Lol, yeah. I was running an Phenom 1100T when they first came out and upgrade to the FX-8350 when it was launched over 2 years ago. I've been considering buying the FX-9590 just to tide me over till these come out.
To be honest, I have no real need to upgrade until I get more into 4K gaming and upgrade from the overclocked 290x that I have now.
I've been hobbling along with my FX-8350 and AM3+ for awhile now and have been wanting to upgrade. If it lives up to the hype, unlike dozer, and piledriver, then I'll definitely get one. Now if only the process actually works....
Same here. That was the day that I said I would never, ever, buy a Creative Labs product again and I've stuck to it. Then again, they've made it so easy by producing products that were so bad.
I for one, had issues with what seemed to be glacially slow startup times. The later revisions seemed to have addressed quite a few of these issues and even the NeoOffice port has gotten to a decent, but still not really acceptable, startup speed.
Most of the systems that I've installed, managed and used were a variation upon this theme. They were all contact-less NON-RFID cards that also served double-duty as ID badges. That proved pretty handy as they were always visible and easy to use when mounted to a retractable cord. The wiring system is rather simple as it's simply a serial connection (for the older systems) but requires home runs to the controller.. I've seen newer systems that use POE and are IP based which simplifies installation somewhat in that you no longer have to do home runs to the controller.
Ok, I'm going to detail all of my experiences with Lasik for all you people. Maybe it will help some of you deceide.
About a year ago I had Lasik done in both eyes. I had -1.5 and a -3.5 prescription. I had worn glasses for about 5 years and had worn contacts for the past 5 years. My wife had a worse prescription, ie.. about a -4 in both eyes and also had severe astigmatism.
My surgery was done all at once. My wife had to go two. The first surgery for her corrected her astigmatism, completely. Except for a very small almost unmeasurable amount, she has virtually no astigmatism now. The second surgery corrected her near-sitedness, like mine. We both were very light sensitive for about 2 weeks and were EXTREMELY so for about 2 days. We both had to wear goggles to sleep for 2 weeks and to keep the cats out of the bed for 2 days.
Our results after the surgery are as follows: I see 20/15 now and she sees 20/20. We both are somewhat light sensitive but I am no more than I was when I was wearing contacts. We both also see slight halos at night but it is no worse than it was when I was wearing contacts, maybe a little bit better.
This is sorta funny because I was just thinking along these lines a few weeks ago. Let me explain.
I was in the Sunnyvale Fry's store a few weeks ago when I noticed that they were moving around some aisles in the software section. I didn't pay much attention to it until a few days later when I returned and noticed something, the area for PC games had shrunk by almost two aisles! Do you want to know what had replaced those two aisles of PC games? Console games. Seems a bit ironic doesn't it?
The reason that this seems so significant to me is that gamers seem to drive alot of the cutting edge advances in hardware (Faster CPU & GPU for higher frame rates/realism) and yet some seemingly pretty decent games are coming out on Xbox and other consoles ONLY or several months ahead of the PC version (Unconfirmed rumor of a couple of id games being Xbox only has been floating around).
I've been with several companies technical departments as a Network Admin. Of these companies, only the one that was into technical services required me to sign a non-compete. It was a 3-year dealie with a city-wide radius of thier offices. I was offered no compensation for this and considering some of the recent court rulings, due to the field I'm in, that 3 year contract would have been unenforcable. None of the other companies even mentioned a non-compete clause, even thought I now work in the middle of silicon valley. Most non-compete clauses are just a threat to hold over your head and I seriously doubt that most companies would strictly enforce them.
If I remember correctly, a few years ago our great goverment and patent office deceided to extend some patents out to about 25 years I think. If I'm not remembering this correctly, somebody please post the right numbers.
Working for a medium sized retail company, I have to remotely admin about 110 of the UnixWare 2.1.3 boxes. Let me tell you, it is not fun at all. Believe it or not, you can still buy 2.1.3, and it still runs, sorta. I for one am glad to see them go, I just hope now that I can finally convince the powers that be to put linux on all of these boxes instead of WinNT. Can you imagine supporting 110 NT servers, remotely? *shudder*
Everybody can just skip the link aboe. It is just a website sprouting racist hate against Jews.
Back to the topic. I looked at some of that video clip. All I saw was just a video taken of Times Square with a voice over. It seemed totally innoculous to me. Nothing like the power grid failing or a nuclear plant failing. It seems to me that the FBI knows they couldn't do anything about NBC showing that movie. However, it's very easy to strong arm regular citizens.
But the method that pc's use to boot from a CD is at best a hack. What it basicly boils down to is taking an image of a bootable floppy diskette and modifying a small bit of it and then writing it out to the CD. When the system boots from the CD the CD "replaces" the floppy and becomes a:\ the floppy becomes b:\ .
I think that in todays times and in looking back upon ALL the advances in science that our pursuit of space has given us then this budget cut and any others like it are totally irresponsible. Our science program is responsible for some of our greatest breakthroughs in material sciences and others. To see thier budget cut is a very sad day indead and a signal that all sanity has finally left our goverment.
This all sorta points in the direction that I have thought intel was going in anyways. I pretty much figure that IF intel can kill off AMD then I'm pretty much sure that the celeron will be killed off for a repackaged PII/III in a socket370 config or something similar. By doing this they can continue to segment the market and elminate the celeron which is eating into PII/PIII sales.
According to the NIST "The international definition of a second is "the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium atom."
I was almost in the same boat. Here where I am I can get ADSL installed (hopefully very soon) for $49 a month with 1.5 MBps download and 256K upload. Quite a bit better 'eh? And no shared bandwith either.
Well, a little more recently this year, in order to foster competetion, I forget who it was but some govermental body ruled that the dish providers can carry the network channels as long as they are local channels, the same deal as cable has. The only downside is that it will take a few years for enough capacity to be present to do this.
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Lol, yeah. I was running an Phenom 1100T when they first came out and upgrade to the FX-8350 when it was launched over 2 years ago. I've been considering buying the FX-9590 just to tide me over till these come out.
To be honest, I have no real need to upgrade until I get more into 4K gaming and upgrade from the overclocked 290x that I have now.
I've been hobbling along with my FX-8350 and AM3+ for awhile now and have been wanting to upgrade. If it lives up to the hype, unlike dozer, and piledriver, then I'll definitely get one. Now if only the process actually works....
Same here. That was the day that I said I would never, ever, buy a Creative Labs product again and I've stuck to it. Then again, they've made it so easy by producing products that were so bad.
I for one, had issues with what seemed to be glacially slow startup times. The later revisions seemed to have addressed quite a few of these issues and even the NeoOffice port has gotten to a decent, but still not really acceptable, startup speed.
Most of the systems that I've installed, managed and used were a variation upon this theme. They were all contact-less NON-RFID cards that also served double-duty as ID badges. That proved pretty handy as they were always visible and easy to use when mounted to a retractable cord. The wiring system is rather simple as it's simply a serial connection (for the older systems) but requires home runs to the controller.. I've seen newer systems that use POE and are IP based which simplifies installation somewhat in that you no longer have to do home runs to the controller.
Ok, I'm going to detail all of my experiences with Lasik for all you people. Maybe it will help some of you deceide.
About a year ago I had Lasik done in both eyes. I had -1.5 and a -3.5 prescription. I had worn glasses for about 5 years and had worn contacts for the past 5 years. My wife had a worse prescription, ie.. about a -4 in both eyes and also had severe astigmatism.
My surgery was done all at once. My wife had to go two. The first surgery for her corrected her astigmatism, completely. Except for a very small almost unmeasurable amount, she has virtually no astigmatism now. The second surgery corrected her near-sitedness, like mine. We both were very light sensitive for about 2 weeks and were EXTREMELY so for about 2 days. We both had to wear goggles to sleep for 2 weeks and to keep the cats out of the bed for 2 days.
Our results after the surgery are as follows: I see 20/15 now and she sees 20/20. We both are somewhat light sensitive but I am no more than I was when I was wearing contacts. We both also see slight halos at night but it is no worse than it was when I was wearing contacts, maybe a little bit better.
I hope that this helps.
This is sorta funny because I was just thinking along these lines a few weeks ago. Let me explain.
I was in the Sunnyvale Fry's store a few weeks ago when I noticed that they were moving around some aisles in the software section. I didn't pay much attention to it until a few days later when I returned and noticed something, the area for PC games had shrunk by almost two aisles! Do you want to know what had replaced those two aisles of PC games? Console games. Seems a bit ironic doesn't it?
The reason that this seems so significant to me is that gamers seem to drive alot of the cutting edge advances in hardware (Faster CPU & GPU for higher frame rates/realism) and yet some seemingly pretty decent games are coming out on Xbox and other consoles ONLY or several months ahead of the PC version (Unconfirmed rumor of a couple of id games being Xbox only has been floating around).
I've been with several companies technical departments as a Network Admin. Of these companies, only the one that was into technical services required me to sign a non-compete. It was a 3-year dealie with a city-wide radius of thier offices. I was offered no compensation for this and considering some of the recent court rulings, due to the field I'm in, that 3 year contract would have been unenforcable. None of the other companies even mentioned a non-compete clause, even thought I now work in the middle of silicon valley. Most non-compete clauses are just a threat to hold over your head and I seriously doubt that most companies would strictly enforce them.
If I remember correctly, a few years ago our great goverment and patent office deceided to extend some patents out to about 25 years I think. If I'm not remembering this correctly, somebody please post the right numbers.
Working for a medium sized retail company, I have to remotely admin about 110 of the UnixWare 2.1.3 boxes. Let me tell you, it is not fun at all. Believe it or not, you can still buy 2.1.3, and it still runs, sorta. I for one am glad to see them go, I just hope now that I can finally convince the powers that be to put linux on all of these boxes instead of WinNT. Can you imagine supporting 110 NT servers, remotely? *shudder*
Everybody can just skip the link aboe. It is just a website sprouting racist hate against Jews.
Back to the topic. I looked at some of that video clip. All I saw was just a video taken of Times Square with a voice over. It seemed totally innoculous to me. Nothing like the power grid failing or a nuclear plant failing. It seems to me that the FBI knows they couldn't do anything about NBC showing that movie. However, it's very easy to strong arm regular citizens.
But the method that pc's use to boot from a CD is at best a hack. What it basicly boils down to is taking an image of a bootable floppy diskette and modifying a small bit of it and then writing it out to the CD. When the system boots from the CD the CD "replaces" the floppy and becomes a:\ the floppy becomes b:\ .
I think that in todays times and in looking back upon ALL the advances in science that our pursuit of space has given us then this budget cut and any others like it are totally irresponsible. Our science program is responsible for some of our greatest breakthroughs in material sciences and others. To see thier budget cut is a very sad day indead and a signal that all sanity has finally left our goverment.
This all sorta points in the direction that I have thought intel was going in anyways. I pretty much figure that IF intel can kill off AMD then I'm pretty much sure that the celeron will be killed off for a repackaged PII/III in a socket370 config or something similar. By doing this they can continue to segment the market and elminate the celeron which is eating into PII/PIII sales.
According to the NIST
"The international definition of a second is "the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium atom."
I was almost in the same boat. Here where I am I can get ADSL installed (hopefully very soon) for $49 a month with 1.5 MBps download and 256K upload. Quite a bit better 'eh? And no shared bandwith either.
Well, a little more recently this year, in order to foster competetion, I forget who it was but some govermental body ruled that the dish providers can carry the network channels as long as they are local channels, the same deal as cable has. The only downside is that it will take a few years for enough capacity to be present to do this.