record a continuous 15-second queue of material - storing 100,000 miles worth of one second data plots covering speed, breaking force, steering direction, etc would be fairly difficult without more extensive equipment and storage, not to mention largely unproductive. The black boxes are only interested in what happened the last 15 seconds before the crash, which is useful information.
Mostly, I reccomend MSI nowadays. They make solid boards. And believe it or not, I actually stand behind ECS boards. Somehow, ECS has a reputation for crap, but we've really had excellent luck with ECS in the past, and the price is right.
It's probably a combination of features, including practice. However, (and I learned some of this from my wife, who studied neurochemistry in college) a lot of it is probably reaction times. Case in point: if you practiced driving a stock car, you could still never drive in nascar. Studies have shown that their reaction times are (admittedly) nanoseconds faster than the average person, and this gives them an edge.
So, you could practice your build order, or your objective list, or memorize every querk in the maps, etc, and get very, very good at a game, but most of us could never be excellent.
uh, no. Asus, Abit and others have been making high quality motherboards for many years now
Correction: Asus does not make "high quality" boards. Asus makes fast boards.
The computer shop where I work stopped selling Asus equipment months ago because about 1 in 4 boards came back bad, and their RMA process and support is a nightmare to deal with.
I know everyone has a personal "This product sucks" story, but believe me, there is no way statistical error can account for the number of Asus boards we've had go bad. This is quantifiable.
Doesn't Maul have anything to say? Doesn't he even want to mock the jedi?
Darth Maul's voice is overdubbed. He only has about 8 spoken words in the film. The reason is that he was chosen on his athletic prowess *only*. In order to get someone who could do that fight, they looked for a professional dancer, with years of jazz-tap and so forth training.
This is why he so completely outclasses Qui-gon Gen in that battle - you wonder how Darth Maul ever could possibly lose, because he outfights the Jedi at all possible points.
Unfortunately, to get someone this agile and diciplined in the arts of, well, basically dancing, they ended up with a gay guy. If you ever hear him talk, he has a high voice and a lisp. It's like Christopher Lowell being the arch-nemisis of the galaxy.
So, they tried to keep his speaking down to a minimum, and keep it simplistic, since they had to overdub the whole 9 yards.
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Plead guilty and was sentanced to death?!?
I dunno, I tend to be very anti-death-penalty. But, when someone comes into the court room and tries to get off on a technicality, or convince the jury to reduce the charge to manslaughter, or whatnot, I think we'd be more likely to hand out a death sentance.
When someone walks in and is like, "Yes, I admit I did it", how does that work? Thank you for saving the taxpayers lots of money by not going through a trial, and thank you for being upfront and honest about your crime; now, die!
It's not punishment, it's prevention, right?
~Will
If you're smart enough to get around having a legit copy of windows, then do it. If you're not, buy a copy. It's that smart.
Furthermore, I seriously belive that Microsoft doesn't give a shit about power users pirating windows. I work in a computer repair store, I fix people's dumb ass windows problems all day, everyday. The fact that I have access to windows makes me better at my job. By being better at my job, more people can buy a microsoft PC, and not care if the screw it up, because they know that the guys down at the repair shop can fix it. Plus, these users don't call microsoft wondering what's going on with their software.
In this way, it is better for Microsoft to not care if I have a legit copy for a couple of reasons - by knowing how to fix it, I have now become free tech support for everyone I know, taking the burden off of microsoft. Also, I am affording them additional marketshare in that I perpetuate the windows-is-ok idea.
And appearantly you yourself didn't do this:
The first hit contains this news story, published last week...
-----quote-----
Athlon 64 PCI-E chipset here by end of year 'for sure'
By Tony Smith
Published Friday 10th September 2004 12:05 GMT
The first PCI Express chipset supporting AMD's Athlon 64 processor line will have surfaced by the end of the year, an industry source situated not a million miles away from the integrated chipset business told us today.
"There'll be an AMD [Athlon 64] PCI Express product this year for sure," our knowledgeable source said. "At least in the integrated graphics space," he added.
The contrasts with what AMD itself is apparently saying. The CPU maker reckons PCI Express parts won't arrive until Q1 2005, though it's not clear whether it's referring to integrated or discrete chipsets.
Current speculation on the first integrated PCI Express chipset for Athlon 64 centres on Nvidia, which has been offering Athlon 64 chipsets for some time now, and ATI, whose RS480 chipset is said to support the AMD processor family.
Nvidia has already said "next-generation PCI Express [chipsets] are scheduled to be available later this year in time for AMD Sempron market availability", an admission made when AMD launched Sempron last July. Nvidia said its chipset is a Socket 939 part, and AMD's Socket 939 Sempron, the 3000+, is due to ship in Q4, according to AMD.
It's likely that our source was referring to the Nvidia part, but it's not beyond the bounds of possibility that he had an ATI chipset in mind. According to a Hexus report, citing sources familiar with ATI's plans, testing work on RS480 is "developing well, and a solid Q4 launch date is imminent".
VIA is also said to be working on an Athlon 64 PCI Express chipset, the K8T890, but it's release schedule isn't known. ®
----end quote----
See my reply to the guy above you, but as far as putting new parts into an old motherboard, I kind of got a motherboard that has future expandability in mind.
Actually, and you might think i'm crazy, but the P-4 ended up cheaper.
My first choice was going to be AMD 3400+, msi motherboard, 1GB DDR-400, ATI X800 pro, SB Audigy 2.
I ended up with a P-4 2.8Ghz socket-T, 1GB DDR-2 533, PCI-Express ATI X600, and no sound card. And its actually cheaper. What I gave up is I went with the X600 graphics card instead of the X800. So, like, I get the 5th fastest graphics card on the market instead of the 2nd. And the motherboard I got, with the Intel 915G chipset, has onboard digital 5 channel audio built in.
My thought was this: I upgrade every two years or so. In two years, a socket 734 is going to be hard to find stuff for, not to mention, at this moment, there's no motherboards that I know of that can handle more than 2 sticks of ram in DDR-400 (some amd64 boards can handle 3 sticks of 333ddr). Also, I suspect that in 2 years, AGP will be on its way out, and may be relegated to budget cheapie video cards. With this configuration, I give myself leeway - I can still go for the next generation video card in a few years, the Socket-T was just introduced and will carry me onward for a while, and I have DDR-2 slots on my motherboard for future developments. The DDR-2 sticks (2x512mb) were about $110 a piece, btw. Could have been worse.
~Will
*ahem*
Database applications come to mind. Granted, you'd have to have some pretty nice high end hard drive configurations, but that's par for the course - if you look at any enterprise solution, they have all the front end application servers, which are generally toned down, and then they have the database server, which is basically as powerful as possible.
Also, given fiberchannel or large disk array solutions, I can think of a lot of applications this would speed up. Anything that spawns new processes when accessed comes to mind - qmail for a university for instance, or webserving for a high volume site. Which is funny.... blog.sun.com...
~Wx
I will tell you a couple of things, though.
I'm a big AMD fanboy. But, my last purchase was Intel, for a few reasons.
1.) It is vastly quieter in the default CPU cooling situation. I have an Antec Sonata and P-4 2.8GHz Socket-T, and when it's not doing 3D acceleration, it's damn near quiet.
2.) Hyperthreading is cool. Without having to spend the money on two physical items, I get some of the performance benifits of dual-procs. My system is more responsive while doing background tasks, like printing or burning a DVD - I can comfortably surf the web with no slowdown.
3.) Forward thinking technology. Origionally, I was going to buy the AMD Athlon 64 3200+, but after I started looking at it, I realized that the socket is at a dead end - if I ever wanted to upgrade, it would mean new motherboard. Also, no AMD boards that I'm aware of have PCI Express. And since the Memory controller is on the processor die, you're tied in to DDR memory forever with the chip. My new setup has DDR2 and PCI-express, so it's much more future proof than what I was looking at from the AMD camp.
~Will
Agreed.
I had messed with linux over a few years, but back in 2000, I just said to myself I'm going to completely ditch windows and run linux. I went to the store, bought Mandrake 7.something, backed up my data to a spare hard drive, and wiped windows and used linux as my primary for like 6 months.
That way, anything I wanted to do and didn't know how, I would have to learn how to do it.
That's because the most important aspect of being self taught isn't knowing the information, it's knowing where to look for the answer. There's still volumes about linux that I don't know, but when I run into a problem, I have a good idea where to start looking for the answers. It's kind of getting the zen of linux.
~Will
It's not even that - if we purchased the physical CD, there would be no obligation to replace it, but TIME AND TIME AGAIN, the RIAA has insisted that we buy a limited licence to listen to the music off of the origional media only.
So, yeah, if I bought not 10 Cognac glasses, but instead 10 limited licences to drink out of a Cognac glass, and two of them got broken, I'd expect an either free, or relatiely cheap, replacement of my glass, since I've already paid for the licence once, and the cost of the physical thing is a lot less than the licence.
~Will
Directed at the first question:
... not all at once. Studying actually does help you get better grades (who knew?).
My most valuable advice at school is to not be blinded by the expectations of friends, parents, dollar signs, significant others, etc, and to instead find yourself and your niche. Study what excites you. Enjoy going to classes, at least in-major ones.
If you don't feel you're enriching your life and enjoying your classes, you're in the wrong place, and it's not going to get better when you graduate and get a job.
I sold computers in retail for 3 years in high school, in college I was a Unix network admin for about 3 years, and now I've got a job as a tech for a local computer sales/repair/networking company. I went in thinking I wanted to be a computer engineer, or a computer science major, but I hated it - YMMV, but for me, it was completely devoid of any critical thinking and was all memorization and "think fast!" stuff. So, I got a history degree - something I thoroughly enjoy. I enjoyed going to class for almost every history class I took, and I found a love of and deep appreciation for Greek lit. Someday I'll get my teaching cert and go teach high school, but I don't regret switching majors a bit; in fact, I wish I had done it earlier.
Some people go to school knowing what they want to do. If that's not you, recognize it quickly and find something that excites you.
Also: Get involved, but don't overextend yourself. Join a club, or do intermural sports, or volunteer as a DJ at a student run station, or go to the football games, etc. Just
~Will
It depends... from the site, it appears to have a 16MB memory capacity, which at 2 megapixel is something like 50 or 60 pictures. Considering a decent disposable camera that takes 24 pics costs $5, this is less than twice as much per picture, and gives you the ability to preview and delete pics you don't want developed. Add to that the possibility of modding/hacking it and the potential environmental friendlyness of not using film, and you're not talking a huge cost for the value.
Yeah, I keep hearing this. Just the other day, I heard a thing on CNN about Doom3 being the game that's going to prop up the ailing computer video game industry. I'm like, do these people know how many games come out for the computer? There's new ones all the time, not to mention well-entrenched franchises, etc.
I don't think they're going anywhere.
~Will
Not to mention the crap some people go through when they find out their CD Rom is no longer able to read the SafeDisc protection that a game has. For example, see Neverwinter Nights 1.32 patch. Bioware hated Atari for it, and you got the impression on the message board that there were a lot of bioware affiliates who were silently endorsing the idea of using Daemon Tools, or getting a noCD patch for your legit copy of the game if your CD drive didn't work.
~Will
Funny... I'm trying it on your server at work, too...
From what I've heard on previous discussions on slashdot and elsewhere, these things as a general rule only record a continuous 15-second queue of material - storing 100,000 miles worth of one second data plots covering speed, breaking force, steering direction, etc would be fairly difficult without more extensive equipment and storage, not to mention largely unproductive. The black boxes are only interested in what happened the last 15 seconds before the crash, which is useful information.
//tinfoil hat off
~Will
Wow, dude.
Seriously, that's incredible. The level of accuracy required for the things you say... damn.
~Will
Mostly, I reccomend MSI nowadays. They make solid boards. And believe it or not, I actually stand behind ECS boards. Somehow, ECS has a reputation for crap, but we've really had excellent luck with ECS in the past, and the price is right.
But, mostly, MSI is where it's at.
~Will
It's probably a combination of features, including practice. However, (and I learned some of this from my wife, who studied neurochemistry in college) a lot of it is probably reaction times. Case in point: if you practiced driving a stock car, you could still never drive in nascar. Studies have shown that their reaction times are (admittedly) nanoseconds faster than the average person, and this gives them an edge.
So, you could practice your build order, or your objective list, or memorize every querk in the maps, etc, and get very, very good at a game, but most of us could never be excellent.
uh, no. Asus, Abit and others have been making high quality motherboards for many years now
Correction: Asus does not make "high quality" boards. Asus makes fast boards.
The computer shop where I work stopped selling Asus equipment months ago because about 1 in 4 boards came back bad, and their RMA process and support is a nightmare to deal with.
I know everyone has a personal "This product sucks" story, but believe me, there is no way statistical error can account for the number of Asus boards we've had go bad. This is quantifiable.
~Will
I got:I'm not sure why, i'm using firefox... Oh, wait, i just realized - I bet it's because I'm using 0.8 still.
Eh, whatever. Not earth shattering, it's not like it replaces system files.
~Will
Heh, he's on thebroken, which is kinda lame, but then, I'm kinda lame, and they interviewed The Real Kevin.
For more lame videos, also go to pure pwnage if you're into zero hour.
I need a life.
~Will
Doesn't Maul have anything to say? Doesn't he even want to mock the jedi?
Darth Maul's voice is overdubbed. He only has about 8 spoken words in the film. The reason is that he was chosen on his athletic prowess *only*. In order to get someone who could do that fight, they looked for a professional dancer, with years of jazz-tap and so forth training.
This is why he so completely outclasses Qui-gon Gen in that battle - you wonder how Darth Maul ever could possibly lose, because he outfights the Jedi at all possible points.
Unfortunately, to get someone this agile and diciplined in the arts of, well, basically dancing, they ended up with a gay guy. If you ever hear him talk, he has a high voice and a lisp. It's like Christopher Lowell being the arch-nemisis of the galaxy.
So, they tried to keep his speaking down to a minimum, and keep it simplistic, since they had to overdub the whole 9 yards.
~Wx
Is anyone else having a problem where the movies are *really* jerky?
I don't know about Charisma, but that guy must have a crazy high INT.