Imagine every page you visit in the course of a month. If the average page is 200k (which is really, really generous) and you visit 9000 a month (that's 300 a day), that comes to about 1.8 GB per month. When you consider that there is a set of pages that are frequented by a lot of people, and these only n eed to be cached once, I think a 150GB drive would make for an adequate cache (assuming you're only cacheing HTML and images, and no Linux ISOs).
Forget about Bochs. It's slow, and getting recent Windows to runs with it is difficult.
Wine (along with WineX and its other cousins) is great at doing a pretty fast job emulating the Windows API, and is the only real solution for apps that need 3D acceleration. However, it can also be a little tricky to get working, unless you buy a prepackaged version such as Crossover Office - which works superbly with MS Office, and not very well with anything else.
For real compatibility, VMWare is probably your best bet. I have no experience with it, but I believe it's generally quite stable and reliable, and will run just about anything that's not too low-level. Unfortunately, it doesn't support 3D acceleration, so AutoCAD and friends might be a tad on the slow side.
Bochs emulates the entire x86 instruction set, so it will run on any architecture. VMWare simply creates a virtual machine and passes instructions directly to the processor, so it only runs on x86 machines. VMWare is about a zillion times faster and easier to set up, but it also costs infinitly more than Bochs.
Quicktime is an open streaming video format. It's completely documented on Apple's web site, and is the basis for the MPEG-4 file-format. The only closed part are the Sorenson and QDesign codecs, which aren't Apple's responsibility (and may or may not be what these guys are using).
What "open" system would you ahve in mind? Ogg Tarkin? Maybe it'll kick ass in 5 years. Until then, Quicktime is one of the best choices.
Well, "PC gaming has everything..." may have been a small exaggeration (I think that was my statement). I just don't think Live is particuarly revolutionary.
I'm not sure I understand the concept of inviting people across games. On battle.net, you can talk to any of your friends (or anyone else) at any time, regardless of what game they're playing. Obviously, they have to own a copy of the game you want to play, and I assume it'd be the same way with Xbox Live. Does Live have some sort of special "Invite" function, or do you just invite people by talking to them?
I've had more experience with Blizzard's battle.net than any other online PC gaming server, so I'll use it as an example. It has support for a Friends list. You can invite a friend into a game. You can squelch any user, and you have your own alias that belongs to you over all games. battle.net doesn't have voice chat, but many PC games do. And "voice chat supported by all online titles" doesn't mean much when there are only about ten online titles.
As I see it, the only advantage Xbox Live has over PC gaming is a more unified server structure, which isn't necessarily a good thing. PC online gaming, OTOH, supports using any network connection (including a modem) and is quite often free, unlike Xbox Live.
Xbox Live may be a decent online gaming system, but it's not revolutionary and it's nowhere near being the most important Internet innovation over the past five years.
Someone once tried to sell an account with lots of karma on eBay (this was before the karma cap). IIRC, Taco set the karma to slowly decrease until it reached zero at the end of the auction.
If they said "average speed" was 12x, and these burners were 32x, it comes pretty close. It also works out if "average" is 18x and these were 48x. It's not exact, but possibly all the burners weren't the same speed.
So using fake info is fraud, but deluging the registration system with random strings (which presumably also don't represent your real info) every time you read an article is better?
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Really, is it that hard to register? Type in fake info if you want. It's so much easier to click the link and have it work than to go to the trouble of generating a new login each time.
52x burners have been out for a while. I ordered a 52x Lite-On from newegg a week ago (and recieved it a few days ago - it's fast). There are a few others burners out there too. I don't see how they can call it "fastest burner ever" without even testing the various other 52x burners.
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You can get a Radeon 9500 for $150. If you get paid less than $300 a month, I feel sorry for you.
Note that ATI has also released its Catalyst 3.0 drivers with full DX9 support for those cards which can handle it. Those demos look sweet.
Imagine every page you visit in the course of a month. If the average page is 200k (which is really, really generous) and you visit 9000 a month (that's 300 a day), that comes to about 1.8 GB per month. When you consider that there is a set of pages that are frequented by a lot of people, and these only n eed to be cached once, I think a 150GB drive would make for an adequate cache (assuming you're only cacheing HTML and images, and no Linux ISOs).
Wine (along with WineX and its other cousins) is great at doing a pretty fast job emulating the Windows API, and is the only real solution for apps that need 3D acceleration. However, it can also be a little tricky to get working, unless you buy a prepackaged version such as Crossover Office - which works superbly with MS Office, and not very well with anything else.
For real compatibility, VMWare is probably your best bet. I have no experience with it, but I believe it's generally quite stable and reliable, and will run just about anything that's not too low-level. Unfortunately, it doesn't support 3D acceleration, so AutoCAD and friends might be a tad on the slow side.
Bochs emulates the entire x86 instruction set, so it will run on any architecture. VMWare simply creates a virtual machine and passes instructions directly to the processor, so it only runs on x86 machines. VMWare is about a zillion times faster and easier to set up, but it also costs infinitly more than Bochs.
There are actually several different Kazaa Lite homepages. I don't think any of them are official. One of the best is http://doa2.host.sk/.
Disable Javascript. Or find a better way of getting porn.
I'm not a master C programmer, but they look pretty trivial to implement yourself if needed.
They don't. The road noise completely ruins it.
Why the fuck would anyone sign up for porno text ads?
The 3D support there will probably be even worse tham your Radeon...
I have a 5-year-old computer with 128MB RAM, 450Mhz PIII, and 10GB disk. It could run WinXP decently enough if I chose to install it.
What "open" system would you ahve in mind? Ogg Tarkin? Maybe it'll kick ass in 5 years. Until then, Quicktime is one of the best choices.
You've never used a Mac, have you?
I'm not sure I understand the concept of inviting people across games. On battle.net, you can talk to any of your friends (or anyone else) at any time, regardless of what game they're playing. Obviously, they have to own a copy of the game you want to play, and I assume it'd be the same way with Xbox Live. Does Live have some sort of special "Invite" function, or do you just invite people by talking to them?
What happened to Home Depot and the Dark Side?
As I see it, the only advantage Xbox Live has over PC gaming is a more unified server structure, which isn't necessarily a good thing. PC online gaming, OTOH, supports using any network connection (including a modem) and is quite often free, unlike Xbox Live.
Xbox Live may be a decent online gaming system, but it's not revolutionary and it's nowhere near being the most important Internet innovation over the past five years.
Maya might be a better example.
Please. It may be novel on a console, but Xbox Live has nothing that PCs haven't had for years.
Someone once tried to sell an account with lots of karma on eBay (this was before the karma cap). IIRC, Taco set the karma to slowly decrease until it reached zero at the end of the auction.
It didn't? Maybe that's just another engine with the same name I see as number 9.
If they said "average speed" was 12x, and these burners were 32x, it comes pretty close. It also works out if "average" is 18x and these were 48x. It's not exact, but possibly all the burners weren't the same speed.
So using fake info is fraud, but deluging the registration system with random strings (which presumably also don't represent your real info) every time you read an article is better?
Really, is it that hard to register? Type in fake info if you want. It's so much easier to click the link and have it work than to go to the trouble of generating a new login each time.
52x burners have been out for a while. I ordered a 52x Lite-On from newegg a week ago (and recieved it a few days ago - it's fast). There are a few others burners out there too. I don't see how they can call it "fastest burner ever" without even testing the various other 52x burners.