Japanese launched the HAYABUSA (MUSES-C) mission on May 9, 2003, which is planned to land on asteroid asteroid 25143 Itokawa (1998 SF36), and come back with samples.
It's supposed to meet the target in June 2005, and come back to Earth in June 2007.
Sure, it's not a comet but someone is trying to land on something and come back.
And everyone is planning Mars sample return missions somewhere in the future.
I don't know what codec iTunes uses so I can't comment on that, but if it's Fraunhofer, it's pretty good.
However, I CAN comment on that there indeed are big differences on different encoders, only a deaf person wouldn't notice a difference between something done with Xing when compared do same song at same bitrate done with LAME or Fraunhofer.
If they were just wrappers to same encoder, then there'd be no difference but they're not.
There are 256/4 versions of R9800SE as well. And succesfully softmoding one of THOSE gives you a full 9800 Pro for half the price. That's what I'd call a good deal.
Too bad the article didn't mention what version they were testing, doubling the memory bus would probably bring up the scores up somewhat.
I just wish there would be more data about how good is the change of softmod before buying one... probably the 256 bit Hercules AIW version.
You may have a decent job with a decent salary, but some of us are still students.
I'd get distressed by a mere thought of spending thousands for new Dell if I can upgrade a few years old system for 400e or so to a relatively modern beast. That's helluva lot of beer and pizza.
And some people may actually like the very tinkering and tweaking you're so full of.
I'm not sure where did you got the idea that nVidia cards need their binary drivers if you only do 2d - because they don't. Never (or at least for a loooong time) have.
And the same is probably true for ATI, even though I'm not quite as sure because lack of first hand experience.
Yeah, well, horse cart makers were probably pretty big part of economy once.
Bet they were pissed off at Ford, and trains before that. Looks like the economy survived anyway.
If the world is changing, adapting to new situation is the key, not trying to stagnate the change and paint doomsday scenarios on it, that's utterly futile.
Technically, that's very much possible. Maybe even easy. That's what the open file format is all about...
But if you think a Microsoft Office developer is going to implement it and get a sanction to officially put it into their software, you seriously need to lay off the acid for a while.
If it turns out to be a chipset hickup, maybe there's a lesson to be learned.
If, however it turns out to be faulty memory and hard disk that don't have anything to do with either VIA (or whoever built those chipsets and motherboards) or AMD, perhaps you SHOULD get "murdered" for spreading FUD that had nothing to do with reality?
Anyway, Opterons are built to be server/workstation hardware, not latest gaming whizz for teenagers with rich parents.
He may be A. Coward, but the point is still good: why bother insulting the articles if you don't even bother to mention one that is supposedly bad, when it was bad (which might no longer be the case), much less mention WHY it is bad. Or god forbid, try to fix it.
And if it indeed is or was bad, how many did you actually read before drawing a conclusion that most are bad?
Usenet, sites like Slashdot and plenty of traditional Wikis show why exactly a "personal edge" is not always a plus but minus.
There's a gigantic amount of very useful information on those, but shifting though the noise to get the goods is sometimes just too big of a pain in the arse, when you're looking for something specific whereas "clinical" nature of Wikipedia makes it much easier.
I wouldn't say they are even competitors, both approaches are good for certain situations.
I know this hurts, but the reason is... Wikipedia is not that useful to that many people. This is not flamebait or a troll, it's a fact.
It might not be a flamebait or a troll, but it's not a fact either. You just guessed, or based it on your personal opinion. That does not a fact make.
The fact that it is not that meaningful to many people does not mean it's not an honorable project, just that it is mostly a niche project.
Seeing it's in top-1000 sites on Internet (granted, in the upper part of that - about even with Slashdot) and has been growing damn fast... niche? What the HECK is non-niche if being one of biggest sites in the 'net doesn't cut it?
One might also begin to ponder that, perhaps all those millions of people indeed do find it meaningful, it's getting lot of traffic because it's been read and edited by lot of people. Like, er, used. As in the beginning of "use"ful.
That's why it's going to be hard for them to scare up 20 grand.
Oh well. They already did. In under one day no less (yesterday the donation counter was about $4k, now it's 24 grand). Not bad for a project nobody finds useful, eh?
I mean there are HUGE "open source" projects out there that have MUCH wider use that can't scare up a lousy 20 g's.
Despite your invalid assumptions, it is among those HUGE projects. I don't know much about the amount of private donations open source projects get, or if they usually even ask, but largest of them like Linux and Apache have probably got millions or even billions of dollars worth of "donations" from companies in one form or another, 20k$ doesn't sound that big any more...
Have you considered the possibility that there's a good reason for not including them?
Yeah, there's a pretty good reason for not including them in traditional encyclopedias. Namely, they're "niche" knowledge that might be useful to someone but not useful enough to most. Of course, niche information isn't included because of time and size constraints, you just can't include everything on a book.
Neither of those are valid concerns for not including it in a Wikipedia.
Site linked to also happens to spout gigantic amount of haltruths and outright lies. Nobody in their right mind takes it seriously.
Coincidentally, it also happens to be run by a notorious spammer that got pissed off because google downtuned his linkfarm(s) that were poisoning the results.
If someone thinks it's non-cool then to value accurate search results for users more than someones stupid "business" model that abuses the search engine and ruins it for everyone else, they really should get their head examined.
If you're not looking for the fastest possible gaming beast there is, 9800SE AIW is probably a darn good bet, it's dirt cheap (~200), it's 9800 pro with half of the 8 pipelines either not working or disabled, so for tweakers there's also a change to try enabling all (requires only a driver tweak) pipelines and get it working at full 9800 pro speed - for about third of price...
Additionally, the 9600 Pro AIW just came out, it's probably about as fast as "unmodded" 9800SE, perhaps bit more expensive at least right after debut, but features an improved connector setup that allows a second monitor instead of only 1 dvi + tv-out like older 9000 series AIW's.
Both seem damn sweet deals for one who can't afford 9700/9800 np/pro.
Yeah. It should. It does. I know that, everyone who bothered to look knows it does. You don't know that. Or that it isn't a NASA probe. Or that one should NEVER believe whatever is said on a fsckin "news"flash on/.
You rather keep posting stupid flammages on Slashdot. Oh well, what else should we expect from someone who so fittingly calls himself a bonehead. Still, you might want to consider growing some gray matter to keep company to all that bone.
I had thought this was true of the Opteron as well.
It's not true. Opteron has twice the number of registers compared to old chips and those can't be used in 32 bit mode (due to backward compatible x86 instruction set)
Apple is trying to rip you off with that memory upgrade.
512MB DDR SO-DIMM should not cost more than about half of that. Just buy from somewhere else, it's not like iBooks need Apple memory.
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Several workers were infected with the Bubonic plague as a result
And that is a real nightmare virus.
Sorry to ruin your fun, but...
First. Black Death is a bacteria.
Second. Bubonic form of it is nothing exceptially nightmarish in the civilized countries today, since it can easily be treated with antibiotics. Pneumonic plague is worse, though it can be treated as well. Uber-resistant strain of either would obviously be bad news.
Third. Y. Pestis bacteria doesn't survive outside of a host more than few hours, so if someone indeed got a plague while boring a tunnel, they got it from the same source original victims did. Rats (their fleas, actually)
Yup, that's right. Plague is still in the wild, there are about 1000-3000 cases of plague in humans each year.
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And a tablet pc costs as just much as a laptop.
Now ask yourself: Something that has a decent keyboard and is at least somewhat expandable or a pen-toy tablet?
Japanese launched the HAYABUSA (MUSES-C) mission on May 9, 2003, which is planned to land on asteroid asteroid 25143 Itokawa (1998 SF36), and come back with samples.
It's supposed to meet the target in June 2005, and come back to Earth in June 2007.
Sure, it's not a comet but someone is trying to land on something and come back.
And everyone is planning Mars sample return missions somewhere in the future.
A probe crashing into a side of a comet would affect it's trajectory about as much as housefly hitting a jumbojet.
That is, it wouldn't.
The older versions might not, but nv man page for XFree86 4.3.0 claims it supports GeForce 4 and FX as well as nForce integrated graphics chips.
http://www.xfree86.org/4.3.0/nv.4.html#sect3
I don't know what codec iTunes uses so I can't comment on that, but if it's Fraunhofer, it's pretty good.
However, I CAN comment on that there indeed are big differences on different encoders, only a deaf person wouldn't notice a difference between something done with Xing when compared do same song at same bitrate done with LAME or Fraunhofer.
If they were just wrappers to same encoder, then there'd be no difference but they're not.
There are 256/4 versions of R9800SE as well.
... probably the 256 bit Hercules AIW version.
And succesfully softmoding one of THOSE gives you a full 9800 Pro for half the price. That's what I'd call a good deal.
Too bad the article didn't mention what version they were testing, doubling the memory bus would probably bring up the scores up somewhat.
I just wish there would be more data about how good is the change of softmod before buying one
You may have a decent job with a decent salary, but some of us are still students.
I'd get distressed by a mere thought of spending thousands for new Dell if I can upgrade a few years old system for 400e or so to a relatively modern beast. That's helluva lot of beer and pizza.
And some people may actually like the very tinkering and tweaking you're so full of.
I'm not sure where did you got the idea that nVidia cards need their binary drivers if you only do 2d - because they don't. Never (or at least for a loooong time) have.
And the same is probably true for ATI, even though I'm not quite as sure because lack of first hand experience.
Maybe it's a neat hack (well, it's dead simple actually, nothing just about anyone couldn't do), but the way it's presented is a gigantic flamebait.
RedHat bashing is especially transparent and nothing short of insulting, really.
Editors continue to happily let trough "articles" that have obviously been written by someone who is at mental level of five years old. Way to go.
Yeah, well, horse cart makers were probably pretty big part of economy once.
Bet they were pissed off at Ford, and trains before that. Looks like the economy survived anyway.
If the world is changing, adapting to new situation is the key, not trying to stagnate the change and paint doomsday scenarios on it, that's utterly futile.
Technically, that's very much possible. Maybe even easy. That's what the open file format is all about...
But if you think a Microsoft Office developer is going to implement it and get a sanction to officially put it into their software, you seriously need to lay off the acid for a while.
I can't find anything specific on either of those pages. They're just as (more, actually) vague than asking money for hardware.
Too bad they don't have one.
I'm quite sure I'm not the only person on this side of pond who'd send a few euros in that direction, but doesn't have a credit card.
For small donations, trying to get money into U.S. is hopeless and would end up costing ten times as much as the donation itself.
If it turns out to be a chipset hickup, maybe there's a lesson to be learned.
If, however it turns out to be faulty memory and hard disk that don't have anything to do with either VIA (or whoever built those chipsets and motherboards) or AMD, perhaps you SHOULD get "murdered" for spreading FUD that had nothing to do with reality?
Anyway, Opterons are built to be server/workstation hardware, not latest gaming whizz for teenagers with rich parents.
He may be A. Coward, but the point is still good: why bother insulting the articles if you don't even bother to mention one that is supposedly bad, when it was bad (which might no longer be the case), much less mention WHY it is bad. Or god forbid, try to fix it.
And if it indeed is or was bad, how many did you actually read before drawing a conclusion that most are bad?
Usenet, sites like Slashdot and plenty of traditional Wikis show why exactly a "personal edge" is not always a plus but minus.
There's a gigantic amount of very useful information on those, but shifting though the noise to get the goods is sometimes just too big of a pain in the arse, when you're looking for something specific whereas "clinical" nature of Wikipedia makes it much easier.
I wouldn't say they are even competitors, both approaches are good for certain situations.
I know this hurts, but the reason is... Wikipedia is not that useful to that many people. This is not flamebait or a troll, it's a fact.
It might not be a flamebait or a troll, but it's not a fact either. You just guessed, or based it on your personal opinion. That does not a fact make.
The fact that it is not that meaningful to many people does not mean it's not an honorable project, just that it is mostly a niche project.
Seeing it's in top-1000 sites on Internet (granted, in the upper part of that - about even with Slashdot) and has been growing damn fast... niche? What the HECK is non-niche if being one of biggest sites in the 'net doesn't cut it?
One might also begin to ponder that, perhaps all those millions of people indeed do find it meaningful, it's getting lot of traffic because it's been read and edited by lot of people. Like, er, used. As in the beginning of "use"ful.
That's why it's going to be hard for them to scare up 20 grand.
Oh well. They already did. In under one day no less (yesterday the donation counter was about $4k, now it's 24 grand). Not bad for a project nobody finds useful, eh?
I mean there are HUGE "open source" projects out there that have MUCH wider use that can't scare up a lousy 20 g's.
Despite your invalid assumptions, it is among those HUGE projects. I don't know much about the amount of private donations open source projects get, or if they usually even ask, but largest of them like Linux and Apache have probably got millions or even billions of dollars worth of "donations" from companies in one form or another, 20k$ doesn't sound that big any more...
Have you considered the possibility that there's a good reason for not including them?
Yeah, there's a pretty good reason for not including them in traditional encyclopedias. Namely, they're "niche" knowledge that might be useful to someone but not useful enough to most. Of course, niche information isn't included because of time and size constraints, you just can't include everything on a book.
Neither of those are valid concerns for not including it in a Wikipedia.
Site linked to also happens to spout gigantic amount of haltruths and outright lies. Nobody in their right mind takes it seriously.
Coincidentally, it also happens to be run by a notorious spammer that got pissed off because google downtuned his linkfarm(s) that were poisoning the results.
If someone thinks it's non-cool then to value accurate search results for users more than someones stupid "business" model that abuses the search engine and ruins it for everyone else, they really should get their head examined.
If you're not looking for the fastest possible gaming beast there is, 9800SE AIW is probably a darn good bet, it's dirt cheap (~200), it's 9800 pro with half of the 8 pipelines either not working or disabled, so for tweakers there's also a change to try enabling all (requires only a driver tweak) pipelines and get it working at full 9800 pro speed - for about third of price...
Additionally, the 9600 Pro AIW just came out, it's probably about as fast as "unmodded" 9800SE, perhaps bit more expensive at least right after debut, but features an improved connector setup that allows a second monitor instead of only 1 dvi + tv-out like older 9000 series AIW's.
Both seem damn sweet deals for one who can't afford 9700/9800 np/pro.
True. It should. You know that. I know that.
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Yeah. It should. It does. I know that, everyone who bothered to look knows it does. You don't know that. Or that it isn't a NASA probe. Or that one should NEVER believe whatever is said on a fsckin "news"flash on
You rather keep posting stupid flammages on Slashdot. Oh well, what else should we expect from someone who so fittingly calls himself a bonehead. Still, you might want to consider growing some gray matter to keep company to all that bone.
I had thought this was true of the Opteron as well.
It's not true. Opteron has twice the number of registers compared to old chips and those can't be used in 32 bit mode (due to backward compatible x86 instruction set)
Apple is trying to rip you off with that memory upgrade.
512MB DDR SO-DIMM should not cost more than about half of that. Just buy from somewhere else, it's not like iBooks need Apple memory.
Several workers were infected with the Bubonic plague as a result
And that is a real nightmare virus.
Sorry to ruin your fun, but...
First. Black Death is a bacteria.
Second. Bubonic form of it is nothing exceptially nightmarish in the civilized countries today, since it can easily be treated with antibiotics.
Pneumonic plague is worse, though it can be treated as well. Uber-resistant strain of either would obviously be bad news.
Third. Y. Pestis bacteria doesn't survive outside of a host more than few hours, so if someone indeed got a plague while boring a tunnel, they got it from the same source original victims did. Rats (their fleas, actually)
Yup, that's right. Plague is still in the wild, there are about 1000-3000 cases of plague in humans each year.
ATI link is broken. Why the hell is slashcode inserting those spaces into long strings?
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http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/linux/radeon-l