"Bite your tongue, VIA offered some of the best K7 chipsets on the market."
No wonder intel always considered AMD a joke... some words should never be used in the same sentance. like 'via' and 'best' and 'chipsets'
AMD became a viable stable computing platform the day Nvidia started selling chipsets* for them. prior to that it was all plug and pray. Via based solutions have given me more trouble than i care to recall. True, if you pick the right via based boards you'll have plenty of service calls fixing a borked POS computer, but i'd rather people never had to talk to me again because their computer ran so perfectly:p
my main gripe about the testing is they didn't test silver. Pure Silver Was what mirors were made of in ancient greece. Silver has a greater reflective index than any other Substance Period, inclulding modern aluminum backed mirrors.
silver is expensive, i know, even if the shields were merely plated in silver it would have been a king's ransom to build an array of them... but it would also explain why no evidence of such an array survived outside of myths and stories...
of course the conventional way to sink a fleet of ships would be to use greek fire tipped arrows, the fact that they left silver untested bothers me greatly... modern mirrors come close to what's possible with polished silver, but in terms of setting ships on fire 'close' isn't always 'close enough'
actually comment id #14086744 is in violation of the digitial millenium copyright act, because it 'describes' a 'method' for defeating a digital copyright protection scheme. actually holding down said key is not a violation of the DMCA, since you then have to use software to violate copyright, which is then covered under copyright law. the violation of the DMCA is in Sharing the method for defeating the copyright method. not in making a tool (in this case Microsoft Windows) which _can_ be used to defeat copyright protections. unless the Primary function of that software is 'defeating copyright protection' there is pretty much no case against them.
so, there you go windows is not in violation of the DMCA, every poster on every fourm/blog/etc telling people of this 'method' is violating the DMCA. but don't worry, with as many laws as the united states has on the books you're sure to have violated at least one of them in the past week.
yeah Damn that Anonymous Coward, such a blatent karma whore there is hardly a single discussion where he hasn't got at least 5 or 6 +5 modded comments.
any AIW card from the 9800 up will support HDTV output. I don't honesly know if any Nvidia cards support HDTV output, and unless your HDTV supports Progessive scan the words will always look grainy, because windows fonts are all based on being used for progressive scan displays. in fact, it's very hard to make text not look blurry on interlaced video.
when looking for a TV that can be used as a monitor you always need to check the progressive scan resolution, and usually if the TV has a VGA or dual DVI ports it should be work pretty well with any graphic card.. component video output is not very common on video cards, and composite video is interlaced, which sucks.
dell also sells of 'gamer' oriented desktop PCs. I find it highly unlikely that dell would actually widely adopt AMD chips, a line of servers, and a line of gaming machines, would be the most i would expect if dell actually did start using AMD parts.
liquid cooling sucks... now if you were talking about Liquid Nitrogen cooling... a set of tank should last at least a few days if not an entire week, and if you have multiple tank mounting points you can always just swap out empty tanks with full tanks every week or so...
water cooling is quite pathetic at it's +32F compared to liquid nitrogen's -320F 11 times colder than the coldest water you could pump in.. and super cooled electronics begin to achieve super conductivity, which reduces the amount of heat generated by the eletricity in the first place. the only down side is you need to prevent condensaation, using mineral oil to replace all the air in an insulated, sealed container would be one way to achieve that, as long as the mineral oil has an expansion bladder large enough that it never empties and never overfills.
well there is a simple solution they use in the NFL to help make profesional football more competitive... 'salary caps' if the amount of money that oj simpson could spend on his lawyers was limited by the dollar value that the state of california could spend on it's prosecution... well.. things mighta turned out differently.
no reason to set caps on civil cases, since they're just about money, but for federal courts and criminal cases there really should be some kinda salary cap on legal fees.
depending on how the caps worked prolonged cases would be even harder to pull off than a short trial. it might improve the morals and ethics of laywers if they weren't making obscene millions on protracted trials... it would be hard to figure out a good spending cap, and which court cases it would need to apply to, but if you really want a reform of the legal system salary caps on lawyers is the way to go.
that and they make the best modular access router manuals;)
seriously though cisco is one of the few companies out there still cranking out wonderfully detailed product manuals. Product manuals were what i used to read to learn about computers and computing back in the day.
i realize cisco gets a lot of flack, it's because they're a 'security' product company, and 'true' security doesn't come from hardware, but rather having trained personel. to cisco's credit they do have an excellent program for certifing knowledge of security.. ah well.
There is no problem with the theory. The theory applies in this case like this: If the record companies lowered the price of CD's to the $5 you propose, sales would increase. But they wouldn't increase enough to offset the loss of profit from the lower price.
first off, you didn't explain why you're right. you should cite examples, the history books are Full of water barons, railroad tycoons, oil barrons, and diamond cartels that say controlling Supply is the way to go, rather than meeting demand, you control and limit supply, forcing the prices higher and higher until the market forces reach the high end of the curve, and people start killing and/or robbing you. I mean there isn't a single cartel that hasn't been toppled by either government intervention, or competing market forces so clearly rather than meeting demand if one wants to go out of buisness a multi-billionaire in a few decades one should limit supply. It's pretty clear that Demand based models (mc donald's Coca-cola, wal-mart) are just a fad, you need to go with supply limiting models to make the billions fast and rake them in;)
or have the highest rate of incarceration in the world.
could you cite those figures? i mean i knew america was a police state, but wow how does our per capitita incarceration compare to say nazi run germany? would be more useful if you cited a source for those figures so one could at least decide if we're killing 'more' people in the name of god than hitler ever did. and his propaganda was very clear, he was killing in the name of god.
well 100,000 $100 bills doesn't fit under many people's mattresses... and you're also risking your money by buying something of no 'real' value 'paper' which is really only worth what other people are willing to take it for... which if the us govt were to royally screw everything up, could be worth a whole lot of nothing.
1214 of 930500, you are a number. resistance is futile.
besides, nintendo is also planning on selling old 'nes/SNES' games online via a p2p sharing program on the Nintendo Revolution, to try and avoid loosing more market share to sony and microsoft.. At least that's my understanding of part of their strategy to avoid being completely crushed by sony and microsoft. Which considering that the PSP being the awsome portable movie player and porn viewer that it is (and a crappy portable "now loading..." game console) they are in danger of being completely crushed, so they're trying to make their consoles have cool features that draw sales of the console so they can keep developers making games for it.
well, at least no-one can refute neil armstrongs 'claim stake' on the crater they landed on and planted a flag, i even thing they launched a golf ball to mark the other end of the claim... but i don't know how far it went...
Bill Gates is willing to pay YOU $1 for every person you forward this email to!"
now that i know bill gates can't afford. i could have that spam forwarded to 1 trillion addressees tomorrow, never mind that there aren't that many people, for that kinda money i could hire the best slimy programers in the world to write the best proxy using e-mail account creation software, and make as many email addresses as i could to forward the e-mail to...
Ah if only my first trillion dollars was _that_ easy to make. remember, google can always set terms for a cap of 'up to x million dollars' after which they no longer pay, etc.
technically if i were writing that spam, i would write it saying that bill gates would pay the first one hundred million people who forwarded this e-mail on to and emphasise that forwarding the spam fast is crucial because if you're not in the first hundred million people forwarding the e-mail you won't get paid;)
yahoo has been in the maps game longer than google. multipoint directions is cool, now if only you didn't need to download a windows program to get that kind of multi point functionality...
apple does actual hardware design. they don't just assemble stock parts... where else can you get an ibm power pc chip that's running a hyper transport bus for one of it's bridges?
you guessed it, there are no other 'solutions' for PCs that merge amd's HT technology with powerpc chips... why? because apple engineered and designed the silicon, had the boards fabed for them, and frankly the move to intel is all about volume, ibm has shifted over to being a video game console cpu maker, they hardly care about apple's business, and as such aren't focusing on the design work apple needs done to stay in the game. intel was willing to make a sweet deal, and amd would have had the same production volume issues that ibm was having. since intel has the fab capacity, applke felt comfortable makign the switch. they still are going to do design work to make sure they've got the kind of boards they want in systems..
the best memory io storage device... is the human brain:) the theoretical peak thruput on the human brain is like your entire life passing before your eyes in an instant... kinda fast:) CPus have long since outpaced the human brain in terms of simple oprations it can muster, but the i/o bottlenecks are still thousands of times below what a human brain can cope with. so you know, if we were in the matrix, we'd likely not be batteries, so much as 'data storage devices'
I'd also like to note that intel does make quite a few low volatage pentium-4 processors, that have lower wattage usage than anything amd has on it's roadmap, but the low power intel chips are slow in performance. fast enough for blades and fast enough for notebooks, but nothing cutting edge in terms of performance. AMD is building more and more fabs and getting more and more market share, though interestingly enough since apple has hyper transport cross licensed from amd, it should be interesting to see how well a p-4 core operates on some form of ht bus. it would be ironic if the only high performance intel solution came from apple...
read the fine print "gaming graphic card not included" it's like those toys they sell that do all those neat things but the Batteries are NOT included!
the human brain also runs on a dual hemisphere model, and has the capability in the event of 'damage' to a critical controller section of the brain remap other portions of the brain to control those functions (sometimes, depending on the type and extent of damage to the brains circuitry)
the brain also relies on quantum effects for certain computational effects, has a 1.5 GB hardware ROM (DNA) that includes the full specification of every tissue and every protein in the body... and can store and recall an incredible amount of visual, auditory and other data... the actual amount of data, and the compression techniques used are currently unknown, but the human brain has roughly a thruput of 40TB/s operates on 90-100 watts of electricity, and weighs in at around 3 lbs of course it's carrying case adds another 7 lbs, and the power supply brick/locomtion device weighs anywhere from 60 to 600 lbs more... but in terms of simple operations a CPU can already process 2000 times as many simple operations as a human brain can, but the draw back is that the pentium cannot dynamically reconfigure it's hardware interconnect layers for different types of processing, and is not designed or optomized for the type of complex operations the human brain is, not to mention it's data thruput rate is still about 1,000 slower than that of the human brain. so the straight skinny is the human brain can move data around many fold faster, and perform many more complex operations on the data than a modern processor. for computer to 'catch up' to the human brain they need about 10,000 times as much memory and the ability to read and access that memory with 1,000 times more bandwith. in other words, a cleverly designed and programmed cluster of 1,000 computers could concievebly attempt to run a human brain simulation program.
What's happened isn't necessarily wrong (in the "against the rules" sense, at least)...it's just very poorly handled.
Welcome to the world of blizzard, the AOL of online gaming.
the most annoying thing to me is that apparently blizard can force people to change names, but can't do anything about the gay lusers spamming the chat channels on battle.net of 'clan recruitment' bots.
well, it's not even mind control people, all it does is overide the electrical signal the inner ear sends the brain so you loose your sense of balance... and yeah they're 'working out the bugs' those inner ear nerves control vomiting and sea/car sickness duh, great, a product that makes video games so fun you'll puke wow... that's one hell of a bug and i don't think they can engineer it away completely, just weaken the current til most people don't get nasious... it would work neat for theme park rides, instead of 'motion actuators' you could just feed a slight electrical current into the ears of the riders, and have the same wrenching and lurching sensations without having to do anything except show a movie on a screen.
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"Bite your tongue, VIA offered some of the best K7 chipsets on the market."
:p
No wonder intel always considered AMD a joke... some words should never be used in the same sentance. like 'via' and 'best' and 'chipsets'
AMD became a viable stable computing platform the day Nvidia started selling chipsets* for them. prior to that it was all plug and pray. Via based solutions have given me more trouble than i care to recall. True, if you pick the right via based boards you'll have plenty of service calls fixing a borked POS computer, but i'd rather people never had to talk to me again because their computer ran so perfectly
*= okay more like the day the nforce2 came out..
my main gripe about the testing is they didn't test silver. Pure Silver Was what mirors were made of in ancient greece. Silver has a greater reflective index than any other Substance Period, inclulding modern aluminum backed mirrors.
silver is expensive, i know, even if the shields were merely plated in silver it would have been a king's ransom to build an array of them... but it would also explain why no evidence of such an array survived outside of myths and stories...
of course the conventional way to sink a fleet of ships would be to use greek fire tipped arrows, the fact that they left silver untested bothers me greatly... modern mirrors come close to what's possible with polished silver, but in terms of setting ships on fire 'close' isn't always 'close enough'
actually comment id #14086744 is in violation of the digitial millenium copyright act, because it 'describes' a 'method' for defeating a digital copyright protection scheme. actually holding down said key is not a violation of the DMCA, since you then have to use software to violate copyright, which is then covered under copyright law. the violation of the DMCA is in Sharing the method for defeating the copyright method. not in making a tool (in this case Microsoft Windows) which _can_ be used to defeat copyright protections. unless the Primary function of that software is 'defeating copyright protection' there is pretty much no case against them.
so, there you go windows is not in violation of the DMCA, every poster on every fourm/blog/etc telling people of this 'method' is violating the DMCA. but don't worry, with as many laws as the united states has on the books you're sure to have violated at least one of them in the past week.
at least we can kill -9 them.
You are really going to try to Karma Whore
yeah Damn that Anonymous Coward, such a blatent karma whore there is hardly a single discussion where he hasn't got at least 5 or 6 +5 modded comments.
any AIW card from the 9800 up will support HDTV output. I don't honesly know if any Nvidia cards support HDTV output, and unless your HDTV supports Progessive scan the words will always look grainy, because windows fonts are all based on being used for progressive scan displays. in fact, it's very hard to make text not look blurry on interlaced video.
when looking for a TV that can be used as a monitor you always need to check the progressive scan resolution, and usually if the TV has a VGA or dual DVI ports it should be work pretty well with any graphic card.. component video output is not very common on video cards, and composite video is interlaced, which sucks.
dell also sells of 'gamer' oriented desktop PCs. I find it highly unlikely that dell would actually widely adopt AMD chips, a line of servers, and a line of gaming machines, would be the most i would expect if dell actually did start using AMD parts.
liquid cooling sucks... now if you were talking about Liquid Nitrogen cooling... a set of tank should last at least a few days if not an entire week, and if you have multiple tank mounting points you can always just swap out empty tanks with full tanks every week or so...
water cooling is quite pathetic at it's +32F compared to liquid nitrogen's -320F 11 times colder than the coldest water you could pump in.. and super cooled electronics begin to achieve super conductivity, which reduces the amount of heat generated by the eletricity in the first place. the only down side is you need to prevent condensaation, using mineral oil to replace all the air in an insulated, sealed container would be one way to achieve that, as long as the mineral oil has an expansion bladder large enough that it never empties and never overfills.
well there is a simple solution they use in the NFL to help make profesional football more competitive... 'salary caps' if the amount of money that oj simpson could spend on his lawyers was limited by the dollar value that the state of california could spend on it's prosecution... well.. things mighta turned out differently.
no reason to set caps on civil cases, since they're just about money, but for federal courts and criminal cases there really should be some kinda salary cap on legal fees.
depending on how the caps worked prolonged cases would be even harder to pull off than a short trial. it might improve the morals and ethics of laywers if they weren't making obscene millions on protracted trials... it would be hard to figure out a good spending cap, and which court cases it would need to apply to, but if you really want a reform of the legal system salary caps on lawyers is the way to go.
that and they make the best modular access router manuals ;)
seriously though cisco is one of the few companies out there still cranking out wonderfully detailed product manuals. Product manuals were what i used to read to learn about computers and computing back in the day.
i realize cisco gets a lot of flack, it's because they're a 'security' product company, and 'true' security doesn't come from hardware, but rather having trained personel. to cisco's credit they do have an excellent program for certifing knowledge of security.. ah well.
There is no problem with the theory. The theory applies in this case like this: If the record companies lowered the price of CD's to the $5 you propose, sales would increase. But they wouldn't increase enough to offset the loss of profit from the lower price.
;)
first off, you didn't explain why you're right. you should cite examples, the history books are Full of water barons, railroad tycoons, oil barrons, and diamond cartels that say controlling Supply is the way to go, rather than meeting demand, you control and limit supply, forcing the prices higher and higher until the market forces reach the high end of the curve, and people start killing and/or robbing you. I mean there isn't a single cartel that hasn't been toppled by either government intervention, or competing market forces so clearly rather than meeting demand if one wants to go out of buisness a multi-billionaire in a few decades one should limit supply. It's pretty clear that Demand based models (mc donald's Coca-cola, wal-mart) are just a fad, you need to go with supply limiting models to make the billions fast and rake them in
or have the highest rate of incarceration in the world.
could you cite those figures? i mean i knew america was a police state, but wow how does our per capitita incarceration compare to say nazi run germany? would be more useful if you cited a source for those figures so one could at least decide if we're killing 'more' people in the name of god than hitler ever did. and his propaganda was very clear, he was killing in the name of god.
well 100,000 $100 bills doesn't fit under many people's mattresses... and you're also risking your money by buying something of no 'real' value 'paper' which is really only worth what other people are willing to take it for... which if the us govt were to royally screw everything up, could be worth a whole lot of nothing.
That's why real criminals use firefox ;)
Anyone stupid enough to use IE to aid in committing a crime Deserves to have the book thrown at them.
[1] I am not a number!
1214 of 930500, you are a number. resistance is futile.
besides, nintendo is also planning on selling old 'nes/SNES' games online via a p2p sharing program on the Nintendo Revolution, to try and avoid loosing more market share to sony and microsoft.. At least that's my understanding of part of their strategy to avoid being completely crushed by sony and microsoft. Which considering that the PSP being the awsome portable movie player and porn viewer that it is (and a crappy portable "now loading..." game console) they are in danger of being completely crushed, so they're trying to make their consoles have cool features that draw sales of the console so they can keep developers making games for it.
well, at least no-one can refute neil armstrongs 'claim stake' on the crater they landed on and planted a flag, i even thing they launched a golf ball to mark the other end of the claim... but i don't know how far it went...
So true. I'm waiting for the tide to turn as well, hopefully this mediocre humor is ebbing and we'll see this trend begin to wane.
that was so cheesey i'm turning green.
Bill Gates is willing to pay YOU $1 for every person you forward this email to!"
;)
now that i know bill gates can't afford. i could have that spam forwarded to 1 trillion addressees tomorrow, never mind that there aren't that many people, for that kinda money i could hire the best slimy programers in the world to write the best proxy using e-mail account creation software, and make as many email addresses as i could to forward the e-mail to...
Ah if only my first trillion dollars was _that_ easy to make. remember, google can always set terms for a cap of 'up to x million dollars' after which they no longer pay, etc.
technically if i were writing that spam, i would write it saying that bill gates would pay the first one hundred million people who forwarded this e-mail on to and emphasise that forwarding the spam fast is crucial because if you're not in the first hundred million people forwarding the e-mail you won't get paid
yahoo has been in the maps game longer than google. multipoint directions is cool, now if only you didn't need to download a windows program to get that kind of multi point functionality...
apple does actual hardware design. they don't just assemble stock parts... where else can you get an ibm power pc chip that's running a hyper transport bus for one of it's bridges?
you guessed it, there are no other 'solutions' for PCs that merge amd's HT technology with powerpc chips... why? because apple engineered and designed the silicon, had the boards fabed for them, and frankly the move to intel is all about volume, ibm has shifted over to being a video game console cpu maker, they hardly care about apple's business, and as such aren't focusing on the design work apple needs done to stay in the game. intel was willing to make a sweet deal, and amd would have had the same production volume issues that ibm was having. since intel has the fab capacity, applke felt comfortable makign the switch. they still are going to do design work to make sure they've got the kind of boards they want in systems..
the best memory io storage device... is the human brain :) the theoretical peak thruput on the human brain is like your entire life passing before your eyes in an instant... kinda fast :) CPus have long since outpaced the human brain in terms of simple oprations it can muster, but the i/o bottlenecks are still thousands of times below what a human brain can cope with. so you know, if we were in the matrix, we'd likely not be batteries, so much as 'data storage devices'
I'd also like to note that intel does make quite a few low volatage pentium-4 processors, that have lower wattage usage than anything amd has on it's roadmap, but the low power intel chips are slow in performance. fast enough for blades and fast enough for notebooks, but nothing cutting edge in terms of performance. AMD is building more and more fabs and getting more and more market share, though interestingly enough since apple has hyper transport cross licensed from amd, it should be interesting to see how well a p-4 core operates on some form of ht bus. it would be ironic if the only high performance intel solution came from apple...
read the fine print "gaming graphic card not included" it's like those toys they sell that do all those neat things but the Batteries are NOT included!
the human brain also runs on a dual hemisphere model, and has the capability in the event of 'damage' to a critical controller section of the brain remap other portions of the brain to control those functions (sometimes, depending on the type and extent of damage to the brains circuitry)
the brain also relies on quantum effects for certain computational effects, has a 1.5 GB hardware ROM (DNA) that includes the full specification of every tissue and every protein in the body... and can store and recall an incredible amount of visual, auditory and other data... the actual amount of data, and the compression techniques used are currently unknown, but the human brain has roughly a thruput of 40TB/s operates on 90-100 watts of electricity, and weighs in at around 3 lbs of course it's carrying case adds another 7 lbs, and the power supply brick/locomtion device weighs anywhere from 60 to 600 lbs more... but in terms of simple operations a CPU can already process 2000 times as many simple operations as a human brain can, but the draw back is that the pentium cannot dynamically reconfigure it's hardware interconnect layers for different types of processing, and is not designed or optomized for the type of complex operations the human brain is, not to mention it's data thruput rate is still about 1,000 slower than that of the human brain. so the straight skinny is the human brain can move data around many fold faster, and perform many more complex operations on the data than a modern processor. for computer to 'catch up' to the human brain they need about 10,000 times as much memory and the ability to read and access that memory with 1,000 times more bandwith. in other words, a cleverly designed and programmed cluster of 1,000 computers could concievebly attempt to run a human brain simulation program.
What's happened isn't necessarily wrong (in the "against the rules" sense, at least)...it's just very poorly handled.
Welcome to the world of blizzard, the AOL of online gaming.
the most annoying thing to me is that apparently blizard can force people to change names, but can't do anything about the gay lusers spamming the chat channels on battle.net of 'clan recruitment' bots.
well, it's not even mind control people, all it does is overide the electrical signal the inner ear sends the brain so you loose your sense of balance... and yeah they're 'working out the bugs' those inner ear nerves control vomiting and sea/car sickness duh, great, a product that makes video games so fun you'll puke wow... that's one hell of a bug and i don't think they can engineer it away completely, just weaken the current til most people don't get nasious... it would work neat for theme park rides, instead of 'motion actuators' you could just feed a slight electrical current into the ears of the riders, and have the same wrenching and lurching sensations without having to do anything except show a movie on a screen.