> And in my experience no RTS console game has ever been remotely good at all (if you're used to PC ones).
Because of the different input methods all console RTS's are dumbed down. It's just freaking impossible to get all the detail you can see with a computer monitor and still pander to the people who play xbox on their standard def TVs (1. Who the hell plays HD consoles on regular TVs? 2.Games are still built so menus work in standard def - WHAT?!!?!)
Why not just use their own internal protocol specification? Rewriting the same specification is a recipie for disaster. One wrong/. and you can't send a meeting request.
>Ok, but SMTP is a standard. Why purposedly block part of the Internet?
Correct me if I'm wrong but dont viruses that infect consumer PCs use them as spam relays? Blocking port 25 on consumer IP ranges helps solve this problem, right?
Blocking port 25 is an entirely responsible measure by an ISP and I fully support it. AS LONG as there is a way to OPT-OUT of the blocking. If not they are just dicking around with my connection.
You may be wondering, with a chip this large, about power consumptionâ"as in: Will the lights flicker when I fire up Call of Duty 4? The chip's max thermal design power, or TDP, is 236W, which is considerable. However, Nvidia claims idle power draw for the GT200 of only 25W, down from 64W in the G80. They even say GT200's idle power draw is similar to AMD's righteously frugal RV670 GPU. We shall see about that, but how did they accomplish such a thing? GeForce GPUs have many clock domains, as evidenced by the fact that the GPU core and shader clock speeds diverge. Tamasi said Nvidia implemented dynamic power and frequency scaling throughout the chip, with multiple units able to scale independently. He characterized G80 as an "on or off" affair, whereas GT200's power use scales more linearly with demand. Even in a 3D game or application, he hinted, the GT200 might use much less power than its TDP maximum. Much like a CPU, GT200 has multiple power states with algorithmic determination of the proper state, and those P-states include a new, presumably relatively low-power state for video decoding and playback. Also, GT200-based cards will be compatible with Nvidia's HybridPower scheme, so they can be deactivated entirely in favor of a chipset-based GPU when they're not needed.
Roku: Third, we've heard feedback from home theater purists who said that they don't want to hear fan noise. HotHardware: Is that right? Tim: Yep. Quite a few people don't want to hear the hum of a fan in the background while watching TV.
Hell, they could just torture the password out of the prisoner
this is what deniable encryption is all about. Deniable encryption isn't worth anything when your captors have no morality or reason to stop torturing you.
I'm not putting you down but can you explain to me what the difference is in real life?
Even the crappiest cameras these days can take full motion video and are not THAT bad at it. My Kodak from 4 years ago does a pretty nice job! It will run until the battery goes or my memory card is full.
I think you are spewing urban legends about the camera sounds and IR filters. I know the Japanese government was talking about the snap sounds on camera phones but never the US.
I have never ever found a camera or phone that you can not turn the sound off of in the United States. Even if you couldn't people would just cut the electrical leads to the speaker.
As for the claim of removing IR functionality from cameras can you cite some examples?
I love how sites put one paragraph per page just to annoy me AND put ads BEFORE the content even starts. On many websites you actually have to scan for a few seconds to find the actual content.
There used to be "Printer Friendly" links on these kind of sites but I guess they're too smart for me.
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> And in my experience no RTS console game has ever been remotely good at all (if you're used to PC ones).
Because of the different input methods all console RTS's are dumbed down. It's just freaking impossible to get all the detail you can see with a computer monitor and still pander to the people who play xbox on their standard def TVs (1. Who the hell plays HD consoles on regular TVs? 2.Games are still built so menus work in standard def - WHAT?!!?!)
1. Try to get arrested in an airport by acting like a terrorist
2. ???
3. ???
Why not just use their own internal protocol specification? Rewriting the same specification is a recipie for disaster. One wrong /. and you can't send a meeting request.
>Ok, but SMTP is a standard. Why purposedly block part of the Internet?
Correct me if I'm wrong but dont viruses that infect consumer PCs use them as spam relays? Blocking port 25 on consumer IP ranges helps solve this problem, right?
Blocking port 25 is an entirely responsible measure by an ISP and I fully support it. AS LONG as there is a way to OPT-OUT of the blocking. If not they are just dicking around with my connection.
Idea for a product:
Make a small network device - maybe only 2 megs of RAM and a 100mz processor and load linux+iptables to do this for non-technical users.
Something like the DSD-150 Internet Security Adapter. http://www.dlink.com/products/?sec=1&pid=486 It's just a few inches square.
Then Sandvine would be...useless.
You may be wondering, with a chip this large, about power consumptionâ"as in: Will the lights flicker when I fire up Call of Duty 4? The chip's max thermal design power, or TDP, is 236W, which is considerable. However, Nvidia claims idle power draw for the GT200 of only 25W, down from 64W in the G80. They even say GT200's idle power draw is similar to AMD's righteously frugal RV670 GPU. We shall see about that, but how did they accomplish such a thing? GeForce GPUs have many clock domains, as evidenced by the fact that the GPU core and shader clock speeds diverge. Tamasi said Nvidia implemented dynamic power and frequency scaling throughout the chip, with multiple units able to scale independently. He characterized G80 as an "on or off" affair, whereas GT200's power use scales more linearly with demand. Even in a 3D game or application, he hinted, the GT200 might use much less power than its TDP maximum. Much like a CPU, GT200 has multiple power states with algorithmic determination of the proper state, and those P-states include a new, presumably relatively low-power state for video decoding and playback. Also, GT200-based cards will be compatible with Nvidia's HybridPower scheme, so they can be deactivated entirely in favor of a chipset-based GPU when they're not needed.
From the article:
"However, Nvidia claims idle power draw for the GT200 of only 25W, down from 64W in the G80."
How is Nvidia able to year after year make these amazing advances in power while Intel makes (although great) only modest advances?
As I said I do not know anything about chip design so please correct me on any points.
Roku: Third, we've heard feedback from home theater purists who said that they don't want to hear fan noise.
HotHardware: Is that right?
Tim: Yep. Quite a few people don't want to hear the hum of a fan in the background while watching TV.
Imagine if YOU were locked up for a year or two.
Even the crappiest cameras these days can take full motion video and are not THAT bad at it. My Kodak from 4 years ago does a pretty nice job! It will run until the battery goes or my memory card is full.
I have never ever found a camera or phone that you can not turn the sound off of in the United States. Even if you couldn't people would just cut the electrical leads to the speaker.
As for the claim of removing IR functionality from cameras can you cite some examples?
I love how sites put one paragraph per page just to annoy me AND put ads BEFORE the content even starts. On many websites you actually have to scan for a few seconds to find the actual content. There used to be "Printer Friendly" links on these kind of sites but I guess they're too smart for me.