Actually Reagan and Bush Sr. pushed space station Freedom and it was very close to being ready to launch when Clinton came into office and trashed it in favor of the ISS, and I do mean trashed. I had a Prof. in college who's life's work was Freedom and he told us that they literally were throwing out Freedom and starting over from scratch. We would of had a completed station long before now if not for Clinton's desire to make sure that it was an international space station and not a US one.
Have you ever heard of velcro? It was developed speciically for the space program. Thre are a lot of tech that was derived directly for the needs of the space program that are now very common. This is just one example.
but they sure can help / kill the results when your measuring the FPS in openGL.
I'm running a K6-2/533 w. 32mb geforce2 and it ran QIII and RTCW. but their's didn't. hmm..
Alot of the benchmarks have the bottom 4 or 5 at zero, ie quake III and RTCW. What specifically got my attention was the K6-2+ 500. This is almost exactly what I'm running (don't laugh) and I've played both of these games on it quite well. They may not be at max graphics settings, but they look pretty good to me.
and yes I am planning on upgrading, but I'm waiting on the nforce 4 mb'sso I won't have to upgrade the next time I want a new graphics card.
Remember, it is much easier to send up our nuclear waste and shoot it into the Sun. Nobody is doing that now, simply because it is too risky and too damn expensive.
Also, It would create an sun powered super villian that would beat up on Superman
for about a month now I've been getting messages from my ISP that I was sent a virus... they deleted it, etc. The best part is that the most of the from addreses are obviously spammers. Hmm, Could this be a new trend?
Not that it bothers me, even if something get's through I use AntiVir, Kerio, and Mozzila.
It is interesting to see the Voyagers and Pioneer spacecraft on there. It is a fascinating subject for me, I believe that our technology will advance at sufficient speed that we will actually catch up with these craft with some future technology, and the issue will come up as to whether we bring them back to Earth as museum pieces or leave them on their course with special protection orders on them.
it wouldn't matter, The Klingon's would still use it for target practice
of course this implies that you trust the proxies to be truely ananymous and that the powers that be can't track you though them with enough effort and resources. Overall the old rule still applies "never hack from your house, especially across state lines"
you could always go to a public computer to send and read the mail, ie: local library (preferably a different one each time). I could go into a more detailed way to do this, but I wouldn't want to be liable for anything.
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ZipZoomFlyhas these for$236 w/ free 2nd day air shipping.
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You have to keep in mind that seeing 100,000 enemies battling just won't look real no matter what you do, because you've never really seen 100,000 battling orcs up close like that.
Personally I've never "really" seen one battling orc, upclose or otherwise
One nice thing about Nvidia's driver upgrades over the years is that each release has improved the performance of damn near every card they make.
Except for the Gforce2 MX200. I have one of those and loved it, until november 2002 when I installed their current driver. Thing wouldn't get past the windows startup screen half the time, and would LOCK UP while RTCW was playing the intro, which was why I loaded the drivers in the first place. After trying to update every other driver on the system and not getting any better results (and not having the sense to write down the version of driver i was runnig sucesfully)I installed the driver that came with it, to get it working. Performance was down a bit, but at least the thing worked again.
It's called G4, TV for gamers. Arena is the main show that has this, 3 rounds of team play, on three different games. Usually, it's MW4 Dark knight, UT2003, and then lagers choice. I thought everyone had this on their digital cable.
Well, If you had actually watched the mini series and paid attention, you would have noticed them mentioning the destruction of other Battlestars at one time I think it was something like 1/4 of them were left, that might have been the fleet though, so don't falme on which it was. The Galactica was the only one that didn't have networked computers, that was a major point of the first half.
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Actually Reagan and Bush Sr. pushed space station Freedom and it was very close to being ready to launch when Clinton came into office and trashed it in favor of the ISS, and I do mean trashed. I had a Prof. in college who's life's work was Freedom and he told us that they literally were throwing out Freedom and starting over from scratch. We would of had a completed station long before now if not for Clinton's desire to make sure that it was an international space station and not a US one.
Have you ever heard of velcro? It was developed speciically for the space program. Thre are a lot of tech that was derived directly for the needs of the space program that are now very common. This is just one example.
thanks for the info, I had been checking newegg and they were out as of a few days ago.
but they sure can help / kill the results when your measuring the FPS in openGL. I'm running a K6-2/533 w. 32mb geforce2 and it ran QIII and RTCW. but their's didn't. hmm..
Alot of the benchmarks have the bottom 4 or 5 at zero, ie quake III and RTCW. What specifically got my attention was the K6-2+ 500. This is almost exactly what I'm running (don't laugh) and I've played both of these games on it quite well. They may not be at max graphics settings, but they look pretty good to me. and yes I am planning on upgrading, but I'm waiting on the nforce 4 mb'sso I won't have to upgrade the next time I want a new graphics card.
Remember, it is much easier to send up our nuclear waste and shoot it into the Sun. Nobody is doing that now, simply because it is too risky and too damn expensive.
Also, It would create an sun powered super villian that would beat up on Superman
Not that it bothers me, even if something get's through I use AntiVir, Kerio, and Mozzila.
who said anyting about M$? ?? I was just making a joke by taking one sentence out of context
I've got a 120MB HD that still works.
So your saying I can get enough for it on Ebay to at least pay the fees?Is it's about DAMN time.
so, do they have any pictures of the Spirit rover, in those 3d pics?
It is interesting to see the Voyagers and Pioneer spacecraft on there. It is a fascinating subject for me, I believe that our technology will advance at sufficient speed that we will actually catch up with these craft with some future technology, and the issue will come up as to whether we bring them back to Earth as museum pieces or leave them on their course with special protection orders on them.
it wouldn't matter, The Klingon's would still use it for target practice
What's the point?
of course this implies that you trust the proxies to be truely ananymous and that the powers that be can't track you though them with enough effort and resources. Overall the old rule still applies "never hack from your house, especially across state lines"
you could always go to a public computer to send and read the mail, ie: local library (preferably a different one each time). I could go into a more detailed way to do this, but I wouldn't want to be liable for anything.
that would be a cave troll
ZipZoomFlyhas these for$236 w/ free 2nd day air shipping.
Personally I've never "really" seen one battling orc, upclose or otherwise
Except for the Gforce2 MX200. I have one of those and loved it, until november 2002 when I installed their current driver. Thing wouldn't get past the windows startup screen half the time, and would LOCK UP while RTCW was playing the intro, which was why I loaded the drivers in the first place. After trying to update every other driver on the system and not getting any better results (and not having the sense to write down the version of driver i was runnig sucesfully)I installed the driver that came with it, to get it working. Performance was down a bit, but at least the thing worked again.
http://cds301.bit-drive.ne.jp/shp/02-27-QR103/
http://cds301.bit-drive.ne.jp/shp/02-27-QR102/ http://cds301.bit-drive.ne.jp/shp/02-27-QR101/ http://x-dogs.co.uk/QRIO/QRIO.wmv http://x-dogs.co.uk/QRIO/QRIO2.wmvThese take a minute to start.
qrio_1.avi qrio_2.avi qrio_3.avi qrio_4.avi qrio_5.avi qrio_6.aviThey have one.
It's called G4, TV for gamers. Arena is the main show that has this, 3 rounds of team play, on three different games. Usually, it's MW4 Dark knight, UT2003, and then lagers choice. I thought everyone had this on their digital cable.I could even see a Moore revision of "Galactica 1980".
God I hope not, That was horribleWell, If you had actually watched the mini series and paid attention, you would have noticed them mentioning the destruction of other Battlestars at one time I think it was something like 1/4 of them were left, that might have been the fleet though, so don't falme on which it was. The Galactica was the only one that didn't have networked computers, that was a major point of the first half.
2400 Baud, I used to get in trouble for hogging the phone line on long DL's.
Mom:"get off the modem, I need to call your grandmother"
Me: "I'm downloading, just another ten minutes and it'll be done"
Mom:"well hurry up, you know your not supposed to tie up the phone line all day"
Me:(silently to self) "like your fixing to do?"
Wildcat BBS was probably my favorite