And yes, 1680x1050 is borderline low-res. 1600x1200 which is what I game at is as well. high-res really starts at 1920x1200.
Also, as another poster has said, you swapped out way more than your proc. If I'm remembering right... didn't the 4200 run with DDR and not DDR2? Yes, if you're running on something that old, I'd imagine that yes, you could be CPU limited (or more likely memory bandwidth limited...)
However, with any modern system, for a decent resolution and AA setting, you're GPU limited.
At any decent res, you'll be GPU bound, even with the latest and greatest graphics card.
Also, *which* 8800GTS are you on? It's a horribly overloaded model number where there are even different cores used. You can tell which you have based on the ram, a 320 or 640meg flavor is the older card, a 512meg flavor is newer.
I'm thinking that you did something other than swap out your processor. WoW shouldn't be having any issues even on a single-core machine with a graphics card earlier than the one you had.
I'd suggest that you rephrase your claim to: non-agnostic beliefs regarding untestable realms of inquiry are incompatable with rational thought.
There are questions to which the answer is inherently impossible to prove or disprove. My belief is that, "does an indetectable, all-powerful being exist?" is one of those. If you disagree I'd be interested in how you'd disprove the assertation of "yes it does" or disprove "no it doesn't"...
When dealing with these kinds of questions... please, explain to me what's irrational about saying: "There's no way to know anything, there's no consequences for being wrong, and it makes me feel better to believe than to deny or to not take a stance at all, I think I'll believe." i.e., what's irrational about being an agnostic theist? Or conversly an agnostic athiest?
Personally I have faith that God of some type exists. I have faith that he/they care about us. I have faith that we have free-will and that it's inviolable.
I also have my faith firmly rooted in my belief that it's entirely unprovable. If I wasn't convinced of that, my faith would collapse... which seems to drive the religious folk I discuss things with quite nuts:P
You said it yourself... "Anyone who wants to take it differently just doesn't understand the nature of military operations..." What percentage of the population in the US do you think truly understand military operations and the terminology used? Heck, what percentage could simply tell you the difference between a campaign and an operation?
Personally I feel that there was a discussion somewhat along the lines of...
"Hey, the general public doesn't really understand "Mission" to mean the same thing that those military types do, so if we yell "Mission Accomplished!" they'll think we're done! We'll gain a huge boost in popular support... and we'll be technically correct and able to claim it was all a misunderstanding if the proverbial stuff hits the fan. Win-win!"
On the issue of power supplies, I used to like getting a PSU with my cheapo case.
Then I learned more about PSUs.
Now, I refuse to buy any supply that I haven't seen tested by hardocp or one of the other review sites that does professional level power quality analysis. There are a lot of power supplies being sold that make downright fradulent claims... or don't even provide power that comes close to falling within the ATX spec. Meaning that 6 months down the line you may well find yourself with screwy random hardware failures... or a power supply that blows out all your hardware. (They've lost more than one piece of test equipment when they dared to run a PSU at it's claimed capability)
I'd much rather buy a case without a supply than get some pos that's going in the trash as I don't dare hook it up to any of my equipment.
And I save money on electricity as the PSUs that provide solid quality power tend to run really high effeciencies as well.:P (80%+ instead of 70% adds up over the course of a year)
The cost to the ISP is covered by the money I pay to my ISP. If not, what the hell am I paying for?
I'm the one requesting the content using the pipes that I pay for. If they're not charging me enough to cover costs that's thier own fault and they can raise rates as they see appropriate. However they'd better hope that their competition can't figure out how to get that data to me cheaper than they can...
Just thought that I'd point out that netflix has been doing DVD-quality video streams for quite a while now... (and it's included in the price of your subscription!)
You misread. You pay "$20 per computer" that you want ALL of your ripped DVDs to play on. It's per additional computer that you want authorized to get past thier own DRM crap.
The question though, is whether said labels are necessary to the industry anymore. Can a band sustain itself without a record label, while still releasing music in an album format digitally? I'm not one to pretend to be knowledgeable on the issue but I figure I can at least pose the question.
The Muses are a nationally touring Celtic band that are self-published and self-promoted. If you're interested see: www.themusesmusic.com
Jonathon Coulton is a one-man band who releases all his music under the creative commons lisence and sells both pyhsical CDs as well as downloadable mp3s. Last I heard he's making his living from it.
Oh... and that makes thier ability to coasterfy what you purchased OK? Because you can get around it (kind of) if you happen to have it installed when they try to coasterfy it?
There's still lots of game publishers out there that don't treat me like a criminal. I'll give them my money. EA can keep thier game.
And... has there been any announcement in changes to DRM?
I'll gladly give them my $50 if I get a game that'll stay a game.
But when the single player aspects of a game will only work as long as the DRM servers are kept up... well... $50 for something that turns into a plastic coaster whenever EA wants seems just a tad excessive.
I don't know what this "when there's only a few bars left" thing is that you speak of. But then my cell phone can show a full charge for up to 4 days and then be dead less than 4 hours later.
It'd be one thing if the battery use was constant so I'd know that I just need to charge it every 3 days or so... but as it can also randomly decide to discharge itself in well less than 24 hours...
Well, lets just say that I never rely on it when I travel.
People are outraged about Iraq and not about Afghanistan.
Because the people that were behind the attacks were harbored by those in charge in Afghanistan. The American public is 100% behind the actions carried out there.
The fact that you would have been ok with him claiming that about Iraq, given that they had no connection to 9/11, concerns me.
The fact that you're willing to advocate killing people (like Sadaam) for something that it's public knowledge they weren't involved with (like 9/11), *really* concerns me.
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I'd suggest that you view: http://hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTU4MCwsLGhlbnRodXNpYXN0
Notice which resolutions changing out the CPU doesn't matter at...
And yes, 1680x1050 is borderline low-res. 1600x1200 which is what I game at is as well. high-res really starts at 1920x1200.
Also, as another poster has said, you swapped out way more than your proc. If I'm remembering right... didn't the 4200 run with DDR and not DDR2? Yes, if you're running on something that old, I'd imagine that yes, you could be CPU limited (or more likely memory bandwidth limited...)
However, with any modern system, for a decent resolution and AA setting, you're GPU limited.
They're only CPU bound at low-res.
At any decent res, you'll be GPU bound, even with the latest and greatest graphics card.
Also, *which* 8800GTS are you on? It's a horribly overloaded model number where there are even different cores used. You can tell which you have based on the ram, a 320 or 640meg flavor is the older card, a 512meg flavor is newer.
I'm thinking that you did something other than swap out your processor. WoW shouldn't be having any issues even on a single-core machine with a graphics card earlier than the one you had.
Really?
I'd suggest that you rephrase your claim to: non-agnostic beliefs regarding untestable realms of inquiry are incompatable with rational thought.
There are questions to which the answer is inherently impossible to prove or disprove. My belief is that, "does an indetectable, all-powerful being exist?" is one of those. If you disagree I'd be interested in how you'd disprove the assertation of "yes it does" or disprove "no it doesn't"...
When dealing with these kinds of questions... please, explain to me what's irrational about saying: "There's no way to know anything, there's no consequences for being wrong, and it makes me feel better to believe than to deny or to not take a stance at all, I think I'll believe." i.e., what's irrational about being an agnostic theist? Or conversly an agnostic athiest?
Personally I have faith that God of some type exists. I have faith that he/they care about us. I have faith that we have free-will and that it's inviolable.
I also have my faith firmly rooted in my belief that it's entirely unprovable. If I wasn't convinced of that, my faith would collapse... which seems to drive the religious folk I discuss things with quite nuts :P
You said it yourself... "Anyone who wants to take it differently just doesn't understand the nature of military operations..." What percentage of the population in the US do you think truly understand military operations and the terminology used? Heck, what percentage could simply tell you the difference between a campaign and an operation?
Personally I feel that there was a discussion somewhat along the lines of...
"Hey, the general public doesn't really understand "Mission" to mean the same thing that those military types do, so if we yell "Mission Accomplished!" they'll think we're done! We'll gain a huge boost in popular support... and we'll be technically correct and able to claim it was all a misunderstanding if the proverbial stuff hits the fan. Win-win!"
"Yes, it was an overt PR attempt"
Problem was that it was an overt PR attempt to claim that more than simply the mission was accomplished.
It's much like "intelligent design" proponents go on about how evolution is only a theory.
In both cases, it's a deliberate misrepresentation of meaning.
On the issue of power supplies, I used to like getting a PSU with my cheapo case.
Then I learned more about PSUs.
Now, I refuse to buy any supply that I haven't seen tested by hardocp or one of the other review sites that does professional level power quality analysis. There are a lot of power supplies being sold that make downright fradulent claims... or don't even provide power that comes close to falling within the ATX spec. Meaning that 6 months down the line you may well find yourself with screwy random hardware failures... or a power supply that blows out all your hardware. (They've lost more than one piece of test equipment when they dared to run a PSU at it's claimed capability)
I'd much rather buy a case without a supply than get some pos that's going in the trash as I don't dare hook it up to any of my equipment.
And I save money on electricity as the PSUs that provide solid quality power tend to run really high effeciencies as well. :P (80%+ instead of 70% adds up over the course of a year)
The cost to the ISP is covered by the money I pay to my ISP. If not, what the hell am I paying for?
I'm the one requesting the content using the pipes that I pay for. If they're not charging me enough to cover costs that's thier own fault and they can raise rates as they see appropriate. However they'd better hope that their competition can't figure out how to get that data to me cheaper than they can...
Gotcha, my mistake. :)
Just thought that I'd point out that netflix has been doing DVD-quality video streams for quite a while now... (and it's included in the price of your subscription!)
You misread. You pay "$20 per computer" that you want ALL of your ripped DVDs to play on. It's per additional computer that you want authorized to get past thier own DRM crap.
Rather different business model... with vast differences in overhead (not to mention the goal of iTunes was to sale iPods not-so-much music)
You're confusing profit with revenue.
Profit is what is left over after you pay for servers and bandwidth and salaries and everything else.
Revenue is what you take in before you've payed for all of that.
The fees are hitting 70% of the REVENUE.
Every once in a while people wake up.
See Veitnam for an example.
I'm failing to see the downside?
But then I see the general populace being greatly inconvenienced as a good thing... as it might wake them from their current stupor.
The Muses are a nationally touring Celtic band that are self-published and self-promoted. If you're interested see: www.themusesmusic.com
Jonathon Coulton is a one-man band who releases all his music under the creative commons lisence and sells both pyhsical CDs as well as downloadable mp3s. Last I heard he's making his living from it.
So by that logic you only expect 2500 hours of operation out of a $20k car?
You only expect to be able to use your $150k house for a tad over 2 years?
There's a difference between purchasing a good and a service. $12 to the theater is $12 for a service. $50 to a game publisher is $50 for a good.
If you wish to start paying them $50 for a service, that's your prerogative. I however won't. They get my $50 when they provide me with a good.
For much the same reason that I don't buy RIAA music. By purchasing thier good I'm voting in support of thier business model.
Combine that with the fact that cracking the DRM is illegal... (although I'd argue that it is moral)
I'll simply play other games.
I hope you're not suggesting that I'm pirating?
If you choose to that's your business, although I disagree with you that you should.
Oh... and that makes thier ability to coasterfy what you purchased OK? Because you can get around it (kind of) if you happen to have it installed when they try to coasterfy it?
There's still lots of game publishers out there that don't treat me like a criminal. I'll give them my money. EA can keep thier game.
And... has there been any announcement in changes to DRM?
I'll gladly give them my $50 if I get a game that'll stay a game.
But when the single player aspects of a game will only work as long as the DRM servers are kept up... well... $50 for something that turns into a plastic coaster whenever EA wants seems just a tad excessive.
I don't know what this "when there's only a few bars left" thing is that you speak of. But then my cell phone can show a full charge for up to 4 days and then be dead less than 4 hours later.
It'd be one thing if the battery use was constant so I'd know that I just need to charge it every 3 days or so... but as it can also randomly decide to discharge itself in well less than 24 hours...
Well, lets just say that I never rely on it when I travel.
As a Texan I thought I'd actually read the law rather than take your word for it's interpretation
"(a) A person is liable as provided by Subsection (b) if:
(1) the person disseminates in any manner information relating to a perishable food product to the public;
(2) the person knows the information is false; and
(3) the information states or implies that the perishable food product is not safe for consumption by the public."
Note that all 3 must be true for you to be liable.
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I'd kindly appreciate it if you quit fear mongering.
People are outraged about Iraq and not about Afghanistan.
Because the people that were behind the attacks were harbored by those in charge in Afghanistan. The American public is 100% behind the actions carried out there.
The fact that you would have been ok with him claiming that about Iraq, given that they had no connection to 9/11, concerns me.
The fact that you're willing to advocate killing people (like Sadaam) for something that it's public knowledge they weren't involved with (like 9/11), *really* concerns me.
I think the clever part about this is that you can heat up these new pads, boil the oil off... let it condense elsewhere...
And then you've got reclaimed oil and a pad that's ready to go again.
It's not uncommon at all in any of the DoD firms in the DFW area.