The IRS has a department for handling corporate taxation, a small sub-department of which is for handling personal taxes for large income/asset citizens. It seems the mix up's occur when the normal tax departments process some of his holdings, and find on their local department network records that no taxes have ever been paid on the holdings, and send out some notices. There's never any names attached to the accounts at processing level, so it probably happens relatively often.
And just to interject before the "what is there beyond multiplayer" comments...
with Live you can download videos, game demos, music and themes. send email, voice messages, add friends, form clans, and network to your pc's (for watching videos, playing music, and looking at pictures)
I'm not trying to preach, but Live just happens to be a service I really like.
Well... first of all the system comes with about 30 skins right out of the box, you get some with most games, and you can buy some special ones like the PA skin for four dollars or so (which includes a bunch of other stuff as well)
As far as wanting a free xbox live account, you do. You can use all the features of live for free, except online multiplayer, which you can use for free on weekends.
Gold (the suscription service) gives you access to better connections and of course you can use it 24/7.
And that in itself is impressive, I mean, it costs them money to run it, why should they give it away? I find alot of free software zealots tend to have some serious self-entitlement complexes.
480M ISK is worth about $240, not $1000 - and I seem to remember there was about 20 or 30 people who got scammed in the battleship rip; so...that's what? $8-12 a person?
The first Xbox was an nvidia chip, the new one is ATi - some games contain hardware specific optimizations, and nVidia refused to license them to emulate their hardware, for anyone that actually read up on the issue.
So...basically you are saying you want the same rewards as people who invest more time and effort...? As for two hours, I play with people who play 80 hours a week, I don't think we're talking about the same game here.
Why the hostility? 0.o
Alright then, USA for one, and not the nation kind - Unified Shader Architectue, or PxSv3.1 depending on who you talk to, unsupported on the current generation of GPU. Also the hardware does support HDR since anyone who knows what "they are talking about" knows that HDR is a software solution to what is essentially a hardware limitation.
I do wonder why I post here at all, but I don't think it has anything to do what I know...
I find your attitude disapointing, you of all people should understand that not everything can do everything, and most do nothing, so you should praise those who do their part.
I'd better be with an X2 and a GTX... Incidently, this isn't Microsoft per se, it's just the super striped down Sysmark plugin from Futuremark, and we all know how reliable 3DMark is....
Very soft felt, the kind you'd use to clean the most delicate of surfaces leaves damage on Nano's that looks like what would happen if you rubbed it on a slightly sandy floor, and it permanently obscures the screen, so I'd say it was an issue.
Flash! Slashdot headlines inaccurate reporting about hugely inflated price of microsoft product; Apple/Sony/Nintendo geeks rejoice!
I enjoy slashdot's story comments, but no one takes any of you seriously anymore - there's a line between fanboys and minutemen, and we passed it about 4 years ago.
Software patents are tame and fairly meaningless in the out-of-control state that Patent Law is in; when GE won a patent in Appeals to the ownership of a bacteria that they "engineered" to eat oil, the Patent Office stated, "Everything save a full term human being is patentable." Since then almost 5% of the human genome has been patented by various biotech firms, under the basis of medical trade secrets and pharmaceuticals treatment.
I'm not making this stuff up, The Corporation is a good non-technical learning start.
I rarely post, but I thought this might be worth reminding people of.
While computers are easily tactical masters of chess playing - in that they can immediately anaylze all possible moves availible in a given play, and determine possible outcomes, their fallacy comes in strategy, because, put simply, they don't know how to win.
What is a good move? Is it one that results in a opposing piece's defeat? If so - what value should that piece be assigned? Indeed, what is the value of _any_ piece at any given time on the boards - why should a machine choose one set of perfect moves over another - in almost every way a computer cannot determine the long term value of a move.
This is remedied somewhat by having pre-played game analysis at the disposal of the machine, but in almost every case the computer program requires serious recalibration between matches to prevent a human player from adapting to a strong tactical game. It is by no stretch that computers can be considered inferior in almost every way to a strong human player.
Kasparov posited Advanced Chess as the ultimate play form; the tactical mastery of a computer, mixed with the multilevel strategy of a grandmaster player, making for a game of sublime subtley and perfection.
Cooling with liquid, in flux or stasis, would be inefficient within a transistor based environment, since it is more important to quickly dissipate small amounts of heat, then slowly dissipate immense amounts. The simplest way to upgrade a water/ethynol based cooler is to replace the coolent with two parts high performance synthetic engine oil (high lubricity dyno nascar oil is best) and 1 part synthetic stasis thinning agent. While it cannot absorb as much energy as metal (1/1000th that of copper) it dissipates it many hundred times faster, and will obviously not conduct a charge. The downside is it requires a 5 psi tested sealed system, since it can leak through even airtight connections.
Also magnetic flow operated sodium sinks tend to polarize contact points over time (the reason that dusted and secured used plutonium rods form a distinctive magnetic nickel finish) which unless I'm mistaken would invalidate gates on a microprocessor.
Workstation cards provide almost no performance for games, unless those games are entirely OpenGL based, in which case they simply provide very poor performance. They do however run Maya and other high end rendering environments, something even your papa's SLI 6800U can't handle. Although I've tried another FireGL card in this performance range and was less then impressed. Stick with a FX3000 Quadro if you're at all serious about what you do.
And yes, it will work perfectly with an Apple 30" Cinema display.
Absolutely; could be a couple of things. First of all, if it's an MX card it's not much of an upgrade, but that aside, the game has probably automatically enabled server features that would not have been active with your GF2, such a directX 8.1/9 routines (pixel shaders, specular lighting) as well it would have set your detail level higher as a default, unless you've set them the same.
In any case your image quality has improve at the cost of framerate, if you tweak your settings you should be able to recover your framerate and maintain a higher IQ.
While it would be unfair to say Blizzard's art department doesn't receive enough acclaim, I think they deserve every ounce of good press and more besides, Blizzard is one of the few developpers out there that uses the quality of their art to act as a central element of their game engines. While the game does sport some noteworthy techical specifcations (pixel shaded post-processing, dynamic distance polymorphic (no pun entended) LOD, and some very sharp specular lighting effects) it is far and beyond their unique art style that makes it such a beautiful game. And style needs no hardware requirements, only taste =)
You're absolutely right, I didn't convey that very well, basically I was encapsulating it's ability to handle certain pixel shaders with greater ease then a PC - but you hit the nail on the head with the Hypertransport.
I'm tired of hearing the argument that a 733mhz nvidia nv30 chipset is incapable of performing to the calibur of a new pc. This is a bunk conclusion for a couple of reasons.
1. The xBox is not stock hardware, it's a dedicated task machine built around it's own instruction sets, that can handle tasks that require processor (cpu or gpu) on a pc, automatically.
2. The xBox only need output at resolutions ranging from (tv resolutions converted to pc resoltions) 640x480 to 1024x768, and can achieve much higher preceived detail with lower resolution textures (for a easy way to experience this, simply hook up the video out on your graphics card to your tv, and run your favorite game, you'll notice while the resolution is low, the textures seem richer then normal)
3. The xBox does not run a shell OS, only a runtime environment, without added resources.
4. The xBox need only be configured to run one application.
5. Games on the xBox can be optimized to the extreme, since there is no need to ensure compatibility.
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The IRS has a department for handling corporate taxation, a small sub-department of which is for handling personal taxes for large income/asset citizens. It seems the mix up's occur when the normal tax departments process some of his holdings, and find on their local department network records that no taxes have ever been paid on the holdings, and send out some notices. There's never any names attached to the accounts at processing level, so it probably happens relatively often.
And just to interject before the "what is there beyond multiplayer" comments... with Live you can download videos, game demos, music and themes. send email, voice messages, add friends, form clans, and network to your pc's (for watching videos, playing music, and looking at pictures) I'm not trying to preach, but Live just happens to be a service I really like.
Well... first of all the system comes with about 30 skins right out of the box, you get some with most games, and you can buy some special ones like the PA skin for four dollars or so (which includes a bunch of other stuff as well)
As far as wanting a free xbox live account, you do. You can use all the features of live for free, except online multiplayer, which you can use for free on weekends.
Gold (the suscription service) gives you access to better connections and of course you can use it 24/7.
And that in itself is impressive, I mean, it costs them money to run it, why should they give it away? I find alot of free software zealots tend to have some serious self-entitlement complexes.
480M ISK is worth about $240, not $1000 - and I seem to remember there was about 20 or 30 people who got scammed in the battleship rip; so...that's what? $8-12 a person?
Frank Abignale they ain't.
Keyboard /instead/ of a mouse?... Heh, I think you've got Doom confused with post-Thresh Quake.
From a technology standpoint I agree, however Microsoft is on, how shall we say, firm legal cooperative ground with Intel.
The first Xbox was an nvidia chip, the new one is ATi - some games contain hardware specific optimizations, and nVidia refused to license them to emulate their hardware, for anyone that actually read up on the issue.
So...basically you are saying you want the same rewards as people who invest more time and effort...? As for two hours, I play with people who play 80 hours a week, I don't think we're talking about the same game here.
Why the hostility? 0.o Alright then, USA for one, and not the nation kind - Unified Shader Architectue, or PxSv3.1 depending on who you talk to, unsupported on the current generation of GPU. Also the hardware does support HDR since anyone who knows what "they are talking about" knows that HDR is a software solution to what is essentially a hardware limitation. I do wonder why I post here at all, but I don't think it has anything to do what I know...
I'm sorry, but you are just wrong in every point. The 360 supports pixel shader models and lighting systems that don't exist in PC hardware yet.
I find your attitude disapointing, you of all people should understand that not everything can do everything, and most do nothing, so you should praise those who do their part.
I'd better be with an X2 and a GTX...
Incidently, this isn't Microsoft per se, it's just the super striped down Sysmark plugin from Futuremark, and we all know how reliable 3DMark is....
Very soft felt, the kind you'd use to clean the most delicate of surfaces leaves damage on Nano's that looks like what would happen if you rubbed it on a slightly sandy floor, and it permanently obscures the screen, so I'd say it was an issue.
NCSoft didn't make the game, they distribute the little boxes. Give credit where credit is due. (Cryptic Software)
Flash! Slashdot headlines inaccurate reporting about hugely inflated price of microsoft product; Apple/Sony/Nintendo geeks rejoice!
I enjoy slashdot's story comments, but no one takes any of you seriously anymore - there's a line between fanboys and minutemen, and we passed it about 4 years ago.
"News for idiots, stuff thats irrelevent"
Software patents are tame and fairly meaningless in the out-of-control state that Patent Law is in; when GE won a patent in Appeals to the ownership of a bacteria that they "engineered" to eat oil, the Patent Office stated, "Everything save a full term human being is patentable." Since then almost 5% of the human genome has been patented by various biotech firms, under the basis of medical trade secrets and pharmaceuticals treatment. I'm not making this stuff up, The Corporation is a good non-technical learning start.
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I rarely post, but I thought this might be worth reminding people of.
While computers are easily tactical masters of chess playing - in that they can immediately anaylze all possible moves availible in a given play, and determine possible outcomes, their fallacy comes in strategy, because, put simply, they don't know how to win.
What is a good move? Is it one that results in a opposing piece's defeat? If so - what value should that piece be assigned? Indeed, what is the value of _any_ piece at any given time on the boards - why should a machine choose one set of perfect moves over another - in almost every way a computer cannot determine the long term value of a move.
This is remedied somewhat by having pre-played game analysis at the disposal of the machine, but in almost every case the computer program requires serious recalibration between matches to prevent a human player from adapting to a strong tactical game. It is by no stretch that computers can be considered inferior in almost every way to a strong human player.
Kasparov posited Advanced Chess as the ultimate play form; the tactical mastery of a computer, mixed with the multilevel strategy of a grandmaster player, making for a game of sublime subtley and perfection.
Cooling with liquid, in flux or stasis, would be inefficient within a transistor based environment, since it is more important to quickly dissipate small amounts of heat, then slowly dissipate immense amounts. The simplest way to upgrade a water/ethynol based cooler is to replace the coolent with two parts high performance synthetic engine oil (high lubricity dyno nascar oil is best) and 1 part synthetic stasis thinning agent. While it cannot absorb as much energy as metal (1/1000th that of copper) it dissipates it many hundred times faster, and will obviously not conduct a charge. The downside is it requires a 5 psi tested sealed system, since it can leak through even airtight connections.
Also magnetic flow operated sodium sinks tend to polarize contact points over time (the reason that dusted and secured used plutonium rods form a distinctive magnetic nickel finish) which unless I'm mistaken would invalidate gates on a microprocessor.
This site has become a disgrace to itself.
Workstation cards provide almost no performance for games, unless those games are entirely OpenGL based, in which case they simply provide very poor performance. They do however run Maya and other high end rendering environments, something even your papa's SLI 6800U can't handle. Although I've tried another FireGL card in this performance range and was less then impressed. Stick with a FX3000 Quadro if you're at all serious about what you do.
And yes, it will work perfectly with an Apple 30" Cinema display.
Apple 30" Cinema
Dual Xeon 3.2GHz
4GB ECC DDR RAM
Quadro FX3400
Absolutely; could be a couple of things. First of all, if it's an MX card it's not much of an upgrade, but that aside, the game has probably automatically enabled server features that would not have been active with your GF2, such a directX 8.1/9 routines (pixel shaders, specular lighting) as well it would have set your detail level higher as a default, unless you've set them the same.
In any case your image quality has improve at the cost of framerate, if you tweak your settings you should be able to recover your framerate and maintain a higher IQ.
While it would be unfair to say Blizzard's art department doesn't receive enough acclaim, I think they deserve every ounce of good press and more besides, Blizzard is one of the few developpers out there that uses the quality of their art to act as a central element of their game engines. While the game does sport some noteworthy techical specifcations (pixel shaded post-processing, dynamic distance polymorphic (no pun entended) LOD, and some very sharp specular lighting effects) it is far and beyond their unique art style that makes it such a beautiful game. And style needs no hardware requirements, only taste =)
You're absolutely right, I didn't convey that very well, basically I was encapsulating it's ability to handle certain pixel shaders with greater ease then a PC - but you hit the nail on the head with the Hypertransport.
I'm tired of hearing the argument that a 733mhz nvidia nv30 chipset is incapable of performing to the calibur of a new pc. This is a bunk conclusion for a couple of reasons.
1. The xBox is not stock hardware, it's a dedicated task machine built around it's own instruction sets, that can handle tasks that require processor (cpu or gpu) on a pc, automatically.
2. The xBox only need output at resolutions ranging from (tv resolutions converted to pc resoltions) 640x480 to 1024x768, and can achieve much higher preceived detail with lower resolution textures (for a easy way to experience this, simply hook up the video out on your graphics card to your tv, and run your favorite game, you'll notice while the resolution is low, the textures seem richer then normal)
3. The xBox does not run a shell OS, only a runtime environment, without added resources.
4. The xBox need only be configured to run one application.
5. Games on the xBox can be optimized to the extreme, since there is no need to ensure compatibility.