In your case I would seriously consider the Nvidia chipsets that allow you to use SLI. Sure the initial videocard will be in the 450-550 price range, but the real benefit comes a year to 18 months later. When instead of needing to buy another 400-500 card to keep current, you can purchase an additional card of the same type that you have. Which by this time has dropped in price considerably.
From the initial benhcmarks, it seems like that may be a very cost-effective means to have your 3d performance keep up with the bleeding edge.
I pretty much upgrade whenever a game comes out that I can't play with all the eye candy turned on. Which usually works out to every 12-18 months. Most upgrades are incremental as it usually only takes 1 or 2 components to remain current.
I rue the day I switched to ATTW. I was a very happy T-mobile customer for years, but unfortunately their service is not up to par in my new neighborhood. So I switched to ATTW wireless in Feb of last year.
I am one of those people that really likes auto-pay, and in the years I was with T-Mobile, I never once had a problem with a late bill. Unfortunately it seems that ATTW is incapable of processing my forms for auto-bill properly. I have sent in the forms 4 times, literally, the last time certified, yet they still havent managed to extricate their head from their ass. When my bill was late, because I incorrectly assumed they had processed my form (my mistake I know), they called me on my cell with an automated recording, indicating that someone would be on the line soon. Well as it turns out, they CALLED ME and PUT ME ON HOLD for 10 minutes. What kind of crap is that.
Needless to say a month ago I paid the 175(0) for each of my lines so that I could stop doing business with that horrid company.
Its kind of sad when people will actually pay money just to NOT do business with you.
In regards to Afghanistan, I cannot recall a single person who spoke out against our attack. I'm sure there were some, but everyone I know supported that decision.
Unfortunately it was when Osama suddenly put on a few pounds and moved to Iraq, that the wheels came of that wagon.
I truly do believe that GWB and Co. believe they were 100% correct in their actions. But what can be seen as a comforting consistancy by some, can viewed as a smug arrogance by others. Moreover, when the spin doctored reality contradicts body counts and TV images, that absolute certitude can be perceived as possibly sinister, or downright negligent.
When you see a game that is produced by them, do not purchase it. There are too many game companies putting out great games that are failing. I do not believe a company putting out a corrupt product will last very long. It will take care of itself in time.
I also use Radmin daily, and have for 2+ years. Low overhead, uses a single port for all its communications, and you can encrypt your traffic for what its worth(implementation quality unknown).
"No, I'm not one of those people who have money for a download service, thank you."
Therein lies your problem. The download queue isn't there because their systems can't handle it. Its that to make it cost effective to provide a *free* service, they have place limits on the number of users.
As someone who manages to cough up the few bucks, I have yet to wait in-line or have less than outstanding download speeds.
Not sure what you are talking about. I personally have been subscriber to Fileplanet for a little over a year now and have never had an issue with their servers. I can't remember the last time I was not able to max out my cable connection downloading from them.
Moreover, its nice to be able to get the latest movies, patches, and files without having to wait in-line or scour the net for it. Hell half the time I find it handier to go Fileplanet to look for patches to old games, than to go the publisher's site.
While Im sure some people have their moral or principel reasons they do not use Fileplanet, I do not agree that it is performance related.
Please keep in mind that most of these people are there for a few days to a year or so. These aren't rapists or murderers. These are people who have been arrested for minor offenses, probation violation, or are awaiting trial.
Everyone keeps mentioning about the lack of fault tolerance in Raid 0. Personally I do not know anyone who runs a Raid 0 configuration on drives that containe data that would be considered important.
Personally I'm a hardcore gamer, and I run Raid 0 on two WD SATA 36G Raptors. These drives are used for my system drive and where I install my apps. Anything that is important is shoved off to a set of big, slow IDE drives that are running in a Raid 1 configuration.
So MTBF really doesn't matter to me, as when one of the drives fails it takes me a grand total of 18 minutes to reinstall Windows XP (timed it), add in another hour for driver configuration and updates, and I'm back to where I was before the drive failed.
Raid 0 can work out just fine, as long as your realize its limitations and store your data accordingly.
To the two above me who complained about using a credit card. You do know that you can pay with Paypal.. In amounts that you specify (I usually do $10 blocks).
So while Paypal isn't the best company in the world, your not exactly handing your cc to some Russian hacker, or whatever.
By the way, does to country of origin automatically dictate that a service is run by super evil mafiosos? Seems like a bit of stereotyping to me.
Been with Cox Internet Service for about 4 years or so now. I can count the number of outages that have affected (knowingly) on one hand. Customer service has been good, sometimes the hold times can be long, but other than that corteous and professional.
I think its just a symptom of working with a large company...Some peeps will be happy others won't. I'm sorry that your experience was on the other side of the fence
Here's the text of my email Sent to sales@belkin.com,melodych@belkin.com, cindya@belkin.com
---------------- I recently read a few postings on usenet and slashdot regarding your wireless router. It seems that there is now a feature that will redirect you to an advertisement for your censorware products every 8 hours unless they opt out. I find this troubling and disconcerting to say the least, as the days of trusting a companies' motives are long since gone. Simply put, a router's job is to do just that route packets. When you start injecting your advertisements into the process you compromise the integrity of your product. Going forward, how am I to know that your router is not doing something that could compromise my network under the guise of being a feature. There had to be the understanding that this would be poorly received by individuals who already possess technical knowledge. I personally do not own your networking products, but have used your cabling for quite a few years. And as a technical person who runs a small business helping other small businesses with technical issues, I play an intregal part in their purchasing decisions.
You may have intended for it to be easier for non-technical people to sign up for your service, but did you stop and think how a non-technical person decides on a Belkin product? It isn't your marketing, its the the co-worker/relative/friend of a friend that fixes their computer that they ask for buying tips. And it is exactly these people that are most offended by your actions.
I, like a lot of other techies that read this, will not be recommending your product in the future until you stop this practice and apologize to your customer base.
I have the exact same DVD burner, and have had great luck with the Princo 4x Media. Nero recognizes it and burns to it at 4x without a problem, and I have yet to create a coaster (over 110 dvd's burned).
http://www.allmediaoutlet.com/P-DVD-R-4XP100.htm l
I bought the Pioneer DVR-A05 dvd-r/rw burner. I must say that I love it! I, like a lot of people, have a home file server that I share all my files and music from. I had been making periodic backups onto other hard drives, but have found it be cumbersome and expensive. In an afternoon I was able to back up my server and all other important information onto dvd-r's and save a lot of money to boot.
If you shop around for media, you can find blanks pretty cheap. I think the ones I'm using now cost 1.26 a piece, which is much cheaper than hard drives.
As for movies, I bought my dvd player and burner around the same to time to ensure compatibility. I also have found that ALL of my friends home DVD players can play movies that I have recorded. And I think it would be fair to say, that most of the players have been purchased within the last two years. Of course, your experiences may vary, I have just had great luck with dvd-r/rw.
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In your case I would seriously consider the Nvidia chipsets that allow you to use SLI. Sure the initial videocard will be in the 450-550 price range, but the real benefit comes a year to 18 months later. When instead of needing to buy another 400-500 card to keep current, you can purchase an additional card of the same type that you have. Which by this time has dropped in price considerably.
From the initial benhcmarks, it seems like that may be a very cost-effective means to have your 3d performance keep up with the bleeding edge.
Gailin
I pretty much upgrade whenever a game comes out that I can't play with all the eye candy turned on. Which usually works out to every 12-18 months. Most upgrades are incremental as it usually only takes 1 or 2 components to remain current.
Gailin
I rue the day I switched to ATTW. I was a very happy T-mobile customer for years, but unfortunately their service is not up to par in my new neighborhood. So I switched to ATTW wireless in Feb of last year.
I am one of those people that really likes auto-pay, and in the years I was with T-Mobile, I never once had a problem with a late bill. Unfortunately it seems that ATTW is incapable of processing my forms for auto-bill properly. I have sent in the forms 4 times, literally, the last time certified, yet they still havent managed to extricate their head from their ass. When my bill was late, because I incorrectly assumed they had processed my form (my mistake I know), they called me on my cell with an automated recording, indicating that someone would be on the line soon. Well as it turns out, they CALLED ME and PUT ME ON HOLD for 10 minutes. What kind of crap is that.
Needless to say a month ago I paid the 175(0) for each of my lines so that I could stop doing business with that horrid company.
Its kind of sad when people will actually pay money just to NOT do business with you.
Gailin
In regards to Afghanistan, I cannot recall a single person who spoke out against our attack. I'm sure there were some, but everyone I know supported that decision.
Unfortunately it was when Osama suddenly put on a few pounds and moved to Iraq, that the wheels came of that wagon.
I truly do believe that GWB and Co. believe they were 100% correct in their actions. But what can be seen as a comforting consistancy by some, can viewed as a smug arrogance by others. Moreover, when the spin doctored reality contradicts body counts and TV images, that absolute certitude can be perceived as possibly sinister, or downright negligent.
Gailin
Full Armor Studios
When you see a game that is produced by them, do not purchase it. There are too many game companies putting out great games that are failing. I do not believe a company putting out a corrupt product will last very long. It will take care of itself in time.
Gailin
I also use Radmin daily, and have for 2+ years. Low overhead, uses a single port for all its communications, and you can encrypt your traffic for what its worth(implementation quality unknown).
I have gotten my $30 worth and then some.
Gailin
"No, I'm not one of those people who have money for a download service, thank you."
Therein lies your problem. The download queue isn't there because their systems can't handle it. Its that to make it cost effective to provide a *free* service, they have place limits on the number of users.
As someone who manages to cough up the few bucks, I have yet to wait in-line or have less than outstanding download speeds.
Gailin
Just curious.
Why are the PDF version and the dead tree version the same price (excluding $2.82 for shipping)?
I expected there to be a cost savings for buying the electronic version.
No matter really though, I'm going to buy it just the same.
Gailin
Not sure what you are talking about. I personally have been subscriber to Fileplanet for a little over a year now and have never had an issue with their servers. I can't remember the last time I was not able to max out my cable connection downloading from them.
Moreover, its nice to be able to get the latest movies, patches, and files without having to wait in-line or scour the net for it. Hell half the time I find it handier to go Fileplanet to look for patches to old games, than to go the publisher's site.
While Im sure some people have their moral or principel reasons they do not use Fileplanet, I do not agree that it is performance related.
Gailin
In 1997 Arpaio entered a plea agreement with the DOJ to improve conditions, yet in the last 7 years he has failed to do so.
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Unfortunately it isn't exactly news when someone falls ill to heat exhaustion in jail.
I know of two people personally who suffered heat related issues while being housed for minor offenses.
Here is a list from the person running against him in the election that lists quite a few issues the jail has had throughout the years.
http://www.sabanforsheriff.com/news/sonorannews
Please keep in mind that most of these people are there for a few days to a year or so. These aren't rapists or murderers. These are people who have been arrested for minor offenses, probation violation, or are awaiting trial.
Gailin
Everyone keeps mentioning about the lack of fault tolerance in Raid 0. Personally I do not know anyone who runs a Raid 0 configuration on drives that containe data that would be considered important.
Personally I'm a hardcore gamer, and I run Raid 0 on two WD SATA 36G Raptors. These drives are used for my system drive and where I install my apps. Anything that is important is shoved off to a set of big, slow IDE drives that are running in a Raid 1 configuration.
So MTBF really doesn't matter to me, as when one of the drives fails it takes me a grand total of 18 minutes to reinstall Windows XP (timed it), add in another hour for driver configuration and updates, and I'm back to where I was before the drive failed.
Raid 0 can work out just fine, as long as your realize its limitations and store your data accordingly.
Gailin
DDJ, Newsweek, and MIT Tech Review.
Gailin
Coming from a person that spelled idiot wrong....
Gailin
To the two above me who complained about using a credit card. You do know that you can pay with Paypal.. In amounts that you specify (I usually do $10 blocks).
So while Paypal isn't the best company in the world, your not exactly handing your cc to some Russian hacker, or whatever.
By the way, does to country of origin automatically dictate that a service is run by super evil mafiosos? Seems like a bit of stereotyping to me.
Gailin
Been with Cox Internet Service for about 4 years or so now. I can count the number of outages that have affected (knowingly) on one hand. Customer service has been good, sometimes the hold times can be long, but other than that corteous and professional.
I think its just a symptom of working with a large company...Some peeps will be happy others won't. I'm sorry that your experience was on the other side of the fence
Gailin
Transcript of email sent:
Original Email
The email was from
Eric Pipkin
Account Manager
Belkin Logistics
Direct Marketing Channel
501 West Walnut Street
Compton, CA 90220
310.898.1100 x 2511
He sent me a pdf file that I have put up for everyone to peruse.
PDF file
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Here's the text of my email
Sent to sales@belkin.com,melodych@belkin.com, cindya@belkin.com
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I recently read a few postings on usenet and slashdot regarding your wireless router. It seems that there is now a feature that will redirect you to an advertisement for your censorware products every 8 hours unless they opt out. I find this troubling and disconcerting to say the least, as the days of trusting a companies' motives are long since gone. Simply put, a router's job is to do just that route packets. When you start injecting your advertisements into the process you compromise the integrity of your product. Going forward, how am I to know that your router is not doing something that could compromise my network under the guise of being a feature. There had to be the understanding that this would be poorly received by individuals who already possess technical knowledge. I personally do not own your networking products, but have used your cabling for quite a few years. And as a technical person who runs a small business helping other small businesses with technical issues, I play an intregal part in their purchasing decisions.
You may have intended for it to be easier for non-technical people to sign up for your service, but did you stop and think how a non-technical person decides on a Belkin product? It isn't your marketing, its the the co-worker/relative/friend of a friend that fixes their computer that they ask for buying tips. And it is exactly these people that are most offended by your actions.
I, like a lot of other techies that read this, will not be recommending your product in the future until you stop this practice and apologize to your customer base.
Thank you,
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In Googlis non est, ergo non est.
I think someone may have that in a sig, if so sorry.
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Done.
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I have the exact same DVD burner, and have had great luck with the Princo 4x Media. Nero recognizes it and burns to it at 4x without a problem, and I have yet to create a coaster (over 110 dvd's burned).
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http://www.allmediaoutlet.com/P-DVD-R-4XP100.ht
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If you shop around for media, you can find blanks pretty cheap. I think the ones I'm using now cost 1.26 a piece, which is much cheaper than hard drives.
As for movies, I bought my dvd player and burner around the same to time to ensure compatibility. I also have found that ALL of my friends home DVD players can play movies that I have recorded. And I think it would be fair to say, that most of the players have been purchased within the last two years. Of course, your experiences may vary, I have just had great luck with dvd-r/rw.
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Offtopic, thank you for the Java ExcelCSVParser, downloaded it this morning and it worked like a charm. It saved me a lot of time :-)
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Tell them how you feel through the "Email the Chairman" form located at http://www.fcc.gov/commissioners/powell/mkp_email. html.
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It was that way when I lived in Stockton, CA. I had to go to a class before school started each day so that I could work more hours.
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If you are meaning Barnes & Noble descriptions, then I'm confused as to what exactly the reviewer plagiarized.
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