Wow. Thats massively inferior. The 1.53GHz Athlon is almost a whole one percent slower than a 1.7GHz Pentium 4. If you can get someone to double-blind test the difference between 226 and 228 frames a second then I'll call the scientists for you. Meanwhile I'm pretty sure that people can tell the difference in the price of the two machines they benchmarked! People can argue back and forth about which is better, but your initial statements about AMD's inferior product are rash when Intel's superiority is at best arguable. You can say Quake 3, I can say 3DMark, and back and forth it goes.
Why yes she did! She went out with Mike, who left to star in Priscilla, LA Confidential and Memento; all brilliant films. Who would have thought it at the time?
To be fair to both Descent and Quake, they are very different games to play. Its true that the innovation of Descent's engine was a big advance, but the complete freedom of movement made it an absolute pig to get the hang of (in my opinion; you may well have had better luck with all those controls). As such, its more like X-Wing with walls than what we regard as an FPS today.
Forget Orlando Jones in Evolution; one of the USGS guys in Dante's Peak is Bond himself! (well, Brosnan. Lets not get sidetracked into a Brosnan/Connery argument)
Thanks for the advice. I pick up my GBA first thing of Friday morning, and I'm really looking forward to it. I've never really had any major problems with the GBC screen, as I usually only play it on well-lit trains and other public transport; whether I'm at home, work or my girlfriend's house I've got access to something beefier.
Since the Gameboy Advance isn't released in the UK until Friday I've not used one yet. I've heard loads about how difficult it is to see the non-backlit screen, but I've not been able to find out how this compares to the old Gameboy Colo(u)r version, which I find is fine. So, is it much worse than the GBC, or is it just that people who hate it were hoping for something better?
You're right you know, ceiling fans are a constant danger on Titan. Lets hope NASA have thought of this problem, and turn them off somehow.
As the other replyer pointed out, Titan has a remarkably thick atmosphere, thanks to the insanely large number of active volcanoes. These are triggered by the magnetic field of Jupiter throwing vast quantities of energy into the planet as it orbits.
I'm on an AMD board too. UT isn't rock solid here either, but I thought that was just me playing around with a few things, as it was being fine until I started piling on the clever stuff. For some reason its a lot more stable if I run it at my X Desktop resolution, which shouldn't make any difference. As you've got a custom UT user, try setting its normal X desktop to the same as you want for UT.
I agree that Quake 3 Arena is sweet on Linux; even if the benchmarks say its the same as Windows, subjectively it felt much nicer for some reason.
The main thing that impressed me with UT though was that compressed textures work, which makes a huge difference. Also speed generally (because the textures fit in memory better with my 32Mb Geforce) is a vast improvement over the stutter factory that is running UT over 640 with medium res textures under Windows.
In case anyone is taking this seriously though, remember that Linux does a million and one things, many of which do not involve sitting on a desktop displaying an X console. Its precisely this kind of kernel bloat that is letting Win2k lose to Linux in server tests, so unless the kernel undergoes a split its a bad idea.
Good to see that Q3A speed is within a frame of the Windows results on the GeForce. Its a pity that he didn't test Unreal Tournament as well however; one of the main reasons for me getting a Linux partition up and running was that on my config UT is actually better than under Windows.
As many people are finding with RCE, there are mod chips and mod chips. As different players control their features differently, adding all these extras is easier on some than others. I don't know a place that disables the feature lockout on the Pioneer 525, but this is available on some players - check the Sony 735 for example of their 'skip FBI warning' feature.
Sony are holding out on out-of-the-box multi-region, because they own Columbia Pictures. The multi-region thing may help sell your player, but region lockout helps your bottom line more, it would appear.
Just head over to www.techtronics.com and buy one then! Many of the smaller DVD manufacturers (ie. not the ones like Sony and Matsushita that own film studios as well) have a habit of making these 'engineer' features only just hidden enough to avoid losing their DVDCCA license, and so Techtronics style chipping isn't even always necessary.
"The best way to get the price of DVDs down is to stop buying them!!!"
Only partially true. No-one bought DiVX when Circuit City launched it. Result - the format dies a death. Very few people bought laserdiscs. Result - Special Editions costing over $100 and even bare-bones discs at $40.
What you are saying is true to some extent, as I'm sure Paramount would drop their prices closer to some of the cheaper studios if they thought the numbers looked bad at their current price, but you are only getting your cheap discs in Walmart (or any discs in Walmart) because they are selling well.
In any case, the issue here is that discs in the EU are significantly more expensive than US discs. What the EU are probably concerned about is that Region Encoding is locking the average consumer into buying the expensive local disc, rather than importing a cheap US one. Naturally, the clued in just mod chip their players round the problem, but thats not a solution for everyone.
I certainly don't consider said evidence conclusive, but to be fair some did provide some backup to their claims (that I wish I could find easily now). I suppose my main point was more that I've yet to be convinced that dropping a second, plutonium bomb was entirely a decision that the first, hydrogen one wasn't persuasive enough, and was at least to a fair extent done to show that it worked. Thats why I referred to Nagasaki, as I can certainly see your argument for Hiroshima.
"Monuments and storage places shouldn't be mixed? What do you think cemeteries and tombs are?"
err, I meant in this instance, not generally. Dead bodies usually don't have a toxic half-life of thousands of years, and if they did they probably wouldn't be in areas the general public spend a lot of time in.
Thanks for the info - I might do some more digging. I know that CRTs won't display everything, but I was wondering if this is purely a property of the 24-bit colour space, or if there are colours within that space that a monitor cannot show properly.
To bring this back on topic, as these OLEDs appear to be standard r,g,b triplets is there any chance that they would have this increased space?
To paraphrase the anonymous poster who's comments have fallen under most people's +1 threshold, that critical mass only applies if you have pure plutonium. 'watering it down' with the filler of your choice inhibits the neutrons, and increases the critical mass. Furthermore, its a relatively trivial amount of filler to plutionium ratio in order to increase this critical mass to infinity (and beyond!) so there isn't anything to worry about, unless you mistakenly pick something that will disintegrate over the lifetime of the storage.
I don't think the question is one of if bombing was a better plan than a troop invasion, but rather if it was a necessary part of getting the surrender. There is a fair bit of evidence (see practically every time this discussion has happened on/.) that the Japanese were about ready to surrender anyway, under the exact terms (or near as important) that they did after the bombings. Certainly Nagasaki looks in hindsight more like a rather sick tech demo than a wartime necessity.
Its an intersting idea, but only if you be the one who volunteers to hit the world's supply of plutonium with a hammer and chisel, not me;)
Seriously, I think a monument and storage places shouldn't be mixed. You want the monument where people will see it for it to have any impact on the populace at large, which is something you really don't want the plutonium itself to have.
"both film and digital cameras record colors outside the range of the crt"
Now, I'm naive enough that I may have just been trolled about that 4th primary colour gag, but am I right in thinking you're referring to the fact that our current 24-bit colourspace doesn't allow for the vast range in possible brightness values in the real world? If so, then you'll need to speak to the graphics card and OS people as well as the monitor manufacturers here, surely?
Simply take these two pieces of plutonium, bring them together, and Boom!
Anyway, we're after something that represents the idea of letting dirty technologies run rampant with no regard for the conseqences: How about a giant statue of a small tree? Would that go over the Texan in question's head enough?
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Wow. Thats massively inferior. The 1.53GHz Athlon is almost a whole one percent slower than a 1.7GHz Pentium 4. If you can get someone to double-blind test the difference between 226 and 228 frames a second then I'll call the scientists for you. Meanwhile I'm pretty sure that people can tell the difference in the price of the two machines they benchmarked! People can argue back and forth about which is better, but your initial statements about AMD's inferior product are rash when Intel's superiority is at best arguable. You can say Quake 3, I can say 3DMark, and back and forth it goes.
Why yes she did! She went out with Mike, who left to star in Priscilla, LA Confidential and Memento; all brilliant films. Who would have thought it at the time?
To be fair to both Descent and Quake, they are very different games to play. Its true that the innovation of Descent's engine was a big advance, but the complete freedom of movement made it an absolute pig to get the hang of (in my opinion; you may well have had better luck with all those controls). As such, its more like X-Wing with walls than what we regard as an FPS today.
Forget Orlando Jones in Evolution; one of the USGS guys in Dante's Peak is Bond himself! (well, Brosnan. Lets not get sidetracked into a Brosnan/Connery argument)
Thanks for the advice. I pick up my GBA first thing of Friday morning, and I'm really looking forward to it. I've never really had any major problems with the GBC screen, as I usually only play it on well-lit trains and other public transport; whether I'm at home, work or my girlfriend's house I've got access to something beefier.
Since the Gameboy Advance isn't released in the UK until Friday I've not used one yet. I've heard loads about how difficult it is to see the non-backlit screen, but I've not been able to find out how this compares to the old Gameboy Colo(u)r version, which I find is fine. So, is it much worse than the GBC, or is it just that people who hate it were hoping for something better?
Doh! Wrong gas giant. Serves me right for typing all that straight from five-year-old memory.
You're right you know, ceiling fans are a constant danger on Titan. Lets hope NASA have thought of this problem, and turn them off somehow.
As the other replyer pointed out, Titan has a remarkably thick atmosphere, thanks to the insanely large number of active volcanoes. These are triggered by the magnetic field of Jupiter throwing vast quantities of energy into the planet as it orbits.
No need to switch there; you just needed to perform the legendary dropping it four inches onto a bed trick. Many an Amiga fixed with that one.
I'm on an AMD board too. UT isn't rock solid here either, but I thought that was just me playing around with a few things, as it was being fine until I started piling on the clever stuff. For some reason its a lot more stable if I run it at my X Desktop resolution, which shouldn't make any difference. As you've got a custom UT user, try setting its normal X desktop to the same as you want for UT.
I agree that Quake 3 Arena is sweet on Linux; even if the benchmarks say its the same as Windows, subjectively it felt much nicer for some reason.
The main thing that impressed me with UT though was that compressed textures work, which makes a huge difference. Also speed generally (because the textures fit in memory better with my 32Mb Geforce) is a vast improvement over the stutter factory that is running UT over 640 with medium res textures under Windows.
hehe. +4, Funny and deservedly so.
In case anyone is taking this seriously though, remember that Linux does a million and one things, many of which do not involve sitting on a desktop displaying an X console. Its precisely this kind of kernel bloat that is letting Win2k lose to Linux in server tests, so unless the kernel undergoes a split its a bad idea.
Good to see that Q3A speed is within a frame of the Windows results on the GeForce. Its a pity that he didn't test Unreal Tournament as well however; one of the main reasons for me getting a Linux partition up and running was that on my config UT is actually better than under Windows.
As many people are finding with RCE, there are mod chips and mod chips. As different players control their features differently, adding all these extras is easier on some than others. I don't know a place that disables the feature lockout on the Pioneer 525, but this is available on some players - check the Sony 735 for example of their 'skip FBI warning' feature.
Sony are holding out on out-of-the-box multi-region, because they own Columbia Pictures. The multi-region thing may help sell your player, but region lockout helps your bottom line more, it would appear.
Just head over to www.techtronics.com and buy one then! Many of the smaller DVD manufacturers (ie. not the ones like Sony and Matsushita that own film studios as well) have a habit of making these 'engineer' features only just hidden enough to avoid losing their DVDCCA license, and so Techtronics style chipping isn't even always necessary.
"The best way to get the price of DVDs down is to stop buying them!!!"
Only partially true. No-one bought DiVX when Circuit City launched it. Result - the format dies a death. Very few people bought laserdiscs. Result - Special Editions costing over $100 and even bare-bones discs at $40.
What you are saying is true to some extent, as I'm sure Paramount would drop their prices closer to some of the cheaper studios if they thought the numbers looked bad at their current price, but you are only getting your cheap discs in Walmart (or any discs in Walmart) because they are selling well.
In any case, the issue here is that discs in the EU are significantly more expensive than US discs. What the EU are probably concerned about is that Region Encoding is locking the average consumer into buying the expensive local disc, rather than importing a cheap US one. Naturally, the clued in just mod chip their players round the problem, but thats not a solution for everyone.
I certainly don't consider said evidence conclusive, but to be fair some did provide some backup to their claims (that I wish I could find easily now). I suppose my main point was more that I've yet to be convinced that dropping a second, plutonium bomb was entirely a decision that the first, hydrogen one wasn't persuasive enough, and was at least to a fair extent done to show that it worked. Thats why I referred to Nagasaki, as I can certainly see your argument for Hiroshima.
"Monuments and storage places shouldn't be mixed? What do you think cemeteries and tombs are?"
err, I meant in this instance, not generally. Dead bodies usually don't have a toxic half-life of thousands of years, and if they did they probably wouldn't be in areas the general public spend a lot of time in.
Thanks for the info - I might do some more digging. I know that CRTs won't display everything, but I was wondering if this is purely a property of the 24-bit colour space, or if there are colours within that space that a monitor cannot show properly.
To bring this back on topic, as these OLEDs appear to be standard r,g,b triplets is there any chance that they would have this increased space?
To paraphrase the anonymous poster who's comments have fallen under most people's +1 threshold, that critical mass only applies if you have pure plutonium. 'watering it down' with the filler of your choice inhibits the neutrons, and increases the critical mass. Furthermore, its a relatively trivial amount of filler to plutionium ratio in order to increase this critical mass to infinity (and beyond!) so there isn't anything to worry about, unless you mistakenly pick something that will disintegrate over the lifetime of the storage.
I don't think the question is one of if bombing was a better plan than a troop invasion, but rather if it was a necessary part of getting the surrender. There is a fair bit of evidence (see practically every time this discussion has happened on /.) that the Japanese were about ready to surrender anyway, under the exact terms (or near as important) that they did after the bombings. Certainly Nagasaki looks in hindsight more like a rather sick tech demo than a wartime necessity.
"Let's put all of the world's oil in a big vat in the middle of the Atlantic..."
Sounds like a great idea. Now just use the worlds supply of coal to heat it, and we can have fish and chips all round.
Its an intersting idea, but only if you be the one who volunteers to hit the world's supply of plutonium with a hammer and chisel, not me ;)
Seriously, I think a monument and storage places shouldn't be mixed. You want the monument where people will see it for it to have any impact on the populace at large, which is something you really don't want the plutonium itself to have.
"both film and digital cameras record colors outside the range of the crt"
Now, I'm naive enough that I may have just been trolled about that 4th primary colour gag, but am I right in thinking you're referring to the fact that our current 24-bit colourspace doesn't allow for the vast range in possible brightness values in the real world? If so, then you'll need to speak to the graphics card and OS people as well as the monitor manufacturers here, surely?
Simply take these two pieces of plutonium, bring them together, and Boom!
Anyway, we're after something that represents the idea of letting dirty technologies run rampant with no regard for the conseqences: How about a giant statue of a small tree? Would that go over the Texan in question's head enough?