Apparently the BTX form factor (of which LGA is a part) has been heavily resisted by many Taiwanese chassis, mainboard and heatsink manufacturers.
But what's new here? Word has it that this time round, the Taiwanese heastink, mainboard and PSU manufacturers - and quite a lot of them it would seem - are being rather less than enthusiastic or co-operative, about the sweeping changes and support that Intel is asking, nay demanding, of them.
I'd be interested to see if Intel can actually strong-arm them into it
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Fair enough, I said I was no expert:) Tx for the info tho *files away in the 'useless info' part of brain*
No, there are various automagic ways to hijack IE, mostly through unpatched versions but also through lax security settings. That's why I run FireFox, which means I only really get tracking cookies for adsites.
If nothing else (it will be extremely difficult to police, after all), this bill will hopefully increase spyware awareness amongst the average n00b user. While most users are aware of the need for up-to-date antivirus packages, especially after the recent spate of high-profile hits, most are blissfully unaware of programs like Spybot Search and Destroy or Lavasoft AdAware, which I feel are just as critical a part of my security armoury as my firewall (ZoneAlarm) and my AV (NAV).
In my experience, 99% of desktop users have no need for any form of RAID. People just end up using RAID0 because it sounds cool (and doesn't lower their capacity, which is king for a lot of n00b users), and then getting burned when one HDD dies, leaving them with no chance of recovering anything.
If history shows anything, it's that people who aren't gamers just don't really care too much about upgrading any more
Even gamers are caring less and less about the CPU and more about the GPU. If you have a good-enough CPU, getting a better one will often make little to no difference to your performance. Various internal bandwidths (like CPU to memory), and amount of memory make a far larger difference, so you tend to get gamers upgrading their memory and GPUs long before their CPUs
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Apparently the standard chunk size on a lot of the warez sites that do use email is 2.88Mb (3Mb is a pretty common attachment size limit), so an attachment limit of 10Mb will not even slow them down. A script to span-zip 10Mb chunks and email them one at a time is not difficult to implement, and beats the hell out of current 2.88Mb chunks.
DISCLAIMER - I am not into warez, I just have some dodgy friends:P
However, 5.1 is pretty much standard on all onboard sound systems. This will obviously be upgraded as time goes by, so you will eventually be _unable_ to buy a new system _without_ some for of surround sound. It's just then a case of getting ahold of the speaker system to go with it and setting it up.
"It's first person, unlike the rest of the games you posted"
All of the Thief franchise games are first person. Thief 3: Deadly Shadows has now added a third person view option, although many people consider this a 'soft' mode to play in, as it lets you see around corners that you normally could not in first person. The rest of the games are, admittedly, third person.
Sorry, I was trawling for MGS links and MGS3 was at the top of the list. I was, however, thinking of MGS2, but more importantly the franchise as a whole
There has in fact already been a game that people bought for the sound. Friends of mine actually went out and upgraded their PC sound purely to get a better play experience out of Thief: The Dark Project (1998). It was one of the first games that used positional sounds as an integral part of the game, making for an innovative play style that spawned the stealth genre which now also includes games like Metal Gear Solid and Splinter Cell. Thief works slightly differently to the other Stealth games, since you are very weak in open confrontation. Not paying attention to certain important sounds (like a guard's footsteps for example) can lead to a swift and painful death.
This new genre is very successful at the moment, with sequels for all three games mentioned coming out this year - Thief 3: Deadly Shadows, Metal Gear Solid 3 and Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow, all of which have received good to excellent reviews.
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Apparently the BTX form factor (of which LGA is a part) has been heavily resisted by many Taiwanese chassis, mainboard and heatsink manufacturers.
But what's new here? Word has it that this time round, the Taiwanese heastink, mainboard and PSU manufacturers - and quite a lot of them it would seem - are being rather less than enthusiastic or co-operative, about the sweeping changes and support that Intel is asking, nay demanding, of them.
I'd be interested to see if Intel can actually strong-arm them into it
Fair enough, I said I was no expert :) Tx for the info tho *files away in the 'useless info' part of brain*
I dropped my hotmail account the instant it was bought out by MSN. Sad day, that was *sniff*
Clicking 'yes' is not the only way to get infected - unpatched IE systems are vulnerable to various exploits that can force an un-agreed to install.
No, there are various automagic ways to hijack IE, mostly through unpatched versions but also through lax security settings. That's why I run FireFox, which means I only really get tracking cookies for adsites.
If nothing else (it will be extremely difficult to police, after all), this bill will hopefully increase spyware awareness amongst the average n00b user. While most users are aware of the need for up-to-date antivirus packages, especially after the recent spate of high-profile hits, most are blissfully unaware of programs like Spybot Search and Destroy or Lavasoft AdAware, which I feel are just as critical a part of my security armoury as my firewall (ZoneAlarm) and my AV (NAV).
On a slight aside, Norton AV does include a certain amount of spyware scanning in their latest version (NAV 2004).
In my experience, 99% of desktop users have no need for any form of RAID. People just end up using RAID0 because it sounds cool (and doesn't lower their capacity, which is king for a lot of n00b users), and then getting burned when one HDD dies, leaving them with no chance of recovering anything.
If history shows anything, it's that people who aren't gamers just don't really care too much about upgrading any more
Even gamers are caring less and less about the CPU and more about the GPU. If you have a good-enough CPU, getting a better one will often make little to no difference to your performance. Various internal bandwidths (like CPU to memory), and amount of memory make a far larger difference, so you tend to get gamers upgrading their memory and GPUs long before their CPUs
Apparently the standard chunk size on a lot of the warez sites that do use email is 2.88Mb (3Mb is a pretty common attachment size limit), so an attachment limit of 10Mb will not even slow them down. A script to span-zip 10Mb chunks and email them one at a time is not difficult to implement, and beats the hell out of current 2.88Mb chunks.
:P
DISCLAIMER - I am not into warez, I just have some dodgy friends
However, 5.1 is pretty much standard on all onboard sound systems. This will obviously be upgraded as time goes by, so you will eventually be _unable_ to buy a new system _without_ some for of surround sound. It's just then a case of getting ahold of the speaker system to go with it and setting it up.
"It's first person, unlike the rest of the games you posted" All of the Thief franchise games are first person. Thief 3: Deadly Shadows has now added a third person view option, although many people consider this a 'soft' mode to play in, as it lets you see around corners that you normally could not in first person. The rest of the games are, admittedly, third person.
Sorry, I was trawling for MGS links and MGS3 was at the top of the list. I was, however, thinking of MGS2, but more importantly the franchise as a whole
There has in fact already been a game that people bought for the sound. Friends of mine actually went out and upgraded their PC sound purely to get a better play experience out of Thief: The Dark Project (1998). It was one of the first games that used positional sounds as an integral part of the game, making for an innovative play style that spawned the stealth genre which now also includes games like Metal Gear Solid and Splinter Cell. Thief works slightly differently to the other Stealth games, since you are very weak in open confrontation. Not paying attention to certain important sounds (like a guard's footsteps for example) can lead to a swift and painful death. This new genre is very successful at the moment, with sequels for all three games mentioned coming out this year - Thief 3: Deadly Shadows, Metal Gear Solid 3 and Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow, all of which have received good to excellent reviews.