I find it highly unlikely that _anyone_ could convince Intel (or any company, for that matter) to switch to a competitors architecture. Hammer will remain at AMD and IA-64 will stay on course with Intel. I'd need to hear it directly from both BODs to believe otherwise. Then again... I've been wrong before.:)
This is simply a bad film. If it weren't for the special effects, that incidentally only show up primarily in the beginning of the film, this would be a "B" grade film. All of the running around in the so-called Dead Zone did nothing to further the plot made thin by the obvious padding. This could have been a good short subject if it were limited to the elements essential to the plot. Sadly, Sinise (one of the Producers of the film) saw fit to expand it into a bomb. Don't bother renting it, as it will likely be rendered to tape and DVD quite soon.
I'm a 34 year old father that works at home and we support an 8 node network in our converted garage. As would be suspected, my nearly 4 year old daughter has her own computer (a Mac) and plays on it daily. Though there has been a stated disdain for educational titles, not all are so cliched, and I should know. We own nearly every commercial educational title.
Titles to check out would be the Putt Putt!, Freddy Fish, (and my personal fave) Pajama Sam series of adventure games from Humongous Entertainment. Well drawn, humorous, educational, and lacking violence, these titles are engaging and challenging.
I would urge that you at least check out one Pajama Sam title. Of course, if you are interested in purely entertainment titles that offer no violence or educational value, try out the racing sims like any Nascar title, the various Microsoft racing titles, HydroThunder and San Francisco Rush 2049 for DreamCast, the Need For Speed series, or Fly!, the flight simulator.
I don't really go in for all that 3D stuff, but if you need a real workhorse card that you can pick up for $40, that works out of the box on any OS you toss at it, handles low-end 3D, and doesn't have any glitches (AFAIK), try the ATI XPERT@Work and XPERT@Play line. They come in PCI and AGP and all have 8MBs of VRAM. I've never had one fail to be automatically recognized or work on the first go. Ever. After a few hundred installations, you get to know your H/W and I prefer to have a few of these around to make SURE I can get video.
You might want to go to the AvantGo web site and read the press release announced 7/13/00 for some insight. They've teamed up with a company called CreSenda to produce wireless solutions that involve the AvantGo content.
Wireless solution does NOT mean wireless hardware.
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I find it highly unlikely that _anyone_ could convince Intel (or any company, for that matter) to switch to a competitors architecture. Hammer will remain at AMD and IA-64 will stay on course with Intel. I'd need to hear it directly from both BODs to believe otherwise. Then again... I've been wrong before. :)
This is simply a bad film. If it weren't for the special effects, that incidentally only show up primarily in the beginning of the film, this would be a "B" grade film. All of the running around in the so-called Dead Zone did nothing to further the plot made thin by the obvious padding. This could have been a good short subject if it were limited to the elements essential to the plot. Sadly, Sinise (one of the Producers of the film) saw fit to expand it into a bomb. Don't bother renting it, as it will likely be rendered to tape and DVD quite soon.
Titles to check out would be the Putt Putt!, Freddy Fish, (and my personal fave) Pajama Sam series of adventure games from Humongous Entertainment. Well drawn, humorous, educational, and lacking violence, these titles are engaging and challenging.
I would urge that you at least check out one Pajama Sam title. Of course, if you are interested in purely entertainment titles that offer no violence or educational value, try out the racing sims like any Nascar title, the various Microsoft racing titles, HydroThunder and San Francisco Rush 2049 for DreamCast, the Need For Speed series, or Fly!, the flight simulator.
HTH
I don't really go in for all that 3D stuff, but if you need a real workhorse card that you can pick up for $40, that works out of the box on any OS you toss at it, handles low-end 3D, and doesn't have any glitches (AFAIK), try the ATI XPERT@Work and XPERT@Play line. They come in PCI and AGP and all have 8MBs of VRAM. I've never had one fail to be automatically recognized or work on the first go. Ever. After a few hundred installations, you get to know your H/W and I prefer to have a few of these around to make SURE I can get video.
You might want to go to the AvantGo web site and read the press release announced 7/13/00 for some insight. They've teamed up with a company called CreSenda to produce wireless solutions that involve the AvantGo content.
Wireless solution does NOT mean wireless hardware.
$0.02 please.