I own a 2002 Mazda Protege5, and supposedly in 2004-5 the MP5 will share the Ford Focus ZX5 platform (frame, etc), but the fit & finish will still be pure Ford or Mazda. They'll share where it doesn't make sense to differentiate, but I doubt it'll turn into a GMC Truck vs. Chevrolet truck (identical except for the badges).
Always use Delivery Confirmation (preferably FedEx, the USPS is too vague since they only track to city/state/zip) so if a credit card Chargeback is issued on a PayPal/Billpoint payment you should be covered by Paypal/Billpoint.
If you can't prove that it was delivered to the billing address of the credit card, you're out money.
I'm disappointed with my VIA (KT266A) board. Everything works just fine, but the performance isn't anywhere near competitors. VIA's had performance bugs in the I/O subsystems as well as other places. These little issues also explain why there's a new set of Via 4-n-1 drivers seemingly every 15 days which still tend to discriminate against my ATAPI CD-RW. The nforce2 appears to be a fast chipset with its dual-channel DDR (especially if you do not use the on-board video), but all that means is that it's now causing the Athlon->NorthBridge CPU bus to be the bottleneck, something that AMD has to do more about (2200+ and up do use a faster clocked bus). Until they do, the P4's 533MHz (QDR) bus will continue to smoke AMD in bandwidth tests (something that we use quite a bit at work on our compute machines).
So if you won't use what appears to be the best AMD chipset because they don't let you see their software secrets, then its your loss.
but no one is using radio shack discrete electronics to make missle guidance systems anymore. They just mod-chip a PS2 and write some new software. I'm sure Best Buy & Wal-mart will still help out Rumsfeld track everyone.
What about mail servers? Imagine a company attempting to do "normal" business at 1 new connection a second. Internal mail would work great, but anything to anyone else would be lagged multiple days.
Side benefit: I suppose it would slow down the spammers, too, forcing them back to sending snail mail chain letters.
So does Microsoft do 1 thing now, then when cheats available to they start banning? They're trying to keep a relatively simple thing like an online game service secured. If you bought your XBox for DiVX or ogg/vorbis play, you shouldn't care about the Live service.
People who mod their XBoxes to run Linux are probably not playing games since they're too busy compiling kernels. Microsoft is trying to create an online game world that's void of cheating (something Valve hasn't done in the lifetime of Half-Life + mods), so it's just fine with me that I'm on a level playing field when I join a Mech Assault game. Modchips could open cheating, and I'm not in favor of aimbots working their way into games I enjoy.
I've been under the impression that MS wasn't going to let Modchipped XBoxes on the Live network for the past few months...
You get the feeling that the $495 deposit covers the cost of the raw materials of the machine, then the rest of the $5000 deals with assembly labor and profit?
This would be a network of computers, not a supercomputer. The definition is becoming more lenient, so in a few years everyone on the internet will be a node in the world's largest (and only) supercomputer, and 80% of them will be redundantly running through Windows DLLs. Yay.
Playing games and surfing the web takes up most of my non-work computer time, and games just work under Windows (no messing around with WineX), and IE is still the most supported (Opera and Phoenix might be just as fast now) browser in the land.
ohhh, now I see. I thought the reviewer was rather dumb in saying "cons: can't boot from it". I was floored when I thought he expected to power cycle and have data there.
I voted for the guy last time around. Maybe I'll have to inform him that I will not do that again if he tries to fit in with representatives who live in Microsoft's pocket.
Japan's Earth Simulator is created from NEC SX-6 Vector processors, proving that not only hasn't the "idea" died, but it's doing very well thank you very much. Besides, who said that a machine made with AMD Opteron processors has anything to do with vectors?
if the user didn't know they were being targeted, and they were reading about the legal stuff along with the rest of us going "huh, sucks to be that guy!"
There's a guy here who's incredibly proud of the fact that he's "had to" spend $150 on cables to connect his bp2002 fronts. He claims that with cheap $75 cables he wouldn't be getting the same sound quality and he'd be wasting his speakers.
Nothing irks me more than people who believe that the money:quality ratio is constant. It just isn't always the case... for instance, based on pure horsepower, I'd take my $700 AMD box over a $1500 Mac.
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XBox Star Wars Galaxies, for one. I believe Everquest is a PS2 title, however.
I own a 2002 Mazda Protege5, and supposedly in 2004-5 the MP5 will share the Ford Focus ZX5 platform (frame, etc), but the fit & finish will still be pure Ford or Mazda. They'll share where it doesn't make sense to differentiate, but I doubt it'll turn into a GMC Truck vs. Chevrolet truck (identical except for the badges).
A Mazda? (40% owned by Ford)
Always use Delivery Confirmation (preferably FedEx, the USPS is too vague since they only track to city/state/zip) so if a credit card Chargeback is issued on a PayPal/Billpoint payment you should be covered by Paypal/Billpoint.
If you can't prove that it was delivered to the billing address of the credit card, you're out money.
Heh, maybe NVidia should open-source main.cc, whose only function is to call closed-source library functions. :)
I'm disappointed with my VIA (KT266A) board. Everything works just fine, but the performance isn't anywhere near competitors. VIA's had performance bugs in the I/O subsystems as well as other places. These little issues also explain why there's a new set of Via 4-n-1 drivers seemingly every 15 days which still tend to discriminate against my ATAPI CD-RW. The nforce2 appears to be a fast chipset with its dual-channel DDR (especially if you do not use the on-board video), but all that means is that it's now causing the Athlon->NorthBridge CPU bus to be the bottleneck, something that AMD has to do more about (2200+ and up do use a faster clocked bus). Until they do, the P4's 533MHz (QDR) bus will continue to smoke AMD in bandwidth tests (something that we use quite a bit at work on our compute machines).
So if you won't use what appears to be the best AMD chipset because they don't let you see their software secrets, then its your loss.
but no one is using radio shack discrete electronics to make missle guidance systems anymore. They just mod-chip a PS2 and write some new software. I'm sure Best Buy & Wal-mart will still help out Rumsfeld track everyone.
What about mail servers? Imagine a company attempting to do "normal" business at 1 new connection a second. Internal mail would work great, but anything to anyone else would be lagged multiple days.
Side benefit: I suppose it would slow down the spammers, too, forcing them back to sending snail mail chain letters.
So does Microsoft do 1 thing now, then when cheats available to they start banning? They're trying to keep a relatively simple thing like an online game service secured. If you bought your XBox for DiVX or ogg/vorbis play, you shouldn't care about the Live service.
I've avoided Everquest & DOAC simply because I don't care for their themes.
I'm afraid that Galaxies, however, will do me in.
People who mod their XBoxes to run Linux are probably not playing games since they're too busy compiling kernels. Microsoft is trying to create an online game world that's void of cheating (something Valve hasn't done in the lifetime of Half-Life + mods), so it's just fine with me that I'm on a level playing field when I join a Mech Assault game. Modchips could open cheating, and I'm not in favor of aimbots working their way into games I enjoy.
I've been under the impression that MS wasn't going to let Modchipped XBoxes on the Live network for the past few months...
You get the feeling that the $495 deposit covers the cost of the raw materials of the machine, then the rest of the $5000 deals with assembly labor and profit?
This would be a network of computers, not a supercomputer. The definition is becoming more lenient, so in a few years everyone on the internet will be a node in the world's largest (and only) supercomputer, and 80% of them will be redundantly running through Windows DLLs. Yay.
This is an old-fashioned AMD-style Paper Launch (see the XP 2400-2800 processors).
Abit's OTES line of GeForce4 cards has coolers similar to the NV30 reference board linked in the post. Abit OTES link: here.
Playing games and surfing the web takes up most of my non-work computer time, and games just work under Windows (no messing around with WineX), and IE is still the most supported (Opera and Phoenix might be just as fast now) browser in the land.
When stuff just *works*, I'm happy.
ohhh, now I see. I thought the reviewer was rather dumb in saying "cons: can't boot from it". I was floored when I thought he expected to power cycle and have data there.
is here from CDRLabs.com
I just couldn't take it anymore! :)
condensation isn't a problem if you cool the chip to ambient temperature, not some super chilled temperature.
I voted for the guy last time around. Maybe I'll have to inform him that I will not do that again if he tries to fit in with representatives who live in Microsoft's pocket.
Japan's Earth Simulator is created from NEC SX-6 Vector processors, proving that not only hasn't the "idea" died, but it's doing very well thank you very much. Besides, who said that a machine made with AMD Opteron processors has anything to do with vectors?
if the user didn't know they were being targeted, and they were reading about the legal stuff along with the rest of us going "huh, sucks to be that guy!"
There's a guy here who's incredibly proud of the fact that he's "had to" spend $150 on cables to connect his bp2002 fronts. He claims that with cheap $75 cables he wouldn't be getting the same sound quality and he'd be wasting his speakers.
Nothing irks me more than people who believe that the money:quality ratio is constant. It just isn't always the case... for instance, based on pure horsepower, I'd take my $700 AMD box over a $1500 Mac.
3G has been hit the hardest when the economy went south... how will 3G gain a foothold in the land of disposable cell phones?