I don't see how that contradicts my statement at all -- when I say get along with, this is not meant to be read: "Half-ass implemented". Would we be having this discussion thread if MS got along with ACPI?
I don't know the ins and outs of the whole issue - I do know that according to ABIT, Msft didn't let them pass with their KT7 board or any of their newer boards.
I owned one -- and tried to disable ACPI on it. I called abit because I couldn't find a setting in the BIOS for it, and they said that to be Msft certified you couldn't include it.
They pointed me to this BIOS editor to be able to edit the choices in my BIOS and re-enable the option.
--from Paul's unofficial ABIT MOBO Page: (I know it sounds shady, but check it out if you don't think it's legit..):
"None of the new Abit BIOS versions support the disabling of ACPI through the BIOS, as this functionality has been hidden. This is because this is a prerequisite for any mainboard submitted for Microsoft WHQL approval."
Where are you getting your information that Microsoft is OK with disabling ACPI? IMHO, Microsoft and open *anything* don't get along very well..
Actually, after I installed RTCW, I got the urge to play the original. I installed it, told XP to run it in 95 emulation mode, and it plays beautifully. (BTW, my sound card is a bit dated...it's an AWE 64.) But, the speed was just as I remembered it.
..nothing like strafing around a dead nazi and watching it spin and follow you in 2d because the back was never rendered/implemented...kind of creepy actually.
Dropping a high end card in an old box is nuts since most games that actually require such a card also require high end cpus.
Firstly, this is an absolute farce. Games that have been produced in the last year (i.e., anything using DX7-8) include code to offload most of the poly & triangle rendering to the GPU. That's why you can run Unreal Tourney @ 1280*1024 @ 35-40fps on a P-233 with a geforce3.
Secondly, in response to "I've never considered upgrading a PC a good alternative since invariably I end up replacing most components in the box to get what I want...
Upgrading my athlon thunderbird to an athlon XP requires only a processor change (very inexpensive), that is, if you were an early adopter of a motherboard that supported upward compatability.
If you read this review well you cannot come to another conclusion that anybody who bought a gforce 3 card last year has been wasting money since until next year there won't be any games taking advantage of it.
I disagree...I use games that are DX8 showboats all the time -- aquanox, for example.
(from the article)...We can also derive from this that early adopters of the GeForce3, although they spent quite a bit, are still among the top three performers in this benchmark."
That said, with graphics technology increasing at the rate of Moore's law squared, you shouldn't, theoretically, be able to have year old technology that still performs in the tip-top echelon. But according to this test, that is precisely the case.
Just because you're pissed at having to use cobbled together drivers from some 3rd party effort because your favorite graphics card maker went out of business doesn't mean you should baselessly degrade current technology.
Also, you should consider that dropping a high-end GPU in an older box will go extremely far towards increasing your performance, vs. building an entirely new box.
I did some searching, and google is not giving me any relevant results on the permits being the same, however, I did find this interesting piece about curfew laws being ruled unconstitutional...especially this line.
If this nexus between crime, juveniles, the streets, and potential juvenile curfew hours cannot be established or linked sufficiently, any juvenile curfew ordinance is likely to face the "same fate as the City of Bellingham's. (Which was declared unconstitutional)
ack, mod me down as redundant, but I thought I should reformat, so it's readable..
...If an arcade owner has to apply for a license, so should internet cafe. If an arcade has to abide by a certain regulation, so should the internet cafe.
you might want to read the referenced articles..
from the sacramento bee:
"...In exchange, the cafes, which must now close at midnight, will be allowed to remain open until 2 a.m., and anyone who applied by Jan. 13 for a cyber cafe permit may continue with their application...
...Three years Garden Grove had only two of them, with three more opening in 2000. But then 13 more opened last year and permits were recently issued for two others."
...If an arcade owner has to apply for a license, so should internet cafe. If an arcade has to abide by a certain regulation, so should the internet cafe.
you might want to read the referenced articles..
from the sacramento bee:
"...In exchange, the cafes, which must now close at midnight, will be allowed to remain open until 2 a.m., and anyone who applied by Jan. 13 for a cyber cafe permit may continue with their application......Three years Garden Grove had only two of them, with three more opening in 2000. But then 13 more opened last year and permits were recently issued for two others."
Over 2 hours of very high-quality (better than laser disc) video on a single disc
Over 8 hours on a double-sided dual layer disc
Support for wide screen movies
Some DVD movies allow you to select wide screen or standard screen
Up to 8 tracks of digital audio for multiple language support
Up to 32 subtitle/karaoke tracks
Up to 9 different viewing angles (DVD disc must be encoded with the different angles)
Automatic "seamless" branching of video for multiple story lines or different ratings of one movie
Menus and interactive features
Title, Chapter, and track search
Durability
Compact Size
Language choices
Parental lock
Random accessibility
Dolby Digital AC-3 audio
How much data can a DVD-ROM disc hold? How is it possible?
Three advantages allow a DVD-ROM disc to store several times more data than a CD-ROM disc:
The laser that reads a DVD operates at a higher frequency, which enables it to read data packed more densely on the disc. The new laser technology allows 4.7GB of data to be stored on a single side of a DVD-ROM disc.
Some DVD discs have a second recording layer on top of the primary layer. This in turn doubles the storage space potentially giving a DVD-ROM disc 8.5GB of data storage.
Finally, DVD can be recorded on both sides, enabling a maximum of 17GB of storage per disc.
Every DVD drive must be able to read four kinds of discs. These are; single sided single layer (4.7GB), single sided dual layer (8.5GB), double sided single layer (9.4GB), and double sided double layer (17GB).
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at 8 hours max, and 2.5 hours per movie, I guess that it would be possible, but I don't know how much room menus, extra features, etc, take up...
I bought into something a while back (about 8 mo.) From samsung called EDTV. (enhaced definition.)
Instead of the 720 progressive scan lines required by HDTV, EDTV must be capable of 480p. While it doesn't carry the buzz word "HDTV" it is still a very nice looking flat screen 27", and I got it for $799 U.S.
I can notice a marked difference between regular analog TV and EDTV. While HDTV does look better, it is a good medium-range for someone looking for higher resolution, but prolonging the HDTV purchase until the networks go full high definition, however little publicity it has gotten..
If a car maker finds a defect in their product, they recall and fix it -- but they can still face lawsuits for their poor performance in design. (think Ford Explorer..)
No one forced people to buy the explorer, but it malfunctioned, and people were paid off.
I want recompense for my time dealing with users because of this -- what if someone was using a wireless modem? Don't they charge by the KB?
Because hopefully this will be a mythos that a 10-13 yr old audience can enjoy, because as a culture we have very few. Those kids might not have heard of the books, but might see the movies, and might read this site...
Um..maybe you should read the *rest* of the article, not just the headline and the 1st paragraph...
From the article... "Universal Music is the most aggressive in its anti-piracy efforts, saying that all of its CDs will be copy-protected by mid-2002."
I work for a local/regional ISP. We just rolled out our DSL product, and I have to say that it wouldn't have been possible without PPPoE. I think someone else has already said this, but it is *entirely* possible to have a static IP over a PPPoE connection. Also, as for the 8k/packet overhead, I have seen _no_ discernable slowdown. I use win2k, and I use RASPPPOE. I've had no problems with either of them. To address the always on issue, if I go into the properties of the connection I can set it to redail when disconnected.
..but I digress.
The reason that PPPoE has helped us in the engineering dept so much is that it makes it incredibly easy to keep track of customers. We roll out Cisco 827's to the CPE end, give them a PAP username/password, it is backhauled to a Cisco 7513 ATM blade, then onto our RADUIS server from there. With RADIUS, I can keep track of uptime, reconnects (helpful if a customer bitches that they're always being disconnected..usually a lie..) IP's (static & dynamic). Had I had to design a solution to this from the ground up that I can deploy in (time to customer site + plugging 3 cables into a router) it would have pushed deployment of this product back a few months and the market here would have already been devalued further than it is now. (Thanks a LOT, bellsouth.)
I work for an ISP. We run an open relay server. Know why? I tried subscribing to ORBS once. The next day I got about 20 calls from people saying that they couldn't receive emails from their clients. ("something about blacklisted? what is that?") I can't deny mail from open relay servers, so I can't stop spamming because my customers are too stupid.
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not that it really makes a shits worth of difference whether your traffic flows across the country and back to its destination or directly to it. The latency is negligable. If my traffic goes to mae west and back here, it took 10 ms more once it reaches that high level of routing. When your traffic goes from one side of the country in one hop you're most likely riding on some tipe of fiber connection (OC 12, 48, etc.) And I promise, with all the other shite that happens when it actually gets to its destination (read: frontpage extentions, piece of shit webserver handling, etc.) you can't tell the difference.
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I don't see how that contradicts my statement at all -- when I say get along with, this is not meant to be read: "Half-ass implemented". Would we be having this discussion thread if MS got along with ACPI?
I don't know the ins and outs of the whole issue - I do know that according to ABIT, Msft didn't let them pass with their KT7 board or any of their newer boards.
I owned one -- and tried to disable ACPI on it. I called abit because I couldn't find a setting in the BIOS for it, and they said that to be Msft certified you couldn't include it.
They pointed me to this BIOS editor to be able to edit the choices in my BIOS and re-enable the option. --from Paul's unofficial ABIT MOBO Page: (I know it sounds shady, but check it out if you don't think it's legit..):
"None of the new Abit BIOS versions support the disabling of ACPI through the BIOS, as this functionality has been hidden. This is because this is a prerequisite for any mainboard submitted for Microsoft WHQL approval."
Where are you getting your information that Microsoft is OK with disabling ACPI? IMHO, Microsoft and open *anything* don't get along very well..
Now, I'll buy that for $5 a month..
Actually, after I installed RTCW, I got the urge to play the original. I installed it, told XP to run it in 95 emulation mode, and it plays beautifully. (BTW, my sound card is a bit dated...it's an AWE 64.) But, the speed was just as I remembered it. ...kind of creepy actually.
..nothing like strafing around a dead nazi and watching it spin and follow you in 2d because the back was never rendered/implemented
Dropping a high end card in an old box is nuts since most games that actually require such a card also require high end cpus.
Firstly, this is an absolute farce. Games that have been produced in the last year (i.e., anything using DX7-8) include code to offload most of the poly & triangle rendering to the GPU. That's why you can run Unreal Tourney @ 1280*1024 @ 35-40fps on a P-233 with a geforce3.
Secondly, in response to "I've never considered upgrading a PC a good alternative since invariably I end up replacing most components in the box to get what I want...
Upgrading my athlon thunderbird to an athlon XP requires only a processor change (very inexpensive), that is, if you were an early adopter of a motherboard that supported upward compatability.
If you read this review well you cannot come to another conclusion that anybody who bought a gforce 3 card last year has been wasting money since until next year there won't be any games taking advantage of it.
...We can also derive from this that early adopters of the GeForce3, although they spent quite a bit, are still among the top three performers in this benchmark."
I disagree...I use games that are DX8 showboats all the time -- aquanox, for example.
(from the article)
That said, with graphics technology increasing at the rate of Moore's law squared, you shouldn't, theoretically, be able to have year old technology that still performs in the tip-top echelon. But according to this test, that is precisely the case.
Just because you're pissed at having to use cobbled together drivers from some 3rd party effort because your favorite graphics card maker went out of business doesn't mean you should baselessly degrade current technology.
Also, you should consider that dropping a high-end GPU in an older box will go extremely far towards increasing your performance, vs. building an entirely new box.
Christ. If I have to repost one more thing today... the link is here
I did some searching, and google is not giving me any relevant results on the permits being the same, however, I did find this interesting piece about curfew laws being ruled unconstitutional...especially this line.
If this nexus between crime, juveniles, the streets, and potential juvenile curfew hours cannot be established or linked sufficiently, any juvenile curfew ordinance is likely to face the "same fate as the City of Bellingham's. (Which was declared unconstitutional)
The piece can be found here.
You seem to be saying two things...
In answer:
do Arcades also need to get a permit? If not, why are internet cafes required to get a permit?
Arcades are required to get a permit.
and...
If arcades are required to get a permit, why don't the same permit apply to Internet cafes?
They do.
ack, mod me down as redundant, but I thought I should reformat, so it's readable..
...If an arcade owner has to apply for a license, so should internet cafe. If an arcade has to abide by a certain regulation, so should the internet cafe.
you might want to read the referenced articles..
from the sacramento bee:
"...In exchange, the cafes, which must now close at midnight, will be allowed to remain open until 2 a.m., and anyone who applied by Jan. 13 for a cyber cafe permit may continue with their application...
...Three years Garden Grove had only two of them, with three more opening in 2000. But then 13 more opened last year and permits were recently issued for two others."
...If an arcade owner has to apply for a license, so should internet cafe. If an arcade has to abide by a certain regulation, so should the internet cafe. you might want to read the referenced articles.. from the sacramento bee: "...In exchange, the cafes, which must now close at midnight, will be allowed to remain open until 2 a.m., and anyone who applied by Jan. 13 for a cyber cafe permit may continue with their application... ...Three years Garden Grove had only two of them, with three more opening in 2000. But then 13 more opened last year and permits were recently issued for two others."
check this.
from ati.com...
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What are the main features of the DVD?
Over 2 hours of very high-quality (better than laser disc) video on a single disc
Over 8 hours on a double-sided dual layer disc
Support for wide screen movies
Some DVD movies allow you to select wide screen or standard screen
Up to 8 tracks of digital audio for multiple language support
Up to 32 subtitle/karaoke tracks
Up to 9 different viewing angles (DVD disc must be encoded with the different angles)
Automatic "seamless" branching of video for multiple story lines or different ratings of one movie
Menus and interactive features
Title, Chapter, and track search
Durability
Compact Size
Language choices
Parental lock
Random accessibility
Dolby Digital AC-3 audio
How much data can a DVD-ROM disc hold? How is it possible?
Three advantages allow a DVD-ROM disc to store several times more data than a CD-ROM disc:
The laser that reads a DVD operates at a higher frequency, which enables it to read data packed more densely on the disc. The new laser technology allows 4.7GB of data to be stored on a single side of a DVD-ROM disc.
Some DVD discs have a second recording layer on top of the primary layer. This in turn doubles the storage space potentially giving a DVD-ROM disc 8.5GB of data storage.
Finally, DVD can be recorded on both sides, enabling a maximum of 17GB of storage per disc.
Every DVD drive must be able to read four kinds of discs. These are; single sided single layer (4.7GB), single sided dual layer (8.5GB), double sided single layer (9.4GB), and double sided double layer (17GB).
--
at 8 hours max, and 2.5 hours per movie, I guess that it would be possible, but I don't know how much room menus, extra features, etc, take up...
hope that helps..
I bought into something a while back (about 8 mo.) From samsung called EDTV. (enhaced definition.)
Instead of the 720 progressive scan lines required by HDTV, EDTV must be capable of 480p. While it doesn't carry the buzz word "HDTV" it is still a very nice looking flat screen 27", and I got it for $799 U.S.
I can notice a marked difference between regular analog TV and EDTV. While HDTV does look better, it is a good medium-range for someone looking for higher resolution, but prolonging the HDTV purchase until the networks go full high definition, however little publicity it has gotten..
Agreed.
If a car maker finds a defect in their product, they recall and fix it -- but they can still face lawsuits for their poor performance in design. (think Ford Explorer..)
No one forced people to buy the explorer, but it malfunctioned, and people were paid off.
I want recompense for my time dealing with users because of this -- what if someone was using a wireless modem? Don't they charge by the KB?
Because hopefully this will be a mythos that a 10-13 yr old audience can enjoy, because as a culture we have very few. Those kids might not have heard of the books, but might see the movies, and might read this site...
maybe a long shot...
Um..maybe you should read the *rest* of the article, not just the headline and the 1st paragraph...
From the article... "Universal Music is the most aggressive in its anti-piracy efforts, saying that all of its CDs will be copy-protected by mid-2002."
..?
is up and responding well @ usatoday.com
I work for a local/regional ISP. We just rolled out our DSL product, and I have to say that it wouldn't have been possible without PPPoE. I think someone else has already said this, but it is *entirely* possible to have a static IP over a PPPoE connection. Also, as for the 8k/packet overhead, I have seen _no_ discernable slowdown. I use win2k, and I use RASPPPOE. I've had no problems with either of them. To address the always on issue, if I go into the properties of the connection I can set it to redail when disconnected.
..but I digress.
The reason that PPPoE has helped us in the engineering dept so much is that it makes it incredibly easy to keep track of customers. We roll out Cisco 827's to the CPE end, give them a PAP username/password, it is backhauled to a Cisco 7513 ATM blade, then onto our RADUIS server from there. With RADIUS, I can keep track of uptime, reconnects (helpful if a customer bitches that they're always being disconnected..usually a lie..) IP's (static & dynamic). Had I had to design a solution to this from the ground up that I can deploy in (time to customer site + plugging 3 cables into a router) it would have pushed deployment of this product back a few months and the market here would have already been devalued further than it is now. (Thanks a LOT, bellsouth.)
I work for an ISP. We run an open relay server. Know why? I tried subscribing to ORBS once. The next day I got about 20 calls from people saying that they couldn't receive emails from their clients. ("something about blacklisted? what is that?") I can't deny mail from open relay servers, so I can't stop spamming because my customers are too stupid.
not that it really makes a shits worth of difference whether your traffic flows across the country and back to its destination or directly to it. The latency is negligable. If my traffic goes to mae west and back here, it took 10 ms more once it reaches that high level of routing. When your traffic goes from one side of the country in one hop you're most likely riding on some tipe of fiber connection (OC 12, 48, etc.) And I promise, with all the other shite that happens when it actually gets to its destination (read: frontpage extentions, piece of shit webserver handling, etc.) you can't tell the difference.