I don't know about you, but I would much rather read a book on a small-ish tablet PC than a PDA. The tablet screen, due to the way images are displayed on it, also simply feels more like reading an actual book. So, if I wanted to read an ebook in public, I would much rather have a tablet/laptop than a pure laptop.
I know the above got modded as funny, but it really does exist - http://www.overclockers.com/articles389/ . Bong cooling hasn't been that popular in recent years however, seeing as people usually want a sexier way to watercool their PC.
Hasn't open reservoir evaporative been done many times before, also called a bong? Granted it probably hasn't been done exactly this way, people have been bong cooling for years - its just a little forgotten.
So, what's your point? Of course most video cards are oriented towards gamers -- word processing doesn't need anything special. Who do you expect ATI/Nvidia to cater to? Most people don't bother upgrading their computer piece by piece at all - it only makes sense to appeal to gamers, the only people who upgrade on such a rapid basis.
I'll admit that some of the battle scenes were good, and I liked the car chase (although I thought that Terminator 3 had it beat for car chases *in the same year* since more stuff blew up, and it was all done the old fashioned way). However, the philosophy/dialog part is just flat-out stupid; I could have dealt without all the stupid banter between Neo and the Architect, and without pretty much every single scene in Zion.
It would have been a much better movie if all the speaking parts were thrown out and shit just blew up, because none of the dialog really helped the movies in any way, and was the reason so many people hated it.
He has a radeon 9700pro, and only runs 1600x1200 when playing public multiplayer games and such (~40-60 fps is considered smooth). Of course he turns it down when he plays seriously.
This isn't talking about multiplier lock - with very few exceptions, almost ALL of the pentium 4 line were multiplier locked - Intel never stopped doing that once they started. The only new processors which are completely unlocked are the Athlon 64 FXs, although the regular 64s have all their lower multipliers unlocked (so you can still reach higher FSB even after the raw mhz limit has been reached)>
Thats just flat out wrong. My friend purchased one of the athlon XP-2500 mobiles for ~$90 a couple months ago (stock at 1.83 ghz), and managed to overclock it to 2.6ghz with the same stability as the processor is stock, and nearly 800mhz is nothing to scoff at - it managed to be the small advantage he needed to run UT2K4 in 1600x1200 smoothly, and improved multitasking slightly. If its just for home use, then overclocking is a fun crapshoot - sometimes its a bust, but often you can gain a significant improvement out of your processor.
Of course nobody would overclock any system that requires total stability and 24/7 uptime, but for your typical home PC a little experimenting couldn't hurt as long as you know what you are doing.
Not so with AMD's new line - even though the AMD64's may be a little cheaper than their P4 counterparts, for the most part AMD is trying to catch up in price/stay only *slightly* cheaper than Intel so people don't think they are just "some value retailer". The days of the uber-cheap athlons (the recent XPs come to mind) are probably numbered once the XP ends.
I used to use AbiWord (and MS word before that of course) before I found tex/LaTeX. Granted its definitely aging technology, but that doesn't mean it still isn't useful. Its generally much better at separating content and styling than word since you hand-program it, and really isn't as daunting as it looks at first. This is coming from someone who doesn't particularly enjoy programming, although I have experience in CSS/html/PHP and a little Perl (CSS is a godsend for websites but thats another matter:P).
The speed may be great and all, but I still HATE the cable company. Price hikes rapidly exceeded the rate of inflation, a price hike when you have cable internet and not TV, whats not to like? *cough*
Just out of curiousity, is it possible anymore to be smart and not have some "syndrome" or "disorder" be at the roots?
Or maybe, just *maybe*, we are going to come up with a name for every type of personality. How about "Blondititus syndrome" for being overly chirpy, or "Assholus Maximus" being a dick to everybody?
Heh, this sort of reminds me about how video cards, particularly in the last couple years, are disabling a few pipelines in the bios/software, only to have users flash a bios and increase the pipelines (the Radeon 9500 non pro (4 pipes) to 9700 (8 pipes) comes to mind). Inevitably companies will catch up to this, such as ATI did, and the soft-modabble 9500 was discontinued in favor of the 9600 models, which have a totally different core and only 4 pipelines physically on the card.
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...obviously not any more of a life than you do.
The price.
I don't know about you, but I would much rather read a book on a small-ish tablet PC than a PDA. The tablet screen, due to the way images are displayed on it, also simply feels more like reading an actual book. So, if I wanted to read an ebook in public, I would much rather have a tablet/laptop than a pure laptop.
When he caused John Romero to leave his company, and subsequently make all of us his bitches.
I know I'm replying to flamebait, but I was talking about the original poster's quote, "what appears to be a first".
I know the above got modded as funny, but it really does exist - http://www.overclockers.com/articles389/ . Bong cooling hasn't been that popular in recent years however, seeing as people usually want a sexier way to watercool their PC.
Hasn't open reservoir evaporative been done many times before, also called a bong? Granted it probably hasn't been done exactly this way, people have been bong cooling for years - its just a little forgotten.
So, what's your point? Of course most video cards are oriented towards gamers -- word processing doesn't need anything special. Who do you expect ATI/Nvidia to cater to? Most people don't bother upgrading their computer piece by piece at all - it only makes sense to appeal to gamers, the only people who upgrade on such a rapid basis.
Shouldn't Duke Nukem Forever be in Gold Master Hyper Ultra Mega Ultimate XTREME status by now?
Who needs emergency cha- wait, where the hell did that tornado come from...
I'll admit that some of the battle scenes were good, and I liked the car chase (although I thought that Terminator 3 had it beat for car chases *in the same year* since more stuff blew up, and it was all done the old fashioned way). However, the philosophy/dialog part is just flat-out stupid; I could have dealt without all the stupid banter between Neo and the Architect, and without pretty much every single scene in Zion.
It would have been a much better movie if all the speaking parts were thrown out and shit just blew up, because none of the dialog really helped the movies in any way, and was the reason so many people hated it.
And as usual, the left-winger displays his great "open, caring" mind towards someone who disagrees with him.
He has a radeon 9700pro, and only runs 1600x1200 when playing public multiplayer games and such (~40-60 fps is considered smooth). Of course he turns it down when he plays seriously.
This isn't talking about multiplier lock - with very few exceptions, almost ALL of the pentium 4 line were multiplier locked - Intel never stopped doing that once they started. The only new processors which are completely unlocked are the Athlon 64 FXs, although the regular 64s have all their lower multipliers unlocked (so you can still reach higher FSB even after the raw mhz limit has been reached)>
Thats just flat out wrong. My friend purchased one of the athlon XP-2500 mobiles for ~$90 a couple months ago (stock at 1.83 ghz), and managed to overclock it to 2.6ghz with the same stability as the processor is stock, and nearly 800mhz is nothing to scoff at - it managed to be the small advantage he needed to run UT2K4 in 1600x1200 smoothly, and improved multitasking slightly. If its just for home use, then overclocking is a fun crapshoot - sometimes its a bust, but often you can gain a significant improvement out of your processor. Of course nobody would overclock any system that requires total stability and 24/7 uptime, but for your typical home PC a little experimenting couldn't hurt as long as you know what you are doing.
Anandtech's Review of the HDTV wonder; Anandtech has been around a while, and is still one of my hardware-review sites of choice.
Not so with AMD's new line - even though the AMD64's may be a little cheaper than their P4 counterparts, for the most part AMD is trying to catch up in price/stay only *slightly* cheaper than Intel so people don't think they are just "some value retailer". The days of the uber-cheap athlons (the recent XPs come to mind) are probably numbered once the XP ends.
Why not just overclock it a little to get some more life out of it :P? The northwoods can all do it decently
I used to use AbiWord (and MS word before that of course) before I found tex/LaTeX. Granted its definitely aging technology, but that doesn't mean it still isn't useful. Its generally much better at separating content and styling than word since you hand-program it, and really isn't as daunting as it looks at first. This is coming from someone who doesn't particularly enjoy programming, although I have experience in CSS/html/PHP and a little Perl (CSS is a godsend for websites but thats another matter :P).
The speed may be great and all, but I still HATE the cable company. Price hikes rapidly exceeded the rate of inflation, a price hike when you have cable internet and not TV, whats not to like? *cough*
Just out of curiousity, is it possible anymore to be smart and not have some "syndrome" or "disorder" be at the roots? Or maybe, just *maybe*, we are going to come up with a name for every type of personality. How about "Blondititus syndrome" for being overly chirpy, or "Assholus Maximus" being a dick to everybody?
the main site took about 3 minutes to load for me, blah blah blah im a karma whore whatever blah blah blah... link
Heh, this sort of reminds me about how video cards, particularly in the last couple years, are disabling a few pipelines in the bios/software, only to have users flash a bios and increase the pipelines (the Radeon 9500 non pro (4 pipes) to 9700 (8 pipes) comes to mind). Inevitably companies will catch up to this, such as ATI did, and the soft-modabble 9500 was discontinued in favor of the 9600 models, which have a totally different core and only 4 pipelines physically on the card.
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That could be because warez/crack sites often lead to a plethora of porn popups...