I know I shouldn't feed this troll, but here goes anyway...
AMD chips also have a reputation for being significantly less reliable than Intel chips.
Since when? I've used everything from the K6 on up to the Athlon MP, and I've never had a processor get flaky, burn up, or have compatibility problems with a program.
I I think almost every AMD chip I've come across I've eventually seen go toasty. Most hardcore overclockers...
That's your problem right there. If you run the processor within its design specifications, you won't run into problems. Blaming AMD when your misconfigured (overclocked == misconfigured) computer crashes and burns is just plain stupid. It's as stupid as Tom Pabst getting bent out of shape when an Athlon running without a heatsink commits hari-kari.
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1.4GHz+ certified fan, was still running after it died, fan still in place, no airflow blockage, but 30C outside, 40C in my room, then some in the case and running at 100% load. Sigh... back to Duron 700:(
If you'd turn the A/C on, you wouldn't have that problem...104's kinda toasty. While I'm sure the temperature inside my computer is in triple-digit territory, the A/C keeps the room temperature in the upper 70s.
Remember: a heatsink can only maintain a certain difference between ambient temperature and processor temperature. Letting room temperature skyrocket means the processor(s) will also run hotter.
I can't imagine how glacial a K6-3 would be for video encoding (e.g., Divx)
Been there, done that...and yes, SVCD encoding on a K6-III-450 was dog-slow, even at moderate quality settings in TMPGEnc. I just upgraded from a 1.0-GHz Athlon to a dual Athlon MP 2100...encode times at TMPGEnc's highest-quality settings went from 11-12 hours for 40-50 minutes of video to 2.5-3 hours. The same task on my old K6-III would've probably taken at least 24 hours...hell, it more than likely would've taken even longer than that.
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The "P5" is still in its design phase.
Last time I checked, the P5 was introduced about eight years ago. It started at 60 MHz and got pushed to 233 MHz before Intel decided to move on to other things.
I forgot one thing the Nforce motherboards kinda suck.
What's wrong with nForce? I don't run one at home (just upgraded to some dual Athlon MP goodness...w00t), but the two nForce-based machines I have at work run as well as any other machine in the shop. The integrated graphics aren't too shabby, and the integrated sound is just about as good as it gets. One runs Win2K Pro while the other runs Linux, and the only difficulty I've run across is that the Linux driver for the onboard NIC is somewhat flaky (fixed by installing a $10 NIC).
Hell, how did you first ever find out about the Tivo itself? probably from an ad.
Actually, I knew someone who had one and had seen the stuff it could do. Before that, there were occasional mentions of it here and elsewhere, but I don't think I ever saw a TiVo ad until sometime after I already had a TiVo. (Then again, I used to use a pair of VCRs to timeshift everything before getting my TiVo...about a half-dozen programs on each, including some that were on at the same time. The only time I've watched TV with ads in the past several years was when I've visited my parents...they've never gotten into the time-shifting habit. I suppose you could count the past couple of Super Bowls as well, but those ads are different.)
Face it, ads are as much a source of information as they are meant to invoke a direct response.
Considering how many ads are content-free, I'd think that most of them are rather poor information sources. About all they might be good at doing is letting you know that a product or service exists.
(I usually use "This is a test," but seeing as this article is about certain microprocessors with a tool as their codename...)
A basic knowledge of PostScript is useful to tell if a printer or a print server is running properly. By comparison, does anybody use Forth for anything? (I downloaded a couple of Forth interpreters for the Apple II years ago, but never got around to doing anything with them.)
Actually the reason they got this reputation was (primarily) because they had a problem with the Socket 462 which would often result in a cracked Athlon core. I don't think this reputation was earned because of poor cooling though it certainly wasn't the BEST solution available at the time.
The reviews I saw indicated that they definitely delivered subpar cooling performance as well. The only thing they really had going for them was appearance, and unless you're one of those idiots who adds windows (this kind, not this kind...though some would say the same for the latter) and neon lights to a computer, you're never going to see it when the computer is closed up and shoved under your desk anyway.
I cannot comment on Xeon versus Pentium 4, but the Athlon XP and MP are decidedly not different chips. Athlon XP processors can usually run in SMP without problems, although newer ones may be locked to prevent this.
To check if your Athlon XP is locked (and to unlock it if it is), you might want to have a look at this article.
Aren't there already manufacturers selling 52x drives?
I think I've heard something along those lines. I know they're selling 48x drives at least, as I have a 48x12x48 Lite-On at home now. (The spindle of media I'm currently using max out at 40x, though another spindle in my stash of blanks will burn at 48x.)
What this may mean is that law.com may actually sit down and write a link/reference policy that would make sense. But don't hold your breath.
It'd be even better if they'd lose the JavaScript that takes you from the page you requested to their "turn-cookies-on" page if you've rejected their cookies. (You see the requested page for a split second.) Maybe fixing Mozilla so you can selectively disable JavaScript altogether for certain sites would also do the trick...
The anti-science yahoos produced by most liberal arts "schools" are proud of their lack of practical knowledge. This sickens me.
...and people wonder why junk science and pseudoscience are so prevalent today. If you know absolutely nothing about the sciences, how are you going to dispute the claims of environmentalist wackos, so-called "consumer advocates," etc.? Not knowing any better, you're likely to just stand back, let them do the mental heavy-lifting, and let them carry out their agendas that are based on false assumptions and improper deductive reasoning.
So really, I guess that I meant to say that I fail to see the relevance of the article. It is kinda of silly, actually, to even want to record real-time game footage with this hardware. Just pipe the video output to a real capture card on another machine. Problem solved.
Capturing what you do in the average FPS would be silly, but what if you're doing 3D rendering with your graphics card? What you propose would be like ripping CDs by plugging a CD player into your soundcard's line-in jack. What the article envisions would be more like ripping CDs with EAC...you eliminate the digital-to-analog-to-digital conversion.
If you want to hate digital cable, here's a better reason: Your VCR won't work with it unless it has a digital tuner.
The digital-cable box I'm using (a Scientific-Atlanta Explorer 2100) has the ability to control a VCR (in the same manner that most digital-satellite receivers can control a VCR). Going the other way, my TiVo will control it with no problems. It would be nice if the digital-video data picked up by the box could be piped into the TiVo and saved to disk (a la DirecTiVo), but it works well enough if you record at best quality (easy to do when you've stuck one or two big (>=100GB) hard drives in your TiVo.
(The only problem I've noticed so far is that the cable box shuts off during a brownout, doesn't come back up in the power-on state when power is back, and the TiVo won't turn it back on when it's putting out no signal. Putting the box on a UPS (I have one powering the cable modem, a 10/100 switch, and the TiVo already) would fix that problem.)
I know why I despise christians. They keep moralizing and thumping their bibles crying "thou shalt not kill", but man, when they really want to kill someone, they have the PR.
Most Paulists will say that 'kill' and 'murder' are two different things,
"Thou shalt not kill" is a mistranslation that found its way into Latin and English translations. The original text would more accurately be translated "thou shalt not murder"...this is the original (Hebrew) text. It is also how it was translated to Greek, so there are some translations that managed to get it right. Thanks for playing, though.
Interesting. When I try the site, I get redirected to another site called mp3mediaworld.com. Did you find the same thing ?
It happened with some of the links. Links to actual music files came back as garbled text...my understanding is that they're supposed to be ZIP archives (why?), but their server's MIME type settings must be seriously fscked since Mozilla tries to display it as text. (Hell, I have Apple II archive files here, and clicking the links with Mozilla brings up the proper download dialog. Two lines in $APACHE_ROOT/conf/mime.conf is all it took for that...and I'd expect that the MIME types for ZIP archives are already configured in every webserver out there.)
Just viewing the site launched endless popup ad windows some of which resized themselves to fill the whole screen, popped more windows when you closed the old ones, etc.
The lizard is your friend...I went there, didn't see any popups at all, and refused their cookies (from multiple servers).
So I guess it's safe.
It's a good thing I didn't upgrade.
IIRC, Win95 was end-of-lifed a while back. Whatever holes remained in Win95 at that time will never be fixed.
(Then again, IE was never an integral part of Win95. You could presumably run Win95 & Mozilla (assuming Mozilla supports Win95...turns out that it does) and not run into these problems.)
Sorry to single you out but it's sad how many posters on/. feel the need to insert an acronym or two just for the hell of it...[w]ould the fifteen seconds that it would have cost you to provide a little clarity kill you?
Abbreviations to refer to the various Star Trek movies might confuse in a forum with a more general audience...but in a forum (such as this) that's visited mainly by geeks and with Star Trek as the subject, it's not unreasonable to expect a certain minimal knowledge of common jargon used by that group of people.
(Besides, a simple Google search would point a n00b in the right direction. If you're not willing to do a minimal amount of fact-finding on your own, maybe you'd find this service more to your liking.)
Yeah because if Paramount has shown anything, it just loves to pack extras into their Star Trek DVDs.
That won't stop them from doing a plain-Jane release now and a director's cut (or whatever) later. (The director's cut of TWOK kicks ass, but I'm guessing that the people who forked over $$$ for the DVD set are a bit miffed that they're not getting the extra goodies. The added scenes improve the movie more than you'd guess.)
Honestly... how can you sell a computer for $200 with a monitor? The cheapest, (refurbished) CRTs that I've ever seen are like $170.
The last CRT monitor I bought was a 15" Acer for somewhere around $100. That was new, BTW. If refurbs are OK, these guys just down the road from me have 17" NEC MultiSync M700s (with built-in speakers and mic) for $100. They probably have cheaper monitors that aren't listed, or you could see what the local Goodwill has available.
Or you can get the SP-90 and flash it with the SP-250's firmware.
How do you go about doing that? I have an SP90, and I don't think it was intended to be upgradable. Do you burn an upgrade CD-R and stick that in (like you do with some DVD players), or do you have to open it up and reprogram the EPROM/Flash/whatever-they-use the hard way?
(As the previous poster said, if you're concerned about compatibility with Linux or whatever, a CD-based MP3 player is the way to go. As long as you can burn CDs, you can get your music into your player. 700 megs for 30 cents or less is also much cheaper storage than anything else on the market (by comparison, the 128MB CompactFlash card my digital camera uses cost about $60 not too long ago).)
What about after Windows boots for the first time? Then the driver CD's come out. And it's install a driver, reboot, install a driver, reboot, and none of that's automatic.
Typically, the only drivers that need a reboot when you install them on Win2K are chipset and video drivers. Nearly everything else can be installed without rebooting (and nearly everything else is autodetected and installed during setup anyway...the only other driver types I might need to install manually are some SCSI and audio drivers).
How much variation in flavor can you get in chicken, beef, etc. just through the animals diet?
Over in England, everything (chicken, beef, etc.) tastes fishy to some extent because fish meal is a significant percentage of the feed. There are workarounds (remove chicken skin, for instance), but it was generally difficult to get meat that didn't taste funny.
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Since when? I've used everything from the K6 on up to the Athlon MP, and I've never had a processor get flaky, burn up, or have compatibility problems with a program.
That's your problem right there. If you run the processor within its design specifications, you won't run into problems. Blaming AMD when your misconfigured (overclocked == misconfigured) computer crashes and burns is just plain stupid. It's as stupid as Tom Pabst getting bent out of shape when an Athlon running without a heatsink commits hari-kari.
If you'd turn the A/C on, you wouldn't have that problem...104's kinda toasty. While I'm sure the temperature inside my computer is in triple-digit territory, the A/C keeps the room temperature in the upper 70s.
Remember: a heatsink can only maintain a certain difference between ambient temperature and processor temperature. Letting room temperature skyrocket means the processor(s) will also run hotter.
Been there, done that...and yes, SVCD encoding on a K6-III-450 was dog-slow, even at moderate quality settings in TMPGEnc. I just upgraded from a 1.0-GHz Athlon to a dual Athlon MP 2100...encode times at TMPGEnc's highest-quality settings went from 11-12 hours for 40-50 minutes of video to 2.5-3 hours. The same task on my old K6-III would've probably taken at least 24 hours...hell, it more than likely would've taken even longer than that.
Last time I checked, the P5 was introduced about eight years ago. It started at 60 MHz and got pushed to 233 MHz before Intel decided to move on to other things.
YHBT. YHL. HAND.
What's wrong with nForce? I don't run one at home (just upgraded to some dual Athlon MP goodness...w00t), but the two nForce-based machines I have at work run as well as any other machine in the shop. The integrated graphics aren't too shabby, and the integrated sound is just about as good as it gets. One runs Win2K Pro while the other runs Linux, and the only difficulty I've run across is that the Linux driver for the onboard NIC is somewhat flaky (fixed by installing a $10 NIC).
Actually, I knew someone who had one and had seen the stuff it could do. Before that, there were occasional mentions of it here and elsewhere, but I don't think I ever saw a TiVo ad until sometime after I already had a TiVo. (Then again, I used to use a pair of VCRs to timeshift everything before getting my TiVo...about a half-dozen programs on each, including some that were on at the same time. The only time I've watched TV with ads in the past several years was when I've visited my parents...they've never gotten into the time-shifting habit. I suppose you could count the past couple of Super Bowls as well, but those ads are different.)
Considering how many ads are content-free, I'd think that most of them are rather poor information sources. About all they might be good at doing is letting you know that a product or service exists.
I suspect more people are familiar with PostScript than Forth...
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(I usually use "This is a test," but seeing as this article is about certain microprocessors with a tool as their codename...)
A basic knowledge of PostScript is useful to tell if a printer or a print server is running properly. By comparison, does anybody use Forth for anything? (I downloaded a couple of Forth interpreters for the Apple II years ago, but never got around to doing anything with them.)
The reviews I saw indicated that they definitely delivered subpar cooling performance as well. The only thing they really had going for them was appearance, and unless you're one of those idiots who adds windows (this kind, not this kind...though some would say the same for the latter) and neon lights to a computer, you're never going to see it when the computer is closed up and shoved under your desk anyway.
To check if your Athlon XP is locked (and to unlock it if it is), you might want to have a look at this article.
I think I've heard something along those lines. I know they're selling 48x drives at least, as I have a 48x12x48 Lite-On at home now. (The spindle of media I'm currently using max out at 40x, though another spindle in my stash of blanks will burn at 48x.)
It'd be even better if they'd lose the JavaScript that takes you from the page you requested to their "turn-cookies-on" page if you've rejected their cookies. (You see the requested page for a split second.) Maybe fixing Mozilla so you can selectively disable JavaScript altogether for certain sites would also do the trick...
If you have trouble memorizing that, you might as well put in your application for full-time employment at McDonald's right now. :-)
Capturing what you do in the average FPS would be silly, but what if you're doing 3D rendering with your graphics card? What you propose would be like ripping CDs by plugging a CD player into your soundcard's line-in jack. What the article envisions would be more like ripping CDs with EAC...you eliminate the digital-to-analog-to-digital conversion.
The digital-cable box I'm using (a Scientific-Atlanta Explorer 2100) has the ability to control a VCR (in the same manner that most digital-satellite receivers can control a VCR). Going the other way, my TiVo will control it with no problems. It would be nice if the digital-video data picked up by the box could be piped into the TiVo and saved to disk (a la DirecTiVo), but it works well enough if you record at best quality (easy to do when you've stuck one or two big (>=100GB) hard drives in your TiVo.
(The only problem I've noticed so far is that the cable box shuts off during a brownout, doesn't come back up in the power-on state when power is back, and the TiVo won't turn it back on when it's putting out no signal. Putting the box on a UPS (I have one powering the cable modem, a 10/100 switch, and the TiVo already) would fix that problem.)
"Thou shalt not kill" is a mistranslation that found its way into Latin and English translations. The original text would more accurately be translated "thou shalt not murder"...this is the original (Hebrew) text. It is also how it was translated to Greek, so there are some translations that managed to get it right. Thanks for playing, though.
It happened with some of the links. Links to actual music files came back as garbled text...my understanding is that they're supposed to be ZIP archives (why?), but their server's MIME type settings must be seriously fscked since Mozilla tries to display it as text. (Hell, I have Apple II archive files here, and clicking the links with Mozilla brings up the proper download dialog. Two lines in $APACHE_ROOT/conf/mime.conf is all it took for that...and I'd expect that the MIME types for ZIP archives are already configured in every webserver out there.)
The lizard is your friend...I went there, didn't see any popups at all, and refused their cookies (from multiple servers).
IIRC, Win95 was end-of-lifed a while back. Whatever holes remained in Win95 at that time will never be fixed.
(Then again, IE was never an integral part of Win95. You could presumably run Win95 & Mozilla (assuming Mozilla supports Win95...turns out that it does) and not run into these problems.)
When's the last time you heard someone here speak of the American Standard Code for Information Interchange? Discussions on the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (or worse, the Consumer Broadband and Digital Television Promotion Act) would get unnecessarily verbose were it not for the various abbreviations and acronyms that are in common use.
Abbreviations to refer to the various Star Trek movies might confuse in a forum with a more general audience...but in a forum (such as this) that's visited mainly by geeks and with Star Trek as the subject, it's not unreasonable to expect a certain minimal knowledge of common jargon used by that group of people.
(Besides, a simple Google search would point a n00b in the right direction. If you're not willing to do a minimal amount of fact-finding on your own, maybe you'd find this service more to your liking.)
That won't stop them from doing a plain-Jane release now and a director's cut (or whatever) later. (The director's cut of TWOK kicks ass, but I'm guessing that the people who forked over $$$ for the DVD set are a bit miffed that they're not getting the extra goodies. The added scenes improve the movie more than you'd guess.)
The last CRT monitor I bought was a 15" Acer for somewhere around $100. That was new, BTW. If refurbs are OK, these guys just down the road from me have 17" NEC MultiSync M700s (with built-in speakers and mic) for $100. They probably have cheaper monitors that aren't listed, or you could see what the local Goodwill has available.
How do you go about doing that? I have an SP90, and I don't think it was intended to be upgradable. Do you burn an upgrade CD-R and stick that in (like you do with some DVD players), or do you have to open it up and reprogram the EPROM/Flash/whatever-they-use the hard way?
(As the previous poster said, if you're concerned about compatibility with Linux or whatever, a CD-based MP3 player is the way to go. As long as you can burn CDs, you can get your music into your player. 700 megs for 30 cents or less is also much cheaper storage than anything else on the market (by comparison, the 128MB CompactFlash card my digital camera uses cost about $60 not too long ago).)
Typically, the only drivers that need a reboot when you install them on Win2K are chipset and video drivers. Nearly everything else can be installed without rebooting (and nearly everything else is autodetected and installed during setup anyway...the only other driver types I might need to install manually are some SCSI and audio drivers).
Over in England, everything (chicken, beef, etc.) tastes fishy to some extent because fish meal is a significant percentage of the feed. There are workarounds (remove chicken skin, for instance), but it was generally difficult to get meat that didn't taste funny.