This isn't evidence of NVIDIA's greatness, it's just a difference in business practices.
3dfx might still be around because they won a lawsuit against NVIDIA, but NVIDIA bought out 3dfx and killed support for people that had recent 3dfx hardware.
At least when Apple bought out Power Computing they threw up a webpage with some manuals and downloads.
NVIDIA screwed over those that bought 3dfx pure and simple.
NIVIDIA corporate policy isn't any better than anyone elses and in some aspect worse.
Yea, crimes have become more violent as technology increases.
The single and double action revolver took a single shot device capable of wounding or killing one person ever 1-3 minutes into a device that could kill multiple people. And look at the increase in casualties between say 1815 and then in 1864. The larger caliber weapons and repeating rifles lead to much higher death rates in battle. More violent.
Then look at a typical anarchist bombing from 1870-1920 and then look at what a modern bombing can do as illustrated in Oklahoma City, Tel Aviv, Paris, London, Moscow or Berlin. One or two or maybe four would be killed by a state of the art terror bomb at the turn of the century while today a state of the art terror bomb can kill dozens.
At the turn of the century it would be almost impossable to knock down a building that was 10-20 years old, while a modern bomb can knock down a building with much more advanced construction methods.
A bank robbery in 1897 couldn't involve weapons capable of firing 600 rounds per minute or able to hit a target out to 200 meters. The famous LA bank robbery in 1997 involved weapons that were capable of much more violence and destruction.
It would have been impossible in 1901 to knock down structures with thousands of people inside by anarchists but in 2001 it was possible for 19 persons to destroy buildings with 50,000 people inside. A much more violent crime.
The United States 9th Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on this in World War Two concerning a Italian soldier captured while fighting the United States Army. He was born in the United States and moved to Italy during the 30s.
http://www.nationalreview.com/kob/kob090402.asp
Citizens and non-citizens alike can be classified as enemy combatants. Gaetano Territo, an American citizen, was captured fighting with the enemy in Italy during World War II. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that his citizenship had no bearing on his lawful detention, which had lasted three years by the time of the court's decision.
"Military belligerents violating the international laws of war are tried before a panel of military officers, not juries of their peers -- no matter what the Taliban may seek as a condition. Such military commissions received extensive use in the Civil War, and were affirmed by the Supreme Court in the famous World War II decision sentencing General Tomoyuki Yamashita to hang for the brutal atrocities he ordered against civilians in the Philippines. When Yamishita petitioned the Court for habeas corpus, the Court rebuffed him stating that the war power delegated by Congress includes administering a system of military justice for the trial and punishment of those combatants who have committed war crimes. No case contradicts this. The Civil War precedent, Ex parte Milligan that nominally questions the availability of military tribunals where civilian courts remain open, was later confined to its unique domestic insurgency facts, and specifically the fact that Milligan was not -- in international parlance -- an "unlawful belligerent." Terrorists clearly are."
Had the United States backed the flawed and toothless League of Nations for decades upon decades the world would have been a worse place. Remeber it was the League that stood by while Italy gassed Ethiopian villages. Would you have had the League bluster and talk while Poland was divided and millions killed in Eastern Europe?
The Cold War and a policy of military, political and economic containment coupled with defence spending and technology advancements brought the Soviet Union to it's knees. The very bad part of it all was the fact that the Soviet Union was in much worse shape economicly and socially than we thought.
As for aid, why should the United States give aid to foriegn states that will not use it for positive goals? Israel uses it's aid for agriculture and to keep a military that ensures it's survival, without aid like that there would be a political and refugee problem the likes of which no one has seen since 1945 Europe.
The United States, the United Kingdom, France, the Republic of China and the USSR founded the UN and the United States threw the most money into it's founding. Including providing the headquarters in New York City and some of the most valuable land in North America. Other than the five Permanent Members of the Security Council and Switzerland, no other country has done 1/50th as much for the UN.
The United States does however have a claim to the American made objects on the Moon.
And the Russians claim the Soviet hardware up there as well.
According to the Moon Treaty - If you are exploring the Moon, and you find something from another nation exploring the Moon, you can't mess with it.
http://www.iasl.mcgill.ca/space/moon.html
"Activities of States Parties in accordance with paragraphs 1 and 2 of this article shall not interfere with the activities of other States Parties on the moon. Where such interference may occur, the States Parties concerned shall undertake consultations in accordance with article 15, paragraphs 2 and 3, of this Agreement."
"States Parties shall retain jurisdiction and control over their personnel, space vehicles, equipment, facilities, stations and installations on the moon. The ownership of space vehicles, equipment, facilities, stations and installations shall not be affected by their presence on the moon."
Say I'm putting togeather an Ikea or Dania bookcase, the first time that motherfletcher says "Insert screw!, Insert screw!" As I am reaching for the screw and driver, I'll burn it.
"Not enough tension! Use more torque!"
"Beep! Beep! Too much pressure! Tolerence exceded!"
When I am sitting on a shelf during the assembing process..."Whooop! Whoop! Ding ding! Fatass! Fatass! Pressure limits over limits!"
"Some of the new features on Windows Media Center would be hard for Apple to easily dismiss, Jones said. Using a remote control, consumers would be able to listen to digital music, work with digital photos, create movies or watch DVD movies or TV shows. "
Well, if you can't copy freakin' files or burn to CD/DVD with WMC and you can with OS 9/X - there isn't going to be much competition.
The boxes HP/MS are shipping start at more than a 15" iMac does, and the same price as an eMac with a SuperDrive.
I ordered the Family licence, but got my hands on the 10.2 upgrade CDs in my 17" iMac.
So I installed on the older hardware around the house.
Beige G3 with Radeon/466MHz G3/Firewire iMac DV 400 MHz Powerbook G3 400MHz
The Beige G3 is really snappy. Bootup is down to about 25 seconds from when the chime starts to when the Dock shows up. Everything about it is fast, fast and stable.
iMac and Powerbook are also very snappy. Finder draws when a large folder on a remote drive open are as fast as they are in 9.2.2.
My Beige G3 would hang about one every two days when I monkeyed with Firewire, no longer.
10.2 on my PowerBook G4 550 is really fast. Only problem is that I can't get Dave to uninstall.
Well actually the United States did hold the high moral ground there.
Had the US not nuked Japan more Japanese civilians and military persons would have died in the blockade and invasion than died in the bombings.
US estimates held that each hour of the initial invasion of Japan on Novmeber 1 1945 that 1,000 Americans and 2,500 Japanese would die. Each hour for the first 48 hours. Then for the next 96 hours the numbers would be halved, then halved again for 96 hours after that.
Tens of thousands of Allied (US, Dutch, Aussie, New Zealand, Chinese, United Kingdom) prisoners would have died in the camps. One estimate I read said that 50,000 allied prisoners would have died by September 15 had the bombings not taken place.
The crimes that Japan committed in Asia far outstrip what the United States did through it's conventional and atomic bombings of Japan. Hundreds of thousands of lives were saved in Asia and the Pacific by the United States bombing Japan.
"You cannot stop atrocities by committing more of them yourself."
Japan 1945. The atomic bombings that lead to the Japanese surrender ended the atrocities in the POW camps, China, Formosa, Manchuria, French-Indochina and other Japanese controlled islands very very quickly.
Since then Japan hasn't committed anymore acts of war or genocide have they?
As Al Qadea runs around committing military actions in plain clothes, when captured or discovered on the battlefield, they should expect to be summarily executed when captured.
The CIA/Delta/Green Berets that do ops in plain clothes have no illusions about thier fate should they be captured.
The Iranian airliner was a strange thing. A "civilian" Airbus operating out of a military airfield, flying directly over a published US Navy operations area with a no fly under 20 thousand feet, flying under 20 thousand feet with both a civilian and military transponder, during naval attack by Iranian special forces speed boats carring.50 cal machine guns and rocket launchers.
Lets say the Florida Train Project will be 10 billion dollars.
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/12000.ht ml 16,396,515 people in the State of Florida.
That would be 690 dollars from each Floridian, of course the amount per taxpayer is higher, but that's an average.
Spread it out over a few years and it gets to be small.
Florida doesn't have an income tax, but it has a sales tax. So alot of the money is coming from tourists.
Since it's a smallish amount per person, no other jobs wouldn't be created at the same level and surely the state transportation infrastruture wouldn't be improved.
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BS.
This isn't evidence of NVIDIA's greatness, it's just a difference in business practices.
3dfx might still be around because they won a lawsuit against NVIDIA, but NVIDIA bought out 3dfx and killed support for people that had recent 3dfx hardware.
At least when Apple bought out Power Computing they threw up a webpage with some manuals and downloads.
NVIDIA screwed over those that bought 3dfx pure and simple.
NIVIDIA corporate policy isn't any better than anyone elses and in some aspect worse.
In developing nations as well as China and India, sonograms are used to sex the unborn children.
I think I read that in India it's against the law now to do this for sexing to abort in the case of a female.
Apple won't go with 802.11a since 802.11g is on the way.
http://thinksecret.com/news/airportupdates.html
Yea, crimes have become more violent as technology increases.
The single and double action revolver took a single shot device capable of wounding or killing one person ever 1-3 minutes into a device that could kill multiple people. And look at the increase in casualties between say 1815 and then in 1864. The larger caliber weapons and repeating rifles lead to much higher death rates in battle. More violent.
Then look at a typical anarchist bombing from 1870-1920 and then look at what a modern bombing can do as illustrated in Oklahoma City, Tel Aviv, Paris, London, Moscow or Berlin. One or two or maybe four would be killed by a state of the art terror bomb at the turn of the century while today a state of the art terror bomb can kill dozens.
At the turn of the century it would be almost impossable to knock down a building that was 10-20 years old, while a modern bomb can knock down a building with much more advanced construction methods.
A bank robbery in 1897 couldn't involve weapons capable of firing 600 rounds per minute or able to hit a target out to 200 meters. The famous LA bank robbery in 1997 involved weapons that were capable of much more violence and destruction.
It would have been impossible in 1901 to knock down structures with thousands of people inside by anarchists but in 2001 it was possible for 19 persons to destroy buildings with 50,000 people inside. A much more violent crime.
Resources on public property are free by implied consent?
Cars parked on the street are not free for the taking.
Bikes on a city bike rack are not free for the taking.
A food stand on a sidewalk isn't free for the taking.
If I am standing on the sidewalk, and have money in my pocket can one just take that from me since it's free by implied consent?
The United States 9th Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on this in World War Two concerning a Italian soldier captured while fighting the United States Army. He was born in the United States and moved to Italy during the 30s.
m ie c101101.shtml
http://www.nationalreview.com/kob/kob090402.asp
Citizens and non-citizens alike can be classified as enemy combatants. Gaetano Territo, an American citizen, was captured fighting with the enemy in Italy during World War II. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that his citizenship had no bearing on his lawful detention, which had lasted three years by the time of the court's decision.
"Military belligerents violating the international laws of war are tried before a panel of military officers, not juries of their peers -- no matter what the Taliban may seek as a condition. Such military commissions received extensive use in the Civil War, and were affirmed by the Supreme Court in the famous World War II decision sentencing General Tomoyuki Yamashita to hang for the brutal atrocities he ordered against civilians in the Philippines. When Yamishita petitioned the Court for habeas corpus, the Court rebuffed him stating that the war power delegated by Congress includes administering a system of military justice for the trial and punishment of those combatants who have committed war crimes. No case contradicts this. The Civil War precedent, Ex parte Milligan that nominally questions the availability of military tribunals where civilian courts remain open, was later confined to its unique domestic insurgency facts, and specifically the fact that Milligan was not -- in international parlance -- an "unlawful belligerent." Terrorists clearly are."
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-k
Had the United States backed the flawed and toothless League of Nations for decades upon decades the world would have been a worse place. Remeber it was the League that stood by while Italy gassed Ethiopian villages. Would you have had the League bluster and talk while Poland was divided and millions killed in Eastern Europe?
The Cold War and a policy of military, political and economic containment coupled with defence spending and technology advancements brought the Soviet Union to it's knees. The very bad part of it all was the fact that the Soviet Union was in much worse shape economicly and socially than we thought.
As for aid, why should the United States give aid to foriegn states that will not use it for positive goals? Israel uses it's aid for agriculture and to keep a military that ensures it's survival, without aid like that there would be a political and refugee problem the likes of which no one has seen since 1945 Europe.
The United States, the United Kingdom, France, the Republic of China and the USSR founded the UN and the United States threw the most money into it's founding. Including providing the headquarters in New York City and some of the most valuable land in North America. Other than the five Permanent Members of the Security Council and Switzerland, no other country has done 1/50th as much for the UN.
The United States does however have a claim to the American made objects on the Moon.
And the Russians claim the Soviet hardware up there as well.
According to the Moon Treaty - If you are exploring the Moon, and you find something from another nation exploring the Moon, you can't mess with it.
http://www.iasl.mcgill.ca/space/moon.html
"Activities of States Parties in accordance with paragraphs 1 and 2 of this article shall not interfere with the activities of other States Parties on the moon. Where such interference may occur, the States Parties concerned shall undertake consultations in accordance with article 15, paragraphs 2 and 3, of this Agreement."
"States Parties shall retain jurisdiction and control over their personnel, space vehicles, equipment, facilities, stations and installations on the moon. The ownership of space vehicles, equipment, facilities, stations and installations shall not be affected by their presence on the moon."
They are.
But Russian for now "owns" the Cosmodrome there.
I heard the Russians might build one in Russia though it would be father north and give them less payload for the fuel though.
Yep.
This would just piss me off.
Say I'm putting togeather an Ikea or Dania bookcase, the first time that motherfletcher says "Insert screw!, Insert screw!" As I am reaching for the screw and driver, I'll burn it.
"Not enough tension! Use more torque!"
"Beep! Beep! Too much pressure! Tolerence exceded!"
When I am sitting on a shelf during the assembing process..."Whooop! Whoop! Ding ding! Fatass! Fatass! Pressure limits over limits!"
Sounds like a dumb idea too me.
Won't happen.
Orrin Hatch (R Utah) is against copy protections. But then again he is sort of pro DMCA.
Who knows, I wager that the Senate and House wouldn't be able to figure a law like this out and have it make it through Conference Committee.
And you can pick up an IR remote if you wanted to.
And USB or Firewire capture devices from the TV are there for the Mac too, and you are more flexable than this thing from MS.
"Some of the new features on Windows Media Center would be hard for Apple to easily dismiss, Jones said.
Using a remote control, consumers would be able to listen to digital music, work with digital photos, create movies or watch DVD movies or TV shows. "
Well, if you can't copy freakin' files or burn to CD/DVD with WMC and you can with OS 9/X - there isn't going to be much competition.
The boxes HP/MS are shipping start at more than a 15" iMac does, and the same price as an eMac with a SuperDrive.
I think it should be acceptable to make changes like this.
Since it's not the Government doing it, there really isn't a Constitutional arguement here.
Clean Flicks should be allowed to do this. When they do sell or rent these films, they are clearly marked as edited.
I sure had a party when the Death Tax was repealed.
However, the Death Tax by 2009 will be at it's max of 3.5 million dollars if I remeber correctly from last night when I was doing my will.
I got the 550 when the 550 and 667 were just out.
Yes Quartz Extreme works.
It works fast. Scale minimizes so fast it's a blur of motion now instead of an...well...old scale into the dock.
It's very slick and all is working well. The upgrade installer takes about half an hour to do both CDs.
I ordered my 17" on the afternoon of the Keynote speech through Apple Education.
Got it on Tuesday.
Fast and nice.
Apple Ed reps say there is serious demand for the 17" and there are delays.
CompUSA in Portland OR had some in stock this weekend.
512 in the G3 Minitower
192 in the iMac DV
320 in the PowerBook G3
512 in my PowerBook G4
And I have 288 in a G3 All-In-One that's going to get Jag Server early in Sept.
I ordered the Family licence, but got my hands on the 10.2 upgrade CDs in my 17" iMac.
So I installed on the older hardware around the house.
Beige G3 with Radeon/466MHz G3/Firewire
iMac DV 400 MHz
Powerbook G3 400MHz
The Beige G3 is really snappy. Bootup is down to about 25 seconds from when the chime starts to when the Dock shows up. Everything about it is fast, fast and stable.
iMac and Powerbook are also very snappy. Finder draws when a large folder on a remote drive open are as fast as they are in 9.2.2.
My Beige G3 would hang about one every two days when I monkeyed with Firewire, no longer.
10.2 on my PowerBook G4 550 is really fast. Only problem is that I can't get Dave to uninstall.
Worth the $200 for 5 or $129 for a single.
At my work we got in about 60 IBM Thinkpads to set up for the students there.
:)
The students and parents bought the Thinkpads and we set them up.
One set - P3 256-640 MB of RAM
One set - P4-M 256-640 MB of RAM
From an Altiris image the Thinkpads with P3s took about 30 minutes to image and finish.
The P4-M Thinkpads took 56-68 minutes to image.
Same networking setup for the switches used in imaging, same number of hops.
The P4-Ms are much slower at some tasks.
The Powerbooks and iBooks I imaged from Firewire took 6 minutes each. But that is a different flamewar
Well actually the United States did hold the high moral ground there.
Had the US not nuked Japan more Japanese civilians and military persons would have died in the blockade and invasion than died in the bombings.
US estimates held that each hour of the initial invasion of Japan on Novmeber 1 1945 that 1,000 Americans and 2,500 Japanese would die. Each hour for the first 48 hours. Then for the next 96 hours the numbers would be halved, then halved again for 96 hours after that.
Tens of thousands of Allied (US, Dutch, Aussie, New Zealand, Chinese, United Kingdom) prisoners would have died in the camps. One estimate I read said that 50,000 allied prisoners would have died by September 15 had the bombings not taken place.
The crimes that Japan committed in Asia far outstrip what the United States did through it's conventional and atomic bombings of Japan. Hundreds of thousands of lives were saved in Asia and the Pacific by the United States bombing Japan.
"You cannot stop atrocities by committing more of them yourself."
Japan 1945. The atomic bombings that lead to the Japanese surrender ended the atrocities in the POW camps, China, Formosa, Manchuria, French-Indochina and other Japanese controlled islands very very quickly.
Since then Japan hasn't committed anymore acts of war or genocide have they?
As Al Qadea runs around committing military actions in plain clothes, when captured or discovered on the battlefield, they should expect to be summarily executed when captured.
.50 cal machine guns and rocket launchers.
The CIA/Delta/Green Berets that do ops in plain clothes have no illusions about thier fate should they be captured.
The Iranian airliner was a strange thing. A "civilian" Airbus operating out of a military airfield, flying directly over a published US Navy operations area with a no fly under 20 thousand feet, flying under 20 thousand feet with both a civilian and military transponder, during naval attack by Iranian special forces speed boats carring
It's not flamebait or anything.
But ever since I started to collect stones and read up on stuff, I always thought diamonds are the blandest gem stone.
Then I found out about the crap behind them. DeBeers are IMHO the worst, right up there with the Cocaine Cartels in South America.
They hose the damned things up in Namiba in the sand off-shore by the ton. It's about as rare as gravel.
I'll never get my woman a diamond. If she's that caught up in a ugly stone that a bunch of death peddlers horde, she's not for me.
Not exactly true.
t ml
Lets say the Florida Train Project will be 10 billion dollars.
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/12000.h
16,396,515 people in the State of Florida.
That would be 690 dollars from each Floridian, of course the amount per taxpayer is higher, but that's an average.
Spread it out over a few years and it gets to be small.
Florida doesn't have an income tax, but it has a sales tax. So alot of the money is coming from tourists.
Since it's a smallish amount per person, no other jobs wouldn't be created at the same level and surely the state transportation infrastruture wouldn't be improved.