As more people use their PCs for a home theatre component. I'm building a computer soon, and its geared towards multimedia, i'm getting a widescreen monitor, 7.1 speakers, and an Audigy 2ZS Gamer card (although my mobo will support 5.1 surround, might as well get the $120 card that comes with $200 woth of GOOD games). I'm also getting an ATI AIW card and dont plan on having a TV. So not only will i be doing my TV and Movie watching on my PC, i'll also be gaming and hooking my Xbox up to it. I realize i'm in the minority of users, but i can see this kind of thing becoming more common.
Only if its under full load. A 500W PSU is probably never going to be outputing 500W, youd need the CPU @ 100%, optical drives spinning, lots of fans running, and multiple hard drives working at once to hit 500W probably.
Sounds more like the basis for instantanious comunication (read too much OSC). If we ever invented non reltivistic FTL or spread far enough that we'd need instantanious communication it would probably be based on this.
Might as well piggyback on a good RAID discussion. Is it possible to have multiple arrays within one system? I'm building a computer and would like to have a system drive and a storage drive, i want two 74GB raptors in RAID 1 for my system drive and 2 250GB SATA drives in RAID 0 for non-critical storage. I'll be running XP Pro, and my motherboard is a DFI NFII Ultra Infinity. My motherboard has 4 SATA ports, and supports both RAID 0 and RAID 1, but i dont know if it would support both separately. Will my mobo be able to handle this, or do i need a separate controller, if there are even controlers that can do this?
Just curious, which mall? I'd think that guy would be asked to leave Mayfair pretty quick. But yeah, lotta evangelists here, i've had people handing out bibles before and after school. That didn't go over too well for them, at an arts school especially.
Not entirly out of my ass, i was checking prices earlier today, read the second review. So maybe all my power arguments were unfounded, but i think my reasoning for price was sound.
Ok, so what, a RAID 0 array of 80GB disks... Thats 5 drives, each using about 50W of power. Your average dell or sony ships with maybe a 300w PSU. Not that i trust a hard drive as large as 400GB entirly, but fewer points of failure than a RAID 0 array. I'd say if you factor in enough drives to match capacity, another drive or two for mirroring within the array, a RAID controller and a new PSU to run 6 hard drives or so, you probably break even on a $/GB basis. With that said, my next computer will have a 550W PSU, 2 74GB Raptors in RAID 1 and 2 250GB SATA drives in RAID 0 for storage.:p
I'm betting that if someone actually bids it'll be some dot-com millionare who cashed out before the bubble burst. Those are the only geeks with that kind of money...
Google offers gIM based on jabber with the launch of gmail. A custom client that could interface with gmail like MSN messenger does with hotmail, but based on an open standard would be great, and google has the recognition to draw people from AIM or Yahoo Messenger. It'd be even better if they offered add ons to services such as GAIM or trillian that combine all the major IM services. *sigh* Wishful thinking...
I have several of the Star Wars artbooks, and Ralph McQuarrie's original paintings are amazing. So yeah, stuff like that is pretty big among the geek set.
Back in Nov, when portability just started i was switching my prepaid US Cellular number to a contract with Cingular. Not only did it take 2 weeks, and Cingular blamed US Cell, and for some reason US Cell blamed AT&T... But one of the numerous times i spent hours on hold with US Cellular i was transfered to some fruit market. A FRUIT MARKET!!?! Thats when i knew they were just fucking with me for the hell of it and i went and lodged various complaints with the US Cellular customer "service" persons supervisor, the BBB and the FCC. Also prior to all this, one of the times i was getting more minutes (you had to do that in-store for whatever reason) i had to wait in the store for 45 before they got to my name on the sign in list, this was after being skipped over several times (to my vocal objections) by people "just paying their bills", as i was about to walk out the door i loudly proclaimed that they'd just wasted half an hour of my life when all i wanted to do was give them my money, and that was why i was switching to cingular next month.
Heres what i saw on the shelf the other day, look closley, the title on the box is "The Chronicles of Riddick: Pitch Black. It was late, i dont know what i was arguing with though...
From the sales figures, the x-box is certanly not dying, hell, i finally bought one last week (refurb though). Although the increase in sales could be because everyone already has a PS2, so now people are buying xboxs. But has Microsoft actually made any money in their gaming department? They have $50 bil in cash or whatever, so any loss is inconsequential, but iirc, microsoft took like a $200 hit on each console, its probably more now that they're cutting prices. I think the demise of the xbox will be its use of standard PC hardware, 1 $25 modchip and a standard IDE hard drive and you can copy as many games as you want, depriving microsoft of more money. Not that thats the reason i bought an xbox...
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As more people use their PCs for a home theatre component. I'm building a computer soon, and its geared towards multimedia, i'm getting a widescreen monitor, 7.1 speakers, and an Audigy 2ZS Gamer card (although my mobo will support 5.1 surround, might as well get the $120 card that comes with $200 woth of GOOD games). I'm also getting an ATI AIW card and dont plan on having a TV. So not only will i be doing my TV and Movie watching on my PC, i'll also be gaming and hooking my Xbox up to it. I realize i'm in the minority of users, but i can see this kind of thing becoming more common.
Only if its under full load. A 500W PSU is probably never going to be outputing 500W, youd need the CPU @ 100%, optical drives spinning, lots of fans running, and multiple hard drives working at once to hit 500W probably.
Sounds more like the basis for instantanious comunication (read too much OSC). If we ever invented non reltivistic FTL or spread far enough that we'd need instantanious communication it would probably be based on this.
I'm rather ignorant on this topic, so another question, my board basically has this built in. Can it do what i want it to?
Might as well piggyback on a good RAID discussion. Is it possible to have multiple arrays within one system? I'm building a computer and would like to have a system drive and a storage drive, i want two 74GB raptors in RAID 1 for my system drive and 2 250GB SATA drives in RAID 0 for non-critical storage. I'll be running XP Pro, and my motherboard is a DFI NFII Ultra Infinity. My motherboard has 4 SATA ports, and supports both RAID 0 and RAID 1, but i dont know if it would support both separately. Will my mobo be able to handle this, or do i need a separate controller, if there are even controlers that can do this?
Just curious, which mall? I'd think that guy would be asked to leave Mayfair pretty quick. But yeah, lotta evangelists here, i've had people handing out bibles before and after school. That didn't go over too well for them, at an arts school especially.
Not entirly out of my ass, i was checking prices earlier today, read the second review. So maybe all my power arguments were unfounded, but i think my reasoning for price was sound.
I saw this a couple weeks ago, because its slashdotted pretty well now. Truly remarkable, above and beyond most case modding.
PC components are individually certified by the FCC.
I got served. I pulled that number out of my ass after i read somewhere today that Raptors pull about 65W...
Screw the mirror finish front, finish the whole thing!
Ok, so what, a RAID 0 array of 80GB disks... Thats 5 drives, each using about 50W of power. Your average dell or sony ships with maybe a 300w PSU. Not that i trust a hard drive as large as 400GB entirly, but fewer points of failure than a RAID 0 array. I'd say if you factor in enough drives to match capacity, another drive or two for mirroring within the array, a RAID controller and a new PSU to run 6 hard drives or so, you probably break even on a $/GB basis. With that said, my next computer will have a 550W PSU, 2 74GB Raptors in RAID 1 and 2 250GB SATA drives in RAID 0 for storage. :p
Which contact adress? There are so many.
I'm betting that if someone actually bids it'll be some dot-com millionare who cashed out before the bubble burst. Those are the only geeks with that kind of money...
"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned for sega."
Google offers gIM based on jabber with the launch of gmail. A custom client that could interface with gmail like MSN messenger does with hotmail, but based on an open standard would be great, and google has the recognition to draw people from AIM or Yahoo Messenger. It'd be even better if they offered add ons to services such as GAIM or trillian that combine all the major IM services. *sigh* Wishful thinking...
Really? I've only ever heard that one person has been hit by a meteorite. Some woman was beaned in the leg while sleeping.
Fuck Microsoft!
*waits for lawsuit*Myst, Riven, Uru, are all breathtaking games visually. Wouldn't mind having something nice and glossy in print on my coffee table.
I have several of the Star Wars artbooks, and Ralph McQuarrie's original paintings are amazing. So yeah, stuff like that is pretty big among the geek set.
Back in Nov, when portability just started i was switching my prepaid US Cellular number to a contract with Cingular. Not only did it take 2 weeks, and Cingular blamed US Cell, and for some reason US Cell blamed AT&T... But one of the numerous times i spent hours on hold with US Cellular i was transfered to some fruit market. A FRUIT MARKET!!?! Thats when i knew they were just fucking with me for the hell of it and i went and lodged various complaints with the US Cellular customer "service" persons supervisor, the BBB and the FCC. Also prior to all this, one of the times i was getting more minutes (you had to do that in-store for whatever reason) i had to wait in the store for 45 before they got to my name on the sign in list, this was after being skipped over several times (to my vocal objections) by people "just paying their bills", as i was about to walk out the door i loudly proclaimed that they'd just wasted half an hour of my life when all i wanted to do was give them my money, and that was why i was switching to cingular next month.
Ha ha ha, you dumb bastard... it's not a schooner, it's a sailboat!
Heres what i saw on the shelf the other day, look closley, the title on the box is "The Chronicles of Riddick: Pitch Black. It was late, i dont know what i was arguing with though...
From the sales figures, the x-box is certanly not dying, hell, i finally bought one last week (refurb though). Although the increase in sales could be because everyone already has a PS2, so now people are buying xboxs. But has Microsoft actually made any money in their gaming department? They have $50 bil in cash or whatever, so any loss is inconsequential, but iirc, microsoft took like a $200 hit on each console, its probably more now that they're cutting prices. I think the demise of the xbox will be its use of standard PC hardware, 1 $25 modchip and a standard IDE hard drive and you can copy as many games as you want, depriving microsoft of more money. Not that thats the reason i bought an xbox...