I hate to ask this, but which of the top AMD CPU:s are truly competitive now that AMD has cut the prices in half?
None of them. The overclock potential on the C4D is so high, but the C4D's overlock isn't factored into the price.
I have a C4D rated at 2.4 GHz running at 2.9 GHz (an easy, downright effortless overlock if there ever was one) and there is almost no difference in temp - but that much overclock results in a very noticable speed gain. Many people are overclocking the 6600's into the mid-3GHz with decent cooling rigs.
It's not about getting the cheapest you can get away with (although that's normally the smart thing to do). If you are going to spend money on a new CPU or rig - you can spend just a little more and have the fastest desktop processor ever made. It's worth it in the case of the C4D.
The same goes for hard drives. Apple charges you $329 for a 500GB SATA drive, which you can get from NewEgg for around $200. Granted, these aren't covered by your warranty, but they often have a manufacturer's warranty
Applestore upgrades have always been a convenience thing.
Fry's has a Seagate 500MB SATA for $120 right now.
You could argue that because Windows has a smaller menu bar "strike zone", it forces you to aim better, and in the long run actually increases your efficiency.
I switched from a Mac to PC at home and I use both daily at work. Once you get used to a platform you'll be fast on it. I find OSX to be much more sluggish than my Windows 2000 and XP machines due to OSX's disk swapping (virtual memory usage).
It's an excellent volume catalogue utility. I use it to search through the 1000+ CDs and DVDs that we have burned for backup. Searching the entire catalog produces almost instantaneous search results.
It can also be used as a replacement for Spotlight by dragging your hard drive icon into the main library to make a catalog of it. Searching by filename is also extremely quick - the fastest I've used on any platform.
I've had Spotlight turned off for a year ever since I figured out that you could disable it. Frankly, I think Spotlight sucks. 95% of the time when I want to search for something, I already know the name of it (because I name files well) and I just want a basic file search to open the containing folder.
10-30 hours for a game? Huh? Who plays single player, anyway? I've probably logged over 500 hours in CS and at least 1000 hours in UT99.
There are still a few obsessive people out there who want to find "the" game that they are going to be playing for the next year. I couldn't imagine only playing one game for only 20 hours and then stopping. There's a lot of satisfaction of getting good at a game and being one of the top players on a server filled with incredibly good players.
So a guy decides to print up some Serenity t-shirts and sell them on cafe press, and is surprised when he gets sued by Universal. How braindead can you be? Viral marketing means putting a mention of Firefly/Serenity on your website with a link to Amazon.
That said, bring back Firefly. Best sci-fi series since ST:TNG in my opinion.
people dying in this country due to being priced out of receiving their necessary meds, we have become a country that has lost focus on things that *actually matter*.
My reply is off topic, sorry, but I couldn't let this pass.
Can you give actual real world examples of people dying in the U.S. due to lack of medical care?
Illegal immigrants (i.e. the poor) get free medical care if they show up in an emergency room and require a life saving procedure. Emergency rooms aren't allowed to turn people away. Mexican laborers in this country are the poorest people here, yet they still manage to send billions of dollars back to Mexico every year. A year or so ago a young girl here in NC had a heart transplant at Duke (she later died because the doctors incorrectly typed her blood and gave her the wrong heart.) She couldn't afford the operation, which costs about a million dollars, and the mother was from Mexico, but she STILL had the transplant. Granted she died, but that wasn't because she was prevented from getting a procedure done by the 'evil Republicans'.
I think leftists who complain about America being a horrible place to live really have their heads up their asses. The country hasn't lost sight of anything because the 'country' doesn't do anything. There are plenty of *people*, including people who work for drug companies, providing low cost or free health care services to the poor. That includes every single taxpayer and every person who is responsible enough to pay for their own health coverage.
Just use an absentee ballot if you don't trust the machines. They send you paper, you send it back.
Vote rigging is always going to occur no matter what system is in place. It's also easy to "lose" paper ballots. The florida fiasco was a paper based system, remember? Look how many people (on both sides) insisted their votes didn't get counted - even after recounts took place. If I recall, at the time the military was saying that absentee ballots weren't sent on time, so they couldn't vote.
Personally I think the problem is just overall government incompetence and a desire to spend more money on elaborate systems to keep the budget dollars rolling in. Think that will ever change? (Nope).
I'm a graphic designer with fairly basic computer skills (no programming beyond HTML). I setup FreeNAS on a spare PC (1.6GHz HP Pavilion) about 4 weeks ago. The setup took a few tries, but it wasn't that hard. I spent about two hours total on it. FreeNAS is much easier to setup than a Windows server, which I tried to setup and just never got working with the Macs. OSX file sharing is usable but way too slow when you try to connect to them from a PC.
The FreeNAS machine has been up the entire time, except for one building-wide power outage. Boot time is extremely fast. It serves files incredibly well to both the PC's and the Macs (OSX) on the same network. Network speed for file transfers is fine on a 10/100 network (running at 100). I like FreeNAS a lot, our productivity has gone way up because of it. Nice to see it getting mentioned on Slashdot.
Well, if the problem is heat, the best thing to do is buy the lowest wattage processor you can and build the system around that. You can buy desktop motherboards for Pentium M and Turion mobile chips. Intel Conroe core comes out soon and people are expecting great power usage from it. Then try to find a video card that uses a passive heatsink, indicating that it runs cooler to start with. I know there are some around.
On the issue of the case... a good case vents as much heat as possible. The better the case, the more heat it will dump into the room. I have a Dual Mac G5 with a great case (probably the best case design ever) - but the heat coming from the rear panel is incredible - I've never felt anything like it. Personally I would recommend Antec cases for anyone building a machine. They usually have rails and removable hard drive cages. Consider just buying a barebones system from Monarch if you are having that much trouble. I think every case around uses a sliding door panel.
You need contrasting personalities for a story to work. An important part of the plot was Shinji's development - when he saves Asuka from the lava, and when his father is pushing him to be the leader on the team, basically he's just a somewhat average kid whose mother was dead and whose father didn't care...he had lived alone for years doing nothing and now he had to save the planet and had no choice if he was to do the right thing. The story just wouldn't have worked without Shinji's personality being what it was.
Evangelion was the saddest series I've ever seen, due to all of the character's lives being destroyed. I didn't really expect the last 5 episodes to rip everything apart. I thought I'd need therapy after the final episode and was glad it was over. But overall Evangelion WAS good and deserves a top spot as one of the best anime series.
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I hate to ask this, but which of the top AMD CPU:s are truly competitive now that AMD has cut the prices in half?
None of them. The overclock potential on the C4D is so high, but the C4D's overlock isn't factored into the price.
I have a C4D rated at 2.4 GHz running at 2.9 GHz (an easy, downright effortless overlock if there ever was one) and there is almost no difference in temp - but that much overclock results in a very noticable speed gain. Many people are overclocking the 6600's into the mid-3GHz with decent cooling rigs.
It's not about getting the cheapest you can get away with (although that's normally the smart thing to do). If you are going to spend money on a new CPU or rig - you can spend just a little more and have the fastest desktop processor ever made. It's worth it in the case of the C4D.
It wasn't that we didn't understand some physics, it wasn't the gods being mad, it was just plan old avoidable bad math.
In theory, all mistakes are avoidable. The problem is avoiding them.,
The same goes for hard drives. Apple charges you $329 for a 500GB SATA drive, which you can get from NewEgg for around $200. Granted, these aren't covered by your warranty, but they often have a manufacturer's warranty
Applestore upgrades have always been a convenience thing.
Fry's has a Seagate 500MB SATA for $120 right now.
Link:
http://shop4.outpost.com/product/4697788
"Being enlightened slashdotters, most of us have little appreciation for how stupid people really are."
Not so fast... my threshold is set to -1, which means I have tremendous appreciation for how stupid people really are.
-What about openoffice.org surely its more secure than an internet app.-
Unless you have it installed on a government issued notebook with social security data entries for 26.5 million U.S. veterans.
You could argue that because Windows has a smaller menu bar "strike zone", it forces you to aim better, and in the long run actually increases your efficiency.
I switched from a Mac to PC at home and I use both daily at work. Once you get used to a platform you'll be fast on it. I find OSX to be much more sluggish than my Windows 2000 and XP machines due to OSX's disk swapping (virtual memory usage).
Windows 95 on Virtual PC running in OS 9 classic mode (emulation) on a Mac G5 running OSX. (Long live the Ascii art collection)
And the app was TDraw, which runs in DOS.
Windows 95 on Virtual PC running in OS 9 classic mode (emulation) on a Mac G5 running OSX.
(Long live the Ascii art collection)
What kind of non-military applications exist for a 100kW laser... a Houseful-of-Popcorn-O-Matic?
No, but I do remember the best time to get on the BBS was after midnight. A surprisingly high number of sysops were lurking around at that time, too.
Searching offline files can be done with CDFinder:
http://www.cdfinder.de/
It's an excellent volume catalogue utility. I use it to search through the 1000+ CDs and DVDs that we have burned for backup. Searching the entire catalog produces almost instantaneous search results.
It can also be used as a replacement for Spotlight by dragging your hard drive icon into the main library to make a catalog of it. Searching by filename is also extremely quick - the fastest I've used on any platform.
I've had Spotlight turned off for a year ever since I figured out that you could disable it. Frankly, I think Spotlight sucks. 95% of the time when I want to search for something, I already know the name of it (because I name files well) and I just want a basic file search to open the containing folder.
This reminds me of the short story "A Sound of Thunder" by Ray Bradbury.
r -Ray_Bradbury.pdf
http://www.onebee.com/media/PDF/A_Sound_of_Thunde
Someone mod parent up. Great post.
10-30 hours for a game? Huh? Who plays single player, anyway? I've probably logged over 500 hours in CS and at least 1000 hours in UT99.
There are still a few obsessive people out there who want to find "the" game that they are going to be playing for the next year. I couldn't imagine only playing one game for only 20 hours and then stopping. There's a lot of satisfaction of getting good at a game and being one of the top players on a server filled with incredibly good players.
(d) brake instantly
Those would be very good brakes. I'm imagining an audible warning for any passengers in the car along the lines of "Prepare.... for LUDICROUS STOP!"
Here's a picture of Earth from space:
d ia/pia08324.html
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multime
I can't see the logo. I think they need to get a refund from the sign shop.
Why buy Vista? I'm glad you asked! Let me introduce you to our salesman of the month:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvbWLfr-Z4s
For those asking that can't make it to the site, at idle both CPU cores are at 123.8 F, and the hard drive is at 100.4 F.
Nice to finally see a laptop with a built-in coffee warmer. Those Apple engineers are fucking geniuses.
So a guy decides to print up some Serenity t-shirts and sell them on cafe press, and is surprised when he gets sued by Universal. How braindead can you be? Viral marketing means putting a mention of Firefly/Serenity on your website with a link to Amazon.
That said, bring back Firefly. Best sci-fi series since ST:TNG in my opinion.
people dying in this country due to being priced out of receiving their necessary meds, we have become a country that has lost focus on things that *actually matter*.
My reply is off topic, sorry, but I couldn't let this pass.
Can you give actual real world examples of people dying in the U.S. due to lack of medical care?
Illegal immigrants (i.e. the poor) get free medical care if they show up in an emergency room and require a life saving procedure. Emergency rooms aren't allowed to turn people away. Mexican laborers in this country are the poorest people here, yet they still manage to send billions of dollars back to Mexico every year. A year or so ago a young girl here in NC had a heart transplant at Duke (she later died because the doctors incorrectly typed her blood and gave her the wrong heart.) She couldn't afford the operation, which costs about a million dollars, and the mother was from Mexico, but she STILL had the transplant. Granted she died, but that wasn't because she was prevented from getting a procedure done by the 'evil Republicans'.
I think leftists who complain about America being a horrible place to live really have their heads up their asses. The country hasn't lost sight of anything because the 'country' doesn't do anything. There are plenty of *people*, including people who work for drug companies, providing low cost or free health care services to the poor. That includes every single taxpayer and every person who is responsible enough to pay for their own health coverage.
Just use an absentee ballot if you don't trust the machines. They send you paper, you send it back.
Vote rigging is always going to occur no matter what system is in place. It's also easy to "lose" paper ballots. The florida fiasco was a paper based system, remember? Look how many people (on both sides) insisted their votes didn't get counted - even after recounts took place. If I recall, at the time the military was saying that absentee ballots weren't sent on time, so they couldn't vote.
Personally I think the problem is just overall government incompetence and a desire to spend more money on elaborate systems to keep the budget dollars rolling in. Think that will ever change? (Nope).
For those not up on processor model number trivia, the 805 can be overclocked to almost 4Ghz and beyond, in certain cases.
z _cores/
http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/05/10/dual_41_gh
As long as you don't mind having a blowtorch under your desk.
I'm a graphic designer with fairly basic computer skills (no programming beyond HTML). I setup FreeNAS on a spare PC (1.6GHz HP Pavilion) about 4 weeks ago. The setup took a few tries, but it wasn't that hard. I spent about two hours total on it. FreeNAS is much easier to setup than a Windows server, which I tried to setup and just never got working with the Macs. OSX file sharing is usable but way too slow when you try to connect to them from a PC.
The FreeNAS machine has been up the entire time, except for one building-wide power outage. Boot time is extremely fast. It serves files incredibly well to both the PC's and the Macs (OSX) on the same network. Network speed for file transfers is fine on a 10/100 network (running at 100). I like FreeNAS a lot, our productivity has gone way up because of it. Nice to see it getting mentioned on Slashdot.
Well, if the problem is heat, the best thing to do is buy the lowest wattage processor you can and build the system around that. You can buy desktop motherboards for Pentium M and Turion mobile chips. Intel Conroe core comes out soon and people are expecting great power usage from it. Then try to find a video card that uses a passive heatsink, indicating that it runs cooler to start with. I know there are some around.
On the issue of the case... a good case vents as much heat as possible. The better the case, the more heat it will dump into the room. I have a Dual Mac G5 with a great case (probably the best case design ever) - but the heat coming from the rear panel is incredible - I've never felt anything like it. Personally I would recommend Antec cases for anyone building a machine. They usually have rails and removable hard drive cages. Consider just buying a barebones system from Monarch if you are having that much trouble. I think every case around uses a sliding door panel.
You mean like Asuka or Toji?
You need contrasting personalities for a story to work. An important part of the plot was Shinji's development - when he saves Asuka from the lava, and when his father is pushing him to be the leader on the team, basically he's just a somewhat average kid whose mother was dead and whose father didn't care...he had lived alone for years doing nothing and now he had to save the planet and had no choice if he was to do the right thing. The story just wouldn't have worked without Shinji's personality being what it was.
Evangelion was the saddest series I've ever seen, due to all of the character's lives being destroyed. I didn't really expect the last 5 episodes to rip everything apart. I thought I'd need therapy after the final episode and was glad it was over. But overall Evangelion WAS good and deserves a top spot as one of the best anime series.