You mean that you couldn't chimp on the motherboard. Right now (well, before the SiS offering), you can only get a VIA KT133 as a Socket A board. Therefore, your entire Duron argument is null and void.
IE? What the hell? "IE" implies "Internet Explorer". You probably meant to say "i.e." instead.
Gee, does the PS2 have anything to do with this?
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I think so. When Sony promised the moon to gamers with all the hype/FUD they distributed regarding the PS2, they dug themselves into a hole. Now they're desperately trying (and failing) to reach their 100,000 units per week goal. Add that to the paltry 4MB of video RAM (when every modern PC video card has at least 32MB), and the polygon limit, and you've got a serious problem on your hands. The supercharged hentai machine doesn't look all that supercharged anymore.
The article criticizes the direction in which software is heading (not up), and in the HTML source, I found 5 (count 'em, FIVE) pieces of JavaScript(TM). Those five turds made the webpage lag when I scrolled it down. The JavaScript(TM) alone partially invalidated his stance on software; how could he sell out to the jovial group of JavaZealots(TM) on upside.com?
DISCLAIMER: Java(TM), JavaScript(TM), and JavaZealots(TM) are trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc., LLC, CRAP, etc.
Re:(OT) How about Intel's BIOS efforts?
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Actually, I'm using Windows 2000, and I could leave it on for months on end, but my parents don't like having me leave the computer on for so long. Also, it's their power bill, so I only leave it on when I'm using it.
Remember back in the K6-2 days when everyone and their mother was building Super 7 chipsets? There was AMD, ALi, VIA, ETEQ, and SiS, just to name a few. This hodgepodge of chipsets led to incompatibilities that later branded the K6-2 as the cheap-ass chip that we know it as right now. I hope that this doesn't happen with the Duron; I'll puke if I see an e-machines with a Duron on a SiS chipset.
Also remember that SiS is the company that can't seem to make standardized video cards/video chipsets. e-machines is a huge customer of SiS (as was their parent company, TriGem America; back in 1997 they sold my school about 15 Pentium 166 computers with 16MB of RAM and a SiS integrated video chipset that stole 2MB of the system RAM for itself; fortunately, Windows 95 could run just fine on 8MB, let alone 14).
(OT) How about Intel's BIOS efforts?
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Yes, straying from the topic, but still semi-relevant. Recently, Intel set a goal to have a PC boot from the BIOS in less than eight seconds. Currently, that figure is at around 30 seconds with things like on-chip virus detection and ATA-66/100 adapters delaying the boot time. Why can't the companies start working on that?
www.bellatlanticpathetic.com. verizonreallysucks.com is really 2600.com (their T1 is provided by Verizon, and they have a horror story all their own).
If you go to DSL Reports, you'll see that Verizon is one of the worst DSL ISPs out there (it's not THE worst just yet; PSN gets that honor since they're pulling the plug on their customers in January). Add to that Verizon's recent ad blitz (despite the pleas from the DSL department to stop), and you've got a notoriously bad company; sort of like Ultor in Red Faction.
...seeing that IRC is based on FTP anyway, the idea itself was probably a no-brainer. Let's just hope that it doesn't get too popular and mainstream (like Napster did).
Experience? Yes. Success? That's debatable. Would you consider having that entire module of Mir being rammed by a Progress freighter a success? Would you consider that incident with the space fungus a success? It wasn't exactly a failure, but then again, what did Russia gain from Mir?
Why don't they ask the soccer moms to stop going on eBay and the moronic males to stop the fantasy football and JPEG downloads? Santa Clara needs its power to give us the products we need/want/lust after!
Re:Well duh, they've been using NT for a long time
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So nothing's changed really.
Well, almost nothing. Since Windows 2000 has native DirectX, that means that sound and input don't lag as much as they do in NT4. Also, that interview was back in September of 99. When Win2K was released (which was only a week after I got my copy at the Microsoft RoadShow, hehe), he probably got it right away. Sound and input lag were a total bitch back in the NT4 days; when games started to get really popular, Microsoft knew that they had to get true DirectX support into the next NT.
Sure, that's not exactly a government website, but I think that all the government websites should have a similar layout (minus the advertisements, of course). Also, consider a MUCH better setup than what exists in some gov sites (IIS4, or even worse, IIS on NT 3.51! Oh My!).
Just use that thing inside your skull while you're reading this. Last I heard, that thing was called a brain, though with the disturbing trend in nomenclature lately, that's probably "subject to change without notice".
Oh yeah, it was that movie, Space Cowboys. It's so funny that it's happening in real life now. However, it's so disappointing that instead of learning from Russia's mistakes, we're just becoming another accomplice to the folly.
...remember that the next DOOM will be developed on Windows 2000 using NVidia hardware. Sorry, Linux Quake fanatics, but this is the truth. Id wanted to develop their next game on a stable, standardized platform, and Windows 2000 was the one that fit the bill. However, they'll still port it to Linux, but be ready for the usual drill (copy the files from the CD or smbclient from a Windows machine, then install the binaries).
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And I'll bet that all 81 remaining Amiga owners attended.
You mean that you couldn't chimp on the motherboard. Right now (well, before the SiS offering), you can only get a VIA KT133 as a Socket A board. Therefore, your entire Duron argument is null and void.
IE? What the hell? "IE" implies "Internet Explorer". You probably meant to say "i.e." instead.
I think so. When Sony promised the moon to gamers with all the hype/FUD they distributed regarding the PS2, they dug themselves into a hole. Now they're desperately trying (and failing) to reach their 100,000 units per week goal. Add that to the paltry 4MB of video RAM (when every modern PC video card has at least 32MB), and the polygon limit, and you've got a serious problem on your hands. The supercharged hentai machine doesn't look all that supercharged anymore.
...why are all those files dated May Day 1999?
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In the font that AOL 3 used, it worked out perfectly. However, in AOL 4, they bumped up the font size. Oh well, those were the good old days.
Thanks. Now I can rank on Netscape in the same way that I did Sun.
Add my sig to what's wrong with the software industry:
DISCLAIMER: Java(TM), JavaScript(TM), and JavaZealots(TM) are trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc., LLC, CRAP, etc.
Actually, I'm using Windows 2000, and I could leave it on for months on end, but my parents don't like having me leave the computer on for so long. Also, it's their power bill, so I only leave it on when I'm using it.
Will Yahoo be making versions of its site for minipax, minitrue, miniluv, and miniplenty?
Just look at my sig:
Also remember that SiS is the company that can't seem to make standardized video cards/video chipsets. e-machines is a huge customer of SiS (as was their parent company, TriGem America; back in 1997 they sold my school about 15 Pentium 166 computers with 16MB of RAM and a SiS integrated video chipset that stole 2MB of the system RAM for itself; fortunately, Windows 95 could run just fine on 8MB, let alone 14).
Yes, straying from the topic, but still semi-relevant. Recently, Intel set a goal to have a PC boot from the BIOS in less than eight seconds. Currently, that figure is at around 30 seconds with things like on-chip virus detection and ATA-66/100 adapters delaying the boot time. Why can't the companies start working on that?
If you go to DSL Reports, you'll see that Verizon is one of the worst DSL ISPs out there (it's not THE worst just yet; PSN gets that honor since they're pulling the plug on their customers in January). Add to that Verizon's recent ad blitz (despite the pleas from the DSL department to stop), and you've got a notoriously bad company; sort of like Ultor in Red Faction.
...seeing that IRC is based on FTP anyway, the idea itself was probably a no-brainer. Let's just hope that it doesn't get too popular and mainstream (like Napster did).
By the way, what's the name of that song?
Experience? Yes. Success? That's debatable. Would you consider having that entire module of Mir being rammed by a Progress freighter a success? Would you consider that incident with the space fungus a success? It wasn't exactly a failure, but then again, what did Russia gain from Mir?
Why don't they ask the soccer moms to stop going on eBay and the moronic males to stop the fantasy football and JPEG downloads? Santa Clara needs its power to give us the products we need/want/lust after!
Well, almost nothing. Since Windows 2000 has native DirectX, that means that sound and input don't lag as much as they do in NT4. Also, that interview was back in September of 99. When Win2K was released (which was only a week after I got my copy at the Microsoft RoadShow, hehe), he probably got it right away. Sound and input lag were a total bitch back in the NT4 days; when games started to get really popular, Microsoft knew that they had to get true DirectX support into the next NT.
...TMBG's website is pretty entertaining. Probably the most fun usage of Flash that I've seen.
Sure, that's not exactly a government website, but I think that all the government websites should have a similar layout (minus the advertisements, of course). Also, consider a MUCH better setup than what exists in some gov sites (IIS4, or even worse, IIS on NT 3.51! Oh My!).
Just use that thing inside your skull while you're reading this. Last I heard, that thing was called a brain, though with the disturbing trend in nomenclature lately, that's probably "subject to change without notice".
Oh yeah, it was that movie, Space Cowboys. It's so funny that it's happening in real life now. However, it's so disappointing that instead of learning from Russia's mistakes, we're just becoming another accomplice to the folly.
...remember that the next DOOM will be developed on Windows 2000 using NVidia hardware. Sorry, Linux Quake fanatics, but this is the truth. Id wanted to develop their next game on a stable, standardized platform, and Windows 2000 was the one that fit the bill. However, they'll still port it to Linux, but be ready for the usual drill (copy the files from the CD or smbclient from a Windows machine, then install the binaries).