Tribes has that problem quite a bit. Some moron logs on and instead of playing the game stands around the equipment stations and uses nukes or emps to blow them, himself and all nearby team mates up over and over.
I've got a classic Athlon 500 running at 770 currently. 7.0 multiplier and 110mhz FSB. 110 seems to be the max that you'll get with any frequency, and large number of people less.
You've got to be doing something wrong if they're taking 18 hours. My Athlon at 770 will go through a unit in 6.8 to 7.5 hours depending on what's in the unit.
I recently went through the ordeal of transfering an existing ADSL account from one phone number to another. Bell Atlantic seems to go out of it's way to make things difficult. In my case no hardware needed to be installed, in my computer or in the apartment complex, it was already wired for DSL. Just to transfer the number, they said a minimum of 15 business days and a $99 dollar setup fee. When I asked them why, they said it's because the treat transfers as a closing of the old account and a creation of a new one. So it seems they're just manufacturing work for themselves. It ended up being 18 business days and when I got on the phone with them the day it was actually activated, I finally got in touch with a tech in the broadband department who had it activated in about 20 minutes. To top things off BA still tried to charge me for the month that my DSL service was down. I'm now getting DSL through a local provider in Pittsburgh, Stargate. It's overall a better experience. There's still the abysmal slowness of BAs administration, but Stargate deals with them for me. Also Stargates network isn't near as oversold as BAs. I'm on a 640k download account and on BAs network I got 60k or so max and only in the middle of the night, during peak times it was as slow as 8 to 10k per second most of the time. With Stargate 50 to 60 no matter the time of day.
The whole free speach thing is immaterial. The point is the French government has no right attempting to enforce french laws on a company not within it's borders. If they don't like what's being auctioned on Yahoo, they can request it removed, or threaten boycott, but they do not have the right to attempt to censor them.
You might be interested to know Military Madness is available for the PSX as well. It goes under the name Nectaris: Military Madness. I haven't had the opportunity to pick it up yet, but as it was just about my favorite TG16 games I plan to some time.
The original Trackman Marble had three buttons with no wheel. I've had one for over three years now. Cost me $100 bucks at the time but was worth every penny. Never had a day of trouble with it and Logitech continually updates their Mouseware drivers.
Indeed they do. I have a three cooling fan setup on my Athlon from STEP Thermodynamics. And one of my fans did fail. The chip heated up quite a bit and the only problems that cropped up were hard lock-ups in and game using the 3D card. I checked inside the case and found the dead fan. I then bumped my motherboard down to 100mhz from the 110mhz I usually run at, this brought my CPU down to 700. I called up STEP and told them what happened. They promptly shipped me out 2 new fans(Just in case I had any more problems.) by 2 day shipping at no cost. In the mean time my Athlon running at 700 with only 2 fans(One on the heatsink and one directly on the backside of the CPU.) ran just fine.
That depends entirely on how you do it. There's the relatively safe method of paying for a company to overclock the chip for you. I bought an Athlon 500 from a company called Step Thermodynamics along with one of their cooling setups(A large heatsink and three small cooling fans.). This chip has a lifetime warranty through the company(It's been around a few years now.) and it's guaranteed to run at 700 and a high probability of going a higher. This, including shipping cost me about $100 less than a true Athlon 700 did at the time. Currently my new system has run at 770 for around 1100 hours cranking out 82 Seti@home units and crashes maybe 2 or 3 times a week and those are almost always directly attributable to something I did.
From what I understand of the console market, selling the actual consoles at a loss is pretty much standard procedure. The companies make all of their money from the software licences.
Bell offers DSL if you live in one of the few privelidged areas. I work for one the largest local ISP in Pittsburgh and Bell Atlantic has been very slow in rolling DSL out. I live within city limits and short of ISDN or a T1 line I don't have any high speed options.
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I agree. I've got one of these myself and it works great.
Tribes has that problem quite a bit. Some moron logs on and instead of playing the game stands around the equipment stations and uses nukes or emps to blow them, himself and all nearby team mates up over and over.
Even better, 'My job is what I do to finance my life.'.
I've got a classic Athlon 500 running at 770 currently. 7.0 multiplier and 110mhz FSB. 110 seems to be the max that you'll get with any frequency, and large number of people less.
Bear in mind just sitting in chat for 2 hours with your new character also works.
You've got to be doing something wrong if they're taking 18 hours. My Athlon at 770 will go through a unit in 6.8 to 7.5 hours depending on what's in the unit.
I recently went through the ordeal of transfering an existing ADSL account from one phone number to another. Bell Atlantic seems to go out of it's way to make things difficult. In my case no hardware needed to be installed, in my computer or in the apartment complex, it was already wired for DSL. Just to transfer the number, they said a minimum of 15 business days and a $99 dollar setup fee. When I asked them why, they said it's because the treat transfers as a closing of the old account and a creation of a new one. So it seems they're just manufacturing work for themselves. It ended up being 18 business days and when I got on the phone with them the day it was actually activated, I finally got in touch with a tech in the broadband department who had it activated in about 20 minutes. To top things off BA still tried to charge me for the month that my DSL service was down. I'm now getting DSL through a local provider in Pittsburgh, Stargate. It's overall a better experience. There's still the abysmal slowness of BAs administration, but Stargate deals with them for me. Also Stargates network isn't near as oversold as BAs. I'm on a 640k download account and on BAs network I got 60k or so max and only in the middle of the night, during peak times it was as slow as 8 to 10k per second most of the time. With Stargate 50 to 60 no matter the time of day.
IIRC Western Digital drives are technically IBM HDs.
What you don't seem to understand is that your laws don't apply to anyone but you.
The whole free speach thing is immaterial. The point is the French government has no right attempting to enforce french laws on a company not within it's borders. If they don't like what's being auctioned on Yahoo, they can request it removed, or threaten boycott, but they do not have the right to attempt to censor them.
You might be interested to know Military Madness is available for the PSX as well. It goes under the name Nectaris: Military Madness. I haven't had the opportunity to pick it up yet, but as it was just about my favorite TG16 games I plan to some time.
The original Trackman Marble had three buttons with no wheel. I've had one for over three years now. Cost me $100 bucks at the time but was worth every penny. Never had a day of trouble with it and Logitech continually updates their Mouseware drivers.
Indeed they do. I have a three cooling fan setup on my Athlon from STEP Thermodynamics. And one of my fans did fail. The chip heated up quite a bit and the only problems that cropped up were hard lock-ups in and game using the 3D card. I checked inside the case and found the dead fan. I then bumped my motherboard down to 100mhz from the 110mhz I usually run at, this brought my CPU down to 700. I called up STEP and told them what happened. They promptly shipped me out 2 new fans(Just in case I had any more problems.) by 2 day shipping at no cost. In the mean time my Athlon running at 700 with only 2 fans(One on the heatsink and one directly on the backside of the CPU.) ran just fine.
That depends entirely on how you do it. There's the relatively safe method of paying for a company to overclock the chip for you. I bought an Athlon 500 from a company called Step Thermodynamics along with one of their cooling setups(A large heatsink and three small cooling fans.). This chip has a lifetime warranty through the company(It's been around a few years now.) and it's guaranteed to run at 700 and a high probability of going a higher. This, including shipping cost me about $100 less than a true Athlon 700 did at the time. Currently my new system has run at 770 for around 1100 hours cranking out 82 Seti@home units and crashes maybe 2 or 3 times a week and those are almost always directly attributable to something I did.
From what I understand of the console market, selling the actual consoles at a loss is pretty much standard procedure. The companies make all of their money from the software licences.
Bell offers DSL if you live in one of the few privelidged areas. I work for one the largest local ISP in Pittsburgh and Bell Atlantic has been very slow in rolling DSL out. I live within city limits and short of ISDN or a T1 line I don't have any high speed options.