Bah, the journal entries were a straight ripoff from Resident Evil. There's a room you enter where you find a guy's journal and he's recording his gradual transformation into a zombie, day by day.
Doom3 just brought a beautiful engine and a reason to upgrade. I thought my Geforce 5900XT would be up to the job but it struggles all the damn time. Thanks iD.
If their focus was really for a consumer desktop, they'd knock off the bullshit with Java, Flash, and other desktop must-haves. They have alot of stuff in their wiki that describes the painful steps you have to take to get things working right.
Oh and I hope you don't plan on using dvd::rip or other dvd creation tools that require mplayer. Mplayer segfaults all over the place due to an audio bug and the ubuntu devs have done nothing to fix it.
The kings of the linux desktop will remain Suse, Mandrake and maybe even Fedora until the Ubuntu devs take their distro more seriously. I like it and run it but it's definitely got alot of weirdness they need to work out.
That is just the typical 'warezer' mentality. Most people that trade movies or software in any measurable quantity collect stuff just for bragging rights. They'll end up with terabytes of movies they'll never watch and games they'll never play.
It's a dubious line to cross when you consider people like this hurting any industry. What's the harm in collectors when they don't actually view/listen/play the media they have stolen? Sadly, when that 16 year old kid down the street has his door kicked in by the RIAA SWAT team, he'll get an enormous fine for all this stuff, and his parents will end up paying through the nose. It's not really fair that anyone is considering people like this as a loss to their sales. Kids like this one never would have bought anything to begin with, they just got it 'because it was there'.
Try this sometime. Get a big box full of some useless junk (like a Free Willy armband or something) and hand it out on the corner. Because it's free, you'll end up with swarms of people grabbing one or more just for the hell of it. By the end of the day your box will be emptied out. It was useless junk right? So why did it seem so popular? A. because it was readily available and B. because it was free.
If you appreciate logic in a language, explore German sometime.
It's one of the few languages that, given the task of making up a word that doesn't exist to describe something new, you can actually build a valid, single word out of multiple words.
Take Volkswagen for example. Volks = family, wagen = wagon/car/whatever. Volkswagen, as a word, didn't exist before Hitler requested a cheap car for all of Germany to drive.
The most famous example is the longest German word on record. Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgaben- übertragungsgesetz
Consider the super high cost of entry for gaming companies these days, with development hardware and hiring highly skilled CG artists, etc. and it's not hard to see why there aren't any new, tiny game houses cranking out the hits.
Development costs are so high now that it's becoming rare to see new game franchises. You only see rehash after rehash (like the Madden series) because they're a safe bet.
Garage development on the latest hardware is simply out of the question. You saw a big resurgence in video games in the 80's due to Nintendo pushing an affordable piece of hardware, but that was only half the puzzle. The other half was small development houses being able to afford to risk an investment on a handful of titles hoping one or two would become a breakout hit. Square/Enix started out like this along with many others.
These days the costs to produce the latest megalomonster shooter is astronomical. Games can cost millions, if not tens of millions, to develop, market and ship. EA has been able to stay in the game by flooding the market with braindead sequels and acting as a release agent for big titles like Battlefield 2. That and their korean-animation-shop style of working their employees to death.
Yeah, yeah, we all saw Steven King's awful adaptation for the screen, Pet Sematery (sp). Undead cats would probably cause lots of havoc, what with all the screeching and clawing.
They originally tested the methods on cats, but the cats were determined to be equally brain damaged before and after the testing. They would respond only marginally to any kind of stimulus and would not come when called.
Well, that explains why 50% of the ECS boards I've owned have failed.
Like they say, jack of all trades, master of none. If you're working on two boards at once, unless you have 2 brains, 4 eyes and 4 arms, you're gonna fuck something up.
The drawback, from what I can gather, is that while Intel is using DDR3200 now (2x400), it's just a 64bit memory path.
The latest NForce4 boards, socket 939 for AMD, are using Dual Channel DDR. This nets you a fatter memory path. You get the same 2x400 but it's in a double-wide bandwidth path, 128bit.
From what I've seen in informal testing here, using dual channel memory is a huge difference. Throw in a SATA/150 drive instead of an IDE drive, and a Windows XP install gets shaved down to 15 minutes. Not real scientific, I know, but that gives you an idea of I/O improvement with Hypertransport and SATA. Usually the bottlenecks with OS installs are hard drive i/o times and cd/dvdrom i/o times. Memory still plays a big role though (caching).
All in all, I won't build anything but socket939 athlons from now on. Everything else is inferior, particularly for the price.
Another delusion from Job's Reality Distortion Field. The same shops that crank out Apple motherboards are the same shops that crank out everything else. They don't source things from a magical place where leprechauns build the motherboard traces from individual heart-shaped atoms. Plus, ever since Apple switched from SCSI to IDE their hd access times have been pretty sad. The laptops with their 4200rpm drives are nearly unbearable, particularly if you don't have much RAM.
Comparing Apple to Ferrari is wrong. At best, Apple compares favorably to 3 Series BMW's. Somewhat expensive, but there is definitely better available (see Alienware, Falcon Northwest, etc. etc.)
If you check my karma you'll see that I never troll. I mentioned Apple's *core* market, which was a bit of an unintended pun, but it's who Apple is trying to sell their _extra_ expensive boxen to. Renderfarms and photo retouching shops get Apple the big bucks and recurring income (read: upgrade treadmill for faster boxen every X months). Home users buy one or two Macs and that's about it for the next 3 years. So, regardless of how 'retro' my statement was, it still rings true.
The *future* of their market, OTOH, is the home user. If they play their cards right they stand a chance at expanding their territory into the long-held Windows monopoly. They could beat Dell on looks and ease-of-use alone. Then again, Dell could partner with Apple (similar to HP's partnership with the iPod) and turn out Apple hardware, saving Apple money and increasing market penetration tenfold.
Regardless of anyone's opinion, this is a big move for Apple and an important one to boot. Having all of their stuff on a completely different hardware base has always been a fault for Apple.
Probably less than 5%. Like I said last week, Apple has a very narrow focus and their core market is creative professionals. You buy Apple hardware to run MacOS and because there's a certain cachet in owning a Mac. And to avoid viruses, spyware, and all the other crap that plagues Windows users.
I could see someone doing mission critical stuff having a dual-boot box, but someone buying Ap-tel hardware to run Windows is just out of the question. If you want a cheap box, you buy a Dell, Gateway, whatever. If you want a hot rod, you get an Alienware. Apple probably won't sell more than a handful of their boxen to Windows users (that intend to use it only for Windows). Apple never has been able to compete on price, they're just not big enough. When they do, their hardware ends up being significantly slower and lower spec'ed than comparable Intel hardware. Even with them using commodity hardware, they'll assert the Apple Hardware Tax to supplement OSX development, so it'll remain consistently more expensive than your average PC beige box.
So to summarize, almost nobody will buy these boxen specifically for Windows only.
That was the question I asked myself as a teenager, when the topic came up.
I call bullshit on that. That's the question YOU were ASKED by your elders at the time you were considering getting tattooed. Who, in their youth, ponders the appearance of a tattoo at age 60? Nobody, because youth is impudent and rarely looks beyond tomorrow or next week.
These are not average women. These are women that shop at the big and tall store, with emphasis on the big. What part of the country do you live in where this is the average-sized woman?
If a girl is willing to cheat, then her brain isn't doing something right. Women tend to be the settlers, where men tend to be looking for conquest, it's just the way we're coded.
Dude, slashdot will NEVER get a spell checker. I mean, that requires resources and effort. Spelling acumen is something 50% of geeks inherently lack anyway, so if you can't spell for shit or punctuate, then you get +5 geek points. Also, you get +5 geek points for finding other's spelling errors and rather than 'getting their point' and replying, rubbing their nose in their lack of spelling skill like a puppy's nose in it's own poo.
Strangely enough, I still haven't met a coder that could code well and type a coherent, accurate sentence. I guess it just goes with the territory.
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Bah, the journal entries were a straight ripoff from Resident Evil. There's a room you enter where you find a guy's journal and he's recording his gradual transformation into a zombie, day by day.
Doom3 just brought a beautiful engine and a reason to upgrade. I thought my Geforce 5900XT would be up to the job but it struggles all the damn time. Thanks iD.
If their focus was really for a consumer desktop, they'd knock off the bullshit with Java, Flash, and other desktop must-haves. They have alot of stuff in their wiki that describes the painful steps you have to take to get things working right.
Oh and I hope you don't plan on using dvd::rip or other dvd creation tools that require mplayer. Mplayer segfaults all over the place due to an audio bug and the ubuntu devs have done nothing to fix it.
The kings of the linux desktop will remain Suse, Mandrake and maybe even Fedora until the Ubuntu devs take their distro more seriously. I like it and run it but it's definitely got alot of weirdness they need to work out.
In Soviet Russia, advanced bots hire YOU!
That is just the typical 'warezer' mentality. Most people that trade movies or software in any measurable quantity collect stuff just for bragging rights. They'll end up with terabytes of movies they'll never watch and games they'll never play.
It's a dubious line to cross when you consider people like this hurting any industry. What's the harm in collectors when they don't actually view/listen/play the media they have stolen? Sadly, when that 16 year old kid down the street has his door kicked in by the RIAA SWAT team, he'll get an enormous fine for all this stuff, and his parents will end up paying through the nose. It's not really fair that anyone is considering people like this as a loss to their sales. Kids like this one never would have bought anything to begin with, they just got it 'because it was there'.
Try this sometime. Get a big box full of some useless junk (like a Free Willy armband or something) and hand it out on the corner. Because it's free, you'll end up with swarms of people grabbing one or more just for the hell of it. By the end of the day your box will be emptied out. It was useless junk right? So why did it seem so popular? A. because it was readily available and B. because it was free.
That's only half the fun. After hearing them saying 'grok....grooooook' for awhile, try salting the meat after skinning it. It twitches delightfully.
If you appreciate logic in a language, explore German sometime.
It's one of the few languages that, given the task of making up a word that doesn't exist to describe something new, you can actually build a valid, single word out of multiple words.
Take Volkswagen for example. Volks = family, wagen = wagon/car/whatever. Volkswagen, as a word, didn't exist before Hitler requested a cheap car for all of Germany to drive.
The most famous example is the longest German word on record. Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgaben- übertragungsgesetz
Consider the super high cost of entry for gaming companies these days, with development hardware and hiring highly skilled CG artists, etc. and it's not hard to see why there aren't any new, tiny game houses cranking out the hits.
Development costs are so high now that it's becoming rare to see new game franchises. You only see rehash after rehash (like the Madden series) because they're a safe bet.
Garage development on the latest hardware is simply out of the question. You saw a big resurgence in video games in the 80's due to Nintendo pushing an affordable piece of hardware, but that was only half the puzzle. The other half was small development houses being able to afford to risk an investment on a handful of titles hoping one or two would become a breakout hit. Square/Enix started out like this along with many others.
These days the costs to produce the latest megalomonster shooter is astronomical. Games can cost millions, if not tens of millions, to develop, market and ship. EA has been able to stay in the game by flooding the market with braindead sequels and acting as a release agent for big titles like Battlefield 2. That and their korean-animation-shop style of working their employees to death.
Well, Lucas is more of a jewdi knight. The best of both Forces are strong with him.
Yeah, yeah, we all saw Steven King's awful adaptation for the screen, Pet Sematery (sp). Undead cats would probably cause lots of havoc, what with all the screeching and clawing.
They originally tested the methods on cats, but the cats were determined to be equally brain damaged before and after the testing. They would respond only marginally to any kind of stimulus and would not come when called.
Well, that explains why 50% of the ECS boards I've owned have failed.
Like they say, jack of all trades, master of none. If you're working on two boards at once, unless you have 2 brains, 4 eyes and 4 arms, you're gonna fuck something up.
The drawback, from what I can gather, is that while Intel is using DDR3200 now (2x400), it's just a 64bit memory path.
The latest NForce4 boards, socket 939 for AMD, are using Dual Channel DDR. This nets you a fatter memory path. You get the same 2x400 but it's in a double-wide bandwidth path, 128bit.
From what I've seen in informal testing here, using dual channel memory is a huge difference. Throw in a SATA/150 drive instead of an IDE drive, and a Windows XP install gets shaved down to 15 minutes. Not real scientific, I know, but that gives you an idea of I/O improvement with Hypertransport and SATA. Usually the bottlenecks with OS installs are hard drive i/o times and cd/dvdrom i/o times. Memory still plays a big role though (caching).
All in all, I won't build anything but socket939 athlons from now on. Everything else is inferior, particularly for the price.
God dammit, when are people like you that have something interesting to say learn how to create an account?
:)
You're like 1% of AC's that have a good comment, and since the vast majority browse at +1, they miss stuff like this.
Seriously, get an account or sign in.
More appropriately, he'll call it "guano".
For the spanish-ly impaired, here's a definition.
"unless James Bond has gone rouge"
I don't think he'd look too good in red. The black tuxedo is a good trademark for Bond.
Another delusion from Job's Reality Distortion Field. The same shops that crank out Apple motherboards are the same shops that crank out everything else. They don't source things from a magical place where leprechauns build the motherboard traces from individual heart-shaped atoms. Plus, ever since Apple switched from SCSI to IDE their hd access times have been pretty sad. The laptops with their 4200rpm drives are nearly unbearable, particularly if you don't have much RAM.
Comparing Apple to Ferrari is wrong. At best, Apple compares favorably to 3 Series BMW's. Somewhat expensive, but there is definitely better available (see Alienware, Falcon Northwest, etc. etc.)
If you check my karma you'll see that I never troll. I mentioned Apple's *core* market, which was a bit of an unintended pun, but it's who Apple is trying to sell their _extra_ expensive boxen to. Renderfarms and photo retouching shops get Apple the big bucks and recurring income (read: upgrade treadmill for faster boxen every X months). Home users buy one or two Macs and that's about it for the next 3 years. So, regardless of how 'retro' my statement was, it still rings true.
The *future* of their market, OTOH, is the home user. If they play their cards right they stand a chance at expanding their territory into the long-held Windows monopoly. They could beat Dell on looks and ease-of-use alone. Then again, Dell could partner with Apple (similar to HP's partnership with the iPod) and turn out Apple hardware, saving Apple money and increasing market penetration tenfold.
Regardless of anyone's opinion, this is a big move for Apple and an important one to boot. Having all of their stuff on a completely different hardware base has always been a fault for Apple.
Probably less than 5%. Like I said last week, Apple has a very narrow focus and their core market is creative professionals. You buy Apple hardware to run MacOS and because there's a certain cachet in owning a Mac. And to avoid viruses, spyware, and all the other crap that plagues Windows users.
I could see someone doing mission critical stuff having a dual-boot box, but someone buying Ap-tel hardware to run Windows is just out of the question. If you want a cheap box, you buy a Dell, Gateway, whatever. If you want a hot rod, you get an Alienware. Apple probably won't sell more than a handful of their boxen to Windows users (that intend to use it only for Windows). Apple never has been able to compete on price, they're just not big enough. When they do, their hardware ends up being significantly slower and lower spec'ed than comparable Intel hardware. Even with them using commodity hardware, they'll assert the Apple Hardware Tax to supplement OSX development, so it'll remain consistently more expensive than your average PC beige box.
So to summarize, almost nobody will buy these boxen specifically for Windows only.
Personally, I follow the Tao of Steve. Only Stus follow the standard Tao.
No, Debian has the snobs and bigots covered, we Ubuntu users just borrow from their repositories.
It's like having an asshole big brother that throws you the keys to his Camaro once in awhile.
That was the question I asked myself as a teenager, when the topic came up.
I call bullshit on that. That's the question YOU were ASKED by your elders at the time you were considering getting tattooed. Who, in their youth, ponders the appearance of a tattoo at age 60? Nobody, because youth is impudent and rarely looks beyond tomorrow or next week.
These are not average women. These are women that shop at the big and tall store, with emphasis on the big. What part of the country do you live in where this is the average-sized woman?
I'm guessing it's Rosanne Barr's fictional sitcom town.
OMFG, where's the trashcan...I think I'm gonna be sick.
The grandparent was 100% dead-on. Yet another terrifying image added to the tubgirl-can't-erase-that-part-of-my-brain collection. Thanks guys.
If a girl is willing to cheat, then her brain isn't doing something right. Women tend to be the settlers, where men tend to be looking for conquest, it's just the way we're coded.
Dude, slashdot will NEVER get a spell checker. I mean, that requires resources and effort. Spelling acumen is something 50% of geeks inherently lack anyway, so if you can't spell for shit or punctuate, then you get +5 geek points. Also, you get +5 geek points for finding other's spelling errors and rather than 'getting their point' and replying, rubbing their nose in their lack of spelling skill like a puppy's nose in it's own poo.
Strangely enough, I still haven't met a coder that could code well and type a coherent, accurate sentence. I guess it just goes with the territory.