their 3D support (in the form of the S3 Virge) was downright broken. I remember playing a "Virge Enhanced" version of Tomb Raider. None of the wall seams would line up, polygon "ghosts" kept appearing
Are you sure you weren't playing the Playstation version?
Before anyone comes out and says 'Doom ran fine on my 386', I'm going to state that you need a FAST 486DX2/50 to really play Doom. A slower 486 would work as long as there were not a lot of objects on the screen, and you scaled the screen down a little...but for pause-free, fragging action, you really need a 486/66 or a fast 50mhz computer.
Serious Unix machines never die. They are simply less powerful than a newer model. Doesn't mean you should throw them away though. You never know who might need a cheap Unix workstation to get some work done, run background computations, or perform simple serving (e.g. sendmail).
You can keep the x86 cruft, however. They're older than the dinosaurs the day after they're released.
Old SGI/Sun computers definately look cooler. They definately are cooler. But they require a lot more to get to work, and you have to have special keyboard/mice/monitor adapters in most cases.
If you just want a *nix box to run sendmail or just for the sake of it, it's usually more efficent to have an old Pentium II (which are almost always faster unless you're doing 3D stuff on the SGI) and run Linux/BSD on it.
You need something running at 75Mhz to play an MP3
You'll need more than that to actually do something with the computer while the MP3 is playing.
I was forced to upgrade from a Pentium 120MHz because Winamp was sucking 70% of the CPU while playing music. IM and web surfing was slow and the music kept pausing.
With tape drives you have to cope with tape standards changing every year. Want to read tapes that are more than 5 years old? Not a chance. Want to back up anything above 40 GB? You have to buy incredibly expensive DLT instead of DAT, most likely with a robotic tape change mechanism. Costs you about $40000.
Tape drive 1 at work is a 18GB DSS that's been the same tapes for 5 years. $12 for a tape
Tape drive 2 at work is a 80GB DLT that's $800, $40 for a tape.
Right. If you're not working from home, they shouldn't be paying your broadband anyway. Should they lease you a car so you can drive it to work as well?
But if they REQUIRE a cell phone or constantly call you on it, they should pay for it.
Once upon a time, a new Gateway store opened up in our town. Less than 1/4 mile away from the Best Buy store. Gateway literally sent some people to our store, and they promptly hired away almost half of our sales and service staff (most of the good or experienced people, too)
Everyone talked about how nice the GATEWAY store was and how great their GATEWAY computers were. About 2 years ago the store closed, and I don't think any of the Gateway stores are open anymore.
He doesn't have to specifially be selling you something over the hold message.
We got together with a local radio station and had a radio personality say some things about our company history, current projects, big clients, services, "Did you know?", and we update it every few months. It's kind of neat.
Valve is counting on it not going that far. Hopefully, the cease and decist order they send Joe Gamer and his friends that are either using, creating, or distributing cheats, makes it stop.
the current Xbox loses a LOT of money, possibly billions of dollars. And the better it sells, the more Microsoft loses.
That is not true. If Microsoft makes 1 million Xboxes and loses $200 on each one that they sell, everyone XBox that sells buy gets them closer to losing less.
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Why would they?
Does Kinkos proofread your brochures, or ask if your graphic designer is colorblind?
their 3D support (in the form of the S3 Virge) was downright broken. I remember playing a "Virge Enhanced" version of Tomb Raider. None of the wall seams would line up, polygon "ghosts" kept appearing
Are you sure you weren't playing the Playstation version?
Before anyone comes out and says 'Doom ran fine on my 386', I'm going to state that you need a FAST 486DX2/50 to really play Doom. A slower 486 would work as long as there were not a lot of objects on the screen, and you scaled the screen down a little...but for pause-free, fragging action, you really need a 486/66 or a fast 50mhz computer.
30-50 degrees Celsius?
#1 - Is your claim valid
#2 - Will the camera work at that temperature
#3 - Try some liquid nitrogen. Or, some spray dusters turned upside down.
People who lose their legs early in life have stronger and have more dexterity in their arms than people who don't.
Note to self:
Buy stock in ATI and NVIDIA
4.0 is coming out soon. 3.x (2003) is pretty good, 2.x was a bit dated.
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Can't they break it down with a hex editor and see what's under the hood?
You've watched Hackers way too many times.
Dade: This isn't a virus. It's a worm!
Serious Unix machines never die. They are simply less powerful than a newer model. Doesn't mean you should throw them away though. You never know who might need a cheap Unix workstation to get some work done, run background computations, or perform simple serving (e.g. sendmail).
You can keep the x86 cruft, however. They're older than the dinosaurs the day after they're released.
Old SGI/Sun computers definately look cooler. They definately are cooler. But they require a lot more to get to work, and you have to have special keyboard/mice/monitor adapters in most cases.
If you just want a *nix box to run sendmail or just for the sake of it, it's usually more efficent to have an old Pentium II (which are almost always faster unless you're doing 3D stuff on the SGI) and run Linux/BSD on it.
You need something running at 75Mhz to play an MP3
You'll need more than that to actually do something with the computer while the MP3 is playing.
I was forced to upgrade from a Pentium 120MHz because Winamp was sucking 70% of the CPU while playing music. IM and web surfing was slow and the music kept pausing.
Great idea, too bad Apple is in the hardware business.
Home users: Backup to CDROM. Or DVD if you've got the money.
How much of your stuff actually changes?
Your 50GB of video or music, organize it and archive it to CDROM.
For email or documents, make 1 CD of each month/year, or better yet, make 1 CD per project.
With tape drives you have to cope with tape standards changing every year. Want to read tapes that are more than 5 years old? Not a chance. Want to back up anything above 40 GB? You have to buy incredibly expensive DLT instead of DAT, most likely with a robotic tape change mechanism. Costs you about $40000.
Tape drive 1 at work is a 18GB DSS that's been the same tapes for 5 years. $12 for a tape
Tape drive 2 at work is a 80GB DLT that's $800, $40 for a tape.
Right. If you're not working from home, they shouldn't be paying your broadband anyway. Should they lease you a car so you can drive it to work as well?
But if they REQUIRE a cell phone or constantly call you on it, they should pay for it.
GIF's are almost always smaller than PNG's for icons and things like that.
As a former Best Buy employee...
Once upon a time, a new Gateway store opened up in our town. Less than 1/4 mile away from the Best Buy store. Gateway literally sent some people to our store, and they promptly hired away almost half of our sales and service staff (most of the good or experienced people, too)
Everyone talked about how nice the GATEWAY store was and how great their GATEWAY computers were. About 2 years ago the store closed, and I don't think any of the Gateway stores are open anymore.
Yes, it does.
Chris Kattan
Prime Minister
He doesn't have to specifially be selling you something over the hold message.
We got together with a local radio station and had a radio personality say some things about our company history, current projects, big clients, services, "Did you know?", and we update it every few months. It's kind of neat.
Descent by Interplay made people seasick.
Will a cheat case hold up in court? Heck no.
Valve is counting on it not going that far. Hopefully, the cease and decist order they send Joe Gamer and his friends that are either using, creating, or distributing cheats, makes it stop.
The thing that sucks is a lot of new computers (especially laptops) don't have serial ports these days.
Half the reason of myself needing a laptop is for the serial console on various things.
I'd guess that the average game console life is probably around three years.
You guessed wrong.
1985 - NES released in the USA
1991 - SNES released in the USA
1996 - N64 released in the USA
2001 - GCN released in the USA
6, 5, and 5 years
1994 - PSX released in the USA
2000 - PS2 released in the USA
6 years
the current Xbox loses a LOT of money, possibly billions of dollars. And the better it sells, the more Microsoft loses.
That is not true. If Microsoft makes 1 million Xboxes and loses $200 on each one that they sell, everyone XBox that sells buy gets them closer to losing less.
Remember the CD-i?
Technology was too new at the time. Too expensive. Just not very well thought out. This was Philips, not Nintendo.
Remember the 3D0?
Way, way overpriced. They thought young adults would pay $700 for a game system. Not gonna happen.
Remember the Atari Jaguar?
Attempted last gasp for breath from Atari in the home market. They hadn't had anything remotely successful since the 2600.
Make it dual boot Contiki OS and old school C64 OS and I'd buy it.
Or just emulate the C64 inside of Contiki...