I don't live there (I have some relatives that do), but last time I went up to Vancouver and down to Richmond - I saw several shops who were selling VCD's, and Audio cd's for about 8$ a pop. Most of these disks were professionally printed, but one has to seriously wonder about why they were so cheap.
Then again I haven't upgraded from my Geforce 2. Am I a uber leet gamer? Maybe - I play a lot of online video games, to be honest there's only one game that I could use a faster video card on - operation flashpoint.
Even the latest greatest UT game seems to work just fine - at frame rates consistantly above 60 fps.
I heard the same arguments when motherboards started coming with intergrated ide, serial/paralel. I was working at a small computer shop then and people were telling me they didn't want intergrated serial/io because they couldn't upgrade and what would they do if it went bad?
Fact is most OEM's are going to be switching to these new boards - simply because there's less that can go wrong (and trust me on this - when it comes to tech support this is a major major plus) - and as a plus its a reasonably fast video card as well.
This is the country which wants to bomb another one into the ground on the basis that it ignores UN resolution, has weapons of mass destruction, has invaded some of its neighbours, treats ethnic groups in their territories badly and is lead by a nasty man.
Sounds like America actually. Anyone ever read about the UN resolutions to comdemn the US for their actions against cuba? They really do exist... Or the US vetoing a UN resolution to investigate why the US fired cruise missles into Sudan?
Uh, thats probably why 3com and the like are still making pda's that don't have all the wizbang features. A lot of their newer entry level models are small, have monochrome screens and last forever on the battery.
Actually - even though this is entirely politically incorrect when it comes to slashdot or mac/apple fanatics,
WinCE 3.0 does a really good job if your right handed. I'm left handed (doesn't work so well for me - neither did the newton for that matter). I handed my old ipaq to my friend and just scribbling his name on it (in notes mode) - recognized it perfectly. It does use some licensed technology, but its name escapes me right now.
Thats a commodore 1084 - as I recall its a split video, composite, and rgb monitor with a.45 dot pitch - not bad for the day. I think its made by phillips.
As far as a TV set goes you'll not find much better for the size. Later versions had stereo sound built in, Commodore's 1942, 1950, 1962 etc were better dot pitch wise and could do ntsc through vga (.28), but they didn't have the composite inputs.
It will though to a certian extent. Take my Power Macintosh 6100/60 - it tops out at 7-9kilobytes a second (even in PowerPC Linux). But with its G3 200 turbo board it tops out at 50 kilobytes a second. (this was tested via my own local area network)
I know this thing isn't breaking any speed records yet, but the faster processor (IBM 601/60 vs Altivec G3/200) did make a noticable difference.
I can't tell if your joking or not - mostly because of moderation rates you as insightful.
I was working for a PC OEM (while in highschool) when 486 motherboards started coming with built in IDE, Serial and PS/2 - I had more people ask me things like "what do I do if the com ports break down?" or when PCI came out - "what do I do with all my expansion cards?"
Get used to it - its called change. What I'd do if I were you is never ever upgrade ever. That should include your antiquated KVM switch.
Or A-Team (is that one or two words?) - here's the plot for every single A-Team episode ever made,
A) Disenfranchised group/company/person is being harassed by evil group/company/person - but are powerless because the evil guys have payed off the cops and they won't help.
B) A-Team happens to be in town - runs into disenfranchised group - gets hired.
C) Ingenious plan hatched to really get evil guys, but fails
D) Evil guys lock the A-Team (remember these guys escaped a military prison) inside a room full of equipment (my favorite episode was where they locked these guys in a room with a semi-tractor, welding equipment and stocked to the gills with angle iron and sheet metal)
E) A-Team builds a tank out of whatever vehicle they are locked in a room with
F) They escape where a car chase ensues and eventually the bad guys flip their car - roll it 4 times and get out completely unharmed
G) A-Team wins:)
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I don't think so really and they really only work on redhat variants. I've found that on debian it really trashes dependancies.
Hardly - I've met some very taleted people in Oregon and Washington who are jobless - mostly because the company they worked for needed extra cash fast. Thats what happened to me.
I mean consider - MS is hiring 5000 people (or something like that) I read in the newspaper that they got over 100,000 applications - a lot of those were for cs/engineering positions
Is that were in an economic depression. One thing is for sure - if I was into xbox hacking and I had a CS degree (I don't - I was a social studies major) I would be applying. Judging by the last job fair (where it reminded me of getting into a insanely popular night club) here in Portland I think there's going to be a lot of CS/Engineer people applying too.
This is doubly so if you live in Oregon, Washington or California - where unemployment is still 1st, 2nd and 3rd highest in the nation respectively.
I mean its either that or going to work for stream international:).
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When I switched mine on it did pop up a eula - it also has one somewhere in the settings menu.
Like most people however I didn't understand or read it all the way through.
Your probably right - it might have been some cv option I was playing around with. I still have the computer. I do remember you could access rtg memory as fastram with the right hack.
I can understand where they are coming from though. As a ham radio operator (mail me at skuld(at)mail.ru if you want to know my call sign) I've found that most consumer electronics exhibit some degree of rfi - computers more so then anything. I've worked very hard to try to make sure that my computer doesn't interfere with my hf transciever (since I like to use it for logging contacts), but once it a while it does. Certian screen modes my monitor puts out for instance make whirring noises on 80/75 meters completely knocking out reception across a lot of that particular band. Until I laced the thing with filters I could hear my hdd clicking away on various frequencies too.
I've noticed on my scope that even on relatively new vhf/uhf equipment a considerable amount of front end noise being picked up by my equipment from almost any computer.
And while driving around on my old Icom 3200 a/e - especially in near the mall I'll hear data bursts actually break squelch - I'm assuming some of these rf devices used in stores are several mhz over! My signal doesn't bleed that bad at 45-150 watts - why does theirs?
I can understand why an airplane operator - which has tons of rf devices in it (both narrow band and wide band spread spectrum) - used for everything from flight control, vhf/uhf radios for tower/local airplane communication to hf radios used for navigation with flight towers (tune across 60 meters sometime - you'll be suprised) would be concerned about consumer junk (yes you heard right) interfering with his/her equipment. Manufacturers of this stuff take no reguard to sensitive professional/amateur equipment when it comes to rfi.
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Some people just don't read - or don't know how...
I said,
Even the latest greatest UT game seems to work just fine - at frame rates consistantly above 60 fps.
And yes UT 2003 plays just fine on this machine. I usually do pretty well on most any server.
It may not improve the legal situation - but frankly its harder to find and sieze ships that are 18-20 miles off the shore.
Reminds me of Vancouver BC... Seriously.
I don't live there (I have some relatives that do), but last time I went up to Vancouver and down to Richmond - I saw several shops who were selling VCD's, and Audio cd's for about 8$ a pop. Most of these disks were professionally printed, but one has to seriously wonder about why they were so cheap.
Then again I haven't upgraded from my Geforce 2. Am I a uber leet gamer? Maybe - I play a lot of online video games, to be honest there's only one game that I could use a faster video card on - operation flashpoint.
Even the latest greatest UT game seems to work just fine - at frame rates consistantly above 60 fps.
I heard the same arguments when motherboards started coming with intergrated ide, serial/paralel. I was working at a small computer shop then and people were telling me they didn't want intergrated serial/io because they couldn't upgrade and what would they do if it went bad?
Fact is most OEM's are going to be switching to these new boards - simply because there's less that can go wrong (and trust me on this - when it comes to tech support this is a major major plus) - and as a plus its a reasonably fast video card as well.
This is the country which wants to bomb another one into the ground on the basis that it ignores UN resolution, has weapons of mass destruction, has invaded some of its neighbours, treats ethnic groups in their territories badly and is lead by a nasty man.
Sounds like America actually. Anyone ever read about the UN resolutions to comdemn the US for their actions against cuba? They really do exist... Or the US vetoing a UN resolution to investigate why the US fired cruise missles into Sudan?
Makes it sound like there's a list or something...
Uh, thats probably why 3com and the like are still making pda's that don't have all the wizbang features. A lot of their newer entry level models are small, have monochrome screens and last forever on the battery.
Actually - even though this is entirely politically incorrect when it comes to slashdot or mac/apple fanatics,
WinCE 3.0 does a really good job if your right handed. I'm left handed (doesn't work so well for me - neither did the newton for that matter). I handed my old ipaq to my friend and just scribbling his name on it (in notes mode) - recognized it perfectly. It does use some licensed technology, but its name escapes me right now.
Thats a commodore 1084 - as I recall its a split video, composite, and rgb monitor with a .45 dot pitch - not bad for the day. I think its made by phillips.
As far as a TV set goes you'll not find much better for the size. Later versions had stereo sound built in, Commodore's 1942, 1950, 1962 etc were better dot pitch wise and could do ntsc through vga (.28), but they didn't have the composite inputs.
I wish their was a score "stupid" or "idiotic" - it would fit the parent post.
It will though to a certian extent. Take my Power Macintosh 6100/60 - it tops out at 7-9kilobytes a second (even in PowerPC Linux). But with its G3 200 turbo board it tops out at 50 kilobytes a second. (this was tested via my own local area network)
I know this thing isn't breaking any speed records yet, but the faster processor (IBM 601/60 vs Altivec G3/200) did make a noticable difference.
How is downloading an ISO of a linux distro an efficent use of bandwidth? Are you actually installing linux via CD?
Just wait a little and some shithead scriptkiddie prints 2000 black pages on your printer.
Hah hah! The jokes on you my printer is off!
I can't tell if your joking or not - mostly because of moderation rates you as insightful.
I was working for a PC OEM (while in highschool) when 486 motherboards started coming with built in IDE, Serial and PS/2 - I had more people ask me things like "what do I do if the com ports break down?" or when PCI came out - "what do I do with all my expansion cards?"
Get used to it - its called change. What I'd do if I were you is never ever upgrade ever. That should include your antiquated KVM switch.
Or A-Team (is that one or two words?) - here's the plot for every single A-Team episode ever made,
:)
A) Disenfranchised group/company/person is being harassed by evil group/company/person - but are powerless because the evil guys have payed off the cops and they won't help.
B) A-Team happens to be in town - runs into disenfranchised group - gets hired.
C) Ingenious plan hatched to really get evil guys, but fails
D) Evil guys lock the A-Team (remember these guys escaped a military prison) inside a room full of equipment (my favorite episode was where they locked these guys in a room with a semi-tractor, welding equipment and stocked to the gills with angle iron and sheet metal)
E) A-Team builds a tank out of whatever vehicle they are locked in a room with
F) They escape where a car chase ensues and eventually the bad guys flip their car - roll it 4 times and get out completely unharmed
G) A-Team wins
I don't think so really and they really only work on redhat variants. I've found that on debian it really trashes dependancies.
Hardly - I've met some very taleted people in Oregon and Washington who are jobless - mostly because the company they worked for needed extra cash fast. Thats what happened to me.
I mean consider - MS is hiring 5000 people (or something like that) I read in the newspaper that they got over 100,000 applications - a lot of those were for cs/engineering positions
Is that were in an economic depression. One thing is for sure - if I was into xbox hacking and I had a CS degree (I don't - I was a social studies major) I would be applying. Judging by the last job fair (where it reminded me of getting into a insanely popular night club) here in Portland I think there's going to be a lot of CS/Engineer people applying too.
:).
This is doubly so if you live in Oregon, Washington or California - where unemployment is still 1st, 2nd and 3rd highest in the nation respectively.
I mean its either that or going to work for stream international
When I switched mine on it did pop up a eula - it also has one somewhere in the settings menu.
Like most people however I didn't understand or read it all the way through.
If foxnews says its true that makes it so right?
Hey I'm glad I made someone's day a tad bit brigter :).
For Commodore Computers - where they compare the Vic 20 to the 2600 and the C64 to the Apple 2, IBM and Radio Shack computers,
Commodore Billboard
Nice... except there isn't a M16 in counterstrike :).
Your probably right - it might have been some cv option I was playing around with. I still have the computer. I do remember you could access rtg memory as fastram with the right hack.
I can understand where they are coming from though. As a ham radio operator (mail me at skuld(at)mail.ru if you want to know my call sign) I've found that most consumer electronics exhibit some degree of rfi - computers more so then anything. I've worked very hard to try to make sure that my computer doesn't interfere with my hf transciever (since I like to use it for logging contacts), but once it a while it does. Certian screen modes my monitor puts out for instance make whirring noises on 80/75 meters completely knocking out reception across a lot of that particular band. Until I laced the thing with filters I could hear my hdd clicking away on various frequencies too.
I've noticed on my scope that even on relatively new vhf/uhf equipment a considerable amount of front end noise being picked up by my equipment from almost any computer.
And while driving around on my old Icom 3200 a/e - especially in near the mall I'll hear data bursts actually break squelch - I'm assuming some of these rf devices used in stores are several mhz over! My signal doesn't bleed that bad at 45-150 watts - why does theirs?
I can understand why an airplane operator - which has tons of rf devices in it (both narrow band and wide band spread spectrum) - used for everything from flight control, vhf/uhf radios for tower/local airplane communication to hf radios used for navigation with flight towers (tune across 60 meters sometime - you'll be suprised) would be concerned about consumer junk (yes you heard right) interfering with his/her equipment. Manufacturers of this stuff take no reguard to sensitive professional/amateur equipment when it comes to rfi.