I've heard stories of crappy motherboards blowing capacitors. Which is why its always better to get the 150 dollar one than the 30 dollar one. Because the 30 dollar one is effectively made out of scrap metal...
Over similar issues. Except this one is just an anlysis, no interviews. The sad thing is just how horrible Bush's scientific policies are. For one, when he dropped the USA out of the Kyoto treaty, he claimed that Global Warming was an "unproven hypothesis." While it is still sometimes disputed how much of global warming is caused by humans, global warming has been well-known for decades and the proof is very solid.
Too lazy. My mobo is shit anyway and won't let me change the voltages on my CPU, so it won't help much to get better RAM when my system can't overclock for shit. Just might as well wait for a new A64 system...
By selling RAM as PC3700, they guarantee that it can be overclocked to that level. Its part of the warranty. Overclocking to that level does not void the warranty. Read their warranty;).
For the past 2-3 years, RAM prices haven't dropped--they've gone up. The RAM that I bought with my current computer costs MORE now than it did when I bought it a year ago, and not only that--its crap quality too! Its supposedly PC3700, but won't hit PC3700 speeds on stock timings even with extra voltage!
This is one of the few great examples where we get to love the American legal system;)
Its because of how quantum encryption works. Basically, I'll make an explanation here for everyone. We'll have two computers, Alice and Bob. Alice sends a bunch of *RANDOMLY* polarized photons, each polarized RANDOMLY with one of two polarizers--up-down, or diagonal. So you could have one of the following four photons: / \ | --
Bob at the other end RANDOMLY switches between filters, and thus gets only about 3/4 of the photons right (this is a little long and thus I won't do the math here). So he reads off, over an insecure line, which filters he used when. Alice tells him when he was right and when he was wrong. The series of bits that he got right will be used for a one time pad cipher. However, Eve, the evesdropper, can't get the one-time pad! Why? Because she and Bob will have used a different sequence of polarizers, and thus she would have gotten some of the one-time pad wrong. Plus, when Eve measured any photon along the line, it would change its polarization, so therefore before doing the encrypted transmission, Alice could send a portion of the one-time pad to Bob. If any of it changed, then obviously Eve was on the line.
No Data Execute isn't all-powerful--it only stops certain types of code from running:
Execution protection (also known as NX, or no execute) prevents code execution from data pages such as the default heap, various stacks, and memory pools. Protection can be applied in both user and kernel-mode.
It also forces developers to avoid executing code out of data pages without explicitly marking the pages as executable. This promotes good software engineering and best practices for application and driver developers.
Execution protection is an operating system feature that relies on processor hardware to mark memory with an attribute that indicates that code should not be executed from that memory. Execution protection functions on a per-virtual memory page basis, most often changing a bit in the page table entry (PTE) to mark the memory page.
You've been brainwashed by Intel. In almost all applications, a similarly priced Athlon 64, without 64-bit, wipes the floor against Intel. And in 64-bit compiles in Linux 64-bit, the Athlon 64 gets an extra 30-40% boost. Now obviously we won't get that in Windows, as most companies won't come out with 64-bit compiled versions. But hey... who uses Windows anyways?;)
Considering what the RIAA is doing, music, movie, and other media companies shouldn't be given any privledges at all, nevermind the ability to veto technologies because they don't like them...
Uh, probably not. Meteors don't make mushroom clouds, first of all.
And second of all... the probablility that it would just HAPPEN to land in North Korea is astoundingly low.
The Fast Facts from the article for those interested:
Fast Facts for Fornax Cluster:
Credit NASA/CXC/Columbia U./C.Scharf et al.
Scale Image is 47 arcmin across
Coordinates (J2000) RA 03h 38m 24.30s | Dec -35 27' 04.80"
Observation Time 5 days, 18 hours
Distance Estimate About 65 million light years
First of all, no doubt its a nuke. No conventional explosive creates that large a mushroom cloud... well if you had about 10,000 tons of TNT maybe you could, but otherwise its most likely a nuke.
But now that they have working nukes... don't know whether we can trust Kim not to use them... North Korea used to be Russia's puppet, but is now an orphan nation. And they will do anything to get attention.
Now that is anything but true. IMO Planet-based MMORPGs are pointless and un-immersive. A truly great MMORPG will be set in space with the player in command of a starship. If you want good examples of these types of games, see Earth and Beyond. Too bad EA killed it, along with UO:X and Motor City Online. Good space games have limited sector size making it much easier to run into other people. Or go play EVE--its not exactly fun, but you can sit at a gate in Yulai watching thousands of people go in and out every hour.
First of all, large rocks going around stars are known as planets. Second of all, any asteroid larger than about 200km wide will settle into a spherical shape. Ceres is one of the smaller examples. Earth, Mars, Pluto, our Moon, and other large objects in our solarsystem are other examples. Third of all, planets that size tend to gather a LOT of gas during solarsystem formation. So we know that its round, its big, and its covered with a massive gas atmosphere.
IMO Scotty was the best of all the Star Trek characters (in TOS). Doohan was a great actor, from the original series all the way through his last appearances in the 1990s in TNG and Generations. He's just an amazing guy. But then again, all good things...
"256MB DDR SDRAM running at 400MHz and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra with 64MB graphics memory. So you'll be able to play Worlds of Warcraft, Doom III and other fantastic entertainment."
Can anyone say "marketing BS"? Well yeah, it'll run Doom 3... at 640by480 on low details, running at 15FPS! Note that the system requirements of Doom 3 specify 384MB of RAM as the absolute mimimum, and this system has 256MB of RAM.
I mean, lets take an Apple laptop without a battery, put the screen on the top of the lid, stick it on a stand and make it so the lid does not open, put a 5200U in it and charge £1350! (And then market it to gamers, claiming it'll run Doom 3)
Its not to say its a bad computer, but it is anything but a gaming or graphics-oriented computer.
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I've heard stories of crappy motherboards blowing capacitors. Which is why its always better to get the 150 dollar one than the 30 dollar one. Because the 30 dollar one is effectively made out of scrap metal...
Over similar issues. Except this one is just an anlysis, no interviews. The sad thing is just how horrible Bush's scientific policies are. For one, when he dropped the USA out of the Kyoto treaty, he claimed that Global Warming was an "unproven hypothesis." While it is still sometimes disputed how much of global warming is caused by humans, global warming has been well-known for decades and the proof is very solid.
Too lazy. My mobo is shit anyway and won't let me change the voltages on my CPU, so it won't help much to get better RAM when my system can't overclock for shit. Just might as well wait for a new A64 system...
No, I set the RAM to a 4:5 ratio so that the processor/mobo wouldn't be a limiting factor. Still failed before PC3700.
Iridium is the company, and by the way, Iridium isn't radioactive in the first place, so the joke doesn't work :)
By selling RAM as PC3700, they guarantee that it can be overclocked to that level. Its part of the warranty. Overclocking to that level does not void the warranty. Read their warranty ;).
For the past 2-3 years, RAM prices haven't dropped--they've gone up. The RAM that I bought with my current computer costs MORE now than it did when I bought it a year ago, and not only that--its crap quality too! Its supposedly PC3700, but won't hit PC3700 speeds on stock timings even with extra voltage!
;)
This is one of the few great examples where we get to love the American legal system
Its because of how quantum encryption works. Basically, I'll make an explanation here for everyone. We'll have two computers, Alice and Bob. Alice sends a bunch of *RANDOMLY* polarized photons, each polarized RANDOMLY with one of two polarizers--up-down, or diagonal. So you could have one of the following four photons: / \ | --
Bob at the other end RANDOMLY switches between filters, and thus gets only about 3/4 of the photons right (this is a little long and thus I won't do the math here). So he reads off, over an insecure line, which filters he used when. Alice tells him when he was right and when he was wrong. The series of bits that he got right will be used for a one time pad cipher. However, Eve, the evesdropper, can't get the one-time pad! Why? Because she and Bob will have used a different sequence of polarizers, and thus she would have gotten some of the one-time pad wrong. Plus, when Eve measured any photon along the line, it would change its polarization, so therefore before doing the encrypted transmission, Alice could send a portion of the one-time pad to Bob. If any of it changed, then obviously Eve was on the line.
Its actually quite fun following the w3schools link. I've been watching it for over a year and its quite fun seeing Microsoft get owned ;)
Something... just something... tells me that this isn't going to catch on. The fact that its both Japanese and relatively useless is a hint.
No Data Execute isn't all-powerful--it only stops certain types of code from running:
Execution protection (also known as NX, or no execute) prevents code execution from data pages such as the default heap, various stacks, and memory pools. Protection can be applied in both user and kernel-mode.
It also forces developers to avoid executing code out of data pages without explicitly marking the pages as executable. This promotes good software engineering and best practices for application and driver developers.
Execution protection is an operating system feature that relies on processor hardware to mark memory with an attribute that indicates that code should not be executed from that memory. Execution protection functions on a per-virtual memory page basis, most often changing a bit in the page table entry (PTE) to mark the memory page.
From MSDN.
No :). I mean the ones from countless review sites across the internet using 64-bit compiled versions of Linux games and programs.
...
;)
You've been brainwashed by Intel. In almost all applications, a similarly priced Athlon 64, without 64-bit, wipes the floor against Intel. And in 64-bit compiles in Linux 64-bit, the Athlon 64 gets an extra 30-40% boost. Now obviously we won't get that in Windows, as most companies won't come out with 64-bit compiled versions. But hey... who uses Windows anyways?
Considering what the RIAA is doing, music, movie, and other media companies shouldn't be given any privledges at all, nevermind the ability to veto technologies because they don't like them...
Uh, probably not. Meteors don't make mushroom clouds, first of all. And second of all... the probablility that it would just HAPPEN to land in North Korea is astoundingly low.
MOABs don't make 4 mile wide clouds.
The Fast Facts from the article for those interested:
Fast Facts for Fornax Cluster:
Credit NASA/CXC/Columbia U./C.Scharf et al.
Scale Image is 47 arcmin across
Coordinates (J2000) RA 03h 38m 24.30s | Dec -35 27' 04.80"
Observation Time 5 days, 18 hours
Distance Estimate About 65 million light years
First of all, no doubt its a nuke. No conventional explosive creates that large a mushroom cloud... well if you had about 10,000 tons of TNT maybe you could, but otherwise its most likely a nuke.
But now that they have working nukes... don't know whether we can trust Kim not to use them... North Korea used to be Russia's puppet, but is now an orphan nation. And they will do anything to get attention.
Explain to me... why does Infinium believe that people will buy a console made by a company about to go bankrupt to play games that don't exist?
Don't know, but if Enterprise is any hint of the future, it deserves to die just about now.
:)
Plus, with Stargate SG-1 and Atlantis... who needs Star Trek anyways?
Now that is anything but true. IMO Planet-based MMORPGs are pointless and un-immersive. A truly great MMORPG will be set in space with the player in command of a starship. If you want good examples of these types of games, see Earth and Beyond. Too bad EA killed it, along with UO:X and Motor City Online. Good space games have limited sector size making it much easier to run into other people. Or go play EVE--its not exactly fun, but you can sit at a gate in Yulai watching thousands of people go in and out every hour.
First of all, large rocks going around stars are known as planets. Second of all, any asteroid larger than about 200km wide will settle into a spherical shape. Ceres is one of the smaller examples. Earth, Mars, Pluto, our Moon, and other large objects in our solarsystem are other examples. Third of all, planets that size tend to gather a LOT of gas during solarsystem formation. So we know that its round, its big, and its covered with a massive gas atmosphere.
That's pretty close to that concept art IMO!
IMO Scotty was the best of all the Star Trek characters (in TOS). Doohan was a great actor, from the original series all the way through his last appearances in the 1990s in TNG and Generations. He's just an amazing guy. But then again, all good things...
"256MB DDR SDRAM running at 400MHz and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra with 64MB graphics memory. So you'll be able to play Worlds of Warcraft, Doom III and other fantastic entertainment."
Can anyone say "marketing BS"? Well yeah, it'll run Doom 3... at 640by480 on low details, running at 15FPS! Note that the system requirements of Doom 3 specify 384MB of RAM as the absolute mimimum, and this system has 256MB of RAM.
I mean, lets take an Apple laptop without a battery, put the screen on the top of the lid, stick it on a stand and make it so the lid does not open, put a 5200U in it and charge £1350! (And then market it to gamers, claiming it'll run Doom 3)
Its not to say its a bad computer, but it is anything but a gaming or graphics-oriented computer.
They did primality tests on numbers like 11, 17, and other small numbers using QC circuits.