The Orange pay as you go GPRS "extra" seems to allow all ports.
I've used SSH and IRC and AIM and others over it with no problem (apart from the hideous latency mentioned by others). This is with a Zaurus SL-5500 and a T68. The guy at the support desk who I asked before I got it said that I wouldn't be able to unless I was contract, he lied:-P.
One thing to watch out for if you use linux is that the networks (at least orange and t-mobile) ignore LCP echo requests, which makes your connection time out after 2.1 minutes unless you tell the pppd to forget about those.
I've had friends who tried O2 pay as you go GPRS and found it to be strictly limited to a port 80 proxy server.
Without that PSOne spec, you've given us no reason to believe that Sony can't just drop their enormous library of old PSOne titles to the new PSP disc (shovelware) and sell them to us again.
What the hell are you on about? Is there some physical law that stops games designed for slower systems being ported to faster ones?
The PS1 is a 33mhz R3000A btw, which doesn't even have an FPU. So, in clock the CPU is 10x faster, can do FP, almost certainly has far higher IPC *and* there are 2 of them! Even without a GPU the PSP could software render better than the PS1, but of course it has one of those.
Comparison of GPUs is, mainly because sony always throws around wildly theoretical numbers, for reference the PS2 was claimed as being capable of 55 million polys/sec, the actual in practice numbers being far far lower (they claimed about 360K polys/sec with the PS1 I seem to recall).
Halo is a shader/video card bound game, just like almost all future graphically impressive games will be, like doom 3 is, like HL2 will be. NWN, all the Q3 engined games, and UT2K4 are far less video card bound, relying much more on the CPU.
They test at that res to try and get away from games being CPU bound and actually test the performance of the *card*, not the system it's in, testing the CPU in video card reviews offers less differentiated graphs, for some reason:-P.
You basically want benchmarks that make your card look better, that's fine, I want the same, I have a 9700 pro @9800 pro speeds and I dislike watching my card get beaten into the ground by the 6800, but my next card will be a GF6 or above (incidentally PCI-e too:) ).
It used to be that cards were mainly limited by the memory bandwidth they had, nowadays that's changed to how fast they can run fragment programs.
The GFFX was a really bad design, considering how games have and are going, all of the sites have been saying this since the 5800 came out and benched worse than the 9700 pro that had been out for 6 months. Look at the GeforceFX post-mortem in the video section at anandtech.
Look at it this way. I just bought a FX5900 in January. I can't remember what I paid, but I know I saved up for a while. Now they have these 68oo thingies. They are only about a cunt-hair faster than mine, but they support more cool stuff like pixel shaders and bump mapping.
Also, Nvidia must have really taken a step backwards to have knocked bump mapping out of the FX series, considering that environment bump mapping has been in cards since the Matrox G400, and embossed bump mapping was basically there since x86 3D cards existed. The lack of pixel shaders in the GeForce FX series surprises me, but considering how awful the reviews were I'm not surprised.
I recently got given a Palm V by a friend, having owned and used an SL-5500 for about a year. After a few hours of using it I suddenly realised why people had been moaning about the Zaurus not having sync support, due to Palm OS being so amazingly limited.
If you want to install something on your Zaurus you just put the.ipk on the Zaurus (using ftp or sftp or even smb if you've installed samba) and install it! no need for Zaurus desktop (if you're using OZ you can just install it from a net based feed). and if you want to read some html, then just copy it over (or surf to it, a Zaurus is about 300% better with wireless internet) and start opera or konq. No need to use plucker or turn it into a damned.pdb (although plucker is brilliant, the Palm screen is wonderful for reading).
I don't see what your problem with software support is. The Zaurus has a *huge* amount of user ported software, Sharp clearly banked on the community jumping in feet first and that paid off IMHO. My zaurus runs snes9x, xmms, konqueror, uae, all sorts of ported GUI software. And in the console it's even better, nano, irssi, all my favourite gnu tools are there too (admittedly in occasionally annoyingly abbreviated busybox versions).
IMHO the Zaurus does not *need* syncing, if you want your contacts from outlook then just buy a Palm V for $20, and it's so tiny you can take it along with the zaurus!
The Zaurus is, as the writing on the case says (in a somewhat amusing double entendre) a "personal digital tool", it's like a small linux laptop, you don't buy one as an address book, if you want to use it as that then feel free, you can edit your contacts there on the zaurus, the keyboard is perfectly usable, and if it isn't you can purchase an IR keyboard (or even go so far as a CF USB card and a USB keyboard) or VNC in.
It's a handheld computer, not a PDA.
Also, I hear the latest Sharp software versions (like the one shipped with the SL-6000) are much better wrt syncing and PDA stuff.
OZ does support your 860, they count the 760 and 860 as the same machine, what with them being hardware identical apart from the colour of the case and the (irrelevant to the purpose) software.
"let's just start shotting down satalites for fun." They are saying "In the event of a war, where satalites could be used against us, let's have a plan to eliminate them."
No dual-core 754, They'll stop making faster speeds within a year. I think they might keep making 754 semprons, but I haven't checked the roadmap for a while.
Children's (usually) amusement at a fair, gala or similar, non-porous inflated structure usually shaped like a castle, constantly kept inflated by a generator at the back.
You jump on it and bounce, have to take your shoes off first;).
Will people *PLEASE* stop calling PCI-Express "PCI-X". PCI Express is completely and utterly different to PCI-X, if you have to abbreviate it call it "PCI-e" or similar.
PCI-e is a completely new bus, it's serial, it has lots of speed grades.
PCI-X is basically faster clocked, 64bit, parallel PCI, at 66mhz and 133mhz (extending up to 266mhz and 533mhz with PCI-X 2.0).
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No, there isn't.
It's a possibility though, watch this space.
The Orange pay as you go GPRS "extra" seems to allow all ports.
I've used SSH and IRC and AIM and others over it with no problem (apart from the hideous latency mentioned by others). This is with a Zaurus SL-5500 and a T68. The guy at the support desk who I asked before I got it said that I wouldn't be able to unless I was contract, he lied :-P.
One thing to watch out for if you use linux is that the networks (at least orange and t-mobile) ignore LCP echo requests, which makes your connection time out after 2.1 minutes unless you tell the pppd to forget about those.
I've had friends who tried O2 pay as you go GPRS and found it to be strictly limited to a port 80 proxy server.
Alien Breed?
Except they removed the firewire port several revisions ago and didn't put it back in.
What the hell are you on about? Is there some physical law that stops games designed for slower systems being ported to faster ones?
The PS1 is a 33mhz R3000A btw, which doesn't even have an FPU. So, in clock the CPU is 10x faster, can do FP, almost certainly has far higher IPC *and* there are 2 of them! Even without a GPU the PSP could software render better than the PS1, but of course it has one of those.
Comparison of GPUs is, mainly because sony always throws around wildly theoretical numbers, for reference the PS2 was claimed as being capable of 55 million polys/sec, the actual in practice numbers being far far lower (they claimed about 360K polys/sec with the PS1 I seem to recall).
HTH, HAND.
You are a troll and I claim my 5 pounds
I would presume it's been downloading all that time, it should have downloaded everything it *can* in a couple of days.
No, Preorders start/started on the 26th, it comes out some time "early 2005".
Carmageddon 2 called, they want their credit back.
Heh, I had a Sega NiMH power pack for my GG :), never bought a single AA.
Halo is a shader/video card bound game, just like almost all future graphically impressive games will be, like doom 3 is, like HL2 will be. NWN, all the Q3 engined games, and UT2K4 are far less video card bound, relying much more on the CPU.
They test at that res to try and get away from games being CPU bound and actually test the performance of the *card*, not the system it's in, testing the CPU in video card reviews offers less differentiated graphs, for some reason :-P.
You basically want benchmarks that make your card look better, that's fine, I want the same, I have a 9700 pro @9800 pro speeds and I dislike watching my card get beaten into the ground by the 6800, but my next card will be a GF6 or above (incidentally PCI-e too :) ).
It used to be that cards were mainly limited by the memory bandwidth they had, nowadays that's changed to how fast they can run fragment programs.
The GFFX was a really bad design, considering how games have and are going, all of the sites have been saying this since the 5800 came out and benched worse than the 9700 pro that had been out for 6 months. Look at the GeforceFX post-mortem in the video section at anandtech.
Also, Nvidia must have really taken a step backwards to have knocked bump mapping out of the FX series, considering that environment bump mapping has been in cards since the Matrox G400, and embossed bump mapping was basically there since x86 3D cards existed. The lack of pixel shaders in the GeForce FX series surprises me, but considering how awful the reviews were I'm not surprised.
So the star systems are ridiculously close together?
Or else they spend several years in stasis in those cuts between scenes.
I recently got given a Palm V by a friend, having owned and used an SL-5500 for about a year.
.ipk on the Zaurus (using ftp or sftp or even smb if you've installed samba) and install it! no need for Zaurus desktop (if you're using OZ you can just install it from a net based feed). and if you want to read some html, then just copy it over (or surf to it, a Zaurus is about 300% better with wireless internet) and start opera or konq. No need to use plucker or turn it into a damned .pdb (although plucker is brilliant, the Palm screen is wonderful for reading).
After a few hours of using it I suddenly realised why people had been moaning about the Zaurus not having sync support, due to Palm OS being so amazingly limited.
If you want to install something on your Zaurus you just put the
I don't see what your problem with software support is. The Zaurus has a *huge* amount of user ported software, Sharp clearly banked on the community jumping in feet first and that paid off IMHO. My zaurus runs snes9x, xmms, konqueror, uae, all sorts of ported GUI software. And in the console it's even better, nano, irssi, all my favourite gnu tools are there too (admittedly in occasionally annoyingly abbreviated busybox versions).
IMHO the Zaurus does not *need* syncing, if you want your contacts from outlook then just buy a Palm V for $20, and it's so tiny you can take it along with the zaurus!
The Zaurus is, as the writing on the case says (in a somewhat amusing double entendre) a "personal digital tool", it's like a small linux laptop, you don't buy one as an address book, if you want to use it as that then feel free, you can edit your contacts there on the zaurus, the keyboard is perfectly usable, and if it isn't you can purchase an IR keyboard (or even go so far as a CF USB card and a USB keyboard) or VNC in.
It's a handheld computer, not a PDA.
Also, I hear the latest Sharp software versions (like the one shipped with the SL-6000) are much better wrt syncing and PDA stuff.
OZ does support your 860, they count the 760 and 860 as the same machine, what with them being hardware identical apart from the colour of the case and the (irrelevant to the purpose) software.
So, what you're saying is they can't spell?
AMD has stated that 754 is doomed.
No dual-core 754, They'll stop making faster speeds within a year. I think they might keep making 754 semprons, but I haven't checked the roadmap for a while.
.I believe what you're thinking of is 3d mark.
Half life 2 hasn't come out yet...
Of this.
Hey, ask a stupid question ;) or... any question at all.
Children's (usually) amusement at a fair, gala or similar, non-porous inflated structure usually shaped like a castle, constantly kept inflated by a generator at the back.
;).
You jump on it and bounce, have to take your shoes off first
My god teachers are shit, or at least mine were.
We were taught this "fact" in, I think, the first year of secondary school by our science teacher.
Horrible.
You know, I have the feeling the industry *won't* called PCI Express PCI-X, what with both standards being set by the same people
See here.
Also, hopefully, a fair few manufacturers will put some x4 slots on their motherboards as well as x16. And we've seen hints of dual x16 slots too.
ARRGGGHH
Will people *PLEASE* stop calling PCI-Express "PCI-X". PCI Express is completely and utterly different to PCI-X, if you have to abbreviate it call it "PCI-e" or similar.
PCI-e is a completely new bus, it's serial, it has lots of speed grades.
PCI-X is basically faster clocked, 64bit, parallel PCI, at 66mhz and 133mhz (extending up to 266mhz and 533mhz with PCI-X 2.0).
Read about it all here.
And please fail to make the mistake again, I'm fed up of shouting at my monitor, thankyou.Most TV companies have been recording stuff digitally and transferring it to D1, D3 or D5 for a decade. These are digital uncompressed tape formats.
The BBC has been using D3 since about 1993.
BetaSP was always horrific for generation loss, and anyway, what does the source tape have to do with editing in these days of NLE?