It's not like D3. On the CS:S video stress test, I get near 80fps on my 2500+ ATI 9800 (128MB) 1GB RAM system. In D3 timedemo, I can barely squeak out 40. I know the D3 timedemo is more complex, but still, CS:Source is as smooth as a baby's bottom, but D3 is rough like my own ass.
Doom 3 has all the gameplay of Quake 2, but where Quake 2 was all strafe and fire, strafe and fire, Doom 3 has you in narorow corridors so that you can only fire, no more strafe!
So, I am looking very much forward to playing HL2 -- at the very least, gameplay is king with the HL games, the way it should be. Props to Carmack for changing the world of computer gaming, but id lost focus long ago.
And by the way, I'm a cybersecurity consultant, so I know what I'm talking about.
Lemme ask a question:
Was this post modded Funny because he said Windows was more secure than Linux, or because he called himself a "cybersecurity consultant," in other words an Internet 'Barney'?
Wow, a top-down conversion of an expensive game that has the same general idea and gameplay as a game I opened and was playing way before Christmas all those years ago.
Then again, Mazogs was really good gameplay. I wish I could find an emulator and play it again.
But I also wish I could change the camera angle on this conversion to something that makes a little more sense to my 3D-pampered brain.
When people send me Excel files, I kindly ask them to re-send the file in CSV or some other format. Yes, there are things you can only do in native file format. But the vast majority of users never do those things.
Lemme guess, you have Excel installed on your PC and if not, you probably have access to something that can read an Excel file... yet instead of creating your own.csv file, you ask whoever you deal with to convert the file and send it again. And, probably just because you want to point out to people your precious ideology.
I have a few PCs that are housed in an Antec Sonata Silent case, which is well-constructed and has a quiet power supply and case fan.
My home rig has an AMD Athlon 2500+ processor, stock CPU fan, but I replaced the heat sink on my video card with a Zalman sandwich-type heatsink (covers front and back of the video card) and a quiet fan that blows on it. I also used an ASUS board, which comes with "Q-Fan" technology, which keeps the CPU fan rotating at a quiet speed unless the CPU is being hit hard. The noise produced is still audible, but it only a quiet 'whoosh' which I find I can live with. Oh, and definitely get Seagate Barracuda hard drives as they are near-slient and the 8MB cache ones are fast, too.
So, when we needed a few machines at work, I went the same route, and Antec Quiet case, AMD Athlon 64 3400+ processor, Zalman CPU heatsink (flower-type with fan in the middle), Q-Fan turned on in the ASUS board (K8V SE), and Seagate Barracuda drives. These machines are even more quiet than my one at home. AND, what is a miracle is that the CPU fan turns right off until the CPU temp hits 50, then it sturns slowly until the CPU temp is about 40 degrees C. I thought it was broken at first.
So, it is possible to have a very fast machine that is quiet as well.
"but there is no argument that if you are planning on putting together a website, using MySQL and Perl that MySQL & Perl for the Web will aid immensely in that development"
I seem to recall that the Church of Scamology, er, Scientology successfully sued for the identity of a user of a famous Scandanavian anonymous remailer who had the gumption to actually post something critical of the Church.
I can understand that the second generation chips support unbuffered RAM, but why would that be important? Given that it's hard to find a FX chip in the first place, how long should we expect to wait for a second generation chip?
I'm not trying to be a smart-ass here, but I am looking at purchasing about 32 FX-based machines (the big draw is future 64-bit compatability and >4GB RAM in our lab).
I agree. This is the camera I started on, then I bought a family member's X-700 and am very happy with that. But, I took a lot of pics with the XG-1 and found it to be a great camera -- I actually miss it!
I agree, too. This is my 35mm camera of choice. Auto-exposure, but you have to focus, which is fine with me!
Plus, there are 1,000s of these cameras out there, and you can probably get a good deal without too much trouble.
As for learning photography, I'm sure you could go full-manual, and learn just about everything you need to know, but for me, I find that composition is very important and you can actually focus (excuse the pun) on that and for the most part, forget about exposure with a camera with automatic exposure (you can always learn from bad shots what you might need to do to compensate for tricky exposures, and learn gradually rather than all-at-once).
Final point that I haven't seen mentioned yet: get the standard 50mm lens for general shots, but also get a lens that zooms to about 120 or 135mm, too. These lenses are gret for doing portrait shots, plus general outdoor, bright light shots where you may not be sure what type of lens you'll need.
The purists might complain about some of this advice, but then again I am not a purist, and I doubt you are, so do what you feel is right for you.
"The employment agency has selected an immature and unproven software package and its functionality is at the best close to Office 97," said Microsoft representatives.
Wow, since Office XP is pretty similar to Office 2000, which really wasn't much of an improvement over Office 97, plus the fact that I don't think I've ever used a feature in Office XP that wasn't in Office 97, I'd say MS just landed a ringing endorsement of Open Office!
I work in a lab which has 24 P4 machines and we are to upgrade in the next year. We run lots of statistical software such as Stata, which require a lot of memory in order to grind those numbers.
I'm looking at trialing an Athlon 64 FX-51 machine with about 4GB of memory. It seems to me that this is the only realistic upgrade route, since we do need the extra memory, and whatever Intel can supply in the next year will only handle 2 or 4 GB max of RAM (and in our Dell machines, there's only room for 2GB of RAMBUS memory, which we've been told will cost $3,000 (CAN) -- the price of a new high powered workstation!)
As long as we can keep the noise down from these machines, AMD will have our business. I just don't see any other way to go right now.
Maybe it was just me, but I thought it looked more like a gigantic shredder.
That's exactly what it looked like. However, there was an LCD display on the top part which indicated if a vote had been properly recorded, and the box the machine sat on was made of heavy cardboard and I bet once the 'shredder' part of the machine came off, the box was sealed except for a slot where the ballots went through).
But the best thing about the municipal vote is that the votes were counted very, very quickly after the close of polling. We in Toronto knew who the mayor was 14 minutes after the polls closed, and it was a fairly close race.
The only problem with our system that I heard of was that the people who entered the ballot into the reader sometimes could see who was voted for, but since the vote was recorded properly, this was only worrying because it obviously wouldn't impact the results of the vote.
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If HL2 doesn't work, you can always fire up another game.
If WinXP activation doesn't work, then you have no computer at all.
Probably nowhere... Google also has a page for IE users: Google for IE
So, I am looking very much forward to playing HL2 -- at the very least, gameplay is king with the HL games, the way it should be. Props to Carmack for changing the world of computer gaming, but id lost focus long ago.
I'm at work, staring at 3 machines used for heavy data analysis that each have 2 120GB Seagate Barracudas (SATA models) and none have hiccupped.
They are fast, quiet, cheap and reliable, and now they have a 5 year warranty. What's not to like?
Lemme ask a question:
Was this post modded Funny because he said Windows was more secure than Linux, or because he called himself a "cybersecurity consultant," in other words an Internet 'Barney'?
Just wondering if that means that unmarried women are in fact, allowed by the Christian bible to have abortions.
Then again, Mazogs was really good gameplay. I wish I could find an emulator and play it again.
But I also wish I could change the camera angle on this conversion to something that makes a little more sense to my 3D-pampered brain.
Now, where's my $20,000?
Lemme guess, you have Excel installed on your PC and if not, you probably have access to something that can read an Excel file... yet instead of creating your own .csv file, you ask whoever you deal with to convert the file and send it again. And, probably just because you want to point out to people your precious ideology.
You must be a lot of fun to work with!
My home rig has an AMD Athlon 2500+ processor, stock CPU fan, but I replaced the heat sink on my video card with a Zalman sandwich-type heatsink (covers front and back of the video card) and a quiet fan that blows on it. I also used an ASUS board, which comes with "Q-Fan" technology, which keeps the CPU fan rotating at a quiet speed unless the CPU is being hit hard. The noise produced is still audible, but it only a quiet 'whoosh' which I find I can live with. Oh, and definitely get Seagate Barracuda hard drives as they are near-slient and the 8MB cache ones are fast, too.
So, when we needed a few machines at work, I went the same route, and Antec Quiet case, AMD Athlon 64 3400+ processor, Zalman CPU heatsink (flower-type with fan in the middle), Q-Fan turned on in the ASUS board (K8V SE), and Seagate Barracuda drives. These machines are even more quiet than my one at home. AND, what is a miracle is that the CPU fan turns right off until the CPU temp hits 50, then it sturns slowly until the CPU temp is about 40 degrees C. I thought it was broken at first.
So, it is possible to have a very fast machine that is quiet as well.
Translation please?
The book would be helpful in creating a website.
A notepad would work as well, but the read/write times suck.
I seem to recall that the Church of Scamology, er, Scientology successfully sued for the identity of a user of a famous Scandanavian anonymous remailer who had the gumption to actually post something critical of the Church.
Oops, I suppose that was critical of the church.
Next time we see Gandalf after he escapes, he has his staff back. How does he get it back?
What is the Slot1/A Syndrome?
I can understand that the second generation chips support unbuffered RAM, but why would that be important? Given that it's hard to find a FX chip in the first place, how long should we expect to wait for a second generation chip?
I'm not trying to be a smart-ass here, but I am looking at purchasing about 32 FX-based machines (the big draw is future 64-bit compatability and >4GB RAM in our lab).
Plus, there are 1,000s of these cameras out there, and you can probably get a good deal without too much trouble.
As for learning photography, I'm sure you could go full-manual, and learn just about everything you need to know, but for me, I find that composition is very important and you can actually focus (excuse the pun) on that and for the most part, forget about exposure with a camera with automatic exposure (you can always learn from bad shots what you might need to do to compensate for tricky exposures, and learn gradually rather than all-at-once).
Final point that I haven't seen mentioned yet: get the standard 50mm lens for general shots, but also get a lens that zooms to about 120 or 135mm, too. These lenses are gret for doing portrait shots, plus general outdoor, bright light shots where you may not be sure what type of lens you'll need.
The purists might complain about some of this advice, but then again I am not a purist, and I doubt you are, so do what you feel is right for you.
Wow, since Office XP is pretty similar to Office 2000, which really wasn't much of an improvement over Office 97, plus the fact that I don't think I've ever used a feature in Office XP that wasn't in Office 97, I'd say MS just landed a ringing endorsement of Open Office!
I'm looking at trialing an Athlon 64 FX-51 machine with about 4GB of memory. It seems to me that this is the only realistic upgrade route, since we do need the extra memory, and whatever Intel can supply in the next year will only handle 2 or 4 GB max of RAM (and in our Dell machines, there's only room for 2GB of RAMBUS memory, which we've been told will cost $3,000 (CAN) -- the price of a new high powered workstation!)
As long as we can keep the noise down from these machines, AMD will have our business. I just don't see any other way to go right now.
"I don't want the whole world, I just want your half."
I think she may not be all that generous.
That's exactly what it looked like. However, there was an LCD display on the top part which indicated if a vote had been properly recorded, and the box the machine sat on was made of heavy cardboard and I bet once the 'shredder' part of the machine came off, the box was sealed except for a slot where the ballots went through).
But the best thing about the municipal vote is that the votes were counted very, very quickly after the close of polling. We in Toronto knew who the mayor was 14 minutes after the polls closed, and it was a fairly close race.
The only problem with our system that I heard of was that the people who entered the ballot into the reader sometimes could see who was voted for, but since the vote was recorded properly, this was only worrying because it obviously wouldn't impact the results of the vote.