But yes, I agree with you, AMD cannot neglect the desktop market, unless it makes AMD64 cheap enough that it can put them in all computers (which I think is their inevitable goal). Hell, once eMachines starts stocking them in Computer City, I think they'll have achieved it.
The Mobile Athlon64 3000+-based eMachines M6807 latpop is available at Circuit City and Best Buy (M6805).
The Athlon64 3200+-based Compaq s6900NX is also available at Circuit City.
The Athlon64 3200+-based eMachines T6000 is available at Best Buy.
Currently Intel's latest 3.0+ GHz offerings are spanking Athlon 64s in benchmarks with 32 bit applications.
I wouldn't really say that. Sure, if you want to buy the $1,100 Pentium 4 Extreme Edition. But for normal, real-world users, the Athlon64's price:performance ratio kicks the P4's butt.
When excluding the overpriced P4EE and the AMD FX51:
Gameplay is similar to the Onslaught games in UT2K4. Team and goal-based with vehicles and multiple win strategies. It is more balanced than the onslaught UT levels, which are mainly offensive. Games can be as short as 3 minutes (with a blitz on the enemy base with a raptor) or as long as 45 with well-played offense and defense. It is preconfigured with about 20 team and global phrases for quick communication. No voice communication like 2K4, though.
The demo is free. It takes a little play to get the feel for it, since it is such a departure from typical bombing run or CTF-style games. But, it is well worth it. The maps are impressive, some are just immense.
If you like the multiplayer team aspects of UT2k4, be sure and check out Unreal 2 eXpanded MultiPlayer. It's also based on the Unreal engine, but is completely team oriented. 3 classes of players, multiple weapons, multiple vehicles, power generators, auto-turrets, manned turrets and artifacts (think capture the flag with 4 flags). Best Unreal-based game yet, IMO.
Sharman Networks should immediately request the ability to do the exact same thing to MIPI. MIPI most likely has modified versions of Kazaa running on their systems to monitor the Kazaa network. If Sharman can at least determine from their servers that this is probable within MIPI's IP address space, they should get the same right.
At some point, some time ago, there was a report about the bars in Boston scanning in the 2D codes on the back of licenses and then using it to send junk mail. The bars in New York City do the same thing. They won't let you in without "scanning" your license to be sure it isn't fake. They place it under a blacklight in a reader and it gets scanned. The club then has a record of every person, their address, description, birth date and drivers license that entered the club. On commercial licenses in some states, your Social Security Number is also encoded, so they'd have that, too.
Remember that, and think twice if the place you're about to enter really needs a complete copy of all the information on your driver's license. I've refused to provide it and taped over the back so noone can scan it quickly before I realize they're trying to. I haven't been refused access to anywhere yet.
DRM is Digital Restrictions Management, and we should always refer to it as such, especially when writing OpEd pieces or online articles about it. Perhaps we'll have better luck than the casinos and "gaming".
Oh, Lord, what should I do? Keep gaming. What? It means gambling... keep gambling. Oh! Righty-O!
I do have a few issues - and these are minor - one being the transfer speeds (USB, dunno if it supports USB 2.0 as my machine doesn't have it and I'm too lazy to check the Karma's documentation)
The Karma is a USB 2.0 hi-speed device. You should definitely drop in a USB 2.0 card for your machine, it will greatly improve your transfer times.
Popping up a box for every site that wants to store a cookie on your system (even if you select always allow/deny) is really overkill. It's annoying for a typical end-user and, for the most part, unnecessary.
Just set Mozilla to only accept cookies from the originating website and disable them in mail and newsgroups. This kills the annoying "track you across websites" type of cookie by random 3rd parties serving ads and those used by webbugs. It leaves the cookies set by the visitted website alone (and do you really care if PC Magazine knows you just visitted yesterday).
Errmmm...maybe I'm using some other Windows, but here I have to press Ctrl-Alt-Del to login to my W2K and XP boxes too. Did I miss something? You say they removed it? Err?
Actually Ctrl-Alt-Del is disabled by default in Windows 2000 and Windows XP. You can enable both with a registry key or a setting. (Most corporate installs do this, from what I've seen) It was disabled for convenience, but can be re-enabled for "security". Also of note... enabling Ctrl-Alt-Del precludes use of the pretty Windows XP welcome screen.
Blacklists are a cure far worse than the disease, and I'm completely rooting for the spammers here. What with bayesian junk filtering and using uniquely generated email addresses whenever I give them, I never see any spam, and the bandwidth it's costing me is minimal.
You're kidding, right? Bayesian filtering is far from perfect. I've used Mozilla's built-in bayesian filtering as well as Spambayes' far-more-effective filtering system. There are still many spam messages let through in both instances. And there are still occasionally false-positives as well.
The big problem with ANY filtering solution (including Bayesian) is that false-positives are lost email. Unless you filter to a folder and then look through EVERY message (which kind of defeats the purpose) you will outright lose any false-positive message... and neither you nor the sender will know about it.
A well-run blacklist stops the message from even being delivered to your server AND the sending server is made aware of this at message send time. Thus, the sender receives a bounce message, and will know that their mail didn't get through. Unlike with filtering, where the message just disappears.
I personally fail to see how it is some great inconvenience to have telemarketers calling you every so often.
There's a bit more to it than that. I work at home, and when I first started, there was no Do Not Call list in New York. I would get about 20 calls a day from telemarketers. A majority of those would be hangups... when their automated dialers call 10 numbers at once and whoever answers first talks to an operator and the other 9 get hung up on (an oversimplification of the process, but still accurate).
In addition, nearly every telemarketer hid or forged their caller ID information (trivial with the right equipment), so caller id display, call block and *69 (call return) would not work. When enough people started blocking calls from "private" or "restricted" numbers, the telemarketers responded by having their equipment respond with a fraudulent "out of area" caller id message, which got through the privacy-block.
Many of the ones that did pick up were automated messages that could not be hung up on until the message was complete. They simply would not release the line. So if, for instance, at the frustration of receiving my 20th telemarketing call of the day... and hence, my 20th interruption to trying to have a productive day... I became so upset I had a heart attack... I'd be dead... since I would be unable to hang up and call 911 until after the automated dialer was finished playing its message.
Now... let's balance the productivity, livelihood, happiness, safety, etc of the many people who receive these annoying calls with the minimum-wage salaries earned by the very few who place these calls.
Yeah, he didn't seem very angry in that interview that he did online. And the site that interviewed him was sending him an iPod, which is cool. But the kids that broke into the locker, stole the video, digitzed it, put it online and invited people to make fun of it sound like asses. The last line of the article includes this gem: "In the excerpts from Internet chats filed in court, the four appear to be plotting ways to get the gifts sent to another address so they can keep the iPod for themselves."
... and use Gaim, for Linux and Windows. Has capability to connect to AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, MSN, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu(?) and IRC networks.
I really wanted to like Gaim for windows. Downloaded it, got it running. It gave an error message on every launch saying something about not being able to read my buddy list. Then after a few days it died, crashing on boot. An uninstall/reinstall did naught to correct the situation. Though I'd prefer an open-source solution, I switched to Trillian, and it just works right. I'm going to give Miranda a try under windows today, though.
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But yes, I agree with you, AMD cannot neglect the desktop market, unless it makes AMD64 cheap enough that it can put them in all computers (which I think is their inevitable goal). Hell, once eMachines starts stocking them in Computer City, I think they'll have achieved it.
The Mobile Athlon64 3000+-based eMachines M6807 latpop is available at Circuit City and Best Buy (M6805).
The Athlon64 3200+-based Compaq s6900NX is also available at Circuit City.
The Athlon64 3200+-based eMachines T6000 is available at Best Buy.
That good enough?
Currently Intel's latest 3.0+ GHz offerings are spanking Athlon 64s in benchmarks with 32 bit applications.
I wouldn't really say that. Sure, if you want to buy the $1,100 Pentium 4 Extreme Edition. But for normal, real-world users, the Athlon64's price:performance ratio kicks the P4's butt.
When excluding the overpriced P4EE and the AMD FX51:
AMD64 Wins: Business Winstone 2004, Content Creation Winstone 2004, Aquamark FPS, Halo, Gunmetal, Unreal Tournament, Warcraft 3, Quake 3 Arena, Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy, Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, Quake 3 Arena Source Compile
P4 Wins: SysMark 2004*, Aquamark CPU, DivX Encoding, 3dsmax r5, Lightwave 7.5
*SysMark 2004 is listed once, rather than each individual test. It heavily favors Intel and doesn't reflect other benchmarks or real-word performance.
SOURCE: AnandTech
Gameplay is similar to the Onslaught games in UT2K4. Team and goal-based with vehicles and multiple win strategies. It is more balanced than the onslaught UT levels, which are mainly offensive. Games can be as short as 3 minutes (with a blitz on the enemy base with a raptor) or as long as 45 with well-played offense and defense. It is preconfigured with about 20 team and global phrases for quick communication. No voice communication like 2K4, though.
The demo is free. It takes a little play to get the feel for it, since it is such a departure from typical bombing run or CTF-style games. But, it is well worth it. The maps are impressive, some are just immense.
If you like the multiplayer team aspects of UT2k4, be sure and check out Unreal 2 eXpanded MultiPlayer. It's also based on the Unreal engine, but is completely team oriented. 3 classes of players, multiple weapons, multiple vehicles, power generators, auto-turrets, manned turrets and artifacts (think capture the flag with 4 flags). Best Unreal-based game yet, IMO.
Official Unofficial Site
Some Decent Player Guides
The demo is free (just patch your server list). The full version requires Unreal 2, which can be found for as little as $8 (Target Clearance)
Here's the fixed link to a picture of a FireFox
Is it just me? Or does a FireFox kinda look like a badger?
Maybe they should have named it Mozilla Badger. They'd have an instant theme song.
Sharman Networks should immediately request the ability to do the exact same thing to MIPI. MIPI most likely has modified versions of Kazaa running on their systems to monitor the Kazaa network. If Sharman can at least determine from their servers that this is probable within MIPI's IP address space, they should get the same right.
At some point, some time ago, there was a report about the bars in Boston scanning in the 2D codes on the back of licenses and then using it to send junk mail. The bars in New York City do the same thing. They won't let you in without "scanning" your license to be sure it isn't fake. They place it under a blacklight in a reader and it gets scanned. The club then has a record of every person, their address, description, birth date and drivers license that entered the club. On commercial licenses in some states, your Social Security Number is also encoded, so they'd have that, too.
Remember that, and think twice if the place you're about to enter really needs a complete copy of all the information on your driver's license. I've refused to provide it and taped over the back so noone can scan it quickly before I realize they're trying to. I haven't been refused access to anywhere yet.
DRM is Digital Restrictions Management, and we should always refer to it as such, especially when writing OpEd pieces or online articles about it. Perhaps we'll have better luck than the casinos and "gaming".
Oh, Lord, what should I do?
Keep gaming.
What?
It means gambling... keep gambling.
Oh! Righty-O!
Yeah, the new Hotmail spam filters are great and all. As long as you don't mind losing legitimate email in the process.
...or is it?
I do have a few issues - and these are minor - one being the transfer speeds (USB, dunno if it supports USB 2.0 as my machine doesn't have it and I'm too lazy to check the Karma's documentation)
The Karma is a USB 2.0 hi-speed device. You should definitely drop in a USB 2.0 card for your machine, it will greatly improve your transfer times.
... has a really crappy end.
Here in America that doesn't happen either.
Here's some interesting reading: OverLawyered.com
Popping up a box for every site that wants to store a cookie on your system (even if you select always allow/deny) is really overkill. It's annoying for a typical end-user and, for the most part, unnecessary.
Just set Mozilla to only accept cookies from the originating website and disable them in mail and newsgroups. This kills the annoying "track you across websites" type of cookie by random 3rd parties serving ads and those used by webbugs. It leaves the cookies set by the visitted website alone (and do you really care if PC Magazine knows you just visitted yesterday).
Errmmm...maybe I'm using some other Windows, but here I have to press Ctrl-Alt-Del to login to my W2K and XP boxes too. Did I miss something? You say they removed it? Err?
Actually Ctrl-Alt-Del is disabled by default in Windows 2000 and Windows XP. You can enable both with a registry key or a setting. (Most corporate installs do this, from what I've seen) It was disabled for convenience, but can be re-enabled for "security". Also of note... enabling Ctrl-Alt-Del precludes use of the pretty Windows XP welcome screen.
Blacklists are a cure far worse than the disease, and I'm completely rooting for the spammers here. What with bayesian junk filtering and using uniquely generated email addresses whenever I give them, I never see any spam, and the bandwidth it's costing me is minimal.
You're kidding, right? Bayesian filtering is far from perfect. I've used Mozilla's built-in bayesian filtering as well as Spambayes' far-more-effective filtering system. There are still many spam messages let through in both instances. And there are still occasionally false-positives as well.
The big problem with ANY filtering solution (including Bayesian) is that false-positives are lost email. Unless you filter to a folder and then look through EVERY message (which kind of defeats the purpose) you will outright lose any false-positive message... and neither you nor the sender will know about it.
A well-run blacklist stops the message from even being delivered to your server AND the sending server is made aware of this at message send time. Thus, the sender receives a bounce message, and will know that their mail didn't get through. Unlike with filtering, where the message just disappears.
... to drink your Ovaltine.
I personally fail to see how it is some great inconvenience to have telemarketers calling you every so often.
There's a bit more to it than that. I work at home, and when I first started, there was no Do Not Call list in New York. I would get about 20 calls a day from telemarketers. A majority of those would be hangups... when their automated dialers call 10 numbers at once and whoever answers first talks to an operator and the other 9 get hung up on (an oversimplification of the process, but still accurate).
In addition, nearly every telemarketer hid or forged their caller ID information (trivial with the right equipment), so caller id display, call block and *69 (call return) would not work. When enough people started blocking calls from "private" or "restricted" numbers, the telemarketers responded by having their equipment respond with a fraudulent "out of area" caller id message, which got through the privacy-block.
Many of the ones that did pick up were automated messages that could not be hung up on until the message was complete. They simply would not release the line. So if, for instance, at the frustration of receiving my 20th telemarketing call of the day... and hence, my 20th interruption to trying to have a productive day... I became so upset I had a heart attack... I'd be dead... since I would be unable to hang up and call 911 until after the automated dialer was finished playing its message.
Now... let's balance the productivity, livelihood, happiness, safety, etc of the many people who receive these annoying calls with the minimum-wage salaries earned by the very few who place these calls.
Guess what? It's unsatisfactory. Nice reasons, too:
- failure to resolve complaints
- failure to address cause of complaints
- billing disputes
- failure to provide timely refunds
- failure to provide promised services
- lying on their website by stating they are members of the Better Business Bureau and participants in the BBB On-Line Reliability Program
See for yourself: BBB Reliability ReportGonads? Dou you know what gonads are?
*sigh* Why must there be such Gonads and Strife?
Yeah, he didn't seem very angry in that interview that he did online. And the site that interviewed him was sending him an iPod, which is cool. But the kids that broke into the locker, stole the video, digitzed it, put it online and invited people to make fun of it sound like asses. The last line of the article includes this gem: "In the excerpts from Internet chats filed in court, the four appear to be plotting ways to get the gifts sent to another address so they can keep the iPod for themselves."
I really wanted to like Gaim for windows. Downloaded it, got it running. It gave an error message on every launch saying something about not being able to read my buddy list. Then after a few days it died, crashing on boot. An uninstall/reinstall did naught to correct the situation. Though I'd prefer an open-source solution, I switched to Trillian, and it just works right. I'm going to give Miranda a try under windows today, though.
Try using GEEKTOOL's WHOIS query utility:
http://www.geektools.com/cgi-bin/proxy.cgi
It usually does a pretty good job of determining the correct WHOIS server and does it right in this case. (onlinedns.org)
For some truely pointless "case mods"... fins, wings, air dams, mirrors, neon, spoilers and lots of silly stickers... head to molestedcars.com