Is your 2500 a Barton Core? They tend to be a bit hotter, I've noticed.
Anyhow, the AMD OEM heatsink/fan combo is garbage, but even with that, I haven't seen temps into the 80s before! AMD says the thing can take up to 95C, but that's friggin hot.
I don't know what everything else is like, but I'd definately check into finding ways to cool down your box if you haven't already. Properly placed case fans and trying to keep wires out of the way will help a bit. Also, I've found that a power supply with a fan on the bottom is helpful.
Of course, to see a huge difference I'd ditch the OEM heatsink and get a better one. You can get your Barton under 55C pretty easily with a decent heatsink.
The one thing about the hardware that is relevant is that it has to exist. There is no proof that the demo Phantom there was nothing more than a box with a blue lightbulb in it.
Taking a few extra steps to ensure standards compliance is well worth it.
I've found that standard compliant web pages tend to be more interoperable between browsers (sadly, there will still be differences). This makes it easier for you since you won't have to work as hard to find ways to make your site look good in several browsers. It makes it easier for viewers because they can use the web browser they like the best.
The only problem is that there are a lot of people who still browse on old hardware that has Netscape 4.x on it. Netscape 4.x tends to mangle CSS pretty badly.
Sure, it is technically possible to start from nothing, work hard, make the "correct" decisions, and make it to "the top." However, it also takes a huge amount of LUCK.
Even you say that Gates got lucky. He not only was lucky enough to find a hastily put together OS that he could buy for $80,000, but he was also lucky enough that IBM was in such a rush that they screwed up their contract with MS. If not for that, MS would probably have been just another software company that made programming languages.
A lot of people start from nothing, work hard, make sound choices, and still fail because of the various random factors surrounding them that they have absolutely no control over.
I can assure you that if I took $1,500 and started a business with it, the likely outcome (no matter how hard I worked or how wise my decisions were) would be me going out of business in a very short amount of time.
Who knows, maybe tommorrow a lightbulb will go off in your head and you'll think of a way of doing something innovative or different.
People think of that all the time. However, the chance of taking that idea and turning it into a fortune 500 company is slim.
People always ask me why their drives show less capacity in Windows than the box says.
I then have to explain to them that 1 kilobyte is 1024 bytes, but the hard drive makers label their drives as if 1 kilobyte is 1000 bytes.
Most people I've explained this to actually did feel at least a bit cheated by manufacturers who told them they were getting more than they actually had.
Personally, I feel that hard drive manufacturers are being misleading with their boxes, for the most part. Some manufacturers DO put "(1 gigabyte = 1,000,000,000 bytes)" or something similar on their boxes, but most do NOT (at least didn't when I last bought a boxed drive).
Obviously, marketing drones believe that consumers prefer nice rounded numbers. But they should at least put the TRUE capacity on their box underneath their "rounded" capacity.
#1. You can vote. It may not do much versus the hordes of paranoid people who are foolishly willing to give up freedoms for safety that the government promises but will never deliver, but it is still better than not voting. Also get your friends in your "age bracket" to vote. That way your voice will not be scoffed at by lawmakers next time you speak up.
#2. Continue to speak up. Right now it still isn't illegal to say you don't like the Patriot Act. Speak up now before Ashcroft pushes through a law that makes it illegal to do so. The Constitution will only protect you if you stand up for it.
Both ATI and nVidia are guilty of trying to stack things in their favor dishonestly. ATI making deals with Valve to get HL2 to work better on the ATI cards by design is just the most recent example, and while it might be a major example, both sides have done this before.
At the same time, both card makers are really putting out insane results that wouldn't have been thought of even a couple of years ago.
My decision in graphics cards is based on my past experience and driver support. In this area nVidia still winds hands down. If ATI wants to sell me a card, they're going to need to beef up their Linux driver support big time.
Sure, it might be funny to JOKE about a lisence required to access the internet... but isn't a good idea.
The internet is a place of free information exchange, or at least should be in theory. We shouldn't limit who has access based on their current knowledge.
It is unfair for a normal web surfer to be forced to take network security classes just to browse.
SCO doesn't want to go to court. They are pumping their stock. If announcing possible litigation against SGI will boost their stock price a bit for a day, they'll do it eventually.
While it may be difficult to call my current boss just an "idiot," he is still an asshole. On the other hand I know people who have nice bosses, but are still idiots.
Someone I know has a boss who treats everyone extremely well, but is out of the loop so much that his actions nearly caused the whole department to be laid off.
I know that a lot of people are pissed off at SCO for all of their rampant BS, but DOS attacks do not do jack squat to "help" Linux, Open Source, or otherwise because it makes Linux users look like a bunch of criminals, which is exactly what SCO wants people to think.
Microsoft is extremely aggressive on campuses. MS employs very aggressive student reps who will give out freebies if he needs to if it means one less person using non-MS products or dev tools. It is also hard to compete with Microsoft's handouts. They can continue to throw free food, prizes (X-Boxen and what not), and software. Open Source advocates on campus can hand out copies of Linux on CD-R, and that's about it.
Finally someone says it. California is hemorrhaging cash because the state government overspends grossly. They need to cut the B.S. social programs that do squat.
As you said, the only way the government seems to help me is that they keep the roads intact (that one may be arguable) around here. Other than that they don't really seem to do all to much.
Unfortunately, none of the "big" recall candidates here in California seem to want to address the issue that the state spends too much. Once again, only certain third parties are coming out telling the truth that we spend more than we should be.
I used to subscribe to EGM. I used to like it a lot. I enjoyed the layouts, I enjoyed all of the cool import news, I enjoyed the psycho mail of the month, I enjoyed the little cartoon drawings of the review crew (especially Sushi-X). Every month I looked forward to getting a magazine thick with gaming goodness.
And then almost suddenly it began sucking big time. I don't know what it was? The original publisher was bought out and something about it changed. The noticeable thing is that the issues seemed to become smaller, but not all that much changed.
Maybe it simply was because you could soon find information quicker and faster on the web (although at the time it hadn't reached the crazy levels it is today). Maybe I just grew out of listening to the huge amounts of hype and slanted reviews.
I'm not sure what it was really, but EGM wasn't cool to me anymore. Now I can't look at much gaming journalism, online or in print, without being disgusted by it and thinking how full of BS all the writers are.
Legislation isn't always the correct tool to fighting something. Whenever we consent to Congress passing more and more laws, we are sure to lose some of our freedoms along the way.
I hate spam as much as the next guy, but it isn't worth letting Congress think up some hair-brained, rights-destroying scheme that probably won't work anyway.
Too bad they don't realize this on most issues out there.
While this still seems like a pump and dump for SCO's execs, the biggest danger here is that SCO lands itself in the courtroom with a stupid and/or tech ignorant judge who will agree with their baseless, stupid claim that they own this code.
It may be one heck of a long shot for them, but dumber rulings have been made before.
Suddenly SCO not only owns Linux, but that could also qualify them as owning BSD as well as anything that even closely resembles UNIX in one way or another. They might even be able to lay claim to parts of every operating system out there so long as that OS borrowed concepts from UNIX (or BSD, Linux, etc.) Doesn't Windows have code copied from BSD too? Or maybe that is what Microsoft "lisenced" already...
It is absolutely shameful that this was posted. It is hard to believe that/. editors couldn't even be bothered to scroll through the entire download page to see that there is still a link for the fee codec.
That being said, this does show how vulnerable we are to "bait and switch" methods. Divx has been widely adopted because it was free. If all of a sudden we DID need to pay money or have adware on our PCs to use the newer version, it would cause problems.
I'm calling troll because my Athlons have always treated me well. Drives have never "dissapeared" from explorer for me, and I've been using AMD processors for quite some time.
Even with the STOCK AMD heatsink and fan, I have to put in a considerable amount of effort to get an Athlon above 60 C.
I've never truly overheated an Athlon, and the 2500 XP (Barton) I just put together has a _shitty heatsink_, and I still can't get it above 60 C if I try.
With a good heatsink and Arctic Silver, people have gotten their Athlons to stay in the 30s. I plan on replacing my current heatsink when I have the time, but even with the POS I have right now I can't even get it above 60 by 3D gaming for hours, let alone running Toast.
I agree that in general, Intel processors are cooler, but I do not see a performance difference in gaming that warrants their extra price. Either way, if your processor is overheating, either you are doing something wrong or something is defective.
I agree. I've posted a couple taunts that will be sure to lower my karma to those who say that Nintendo makes kiddy games, because it simply isn't true.
Unless of course all the "older" demographic really wants is lots and lots of violence and excessive T&A.
I also don't understand why the media is biased against Nintendo. Game Cubes are selling just as well as X-Boxes in North America. In Japan, X-Boxes aren't selling nearly as well. Nintendo actually makes money, while Microsoft is still losing money on the X-Box. Why are people predicting doom for the Game Cube and not the X-Box?
What will it take for Nintendo to sell to 18+ demographic more? Should they release tons of pinups of Samus Aran on the beach in a bikini as promotion for Metroid Prime 2? Maybe that'll do it.
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Is your 2500 a Barton Core? They tend to be a bit hotter, I've noticed.
Anyhow, the AMD OEM heatsink/fan combo is garbage, but even with that, I haven't seen temps into the 80s before! AMD says the thing can take up to 95C, but that's friggin hot.
I don't know what everything else is like, but I'd definately check into finding ways to cool down your box if you haven't already. Properly placed case fans and trying to keep wires out of the way will help a bit. Also, I've found that a power supply with a fan on the bottom is helpful.
Of course, to see a huge difference I'd ditch the OEM heatsink and get a better one. You can get your Barton under 55C pretty easily with a decent heatsink.
The one thing about the hardware that is relevant is that it has to exist. There is no proof that the demo Phantom there was nothing more than a box with a blue lightbulb in it.
Step 1: Buy really expensive components.
Step 2: Put them together.
Step 3: l33t box that gets 1,000 FPS in Quake 3. Not surprisingly, this box will also run just about every other Windows app there is well.
Cost of exact same system next year: $500.00
Unless you're a Bush family. In that case 2 beers gets you in the White House a couple decades later.
Taking a few extra steps to ensure standards compliance is well worth it.
I've found that standard compliant web pages tend to be more interoperable between browsers (sadly, there will still be differences). This makes it easier for you since you won't have to work as hard to find ways to make your site look good in several browsers. It makes it easier for viewers because they can use the web browser they like the best.
The only problem is that there are a lot of people who still browse on old hardware that has Netscape 4.x on it. Netscape 4.x tends to mangle CSS pretty badly.
Sure, it is technically possible to start from nothing, work hard, make the "correct" decisions, and make it to "the top." However, it also takes a huge amount of LUCK.
Even you say that Gates got lucky. He not only was lucky enough to find a hastily put together OS that he could buy for $80,000, but he was also lucky enough that IBM was in such a rush that they screwed up their contract with MS. If not for that, MS would probably have been just another software company that made programming languages.
A lot of people start from nothing, work hard, make sound choices, and still fail because of the various random factors surrounding them that they have absolutely no control over.
I can assure you that if I took $1,500 and started a business with it, the likely outcome (no matter how hard I worked or how wise my decisions were) would be me going out of business in a very short amount of time.
Who knows, maybe tommorrow a lightbulb will go off in your head and you'll think of a way of doing something innovative or different.
People think of that all the time. However, the chance of taking that idea and turning it into a fortune 500 company is slim.
People always ask me why their drives show less capacity in Windows than the box says.
I then have to explain to them that 1 kilobyte is 1024 bytes, but the hard drive makers label their drives as if 1 kilobyte is 1000 bytes.
Most people I've explained this to actually did feel at least a bit cheated by manufacturers who told them they were getting more than they actually had.
Personally, I feel that hard drive manufacturers are being misleading with their boxes, for the most part. Some manufacturers DO put "(1 gigabyte = 1,000,000,000 bytes)" or something similar on their boxes, but most do NOT (at least didn't when I last bought a boxed drive).
Obviously, marketing drones believe that consumers prefer nice rounded numbers. But they should at least put the TRUE capacity on their box underneath their "rounded" capacity.
You mean the manual that was inside the box and therefore can not be read until the X-Box is bought and the box is opened up.
#1. You can vote. It may not do much versus the hordes of paranoid people who are foolishly willing to give up freedoms for safety that the government promises but will never deliver, but it is still better than not voting. Also get your friends in your "age bracket" to vote. That way your voice will not be scoffed at by lawmakers next time you speak up.
#2. Continue to speak up. Right now it still isn't illegal to say you don't like the Patriot Act. Speak up now before Ashcroft pushes through a law that makes it illegal to do so. The Constitution will only protect you if you stand up for it.
Both ATI and nVidia are guilty of trying to stack things in their favor dishonestly. ATI making deals with Valve to get HL2 to work better on the ATI cards by design is just the most recent example, and while it might be a major example, both sides have done this before.
At the same time, both card makers are really putting out insane results that wouldn't have been thought of even a couple of years ago.
My decision in graphics cards is based on my past experience and driver support. In this area nVidia still winds hands down. If ATI wants to sell me a card, they're going to need to beef up their Linux driver support big time.
Sure, it might be funny to JOKE about a lisence required to access the internet... but isn't a good idea.
The internet is a place of free information exchange, or at least should be in theory. We shouldn't limit who has access based on their current knowledge.
It is unfair for a normal web surfer to be forced to take network security classes just to browse.
SCO doesn't want to go to court. They are pumping their stock. If announcing possible litigation against SGI will boost their stock price a bit for a day, they'll do it eventually.
While it may be difficult to call my current boss just an "idiot," he is still an asshole. On the other hand I know people who have nice bosses, but are still idiots.
Someone I know has a boss who treats everyone extremely well, but is out of the loop so much that his actions nearly caused the whole department to be laid off.
I know that a lot of people are pissed off at SCO for all of their rampant BS, but DOS attacks do not do jack squat to "help" Linux, Open Source, or otherwise because it makes Linux users look like a bunch of criminals, which is exactly what SCO wants people to think.
Microsoft is extremely aggressive on campuses. MS employs very aggressive student reps who will give out freebies if he needs to if it means one less person using non-MS products or dev tools. It is also hard to compete with Microsoft's handouts. They can continue to throw free food, prizes (X-Boxen and what not), and software. Open Source advocates on campus can hand out copies of Linux on CD-R, and that's about it.
Finally someone says it. California is hemorrhaging cash because the state government overspends grossly. They need to cut the B.S. social programs that do squat.
As you said, the only way the government seems to help me is that they keep the roads intact (that one may be arguable) around here. Other than that they don't really seem to do all to much.
Unfortunately, none of the "big" recall candidates here in California seem to want to address the issue that the state spends too much. Once again, only certain third parties are coming out telling the truth that we spend more than we should be.
The real reason has nothing to do with ego. Everyone knows that they get preview copies of games, they don't need to rub it in.
The real reason is that giving a game less than a 7/10 could cost them advertising revenue if they piss off a publisher with a negative review.
I used to subscribe to EGM. I used to like it a lot. I enjoyed the layouts, I enjoyed all of the cool import news, I enjoyed the psycho mail of the month, I enjoyed the little cartoon drawings of the review crew (especially Sushi-X). Every month I looked forward to getting a magazine thick with gaming goodness.
And then almost suddenly it began sucking big time. I don't know what it was? The original publisher was bought out and something about it changed. The noticeable thing is that the issues seemed to become smaller, but not all that much changed.
Maybe it simply was because you could soon find information quicker and faster on the web (although at the time it hadn't reached the crazy levels it is today). Maybe I just grew out of listening to the huge amounts of hype and slanted reviews.
I'm not sure what it was really, but EGM wasn't cool to me anymore. Now I can't look at much gaming journalism, online or in print, without being disgusted by it and thinking how full of BS all the writers are.
Legislation isn't always the correct tool to fighting something. Whenever we consent to Congress passing more and more laws, we are sure to lose some of our freedoms along the way.
I hate spam as much as the next guy, but it isn't worth letting Congress think up some hair-brained, rights-destroying scheme that probably won't work anyway.
Too bad they don't realize this on most issues out there.
While this still seems like a pump and dump for SCO's execs, the biggest danger here is that SCO lands itself in the courtroom with a stupid and/or tech ignorant judge who will agree with their baseless, stupid claim that they own this code.
It may be one heck of a long shot for them, but dumber rulings have been made before.
Suddenly SCO not only owns Linux, but that could also qualify them as owning BSD as well as anything that even closely resembles UNIX in one way or another. They might even be able to lay claim to parts of every operating system out there so long as that OS borrowed concepts from UNIX (or BSD, Linux, etc.) Doesn't Windows have code copied from BSD too? Or maybe that is what Microsoft "lisenced" already...
All those insults I threw at Bill Gates in newsgroups may actually reach him
It is absolutely shameful that this was posted. It is hard to believe that /. editors couldn't even be bothered to scroll through the entire download page to see that there is still a link for the fee codec.
That being said, this does show how vulnerable we are to "bait and switch" methods. Divx has been widely adopted because it was free. If all of a sudden we DID need to pay money or have adware on our PCs to use the newer version, it would cause problems.
I'm calling troll because my Athlons have always treated me well. Drives have never "dissapeared" from explorer for me, and I've been using AMD processors for quite some time.
Even with the STOCK AMD heatsink and fan, I have to put in a considerable amount of effort to get an Athlon above 60 C.
I've never truly overheated an Athlon, and the 2500 XP (Barton) I just put together has a _shitty heatsink_, and I still can't get it above 60 C if I try.
With a good heatsink and Arctic Silver, people have gotten their Athlons to stay in the 30s. I plan on replacing my current heatsink when I have the time, but even with the POS I have right now I can't even get it above 60 by 3D gaming for hours, let alone running Toast.
I agree that in general, Intel processors are cooler, but I do not see a performance difference in gaming that warrants their extra price. Either way, if your processor is overheating, either you are doing something wrong or something is defective.
I guess we have short memories, since something similar happened on the West Coast in the mid 90s.
I believe it was either 1995 or 1996, IIRC.
Power was out for hours throughout California and parts of Oregon and Washington (I believe parts of Arizona and Nevada were affected as well).
It sucked, but it wasn't the end of the world.
I agree. I've posted a couple taunts that will be sure to lower my karma to those who say that Nintendo makes kiddy games, because it simply isn't true.
Unless of course all the "older" demographic really wants is lots and lots of violence and excessive T&A.
I also don't understand why the media is biased against Nintendo. Game Cubes are selling just as well as X-Boxes in North America. In Japan, X-Boxes aren't selling nearly as well. Nintendo actually makes money, while Microsoft is still losing money on the X-Box. Why are people predicting doom for the Game Cube and not the X-Box?
What will it take for Nintendo to sell to 18+ demographic more? Should they release tons of pinups of Samus Aran on the beach in a bikini as promotion for Metroid Prime 2? Maybe that'll do it.