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Article 1: Game
Subject:Re: Chaos Gate sales picking up......
Date:Sun, 07 Mar 1999 22:51:07 GMT
Some games seem to do that but that's a pretty good strategy overall. The
number of good games coming out means I can wait until some games hit the
bargain bin before purchase. I'm not a big 40K fan but Chaos Gate has made me
think about picking up some of the miniatures. As far as computer gaming it is
definitely the biggest pleasant surprise I've had in a while. It would really
be nice if they continued the game and added some of the other races. With the
aggressive AI it would seem to be easy to add Orks or Genestealers without
much code change.
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When I was in high school, I was a computer games addict. I liked to play RPG, Action and Simulation games. I wasted all of my money that my parents gave to me for breakfast and lunch. Gradually, I also learned the strategy how to buy computer games. The first strategy was like Joe said. Let games hit the bargain bin before purchased. The second strategy was that I asked my classmates to buy a game together. It meant that we shared the game.
Article 2: Computer Hardware-CPU
Subject: Re: 300A->450 slower than IP 450?
Date:Sun, 07 Mar 1999 19:47:05 GMT
Hello group....oc'd my celery 300a to 450 and was just wondering what IP it is
currently comparable to since i wasnt able to find any comparison charts onthe
web...under sandra it outperforms the PII 400 system with those mflops and the
other benchmark but who knows what that stands for. also will theoc'd 450 chip
on a 100 mhz bus with pc100 ram and a voodoo2 8m let me get the max fps
possible out of my 3dfx card? or will i get even more frames bytrying for 504?
thnx guys
Heh...same setup I have...Well it depends...if you play quake, it will max out
somewhere around 150fps (not much point in worrying about framerates there)
butif you're playing Quake2, you'll need to overclock your Voodoo2 to keep up
with your Celeron...I get 100fps depending on various settings (demo1 of
course)and have my V2 overclocked to 105mhz (you need a heatsink/fan on it to
run at that speed) even more intense programs like Unreal tend to go the other
way I think...taking more CPU time than V2 time..so they would get faster if
you ran it at 504 (ifpossible)
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CPU is like a soul of a computer. It completely affect the speed of a computer. Nowadays, there are many different brand names and models in the market. Intel, AMD and Cyrix are the major CPU producers for personal computers. According to occupy the PC market, each of those company develop and produce several different model of CPU to the PC market. It is really hard for us to determine which model is better and which model is the fastest. Like Intel, they have the Pentium II and celeron CPU in the PC market.
Theoretically, celeron is slower than Pentium II because of the L2 cache. People try to use different ways to test and compare the speed of these two models. The price of the Pentium II is double the price of celeron at the same speed. (e.g. Pentium 333 > Celeron 333) But the speed of Celeron closes to Pentium II. That's why some people are willing to buy Celeron instead of Pentium II. I think everyone likes to buy a good quality but not expensive stuff.
Article 3: Computer Hardware-Over Clock
Subject: SECRET AMD PLANS
Date:Wed, 3 Mar 1999 15:39:45 -0600
Yes, AMD has a secret up their sleeves, and yes, I hope that idiot at AMD who
reads all these posts as security finds out I posted this.
Here's the clip:
"AMD will shift the manufacturing process of the K6-III from 0.25 micron to
0.18 micron in the second half of 1999, but has not yet decided whether to
perform that miracle on the K6-2, as yet. The physical limit of the K6-III's
0.25 frequency is 50MHz and they already have 550MHz running on this process
using a simulator. AMD will ship its mobile K6-III in the first half of this
year but do not have a plan to reduce the consumption power, which will be 2.4
volts. Meanwhile, other Asian reports say AMD will produce a ball grid array (BGA)
package later this year and will beef up its production facilities at its lab
in Thailand."
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Absolutely, a normal computer user would not try to do research to see the constructions of his computer's CPU. But some computer enthusiasts like to do that. They would like to know everything about computers. They even know the planning of AMD and the technical things about the future AMD's CPU. I don't think every computer user is interested in these things. After those enthusiasts discovered something, they would like to share those information with each other or even discuss with them for a whole they. Some people think that those guys' behaviors are kind of extreme.
Article 4: Soccer
Subject: Re: I could be more offensive than you but can't really be bothered
Date:Wed, 10 Mar 1999 23:02:32
ö0800
See Also: College Football , uk.sport.football
If they can call it "Great Britain" we sure as hell can call it the "World
Series."
[O'Reilly Enright]
Silly man. The "Great" part is a geographical term and has to with the fact
that it is bigger than the other one, i.e. Brittany in France. It's easier to
see in French:- Bretagne, Grande Bretagne. I suppose in a way it's like those
mountains thay have in the states, the grand tetons. That's (apart from the
spelling) the French for big nipples.
Here we'd probably say big tit. Or Mount Titlis in Europe, apart from the
spelling it's American for no tits. Anyway, big tit, when was the last time
Cuba played in the "world" series? Or Nicaragua? Or Vietnam? Not sure about
these three, tit less, but their areas have been represented, the Dominican
Republic once made it to the finals. Also, Asian teams from Korea, China,
Japan, and the Phillipines have also participated quite successfully.
We all know pretty well what world series these guys play in. -- Peter
McLaughlin-- John Leinaweaver
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I like to play soccer when I was 5 or 6 years old. I love soccer very much. Actually, soccer is the most favorite sport in the world. Everyone has his or her favor team. People like to argue which team is the best. The would use different methods to prove their points like statistic. I remember that one of my friends, he likes French very much. No matter how we belittled French, he would say something to against our points. Eventually, French won the World Cup last summer. We had nothing to say in front of the T.V. but he was yelling and jumping over 5 minutes and generalized that all other countries were bad. It really made us angry and almost fighted with him because of his prejudice.
Article 5: Movie Stars
Subject: hello JC lovers!!!!!!
Date:Sun, 14 Feb 1999 03:11:24 -0000
I`m Stephen, I`ve been a fan of Jackie Chan throughout my whole life, I have
watched all of his movies... yes, even the crap ones, I don`t really like
sayingthat about his movies because to me none of them are really crap just
some aren`t as good as others, my two favorite are without a doubt Operation
Condorand Drunken Master 2. OC was probably the earliest memory of Jackie Chan
as I can remember, You might think that was not long ago, but your right, its
onlybeen a few years, i`m only 14 :)
I haven`t seen Mr Nice Guy or Surn Hollywood Burn yet, i`m in no hurry to see
them, I like to have somehting to look forwad and I certainly hopw that Jackie
Makes films until... well... forever because he totally rules man!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I chose this
Newsgroup because I am Jackie Chan's fan too. When I was in High school, I had
many favor movie stars or singers but I would not act crazy as those girls to
our favor stars or singers. For instance, girls like to buy many stuffs with
those stars or singers' pictures or signatures. Girls like to talk to each
other about those stars unstoppable. Boys seldom do these things. Until now, I
still have this concept. Some of my female friends say that I am stereotype.
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