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"Fred Stone" |
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10 Jan 2008 07:00:24 PM |
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New Iron, part 2 |
The New Iron has been up a running for a few days now. Things are
generally even faster than I expected. Firefox, for instance, loads in
about two seconds instead of dragging on for a minute or so like on the
Old Iron.
Haven't even touched the overclock features yet. Core temps are running
about 34C and the GPU at 50C, which is very acceptable. NVidia m/b
monitor reports 2.4 Ghz CPU, 800 Mhz memory, GPU Core 576 Mhz GPU memory
900 Mhz.
Loaded the Crysis game which came with the video card, looked at the
tutorial and said "You gotta be kidding me". Sure did look pretty though.
The biggest surprise so far is the nVidia "Pure video" DVD CODEC. DVD's
now show at full resolution on widescreen on my 1680x1050 monitor with
zero glitches and almost no perceptible artifacts. VERY nice. The same
CODEC on the Old Iron worked better than the freebie codec, but that
ain't saying much since the hardware just wasn't up to the job of
decompressing DVD-quality video at the full frame rate, which led to a
lot of dropped frames during action sequences.
--
Fred Stone
aa# 1369
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is
largely a waste of time.
H. L. Mencken
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| User: "G-Ride" |
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| Title: Re: New Iron, part 2 |
10 Jan 2008 07:24:20 PM |
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"Fred Stone" <fstone69@earthling.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9A21CB857393Cfreddybear@216.151.153.34...
The New Iron has been up a running for a few days now. Things are
generally even faster than I expected. Firefox, for instance, loads in
about two seconds instead of dragging on for a minute or so like on the
Old Iron.
Haven't even touched the overclock features yet. Core temps are running
about 34C and the GPU at 50C, which is very acceptable. NVidia m/b
monitor reports 2.4 Ghz CPU, 800 Mhz memory, GPU Core 576 Mhz GPU memory
900 Mhz.
Loaded the Crysis game which came with the video card, looked at the
tutorial and said "You gotta be kidding me". Sure did look pretty though.
The biggest surprise so far is the nVidia "Pure video" DVD CODEC. DVD's
now show at full resolution on widescreen on my 1680x1050 monitor with
zero glitches and almost no perceptible artifacts. VERY nice. The same
CODEC on the Old Iron worked better than the freebie codec, but that
ain't saying much since the hardware just wasn't up to the job of
decompressing DVD-quality video at the full frame rate, which led to a
lot of dropped frames during action sequences.
As was mentioned on your first post:
"all that bother... just so you can go online and convince more people that
you're bat ***** crazy."
'nuff said.
--
Aloha, G-Ride
The force that's forcing you to feel like busting up a Starbucks.
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| User: "Fred Stone" |
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| Title: Re: New Iron, part 2 |
10 Jan 2008 08:59:28 PM |
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"G-Ride" <grideholdthespam42@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:5unuq7F1jc6vsU1@mid.individual.net:
"Fred Stone" <fstone69@earthling.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9A21CB857393Cfreddybear@216.151.153.34...
The New Iron has been up a running for a few days now. Things are
generally even faster than I expected. Firefox, for instance, loads
in about two seconds instead of dragging on for a minute or so like
on the Old Iron.
Haven't even touched the overclock features yet. Core temps are
running about 34C and the GPU at 50C, which is very acceptable.
NVidia m/b monitor reports 2.4 Ghz CPU, 800 Mhz memory, GPU Core 576
Mhz GPU memory 900 Mhz.
Loaded the Crysis game which came with the video card, looked at the
tutorial and said "You gotta be kidding me". Sure did look pretty
though.
The biggest surprise so far is the nVidia "Pure video" DVD CODEC.
DVD's now show at full resolution on widescreen on my 1680x1050
monitor with zero glitches and almost no perceptible artifacts. VERY
nice. The same CODEC on the Old Iron worked better than the freebie
codec, but that ain't saying much since the hardware just wasn't up
to the job of decompressing DVD-quality video at the full frame rate,
which led to a lot of dropped frames during action sequences.
As was mentioned on your first post:
"all that bother... just so you can go online and convince more people
that you're bat ***** crazy."
'nuff said.
Hardly any bother at all, "G-Ride", and everybody already knows that
you're the one who is "batshit crazy".
--
Fred Stone
aa# 1369
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is
largely a waste of time.
H. L. Mencken
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| User: "G-Ride" |
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| Title: Re: New Iron, part 2 |
10 Jan 2008 10:35:29 PM |
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"Fred Stone" <fstone69@earthling.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9A21DFB547F8Dfreddybear@216.151.153.46...
"G-Ride" <grideholdthespam42@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:5unuq7F1jc6vsU1@mid.individual.net:
"Fred Stone" <fstone69@earthling.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9A21CB857393Cfreddybear@216.151.153.34...
The New Iron has been up a running for a few days now. Things are
generally even faster than I expected. Firefox, for instance, loads
in about two seconds instead of dragging on for a minute or so like
on the Old Iron.
Haven't even touched the overclock features yet. Core temps are
running about 34C and the GPU at 50C, which is very acceptable.
NVidia m/b monitor reports 2.4 Ghz CPU, 800 Mhz memory, GPU Core 576
Mhz GPU memory 900 Mhz.
Loaded the Crysis game which came with the video card, looked at the
tutorial and said "You gotta be kidding me". Sure did look pretty
though.
The biggest surprise so far is the nVidia "Pure video" DVD CODEC.
DVD's now show at full resolution on widescreen on my 1680x1050
monitor with zero glitches and almost no perceptible artifacts. VERY
nice. The same CODEC on the Old Iron worked better than the freebie
codec, but that ain't saying much since the hardware just wasn't up
to the job of decompressing DVD-quality video at the full frame rate,
which led to a lot of dropped frames during action sequences.
As was mentioned on your first post:
"all that bother... just so you can go online and convince more people
that you're bat ***** crazy."
'nuff said.
Hardly any bother at all, "G-Ride", and everybody already knows that
you're the one who is "batshit crazy".
lol. Thanks for proving yet again just how much of a lunatic and
pathological liar you are. Get help, Fredo.
--
Aloha, G-Ride
The force that's forcing you to feel like busting up a Starbucks.
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| User: "Fred Stone" |
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| Title: Re: New Iron, part 2 |
11 Jan 2008 07:19:58 AM |
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"G-Ride" <grideholdthespam42@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:5uoa0lF1ir0lqU1@mid.individual.net:
"Fred Stone" <fstone69@earthling.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9A21DFB547F8Dfreddybear@216.151.153.46...
"G-Ride" <grideholdthespam42@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:5unuq7F1jc6vsU1@mid.individual.net:
"Fred Stone" <fstone69@earthling.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9A21CB857393Cfreddybear@216.151.153.34...
The New Iron has been up a running for a few days now. Things are
generally even faster than I expected. Firefox, for instance, loads
in about two seconds instead of dragging on for a minute or so like
on the Old Iron.
Haven't even touched the overclock features yet. Core temps are
running about 34C and the GPU at 50C, which is very acceptable.
NVidia m/b monitor reports 2.4 Ghz CPU, 800 Mhz memory, GPU Core
576 Mhz GPU memory 900 Mhz.
Loaded the Crysis game which came with the video card, looked at
the tutorial and said "You gotta be kidding me". Sure did look
pretty though.
The biggest surprise so far is the nVidia "Pure video" DVD CODEC.
DVD's now show at full resolution on widescreen on my 1680x1050
monitor with zero glitches and almost no perceptible artifacts.
VERY nice. The same CODEC on the Old Iron worked better than the
freebie codec, but that ain't saying much since the hardware just
wasn't up to the job of decompressing DVD-quality video at the full
frame rate, which led to a lot of dropped frames during action
sequences.
As was mentioned on your first post:
"all that bother... just so you can go online and convince more
people that you're bat ***** crazy."
'nuff said.
Hardly any bother at all, "G-Ride", and everybody already knows that
you're the one who is "batshit crazy".
lol. Thanks for proving yet again just how much of a lunatic and
pathological liar you are. Get help, Fredo.
Ahh, I love the smell of jealousy on USENET. It smells like...VICTORY!
--
Fred Stone
aa# 1369
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is
largely a waste of time. H. L. Mencken
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| User: "G-Ride" |
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| Title: Re: New Iron, part 2 |
11 Jan 2008 02:10:24 PM |
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"Fred Stone" <fstone69@earthling.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9A2254E1E9F0Cfreddybear@216.151.153.44...
"G-Ride" <grideholdthespam42@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:5uoa0lF1ir0lqU1@mid.individual.net:
"Fred Stone" <fstone69@earthling.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9A21DFB547F8Dfreddybear@216.151.153.46...
"G-Ride" <grideholdthespam42@yahoo.com> wrote in
news:5unuq7F1jc6vsU1@mid.individual.net:
"Fred Stone" <fstone69@earthling.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9A21CB857393Cfreddybear@216.151.153.34...
The New Iron has been up a running for a few days now. Things are
generally even faster than I expected. Firefox, for instance, loads
in about two seconds instead of dragging on for a minute or so like
on the Old Iron.
Haven't even touched the overclock features yet. Core temps are
running about 34C and the GPU at 50C, which is very acceptable.
NVidia m/b monitor reports 2.4 Ghz CPU, 800 Mhz memory, GPU Core
576 Mhz GPU memory 900 Mhz.
Loaded the Crysis game which came with the video card, looked at
the tutorial and said "You gotta be kidding me". Sure did look
pretty though.
The biggest surprise so far is the nVidia "Pure video" DVD CODEC.
DVD's now show at full resolution on widescreen on my 1680x1050
monitor with zero glitches and almost no perceptible artifacts.
VERY nice. The same CODEC on the Old Iron worked better than the
freebie codec, but that ain't saying much since the hardware just
wasn't up to the job of decompressing DVD-quality video at the full
frame rate, which led to a lot of dropped frames during action
sequences.
As was mentioned on your first post:
"all that bother... just so you can go online and convince more
people that you're bat ***** crazy."
'nuff said.
Hardly any bother at all, "G-Ride", and everybody already knows that
you're the one who is "batshit crazy".
lol. Thanks for proving yet again just how much of a lunatic and
pathological liar you are. Get help, Fredo.
Ahh, I love the smell of jealousy on USENET. It smells like...VICTORY!
Jealous? Of you? I'm jealous of pathological liar and usenet troll Fred
Stone?
Bwhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!
*catches breath*
Bwhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!
Whew. Thanks for the laugh, Fredo. Lay off the crack and get help.
--
Aloha, G-Ride
The force that's forcing you to feel like busting up a Starbucks.
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| User: "Perfect Islam" |
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| Title: Re: New Iron, part 2 |
10 Jan 2008 09:42:38 PM |
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G-Ride wrote:
"Fred Stone" <fstone69@earthling.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9A21CB857393Cfreddybear@216.151.153.34...
The New Iron has been up a running for a few days now. Things are
generally even faster than I expected. Firefox, for instance, loads in
about two seconds instead of dragging on for a minute or so like on the
Old Iron.
Haven't even touched the overclock features yet. Core temps are running
about 34C and the GPU at 50C, which is very acceptable. NVidia m/b
monitor reports 2.4 Ghz CPU, 800 Mhz memory, GPU Core 576 Mhz GPU memory
900 Mhz.
Loaded the Crysis game which came with the video card, looked at the
tutorial and said "You gotta be kidding me". Sure did look pretty though.
The biggest surprise so far is the nVidia "Pure video" DVD CODEC. DVD's
now show at full resolution on widescreen on my 1680x1050 monitor with
zero glitches and almost no perceptible artifacts. VERY nice. The same
CODEC on the Old Iron worked better than the freebie codec, but that
ain't saying much since the hardware just wasn't up to the job of
decompressing DVD-quality video at the full frame rate, which led to a
lot of dropped frames during action sequences.
As was mentioned on your first post:
"all that bother... just so you can go online and convince more people
that you're bat ***** crazy."
I'm sure your politics are quite smelly as well.
--
Perfect Islam
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| User: "Enkidu" |
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| Title: Re: New Iron, part 2 |
10 Jan 2008 09:51:30 PM |
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Perfect Islam <perfectIslam@notreal.org> wrote in news:4786e5ce$0$28810
$4c368faf@roadrunner.com:
"all that bother... just so you can go online and convince more people
that you're bat ***** crazy."
I'm sure your politics are quite smelly as well.
So, the best you can say for yourself is that others are as bat-***** crazy
as you are? You aren't going to win any converts that way.
--
Enkidu AA#2165
EAC Chaplain and ordained minister,
ULC, Modesto, CA
Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need
strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in
other people's business. I live by the golden rule: Treat others as you'd
want them to treat you. The religious right wants to tell people how to
live.
-- Gov. Jesse Ventura
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| User: "Perfect Islam" |
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10 Jan 2008 10:08:51 PM |
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Enkidu wrote:
Perfect Islam <perfectIslam@notreal.org> wrote in news:4786e5ce$0$28810
$4c368faf@roadrunner.com:
"all that bother... just so you can go online and convince more people
that you're bat ***** crazy."
I'm sure your politics are quite smelly as well.
So, the best you can say for yourself is that others are as bat-***** crazy
as you are? You aren't going to win any converts that way.
Umm, I'm not Fred and I don't share his politics. Just saying G-Ride's
politics are probably "batshit crazy" to me, too. By "batshit crazy", of
course, I mean they probably consist entirely of unsupported opinion, ire,
and beliefs, but he/she considers them "obvious" or "self-evident" laws of
the universe.
--
Perfect Islam
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| User: "Enkidu" |
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10 Jan 2008 10:21:21 PM |
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Perfect Islam <perfectIslam@notreal.org> wrote in
news:4786ec00$0$28880$4c368faf@roadrunner.com:
Enkidu wrote:
Perfect Islam <perfectIslam@notreal.org> wrote in
news:4786e5ce$0$28810 $4c368faf@roadrunner.com:
"all that bother... just so you can go online and convince more
people that you're bat ***** crazy."
I'm sure your politics are quite smelly as well.
So, the best you can say for yourself is that others are as bat-*****
crazy as you are? You aren't going to win any converts that way.
Umm, I'm not Fred and I don't share his politics. Just saying
G-Ride's politics are probably "batshit crazy" to me, too.
Perhaps. Who is looking for converts? Who is defending his own beliefs,
not by supporting them, but by claiming others are as crazy? You are. And
if that's the best you can say of your position, you ought to consider
changing your own opinions to some you can actually argue for.
--
Enkidu AA#2165
EAC Chaplain and ordained minister,
ULC, Modesto, CA
Encourage free schools and resolve that not one dollar appropriated for
their support shall be appropriated to the support of any sectarian
schools. Resolve that neither the state nor nation, nor both combined,
shall support institutions of learning other than those sufficient to
afford every child growing up in the land of opportunity of a good common
school education, unmixed with sectarian, pagan, or atheistical dogmas.
Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church and the
private school supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the
church and state forever separate.
-- Ulysses S. Grant
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| User: "Perfect Islam" |
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| Title: Re: New Iron, part 2 |
11 Jan 2008 08:01:48 AM |
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Enkidu wrote:
Perfect Islam <perfectIslam@notreal.org> wrote in
Enkidu wrote:
Perfect Islam <perfectIslam@notreal.org> wrote in
"all that bother... just so you can go online and convince more
people that you're bat ***** crazy."
I'm sure your politics are quite smelly as well.
So, the best you can say for yourself is that others are as bat-*****
crazy as you are? You aren't going to win any converts that way.
Umm, I'm not Fred and I don't share his politics. Just saying
G-Ride's politics are probably "batshit crazy" to me, too.
Perhaps. Who is looking for converts?
Dunno. Bill Clinton? George Bush? Your mom?
Who is defending his own beliefs,
not by supporting them, but by claiming others are as crazy?
Dunno. This game's not very fun. I hate guessing.
You are.
I am? When did that happen? I'll notify the authorities.
And
if that's the best you can say of your position, you ought to consider
changing your own opinions to some you can actually argue for.
I'll keep it in mind, whatever it is.
--
Perfect Islam
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| User: "Apostate" |
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| Title: Re: New Iron, part 2 |
10 Jan 2008 10:28:16 PM |
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On 11 Jan 2008 03:51:30 GMT, Enkidu <fox_rgfszx@trashmail.net> wrote:
Perfect Islam <perfectIslam@notreal.org> wrote in news:4786e5ce$0$28810
$4c368faf@roadrunner.com:
"all that bother... just so you can go online and convince more people
that you're bat ***** crazy."
I'm sure your politics are quite smelly as well.
So, the best you can say for yourself is that others are as bat-***** crazy
as you are? You aren't going to win any converts that way.
I'm gonna stick my neck out a little bit, 'cause I haven't been paying close attention, but I
get the distinct feeling that "Perfect Islam" is an ironic handle, not to be taken as the flag
the poster sails under.
I don't have clue I about hir political sensibilities.
--
Apostate a.a. #1931
..sig currently undergoing maintenance
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| User: "Perfect Islam" |
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| Title: Re: New Iron, part 2 |
11 Jan 2008 08:10:51 AM |
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Apostate wrote:
On 11 Jan 2008 03:51:30 GMT, Enkidu <fox_rgfszx@trashmail.net> wrote:
Perfect Islam <perfectIslam@notreal.org> wrote in news:4786e5ce$0$28810
$4c368faf@roadrunner.com:
"all that bother... just so you can go online and convince more people
that you're bat ***** crazy."
I'm sure your politics are quite smelly as well.
So, the best you can say for yourself is that others are as bat-***** crazy
as you are? You aren't going to win any converts that way.
I'm gonna stick my neck out a little bit, 'cause I haven't been paying
close attention, but I get the distinct feeling that "Perfect Islam" is an
ironic handle, not to be taken as the flag the poster sails under.
You would be correct. Been in the group a long, long time.
I don't have clue I about hir political sensibilities.
Mostly liberal, mainly pragmatic, all anti-idealist, semi automatic, hydro
matic.
--
Perfect Islam
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| User: "Apostate" |
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| Title: Re: New Iron, part 2 |
11 Jan 2008 11:38:15 AM |
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On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:10:51 -0600, Perfect Islam <perfectIslam@notreal.org> wrote:
Apostate wrote:
On 11 Jan 2008 03:51:30 GMT, Enkidu <fox_rgfszx@trashmail.net> wrote:
Perfect Islam <perfectIslam@notreal.org> wrote in news:4786e5ce$0$28810
$4c368faf@roadrunner.com:
"all that bother... just so you can go online and convince more people
that you're bat ***** crazy."
I'm sure your politics are quite smelly as well.
So, the best you can say for yourself is that others are as bat-***** crazy
as you are? You aren't going to win any converts that way.
I'm gonna stick my neck out a little bit, 'cause I haven't been paying
close attention, but I get the distinct feeling that "Perfect Islam" is an
ironic handle, not to be taken as the flag the poster sails under.
You would be correct. Been in the group a long, long time.
Ah, well, I've only just been back a couple of weeks now, after being absent since shortly
after Katrina (no connection, just a time-bookmark.) Anyone does well, from a me-centric pov,
by not being in my killfile. I kill off everything multiposted, and likely extinguish a big
fraction of what the posters I like are saying, as a result. But it does bypass a lot of
trolling, and senseless pissing contests between all the weird religions at once, vs. atheists.
--
Apostate a.a. #1931
..sig currently undergoing maintenance
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| User: "Perfect Islam" |
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| Title: Re: New Iron, part 2 |
11 Jan 2008 06:47:25 PM |
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Apostate wrote:
On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 08:10:51 -0600, Perfect Islam
<perfectIslam@notreal.org> wrote:
Apostate wrote:
On 11 Jan 2008 03:51:30 GMT, Enkidu <fox_rgfszx@trashmail.net> wrote:
Perfect Islam <perfectIslam@notreal.org> wrote in news:4786e5ce$0$28810
$4c368faf@roadrunner.com:
"all that bother... just so you can go online and convince more
people that you're bat ***** crazy."
I'm sure your politics are quite smelly as well.
So, the best you can say for yourself is that others are as bat-*****
crazy as you are? You aren't going to win any converts that way.
I'm gonna stick my neck out a little bit, 'cause I haven't been paying
close attention, but I get the distinct feeling that "Perfect Islam" is
an ironic handle, not to be taken as the flag the poster sails under.
You would be correct. Been in the group a long, long time.
Ah, well, I've only just been back a couple of weeks now,
Not that you could have known that: I prefer to be anonymous the last few
years (I used to be a regular here, and actually have a sub-500 atheist
number, not that I'm bragging or anything :-). Now I just jump in with a
random handle, knock down a few loony religionists, stir up some dissent
among the troops, crack a few bad jokes, and jump back out.
after being absent since shortly
after Katrina (no connection, just a time-bookmark.)
Anyone does well,
from a me-centric pov,
by not being in my killfile. I kill off everything multiposted, and
likely extinguish a big
fraction of what the posters I like are saying, as a result. But it does
bypass a lot of trolling, and senseless pissing contests between all the
weird religions at once, vs. atheists.
Yeah, everytime I get back on, I have a whole slew of additions to my
filters.
--
Perfect Islam
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| User: "Enkidu" |
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| Title: Re: New Iron, part 2 |
11 Jan 2008 08:25:19 AM |
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Perfect Islam <perfectIslam@notreal.org> wrote in
news:47877915$0$5140$4c368faf@roadrunner.com:
Apostate wrote:
On 11 Jan 2008 03:51:30 GMT, Enkidu <fox_rgfszx@trashmail.net> wrote:
Perfect Islam <perfectIslam@notreal.org> wrote in
news:4786e5ce$0$28810 $4c368faf@roadrunner.com:
"all that bother... just so you can go online and convince more
people that you're bat ***** crazy."
I'm sure your politics are quite smelly as well.
So, the best you can say for yourself is that others are as bat-*****
crazy as you are? You aren't going to win any converts that way.
I'm gonna stick my neck out a little bit, 'cause I haven't been
paying close attention, but I get the distinct feeling that "Perfect
Islam" is an ironic handle, not to be taken as the flag the poster
sails under.
You would be correct. Been in the group a long, long time.
I don't have clue I about hir political sensibilities.
Mostly liberal, mainly pragmatic, all anti-idealist, semi automatic,
hydro matic.
Then I guess I should read more of the thead before I pop off.
--
Enkidu AA#2165
EAC Chaplain and ordained minister,
ULC, Modesto, CA
The minister gave out his text and droned along monotonously through an
argument that was so prosy that many a head by and by began to nod and
yet it was an argument that dealt in limitless fire and brimstone and
thinned the predestined elect down to a company so small as to be hardly
worth the saving.
-Mark Twain
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| User: "Uncle Vic" |
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| Title: Re: New Iron, part 2 |
10 Jan 2008 10:56:37 PM |
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One fine day in alt.atheism, Fred Stone <fstone69@earthling.com> bloodied
us up with this:
The New Iron has been up a running for a few days now. Things are
generally even faster than I expected. Firefox, for instance, loads in
about two seconds instead of dragging on for a minute or so like on the
Old Iron.
Haven't even touched the overclock features yet. Core temps are running
about 34C and the GPU at 50C, which is very acceptable. NVidia m/b
monitor reports 2.4 Ghz CPU, 800 Mhz memory, GPU Core 576 Mhz GPU memory
900 Mhz.
Loaded the Crysis game which came with the video card, looked at the
tutorial and said "You gotta be kidding me". Sure did look pretty though.
The biggest surprise so far is the nVidia "Pure video" DVD CODEC. DVD's
now show at full resolution on widescreen on my 1680x1050 monitor with
zero glitches and almost no perceptible artifacts. VERY nice. The same
CODEC on the Old Iron worked better than the freebie codec, but that
ain't saying much since the hardware just wasn't up to the job of
decompressing DVD-quality video at the full frame rate, which led to a
lot of dropped frames during action sequences.
I never watch DVDs on the computer screen. I have a 50" Plasma TV for
that. I saw MS Flight Simulator X at Best Buy for 29.99. This system
might actually do it justice.
--
Uncle Vic
aa Atheist #2011
Supervisor, EAC Department of little adhesive-backed "L" shaped
chrome-plastic doo-dads to add feet to Jesus fish department.
Convicted by Earthquack.
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| User: "Fred Stone" |
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| Title: Re: New Iron, part 2 |
11 Jan 2008 07:36:50 AM |
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Uncle Vic <address@withheld.com> wrote in
news:Xns9A21D5174D531vicman@207.115.33.102:
One fine day in alt.atheism, Fred Stone <fstone69@earthling.com>
bloodied us up with this:
The New Iron has been up a running for a few days now. Things are
generally even faster than I expected. Firefox, for instance, loads
in about two seconds instead of dragging on for a minute or so like
on the Old Iron.
Haven't even touched the overclock features yet. Core temps are
running about 34C and the GPU at 50C, which is very acceptable.
NVidia m/b monitor reports 2.4 Ghz CPU, 800 Mhz memory, GPU Core 576
Mhz GPU memory 900 Mhz.
Loaded the Crysis game which came with the video card, looked at the
tutorial and said "You gotta be kidding me". Sure did look pretty
though.
The biggest surprise so far is the nVidia "Pure video" DVD CODEC.
DVD's now show at full resolution on widescreen on my 1680x1050
monitor with zero glitches and almost no perceptible artifacts. VERY
nice. The same CODEC on the Old Iron worked better than the freebie
codec, but that ain't saying much since the hardware just wasn't up
to the job of decompressing DVD-quality video at the full frame rate,
which led to a lot of dropped frames during action sequences.
I never watch DVDs on the computer screen. I have a 50" Plasma TV for
that. I saw MS Flight Simulator X at Best Buy for 29.99. This system
might actually do it justice.
My 22" LCD monitor is the only decent-quality video display in our house.
I have a copy of MS "Combat Flight Simulator" from way back in 2002 or
thereabouts. Too damn picky-realistic. I never did finish "flight
school".
Cranked up Rome:Total War last night, with all the graphics options on
max and full 1680x1050 res; Ooh, it was *beautiful*. Smooth as silk even
with full-scale battles raging. Might have to spring for Medieval II,
though I've read bad things about the AI.
What kind of not-twitchy high-graphics games are out there nowadays? I've
already got CIV4, if I can just find the darn install CD's.
--
Fred Stone
aa# 1369
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is
largely a waste of time.
H. L. Mencken
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| User: "Uncle Vic" |
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| Title: Re: New Iron, part 2 |
11 Jan 2008 03:19:13 PM |
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Fred Stone wrote:
My 22" LCD monitor is the only decent-quality video display in our house.
OK. That's a good reason.
I have a copy of MS "Combat Flight Simulator" from way back in 2002 or
thereabouts. Too damn picky-realistic. I never did finish "flight
school".
But that's half the fun. I use FS2004, and it's slippery as snot now.
There are a plethora of addon planes available on the web, but very few
really good ones. One of my favorites is an Airbus A-319. I re-wrote
the flight number so the ATC calls me Swiss Air flight 666. Hehe...
I've gotten to the point where I believe in a pinch I could land a real
one. Operative word: "believe".
Cranked up Rome:Total War last night, with all the graphics options on
max and full 1680x1050 res; Ooh, it was *beautiful*. Smooth as silk even
with full-scale battles raging. Might have to spring for Medieval II,
though I've read bad things about the AI.
What kind of not-twitchy high-graphics games are out there nowadays? I've
already got CIV4, if I can just find the darn install CD's.
I'm not much into the shoot-em-up games myself. I do enjoy the Sims
games, especially the one that followed up for "Railroad Tycoon".
http://tinyurl.com/yp5poj
--
Uncle Vic
2011
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| User: "Lucifer" |
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| Title: Re: New Iron, part 2 |
11 Jan 2008 08:22:18 AM |
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On Jan 11, 1:36 pm, Fred Stone <fston...@earthling.com> wrote:
Uncle Vic <addr...@withheld.com> wrote innews:Xns9A21D5174D531vicman@207.115.33.102:
One fine day in alt.atheism, Fred Stone <fston...@earthling.com>
bloodied us up with this:
The New Iron has been up a running for a few days now. Things are
generally even faster than I expected. Firefox, for instance, loads
in about two seconds instead of dragging on for a minute or so like
on the Old Iron.
Haven't even touched the overclock features yet. Core temps are
running about 34C and the GPU at 50C, which is very acceptable.
NVidia m/b monitor reports 2.4 Ghz CPU, 800 Mhz memory, GPU Core 576
Mhz GPU memory 900 Mhz.
Loaded the Crysis game which came with the video card, looked at the
tutorial and said "You gotta be kidding me". Sure did look pretty
though.
The biggest surprise so far is the nVidia "Pure video" DVD CODEC.
DVD's now show at full resolution on widescreen on my 1680x1050
monitor with zero glitches and almost no perceptible artifacts. VERY
nice. The same CODEC on the Old Iron worked better than the freebie
codec, but that ain't saying much since the hardware just wasn't up
to the job of decompressing DVD-quality video at the full frame rate,
which led to a lot of dropped frames during action sequences.
I never watch DVDs on the computer screen. I have a 50" Plasma TV for
that. I saw MS Flight Simulator X at Best Buy for 29.99. This system
might actually do it justice.
My 22" LCD monitor is the only decent-quality video display in our house.
I have a copy of MS "Combat Flight Simulator" from way back in 2002 or
thereabouts. Too damn picky-realistic. I never did finish "flight
school".
Cranked up Rome:Total War last night, with all the graphics options on
max and full 1680x1050 res; Ooh, it was *beautiful*. Smooth as silk even
with full-scale battles raging. Might have to spring for Medieval II,
though I've read bad things about the AI.
The AI is, if anything, even better than Rome - it still makes some
stupid mistakes, but then again, if one looks at battles like
Agincourt and Homildon Hill, that's hardly unrealistic. The graphics,
even on my low spec laptop running the lowest settings, are
breathtaking. I would love to see them oin a decent machine, so I
would recommend you go for it.
--
Lucifer the Unsubtle, EAC Librarian of Dark Tomes of Excessive Evil
and General Purpose Igor
The Anti-Theist, BAAWA Lowly Evilmeister and tamer of the Demon Duck
of Doom
Convicted by Earthquack
"Don't worry, I won't bite.......hard"
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