If you want a quiet CPU fan the Golden Orbs are the way to go. Not only do they look cool (not much use unless you add a window to your case though, but the added geek factor of owning a funky CPU fan never hurts) but they do a nice job of cooling your CPU and are some of the quietest I know of, both after looking at the tech specs on various CPUs and actually hearing other peoples CPUs to compare.
Have a hunt for the GOrbs here
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Correction, Red Dwarf WAS a much better show. From the start it just got better and better until we got the countless superb episodes of Seasons 5 and 6. And then, season 7. And Kochanski, who isn't funny and can't act her way out of a paper bag and just ruins the whole damn show. It was great when it was the 4 of them, they were each unique and played off each other superbly. Now we have Kochanski who is a pointless and even detrimental addition to the show, clearly a desperate attempt by the makers to add something "new" to a show that didn't need it. And don't get me started on the even more pointless addition of the rebuilt Red Dwarf and its entire crew (of which we've mostly seen the unfunny Captain Holister and not much else). Red Dwarf reached its peak when they were flying around in Starbug which offered so much opportunity for creative and funny situations, and very quickly hit rock bottom when they came up with the lame story lines of season 7 onwards. It's almost tragic.
One of the writers, Rob Grant, basically stopped writing episodes (he only did one in S7) and it's clear he is the talented one able who actually came up with original and funny jokes and episode ideas. Seasons 7 and 8 have, if they're lucky, one or two mildly funny jokes per show, the and premises just aren't nearly as original. Legion, Inquisitor, Wax World, Quarantine, Demons and Angels, and of course the hilarious Gunmen of the Apocalypse. Each of these episodes is more memorable than season 7 or 8 in their entirity, not the mention the fact that they're so desperate for ideas that they are stretching single episodes into three instead. It's a deep shame that I have to say this, but I'd rather they ended what was once a superb series that I adored and watched almost religiously rather than continue to milk it and further tarnish its image. Star Trek is, IMO, average, switch-brain-off-and-kinda-enjoy-it TV viewing, and while it's not doing the world any good it ain't doing any harm either. Red Dwarf, unless you're watching a series 1-6 re-run, is now almost unbearably bad.
Even with the bugs, I'm sure those that DO have systems who can play it wouldn't mind hearing at least a single sentence on the gameplay, which this "review" didn't include, not that I noticed. It was a rant that could easily have been written without even touching the actual games. And the suggestion that game publications must give out lots of good reviews to continue getting games is utter rubbish. That's the risk publishers take, and if you give a game a bad review they'll still send you more games because you may well give the next one a good review, something that all publishers need for their games.
In fact, I've worked as a full time games reviewer (and in fact still am one) and have had first hand experience of this before. I gave two games from the same publisher bad scores and then a rather good one to the third one they sent me.
Anyway, that's my slightly grumpy 2c.
Y'know, that really is nothing. And don't consider this a boast in any way, just a way of pointing to the way things are. When I was in school there were a bunch of guys who used to bully and piss off me and a bunch of friends. We couldn't go to the teachers because, surprise surprise, there wasn't much they could do since all the friends of the bullies would say we were lying. So instead we just bitched about them behind their backs, some of which involved revenge fantasies. I don't think we ever discussed killing anyone, just hurting them in return for the hurt they caused us (and, on reflection, then some), and these fantasies were just a way of venting our anger. I won't go into details, because I think my point has been made - we never did any of this stuff, of course not. You can think up revenge fantasies and wish them on your worst enemy, but unless you are seriusly screwed in the head there's that little human thing inside you that says "Now, that isn't really a good thing to do now is it, it's wrong", so you don't stick a pencil in your annoying bosses arm or walk into school armed with a baseball bat. I'm really sad to see the way that post-Columbine paranoia has hurt this kid - suddenly it's not the moron bullies that are the dangerous ones at school, it's the quiet, conciencious geeks who might just whip up a deadly arsenal and take it to school one day. As if. America's knee jerk reaction to an off hand defensive comment of a kid is to ban him from school - what is the world coming to?
...but nothing more. Really, it's a neat idea, encrypted IMs would be great in particular, but the damn thing just doesn't work in my experience. Just give me a win32 port of EveryBudy so I can use it on my work machine as well as my Linux box at home.
Doesn't supporting Firewire completely miss the point that USB 2.0 is backwards compatible with the HUNDREDS of USB devices out there? And USB is faster than Firewire, albeit not by much. Honestly, this is a blatant and frankly iritating case of Microsoft thinking they can edge out whichever standard they like by supporting one or the other. Where the hell did giving the consumer the choice instead go? First this and then trying to edge out MP3 support through WinXP - yeah right, try and make me convert my 12 odd gigs of the things to a format that only works in windows. At least that's one area where they're doomed to fail. what are they gonna do, rip out the MP3 decoding codec from Windows and only ad a converter or something? Good luck to them, I only use Sonique anyway.
For want of a more eloquent reply, what can I say apart from "wow". I'm eagerly awaiting the final book in the Otherland series and thoroughly enjoyed Tad's previous fantasy stuff. Can't wait, this should be very cool. It looks like he's funding it all himself too which is cool to see, finally an author willing to risk going ahead with something like this. I'll certainly be coughing up to read more of this story.
Y'know, respect to the man for just answering the damn questions rather than saying no to the interview of giving no comments like your average company rep/politician type etc. His sidestepping of the fingerprinting question was a bit weak though, he sorta changed to talking about how Redhat etc do (or do not) make their money. Fact is, this fingerprinting idea is the worst to come out of MS in years (no jokes please) and I won't be touching a new version of windows with it in there. Having said this someone is bound to crack it as they always do so I don't know why MS is bothering really. It's gonna earn them more hatred rather than more money.
Heh, sadly true I guess. Now that those kind of people have tired of attacking Mortal Kombat or Carmageddon I guess they need some kind of new victim to waste their energy and time attacking.
I think more importantly, who's going to slap a Tiger about in B&W (which it lets you do) and then think "Hey, I think I'll do that in real life". I think the ASPCA would, for once, be more worried about the person than the animal in that case...
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If you want a quiet CPU fan the Golden Orbs are the way to go. Not only do they look cool (not much use unless you add a window to your case though, but the added geek factor of owning a funky CPU fan never hurts) but they do a nice job of cooling your CPU and are some of the quietest I know of, both after looking at the tech specs on various CPUs and actually hearing other peoples CPUs to compare. Have a hunt for the GOrbs here
One of the writers, Rob Grant, basically stopped writing episodes (he only did one in S7) and it's clear he is the talented one able who actually came up with original and funny jokes and episode ideas. Seasons 7 and 8 have, if they're lucky, one or two mildly funny jokes per show, the and premises just aren't nearly as original. Legion, Inquisitor, Wax World, Quarantine, Demons and Angels, and of course the hilarious Gunmen of the Apocalypse. Each of these episodes is more memorable than season 7 or 8 in their entirity, not the mention the fact that they're so desperate for ideas that they are stretching single episodes into three instead. It's a deep shame that I have to say this, but I'd rather they ended what was once a superb series that I adored and watched almost religiously rather than continue to milk it and further tarnish its image. Star Trek is, IMO, average, switch-brain-off-and-kinda-enjoy-it TV viewing, and while it's not doing the world any good it ain't doing any harm either. Red Dwarf, unless you're watching a series 1-6 re-run, is now almost unbearably bad.
Even with the bugs, I'm sure those that DO have systems who can play it wouldn't mind hearing at least a single sentence on the gameplay, which this "review" didn't include, not that I noticed. It was a rant that could easily have been written without even touching the actual games. And the suggestion that game publications must give out lots of good reviews to continue getting games is utter rubbish. That's the risk publishers take, and if you give a game a bad review they'll still send you more games because you may well give the next one a good review, something that all publishers need for their games. In fact, I've worked as a full time games reviewer (and in fact still am one) and have had first hand experience of this before. I gave two games from the same publisher bad scores and then a rather good one to the third one they sent me. Anyway, that's my slightly grumpy 2c.
Big surprise. "How can we milk our monopoly more"? Guess this is the answer.
Y'know, that really is nothing. And don't consider this a boast in any way, just a way of pointing to the way things are. When I was in school there were a bunch of guys who used to bully and piss off me and a bunch of friends. We couldn't go to the teachers because, surprise surprise, there wasn't much they could do since all the friends of the bullies would say we were lying. So instead we just bitched about them behind their backs, some of which involved revenge fantasies. I don't think we ever discussed killing anyone, just hurting them in return for the hurt they caused us (and, on reflection, then some), and these fantasies were just a way of venting our anger. I won't go into details, because I think my point has been made - we never did any of this stuff, of course not. You can think up revenge fantasies and wish them on your worst enemy, but unless you are seriusly screwed in the head there's that little human thing inside you that says "Now, that isn't really a good thing to do now is it, it's wrong", so you don't stick a pencil in your annoying bosses arm or walk into school armed with a baseball bat. I'm really sad to see the way that post-Columbine paranoia has hurt this kid - suddenly it's not the moron bullies that are the dangerous ones at school, it's the quiet, conciencious geeks who might just whip up a deadly arsenal and take it to school one day. As if. America's knee jerk reaction to an off hand defensive comment of a kid is to ban him from school - what is the world coming to?
...but nothing more. Really, it's a neat idea, encrypted IMs would be great in particular, but the damn thing just doesn't work in my experience. Just give me a win32 port of EveryBudy so I can use it on my work machine as well as my Linux box at home.
Doesn't supporting Firewire completely miss the point that USB 2.0 is backwards compatible with the HUNDREDS of USB devices out there? And USB is faster than Firewire, albeit not by much. Honestly, this is a blatant and frankly iritating case of Microsoft thinking they can edge out whichever standard they like by supporting one or the other. Where the hell did giving the consumer the choice instead go? First this and then trying to edge out MP3 support through WinXP - yeah right, try and make me convert my 12 odd gigs of the things to a format that only works in windows. At least that's one area where they're doomed to fail. what are they gonna do, rip out the MP3 decoding codec from Windows and only ad a converter or something? Good luck to them, I only use Sonique anyway.
For want of a more eloquent reply, what can I say apart from "wow". I'm eagerly awaiting the final book in the Otherland series and thoroughly enjoyed Tad's previous fantasy stuff. Can't wait, this should be very cool. It looks like he's funding it all himself too which is cool to see, finally an author willing to risk going ahead with something like this. I'll certainly be coughing up to read more of this story.
Y'know, respect to the man for just answering the damn questions rather than saying no to the interview of giving no comments like your average company rep/politician type etc. His sidestepping of the fingerprinting question was a bit weak though, he sorta changed to talking about how Redhat etc do (or do not) make their money. Fact is, this fingerprinting idea is the worst to come out of MS in years (no jokes please) and I won't be touching a new version of windows with it in there. Having said this someone is bound to crack it as they always do so I don't know why MS is bothering really. It's gonna earn them more hatred rather than more money.
Heh, sadly true I guess. Now that those kind of people have tired of attacking Mortal Kombat or Carmageddon I guess they need some kind of new victim to waste their energy and time attacking.
I think more importantly, who's going to slap a Tiger about in B&W (which it lets you do) and then think "Hey, I think I'll do that in real life". I think the ASPCA would, for once, be more worried about the person than the animal in that case...