I have just finished playing Far Cry on my aging box that has a 32 meg GEFORCE 2 GTS in it and it ran fine at 1024 x 768, sure the settings were on low, but it still looked good, especially considering that the minimum requirement for the game is a 64 meg 'direct x 9 compatible' card.
I'm sure that doom 3 is a little more advanced than far cry, but who know's I'll try it out. Besides, isn't the Geforce 4 mx just a geforce 2 anyway? I'm sure a ti4800 will be just fine.
Yeah the PSP look sleeker to you, guess what the Gameby DS is not meant for you, it's a slightly younger market. (Yes, when you were younger you had a Nintendo and it rocked didn't it! Unfortunately you grew up, and Nintendo didn't age with you, so you went to Sony who caters to your age bracket) Nintendo is just more focused on the one demographic they know best.
Incredible games my ass, what incredible games, all anyone has seen for both consoles is just demos, and at least Nintendo's were playable. Nevermind what the battery life will most likely be for the PSP. Who knows maybe Sony will pull something out of their ass and the PSP will have great battery life, but not likely. I'm getting visions of Gamegear here...
Apart from patenting their sustaining marketshare I think this post sums it up nicely.
Apple is doing just fine at ~4% marketshare. So what, they're happy, their users are happy, what's the big deal. Why push them to be another Microsoft and keep growing their market share. Just image if it works, in 20 year time we'll be switching to Microsoft so that we have a non-mainstream os that is more secure by virtue of it having only ~4% market share. I think I would choke on my own vomit if I ever found my self saying something like that, so why push for it.
Sure everyone complains about apple only having ~4% market-share but it seems most of these people are writing their opinions from a Windowze PC anyway. You know you like OS X or the fancy design, so don't be a cheap ass and spend the money. If you buy a top end PC it will cost you the same bloody amount anyway.
Run for the Hills! Hell's freezing over! I inserted the cd, and after fifteen minutes of odd stuff going on an Icon appeared on my desktop.
I double clicked it thinking that this is the fancy sopy protection and I needed to do this to play the music, but no my friends, it turns out to be Duke Forever! And they beat Half Life 2 & Doom 3 to market!!
ok, fine, this didn't really happen, but hey, watch out next time something promises to install vaporware.
Yeah intel has the feature and it works. I don't know if amd had the exact same feature built in to the chip, but just about all amd motherboards have overheating protection built built it. I think tom's hardware had a video of what happens, and it went something like this...
The 'test' was just to take the heatsink right off, not just shutting the fan off. This is a biggie. The Intel processor throttled down when it started getting hot. The amd chip blew out because the sudden chage in temperature was too much for the motherboard sensor to deal with. Had the fan been just stopped and the heatsink left on the chip, I am quite sure that the motherboard would be able to control the heat, or shut the system down.
I have an Athlon XP box right now, and I can set this up in both the bios and in Windows with the proper program. So it's not really built in on the cpu, but it should still protect the chip if the fan fails. Maybe the Ahlon64/Opterons have the same thing as Intel now as they support the clock adjustment depending on load
Alright, sure it's been 50 odd years, but remember, the first nukes were droped deliberately on civilians to achieve the greatest effect. Sound familiar?
And to add. Imagine if those planes flew into the World Trade Centre at 11:00 am. When everyone would be in there working. The death toll would be much much higher.
Of course things have changed since ww2, but most people don't forget. Smart bomb are much much better than carpet bombing, sure, but they still do hit a hospital once in a while.
Since as we all know that everyone but us is dumb, I propose that The Governement create a 'Computer User' licence, handle it much the same way as a driver's licence.
No computer use prior to turning 16 Apply for a 'learners permit' and hold it for at least 6 months. There is a touch screen test to make sure you have rudementary understanding of a Computer.
After 6 months you can take a test with an instructor wathing you going through most routine computer uses (email, browsing) scoring demerits on everything done wrong. (opening attachements from unknow sources) If you pass, you get a 'New Computer User' licence. You have to use the computer for 1 full year, without incident, and then you can get your full on 'Computer User' licence.
It's just like those $20 dollar remote control cars, they share the same frequency. Now that the Beagle is back up and running, they are competing for radio frequency(ies), and both are getting screwed.
I think alot of the crap problems that happen on a windows box stem from the fact that just about everyone using xp/2000 at home is running admin privlidges.
This is obciously not a good idea, but it's necessary. Games particularly are bad about this, half of them won't run with out admin rights. I don't know who to blame for this, microsoft should make it easy to operate as a regular user, not an admin. But software should be written to work with regular users, not just admins.
Yeah, outlook is still shiat. but hey, people want a pink background on their email, there's no way around it. maybe we should send pdf's back and forth. The days of plain text email is long gone, face it.
Yeah, if all you want to do is remove red-eye and crop your images then it sure is overpriced, but there are much better and easier alternatives for you.
For doing PROFFESIONAL graphic design jobs, it's damn cheap. You get some crappy photos taken by a photographer, do you spend 5 grand easy to reshoot, or spend 600 buck to buy photoshop and fix the image up, and get to keep to tool to do so for every time you get crappy images sent to you. That's cheap.
Add to that the interoperability with the rest of Adobe's programs (Indesign/Illustrator) and it's looking almost free.
you mean the next Green Day album is only going to be 15 minutes. I'm so dissapointed.
Too bad they have to cut the album lenght in half so that they can fit both versions on the same old cd. Talk about restricting an artist's creativity.
Apart from the cartridge costs that come up the second you want to print something.
Add to that the fact that you may be lucky and get 5 years out of a print. multiply by at least 20 to match 'real' photographs and it doesn't look so cheap now does it.
besides, if you want a good inkjet print, I think it may be more expensive (paper+ink+0.001% of sd card cost) than regular photograph developing+film cost.
I'm here in Vancouver, BC, Canada. With the lovely Telus providing ADSL.
They do actually have a page where you are supposed to check how much bandwidth you have been using (sorry don't remember where, somewhere in the account setup/config) I've looked at it once in a while over the past two years I've had DSL, not once was it actually reporting anything. Over the past 6 months I got my self a little program taht monitors how much bandwidth I am actually using, and it's at least 5 gigs per week.
The Athlon64/FX/look at my 64 bits line of CPU's has all that covered. I think that optimized compilers are pretty standard, and die shrinks too. One thing that I'm sure that the G5 will have/has is power saving software built in even for desktop usage, just like the Athlon 64. Do you really need 3 Ghz to check email and chat on MSN? (providing you're not running Seti in the background). Helps extend the life of the chip, and saves a buck or two on electricity.
Yeah, it's a bitch, but it seems that it's just lazyness on microsoft's part. Oh, why should we support the other 5% of the market. -cue evil bill gates laugh.
You can try something like: http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/
not sure if it can handle mounting hdd's, but works great for zip discs and cd's.
Yeah, something like it should be built into the OS from the start, but since when are we expecting MS to play nice with it's competition.
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I know how we all hate those evil french because they didn't want to back a war over imaginary weapons, but it was in fact the british that borrowed the 'chicken cannon'
I find that fact that it crashes at all quite disappointing. A mac is very much like a nintendo or playstation. It's a box with set hardware specs.
Yes you can add your fancy webcams etc, but they almost all gp through apple, and the os itself just has to worry about the base hardware: mainboard, CPU, RAM, HDD etc, now all of this is set by apple, so why inthe world does it crash. They know excatly the hardware it is going to run on, so why does it crash!!!
Windows has the saving grace of being able to complain that it has to run on all sorts of cheap ass hardware, and considering some of the crap I've seen it run on it does a pretty good job
I don't mean to put apple down and defend MS, but it seems to me that the Apple software (not the 3rd party apps etc) could be a little bit more stable
Whatif you set this up at a small level, like your computer. Get rid of your fans sucking air in, cut a hole into the computer, attach a hose, and get a small air pump, with filter attached to blow air into your case. Thigns should be kept cool enough from the air coming in, and the dust would be pushed out.
Would be great for 'loose' cases like mine, I have my air intakes covered, but the dust still gets in through the holes between my cd-r and dvd, zip, and jaz drives etc.
BTW Quake/UT are also "banned". (from the best of my knowledge, and from previous posts)
I think those Germans might be onto something, look at the murder rates between the two countries, or the US and any coutry. Rather then let kids virtually kill each other (with arguably some spillover into the real world) let them watch soft porn. They'll be whacking off and not shooting each other.
I agree, I spent 3 years in School for Graphic Design, the computers all macs of course (OS 9.xx) and at least half the people in there, even ones that have macs at home, just click the (x) and think they've closed the program, then complain that they don't have any memory left for iTunes.
PS - I may be the only one, but the 'Olive' colour theme is the best by far. Doesn't screem as much as the blue, and not as jocky as the silver.
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I have just finished playing Far Cry on my aging box that has a 32 meg GEFORCE 2 GTS in it and it ran fine at 1024 x 768, sure the settings were on low, but it still looked good, especially considering that the minimum requirement for the game is a 64 meg 'direct x 9 compatible' card.
I'm sure that doom 3 is a little more advanced than far cry, but who know's I'll try it out. Besides, isn't the Geforce 4 mx just a geforce 2 anyway? I'm sure a ti4800 will be just fine.
Im.
That's right I 0WNZ00R3S U W MY 3LIT3 LANGUAG3 3KILLZ, N00B!!
Frankly... WTF!
Yeah the PSP look sleeker to you, guess what the Gameby DS is not meant for you, it's a slightly younger market. (Yes, when you were younger you had a Nintendo and it rocked didn't it! Unfortunately you grew up, and Nintendo didn't age with you, so you went to Sony who caters to your age bracket) Nintendo is just more focused on the one demographic they know best.
Incredible games my ass, what incredible games, all anyone has seen for both consoles is just demos, and at least Nintendo's were playable. Nevermind what the battery life will most likely be for the PSP. Who knows maybe Sony will pull something out of their ass and the PSP will have great battery life, but not likely. I'm getting visions of Gamegear here...
That's it for my daily rant.
my appologies.
Im.
Apart from patenting their sustaining marketshare I think this post sums it up nicely.
Apple is doing just fine at ~4% marketshare. So what, they're happy, their users are happy, what's the big deal. Why push them to be another Microsoft and keep growing their market share. Just image if it works, in 20 year time we'll be switching to Microsoft so that we have a non-mainstream os that is more secure by virtue of it having only ~4% market share. I think I would choke on my own vomit if I ever found my self saying something like that, so why push for it.
Sure everyone complains about apple only having ~4% market-share but it seems most of these people are writing their opinions from a Windowze PC anyway. You know you like OS X or the fancy design, so don't be a cheap ass and spend the money. If you buy a top end PC it will cost you the same bloody amount anyway.
discalimer: I own both.
Im.
Run for the Hills! Hell's freezing over! I inserted the cd, and after fifteen minutes of odd stuff going on an Icon appeared on my desktop.
I double clicked it thinking that this is the fancy sopy protection and I needed to do this to play the music, but no my friends, it turns out to be Duke Forever! And they beat Half Life 2 & Doom 3 to market!!
ok, fine, this didn't really happen, but hey, watch out next time something promises to install vaporware.
Im.
Here is what I remember...
Yeah intel has the feature and it works. I don't know if amd had the exact same feature built in to the chip, but just about all amd motherboards have overheating protection built built it. I think tom's hardware had a video of what happens, and it went something like this...
The 'test' was just to take the heatsink right off, not just shutting the fan off. This is a biggie. The Intel processor throttled down when it started getting hot. The amd chip blew out because the sudden chage in temperature was too much for the motherboard sensor to deal with. Had the fan been just stopped and the heatsink left on the chip, I am quite sure that the motherboard would be able to control the heat, or shut the system down.
I have an Athlon XP box right now, and I can set this up in both the bios and in Windows with the proper program. So it's not really built in on the cpu, but it should still protect the chip if the fan fails. Maybe the Ahlon64/Opterons have the same thing as Intel now as they support the clock adjustment depending on load
Im.
Alright, sure it's been 50 odd years, but remember, the first nukes were droped deliberately on civilians to achieve the greatest effect. Sound familiar?
And to add. Imagine if those planes flew into the World Trade Centre at 11:00 am. When everyone would be in there working. The death toll would be much much higher.
Of course things have changed since ww2, but most people don't forget. Smart bomb are much much better than carpet bombing, sure, but they still do hit a hospital once in a while.
Here's the deal,
Since as we all know that everyone but us is dumb, I propose that The Governement create a 'Computer User' licence, handle it much the same way as a driver's licence.
No computer use prior to turning 16
Apply for a 'learners permit' and hold it for at least 6 months. There is a touch screen test to make sure you have rudementary understanding of a Computer.
After 6 months you can take a test with an instructor wathing you going through most routine computer uses (email, browsing) scoring demerits on everything done wrong. (opening attachements from unknow sources) If you pass, you get a 'New Computer User' licence. You have to use the computer for 1 full year, without incident, and then you can get your full on 'Computer User' licence.
May vary by State/Province.
That's it, easy as pi.
It's just like those $20 dollar remote control cars, they share the same frequency. Now that the Beagle is back up and running, they are competing for radio frequency(ies), and both are getting screwed.
yes, I did just make that up.
Im.
I think alot of the crap problems that happen on a windows box stem from the fact that just about everyone using xp/2000 at home is running admin privlidges.
This is obciously not a good idea, but it's necessary. Games particularly are bad about this, half of them won't run with out admin rights. I don't know who to blame for this, microsoft should make it easy to operate as a regular user, not an admin. But software should be written to work with regular users, not just admins.
Yeah, outlook is still shiat. but hey, people want a pink background on their email, there's no way around it. maybe we should send pdf's back and forth. The days of plain text email is long gone, face it.
Imz.
Bull.
Yeah, if all you want to do is remove red-eye and crop your images then it sure is overpriced, but there are much better and easier alternatives for you.
For doing PROFFESIONAL graphic design jobs, it's damn cheap. You get some crappy photos taken by a photographer, do you spend 5 grand easy to reshoot, or spend 600 buck to buy photoshop and fix the image up, and get to keep to tool to do so for every time you get crappy images sent to you. That's cheap.
Add to that the interoperability with the rest of Adobe's programs (Indesign/Illustrator) and it's looking almost free.
you mean the next Green Day album is only going to be 15 minutes. I'm so dissapointed.
Too bad they have to cut the album lenght in half so that they can fit both versions on the same old cd. Talk about restricting an artist's creativity.
Apart from the cartridge costs that come up the second you want to print something.
Add to that the fact that you may be lucky and get 5 years out of a print. multiply by at least 20 to match 'real' photographs and it doesn't look so cheap now does it.
besides, if you want a good inkjet print, I think it may be more expensive (paper+ink+0.001% of sd card cost) than regular photograph developing+film cost.
anyone have some numbers? I'd be curious.
Imz.
I'm here in Vancouver, BC, Canada. With the lovely Telus providing ADSL.
They do actually have a page where you are supposed to check how much bandwidth you have been using (sorry don't remember where, somewhere in the account setup/config) I've looked at it once in a while over the past two years I've had DSL, not once was it actually reporting anything. Over the past 6 months I got my self a little program taht monitors how much bandwidth I am actually using, and it's at least 5 gigs per week.
No letter yet.
I guess I'll find out soon enough... errr... I mean... *cough* *cough*
The Athlon64/FX/look at my 64 bits line of CPU's has all that covered. I think that optimized compilers are pretty standard, and die shrinks too. One thing that I'm sure that the G5 will have/has is power saving software built in even for desktop usage, just like the Athlon 64. Do you really need 3 Ghz to check email and chat on MSN? (providing you're not running Seti in the background). Helps extend the life of the chip, and saves a buck or two on electricity.
Not to bash, go IBM go!
Yeah, it's a bitch, but it seems that it's just lazyness on microsoft's part. Oh, why should we support the other 5% of the market. -cue evil bill gates laugh.
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You can try something like:
http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive
not sure if it can handle mounting hdd's, but works great for zip discs and cd's.
Yeah, something like it should be built into the OS from the start, but since when are we expecting MS to play nice with it's competition.
And, one more question... how did Sadam get that nerve gas in the first place?
A) after a bad fart, he had an ingenious idea
B) stole it from someone
C) those freedom hating French gave it to him
D) his pal George Sr. was quite happy to sell it to him, and probably his taliban friends too
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dang, you mean those aren's chickens?
I know how we all hate those evil french because they didn't want to back a war over imaginary weapons, but it was in fact the british that borrowed the 'chicken cannon'
I find that fact that it crashes at all quite disappointing. A mac is very much like a nintendo or playstation. It's a box with set hardware specs.
Yes you can add your fancy webcams etc, but they almost all gp through apple, and the os itself just has to worry about the base hardware: mainboard, CPU, RAM, HDD etc, now all of this is set by apple, so why inthe world does it crash. They know excatly the hardware it is going to run on, so why does it crash!!!
Windows has the saving grace of being able to complain that it has to run on all sorts of cheap ass hardware, and considering some of the crap I've seen it run on it does a pretty good job
I don't mean to put apple down and defend MS, but it seems to me that the Apple software (not the 3rd party apps etc) could be a little bit more stable
Im."The worms, C. elegans, share many biological characteristics with humans and are the size of a pencil tip."
Alright kids, enough with the George W. Junior jokes already. We know he's dumb but this is getting a little tired...
...what...
no?
oh alright carry on then...
Whatif you set this up at a small level, like your computer. Get rid of your fans sucking air in, cut a hole into the computer, attach a hose, and get a small air pump, with filter attached to blow air into your case. Thigns should be kept cool enough from the air coming in, and the dust would be pushed out. Would be great for 'loose' cases like mine, I have my air intakes covered, but the dust still gets in through the holes between my cd-r and dvd, zip, and jaz drives etc.
BTW Quake/UT are also "banned". (from the best of my knowledge, and from previous posts)
I think those Germans might be onto something, look at the murder rates between the two countries, or the US and any coutry. Rather then let kids virtually kill each other (with arguably some spillover into the real world) let them watch soft porn. They'll be whacking off and not shooting each other.
Pretty smart, no?
I agree, I spent 3 years in School for Graphic Design, the computers all macs of course (OS 9.xx) and at least half the people in there, even ones that have macs at home, just click the (x) and think they've closed the program, then complain that they don't have any memory left for iTunes.
PS - I may be the only one, but the 'Olive' colour theme is the best by far. Doesn't screem as much as the blue, and not as jocky as the silver.