as the other poster said, most fans can't do well beyond 15v if they are designed for 12v. Your gonna burn out your fans faster by the increased heat. I seriously suggest buying a high quality ($50) heatsink (if possible, 80mm) and put in a normal fan.
Do you have your comp on your desk? Mine is so loud i did the 7v trick (run the cpu fan at 7v [12v and 5v wires]) to make it quiet, only runs ~2C hotter too.
have you read ANY of the reviews on doom3. The only reason doom3 is called doom3 and not another name is because it exists in the same world. The gameplay itself is totally different, they are trying to get it be like a horror movie. Read reviews, be less ignorant.
Wait a second. the mods you listed are multi only, there is no plot (beyond the individual map), quake3 is an awesome game as long as you don't want anything else besides dm and tdm.
p.s. as for the HL cheat thing, i heard somewhere that the newest version of ogc will fade in music from winamp whenever someone dies in cs (and fade out on rebirth).
There is a key failure. If someone tried to copy and paste the text into the URL and they weren't using the trick language, it wouldn't work. However if there is a link that says "microsoft.com" then that could send you to a different page. And as everyone knows, people are much more likely to click a link than to copy & paste it in the address bar.
"if a plant ever blew up" yeah, the chances of that are insanely small, about the changes of a plane hitting the wtc. My point is that it is possible. A solar panel can't blow up, that is why it is better as an "enviornmentalist's dream" (see topic) than nuclear.
As for efficiency, you're right, we don't have very efficient solar panels yet, but nuclear power hasn't given us electrocity too cheap to meter as was advertised. But, it's not like the world will switch over to solar overnight. As the technology gets progressively better, more and more people will start to use it.
i said "no affect on the enviornment" because 1) in all urban areas wires are in place and panels are installed on roofs. and 2) in nature the only places panels are installed are in deserts because of the high amount of light there, so there is no very large impact by installation. Also, its not about having 1 giant streak, its about massive decentralization in places were it wouldn't have a large affect.
You are right that nuclear plants release very few pollutants, but their are two major problems with them. First, most of the plants don't extract all usable aspects from the uranium (not all, Eruope has a few plants that refine the used uranium and then extract more power from them), this causes us to be stuck with lots of used uranium rods.
The 2nd major problem is that if a plant ever blew up, everything in the local enviornment would die.
Solar power is so popular because it has no moving parts so it can last a long time, harnesses a power source that is basicly infinite, and (except for the manufactoring of cells) has no affect on the enviorment.
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1) spend $500 on a gig of RAM
I never use more than 256megs of ram, so buying more ram wont help.
2) Its not all about cpu speed.
You are completely right, thats why, if you read the site and looked at the screenies, the guy overclocked his System Bus (thus affecting ram and all) to 181Mhz (from a default 133). THAT IS A LOT. That is a very noticable speed difference.
3) use the money for something else
call this an investment. If this thing lasts for 3 computers, then you have probably "saved" more money by not having to pay for permium speed. Your example was having a 900mhz and going to 1.4ghz. Thats pretty sweet, but what about going from 2ghz to 3.4ghz. 3.4ghz is beyond any chip in production right now, but i've seen shots from a person who has been able to get that speed. This device isn't for people with a p3 900, it is for the extreme people and for them the benefits outweigh the costs.
A lot of people are saying "great, let them sue each new network and then a new one will spring up in its place." There is a slight problem with that. Everytime a new network goes up the *AA has 1 more "reason" why their congressmen should make a law that will wipe out freedom. While it might seem we are winning the cat and mouse game we are getting close to finding ourselves in a corner with each new step.
Promote Linux as the premier OS for security. It's already good - make it damn near perfect.
Linux isn't engineered, developers' scrath their itches, if lots of people care about really high end security, it will get done, otherwise it wont.
Provide our nation's defense infrastructure with an open-source secure OS. The DoD is a BIG customer - keep them happy.
While the more linux users the better, no developers care about specific countries or how big a user might be.
Less importantly, shame the fuck out of MSFT. Prove these dicks wrong while they're still patching IE security holes twice a month.
There have been more events than you can shake a stick at where MS screwed themselves over, Linux just needs to be good in order to make MS look like a fool.
Also I should advise you that 1) the NSA has their own version of linux is has extra security stuff, and two, don't forget about *BSD. OpenBSD hasn't had a remote root exploit in 4 years or something.
the problem is that it doesn't matter what the inital law meant, it matters how it is interpreated. 1million years is a "limited time." Also the Jefferson letters directly mean anything since they arn't law, but hopefully the judge will take it into account how copyright started and what it was like initally.
Re:Fear over action - not the Doom I remember
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i don't no about you but to me Half-life never even got close toe Doom 2 fear (never played doom1). Half-life was about action, sure there is a lot of suspence, expeciall as ammo is getting low, but i was never out and out scared. Doom 2 on the other hand scared the bejebus out of me. I remember Having a really bad nightmare and having to stop playing for a while. (also note that i was pretty young). I still remember the moment where you find a dead comrade on the ground (same level as when you first meet the really big rocket launching guy).
Look at your computer right now. Think about when you play FPS games like RtCW. You hear footsteps but you can't see anyone on screen, you turn and still can't see anyone. Also quality wouldn't need to be that good except you need to be able to see something in front of you without hitting it.
It has been said a million times, online petitions are meaningless. Congress will only people to people from their district that calls/writes/faxes their beliefs. Anything online for the most part is ignored. And for this, I seriously doubt that the judge could be swayed in such a manner.
Hell we made the stupid decisiot to choose a vaporware shuttle replacement over a working prototype.. and now the new shuttle program is now dead..
Do you know why NASA gets so little funding? because everything it wants to do is extrmely expensive. Congress views all of NASA actions as having huge amounts of waste. The point of the new shuttle was to be able to save large amounts of money on every launch. This would bring down the price for everything, thus making congress think it's a better deal to fund NASA now.
if someone put hardcore lesbo porn on a billboard in timesquare, would that be allowed? Using your logic, the web shouldn't be allowed to have the information at all. Its perfectly fine for the web to have a lot of whacked out weird junk on it, while not really ok to have that on a billboard. So you're logic that "if you shouldn't put it on a billboard then you shouldn't have it on the internet" should be reversed, if it shouldn't be on the internet, it shouldn't be on a billboard.
I'm still up in the air about which provides the better picture. But my question to you: do you always play games at max resoultion and with all eye candy turned on? I turn on as much of that stuff as i can as long as it doesn't slow down my game that much. There is no point in playing a game if it just turns into a beautiful slide show.
perfect example of this is Xerox developing a graphical interface, but after asking their costumers and seeing that no one wanted it, they give it to Apple.
None of Microsoft's products suck (well, 9x does when compared to whats out now, but discount that) Xbox isn't that bad, its ok, its big and clunky, but the games look nice and as the doa3 commercial says "she kicks high."
Another aspect is the whole buying of things. Age of Empires came out of M$ and it was a good game. Microsoft bought some compony while it was being developed, finished it and so, they paid a lot, but it wasn't junk.
Also, lastly people can only view something as bad when they can compare it to other things. If people think windows crashes because they didn't buy a $4000 computer, then they wont view M$ at fault.
book banning (and book burning) make people remember older cases of that which ended in tyranny or something similarly. The average person doesn't consider games to be like books. Books require imaginations, there are no pictures. Games are viewed more like movies, and movies have restriced access. A major problem is that the word "games" is used. Most older adult view a game as a trivial waste of time, not as an art form. This view further seperates games from books.
When did the court system accept the source code was speech? I (can be wrong but) remember from the DVD case that the judge didn't accept that the source code was considered free speech. (And that the argument that when that code is tarred, you get a number, and numbers can't be owned, the code should be allowed to be distributed was not accepted but the court either)
Also, you said "patent application form" you mean the phyiscal form someone fills in when they go for a patent? if so why is that relelvent? Being able to translate the actual patent to another language and distribute it should be legal, but i don't think they will allow translating the code into another computer language. (think back to your first Cd classes, a lot of the people their had trouble being able to seperate the concepts from the code, how expireinced do you think the coders are at patent office?)
If you rename an mp3 to a.txt, thereby not stopping anyone from running it, would the MPAA allow you to distribute it? I doubt the courts would think its legal for you to distribute code that had 1 deliberate error. (Also, what about interprated languages?)
Also, lastly remember, the system isn't meant to be logical but to further society. The artificial rules cause holes which create court cases and more laws and holes to make a giant mess, logic doesn't work across the whole system, especially since there are many different view points of what is code and computer stuff in general.
while they won't get rid of all ads Opera does have a few perks to make ads less annoying. Opera can stop pop ups (or put them in background), it can disable animated gifs, and disable javascript (yeah, i know every browser can do the last one). One last cool trick is that in the top left (or wherever you position it) of the window there is a button which will 1) turn off all images on this page, 2)only display cached image, or 3) normal. So Opera definitely has some nice ad stopping abilities, but it can't block the simple banner ads, you still need junkbuster.
You're right, lots of componies are wasting time and money because they use M$ products. All we need is a few componies (which we have) that don't use M$. Those componies will have the advantage that they don't waste time and money, so they are more productive. Everyone here has to remember exponential growth. Linux (to businesses) is still somewhat new, but everyday more and more people switch to linux. The only way this can be stopped is by something artificial such as a law requiring all OSes to use DRM. People need to realize that M$ isn't important as long as people fight all the bad legislation. It doesn't matter that its an unfair battlefield, linux can't "die".
How could a CD screw up the player? All the CDROM does is read bits off of a CD. The data should not be able to alter the program (in this case firmware) at all. The only way i could see something happening is if the firmware was poorly writtian and the CD causes stack overflows.
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as the other poster said, most fans can't do well beyond 15v if they are designed for 12v. Your gonna burn out your fans faster by the increased heat. I seriously suggest buying a high quality ($50) heatsink (if possible, 80mm) and put in a normal fan.
Do you have your comp on your desk? Mine is so loud i did the 7v trick (run the cpu fan at 7v [12v and 5v wires]) to make it quiet, only runs ~2C hotter too.
have you read ANY of the reviews on doom3. The only reason doom3 is called doom3 and not another name is because it exists in the same world. The gameplay itself is totally different, they are trying to get it be like a horror movie. Read reviews, be less ignorant.
Wait a second. the mods you listed are multi only, there is no plot (beyond the individual map), quake3 is an awesome game as long as you don't want anything else besides dm and tdm.
p.s. as for the HL cheat thing, i heard somewhere that the newest version of ogc will fade in music from winamp whenever someone dies in cs (and fade out on rebirth).
There is a key failure. If someone tried to copy and paste the text into the URL and they weren't using the trick language, it wouldn't work. However if there is a link that says "microsoft.com" then that could send you to a different page. And as everyone knows, people are much more likely to click a link than to copy & paste it in the address bar.
"if a plant ever blew up" yeah, the chances of that are insanely small, about the changes of a plane hitting the wtc. My point is that it is possible. A solar panel can't blow up, that is why it is better as an "enviornmentalist's dream" (see topic) than nuclear.
As for efficiency, you're right, we don't have very efficient solar panels yet, but nuclear power hasn't given us electrocity too cheap to meter as was advertised. But, it's not like the world will switch over to solar overnight. As the technology gets progressively better, more and more people will start to use it.
i said "no affect on the enviornment" because 1) in all urban areas wires are in place and panels are installed on roofs. and 2) in nature the only places panels are installed are in deserts because of the high amount of light there, so there is no very large impact by installation.
Also, its not about having 1 giant streak, its about massive decentralization in places were it wouldn't have a large affect.
You are right that nuclear plants release very few pollutants, but their are two major problems with them. First, most of the plants don't extract all usable aspects from the uranium (not all, Eruope has a few plants that refine the used uranium and then extract more power from them), this causes us to be stuck with lots of used uranium rods.
The 2nd major problem is that if a plant ever blew up, everything in the local enviornment would die.
Solar power is so popular because it has no moving parts so it can last a long time, harnesses a power source that is basicly infinite, and (except for the manufactoring of cells) has no affect on the enviorment.
1) spend $500 on a gig of RAM
I never use more than 256megs of ram, so buying more ram wont help.
2) Its not all about cpu speed.
You are completely right, thats why, if you read the site and looked at the screenies, the guy overclocked his System Bus (thus affecting ram and all) to 181Mhz (from a default 133). THAT IS A LOT. That is a very noticable speed difference.
3) use the money for something else
call this an investment. If this thing lasts for 3 computers, then you have probably "saved" more money by not having to pay for permium speed. Your example was having a 900mhz and going to 1.4ghz. Thats pretty sweet, but what about going from 2ghz to 3.4ghz. 3.4ghz is beyond any chip in production right now, but i've seen shots from a person who has been able to get that speed. This device isn't for people with a p3 900, it is for the extreme people and for them the benefits outweigh the costs.
A lot of people are saying "great, let them sue each new network and then a new one will spring up in its place." There is a slight problem with that. Everytime a new network goes up the *AA has 1 more "reason" why their congressmen should make a law that will wipe out freedom. While it might seem we are winning the cat and mouse game we are getting close to finding ourselves in a corner with each new step.
Promote Linux as the premier OS for security. It's already good - make it damn near perfect.
Linux isn't engineered, developers' scrath their itches, if lots of people care about really high end security, it will get done, otherwise it wont.
Provide our nation's defense infrastructure with an open-source secure OS. The DoD is a BIG customer - keep them happy.
While the more linux users the better, no developers care about specific countries or how big a user might be.
Less importantly, shame the fuck out of MSFT. Prove these dicks wrong while they're still patching IE security holes twice a month.
There have been more events than you can shake a stick at where MS screwed themselves over, Linux just needs to be good in order to make MS look like a fool.
Also I should advise you that 1) the NSA has their own version of linux is has extra security stuff, and two, don't forget about *BSD. OpenBSD hasn't had a remote root exploit in 4 years or something.
the problem is that it doesn't matter what the inital law meant, it matters how it is interpreated. 1million years is a "limited time." Also the Jefferson letters directly mean anything since they arn't law, but hopefully the judge will take it into account how copyright started and what it was like initally.
i don't no about you but to me Half-life never even got close toe Doom 2 fear (never played doom1). Half-life was about action, sure there is a lot of suspence, expeciall as ammo is getting low, but i was never out and out scared. Doom 2 on the other hand scared the bejebus out of me. I remember Having a really bad nightmare and having to stop playing for a while. (also note that i was pretty young). I still remember the moment where you find a dead comrade on the ground (same level as when you first meet the really big rocket launching guy).
"Fied of vision"
Look at your computer right now. Think about when you play FPS games like RtCW. You hear footsteps but you can't see anyone on screen, you turn and still can't see anyone. Also quality wouldn't need to be that good except you need to be able to see something in front of you without hitting it.
It has been said a million times, online petitions are meaningless. Congress will only people to people from their district that calls/writes/faxes their beliefs. Anything online for the most part is ignored. And for this, I seriously doubt that the judge could be swayed in such a manner.
Hell we made the stupid decisiot to choose a vaporware shuttle replacement over a working prototype.. and now the new shuttle program is now dead..
Do you know why NASA gets so little funding? because everything it wants to do is extrmely expensive. Congress views all of NASA actions as having huge amounts of waste. The point of the new shuttle was to be able to save large amounts of money on every launch. This would bring down the price for everything, thus making congress think it's a better deal to fund NASA now.
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if someone put hardcore lesbo porn on a billboard in timesquare, would that be allowed? Using your logic, the web shouldn't be allowed to have the information at all. Its perfectly fine for the web to have a lot of whacked out weird junk on it, while not really ok to have that on a billboard. So you're logic that "if you shouldn't put it on a billboard then you shouldn't have it on the internet" should be reversed, if it shouldn't be on the internet, it shouldn't be on a billboard.
I'm still up in the air about which provides the better picture. But my question to you: do you always play games at max resoultion and with all eye candy turned on? I turn on as much of that stuff as i can as long as it doesn't slow down my game that much. There is no point in playing a game if it just turns into a beautiful slide show.
perfect example of this is Xerox developing a graphical interface, but after asking their costumers and seeing that no one wanted it, they give it to Apple.
None of Microsoft's products suck (well, 9x does when compared to whats out now, but discount that) Xbox isn't that bad, its ok, its big and clunky, but the games look nice and as the doa3 commercial says "she kicks high."
Another aspect is the whole buying of things. Age of Empires came out of M$ and it was a good game. Microsoft bought some compony while it was being developed, finished it and so, they paid a lot, but it wasn't junk.
Also, lastly people can only view something as bad when they can compare it to other things. If people think windows crashes because they didn't buy a $4000 computer, then they wont view M$ at fault.
book banning (and book burning) make people remember older cases of that which ended in tyranny or something similarly. The average person doesn't consider games to be like books. Books require imaginations, there are no pictures. Games are viewed more like movies, and movies have restriced access. A major problem is that the word "games" is used. Most older adult view a game as a trivial waste of time, not as an art form. This view further seperates games from books.
When did the court system accept the source code was speech? I (can be wrong but) remember from the DVD case that the judge didn't accept that the source code was considered free speech. (And that the argument that when that code is tarred, you get a number, and numbers can't be owned, the code should be allowed to be distributed was not accepted but the court either)
.txt, thereby not stopping anyone from running it, would the MPAA allow you to distribute it? I doubt the courts would think its legal for you to distribute code that had 1 deliberate error. (Also, what about interprated languages?)
Also, you said "patent application form" you mean the phyiscal form someone fills in when they go for a patent? if so why is that relelvent? Being able to translate the actual patent to another language and distribute it should be legal, but i don't think they will allow translating the code into another computer language. (think back to your first Cd classes, a lot of the people their had trouble being able to seperate the concepts from the code, how expireinced do you think the coders are at patent office?)
If you rename an mp3 to a
Also, lastly remember, the system isn't meant to be logical but to further society. The artificial rules cause holes which create court cases and more laws and holes to make a giant mess, logic doesn't work across the whole system, especially since there are many different view points of what is code and computer stuff in general.
while they won't get rid of all ads Opera does have a few perks to make ads less annoying. Opera can stop pop ups (or put them in background), it can disable animated gifs, and disable javascript (yeah, i know every browser can do the last one). One last cool trick is that in the top left (or wherever you position it) of the window there is a button which will 1) turn off all images on this page, 2)only display cached image, or 3) normal. So Opera definitely has some nice ad stopping abilities, but it can't block the simple banner ads, you still need junkbuster.
You're right, lots of componies are wasting time and money because they use M$ products. All we need is a few componies (which we have) that don't use M$. Those componies will have the advantage that they don't waste time and money, so they are more productive. Everyone here has to remember exponential growth. Linux (to businesses) is still somewhat new, but everyday more and more people switch to linux. The only way this can be stopped is by something artificial such as a law requiring all OSes to use DRM. People need to realize that M$ isn't important as long as people fight all the bad legislation. It doesn't matter that its an unfair battlefield, linux can't "die".
How could a CD screw up the player? All the CDROM does is read bits off of a CD. The data should not be able to alter the program (in this case firmware) at all. The only way i could see something happening is if the firmware was poorly writtian and the CD causes stack overflows.
while i don't know the details. The article said that the macs had to be sent in for repair which sounds to me to be worse than just a jammed CD.
The soundtrack of Episode 2 seems to be protected in such a way also.