The neural network is one of three modules in the company's WiFi Speedzone system which has reached the beta test stage. A second module monitors and analyzes network traffic and the third handles the packet-sizing operation. WiFi Speedzone can be implemented at the application level, the operating system level or as firmware embedded in an 802.11b device, the company said.
The client switches into seeding mode usually, and allows you to upload to other peers. If you're greedy, then close it, but eventually the torrent dies that way because there won't be any seeders to upload to the downloaders.
You got it backwards. For BT share ratios, 1.0 means you upload as much as you download, 2.0 means you upload twice as much as you download. On an adsl connection or asymmetric cable,.2 or.3 are more common unless you're a seeder, because you've got 1500 down and 256 up or a similar down/up ratio.
Good luck trying to use more than 256mb of ram on that Win98 box. Sure, Win98 supports it, but can't effectively utilize more than that.
Most games need at least 512mb to perform properly nowadays. Battlefield Vietnam still occasionally swaps to the hard drive on my XP Pro box with a gig of ram, as does Planetside (MMOFPS), and Warcraft III also fills up 512mb regularly.
And as for home users: WinXP is much nicer (newbie-friendly) for pictures, cd burning, and basic networking. Better hardware support too.
No, but randomly you'll have what the SC2k manual describes as "Whoops". That is, the beam from the satellite can randomly miss the receptor and carve a swath of destruction throughout your city.
The disasters in SC2k were funny as hell, especially when Super Sim (tm) would show up and kill the aliens or tornados. I think the conditions where something like have no disasters turned off, and no firestations or something.
No, no you route your watercooling system to use the aquarium water. Keeps the fish warm and your processor cool (tropical fish like warm water). And you can get fish to eat the algae.
The 2.4c will be finding a home in my box soon because of it's amazing overclocking.
At this forum (click on Intel cpus) almost everyone has successfully overclocked theirs over 3Ghz on air, with most hitting 3.2 or 3.4 (and don't forget a 1 Ghz fsb).
A popular motherboard to go with it is Abit's IC-7 with the i875 chipset. The processor and motherboard are just $180 and $145 respectively over at Newegg, so don't waste your money on 3.0s.
I love my Handspring Visor, it's monochrome, and it goes two weeks without a recharge.
Something most pda's are getting away from now is that pda!=multimedia. I want to use my pda as an organizer. I couldn't care less about video or taking shitty 640x480 pictures with it which seem to be the l33t features all these new cell phones have. Playing mp3s might be cool though....
My cell phone's a Nokia 3360, it's tiny, gets good reception, and is braindead easy to use (just like my Visor). I don't really want a $200+ cellphone that I'm scared to death of breaking (my Nokia's nearly indestructible).
At my university, like a lot of others, CPE is in the same department as Electrical engineering. The computer-centric stuff we learn is C++, OS programming (semaphores, posix, messages, sockets, shared memory), Motorola 68k, MIPS R2000, Networking, architecture, digital logic, microprocessors (I also took a java CS course for an elective). We also get a goodly amount of EE courses like circuits and transistors, measurement, etc. We're also required to take 2 courses of CS and can take more for electives.
For non science stuff, we have to take 18 (semester) hours worth of math, 21 worth of humanities, physics, chemistry, and general engineering courses (about 25 hours worth).
IMHO, at UAH, computer engineers may not know as much coding as cs students, but we know far more about the hardware side, and have a much broader background (here CS students largely just learn programming and math). One downside I see is that we only are required to learn one high-level language (assembly doesn't count), and don't learn any database stuff, html, or IT.
For example, the base tower would have to be 31 miles high, according to this article. Which is 90 times higher than the current tallest structure on earth, the CN Tower in Toronto, Canada is only 1/3 of a mile (about 170 stories) high.
There is also talk about using carbon nanotubes to make up the cable. The pricetag, 40 billion dollars (see 2nd link).
Umm, I don't see any group consciousness here, nor a hive mind.
He's kind of saying that going to a football game an doing the wave is behaving like the Borg. That's just a jump on the bandwagon, follow the crowd mentality. There's nothing deep about it-it's just a facet of human nature. So is a community trying to help out its members.
More than likely, anyone with less than a Geforce3, or Radeon 8500 (i.e. has programmable vertex and pixel shaders and DDR memory), 128mb or ram, and ~750mhz will not be able to play this game at playable frame rates. Or they could just change the resolution down to 512x384 and live without all the nifty vertex/pixel shading.
So be thy forewarned all those with GeForce2 MXs, Rage 128s, and integrated graphics, upgrade or don't try to play this game.
The Trident XP4 isn't a DirectX 9 part, as the headline says Trident claims that they have a DirectX 8.1 GPU. Anyway, even if it was DX9 compliant, it would only meet the Vertex Shader specs and not the pixel shader specs (2.0 is DX9, 1.4 for DX8.1).
For that matter, no current processor has the fill rate necessary to comply with the Pixel Shader 2.0 specs, except possibly the Radeon 9700, which isn't yet available for benchmarking.
And while the specs are good for an entry level part, count the number of launch partners-zero.
Also, the actual games themselves don't cost more than a couple dollars each to manufacture (even on DVD), and that's including the box, instructions, etc. So let's see, MS makes $40~ on each game, so it must sell at least 2-3 games to make the X-Box profitable. And selling a remote for $30 (to play DVDs) doesn't hurt either.
Anand says that it isn't worth $400, especially in terms of frames per second. And Geforce4 Ti 4600s are only $300 online and the Radeon 8500 is only about two benjamins, and both offer better performance.
The actual clock speed is 200mhz and 266 mhz ddr for 400 (PC 3200, @ 3.2 gb/s), and 533 (PC4300 @ 4.3 gb/s), respectively. TheInquirer points this out, along with some more specs. Also, way back on May 2, JEDEC approved the standard.
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He who dies with the most stuff wins.
Not necessarily. This improves throughput, but as a general rule wireless always adds 20ms to your ping. so 50% of that would still be a 10ms penalty.
I'm not a network engineer, but latency is more important than bandwidth for ping times and such.
For an example pay a half-life game, open the console and type net_graph 3. That'll show you your fps, ping, and in/out bandwith used.
And next time, please RTFA, m'kay?
The client switches into seeding mode usually, and allows you to upload to other peers. If you're greedy, then close it, but eventually the torrent dies that way because there won't be any seeders to upload to the downloaders.
You got it backwards. For BT share ratios, 1.0 means you upload as much as you download, 2.0 means you upload twice as much as you download. On an adsl connection or asymmetric cable, .2 or .3 are more common unless you're a seeder, because you've got 1500 down and 256 up or a similar down/up ratio.
Good luck trying to use more than 256mb of ram on that Win98 box. Sure, Win98 supports it, but can't effectively utilize more than that.
Most games need at least 512mb to perform properly nowadays. Battlefield Vietnam still occasionally swaps to the hard drive on my XP Pro box with a gig of ram, as does Planetside (MMOFPS), and Warcraft III also fills up 512mb regularly.
And as for home users: WinXP is much nicer (newbie-friendly) for pictures, cd burning, and basic networking. Better hardware support too.
Shouldn't that be differentiating? Besides, then you get internal rhyme as well as end rhyme.
1. Call of Duty
2. Jedi Knight 3: Jedi Academy
3. Need for Speed Underground
4. Counter-Strike Condition Zero
CS:CZ is already 1.5 years late... maybe it'll make the Dec. 18 release date though.
The 3 I'm really waiting for don't come out till march- Doom ]|[, HL2, and UT2k4.
Yeah. It's called Packetnews or IRCSpy.
No, but randomly you'll have what the SC2k manual describes as "Whoops". That is, the beam from the satellite can randomly miss the receptor and carve a swath of destruction throughout your city.
The disasters in SC2k were funny as hell, especially when Super Sim (tm) would show up and kill the aliens or tornados. I think the conditions where something like have no disasters turned off, and no firestations or something.
At least the first ten chapters are all airing this month. Link here click on schedule. They're also coming out on DVD next year.
You did read the article, right?
The RIAA started doing all this 3 years ago in May 2000, which sounds just about right for Napster.
No, no you route your watercooling system to use the aquarium water. Keeps the fish warm and your processor cool (tropical fish like warm water). And you can get fish to eat the algae.
Ever heard of Solar Wind?
The 2.4c will be finding a home in my box soon because of it's amazing overclocking.
At this forum (click on Intel cpus) almost everyone has successfully overclocked theirs over 3Ghz on air, with most hitting 3.2 or 3.4 (and don't forget a 1 Ghz fsb).
A popular motherboard to go with it is Abit's IC-7 with the i875 chipset. The processor and motherboard are just $180 and $145 respectively over at Newegg, so don't waste your money on 3.0s.
I love my Handspring Visor, it's monochrome, and it goes two weeks without a recharge.
Something most pda's are getting away from now is that pda!=multimedia. I want to use my pda as an organizer. I couldn't care less about video or taking shitty 640x480 pictures with it which seem to be the l33t features all these new cell phones have. Playing mp3s might be cool though....
My cell phone's a Nokia 3360, it's tiny, gets good reception, and is braindead easy to use (just like my Visor). I don't really want a $200+ cellphone that I'm scared to death of breaking (my Nokia's nearly indestructible).
I'm a junior at the University of Alabama (Huntsville) majoring in computer engineering.
At my university, like a lot of others, CPE is in the same department as Electrical engineering. The computer-centric stuff we learn is C++, OS programming (semaphores, posix, messages, sockets, shared memory), Motorola 68k, MIPS R2000, Networking, architecture, digital logic, microprocessors (I also took a java CS course for an elective). We also get a goodly amount of EE courses like circuits and transistors, measurement, etc. We're also required to take 2 courses of CS and can take more for electives.
For non science stuff, we have to take 18 (semester) hours worth of math, 21 worth of humanities, physics, chemistry, and general engineering courses (about 25 hours worth).
IMHO, at UAH, computer engineers may not know as much coding as cs students, but we know far more about the hardware side, and have a much broader background (here CS students largely just learn programming and math). One downside I see is that we only are required to learn one high-level language (assembly doesn't count), and don't learn any database stuff, html, or IT.
On the Win32 side, Ballistics was one of the first games to use DirectX 8 vertex and pixel shaders, which where introduced with the Geforce3.
Here's a Maximum PC review. It got a 7, with gorgeous graphics but not too much content. Interestingly, it only listed for $30.
For example, the base tower would have to be 31 miles high, according to this article. Which is 90 times higher than the current tallest structure on earth, the CN Tower in Toronto, Canada is only 1/3 of a mile (about 170 stories) high.
There is also talk about using carbon nanotubes to make up the cable. The pricetag, 40 billion dollars (see 2nd link).
Umm, I don't see any group consciousness here, nor a hive mind.
He's kind of saying that going to a football game an doing the wave is behaving like the Borg. That's just a jump on the bandwagon, follow the crowd mentality. There's nothing deep about it-it's just a facet of human nature. So is a community trying to help out its members.
In other words, nothing jumps out at me as saying
Resistance is futile
More than likely, anyone with less than a Geforce3, or Radeon 8500 (i.e. has programmable vertex and pixel shaders and DDR memory), 128mb or ram, and ~750mhz will not be able to play this game at playable frame rates. Or they could just change the resolution down to 512x384 and live without all the nifty vertex/pixel shading.
So be thy forewarned all those with GeForce2 MXs, Rage 128s, and integrated graphics, upgrade or don't try to play this game.
The Trident XP4 isn't a DirectX 9 part, as the headline says Trident claims that they have a DirectX 8.1 GPU. Anyway, even if it was DX9 compliant, it would only meet the Vertex Shader specs and not the pixel shader specs (2.0 is DX9, 1.4 for DX8.1).
For that matter, no current processor has the fill rate necessary to comply with the Pixel Shader 2.0 specs, except possibly the Radeon 9700, which isn't yet available for benchmarking.
And while the specs are good for an entry level part, count the number of launch partners-zero.
Most console companies routinely lose money on the actual hardware. To wit: Microsoft loses at least $100 on each console it sells .
Also, the actual games themselves don't cost more than a couple dollars each to manufacture (even on DVD), and that's including the box, instructions, etc. So let's see, MS makes $40~ on each game, so it must sell at least 2-3 games to make the X-Box profitable. And selling a remote for $30 (to play DVDs) doesn't hurt either.
Anandtech and Tom's Hardware have also posted reviews.
Anand says that it isn't worth $400, especially in terms of frames per second. And Geforce4 Ti 4600s are only $300 online and the Radeon 8500 is only about two benjamins, and both offer better performance.
The actual clock speed is 200mhz and 266 mhz ddr for 400 (PC 3200, @ 3.2 gb/s), and 533 (PC4300 @ 4.3 gb/s), respectively. TheInquirer points this out, along with some more specs. Also, way back on May 2, JEDEC approved the standard.