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    I FOOGING HATE SPRINT

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    well, we've had sprint for 10 yrs and the last 5 months my bills have been chaos! jumped from 100 to over 200 Dollars a month, the first time we started having problems with this service was because we got a new phone, they charged us twice for the phone and took two month for them to sort that out and for us to get our money back after days of dealing with retards on the other end. then next month, we got a bill of over $250 dollars, so we call them back - and turns out that they were charging us a month in advanced?!? WTF!>??!??!

    another week on the phone with customer service (which sucks) trying to unravel this again... I had enough with this service by now, they're obviously practicing some weird business here, but the missus want to keep the service cause it's been good for so long - yadda yadda, so 2 month ago, we switched plans, - they got 2 phones on 2 plans?? another fooking week to fix this, after they assured us that is was fixed. then this month we got our bill showing one phone on one plan and the other on another plan. so, this is ridiculous.

     

    I HATE THIS SERVICE. I never had this problem with T-mobile, and was cheaper and easier to get through. after another 2 hours of dealing with idiots on Customer service they again tell us that they have charged for next month and the current one in advanced. This should be consider theft!

     

    just a little heads up if you guys are thinking about switching to sprint, I don't know what's so hard about doing this. SAY NO TO HIRING RETARDS..

    it's official, I'm here to stay

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    lol, I would have to re-install the game, haven't played it in a long time... but I think it should be similar to riding a bicycle, you never really forget how.

     

    I'm on MSN about once a month, i'll send you some info later. I don't do bang bang bang anymore though, allot has changed, and I mean a lot! I'm studying aviation now, my electives include economics and greek methodology, exiting ya? well, I need to move up brackets. yeah, you'll be shocked a bit on what's going on in life. I decided to stay in Cali by the way, I must admit, I enjoy the weather and diversity here. I just registered as cali voter. I'm voting Yes on Proposition 10 (1332. Bonds. Alternative Fuel Vehicles and Renewable Energy. Statute( California is generally the first state to introduce practical technology to the public and make it a law. This is great I think.

     

    I have yet to move to the hydro trend, I still own 12K on my 07 Sonata, and 10K on the Santa fe. whew, I can sure use some of that lotto money right about now.

     

    I'm writing a report on the candidates economic policy, which is the most important issue their really facing. so every time the TV is talking politics I have to switch it off because they're all just expressing their view on this and It's like watching the news on MTV, really sad.

     

    college is so cheap here, people in California should be the most educated people in the nation! (educated does not mean smarter) lol.

     

    Mag, I'll try you belthahar a shot to get at me. lol, this old man can maybe still get a few shots if my fingers don't cramp.

     

    I still do emu on my DS, :P there's no reason why you shouldn't be able to play SNES GBA, NES, GB, GENESIS, ect. on this little machine. it's great. I don't remember where I left it last though. lol.

     

    anyway, going to the movies with the Mrs. (yep) and want to get a light dinner on the way there.

    I'm doing the Midnight 5K. cause I'm bright awake at that time.

    Taking my trek bike on a trail run. One day when I make over 100K i'll probably get a flat screen tv, if I really must. I really don't care much about it.

     

    umm... oh! if you're dating or seeing someone, and have a quickie problem, I recommend getting those extended pleasure condoms, if you don't have that problem I really DO NOT recommend this product as it numbs your part and really drags the moment too long, women generally think sex last longer than it really does anyway.( Scientific fact) foreplay is a must.

     

    Cat's are great pets for someone else to have, they look cute and entertaining but, once you have them, you wish they leave you alone for a while.

     

    who WON the Olympics? I missed the whole event....

     

    lastly - Don't drink and drive, Last week one of my subordinates got into one of those accidents, he was a viggie before his parents unplugged him. sad.... and very stupid.

     

    can't wait for those self driving automobiles..

    Great Free PC Games

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    I don't really care much about commercial games since they haven't been so good for a while. just some games I have played or still play. because I find them amusing in some way or another. If you got some, Please share. and some Bit of description.

     

    1. GORE - This is a FPS game, is ok, to me this has a PS2 graphics and mulltiplayer is good.

     

    2. shaiya - MMORPG - there are allot of users in this game, well Coded game, the combat system is not like WOW, but has some similar elements, much much better graphics. let me emphasize on that. You need a medium to high-end PC to play this because of the high level graphics.

     

    3. Last Chaos - MMORPG - Tons of users, high level cap similar graphics than Shaiya, PVP, PVC. easy to pick up and get it going, by the time you get to lvl20 you'll get the gist of the game and would like to explore mor of the game. this is one of my faves.

     

    4. Requiem - MMORPG - slower passed MMO, more like WOW, REALLY GORY, well coded, very bloody game. you may find this game amusing.

    it's official, I'm here to stay

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    Holy crap Batman! :)

     

    I would have never ever expected to see you here again. Magnis is going to be shocked as well. I left A@H long ago. I strongly believe that the community always reflects the creator of the community. So whoever doesn't match the creator's beliefs ends up leaving and what's left is everyone who agrees with the creator. Know what I'm saying?

     

    Anyway, it's great to see you here. I remember you as a moderator on A@H and I think also as a member of the early MDK guild/clan. I think you helped me a few times on the A@H forums as well. Thanks for the compliments and hopefully we can see you as an active poster here. We're always looking for new or returned members. :P

     

     

    thanks, yeah... sometimes I'm amazed at the stupidity that can come out of certain people. Wow, Magnis is here still, hehehe. I haven't spoken to him in a while either. welp. :| I noticed the attack system is much different than what I remember. allot of things have changed here, got to get around a bit i guess.

    PS3 Cell specs

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    I was reading the news from today's Cell exposure running at 4.6Ghz, :whew: will it really run this fast in the PS3? Incredible hopefully the 65nm shrinking will help to keep it cool, but I imagine that it won't be a quiet console, unless it used other than conventional cooling.

    I think that even if PS3 would run at 3.0Ghz it would compute more than a 7Ghz intel cpu. I don't think there'll be an emulator for this for years to come, lol :whew:

    XBOX 360

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    Seems like a stupid name.  I hope that number has some sort of meaning behind it.  It may seem more acceptable if they have a good reason for using it.

     

     

    bah - that's just a plain stupid name oO - Maybe they are trying to comete with ferrari? :) PCXBOerrmmm XBOX 2 is much better than this. 2nd generation :):P:):P <- i luv this face - lmao. anywho, it's retarded

    Future tech and Cell PE

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    I was reading up on HP's QSR (Quantum science research) Group, about their new findings on processing, sounds pretty awesome and about time that something gave way to transistors, I think that they are getting close to a consumer level usage, I hope that this brings total new wave of techies to the table that are allot faster than a super computer and is portable =) so I can play my PSP3 (PSP that's right) with some sort or 3D goggles :P

    here's the report - Source - Theregister.com

     

    A breakthrough in molecular computing could be the beginning of the end for the transistor, according to scientists at HP.

     

    Researchers have successfully demonstrated a "crossbar latch", a technology that behaves just like a transistor, but is much smaller, and simpler to make. HP's quantum science research (QSR) group says the new technology paves the way for machines that are thousands of times more powerful than anything available today.

     

    The device, based on just three wires, can perform the NOT, AND and OR operations. It can also restore the logic level in a circuit to its ideal voltage value, according to the research paper, published in today's Journal of Applied Physics.

     

    The "crossbar latch" has a significant advantage over traditional silicon transistors, the QSR team explains. Standard semiconductor circuits need three-terminal transistors to perform the NOT operation and restore signals. But the performance of silicon components is limited by their size, and silicon transistors of just a few nanometres across are not expected to be operable.

     

    The latch is composed of a single wire that behaves as a signal line, crossed by two control lines. These control lines have an electronically switchable, molecular scale junction, where they intersect the signal line. It is controlled by applying a sequence of voltage impulses to the control lines and using oppositely polarised switches.

     

    "Transistors will continue to be used for years to come with conventional silicon circuits," said Phil Kuekes, senior computer architect, QSR, and one of the paper's authors. "But this could someday replace transistors in computers, just as transistors replaced vacuum tubes and vacuum tubes replaced electromagnetic relays before them."

     

    PS3 Cell proceessinng unit = T3 (as in terminator 3)

    To tell the truth I'm a bit exited to see the Cell go into the market and see how it fairs out, and the posibilities. Unlike the PC/PCBOX is a revolutionary console (Like Ps2).

    But I'm also a bit optimistic about a network of cell units that can talk to each other and use each other's resource and at some level maybe reach an ulmost untapable processing power, I mean with the right - wrong software this can turn out to be a total desaster, but on the otherhand - if it all works out nice and neat like it's suppose to, Aside from pushing what I just posted Up there far back. networking would be a fricking trip, maybe even provide a wireless LAN? :P

     

    here's more - Source - Theregister.com

    No chip in years has caused as much excitement as the Cell processor developed by IBM, Sony and Toshiba. It promises to be the most important microprocessor of the decade, with potentially enormous repercussions for how the industry computes, and how the rest of us use digital media. It will power the PlayStation 3 and technical and commercial computing.

     

    Technical details of Cell will be disclosed at the International Solid State Circuits Conference in San Francisco next week, and in anticipation we'll look first at how the Cell works and then tomorrow at what it means to the industry and consumers.

     

    Excitement about Cell has already led to some wild and poorly informed speculation, as Ars Technica's Jon Stokes rued last week. But earlier in the month, Microprocessor Report's Tom Halfhill published an investigation into a detailed patent filed in 2001, and published by the USPTO in October, and he was kind enough to discuss it with us. We'll refer to it as the '734 patent.

     

    Inside Cell

    The ambitious scale of the project is one of the most remarkable aspects of Cell.

     

    "It isn't just a single microprocessor or even a family of processors," writes Tom. "It's a top-to-bottom architecture for a broad range of computing systems, from servers and workstations at the high-end to game consoles, PDAs, digital TVs, and other consumer electronics at the low end".

     

    How does it look?

     

    The 'cell' which gives the chip its name doesn't refer to the hardware, but to a virtual clump of software which roams the system looking for computing resources. The patent refers to a "cell object" - program and data - and it can even roam across LANs or WANs, to find another Cell-based device.

     

    A Cell chip consists of one or more independent execution units, and a program can commandeer as many of these as resources allow to create a temporary execution pipeline, each with its own register file and banks of RAM. These pipelines are dynamically configurable and can lock out other processes from grabbing their hardware resources. "The Cell architecture introduces a whole new meaning to the term 'self-modifying code'," notes Tom drily.

     

    The '734 patent calls the basic hardware unit a PE, or 'processor element'. Rather confusingly, a PE consists of a 'processor unit' or PU, and an array of attached, er, processing units or APUs. The patent, Tom notes, says that the "preferred" PE configuration is eight APUs. The "preferred embodiment" of an APU is 128kb of SRAM, 128 x 128-bit registers, four integer units and four floating point units. Some of these may be specialized for tasks such as shading.

     

    Inside each software cell are 'apulets'. These aren't necessarily self-contained programs, stress MPR, but seem more like serialized objects. Amongst the many mysteries yet to be revealed about software cells is how the chip schedules such tasks, not just amongst onboard PEs but also amongst other Cells.

     

    "Imagine an apulet running on your PDA that depends on a result coming from another apulet running on a computer in Norway," writes Tom. The Cell processor must make its best guess, based on network latencies, how to distribute the workload. The designers have set themselves an awesome challenge.

     

    Halfhill also notes that the Cell's architecture is more flexible than Java's sandboxes, because a software cell can encapsulate several processes, or part of a single process. There's no evidence, he points out, that Cell implements JVMs in hardware: it's much more subtle than that. For security purposes, Cell's hardware restrictions may prove to be the most controversial aspect of the chip.

     

    Some interesting design decisions have been made in creating the memory architecture -

     

    "It’s hard to avoid the conclusion that Cell processors will have an extraordinarily secure but cumbersome memory model. For each main-memory access, the processor would have to consult four lookup tables... Three of those tables are in DRAM, which implies slow off-chip memory references; the other table is in the DMA controller’s SRAM. In some cases, the delays caused by the table lookups might eat more clock cycles than reading or writing the actual data. The patent hints that some keys might unlock multiple memory locations or sandboxes, perhaps granting blanket permission for a rapid series of accesses, within certain bounds."

     

    Global security

    The Cell architecture isn't just a blueprint for a new kind of chip, but for a massively distributed global computing network. Each Cell is given a GUID, a global identifier. Your PlayStation may be hosting processes that began life on a Cell on another side of the world. Remember that the architecture enables a strict, lock-down machine to be built, with access to memory tightly controlled. Since DRM is predicated on controlling uniquely-identified media to run, or not run, on a specifically-authorized piece of hardware, this allows system designers much more scope in building systems which can both restrict and track the content they play.

     

    There may be more benign uses: Cell clearly makes a very sophisticated building block for distributed grid computing too. "A hypothetical Cell processor with eight of these APUs could achieve 32 BOPS and 32 gigaFLOPS at only 250MHz," writes Tom. Or a teraflop at 1Ghz. This is an order of magnitude higher than today's workstations in what could be a low cost, low power machine. If Cell fulfills its promise, Intel is facing its greatest challenge since the turn of the 1990s, when RISC processors seemed to be extending an unbeatable performance lead, and when Microsoft was porting Windows NT to every RISC platform it could: MIPS, Alpha and PowerPC. But the remarkable P6 core (which first appeared in the Pentium II) saw the performance gap narrow, and the alliances arrayed against Intel stumbled and fragmented.

     

    kk - gonna go take a nap :(

    :(

    PS3 Cell specs

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    i still think the backwards compatability stuff is dumb.. what are u gona do throw out ur ps2 when u get a ps3? When i get a xbox 2 i want it for xbox 2 games not orginal xbox games. If i did wana play xbox games id pull them out... since id probably rarely wana play them anyways. I dont get why ps2 people go on so much about that. How often do u play ps1 games compared to ps2 games? Plus u think about it couldnt the ps2 have been cheaper if they just left the ps1 crap out? why pay more when u already got a ps1!!?!?!  maybe thats just me though.

     

    Why have a bunch of systems plugged to your TV instead of just one or two? and I do play PS1 games plenty, on somedays even more than PS2 titles. even though I wouldn't throw away my ps1-PSone - PS2, I would still like to give their lifespan a bigger run, instead of running them down to the bitter end, I use them once a while to see if they still work.

    obvious no? chummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmp!!

    PS3 Cell specs

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    here's my 2cent on this, although I would prefer PS2 over XBOX at the biggining, coming from the PC community back to the console thing was a different experience, I thought XBOX live crap was nothing but a rip-off, but now that I have had an XBOX for a few month and play allot of multiplayer games - on LIVE and LAN, I find this allot more exiting, but still XBOX doesn't have some of my favorite titles, and the graphics for most games are lame. but is good for shooters which is probably all I will use it for =)

     

    Now, I like the Idea the CELL Processing erm... something - (I forgot what they call it) brings to the table, aside from it's amazing specs what the PC2INABOX can't match, just by having the cell unit interconnecting with another cell unit would drastically bring down ping time - This means allot to me, I love to play online with a low ping time, but I'm guessing this would take a while, and wouldn't be so drastic since it would have to go thru a PC somewhere. but it's still a good offer meaning that SONY does plan to go ONLINE Multiplayer action, If they would also have a HDD feature this would complete the circle - This is a BIG minus for me, for the same reason that i came from the PC community to console again - I love to Download other maps - make my own if possible - have all sorts of different scenarios and maps =) it's good.

     

    XBOX2 will have more probles than sony with backwards compatability - I like this feature on PS2 also, since I still play my PSone games once a while, XBOX2 would have to have an embedded emulator or software emulator to be able to read XBOX games, This is also possible to be the same case for PS3 but according to spilled specs if they're true - PS3 has enought and plenty more to do this each cell would be able to deal with the complicated PS2 each sharing or distributing work. XBOX2 will need to really crunch numbers if it's emulation, because of the same reason XBOX is so powerful now and has much more FX than the PS2.

     

    also, a plus for me - would be some sort of link between PSP and PS3 =) cause i already plan to get the PSP regardless of the battery's life time. the technology in this little gadget is supperb. I want it! :rolleyes:

     

     

    that's my 2cent

    Why are you getting PSP?

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    I'm getting a PSP just because blah blah...

     

    Finally a real answer, I hear you loud and clear on that, I got an SP that has been catching dust for a while, only games i got is metroid, SMB3 and SM world, which are SNES makeovers. Although I didn't find the touch screen as annoying as you did, I'm used to using a stylus all the time on my PDA, and it doesn't has a scratch on it, I find that Using it is very nice for shooters like metroid, aiming is easy almost like a mouse, but the graphics are much too weak and blocky to clearly make out Background from characters sometimes, Besides that, The game line-up really sucks ass, I'm not a fanboy of any of the companys' but N64 makeovers get me sick - cause the games sucked in the first place, and who gives a flying flock about all this chatting? gees...

     

    I agree that Nintendo has been in-need of a competition on the handheld market- they're getting really sloppy, with little innovation, To tell you the truth, I don't play for more than 2hrs at most, So battery life is not a problem for me, I can see the direction this is going now..

    Winblows Longhorn in 3D

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    But who really cares about what AMD puts out GHz wise. They still put out CPUs that are more superior over Intel for less.

     

    I think that AMD may drop it's CPU prices sometime soon, their flash products just took a very severy slump from Intel. Even though Flash memory is not a big part of Intel's revenue, it is for AMD. Let's Hope that AMD contunue to bring out more CPU's in the future and not be overmuscled by Intel, :lol: Intel's made AMD's share price drop really fast - badly. One would expect AMD to lower their product prices to counter this... what was it that Intel's Chairman calls it... Infliction point- I believe - correct me if I'm wrong - it's been a while since I read the book.

    Winblows Longhorn in 3D

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    So will they be cheap or like impossible to buy?

     

    maybe 4Ghz line will be hit, but I think there will be a new performance rating for even Intel - I mean AMD Athlon64 has already released it's 4000+ CPU that runs at a merely 2.4Ghz and we're more than a year away from windows Longhorn release, but it ain't cheap - at least for now being the Ultimate Model maybe the Dual Core CPU's will bring a bigger performance gain once Intel and AMD learn more on how to properly manage resources with less heat loss.

    you can see AMD's roadmap here -

    http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/Virtual...104_608,00.html

     

    I'm pretty sure that AMD won't hit the 3Ghz mark atleast until they hit a smaller micron process =)

    Why are you getting PSP?

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    So, i was checkign out the Nintendo DS, which is a pretty neat gadget i think, but honestly the software line doesn't get me, except for that castlevania game, which looks fkn awesome! ( as always all 2D castlvanias kick ass) but for one game? buh. So now I'm looking at the PSP, I like the wide-screen to start off with, and maybe 3 games from their line up, but I'm stil not sold... I think you guys spend more time playign videogames that I do, and also enjoy them more than I do, so I guess you know allot more than me about the games, Please don't talk speculations of the gear, I know what both hand-helds are capable off, it's the software I'm interested in =)

     

    add a game line-up that you think is great for the PSP and DS if you want also hehehe =) a good game is a good game, right? :blink:

    XBOX 2 will be quite powerful...

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    It will still be crap if there are no good games  :)

     

    i found a place for xbox in my gaming habits - I find shooters and some strategy games besides graphically awesome - the loose analog sticks and configuration of the xbox controller, makes it good for shooters IMO - on the other hand, 3rd person games, RPG's, Racing, i prefer the PS2 - the graphics produced by PS2 makes these games lighting much better than xbox i think - and don't hurt my eyes - lol, also the control's tighter analog is good so you won't oversteer on a racing game =)

     

    i can't say much about GC =( i don't have one- the controls are really tiny also - i don't have big hands or anything - but they are for 2 year old hand oO and raelly ackward to say the least. but the software it's okay (i like kiddy games)

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