well cosidering agp 1.5volts slot and 3.3 volts cards dont mix well
i'd be very careful buying any old card period
tnt2 and geforce were caught dead in the middle of the change in voltage standard for agp.
wtf you babbling about?
Your talking as if AMD fell out the sky last year
AMD has been in a price war with intel since the days of the 486.
Athlon outperformed Pentium 3
Athlon XP technically beat early Pentium 4 crippled on sdram.
Cyrix never ever had a good power/price ratio.
A new cyrix II 333 was easily outperformed by the Pentium 166mmx it was replacing.
the cyrix Wasnt cheap either.
and i hear talk of someone trailing and going to wipe out the other.
Well AMD has trailed for over 10 years what will they do?
How can anyone say who will win the fight.
PS Intel actually released physical dual core CPU's to the market first.
but first doesnt necesarily win
AMD Athlon was the first to 1ghz and we should know now
(how many more 1ghz cpus did intel sell than AMD?)
the trojans are causing excessive DNS request or Worse Attacking local DNS service.
I applaud Bigpond for this Australia's internatioonal link/User ratio is very poor compared to most other continents.
And this protect me you everyone from lazy/stupid buggers who won't go to the effort to remove malicious programs from their computers.
Contributing to spam, DOS attacks remote hacking gateways etc which any of us can be the victim!!
Except that god-awful idea of labelling the buttons with symbols. For some reason my brain cannot grasp the concept of where the circle button, or the triangle button is supposed to be in physical space.
Sure Nintendo has it's problems by using reverse alphabetical order, but once you figure that out, at least it's somewhat logical. For some reason it's easier for my brain to think of where A is, then where circle is.
let me guess with that logic you can't possibly use a qwerty keyboard.
without looking at every letter.
a qwerty keyboard has no logical sense and either does the complaint against the
different coloured!!! symbols on each button for the Playstation
only an idiot playing a video game would stop to look at each button of the control before pressing
Accelerate or Brake.
you just learn after a few minutes
Honestly, if the Sony dual shocks could ever be accused of ripping off a design, it would be Nintendo's controllers.
The basic button layout has remained unchanged from the original playstation controller design. This layout is an exact copy of the SNES controller with different button shapes and two more buttons on top.
This makes sense, of course, since the playstation started its life originally being intended to be a CD add on to Nintendo's snes in the first place.
Likewise, Sony only added the rumble and analog sticks to its controller in response to Nintendo's single analog stick and rumble pack for the n64.
Anyway, silly case, silly ruling but it isn't like copying designs is anything new in the gaming industry. Although this case could start a precident for a whole host of lawsuits.
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there is logic to all this insanity
did you notice the rf (tv adaptor socket is also the same in Playstation and supernintendo
and the Parallel port also?
wanna know why?
ever heard of the mega cd console?
basically it was a 32 bit cd based addon to the Sega megadrive, to compete with Panasonic 3do and get a jump on Nintendo.
Nintendo Contracted Sony to Build a similar machine for the super nintendo to compete in the market.
When Panasonic and Sega s products failed Nintendo jumped ship and left Sony with a half finished product they invested time and money in. sony were given rights to certain things in the super nintendo as part of the deal
Sony decided to invest more time and money investigation and bought several game companies to make a large as possible library of 3d games.
and stiill today is punishing Nindendo for screwing them
IMHO, Mozilla or even firefox is a heavier app than IE. Once running, they're faster (to a trained eye) but sometimes, when pulling out of swap, they will still slug along.
yes regularly using Firefox i spend all day minimising it and sending it to tray for amusement.
Firefox is a app that stays active a lot (you read it) and rarely gets minimised, just alt + tab you will feel the effects a lot less and avoid having software made by MS open while using non-MS software (it has priority to the ram no matter what you do)
Sending Firefox to the swap is the responsibility of the OS
my KDE desktop rarely send my Firefox to the swap
(3 or more hours idle)
it's is habitual for Windows to send any software that isnt MS to the swap asap.
i have 256 MB ram
speaking of which
everytime i have installed Windows Xp on any machine any version
in
c:\Program files\
there exists an empty folder called
Xerox
why is it there it has no purpose no hidden or system files 0 bytes.
It says tossed due to minor imperfections in transistors.
many wont do the job it was made to do with that minor imperfection.
be dangerous (fire hazard, shortage etc)
AMD sells them as Semprons if thbe ath XP or 64 has damage to the L2 cache or 64bit extensions transistors.
they just disable the faulty part and sell without them enabled.
in my opinion minor imperfection is cosmetic , like wrong color, scratches, minor bent pin.
Structural/soldering problems/faults are a major fault.
I think novell owns the patent to the login prompt
what predicament would windows be in without a secure login system??
I guess Windows XP wont actually miss that security wise that is.
i think EOLAS was a completely different topic (anticompetitive practices)
Novell has threatened MS and any other companies that threaten thier interests including
LINUX and many open source applications under their umbrella. with patent infiringement notices
that they will retelliant with any and all means in the collective patent portfolio of
SUN, IBM, Novell Redhat etc.
Your Right the Recovery of Documents in OpenOffice is incredible.
MS office recovery is always out of date , slow and sometimes recovers with a corrupt File/document.
To test its full power Windows XP dfisable all but RPC servce
through services.msc
and use a limited user account with MS Office and OO
they regularly crash and OO always left my work where i left of (to the character)
MS Office recovered from a File from the hdd dated 5 mins before crash.:( lots of lost work.
My computer illiterate mother had less troublee determining which file to recover when using the OO 2 beta recovery wizard than MS office XP.
This isn't.net's fault or Microsoft sadly.
It is plain the fact Adware writers have upgraded to VB.Net to write their software.
It is definetly the first case of it downloading 3rd party requirements to run the malware. (3rd party = microsoft)
Re:To get a ruling
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Microsoft has pubicly threatened to sue Linux users and advocates if they infringe on their patents.
IBM is one of the largest Linux users and advocates.
Hell SCo was sueing them on patent infringement related to linux.
If Microsoft Windows Longhorn fails to sell well on release, in 2006, whoops meant 2009, 2010. 2022.
I forsee they will issue actions against IBM,
Will the largest Linux advocates& providers Novell, Redhat, Google, Intel, Sun provide support to IBM? or keep out of it
context switch (switching from one task to the next) takes quite a performance hit. Hyperthreading, as said in the article, allows for two virtual cores - each one able to track a thread of execution in hardware. By doing this, you can decrease the amount of times the OS performs a context switch.
As far as i am aware that major performance hit is when the Huge pipeline has to be emptied before the next task is attempted.
Hyperthreading is more a necessity than a feature on Pentium 4's.
When people bought a Voodoo II and added and estra circuit board with extra EDO ram chips.
I guy i met was runing a Voodoo 2 with 128meg of EDO ram chips.
this was the time standard was 8 - 16 meg
It's a shame it doesnt happen anymore much SD based RAM is too difficult to manipulated.:(
[quote]Well, not sure about Australia, but in US it is perfectly legal to, for example, watch a child drown, even within your reach, and not do anything about it. Immoral sure, but not illegal. Something to do with infringment on personal liberty by compeling you to act being the greater evil.[/quote]
are you sure? Sometime in the 1990's a federal law called the Good Samaritan Act was introduced in the US which makes it a legal responsibility to help someone in dieng/imminent danger or death. Wouldn't someone Drowning constitute as that?
However In Aust if you arent qualified to help (First Aid, can't swim etc:P ) it is illegal for you to help. Well it would make litigation against you an almost certain court loss. Even if you get them out of the pool unless you hold a current First aid licence it is illegal to perform EAR or CPR.
Source code comments consist of/*line added to interfer with Alternate browser*//*Scrabled DRM key added to saved file to prevent competing Office suites to open performed here*//*Winamp Sucks so we will design WMA and hope noone can use it in Competing Media players because those idiots cant reverse engineer this sequence*/
IBM, Novell, Redhat, Sun
have all thrown they money where their mouth is to stock up on Software Patents to defend creation and innovation in Open Source software.
They have publicly threatened M$ that they will retaliant any Software infringment lawsuit from M$or any other company against Open Source.
So i guess the company with the most patents will win.
M$ and Sun currently have a free trade of ideas / interoperability deal. so don't expect Sun's OpenOffice to be shut down any time soon:).
Only the most notable software patent has made it to the news, but thousand of software patents that are possibly protect innovation have been filed.
We only see the bad ones
which are awful, M$ owns Double click
Apple owns a trash bin icon
Kodak owns a patent to dowhile written in psuedocode (how rediculous is that)
Does Azurues do toyou what it does to me in LinuxMandrake
After a week it suddenly uses my HDD bandwidth excessively MP3s go sluggish and programs take forever to launch
pc becomes unusable till i close azurues.
then i have to open it again
check out this link its pretty clever http://www.thetoque.net/030121/nudebritney.htm
it was my first google result for
http://www.google.com.au/search?q=%22Nude%20Britne y%20Spears%22
***WARNING ADULT CONTENT**
try this
http://www.booble.com/
never used it but found it funny when google.com sued them because their logo
I can see very soon they will implement the so called Exploit that is Gmail Drive
(use you 1gig free email space , as a shared webhosting service.
you may use a portion Max 50% to upload you website to:)
How cool will it be if it means
P4 core and Dothan Core (P5?)
on the same chip which on the fly will determine which Core is most suited to the task at hand
and balance the workload more efficiently.
OMG if you think that Acer looks pretty you have a few colour receptors in your Pupils damaged.
it looks tacky & plain .
you have most definetly never even seen a Machintosh Ibook
One featured in Legally Blonde
Grapefruit and traluscent beauty.
Acer looks like crappy 30cent plastic Spray painted with silver paint.
the time i first saw a creative nomadit had 10gig
capacity (20% biggest hdd at the time) but was huge, ugly and very expensive.
the ipod is expensive also the hdd capacity in comparison is quite meager, size is about half but still fairly large,
but people buy it,
why?
because it is sleak and stylish.
the glossy white is actually a lot easier to keep clean the the rough plastic on most other products:)
and the white and blue screen complement each other extremely well.
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well cosidering agp 1.5volts slot and 3.3 volts cards dont mix well i'd be very careful buying any old card period tnt2 and geforce were caught dead in the middle of the change in voltage standard for agp.
wtf you babbling about? Your talking as if AMD fell out the sky last year AMD has been in a price war with intel since the days of the 486. Athlon outperformed Pentium 3 Athlon XP technically beat early Pentium 4 crippled on sdram. Cyrix never ever had a good power/price ratio. A new cyrix II 333 was easily outperformed by the Pentium 166mmx it was replacing. the cyrix Wasnt cheap either. and i hear talk of someone trailing and going to wipe out the other. Well AMD has trailed for over 10 years what will they do? How can anyone say who will win the fight. PS Intel actually released physical dual core CPU's to the market first. but first doesnt necesarily win AMD Athlon was the first to 1ghz and we should know now (how many more 1ghz cpus did intel sell than AMD?)
the trojans are causing excessive DNS request or Worse Attacking local DNS service. I applaud Bigpond for this Australia's internatioonal link/User ratio is very poor compared to most other continents. And this protect me you everyone from lazy/stupid buggers who won't go to the effort to remove malicious programs from their computers. Contributing to spam, DOS attacks remote hacking gateways etc which any of us can be the victim!!
Except that god-awful idea of labelling the buttons with symbols. For some reason my brain cannot grasp the concept of where the circle button, or the triangle button is supposed to be in physical space. Sure Nintendo has it's problems by using reverse alphabetical order, but once you figure that out, at least it's somewhat logical. For some reason it's easier for my brain to think of where A is, then where circle is.
let me guess with that logic you can't possibly use a qwerty keyboard. without looking at every letter. a qwerty keyboard has no logical sense and either does the complaint against the
different coloured!!! symbols on each button for the Playstation only an idiot playing a video game would stop to look at each button of the control before pressing Accelerate or Brake. you just learn after a few minutes
there is logic to all this insanity did you notice the rf (tv adaptor socket is also the same in Playstation and supernintendo and the Parallel port also?
wanna know why?
ever heard of the mega cd console? basically it was a 32 bit cd based addon to the Sega megadrive, to compete with Panasonic 3do and get a jump on Nintendo. Nintendo Contracted Sony to Build a similar machine for the super nintendo to compete in the market.
When Panasonic and Sega s products failed Nintendo jumped ship and left Sony with a half finished product they invested time and money in.
sony were given rights to certain things in the super nintendo as part of the deal
Sony decided to invest more time and money investigation and bought several game companies to make a large as possible library of 3d games.
and stiill today is punishing Nindendo for screwing them
speaking of which everytime i have installed Windows Xp on any machine any version in c:\Program files\ there exists an empty folder called Xerox why is it there it has no purpose no hidden or system files 0 bytes.
It says tossed due to minor imperfections in transistors. many wont do the job it was made to do with that minor imperfection. be dangerous (fire hazard, shortage etc) AMD sells them as Semprons if thbe ath XP or 64 has damage to the L2 cache or 64bit extensions transistors. they just disable the faulty part and sell without them enabled. in my opinion minor imperfection is cosmetic , like wrong color, scratches, minor bent pin. Structural/soldering problems/faults are a major fault.
I think novell owns the patent to the login prompt what predicament would windows be in without a secure login system?? I guess Windows XP wont actually miss that security wise that is. i think EOLAS was a completely different topic (anticompetitive practices) Novell has threatened MS and any other companies that threaten thier interests including LINUX and many open source applications under their umbrella. with patent infiringement notices that they will retelliant with any and all means in the collective patent portfolio of SUN, IBM, Novell Redhat etc.
Your Right the Recovery of Documents in OpenOffice is incredible. MS office recovery is always out of date , slow and sometimes recovers with a corrupt File/document. To test its full power Windows XP dfisable all but RPC servce through services.msc and use a limited user account with MS Office and OO they regularly crash and OO always left my work where i left of (to the character) MS Office recovered from a File from the hdd dated 5 mins before crash. :( lots of lost work.
My computer illiterate mother had less troublee determining which file to recover when using the OO 2 beta recovery wizard than MS office XP.
This isn't .net's fault or Microsoft sadly.
It is plain the fact Adware writers have upgraded to VB .Net to write their software.
It is definetly the first case of it downloading 3rd party requirements to run the malware. (3rd party = microsoft)
Microsoft has pubicly threatened to sue Linux users and advocates if they infringe on their patents. IBM is one of the largest Linux users and advocates. Hell SCo was sueing them on patent infringement related to linux. If Microsoft Windows Longhorn fails to sell well on release, in 2006, whoops meant 2009, 2010. 2022. I forsee they will issue actions against IBM, Will the largest Linux advocates& providers Novell, Redhat, Google, Intel, Sun provide support to IBM? or keep out of it
When people bought a Voodoo II and added and estra circuit board with extra EDO ram chips. I guy i met was runing a Voodoo 2 with 128meg of EDO ram chips. this was the time standard was 8 - 16 meg It's a shame it doesnt happen anymore much SD based RAM is too difficult to manipulated. :(
[quote]Well, not sure about Australia, but in US it is perfectly legal to, for example, watch a child drown, even within your reach, and not do anything about it.
:P ) it is illegal for you to help. Well it would make litigation against you an almost certain court loss.
Immoral sure, but not illegal. Something to do with infringment on personal liberty by compeling you to act being the greater evil.[/quote]
are you sure?
Sometime in the 1990's a federal law called the Good Samaritan Act was introduced in the US
which makes it a legal responsibility to help someone in dieng/imminent danger or death.
Wouldn't someone Drowning constitute as that?
However In Aust if you arent qualified to help (First Aid, can't swim etc
Even if you get them out of the pool unless you hold a current First aid licence it is illegal to perform EAR or CPR.
Source code comments consist of /*line added to interfer with Alternate browser*/ /*Scrabled DRM key added to saved file to prevent competing Office suites to open performed here*/ /*Winamp Sucks so we will design WMA and hope noone can use it in Competing Media players because those idiots cant reverse engineer this sequence*/
IBM, Novell, Redhat, Sun have all thrown they money where their mouth is to stock up on Software Patents to defend creation and innovation in Open Source software. They have publicly threatened M$ that they will retaliant any Software infringment lawsuit from M$or any other company against Open Source. So i guess the company with the most patents will win. M$ and Sun currently have a free trade of ideas / interoperability deal. so don't expect Sun's OpenOffice to be shut down any time soon :).
Only the most notable software patent has made it to the news, but thousand of software patents that are possibly protect innovation have been filed.
We only see the bad ones
which are awful, M$ owns Double click
Apple owns a trash bin icon
Kodak owns a patent to dowhile written in psuedocode (how rediculous is that)
Tools>Options> Load/Save> General > Auto Save every ?
Does Azurues do toyou what it does to me in LinuxMandrake After a week it suddenly uses my HDD bandwidth excessively MP3s go sluggish and programs take forever to launch pc becomes unusable till i close azurues. then i have to open it again
do you use KDE?? because in KDE i have found the multiple desktops works for numerous OPenGL games :).
ctrl + F2.
check out this link its pretty clever http://www.thetoque.net/030121/nudebritney.htm it was my first google result for http://www.google.com.au/search?q=%22Nude%20Britne y%20Spears%22
***WARNING ADULT CONTENT**
try this
http://www.booble.com/
never used it but found it funny when google.com sued them because their logo
I can see very soon they will implement the so called Exploit that is Gmail Drive (use you 1gig free email space , as a shared webhosting service. you may use a portion Max 50% to upload you website to :)
How cool will it be if it means P4 core and Dothan Core (P5?) on the same chip which on the fly will determine which Core is most suited to the task at hand and balance the workload more efficiently.
OMG if you think that Acer looks pretty
:)
you have a few colour receptors in your Pupils
damaged. it looks tacky & plain .
you have most definetly never even seen a Machintosh Ibook
One featured in Legally Blonde Grapefruit and traluscent beauty.
Acer looks like crappy 30cent plastic Spray painted with silver paint.
the time i first saw a creative nomadit had 10gig
capacity (20% biggest hdd at the time) but was huge, ugly and very expensive. the ipod is expensive also the hdd capacity in comparison is quite meager, size is about half but still fairly large,
but people buy it, why? because it is sleak and stylish. the glossy white is actually a lot easier to keep clean the the rough plastic on most other products
and the white and blue screen complement each other extremely well.