Yeah, whatever - Fox news would have been all over a story about Kerry getting extra votes, so don't fucking call the media "liberal" because there is more than one media outlet, and they slant both ways.
No, not really. The 2 senses combined keep the creature as competitive as it was before. Also, you're not factoring in every other sense a creature has. For example, look at humans - our eyes and noise are *very* mediocore when compared to other creatures on this planet. An Eagle has great eyes and dogs have great noses. But Humans make up for it with brain size.
Somebody had way too much time on their hands... so did these guys get actual source code to mess with and just change graphics, etc - I doubt it. So, they just basically made the city look the same, so none of the actual game play will work. Still, it was an interesting effort but time like that could definitely be used for more pratical things, like oh say, finding bugs in popular open source software that could benefit us all:)
This I realize - but my question is this: Say a new Socket 939 version of the Athlon 64 comes out supporting DDR2 - it wouldn't be possible for the motherboard to support it right? I wouldn't think so because of different voltages to memory, pin counts and mappings, etc. It would be great of DDR was pin compatible with DDR1 so it could fit in existing AMD based boards.
That doesn't follow: having more releases doesn't force you to upgrade more often. What it does do is give you freedom to upgrade at times you choose.
Actually, it does. Did you know that FC1 is already going into legacy mode, meaning no more updates for it? That just blows my mind. Granted, these people aren't paid for their work, so I can't complain - but if I were running an open source project like this I would commit to updates for atleast 2.5 years after product release, and I would release a new version every 1.5 to 2 years to have some overlap.
Yes, I realize I can't get the binaries "from RH" as you say, but I do think I should be able to find them elsewhere, seeing as it's GPL software. I know there is whitebox linux, but I'm not sure how often the red hat patches get converted and then updated that way, seems like it would take a while to strip the word red hat from every file they put out.
Ok, so my question is - where can I get the binary update files for RHEL3? Or, if I went to their site and downloaded the source rpms, how do I build and install them? Thanks for the info, it's been enlightening.
Don't you have to pay yearly to use RHE3? I was under the assumption that it costs a little over an assload each year to just run that. I don't get why anybody in their right mind would switch to a linux distro that cost more than a windows box. Atleast with a windows server, you pay just once up front. With RHE3 it's a "subscription" for the updates, and without that, you can't even download the updates and install them manually. Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong - I'd love to be told I'm wrong because I used to love RH.
That sounds like a major driver issue if you ask me. There is a reason I quit buying ATI you know;) Seriously, not to start a flame war because I know people who have good luck with ATI, but I never have. I have owned several ATI products in the past, and each one of them seemed to have beta-like drivers for the entire time I owned the products. I used to like the AiW products, but half the advertised features never did work for me, always causing a crash, and it took months in between driver updates. I know ATI has gotten better about drivers in the last few years, but once I went Nvidia I never looked back because of their rock solid driver update schedule. I'm not going to say Nvidia is perfect in that area, just better than ATI.
You don't get what I'm saying - we're saying basically the same thing. If people buy the stuff now, nobody will care that there is still a flag until they have to purchase a new device years from now when their current one quits working. I'd rather see people not buy any HDTV products until the FCC pulls this retarded rule or law, whatever it is. If the manufacturers stand up to the FCC, maybe we wouldn't be in this position in the first place.
This is the wrong way to get around this problem. I say a boycott after the deadline would be far more effective. If nobody purchased a tv tuner after the deadline, that would speak volumes. It would have be a very organized protest, but with enough attention, it could work.
They make a 128-bit variant of the 5200? I didn't realize that - had I, I would have purchased that instead. I built my work computer myself, and went for a cheap video card because I shouldn't be gaming at work:) I did need dual monitor support however, and the fx 52000 had it, it was also fan less, so quiet counts for a lot when I'm programming.
The GTA series of games isn't known for good graphics - just great game play. So, it's very understandable that any GTA games up to this point would play on that card, and well at that.
Yes - I also had a Geforce 2 card, and it's currently for sale btw:) But a Geforce 2 and Geforce 2 MX cards are VERY different. Standard Geforce 2 cards use DDR memory - while MX cards use SDRAM, and it's much slower. So yes, I was able to barely play UT2004 on my Geforce 2 GTS which had 32 megs of ram on it, I even overclocked it a touch to get extra fps out of it, but with only 32 megs, it just wasn't going to work. Geforce 3 series cards are amazing, and so are Geforce 4 Ti cards. All the mx cards are crap however, along with the FX 5200 cards. My geforce 2 GTS smoked my FX 5200 with 128 megs of ram I had at work, and that's just plain said.
The only $35 cards I know of are the Geforce MX series, whether you're talking about geforce 2 or 4, but basically they are the same - fine for business machines at work, but not a gaming machine. I mean, you can play the original Unreal Tournament or Quake III ok on them, but definitely not UT2004, Doom 3, or anything else in that class of game. The high end of those cards had 64 megs of ram, but it was cut down ram with a slow bus and the graphics chip was very cut down. If you're serious about gaming, you could spend around $70 and get a Geforce 4 Ti4200 8x card which slightly under performs a Geforce 4 Ti4600, which is a great card for the last few years. That card should be able to make UT2004 and games like it playable, but I'm not sure about Doom 3. I'm sure at 800x600 you could play it without some of the effects.
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Ok, putting a Celeron and Athlon on the same level is just stupid. I know what you're trying to say, but a Celeron has nowhere near the cache an Athlon has. For example, I have an Athlon XP processor in my work machine, the 2500+ and it has 512 K of L2 cache. It also runs at 1.83 GHZ, but because of it's shorter pipeline vs the current generation of Celerons, it absolutely smokes a celeron, they aren't even in the same class in my opinion. Just because a processor is cheaper it doesn't mean it's on the same performance level. It would perform equal to or better than a Pentium 4 @ 2.4 GHZ if you pair the Athlon XP with dual channel DDR @ 333 or 400. Like I said, I realize what you're trying to say, and I think you're on the right track - but I would never compare a celeron to an Athlon in terms of performance. Price - ofcourse, but not performance - an Athlon is a much better buy if you're not stuck on Intel and will evaluate all your x86 options.
I disagree - I think music files will get larger. They already have. When people first started encoding music into mp3, I remember hearing "128 kbps is good enough, don't go lower or higher because it's a great comprimise of compression and quality" Now you got all these people with ipods claiming they can hear a difference between 128 and 192, so they all encode at 192 or 256 now. I personally have no problem with 128, but my point is that others thinke they *need* 192 for good quality, and soon it will be 256, which doubles the size of the file.
So help me out here - I don't understand how they can do this so easily. I was under the impression that games like Doom/Quake used Microsoft DirectX . If that's the case, how do they easily port it to Linux, or Mac for that matter? I love that they do it, I just don't understand how. I'm glad to see the windows platform isn't the only one getting these cool games.
Have you tried to play Far Cry yet? The game came free with a brand new video card I bought, the eVGA Nvidia Geforce 6800, and after I installed it and then patched it to version 1.1, it refused to load. It said something about detecting drive imaging software on my machine, and it said it would not load until said software was removed. I can't tell you how much that ticked me off. So, rather than uninstall the cd copying software because I NEED IT FOR LEGIMATE PURPOSES, I simply found a crack for the program I legally own, and was forced to use it. It's just wrong. There needs to be a class action law suit, I'd even help spring for the lawyer.
Obviously is because we're higher up in Colorado, not to mention that the climate here is very condusive for lightning. It's very dry and on a daily basis for the most part we get afternoon showers that move in from the mountains to the eastern slope.
What I really want is a Mozilla Suite like application that includes firefox and thunderbird in it. The regular Mozilla combo pack sucks in my opinion because of the nonstandard gui attached to it that's very slow to open, etc. I love the guis in thunderbird and firefox, but I can't figure out how to integrate the profiles for both apps into one like Mozilla suite has. There would be no stopping Mozilla if they would simply do that.
Well said - and I thinks a HUGE step towards killing spam. The only other issue now is stopping forged domains that don't exist without generating a lot of lag.
Well, most people who install them do so themselves - you just place mountaing brackets on your roof and screw the panels on. The only tricky part is the electrical wiring back into the grid, which you could pay somebody to do because it needs to be inspected anyhow. As far as the panels being damaged, I don't think that's a problem anymore - they build them very well from what I understand, especially if their life expentency is around 25 years. They would work great in states like Nevada, Colorado, California, Florida, Nebraska, Iowa, Oklahoma, etc. Yeah, putting these up in Seattle is probably a bad idea... but that's what tidal power is for from the ocean:) I agree there isn't a single one solution that's going to work, but that's why we can combine all sorts of these solutions to generate the power we need. Other viable options are Wind, and now this nanotube wire thing. I think Nuclear is a horrible idea because nobody knows what to do with the waste and I'm not a big fan of cancer.
I disagree 100% - mainly because efficiency of these projects increase all the time. Solar isn't that expensive when you project the costs out over 30 years for example for the average home. Say every home had solar panels on the roof, and the average cost was $20k per home, which it is at present time. The average solar set up lasts between 20 and 30 years if properly maintained. How is that not cheaper than paying a utility bill? After 5 years, the gear would be paid off, netting an average of 15 - 25 years of FREE power. I'm no hippie, I just think Solar makes sense over the long term. If you don't believe my figures, check out sites like www.homepower.com.
Fortunately, that's why we are able to use the sun to heat one tank of gas (Aka green house) and then open the valve - so during the day, solar power heats the gas so we can use it to generate electricity.
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Yeah, whatever - Fox news would have been all over a story about Kerry getting extra votes, so don't fucking call the media "liberal" because there is more than one media outlet, and they slant both ways.
No, not really. The 2 senses combined keep the creature as competitive as it was before. Also, you're not factoring in every other sense a creature has. For example, look at humans - our eyes and noise are *very* mediocore when compared to other creatures on this planet. An Eagle has great eyes and dogs have great noses. But Humans make up for it with brain size.
Somebody had way too much time on their hands... so did these guys get actual source code to mess with and just change graphics, etc - I doubt it. So, they just basically made the city look the same, so none of the actual game play will work. Still, it was an interesting effort but time like that could definitely be used for more pratical things, like oh say, finding bugs in popular open source software that could benefit us all :)
This I realize - but my question is this: Say a new Socket 939 version of the Athlon 64 comes out supporting DDR2 - it wouldn't be possible for the motherboard to support it right? I wouldn't think so because of different voltages to memory, pin counts and mappings, etc. It would be great of DDR was pin compatible with DDR1 so it could fit in existing AMD based boards.
That doesn't follow: having more releases doesn't force you to upgrade more often. What it does do is give you freedom to upgrade at times you choose.
Actually, it does. Did you know that FC1 is already going into legacy mode, meaning no more updates for it? That just blows my mind. Granted, these people aren't paid for their work, so I can't complain - but if I were running an open source project like this I would commit to updates for atleast 2.5 years after product release, and I would release a new version every 1.5 to 2 years to have some overlap.
Yes, I realize I can't get the binaries "from RH" as you say, but I do think I should be able to find them elsewhere, seeing as it's GPL software. I know there is whitebox linux, but I'm not sure how often the red hat patches get converted and then updated that way, seems like it would take a while to strip the word red hat from every file they put out.
Ok, so my question is - where can I get the binary update files for RHEL3? Or, if I went to their site and downloaded the source rpms, how do I build and install them? Thanks for the info, it's been enlightening.
Don't you have to pay yearly to use RHE3? I was under the assumption that it costs a little over an assload each year to just run that. I don't get why anybody in their right mind would switch to a linux distro that cost more than a windows box. Atleast with a windows server, you pay just once up front. With RHE3 it's a "subscription" for the updates, and without that, you can't even download the updates and install them manually. Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong - I'd love to be told I'm wrong because I used to love RH.
That sounds like a major driver issue if you ask me. There is a reason I quit buying ATI you know ;) Seriously, not to start a flame war because I know people who have good luck with ATI, but I never have. I have owned several ATI products in the past, and each one of them seemed to have beta-like drivers for the entire time I owned the products. I used to like the AiW products, but half the advertised features never did work for me, always causing a crash, and it took months in between driver updates. I know ATI has gotten better about drivers in the last few years, but once I went Nvidia I never looked back because of their rock solid driver update schedule. I'm not going to say Nvidia is perfect in that area, just better than ATI.
You don't get what I'm saying - we're saying basically the same thing. If people buy the stuff now, nobody will care that there is still a flag until they have to purchase a new device years from now when their current one quits working. I'd rather see people not buy any HDTV products until the FCC pulls this retarded rule or law, whatever it is. If the manufacturers stand up to the FCC, maybe we wouldn't be in this position in the first place.
This is the wrong way to get around this problem. I say a boycott after the deadline would be far more effective. If nobody purchased a tv tuner after the deadline, that would speak volumes. It would have be a very organized protest, but with enough attention, it could work.
They make a 128-bit variant of the 5200? I didn't realize that - had I, I would have purchased that instead. I built my work computer myself, and went for a cheap video card because I shouldn't be gaming at work :) I did need dual monitor support however, and the fx 52000 had it, it was also fan less, so quiet counts for a lot when I'm programming.
The GTA series of games isn't known for good graphics - just great game play. So, it's very understandable that any GTA games up to this point would play on that card, and well at that.
Yes - I also had a Geforce 2 card, and it's currently for sale btw :) But a Geforce 2 and Geforce 2 MX cards are VERY different. Standard Geforce 2 cards use DDR memory - while MX cards use SDRAM, and it's much slower. So yes, I was able to barely play UT2004 on my Geforce 2 GTS which had 32 megs of ram on it, I even overclocked it a touch to get extra fps out of it, but with only 32 megs, it just wasn't going to work. Geforce 3 series cards are amazing, and so are Geforce 4 Ti cards. All the mx cards are crap however, along with the FX 5200 cards. My geforce 2 GTS smoked my FX 5200 with 128 megs of ram I had at work, and that's just plain said.
The only $35 cards I know of are the Geforce MX series, whether you're talking about geforce 2 or 4, but basically they are the same - fine for business machines at work, but not a gaming machine. I mean, you can play the original Unreal Tournament or Quake III ok on them, but definitely not UT2004, Doom 3, or anything else in that class of game. The high end of those cards had 64 megs of ram, but it was cut down ram with a slow bus and the graphics chip was very cut down. If you're serious about gaming, you could spend around $70 and get a Geforce 4 Ti4200 8x card which slightly under performs a Geforce 4 Ti4600, which is a great card for the last few years. That card should be able to make UT2004 and games like it playable, but I'm not sure about Doom 3. I'm sure at 800x600 you could play it without some of the effects.
Ok, putting a Celeron and Athlon on the same level is just stupid. I know what you're trying to say, but a Celeron has nowhere near the cache an Athlon has. For example, I have an Athlon XP processor in my work machine, the 2500+ and it has 512 K of L2 cache. It also runs at 1.83 GHZ, but because of it's shorter pipeline vs the current generation of Celerons, it absolutely smokes a celeron, they aren't even in the same class in my opinion. Just because a processor is cheaper it doesn't mean it's on the same performance level. It would perform equal to or better than a Pentium 4 @ 2.4 GHZ if you pair the Athlon XP with dual channel DDR @ 333 or 400. Like I said, I realize what you're trying to say, and I think you're on the right track - but I would never compare a celeron to an Athlon in terms of performance. Price - ofcourse, but not performance - an Athlon is a much better buy if you're not stuck on Intel and will evaluate all your x86 options.
I disagree - I think music files will get larger. They already have. When people first started encoding music into mp3, I remember hearing "128 kbps is good enough, don't go lower or higher because it's a great comprimise of compression and quality" Now you got all these people with ipods claiming they can hear a difference between 128 and 192, so they all encode at 192 or 256 now. I personally have no problem with 128, but my point is that others thinke they *need* 192 for good quality, and soon it will be 256, which doubles the size of the file.
So help me out here - I don't understand how they can do this so easily. I was under the impression that games like Doom/Quake used Microsoft DirectX . If that's the case, how do they easily port it to Linux, or Mac for that matter? I love that they do it, I just don't understand how. I'm glad to see the windows platform isn't the only one getting these cool games.
Have you tried to play Far Cry yet? The game came free with a brand new video card I bought, the eVGA Nvidia Geforce 6800, and after I installed it and then patched it to version 1.1, it refused to load. It said something about detecting drive imaging software on my machine, and it said it would not load until said software was removed. I can't tell you how much that ticked me off. So, rather than uninstall the cd copying software because I NEED IT FOR LEGIMATE PURPOSES, I simply found a crack for the program I legally own, and was forced to use it. It's just wrong. There needs to be a class action law suit, I'd even help spring for the lawyer.
Obviously is because we're higher up in Colorado, not to mention that the climate here is very condusive for lightning. It's very dry and on a daily basis for the most part we get afternoon showers that move in from the mountains to the eastern slope.
What I really want is a Mozilla Suite like application that includes firefox and thunderbird in it. The regular Mozilla combo pack sucks in my opinion because of the nonstandard gui attached to it that's very slow to open, etc. I love the guis in thunderbird and firefox, but I can't figure out how to integrate the profiles for both apps into one like Mozilla suite has. There would be no stopping Mozilla if they would simply do that.
Well said - and I thinks a HUGE step towards killing spam. The only other issue now is stopping forged domains that don't exist without generating a lot of lag.
Well, most people who install them do so themselves - you just place mountaing brackets on your roof and screw the panels on. The only tricky part is the electrical wiring back into the grid, which you could pay somebody to do because it needs to be inspected anyhow. As far as the panels being damaged, I don't think that's a problem anymore - they build them very well from what I understand, especially if their life expentency is around 25 years. They would work great in states like Nevada, Colorado, California, Florida, Nebraska, Iowa, Oklahoma, etc. Yeah, putting these up in Seattle is probably a bad idea... but that's what tidal power is for from the ocean :) I agree there isn't a single one solution that's going to work, but that's why we can combine all sorts of these solutions to generate the power we need. Other viable options are Wind, and now this nanotube wire thing. I think Nuclear is a horrible idea because nobody knows what to do with the waste and I'm not a big fan of cancer.
I disagree 100% - mainly because efficiency of these projects increase all the time. Solar isn't that expensive when you project the costs out over 30 years for example for the average home. Say every home had solar panels on the roof, and the average cost was $20k per home, which it is at present time. The average solar set up lasts between 20 and 30 years if properly maintained. How is that not cheaper than paying a utility bill? After 5 years, the gear would be paid off, netting an average of 15 - 25 years of FREE power. I'm no hippie, I just think Solar makes sense over the long term. If you don't believe my figures, check out sites like www.homepower.com.
Fortunately, that's why we are able to use the sun to heat one tank of gas (Aka green house) and then open the valve - so during the day, solar power heats the gas so we can use it to generate electricity.