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It does NOT use the same motherboard. The TA-085 is a CHIP, not a motherboard, and there's no guarantee that they disn't secure the firmware in some new way. It would be silly to release a new hardware spec and not at least try somthing new to secure it.
I haven't seen any of the issues mentioned, but after I installed the update my PC failed to wake up after being put in standby mode. Fans and drives powered up, but no signs of intelligent life. This happened the first two times I put it in standby after installing the update and rebooting. Since then I've put it in standby 3-4 times without any problems.
I don't know if it's related or not, but with everything else on the machine working fine, I was suspecting the update before it magically started working again.
I don't remember any big outcry when Sony used the same tactic with the same franchise against Microsoft. Sony signed exclusivity deals for GTA 3, Vice City, and San Andreas when the Xbox was the new kid in the game. The difference being that they were timed-exclusives. I don't think the value of the deal was ever made public, but I'm sure it was much less.
Is this karma, irony, or both? I bought a PS2 for GTA 3, and now I'll buy a 360 for GTA 4 (among other things).
With the proper starting credentials (multi-engine cert, minimum number of flight hours, etc), you can step into a 747 with hundreds of passengers and fly left seat without ever having flown a real plane that size.
While you bring up a good point, it's irrelevant in this discussion as the pilot-in-command could be flying the aircraft type for the very first time if he just completed training and checking in a level D certified flight simulator. With the proper starting credentials (multi-engine cert, minimum number of flight hours, etc), you can step into a 747 with hundreds of passengers and fly left seat without ever having flown a real plane that size.
The fidelity of simulators nowadays are excellent, especially the common airliners that keep getting cranked out. Knowing the "feel" of the big jets isn't nearly as important these days as learning proper cockpit managment.
On a good day I can boot the Encore 32/67 machines at work in under a minute, but at least with a Windows PC I don't have to punch raw machine code into the front panel to clear memory and run the IPL.
I thought, getting a "pink slip", was slang for taking the loser's car off his hands after a street race.
And "getting your walking papers" meant getting fired...
Both are correct, and getting a pink slip at work does mean getting fired/laid off. I'm sure in other contexts getting a pink slip could mean many other things.
Someone enlighten me? Yank doesn't always make sense to me.
Keep that in mind the next time you're feeling "chuffed to bits".
And how much can you get for those electrons on Ebay?
I wouldn't buy electrons unless they're much cheaper than the boxed version. The used boxed version. There are too many overhyped and overpriced games out there. If you waste your money on a bad game wouldn't you rather have a physical copy you can resell?
Who's to be reponsible if one of these malfunctions and kills a bus full of school children? The programmer? The tech operating it? The government? The manufaturer? The military? Noone?
If you want low-power, buy a decent low-end setup and underclock the processor.
I'm in the process of building a server (the 8-disk array is being formatted as I type). I started with an abit kv-81 with onboard video and gigabit ethernet. Then filled the two pci slots with 2 syba 4-port SATA adaptors. I'm using 8 250G western digital refurb drives I got from www.geeks.com for $80 each. For that price I'll risk the early failures and be prepared to replace drives. Before I found those drives on sale I was leaning toward the 320G drives in the article.
Slackware 10.2 is easy to get set up and running on a RAID-5 configuration (other than having to wait forever to format with a thorough read/write test).
For under $1000 I've got a pretty decent 1.75TB media server, and that also includes 256M ECC registered memoery and a UPS. It doesn't include the case since I'm building a custom box for better soundproofing and cooling.
CAE and NLX both produce linux-based sims. I think the first was certified in 2000, so if you've flown anything built since then, there's a chance it was powered by linux.
As for the FAA spec, the latency validation is only run once per year, and we get 150ms on both level C and level D. From the point of control input we have 150ms to get a reaction from motion, visuals, and instruments. The motion must respond before the visual or simultaneously.
I work with quite a few (11) FAA level D flight simulators running linux with realtime patches. Realtime ability is a must in flight sims because glitches and slowdowns are not tolerated. A realtime or at least psuedo-realtime OS allows us to guarantee that the simulation processes will always have priority over non-essential tasks (even OS tasks that aren't necessary to the simulation).
Sorry I should have qualified that. At some point somebody needs to buy an exploitable game and a memory card. I paid something like $15 total for 007 Agent Under Fire and a 3rd-party memory card. I think the Xenium chip mentioned is closer to $50. And once you have the game and card, all future mods are free.
Later this week or next I'll be modding two more boxes for friends. The cost per mod is creeping down around $2 now. Still $15 for me, but it's a free mod for friends and family.
I also have a modchip (I won't advertise it because any old modchip will do the job) which I use for troubleshooting and repair because I buy nonworking boxes and give them away for xmas and birthdays after repairing and modding them.
Other than a few parts in the books/movies the battles usually ended up sounding/looking like a sloppy mass X unit attack on the enemy position. I just can't see the LOTR series making it in the strategy genre.
The scale on this is way too small for anything beyond line of sight. For one thing, you have to have control over the heli (hobbyist RC transmitters like the ones used have limited range), and more importantly, 2.4 ghz video cameras like the ones used in the article have much shorter range, even with a clear line of sight. The cameras are also nowhere near broadcast quality.
I get to re-upgrade my computer! I just spent $2k on parts, and now I need another precessor AND another video cards. Seems like just last year I forked over $150 for a new 7500, and now I need something bigger to get over 13fps. Great.
If you just spent $2k on computer parts and don't have a top of the line pc at least double the minimum spec, you're shopping in the wrong place!
Or did you spend all that on case mods?
must have spend $3000 in the last 3 years, seems a wastte, no?
Sounds like you've definitely wasted a lot of money. I haven't spent a quarter of that but I'll be running D3 without any new upgrades.
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It does NOT use the same motherboard. The TA-085 is a CHIP, not a motherboard, and there's no guarantee that they disn't secure the firmware in some new way. It would be silly to release a new hardware spec and not at least try somthing new to secure it.
I haven't seen any of the issues mentioned, but after I installed the update my PC failed to wake up after being put in standby mode. Fans and drives powered up, but no signs of intelligent life. This happened the first two times I put it in standby after installing the update and rebooting. Since then I've put it in standby 3-4 times without any problems.
I don't know if it's related or not, but with everything else on the machine working fine, I was suspecting the update before it magically started working again.
I don't remember any big outcry when Sony used the same tactic with the same franchise against Microsoft. Sony signed exclusivity deals for GTA 3, Vice City, and San Andreas when the Xbox was the new kid in the game. The difference being that they were timed-exclusives. I don't think the value of the deal was ever made public, but I'm sure it was much less.
Is this karma, irony, or both? I bought a PS2 for GTA 3, and now I'll buy a 360 for GTA 4 (among other things).
It does have that ability as of firmware version 3.30.
With the proper starting credentials (multi-engine cert, minimum number of flight hours, etc), you can step into a 747 with hundreds of passengers and fly left seat without ever having flown a real plane that size.
I disagree.
That wasn't an opinion. It's official FAA policy.
While you bring up a good point, it's irrelevant in this discussion as the pilot-in-command could be flying the aircraft type for the very first time if he just completed training and checking in a level D certified flight simulator. With the proper starting credentials (multi-engine cert, minimum number of flight hours, etc), you can step into a 747 with hundreds of passengers and fly left seat without ever having flown a real plane that size.
The fidelity of simulators nowadays are excellent, especially the common airliners that keep getting cranked out. Knowing the "feel" of the big jets isn't nearly as important these days as learning proper cockpit managment.
On a good day I can boot the Encore 32/67 machines at work in under a minute, but at least with a Windows PC I don't have to punch raw machine code into the front panel to clear memory and run the IPL.
I thought, getting a "pink slip", was slang for taking the loser's car off his hands after a street race.
And "getting your walking papers" meant getting fired...
Both are correct, and getting a pink slip at work does mean getting fired/laid off. I'm sure in other contexts getting a pink slip could mean many other things.
Someone enlighten me? Yank doesn't always make sense to me.
Keep that in mind the next time you're feeling "chuffed to bits".
And how much can you get for those electrons on Ebay?
I wouldn't buy electrons unless they're much cheaper than the boxed version. The used boxed version. There are too many overhyped and overpriced games out there. If you waste your money on a bad game wouldn't you rather have a physical copy you can resell?
How many GOTOs are in there?
I actually came across one recently. It was a real surprise considering the rest of the code was decently written. And it was pretty simple to remove.
There's no need to put a stop to it when it's been officially banned since before the first American woman joined a crew.
Zonk: (grumbling under his breath) "rastafrastanogood now i have to do a writeup"
Not a problem. Zonk will post the review at least 3 or 4 times. Taco will put it on the main page at least twice.
Who's to be reponsible if one of these malfunctions and kills a bus full of school children? The programmer? The tech operating it? The government? The manufaturer? The military? Noone?
The scapegoat, of course.
Slackware 10.2 is easy to get set up and running on a RAID-5 configuration (other than having to wait forever to format with a thorough read/write test). For under $1000 I've got a pretty decent 1.75TB media server, and that also includes 256M ECC registered memoery and a UPS. It doesn't include the case since I'm building a custom box for better soundproofing and cooling.
Consider it a free course in practical business ethics. And from such a prestigious institution!
CAE and NLX both produce linux-based sims. I think the first was certified in 2000, so if you've flown anything built since then, there's a chance it was powered by linux.
As for the FAA spec, the latency validation is only run once per year, and we get 150ms on both level C and level D. From the point of control input we have 150ms to get a reaction from motion, visuals, and instruments. The motion must respond before the visual or simultaneously.
Commercial flight simulation.
I work with quite a few (11) FAA level D flight simulators running linux with realtime patches. Realtime ability is a must in flight sims because glitches and slowdowns are not tolerated. A realtime or at least psuedo-realtime OS allows us to guarantee that the simulation processes will always have priority over non-essential tasks (even OS tasks that aren't necessary to the simulation).
Sorry I should have qualified that. At some point somebody needs to buy an exploitable game and a memory card. I paid something like $15 total for 007 Agent Under Fire and a 3rd-party memory card. I think the Xenium chip mentioned is closer to $50. And once you have the game and card, all future mods are free.
Later this week or next I'll be modding two more boxes for friends. The cost per mod is creeping down around $2 now. Still $15 for me, but it's a free mod for friends and family.
I also have a modchip (I won't advertise it because any old modchip will do the job) which I use for troubleshooting and repair because I buy nonworking boxes and give them away for xmas and birthdays after repairing and modding them.
IT WONT WORK WITHOUT A MODCHIP
Shout it as loud as you like, but you're wrong. You can softmod most xboxes for free.
It is quite sad that a person who just updates their computer and runs a virus scanner is now considered a "security expert."
In comparison to a technology reporter, she definitely is.
It doesn't work that way. Nobody has found a way to read an Xbox DVD from a PC. You still need a modded Xbox just to rip an original DVD to a backup.
So you can't just buy the games and play them on the emulator.
The strobe line is for light guns.
Other than a few parts in the books/movies the battles usually ended up sounding/looking like a sloppy mass X unit attack on the enemy position. I just can't see the LOTR series making it in the strategy genre.
Tolkien invented the Orc Rush!
The scale on this is way too small for anything beyond line of sight. For one thing, you have to have control over the heli (hobbyist RC transmitters like the ones used have limited range), and more importantly, 2.4 ghz video cameras like the ones used in the article have much shorter range, even with a clear line of sight. The cameras are also nowhere near broadcast quality.
If you just spent $2k on computer parts and don't have a top of the line pc at least double the minimum spec, you're shopping in the wrong place!
Or did you spend all that on case mods?
must have spend $3000 in the last 3 years, seems a wastte, no?
Sounds like you've definitely wasted a lot of money. I haven't spent a quarter of that but I'll be running D3 without any new upgrades.