Anyway, I was looking at a 4800 X2, and it seems its still the best option to buy atm, cheaper then the Intel (?).
If I had the money, I would have gotten the X2 4800+, instead I bought the X2 3800+ (939) and I haven't been disapointed. My previous 5 pcs were all intel cpus, this is the first amd pc i've ever owned and I've definitely impressed.
Now i'll get lot's of replies from folks with this setup telling me otherwise....
Yes.
Battlefield 2 is well known for having a ton of bugs, don't know about CS:S though.
BTW, I have a 939 AMD64 X2 3800+ with a Nvidia Nforce4 motherboard that I bought 2 months ago and all my games run fine.
Games I play: UT2004, Warcraft3, Oblivion, Call of Duty 2, FarCry, San Andreas, Guild Wars, Doom 3, Half Life 2, SimCity 4, Civ 4....all work fine on my AMD64 X2, I don't play Battlefield 2 or CS:S so I can't tell you whether they work on my x2 or not.
As soon as I install Windows XP Pro, I run services.msc and disable all the services I don't need, since I've done this dozens of times, I know what I'm doing, but it really isn't that hard, microsoft provides some pretty good descriptions of what the service does next to the service name in services.msc.
If you don't have a printer, disable the printer spooler service, otherwise leave it enabled. If you have a static ip, you can disable the dhcp client service. If you don't have a wireless card or don't need windows to automatically configure your wireless card for you, disable wireless zero configuration. You get the idea..
A majority of the services that are set to run by default in Windows XP are totally unnecessary and can increase load and boot times, and some can even pose an additional security risk (remote registry, telnet, routing and remote access, are just a couple of the services that are set to run by default). It only takes 5min to disable all the services you don't need (if you know what you're doing). It's a pretty simple task for your typical slashdotter, probably not for your grandma though.
My friend bought into the PSP hype, he's the only one I know that actually purchased one. I never see him playing games on it, just watching south park or simpsons episodes. The PSP was barely more popular than the Nokia N-Gage IMO, and that's pretty bad company.
Even though the PS2 has the crappiest hardware of the 3 consoles it's still far and away the best seller.
What do you mean the crappiest of the 3?
Sure, Xbox had faster hardware, but the PS2 still had better hardware than the gamecube. Please elaborate on how the PS2 had the crappiest hardware of the three.
I suggest you try a simple experiment: Open up a firefox window and start Gmail, leave the window open for several days and monitor how much memory is used each day.
Ok, thats a nice experiment and all, but in the real world, who actually leaves their browser window open for "several days" straight? I'd imagine there are TONS of programs out there that if you left it running for "several days", you would also notice memory leaks. I shut down my Windows XP box when I'm not using it, so maybe that's why firefox doesn't cause any problems for me...
A browser that started faster, responded faster, loaded pages faster, didn't consume vast amounts of my precious system memory, and using a platform native interface
The DosBox project is alot more active than dosemu. A new version of dosbox was released on June 27th, 2006 (last week), on the other hand dosemu hasn't been updated since 2004-07-11. Dosemu has the advantage that it runs better on older systems, dosbox has the advantage that it is compatible with amd, ppc, intel cpus and several different operating systems.
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When is the general subscription coming? I want to pay like $10-$20 and be on all the different games, not $x per game. That's just not being managed right -- they'd all share a lot more purchases, customers, etc. if they could just combine user bases through a single subscription model.
When is the general car subscription coming? I want to pay like $10-20k and own all the different cars, not $x per car. That's just not being managed right -- they'd all share a lot more purchases, customers, etc. if they could just combine user bases through a single subscription model.
I'd imagine WGA is coming from the same source as the windows updates. If you block the WGA source, you block access to critical updates, it's a lose-lose situation (win-win for Microsoft).
but unlike the sony rootkit there is really no adverse impact to the user's system.
I guess you didn't read the part about it shutting down users systems if they don't validate. What if you own a legit copy of Windows and WGA decides that it isn't legit, so it shuts down your computer and you can no longer use it? Ya, no impact on the user's system there...
I own a legit copy of Windows and it really pisses me off that I am constantly being asked every week to download a new "WGA Update". Why the hell does Microsoft have to check every week if my copy is legit? It was legit the last 50 times they checked, why do they need to check it again...
Where the hell are you seeing that price? When I built my new gaming rig, I bought a copy of Windows XP Pro w/ SP2 for $150 Canadian, not $399.
So, if you're a pirate...
I'm a legitimate Windows user and I hate the "WGA, Microsoft treats all their legitimate customers like they were pirates. I hope they gain alot of bad publicity from this new fiasco and are forced to cut back on their plan to shutdown users if they don't update their "WGA".
I used to be the biggest quake/id software fan boy (for about 8-10 years), but now I no longer consider them my favourite game company. Id stopped making their own games and focused on licensing their engine, thats when things went down hill IMO. Doom3 and Quake4 was like the nail in the coffin for me.
Here is a copy of the overview (for those too lazy to click the above link):
Support for Electronic Commerce
* Canadians are free to develop, import and use whatever cryptography products they wish.
* The Government will not implement mandatory key recovery requirements or licensing regimes.
* The Government encourages industry to establish responsible practices, such as key recovery techniques for stored data.
* The Government will act as a model user of cryptography through the practices of the Government of Canada Public Key Infrastructure (GOC PKI).
* The Government encourages and supports industry-led accreditation of private sector certification authorities.
Export / International Agreements
* Canada will continue to implement cryptography export controls in keeping with the framework of the international Wassenaar Arrangement.
* Canada will take into consideration the export practices of other countries and the availability of comparable products when rendering export permit decisions.
* The export permit application process will be made more transparent and procedures will be streamlined to ensure the least regulatory intervention necessary.
Public Safety
The Government proposes amendments to the Criminal Code and other statutes as necessary to:
* criminalize the wrongful disclosure of keys;
* deter the use of encryption in the commission of a crime; = deter the use of cryptography to conceal evidence; and
* apply existing interception, search and seizure and assistance procedures to cryptographic situations and circumstances.
I want IBM to press a complaint with the bar against SCO's lawyers (I hope they never practice law again).
Why? The SCO lawyers are just doing what their clients paid them to do. I hate unethical lawyers as much as the next guy, but I don't think they can be disbarred for doing their job.
Things like collision detection, or calculating obscured geometry so you don't have to render it.
Gee, wasn't someone already doing this?
Game programmers maybe? Culling or "calculating obscured geometry so you don't have to render it" isn't done "automagically", this has to be programmed (unless you're using a game engine that does this for you).
Microsoft also forces developers to upgrade to a newer version of Visual Studio if they still use 6.0. If you're a game developer and use the latest DirectX 9 SDK (April 2005), visual Studio 6.0 no longer works, you need VC7 or newer (unless you want to do some ugly hacks, you can get it to work with Visual Studio 6). And this isn't even in Vista, this is XP that they are breaking support with Visual Studio 6 and DirectX 9.
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Battlefield 2 is well known for having a ton of bugs, don't know about CS:S though.
BTW, I have a 939 AMD64 X2 3800+ with a Nvidia Nforce4 motherboard that I bought 2 months ago and all my games run fine.
Games I play: UT2004, Warcraft3, Oblivion, Call of Duty 2, FarCry, San Andreas, Guild Wars, Doom 3, Half Life 2, SimCity 4, Civ 4....all work fine on my AMD64 X2, I don't play Battlefield 2 or CS:S so I can't tell you whether they work on my x2 or not.
As soon as I install Windows XP Pro, I run services.msc and disable all the services I don't need, since I've done this dozens of times, I know what I'm doing, but it really isn't that hard, microsoft provides some pretty good descriptions of what the service does next to the service name in services.msc.
If you don't have a printer, disable the printer spooler service, otherwise leave it enabled.
If you have a static ip, you can disable the dhcp client service.
If you don't have a wireless card or don't need windows to automatically configure your wireless card for you, disable wireless zero configuration.
You get the idea..
A majority of the services that are set to run by default in Windows XP are totally unnecessary and can increase load and boot times, and some can even pose an additional security risk (remote registry, telnet, routing and remote access, are just a couple of the services that are set to run by default). It only takes 5min to disable all the services you don't need (if you know what you're doing). It's a pretty simple task for your typical slashdotter, probably not for your grandma though.
..as if millions of slashdotters cried out and then were suddenly silenced.
My friend bought into the PSP hype, he's the only one I know that actually purchased one. I never see him playing games on it, just watching south park or simpsons episodes. The PSP was barely more popular than the Nokia N-Gage IMO, and that's pretty bad company.
Slackware!!!! (though more recently I've been using Ubuntu, I still think slackware takes less resources)
-- Slacking since `95
The DosBox project is alot more active than dosemu. A new version of dosbox was released on June 27th, 2006 (last week), on the other hand dosemu hasn't been updated since 2004-07-11. Dosemu has the advantage that it runs better on older systems, dosbox has the advantage that it is compatible with amd, ppc, intel cpus and several different operating systems.
I'd imagine WGA is coming from the same source as the windows updates. If you block the WGA source, you block access to critical updates, it's a lose-lose situation (win-win for Microsoft).
I own a legit copy of Windows and it really pisses me off that I am constantly being asked every week to download a new "WGA Update". Why the hell does Microsoft have to check every week if my copy is legit? It was legit the last 50 times they checked, why do they need to check it again...
I'm a legitimate Windows user and I hate the "WGA, Microsoft treats all their legitimate customers like they were pirates. I hope they gain alot of bad publicity from this new fiasco and are forced to cut back on their plan to shutdown users if they don't update their "WGA".
I used to be the biggest quake/id software fan boy (for about 8-10 years), but now I no longer consider them my favourite game company. Id stopped making their own games and focused on licensing their engine, thats when things went down hill IMO. Doom3 and Quake4 was like the nail in the coffin for me.
Rogers got rid of their usenet servers too. Guess cutting back on features/services, while charging the same fees, is the new 3) ???? 4) Profit!
To my knowledge, it is legal to use crypto software in Canada. Here is an overview on Canada's Policy on Cryptography
Here is a copy of the overview (for those too lazy to click the above link):
Why? The SCO lawyers are just doing what their clients paid them to do. I hate unethical lawyers as much as the next guy, but I don't think they can be disbarred for doing their job.
Game programmers maybe? Culling or "calculating obscured geometry so you don't have to render it" isn't done "automagically", this has to be programmed (unless you're using a game engine that does this for you).
Microsoft also forces developers to upgrade to a newer version of Visual Studio if they still use 6.0. If you're a game developer and use the latest DirectX 9 SDK (April 2005), visual Studio 6.0 no longer works, you need VC7 or newer (unless you want to do some ugly hacks, you can get it to work with Visual Studio 6). And this isn't even in Vista, this is XP that they are breaking support with Visual Studio 6 and DirectX 9.
I wrote about it in a previous post.