if you use such a strategy in mechcommander you will die almost immediately.
anyway you cannot build as large army as you want because you can only take limited tonnage into the dropship. this is a game where you have to start thinking.
ok, seriously, this could be the perfect tool for spies. just imagine. there are two spies say in a military base. no way to exchange information openly. they would just need to walk along each other for a short moment and their watches exchange the information they gathered.
those ads in syndicate were fun. they really worked to the alltogether dark mood of the game. in such strategy or better tactic games ads could work good enough because the player waits time for thinking his turns out properly. in fast shooters though ads would be surely overseen.
newer unreal engine is practically written for direct3d only. opengl support for windows is dropped. there will be possibly an open gl version for linux.
...I've lived all my live in Germany, and I've used a checque only once! I got the money instantly... Who needs checques?
yeah but if you pay with an ec card the bank still can play with your money for 3 days before forwarding the money to the shop.
...Very unlikely! Privacy concerns have been very strong in Germany, I could never imaginge the government to let corporations access a (hypothetical) genetic database!
very likely. most people don't give a damn about it, they say "ich habe nichts zu verbergen" - i don't hide anything. privacy concerns were some time in the past but not anymore...
german politicians and laws are equally stupid, trust me. if you coud read the heise.de (c't magazine) newsticker you'll often see that. all the technology thingies are damned staying in the labs and being tested for years and decades. one good thing though: linux ist quite strong here, mostly suse.
How to build a fast and silent PC (sorry for bad english):
Ingredients:
1 Antec SOHO SX1030B Midi Tower (aka Chieftech cs-601)
http://www.listan.de/images/products/CS-601 Open.jpg
This case is really good. You can snap 4 fans in it, it is heavy,
with easy to mount hdd racks, and no sharp edges you can cut yourself.
AND you can get it in silver, blue and BLACK *yum*
1 Athlon XP 1600+, maybe less if you don't mind less performance
1 Alpha PAL8045 heatsink.
This one is big and heavy and of an excellent quality. And it can not
break the socket and fall off, you can't damage your cpu core while mounting.
It also enables me to mount a 80mmx80mm fan
6 papst 8412 NGL fans. As I already mentioned it, they are the quietest fans allover.
1 Enermax EG465P-VE PSU with 431 watt.
I can already hear you mumbling about this thing is really loud. Yes it is. But we are going
to modify it a bit. Attention, warranty will be void.
1 Seagate Barracuda ATA IV HDD
This one is the most silent of the fast HDDs.
1 NoiseControl NoVibes III for silencing the HDD even more
1 packet of noise insulation materials for your pc.
btw you can order the novibes 3 and the already insulated case at http://www.pc-silent.de
but it is not very cheap. maybe better doing it yourself.
1 ecs k7s5a motherboard
a budget one, without fan (but it's heatsink sucks)
2 256 mb ddr apacer/nanya
quality memory, works very good with this motherboard
1 ati radeon 8500 or 7500
because they run very cool so you can take the loud fans off and place a big heatsink instead
2 zalman zm-nb32 northbridge coolers
that's for the radeon and for the chipset.
4 DDRRAM heatsinks
for the radeon, too.
1 tube arctic silver 2
this thermal paste is really good
some foam rubber
We take carefully the chipset heatsink off, clean it carefully with alcohol,
then put the first zalman northbridge heatsink with the help of thermal adhesive
(you get it with the heatsink) onto the northbridge.
Then we take off the radeon cooler, clean the chip, put a small amount of arctic
silver thermal grease on it (I suppose you know how to do that), then we mount the
second zalman heatsink on it. The same thermal adhesive we use on the ram and mount
the ram heatsinks on it. wait 15 minutes - the adhesive needs time to stick firmly.
Put the cpu into the socket, attach the mounting washers and so of the big alpha
heatsink. clean the cpu core and heatsink plate properly, put a small amount of thermal
grease on the core, mount the heatsink carefully on top of the cpu, screw it firm.
Mount one of the papst ngl fans onto it.
Mount the hdd into the novibes 3 and put it into the case. Let the 4 fans snap into the
fan mouns. We'll go on with them later. Mount the memory, mount the motherboard,
cdrom, fdd, vga... you get the picture
open the psu and ripp of the 80mm fan. replace it with the ngl one. you must modify
the plugs of the fan a little but it is not a problem I suppose. The second fan of the psu
is speed controlled, so set it to the slowest speed possible.
Mount the psu, modify the fans to 7 volt (very easy, if you don't know how, ask).
Stick the insulation plates into your case properly. Inner sides of the cover must be insulated
with heavy materials.
Stick foam rubber to the case legs. Doing so you reduce the remaining oscillations.
Well, here we are. Your computer is almost silent but still cool enough. Maybe even cool enough to
allow some overclocking. Try it out!
you can buy the stuff at many german sites like www.com-tra.de, www.pc-silent.de, www.aconto.de and so on.
ecs k7s5a with onboard sound&lan
duron 1000
ati radeon ddr or geforce 2 mx (would take the radeon because of much better image quality - crappy rf filter on most nvidia cards)
hdd, dvdrom, monitor and keyboard of your choise
logitech oem mouse
if you want a quality soundcard pick a creative live! player (or player 5.1) for they are quite cheap because of the audigy ones and have outstanding sound quality
and DON'T buy cheap psu and memory - the stability difference is enormous
Slashdot Mirror
if you use such a strategy in mechcommander you will die almost immediately.
anyway you cannot build as large army as you want because you can only take limited tonnage into the dropship. this is a game where you have to start thinking.
just imagine how a sentence like
"winner of the contest for improvement of the world's biggest search engine" would look in your resume?
you definitely won't be unemployed.
this sounds like smoke signals on steroids
;-)
ok, seriously, this could be the perfect tool for spies. just imagine. there are two spies say in a military base. no way to exchange information openly. they would just need to walk along each other for a short moment and their watches exchange the information they gathered.
those ads in syndicate were fun. they really worked to the alltogether dark mood of the game. in such strategy or better tactic games ads could work good enough because the player waits time for thinking his turns out properly. in fast shooters though ads would be surely overseen.
take a standard digital backup system and build a beowulf cluster of those :-)
you forgot 42
just downloaded and burned mandrake 8.1 and now this.
newer unreal engine is practically written for direct3d only. opengl support for windows is dropped. there will be possibly an open gl version for linux.
...I've lived all my live in Germany, and I've used a checque only once! I got the money instantly... Who needs checques?
...Very unlikely! Privacy concerns have been very strong in Germany, I could never imaginge the government to let corporations access a (hypothetical) genetic database!
yeah but if you pay with an ec card the bank still can play with your money for 3 days before forwarding the money to the shop.
very likely. most people don't give a damn about it, they say "ich habe nichts zu verbergen" - i don't hide anything. privacy concerns were some time in the past but not anymore...
i second that. this is really true.
german politicians and laws are equally stupid, trust me. if you coud read the heise.de (c't magazine) newsticker you'll often see that. all the technology thingies are damned staying in the labs and being tested for years and decades. one good thing though: linux ist quite strong here, mostly suse.
yes i live in germany
well, the irongate problems are there only with nvidia cards.
never had the same problem with a radeon or a kyro 2.
so, who is to blame now?
the soviets did not invade afganistan, they were pleaded for help by the afganistan government because of mujaheddin rebels
well, a very large fan slowed down is still noisy because of the stronger motor.
a 80mmx80mm fan is perfect, 92x92mm fan is already louder.
How to build a fast and silent PC (sorry for bad english):
Ingredients:
1 Antec SOHO SX1030B Midi Tower (aka Chieftech cs-601)
http://www.listan.de/images/products/CS-601 Open.jpg
This case is really good. You can snap 4 fans in it, it is heavy,
with easy to mount hdd racks, and no sharp edges you can cut yourself.
AND you can get it in silver, blue and BLACK *yum*
1 Athlon XP 1600+, maybe less if you don't mind less performance
1 Alpha PAL8045 heatsink.
This one is big and heavy and of an excellent quality. And it can not
break the socket and fall off, you can't damage your cpu core while mounting.
It also enables me to mount a 80mmx80mm fan
6 papst 8412 NGL fans. As I already mentioned it, they are the quietest fans allover.
1 Enermax EG465P-VE PSU with 431 watt.
I can already hear you mumbling about this thing is really loud. Yes it is. But we are going
to modify it a bit. Attention, warranty will be void.
1 Seagate Barracuda ATA IV HDD
This one is the most silent of the fast HDDs.
1 NoiseControl NoVibes III for silencing the HDD even more
1 packet of noise insulation materials for your pc.
btw you can order the novibes 3 and the already insulated case at http://www.pc-silent.de
but it is not very cheap. maybe better doing it yourself.
1 ecs k7s5a motherboard
a budget one, without fan (but it's heatsink sucks)
2 256 mb ddr apacer/nanya
quality memory, works very good with this motherboard
1 ati radeon 8500 or 7500
because they run very cool so you can take the loud fans off and place a big heatsink instead
2 zalman zm-nb32 northbridge coolers
that's for the radeon and for the chipset.
4 DDRRAM heatsinks
for the radeon, too.
1 tube arctic silver 2
this thermal paste is really good
some foam rubber
We take carefully the chipset heatsink off, clean it carefully with alcohol,
then put the first zalman northbridge heatsink with the help of thermal adhesive
(you get it with the heatsink) onto the northbridge.
Then we take off the radeon cooler, clean the chip, put a small amount of arctic
silver thermal grease on it (I suppose you know how to do that), then we mount the
second zalman heatsink on it. The same thermal adhesive we use on the ram and mount
the ram heatsinks on it. wait 15 minutes - the adhesive needs time to stick firmly.
Put the cpu into the socket, attach the mounting washers and so of the big alpha
heatsink. clean the cpu core and heatsink plate properly, put a small amount of thermal
grease on the core, mount the heatsink carefully on top of the cpu, screw it firm.
Mount one of the papst ngl fans onto it.
Mount the hdd into the novibes 3 and put it into the case. Let the 4 fans snap into the
fan mouns. We'll go on with them later. Mount the memory, mount the motherboard,
cdrom, fdd, vga... you get the picture
open the psu and ripp of the 80mm fan. replace it with the ngl one. you must modify
the plugs of the fan a little but it is not a problem I suppose. The second fan of the psu
is speed controlled, so set it to the slowest speed possible.
Mount the psu, modify the fans to 7 volt (very easy, if you don't know how, ask).
Stick the insulation plates into your case properly. Inner sides of the cover must be insulated
with heavy materials.
Stick foam rubber to the case legs. Doing so you reduce the remaining oscillations.
Well, here we are. Your computer is almost silent but still cool enough. Maybe even cool enough to
allow some overclocking. Try it out!
you can buy the stuff at many german sites like www.com-tra.de, www.pc-silent.de, www.aconto.de and so on.
then the papst 8412 ngl fan is just for you.
80x80cm, sintec sleeve bearing, perfect balanced, only 12 db loud, 19,64 CFM / 33,0 m/h
just imagine them modded to 7 volt instead of 12. that are the most silent fans i know.
i wrote a longer article to the german c't forum about silencing personal computers, if someone wishes it i can translate it to english
just much much easier to accomplish.
scary
because of the quality. most cd rom drives can hardly read those discs. i had some prev. expirience with those.
next we breed bigger human beings for fitting in a such elemental suit
reflections from the russian lunokhod which landed to moon softly (first soft landing on the moon)
:-)
Windows 2000
yeah but this guy is dutch i suppose and 1 euro==2.2 gulden or so.
he actually still thought in gulden i think
lot sharper image? bullshit. go here:
GeForce/TNT Image Quality Problems Due to RFI Filtering
ecs k7s5a with onboard sound&lan
duron 1000
ati radeon ddr or geforce 2 mx (would take the radeon because of much better image quality - crappy rf filter on most nvidia cards)
hdd, dvdrom, monitor and keyboard of your choise
logitech oem mouse
if you want a quality soundcard pick a creative live! player (or player 5.1) for they are quite cheap because of the audigy ones and have outstanding sound quality
and DON'T buy cheap psu and memory - the stability difference is enormous
rotfl
but then again where are the lawyers honest?