there are so many people that only have PCI slots (no AGP nor pci-Express) who would give anything for a nice comprehensive comparo review of old-school pci graphics cards.
there is so much debate as to what is the fastest PCI card for gaming; yet the hardware sites don't understand the pain and suffering out there... or do they? all that is available on ANY hardware site is pure conjecture and respewing of marketing hype.
they will NOT do a PCI video card review.
i think they are under pressure from marketing forces (read: ad dollars) to not reveal the actual performance of PCI. (yet the review sites HAVE stated that the move to pciExpress is purely marketing; that there is NO performance benifit from AGP to pci-Express.)
there is even a pci version of nvidia's 6200, yet try and find a review of that! (http://www.3dfuzion.com/cards_6200_pci_128.asp) yet you can find hordes of reviews of the agp and pciExpress versions of it.
well, many brand name systems have only PCI, and it is a shock to many poor souls when they realize it (not everyone is as thorough as the/. crowd when it comes to picking out computers. and people recieve them as gifts, etc.). and i bet not providing a viable upgrade option is also a marketing move to force people to buy whole new systems just so they can play games.
of course, i'm posting this hours after the article was put up, so prolly no one will even read this.
yeah, i hate the "it's a privilege to drive" bullshit. it's my right. i don't need a license, license plate, registration, and extra taxes on gas, etc. and don't get me started on mafia insurance racket.
but, if i could turn it on and off, this does sound like a nice form of cruise control to keep me from getting nabbed by the cops who use tickets to increase the city budget.
that was pretty funny, but there is something that requires even more of a realistic racing technique than GT3: Grand Prix Legends, from sierra sports. yeah, it came out ages ago, but this damn simulation will have you cussing in no time, as there is no arcade-style bouncing off the walls. good luck trying to get back on course if you go off onto the grass. even the gyroscopic forces of the wheels have been simulated. it is an amazing game, but because it is almost too accurate you really need to feel what is going on, through the seat of your pants and inner ear.
not that anyone is going to read this since it is posted a whole day after the MKDS review.
Why don't you just see what hardware Microsoft has to offer you for your evangelical services?
their software aside, it seems microsoft's hardware is decent stuff. i use a SideWinder force feedback wheel for racing games, with no problems, and it seems high quality. most reviews i've read of other I/O MS hardware have been good.
(sadly, i havn't used that force feedback wheel in a couple years.... i really need to play Grand Prix Legends again!)
another "stifling" factor: slow bandwith. unfortunately i only have friggin dial up, and anytime a website has done something that i could have run on my desktop, guess which is a lot slower by comparison. Even when there shouldn't be a lot of back and forth communication that doesn't require bandwith, it seems that it still takes a LOT longer to get results back than if i had done it local. don't know why....
hey, does your P4 have Hyper-Threading? i've heard of it doing strange things; sometimes my friend's 3.0GHz with Hyper-Threading machine will play mp3s twice as fast! (can't remember what player he was using though.)
i'm sure that sucking the energy coming off the ocean that powers weather must have SOME effect. not that i am preaching doom and gloom... who knows, maybe they could be usefull for sucking the energy out of tropical storms and hurricanes?
It seems that each book in succession was less light-hearted than the one before it, with Mostly Harmless distinctly carrying a morbid undertone. The beautiful humor served to underscore the sadness you could tell was coming.
i just finished Mostly Harmless, and am amazed that the Vogons could have created the transdimensional Guide MkII and orchestrated the lives of all the players so they could destroy the earth a second time. BTW, seems like the whole story of the planet factory that made Earth 2 (and Earth 1) was completely ignored or forgotton. was Mostly Harmless a let down to anyone else?
when looking at the overhead view of the area, i thought it looked pretty tame, and then i came across this:
Dr. Whittaker was confident when he emerged at 6 a.m. from the trailer where route preplanners had analyzed the route, set the strategy for each vehicle and programmed the robots. "It is an easy route; it is [a relatively] flat route," he said, even scoffing at the 1.3-mile stretch through a mountain pass known as Beer Bottle Pass, the most challenging portion of the route. "It's like driving up Centre Avenue," he said, adding that on a scale of 1 to 10, "it's a 3."
During field testing, he noted, the Red Team had developed trail rating with four degrees of difficulty. "This one," he said of the Grand Challenge route, "is below that scale." Some of the sophisticated topographical computer programs developed for the race proved all but superfluous, and were required for only about 3 percent of the route.
and:
Dr. Thrun said the contrast with last year was heightened by the design of the race itself. Last year, the hardest portion was at the very beginning of the race, while a difficult, 1.3-mile mountain pass was reserved for the last nine miles of yesterday's race.
"If you inverted [last year's] race, they would have done 130 miles," even if nobody actually finished, he added.
if it wasn't for the U.S. military, then pittsburg would be run by NAZI germany, or stalinistic soviets. though, who is to say if THEY would have a problem with fanatical terrorists overunning pittsbarghenstien?
they must get mass estimates for these black holes, then multiply by the estimated number of them, and see if it makes up the missing mass. there is a good chance that dark matter has been answered.
i had the feeling that web page designers were not making their pages flexible enough to work with FF's text enlarging. (i must be getting old; need the large font to read comfortably, damn!). though it would be nice to somehow be able to force margins wider....
on most web pages i often increase the font size using Ctrl+ and the main text area usually gets squished by collums on the sides. i would like the article content (the stuff that matters) of pages to widen when the text gets bigger, and not be confined by a certain width no matter what.
speaking of performance doubling, i've been following how long it takes for desktop PCs to double their real world performance on benchmarks like the Winstones and Sysmark. it is hard to compare systems over time when the damn benchmarks themselves keep changing versions every year, but, the figures i get are about 30 months for doubling time. so, 25 years for 1000 fold gain, 50 years for a million fold performance increase!
not to troll here, (and using a windows port would turn me off too) but half the time we either can't get audio to play correctly in mplayer, or the damn copy protection is causing problems. methinks RIAA is making it tough for linux users. actually, almost everywhere i go, i see problems with playing back rented or bought DVDs, even on (especially on) stand alone DVD players for TVs.
sometimes when people are being confronted by an authority figure they feel like they have to be on the defensive, which inturn can be interpreted as acting as guilty.
hell, half the time the psycho owner of the company i work at is so suspicious of her employees that we feel guilty even when we haven't done anything wrong, just because she acts like we did. then she thinks we are guilty because we are acting that way. catch-22.
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there are so many people that only have PCI slots (no AGP nor pci-Express) who would give anything for a nice comprehensive comparo review of old-school pci graphics cards.
/. crowd when it comes to picking out computers. and people recieve them as gifts, etc.). and i bet not providing a viable upgrade option is also a marketing move to force people to buy whole new systems just so they can play games.
there is so much debate as to what is the fastest PCI card for gaming; yet the hardware sites don't understand the pain and suffering out there... or do they? all that is available on ANY hardware site is pure conjecture and respewing of marketing hype.
they will NOT do a PCI video card review.
i think they are under pressure from marketing forces (read: ad dollars) to not reveal the actual performance of PCI. (yet the review sites HAVE stated that the move to pciExpress is purely marketing; that there is NO performance benifit from AGP to pci-Express.)
there is even a pci version of nvidia's 6200, yet try and find a review of that! (http://www.3dfuzion.com/cards_6200_pci_128.asp) yet you can find hordes of reviews of the agp and pciExpress versions of it.
well, many brand name systems have only PCI, and it is a shock to many poor souls when they realize it (not everyone is as thorough as the
of course, i'm posting this hours after the article was put up, so prolly no one will even read this.
yeah, i hate the "it's a privilege to drive" bullshit. it's my right. i don't need a license, license plate, registration, and extra taxes on gas, etc. and don't get me started on mafia insurance racket. but, if i could turn it on and off, this does sound like a nice form of cruise control to keep me from getting nabbed by the cops who use tickets to increase the city budget.
that was pretty funny, but there is something that requires even more of a realistic racing technique than GT3: Grand Prix Legends, from sierra sports. yeah, it came out ages ago, but this damn simulation will have you cussing in no time, as there is no arcade-style bouncing off the walls. good luck trying to get back on course if you go off onto the grass. even the gyroscopic forces of the wheels have been simulated. it is an amazing game, but because it is almost too accurate you really need to feel what is going on, through the seat of your pants and inner ear. not that anyone is going to read this since it is posted a whole day after the MKDS review.
my friends' kids, at five, have no problems with the N64 version.
Why don't you just see what hardware Microsoft has to offer you for your evangelical services?
their software aside, it seems microsoft's hardware is decent stuff. i use a SideWinder force feedback wheel for racing games, with no problems, and it seems high quality. most reviews i've read of other I/O MS hardware have been good.
(sadly, i havn't used that force feedback wheel in a couple years.... i really need to play Grand Prix Legends again!)
another "stifling" factor: slow bandwith. unfortunately i only have friggin dial up, and anytime a website has done something that i could have run on my desktop, guess which is a lot slower by comparison. Even when there shouldn't be a lot of back and forth communication that doesn't require bandwith, it seems that it still takes a LOT longer to get results back than if i had done it local. don't know why....
hey, does your P4 have Hyper-Threading? i've heard of it doing strange things; sometimes my friend's 3.0GHz with Hyper-Threading machine will play mp3s twice as fast! (can't remember what player he was using though.)
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=131796 &cid=11004868
tried it on a Dual G5 Mac, with it's built in calculator, but it gives an error with a number that big!
i'm sure that sucking the energy coming off the ocean that powers weather must have SOME effect. not that i am preaching doom and gloom... who knows, maybe they could be usefull for sucking the energy out of tropical storms and hurricanes?
It seems that each book in succession was less light-hearted than the one before it, with Mostly Harmless distinctly carrying a morbid undertone. The beautiful humor served to underscore the sadness you could tell was coming.
i just finished Mostly Harmless, and am amazed that the Vogons could have created the transdimensional Guide MkII and orchestrated the lives of all the players so they could destroy the earth a second time. BTW, seems like the whole story of the planet factory that made Earth 2 (and Earth 1) was completely ignored or forgotton. was Mostly Harmless a let down to anyone else?
when looking at the overhead view of the area, i thought it looked pretty tame, and then i came across this:
Dr. Whittaker was confident when he emerged at 6 a.m. from the trailer where route preplanners had analyzed the route, set the strategy for each vehicle and programmed the robots. "It is an easy route; it is [a relatively] flat route," he said, even scoffing at the 1.3-mile stretch through a mountain pass known as Beer Bottle Pass, the most challenging portion of the route. "It's like driving up Centre Avenue," he said, adding that on a scale of 1 to 10, "it's a 3."
During field testing, he noted, the Red Team had developed trail rating with four degrees of difficulty. "This one," he said of the Grand Challenge route, "is below that scale." Some of the sophisticated topographical computer programs developed for the race proved all but superfluous, and were required for only about 3 percent of the route.
and:
Dr. Thrun said the contrast with last year was heightened by the design of the race itself. Last year, the hardest portion was at the very beginning of the race, while a difficult, 1.3-mile mountain pass was reserved for the last nine miles of yesterday's race.
"If you inverted [last year's] race, they would have done 130 miles," even if nobody actually finished, he added.
if it wasn't for the U.S. military, then pittsburg would be run by NAZI germany, or stalinistic soviets. though, who is to say if THEY would have a problem with fanatical terrorists overunning pittsbarghenstien?
the best performance to heat ratio:
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http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/05/04
the orion ds-96 and the dt-12 have the highest flops/watt i've found, and they are using transmeta x86 cpus.
they must get mass estimates for these black holes, then multiply by the estimated number of them, and see if it makes up the missing mass. there is a good chance that dark matter has been answered.
does Genobyte even exist today? i used to follow the camBrain project, but i thought all the funding dried up years ago, and Korkin moved on....
i would love to hear that it is still being developed.
i had the feeling that web page designers were not making their pages flexible enough to work with FF's text enlarging. (i must be getting old; need the large font to read comfortably, damn!). though it would be nice to somehow be able to force margins wider....
on most web pages i often increase the font size using Ctrl+ and the main text area usually gets squished by collums on the sides. i would like the article content (the stuff that matters) of pages to widen when the text gets bigger, and not be confined by a certain width no matter what.
the program you are talking about is called MASSIVE - the first time they ran the program BOTH sides turned and ran away!
what is really surprising is that in the latest JD Power and Associates Initial Quality Study, GM came in at #2 in the world, just behind Toyota....
can't remember where chrysler ranked....
speaking of performance doubling, i've been following how long it takes for desktop PCs to double their real world performance on benchmarks like the Winstones and Sysmark. it is hard to compare systems over time when the damn benchmarks themselves keep changing versions every year, but, the figures i get are about 30 months for doubling time. so, 25 years for 1000 fold gain, 50 years for a million fold performance increase!
not to troll here, (and using a windows port would turn me off too) but half the time we either can't get audio to play correctly in mplayer, or the damn copy protection is causing problems. methinks RIAA is making it tough for linux users. actually, almost everywhere i go, i see problems with playing back rented or bought DVDs, even on (especially on) stand alone DVD players for TVs.
shortly after that article came out the kingdom enacted new laws and regulations on hacking.
hell, half the time the psycho owner of the company i work at is so suspicious of her employees that we feel guilty even when we haven't done anything wrong, just because she acts like we did. then she thinks we are guilty because we are acting that way. catch-22.