Yeah, I saw the 6100 IGP mentioned in TFA. I was surprised, because I didn't think nForce boards had been available with onboard video since the original boards with their 32MB GeForce 2 graphics. I built my current desktop with one of those a bit over four (or is it five?) years ago, and I was just thinking about adding a video card now.
Of course, the most demanding game I play is The Sims 2.
When I build a computer, I choose parts for upgradability. If I were building one right now, I'd get a motherboard with a 939 socket and PCI express and a fast system drive (possibly a Raptor), and skimp on the parts that are easier to upgrade. The cheapest CPU that a 939 socket will take, RAM on one stick (I know the bandwidth is better on two, but one makes it easier to just add a second later.), and a video card in the $75 - $100 range.
Now, I don't think I'll be building another computer until I graduate, turn in my school laptop, and need a new one myself (my sister, my wife and my parents all have reasonably current ones), but if I was, these would be exactly the sort of cards I'd be looking at.
Suddenly, this "budget" videocard is costing me a new motherboard and processor, plus a handful of PCI cards. Sure, if it's an upgrade. People do buy new computers from time to time, as well.
Good point. As The State so rightly pointed out about ten years ago, it should be pirates vs. clowns.
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NoLock is a SQL Server and Sybase thing (and maybe InGres?). They force select queries to wait until any updates that would affect their results are done and committed, unless you tell it to read the uncertain data with a NoLock. What Oracle does is to give you the data as it was before any uncommitted transactions began.
You are right that it has nothing to do with Warcraft. The song is from the musical Avenue Q, and it's just as funny without the video.
Personally, I prefer the version with the two cute girls lypsynching it into a webcam. However, while I don't like to criticize, I think the artistic effect would have been enhanced if the "for porn" girl flashed each time.
It depends on your taste in porn, and where you look for it. I used to lean more towards the "barely legal" stuff (when I was around that age myself), and Usenet, and actual kiddie porn showed up every couple of months or so.
These days I don't really pay attention to whether I'm looking at 18 year olds or 40 year olds, and I'm more willing to actually pay for a website, so I haven't run across any in a few years.
Y'know, I get the feeling I'd do a lot better with my career if I were to strike out on my own as an independent consultant or by founding a small start-up. The problem is, I have a health condition that requires a trip to the emergency room once every few years, and some seriously expensive medicine to keep it under control. There is no way in hell I can find affordable health insurance on my own
I was shocked when I found out how London never gets above 85 degrees Fahrenheit (29 Celsius) and yet at the same time, rarely snows. It would be interesting to see a health comparison of Seattle and London, then.
There are? Really? Really? In all honesty, I don't think that I've ever heard any non-OSS zealots complain about Windows XP. It's essentially a finished product. There aren't really any major problems left to hammer out, or functionality to add, as far as I'm concerned. What, specifically, are "people" waiting for in Vista? I am. I don't want to run into trouble with system requirements for software in three years that say I have to have Vista.
Unfortunately they relied on a forged letter to support their story which was wrong. But... it is likely the forged letter was essentially accurate, the commanding officers secretary said its content was quite plausible.
I still think Karl Rove fed CBS the letter so that it would be reported, and then announced as a fake. It killed the overall story pretty well, anyway.
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Right now I'm watching a one month old 34 week gestation boy with a transposition of the great arteries slowly die because of these objections along with a bunch of treatment knots. At what point does it either get done without parental consent, or the parents' guardianship get revoked due to neglect?
The schools get math majors ready to be theorists ( bad ones at that ). That's it. There is a huge gap between what the schools teach and what businesses need from their accounting personel. I understand that this isn't really your point, but most accountants really aren't any good at math. In precalculus, I learned how to do compound interest calculations using exponents and logarithms, and then continuous compounding using e.
Later, I took an accounting class, and we used precalculated tables of rate by number of periods.
It didn't work when the U.S.S. Stark was hit by the Iraqi Exocet, but the big scandal there was that the Phalanx wasn't turned on. I can't vouch for how effective they actually are, but both the American and Soviet navies were sold on them for a while.
The U.S. navy is now replacing Phalanx with the RAM (Rolling Airframe Missle); I don't know about Russian, Ukranian, etc.
Reactive armour is basically another layer of material on the outside of the vehicle. Well, yes, but that material is explosive, with just enough armor on it to prevent it from being set off by bullets.
(though the basic principle - try to get it to explode early - is the same). That's not the principle behind reactive armor. The most effective anti-tank approach besides penetrator rounds (which take a big damn gun) is HEAT, which directs all the explosive blast into a small area, so it can punch through the armor. Reactive armor explodes outward, against it, which scatters the blast.
The guy is a doctor. Granted, that doesn't make him a qualified scientist, but he's going to have a lot more science knowledge than your average person on the street.
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I think he or she was talking about citizenship rights, not welfare.
Yeah, I saw the 6100 IGP mentioned in TFA. I was surprised, because I didn't think nForce boards had been available with onboard video since the original boards with their 32MB GeForce 2 graphics. I built my current desktop with one of those a bit over four (or is it five?) years ago, and I was just thinking about adding a video card now.
Of course, the most demanding game I play is The Sims 2.
When I build a computer, I choose parts for upgradability. If I were building one right now, I'd get a motherboard with a 939 socket and PCI express and a fast system drive (possibly a Raptor), and skimp on the parts that are easier to upgrade. The cheapest CPU that a 939 socket will take, RAM on one stick (I know the bandwidth is better on two, but one makes it easier to just add a second later.), and a video card in the $75 - $100 range.
Now, I don't think I'll be building another computer until I graduate, turn in my school laptop, and need a new one myself (my sister, my wife and my parents all have reasonably current ones), but if I was, these would be exactly the sort of cards I'd be looking at.
Suddenly, this "budget" videocard is costing me a new motherboard and processor, plus a handful of PCI cards.
Sure, if it's an upgrade. People do buy new computers from time to time, as well.
Stupid. Why did it have to be replaced?
He mentioned the WinXP upgrade not including a file system upgrade, so I think he was coming from WinME.
Parades and coffee shops cannot, however, prevent people from talking and then doing something else, elsewhere.
Good point. As The State so rightly pointed out about ten years ago, it should be pirates vs. clowns.
NoLock is a SQL Server and Sybase thing (and maybe InGres?). They force select queries to wait until any updates that would affect their results are done and committed, unless you tell it to read the uncertain data with a NoLock. What Oracle does is to give you the data as it was before any uncommitted transactions began.
Getting a BASIC interpreter running in 8K of RAM, including the user's code? Sorry, but I'm fairly impressed by that.
CmdrTaco becomes An Old(er) Man
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And now he's even older.
And now he's even older still...
You are right that it has nothing to do with Warcraft. The song is from the musical Avenue Q, and it's just as funny without the video.
Personally, I prefer the version with the two cute girls lypsynching it into a webcam. However, while I don't like to criticize, I think the artistic effect would have been enhanced if the "for porn" girl flashed each time.
It depends on your taste in porn, and where you look for it. I used to lean more towards the "barely legal" stuff (when I was around that age myself), and Usenet, and actual kiddie porn showed up every couple of months or so.
These days I don't really pay attention to whether I'm looking at 18 year olds or 40 year olds, and I'm more willing to actually pay for a website, so I haven't run across any in a few years.
Y'know, I get the feeling I'd do a lot better with my career if I were to strike out on my own as an independent consultant or by founding a small start-up. The problem is, I have a health condition that requires a trip to the emergency room once every few years, and some seriously expensive medicine to keep it under control. There is no way in hell I can find affordable health insurance on my own
Get married.
I was shocked when I found out how London never gets above 85 degrees Fahrenheit (29 Celsius) and yet at the same time, rarely snows.
It would be interesting to see a health comparison of Seattle and London, then.
There are? Really? Really? In all honesty, I don't think that I've ever heard any non-OSS zealots complain about Windows XP. It's essentially a finished product. There aren't really any major problems left to hammer out, or functionality to add, as far as I'm concerned. What, specifically, are "people" waiting for in Vista?
I am. I don't want to run into trouble with system requirements for software in three years that say I have to have Vista.
Unfortunately they relied on a forged letter to support their story which was wrong. But ... it is likely the forged letter was essentially accurate, the commanding officers secretary said its content was quite plausible.
I still think Karl Rove fed CBS the letter so that it would be reported, and then announced as a fake. It killed the overall story pretty well, anyway.
Right now I'm watching a one month old 34 week gestation boy with a transposition of the great arteries slowly die because of these objections along with a bunch of treatment knots.
At what point does it either get done without parental consent, or the parents' guardianship get revoked due to neglect?
The schools get math majors ready to be theorists ( bad ones at that ). That's it. There is a huge gap between what the schools teach and what businesses need from their accounting personel.
I understand that this isn't really your point, but most accountants really aren't any good at math. In precalculus, I learned how to do compound interest calculations using exponents and logarithms, and then continuous compounding using e.
Later, I took an accounting class, and we used precalculated tables of rate by number of periods.
Now that's damn evil. After I moved to England, I discovered the that my DVDs no longer worked.
You didn't take your old DVD player with you?
It didn't work when the U.S.S. Stark was hit by the Iraqi Exocet, but the big scandal there was that the Phalanx wasn't turned on. I can't vouch for how effective they actually are, but both the American and Soviet navies were sold on them for a while.
The U.S. navy is now replacing Phalanx with the RAM (Rolling Airframe Missle); I don't know about Russian, Ukranian, etc.
It's been working on ships for a couple of decades now. But no, it's not a force field.
I usually hear British or German these days, but they're all pretty close.
Reactive armour is basically another layer of material on the outside of the vehicle.
Well, yes, but that material is explosive, with just enough armor on it to prevent it from being set off by bullets.
(though the basic principle - try to get it to explode early - is the same).
That's not the principle behind reactive armor. The most effective anti-tank approach besides penetrator rounds (which take a big damn gun) is HEAT, which directs all the explosive blast into a small area, so it can punch through the armor. Reactive armor explodes outward, against it, which scatters the blast.
The guy is a doctor. Granted, that doesn't make him a qualified scientist, but he's going to have a lot more science knowledge than your average person on the street.
All cell phones should be banned from cinemas
No one with kids would go again, if they can't be reached by their babysitter.