The biggest giveaway with the new invisible cloaks it most people do not ignore the powercord leading to no where. Microsoft has fortunately fixed this issue by forcing you to agree to disregard the powercord, in their new licensing.
I can't wait until someone hacks into the robot, now geeks can be murderers too! They won't have to be warded off by their size and lack of muscle anymore, they can just remotely mow people over.
It sounds like a really good idea, the game doesn't sound good, but the episode thing is nice.
I am not heavily into games, but the few I do choose are good, and I'm picky about it. Often I would finish the game and just want more. Once you are hooked onto characters and the plot of a good rpg/action, you will undoubtably pay for the next part. The key, of course, is making a good game in the first place, and getting people hooked. You can't charge too much for each episode, and then not give enough to the person paying for it. I hope they issue a quality control measure somehow.
I always wanted Planescape: Torment to continue (although, that would be kind of hard to do, maybe a resurrection by the lady of pain?)or even a game like Deus Ex would have been awesome, it had a great story. I enjoyed Arcanum, but felt it lacked on the main plot. I can't even think of games that would be just awesome to keep going, but in itself, end each episode.
I'm still looking for a good game with an incredible story that just doesn't end, and the developers just abandon it.
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The real question is why not do it? You can not just work on one part of science at a time, you must progress the whole pack slowly. Because a robot that can interact with us isn't just about a robot maid, its about the future, and how computers will soon be able to know what we want when we say something. Computers will not be so anal, when you give a command, it might not take it literally as proper english suggests, but how we actually talk. I might sense our emotions and understand someone is mad and doesn't mean what they say. There are so many applications for the future.
Think of the star trek doors, how do they know when to open? It isn't motion sensored primitive stuff, since they will walk right by it, or close to it and it won't open, but it is based on a AI that monitors your motion, and walking patterns, maybe your conversation too. I know its just a show with guys pulling the doors, but thats what it is meant to be anyways.
I don't know about what wars you have seen, but its not like star wars here. You don't get in a fighter plane, and see perhaps a thousand enemy ships and just go nuts on all their asses. Real combat is just a series of quick strikes, one plane never handles more than one target in the same area at once, if there is more, they have backup to take it. Even the laser guided bombs would be very inaccurate compared to a laser. And I highly doubt the first generation craft will switch to lasers only. There will be a mix of warhead and laser weapons.
There is one massive benefit to the laser method though. Carrying large amounts of 2000 or 500lb bombs is extremely taxing on your fuel, same with ammo and other sidewinder, AMRAM warheads. One or two laser cannons can replace most of those in the future, but not yet. Small warheads will almost be eliminated immediately, the load will be reduced considerably. When you start to think, how much does 1 sidewinder cost? How much does it cost to fire a laser? There are massive savings.
In the future you will be able to have automatic tracking turrets, and adjust the power level if all you want to do is take out a fighter, and crank it up for something heavier. Unlike missiles, the load of laser you can have is much greater than physical warheads, you are limited by power/fuel. And when you get rid of several tons of weapons, you can carry more fuel.
I would say HL can bring a top of the line DELL to its knees, but not a custom built machine. My machine is 9 months old now, and it doesn't even get stressed, I get twice the frames on way more advanced games, their fps limit sees that most machines now are not stressed.
The original radeons ran that game at its max fps, same with the gf2 gts cards.
do you understand how hardware works? Lower resolution benchmarks are bound by cpu, not graphics cards. Thats why they bench at such high res's because it our cpus can't increase as fast in speed as our video cards are (parallel processing). Anand doesn't even benchmark at 640 anymore because GF4s can max out the cpu at 1024 without suffering framerate drops.
Has anyone ever looked at the MSDS or any data sheets on caffeine? The stuff is extremely toxic, it is a hazdarous material. I do not drink soft drinks or coffee because of it.
I'm really getting sick of these experts who are influenced by $$$$. Caffeine is no good for you, just because you don't use a toxic substance in concentrated form, doesn't mean it won't kill you. One thing that is worse is aspartame, it is even more toxic, and cancerous above a concentration of 0.1%. Amazing how other experts can't find the reason for the rise in cancer levels....
comes from one source, and I tracked it down over months. Its ICQ. You enter you mail address there, and I was getting 5-6 a day from them, I removed it, and I'm down to 1 every other day, but I know they are still from ICQ lists, as its the same types of emails.
You can trust most companies and websites, you can't publize the address on a message board, website, or any place that can be automatically stolen by some program.
On my personal email, I get no spam at all, and my web email, I just get the odd one now, it isn't hard, just don't give your address away. I am sure some of it is due to my ISPs filtering techniques, as I can not receive a legit email from someone in russia.
That did happen initially, with the 75 GXP series, but the 60s started to fail too, and the 120s have the warning on them, it isn't the used platters (to an extent it is, that is why there are so many more 75 failures then 60s) but the new IBM GMR technology is actually creating a large thermal gradient in the platters, over time, the wear patterns caused by the heat led the drive to failure.
IBM found a way to pack more stuff, and make things faster, for a bunch less money. The problem was IBM did not charge less, they charged more for their drives, and of course, they did not last.
It doesn't increase transfer speed, it just decreases seek times. A new 5400 rpm drive transfers very similar to a 7200rpm drive. Don't post unless you have a brain please.
The primary use of SCSI (15k) is to be able to server up a whole bunch of files very very quickly for a server.
Removable parts are slow, it is the nature of the beast, always has been. Have you heard a 15k SCSI drive? not something I want running 24/7 in my computer near my TV, I'd like to be able to hear my TV sometimes....
286 HDs were quite a bit different then what we have now, 486s are not, they underwent a large change. 20 years ago, HDs were the same principles, but nothing similar to what we have now.
Realisticly, most computers have 2 or 3 PCI devices as a max. The SB live! was an awful product, causing troubles with new and existing hardware, the drivers and product design is lousy and it uses way too many resources. I've switched to a Santa Cruz card, the difference is simply incredible.
35MB/sec is slow when you consider the space of the current HDs, and the rate at which every other "modern" component is increasing in speed. HD sustained transfers are not getting much better, between model #s you see very little difference. Even in SCSI, the biggest change is the seek times, not transfer rates.
I suggest you stop using floppies and move to something... well, better. It is the only technology to slow down, I have run little tests and found drives out of 486s ran significantly faster then the cheap crap that is sold now. My internet connection is much faster than floppies, several times faster, and far more reliable. I haven't used one in 4 years, maybe more. USB keys are one of my favourite ways to transfer data (if the internet is not available), but I used CD-Rs most of the time.
I am not talking about storage, nobody needs that much storage, we already know that. I am talking about speed, I know my computers, and I always buy the fastest HD possible, since it is the slowest thing that you use. PCI bus may be "technically" slower, but soundcards, network cards, and anything else you have on PCI does not take up much bandwidth, so it is a non issue.
If you knew much about PCI, you know there is a reason why 64bit is not popular, you obviously do not know.... PCI will be like ISA next year anyways. Take a look at transfer rates for HD benchmarking, you'll notice that 7200rpm drives are barely above that of 5400rpm. I have 800 mp3s, and 50 gigs free, of course I don't need more storage. But I would love if my HD didn't crap out on loading large programs, it takes forever. Sustained transfer rates are pitiful, the whole ATA100 and ATA133 standard is pointless, you don't use nearly that much.
CD-ROM, DVD, thats all removable media, it does not count for being slow, by design, it is slow. Use your brain before you post, really.
I could buy a 100Mhz P1, load it with a couple gigs of RAM... but that doesn't make it faster. When you have large 100+ Gig drives, you need the speed of the drive to actually move that much more space around, and it is just not there. HD technology has not changed since the P1s, they use higher density storage, but the methods to grab data are essentially the same. That is the lack of innovation, they need to work on multiply reads, bigger bandwidth, caches, etc, not just rpms, that means very little to someone doing a large transfer.
HDs are currently the slowest thing in your computer, it is the ultimate bottleneck. This is getting worse and worse each time, the performance jumps just are not present in this industry. People will not go out and buy a new HD like they would a graphics card, because the performance increases just a few percent over the model for HDs. Graphics cards double in speed in 6 to 9 months.
CPUs increase massively, and there is still the enthusiast market to drive it, but there are no HD enthusiast markets, not until the manufacturers think of something creative in design (and no, IBM, unprecidented failure doesn't count). It took this long to get a 8meg cache drive, and we all know how cheap memory is. There is serious lack of innovation in this field.
I'd like to know, what if someone hacked into the EULA, changed it, could that be legally binding? What is the difference between what MS does, and what the person that hacked into it did? I mean, you still pressed I agree, it still would have MS's agreement, it is like someone making a change to a contract on the second to last revision. Its done all the time, why not here?
I've tried to buy PC components everywhere, and there are a few places that just don't make sense.
Onlines stores are not bad, as long as they are a big name. Newegg is pretty good, but honestly, if you don't know what you are doing, and end up getting a defective part, or just but parts that are plain incompatible, then the return process just destroyed the whole point of the online cheapness. I started buying locally, and I still do, the prices are only slightly higher then online (you have to hunt for the right store, just like online), and I can return a part no hassle, just with a drive or walk to the store. No days worth of shipping, no misorders, shipping fees, etc.
The only good point of buying online is saving tax money here. But if I have to cross the border from the US to Canada, it is the biggest rip off yet, since they charge you all the tax at the border, plus their outrageous service fee.
I still do occasionally buy special parts online, that most stores, and most online stores won't carry.
Don't go to a retail store, the prices are disgusting, even if they offer their lowest price guarantee, $60 higher per part is not uncommon, they just know how ignorant 99% of people are, and if it says its the lowest price, it must be, right?
Overall... buy local, a small store, tucked in a corner somewhere, they will have many resellers working out of there, oem customers, and they will order almost anything you want if they don't have it. Their prices are better then most webstores, but not as good as newegg, but then again, you can see what you are buying, not some generic jpg that really isn't what they are selling, because I see that a lot.
yes, that makes well in the marketing dept. but not so well in performance area. A large L1 and L2 cache raises performance far more then a few Mhz jumps. Just take a look at the increases of cache over the years on chips, the performance boost is incredible, its just costly to add that much memory to the die.
Anybody that plays a sport and uses the most up to date, expensive high-tech equipment is just follower, and really doesn't know how to play. A lot of racquet sports changed racquet sizes years ago, they are bigger now, but I still use my old trusty racquet, because it is not how big something is, it is how you use it. A bigger better piece of equipment will not help you play unless you totally suck, you need to learn your own style, and sweet spots on your equipment.
Thats the reason I have no respect for more then 90% of (non-pro) golfers out there.
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Its lucky for microsoft that their main office isn't in Toronto, otherwise people might find out something in microsoft isn't secure.
The biggest giveaway with the new invisible cloaks it most people do not ignore the powercord leading to no where. Microsoft has fortunately fixed this issue by forcing you to agree to disregard the powercord, in their new licensing.
I can't wait until someone hacks into the robot, now geeks can be murderers too! They won't have to be warded off by their size and lack of muscle anymore, they can just remotely mow people over.
/. their email, why not. They are looking for employees and now you cut off their primary method to get it. Good job guys.
You could have at least put another link up for people to harass.
It sounds like a really good idea, the game doesn't sound good, but the episode thing is nice.
I am not heavily into games, but the few I do choose are good, and I'm picky about it. Often I would finish the game and just want more. Once you are hooked onto characters and the plot of a good rpg/action, you will undoubtably pay for the next part.
The key, of course, is making a good game in the first place, and getting people hooked. You can't charge too much for each episode, and then not give enough to the person paying for it. I hope they issue a quality control measure somehow.
I always wanted Planescape: Torment to continue (although, that would be kind of hard to do, maybe a resurrection by the lady of pain?)or even a game like Deus Ex would have been awesome, it had a great story. I enjoyed Arcanum, but felt it lacked on the main plot. I can't even think of games that would be just awesome to keep going, but in itself, end each episode.
I'm still looking for a good game with an incredible story that just doesn't end, and the developers just abandon it.
The real question is why not do it?
You can not just work on one part of science at a time, you must progress the whole pack slowly. Because a robot that can interact with us isn't just about a robot maid, its about the future, and how computers will soon be able to know what we want when we say something. Computers will not be so anal, when you give a command, it might not take it literally as proper english suggests, but how we actually talk. I might sense our emotions and understand someone is mad and doesn't mean what they say. There are so many applications for the future.
Think of the star trek doors, how do they know when to open? It isn't motion sensored primitive stuff, since they will walk right by it, or close to it and it won't open, but it is based on a AI that monitors your motion, and walking patterns, maybe your conversation too. I know its just a show with guys pulling the doors, but thats what it is meant to be anyways.
I don't know about what wars you have seen, but its not like star wars here. You don't get in a fighter plane, and see perhaps a thousand enemy ships and just go nuts on all their asses. Real combat is just a series of quick strikes, one plane never handles more than one target in the same area at once, if there is more, they have backup to take it.
Even the laser guided bombs would be very inaccurate compared to a laser. And I highly doubt the first generation craft will switch to lasers only. There will be a mix of warhead and laser weapons.
There is one massive benefit to the laser method though. Carrying large amounts of 2000 or 500lb bombs is extremely taxing on your fuel, same with ammo and other sidewinder, AMRAM warheads. One or two laser cannons can replace most of those in the future, but not yet.
Small warheads will almost be eliminated immediately, the load will be reduced considerably. When you start to think, how much does 1 sidewinder cost? How much does it cost to fire a laser? There are massive savings.
In the future you will be able to have automatic tracking turrets, and adjust the power level if all you want to do is take out a fighter, and crank it up for something heavier. Unlike missiles, the load of laser you can have is much greater than physical warheads, you are limited by power/fuel. And when you get rid of several tons of weapons, you can carry more fuel.
ah, I can see it now.
a Thank you Sys Admin card
from Dog....
yes, I myself can not wait for welfare appreciation day.
ya, I knew that. Where they hell were you?
I would say HL can bring a top of the line DELL to its knees, but not a custom built machine. My machine is 9 months old now, and it doesn't even get stressed, I get twice the frames on way more advanced games, their fps limit sees that most machines now are not stressed.
The original radeons ran that game at its max fps, same with the gf2 gts cards.
do you understand how hardware works?
Lower resolution benchmarks are bound by cpu, not graphics cards. Thats why they bench at such high res's because it our cpus can't increase as fast in speed as our video cards are (parallel processing).
Anand doesn't even benchmark at 640 anymore because GF4s can max out the cpu at 1024 without suffering framerate drops.
why do you think they bought 220 of them?
They can now have several bags of potato processing.
these guys aren't stupid!
Has anyone ever looked at the MSDS or any data sheets on caffeine? The stuff is extremely toxic, it is a hazdarous material. I do not drink soft drinks or coffee because of it.
I'm really getting sick of these experts who are influenced by $$$$. Caffeine is no good for you, just because you don't use a toxic substance in concentrated form, doesn't mean it won't kill you. One thing that is worse is aspartame, it is even more toxic, and cancerous above a concentration of 0.1%.
Amazing how other experts can't find the reason for the rise in cancer levels....
comes from one source, and I tracked it down over months. Its ICQ.
You enter you mail address there, and I was getting 5-6 a day from them, I removed it, and I'm down to 1 every other day, but I know they are still from ICQ lists, as its the same types of emails.
You can trust most companies and websites, you can't publize the address on a message board, website, or any place that can be automatically stolen by some program.
On my personal email, I get no spam at all, and my web email, I just get the odd one now, it isn't hard, just don't give your address away. I am sure some of it is due to my ISPs filtering techniques, as I can not receive a legit email from someone in russia.
That did happen initially, with the 75 GXP series, but the 60s started to fail too, and the 120s have the warning on them, it isn't the used platters (to an extent it is, that is why there are so many more 75 failures then 60s) but the new IBM GMR technology is actually creating a large thermal gradient in the platters, over time, the wear patterns caused by the heat led the drive to failure.
IBM found a way to pack more stuff, and make things faster, for a bunch less money. The problem was IBM did not charge less, they charged more for their drives, and of course, they did not last.
It doesn't increase transfer speed, it just decreases seek times. A new 5400 rpm drive transfers very similar to a 7200rpm drive. Don't post unless you have a brain please.
The primary use of SCSI (15k) is to be able to server up a whole bunch of files very very quickly for a server.
Removable parts are slow, it is the nature of the beast, always has been. Have you heard a 15k SCSI drive? not something I want running 24/7 in my computer near my TV, I'd like to be able to hear my TV sometimes....
286 HDs were quite a bit different then what we have now, 486s are not, they underwent a large change. 20 years ago, HDs were the same principles, but nothing similar to what we have now.
Realisticly, most computers have 2 or 3 PCI devices as a max. The SB live! was an awful product, causing troubles with new and existing hardware, the drivers and product design is lousy and it uses way too many resources. I've switched to a Santa Cruz card, the difference is simply incredible.
35MB/sec is slow when you consider the space of the current HDs, and the rate at which every other "modern" component is increasing in speed. HD sustained transfers are not getting much better, between model #s you see very little difference. Even in SCSI, the biggest change is the seek times, not transfer rates.
I suggest you stop using floppies and move to something... well, better. It is the only technology to slow down, I have run little tests and found drives out of 486s ran significantly faster then the cheap crap that is sold now. My internet connection is much faster than floppies, several times faster, and far more reliable. I haven't used one in 4 years, maybe more. USB keys are one of my favourite ways to transfer data (if the internet is not available), but I used CD-Rs most of the time.
I am not talking about storage, nobody needs that much storage, we already know that. I am talking about speed, I know my computers, and I always buy the fastest HD possible, since it is the slowest thing that you use. PCI bus may be "technically" slower, but soundcards, network cards, and anything else you have on PCI does not take up much bandwidth, so it is a non issue.
If you knew much about PCI, you know there is a reason why 64bit is not popular, you obviously do not know.... PCI will be like ISA next year anyways.
Take a look at transfer rates for HD benchmarking, you'll notice that 7200rpm drives are barely above that of 5400rpm. I have 800 mp3s, and 50 gigs free, of course I don't need more storage. But I would love if my HD didn't crap out on loading large programs, it takes forever. Sustained transfer rates are pitiful, the whole ATA100 and ATA133 standard is pointless, you don't use nearly that much.
CD-ROM, DVD, thats all removable media, it does not count for being slow, by design, it is slow. Use your brain before you post, really.
I could buy a 100Mhz P1, load it with a couple gigs of RAM... but that doesn't make it faster. When you have large 100+ Gig drives, you need the speed of the drive to actually move that much more space around, and it is just not there.
HD technology has not changed since the P1s, they use higher density storage, but the methods to grab data are essentially the same. That is the lack of innovation, they need to work on multiply reads, bigger bandwidth, caches, etc, not just rpms, that means very little to someone doing a large transfer.
HDs are currently the slowest thing in your computer, it is the ultimate bottleneck. This is getting worse and worse each time, the performance jumps just are not present in this industry. People will not go out and buy a new HD like they would a graphics card, because the performance increases just a few percent over the model for HDs. Graphics cards double in speed in 6 to 9 months.
CPUs increase massively, and there is still the enthusiast market to drive it, but there are no HD enthusiast markets, not until the manufacturers think of something creative in design (and no, IBM, unprecidented failure doesn't count). It took this long to get a 8meg cache drive, and we all know how cheap memory is.
There is serious lack of innovation in this field.
I'd like to know, what if someone hacked into the EULA, changed it, could that be legally binding?
What is the difference between what MS does, and what the person that hacked into it did? I mean, you still pressed I agree, it still would have MS's agreement, it is like someone making a change to a contract on the second to last revision. Its done all the time, why not here?
No kidding, when are they going to come out with a large penis/large breast combo deal, I'll keep ignoring them until I get one I can afford.
I've tried to buy PC components everywhere, and there are a few places that just don't make sense.
Onlines stores are not bad, as long as they are a big name. Newegg is pretty good, but honestly, if you don't know what you are doing, and end up getting a defective part, or just but parts that are plain incompatible, then the return process just destroyed the whole point of the online cheapness.
I started buying locally, and I still do, the prices are only slightly higher then online (you have to hunt for the right store, just like online), and I can return a part no hassle, just with a drive or walk to the store. No days worth of shipping, no misorders, shipping fees, etc.
The only good point of buying online is saving tax money here. But if I have to cross the border from the US to Canada, it is the biggest rip off yet, since they charge you all the tax at the border, plus their outrageous service fee.
I still do occasionally buy special parts online, that most stores, and most online stores won't carry.
Don't go to a retail store, the prices are disgusting, even if they offer their lowest price guarantee, $60 higher per part is not uncommon, they just know how ignorant 99% of people are, and if it says its the lowest price, it must be, right?
Overall... buy local, a small store, tucked in a corner somewhere, they will have many resellers working out of there, oem customers, and they will order almost anything you want if they don't have it. Their prices are better then most webstores, but not as good as newegg, but then again, you can see what you are buying, not some generic jpg that really isn't what they are selling, because I see that a lot.
yes, that makes well in the marketing dept. but not so well in performance area. A large L1 and L2 cache raises performance far more then a few Mhz jumps. Just take a look at the increases of cache over the years on chips, the performance boost is incredible, its just costly to add that much memory to the die.
Anybody that plays a sport and uses the most up to date, expensive high-tech equipment is just follower, and really doesn't know how to play. A lot of racquet sports changed racquet sizes years ago, they are bigger now, but I still use my old trusty racquet, because it is not how big something is, it is how you use it.
A bigger better piece of equipment will not help you play unless you totally suck, you need to learn your own style, and sweet spots on your equipment.
Thats the reason I have no respect for more then 90% of (non-pro) golfers out there.