That's what people bitched out when 3dMark03 came out and gave advantages to ATI's cards. Guess what? Those 9700 Pros really did blow away the 5800 Ultras in next-gen games. 3DMark is much maligned, but I think they've done an excellent job of trying to predict the future 2 years in advance and figure out what games will be using then. Can it be perfect? No. Will the performance deltas differ between 3dmark and current-gen games? Absolutely. But when Unreal Engine 3 comes out, go back and look at those 3dmark05 scores and say, "Hmm. They were pretty much spot on."
I just built a RAID-5 array for storage space. I found a deal on Seagate 300 "GB" drives for $120 each. So, for a total of $488.48, plus a controller card, I am the proud new owner of 838GB of redundant storage space.
For protection from physical calamity, I use a box in a friend's room. Our unique situation means that, while physically seperated by over a half mile, we have a 11+MB/s connection between our rooms. I also don't back up all of the 838GB of data, however, and it's unlikely that a network system would be fesible for you. Another choice might be a RAID 0+1 array with a second mirror set, which would net you better performance. For the same price, you could get 556GB of formatted, fast data storage, and add $240 for a full backup nightly that you could store off-site (or at least with you, so it can be removed in case of fire). If you want to keep the originals around on your camera for one day, you could drop the first live mirror set and save some money.
It wouldn't be too hard to scale such a system up to the terabyte-level sizes that EIT-5 tape gives you while remaining well under the $10k cost of such a system. A lot more maintainance is required -- I'd definitely want to run thorough disk checks of the backup volumes every month or so -- but disks certainly aren't getting any more expensive.
False. While many states in the US have "Romeo and Juliet" laws withdrawing or lessening the penalty for sex for those within a certain age -- Tennessee, where I live, requires a > 4 year difference in age before a sexual act is statutory rape -- many states do not. An example that hits close to home is the case of Marcus Dixon, a (at the time of the incident) 18 1/3 year old guy who had sex with a 15 3/4 year old girl and was convicted of aggrivated child molestation and statutory rape. The aggrivated sexual molestation charge was later overturned by the Georgia Supreme Court. For more information, check out this Snopes article. For information on the age of consent in both the US and abroad, check out Age of Consent.
4-6 things in your systray? 40 processes? That would be a very bad day indeed for me. My main box typically has 3 icons -- gaim, Google Desktop Search, and my nVidia driver icon -- along with a hidden volume icon. As for processes, right now I have firefox, gaim, and Azeurus open, plus Steam and my nForce2 audio control panel, and I have 30 processes running.
Disable your unneccessary services in XP. It'll make your life much better, I promise.
It is weird that your cell phone does not work. Most cell phones operate in the 850Mhz-ish or 1850Mhz-ish bands. 2.4Ghz interference shouldn't be causing a problem for you....
As mentioned above, that won't work. The 4 DIMM slots attached to the 2nd processor require a 2nd processor to be present before they'll work -- the other CPU has no way of getting to that memory except though a 2nd Opteron's coherent HyperTransport link, and the memory controller on that 2nd proc itself.
Actually, this may not help in some situations. I live in the Tennessee Valley, where there are times when we have excess energy production from minimum neccessary water flow through hyrdoelectric dams. During those times, all local cities and townships turn on all the streetlights (even during the days) to ensure the electricity doesn't burn critical systems out.
Well, at least it wasn't like my former high school. There, the default network password for teachers was their USERNAME -- which was simply 6 letters of last name, first initial, middle initial. Even more egregious was that teachers weren't encourage to change the password and couldn't change the password without talking to a human who didn't maintain regular office hours. I never met a single teacher with a non-default password.
My solution to the drifting station problem is simply to use my laptop with a cron job to wake me up. My choice of music is definitely intended to WAKE me up, though -- and I crank the volume to about 110dB each night. Plus, since it's a laptop, it has built-in battery backup (assuming, of course, there is power when the alarm is supposed to go off for the external speakers)
Wrong, and wrong. It's very healthy for Windows to be using that swap -- the extra RAM can go to disk caching, just like it does in Linux. Also, Windows XP provides complete partition/drive letter independance -- you can assign drive letters arbitrarily, or not assign a drive letter at all. While I've not tried it, I assume you can not assign a drive letter to the first partition and still select it in virtual memory options.
Also, the physical numbering of the cylinders has very little to do with it's physical location on the disk any more. So you can put that extra partition whereever.
There is a superpower involved. Us. If you arm yourself well now, no need for help later. Besides, what's to say the revolution wouldn't be backed by another superpower when the revolution comes? In 25 years, when the EU and the US are fighting Cold War part duex, maybe we'll be running the insurgency.
But if Grokster is held liable, ANY software that uses ANY p2p concepts would have to have copyright protections built-in. So much for AIM file transfers; most computer games (the server can also be a peer in e.g. Counter-Strike: Source, and automatic map and media downloading are integrated); and, well, a lot of other stuff. Do you really think AOL should be held responsible when I transfer the latest episode of Battlestar Galactica through their software to a buddy? I don't.
The sad part is that I know that personally, I'd spend less money on entertainment if it weren't for P2P. Without P2P, I wouldn't own probably four of the last five albums I've bought. I definitely wouldn't be watching BSG when it comes on next semester, and I doubt I would bother buying any DVDs at all. The media companies always have been pretty slow. With all the millions of dollars they spend on market research, it seems they'd realize by now how easy it would be to compete and make tons of money off this market. I guess we'll have to wait another couple of years and another 10-20k lawsuits for that to happen.
Of course it's idiotic. It's not like there are anywars in recent memory where a well-armed populace was able to beat a significantly superior force...
Does anyone know if BSG is going to be renewed for another season? It finished in a very "could be another season, could not be" way, but I really, really, really want to see another season
Oh, and I'm in America, but you British sure are nice and willing to share (read: bittorrent) minutes after it's done there.
There is good sci-fi, you just have to look around to find it. Battlestar Galactica was/is very good, but I think it was/is cancelled after 13 shows. And it's real sci-fi, not space opera. Babylon 5 was also very good, though that's a few years back now.
Well, Stargate SG1 will be getting better. I just used a trek-like time travel machine called bittor^H^H^H^H^H^H, er, yeah.
Seriously, though, does anyone know why SG1 has episodes out on bittorrent months before they're released on TV? Seems like they've got a major leak somewhere early on in the post-production process.
K6-2 are awesome processors though. This summer, my mom complained to me that her computer had been locking up on her recently. She had just moved it to a torture-chamber place for a computer -- right in direct sunlight flush against a wall or desk on three sides. When I opened it up, I found (much to my surprise) that I had forgotten to put the HSF back on the CPU -- over 2 and a half years ago when I gave it to my sister. The processor had been trucking along with no heatsink ever since.
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VAC2 was released a few days ago, dude. If you are going to try to straw-man an argument, at least do it with facts, not fiction.
That's what people bitched out when 3dMark03 came out and gave advantages to ATI's cards. Guess what? Those 9700 Pros really did blow away the 5800 Ultras in next-gen games. 3DMark is much maligned, but I think they've done an excellent job of trying to predict the future 2 years in advance and figure out what games will be using then. Can it be perfect? No. Will the performance deltas differ between 3dmark and current-gen games? Absolutely. But when Unreal Engine 3 comes out, go back and look at those 3dmark05 scores and say, "Hmm. They were pretty much spot on."
I just built a RAID-5 array for storage space. I found a deal on Seagate 300 "GB" drives for $120 each. So, for a total of $488.48, plus a controller card, I am the proud new owner of 838GB of redundant storage space.
For protection from physical calamity, I use a box in a friend's room. Our unique situation means that, while physically seperated by over a half mile, we have a 11+MB/s connection between our rooms. I also don't back up all of the 838GB of data, however, and it's unlikely that a network system would be fesible for you. Another choice might be a RAID 0+1 array with a second mirror set, which would net you better performance. For the same price, you could get 556GB of formatted, fast data storage, and add $240 for a full backup nightly that you could store off-site (or at least with you, so it can be removed in case of fire). If you want to keep the originals around on your camera for one day, you could drop the first live mirror set and save some money.
It wouldn't be too hard to scale such a system up to the terabyte-level sizes that EIT-5 tape gives you while remaining well under the $10k cost of such a system. A lot more maintainance is required -- I'd definitely want to run thorough disk checks of the backup volumes every month or so -- but disks certainly aren't getting any more expensive.
False. While many states in the US have "Romeo and Juliet" laws withdrawing or lessening the penalty for sex for those within a certain age -- Tennessee, where I live, requires a > 4 year difference in age before a sexual act is statutory rape -- many states do not. An example that hits close to home is the case of Marcus Dixon, a (at the time of the incident) 18 1/3 year old guy who had sex with a 15 3/4 year old girl and was convicted of aggrivated child molestation and statutory rape. The aggrivated sexual molestation charge was later overturned by the Georgia Supreme Court. For more information, check out this Snopes article. For information on the age of consent in both the US and abroad, check out Age of Consent.
Already done, very recently
http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=2436
Except it's dual AMD64s @ 2.4Ghz vs. G5s at 2.5Ghz and 2.7Ghz
The short story: The G5s get stomped all over the place, especially in server tasks.
4-6 things in your systray? 40 processes? That would be a very bad day indeed for me. My main box typically has 3 icons -- gaim, Google Desktop Search, and my nVidia driver icon -- along with a hidden volume icon. As for processes, right now I have firefox, gaim, and Azeurus open, plus Steam and my nForce2 audio control panel, and I have 30 processes running.
Disable your unneccessary services in XP. It'll make your life much better, I promise.
It is weird that your cell phone does not work. Most cell phones operate in the 850Mhz-ish or 1850Mhz-ish bands. 2.4Ghz interference shouldn't be causing a problem for you....
As mentioned above, that won't work. The 4 DIMM slots attached to the 2nd processor require a 2nd processor to be present before they'll work -- the other CPU has no way of getting to that memory except though a 2nd Opteron's coherent HyperTransport link, and the memory controller on that 2nd proc itself.
Actually, this may not help in some situations. I live in the Tennessee Valley, where there are times when we have excess energy production from minimum neccessary water flow through hyrdoelectric dams. During those times, all local cities and townships turn on all the streetlights (even during the days) to ensure the electricity doesn't burn critical systems out.
The limiter on my '97 Sable is 113MPH. I know; I've bounced off it a few times.
Well, at least it wasn't like my former high school. There, the default network password for teachers was their USERNAME -- which was simply 6 letters of last name, first initial, middle initial. Even more egregious was that teachers weren't encourage to change the password and couldn't change the password without talking to a human who didn't maintain regular office hours. I never met a single teacher with a non-default password.
Battlestar Galactica. About as shameless retro as you can get -- they use wind up phones!
My solution to the drifting station problem is simply to use my laptop with a cron job to wake me up. My choice of music is definitely intended to WAKE me up, though -- and I crank the volume to about 110dB each night. Plus, since it's a laptop, it has built-in battery backup (assuming, of course, there is power when the alarm is supposed to go off for the external speakers)
Wrong, and wrong. It's very healthy for Windows to be using that swap -- the extra RAM can go to disk caching, just like it does in Linux. Also, Windows XP provides complete partition/drive letter independance -- you can assign drive letters arbitrarily, or not assign a drive letter at all. While I've not tried it, I assume you can not assign a drive letter to the first partition and still select it in virtual memory options.
Also, the physical numbering of the cylinders has very little to do with it's physical location on the disk any more. So you can put that extra partition whereever.
I find that 50%+ of my users (Helpdesk for a top-20 university) have late model Dells. So I tell them to hit F12 and pick CD from the boot menu
(Usually it's to run a disk drive diagnostic though. Those before-mentioned Dells have hard disks that tend to drop like flys)
There is a superpower involved. Us. If you arm yourself well now, no need for help later. Besides, what's to say the revolution wouldn't be backed by another superpower when the revolution comes? In 25 years, when the EU and the US are fighting Cold War part duex, maybe we'll be running the insurgency.
But if Grokster is held liable, ANY software that uses ANY p2p concepts would have to have copyright protections built-in. So much for AIM file transfers; most computer games (the server can also be a peer in e.g. Counter-Strike: Source, and automatic map and media downloading are integrated); and, well, a lot of other stuff. Do you really think AOL should be held responsible when I transfer the latest episode of Battlestar Galactica through their software to a buddy? I don't.
The sad part is that I know that personally, I'd spend less money on entertainment if it weren't for P2P. Without P2P, I wouldn't own probably four of the last five albums I've bought. I definitely wouldn't be watching BSG when it comes on next semester, and I doubt I would bother buying any DVDs at all. The media companies always have been pretty slow. With all the millions of dollars they spend on market research, it seems they'd realize by now how easy it would be to compete and make tons of money off this market. I guess we'll have to wait another couple of years and another 10-20k lawsuits for that to happen.
Of course it's idiotic. It's not like there are any wars in recent memory where a well-armed populace was able to beat a significantly superior force...
Does anyone know if BSG is going to be renewed for another season? It finished in a very "could be another season, could not be" way, but I really, really, really want to see another season
Oh, and I'm in America, but you British sure are nice and willing to share (read: bittorrent) minutes after it's done there.
There is good sci-fi, you just have to look around to find it. Battlestar Galactica was/is very good, but I think it was/is cancelled after 13 shows. And it's real sci-fi, not space opera. Babylon 5 was also very good, though that's a few years back now.
Uh, okay, but still, I'm up to the fourteenth episode, so there is still a leak somewhere.
Well, Stargate SG1 will be getting better. I just used a trek-like time travel machine called bittor^H^H^H^H^H^H, er, yeah.
Seriously, though, does anyone know why SG1 has episodes out on bittorrent months before they're released on TV? Seems like they've got a major leak somewhere early on in the post-production process.
K6-2 are awesome processors though. This summer, my mom complained to me that her computer had been locking up on her recently. She had just moved it to a torture-chamber place for a computer -- right in direct sunlight flush against a wall or desk on three sides. When I opened it up, I found (much to my surprise) that I had forgotten to put the HSF back on the CPU -- over 2 and a half years ago when I gave it to my sister. The processor had been trucking along with no heatsink ever since.
Actually, not so much. Especially in xvid from bittor... er... my DVD collection. 200GB is more or less sufficient. ;-)
... because obviously, 45.9 fps in Half-Life 2 at 1024x768 is unplayable. And just look at those screenshots! All those missing features! [/sarcasm]