hmmm, yes, indeed, i can just imagine geeks hanging out bragging to teenage girls how they can simultaneously carry all of Christina's and Britney's albums with them at the same time...should make for an almost-guarantueed pick-up line;-)
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But still. The movie claims that the humans are being used to produce power, which is simply utter bs...you can't get more energy out of something than you initially put in, and by lack of a sun to serve as a constant replenishment of energy for the planet as a whole, things come to a grinding halt...period.
Besides the mini's, there's the paint, the horribly expensive brushes(which you can get ten times as cheap in an artstore), the magazines.
On the other hand, you do get to spend lots of time in the lovely company of 14 year old pimpled boys and a few salesmen to demonstrate what those same pimpled boys will be like in a few years...
I waste my precious youth playing games like Planetarion and Starsphere and all they require is a browser and way too much of my precious time. Oh, and a fee in the case of Planetarion, but that's a detail.
These are really big games, you actually get to talk to the people that develop and run them, and over the course of time they develop to comply with the wishes of the majority of the players. These are truly what I'd define as on-line, interactive games...and guess what, there's way better choices than C# for this kinda thing...
What benefit is there to there being all sorts of separate countries anyway? And people talking all those bloody different languages? We're all terrans, anyway...
Like it or not, the only way we're ever going to come to our senses and stop these stupid competitions is the day a flying saucer lands, opens up and displays a little green guy with 4 eyes telling us all our bases are belong to him...
Dunno, but my Duron 800 running Windows XP managed just fine. Besides, in your example I'd say it's more a case of the memory getting full and the harddisk doing overtime swapping back and forth than the processor getting bogged down. Ofc it might help that I have 1 Mozilla window instead of 4 IE ones and 1 Trillian instead of msn/icq/yahoo all open at the same time. Add Apache 2, a Firewall, an Antivirus, and i can still game comfortable. Got 1 Gig of memory in that box though...
And in the long run all the spam they used to receive on their AOL accounts ends up passing through your server, eating up your bandwidth instead of AOL's...on the other hand, this might be a good time to start informing friends and relatives on the do's and don'ts of e-mail...
You'll have to admit that book is pretty radical...I mean, Stephen King could hardly make me blush at age 12, but being 24 now American Psycho still makes my stomach turn...
Actually, I'd say, and the writer of the article with me, that the parents, while being the cause, are also the ones denying their responsibility in the matter...I mean, why raise your children if you can have the government do it for you, so you have more time to make a little more money? It's not as though well-educated, properly-behaving children will impress the neighbours more than that shiny new car will...
For a while now, Asus has had the bad habit of tweaking their FSB slightly out-of-spec, for example a 135 MHz FSB instead of 133. Although only a slight overclock, this can easily lead to speed increase of 100 MHz on the (currently) high-spec processors. If Intel were to tweak their overclock-detection to such a point that it can even detect minor increases, I'll be curious what happens to Asus...
Depends on how you do it...most AMD processors are multiplier-locked, but as long as your motherboard and PCI/AGP cards can handle it, you can still crank up the Front Side Bus.
Working for S3/Diamond back when they decided to change their name to SonicBlue, my first guess was a sound-related kind of depression. In hindsight, I wasn't all that far from the truth...
Ah, if it were only as easy as double-clicking an rpm...speaking from the perspective of a Windows user with a couple of years tech-support experience who happens to have a spare harddrive on which I installed Linux "for fun" please allow me to tell you it just isn't that simple. I downloaded some rpm's left and right to install stuff like Wine for example and double-clicking the buggers just didn't do the trick. Opening up the command line and executing the rpm's by hand revealed that a couple of command line switches had to be added in order for it to work properly, but in order to find that out I already had to go through obscure text files, and check a couple of websites. So far I've been able to find 1(one) piece of software that under Linux installs as easily as it does under Windows, and that's Mozilla.
Actually, I got rid of the 286's, but I still have an old 386 server with 36 whole whopping megabytes of RAM. 4 Megs in those little 30 pin modules and 32 on 2 cards that each have about the size of a Voodoo 5500 on steroids...and ofc, you guessed it, somewhere one chip is broken:-)
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Minisoft, Macrosoft, Millisoft, Megasoft, Nanosoft for all I care...some1's bound to get it ;-)
NWN runs perfectly on my Duron + GF2 :/
as for UT2003, I'd go for a videocard instead...
hmmm, yes, indeed, i can just imagine geeks hanging out bragging to teenage girls how they can simultaneously carry all of Christina's and Britney's albums with them at the same time...should make for an almost-guarantueed pick-up line ;-)
It would seem that just keeping them sedated would have been somewhat more practical...might have made for a lousy movie though...
Neo: zZzZzZzZzZzZ?
Trinity: zZzZzZzZzZ!
Neo: zZzZ ZzZz???
But still. The movie claims that the humans are being used to produce power, which is simply utter bs...you can't get more energy out of something than you initially put in, and by lack of a sun to serve as a constant replenishment of energy for the planet as a whole, things come to a grinding halt...period.
ehmmm, doesn't turning the clock BACK two years result in lots of extra productivity? Just imagine how you'll feel looking at the deadlines...
Besides the mini's, there's the paint, the horribly expensive brushes(which you can get ten times as cheap in an artstore), the magazines.
On the other hand, you do get to spend lots of time in the lovely company of 14 year old pimpled boys and a few salesmen to demonstrate what those same pimpled boys will be like in a few years...
Score:3 Informative? Funny I could live with, even though it's as old and rehashed as can be...
now mod me down please...
I waste my precious youth playing games like Planetarion and Starsphere and all they require is a browser and way too much of my precious time. Oh, and a fee in the case of Planetarion, but that's a detail.
These are really big games, you actually get to talk to the people that develop and run them, and over the course of time they develop to comply with the wishes of the majority of the players. These are truly what I'd define as on-line, interactive games...and guess what, there's way better choices than C# for this kinda thing...
I think I am going to move to the Netherlands soon. The only laws the US seems to be missing are laws prohibiting stupid laws!
You're aware Bush could call for an invasion any time he likes, right?
What benefit is there to there being all sorts of separate countries anyway? And people talking all those bloody different languages? We're all terrans, anyway...
Like it or not, the only way we're ever going to come to our senses and stop these stupid competitions is the day a flying saucer lands, opens up and displays a little green guy with 4 eyes telling us all our bases are belong to him...
Dunno, but my Duron 800 running Windows XP managed just fine. Besides, in your example I'd say it's more a case of the memory getting full and the harddisk doing overtime swapping back and forth than the processor getting bogged down. Ofc it might help that I have 1 Mozilla window instead of 4 IE ones and 1 Trillian instead of msn/icq/yahoo all open at the same time. Add Apache 2, a Firewall, an Antivirus, and i can still game comfortable. Got 1 Gig of memory in that box though...
And in the long run all the spam they used to receive on their AOL accounts ends up passing through your server, eating up your bandwidth instead of AOL's...on the other hand, this might be a good time to start informing friends and relatives on the do's and don'ts of e-mail...
You'll have to admit that book is pretty radical...I mean, Stephen King could hardly make me blush at age 12, but being 24 now American Psycho still makes my stomach turn...
lemme guess...he's your older brother, right?
Actually, I'd say, and the writer of the article with me, that the parents, while being the cause, are also the ones denying their responsibility in the matter...I mean, why raise your children if you can have the government do it for you, so you have more time to make a little more money? It's not as though well-educated, properly-behaving children will impress the neighbours more than that shiny new car will...
infuriated Slashdot reader takes sniper rifle and shoots clueless politicians.
Can I blame Denis Leary now?
For a while now, Asus has had the bad habit of tweaking their FSB slightly out-of-spec, for example a 135 MHz FSB instead of 133. Although only a slight overclock, this can easily lead to speed increase of 100 MHz on the (currently) high-spec processors. If Intel were to tweak their overclock-detection to such a point that it can even detect minor increases, I'll be curious what happens to Asus...
Depends on how you do it...most AMD processors are multiplier-locked, but as long as your motherboard and PCI/AGP cards can handle it, you can still crank up the Front Side Bus.
If one more IRC fuck-stick uses /me again I'm gonna hunt them down and bitch-slap them.
/me hands btlzu2 a trout
The moment you allow a machine to "improve" itself or "learn", it'll mess things up. Until that time the messing up is left to us...
And there I was thinking it meant being reduced to 10% of the original size, in other words "reduce by 90%"...
Working for S3/Diamond back when they decided to change their name to SonicBlue, my first guess was a sound-related kind of depression. In hindsight, I wasn't all that far from the truth...
Ah, if it were only as easy as double-clicking an rpm...speaking from the perspective of a Windows user with a couple of years tech-support experience who happens to have a spare harddrive on which I installed Linux "for fun" please allow me to tell you it just isn't that simple. I downloaded some rpm's left and right to install stuff like Wine for example and double-clicking the buggers just didn't do the trick. Opening up the command line and executing the rpm's by hand revealed that a couple of command line switches had to be added in order for it to work properly, but in order to find that out I already had to go through obscure text files, and check a couple of websites. So far I've been able to find 1(one) piece of software that under Linux installs as easily as it does under Windows, and that's Mozilla.
Actually, I got rid of the 286's, but I still have an old 386 server with 36 whole whopping megabytes of RAM. 4 Megs in those little 30 pin modules and 32 on 2 cards that each have about the size of a Voodoo 5500 on steroids...and ofc, you guessed it, somewhere one chip is broken :-)