Now you too can play irritating rap videos that all look alike (even the girls in bikinis drinking overpriced wine are the same) RIGHT ON YOUR GHETTO-ASSED CLOTHES!
seriously, doesn't anyone know that when the "stickers=more horsepower" crowd gets wind of this the sh*t is gonna hit the fan?
Wasn't this thing launched from a submarine?Wouldn't it have been easier to do a ground launch so, well, people could watch the thing fail after 2 minutes?
/pictures sub captain: "ok, she's off, lets get out of here, and no one watch it."
It's an excellent test. The CPU doesn't crunch more triangles due to the higher resolution, it's the exact same number of polygons.
The video card is the stresstest in higher resolution.. the cpu sends the SAME information, and the videocard adds all the pixels, lighting, fillrate, etc. to make the more refined picture.
Thus ALL benchmarks for cpu uses this test. It takes the videocard out of the equation so it doesn't skew the results.
If the ISP MUST make a service available, there is nothing that states that I must use that service.
You must if they're the only provider in your area.
The problem is this however, the ISPs aren't content providers... they're internet service providers. That means whole access to the internet with all it's (based on point of view) flaws.
What this law would do would change them to content providers with the added expense of being a censorship monitor as well (at request). The law is pointless... Netnanny and other programs as such have been around since the beginning. As concerned parents, it should already be installed. Don't drive up my rates because some people don't want to shell out the money for NetNanny directly.
Great... now the fat, sweaty, stupid, irritating, guy next to me on every single flight I've ever taken can now be surfing for horse pr0n and talking his ass off on his cell the whole flight.
I'm going to copy/paste this verbatim and send it... I think it's a great idea.
Getting rid of the publishing mafia as it stands today is the only way to help the artists.
That's the difference. Cooling. The Intel chips are running waaaay hotter than the comparable AMD chips.
With adequate cooling, yes the cpu will be fine. But, in addition to a chip that costs more, you also have to buy a cooler that costs more... just tacking more onto the price of owning an intel chip.
Someone without the foresight is often desperate. They don't have any money comming in, and they treat these offeres like their life-preserver until they can get a job/more money.
I once worked in a debt consolidation company trying to help people out of this mess... it's depressing seeing how these people are preyed on by these credit card companies. There's always the fine-print where if you make a payment a day late they jack up your interest rate to "dry-anal-rape" percent.
This is the stupidest idea ever.
Lets make it even easier to increase your debt beyond the "never going to get outta this" level, and right into the Indentured Servitude level.
Credit cards are blight on our society, people think that it's "free money" and don't check their spending habits until it is FAR too late.
Lets make it HARDER to use a credit card, not easier, before it collapses our economy.
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Now you too can play irritating rap videos that all look alike (even the girls in bikinis drinking overpriced wine are the same) RIGHT ON YOUR GHETTO-ASSED CLOTHES! seriously, doesn't anyone know that when the "stickers=more horsepower" crowd gets wind of this the sh*t is gonna hit the fan?
Your poor 2ghz is being smothered by that underwhelming video card.
The GeForce MX 440 was a budget card back in 2002.
If you're looking for something MUCH better for not a ridiculous price, try the ATI Radeon X700.
Under $200.00 for a 256meg (ddr2 IIRC) 450mhz (ish) card. That coupled with your very decent processor should improve your games dramatically.
I'm sure that'll be a comfort to many vietnam vets. "don't worry, you didn't want to be in the army, I'm sure they didn't want to draft you."
Student: "I don't want you to have my information, and I don't want to be recruited."
Recruiter: "Oh, well in that case, I need all your information so we can put you on our 'draft immediately'... errr, 'do not call' list.
/pictures sub captain: "ok, she's off, lets get out of here, and no one watch it."
read my other reply in this post. It was a joke.
I should have used [/sarcasm] tag.
What more proof does anyone need that no one gives a flying-FUCK about us average people?
I'm writing my congressman, we shouldn't have to deal with this shit.
Thus ALL benchmarks for cpu uses this test. It takes the videocard out of the equation so it doesn't skew the results.
Step1: sell MacOSX
Step2: raise prices
Step3: profit!
I'd hate to read the acknowledgments page in THAT book.
You must if they're the only provider in your area.
The problem is this however, the ISPs aren't content providers... they're internet service providers. That means whole access to the internet with all it's (based on point of view) flaws.
What this law would do would change them to content providers with the added expense of being a censorship monitor as well (at request). The law is pointless... Netnanny and other programs as such have been around since the beginning. As concerned parents, it should already be installed. Don't drive up my rates because some people don't want to shell out the money for NetNanny directly.
Inpple = too close to nipple, and it's creepy
Aptel = sounds like a crappy wristwatch
Macintel = too much like the original
Howabout Matel!
Close enough to both... and we can make toy company jokes too!
Followed closely by dolphins, then humans.
Info taken from "The HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
My head just asplode
*shakes fist*
Damn you, Steve... Damn YOUUUUUUU!
I am overjoyed.
I'm going to copy/paste this verbatim and send it... I think it's a great idea. Getting rid of the publishing mafia as it stands today is the only way to help the artists.
and here I am, without any modpoints... always when you need them :)
That's the difference. Cooling. The Intel chips are running waaaay hotter than the comparable AMD chips.
With adequate cooling, yes the cpu will be fine. But, in addition to a chip that costs more, you also have to buy a cooler that costs more... just tacking more onto the price of owning an intel chip.
1 part= marketing buzzword
1 part= overheating
6 parts= too expensive compared to AMD
I once worked in a debt consolidation company trying to help people out of this mess... it's depressing seeing how these people are preyed on by these credit card companies. There's always the fine-print where if you make a payment a day late they jack up your interest rate to "dry-anal-rape" percent.
Credit cards are blight on our society, people think that it's "free money" and don't check their spending habits until it is FAR too late.
Lets make it HARDER to use a credit card, not easier, before it collapses our economy.
LOL, that was awesome... I'll have to remember that one in the future.
Joke a) Scottish supercomputer: 0 to drunk in 0.000342 seconds!
Joke b) Scottish supercomputer: programmed in baaaa-nary (obligatory scottish+sheep joke)
Joke c) Ahhhch! Me tera is floppin'!
Vote Now! (and yes, I'm part scottish, so I can joke)