On XT clones it overclocked the computer. Such a computer could keep up with a 286 (sorta kinda). It also (not surprisingly) caused a lot of systems to be unstable if you left it on for any significant period of time which is why it was a switch and not a permanent mod. I guess a heatsink would've helped in this matter.
The primary market for dual DVI is willing to pay for the privilage, rather than do without. The same used to be said for just plain old dual vga. Feature creep should hit us on cheapo cards once cheap lcds have DVI inputs. I don't know why VGA inputs are used on LCDs to begin with, unless it is somehow cheaper or just preserves a price point.
Appian sells a dual dvi radeon 7000/VE (4 year old tech) for ~$190. The Matrox 2xDVI G550 cards (again, about 3-4 years old) go for ~$130. A DualDVI XFX GF6600 PCI-E goes for less than $140 but the AGP version is $160+. Both are full sized cards, but they do use a passive heatsink. Perhaps more importantly they should continue to get less expensive if they sit on the shelf a bit, should provide access to better drivers, and give you superior hardware to boot.
The cheapest way to go is (ironicaly) to use two cards. Specificly a pair GF4MX4000 (vga+dvi out). AGP and PCI for around $35 and 45 each respectivly.
I see your point. I for one don't relish the electricity bill for a pair of 150W (max for pci-e, IMS) video cards running sli with another 130W or so going to the CPU. I don't look foward to the expense of buying an 800W (combined 450-500W OMG!) PSU, or a 200-300 dollar mobo that can handle it all. However, if 150W per slot is possible (i'm not really sure it is) I expect someone to hit it and someone else will pass it by using 12v aux plugs... again.
I've learned to make sacrifices in my quest to ay my bills and still be able to buy good scotch (I meant save the environment.) My main computer is now a notebook. It consumes about 17w per hour in max battery mode and I run it that way almost all the time,even when it is plugged in. If I need extra muscle the CPU(PM) and GPU(r9700) are set for full speed.
What I would like to see, in addition frequency and component power scaling currently avalable in the hardware, is a piece of monitoring software that would be a combination of Fraps, Rivatuner and SoftFSB. I could set it at say 30FPS and the hardware would scale back whenever it passed that mark.
Recent Acer Travelmates (TM3200, TM2300/4000 for example) have a large illuminated button that turns the wireless card on and off. Same with bluetooth. I've also seen quite a few that use a Fn+ hotkey combo that does the same thing. I would prefer the later as it is less likely to accidentaly to happen.
Exactly.
Depending on where in my apartment I am I can pick up between 2-4SSIDs and 1 of those is actualy 3-4 different APs still set to "linksys" on channel 6. I'm running on channel 1, my upstairs neighbor is on 10, and the guy across the hall (I think) is 7. If I forget to delete my linksys, default, dlink, mn520, and netgear profiles (commonly used for public aps) My notebook will arbitrarily and automaticly associate with the strongest signal from an unlocked ap. I regard this as the electronic equivalent of keeping my dog out of a neighbor's yard, a neighbor that leaves out slabs of meat to attract the dog. I have to "hack" just to stay on my own network.
I give it a 5. Download/Upload is 4Mb/512Mb with actual download speeds rarely exceeding 2.5Mb (the most Ive measured is ~ 350KBPS). Price is OK, but the service goes out once or twice per month an requires the cable modem to be reset manualy to reestablish connectivity. Plus it's the usual dynamic DHCP crap, with a "no server" TOS. Lastly, their support people just don't have a clue. I think they are actually paid to get people to turn off their fire walls. I mean god knows we don't have enough worm infested systems on the intarweb, right?
The sweet light of jebus would shine on me if I could get speakeasy. Unfortunately, Speakeasy only offers me 384Kb SDSL and wants 3x as much for it. Sure I understand why they can't do better (BELLSOUTH) but if I lived a mile closer to Country Club of the South, they could get me static IP, no TOS BS and 1.5DL/384UL for what I pay Comcast. That would earn a 10.
No you are not alone. I'll even use use Matrox.
Being loyal to a corporation that isn't paying me to be their bitch? I don't think so. I AM willing however to flame a company for selling me a lump of crap and not making me happy in the end.
I would say that this attitude has gained a lot of favor amongst enthusiasts over the years. I see a lot more open discourse about the various merits of price, performance, reliability, etc... today than I did a few years ago.
You must be an pro-AMD troll as I think everyone knows by now that Intel owns the space heater crown. I bow to your fishing skills. You should learn though, that its a pretty moot point. If you aren't gunning for a top Futuremark score, any relativly recently produced processor (say, less than 5 years old) by AMD, IBM, or even Intel(poke...poke) will be sufficient for your/. trolling needs.
Well "YOU" would be dead, but your loved ones or anyone that valued your existance could benifit from it. I could see a situation where an employer took out a "life insurance policy" on a coder, scientist, or artist, etc... to preserve what they find worthy about the individual. I could see soldiers, policemen, and others in dangerous professions wanting to upload their minds for their children. I could see megalomaniacs doing it because the world would be such a poorer place by their absence:)
This was the first thing I thought of when I read "Bad Idea?". Read about them in Wired. Though the article ends on a down note, these were high school kids, competing at a college level. What they came up with was inspired.
An A/B/X test is a type of blind test used to impartialy show a statistical preference for A, B or Undetermined.
The X sample is A or B (random) and is just used to determine the number of surveyed test subjects that could/couldn't tell the difference between A and B.
I think it is funny that this is an "old game". I still go back and play on fully populated 32 player servers. guess there will be more now.
The graphics don't look too dated for a DX7/OGL game, very nice textures. Infinite size levels are cool (I hate running into the invisible wall in UT2k4). I wish UTOnslaught had T2's bomber as well. Or the HAVOC. 5 Juggernaughts jumpjeting from a Havoc troop carrier amid a rain of Fusion Mortars is still a sublime pleasure for me...
Anyways,
Tribes 2 was a "must upgrade" game for me and required a pretty cutting edge machine to run well at the time it was being patched into completion ('nuff said). It "made" me go from 128MB to 256MB (critical to get rid of the worst of the swapping) and finally to 512MB RAM ( the game + system uses about 350MB I estimated). It ran poorly on a GF2MX (32MB SDR), fair on a radeonVIVO (64MB DDR), good a GF2PRO (64MB), and great on anything faster. Processor speed wasn't as critical, any +800Mhz P3/Athlon seemed to work fine.
Nowadays, a sub 2GHz AMD budget box with NForce2 integrated graphics (and 1/2Gig of 333DDR) should be enough for this game. All those P4Celeron w/ GF4MX420s should love this game. Got a laptop with radeon or nvidia graphics? Try T2.
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On XT clones it overclocked the computer. Such a computer could keep up with a 286 (sorta kinda). It also (not surprisingly) caused a lot of systems to be unstable if you left it on for any significant period of time which is why it was a switch and not a permanent mod. I guess a heatsink would've helped in this matter.
Yeah, what about soylent corp's plan? That sounds reasonable.
The primary market for dual DVI is willing to pay for the privilage, rather than do without. The same used to be said for just plain old dual vga. Feature creep should hit us on cheapo cards once cheap lcds have DVI inputs. I don't know why VGA inputs are used on LCDs to begin with, unless it is somehow cheaper or just preserves a price point.
Appian sells a dual dvi radeon 7000/VE (4 year old tech) for ~$190. The Matrox 2xDVI G550 cards (again, about 3-4 years old) go for ~$130. A DualDVI XFX GF6600 PCI-E goes for less than $140 but the AGP version is $160+. Both are full sized cards, but they do use a passive heatsink. Perhaps more importantly they should continue to get less expensive if they sit on the shelf a bit, should provide access to better drivers, and give you superior hardware to boot.
The cheapest way to go is (ironicaly) to use two cards. Specificly a pair GF4MX4000 (vga+dvi out). AGP and PCI for around $35 and 45 each respectivly.
I see your point. I for one don't relish the electricity bill for a pair of 150W (max for pci-e, IMS) video cards running sli with another 130W or so going to the CPU. I don't look foward to the expense of buying an 800W (combined 450-500W OMG!) PSU, or a 200-300 dollar mobo that can handle it all. However, if 150W per slot is possible (i'm not really sure it is) I expect someone to hit it and someone else will pass it by using 12v aux plugs... again. I've learned to make sacrifices in my quest to ay my bills and still be able to buy good scotch (I meant save the environment.) My main computer is now a notebook. It consumes about 17w per hour in max battery mode and I run it that way almost all the time,even when it is plugged in. If I need extra muscle the CPU(PM) and GPU(r9700) are set for full speed. What I would like to see, in addition frequency and component power scaling currently avalable in the hardware, is a piece of monitoring software that would be a combination of Fraps, Rivatuner and SoftFSB. I could set it at say 30FPS and the hardware would scale back whenever it passed that mark.
Recent Acer Travelmates (TM3200, TM2300/4000 for example) have a large illuminated button that turns the wireless card on and off. Same with bluetooth. I've also seen quite a few that use a Fn+ hotkey combo that does the same thing. I would prefer the later as it is less likely to accidentaly to happen.
Exactly. Depending on where in my apartment I am I can pick up between 2-4SSIDs and 1 of those is actualy 3-4 different APs still set to "linksys" on channel 6. I'm running on channel 1, my upstairs neighbor is on 10, and the guy across the hall (I think) is 7. If I forget to delete my linksys, default, dlink, mn520, and netgear profiles (commonly used for public aps) My notebook will arbitrarily and automaticly associate with the strongest signal from an unlocked ap. I regard this as the electronic equivalent of keeping my dog out of a neighbor's yard, a neighbor that leaves out slabs of meat to attract the dog. I have to "hack" just to stay on my own network.
I give it a 5. Download/Upload is 4Mb/512Mb with actual download speeds rarely exceeding 2.5Mb (the most Ive measured is ~ 350KBPS). Price is OK, but the service goes out once or twice per month an requires the cable modem to be reset manualy to reestablish connectivity. Plus it's the usual dynamic DHCP crap, with a "no server" TOS. Lastly, their support people just don't have a clue. I think they are actually paid to get people to turn off their fire walls. I mean god knows we don't have enough worm infested systems on the intarweb, right? The sweet light of jebus would shine on me if I could get speakeasy. Unfortunately, Speakeasy only offers me 384Kb SDSL and wants 3x as much for it. Sure I understand why they can't do better (BELLSOUTH) but if I lived a mile closer to Country Club of the South, they could get me static IP, no TOS BS and 1.5DL/384UL for what I pay Comcast. That would earn a 10.
No you are not alone. I'll even use use Matrox. Being loyal to a corporation that isn't paying me to be their bitch? I don't think so. I AM willing however to flame a company for selling me a lump of crap and not making me happy in the end. I would say that this attitude has gained a lot of favor amongst enthusiasts over the years. I see a lot more open discourse about the various merits of price, performance, reliability, etc... today than I did a few years ago.
Don't know about tunnels but "ground effect" planes/boats they did build and the idea seems similar. http://www.google.com/search?q=ekranoplan
Other reasons to hit the surf:
Huricane's a'commin, east coast phenom.
Dino killin asteroids, or comets for LN/JP fans.
Just remember to bring that old longboard.
You must be an pro-AMD troll as I think everyone knows by now that Intel owns the space heater crown. I bow to your fishing skills. You should learn though, that its a pretty moot point. If you aren't gunning for a top Futuremark score, any relativly recently produced processor (say, less than 5 years old) by AMD, IBM, or even Intel(poke...poke) will be sufficient for your /. trolling needs.
no I think it's universal, as in Universal Pictures.
Well "YOU" would be dead, but your loved ones or anyone that valued your existance could benifit from it. I could see a situation where an employer took out a "life insurance policy" on a coder, scientist, or artist, etc... to preserve what they find worthy about the individual. I could see soldiers, policemen, and others in dangerous professions wanting to upload their minds for their children. I could see megalomaniacs doing it because the world would be such a poorer place by their absence:)
Sounds like a salable product to me.
Ah! Where are my insightful mod pts when I need them? :)
This was the first thing I thought of when I read "Bad Idea?". Read about them in Wired. Though the article ends on a down note, these were high school kids, competing at a college level. What they came up with was inspired.
An A/B/X test is a type of blind test used to impartialy show a statistical preference for A, B or Undetermined. The X sample is A or B (random) and is just used to determine the number of surveyed test subjects that could/couldn't tell the difference between A and B.
I think it is funny that this is an "old game". I still go back and play on fully populated 32 player servers. guess there will be more now. The graphics don't look too dated for a DX7/OGL game, very nice textures. Infinite size levels are cool (I hate running into the invisible wall in UT2k4). I wish UTOnslaught had T2's bomber as well. Or the HAVOC. 5 Juggernaughts jumpjeting from a Havoc troop carrier amid a rain of Fusion Mortars is still a sublime pleasure for me...
Anyways,
Tribes 2 was a "must upgrade" game for me and required a pretty cutting edge machine to run well at the time it was being patched into completion ('nuff said). It "made" me go from 128MB to 256MB (critical to get rid of the worst of the swapping) and finally to 512MB RAM ( the game + system uses about 350MB I estimated). It ran poorly on a GF2MX (32MB SDR), fair on a radeonVIVO (64MB DDR), good a GF2PRO (64MB), and great on anything faster. Processor speed wasn't as critical, any +800Mhz P3/Athlon seemed to work fine.
Nowadays, a sub 2GHz AMD budget box with NForce2 integrated graphics (and 1/2Gig of 333DDR) should be enough for this game. All those P4Celeron w/ GF4MX420s should love this game. Got a laptop with radeon or nvidia graphics? Try T2.