Has anyone noticed an increase in how long it takes Putty to start up post-SP2? I thought it was the firewall at first, but I disabled that. It still takes about 5 seconds to launch, where before it was instant.
It's not the refresh rate, it's the pixel response time. Some LCDs are really bad for gaming (look at older laptops for good examples), while some are great. Look for ones with a rating of 20ms or lower and you should not see any blurring.
Btw, most LCDs do run at "60Hz", but not every pixel needs to be toggled every cycle, so it's not exactly the best way to measure them. Other than ms, I'm not sure what they use now. Maybe we should have some sort of "number of pixel changes per second per pixel" or something.;)
Look at that 7 Deadly Sims site, with the crazy flashing "free ipod" and the shaking "congratulations you've won" ads. Anyone that likes that site either has a lot of tolerance or appreciates the nature of a sell out.
You have to give Bush some credit. He did *try* to create more jobs. After all, those jobs held by National Guardsmen had to be filled by someone else while they're gone, eh?
The last half dozen coral links I've used, for slashdotted articles and non-slashdotted articles, have been basically down or so extremely slow as to be not worthwhile.
"Is there any advantage to do this all in one day whatsoever?"
Well, as it is completely futile (unless you can figure out how to send a big check immediately while making that voice call), it makes sense to get it over with as quickly as possible.
"That was nearly four years ago now. Can we just let it go already? Can we "Move On"?"
Not until we learn from our mistakes. Does anyone believe the 2004 election will be handled better than the 2000 election? Nothing has improved, and now Diebold has a stronger hold on the elections outcome.
"Legislators don't always have time to read every bill that comes before them."
There ought to be a law that staztes legislators must be provided with enough time to read every bill, and debate it, before it can be passed.
The legislators that do not read the bills should be forcefully removed from office. I'm serious, they shouldn't even be a part of the process once that's uncovered. Who knows why we, the people, put up with it.
The FPS figures quoted by benchmark sites and reviewers are almost always "average" figures. An average of 30 FPS means that sometimes it's faster, but more noticably, sometimes it is slower.
I propose that benchmarks and reviewers should ditch the "average" FPS figure and either replace it with reporting the lowest FPS measured, or some sort of "95th percentile" to weed out minor glitches. The only time FPS matters is when it's slow anyways.
Check out the Antec cases. They're a nice alternative (actually I think they might build Alienware's cases, but I could be mistaken) and you don't have to pay the extreme Alienware prices.
I'm surprised we don't see more DoS attacks like the following:
Connect to a web server from your botnet, and send the query line by line, with ~60 seconds between each line (IE 60 seconds, then send GET, 60 seconds, send User-Agent, so on). You could run an Apache server out of processes in no time, and there'd be no easy way to block what is going on, without also blocking legit traffic.
It must be pretty nice to be able to announce that you're selling a company with 3 days of service records backing it up, and to have free(?) on slashdot to do it!
Heh, so when a spammer has a SPF record that states the IP sending the spam (some Chinese proxy) is valid, what will that get us? Proof that they really are sending it from China?
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"You don't have to retool anything. Unless you want too. Besides this argument was already tried in the switchover to cars, from the horse and buggy. Were you protesting switchover waste then?"
Bad comparison. The people touting cars weren't claiming they were better for the environment.
The manufacturers will indeed have to retool their factories. You can't expect machines that were built to build incandescent bulbs, really really cheap, to also be able to build CF bulbs without any change. That's rediculous.
My computer (Athlon 2600+, 1GB RAM, 7200RPM drive, Geforce 4 Ti4200) plus LCD uses a total of ~200W, while playing games that peg the CPU and video card. The power supply is rated at 350W.
It's rated that high because starting up the fans and the drives requires more power, although still not that much. I think you're way overblowing the impact of a computer on the power bill, all because some sticker says that the power supply can put out 400W.
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LCDs and compact fluorescent only recently became viable alternatives (quality and price-wise). We're seeing many new computers ship with LCDs by default. That ought to help, since most people probably don't piecemeal their computers together like us Slashdotters.:)
In fact, compact fluorescents are still a ways away from the quality of regular incandescent. I haven't had one last even 1/5th of the time they claim, and not as long as some incandescent.
Because they're private companies profiting from multibillion dollar wars. They, and we, ought to be paying the price through higher per-gallon gas taxes.
Instead, we have artificially low gas prices undercutting what would otherwise be "better" (cleaner, more efficient, etc) fuel sources.
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Has anyone noticed an increase in how long it takes Putty to start up post-SP2? I thought it was the firewall at first, but I disabled that. It still takes about 5 seconds to launch, where before it was instant.
It's not the refresh rate, it's the pixel response time. Some LCDs are really bad for gaming (look at older laptops for good examples), while some are great. Look for ones with a rating of 20ms or lower and you should not see any blurring.
;)
Btw, most LCDs do run at "60Hz", but not every pixel needs to be toggled every cycle, so it's not exactly the best way to measure them. Other than ms, I'm not sure what they use now. Maybe we should have some sort of "number of pixel changes per second per pixel" or something.
Me to FTC: Hey, I'm thinking about hosting some spammers.
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FTC to Me: Here, have some money, maybe you'll change your mind.
Sounds like the broken farm subsidy system.
Look at that 7 Deadly Sims site, with the crazy flashing "free ipod" and the shaking "congratulations you've won" ads. Anyone that likes that site either has a lot of tolerance or appreciates the nature of a sell out.
Drugs, like those that make you misunderstand the use of the * wildcard? :)
You have to give Bush some credit. He did *try* to create more jobs. After all, those jobs held by National Guardsmen had to be filled by someone else while they're gone, eh?
The amusing thing is that many of the people in porn now /were/ kids when we were on 9600 baud modems.
The last half dozen coral links I've used, for slashdotted articles and non-slashdotted articles, have been basically down or so extremely slow as to be not worthwhile.
"Is there any advantage to do this all in one day whatsoever?"
Well, as it is completely futile (unless you can figure out how to send a big check immediately while making that voice call), it makes sense to get it over with as quickly as possible.
Just replace Hits with Tits and you'll be set.
Call your hosting provider to get a better deal, though, in advance.
They didn't assign 1984 in my high school. Most people I know have never read it. Too bad, really.
"That was nearly four years ago now. Can we just let it go already? Can we "Move On"?"
Not until we learn from our mistakes. Does anyone believe the 2004 election will be handled better than the 2000 election? Nothing has improved, and now Diebold has a stronger hold on the elections outcome.
"Legislators don't always have time to read every bill that comes before them."
There ought to be a law that staztes legislators must be provided with enough time to read every bill, and debate it, before it can be passed.
The legislators that do not read the bills should be forcefully removed from office. I'm serious, they shouldn't even be a part of the process once that's uncovered. Who knows why we, the people, put up with it.
The FPS figures quoted by benchmark sites and reviewers are almost always "average" figures. An average of 30 FPS means that sometimes it's faster, but more noticably, sometimes it is slower.
I propose that benchmarks and reviewers should ditch the "average" FPS figure and either replace it with reporting the lowest FPS measured, or some sort of "95th percentile" to weed out minor glitches. The only time FPS matters is when it's slow anyways.
The moral of the story: Don't send money to Florida companies.
Check out the Antec cases. They're a nice alternative (actually I think they might build Alienware's cases, but I could be mistaken) and you don't have to pay the extreme Alienware prices.
I'm surprised we don't see more DoS attacks like the following:
Connect to a web server from your botnet, and send the query line by line, with ~60 seconds between each line (IE 60 seconds, then send GET, 60 seconds, send User-Agent, so on). You could run an Apache server out of processes in no time, and there'd be no easy way to block what is going on, without also blocking legit traffic.
How much for a silent or near silent case? Granted the TiVo isn't silent, but most cheap PCs are quite loud, not something I'd want in my living room.
It must be pretty nice to be able to announce that you're selling a company with 3 days of service records backing it up, and to have free(?) on slashdot to do it!
Heh, so when a spammer has a SPF record that states the IP sending the spam (some Chinese proxy) is valid, what will that get us? Proof that they really are sending it from China?
"You don't have to retool anything. Unless you want too. Besides this argument was already tried in the switchover to cars, from the horse and buggy. Were you protesting switchover waste then?"
Bad comparison. The people touting cars weren't claiming they were better for the environment.
The manufacturers will indeed have to retool their factories. You can't expect machines that were built to build incandescent bulbs, really really cheap, to also be able to build CF bulbs without any change. That's rediculous.
My computer (Athlon 2600+, 1GB RAM, 7200RPM drive, Geforce 4 Ti4200) plus LCD uses a total of ~200W, while playing games that peg the CPU and video card. The power supply is rated at 350W.
It's rated that high because starting up the fans and the drives requires more power, although still not that much. I think you're way overblowing the impact of a computer on the power bill, all because some sticker says that the power supply can put out 400W.
LCDs and compact fluorescent only recently became viable alternatives (quality and price-wise). We're seeing many new computers ship with LCDs by default. That ought to help, since most people probably don't piecemeal their computers together like us Slashdotters. :)
In fact, compact fluorescents are still a ways away from the quality of regular incandescent. I haven't had one last even 1/5th of the time they claim, and not as long as some incandescent.
"Why should there be a "war surcharge"?"
Because they're private companies profiting from multibillion dollar wars. They, and we, ought to be paying the price through higher per-gallon gas taxes.
Instead, we have artificially low gas prices undercutting what would otherwise be "better" (cleaner, more efficient, etc) fuel sources.
Fossil fuels are massively subsidized in the US (there's no "war surcharge" at the pump), too, making it hard for anything else to take hold.