Re:Depends on why you're not sleeping
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Sleeping Problems?
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For those whose minds won't stop racing about, doctors will frequently prescribe a hypnotic drug. I find that zopiclone (trade name: Imovane) settles my mind down and lets me sleep quite well. Previous attempts at using tranquilisers just made me more hyperactive. As a bonus, the only side effect of occasional use is a bitter taste on the tongue in the morning. No morning drowsiness!!
It used to be somewhat more difficult to download things. BitTorrent has sort of killed that, though. All you need to be able to do is point your browser at Suprnova these days.
I don't know what the official word is, but it was said reasonably recently that there is an NV10 (GF1) render path. Realistically, the only NV10-based cards with enough "oomph" would be the GF4MX series. Well, the 440 and 460 anyways. The 420 will just shriek and die. But so would an FX5200, most likely. You'll miss out on a *lot* of the eye candy.
I do think that the 8500 is the lowest Radeon that's supported. ATI's earlier cards were significantly behind in usable horsepower (they had a lot on paper).
Virginia Tech's cluster isn't on the list, you idiot. They swapped the G5 towers out for XServes because they have ECC memory (which made the original cluster useless), and they haven't published a Linpack test since then.
Yeah, the "ICON". A 80186 running (I believe) an early version of QNX on the server side. Very familiar and very bizarre at the same time.
I was going to bring it up as an example of the Ministry of Ed. having a history of dumb-assed decisions. Hope this one works out better.
When Unilever bought them out, most of us (shareholders, that is) assumed B&J's would get folded into the corporate machine and lose some of its identity. It's good to see that they've sort of remained a seperate entity that just happens to be owned by a corporate giant.
That would be a shame. Sun's server designs are better than Fujitsu's, they're just stuck using an inferior CPU. In the low to mid-range they're equal, but Fujitsu does not offer the same RAS options as the high-end (4800+) Sun lineup.
Actually, you can make a faster array for cheaper using IDE by using many, many more drives in a RAID 10 array. Even EMC sells these now. You're probably going to see SCSI's dominance of large arrays go away in the near future. This will leave SCSI with the server internal disk market and not a lot else.
At last count, there were already ~80 pirate radio stations in the Greater London area alone. The authorities are obviously not having a lot of luck shutting down illegal transmitters. Just order one from the States and stop worrying about it, for heaven's sakes!
especially in the original's rarely-tried LAN multiplayer modes
That's because although multiplayer Carmageddon was fun, it was a bitch and a half to get running!! You *needed* to drive around killing people after the frustration-fest of setting up a LAN game.
Quite honestly, I don't like Dick's novels all that much. They're certainly good reads, but I think they pale next to his short stories. Grab ahold of some of his short story collections and read them. "Second Variety" (which the film Screamers was very loosely based on) is especially creepy.
Re:How much more black could it be?
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Blacker Than Black
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"It's the weird colour scheme that freaks me. Every time I try to
operate one of these weird black controls, labelled in black on a
black background, a little black light lights up black to let me know
I've done it. What is this, some kind of galactic hyper-hearse?"
The F22 will be able to hit supersonic without afterburners.
I'm sorry, were you under the delusion that that is something that hasn't been done before? I will grant that the non-AB cruising speed of M1.6 is impressive, but it's hardly earth-shattering science.
As for missile defence, the laser-based systems on airborne platforms are really cool and cutting edge. But I think people are referring to the ABM-based system, which is something out of the 60's with updated technology. How is that advancing science?
Get a few million of them and create a companion for the Great Wall - Spell out "AOL SUCKS!" large enough to be seen from space.
It has its uses, but is not a wonder-system
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Electric Armor
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Basically, the system can protect the weaker areas of a tank (the top or back) or a smaller, more moderately armored vehicle from HEAT attacks.
It's not good on too-lightly armored vehicles as even a dispersed molten copper spray will do some nasty damage. It's not good for the front of a main battle tank because they're all impervious to HEAT rounds anyways.
It also doesn't protect a tank from the most lethal of tank killing objects - the discarding sabot "long-rod" penetrator. Which is essentially a long, pointy rod of some appropriately dense material (depleted uranium being popular) that uses pure kinetic energy to annihilate the other tank.
So it is a useful technology, but some people are getting far too excited about it. It's a solution to a couple of problems - namely that battle tanks can't have heavy armor everywhere and that medium vehicles are sitting ducks for anti-tank rounds.
Re:GeForce 4mx is an abomination
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nForce2 Preview
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It's not even a really fast GF2 in some circumstances. There are several benchmarks I've seen where the GF2Ultra beats a GF4MX. Always the 4200, usually the 4400 and occasionally even the 4600.
ULTRIX is a red-headed stepchild. It's not related in any way, shape or form to OSF/1-DEC-UNIX-TRU64. Well, other than the fact that it's a Unix system.
Try "The Crow road" by Iain M. Banks, you'd hardly believe it was written by the same person as those Culture books.
While Crow Road is probably my favorite Banks novel, I'd like to poin out that Inversions is one of his SF works and the general characterization is of a very good quality. It's just not there in the Culture novels. Well, it is.. But it's the ships!!
Leased Cadillacs come with OnStar as a mandatory feature. Probably because Cadillacs have some of the highest welch rates in the industry. So if you don't pay, they lock you out of your car, pinpoint it with GPS and go get it.
Whether this is good or bad is left as an exercise for the reader.
In my experience, it doesn't matter how many terrorists fly planes into buildings; the Europeans will still believe that the greatest threat to the security of the world is the United States.
I have no idea how Bill Nye manages to do a children's science show that's neither patronizing nor annoying (esp. given's Disney's involvement), but I'm all for this idea!
I just wish they made better use of him on whichever of those damned robots shows he's on.
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For those whose minds won't stop racing about, doctors will frequently prescribe a hypnotic drug. I find that zopiclone (trade name: Imovane) settles my mind down and lets me sleep quite well. Previous attempts at using tranquilisers just made me more hyperactive. As a bonus, the only side effect of occasional use is a bitter taste on the tongue in the morning. No morning drowsiness!!
It used to be somewhat more difficult to download things. BitTorrent has sort of killed that, though. All you need to be able to do is point your browser at Suprnova these days.
I don't know what the official word is, but it was said reasonably recently that there is an NV10 (GF1) render path. Realistically, the only NV10-based cards with enough "oomph" would be the GF4MX series. Well, the 440 and 460 anyways. The 420 will just shriek and die. But so would an FX5200, most likely. You'll miss out on a *lot* of the eye candy.
I do think that the 8500 is the lowest Radeon that's supported. ATI's earlier cards were significantly behind in usable horsepower (they had a lot on paper).
Flamebait, my arse. The cluster isn't on the list, period. There's no point in discussing it.
Virginia Tech's cluster isn't on the list, you idiot. They swapped the G5 towers out for XServes because they have ECC memory (which made the original cluster useless), and they haven't published a Linpack test since then.
Yeah, the "ICON". A 80186 running (I believe) an early version of QNX on the server side. Very familiar and very bizarre at the same time. I was going to bring it up as an example of the Ministry of Ed. having a history of dumb-assed decisions. Hope this one works out better.
When Unilever bought them out, most of us (shareholders, that is) assumed B&J's would get folded into the corporate machine and lose some of its identity. It's good to see that they've sort of remained a seperate entity that just happens to be owned by a corporate giant.
That would be a shame. Sun's server designs are better than Fujitsu's, they're just stuck using an inferior CPU. In the low to mid-range they're equal, but Fujitsu does not offer the same RAS options as the high-end (4800+) Sun lineup.
Actually, you can make a faster array for cheaper using IDE by using many, many more drives in a RAID 10 array. Even EMC sells these now. You're probably going to see SCSI's dominance of large arrays go away in the near future. This will leave SCSI with the server internal disk market and not a lot else.
At last count, there were already ~80 pirate radio stations in the Greater London area alone. The authorities are obviously not having a lot of luck shutting down illegal transmitters. Just order one from the States and stop worrying about it, for heaven's sakes!
Quake 3 requires hardware acceleration. You *can't* run without it.
especially in the original's rarely-tried LAN multiplayer modes
That's because although multiplayer Carmageddon was fun, it was a bitch and a half to get running!! You *needed* to drive around killing people after the frustration-fest of setting up a LAN game.
Quite honestly, I don't like Dick's novels all that much. They're certainly good reads, but I think they pale next to his short stories. Grab ahold of some of his short story collections and read them. "Second Variety" (which the film Screamers was very loosely based on) is especially creepy.
"It's the weird colour scheme that freaks me. Every time I try to operate one of these weird black controls, labelled in black on a black background, a little black light lights up black to let me know I've done it. What is this, some kind of galactic hyper-hearse?"
The F22 will be able to hit supersonic without afterburners.
I'm sorry, were you under the delusion that that is something that hasn't been done before? I will grant that the non-AB cruising speed of M1.6 is impressive, but it's hardly earth-shattering science.
As for missile defence, the laser-based systems on airborne platforms are really cool and cutting edge. But I think people are referring to the ABM-based system, which is something out of the 60's with updated technology. How is that advancing science?
Get a few million of them and create a companion for the Great Wall - Spell out "AOL SUCKS!" large enough to be seen from space.
Basically, the system can protect the weaker areas of a tank (the top or back) or a smaller, more moderately armored vehicle from HEAT attacks.
It's not good on too-lightly armored vehicles as even a dispersed molten copper spray will do some nasty damage. It's not good for the front of a main battle tank because they're all impervious to HEAT rounds anyways.
It also doesn't protect a tank from the most lethal of tank killing objects - the discarding sabot "long-rod" penetrator. Which is essentially a long, pointy rod of some appropriately dense material (depleted uranium being popular) that uses pure kinetic energy to annihilate the other tank.
So it is a useful technology, but some people are getting far too excited about it. It's a solution to a couple of problems - namely that battle tanks can't have heavy armor everywhere and that medium vehicles are sitting ducks for anti-tank rounds.
It's not even a really fast GF2 in some circumstances. There are several benchmarks I've seen where the GF2Ultra beats a GF4MX. Always the 4200, usually the 4400 and occasionally even the 4600.
What I personally miss is "BBS, go voice!" when I was too busy playing games to let people log on. =)
ATI did *not* do the graphics for the XBox. They bought the company that did the graphics for the XBox. Big difference in terms of your resourcing.
ULTRIX is a red-headed stepchild. It's not related in any way, shape or form to OSF/1-DEC-UNIX-TRU64. Well, other than the fact that it's a Unix system.
Try "The Crow road" by Iain M. Banks, you'd hardly believe it was written by the same person as those Culture books.
While Crow Road is probably my favorite Banks novel, I'd like to poin out that Inversions is one of his SF works and the general characterization is of a very good quality. It's just not there in the Culture novels. Well, it is.. But it's the ships!!
Leased Cadillacs come with OnStar as a mandatory feature. Probably because Cadillacs have some of the highest welch rates in the industry. So if you don't pay, they lock you out of your car, pinpoint it with GPS and go get it.
Whether this is good or bad is left as an exercise for the reader.
In my experience, it doesn't matter how many terrorists fly planes into buildings; the Europeans will still believe that the greatest threat to the security of the world is the United States.
I have no idea how Bill Nye manages to do a children's science show that's neither patronizing nor annoying (esp. given's Disney's involvement), but I'm all for this idea!
I just wish they made better use of him on whichever of those damned robots shows he's on.