Trinitron monitors positives are quite nice in games. I do constantly notice the 2 wires on my monitor when web browsing, but it isn't really that bothersome to me.
I bought a formerly leased 22" NEC FE1250 for under $400 after shipping was added in and have been happy with it so far. Make sure to look for a good company (check them out on resellerratings.com), and only buy stuff that's in A+ condition.
George Foreman USB iGrill Patch, version 1.1 --fixes conditions which can cause a burger overflow. --previous version allowed P4 heatinge element to enter powersaving mode. This has been corrected.
It's too bad the recording industry cant realize that. Two things would revitalize their profits: encourage the artists releasing MP3s of their albums (heck, make them live versions if they want) and drop the price to under $10/cd. There's a lot of albums that I simply don't want to risk or bother wasting $20 on. But, I'm preaching to the choir.
I couldn't sleep well, I couldn't eat well, I was jittery and just desperately wanted to get back to the game. I was at E3, probably my favorite geek convention of all time, and I was miserable.
I had the same thing happen to me when I went to Hawaii for vacation a few years ago. But it was a girl, not a game that was calling me back. We're married now. However, I don't think I've ever called her Evercrack.
IBM might not be exactly a vendor, but they do 99% of the mainstream TV advertising that exists for linux. That name recognition has a pretty big effect on non-IT people.
It can run with 8 rendering pipelines or do the 4/2 thing that it does. nVidia is enforcing this through software because they say that it is faster in today's games.
That sounds like marketing speak for "the 8/1 mode isn't working right now, but we're trying to fix it in drivers."
People do seem to be making a big stink over the 4/2 thing. How they get the performance matters less than how well it performs in the real world, how easy it is for programers to program for (without making a mistake and introducing a bug) and how much it costs. The good news is that ATi caught up so we have competition. BTW, we've got both nvidia and ati our household.
a port to AMD's hammer is being done with Unreal Tournament 2003.
For games right now, I'm sure it's the extra registers and other things that help, not 64 bit. Greater than 4GB will probably only be useful on the workstation and server level for a few more years. It'll take another 2 versions of windows before 4GB+ is needed to browse the web or run office.
I would wait a couple of weeks for the ati r350 to come out. it'll be at least this fast and you could buy a non-tweaked card. Plus, it sounds like the next version of the nvidia gffx will be out in the summer some time (it should be alot better than the version you've seen reviews of). Its even possible that the ati r400 could make it out before doom3, if there's a delay by id.
On the subject of doom3, there's a good reason why many people love id -- they seem to have control of their company and release pretty stable games. Heck, the pirate-leaked-alpha-e3 version of doom3 was more stable than many released games are nowdays. Plus, to gaming geeks, the communication by JC does more for the company than any cheesy marketing company could.
A decade ago, when I was into speaker design as a hobbiest, I remember reading about subsonic sounds having an effect on people in an audio book or journal. IIRC, they talked about at least one experiment. Basically, it found that people felt uneasy when exposed to low frequency sound and suggested that some old drafty castle halls and rooms that had a reputation for being haunted could designs that caused inaudible low frequency standing waves. My memory's a bit hazy (hey, it's been 10 years), but I'm pretty sure that some researches found a couple of places where that was the case.
It all depends on which benchmarks you choose. Take a look at the anandtech set of benchmarks for the barton and there are several where the barton wins. Since the architechures are so different, its easy for a reviewer to bias the results towards different CPUs (even inadvertently) by which benchmarks they use. This makes it important to look at a wide variety of benchmarks and try to compare cpus based on which apps a person needs the speed in. That assumes that speed is the main concen.
According to their tech page on their web site, "Data can be transferred from the card to the reader and delivered to the host or client at 5MB per second with the 100MB product, and will scale with higher-capacity designs."
Also, a little further down, they mention "the StorReader supports a sustained data transfer rate of 5 megabytes per second in the 100 megabyte StorCard, and scales in the 5 gigabyte design."
The next phase wont be boomers it'll be those who are 25 to 40. I'll even give them a hint. It'll take reasonable file sizes, better than CD quality sound on a good midfi or better stereo, transferable to various media (flash, HD, 3" protected disc, etc), instant access to the whole collection (no disc swapping or changers), no extra cost to listen to it in car and at home, music that could stand on it's own without marketing (ok, that's just a wish), the band should be paid a fair amount, and finally it should cost less that 1.5 hrs of work at minimum wage for 1 hrs worth of music. Given all that, you'd have to be a son of a bitch to steal the music. And I'd start buying music again.
I purchased a pair of Platinum Audio 806s for under $200 since they were a discontinued line of speakers and I've been very pleased. Sometimes you can get great values on "last years" model.
-Make it so files are removable _easily_ from the entire network so it can't be shut down by the record companies. If sony complains that so and so's music is on the network, and they're signed with sony, it's gone. -Obviously, have categories. -Have the software guess what songs you might like. There's probably a better way to do it but one way would be to have a rating system that matches similiar tastes -- Joe likes songs 111,112,113, and 114; Bob likes 111 and 112 -- there's a good chance he'll also like 113 and 114. Now extend that to multiple users where it considers matching likes and dislikes. The program could do the searches while Bob's asleep and suggest a few songs to him the next day. Perhaps it could download them for him and play them like a radio station (minus commercials). Maybe even require that the user rates at least 1/2 of the music they download. -artists upload their own songs. -make it available for linux, windows and mac.
I've bought 1 cd in the last 2 years. I don't download music either. I figure if they don't want me to have their product, I can live without it. I have over 100 cds that I accumulated in the 90s anyway. Funny thing is, I make a hell of a lot more now than I did in 1990 when I was in college and delivering pizzas. From 1985 to 1995, I probably purchased around 300 recordings (LP, tape, CD). From 1995 till now, less than 10. Am I alone? I doubt it.
The decss code isn't very long, so you could simply print out sheets of paper with it on it and mention on that back that being in possession of the piece of paper is a criminal act with the details of the fine and jail sentence. Heck, if you're really brave, hand them out at your local state capitol. Or, take out an ad (maybe a personal ad is cheaper) in your local news paper and put the code there.
The thing is, most laws like this are there to curtail abuse that people don't curtail themselves. Most people are probably horrified if their cellphone goes off in a theater -- several reminders would help that. The law would help force those that don't bother to double check the phone or for some reason wouldn't turn it off.
When I had my wisdom teeth removed, the first time (they did left/right set separately) it seemed like it took 5 minutes, there was no pain, and everything was groovy. I didn't think the gas did much at all. The 2nd time, the gas machine was broken. It was then when I realized why people dislike dentists. It didn't hurt, but I felt every hammer hit, felt every chissel, it seemed like it took forever, etc. Demand the gas.
According to nvidia's geforce4 page, the geforce4 does 1.23 trillion operations per second. ATI's 9700 is even faster and fully floating point, so a next gen chip getting 1 trillion floating point ops per sec seems reasonable.
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Trinitron monitors positives are quite nice in games. I do constantly notice the 2 wires on my monitor when web browsing, but it isn't really that bothersome to me.
I bought a formerly leased 22" NEC FE1250 for under $400 after shipping was added in and have been happy with it so far. Make sure to look for a good company (check them out on resellerratings.com), and only buy stuff that's in A+ condition.
George Foreman USB iGrill
Patch, version 1.1
--fixes conditions which can cause a burger overflow.
--previous version allowed P4 heatinge element to enter powersaving mode. This has been corrected.
It's too bad the recording industry cant realize that. Two things would revitalize their profits: encourage the artists releasing MP3s of their albums (heck, make them live versions if they want) and drop the price to under $10/cd. There's a lot of albums that I simply don't want to risk or bother wasting $20 on. But, I'm preaching to the choir.
I couldn't sleep well, I couldn't eat well, I was jittery and just desperately wanted to get back to the game. I was at E3, probably my favorite geek convention of all time, and I was miserable.
I had the same thing happen to me when I went to Hawaii for vacation a few years ago. But it was a girl, not a game that was calling me back. We're married now. However, I don't think I've ever called her Evercrack.
IBM might not be exactly a vendor, but they do 99% of the mainstream TV advertising that exists for linux. That name recognition has a pretty big effect on non-IT people.
It can run with 8 rendering pipelines or do the 4/2 thing that it does. nVidia is enforcing this through software because they say that it is faster in today's games.
That sounds like marketing speak for "the 8/1 mode isn't working right now, but we're trying to fix it in drivers."
People do seem to be making a big stink over the 4/2 thing. How they get the performance matters less than how well it performs in the real world, how easy it is for programers to program for (without making a mistake and introducing a bug) and how much it costs. The good news is that ATi caught up so we have competition. BTW, we've got both nvidia and ati our household.
a port to AMD's hammer is being done with Unreal Tournament 2003.
For games right now, I'm sure it's the extra registers and other things that help, not 64 bit. Greater than 4GB will probably only be useful on the workstation and server level for a few more years. It'll take another 2 versions of windows before 4GB+ is needed to browse the web or run office.
I would wait a couple of weeks for the ati r350 to come out. it'll be at least this fast and you could buy a non-tweaked card. Plus, it sounds like the next version of the nvidia gffx will be out in the summer some time (it should be alot better than the version you've seen reviews of). Its even possible that the ati r400 could make it out before doom3, if there's a delay by id.
On the subject of doom3, there's a good reason why many people love id -- they seem to have control of their company and release pretty stable games. Heck, the pirate-leaked-alpha-e3 version of doom3 was more stable than many released games are nowdays. Plus, to gaming geeks, the communication by JC does more for the company than any cheesy marketing company could.
A decade ago, when I was into speaker design as a hobbiest, I remember reading about subsonic sounds having an effect on people in an audio book or journal. IIRC, they talked about at least one experiment. Basically, it found that people felt uneasy when exposed to low frequency sound and suggested that some old drafty castle halls and rooms that had a reputation for being haunted could designs that caused inaudible low frequency standing waves. My memory's a bit hazy (hey, it's been 10 years), but I'm pretty sure that some researches found a couple of places where that was the case.
It all depends on which benchmarks you choose. Take a look at the anandtech set of benchmarks for the barton and there are several where the barton wins. Since the architechures are so different, its easy for a reviewer to bias the results towards different CPUs (even inadvertently) by which benchmarks they use. This makes it important to look at a wide variety of benchmarks and try to compare cpus based on which apps a person needs the speed in. That assumes that speed is the main concen.
"Your fucking retarted if..."
what is an "if" and how do you know his "if" is retarded?
I guess I need another cup of coffee. I could have sworn the parent said 5Mb not 5MB.
According to their tech page on their web site, "Data can be transferred from the card to the reader and delivered to the host or client at 5MB per second with the 100MB product, and will scale with higher-capacity designs."
Also, a little further down, they mention "the StorReader supports a sustained data transfer rate of 5 megabytes per second in the 100 megabyte StorCard, and scales in the 5 gigabyte design."
So it sounds like it's 5MB/s, not 5Mb/s.
The next phase wont be boomers it'll be those who are 25 to 40. I'll even give them a hint. It'll take reasonable file sizes, better than CD quality sound on a good midfi or better stereo, transferable to various media (flash, HD, 3" protected disc, etc), instant access to the whole collection (no disc swapping or changers), no extra cost to listen to it in car and at home, music that could stand on it's own without marketing (ok, that's just a wish), the band should be paid a fair amount, and finally it should cost less that 1.5 hrs of work at minimum wage for 1 hrs worth of music. Given all that, you'd have to be a son of a bitch to steal the music. And I'd start buying music again.
Think of all the unemployed cows.
I purchased a pair of Platinum Audio 806s for under $200 since they were a discontinued line of speakers and I've been very pleased. Sometimes you can get great values on "last years" model.
how about a legal oss p2p network?
-Make it so files are removable _easily_ from the entire network so it can't be shut down by the record companies. If sony complains that so and so's music is on the network, and they're signed with sony, it's gone.
-Obviously, have categories.
-Have the software guess what songs you might like. There's probably a better way to do it but one way would be to have a rating system that matches similiar tastes -- Joe likes songs 111,112,113, and 114; Bob likes 111 and 112 -- there's a good chance he'll also like 113 and 114. Now extend that to multiple users where it considers matching likes and dislikes. The program could do the searches while Bob's asleep and suggest a few songs to him the next day. Perhaps it could download them for him and play them like a radio station (minus commercials). Maybe even require that the user rates at least 1/2 of the music they download.
-artists upload their own songs.
-make it available for linux, windows and mac.
I've bought 1 cd in the last 2 years. I don't download music either. I figure if they don't want me to have their product, I can live without it. I have over 100 cds that I accumulated in the 90s anyway. Funny thing is, I make a hell of a lot more now than I did in 1990 when I was in college and delivering pizzas. From 1985 to 1995, I probably purchased around 300 recordings (LP, tape, CD). From 1995 till now, less than 10. Am I alone? I doubt it.
The decss code isn't very long, so you could simply print out sheets of paper with it on it and mention on that back that being in possession of the piece of paper is a criminal act with the details of the fine and jail sentence. Heck, if you're really brave, hand them out at your local state capitol. Or, take out an ad (maybe a personal ad is cheaper) in your local news paper and put the code there.
The thing is, most laws like this are there to curtail abuse that people don't curtail themselves. Most people are probably horrified if their cellphone goes off in a theater -- several reminders would help that. The law would help force those that don't bother to double check the phone or for some reason wouldn't turn it off.
When I had my wisdom teeth removed, the first time (they did left/right set separately) it seemed like it took 5 minutes, there was no pain, and everything was groovy. I didn't think the gas did much at all. The 2nd time, the gas machine was broken. It was then when I realized why people dislike dentists. It didn't hurt, but I felt every hammer hit, felt every chissel, it seemed like it took forever, etc. Demand the gas.
According to nvidia's geforce4 page, the geforce4 does 1.23 trillion operations per second. ATI's 9700 is even faster and fully floating point, so a next gen chip getting 1 trillion floating point ops per sec seems reasonable.