Just so you know... AGP graphics cards (which pretty much everything in the x86 world uses) has it's own bus. Completely seperate from the PCI bus. In fact it's a pipe that is 100% devoted to graphics. The AGP pipe is also fatter and faster than the whole PCI bus.
Here's some reading for you:
http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/fall1998/cmsc411/proje cts/agp/pci_vs_agp.htm
"Looks like traffic helicopters will slowly become unnecessary in Denver"
Um yeah, as long as everyone has some form of wireless internet (802.11x + Laptop, cellphone, whatever), that has a battery charge, is turned on, and able to be read while driving. Otherwise the traffic helicopters and radios will still be quite useful.
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Agreed whole-heartedly. What people need to release is that life is not something that has gaurentees. Planes crash, shuttles explode, computers break, ships sink, buildings fall down, people die. No matter how much redundancy and planning you put into to anything... Shit happens.
This doesn't mean that it's not a tradegy, and it certainly isn't meant to belittle the events... But life offers no gaurentees.
Yeah, it's probably true that on any given day there is only about 15% utilization. That is averaged throughout the entire day. I'm responsible for maintaining 4 channelized DS3 (broken down into to DS1s (T1s), and then DS0(ISDN)) for voice. And our company averages about 10-20% utilization for the entire day. But on peak days and at peak hours we can max the whole thing out. Even maxxing out all of our trunks (aprox 2500) for an couple of hours we'll still probably only make about 50% utilization. (That's extremely high in the Telecom world).
So, when you hear that telcos are only using 15%, that's because they need the other stuff for peak times. Wether they are foreseeable or not.
Why does it sound like backing up is this task that is rarely ever done? Are you saying you don't back up your critical data? I'm not saying that full backups should be done on your home system once a week, with differential done daily. Once bitten, twice shy. I either back up large projects or upload smaller ones to an online storage site (i.e. xdrive.com). Here's another old adage that you should follow as well. An once of protection is worth a pound of cure... You don't plug your computer directly into the wall socket do you?
Probably because they are talking about the power savings during different criteria. Like it's a 400 % saving when the CPU is Idle, and 25% while the CPU is working full tilt.
I've always wanted to do basically what this intrepid guy did. Cool stuff. I've wanted to mount it underneath the tabletop of the desk and have slot feed drives. Just sliding a DVD into the top of the desk would be pretty slick. It would also be slick when I spilled coffee... Pipe-dream? sure. It would still be pretty nifty.
I've been out of the loop for a bit, so excuse me for sounding dense, but could some one give me a synopsis of the Sklyarov case? or a link to one?
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Um, they aren't exposing their network. They are setting up a laptop which acts as a WAP (wireless access point) but is in no way configured to connect to their intranet.
They are measuring how much (unauthorized)activity occurs at the access point.
"There seemed to be a lot of CHARACTER missing from the characters"
heh, well... Some many missing characters in the movie you forget the S in your post.
And anyways there is no way you can incorporate all the characters in a book as long and as complex as LOTR/FOTR into a movie. Even if it is 3 hours long.
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Sorry brother, Halflife is off of the q1 engine. Not q2. So that really shows how long quake1's staying power is.
no you most certainly would not have. There were no $100k tourney's back then. A 5k tourney purse was huge. Almost all of the gaming was done in college dorms not at home over cable/dsl.
Semi-pro means you would still get your ass whipped by the really good players (ie Thresh Gollum, Xenon).
You know, maybe a primary school teacher doesn't NEED to have a cell phone for work related emergencies (ring -- hey man come quick Sally learned the 2 times table!!). But if you have an important role in the tech industry you pretty much NEED to have a cell phone and to have it on... even if you do everything perfectly. As a telecom admin, I know that my stuff can be running perfectly but Sprint's T1s decide to turn funky. Or when the new guy in the deptartment decides to see what the red switch on the back of the PBX does.
I highly doubt they will be used in any competitions. No aids excluding the bridge and chaulk are allowed. No books, no notes, and quite certainly no computer overlaid imagery.
From the article:
"Music creators have the right to protect their property from theft, just like owners of any other property," Sherman said. "Motion picture studios, and software and video game publishers have protected their works for years, and no one has even thought to claim that doing so was inappropriate, let alone unlawful."
Well there is a distinction that needs to be made. Copy Protection is OK (witness: video games). Protection from theft is OK. Crippling a product and calling it either Copy Protection or Protection from Theft is not.
There's a line between trying to stop people from copying/stealing and selling things that don't work in equipment that should be compatible.
Their Hardcore MP3 downloader has downed 5000 songs in two years. That's just under 7 songs a day. 7 songs at 5 megs a peice for a 30 day month is 1050. Just barely a gig.
So we have cable company's going to put caps on their service. Fine. From all the information I have seen it seems to be tentatively set at 2-3 for the lowest class of service. Leaving a sizeable chunk for other stuff as well.
Looks like this isn't going to stop p2p to me.
From the point of view of the hard-core gamer that the Salon article mentions supporting glide is the best thing about them. GLide is by far faster than DirectX and leaps and abounds. A will turn all the pretty cosmetic effects down, if not off (fugly mode). They will take the fugliness of any setting in order to boost their frame rate.
And nobody using it? nice try. Ever wonder why all of the ID games you always see as THE definitive openGL bench mark. Because John Carmack uses it extensively. And he is the reason for the video card market to exist.
Over and Above all of that. Glide can actually be used on other OSes.
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hmmm, Chips that windows supports...
For Intel... pentium, pentium pro, pentium 2, celeron, celeron 2, pentium 3, pentium 4, the xeons, and the itaniums
For AMD... k5, k6, multiple athalon lines (k7s), duron, althalon XP, and the hammer
There's also Cryix, dragonball, xscale...
God, I'm sure I could come up with a whole whack of more chips. But this is everything off the top of my head.
Just so you know... AGP graphics cards (which pretty much everything in the x86 world uses) has it's own bus. Completely seperate from the PCI bus. In fact it's a pipe that is 100% devoted to graphics. The AGP pipe is also fatter and faster than the whole PCI bus. Here's some reading for you: http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/fall1998/cmsc411/proje cts/agp/pci_vs_agp.htm
"Looks like traffic helicopters will slowly become unnecessary in Denver"
Um yeah, as long as everyone has some form of wireless internet (802.11x + Laptop, cellphone, whatever), that has a battery charge, is turned on, and able to be read while driving. Otherwise the traffic helicopters and radios will still be quite useful.
Agreed whole-heartedly. What people need to release is that life is not something that has gaurentees. Planes crash, shuttles explode, computers break, ships sink, buildings fall down, people die. No matter how much redundancy and planning you put into to anything... Shit happens.
This doesn't mean that it's not a tradegy, and it certainly isn't meant to belittle the events... But life offers no gaurentees.
I sincerely hope that was a joke. Ping is one of the most used, and most effective, ways to test conectivity between places on the internet
Yeah, it's probably true that on any given day there is only about 15% utilization. That is averaged throughout the entire day. I'm responsible for maintaining 4 channelized DS3 (broken down into to DS1s (T1s), and then DS0(ISDN)) for voice. And our company averages about 10-20% utilization for the entire day. But on peak days and at peak hours we can max the whole thing out. Even maxxing out all of our trunks (aprox 2500) for an couple of hours we'll still probably only make about 50% utilization. (That's extremely high in the Telecom world).
So, when you hear that telcos are only using 15%, that's because they need the other stuff for peak times. Wether they are foreseeable or not.
Tons of different meanings on that one. Decide for yourself which way you want to take it.
Why does it sound like backing up is this task that is rarely ever done? Are you saying you don't back up your critical data? I'm not saying that full backups should be done on your home system once a week, with differential done daily. Once bitten, twice shy. I either back up large projects or upload smaller ones to an online storage site (i.e. xdrive.com). Here's another old adage that you should follow as well. An once of protection is worth a pound of cure... You don't plug your computer directly into the wall socket do you?
Probably because they are talking about the power savings during different criteria. Like it's a 400 % saving when the CPU is Idle, and 25% while the CPU is working full tilt.
Anyone else take note of the 7th icon on the screeners? "Fix-It" heh :)
Gotta love it.
That is to say, only if the computer used to calculate the sales is a Tandy.
By the way... I guess this makes me as old as you.
I've always wanted to do basically what this intrepid guy did. Cool stuff. I've wanted to mount it underneath the tabletop of the desk and have slot feed drives. Just sliding a DVD into the top of the desk would be pretty slick. It would also be slick when I spilled coffee... Pipe-dream? sure. It would still be pretty nifty.
I've been out of the loop for a bit, so excuse me for sounding dense, but could some one give me a synopsis of the Sklyarov case? or a link to one?
Um, they aren't exposing their network. They are setting up a laptop which acts as a WAP (wireless access point) but is in no way configured to connect to their intranet.
They are measuring how much (unauthorized)activity occurs at the access point.
Yeah... 64 but processors. I have a real problem with those as well. They keep making loud and disturbing noises. They smell too!
"if they will start using DMCA other companies could follow their example and also start doing this"
Carpe diem, sed, post hoc ergo proctor hoc.
heh, well... Some many missing characters in the movie you forget the S in your post.
And anyways there is no way you can incorporate all the characters in a book as long and as complex as LOTR/FOTR into a movie. Even if it is 3 hours long.
Sorry brother, Halflife is off of the q1 engine. Not q2. So that really shows how long quake1's staying power is.
no you most certainly would not have. There were no $100k tourney's back then. A 5k tourney purse was huge. Almost all of the gaming was done in college dorms not at home over cable/dsl.
Semi-pro means you would still get your ass whipped by the really good players (ie Thresh Gollum, Xenon).
You know, maybe a primary school teacher doesn't NEED to have a cell phone for work related emergencies (ring -- hey man come quick Sally learned the 2 times table!!). But if you have an important role in the tech industry you pretty much NEED to have a cell phone and to have it on... even if you do everything perfectly. As a telecom admin, I know that my stuff can be running perfectly but Sprint's T1s decide to turn funky. Or when the new guy in the deptartment decides to see what the red switch on the back of the PBX does.
I highly doubt they will be used in any competitions. No aids excluding the bridge and chaulk are allowed. No books, no notes, and quite certainly no computer overlaid imagery.
Well there is a distinction that needs to be made. Copy Protection is OK (witness: video games). Protection from theft is OK. Crippling a product and calling it either Copy Protection or Protection from Theft is not.
There's a line between trying to stop people from copying/stealing and selling things that don't work in equipment that should be compatible.
So we have cable company's going to put caps on their service. Fine. From all the information I have seen it seems to be tentatively set at 2-3 for the lowest class of service. Leaving a sizeable chunk for other stuff as well. Looks like this isn't going to stop p2p to me.
From the point of view of the hard-core gamer that the Salon article mentions supporting glide is the best thing about them. GLide is by far faster than DirectX and leaps and abounds. A will turn all the pretty cosmetic effects down, if not off (fugly mode). They will take the fugliness of any setting in order to boost their frame rate. And nobody using it? nice try. Ever wonder why all of the ID games you always see as THE definitive openGL bench mark. Because John Carmack uses it extensively. And he is the reason for the video card market to exist. Over and Above all of that. Glide can actually be used on other OSes.
Those are the writers I like as well. But, I hate to break it to you, but they aren't dying off they are dead.