so we'll see you for more hands-on with final, cased hardware (and presumably a final controller) in surely not much longer than a couple of months' time.
i'm wondering if they got the huge desktop tower that "Josh" guy got at his workplace. or ex-workplace;)
even tho it's been really really high on the amazon best seller list, it's only sold 500,000 (as of last september)... less than what i'd expect for being as "high" on the amazon list for as long as it has been...
even Tom's, which some geeks claim leans towards Intel, brought a smile to my face in their description of AMD and how well they deal with heat...
November 2004 saw AMD move into the 90 nm age, nine months after Intel did. AMD unveiled a new and very impressive CPU, codenamed Winchester (D0), which was only available in the low-cost market segment. As such, the core made its way into the Athlon 64 3000+, 3200+ and 3500+ models. The technology it was based on was anything but low-cost, though: we would have loved to see the looks on the faces of Intel's engineers when they measured the power consumption of AMD's 90nm CPUs and realized that even under full load, this unimposing CPU draws a mere 31.4 W. This means AMD was able to reduce the power consumption by about 44% clock for clock. Further measurements taken on a specially-modified motherboard in our Munich lab showed an idle power consumption of only 11.1 W.
But the best was yet to come. When the Cool & Quiet feature was activated and the frequency dropped to 800 MHz, the CPU contented itself with incredible 3.2 W. The Winchester was followed by the Venice stepping, which added SSE3 support to the Athlon 64 and lowered the power consumption even further.
source "tom's 'the mother of all cpu charts' part 2" nov 2005
they also made me happy when i saw they benchmarked video encoding with XviD:)
the only problem is that although some of his intentions are good (not all of them, however...they seem a bit censory/quashing of free "speech"/expression/art/etc), he is very (electronically) vocal, and rather than countering with even just mindboggling legalese, he repostes usually with snide responses or juvenile insults rather than something half intellectual. some of the responses border on the nonsensical timecube author's responses and ramblings.
Blu-ray: Dell, Hewlett Packard, Hitachi, LG Electronics, Panasonic,Philips, Pioneer, Samsung Electronics, Sharp, and Sony (picking and choosing of what are assumably on the hardware end)
HD-DVD: Toshiba, NEC, Sanyo, Microsoft, and Intel
so yeah, Blu-Ray isn't something that was birthed by ONLY Sony.
from what it looks like, both are becoming as locked down as the other. studios are NOT planning on using/allowing the use of the 1 generation copy flag, from what it sounds like, so they'll pretty much be identical. so it seems
as stupid as Sony's behavior has been, and as annoying as their proprietary equipment is, i still (unless they REALLY screw up and break the WORLD with another DRM) plan on buying a PS3. i want Blu-Ray. and i want to be able to play PS2 games (there are 3 Xbox180 games i'd buy a 360 for. there are over 12 PS2 games i'd buy a PS3 for).
yeah, the dates coincide right around the japanese launch of the PS2 and one last one predating the US PS2 launch by a month. seems like they were making a plan-B to fall back upon if sales sucked wind.
here's a bit of what i posted to mozillazine:
http://s91855708.onlinehome.us/temp/FirefoxSetup-0.8.exe.torrent
couldn't figure out how to get ahold of webmasters within a few seconds, so decided to come here... (could someone contact them?..if at least to have them verify the CRC-32/MD5 of the official EXEs for the paranoid)
MD5 : D4EACCE1814AE16660E499AA862309F9
CRC-32 : 88247ED4
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so we'll see you for more hands-on with final, cased hardware (and presumably a final controller) in surely not much longer than a couple of months' time.
;)
i'm wondering if they got the huge desktop tower that "Josh" guy got at his workplace. or ex-workplace
i hope this wasn't one of the games one of my IRC friends was working on... paco? you behind this disastor? X)
for reasons of academic research (heh, sort of) do you have a source for this quote?
Companies promised that when CDs became popular, the price would drop sharply. But it never did.
regarding cutting so much Inara out of Serenity: "i do plan to make it up to [Morena] at some point..."
even tho it's been really really high on the amazon best seller list, it's only sold 500,000 (as of last september)... less than what i'd expect for being as "high" on the amazon list for as long as it has been...
even Tom's, which some geeks claim leans towards Intel, brought a smile to my face in their description of AMD and how well they deal with heat...
:)
November 2004 saw AMD move into the 90 nm age, nine months after Intel did. AMD unveiled a new and very impressive CPU, codenamed Winchester (D0), which was only available in the low-cost market segment. As such, the core made its way into the Athlon 64 3000+, 3200+ and 3500+ models. The technology it was based on was anything but low-cost, though: we would have loved to see the looks on the faces of Intel's engineers when they measured the power consumption of AMD's 90nm CPUs and realized that even under full load, this unimposing CPU draws a mere 31.4 W. This means AMD was able to reduce the power consumption by about 44% clock for clock. Further measurements taken on a specially-modified motherboard in our Munich lab showed an idle power consumption of only 11.1 W.
But the best was yet to come. When the Cool & Quiet feature was activated and the frequency dropped to 800 MHz, the CPU contented itself with incredible 3.2 W. The Winchester was followed by the Venice stepping, which added SSE3 support to the Athlon 64 and lowered the power consumption even further.
source "tom's 'the mother of all cpu charts' part 2" nov 2005
they also made me happy when i saw they benchmarked video encoding with XviD
the only problem is that although some of his intentions are good (not all of them, however...they seem a bit censory/quashing of free "speech"/expression/art/etc), he is very (electronically) vocal, and rather than countering with even just mindboggling legalese, he repostes usually with snide responses or juvenile insults rather than something half intellectual. some of the responses border on the nonsensical timecube author's responses and ramblings.
sure they would! it's called site credit :D
Blu-ray: Dell, Hewlett Packard, Hitachi, LG Electronics, Panasonic,Philips, Pioneer, Samsung Electronics, Sharp, and Sony (picking and choosing of what are assumably on the hardware end)
HD-DVD: Toshiba, NEC, Sanyo, Microsoft, and Intel
so yeah, Blu-Ray isn't something that was birthed by ONLY Sony.
from what it looks like, both are becoming as locked down as the other. studios are NOT planning on using/allowing the use of the 1 generation copy flag, from what it sounds like, so they'll pretty much be identical. so it seems
as stupid as Sony's behavior has been, and as annoying as their proprietary equipment is, i still (unless they REALLY screw up and break the WORLD with another DRM) plan on buying a PS3. i want Blu-Ray. and i want to be able to play PS2 games (there are 3 Xbox180 games i'd buy a 360 for. there are over 12 PS2 games i'd buy a PS3 for).
yeah, the dates coincide right around the japanese launch of the PS2 and one last one predating the US PS2 launch by a month. seems like they were making a plan-B to fall back upon if sales sucked wind.
Doesn't he remind you of the Timecube guy? *ducks*
but i'd rather have one that sighed contentedly or made the Star Trek Sound®
and i don't understand /. posting markup to save my butt, nor know how to hit the preview button X)
but we made a cooler commercial glorious *cough* (but streamable) quicktime or window$ media video
just got the ok to mention and thank the www.torrentskickass.com for tracking it ^_^
here's a bit of what i posted to mozillazine: http://s91855708.onlinehome.us/temp/FirefoxSetup-0 .8.exe.torrent
couldn't figure out how to get ahold of webmasters within a few seconds, so decided to come here... (could someone contact them? ..if at least to have them verify the CRC-32/MD5 of the official EXEs for the paranoid)
MD5 : D4EACCE1814AE16660E499AA862309F9
CRC-32 : 88247ED4
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