Not to mention the double effect that you can invest in Pizza Hut and watch the stock go WAY up!
If anyone plans to implement JohnG's ingenious plan, please drop me an email. I'll send you a pizza after I make millions selling Pizza Hut stock short.
Who do you think is going to end up paying for those "million" pizzas that are sent to spammers?
Why does Microsoft have to serve anyone but themselves (and their stockholders)? If you buy a product from them, you're deal is done. Move along. If you want support you pay for it. If you don't like that, try another product. NetWare, Linux, FreeBSD, BeOS, MacOS, Solaris, IRIX, the list goes on...
And Microsoft didn't "take away" power to the user. It's just that the users became stupider on average since no longer is it Billy Boy Genius the computer guru, it's Joe Schmoe AOLers who want a computer. You should know all to well that there aren't nearly enough "geeks" in the computer consumer work to sway the interface changes in a Microsoft OS. Microsoft adds features to their OS that their customer base, on average, wants. Sadly, that means that power users end up getting a crippled OS, or at least one where all of the "tweakables" are hidden away so some computer half-wit doesn't accidentally hose his install.
Personally, I consider myself a power user and I sure as hell don't want BASIC on my machine, or a "DOS prompt." And Windows NT/2000/XP have a "command prompt" and that should be hidden... how would an amateur user react to the command prompt?
I'm sick of them misrepresenting their proprietary formats or protocols as "standards."
Well, Microsoft is a monopoly, so they have the ability to set their own standards. No, it is not proprietary. I'll leave it at that so you'll actually have to think it through this time.
Capitalism is a beautiful thing, but there are sides some people don't like... unfortunately it's all or nothing. Find yourself a nice Communist country and have fun.
Try letting the Propaganda Machine rest for a bit, it's not making any sense any more.
...and become an economist. Well, I'm almost done. I dropped CS after a year, though, so I had the advantage of not spending all of my time going for a CS degree I didn't want.
I like to think that if I ever wanted to learn CS, I could pick up a few textbooks on a subject (say, assembler) and read up. But I'm able to read a book and learn the material...
College isn't about what degree you get anyways. You should know that by now if you're just about to graduate.
And there's always the military... I hear they're hiring.
Interestingly, there is some logic beyond this argument as well.
Assume for a moment that you're a hard working, productive worker building your product or otherwise producing more income to the company than they pay you. You are a "good" employee, and the company would prefer to keep you. Now, another employee who was hired along side you is promoted to your manager. But you reflect back at all the asinine questions that person asked, and how perfectly obvious they made the fact that they should be working at McDonalds and not making $100,000 a year bossing you around (let alone in this industry).
Why did they get promoted? Is it because they're buddies with the boss? It is because everyone is in some maniacal conspiracy against you?
No. It's because of two things. Either they get promoted, or they get fired. Sometimes a company will chose to promote rather than fire an employee. But more likely, the simple fact is that you are productive in your position. If you were to be promoted to manager, your job would radically change and the company would not have the benefit of your skills working towards completion of the product.
That's why most management is "stupid" and "doesn't get it." Because they were workers who were stupid and don't get it. Granted, there are some members of management who are good at what they do -- these are the few that won't get fired when management has its shakedown. And not everyone is promoted to management... but if they were hired on, does that necessarily make them good at their job?
Think about it, if management were that great, it'd cost a lot more.
Perhaps VA has followed in many of the former "dot bomb" naming conventions where one thinks up a good list of names, then determines which are available. As most are probably taken, a domain name, and thus company name, are easily chosen.
written by work-obsessed coders who want to make the best drivers possible
Are we forgetting this is ATI? Your situation isn't even remotely plausible... remember this is the ATI that has had significant difficulty releasing a stable Windows 2000 driver. And remind me, how long has Windows 2000 been released (let alone how long the developers have had it)?
I specifically chose to buy an NVidia product because ATI's Windows 2000 drivers were/are terrible. I don't care if I get.1 frames per second more out of my ATI card if it crashes before that frame is even drawn.
I've had various issues with my ThinkPad 570, the most notable being a white screen when the LCD powered up. The issue has plagued a fair number of users, but for me IBM has been extremely helpful (and fast) in repairing the issue. IBM is not like Dell.
Dell wouldn't support Windows 2000 on my sister's laptop because I didn't buy Windows 2000 from them. Yes, it is supported by Dell but only if you buy from Dell. IBM doesn't really care what you run on the laptop, they just can't provide support if you run Linux/BSD/etc. If it's a hardware problem they will fix it no matter what sofware you run.
I may still have the problem with my ThinkPad in the future, but I am extremely pleased with the support IBM has given me. A happy customer is a good thing. Maybe Dell doesn't understand that (or maybe their bottom line can't afford it). Personally, I think it's laughable that Dell has "won awards" for it's support.
AOL's mail service is terrible but a lot of people don't want to change their e-mail addresses.
I know what you mean. Why would anyone want to change from J122oeSm@aol.com to JoeShmoe@abetterisp.com? Or maybe to JoeSh055@hotmail.com?
As if the people relying on AOL for their email can possibly have time-sensitive, critical emails going back and forth. As if it would radically change their life if they had to drop an email (prior to cancelling AOL) notifying the three people in their contact list that they're switching to another email address.
Isn't the whole idea of education to teach you how to learn, and not what to know?
Granted, you will remember a good portion of the material presented when I'm being taught how to learn. But that's not really that important.
A well rounded education is going to be better anyways. People have terrible writing skills, and at least if they have to take more classes they should improve them (in theory -- but how you can get to college and not know algebra or basic writing skills is a failure of elementary/high school education).
On the contrary, I want a bigger, better heatsink to cool my processor, so that I can run a low voltage, low speed fan on the heatsink and still adequately cool the intensive heat produced by the 1.4 Ghz Athlon. I just bought a few upgrades for my gaming machine and I chose a 1 Ghz Duron because it will run cooler (and thus I don't need the high pitched whine of a 7000 RPM fan driving me nuts).
I would rather heatsinks get bigger, as there will be more surface area for heat transfer to the air. Plus, I can then use a larger diameter fan, which can produce more airflow for a lower decibel level.
The other advantage of getting a large heatsink is that hopefully you can reuse it if and when you upgrade to that 10 Ghz processor. I would refer you to the Pentium 4. The unreleased Socket 478 Northwood (I think that's the code name) is expected to hit 1 Ghz. So let's say I buy a 2 Ghz version now, I could keep my nice big (expensive) heatsink which is rated for that 10 Ghz processor. Now, which will be a more efficient (and thus potentially quieter) cooler? The HSF designed for a 2 Ghz chip (and associated heat production) or one designed for a 10 Ghz chip?
Note that the Tiger MP has problems with larger heatsinks due to the layout of the PCB. Check the Anandtech article for more info.
One other problem that the Anandtech article didn't mention is that the board does not have the four mounting holes around the processor sockets (like the P4s all have, and many AMD have). So forget about the latest Swiftech and Alpha heatsinks which require those holes.
Perhaps Tyan decided to omit the holes because there wasn't room anyways... the heatsinks that mount via screws tend to be bigger and may not have fit properly anyways. At the same time, I do like the mounting holes as I feel a lot safer when my heatsink is screwed onto the motherboard -- I don't want it popping off and allowing my processor to burn itself up.
Since when has new (let alone the latest and greatest) Sun hardware been "cheap?" Sure, there might be some good values but it's never cheap.
And then there's the product itself. It's huge, it's fast, it's not intended for the home user, or even a medium-sized business. Let's just look at the specs, pulled from Sun's info page:
Up to 106 UltraSPARC[tm] III Cu 900-MHz processors.
Big memory - more than 1/2 TB.
Up to 18 fifth-generation Dynamic System Domains, which are fully configurable while applications are running.
Hot-swappable Uniboard design CPU/memory boards that are common across Sun Fire server family.
Redundant, high-performance Sun[tm] Fireplane Interconnect with up to 172.8 GBps peak bandwidth.
Full redundancy of power and cooling systems.
Are you trying to be funny by saying it's not cheap? Was that a +5 Insightful comment that we all would have missed out on had you not enlightened us? Are you implying that there are other manufacturers who do sell these kinds of systems for cheap?
In your defense, you do have an astonishing command of the perfectly obvious.
Not sure. ServerWorks might be avoiding an AMD motherboard for the simple fact that Intel has been making motions of ceeding the high-end Intel chipset market to them.
i.e. ServerWorks doesn't want to loose a license to the Pentium 4 and Itanium busses.;)
I have to agree with you there. I'm sure ServerWorks would love to grab Intel's high end chipset market, and I think we would all be better off if that happened. ServerWorks' chipsets are much better than Intel's (with cool things like ChipKill and hot-swap DIMMs.
But regarding your second statement, I'm a bit concerned. That's the kind of thing that will get Intel thrown in court. Remember when Microsoft said "If you sell non-MS OSes with your PCs, you will lose your reseller contract." That one ended up against Microsoft.
Granted, ServerWorks might not get new licenses from Intel (and that is unlikely, ServerWorks has a name for themselves in the high-end market). But for Intel to breach its contract and take away those licenses would be asking the Justice Department to make Intel's life a living hell.
If I were AMD I'd be pushing ServerWorks to build an AMD solution, or, alternately, to license some technology to AMD (and maybe some engineers) so AMD can do it themselves.
The review seems to say that there's too much bandwidth available on the 420 series. Granted, it is used if you stick with the built in video, but won't someone paying a premium for the 420 most likely stick their own AGP card in? Maybe a Radeon 7500 or a GeForce 3...
At any rate, I'm wondering if the nForce is set for a multiprocessor future, especially since it offers so much bandwidth. One Athlon can't take full advantage of all that bandwidth, but I'll bet two could.
With nVidia positioning themselves as the bandwidth gurus on the AMD side, I wonder how long it will be before ServerWorks steps in and showers us with their chipsets (for AMD). My guess is ServerWorks will wait for AMD chips to support 4+ processors in a single box.
If Islamic extremists want a war, I'd be happy to give it to them. Terrorists, of any type, are not the kind of people we are missing in the world. They're not afraid to die, and I'm not afraid to die sending them along to their heaven.
So what if during that process innocent lives are taken? Should we stop fighting terrorism? Should we hold a prayer vigil? Should we all come together and pretend everyone else loves each other and it'll be easy to "get along?" Which of these is going to stop further innocent deaths?
Call my crazy, but let's think about the larger picture. The sooner we stop terrorism, through any means, the sooner we will return to a stable environment where people can raise families and be successful. I'm not suggesting a police state -- we have our beliefs and ideals, and we should not sacrifice these. But we should not sacrifice our hope and faith in our system either. We need to take the war to them. Take the war to Corsica, to Northern Ireland, to Afghanistan, to Syria, to Lybia, to Pakistan, to Iran.
And this is a war. This is a war for freedom, for our way of life. We think our way is the best and, frankly, we have the guns to back it up -- in the long run that makes us right. We are fighting for stability of the free world. Make no mistake, these next few months will shape the face of the world for the next hundred years.
When it all comes down to it, I'm willing to sacrifice my life, and any number of innocents, to protect what the free world has worked so hard to achieve. Innocent lives may be sacrificed at home or away, but a price must be paid for the freedom we enjoy.
If there's one thing that human beings understand insinctively, it's raw, and extreme, force. We have the way, but we need the will.
I think we can agree that most Linux users are "intelligent" computer users, ones who like to get the most out of their computers, and ones who have extensive experience using those computers and various applications (under whatever OS).
Can we therefore also agree that Linux users practice more intelligent computing, and if there was a Linux virus that went around hosing installs, most Linux users would not get it because at the least they would know to not open any old attachment and run it?
Granted, many people don't know how to (or that they should) secure their systems, and some even login routinely as root. (!)
But are Linux users less prone to email-born worms/viruses?
I would argue that they are. Personally, I do not run virus scanning software at all. Not on my Mac (haven't for years and years), not on my Linux box, and not on my Windows 2000 Pro machines. Instead, I practice safe computing.
On Windows, that involves disabling VB scripting, locking down various portions of Outlook and IE, and installing the latest patches (SR1/2 for Office, IE updates, etc).
I'm not the "average" user but I think that most tech-heads can do this (and therefore Linux guys and gals).
30 player multiplayer was fine at 640 x 480 playing on a pretty fast server (I'm on DSL here). I didn't bother to up the resolution, since everything was fine and I was having fun. So, it looks like my trusty Voodoo 3 manages to eek out another week of existence.
It was definitely more fun than some of the other FPS games I've played online, and I'll probably end up purchasing the final version. Playing with newbies/1337 TKers never really gives you the full experience of an online FPS though...
I'm still gaming on a Celeron 400 with Voodoo 3 3000.
I setup a multiplayer game and ran around trying out the weapons and so on, and everything was fine and dandy. I do have 320 Megs of RAM so that keeps swapping to a minimum.
Anyways, I think we all know that the manufacturer minimum systems are always too high. But for those still considering trying RtCW, it ran fine on my system...
The final animated (movie) sequence when you quit looks really nice, I just hope some servers with some nice bandwith pop up soon... I'm itching to try a 32 player game.
Also, as a soldier you can select other weapons, after selecting your class you can scroll the weapon list in the bottom of that "window" to get to cool things like the minigun or the flamethrower (which looks nice and pretty).
* Windows® 98/ME/2000/NT 4.0 (with Service Pack 3) OS
* 100% Windows 98/ME/2000/NT 4.0 compatible system (including all 32bit drivers)
* Intel Pentium® II 500Mhz processor or better
* 128 MB RAM
* 16 MB video card
* Microsoft® Direct X® 8.0a (not included)
* 70 MB free hard disk space for game files
* 100 MB free hard disk space for swap files
* 100% fully OpenGL® compliant 3-D video card
* For internet play, 100% Windows 95/98/ME/2000/NT 4.0 compatible 56.6k modem or better internet connection. 56.6k modem play is not recommended for games with more than 8 players total; broadband players should be able to handle up to 32 depending on their connection with the server on which they're playing.
Geeze, I'm still gaming on a Celeron 400 with Voodoo 3 3000. It's great for Unreal Tournament at 800 x 600, but I think RtCW is going to kill my system.
Will this be the next "big game" that will force users (er, gamers) to upgrade in order to bathe in it's FPS glory?
I haven't purchased from Egghead (formerly Onsale) in a long time. In fact, at the least, I have ordered since their "hacker breaking" a while back.
After I got the "we're selling you to Fry's" email I decided to opt-out but it wouldn't accept my username and password, nor could I recover my password (via their website). I thought maybe my username was incorrect, but as far as I can tell that is not the case.
I'm wondering if my case is unique. I'm also wondering why I need a user name to opt-out. Why isn't my email enough? If I have that email setup for multiple users, then I can opt-out of all at once. I'm going to call customer support as well, but that will have to wait until Monday (thanks for the email Saturday, so that way hopefully I'll forget to opt-out by Monday).
Of course, I'm assuming that their website is actually working properly. I have order numbers and tracking numbers for previous orders, perhaps I should just email those en masse to customer support and let them deal with it.
...to make a very clear, very public, very obvious statement that any sort of international terrorism is unacceptable and will be responded to with complete and utter destruction of all terrorist groups in the world. Any individuals or governments aiding terrorists will be likewise targetted.
A bit extreme? Perhaps, and I'll be the first to admit that I think killing more people is a poor solution. But realize this, and before you jump all over the idea, how many innocent, non-violent people have to die at terrorists' hands before the world says enough is enough.
I'm not suggesting kill all Muslims or Irish or Corsicans. But any "international" terrorist groups must be eliminated. How could leaving one group while leaving the ones responsible (eg, WTC attack) benefit us? Why do we want groups of terrorists?
The US/Europe/Russia/China are the dominant powers of the world. We make the rules. We decide who is right and wrong. So don't be naive and think the terrorists are "right" and fighting the good war. If they were in charge, would they hesitate to kill us (since we'd be the terrorists)?
We need to coordinate with Russia and Europe and in one massive planned attack wipe out all known terrorist groups in the world. There will be reprisal attacks, but this is a small price to pay. Do we kill a few innocents now or millions later?
For non "international" terrorists, such as the US militia groups, I think these are strictly internal problems and should be dealt with internally. Notice US militia groups don't blow up Afghani planes, or Irish pubs.
I fear, though, that this decision will be made after another unprecendented attack (I think we can all agree the WTC saga is without precedence). Perhaps a chemical/biologial or nuclear payload will be what it takes for the world to take a "no tolerance" stance on international terrorism.
The WTC events have threatened the very foundations of the free world. Not because the "big boy" got successfully attacked, but because terrorism has stepped up to a new level of destructive power. It will continue until the world realizes that it is time for what in a normal situation we would consider an "extreme" reaction.
The world powers must send a cohesive ground force and attack the terrorism at its source.
Also, those of you "pacifists" who claim that further violence (retaliation) would be "too much" death, please understand something. A true pacifist will choose all alternate paths of resolution to a problem until violence is the only answer. After which, the pacifist will use any and all force necessary to permanently subdue their aggressor. Pacifism is not allowing yourself to be used as a punching bag.
I consider myself a pacifist, but I'm concerned that any amount of "reasonable" retaliation will be enough to stop further attacks (in fact, I think it is impossible to stop further attacks). Retaliation will be a political decision, one which will be decided not on public emotion but on the political stability of the world as a whole.
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Not to mention the double effect that you can invest in Pizza Hut and watch the stock go WAY up!
If anyone plans to implement JohnG's ingenious plan, please drop me an email. I'll send you a pizza after I make millions selling Pizza Hut stock short.
Who do you think is going to end up paying for those "million" pizzas that are sent to spammers?
Remember: every time you buy over the internet, an angel gets his wings.
And, at the same time, the devil gets your credit card number.
Why does Microsoft have to serve anyone but themselves (and their stockholders)? If you buy a product from them, you're deal is done. Move along. If you want support you pay for it. If you don't like that, try another product. NetWare, Linux, FreeBSD, BeOS, MacOS, Solaris, IRIX, the list goes on...
And Microsoft didn't "take away" power to the user. It's just that the users became stupider on average since no longer is it Billy Boy Genius the computer guru, it's Joe Schmoe AOLers who want a computer. You should know all to well that there aren't nearly enough "geeks" in the computer consumer work to sway the interface changes in a Microsoft OS. Microsoft adds features to their OS that their customer base, on average, wants. Sadly, that means that power users end up getting a crippled OS, or at least one where all of the "tweakables" are hidden away so some computer half-wit doesn't accidentally hose his install.
Personally, I consider myself a power user and I sure as hell don't want BASIC on my machine, or a "DOS prompt." And Windows NT/2000/XP have a "command prompt" and that should be hidden... how would an amateur user react to the command prompt?
I'm sick of them misrepresenting their proprietary formats or protocols as "standards."
Well, Microsoft is a monopoly, so they have the ability to set their own standards. No, it is not proprietary. I'll leave it at that so you'll actually have to think it through this time.
Capitalism is a beautiful thing, but there are sides some people don't like... unfortunately it's all or nothing. Find yourself a nice Communist country and have fun.
Try letting the Propaganda Machine rest for a bit, it's not making any sense any more.
...and become an economist. Well, I'm almost done. I dropped CS after a year, though, so I had the advantage of not spending all of my time going for a CS degree I didn't want.
I like to think that if I ever wanted to learn CS, I could pick up a few textbooks on a subject (say, assembler) and read up. But I'm able to read a book and learn the material...
College isn't about what degree you get anyways. You should know that by now if you're just about to graduate.
And there's always the military... I hear they're hiring.
Interestingly, there is some logic beyond this argument as well.
Assume for a moment that you're a hard working, productive worker building your product or otherwise producing more income to the company than they pay you. You are a "good" employee, and the company would prefer to keep you. Now, another employee who was hired along side you is promoted to your manager. But you reflect back at all the asinine questions that person asked, and how perfectly obvious they made the fact that they should be working at McDonalds and not making $100,000 a year bossing you around (let alone in this industry).
Why did they get promoted? Is it because they're buddies with the boss? It is because everyone is in some maniacal conspiracy against you?
No. It's because of two things. Either they get promoted, or they get fired. Sometimes a company will chose to promote rather than fire an employee. But more likely, the simple fact is that you are productive in your position. If you were to be promoted to manager, your job would radically change and the company would not have the benefit of your skills working towards completion of the product.
That's why most management is "stupid" and "doesn't get it." Because they were workers who were stupid and don't get it. Granted, there are some members of management who are good at what they do -- these are the few that won't get fired when management has its shakedown. And not everyone is promoted to management... but if they were hired on, does that necessarily make them good at their job?
Think about it, if management were that great, it'd cost a lot more.
So what about the Episode II trailer? Did they show it? Or was it just being released with the US version of Monsters, Inc?
Perhaps VA has followed in many of the former "dot bomb" naming conventions where one thinks up a good list of names, then determines which are available. As most are probably taken, a domain name, and thus company name, are easily chosen.
So, they found vasoftware.com" was available and went for it. Looks like the record was updated today, too.
So what else might they switch to in the future? Domain squatters are already on the hunt for their next possible name...
written by work-obsessed coders who want to make the best drivers possible
.1 frames per second more out of my ATI card if it crashes before that frame is even drawn.
Are we forgetting this is ATI? Your situation isn't even remotely plausible... remember this is the ATI that has had significant difficulty releasing a stable Windows 2000 driver. And remind me, how long has Windows 2000 been released (let alone how long the developers have had it)?
I specifically chose to buy an NVidia product because ATI's Windows 2000 drivers were/are terrible. I don't care if I get
I've had various issues with my ThinkPad 570, the most notable being a white screen when the LCD powered up. The issue has plagued a fair number of users, but for me IBM has been extremely helpful (and fast) in repairing the issue. IBM is not like Dell.
Dell wouldn't support Windows 2000 on my sister's laptop because I didn't buy Windows 2000 from them. Yes, it is supported by Dell but only if you buy from Dell. IBM doesn't really care what you run on the laptop, they just can't provide support if you run Linux/BSD/etc. If it's a hardware problem they will fix it no matter what sofware you run.
I may still have the problem with my ThinkPad in the future, but I am extremely pleased with the support IBM has given me. A happy customer is a good thing. Maybe Dell doesn't understand that (or maybe their bottom line can't afford it). Personally, I think it's laughable that Dell has "won awards" for it's support.
AOL's mail service is terrible but a lot of people don't want to change their e-mail addresses.
I know what you mean. Why would anyone want to change from J122oeSm@aol.com to JoeShmoe@abetterisp.com? Or maybe to JoeSh055@hotmail.com?
As if the people relying on AOL for their email can possibly have time-sensitive, critical emails going back and forth. As if it would radically change their life if they had to drop an email (prior to cancelling AOL) notifying the three people in their contact list that they're switching to another email address.
Isn't the whole idea of education to teach you how to learn, and not what to know?
Granted, you will remember a good portion of the material presented when I'm being taught how to learn. But that's not really that important.
A well rounded education is going to be better anyways. People have terrible writing skills, and at least if they have to take more classes they should improve them (in theory -- but how you can get to college and not know algebra or basic writing skills is a failure of elementary/high school education).
On the contrary, I want a bigger, better heatsink to cool my processor, so that I can run a low voltage, low speed fan on the heatsink and still adequately cool the intensive heat produced by the 1.4 Ghz Athlon. I just bought a few upgrades for my gaming machine and I chose a 1 Ghz Duron because it will run cooler (and thus I don't need the high pitched whine of a 7000 RPM fan driving me nuts).
I would rather heatsinks get bigger, as there will be more surface area for heat transfer to the air. Plus, I can then use a larger diameter fan, which can produce more airflow for a lower decibel level.
The other advantage of getting a large heatsink is that hopefully you can reuse it if and when you upgrade to that 10 Ghz processor. I would refer you to the Pentium 4. The unreleased Socket 478 Northwood (I think that's the code name) is expected to hit 1 Ghz. So let's say I buy a 2 Ghz version now, I could keep my nice big (expensive) heatsink which is rated for that 10 Ghz processor. Now, which will be a more efficient (and thus potentially quieter) cooler? The HSF designed for a 2 Ghz chip (and associated heat production) or one designed for a 10 Ghz chip?
Note that the Tiger MP has problems with larger heatsinks due to the layout of the PCB. Check the Anandtech article for more info.
One other problem that the Anandtech article didn't mention is that the board does not have the four mounting holes around the processor sockets (like the P4s all have, and many AMD have). So forget about the latest Swiftech and Alpha heatsinks which require those holes.
Perhaps Tyan decided to omit the holes because there wasn't room anyways... the heatsinks that mount via screws tend to be bigger and may not have fit properly anyways. At the same time, I do like the mounting holes as I feel a lot safer when my heatsink is screwed onto the motherboard -- I don't want it popping off and allowing my processor to burn itself up.
Since when has new (let alone the latest and greatest) Sun hardware been "cheap?" Sure, there might be some good values but it's never cheap.
And then there's the product itself. It's huge, it's fast, it's not intended for the home user, or even a medium-sized business. Let's just look at the specs, pulled from Sun's info page:
Up to 18 fifth-generation Dynamic System Domains, which are fully configurable while applications are running.
Are you trying to be funny by saying it's not cheap? Was that a +5 Insightful comment that we all would have missed out on had you not enlightened us? Are you implying that there are other manufacturers who do sell these kinds of systems for cheap?
In your defense, you do have an astonishing command of the perfectly obvious.
Not sure. ServerWorks might be avoiding an AMD motherboard for the simple fact that Intel has been making motions of ceeding the high-end Intel chipset market to them.
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i.e. ServerWorks doesn't want to loose a license to the Pentium 4 and Itanium busses.
I have to agree with you there. I'm sure ServerWorks would love to grab Intel's high end chipset market, and I think we would all be better off if that happened. ServerWorks' chipsets are much better than Intel's (with cool things like ChipKill and hot-swap DIMMs.
But regarding your second statement, I'm a bit concerned. That's the kind of thing that will get Intel thrown in court. Remember when Microsoft said "If you sell non-MS OSes with your PCs, you will lose your reseller contract." That one ended up against Microsoft.
Granted, ServerWorks might not get new licenses from Intel (and that is unlikely, ServerWorks has a name for themselves in the high-end market). But for Intel to breach its contract and take away those licenses would be asking the Justice Department to make Intel's life a living hell.
If I were AMD I'd be pushing ServerWorks to build an AMD solution, or, alternately, to license some technology to AMD (and maybe some engineers) so AMD can do it themselves.
The review seems to say that there's too much bandwidth available on the 420 series. Granted, it is used if you stick with the built in video, but won't someone paying a premium for the 420 most likely stick their own AGP card in? Maybe a Radeon 7500 or a GeForce 3...
At any rate, I'm wondering if the nForce is set for a multiprocessor future, especially since it offers so much bandwidth. One Athlon can't take full advantage of all that bandwidth, but I'll bet two could.
With nVidia positioning themselves as the bandwidth gurus on the AMD side, I wonder how long it will be before ServerWorks steps in and showers us with their chipsets (for AMD). My guess is ServerWorks will wait for AMD chips to support 4+ processors in a single box.
If Islamic extremists want a war, I'd be happy to give it to them. Terrorists, of any type, are not the kind of people we are missing in the world. They're not afraid to die, and I'm not afraid to die sending them along to their heaven.
So what if during that process innocent lives are taken? Should we stop fighting terrorism? Should we hold a prayer vigil? Should we all come together and pretend everyone else loves each other and it'll be easy to "get along?" Which of these is going to stop further innocent deaths?
Call my crazy, but let's think about the larger picture. The sooner we stop terrorism, through any means, the sooner we will return to a stable environment where people can raise families and be successful. I'm not suggesting a police state -- we have our beliefs and ideals, and we should not sacrifice these. But we should not sacrifice our hope and faith in our system either. We need to take the war to them. Take the war to Corsica, to Northern Ireland, to Afghanistan, to Syria, to Lybia, to Pakistan, to Iran.
And this is a war. This is a war for freedom, for our way of life. We think our way is the best and, frankly, we have the guns to back it up -- in the long run that makes us right. We are fighting for stability of the free world. Make no mistake, these next few months will shape the face of the world for the next hundred years.
When it all comes down to it, I'm willing to sacrifice my life, and any number of innocents, to protect what the free world has worked so hard to achieve. Innocent lives may be sacrificed at home or away, but a price must be paid for the freedom we enjoy.
If there's one thing that human beings understand insinctively, it's raw, and extreme, force. We have the way, but we need the will.
I think we can agree that most Linux users are "intelligent" computer users, ones who like to get the most out of their computers, and ones who have extensive experience using those computers and various applications (under whatever OS).
Can we therefore also agree that Linux users practice more intelligent computing, and if there was a Linux virus that went around hosing installs, most Linux users would not get it because at the least they would know to not open any old attachment and run it?
Granted, many people don't know how to (or that they should) secure their systems, and some even login routinely as root. (!)
But are Linux users less prone to email-born worms/viruses?
I would argue that they are. Personally, I do not run virus scanning software at all. Not on my Mac (haven't for years and years), not on my Linux box, and not on my Windows 2000 Pro machines. Instead, I practice safe computing.
On Windows, that involves disabling VB scripting, locking down various portions of Outlook and IE, and installing the latest patches (SR1/2 for Office, IE updates, etc).
I'm not the "average" user but I think that most tech-heads can do this (and therefore Linux guys and gals).
30 player multiplayer was fine at 640 x 480 playing on a pretty fast server (I'm on DSL here). I didn't bother to up the resolution, since everything was fine and I was having fun. So, it looks like my trusty Voodoo 3 manages to eek out another week of existence.
It was definitely more fun than some of the other FPS games I've played online, and I'll probably end up purchasing the final version. Playing with newbies/1337 TKers never really gives you the full experience of an online FPS though...
An update for those interested...
I'm still gaming on a Celeron 400 with Voodoo 3 3000.
I setup a multiplayer game and ran around trying out the weapons and so on, and everything was fine and dandy. I do have 320 Megs of RAM so that keeps swapping to a minimum.
Anyways, I think we all know that the manufacturer minimum systems are always too high. But for those still considering trying RtCW, it ran fine on my system...
The final animated (movie) sequence when you quit looks really nice, I just hope some servers with some nice bandwith pop up soon... I'm itching to try a 32 player game.
Also, as a soldier you can select other weapons, after selecting your class you can scroll the weapon list in the bottom of that "window" to get to cool things like the minigun or the flamethrower (which looks nice and pretty).
From the read me:
* Windows® 98/ME/2000/NT 4.0 (with Service Pack 3) OS
* 100% Windows 98/ME/2000/NT 4.0 compatible system (including all 32bit drivers)
* Intel Pentium® II 500Mhz processor or better
* 128 MB RAM
* 16 MB video card
* Microsoft® Direct X® 8.0a (not included)
* 70 MB free hard disk space for game files
* 100 MB free hard disk space for swap files
* 100% fully OpenGL® compliant 3-D video card
* For internet play, 100% Windows 95/98/ME/2000/NT 4.0 compatible 56.6k modem or better internet connection. 56.6k modem play is not recommended for games with more than 8 players total; broadband players should be able to handle up to 32 depending on their connection with the server on which they're playing.
Geeze, I'm still gaming on a Celeron 400 with Voodoo 3 3000. It's great for Unreal Tournament at 800 x 600, but I think RtCW is going to kill my system.
Will this be the next "big game" that will force users (er, gamers) to upgrade in order to bathe in it's FPS glory?
Getting 150 Kbytes per second on my DSL. Not bad considering this post is +5 and probably everyone is using it...
I haven't purchased from Egghead (formerly Onsale) in a long time. In fact, at the least, I have ordered since their "hacker breaking" a while back.
After I got the "we're selling you to Fry's" email I decided to opt-out but it wouldn't accept my username and password, nor could I recover my password (via their website). I thought maybe my username was incorrect, but as far as I can tell that is not the case.
I'm wondering if my case is unique. I'm also wondering why I need a user name to opt-out. Why isn't my email enough? If I have that email setup for multiple users, then I can opt-out of all at once. I'm going to call customer support as well, but that will have to wait until Monday (thanks for the email Saturday, so that way hopefully I'll forget to opt-out by Monday).
Of course, I'm assuming that their website is actually working properly. I have order numbers and tracking numbers for previous orders, perhaps I should just email those en masse to customer support and let them deal with it.
...to make a very clear, very public, very obvious statement that any sort of international terrorism is unacceptable and will be responded to with complete and utter destruction of all terrorist groups in the world. Any individuals or governments aiding terrorists will be likewise targetted.
A bit extreme? Perhaps, and I'll be the first to admit that I think killing more people is a poor solution. But realize this, and before you jump all over the idea, how many innocent, non-violent people have to die at terrorists' hands before the world says enough is enough.
I'm not suggesting kill all Muslims or Irish or Corsicans. But any "international" terrorist groups must be eliminated. How could leaving one group while leaving the ones responsible (eg, WTC attack) benefit us? Why do we want groups of terrorists?
The US/Europe/Russia/China are the dominant powers of the world. We make the rules. We decide who is right and wrong. So don't be naive and think the terrorists are "right" and fighting the good war. If they were in charge, would they hesitate to kill us (since we'd be the terrorists)?
We need to coordinate with Russia and Europe and in one massive planned attack wipe out all known terrorist groups in the world. There will be reprisal attacks, but this is a small price to pay. Do we kill a few innocents now or millions later?
For non "international" terrorists, such as the US militia groups, I think these are strictly internal problems and should be dealt with internally. Notice US militia groups don't blow up Afghani planes, or Irish pubs.
I fear, though, that this decision will be made after another unprecendented attack (I think we can all agree the WTC saga is without precedence). Perhaps a chemical/biologial or nuclear payload will be what it takes for the world to take a "no tolerance" stance on international terrorism.
The WTC events have threatened the very foundations of the free world. Not because the "big boy" got successfully attacked, but because terrorism has stepped up to a new level of destructive power. It will continue until the world realizes that it is time for what in a normal situation we would consider an "extreme" reaction.
The world powers must send a cohesive ground force and attack the terrorism at its source.
...and something to consider.
http://www.thequran.com/flyer/flyer1.html
http://www.thequran.com/flyer/flyer3.html
Also, those of you "pacifists" who claim that further violence (retaliation) would be "too much" death, please understand something. A true pacifist will choose all alternate paths of resolution to a problem until violence is the only answer. After which, the pacifist will use any and all force necessary to permanently subdue their aggressor. Pacifism is not allowing yourself to be used as a punching bag.
I consider myself a pacifist, but I'm concerned that any amount of "reasonable" retaliation will be enough to stop further attacks (in fact, I think it is impossible to stop further attacks). Retaliation will be a political decision, one which will be decided not on public emotion but on the political stability of the world as a whole.