I've noticed that a fair amount of people on City of Heroes are women (stay at home moms) - maybe it has to do with the style of game it is - a cooperative type game.
Men tend to like situations where you either compete against eachother, or have a definite leader (like the armed forces, football team etc.)
Women tend to like situations where everyone works together. C.O.H. seems to appeal to this style of play.
You know that the CPU is used for disk I/O commands, right?
Your computer will probably saturate data transfer over the wires and max out a magnetic drive's performance long before your CPU spends a noticable amount of time issuing disk commands. Most of the delays that people experience come from waiting for the disk to complete I/O transfers rather than from having a slow CPU.
If people are concerned about the speed of their memory, then having fast DDR SDRAM running on an equally fast FSB is what really makes a difference. This is especially true on P4 Celeron based systems where the L2 cache isn't huge and cache misses are common. While memory latency is important to consider, it isn't critical that your modules have the absolute fastest timings ever. I think that the importance of the other components that connect to your memory like the FSB are underestimated. You can have fast memory, but still have it traveling over a slow or congested bus.
I like Wikipedia, but it usually ends up being a good idea to double check the information presented there some times. It certainly has some errors (like the "prant" statement for the Mathematica hello world program), but if you present this in book form to a thrid world country, which I'm assuming doesn't have internet access because of this, then it would be way too easy for people to take everything inside of it as error free facts.
CS and IT students at my school have access to the MSDN academic allience, which enables us to get copies of MS software like Windows XP and Visual Studio for free.
I've always used my pointing finger, and not my middle finger, to operate the left button and the wheel. Actually, moving my middle finger like that is a bit annoying anyway.
I figured out how to get to the third island in Vice City before doing a single mission by jumping off a bridge onto a boat. I did this by myself by observing the game world, and not trying to "hack" anything. This wasn't cheating--it was a genuine trick that let you move bypass some of the roadblocks present and move to new sections of the city early. The thing is, I doubt the designers envisioned this. I think that this is possible because the engine represents the game world in such impressive detail that things like this just arise by themselves.
In SA, if you happen to figure out a way to get to other areas that aren't unlocked yet, which isn't so hard because now you can swim at least, you get a near maxed out wanted level. The large world does leave some room for exploration, though.
The problem with fossil combustibles, like gasoline and diesel, is the oil they come from. Since it was trapped under the ground for millions of years, the CO2 contained on it is no longer part of the planet ecosystem.
using common metals such as Magnesium and Aluminum....And it's completely emission free.
So where does the waste from processing magnesium or aluminum go? Everything gets converted to 100% hydrogen? Is this the same company that successfully developed the perpetual motion machine?
EULAs are so ridiculous. I bought the software and I'm going to use it how I want unless the software (not the installer) tells me otherwise. No one will take EULAs seriously unless each copy of the software includes a lawyer who reads it to you and makes you sign a contract.
XviD is an ISO MPEG-4 compliant video codec, so designed to compress/decompress digital video. It's a open source project, which is developed and maintained by a handful of skilled and interested engineers from all over the world."
And I should mention while DivX is similar to XviD, DivX is a broken MPEG-4 codec in some respects
currently use dual nics to connect to my home and office network as I presume a lot of other people do
Why? Do you need to connect to both wireless networks at the same time? All WiFi cards should have some profile management software, even if it is the basic stuff that comes with the OS.
It would benefit ECS for economy of scale, but end-users would always be stuck with proprietary expansion modules that may or may not be available anymore by the time they want to change CPU.
I'm not sure what your complaint is. You can change the RAM and processor on both the motherboard and the expansion card. It's not like you'd be stuck with buying an expansion card that had a processor fixed to the PCB.
Yes, the climate has changed in the Earth's history, but that geological speculation doesn't take into account all of this pollution, including tons of greenhouse gases, that humans pump into the atmosphere. Humans cause damage to the environment if they intend to or not.
polar thaw is also starting to unlock other treasures: lucrative shipping routes, perhaps even the storied Northwest Passage; new cruise ship destinations; and important commercial fisheries
With all of these benefits who cares about preventing damage to our environment?!</sarcasm>
Yes, but only on my laptop when I was booting Knoppix because the system only has 64MB of RAM (60MB because the integrated video uses 4MB of it.) I can get by without the GUI though so I usually disable swap so it doesn't spend most of its time loading.
I just wish they'd do something about the memory management. Windows seems to swap to disk all the time just for the heck of it. The real problem is when you start using excessive amounts of memory (more than physical memory at least), and even after deallocating it, the entire system goes on a swapping rampage, and everything becomes annoyingly slow until you restart the machine. I thought the MM in Linux at least is a lot better. It actually uses physical memory for something useful and only swaps when it absolutely needs to. I wish Windows did that.
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Men tend to like situations where you either compete against eachother, or have a definite leader (like the armed forces, football team etc.)
Women tend to like situations where everyone works together. C.O.H. seems to appeal to this style of play.
Gender stereotypes!
Your computer will probably saturate data transfer over the wires and max out a magnetic drive's performance long before your CPU spends a noticable amount of time issuing disk commands. Most of the delays that people experience come from waiting for the disk to complete I/O transfers rather than from having a slow CPU.
If people are concerned about the speed of their memory, then having fast DDR SDRAM running on an equally fast FSB is what really makes a difference. This is especially true on P4 Celeron based systems where the L2 cache isn't huge and cache misses are common. While memory latency is important to consider, it isn't critical that your modules have the absolute fastest timings ever. I think that the importance of the other components that connect to your memory like the FSB are underestimated. You can have fast memory, but still have it traveling over a slow or congested bus.
I like Wikipedia, but it usually ends up being a good idea to double check the information presented there some times. It certainly has some errors (like the "prant" statement for the Mathematica hello world program), but if you present this in book form to a thrid world country, which I'm assuming doesn't have internet access because of this, then it would be way too easy for people to take everything inside of it as error free facts.
CS and IT students at my school have access to the MSDN academic allience, which enables us to get copies of MS software like Windows XP and Visual Studio for free.
I've always used my pointing finger, and not my middle finger, to operate the left button and the wheel. Actually, moving my middle finger like that is a bit annoying anyway.
South Korea said, "that's ok, we'll just use Linux and WINE." Buh-zing Microsoft.
In SA, if you happen to figure out a way to get to other areas that aren't unlocked yet, which isn't so hard because now you can swim at least, you get a near maxed out wanted level. The large world does leave some room for exploration, though.
Exactly why I always say the mouse and keyboard are currently the best 3D controllers. I thought the game was much more fun on the computer.
It is now!
A carpenter, eh? I always thought he was a plumber with the pipes and all. And wasn't it his first game? Close enough I guess.
So where does the waste from processing magnesium or aluminum go? Everything gets converted to 100% hydrogen? Is this the same company that successfully developed the perpetual motion machine?
EULAs are so ridiculous. I bought the software and I'm going to use it how I want unless the software (not the installer) tells me otherwise. No one will take EULAs seriously unless each copy of the software includes a lawyer who reads it to you and makes you sign a contract.
Take a look at the scoreboard now. The mentioned problems are gone and Level 3 is no longer in the red.
"What is XviD?
XviD is an ISO MPEG-4 compliant video codec, so designed to compress/decompress digital video. It's a open source project, which is developed and maintained by a handful of skilled and interested engineers from all over the world."
And I should mention while DivX is similar to XviD, DivX is a broken MPEG-4 codec in some respects
Or maybe people just don't want strangers in their house that will more than likely take their stuff without asking
Maybe he lives in his office ;)
I'd hate to see all of those IPv4 loopback address jokes phased out. Somehow telling someone to h4x 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1 just doesn't seem as hilarious.
Less dot crawl and rainbowing with the s-video hook up!
I'm not sure what your complaint is. You can change the RAM and processor on both the motherboard and the expansion card. It's not like you'd be stuck with buying an expansion card that had a processor fixed to the PCB.
Yes, the climate has changed in the Earth's history, but that geological speculation doesn't take into account all of this pollution, including tons of greenhouse gases, that humans pump into the atmosphere. Humans cause damage to the environment if they intend to or not.
With all of these benefits who cares about preventing damage to our environment?!</sarcasm>
Ha. I guess Microsoft wasn't invited. ;)
Yes, but only on my laptop when I was booting Knoppix because the system only has 64MB of RAM (60MB because the integrated video uses 4MB of it.) I can get by without the GUI though so I usually disable swap so it doesn't spend most of its time loading.
I just wish they'd do something about the memory management. Windows seems to swap to disk all the time just for the heck of it. The real problem is when you start using excessive amounts of memory (more than physical memory at least), and even after deallocating it, the entire system goes on a swapping rampage, and everything becomes annoyingly slow until you restart the machine. I thought the MM in Linux at least is a lot better. It actually uses physical memory for something useful and only swaps when it absolutely needs to. I wish Windows did that.