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I own an iPaq 3800 and can tell you from experience that they are not ready for prime-time quite yet. Pocket Word and Excel suck compared to the full PC versions. They have so little of the original functionality it's rediculous. Also, PocketPC 2002, as good as it is, is still pretty bad if...

I have Xbox and PS2, and play Halo on Gamespy also. The actual online setup will be this: Console (built-in NIC) ===> cable/dsl modem ====> Connection to Internet (third party Broad Band ISP)====> Gaming Network Client (built into the console (Xbox) or console game (PS2)) ===> server (xbox: MS...

Are there any programs that allow you to extract the files from the ISO onto your hdd instead?

Finished the whole game with no crashes on my Win2000 machine. What OS are you using?

Well I didn't see this in LiveLongAndProsper's list, but Mozilla should be included as well. The best web browser on the net.

I think I agree with Nothinman, the only advantage AMD will have (initially) is better performance, perhaps, while Intel optimizes IA64 compilers. After that, who knows which will come out on top. Athlon is a good design, Hammer is just a 64bit Athlon, able to address practically infinite...

Dave Matthews is popular among fratboy potheads. Something about his music apparently goes well with getting high. Since just about all fratboys are potheads, that explains his popularity.

Hopkins. Choose your college for the education and pedigree, not the dorms, the food, the closeness to home, or any other such bs. Those things are temporary, but your degree lasts forever. You want the words on that degree to be worth something in the long run. Of your choices, Hopkins is...

<< You don't think it could be the fact that no big names like Compaq or Dell offer AMD solutions? >> And why don't they offer AMD solutions? Michael Dell said publicly last year that the reason is b/c AMD's server solutions just aren't up to scratch. Of course, Dell is Intel's biatch, so...

<< IA-64 is aimed at the high-end server market, something AMD has no penetration in what so ever. AMD doesn't even have any low end server penetration and is still just starting to get real name recognition with the AOLers of the world. People think PC they think Windows on Intel. And as we've...

<< x86 is one of the most complex ISA's that I can think of. With all of the backwards compatibility and strange things like self-modifying code, all of the addressing modes and other assorted quirks, I can't think of anything that comes close in terms of complexity. IA64 is an entirely new...

Here's a good writeup on the differences at Extremetech: http://www.extremetech.com/article/0,3396,s=1005&a=22731,00.asp

<< Funny you say 'just 1Ghz', when the 'heavy hitter chips' like Compaq Alpha and Sun UltraSparc are just now getting to 1Ghz themselves and noone really minds the lower clockspeeds. >> True. I suppose I'm just used to thinking in terms of Pentium 4 Xeons.

To put it more simply, IA64 is a relatively complex new CPU design, x86-64 is an improvement/extension of the x86 Athlon architecture. Expect x86-64 to run 32bit code faster b/c it can do it natively, while IA64 will have to emulate it (to the best of my knowledge at this point). As for 64bit...

AOL upgraded to version 7.0 a few weeks ago, and have already announced that AOL 8.0 will replace IE with Mozilla-based Netscape. That's not quite a guaranteed immediate 20 million users for Mozilla though, b/c upgrading is optional for AOL users, at least it was with AOL 7.0. But even if half...