Anandtech and Tom's Hardware have much better hardware reviews than that ZD reviews specified. They also have Doom 3 benchmarks, which put the new NVidia card significantly ahead of the ATI counterpart.
A new chipset... supports a 400MHz front-side bus... which appears to clear up questions about whether AMD would include that feature in the forthcoming Athlon XP 3200+ processor.
Also, every time AMD adds more cache or increases the FSB speed, the processor gets a lower clock rate to product number ratio. The 2700+ with 256Kb of L2 Cache is clocked the same as the 3000+ with 512Kb. So, even if they shipped 3200+'s with a 400 MHz FSB, it would probably be clocked about the same as a 3000+ (at like 2166 MHz). All in all this isn't a bad thing, but you wouldn't be getting an extra 200+'s AND the increase in speed from the faster FSB, the FSB performance bump is figured in to the model number.
For the best power/weight ratio, and mechanical simplicity, a Wankel rotary engine is the way to go. The downsides are the emissions, fuel economy, and higher rpm's. But I can't imagine emissions, or even fuel economy, was a priority of this bicycle in the first place.
A Montgomery Ward motorcycle from the 60's or 70's got similar gas mileage, but was bigger and faster.
I guess it depends on the school. Here, students that can't make it in the CS department, or students that wish to learn how to use a computer, go in to the BCIS major. I trained a BCIS major in his senior year with a GPA > 3.0 in on dial-up technical support. He was the slowest learner I have ever trained. He used big words incorrectly, perhaps to look smart, perhaps to confuse the customer. He would get impatient with the customers when he was telling them the wrong thing to do!
OK OK this is just one example, but it is representative of BCIS at this school. I'm sure other schools have totally adequate BCIS/CIS/MIS programs.
A lot of CS majors are getting MBAs. This seems like a better option for people interested in "Using Technical skills with business knowledge/theory" especially if you go to a school where the "technical skills" taught in BCIS are Excel and Access.
I've considered changing to biotech in the past, but I just assumed that in a few years biotech jobs will be as scarce as computer jobs are now.
I just looked at bioinformatics a bit more, and it does sound interesting. AI and neural networks are major interests of mine. I have a strong statistical background, so maybe Biometrics and Bioinformatics would be good for me.
Word on the street is businesses have grown privy to the incompetence of BCIS/MIS students.
Although I wouldn't be surprised if they got jobs programming VB or something. CS majors often don't waste their time with VB, but half of BCIS classes are done in that. They'd get a much better employee if they'd hire a CS major and give them a week to learn VB, but instead they go with the guy that has already done it.
I get the feeling that computer science will be relegated to a tech college degree. Most work in the field is for entry level programmers and desktop support, neither which need more than a 2 year degree.
...instead of looking for a job right now. If you are an undergraduate, go get a Master degree. If you are holding a Master degree, go get a PHD. The time you finish your education, the economy may have recovered, and you are right there to ride the next wave.
This is what everyone else thought too. Consequently, Grad schools have never been harder to get in to. So now, in 2 or 3 years, we will have millions of unemployed computer people with a much better education.
I should have gone with Physics or Chemistry. We will always need Physicists and Chemists.
and summer camps were hiring camp councilors. The Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marines were all looking for new recruits. Some non-profit organizations were looking for volunteers.
That's about it.
It is almost summer time, I myself am going to look for a job in construction.
I've only dealt with MCI and UU net for T1s (before they were merged), and this was 2 years ago, so others' experience may vary. Although my experience as a client extends only to reseller lines, we had T1 business customers, and I kept tabs on other companies selling T1s to business customers.
1) 24/7 service ON SITE - costs a WHOLE LOT to provide. Ever tried to have that for a residential service?
HELLZ NO. Anything beyond basic phone service is a separate agreement, and added cost. This is true for most business lines too, though again providers will throw it in as a "value added service".
2) EXTRA SHORT waiting time when calling support: man I liked it when the tech (a real one, not an unqualified human-bot reading a script) answered before the third ring!
I'd have to wait 10 minutes calling UU Net, and the people at MCI didn't know T1s as well as they should have. Both had mostly foreign people whom I could barely understand.
3) 24/7 monitoring of your connection BY THE PROVIDER. You are sleeping, the line goes down, they are the ones who see it and take actions before you can know it.
When I started working at this company, one of the 2 T1 lines had been down for SEVERAL WEEKS. People assumed it was a problem with MRTG, but it was in fact down. The provider did nothing. You can buy monitoring for most business lines at an added cost, or again it will be included as a "value-added service".
4) Free router, dedicated line installation, etc, etc
HELLLZ no on the free router. Perhaps some providers will do it, but even factoring out the router cost T1s are more expensive than cable modems by orders of magnitude. Line install can be a separate line item or be absorbed into the monthly bill.
Even with all of the forementioned services factored out of the cost of a T1, it is still more expensive by orders of magnitude. If you would like more evidence of the cost of bandwidth, find the price of UU.net's burstable lines compared to their tiered lines. Also find the cost of business DSL offering T1 speeds.
It's all about costs. A T1 line costs a helluva lot of money for 1.5 mbps bandwidth. My cable modem downloads at 1.5 mbps. Why is the T1 so much more expensive? How it is used and licensed.
In an ideal world, we would all get as much bandwidth as the physical lines could carry, but we'd only pay for what we'd use. That way, even casual internet users could download things faster, but not pay as much as hardcore pirates and business users, who use more bandwidth.
It would provide a better experience for everyone, and better reflect costs.
To expand on this idea, perhaps have evening and weekend bandwidth cheaper, so we can all fight the RIAA the only way we can:-)
(notes: I'm aware that a cable modem has less upload speed than a T1 line, i'm just illustrating a point. Also I'm aware that most/. readers wouldn't like this plan, since they probably use more bandwidth than average and would therefore pay more.)
For this to be popular, they would need some serious market saturation. I'm not going to try to find a joltage provider in my area, just for the 1/1000 chance to get cheaper bandwidth.
And the people selling their excess bandwidth would probably be breaking their agreement with their internet service provider.
Coding sucks on all keyboards right now. When i'm typing html, i just use like mad, and when i'm typing perl, i use/, \, $, &, and # like it's my job. But shit, what are you gonna do?
Outside of having different layouts for different applications, nothing will make everyone happy. Most commands are fast enough even though they are 2 key strokes; i think it's hardly worth moving letters for.
Maybe there are stun guns? that's not killing. Or perhaps they did it like Super Mario Sunshine, and just give you a water gun, and you just wash away bad guys? OR maybe there are undead to 'kill', because if they're undead, THEY ARE ALREADY DEAD!!!
I think if people don't get their killing out in video games, they'll be doing it in the streets.
James
Flame on
Unreal Championship
Panzer Dragoon Orta
Mech Assault
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None of which could even be run on the PS2.
Lower TCO:
No need to buy memory cards
Don't need a multitap
XBox Linux is a reality. PS2 Linux is unavailable in the states, and unavailable for download even if you put a hard drive on the PS2 network kit.
Most of the best games are cross platform anyway.
DOA XBV
And, nice job, in putting commas, in your, post.
Current XBox hard drives are full size 3 1/2" IDE hard drives. The DVD Drive is a full 5 1/4" bay drive too. Both can be upgraded. Are they going to be replaced with more expensive notebook hard and dvd drives? If so, won't it drive costs up?
Will the hard drives increase in capacity from the current 8, 10 or 20 GBs to make room for the music and movies?
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Also HardOCP has a review with Doom 3 benchmarks.
I sort of did a redundant post about anandtech and tomshardware earlier, my bad.
Yes but with no doom 3 benchmarks. And extremetech is not usually considered a great hardware review site, but that might be due to the ZD ownership.
Anandtech and Tom's Hardware have much better hardware reviews than that ZD reviews specified. They also have Doom 3 bench marks, which put the new NVidia card significantly ahead of the ATI counterpart.
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First off DO NOT go for a CS major, unless you don't want a job.
Most of the "*BSD is Dying" posts are cut and paste troll comments. Check out bsd.slashdot.org and set the threshold to -1.
I don't think too many people really think, *BSD is dying. Just flamers flaming.
(http://www.tomshardware.com/business/20030314/ce
Also, every time AMD adds more cache or increases the FSB speed, the processor gets a lower clock rate to product number ratio. The 2700+ with 256Kb of L2 Cache is clocked the same as the 3000+ with 512Kb. So, even if they shipped 3200+'s with a 400 MHz FSB, it would probably be clocked about the same as a 3000+ (at like 2166 MHz). All in all this isn't a bad thing, but you wouldn't be getting an extra 200+'s AND the increase in speed from the faster FSB, the FSB performance bump is figured in to the model number.
A Montgomery Ward motorcycle from the 60's or 70's got similar gas mileage, but was bigger and faster.
I guess it depends on the school. Here, students that can't make it in the CS department, or students that wish to learn how to use a computer, go in to the BCIS major. I trained a BCIS major in his senior year with a GPA > 3.0 in on dial-up technical support. He was the slowest learner I have ever trained. He used big words incorrectly, perhaps to look smart, perhaps to confuse the customer. He would get impatient with the customers when he was telling them the wrong thing to do!
OK OK this is just one example, but it is representative of BCIS at this school. I'm sure other schools have totally adequate BCIS/CIS/MIS programs.
A lot of CS majors are getting MBAs. This seems like a better option for people interested in "Using Technical skills with business knowledge/theory" especially if you go to a school where the "technical skills" taught in BCIS are Excel and Access.
I've considered changing to biotech in the past, but I just assumed that in a few years biotech jobs will be as scarce as computer jobs are now.
I just looked at bioinformatics a bit more, and it does sound interesting. AI and neural networks are major interests of mine. I have a strong statistical background, so maybe Biometrics and Bioinformatics would be good for me.
Thanks snot.dotted!
Word on the street is businesses have grown privy to the incompetence of BCIS/MIS students.
Although I wouldn't be surprised if they got jobs programming VB or something. CS majors often don't waste their time with VB, but half of BCIS classes are done in that. They'd get a much better employee if they'd hire a CS major and give them a week to learn VB, but instead they go with the guy that has already done it.
I get the feeling that computer science will be relegated to a tech college degree. Most work in the field is for entry level programmers and desktop support, neither which need more than a 2 year degree.
This is what everyone else thought too. Consequently, Grad schools have never been harder to get in to. So now, in 2 or 3 years, we will have millions of unemployed computer people with a much better education.
I should have gone with Physics or Chemistry. We will always need Physicists and Chemists.
and summer camps were hiring camp councilors. The Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marines were all looking for new recruits. Some non-profit organizations were looking for volunteers.
That's about it.
It is almost summer time, I myself am going to look for a job in construction.
HAH, second post, bitch
Even with all of the forementioned services factored out of the cost of a T1, it is still more expensive by orders of magnitude. If you would like more evidence of the cost of bandwidth, find the price of UU.net's burstable lines compared to their tiered lines. Also find the cost of business DSL offering T1 speeds.
hehe...
Notice they refuse to put the name of the account in the description. I'm guessing "jewboy" or "ihateblackpeople".
It's all about costs. A T1 line costs a helluva lot of money for 1.5 mbps bandwidth. My cable modem downloads at 1.5 mbps. Why is the T1 so much more expensive? How it is used and licensed.
:-)
/. readers wouldn't like this plan, since they probably use more bandwidth than average and would therefore pay more.)
In an ideal world, we would all get as much bandwidth as the physical lines could carry, but we'd only pay for what we'd use. That way, even casual internet users could download things faster, but not pay as much as hardcore pirates and business users, who use more bandwidth.
It would provide a better experience for everyone, and better reflect costs.
To expand on this idea, perhaps have evening and weekend bandwidth cheaper, so we can all fight the RIAA the only way we can
(notes: I'm aware that a cable modem has less upload speed than a T1 line, i'm just illustrating a point. Also I'm aware that most
For this to be popular, they would need some serious market saturation. I'm not going to try to find a joltage provider in my area, just for the 1/1000 chance to get cheaper bandwidth.
And the people selling their excess bandwidth would probably be breaking their agreement with their internet service provider.
It was just not meant to be.
Coding sucks on all keyboards right now. When i'm typing html, i just use like mad, and when i'm typing perl, i use /, \, $, &, and # like it's my job. But shit, what are you gonna do?
Outside of having different layouts for different applications, nothing will make everyone happy. Most commands are fast enough even though they are 2 key strokes; i think it's hardly worth moving letters for.
I have no focus in this post.
I could have typed that post so much faster than you on my qwerty keyboard.
In fact, lets have a contest to see who can type "qwerty lovers" faster. BWAHHAHA!!
Maybe there are stun guns? that's not killing. Or perhaps they did it like Super Mario Sunshine, and just give you a water gun, and you just wash away bad guys? OR maybe there are undead to 'kill', because if they're undead, THEY ARE ALREADY DEAD!!! I think if people don't get their killing out in video games, they'll be doing it in the streets. James
Why not get a notebook?
Flame on Unreal Championship Panzer Dragoon Orta Mech Assault Doom ]|[ None of which could even be run on the PS2. Lower TCO: No need to buy memory cards Don't need a multitap XBox Linux is a reality. PS2 Linux is unavailable in the states, and unavailable for download even if you put a hard drive on the PS2 network kit. Most of the best games are cross platform anyway. DOA XBV And, nice job, in putting commas, in your, post.
They weren't selling, so Sega gave them to M$ cheap. Thats my guess. Halo is their biggest money maker, why would the possibly just give it away?
Current XBox hard drives are full size 3 1/2" IDE hard drives. The DVD Drive is a full 5 1/4" bay drive too. Both can be upgraded. Are they going to be replaced with more expensive notebook hard and dvd drives? If so, won't it drive costs up? Will the hard drives increase in capacity from the current 8, 10 or 20 GBs to make room for the music and movies?
The same thing it meant the last time a change was made to the xbox.
Time to make new mod chips.