Clinton wouldn't have stopped the lawsuit, he wanted it to go through.
You guys ever stop to think that maybe, just maybe, the reason that CNN and other American news sources don't report that Bush was behind it because their owners support Bush completely? Come on, all the news agencies are owned by incredibly rich and powerful men (Murdock (sp), Turner, etc) who are proven Republicans tried and true. All these claims about the "Left-Wing" media are not even close to the truth. If you posses any shred of logical reasoning you should be able to figure this out.
...more modern than Quake 3! Who the hell still plays that game anyway?
Since everyone always has to state the disclaimer, "We all know this game is optimized for SSE, so Intel wins again" why is it used as a benchmark? It shows nothing about the relative performance of the two processors versus each other, and only shows that each processor scales linearly (or roughly at least) with clock speed relative to their own architecture.
The other thing I'm sick of are the benchmarks with setups like:
QUAKE 3 -- LOW QUALITY 640X480 8-BIT COLOR NO SOUND 1 PLAYER BLANK MAP WITH NO TEXTURES
FPS=2000
Well no crap!??!? What do you expect?
I'd like to see this setup:
QUAKE 3 -- HIGH QUALITY 1024X768 32-BIT COLOR EAX SOUND WHILE DOWNLOADING 4 MP3's AND PLAYING A CD
I'd much rather believe Anandtech's benchmarks, but Tom's Hardware Guide finds completely different results.
Anandtech has the Athlon winning almost every category...and with the example of the Flask MPEG encoder, Anandtech has the Athlon smoking the P4 by a lot and Tom's has the P4 winning by a convincing margin...who is fudging data?
I don't have time to look into it right now so any analysis someone can provide is appreciated!
I've put together more than 50 machines in my lifetime, and I have used all of the brands of video cards repeatedly. When the Radeon came out, I used it in place of the Geforce2 MX card (it doesn't compare to the GTS in most cases) several times. I've found that while it has adequate stability most of the time, the performance is downright dismal. My Athlon 800 with a Geforce (first gen) outperforms my Athlon 900 with a Radeon 32MB DDR in several games, and that's pretty sad.
I don't like it when there is only one brand available, and so I seriously hope that ATI has hit it with this one. One of the reviews mentioned tearing textures though in DirectX applications, and this was one of the worst problems with the old ATI Rage Pro series as well as several other ATI cards....if it happens with this new card, I am seriously done with ATI for good, the NVIDIA products are rock-solid these days.
"The US government spends roughly 8x the total market cap of MS each year"
The US government *ONLY* spends 8 times the market cap of MS in a YEAR? Think about that a second....wow.
One question though....why would MS "tremble" when going before judges appointed by Bush? I'm staying out of the political ranting, but the Republican party traditionally has been pro business and free market. Given that, I would think that MS would have nothing at all to worry about with conservative judges on the bench. Please note that I'm not passing judgement on this situation, just making a comment to what you said.
No offense taken, anyway it's not like I know everything about wiring, so I do admit to being wrong often enough:)
Thanks for the link, that's good info. I wouldn't use Aluminum on branch circuits either, whether the code allows it or not. Good ol' copper for me all the way.
Um, no. The NEC (National Electric Code) says that you can use Aluminum wire if you have ALUMINUM RATED CONTACTS. The heating/etc is caused by the interaction between copper and aluminum mixed in the same circuit. Most people's mains wiring is done with Aluminum nowadays due to cost, open up a breaker and look.
Back to the current thing...true about the voltage driving the current, but once again it's not the voltage that kills you, it's the current. Yes 12V over the 10+ MOhm of the body doesn't do crap. But that's because it's only some micro amps of current you end up sinking....if you touch a 480V supply capable of only 1 mA (yeah, so it wouldn't exsist, but hypothetically) you most likely wouldn't die, you'd blow the circuit....nevertheless you touched something at 480V potential...
Anyway, I'm sure no one will read this since it's old and not modded up, so I could probably say anything I want.
Aluminum wire is just fine people, you just have to size it properly. It requires a higher diameter wire of aluminum to carry the equivalent current of copper. Usually you go one size up of wire for Aluminum (i.e. to carry 100 Amps, you need size 1 AWG copper which is rated at 110A, but size 1/0 AWG aluminum which is rated at 100A even).
Anyway, aluminum isn't the problem. As for the current debate, it's the current that kills you, not the voltage....I thought everyone learned that in elementary school...
True, Windows 2000 does not crash that much, and usually it is the result of some poor user input. However, I have had 2 seperate occasions where an install of Windows 2000 Server blue screened and locked within 20 minutes of completing install, and then would not even re-boot. This was on two seperate machines with different hardware, and all good stuff too (evil Pentuim III, ASUS mobo, Crucial RAM, etc).
Since then I haven't had any problems, but I also have the install CD with SP1 on it now. I would hardly say that it is only the zealots that have issues with 2000 crashing, it seems to be a matter of luck o' the draw...and that is not my idea of good QA'd software.
It makes them more likely to use thier "claw, claw, bite" attack on you and that will kill most people below 4 hit dice. Remember to use fire or acid to finish them off though!
That's fine and dandy, but windows still lets you run registry scripts no matter how hard you lock it down (Win 95 does at least) so figure out which keys are used in a program like poledit.exe and bingo! Back to your usual settings:)
1) ATI video cards do *plenty* of things wrong, even in Windows. They have traditionally had transparency problems as well as not being fully compatable with the DirectX API...OK, so the drivers included in RedHat don't work completely, but neither do the drivers for Win98. I have several games that specifically say they do not support ATI chipsets...
2) Nagging bugs...OK, try updating your GNOME packages from the ones installed on the disc, the ones I have run perfectly fine even on my Athlon with an NVIDIA vid card. I recommend Helix GNOME since it is easy for newbies to install.
3) OldHat...RedHat may be slow to update packages, but not *nearly* as slow as Debian has. Try to learn about the distros before bashing one.
I'm not trying to say that RedHat is the best, most stable, smallest, or anything else, I'm just saying that you are far too opinionated about this distro for the amount you know about linux in general. Enjoy your Windows 2000, there are only 63,000 documented bugs left...
I agree. RedHat may not be the most secure, most powerful, or smallest distro, but it is *very* easy to install (esp from cd, ftp could use a nice interface) and comes with several canned installs. I don't use the canned installs, but for someone who dosen't understand how the file structure/partitions are set up it could really help.
The one major problem I have with RedHat is that it is a bloated install compared to other distros. There are several other small things that upset me (like RPM's dependencies, etc) but all in all it is quite useful for a decent client or a gateway/IP masq box when properly firewalled.
Personally I'm glad there is competition between distros, RedHat sometimes gets a little too fat and happy as it is, they need the push every once in a while to stay current.
I wish this had turned out otherwise...it would be nice if someone else could use Real's format. I don't know about anyone else, but RealPlayer bogs my computer down like I'm running moslow at like 2% or something. I'm also pretty sick of streaming media that's in a 1.5" square section of my screen at about 8 fps...I mean, I have a cable modem, not two tin cans and a string here.
OK, ranting complete now. I would DEFINITELY like to see either someone else be licensed to use the format, or see another streaming format take over the market. I can't take RealPlayer any more.
Hmm...access the internet to send information on who read it when...and the serial number(s) of all MS products installed too probably...I have to say, between processor serial numbers (my first option that I disable in machine BIOS' when building a new machine) and stuff like this, the word "anonymous" is going to fade from our language.
(BTW, I do realize the software piracy checks were NOT included in this, I was just surmising as to the future of items like this)
In my opinion, Linux is definitely a bigger driving force in the industry than Macintosh is right now, however, this does not speak for the most important factor: useability. Don't get me wrong, I love Linux and I have it installed on 2 machines at home, but the average user does not care about performance, stability, scalability, or even security (beyond an install of McAfee with 6-month old virus definitions).
That being said, Macintosh is still an easier to use system out of the box than any Linux distro. Maybe someday soon GNOME will make Linux easy enough to use for the average person, but for now Mac will continue to keep it's head above the water...barely...
Artists: You can use it to stop people from putting their name on your band's mp3's and distributing them as their own, or you can use it to embed lyrics, links to your homepage, and stupid banner ads in mp3's.
Darn, now everyone will know that it really wasn't me who wrote "Stairway to Heaven"...
Really though, the last thing I need a banner ad in is an MP3, I get enough of those everywhere else
I agree with this whole-hartedly. I hate it when reporters spin their biases into articles that are not in the "Opinion" section.
That's amazing about the Gore vs. Bush comments in terms of being boring. Honestly, if GWB hadn't smoked so much crack in his life he might understand the issues enough to talk about them instead of his weekend. I fear what will happen to the US if Bush wins the presidency...boring or not, at least Gore knows how to run a country.
I fully appreciate the right to free speech in America, and protests are part of that. I'm sure there was a lot of "non-productive" (read: drunken, "hey lets break stuff", fun but ineffective protests) going on, but to watch the news that would be all you'd think of it.
I was watching Headline News' coverage of the protests in LA this week...all they showed were teenagers throwing bottles and getting the rubber bullets they deserved. That's it though...no one protesting real issues. I KNOW real issues were being addressed, but the media chooses not to cover it because it's not that interesting to the general public...shooting people with tear gas apparently is...
I wish the media would use their power to cover things that are important instead of the movie-style violence at these conventions, just like the police should use their powers to arrest real trouble makers instead of people who just look like trouble:) Maybe people would actually start to become interested in issues that affect their every day lives and become educated voters instead of partisian zombies.
When I was in school for my EE degree, in one of my computer architecture classes they handed out an article out of an industry journal (sadly I don't remember which one) that mentioned RAM on the processor die. It said they were talking about 90+ MB of RAM (in addition to an associative cache) but that was all the same registered memory that cache is today...the cache memory is much much faster than any RAM is, and there are no bus lines to worry about...
Of course this makes the die bigger, but as we get to smaller process technologies this isn't so much of a problem.
I wish I still had that article...time to go dig through the boxes in the basement:)
This is great news, the more companies that back Linux as a gaming platform the better...games are the only reason I still have Windows installed, Linux does everything else better IMHO.
Perhaps for Linux gaming to go up to the next level we need some kind of common application/driver/hardware etc. interface like DirectX...every single game that comes out nowadays is "Direct3D", and only some are OpenGL. I know OpenGL can handle the graphics (better than DirectX at that) and there has been a big push for 3D graphics support under Linux...but what about 3D sound support? DirectX includes all of this together...it is a good idea even if MS wrote it (for once).
Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about and there already is something like this...I just haven't heard of anything like it. It would developers some common ground though for sure...
Well, there are a couple of problems with this...
1) There have been MULTIPLE critical Windows updates in the past 6 months...one off the top of my head is the "Outlook Sercurity Fix" that was supposed to do away with the ILOVEYOU virus that happend recently...
2) Just because there are no updates does not mean there are not any problems...what kind of logic is that? It also doesn't mean things are improving. You can't tell me there are no problems with Windows.
3) While I was busy imagining how long it would be before a *stable* version of Linux came out for it, I thought..."Hey...how long has it been since A *stable* version of Windows came out PERIOD???"
I would argue more but my computer is about to crash and needs to be rebooted...
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Clinton wouldn't have stopped the lawsuit, he wanted it to go through.
You guys ever stop to think that maybe, just maybe, the reason that CNN and other American news sources don't report that Bush was behind it because their owners support Bush completely? Come on, all the news agencies are owned by incredibly rich and powerful men (Murdock (sp), Turner, etc) who are proven Republicans tried and true. All these claims about the "Left-Wing" media are not even close to the truth. If you posses any shred of logical reasoning you should be able to figure this out.
...more modern than Quake 3! Who the hell still plays that game anyway?
:)
Since everyone always has to state the disclaimer, "We all know this game is optimized for SSE, so Intel wins again" why is it used as a benchmark? It shows nothing about the relative performance of the two processors versus each other, and only shows that each processor scales linearly (or roughly at least) with clock speed relative to their own architecture.
The other thing I'm sick of are the benchmarks with setups like:
QUAKE 3 -- LOW QUALITY 640X480 8-BIT COLOR NO SOUND 1 PLAYER BLANK MAP WITH NO TEXTURES
FPS=2000
Well no crap!??!? What do you expect?
I'd like to see this setup:
QUAKE 3 -- HIGH QUALITY 1024X768 32-BIT COLOR EAX SOUND WHILE DOWNLOADING 4 MP3's AND PLAYING A CD
Much more realistic
I'd much rather believe Anandtech's benchmarks, but Tom's Hardware Guide finds completely different results.
Anandtech has the Athlon winning almost every category...and with the example of the Flask MPEG encoder, Anandtech has the Athlon smoking the P4 by a lot and Tom's has the P4 winning by a convincing margin...who is fudging data?
I don't have time to look into it right now so any analysis someone can provide is appreciated!
Agreed.
I've put together more than 50 machines in my lifetime, and I have used all of the brands of video cards repeatedly. When the Radeon came out, I used it in place of the Geforce2 MX card (it doesn't compare to the GTS in most cases) several times. I've found that while it has adequate stability most of the time, the performance is downright dismal. My Athlon 800 with a Geforce (first gen) outperforms my Athlon 900 with a Radeon 32MB DDR in several games, and that's pretty sad.
I don't like it when there is only one brand available, and so I seriously hope that ATI has hit it with this one. One of the reviews mentioned tearing textures though in DirectX applications, and this was one of the worst problems with the old ATI Rage Pro series as well as several other ATI cards....if it happens with this new card, I am seriously done with ATI for good, the NVIDIA products are rock-solid these days.
Nice to see that "Saving Private Ryan" and "Star Trek Voyager" get the same reverance that pr0n does.
Now...it would be an interesting list if they showed combinations, like:
"Star Trek Voyager" + "XXX" + "Alienchickwiththebigboobsandfunnyfacetattoo"
I like this one:
"The US government spends roughly 8x the total market cap of MS each year"
The US government *ONLY* spends 8 times the market cap of MS in a YEAR? Think about that a second....wow.
One question though....why would MS "tremble" when going before judges appointed by Bush? I'm staying out of the political ranting, but the Republican party traditionally has been pro business and free market. Given that, I would think that MS would have nothing at all to worry about with conservative judges on the bench. Please note that I'm not passing judgement on this situation, just making a comment to what you said.
No offense taken, anyway it's not like I know everything about wiring, so I do admit to being wrong often enough :)
Thanks for the link, that's good info. I wouldn't use Aluminum on branch circuits either, whether the code allows it or not. Good ol' copper for me all the way.
Um, no. The NEC (National Electric Code) says that you can use Aluminum wire if you have ALUMINUM RATED CONTACTS. The heating/etc is caused by the interaction between copper and aluminum mixed in the same circuit. Most people's mains wiring is done with Aluminum nowadays due to cost, open up a breaker and look. Back to the current thing...true about the voltage driving the current, but once again it's not the voltage that kills you, it's the current. Yes 12V over the 10+ MOhm of the body doesn't do crap. But that's because it's only some micro amps of current you end up sinking....if you touch a 480V supply capable of only 1 mA (yeah, so it wouldn't exsist, but hypothetically) you most likely wouldn't die, you'd blow the circuit....nevertheless you touched something at 480V potential... Anyway, I'm sure no one will read this since it's old and not modded up, so I could probably say anything I want.
Aluminum wire is just fine people, you just have to size it properly. It requires a higher diameter wire of aluminum to carry the equivalent current of copper. Usually you go one size up of wire for Aluminum (i.e. to carry 100 Amps, you need size 1 AWG copper which is rated at 110A, but size 1/0 AWG aluminum which is rated at 100A even). Anyway, aluminum isn't the problem. As for the current debate, it's the current that kills you, not the voltage....I thought everyone learned that in elementary school...
True, Windows 2000 does not crash that much, and usually it is the result of some poor user input. However, I have had 2 seperate occasions where an install of Windows 2000 Server blue screened and locked within 20 minutes of completing install, and then would not even re-boot. This was on two seperate machines with different hardware, and all good stuff too (evil Pentuim III, ASUS mobo, Crucial RAM, etc).
Since then I haven't had any problems, but I also have the install CD with SP1 on it now. I would hardly say that it is only the zealots that have issues with 2000 crashing, it seems to be a matter of luck o' the draw...and that is not my idea of good QA'd software.
will a 10 GB processor make my internet go faster? That's what CompUSA told me.
It makes them more likely to use thier "claw, claw, bite" attack on you and that will kill most people below 4 hit dice. Remember to use fire or acid to finish them off though!
That's fine and dandy, but windows still lets you run registry scripts no matter how hard you lock it down (Win 95 does at least) so figure out which keys are used in a program like poledit.exe and bingo! Back to your usual settings :)
Um, no.
1) ATI video cards do *plenty* of things wrong, even in Windows. They have traditionally had transparency problems as well as not being fully compatable with the DirectX API...OK, so the drivers included in RedHat don't work completely, but neither do the drivers for Win98. I have several games that specifically say they do not support ATI chipsets...
2) Nagging bugs...OK, try updating your GNOME packages from the ones installed on the disc, the ones I have run perfectly fine even on my Athlon with an NVIDIA vid card. I recommend Helix GNOME since it is easy for newbies to install.
3) OldHat...RedHat may be slow to update packages, but not *nearly* as slow as Debian has. Try to learn about the distros before bashing one.
I'm not trying to say that RedHat is the best, most stable, smallest, or anything else, I'm just saying that you are far too opinionated about this distro for the amount you know about linux in general. Enjoy your Windows 2000, there are only 63,000 documented bugs left...
I agree. RedHat may not be the most secure, most powerful, or smallest distro, but it is *very* easy to install (esp from cd, ftp could use a nice interface) and comes with several canned installs. I don't use the canned installs, but for someone who dosen't understand how the file structure/partitions are set up it could really help.
The one major problem I have with RedHat is that it is a bloated install compared to other distros. There are several other small things that upset me (like RPM's dependencies, etc) but all in all it is quite useful for a decent client or a gateway/IP masq box when properly firewalled.
Personally I'm glad there is competition between distros, RedHat sometimes gets a little too fat and happy as it is, they need the push every once in a while to stay current.
I wish this had turned out otherwise...it would be nice if someone else could use Real's format. I don't know about anyone else, but RealPlayer bogs my computer down like I'm running moslow at like 2% or something. I'm also pretty sick of streaming media that's in a 1.5" square section of my screen at about 8 fps...I mean, I have a cable modem, not two tin cans and a string here.
OK, ranting complete now. I would DEFINITELY like to see either someone else be licensed to use the format, or see another streaming format take over the market. I can't take RealPlayer any more.
Hmm...access the internet to send information on who read it when...and the serial number(s) of all MS products installed too probably...I have to say, between processor serial numbers (my first option that I disable in machine BIOS' when building a new machine) and stuff like this, the word "anonymous" is going to fade from our language.
(BTW, I do realize the software piracy checks were NOT included in this, I was just surmising as to the future of items like this)
In my opinion, Linux is definitely a bigger driving force in the industry than Macintosh is right now, however, this does not speak for the most important factor: useability. Don't get me wrong, I love Linux and I have it installed on 2 machines at home, but the average user does not care about performance, stability, scalability, or even security (beyond an install of McAfee with 6-month old virus definitions).
That being said, Macintosh is still an easier to use system out of the box than any Linux distro. Maybe someday soon GNOME will make Linux easy enough to use for the average person, but for now Mac will continue to keep it's head above the water...barely...
Artists: You can use it to stop people from putting their name on your band's mp3's and distributing them as their own, or you can use it to embed lyrics, links to your homepage, and stupid banner ads in mp3's.
Darn, now everyone will know that it really wasn't me who wrote "Stairway to Heaven"...
Really though, the last thing I need a banner ad in is an MP3, I get enough of those everywhere elseI agree with this whole-hartedly. I hate it when reporters spin their biases into articles that are not in the "Opinion" section.
That's amazing about the Gore vs. Bush comments in terms of being boring. Honestly, if GWB hadn't smoked so much crack in his life he might understand the issues enough to talk about them instead of his weekend. I fear what will happen to the US if Bush wins the presidency...boring or not, at least Gore knows how to run a country.
For some facts on the Bush administration , visit: http://www.georgebush2000.com
I fully appreciate the right to free speech in America, and protests are part of that. I'm sure there was a lot of "non-productive" (read: drunken, "hey lets break stuff", fun but ineffective protests) going on, but to watch the news that would be all you'd think of it.
:) Maybe people would actually start to become interested in issues that affect their every day lives and become educated voters instead of partisian zombies.
I was watching Headline News' coverage of the protests in LA this week...all they showed were teenagers throwing bottles and getting the rubber bullets they deserved. That's it though...no one protesting real issues. I KNOW real issues were being addressed, but the media chooses not to cover it because it's not that interesting to the general public...shooting people with tear gas apparently is...
I wish the media would use their power to cover things that are important instead of the movie-style violence at these conventions, just like the police should use their powers to arrest real trouble makers instead of people who just look like trouble
When I was in school for my EE degree, in one of my computer architecture classes they handed out an article out of an industry journal (sadly I don't remember which one) that mentioned RAM on the processor die. It said they were talking about 90+ MB of RAM (in addition to an associative cache) but that was all the same registered memory that cache is today...the cache memory is much much faster than any RAM is, and there are no bus lines to worry about...
:)
Of course this makes the die bigger, but as we get to smaller process technologies this isn't so much of a problem.
I wish I still had that article...time to go dig through the boxes in the basement
This is great news, the more companies that back Linux as a gaming platform the better...games are the only reason I still have Windows installed, Linux does everything else better IMHO.
Perhaps for Linux gaming to go up to the next level we need some kind of common application/driver/hardware etc. interface like DirectX...every single game that comes out nowadays is "Direct3D", and only some are OpenGL. I know OpenGL can handle the graphics (better than DirectX at that) and there has been a big push for 3D graphics support under Linux...but what about 3D sound support? DirectX includes all of this together...it is a good idea even if MS wrote it (for once).
Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about and there already is something like this...I just haven't heard of anything like it. It would developers some common ground though for sure...
I had been wondering how they were going to compile:
;)
IF (spin_up) AND !(spin_up) THEN
into anything useful...
Well, there are a couple of problems with this...
1) There have been MULTIPLE critical Windows updates in the past 6 months...one off the top of my head is the "Outlook Sercurity Fix" that was supposed to do away with the ILOVEYOU virus that happend recently...
2) Just because there are no updates does not mean there are not any problems...what kind of logic is that? It also doesn't mean things are improving. You can't tell me there are no problems with Windows.
3) While I was busy imagining how long it would be before a *stable* version of Linux came out for it, I thought..."Hey...how long has it been since A *stable* version of Windows came out PERIOD???"
I would argue more but my computer is about to crash and needs to be rebooted...