Does SEIV run on XP????

[Phoenix-D]

Magnum..Durons aren't used for lower power consumption. They're used because they are -cheap-. And certain next gen video cards not withstanding, most more powerful video cards don't much more power than weaker ones.

[Magnum357]

Strange, I swear I did an entire paper in college on the topic of "differences between processors" and I kept running into example where Celerons where made too be more energy effecient then Pentiuams, while the Durons are AMD's equivlent too the Celeron. I would have too look up the data, but both Celerons and Durons with their motherBoards, both only consumed on average of 60% of the power that a Pentium or AMD processor. Maybe my data was faulty, but I swear I did a good job on the research.

As for the Vid cards consuming more power, I'm not a real expert when it comes too hefty 3D cards, but I thought that some of these new, powerful cards these days can really suck a lot of volt juice when installed. I've heard a few cards on the market taking up too 50% of the entire computers power consumption. If this is true, I'm just saying Longhorn could make PC's real "Power hogs" for buisness.

[Kamog]

Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
Oh, no, the funny shapes aren't planets, their building blocks for a colony. See, the people your building for like holes everywhere, so you always gotta leave holes or a row gets deleted. When you get to the top, you win.

Oh, I've been doing it wrong all this time. The more I practiced, the longer it took for me to win; somehow I got worse and worse.

Edit:
Another fun game: Minesweeper. Click on the unexplored sectors in the quadrant to explore the galaxy and find planets to colonize. The star date is displayed in red in the upper right. The numbers you see in the map squares are how many ships you have in the sector. If you're lucky, by moving your ships you'll colonize a breathable home world (a black spikey planet with a red background), and you can get additional colonies, too. (black spikey planets with gray backgrounds). See how fast you can conquer the whole quadrant! Once you've colonized all the black planets, you win.

[ May 21, 2004, 06:06: Message edited by: Kamog ]

[narf poit chez BOOM]

ooh, I've been doing that one wrong all along too!

[Mephisto]

That is somewhat shortsighted if you have to warrant for the software as a business company. Linux is great for the average consumer but it has its problems when you want to use it in a company-to-company environment.

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
More and more business go Linux every day anyways... nothing beats cost efficiency like free.

[Gandalf Parker]

Originally posted by Mephisto:
That is somewhat shortsighted if you have to warrant for the software as a business company. Linux is great for the average consumer but it has its problems when you want to use it in a company-to-company environment.

Really? I always thought it the other way around.
or it might depend on how you are thinking of it being used. Everything has its pros and cons but I think in general Windows is still best for the desktop machines. And Linux is better for the networking or server apps. Especially if its going to be any company-to-company link.
(and MAC is the best webserver)

[Fyron]

Originally posted by Mephisto:
That is somewhat shortsighted if you have to warrant for the software as a business company. Linux is great for the average consumer but it has its problems when you want to use it in a company-to-company environment.

Such as?