Not only is one of them in.asp, but the others are either slashdotted or have replaced them with links to the quicktime version. Sorry everyone, Apple have beaten be to it.
For those either on Linux and unable to, or just hate Quicktime for some reason, Dark Horizons has links to thesefourmirrorsites in.mpg format. Note that these seem pretty hosed as well though...
Its possible you are indeed just plain silly. While the chips are now so fundamentally different that doing a direct speed comparison is difficult, in the vast majority of benchmarks there have only been brief periods of Intel leading the speed race ever since the release of the first Athlons. On the 3DMark numbers (check Tom's review of the 1900+ for details) every single one of the Athlon XPs beats the 2GHz P4, even the 1500+ one.
Personally, I think that when Intel rush out another couple of MHz in an attempt to catch up its not going to last either - I really don't see your argument about Intel being an accepted leader in the performace field.
"Games, by definition, are not suitable as real performance meters"
Err, you do know what most of these chips are going to be bought for, don't you? Benchmarking on the application you intend to use is the only sensible thing to do.
By all means, if you want a processor for doing matrix multiplication then test it with that, but most of the people after the new ninja AMD chip will be wanting an extra couple of frames per second.
While I think its probably irrelevant to point out that I've read the article, I don't suppose you could remind me of the link between Date::Discordian (something clearly inspired by the brilliance of the Illuminatus! trilogy) and LoTR? I know that Leviathon references LoTR as well, but is there something else?
I'll not deny that Marcell was a pretty high up guy, I'm just pointing out that whoever made the decision to use that particular story as cover for the balloon made a fairly headache-inducing call.
To be fair though, it certainly helped divert attention away from other, military, reasons for odd-looking things seen in the sky for decades, so who am I to say it was a dumb move I suppose.
Well, you're only sort of wrong. Its true that this is the explosion that has been blamed on Tesla in the past occasionally, but its pretty blimming unlikely that he really did cause it. The facts match the metereorite explanation much better, but that doesn't help the 'Tesla found powers man was not meant to know' story.
Mind you, when the Tesla-as-Frankenstein myth gives us stories like 'The Prestige' then I'll not be complaining too much; its a truly brilliant novel.
As in, its an event with a perfectly rational but rather interesting explanation that has been distorted by the saucerheads to support their belief structure. There was a cover up at Roswell, but the documents show thats because they were upper-atmosphere experiments to detect USSR nuclear testing; not something they fancied talking about at the time. One dumb army person thought that a UFO crash would make a good cover story, without realising just how good it would be. When they retracted that, people just believed it more.
Eeek. Apparently Wil really is CleverNickName. Given that both his sig line and his bio are quotes from Fight Club (and excellent taste you have Mr. Wheaton I must say) here we have someone who can truly fulfil a film's ambition:
I'm not the moderator, but I guess alledging that a console can't compete with the PS2 because the screenshots of an incomplete launch title are considered unimpressive by you (I think Project Gotham is looking pretty nice), and that there have been as many as a 1% failure rate of a box running test code does seem a bit harsh.
Mind you, its not really flamebait until I point out how the graphics on Soul Calibur for the Dreamcast crap all over most games available on the PS2!;P
To be serious for a second, even Munch's Odyssee looks better than most of the PS2 launch titles - they were an embarassment, by and large. Fortunately, with games like GT3 and GTA3 the machine is starting to deliver on its promises, so I'm prepared to give these new consoles a few months for the less rushed titles to come out.
OK, I'll translate for you. Bald guy who was in Star Trek 15 years ago got paid a fortune to go to the launch event in New York, but Madonna is rich enough to not bother doing so.
Its a pretty odd way of wording it if you've not seen the TV adverts yet. Perhaps they assume you spend your entire life glued to their channels...
Its a funny way of saying it, but 'users to delete data from their hard drive' presumably refers to the secure delete facility thats new to XP. Because users want to make really sure that an undelete on win.exe can't be done, or something.
Despite an understandable reason for delay (for those that didn't hear, the original campaign was reworked post-September 11 to no longer have a tagline about flying) they do seem to be rather late on the media overload. I've seen a few adverts, but after the less than enthusiastic applause for ME the hype stories have been a bit quiet. It wasn't even because ME was bad, particularly, just that journalists are cottoning on to the fact that its not the groundbreaking event that they thought 95 would be. I noticed only four PC Worlds in the UK opened at midnight, unlike previous console release-style silliness.
Sorry, but that would be clever. What ATI have done instead is check to see if common benchmarking program Quake3 is running, and if so override the texture quality settings to something nice and low that the hardware can cope with better. For real world image quality, it means that you can compare the medium quality numbers from a GeForce series card with the high quality ones from an ATI. At which point the Radeon gets beaten by the new budget version of the GeForce3 and ATI is in big trouble - presumably why they have resorted to such underhand tactics.
Others have commented on this as well, but the write-ups on sites like Firingsquad have done some more digging, and they aren't really optimising at all. All they have done is check to see if the exe is called Quake3 and if so then reduce texture quality behind the scenes. The screenshots prove it - image quality is noticeably worse in normal quake3 than if you hack round it with changes to the quake3 exe.
As the AC said, that will never happen. Not least because you can prise my limited-edition glow in the dark custom designed Pure Phase box by Spiritualized out of my cold, dead hands. A lot of people actually want the whole package with sleevenotes and artwork, rather than just access to the waveform, and the rest would probably be quite happy with an mp3 version anyway.
Surely this could really backfire. I'm just finishing up an important document, perhaps having a significant section of text highlighted as I move paragraphs around.
"Sorry, I couldn't get that disc you were after today" says a collegue.
"Ah, shit!". Oops, there goes a bunch of your document. Don't swear, though, or you'll lose it from the undo buffer as well!
I'm probably inviting (-1, offtopic) but if you've not noticed yet this has been nearly first posted for days now. I strongly suspect you're talking to a bot, not even a troll. There has been a distinct lack of any replies from the individual.
Thanks for that. All I can say from reading it though is oh dear. If his dual PIII 800 box with a GeForce3 card only gets 30fps then I'm in big trouble with my poor box.
Can I just make a public request? Next time they might be tempted to give something a silly name like that, can we have an "Operation: You're The Doctor!" please?
sorry, lame joke, but when a thread has gone this far without it being made I had to, for closure you know.
Slashdot Mirror
Not only is one of them in .asp, but the others are either slashdotted or have replaced them with links to the quicktime version. Sorry everyone, Apple have beaten be to it.
For those either on Linux and unable to, or just hate Quicktime for some reason, Dark Horizons has links to these four mirror sites in .mpg format. Note that these seem pretty hosed as well though...
Its possible you are indeed just plain silly. While the chips are now so fundamentally different that doing a direct speed comparison is difficult, in the vast majority of benchmarks there have only been brief periods of Intel leading the speed race ever since the release of the first Athlons. On the 3DMark numbers (check Tom's review of the 1900+ for details) every single one of the Athlon XPs beats the 2GHz P4, even the 1500+ one.
Personally, I think that when Intel rush out another couple of MHz in an attempt to catch up its not going to last either - I really don't see your argument about Intel being an accepted leader in the performace field.
"Games, by definition, are not suitable as real performance meters"
Err, you do know what most of these chips are going to be bought for, don't you? Benchmarking on the application you intend to use is the only sensible thing to do.
By all means, if you want a processor for doing matrix multiplication then test it with that, but most of the people after the new ninja AMD chip will be wanting an extra couple of frames per second.
While I think its probably irrelevant to point out that I've read the article, I don't suppose you could remind me of the link between Date::Discordian (something clearly inspired by the brilliance of the Illuminatus! trilogy) and LoTR? I know that Leviathon references LoTR as well, but is there something else?
Sorry if I'm being dumb...
I'll not deny that Marcell was a pretty high up guy, I'm just pointing out that whoever made the decision to use that particular story as cover for the balloon made a fairly headache-inducing call.
To be fair though, it certainly helped divert attention away from other, military, reasons for odd-looking things seen in the sky for decades, so who am I to say it was a dumb move I suppose.
Well, you're only sort of wrong. Its true that this is the explosion that has been blamed on Tesla in the past occasionally, but its pretty blimming unlikely that he really did cause it. The facts match the metereorite explanation much better, but that doesn't help the 'Tesla found powers man was not meant to know' story.
Mind you, when the Tesla-as-Frankenstein myth gives us stories like 'The Prestige' then I'll not be complaining too much; its a truly brilliant novel.
But it was another Roswell!
As in, its an event with a perfectly rational but rather interesting explanation that has been distorted by the saucerheads to support their belief structure. There was a cover up at Roswell, but the documents show thats because they were upper-atmosphere experiments to detect USSR nuclear testing; not something they fancied talking about at the time. One dumb army person thought that a UFO crash would make a good cover story, without realising just how good it would be. When they retracted that, people just believed it more.
Anyway, enough ranting from me...
I expect its just a +1, funny, but just in case anyone really is confused,
"WETA, the Washington DC public TV station?"
No, WETA the New Zealand effects company owned by Peter Jackson.
Eeek. Apparently Wil really is CleverNickName. Given that both his sig line and his bio are quotes from Fight Club (and excellent taste you have Mr. Wheaton I must say) here we have someone who can truly fulfil a film's ambition:
"Shatner. I'd fight William Shatner".
Now that I'd pay money for!
Don't worry, I did the same. wipEout was decidedly cool itself, but wip3out improved on it so much I bought a Playstation.
I'm not the moderator, but I guess alledging that a console can't compete with the PS2 because the screenshots of an incomplete launch title are considered unimpressive by you (I think Project Gotham is looking pretty nice), and that there have been as many as a 1% failure rate of a box running test code does seem a bit harsh.
;P
Mind you, its not really flamebait until I point out how the graphics on Soul Calibur for the Dreamcast crap all over most games available on the PS2!
To be serious for a second, even Munch's Odyssee looks better than most of the PS2 launch titles - they were an embarassment, by and large. Fortunately, with games like GT3 and GTA3 the machine is starting to deliver on its promises, so I'm prepared to give these new consoles a few months for the less rushed titles to come out.
Am I the only one who was hoping for some top quality F-3600 AG racing after seeing that title? Oh well, back to the serious news then.
OK, I'll translate for you. Bald guy who was in Star Trek 15 years ago got paid a fortune to go to the launch event in New York, but Madonna is rich enough to not bother doing so.
Its a pretty odd way of wording it if you've not seen the TV adverts yet. Perhaps they assume you spend your entire life glued to their channels...
Its a funny way of saying it, but 'users to delete data from their hard drive' presumably refers to the secure delete facility thats new to XP. Because users want to make really sure that an undelete on win.exe can't be done, or something.
Despite an understandable reason for delay (for those that didn't hear, the original campaign was reworked post-September 11 to no longer have a tagline about flying) they do seem to be rather late on the media overload. I've seen a few adverts, but after the less than enthusiastic applause for ME the hype stories have been a bit quiet. It wasn't even because ME was bad, particularly, just that journalists are cottoning on to the fact that its not the groundbreaking event that they thought 95 would be. I noticed only four PC Worlds in the UK opened at midnight, unlike previous console release-style silliness.
Or am I wrong and I've been living under a rock?
Sorry, but that would be clever. What ATI have done instead is check to see if common benchmarking program Quake3 is running, and if so override the texture quality settings to something nice and low that the hardware can cope with better. For real world image quality, it means that you can compare the medium quality numbers from a GeForce series card with the high quality ones from an ATI. At which point the Radeon gets beaten by the new budget version of the GeForce3 and ATI is in big trouble - presumably why they have resorted to such underhand tactics.
Others have commented on this as well, but the write-ups on sites like Firingsquad have done some more digging, and they aren't really optimising at all. All they have done is check to see if the exe is called Quake3 and if so then reduce texture quality behind the scenes. The screenshots prove it - image quality is noticeably worse in normal quake3 than if you hack round it with changes to the quake3 exe.
As the AC said, that will never happen. Not least because you can prise my limited-edition glow in the dark custom designed Pure Phase box by Spiritualized out of my cold, dead hands. A lot of people actually want the whole package with sleevenotes and artwork, rather than just access to the waveform, and the rest would probably be quite happy with an mp3 version anyway.
Surely this could really backfire. I'm just finishing up an important document, perhaps having a significant section of text highlighted as I move paragraphs around.
"Sorry, I couldn't get that disc you were after today" says a collegue.
"Ah, shit!". Oops, there goes a bunch of your document. Don't swear, though, or you'll lose it from the undo buffer as well!
they might, like me, be so used to just calling it 'Knuth' they've forgotten the title. Mind you, I'm probably just making excuses here.
Satanism is indeed 331, filed right next to Scientology. I'll let you make your own gags about this.
I'm probably inviting (-1, offtopic) but if you've not noticed yet this has been nearly first posted for days now. I strongly suspect you're talking to a bot, not even a troll. There has been a distinct lack of any replies from the individual.
Thanks for that. All I can say from reading it though is oh dear. If his dual PIII 800 box with a GeForce3 card only gets 30fps then I'm in big trouble with my poor box.
Can I just make a public request? Next time they might be tempted to give something a silly name like that, can we have an "Operation: You're The Doctor!" please?
sorry, lame joke, but when a thread has gone this far without it being made I had to, for closure you know.