My video card on this Dell really should be called an ATI Play@Work 98 hahaha just kidding i hope no one is monitoring my web browsing activity from the home office:)
I've found out over time that the reason computer equipment crashes in general is lack of maintenance. Would you drive a car without changing it's oil for 5 years straight? Then why should a computer be any different. It's much more complex than a toaster, and yet the average toaster doesn't last much longer than a CPU. I think it's time people start treating things as they do with themselves. Take care of it/them.
Sure, theres the occasional hardware malfunction, but of all the malfunctions I've seen at home are either the result of my own damn manipulations (Sorry, can't help to tweak here and there) or that the component's life expectancy had ended. How many years do you think you can run on 66MHz First Gen SD-RAM anyway? I'm not defending faulty hardware manufacturers, but I've RMAed a faulty memory or processor once or twice knowingly that it was *my* fault. I'm getting offtopic here, so in conclusion let's just say that Star Trek like computer systems are far from being tommorow's technology, some people don't even have *1* computer let alone a completely dependant second backup computer!
I just want my characters to roll critical strikes and my monsters to roll critical failures once in a while. I'd cut and paste one of the fights i've had in NWN (but don't have one right now). You'd be amazed how shitty random generation is. I went 5 minutes without scoring a hit once, was pathetic.
VIA motherboards are mixed results for me. They proove very stable but i get noise when i burn something in the CD-R and play music meanwhile. When i say noise i mean put your TV to channel 99999 and enjoy at volume MAX.
How the hell is downclocking going to protect you from someone sending 'a specific set of operations in a specific sequence with specific data' to the processor? Spindoctors, i choose you!
I'm not one normally to argue with "advancement" such has putting Linux on a PS2 or even Linux on an XBox but this goes beyond the completely useless. Have you heard of "Chindogu"? (sp?) It belongs there.
An entry level CD player car Radio costs less than an XBox 2 to 3 times over (box only). I don't even count the accessories. Plus, on a more humorous note, putting an XBox in your car would drive the fuel efficiency way down, because of all the added weight to drive it around hahaha.
Ok, the land of the free saying we have "too many" liberties? Since when did you become our tutor? Will you come in Canada and topple our regime too? I'm not a big pot fan (never used, never will) but i don't see it being any more dangerous than alcool. Keep your selective freedom to yourselves.
Companies do not make efforts, they are *coherced* to do the environment good. THATS the difference. If the government didn't regulate the environment, businesses would throw their toxic matters directly on your lawn. And they wouldn't care.
Does the distro support passive CPU cooling? Might be a problem. I use CPUIdle because windows sucks at this so much, does Linux have something similar for Athlons? I know the HLT instruction isn't enough.
Of course, there is still the problem if youre running 100% CPU time always...
Buy a BOX CPU (Comes with integrated cooler). If CPU is defective, return it with the original fan and voila, no questions asked. Don't forget to remove all materials from the CPU, the perfect crime.
Are you a gamer? It might help since it's mostly based around that. If i made my little sister read slashdot, she'd find this very boring. Does that make it boring? Embrace difference chief.
You do know that boycotting something already bought is as stupid as throwing french wine down the drain when it's in your basement? It has absolutely *no* impact.
Whatever happens, even if the Opteron was 100% full backwards compatible and 2x faster than Itanium, nobody in the server segment or even the high end workstation segment will buy an Opteron because they think that AMD makes unstable cheap processors targetted at the nerdy overclocking enthusiast.
I personnally don't agree, but my opinion isn't worth jack inside the corporation and I already know the system's administrator has a "Intel Inside" sticker on his forehead, even if the chips cost 2x as much. They say they pay for "quality". Psssh, what a load of bull.
As much as i hate bursting someone's bubble, a 320 pound male and a 400 pound female with no breasts are NOT accurate depictions of life! They are accurate depictions of *americans* (Including all america). A normal human being is almost exactly always as the boxes indicate. Maybe there are slight exagerations (Like Tomb Raider breasts), but having a DD cup is not that rare. It's not like they are ZZZs. Get over your complex of making everything "normalized". Do you want a character in a FPS that's in a wheelchair too?
Anyway, most games have the option to CUSTOMIZE your character. You CAN have a 300 pound man/woman if you like! Please stop with the gender thing, women drive cars too, is that sexist? No? Are there special models for women? No? Pink cars, give me a break.
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Our initial assessment - as usual - is that we will slaughter them all. The ATI cards are commiting suicide at the gates of our plants as we speak.
My video card on this Dell really should be called an ATI Play@Work 98 hahaha just kidding i hope no one is monitoring my web browsing activity from the home office :)
You claim free speech and ask people to shut the hell up? You hypocritical Linux fanboy. Shame on you.
Why did they turn down that? Seems like a good deal to me, Linux or no Linux in the equation.
I've found out over time that the reason computer equipment crashes in general is lack of maintenance. Would you drive a car without changing it's oil for 5 years straight? Then why should a computer be any different. It's much more complex than a toaster, and yet the average toaster doesn't last much longer than a CPU. I think it's time people start treating things as they do with themselves. Take care of it/them.
Sure, theres the occasional hardware malfunction, but of all the malfunctions I've seen at home are either the result of my own damn manipulations (Sorry, can't help to tweak here and there) or that the component's life expectancy had ended. How many years do you think you can run on 66MHz First Gen SD-RAM anyway? I'm not defending faulty hardware manufacturers, but I've RMAed a faulty memory or processor once or twice knowingly that it was *my* fault. I'm getting offtopic here, so in conclusion let's just say that Star Trek like computer systems are far from being tommorow's technology, some people don't even have *1* computer let alone a completely dependant second backup computer!
You're laughing, but I've had calculators turn "ERROR 3" when doing simple things. Nothing's perfect.
I just want my characters to roll critical strikes and my monsters to roll critical failures once in a while. I'd cut and paste one of the fights i've had in NWN (but don't have one right now). You'd be amazed how shitty random generation is. I went 5 minutes without scoring a hit once, was pathetic.
VIA motherboards are mixed results for me. They proove very stable but i get noise when i burn something in the CD-R and play music meanwhile. When i say noise i mean put your TV to channel 99999 and enjoy at volume MAX.
And all this from an anonymous coward. That's grand.
Not everyone thinks success is being burnt out at 50 because you worked 60 hours per week. I like my 20% occupation time job just fine.
Welcome to America, where appearances are much more important than anything else. Productivity my ass.
[which is the RIGHT way to spell it, by the way]
Sieg Heil mein Komandant! Xbox is it from now on!
How the hell is downclocking going to protect you from someone sending 'a specific set of operations in a specific sequence with specific data' to the processor? Spindoctors, i choose you!
I'm not one normally to argue with "advancement" such has putting Linux on a PS2 or even Linux on an XBox but this goes beyond the completely useless. Have you heard of "Chindogu"? (sp?) It belongs there.
An entry level CD player car Radio costs less than an XBox 2 to 3 times over (box only). I don't even count the accessories. Plus, on a more humorous note, putting an XBox in your car would drive the fuel efficiency way down, because of all the added weight to drive it around hahaha.
Ok, the land of the free saying we have "too many" liberties? Since when did you become our tutor? Will you come in Canada and topple our regime too? I'm not a big pot fan (never used, never will) but i don't see it being any more dangerous than alcool. Keep your selective freedom to yourselves.
Companies do not make efforts, they are *coherced* to do the environment good. THATS the difference. If the government didn't regulate the environment, businesses would throw their toxic matters directly on your lawn. And they wouldn't care.
"May I remind you that the only reason the environment is protected today is because of the efforts of both large and small corporations?"
Nope, the government does that.
Does the distro support passive CPU cooling? Might be a problem. I use CPUIdle because windows sucks at this so much, does Linux have something similar for Athlons? I know the HLT instruction isn't enough.
Of course, there is still the problem if youre running 100% CPU time always...
Buy a BOX CPU (Comes with integrated cooler). If CPU is defective, return it with the original fan and voila, no questions asked. Don't forget to remove all materials from the CPU, the perfect crime.
Are you a gamer? It might help since it's mostly based around that. If i made my little sister read slashdot, she'd find this very boring. Does that make it boring? Embrace difference chief.
You do know that boycotting something already bought is as stupid as throwing french wine down the drain when it's in your basement? It has absolutely *no* impact.
Whatever happens, even if the Opteron was 100% full backwards compatible and 2x faster than Itanium, nobody in the server segment or even the high end workstation segment will buy an Opteron because they think that AMD makes unstable cheap processors targetted at the nerdy overclocking enthusiast.
I personnally don't agree, but my opinion isn't worth jack inside the corporation and I already know the system's administrator has a "Intel Inside" sticker on his forehead, even if the chips cost 2x as much. They say they pay for "quality". Psssh, what a load of bull.
As much as i hate bursting someone's bubble, a 320 pound male and a 400 pound female with no breasts are NOT accurate depictions of life! They are accurate depictions of *americans* (Including all america). A normal human being is almost exactly always as the boxes indicate. Maybe there are slight exagerations (Like Tomb Raider breasts), but having a DD cup is not that rare. It's not like they are ZZZs. Get over your complex of making everything "normalized". Do you want a character in a FPS that's in a wheelchair too?
Anyway, most games have the option to CUSTOMIZE your character. You CAN have a 300 pound man/woman if you like! Please stop with the gender thing, women drive cars too, is that sexist? No? Are there special models for women? No? Pink cars, give me a break.
Put your penis back in your pants and step outside the vehicle please. No seriously, why don't you post your system specs while you're at it.
Er... Palladium is not an OS, unless they made a change recently to their roadmap.