the relationship between frequency and power is not linear. scaling the frequency back a couple steps results in a 40% reduction in voltage. check out this page for a graph of this from WinHEC. most of the articles show that this plays out in practice but few have tackled why.
Back at WinHEC in May (and before I believe) Microsoft gave out some more specific details about what the graphical requirements for Longhorn would be. Here's a summary of the what they were expecting hardware requirements to look like. There is a more detailed version buried on their site somewhere but I'm too lazy to dig it up
we're not talking about drivers who crash every race. we're talking about F1 level drivers most of which have some semblance of competency in F1 cars. throw a good driver in the fastest car and he will win more often than not. was Jacques Villeneuve not a World Champion? how many podium finishes did he have when he was driving an inferior car?
you cant win in F1 without a top notch car. if Schumacher was in a BAR Honda and Barichello was driving the Ferrari would Schumi be dominating the series? the car is the biggest factor in F1 not the driver.
it's mostly the car. when valentino rossi gets within a second or two of schumacher on his initial outing in a F1 car, it illustrates how the driver is not as important as he once was
and it'll be great when the day comes when a single device can do everything you listed equally well. the combination of a small lens and a low res CCD/CMOS device isnt going to light the digital camera world on fire and seems more like an afterthought to capitalize on the popularity of digital cameras rather than making something that is actually useful
i usually have it inside my jacket and it's fine there - needless to say the ipod is much smaller and would fit in the pocket much easier. i think it should be fine inside your tankbag as long as you had something to buffer it from the tank and something to keep it immobile (it doesnt like to slap against something repeatedly as i found out from running)
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the red nipple is not bad for navigation but it is no iPod scroll wheel and it is not as intuitive. most of my friends who've used my ipod figured out how to use the thing within seconds (even the non-techy ones) while questions were always inadvertently asked about the karma.
build quality / fragility is also something to be aware of. my ipod has survived a motorcycle crash and multiple trips down to the pavement from about waist height but the LCD on my friend's karma broke while it was in his pocket. he didnt fall, the pocket wasnt especially tight, nothing hit him. guess there was a bit of pressure on the screen and now it's hosed. he seemed to like it a lot while it was working though
native linux support doesnt mean no EULA. RTCW, ET and Q3A all had EULAs AFAIK.
I'm with you
so what's your point with the parent? while open source has its place it is pretty irrelevant in the gaming sphere as far as actual games go (not talking about server ports but compelling opensource games)
until open source/free software comes out with something as cohesive as a warcraft, a starcraft, a diablo or a half-life people will buy commercial software. not everyone finds tux-racer to be the pinnicle of gaming
check out this FREE PS2 repair guide. I dont know of any other cohesive free resource but there are some useful hints in getting a broken PS2 working again cheaply.
there's a chart on this page. the NV43 is a discrete chip with a different manufacturing process and a vastly different transistor count. the entire 6800 series is based on the NV40 core so the ability to mod it may be feasible.
I'd acquit anyone arrested for stealing those goddamn headlights (what kind of safety feature is it to blind oncoming traffic?).
that's what calibration is for. halogen lights are blinding at night when they arent adjusted properly. HID has important uses like for bikes where it increases visibility during the day.
it's a hobby for people albeit an expensive hobby. people dont casually throw down a grand to play every new game. i have a pretty fast system and i've probably only spent 400$ or so on it in the last 18 months and that included a cpu/motherboard/memory and graphics upgrade
yes i believe it is collected at the retailer level. some stores like london drugs out here in British Columbia do not include the CDR levy in their advertised price and the levy is tacked on top of afterwards at the checkout. most places in general though have it rolled in
just take the winning bottle caps. the cool thing is when the RIAA comes a knocking at your door you could feasibly have hundreds of bottle caps to throw at their minions.
i was a computer science major and for one of our classes we had to do debates and our issue was computers in the classroom. we talked about the enormous costs, questionable benefits, and laugh as you may, people like Bill Gates scoffing at the idea of a digital divide. not to mention the spelling and grammatical problems that kids have seemed to develop because of email and instant messaging. anyway we lost the debate because most of the class thought it was important that everyone should have access to a computer and that it should be taught in school. go figure.
a year or so ago (or whenever return to castle wolfenstein came out) activision had a cheap version of rtcw for sale in china. it came to ~10$ or something. anyway they gave you a disc and a number to call to register the disc and to obtain a cdkey that allows you to play online. a friend of mine who has friends over there picked up a few copies over there and send us the keys worked fine (online) for us over here in north america. as far as i know these keys are not pirated as ive never had a key conflict nor has the auth system for rtcw been cracked
as someone who reviews hardware for a living, the problem is quake & unreal are not exactly cutting edge. framerates are in the 400s on highend systems for quake3 and 200s for UT2K3. im under the impression that most cutting edge games will not work under wine.
furthermore there is an issue of economics. we are not a small site but testing takes a lot of time. is the market for how gaming videocards run under linux enough for the average site to invest time in? im not trying to flame or troll but it is an honest question.
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the relationship between frequency and power is not linear. scaling the frequency back a couple steps results in a 40% reduction in voltage. check out this page for a graph of this from WinHEC. most of the articles show that this plays out in practice but few have tackled why.
Back at WinHEC in May (and before I believe) Microsoft gave out some more specific details about what the graphical requirements for Longhorn would be. Here's a summary of the what they were expecting hardware requirements to look like. There is a more detailed version buried on their site somewhere but I'm too lazy to dig it up
FM Radio is far from CD quality hence there isnt really a need to use very high bitrate MP3s or whatever
we're not talking about drivers who crash every race. we're talking about F1 level drivers most of which have some semblance of competency in F1 cars. throw a good driver in the fastest car and he will win more often than not. was Jacques Villeneuve not a World Champion? how many podium finishes did he have when he was driving an inferior car?
you cant win in F1 without a top notch car. if Schumacher was in a BAR Honda and Barichello was driving the Ferrari would Schumi be dominating the series? the car is the biggest factor in F1 not the driver.
it's mostly the car. when valentino rossi gets within a second or two of schumacher on his initial outing in a F1 car, it illustrates how the driver is not as important as he once was
and it'll be great when the day comes when a single device can do everything you listed equally well. the combination of a small lens and a low res CCD/CMOS device isnt going to light the digital camera world on fire and seems more like an afterthought to capitalize on the popularity of digital cameras rather than making something that is actually useful
i usually have it inside my jacket and it's fine there - needless to say the ipod is much smaller and would fit in the pocket much easier. i think it should be fine inside your tankbag as long as you had something to buffer it from the tank and something to keep it immobile (it doesnt like to slap against something repeatedly as i found out from running)
the red nipple is not bad for navigation but it is no iPod scroll wheel and it is not as intuitive. most of my friends who've used my ipod figured out how to use the thing within seconds (even the non-techy ones) while questions were always inadvertently asked about the karma. build quality / fragility is also something to be aware of. my ipod has survived a motorcycle crash and multiple trips down to the pavement from about waist height but the LCD on my friend's karma broke while it was in his pocket. he didnt fall, the pocket wasnt especially tight, nothing hit him. guess there was a bit of pressure on the screen and now it's hosed. he seemed to like it a lot while it was working though
there's a difference between installing crap on a desktop system and installing crap on a production server
until open source/free software comes out with something as cohesive as a warcraft, a starcraft, a diablo or a half-life people will buy commercial software. not everyone finds tux-racer to be the pinnicle of gaming
check out this FREE PS2 repair guide. I dont know of any other cohesive free resource but there are some useful hints in getting a broken PS2 working again cheaply.
porn is so in right now. since there are so few jedi left it could their adventures in repopulating the jedi population across the galaxy
there's a chart on this page. the NV43 is a discrete chip with a different manufacturing process and a vastly different transistor count. the entire 6800 series is based on the NV40 core so the ability to mod it may be feasible.
I'd acquit anyone arrested for stealing those goddamn headlights (what kind of safety feature is it to blind oncoming traffic?). that's what calibration is for. halogen lights are blinding at night when they arent adjusted properly. HID has important uses like for bikes where it increases visibility during the day.
it's a hobby for people albeit an expensive hobby. people dont casually throw down a grand to play every new game. i have a pretty fast system and i've probably only spent 400$ or so on it in the last 18 months and that included a cpu/motherboard/memory and graphics upgrade
yes i believe it is collected at the retailer level. some stores like london drugs out here in British Columbia do not include the CDR levy in their advertised price and the levy is tacked on top of afterwards at the checkout. most places in general though have it rolled in
just take the winning bottle caps. the cool thing is when the RIAA comes a knocking at your door you could feasibly have hundreds of bottle caps to throw at their minions.
AMD has 2 64 bit chips is rated at 2.2 Ghz. That's the 3400+ and the FX-51. The Mhz speed of a chip and its 'rating' are inherently different heh.
actually it doesnt. try 220$ and 512 KB of cache.
i was a computer science major and for one of our classes we had to do debates and our issue was computers in the classroom. we talked about the enormous costs, questionable benefits, and laugh as you may, people like Bill Gates scoffing at the idea of a digital divide. not to mention the spelling and grammatical problems that kids have seemed to develop because of email and instant messaging. anyway we lost the debate because most of the class thought it was important that everyone should have access to a computer and that it should be taught in school. go figure.
apple recently dropped the price to 100$ for battery replacement. there are 3rd party replacments that are as cheap as 50$ also.
a year or so ago (or whenever return to castle wolfenstein came out) activision had a cheap version of rtcw for sale in china. it came to ~10$ or something. anyway they gave you a disc and a number to call to register the disc and to obtain a cdkey that allows you to play online. a friend of mine who has friends over there picked up a few copies over there and send us the keys worked fine (online) for us over here in north america. as far as i know these keys are not pirated as ive never had a key conflict nor has the auth system for rtcw been cracked
as someone who reviews hardware for a living, the problem is quake & unreal are not exactly cutting edge. framerates are in the 400s on highend systems for quake3 and 200s for UT2K3. im under the impression that most cutting edge games will not work under wine. furthermore there is an issue of economics. we are not a small site but testing takes a lot of time. is the market for how gaming videocards run under linux enough for the average site to invest time in? im not trying to flame or troll but it is an honest question.