I know I can't speak for anyone else here, but for me the attraction of using Linux is not having to worry AT ALL about licenseing issues. If I have to worry about how many licenses is have I might as well use windows, then the windows apps I might be using will work (as well as they can).
I agree, I'm pretty tired of people crying when blizzard pushes back the release dates of their games. Everything they have put out from Warcraft 1 to Diablo 2 has been a solid, well polished game.
Blizzard's overall attention to detail is WAY above the average for the video game industry. 3D Realms and Valve completely deserve their spots on this list however.
"And once you start reading Knuth's books, well, then you should have some serious free time if you want to understand them (despite several tries, I've never actually managed to dig through the entire 1st volume of his AoCP).
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I just picked up his Volume 1, I got a couple of sections into it and decided to break out my college math textbooks from the closet for a little refresher.
I just reread the Fellowship of the ring, in preparation for the movie next week, and it struck me how most of the fantasy I've read since last reading FotR is so similar to it. Even if it doesn't contain the tolkien versions of elves, dwarves and hobbits. Most fantasy usually starts like this:
[protaganists] pulled from their village by [druid, sorcerers, other heros] just before [ultimate bad guy's servants] arrive to get [protagonist or whatever item he possesses]. A chase ensues, the [bad guys servants] chasing the [protagonist] trying to [kill / steal item from] him. Throughout the chase the [protagonist] discovers his [powers] just in the nick of time to [kill very lethal enemies] until arriving at [his destination].
So much fantasy I've read starts off that way, it may change later in the novel/series, but a lot of it owes the first few chapters/books to tolkien.
Anyone know any good fantasy that doesn't start off this way?
I stand corrected, when you follow the links on pricewatch that say "thunder k7" they are actually selling the tiger k7 at that price. Seems borderline dishonest to me.
I also paid to a verified seller, who happened to be physically located in Hong Kong. As soon as I realizaed I was being stiffed I complained to PP and got my money back with two weeks.
I have no complaints with them but I don't think I'd leave large sums of money sitting in my PayPal account either though.
You can get find the Thunder K7 for $205, it has integrated SCSI controller, 2 3com 10/100 NIC's and other onboard stuff (sound and crappy video). The ONLY thing that sucks about this board is that it needs a special power supply. That is the only thing that prevents me from buying it right now.
These 760MPX boards will have to cost less than or equal to $150 to be worth it losing the extras the Thunder K7 has.
Some people can break a glass with their voice, but the simplest way to break one is to pick it up and drop it on the floor.
Glass windshields work, period. They are cheap to manufacture, and cheap to replace. There is absolutely no reason to replace them with a gigantic monitor. Perhaps making windshields out of something more durable than glass (such as whatever material is used for bullet-proof windows) would be logical, depending on how much it costs (i have no idea).
This post is off topic because it has nothing to do with the story. This post exists to draw attention to the fact that maggard (the person I am replying to) is a pretentious cock.
As evidence I offer his sig: Anonymous Cowards filtered. If their words aren't worth so much as a nom de plume why should I value them any more?
Seriously, how could you possibly show yourself to more of a pretentious cock? You can't!
Maggard, you complete moron, sometime's AC's have something to say, and they don't want to post logged in because if they disagree with the rest of the/. hive (pretentious cocks like you) they get slammed.
I'm going to spend a little karma on this rant, every time I see this guy's sig it pisses me off
The board has four DDR slots, you can only use two of them if you want to use unregistered DDR.
Here's a blatant rip from the review:
"As long as only two slots were filled, the stability was identical and the performance was roughly the same (the unregistered modules are theoretically faster but that doesn't translate into any tangible performance gains). When more than three unregistered DIMMs were installed the system would not POST; and adding a third registered DIMM to a set of two unregistered DIMMs would not boot either."
Reading the article closely before you post is a good thing.
I've noticed that a lot of posters to this thread seem to have the opinion that article is a fairy tale. Anandtech seems to me to have a reputation for impartiality, their hardware reveiws are quite thourough and unbiased as far as I can see.
I took the article at face value because all of the other stuff I've read at anand's has been good qualtiy unbiased reporting. There are plenty of reasons why the writer wouldn't want to name the corporation. Maybe he works there.
Seriously, if you're speaking and your voice is being carried to it's destination via IP, then it's Voice over IP.
I don't think anyone is confused by that.
Perhaps/. should adopt a policy towards these types of stories. Something along the lines of: We will not accept any submissions untill the CD's and Devices to use them have actually hit the market.
In the past few years I've seen countless stories, on this site and others about tech from an equally countless number of companies promising CD tech that will double, triple or (insert multiple here)-ple the storage capacity of CD's.
What people don't seem to understand is that ANY movie made from a book will not be as good as that book. Compromises will ALWAYS be made.
It seems that I'm one of a small minority that liked the Lynch film, my only problem was the weirding modules. Other than that it was a good movie. I saw the XMen movie and thought that did a good job of balancing the source material with having to adapt for a wider audience than just comic book geeks (which I am BTW). But there are always those people that whine when the slightest thing is changed.
You just have to keep in mind that the people that are bankrolling the film probably haven't read the source material.
"I'm just grateful to be entertained once again by Herbert's masterpiece. "
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I know I can't speak for anyone else here, but for me the attraction of using Linux is not having to worry AT ALL about licenseing issues. If I have to worry about how many licenses is have I might as well use windows, then the windows apps I might be using will work (as well as they can).
I agree, I'm pretty tired of people crying when blizzard pushes back the release dates of their games. Everything they have put out from Warcraft 1 to Diablo 2 has been a solid, well polished game.
Blizzard's overall attention to detail is WAY above the average for the video game industry. 3D Realms and Valve completely deserve their spots on this list however.
Cool, maybe now the Mac fanatics where I work will stop bragging about how THEIR computers are so powerful they can't be exported from the country.
"And once you start reading Knuth's books, well, then you should have some serious free time if you want to understand them (despite several tries, I've never actually managed to dig through the entire 1st volume of his AoCP). "
I just picked up his Volume 1, I got a couple of sections into it and decided to break out my college math textbooks from the closet for a little refresher.
I think we can all agree there are flat out illegal pirates out there amongst the legal users.
I think what you meant to say was this:
I think we can all agree there are legal users out there amongst the flat out illegal pirates.
I just reread the Fellowship of the ring, in preparation for the movie next week, and it struck me how most of the fantasy I've read since last reading FotR is so similar to it. Even if it doesn't contain the tolkien versions of elves, dwarves and hobbits. Most fantasy usually starts like this:
[protaganists] pulled from their village by [druid, sorcerers, other heros] just before [ultimate bad guy's servants] arrive to get [protagonist or whatever item he possesses]. A chase ensues, the [bad guys servants] chasing the [protagonist] trying to [kill / steal item from] him. Throughout the chase the [protagonist] discovers his [powers] just in the nick of time to [kill very lethal enemies] until arriving at [his destination].
So much fantasy I've read starts off that way, it may change later in the novel/series, but a lot of it owes the first few chapters/books to tolkien.
Anyone know any good fantasy that doesn't start off this way?
I stand corrected, when you follow the links on pricewatch that say "thunder k7" they are actually selling the tiger k7 at that price. Seems borderline dishonest to me.
I also paid to a verified seller, who happened to be physically located in Hong Kong. As soon as I realizaed I was being stiffed I complained to PP and got my money back with two weeks.
I have no complaints with them but I don't think I'd leave large sums of money sitting in my PayPal account either though.
You can get find the Thunder K7 for $205, it has integrated SCSI controller, 2 3com 10/100 NIC's and other onboard stuff (sound and crappy video). The ONLY thing that sucks about this board is that it needs a special power supply. That is the only thing that prevents me from buying it right now.
These 760MPX boards will have to cost less than or equal to $150 to be worth it losing the extras the Thunder K7 has.
I don't see how this is the next logical step.
Some people can break a glass with their voice, but the simplest way to break one is to pick it up and drop it on the floor.
Glass windshields work, period. They are cheap to manufacture, and cheap to replace. There is absolutely no reason to replace them with a gigantic monitor. Perhaps making windshields out of something more durable than glass (such as whatever material is used for bullet-proof windows) would be logical, depending on how much it costs (i have no idea).
This post is off topic because it has nothing to do with the story. This post exists to draw attention to the fact that maggard (the person I am replying to) is a pretentious cock.
/. hive (pretentious cocks like you) they get slammed.
As evidence I offer his sig:
Anonymous Cowards filtered. If their words aren't worth so much as a nom de plume why should I value them any more?
Seriously, how could you possibly show yourself to more of a pretentious cock? You can't!
Maggard, you complete moron, sometime's AC's have something to say, and they don't want to post logged in because if they disagree with the rest of the
I'm going to spend a little karma on this rant, every time I see this guy's sig it pisses me off
I guess I'm done.
If you read the article closely you'd see that they ran the tests with a stock UI (eye cany on) and an optimized UI (eye candy turned off)
The board has four DDR slots, you can only use two of them if you want to use unregistered DDR.
Here's a blatant rip from the review:
"As long as only two slots were filled, the stability was identical and the performance was roughly the same (the unregistered modules are theoretically faster but that doesn't translate into any tangible performance gains). When more than three unregistered DIMMs were installed the system would not POST; and adding a third registered DIMM to a set of two unregistered DIMMs would not boot either."
Reading the article closely before you post is a good thing.
I've noticed that a lot of posters to this thread seem to have the opinion that article is a fairy tale. Anandtech seems to me to have a reputation for impartiality, their hardware reveiws are quite thourough and unbiased as far as I can see.
I took the article at face value because all of the other stuff I've read at anand's has been good qualtiy unbiased reporting. There are plenty of reasons why the writer wouldn't want to name the corporation. Maybe he works there.
"How do you spell 'drug prohibitionist'? Easy, it is spelled: b i g o t."
and how do you spell 'drug user'? Easy, it is spelled: f u c k i n g m o r o n
Seriously, if you're speaking and your voice is being carried to it's destination via IP, then it's Voice over IP. I don't think anyone is confused by that.
If you honestly couldn't care less about this than go to your damn preferences and change them so you don't see quake news.
/. experience since doing the same with jon katz and apple posts.
I've had a much more enjoyable
One other thing, why in god's green earth was the above post given a score of 3 (at the time I post this). It should be a one, or maybe a two at most.
Quakedot.org(Score:1, Whining)
I think it's funny that every now and then someone states that because some new technology is around it's ancestors will die.
newspapers are still alive and well, despite the internet.
another thing is that everyone does NOT have a damn cell phone. I don't and I'm very thankful for the pay phones that I find when I need them.
Because saying that they're moving to any windows platform would have been obviously an april fool's joke
Thanks for the info, but I guess I could have just hit google for what you provided. Thanks for reinforcing my laziness.
Your post sounds just like something a teenaged moron or 20-something helpdesk loser would write.
how about explaining what feng shui is to those of us who haven't been smoking pot since we were old enough to hold a joint in our mouths.
or perhaps what a harmful shar is.
Perhaps /. should adopt a policy towards these types of stories. Something along the lines of: We will not accept any submissions untill the CD's and Devices to use them have actually hit the market.
In the past few years I've seen countless stories, on this site and others about tech from an equally countless number of companies promising CD tech that will double, triple or (insert multiple here)-ple the storage capacity of CD's.
This stuff is vaporware
Actually, I think NWN is using a modified version of the engine from the game MDK. Not 100% on that though.
What people don't seem to understand is that ANY movie made from a book will not be as good as that book. Compromises will ALWAYS be made.
It seems that I'm one of a small minority that liked the Lynch film, my only problem was the weirding modules. Other than that it was a good movie. I saw the XMen movie and thought that did a good job of balancing the source material with having to adapt for a wider audience than just comic book geeks (which I am BTW). But there are always those people that whine when the slightest thing is changed.
You just have to keep in mind that the people that are bankrolling the film probably haven't read the source material.
"I'm just grateful to be entertained once again by Herbert's masterpiece. "
Exactly.
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