The other issue that users may have is noise, luckily NVIDIA has taken steps to make sure that the GeForce FX is one of the most quiet running cards they've ever produced. Borrowing technology from their mobile parts and combining it with the FX Flow cooling system, NVIDIA is able to dynamically reduce the speed of the fan based on the graphical needs of the system. When sitting in a 2D situation the card will scale back the clock speed of parts of the 3D pipeline that aren't in use, thus allowing the fan to spin much slower. As soon as you start using the GPU for games or any other 3D intensive applications, the clock speeds up as does the fan. The idea is that if you're gaming you're not as concerned with noise as when you are typing in Word.
Most of the stock market is controlled by insurance companies, who don't give a rat's arse about short term profits and dividends: they're planning on the 40-year scale.
Day traders and individuals represent a minority of the market, a minority which, on top of this, isn't particularly active or, by consequence, represented. How many people go to the AGMs of the companies whose stock is on their 401Ks?
Maybe so, but remember: the target market for the HP movies has always been the 12-and-unders and their parents. How many of them do you honestly think will be downloading it off of Kazaa.
Not to mention the #1 stumbling block for most people: price. SCSI costs significantly more for comparatively little actual performance benefit. On a server, which is hard-drive intensive, this performance difference is big enough to make SCSI worthwhile.
On the desktop, on the other hand, it costs more, allows smaller sizes, and apparently makes more noise and heat. No wonder IDE is here to stay...
Wouldn't it be fantastic to watch a great movie, like ANH, ESB or RotJ on the IMAX, rather than some soppy drivel that came out in the last few years...
The creator of SW is dead. When TPM came out, the good man that was the creator of SW became the evil George Lucas. Why don't they celebrate the works of the first man, rather than the latter, on the really huge screen?
The
Drudge Report has reported a rumour that
The Two Towers is already available on the internet. WinMX and Kazaa carry
several files purporting to be some version of the film, however they all
appear to be fakes. Thanks to Sir Mordred, Moses and several other Barliman's
chatters for helping me check these files out.
Breaking interoperability... again???
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Be aware that C++ code compiled by GCC 3.2 will not interoperate with code compiled by GCC 3.1.1.
When will they understand that breaking interoperability is not the way to go forward? The reason MS Windows is where it is now is that you don't have to replace/recompile all your software every few months.
You forget what most OEM's do on "best performance" PCs: make it appear high-end by sticking big numbers and famous brand-names on it, disregarding the small matters of performance and stability.
Dell offers "PENTIUM 4 2.53 GGHz!!!!! w/ 533 MHz FSB!!!!" computers, with "(256 MB PC2100 DDRAM)". What use is the added bandwidth and MHz when you have so little and so slow (comparitively) RAM.
One of Mugabe's chief tactics in the recent election was to support land reform. Even after more than 20 years of indepence, white people still own most the farmland in Zimbabwe. Mugabe supported a campaign to drive farmers and their workers off their land, and the government has passed laws to seize farms from their owners which are now taking effect.
LOL. Chief tactics? His "chief tactics" were:
electoral fraud (a car accident a week before the election involving a government vehicle left the neighboring ground strewn with thousands of votes for (surprise!) Zanu-PF's very own... Robert Mugabe!)
forced adherence to Mugabe's Zanu-PF party (barricades run by youth leagues would stop drivers on major roads, check their Zanu-PF card, and beat up everyone without one)
manipulation of the electoral booths (the pro-MDC (opposition) areas (mainly big cities) had to turn away thousands of voters each because there wasn't time for them to vote in the alloted time frame)
intimidation, harassment and "disappearances" of MDC candidates and voters (entire villages were rased because of pro-MDC tendencies)
laws prohibiting free press
laws prohibiting manifestations against the President.
In the end, the "land reform" was only an (unsuccessful) PR stunt. In the end, most people didn't like it, because either they didn't believe in property theft, or else simply because the only people benefitting from it were Mugabe cronies, whose votes didn't have to be won.
Otherwise, we just scrap the whole political boundaries on the Web idea and say that the Web is, in fact, World Wide, and thus not governed by existing political boundaries.
For infractions of the law, the home state (and by state I mean country) of the web servers in question would have jurisdiction.
You can download the XP version of msconfig from The Tech Guide (they say it works on Win2K). I can neither vouch for the download nor the site, this is what I got on Google.
Damn. I forgot that msconfig doesn't exist in Win2K. I'm sure there's an equivalent, but I don't know the OS well enough to tell you what it is (my current PC isn't powerful enough to run it, and is a laptop (unupgradable)).
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I would love it, but I'd never pay for support of open-source (=free) on something that costs a couple to three hundred bucks.
Beta WinTV PVR 250 drivers
There already are drivers for the ATI Radeon 9000 Pro and the WinTV PVR 250 on the manufacturers' web sites. Try Google.
I would have thought it was based on The Bicentennial Man, but as I have neither read the short stories nor seen the movie, I couldn't tell...
Most people here can't be spoiled, because they've actually read the book.
They'll be loud, but only during gameplay, when you can easily turn up the volume...
Noise won't be an issue. Read the articles. :-P
Day traders and individuals represent a minority of the market, a minority which, on top of this, isn't particularly active or, by consequence, represented. How many people go to the AGMs of the companies whose stock is on their 401Ks?
Maybe so, but remember: the target market for the HP movies has always been the 12-and-unders and their parents. How many of them do you honestly think will be downloading it off of Kazaa.
This is all much ado about nothing.
Not at all. Corruption enriches politicians, lobbying empowers them.
It's two different vices.
Not to mention the #1 stumbling block for most people: price. SCSI costs significantly more for comparatively little actual performance benefit. On a server, which is hard-drive intensive, this performance difference is big enough to make SCSI worthwhile. On the desktop, on the other hand, it costs more, allows smaller sizes, and apparently makes more noise and heat. No wonder IDE is here to stay...
But aren't customs, immigration and taxes always the most powerful and least accountable forms of government?
Wouldn't it be fantastic to watch a great movie, like ANH, ESB or RotJ on the IMAX, rather than some soppy drivel that came out in the last few years...
The creator of SW is dead. When TPM came out, the good man that was the creator of SW became the evil George Lucas. Why don't they celebrate the works of the first man, rather than the latter, on the really huge screen?
Be aware that C++ code compiled by GCC 3.2 will not interoperate with code compiled by GCC 3.1.1.
When will they understand that breaking interoperability is not the way to go forward? The reason MS Windows is where it is now is that you don't have to replace/recompile all your software every few months.
Capitalism = Private property
Communism = No private property
Anarchy = No property
So actually, anti-capitalism is more anarchy. And the Internet is an anarchist's paradise.
Besides coming with all sorts of added goodies, Incredimail accesses MSN accounts.
You forgot 2001: A Space Odyssey (sp? it's late here...).
The sunrise scene especially really needs a huge screen and great sound.
You forget what most OEM's do on "best performance" PCs: make it appear high-end by sticking big numbers and famous brand-names on it, disregarding the small matters of performance and stability.
Dell offers "PENTIUM 4 2.53 GGHz!!!!! w/ 533 MHz FSB!!!!" computers, with "(256 MB PC2100 DDRAM)". What use is the added bandwidth and MHz when you have so little and so slow (comparitively) RAM.
LOL. Chief tactics? His "chief tactics" were:
In the end, the "land reform" was only an (unsuccessful) PR stunt. In the end, most people didn't like it, because either they didn't believe in property theft, or else simply because the only people benefitting from it were Mugabe cronies, whose votes didn't have to be won.
Otherwise, we just scrap the whole political boundaries on the Web idea and say that the Web is, in fact, World Wide, and thus not governed by existing political boundaries.
For infractions of the law, the home state (and by state I mean country) of the web servers in question would have jurisdiction.
More DoSing or just a good /.ing?
Any self-respecting test should have known that the Yo-Yo Ma rendition of the Bach Cello Suites is utter drivel.
If they want to test with any authority, they should have worked with the Pablo Cassals version.
You can download the XP version of msconfig from The Tech Guide (they say it works on Win2K).
I can neither vouch for the download nor the site, this is what I got on Google.
Damn. I forgot that msconfig doesn't exist in Win2K. I'm sure there's an equivalent, but I don't know the OS well enough to tell you what it is (my current PC isn't powerful enough to run it, and is a laptop (unupgradable)).