GeForce 6800 GS - $209 at newegg. So $50-$60 cheaper. Yes big deal. For $40 more than a 6600 GT, you get a 50% increase in performance. Again big deal.
I'm not one of those who play games at 1600x1200 or even care if the game has uber-photorealistic effects as long as its a good game. When I build systems for myself and others, I recomend spending no more than 20% of the cost of the current top end CPU and 30% of the top end graphics, assuming they are going to play 3D games. Thats around $200 for the processor and $180 for the graphics card. Yea, you're not going to win the "my framerate is bigger than yours" contest but you will have a system that performs reasonably well with games for the next 2 years.
From the NEAR page and mirrors
"Spacecraft not to be relaunched from Eros
The NEAR mission operations team disabled a redundant engine firing today that would have been activated if it became necessary to adjust the spacecraft's orientation in order to receive telemetry from the ground. But because NEAR Shoemaker landed with a favorable orientation, and telemetry has already been received, it is no longer necessary to move the spacecraft from its resting-place on the surface of Eros."
http://near-mirror.boulder.swri.edu/news/flash/01f eb13_2.html
Astronomers have labeled Kuiper Belt objects with a 2:3 orbit resonance with Neptune "Plutinos" which Pluto is the largest one so far. An interesting site to see what "stuff" is floating about our solar system is:
For a plot of the outer solar system (Jupiter outwards)
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/OuterPlot.htm l
For a plot of the inner solar system (Jupiter to the sun)
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/InnerPlot.htm l
For a plot of the innermost solar system (Mars to the sun)
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/InnerPlot2.ht ml
(Please ignore the spaces in ".html", don't know how to get rid of them. Gomen Nasai.)
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GeForce 6800 GS - $209 at newegg. So $50-$60 cheaper. Yes big deal. For $40 more than a 6600 GT, you get a 50% increase in performance. Again big deal.
I'm not one of those who play games at 1600x1200 or even care if the game has uber-photorealistic effects as long as its a good game. When I build systems for myself and others, I recomend spending no more than 20% of the cost of the current top end CPU and 30% of the top end graphics, assuming they are going to play 3D games. Thats around $200 for the processor and $180 for the graphics card. Yea, you're not going to win the "my framerate is bigger than yours" contest but you will have a system that performs reasonably well with games for the next 2 years.
From the NEAR page and mirrors "Spacecraft not to be relaunched from Eros The NEAR mission operations team disabled a redundant engine firing today that would have been activated if it became necessary to adjust the spacecraft's orientation in order to receive telemetry from the ground. But because NEAR Shoemaker landed with a favorable orientation, and telemetry has already been received, it is no longer necessary to move the spacecraft from its resting-place on the surface of Eros." http://near-mirror.boulder.swri.edu/news/flash/01f eb13_2.html
Astronomers have labeled Kuiper Belt objects with a 2:3 orbit resonance with Neptune "Plutinos" which Pluto is the largest one so far. An interesting site to see what "stuff" is floating about our solar system is:
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For a plot of the outer solar system (Jupiter outwards)
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/OuterPlot.ht
For a plot of the inner solar system (Jupiter to the sun)
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/InnerPlot.ht
For a plot of the innermost solar system (Mars to the sun)
http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/InnerPlot2.h
(Please ignore the spaces in ".html", don't know how to get rid of them. Gomen Nasai.)
There are pics available of the planets, comets and other objects within the solar system on the Hubble site. Go to;
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http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/SolarSystemT.h
Another use would be, depending on its size, airtrafic control or military command and control.
6000 characters is enough for some source. Decss? PGP? Get a group of people and post the source of the current Linux kernel.