Onboard audio I don't really care for, but a nice NIC and an onboard SATA controller are key to grabbing my purchase. I've got an ASUS P4P800 and it has been quite good to me. By the way, what kind of security do you look for in a motherboard? Aside from the (brand new) onboard firewall, I can't think of any integrated security features except for the bios password.
Yesterday I received 144 pieces of Spam. Taking into account that there are 1440 minutes in every day, I get a piece of spam every 10 minutes.
My current total is 18,212 pieces since 11/19/2002. 8,000 of which arrived just since the begining of January. If it wasn't for SpamBayes, I probably would have abandoned email altogether by now. These guys are rubish.
Wait a sec, are you telling me that my television's electron gun isn't absolutly perfect.
There is a reason most nice televisions have convergence controls, because pefecting electron streams is damn hard. A stream of electrons a half a milimeter off target doesn't bother the eyes too much while watching movies, but it won't do you any good when you're trying to write data.
Nothing is wrong with registering, but I know that I don't do it because I don't want it to become commonplace. What if every news site on the internet started requiring free registration to view their content? What if other sites started requring registration. What if I had to register at yahoo just to check ticket times or at weather.com just to check if it was going to rain tonight? If the NYT got really positive feedback about its registration system, then other sites might follow suit.
I live in Sacramento. I want to go to LA. Southwest can have me there for $50 (if I buy way in advance) in 45 minutes. Amtrack takes 9 hours with 3 connections! Heck, I can drive it in less then 6.
Is underutilization the problem with our rail system? Hell no. The problem with our rail system is that it isn't designed to compete with air travel. Incidently, the plans for a California high speed rail system have been put on indefinite hold by the govonator.
Slightly offtopic, but still kind of relevant. If I purchased and modded an Xbox, are there any media players available that could access a WindowsXP network and stream video files to the console for play or would I have to copy them to the console prior?
If you click the first link and snoop around a bit, you can find information and pictures of the server google was running on in '98.
Ahem, and I quote
These are both 300 MHz Dual Pentium II Servers with 512MB of RAM. There are 9 9G drives between the two machines. The main search used to run on them. These were donated by Intel.
Sure, a phone that plays video games is a nice idea, but it probably doesn't work all that well in practice. I've got a flip phone that I've had for just about a year. I've dropped it, scratched it, and subjected it to all manner of abuse. It sits in my pocket and gets slammed into walls and sat on. I don't carry my GBA everywhere because I don't need it everywhere.
In all honestly if I'm going to carry around an expensive phone with extra features, I'd rather have a phone with a really kick-ass internet browser. I'd love to be able to look stuff up when I'm on the go without having to screw around with mobile sites. WAP doesn't do anything for me.
Take a look at http://a.scarywater.net/. They distribtute anime torrents and do so quite successfully with torrets involving thousands of peers. When a new Naruto episode comes out you can often see over 10,000 peers on a single torrent. Of course your computer won't connect to any more then 30 to 50, but the whole point is that everyone is somehow connected to everybody else and the files get around.
Yea, avoid codec packs at all cost. I do lots of encoding so I downloaded the bare Divx Codec, the Xvid codec, the LAME MP3 codec, and the sourceforge AC3 codec. You shouldn't need any more then that and if you find the files indiviually you don't have to worry about nasty codec packs.
Great advice. I used WindowsXP exclusively.(mainly do to the fact that I'm too poor to build a second box for linux learning) The blaster virus didn't even touch me because I had installed the patch fixing the exploit it used a month before it came out. If you're going to use windows (gaming... what else) then you need to at least learn to check windows update religiously.
And because the topic of SPAM and virus spam came up, I'd like to direct outlook users to SpamBayes I get on average about 130 pieces of spam per day and only about one message a week gets through to my inbox. Same for the virus stuff (which any good AV proggie should catch)
I remember this article too. Do you happen to remember the part where they realized that florinert has a rather high solidifying temperature? As I recall, the liquid nitrogen turned the heniously expensive florinert into florinert gel that ended the experiment.
Troll? Honestly guys.... a video card (generally speaking) needs to be fast on its own. I don't think you CAN piggyback a whole bunch of video cards to gain such speed improvements
This statement is absolutly correct. For gaming, the video card is of incredible importance. In most modern games it is the limiting factor, not the CPU. You'd see much more of a performance increase overclocking your video card by 30% then your CPU by 30%.
Yesterday I had some OGG files that I wanted to convert into MP3s to send to an unenlightened friend, and I figured that finding a freeware OGG to WAV decoder program would be a piece of cake.
A quick search on google revealed nothing but costly shareware trash. It took me way longer then it shoudl have, and OGG is open source!
Well, ePSX was open source and arguably the best PS1 emulator. The only ones I can think of off hand are bleem and VGS, which were both commercial. Initially though, VGS was quite a bit better then ePSX.
They're claiming that it isn't even legal to rip the data off of the cartridge yourself. Honestly I don't see why Nintento is so uppity about the whole thing. I don't want to play GBA games on my 12 pound laptop or (heaven forbid) on my stationary desktop. These PC emulators are not substitutes for the real deal. Last month I played a japanese rom with an english language patch. The game never came out in the U.S and was never translated officially. I own an SP and a ton of games, so why are you bothering me Nintendo?
At the time of this posting I'm figuring out 1,000,000!. Its taking quite a while even on my 3Ghz P4. Now I know why my Ti calculator used to choke when I asked it to do crazy math.
Response times are excellent? For a moment I thought that you were absolutly high untill I realized you were talking about the tech support responses.
1and1 has the slowest admin control pannel this side of the world. I just spent 5 minutes just getting to my traffic statistics for today.
I honestly really despise this trait. The analog sticks feel like a very hollow click and are quite difficult to push down on and get to respond with any degree of consistancy. Any game that makes me push down on them bugs the hell out of me. But Anyway, buttons aren't always bad. I played an old Falcon game a while back on my computer that used the whole damn keyboard. Each button had some specific (and very rarely used) function. I had fun with it. Look at that Xbox game with the massive funky control setup. Thats the most fun I've ever had sitting in a video game store playing a demo model.
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Onboard audio I don't really care for, but a nice NIC and an onboard SATA controller are key to grabbing my purchase. I've got an ASUS P4P800 and it has been quite good to me. By the way, what kind of security do you look for in a motherboard? Aside from the (brand new) onboard firewall, I can't think of any integrated security features except for the bios password.
Yesterday I received 144 pieces of Spam. Taking into account that there are 1440 minutes in every day, I get a piece of spam every 10 minutes.
My current total is 18,212 pieces since 11/19/2002. 8,000 of which arrived just since the begining of January. If it wasn't for SpamBayes, I probably would have abandoned email altogether by now. These guys are rubish.
Wait a sec, are you telling me that my television's electron gun isn't absolutly perfect.
There is a reason most nice televisions have convergence controls, because pefecting electron streams is damn hard. A stream of electrons a half a milimeter off target doesn't bother the eyes too much while watching movies, but it won't do you any good when you're trying to write data.
Nothing is wrong with registering, but I know that I don't do it because I don't want it to become commonplace. What if every news site on the internet started requiring free registration to view their content? What if other sites started requring registration. What if I had to register at yahoo just to check ticket times or at weather.com just to check if it was going to rain tonight? If the NYT got really positive feedback about its registration system, then other sites might follow suit.
No Karma bonus, offtopic.
Sigh...
I live in Sacramento. I want to go to LA. Southwest can have me there for $50 (if I buy way in advance) in 45 minutes. Amtrack takes 9 hours with 3 connections! Heck, I can drive it in less then 6.
Is underutilization the problem with our rail system? Hell no. The problem with our rail system is that it isn't designed to compete with air travel. Incidently, the plans for a California high speed rail system have been put on indefinite hold by the govonator.
Slightly offtopic, but still kind of relevant. If I purchased and modded an Xbox, are there any media players available that could access a WindowsXP network and stream video files to the console for play or would I have to copy them to the console prior?
If you click the first link and snoop around a bit, you can find information and pictures of the server google was running on in '98. Ahem, and I quote
These are both 300 MHz Dual Pentium II Servers with 512MB of RAM. There are 9 9G drives between the two machines. The main search used to run on them. These were donated by Intel.
Sure, a phone that plays video games is a nice idea, but it probably doesn't work all that well in practice. I've got a flip phone that I've had for just about a year. I've dropped it, scratched it, and subjected it to all manner of abuse. It sits in my pocket and gets slammed into walls and sat on. I don't carry my GBA everywhere because I don't need it everywhere.
In all honestly if I'm going to carry around an expensive phone with extra features, I'd rather have a phone with a really kick-ass internet browser. I'd love to be able to look stuff up when I'm on the go without having to screw around with mobile sites. WAP doesn't do anything for me.
Take a look at http://a.scarywater.net/. They distribtute anime torrents and do so quite successfully with torrets involving thousands of peers. When a new Naruto episode comes out you can often see over 10,000 peers on a single torrent. Of course your computer won't connect to any more then 30 to 50, but the whole point is that everyone is somehow connected to everybody else and the files get around.
Yea, avoid codec packs at all cost. I do lots of encoding so I downloaded the bare Divx Codec, the Xvid codec, the LAME MP3 codec, and the sourceforge AC3 codec. You shouldn't need any more then that and if you find the files indiviually you don't have to worry about nasty codec packs.
Great advice. I used WindowsXP exclusively.(mainly do to the fact that I'm too poor to build a second box for linux learning)
The blaster virus didn't even touch me because I had installed the patch fixing the exploit it used a month before it came out. If you're going to use windows (gaming... what else) then you need to at least learn to check windows update religiously.
And because the topic of SPAM and virus spam came up, I'd like to direct outlook users to SpamBayes I get on average about 130 pieces of spam per day and only about one message a week gets through to my inbox. Same for the virus stuff (which any good AV proggie should catch)
I remember this article too. Do you happen to remember the part where they realized that florinert has a rather high solidifying temperature? As I recall, the liquid nitrogen turned the heniously expensive florinert into florinert gel that ended the experiment.
Troll? Honestly guys....
a video card (generally speaking) needs to be fast on its own. I don't think you CAN piggyback a whole bunch of video cards to gain such speed improvements
This statement is absolutly correct. For gaming, the video card is of incredible importance. In most modern games it is the limiting factor, not the CPU. You'd see much more of a performance increase overclocking your video card by 30% then your CPU by 30%.
dBpowerAMP is what I actually ended up locating and using, though the other suggestions were quite good. I really hadn't thought of just using Winamp.
Yesterday I had some OGG files that I wanted to convert into MP3s to send to an unenlightened friend, and I figured that finding a freeware OGG to WAV decoder program would be a piece of cake. A quick search on google revealed nothing but costly shareware trash. It took me way longer then it shoudl have, and OGG is open source!
Copyright infrindgment? By they way, I've got another IP address to add to that list, Here goes:
Naffer
127.0.0.1
Flamebait? Honestly guys, give the massive negative moderation a break. The MPAA gives money to politicians. Here's an old PCworld Article.
Well, ePSX was open source and arguably the best PS1 emulator. The only ones I can think of off hand are bleem and VGS, which were both commercial. Initially though, VGS was quite a bit better then ePSX.
Actually, I'm pretty sure it has a PS1 on a chip. No real emulation there.
They're claiming that it isn't even legal to rip the data off of the cartridge yourself. Honestly I don't see why Nintento is so uppity about the whole thing. I don't want to play GBA games on my 12 pound laptop or (heaven forbid) on my stationary desktop. These PC emulators are not substitutes for the real deal. Last month I played a japanese rom with an english language patch. The game never came out in the U.S and was never translated officially. I own an SP and a ton of games, so why are you bothering me Nintendo?
At the time of this posting I'm figuring out 1,000,000!. Its taking quite a while even on my 3Ghz P4. Now I know why my Ti calculator used to choke when I asked it to do crazy math.
I could kiss you for that post.
Response times are excellent? For a moment I thought that you were absolutly high untill I realized you were talking about the tech support responses. 1and1 has the slowest admin control pannel this side of the world. I just spent 5 minutes just getting to my traffic statistics for today.
Hell, THE JOYSTICKS ARE BUTTONS TOO.
I honestly really despise this trait. The analog sticks feel like a very hollow click and are quite difficult to push down on and get to respond with any degree of consistancy. Any game that makes me push down on them bugs the hell out of me.
But Anyway, buttons aren't always bad. I played an old Falcon game a while back on my computer that used the whole damn keyboard. Each button had some specific (and very rarely used) function. I had fun with it. Look at that Xbox game with the massive funky control setup. Thats the most fun I've ever had sitting in a video game store playing a demo model.