Re:Single video card not going to cut it?
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SLI is overkill for 99.99% of people out there. In fact, onboard video is fine for probably 80-90% of the PC market.
I am a working gamer, I own a large LCD monitor (21") that runs natively at 1600x1200 resolution.
I just now bought a SLI board (the Asus SLI Deluxe), it was only $30 more then the non-SLI version. As for the video card, I went along with a "budget" 6800 card (for around $300).
If you are like me, you'd probably upgrade your video card every year or maybe a year and a half. At which point you'd probably throw away your current video card (or atleast have almost no use for it gaming wise). But with SLI - I can just grab another 6800 down the line when they are $50 and expect atleast 70-80% performance gains (atleast thats what the review sites claim).
I don't know about you, but whenever I build a rig, I keep upgradibility in mind, so that I don't have to spend on each and every part every 2 or so years to keep system perfomance up with current applications.
You definately raise a good point. But you need to understand that the real news here is that SMP will finally be available for the desktop users.
As a consequence more and more developers will be interested in writing SMP enabled apps. The way I see it is as a Chicken and the Egg problem. It'll be a catalyst for programmers and corporations to produce code for SMP systems.
Also I know a few people who send rar files through their work address's because zip is blocked.
Gmail blocks sending attachments of "executable" files, which includes.pl.exe.bat.com etc..., It even checks inside of zip, tar/gz archives to see if a file with matching extension is found. If it is found, gmail will not allow you to send your email.
On the other hand if you compress your archive using RAR, gmail cannot check the contents and thus does not complain about executable files.
They make an excellent HTPC software, but along with that they have Meedio Housebot.
Its really a central control panel to control home automation stuff. Perhaps some newer version of X10 can transfer music? Or maybe have a Airport express plugin.
... Can anybody explain why *BSD can't catch a break? Everything is "linux this" and "linux that."...
It already has. From what apple claims they are the largest distributor of Unix based OS (even more than linux).
But I suspect that *BSD can't quite 'catch on', is probably because of the main stream demand. Also personally I think a pure *BSD installation is probably only good for servers. While majority of computer users would probably want something more friendly. Seriously though... Can you picture Joe Moe using *BSD on his desktop? didn't think so.
Well the problem with Xvid is that its generally not standard on most computers. You'd have to let your customers install xvid codec before they could view the videos. But in this case I don't see a problem.
So yeah Xvid is not bad choice at all, I would suggest looking into Quicktime though, since its more ubiquitous.
If you are working with Xvid I would also suggest using vdub for editing/encoding your movies. Check out Doom9 for several guides/faq's and general help for working with these videos.
Along the lines of what you suggested, I'd like to see superconductive material at room temperature.
We can finally rest assure that moores law will hold since superconductors have zero resistance, and those electrons *should* not generate much heat, if at all.
Here's a link to Apple's Human Interface Guidelines (Online version, PDF Version). It gives very detailed information on how to design GUI applications for the Mac, it also gives plenty of examples that contrast the difference between Windows & Mac.
The biggest Interface error that I see in the KOffice screenshots, is the one of fonts. The fonts look different, perhaps they are not antialiased properly. They also look out of place (their widgets don't appear to change with respect to the amount of text inside the widget).
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I am a working gamer, I own a large LCD monitor (21") that runs natively at 1600x1200 resolution.
I just now bought a SLI board (the Asus SLI Deluxe), it was only $30 more then the non-SLI version. As for the video card, I went along with a "budget" 6800 card (for around $300).
If you are like me, you'd probably upgrade your video card every year or maybe a year and a half. At which point you'd probably throw away your current video card (or atleast have almost no use for it gaming wise). But with SLI - I can just grab another 6800 down the line when they are $50 and expect atleast 70-80% performance gains (atleast thats what the review sites claim).
I don't know about you, but whenever I build a rig, I keep upgradibility in mind, so that I don't have to spend on each and every part every 2 or so years to keep system perfomance up with current applications.
You definately raise a good point. But you need to understand that the real news here is that SMP will finally be available for the desktop users.
As a consequence more and more developers will be interested in writing SMP enabled apps. The way I see it is as a Chicken and the Egg problem. It'll be a catalyst for programmers and corporations to produce code for SMP systems.
Gmail blocks sending attachments of "executable" files, which includes .pl .exe .bat .com etc..., It even checks inside of zip, tar/gz archives to see if a file with matching extension is found. If it is found, gmail will not allow you to send your email.
On the other hand if you compress your archive using RAR, gmail cannot check the contents and thus does not complain about executable files.
They make an excellent HTPC software, but along with that they have Meedio Housebot. Its really a central control panel to control home automation stuff. Perhaps some newer version of X10 can transfer music? Or maybe have a Airport express plugin.
Well this isnt' exactly what you mention, but here.
Its a video of a AMD Duron overclocked to 3.8Ghz without the fan running. It funny as hell. Check it out.
It already has. From what apple claims they are the largest distributor of Unix based OS (even more than linux).
But I suspect that *BSD can't quite 'catch on', is probably because of the main stream demand. Also personally I think a pure *BSD installation is probably only good for servers. While majority of computer users would probably want something more friendly. Seriously though... Can you picture Joe Moe using *BSD on his desktop? didn't think so.
So yeah Xvid is not bad choice at all, I would suggest looking into Quicktime though, since its more ubiquitous.
If you are working with Xvid I would also suggest using vdub for editing/encoding your movies. Check out Doom9 for several guides/faq's and general help for working with these videos.
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We can finally rest assure that moores law will hold since superconductors have zero resistance, and those electrons *should* not generate much heat, if at all.
It's conventionally called FAIL (well, at least it is in Maple).
Traditionally in text books you will find the word "Don't Care". Especially when concerning thruth tables.
Here's a link to Apple's Human Interface Guidelines (Online version, PDF Version). It gives very detailed information on how to design GUI applications for the Mac, it also gives plenty of examples that contrast the difference between Windows & Mac.
Here's another link: Switching from Windows to Mac OS X.
The biggest Interface error that I see in the KOffice screenshots, is the one of fonts. The fonts look different, perhaps they are not antialiased properly. They also look out of place (their widgets don't appear to change with respect to the amount of text inside the widget).
But it may only last untill EUCD is implemented
And how long before EUCD gets cracked?
http://www.onmediadvd.com/onmediadvd/Oritron%20Net work%20Media.htm
Yet another music service in the works?...
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MacMinute notes a statement from McDonald's regarding today's rumor about the McDonald's and iTunes giveaway.
According to McDonalds, "There are no agreements to announce, so anything else is pure speculation."
McDonald's goes on to say that they are continuing to pursue "bold new initiatives in the areas of music, sports, fashion and entertainment" and that news can be expected in the coming weeks to months.
Or even, destroying one's computer if found guilty of owning illegal music files.
Guess what? Microsoft's map point is actually a bought technology. I was used to http://www.mapblast.com (now redirects to microsoft MSN mappoint).
I really like its ability to enlarge the map. And its details have been fairly current (even shows up to date road construction information).
It also includes 3 years manufacturer's warranty.
If you can read it, you can copy it.
I quote from the stroy: "It has the same shape but has a chrome finish."
You really mean 9.6 kbits/s