Yes, but computers drain more power when at full throttle compared to idle. Not a big deal ya, but I'm an efficiency freak. I'm one of those that goes on "turning off lightswitch missions". I blame it on my Dad.:)
You can keep them as just that, spare cycles. Your computer will be more repsonsive, it will run cooler, last longer, and drain less power, not necessarily in that order.
Do what you want, but I gave up all those use your spares cycles type programs long ago because of these reasons.
mplayer doesn't play the latest sorensen encoded stuff, but it does play some earlier sorensen stuff thru emulation now. I was able to play it with quicktime 5 via the crossover plugin just fine (although a bit choppy even on a 1.33 ghz athlon and gf2 gts).
And your point? There's no mention in the parent post that's he talking about being CPU bound. You can just as well be a lazy/inefficient programmer in the realm of drawing to your video card also, using lots of uneccessary polys for character models, etc. (which from what it sounds, this might be the case)
You would be 7 or 8 years too late. If you don't read the article, please, at least read the original post!
Yes I read the darn article and the original post. You totally missed my point. My point was that since I don't remember learning the smile from anyone, I might tend to think I invented it. Well, I really don't feel that way, but if I can't remember who I learned it from in 1989 or if I even learned it from anyone, then imagine if I first used it in 1982!:)))))))))))
And who invented the multiple lipped smiley? I want to shoot them! [=
I'm sure someone used a smiley before that time. It's a pretty logical way to make a smile with only text characters. A typewriter is a good possibility of a device that could have created a smile that someone else gave, and I thought of also when I first read the article.
For all I know, I invented the smile in 1989/1990? when I first joined irc through Cleveland Freenet. Heh, ok, I know I didn't. Besides I'm way to modest to ever claim credit to anything of that magnitude, but hell if I can remember the first place that I saw it, recognized it, or used it.:)
I don't doubt that this guy came up with a smiley face on his own, but I'd call this guy "an inventor" of the smile, not "the inventor". I'd find it pretty hard to believe that no one ever typed a smile in a personal letter or what not that someone typed to someone else long ago.
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heh, I know Mike Meyers said that in a "Coffee Talk" skit on SNL.
"I'm getting verclempt (sp?) again. I'll give you a topic. The Holy Roman Empire was neither Holy, Roman, nor an Empire. Discuss."
Or something there abouts, the only reason I remember it, was because I was taking a medieval history class at the time, and we just learned what the Holy Roman Empire was, and thought it kind of strange for SNL to mention the HRE as I'd never heard of it before I took the class.:)
Or you could be momemnts away from capturing the flag in your favorite CTF style game when suddenly the game closes for some stupid reason (IM received, accidentally hit windows 95 key, game crashes.)
Heh, the first thing I do to a new keyboard is pop off the leftmost win95 key and toss it in the trash. Although the keyboard I happen to be using now is a pre-win95 key model, from an old Digital PC (P90). The key action is still good. (my new logitech kb is better, I swear I can type 20 wpm faster on that thing) But I bet this thing's gonna be a colletors piece one day.:)
Heh, I remember when Doom first came out, pentium systems didn't even exist yet, it ran like dirt on the 486's, even on a dx-66. I never really enjoyed multiplayer (by then Doom 2) until I first played it on a p60 that ran it smooth as silk in DOS, as win95 wasn't out yet. Oh and I remember thinking why would anyone want anything more than 320x200!? That's crisp as can be!
That's probably what Doom3 is going to be like, I don't know how feasible it will be to get 80 fps on current hardware. You might even have to wait a year before cheap hardware will become available to the masses. It seems like they're aiming really high with doom3, as I've read a few places that they're planning on stretching the doom3 engine out for quite awhile.
Your xbox comment is definitely intersting. c2c architechture would mean it would be an easier port to xbox/ps2/gc/whatever new system is out by then. A lot of companies are moving away from the pc, I wouldn't doubt if Id is just positioning themselves to be on both sides of the fence, primarity because of the vast ammount of money companies see on console game sales. Plus support on console games is virtually nil, you put the game in and it works because of controlled hardware and OS.
As the Radeon 9700 Pro begins its journey into the hands of the fortunate few that are spending $399 on a video card, we're here to bring you a final review of the card based on shipping hardware.
good point. though i must say, if you're not technically inclined enough, even the simple mod chip and program (no, i don't know how to mod them either... yet), are out of their knowledge base to such an extent that it's not worth it. oh, and i see you went to OU. heh, our homecomings > your holloweens.
True, but that's where ebay fills the gap, it's probably not to hard to find a region free dvd player on there that's already set up and ready to go. If you can't figure out/don't care to figure out ebay, then chances are that you're not really the dvd type of person either, or the type of person that simply returns the dvd because it "doesn't work".:)
Heh's Halloween's were nuts, I personally prefer a TAD smaller party. Maybe one that you can carry around your beverage of choice without being beaten to the ground and arrested.:) Where'd you go to school at? I can't find it on your profile and your email is hidden.
The main problem with the home theaters now is that I you can't get the latest movies when the come out. I spose waiting 6-11 months or so for it to come out on DVD isn't too too bad. But there are some movies I want to see when they come out, such as the lotr movies.
I just recently finished putting together my home theater, and it's great, so basically all I want to see in theaters are those "must see em now" movies, or the "dang I'm bored and wanna go out somewhere" movies.
It's not the that the general population can't figure it out. It's that the general population just doesn't know enough to care, or it has affected them enough for them to care. Once people in the US start buying dvd's that are region locked out, THAT's when people will start caring and figuring out. Oh if I buy this player then I can play anything. Or if I burn this firmware to a cdr and run it, my player will be upgraded to region free, or whatever.
Take me for instance, I consider myself to be rather technically inclined. Do I own a region free dvd player? nope. Do I have anything other than a region 1 dvd? nope. Do I currently have any clue how to mod a dvd player to make it region free? nope. But, you can bet you ass as soon as I buy a region > 1 dvd that I'll figure out how to play it, either under linux, or whatever.
It's a amazing how people don't know jack about things don't affect them. The nerve.
Dunno if the google toolbar will work in it, as I only use IE6 for work related stuff (for some crazy reason 90% of our customers run IE, because of some retarded thing called a monopoly that I don't quite understand) , anyway I use mozilla for everything else.:)
I personally prefer to pay $50 and be done with it. And leave it up to the community to run the servers.
3 id.
I like an RPG now and then, but an online one just doesn't fit in with my lifestyle. There was a time when I could spend endless hours playing games, but now, I just want my quick fix, and then go do something else, with *gasp* other people.
I sit in front of my computer 8 hours a day working, do I really need yet another reason to spend more time in front of it?:)
Why must providers always assume that someone who sets up a home network is a bandwidth hog?
That was just an example for uses of their ultra link. I don't think they were accusing people of being bandwidth hogs. I believe the excite users were just annoyed that they got forced onto a att's standard, slower service. It still seems like a good service to me. They are in fact giving people the chance to get a faster connection, catering to these so called bandwidth hogs. The more computers on a link, the more bandwidth on average will be used, so those users may want a faster connection, which they offer. If you're cheap, like me, then you have the option to stay on the slower connection. ATT's not dumb, they know what it takes to make money, and you can't be giving everyone an equivallent of a home t1 for $40/mo and expect to make money.
It's just that one person downloading something on a slow connection will shoot the latency up for everyone, because the link will become saturation, delaying packets. If you allow 3mpbs/sec for download then chances are whatever you're downloading won't be going that fast, so you won't be the bottle neck and your connection won't be saturated. And you won't annoying other people on your connection say playing quake3 due to the high latency a saturated connection will give. Therefore, it's good for home networks.
I personally pay 67/mo for a "512 symmetric business class" cable modem, it's great so far. There's also the 256 sym service for say 23/mo? for home users, but I wanted the faster connection because I work from home. I had 384 sdsl before, it was fine for me, I never have to download more than a hundred fifty megs or so at a time anyway--it went fast enough for me. Getting a game demo or what have you.
Sure, I used to be a bandwidth hog myself, downloading the isos and movies like crazy at 650 megs a pop, but I've outgrown it for the most part, with the occasional regression.:) Anymore it's mostly like a freebsd iso or something tho.:)
The rice would expand with water in the bird's stomach and also make them explode as far as I know. I've never seen either method in action, nor do I intend to, as I try to respect all living creatures to a point. (I still squash icky bugs that wander into my house)
Doh, I meant duel boot boot machine. As in an MS OS along with a competing one on the same machine.
la la la, here is the space that I waste time typing while my two minutes are up. hrm, has it been two minutes yet? <hits submit, then back> nope 1 minute left... oh hell how annoying. it would be nice if people that were above a certain karma level didn't have this restriction.
Microsoft has been forbidding OEM's to ship machines with a competeing OS on it for awhile now. I don't think it was flat out illegal, MS just said they wouldn't do business to the vendor anymore if they did. I'm paraphrasing of course, but that was my general gist of the issue. There was a/. article about it maybe a year or so ago.
hrm, when trying to send a mail like that to exim I get a "unknown local part" error message on send. Maybe it's something that got inadvertantly turned off on our mail server. unfortunately searching stuff like that on www.exim.org is like "hey it's needle in haystack time". That definitely sounds like something I'd be interested in. But I kind of like the idea that I can totally turn off the email address, not just bitch about then spam as it comes in because I know how it came from.
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Yes, but computers drain more power when at full throttle compared to idle. Not a big deal ya, but I'm an efficiency freak. I'm one of those that goes on "turning off lightswitch missions". I blame it on my Dad. :)
You can keep them as just that, spare cycles. Your computer will be more repsonsive, it will run cooler, last longer, and drain less power, not necessarily in that order.
Do what you want, but I gave up all those use your spares cycles type programs long ago because of these reasons.
Actually, it's pretty damn nice so far. I'm quite suprised.
https works great, cookies work, bookmarks work. And it renders stuff great. And it's FAST! Who woulda thunk it?
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Slashdot today is quite an impressive collection of concise facts following each article.
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mplayer doesn't play the latest sorensen encoded stuff, but it does play some earlier sorensen stuff thru emulation now. I was able to play it with quicktime 5 via the crossover plugin just fine (although a bit choppy even on a 1.33 ghz athlon and gf2 gts).
The parent is a quote from the book, I'm sure he knows it's tuesday and not thursday.
Besides, thursday is way funnier anyway.
And your point? There's no mention in the parent post that's he talking about being CPU bound. You can just as well be a lazy/inefficient programmer in the realm of drawing to your video card also, using lots of uneccessary polys for character models, etc. (which from what it sounds, this might be the case)
You would be 7 or 8 years too late.
:)))))))))))
If you don't read the article, please, at least read the original post!
Yes I read the darn article and the original post. You totally missed my point. My point was that since I don't remember learning the smile from anyone, I might tend to think I invented it. Well, I really don't feel that way, but if I can't remember who I learned it from in 1989 or if I even learned it from anyone, then imagine if I first used it in 1982!
And who invented the multiple lipped smiley? I want to shoot them! [=
I'm sure someone used a smiley before that time. It's a pretty logical way to make a smile with only text characters. A typewriter is a good possibility of a device that could have created a smile that someone else gave, and I thought of also when I first read the article.
:)
For all I know, I invented the smile in 1989/1990? when I first joined irc through Cleveland Freenet. Heh, ok, I know I didn't. Besides I'm way to modest to ever claim credit to anything of that magnitude, but hell if I can remember the first place that I saw it, recognized it, or used it.
I don't doubt that this guy came up with a smiley face on his own, but I'd call this guy "an inventor" of the smile, not "the inventor". I'd find it pretty hard to believe that no one ever typed a smile in a personal letter or what not that someone typed to someone else long ago.
heh, I know Mike Meyers said that in a "Coffee Talk" skit on SNL.
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"I'm getting verclempt (sp?) again. I'll give you a topic. The Holy Roman Empire was neither Holy, Roman, nor an Empire. Discuss."
Or something there abouts, the only reason I remember it, was because I was taking a medieval history class at the time, and we just learned what the Holy Roman Empire was, and thought it kind of strange for SNL to mention the HRE as I'd never heard of it before I took the class.
Look a smiley! I'm on topic.
Of course, we all know about denoser, right?
Or you could be momemnts away from capturing the flag in your favorite CTF style game when suddenly the game closes for some stupid reason (IM received, accidentally hit windows 95 key, game crashes.)
:)
Heh, the first thing I do to a new keyboard is pop off the leftmost win95 key and toss it in the trash. Although the keyboard I happen to be using now is a pre-win95 key model, from an old Digital PC (P90). The key action is still good. (my new logitech kb is better, I swear I can type 20 wpm faster on that thing) But I bet this thing's gonna be a colletors piece one day.
Heh, I remember when Doom first came out, pentium systems didn't even exist yet, it ran like dirt on the 486's, even on a dx-66. I never really enjoyed multiplayer (by then Doom 2) until I first played it on a p60 that ran it smooth as silk in DOS, as win95 wasn't out yet. Oh and I remember thinking why would anyone want anything more than 320x200!? That's crisp as can be!
That's probably what Doom3 is going to be like, I don't know how feasible it will be to get 80 fps on current hardware. You might even have to wait a year before cheap hardware will become available to the masses. It seems like they're aiming really high with doom3, as I've read a few places that they're planning on stretching the doom3 engine out for quite awhile.
Your xbox comment is definitely intersting. c2c architechture would mean it would be an easier port to xbox/ps2/gc/whatever new system is out by then. A lot of companies are moving away from the pc, I wouldn't doubt if Id is just positioning themselves to be on both sides of the fence, primarity because of the vast ammount of money companies see on console game sales. Plus support on console games is virtually nil, you put the game in and it works because of controlled hardware and OS.
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As the Radeon 9700 Pro begins its journey into the hands of the fortunate few that are spending $399 on a video card, we're here to bring you a final review of the card based on shipping hardware.
good point. though i must say, if you're not technically inclined enough, even the simple mod chip and program (no, i don't know how to mod them either... yet), are out of their knowledge base to such an extent that it's not worth it. oh, and i see you went to OU. heh, our homecomings > your holloweens.
:)
:) Where'd you go to school at? I can't find it on your profile and your email is hidden.
True, but that's where ebay fills the gap, it's probably not to hard to find a region free dvd player on there that's already set up and ready to go. If you can't figure out/don't care to figure out ebay, then chances are that you're not really the dvd type of person either, or the type of person that simply returns the dvd because it "doesn't work".
Heh's Halloween's were nuts, I personally prefer a TAD smaller party. Maybe one that you can carry around your beverage of choice without being beaten to the ground and arrested.
The main problem with the home theaters now is that I you can't get the latest movies when the come out. I spose waiting 6-11 months or so for it to come out on DVD isn't too too bad. But there are some movies I want to see when they come out, such as the lotr movies.
I just recently finished putting together my home theater, and it's great, so basically all I want to see in theaters are those "must see em now" movies, or the "dang I'm bored and wanna go out somewhere" movies.
It's not the that the general population can't figure it out. It's that the general population just doesn't know enough to care, or it has affected them enough for them to care. Once people in the US start buying dvd's that are region locked out, THAT's when people will start caring and figuring out. Oh if I buy this player then I can play anything. Or if I burn this firmware to a cdr and run it, my player will be upgraded to region free, or whatever.
Take me for instance, I consider myself to be rather technically inclined. Do I own a region free dvd player? nope. Do I have anything other than a region 1 dvd? nope. Do I currently have any clue how to mod a dvd player to make it region free? nope. But, you can bet you ass as soon as I buy a region > 1 dvd that I'll figure out how to play it, either under linux, or whatever.
It's a amazing how people don't know jack about things don't affect them. The nerve.
FYI, Tabs in IE6.
:)
Dunno if the google toolbar will work in it, as I only use IE6 for work related stuff (for some crazy reason 90% of our customers run IE, because of some retarded thing called a monopoly that I don't quite understand) , anyway I use mozilla for everything else.
I personally prefer to pay $50 and be done with it. And leave it up to the community to run the servers.
:)
3 id.
I like an RPG now and then, but an online one just doesn't fit in with my lifestyle. There was a time when I could spend endless hours playing games, but now, I just want my quick fix, and then go do something else, with *gasp* other people.
I sit in front of my computer 8 hours a day working, do I really need yet another reason to spend more time in front of it?
Why must providers always assume that someone who sets up a home network is a bandwidth hog?
:) Anymore it's mostly like a freebsd iso or something tho. :)
That was just an example for uses of their ultra link. I don't think they were accusing people of being bandwidth hogs. I believe the excite users were just annoyed that they got forced onto a att's standard, slower service. It still seems like a good service to me. They are in fact giving people the chance to get a faster connection, catering to these so called bandwidth hogs. The more computers on a link, the more bandwidth on average will be used, so those users may want a faster connection, which they offer. If you're cheap, like me, then you have the option to stay on the slower connection. ATT's not dumb, they know what it takes to make money, and you can't be giving everyone an equivallent of a home t1 for $40/mo and expect to make money.
It's just that one person downloading something on a slow connection will shoot the latency up for everyone, because the link will become saturation, delaying packets. If you allow 3mpbs/sec for download then chances are whatever you're downloading won't be going that fast, so you won't be the bottle neck and your connection won't be saturated. And you won't annoying other people on your connection say playing quake3 due to the high latency a saturated connection will give. Therefore, it's good for home networks.
I personally pay 67/mo for a "512 symmetric business class" cable modem, it's great so far. There's also the 256 sym service for say 23/mo? for home users, but I wanted the faster connection because I work from home. I had 384 sdsl before, it was fine for me, I never have to download more than a hundred fifty megs or so at a time anyway--it went fast enough for me. Getting a game demo or what have you.
Sure, I used to be a bandwidth hog myself, downloading the isos and movies like crazy at 650 megs a pop, but I've outgrown it for the most part, with the occasional regression.
or rice... which they used to throw at weddings
notice how they do bird seeds or bubbles now?
The rice would expand with water in the bird's stomach and also make them explode as far as I know. I've never seen either method in action, nor do I intend to, as I try to respect all living creatures to a point. (I still squash icky bugs that wander into my house)
Doh, I meant duel boot boot machine. As in an MS OS along with a competing one on the same machine.
la la la, here is the space that I waste time typing while my two minutes are up. hrm, has it been two minutes yet? <hits submit, then back> nope 1 minute left... oh hell how annoying. it would be nice if people that were above a certain karma level didn't have this restriction.
Microsoft has been forbidding OEM's to ship machines with a competeing OS on it for awhile now. I don't think it was flat out illegal, MS just said they wouldn't do business to the vendor anymore if they did. I'm paraphrasing of course, but that was my general gist of the issue. There was a /. article about it maybe a year or so ago.
hrm, when trying to send a mail like that to exim I get a "unknown local part" error message on send. Maybe it's something that got inadvertantly turned off on our mail server. unfortunately searching stuff like that on www.exim.org is like "hey it's needle in haystack time". That definitely sounds like something I'd be interested in. But I kind of like the idea that I can totally turn off the email address, not just bitch about then spam as it comes in because I know how it came from.