Don't believe it? Look at NForce. It's a beautiful thing. It allows for technologies gamers want like dual AGP bandwith to the RAM and AMD processors. While at the same time you can get one that has integrated GeForce4 Video, sound, and ethernet to save the average user money.
Err, nForce (nForce2, actually) is hardly revolutionary. Intel has come up with a dual-channel DDR solution as well to increase memory bandwidth (Granite Bay, IIRC), and other than that, the integrated features are pretty stock on motherboards these days. And note that nForce only supports AMD AFAIK, which could cause them problems competing with other motherboard manufacturers like Abit or Tyan. Having said that, nForce2 is extremely popular with gamers... it's a robust and well-designed chipset, and the other features (SATA, AGP8x, built-in audio/lan) make it competitive as well, in the AMD arena.
That's where you're wrong. The last chance of a democracy to effect change upon a corrupt government is to physically remove them. When that ability no longer exists, then you have a totalitarian state, not a democracy anymore
Another poster made an interesting point, and I'd like to see the response for this (just for my own edification)... the South tried this, and failed, during the Civil War... what chance does Joe Gunowner have with his AK-47 against a military that recieves $100B annually?
It ran on my old machine, which was a Intel p3 500, with 384MB RAM (pc100) and an Nvidia GeForce 2 MX card. However, it wasn't very smooth, even with most of the eye candy turned off. However, I'm kind-of picky when it comes to performance, so I built a new gaming rig for this (and other droolworthy games, of course).
Now if I recall my Economics 101 correctly... high demand leads to higher prices, and low demand leads to lower prices. The market seems to go in exactly the opposite direction, though.
That depends on the economic model you subscribe to. Also, there's a little thing called "economies of scale" and startup costs you have to factor in. Setting up an LCD fab plant isn't, I imagine, inexpensive, so if there isn't enough demand for the product, they can either lose money like crazy, or increase the price to recoup their initial costs. Conversely, if you can barely keep up with demand, you can sell the LCD's for nearly at-cost and still make enough profit to recoup your initial investments and possibly profit. Then you get into artificial scarcity (keeping supply well below demand to keep prices inflated) and loss-lead selling, and funky stuff starts happening that sort-of blows Econ 101 out of the water:-) IANAE, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
I remember back in the '80's when Ronnie first proposed SDI, I seem to recall that the price tag was a couple trillion dollars. I'm guessing that the prevailing thought at the time was that all the GDP savings in the world don't amount to a hill of beans if we all get vaporised to our component atoms by those damn commies.
That's really pertinent to this discussion, seeing as how the laws in question are state laws and all.
So? They're just jumping on the bandwagon as well, it appears. Or is it somehow fine if the states invade my privacy, but if the federal government does it, it's bad?
Same director and actress did another movie 2 years ago called The Princess and The Warrior. It's definately weird and doubly so in german, but I like it a lot.
I was surprised to see the actress (too lazy to IMDB her) play the female lead in the Bourne Identity... actually, there were a surprising number of familiar actors in there.
I would think if they were going to Americanize the dub, they would also americanize the subtitles.
Interestingly enough, this doesn't seem to happen. I've watched several anime features with the English audio tracks and the subtities for the Japanese audio track on simultaneously, and they're quite different, with the subs for the Japanese edition seeming to be more of a literal translation than the English dialog.
A perfect (if somewhat trivial) example; in Princess Mononoke, there's a scene where a monk makes insulting comments about a soup he's served. A literal translation of the insult (reflected in the subtitles) is "This soup tastes like water", which is pretty nasty when it comes to insulting soup in Japan. To achieve the same level of insult in English, the phrase was changed to "This soup tastes like horse piss".
I believe that the reason the subtitles aren't "Americanized" to follow the dub tracks is because people who watch the subtitled version are looking for something a little more faithful to the original. I'm not saying one is better or worse than the other, it's a matter of personal preference.
Until the release of the Athlon XP series, unlocking the multiplier on an AMD CPU required physically modifying the chip, bridging some connectors... hence, it was pretty easy to spot a chip that had been modified for overclocking. Apparently, the Athlon XP's ship with the multiplier already unlocked. If AMD were truly concerned about people RMA'ing fried CPU's, they could reinstitute a simple modification to the CPU that unlocks the multiplier but makes it obvious that the warranty has been voided.
Personally, I think this would be the optimal solution for AMD, if they wish to continue their overclocker-friendly stance.
Having said that, I can understand where Intel is coming from. Personally, I think that selling an overclocked CPU without informing the consumer is fraudulent, and should be legally be treated as such.
As long as they get people of good quality, there's no reason not to watch dubbed animation.
While it's true that there are good dubs out there, on the whole, many dubs out there are nowhere near as good as the original voice acting. But also, often dialog is toned down or Americanised a bit, to make it more understandable and/or accessible to the general audience. The subtitles, on the other hand, are generally more faithful to the original intent.
That I won't be able to double my earnings with a college degree? Since we all know that Professionals with degrees can earn up to $2.2 million more? Oh well, at least I'll still be able to enlarge my penis, earn large amounts of cash for doing nothing, meet sexy singles in my area, lost 50 pounds in 2 days...
Overclockers push chips past design spec and burn some up, and of couse when this happens the wasted chip is RMA'ed for a replacement at the expense of AMD.
You can't RMA your toasted chip... if AMD is honoring the requests, I'd be very surprised, since this would clearly violate any sort of warranty or coverage they apply (since it's not a manufacturing defect that caused the failure).
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I heard the Sony CEO say at the MacWorld Expo in a conference that he thinks that robots are the future of Sony. They will carry everything electronic in the house and do everything electronic in the house.
Great, so now when the robot likes what's on the radio and I want to change the station, I have to chase him around the house? *sigh*
I agree. MI2 was probably the pinnacle of the series, with MI3 also an excellent game, but MI4 was just... lacking. While the Grim Fandango engine was good for that game, IMO it ruined the "feel" of Monkey Island 4.
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Geez, you'd think that a "professional journalist" would be able to spell words like "sheer" and "unsolicited".
Don't believe it? Look at NForce. It's a beautiful thing. It allows for technologies gamers want like dual AGP bandwith to the RAM and AMD processors. While at the same time you can get one that has integrated GeForce4 Video, sound, and ethernet to save the average user money.
Err, nForce (nForce2, actually) is hardly revolutionary. Intel has come up with a dual-channel DDR solution as well to increase memory bandwidth (Granite Bay, IIRC), and other than that, the integrated features are pretty stock on motherboards these days. And note that nForce only supports AMD AFAIK, which could cause them problems competing with other motherboard manufacturers like Abit or Tyan. Having said that, nForce2 is extremely popular with gamers... it's a robust and well-designed chipset, and the other features (SATA, AGP8x, built-in audio/lan) make it competitive as well, in the AMD arena.
They will all be named "Monica Lewinski". :-)
That's where you're wrong. The last chance of a democracy to effect change upon a corrupt government is to physically remove them. When that ability no longer exists, then you have a totalitarian state, not a democracy anymore
Another poster made an interesting point, and I'd like to see the response for this (just for my own edification)... the South tried this, and failed, during the Civil War... what chance does Joe Gunowner have with his AK-47 against a military that recieves $100B annually?
It ran on my old machine, which was a Intel p3 500, with 384MB RAM (pc100) and an Nvidia GeForce 2 MX card. However, it wasn't very smooth, even with most of the eye candy turned off. However, I'm kind-of picky when it comes to performance, so I built a new gaming rig for this (and other droolworthy games, of course).
..in related news, Gentoo [gentoo.org] now has an ebuild for NWN, though you will have to manually unmask it to install. :-)
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Sweet, is there somewhere I can download the RPM for it?
Now if I recall my Economics 101 correctly... high demand leads to higher prices, and low demand leads to lower prices. The market seems to go in exactly the opposite direction, though.
:-) IANAE, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
That depends on the economic model you subscribe to. Also, there's a little thing called "economies of scale" and startup costs you have to factor in. Setting up an LCD fab plant isn't, I imagine, inexpensive, so if there isn't enough demand for the product, they can either lose money like crazy, or increase the price to recoup their initial costs. Conversely, if you can barely keep up with demand, you can sell the LCD's for nearly at-cost and still make enough profit to recoup your initial investments and possibly profit. Then you get into artificial scarcity (keeping supply well below demand to keep prices inflated) and loss-lead selling, and funky stuff starts happening that sort-of blows Econ 101 out of the water
I remember back in the '80's when Ronnie first proposed SDI, I seem to recall that the price tag was a couple trillion dollars. I'm guessing that the prevailing thought at the time was that all the GDP savings in the world don't amount to a hill of beans if we all get vaporised to our component atoms by those damn commies.
That's really pertinent to this discussion, seeing as how the laws in question are state laws and all.
So? They're just jumping on the bandwagon as well, it appears. Or is it somehow fine if the states invade my privacy, but if the federal government does it, it's bad?
Woo, I love Wings! The transfer's not the best (they used a bad source to encode the US region DVD, unfortunately) but damn the movie is good.
Johnny Depp plays such a good druggie
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He's a method actor
Same director and actress did another movie 2 years ago called The Princess and The Warrior. It's definately weird and doubly so in german, but I like it a lot.
I was surprised to see the actress (too lazy to IMDB her) play the female lead in the Bourne Identity... actually, there were a surprising number of familiar actors in there.
The cities in the UK were not "decimated" by German bombing... certainly nothing on the scale of what Germany or Japan faced.
For those who love to idolize the Muslim world, don't forget slavery was one of their big business up into recent times.
Yeah, good thing us enlightened whities never did any of that slavery stuff.
US companies of course, one of which was headed for a long time by Powel!
You're thinking of Haliburton, and the "head" now in government was Donald Rumsfeld (I belive he was VP).
Interestingly enough, this doesn't seem to happen. I've watched several anime features with the English audio tracks and the subtities for the Japanese audio track on simultaneously, and they're quite different, with the subs for the Japanese edition seeming to be more of a literal translation than the English dialog.
A perfect (if somewhat trivial) example; in Princess Mononoke, there's a scene where a monk makes insulting comments about a soup he's served. A literal translation of the insult (reflected in the subtitles) is "This soup tastes like water", which is pretty nasty when it comes to insulting soup in Japan. To achieve the same level of insult in English, the phrase was changed to "This soup tastes like horse piss".
I believe that the reason the subtitles aren't "Americanized" to follow the dub tracks is because people who watch the subtitled version are looking for something a little more faithful to the original. I'm not saying one is better or worse than the other, it's a matter of personal preference.
Until the release of the Athlon XP series, unlocking the multiplier on an AMD CPU required physically modifying the chip, bridging some connectors... hence, it was pretty easy to spot a chip that had been modified for overclocking. Apparently, the Athlon XP's ship with the multiplier already unlocked. If AMD were truly concerned about people RMA'ing fried CPU's, they could reinstitute a simple modification to the CPU that unlocks the multiplier but makes it obvious that the warranty has been voided.
Personally, I think this would be the optimal solution for AMD, if they wish to continue their overclocker-friendly stance.
Having said that, I can understand where Intel is coming from. Personally, I think that selling an overclocked CPU without informing the consumer is fraudulent, and should be legally be treated as such.
As long as they get people of good quality, there's no reason not to watch dubbed animation.
While it's true that there are good dubs out there, on the whole, many dubs out there are nowhere near as good as the original voice acting. But also, often dialog is toned down or Americanised a bit, to make it more understandable and/or accessible to the general audience. The subtitles, on the other hand, are generally more faithful to the original intent.
That I won't be able to double my earnings with a college degree? Since we all know that Professionals with degrees can earn up to $2.2 million more? Oh well, at least I'll still be able to enlarge my penis, earn large amounts of cash for doing nothing, meet sexy singles in my area, lost 50 pounds in 2 days...
Overclockers push chips past design spec and burn some up, and of couse when this happens the wasted chip is RMA'ed for a replacement at the expense of AMD.
You can't RMA your toasted chip... if AMD is honoring the requests, I'd be very surprised, since this would clearly violate any sort of warranty or coverage they apply (since it's not a manufacturing defect that caused the failure).
I heard the Sony CEO say at the MacWorld Expo in a conference that he thinks that robots are the future of Sony. They will carry everything electronic in the house and do everything electronic in the house.
Great, so now when the robot likes what's on the radio and I want to change the station, I have to chase him around the house? *sigh*
Yowch, score one to Al.
I agree. MI2 was probably the pinnacle of the series, with MI3 also an excellent game, but MI4 was just... lacking. While the Grim Fandango engine was good for that game, IMO it ruined the "feel" of Monkey Island 4.
Hope this helps!
Just now, you figure this out? Oy...