The cloud model typically uses lots of inexpensive servers and let software handle the load balancing and storage magic, as opposed to using few expensive name brand servers and SANs..
I am reading that Bitmain is overbidding and taking capacity away from Nvidia. Could this be true? If so Nvidia should pony up more if they want to put more cards in the hands of gamers.
As one who has done a fair bit of mining (20+ gpus) since 2013, I can tell you I have not had a single card fail due to mining. I have cards that have run 24x7 since 2013 and they run perfect. The only issues I have had were with fan bearings on blower style fans.
Many second hand cards used for mining have warranty will transfer to the new owner so if it does fail, no big deal.
i thought the same thing, why would./decode just end after typing that phrase?
it also appears that the laptop isn't on =)
not that I'm saying you can't obtain information (I have a printout of the van eck phreaking files from 15 years ago heh) but this video is pretty hokey. must be european.
you have to admit its prety embarassing for stuff to start going bad less than 2 weeks after it goes live though.
but thats what happens when you buy stuff from china.
Wi-Fi works great in a directional point to point environment. My friend in australia is doing this right now. His work (a school) is ~ 400 meters away and he has a 54meg connection on 802.11G. Actual thoroughput is around 25 Mbit/sec. You can sit there and ping the other side and get 1ms ping times all day long. They also use this for remote backups overnight:) Because you are bridging, all systems on the other end are a member of the same LAN as the main house so they have access to the same services.
My friend is using line of sight and using 6db directional antennas. I'd suggest a Wi-Fi router capable of QoS for your VOIP traffic.
I seriously doubt you can build a PC gaming system for $600 that rivals the PS3's capabilities -- for one it won't have a blu ray player.
$599 alone is worth the cost of the bluray player. The cheapest bluray player you can find for a PC is around $700. It is a no-brainer if you want next generation 1080p home movie viewing. I like to think the PS3's games capabilities are nice added bonus:) The PS3's VPU is a modified GeForce 7900GTX with only 256 MB (512 MB card is going for $450 on the market). Its common practice for console manufacturers to loose money on console sales, sony is loosing $240 per console on the PS3.
you could use the same PC vs Console argument against the xbox360. but look at the xbox 360 -- it came out in december 2005 with triple core cpu not available for PCs. And the graphics chip it uses is nothing short of spectacular - 278.4GB/s memory bandwidth, unified shader, no performance hit for 4xfsaa, eDRAM, z-culling & tiling. it appears the already year-old xenos outperforms the PS3 GPU - more memory bandwidth and twice as many pixel pipes. From what i hear call of duty is much smoother on the xbox 360.
i believe there will be a linux distro for PS3 and it has USB ports for keyboard and mouse.
THe PS3's hard drive is upgradeable and personally I would go for the 20 Gig model and upgrade it yourself. The only thing you are loosing out is the wireless ethernet and memory card reader. I have a long ethernet cable and I have a usb memory card reader.
PS) I am not a console fanboy:) I have a PC and use it for games more than my PS2. It would be nice to see thi
How long until the government mandates installation of their sniffers at every google pop, every isp, every telco. How soon until the NSA in realtime knows that someone is searching google for something terrorist related.
And it doens't matter if we petition our congress to make laws preventing the invasion of privacy, seeing as the president can choose what laws he wants to follow and which ones he wants to break.
The NY Times article is a perfect example of what has happened to many of US!!! The veteran SWG player base who've played since or launch, often with multiple accounts -- were very powerful, wealthy and able characters in game. SWG was the only game I played, even though I own many many games. These were *VERY* happy times for me, making friends in game and me and my brother reliving our childhood. This article serves to inform the public who aren't privy to the game concrete proof that the NGE was a failure -- not Mr. Smedley's and the rest of the SOE goons twisted take on reality.
My request to SOE is to release the original server code to the community and let us do it ourselves. As far as content is concerned, the player base was the content for me. Since my entire guild and brother left after the NGE, the new game just isn't worth it. My reasoning is this - I paid $80 for your game. Now the product is totally different than what is written on the game box. The manual is freaking worthless because the game is so different.
It sounds to me that since EQ2 isn't doing as well as they hoped, SOE just opted for a half-assed remake of SWG instead of SWG 2? Either that or a developer went postal on them in an unusual way.
Well here's a free idea to SOE: Allow players who reached the end game ne allowed to create areas, items, etc. I played on a mud (genocide) and when you reached the highest level a player gets to create their own realm.
I'd be up for playing a NEW mmorpg.... but I haven't seen any come out for a while. I'm not going to play wow because it's already been out over a year. I would like to play in an mmorpg from the start. It's all been done in WOW and that really looses the 'wow' factor for me, not to mention the outdated game technology. It's more enjoyable to be part of the founding community of a cutting edge game like I am/was in SWG, and that's why its hard for us vets to accept reality.
SOE has gone to the drawing board 3 times now. Isn't it quite obvious to you that they are totally inept?
Everytime SOE feels the need to re-invent the wheel they loose subscribers and introduce more bugs instead of fixing the already existing bugs.
What a waste of development hours.
A good friend of mine has gone from EQ -> SWG -> COH -> WOW -> and now he plays EQ II.
If your not bored of it after a year, by that time something new and better will be out. If you stay, your favorite MMORPG slowly becomes a ghost town as your friends leave and people start asking the devs if they can have Dustweed schematics to fill the empty towns with.
Dude where ya been, forced upgrades for PC games in general have been driving the gaming &hardware industry for the last 7 years or so.
Don't think there will be an end to non-online games any time soon. But where the console has 2 joysticks the PC has mainly focussed around a single user experience... so online play is the option for multiplayer.
Hopefully then the SUV will be a thing of the past, and cars will get smaller instead of bigger.
Perhaps machinery and large trucks that need it could go hybrid at least, cutting emissions in half.
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The cloud model typically uses lots of inexpensive servers and let software handle the load balancing and storage magic, as opposed to using few expensive name brand servers and SANs..
I am reading that Bitmain is overbidding and taking capacity away from Nvidia. Could this be true? If so Nvidia should pony up more if they want to put more cards in the hands of gamers.
As one who has done a fair bit of mining (20+ gpus) since 2013, I can tell you I have not had a single card fail due to mining. I have cards that have run 24x7 since 2013 and they run perfect. The only issues I have had were with fan bearings on blower style fans. Many second hand cards used for mining have warranty will transfer to the new owner so if it does fail, no big deal.
It's Nvidia and ATI's shortsightedness that we are in the situation we are in. They should have ramped up production to address demand 8 months ago.
i thought the same thing, why would ./decode just end after typing that phrase?
it also appears that the laptop isn't on =)
not that I'm saying you can't obtain information (I have a printout of the van eck phreaking files from 15 years ago heh) but this video is pretty hokey. must be european.
you have to admit its prety embarassing for stuff to start going bad less than 2 weeks after it goes live though. but thats what happens when you buy stuff from china.
in short your just a anonymous coward lhc fanboi
most of your fixes are here already - visit http://www.xirrus.com/
- voip is already being done successfully over wi-fi. there's plenty of non overlapping channels and multiple phones can run off a single xirrus AP
- very high user density - 20k users supported at interop
- rf management built in
- plays nice with other wireless networks
- 1/4 the power usage of other wi-fi solutions
- fast roaming built in between radios and accses points
wimax is irrelavent. wimax is used for long haul point to point typically. don't expect consumer wimax for wireless lan to become a reality.
Wi-Fi works great in a directional point to point environment. My friend in australia is doing this right now. His work (a school) is ~ 400 meters away and he has a 54meg connection on 802.11G. Actual thoroughput is around 25 Mbit/sec. You can sit there and ping the other side and get 1ms ping times all day long. They also use this for remote backups overnight :) Because you are bridging, all systems on the other end are a member of the same LAN as the main house so they have access to the same services.
My friend is using line of sight and using 6db directional antennas. I'd suggest a Wi-Fi router capable of QoS for your VOIP traffic.
of republican quitters and incompetents!!!! crappiest administration ever! someone should come up with a list of all the incompetents and quitters.
but which came first, the saucer or the egg???
I seriously doubt you can build a PC gaming system for $600 that rivals the PS3's capabilities -- for one it won't have a blu ray player.
:) The PS3's VPU is a modified GeForce 7900GTX with only 256 MB (512 MB card is going for $450 on the market). Its common practice for console manufacturers to loose money on console sales, sony is loosing $240 per console on the PS3.
:) I have a PC and use it for games more than my PS2. It would be nice to see thi
$599 alone is worth the cost of the bluray player. The cheapest bluray player you can find for a PC is around $700. It is a no-brainer if you want next generation 1080p home movie viewing. I like to think the PS3's games capabilities are nice added bonus
you could use the same PC vs Console argument against the xbox360. but look at the xbox 360 -- it came out in december 2005 with triple core cpu not available for PCs. And the graphics chip it uses is nothing short of spectacular - 278.4GB/s memory bandwidth, unified shader, no performance hit for 4xfsaa, eDRAM, z-culling & tiling. it appears the already year-old xenos outperforms the PS3 GPU - more memory bandwidth and twice as many pixel pipes. From what i hear call of duty is much smoother on the xbox 360.
i believe there will be a linux distro for PS3 and it has USB ports for keyboard and mouse.
THe PS3's hard drive is upgradeable and personally I would go for the 20 Gig model and upgrade it yourself. The only thing you are loosing out is the wireless ethernet and memory card reader. I have a long ethernet cable and I have a usb memory card reader.
PS) I am not a console fanboy
World of Whiners?
How long until the government mandates installation of their sniffers at every google pop, every isp, every telco. How soon until the NSA in realtime knows that someone is searching google for something terrorist related. And it doens't matter if we petition our congress to make laws preventing the invasion of privacy, seeing as the president can choose what laws he wants to follow and which ones he wants to break.
The NY Times article is a perfect example of what has happened to many of US!!! The veteran SWG player base who've played since or launch, often with multiple accounts -- were very powerful, wealthy and able characters in game. SWG was the only game I played, even though I own many many games. These were *VERY* happy times for me, making friends in game and me and my brother reliving our childhood. This article serves to inform the public who aren't privy to the game concrete proof that the NGE was a failure -- not Mr. Smedley's and the rest of the SOE goons twisted take on reality.
My request to SOE is to release the original server code to the community and let us do it ourselves. As far as content is concerned, the player base was the content for me. Since my entire guild and brother left after the NGE, the new game just isn't worth it. My reasoning is this - I paid $80 for your game. Now the product is totally different than what is written on the game box. The manual is freaking worthless because the game is so different.
It sounds to me that since EQ2 isn't doing as well as they hoped, SOE just opted for a half-assed remake of SWG instead of SWG 2? Either that or a developer went postal on them in an unusual way.
Well here's a free idea to SOE: Allow players who reached the end game ne allowed to create areas, items, etc. I played on a mud (genocide) and when you reached the highest level a player gets to create their own realm.
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Look how Sony Online Entertainment drove Star Wars Galaxies into the ground. Learn from their mistakes!!!
I'd be up for playing a NEW mmorpg.... but I haven't seen any come out for a while. I'm not going to play wow because it's already been out over a year. I would like to play in an mmorpg from the start. It's all been done in WOW and that really looses the 'wow' factor for me, not to mention the outdated game technology. It's more enjoyable to be part of the founding community of a cutting edge game like I am/was in SWG, and that's why its hard for us vets to accept reality.
car wreck is not a good analogy, more like a huge train wreck
SOE has gone to the drawing board 3 times now. Isn't it quite obvious to you that they are totally inept? Everytime SOE feels the need to re-invent the wheel they loose subscribers and introduce more bugs instead of fixing the already existing bugs. What a waste of development hours.
I would venture to say somewhere between 25-50% of accounts will cancel. This is my reasoning:
Most vets were die hard powergamers like myself. I had 5 accounts and after the NGE I will only have 1.
Most characters were hybrid (Crafter or merchant class with some Combat class). Since you only can have one prof that is really turning people off.
Most people with multiple accounts are canceling down to 1 single account to see if they like the NGE
It's quite obvious that most vet players hate the NGE, it really looks like a great game is going down the tubes due to this impulsive NGE.
on a more subdued note,
it's safe to assume then, that this russion cosmonaut has easily broken the distance record for farthest ejaculation
These games have about a 1 year shelf life IMHO.
A good friend of mine has gone from EQ -> SWG -> COH -> WOW -> and now he plays EQ II.
If your not bored of it after a year, by that time something new and better will be out. If you stay, your favorite MMORPG slowly becomes a ghost town as your friends leave and people start asking the devs if they can have Dustweed schematics to fill the empty towns with.
Dude where ya been, forced upgrades for PC games in general have been driving the gaming &hardware industry for the last 7 years or so. Don't think there will be an end to non-online games any time soon. But where the console has 2 joysticks the PC has mainly focussed around a single user experience... so online play is the option for multiplayer.
Yeah I wish million monkey wrote the script to that, it would of ben ten times better!
Hopefully then the SUV will be a thing of the past, and cars will get smaller instead of bigger. Perhaps machinery and large trucks that need it could go hybrid at least, cutting emissions in half.