It'd be interesting to see how many units they would've sold had there been copies on store shelves to buy. Over Xmas holidays, I went out with my sister to pick up a copy to feed her addiction and none of the stores in town carried it. The clerks we talked to said that they'd been out of stock since the beginning of December. This is not an entirely isolated incident - I've read about many similar situations in various onlin forums.
I could understand the game selling out hours after a shipment coming in if it's as popular as they say. What I can't understand is the product being unavailable for a month.
OTOH, I learned the hard way not to trust file names. A routing cleaning of core dumps on our fileserver at school managed to destroy the work of half of the VLSI class. Who would've thought that students would be designing CPU cores and just call the output file "core"...
Why bother pointing out his logical errors when he's claiming IE's security to be worthwhile? Even if the browser -tries- to reject unsigned plugins be deafault, there's still a dozen different ways it can silently install things, signed or not.
It looks to be somewhat of a hybrid - there are going to be massive areas - cities and the like, where you socialize, trade and organize groups. The actual adventure zones are going to be dedicated instances (be it to a single group or a limited few in some competetive PvP instance).
If you want to look online for Geico, go to Geico.com, don't go through some potentially biased, for profit company to tell you where to find Geico. Would Geico sue phoebook companies for placing adverts on the same page as their yellow pages listing?
This Sushi project 'allows you to play a classic pen-and-paper game over the internet'. Which one? Any of them? I don't know, and can't tell from looking at the site.
Actually, a better model would be to allow warez editions to sign on & pay some $20 surcharge on the first month's usage. Instead of looking at it as 'piracy' consider it no-cost distribution. It's like how Valve went with Steam, but without any infrastructure costs involved.
Wretched idea. In most of these MMORPGs, grouping is an important part of gameplay. One can generally assume that characters of a certain level have some minimal competency at playing the game. The last thing I want to do is find myself dead 'cuz some newbie who hasn't even run through the tutorial thinks they can swing it as a level 20 cleric.
I signed up for the free trial of EQ in the weeks before EQ2 shipped to judge if I wanted to get into EQ2 when it shipped. There were numerous high-level characters giving away everything they had - both money and equipment. I'm pretty sure that EQ2 is going to cut into the number of EQ1. More importantly, it's going to make a big cut in the number of 'serious' players.
Keep in mind that the only models on the market right now are the more-high-end brands that come with a lot of extras (game bundles and whatnot) and generally charge a $20+ premium over a more basic OEM card. Give it a week or two for a few more companies to start shipping card & you'll be able to pick up one for $20-30 less.
Also, remember that you're looking at the 6600GT - the faster version of the 6600 & comparing it to the vanilla 6800. When the vanilla 6600 comes to AGP, we should be able to find them at around $150, much more in line with the cost of a 6800.
They don't say if the system has a total of 2.5GHz or if the system board is still limited to 1.2GHz. Intel's Xeon's have this failing - inidvidual chips have 800MHz FSBs, on a dual SMP board both chips have 800MHz busses but they must share 800MHz to memory, 4-way systems must share 800MHz with all 4 systems. Opterons, OTOH, (can) supply each chip with its own dedicated, full-speed access to memory (actually, you start getting into a NUMA situation...) which, as benchmarks have shown, makes Opterons scale much better in large SMP systems.
Which way does the G5 go? The bit you quoted leaves that unspecified.
What makes you think this is going to work? The core of NT is stable & secure already, it's extensions and concessions that have been made towards being more 'usable' that bring the whole system down. How is reimplimenting everything on a new OS that has a weaker/coarser security model going to make things better?
Nobody considers themselves to be the sloppy, lazy coder that needs a language to keep their code good, but they can all name somebody else who is. Using clean languages keeps the other guy in line.
If your definition of "OOP" is based on things like Java and C++, where OO is just an extension of procedural code, that's arguably a good route to take. The more you move towards 'pure OO', the less it makes sense to do this.
If the server's going to be using the bandwidth to serve the files over http, why not have the server as a seed? It couldn't turn out any worse than just allowing the download.
I've been to gated communities that -don't- let you out. I'll stay short on the details, lets just say I still have scars from drunkenly trying to dismantle the gates with a pair of vice-grips.
The first generation of Athlons were very hot running, which resulted in AMDs reputation for heat generation. The XP line of chips, which your Sempron is based on, run at lower voltages produce less heat. The Athlon64 chips are even cooler running.
Depending on what "push this CPU to its limits" means to you you might consider overclocking.
Just keep in mind that the Celeron D, being based on the P4 "netburst" architecture, has it's performance severly dependant upon memory bandwith. The 533MHz (4x133) bus on the Celeron D is a vast improvement over the 400MHz (4x100) bus on the previous Celeries.
To get decent performance out of any P4-based system, however, it is imperative that you get a motherboard that supports dual-chanel memory, such as one based on Intel's 865 chipset. Going on the cheap and 'saving' $10-15 to get a lower-end chipset is going to seriously hurt the performance of these CPUs.
With the AMDs, it's not so important; the SocketA chips only see about a 5% performance boost from dual-channel and the s754 Sempron, with it's onboard memory controller, can't use it at all
There's probably a place for a write-protect switch in there somewhere, since these things are all pretty much the same on the inside. Some marketing guy probably decided that the write-protect switch looked tacky with the case & removed it.
If Intel's primary motivation behind going from the Nortwood core to the hotter & less efficient Prescott core (longer pipelines result in a Presocott chip with double the cache of an equally clocked Nortwood actually being slower) was that the Pressy would allow them to scale to higher clockspeeds than the Northwood would allow does this make the Prescott a failure?
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It'd be interesting to see how many units they would've sold had there been copies on store shelves to buy. Over Xmas holidays, I went out with my sister to pick up a copy to feed her addiction and none of the stores in town carried it. The clerks we talked to said that they'd been out of stock since the beginning of December. This is not an entirely isolated incident - I've read about many similar situations in various onlin forums.
I could understand the game selling out hours after a shipment coming in if it's as popular as they say. What I can't understand is the product being unavailable for a month.
OTOH, I learned the hard way not to trust file names. A routing cleaning of core dumps on our fileserver at school managed to destroy the work of half of the VLSI class. Who would've thought that students would be designing CPU cores and just call the output file "core"...
Why bother pointing out his logical errors when he's claiming IE's security to be worthwhile? Even if the browser -tries- to reject unsigned plugins be deafault, there's still a dozen different ways it can silently install things, signed or not.
It looks to be somewhat of a hybrid - there are going to be massive areas - cities and the like, where you socialize, trade and organize groups. The actual adventure zones are going to be dedicated instances (be it to a single group or a limited few in some competetive PvP instance).
If you want to look online for Geico, go to Geico.com, don't go through some potentially biased, for profit company to tell you where to find Geico. Would Geico sue phoebook companies for placing adverts on the same page as their yellow pages listing?
There's something fundamentally flawed about any business venture in which you rely on Slashdot readers to actually try reading the article...
OK - what's this thing in your sig?
This Sushi project 'allows you to play a classic pen-and-paper game over the internet'. Which one? Any of them? I don't know, and can't tell from looking at the site.
it's against the ToS of most games these days to do so.
Actually, a better model would be to allow warez editions to sign on & pay some $20 surcharge on the first month's usage. Instead of looking at it as 'piracy' consider it no-cost distribution. It's like how Valve went with Steam, but without any infrastructure costs involved.
Wretched idea. In most of these MMORPGs, grouping is an important part of gameplay. One can generally assume that characters of a certain level have some minimal competency at playing the game. The last thing I want to do is find myself dead 'cuz some newbie who hasn't even run through the tutorial thinks they can swing it as a level 20 cleric.
I signed up for the free trial of EQ in the weeks before EQ2 shipped to judge if I wanted to get into EQ2 when it shipped. There were numerous high-level characters giving away everything they had - both money and equipment. I'm pretty sure that EQ2 is going to cut into the number of EQ1. More importantly, it's going to make a big cut in the number of 'serious' players.
Keep in mind that the only models on the market right now are the more-high-end brands that come with a lot of extras (game bundles and whatnot) and generally charge a $20+ premium over a more basic OEM card. Give it a week or two for a few more companies to start shipping card & you'll be able to pick up one for $20-30 less.
Also, remember that you're looking at the 6600GT - the faster version of the 6600 & comparing it to the vanilla 6800. When the vanilla 6600 comes to AGP, we should be able to find them at around $150, much more in line with the cost of a 6800.
They don't say if the system has a total of 2.5GHz or if the system board is still limited to 1.2GHz. Intel's Xeon's have this failing - inidvidual chips have 800MHz FSBs, on a dual SMP board both chips have 800MHz busses but they must share 800MHz to memory, 4-way systems must share 800MHz with all 4 systems. Opterons, OTOH, (can) supply each chip with its own dedicated, full-speed access to memory (actually, you start getting into a NUMA situation...) which, as benchmarks have shown, makes Opterons scale much better in large SMP systems.
Which way does the G5 go? The bit you quoted leaves that unspecified.
What makes you think this is going to work? The core of NT is stable & secure already, it's extensions and concessions that have been made towards being more 'usable' that bring the whole system down. How is reimplimenting everything on a new OS that has a weaker/coarser security model going to make things better?
With a name like Marion Morrison, I'd think he'd own a Mac.
Lots of Lisp, why no Prolog? Looks like a textbook problem for an intro prolog class.
/home/ameoba/triangle/tri.pl for byte code... /home/ameoba/triangle/tri.pl compiled, 33 lines read - 4628 bytes written, 10 ms
] )., 3,5]).
:-
:-
:-
:-
% ameoba@girl:~/triangle$ gprolog
% GNU Prolog 1.2.18
% By Daniel Diaz
% Copyright (C) 1999-2004 Daniel Diaz
% | ?- consult('tri.pl').
% compiling
%
%
% yes
% | ?- numtri(X).
%
% X = 27
%
% yes
% | ?-
line([0,5,8,10]).
line([0,1]).
line([1,6,9,10
line([0,3,7,9]).
line([0,2,4,6]).
line([1,2
line([1,4,7,8]).
edge(X,Y)
line(L),
member(X,L),
member(Y,L),
X > Y.
colinear(X,Y,Z)
line(L),
member(X,L),
member(Y,L),
member(Z,L).
tri(X,Y,Z)
edge(X,Y),
edge(X,Z),
edge(Y,Z),
X > Y,
Y > Z,
\+ colinear(X,Y,Z).
numtri(X)
setof([X,Y,Z], tri(X,Y,Z), Tris),
length(Tris,X).
35 lines of code in about 45min (mostly remembering syntax & predicates) and it's definately simpler than any of the other solutions.
It's not even an upgrade, just a drop-in, lower (production) cost replacement.
Nobody considers themselves to be the sloppy, lazy coder that needs a language to keep their code good, but they can all name somebody else who is. Using clean languages keeps the other guy in line.
If your definition of "OOP" is based on things like Java and C++, where OO is just an extension of procedural code, that's arguably a good route to take. The more you move towards 'pure OO', the less it makes sense to do this.
If the server's going to be using the bandwidth to serve the files over http, why not have the server as a seed? It couldn't turn out any worse than just allowing the download.
I've been to gated communities that -don't- let you out. I'll stay short on the details, lets just say I still have scars from drunkenly trying to dismantle the gates with a pair of vice-grips.
The first generation of Athlons were very hot running, which resulted in AMDs reputation for heat generation. The XP line of chips, which your Sempron is based on, run at lower voltages produce less heat. The Athlon64 chips are even cooler running.
Depending on what "push this CPU to its limits" means to you you might consider overclocking.
Just keep in mind that the Celeron D, being based on the P4 "netburst" architecture, has it's performance severly dependant upon memory bandwith. The 533MHz (4x133) bus on the Celeron D is a vast improvement over the 400MHz (4x100) bus on the previous Celeries .
To get decent performance out of any P4-based system, however, it is imperative that you get a motherboard that supports dual-chanel memory, such as one based on Intel's 865 chipset. Going on the cheap and 'saving' $10-15 to get a lower-end chipset is going to seriously hurt the performance of these CPUs.
With the AMDs, it's not so important; the SocketA chips only see about a 5% performance boost from dual-channel and the s754 Sempron, with it's onboard memory controller, can't use it at all
.
There's probably a place for a write-protect switch in there somewhere, since these things are all pretty much the same on the inside. Some marketing guy probably decided that the write-protect switch looked tacky with the case & removed it.
If Intel's primary motivation behind going from the Nortwood core to the hotter & less efficient Prescott core (longer pipelines result in a Presocott chip with double the cache of an equally clocked Nortwood actually being slower) was that the Pressy would allow them to scale to higher clockspeeds than the Northwood would allow does this make the Prescott a failure?