Gigabyte has a GeForce 9800 GT that is passively cooled. That's the highest I've seen.
Sadly the 260 GTX cards seem like a much better deal (price/performance) if you don't mind it using a fan (coming from someone who's always insisted on fanless video cards).
Took the industry long enough to deliver a great 3D perforance and 3 monitor outputs on one card*. If the Linux support is on par with nVidia's support, I look forward to replacing my current nVidia dualhead card and Matrox Dualhead2go box with one of these beauties. Especially since the Dualhead2go "Digital" edition uses an analog VGA input and I can see some faint ghosting on text/sharp lines.
* I know that Matrox had the Parhelia line of 3 monitor cards, but the 3D performance was sadly lacking in those.
Scan lines vs static images being shuffled. And NTSC is 60 interlaced frames per second. At 30fps the image visibly flickers. True this wouldn't be visible on an lcd screen but that has to do with how the image is displayed on the screen.
The new 3D ready tv's are 120Hz and when viewing a 3D movie appear to be 60Hz.
Disclaimer: I played WoW for 3 years but quit before the WotK expansion.
It's not about the time put in, it's about the time commitment raiding requires. They tried to solve this with 10 man raids which could be done with pickup groups (which at times can be equally as painful). Just because someone can devote 2-5 hours a day playing a game doesn't equate to them being able to commit the same 4 hours a night to raid with their guild plus the hours mindlessly collecting reagents, potions, and repair money they'll need to get through the raiding.
But then there was the other aspect of raiding, the repetitiveness. Every week you have the same raids, with the same fights, that have to be executed (orchestrated) in the *same* fashion. I do know with the BC they focused on spreading good loot on quest chains that were varied and at the end of which you were guaranteed *some* reward and smaller raids.
We can send inmates instead! Think about it, it would be funded in half a heartbeat. Any politician would pounce on that opportunity to seem Tough on Crime(TM)!
This is great new *feature* in Limewire! If you're ever sued by the RIAA you can just claim "Your honor, I was just using Limewire to share my tax return information! I had no idea it would scan my other folders and share my music and movies too!"
The shortcoming of that analogy is that there isn't a EULA that pops up (that you didn't get to see when you bought the car) forcing you to accept to use the shifter (and drive the car).
Now I find a more apt analogy (which I've posted countless times) would be if 95% of the cars in dealerships came with the same expensive Bose radio (or insert any other easily replaceable accessory - GPS, stickers, undercoating, etc) from the same manufacturer and gave you grief about getting a car without it (going so far as to charge you *extra* for the option to buy the car without it or with a less expensive but better performing unit).
And that last tidbit is pointed squarely at HP. I was going to buy a laptop from them, but when I went to choose Ubuntu (or Free Dos), they first made me select "customize" which adds $300 to the price, only then I could select Ubuntu or FreeDos and get $100 off. So yeah, $200 extra to take off a feature...
This is one of the reasons I jumped ship from Verizon. I got tired of having to go *through* the VCast music store (clicking something along the lines of "Buy Music") to play my music (every single frikkin time).
Also the fact that to use my own mp3 as a ringtone you had to: 1. Record a Voice Message clip directly to the SD card 2. Remove the SD Card form the phone 3. Plug SD Card to your PC 4. Copy mp3 onto the SD Card 5. Re-name mp3 to the same name as the Voice Clip 6. Put SD Card back into phone 7. Select the (numerically) named mp3 file as your ringtone
They later removed the ability to use Voice Messages are ringtones....
Lastly, they made it a *pain* to sync up the phone to a PC.
I switched to another carrier and was delighted to have a phone that was actually mine to use!
Can I put a CD into the car and have it start running? No? Then it's not an applicable comparison.
On the other hand you can take a boot CD, put it in a computer and within a few minutes have a working machine.
And nobody is up in arms over HP selling their own OS, or Dell selling their own OS, or Apple selling their own OS. People are upset because 95% of the manufacturers are forcing the same 3rd party OS on their customers with no easy way to opt out of it.
What is going would be more akin to Ford, Chevy, Chrysler, Hummer, Honda, Toyota, Nissan, etc, etc, etc selling their cars with the same 3rd party accessory that is not necessary to take delivery of the car (like say "accent stickers", a stereo, air freshener, or GPS). Yes an OS is vital to using a computer, but it's nowhere near as challenging to install/replace/re-install as a car engine.
And yes, if regular Joes are expected to be able to use Re-Load disks (just call any PC manufacturer with issues), they should be given the choice to take the computer w/o the OS or have an *easy* option to return the OS and get a refund commensurate with the cost of the OS.
I was looking at HP laptops after I heard that they were offering Ubuntu and I saw one model that looked like a decent deal. So I selected it and started to look for the Ubuntu option:
1. I first had to select "Customize" (there was no way around this, Ubuntu was only available through selecting "Customize" first) - This immediately added $300 to the price of the laptop. 2. Then I selected Ubuntu - This reduced the price by $100
End result? I had to pay $200 to get Ubuntu (or FreeDos) on the laptop. How is this considered a choice?
Like someone else mentioned, this would be akin to Ford selling all their cars with a Garmin(TM) GPS system. But going a bit further, they charge you *extra* to have no GPS!
Or my analogy, if 95% of the car manufacturers included Bose stereos and wouldn't give you an (easy) way to get the car w/o the stereo.
This thread just made it click. I had a gut "HELL NO" reaction when I read the headline about the Futurama voices being recast. I knew, hey, they'll surely find people who do an excellent job and are virtually indistinguishable from the originals, but why do I have this huge gut feeling it's going to suck?
Then it struck me as I was reading this thread.... I saw it once before. Evangelion. It had a good english voice cast (I even watched it subbed to give that a chance and decided the english dubbing was really good and worth watching). That was until "The End of Evangelion", they changed a couple of the voices, and they really did not fit the characters *at all*. It was horrible, particularly the voice of Hyuga... it was jarring and ruined the whole mood of the film...
Anyway, I'm sure it's a bluff to get the original voice actors to accept lower pay (God I hope).
Back when Office Depot still had their 155% price guarantee, Best Buy threw Mechwarrior on sale for something like $14.99 while Office Depot still showed it at 39.99. Armed with about $20 in cash each, maps with all the Office Depots in town, and a Best Buy ad we set out, cleaning out all the copies of Mechwarrior 4 for just $1.24 each after the absurdly high price guarantee.
Also that same week CompUSA had put Riven on sale for 9.99 vs $29.99 at Office Depot (so it was free after the 155% price guarantee). They got rid of that 155% price guarantee after that. EVERYBODY got a copy of Riven and Mechwarrior for Christmas. It was great (and confusing for some)!
"So really, you aren't interested in buying the media,"
He didn't say that, he was complaining about kindle books (not the reader) in that they are way too limited for what they cost. This in turn leads to the conclusion, what value does the kindle have if it's own native format is such a bad deal (and aside from reading project Gutenberg, reading "pirated books" may not be a moral option for some).
Which is true that in the case of the Kindle, the pirates again have a better product (with less restrictions). Same thing with DVDs. I have seen upscaling DVD players that *won't* upscale "copyrighted movies" (eg virtually all originals which have CSS) through the component outputs and instead limits them to 480p, though if you pirate said movie (and remove the CSS), the pirated copy will play at full 1080i through the component output.
So in this case a pirated book or simply the old paperback still present a much better value (aside from the "carry you whole book library in one locked down device!" point).
"music replacing production of goods and service as primary national revenue generator."
Dude, that sounds awesome! We could ROCK our way out of this recession! I can see it now:
We hold a concert with the goal to raise $11.4 Trillion Dollars (by coincidence what we need to pay off our debt and save Ma and Pa's country from repossession). Or we can look for conspicuously advertised talent competitions with an $11.4 Trillion grand prize (or bet our current debtors that we can beat them in a fair contest in a desperate all or nothing last ditch maneuver).
We have to get all Americans to work together and pick up an instrument or help promote the band, there's a 5 minute montage with everybody getting together and practicing, sending out fliers, building/painting the stage and props...
Ah... if real life was like an 80s feel good comedy...
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"Suddenly pulling a trillion dollars out of the economy would have a pretty severe effect."
Since companies would take the Trillion dollars they save and throw them into a furnace to heat their buildings...
Gigabyte has a GeForce 9800 GT that is passively cooled. That's the highest I've seen.
Sadly the 260 GTX cards seem like a much better deal (price/performance) if you don't mind it using a fan (coming from someone who's always insisted on fanless video cards).
Took the industry long enough to deliver a great 3D perforance and 3 monitor outputs on one card*. If the Linux support is on par with nVidia's support, I look forward to replacing my current nVidia dualhead card and Matrox Dualhead2go box with one of these beauties. Especially since the Dualhead2go "Digital" edition uses an analog VGA input and I can see some faint ghosting on text/sharp lines.
* I know that Matrox had the Parhelia line of 3 monitor cards, but the 3D performance was sadly lacking in those.
Scan lines vs static images being shuffled. And NTSC is 60 interlaced frames per second. At 30fps the image visibly flickers. True this wouldn't be visible on an lcd screen but that has to do with how the image is displayed on the screen.
The new 3D ready tv's are 120Hz and when viewing a 3D movie appear to be 60Hz.
Disclaimer: I played WoW for 3 years but quit before the WotK expansion.
It's not about the time put in, it's about the time commitment raiding requires. They tried to solve this with 10 man raids which could be done with pickup groups (which at times can be equally as painful). Just because someone can devote 2-5 hours a day playing a game doesn't equate to them being able to commit the same 4 hours a night to raid with their guild plus the hours mindlessly collecting reagents, potions, and repair money they'll need to get through the raiding.
But then there was the other aspect of raiding, the repetitiveness. Every week you have the same raids, with the same fights, that have to be executed (orchestrated) in the *same* fashion. I do know with the BC they focused on spreading good loot on quest chains that were varied and at the end of which you were guaranteed *some* reward and smaller raids.
Especially since it essentially halved the perceived TV refresh rate (to 30 fps) so flicker city!
Though missile defense 3D was pretty cool...
We can send inmates instead! Think about it, it would be funded in half a heartbeat. Any politician would pounce on that opportunity to seem Tough on Crime(TM)!
"My method of choice is head first into a chipper-shredder."
Jumping feet first into a wood chipper is a *real* man's way to go! None of this nancy panzy head first business.
This is great new *feature* in Limewire! If you're ever sued by the RIAA you can just claim "Your honor, I was just using Limewire to share my tax return information! I had no idea it would scan my other folders and share my music and movies too!"
The shortcoming of that analogy is that there isn't a EULA that pops up (that you didn't get to see when you bought the car) forcing you to accept to use the shifter (and drive the car).
Now I find a more apt analogy (which I've posted countless times) would be if 95% of the cars in dealerships came with the same expensive Bose radio (or insert any other easily replaceable accessory - GPS, stickers, undercoating, etc) from the same manufacturer and gave you grief about getting a car without it (going so far as to charge you *extra* for the option to buy the car without it or with a less expensive but better performing unit).
And that last tidbit is pointed squarely at HP. I was going to buy a laptop from them, but when I went to choose Ubuntu (or Free Dos), they first made me select "customize" which adds $300 to the price, only then I could select Ubuntu or FreeDos and get $100 off. So yeah, $200 extra to take off a feature...
This is one of the reasons I jumped ship from Verizon. I got tired of having to go *through* the VCast music store (clicking something along the lines of "Buy Music") to play my music (every single frikkin time).
Also the fact that to use my own mp3 as a ringtone you had to:
1. Record a Voice Message clip directly to the SD card
2. Remove the SD Card form the phone
3. Plug SD Card to your PC
4. Copy mp3 onto the SD Card
5. Re-name mp3 to the same name as the Voice Clip
6. Put SD Card back into phone
7. Select the (numerically) named mp3 file as your ringtone
They later removed the ability to use Voice Messages are ringtones....
Lastly, they made it a *pain* to sync up the phone to a PC.
I switched to another carrier and was delighted to have a phone that was actually mine to use!
No problem. I replaced my profile photo and all my other photos with:
http://timesonline.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/04/29/fritzl.jpg
Good luck selling any products now biatches!
( Well... unless they're selling discreet basement construction...)
Crap, the link didn't work... Time to eat the stick!
(January 15 comic, top in gallery, 2nd image)
It's the comic on the bottom left, December 04, 1999 comic. The didn't have an html landing for that comic (just the thumbnail sidebar you posted).
Ah yes, the law of averages:
http://plif.courageunfettered.com/archive/wc210.gif
Can I put a CD into the car and have it start running? No? Then it's not an applicable comparison.
On the other hand you can take a boot CD, put it in a computer and within a few minutes have a working machine.
And nobody is up in arms over HP selling their own OS, or Dell selling their own OS, or Apple selling their own OS. People are upset because 95% of the manufacturers are forcing the same 3rd party OS on their customers with no easy way to opt out of it.
What is going would be more akin to Ford, Chevy, Chrysler, Hummer, Honda, Toyota, Nissan, etc, etc, etc selling their cars with the same 3rd party accessory that is not necessary to take delivery of the car (like say "accent stickers", a stereo, air freshener, or GPS). Yes an OS is vital to using a computer, but it's nowhere near as challenging to install/replace/re-install as a car engine.
And yes, if regular Joes are expected to be able to use Re-Load disks (just call any PC manufacturer with issues), they should be given the choice to take the computer w/o the OS or have an *easy* option to return the OS and get a refund commensurate with the cost of the OS.
I'll corroborate your claim:
I was looking at HP laptops after I heard that they were offering Ubuntu and I saw one model that looked like a decent deal. So I selected it and started to look for the Ubuntu option:
1. I first had to select "Customize" (there was no way around this, Ubuntu was only available through selecting "Customize" first) - This immediately added $300 to the price of the laptop.
2. Then I selected Ubuntu - This reduced the price by $100
End result? I had to pay $200 to get Ubuntu (or FreeDos) on the laptop. How is this considered a choice?
Like someone else mentioned, this would be akin to Ford selling all their cars with a Garmin(TM) GPS system. But going a bit further, they charge you *extra* to have no GPS!
Or my analogy, if 95% of the car manufacturers included Bose stereos and wouldn't give you an (easy) way to get the car w/o the stereo.
$4 billion in the fiscal year 2010 budget to build 20 more F-22s
200 Million per plane (not counting R&D costs). Some estimates w/ R&D costs included bring the price up to $300 Million per plane. Damn.
Seriously, if the MIR were still around, it would make the perfect outhouse!
Though really, we need to develop still suit technology.
It was a birthday party, with 15 people. More than enough people to constitute a "public performance".
Maybe the SWAT team was deployed once they found out that they hadn't payed the royalties for the birthday song?
This thread just made it click. I had a gut "HELL NO" reaction when I read the headline about the Futurama voices being recast. I knew, hey, they'll surely find people who do an excellent job and are virtually indistinguishable from the originals, but why do I have this huge gut feeling it's going to suck?
Then it struck me as I was reading this thread.... I saw it once before. Evangelion. It had a good english voice cast (I even watched it subbed to give that a chance and decided the english dubbing was really good and worth watching). That was until "The End of Evangelion", they changed a couple of the voices, and they really did not fit the characters *at all*. It was horrible, particularly the voice of Hyuga... it was jarring and ruined the whole mood of the film...
Anyway, I'm sure it's a bluff to get the original voice actors to accept lower pay (God I hope).
No, it means you're not alive, Number 5...
Back when Office Depot still had their 155% price guarantee, Best Buy threw Mechwarrior on sale for something like $14.99 while Office Depot still showed it at 39.99. Armed with about $20 in cash each, maps with all the Office Depots in town, and a Best Buy ad we set out, cleaning out all the copies of Mechwarrior 4 for just $1.24 each after the absurdly high price guarantee.
Also that same week CompUSA had put Riven on sale for 9.99 vs $29.99 at Office Depot (so it was free after the 155% price guarantee). They got rid of that 155% price guarantee after that. EVERYBODY got a copy of Riven and Mechwarrior for Christmas. It was great (and confusing for some)!
"So really, you aren't interested in buying the media,"
He didn't say that, he was complaining about kindle books (not the reader) in that they are way too limited for what they cost. This in turn leads to the conclusion, what value does the kindle have if it's own native format is such a bad deal (and aside from reading project Gutenberg, reading "pirated books" may not be a moral option for some).
Which is true that in the case of the Kindle, the pirates again have a better product (with less restrictions). Same thing with DVDs. I have seen upscaling DVD players that *won't* upscale "copyrighted movies" (eg virtually all originals which have CSS) through the component outputs and instead limits them to 480p, though if you pirate said movie (and remove the CSS), the pirated copy will play at full 1080i through the component output.
So in this case a pirated book or simply the old paperback still present a much better value (aside from the "carry you whole book library in one locked down device!" point).
"music replacing production of goods and service as primary national revenue generator."
Dude, that sounds awesome! We could ROCK our way out of this recession! I can see it now:
We hold a concert with the goal to raise $11.4 Trillion Dollars (by coincidence what we need to pay off our debt and save Ma and Pa's country from repossession). Or we can look for conspicuously advertised talent competitions with an $11.4 Trillion grand prize (or bet our current debtors that we can beat them in a fair contest in a desperate all or nothing last ditch maneuver).
We have to get all Americans to work together and pick up an instrument or help promote the band, there's a 5 minute montage with everybody getting together and practicing, sending out fliers, building/painting the stage and props...
Ah... if real life was like an 80s feel good comedy...