Get one of those desktop boards that will host a Core Duo CPU based on the Yonah core. It's a notebook processor. Should run very cool even at stock speeds.
Don't. Intel will be releasing a 915 processor soon which should run much cooler and clock higher than the 805. It's based on Presler which is far superior to the Smithfield core used in the 805.
Furthermore, 4.1 ghz is VERY rare for the 805. I know many people who have tried OCing these chips and can't really beat 3.5-3.7 ghz. The heat output is terrible.
The problem with your line of thinking is that you assume we need an ID card to prevent identity theft. Sadly, the reason why identities can be stolen is that we already have universal identifiers (Social Security #s, bank account numbers + PINS, credit card numbers, etc) that can be used anywhere by someone who steals them and knows what they're doing. The only way to prevent theft of identity is to have no identity, or at least have no universally-accepted identification code. Introducing yet another identifier, such as a biometric signature paired with a PIN code, and linking it to our existing identifiers will only make us more vulnerable to identity thieves once the thieves figure out how to successfully steal and utilize our personal identifiers. Biometrics have been, can be, and will be spoofed. PIN numbers can be stolen via hacking or social engineering.
In short, I believe that national ID cards will make us more vulnerable to identity theft.
The difference here may be in the federalist form of government that the US supposedly has. I don't know if Slovakia has a similar governmental model, but in the US, there are some matters were state/municipal governments are meant to have powers over citizens that the federal government is not.
In the view of some Americans, it's okay (or at least tolerable) to have state-issued ID cards but not okay for the federal government to do the same. Sadly, the feds catalog us already through the Social Security Administration and the Internal Revenue Service, so it would appear to be a moot point.
AM2 is launching in May. However, the processors that will be launching along with it are nothing but K8 procs with a new pinout configuration. The fastest AM2 CPU will be the FX-62 which is nothing but the FX-60 with a higher clock speed (200 mhz faster to be specific).
AM2 itself offers no performance advantage unless you run DDR2-667 or DDR2-800 with tight timings. This requires expensive enthusiast RAM. If you run with value or standard DDR2-400, DDR2-533, or even DDR2-667, K8 on s939 will match or beat K8 on AM2 clock per clock.
Even with enthusiast RAM, AM2 procs will still be beaten by Conroe. Intel will own the performance crown from July forward. K8L may take it back for AMD, or it may not.
AMD's response will be a chip known currently as K8L. Whether it will launch on AM2 or AM3 is anybody's guess, but it will supposedly come out sometime in 2007. Intel will have at least 5-6 months with the performance crown since AMD can't beat Conroe with their current K8 processors on s939 or AM2.
The question is: can Intel retain the performance crown once they gain it? The last time Intel was the top dog performance-wise was back when the Pentium IV 3.2C was their flagship desktop part. That lasted until K8 hit the streets.
That is factually incorrect. On a few OEMs have gotten s939 Semprons. AM2 will have Semprons as well which casts doubt upon s754's future, but s939 is definitely finished.
AM2 has been shown to perform at the same speeds or slower than those of s939 using common DDR2-533. It takes enthusiast DDR2 to get better performance out of AM2. Socket AM2 is a joke. Conroe will murder it with glee, and this is coming from a long-time AMD buyer. Don't believe me? Check this out.
Re-reading TFA seems to indicate this new tech will be cheaper vs simulators that move the participant to produce the illusion of motion. Fair enough. Even still, I doubt that the result would necessarily qualify as "low cost" unless the tech becomes widespread.
I don't see anything in the article that makes me think this new technology will reduce the cost of VR simulators. Am I missing something here?
Furthermore, one of the worst parts of VR simulators I've see has been lack of compelling content. They all seem to feature the same draw, namely that it's VR and that it's novel, fresh, and appealing. Immersiveness is law! Wait, I'm sounding like Romero here, urk.
Ahem. Anyway, once you get over the immersion factor, what's left? Not much, usually. The same can be said of modern eye-candy video games. I suppose the difference is that VR games cost more.
I have a plan, though you might not like it. Would you like to hear it? Would anyone? At this point, I don't know that anyone is willing to listen. Everyone's factionalized to the point that new ideas or new arrangements of old ideas will be ignored.
The problem is that Elder Scrolls games have had broken levelling systems since Morrowind. They're counter-intuitive. If you level up with your major skills only, you're looking at maybe +7 stat points per level. You don't get much improvement in your other skills, and you're missing out on potential stat points by doing this. The game will still scale up in difficulty, so difficulty scales up quickly while your power scales up slowly.
You gain the most by focusing on skills not in your chosen skill set because you can get up to +15(or more?) stat points per level, and you get a large number of skill increases across the board with a limited number of level-ups. This means difficulty scales up slowly but your power scales up quickly.
example: the best possible mage is set up to be a mage's mage(like High-Elf/Apprentice) but has nothing but combat skills as major skills, and the class is focused on combat. Why? Simple: level up your magic skills so that you get +5 Int and +5 Wil at next level up(say +5 Destruction and +5 Mysticism?) and then level up your main skills in the same stat 7 times or so (let's say +7 Athleticism) and you get
+5 Speed +5 Intelligence +5 Willpower
with one level. I think? Do that 10-15 times and you have 100 in all three stats and a ton of skill in Athleticism and all the magical skills, which is very useful to have. After 20-30 levels of this, you should be able to have 100 Speed, Strength, Willpower, and Intelligence easily.
In the end, all the Elder Scrolls games reward you for doing everything with your character while having the highest possible magicka and hitpoints possible (with magicka being more important). Mix and match racial and sign-based bonuses to taste.
Yeah, the new magicka regenration rates make mages more powerful than they were in Morrowind. In Daggerfall, there was an ugly bug they never quite patched away that allowed you to absorb your own spells at 100% efficiency if you had innate spell absorption, so you could build a ranged AE spell and fire it at the floor at your feet to kill everything at an overall cost of 0 magicka. This made mages tiny gods.
Morrowind had the stupid Breton/Atronach combo that allowed you to cast a spell summoning an ancestor spirit, piss it off, and absorb about 50% of the sleep spells it cast at you for tons of extra magicka. It was convoluted, but it made the Atronach sign work pretty well and kept mages going without excessive potion use. This combo got even uglier using items enchanted with summon spells if you were good at recharging them.
Oblivion has innate magicka regeneration that sort of renders the Atronach sign obsolete unless you can find something like the summoning trick from Morrowind (who knows, maybe there is one). Anyone with sufficient magicka can just build bad-ass spells, cast em, then wait a few seconds to get their magicka back and keep on truckin.
So yeah, magic is kinda overpowered, though it was insanely overpowered in Daggerfall.
It's no shocker that Oblivion is selling well for Xbox 360. There hasn't been much else for 360 owners to buy, and I'm sure many 360 owners bot the console for this game in much the same way that PSX owners bought their units for FF7 (albeit Oblivion has probably lead to fewer sales than FF7). The fact that Oblivion is doing well for both 360 and the PC is pretty damn impressive, though. Just goes to show you that not everything has to be a MMOG or have multiplayer features to be fun.
People like you don't deserve mod points. Ever. No matter how horrible the "base" humor, trolling, or flamebait may be, we should all be forced to read everything that is posted here in the name of intellectual egalitarianism. Perhaps crapflooding should be censored, but I don't mind seeing hundreds of worthless page-widening posts. They're occasionally amusing.
Considering how many people have been pulled out of the Xbox 360 division to work on Vista, they may well be taking your advice already. Personally, I hope they do halt sales of the 360, recall the units, and send out refunds. Then when the PS3 comes out, it will bomb when everyone finds out that it'll cost around $700 retail just to get one(more when the inevitably supply shortages emerge). Then Nintendo swaggers along with the Revolution and wows everyone with a cool console that costs $200.
If Nintendo can't deliver, the entire console market will go up in flames. So much for PC gaming being dead, eh?
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Get one of those desktop boards that will host a Core Duo CPU based on the Yonah core. It's a notebook processor. Should run very cool even at stock speeds.
Don't. Intel will be releasing a 915 processor soon which should run much cooler and clock higher than the 805. It's based on Presler which is far superior to the Smithfield core used in the 805.
Furthermore, 4.1 ghz is VERY rare for the 805. I know many people who have tried OCing these chips and can't really beat 3.5-3.7 ghz. The heat output is terrible.
Kennedys do.
As the old saying goes, the opposite of progress is Congress.
The problem with your line of thinking is that you assume we need an ID card to prevent identity theft. Sadly, the reason why identities can be stolen is that we already have universal identifiers (Social Security #s, bank account numbers + PINS, credit card numbers, etc) that can be used anywhere by someone who steals them and knows what they're doing. The only way to prevent theft of identity is to have no identity, or at least have no universally-accepted identification code. Introducing yet another identifier, such as a biometric signature paired with a PIN code, and linking it to our existing identifiers will only make us more vulnerable to identity thieves once the thieves figure out how to successfully steal and utilize our personal identifiers. Biometrics have been, can be, and will be spoofed. PIN numbers can be stolen via hacking or social engineering.
In short, I believe that national ID cards will make us more vulnerable to identity theft.
The difference here may be in the federalist form of government that the US supposedly has. I don't know if Slovakia has a similar governmental model, but in the US, there are some matters were state/municipal governments are meant to have powers over citizens that the federal government is not.
In the view of some Americans, it's okay (or at least tolerable) to have state-issued ID cards but not okay for the federal government to do the same. Sadly, the feds catalog us already through the Social Security Administration and the Internal Revenue Service, so it would appear to be a moot point.
AM2 is launching in May. However, the processors that will be launching along with it are nothing but K8 procs with a new pinout configuration. The fastest AM2 CPU will be the FX-62 which is nothing but the FX-60 with a higher clock speed (200 mhz faster to be specific).
AM2 itself offers no performance advantage unless you run DDR2-667 or DDR2-800 with tight timings. This requires expensive enthusiast RAM. If you run with value or standard DDR2-400, DDR2-533, or even DDR2-667, K8 on s939 will match or beat K8 on AM2 clock per clock.
Even with enthusiast RAM, AM2 procs will still be beaten by Conroe. Intel will own the performance crown from July forward. K8L may take it back for AMD, or it may not.
AMD's response will be a chip known currently as K8L. Whether it will launch on AM2 or AM3 is anybody's guess, but it will supposedly come out sometime in 2007. Intel will have at least 5-6 months with the performance crown since AMD can't beat Conroe with their current K8 processors on s939 or AM2.
The question is: can Intel retain the performance crown once they gain it? The last time Intel was the top dog performance-wise was back when the Pentium IV 3.2C was their flagship desktop part. That lasted until K8 hit the streets.
That is factually incorrect. On a few OEMs have gotten s939 Semprons. AM2 will have Semprons as well which casts doubt upon s754's future, but s939 is definitely finished.
That's only with expensive enthusiast DDR2. Common DDR2-533 can actually produce speeds slower than equivelant s939 parts. Sad huh?
AM2 has been shown to perform at the same speeds or slower than those of s939 using common DDR2-533. It takes enthusiast DDR2 to get better performance out of AM2. Socket AM2 is a joke. Conroe will murder it with glee, and this is coming from a long-time AMD buyer. Don't believe me? Check this out.
Re-reading TFA seems to indicate this new tech will be cheaper vs simulators that move the participant to produce the illusion of motion. Fair enough. Even still, I doubt that the result would necessarily qualify as "low cost" unless the tech becomes widespread.
I don't see anything in the article that makes me think this new technology will reduce the cost of VR simulators. Am I missing something here?
Furthermore, one of the worst parts of VR simulators I've see has been lack of compelling content. They all seem to feature the same draw, namely that it's VR and that it's novel, fresh, and appealing. Immersiveness is law! Wait, I'm sounding like Romero here, urk.
Ahem. Anyway, once you get over the immersion factor, what's left? Not much, usually. The same can be said of modern eye-candy video games. I suppose the difference is that VR games cost more.
I have a plan, though you might not like it. Would you like to hear it? Would anyone? At this point, I don't know that anyone is willing to listen. Everyone's factionalized to the point that new ideas or new arrangements of old ideas will be ignored.
The article doesn't even touch on Intel's VT or AMD's Pacifica technologies. What gives?
Shouldn't that be handle? Just curious . . .
The problem is that Elder Scrolls games have had broken levelling systems since Morrowind. They're counter-intuitive. If you level up with your major skills only, you're looking at maybe +7 stat points per level. You don't get much improvement in your other skills, and you're missing out on potential stat points by doing this. The game will still scale up in difficulty, so difficulty scales up quickly while your power scales up slowly.
You gain the most by focusing on skills not in your chosen skill set because you can get up to +15(or more?) stat points per level, and you get a large number of skill increases across the board with a limited number of level-ups. This means difficulty scales up slowly but your power scales up quickly.
example: the best possible mage is set up to be a mage's mage(like High-Elf/Apprentice) but has nothing but combat skills as major skills, and the class is focused on combat. Why? Simple: level up your magic skills so that you get +5 Int and +5 Wil at next level up(say +5 Destruction and +5 Mysticism?) and then level up your main skills in the same stat 7 times or so (let's say +7 Athleticism) and you get
+5 Speed
+5 Intelligence
+5 Willpower
with one level. I think? Do that 10-15 times and you have 100 in all three stats and a ton of skill in Athleticism and all the magical skills, which is very useful to have. After 20-30 levels of this, you should be able to have 100 Speed, Strength, Willpower, and Intelligence easily.
In the end, all the Elder Scrolls games reward you for doing everything with your character while having the highest possible magicka and hitpoints possible (with magicka being more important). Mix and match racial and sign-based bonuses to taste.
Yeah, the new magicka regenration rates make mages more powerful than they were in Morrowind. In Daggerfall, there was an ugly bug they never quite patched away that allowed you to absorb your own spells at 100% efficiency if you had innate spell absorption, so you could build a ranged AE spell and fire it at the floor at your feet to kill everything at an overall cost of 0 magicka. This made mages tiny gods.
Morrowind had the stupid Breton/Atronach combo that allowed you to cast a spell summoning an ancestor spirit, piss it off, and absorb about 50% of the sleep spells it cast at you for tons of extra magicka. It was convoluted, but it made the Atronach sign work pretty well and kept mages going without excessive potion use. This combo got even uglier using items enchanted with summon spells if you were good at recharging them.
Oblivion has innate magicka regeneration that sort of renders the Atronach sign obsolete unless you can find something like the summoning trick from Morrowind (who knows, maybe there is one). Anyone with sufficient magicka can just build bad-ass spells, cast em, then wait a few seconds to get their magicka back and keep on truckin.
So yeah, magic is kinda overpowered, though it was insanely overpowered in Daggerfall.
Ugh, "bought" not "bot" grrr rawr.
It's no shocker that Oblivion is selling well for Xbox 360. There hasn't been much else for 360 owners to buy, and I'm sure many 360 owners bot the console for this game in much the same way that PSX owners bought their units for FF7 (albeit Oblivion has probably lead to fewer sales than FF7). The fact that Oblivion is doing well for both 360 and the PC is pretty damn impressive, though. Just goes to show you that not everything has to be a MMOG or have multiplayer features to be fun.
Between that and the lutfisk, you don't want to mess with the Swedes! And yes, I know it's often called lutefisk. Click the link yo.
People like you don't deserve mod points. Ever. No matter how horrible the "base" humor, trolling, or flamebait may be, we should all be forced to read everything that is posted here in the name of intellectual egalitarianism. Perhaps crapflooding should be censored, but I don't mind seeing hundreds of worthless page-widening posts. They're occasionally amusing.
I enjoyed it. Soviet Russia jokes were funny since Yakov Smirnov started using them.
That won't air until the 15th of April I believe. Maybe someone leaked the first ep (again), but I haven't heard about it.
Considering how many people have been pulled out of the Xbox 360 division to work on Vista, they may well be taking your advice already. Personally, I hope they do halt sales of the 360, recall the units, and send out refunds. Then when the PS3 comes out, it will bomb when everyone finds out that it'll cost around $700 retail just to get one(more when the inevitably supply shortages emerge). Then Nintendo swaggers along with the Revolution and wows everyone with a cool console that costs $200.
If Nintendo can't deliver, the entire console market will go up in flames. So much for PC gaming being dead, eh?