Some people are spending $n billion on researching weapons to kill, whilst some other people are spending $n billion on researching gadgets (for want of a better word) to stop those weapons, like this, and that laser that can shoot down missles/guns that was featured on/. a few weeks ago.
And we call ourselves the most intelligent species on the planet
were the games back then a lot more fun than they are now?
I think they were more fun for three reasons.
First, you concentrated on the game itself and how exciting and new the concept of games was.
Two, because of the power and all the gadgets you can get for games (gamepad etc.), you don't concentrate on the simplicities of the game itself because you have to learn all 200 key and button combinations.. Simple is always better
And three, games today are all clones. All the doom clones, "tycoon" games etc.. they're all basically the same concept of games but new surrounding. The only real exception I found was Halo because although it was just standard stuff: fps, kill everything, many weapons etc.. it did add variety such as vehicles and ability to steal enemy guns, the self-rechargeable shield too.
Yeah, right. Windows XP, released in '03, recommends 128MB of RAM and a 300MHz CPU
Having run XP on a Celeron 333 (oc 366), I can safely say those requirements are bollocks. Sure, you can get away with it if you drop all the visual effects and non vitals (such as the GUI.. er I mean system restore) but if you do that you effectively have Win2000 anyway, but you can't really *run* XP at any decent response rate... or at least you can't run any reasonable apps and have everything respond.
Young kids now think 1GHz isn't enough to browse web & email.
Yeah I hate that. Computer companies try to sell you 2ghz+ machines claiming them as "entry level". Such emphasis is put on the speed that people don't realise how much money they could save by getting a P2 without losing any real noticable performance.
What's more annoying is the demands that software puts on the machines. An app that once took up, say, 20mb of ram now needs 200mb, and it doesn't do that much more. Who remembers the success (sarc.) of Winamp 3 over 2
Having said all that, I much prefer surfing with a 2.3ghz athlon/1gig than the P2-333 (oc366) with 128mb ram, although it makes little difference in reading text pages, it's nice not to have it killed by those bloody flashing ads, and it's great for games too - future proofed for at least a month!
Well the site's slashdotted so I wasn't able to read.
I'm slightly confused. As far as I can work out, the RIAA wants to make it illegal to record (or spread) digital (/internet) radio.. well, since when has making something illegal stopped people doing it?
If someone wants a song, whether it be a download from irc or a rip from a radio station, they're generally just gonna get it, unless they're scared off by the gestapo tactics of these organisations.
The other thing is radio is public, so how can they sue you for having something that is essentially publicly available. Isn't that like sueing you for taping a tv show because you were out?
The (apparent) complaint is about spreading music instead of buying it, but if you take e.g. Radio 1 in the UK, it overplays so many songs to death (seriously, 6 or 7 times in the daytime) that you get sick and don't want to buy it anyway. The fact it plays it so much means you won't need to buy it, and the fact it's so overplayed means you'll get sick of it and won't want to.
I realise I've drifted off the main point there.
In all cases, the RIAA have once again spectacularly missed the point, if CDs were a reasonable price, more people would probably buy them. Not all of course, there will always be downloaders, but they're hardly gonna be swayed by a few legalities anyway so all in all the RIAA don't seem to have a clue what they're doing. Ironically, if they bothered to listen to people, they could (and we could) gain a lot more, which indicates that they aren't bothered about gain or money, they just love the power.
Does anyone remember the first two seasons. Rescue mission after Rescue mission after Rescue mission - usually Archer or Trip getting stuck.
Does anyone now remember the seasons of ST:TOS. Kirk would spend an hour to spell his name, Spock would correct him. Kirk would punch someone, kiss someone and that was episode 1 of what seemed like thousands.. then [repeat until seriously bored]
IMO Kirk might as well be in this series as this continuation of repetativeness in the TOS/Ent. range never ends.
NASA = New Accountant Sought After?
How do you "lose" $565b? A few million here and there as "petty cash" supplies (rocket fuel, sunglasses for the astronauts etc.) you could get away with, but $565b?!?
How can we trust them keep track of space exploration when they can't even track their finances?
This is just a motherboard with two slots for graphics boards. Period. This is not about somehow using two GPUs on separate cards to run one display faster.
But that seems pointless, although you'd get accelerated graphics per screen, it wouldn't be new as most graphics cards these days have a tv- or dvi-out letting you use a second display.
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A "PC" that just scrapes Longhorn's requirements.
90gig/month is gonna be around 3gig/day.
And we call ourselves the most intelligent species on the planet
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Does anyone know why it was called the 8086, 80386, etc?
I think they were more fun for three reasons.
First, you concentrated on the game itself and how exciting and new the concept of games was.
Two, because of the power and all the gadgets you can get for games (gamepad etc.), you don't concentrate on the simplicities of the game itself because you have to learn all 200 key and button combinations.. Simple is always better
And three, games today are all clones. All the doom clones, "tycoon" games etc.. they're all basically the same concept of games but new surrounding. The only real exception I found was Halo because although it was just standard stuff: fps, kill everything, many weapons etc.. it did add variety such as vehicles and ability to steal enemy guns, the self-rechargeable shield too.
Yeah, right. Windows XP, released in '03, recommends 128MB of RAM and a 300MHz CPU Having run XP on a Celeron 333 (oc 366), I can safely say those requirements are bollocks. Sure, you can get away with it if you drop all the visual effects and non vitals (such as the GUI.. er I mean system restore) but if you do that you effectively have Win2000 anyway, but you can't really *run* XP at any decent response rate... or at least you can't run any reasonable apps and have everything respond.
Yeah I hate that. Computer companies try to sell you 2ghz+ machines claiming them as "entry level". Such emphasis is put on the speed that people don't realise how much money they could save by getting a P2 without losing any real noticable performance.
What's more annoying is the demands that software puts on the machines. An app that once took up, say, 20mb of ram now needs 200mb, and it doesn't do that much more. Who remembers the success (sarc.) of Winamp 3 over 2
Having said all that, I much prefer surfing with a 2.3ghz athlon/1gig than the P2-333 (oc366) with 128mb ram, although it makes little difference in reading text pages, it's nice not to have it killed by those bloody flashing ads, and it's great for games too - future proofed for at least a month!
I'm slightly confused. As far as I can work out, the RIAA wants to make it illegal to record (or spread) digital (/internet) radio.. well, since when has making something illegal stopped people doing it?
If someone wants a song, whether it be a download from irc or a rip from a radio station, they're generally just gonna get it, unless they're scared off by the gestapo tactics of these organisations.
The other thing is radio is public, so how can they sue you for having something that is essentially publicly available. Isn't that like sueing you for taping a tv show because you were out?
The (apparent) complaint is about spreading music instead of buying it, but if you take e.g. Radio 1 in the UK, it overplays so many songs to death (seriously, 6 or 7 times in the daytime) that you get sick and don't want to buy it anyway. The fact it plays it so much means you won't need to buy it, and the fact it's so overplayed means you'll get sick of it and won't want to.
I realise I've drifted off the main point there.
In all cases, the RIAA have once again spectacularly missed the point, if CDs were a reasonable price, more people would probably buy them. Not all of course, there will always be downloaders, but they're hardly gonna be swayed by a few legalities anyway so all in all the RIAA don't seem to have a clue what they're doing. Ironically, if they bothered to listen to people, they could (and we could) gain a lot more, which indicates that they aren't bothered about gain or money, they just love the power.
Like, traffic that didn't pay it's taxes or something?
Does anyone now remember the seasons of ST:TOS. Kirk would spend an hour to spell his name, Spock would correct him. Kirk would punch someone, kiss someone and that was episode 1 of what seemed like thousands.. then [repeat until seriously bored]
IMO Kirk might as well be in this series as this continuation of repetativeness in the TOS/Ent. range never ends.
Only if you're applying for a management position
NASA = New Accountant Sought After? How do you "lose" $565b? A few million here and there as "petty cash" supplies (rocket fuel, sunglasses for the astronauts etc.) you could get away with, but $565b?!? How can we trust them keep track of space exploration when they can't even track their finances?
...that can filter out those bloody AOL cds and put your coffee mug on them for you?
So instead of "oil drillers wanted", will you see "people with big appetites and loose bowels needed"?
at aol or microsfuct tech support helpdesk
But that seems pointless, although you'd get accelerated graphics per screen, it wouldn't be new as most graphics cards these days have a tv- or dvi-out letting you use a second display.
Not exactly something you can get from PC World, but this one can have 2 AGP, or there's this one which offers 4 AGP