Hefty hardware? I could build that machine for about 200 bucks, brand new. And that includes a fancy pants Lian-Li case with window and lots of blinky lights.
This should probably run under WINE, the 3D requirements aren't that intense. In fact, it probably uses OpenGL.
Because they bought all the "just say no" propoganda, whereas you and I instantly realized it was all utter bullshit the first time we inhaled.
I blame this bullshit for the rise in "hard drug" use. I personally know people who wound up hooked on crack, because they rationalized it like this: "everything they told me about marijuana was complete bullshit, so why should I believe what they tell me about crack?"
It's always been known what going into Iraq would be like, and it's always been known it would be a big fricking mess while the smoke clears.
That's why the coalition chickened out the first time around.
To be fair, the media does exaggerate the situation by only reporting bad news and not the successes. My nephew was in Iraq, he was shot in the shoulder and just came back a few weeks ago. While there's obviously still violence, I got a much better view of the situation there as a whole talking to him than I get from the news.
His exact words were (almost, I was kinda drunk) "Most people there love us, it's just the handful that don't that are fucking everything up".
They have to maintain the illusion that there's actually a difference between the two parties. So now and then, he'll say the opposite of what Bush says to keep that illusion alive. That's his job as "challenger".
Wan't to know where he really stands? Just read Bush's positions.
How about the now century-plus old campaign to convince Americans there are only two choices?
They've screwed up the election process to make it extremely difficult to get on the ballot in all 50 states. Once upon a time, it was a write in ballot, not multiple choice.
After Perot appeared on the presidential debates, their media buddies helped them screw with those rules to make it virtually impossible for that to happen again.
For that matter, why are there no third parties in this "Youth Debate"? I'll tell you why, the last thing we want to do is have the youth find out that it doesn't have to be a two party system. Young minds are predetermined to see things in black and white anyways.
Go ahead slashdot, help brainwash another generation into believing in this complete perversion of representative democracy.
Of course, they're the same people with the same agenda. All these people screeching "We have to get rid of Bush! Vote Kerry because third party votes are wasted". Gah.
Kerry isn't going to end the war in Iraq, repeal PATRIOT, lower taxes, allow same-sex marraige, he's not going to do anything to change the status quo.
Presidential politics are purely smear campaigns, because there's no issue that they actually differ on significantly.
Futurama:
Jack Johnson "I say my opponents plan goes too far!"
John Jackson "And I say my opponents plan doesn't go too far enough!"
21 dollars! Woooooooooooohoooooooo yeah AMD is the roxxor. That's so much cheaper, Intel must suck.
P4 based celeron at 2.6 ghz, 87 dollars. Thats a dollar cheaper for the same imaginary "performance"! Ha, AMD sucks.
Like I said, fanboys are being duped. In a truly competitive market, you'd be seeing viable desktop CPUs in the 20-40 dollar range.
Two companies is not competition. Just like two parties is not "democracy". Without going too far offtopic, let me remind you that Kerry has said he won't pull troops out of Iraq, repeal PATRIOT, or basically change anything. They're the same guy. That's why elections are smear campaigns and not about the issues - there are no issues, they both have the same roadmap.
Younger minds tend to see everything in black and white, good and evil, and that pretty much explains the whole thing, I suppose. So if Bush is evil, Kerry is good! If Intel is evil, AMD is good! Or it works backwards, if AMD is good, Intel must be bad! It never occurs to anybody, that they can both be right about the same. They offer similar performance for similar prices.
And for the record, nVidia's drivers suck too. Both companies are about speed tweaks and 3DMark scores, both card lines have a long track record of being unstable and crap with ridiculous display bugs in actual games. I'm convinced people who buy bleeding-edge video cards do it merely to run 3DMark and nothing else. Of course, that's offtopic.
It was marketted as a general purpose CPU, but designed to be a high end chip for transaction servers.
It meets it's design goals and then some, but doesn't meet the mass markets demand. It'll survive, as the high-end niche CPU it was actually meant to be.
P4 based Celerons on the 400MHz FSB are crippled sad creatures
How do you figure? Have you used one? I can't tell the differnce between a 1.8 ghz celeron in one machine, vs a 3.06 ghz P4 in another (identically equipped) machine. They were both 3.06's until one died and I didn't want to spend a lot of bucks "fixing" it, so I chucked in a chip for a meager 40 bucks.
And like I said before, that includes "CPU killing cutting edge games" like Doom 3.
I have to run phony benchmarks like SiSoft Sandra to "see" an imaginary difference.
I run it with one of those flower heatsinks, it's actually not even a Zalman but a knockoff.. It's a completely fanless machine (save the PSU) and never cracks 60C under load.
Methinks you've been brainwashed by corporate fanboyism. Just because arse technica is paid to say "Intel Sux, AMD rox!" doesn't mean it's true.
And, IIRC, going with a Duron 1.4 limits you to older motherboards with SDRAM, and those god-awful buggy VIA chipsets.
Why, when it's a video card article, is nVidia the "good guy", and ATi the "bad guy"?
nVidia is that big company that bought up 3DFX and never supported 3DFX customers, even after promising to do so.
There's no rhyme or reason to it. Some slashbot with a low uid decides that company X is "teh ghey", and the sheep follow.
When you're talking about multi-million dollar corporation A, vs multi-million dollar corporation B, there is no "underdog". Competition doesn't really exist with only two players, just the illusion of competition. It's very easy for both of them to keep prices artificially high (and they do) because there's virtually nil chance of anyone undercutting them both.
AMD pays Intel licensing, Intel will be paying AMD licensing for X86-64. They're more like partners than competitors.
Get a 1.8-2 gig celeron, they're cheap and fast. With the same video/RAM/mobo config, Doom 3 plays the exact same on the 1.8 Celeron as it does on a 3.06 P4 with HT (at least from what I could tell).
I only say 1.8 because IIRC, that's as slow as you can get on a Socket 478 mobo, and you probably don't want a 423 based board, because it's likely to only support SDRAM or RDRAM.
Get one of those big Zalman passive heatsinks if you don't want a fan. Just be careful moving the machine or find a way to brace it properly. I bolted mine through the mobo and directly to the steel backplate of the case, all stress on the case and not the mobo. I just dont trust a plastic clip to secure a half kilo of copper just inches above my Radeon 9800.
The newer prescott based Celeron D's perform like a champ (as in, really close to their P4 counterparts) from the reviews I've seen. I think they start at 2.4 gigs.
Stay away from bleeding edge stuff. It's just a waste of money, and won't improve your computing "experience", unless you consider bragging about artificial benchmark scores "computing".
I guess because (for some moronic reason) AMD are "good guys" and Intel are "bad guys" we just have to get all giggly and rub their noses in it.
BFD. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. Some products take off, some don't.
Itanium looks like a good architecture for transaction processing, at least on paper. Turns out the market was more interested in backwards compatibility.
I'm explicitly advising not to run around thinking you know the first thing about running a secure server because you read slashdot every day.
So many morons running linux powered websites incorrectly out there. While linux may not be a target for worms that just arbitrarily hit anyone, if someone actually targets the server, they can usually get root on it. These are the type of attacks you need to fear in business. Sasser wastes time and bandwidth, a dedicated hacker who's out to get you could ruin the business entirely.
The warez "pub" scene is chock full of hacked proftpd servers. There are thousands of linux and BSD boxes pumping spam through open relays or misconfigured proxies.
HL2's source code was stolen from a linux machine on a linux based network.
Admin's don't even bother to keep up with patches, or even read logs, because they read on slashdot that linux is just "magically secure" out of the box.
At least MS is honest enough to admit there are problems and work towards fixing them.
I'd rather worry about my system being insecure than falsely believe that it isn't. Security requires paranoia.
Getting advice on slashdot is a sure way to an easily hackable website. While it masquerades as a "geek tech news" forum, it's populated by 12 year olds morons who think they know everything, and who's answer to everything is "Install linux because it's magically secure!".
It goes without saying, of course. What kind of a moron would take computing advice from a bunch of asshats who can't configure Windows properly?
I'd prefer a more helpful 404 page, maybe with some links to the homepage or main sections of the site on it.
Sort of a "cannot find hello.jpg, click here to go back to the main page".
My point being, if the document I'm looking for is not there, I want to know it's not there. I don't want to read something else, thinking it's what I meant to read.
Usually when I'm googling around and clicking stuff I'm looking for the answer to some coding or computer related problem. I don't want to click on a link for "configuring Samba 3.0 with AD support", and wind up on a "Configuring Samba 2.2 with LDAP" and waste my time following bad advice.
As much as I liked HHGTG as a kid, and as much as I loved the infocom games (Planetfall and Stationfall are probably my favorites), the HHGTG infocom game was probably about the worst one they made. One misstep and the game was over, it was completely linear and frustrating.
Check out this little quote on the fate of the "Restaurant" sequel that was never released.
Apparantly DNA just didn't "get" the idea of interactive fiction.
Anyhow, is there any way to hear the original radio series, or obtain the original TV series for free (legally, of course)?
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Hefty hardware? I could build that machine for about 200 bucks, brand new. And that includes a fancy pants Lian-Li case with window and lots of blinky lights.
This should probably run under WINE, the 3D requirements aren't that intense. In fact, it probably uses OpenGL.
Because they bought all the "just say no" propoganda, whereas you and I instantly realized it was all utter bullshit the first time we inhaled.
I blame this bullshit for the rise in "hard drug" use. I personally know people who wound up hooked on crack, because they rationalized it like this: "everything they told me about marijuana was complete bullshit, so why should I believe what they tell me about crack?"
It's always been known what going into Iraq would be like, and it's always been known it would be a big fricking mess while the smoke clears.
That's why the coalition chickened out the first time around.
To be fair, the media does exaggerate the situation by only reporting bad news and not the successes. My nephew was in Iraq, he was shot in the shoulder and just came back a few weeks ago. While there's obviously still violence, I got a much better view of the situation there as a whole talking to him than I get from the news.
His exact words were (almost, I was kinda drunk) "Most people there love us, it's just the handful that don't that are fucking everything up".
They have to maintain the illusion that there's actually a difference between the two parties. So now and then, he'll say the opposite of what Bush says to keep that illusion alive. That's his job as "challenger".
Wan't to know where he really stands? Just read Bush's positions.
How about the now century-plus old campaign to convince Americans there are only two choices?
They've screwed up the election process to make it extremely difficult to get on the ballot in all 50 states. Once upon a time, it was a write in ballot, not multiple choice.
After Perot appeared on the presidential debates, their media buddies helped them screw with those rules to make it virtually impossible for that to happen again.
For that matter, why are there no third parties in this "Youth Debate"? I'll tell you why, the last thing we want to do is have the youth find out that it doesn't have to be a two party system. Young minds are predetermined to see things in black and white anyways.
Go ahead slashdot, help brainwash another generation into believing in this complete perversion of representative democracy.
Of course, they're the same people with the same agenda. All these people screeching "We have to get rid of Bush! Vote Kerry because third party votes are wasted". Gah.
Kerry isn't going to end the war in Iraq, repeal PATRIOT, lower taxes, allow same-sex marraige, he's not going to do anything to change the status quo.
Presidential politics are purely smear campaigns, because there's no issue that they actually differ on significantly.
Futurama:
Jack Johnson "I say my opponents plan goes too far!"
John Jackson "And I say my opponents plan doesn't go too far enough!"
21 dollars! Woooooooooooohoooooooo yeah AMD is the roxxor. That's so much cheaper, Intel must suck.
P4 based celeron at 2.6 ghz, 87 dollars. Thats a dollar cheaper for the same imaginary "performance"! Ha, AMD sucks.
Like I said, fanboys are being duped. In a truly competitive market, you'd be seeing viable desktop CPUs in the 20-40 dollar range.
Two companies is not competition. Just like two parties is not "democracy". Without going too far offtopic, let me remind you that Kerry has said he won't pull troops out of Iraq, repeal PATRIOT, or basically change anything. They're the same guy. That's why elections are smear campaigns and not about the issues - there are no issues, they both have the same roadmap.
Younger minds tend to see everything in black and white, good and evil, and that pretty much explains the whole thing, I suppose. So if Bush is evil, Kerry is good! If Intel is evil, AMD is good! Or it works backwards, if AMD is good, Intel must be bad! It never occurs to anybody, that they can both be right about the same. They offer similar performance for similar prices.
And for the record, nVidia's drivers suck too. Both companies are about speed tweaks and 3DMark scores, both card lines have a long track record of being unstable and crap with ridiculous display bugs in actual games. I'm convinced people who buy bleeding-edge video cards do it merely to run 3DMark and nothing else. Of course, that's offtopic.
IA64 is proprietary and closed, AMD64 is not.
Is that a joke? How is IA-64 "proprietary and closed?"
IA-64 was never supposed to be a home desktop CPU anyways.
Compare AMD-64 sales to Xeon and Pentium 4.
Like another poster said, this is like being shocked that Honda sells more cars than Bentley.
It was marketted as a general purpose CPU, but designed to be a high end chip for transaction servers.
It meets it's design goals and then some, but doesn't meet the mass markets demand. It'll survive, as the high-end niche CPU it was actually meant to be.
P4 based Celerons on the 400MHz FSB are crippled sad creatures
How do you figure? Have you used one? I can't tell the differnce between a 1.8 ghz celeron in one machine, vs a 3.06 ghz P4 in another (identically equipped) machine. They were both 3.06's until one died and I didn't want to spend a lot of bucks "fixing" it, so I chucked in a chip for a meager 40 bucks.
And like I said before, that includes "CPU killing cutting edge games" like Doom 3.
I have to run phony benchmarks like SiSoft Sandra to "see" an imaginary difference.
I run it with one of those flower heatsinks, it's actually not even a Zalman but a knockoff.. It's a completely fanless machine (save the PSU) and never cracks 60C under load.
Methinks you've been brainwashed by corporate fanboyism. Just because arse technica is paid to say "Intel Sux, AMD rox!" doesn't mean it's true.
And, IIRC, going with a Duron 1.4 limits you to older motherboards with SDRAM, and those god-awful buggy VIA chipsets.
Bullshit.
Why, when it's a video card article, is nVidia the "good guy", and ATi the "bad guy"?
nVidia is that big company that bought up 3DFX and never supported 3DFX customers, even after promising to do so.
There's no rhyme or reason to it. Some slashbot with a low uid decides that company X is "teh ghey", and the sheep follow.
When you're talking about multi-million dollar corporation A, vs multi-million dollar corporation B, there is no "underdog". Competition doesn't really exist with only two players, just the illusion of competition. It's very easy for both of them to keep prices artificially high (and they do) because there's virtually nil chance of anyone undercutting them both.
AMD pays Intel licensing, Intel will be paying AMD licensing for X86-64. They're more like partners than competitors.
Get a 1.8-2 gig celeron, they're cheap and fast. With the same video/RAM/mobo config, Doom 3 plays the exact same on the 1.8 Celeron as it does on a 3.06 P4 with HT (at least from what I could tell).
I only say 1.8 because IIRC, that's as slow as you can get on a Socket 478 mobo, and you probably don't want a 423 based board, because it's likely to only support SDRAM or RDRAM.
Get one of those big Zalman passive heatsinks if you don't want a fan. Just be careful moving the machine or find a way to brace it properly. I bolted mine through the mobo and directly to the steel backplate of the case, all stress on the case and not the mobo. I just dont trust a plastic clip to secure a half kilo of copper just inches above my Radeon 9800.
The newer prescott based Celeron D's perform like a champ (as in, really close to their P4 counterparts) from the reviews I've seen. I think they start at 2.4 gigs.
Stay away from bleeding edge stuff. It's just a waste of money, and won't improve your computing "experience", unless you consider bragging about artificial benchmark scores "computing".
I guess because (for some moronic reason) AMD are "good guys" and Intel are "bad guys" we just have to get all giggly and rub their noses in it.
BFD. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. Some products take off, some don't.
Itanium looks like a good architecture for transaction processing, at least on paper. Turns out the market was more interested in backwards compatibility.
No, not at all.
I'm explicitly advising not to run around thinking you know the first thing about running a secure server because you read slashdot every day.
So many morons running linux powered websites incorrectly out there. While linux may not be a target for worms that just arbitrarily hit anyone, if someone actually targets the server, they can usually get root on it. These are the type of attacks you need to fear in business. Sasser wastes time and bandwidth, a dedicated hacker who's out to get you could ruin the business entirely.
The warez "pub" scene is chock full of hacked proftpd servers. There are thousands of linux and BSD boxes pumping spam through open relays or misconfigured proxies.
HL2's source code was stolen from a linux machine on a linux based network.
Admin's don't even bother to keep up with patches, or even read logs, because they read on slashdot that linux is just "magically secure" out of the box.
At least MS is honest enough to admit there are problems and work towards fixing them.
I'd rather worry about my system being insecure than falsely believe that it isn't. Security requires paranoia.
Hey! I went googling for "a piece of pie" by the frantics and got a link to wil wheatons blog, of all places!
This pie... is proof!
Proof that you carry shit in your pocket!
Actually, 8:
Getting advice on slashdot is a sure way to an easily hackable website. While it masquerades as a "geek tech news" forum, it's populated by 12 year olds morons who think they know everything, and who's answer to everything is "Install linux because it's magically secure!".
It goes without saying, of course. What kind of a moron would take computing advice from a bunch of asshats who can't configure Windows properly?
Everyone knows that 10kg of plutonium is much heavier than 10kg of lead.
For that matter how did a coconut get to england? Are you suggesting that coconuts are migratory?
He's a character in the comic strip "Family Circus", along with Ida Know, and Notme.
Nope, too many potential IP problems.
Assholes still haven't decided whether having a companies logo.gif stored in my web cache is "copyright infringement" or not.
Caching pages without permissions certainly is, though.
My solution: HIRE A FUCKING WEBMASTER WHO KNOWS HOW TO DO HIS JOB. Duh. If the site is too big for one guy to mangage, hire two.
Don't just have a bunch of jackoffs and noone running the site, a la daddypants@slashdot.org, but actually hire someone to do work.
Yeah, IT jobs are supposed to involve work, not sitting on your ass playing GBA and listening to the BBC on Windows Media Player.
I'd prefer a more helpful 404 page, maybe with some links to the homepage or main sections of the site on it.
Sort of a "cannot find hello.jpg, click here to go back to the main page".
My point being, if the document I'm looking for is not there, I want to know it's not there. I don't want to read something else, thinking it's what I meant to read.
Usually when I'm googling around and clicking stuff I'm looking for the answer to some coding or computer related problem. I don't want to click on a link for "configuring Samba 3.0 with AD support", and wind up on a "Configuring Samba 2.2 with LDAP" and waste my time following bad advice.
I remember, back when, reading something that kind of suggested noone at the BBC really "got it".
It was all completely new to them, and it's hard to think out a game like that.
Storytelling and good game design are simply worlds apart. So relax, I wasn't "dissing" DNA.
As much as I liked HHGTG as a kid, and as much as I loved the infocom games (Planetfall and Stationfall are probably my favorites), the HHGTG infocom game was probably about the worst one they made. One misstep and the game was over, it was completely linear and frustrating.
Check out this little quote on the fate of the "Restaurant" sequel that was never released.
Apparantly DNA just didn't "get" the idea of interactive fiction.
Anyhow, is there any way to hear the original radio series, or obtain the original TV series for free (legally, of course)?
And that's practical...... how?
Until I hack your face and put goatse on there.
Then, all you'll need is a job!
I left it out because "popular usage" is not the same as "correct usage".
People say "it begs the question" incorrectly all the time too.
People call the beige box next to their monitor a "Hard Drive" or a "CPU", it doesn't make them right.