We're talking about high end cards here, not your run of the mill card for non-gamers. $200-300 is relatively cheap compared to the $550-800 price of the 8800 Ultra. Also, this is brand new tech, prices are always higher for early adopters. Expect this card to be worth $100 in a year or two.
1. Single slot cooler instead of a dual slot like all the other high end cards made over the last 2 years 2. One 6 pin power connection instead of two like all the other high end G80 cards 3. Power consumption. According to the article (yes I read it), Nvidia rates the power consumption of the 8800GT at 110 watts. 4. Supports PCI Express 2.0 (backwards compatible with PCI Express 1.1) 5. Relatively cheap. I always found $200-300 to be the best price range for a video card (the high end G80 cards on the other hand cost $500-800)
No. We do not block access to any applications, including BitTorrent.
They side-stepped the question. The original question was "I read comcast is limiting bittorrent", in which case their reply was "no, we don't block bittorrent". There's a big difference between limiting and blocking.
I already made the decision a while ago to stop buying Windows based software (games and apps), so that it would be easier for me to migrate to Linux in the future. It won't be long before I'm fully weaned off Windows. I've been using Linux since 1995 and I'm familiar with Slackware, Redhat and Debian/Ubuntu.
I'm also a hobbyist programmer and I enjoy programming in my spare time. It's easier to dig around and code stuff in Linux than it is in Windows from my experience. I enjoy using the CLI and I like making my own shell, perl or python scripts. Windows doesn't offer me this level of flexibility out of the box.
My primary computer is running XP Pro. My old computers are all running Linux. XP just works (hense I have no need for Vista). Why would I upgrade to Vista when XP runs all my applications and games? I haven't seen any compelling reasons why Vista is better than XP.
There's nothing clever about using a child to go in to a store and try to buy something, tobacco narcs have been using this technique for over a decade.
Also, I find it pretty disgusting that Thompson is using his own children to further his political agenda. Atleast tobacco narcs have the decency to pay their child "agents" and explain to them what they are doing. I wonder if Jack gave his son the choice or if he just forced him to do his bidding.
It does however make me wonder if my graphics card was pushing the speed of the interface, how am I going to justify to my department head that I need the latest gaming card for my server? I have been trying that excuse for years to no avail:)
From my experience with XP, a lack of a video card is the reason why Windows are drawn and refresh slowly (even moving Windows around the screen is painfully sluggish). All that goes away when I install the video card drivers and it switches from software to hardware rendering. Also, you don't need the latest gaming video card, even a 4-5 year old card like a Radeon 9600XT works wonders.
I haven't used Vista or Server 2008 (and I never will), but my guess is that it's same as XP in the "needs a video card to have a decent GUI experience" department.
The basic concept is to try to find the business behind the domain.
From my limited understanding, SiteTruth is only meant for rating online shops. Unless your gaming website is selling something, you shouldn't care about SiteTruth or the rating you receive.
I smoked for almost 10 years (I finally quit earlier this year). I was a polite smoker and I never smoked around other people. I knew how much people hated having to smell or inhale other peoples cigarette toxins. A majority of Canadian provinces banned smoking in public places for a good reason. See this site for the rules (they vary from province to province).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Crowe. Heather Crowe died from lung cancer after working as a waitress in a smoke filled environment for most of her life. She was one of the main reasons smoking is now banned in public places like bars and restaurants here in Ontario.
Heather Crowe (born April 23, 1945 in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, died May 22, 2006 in Ottawa, Ontario) was a former Canadian waitress who became the public face of Canada's anti-smoking campaign. She contracted lung cancer in 2002, allegedly from second-hand smoke encountered at her workplace of over forty years, and later appeared in numerous television public service announcements. The last place she worked was the well-known Newport Restaurant in Ottawa.
She famously claimed to have "never smoked a day in her life". In 2002, she submitted a successful claim relating to second-hand smoke exposure in the workplace to the Ontario Workplace Safety & Insurance Board for lost earnings and health care benefits.
Thanks in large part to her lobbying, the province of Ontario passed a tough anti-smoking bill which came into effect four days after her 2006 death of lung cancer at the age of 61.
Crowe was the first person to win a claim with the Ontario Workers Safety and Insurance Board for full compensation because her cancer was caused by occupational exposure to cigarette smoke.
Second-hand smoke is what smokers exhale and what rises from an idle burning cigarette. You can see smoke in the air but what may not be so obvious is that there are 4,000 chemicals in the smoke.
More than 50 of these chemicals are carcinogens: they cause cancer. The chemicals also contribute directly to other diseases, such as asthma, heart disease and emphysema. And that's for smokers and non-smokers alike.
Agreed. At the absolute most the RIAA should have to prove how many people actually downloaded from her and then multiply that with the retail cost of the music.
If she actually did share a song with someone, there's no way to tell how many times she made that song available. Let's say she only shared 1 song with 10 people, but then those 10 people shared that song with another 10 people, and so on and so forth. Maybe she directly shared a song with 10 people, but indirectly that led to hundreds, thousands or millions of people downloading that song over months, years or even decades. Should someone only be fined for the direct sharing of files or should they also be fined for the unknown amount of indirect sharing that results from that original file being shared? I don't know the answer to this, that's why I'm asking.
Also, fining someone $1 per song isn't by any means a punishment or a deterrent. The fine needs to be higher than the going rate of 99 cents a song, otherwise people will have no qualms about illegally downloading songs and only paying up if they get caught.
Let me start by saying if anyone ports good RPGs to the DS
Do GBA games count? My all-time favourite game is Zelda: A Link to the Past for the SNES. One of the first games I bought for my DS was the GBA port of that game. I also bought the GBA ports of Mario 2, Mario 3 and Super Mario World. I actually own more GBA games for my DS Lite than DS games at this point. I never owned a Gameboy Advance, but I really enjoy the fact that the DS is backwards compatible with it.
The only DS games I own at this point are New Super Mario Bros. and I just bought Zelda: The Phantom Hourglass last night. Also, I wouldn't mind getting my hands on Zelda: The Minish Cap which is an older GBA game. If I can get my hands on The Minish Cap, my DS+GBA collection will consist of 4 Mario games and 3 Zelda games...
I haven't really seen any other DS or GBA games that interest me much, though I was considering getting the remake of Final Fantasy 3. I'm a sucker for those classics...
Do you ridicule everyone that doesn't share your views or preferences?
Why don't you just spend a little more money and get some "guitar and vocals" also?
I do enjoy "guitar and vocals". I have a large collection of Classic Rock, Soft & Hard Rock, Alternative and Metal. I don't like any of the newer shit though. What's wrong with the fact that I also enjoy electronic music genres such as Hardcore, Happy Hardcore, Techno, Trance, House, Drum & Bass, Jungle, Acid, etc...
Why must I only be allowed to enjoy "guitar and vocal" music?
Seriously though, I think Sony has the worst marketing and PR department in the entire music and/or video game industry. I own a PS3, and it's things like this that just make me cringe...
I own an ipod and there's no way in hell any corporation is going to stop me from ripping legally purchased CDs to mp3 and putting them on my ipod. Ah... who am I kidding, I don't buy CDs anyways. I refuse to support the music cartel. Independent artists is the only thing I will spend my money on.
On a side note, I got 6 EBGamesMusic cards for free last night with my purchase of Zelda: The Phantom Hourglass for my DS. After I got home, I decided to check out the EBGamesMusic site and use those 6 cards (5 free songs per card, so 30 songs in total). What a joke... First of all their selection was pathetic, I don't want to listen to that mainstream crap, luckily they did have some techno and drum & bass that somewhat interested me. Second, they make you download the tracks in WMA format which is completely crippled by DRM. After downloading all the tracks, I tried to rip them to mp3 for my ipod, but of course it wouldn't work. I then tried to play them in WMP9 and I got a popup window saying I needed to connect to Microsoft and update the DRM on my system... I immediately hit cancel and deleted those WMA-DRM tracks.
What a horrible music service...Why the hell is EB Games running a Music service anyway? I can see why they're giving away those music cards, there's no way in hell I'd actually spend money on that site.
I wonder it's a problem with Bluetooth itself. First Microsoft was having problems with bluetooth devices, then Sony with their PS3 controllers, and now Apple? That can't just be a coincidence.
Intel originally made the Pentium, followed by the Pentium 2, Pentium 3 and then the Pentium 4. Later Intel made a whole new architecture and called it "Core". Intel then made a second version of the Core and called it the Core 2, just like how the successor to the original Pentium was named the Pentium 2...
I will agree that Intel's naming convention is pretty confusing for people that haven't read up on all their past chips.
We received a letter from a lawyer represeting the CRIA, they were threatening with legal action and We need to start blocking Canadian traffic because of this. If you reside in Canada, that is the reason you are being redirected to this message. Thanks for your understanding, and sorry for any inconvenience.
I get redirected to that page when I try to visit demonoid. It looks like us Canadians just got screwed over hard... It looks like I'll have to use a proxy if I want to access demonoid now.
I've been playing the TF2 beta and I absolutely love it. It took me a while to get used to the changes since I came from the original QWTF and later Q3F... I was pretty upset at first when I found out that Valve removed grenades, medic infections, pyro rocket launcher, etc.. But I slowly began to enjoy TF2 for what it was and now I really enjoy it. It is basically a simplified version of Team Fortress, but it's still fun. I consider myself a hardcore TF fan, and even I can enjoy what Valve has done. Also, if I want to play a more classic version, I'll play Fortress Forever.
I really like the stat system, though I wish it would keep overall stats for each class instead of just your best scores during one life. My TF2 stats: http://steamcommunity.com/id/Emetophobe/stats/TF2
That page clearly shows the model number, clock frequency, L2 cache size, FSB speed, CPU multiplier, voltage, TDP (thermal rating), socket type, release date, part number and cost of each Intel Core 2 chip. The only valid argument I can think of is that Intel doesn't have a page like that on their own site and that you have to refer to wikipedia for that information.
Exactly. Looking at the benchmarks, there is no difference between the 512MB version of the 2900 XT and this new 1GB version. Infact, most of the benchmarks show the 1GB version performing slightly worse than the 512MB version for some reason...
When I bought my 1900 XT several months ago, I decided to get the cheaper 256MB version instead of the 512MB version because benchmarks showed there wasn't even a 5% difference in frame rates between the two cards. I play all my games at 1680x1050 with 4x AA and 8x AF, with the highest possible in-game detail settings and everything runs great. I'm not talking about really old games either, I'm talking about Bioshock, Team Fortress 2, etc..
The only case I've seen where the 512MB version of the 1900XT actually performs better than the 256MB version is when using the Folding@home GPU client.
The story submitter and/or editors made the mistake of using Mb instead of MB. This is actually one of those times when you will want to RTFA. The article is only 6-7 paragraphs on a single page and there are 2 relatively short videos. like I said, it's worth checking out.
From TFA:
So how fast is the ioDrive? Flynn said the card has 160 parallel pipelines that can read data at 800 megabytes per second and write at 600 MB/sec. He even proved it by running a Linux drive I/O benchmark
If you watch the benchmark video, it actually gets over 900MB/sec reads and 800MB/sec writes, faster than those quoted numbers.
The first thing I thought when I read the summary was aren't there only ~33 million Canadians? So they're saying 11 million or 1/3rd of the population used Ebay in August? Somehow I find that extremely hard to believe.
We, at demonoid, had a system problem which will force us to restore everything from backup. The disks are pretty much empty right now and until we are able to upload the backup and set up everything up, we have to close down.We will be back as soon as possible. Sorry for the inconvenience and don't worry, everything will be fine.
I trust that anonymous source about as much as I trust TorrentFreak.
Basically, no one knows at this point since the demonoid admin still hasn't said anything. It could be the CRIA, it could be extended maintenance/downtime. This is all just speculation at this point until Deimos (the owner/admin of demonoid) speaks up. I'm more likely to believe it's a server problem than the CRIA though.
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We're talking about high end cards here, not your run of the mill card for non-gamers. $200-300 is relatively cheap compared to the $550-800 price of the 8800 Ultra. Also, this is brand new tech, prices are always higher for early adopters. Expect this card to be worth $100 in a year or two.
Here are the main benefits I see with this card:
1. Single slot cooler instead of a dual slot like all the other high end cards made over the last 2 years
2. One 6 pin power connection instead of two like all the other high end G80 cards
3. Power consumption. According to the article (yes I read it), Nvidia rates the power consumption of the 8800GT at 110 watts.
4. Supports PCI Express 2.0 (backwards compatible with PCI Express 1.1)
5. Relatively cheap. I always found $200-300 to be the best price range for a video card (the high end G80 cards on the other hand cost $500-800)
They side-stepped the question. The original question was "I read comcast is limiting bittorrent", in which case their reply was "no, we don't block bittorrent". There's a big difference between limiting and blocking.
I already made the decision a while ago to stop buying Windows based software (games and apps), so that it would be easier for me to migrate to Linux in the future. It won't be long before I'm fully weaned off Windows. I've been using Linux since 1995 and I'm familiar with Slackware, Redhat and Debian/Ubuntu.
I'm also a hobbyist programmer and I enjoy programming in my spare time. It's easier to dig around and code stuff in Linux than it is in Windows from my experience. I enjoy using the CLI and I like making my own shell, perl or python scripts. Windows doesn't offer me this level of flexibility out of the box.
So I guess I fit into the linux geek category.
My primary computer is running XP Pro. My old computers are all running Linux. XP just works (hense I have no need for Vista). Why would I upgrade to Vista when XP runs all my applications and games? I haven't seen any compelling reasons why Vista is better than XP.
There's nothing clever about using a child to go in to a store and try to buy something, tobacco narcs have been using this technique for over a decade.
Also, I find it pretty disgusting that Thompson is using his own children to further his political agenda. Atleast tobacco narcs have the decency to pay their child "agents" and explain to them what they are doing. I wonder if Jack gave his son the choice or if he just forced him to do his bidding.
NIH Syndrome... Microsoft wants you to use Remote Desktop or Terminal Services.
From my experience with XP, a lack of a video card is the reason why Windows are drawn and refresh slowly (even moving Windows around the screen is painfully sluggish). All that goes away when I install the video card drivers and it switches from software to hardware rendering. Also, you don't need the latest gaming video card, even a 4-5 year old card like a Radeon 9600XT works wonders.
I haven't used Vista or Server 2008 (and I never will), but my guess is that it's same as XP in the "needs a video card to have a decent GUI experience" department.
From my limited understanding, SiteTruth is only meant for rating online shops. Unless your gaming website is selling something, you shouldn't care about SiteTruth or the rating you receive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_Crowe. Heather Crowe died from lung cancer after working as a waitress in a smoke filled environment for most of her life. She was one of the main reasons smoking is now banned in public places like bars and restaurants here in Ontario.
From this CBC story:
From the Health Canada website:
If she actually did share a song with someone, there's no way to tell how many times she made that song available. Let's say she only shared 1 song with 10 people, but then those 10 people shared that song with another 10 people, and so on and so forth. Maybe she directly shared a song with 10 people, but indirectly that led to hundreds, thousands or millions of people downloading that song over months, years or even decades. Should someone only be fined for the direct sharing of files or should they also be fined for the unknown amount of indirect sharing that results from that original file being shared? I don't know the answer to this, that's why I'm asking.
Also, fining someone $1 per song isn't by any means a punishment or a deterrent. The fine needs to be higher than the going rate of 99 cents a song, otherwise people will have no qualms about illegally downloading songs and only paying up if they get caught.
Do GBA games count? My all-time favourite game is Zelda: A Link to the Past for the SNES. One of the first games I bought for my DS was the GBA port of that game. I also bought the GBA ports of Mario 2, Mario 3 and Super Mario World. I actually own more GBA games for my DS Lite than DS games at this point. I never owned a Gameboy Advance, but I really enjoy the fact that the DS is backwards compatible with it.
The only DS games I own at this point are New Super Mario Bros. and I just bought Zelda: The Phantom Hourglass last night. Also, I wouldn't mind getting my hands on Zelda: The Minish Cap which is an older GBA game. If I can get my hands on The Minish Cap, my DS+GBA collection will consist of 4 Mario games and 3 Zelda games...
I haven't really seen any other DS or GBA games that interest me much, though I was considering getting the remake of Final Fantasy 3. I'm a sucker for those classics...
Do you ridicule everyone that doesn't share your views or preferences?
I do enjoy "guitar and vocals". I have a large collection of Classic Rock, Soft & Hard Rock, Alternative and Metal. I don't like any of the newer shit though. What's wrong with the fact that I also enjoy electronic music genres such as Hardcore, Happy Hardcore, Techno, Trance, House, Drum & Bass, Jungle, Acid, etc...
Why must I only be allowed to enjoy "guitar and vocal" music?
Fuck and Them.
Seriously though, I think Sony has the worst marketing and PR department in the entire music and/or video game industry. I own a PS3, and it's things like this that just make me cringe...
I own an ipod and there's no way in hell any corporation is going to stop me from ripping legally purchased CDs to mp3 and putting them on my ipod. Ah... who am I kidding, I don't buy CDs anyways. I refuse to support the music cartel. Independent artists is the only thing I will spend my money on.
On a side note, I got 6 EBGamesMusic cards for free last night with my purchase of Zelda: The Phantom Hourglass for my DS. After I got home, I decided to check out the EBGamesMusic site and use those 6 cards (5 free songs per card, so 30 songs in total). What a joke... First of all their selection was pathetic, I don't want to listen to that mainstream crap, luckily they did have some techno and drum & bass that somewhat interested me. Second, they make you download the tracks in WMA format which is completely crippled by DRM. After downloading all the tracks, I tried to rip them to mp3 for my ipod, but of course it wouldn't work. I then tried to play them in WMP9 and I got a popup window saying I needed to connect to Microsoft and update the DRM on my system... I immediately hit cancel and deleted those WMA-DRM tracks.
What a horrible music service...Why the hell is EB Games running a Music service anyway? I can see why they're giving away those music cards, there's no way in hell I'd actually spend money on that site.
I wonder it's a problem with Bluetooth itself. First Microsoft was having problems with bluetooth devices, then Sony with their PS3 controllers, and now Apple? That can't just be a coincidence.
Intel originally made the Pentium, followed by the Pentium 2, Pentium 3 and then the Pentium 4. Later Intel made a whole new architecture and called it "Core". Intel then made a second version of the Core and called it the Core 2, just like how the successor to the original Pentium was named the Pentium 2...
I will agree that Intel's naming convention is pretty confusing for people that haven't read up on all their past chips.
I get redirected to that page when I try to visit demonoid. It looks like us Canadians just got screwed over hard... It looks like I'll have to use a proxy if I want to access demonoid now.
I've been playing the TF2 beta and I absolutely love it. It took me a while to get used to the changes since I came from the original QWTF and later Q3F... I was pretty upset at first when I found out that Valve removed grenades, medic infections, pyro rocket launcher, etc.. But I slowly began to enjoy TF2 for what it was and now I really enjoy it. It is basically a simplified version of Team Fortress, but it's still fun. I consider myself a hardcore TF fan, and even I can enjoy what Valve has done. Also, if I want to play a more classic version, I'll play Fortress Forever.
I really like the stat system, though I wish it would keep overall stats for each class instead of just your best scores during one life. My TF2 stats: http://steamcommunity.com/id/Emetophobe/stats/TF2
You mean like this page? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Core_2_microprocessors
That page clearly shows the model number, clock frequency, L2 cache size, FSB speed, CPU multiplier, voltage, TDP (thermal rating), socket type, release date, part number and cost of each Intel Core 2 chip. The only valid argument I can think of is that Intel doesn't have a page like that on their own site and that you have to refer to wikipedia for that information.
Exactly. Looking at the benchmarks, there is no difference between the 512MB version of the 2900 XT and this new 1GB version. Infact, most of the benchmarks show the 1GB version performing slightly worse than the 512MB version for some reason...
When I bought my 1900 XT several months ago, I decided to get the cheaper 256MB version instead of the 512MB version because benchmarks showed there wasn't even a 5% difference in frame rates between the two cards. I play all my games at 1680x1050 with 4x AA and 8x AF, with the highest possible in-game detail settings and everything runs great. I'm not talking about really old games either, I'm talking about Bioshock, Team Fortress 2, etc..
The only case I've seen where the 512MB version of the 1900XT actually performs better than the 256MB version is when using the Folding@home GPU client.
Arg, I hate when I proof read my replies several times and I still miss something. That last bit should be "so they don't have to be inexpensive"
RAID can also mean Redundant Array of Independent Disks (see Wikipedia)... so they don't have to inexpensive ;)
From TFA:
If you watch the benchmark video, it actually gets over 900MB/sec reads and 800MB/sec writes, faster than those quoted numbers.
The first thing I thought when I read the summary was aren't there only ~33 million Canadians? So they're saying 11 million or 1/3rd of the population used Ebay in August? Somehow I find that extremely hard to believe.
I trust that anonymous source about as much as I trust TorrentFreak.
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Torrent_tracker_Demonoid.com_shut_down_by_Canadian_Recording_Industry_Association
Demonoid IRC transcript: http://www.thecircuitbox.com/demonoid/
Basically, no one knows at this point since the demonoid admin still hasn't said anything. It could be the CRIA, it could be extended maintenance/downtime. This is all just speculation at this point until Deimos (the owner/admin of demonoid) speaks up. I'm more likely to believe it's a server problem than the CRIA though.