I don't know if this is relevant or not, but I have been rather impressed by the nForce chip sets with on board video. Seriously, I thought it would be fine for some short term low end gaming, but I built my grandparents a system that uses onboard nForce graphics, the same cousin I mentioned before plays UT2004 on it and it looks impressive, especially considering the price range and shared RAM.
That would be awesome, because in the wake of the extinction of the Detroit Dino's and the Japanese extortion will come the new generations of American cars sprouting up from the ashes that will put Toyota and Honda to shame, assuming the gubmint allows them companies to happen. There are several small / lesser known US auto makers with some damned cool cars that I would like to see take off. Most of them only make specialty/super cars, but if there were no dino competition the may change their market a bit.
The at least once daily "survey" every corporate gas station in the US has to do everyday can't be passed off as anything but price fixing / a trust. As far as I'm concerned they're screwing consumers a lot worse than a couple of GPU manufacturers.
but in the nVidia world, older cards seem to be great. For example my cousin had a celeron system with an integrated "AGP" Intel card, but there wasn't an AGP slot, and to say the least Intel Graphics suck rocks. I put a PCI Geforce 5000 series card in, he was rocking along on UT2004 just fine. Granted, I've seen better graphics, but it beat the integrated crap.
His sister on the other hand, I gave her a leftover 1.6 Ghz Athlon system. The only available card I had was my old PNY GeForce 2 Pro, the first card I've ever seen with DDR2. It was fine, she was playing 3D Lord of the Rings games and some 3D Harry Potter games with no complaints, not to mention both of systems were doing fine with DVD playback. (Especially when using the nvDVD player)
Seems to me someone on a budget doesn't need to buy a brand new off the shelf low end card, they should look at their budget and look backwards in time, and maybe find a friend with leftovers.
When it comes to ATI I got one of the first gen Radeon cards, it looked fine at first, but I found out I couldn't make it work worth a damned in Linux and they card went screwy on me and I had to do a warranty trade, that's what caused me to get my first GeForce card (the afore mentioned GeForce 2 Pro). Thanks ATI for setting me on the right path for a Voodoo replacement. I haven't messed with them enough since then to say an older Radeon would be fine also, but my guess is you would have similar results, vs. on-board anyways. I deployed one in my grandparents old machine but I replaced it with onboard GeForce graphics because the integrated nForce was better, and my sister is still using her really old Radeon, but they're not using it for much either.
As it was prophesized in the days when the Gates was still upon his throne, and the battle between the parties of Mc Cain and Obama was new, we see here how the users bring their lamentations unto the pharacies.
Yeah, though the forces of EA did ease their burdens upon the masses, the users said this is not sufficent for a Mass Effect. For the masses knew of the prophecy and they proclaimed your response was heard as though it were proclaimed in jest! You go about proclaiming that we the users want our legitimate copies installed on multiple machines but nay! We want multiple installs on but one machine post upgrade or for restoration from corruption caused by your corrupt software or the corrupt software of the Gates legacy, or a legitimate transfer there of! Nay, the class action was filed with the pharacies by Melissa of the house of Thomas, as it was prophesized by the great prophet Pecosdave in the early days of Secure ROM your token relaxing of your DRM laden bondage of our people is not of the goodness of your blackened hearts, but a reaction to hearing of Melissa's lamentations! Your bondage runs deep, deep into the roots of our systems, have you learned not from the smiting of Sony?
We see now the opening of the users revolt. The prophecy is yet to be fully fulfilled, for the users are not yet organized as one. Soon will come the day not of the court smiting of the EA and their dark hordes, but of an out of court settlement, for the EA and their hordes are cowards at heart and they fear the pharacies and the integrity of their purses. For it stings the purse far less to issue coupons for future purchases than it does to refund what one has aquired.
Sort of like the 720K to 1.44MB floppies, of course that didn't work for the 2.88MB floppies, nor LS120, though I really liked LS120 when it was in its prime.
I don't think this is the actual document in question, but I found this while looking and I would say it qualifies as interesting and related. I like the reference to "scare tactics".
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I know some people like that. Unfortunately, since there time is actually worth close to zero dollars asking them to build it for me would get me close to zero progress wouldn't it? Actually my guess is they would screw it up so bad I would have to throw it all out and buy another kit if I tried to get them to build it for me.
I disagree with what's written on the main page,
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By providing prints and the ability to build parts/put the damned thing together to begin with it's not to give smug yuppies something to be conceded about. It's to give hotrodders the ability to make supped up hybrid! Seriously, I would love to get most of one of these kits, put two kits into a car if possible for the extra kick, throw in a powerful V6 instead of a four (or even three) banger, then put it all in the body of a Dodge Charger.
The electric part could actually take it off the line better than a gas engine, the gas engine would add the power, something like that should kick ass on the quarter mile then do a relatively slow victory lap without using any gas.
I use Linux on my personal machines, and all my work machines (for one of my two jobs) are Macs. I am fortunate to not have to worry about the virus end of it, except for when I run my virtual Windows. Now that Bomgar has Linux and Mac tech ends I'm finding myself starting my Windows virtual machine even less often now.
I have on occasion used Firefox plugins that filter out most banner ads. I've found my pages load about 70% faster. I watch the little status line at the bottom of Firefox and I've found that most of my "waiting" time is for advertisements.
I've also found DNS to be slow for some reason. Things that aren't cached on the local machine slow browsing down significantly (something else adverts contribute to).
Of course the people who just leave P2P applications running non-stop are a bit of a pain.
The ISS is definitely shielded, and believe it or not it's grounded, sort of. The ISS actually "grounds" itself by venting ionized gas, I don't remember the type of gas though. There was quite a bit mentioned about it when they had trouble deploying that one solar panel a few months back.
I've thought about taking an old AT power supply, or maybe even just a single large 12V AD/DC adapter, building a multi volt break down box, then adding a bunch of by-the voltage power taps to it.
Say, a common negative rail and a select your own positive rail setup. I figure I can cut the cords off of the chargers each device I want to charge came with, crimp some banana plugs onto them and select the appropriate ports from the box. I've given some thought on a commercial version of this as well, of course the commercial version would have identical plugs on the "box" side and the connecting cable would be keyed for voltage/polarity, we don't want the average luser figuring out their own voltages and polarities now do we?
First of all I try to get things that will charge via USB.
For instance your Nintendo DS IS USB chargeable. I don't have a DS, but I do have the GBA equivalent to this nice Pelican charger kit. I use the cigarette lighter to USB adapter to charge other low wattage devices, like my iRiver when I'm in the car, not just my GBA SP and GBA Micro (it wasn't powerful enough for any of my previous phones though).
I bought a PSP a few days ago, I know it's also USB chargeable, I just haven't picked up an adapter yet.
My Jabra JX10 doesn't take much wattage to charge, neither does my Skype phone I use the USB ports on the back of my KVM to charge those. The KVM is powered, so thats 1 power port for 3 devices.
I've changed phones many times in the last year, my company keeps swapping them out on me. All three of the phones they've given me in the past year, an older Motorola Q, a Blackberry Curve, and now the older model iPhone all use USB to charge. For the iPhone I actually bought an alarm clock to handle charging that.
I used to think the idea of using USB to power things was ludicrous, mostly because the first things I saw utilizing USB power were fans, lights, and mini vacs, just stupid little power suckers. Now that I've actually been utilizing it I've been freeing up the power strip. Things like this and this actually seem worth buying.
Seriously, if you bought Apple stock when it was first available and sold it all in the early 80's you would have been incredibly rich. Then, if you would have bought it all back in the 90's and sold it again today you would have replenished what you would have spent in the mean time.
Oh trust me, that's gone through my head many times. Of course I looked at it this way, I didn't work for them anymore, I clearly remember the order to work "10% harder" then having what that meant explained to me. I was laid off with most the rest of the people I used to work with by then, that was bonus cash when I needed it most.
Reminds me of the wackos who say cell phones should be allowed in cinemas
I've never been in one that doesn't allow them in. They just ask you to silence the damn thing, during the previews, often with some very creative short films. I still usually hear at least one.
Trolls were a part of usenet, just like they're a vital part of Slashdot (yes, I mean that). It's the whole Yin/Yang thing, a couple of trolls are good for comic relief and keeping things going. I'm not advocating turning EVERYTHING into 4chan, just a statement that trolls aren't so bad.
No, what killed usenet, at least for me, was spammers.
You didn't DARE use an email address you actually used anymore (being able to email individuals was sort of a feature back in the day). Every site got spammed by off topic spam, and yes, when you were looking in alt.titties.redheads there was always some jerk posting loads of homo's (beyond the reasonable troll that is).
Usenet was killed by the same thing that's currently killing email. Seriously, how bad is it when Facebook is a better way to communicate than a normal email address?
I really hope at least one team blatantly violates this, posts the pictures all over the place, dares NOAA to do something about it, and rallies the public behind them.
Not on is Doc Ruby right about NOAA not having any power to enforce laws that they make, it's not the kind of law our government should be making anyways. As citizens we need to figure out where this law comes from and weed out the fascist who pushed it - I don't care what political leanings they have. It's akin to laws that Moa had (has), Hitler had, and our previous fascist presidents had, that I wont name to prevent thwacking that bee hive.
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I don't know if this is relevant or not, but I have been rather impressed by the nForce chip sets with on board video. Seriously, I thought it would be fine for some short term low end gaming, but I built my grandparents a system that uses onboard nForce graphics, the same cousin I mentioned before plays UT2004 on it and it looks impressive, especially considering the price range and shared RAM.
That would be awesome, because in the wake of the extinction of the Detroit Dino's and the Japanese extortion will come the new generations of American cars sprouting up from the ashes that will put Toyota and Honda to shame, assuming the gubmint allows them companies to happen. There are several small / lesser known US auto makers with some damned cool cars that I would like to see take off. Most of them only make specialty/super cars, but if there were no dino competition the may change their market a bit.
The at least once daily "survey" every corporate gas station in the US has to do everyday can't be passed off as anything but price fixing / a trust. As far as I'm concerned they're screwing consumers a lot worse than a couple of GPU manufacturers.
Don't go to Facebook because it's better and doesn't have nearly as many in your face annoying ads! Come back! See, easy pirate music!
but in the nVidia world, older cards seem to be great. For example my cousin had a celeron system with an integrated "AGP" Intel card, but there wasn't an AGP slot, and to say the least Intel Graphics suck rocks. I put a PCI Geforce 5000 series card in, he was rocking along on UT2004 just fine. Granted, I've seen better graphics, but it beat the integrated crap.
His sister on the other hand, I gave her a leftover 1.6 Ghz Athlon system. The only available card I had was my old PNY GeForce 2 Pro, the first card I've ever seen with DDR2. It was fine, she was playing 3D Lord of the Rings games and some 3D Harry Potter games with no complaints, not to mention both of systems were doing fine with DVD playback. (Especially when using the nvDVD player)
Seems to me someone on a budget doesn't need to buy a brand new off the shelf low end card, they should look at their budget and look backwards in time, and maybe find a friend with leftovers.
When it comes to ATI I got one of the first gen Radeon cards, it looked fine at first, but I found out I couldn't make it work worth a damned in Linux and they card went screwy on me and I had to do a warranty trade, that's what caused me to get my first GeForce card (the afore mentioned GeForce 2 Pro). Thanks ATI for setting me on the right path for a Voodoo replacement. I haven't messed with them enough since then to say an older Radeon would be fine also, but my guess is you would have similar results, vs. on-board anyways. I deployed one in my grandparents old machine but I replaced it with onboard GeForce graphics because the integrated nForce was better, and my sister is still using her really old Radeon, but they're not using it for much either.
As it was prophesized in the days when the Gates was still upon his throne, and the battle between the parties of Mc Cain and Obama was new, we see here how the users bring their lamentations unto the pharacies.
Yeah, though the forces of EA did ease their burdens upon the masses, the users said this is not sufficent for a Mass Effect. For the masses knew of the prophecy and they proclaimed your response was heard as though it were proclaimed in jest! You go about proclaiming that we the users want our legitimate copies installed on multiple machines but nay! We want multiple installs on but one machine post upgrade or for restoration from corruption caused by your corrupt software or the corrupt software of the Gates legacy, or a legitimate transfer there of! Nay, the class action was filed with the pharacies by Melissa of the house of Thomas, as it was prophesized by the great prophet Pecosdave in the early days of Secure ROM your token relaxing of your DRM laden bondage of our people is not of the goodness of your blackened hearts, but a reaction to hearing of Melissa's lamentations! Your bondage runs deep, deep into the roots of our systems, have you learned not from the smiting of Sony?
We see now the opening of the users revolt. The prophecy is yet to be fully fulfilled, for the users are not yet organized as one. Soon will come the day not of the court smiting of the EA and their dark hordes, but of an out of court settlement, for the EA and their hordes are cowards at heart and they fear the pharacies and the integrity of their purses. For it stings the purse far less to issue coupons for future purchases than it does to refund what one has aquired.
It was just epic and funny to boot. Yes, it was for my kids game.
You were an 8-Track hold out weren't you?
Sort of like the 720K to 1.44MB floppies, of course that didn't work for the 2.88MB floppies, nor LS120, though I really liked LS120 when it was in its prime.
I don't think this is the actual document in question, but I found this while looking and I would say it qualifies as interesting and related. I like the reference to "scare tactics".
I know some people like that. Unfortunately, since there time is actually worth close to zero dollars asking them to build it for me would get me close to zero progress wouldn't it? Actually my guess is they would screw it up so bad I would have to throw it all out and buy another kit if I tried to get them to build it for me.
By providing prints and the ability to build parts/put the damned thing together to begin with it's not to give smug yuppies something to be conceded about. It's to give hotrodders the ability to make supped up hybrid! Seriously, I would love to get most of one of these kits, put two kits into a car if possible for the extra kick, throw in a powerful V6 instead of a four (or even three) banger, then put it all in the body of a Dodge Charger.
The electric part could actually take it off the line better than a gas engine, the gas engine would add the power, something like that should kick ass on the quarter mile then do a relatively slow victory lap without using any gas.
I use Linux on my personal machines, and all my work machines (for one of my two jobs) are Macs. I am fortunate to not have to worry about the virus end of it, except for when I run my virtual Windows. Now that Bomgar has Linux and Mac tech ends I'm finding myself starting my Windows virtual machine even less often now.
I have on occasion used Firefox plugins that filter out most banner ads. I've found my pages load about 70% faster. I watch the little status line at the bottom of Firefox and I've found that most of my "waiting" time is for advertisements.
I've also found DNS to be slow for some reason. Things that aren't cached on the local machine slow browsing down significantly (something else adverts contribute to).
Of course the people who just leave P2P applications running non-stop are a bit of a pain.
The ISS is definitely shielded, and believe it or not it's grounded, sort of. The ISS actually "grounds" itself by venting ionized gas, I don't remember the type of gas though. There was quite a bit mentioned about it when they had trouble deploying that one solar panel a few months back.
The shuttle uses the K/S band links a lot more, the station is almost exclusively TDRS.
50 Mbps analog satellite modem
I've thought about taking an old AT power supply, or maybe even just a single large 12V AD/DC adapter, building a multi volt break down box, then adding a bunch of by-the voltage power taps to it.
Say, a common negative rail and a select your own positive rail setup. I figure I can cut the cords off of the chargers each device I want to charge came with, crimp some banana plugs onto them and select the appropriate ports from the box. I've given some thought on a commercial version of this as well, of course the commercial version would have identical plugs on the "box" side and the connecting cable would be keyed for voltage/polarity, we don't want the average luser figuring out their own voltages and polarities now do we?
I get USB chargable devices.
First of all I try to get things that will charge via USB.
For instance your Nintendo DS IS USB chargeable. I don't have a DS, but I do have the GBA equivalent to this nice Pelican charger kit. I use the cigarette lighter to USB adapter to charge other low wattage devices, like my iRiver when I'm in the car, not just my GBA SP and GBA Micro (it wasn't powerful enough for any of my previous phones though).
I bought a PSP a few days ago, I know it's also USB chargeable, I just haven't picked up an adapter yet.
My Jabra JX10 doesn't take much wattage to charge, neither does my Skype phone I use the USB ports on the back of my KVM to charge those. The KVM is powered, so thats 1 power port for 3 devices.
I've changed phones many times in the last year, my company keeps swapping them out on me. All three of the phones they've given me in the past year, an older Motorola Q, a Blackberry Curve, and now the older model iPhone all use USB to charge. For the iPhone I actually bought an alarm clock to handle charging that.
I used to think the idea of using USB to power things was ludicrous, mostly because the first things I saw utilizing USB power were fans, lights, and mini vacs, just stupid little power suckers. Now that I've actually been utilizing it I've been freeing up the power strip. Things like this and this actually seem worth buying.
Seriously, if you bought Apple stock when it was first available and sold it all in the early 80's you would have been incredibly rich. Then, if you would have bought it all back in the 90's and sold it again today you would have replenished what you would have spent in the mean time.
Oh trust me, that's gone through my head many times. Of course I looked at it this way, I didn't work for them anymore, I clearly remember the order to work "10% harder" then having what that meant explained to me. I was laid off with most the rest of the people I used to work with by then, that was bonus cash when I needed it most.
My check was about 1/10th of what they legitimately owed me.
Reminds me of the wackos who say cell phones should be allowed in cinemas
I've never been in one that doesn't allow them in. They just ask you to silence the damn thing, during the previews, often with some very creative short films. I still usually hear at least one.
Trolls were a part of usenet, just like they're a vital part of Slashdot (yes, I mean that). It's the whole Yin/Yang thing, a couple of trolls are good for comic relief and keeping things going. I'm not advocating turning EVERYTHING into 4chan, just a statement that trolls aren't so bad.
No, what killed usenet, at least for me, was spammers.
You didn't DARE use an email address you actually used anymore (being able to email individuals was sort of a feature back in the day). Every site got spammed by off topic spam, and yes, when you were looking in alt.titties.redheads there was always some jerk posting loads of homo's (beyond the reasonable troll that is).
Usenet was killed by the same thing that's currently killing email. Seriously, how bad is it when Facebook is a better way to communicate than a normal email address?
I really hope at least one team blatantly violates this, posts the pictures all over the place, dares NOAA to do something about it, and rallies the public behind them.
Not on is Doc Ruby right about NOAA not having any power to enforce laws that they make, it's not the kind of law our government should be making anyways. As citizens we need to figure out where this law comes from and weed out the fascist who pushed it - I don't care what political leanings they have. It's akin to laws that Moa had (has), Hitler had, and our previous fascist presidents had, that I wont name to prevent thwacking that bee hive.
Trojans to a glue factory..... .....are you playing practical jokes on your hooker?