I wasn't aware of _many_ hard drives that can saturate current bus standards.
Today's mechanical hard disk drives transfer data at a maximum of about 118 MB/s,[5], within the capabilities of even the older PATA/133 specification. However, high-performance flash drives transfer data at 250 MB/s.
For mechanical hard drives, SATA/300's transfer rate is expected to satisfy drive throughput requirements for some time, as the fastest mechanical drives barely saturate a SATA/150 link. A SATA data cable rated for 1.5 Gbit/s will handle current mechanical drives without any loss of sustained and burst data transfer performance. However, high-performance flash drives are approaching SATA/300's transfer rate.
The notion that a government can muck about and stir up things to create a new source of taxation needs to be nipped in the bud so that we are not forced to perpetually fight such obnoxious ideas.
Yes heaven forbid the government gets an idea stuck in it's craw about new forms of tax revenue, marijauna and prostitution come to mind as legitiment areas the government could establish taxable revenue in.
So, they're intentionally making the game a grindfest so that they make more money? How can anyone argue that isn't asinine? You buy the game, you pay a subscription fee, but it's only REALLY fun if you pay 10 dollars every 4 hours.
Well the gameplay mechanics themselves required what we refer to as 'grinding'.. At least as far as developers for Verant could see in the days of EQ. I really can't comment on EQ2, but EQ1 was released at a time when MMO's remained unproven. And fans were as committed as ever to prevent real world money equating enhanced game experiences. And it still holds true today, Bliz has been taking baby steps in direction of micro transactions but thus far has remained with Name Changes and Character Transfers. It's not surprising to see an old busted series like this being milked by those who own it, but to suggest they designed the game to encourage micro transactions is just plain wrong. Granted after the 7th or so expansion I quit playing so I can't comment on later developments.
Man... Mod OT if you must, but uh I think we could all use a little something, something to defuse the situation. That's just a tad inflammatory if I do say... Kudos to you Mrs. Deborah Taylor Tate, troll of the year.
Speaking as an Australian - I would rather this than the "freedom" the US people strive for where the most immoral things are allowed to survive in the name of individual rights.
Just as one mans 'freedom fighter' is another mans terrorist, one man's shitty scorpion cd is another mans child pornography. I'm sorry their is a cost to this game we call life, collateral damage and what have you. I'd much rather take the hits and be free to figure things out on my own and for myself.
I wouldn't call it tasteless, sure the little bastard is ugly as sin but its just an imagine of a naked human. As tasteless as any other, maybe less so as the wrinkles and jangly bits have yet to drop to the floor.
but the reality is that IWF only wanted to protect children from the horrors of having to listen to anything released by the Scorpions.
Than and all they had to do is make a press release, and garner worldwide attention. Some of it negative, but think of all the increased support by religious types. This was just an elaborate marketing ploy on their behalf that is sure to increase donations to their coffers while providing free media coverage over such a nonstarter of a band, issue and picture.
I know drywallers get paid about $20 an hour to do out of town work (dallas to san antonio) but $1000 a week?
Bingo, its a little less for unskilled local labor. But 12-14+ entry on most construction or labor intensive jobs. At least here in the Pacific Northwest... Course the market has all but evaporated with recent economic courses and a glut of homes and laborers:)
Yes, going from ~1-3Mbps to 20-40Mbps DOES justify getting labeled as a next generation service!
Sure does, but as a former customer of their service let me remind everyone of 'dead-spots' which might not be a problem for a mobile phone. You can walk down the block, but when you use clearwire for your home pc.. and you just happen to be in a dead spot... or a spot that isn't dead, but cuts your bandwidth in half, or ups your latency 3sec+. You are SOL with that company... Just something to remember.
If I remember correctly it was the "first character you see for the least amount of time" who would end up being the diabolical genius with a fog machine, flash light and old record player.
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He advises that "this is really more of an application design problem more than anything else."
Today's mechanical hard disk drives transfer data at a maximum of about 118 MB/s,[5], within the capabilities of even the older PATA/133 specification. However, high-performance flash drives transfer data at 250 MB/s.
For mechanical hard drives, SATA/300's transfer rate is expected to satisfy drive throughput requirements for some time, as the fastest mechanical drives barely saturate a SATA/150 link. A SATA data cable rated for 1.5 Gbit/s will handle current mechanical drives without any loss of sustained and burst data transfer performance. However, high-performance flash drives are approaching SATA/300's transfer rate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SATA
The notion that a government can muck about and stir up things to create a new source of taxation needs to be nipped in the bud so that we are not forced to perpetually fight such obnoxious ideas.
Yes heaven forbid the government gets an idea stuck in it's craw about new forms of tax revenue, marijauna and prostitution come to mind as legitiment areas the government could establish taxable revenue in.
I don't think USB support came along until the OSR2 release...
I think the most important thing to note is that OpenGL is for display. DirectX handles sound, networking, input... etc, etc.
Guaranteed to take up 90% of cycles and 75% of RAM
Hey as long as it keeps those pesky kids from Hackers out. For some reason my 3 char password just isn't enough anymore.
Add a laser to that shark and now you got me interested...
I don't even have cable...
--another Canadian
Hulu + Bittorrent + TVersity + XBox 360 MCE = Call me when a la carte cable service hits the streets.
So, they're intentionally making the game a grindfest so that they make more money? How can anyone argue that isn't asinine? You buy the game, you pay a subscription fee, but it's only REALLY fun if you pay 10 dollars every 4 hours.
Well the gameplay mechanics themselves required what we refer to as 'grinding'.. At least as far as developers for Verant could see in the days of EQ. I really can't comment on EQ2, but EQ1 was released at a time when MMO's remained unproven. And fans were as committed as ever to prevent real world money equating enhanced game experiences. And it still holds true today, Bliz has been taking baby steps in direction of micro transactions but thus far has remained with Name Changes and Character Transfers. It's not surprising to see an old busted series like this being milked by those who own it, but to suggest they designed the game to encourage micro transactions is just plain wrong. Granted after the 7th or so expansion I quit playing so I can't comment on later developments.
http://www.fcc.gov/commissioners/photos/ppdtt.jpg
Man... Mod OT if you must, but uh I think we could all use a little something, something to defuse the situation. That's just a tad inflammatory if I do say... Kudos to you Mrs. Deborah Taylor Tate, troll of the year.
Speaking as an Australian - I would rather this than the "freedom" the US people strive for where the most immoral things are allowed to survive in the name of individual rights.
Just as one mans 'freedom fighter' is another mans terrorist, one man's shitty scorpion cd is another mans child pornography. I'm sorry their is a cost to this game we call life, collateral damage and what have you. I'd much rather take the hits and be free to figure things out on my own and for myself.
I wouldn't call it tasteless, sure the little bastard is ugly as sin but its just an imagine of a naked human. As tasteless as any other, maybe less so as the wrinkles and jangly bits have yet to drop to the floor.
but the reality is that IWF only wanted to protect children from the horrors of having to listen to anything released by the Scorpions.
Than and all they had to do is make a press release, and garner worldwide attention. Some of it negative, but think of all the increased support by religious types. This was just an elaborate marketing ploy on their behalf that is sure to increase donations to their coffers while providing free media coverage over such a nonstarter of a band, issue and picture.
Whatever happened to not connecting mission critical systems to public networks?
I know drywallers get paid about $20 an hour to do out of town work (dallas to san antonio) but $1000 a week?
Bingo, its a little less for unskilled local labor. But 12-14+ entry on most construction or labor intensive jobs. At least here in the Pacific Northwest... Course the market has all but evaporated with recent economic courses and a glut of homes and laborers :)
Guess they haven't heard of the Wayback Machine.
Well except for the fact The Archive now retroactively obeys robots.txt made it all but worthless the last half dozen times I was there.
Yes, going from ~1-3Mbps to 20-40Mbps DOES justify getting labeled as a next generation service!
Sure does, but as a former customer of their service let me remind everyone of 'dead-spots' which might not be a problem for a mobile phone. You can walk down the block, but when you use clearwire for your home pc.. and you just happen to be in a dead spot... or a spot that isn't dead, but cuts your bandwidth in half, or ups your latency 3sec+. You are SOL with that company... Just something to remember.
"Break the seal"
Oblig.
hard to keep updated
it's all standard kit, why is it hard to update? I ask seriously, I'm unfamiliar with this Pystar and Apple software.
If I remember correctly it was the "first character you see for the least amount of time" who would end up being the diabolical genius with a fog machine, flash light and old record player.
Yeah, a DX 66 MHz was awesome, could even play 128 kbps mp3s in Winamp!
and the ftp sites you got them from were fast as hell
If you can't find a car stereo for less than 200, maybe you should just turn in your license. And again, why would you need a new deck? A ~$20 USD adapter and some cheap 1 gig at a time USB sticks with an headphone/line out.
America's rate of corporate tax is among the highest in the world.
I wouldn't say that's entirely correct.
I'd mood you UP .. this is the kind of posts that make /. worth the time spent
Out of X letters the guy only says 5 words of any information "it's heat that kills a battery". It's got the information to word ratio of a digg post.