Well, the physics in counter-strike suck, but the physics engine in Halo, love it or leave it, is pretty good.
Don't believe me? check out the Halo Warthog Jump! I'm not even kidding, they used massive amounts of grenades to play with ballistic trajectories. The video is pretty funny tooo..hrm, seems to be a bit slow today.
This, while a good idea, is not the ultimate solution. The only way we are really going to eliminate spam is to break into every box the spammers use and delete NOSMOKE.EXE. Only then, when their boxen go up in flames, will we be free of spam.
Programming is a way of thinking, not a specific task.
It could be said that those who specialize in software design are just as much programmers as the folks at the keyboards. It is not easy designing whole applications from the ground up, regardless of whether you use gcc or an expo marker.
It would be quite cool, depending on the frequencies, if they could open the sattelites up to hams. There are a few sattelites here and there available for amateur use, but something launched by the ESA is probably waay cooler.
Of course, this all depends on the ability of them to switch which frequencies the sattelites use--I imagine they weren't originally designed to use Ham frequencies. As for "sloppy" orbits, we hams typically have fairly sophisticated tracking equipment: a 486 pc, running any one the free tracking wares, connected to a dual-axis antenna rotator. Makes it a challenge!!
You ignored the statistics that say that 80% of the time this mod will result in a fried card because the extra pipelines you enabled were defective.
Atually, the article was slashdotted at the time of posting. The IBM story really explains the (sometimes silly) but sensible practice of feature-disabling. Agh well.
If I had a 9500, I don't think I'd try this, hrm. It's pretty cool, actually, that ATI found a way to deal with their mistakes other than junking them.
Well, I'd have to agree with you in terms of a money-saving standpoint, but, you have to admit it's pretty cool. On the other hand, it does make you question...
If you, as an end user, can overclock the 9500 to the 9700 pro for little money, then what the hell are they charging so much more money for the 9700?
It would be hard for me, if I cared, to know that those pixel pipelines were sitting there, unused. You know, "because they were there." It looks fun to do, regardless of whether you need it or not.
Actually, and I would know, about the best parabolic antenna you can get for cheap is the lens of a traff ic light. See, I used to sell trafficlights, and I'm a ham radio guy, so...
They work suprisingly well, and if you know where to go, they are free. Of course, that's for microwave, I really forget all of my radio stuff, I've no clue if they work for 802.11x frequencies
genius, read his post. He doesn't know about the thermal loads of liquids. Calm down and please don't be so quick to offer "help." I think an EE might know a thing or two.
If Microsoft's DRM makes more headway, those of us who enjoy media will be begging for them to make a linux client. Of course, that is not exactly likely.
It seems like it would be waaaaay easier to do thin clients, like our friends in Largo, Florida. Remote booting brings a host of problems:
First: security. Any authentication to get the boot image would, natrually, have to happen before the image was downloaded, so the Client would have to be able to haddle any encryption protocols before anything useful even happened. Unless you have a powerful system operating pre-boot, that is gonna be really insecure, especially over wireless, comprende? Imagine if the boot image was intercepted? I can't think of how that would be good.
Also, the simple fact that consolidation is typically more economic. One Big Server (could be running linux with crossover[whoring]) is typically easier to maintain than a remo.te, full-fledged laptop.
So, read the story on Largo (about the thin clients, rather than the Linux bit) and think about it--decide if you really, really have to make it bootable--be sure you can't or are unwilling to go thin.
Anything that's cel-shaded is okay by me...
But seriously folks, with cell phones getting more and more powerful, soon you'lre gonna see overclockers with heatsinks out the back of their phones bragging about their Asterioids FPS.
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Well, the physics in counter-strike suck, but the physics engine in Halo, love it or leave it, is pretty good.
..hrm, seems to be a bit slow today.
Don't believe me? check out the Halo Warthog Jump!
I'm not even kidding, they used massive amounts of grenades to play with ballistic trajectories.
The video is pretty funny tooo
This, while a good idea, is not the ultimate solution. The only way we are really going to eliminate spam is to break into every box the spammers use and delete NOSMOKE.EXE. Only then, when their boxen go up in flames, will we be free of spam.
Programming is a way of thinking, not a specific task.
It could be said that those who specialize in software design are just as much programmers as the folks at the keyboards. It is not easy designing whole applications from the ground up, regardless of whether you use gcc or an expo marker.
It would be quite cool, depending on the frequencies, if they could open the sattelites up to hams. There are a few sattelites here and there available for amateur use, but something launched by the ESA is probably waay cooler.
Of course, this all depends on the ability of them to switch which frequencies the sattelites use--I imagine they weren't originally designed to use Ham frequencies. As for "sloppy" orbits, we hams typically have fairly sophisticated tracking equipment: a 486 pc, running any one the free tracking wares, connected to a dual-axis antenna rotator. Makes it a challenge!!
Heh. I did a double take just then, when I thought I read Sharman associates instead of Shiman-- Well, p2p is just like Sound servers, no? ^_^
You ignored the statistics that say that 80% of the time this mod will result in a fried card because the extra pipelines you enabled were defective.
Atually, the article was slashdotted at the time of posting. The IBM story really explains the (sometimes silly) but sensible practice of feature-disabling. Agh well.
If I had a 9500, I don't think I'd try this, hrm. It's pretty cool, actually, that ATI found a way to deal with their mistakes other than junking them.
Well, I'd have to agree with you in terms of a money-saving standpoint, but, you have to admit it's pretty cool. On the other hand, it does make you question...
If you, as an end user, can overclock the 9500 to the 9700 pro for little money, then what the hell are they charging so much more money for the 9700?
It would be hard for me, if I cared, to know that those pixel pipelines were sitting there, unused. You know, "because they were there." It looks fun to do, regardless of whether you need it or not.
Actually, and I would know, about the best parabolic antenna you can get for cheap is the lens of a traff ic light. See, I used to sell trafficlights, and I'm a ham radio guy, so...
They work suprisingly well, and if you know where to go, they are free. Of course, that's for microwave, I really forget all of my radio stuff, I've no clue if they work for 802.11x frequencies
genius, read his post. He doesn't know about the thermal loads of liquids. Calm down and please don't be so quick to offer "help." I think an EE might know a thing or two.
If Microsoft's DRM makes more headway, those of us who enjoy media will be begging for them to make a linux client. Of course, that is not exactly likely.
It seems like it would be waaaaay easier to do thin clients, like our friends in Largo, Florida. Remote booting brings a host of problems:
First: security. Any authentication to get the boot image would, natrually, have to happen before the image was downloaded, so the Client would have to be able to haddle any encryption protocols before anything useful even happened. Unless you have a powerful system operating pre-boot, that is gonna be really insecure, especially over wireless, comprende? Imagine if the boot image was intercepted? I can't think of how that would be good.
Also, the simple fact that consolidation is typically more economic. One Big Server (could be running linux with crossover[whoring]) is typically easier to maintain than a remo.te, full-fledged laptop. So, read the story on Largo (about the thin clients, rather than the Linux bit) and think about it--decide if you really, really have to make it bootable--be sure you can't or are unwilling to go thin.
No more traffic on the Holland now that HOV's only are allowed (3 or more passengers or you are de-nied) Makes the commute way more enjoyable, heh.
Anything that's cel-shaded is okay by me... But seriously folks, with cell phones getting more and more powerful, soon you'lre gonna see overclockers with heatsinks out the back of their phones bragging about their Asterioids FPS.