Low end, how can you call 1Ghz a lowend. Its playable on my true low-end system. A 450K6-2, with 192mb, a Geforce 2MX (original). I get a playable game in single player, have yet to try a online game. It does not run much slower then UT does, with textures set to low, which is surprising. Since the min-specs about 2 times my system settings. Getting new games to run on a 4 year old system is half the fun of gaming now. Anyone else still running any Socket 7 gaming rigs.
The only game i have really found impossible to enjoy is GTA3, which even some new rigs having issues.
Then we could fast foward to 1998 when it used.
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Golden Eye had variable models and skins. That would be so cool if an expensive high tech system running 20 times as fast as N64 could do it. The reason we don;t see it more is lazyness. You don't make anymoney from a small feature people forget, so no incentive. But Golden Eye is still the best shooter.
The US would get involved, by blowing it up.
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Which would be done in the name of HOMELAND SECURITY. Remeber war is peace, and if we are not fighting somebody we will be attacked again. If this happens the US will feel above international laws again, like they have in the past, and attack it in the name of preventing terrorism.
Which is even worse cause everyone believes that they are getting protection from viruses, and all they are getting is clean-up after the virus is out, so if they get infected earlier then the newest info is out, to bad. Piracy of anti-virus software is the only piracy i support, since they are basically selling protection like the old mobsters sold.
What do you expect when you release a 3 year old game. I remeber, when Microsoft bought bungee, a game show had a clip of the Bungee people playing Halo on thier PCs, its funny that you still can't play it now, and it will never be on a Mac.
A lock out feature, sounds a lot like copy protection, ever tried to run a homebrewed game on a PSX, or XBOX. Why don't you call Sony evil, cause they do the same thing, but worse, cause you could use a converter for here to play Japanese games, you do that on a Sony and you are sued to death, aka mod-chip companies. Nothing Nintendo did was wrong, just not common place back then. No people who do not do that are blamed for not protecting there stuff when it gets copied.
8.2 wont install with the 2.4(or what ever standard kernal), just infite loops while initalizing. I have to run the 2.22 (not mentioned anywhere, just lucky to find it. I have the same thing on Redhat 7.1, so there must be a huge bug in 2.4) and can't even get my SoundBlaster 64 run, even after I have tested in sndconfig and had it work. They sould have Soundblaster support instantly, as it is about the most standard equipment in a compter. And nothing like having your network card die right after it intializes, lights off and not responding. Thats why Linux is not killing Microsoft. Oh yah, and the usb support does not initalize till after the things installed, which would make it real fun to install it, using a joystick, if your soundcard actually worked. If everything worked, then I could see them making money.
The theory behind a nuclear bomb is very simple, any first year student in a real course(read not arts/social science) at university could make one. This is a study on the inner workings of the explosion, which has nothing to do with making one. I knew how to build one after my grade 8 prodject on Oppenhimer. The reason people cannot just make them is the ban on the sale of the parts neaded to make a bomb.
$15 dollars for development, what are you on. In Canada (read half dollars) a 1 hour development costs $6.99, and for a 48-week even less. 8 dollars a roll you must be crazy, 8 dollars should get you about 3 rolls in Canada.
The reason this stuff is so hard to burn is that it conducts heat so quickly. For an area to burn it needs an average temperature equal or greater then its flash point. In the case with carbon, in the form of graphite, or this compound the electrons, which are responsible for heat/energy, flow very freely. This quick transfer of energy, from the area of application to the rest of the object and the surrounding area is what keeps it from burning, and makes it a good heat sink. Graphite does not have a high flash point but it's hard as heck to get it to ignite. This stuff will burn, it just seems like it takes forever to ignite, cause a good deal of the heat you add is just transferred away,
My case sits 6 inches from where i sleep, in Saugeen, so there is not much room. I have developed an advanced silencing technique called the pillow system. Using advanced cusioning apreatus, often used in areospace aplications and hospitals, I have been able to silence my computer. The only problem is my roomate's computer makes to much noise.
In Canada thanks to taxes a 24 cost about 32 bucks for low end junk (Blue, Canadian and the like). In the US, the taxes are much lower, i have seen beer cheeper then pop, so you save the taxes, which are close to 50%.
If you were not such a fool, brainwashed and republican, I would try to explain to you the importance of peaceful protest, taken part at such events as the WTO meetings. Other such acts of "terrorism" have gotten us such "terrorist ideals" like equal rights for all races and sexes. I am using quotes because the Taliban believed these ideas were bad, and by saying protesting to support these ideas is wrong, you are much closer to a terrorist, then any anti-globalization protestor, who was tear gassed and kidnapped by your poLICE because there were some random there who liked violence.
A long standing American ideal, back from the founding fathers is Manifest Destiny. Which basically says Americans are "better" then people from other countries therefore making it their God given right to take over the world. Reminds me of the racial supremacy of the Nazi party, but the Americans have the power now to fulfill that dream.
I seem to remeber settlers traveling for much longer then 16 hours to get to North America. And 74 hours would have seemed like a dream to them. You can stay here on earth and not visit space, and not explore, but I know I would gladly sit on a elevator for 3 days to get there.
You can still use SDRAM, even with XP's you just have a faster option. Since when is giving the consumer choices something that should be frowned apon.
They actually performed better then expect, that is why they tried to extend the use of it. DS1 was basicially designed to fire then crash, but it worked so well, the continued to use it.
The pcd designation for DDR memory is the amount bandwith it has. This was to compair it to Rambus. The DIMM Standard of PC133 is its MHZ. PC2100 runs at 133 Mhz (DDR to 266). While PC133 runs at 133 Mhz, but has less bandwith.
A cable costing 50 bucks is not low cost. Yes its fast, but it is not low cost in any extent of the imagination. If it was 5 bucks, maby, even 12, but 50 no way. (I am talking Canadian)
Its a 2000, I agree that your 20 year old Benz has atleast 3x more miles, but I bet his 2000 Trans AM has never been rebuilt. But with a 20 year old Trans Am, a rebuilt engine cost 1 grand Canadian, so a rebuild is not that big of a problem.
The big draw of American(OK the F-bodies are Canadian built) sports cars is the price, for the same price as that Mercedes thingy, you could have 5 or more Trans Ams, or like 3 Corvetts. And if you went with the American car atleast you would have sytle, not the stale, 30 year old design of the Benz, ugly and expensive.
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I run Windows 98Se, my motheboard is incompatible with anything past the 2.2 kernal, so I have never gotten involved in Linux.
Low end, how can you call 1Ghz a lowend. Its playable on my true low-end system. A 450K6-2, with 192mb, a Geforce 2MX (original). I get a playable game in single player, have yet to try a online game. It does not run much slower then UT does, with textures set to low, which is surprising. Since the min-specs about 2 times my system settings. Getting new games to run on a 4 year old system is half the fun of gaming now. Anyone else still running any Socket 7 gaming rigs.
The only game i have really found impossible to enjoy is GTA3, which even some new rigs having issues.
Golden Eye had variable models and skins. That would be so cool if an expensive high tech system running 20 times as fast as N64 could do it. The reason we don;t see it more is lazyness. You don't make anymoney from a small feature people forget, so no incentive. But Golden Eye is still the best shooter.
Which would be done in the name of HOMELAND SECURITY. Remeber war is peace, and if we are not fighting somebody we will be attacked again. If this happens the US will feel above international laws again, like they have in the past, and attack it in the name of preventing terrorism.
Which is even worse cause everyone believes that they are getting protection from viruses, and all they are getting is clean-up after the virus is out, so if they get infected earlier then the newest info is out, to bad. Piracy of anti-virus software is the only piracy i support, since they are basically selling protection like the old mobsters sold.
What do you expect when you release a 3 year old game. I remeber, when Microsoft bought bungee, a game show had a clip of the Bungee people playing Halo on thier PCs, its funny that you still can't play it now, and it will never be on a Mac.
A lock out feature, sounds a lot like copy protection, ever tried to run a homebrewed game on a PSX, or XBOX. Why don't you call Sony evil, cause they do the same thing, but worse, cause you could use a converter for here to play Japanese games, you do that on a Sony and you are sued to death, aka mod-chip companies. Nothing Nintendo did was wrong, just not common place back then. No people who do not do that are blamed for not protecting there stuff when it gets copied.
8.2 wont install with the 2.4(or what ever standard kernal), just infite loops while initalizing. I have to run the 2.22 (not mentioned anywhere, just lucky to find it. I have the same thing on Redhat 7.1, so there must be a huge bug in 2.4) and can't even get my SoundBlaster 64 run, even after I have tested in sndconfig and had it work. They sould have Soundblaster support instantly, as it is about the most standard equipment in a compter. And nothing like having your network card die right after it intializes, lights off and not responding. Thats why Linux is not killing Microsoft. Oh yah, and the usb support does not initalize till after the things installed, which would make it real fun to install it, using a joystick, if your soundcard actually worked. If everything worked, then I could see them making money.
The theory behind a nuclear bomb is very simple, any first year student in a real course(read not arts/social science) at university could make one. This is a study on the inner workings of the explosion, which has nothing to do with making one. I knew how to build one after my grade 8 prodject on Oppenhimer. The reason people cannot just make them is the ban on the sale of the parts neaded to make a bomb.
$15 dollars for development, what are you on. In Canada (read half dollars) a 1 hour development costs $6.99, and for a 48-week even less. 8 dollars a roll you must be crazy, 8 dollars should get you about 3 rolls in Canada.
If Microsoft did not buy bungee, we would have played it, and be done with it by now.
The reason this stuff is so hard to burn is that it conducts heat so quickly. For an area to burn it needs an average temperature equal or greater then its flash point. In the case with carbon, in the form of graphite, or this compound the electrons, which are responsible for heat/energy, flow very freely. This quick transfer of energy, from the area of application to the rest of the object and the surrounding area is what keeps it from burning, and makes it a good heat sink. Graphite does not have a high flash point but it's hard as heck to get it to ignite. This stuff will burn, it just seems like it takes forever to ignite, cause a good deal of the heat you add is just transferred away,
My case sits 6 inches from where i sleep, in Saugeen, so there is not much room. I have developed an advanced silencing technique called the pillow system. Using advanced cusioning apreatus, often used in areospace aplications and hospitals, I have been able to silence my computer. The only problem is my roomate's computer makes to much noise.
In Canada thanks to taxes a 24 cost about 32 bucks for low end junk (Blue, Canadian and the like). In the US, the taxes are much lower, i have seen beer cheeper then pop, so you save the taxes, which are close to 50%.
If you were not such a fool, brainwashed and republican, I would try to explain to you the importance of peaceful protest, taken part at such events as the WTO meetings. Other such acts of "terrorism" have gotten us such "terrorist ideals" like equal rights for all races and sexes. I am using quotes because the Taliban believed these ideas were bad, and by saying protesting to support these ideas is wrong, you are much closer to a terrorist, then any anti-globalization protestor, who was tear gassed and kidnapped by your poLICE because there were some random there who liked violence.
A long standing American ideal, back from the founding fathers is Manifest Destiny. Which basically says Americans are "better" then people from other countries therefore making it their God given right to take over the world. Reminds me of the racial supremacy of the Nazi party, but the Americans have the power now to fulfill that dream.
I seem to remeber settlers traveling for much longer then 16 hours to get to North America. And 74 hours would have seemed like a dream to them. You can stay here on earth and not visit space, and not explore, but I know I would gladly sit on a elevator for 3 days to get there.
You can still use SDRAM, even with XP's you just have a faster option. Since when is giving the consumer choices something that should be frowned apon.
They actually performed better then expect, that is why they tried to extend the use of it. DS1 was basicially designed to fire then crash, but it worked so well, the continued to use it.
Lets see you fit your DVD drive in a 3.5" bay, I would give you a million bucks if you could.
The pcd designation for DDR memory is the amount bandwith it has. This was to compair it to Rambus. The DIMM Standard of PC133 is its MHZ. PC2100 runs at 133 Mhz (DDR to 266). While PC133 runs at 133 Mhz, but has less bandwith.
A cable costing 50 bucks is not low cost. Yes its fast, but it is not low cost in any extent of the imagination. If it was 5 bucks, maby, even 12, but 50 no way. (I am talking Canadian)
I loved that show, and the Math-Net, section pure brilliance.
Its a 2000, I agree that your 20 year old Benz has atleast 3x more miles, but I bet his 2000 Trans AM has never been rebuilt. But with a 20 year old Trans Am, a rebuilt engine cost 1 grand Canadian, so a rebuild is not that big of a problem.
The big draw of American(OK the F-bodies are Canadian built) sports cars is the price, for the same price as that Mercedes thingy, you could have 5 or more Trans Ams, or like 3 Corvetts. And if you went with the American car atleast you would have sytle, not the stale, 30 year old design of the Benz, ugly and expensive.